Matthew 25:1-30 "His Kingdom Come in Us While We Wait"

As we finish up on our series of the end times in Matthew, Jesus begins to explain how he wants us to live in light of what he has told his disciples about the end times. Jesus explains in the parables again that no one knows the exact time, that it will be a long time before he comes again, and that he cares very much how we live in the in-between time. We prepare the way for his certain coming by living in anticipation of it through a life walking in good works. We prepare by living in faith, in trust, of what he has said, what he has promised, and how he has told us to live. By loving God, becoming like Christ, living in the Spirit, loving others, proclaiming Christ, and living as a child of the Kingdom of Heaven, which has already begun in us.