The Rich Young Ruler

I Have noticed that my posting have been put on the back-burner of late and here' a short and sweet one for you I taught a lesson not to long ago over Mark 10:17-31 and I for some reason decided to post the sermon notes for those of you who would like to look over them and get me some feedback on them it would be much appreciated. it really was a verse by verse breakdown instead of a big picture sermon.

“Rich Young Ruler” Notes

Mark 10:17 up until this point in the gospel you've only got the beggars; you've only got the people who physically need healing. As you can tell this man has no apparent need for Jesus. I want you to get the importance of this, we will have times in our lives when we are the beggars we are the, lame, the blind, and the deaf.

Mark 10:18 You must figure out what you call Jesus Christ.

Lewis expressed his idea in more than one place, but the most definitive appears in Mere Christianity:

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

Lunatic?

If I were to say 'I'm god' you wouldn't say that Daniel has some good things to say... no would probably say something like "that kid needed to wear a bike helmet as a kid."

Liar?

1. Jesus said He was sinless. (John 8:46) 2. Jesus said He could forgive sin. 3. Jesus told everyone to pray to him as God.

Jesus is saying so you understand that I'm God because you are calling me good.

Mark 10:19 The commandments that Jesus lists are on the second half of the commandments and I mean that in the way of this, the first five are about honoring God and the second five are about how to love your neighbor.

Jesus is basically going are you doing these things, he's just poking and counseling.

Mark 10:20 Guys is he not just like us I mean to put it into today’s perspective he's saying "I've been going to church, taking notes on the sermons, going to every bible study I can find, I've sang every worship song out there. But something is still wrong, what's going on?"

The man is saying, "Yes, I’ve been doing these things since I was thirteen years old and something is still wrong."

Mark 10:21 and basically Jesus just said, "look you don't understand the gospel." Because guys the issue isn't money the issue is what is this man making his God. Jesus is saying that "yes you've done these things but you've failed to keep the first commandment which is ""Have no other gods before me.""

Guys I can just see Jesus looking at this guy, because you know he knows, and he looks at him in a very pastoral way and says "let me show you."

Mark 10:22 Guys whenever Jesus asks you to give something up you're only going to react in one of two ways. With joy or the way this guy does, and say "I can't do that."

And guys here's a big thing, that guy got it, even though he didn't want to hear it that guy got it. Because when Jesus shared that with him that man went "oh, you want me to do this." And he understood it.

Mark 10:29–30 Jesus is saying "guys you may have left all that or maybe they have disowned you, but you can expect to be welcomed into the homes and lands of other believers. But that doesn't mean it’ll be easy you guys will also face hard times social and maybe even physical exile and pain. But in the end it's all worth it because y'all will have eternal life with me."