BE YE ALSO READY

MATTHEW 12:35-44

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. ARE YOU BASICALLY READY?

1. Are you Ready to Hear? [Ecc. 5:1]

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

2. Are you Ready to Help? [1 Tm. 6:18, Titus 3:1]

-That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate

-Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work

3. Are you Ready for His Return? [Mt. 24:42-44]

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

 

II. ARE YOU REALLY READY?

1. Are you Ready to give an Answer? [2 Tm. 4:6, 1 Pet. 5:2]

-For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

-Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

2. Are you Ready to give the Gospel? [Rm. 1:15-16, 1 Pet. 3:15]

- So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

-But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear

3. Are you Ready to give your Life? [Acts 21:13, 2 Tm. 4:6]

- Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

-For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

 

III. CHRIST IS READY- ARE YOU READY FOR CHRIST?

1. Christ is Ready to Answer prayer- are you ready to give praise? [Is. 38:20]

The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

2. Christ is Ready to Judge- are you ready to be judged? [1 Pet. 4:5]

Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

3. Christ is Ready to Forgive- are you ready to be forgiven? [Neh. 9:17, Ps. 86:5, 1 Jn. 1:9]

- And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

- For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

-If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.