“Humanly, it is impossible, but not with God; with God, everything is possible.” 28 Kefa began saying to him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.” 29 Yeshua said, “Yes! I tell you that there is no one who has left house, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, who will not receive a hundred times over, now, in the ‘olam hazeh, homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and lands — with persecutions! — and in the ‘olam haba, eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first!” Mark 10:27-31
Directly the Lord Yeshua again said it is not possible to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven in human form. Many people confuse this verse because it was said to the rich young ruler, so they attribute it to if you are rich. But Yeshua is telling them clearly if you remain in your human nature “humanly” then you cannot enter. As it is written in John 3:3 ““I tell you that unless a person is born again from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
Note also what it looks like? Many people will argue against the things of God, many religious “Christians” have argued against me that I was wrong to leave my daughters (it was more so they left me because they stopped communicating with me). But the point is when Yeshua told me to move to Baja Mexico, I was completely caught off guard by it. How could I leave my home land, my family? But Yeshua was persistent and simply kept saying to me “move here.”
It is little mentioned about the apostles, but the ones with families left their families to follow Yeshua. Note how Kefa (Peter) says clearly, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.” This is not to say you leave everyone, move to a new country. But if he Lord tells you to do it, you must do it. If you are going to be born again into the Spirit you must hear and obey him. He is the one who knows what he is doing with you, and what the outcome of his work in you will be. When going through the process we have no idea what he is doing, but in time it is revealed. Again, your position is not to try to figure it out, study the bible really hard or attend church, or talk with religious people about things. All these things are a part of what Paul wrote about with “do not confer with flesh and blood.” Instead we are to confer with the Lord, then do what he says. The flesh and blood will always lead you away from the will of God, all the time thinking they are helping you with the will of God. It never ceases to amaze me how differently we think as humans than how God thinks. And it is this difference in thinking which keeps us searching for answers according to our own beliefs. And satan is glad to help you find those answers in the form of half-truths.
Also note the part which says “with persecutions” and not the way the religious people say it will be. Where when you come to them with your man made problems they do everything to help you feel better. Our best friends are our worst enemy of God. They come in with their advice or maybe they say nothing and just let you cry with them or complain. But it is the advice and sympathy which keeps us from really knowing God.
A true friend, which is more so a friend of God, will tell you one simple truth. And that is the “truth is in Yeshua, come to know him and obey him.” You are suffering because of someone’s sin, most likely your own, but it can be from another person. When my calamity came it was a part of my fault and my ex, but it all came at once. I recognized her sin in it quickly, but mine not so much. Keep in mind I lived my life like most of the other people in debt and living like it was 1999 with no need to worry about my salvation or working it out because my catholic religion and confession of my wrong doings was going to save me.
In human form it is easy to be hypocritical, looking at others faults and ignoring our own. And of course the sins of our close friends because in most cases they are making the same sins you are, that is why you hang with them. Or at least that is why I did with the friends I choose to hang with. It is interesting because now I really have no friends like before. I have acquaintances and people I have certain talks with about certain things. But no one I know personally who has made the same sacrifices I have in life by the will and call of the Lord, like moving to a foreign country thousands of miles from their family to a new culture and country, simply because they heard the voice of the Lord say, now move here. My wife is the closest one to knowing what I know about God and more so in God by knowing him and obeying him. And she has had some serious sin in her life to overcome with most of it coming from family affecting her, mainly her dad.
Which this morning I was thinking in that regard and abut the kids of this world. And the bad decisions the parents make and how it affects them. Or sometimes it is simply being born in the wrong country to the wrong parents. I look at my adopted daughters and marvel and think. What if we did not adopt them, where would they be and how would they be living now? They really have no idea how bad it could be for them, imagine if they were still with their drug addict parents getting abused living in extreme poverty, maybe even living in a landfill. We have seen families live in landfills and eat trash to survive.
So this is the perspective, the decisions of your parents can influence and make a huge difference in the life of the kids. Our daughters could be like the above example, but instead they live in front of the ocean, with both mom and dad together, normally both taking them to and picking them up from school. We are with them almost every day all day except during school. They are in a private school getting an above average education, especially when my wife schools them. The always have a full stomach and with quality real food, plus they understand mostly why we eat the way we do, and they know how to cook for themselves since before 10 years old. I am teaching them things the school does not teach about money and how the fake financial system works. And mostly and of course we teach them about God and doing righteous works. And not some ridicules doctrine about how God looks down and does not see our sins, so you can keep doing unrighteous works, as if God expects them.
I do not know all the answers to why two girls come and live with parents like us, and others stay with drug addict parents in poverty being abused and staying really ignorant and grow to repeat the same life as their parents. My wife broke out of a family like that and has done well, I am extremely excited for her and the path she is on, most of the time. And I am excited for my daughters and of course our biological son between us who also has no idea how good he has it. He is just a happy 7 year old kid enjoying life.
The girls have one big problem, which is discipline. Because they do not understand how bad their life could be, they do not remember that old life. They get upset because we do not let them use the computer to chat with people all night long and or watch TV all day… We make them do their homework and clean up their room, cook for themselves… Things the opposite of most of their school friends, so they sometimes think they have it soooo bad.
But now let’s bring this full circle and back to the main point, the verse above. He who has left his mother… will inherit 100 times over… I have received the 100 times over, it seems like a lot more than that actually, more like 1,000,000 times over. It is imp0ossible to put a number on it as a percentage because I went from being in a lot of debt, never owning anything, to now the opposite, owing assets and no debt, plenty of passive income to live on and mostly freedom of time and mind to focus on the things of God. And because of these choices to come to know God and his ways, and obey when he told me to leave my country and family. He has blessed me and my new family gets to participate in this amazing way to live because of some crazy decisions I made 16 years ago to obey the Lord. Instead of living a crazy life with drugs, poverty, evil lifestyle of dysfunction. And it is all because of choosing to obey the Lord instead of ignoring him and living my own sinful life of dysfunction in the human flesh.
It is no longer I who lives, but the messiah living in me. I have died unto myself, and this is why. No other reason, I am not just the lucky one to have good health, wealth, a great family life… It is a decisions, and that decision is to obey God and let the rest take care of itself. Human or Spirit?