This sermon for the Second-Last Sunday of the Church Year explores Christ’s teaching on the Final Judgment from Matthew 25:31–46. Scripture teaches that every person will stand before the judgment seat of Christ, where nothing is hidden and all is revealed—every word, thought, and work.

Here the Lord exposes two deadly errors: the belief that works do not matter because salvation is by grace, and the belief that works justify us before God. Christ overturns both. He insists that good works necessarily follow living faith, yet He also shows that the righteous are welcomed into the kingdom not because of their merit, but because He Himself has clothed them in His righteousness and reckons His works to them.

This message calls listeners to repentance, to renewed confidence in Christ’s mercy, and to the joyful, Spirit-worked life of love that flows from faith. Recorded at St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church (UAC) in Magnolia, Texas.

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