Monday 23 November 2015



SATURDAY- LAST  WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME –B

Gospel: Luke 21:34-36: Stay awake, praying for the strength to survive all that is going to happen.
I Reading: Daniel 7:15-27: Sovereignty and kingship will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High.
The Warning: Watch and Pray for the Day of Jesus’ Return, 21:34-36
The world is to going to suffer and will experience disasters and calamities due to lack of faith in God, injustice, corruption, violence, inequality, oppression etc.; therefore the believers must watch and pray always.
1. It demands taking care (v.34-35)
a. By not engaging in worldliness
          1) partying and drunkenness
          2) anxieties of life
b. Reason: Lest the believer be caught unaware-snared-trapped
2. It demands watching and praying always (v.36)
a. To be counted worthy
b. To escape the things coming to earth
c. To stand justified
Thought: The believer to be careful, to guard him/herself against these things because the day of the Lord’s return, can catch him unexpectedly and unprepared. (Mt 24:38-39; Eccl 9:12)

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