Bible Study - Fruit of the Spirit - Galatians 5:22-23; Ephesians 1; Luke 15 - November 23, 2025

 

Bible Study – Fruit of the Spirit – Galatians 5:22-23; Ephesians 1; Luke 15 – November 23, 2025

Galatians 5:22-23 - Christian Standard Bible

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, and self-control. The law is not against such things.^[a]

Fruit comes from a plant, vine, or tree.

In last week’s study, we saw that JESUS is the vine and those who have been “born-again” are the branches. GOD is the Gardner.

We discussed in our last study the importance of the preparation of the soil where the fruit producing product is planted.

As humans, we had no choice regarding our parents or where we would be born. But WHO did? GOD.

So, how can GOD hold humans accountable? It is all about the innermost being of every human.

Where were you before you were born? I contend. You and I were all in the heart and mind of GOD.

The Apostle Paul, touches on this in Ephesians 1: 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will: To the faithful saints in Christ Jesus^[a] at Ephesus.^[b]

² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Why do I keep referring to Ephesians 1?

Scripture reveals that the Apostle Paul/Saul was not only a student of the Old Testament, but GOD did mighty works in his life to reveal the truth both within him, through his earthly life and through the application of HIS Word.

The same is true for all who seek and become Spirit-born Christians through faith in JESUS and commit their lives to walk and serve as led by JESUS through the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 1:3-19 - God’s Rich Blessings

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ. ⁴ For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him.^[c] 5 He predestined us to be adopted as sons (or daughters) through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, ⁶ to the praise of his glorious grace that he lavished on us in the Beloved One (JESUS THE CHRIST).

GOD chose us before the foundation of the world. HE wanted humankind to be free thinkers and designed us with the freedom to choose. However, with the freedom to choose comes the responsibility and consequence for our choices – good or bad. One choice is for a person to place his/her faith in JESUS. What does choosing JESUS as your Savior mean to you? It means being born again. A person’s first birth is human for a period of time, then physical death. A person’s second birth in Spiritual and is eternal through faith in JESUS and HIS life upon earth and HIS Passion, which includes HIS resurrection and ascension into Heaven to take HIS seat at the right hand of GOD, HIS FATHER. JESUS is the advocate for all Holy Spirit born believers. Why? Satan is the accuser of all Christians, but JESUS is our Heavenly Advocate.

No person born physically had a choice in his/her first conception, but GOD did. However, all people have a choice regarding his/her second birth, which is eternal, through faith in JESUS. JESUS, GOD’S only SON willingly came to earth to pay, in full, for the penalty of all sin. GOD chose us but the question is, “Do we choose HIM through faith in JESUS?” That is GOD’S plan of salvation or HIS redemptive plan through the miracle of Spiritual birth.

⁷ In him (JESUS) we have redemption through his (shed) blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses (sins), according to the riches of his grace ⁸ that he richly poured out on us with all wisdom and understanding.^[d] 9 He made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he purposed in Christ ¹⁰ as a plan for the right time^[e]—to bring everything together in Christ, both things in heaven and things on earth in him.

¹¹ In him we have also received an inheritance,^[f] because we were predestined according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will, ¹² so that we who had already put our hope in Christ might bring praise to his glory.

¹³ In him you also were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed. ¹⁴ The Holy Spirit is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of his glory.

Prayer for Spiritual Insight

¹⁵ This is why, since I (PAUL) heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, ¹⁶ I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers. ¹⁷ I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father,^[g] would give you the Spirit^[h] of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. ¹⁸ I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the mighty working of his strength.

What is GOD’S responsibility? In Revelation 3:20

See! I (GOD/JESUS/The Holy Spirit) stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

I have had people to tell me if they heard the voice of GOD they would run. Just know that GOD speaks today in various ways that we will listen.

The HOLY SPIRIT knocks upon the door of our heart and we have the freedom to choose whether or not to open our heart’s door. The question is? Will we answer or how will we answer the knock of THE HOLY SPIRIT upon our heart’s door? Keep in mind that the knock may come as it did when the Prophet Elijah fled to the Mountain of GOD following GOD’S defeat of the prophets of Baal, as written in 1 Kings 19: ¹⁰ He (Elijah) replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Armies, but the Israelites have abandoned your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are looking for me to take my life.”

The Prophet was in a cave hiding -----

¹¹ Then he (GOD) said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the Lord’s presence.”

At that moment, the Lord passed by. A great and mighty wind was tearing at the mountains and was shattering cliffs before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. ¹² After the earthquake there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire there was a voice, a soft whisper. ¹³ When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave.

Suddenly, a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

GOD does not give up on us, please DO NOT GIVE UP ON GOD/JESUS, why?

Hebrews 13:5 – Amplified Version

Let your character [your moral essence, your inner nature] be free from the love of money [shun greed—be financially ethical], being content with what you have; for He has said, “I will never [under any circumstances] desert you [nor give you up nor leave you without support, nor will I in any degree leave you helpless], nor will I forsake or let you down or relax My hold on you [assuredly not]!”

This is GOD’S promise to all who are in right relationship with HIM through faith in JESUS.

A person can get into the weeds of life after being “born-again” and abandon GOD/JESUS but as a loving FATHER, HE waits and watches for that Glorious day when the prodigal son or daughter returns home. Oh!!! What a feast and welcome back home does the wayward child receive when he or she decides to return home.

If you have abandoned GOD/JESUS, come home because both, GOD and JESUS, are waiting, no sin(s) is/are so great that the shed blood of JESUS cannot atone for it or them. Your part is to confess by asking for forgiveness and accept GOD/JESUS forgiveness.

GOD and JESUS love you. They have never left you. They are where you left them. So, unload all the issues you may have with them and return home. A feast awaits, along with a hug, robe, a ring on your finger and a grand party.

Let’s read the parable of the lost son (or daughter):

Luke 15:11-32

Christian Standard Bible

The Parable of the Lost Son – (Any Christian can go astray but GOD waits for them to return! Once, a person has tasted the goodness of GOD, he or she will have the desire to return home. Guess WHO is waiting for you or them?)

¹¹ He (JESUS) also said, “A man had two sons. ¹² The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate I have coming to me.’ So he distributed the assets^[a] to them (eldest and youngest sons). ³ Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living. ¹⁴ After he had spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he had nothing.^[b] 15 Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. ¹⁶ He longed to eat his fill from^[c] the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one would give him anything. ¹⁷ When he came to his senses,^[d] he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger!^[e] 18 I’ll get up, go to my father, and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. ¹⁹ I’m no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired workers.”’ ²⁰ So he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. ²¹ The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I’m no longer worthy to be called your son.’

²² “But the father told his servants, ‘Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. ²³ Then bring the fattened calf and slaughter it, and let’s celebrate with a feast, ²⁴ because this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

²⁵ “Now his older son was in the field; as he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. ²⁶ So he summoned one of the servants, questioning what these things meant. ²⁷ ‘Your brother is here,’ he told him, ‘and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’^[f]

²⁸ “Then he became angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him. ²⁹ But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends. ³⁰ But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets^[g] with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’

³¹ “‘Son,’^[h] he said to him, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. ³² But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother (or sister) of yours was dead and is alive again; he (she) was lost and is found.’”

JESUS gave us this parable to help us see GOD’S Grace through JESUS versus the Law. The Law is ridge, whereas Grace is the expression of GOD’S love to all sinners.

GOD’S grace is expressed through JESUS as written in John 3:16:

¹⁶ For God loved the world in this way:^[e] He gave^[f] his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he (or she) has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. ¹⁹ This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For everyone who does evil hates the light and avoids it,^[g] so that his (or her) deeds may not be exposed. ²¹ But anyone who lives by^[h] the truth comes to the light, so that his (or her) works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”

Ephesians 1:20 God’s Power in Christ

²⁰ He (GOD) exercised this power in Christ by raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens— ²¹ far above every ruler and authority, power and dominion, and every title given,^[i] not only in this age but also in the one to come. ²² And he subjected everything under his feet^[j] and appointed him^[k] as head over everything for the church, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.

Is the Holy Spirit knocking/speaking to you? He GETS YOUR ATTENTION ANYWAY YOU WILL LISTEN. IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADT MADE A PROFESSION OF FAITH, Now is your opportunity to pray and ask JESUS to come into your heart, redeem you from the consequence of all sin, which is eternal death in Hell, but faith in JESUS results in eternal life through faith in JESUS by the grace of GOD AND ETERNITY IN HEAVEN.

What does it mean for a person to be “born-again” through faith in JESUS as proven by HIS passion?

What does John 3:16-18 reveal: ¹⁶ For God loved the world in this way:^[e] He gave^[f] his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

What is written in Revelation 2:17?

“Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.

Burl Ives sung a song, “There is a new name written in Glory and it is mine.” Hopefully you can sing that song as well!!!

What is written in Philippians 3:20 - Christian Standard Bible for those redeemed?

²⁰ Our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.

What is written in 2 Corinthians 5:20 - Christian Standard Bible?

²⁰ Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making HIS appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.”

As Holy Spirit born (Born-again) believers, The indwelling Holy Spirit is our assurance, guide, teacher and comforter that we are GOD’S eternal Son or Daughter and HIS Grace is sufficient.

Have you been in the weeds of the world? Just like the Father of the prodigal son, GOD is waiting for you to come HOME and back into fellowship with HIM. No sin is greater than GOD’S Grace. Welcome Home!!!

Blessings!!!

 

Bible Study - The Budding of the Tree or Vine - John 3:16-21 and John 15:1-8 - November 16, 2025

 Bible Study – The Budding of the Tree or Vine – November 16, 2025

The bud on a fruit bearing tree or vine is a sign that there is potential for fruit.

There is a lot the gardener has to do to prepare the tree or vine to grow and produce its intended fruit. The sight must be selected, the soil has to be prepared where the vine or tree will be planted i.e., rocks removed, soil tilled, fertilized, water, weeds removed, sun, rain, watching over and tender love and care. Likely, much more from those who are gardeners.

GOD knows our heart and prepares those who are to receive salvation. Some, HE knows, have hardened their hearts to block the Holy Spirit from ministering to them. Hardening your heart prevents the Holy Spirit from revealing the truth of JESUS and HIS redemptive plan.

The good news is, if you are worried that you have committed the unpardonable sin, you haven’t because if you had, you would not be worried.

What was and is the purpose of GOD sending JESUS into the world?

John 3: ¹⁶ For God loved the world in this way:^[e] He gave^[f] his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. ¹⁹ This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For everyone who does evil hates the light and avoids it,^[g] so that his deeds may not be exposed. ²¹ But anyone who lives by^[h] the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”

JESUS gave us a beautiful example in The Vine and the Branches in John 15:1-8:

15 “I (JESUS) am the true vine, and my Father (GOD/YAWH) is the gardener. 

First, as humans we have to be grafted into the vine or JESUS through faith that JESUS is the promised Messiah sent by GOD to pay, in full, for the sins of every person who places his/her faith in JESUS and HIS Passion.

When any person recognizes his/her need for salvation, JESUS, knocks on that person’s hearts door as confirmed in Revelation 3:20

Christian Standard Bible

²⁰ See! I (JESUS/THE HOLY SPIRIT) stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

JESUS respects the privacy of the individual. HE knocks and it is up to the individual to respond to HIS knock. When HE knocks will you open the door of your heart?

Revelation 3:20: ²⁰ See! I (JESUS) stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

When an individual opens his/her heart’s door, JESUS enters. Being GOD, HE already knows where we hide the things we do not want HIM to see. We need to open the door and invite HIM into our lives and tell HIM our house is in a mess. Ask HIM to guide us in how to clean it, which may be to seek wise counsel from a fellow Christian, or our pastor or priest or Christian counselor.

Just think, when we let our physical house get into a mess, it is often difficult for us to get motivated to Spring clean it. But with GOD’S help, when we do, how much we appreciate living in a clean home.

The same is true when we confess our sins and ask GOD to forgive us.

However, the secret is to keep our life clean through confession of our sins, prayer, Bible study, fellowship with fellow Christians, and responding to the prompting of the Holy Spirit. When we try to hide our sins, doing so gives Satan a clue that we are subject to compromise.

Back to our scripture – John 15:2-8:

2: Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he (GOD) removes, and he (GOD) prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit. ³ You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me. ⁵ I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me. ⁶ If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you. ⁸ My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be^[a] my disciples.

GOD, THE FATHER, GOD, THE SON and GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE THREE ARE ONE – THE TRINITY. THE THREE EQUAL UNITY.

We read in Genesis 1: ²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make man^[e] in^[f] our image, according to our likeness. They will rule ----

The Trinity was present when earth was formed, and mankind was fashioned to live upon planet earth.

We fast forward to 2 Corinthians 5:4-6:

⁴ For while we are in this tent (human body), we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. ⁵ Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

⁶ Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

The destination of all Holy Spirit redeemed people is heaven but while we remain in our human, “Spirit-born” bodies through faith in JESUS, GOD has work for us to do upon earth as HE leads and directs all who are “born-again”/ “Spirit-born.”

GOD in HIS foreknowledge planned HIS redemption plan for humans. First, GOD revealed Himself to Moses The Law and then Grace through the life, death, resurrection, ascension into Heaven, JESUS!

GOD’s Grace through faith in JESUS equals being “born-again,” eternal life, citizenship in Heaven, ambassador for JESUS, and so much more.

So much more!!!                                                                 

If you have not asked JESUS to forgive you for your sins and for HIM to come into your life, please do so now:

Dear JESUS thank YOU for leaving YOUR home in Heaven to come to earth to pay, in full, for all of my sins. I place my faith in YOU, JESUS, as proven by YOUR sinless human life upon earth, human death, burial, bodily resurrection on the third day, as the first to conquer physical death. I ask YOU to come into my heart now and through the miracle of Spiritual birth make me an eternal child of GOD.

It is not saying the right words, it is all about your heart. Some people have said, “LORD, I give up and want to be YOUR eternal son or daughter. In the twinkle of your eye, you are Spiritually born-again into the eternal family of GOD, never to be Spiritually unborn.

Welcome my brother or sister to the Family of GOD in the powerful name of JESUS.

Blessings!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Bible Study - The Budding of the Tree - Matthew 24:1-51 - November 9, 2025

Bible Study – The Budding of the Tree – November 9, 2025

JESUS’ disciples asked JESUS an important question which we, today, would like to know the answer, especially in light of today’s world events. Is the bud on the tree indicating the preparation for the return of JESUS to rapture the true believers from earth?

What did JESUS say about this question?

Mathew 24:1-51:

Destruction of the Temple Predicted

24 As Jesus left and was going out of the temple, his disciples came up and called his attention to its buildings. ² He replied to them, “Do you see all these things?

JESUS referred to the well-built temple buildings.

“Truly I tell you, not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down.”

The Jewish temple was destroyed on 70 AD by the Romans.

JESUS enlightens HIS disciples about the end of time.

Each generation of people, especially Christians, look around and wonder is the end of earth being fulfilled.

JESUS’ disciples wanted to know and so do we --- let’s explore!

Signs of the End of the Age

³ While he (JESUS) was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached him privately and said, “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what is the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

Since JESUS had already come, so their question focused on, “When are YOU planning to establish YOUR eternal rule upon earth.”

⁴ Jesus replied to them, “Watch out that no one deceives you. ⁵ For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and they will deceive many. ⁶ You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, because these things must take place, but the end is not yet. ⁷ For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines^[a] and earthquakes in various places. ⁸ All these events are the beginning of labor pains.

Deception is a key indicator, also recorded in Matthew 24:24:

For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

Know GOD’S Word and be prepared to know the truth in HIS Word versus carefully crafted twists on the truth in GOD’S WORD.

Persecutions Predicted – Matthew 24:9-

⁹ “Then they will hand you over to be persecuted, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of my name. ¹⁰ Then many will fall away, betray one another, and hate one another. ¹¹ Many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. ¹² Because lawlessness will multiply, the love of many will grow cold. ¹³ But the one who endures to the end will be saved. ¹⁴ This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world^[b] as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

The Great Tribulation

¹⁵ “So when you see the abomination of desolation,^[c] spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place” (let the reader understand), ¹⁶ “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains. ¹⁷ A man on the housetop^[d] must not come down to get things out of his house, ¹⁸ and a man in the field must not go back to get his coat. ¹⁹ Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days! ²⁰ Pray that your escape may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. ²¹ For at that time there will be great distress,^[e] the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again. ²² Unless those days were cut short, no one would^[f] be saved. But those days will be cut short because of the elect.

²³ “If anyone tells you then, ‘See, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘Over here!’ do not believe it. ²⁴ For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. ²⁵ Take note: I have told you in advance. ²⁶ So if they tell you, ‘See, he’s in the wilderness!’ don’t go out; or, ‘See, he’s in the storerooms!’ do not believe it. ²⁷ For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ²⁸ Wherever the carcass is, there the vultures^[g] will gather.

Deception or Deceivers will increase.

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ “Immediately after the distress of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ³⁰ Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the peoples of the earth^[h] will mourn;^[i] and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. ³¹ He will send out his angels with a loud trumpet, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

This will be an unmistakable happening.

The Parable of the Fig Tree

³² “Learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near. ³³ In the same way, when you see all these things, recognize^[j] that he^[k] is near—at the door. ³⁴ Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place. ³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

No One Knows the Day or Hour

³⁶ “Now concerning that day and hour no one knows—neither the angels of heaven nor the Son^[l] —except the Father alone. ³⁷ As the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. ³⁸ For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark. (Keep in mind that GOD shut the door of the ark.) ³⁹ They didn’t know until the flood came and swept them all away. This is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be. ⁴⁰ Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. ⁴¹ Two women will be grinding grain with a hand mill; one will be taken and one left. ⁴² Therefore be alert, since you don’t know what day^[m] your Lord is coming. ⁴³ But know this: If the homeowner had known what time^[n] the thief was coming, he would have stayed alert and not let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ This is why you are also to be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

No one knows except our FATHER/GOD. Stay ready to meet JESUS be it in death or HIS coming!

Faithful Service to Christ

⁴⁵ “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give them food at the proper time? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant whom the master finds doing his job when he comes. ⁴⁷ Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ⁴⁸ But if that wicked servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delayed,’ ⁴⁹ and starts to beat his fellow servants, and eats and drinks with drunkards, ⁵⁰ that servant’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. ⁵¹ He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

JESUS is coming again am I ready? Are you ready? If you have not asked JESUS to come into your heart, consider asking HIM by saying a prayer similar to this:

Dear JESUS, I thank YOU for coming to earth to be tempted in all ways as humans are tempted yet without sin. Thank YOU for giving YOUR sinless life to atone for all my sin, by the shedding of YOUR blood on the cross. As guaranteed by YOUR resurrection from death on the third day, is proof that YOU conquered eternal death for all who place their trust and faith in YOU.

If you prayed this or such a prayer, then thank JESUS for saving you from the penalty for sin, which is Hell, and for JESUS coming into your heart.

What does asking JESUS to come into your heat mean to you?

You have been born again. You were born human, and you have been born-again in your spirit to be eternal through faith in JESUS and your new eternal home is Heaven. You have The Holy Spirit in you WHO will lead and guide you as you continue life upon earth. Before your body dies, your “born-again” Spirit will exit your earth suit and go to heaven to be eternally with GOD and other born-again believers who have gone before you.

No person knows when JESUS will take all “Spirit-born” believers out of earth in the rapture of the church.

One thing sure, all humans will die one day, and they will either go to Heaven or Hell according to GOD’S Word, The Bible.

I like what a former pastor had to say about the end. He believed in the Pan theory. It was all going to Pan out in the end. Stay tuned! The best is yet to come!

Blessings!!!