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Parables In The New Testament • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
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The Parable
The Parable
Three Men & A Master
Three Men & A Master
A man was set to go on a journey.
He calls his three servants to him and entrusted them with “his property.”
14 For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
The master then proceeded to entrust the servants with various talents based on their ability.
The first servant received five talents.
The second servant received two talents.
The third servant received one talent.
Keep in mind a talent was worth roughly 6,000 denarii or 6,000 days wages i.e., about 20 years worth of work.
We see the servants go and take the talents they had been entrusted with and do various things.
The servant with five talents traded with increased his by five talents.
The servant with two talents doubled his as well to four talents.
The servant with one buried his talent and hid it.
When the master returned he inquired of his servants concerning the talents.
The master was pleased with the servant with ten talents and told him “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
The master was pleased with the servant with four talents and told him, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
The mast was displeased with the servant that had only one talent because he did nothing with it, and the master called this servant, “wicked, slothful, and worthless.”
Summary
Summary
So what do we learn from this parable?
The Application
The Application
What We Do Matters
What We Do Matters
What matters is not how much God has made us stewards over, but what we do with that which God has made us stewards over.
When it comes to money do we use is at God would like us to use it?
9 Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; 10 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
17 Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
15 And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
When it comes to physical talents do we use them as God desires us to use them?
3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 4 For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; 7 if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; 8 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
We also learn from this parable that…
Doing Nothing Matters
Doing Nothing Matters
We find here that God is obviously not ok with us doing nothing with what he has given us.
To be blessed by God, only to turn around and do nothing, is just as bad or worse as messing up while trying to do something.
26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?
30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Just because we are afraid of the outcome does not excuse us for doing nothing for the kingdom of Christ.
8 But as for the COWARDLY, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.
Summary
Summary
This life is all about preparing for the next life.
We are either actively striving toward being faithful to God and increasing what he has blessed us with “for Him” or we are passively waiting for eternities damnation.
Conclusion
Conclusion
What we don’t do for God matters just as much as what we do.
The Parable of the Talents teaches us this very truth.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
