And Then What Happened? | Mark 10:17-30 | Week 9

So good to see all of you here today.  If you've been with us, you know we've been walking our way through the Gospel of Mark.  Starting about the eighth chapter of Mark, Jesus begins to orient himself and his disciples toward Jerusalem, where he'll eventually end up, in what we call, Holy Week.  Today we're looking at Mark 10.  At the beginning of Mark 10, there's an encounter that Jesus has with the Pharisees over the issue of divorce.  After that, a bunch of children come to Jesus and they want to sit with them and the disciples get all upset so he has to correct them.  Let the little kids come to me, because that's what the kingdom of God is about---accepting Him as a little child does.  Then once again, Jesus points himself toward Jerusalem.  He's talking about his death and gets everyone freaked out.  James and John come up to him, in a narrative after that, and they make this weird request that when Jesus comes into his kingdom, they want to sit on his right and on his left---they feel entitled. After that, there's this blind beggar, Bartimaeus, and he asks Jesus to heal him.  Given all of that, what I decided to do today was focus our attention on a narrative right in the middle of that starting with Mark 10:17.  That's what we'll look at today.  Jesus has an encounter with a young man that I think, Lord willing, speaks to all of us.  So before we look at that, let me lead us in prayer and then we'll walk our way through this story...