GOD HAS SOMETHING BETTER THAN WHAT YOU LEFT BEHIND - 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. 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 - 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. The loss of these things is supposed to be for Christ's name's sake. Many forsake brethren, and wife, and children, as the bird that wanders from her nest. But if we forsake them for Christ's sake, 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 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.

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God Has Something Better Than What You Left Behind

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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

Here is a promise to all others that should in like manner leave all to follow Christ.

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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KEEP BUILDING IN FAITH - - Each of us is a builder, but our building is a living Temple, and we are also living stones of this Temple of the living God. In our daily labors, we can catch a glimpse of the glory as we watch His image forming in ourselves and in those around us – but we can hardly begin to imagine the full splendor of His completed Bridal Temple! I'm sure there were times when the workers of Solomon's Temple felt weary after a long hard day of work – but those memories had to be completely erased when they finally beheld the Temple in its glory! So, if you're feeling weary and tired – just remember, you are building something magnificent, and the sacrifices of your labor today, will be returned a hundredfold by the generosity and joy of your Heavenly Bridegroom! “Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.”

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Keep building in faith!

our building is a living Temple, and we are also living stones of this Temple of the living God

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“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.” - James 5:7

If you ever have the chance to visit Jerusalem, one place you must see is Solomon's quarries – also known as Zedekiah's cave.

It's a gigantic underground quarry beneath the old city of Jerusalem, an amazing archaeological site which offers a glimpse of the handiwork of the builders of the first temple of King Solomon.

Can you imagine, as the Temple was under construction, what the craftsmen and the builders must have been thinking about this glorious house they were building?

Carpenters from Lebanon gathering cedar timbers, laborers moving building materials from Joppa, stonemasons cutting and honing stones – their imaginations must have been filled with expectation and wonder as the awesome heavenly plans given to King David materialized under their meticulous construction. 

Each of them had a part and a glimpse of its glory as he worked, waiting, anticipating... the final manifestation of the glory of the completed Temple!

Each of us is also a builder, but our building is a living Temple, and we are also living stones of this Temple of the living God. 

In our daily labors, we can catch a glimpse of the glory as we watch His image forming in ourselves and in those around us – but we can hardly begin to imagine the full splendor of His completed Bridal Temple!

I'm sure there were times when the workers of Solomon's Temple felt weary after a long hard day of work – but those memories had to be completely erased when they finally beheld the Temple in its glory! 

So, if you're feeling weary and tired – just remember, you are building something magnificent, and the sacrifices of your labor today, will be returned a hundredfold by the generosity and joy of your Heavenly Bridegroom!

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