Matthew 19:23-30

Invest Your Life Wisely
Book of the Bible
Matthew
Speaker
Tony Ferguson
Sermon Date

Jesus uses the encounter with the rich young ruler as a teaching opportunity for His disciples. Those that are rich are often viewed as being clearly blessed and favored by God. Having money can make many things in life easier to do, but Jesus tells the disciples that trusting in riches proves to be a great hindrance when it comes to entering the kingdom of God. 

Peter then asks what reward they who had forsaken all to follow Jesus would have to look forward to. Matthew records that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man would sit on the throne of His glory, that those who had followed Him would sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel! Jesus also went on to say that everyone who has counted the cost and followed Him would be recompensed, both in this life and the life to come!

Description of the book of Matthew

As you come to the New Testament the first three books you encounter (Matthew, Mark and Luke) are referred to as the "synoptic" gospels. They are called the "synoptic" gospels because for the most part, they have a "similar view" of the life and ministry of Jesus. Though they account for much of the same narrative regarding the life and ministry of Jesus, they are not identical, nor are they intended to be. They assemble the accounts in different contexts, and contain different amounts of detail, but they are all important. God always seeks to establish a matter on the testimony of 2 or 3 witnesses, so having these 3 synoptic gospels about the life an ministry of the Son of God is in no way redundant.

Matthew’s gospel communicates to us the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus in the fulfillment of the Old Testament Scriptures. From His lineage, to His birth, to His miraculous ministry, to His teachings, to His crucifixion, Matthew will time and time again point out that these things happened “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet…”.