Being prepared for the Lord’s imminent return is the most important thing you can do in this life.
Define Prepared: Made ready or fit or suitable beforehand; “be prepared for emergencies”
Some pieces of the parable are:
Lamp – God’s word (light)
Oil – God’s Spirit
Virgins – professed believers
Bridgegroom – Jesus Christ
Door – gate to heaven
So how do we stay prepared? Reading their Bibles, praying, and watching!!! We need to listen and be aware of when God is speaking.
John 10:27
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me
When should we start listening and being prepared? NOW!!!
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
Luke 13:25
When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are
We know this good and well!!! Well?
Exerpt of Luke 12:48
“For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more”
And also, we know that the Holy Spirit is the spirit of truth!
Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
a passage from Luke 14:28-33 says to “count the cost” and to “forsake all we have” to follow Jesus.
These passages show that it is not wrong to seek to “buy” the Holy Ghost. But we buy it not with physical money, but by pursuing truth with our whole heart, mind, body, strength, and soul, ready to give up everything for it.