Subject Lessons – Matthew 19:13-22

As Christ takes the occasion of questioning to reveal the Kingdom of God – this incident in Mat 19 provides a perfect opportunity to identify model citizens or subjects of the Kingdom of Heaven. The message of New Covenant membership continues to surprise His hearers as their notions, impressions, experience, and understanding are challenged by Jesus. In this passage, 2 occasions in the narrative appear back to back providing a helpful lesson in Kingdom civics. Here Christ the sovereign interacts with children and a young, successful, accomplished, learned, polite, wealthy applicant. Opening illustration: The city of Singapore and its dramatic wage gap splits the city into the very rich and the very poor... where might Christ invest the greater part of His Kingdom building capital in a situation such as this?