conduct yourselves to please god and as you are conducting yourselves you do so even more for you know what instructions we gave you through the lord jesus this is  holiness that you refrain from immorality that each of you know how to acquire a wife for himself in holiness and honor not in lust till last fall passion as to the gentiles who do not know for god did not call us to impurity but to holiness therefore whoever disregards us disregards not a human being but god who also gives his holy spirit to y the word of the lord thanks be to god rejoice in the lord you just rejoice in the lord you just the lord is king at the earth rejoice but the many isles be glad justice and all peoples see his glory rejoice in them or you just the lord loves those who hate evil he guards the lives of his faithful ones from the hand of the wicked he delivers into the wedding feast with him and the door was locked afterwards the other virgins came and said lord lord open the door for us but he said in re when this terrible was st ordered or proclaims or given to the followers of jesus it was a parable that told them that the kingdom of heaven was going to come to them of heaven was about to break out into the world and they had to be ready for it now as the centuries have gone on and the kingdom of heaven has become different at least in our understanding from what the people in the beginning understood we have to understand the parable from a different perspective especially if we put it in relationship to ourselves so the parable today has to do with our own coming into the kingdom  always be ready we do not know the day or the hour we don't know when it's going to happen to ourselves and certainly if we look at the larger perspective and think of the end of time we have no idea when that's going to happen either but more importantly for ourselves the lord will call us some day to meet him to be judged to be given our reward we hope we pray and so today's gospel reading today's parable is telling us inside our hearts inside our lives that we should always be ready and most of us are ready to meet the lord we may not be perfect we may have fallen down sometimes many many times but when we get up and we get right with the board and we are ready to meet him at any time so let us take this parable personally to our own hearts and remind ourselves that we always have to be ready to meet the board and if we do what we know we're supposed to do and there's no problems with that there's no worries with that either the father of the s work for peace and for justice god give them the rewards of their goodness we pray to the boards lord hear our friends we pray for american military throughout the world especially in harm's way in afghanistan we pray to prayers and need god's help god listen to our prayers for them we pray to the billboard lord hear our friends and pray specially for teachers who had just begun or will be next week the new year with their students that we prayed to the lord or to hear our prayer although to god we ask you to listen to our prayers we bring them to you in the name of jesus our brother and savior who is with you was god for ever and ever amen my sisters and brothers pray that my sacrifice of yours may be acceptable to god the almighty father may the lord accept the sacrifice of your hand the grace and glory of its name  oh godfather hersey's because of the great love with which you loved us with untold goodness gave us your only begotten son grant we pray that being perfectly united with him we may offer you worthy com through christ our board and men aboard be with you and with your spirit lift up your part we lift them up to the lord and let us give thanks to the lord our god is right and it is truly right in just our duty in our salvation always they call the therefore these kids by sending down your spirit upon them like to do paul so that they may be come for us the body and blood of our lord jesus christ the time he was betrayed and entered be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins do this in memory of me his resurrection remember also our brothers and sisters who are called in to sleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy welcomed them into the bite of your feets have mercy on us all may present glorify you through your son jesus christ who him in with him in him oh god almighty father and the unity of the holy spirit old glory and honor is yours for ever and ever from every evil graciously grant peace in our days that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all the stress as we await the blessings hope and the coming of our savior jesus christ they came to the power and the glory or you st now and forever lord jesus christ to set your apostles he said leave you my peace i give you look not on our sins but on the same of your church and graciously grant her peace in unity and accordance with your will to live in green forever and ever amen the peace of the lord be with you always and with your spirit that this offer each other this time of peace