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Mark 10 - Devotion · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Welcome to Five Minute Bible in our journey through the New
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  Testament. In each episode, we take just a
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  few minutes to focus on one chapter of the New Testament,
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  exploring the truths God is teaching us through His Word and
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  expanding our view of who He is. Before you listen, make sure
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  you've gone straight to the source, either by reading
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  today's chapter of the Bible yourself or listening to today's
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  read along episode in this podcast feed.
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  If you haven't done that yet, feel free to pause and do that
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  now. When you're ready, let's dive
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  into God's Word. Together
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  in Mark chapter 10 we come to another account of Jesus
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  interactions with the rich young ruler.
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  We covered this when we were talking through Matthew chapter
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  19, so we won't fully re plow that ground.
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  However, I want to take a minute to zoom in on Jesus conversation
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  with his disciples after the rich young ruler walks away sad
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  after Jesus tells him to sell all he has and follow him.
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  Here's what happened next. Listen to verse 23 and Jesus
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  looking around said to his disciples how hard it will be
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  for those who are wealthy to enter the Kingdom of God.
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  This amazed the disciples that wealth and prosperity could
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  actually be a hindrance to a person's relationship with God.
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  Jesus isn't finished, he goes on children, how hard it is to
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  enter the Kingdom of God. It is easier for a camel to go
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  through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the
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  Kingdom of God. Entering heaven is difficult.
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  This aligns with Jesus language all through the gospels.
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  The path to heaven requires death.
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  It requires surrender of 1's whole self and handing it over
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  to God. And yet we know that the path to
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  heaven is also simple. We know that whoever calls on
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  the name of the Lord will be saved.
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  We know that if we would simply repent and believe the gospel,
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  we will be saved. So how can we align these
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  realities? What hope do we have to enter
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  heaven? What hope does the rich man
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  have? Jesus tells us that it is easier
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  for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich
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  man to enter the Kingdom at. This hyperbole or extreme
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  exaggeration is intended to shock us.
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  It's intended to jolt us into realizing that it's extremely
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  difficult for the rich to enter heaven.
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  Indeed, it's extremely difficult for any of us to enter heaven.
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  But Jesus isn't finished. Who is able to overpower the
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  allure and magnetism of riches? Who is able to deliver us from
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  the Kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of light?
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  Who is able to grant a helpless Sinner entrance into the Kingdom
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  of heaven? Listen to verse 27.
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  Looking at them, Jesus said with people it is impossible, but not
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  with God. For all things are possible with
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  God. God is able to do it.
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  God is able to satisfy that rich young ruler in a way that his
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  wealth never could. God is able to redeem a Sinner
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  and fill him with his love and power and peace.
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  God is able to do what man never could.
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  God is able to rescue sinners and give them eternal life with
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  Him.