Corona Chronicles - Crown of Thorns

Welcome back to Corona Chronicles. We are still in chapter 13. We're coming to the end of the chapter now. We're gonna pick it up in verse 32. But about that day or hour, no 1 knows, not even the angels in heaven nor the sun.

But only the father. Be on God. Be alert. You do not know when that time will come. It's like a man going away.

He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task and tells the 1 at the door to keep watch. Therefore, keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back whether in the evening or at midnight. Or when the cock crows at or at dawn. If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to everyone, watch.

Yeah. So we're continuing aren't we talking about the the end times in the return of Jesus here, and we talked about some of the things that, you know, would have happened in that first generation. And how they point forward to things to come as well and that's that's what we've got here. And and now Jesus is talking about the day or the hour of his return. And he starts by saying that not even the angels in heaven nor the son but only the father know, which is a very, you know, There's there's a lot of deep water under that -- Yeah.

-- surface, isn't it? And they're taking us into the nature of the nature of Christ. You need a small good work. Yeah. Yeah.

It's a good work. So yeah. Let's go diving there. But, no, we're just you know, and the simplest thing we can say is that Jesus Christ was truly God and truly man and there are sometimes that we read through the bible, and we're always looking at the god man. Mhmm.

But there are sometimes we see amazing expressions of his divine nature -- Yeah. -- and, you know, in his miracles and in his knowledge of his knowledge of things that only God could know. Mhmm. And there are other times when we see true. You know, he's the god man.

Yeah. He's a man. Yeah. You're taking the nature You're gonna see that in a little while was in get some of the army. Yeah.

Yeah. Exactly. Kinda get a glimpse here. Yeah. So this is kind of an expression if you like of his humanity that, you know, that even he is not privy to the details here about about the return.

And that and it's worth saying on that, you know, it's not You know, you can you can get tied up a lot with that. And actually somehow missed the very point that Jesus is trying to make it. Yeah. Because his point is that if if we have if we have an exact map of the future and we know all the details of God and we know exactly what's gonna happen when, that will make us less, not more ready. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, you know, it's it's like it's like the illustration he gives. If I was to in another place, if I was to to know that my house was gonna be broken in at a certain time, that would be really helpful. For but also very dangerous. Yeah.

Because what I would do is I would go home and, you know, have a have a nice drink. I'd put tele on. I think, oh, I don't I've got till 1 o'clock in the morning. I might fall asleep. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. If I'm told that it could be at any point, there's no way I'm gonna be casual. So -- Yeah. -- we often think how having it all spelled out will make us more ready by actually, you know.

No. There's nothing to say that we would be on guard -- No. -- any of that time -- No. Exactly. -- for the last couple of minutes.

Yeah. And and even then, you know, like you say, we just fall asleep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So but that's that's his big point, isn't it? Be on guard, be alert, you know? You know, you do not know when the time will come. So so so be ready. Mhmm.

You know? And, you know, again, it go it it gives these great little illustrations here, you know, we are his servants, and, you know, he has put us in charge of different things. But he says to the 1 at the door, keep watch. You know? So so, you know, I I think that's the thing we I was saying earlier, we we can get we could even get distracted by theology.

Yes. And and actually it's funny, isn't it? You know, if you were to think about what the 1 look at theology and what do people get most twisted up about and most you know, crazily passionate about. It is it is end time stuff, isn't it? Yeah.

It is. Yeah. Yeah. All all the nature of God. You know, it's it it, you know, and and he he we we sort of prove we kind of prove his point in reverse.

You know? We do get distracted. We do get caught up with all the wrong things. And and we we do exactly what he's telling us not to do. But, you know, He wants us to stay alert.

He doesn't want us to be found sleeping when he comes. And that that would be that would be a tragedy, wouldn't it? You know, to serve Jesus. All your life and and to be found sleeping at the end, you know. It's it it would be a it would be a great tragedy.

So so so he, you know, he finishes his his sort of big block of teaching with with this sort of final volley. You know, of look, be ready. Be be alert. Be on your God. And, you know, and and all of this stuff, all of this teaching is gonna is gonna be it's gonna be sort of played out for us in chapter 14 with his disciples.

They completely you know, fluff it. Don't Yeah. Yeah. You know, but but again, it's it's it's encourage it should you know, it's encouraging to me that it you know, it ends in the cross, you know, it ends in it ends it ends by Jesus going to the cross and, you know, he dies for all of our failures Yeah. You know A lack of watchfulness and Yeah.

Exactly. You know? And so so that again, that that to me, that that get that gives me hope that even when I fail in this area, even in this area. You know, Christ died for it and and that spurs me on to be alert and to be on my god, you know, and to not and to not fail him because he's given his life for me. Yeah.

I think so. And and you know, just digging into what it looks like to watch, you know, because it's not it's not sitting down thinking about Jesus, is it? Yeah. It's getting on with with his work. Yeah.

And that that is how you can tell a ready person. Yeah. Not someone who is withdrawn to a convent. Somewhere to wait. Yeah.

Yeah. But someone who is about the business of church and about the business of Christ. And that's what those parables are about. You know, the man goes away. He leaves his and puts it puts his servant in charge each with his assigned task.

Mhmm. And so he expects them to as they wait for him, be doing the work of the kingdom, which is spreading the gospel message -- Yeah. -- and living the goss living the gospel life. Yeah. And that's what will please him when he returns.

Mhmm. Not not to see them all, funnily enough, looking out the window, but to come in and to see busyness. Yeah. You know, people who've been working to help. Master it's great.

Look what we're up to. You know? And so there is to be a watching -- Yeah. -- because if he comes back at midnight or dawn or in the middle of the day, you know, they're someone's gonna be saying, oh look, here he comes. But the way that we watch is by working.

Yeah. And that's what that's what Christ wants us to do, isn't it?