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Listen remains standing as we read God's
Word From The Gospel of Saint Luke,
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Chapter Twelve, beginning at verse thirty
one, through Verse Fifty Three. The
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Gospel of Saint Luke, Chapter Twelve, beginning at verse thirty one through Verse
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Fifty Three. Please listen to the
word of God Luke Twelve thirty one,
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but rather seeky the Kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added.
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Unto you. Fear not, little
flock, for it is your father's
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good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell that Ye have and give alms.
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Provide yourself bags which wax not old. A treasure in the heavens that
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fight faileth not where no thief approacheth
nor moth corrupteth. For where your treasure
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is, there will your heart be
also. Let Your Loins be girded about
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and your lights burning, and Ye
yourselves like on demand, that wait for
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the their Lord when he will return
from the wedding, that when he come
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at the Knocketh, they may open
unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants
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whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching verily. I say
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into you that he shall gird himself
and make them to sit down to meet
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and will come forth and serve them. And he shall come in the second
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watch or come in the third watch
and find them. So blessed are those
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servants. And this know that if
the good men of the House had known
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what hour the thief would come,
he would have watched and not suffered his
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house to be broken through. Be
therefore ready also, for the son of
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Man Cometh at an hour when you
think not. Then Peter said, unto
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him, Lord Speakest Thou, this
parable unto us or even to all.
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And the Lord said, who,
then, is the faithful and wise servant
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whom his Lord shall make ruler over
his household to give them their portion of
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meat in due season? Blessed is
that servant whom his Lord, when he
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cometh, shall find him so doing. Of a truth, I say and
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to you, that he will make
him rule or over all that he hath.
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But and if that servant say in
his heart, my Lord de Layeth
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his coming and shall begin to beat
the maid servants, are the men servants
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and the maidens, and to eat
and drink and to be drunken, the
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Lord of that servant will come in
a day when he looketh not for him
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in an hour when he is not
aware, and will cut him in Sunder
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and will appoint him his portion with
the unbelievers. And that servant which knew
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his Lord's will and had prepared not
himself, neither did according to his will,
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shall be beaten with many stripes.
But he that knew not and to
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commit things worthy of stripes shall be
beaten with few stripes. For unto whom
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seven much is given of him,
shall much be required, and to whom
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men have committed much of him.
They will ask the more I am come
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to send fire in the earth.
And what if I if it? What
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if I if it be already kindled? But I have a baptism to be
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baptized with, and how I am
straighted till it be accomplished. Suppose,
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Ye, that I am come to
give peace on earth. I tell you
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nay, but rather division. From
from henceforth there shall be five in one
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house, divided three against two and
two against three. The father shall be
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divided against the son, and the
son against the father, and the mother
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against the daughter, and the daughter
against the mother, the mother in law
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against her daughterinlaw and the daughter in
law against her mother in law. Here's
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the reading of God's holy word.
Let's pray. We ask you now,
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a Lord, to apply this word
to our hearts and to our lives.
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Lord, you have spoken to us
through your son, Jesus Christ. We
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ask you now that we would be
attentive to all that he has to say
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this. We pray in Jesus name. A man, please be seated.
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Are you ready? Amen. You
know how it is. You Get up
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in the morning, your mother says, kids, are you ready? And
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the kids are like my wife works
a long from where I work, and
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so well, first of all she's
mad at me about that, and it's
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not my fault. But but I
sometimes wake up early and it's time for
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her to get up and I'm so
careful because I know she wants to be
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ready, but she doesn't want me
to wake her up. But but if
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I don't wake her up, she'll
yell it. How can I win in
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this? So very gently I say, dear, dear, it's that time,
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and she's like, but are you
ready? I dare say, and
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this is a little prejudicial on my
point of from my point of view,
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and you can yell at me later, that not now, after the service.
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Most of you folks are probably the
kinds of people that get ready on
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time. I say that's prejudicial because, well, most of you made it
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here on time. And I've been
to weddings in other communities. I will
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not spell out which communities, Mexicans, but I won't say which ones.
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And I've been performing the wedding ceremony
and two hours after the wedding was supposed
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to be again there's one family and
me and that was it. Oh,
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you give me these looks. It's
it's kind of like a the bride can't
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get there until everybody and nobody wants
to get the end. It drives me
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nuts. But are you ready?
A lot of people, when they have
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something really important, they're going to
get there on time. I was here
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this morning at a thirty. Somebody's
going to say that was too earlyist I
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had to be here they thirty because
I cannot remember ever in my life being
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late for worship service. I'm that
old and I can I can remember one
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Sunday where, because of illness,
I did not go to a worship service
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in my life. I cannot remember
being late for worship service. I'm not
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boasting, but I have priorities.
If you're applying for a job and you
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have a job interview, are you
going to get there on time? Are
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you going to be a few minutes
fashionably late? You're going to be ready,
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you're going to be on time.
I want to talk to you about
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being ready for the coming of the
Lord, and some people would argue that
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verse thirty one was not the place
to stop, but I think that's a
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very appropriate place. Our Savior says
in verse Thirty One of Luke, Chapter
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Twelve, seek first the Kingdom of
God, and all these things shall be
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added onto you know he's already spoken
about that, but he says some more
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things about that. He tells us
that in this present life we shouldn't worry.
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A lot of people aren't ready for
the future because they're so busy worrying
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about what's happening now. They think, all I've got to do this,
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and I've got to do this and
I've got to do this. I talk
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to people about trusting in Jesus Christ
us, and I tell them that now,
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right now, is the day of
salvation, that there may be no
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tomorrow for them, and I hear
all of their excuses and they've got to
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do this they've got to get their
family in order. They've they've got to
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give up this habit. They've got
a I'm sorry, the day of salvation
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is today, and they say,
but I'd love to, but you know,
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I'm I talked to criminals and I
tell them you need to come to
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Jesus, and they say I'm a
criminal, I steal for a living,
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and I say fine, stop repent
and come to Jesus. And they say
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how am I going to support my
family? And I say I don't know,
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but I know the Lord will provide
a way. And they say,
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well, as soon as I get
enough money then I'll give it up.
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You See, what they're saying is
I'm going to be ready someday, but
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I can't be ready today. and
Jesus says garbage about that. He says
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it's ridiculous. He says, fear
not, little flock, for it's your
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father's good pleasure to give you the
kingdom again. Notice how our savior speaks
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of the father in this passage.
He's already spoken of God, the father,
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as the father. It's not a
common term in the scriptures it is
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used, but he uses the term
father because he wants us to assure us
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that that our father will care for
us. But then he goes on to
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say it's the father's good pleasure to
give you the kingdom. Now you could
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hear a hundred sermons about the Kingdom
of God, but just think of it
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in a very limited way. I
was visiting at the at a home this
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afternoon and there's a little I think
she's a four year old girl, and
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her grandmother asked her what she wanted
to be when she grew up, and
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she said, I want to be
a queen in a far away land.
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And we're all thinking this is America, there's no king or queen or all.
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But wait a second. We are
kings and Queens and princes and princesses
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because we are members of the Kingdom
of God. It's the father's good will
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to give you the kingdom, and
this is a deliberate statement on the part
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of our Savior. Why are we
worried if he's going to give us a
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kingdom? We make fun perhaps,
of a four year old girl who would
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say she wanted to be a queen, and yet this is the promise of
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our Savior. But then the next
thing he says seems almost contradictory. In
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verse thirty three, our Savior says, sell what you have, give alms,
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provide yourselves with bags which wax,
not old, a treasure in the
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heavens. That fails not where no
thief approaches nor moth corrupts. What does
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he saying? He's saying that people
who provide for themselves in this life really
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aren't thinking about the future. Do
you ever meet somebody who's clever? Did
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you ever meet somebody WHO's clever?
Sometimes those people bother me. You know
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they're small art, but you wonder
what are they really up to? What
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do they really want? You know
they they say, Hey, Steve,
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I'd like to help you out,
and I think to myself, sure,
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I'm sorry. The people on emails, they're not very clever. You know
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you have an inheritance. Just send
me a thousand dollars to to the ivory
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quote. That's not for the clever
people are the ones who come up personally
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to you and tell you that your
friend and want to offer you something and
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and and you won't have to give
them anything and and they do this because
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they think they by being clever,
that they can get something from you.
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Want to know what the cleverest thing
to do is the cleverest thing to do
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is to give up everything that you
have and serve the Lord. Oh,
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I don't want to call it clever, it's the smartest thing. If you
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are, this going to sound really
contradictory, if you are very self centered,
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if you're very greedy, if all
you care about is yourself, then
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what you should do is go and
sell all that you have and give it
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to the poor and follow Jesus Christ, because in the end, look what
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he says. He says provide for
yourselves, bags which wax, not old,
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a treasure in the heavens. That
fails not. You see, the
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only real treasure, the only thing
that really matters, is if we give
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up ourselves and follow Jesus Christ,
and and everything else is just temporary stuff.
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In my neighborhood there's a condominium and
I was thinking about buying it for
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one of the people in our church
and then renting it to them because they
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are in desperate straits. And then
I found out there's a little catch and
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the condominium is built on least land, which means you don't own the you
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may own the condominium until the least
expires, and then poof, it all
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disappears. That's exactly what the wealth
of this world is like. Everything that
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we have, one day, poof
it will disappear. So our Savior says
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where your treasure is there, where
your heart be also. Is he talking
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about money? Perhaps he is talking
in some ways about money, but more
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importantly, he's talking about your treasure. What's really important to you, what
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really matters to you? Are you
ready? You got here at six,
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or at least by six fifteen when
the singing was over, because that was
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important to you. There are people
out in the world doing all sorts of
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things that are impoor into them because
that's where their treasure is. It's not
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really so much about money as it
is about where your heart is. But
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our savior wants us to be ready. So look what he says in Verse
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Thirty Five. Let Your Loins be
girded about and your lights be burning.
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When is the last time that somebody
walked up to you and said let your
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Loins be girded? Now? I
looked in the different translations, including the
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one that you guys have in the
back there, and I look for a
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better translation. I'm not sure there
is a better translation it's a really odd
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phrase. What does it mean?
It means to tighten up your belt and
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pull your pants up and get ready
to run. And it's not use that
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often in scriptures, but it is
used in first kings chapter eighteen. You
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know the story of First Kings Chapter
Eighteen. The profits of bail called on
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their God to to enable them to
to burn up their sacrifice. They cut
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themselves and and you know, good
old Elijah said, what's the matter with
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your God? is He busy,
you know, is he off on a
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trip or something? And and the
the profits of bail failed and and God
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and His mercy sent down fire from
heaven and burned up Elijah's sacrifice and even
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the stones of the altar. Elijah
punish those profits appropriately. And then we
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read that the hand of the Lord
came upon Elijah and he girded up his
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loins and he ran ahead of Ahab
to the entrance of Jess Reel. What
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is happening? Well, Ahab and
his faith in these false idols has been
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defeated and Elijah W wants to get
to jess reel before ahabs. So he
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girds up his loins and and though
Ahab has a Horse Elijah is able to
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beat him to the city because he
runs there with with all of his effort,
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with with everything that is in him. To gird up your loins is
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to get ready to run and then
to run. Okay, we read another
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example of this in First Peter,
Chapter One, verse thirteen, and this
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is a really esoteric example. In
First Peter Chapter One, verse thirteen,
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he says, therefore, gird up
the loins of your mind, be sober
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and rest your hope fully upon the
grace that is to be brought to you
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at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
When he says gird up the loins of
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your mind, he's using one of
the most mixed metaphors of scriptures that I
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can think of. He's talking about
running, but he's not talking about running
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as much as he's talking about get
your mind ready to follow Jesus Christ.
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He says, be sober and rest
your hope fully upon the grace that is
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to be brought to you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ, and this fits
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in perfectly with what our savior saying. And Look Chapter Twelve of the lay
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aside distractions and focus like a runner
who's determined to get there and then run
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to the end. Now what is
our savior saying here? In Luke,
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Chapter Twelve, he says let your
loins be gird at about and your let
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your lights be burning. Sometimes we
forget the situation that Jesus lived in.
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Nowadays, when we walk into a
house, if it's dark, we flip
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the switch, it goes on,
everything's fine. In the old days they
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had these these little lamps. It's
kind of like, I hate to confess
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it, kind of like a Laddin's
lamp, and they had oil in these
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little lamps and then they they they
had a wick and but they didn't have
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matches where you could just strike a
match or something and light it. They
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had to use basically a tinder box
and the process of lighting it wasn't easy.
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You say to yourself, well,
I could do that. You could
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if the lights were on. Try
doing it in the dark. It's not
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easy. What does he saying when
he says let your lights be burning?
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He's saying your light should always be
on. You should always have that the
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light of the Gospel burning in your
life. That the analogy, is like
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having one of those little oil lamps, but you wouldn't let it go out,
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you would keep it filled with oil
so that so that when when the
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time came, you'd be ready.
And so he says in Verse Thirty Six.
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And you yourselves be like an amen
that wait for their Lord when a
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he will return from the wedding,
that when he comes and knocks, that
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they may open unto him immediately.
This is very analogous to the example that
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we find of the Virgins in Matthew, Chapter Twenty Five, versus one through
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thirteen. It's almost the same,
except here it's it's men instead of women
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that are waiting for their Lord.
He's coming from the wedding. And what
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are they going to be doing?
Our Savior says in verse Thirty Seven.
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Blessed are those servants. When the
Lord comes, shall find them watching.
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Dear brothers and sisters, are you
ready? Are you ready for the coming
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of the Lord? If the Lord
should come tonight, would you be surprised?
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I don't mean surprised in the sense
that we would all be surprised that
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it was this particular night, but
would you be ready? When you get
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your kids up in the morning,
do they walk out to the car and
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and in their pajamas? I hope
not they're ready. When you come to
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church on Sunday, are your girls
still brushing their hair and and you're saying
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girls, time to go, and
they're saying, but mom, we just
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got up. I hope not.
Dear brothers and sisters, to be ready
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means I'm ready to go. If
Jesus should come tonight, would you turn
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to him and say, Lord,
take me, or would you be saying
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to yourself, why didn't I get
myself ready? Those servants who are waiting
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for their master, they were waiting
constantly, and it look what Jesus says
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in Verse Thirty Eight, if they
shall come in the second watch or come
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in the third watch and find them. So blessed are those servants. Watches
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in the Roman Empire were divided into
the watch usually talking about the times that
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Roman soldiers and the second and the
Third Watch. We're especially difficult because they
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were the evening watches. I've been
in the army, I had to do
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guard duty. Of all the things
that I did in the army, it
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was the most boring. You'd be
out in the middle of nowhere, holding
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your rifle, knowing that nobody was
going to come by, saying to yourself
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I could lie down go to sleep
and nobody would find me and nobody would
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care. And I never did that
because you would get in so much trouble
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and it was also just not what
we did. Our job was to March
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back and forth and back and forth
and wait for nobody to come. Well,
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that's not the way it is for
us as Christians. Sometimes it gets
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boring. Sometimes we say to ourselves, like in Second Peter, Chapter three,
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well, but the Lord's not going
to come, he's he's just,
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he's just not here. But the
fact is the Lord is coming. The
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question is, are you going to
be ready? Then Jesus changes the analogy.
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He uses a different one and he
says, know this, that if
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the good men of the House and
knowing what hour the thief would come,
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he would have watched and would not
have suffered his house to be broken into.
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You, we're moving to the middle
of nowhere, Consho Arizona. I'm
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going to be ready for the guy
who tries to break into my house,
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because where really are? In the
middle of nowhere, and you can call
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one one, but, as the
saying goes, when seconds matter, there
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be there in minutes. You know
it's you got to be ready when somebody's
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going to break into your house.
Imagine that that a thief called you up
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and said, yeah, I'm the
Guy Who's going to rob your house.
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I'll be there about thirty, a
minute or two before after, if that's
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okay. What would you do?
He first of all, you'd probably laugh,
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and then you'd say that's that's dumb, and and then you well,
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maybe you'd go and see if the
doors and windows were all locked, and
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maybe you check the phone or look
at yourself and make sure that it was
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charged up so that if we really
did show up, he'd no thief would
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be that that's stupid to call ahead
of time, and yet there are people
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like that today. They think that
Jesus is going to call ahead of time.
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They think that they're going to get
a second chance. There's a large
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organization. I get in trouble if
I call it a pentecostal group. It
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really is, but it's called the
Mormons, and I've talked a lot with
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Mormon missionaries and had them eat at
my house, had talked with them,
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let them do their little presentations and
and always ask them if I believe in
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Jesus with all my heart. Am
I going to go to paradise and they
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say well, no, you have
to be baptized as a Mormon. And
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then I say and if I die
without having been baptized as a Mormon,
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am I going to get a second
chance? And they say yes, you
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will, and then I say good. And so why should I become a
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mormon? And they sort of look
at each other and they say, well,
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it's a better life, and you
know. And I say, but
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I can still go to paradise if
I am not baptized. Then this life
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as a Mormon, right? And
they say yes, because it's part of
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their theology and they have to tell
you that. And they say well,
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and then I say, well,
I guess I'm not going to be Baptist
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as a Mormonum, and they just
sort of look at me like, guys,
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the Mormons will give you a second
chance, maybe three or four.
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The Lord doesn't. If you look
at the end of this passage, he
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says, our Savior says, suppose
you that I've come to give peace on
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earth. I tell you no,
but rather division. From henceforth there shall
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be five in one house, divided
three against two and two against three.
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The father shall be divided against the
son and the son against the father.
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The fact is that Jesus is dividing
the world today. They're really only two
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groups, those who trust in him
and those who don't. And you can
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say to yourself, well, there
there must be another chance. But the
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Lord says in Verse Forty. Be
therefore ready also, for the son of
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man comes at an hour when you
think not. I'm going to get in
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trouble for this. I step on
toes all the time and that's just too
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bad. What does he say,
Peter asked. Are you talking about US
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too? Are you talking about everybody? and Jesus says who is the Wise
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and faithful servant? The Why is
and faithful servant is the one who is
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ready when the Lord shall come.
Dear brothers and sisters, look what it
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says here in the word of God. We don't know when Jesus will come.
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I'm sorry, I I don't have
all this millennial stuff in the coming
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of Jesus and eschatology all figured out. The one thing I do know from
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the Holy Scriptures is that Jesus clearly
teaches that no one knows when he is
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coming. Look at Matthew, Chapter
Twenty four verses forty two through forty four.
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What does he say? Watch,
therefore, for you do not know
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what our your Lord is coming.
But know this that if the master of
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the House had known what hour the
thief would come, he would have watched
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and would not have allowed his house
to be broken into. Therefore, you
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also be ready, for the son
of man is coming at an hour you
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do not expect. Look at Mark
Chapter Thirteen, versus thirty three through thirty
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five. Take Heed, watch and
pray, for you do not know when
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the time is. It's like a
man going to a far country who left
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his house and gave authority to his
servants and to each his work, and
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commanded the door keeper to watch.
Watch, therefore, for you do not
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know when the master of the House
is coming, in the evening, at
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midnight, at the crowing of the
rooster, or in the morning. Look
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at Second Peter, Chapter Three,
verse ten. But the day of the
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Lord will come as a thief in
the night, in which the heavens will
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pass away with a great noise and
the elements will melt with fervent heat.
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Both the earth and the works that
in it will be burned up. Look
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at acts chapter one, verse seven
and he, that is Jesus said to
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them. It is not for you
to know times and seasons which the father
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has put in his own authority.
Look at first Thessalonians, Chapter Five,
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versus one through three. But concerning
the times and the seasons, brethren,
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you have no need that I should
write to you, for you yourselves know
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perfectly that the day of the Lord
so comes as a thief in the night.
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When they say peace and set safety, then sudden destruction comes upon upon
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them as labored pains upon a pregnant
woman, and they shall not escape.
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And finally, Look at Matthew,
Chapter Twenty Five, verse thirteen. Watch,
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therefore, for you know neither the
day nor the hour in which the
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son of man is coming. I
listened to all this preaching about the last
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days, and people so misunderstanding.
When the disciples asked Jesus what is the
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sign of his coming, he told
them that there will be wars and rumors
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of wars, but the top.
But the end is not yet. People
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Think, Oh, while the wars
and rumors of wars, these are signs
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of his coming, and they are, but the end is not yet.
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We don't know when our savior may
come. We are blessed if we are
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paying attention and he gives us a
warning in verse forty five. But it
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but, and and but, and. If that servant say in his heart,
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my Lord de Laieth is coming,
should begin to beat the men,
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servants and maidens and to eat and
drink and be drunken. The Lord of
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that servant will come in a day
when he looketh not for him and an
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hour when he is not aware,
and he will cut him in Sunder and
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will appoint his portion with the unbelievers. We need to be ready for the
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coming of our Savior. Don't get
ready some other day. Don't say to
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yourself, I'm going to get ready. I'm a school teacher, wasn't till
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last Tuesday, and I tell my
kids to do things and I have such
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good kids. Most of them do
it you right away. But I one
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child, one student, who says
I'm going to. I'm sorry, I
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don't understand that. Okay, I
grew up in a different time, in
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a different household than all that,
but when when the teacher says do something,
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you don't say I'm going to,
what you do is you do it.
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Dear brothers and sisters, our Savior
is warning us that when he says
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he's coming, get ready. Don't
say I'm going to get ready, do
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it now. But our savior is
also very kind, because he wants us
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to prepare ourselves. He gives a
warning to the unfaithful servants that they will
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be judged, but then he tells
them to prepare themselves. Look back at
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Verse Forty Two. Who, then, is that faithful and why? Servant
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whom his Lord shall make ruler over
his household to give them their portion of
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meat and due season? Blessed is
that servant whom his Lord, when he
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cometh, shall find him so doing. What should you be doing when you're
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getting ready for the coming of the
Lord? It's not complicated. You trust
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in him and follow him. Someone
asked Martin Luther. I looked up this
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the citation. Lot a debate about
it. I'm not going to go through
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the debate. Somebody asked Martin Luther
if somebody told you that Jesus was coming
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to day, what would you do? And he said I would go out
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and plant a tree. And they
thought that was a silly answer. But
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you really have to think about what
he meant. First of all, he
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didn't believe anybody knew when Jesus was
coming. So somebody's prophecy that Jesus was
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coming would not indicate that they actually
knew that Jesus is coming. The second
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thing that it indicates is that Martin
Luther actually believed that when Jesus was coming,
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on the day that Jesus was coming, that Jesus should find Martin Luther
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doing something productive, not wasting his
life, not not sitting around and wondering
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about what to do, but rather
serving him. In another way of looking
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at it, and this comes also
for Martin Luther, is that he was
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saying I'm looking forward to the day
when when Jesus will come, and then
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tell that day I want him to
see me faithfully producing things in a way
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that brings glory to him. How
long does it take a tree to grows?
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I grow fruit trees and it takes
years before they produce fruit, and
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yet we plant them in the in
the eager expectation that they will bear fruit.
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We do so as well in the
Kingdom of God. We serve the
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Lord Jesus Christ with all that is
in us and and when someone says to
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us, well, where is this
Jesus, we say to them I'm getting
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ready for his coming. And when? When, they say to us.
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And when is that? We say, I don't know. But what I
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do know, that is that he
is coming. In Second Peter, Chapter
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Three, verses three and four,
we read these words knowing this, that
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there shall come in the last day, scoffers walking after their own lusts and
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saying, where is the promise of
his coming? For since the fathers fell
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asleep, all things continue as they
were from the beginning of the creation.
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There are people who will say,
Hey, ever since the beginning of the
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creation, it's always been the same, and and then Peter Warns them for
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this. They are willingly ignorant of
that, by the Word of God,
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the heavens were of old and they
are standing out of the water and in
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the water whereby the world that was, that what then was being overflowed with
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water perished. He uses the example
of Noah's flood and he says, look
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at this, it's not been always
the same since the day of the creation.
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Once before God wiped out everything upon
the face of the earth. And
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then he says in Verse Seven,
but the Heavens and the earth, which
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are now by the same word,
are kept in store, reserved under fire,
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against the Day of Judgment and perdition
of ungodly men, is warning us
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that the Lord is going to come
and he's going to judge the world in
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equity. And then he says,
but beloved, be not ignorant of this
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one thing, that one day,
what the Lord is as a thousand years
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and as a thousand and a thousand
years, as one day, the Lord
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is not slack concerning his promise,
as some men count slackness, but as
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long suffering towards us, not willing
that any should perish, but that all
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should come to repentance. And then
he says in verse ten, but the
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day of the Lord will come as
a thief in the night, in which
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the heavens shall pass away with a
great noise and the elements shall melt with
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fervent heat, and the earth also, and the works that are therein shall
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be burned up. Dear brothers and
sisters, are you ready for this,
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looking for and hastening under the coming
of the day of the Lord, where
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in the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved and the elements shall
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melt with fervent heat. But what
does he tell us to do? Nevertheless,
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we, according to his promise,
Look for New Heavens and a new
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earth. Wherein dwelleth righteousness, so
he tells us in verse fourteen. Wherein?
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wherefore, beloved, seeing that you
look for such things, be diligent
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that you may be found in him, in peace, without spot and blameless.
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What should we be doing if Jesus
Christ came tonight? I would not
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be a shamed. I am here
in his house worshiping him. I am
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ready for his coming. Are you
ready? My hope is not in the
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fact that I'm a preacher. Preachers
need the Lord just as much, if
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not more, than anybody else.
I'm ready because I trust in the Lord
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Jesus Christ as my savior. My
hope is not built in anything else than
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Jesus, Blood and righteousness. Dear
brothers and sisters, what are we hoping
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in? Are you ready? Are
you ready for the coming of our great
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God and Savior, Jesus Christ?
We get ready for all sorts of things.
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We get ready for school, we
get ready for work, we get
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ready for jobs, we for a
job interview, we get ready to go
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on a vacation, we get ready
with great anticipation for all sorts of things.
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Do you have that same kind of
anticipation, that eagerness to see Jesus
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Come? They say. I've read
historical reports. I don't know all the
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details and I'm not sure everything I
hear is true, but they say that
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in the year one thousand, lots
of people went up to mountain tops and
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they were waiting for the coming of
our Savior and when our savior didn't come,
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some of them went down and we're
really disappointed. They say that in
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eighteen, forty three, eighteen forty
six, a bunch of order today called
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seventh adventists, went up to mountain
tops and waited for the coming of the
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Lord and he didn't come. I've
heard that in one thousand, nine hundred
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and ninety four, some followers of
this sky on the radio thought that Jesus
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was going to come and when they
didn't come they were terribly disappointed. Well,
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I wasn't around for the first two
events, I was for the third
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and I wasn't in disappointed, because
Jesus is coming. The promise of our
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Savior is just as true now as
it was when he gave it to his
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disciples, and the promise is from
the lips of our Savior and he keeps
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his promises to us, dear brothers
and sisters, Jesus will come and when
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he comes, we will bow before
him and we will praise his name.
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I know we're Orthodox Presbyterians, so
we think Orthodox Presbyterians are going to do
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that, and many of us will, but they are going to be people
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from all sorts of churches. Yes, they must trust in Jesus. I'm
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not talking about unbelievers, but there
will be people from many sorts of Churches,
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many faithful churches, and many people, I'm afraids, also from unfaithful
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churches who still hold to the name
of Jesus Christ. There will be people
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from every race and nation and people
upon the faith, the ears, from
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every epic and history, from places
we never even imagine that there were Christians,
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and yet people who trusted in Jesus
Christ. And we will gather before
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his throne and we will fall before
him and we will worship him, and
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that is the day that you should
be ready for. Are you ready?
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We worry about getting on our clothes, we worry about calming our hair,
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if we have it. We we
we worry about about whether we're clean,
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and I'm not saying we shouldn't be
concerned about these things, but there's going
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to be people with rags, people
with uncombed hair, people with dirty hands.
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We were come before the Lord and
Savior, Jesus Christ, on that
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final day because they trust in him. Are you ready for that day?
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Let's pray
