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“And everyone who has left houses or brothers or
sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake,
shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.” Matthew 19:29
NKJV
It
was not peculiar to the apostles, to be thus preferred, but this honour have
all his saints. Christ will take care they shall none of them lose by him; Every
one that has forsaken any thing for Christ, shall receive.
Losses
for Christ are here supposed. Christ had told them that his disciples must deny
themselves in all that is done to them in this world; now here he specifies
particulars; for it is good to count upon the worst.
If
they have not forsaken all, as the apostles did, yet they have forsaken a great
deal, houses suppose, and have turned themselves out, to wander in deserts; or
dear relations, that would not go with them, to follow Christ; these are
particularly mentioned, as hardest for a tender gracious spirit to part with;
brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children; and lands are
added in the close; the profits of which were the support of the family.
Now,
First, the loss of these things is supposed to be for Christ's name's sake;
else he doth not oblige himself to make it up.
Many
forsake brethren, and wife, and children, in humour and passion, as the bird
that wanders from her nest; that is a sinful desertion.
But
if we forsake them for Christ's sake, because we cannot keep them and keep a
good conscience, we must either quit them, or quit our interest in Christ; if
we do not quit our concern for them, or our duty to them, but our comfort in
them, and will do it rather than deny Christ, and this with an eye to him, and
to his will and glory, this is that which shall be thus recompensed.
It
is not the suffering, but the cause, that makes both the martyr and the
confessor.
Secondly,
it is supposed to be a great loss; and yet Christ undertakes to make up, for he
is able to do it, be it ever so great.
See
the barbarity of the persecutors, that they stripped innocent people of all
they had, for no other crime than their adherence to Christ!
See
the patience of the persecuted; and the strength of their love to Christ, which
was such as all these waters could not quench!
A
recompence of these losses is here secured.
Thousands
have dealt with Christ, and have trusted him far; but never any one lost by
him, never any one but was an unspeakable gainer by him, when the account came
to be balanced.
Christ
here gives his word for it, that he will not only indemnify his suffering
servants, and save them harmless, but will abundantly reward them.
Let
them make a schedule of their losses for Christ, and they shall be sure to
receive,
First,
A hundred-fold in this life; sometimes in kind, in the things themselves which
they have parted with.
God
will raise up for his suffering servants more friends, that will be so to them
for Christ's sake, than they have left that were so for their own sakes.
The
apostles, wherever they came, met with those that were kind to them, and
entertained them, and opened their hearts and doors to them.
However,
they shall receive a hundred-fold, in kindness, in those things that are
abundantly better and more valuable.
Their
graces shall increase, their comforts abound, they shall have tokens of God's
love, more free communion with him, more full communications from him, clearer
foresights, and sweeter foretastes, of the glory to be revealed; and then they
may truly say, they have received a hundred times more comfort in God and
Christ than they could have had in wife, or children.
Secondly,
Eternal life at last. The former is reward enough, if there were no more; cent.
per cent. is great profit; what then is a hundred to one?
But
this comes in over and above, as it were, into the bargain.
The
life here promised includes in it all the comforts of life in the highest
degree, and all eternal.
Now
if we could but mix faith with the promise, and trust Christ for the
performance of it, surely we should think nothing too much to do, nothing too
hard to suffer, nothing too dear to part with, for him. - Matthew Henry
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