If the rich man had forsaken all, if he had sold his property and given to the poor to follow Jesus, he would have received houses a hundredfold in this life and everlasting life in the world to come. But what blinded the rich man to see what Jesus had for him was a greater love for money than for God. If we have a greater love for anything than for God, we are visually impaired or blinded to see what God has for us and how much he really loves us. Discipleship gives us all these things mentioned plus persecutions, lest we become overly exalted. It is because the moment they sign up for discipleship, they become nonconformists, and that always causes division and persecution.
Every disciple is a nonconformist.
Discipleship Means That We Are on the Way to Sanctification. We cannot become sanctified prior to discipleship, even as we cannot cross an ocean prior to getting into a boat or aircraft. The process of sanctification only begins in discipleship. The disciples, all the apostles that Jesus had called, were unsanctified apostles. And that led to their sanctification not many days hence.