To remember

• The young man was sincere – he knelt before Jesus as one in need of healing


• The young man wasn’t prideful – although he had kept the precepts of the law there was a sense of lack.  He knew he needed something to inherit eternal life.


• Jesus wanted the young man to follow him on the difficult path of discipleship – leading to a cross.


• He had invited his disciples to leave everything and take up a cross


• What he was calling him to was already hard, but the added burden of all that he had to leave made it harder.


• It wasn’t the act of giving up everything that would cause the man to inherit eternal life, but the grace of following.


• The disciples would receive all that they gave up back in hundredfold with persecutions.