What Do We Get?

Matthew 19:27 KJV

Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?

Peter's question is directly related to the previous teaching that salvation is an impossible thing. Jesus said that the rich hardly enter into the kingdom of Heaven and that it is easier for a camel to through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. Astonished, the disciples could not reckon how any man could be saved.  Jesus' response was that it is impossible for men to be saved, but God does the impossible. 

Peter picks up on this and asks, in the light of the God who does the impossible, what shall be the reward of these who had left all and followed Him? (Remember that was His instruction to the rich young ruler - he had left sorrowful, they had not.) The implication is that the stipend for forsaking all to follow Jesus is a treasure of impossible proportions:

• There is a throne
• There is authority
• There is a reward and
• There is everlasting life