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"Workouts in the gymnasium are useful, but a disciplined life in God is far more so, making you fit both today and forever." -Paul

07 February 2008

Sheep and Goats

By Matt

In Matthew 25 we get the famous parable of the sheep and the goats and the difference between the two are that the sheep are the one who took care of the sick, clothed the naked, invited in the strangers, gave food to the hungry, and drink to the thirsty, and visited the imprisoned. Goats did the exact opposite. Sheep take their inheritance in a kingdom prepared for them. Goats are sent away into the eternal fire prepared for Satan. This is probably the most cut and dry passage I have run into so far where Jesus clearly shows who the quick and the dead are. While it is all about knowing him, it's about not necessarily knowing that it is him. The sheep are surprised, they never knew the folks they served were Jesus, same goes for the goats except they didn't serve.

More so than any other passage I have read so far, this makes it seem pretty obvious that those who do good (not just those who are "good") are saved. Maybe we have to reconcile Jesus' statement that no one goes to the Father except through him with the idea that serving others is serving him and therefore going through him.

I don't know. This topic is kind of living up to what I expected it to be but I still don't know how I feel about all this.

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