Humanity Divided into Two Classes

1. Humanity Divided into Two Classes "He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.” (Matthew 12:30)

2. Humanity Divided into Two Classes • Friends/Enemies of the Lord • John 15:14; Romans 5:10

3. John 15:14 “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.” Conversely, if we do not obey Christ, we will be counted as enemies

4. Romans 5:10-11 “For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.”

5. Humanity Divided into Two Classes • Friends/Enemies of the Lord • John 15:14; Romans 5:10 • Servants of Sin/Righteousness • Romans 6:16-18

6. Romans 6:16-18 “Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. 18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.”

7. Humanity Divided into Two Classes • Friends/Enemies of the Lord • John 15:14; Romans 5:10 • Servants of Sin/Righteousness • Romans 6:16-18 • Those in the Narrow/Broad Way • Matthew 7:13-14

8. Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

9. Humanity Divided into Two Classes • Friends/Enemies of the Lord • John 15:14; Romans 5:10 • Servants of Sin/Righteousness • Romans 6:16-18 • Those in the Narrow/Broad Way • Matthew 7:13-14 • The Wise/Foolish • Matthew 7:24-27

10. Matthew 7:24-27 “"Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

11. Humanity Divided into Two Classes • Friends/Enemies of the Lord • John 15:14; Romans 5:10 • Servants of Sin/Righteousness • Romans 6:16-18 • Those in the Narrow/Broad Way • Matthew 7:13-14 • The Wise/Foolish • Matthew 7:24-27 • The Sheep/Goats; Wheat/Tares • Matthew 25:31-33; Matthew 3:12

12. Matthew 25:31-33 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.”

13. Matthew 3:12 “His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

14. The Choice is yours!Which Groupwill you be in? “If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” (John 15:19)