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Are you a sheep or a goat? Matthew 25: 31-46 SSMC SUNGAI WAY-SUBANG METHODIST CHURCH

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Are you a sheep or a goat? Matthew 25: 31-46

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Matthew 25:31-46

READING the parable

UNDERSTANDING the parable

LEARNING from the parable

Matthew 25:31-46

READING the parable

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READINGMatthew 25:31-46

v 31-32: The second coming of Jesus

v 33: Sheep on his right & goats on his left

v 34: Sheep blessed by God & given an inheritance

v 35-36: The sheep showed love & took care of Jesus

v 37-39: The sheep did not understand

v 40: “Whatever you did for one of the least of these

brothers & sisters of mine, you did for me”

READINGMatthew 25:31-46

v 41: Goats cursed with eternal fire

v 42-43: They did not minister to Jesus

v 44: Goats did not understand

v 45: “Whatever you didn’t do for one of the least of

these, you didn’t do for me”

v 46: Eternal punishment vs eternal life

Matthew 25:31-46

READING the parable

UNDERSTANDING the parable

John 1:12Acts 15:11Romans 4:4-8Romans 7:24-25

UNDERSTANDINGMatthew 25:31-46

1. Separation of sheep & goats is based on identity

2. Good works is not the cause but effect of salvation

Matthew 25:31-46

READING the parable

UNDERSTANDING the parable

LEARNING from the parable

LEARNINGMatthew 25:31-46

1. Hell is real

is real

Matthew 25:41-46

Hell is:

A state of separation from God

A state of association with Satan

A state of punishment

An everlasting state

Three

Views

of Hell

The dreadfulness of hell deepens our grateful praise for the salvation we have in Jesus Christ

LEARNINGMatthew 25:31-46

1. Hell is real

2. Heaven is real

is realMatt 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.”

LEARNINGMatthew 25:31-46

1. Hell is real

2. Heaven is real

3. Are you a sheep or a goat?

Matthew 25:33

Matthew 25:46“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’”

LEARNINGMatthew 25:31-46

1. Hell is real

2. Heaven is real

3. Are you a sheep or a goat?

4. Sheep act like sheep

Be faithfulBe ready

Be a sheep