We started off with our focus on the context of scripture bringing light and truth to our interpretation. Most of what we've discovered so far in Luke 12 has to do with comparing temporal things with the eternal. Here is where the two meet.
Luke 12
35 “Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning; 36 and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately. 37 Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them. 38 And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and[d] not allowed his house to be broken into. 40 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
41 Then Peter said to Him, “Lord, do You speak this parable only to us, or to all people?”
42 And the Lord said, “Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season? 43 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 44 Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has. 45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47 And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.
Jesus points out that your life here today determines what eternity will hold for you one day. I think the waist girded shows that we are prepared to go. The lamps burn so that we can see. He's letting us know that though our time may seem to go on indefinitely-there will definitely be an end to time! So here, in time, we should keep our eyes on eternal truth.
In verse 34 He mentions where our hearts point to what we treasure. If our treasure is here, it will not be in eternity with us. If our treasure is hid with Christ in God, then we will be seated and served by our own precious Savior; we will be made rulers over all that He has. The emphasis here that is that to the degree you understand and have the capacity, love God with all your heart and offer yourself a living sacrifice to Him, and you will have treasure with Him that will never pass away!
The context here is clear to me that He’s speaking about believers, and though I believe my relationship is purely by His grace, I wonder about the portion with the unbelievers, and where will those beatings be administered?
Let’s ask God together and see what He has to say.
Heavenly Father, we desire to know your will and comprehend your Word. We have already been given so much in these last dark days, but we come to Your throne of grace, and ask that you would shed light on these verses we are meditating upon. Please give us the grace to see, and apply Your way, and truth, and life, to our souls. Thank you Father, in Jesus Name we pray.
Luke 12
35 “Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning; 36 and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately. 37 Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them. 38 And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and[d] not allowed his house to be broken into. 40 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
41 Then Peter said to Him, “Lord, do You speak this parable only to us, or to all people?”
42 And the Lord said, “Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season? 43 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 44 Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has. 45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47 And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.
Jesus points out that your life here today determines what eternity will hold for you one day. I think the waist girded shows that we are prepared to go. The lamps burn so that we can see. He's letting us know that though our time may seem to go on indefinitely-there will definitely be an end to time! So here, in time, we should keep our eyes on eternal truth.
In verse 34 He mentions where our hearts point to what we treasure. If our treasure is here, it will not be in eternity with us. If our treasure is hid with Christ in God, then we will be seated and served by our own precious Savior; we will be made rulers over all that He has. The emphasis here that is that to the degree you understand and have the capacity, love God with all your heart and offer yourself a living sacrifice to Him, and you will have treasure with Him that will never pass away!
The context here is clear to me that He’s speaking about believers, and though I believe my relationship is purely by His grace, I wonder about the portion with the unbelievers, and where will those beatings be administered?
Let’s ask God together and see what He has to say.
Heavenly Father, we desire to know your will and comprehend your Word. We have already been given so much in these last dark days, but we come to Your throne of grace, and ask that you would shed light on these verses we are meditating upon. Please give us the grace to see, and apply Your way, and truth, and life, to our souls. Thank you Father, in Jesus Name we pray.
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