Naked and You Clothed Me
September 27th, 2011 | 
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When we begin to read Matthew 25 concerning the gathering of the nations Jesus tells the righteous that they have given him meat when he was hungred and that he was a stranger and they took him in: Naked and you clothed me. Their reply was to ask when Lord did we do these things? My thought is just as the sheep and goats are a metaphor’s of the righteous and unrighteous nations that would be the case as well for hunger, thirsty, stranger, naked, sick, and in prison.
Metaphor’s
- Hunger: Man shall not live by bread alone(Matthew 4:4), I am the Bread of Life(John 6:35), Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness (Matthew 5:6).
- Thirsty: Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness (Matthew 5:6), But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again (John 4:14)
- Stranger: Go ye to the loss sheep of Israel (Matthew 10:6) Go ye to the highways and hedges and compel to come in, that my house maybe filled (Luke 14:23)
- Naked: Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and they see his shame (Rev.16:15),…white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed and the shame of they nakedness do not appear(Rev.3:18)
- Sick: They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick (Matthew 9:12)
- Prison: But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.(Gal.3:22), Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.(Gal.3:23)
So there no reason to read these deeds as being literally filled as good deeds, but that we should undertsand them as spreading of the seeds of God, I mean spreading the good news of Christ to the losted.
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