Come Follow Me – Week 5 | Follow Where Jesus Leads

When you can confess “Jesus is the Messiah” with your mouth but instinctively push back when he says he must suffer and die, something important is at stake: the kind of king you want and the kind of life you’re willing to live. This sermon sits squarely in that tension—Peter’s highest moment of faith colliding with his lowest misunderstanding—and it names the common modern flipside: treating Jesus as a great teacher or a political fix rather than the costly Savior he claims to be. The message walks through three marks of discipleship—perceiving who Jesus is, believing what he does, and following where he leads—and explains why the cross is necessary (love that reaches us, debt cancelation, the defeat of evil) and how it rewrites our identity and ambitions. Expect a compassionate, clear call to stop bargaining with God and to trade fragile self-made identities for the life only found in surrender—then listen for what that surrender actually looks like in ordinary days.