posted Dec 11, 2017, 6:27 PM by Grant Garber
- The deficiency of human achievement.
- The rich young ruler, by his own efforts….
- Gained money, power and position.
- Has a fast-moving and forward looking view of the world.
- Has respect for authority.
- Yet, he longs for spiritual meaning and the assurance of eternal life.
- The tragic truth of the human quest for eternal life.
- The rich young ruler’s assumptions are all wrong…..
- He assumes that goodness can be achieved through human effort.
- He assumes that eternal life can be earned.
- Love always prompts Jesus to speak ultimate truth!
- He assumes that everything can be bought for a price.
- Eternal life is a value that can’t be bought, but costs our all.
- The grand reversal of human values.
- Jesus reverses the expectations so often attached to wealth.
- Wealth is a human value with an insatiable hunger which fixes a person to earth.
- Rich, poor, beggar, and thief -- - no one can enter by their own virtue or need, but anyone and everyone can be saved by the gift of God.
- Jesus reverses the rewards attached to wealth.
- Jesus’ disciples have no reason for self-pity.
- Jesus includes persecution among the spiritual values His disciples will receive.
- Jesus reverses the position attached to wealth.
- Jesus throws the whole human parade into reverse!
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