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InVerse 3rd Quarter 2024: Stories that Transform

Sikhu Daco

Justin Kim

Israel Ramos

Joe Reeves

01 Rooted in Faith

02 Lost but Found

03 Discovering the Treasure

04 Caught in the Crossfire

05 Persistent in Prayer

06 Loving our Neighbor

07 The Wedding Garment

08 Bearing Fruit

09 Giving to God

10 Called to Serve

11 Living for Eternity

12 Filled with the Spirit

13 Building on the Rock

Coming to you from Silver Spring, Maryland, welcome to Inverse, a Bible-based conversation on life principles, contemporary issues, and thought-provoking perspectives.

Now here's your host, Justin Kim, with Inverse.

My name is Justin Kim, and we're so happy that you are with us.

And for about the next 25 to 30 minutes, we're going to be studying the Bible together.

Not just me alone, but my friends are here.

And we got other people out there who were part of our Inverse team and for whatever reason, they couldn't be with us this quarter.

And so we also say hi to them, Callie, Sebastian, and Jonathan.

And we were wondering if there is someone that you'd like to see back on the show, let us know!

And if there's someone that you'd like to see off the show, let us know!

Put it in the comments, and who you'd like to see off the island.

We're all about studying the Word of God together as friends, and we appreciate your insights out there and each other's insights, but really we're seeing how the Bible understands itself, the Sola Scriptura method that we use here at Inverse.

If you want to learn more you can go to inversebible.org and look at our Bible study guides.

We have millions and millions and millions, I'm exaggerating, of topics out there.

1 of them may percolate your imagination and interest.

We are in a topical arc of looking at Jesus's parables and really they have been stories that have transformed my life, they've been part of our background thinking and our forefront thinking, right, as Christians.

And we're gonna be looking at something from Matthew 25, so if you have your Bibles, not if, not if, you should have your Bibles, Take it out and read along with us.

Joe, if you can pray for us and then we'll go to Siku.

You're gonna read the Bible for us and Israel, you can wax eloquent after that.

Heavenly Fathers, we look at this parable together that shows us how to be ready for your coming.

May you write that upon our hearts and give us clear minds to think and to follow you in Jesus' name, amen.

All right, we're going to Matthew chapter 25, verses 1 through 13.

Before we read Israel, any background information you want to give us on Matthew 25 that you may know off the top of your head?

It's dealing with Matthew 24, 25, both dealing with end times, Jesus' second coming, and so this parable takes place in the context of the fact that Jesus is getting ready to come, and in some way, they're given to prepare us for that great day.

Again, we go back to Joe, and I love the 2 categories.

This is more kind of human, maybe human interest, but in light of second coming, for sure.

No, I'm saying it does, ultimately does talk about sheep and goats and stuff like that.

All right, Matthew 25 verse 1 Siku Verse 1 then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to 10 virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Now 5 of them were wise and 5 were foolish.

Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them.

But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept." Alright, let's pause there and some of us may be familiar with this passage and the context and some of us may not be.

Just for clarification, they're on the same page.

Let's talk about, we're talking about a Middle Eastern context of a wedding, right?

Our weddings that we're used to is the little kids go up and then the groomsmen come in, bridesmaids come up, and then the groom pops up there and then the focus of the wedding is the lady, is the bride, she walks down with her dad or whatever male figure and then they get married.

Yeah, the Middle Eastern context was more than a quick wedding like you just described.

In the Western context it could be maybe a week-long celebration.

I'm thinking like an Indian wedding that goes on for feasting for multiple days.

Yeah, I think part of the bridal party had, you know, people that played a role in the wedding.

You had these virgins that were kind of there to help light the way to get the groom to his bride.

So the dude had to go to the bride's house, yeah?

That's as far as, that's what I remember.

Yeah, and then the virgins were there to light the path along the way.

And then I think that the groom had some kind of a forerunner as well, you know, because John the Baptist, I think, talks about that.

He uses the bridegroom, the best man motif.

Where he's the forerunner of the bridegroom announcing the bridegroom's coming, the bridegroom's coming.

I think it's referenced here as well in this story.

Yeah, verse 6, Israel, why don't you give me verse 6?

It says, and at midnight a cry was heard, behold the bridegroom is coming, go out to meet him.

Actually, I surprised, shocked, might shock myself.

Yeah, so there's, as Joe was saying, this is a very elaborate, very complex celebration that is not just like a quick 1 day thing, but it takes place over a longer period of time.

I just love the settings of Jesus's parables.

It's just very everyday, common events or settings.

Everyone can identify who's not been to a wedding.

I haven't been to a Middle Eastern wedding, but you know, it's a part of life that the Lord enjoyed.

Yeah, and just for adding to background culturally, that the bridegroom would prepare a place for his bride to come.

So like say his family's home and he would build their home like where they're going to live and so now the home is ready he's now going to collect his bride to bring her back.

It's not like they're going to a wedding and you know, he's going over there to, and then he can bring her back to his.

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