Luke 19:11

Opening

Luke 19:11 (ESV)

As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately.

Luke 19:12 LEB

Therefore he said, “A certain nobleman traveled to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

Luke 19:13 LEB

And summoning ten of his own slaves, he gave them ten minas and said to them, ‘Do business until I come back.’

Luke 19:14 LEB

But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’

Luke 19:15 LEB

And it happened that when he returned after receiving the kingdom, he ordered these slaves to whom he had given the money to be summoned to him, so that he could know what they had gained by trading.

Luke 19:16 LEB

So the first arrived, saying, ‘Sir, your mina has made ten minas more!’

Luke 19:17 LEB

And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small thing, have authority over ten cities.’

Luke 19:18 LEB

And the second came, saying, ‘Sir, your mina has made five minas.’

Luke 19:19 LEB

So he said to this one also, ‘And you be over five cities.’

Luke 19:20 LEB

And another came, saying, ‘Sir, behold your mina, which I had put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

Luke 19:21 LEB

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man—you withdraw what you did not deposit, and you reap what you did not sow!’

Luke 19:22 LEB

He said to him, ‘By your own words I will judge you, wicked slave! You knew that I am a severe man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.

By nature you’re slaves. You’re slaves to your own wicked desires, your own wicked impulses. Nobody else is forcing you to commit the sins you commit; you sin because you’re a slave to sin.

R. C. Sproul

Luke 19:23 LEB

And why did you not give my money to the bank, and I, when I returned, would have collected it with interest?’

Luke 19:24 LEB

And to the bystanders he said, ‘Take away from him the mina and give it to the one who has the ten minas!’

Luke 19:25 LEB

And they said to him, ‘Sir, he has ten minas.’

Luke 19:26 LEB

‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given. But from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.