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<div class="SSN_title">"THE YOUNG RULER"</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. WHAT HE HAD.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. "He was very rich."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. It is a common fallacy to think that money would solve all my problems.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. "A man's life consisteth not in the abundance."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. "For the love of money is the root of all evil."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Wealth can be a blessing or a curse.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Some are blessed with money while others are cursed with money.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Closest thing to omnipotence that we can possess. Also closest thing to impotence.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. It depends on whether it masters me or I master it.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. He was a ruler.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. He had attained to authority and power.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. He was young.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. So many do not achieve to wealth or power until they are too old to really enjoy it.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. He was moral.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. When Jesus flashed on him the second table of law, our relationship to others.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. "All these have I kept from my youth up."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Not an empty boast.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">E. He had a gracious temperament.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. His courteous address, "Good Master."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. His kneeling before Jesus.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">F. Jesus looked at him and loved him.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Those eyes that could pierce inside of a man.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WHAT HE SOUGHT, ETERNAL LIFE.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. More than just a quantity or duration.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. A quality of life.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Age abiding life.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. The life of God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. Look at the quality of life around you.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. So much of it is so shallow, a sham.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. With all be possessed, he was conscious that there was something more. He said, "What lack I yet?"</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. There is a void in man that only God can fill.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Purchased learning toys for grandchildren.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Certain shape block to go in right slot - star, triangle, circle, square.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. How frustrated they would get because the star would not fit into the square.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">3. How frustrated I would get.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. How must God feel when he watches our futile efforts to fill the void in our lives.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WHAT HE LACKED, "ONE THING THOU LACKEST."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Poverty? No you are reading superficially.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. "Why callest thou Me good?" There is one good, that is God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. What are Jews saying?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. I am no good - or.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. I am God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. What you have seen in me and recognized is: God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. If you would be complete, come and follow Me.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. No man is complete without God, follow Me.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. You need God at the center of your life, follow Me.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. What about this selling all trip, and giving to the poor?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. This is incidental, Jesus just put the finger on what was keeping this young man from following Him.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. It may or may not be riches in your life.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. The Lord will put the finger on whatever it is.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. What holds you back today?</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">E. What happened to him?</div>
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