Mark 10:29-30

[ktn4eg]

In Mark 10:29-30 [KJV], Jesus tells His disciples that if a man leaves (among other things) his wife and children for His sake and the gospel's sake, that man will be rewarded "an hundredfold now in this life...and in the world to come eternal life."

I'm trying to figure out under what circumstances in this life a man might be called upon to leave his wife and children for Jesus's sake and the gospel's sake--and be rewarded "an hundredfold" for doing so.

Can someone explain this statement made by Jesus?

 

[Osage Bluestem]

In Mark 10:29-30 [KJV], Jesus tells His disciples that if a man leaves (among other things) his wife and children for His sake and the gospel's sake, that man will be rewarded "an hundredfold now in this life...and in the world to come eternal life."

I'm trying to figure out under what circumstances in this life a man might be called upon to leave his wife and children for Jesus's sake and the gospel's sake--and be rewarded "an hundredfold" for doing so.

Can someone explain this statement made by Jesus?

A man may be called into a part of the world where his family cannot or will not go, but he has to go anyway because God is calling him.

His fruit will be people who become christians. They will love him and will be his family. He will be their father in Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:15 ESV
For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

 

[Jerome]

Dictionary of National Biography, s.v. BOWES, ELIZABETH (1502 -1568), disciple of John Knox

After she succeeded in marrying off her daughter Marjory to the man of God,

Mrs. Bowes found Knox's counsels so necessary to her spiritual comfort that she left her husband and her other children and followed Marjory's fortunes. In 1558 her husband died, and in 1559 Knox left Geneva for Scotland. He was soon followed by his wife, and Mrs. Bowes after a short stay in England made her way to her son-in-law, who wrote for the queen's permission for her journey (Sadler Papers, i. 456, 479, 509). In 1560 Mrs. Knox died, but her mother still stayed near her son-in-law. She left her own family and adhered to Knox. She died in 1568, and immediately after her death Knox thought it desirable to give some account of this strange intimacy. In the Advertisement to his 'Answer to a Letter of a Jesuit named Tyrie' (1572) he published a letter to Mrs. Bowes, 'to declare to the world what was the cause of our great familiarity, which was neither flesh nor blood, but a troubled conscience on her part which never suffered her to rest but when she was in the company of the faithful.

 

[John of Japan]

In Mark 10:29-30 [KJV], Jesus tells His disciples that if a man leaves (among other things) his wife and children for His sake and the gospel's sake, that man will be rewarded "an hundredfold now in this life...and in the world to come eternal life."

I'm trying to figure out under what circumstances in this life a man might be called upon to leave his wife and children for Jesus's sake and the gospel's sake--and be rewarded "an hundredfold" for doing so.

Can someone explain this statement made by Jesus?

Charles Weigle told his wife that God had called him to be an evangelist. She told him she wanted the high life, so he had to choose between her and God. He chose God and became a much used evangelist. She left him for the party life, and he never divorced her and never married another.

Later he based at Tennessee Temple College where my sister was a student at the time and got to know him. He was a gentle, godly man, used of God in a special way because of his willingness to leave all to follow Christ. Sometime after his wife left him he wrote from the depths of his heart the song, "No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus."

 

[John of Japan]

Concerning the hundredfold, that is the children in Christ as has been already said. I believe it is also the company of those who have done the same. Any time I meet another missionary we are immediately close brothers because of our shared experience in leaving the homeland, family, friends, job and sometimes property to go wherever Christ leads.