What Good Deed Must I Do to Have Eternal Life? — Thabiti Anyabwile

We remember you before our Lord. We are so encouraged by the works of the Lord for being here and because it's been you. It's much larger than that little church that we are part of. I am so pleased to be here in part because I respect your pastor so much.

A godly man, a humble man, a man who thinks of you all deeply, as I'm sure you know. And that's just evident to me in the way that he talks about you and the way that he rejoices over the work of the Lord in this place and in his faithfulness in the Word, in the Scripture.

So it's a great and humbling privilege to be serving with Paul this morning in the Word and to have had the week with his gorgeous family. Paul is like most of us men who are married. We married way up.

We married well above ourselves. And so we are thankful for the Lord's grace in our lives. I just want to introduce my wife and kids just real quickly. This is Christy sitting just before me and my daughters, Athea and Enon.

We're just thrilled to be here in Canada. I will say that though I respect Paul, I love him dearly, he brought me here under false pretenses. He invited me to come to a conference in Paris during the summer.

Little words like Paris, Ontario or Canada matter. You know. And we've got to invite you to the Caribbean to see summer. Well a riddle this morning. You like riddles in Canada? Some people do, some people don't.

A riddle. What belongs to the insignificant but the rich can't buy and is worth a hundred times anything you give for it? So what belongs to the insignificant? The rich can't purchase it and it's worth a hundred times anything you would give for it.

Any thoughts? I'm also from the Caribbean. We talk back. The kingdom of heaven. That's the riddle that really our text opens up for us this morning in some ways. That's the lesson, the burden I think of Matthew chapter 19 verses 13 to 30.

The Kingdom of Heaven Belongs to the Insignificant

That the kingdom of heaven, if you're taking notes, belongs to the insignificant like little children as we shall see. But it can't be bought with either morality or money. It's not for sale. And thirdly, whatever we give for it in order to possess this great treasure we receive a hundred times anything we lose to enter the kingdom of heaven.

So if you wouldn't mind, let me read for us again Matthew chapter 19 verses 13 to 30 and we will work our way through the text with those three points. The kingdom of heaven belongs to the insignificant.

Can't be bought, number two, with money or morality. Number three is worth a hundred times anything we lose because of it. Verse 13. Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray.

The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, let the little children come to me. Do not hinder them for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven. And he laid his hands on them and went away. And behold, a man came up to him saying, Teacher, what good thing must I do to have eternal life?

He said to him, why do you ask me about what is good? There's only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments. He said to him, which ones? Jesus said, you shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, honor your father and mother and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The young man said to him, all these I have kept. What do I still lack? And Jesus said to him, if you would be perfect, go sell what you possess and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven and come follow me.

When the young man heard this, he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions. And Jesus said to his disciples, truly I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. The disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished saying, who then can be saved?

But Jesus looked at them and said, with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. Then Peter said in reply, see we have left everything and followed you, what then will we have? Jesus said to them, truly I say to you, in the new world when the son of man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel and everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or heaven or lands for my namesake will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

But many who are first will be last and the last first. Well the kingdom of heaven belongs to the insignificant. We see that in verses 13 to 15 there. A passage opens with people bringing little children to Jesus to bless them.

We don't know if this was a general blessing or whether they were looking for particular kinds of prayer, perhaps healing for sick children, but notice the reaction of the disciples. Verse 13, the disciples rebuked the people.

It was as though the disciples had decided that these little children were perhaps an inconvenience to our Lord. That they, he, Jesus had greater things to be concerned with. You see here in Matthew 19 verse 14 how the Lord responds to them, but Jesus replies, verse 14, let the little children come to me and do not hinder them for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.

He laid his hands on them and went away. It seems the disciples have forgotten something that Jesus had taught them earlier. If you look back in Matthew chapter 18 those first three verses there the text reads at that time the disciples came to Jesus saying, who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

And calling to him a child he put him in the midst of them and said, truly I say to you unless you turn and become like children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

It seems the disciples have already just two chapters later forgotten that lesson. It reminds me of what our friend Ken Sandy says that Christians leak. We all are sort of like sieves. We are taught certain things and we have it for a moment and it just sort of leaks out doesn't it?

And the Lord just has to continually teach us again and we praise God for that for that's a demonstration of his mercy and his grace. I'm a little slow and so I'm thankful that the Lord in his gentleness and his kindness reminds us again and again of these great lessons regarding himself and his love and his kingdom.

And here he applies again this same message that he had really rebuked them with in Matthew chapter 18. You can see the picture in Matthew 18 where these burly fishermen are arguing about who's first in the kingdom.

Peter says surely it's me. I'm the one who speaks up all the time. I'm the bold one. And you know Matthew perhaps the tax collector, the scribe says no no no in the kingdom you need an administrator. You know you need someone who knows how to document and put in place policy.

You know sorry to any bureaucrats among us this morning. Be encouraged that you will be in the kingdom. You know and others come along. John comes along and says I'm the beloved disciple. He loves me.

Surely I will be greatest and Jesus without sort of entering into the fray takes a little child puts him in the midst these 12 burly men says unless you become like him forget about being great in the kingdom you'll never even enter the kingdom.

Now what's he saying? Is he saying that children are naturally humble? All of us who have children know better than that. Proud little rascals. They come with that downloaded. That software is already installed.

It's all about me and mine and they're not humble naturally. What he means is that in his day children had no standing in society. They had no rights really. They own nothing or possess nothing. They were utterly dependent upon adults in the society.

They were humble and insignificant in the sense that they had no resources of their own that they would depend upon. They had to be dependent upon others. Serve them and care for them and watch over them.

And Jesus here in Matthew 18 and Matthew chapter 19 he reminds the disciples that the way into the kingdom is not up but down. You don't enter the kingdom by as we would say in the Caribbean big upping yourself.

You enter the kingdom by humbling yourself. By divesting yourself of all self reliance. By letting go of pride. By letting go of any sense of deservedness. He says unless you become like this little child you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Unless you flee from yourself. Unless you forget about yourself. Unless you relinquish anything starting with self. And grab fast to him and his cross. Unless you humble yourself in repentance and in faith you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

And so he says in Matthew chapter 19 listen let the children come to me. The kingdom belongs to such as these the insignificant. Those who come before my father their hands empty broken contrite. Blessed are those who mourn.

Blessed are those who weep over their sins. Blessed are those who are poor in spirit. Theirs, theirs is the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom belongs to such as these insignificant humble children who trust upon the lord.

The Rich Young Ruler and the False Security of Wealth

And see the contrast there. You see these two things verses 13 to 15 open with Jesus blessing these little children and verses 16 to about 30 they switch scenes now. He leaves the little children and now comes into the focus not a child, not an insignificant, not a humble one, but a rich young ruler.

Now comes into the scene someone with resources, someone with means, someone with abilities, someone with achievement and accomplishment. See the contrast first of all in the disciples reaction. You remember they rebuked the children.

They said no, no, no, no. The master has no time for such little ones as these. But then they are stunned in chapter 19 when Jesus says that it's more difficult or it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go into heaven.

You remember that question well who can go to heaven? Surely the middle class have an easy access to heaven. And surely the wealthy will be sitting in first class in heaven. You see the assumption there.

They assume as we often do in an evangelical culture that looks to be respectable to the world. They assume that standing and status and resources and wealth and basic morality are in fact keys to the kingdom.

Rejecting insignificant they honor the wealthy. There's another contrast here too though. The contrast between Jesus' interaction with the children and his interaction with the rich young ruler. And this is where we discover that the kingdom of heaven cannot be bought.

It can't be bought with money. It can't be bought with morality. See here this interaction between Jesus and the ruler. Verse 16. Behold a man came up to him saying, Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?

This is what we see. The first thing about this rich young ruler is he has a kind of vague religiosity. He's asking about eternal life. Well here's a man who presumably has everything and yet he's missing something.

He has a vague sense of religiosity. He knows that there's a life beyond this one and perhaps he's like us. Many of us grew up in Christian homes and we can't remember a time when we didn't hear the things of God.

And this was perhaps a young man who grew up in a Jewish home and he couldn't remember ever not hearing Torah and not hearing the things of God in some sense. So he has a sense of God and a sense of the life to come and he comes asking about that.

He's vaguely religious. But then notice also that this man is basically moral. So Jesus in response says, Why do you ask me about what is good? There's only one who's good. If you would like eternal life, keep the commandments.

He said to him, I love this question, Which ones? They're called commandments. It's not like God has some really intense suggestions that are short of commandments. The commandments. He says keep the commandments and this basically moral person says which ones?

Isn't that how human morality operates? We think of ourselves as basically good. As pretty good. By which we mean good enough. If you press us, we're honest. There are some faults that we have. There are some things that we've not yet perfected, but basically they don't count as much as the things we do pretty good.

This is how this rich young ruler seems to be responding to the Lord. The Lord says keep the commandments. He says which ones? Notice Jesus' response as he continues to talk to this man who thinks he's basically moral.

He lists off several commandments. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness. Honor your father and mother and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Now he's growing self-confident in his morality. The young man said to him, All these I have kept. Really? What do I still like? Verses 21 and 23 we find out that this man is not only vaguely religious and basically moral, but we find out that this man unannounced to himself, unawares, is also a materialist.

Jesus says, well if you want to be perfect go and sell what you have. Give to the poor. Come and follow me and the kingdom will be yours. Listen to what the man does. He goes away sad because he had great possessions.

Now we should not ever be in the habit of rewriting the Bible, but we might even remember that verse, just looking at the man's reaction is, he goes away sad because his possessions had him. He was controlled and trapped by his own wealth.

We know this man, don't we? I know that I know this man. We see this man walking around all the time, people who are vaguely religious, who are basically moral, but at bottom are perhaps materialists.

They love this life. They love the treasures of this life. They love the things of this world and if given a choice between the things of this world and the life to come, it's a no-brainer for them. It's this world.

I know this man because I used to be this man. I grew up in the Bible Belt in southeastern United States, that large swath of territory that is supposedly home to conservative Christianity, really to cultural Christianity in so many ways, where you meet so many people like myself and my family who would have said, yeah, we're Christians by which we meant we're not Hindus or something.

This is a, quote, Christian country, but an abiding faith in Christ, a saving knowledge of Christ, an encounter with the crucified and resurrected Lord? We didn't have that. I certainly didn't have that.

Growing up, all I knew of church, really, was that when my older brothers got in trouble, I'm the youngest of eight kids, when my older brothers got in trouble, they would go to church and clean up. They'd go to church and sort of get themselves together for a little while and let the storm blow over and then they'd be right back to what they were doing.

I was the youngest of eight kids and I'd seen them take enough butt whoopings to know that certain things I wasn't going to do. I was going to be basically moral. Vaguely religious, basically moral, but growing up, imbibing that propaganda.

You know it's propaganda in Canada. It's called the American Dream. White House, picket fence, two and a half kids. Philosophy was make all you can, can all you get, sit on your can. I was growing up imbibing that.

I wasn't rich, but I was this young man. Go through high school, I get arrested my junior year in high school really for being stupid. I had a pocket full of money from my summer job and I was hanging with a couple of guys who were up to no good and they were doing dirt as we called it and I cast my lot in with them.

I joined in with them and in God's kindness, ultimately, we got arrested and all of the false popularity started coming down. I had been a high school athlete, pretty good basketball, you know, finger roll, been nice on the court and all the popularity that had been sort of growing up around being an athlete on a pretty good team in a small town in the states.

All of the favors that sort of occurred along with that. That came crashing down when I got arrested. My father left when I was 14. I didn't know it at the time, but looking back, I was just angry. I was just an angry young kid, vaguely religious, basically moral, pretty good student, chasing after the things that I would always assume were the end of life, the houses, the family, the cars.

I go off to college and in college I saw something I had never seen before in my life. I'm on campus my freshman year and there are these men on campus in suits, very clean cut, very strong, possessed with discipline, talking about the importance of men sticking with their families and raising their families and talking about the importance of contributing to the community and living for righteousness sake.

And like a moth to flame, I was drawn to them. I had never seen these kind of men. I had never heard men talking this way. Long story short, these were all Muslim men. My sophomore year in college, I converted to Islam.

And I really became zealous for Islam. I was on campus that campus saw. Having experienced a shallow Christianity, having experienced a Christian witness that was not gospel centered or cross centered at all, I had come to believe that the church was just this pie in the sky wonderful club for gray haired old ladies.

It wasn't real. There wasn't any power in it. After I had been arrested my sophomore year, I had gone to church and I had been in trouble and I had seen what my brothers had done so I thought, well, I'm in trouble.

I'll go to church and I go to this little church and the gospel's not preached particularly clearly. I certainly didn't have ears to hear the gospel in my sin. And I remember thinking sitting in that little church that, you know what, I want this thing to last longer than it seemed to last with my brothers because they're always in trouble.

So I'll join the church. One day the pastor gives this invitation for people to come and join the church so I go up front. I don't know really what's happening and they usher me off into this little room and nobody ever explains the gospel nobody ever asks me if I know what it means to be following Christ, if I'm trusting Him and my Savior.

Nobody ever examines me spiritually and we come back out after a few minutes and then a deacon presents me to the church and says, we have a candidate here for baptism. I thought, really? Okay. That's what it takes.

Let's wash this thing off. A couple weeks later I was dunked and I got out of the water and I went around the corner to the pool hall where I spent all my time. Anyway, nothing had changed. No new life.

So when I come to university and I see these men who seem to be possessed of a different kind of strength and a different kind of dignity and a different kind of discipline I cast off any concern for anything called Christian.

I dive headlong into Islam. Become the campus Saul. I remember pastors who would come to the campus and would preach in the open air on the brickyard, in the courtyard with the students. I just delighted in those days.

I would miss an entire day's classes just to stand out there and harass and to argue and to resist the cross. It's a real enemy of the cross. And I was depending, really, upon my own righteousness. I made prayer five times a day and I gave to charity.

I gave alms and anything else I could do as a Muslim, I would do. Zealous, just like this young man, trusting myself, trusting my own morality, trusting my own righteousness and living ultimately even though cloaked in religious garb for this world.

The Kingdom Cannot Be Purchased with Morality

But the kingdom can't be bought with morality. Can't be purchased with wealth. And see how the Lord Jesus here in his own evangelism disabuses this young man of his own assumptions. We see there that he comes to Jesus and he asks, what good thing must I do to be saved?

And notice how Jesus begins to scratch at the vague religiosity of this man. He says, now why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. In other words, have you come to see and to recognize that God is the fount of goodness?

And have you come to see and to recognize that I am who I say I am? The Son of God. God the Son. That I am the one who comes with the words of eternal life and that I am the one who defines goodness. Notice that Jesus moves on.

He not only begins to scratch at this man's vague religiosity but he also begins to scratch at this man's assumption about his own goodness. About his own self righteousness. He lists the commandments there that the man is to keep.

Did you notice something about those commandments, those five or six commandments? They're all from the second half of the law. The commandments that have to do with our horizontal relationships. Our relationships with each other.

Isn't that the fatal flaw of moralism? It almost always is horizontal. It never looks up. So Jesus leaves off the first four commands that have to do with our relationship with God. And this fellow isn't even stunned by that.

He isn't even bothered by that. He moves on. Those I have done. What else do I lack? You see the difference? Christianity and moralism are two different religions. It is completely possible to be moral and a basically good person and be going to hell.

You may be moral with no concern for God and loving God. Christ exposes that in not only quoting these particular aspects of the law but in telling him in verse 21 if you would be perfect, go sell what you possess and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven and come follow me.

We see where this man's treasure is. It's not in heaven. It's in his pocket. It goes away sad. Christ exposes the fact that this man has been gripped by an idol. His heart has loved wealth. His heart has loved this world and he is not prepared to put Christ before all things.

He is not prepared to worship Christ and Christ alone to exalt the Lord himself and to give all that he has to follow the Lord. Discipleship. Love. That's the sum of the commandments isn't it? The first commandment.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul. The second one is like it. This man thinks that by doing the second it's a pretty good proxy for the first. It's not. You must love God above all things even to the point of forsaking this world that Christ may be first.

That Christ may be uppermost in his affections. That Christ may be uppermost in his ambitions. That Christ and his kingdom may determine and drive and shape his life and his laws. I remember when I heard that message for the first time.

The Failure of Islam to Reconcile Justice and Mercy

I was a zealous Muslim as I had said and the little campus persecutor and was faithful in Islam for several years and I remember one year, this time of year during Ramadan, sitting at my desk, Quran open, reading the Quran, preparing for the morning prayers, reading in the Quran various things that all of a sudden were clear to me that could not be true.

Just a settling awareness like a blanket over a babe or a dew on the lawn just sort of resting on me that what I was reading just simply could not be true. For on the one hand, you read in the Quran in a chapter like Maryam that Christ is virgin born.

It reads much like the Gospels. That Christ is born of a virgin. On the other hand, Islam, every Muslim worth his salt would say, to call Christ the son of God in any unique sense would be to commit blasphemy, to make partners with God.

I couldn't reconcile how the Quran could teach something so clearly Christian and yet deny the implications. On the other hand, just reading through the Quran and seeing the prophet himself saying to Christians and saying to Muslims bring me your books, bring me your books and I will show you the truth out of those books because those books, the law of Moses, the Psalms of David, the Gospels, those are revelations from God, those are signs from God.

I couldn't reconcile how as a Muslim I could hold and affirm this book as being a record from God, a revelation from God and yet reject almost everything in it. So it all just came crashing down. I didn't turn to Christ.

My heart was hard toward the cross. I threw my hands up, unable to find answers that I thought was satisfactory. And for a better part of a year, I waffled between agnosticism and atheism. My best days I was agnostic, you know, maybe there's a God but who could know him?

So even as a Muslim, my idea of God was still vaguely religious. It teaches a view of God so transcended that you really can't know him in any essential way. Yeah, we talk about his beautiful names, his attributes, but God is so far beyond us that we can't know him.

So I returned to my vague religiosity and my own sense of morality and throw my hands up and walk away and on my worst days I just say there is no God. That's what the fool says in his heart. Lived that way for about a year and my wife and I got pregnant with what would have been our first child.

I'm the youngest of eight kids. She's number seven of eight, the youngest daughter. And so it was the babies about to start having babies and our families would descend upon our home and we would have these cookouts and just have a wonderful time or on weekends I share with Paul that our families are so large we could have invaded Canada, you know.

But we saw how that worked out in 1812. So we would have these wonderful times of celebration and really, you know what, my hope was being built on the prospect of having this child, the pitter patter of little feet.

The White House picket fence two and a half kids was starting to come into shape. My materialistic heart was digging itself deeper and deeper into the soil of this world. Three months into the pregnancy we go to the baby doctor to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time and my wife is on the table and the doctor's doing a little thing with a little magic stick looking for the baby's heartbeat and two minutes pass and five minutes pass and ten minutes pass and it seems like an eternity.

And in the iciest voice I've ever heard from another human being, this doctor just turns and says there's no heartbeat. And the Lord dealt to me a deep and humbling blow. It was a loving hand that dealt the blow but it was a blow.

So we went home and for the better part of some months really depressed because I wasn't living for anything beyond myself. Flipping through the channels and one day lo and behold there's this preacher on television and he's just preaching through the scriptures just verse by verse and I thought wow I didn't know they did that.

And it made sense and I thought you know who rewrote the Bible when I wasn't looking? This new translation is fabulous. And I started watching it and in ways I couldn't understand the words had life. They were drawing me.

I watched the show for weeks really with Tapis show and my wife would come home. She was a school teacher and we would watch the sermon and I remember the first time she came home I said man you gotta watch this on TV.

She's like what is it? I said this is this preacher on TV preaching and she's like you watching the preacher? What's going on? I said no I don't know this guy's different man he's great. We found out his church is in the Washington D .C. area and my wife's sister lives there so we visit my sister and we go to his church on a Sunday morning.

I never forget he preaches an exposition of Exodus 32 called What Does It Take To Make You Angry? Here I was this angry young man angry from the time his father had left. Grown more angry in all the years of his practice of Islam.

Angry and empty. Sitting about ten rows from the front in a church with about 8 ,000 people in it as though it's just me and the pastor and no one else. And as he lifts up idolatry from that passage and as he lifts up the sinfulness of sin, the repulsion, the rebellion, the ugliness of our sin against the Holy God, the offense of it and the justness of God in responding to sin in wrath and judgment and righteousness.

I was convicted for the first time of all the sin that the Lord was showing me that day as he talked about this sin or that sin. I was checking mental boxes. Yes, did that. Yes, did that. Was an expert at that.

Helped others to delight in this sin. It was the first time that I had really felt the weight of conviction of my sin. And I sat there and as he was in the second half of that sermon, not only did he lift up the sinfulness of sin, but he lifted up the sin bearer.

The Cross, the Sin-Bearer, and Saving Faith

He lifted up Christ. He told of how God's justice and mercy were reconciled in Christ, His Son. How it is that a Holy God infinitely angered against the ugliness of sin could at the same time punish sin and absolve the sinner.

There was no answer for that in Islam. There was no way to reconcile God's justice with his mercy. And here the cross comes rushing forward that this is how God does that. This is how God remains perfectly just, perfectly holy, and also perfectly loving and perfectly merciful.

His Son takes the sinner's place, suffers the sinner's punishment, bears our shame and our guilt. The wrath of God is poured out on the Son of God so that those who have sinned against God might come into His love and His mercy through repentance and faith.

And as I heard that good news, God's Spirit worked upon my hard heart and God's marvelous kindness to us. My wife and I both came to faith that Sunday morning under the preaching of the Gospel. And He gave us new life, this bankrupt moralist, this worldly heathen, this guy who had had vague ideas of God and had even spent years being opposed to God.

In His sheer grace and His sheer mercy, God said, You, come, live, enter into life, possess my kingdom by repentance and faith in my Son. Beloved, that's the same Gospel that's been saving people for thousands of years now.

That's the same good old message that when heard with faith makes a man, makes a woman, makes a child brand new even today. Perhaps you've come this morning and you're not a Christian. Perhaps you have been looking at this rich young man or maybe even listening to my own story and you've been thinking, if the truth be told, yes, I'm only vaguely religious.

I can't say that I know God. And if the truth be told, I am living, yes, a moral life and I'm really depending upon that morality, not upon the work of Christ on the cross. I'm pretty good and surely God would not judge me.

I was raised in a Christian home and my parents are Christians, my grandparents are Christians and we always go to church. Maybe you've been thinking here with your own life that your ambition is not to live for the kingdom but to live for this world.

Maybe you're headed off to college or you can't wait to finish up high school or maybe you're in a career and all of your energies are directed at more and more and more of this life and if you're honest with yourself, you have no longings for heaven, no longings for Christ.

Beloved, if that's you this morning, hear the invitation of God, the call of God, the demand of God really, for all men everywhere to repent of their sins and to believe upon Christ and to enter into this eternal life.

This rich young ruler asked the right question, what may I do to get eternal life? The good news is it's not a matter of what you do, it's a matter of what Christ has done. If you trust what Christ has done in dying for you, in taking the wrath of God in your place and you trust that the Father has accepted his sacrifice as indicated by the resurrection, then trust it wholly.

Trust nothing else. Don't let even the slimmest piece of paper insert itself between you and Christ. Hold fast to him by faith. Run to him and close with him. Depend upon him. Cast yourself upon him. Trust nothing else.

Abandon yourself. Become insignificant before the Father and claim I only have Christ. And Father, you've told me it's enough. In him and him alone I trust. And see what Jesus offers in the way of his reward.

The Hundredfold Reward of Following Christ

Look there at those last three verses in that chapter, Matthew chapter 19. The kingdom of heaven belongs to the insignificant. It cannot be purchased with money or morality. And whatever you give up to follow the Savior is returned a hundredfold.