Text: Mark 10:21

Introduction.

• Luke 19:41 - "Jesus saw the city and cried for it"
• Matthew 14:14 - "Jesus saw the crowd and had compassion for them"
• The young man in the text kneels, he looks up to Jesus from the base of the cross.
• Jesus is touched, and "looking at him, he loved him"

• Before arriving at the cross he was tortured, they spat on his face, they put a crown of thorns on his head, they passed beside him.
• Reading the gospel, watching movies, we cannot imagine what Jesus went trough there at that cross.
• The only one that could remove him from there, God, turned his back on Him.
• Jesus asks: Why have you abandoned me? Why was it necessary that someone pay for our sins. And He was the chosen one.
• Raise your eyes to him, try he contemplate the face of Jesus in the cross now.

• Jesus is speaking about his return to this world.
• Does not come as Savior but as judge.
• Matthew 25:31-34. Seating on a throne, not on a donkey.
• "Prepared for the devil and his angels". Not for the men.
• I John 2:1. The importance of a lawyer. - Look at the future, try imagine the face of Jesus as judge.

• Mark 10:22. The young man looked away and withdrew sad.
• He choose to look at another god, money.
• Everybody have a god in their heart. Which is yours?
• Jesus mentioned the commandments related to others.
• Did not mention the ones related to God, they are the first commandments.
• You can be doing very well with the others.
• And with God?

Conclusion.

• Can you imagine the face of Jesus in the cross, in the past?
• Can you imagine the face of Jesus in the judgment, in the future?
• The loving face of Jesus, is looking directly at you now.
• Do not look away, look at Jesus with faith.
• Do not exchange Jesus for another god, as did that young man.