One Thing You Lack (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Jesus instructed a rich, young ruler to sell all he had and give to the poor. Was He teaching that it’s wrong to be wealthy? Are Christians expected to get rid of everything they don’t absolutely need? Hear the answer on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The When G. When Jesus instructed a rich young ruler to sell everything he had and give it to the poor, |
| 0:31.0 | was he teaching that it is somehow wrong to be wealthy? Are we as Christians |
| 0:36.3 | expected to rid ourselves of everything that we don't absolutely need? We'll hear |
| 0:41.3 | the answer today on Truth for Life as Alistairbag is teaching from Mark |
| 0:45.2 | Chapter 10, we're studying verses 17 through 22. If Jesus were looking to add to his team as he was and as he was and as he is, |
| 1:02.0 | then the fellow to whom we are introduced in verses 17 to 22 is surely one of the |
| 1:09.2 | best candidates that Jesus ever encounters in all of the gospel records. |
| 1:15.0 | It's Matthew that tells us that he's young. |
| 1:18.0 | We're told that he's rich or wealthy in each of the synoptics. it is Luke who tells us that he is a ruler, probably a ruler in the synagogue. |
| 1:30.0 | Furthermore, we discover from just looking at the text in front of us that this young man is keen, |
| 1:37.0 | that's why he ran up to Jesus. |
| 1:40.0 | He is sincere as he kneels before him and he is concerned about issues of eternal life. |
| 1:52.0 | This fellow, says one of the commentators, is part of a special group |
| 1:57.3 | scarcely touched by the gospel. Now that they don't know the gospel, but they're not touched by it. |
| 2:05.0 | And we're going to see just why that is. |
| 2:08.0 | They are, if you like, the people in this special group, |
| 2:11.0 | and I don't want to be unkind to you but some of you are here this morning |
| 2:13.7 | described by CS Lewis in one of his books maybe the four loves in which he |
| 2:17.8 | describes these individuals as nice people lost in their niceness. It is their very niceness, their very goodness, |
| 2:26.1 | their very religious interest, which prevents them, stumbles them from entry into the kingdom of God. Not only does the fellow need to come to a |
| 2:38.4 | knowledge of who Jesus is, but he needs to get a clear view of who he is and that's why Jesus continues. |
| 2:45.0 | You often hear me pray, I pray a little chorus routinely from Sunday school days in Glasgow, |
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