All right, welcome, everybody.

Welcome to the live stream of the Sunday Evening Service brought to you by coronavirus,

because we're doing our service outdoors for Sunday night,

and that means that I cannot you know teach with

with all the all the audio and video recording stuff because we're just bare bones

outside so we're doing it live we We're going to be getting today into Mark

Chapter 10 versus 17 through 20 well through 31 really and this is about the

rich young ruler. This particular passage is well it's a challenging passage for a number of reasons. It's commonly

misused this passage that we're in. And I'm very interested as I do verse by verse teaching and covering the areas of misuse, the abuse of a passage and

kind of tackling those as we go verse by verse. So it's commonly misused by people

to suggest that our works, our good works, are going to be the way we earn our way into eternal life because that's kind of the question that this rich young ruler is asking Jesus about.

Other people, they want to, their primary concern is combating that error and so they try to

you know read this passage as though it's just offering a doctrine of

justification when it's giving us more than that and so I don't want us to

miss out on what's in the text because we're trying to combat a mistake a mistaken use of the text because we could fall into our own error that way.

It's also used by some Muslims or those who deny the deity of Jesus to say that Jesus himself is actually denying his own deity in this passage when he says no one is good but God others want to use this passage to teach socialism.

So this is kind of a hotbed passage. use this

rich-you- is kind of a hotbed passage, this rich young ruler section,

but while I'm going to deal with all that stuff, I want to focus on the central issue, which is that when you come to Christ, you need to come poor, you need to come with nothing.

And I don't think it means you have to sell all that you own.

I do think it means you have to come with nothing except total yielding and commitment and submission to the lordship of Jesus Christ.

So we're going to read through the passage right now and if this is your first time, welcome.

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