Luke 17:26-37

Luke 17:26-37

1. We should observe what a fearful picture our Lord gives of the state of the professing Church at His second coming.
2. We should observe what a solemn warning our Lord gives us against unsound profession.
3. We should observe what a dreadful separation there will be in the professing Church when Christ comes again.

"It is not enough to do as others, and buy, and sell, and plant, and build, and eat, and drink, and marry, as if we were born for nothing else. Exclusive attention to these things may ruin us as thoroughly as open sin. We must come out from the world and be separate. We must dare to be singular."

"Let us not profess to serve Christ for no higher motive than to please husbands, or wives, or masters, or ministers. A mere formal religion like this will never save our souls. Let us serve Christ for His own sake."

"Let us lay to heart these things. He that loves his relatives and friends is specially bound to consider them. If those whom he loves are true servants of Christ, let him know that he must cast in his lot with them, if he would not one day be parted from them forever. If those whom he loves are yet dead in trespasses and sins, let him know that he must work and pray for their conversion, lest he should be separated from them by and bye to all eternity."

Questions:

1. We again are brought to think about the second coming of Christ. The question we must first ask is, “am I living for the things of this world, or for another?” In what ways are we different from those who do not love Christ?

2. Lot’s wife, by all accounts would have looked godly, but the world was in her heart, and her heart in the world. For what reason do we serve spouses, or employers or leaders? Is it for Christ from the heart, or is it only external?

3. On the last day it will not matter our connections, but what is in our hearts. If we have godly relatives, have we cast our lot in with them? If we have unbelieving relatives, are we praying and seeking their conversion?