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Matthew 21:31

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“Which of the two sons did what his father wanted?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes will enter the kingdom of God ahead of you.

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When all the people, including the tax collectors, heard Jesus’ words, they agreed that God’s way was right, because they’d all been baptized by John.

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven.

The Lord isn’t slow to keep his promise, not slow in the way some people understand it. Instead, he’s being patient with you. He doesn’t want anyone to be destroyed. He wants everyone to turn away from their sins.

When the law was introduced, sin got worse, because now people were doing things that they knew were wrong. But when sin got worse, God poured out an even greater abundance of grace.

We know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are governed by the law. Its purpose is to silence every excuse and hold the whole world accountable to God.

“So those who are last will be first, and those who are first will be last.”

In the past, God didn’t judge people for what they didn’t know, but now he commands all people everywhere to turn away from their sins.

“His master replied, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you worthless slave! So you knew that I’m a hard man? You knew that I take out what I didn’t put in and that I harvest what I didn’t plant?

I tell you, it’s the same in heaven. There’s celebration in heaven over one sinner who turns away from sin.”

Jesus then said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you’ll never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Anyone who does what my heavenly Father wants is my brother and sister and mother.”

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at a tax collection booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him. So Matthew got up and followed him.

“When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that other people will see them. Truly I tell you, that’s all the reward they’ll get.

Truly I tell you, heaven and earth will disappear before the smallest letter disappears from the Law. Not even the smallest mark of a pen will disappear until everything the Law says happens.

If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Even the tax collectors do that.

“Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. That son answered, ‘I will, sir.’ But he didn’t go.

Jesus answered, “Truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they’re born again.”

Jesus answered, “Truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they’re born of water and the Spirit.




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