BIBLE COMMENTARY/Matthew 19: 21

MATTHEW 19: 21 – Jesus said unto him: If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

– According to the standard that Jesus set forth here, nobody can be perfect (Romans 3: 12). The young man thought he was perfect, but with Jesus’ standard, he was just arrogant (1Corinthians 10: 12, Job 42: 5-6, Galatians 6: 3).
– Giving charity to the poor is not the only requirement that should help a man to get into Heaven (Isaiah 64: 6). Throughout history, many people misunderstood this saying.
– The real condition for mankind to get into Heaven is to come to Jesus (believing in Him with all your heart, Matthew 22: 37) and to follow Him (by living out the standards that God has set forth in the Bible, Matthew 7: 21).

QUOTED VERSES:

JOB 42: 5-6 – I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

ISAIAH 64: 6 – But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

MATTHEW 7: 21 – Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

MATTHEW 22: 37 – Jesus said unto him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

ROMANS 3: 12 – They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

1CORINTHIANS 10: 12 – Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

GALATIANS 6: 3 – For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.