The Congregational Pulpit Luke 12:35-40 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;… I. CONSIDER OUR EXPECTATION. 1. We expect Christ's second advent as King and Judge. Or — 2. We expect our own decease, which will take us into His presence, to give an account of ourselves. II. OUR PRESENT POSITION. 1. We are His servants. We belong to Him, and are subject to Him; He has given us work to do in His absence — work which should occupy all our time, and engage all our powers. Specifically, there is the work of our own sanctification; and there is the work of Christian beneficence and labour in the world. 2. We are left to ourselves for a season. We have it in our power to refuse doing His work. We may use His property and gifts for our own pleasure or profit. We may be indolent, selfish, and sensual, and lull ourselves to sleep and carelessness. 3. But He will return, and call us to account. We expect a day of reckoning. III. ITS ISSUES. 1. If found faithful, what joy and honour will be ours! (See verse 37.) 2. If found unfaithful, what discomfiture and ruin! (See verse 45, &c.) IV. OUR TRUE INTEREST AND DUTY. 1. it is, to live wholly for eternity — for Christ. 2. It is, to be prepared for death and judgment every moment. (See vers. 35, 40.) 3. It is, to stir up others to the same wakefulness and zeal! (The Congregational Pulpit.) Parallel Verses KJV: Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; |
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