THE SON OF MAN WILL COME AT THE TIME OR YOU DO NOT THINK!
The advent of the kingdom in its final configuration is more imminent now than when Jesus, having endorsed the human condition - except sin - the original announcement, the Land of Israel, there are two thousand years - ever:
saying, The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the gospel (Mark 1:15)
their IT says: I must preach the good news the other cities of the kingdom of God because c is why I was sent (Luke 4: 43)
The "concept of care" and the attitude of life to which he refers are of a certain character in the eschatological message of Jesus, one of whose essential aim is to arouse the sinner, an 'awareness the spiritual, by repentance, conversion, regeneration, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the crisis of paroxysmal end-time, a prelude to the final and decisive advent of the Kingdom of God:
So they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. When these things begin to happen, stand up and raise your heads because your redemption is drawing near (Luke 21:27-28)
This is even more important that you know what time we are: it's time to awake out of sleep, for now salvation is nearer to us than when we have believed. The night is far spent, the day. Let us therefore cast the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light (Romans 13:11-12)
In such a context of final crisis, "the wise man," is actively receiving Jesus as Savior, Lord and Master, internalizing all of his teaching, beyond any syncretism or eclecticism, with full recognition of his absolute and infallible authority and full knowledge of its expression of the imperative, and exclusive sovereign will of God:
Heaven and earth will pass away but my words shall not pass (Luke 21:33)
Having previously on several occasions and in many ways, spoke to our forefathers through the prophets, God, in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, which he also created the world (Hebrews 1:1-2)
This "wise man" is characterized by a determined stand and expression lines and relevant consistent, given the "crisis paroxysmal overall time of the end" he discerns the frame, the contours and spiritual impacts, within a generation a culture hypnotized by transgressive sublimated and rationalized.
Conversely "foolish man", captive of a life woven reckless lightness and carefree secular neglecting the divine instructions of valuable consideration and implementation of the revealed word, the unconscious danger that contains such an impairment, does not perceive or anticipate the inexorable rush of dramatic events of the final crisis:
Those who say 'Lord, Lord! will not enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doeth the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not cast out demons in Your name? Have we not done many wonders in Your name? Then I will declare to them: I've never known, remove yourself from me, ye that work iniquity (Matthew 7:21-23)
Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, the winds blew and beat against that house, it fell not, for it was founded on rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and do not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand. The rain fell, the floods came, the winds blew and beat against that house it fell and ruin was large (Matthew 7:24-27)
All solemn warnings - started by Jesus on the extremely serious risks and dangers faced by eschatological critics of his word or listeners unmindful of their obligation under it to all circumstances of life and general condition of its effectiveness - lies in the context of education, consisting of two issues: the official mission assigned to agents and the coming of the master involving accountability on their part:
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. Make no mistake, if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not leave his home break. Therefore, you also get ready for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not (Matthew 24:42-44)
What then is the faithful and wise servant whom his master has set over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his master, he cometh shall find so doing! I tell you the truth, he will set him over all his possessions (Matthew 24:45-47)
Watch therefore and pray at all times, so that you have the strength to escape all these things that will appear and standing before the Son of man (Luke 21:36)
In view of the Master, the only one who puts faith in his warnings, his incessant calls for an "absolute vigilance" and to " diligent preparation "to the divine encounter, discerning the signs of the times in the web of history, is clear evidence of intelligence beneficial in the midst of a generation of dilettantes and spineless sleepy:
Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light. Take heed therefore how you walk circumspectly, not as unwise but as wise, redeeming the time because days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish but understand what the will of the Lord (Ephesians 5:14-17)
Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, work out your salvation with fear and trembling, not only in my presence, but even more now that I'm missing (Philippians 2:12)
The entire life of the disciple "vigil" is imbued with an unquenchable desire for accomplishment of the Master's will and the personal mission that he has entrusted to a genuine opening to be the solicitations and communications of the Holy Spirit, developer, teacher, comforter and giver of gifts necessary for building the Messianic community and the advancement of the Kingdom of God: ;
But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you all that I told you (John 14:26)
There are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit, the diversity of ministries, but the same Lord, diversity of operations, but the same God who works all in all. But to each manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good (1 Corinthians 12:4-7)
One and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as he wills (1 Corinthians 12:11)
In contrast, one who sleeps, fishing and cultivating a "weakened state" who will succumb to the time of the great eschatological crisis and the final assault of Satan and ruthless:
Watch and pray so that you enter not into temptation - the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak (Mark 14:38)
Moreover, strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the whole armor of God so that we can stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of this dark world and against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places. Therefore take the whole armor of God, able to withstand in the evil day, and stand firm having done all (Ephesians 6:10-13)
ATTITUDE OF VIGILANCE AS A FACTOR OF UNIFICATION OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
attitude required by Jesus, through the injunction to "be careful! "Is one that preserves the integrity word of God, fighting the good fight of faith in the omnipotence of the Holy Spirit, delivering a fervent and passionate battle for his final triumph, in a humanity caught by a virulent attack mimetic systemic transgressive creational order - unprecedented in world history:
Beloved, I was very eager to write you about our common salvation, I felt compelled to do to urge you to contend for the faith which was delivered to the saints once for all (Jude 1 : 3)
This charge I commit unto thee, Timothy, my child, according to the prophecies previously made about you is that, according to them, you war a good fight, keeping faith and good conscience. This awareness, some have lost and they have made shipwreck concerning the faith (1 Timothy 18:20)
A life lived in community life with God in an eschatological perspective decisively - in view of the events of the end - develops an indivisible unity of content, meaning and purpose in the life of the disciple who commits it, solving the issue of dissociation and dissipation of its energies and activities, summarizing, synthesizing them in a single motivation of heart and mind focused on the return of Master and the Advent of the Kingdom of God:
No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. You can not serve God and mammon (Matthew 6:24)
Since therefore all these things shall be dissolved, what should not be in all holy conversation and godliness, while you expecting and hastening the coming Day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire! (2Pet. 3 :11-12)
Contrary to the holder of personal righteousness, self-satisfied and built the wealth of this century - having power to know and be - "tissue matrix world" - the disciple, for its part, is exclusively focused on the God of infinite love which he gives himself to a total dependence, and hope to receive everything from him, solely because of the abundant and inexhaustible resources of the next century making the only gift of grace:
seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be over (Matthew 6: 33)
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not to those on earth. For you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, your life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory (Colossians 3:1-4)
Everything is yours and you are in Christ and Christ is God (1 Corinthians 3:23)
reference and membership of the Kingdom of God which can legitimately claim the disciple regenerated, are the consequence of his identification with Christ in His death, resurrection and glorification. The constitution in the eschatological sonship by grace alone, promotes the child of God to a level of reality and consciousness novel where all the ancient forms of cognitive and behavioral values of the ancient world are abolished, to the values tires, transcendent, messianic, the new and everlasting creation:
The preaching of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing but to us who are saved it is the power of God. So it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and annihilate the intelligence of the intelligent (1 Corinthians 1:18-21)
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this century? God did he not made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since the world by wisdom knew not God in the wisdom of God, it pleased God to save believers through the foolishness of preaching (1 Corinthians 1:20-21)
This accounts for why, initiatives, actions, achievements, the lifetime of the disciples, are exhaustively about the miracle in which everything is perceived and expressed from and depending on future on the "basis for redemption fully accomplished" - but still coming to complete in its implications and ultimate deployments.
In this perspective, the strategic imperative of care "is correctly identified by the disciples, not as a" code stereotyped prayers and recurring rituals "but a basic orientation, dynamics, all the potential of being new, configured to Christ the image on the imminence of the Kingdom and the centrality of the sovereign will of God
See what love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And we are. If the world does not know us is that he did not know (1 John 3:1)
Beloved, now we are children of God and what we will be has not yet been revealed, but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like Him because we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure (1 John 3:2-3)
URGENT REQUIREMENT AND ABSOLUTE TIME: FOLLOW JESUS MADE IN DISCIPLES
The situation of "transgressive global systemic crisis" as prophetically prefigured by Jesus in Matthew 24, called on the part of followers, acuity and wisdom increased in the observation and recognition of signs of the times, consequential and warning of an imminent conclusion of the messianic world history course.
The only truly healthy approach this period particularly critical in the history of mankind is a unique identification, perfect conformation to Christ, an unwavering passion for his person and his work, a absolute internalization of all benchmarks and ownership relating to the divine realm, without any dissipation, in an attentive listening and responsible implementation of his instructions in the motion structuring and energizing of the Holy Spirit :
Whoever loves me will keep my word and my Father will love him and we will come to them, and make our abode with him (John 14: 23)
You are My friends if you do what I command you (John 15:14)
Therefore, brethren, do you apply even more to strengthen your calling and election because by doing that you do not stumble. Thus, in effect, that the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ You will be fully granted (2 Peter 1:11)
An inescapable reality to be taken into account and will remain until the return of the Master, the necessary renunciation of attitude " ego-ethno-anthropocentric, "the endorsement of the message" Christocentric "of the cross, a total and irreversible abandonment of any attempt to control and domination over its own destiny or someone else, self-sacrifice and an offering, without exception or reservation - love, fidelity, loyalty, community life and divine service is not burdened or distracted or dispersion of any kind:
If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself, that it loads up his cross and follow me. For whosoever will save his life will lose it, but whoever loses because of me find it. And what will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthieu16 :24-26)
Jesus said to them: The kings of nations master them, and those who dominate them are called benefactors. That it is not the same for you. But the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and one who rules like one who serves (Luke 22:25-26)
While this injunction denial is inconsistent irreconcilable with the fundamental values of a world civilization "apneumatique, promoter of a behavioral model hedonistic eudemonistic, built in an" absolute universal "reducing the individual to a mere expression of impulses chronic consuming somatic sensation, psychological form of goods, services and other services Unlimited ...
In any case, Jesus is the only resort, the sole developer of the state of structural transgression of human beings - of all ages - only able to teach those who crediting, adding credence to his word, the average output of the labyrinthine impasse in which they are tragically misled and damaged:
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (John 8:32)
If the Son sets you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36)
There is salvation in no one else for there is under Heaven no other name given among men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12)
In this generation - but for how long? - Master continues to call hello, emphatically, by all means and spiritual means, the "castaways of life, by its unilateral offer of salvation, without charge. His sacrificial death on the cross as a substitute, deputy criminal cancellation matrix transgressive nature of man and secular addiction and alienation inherent in it, produces, simultaneously, the introduction into the resurrection life The installation of discipleship, the constitution in the eschatological sonship and incorporation into eternal family of God - the Father's house!
The proclamation of the gospel of salvation by grace, announcing the great privilege of a universal community of people and goods with Jesus, sharing his love and his incomprehensible and unsearchable riches untold may, as appropriate, in listeners believe, trigger a tremendous "momentum Identification and ownership" by means of a Christocentric faith, bold and daring, such as foster a "wait , passive, indecisive, strengthened and consolidated by piping dependency psycho, ritualistic, liturgical, institutional ....
And I, brethren, not as unto spiritual that I could talk to you, but as unto carnal, as babes in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, because you could not bear it and you can not do the same now because you are yet carnal (1 Corinthians 3: 1-2)
The hour is coming and has now come when the true worshipers worship the Father in spirit and in truth because they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is Spirit, and we need those who worship him worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:23-24)
However, if the radical demand of renunciation oneself, explicitly formulated by Jesus, not about people not yet born again, always subject to old psychic nature, subject to the law of sin and death it is, in contrast a categorical imperative spiritual, for all the disciples, without exception, the son of Resurrection, governed by the law of the spirit of life is in Jesus Christ, along with a prospect of liberation from all forms of addictions and mental fixations , for an exclusive devotion to the Lord, modeled on the vine and the branches, purged of any transitional object foreign to the faith.
I have been crucified with Christ nevertheless I live, no longer I who live but Christ lives in me, though I now live in the flesh I live in faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself himself for me (Galatians 2:20)
and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord , for which I gave up everything, and I consider them as rubbish in order to gain Christ (Philippians 3 :8-9)
Moreover, the status of disciple of Christ, a citizen of Heaven, a national of the Kingdom of God, a member of the family with God as Father Divine, is a level of reality and such privileges, so incomprehensible by human reason, that only the Holy Spirit, sounder depths of God, her ability to let us know, we are facilitating better assimilation and clearest conscience in a harmonious atmosphere spiritual freedom. Also, the Lord warns us about the risks of loss incurred through negligence, carelessness, lightness, irresponsibility, given the gifts and revelation received at the gravity and urgency of the Time:
When hearts turn to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberté.Nous all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, for the Lord, the Spirit (2 Corinthians 3:16-18)
who puts his hand to the plow and looks back, is not fit for the kingdom of God (Luke 9:62)
Make no mistake: we do not make fun of God. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. He who sows to his flesh of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the Spirit of the Spirit reap eternal life (Galatians 6:7-8)
Set Practice speaking, and do not confine yourself to listen, deceiving yourselves with false reasoning. Because if someone hears the word and do not practice, he is like a man looking in a mirror his natural face and who, having watched it back and immediately forgets what he was (Jacques 1:22 - 24)
THE REAL STATE OF VIGILANCE IS FULL PARTICIPATION IN THE PROCESS ESCHATOLOGICAL
Jesus announced one hand, the imminent encounter with God and secondly, the emergence, in his own person, as this event already present, thus justifying the urgency of entering discipleship, while proclaiming, moreover, consumption Total this meeting as an event yet to come.
The time elapsing between the two respective steps of this unique event, is to be utilized, depending requirements of the Master, for the investment of talent received in action sharing the bread of the gospel with all nations, building the Messianic community and contributing to the advent of the Kingdom, under the pulse and direction of the Holy Spirit - because the disciple is fundamentally co-worker with God in this grand and wondrous Purpose:
God would make known what are the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. It is he whom we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, to present every man perfect in Christ (Colossians 1:27-28)
He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his reward according to his own work. For we are laborers together with God. You are God's field, God's building (1 Corinthians 3:8-9)
The various New Testament texts illustrating the "posture of vigilance eschatological "Such loyalty of the servant, the vigilance of the householder, the prudence of the wise virgins are all expressive of a call to" awake paroxysmal "on the part of the disciple in active standby coming of God in Jesus
Heaven and Earth pass away but my words shall not pass away. In terms of day or the hour nobody knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son but the Father alone. Take heed, watch and pray because you never know when that time will come (Mark 13:31-33)
Watch therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house, or evening or middle of the night or when the rooster crows, or in the morning afraid he will find you sleeping in his sudden arrival. What I say to you I say unto all, Watch! (Mark 13:35-37)
The disciple thus engaged in the spirit of grace, leading a life in constant tension and maximum trend towards the Kingdom, at any moment ready to meet his God, is in line with fulfilling the will of father - in perfect position to say, like his Master:
My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish his work (John 4:34)
My Father worketh hitherto -, and I work (John 5:17)
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