Chapter 21: Myth—Everybody Gets To Go

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Myth—Everybody Gets To Go

If our heart doesn’t get it, we won’t live it. Those who practice the

items in the left hand column of the table above are spiritually unprofitable servants to God from His perspective. They never returned to righteousness after claiming to have accepted Christ. They were phonies and insincere believers. They never actually thought of His perspective and His interests,

because they were too busy thinking of their own desire to sin. If they had considered God, they would have reasoned differently about their earthly actions. They would have understood that their earthly behavior has eternal consequences. They would have understood “everybody doesn’t get in.”

In verses 31-40, Jesus teaches the following:

1. Jesus will bring holy angels when he comes. 2. Jesus will sit on his throne of glory.

3. All nations will be gathered before him. 4. Jesus will separate the sheep from the goats, which mean he will separate the righteous from the unrighteous people for God. 5. This is a “selection process.” The righteous to his “right!”

6. The King [Jesus] will then say to those on his right, “Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” 7. The King [Jesus] will then say to those on his left, “Depart from

me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels [and all spiritually unprofitable earthly servants].” 8. The unrighteous “go into an everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Not only does Jesus teach the necessity of being prepared and being profitable in Matthew 25, he clearly states the consequences of not being prepared and profitable. Who are those who fall into these categories? They

are the unrighteous. Clearly there is a selection process to get into Heaven and it relates to our earthly behavior. As the protests come from the second group, Jesus explains that they never cared about people. Perhaps they had the political mentality that the government should take care of people and

that they had no duty to God in these regards. In this case, Jesus makes it clear that we have a duty to care for others less fortunate than ourselves.