Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
The saying belongs to the encounter in which a ruler comes asking what he must do to have eternal life. He addresses Jesus as an honored teacher without recognizing Him as God's Son. Jesus directs him to God as the source of goodness and to keeping the commandments, whose principles must guide every action. The Gospel accounts that include this saying frame a contrast between God's free grace and the disciples' mistaken, works-centered view of reward.
The promise is that those who sacrifice will receive manifold more, a hundredfold, in this present time and life everlasting in the world to come. It was given to the disciples as a hope they had almost forgotten and were to keep in mind. Those who rightly estimate the value of the soul turn from the attractions of the world and fix their eyes on heaven by studying and striving to understand the great plan of redemption. As they grasp something of the cost of Christ's sacrifice to uplift and ennoble humanity, they count no sacrifice too great to fulfill His loving purpose to save them from perishing to eternal life.
Receiving the promise involves surrendering earthly possessions and attachments for Christ, giving up or risking means for God's cause, laying all one is and has at His feet, and making obedience to His word the highest aim, because eternal life and heaven's treasures are worth that surrender. The rich young ruler illustrates failure to meet that condition, since he desired eternal life but went away sorrowful when faced with its cost, unwilling to give up all to obtain the crown of life. Not everyone receives the hundredfold in this life, for God may withhold abundance when a person could not bear it, while that person's heavenly treasure remains secure.
The saying belongs to the encounter in which a ruler comes asking what he must do to have eternal life. He addresses Jesus as an honored teacher without recognizing Him as God's Son. Jesus directs him to God as the source of goodness and to keeping the commandments, whose principles must guide every action. The Gospel accounts that include this saying frame a contrast between God's free grace and the disciples' mistaken, works-centered view of reward.
The promise is that those who sacrifice will receive manifold more, a hundredfold, in this present time and life everlasting in the world to come. It was given to the disciples as a hope they had almost forgotten and were to keep in mind. Those who rightly estimate the value of the soul turn from the attractions of the world and fix their eyes on heaven by studying and striving to understand the great plan of redemption. As they grasp something of the cost of Christ's sacrifice to uplift and ennoble humanity, they count no sacrifice too great to fulfill His loving purpose to save them from perishing to eternal life.
Receiving the promise involves surrendering earthly possessions and attachments for Christ, giving up or risking means for God's cause, laying all one is and has at His feet, and making obedience to His word the highest aim, because eternal life and heaven's treasures are worth that surrender. The rich young ruler illustrates failure to meet that condition, since he desired eternal life but went away sorrowful when faced with its cost, unwilling to give up all to obtain the crown of life. Not everyone receives the hundredfold in this life, for God may withhold abundance when a person could not bear it, while that person's heavenly treasure remains secure.