Study
39 From the Book of Matthew is: Matthew 25: 14-46
1.
Verses 14:30. Compare this parable with that in Lk.
19:11-27. What is the message underlying
both parables? Can you distinguish the particular emphasis of each parable?
2.
Verses 31-46. What claims does Christ here make concerning
Himself? How is men’s final destiny determined?
3.
What does this passage teach about the gravity of the sin of
omission? What does the absence of good works prove?
Notes
1.
Verse 34. This is the only place in the Gospels where Christ
speaks of the Son of man as King. No doubt there was too great a danger of the
popular misunderstanding of that title for its frequent use to be possible.
2.
Verse 46. ‘Eternal’: This
speaks primarily not of endless duration but of that which in quality is
characteristic of the age to come.
