And ONE of those TWO mentions is quoting the Lord Jesus Christ
speaking exclusively to the twelve apostles that will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of ISRAEL.
I would be happy to obey something Jesus said even if no one else said it.
So, Jesus said to "sell all you have." You said you would be happy to follow something Jesus said, even if no one else said it. No one else did say "sell all you have" Therefore, REGARDLESS of who it was intended for, because you did not clarify such, you should be happy to obey Jesus in selling all you have.
Hypocrite.
But moving on from that, by then making the argument, "Jesus didn't tell
EVERYONE to sell all they have, just the rich young ruler, you have backed yourself into a corner, because now I am going to ask you something else:
Why could that same principle (which I agree with by the way) not also apply to the rest of what Jesus wrote?
Why do you assume that EVERYTHING Jesus said was for EVERYONE (except for the command to "sell all you have")?
You're a hypocrite if you believe that everything Jesus said was for everyone, and then turn around and say, "Oh, but not the command to 'sell all you have.'"
Here's reality, you hypocrite:
Jesus came for the lost sheep of the House of Israel.
He did not come for the gentiles, and avoided interacting with them as much as possible, and as such, there are in fact only three instances in the gospels where Jesus interacts with a gentile.
Jesus came to form a New Covenant with ISRAEL, as described in Jeremiah. It was NOT intended for those outside the House of Israel.
After Jesus rose from the dead, there was a period of about a year where the 12 were bringing converts (Jews who were unbelieving who then believed, and even Gentiles who became proselyte Jews, but Jews nonetheless), but because of Israel's unbelief as a whole, things were going downhill, and the final nail in the coffin, so to speak, was when Stephen was martyred by the legalist council, who knew that it was against the Mosaic Law to stone someone inside the city gates, but didn't consider that they were murdering him. However, it wasn't until the conversion of Saul (Paul) that God cut off Unbelieving Israel (as He said He would if they did not repent, and turned his attention to the Gentiles, putting His plan for His people on hold. He grafted in the Gentiles, and instead of forming a covenant with them as per Genesis 17, He instead gave them the option to form a PERSONAL (rather than national as with Israel) relationship with Him, simply by believing in Him. No works, no law, simply believe in Him.
3 ...“Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land? 4[B][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/3306.htm"][COLOR=#000000]DID IT NOT BELONG[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/4771.htm"][COLOR=#000000]TO YOU[/COLOR][/URL][/B][U][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/3306.htm"][COLOR=#000000] before it was sold? [/COLOR][/URL][/U][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/2532.htm"][COLOR=#000000]And [/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/4097.htm"][COLOR=#000000]after it was sold, [/COLOR][/URL][B][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/5225.htm"][COLOR=#000000]WAS IT NOT[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/1722.htm"][COLOR=#000000] AT [/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/4674.htm"][COLOR=#000000]YOUR[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/1849.htm"][COLOR=#000000] DISPOSAL? [/COLOR][/URL][/B][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/5101.htm"][COLOR=#000000]How[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/5087.htm"][COLOR=#000000] could you conceive [/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/3778.htm"][COLOR=#000000]such [/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/4229.htm"][COLOR=#000000]a deed [/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/1722.htm"][COLOR=#000000]in [/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/4771.htm"][COLOR=#000000]your[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/2588.htm"][COLOR=#000000] heart?[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/5574.htm"][COLOR=#000000]You have not lied [/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/444.htm"][COLOR=#000000]to men,[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/235.htm"][COLOR=#000000]but[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/2316.htm"][COLOR=#000000] to God!”[/COLOR][/URL]
(Acts 5:3-4)
. . .
…16 Do you not know that when you OFFER YOURSELVES as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the ONE you OBEY, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to OBEDIENCE leading to RIGHTEOUSNESS? 17 [URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/1161.htm"][COLOR=#000000]But[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/5485.htm"][COLOR=#000000] thanks be [/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/2316.htm"][COLOR=#000000]to God[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/3754.htm"][COLOR=#000000] that,[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/1510.htm"][COLOR=#000000]though you once were[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/1401.htm"][COLOR=#000000] slaves [/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/266.htm"][COLOR=#000000]to sin,[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/5219.htm"][COLOR=#000000]you wholeheartedly OBEYED [/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/5179.htm"][COLOR=#000000]the form [/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/1322.htm"][COLOR=#000000]of teaching[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/1519.htm"][COLOR=#000000] to[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/3739.htm"][COLOR=#000000] which[/COLOR][/URL][URL="https://biblehub.com/greek/3860.htm"][COLOR=#000000] you were committed[/COLOR].[/URL]18 You HAVE BEEN SET FREE from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.…
(Romans 6:16-18)
I'm not sure if you realize it, but that is nearly impossible to read.
Are you copying and pasting from somewhere else? If so, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE use "paste as plain text" when doing so. That is nearly impossible to read in the email I get as a notification that someone has responded to me, and in the reply editor on this site, because the formatting gets converted into BBCode tags.
If you don't know how to do this (either on computer or on the mobile site) please let me know, and I'll tell you how.
Moving on, I moved the portion of your post in the middle of the above to here so that I could separate it from the formatting mess above.
Even in modern times, does not God call SOME people to give up their possessions or surrender their lifestyle in order to go live a poor country for the sake of the Gospel?
Not actively, no. If someone wants to, and they ask God for guidance, then that's one thing.
Does God not have the right to call SOME to various sacrifices according to His call on their life, or must He call EVERYONE to the exactly the same purpose?
Again, thank you for making my argument for me.
God did not tell everyone to keep the law. In fact, it was only one nation that He told to keep the law, and people like yourself, however good their intentions, have perverted what was said to put everyone under the law, placing an unnecessary burden on believers.
All God demands is that those who have put their faith in Him love Him.
is that we believe in Him
This is where you should have stopped in your sentence.
enough to give up the central control of our lives to Him and this is not only true of what Jesus and the Twelve preached. Paul also agreed that faith and an obedient response to God's will are inseparable.
Yes, AFTER one is saved, and NOT to obtain salvation, nor to stay saved, but obedience is the RESULT of loving God.
But working to obtain salvation is like trying to pull Jesus off the Cross and climbing up there yourself.