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Are you Ready to Meet Jesus1
Luke 12:32-40
Online Sermon: http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567
How ready are you for the future?
Are you ready for the glorious mountaintops of
blessings to stand upon and the deep, dark valleys to endure!
Since our future is unknowable,
each of us must decide in the present how prepared we want to be for both the good and bad
times.
Are you the kind of person who prepares well in advance for all possible outcomes?
For
instance, a week before a long trip do you have your bags packed and checked twice?
Are your
weekly goals defined on Monday and does your grocery list comes with a detailed meal plan?
Is
your linen closet ready to handle a national toilet paper shortage and do you have not only three
months of salary set aside for emergencies but also enough insurance to hopefully ease any
catastrophe that comes your way?
If you answered yes to these questions, then you might have
excessive preparation/scheduling syndrome with a side dish of a control fetish.
On the other
hand, maybe you are the kind of person who prefers to live in the moment?
For instance, do you
often arrive late at meetings and events but feel you are on time based on your own unique time
clock?
Do you pack the morning of a major trip and then are forced to buy “on-the-fly” what
you forgot?
Do purchase but one roll of toilet paper and enough food to last but a few days and
are you constantly in debt, putting out past fires that are raging uncontrollably?
If you answered
yes to any of these questions then you might have an procrastination, live by the seat of your
pants syndrome.
While it is ok that everyone falls somewhere on the preparedness spectrum
when it comes to worldly events, how does God want us to prepare for the eternity He has placed
in our hearts?
The Return of the Lord
While there are many things that can be handled by procrastination, live by the moment
attitude; when it comes to the kingdom of God Jesus said, “You also must be ready, because the
Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him” (40).
While the world goes on
“eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage” up until the Day of the Lord (Luke 17:27),
God’s own family are commanded to always be ready for His return.2
Whether it be in the
“middle of the night or toward daybreak” (38) and though it might seem a long time in His
coming (2 Peter 3:9), one can be assured that the Lamb who was “slain from the creation of the
world” (Revelation 13:8) will return to “break the serpent’s head, and with a rod of iron, to dash
His enemies in pieces, as potters’ vessels.”3
He will on day return to take His own home to the
mansions He has prepared for them (John 14:1-4).
Whether He comes now or in a thousand
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The sermon is based on a Premium Sermon on Sermon Central called “Ready and Faithful”
C. H. Spurgeon, “Watching for Christ’s Coming,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit
Sermons, vol.
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