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0:27And the title of the sermon is: What
0:29kind of virgin are you? Let's read the
0:32text. It is extensive, but I think even
0:35today it might be a short sermon,
0:41because although it is a long text, the
0:43teaching is very clear and very simple.
0:46The text is Matthew, chapter 25, verses
0:491 through 13. Matthew chapter 25,
0:53verses 1 through 13. And this is what
0:57the word of God says. Then the kingdom
1:01of heaven will be like ten virgins who
1:03took their lamps and went out to meet
1:05the bridegroom. Five of them were
1:10foolish and five were prudent. For the
1:14foolish, when taking their lamps, took
1:16no oil with them. But the prudent took
1:21oil in jars along with their lamps. As
1:24the bridegroom was delayed, they all
1:26became drowsy and fell asleep. But at
1:30midnight there was a cry: "Here is the
1:32bridegroom!""Come out to meet him."
1:37Then all those virgins arose and
1:39trimmed their lamps. And the foolish
1:43said to the prudent, "Give us some of
1:44your oil, for our lamps are going out."
1:50But the prudent answered, saying, "No,
1:52there may not be enough for us and for
1:53you. Go instead to those who sell and
1:58buy for yourselves." And while they
2:03were going to buy, the bridegroom came,
2:04and those who were ready went in with
2:06him to the wedding feast, and the door
2:08was shut. Afterward the other virgins
2:13also came, saying, "Lord, Lord, open to
2:16us." But he answered and said, "Truly I
2:20tell you, I do not know you.""Watch
2:25therefore, for you know neither the day
2:27nor the hour." Brothers, I am going to
2:31pray for a minute asking for God's
2:33guidance for his word. Father, we ask
2:36you, Lord, to guide the preaching of
2:38this moment. Lord, I am weak and
2:44limited, but I am someone who trusts
2:46that you use the weak and limited. Lord
2:53, I am not here to show my expository
2:55talent, for I do not have it, but I am
2:57here as someone who depends on you to
2:58use me so that your church may be
3:00edified. And I fully trust that your
3:08Holy Spirit can use me as an instrument
3:11so that your church today, Lord, may
3:13learn, be confronted, be alerted, and
3:15look, Lord, to heaven, awaiting the
3:17coming of its Lord. Father, use me, use
3:24me, Lord, to be a faithful messenger of
3:27your word. Do not let me stray to the
3:30right or to the left. Do not let me add
3:34or take away, simply teach what is here
3:36so that your church learns what Jesus
3:38wanted to teach with these words. And
3:43this is what I ask of you in the name
3:44of Jesus. Amen. Amen and amen. Today I
3:50chose this parable for a reason. I
3:55think it is one of the most mistaught
3:57parables of all time. For example, if I
4:04were to ask you, "How many have heard
4:06that the lamps and oil relate to the
4:08Holy Spirit?" Many would say, "Me, and
4:13you have to be filled with the Holy
4:15Spirit, you have to have oil in your
4:16lamps." Very well. And how many? And
4:21this is what I find most concerning
4:23because that is not what the parable is
4:25about, yet many teach it that way. How
4:30many have ever heard that the 10
4:31virgins represent the church and that
4:33those five are the ones who will be
4:34lost within the church? People who
4:41belong to the church, but because they
4:43are not watching, they will be lost,
4:44because they won't be watching when
4:46Jesus comes. That has been taught,
4:50especially in contexts where they
4:52usually warn you, "You could be lost if
4:54you are not careful. You could be lost
4:56if you are not careful. You could be
4:58lost if you are not careful." And the
5:00parable isn't saying, "Relax, you won't
5:02be lost," either. But I believe those
5:06two points are taught often and they
5:07are not in the parable, they just
5:09aren't. One of the things I explained
5:13when we did the workshop on
5:15understanding scripture regarding
5:16parables, which for example, became
5:18very clear this Sunday, many told me, "
5:20I had never understood that text that
5:22way." But when I explained it, they saw
5:26it clearly. Why? All I did was read the
5:30previous chapter so they would
5:32understand that the text had a lot to
5:33do with what Jesus had been saying for
5:35an entire chapter. The great error
5:39regarding parables is the following.
5:43Taking parables and having my mind
5:44start to associate concepts with
5:46everything I have read in the Bible.
5:53Since in the Bible, oil was often used
5:55to anoint kings, prophets, and priests,
5:57then oil must mean the anointing. But
6:03that is not always the case, because,
6:07for example, in the New Testament, oil
6:09appears for anointing the sick and it
6:11has nothing to do with the anointing of
6:14oil for prophets, kings, and offices in
6:16the Old Testament. Sometimes oil can
6:20represent the Holy Spirit in some
6:22prophetic texts. Yes, but not always.
6:27Not always. How is the church
6:31represented in the Bible? Ah, always as
6:34sheep, right? As a bride as well. In
6:40this case, they could be virgins, but
6:42who is going to marry the bridegroom?
6:46Who marries the bridegroom? The bride,
6:49right? But in this case, the church is
6:51the bride. The bride doesn't even
6:54appear. The church is a group of
6:56virgins. So, there are things that
7:00sometimes mean something, but they
7:02don't always mean the same thing,
7:03because the bride doesn't even appear
7:05in this passage, but the church does
7:11appear in this passage. So, we have to
7:14be careful. For me, I will always say
7:18it, and every time I preach a parable,
7:20there are two things I like to do so I
7:22don't get it wrong. Because the mistake
7:26with parables is intuition, right?
7:30Because the oil could represent this,
7:32the groom could represent this, the
7:34wedding could represent this, but that
7:36can lead to a catastrophic error.
7:42Another very serious mistake is that we
7:44sometimes want to find the meaning of
7:46every detail of the parable. And
7:50sometimes Jesus is teaching something
7:51and says, "I don't want you to think
7:53about the virgins 'clothes or their
7:55lamps. I want you to think about the
7:58fact that the groom is coming suddenly,
8:00that you have to be watching." There is
8:04a clear teaching, and sometimes we
8:06spend more time looking for the meaning
8:08of details that aren't explained and we
8:09lose sight of the parable's teaching.
8:14Two things we have to do when we study
8:16parables. The first, ask. Always ask,
8:21what is Jesus addressing? Jesus never
8:26tells a parable out of nowhere. He
8:29always tells a parable in the middle of
8:31a topic he is already addressing. This
8:34Sunday we were able to see it. Jesus is
8:37addressing eternal life. The entire
8:39previous chapter was like that. The
8:40young man, "How will I inherit eternal
8:42life?" The others, none; it's easier
8:44for a rich man to...it's easier for a
8:46camel to go through the eye of a needle
8:48than for a rich man to be saved. Then,
8:51how can anyone be saved? For men it is
8:53impossible, but for God it is possible.
8:55Then Peter arrives and says, "What
8:57about us, we have left everything.""
8:58What will we receive?" Everything was
9:00about eternal life. Eternal life,
9:02salvation, what is to come. And that is
9:04when Jesus tells a parable. What is
9:09Jesus answering in this teaching? He is
9:12talking about the Holy Spirit with his
9:14disciples in the previous chapter. He
9:17is dedicated in those chapters that
9:19surround the parable to talking about
9:20the Holy Spirit, so that is the central
9:22theme for the lamps, right? So, I first
9:26have to ask, what is Jesus addressing?
9:30What is Jesus teaching? What is Jesus
9:32responding to? And secondly, the
9:35context, church, for the Lord's sake,
9:37context; a text out of its context only
9:40creates a pretext. Look, today I'm
9:46going to spend 10 minutes on this text
9:48and 40 minutes on all the texts
9:49surrounding it. After those 40 minutes,
9:53looking at all the surrounding texts,
9:55we'll spend 10 minutes on that text and
9:57you'll say, "Ah, it’s still talking
9:58about the same thing he talked about in
10:00the two previous chapters and the two
10:02following ones, because he's been
10:03talking about one thing for four
10:05chapters.""You'll see how simple it is
10:07and say,' Ah, look, it was easy after
10:09all. '""The Bible is not difficult. The
10:12thing is, the Bible is not for the lazy
10:14. The Bible is not for taking and
10:16saying,' What do you think? What do you
10:18interpret? What does the Lord tell you?
10:20'" No, the Bible is for studying. The
10:22Bible is meditated upon. The Bible is a
10:25book. The Bible is not loose verses. So
10:30, we need to understand this. But
10:33before we go to those chapters, those
10:34surrounding texts, we are going to
10:36explain a bit about what is happening
10:38here. When Jesus speaks in parables, he
10:41uses scenes and elements that are
10:43common to the people there. Brother,
10:46that wedding has nothing to do with our
10:48weddings. In our weddings, there is no
10:51court of virgins waiting for the groom.
10:55In our weddings, no one arrives with
10:57lit lamps. In our weddings, there is no
11:01one waiting for the groom to settle
11:02something until midnight. For starters,
11:06look at the differences between their
11:08weddings and our weddings. Ours don't
11:10have a dowry. There, there was a thing
11:13called a dowry. Here, no one got
11:15married for free. There was an exchange
11:17involved. You married someone, but it
11:19cost something or you took something
11:21with you. In these weddings, for
11:23example, do you know how long they
11:25lasted? The shortest could be 3 to 4
11:29days. There were weddings that extended
11:32up to two weeks if the family had
11:33resources. That was a party. That was a
11:36party. Two weeks eating and celebrating
11:40the union of the family. Two weeks.
11:46Sometimes ours last a few hours and
11:48they are already expensive. Imagine
11:51celebrating for two weeks, feeding many
11:53people. For us, some people even take
11:57out mortgages to get married for 3
11:59hours. Those were weeks. How could they
12:03do it? Obviously, they counted on the
12:05help of the people. Here sometimes rich
12:08families paid for everything, but often
12:10friends would contribute. I’ll bring
12:14two lambs, I’ll bring a cow, I’ll
12:16bring, I don't know, but that's how it
12:18was, they all helped each other. But
12:22let's analyze this text a bit to
12:24understand what a wedding was like. Yes
12:27, so we see some clear characters, two
12:29characters, a group of 10 virgins and a
12:31groom. Let's quickly go to the
12:36character we all know who he is. The
12:40groom. Who is the groom? Jesus, that's
12:45clear, he is the groom. The 10 virgins
12:51will be the issue of whether they are
12:53the church or if five wise virgins are
12:55the church and five foolish virgins are
12:57the ungodly who are not the church.
13:01That will be the most fundamental part.
13:04But let's understand what the virgins
13:06were doing there. Look, when there was
13:09a wedding back then, there was a
13:11tradition. The groom would go talk to
13:16the bride's family, mainly the bride's
13:17father and older brothers, and they
13:19would reach an agreement on what we
13:21have called the dowry and. It was done
13:25right before the wedding, a while
13:27before, a few hours before: the groom
13:29would go and talk. Hey, well, I’m
13:32going to marry your daughter. And they
13:35would reach an agreement on what would
13:37be exchanged for that matrimonial union
13:38. What would happen? Those meetings
13:43could last. Sometimes you would arrive
13:45and reach an agreement very quickly. I
13:47want this, this, and this. We’re
13:49getting married, fine, deal, deal. But
13:51sometimes not. Sometimes the meetings
13:54lasted a long time, an agreement wasn't
13:56reached that quickly, and there was a
13:58court of virgins waiting outside. Why?
14:03Because the groom would go straight
14:04from the meeting to the wedding area.
14:07And do you know who was waiting in the
14:08wedding area? The bride. Because at
14:12those weddings, the one who was
14:14expected was the groom. At those
14:17weddings, the protagonist was the groom
14:19. Not like ours, where the one who
14:22arrives late is the bride and on top of
14:24that they give her to you without a
14:25dowry, they give her to you for free
14:29and she arrives late. It wasn't like
14:32that there. So, the virgins were a
14:36group of people who were going to exalt
14:38the arrival of the groom. Back then,
14:44when you think about a wedding today,
14:45what is the moment when the whole room
14:47stands up?
14:50It’s very curious. First comes a
14:53little girl with petals. Nobody pays
14:55attention to the girl. The girl is
14:57usually distracted. The mother goes
14:59behind, please, throw them. She gets
15:01tired, she throws the whole basket. I
15:03vote for them to stop including
15:05children in weddings. They look nice in
15:07photos, but they're a lot of work. Some
15:10have run off with the rings, some have
15:12even eaten the petals. Stop using
15:14children. Don't use children. No, the
15:17kids don't even know there’s a
15:18wedding. Stop trying. Nowadays people
15:21are modernizing so much that I've even
15:23seen dogs come in with the ring on
15:25their back. But when the flower girl
15:28comes in, people go, "Oh, how cute,"
15:29and then pay no attention. Then the
15:32groom enters with his mother. Who pays
15:33attention to the groom? Nobody. Some
15:35people have seen the groom arrive and
15:37didn't even notice, like, "Oh, he's
15:39here." A stranger passing by in black,
15:41at that. The groom is the only one who
15:43wears the same clothes to his wedding
15:44as to his funeral. He doesn't spend on
15:48luxuries. Who comes after the groom?
15:52Often there's a court of groomsmen,
15:54bridesmaids, or whatever they're called
15:55, right? But people are like, "How nice
15:58, very good," but nothing more. But
16:01suddenly a voice says, "The bride is
16:02coming, the bride is coming." And
16:05people get desperate, they grab their
16:07phones, stand up, and there she is,
16:09brilliant in her white dress,
16:11everything stops, the music plays. That
16:14was supposed to be for the groom. The
16:17bride was there waiting for the groom.
16:19The people were there waiting for the
16:20groom. And those virgins with the lamps
16:23, they did that because weddings were
16:25mainly held in the evening. Why?
16:29Because you didn't get the day off for
16:30a wedding there. "Oh, I'm taking the
16:32day off, I have a wedding." No, people
16:34worked there and got married after the
16:36workday, in the late afternoon or
16:38evening. What did they do with the
16:40lamps? When the groom went out and
16:45headed to the wedding, that procession
16:47of virgins—which wasn't for the
16:48groom's benefit, though some have had
16:50dirty thoughts reading that—we aren't
16:52Muslims waiting for virgins in paradise
16:54. It has nothing to do with that. Those
17:00women would go five on one side, five
17:02on the other, lamp lit, lit like a
17:03torch, with the groom in the middle.
17:09And people from afar would only see
17:11those lamps shining and the groom
17:12radiant among them. That’s what the
17:17virgins were for: to wait for the groom
17:19, to exalt the groom, so the groom
17:20would shine, so the groom would stand
17:22out. That is what they were for. And
17:24many talk about the parable without
17:26even knowing that part. That’s why
17:29the oil was important, not because the
17:31oil was the Holy Spirit, but because
17:33back then there were no flashlights.
17:36Back then, lamps ran on oil. What
17:40happened with the oil? The bridegroom
17:42took too long. We don't know why. No
17:46agreement was reached. The meeting was
17:48delayed and the bridegroom took a long
17:50time. The bridegroom didn't show up
17:53until midnight. Some wedding, that.
17:55Midnight. But what happened with the
17:58oil? It started to dim and it started
18:01to run out. Because scholars,
18:04historians, estimate that the oil was
18:06used to soak a little wick that would
18:08catch fire, and as long as there was
18:10oil, it would burn, but once it dried
18:12up, that was it. They said that oil
18:16would burn for about 15 minutes. And
18:17then, what did they have to do? Dip the
18:21wick in oil again, light it again, and
18:23so on, constantly. What did some of the
18:26virgins do? Some virgins knew these
18:28things sometimes take hours, sometimes
18:30they don't get resolved quickly.
18:33Let’s bring extra oil because if the
18:35groom takes longer than 15 minutes, the
18:37light goes out and we’ve failed our
18:38job. Because that was the only thing
18:42expected of the virgins, their oil lamp
18:44, the only thing expected of them. So
18:48they were cautious, they were prudent,
18:50and they brought extra oil. Others,
18:53more laid-back, didn’t bring extra
18:55oil. They just went with their lamp.
18:57They must have thought, "No, this will
18:58go quickly. They told us they won't be
19:00long." And they were shortsighted, they
19:03didn't think things through. And at
19:06midnight someone announces, "The
19:07bridegroom is coming," and they start
19:09to light their lamps. "The prudent ones
19:13have enough oil to light them again,
19:14but the foolish ones don't. And they
19:17ask the prudent ones," Give me some of
19:19your oil, give me your oil because the
19:20bridegroom is coming and I don't have
19:22any. "And the prudent one says," I
19:23can't, because we don't know how long
19:25it will take to get there if our light
19:26goes out along the way. "And I have to
19:28do my part. I was only given one task
19:31and I have to do it. I mean, it's your
19:33problem. I’ll give you a piece of
19:35advice: go and buy some. What’s the
19:37problem? That they didn't have 24-hour
19:39stores like we do. It was midnight,
19:41where were you going to find oil? It
19:44was something they couldn't do; there
19:46was no hope. It was an impossible task.
19:51So they went out in desperation. We'll
19:53find something, there must be somewhere
19:55, we'll knock on a door and ask them to
19:56lend us oil. But by the time they went
20:00and returned, the bridegroom had
20:01already come and shut the door, and
20:03they could no longer enter. But when
20:07they knock, the bridegroom says a
20:09phrase to them; they say an expression,
20:11" Lord, Lord, open to us. "Lord, Lord,
20:16open to us. Very similar, as we will
20:19see, to an expression we hear like,"
20:21Not everyone who says to me,' Lord,
20:23Lord, 'will enter the kingdom of heaven
20:25. "Here again appears the same
20:28expression, Lord. Lord, open to us.
20:32Lord, Lord, I want to enter the kingdom
20:34of heaven. But what does He answer?"
20:38Truly I tell you, I do not know you. "
20:42Why do I know, and I will break it down
20:44later, that it is not the church that
20:46is lost? Because the Lord does not say
20:50that I have stopped knowing you. The
20:53Lord does not say," You have ceased to
20:55be mine. "The Lord uses a very clear
20:57expression. I do not know you." I never
21:00knew you, "appears in other texts. It
21:02is not the first time you will have
21:04read that expression. I never knew you.
21:08And that expression Jesus never uses
21:10for His lost church, but for the
21:11ungodly, some of whom have even
21:13pretended to be the church. They have
21:17been able to walk among the church,
21:18they have been able to be among the
21:20church, but they were never the church.
21:22And that is why He tells them," I do
21:24not know you. "The word" know "here
21:27cannot be taken as the knowing of" I
21:29know your name is John, "because God
21:31knows everyone. That word from the
21:35mouth of God, if you understand it that
21:37way, makes no sense. I do not know you.
21:40It makes no sense if we understand it
21:42as an intellectual knowledge of who a
21:44person is, since God knows both the
21:46church and the ungodly. But the word"
21:50know "in the Bible also refers to
21:52intimacy, to knowing in a much more
21:54intimate sense. Even the word" know "in
21:57the Bible is sometimes used for sexual
21:59relations in marriage. That is what the
22:03Lord is referring to, saying," I do not
22:04, I have no relationship with you. "No,
22:06I do not know you, I do not know who
22:08you are. I never—we have never been
22:10related. So, we are now going to see
22:15texts around the parable that will make
22:16us think about what Jesus is talking
22:18about all the time around that parable.
22:22What is Jesus' theme around that
22:23parable? And to understand what Jesus '
22:26theme is in that parable. We have been
22:29reading Matthew 25. I want us to go
22:31back a little bit. Matthew 22: 1-14. We
22:37find a parable that is about a wedding
22:39banquet. in which we have read, there
22:44was a groom, and a groom appears
22:45because there is going to be a
22:48Matthew 22 has another parable, which
22:51is a wedding banquet, and in that
22:52wedding banquet there are two groups
22:54and two destinations. verses 4 to 6 say
22:59this:" Again he sent other servants,
23:01saying,' Tell those who have been
23:03invited, look, I have killed my oxen
23:08and fattened cattle, and everything is
23:10prepared. Come to the wedding. '"But
23:12they paid no attention and went off,
23:14one to his field, another to his
23:16business, and the rest seized the
23:17servants, mistreated them, and killed
23:19them. We see there are people who were
23:23invited to a wedding, but they paid no
23:25attention to the wedding and left.
23:28Verse 9 and 10." Go therefore to the
23:32main roads and invite to the wedding
23:34feast as many as you find. "And those
23:38servants went out into the roads and
23:39gathered all whom they found, both bad
23:41and good, and the wedding hall was
23:43filled with guests. Verse 13 and 14. I
23:47am not going to read the whole thing
23:49every time because otherwise it will
23:51take too long. Then the king said to
23:53the servants," Bind him hand and foot
23:55and cast him into the outer darkness. "
23:58" In that place there will be weeping
24:00and gnashing of teeth, for many are
24:01called, but few are chosen. "Matthew 22
24:04, there is a wedding banquet. There is
24:07someone who has prepared a banquet
24:08because there is a wedding, and he
24:10invited some people, and those people
24:12did not go to that wedding, they did
24:13not want to go to that wedding, but
24:15then he sent other servants to look for
24:16other people who did agree to go to the
24:18wedding. Those who agreed to go to the
24:22wedding participated in the wedding,
24:24but another group was bound and cast
24:25into a place called weeping, where
24:27there will be weeping and gnashing of
24:29teeth, which we know very well refers
24:30to eternal punishment. It says," Many
24:34are called, that is, many have been
24:36invited, but few are chosen. "So, we
24:38see a parable, there is a wedding, and
24:40there are two groups. one group that
24:43will be at the wedding and one group
24:44that will be punished because they will
24:46not be at the wedding. At some point we
24:50see that those who were invited but did
24:52not go to the wedding are the church.
24:55No, have you never thought about that?
24:57You thought it was the people who did
24:59not want to know about God. And those
25:01who did accept to go to the wedding are
25:03the people who believed the gospel and
25:04did want to go to the Lord. That is why
25:07they will go to the wedding, and those
25:08who did not accept will be punished
25:10eternally. We don’t see it as anyone
25:13who is lost, that is, someone who was a
25:15believer and stopped being one; a group
25:17that is the group of believers who will
25:19be saved and a group, the group of
25:21non-believers who will be condemned. If
25:23we continue reading Matthew 24, verses
25:261 through 14, it speaks of the signs of
25:28the end. It is a very extensive chapter
25:31where, from 1 to 14, it speaks of the
25:33signs of the end, and from 15 to 31, it
25:35speaks of the abomination of desolation
25:38. The discourse in Matthew 24, many
25:40theologians call it the eschatological
25:42discourse of Jesus, because Jesus
25:44speaks of what the end times will be
25:46like. What will the end times be like?
25:50And we find some very interesting
25:51things. For example, in Matthew 24,
25:54from 32 to 55, there is another parable
25:57, which is the parable of a fig tree.
26:00It has to do with a fig tree. And in
26:02this parable that has to do with a fig
26:04tree, it is no longer about weddings;
26:05we find the following. Verse 33. So
26:09also you, when you see all these things
26:11, know that he is near, at the doors.
26:15What is that parable talking about? The
26:19last times. When you see these things,
26:21know that he is near. Okay? Never
26:25forget our parable throughout all time.
26:27Our parable speaks of a groom who
26:28arrives. For believers, what is that?
26:32The coming of Christ. Matthew 24, signs
26:36of the end, announcements of the coming
26:38of Christ. Matthew 22, other weddings
26:42that have to do with eternity. People
26:45who will be condemned and people who
26:47will be rewarded. Matthew 24,
26:49announcements of the end and of the
26:51coming of Christ. The parable of the
26:53fig tree, verse 33, warnings that the
26:55coming of Christ is near. Verses 36 and
26:5937, but about that day and hour, no one
27:02knows. How did our parable end? It
27:09spoke of how no one knows the day and
27:11the hour. How curious. How curious.
27:16Words. I want you to see that many of
27:18Jesus' phrases are repeated because it
27:20is the central theme. But about that
27:23day and hour no one knows, not even the
27:25angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only
27:27the Father. For as in the days of Noah,
27:30so will be the coming of the Son of Man
27:31. Verse 42. Therefore, watch, for you
27:35do not know on what day your Lord comes
27:38. You do not know on what day the groom
27:40comes. Verse 44. Therefore, you also be
27:44prepared, because at the hour you do
27:46not expect, the Son of Man will come.
27:48That whole parable speaks of what,
27:50brothers? Of the coming of Christ. It
27:53is clear. You don't need to be a
27:54theologian or a professor. Jesus
27:56himself says it. You do not know the
27:57day or the hour. Besides, there are
27:59three characteristics. Number one, he
28:01speaks of the coming of the Lord.
28:03Number two, how should we be knowing
28:04the Lord is coming? Watching, prepared.
28:07That word is used all the time. Stay
28:09alert. Stay prepared. Stay watching.
28:12And why must we be constantly watching?
28:14Why? No one knows the day or the hour.
28:18Three things Jesus teaches around these
28:20chapters. End times. The Lord is coming
28:23. Number two, you must be watching like
28:27wise virgins. And number three, no one
28:33knows the day or the hour, like the
28:34virgins who didn't know when the groom
28:36would arrive. Everything is connected.
28:41We shouldn't look for small things we
28:43don't understand when the clear
28:45teaching, as we'll see at the end, is
28:46one. The church is watching because the
28:51groom comes without warning. You'll see
28:55, it's simple when you read all of this
28:57. Let's read Matthew 24 again. Verses
29:0545 to 51, we find what we call the
29:07parable of the faithful and the wicked
29:09servant. Verse 48 says," But if that
29:15wicked servant says in his heart, my
29:18Lord is delaying. "What does the wicked
29:21servant say? The wicked servant says,
29:27what?
29:29Why were the foolish virgins so relaxed
29:31? Delay.
29:33Because the groom is delayed. The thing
29:36is, now they are not foolish virgins
29:38relaxing because the groom is delayed.
29:40Now it's a servant they call wicked who
29:42is relaxed because he says the Lord is
29:44delaying. Who is the Lord who is
29:46delaying? Jesus Christ. In the other
29:49one, what are they called? The groom.
29:52Who is the foolish one in our text? The
29:55virgins. Who is the foolish one in this
29:57one?
29:58They represent the same thing. Yes.
30:00They also use different terms. Be
30:02careful with parables; not everything
30:04represents the same thing. Sometimes
30:06different things represent the same
30:08thing. Verse 49 says," The Lord of that
30:11servant will come on a day he does not
30:13expect and at an hour he does not know.
30:15"At the end of this parable, do you
30:20know what he does with the unfaithful
30:22servant? If you've read it, he punishes
30:24him. And what does that punishment
30:27represent? Eternal punishment. And what
30:30does he do with the good servant? He
30:31rewards him. What does that good
30:33servant who was watching and waiting
30:35for his Lord represent? The wise
30:37virgins. All the parables surrounding
30:42our chapter speak of one thing: the
30:44coming of the Lord and two groups. One
30:48that will be rewarded and one that will
30:49be punished. Who are the ones rewarded?
30:54The church. Who are the ones punished?
30:57The wicked. Wheat and tares, sheep and
31:02goats. Is the goat perhaps a believer
31:06in the church who stopped being a
31:08believer? Never. The goat is a
31:12non-believer in the scriptures, the
31:14wicked. The tare is someone who was
31:16wheat and turned into a tare. There is
31:18never wheat and there is never a tare.
31:22So, parables are often a way Jesus
31:24classifies the world into two groups as
31:27God sees the world. Wicked and
31:31believers, wheat and tares, sheep and
31:33goats, wise and foolish virgins, good
31:35servant, bad servant. And we could go
31:40on with a lot more passages that are
31:42simply teaching that when the Lord
31:43comes there will be a judgment and in
31:45that judgment there will be two groups,
31:47condemned and rewarded. Simple. Jesus
31:51was not someone who taught difficult
31:53things if you pay attention. But the
31:58problem is we don't read carefully. And
32:00it amuses me that there are people who
32:02say," I've heard this, pastor. I've
32:04been reading this parable for an hour
32:06and there are things that don't add up.
32:08"Midnight, what does midnight represent
32:10? It represents midnight. Midnight. No,
32:18it's just that I've seen pastors saying
32:20," Brothers, this is clear. I don't
32:22know how we don't see it. Jesus will
32:24come at midnight. "No, no, of the day
32:27or hour no one knows. No, but it says
32:31midnight here. Midnight was at that
32:33wedding. The other wedding of the bad
32:35servant, maybe it was at 4 in the
32:36afternoon. The thief who comes in the
32:40night, maybe he came at 3 in the
32:41morning. That's not what it means. And
32:45I've seen people preaching this parable
32:47spending half an hour on midnight, the
32:49other half hour on being filled with
32:50the Holy Spirit. And I'm thinking,"
32:53That has nothing to do with what's here
32:55. "Ah, but then I'm going to read a
32:58parable just to tell people, Jesus is
33:00coming and we must be watching because
33:02there will be a judgment and if that is
33:04the teaching, what you have to teach is
33:05what Jesus teaches. The problem is I
33:09don't know why there is an obsession
33:11among pastors to say," I have to say
33:13something that no one has said to seem
33:14more spiritual and inspired by God. "
33:19Someone once told me," Pastor, I heard
33:21this message of yours, I've heard it
33:22like eight times and everyone says the
33:24same thing. "I say," And the day they
33:26tell you something different, run. "
33:29Because the normal thing would be that
33:31all the pastors who preach on a text
33:32teach exactly the same thing. If we are
33:36teaching differently, the problem lies
33:38with us. Brother, the church must not
33:43innovate in its message; it must repeat
33:45the scriptures century after century.
33:49The problem is that today's people are
33:50consumerists, like in restaurants:"
33:52Give me something new, I'm tired of the
33:54same thing. "Listen, brother, the Word
33:56is one. I am not going to give you
33:59anything new. I am going to give you
34:01what the church has been giving for
34:032,000 years. And if I preach for 40
34:04years, for 40 years you will say," This
34:06sermon again? "Yes, again. The good
34:10thing is I have from Genesis to
34:12Revelation to vary, but I must say what
34:14the Bible says. Matthew 25: 14-30 has
34:19another parable, you know it as the
34:25parable of the talents, right? Use your
34:29gifts. But one must be very careful how
34:32that parable is explained. Very careful
34:35, because the first thing I hear when I
34:39hear this parable is: God gave you a
34:41talent and you have to use it, you
34:43can't hide it or He will punish you.
34:45And I, goodness, the one being punished
34:48is a wicked person, not a believer who
34:50didn't use their talent. And the sermon
34:54revolves and revolves around that.
34:56Verse 14 of this parable says," For the
34:58kingdom of heaven is like a man
35:00traveling to a far country, who called
35:02his own servants and delivered his
35:03goods to them. "A man goes on a journey
35:08, a businessman, the master of a land.
35:10Who does that master represent?
35:12Christ. Verse 21. His lord said to him,
35:15" Well done, good and faithful servant;
35:17you were faithful over a few things, I
35:18will make you ruler over many. "" Enter
35:20into the joy of your lord. "There is a
35:23servant who has been good and will be
35:24rewarded. In verse 30, there is another
35:27phrase." And cast the unprofitable
35:29servant, a wicked servant, into the
35:31outer darkness. There will be weeping
35:33and gnashing of teeth. "A master leaves
35:35. Who came and left, only to return?
35:38Jesus. He said," Be watchful. "" I have
35:43left my things. "" Take care of my
35:44things. "Two groups: a good servant and
35:47a wicked servant. Two destinies when
35:50the Lord returns, and we do not know
35:52the day or the hour He comes, but He is
35:54coming back. That we do know. And when
35:56He returns, a destiny for the good
35:57servants: good and faithful servant,
35:59you have been faithful over a few
36:01things, I will make you ruler over many
36:03. What does that point to? Eternal
36:05reward. Unprofitable servant, you are
36:07useless, weeping and gnashing of teeth,
36:09eternal punishment. Ah, but the
36:12servants are the church. The church is
36:15not going to be sent where there is
36:16weeping and gnashing of teeth. Those
36:18servants are not the church. There are
36:21some who are God's people, those who
36:23will be rewarded, and there are some
36:24who are wicked. But since the word
36:29servant in scripture is often used to
36:30speak of God's people, then all the
36:32servants in the parable are God's
36:34people. Then we have a problem. That is
36:39the problem when it comes to
36:40interpreting the parables. If we read
36:44Matthew 25: 31-46—I know I'm giving a
36:47lot of texts—but you see they all
36:49talk about the same thing. Verses 31 to
36:5434, this speaks of the final judgment.
36:57Look at what it says." But when the Son
37:00of Man comes in His glory "—who is
37:01the Son of Man in our parable? The
37:05bridegroom, right? When the bridegroom
37:09comes and all the angels with him, then
37:11he will sit on his glorious throne and
37:13all the nations will be gathered before
37:14him; and he will separate them from one
37:16another, as a shepherd separates the
37:18sheep from the goats, and he will put
37:20the sheep on his right and the goats on
37:21the left. Then the King will say to
37:25those on his right," Come, you who are
37:27blessed by my Father, inherit the
37:29kingdom prepared for you from the
37:30foundation of the world. "Verse 41.
37:33Then he will also say to those on his
37:35left," Depart from me, you cursed, into
37:37the eternal fire which has been
37:38prepared for the devil and his angels.
37:40"Verse 46. And these will go away into
37:44eternal punishment. Who goes there? The
37:48goats, the wicked, and the sheep, who
37:50are the righteous, go to eternal life.
37:55Brother, we have gone through Matthew
37:5825, Matthew 24, Matthew 22, and the
38:00whole time Jesus is talking about
38:02exactly the same thing. The Lord is
38:07coming, and when the Lord comes—we
38:09don't know the day or the hour—there
38:11will be a great separation into two
38:12groups, some who will be condemned and
38:14others who will be gloriously rewarded
38:16for all eternity. You don't have to get
38:21lost in the details of the parable when
38:23Jesus 'teaching is clear and simple,
38:25and it is that. Church, my people, when
38:29I come, will be watching, will be
38:31attentive, will be doing what I expect
38:33of them. So, two main points of the
38:38parable, and we find them in verses 10
38:41through 13. And while they were going
38:44to buy, the bridegroom came. Of all the
38:47parables we have read, I could put it
38:49this way. And while the servant was
38:51distracted, the Lord came. And while he
38:53was distracted, the owner of the land
38:55came. And while he was distracted, the
38:58shepherd of the sheep and the others
38:59came. They call him Lord, they call him
39:02owner of the vineyard, they call him
39:04Son of Man, they call him bridegroom,
39:06but it all points to the coming of
39:07Christ. And while they went to buy, the
39:11bridegroom came and those who were
39:13prepared went in with him to the
39:14wedding banquet and the door was shut.
39:19Afterward the other virgins came also,
39:22saying," Lord, Lord, open to us. "But
39:24he answered and said," Assuredly, I say
39:26to you, I do not know you. Watch
39:28therefore, for you know neither the day
39:30nor the hour. "These are very similar
39:33words to those we have seen before."
39:35Lord, Lord, "appears in other texts.
39:38You do not know the day nor the hour.
39:40It appears in other texts. I do not
39:42know you. It appears in other texts.
39:46Jesus is saying the same things to his
39:48disciples for three or four chapters in
39:50different ways, because he wants
39:51something to be engraved in their minds
39:53and hearts. I am coming back. You do
40:00not know when you must be watching,
40:01because there will be many who will be
40:03judged. And I want to make it clear to
40:06you with the fig tree. And I want to
40:08make it clear to you with the wedding
40:10banquet. And I want to make it clear to
40:12you with the 10 virgins. And I want to
40:13make it clear to you with the servants
40:15and the talents. And I want to make it
40:16clear to you with all of that. But I am
40:18coming back; there will be a judgment
40:20and two destinies. The only thing is,
40:25everything else that people teach you
40:27and that you do not see in other texts,
40:29doubt it. Why doesn't the oil as the
40:36Holy Spirit fit for me here? In this
40:39text. Ah, pastor, there are others who
40:41do, but not in this one. Why? Because
40:45we have seen in all the parables that
40:46the groups are two: believers and the
40:48ungodly. And the ungodly do not have
40:51the Holy Spirit. And the ungodly will
40:54not be filled with the Holy Spirit. And
40:56the ungodly do not neglect the Holy
40:58Spirit they never had. And those
41:03foolish virgins had oil, it just ran
41:05out. So am I saying that the ungodly
41:07have had the Holy Spirit, but it has
41:09gone out? No, those lamps do not
41:13represent the Holy Spirit. Could I say
41:19that the virgins representing the
41:20church should be filling themselves
41:22with the Holy Spirit? Yes, Ephesians
41:25says so. Do not be drunk with wine, but
41:27be filled with the Holy Spirit, because
41:29that is what the people of God do. Amen
41:31.
41:32But in that passage the lamps are not
41:34the Holy Spirit, because in all the
41:39surrounding passages they aren't either
41:40, and it doesn't appear. So we find,
41:44number one, a contrast between two
41:46groups, like everything we've seen
41:48before. But he answered and said,"
41:51Truly I say to you, I do not know you.
41:54"Two groups. The parable has the same,
41:58the same structure as the others. a
42:01contrast of two groups and two
42:03destinies. Those are the parables that
42:07Jesus is teaching in this text. The
42:13wise virgins who represent the people
42:15of God, who will be watching when their
42:17Lord comes, and the foolish virgins who
42:19represent the ungodly who are not
42:21expecting His coming, and when He comes
42:22, the door will be shut for them and
42:24they will be condemned. Matthew 7:21 to
42:3023. Not everyone who says to me," Lord,
42:33Lord, "will enter the kingdom of heaven
42:35. What did those foolish virgins say?"
42:40Lord, Lord, did they enter the kingdom
42:42of heaven? "
42:43No. What did Matthew 7 say? Not
42:46everyone who says to me," Lord, Lord, "
42:48will enter the kingdom of heaven, but
42:50he who does the will of my Father who
42:52is in heaven. Who will enter the
42:54kingdom of heaven? He who does the will
42:56of God who is in heaven. What were the
42:59wise virgins doing? The bridegroom's
43:02will. Because they only had one thing
43:05to do, to have their lamp lit. If those
43:07virgins spoke today and we told them,"
43:09Hey, what a great job you did. "Do you
43:11know what those virgins would tell us?
43:13I am an unworthy servant. I only did
43:16what I had to do. Eh, virgins, I didn't
43:20expect you to put flowers on the road,
43:22or to sing a serenade. We only expected
43:26one thing from you, to be alert with
43:28your lamp lit. And you did well, church
43:31. The Lord only expects one thing from
43:33us, that we be watching, doing the
43:35Father's will. Right, He doesn't expect
43:37us to stand on our heads. Eh, the
43:42virgins weren't doing anything
43:43extraordinary, they were doing their
43:45duty. When the Lord comes, the church
43:47won't be doing anything extraordinary,
43:49it will be doing what the church must
43:51do, watch and wait for the Lord, kept
43:53blameless and in holiness. Nothing more
43:56. And the Lord will come and say," Very
43:59well, you only had to wait for me while
44:01preaching, watching, and keeping
44:03yourselves pure, and you are doing it.
44:05"" So, I have arrived, and you are
44:06coming with me. "" And the rest of the
44:08people, who like in the days of Noah
44:10paid no heed, the door was shut. "There
44:14is no longer a way to enter. You can't
44:16enter the ark once the door has been
44:18closed. You can't enter the wedding
44:20feast once the groom shuts the door.
44:22What does that mean? It applies to the
44:24ungodly too. Come to Christ today,
44:26because that day there will be no more
44:28hope. No matter how much you kneel at
44:33the Lord's feet on judgment day, there
44:35will be no mercy. No matter how much
44:38you weep at His feet that day, there
44:40will be no mercy. Once the door is
44:43closed, there is no more entry. Surely
44:47when the flood began, many pleaded with
44:49Noah," Open up, open up, open up! "But
44:53it was too late, because the one who
44:55shut the ark's door wasn't Noah, it was
44:57God. Because surely, Noah's human heart
45:01would have said," You see, he was right
45:03, come in. "But it was God as if saying
45:05," Noah, we already gave warning; the
45:08judgment isn't yours, the judgment is
45:10Mine. "We warn people," The groom is
45:15coming, the door will close, "and when
45:17judgment comes, many will say," Juan
45:19Manuel preached to us that day. ""
45:21Martin preached to us, Jose Miguel
45:23preached to us, Clicia preached to us,
45:25"and yes, but no, now, Juan Macreo, I
45:27see him coming. No, not anymore. The
45:29door closed, two groups. two groups.
45:37Not everyone who says to me," Lord,
45:38Lord, "will enter the kingdom of heaven
45:40, but the one who does the will of my
45:41Father who is in heaven. Many will say
45:43to me on that day," Lord, Lord, did we
45:45not prophesy in your name and in your
45:47name drive out demons and in your name
45:48perform many miracles? "And then I will
45:50declare," I never knew you. "What did
45:53He say to the foolish virgins? I do not
45:56know you. The same expression, the same
45:59expression. They say," Lord, Lord, "and
46:02He says to them," I do not know you. "
46:04In Matthew 7, many will say," Lord,
46:06Lord, "and He will say," I do not know
46:08you. "But they aren't the church. Ah,
46:10it was church people who were lost. No,
46:12it was people who were with the people
46:14of God, they were among the people of
46:16God, but were not of the people of God.
46:18Because Jesus said," I never knew you.
46:20"" You prophesied, you did a thousand
46:22things, but I never knew you. "The
46:25groom could have said to them," Yes,
46:27you were with the virgins, you walked
46:29with the virgins, you were with them,
46:30but I do not know you five. "I do not
46:34know you. Depart from me, you who
46:38practice iniquity." Luke 13:25 says,'
46:40When once the master of the house has
46:43risen and shut the door, and you begin
46:45to stand outside and knock at the door,
46:48saying, Lord, open to us. '"Does that
46:51word sound familiar to you? Shut door.
46:53Lord, open to us. What does that sound
46:55like? Our parable. He will answer and
47:01say to you," I do not know where you
47:02come from. "That expression in the
47:05original Greek is exactly similar to I
47:06do not know you. Another text, Luke
47:1013:25 is saying that. When the Lord
47:13shuts the door and you knock," Lord,
47:15open to us, "eh," I do not know where
47:18you come from, I do not know you. "Once
47:20again, people who will be left outside.
47:23People who will be left outside. Luke
47:2513:27 to 28. And he will say," I tell
47:28you, I do not know where you come from.
47:29"" Depart from me, all you workers of
47:31iniquity. "Where to? There will be
47:33weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you
47:35see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all
47:37the prophets in the kingdom of God. But
47:40yourselves thrust out. That teaches us
47:45something nice. We already know a group
47:47of people who will be with us in
47:48eternity. Who? Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
47:52and all the prophets of the kingdom of
47:54God. Because there will be no irony
47:57there, because I really want to meet
47:58Abraham and say," No, you didn't mess
48:00up with your wife to be the father of
48:02faith. "How did you think, out of fear,
48:06to let someone else take her to bed? I
48:09would talk so much, but it's Abraham.
48:11Who has the nerve to joke with him?
48:12Abraham. Maybe I don't know, but there
48:18are many questions. Who wrestled with
48:21an angel and ended up limping? Don't
48:25you have questions for Jacob? There are
48:27people who, when they study that text,
48:28have questions. What was the angel like
48:30? What do you mean he wrestled with an
48:31angel? How so? Well, we will know,
48:33right? That day we will be having
48:35dinner. I’m calling a seat next to
48:36Jacob because I have many. How did it
48:38occur to you to fight an angel? Who
48:39defeats an angel? What were you
48:41thinking? I mean, I understand a bit
48:43about David and the other, but an angel
48:45, the angel of the Lord and you win.
48:47Come on, he let himself be beaten and
48:48we all know it. I have questions. Isaac
48:54, Isaac, what were you thinking while
48:55your father took you to the mountain
48:57and started tying you to a stone? What
48:59were you thinking? I mean, what game
49:01are we playing? When is mom arriving? I
49:03mean, Dad, what game is this? Dad, what
49:06is that knife for? What were you
49:08thinking at that moment? We have many
49:10questions, I have many interviews to
49:13conduct there myself. There won't be
49:15YouTube to post them, but it would be
49:17so good. Just as I interviewed David
49:18Barceló, to interview the apostle Paul
49:20. Let's see, Paul, tell us. I think
49:25eternity will be necessary for
49:26everything we would need to ask. I
49:29don't know if there will be time to ask
49:31all the questions because I can imagine
49:32Paul there with a whole crowd. Paul,
49:34Paul, Paul, Paul, worse than Justin
49:36Bieber with 15-year-old girls. So I
49:39suppose that when we are in glory we
49:41will all be one just like the other.
49:45The second thing we see is the attitude
49:47of the wise virgins. The group that is
49:51lost is there knocking at the door too
49:53late and the Lord doesn't tell them,"
49:54You've been lost, you were mine and
49:56you've been lost. "He doesn't tell them
49:58," I don't know you. "" You have never
49:59been mine. "But the attitude of the
50:01wise virgins, what were they doing?
50:03They were keeping watch. They were
50:05keeping watch. Look at what Luke 12, 35
50:08to 40 says. Be always prepared and keep
50:11your lamps burning. And be like men who
50:15wait for their master to return from
50:17the wedding. Mind you, before they were
50:22virgins with lit lamps waiting for the
50:24groom. Now they are men who wait with
50:27lit lamps for the Lord who returns from
50:28the wedding. But everything represents
50:32the same thing, to open to him as soon
50:34as he arrives and calls. Blessed are
50:37those servants whom the Lord will find
50:39when he comes
50:41keeping watch. How should we be when
50:43the Lord comes? Brother, it scares me
50:45to see that the church today lives as
50:47if the Lord were not coming back. We
50:49are not keeping watch. We are very
50:53relaxed with Netflix, very hooked. That
50:55super good series that has nine seasons
50:57. When a believer comes to me proudly
50:59and says," I've watched seven seasons
51:01in three days. "I say," I would be
51:03ashamed. "" Because that means hours in
51:05front of a screen. "And how much have
51:07you prayed? How much have you read the
51:08Bible? Because seven seasons in a week,
51:11I would be ashamed that you watched
51:13even one. It's hours in front of a
51:18screen, and among proud believers. Hey,
51:20brother, I've watched a great series on
51:23Netflix. I watched the first season in
51:25a day, one night I stayed up late to
51:27watch TV. Oh, it's just that I lost
51:31sleep. Well, no. When I was in the
51:33church that I knew the Lord, when you
51:35lost sleep, do you know what it meant?
51:37The Lord wants to talk to you. That's
51:40how it was. And I don't doubt it,
51:43because there are days I've woken up
51:45and said," I don't need to use the
51:46bathroom, I'm not thirsty, my back
51:48doesn't hurt. "Oh, I see, I see. When
51:54everyone is sleeping, you want me awake
51:56just for you. That is how it is. Not
51:59today, today I lost sleep, I put on HBO
52:02, Netflix. No, brother, you don't
52:04understand that God wants to talk to
52:06you. Then you say to the pastor,"
52:07Pastor, I feel like God doesn't hear me
52:09, "but if you wake up at 4 in the
52:11morning for a week, it is you who
52:12doesn't hear Him. There are people who
52:15are not watching, brother. Pastor, that
52:18is very...it's mystical. God wakes
52:20people up at 4, at 3, at 2. There are
52:23people who can't fall asleep and think
52:24it's worry. And you think," If I'm not
52:26worried, if I don't have debts, why
52:28can't I fall asleep? "Because God
52:30doesn't want you to. Start praying.
52:35Brother, I have always thought that the
52:37one most interested in us speaking with
52:39Him is Him, and when we don't seek Him,
52:41He makes us seek Him somehow. I wake
52:43you at 4 and you don't come, come on. I
52:45don't let you fall asleep and you don't
52:47come, come on. And now I leave you
52:48unemployed, how are you going to come?
52:50But you are going to talk to me, you
52:51are going to talk to me because what a
52:53father loves most is having chats with
52:55his child. Someone is going to pray
52:58today so as not to lose their job.
53:03Brothers, all this, in the end, what I
53:05want to say is that the Lord is coming
53:11and we are like in the days of Noah.
53:14The worst part is that it seems the
53:15church is like in the days of Noah,
53:17marrying and being given in marriage.
53:19That's not—what's wrong with that?
53:20Getting married, right? The problem
53:23represents that we are not paying
53:24attention to His coming. We are not
53:29watching. And that doesn't mean you
53:31will be lost; whoever is not watching,
53:33it's not that they will be lost, it's
53:35that they never were, because those who
53:37are, watch. I return to the same point.
53:41That is how it is. Blessed are those
53:43servants whom the Lord finds watching
53:45when He comes; truly I tell you, He
53:47will dress Himself to serve and will
53:48have them recline at the table and will
53:50come and serve them. It is not only
53:52beautiful that He is going to come and
53:54that there will be weddings, but in
53:56this passage, it also says that we will
53:57be served by the Lord. There will be a
54:03wedding, and can you imagine sitting
54:04down and having the Lord serve you? I
54:10am already serving Him now, because I
54:12would be deeply ashamed to do nothing
54:13for Him here and then have Him serve me
54:15there. No, brother, the Lord is great,
54:21and whether He comes in the second
54:23watch—look at what it says now—or
54:25even in the third, for we do not know
54:27when He comes. And He finds them like
54:32that; blessed are those servants. I
54:36don’t know if He will come in the
54:38second watch or the third, at 3:00 PM
54:39or 10:00 AM or at night, but whatever
54:41hour it is, you must be watching. You
54:48can be sure that if the master of the
54:49house had known at what hour the thief
54:51was coming, he would not have allowed
54:53his house to be broken into. You also
54:57must be prepared, for the Son of Man
54:59will come at an hour you do not expect.
55:05All these texts are similar, brothers.
55:08I conclude: the Lord is going to come.
55:13His church, like wise virgins, must be
55:16watching. And when the bridegroom comes
55:20, we won't have run off because we
55:22won't be doing what we shouldn't; we
55:23will be waiting for Him. When Jesus
55:28comes, we will be waiting for Him. He
55:34may catch some of us eating at home,
55:36others in a service, others sleeping,
55:38but with a life that waits for the Lord
55:40. Waiting for the Lord. But those who
55:50are out there—not the church, those
55:51who are out there—like the foolish
55:53virgins who believe He won't come
55:55because He delays, will not have an
56:03extra chance when the Lord comes. The
56:11day to preach the gospel is today as
56:12well, because the day the Lord comes,
56:14that the master of the house comes,
56:16that the owner of the vineyard comes,
56:18that the Son of Man comes or the
56:19bridegroom comes, the day Christ comes,
56:21when He shuts the door, if your child
56:23didn't believe today, they are left
56:25outside. If your mother didn't believe
56:30today, she is left outside. If your
56:33husband didn't believe today, he is
56:35left outside. And if you didn't believe
56:38today, you are left outside. The Lord
56:42is coming; His people watch, the wicked
56:44do not. And judgment awaits them. May
56:49the Lord find us watching. Let us pray.
56:59Father, I thank You for Your word,
57:01which today does not threaten us, but
57:03opens our eyes and hearts to stay alert
57:05. Thank you for your word today, which
57:14calls us to be watchful, that today
57:16your word calls us to be, as we saw a
57:18few sermons ago, Lord, vigilant,
57:20guarded, and blameless for the coming
57:22of the Lord. Father, I ask you, Lord,
57:28that you keep your people attentive. It
57:35is not forbidden, Lord, to watch
57:36television for a while, but you must be
57:39the priority. We cannot be distracted
57:43by the things that distract this world;
57:45even if they are not sinful, if they
57:47displace you from first place, they are
57:49. May your church be attentive like a
57:56wise virgin with her lamp lit, so that
57:58when the groom comes, at an hour we do
58:00not know, perhaps today, we may go with
58:06him to the wedding of the Lamb. Thank
58:10you for the brothers and sisters who
58:11have come. Take them safely to their
58:15homes, watch over their return, and
58:17protect them, Lord, at all times. And I
58:22especially ask you to remove from us
58:23all cowardice in preaching. Lord, there
58:28are many right now who are outside, who
58:30, if the door were to close today,
58:32would not enter. Make us brave to
58:38preach, so that we may one day be, as
58:40your word said, sitting with Abraham,
58:42Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, all
58:44the apostles, and all your servants
58:46throughout history. Thank you, Father,
58:52for everything, in the name of Jesus.
58:54Amen. Amen and amen.

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