Burning a Hole In Our Pocket: Self Control and Money

Scripture – Mark 10:17-31
17As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. "Good
teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
18"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone. 19You know
the commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false
testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.'"
20"Teacher," he declared, "all these I have kept since I was a boy."
21Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you
have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
22At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.
23Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom
of God!"
24The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, "Children, how hard it is to enter
the kingdom of God! 25It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich
man to enter the kingdom of God."
26The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, "Who then can be saved?"
27Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are
possible with God."
28Peter said to him, "We have left everything to follow you!"
29"I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother
or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30will fail to receive a hundred times as much
in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them,
persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. 31But many who are first will be last, and the
last first."