Wanting Eternal Life Above All Things? (TMF:1458)

Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Peace to Live By: Wanting Eternal Life Above All Things? (TMF:1458) - Daniel Litton
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       Most Americans are rich compared to the rest of the world. It’s not wrong for a person to be rich provided that he doesn’t value his goods too highly. And that’s where we find the problem with the rich young man. He loved his possessions so much that he was unwilling to part from them to accept Christ. Really, if you stop and think about this passage here, Jesus is putting the man to the test. If the man really wants eternal life the most, above all other things, then Jesus asking him to sell all of his possessions shouldn’t be a problem for him. But it was a stumbling block. Jesus knew the man loved material goods too much. When Jesus was listing commandments from the Ten Commandments and asked the man if he had kept them, one particular command he did not list was one that says, “You shall not covet…” (Exodus 20:17, ESV). You see, in order for a person to come to Jesus, that person has to be willing to surrender all known sin and follow him.