Focus, Focus, Focus

Rev. Chris Enoch - June 26, 2016
   
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Scriptures:

Luke 9:51-62
            As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” But Jesus turned and rebuked them, and they went to another village.

            As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

            Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

            He said to another man, “Follow me.”

But the man replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

            Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

            Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say good-by to my family.”

            Jesus replied, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.” 

Ephesians 2:8-10

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

Luke 10:40-42 

            “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”

            “....You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”