Conclusion of Keep Ready Faithful Steward

Jesus emphasizes in another way why his disciples need to be alert and give attention to their attitude.  That is because it is possible to grow lax and even go to the point of opposing one's fellows:  "But if ever that slave should say in his heart, 'My master delays in coming,' and starts to beat the male and female servants and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that slave will come on a day that he is not expecting him and at an hour that he does not know, and he will punish him with the greatest severity and assign him a part  with the unfaithful ones." - LUKE 12:45. 46. 

Jesus says that he has come "t0 start a fire on the earth." and he has, raising issues that cause great heat of controversy and result in the consuming of false teachings, and traditions.  This even separates individuals who might be expected to be  united, dividing  "father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law." - LUKE 12:49, 53. 

These comments have been especially for his disciples. Then Jesus turns to the crowds. Mose of the people have stubbornly refused to accept the evidence that he is the Messiah, so he tells them:  "When you see a cloud rising in the west, at once you say, 'a storm is coming,' and it happens. And when you see a south wind blowing, you say,  'There will be a heat wave,' and  it occurs. Hypocrites, you know how to examine the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to examine this particular time?" ( Luke 12:54-56. 

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