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ARE YOU READY?
Luke 12:39-40
Introduction
Good morning church!
I am glad to be here with you all this morning and thankful to God for this great opportunity of sharing His word.
Let us begin our time with the word of prayer: Pray
Illustration
I would like to begin our time together with a real incident that took place in Nepal few years back.
There was a rich business man living in our community in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
He lived a luxury life with all the facilities at home including a huge garden and swimming pool inside his compound.
His house was in the corner of the city and it was quite far from other houses.
He might have thought of the potential danger of the thieves and security of his properties; but he never did anything about it.
He was so busy with his business and comfortable in his mini-palace that he didn't put security guards, dogs, auto lock gates and so on.
He used to wear a lot of golden jewelries and his wife and kids too.
He even had a kind of mini-bank at his house as he used to keep huge amount of cash at hand.
He was enjoying his life with his family in such lavishness.
One day, when he woke up in the morning, he realized that his house was broken by the thieves at night and got away with most of his valuables, cash and jewelries.
It was a huge shock for him as he never even thought of that and was never prepared for that kind of robbery.
It took him several days to accept that fact and he almost lost his mental balance because of that traumatic experience.
What would you do to safeguard your property if you were in that man's place?
Let us see what the Bible says about this.
Let us turn to the Gospel of Luke 12:39-40.
39 "But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
40 "You too, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect."
Let us pray for the revelation of His Word.
Prayer…..
The Topic that I am going to share with you this evening is:
"Are You Ready"?
According to Craig Blomberg, This little parable of the householder and the thief depicts two human characters, one trying to guard himself against the other.
It contrasts with those of earlier verses because here Jesus wants about being prepared for His return.
He encouraged them to be ready by noting the reward and blessing that the return will bring.
This same parable is found in the Gospel of Matthew in chapter 24 verses 42-44.
This is an allegorical parable where the householder stands for the person who is not well-prepared disciple of Jesus; and the thief represents the Son of man.
I would like to share three important things from this parable about the reasons to be ready:
1.
The Son of Man is Coming.
2. The Time is Unexpected.
3. The Command is to be Ready.
Let us look at these three reasons one at a time to understand their importance for readiness.
The Son of Man is Coming.
Explanation
Merrill Tenney says that the second coming of Christ is one of the most prominent doctrines in Scripture.
In the NT alone it is referred to over 300 times.
The term 'Son of Man' is used to refer to Jesus Christ.
The write of this Gospel, Luke portrays Jesus as the Son of Man in order to emphasize His humanity.
The metaphor of the Son of man as a thief does not mean that Christ is a robber.
The allegory is that He comes like a thief at an unexpected time.
Jesus is teaching Hid disciples to be freed from worldly cares through trust in the care of God and hope in His second coming.
They are not to be allured by the temptations of laziness, self-indulgence and self-assertion but to be ready to serve the Son of man when He comes.
The most important fact here is very clear that the Son of man is coming.
As this doctrine is one of the most prominent doctrines of the Scripture, it is also one of the doctrines with differences in people's opinion.
This doctrine has been discussed in many occasions but still the debate remains there.
Some people believe that the second coming of Jesus took place already on the day of Pentecost.
Others believe that His coming refers to our conversion as He comes into our hearts.
There are many views regarding the coming of the Son of man.
Christ Himself clarifies in John 21:23 that He will come again.
His coming will be the time of completing His redeeming work of the whole world, which is yet to come.
The coming of the Son of man is still to come and it will be the climax as the result God will be the all in all.
Illustration
There are many false prophets in the world who claim themselves as the Christ.
A man among those false teachers was Sun Myung Moon.
He was a Korean guy who claimed to be the Christ at the age of 15 on the Easter day.
He also claimed himself as the Lord of the second coming at the age of 15.
His followers considered him as the Christ and believed that the Son of man has already come and Sun Myung Moon is that Son of man.
This heresy is called "monism" and it has spread all over Asia and even in the world these days.
Application
As we know the fact that the Son of man is coming.
It’s the second coming which He had spoken many times before his death and resurrection.
He has just gone to prepare the place for us and He is coming to take us there.
We should be ready because He is coming to take us our eternal home which is heaven.
We must be careful with the false teacher and prophets who come up with such false teaching.
If anybody claims to be Christ and says that I'm from Christ, we must deny them.
We must be able to defend ourselves from those wolves who try to put us into their false trap.
If anybody comes to you saying that I'm Christ; you just reject them.
And also be careful if anybody comes to you saying that Christ came already; you just reject them too.
We know the Christ has not come yet.
Let us be careful with those monism and other false doctrines that are trying to spread the false teaching about the coming of the Son of man.
Let us know that He will come as He has commanded us to be ready for His coming.
So, we must be ready because the Son of Man is coming.
Are you ready for the coming of the Son of man?
The Time is Unexpected.
The metaphor of thief is used to communicate that the Son of man will come on an unexpected time just like a thief.
A thief never tells a householder before going to rob his house.
The householder can not even imagine the time when his house gets robbed.
The point here is; thief does not tell the time so that the householder does not know the time of coming of the thief.
Thief normally comes at times when the householder is not expecting the coming of the thief.
Likewise, the Son of man is also coming at the time which is unexpected.
Jesus compares His coming with a thief breaking into a house which clarifies that His coming is uncertain and unexpected.
Jesus never told the exact time of His coming.
Even Jesus did not know the time of His coming.
Only God the Father knows about the exact timing.
It is a total mystery for us as there is no way of calculating the time of His coming.
There are people in the world who have been spreading the false teaching about the time of the coming of Christ.
They even come up with certain dates with exact times when they think that the Son of man will come.
They use the tragedies of the world like; wars, famine, earthquake and so on to calculate the time.
And they say that these are the signs of the last day and the coming of Jesus will take place after these things.
But they have been proven wrong many times and they will be proven wrong if anybody comes to tell us the exact time.
Illustration
There is a big festival in Nepal during the month of August season which is normally celebrated for a week.
All the offices, companies and schools, colleges would be closed and people would be in the mood of celebration with having relatives at home and going to visit relatives as well.
The crime rate would be real low during that period of time and city centers, shopping malls and even the streets would be quiet and peaceful.
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