Sheep and Goats

Matthew
Written By Steve Estes

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Matthew 25:31-46
October 30, 2022

Sermon Outline

1. Scene of the last day of the world

  • A great bringing together of all nations

  • Angels

  • The Son of Man (Jesus Christ)

  • All will sense what's happening

2. Purpose of the gathering

  • Two groups

  • Gathered as nations, divided as individuals

  • All will sense the purpose and the results of the event

3. Sheep are addressed first

  • The King speaks directly to them

  • "You who are blessed by my Father"

  • Element of surprise

  • Destiny of the sheep

4. Goats are addressed next

  • The King speaks directly to them

  • "You who are cursed"

  • Element of surprise

  • Destiny of the goats

5. Applications

Benediction

Revelation 1:7 : Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him.

Matthew 24:42: Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

Grace to all who love his appearing. Amen.

Steve Estes

Steve Estes has been senior pastor at Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, Pennsylvania, for over thirty-five years. 

Steve’s books and other writings began with his longtime friendship with Joni Eareckson Tada. As teenagers, they grappled with why God allowed Joni’s paralysis in a swimming accident in the Chesapeake Bay. Steve left for college . . . they kept in touch . . . she liked the style of his letters. When her 1976 autobiography Joni spawned thousands of reader responses, she asked Steve to join her in crafting a follow-up. The result was A Step Further in 1978.

Later, Wycliffe Bible Translators commissioned Steve to write the biography of former college friend Chet Bitterman, a Wycliffe linguist who was kidnapped and murdered by political terrorists in Colombia in 1981. Other books and articles followed, including When God Weeps (with Joni) and A Better December (a giveaway book for non-Christian friends at Christmas.)

Steve was educated at Westminster Theological Seminary, Columbia Bible College and Jerusalem University College in Israel. He has taught homiletics at Westminster and is a board member of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation.

But Steve would say his most significant life achievement was persuading college classmate Verna Stoltzfus to marry him in 1974.  They now have eight children and more grandchildren than can fit in a van.

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