Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute. And joining me is Dr. Michael

Barber, who is a professor of scripture here at the August Institute. And we're going to continue

our ongoing Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew. So last time we completed Chapter 24, which was

a rather heavy theological treatise of Jesus speaking about the end of Jerusalem, the end of the

temple, and the end of the world. And now he's moving

into chapter 25 where he talks about our own personal testing and trials at the end of our life,

how we will be judged, and how he was going to separate the sheep from the goats, the wise

from the foolish, the faithful from the unfaithful. And so there's quite a lot to cover here

in Chapter 25. Right. I know, I know, you know, a lot of Tim students when he's teaching,

they're really anxious about that final exam. And if they just had the study questions ahead of time,

if they knew those questions ahead of time, they'd really study hard for them. But here we're

given the study questions for our ultimate final

exam, the final judgment. Jesus is going to tell us in this chapter exactly what we are going

to be judged on. Yeah, if my students had the exam, a lot fewer of them would fail. And so hopefully,

by us sharing the final exam of Jesus, a lot fewer of us will fail. And so hopefully by us sharing the final exam of Jesus,

a lot fewer of us will fail on that last day, right? That's right. And so in Matthew 25,

we have a theme being picked up in Matthew 25 that was important in Matthew 24, right? So we saw

how in Matthew 24, there were really two parts to Jesus' sermon, right?

He's talking about what is going to happen on that day when the temple is going to be destroyed,

and then he says, heaven and earth will pass away, but of that day, no one knows the day or the hour,

and then he says, watch and be ready, right?

And so now he's going to tell some parables that illustrate that need for watchfulness,

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