Final Verdict
Ed Young
Matthew 25:31-46
If you open your Bibles to our scripture of the morning, the book of Matthew, chapter number 25. We'll study beginning with verse 31 through verse 46. Let's bow for prayer together.
Father, quiet us and still us as we seek Thy face, as we seek Thy truth. Lord, You speak and let me get out of the way so that Thy word may be heard, Thy word may be understood, and Father, may we understand that if this worship is to be valid, we must leave this place putting Your truth into practice with every step of our life. For this is our prayer through Jesus Christ our living Lord. Amen.
We've been studying the parables. And the parables are not bedtime stories. The parables are more like trumpets that blast and trumpets that sound to wake us up. And, I think, especially is this true of the parable that we're looking up today. What if when you walked out of this worship service, there was a tree out there that was barren of any foliage. But as you walked out, in ten seconds time, fooooom! All
the foliage would be complete on that tree. Leaves just suddenly appeared and were there on the tree. It's a miracle! But if leaves came on that tree in 10 or 15 days, we'd say nothing abnormal about that. You see, we get accustomed to slow growth. But rapid, spontaneous growth just staggers us and we back up and say it's supernatural. What if when we walked outside there was a voice from heaven ringing down in quadrophonic sound that would call your name and speak a special word to you in the hearing of everybody in this world. We would say God has spoken! But we read His book, we're accustomed to it. Many of the phrases we're ever so familiar with and we say well, it's just the Bible; it's just the word. Forgetting to our own loss that the word is a word from God with more validity than any word we could hear shouted down from heaven. Listen! Matthew 25:31;
''When the Son of Man shall come in His glory and all the holy angels wit ...
Ed Young
Matthew 25:31-46
If you open your Bibles to our scripture of the morning, the book of Matthew, chapter number 25. We'll study beginning with verse 31 through verse 46. Let's bow for prayer together.
Father, quiet us and still us as we seek Thy face, as we seek Thy truth. Lord, You speak and let me get out of the way so that Thy word may be heard, Thy word may be understood, and Father, may we understand that if this worship is to be valid, we must leave this place putting Your truth into practice with every step of our life. For this is our prayer through Jesus Christ our living Lord. Amen.
We've been studying the parables. And the parables are not bedtime stories. The parables are more like trumpets that blast and trumpets that sound to wake us up. And, I think, especially is this true of the parable that we're looking up today. What if when you walked out of this worship service, there was a tree out there that was barren of any foliage. But as you walked out, in ten seconds time, fooooom! All
the foliage would be complete on that tree. Leaves just suddenly appeared and were there on the tree. It's a miracle! But if leaves came on that tree in 10 or 15 days, we'd say nothing abnormal about that. You see, we get accustomed to slow growth. But rapid, spontaneous growth just staggers us and we back up and say it's supernatural. What if when we walked outside there was a voice from heaven ringing down in quadrophonic sound that would call your name and speak a special word to you in the hearing of everybody in this world. We would say God has spoken! But we read His book, we're accustomed to it. Many of the phrases we're ever so familiar with and we say well, it's just the Bible; it's just the word. Forgetting to our own loss that the word is a word from God with more validity than any word we could hear shouted down from heaven. Listen! Matthew 25:31;
''When the Son of Man shall come in His glory and all the holy angels wit ...
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