Why did He say that?

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Permalink Reply by Shanthi on March 21, 2013 at 2:59am

Jesus was sent to the world to die for our sins. He came with the authority of his father. We always say the father the son and the holy spirit as one.  It is a trinity like we take our family as one, when we are married, the husband and wife are one.  Jesus is God  he knows  that without his father he would not be who he  is and his father is  far greater than him and he believes that no one is greater than  his father, and he wants the man to compliment his father for every work that he (jesus) does as every work Jesus does is from the father and everything is made perfect by his father.

 

This is my interpretation...

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Seek on March 21, 2013 at 6:25am

I think it was both to state that only God is good and flesh is always no good, sinner, and to state the fact that He was indeed God.  If this man thought He was good and no one but God was good, then this man was acknowledging Jesus was God in the flesh.  Just a thought.

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Permalink Reply by David Velasquez on March 21, 2013 at 11:10am

 

Hey Chris,

 

What Jesus was asking the man between the lines is:

 

Do you realize I am God, is that why you are calling me good? Jesus wanted the young ruler to stop and think about what he had just said. The Jews knew very well that only God is good. So Jesus was asking the man if he recognized his deity.  Jesus was not denying his deity by asking the man the question, but affirming it.

 

In today's lingo we would say. Hey - you are calling me good, is it because you know that I and God are one?

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Permalink Reply by a servant (Chris) on March 21, 2013 at 1:28pm

When we look at Jesus; when we consider the nature of Jesus before His death and Resurrection.  He was part flesh and part Spirit.  ...concerning His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh Rom 1:3  But when the appropriate time had come, God sent his Son, born by a woman, born under the Law, Gal 4:4  We know He was tempted as we are.  And because He did not fall into temptation, we see part of the groundwork for our ability to live in Victory.  

We also see, About three o'clock, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eli, eli, lema sabachthani?", which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Matt 27:46 We know He bore our sins, this was all part of what Jesus Had to Do for us.  Is it possible that one of the reasons He said, ...“Nobody is good except for one—God,"  was to show us, no matter how "good" our actions appear?  As you all have shared, our actions must be unto God.  When I see the human side of Jesus, I am encouraged.  For His Life was, "Not My will, but Yours."  So when I humble my will to His, and the only reason must be obedience.  Any other reason ends in failure.  When we look at what He told the young man, we can see his trust was in money; his trust was in his own actions.  Jesus was always pointing us to The Father.  After Jesus was Resurrected, we are lead to Jesus and accepting  His Actions for us.  We still look to The Father and The Spirit.

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Permalink Reply by Leonard T on March 21, 2013 at 2:23pm

Jesus was not addressing His deity in this case, but rather laying the ground rules for the man who thought he himself was righteous. Jesus begins by stating that only God is good (no implication either way about who He is), thus the statement is true. If you go to verse 20 you find a man who thought he was good and deserved eternal life, but Jesus knew the man's weakness as revealed in verse 21. Jesus always knows are weakness or weaknesses. The question for us to ponder is do we know our weakness(es)? We cannot stand on our own merit. That is the principle found here. Jesus goes on to clarify who can be saved after the disciples ask Him who can be saved. "With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God." (Mk. 10:27 NIV)

 

Lord Bless,

LT

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Permalink Reply by David Velasquez on March 21, 2013 at 4:34pm

LT,

 

I like what you brought up. So basically Jesus was saying don't look to man for goodness or the "standar" of goodness. God is our "Standar."

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Permalink Reply by Leonard T on March 21, 2013 at 4:53pm

Yes, but I think the emphasis was more in revealing how poor the richman really was. He thought he was good and Jesus gently stripped that away from him.

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Permalink Reply by a servant (Chris) on March 21, 2013 at 9:41pm

I once heard a teaching that the young man was,  Nicodemus.  There is a record that a Pharisee did do what Jesus told him.  As some of us know, it may take for us to completely obey, or to conform to The Word.  Looking at the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him. "There is still one thing you haven't done," he told him. "Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." Mark 10:21  It is not that Jesus did not look at others, in love.  But I see this and I do wonder if, Jesus did already knew him.  And, if that teaching is true, Jesus knew His Words would not return to Him void.  Something to consider.

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Permalink Reply by Leonard T on March 22, 2013 at 1:54am

Chris,

 

The only problem with one teaching this is Nicodemus is that there is no evidence recorded anywhere that this is Nicodemus. In fact if we look at John 3 and this account we see a number of differences that would lead us to believe just the opposite.

 

Regarding Jesus loving Him. We know that God always acts in love and cannot do otherwise. Though God is love this does not assure the salvation of all. The offer is on the table, but people must come to God under His terms or they remain under judgment. Where a lot of people go wrong is when they (not saying you) assume that at times God is acting in love and at other times, like when He judges, that He is not acting in love. God's attributes reveal who He is. He is love, holy, righteous and 13 more identifiable attributes in Scripture. He "is" these things. They are not actions, but rather reveal His character and all aspects are operating all the time in harmony with each other.

 

Lord Bless,

LT 

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Permalink Reply by Amanda on March 22, 2013 at 9:44am

I heard a sermon where it was said that God is glorified by every soul. He is glorified by those whom He saves through His mercy and grace and He is just as much glorifed by those who experience His wrath.

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Permalink Reply by David Velasquez on March 23, 2013 at 9:46pm

Good point Amanda. God is glorified by both the Grace he gives and his justice.

 

Romans 9

22What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?  23What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory—  24even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Amanda on March 22, 2013 at 9:31am

Chris, what I see is that the young man certainly knew Jesus was different from any other teacher of that time and because it says he came running and kneeled to Jesus, then he did recognize Jesus as having authority. Did he know Jesus is the Son of God? I want to think so because the whole passage is about salvation, and part of being saved is realizing who Jesus is and seeing one's sin and then experiencing godly sorrow that leads to repentance.

The man did think he was already good but felt he still needed to do something to inherit eternal life. Jesus took him through the commandments, which I see was the Lord's way to show the young man his sin, and yet the young man clearly felt that he was keeping the moral law. It is then that in Mark it says  Jesus, beholding him, loved him. And I am reminded then of Galatians 2:20, as I read the text. And Jesus then tells him what he lacks. We know that salvation can't be merited. So if keeping the moral law isn't enough, then doing this other thing of selling all that he had and giving to the poor will not merit salvation either. Jesus isn't telling him that he must earn salvation. Even in the OT people were saved by grace through faith and although the new birth wasn't available at that moment to the young man, salvation by grace through faith was. It just involved a full surrender after seeing one's sin and seeing that God saves. And then even the disciples wonder, Who then can be saved? And Peter says they had left all and followed Jesus.

Jesus had told the man, Take up the cross and follow Me. But the man walked away. Did he walk away knowing that Jesus is the Christ. I believe yes. I also hold out hope that he eventually was saved. By grace through faith. Of course I will never know in this life.

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