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Ten Virgins, Five Wise
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| Do you know, I have heard more than one prophetic person tell me that God told them that if he came back today, not even 10% of the church would be ready for his coming. | |
| And that fits into something I put in my book on the parable of the ten virgins. | |
| I'm just looking at your book, John, as I'm listening to you too at the same time. | |
| And I see that right here. | |
| Yes, the parable of the ten virgins. | |
| Five were wise and five were foolish. | |
| And the five that were wise, it said that they had oil in their lamps. | |
| And the five that were foolish, some people read it and say they ran out of oil, but if you read it carefully, they didn't even have any oil. | |
| And they want to borrow oil from the five wise. | |
| And they said, no, we only have enough for ourselves. | |
| Now, do you know oil can be symbolic of food or it can be symbolic of the Holy Spirit. | |
| And in this case, I believe it's symbolic of the Holy Spirit. | |
| Because you see, if you're not full of the Holy Ghost, if you don't have a relationship with God and have the power of the Holy Spirit, you're not going to be able to stand up to these days. | |
| When they go and tell you that, sorry, you are an enemy of the state unless you recant your Jesus stuff. | |
| If you don't have the anointing in the Holy Spirit, the oil of the Spirit, you will cave in and say, my tummy is more important than anything else. | |
| That's right. | |
| So these five foolish virgins, they did not have a close walk with God. | |
| They didn't have the anointing and the power of the Holy Spirit in their lives. | |
| So the ten foolish virgins, you know why 10 is important? | |
| 10 was the number that if you had 10 Jewish believers, you could have a church. | |
| That was the number for having a church. | |
| So 10 was symbolic of church or synagogue. | |
| And five and five, that's 50-50. | |
| 50% of the church was ready when Jesus came for his bride. | |
| And 50% that thought they were the bride of Christ got left behind. | |
| And it's like, I could just imagine, you know, the wedding, supper. | |
| I mean, it's a big church, you know. | |
| And all those people are in there. | |
| And the five, the 50% that were not ready, they're knocking on the door. | |
| Let me in. | |
| Let me in. | |
| And I could just see this little opening open up. | |
| And Jesus is peeking through. | |
| And he says, I don't even know you. | |
| Depart from me. | |
| You workers of iniquity. | |
| You know, some people think that if you confess that you believe in God and confess that you know Jesus and you confess, you know what? | |
| Talk is cheap. | |
| Yes, it is. | |
| It's not enough that you know Jesus. | |
| Jesus needs to know you. | |
| Yes, John, that's so good. | |
| And Jesus will not know you unless you spend some time with him. | |
| That's it. | |
| And that time with him is an ongoing personal relationship. | |
| And let me, I've said this before. | |
| Eternity is at stake. | |
| We got too much at stake. | |
| This is not something we can take chances with. | |
| The Bible says that we need to be a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service. | |
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Realizes Fast
00:00:18
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| We have no other purpose for being on this planet. | |
| That's right. | |
| It's like the Bible says our life is like a vapor. | |
| It is. | |
| Let me tell you, you know, when you get older, you realize how fast it goes. | |