“Now we need each of us to ask ourselves this question. Where is our treasure? What do you treasure, really?
What do you spend your time worrying about, thinking, being concerned about? What do you pour your life in? That's your treasure.
Because as Jesus said, where a person's treasure is, there will their heart be also. Where your heart is, is where your treasure is. And when we think about the Lord coming, we want to remember that what will happen then is not that we will just do some little trick and manage to get in the door before it closes.
No, our condition when he comes will be revealed by his coming. But what is revealed is not something that happens at the moment, but our entire attitude toward the Lord.”
From The Dallas Willard Podcast: 11. The Ten Virgins and the Evil Watchman. “A Revelation of the Heart” (1983), Nov 4, 2024
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I NEVER KNEW YOU
“Campbell Morgan in his study of the parables comments on how sad it is to realize that in this parable of the evil servant, where you have those who are placed in charge of the household of God in his absence, the church, the kingdom of God, now in its non-nationalistic form, in its universal form, where it doesn't matter whether you're a Jew or a Frenchman or an American or whatever, but you're just a member of the church. He says how sad it is that over and over we find within the household of God, people mistreat others still. They still regard sometimes the church as a place in which to exalt themselves and to find the goods that they want out of life, whatever it may be, rather than seeing it as a place to act as the gentle under shepherd of the Lord and to not act for gain or for prominence or for anything else, but simply to help the people of God.
And it's still true. And it's very unfortunate and very sad. And here we need to put this parable together with our other parables about the tares and the parable of[…]”
From The Dallas Willard Podcast: 11. The Ten Virgins and the Evil Watchman. “A Revelation of the Heart” (1983), Nov 4, 2024
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