KEEP OIL IN YOUR LAMPS

KEEP OIL IN YOUR LAMPS

  SERMON-TAKE HEED:            (THESS 5)                          MARCH1, 2009

REFS:

·        PAUL COUNSELS THE THESSALIONAS TO FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE IN WORSHIPING GOD.

·        (1COR. 9:3-6  )  YET HAVE I SENT THE BRETHREN, LEAST OUR BOASTING OF YOU SHOULD BE IN VEIN, AS I SAID HE MUST BE READY. (FOR WHAT? TO MEET JESUS)

·        PAUL ASKED THE THESSALONIANS TO GET READY AND PRAY WITHOUT CEASING

·        UNDERSTAND THE SUCCESSFUL CHRISTIANS LIVES CONSISTENTLY IN PRAYER TRUSTING IN THE LORD

·        (MATT. 24: 3)  THE DISCIPLES SAYS TO JESUS TELL US WHEN WILL THESE THINGS BE, AND WHAT WILL BE THE SIGN OF YOUR COMING AND AT THE END OF AGE

·        (ACTS 1:7) JESUS SAID TO THEM, “ IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW THE TIME OR THE SEASONS WHICH THE FATHER HAS PUT IN HIS OWN AUTHORITY

·        (LUKE 21:34)  TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES LESS YOUR HEARTS BE WEIGHED DOWN WITH CROUCHING, DRUNKENNESS AND THE SCARS OF THIS LIFE AND DARKNESS COMES UPON YOU UNEXPECTEDLY.

(IS. 13: 6-9)  WAILED FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND.  EVERY MAN’S HEART SHALL MELT.  THIS WAS IN THE DAY OF THE BABYLONIAN WHEN GOD SET JUDGEMENT AGAINST THEM. (GOD IS A SPIRIT AND WE MUST BE CAREFUL IN DEALING WITH HIM IN THE WRONG WAY)

(MATT. 25: 5) WHILE THE BRIDEGROOM WAS DELAYED THEY ALL SLUMBERED AND SLEPT, AND AT MIDNIGHT, A CRY WAS HEARD.

WHAT WAS THAT CRY? IT WAS, “BEHOLD THE BRIDGEGROOM IS COMING GO OUT TO MEET HIM”. (THOSE WHO ARE ABLE TO MEET CHRIST ARE THE CHOSEN ONES.

·        (ROMANS 13:12)  THE NIGHT IS FAR SPENT; THE DAY IS AT HAND, THEREFORE LET US CAST OFF THE WORK OF DARKNESS AND LET US PUT ON THE ARMOR OF LIGHT.

(MARK 9: 50) SALT IS GOOD, BUT IF THE SALT LOSES ITS FLAVOR HOW WILL YOU SEASON IT?  HAVE SALT IN YOURSELVES, AND HAVE PEACE WITH ONE ANOTHER

IF WE HAVE LOST THE FLAVOR OF THE TRUTH, WHERE WOULD RIGHTEOUSNESS STAND?  SOME TIMES CHRISTIANS ALLOW AMBITION TO DESTROY THE WILL OF GOD IN THEM.  SOMETIMES OUR OWN AMBITIONS BECOMES USELESS BECAUSE WE ARE TOO MUCH INTO SELF.

(MATT.5: 13)  WATCHED THEREFORE FOR YOU KNOW NOT THE HOUR WHEN THE SON OF MAN IS COMING (CANNOT BE DETERMINE)

(MARK 13: 32)  THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT HIS FATHER ONLY KNOWS WHEN HE IS COMING .

NOTICE THAT JESUS BEGAN HIS SENTENCE WITH A REQUEST,”WATCH”

THE CHALLENGE THAT THE LORD GAVE US IS FOR US TO PREPARE OURSELVES TO MEET HIM ON THE FINAL DAY OF JUDGEMENT.  WE MUST PUT-AWAY- IDLENESS AND PUT ON FAITHFULNESS, IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW IF YOU ARE IN THE LINE WITH JESUS.

IN ADDITION, MAKE SURE THAT YOUR SALVATION IS SURE.