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Make Yourself Ready: A Call We Cannot Ignore

Jesus is coming back soon. Full stop.

I know that statement can feel familiar. Many of us have heard it our entire lives. But familiarity can become dangerous. It can cause us to lose urgency. It can lull us into a place where we assume we have more time than we actually do.

In Matthew 25, Jesus gives us a parable that is not meant to comfort us. It is meant to wake us up.

The parable of the ten virgins is not about attendance. It is about preparedness.

The Parable of the Ten Virgins Explained

In Matthew 25:1–13, Jesus describes ten virgins waiting for the bridegroom. Five are wise. Five are foolish.

All ten are in the right place.
All ten are waiting.
All ten fall asleep.

But only five are ready.

The difference is not where they stood. The difference is what they carried.

The wise brought oil. The foolish did not.

When the bridegroom finally came, the foolish realized too late that they were unprepared. And the door was shut.

What the Oil Represents Spiritually

The oil is not symbolic of something external. It is deeply personal.

The oil represents the work of the Holy Spirit in your life. It represents:

• Spiritual nourishment
• Revelation and understanding
• Comfort and guidance

This is not something you can borrow from someone else. You cannot rely on someone else’s relationship with God. You cannot depend on proximity to truth.

You must have your own oil.

Why the Delay Is So Dangerous

Jesus makes it clear that there will be a delay.

That delay is where many people fall asleep.

Not just physically, but spiritually.

The foolish virgins were not anxious. They were not concerned. They were not preparing. They had a false sense of security.

And that is what makes this parable so sobering.

You can be in the right place and still be unprepared.

The Most Important Question You Must Answer

Before we go any further, I want you to ask yourself one question:

Why did I get saved?

If your answer is based on comfort, benefits, or convenience, then your foundation may not be strong enough to sustain urgency.

But if your answer is rooted in the understanding that you were lost, that you needed salvation, and that Jesus paid the price for you, then your life begins to align differently.

That lens determines how you live.

It determines whether you prepare or whether you drift.

The Door Will Shut

One of the most sobering moments in this parable is when the door is shut.

The foolish virgins come back. They knock. They say, “Lord, Lord, open to us.”

And the response is chilling.

“I do not know you.”

This is not about rejection without warning. This is about a lack of preparation when there was still time.

There will come a moment when preparation is no longer possible.

You Cannot Borrow Readiness

The foolish virgins asked the wise to share their oil.

The answer was no.

Not because the wise were unkind. But because readiness cannot be transferred.

No one can prepare for you.

No one can give you their obedience. Their urgency. Their relationship with God.

There is a cost to being ready. And it is a cost each of us must choose to pay.

How to Make Yourself Ready

Making yourself ready is not complicated, but it is intentional.

It requires:

• Time in the Word of God
• A life led by the Holy Spirit
• Obedience to what God has said
• Participation in the body of Christ
• A willingness to reorder your life around eternity

This is not about perfection. It is about posture.

It is about living with the awareness that He is coming again.

A Final Warning and Invitation

Half of the people in this parable were not ready.

They were there. They were close. They were included in the group.

But they were not prepared.

That should stop us.

You still have time. If you are reading this, you still have time.

Make yourself ready.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank you for sending your son
to buy us back, to pay the price that we didn’t deserve to have paid for us. Thank you.

Thank you that you are allowing your son right now to be building and preparing a place for us.

And even in the meantime, all the provision and the price that you paid takes care of us. We’re able to make every provision now because of what you have provided and the price that you paid. There’s nothing that we have needed that you haven’t already provided for us.

Help us to see. God give us eyes to see. Open our blind eyes
that we no longer live for ourselves, but we live righteously, preparing for you.

Let it change us on the inside. Make us true disciples, O God. Help us to be ready that you can present us without spot or wrinkle to the Father.

Holy Spirit, help us by keeping that fire burning in our souls. Help us, God. You are the helper, Holy Spirit. You are the helper. You are the comforter.

Nourish us with your word that we are fed by you, we are clothed by you, and we are set on course by you.

Thank you for what you have done. And we say, as the scripture says, even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus.

Amen.

Full Transcript

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Jesus is coming back soon. Full stop.

Jesus is coming back soon.

And you will fall into either one of two categories. You will either be a wise person or you will be a foolish person. You will either be prepared for that day or you will find yourself completely unprepared for that day. In today’s episode of the Jaime Luce podcast, we are going to be talking from the parable of the 10 virgins, five wise and five foolish found.

in Matthew chapter 25 and verses one to 13. So welcome and thanks for being here today. I want us to dive right in. I have been recently really stirred in my own spirit. I just have felt the urgency and it’s not that, you know, we always

know kind of in the back of our mind that Jesus is coming again and if you were raised in the church at all for any length of time every generation has thought it was their generation and there is an error we fall into it’s actually what I think this parable talks about when it says they all slept we all seem to think we know when this is going to take place and if it doesn’t take place

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When we think, if our bridegroom who is coming is delayed in his coming, we tend to go to sleep. We think, okay, it’s not gonna happen now. And we go to sleep. The sleep isn’t the problem per se. The sleep we will see in a few moments can represent two different things. And

before I get ahead of myself, I want to take us to the book of Revelation. And I just want to read to us what that final celebration, that final marriage will be, because we’re going to be talking about the marriage. And John saw the marriage. He foresaw in his revelation while being in heaven this great event. And he tells us about it. And then we find out

that Jesus has also told us about this. And Jesus said that all of his words, all of his word, this entire Bible, whole, the whole thing that we stand on, what we base this Christian life on, this Bible, he said, my word will never pass away. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will never pass away.

Jesus made sure to tell us that he had to fulfill every word that was spoken about him. Every prophecy, every word meant something and is valid and true. And John the Revelator says in chapter 19 verse six, it says, and I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings saying, hallelujah.

For the Lord God omnipotent reigns. Let us be glad and rejoice and give him glory. For the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready. And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright. For the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, right.

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Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, these are the true sayings of God.

These are the true sayings of God.

We are.

the bride of Christ. We are those who make ourselves ready. That scripture we just read said that the bride made herself ready. And in her making of herself ready, she was made ready by the righteous acts, the clean clothes that she is now able to put on, the bright and linen garments that she is allowed to wear are the righteous acts.

of the saints. So there are some things that are righteous acts that we are to be doing while we make ourselves ready. And so to dive into this further and to understand that there is a marriage coming, there is a great supper coming, and it’s only for those who have been made ready. It’s not for everyone.

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There really is a heaven and a hell. There really is. This isn’t just a, we don’t believe as Christians. The Bible does not teach that there is a heaven for everyone and there is no hell. The Bible doesn’t teach that there is no heaven or hell. The Bible teaches that there is a heaven and there is a hell. And whenever he teaches about hell, he says there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

I don’t want to go there. I don’t think you want to go there either. And so we want to talk about this today. So in order to kind of, you know, I go and I do a workout with a trainer, I’m doing some rehab for some SI joint issue and pain. And so I have to work out, do certain exercises to make sure I’m strengthening the areas around that and take the pressure off that and do some decompression and all that stuff.

And it’s all good. But before I start the workout, they have me get on one of those ellipticals and I just have to be on that for five minutes so that I warm up. The muscles get warm, that I get ready for the workout. There’s even preparation for the workout. And by doing that, I make sure that I don’t jump into something and my muscles not ready and it’s cold and I bring injury and whatnot. And this morning I was thinking, you know, we really need to

I feel like I need to ask you a question and this question is a serious question and I want you to take a moment to think really about this answer and I’ll give you a moment to think about it. This question is our warm up. want to kind of warm us up and prepare our hearts and prepare our minds for the scripture and

I want us to be ready to be able to digest and eat what we’re getting today. You’re not getting milk today. You’re going to get meat today. Okay. So I want you to be able to chew on this and eat this and digest this. want it to sit in you. want it to produce nutrients in you. want you to grow. If you are a disciple of Jesus Christ, I want you to become a better disciple. Me too. Me too. I have to ask myself these questions. If I’m asking you, it means I already sat and I already asked this question of myself.

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I’ve already done this too. Because this question forms the lens, so to speak, the glasses, the perspective that we tend to see preparing for Jesus’ return through.

whether we see it through a lens of enough urgency or not, whether we have really given it thought at all. Is this new to us? Is this new information that I’m going to have to take seriously and do something with? So here is the question and really be honest with yourself. For some of you, this will be really easy.

For some of you, may have to think about this for a minute and that’s okay, but be honest about it. Be honest with yourself. You can’t make any progress in life period if you can’t be honest with yourself. In fact, before I ask you the question, I’m gonna give you a great example. We had just been to dinner with one of our sons and he had preached.

a message that evening at church and he lives out of town so we needed to drive to where he was at and having dinner we were the the subject came up about cheese eating cheese because I don’t really care for cheese I like mozzarella cheese I’ll eat a pizza and if it’s sprinkled a little bit on a taco or something like that but I really don’t like the taste of cheese

I put up with it. And if it’s put with the right stuff so that it’s not overpowering, I can eat it that way. But I, I never want cheese. never asked for cheese. And many times I say, please don’t put any cheese on it. Just never have liked cheese very much. growing up, my son would say the same thing. Now I just assumed he didn’t like it and that I, that he really didn’t like it because he tried it and he didn’t like it the same way I had tried it and I didn’t like it.

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And he was telling us because he ordered something and he wanted the cheese on it. And one of the people at the table, I don’t remember which one asked said, you’re getting cheese. You want the cheese? He goes, yes, I want the cheese. And I’m cracking up just at his strong response. And then they asked him, well, didn’t you used to hate cheese? You didn’t like cheese. And my husband starts teasing him and saying, the only reason he didn’t like cheese is because you told him.

He didn’t like cheese because I never told him he didn’t like cheese. I just didn’t like cheese. And he begins to say, no, I like cheese now because I realized I was the problem. I was the problem. And we’re just looking at him. We’re kind of chuckling. Like, what do you mean? You were the problem. And he said, I realized that so many things that are delicacies in life, things that are considered nationally

internationally all over the globe that cheese is one of those things that people consider to be a great delicacy and they spend so much time and so many cheeses are aged for years and years and they have perfected their recipes and the processes that they go through to produce these

you know, these delicacies and that there are scientists whose work is to formulate ways to make better cheese. mean, he’s going on and on. And then he said, so I realized if this is considered a very high echelon of delicacy and I don’t like it and I don’t partake in it, then

I’m the problem. The cheese isn’t the problem. I’m the problem. And he said, I realized that I’m not a kid, I’m a man. And I’m gonna eat food, not like a child who’s so picky and doesn’t eat food. And I’m gonna train myself to grow my palate. And he ended up saying that he chose to first introduce bitter foods, just to start with bitter foods.

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and began training himself to eat like a man because he was the problem. The cheese wasn’t the problem, he was the problem. We laughed, but I went away from that with that little conversation stirring the truth in my spirit. And the truth was I was proud of my son for being mature, for being a man and saying,

I’m the problem. How many of us are willing to look at something from a different perspective and say, it’s me, I’m the problem.

And the reason I say all that, I shared that silly story to tell you, this question is very serious that I’m gonna ask you. And then we’re gonna dive right into all the different things about this parable. But the question is this, why did I get saved?

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Let’s let that sit for a minute.

Why did I get saved?

Ask yourself, what was it that caused me to say Jesus?

I believe that you are who you say you are, that you are the son of God, that you died on a cross for my sin.

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and that you went into the grave for three days and then rose again and ascended to the Father, now seated at his right hand, and that

On the day of Pentecost, you then sent the Holy Spirit to fill me with your spirit so that I could live this life.

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If you don’t really…

have an answer for that question, then we have some work to do today because the answer to that question is the lens you see your walk with God through. And what do I mean by that?

First of all,

This might offend some of you. I hope it doesn’t, but it might. But Jesus said all kinds of offensive things on purpose to provoke and to cause them to see truth. And so I’m not gonna back away from that or be afraid of that, but I hope you’ll stick with me. I hope you’ll hear me out on this.

If your answer to this question, why did I get saved?

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If your answer to that is because of the benefits that you think Christian living offers you. Now don’t get me wrong. The scripture clearly tells us don’t forget all his benefits. Those are valuable. That’s important. But if you became a Christian because you felt like it was a benefit and that’s the reason that it would benefit your life somehow, that it would somehow change your

circumstance here on earth that it would maybe put you in the right place to meet the right people or that you liked the change and pace versus what you deal with during the week and and so you call yourself a Christian

But the real reason you got saved was because it seemed beneficial to you. I want to gently offer that that lens can easily lend itself to not being prepared for the return of Christ. We’ll go into this more if that seems confusing to you or off-putting to you.

If your answer was, I was a sinner and I was going to hell.

And I know my wretched state. I know who I am on the inside. I know the thoughts I thought. I know the things I did. I know the punishment I deserve. And Jesus saved me so that I don’t have to go to hell. So that I can live with him. That I am so grateful for what he’s done for me.

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that I want to give my life in thanksgiving to him. Now, if that’s your lens, if that’s why you got saved, sure, time and circumstance and things can happen to cause us to go to sleep, but our lens will be one of understanding there is a heaven and a hell and there is a timeframe. I don’t have all the time in the world.

That lends itself more to a servant’s preparation for their life, living their life preparing for what Jesus provided versus someone who never thinks of the eternal, who doesn’t see themselves as a wretch, who thinks I was a good person, I wasn’t really a bad sinner.

And, you know, I just, want to make sure I go to heaven when I die, that there’s no real, there’s no real understanding of the kingdom of God here on earth or in heaven. It was just kind of a get out of jail free card, you know, fire insurance. Those really are the only two kinds of lenses that we wear. And we see.

our assignment in front of us. We see our life in front of us. We see our purpose through that lens. And so I want you to let that sit as we go through this and dissect Matthew and to give you the proper context for Matthew 25. I want to also explain a couple things before we read the text.

One of them is that first you need to understand what Jesus was doing when he taught this text. He was with the disciples. This was not him speaking to a group of people. This was not to the thousands. This was not to the hundreds. This wasn’t in a house and he was healing everyone. He was speaking to his disciples and they had just looked at the temple.

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you know, which had, Herod had actually rebuilt the temple. So they were looking at it and they were thinking how wonderful the temple is and showing Jesus how wonderful the temple was. And Jesus then tells them that the temple is going to be destroyed and this shocks them. And so in their shock, they start to ask questions and the questions are, when will that happen? And then it becomes, when will we know these things? When are you going to restore?

the kingdom, what do you, they had all these questions about what was to come. And Jesus proceeds to answer those questions to them first by giving them very real, specific prophecy about what’s going to take place and the end times things that are going to happen.

And in Matthew 15 verses 8 and 9, he is explaining the condition. That’s a backtrack. I know I’m giving you a scripture that’s a backtrack, but I want you to understand who Jesus feels that he’s dealing with when he talks about Israel as a whole, because so far we haven’t gone to the Gentiles yet. This is Israel as a whole. Now we know that we are children of Abraham.

as the Gentiles. I’m just giving you context for what, who he was talking about to them, who they would have understood this was talking about, talking about the destruction of the temple, which happened, I believe, in 8060, and the coming persecution of the Christians, very end times type of events that took place. But Jesus always wanted to make sure that that

these, his disciples understood truth that they were not distracted or conforming to the ways and the culture and the traditions of man that they understood from Jesus what was actually going to happen. And this is something that in order to understand Jesus’s directness and

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what he’s gonna say to them. I want you to see how Jesus had prepped them back in Matthew 15 to understand the people, okay? He says, these people draw near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. And in vain, they worship me.

in vain. You’re doing it for nothing. That’s a serious statement that there are people who worship Him, who speak honoring things about Him, who are calling themselves after Him, and yet they are far from Him. Jesus says their hearts are far from Him and because their hearts are far from that far from Him that they worship Him in vain.

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Okay, so they enter into practices that lull them to sleep because it gives them a false sense of security that they’re doing all the things, saying all the things, but they are not themselves truly worshiping God. And they are doing this in vain, which means what is then the consequence? If I’m doing this in vain, that means it’s not working. It’s producing nothing.

which means the result that I think I’m going to get, I’m not going to get, okay? I want you to take that understanding. I want you to take the understanding that Jesus is now going to speak to the disciples. He’s told them the absolute facts about what’s going to happen and prophesying to them about future events and the end times and who belongs to him and who doesn’t. And then he shifts from telling them all of this

to giving them parables, hoping to help them understand. So it shifts from the literal and the prophetic to the parables. And he tells them four parables before he kind of shifts gears about the meaning of the parable. So in the first three parables that he tells him, we’re not going to study those today, but he tells them the parable of,

Well, he just finishes telling them about the coming of the son of man, which means his second coming. And he tells them the parable of the fig tree. Okay. That in this parable, he’s explaining that you can tell by looking at a fig tree, what season it is. And you need to be paying attention to that because that’s how you know the times and when things are going to happen. Okay. So he tells them that prophecy. Then he, or that parable, then he tells them the parable.

Well, before he goes on to the next parable, let me explain this. He tells them the parable, but then explains that no one knows the day or the hour. So he’s still talking about the return that he’s going to make. He’s going to be crucified, but then he’s going to return. He will come again. And we don’t know the time or the day or the hour, but we should be able to recognize signs and we should always be in preparing. That is the end result. That’s the goal. The goal is his second coming.

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so that we are now with him ruling and reigning with him. This is the goal, to be with him, to finish it all. We’re not doing this to be the one who gets called into the game for five minutes to give a guy a rest. And that was our only purpose. We want to win the game. We’re not just the water boy.

We have purpose. Our life as a Christian should have purpose. Yes, you have duties that you have to take care of to live an earthly life in this life, but your life, your whole life, your calling, your purpose should be the kingdom of God, should be doing what Jesus tells you to do to further the kingdom of God. What is your place in the kingdom of heaven? What are you supposed to be doing? Okay. Then he tells them the parable.

of the faithful servant and the evil servant. And he basically says, have two servants, one who goes and does what I tell them to do and the other one who’s evil. okay, let’s read that one, because that one’s important.

who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household to give them food and due season. So he’s talking about those who rule now over his kingdom as he leaves them to take care of things for him, because this is for a season, this is for a time, he needs you to take care of him, be wise. Blessed is that servant, whom his master, when he comes, because he’s coming again, will find him so doing.

that you’re doing exactly what I asked you to do. Take care of things while I’m away, because I’m coming back. Okay? Then he says, but assuredly I say to you, he will make him ruler over his goods. But if the evil servant says in his heart, my master is delaying his coming and begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the drunkards, the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him. He’s not prepared.

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He knows he’s delayed. thinks he’s not coming. He’s not doing what he needs to take care of things. He’s not treating people right. He’s not doing the righteous acts of the saints that make the bride ready. When he is not looking for him, at an hour he is not aware of. This isn’t one of those you’re gonna get to notice it and have time to get things right. It just isn’t gonna happen. And it says, he will cut him in two and appoint him his

proportion with the hypocrites Now the hypocrites was always Jesus was always talking about the religious leaders who were whitewashed coffins They would put all this pressure on people. They wouldn’t treat them, right? They would put demands on them, but they wouldn’t take care of the real issues of the heart They wouldn’t take care of the widows. They wouldn’t take care of the needy. They didn’t care about people They just wanted them to follow, you know dot all the I’s and cross all the T’s but it’s all in vain

Hypocrites, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

So then we have the parable, the third parable is the parable of the wise and foolish virgins.

So Jesus is still making a point. He hasn’t changed subjects. This isn’t another day. He is still explaining to them this understanding that all of these bad things are gonna happen, yes. And you’re gonna wanna have to pay attention and know when they’re happening and so that you are prepared. And there’s a possibility of a delay. And even if there’s a delay, a faithful servant is one who continues

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to make himself ready for my return. That I find him doing that when I come back. So now we hit chapter 25.

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In chapter 20, in this parable, are two, there’s two parables in chapter 25, I believe, yes. And I’m not, we’re not gonna do the second one, but I want, he’s getting ready to explain something to them that is completely cultural. And if you are new to faith, if you are new to Jesus Christ and the church, and you are new to your Bible,

you may not understand this parable. This may not make sense to you. So I want to give you some background so that you understand what this parable means and what it says. So in Jewish culture at this time, which we not only have whatever we have historically from Jewish literature, but even Greek literature and the earliest of

paintings and the things we saw come out of the Greek artistry. All the earliest pictures and things that we see depict these Jewish weddings with these people who are carrying torches. So what would happen is a girl at the time that she reaches puberty,

Her father is looking to make a match to betroth her to who she will one day marry. When they find the person that’s going to marry her, they have to come to an agreement on a bride price. She was usually at the youngest, around 12 years old when she’s in puberty, so now they’re looking for who she will eventually marry.

Usually the young man that they were looking forward was between the ages of 17 and like 20. And so he’s starting to think marriage and they’re trying to think of who will be a good match for him. And there’s going to be some time in here. And, and usually the minimum timeframe was a year that would pass through because in a year he needed time to, build a home for her, but

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They had to have time to have their negotiation. They had time to come to an agreement of payment. Then they had to actually pay the price for the bride, the bride price. Once they actually finalized all that, they’ve agreed upon the person, they have agreed on the bride price and they have paid the bride price, they are now legally bound. It’s as if they are already married. This is why when,

Joseph finds out that Mary is expecting a child. He says I’m going to put her away privately like divorce her. They hadn’t married yet in the legal sense of having the wedding. They hadn’t had the celebration yet, but they had already, he’d already paid the bride price for her. He was already building a home for her. And so he was gonna put her away quietly until the angel stepped in and said, no, this is of God. You’re okay. You need to marry her.

And so this is the way this goes. Once the bride price is paid, the waiting time is now, the groom leaves and he won’t even see the bride. He’s gonna go prepare a home for her, which is the correlation that we see in the scriptures in Revelation where it says that he is, I believe it’s in Revelation. Let me look it up for you real quick.

Actually, it’s not a revelation, sorry. I go to prepare a place for you.

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which is found in John, the book of John, chapter 14, verse three.

Well, actually, let’s do verse two and then three. In my father’s house are many mansions. If it were not so, some versions say rooms. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am,

there ye may be also.” So in this, Jesus had already, I’m not sure of the timing here, if he had already told them this from when John records it or when we’re reading it in Matthew. I should have looked that up for you to know which came first. this is Jesus saying the same thing, different way, different time to his disciples. So he’s saying, I go away. They understood this terminology.

like a marriage. He was again showing them a marriage. That this portion is when he goes away and he prepares a place for them and our expectation is that whenever things are ready, now according to Jewish custom, the groom was not the one who decided that things were finished and ready. It was the father. Only the father could determine that. He would be preparing during all this time

to put on a huge feast. This celebration dinner, this enormous wedding dinner, wedding feast, would be where the entire community was invited and it could last up to seven days. Can you imagine the amount of preparation and the food and drink that it would take to feed people for seven days? For seven days, whatever the accommodation, whatever they had to do.

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There was a lot of preparation that had to go into this. And this would take time. So at a minimum, this could take years, multiple years, but at a minimum, it would be about a year. So you just have to know you’re now in the waiting period, but you understand the price has been paid. And since the price has been paid, this groom is coming back to get his bride.

Now we have to understand as Christians that the price has been paid. Jesus paid the price. And since the price has been paid, He is coming again. He’s gone to prepare for the feast, for the wedding supper. We read that in Revelation. We know that Jesus has promised, what I just read you out of John, that He goes to prepare a place for us.

And if I go, I will come again. He’s already paid the price. So in this culture, what he’s teaching them, he’s using the marriage as an example, and they understood how to do a wedding. So here the groom is gone. The bride is making herself ready during this time. She would normally go through quite a procedure of preparing herself. She would spend at least an entire year.

going through the preparations of cleansings that she would do and bathing in different oils and perfumes to make herself ready. She was constantly doing things to prepare herself for this marriage, for this event. And she had with her, because how this would happen is when the father said, okay, son, it’s time to go. It normally took place after sunset.

So this was common. This was the way they normally did it after sunset. Then the father would say, okay, go get your bride. And the feast would begin at night. And the groom would get his friends together and they would come in a parade of torches down the streets to come get her. I mean, you can just picture it, right? And they’re coming down and they’re hooping and hollering and they’re so excited. They’re on their way. We know the scripture tells us that Jesus is coming with a great shout.

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and the Trump is going to sound, this is, they come, it’s a big parade and they’re coming down with their torches lit to come get her. When they come to get her, she not only has been making herself ready, but she has what in our vernacular we would call bridesmaids. She has 10 virgins who have, they are there. Their sole purpose is to guard her during this time, to protect her during this time.

to care for her and provide for her during this time, they are to secure her, keep her secure until the groom comes to get her. And then they are to light their torches and march with the bride and the groom to the marriage supper. Now, sometimes people get confused because there’s two words used in the scripture having to do

two different Greek words that are used for their lamps. We call them lamps. But the scripture in this particular passage actually has been translated wrong. It’s the actual word that stands for torch. So instead of thinking of this little lamp, it was actually a giant torch. And the torch was made with this inner piece that you could put in.

like a tube that you could put in the torch that held all the oil. And then they would pack it with this cloth and charcoal and different stuff so that when they lit the torch, the bowl that sat on top would be full of the flame. So it was a bright light. And this was how they were to prepare because they were going on a parade, marching through the streets. So they had to have enough oil to last the journey, however far the journey was, to get to the father’s house.

on foot. they’re marching this journey keeping her. They would literally hoist her up the bride on like one of those chairs you see where people carry them on your shoulders. I forget what the technical name for those chairs are, but they would put her on there and they would carry her and then the bridesmaids, the virgins would stand around and march with them with their torches. And because they were her security, if you tried to enter the parade and you did not have a lit torch,

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The customs were that you were considered a robber or an intruder if your torch was not lit, if you did not have a lit torch and you were not allowed, you were prohibited and not permitted to take place in this procession. So they understood all of this analogy and that they would march, the father would open the door and the celebration would begin, okay?

That was their custom. They all participated in these weddings. They understood all of this language and lingo. This parable would be easy for them to wrap their head around. For us in the Western culture, this may or may not have made sense to us. So now that you have that piece of history, I want to read to you the actual scripture and the parable.

because I wanna point out several things here in it for us.

So chapter 25.

And we’ll start with verse one. Then the kingdom of heaven, so there is a heaven and there is a hell. The one we just finished, the parable we just finished, he just said they’re gonna be weeping and gnashing of teeth. He will give them their portion with the hypocrites. He’s talking about that they’re going to hell. So there’s a heaven and a hell in this next verse. Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to 10 virgins.

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who took their lamps, and again, the word instead of lamp, I want you to understand that’s a torch, took their torch and went out to meet the bridegroom. So they took all their stuff, they understand that he’s gonna come, we’re expecting him to return, so they take all their stuff and they go with the bride, okay, they’re preparing. Now five of them were wise and five were foolish. Those who were foolish,

took their lamps or torches and took no oil with them. Now know sometimes we have heard this and we tend to hear people think that they took some oil but they didn’t have enough because they tried to trim their lamps and they realized they didn’t have oil. They brought no oil. The scripture plainly says and took no oil with them. But the wise took oil in their vessels with

their lamps or torches. But while the bridegroom was delayed. So here’s that delay again. He’s been telling them the parables, helping them understand I’m going away and it’ll feel like it’s taking too long. There will be a delay and it’s in the delay that we find out which servants are evil and which servants are good servants. Okay.

But while the bridegroom was delayed, according to a marriage, what would that mean? Sunset has come and gone. It’s been dark for hours. He’s not coming. There’s been a problem. Don’t know what’s happened. He’s delayed. We don’t know why. Why isn’t he coming?

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But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. Okay, so during this period, this is where sometimes we like to say they shouldn’t have slept. Even the wise slept. Why did the wise sleep? And this is a, you know, what we don’t have is Jesus saying that they were wrong for sleeping. He’s just giving us the parable that they all slept. So,

We already know that five have oil and five don’t have oil. And we know that they all slept. This is really important to understand because if you don’t have oil and you fall asleep, you really don’t have, you’re not only not prepared, you’re not worried about not being prepared.

aren’t taking this job seriously. You’re not, you’re not taking steps to be ready.

So if you are lulled to sleep in a state of unpreparedness, you have a very false sense of security. It’s a very false sense of security that you can sleep because how many of us know when we’re truly worried about something, we have trouble sleeping anyway. We have trouble sleeping because we’re worried about something. This is a false sense of security. Now,

Let’s continue to read, because the wise also fell asleep. But what would that mean for the wise? Well, it might mean because they are prepared, they aren’t worried. So they’re not worried about a delay because they’re prepared no matter when he comes. Do you see? There’s a very different way of behavior that I really believe

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is formulated by the way that we see salvation and Christianity and the return of Jesus Christ.

So let’s continue to read. Verse six, and at midnight, which is supposed to represent the darkest part of the night, the latest part of the night, it is the very last hour. The last possible moment for it to be that day is that day, midnight. A cry was heard, behold, the bridegroom is coming. Go out to meet him. Verse seven.

then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. So they’re trying to start, they’re trying to light their torches. Watch therefore, I’m sorry, I skipped the verses, verse eight. And the foolish said to the wise, give us some of your oil for our lamps are going out. Yeah, they won’t stay lit, there’s no oil. You didn’t bring oil. But the wise answered saying, no, lest there should not be enough for us and you.

but go rather to those who sell and buy for yourself. Now what does that imply? A couple of things. I once heard a preacher actually pray. I just can’t believe I heard it to this day. I can’t believe I heard it, but I actually heard a preacher pray or say that the wise were unkind. I mean, he was woke before there was woke. That they were not kind.

and they should have shared their oil. And he basically mistaught the entire parable as if this was a parable about evangelism and that they should have shared their oil. That’s not what this is teaching. Just so you have clarification, that is not what this is teaching. And it says that they sent them to go and buy from those who sell for themselves.

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What this is implying is you have to prepare yourself. No one else could ever prepare for you. It costs you something to prepare. To be someone who takes this seriously, it costs you something. How many bridesmaids are there out there? Come on. We see these weddings. This is so sad. heard one.

I heard a minister recently say this and it was so true and I’m thinking of it right now. It’s very true. Please, when you ask someone to be in your wedding, don’t make the cost so high that those poor bridesmaids go into the poor house trying to be a good bridesmaid for you. Just be kind to them, okay? I’m just gonna repeat what she said. Pastor Jen said that. Anyway, so, but it costs something and it literally costs something.

Even in our Western culture, to be a bridesmaid costs something. You’re buying a dress, you’re buying gifts, you’re buying experiences, you’re buying all kinds of things. It costs you to be in this wedding party. It costs you to be someone who is taking care of the bride during this time. And no one can do that for you. No one can be your sincerity. No one can be

or give you their urgency. Either you feel urgency in yourself or you don’t. Come on, when we’re driving and we’re late, we notice everyone else who’s not late does not feel the same urgency that you feel while you’re driving. You can’t give your urgency to someone else. That comes at a cost. Their urgency comes at a cost. They are late, they know something’s important, they need to be there and it costs them, right?

I mean, this is how it works. the oil, spiritually speaking, the oil always represented and symbolized several things. It always represented the Holy Spirit. The oil represented the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit provides three things here. It provides, He, not it, He provides us with spiritual nourishment. He’s the one who knows the deep things of God. He’s the one who

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brings us revelation. He is the one who leads us, who is there to comfort us, to help guide us. He is our paraclete. He enlightens us, who gives us nourishment. He enlightens us and he comforts us. Okay? Those are the three things, just like what light actually does. Natural light actually produces, or I’m sorry, oil, sorry, naturally produces light. The oil can produce

light. can produce nourishment. We use oil in our foods. It’s good for us. It nourishes us. And we can use it to light fires. Sometimes nowadays we don’t necessarily light a fire with it. We use the oils for incense, for smell, for atmosphere. It affects our atmosphere. But we are enlightened. The light brings enlightenment.

nourishes us, it brings enlightenment to us, and we know that the warmth of a fire is very comforting. It just there’s something about the minute someone lights a candle, lights a fire, there’s a warmth that comes to us. It’s a comfort. So this oil represents these three things. The Holy Spirit is the art does and is represents, but is those three things for us. Okay, so it says

going by for yourselves verse 10 and while they went to buy the bridegroom came. So they heard the cry he’s coming, but they had delayed. It’s now midnight. Where are you going to find a place to buy your oil? The procession is happening.

And those who were ready went in with him to the wedding and the door was shut.

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While they went to buy, the bridegroom came and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding and the door was shut. Now what does that remind you of? The door was shut. For me, it reminds me of Noah and God with the ark. He tells Noah it’s time to go in the ark. They’ve already brought all the animals. Everybody’s in, all the family members are in.

and God shut the door. The father shut the door. Noah couldn’t open and close that door. It was a massive door. God closed the door. God closed the door. And it didn’t matter who knocked and banged on that door the minute it started raining. The door was shut. It’s too late. You didn’t take advantage of the time you had when you had it. We talked about this last week. If we don’t

Use what we have now to prepare now, make preparations now. We will regret. The time will come and go. The time will pass. It will come and go. And we won’t have been made. If we don’t make ourselves ready, we’ll miss it. There’s nothing but regret and consequences that follow that. Verse 11. Afterward, the other virgins came also saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

But he answered and said, assuredly I say to you, I do not know you. I know this is really, they were surprised to hear this. Verse 13 says, watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. Jesus.

literally tells the disciples three times through three different parables. I’m coming again. You need to pay attention because I’m going to be delayed and you need to stay ready. Be ready, stay ready. Get ready, stay ready. Okay? The shock of hearing I do not know you would be surprising to them. If you live out the parable,

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They would have thought, of course you know us. We’ve been with the bride this whole time. We called ourselves after you. But this is just like what we read in Ephesians 5.27. I’m gonna give you two verses to go along with this.

It’s basically Ephesians 5.27 said that he would present himself, he might present himself to the church, his bride, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. So he’s, the groom is going to present, the bridegroom comes, he’s going to bring the bride, he’s presenting his wife to his father. She has been taken care of, she’s been secured by the people who were with her, she’s been watched over.

and she is without spot or wrinkle. Her garments that we talked about in Revelation are beautiful and bright. She is able to enter the feast and be married to the son. Revelation 19, seven says, let us be glad and rejoice and give him glory for the marriage supper of the lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready. Okay, that’s what we had read to begin with. But I want you to look at Matthew 7, 21.

Matthew 721 says, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father in heaven. So this parable was started off by saying the kingdom of heaven is likened. OK, we just read that he says you have to do the will of my father who’s in heaven. We’re talking about heaven.

how heaven is run, not how earth runs, how heaven is run. And if we’re living our lives based off of what we think on the best way to live life on this earth without taking thought for how heaven does it, we won’t prepared when the Father does heavenly things.

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Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven. And what did these bridesmaids say? Lord, Lord, open to us. He says, assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you. I do not know you.

What we have to understand is that those who have made themselves ready, those who understood what the instructions were, knew what the expectation was, and fully prepared, made themselves ready. They knew he was coming again. They made themselves ready.

They knew what it would cost and they paid the price because they knew he had already paid the price.

We are to live, live this life obedient to the Father.

The way we do that is by having the Holy Spirit lead us. That is the oil in our lamps. To know how to be prepared and stay prepared. It can feel like the delay will last forever and we can fall into the sleepy trap. It’s been a long time.

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but he’s coming back.

He really is coming back.

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Now the reason that I read and wanted to give you this parable now is because you know we’ve been in second Kings and we’ve been following the prophets. And last week when we are we’re ending and talking about the death of Elisha there is a time of preparedness a time when you partner with the prophetic.

Jesus had just given the disciples the prophetic He had just told them what was to come and Then he explained it to them in different stories different parables so that they would understand How important this was there is coming a day when the door will shut? You will be out of time last week Elisha died

You can’t put his hand on your hand anymore. He can’t shoot the arrows with you and gain victory with you anymore. He died. And you didn’t take advantage of it then. And now you, King, are going to pay the consequences for that. You only got to reap the benefits of the few things that you did do with him.

Like I said, there are benefits. There are benefits to why you serve God. There are benefits to getting saved. But if that’s the only reason, those few benefits, and you don’t partner with the eternity, you don’t partner with the rest of what Jesus said, you don’t partner with what he has said prophetically, you don’t partner with the whole council of God, then you miss your opportunity.

I’m not saying this to Bible beat you over the head, but I’m saying, come on. I’m like the one crying in the street right now. The bride is coming, the bridegroom is coming. And we have to make ourselves ready. And the problem will be, for so many, they won’t get ready and they won’t take it seriously until it’s too late. Until it’s pouring rain and the arc door is closed.

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Jesus actually said that it will be like it was in the days of Noah. I didn’t read you that portion, but I’ll read that to you now. Matthew 24 verse 36, but of that day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, but my father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the son of man.

be. For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving and marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark and did not know until the flood came and took them all away so also will the coming of the son of man be. Then two men will be in the field one will be taken and the other left.

Two women will be grinding at the mill. One will be taken and the other left. Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore, you also be ready.

For the Son of Man is coming, at an hour you do not expect.

I want us to be ready. I want you to be ready. And I know it will come at a cost. It means you have to arrange your life so that you care for the bride. You have to arrange your life. You have to make preparations for that. You have to understand your purpose. Are you a part of a body of Christ? There are those who try to say, don’t, that’s not how I serve God. My church is out in the mountains. That’s my church. When I go for walks in the mountains.

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Or when I go sit at the beach, that’s my church time. No, I’m sorry, that’s not. We don’t get to determine what that is. Jesus specifically tells us in this parable that their job was to care for the bride. The bride is the body of Christ. We are to care for one another. We are to make sure that we are providing what we need for each other and have oil for nourishment, for comfort.

and for light and enlightenment. We need to have truth spoken to us regularly. I can’t minister to the body and the body can’t minister to me if all I do is watch a program streaming. I mean, it’s great if I’m sick in bed and I can’t get up and I can watch a service online and at least get to hear the message, but I’m not receiving body ministry. I’m not able from my bed then to have hands laid on me and pray for the sick so that I would recover.

I’m supposed to be a part of a body. I mean, the scripture tells us that. Do not forsake the assembling of yourselves together. Well, this is basically a picture of that. They’re assembled together waiting for his return. Five were wise, five were foolish. Now, whether this is applying to just the House of Israel or whether this is applying to the Christian church,

those in the church, five wise, five foolish, or whether this is a mix of Jew and Gentile, all I can say for certain is that we know that we are supposed to, as followers of Jesus Christ, according to the word, make ourself ready. We are the bride, we are the wife. We have to make ourselves ready. And there is a marriage supper coming because Jesus is coming again. And half the people,

who expect to think they’re going to make it are not going to make it.

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They actually, this is why they were so deceived because, and this is scary because if you’re talking about the church by itself, just the church.

If you have five, meaning half of the people who attend church, they’re there. She had 10 virgins with her. You’re supposed to have 10, she had 10. And those 10 were all, listen to me, they were all in the right place at the right time. They were there. They were at church. They were where they were supposed to be, when they were supposed to be there. The problem was,

They weren’t prepared for the journey. They were there, but they had made no personal preparation for the actual fulfillment of what that meant. The fulfillment of their acts was to have the torches. The reason you had the torch to begin with, you were to have the torch because you were to go on this journey with the groom.

And you were to be the light around her of protection to keep outsiders out, to keep robbers out and intruders out. You were to guard the path. You were to bring comfort to her on the path, the warmth, the enlightenment, everything to get her there. So that’s the journey, not just sitting with her. Many go to church. They sit in the church. They sit with the bride. They sit with her. They’re there week after week.

but they have no oil. And maybe they’re there, but maybe they’re asleep. Maybe they’re asleep.

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We have this time in our lives right now. We have this time. You are not promised tomorrow. You are not promised the next breath. All your days are in His hand, but He’s the only one who knows that day. There’s not another living soul who knows that day. The Father knows that day.

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I want you to hear this urgency. What if you never hear another message about this again? What if you never hear this taught again and you go to sleep?

Make yourself ready now. Stay ready, stay vigilant. Make sure you have the oil of the Holy Spirit. Make sure that you are following the commands of Jesus Christ according to His word. Not what you think that He wants, according to what man teaches. Not according to our cultural likes and dislikes.

not according to government laws, not according to man-made precepts and, you know, it needs to be what God says. And the only way that you can do that is part of your preparedness, part of the cost is to make sure you know this word. What does it say? What is expected of me? What does God want me to do? How am I to be doing it? I know for me,

I’m supposed to make disciples. He says, go there for him, make disciples. I’m doing my best to make disciples. Make disciples.

What does that look like in your life? I have to guard time. I have to tell people I can’t go do that. I need that day to study and I need this day to record and I need this day to do. I have to make concessions for what I do. I have to make preparation for it. I have to be in the word and I have to be in prayer and I have to know Lord are you saying this or are you saying that? I have to study and find out is that what that means. I have to give myself to the things that God has called me to do.

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Yes, he is a help to us in our natural lives. You have to work a job. Many of you, have to, if you’re, especially if you’re the husband of a family, you, I mean, you have to work a job. Money is necessary to live in this world right now. The way we’ve made it, we don’t farm anymore in barter with what we’re farming. And even if we were, I would be, I would have tons of responsibilities to.

make sure that the food grows. I would have to care for the crops. You know, what’s interesting is back when we farmed, when there are still farms, but when the majority farmed, people understood scripture very well because there are so many parables and explanations given having to do with soil and seed and people knew the word, but we’ve removed that from society as a whole for the most part. And people don’t understand these things. They don’t, and they don’t try to figure them out.

They just pass over them as if it doesn’t matter as if the word isn’t there to to nourish them You need the Holy Spirit to enlighten the word of God in your heart to help you to give you the sustaining power that you need You need the grace of God that’s given to you by the Holy Spirit You need the oil You have to make preparation now there will come a time when it’s too late. I know I sound like a broken record. My hope is that I am

I’m taking what I have, right? And I’m as if I’m holding a torch and I’m pouring the oil in it and I am stuffing it with the rags right now and I am putting the charcoal in there and I’m trying to light a flame and I want you to see it. want it to burn so that I can care for the bride, that I can be ready.

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My hope today is that you truly make yourself ready.

child of God, he paid a great price for you.

The groom has gone, but he’s gone to prepare a place. And he is coming again.

And he’s coming for those who have made themselves ready. I really pray that you have made yourself ready. And if you haven’t done so, start today. Start today.

I’ll end with this.

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Part of understanding a true heart of service to the Lord is to truly understand your fallen condition as a human being. To understand that everything is corrupt until we have been made whole by the blood of Jesus Christ. That our motives, no matter how good our acts are, no matter the good deeds we think we’re doing, the Bible tells us that

They are filthy rags. Our righteousness is as filthy rags compared to what is truly cleansed and pure and holy.

And if you can see the price that he paid for you, that you actually, you and I, me too, me too, deserved an eternity in hell. There was nothing I did to deserve salvation and healing. There was nothing that I did that would deserve for Jesus Christ our holy, holy

Christ, our Messiah, to leave heaven pure, sinless, holy, and come die a torturous, murderous, horrible, unthinkable death.

for me.

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who knew no sin, he who was not knew no sin. He had no sin ever. Pure, holy, undefiled, righteous, just good, every good thing. Nothing I could have ever have done. No deed says I deserve for you to die instead of me. Nothing.

I deserve.

forever.

with my sin.

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But Jesus paid the pride price.

hate it.

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hate the price.

Now the bride makes herself ready.

If you look at life that way, that he did that for me, he paid the highest price for me.

I love you so much, can’t wait for your return. I can’t wait for your return. And I will live getting ready, making preparation and give myself in service. It is our reasonable service to live our lives as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God.

I challenge you today, make yourself ready. Go buy the oil before he comes, before it’s too late, before the door is closed.

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He is coming again. Jesus is coming again.

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Let me pray for you.

Heavenly Father, we thank you for sending your son.

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to buy us back, to pay the price that we didn’t deserve, to have paid for us. Thank you. Thank you that you are allowing your son right now to be building and preparing a place for us.

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And even in the meantime, all the provision and the price that you pay takes care of us. We’re able to make every provision now because of what you have provided and the price that you paid. There’s nothing that we have needed that you haven’t already provided it for us. Help us to see, God give us eyes to see. Open our blind eyes.

that we no longer live for ourselves, but we live righteously, preparing for you. Let it change us on the inside. Make us true disciples, O God. Help us to be ready that you can present us without spot or wrinkle to the Father.

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Holy Spirit, help us by keeping that fire burning in our souls. Help us, God. You are the helper, Holy Spirit. You are the helper. You are the comforter.

nourish us with your word that we are fed by you, we are clothed by you, and we are set on course by you.

Thank you for what you have done. And we say, as the scripture says, even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus.

Amen.

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Make yourself ready, my friends. Make yourself ready. You have time. If you’re watching this right now, you have time. Make yourself ready. Thanks so much for spending time with me today. I know I spent a little extra time when we went over my usual hour or so, but I pray it was worth it to you. Part of the price we pay, right? A little extra time. I’d love to hear from you. If you have prayer requests and you need someone to pray with you, would you go to my website?

You can either send me contact through that you can email me my email address is mail at Jaime Luce calm At my web address is Jaime Luce calm both of those J.i.m e l u ce If you have praise reports, I’d love to hear them. I’d love to celebrate with you You could do the same by that as well. If this was a blessing to you, if you know someone who needs to hear this Let’s light one another’s torch. Let’s

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