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The Storm. Luke 12:33-59 & 4-12. Don’t Worry !. Don’t Worry ! Be Ready !.
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The Storm Luke 12:33-59 & 4-12
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “…as though you were waiting for your master to return from the wedding feast. Then you will be ready to open the door and let him in the moment he arrives and knocks. The servants who are ready and waiting for his return will be rewarded.” “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! 1 Corinthians 3:10-11 Because of God’s grace to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have—Jesus Christ. “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36 Anyone who builds on that foundation may use a variety of materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. But on the judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each builder has done. The fire will show if a person’s work has any value. If the work survives, that builder will receive a reward. But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builder will be saved, but like someone barely escaping through a wall of flames.
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36 • “…some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last." Luke 13:30
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36 If the master returns and finds that the servant has done a good job, there will be a reward. I tell you the truth, the master will put that servant in charge of all he owns. Luke 12:43-44
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! I’m jealous! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36 The master will return unannounced and unexpected, and he will cut the servant in pieces and banish him with the unfaithful. Luke 12:46
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36 • When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required. (Lk. 12:48b)
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36 “Understand this: If a homeowner knew exactly when a burglar was coming, he would not permit his house to be broken into. You also must be ready all the time, for the Son of Man will come when least expected.” Luke 12:39-40
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! "Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division; for from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three. "They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law." Luke 12:51-53 “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36 Jesus is starting a fire: "I have come to cast fire upon the earth; and how I wish it were already kindled! Luke 12:49
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36 “Sell your possessions and give to those in need. This will store up treasure for you in heaven! And the purses of heaven never get old or develop holes. Your treasure will be safe; no thief can steal it and no moth can destroy it. Luke 12:33 She has been given the finest of pure white linen to wear.” For the fine linen represents the good deeds of God’s holy people. Revelation 19:8
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36 Five who were foolish didn’t take enough olive oil for their lamps, but the other five were wise enough to take along extra oil. Matt. 25:3-4 Then the five foolish ones asked the others, ‘Please give us some of your oil because our lamps are going out.’ Matthew 25:8 Later, when the other five bridesmaids returned, they stood outside, calling, ‘Lord! Lord! Open the door for us!’ “But he called back, ‘Believe me, I don’t know you!’ Matt. 25:11-12
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36 Living In God’s Light: Whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be shouted from the housetops for all to hear! (Luke 12:3)
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36 “I don’t know you!” Matt. 25:11-12 , “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees—their hypocrisy. Luke 12:1
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36 And He was also saying to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and so it turns out. "And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, 'It will be a hot day,' and it turns out that way. Luke 12:54-55 "You hypocrites! You know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not analyze this present age? Luke 12:56
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36
Don’t Worry! Be Ready! “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning…” Luke 12:35-36