Month: October 2022

We’re talking about the Olivet Discourse and the answer to the disciples’ question to Jesus: “What will be the signs of your coming at the end of the age?” In that context, we’ve been looking at four parables, the fourth being the parable of the sheep and the goats, which is about judgment. According to…

What does it mean to be known by God? Why does God say, “I never knew you?” How can it be that a God that knows everything could say: “I don’t know who you are?” Is it more important that you know God or that God knows you?  We’re moving today to the fourth parable…

From mankind’s perspective, is God more predictable or more unpredictable?  On the one hand, God never changes. He’s all knowing. He’s all powerful. He’s all loving, and is everywhere. “I am the Lord,” he says, “I change not” (Malachi 3:6). Something or someone who never changes must be predictable.  On the other hand, God is…

We’re talking about the end of time and the parables of Jesus found in Matthew 25 that speak to the end of time.  These parables tell us about how we should wait for the second coming—the Parousia. Last week we derived from the parable of the talents the idea that while we wait, we are…

We are studying about the time of the end—the signs of the end, the parables, the expectations, the anticipation. The Olivet Discourse of Matthew 24 and 25 contains four parables about the end of time as part of Jesus’s answer to the disciples’ question: “What shall be the sign of Your coming and the end…