PARABLE OF THE JUDGMENT...... Mat. 25: 31-46
THE SETTING IS CHRIST'S RETURN ON HIS THRONE [THE THRONE OF DAVID] AND BEFORE HIM ARE ALL NATIONS.
A DIVIDING OF SHEEP AND GOATS.
THE RIGHT HAND ARE THE SHEEP; THE LEFT HAND ARE THE GOATS.
SO JESUS HAS RETURNED..... THE RESURRECTION OF THE SHEEP FROM ADAM TO HIS RETURN HAS TAKEN PLACE.
THERE IS MORE SEPARATION OF THE SHEEP AND GOATS TO COME ALL DURING THE NEW AGE, THAT HAS NOW ARRIVED ON EARTH.
GOD IN HIS PERFECT RIGHTEOUS CHARACTER THAT NEVER CHANGES, WILL USE THE SAME MEASURING ROD AS BEFORE TO BRING THE SHEEP INTO HIS FOLD.
THIS PARABLE IS FOR THE PAST, FOR THE NOW, FOR THE FUTURE.
JESUS TELLS THE ATTITUDE, THE MIND-SET, THE LIVING WAY OF LIFE, THAT ARE THE SHEEP; HE RELATES TO THEM WHAT THEY AT FIRST "DON'T GET" - WHEN DID WE DO SUCH THINGS TO YOU. THEY HAVE LIVED IN SUCH A WAY, THAT WAS SO NORMAL TO THEM, THEY KINDA DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHEN THEY LIVED THAT WAY TO SERVE CHRIST IN THE WAY HE RELATES TO THEM. JESUS ANSWERS THAT AS THEY DID IT TO OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, THEY WERE DOING IT TO HIM - VERSES 31-40.
IT IS OBVIOUS THEY WERE LIVING IN SUCH A WAY THAT WHEN ZEROD IN ON IN SPECIFICS, THEY COULD NOT PER SE SEE IT. ONLY WHEN JESUS SAYS THEY LIVED TOWARDS OTHERS AS HE DESCRIBED COULD THEY SEE IT WAS TOWARDS HIM.
SALVATION AND CONVERSION IN THE SHEEP, MEANS A NEW WAY OF LIFE TOWARDS OTHERS; IT MEANS THIS NEW LIFE BECOMES SO AUTOMATIC, SO NATURAL, SO EVERY DAY A MIND-SET, THAT IT IS..... WELL JUST SECOND NATURE AS THEY SAY; IT IS JUST A PART OF THE NEW CONVERTED LIFE IN CHRIST, THE SHEEP DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT; IT JUST GOES WITH BEING A TRUE CHRISTIAN.
WOW IT IS SO NATURAL TO THEM, THEY ASK CHRIST, "WELL WHEN DID WE DO SUCH THINGS TOWARDS YOU?"
CHRISTIANITY IS A WAY OF LIFE; IT IS A WAY OF THINKING, ACTING, TALKING, DOING, SERVING, IN THE WAY OF THE LORD, THAT IT BECOMES THE VERY NATURE OF THEM, AND THEY NO LONGER THINK ABOUT IT.
THAT IS WHAT CHRIST IS HERE MAKING A PARABLE LESSON ABOUT..... A LESSON FOR THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS.
VERSE 41. OH JESUS PULLS NO PUNCHES - THE GOATS ON THE LEFT HAND ARE TOLD: "DEPART FROM ME YOU CURSED, INTO EVERLASTING FIRE, PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS [NOW CALLED DEMONS]"
THE TRUTH ABOUT "EVERLASTING FIRE" IS EXPOUNDED FOR YOU IN THE STUDIES CALLED "DEATH - THEN WHAT?"
JESUS REITERATES WHAT HE TOLD THE SHEEP, BUT IN A NEGATIVE CONTEXT - THEY DID NOT LIVE THIS WAY OF LIFE TOWARDS OTHERS, IT WAS NOT A PART OF THEIR NATURE.....AND BECAUSE IT WAS NOT, THEY FAILED IN LIFE.
THIS IS SERIOUS STUFF!
THIS IS NOT SOME FLUFFY THING THAT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE - IT HAS PROFOUND MEANING AND END RESULT.
FOR THOSE NOT THINKING AND LIVING THE SHEEP'S WAY OF LIFE, BUT THE GOAT'S WAY, SHALL BE PUNISHED WITH "EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT" [THE PUNISHMENT IS EVERLASTING NOT THE PERSON] BUT THE RIGHTEOUS INTO LIFE ETERNAL!
JESUS SHOWS HERE THAT TRUE CHRISTIANITY IS A WAY OF LIFE!
YOU DO NOT ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOR AND LORD, AND CONTINUE TO LIVE TOWARDS OTHERS IN THE SAME OLD GOAT'S SELFISH WAY.
FOLLOWING JESUS MEANS YOU HAVE A WAY OF LIFE TOWARDS OTHERS, THAT IS LOVE, SERVICE, TOWARDS OTHERS. THIS SERVICE BECOMES SO IN-GRAINED WITHIN YOU, IT IS JUST AUTOMATIC.....IT IS SECOND NATURE AS THEY SAY.
THE CHRISTIAN LIVES FRIENDLINESS TO OTHERS, AS PAUL SAID, "IF IT BE POSSIBLE, AS MUCH AS LIES IN YOU, LIVE PEACEABLY WITH ALL MEN" (ROM. 12:18).
YOU SHOW KINDNESS TO OTHERS, YOU SHOW POLITENESS TO OTHERS, TO SHOW RESPECT TOWARDS OTHERS; YOU LIVE TOWARDS OTHERS AS YOU WOULD WISH OTHERS WOULD LIVE TOWARDS YOU. YOU ARE HAPPY WITH THOSE WHO ARE HAPPY; YOU ARE SORROWFUL WITH THOSE WHO SORROW; YOU WEEP WITH THOSE WHO WEEP.
CHRISTIANITY IS NOT JUST A TWO HOUR JOB IN CHURCH ON ONE DAY OF THE WEEK.
JESUS WAS TEACHING IN THIS PARABLE, THAT TO SERVE HIM, YOU MUST SERVE OTHERS OF THE HUMAN FAMILY.
THE NEW TESTAMENT IS BRIM-FULL OF ACTIVE LOVE AND SERVICE TO OUR FELLOW MAN.
JESUS WAS TEACHING VERY PLAINLY, THAT IF YOUR MINDSET AND WAY OF LIFE DID NOT HAVE LOVE AND SERVICE TOWARDS OTHERS, YOU WOULD GO AWAY INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT.
IT WAS THE RIGHTEOUS [THIS LOVE AND SERVICE TOWARDS OTHERS BEING A PART OF RIGHTEOUSNESS] WOULD ENTER INTO LIFE ETERNAL.
Keith Hunt
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