34 And take heed to yonrselves, lest at any time your hearts he overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this Ufe, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted
worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
37 And in the day time he was teaching in the temple ; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called t/ie mount of Olives.
38 And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.
These verses form the practical conclusion of our Lord Jesus Christ's great prophetical discourse. They supply a striking answer to those who condemn the study of unfulfilled prophecy as speculative and unprofitable. It would be difficult to find a passage more practical, direct, plain, and heart-searching than that which is now before our eyes.
Let us learn from these verses, the spiritual danger to which even the holiest believers are exposed in this tcorld. Our Lord says to His disciples, " Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with sur- feiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares."
These words are exceedingly startling. They were not