WORD PICTURES | GOD'S KINDNESS & SEVERITY

1. Word Pictures

a) The Sermon on the Mount is rich in word pictures that we could regard as parables. However there are a dozen other parables in the sermon on the mount that are worthy to take note of (Matthew chapters 5-7).

2. God's Kindness And Severity

a) The parables of Jesus portray God as having a Fatherly love for us, and being long-suffering toward us, even though we may be erring children. On the other side, the parables illustrate the severity and wrath of God in the coming judgment, at which all who have not responded to his mercy will be cast out from his presence.

i) Hungry and thirsty (Matthew 5:6).

ii) Birds of the air (Matthew 6:26).

iii) Lilies of the field (Matthew 6:28-30).

iv) A bun or a fish for your son (Matthew 7:9-11).

v) The eye or hand that offends (Matthew 5:29-30).

vi) Two gates and two roads (Matthew 7:13-14).