Exodus 8:1-9:35
Matthew 19:13-30
Psalm 24:1-10
Proverbs 6:1-5
Matthew 19:16 Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”
People still ask this question today. it's the wrong question. Some people don't even ask the question. They want to believe that they do enough good things already, so they will be going to heaven. It is a common belief that if you are a "good person" then you will go to heaven but who's standard of good are they using?
Matthew 19:17 “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”
The worlds standard of good is way below God's standard of good. Only God is truly good. He is ALL good. So good enough means all good. NO bad. Jesus only gives the 10 commandments as an example to this man. And he just like all of us can't even say that he has kept them all, let alone done it perfectly. We may be really good at some of them like the rich man. We may even think that we are doing pretty good with all of them. But when you consider that Jesus has made it consistently clear to us that it is not the actions alone that matter but the condition of the heart. That is the real measure of our "good". We all have something like the rich man had that is not always good in our heart.
Matthew 19:25 When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”
The disciples recognized this and even though they were His friends and His disciples not even they could be saved if it was about being perfectly good.
Matthew 19:26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
But rejoice because the impossible has happened and because of Jesus and His perfect love He has made the way to eternal life possible for every one of us.
Matthew 19:29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
When we lay down our lives at the foot of the cross and give our lives to Jesus we are given a new named and clothed in Jesus' perfect righteousness. Sometimes giving our lives to Jesus means that there are things in this life that we will lose. Family can turn their back on us, we may come to recognize that there are things in our lives that are not right and good that need to be left behind, we may face judgement and persecution. But no matter what the things are on this earth that we will give up or lose their true value is nothing compared to what God has in store for us.
If you have never given your life to Jesus, is it because there is something in your life that is difficult for you to give up? Something that you already know is not good. Have you attributed a value to those things that you are not willing to lose. But by doing so you are missing out on even more abundant blessings than you can even imagine because of your unwillingness to give up what you have for what you don't know. Ask yourself is that thing that you are holding onto worth eternal life in heaven? I can promise you it's not. In fact, anything that comes between you and God is only worth eternal life separated from God. Because every one of us has an eternal life when we leave this world the question is where will you spend it? Who will you walk with the enemy who only wants to steal kill and destroy, or Jesus who came so that you could have life to the fullest?
I'm Gonna Walk With Jesus - https://youtu.be/6GPzrNxlyYo?si=wMFQR90OKi6Um3Yg
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