<TITLE>05. Par 18-22</TITLE>L-18 So if you're... Now on a Saturday morning, there is no church as I know of, and Sunday afternoon there's no church as far as I know. And now, before I start, I forgot I... No, I believe Billy did say that he give out the rest of those prayer cards. Is that right? Is there prayer cards give out here tonight? Well, he give part of them out at the other church last night, because I have... I've been keeping the people so long.
I kind of preach a long time, six or eight hours, or something like that, sometimes when I get wound up, and I don't... Tonight, I don't aim to preach over half of that, just... So I thought we'd give out prayer cards, and then we--you could go home by midnight anyhow. So then, after we have the prayer line... So if it's just half of that, and...
I don't know very much, but it just takes me so long to tell what I know. So what I know I love to tell it so well, I just take my time with it, you know. That's good. I was only teasing there, 'cause I'm... I will try to be out in another forty-five minutes, or something, to the prayer line.

L-19 I just got a little one Scripture here tonight I want to read, and take a text, and I pray that God will bless it. If you want to read it when you get home, it's in Mark, the 10th chapter and the 28th verse.
 Then Peter begin to say unto him, Lo, we  have left all, and have followed thee.
Now, I would like to take a text to build a little context on there, of "Forsaking All." And then in a few moments we will pray for the sick. And now, you who are acquainted with Mark the 10th chapter... background it, just... Jesus had been talking previously on divorce.

L-20 And then He also had a very striking thing to happen. There was a rich young man came running to Him and said, "Good Master, what could I do to have Eternal Life?"
And He told him, "Keep the commandments."
The young man said, "I've did this from my youth." Or, "What commandments?" And He told him what they were, and he said, "I've did this."
He said, "But one thing you lack: if you want to be--have Eternal Life, be perfect, then sell all you've got and give it to the poor, take up your cross and follow Me."
Let's follow that young man just for a few moments before we enter the text, to give a background.

L-21 Now, you see, that young man was asked to forsake all, but he refused to do it. And sometimes, if we apply prosperity, and riches, and so forth, success... But this young man, was a successful young man and still didn't have Eternal Life. So sometimes, success doesn't always mean that God's a-blessing.
But let's follow him. We find him here now in his youth--young, perhaps a handsome, young, dressed fellow. The Bible said that Jesus loved him. He must have a nice, good, tender conscience. He must be a--a very fine something, or he'd never win the admiration of the Lord Jesus; because when Jesus looked at him He loved him. He must've had a kind expression, and nice look to him, a clean gentleman, straight-cut boy. And he walked up to Jesus, perhaps thinking in sincerity, and said, "I would like to know what I could do to have Eternal Life."

L-22 And when the--he had to depart with what he had to have Eternal Life, then the question was at the gate: whether you can make it. And that question lays before every one of us.
And Jesus really asked him to forsake all he had, take up his cross, and follow Him. And we know the story. He went away sorrowful, because he had great riches. Then Jesus turned, and said how hard it would be for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of heaven, like a camel to go through the eye of a needle. But that would be impossible with man; but He said with God it's not impossible.


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