October 28, radical recompense.

Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters,

or mother or father, or children, or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not

receive a hundredfold now in this time,

houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions,

and in the age to come, eternal life.

Mark 10, 29, and 30. What Jesus means here is that he himself makes up for every sacrifice.

If you give up a mother's nearby affection and concern, you get back 100 times the affection and concern from the ever

present Christ. If you give up the warm comradeship of a brother, you get back 100 times the warmth

and comradeship of Christ. If you give up the sense of at-homeness you had in your

house, you get back 100 times the comfort and security of knowing that your Lord owns every house.

To prospective missionaries, Jesus says,

I promise to work for you and be for you so much

that you will not be able to speak of having sacrificed anything.

What was Jesus' attitude to Peter's sacrificial spirit?

Peter said,

We've left everything and followed you, Mark 1028.

Is this the spirit of self-denial commended by Jesus? No, it is rebuked.

Jesus said to Peter, no one ever sacrifices anything for me that I do not pay back a hundredfold.

Yes, in one sense, even in this life, not to mention eternal life at the end of the age. You know,