Rich Young Ruler
Notes
17 And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
18 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? 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 And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.”
21 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
22 Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
- 1 Not all good beginnings have endings v17-28
- 2 Jesus knew, obeyed and loved Scripture v19
- BOOK - When Critics Ask, Geisler & Howe
- Things of faith can be messy and not precise
- Approach the Bible as an application for personal action not a precise study with intellectual precision
- 3 Jesus loves and wants all to follow Him unhindered v20-22
- 4 We are the rich young ruler