What good thing must I do to get eternal life?

 Matthew 19:13-30

Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?

 Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

“All these I have kept,” the young man said. “What do I still lack?”

 Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

They were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

Jesus's first answers to the rich young men's question about good deeds and eternal life are the one any Jewish teacher would have given. And the man- a ruler in the synagogue- could claim he had kept the commandments. But Jesus pinpoints the root of this man's trouble. His commandment-keeping is not whole-hearted. His possessions mean too much to him. Because of them, he is failing to love God and his neighbor without reserve. So Jesus tells him to sell up and follow him. It is better to possess nothing than to love things more than God.

The disciples were surprised because they thought riches were a reward for goodness, and index of some's spiritual state - so they go on to ask about rewards.

Why?

Doing the good things are worldwide teaching to get a good reward, but Jesus told them there are no one is good, only one is good. So doing the good things can not get the reward of eternal life. Only those who discard what he has and follow Jesus can get eternal life and the reward in heaven.

Everyone has to pay an effort to be a good Christian, for if anyone proud of his Christian life will fail on the way to eternal life.

Rich men are hard to get eternal life if they like money than the needy men and won't follow Jesus Christ. But if it is chosen by the Lord, it is possible to be Christian.

How?

Respect and love each other in God's family, following Jesus is the first priority in our life to get eternal life.