Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction to the Text

Now remember, Jesus started teaching at the beginning of chapter 12 and goes through 13:9

Jesus is speaking to disciples/ learners.

Peter will asks in our Text if Jesus is addressing him.

Kid who ask will this be on the text.

First off, you must abandon the influence of the Pharisees Luke 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

We do this through - Fearing God, Confess Christ, and be taught of the Spirit.

v.1-12

Then we asked “What’ll have?

What’ll have?” as Jesus warned them about covetousness.

v.13-21

Last time in Luke we talk “Fear to meet my Father” in vs. 22-34

Abandon the anxiety and the worry and the fear that comes from being preoccupied with this world so that you can seek the kingdom

Now we are giving a very strong motivation.

Jesus is coming back and we need to live ready for His return!

Luke 12:35–48 (KJV 1900)

35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.

37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

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41 Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?

42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.

45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

47 And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Pastoral Prayer

Passages falls heavy upon my life.

Am I living to feed and care for those God has given me to care for.

This passage clearly are designed to move us to live in a particular way.

Pray, we are able to understand and respond.

Sermon Introduction

Conversation in the church foyer.

One man thought we were talking about going to the mountains to shoot guns and the other thought we were talking about getting signs about Jesus return and going to a college campus.

They became very confused when the conversations merged together.

Regardless of where you first heard or from whom you heard the news; it is true Jesus is going to return.

Several of us went to here John Lennox give a talk on Should we fear artificial intelligence.

He is a Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University.

He holds a chair that was once held by Isaac newton

Hearing this truth from a man on a street corner doesn’t make it false nor does hearing it from a brilliant Christian apologist make it true.

But the Word of God is our rule of faith and practice.

He is going to return in the fashion He went up.

Acts 1:9-11 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?

this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

This parable is something that catches the imagination of the early Christians and becomes a theme in Christian teaching from this day forward.

1 Thess 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Rev 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent.

If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

Rev 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief.

Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

We will be reminded of this truth in this chapter, 17, and 21.

There are 260 chapters in the New Testament, and Christ's return is mentioned no less than 318 times in those chapters.

One in 25 verses in the NT.

“The doctrine of the return of Christ, as it appears in the NT, is like a high mountain that dominates the entire landscape.”

As the volcano misti would be to those who have visited Arequipa

It was also the theme of some of my favorite songs as a teenager.

“I wish we’s all been ready”

A man and wife asleep in bed

She hears a noise and turns her head he's gone

I wish we'd all been ready

Two men walking up a hill

One disappears and one's left standing still

I wish we'd all been ready

There's no time to change your mind

The Son has come and you've been left behind

The exhortations here in this passage clearly are designed to move us to live in a particular way.

Furthermore, Jesus makes it crystal clear that no one does or will know when He is coming.

A certain event at an uncertain time.

Luke 12:36 (KJV 1900)

36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.

Retell the story

Cultural Understanding of Weddings

Weddings was quite the ordeal.

They could take days to end.

Servants had no real idea when the Master would return.

He might come in the 3rd hour.

9 pm - 3 am

They were to live ready.

Basic overview of the timeline of the end of the world as we know it.

Just as clear as our understanding of the 6 days of creation

Incredible that we are allowed to know this.

This knowledge is to be transformative to the way we live.

Also it is to bring comfort to us.

In regard to believers this is the theme of the texts when discussing the end for us.

Let’s work from the end to where we are today.

Its the end of the world as we know it.

New heaven and New Earth.

Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

Great White Throne Judgement Revelation 21

We know from Revelation 20:7-15 that this judgment will take place after the millennium and after Satan is thrown into the lake of fire where the beast and the false prophet

Satan’s last revolt.

Rev 20:7-10 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.