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Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 7 a.m.

Welcome to Day 2214 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom What Does God Want \u2013 What is Discipleship \u2013 Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message \u2013 03/12/2023 What Does God Want? -\xa0 What is Discipleship? Last week, we moved beyond our story narrative overview of the Bible, answering the question: What does God want? The answer we discovered over the past seven weeks was that God wants you and everyone who will ever live. In other words, God wanted a human family. God wants co-workers to take care of His creation. God wants you to know/ who you are/ and why your life has value to him. /He loves you /and desires that you also love Him. So, we viewed an overall snapshot of the Good News last week. It is simple and yet very profound. What is the Gospel, the Good News? Now that we know what the Good News is, we move from the believing aspect, where we become members of God\u2019s human family, to the loyalty aspect, where we will focus the next two weeks on discipleship. First, we will look at \u2018What is Discipleship?\u2019 and then move on to \xa0\u201cWhat Does a Disciple Do?\u201d Last week, we learned that nothing we can do permits us to become part of God\u2019s human family except belief by faith in that Good News, which is:

• God sent his Son...
• Who was born in the line of David...
• As the man Jesus Christ...
• Who died for our sins...
• Who was buried...
• Who rose from the dead...

That being acknowledged, believing the Gospel (Good News) is intended to be transformative. As we are told in 2 Corinthians 5:17. 17\xa0This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! You may recall the answer to this question. Earlier, I said that a disciple was a follower\u2014specifically, a follower of Jesus. I defined \u201cfollowing\u201d as imitating or imaging Jesus. Being \u201cconformed to the image of Jesus\u201d is our ultimate destiny (Rom 8:29; 2 Cor 3:18; Col 3:10). \xa0 Our motive for imitating Jesus is not to make God love us, so he\u2019ll let us into His family. God already loved each of us \u201cwhile we were still sinners\u201d (Rom 5:8) and were God\u2019s \u201cenemies\u201d (Rom 5:10). We get to heaven\u2014we become part of God\u2019s family\u2014when we believe the gospel. Before that, we were lost, in need of a Savior (Luke 19:10), and alienated from God (Eph 4:18). When that was our situation, God loved us. He didn\u2019t wait until we cleaned up our act to love us. \xa0 Our motive for imitating Jesus is not to keep God loving us, so we\u2019ll continue to be saved. (Key) That which cannot be achieved by performance cannot be lost by performance. Salvation has nothing to do with our worth or merit. It has everything to do with what someone\u2014Jesus\u2014did for us. 2 Corinthians 5:21 21\xa0For