十三节总结说，“所以你们要儆醒，因为那日子、那时辰，你们不知道。”二十四章四十至四十四节只说到活着豫备好之信徒的被提，还需要二十五章一至十三节，论到死而复活之信徒的被提。当我们读这段话时，我们看见我们需要何等儆醒。儆醒豫备是非常严肃的事。
没有一卷书像马太福音一再警告我们。每当我有一点随便，我就想起马太福音所包含的警告。不错，我们都是童女，但我们是愚拙的，还是精明的？我们都需要自己回答这问题。我们精明与否，在于我们的器皿里有没有额外的圣灵。
关于基督徒的生命，新约启示，首先我们需要把神的灵接受到我们的灵里，使我们得着重生。接着，我们需要长大。长大就是得着变化，得着变化主要的是在心思的灵里得以更新。变化和心思的更新使圣灵充满在我们的魂里。我们的心思乃是魂主要的部分。在我们心思的灵里得以更新，就是使我们的心思被那灵充满并浸透。然后，浸透了我们心思的那灵要更新我们全人。因此，我们这人，我们的魂，要被充满的灵所浸透。这是器皿里得着额外之油的路。
蒙了重生，得着新生，就是有那灵在我们的灵里，也就是说，有油在我们的灯里。有那灵在我们的魂里，意思就是我们在生命里长大、被变化、全人得更新，并使我们的魂被神的圣灵所浸透。这就是有油在器皿里。这是为着主的来临儆醒豫备的路，也是准备被提到主同在中的路。
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Watch Therefore – Matt. 25:13
Chapter 25:13 concludes, “Watch therefore, for you do not know the day nor the hour.” Chapter 24:40-44 refers to the rapture only of the living believers who are ready. Chapter 25:1-13 is needed to cover the rapture of the dead and resurrected ones. When we read this portion of the Word, we see how watchful we need to be. To be watchful and ready is a very serious matter.
No other book warns us as often as the book of Matthew does. Whenever I have been a little careless, I have remembered the warnings contained in Matthew. Yes, we all are virgins, but are we foolish or prudent? We all need to answer this question for ourselves. Whether we are prudent or not depends on whether or not we have the extra portion of the Holy Spirit in our vessel.
Concerning the Christian life, the New Testament reveals that firstly we need to receive the Spirit of God into our spirit so that we may be regenerated. Following this, we need to grow. To grow is to be transformed, and to be transformed is mainly to be renewed in the spirit of the mind. Transformation and the renewing of the mind issue in the infilling of the Holy Spirit in our soul. Our mind is the leading part of our soul. To be renewed in the spirit of our mind is to have our mind filled and saturated with the Spirit. Then the Spirit that has saturated our mind will renew our whole being. Thus, our being, our soul, will be saturated with the infilling Spirit. This is the way to have the extra portion of oil in the vessel.
To be regenerated, to have a new birth, is to have the Spirit in our spirit, that is, to have the oil in our lamp. To have the Spirit in our soul means that we grow in life, are transformed, are renewed in our whole being, and have our soul saturated with the Holy Spirit of God. This is to have the oil in the vessel. This is the way to be watchful and to be ready for the Lord’s coming. It is also the way to be prepared to be raptured into the Lord’s presence.