Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] We're going to be in Matthew chapter 19. We might take a peek at Mark chapter 10, and Luke chapter 18 if the need arise as we go through our study here.
[00:00:09] So let's look at Matthew 18, Matthew 19 rather, and start in verse number 16 just to read our text here. And we'll pick up where we left off last week.
[00:00:19] Matthew 19:16 says, and behold, one came and said unto him, good Master, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? Now, interestingly, even though this young man is called a ruler, right? He's called a. He was rich, he was young, and he's called a ruler. Josh, everything good?
[00:00:45] Okay.
[00:00:47] He was on a secret errand for the Lord. So even though this was a religious man, a religious young man, even though he was a ruler, he still had the same basic assumption that pretty much everybody has. And the assumption is found in his question, good Master, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? What is the assumption in that question? The assumption is that there's a good thing that you have to do to have eternal life. That's the assumption. And. And that is a universal assumption. You would be surprised if you went to other nations, other cultures, other faith systems, belief systems, religions, et cetera, you would find that basic assumption holds true. You do good in order to have eternal life. And whatever that means in their particular system is really irrelevant. The same basic truth is there. All right, so let's Continue. Verse number 17. And he said unto him, why callest thou me good? Now let me pause before I go any further. Let me pause now. We're in Greenville, South Carolina, and Ms. Laura, since I don't want to put you on the spot, but since she's like, I don't care.
[00:02:10] Since you've been down in this area, have you noticed the religious atmosphere is a lot different than New York?
[00:02:17] Like, a lot different than New York.
[00:02:20] It's a lot different than New York.
[00:02:23] And. But this is where we live, right? This is where the Lord has us. And so we have to deal with people just like the Lord dealt with people in his time, in his location, we have to deal with people where they are right now, Right? And what you'll find is, although this is this question, this assumption that a person must do a good thing in order to have eternal life is something that is universal. Is a universal assumption.
[00:02:51] Down in the south, people know that that lingo and many, many, many people, not everyone, many people know that that lingo is not right, that you do something to get eternal life but what they've done is they have substituted the good thing from a good work of some kind. You know, being a member of church, being baptized, helping the poor, whatever, with this process whereby they say the prayer or they do the thing. They've substituted the good thing from a good work like that to some sort of religious act like accepting Jesus in your heart or some other thing like that, and it becomes the good thing that they are doing to have eternal life. But the same principle applies. And you say, well, I don't really like you saying that accepting Jesus in your heart is a good. Well, I'm telling you that people do that. They trust in their religious. How many times have you witnessed to someone if you have. I know, you know, in my evangelism, people around here. And you've tried to explain to a person must receive Christ by faith, oh, yeah, I did that.
[00:04:08] I did that.
[00:04:10] The very fact that somebody says I did that is kind of betraying a whole problem with the way they view it, right?
[00:04:19] But if you truly have received Christ, you likely. You might. I mean, you might describe it like that in a hurry or something. But generally speaking, if you receive Christ, you're going to say, no, I believed in Christ. I trusted in him, and he saved me. And.
[00:04:36] And, you know, once in a while we'll meet someone. Even yesterday I met someone who was a member of Trinity Way Baptist Church on Old Buncombe down here. And as soon as I said where we were from, what we were doing, she's like, I am saved. I trusted in Jesus. He's my savior. You know, it's that kind of response. Not, I did that.
[00:04:56] It's just, listen, people will take even what the Bible says that is true and right and will turn it into what good things that they must do.
[00:05:07] That's what they've done.
[00:05:09] Instead of, you know, whatever, praying the rosary or, you know, being involved in some religious ritual or whatever, it's praying the prayer. It's, you know, doing the thing. It's, you know, that it's the same. It's just repackaged. It's just a repackaged thing.
[00:05:29] And in both cases, it comes down to one is trusting in what they have done rather than what Christ has done.
[00:05:39] And so.
[00:05:41] All right, let me pick up so I don't get sidetracked again. Verse number 17. And he said unto him, why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
[00:05:54] And he saith unto him, which Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Honor thy father and thy mother, and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
[00:06:12] The young man saith unto him, all these have I kept from my youth. Up. What lack I? Yet Jesus said unto him, if thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven and come and follow me. And when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
[00:06:35] Then said Jesus unto his disciples, verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again, I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
[00:06:51] When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them and said unto them, with men, this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible. Let's pray together. Father, thank you for the chance to study your word here this morning, Lord, I pray that you would help me to say the things you want me to say and that your word especially would be profitable and helpful to your people. Lord, we just. We want to focus our mind and our heart on what it says, Lord. Remove, I pray, all distractions from our mind and heart. I pray for Michael and Ashley as well, Lord, that you would. You would help them in their physical situation and their needs, Lord. Help us to know the way we can help them and. But I also pray for their spiritual needs as well, Lord. You know where they're at. Thank you, Lord, for the connection with brother Jim and that Michael has had a chance to interact with him. And thank you for that, Lord. We just pray that you would.
[00:07:52] You would just bless them and guide. Guide them so that they would come to know the Lord Jesus.
[00:07:59] And Lord, we pray that you bless our Sunday school lesson here this morning in Jesus name. Amen.
[00:08:06] Okay, so by way of review, we have already seen that this man asks about eternal life. And the very fact that he asks about eternal life is very important. You know, a lot of people is what we talked about last week. A lot of people are not thinking about eternal things at all, period. Okay? That's just not on their mind. That's not on their radar. But it was on this man's radar. Whatever had happened in his life had brought him to a place in which he is asking important and eternal questions. Even if the assumptions behind his questions are wrong.
[00:08:46] So this man is also. We also saw that this man, when he is seeking the Lord, he is seeking the Lord very intently because we saw, I believe it's in Mark, that he was running to Jesus and fell down to him. Remember that? And so we saw how intent he was to get his question answered. He was not. This was not a casual interaction.
[00:09:09] We saw how that in all three cases, in all three accounts, rather, in Matthew, Mark and Luke, he refers to Jesus as good master.
[00:09:19] And Jesus questions him and he says, why callest thou me good?
[00:09:26] And so this young man assumes that there are good, despite the fact that his own scripture, the Old Testament law, said the opposite. The Old Testament law, in fact, we just studied it on Wednesday night, right? Psalm 14. There's none that doeth good. No, not one. Nevertheless, he called Jesus good. We saw also how he called Jesus master, which is a title generally given by those who do not yet believe in Christ instead of Lord. We saw that and then we saw how that he's likely throwing this term around, this term good around in a loose way, much like we would do. So what the Lord does is he challenges. He takes the opportunity that this man is providing and he challenges him. On the question of good, there's two things the Lord is challenging and this is where we'll pick up number one, he's challenging the man to consider who he is, who Jesus is, who he himself is.
[00:10:27] That's the first thing. If you're calling me good, what are you saying?
[00:10:32] Because Jesus said there is none good but one that is God. All right, so by Jesus saying that, notice he did not say I am not good. He says there is only one that is good. So think about what you're saying and think about who I am.
[00:10:50] Second thing, Jesus is challenging the man on what good means.
[00:10:58] And this is important because this young man is self righteous.
[00:11:04] That's what we see. This is why the question of good is so important.
[00:11:11] Most people define good. Am I, and I'll touch on this today a little bit in the service, but most people define good is this.
[00:11:20] I on occasion do good things.
[00:11:26] That's how most people define it. That's a pretty low standard, wouldn't you say?
[00:11:32] Because the Bible says Jesus said himself that even the publicans and the sinners, even the Pharisees, the worst, spiritually speaking, even they knew how to do good to those that they love, right? So all of us, no matter, I mean, even the worst sort of people. I'm sure that Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer, at some point in their life, did good things to someone. At some point, you know, help somebody out, giving them money, whatever.
[00:12:05] And that's how we define it. If I do, on occasion, subjectively, some good thing, I'm good.
[00:12:13] This is just false. This is just wholly wrong.
[00:12:18] This young man thinks that because he has kept the commandments. Now again, that's himself judging himself, okay? But he thinks because he has kept the commandments, he is, therefore he's righteous, he's good.
[00:12:36] This is the reason that the Lord Jesus brought this question up.
[00:12:41] Now notice, and just so you know, verse 17, why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is God. So this question of does this man acknowledge who Jesus really is? Is an important question.
[00:12:58] It's a very important question, and it's directly relevant to the way people are. Now, some people use verse 17 to say that Jesus was saying, he's not equal with God, he's not deity.
[00:13:12] Some people argue it, but that's not what he's saying. He's actually saying the opposite. If I'm good, I'm God. That's what he's saying. So you answer the question.
[00:13:23] You said it. You answer the question.
[00:13:27] Now, now look at verse number 18, or verse 17, rather. I'm sorry, but if in the middle of the verse, but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. How many of you would answer a man who asked you, what good thing must I do to have eternal life? How many of you would answer the question the way Jesus did? Raise your hand.
[00:14:00] This is not a way I would answer it, but this is the way Jesus answered it.
[00:14:06] Well, we might be tempted to say, well, that's. If it was outside of this context, we might be tempted to say, well, that's not the right answer.
[00:14:15] Well, but Jesus said it. I mean, it is the right answer.
[00:14:21] And we know that because, listen, there have been whole religions that have been built on this one verse. And here's the way it goes. And this is, listen, if you're a Bible student, this is why context and correctly interpreting the Bible in context is so important.
[00:14:37] Because what people have done in the past is they've looked at this passage with the rich young ruler and they have said, jesus said, keep the Commandments. That's it.
[00:14:50] Ignoring everything else that's written about the subject.
[00:14:55] So they've simplified because Jesus said it. I mean, that must be the way it is. Okay? And the truth is, you can say that, right? Brother Pete, Brother Stewart, Josh. This is Brother Josh. But that sounds a little funny because he's my son.
[00:15:13] If you want to have eternal life, keep God's commandments.
[00:15:18] That is right.
[00:15:20] That is right. How can you say that? How can you say that? Well, because I don't need anything else except what Jesus said. Right, Right.
[00:15:30] Now here's the problem, is that if we were to say that to a person, and I'm saying it's right, but you can't leave it at that.
[00:15:41] Jesus did not leave it at that. You say that to a person, almost every person alive, because it's almost like we're born in bread, like with the self righteous nature, we automatically think we're righteous and good. So when someone says keep the commandments, we automatically think we have.
[00:16:01] Notice what this man says.
[00:16:04] And verse 18, he saith unto him which there's five little words and a question mark, five little letters and a question mark. But in those five little letters he's revealing something about himself.
[00:16:26] Maybe there's a, maybe there's degrees of commandments where you have really important commandments and lesser important commandments, right? Maybe that's what it is he says, which in other words, if the really important commandments, we might call those, the mortal sins, I have to keep those to have eternal life. But then there's others that are venial sins that maybe aren't. As you know, my eternal life doesn't really hinge on those, so maybe they're less important for me to keep.
[00:17:02] That's also in error.
[00:17:05] Adam and Eve, just you all know this, I've touched on it before. Adam and Eve, would you consider the one sin that they committed in the Garden of Eden to be a venial sin or a mortal sin? Now we know it was mortal, but as it appears to us, it was rather insignificant. Right? But yet it was mortal. Right? They lost their eternal life.
[00:17:32] They lost their eternal life, right?
[00:17:37] So here's the question is if Jesus answered, keep the commandments.
[00:17:44] And yet In John chapter 3, in John chapter 3, verse 15, in fact, if you'll go there real quick, a couple books over, I want to show this to you. I think this is an important point.
[00:18:02] John 3:15.
[00:18:13] Now you know these verses, but just to set them in a different context, the same person, Jesus is speaking, he's speaking to a different person now he's speaking to Nicodemus in John 3:15. But notice his answer in John 3:15, that whosoever believeth in him, that's the Son of man himself should not perish, but have eternal life.
[00:18:44] I mean the question is slightly different, but eternal life is the subject of both questions. The rich young ruler and the conversation with Nicodemus.
[00:18:56] Why does the Lord give two different answers?
[00:19:00] Isn't that odd?
[00:19:03] It's because he's dealing with two different people.
[00:19:06] Here's the reality. The reality is the answer is the same in both cases, but this is the way the Lord is dealing with the man. Okay, go Back to Matthew 19, if you would.
[00:19:20] This young man is in a case where he is self righteous. He does not yet understand that he is so sinful that he needs a savior. In other words, he does not yet understand that he is sick.
[00:19:36] And listen, that's probably half or more of what it takes for a person to actually be saved, to actually come to Christ and get eternal life by faith is most people don't think that they are sick. They think they're okay.
[00:19:56] If a person dies just okay, they go to hell, right? That's it.
[00:20:04] If you die just in your average goodness, you go to hell because it's not good.
[00:20:15] So we see this man asked the question which, which is to imply there were some commandments that he wasn't exactly keeping, or there were some commandments that were less important. Notice you remember this verse because we've covered it here recently. Deuteronomy 27, verse 26 says this. Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them, and all the people shall say Amen.
[00:20:45] So in Deuteronomy 27, after the Lord recounts all the words and this is the cursing and the blessing on Mount Gerizim and Ebal, right? And God sets the blessings over against the curses. And he says, blessed be all the ones that keep God's commandments, and cursed be all the ones that break God's commandments. And he lists a bunch of them and then he says at the end, cursed be he that confirmeth not all the work of this law to do them. So there is a curse placed on not keeping all of God's law.
[00:21:18] So the question which is a problem because the curse is attached to any disobedience.
[00:21:26] Now notice what Jesus does in verse 18.
[00:21:31] He saith unto him, which Jesus said, thou shalt do no murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness. Honor thy father and thy mother, and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Now notice the 10 commandments can be neatly divided into basically two groups. The first four and the last six. The first four deal primarily with our relationship to God, the last six deal with our relationship to men, okay? The Lord doesn't even touch the first four.
[00:22:03] He doesn't even touch that idolatry, having only one God, Sabbath day, He didn't touch any of that. He only touches the last six, the second half of the Ten Commandments.
[00:22:15] And he also says in verse number 19, the very last one, he includes a commandment that is not in the ten Commandments, but it is in the law, which is the loving one's neighbor as oneself.
[00:22:26] Now, the reason is, is because all of the other commandments related to our neighbor are to be found within that commandment.
[00:22:38] All of the other commandments, whether murder, stealing, whatever, all of those can be found in and can be answered in the question, do I love my neighbor? And of course, the Lord mentions that.
[00:22:51] Now, by confronting this man with God's law, Jesus compares himself.
[00:22:59] Jesus compares this man to God's law. And no man, if he honestly compares himself to God's law, can come away with the idea that he is good.
[00:23:12] But this man, in verse 20, he says, all these things have I kept from my youth up.
[00:23:19] This young man is convinced that he has kept them. Now, the truth is he has not.
[00:23:25] He had not. Because it's not just a matter of keeping the outside, it's also a matter of the inside.
[00:23:31] But the Lord doesn't mention that. He doesn't mention it because why?
[00:23:36] There's enough outward breaking of God's commandments in these young man. He doesn't even need to mention the N word.
[00:23:45] So this young man was convinced that he had kept Jesus commandments.
[00:23:51] So here's the thing. If verse number 20 is true, he says, all these things have I kept for my youth up. Then why the question at the end of verse number 20 if you've kept them, why are we having this conversation?
[00:24:09] See, he has a conscience that's gnawing.
[00:24:14] Something is not right.
[00:24:17] And listen, when we witness, we need to speak to that conscience, that conscience that I know I've not done it right.
[00:24:28] That's what it's about.
[00:24:30] I know I've not done it right. There's that gnawing conscience. God puts that in man, that conscience. We talked about that before in our Sunday school class, what the conscience is and how it works. God gave us a conscience, a moral law within ourselves based upon our upbringing or whatever the case might be, that teaches us what is right and what is wrong. And it also convicts us when we know we haven't been right.
[00:24:57] Nevertheless, to Jesus, this man says, I've kept all these things, you know, you can imagine Jesus is probably rolling his eyes in his head like, yeah, but anyway, notice what he says.
[00:25:14] Jesus said unto him, if thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven and come and follow me. So I asked this question to you again.
[00:25:27] How many of you would answer this question like this?
[00:25:32] Somebody says, well, I've kept all the commandments. You say, well, okay, sell everything you have and then you'll be saved.
[00:25:40] Would any of you say that?
[00:25:43] I wouldn't say that. So why did Jesus say it?
[00:25:51] What Jesus says to this man? And listen, and again, I tell you, religions have been built on When Jesus says, keep the commandments. Well, Jesus said it. That must be the way to have eternal life. And if that doesn't work, sell everything you have. That's asceticism, right? Like a vow of poverty. Well, if you give everything you have to the poor, then that's how you have eternal life.
[00:26:15] To the, you know, exclusion of every other verse of Scripture. But I digress.
[00:26:21] This requirement, in this requirement Jesus laid upon this man.
[00:26:29] It touched on the sin that this man had, but did not recognize.
[00:26:36] He did not see it.
[00:26:42] Because this what Jesus says here. Remember I told you when Jesus said, keep the commandments? And the man says, I kept them. But the commandments that Jesus listed were all the second half of the commandments that deal with our neighbor.
[00:26:56] But in this answer that the Lord gives about selling what he has, he actually addresses the first four commandments, those commandments which pertain to God. Now follow me here. Follow what I'm saying.
[00:27:16] By the Lord's saying, by the Lord speaking these words, if thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven and come and follow me. By Jesus saying that God himself is requiring this of this rich young ruler, and he says, no.
[00:27:40] So you got to make sure you understand that, because the Lord Jesus is speaking by virtue of his speaking, it is true.
[00:27:50] It's not like Jesus is subject to some law that man has made about the way that you're supposed to present the gospel. No, if Jesus said it's true. In other words, if the Lord looked at us and said, if you want to go to heaven, you got to sell everything you've got and give it all away. That would be the requirement. Because he's God and he has the authority and power to say that. And that's exactly what he did. He Spoke from his place of authority to this man as an individual and says, sell everything you've got, knowing full well that the man will not.
[00:28:28] So by requiring this of the rich young ruler, he's actually revealing a sin that this young man has.
[00:28:38] He has covetousness.
[00:28:40] But it's the worst sort of covetousness because the God of Heaven is telling this man to do something and he's saying no. So it's covetousness. Here's what it is. It's Colossians, chapter three. Listen to these words if you would mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth. Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is idolatry. That's the second commandment, right? So by the Lord saying, sell everything you've got and give it to the poor, by the God of Heaven telling this man to do that. And the man is, because he's rich. We see that at the end. Because he's rich. He says, uh, what he has revealed is number one, he loves his money more than God.
[00:29:33] And that is a violation of the second commandment because if he didn't, he would have sold it.
[00:29:42] So here's the thing.
[00:29:44] If I was to sell all that I have thinking, I would in essence be buying my way to eternal life.
[00:29:53] I would not have eternal life. Why not? Well, Jesus said it, why not? Well, it's simple. Because I violated all these other of God's commandments. The Lord is taking a self righteous man and is driving home the point that you are not righteous, you are not good and you have not kept God's commandments. I'm going to prove it. Here's the proof. God's telling you to do something and you're saying, no, you're a sinner, you're not good.
[00:30:23] That's what he's doing.
[00:30:27] And you see the result. Look at verse number 22. And when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions. Why is he sorrowful? You know why?
[00:30:41] Because for the first time he gets it. He's not going right.
[00:30:50] For the first time he understands.
[00:30:54] I guess I'm not as good as I thought I was. I don't guess I'm. I have eternal life after all.
[00:31:00] And that's exactly where he needs to be.
[00:31:04] Hopefully this sorrow led to his faith in Christ.
[00:31:09] We don't know.
[00:31:12] But what we do know is he is finally aware of his own sinfulness.
[00:31:17] So Jesus is not teaching that a person Gains eternal life by selling everything he owns and following Jesus.
[00:31:24] Let me say that again, okay?
[00:31:26] Because there's a lot of crazy stuff that goes around that misuse of scripture. You don't go to heaven by following Jesus.
[00:31:35] You go to heaven because your faith is resting in God's Son who died on the cross for you and took your place.
[00:31:45] And I know, listen, I know that to some people that might sound a little bit shocking. You don't go to heaven by following Jesus. We're not supposed to follow. Did I say we're not supposed to follow Jesus? I didn't say that, did I? But that's like saying you don't go to heaven by being good. Well, I guess we don't need to be good. Okay, you're putting words in my mouth.
[00:32:03] Following Jesus is something for someone who has received Christ, who is already a believer. How can you follow Jesus if you're not a believer in Christ? And yet people do it. But it's just. Listen, it's another way to take scriptural terminology and turn it into a way to have to do good works to save yourself. That's all it is for a disciple of Christ. Absolutely we should follow Jesus. But if we think that we will follow Jesus to eventually save ourselves, what? That is not accurate. That's not right.
[00:32:40] I think I followed Jesus enough to get to heaven.
[00:32:46] What?
[00:32:54] See our Lord's response in this case was a custom response for this self righteous young Jew to demonstrate that he was not good.
[00:33:09] Now if you would to close here, there's a lot more I can say on this. But look at Romans chapter two, if you would. I want to show you this before we finish.
[00:33:21] And this, this is the way you deal with self righteous people. Okay, look, Jesus is dealing with a self righteous religious person and this is the way you deal with them. They must come to understand that they are not good and that they have broken God's commandments and are guilty and eternal life is way out of reach. They have to see this. This is what Jesus is convincing, skillfully convincing. Because a man goes away sorrowful. He's like, well, he's not a very good soul winner because he didn't draw the net, he didn't close the deal. How stupid.
[00:33:59] The man went away sorrowful over the fact of his hopelessness and his sin, that he is getting closer to eternal life, much closer than he was when he was self righteous thinking he had kept God's commandments.
[00:34:18] Romans 2, verse number, look at verse number, verse number five.
[00:34:36] This is speaking to Jews as Well, but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest, up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God who will render. Listen closely. Who will render to every man according to his deeds.
[00:34:53] So God will render every man according to what he does. All right. To them who by patient continuance, in well doing, doing good, seek for glory and honor and immortality, they will receive eternal life. That's what it says. Does it not say that?
[00:35:10] It says that God will render to every man according to his deeds the person who by patient continuance in good works, he'll get eternal life. That's what the verse says.
[00:35:23] Keep reading.
[00:35:25] But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, they'll receive indignation and wrath, tribute, tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil of the Jew first, and also to the Gentile. But glory, honor and peace to every man that worketh good to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile. For there is no respect of persons with God.
[00:35:46] This is the same thing Jesus is saying.
[00:35:50] God is going to render to every man according to his works. Those that do good and righteous will get eternal life, and those that don't and obey unrighteousness will get damnation. That's what the verses say. Test yourself.
[00:36:06] Do you do good? Are you righteous? You see, this is the same.
[00:36:12] The same test for the self righteous.
[00:36:17] Oh, you think you're a good person? You think you're right? You think you obey God's commandments? Okay, test it.
[00:36:25] Have you violated them?
[00:36:28] How many times?
[00:36:30] Well, but they were just little violations. Just the lesser important. Whoa, whoa.
[00:36:37] Cursed is everyone that confirmeth not all the words of the law to do them.
[00:36:46] This is the way the Lord tests someone's righteousness.
[00:36:52] You see, here's. Please understand, if we look at ourselves honestly against what the scriptures say, we can only come away with the reality that we are guilty. That's what Romans 2 is saying.
[00:37:10] That's what it's saying.
[00:37:13] Have I patiently continued in doing well? No. Have you?
[00:37:20] No.
[00:37:22] Have I worked good?
[00:37:27] No. I have a lot of sin.
[00:37:34] If there was a man who by keeping the law could make himself righteous, then righteousness would have been by the law. But there's not. And this is why we must have a Savior. And this is the point that Jesus is making with this man, the rich young ruler.
[00:37:51] You're not good enough. You're not good.
[00:37:55] Let's pray together.
