Pharisees asked whether it was right to divorce a wife and Jesus said that if anyone divorces his wife except for immorality and marries another, he commits adultery.
He explained that there are different reasons why people didn't get married .
Little children were brought to Him for Him to lay his hands on them and the disciples rebuked those who brought them.
Jesus said that children should be allowed to come to Him since the kingdom of heaven belong to those who are like little children. He laid His hands on them and went away.
As we saw earlier, the primary characteristics of little children is HUMILITY. The kingdom of heaven is for the humble, sincere and honest people not those who are proud and hypocrites.
A young ruler came and asked Him what he must do to be saved. Jesus told to keep the commandments and he asked which and Jesus gave the fifth to ninth command. The young man said he kept all of them since He was a child and asked what He lacked.
Here we see the young man who kept the commandments from his childhood had a void in his heart. Deeply within, he knew there is something he is lacking.
Even today, many who are serving in the church, like the young man, have good qualities still have an emptiness within. There is a gap in every man which nothing in the world can fill but only God.
Do you feel a void in your heart even if you have been serving faithfully in the church?
Jesus loving him answered that he go and sell everything and give to the poor and have his treasure in heaven and then he should come and follow him.
His problem was that he was obsessed with money. He loved money.
Even today, if there is anything that we love more than Jesus, we will have emptiness in us. It can be our loved ones, jobs, possessions or ourselves. We must love Jesus supremely; more that anything or anyone and we must follow him wherever he leads us if we are to experience fullness of joy and perfect rest and peace in our hearts.
The young was not willing to pay the price and therefore he went away sad.
Jesus said it will be difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
It will be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to inherit the kingdom of God.
The reason is because riches tend to make people proud. And when one is proud, God fights against him.
If you go and ask the street children what they think about you; they will tell you that you are are rich person. It is because we compare ourselves with those who are financially well of than us that we think that this verse does not apply to us but it does.
You are better than someone in some way and that makes you richer than him or her. It can be in intelligence, gifts, natural talents, wisdom, beauty, bible knowledge....
One mark that you are rich proud is that you despise someone who does not have what you have, and to you the LORD, it will be difficult for you to enter the kingdom of heaven unless you humble yourself.
Always remember that whatever you have, it is God who have given you.
And if you have been given, why do you boast as if it was not given to you?
Why do you think you are superior to others and everything you have you have been given? 1Cor 4:7
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