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*Luke** 19:11-27*
11 While they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because He was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.
12 So He said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and /then /return.
13 “And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas and said to them, ‘Do business /with this /until I come /back./’
14 “But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
15 “When he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him so that he might know what business they had done.
16 “The first appeared, saying, ‘Master, your mina has made ten minas more.’
17 “And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, you are to be in authority over ten cities.’
18 “The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, master, has made five minas.’
19 “And he said to him also, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’
20 “Another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I kept put away in a handkerchief;
21 for I was afraid of you, because you are an exacting man; you take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.’
22 “He said to him, ‘By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave.
Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?
23 ‘Then why did you not put my money in the bank, and having come, I would have collected it with interest?’
24 “Then he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’
25 “And they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas /already./’
26 “I tell you that to everyone who has, more shall be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.
27 “But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence.”
*Introduction:*
The Lord understood business—there are sound management principles in His teaching.
He used business examples in several instances.
The identifications are easy: Lord—Jesus;
servants—Christians;
enemies—unsaved society;
pounds—things pertaining to His kingdom.
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*I.
* *The Master’s Donation*
A.* *He gave them each something
1. Everyone received the same thing
2. Everyone received the same amount
3. The amount was not huge but significant (one-third of a year’s pay)
4. Everyone received whether or not he wanted to
5. Everyone was required to do business: “occupy” (kjv) means to transact business
B. It was left to them
1.
To decide where to use it
2. To decide how best to use it
3.
To use their own judgment in the situation
*II.
* *The Master’s Departure*
A.* *He went seeking the kingdom
B. The result of His departure
1.
He left them among his enemies
2. They were neither to hoard nor waste the master’s goods
C. The certainty of his return
*III.
**The Master’s Demand*
A.* *The accounting
1.
Note the first man’s words—“thy pound”
2. Note the difference between five and ten—the key issue, however, is one of faithfulness
3. The reward is proportional to faithfulness “in a very little [thing]”
B. He had no desire to gain from them
1.
He was not making money but building character
2. He desired not to gain from them but to educate them
C.
He said, “well done”—splendid!
*IV.
The Master’s Declaration*
A.* *Note his exchange with the unprofitable servant
1. “I didn’t do anything”
2. He still had the pound (he couldn’t unload his responsibility)
B. “Take from the one who has not and give to the one that has”
1.
It doesn’t involve losing salvation but rather benefits, etc.
2. “Use it or lose it” is entirely biblical (“The one who grows rich through diligence will grow richer; the one who has grown poor through slothfulness will grow poorer” [Morgan].)
*V.
**The Master’s Design*
A.* *Verse 11 implies kingdom expectations; He was showing:
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The kingdom would not come at once
2. The character of the kingdom would be more of commerce than of the military
B. The specific purposes of the donation?
1.
To put servants to the test
2. To develop them
3. To prepare them for the future
4. To give them opportunity to achieve
5. To provide the motivation of anticipation
*Conclusion:*
“With the pound they must do business.”
The question is not whether or not we want to do it, but how we are doing at it!
“Everyone is responsible for the prosecution of the commerce of heaven in the interest of the absent king.
Until He comes again, it is our business to prosecute His enterprise in the world.”
How’s business?
*The Master Who Rewards the Faithful (Luke 19:11–27)*
Passover season was always an emotionally charged time for the Jews, because it reminded them of their deliverance from the slavery of Egypt.
This annual celebration aggravated the misery of their bondage to Rome and made them yearn all the more for a deliverer.
Of course, there were subversive groups like the Zealots who used commando tactics against Rome, and politicians like the Herodians who compromised with Rome, but most of the Jews rejected those approaches.
They wanted God to fulfill the Old Testament prophecies and send them their promised King.
Jesus knew that many of the people in the crowd were hoping to see Him establish the kingdom, so He gave this parable to clarify things.
Many of the people who listened no doubt connected it with an event in Jewish history that had occurred many years before.
When Herod the Great died in 4 b.c., he left Judea to his son Archelaus, who had to go to Rome to have the inheritance approved.
Not wanting Archelaus as their ruler, the Jews sent fifty men to argue their case before Augustus Caesar, who did ratify the inheritance without giving Archelaus the title of “king.”
Jesus explained that the kingdom would not come until a future time, but that His servants had better be faithful now to do the job assigned to them.
In the parable, you see three different responses to the Master.
*/Faithful obedience (vv.
16–19, 24)./*
Each of the servants received an amount of money equal to three months’ wages for a laboring man, so you can figure out its buying power today.
/Occupy/ means “do business, put my money to work.”
They could give the money to investors and earn interest, or purchase goods and sell them for a profit.
The important thing was that they give back to their master more than he had given to them.
How they did it was up to them, so long as it was legal and profitable.
We are given a report on only three of the ten servants, and the first two proved to be successful.
The first servant brought ten pounds more, the second brought five pounds more, and both were rewarded accordingly.
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