Let's now look at . . . Living a Cleansed Life God will not use or bless a disciple who has unconfessed sin in his or her life. There are only two options in the Christian life. You choose to be either a spiritual disciple of Jesus Christ or a carnal one. If you are not living a victorious, abundant Christian life, it is because you are a carnal, or worldly Christian.
Real discipleship takes the believer out of the carnal and into the spiritual.
Real discipleship involves taking on Jesus' yoke , continuing in the Word , choosing to love , living a cleansed life , and finally . . . Three times in this passage Jesus used the phrase he cannot be my disciple. It was Jesus' intention to shock us with the word hate. In this verse hate is used as a hyperbole. Jesus must be Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.