{"id":535,"date":"2026-04-07T06:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=535"},"modified":"2026-04-07T06:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:05:22","slug":"matthew-program-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Matthew (Program #55)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bible_light.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>Matthew (Program #55) &#8211; The Kingdom Reward and the Parable of the Kingdom Reward<\/p>\n<p>A rich young man who desired to do something in order to receive eternal life approached the Lord Jesus about this matter.\u00a0\u00a0 But the Lord&#8217;s word to him caused him to leave in utter discouragement at the impossibility that he could ever meet such requirement.\u00a0 Jesus then use this occasion to review the matter not of salvation but of the reward awaiting those who follow Him into the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The reward of the kingdom is NOT our salvation and the hope of our salvation.\u00a0 This is something altogether different many believers have missed&#8230;<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Matthew (Program #55)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2026-04-07T06:05:22-05:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Matthew (Program #55) - The Kingdom Reward and the Parable of the Kingdom Reward\r\n\r\nA rich young man who desired to do something in order to receive eternal life approached the Lord Jesus about this matter.\u00a0\u00a0 But the Lord's word to him caused him to ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Matthew\/Matt_55.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"15.0\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7143\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Matthew\/Matt_55.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7143','http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Matthew\/Matt_55.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Matthew\/Matt_55.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?powerpress_pinw=535-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Matthew\/Matt_55.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Matt_55.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Religion--Spirituality-Podcas\/Bible-Study-Radio-p959109\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew (Program #55) &#8211; The Kingdom Reward and the Parable of the Kingdom Reward A rich young man who desired to do something in order to receive eternal life approached the Lord Jesus about this matter.\u00a0\u00a0 But the Lord&#8217;s word to him caused him to leave in utter discouragement at the impossibility that he could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4],"tags":[27,25,26,29,34,112,7809,7807],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9796,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/9796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}