Day 26: NT Matthew C25; I Run but I cannot Hide for I am a Sinner and this is My Prayer…

I Run but I cannot Hide for I am a Sinner and this is My Prayer…

The irony of the Old and New Testaments.

In Exodus God led Israel out of bondage in Egypt and while on the journey began to instruct them on how to live their new life via the Ten Commandments.

In Matthew, God’s Israel is as settled as can be in Jerusalem and while living out their lives there, He is preparing them for a new journey, the ultimate journey to heaven.

From bondage to freedom and from freedom to eternal life!

Not so easy and not so clear.

“Amen I say to you, as long as you did it for one of these, the least of my brethren, you did it for me.”

“For I was hungry and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; naked and you covered me, sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me.”

This seems to be the complement to The Beatitudes along the lines of better to comfort than be comforted and best to do that comforting while visiting your brother in prison.

Feelings, emotions with definitive action, not just merely thinking about these things.

The challenge seems staggering and endless unless we have presence of mind in the present moment, each moment, and each day at a time.

We can’t do everything for everybody but we can do something, anything for anybody that comes into our presence, our lives.

“For to everyone who has shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him who does not have, even that which he seems to have shall be taken away.”

“Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”

Don’t be cast forth into the darkness outside.

Let Jesus into our lives and our hearts.

“Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner and ask for Your Forgiveness. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sins and ask You to come into my heart, my life and all my relationships. I trust and will follow You as my Lord and Savior for the rest of my life. May Your will be done with my self, body and being. Amen! Al-le-lu-ia!” Your son, Andy

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Day 26: Reading The Bible with a TROML Perspective; I Run but I cannot Hide for I am a Sinner and this is My Prayer.

Read and inspired by the New Testament, The Gospel of Saint Matthew Chapter 25.

Bible Notes:

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

Saint Matthew, also known as Levi, was a Galilean by birth.

Tax Collector at Capharnaum

Christ called him to become a disciple, and later an Apostle

After the Holy Ghost came down on the Apostles on Pentecost, Matthew preached the Gospel in Judea.

He wrote his Gospel to prove to his readers that Christ was the Messiah foretold by God in the Old Testament

 

Matthew Chapter 25: Parable of the Ten Virgins; The arrival of the bridegroom; Parable of the talents; The servant with five talents; The servant with two talents; The servant with one talent; The last judgment; Those on the right hand; Those on the left.

Then will the kingdom of heaven be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom and the bride.

Five foolish, took no oil.

Five wise took oil in their vessels with their lamp.

“Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”

For it (heaven) is like a man going abroad… and handed over his goods to his servants… and then he went on a journey…

Servant with five talents, gained five more.

Servant with two talents, gained two more.

“Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many, enter into the joy of thy master.”

Servant with one talent buried it, gaining no more.

I should have gotten back my own with interest.

“Wicked and slothful servant thou didst know that I reap where I do not sow, and gather where I have not winnowed.”

“For to everyone who has shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him who does not have, even that which he seems to have shall be taken away.

Cast him forth into the darkness outside.

“But when the Son of Man shall come in all his majesty… and he will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left.”

“For I was hungry and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; naked and you covered me, sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me.”

Lord, when did we see thee hungry and feed thee?

“Amen I say to you, as long as you did it for one of these, the least of my brethren, you did it for me.”

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