Citadel10 Sep 2025

7 - The Readiness of the Kingdom - Craig Herbert

WELCOME TO CITADEL CHURCH ONLINE!

We’re so excited to connect with you this week! We pray you’re blessed and that you find a place to belong here in our community.

Right now, we’re in a series called Secrets of the Kingdom: Stories Jesus Told That Change Everything.

Jesus often spoke in parables - simple stories with deep truths about God’s Kingdom and how we’re invited to live in it. Each week, we’re exploring one of these powerful stories and what it means for our lives today.

➡ This is our last parable:

🪔 The Readiness of the Kingdom (Matthew 25:1–13)
We close out our Secrets of the Kingdom series with Jesus’ parable of the Ten Virgins. The story paints a vivid picture of a wedding feast, bridesmaids waiting in the night, lamps burning, and a midnight cry: “Here is the Bridegroom!”

The message is clear: the Kingdom is urgent. Readiness can’t be borrowed or delayed — it must be personal, daily, and urgent. Jesus may delay His coming, but when He arrives, it will be too late to scramble. The question for all of us is simple: Do I have oil in my lamp? Am I ready to meet Him?

Join us as we end this series with a call to live awake, filled with the Spirit, and faithful until He comes.

Each week, we gather to worship Jesus, open Scripture, and lean into what God is saying to us as a church. Whether you’re part of the Citadel family or just checking things out, we’re so glad you’re here. These messages are designed to help you follow Jesus in everyday life and be part of something bigger - His Kingdom.

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