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His own coming, not the coming of death, that He held up before His disciples as the incentive to live as they ought to live. Pro ceeding still further, He said, "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath set over his household, to give them food in due season t Blessed is that servant whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing" (vs. 45.46). On another occasion our Lord was warning His disciples against the sins which are especially common in our day, over eating, over-drinking, and undue occupation with the cares of this life, "Take heed to yourselves," He said, "lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunken ness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare : for so shall it come upon all that dwell on the face of all the earth. But watch ye at every season making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man'' (Luke 21 :34- 36). It was not the physical e:ffects of folly in eating and drinking that our Lord urged upon His disciples but rather the fact that these things would unfit them to meet Him upon His Return. The Apostle John writes to those whom he had led into·the light, "Now,
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