Are You Ready for Christ's Return — Bill McLeod

The Signs of Christ’s Return in Luke 21

I'm going to read from Luke 21, and then from 1 Thessalonians 5. Luke 21, verse 25,. And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars, and upon the earth, distressing nations with perplexity, the sea in the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.

For the powers of heaven shall be shaken, and then shall they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws nigh.

Then verse 34,. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged or weighted down, overcharged with surfeiting, that's intemperance indulgence, and drunkenness, and cares of this life.

Notice that cares of this life are put in the same class as drunkenness and intemperance indulgence. And so that day come upon you unawares, for as a snare shall come, all them dwell on the face of the whole earth.

Watch therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man. Then turn to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5. Chapter 4, as we know, has to do with the coming of Christ for his people.

The Day of the Lord Comes Unexpectedly

Chapter 5, verse 1,. Of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. You are all the children of light and the children of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

For they that sleep, sleep in the night. They that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. At the age of 22, my mother was a Christian. My older brother, Don, was a Christian. And one day, the mother was a very wise fisherwoman.

She used to leave little booklets laying around the house, you know. So she left her little book, and the title said, The Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The Second Coming? That really rocked me. I got this book, made sure nobody could see me reading it, and read it 80 pages, maybe.

At the end, the writer said, Rev. Clarence Larkin was the man. Dear reader, that was me, can you say you're ready for the coming of Christ? Well, I couldn't. He said, if your answer is no, here's what to do.

And I did it. Went up the stairs about four at a time to find my mother and my brother and tell them what happened. Well, that's a long way to go, of course, as you know. You can figure it mathematically.

But it's been a great time, learning, studying, praying, witnessing, traveling. Paul said, in journeys oft, I've probably flown 600 times over the years. And I don't like those big planes. It's like riding in a bus.

I like riding on the bush planes where you can see what's down below. Anyway, I'm not complaining, just reporting. Jesus said, I will come again and receive you unto myself. That where I am, there you may be also.

Readiness and Spiritual Wakefulness

What a promise and what a thought. Now, are we ready for his return? I have no idea. There's people today, quite a few of them on programs and stuff that tell us they know when he's coming. Don't listen.

Do you want a text that tells you when he's coming? At such an hour as you think not, the Son of Man comes. Now, figure that one out. Okay. Now, here he says in 1st Corinthians 5, that is, the thought that when they, that's the word, when they shall say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them as travail upon a woman and a child, and they shall not escape.

It seems to suggest that the world will eventually get to a place where everybody can say, peace and safety, and then Christ comes. And sinners and sinful institutions are dealt with, and the angels dry clean the earth.

If you know what I mean. They're going to take out of the world everything that offends God. And then, you know what it says in Matthew? Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.

What a day. We don't shine now. We don't even know we're around, but someday we'll be the only ones around. Shining, it says, like the sun. Well, as we noted in Luke 21, there's a danger in 1st Corinthians 5.

There's a danger we might be caught sleeping when Christ comes back. That can happen. I meet sleepy Christians now and then, and they are sleeping spiritually. They're not walking with God. They're not studying the Bible.

They're not doing anything for God. They're a Christian, but they're asleep. Do you want to be caught sleeping when Christ comes? There's a verse that says, one in Daniel 12, many that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

But there's another verse. Well, there are many verses relating to this. 1st John 2, 28. And now, little children, it's a term of endearment used by John. And now, little children, abide in him that when he shall appear, you may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Some Christians will be ashamed, being caught when Christ comes back in some place they should not be, or doing something they should not be doing. So abide in Christ. That means you don't want to fall asleep.

You want to be walking with Jesus, abiding in Christ day by day with all the trials and tribulations. Don't worry about it. Paul had a lot more you'll ever have. So you will have confidence when the trumpet blows.

Confidence. You know, when I was first converted, and I, of course, I was converted by a booklet in the second coming of Christ. And I was so taken up with the doctrine, I thought he can come today. You know, I remember one time I was away from home, working in the bush.

And I wanted to get home and see my... So I asked the Lord to forestall the coming until I got home. Which he did, by the way. Anyway. We want to have confidence when he comes and not be ashamed. So obviously some will be, or John will not have written what he did.

The Coming of Christ as a Thief

Now the thief, the thief aspect of the coming of Christ is mentioned, I think, five times in the New Testament. Jesus spoke about it. And we know it here in Paul's writings. Peter spoke of it five times.

The thief aspect. If somebody's going to break into your house, they don't phone you and tell you at two o 'clock next morning, I'm going to break into your house. Right? That doesn't happen. They just come.

The Bible says they mark houses in the daytime. Then they break into them at night. And of course, that's exactly what they do. So it's something you don't know. You hope not, but it may happen. I know in Winnipeg now, older people, a lot of them don't sleep well.

In so many cases where guys have come, kicked the door down, broken and beaten them up and robbed and tied them up, maybe, and all this kind of thing. It's been happening again and again. And people don't know what to do.

You know what they did in the States? One city in Florida, they passed a law that every home had to have a hand pistol. Do you know what happened after that law was passed? There wasn't a single home break-in in the whole city.

In another state, they passed a law that was legal for you to carry a pistol concealed on your person. You know what happened? Street muggings dropped to zero. So there's a book written called More Guns, Less Crime.

Well, we don't want to get that way up here, but you know what? It may get that way up here. The way it's going now. They catch these guys, what do they do? Give them a cup of cocoa and a little wrap in the knuckles?

So about the size of it, figuratively speaking, is bad. Anyway, we're not in darkness at that day. You know, let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober, for they that sleep, sleep in the night.

They that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. God has not appointed us to wrath.

By the way, that is not referring to the Great Tribulation, because he's talking about salvation. The opposite of salvation is condemnation, eternal hell. That's what he's talking about. God has not appointed us to eternal hell, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Wedding Garment and the Righteousness of Christ

Now, some will be caught without a wedding garment. Jesus told a parable about a certain king who made a marriage for his son, and he sent his servants out to invite people to come. Nobody wanted to come, and the king got a little angry.

And finally, they got a big crowd. Then it says the king dropped in to see the guests. And you know what he found? There was a man there that didn't have a wedding garment on. I have to explain that. In some countries then, and some today even, at the wedding, you have to wear a certain garment which the host gives you as you walk in the door.

And you're expected to wear this wedding garment. And this king found a man who was so bold he hadn't accepted a wedding garment. And he said to him, How did you come in here without a wedding garment?

I heard some guy, and he said, I'm just waiting till I stand before God. I'm going to shake my fist under his nose and tell him all. Is he? How did this guy handle it? It says, and he was speechless. So will this other guy be speechless.

He won't be shaking his fist at God. So then, now this wedding garment represents, I believe, the righteousness of Christ, which is put to our account. It's called the gift of righteousness in the Bible.

We don't get to heaven because we've done some good things. We get there because of Christ. It's a gift, righteousness. And it says in Romans 3, The righteousness of Christ unto all and upon all them that believe, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

He didn't have that wedding garment on. He didn't have. He didn't get there with the righteousness of Christ. Romans 5 talks about it. They who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.

You have it? Have you got the wedding garment? You understand? The righteousness of Christ is offered to you as a believer, put to your account. So you don't have to plead your own goodness. That'll never work.

It's not by works of righteousness, which we have done. But according to his mercy, he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ, our Savior, that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Have you got the wedding garment on? You better figure it out. If you don't have some will be because this guy was thrown out into outer darkness because he didn't have that thing on. Some will be caught without any oil.

The Oil of the Spirit and Genuine Conversion

Jesus told a parable, Matthew 25, about 10 virgins, five wise, five foolish. And the king, the bridegroom came. Well, some of them, half of them did not have any oil in their lamp. And oil, not always, but frequently in the Bible, it's a symbol of the Spirit of God.

And Romans 8 says, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. You don't belong to God. You're not a Christian if you don't have the Spirit of God living within you. Made very clear, as you know, probably many places in the Word of God.

So these five tried to buy oil from the five that had oil, and they wouldn't sell to them. Actually, they couldn't. And so the other five went scurrying to try and find some place they could buy oil. They got it, but they got it too late.

When they came back, the door was shut. No salvation. So we need to make sure. Now, how can we make sure that God's Spirit lives within us? Well, here's a way. In Galatians, there's a verse that says, and because you are sons, because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts.

So to make sure you have the Spirit, you just have to make sure you have Christ. If you have received Christ, then God has sent His Spirit into your soul at that time. We all have the Spirit if we are born of God.

It's a simple thought, but many people don't quite understand it, and sometimes it gets faulty teaching on it as well. Then some people will be caught who have never really repented. When Jesus began His public ministry, Mark chapter 1, He said, The time is fulfilled.

The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the gospel. It's always that way, repentance and then faith. We have to understand that. In Acts 20, Paul said he went everywhere preaching two things, repentance towards God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

That's beautifully put. And Jesus told a parable in Matthew 21, which indicates that if you don't repent, you will not be able to exercise faith. Did He say that? Yes, He did. How did He say it? He said this.

John, that's John the Baptist, came unto you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the publicans and the harlots believed him, and you, when you had seen it afterward, did not repent that you might believe.

In other words, you can't believe if you don't repent. They belong together. I hear teaching. I remember Dale Faison felt life-after telling me he was in a huge church one time, and the pastor said, Now, he said, Dale, don't monkey around with this repentance stuff.

Just tell the people, invite Jesus into your heart. But that's not really it. When Christ sent the Twelve out to preach, it says, They preach that men should repent. Now, they preach more than that, but obviously, this is recorded that way to help us understand.

This was a big thing, to repent. We talk about rethinking, repenting. We were walking away from God, happy in our sin. We turned around and started walking towards God and listening to God. You remember the parable Jesus told?

Certain man said to his two sons, or first of all, one son than the other, The son, go work today in my vineyard. And he said, I will not. But afterward, he repented and went. So he changed his mind. Repentance.

When they asked Peter on the day of Pentecost, Men and brethren, what should we do? He said, Repent. That was the first word. And be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Repentance is where it all starts.

We change our attitude entirely towards God and Christ, the gospel, the word of God, repentance. You know, sometimes we have a lot of weighty things resting in our mind and we don't make any progress spiritually.

Jesus said about the Pharisees, Matthew 23. He said you pay tithe and you ought to, he said. That's right. But you have omitted the weightier matters of the law. What are these weightier matters of the law?

Judgment, mercy, faith, and the love of God. So they were tithing. You know, a lot of Christians have a feeling I'm tithing. Most Christians aren't. So I'm okay. That's no, listen. What about these weightier matters of the law?

Judgment, mercy, faith, and the love of God. They're more important than tithing is. Christians need to get their head straightened in this area because I know that many Christians have that feeling. I'm tithing.

My brother isn't, you know, I'm okay. No, watch it. Weightier matters. Notice in Luke 21, he spoke about this very thing, your heart being weighted down by several things. He meant drunkens, cares of this life, and so on.

And your heart gets weighted down and you can't think spiritually or walk spiritually. It can be a dangerous thing. In Hebrews chapter 12, it says, Let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that's set before us.

Is there anything slowing you down spiritually? I mean, think about, think it through. I have to share something with you here. Many years ago, I liked hunting with a bow and arrow. And I hadn't been into it long before the Lord told me he didn't want me to do this anymore.

And I was asked, well, why? Well, there's people, you know, around, and they think it's wrong to be shooting wooden sticks at animals, which I agree is wrong. But I didn't then. Well, finally, he got through, and I jumped my stuff, you know.

And you know what? The next deer season, I was out on the trail with my bow again. Ooh. How did the Lord handle this? I'm walking up a hill with a very sharp arrow in my right hand, and my foot slipped.

And I fell down, and the arrow broke in my hand, and that sharp point was right up where my heart was. I almost, if I hadn't been able to go, I'd have been dead, you know. And the Lord was standing there.

He said, I didn't hear the voice, but it went like this. How stupid can you get? Okay. But you know what happened? Once more, I was hunting with my son. I made sure I wasn't going to be climbing any hills, you know.

So I have an arrow in my hand and a bow in my other hand. You know what happened? I jammed myself with this arrow, and I had to go and get my leg sewn up, you know. At that time, even a Scotsman as stupid as me caught on, you know.

And I thank God. He took that away and many other things that I thought at the time were okay. Anything that slows you down spiritually, get rid of it. So you can run with patience the race that's set before you.

You can't run anybody else's race, but you can run your own. And we need to find out what God wants us to be and do. Those things, they may be quite harmless, nothing wrong with them, but they are weights.

Their hearts may be take heed, lest you be weighted down with intemperance, indulgence, and drunkenness, and cares of this life. How come that's put in the same level as drunkenness? You know, we get sometimes under a load of things and worry about this and worry about that and worry about something else.

Some people love to worry, you know. They're not happy unless they're worrying. Some people I hate to talk to because I know I'm going to have to listen for a half an hour to all about the organ recitals, you know.

He had this opera, he had that opera, you know, this kind of stuff. It goes on and on and on. And they're Christians, maybe, but they talk as if God was dead. And many times as Christians, when we pray, all we do is tell God things he already knows.

You know, we spend a lot of time informing God of things he already knows. That's stupid, to a waste of time. We have to learn how to sharpen the pencil, as it were, not waste time. You've got 24 hours in your day, the same as anybody else.

Some people make a great deal of it. I mean, if they're 24 hours, it really works for them. And others, again, they get nowhere. They might as well have 48 hours because it doesn't really matter. They don't get anything done no matter how long they wait.

Heavenly Citizenship and Witnessing

Okay, where matters. Then some people are caught without a passport. The Bible speaks about how, in 1 Peter 1, that God has given us an inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled, and it fades not away, reserved, he said, in heaven for you.

Have you got a reservation? You better have. And you can only get it from God himself. In Philippians, it says, our citizenship is in heaven. From what we're waiting, it says, in the context there, for Christ to return.

It doesn't use the word citizenship in the KJ, but I mean, that's the meaning. So we are citizens of a heavenly kingdom. If we are, we should have a passport. We should be able to show others how to get in on this inheritance, too.

You know, many Christians, they go through a whole life, never once witnessed to anybody. I started off that way because I was a very shy person. I had a terrible time. Like walking down the sidewalk.

If somebody was walking this way in the sidewalk, I crossed the street. I knew all the back lanes in West Winnipeg where I lived. I traveled the lanes all the time just to avoid meeting people. In school, it was a fright.

The teacher might ask me something. What would I say? She'd ask me something. I'd gulp and swallow, make a fool of myself. It was terrible. So I get saved and God called me to preach. I was in a bush camp that night, a pulpwood camp, and it was the craziest night I ever had.

I mean, I was on a top bunk and I was awake and God came and said, I want you to be a preacher. And you know, I really laughed. I said something like this. I said, God, this is a big joke. You know, I can't do that.

It's impossible. But he gave me that verse. I can do all things through Christ. He gave me that verse six times, I'm sure, that night. And finally said, okay, okay. If anybody asks me to preach, I'll do it.

I knew nobody would, you know. So I wasn't worried. But about a week later, somebody asked me to speak in a small church with 30 people. I picked 1 Corinthians chapter 12 because it was a long chapter.

And I figured if I'm persecuted in one verse, I can flee to another, you know. And I made it last about 20 minutes. I'll never forget that because when I got up in front of those people and saw those 30 pairs of eyes looking at me, I just looked for a hole in the platform.

How can I get out of this? It was too late. That was the first time. The second time was not quite as bad. And today, by the grace of God, 3 ,000 people. I've said this before. Some of you heard it. Forgive me for repeating myself.

I do it now and then. My wife always reminds me if she's in the crowd. She may throw me a hand signal so I know something's wrong, see. Okay. Anyway, weighty matters don't get caught weighted down with things that don't really count, that don't matter.

What are you doing for God? I don't care who you are. If you're born again, you could win others to Christ. If you try. But you've got to try. And you may get rebuffed once or twice. So what? Everybody's been rebuffed who's been winning people to Christ.

My first efforts at witnessing fell on the lines of me. I was writing people I knew well and telling them how to be saved. And two people got saved that way. And all of a sudden, I discovered I could speak.

So I forgot about writing letters and had a different approach. Anyway, passport. Yes. Salvation. Neither is there salvation in any other. But there's no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.

So when you get talking to people about the Lord, they'll bring up all kinds of things, you know, in our church, we do this. And you have to be like it says, here's something. Keep in mind, it's a very good thing to follow as a Christian worker.

As a Christian, I'm not talking about full-time workers, but we should all be, in a sense, full-time workers. It goes like this. The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient in meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves.

If God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, we're taken captive by him at his will. So you have to be gentle and kind.

And sometimes you'll have to say, now, do you think that's what the Bible says? And they'll say, well, doesn't it? Then you have to show them. You've got to know your Bible well. Get with it. Study to show yourself a proven unto God, a workman.

That was not written for preachers, you know. It was written for all of us. Get to know the Bible well. If they ask you a question you can't answer, you can at least say this. I'm not sure of the answer, but I'll get back to you on that.

You can do that. But people, there's no reason that we should be as ignorant as we are. Our houses, Christian houses, they're loaded with books. I'm not opposed to Christian books. I've got many in my library, but most of my time I spend with the book of books.

And I learn more here than I learn usually from other writings. Although I do like the writings of Spurgeon. Anyway, salvation. You have to ask people sometimes, are you going to go to heaven when you die?

Or you might say, do you know what salvation is? Or you might say, do you realize that Jesus died in your place on the cross? There's many different ways of starting a conversation. But many of us never get started.

There are thousands of Christians in North America who have never in their life tried to win the soul of Christ. Did you ever hear of T .B. Davis? He was in Moody's day. Became known around the Christian world as a great winner of people of Christ.

Do you know how it started? He was in a meeting, one of Moody's meetings, sitting near the front. Moody preached, gave an invitation. Hundreds of people came forward. And so workers were in there trying to win people of the Lord.

And Moody saw this guy sitting there, and he says, are you a Christian? Yes. What are you sitting there for? Get out there and win someone to Christ. Well, he'd never done this. So he picked a young kid, about 14, and he led him to Christ.

And he said, a fire started burning in his heart, which never went out. He won thousands to Christ before he died. But that's how it started. You've got to start somewhere. Start and watch God work. Paul asked a question and answered it.

What is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ and his coming? You are our glory and joy. He's talking about people he won to Christ. These were the things.

This is what he was living and dying for, just to win some sinners to Christ. So get with it. Start, pray, ask for help. But don't keep asking all your life. Do it. Okay. May I say this about salvation?

Salvation Is Found in Christ Alone

It's not a plan. It's a person. We find this in Luke chapter 2, when Simeon, he held a baby Jesus in his arms. He looked up to heaven and he praised God. My eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared before the face of all people.

Christ is salvation. If you've got him, you've got all the salvation you need. But salvation, I say, is not a plan. Okay. Some people are caught with no foundation. Jesus told a parable about that one guy building his house on a rock and somebody else building the house on a sand.

Two of us were talking to a forestry worker many years ago, and he listened to us, and then he said this. I think what we need to do is this. We need to take the best out of the Christian religion, the Muslim faith, and all these different faiths in the world, and just put them all together and make a brand new foundation.

And so we said to him, we quoted the Bible, other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. He turned and just ran. I don't know what happened, but he was scared or something.

He just took off. Other foundation can no man lay. We are exhorted in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 to be very careful how we build on the foundation. Are we building with, you know, wood, hay, stones, wood, hay, stone, whatever?

Are we building with that kind of stuff or with gold and silver, precious stones? That's the way it runs. Our work will be tried by fire someday, and maybe it'll all get burned up because we weren't really building with things that will stand the fire of God.

We can fool around in Christianity, you know, and do all kinds of little things that are not biblical and not really doing anything. But at least we feel happy because we're busy. I heard a man lecture one time on the life of Charles Finney.

Afterwards, I met a preacher friend of mine, and he said, remember, he spoke about Finney being so busy. Yeah, yeah, I remember that. He said, I have a friend who thinks he's busy. He's just buzzy. He's always doing something.

None of it works. He never gets anywhere, never grows in grace and in the knowledge of Christ, never wins anybody to Christ, never even tries. Sings a lot, but that's about it. Don't try and dodge the issue because you can't dodge an issue which God has made an issue.

In the book of Judith says, and not writing to preachers, just ordinary people, others say with fear, pulling them out of the fire, out of hating even the garments spotted by the flesh. That's our business.

You know, in Detroit years ago, there was a group of people in a church and the pastor got he heard about an area in Detroit where there was no church. He got burdened by began praying about it. Finally got a dozen people together and began praying regularly about starting a church in this other area.

And eventually they did. They had around 20 people and they covenant together and with God in this fashion. We will use all our spare time witnessing to Christ. We're not going to waste our time on anything.

It doesn't matter eternally. So what happened at the end of 12 months? They had 400 members in the church. When I read about it, there were 10 ,000 members in that church, Gilead Baptist Church in Detroit, but that's how it started.

It has to start somehow somebody with a vision. And so when I was a young Christian, I remember several of us were giving out tracks on the street and an older Christian tried to talk us out of it. You're wasting your time.

You know, you're hurting people's feelings. He talked us out of it for a little bit. We got back into it again. That same Christian later on backslid far from God. I don't know if he's ever saved. It was sad to see.

Building a Life That Will Stand the Fire

Okay. No foundation build on the rock of Jesus Christ. And there's certainly all we ever need to have as far as building a life, living in Christian life, pleasing to God and a blessing to others. There's enough in the Bible to help you along all you need.

I found that out long, long ago. No foundation. You better have one and be building. If you are a Christian, remember, that's not the whole story. Be building on the foundation with stuff that will stand the searching fire of God.

In Isaiah 1, God said, I will turn my hand upon you and purely purge away your drops and take away all your 10. Ask them to do that. Hey, God, get rid of the dross and the 10. I want to have genuine gold.

At one time, I took a course in prospecting geology and did some prospecting. And then I found it was more important to know the rock of ages than to know the age of rocks. So I gave up on it. But, you know, it's amazing getting among prospectors and that the way these guys operate, they're always operating on what they call hunches.

So somebody says, I have a hunch on St. Helens Lake. There's gold on one of those hills. And you know what will happen? Half the guys will go and check it out. Today, they have much more sophisticated methods than they had in those days.

So it's a little different. But there still is that thing. I'm going to strike it rich. I'm going to make it rich. What's that all about? Did I say it before? Excuse me. If I did, I'll say it again. God isn't on the gold standard.

Freedom From Greed and Earthly Possessions

Christ is talking about the unpardonable sin. But the guy in the crowd isn't listening. He's waiting for an opportunity to say something. He gets the opportunity. He says, Master, speak to my brother that he divide the inheritance of me.

And Christ said, who made me a judge or a divider over you? And then he spoke to the crowd. They're all listening. He spoke to the crowd. A man's life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses.