Suffer me first
To go and bury my father
Jesus sent him and this is this is pretty savage right here. Let the dead bury their dead
But go down preach the kingdom of God verse 61 another also said Lord
I will follow thee but let me first go bid them farewell which are at my home at my house now look
You know, obviously we're not gonna tell you that if you're like hey, let's go slow and easy
Well, my dad died. I'm just let the dead bury their dead
Go down to the soul anytime
The reason Jesus did that is because he had a limited amount of time in his ministry. He only had three years
So he he didn't have time to play
He didn't have time for haphazard commitment
It's like look and look this is the only time in history other than what we're gonna see in the future
Where Jesus walked on this earth? I?
Mean this is a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity
Right to have Jesus the Word of God in the flesh
You can be with him for three years. You can serve alongside him you could I mean, this is the Word of God
Right. So there's a reason why he said let the dead bury their dead
Why because you have the living Word standing right in front of you
now
There's still some even though obviously we're not gonna tell someone that if someone goes through something like that
you know this has a lot of good application to it a lot of good things that we can apply this to and
The one thing that we see here is that they just need to have the right priorities
Because they kept saying well first, let me go do this first. Let me bid them farewell first
Let me do this. Let me bury my father and
Jesus is just basically drawing that hard line saying hey, you need to get your priorities straight
First things first and you know what according to the Bible Jesus should be the one who has the he's the preeminent one
He should have the preeminence in our lives. He should be first
Okay before our wives before our husbands before our children before anything
Jesus is number one
That's how it should be
Not first my wife not first my husband not first my children not first my finances not first my possessions. No first Jesus
Because here's the thing. Jesus will never let you down folks