Untitled Sermon (3)
Sermon • Submitted
0 ratings
· 15 viewsNotes
Transcript
Lens 1: Questions
Why are the sheep associated with the righteous?
v34 - it seems the kingdom of God has been in existence for a long time. What does this mean?
Lens 2: Marking
Lens 3: Investigation questions
WHO
The Son of Man/the King
All the nations/people
The sheep (righteous) and goats
the least of these
My Father
WHAT
The Son of Man is gathering people and separating people
WHERE
The kingdom
WHEN
When the Son of Man comes into His glory and sits on His throne
WHY
vs35-36
HOW
according to their deeds
Lens 4: Cross referencing
James 2.14-26 the concept is repeated
14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! 20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Eph 2.8-9 seems to convey a different reason for receiving the kingdom
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
2 Thess 1.5-7
5 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— 6 since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels
Rev 14.17-19
17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18 And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.” 19 So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Joel 3.14
14 Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Micah 6.6-8
6 “With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” 8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Matt 5-7
Lens 5: Back to questions
Lens 6: Application grid
HOW DOES THE PASSAGE RELATE TO SALVATION?
Faith without works does not lead to salvation
Works perform without the desire for glory are indications of being saved
HOW SHOULD NORTHCLIFF UNION CHURCH RESPOND TO THIS PASSAGE FROM A MISSIONAL PERSPECTIVE?
Double checking ourselves, ensuring that the things we are doing are being done for the right reasons
NUC is already doing some of these ministries
HOW SHOULD THE INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER RESPOND? HOW SHOULD THE INDIVIDUAL RESPOND TO THE PERSON BEGGING AT THE STREET CORNER?
Double checking ourselves, ensuring that the things we are doing are being done for the right reasons
Ask the Holy Spirit for discernment in cases when help is being asked - like for example the street corner
Do not give only when we know the outcome
HOW DOES THE PASSAGE INFORM OUR PRAYER LIFE?
Ask the Holy Spirit for discernment in cases when help is being asked - like for example the street corner
Ask for a spirit of giving and generosity
For a greater appreciation of God’s generosity to us