Sermons on Matthew 25:46

… if everyone's going to heaven, regardless of what he or she believes or doesn't believe. But notice what Jesus said instead in Matthew 25, verse 46, and these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. There are two destinations, eternal punishment and eternal life. Secondly, Jesus taught that hell is a reality. He taught that hell is a reality. For example, Jesus believed that hell's an actual location, not a state of mind, Matthew 25, 46. Jesus taught in Matthew 22, 13, that hell is a place of physical suffering. And most devastatingly, Jesus said that hell is an irrevocable destination. Once there, no one leaves. Remember in Luke 16, 26, his story about Abraham, the rich man, and Lazarus, the rich man finding himself in hell begged Abraham to provide relief at a way out of hell. But Abraham answered and said, and besides all of this, between us in heaven and you, there is a great chasm fixed. in order that those who wish to come over from here to you may not be able and that none may cross over from there to us. Thirdly, Jesus taught that the majority of humanity will occupy hell. …

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… but this is how the parable begins, and it's in Matthew chapter 25, verses 31 through 46. If you have your Bible, turn there. and Jesus says this, when the Son of Man, remember that's what he called himself, when the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory and all the nations will be gathered before him and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. Now he's going to send the goats away. He's going to say, you have no part with me and he's going to send them away, but he's going to invite the sheep to join him. And when he invites the sheep to join him, and when he welcomes them into his kingdom, he says this, I was hungry and you gave me food. …

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… you did not do for me. Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life. Let me tell you the history of this text. Not the kind of history you'll get in a theological seminary, I mean my own personal history. First time I ever remember hearing this passage, I was in my early teens. My cousin and I were in the search for a church that would minister to us. We defined that as a church that would have a basketball team. And we found it in the Broadway Presbyterian Church in New York. I discovered a lesson in that early day and that is that every silver lining has a cloud. because in order to be able to play on the team, you had to go to Sunday school. It was there I came under the influence of Miss Larch. Miss Larch was a student of biblical prophecy. It seemed to me she particularly liked the passages that dealt with judgment, probably because of the boys that were in her class. …

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… you did not do for me and they will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous to eternal life Let me tell you the history of this section of scripture. Not the history you get if you go to a New Testament class. I mean my own personal history with it. The first time I remember hearing about the sheep and goats, I was about 12 years of age. My cousin and I were on a spiritual search, looking for a congregation that had a basketball team. and we found it at the Broadway Presbyterian Church in New York. And that's when I discovered a great lesson in life that every silver lining has a cloud. Because in order to play on the team, you had to go to Sunday school at least three Sundays a month. And that's where I came across Miss Lortz. She was a Sunday school teacher. She had never married, a bit of an austere woman, but she loved the Bible and she loved the Second Coming. …

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