Waiting on Jesus: Sheep & Goats
Matthew 25:31-46
Pastor Bob Hiller
11/23/2014
Series:
waiting-on-jesus
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/y4-Mkbz8HN8
Matthew 25:34 "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
1. Jesus is not teaching us that ____________ is by ____________.
2. Jesus is not teaching us that ____________ do not ____________.
3. Jesus is showing us how the lives of the ____________ and ____________ will be ____________.
Scripture Readings
Ezekiel 34:11-16,20-24
1 Corinthians 15:20-28
Matthew 25:31-46
Take It With You!
As we learn how to live as disciples of Jesus Christ, here helpful tools will be offered to aid in your study.
Faith is a divine work in us which changes us and makes us to be born anew of God. It kills the old Adam and makes us altogether different people, in heart and spirit and mind and all powers; and it brings with it the Holy Spirit. O, it is a living, busy, active, mighty thing, this faith. It is impossible for it not to be doing good works incessantly. It does not ask whether good works are to be done, but before the question is asked, it has already done them, and is constantly doing them. Whoever does not do such works, however, is an unbeliever who gropes and looks around for faith and good works, but knows neither what faith is nor what good works are. Yet such a person talks and talks, with many words, about faith and good works. Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake life itself on it a thousand times. This knowledge of and confidence in God's grace makes people glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures. And this is the work which the Holy Spirit performs in faith. Because of it, without compulsion, a person is ready and glad to do good to everyone, to serve everyone, to suffer everything, out of love and praise to God, who has shown this grace. Thus, it is impossible to separate works from faith, quite as impossible as to separate heat and light from fire.
~ Martin Luther as quoted in the Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord, Article IV: Good Works.
