Luke 12:35-48 page 1

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Your choice of parables becomes ever more interesting. At least this time we don't have the 'weeping and gnashing of teeth' that you have seemed so fond of in recent weeks, but the Thursday cell group have posed me an interesting dilemma by choosing this passage: how many parables are there here? By my reading there are three! There is the master returning from the banquet (verses 35 to 38); the thief breaking into the house (verses 39 to 40); and the master and his slaves (verses 41 to 48).

Now before you get worried, that does not mean I am going to preach three sermons this morning - I would like there still to be some people present when I finish!

What I have opted to do with this challenge is not so much to take the individual characters but the broad themes that cross these three linked stories. They are clearly related and all part of the same conversation. The overall theme is clearly that of the return of the Master (i.e., Jesus) and how prepared we are for that. I see the teaching of Jesus here to be in terms of these strands:

1. The nature of his return;
2. How we may make ourselves ready;
3. What it might mean for us not to be ready.

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