Title: What to Worry About?
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Title: What to Worry About?
Bible: Mark 10:17-22
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This time, we would like to share the sermon with the title of “What shall we worry about?” through the sermon of the text.
It would be inconceivable for believers to be free from worries while living their life of faith.
However, what to worry about should be an important consideration as a believer.
Also, whether we will become the saints who cause sorrow or the saints who solve our worries will also be an important question in our faith.
To conclude, we too are troubled people, but we must become believers who ponder over “what pleases God?”
The difference between this sorrow and the sorrow of the world is that the sorrow of the world scares us, wears us out, and hurts us, but the sorrow that pleases God becomes a “holy sorrow” as the Bible says, a sorrow that is with God. This becomes.
Therefore, as saints, we must lay down the things of the world in front of the cross and become saints with holy sorrow in order to please God only.
In today's text, a rich young man came to Jesus.
If we look at verse 17,
“As Jesus was going out, a man ran up to him and knelt down and asked him, Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
asked.
If you look at this question now, you can clearly see that this young man was interested in eternal life.
Worrying about eternal life means great grace and hope.
However, looking at the words of verse 22,
“Because the man had great wealth, he went away grieved and grieved at these words.”
I did.
This rich young man started out with holy sorrow, and then went home with a sad sorrow.
Today, Jesus gives the same answer to us like this young manager.
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What was Jesus' answer to this rich young man through the words of today's text?
In the name of the Lord, I ask that you take the time to think deeply about what kind of anxieties we will have while looking at this answer.
First, Jesus' answer to the rich young man was,
First, he said, “Keep the commandments.”
Looking at verses 18-19 of the text,
“Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God. You know the commandments, do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not deceive, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.”
Says.
The young man who heard the words of Jesus answers through the words of verse 20.
This is verse 20 of the text.
“He said to him, “Teacher, I have kept all these things since I was a child.”
Then, hearing this confession, Jesus saw him as love.
God loves us when we become saints who hear the word of God and keep it.
You can receive God's love when you obey the Word and become a saint who desires to live by the Word.
Then, what is the reason for us as saints to keep the word of God?
First of all, the Word is a law given by God, and it is the rule of life.
The people of a country should be people who keep the laws set by the country.
If we do not keep the law, we will sin, and we will have to pay the price for our sins.
The saints are the people of the kingdom of God.
God has created a way for us to live as His people, that is, the law through His Word.
We must become saints who please God by obeying His Word.
Next, the reason we must keep the commandments is that we are saints who love God and who are loved by God.
According to 1 John 5:3,
“This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not heavy.”
said,
Therefore, if the saints love God, they will keep the commandments, and if they keep the commandments, they will be loved by Jesus like a rich young man.
In this way, when we try to keep God's commandments, it becomes an opportunity to come to know Jesus, meet and receive Him.
Because we are born sinners, sinners cannot perfectly keep God's commandments.
So, the more we try to keep the commandments, the more we realize our shortcomings and the more we find Jesus who saved us.
Second, Jesus said to the rich young man, “Give money to the poor.”
If we look at the words of verse 21,
“When Jesus saw him, he loved him and said to him, “You lack one thing; go, sell all that you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.”
You did.
Now Jesus is not just telling us to share the wealth of the youth.’
As we go through life, there are times when we feel that something we love more than the Lord is holding us back.
He tells you to put it down now.
The Lord is telling us to give it up because we cannot have His thing by holding on to it.
Now this means that Jesus knows us all too well.
What kind of beings do we see in Jesus?
We say that we know that we cannot keep God's commandments perfectly, and we cannot obey His Word.
The rich young man now replied that he keeps all the commandments, but from Jesus' perspective, the rich young man was not obeying the command to love your neighbor as yourself.
Because he loved what he had more than his neighbor, he could not obey the Lord's word and went home sad.
What we need to realize from this is that God wants us to love Him more than the things of the world.
Jesus said earlier about the coffin of wealth,
The words of Matthew 6:24,
“No one can serve two masters. For if you hate one, you will love the other, or if you are devoted to one, you will despise the other. You cannot serve both God and two masters.”
You said.
This means that if you love wealth, you cannot love God or serve God.
We need to understand what Jesus meant when he said to sell and give to the poor.
These words do not mean to give up all the sacrifices.
It means that the wealth that Jesus demands now is not in throwing away, but in sowing.
In other words, when he told the rich young man to give his wealth to the poor, it does not mean that having a lot of wealth does not lead to salvation, but rather that you sow wealth.
If the rich young man had not left Jesus after sharing his wealth with his neighbors as Jesus said, his sorrow would not have been a sorrowful sorrow but a sorrow pleasing to God.
At this time, I ask in the name of the Lord that we all lay down the precious conditions of life for God and become sowing believers.
Third, the last thing Jesus answered to the young man is, “Follow me.”
Looking at the second half of verse 21,
“And come, follow me.”
Says.
To follow Jesus means to follow the way of discipleship of Jesus.
Followers of Jesus believe and acknowledge Jesus as our redeeming Savior.
Also, to follow Jesus means to accept Jesus as the Lord of your life
When a young man follows Jesus, he completely entrusts his life and death to the Lord.
This is only possible when you have a deep faith in and trust in Jesus.
Jesus asks us to be obedient in this way.
It is not our obedience, which is enough to do or not to do.
Now, Jesus' words to the rich young man, “Follow me,” require 100% pure obedience.
It is beneficial for a person to follow someone, and he will follow when he thinks he is good.
As John 10 says, Jesus is our Good Shepherd.
Green pastures and clear streams are promised when the sheep follow their master, the good shepherd.
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Today, we must remember that the rich young man returned home with great sorrow after hearing the words of Jesus.
Jesus says:
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
I hope that you will become believers who have put all the worries and worries of life before the Lord at this time.
Now, if we are going to be troubled, I want you to think of something that will “please God.”
When we become saints who obey the Word, who can lay down our precious things before the Lord, and who follow the Lord through 100% pure obedience, our worries will no longer be the worries of the world, but holy sorrows. will be
Today, I earnestly pray in the name of the Lord that you will become all the saints who please God with holy sorrow by relying on the word you have given us.