things in them belong to the Lord Christ. We have been entrusted with different sorts and amounts of this reality (25:15), but what remains the same is that we are to work with them for the honor of our Lord. Third, if Christians forget to look for the return of Christ, we can think that the world does not matter—that the creation does not matter. Matthew’s Gospel does not directly take up this issue, but I think it is a real one. When one’s view of final salvation consists largely (if not exclusively)
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