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Last week as we finished Matthew 24, as Jesus is telling his disciples about his return someday, he gives an example of a wide servant and a faithful servant.
And in this example he is showing those who while watching, waiting, and doing the work of the Master, and those who will not.
Those who will not will have no care, no thought of what will happen to them.
This can be a problem for many people.
If something does not concern them now, they turn, then they turn away and don’t think about it.
Remember I read you this verse: Matthew 24:14
And I told you last week that means that every people group would be able hear about the gospel before Jesus would return.
There are still many people groups to be reached.
So, do you think that tHE SECOND COMING OF JESUS COULD HAPPEN IN YORU LIFETIME?
Do you believe, that what he says here in Matthew 24, and in the book of Revelation, could happen in your lifetime?
Now whether you says yes, it could happen in my lifetime, or no it could not… Jesus tells us this...
No one knows.
That means you don’t know, I don’t know…only God knows.
So your final destination will be determined by your readiness.
You don’t know what tomorrow holds.
Tomorrow could bring your death, or tomorrow could bring the return of Jesus.
The writer of Hebrews talks about the importance of today.
We are not promised tomorrow.
As we look back on the lives from our family that have died, we can get an understanding that on the day they died, they were not promised tomorrow.
When we read the Scripture, we see that 2000 years has passed since his leaving to go to heaven, and we might think, well he isn’t coming anytime soon!
We cannot think that!
We cannot allow Satan to make us think that he is not coming back or that I can relax because he is not coming back anytime soon.
And that is why he said BE READY!
The KING is Coming!! …at a time we do not expect.
And we need to be ready.
This morning we are going to move through Chapter 25 and the first part of Chapter 26.
Now I read these two parables together because Jesus is pointing to somethings.
Those who are ready will show their readiness.
The five virgins who went into the night with their a flask of oil to add to their lamp if it should run out were expecting to use their lamps deep into the night.
They were expecting a visitor.
They were looking and ready for his arrival.
Maybe they didn’t know it would come on that night, but they were ready for him just in case.
The man with 10 talents and the man with the 5 were also ready.
They knew the master was coming, so when he did come they wanted to show themselves faithful and ready.
But we also see the opposite.
The other 5 virgins who were not ready, they were not looking to the possibility of the bridegroom returning.
And when they heard he was coming, they were so busy trying to prepare that they missed him.
What about us?
Are we ready?
If you knew today Jesus was coming in the night, would your life be ready?
Spiritually, would you be ready to meet him face to face tonight?
2 Timothy 4:2 (ESV)
2...be ready in season and out of season;
In other words, our relationship with Jesus is that…a relationship…it is ongoing…fluid…it continues…and we are in eager expectation of seeing hi face to face....either at our death, or his second coming.
2. Those who are ready will already know their destination.
Look in verse 7 what the 5 virgins did when they knew he was coming...
They were ready for their destination with the bridegroom.
They knew their destination and they came prepared.
Look at verse 19
Two of the three servants were awaiting their master....awaiting their destination, and it was given to them for their faithfulness.
3.
Those who are ready understand that there will be a delay.
As Jesus was giving these parables, in each one, he mentions that his coming may not be for a while.
Look at what he says in the first parable...
Matthew 25:5 (ESV)
5 As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.
Then look at the second parable....
Matthew 25:19 (ESV)
19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
The disciples had asked in Chapter 24, what will be the signs of the end of the age, but maybe in their minds was when?
Jesus said that no one will know, but he des tell us that every one must hear the gospel.
This helps understand that it would take time.
As of now it has taken about two thousand years.
How much longer?
I don’t know.
But what we should consider is ---at our death, or if we are alive when he returns, what is our destination.”
Will we be considered a sheep or a goat?
Put on the right or the left.
Will our destination be in the presence of God for eternity, or beside the Devil in hell for all time?
Look at verse 31.
I want you to think in your minds....
At your death, or when Jesus returns, whichever comes next, we will be standing before the throne of God.
Not only you, but people of all nations.
And the Lord God will separate the people.
Not into countries or color, but like a shepherd would separate the goats and the sheep.
The sheep he will put on the right, the goats on his left.
He will the look to those people on the right, the sheep, and invite them into a kingdom that was prepared for them long before the earth was formed.
But for the others…they will go to a place of eternal punishment.
Why?
Because they have rejected God and his Son Jesus Christ.
He said here that the difference is highlighted in the way they love.
It’s in the way they love.
But wait a minute, isn’t the difference between heaven and hell for someone their acceptance of Christ?
Yes, but in that acceptance, there is a heart change.
And that heart change towards Christ now resembles the heart of God.
We see people who are hurting.
We see people that need a drink.
That need encouragement, and most all need to hear about Jesus.
That’s why he says come with me into my eternal Kingdom.
Is that you?
Are you ready?
Are you preparing?
Are you loving your Savior by loving other people?
Or is your mind filled with the things that will pass away?
You will choose your destination.
Will you line up with the sheep or will you line up with the goats?
The choice is yours, but it will be a choice that wil determine your eternity.
With the ending of this chapter, it is Wednesday.
On Friday Jesus would be hung on the cross to pay for your sins.
Chapter 26 starts with the plot to kill Jesus.
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