Wise and Foolish Virgins — Keith Malcomson

The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

Amen, please turn with me here this morning to Matthew 25. I want to continue where I left off Last week midstream, and I just want to continue on here in Matthew 25 and my message is wise and foolish virgins wise and foolish virgins a prophetic message from Jesus Christ for the church of our Generation where we are right now at this moment in world history and world events I believe this parable this prophecy this prediction this Instruction this wisdom is for you and I here this morning Whether you're a foolish virgin or a wise virgin I want to show you you better listen carefully because it could mean the Salvation or the loss of your eternal soul with what we're dealing with.

Matthew chapter 25 reading from verse 1. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto Ten virgins which took their lamps and they went forth to meet the bridegroom and Five of them were wise and five were foolish.

They that were foolish took their lamps and they took no oil with them. But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps while the bridegroom Tired they all slumbered and slept and at midnight.

There was a cry made behold the bridegroom Cometh go ye ought to meet him. Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps and the foolish said unto the wise give us of your oil for our lamps are gone out.

But the wise answered saying not so Lest there be not enough for us and you but go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourself and While they went to buy the bridegroom come and They that were ready went in with him to the marriage and the door was shut.

Afterward came also the other virgin saying Lord Lord open to us. But he answered and said Verily I say unto you. I know you not Watch therefore for you know, not neither the day nor the hour. We're in the Son of Man Cometh let's pray here together father.

A Prayer for Watchfulness and Spiritual Readiness

I do pray for a Seriousness awaiting us so God in this hour. It's such a serious hour. It's such a sober an hour and my God all the signs are there if we have eyes to see if we have any Wisdom whatsoever all of the signs are swiftly coming to pass to turn our eyes Towards Jesus my God to begin to prepare Ourself to adjust herself to make herself ready to do anything that we need to do now to be ready For the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ my God.

We're not looking for a thing. We're not looking for an event. We're not looking for a spiritual movement. We're not looking for a Manifestation. We're not looking for a new teaching or emphasis. But we are looking for a divine person the same one who went away Shall come in like manner just as he went away and Lord God.

We want to be a church making herself ready preparing herself watching awake Prayerful seek in the face of the Lord and my God. We want eyes that are open to the signs of the times that we might discern the near coming of the Lord Jesus my lord.

I do pray that you'd make us wise virgins that you'd raise up a church that can be counted now wise Virgin in this hour God help us. We need the oil of your Holy Spirit like never before we need light.

We need heat we need revelation. We need illumination and guidance my God. We are desperate for the oil of your Holy Spirit here in our midst my God. I'm asking pour out your Holy Spirit upon us pour out your Holy Spirit on our unsafe family members.

That they might be born again and come into the kingdom of God at this dark and crisis hour in the name of Jesus we bless you. Amen. Amen. My message part two wise and foolish virgins wise and foolish virgins.

Christ’s Teaching on the Signs of His Coming

Please go back and watch or listen to part one to get the context of what we're going to deal with here in chapter 24 and verse 44 Jesus says. Therefore why did he say therefore? Because he'd been teaching an entire chapter of Doctrine on his soon coming.

What would be the signs the events politically? Socially religiously and Economically, what would be happening in the world worldwide? Just before he comes again. You see there's those in the church who teach we shouldn't look for signs.

I'm telling you Jesus taught we should look for signs. We ought to be awake. We ought to be watchful watchful for what yes the coming of the Lord. But how can you watch for him coming if you don't know the signs of his coming?

What it's actually saying is you need to be awake watchful ready? Because as you see all the signs there is an urgency within you to say I want to be ready for the coming of the Lord since I'm not looking for merely a new movement a new Spiritual experience it is the Lord.

I am looking for it is not an event that is going to happen. It is not a great spiritual crisis. I'm looking for a divine person. I'm looking for him. I am longing for him. Jesus says in Matthew 24 and verse 44.

Therefore be Ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think? Not The Son of Man cometh. Do you realize many are going to be thinking? They're gonna have strong thoughts the Lord's not coming yet. How do I know they're gonna think that they are not getting ready?

Show me someone who knows all of the teaching of the Bible, but they're not getting ready. They're not departing from sin. They're not getting born again. They don't believe anything. They can look at the world.

They can hear the preaching, but if it's not a spec Affecting your life, then you do not believe in anything. You're actually blind to the signs you might say look at the mark of the beast coming. You don't believe in anything if you're not getting ready.

Do you realize Jesus said the signs would come fast and furious? There would be a warning enough that you would begin to say I must get ready. Therefore be also ready. For in such an hour as you think not you're gonna say tomorrow tomorrow.

Next year next year. Oh all the plans of my life. Do you know what you're gonna get caught out? There is a type of thinking that stops you being prepared for the return of Jesus Christ. I mean an entire way of thinking in the church.

This scripture is not talking about sinners or rebels or atheists. It's talking about people sitting in churches. And he said there's a type of way of thinking of your inward thought and you know what that thought Nullifies you or stops you being ready or prepared for the coming of the Lord.

He says be ye also ready. Remember what we said about this word ready. It means to adjust yourself to make yourself ready to prepare yourself or to stand there as a servant. Literally to be at the hand of the Lord to say Lord.

What do you want me to do here? I am I'm in the right place in the right spiritual condition Lord. I am ready. That's what the word ready means to be adjusted change in the right place at the right time to do the right thing and as an Absolute servant of Jesus Christ where he can use you in this last hour.

There's a lot of people in the church God cannot use them. I couldn't use them so God help you if I couldn't then what is the Lord gonna say? You know what? I would never use an unfaithful person. Never never never.

I wouldn't use a fool of a man. I would never use that person and so Christ when he's looking at his church he's looking for a certain type of church a certain type of preacher and a certain type of Believer, do you realize that after teaching?

Thoroughly accurately and fully about his soon coming on all the signs Jesus gives four Parables. The first of them is at the end of Matthew 24 the other three Phil Matthew 25. In other words Matthew 24 and Matthew 25 go together after teaching.

Doctrine after teaching time sequence after teaching on the signs Jesus gives four parables. What are parables they are normal stories? What does Christ do he takes a normal natural thing of life? Something that is common to us something we understand something we see regularly and he takes that natural earthly worldly human story and you know what he does he uses it to explain a Kingdom truth a heavenly truth or a spiritual truth.

In other words when you look at it you begin to understand spiritual truth. That's why after teaching on the end days Christ gives four Different parables and if you study these parables they all merge into one.

You see he gives teaching on out word events. But then in the four parables he comes to the inward attitude of the heart. He's no longer talking talking about Worldwide events out there in the future.

He is now bringing it very close to every individual in the church that says they're getting ready for Jesus and he begins to speak to them about the Attitude of their heart and each of the four parables the Lord delayed his coming.

There was a delay in all four Parables. In other words that is going to be a testing time when people begin to say sure we've always heard this. Everybody has said this for years. Oh, yes. This has gone on all through the generations and this hour is no different so I can rest.

I want to tell you on the very hour that these things are actually coming to pass. That's going to be the time people are least Prepared for this they're gonna be thinking not yet. Not yet. My lord delays his coming last week.

The Meaning of the Foolish Virgins

We looked at the foolish virgins five of the ten and we said the word foolish means dull to be stupid heedless a flat edge without any sharpness. Lacking a grip on reality. We pointed out in Matthew 25 13 watch therefore or be awake for ye.

No, not neither the day nor the hour that the Son of Man Cometh you better watch anyone who does not watch. Will not know the time of the coming of the Lord. What are you watching for? You actually are looking at the signs and as you look at those signs you become alert.

You waken yourself you stir yourself and you go. This is just about to happen. It is only around the corner. No, let me go further and explain who are the wise virgins in this parable of Jesus. We've seen who the foolish are and we're gonna come back and look at them again.

Wisdom as Thoughtful, Practical Christian Conduct

But who are the wise virgins? We actually seen how there was a lack of thoughtfulness our care in the foolish virgins. But what does the word wise mean? This word wise for wise virgin. Listen carefully to what it means.

It means thoughtful. That's what this Greek word wise actually means. It means to be thoughtful or to reign or to curb in the thoughts of the mind. In other words, you're pulling in all of the thoughts.

You're taking your thoughts captive. That's what the word wise means. I can identify a wise virgin or a wise Christian or a wise church. You know why they the wisdom that they have means that they are pulling in their thoughts.

They're taking their own thought life captive. Why do they do that to protect the attitudes of their heart and the actions of their hand? They know that the thought life is going to get down into their heart and I assure you when I see someone living wrong.

Acting wrong or speaking wrong that goes back to attitudes and then it goes further back to thoughts in the mind. Do you see how the minds of these foolish virgins have destroyed them and mean that they don't prepare?

They say they believe it all but they're not getting prepared. They say Jesus is about to come. They say all of the signs and yet it doesn't affect them. They are still foolish. They are still thoughtless.

But look at these wise virgins the word here in the Greek listen carefully what wise and wise virgin means. It means a type of wisdom. Relevant to practical action. It also implies good judgment. Excellence of character and good habits of life.

This wisdom is sometimes referred to as practical virtue. How do I have how do I recognize the wise virgins? There is a wisdom that they have in their thinking in their mind in their thoughts that leads out into a Practical holiness of life.

In other words. I see them getting ready. I see them preparing themselves. I see them change in their actions. Capturing thoughts that could endanger their soul or put them to sleep. You see this is what a wise virgin is.

They have a wisdom that comes from God that affects their lifestyle and their speech and their attitudes. It is very very practical in the home on the high street in the workplace in Churchlife in in amongst their family members.

There is a wisdom that actually leads to godliness in all of those Environments since a wise virgin is radically different than a foolish virgin. They're not the same. One of them has a mind that is Absolutely clouded and closed to the things of God.

The other one is very alert and alive to spiritual issues. These wise virgins, let me give you some points about them here. You see I believe that they have a strong fear of the Lord. Why did I say that?

Why is it that I would look at these wise virgins and say those that are? Preparing themselves for Jesus to come back. Or marked by the fear of the Lord. It says in Proverbs 9 verse 10 the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

In other words without a real genuine fear of God. You have no wisdom when I meet someone and they could be very educated or not educated at all. But they're very foolish. I mean they give no thought to spiritual things.

You know what? I have to say they have no fear of God. This has got nothing to do with intelligence your education. The brightness of your emotions nothing to do with that. This has everything to do with fearing God.

A reverence a respect an Awesome awareness of the Lord. Those that fear the Lord are going to be wise in this hour. I promise you do you want the wisdom of God? Do you want to be a wise virgin in this hour.

Then make sure you fear God that you have a holy awesome reverence of the Lord. So what's the essential difference between the actions of the wise and the actions of the foolish. Do you remember I said about the foolish?

That they took their. That they took they took their lamps. But they took new oil with them that's marked the mind you see that foolish thinking. There was a manner of thinking in the foolish virgin that says yes.

Let's take our lamb, but I won't take any oil with me. It came out of that mind out of that attitude of heart, but let's compare this with the wise. What do they say look in verse 4 with me? Concerning the wise virgin and the difference in their actions or.

What did this wisdom lead them to it says in verse 4? But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. The foolish didn't do that. Look at these wise versions. They took oil in their Vessels. The word took means to lay siege of or to grab or to hold fast with both hands.

What did they do? Oh? Yes? They had a lamp like the foolish virgins. They all had lamps. What is the lamp. Your outward testimony your activity your ministry your knowledge in the church? Everybody has a lamp who's basically in the church or who's professing to know Jesus Christ.

They all have lamps, but what did the wise virgin do they took oil in their vessel? They had a lamp that was burning. But they also had something else that the foolish didn't have. They had another vessel not just their lamp.

Not just their candle light not just this instrument that was outward. Remember what we said about the outward oil. They only needed oil for your lamp, but what did the wise do they took another? Vessel with them and that other vessel was filled with oil.

So look at these wise virgins. They had an awareness of the necessity of the oil. The foolish only saw the importance of a lamp. But the actual wise virgin said I must have oil. I must take a source of oil.

I must store oil up for the future. I must have a reservoir of oil. Not just for public ministry not just out there where everyone can see it. I need another vessel that is my personal vessel. It is hidden away from the sight of man.

It's for my personal use it's for the future not for now. It's not for outward ministry. It is for me it is to prepare me for the for the hour of need and in fact They stored up oil to go out to meet the bridegroom.

You see the church is filled with people. I want oil for ministry. I want to be active. I want to be noticed. I want to do some great thing and yet they're not storing oil up to meet Jesus Christ. Can I ask you rather than storing oil up to do something in the church to be noticed by the church?

Are you gonna have oil that you can go out to meet the bridegroom is your vessel? Do you have a secret? Private vessel that's filled with oil that actually is gonna be saved there and Protected there and you have to prepare it now.

Later will be too late. If you leave this to another hour you're gonna find that yourself that you're gonna miss the coming of the Lord. You're not gonna be ready to meet him. No, you need to prepare the Saints.

I'm warning you about the midnight hour the greatest crisis in world history. I want you to make yourself ready now if you don't do it now if you wait until that time I promise you according this parable.

You're gonna be caught out. You're gonna find yourself in a terrible Situation so look at these wise virgins. They took oil in their vessels. They knew it's the oil that's important not. Not the lamp not the outward testimony not doing things in the church not believe in the right thing.

Not preaching or evangelism all those things are important for all of us. But that is not the essential thing. Do you know what it is? It is the inward oil. You see what I'm talking about the outward oil in the lamp and the inward oil in the vessel.

The wise had the inward oil and the outward oil the foolish only had outward oil. But no inward oil you say can you have that? Yes, of course, you can have that you can have those that play around with the Holy Spirit gifts of the Holy Spirit ministries of the Holy Spirit.

Anointings of the Holy Spirit, but they have no inward oil their experience. The Holy Spirit is outward in the church and it's public. But they have no real experience of the real Holy Spirit being of their vessel being filled.

The Holy Spirit as the Inward Oil

It says in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 and 16 know ye not that ye are the temple of The of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. What is the inward oil it is the real Holy Spirit. Oil always Represents the Holy Spirit and here it's talking about oil.

Indwelling you are the Holy Spirit dwelling within you. See this is a real Christian. Who is the real Christian the Holy Spirit lives? Actually within you if he doesn't you're in trouble on that day. You can do all the religious things.

But when the Lord comes You're gonna receive a very clear message from him. And also says in 1 Corinthians 6 19. What no ye not that your body your physical body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. Which is in you which ye have of God and ye are not your own.

So we begin to see who these wise virgins are. They fear God they take oil with them. They are filled with oil in that secret place. They are a temple of the Holy Spirit, but you know, what else they are.

Faithfulness, Readiness, and Stewardship

They're also faithful. It says in chapter 24 45 that they are faithful and wise. A faithful and wise Servant not only a wise servant, but also faithful. What does it mean to be faithful? It means trustworthy to be reliable or Someone I can trust.

Can God trust you here this morning. You may say oh, I'm wise. I have the real Holy Spirit. I'm born again. Can God trust you with spiritual things? You know in the first parable Jesus gives it's about the householder or the man of the house.

Listen to what it says. Who then is a faithful and a wise? Servant whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household. To give them meat and juice season. I believe this speaks to every man of a house. I believe it also speaks about every preacher in a church.

I believe God's gonna hold every preacher every man as the head of the home. Responsible for how he leads that home. Are you faithful? Are you faithful? God uses this as an example. I've given this man a household to look after.

Does he care for it because you know. What if he doesn't he is a fool? He's not wise and he is not faithful. How do you look after a house? To give them meat in juice season the right meals at the right time.

You know, I'm glad for a wife who's very careful about my eating. I wouldn't be I wouldn't be very careful. And man, you would not like to see what I would eat if Candace wasn't there, but you know what there is someone there.

Caring for the meals watching over them making sure I have enough creams enough salad. I just know these young guys love their salads like me and the odd time I have to say no more salads. I've had my fill of salads, but you know what?

There is a spiritual principle here not of the woman or the wife looking after a meal. But what about those who look after the house of God? You'd better make sure you have the Word of God at the right time to feed so they're also Faithful.

Are you? Faithful in the house of God. Are you trustworthy? They are also ready in verse 10 it says. And they that were ready went out to meet him. To the marriage and the door was shut. Look at these wise virgins because of their wisdom because of their oil they are ready.

They have adjusted themselves. They have prepared themselves. They are usable since you better find out if you're a foolish virgin or a wise Virgin but notice with me. They did slumber and sleep an hour a time came.

The Delay, the Midnight Hour, and the Awakening

When these wise virgins who had oil who had wisdom who had faithfulness. Who had prepared themselves and made themselves ready. They actually began to slumber and sleep. They are the real they are really born again.

They're real temples of the Holy Spirit and yet they begin to slumber. They actually begin to fall asleep and then they lose consciousness. Where they're not even aware what's happening around them. In fact the same thing that happened to them happened to the foolish virgins.

They all fall asleep together the wise and the foolish but listen carefully the foolish when they wake up are gonna realize they missed the day of their salvation and The real Christian who falls asleep in this hour.

Oh, it's not that serious. It's not an issue of your soul. But you're gonna find out how you fell asleep is how you're gonna wake up and meet the Lord. In other words, if you fall asleep spiritually and you say well, I've got enough oil to get to heaven.

I've got enough oil to meet the Lord. I've got enough oil to be saved. But you know what where you fell asleep is where the Lord is gonna find you you're gonna have all this missed period. No public witness no burning lamp.

No. No works to bring with you since it's a very serious thing that I believe Jesus is talking about the last days when a Slumber and a sleep is gonna sweep the church. It's gonna affect every true virgin and every false virgin the wise and the foolish.

I believe we are on the edge of a worldwide sleep. Absolutely sweeping through the Church of Jesus Christ. I really believe that notice with me what Jesus taught here three things. I want you to note here the delay the midnight hour and The awakening.

I want you to note those three things clearly because they come in an hour of sleepiness. They come in an hour of sleepiness. First of all the delay it says in verse 5 while the bridegroom tirade. They all slumbered and slept.

Why did the wise and the foolish fall asleep? Why is it that the foolish went into a? Condition of sleep that's gonna destroy their soul in the church. They've fallen asleep in church. They've fallen asleep in the last days and you know what when they wake up they're gonna find they're appointed to judgment.

What what is this hour? Why did it come about you know why. Because Jesus delayed his coming it means that he lingered or he held back. Remember in the four parables. They're all about being prepared at a time where the master delays his coming all four parables.

Talk about the delay in reference to the last days. It looks like Jesus isn't coming. It looks like he's holding back. It looks like events are moving on since there is a delay and because of that delay.

Because it seems like he's not coming. Everybody begins to slumber and sleep and yet Jesus says you don't have to you're not meant to. You're to watch. I've commanded you to watch to be awake to be alert and not to sleep.

What does sleeping mean. You become inactive if you have become inactive as a Christian? Do you know what you've just fallen asleep? It's not enough to know that Jesus is coming or to have oil or to be born again or to have a lamp.

Is your lamp. Functioning. If not, you're asleep. You are a victim of the hour that we live in the spiritual condition all around us. You are a victim if you're falling asleep and you have no excuse no excuse.

Jesus said I want you to be awake and not our. I want you to be a watchful. You see the signs mean nothing to those who are asleep. If I made a Christian and they say oh no nothing's happening in this hour I'm gonna go.

They're sleeping. They're sleeping if there isn't an urgency after all that we're seeing in our world. Then nothing's gonna rush you until literally we see the sign of the Son of Man coming. Until that time that's what it's gonna take you you must be so asleep if you are not Urgently preparing yourself either you're a wise virgin.

Sleeping or you're a foolish virgin sleeping that I show you you you better wake up. Because if you don't and you sleep through this next period you're gonna find you're suddenly gonna get it woken up in a in an Absolute extraordinary hour and you may not escape with your soul.

Sinners who don't know Jesus Christ here. I want to warn you. You don't want to fall asleep right now. Do you hear me if you fall asleep now? You may lose your eternal soul. I Believe that if you can fall asleep now with all of these signs coming to pass if you don't have an urgency to go.

Buy oil now. I don't very much if you're gonna make it through if you can't get saved. No, you're not gonna get saved in the years ahead. You know why it's gonna get very dark. It's gonna get a lot harder.

It's gonna get very cold. And if you find it hard to get through to God. No I would worry for your eternal soul if you're willing to say just a little slumber. Just a little sleep a little folding of the hands.

I want to tell you that's the voice of the devil to you sure maybe next year sure and in a bit's time. You may not have that opportunity. You can't come when you want you remember in the Old Testament That Moses went up into the mount.

To get the commandments from the Lord. He was up there in the glory the manifest glory of God. God spoke to him face to face as a friend. Listen to what it says it says while he tarried on the mount. Moses is up there a type of Jesus and while they tarried on the mount.

Do you know what happened down below amongst God's people they began to party and eat and drink and dance. And they they took all of their gold and they raised up a golden calf. And they begin to say this is our God.

This is our God. Why did they do that? How could they do it because Moses tarried they said he's died up there. I don't think Moses is coming back. You know you know while Moses was there. He kept him in line.

He was very straight very direct, and they say you know what I I think he's died up there. I think he fell off a cliff. I don't think he's coming back, and there's lots of people in the church. You know what I don't think it's literal.

I don't think it's actually gonna happen. I don't think there's an eternal hell. You know I'm having doubts about the judgment of God. I don't really think he'll judge men for their sin. I don't really think there's anything wrong with Homosexuality.

Do you realize what's happening because Jesus delays his coming. You're having an awful lot rise up and What is called the church? I want to warn you about this the delay reveals an awful lot. The delay is gonna expose all of you to a Situation where you're in danger of sleeping.

The Midnight Hour, Persecution, and Growing Lawlessness

That's the delay, but let's look at the midnight hour. Notice that this delay Eventually did bring them to a midnight hour. It says in verse 5 while the bridegroom tarried. Another words during that period he's tarrying while.

During that period they all slumbered and slept and at midnight. In other words the sleep ends at midnight. This sleep that comes to the wise and the foolish Only extends to midnight. It won't be Continual after that something is going to happen at the midnight hour.

There was a cry made behold the bridegroom cometh go ye out to meet him. Notice, it's a midnight hour that Jesus talks about. Don't separate this from Matthew 24. Once he just thought about he's talked about the beginning of sorrows.

About the end of all things he's talking about time an hour a season a Period in church history that the church is going to come to just before Jesus comes again. It's called the midnight hour and it says at the midnight hour.

You know what the midnight hour is. It's a time of darkness. Terrible darkness. It's a time of coldness. It's a time of Sleepiness, that's the condition. Do you realize our world is getting very cold very dark to realize things are changing.

It's not three o 'clock in the afternoon. It's not six o 'clock in the evening. It's not nine o 'clock or ten o 'clock. I want to assure you we are heading for midnight. I believe this with all my heart.

What did Jesus say about the midnight hour for his church for the wise and the foolish virgins? Read back in Matthew 24. He begins to describe the approach of midnight the hour of coldness and darkness and of sleepiness.

You know what? He says you're gonna be hated of all nations. This is the midnight hour and you know what most of the church wise and foolish are not ready for this. They have fallen asleep because of the delay and now here comes the midnight hour.

What does the midnight hour looks like. You are gonna be hated you are going to be offended. Men are gonna betray you you are going to be persecuted. Since I'm telling you about the midnight hour that most of the church knows nothing about.

They say hey God isn't gonna allow us to suffer. God won't allow me to be hurt. They think that wearing a mask is actually persecution against the church. They go Well, I'm not gonna wear a mask into the shop because that's persecution, you know, nothing about Persecution.

I want to assure you I have volumes of the saints that were martyred through the years. I have read testimonies of young men 28 years old marching up to the gallows saying I'm Happier now on this day of my death than I was on my marriage day.

I am so excited. They went to their death saints. We know nothing about suffering. The church has a few things happen in society and said we're being treated roughly. You don't know what's just about to come.

Do you see what's going to begin to happen to affect the real? Genuine Christians to make them begin to slumber and sleep to become inactive and evangelism. I'm very worried about this. Jesus said because iniquity or Lawlessness is going to abound it's going to multiply it's going to explode.

It's going to come to fullness. Aren't we seeing it now and iniquity and lawlessness in the schools education system in politics. Disbanding the place. They're crazy. They're utterly crazy. We are living in a very dark hour and because this explodes in society.

What happens to the church it says because of this the love of many is going to wax cold. You know that word love isn't about sinners. It's not about the foolish virgins. They don't love God. Anyway, you know what he's saying because of this in society and politics and in our nation's this Lawlessness release no law no restriction on lawlessness.

He says the love of many is going to grow cold the agape love of many. You know Peter lost his agape love and denying Christ. He's still a believer. He's still a genuine virgin, but he he went from agape love fervent love.

I'd die for you down to a filial love to say I've got some affection for you. You know our world's filled with filial love. Hey, I quite like you and A few girls have any sense you go does that mean you're gonna marry me.

Oh, no. I just like you. Alarm bells you know what it means. No commitment. No, nothing really he just wants you he'll use you he'll dump you. But that isn't the love of God the agape love of God always involves utter commitment.

I'm telling you of a midnight hour an actual midnight hour when your love for God For the house of God for the Word of God is gonna come under attack. And you're gonna be sorely tempted to move from agape love to filial love.