Well, good morning. If you care
to open your Bibles with me, Matthew chapter 25, where our
lesson will be from this morning. Matthew chapter 25. Before we
begin, let's bow before our Lord in prayer. Our Father, we bow before you
this morning, a grateful and a thankful people. How we thank
you for your mercy and your grace to sinners. that's all in and
because and through your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Father,
I pray this morning that you would give us the spirit of worship,
that we might, you might prepare our hearts to hear, that you
would prepare my heart to preach and that you prepare the hearts
of your people to hear, to receive and believe the things of our
Lord Jesus Christ that we hear preached and cause us to rest
in him, to by faith see him in his glory and in all and in wonder,
worship him. Enable us to lift up and magnify
and extol the name of Christ our Savior this morning. And
Father, what we pray for ourselves in this hour, we pray for our
children's classes that you would bless our teachers, that you'd
bless our children. Father, make this a special time
where you would plant the seeds of faith in the hearts of our
young ones. And Father, we also Pray this
same blessing on our Bible school this week that you would meet
with us in power. Make this a week where our children
learn and we're enabled by thy spirit to one more time point
them to the Lord Jesus Christ. Father, we pray for those who
are hurting, those who are sick and need you especially. There's
so many we know of. They're in such deep waters and
great need. Father, we pray that you would
undertaking their behalf, that you'd heal, that you'd comfort,
that you'd provide, that you'd deliver. And above all, Father,
we pray you'd give a special portion of your grace. You promised
that your grace would be sufficient. We pray that you'd enable those
who are in these deep waters to find out by experience how
true that is. Your grace is sufficient. All
these things we ask and we give thanks in that name which is
above every name, the name of Christ our Savior. Now I've titled our lesson this
morning, is there oil in your lamp? And I want to read the
whole text and then come back and make a few comments. Beginning
in verse one of chapter 25, then shall the kingdom of heaven be
likened unto 10 virgins, which took their lamps and went forth
to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise and
five were foolish. They that were foolish took their
lamps and took no oil with them. But the wise took oil in their
vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried,
they all slumbered and slept. At midnight there was a cry made.
Behold, the bridegroom cometh. Go ye out to meet him. Then all
those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish
said unto the wise, give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone
out. But the wise answered, saying, not so, lest there be not enough
for us and you. But go ye rather to them that
sell and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, The
bridegroom came, and they that were ready went in with him to
the marriage, and the door was shut. Afterward came also the
other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered
and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore,
for ye know neither the day nor the hour when the Son of Man
cometh. Now, there's a chapter division
here, but the Lord is still preaching this message to his disciples,
He's talking about the same subject. He's talking about his return.
Now we talk about the Lord's return. I want us to remember
this as we begin looking at the Lord's instruction here. You
know, the Lord's return could be when he comes for us in death. You know, in the moment that
I die, that will be the day the Lord came for me. So the Lord
could come for us in our death, Or it could be his second coming
when he comes and the whole world sees him at once. But either
way, whichever way it is that he comes for us, the point is
still the same. Am I ready for the Lord's return? Are you ready for the Lord's
return? See, the issue is not when will the Lord return, but
am I ready when he comes? That's the issue. And the only
way for us to be ready for the Lord's return is to have God-given
faith in the heart. The way that we're ready for
the Lord's return is to be found trusting Christ when he returns
for me, whether that's in my death or whether it's in his
second coming. That's the whole point of the parable that I just
read. Let me see if I can't show that
to you. And I begin, I want to explain
something about the Jews marriage customs at this time that will,
uh, they'll help us understand what the Lord's teaching here
for the, for the Jews at this time in history. It could take
days to finish all the ceremonies surrounding a marriage. There
were a lot of ceremonies that, that, uh, that they observed
and a ceremony that the Lord's referring to here took place
at night. I don't know exactly when this took place, what order,
all everything took place, but maybe the, the ceremony part
of the I do's and I wills and I shalls have already taken place
and now they're getting ready for the, for the feast. And this
ceremony took place at night. And the groom would be at his
house, his parents' house probably. And about dark, he would begin
to walk to the parents' house of the bride, and he would pick
up his bride. But on the way to the bride's
house, he'd stop at a designated area, and he'd pick up the bride's
young women who were part of the wedding party. There could
be 10 to 20 of them. And each of those girls would
be carrying a cup that was filled with oil and had a rag or something
in it, you know, to make a wick. So they would have these small
torches and these torches would light the way for everybody to
walk to the bride's house, pick up the bride, and then go to
the wedding feast. And all that, this all would
take place at night. Now the wedding party that the
Lord refers to here is a picture of the local church on earth.
And there are several lessons for us. Everybody here is part
of a local church, a local assembly. There are lessons here I hope
we take to heart. And the first one is this. The local church
is made up of a mixed bag of people. You know, in every local
assembly, it's a mixture. It's a mixture of believers and
unbelievers. Now, we hope that the number of unbelievers is
few. We hope those who regularly attend
the service and do not believe Christ, do not trust in him,
we hope that number is few. But either way, it's a mixed
bag of both believers and unbelievers. The unbelievers are there. From
looking at them, from talking to them, you really couldn't
tell that they're an unbeliever. But sadly, their profession is
just an outward thing. Now the Lord teaches us this
lesson time after time in scriptures. There's always tears among the
wheat. There's always goats among the
sheep in the net. There's always good fish and
bad fish. There are always wise builders
and foolish builders. There are hypocrites and there
are true believers. And like in this parable, there
are wise virgins and foolish virgins. And the warning that
the Lord is teaching here in this parable is this. Be sure,
that you are a true believer. Don't be trying to figure out
if anybody else is. Be sure that you believe Christ and that you
trust on Christ. I'm telling you, nothing is more
important to your life, to your soul than this. Do you believe
Christ? You know, coming here to hear
the gospel preached, coming here to hear Christ preach week after
week after week, that's the absolute best thing that you can do for
your soul. And you know how important that
the public worship service is. I can't encourage you strongly
enough. Be here to hear. You know, if
you want to know Christ, be where he's preached. Be where he promised
he would be, promised he's going to be, where two or three are
gathered together in his name. If you want to know him, if you
want to trust him, you want him to introduce himself to you,
be where he's preached. If you want to worship Him, you
want to grow in grace, you want to grow in knowledge of Him,
be where He's preached. I mean, believe me, there's just
nothing more important you can do week after week than coming
to hear the gospel preached. But while you do that, remember
this. Salvation is not had just because you come here, just because
you're faithful to attend it. I'm thankful that you are, hope
you are, thankful that you faithfully attend. But salvation is not
had by just merely attending a service in a building. Salvation
is had by believing Christ. It's by believing Him. It's by
trusting Him. It's by hanging all of your hope
of salvation, all the hope for your eternal soul on Him. That's
salvation. So there in, you know, in every
group, there's some people that are believers like that, that
hang their soul on Christ. Others who are unbelievers. And
here's the second point. You can't tell the difference
just by looking at them. I'm not on the outward. And I
tell you why that is because salvation is not outward. Salvation
is an inward work of the heart. Salvation is not your moral actions. Salvation is not keeping some
laws. Salvation is not observing the
right ceremonies. Salvation is an inward work of
grace in your heart and God has to do it. God, the Holy Spirit
has to do it. Now we can't see into the hearts
of others, so we don't know whether they have true faith in Christ
or not. You just, by looking at the outside, you can't always
tell the difference between a believer and an unbeliever. And if we
do try to tell the difference by just looking, by, you know
what we're gonna do? We're gonna say, well, you know
what? We're gonna cast these unbelievers out. If we do that,
we're gonna make a mistake every time. And you know what we'll
end up doing? We'll end up casting the believer
out and keeping the unbeliever. That's what we do. Think of King
David. You can't always tell by looking
at David, by what David's doing and what David's saying, what
David's planning on doing. You can't always tell from looking
on the outside that David's a man after God's own heart. There
are plenty of times you and I would say, I'm going to keep my distance
from old David in there. And we'd cast him out. He's the
man for God's own heart. Look at back a few pages, Matthew
chapter 13. This is the parable I referred to earlier, the tears
in the wheat, Matthew 13 verse 24. Another parable put he forth
unto them saying the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man
which sowed good seed in his field. But while men slept, his
enemy came and so tears among the wheat and went his way. But
when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit, then
appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder
came and said unto him, Sir, does not thou sow good seed in
thy field? For whence then hath it tares? He said unto them,
An enemy hath done this. And the servants said unto him,
Wilt thou that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay. That's why you gather up the
tares, you root up also the wheat with them. See, that's what we
do. If we're throwing out the tares, we're going to pluck up
the wheat. If we're throwing out the unbelievers, we're going
to pluck up the believers and throw them out too. So he says,
verse 30, let them grow together until the harvest. In the time
of harvest, I will say to the reapers, gather you together
first the tares, bind them into bundles to burn them, but gather
the wheat into my barn. See what the Lord's teaching
us here. You know this. leave the separating to the Lord. Leave
the separating of the wheat and tares, the sheep and the goats,
the believer and unbeliever, leave that separating to the
Lord. Because no matter how much we try to thin out the weeds,
there are always tares among the wheat. Always. And you know,
whether there's a bunch of tares or there's a few tares, whether
there's no tares or it's all bleary, no matter who is in the
audience, no matter who is in the congregation, you know what
our job is? It's to preach Christ to them. Just preach Christ. We're to preach Christ to God's
people. It comforts their heart. It encourages their heart. It
saves them. It gives them life. It feeds them on the word of
God. Preach Christ to them. Well, what do you want to do
for the Tare? What do you want to do for them? Preach Christ
to them. My goodness, preach Christ to
them. The only way God's gonna save them is through the preaching
of Christ. Preach Christ to them. Could be, Lord have mercy on
them like he did me. Let's both preach Christ to them.
And if they're just gonna obstinately refuse to not believe Christ,
just keep preaching Christ to them. Don't get rushing off on
another tangent. Don't be trying to deal with
their particular point of rebellion. Don't be trying to talk them
into making a profession of faith. Just keep preaching Christ alone. Give it enough time, that'll
bore the terror to death, and they'll leave on their own. They'll
leave on their own. Just keep preaching Christ. It'll
sort out the tears, it'll save God's people, and it'll feed
God's people. Just keep preaching Christ. And you know when they
leave? Just because by looking, you
can't tell the difference between the believer and unbeliever,
can you? When they leave, it'll make you sad. It just breaks
their heart. But don't be surprised when it's
happened before. I promise you this, it's gonna
happen again. Look at 1 John 2. Not only is it gonna happen
again, it has to happen again. That's what John says, it has
to. 1 John 2 verse 19. They went out from us, but they
were not of us. For if they had been of us, they
would no doubt have continued with us. But they went out that
they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. It had
to happen. that way. You know, the tear
comes to the public worship service. They come as part of the congregation
in a local church. They come for a variety of reasons. Maybe it's because their family's
here. Maybe it's because their friends
are here. You know, this is their social life. Could be, at least
for a while, could be they like the preacher. For whatever reason,
they come. But the preaching of Christ alone
won't hold their interest. Now that holds the interest,
that holds the heart of God's people, the preaching of Christ
alone. But that won't hold the interest to the tear. And the
unbeliever will find it easy to leave the preaching of Christ,
to leave the preaching of Christ alone, because they want something
else. That doesn't meet the need of
their heart. But the believer won't leave it, because the preaching
of Christ is what they need. It meets the need of their heart. So what the Lord is teaching
us here is not to be looking around at everybody else saying,
oh, are they the ones, I wonder who's gonna lead next, I wonder
who this could be doing. Here's a good example for us to consider. When the Lord told the 12, one
of you is gonna betray me. Not one of them said, I know,
Judas, I've been having my eye on you. Not one of them said
that. They all said, Lord, is it I? See, the issue is do I
believe Christ? The Savior here is teaching us,
examine ourselves. Frank, examine yourself. Whether
what? Don't examine yourself to see,
do I act good enough? Don't examine yourself to see
if I cut enough sin out of my life. Do I sin less than I used
to? Don't examine yourself to see am I doctrinally straight
enough? Examine yourself whether you
be in the faith. Examine your heart. Do you have
a saving interest, a saving need in the Lord Jesus Christ? Do
I have a need to hear of Him? Am I coming here for socialization
or am I coming here because I need to hear of Christ? Which is it?
If you examine your heart, you'll know. You'll know what is, you
know. Do I come here just so I can
feel better about myself because I did something religious to
start the week? I start off the week, you know, doing something
religious. I feel good about myself, you know, the rest. Or
do I come here because I need to hear of Christ? I mean, I
want to hear, I want to worship Him. I need to hear of Him. That's
what the Lord's teaching. You know, these virgins, these
young ladies who are part of this wedding party, all of them
looked very similar. They all looked alike. They all
had some sort of relationship with the bride. That's why she
asked them to be in the wedding party. They all knew of the bridegroom,
at least. They're all waiting for him to
come. They had some interest in his
coming. Each of those young ladies, they
were all dressed exactly alike. They're all wearing that dreaded
bridesmaid dress that you can't wear anywhere else. It looks
absurd to wear anywhere but a wedding. They're all dressed alike. Can't
tell any difference between them. They all had lamps, and they
all had oil in them. They looked exactly alike. They were talking probably about
the same things. They're sitting around waiting on the bridegroom
to come. You know the things, they're talking about the wedding,
they're talking about the bride, how pretty she looked in her
dress, they're talking about the ceremony, they're talking
about how handsome the bridegroom is, you know, they're talking
about that day comes when they can be the bride, you know, and
they're all talking about the same things. They looked alike,
they sounded alike, but five of them were wise, and five of
them were foolish, and you couldn't tell the difference just by looking
at them. The believer and the unbeliever often look very similar
outwardly. All right, here's the third thing.
I think this will be a blessing to you. I picked up something
this week. I never, never thought of it this way before. The Lord's
return is going to take all of us, believer and unbeliever.
It's going to take us by surprise. Now it won't, to the believer,
won't surprise us that the Lord has come. We're expecting him
to come, but at that very moment, it will be a surprise. He's come
at that moment because we don't know when he's coming. So here's
something else that was the same. But the five foolish and the
five wise, they were all asleep. They gathered together because
they were going to be ready. Typically what happened is that
the groom came right after dark. So they gathered together, say,
7.30, 8 o'clock, waiting for it to get dark. But for some
reason, the bridegroom tarried. And he didn't come till midnight.
And they fell asleep because they were tired. You know, all
the writers that I read about this, they talk about the shameful
state of the church. You know, when Christ will come,
all the believers in the church, they're going to be asleep. And
they likened it to, you know, a spiritual sleep, a spiritual
drowsiness. They're not watching for the
Lord's return. They're not serious about worshiping the Lord. They're
not serious about seeking the Lord because they're asleep.
They're not worshiping the Lord like they should. All the spiritual
issues and matters that are so important to our soul, they're
just not as important to them as they should be, because the
whole church is asleep. Now, while I'll grant you that
every believer from time to time falls into a state of spiritual
drowsiness, it's shameful when we do, but we all know that it
happens. The Song of Solomon talks about
a time Spiritual spring and summer and fall and winter you know
their times You look as we look look like a dead tree like trees
look in the winter time, you know But there's life there wait
till spring it'll come out again. We all fall into that and it's
shameful We hate it, but now we all do fall into it But I'm
pretty sure that as a matter of fact, I'm utterly convinced
that is not what the Lord's talking about here the wedding party
Now they were there on time They were there in time if the bridegroom
came at the normal time, they're all ready with their lamps, light
the way to the wedding feast. They're waiting for him to come.
And for whatever reason, he tarried. Now, that's the Lord's return.
And I know that the Lord's coming again. I'm sure the early church
thought he was coming in their lifetime. I mean, just I'm sure
that they thought of that. They thought that. But the Lord's
tarried. For some reason, it's been over
2000 years and he hadn't come back. He's tarried. I don't know
why, but I do know it's a good reason. I mean, he's not tarried
for, you know, a bad reason, has he? No, it's a good reason.
And I'm sure there are many reasons why the Lord is tarried in order
to carry all of his purpose. But here's one reason I know
for sure why the Lord's tarried. All of his people have not been
brought to faith in Christ yet. More than likely, some of them
hadn't even been born yet. Some of them, Lindy might be
one, Well, don't we hope so and that we hope so? Oh, Lord's going
to save his people and he cannot come. He cannot come until he's
brought them all to faith in Christ. So for whatever reason,
the bridegroom, Terry, he waited till midnight. Well, of course
they fell asleep. I mean, yeah, I've been around
some wedding. I've been around two weddings
up close and personal. And this is what I know. That
morning of the wedding, it's an ordeal. Everybody gets up
early. I mean early. And buddy, they
hit the ground running. They're getting their hair done.
They're getting their makeup done. They're getting dressed.
They're doing all the things, you know. It takes a long time. And then they go to the wedding
ceremony. You've got to have pictures. You've got to, you
know, all the things that you've got to do, you know. Buddy, by
midnight, nobody's got to rock you to sleep. You're tired. These girls were tired. Natural,
of course they were. Nothing wrong with going to sleep
when you're so tired like that. So here's why I'm just convinced
that Lord's teaching. His coming, that moment of his
coming is going to be a surprise to his people because in that
moment they're doing something else. They're doing something,
something God's given them to do. Probably a good thing. Probably
a good thing. Something that they should be
doing. And here's the example that I thought of. Adam Simpson. If you know Adam, you know that
he likes to cut grass. Adam, I hate to cut grass. Adam
loves to cut grass. He wants to make short grass
look just so, and he does. Well, you know what? That's a
job that needs to be done. You can't say, I'm not going
to take care of my house. I'm too busy reading my Bible.
I'm not going to cut my grass and paint my house and keep the
house from falling in around me. All that stuff is perishing
and I'm just too busy worshiping God to take care of my house.
I'm too busy worshiping God to go to work. You know, I live
on welfare. You can't say that. They're jobs that have to be
done. They have to be done. You have
to cut your grass. You have to think about your
job. You have to think about your work. God's given it to
you to do. You can't be the salt of the earth unless you're out
there in the world working. Unless you're out there in the
world doing what you're supposed to be doing. Now, my example is cutting grass.
You know, when you're cutting grass, you'd better pay attention
to what you're doing. I mean, you're pushing a lawnmower.
You're riding along, whatever. It's got a sharp blade going
around 100 miles an hour. You better pay attention to what
you're doing. And I can tell you this. If you're going to
make grass look like Adam makes it look, you better pay attention
to it. You have to. It can't look like
that accidentally. It can't look like that unless
somebody's doing a good job. Here's something else when you're
cutting grass. You sure better pay attention to what you're
doing. That thing cut your foot off. Now, you better pay attention
to what you're doing. Don't cut the grass and read
your Bible at the same time. Don't put your Bible on the handle
and try to cut grass and read your Bible at the same time.
Your lines are going to look like this. Please, whatever you
do, don't think you're so religious you're going to drive down a
highway at 75 miles an hour reading your Bible. Don't do that. When
you're driving, drive. Pay attention. When you're cutting
your grass, when you're doing your job, when you're doing these
other things, pay attention to what you're doing. And when you're
reading your Bible, and you're worshiping God, and you've come
to hear the gospel preached, listen, and don't pay attention
to think about those other things. Don't think about cutting grass
where you're supposed to be worshiping God, and don't be trying to read
your Bible while you're cutting the grass. There are things that
God's given you to do. and they're just the ordinary
activities of life. Maybe it's cutting the grass.
Maybe you're at your job working to support your family. You know,
when you're working, think about your work. Think about doing
a good job. Think about how you're supposed to be doing it, you
know? Could be it's midnight. Hopefully we're asleep at midnight.
Janice's grandmother told us all the time, nothing good happens
after midnight. Well, then, midnight be sleep. That's a good thing
to be doing. You don't have to be up at midnight
looking for the Lord's return. Fall asleep. Get you a good night's
sleep so you can get up the next morning and do what God's given
you to do. It could be we're sitting around the table with
our loved ones. Having a big old meal and sitting
and laughing and talking to one another. It could be we're doing
that, you know. Whatever it is that we're doing, when the Lord
returns, the earth is not suddenly going to start looking different.
People aren't going to suddenly start doing different things.
Everything's not going to stop and the whole world waiting on
the Lord to return. At the moment the Lord's return of his return,
everybody's going to be doing all the ordinary things of life.
That's what they're going to be doing. They're going to be
sowing and reaping. They're going to be working.
They're going to be cleaning the house. They're going to be
whatever it is that they're doing. They're going to be doing all
the ordinary things of life. And at that moment, that's when
the Lord's going to return. I'm convinced that's what the Lord's
teaching here. It's not going to be this big tribulation. Everybody
in the whole wide world knows the Lord's coming today. It's
not it. It's going to be an ordinary time of life, ordinary things
going on, and the Lord's going to return. Now, the believers
are going to say, wow, I didn't know the Lord was coming right
now. I'm sure I'm glad he's come. The unbelievers are going to be shocked
because they didn't think he even existed. They didn't even
think he'd come. I'm convinced that's what the
Lord's teaching us here. and we'd be wise to make the worship
of God, to make his word, to make prayer, to make seeking
the Lord a part of our everyday life. Brother Henry said, a man
can't be on his knees praying all the time, 24 hours a day.
He's gotta work, he's gotta sleep, he's gotta do other things, but
make it part of your everyday life. I'm convinced that's what
the Lord's teaching here because it fits in context. All right,
here's the last thing. The Lord's teaching us to be
diligent, that there's oil in my lamp. You know, the five wise
virgins, they had enough oil to last. If the bridegroom tarried,
they had enough oil. The foolish virgins did not.
They just had enough to last a little while. Well, the foolish
virgins, one of the wise virgins, give me some of your oil. And
they said, well, I can't do that. I can't give you some of my oil
because I don't have enough for both of us. If I give you some
oil, All ten of our lamps are gonna go out. It's like they're
telling the foolish virgins, I'm not the fountain of life.
I can't give you life. I can't give you oil. I can't
put this in you. If you want oil, if you want
life, if you want grace, go to the seller and buy it. And I'll
come back to that in just a minute. Go to the seller and buy it.
And this is what the Lord's teaching us. It's the necessity of true
heart faith that's been given to us by God the Holy Spirit.
The oil here represents the oil of the spirit. It's the presence
of the oil in our heart. You remember there in John 7,
with that last day, the great day of the feast, the last day,
the Lord stood up and said with a loud voice, if any man thirst,
let him come unto me and drink. And out of his belly shall flow
rivers of living water. This he spake of the spirit,
John said. Well, in those two examples,
the water and the oil both represent the same thing. It's the work
of the spirit in us, the work of regeneration that the Holy
Spirit does in us. It's Christ being formed in you. If you have the fountain of life
in your heart, you've got life. If you have the fountain of living
water in your heart, you've got water. And that's what salvation
requires. It requires a work of grace in
the heart. See, it's one thing to say the
name of Jesus, It's another name to wear his name on your heart.
It's one thing to talk about righteousness. It's another thing
to be found in Christ our righteousness. It's one thing to be in the congregation
of church. It's another thing altogether
to be found in Christ. That's what salvation is. Now
look over at Isaiah chapter 55 and we'll close with this. I
told you, you know, if you want, If you want life, if you want
grace, if you want salvation, if you want to oil the spirit,
go and buy it. Go to the seller and buy it. Now, I didn't preach
grace all up to the end and then start preaching works to you.
I'm going to show you what I'm talking about here. Well, let's read the text first.
Isaiah 55, verse 1. Ho, everyone that thirsteth,
come ye to the waters. And he that hath no money, come
ye, buy and eat. Yea, come buy wine and milk,
without money and without price. Wherefore do you spend money
for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which
satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me. Listen
carefully to me. Eat ye that which is good. Let
your soul delight itself in fatness. Why do I do that? Incline your
ear and come unto me. Here and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting
covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Now, when the
Lord talked to these wise virgins and said, go buy oil. And I told
you, if you want salvation, you go buy it. You go buy grace.
If you want mercy, here's what we mean by that. You know how
you buy salvation? You know how you buy mercy? You
know how you buy grace? By doing nothing at all. It's
without money. It's without your input. It's
by doing nothing but trust Christ. You want to trust him? Isaiah
said, come in here, incline here and come in here of him. That's
how God reveals himself to his people. It's by the foolishness
of preaching. It's by the foolishness of preaching. God chose to save
his elect. It's not by our good works. It's
not by us adding anything. It's by doing nothing but trust
Christ. That's how we buy saving grace.
Do nothing, do nothing, say nothing, shut up and listen and believe. Shut up and listen, and pray
God give you faith to believe Christ. And this is what the
Lord's telling us here about these wise virgins. Do it now. Do it now. Today's the day of
grace. After the Lord returns, the door's
shut. It's too late. I'm not trying
to scare anybody into profession here. This is what the Lord's
teaching. Today's the day of salvation. Believe him now. Hear him now. All right, hope
the Lord bless that to you.