"Then Peter said to him, 'We've given up everything to follow you. What will we get?'
Jesus replied, 'I assure you that when the world is made new and the Son of Man sits upon his glorious throne, you who have been my followers will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or property, for my sake, will receive a hundred times as much in return and will inherit eternal life. But many who are the greatest now will be least important then, and those who seem least important now will be the greatest then.'"
Peter asks a natural question. What do we get out of giving up everything to follow Jesus? The answer is, everything: rulership, an extravagant repayment of whatever we gave up, and eternal life! However, we must embrace a new paradigm and new values because God's way is almost entirely the opposite of human ways. In God's economy, you receive only what you give up to him.
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