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1 | Eternal security vs Luke 12:46/Matt.25 | Luke 12:46 | bhaury | 64854 | ||
How does this Scripture along with Matthew 25:1-13 connect with the idea of eternal security? | ||||||
2 | Eternal security vs Luke 12:46/Matt.25 | Luke 12:46 | prayon | 64866 | ||
Greetings bhaun and welcome to the forum! In any parable if you understand what each person(s) symbolize you can better understand what it is about. In the parable of the 10 virgins in Matthew the bridegroom is Christ and the 10 virgins are the believing Christians. The lamps are a symbol of the profession that Christ is Lord and died for our sins. The oil symbolizes the power and person of the Holy Spirit. In this parable it stands for the oil that makes the lamp produce light or the Holy Spirit behind the outward profession (the lamp) that makes a difference between a life lived by the power of the Holy Spirit and the merely nominal Christian. The sleepers are those who are those Christians who are commonly called "Sunday Christians" - those who claim to be Christians but are complacent about Christ. The midnight cry is the return of Christ. Those Christians who are saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit will go with Christ to the marriage supper. Those who aren't will be left behind. In Luke (also in Matt 24:45-51) in the parable of the Faithful Steward it agains refers to the return of Christ. The steward is the Christian and the master is Christ. Those who are 'about their father's business' will be taken in the rapture and those who aren't won't. Being 'about their father's business' in this parable emphasizes the responsibility of every Christian to feed Christ's sheep with the bread of Christ (his word). prayon |
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3 | Eternal security vs Luke 12:46/Matt.25 | Luke 12:46 | Ray | 64871 | ||
Hi bhaury, Prayon correctly led you back to Matthew 24 and the faithful servant in her last paragraph. In comparing the two passages you have chosen I think that we could start at Matthew 24:32. Matthew 24:32ff, "Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near; even so you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door. Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but (My) words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, they were marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them away; so shall the coming of the Son of Man/ be." Luke 12:35, "Be dressed in readiness, and keep your lamps alight. And be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those slaves whom the master shall find on the alert when he comes; truly I [Christ] say to you, that he will gird himself to serve, and have them recline at the table, and will come up and wait on them. Whether he comes in the second watch, or even in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves. And be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into. You too, be ready; for the Son of Man/ is coming at an hour that you do not expect." |
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