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Sell Everything \\ Mark 10:17-31
*Deal or No Deal *(after highlights) \\ ( Trade a nickel for one of three envelopes.
Inside the envelopes have a $5 bill, $5 Starbucks gift card and $5 gift cert to The Well useable only in the future.)
This is definitely true for the thing that he told our central figure today in Mark 10. Before we get to that, I want to make a deal.
A little deal or no deal.
I am only going to make this deal one time and only to the person who can get to me first.
Here’s the deal: Inside of one of these envelopes is a $5 bill.
I will give the envelope of your choosing to the first person to bring me a nickel.
So just in case you are a little slow on the math.
You have the potential to increase the money in your pocket by 100 times.
Ready, set, go.
With person up front have them pick the envelope and ask:
· Is this really very hard to make this trade?
Even if you get nothing?
· What if I asked you to give up a $20 bill?
Would you do it?
Would it be hard?
· What if I told you that in one of these envelopes was 100x as much as a $20 bill?
Would that make you more inclined to compete?
· What if I told you that no matter what envelope you picked you were guaranteed to multiply your $20 bill by 100? Would you do it?
· No matter what envelope you pick, you are guaranteed to multiply what you are giving up by 100x.
(After the competition) Okay, what let’s open up the envelope.
What did you get?
Awesome.
So, let me just point out.
You multiplied what you gave up 100x.
Would you say that is a good deal?
We are going to come back to that illustration at the end because it is at the heart of what Jesus is going to say to us today.
For now though, as we receive our offering we have a little video clip to show you.
· Ferris Bueller Video
Intro
In this classic scene from Ferris Bueller’s day we learn about Cameron’s father’s love of his life.
His car.
I kind of picture the central figure in the story we are going to explore today somewhat like this guy.
I think we can all relate if we think about it.
We all have something in our life that we love…something we love more than life.
Okay, maybe not really more than life…but we can probably identify something that consumes our life, our time, our energy our focus.
Maybe it’s a car…maybe it’s our wardrobe…maybe it’s our hair…maybe it’s a relationship.
It could be something good or maybe not so good.
The key in identifying this one thing is that it is something we would find tremendously hard to give up.
Now I imagine some of you will say, “Nah, not really.”
But think about the thing in your life that you just couldn’t live without.
Well, you could live without it, but you really don’t want to.
Life is easier with this thing.
Even though may not be better.
There’s a distinction there.
There are some conveniences we have or own that really do make life easier, but I am not always sure they make life better.
Jesus said some things that really don’t make our life easier.
In fact, we may say that they are things we wish Jesus never said because they don’t make our life easy.
But when we get right down to it, even though they don’t make our life easier.
They do make our life better.
*Text*
Let’s jump into our text today.
It will be on the screen or you can follow along in the notes or of course I would encourage you to use your Bible.
Mark 10:17 \\ /As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him.
“Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”/
There are a couple things I want you to notice about this section.
1.
This man has come to be referred to as the Rich Young Ruler.
The reason for this is that this particular story appears in Matthew, Mark and Luke.
From those three accounts we find that he was young, wealthy and a ruler of some sort.
Probably meant he was some kind of political leader.
2. This man was running.
In Jesus day, this was unheard of.
Men did not run.
Wealthy rulers never ran.
They didn’t have to.
I think we compare this guy to someone like Bill Gates or the President.
These guys don’t run after anything.
They have people run to them and for them, but they don’t run.
Furthermore, in Jesus day this would have been so demeaning.
To run means you would have had to hike up your robes and expose your ankles which was very humiliating.
3.
This man apparently had a burning desire to have his question answered.
He probably had heard Jesus speak.
He apparently thought a lot of Jesus and looked to Jesus as an authority.
4. His question was not something you look up on Wikipedia.
It was the mac daddy of them all.
“What must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Notice he says “inherit.”
He used a financial term there to describe a spiritual reality.
He was very comfortable in the financial world.
It was an important enough question that he ran to find the answer.
Vs. 18-20 \\ /“Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered.
“No one is good—except God alone.
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’//
//“Teacher,” he declared, “all these I have kept since I was a boy.”/
1. Jesus is basically telling him, “You do not have to flatter me.
I’m listening.
2. Jesus responds with a list that most teachers would have given.
In some ways, he is testing the guy to see if he wants more than just the standard answer.
a.
If this guy would have been satisfied with the standard answer, he would have went away feeling pretty justified.
b.
But this guy wanted more.
He tried living by the standard and he recognized that it didn’t work.
c.
He tried living his life by the accepted standard.
i.
Many try to live this way.
I can always tell when someone really has an interest in the Gospel.
An interest in really following Jesus versus joining a church.
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