2019-02-20 Mark 10:28-31
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28 Peter began to tell him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”
29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said, “there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,
30 who will not receive a hundred times more, now at this time—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and eternal life in the age to come.
31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
Are you a hoarder?
Are you a hoarder?
28 Peter began to tell him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”
Blessings don’t come to consumers.
Blessings don’t come to consumers.
28 Peter began to tell him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”
Illus: The common call to faith in Christ hardly resembles the call Jesus gives over an over.
Think about how harsh Jesus call often was.
Who ever puts his hand to the plow and looks back is not fit for the kingdom of God.
Take up your cross and follow me.
Let the dead bury the dead.
You are looking physical bread, I am the bread of life.
Over and over Jesus cuts against the consumeristic me centered gospel to give us a picture of what real faith looks like.
Genuine faith is bigger than simply do you want your sins forgiven.
Genuine faith is lay everything, your sins, your self, your life at the cross of Christ and sacrifice it all to Him.
Jesus teaching to the rich young ruler points out that it is not jesus added to my life gospel, but instead the call to surrender everything to God for the sake of Jesus gospel.
17 As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good except God alone.
19 You know the commandments: Do not murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not bear false witness; do not defraud; honor your father and mother.”
20 He said to him, “Teacher, I have kept all these from my youth.”
21 Looking at him, Jesus loved him and said to him, “You lack one thing: Go, sell all you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
22 But he was dismayed by this demand, and he went away grieving, because he had many possessions.
Sacrifice should become a way of life for us.
Sacrifice should become a way of life for us.
28 Peter began to tell him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”
Illus: The question of sacrifice really comes down to a question of value...
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Your life can be filled with 100 things.
So you life is filled with 50 things that love yourself, 50 things where you sacrifice and love God.
Truthfully you are only experiencing 50% of the blessing you can experience.
Our temptation is to say, oooh, I want to treat my self more, giving up the sacrifice to God and treating ourselves.
All of a sudden we are filled with 75 things to love ourselves with and only 25 things of sacrifice and love of God.
Then you realize the more you dote on yourself, the more miserable you are.
To receive more of God, more of His reward, more… you have to sacrifice yourself. You have to empty that treat yourself part of your life.
The more you sacrifice yourself, the more you will your life with the good God has for you. Real blessings only come with sacrifice.
23 Jesus replied to them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24 Truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains by itself. But if it dies, it produces much fruit.
25 The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
26 If anyone serves me, he must follow me. Where I am, there my servant also will be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Abundance is found in sacrifice.
Abundance is found in sacrifice.
28 Peter began to tell him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”
29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said, “there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,
30 who will not receive a hundred times more, now at this time—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and eternal life in the age to come.
God isn’t asking us to any sacrifice he wouldn’t make.
God isn’t asking us to any sacrifice he wouldn’t make.
28 Peter began to tell him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”
29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said, “there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,
30 who will not receive a hundred times more, now at this time—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and eternal life in the age to come.
Illus: One of biggest obsticles in sacrifice is our own ego and desires.
For me, I will often fight against sacrifice because I see somethings below myself.
God destroys any human ego or selfish desire regarding sacrifice.
He sent Jesus to die for this world.
Jesus subjected himself to complete weakness.
Jesus was tempted in every way.
In Garden of Gethsemane jesus prayed for the cup to pass from him, and it did not.
Jesus willingly hung on the cross.
Tell me, what right do we have not to sacrifice everything?
5 Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus,
6 who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited.
7 Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man,
8 he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross.
9 For this reason God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow— in heaven and on earth and under the earth—
11 and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Sacrificing is about imitating and following Christ.
Sacrificing is about imitating and following Christ.
God isn’t asing us
28 Peter began to tell him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”
29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said, “there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,
30 who will not receive a hundred times more, now at this time—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and eternal life in the age to come.
Illus: I made the case this past Sunday that the mark of whether or not your are saved will be seen by your transformation.
The question is what kind of transformation.... it will be seen in your transformation to look more and more like Christ.
We want transformation where we may perhaps become more moral all the while holding on to our status, and honor.
To truly become Christlike you willingly accept the sacrifice of your life for Jesus.
There was no status or job below Jesus, and there is no status or job below you.
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it.
What does it mean to be last?
What does it mean to be last?
31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
Who is most important in your life?
Illus: 2 things drove Jesus life 1. the glory of God, and 2. love for men.
His own wants and desires were secondary.
two things should drive every moment of our lives, 1. the glory of God, and 2. love for men.
Who was most important to the rich young ruler?
How about you?
4 Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life.