June 30, 2025; Matthew 19

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June 30, 2025; Matthew 19

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Daily Dose of Hope June 30, 2025 Scripture - Matthew 19 Prayer: Holy God, We come before you with humility and expectation as we start a new week. Thank you for another morning, another day, another chance to be a change agent in our world, your world. Guide us, Lord. Guide our words, actions, and thoughts. We want to be more like you. Help us see others as you see them. We love you. Amen. Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope, a Deep Dive into the Gospels and Acts. Today, we dive into Matthew 19. Jesus and his disciples have begun to make the journey to Judea; they are heading to Jerusalem. And Jesus is using this time to teach about what it means to follow him. Jesus is turning everything upside down in his teachings: to follow him means renouncing the things that the world values. In this chapter, we see Jesus touch on how following him will affect how we behave in the most fundamental parts of our lives. He starts by teaching on divorce, making the point that marriage is not simply a contract, but it’s a creation of God and both men and women are equal partners in the marriage. The Pharisees are trying to “test” Jesus, meaning they ask a leading question designed to trap him into saying something that will discredit his public reputation. They ask whether a man can legally divorce his wife for any reason at all, and this was actually a specific debate that was happening among first century Jewish rabbis. In Deuteronomy, the law allows a man to divorce his wife if he finds some “indecency” or “something offensive” in her. That’s a bit vague. Something offensive could include gaining weight during pregnancy or finding someone more attractive. And while the different rabbis argued over this, the bottom line was that men could divorce women for basically anything. But, not shocking, women did not have the same rights. Now, the Pharisees want Jesus to enter this specific debate. He’s God and he can see through their words. Jesus goes back to God’s original intent on marriage, in the Garden but before the fall. The two become one. It’s a strong and intimate bond. Thus, there isn’t an easy or painless way for this bond to be broken. It’s going to cause tremendous pain. God’s will is for marriage to continue without this breakage. Jesus is basically saying that, in God’s Kingdom, marriage is a covenant between the man, the woman, and God. It’s a sacred commitment that can’t be flippantly broken. Please know that by making this argument, Jesus was protecting women. They were the ones hurt by the previous arrangement. Jesus goes on to teach about children–parents were bringing children to him to be blessed and the disciples scolded them. Jesus intervenes and says to let the little children come to me and then makes this stunning point that we all must become like little children to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. This is a point that Jesus repeatedly makes! Children, in those days, weren’t seen as having any value. But Jesus places tremendous value on them. Jesus’ point is that to follow him, we have to become like little children–vulnerable, powerless, needing someone else to provide safety and sustenance. Again, he is turning things upside down. Then, we come to the last portion of the chapter. This will seem familiar, as we also covered this story in Mark. A man comes up to Jesus and asks, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus says, “Well, you need to follow all the commandments.” He then lists out the various commandments and the man simply says, “Yes, I’ve done all those things since I was a boy.” Then, Jesus looks at the man and says that to be perfect, he must go and sell everything he owns and give it all to the poor. The text says that the man’s face fell. He went away sad because he had great wealth. This is the irony. The children who possess nothing are not told that the kingdom of God is theirs; yet this man who possesses everything still lacks something! Only when he sells all he has—only when he becomes like a vulnerable child—will he possess everything. But he isn’t willing to do that. He decides to walk away from Jesus. The man wasn’t expecting to have to make that kind of sacrifice. He had no idea following Jesus would be so hard. The disciples are really confused by this. At that time, most people believed that being wealthy was a sign of God’s blessing. Here, Jesus is saying that this man has to sell everything and give it to the poor. And that’s when Jesus says the really, really hard thing...It’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. And the disciples ask “then who possibly can be saved?” Jesus says, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” I don’t know about you but I find it very unsettling to ...