How To Walk With Jesus In 2024
2024-01-14
Matt Willmington
Luke 9:23-24
Where are you walking in 2024?
Who are you following?
Who are you walking with?
The answer to these questions: JESUS
Luke 9:23-24 CSB Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it.
“Walk”
Genesis 3:8-9 ESV And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
Enoch
- Genesis 5:22, 24 – Enoch walked with God for 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters…
Noah
- Genesis 6:9 – was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.
Abraham
- Genesis 17:1 – When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the Sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.
Isaac and Jacob
- Genesis 48:15
Israel
- Exodus 16 – Will they walk in my law or not?
- Leviticus 18:4 – You must observe my regulations and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. I am the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 26:12 – I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.
- Deuteronomy 6:7 – and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.
Samuel
- 1 Samual 12:2
David and Solomon
- 1 Kings 3:3 – Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father…
- 1 Kings 3:6 – David my father, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness
- 1 Kings 3:14 if you will walk in my ways
God walking with His people in Good Places
Old Testament – TOWARDS the Savior – Garden, Alter, Tabernacle, Temple, Foreign Land
New Testament – WITH the Savior – Body, House, City
New Testament Letters – “Walk”
- Newness of life, Spirit not flesh, love, faith not sight, good works, worthy, wise, children of light, pleasing God, properly, Christ, truth
Luke 9:23-24 ESV Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it.
How to walk with Jesus in 2024?
- You must WANT to
- You must DENY yourself
- You must carry your cross DAILY
- Acts 2:46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,
- Acts 6:1 widows… the daily distribution
- Acts 16:5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.
- Acts 17:11 they received the word with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily
- Hebrews 3:13 But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today…
- You must FOLLOW Jesus
How do we follow Jesus together in TRBC?
Thomas Road Mission Statement: “Our mission is to change our world by developing Christ-followers who love God and love people.”
How does this breakdown?
- Salvation and Baptism
- Discipleship
- Love God/People
- Scripture
- Prayer
- Worship
- Community
- Serving
- Sharing
How we do this in each area?
- Children – Sundays, Awana
- Students – Sundays, Wednesdays
- Adults – Sundays, Groups
Jesus walked 3,125 miles during his 3-year ministry…at 3 mph.-“Love has its speed… It is an inner speed… a spiritual speed. It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed. … It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, whether we are currently hit by the storm or not, at three miles an hour. It is the speed we walk and therefore it is the speed the love of God walks.” -Kosuke Koyama, “Three Mile An Hour God”
1 John 2:6 ESV The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.
Where are you walking in 2024?
Who are you following?
Who are you walking with?