Matthew - Meeting With Christ

Matthew 21.28-32 | The parable of the two sons

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Many Christians are familiar with this verse in James 1.22. ‘Don’t just listen. Do it.’ It summarizes well the parable that we are going to study today. In the Parable of...

Matthew 21.33-46 | The parable of the wicked tenants

by Dr Yves I-Bing Cheng

The Parable of the Wicked Tenants has the characteristic of being both historical and predictive. It is historical because Jesus told the history of Israel as God sees it. It is predictive because the Lord revealed precisely what was going to happen to Israel: the...

Matthew 22.1-14 | The parable of the wedding feast (1)

by Dr Yves I-Bing Cheng

The Parable of the Wedding Feast is the third in a series of three and forms the climax to the Parable of the Two Sons (Matthew 21.28-32) and of the Wicked Tenants (Matthew 21.33-46). It contains the good news of an open invitation to salvation. But as we will see, it...

Matthew 22.1-14 | The parable of the wedding feast (2)

by Dr Yves I-Bing Cheng

We will continue today our study of the Parable of the Wedding Feast. We concluded the lesson the last time by saying that the believer must wear the appropriate clothes at the wedding feast. He must wear a wedding garment. Without that garment, there can be no...

Matthew 22.23-32 | He is not the God of the dead

by Dr Yves I-Bing Cheng

The Sadducees were a political party of priestly and aristocratic tendency which became relatively influential in Israel at the time of Jesus. They had one particularity: they denied the idea of a life after death. The Sadducees accepted only the first five books of...