Today, on the C-Suite for Christ Podcast, we sound the spiritual alarm: “Keep your lamps lit!”—because darkness is sprinting, comfort is killing vigilance, and the Bridegroom is coming.
Paul M. Neuberger leads the charge, calling out comfort, compromise, and cancel culture infecting boardrooms and sanctuaries alike. Ten virgins, one Bridegroom, a midnight reckoning—some were ready, most were not. In a world addicted to ease and entertainment, will you build a business and lose your soul, chase success but miss holiness, plan for retirement but forget eternity?
This episode pulls no punches. The stakes are sky-high: lukewarm faith, cultural conformity, spiritual sleepwalking. Jesus is still Lord. The world may demand silence, but now is the hour to shine, to stand, to burn.
What will YOU do when spiritual midnight strikes? Buckle up. This one's raw, real, and rooted in Matthew 25.
"In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." –Matthew 5:16
Episode Highlights:
05:56 – Keeping your lamp lit isn't a poetic idea, a cute Christian slogan, or a soft spiritual encouragement. It's a command. It's a lifestyle. It's a battle stance. And it represents the difference between those who endure and those who fall away, those who overcome and those who collapse, those who walk in the light and those swallowed up by the darkness.
13:07 – And when Christ returns, he isn't coming back for a lukewarm, apathetic, half awake people. He's coming for those whose lamps burn fiercely through the darkness. Darkness, no matter the cost. When Jesus delivered the parable of the ten virgins, he wasn't warning about minor inconveniences or small spiritual setbacks. He was describing catastrophic consequences. The kind that determine eternal destiny. The kind that destroy families, the kind that end ministries. And the kind that leave believers blindsided in the moment that they least expect it. An unlit lamp is not just a dim spiritual life. It's a dangerous spiritual life. It's a life vulnerable to deception, seduction, confusion and collapse. It's a life without discernment, without spiritual power, without clarity. When the lamp goes out, so does the ability to recognize truth from lies, conviction from emotion, God's voice from the world's noise.
22:42 – And nothing threatens compliance more than a believer whose lamp burns without apology. Why does the world want your lamp extinguished? Because a lit lamp reveals the emptiness of their definitions of identity. Because a lit lamp exposes the foolishness of their arguments. Because a lit lamp confronts the lies they want normalized.
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