‘Last Generation’
The Sermon on the Mount was the beginning of our Lord's
ministry in preparing His disciples. Since the Holy Spirit is the Author of the
bible, we must let scriptures explain scriptures and you will be amazed how His
words, parables, teachings, etc. reveal His truth.
Parable of Laying Treasures
Mat 6:19-23 "Lay not up for yourselves treasures
upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and
steal: But lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will
your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be
single, your whole body shall be full of light. But if your eye be evil, your
whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness,
how great is that darkness!"
So when we set our
hearts to please Him, we will keep His words, will and commandments.
1 John 3:22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him,
because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.
Therefore, if your eye be single – staying
focus to pleasing Him alone; then we will be able to understand His will and
the riches of His eternal kingdom, and we will be full of the fruits of the
Holy Spirit, and the joy when doing all types of righteous and merciful works.
Mat 19:21 Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect,
go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in
heaven, and come, follow Me.” (Read
also Mark 10:21, Luke 12:33; 18:22)
But if your eye is evil – love of this world
and the things therein, selfish, covetous; then we will be in complete darkness
- without any understanding of His words and will.
1 Tim 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds
of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and
pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
'If therefore the light that is in you be darkness,
how great is that darkness!' When the Holy Spirit (light becomes darkness)
leaves a Christian, he has lost his salvation, and will display bad fruits
-anger, murmurs, divisive, lies, deceptions, merciless, sinful behaviours, etc.
His wicked schemes to deceive and cheat other Christians (great darkness) will
be worse than those of the heathens. These will be the ‘wolves in sheepskin’ in
churches.
2 Pet 2:20-21 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions
of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they
are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than
the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way
of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment
delivered to them.
Parable of the Beautiful Pearl
Matthew 13:45-46 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a
merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great
price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.”
This merchant
found the beautiful pearl which is entrance to the Kingdom of God and immediately
he sold all he had and gave it to the poor so that he will be able to enter the
Kingdom of God.
Rev 21:21-22 The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each
individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was
pure gold, like transparent glass. But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
Luke 18:22-25 So when Jesus heard these things, He said
to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute
to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” But
when he heard this, he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich. And when
Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful, He said, "How hard it is for
those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a
camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the
kingdom of God."
