10-21 – Mark 10 [23-31] – You Can’t be Serious

Text: Mark 10:23–31

Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it will be for rich people to enter the kingdom or God!” The disciples were amazed by his words, but Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter God’s kingdom! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter God’s kingdom.”

This amazed his disciples more than ever. They asked each other, “Who, then, can be saved?”

Jesus looked at them and said, “It’s impossible for people to save themselves, but it’s not impossible for God to save them. Everything is possible for God.”

Then Peter spoke up, “We’ve given up everything to follow you.”

Jesus said, “I can guarantee this truth: Anyone who left his home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or fields because of me and the Good News will certainly receive a hundred times as much here in this life. They will certainly receive homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields, along with persecutions, but in the world to come they will receive eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”