The Cost of Discipleship
--> Sabbath School Lesson For March 29, 2014 Presented by Larry R Evans Introduction Jesus faced a problem, a crisis that few seemed to recognize. His time on earth was short. The creation He had formed at the beginning of time was deteriorating before His very eyes. Those created in His image now presented but a faint picture of who God really was. He knew that their distance from God and His plan for them would ultimately lead to their destruction. Sin was contagious and rampant. Prophets before Him had been rejected and many had been killed at the hands of those whom God had hoped would be saved. Jesus now came in Person yet what was He to do? How could He possibly reverse the momentum of sin? Sin, He knew, would crescendo to such a point in His own lifetime that He would be executed by those whom He came to save. Three years seemed short and it was! Could He effect a change, a lasting change, that would ...