Sunday, 2nd March
Mark 10: 17-31 (The Rich Young Man)
vs 21: “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.”
David Beales said, Jesus asks us to give up our status and take up the cross (sign of shame) and follow Him.
What is our life centered on? On status in society or Jesus?
vs 27: “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.”
Challenge: Is my life centered on Jesus?
Promise: If life is centered on Jesus the promise in in vs 30 (receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.)
Mark 10:31
Many who are first will be last, and the last first
