Living Ready: Vigilance and Prayer in Faith
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"Be careful says Jesus or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness, and the anxieties of life, and the day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap, for it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth. Be always on the watch and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man." [00:35:36]
"The vital thrust of this information is not speculation but rather it is a call to readiness, and that action is if you like the proper fruit of knowledge and that the real test of the impact of this discourse upon the lives of those who heard it and now who read it and think about it will not actually be discovered in the depth of our knowledge but in the energy and in the extent of our action." [01:42:00]
"Be careful, be careful. It's the kind of thing that parents say to their children all the time, even though our children are now all in their 20s we hardly find of them going anywhere or doing anything but somewhere in the course of a conversation you say and by the way be careful won't you be careful watch out take heed pay attention." [03:13:44]
"The word dissipation most of us would have to go for a dictionary for dissipation, especially if we had to define it on a sheet of paper. We know what it means we could use it in a sentence but we may not be able to define it. I certainly had difficulty with it so I went to the OED and I found that one of the explanations for it and I think the usage here is of wasteful consumption of money or resources or the squandering of that which we have been given to enjoy and along with that the inordinate indulgence of physical pleasures." [05:26:56]
"Be careful or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation and secondly by drunkenness, and the word that he uses here is a word that is expressing the distressing after effects of intoxication. The distressing after effects of intoxication on some other occasion we will pause on the issue of drunkenness and alcohol but not tonight. Suffice it to say for the moment that we have to be very very careful that when we reject a bondage that scripture doesn't teach that we do not then embrace a freedom that scripture does not afford." [07:42:16]
"Think about how much time in a day you spend worrying, and you ever waking up in the night do you worry what do you worry about do you worry about your health do you worry about your children do you worry about what will happen as a result of the great events of the world well I have to confess I do." [12:19:44]
"All of that simply represents a drive for security that is separate from God, a drive for security that is separate from God, and Jesus says I've given you all this information I want to say to you before you go to bed be careful that you don't allow this kind of thing to squeeze the life out of you and to convince you that your security is to be found in some other place." [13:35:12]
"Now having said be careful he then says be watchful doesn't he in verse 36 we need to spend too long on this he's already given instruction regarding this back in chapter 12 Luke recorded it for us in the classic passage remember in the story of the master who goes away and in verse 38 of Luke 12. just for your homework at least you can go to it but Jesus begins his teaching he says be dressed and ready for service and keep your lamps burning like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him." [16:08:79]
"So when Jesus says watch he means watch when he says be careful he wants us to be careful watch ourselves yes we're to watch out for one another of course we are but we must watch our own hearts guard our own hearts Peter was very good at saying what he was going to do and in contrasting it with what everyone else apparently was not going to do." [17:27:60]
"Surely one of the marks of the watching waiting disciple should at least in some measure be a life of unruffled orderliness. I don't know where I came up with unruffled orderliness it just it came off the end of my pen think about many of our lives we've we've made a career of the of the antithesis of unruffled orderliness we are ruffled and disorderly and we want somehow another God just to bless our mess and our chaos." [26:03:27]
"And certainly the prospect of the imminent return of Jesus shouldn't cause us as his followers to become as I said this morning preoccupied with drawing up elaborate plans of the future that are painted in greater detail than is offered to us in the word of God and certainly we don't want to allow our study in this kind of area to make what is peripheral central." [27:28:15]
"And if our study in Luke 21 does not make us more careful, watchful, prayerful, and faithful then we're going to have to start at verse 1. and do it all over again and I know that nobody wants that." [28:45:60]
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"The vital thrust of this information is not speculation but rather it is a call to readiness, and that action is if you like the proper fruit of knowledge and that the real test of the impact of this discourse upon the lives of those who heard it and now who read it and think about it will not actually be discovered in the depth of our knowledge but in the energy and in the extent of our action." [01:42:00]
"Be careful, be careful. It's the kind of thing that parents say to their children all the time, even though our children are now all in their 20s we hardly find of them going anywhere or doing anything but somewhere in the course of a conversation you say and by the way be careful won't you be careful watch out take heed pay attention." [03:13:44]
"The word dissipation most of us would have to go for a dictionary for dissipation, especially if we had to define it on a sheet of paper. We know what it means we could use it in a sentence but we may not be able to define it. I certainly had difficulty with it so I went to the OED and I found that one of the explanations for it and I think the usage here is of wasteful consumption of money or resources or the squandering of that which we have been given to enjoy and along with that the inordinate indulgence of physical pleasures." [05:26:56]
"Be careful or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation and secondly by drunkenness, and the word that he uses here is a word that is expressing the distressing after effects of intoxication. The distressing after effects of intoxication on some other occasion we will pause on the issue of drunkenness and alcohol but not tonight. Suffice it to say for the moment that we have to be very very careful that when we reject a bondage that scripture doesn't teach that we do not then embrace a freedom that scripture does not afford." [07:42:16]
"Think about how much time in a day you spend worrying, and you ever waking up in the night do you worry what do you worry about do you worry about your health do you worry about your children do you worry about what will happen as a result of the great events of the world well I have to confess I do." [12:19:44]
"All of that simply represents a drive for security that is separate from God, a drive for security that is separate from God, and Jesus says I've given you all this information I want to say to you before you go to bed be careful that you don't allow this kind of thing to squeeze the life out of you and to convince you that your security is to be found in some other place." [13:35:12]
"Now having said be careful he then says be watchful doesn't he in verse 36 we need to spend too long on this he's already given instruction regarding this back in chapter 12 Luke recorded it for us in the classic passage remember in the story of the master who goes away and in verse 38 of Luke 12. just for your homework at least you can go to it but Jesus begins his teaching he says be dressed and ready for service and keep your lamps burning like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him." [16:08:79]
"So when Jesus says watch he means watch when he says be careful he wants us to be careful watch ourselves yes we're to watch out for one another of course we are but we must watch our own hearts guard our own hearts Peter was very good at saying what he was going to do and in contrasting it with what everyone else apparently was not going to do." [17:27:60]
"Surely one of the marks of the watching waiting disciple should at least in some measure be a life of unruffled orderliness. I don't know where I came up with unruffled orderliness it just it came off the end of my pen think about many of our lives we've we've made a career of the of the antithesis of unruffled orderliness we are ruffled and disorderly and we want somehow another God just to bless our mess and our chaos." [26:03:27]
"And certainly the prospect of the imminent return of Jesus shouldn't cause us as his followers to become as I said this morning preoccupied with drawing up elaborate plans of the future that are painted in greater detail than is offered to us in the word of God and certainly we don't want to allow our study in this kind of area to make what is peripheral central." [27:28:15]
"And if our study in Luke 21 does not make us more careful, watchful, prayerful, and faithful then we're going to have to start at verse 1. and do it all over again and I know that nobody wants that." [28:45:60]
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