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Introduction:
If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Mark chapter 10.
We are going to begin reading what Kody Craft led us through last week in Mark 10:13-16, then we will continue reading all the way to verse 31.
So lets read and then pray for God to give us understanding.
Lets Pray
The story of the world is a tale of two kingdoms: The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Man.
The Kingdom of God is the real kingdom.
God’s Kingdom has always been and it will always be.
It is the eternal Kingdom.
It is the Kingdom where God sits in his rightful place as King and ruler of all that is.
He rules, and his rule is a blessing to all those who trust in him as King.
The Kingdom of Man, however, began when man sinned against God.
Man’s Kingdom is the one we create for ourselves.
It is the one where we rule our own lives by our own wisdom.
It is the Kingdom in which we seek glory for ourselves.
Man’s Kingdom is one that will one day come to an end…
In the end, Man’s kingdom will end in death.
Man’s kingdom will be swallowed up by and destroyed by God’s Kingdom.
But Jesus came into our broken world full of people rebelling against God… and Jesus began to announce good news that you could transfer your citizenship.
You don’t have to live for Man’s kingdom anymore.
You don’t have to sink with the ship of Man’s doomed kingdom.
You can repent.
You can believe in the good news of God’s kingdom that will not be destroyed.
You can come under the rule, the protection, and the love of a new king who loved you so much, he was willing to pay the penalty himself for your rebellion.
To become a Christian is to transfer our citizenship.
It is to pledge allegiance to a new king over our life
It is to live in this broken world as a representative of the new kingdom we are a part of.
God’s kingdom has different priorities.
It has different guiding principles for us to live by.
We saw this clearly in Kody’s teaching last week.
Look back with me at Mark 10:14-15
Mark 10:14–15 (ESV)
14 ...... “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
15 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
So who are the people who become members of God’s Kingdom?
They are the one’s who come to God like needy children.
We do not bring anything to the relationship with God.
We don’t purchase this citizenship in his kingdom.
We come to him totally trusting and totally needing him to save us, to care for us, to wrap us up in his eternal arms.
Its the needy and the trusting in Jesus who are welcomed into the Kingdom of God…
Very different dispositions then those that are praised in the kingdom of Man.
With that teaching fresh in your mind, Mark throws us into another very different interaction where someone else is inquiring about how they can transfer their citizenship to the eternal kingdom of God.
The first thing I want you to notice about this man is his eagerness to meet Jesus.
He runs to Jesus.
He kneels before Jesus.
He compliments Jesus.
And he honors Jesus by asking him what is perhaps the most important question in the world.
“What must I do to inherit eternal life?”
We may not use the language of kingdom very much, but we definitely recognize the language of “eternal life”
That is the question isn’t it.
One of the astounding things about humanity and the kingdom of man is how uncomfortable we are with the concept of death.
Death is a part of our world… but for some reason our natural self recoils at the thought of it.
We don’t want to think about death,
We don’t want to prepare ourselves for death.
Even though 10 out of 10 people die, death surprises and bewilders us when it happens.
In fact, all over the world, humans feel within themselves this longing and this expecting of something after death.
There something inside of us which tells us that death cannot and in fact should not be the end of our conscious existence.
Why do we naturally feel this way?
Is it just survival instincts developed through evolutionary process which makes us not like the concept of death?
Or is there something more which creates in us the craving for life eternal?
The Christian worldview explains this phenomenon.
Death feels foreign to us, because it is a foreign force that came into the world as a consequence for sin against a Holy God.
We hope for life after death, because there is in fact a life after death..
There is in fact an eternity for which we are made.
There is an eternal life to be had… and there is an eternal death as an alternative.
Religions all over the world instinctively come to this conclusion.
But what is the truth about how to inherit eternal life?
This eager young man is asking the question that every person in this room should be asking.
This eager young man is asking the question that every person on the planet should be asking.
“What must I do to inherit eternal life?”
And who better to ask then Jesus?
Jesus in the gospel of Mark thus far has defied death.
He has controlled storms, delivered from demons, healed diseases and even raised people from the dead.
Surely this good teacher, is the one to ask about eternal things.
so this eager young man, approaches Jesus with great anticipation, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
but Jesus’ initial response is a little perplexing..
Jesus is God in the flesh and Jesus is good...
but this man does not know this.
This man is declaring Jesus good based off of his own idea of goodness.
But here is Jesus’ correction:
No one is good expect God alone.
From the beginning of the interaction the man assumes that he knows what is truly good.
This is our first truth that becomes increasingly clear throughout the interaction.
Truth #1 Eternal Life is not For People Who Think They Are Good Enough
The young man assumes that eternal life is an inheritance that can be purchased by goodness.
This assumption is found even in how he asks Jesus the question.
he asked Jesus, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?”
He is looking to someone whom he sees to be a good teacher to give him a good step in the direction of eternal life.
He is looking for some kind of act or process or measure of obedience that he could achieve to insure that he receives eternal life rather than eternal death.
He is wanting to know where he can buy his kingdom of God citizenship with some degree of morality and goodness.
Jesus brings this to the surface all the more with his follow up statement.
so Jesus says, “no one is good except God alone.”
Then Jesus says, “You know the commandments”
The commandments are God’s standard for God’s people,
but I can’t help but think the man interrupts Jesus here.
All Jesus says is, “you know the commandments” and then Jesus defines a few.. and the man responds.
Now, there is no reason to believe from the text that this man was a total liar or a hypocrite.
It seems like he may have been a very good person.
Jesus did not rebuke him as a hypocrite like that of the Pharisees.
He likely did esteem the commandments of God and in many ways perhaps he was a faithful Jew to the law.
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