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The Parables #125

The wise and foolish virgins, Pt2.

Scripture: Matthew 25:1-13.

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We considered  just how it is that the Lord seeks to teach us of the approach of His return.
We talked a little of the swallows and the hawthorne tree and how they tell us summer is coming. Likewise the Lord has given us signs of the nearness of His return.
This is a subject very dear to the Saviour. That is evident in the many references that He makes to the His return.
Furthermore, it may be seen in the many references He had His prophets make to His return.

“Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began,” Acts 3:21.

Note Peter says all of His ‘holy prophets’! Just how important this subject is.

* We must watch for the signs given us be like unto the watchful householder as he guards his property against the thief, verse 43. Where there is danger we watch carefully! There is a danger that we may be carried away by carelessness and fail to rightly watch and wait for Christ’s return.

 

The Parables #124

The wise and foolish virgins, Pt1.

Scripture: Matthew 25:1-13.

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The Lord Jesus was ever warning sinners of hell, verses 10-13.

This parable is all about understanding the times in which we live.

I believe that it is the privilege of God’s people to share in a knowledge of God’s present purpose on this earth and what He purposes to do in the future. Furthermore, He desires to share this knowledge with the boys and girls who take the time to read and pray over His Word.

Please note:

* In Matt 24:32, our observance of the prophetic times is paralleled with our telling of the earthly seasons by what we may observe with our eye.
* The time of the end will be observable because it will see a repeat of what happened before in the days of Noah as judgment drew near, 37-39.

Truth for today, Pt22

Truth for Today — Studies in Ruth, No 22

Scripture: Ruth 2:17-23.

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There is a progressive unfolding of God’s purpose for Ruth in this book. We will see that progress in the verses before us.

I. RUTH’S REAPING IN THE FIELDS

1. Ruth toiled all day. Ruth was not scared of work! She recognised that opportunities to benefits one’s self lawfully should be made the most of.

Learn Christian — “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work,” John 9:4

Sinner, likewise learn — “Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,” Hebrews 3:7-8.

2. Ruth threshed what she gathered. Labour is in vain without threshing! The labour involved in the preparation of food teaches us a vital spiritual lesson. “These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so,” Acts 17:11. The word “searched” means “to sift”, a word akin to threshing.

3. Ruth’s earnestness was well rewarded. She gathered an ephah  = 10 omers, each one of which was the weight of the daily ration of manna for a man, Exodus 16:18.