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Luke 18:18-30
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18A certain ruler asked him,
“Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
19“Why do you call me good?”
Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.
20You know the commandments:
‘You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you
shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”
21“All these I have kept
since I was a boy,” he said.
22When Jesus heard this, he
said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to
the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
23When he heard this, he
became very sad, because he was very wealthy.
24Jesus looked at him and
said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the
25Indeed, it is easier for a
camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter
the
26Those who heard this asked,
“Who then can be saved?”
27Jesus replied, “What is
impossible with man is possible with God.”
28 Peter said to him, “We
have left all we had to follow you!”
29“Truly I tell you,” Jesus
said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or
parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God
30will fail to receive many
times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.”
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1)
According to
verse 18 what did the ruler want to find out from Jesus?
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He wanted to find
out what he must do to inherit eternal life.
2)
According to what
Jesus said in verse 19 who alone is good?
o
God alone is good.
3)
Was Jesus denying
that he is good or that he is God in his reply to the ruler in verse 19, given that the ruler did not fully know what ‘good’
meant?
o
No, because Jesus
was simply challenging the ruler’s not fully knowing what ‘good’ meant.
4)
According to what
Jesus said in verse 20 which commandments
did he cite?
o
You shall not
commit adultery.
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You shall not murder.
o
You shall not
steal.
o
You shall not
give false testimony.
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Honor your
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Father.
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And mother.
5)
According to what
the ruler said in verse 21 what had he
done with all the commandments Jesus cited?
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He had kept all those.
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Since
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He was a boy.
6)
According to what
Jesus said in verse 22 how should the ruler revolutionize the way he related to
others and to Jesus if he wanted to fulfill the one thing he lacked?
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He should
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Sell everything he
had.
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And give to the
poor.
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And follow Jesus.
7)
According to what
Jesus said in verse 22 what would the ruler have in heaven if he sold
everything he had and gave to the poor?
o
He would have
treasure in heaven.
8)
How did the word
‘come’ as in ‘Come, follow me’ commence a totally new direction for the ruler who
used to follow the dictate of his desires?
o
Following the
dictate of his desires now gave way to following Jesus.
9)
According to
verse 23 what was the response of the ruler upon hearing Jesus’ words and why?
o
He became very
sad.
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Because
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He was very
wealthy.
10)
According to what
Jesus said in verses 24 and 25 how hard
is it for the rich to enter the
o
It is easier
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For a camel to go
through the eye of a needle.
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Than for someone
who is rich to enter the
11)
Why did those who
heard what Jesus said ask in verse 26 who then could be saved, given that the
rich was considered to be blessed by God in the Jewish culture of their time?
o
They thought that
it would be
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Even harder for
the rest to be saved.
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To the point of
impossibility.
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If
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It was hard for
the rich who was blessed by God.
12)
Were the disciples
looking at the matter of getting saved from the perspective of personal merits
or from the perspective of God’s grace?
o
They were looking
at it from the perspective of personal merits.
13)
Was Jesus looking
at the matter of getting saved from the perspective of personal merits or from
the perspective of God’s grace when he said in verse 27 that what is impossible
with man is possible with God?
o
Jesus was looking
at it from the perspective of God’s grace.
14)
Was it necessary
for the rich man to sell his possessions and give to the poor in order to inherit
eternal life and why?
o
No, because he
could inherit eternal life by faith in Jesus.
15)
Why then did
Jesus tell the rich man to sell his possessions and give to the poor in order
to inherit eternal life?
o
It is because the
rich man wanted to inherit eternal life by his own merits.
16)
According to
verses 28 to 30 what was Jesus’ reply to Peter’s
remark that the disciples had left all they had to follow him?
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No one who has
for the sake of the
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Home.
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Or wife.
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Or brothers.
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Or sisters.
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Or parents.
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Or children.
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Will fail to
receive
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Many times as
much in this age.
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And in the age to
come eternal life.
17)
Did Jesus say
that one must leave home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children
for the sake of the
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No.
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Jesus did not say
that one must leave these for the sake of the
o
He only said that
one who has left these for the sake of
the
18)
Did the disciples
receive eternal life by their own merits when they left these for the sake of the
o
No, because their
leaving these for the sake of the
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It was by faith in
Jesus.
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That
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They received eternal
life.
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Luke 18:18-30
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