The Character of the Kingdom, Part 5: God’s…
If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 20 . We've been looking at Matthew for a long time now, and we've been in particular thinking about lessons that we learned all the way back in the story of the rich young ruler for two or three weeks now. In the rich young ruler we learn many things, but one thing that came through very clearly was this: either Christ separates us from the wolves, or the wolves separate us from Christ. Ultimately thatyoung man, though he was moral, spiritual, spiritually interested, upright, upstanding in his community, ultimately that man's possessions came between him and a relationship with the living God, as he went away sorrowing. And when he went away sorrowing, Jesus said several things to…