Life doesn't always go the way you expect it to go. While evil people do meet the justice they deserve, all too often true justice, in this World, gets perverted. How many times have we seen the innocent die young at the hands of evil people who get away with it. You will remember that John the Baptist was born six months before his cousin, Jesus, to Zechariah the priest and his wife, Elizabeth. Like the birth of Christ, John's birth was also announced by an angel.
Kingdom of Heaven is Like…
Part 4
(The Dragnet & The Destiny Of The Wicked)
The parable of the dragnet is a story about God's kingdom and the end of the age. The lesson explains what will happen at that end of times when Jesus returns. Especially to those who reject the Jesus and HIS gospel message, with are the called "the wicked." Like the parable of the wheat and the tares, we see a great separation is destined to happen as the angels separate the good fish from the bad, which indicates that the righteous will be separated from the wicked. To which the wicked will be cast into the furnace of fire for the final death, where the worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.
Kingdom of Heaven is Like…
Part 3
(Hidden Treasure & Pearl of Great Price)
There are many people who know there is “something", “some purpose", “some meaning", that is worthy of diligent search. Some will spend their whole lives trying to find it. When by the grace and providence of God they come to learn of Christ and His kingdom, they are willing to give up all to obtain it! These examples, and the parables above confirm the truthfulness of Jesus' teaching about those "who hunger and thirst for righteousness".
Those who "hunger", those who "search", will indeed find what God has for them! It might be that we may "stumble" across the blessings God has in Christ and His kingdom (as in "The Parable Of The Hidden Treasure"). But do we want to risk our salvation on a lucky chance of "stumbling" across it? What can we do to ensure that we will find what God has for us? Well, we need to be like that merchant who is "searching" for that "Pearl of Great Price".
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