Sheep and Goats - The Very Hardest Parables
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- Matthew 25:31-46
Jesus taught primarily in parables. Short pithy stories that surprise us with Jesus unique perspective on life. These parables centre around three main concepts. Kingdom, Grace and, wait for it... Judgement. In this series we intend to face into the hardest parables, those that give us Jesus’ unique perspective on judgement.
As Klyne Snodgrass explains:
Discourse we tolerate; to story we attend. Story entertains, informs, involves, motivates, authenticates, and mirrors existence. By creating a narrative world, stories establish an unreal, controlled universe. The author abducts us and-almost god-like-tells us what reality exists in this narrative World, what happens, and why.
And as we immerse ourselves in Jesus’ narrative world-we hope to be transformed by the experience.
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Excellent preach. Thank you
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Again , its about works , so much for grace
That’s the trouble with this parable. It is so obviously about good works that it throws a spanner into our clean dichotomies. Maybe the two aren’t as different as we think.
@@commonschurchIts either about something else or we have a fatal contraction in the bible .
Awesone message of a difficult usually misunderstood parable. Mightily blessed.
Its the hardest because we are so hardcore with the popular doctrines that were passed on to us by men through generation to generation.
This is the sad state of the modern churches of today. A Laodicean Spirit. Always saved, no need to buy gold from Jesus refined through fire.
If you don't love your neighbor, you don't love God, and if you don't love God, you are an outcast...
What do you mean by love. Because being selfish is natural even to saved people. And that’s a lack of love. Does that mean they don’t love God? Loving God is being saved.
ive been listening to this guy and I like him already. "Jesus' teaching is not one size fits all." for example. He's not a literalist anyway.
Thank you so much. This is a much better explanation of the sheep-goat judgment than most of the commentaries. But it still does not home in on the essential basis for the judgment.
Yes, as stated here, it is definitely not the judgment at the end of the age or the end of life based upon the atoning blood of Yeshua/Jesus. That judgment is featured elsewhere and showcased in the parable of the wheat and the tares in Matthew 13.
So the sheep-goat judgment is not a judgment based upon whether or not person is saved or whether or under the atoning blood of Christ. Nor is it a judgment of eternal destiny in heaven just based merely upon works.
Here is what the commentators have missed, not understanding blood covenant. In limiting their discussion to “grace vs. works” from Ephesians 2:8-9 they are not understanding the wider matter of blood covenant. The redeemed, the saved, the born-again, those who know Messiah one-on-one are in first order blood covenant. But there is a second-order blood covenant. This would be a blood covenant judgment of a person who does not know Messiah based upon the testimony and the “good word” of another person who does know Messiah. Second order blood covenant favor is based upon the blood covenant lovingkindness the person in question showed to the friend of Messiah. This is blood covenant judgment mediated by a third party.
Here is what is really going on in this sheep-goat judgment. The sheep, (just like the goats), did not know Messiah personally. They were not saved or born-again. If they had, then they would have been taken up and glorified into new spiritual bodies at he end of the age. They would have been snatched up in the harpazo, in the Harvest, in the Resurrection-Rapture. BUT, the sheep are given favor, given a passport for entry into the Millennium of Messiah and with this the entry into the Kingdom of Messiah is God’s plan for their ultimate salvation.
So what is the basis for the divine favor granted to the sheep and denied to the goats? The answer lies in the words of the returning Christ to these mortals who have survived the Tribulation. He says,
“Inasmuch as you (showed blood covenant lovingkindness) to these my brethren, you did it to me”.
This is second-order blood covenant, Messianic favor given to an unsaved person and mediated through a third party, someone who DOES know Messiah.
See
EndTimePilgrim.org/sheepgoat.htm
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We’re in Calgary AB Canada
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Now Yeshua was a jew he looked complitly different not high in sice and dark skin and he spoke hebrew.
JESUS WAS SPEAKING TO FARMERS-- IN TERMS THEY COULD UNDERSTAND.
Some of the parables have farming contexts and the specific referents to sheep and goats here certainly do but there isn’t really any agricultural/husbandry context to this parable at all.
Also, why are you yelling?
Who are the sheep and goats?
It is so simple, even painfully obvious...
From the Lord Jesus's eternal point of view looking down upon mankind, each one of us corresponds to being both a sheep and a goat.
The Lord Jesus sees each of us as one body and two persons.
One person is the goat, who is the object of our Lord's wrath destined for everlasting destruction.
The other person is the sheep, who is the object of our Lord's mercy destined for glory.
That is what Paul meant in Romans 9:22-24...
"What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath-prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory- even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?"
How then are we ultimately separated one person from the other?
Paul explains that, too, through his revelation of the Lord Jesus's eternal Gospel in 1 Corinthians 15:51-57...
"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed- in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
That is the eternal Gospel that awaits mankind...
Or more accurately, that is the Lord's eternal Gospel that awaits His future eternal sons and daughters.
So, take heart, the Lord's eternal Gospel was predestined by our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus before the creation of Creation.
Possible. Or perhaps it just a parable encouraging us to be good people with no regard to reward.
Perhaps the Lord Jesus will give you eyes to see, ears to hear, and a mind that can understand these things.
Or, perhaps your turn will come on the Day of our Lord Jesus when He is revealed in His everlasting glory and His eternal sons and daughters are revealed to all of Creation.
On that day, Paul's revelation of the Lord Jesus's eternal Gospel will be fulfilled as he described in 1 Corinthians 15:51-57.
Perhaps :)
The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God are Not the same. Matthew is not a Gospel Book. The Kingdom of Heaven is the 1000 year reign of Christ on His throne. The sheep and the goats are Jews from the Great Tribulation. Rightly Divide or you have a real messed up Gospel...
That is a highly idiosyncratic interpretation.
@@commonschurch Not when you understand that the Kingdom of Heaven is not the same as the Kingdom of God. And, Matthew is an Old Testament Book having nothing to do with the Gospel. Don't worry, only a few Teachers and Preachers understand it. I didn't know it for over 50 years until my eyes were opened to it, and trust me, it's fact. Matthew 11:12 should be enough to understand they are not the same. As for it being about the 1000 years, verse 31 tells you that. Once someone understands these things, the Bible comes alive with knowldge.
If you're going to answer the parable like that, you should give it credibility by citing a Church Father. If you came up with that on your own (yes and the spirit with you of course), then that was very good. But I'm almost sure it's about Mary (believe it or not) and it's also about identifying the anti-Christ. Many think those who killed Christ is what he's taking about. Bless us who bless them etc. So basically we get into heaven by pandering to the Jews as what is common in America with dispensationalism. I see the parable drawing a line between the anti-Christ (Jews/false people of God) and the acceptance or denial of Mary (the people who are part of Gods FAMILY). The visiting in prison part has me a bit dumbfounded, but it seems to be accepting that a 'Limbo/Purgatory' really does exist. This could be why Catholics declare it INFALLIBLE - MUST BELIEVE DOGMA. I always wondered why they INSIST on it so much, and this could be the reason. I can say that those who deny Mary, deny their mother and with almost certainty will have given up their inheritance (over a bowl of soup). Sour grapes and hatred for the family of Christ.. ego and selfishness... pumping your fist with Jesus name and some war chant. That doesn't get you into heaven. You need to be part of the family because it IS based on a family and a family Tree (Romans 11) and no, Jews are NOT part of that family that's why they need to be born to a Jewish mother. They do NOT share in our mother. They are born out of water like Moses, we are born of water and spirit like John the Baptist (Luke 1). Elizabeth HEARD Mary. Maybe one day, YOU will also.
@@TonyYuEvangelism amen!!!