For the truth is, the more we do for God, the more we are indebted to him for making use of us, and enabling us, for his service. Even though the servants are given different sums to take care of, it all still belongs to the master. Though, in judging of ourselves, we ought to remember that the gate is strait, and few find it; yet, in judging of others, we ought to remember that the Captain of our salvation brings many sons to glory. The Master is Christ, who is the absolute Owner and Proprietor of all persons and things, and in a special manner of his church; into his hands all things are delivered. Note, 1. Matthew 25:15 - The Parable of the Talents - Bible Hub William Barclay[3] relates the parable to the last verse of the Isaac Watts hymn "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross": Were the whole realm of Nature mine, 7 Things the Bible Says You Can Know for Sure, 15 Amazing Attributes of God: What They Mean and Why They Matter. but the other five were wise enough to take along extra oil. [2.] Knowing the master to be a merciless boss, he was afraid to invest and lose the masters money. For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Note, It is common for people to make a very light matter of that which will be their condemnation in the great day. The first and the second servants explain that they each put their talents to work, and have doubled the value of the property with which they were entrusted; each servant was rewarded: His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. If it was hard to the disciples to watch with Christ an hour, much more to watch with him an age. He hasn't given us all the same things. Day 111 - The Parable of the Ten Servants - David Servant In what proportion this trust was committed. Their character was that five were wise, and five foolish (v. 2); and wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness; so saith Solomon, a competent judge, Eccl 2 13. The sheep and goats are here feeding all day in the same pasture, but will be coted at night in different folds. Parable of the Faithful Servant (Matthew 24:45-51) Maybe that third slave has fed farmers who were hungry and provided clothes for those who needed them and visited them when they were sick. This comes of having oil to buy when we should burn it, and grace to get when we should use it. If we take a step back from the hyper-capitalism of our culture, we can see that they are right. While he tarried, those that waited for him, grew careless, and forgot what they were attending; They all slumbered and slept; as if they had given over looking for him; for when the Son of man cometh, he will not find faith, Luke 18 8. New Living Translation (NLT). Being thus divided, he will set the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left, v. 33. How does Jesus prepare his followers for the day of his return? We will eventually answer for how we invest them. They care not to repeat the charge, as conscious to themselves of their own guilt, and unable to bear the terrors of the judgment. Here the joy of our Lord enters into the saints, in the earnest of the Spirit; shortly they shall enter into it, shall be in it to eternity, as in their element. Solomon explains this, Prov 11 24. But maybe the master is wrong. Now, [1.] That were an offering far too small; We may apply it to the common gifts of the Spirit. This practice was the mechanism that made the rich richer and the poor poorer. Matthew 25:14-30 NLT - Parable of the Three Servants - Bible Gateway Hold up the name, and hold forth the praise of the exalted Jesus; this is our business. BEST VALUE in digital Bible study. They served the devil while they lived, and therefore are justly sentenced to be where he is, as those that served Christ, are taken to be with him where he is. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Go to a shop and buy some for yourselves.. 16The servant who received the five bags of silver began to invest the money and earned five more. [2.] Christ will own them, even the least of them, as his brethren; he will not be ashamed, nor think it any disparagement to him, to call them brethren, Heb 2 11. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. Secondly, What he confesses. 1. Then the servant with the one bag of silver came and said, Master, I knew you were a harsh man, harvesting crops you didnt plant and gathering crops you didnt cultivate. The servant who received the five bags of silver began to invest the money and earned five more. II. 15And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. Infinite Wisdom had an eye to the eternal glorification of the saints, from the first founding of the creation: All things are for your sakes, 2 Cor 4 15. I wonder why. ESV Large Print Personal Size Bible (TruTone Imitation Leather, Mahogany, Trellis Design), ESV Reader's Bible, Six-Volume Set--black cloth over board with verse numbers and permanent slipcase, Proverbs, ESV Illuminated Scripture Journal, ESV Thinline Bible--buffalo leather, brown. 29To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. By submitting your email address, you understand that you will receive email communications from Bible Gateway, a division of The Zondervan Corporation, 3900 Sparks Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA, including commercial communications and messages from partners of Bible Gateway. [2.] Cicero in his Tusculan Questions, lib. 3. That we may then be ready to receive from him our final sentence, and that it may be to eternal life; and this is shown in a more plain description of the process of the last judgment, ver 31-46. To be so near to Christ was some satisfaction, though under his frowns; but that will not be allowed, Depart from me. THE PARABLE OF THE THREE SERVANTS | English Bible Story - YouTube Lets celebrate together!. If you knew I harvested crops I didnt plant and gathered crops I didnt cultivate, why didnt you deposit my money in the bank? To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. They were diligent and faithful; They went, and traded; they put the money they were entrusted with, to the use for which it was intendedlaid it out in goods, and made returns of it; as soon as ever their master was gone, they immediately applied themselves to their business. Note, Carnal hearts are apt to conceive false and wicked opinions concerning God, and with them to harden themselves in their evil ways. St. Paul often calls himself a servant of Jesus Christ. This, in the wise virgins, bespeaks an actual preparation for the Bridegroom's coming. Then these righteous ones will reply, Lord, when did we ever see you hungry and feed you? The bridegroom tarried, that is, he did not come out so soon as they expected. No, there is a punishment of sense as well as loss; they must depart into fire, into torment as grievous as that of fire is to the body, and much more. They took lamps for a present show, but not oil for after use. In Matthew 25, we find a unique parable of three servants who are each given a portion of their master's money to invest. They act under the influence of external inducements, but are void of spiritual life; like a tradesman, that sets up without a stock, or the seed on the stony ground, that wanted root. The end, which is last in execution, is first in intention. 2. ), and like the giving up of the ghost (Job 11 20), like Absalom's mule that left him in the oak. The third servant, however, had merely hidden his talent, burying it in the ground, and was punished by his master: Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. There is good reason for the Bridegroom's tarrying; there are many intermediate counsels and purposes to be accomplished, the elect must all be called in, God's patience must be manifested, and the saints' patience tried, the harvest of the earth must be ripened, and so must the harvest of heaven too. 16The servant who received the five bags of silver began to invest the money and earned five more. Note, In the day of account, wicked and slothful servants will be left quite without excuse; frivolous pleas will be overruled, and every mouth will be stopped; and those who now stand so much upon their own justification will not have one word to say for themselves. Or thirsty and give you something to drink? Now observe here. This was like the shutting of the door of the ark when Noah was in; as he was thereby preserved, so all the rest were finally abandoned. All other divisions and subdivisions will then be abolished; but the great distinction of men into saints and sinners, sanctified and unsanctified, will remain for ever, and men's eternal state will be determined by it. While we Westerners fumble about with our discussions of talents and responsibility, our Christian brothers and sisters living as subsistence farmers in Nicaragua and other parts of the world know that Jesus is simply talking about harsh economic reality. A decade and a half after Tony Blair left Downing Street, one issue still defines the former British prime minister in the eyes of many Britons: his disastrous . Put together all our service, all our sufferings, all our improvements, all the good we do to others, all we get to ourselves, and they are but a few things, next to nothing, not worthy to be compared, not fit to be named the same day with the glory to be revealed. If into fire, prepared fire, O let it be but of short continuance, let them but pass through fire; no, the fire of God's wrath will be an everlasting fire; a fire, that, fastening and preying upon immortal souls, can never go out for want of fuel; and, being kindled and kept burning by the wrath of an immortal God, can never go out for want of being blown and stirred up; and, the streams of mercy and grace being for ever excluded, there is nothing to extinguish it. Christ's appearing to judge the world will be splendid and glorious. Note, In looking forward it is good to prepare for the worst, to lay in for a long siege. Let's take a look at what Jesus intended us to learn from this parable. All rights reserved. [1.] [5.] ESV Text Edition: 2016. The hymn "Slave of God, Well Done!" 29(S)For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. It will be a day of search and enquiry; and it concerns us to think how we shall then be found. See 2 Tim 2 24. As Christians, we profess, not only to believe and look for, but to love and long for, the appearing of Christ, and to act in our whole conversation with a regard to it. Our great duty is to watch, to attend to the business of our souls with the utmost diligence and circumspection. God is a free Agent, dividing to every man severally as he will; some are cut out for service in one kind, others in another, as the members of the natural body. The damnation of sinners is often spoken of as an act of the divine power; he is able to cast into hell. Who was the parable of the three servants? - Quora 20And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. The best have need to borrow from Christ, but they have none to lend to any of their neighbours. Those that have estates, and do not lay them out in works of piety and charity; that have power and interest, and do not with it promote religion in the places where they live; ministers that have capacities and opportunities of doing good, but do not stir up the gift that is in them, are those slothful servants that seek their own things more than Christ's. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. The door was shut, as is usual when all the company is come, that are to be admitted. The account of this improvement, v. 19. That there is a judgment to come, in which every man shall be sentenced to a state of everlasting happiness, or misery, in the world of recompence or retribution, according to what he did in this world of trial and probation, which is to be judged of by the rule of the everlasting gospel. 29To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. For he causes the sun to shine, and his rain to fall, upon the evil and unthankful, and fills their hearts with food and gladness who say to the Almighty, Depart from us. Introduction 269 The placing of the judge upon the judgment-seat (v. 31); When the Son of man shall come. Secondly, Blessed of his Father; reproached and cursed by the world, but blessed of God. There will be a cry from heaven, for he shall descend with a shout, Arise, ye dead, and come to judgment; and a cry from the earth too, a cry to rocks and mountains, Rev 6 16. The Parable of the Talents - Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Note, Those will see their need of grace hereafter, when it should save them, who will not see their need of grace now, when it should sanctify and rule them. Each servant received his talents by the grace of the master. Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest. Satis est mali nihil fecisse boniTo do no good is to incur very serious blame. All rights reserved. What we come to by inheritance, is not got by any procurement of our own, but purely, as the lawyers express it, by the act of God. 2. At least I could have gotten some interest on it., 28Then he ordered, Take the money from this servant, and give it to the one with the ten bags of silver. In one sense, we are all unprofitable servants (Luke 17 10); we cannot profit God, Job 22 2. (1.) In these two chapters, Jesus uses a number of parables to communicate essential principles about His return. [20] While the narrator worries over his limited accomplishments, Patience reminds him that God does not need "man's work". In this parable, 1. 1. The blessed of my Father are the beloved of my soul, that have been too long at a distance from me; come, now, come into my bosom, come into my arms, come into my dearest embraces!" Son of Man is a title Jesus used for himself. Note, There is great preparation made for the entertainment of the saints in the kingdom of glory. Matthew 25:14-30 NLT;KJV - Parable of the Three Servants - Bible Gateway 16Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents. There are some passages in it that are parabolical; as the separating between the sheep and the goats, and the dialogues between the judge and the persons judged: but there is no thread of similitude carried through the discourse, and therefore it is rather to be called a draught or delineation of the final judgment, than a parable; it is, as it were, the explanation of the former parables. I was hungry, that is, my disciples and followers were so, either by the persecutions of enemies for well-doing, or by the common dispensations of Providence; for in these things there is one event to the righteous and wicked: and you gave them meat. I was sick, and you cared for me. The enemies who rejected the king in the parable are representative of the Jewish nation that rejected Christ while He walked on earthand everyone who still denies Him today. Matthew 25:14 - The Parable of the Talents - Bible Hub Thus his defence is his offence. In the height of his glory, he will not disown his poor relations; Lazarus is there laid in his bosom, as a friend, as a brother. All rights reserved. This separation will be so exact, that the most inconsiderable saints shall not be lost in the crowd of sinners, nor the most plausible sinner hid in the crowd of saints (Ps 1 5), but every one shall go to his own place. No matter how much or how little, they are all gifts from God. (2.) Their performances will be accepted; Well done. Note, We are all concerned to seek the Lord while he may be found; for there is a time coming when he will not be found. It is usual in the courts of princes, and families of great men, to advance those to higher offices, that have been faithful in lower. The silver or money they were given represents the gifts, talents and opportunities He gives us, by which we can serve Him and others. He called together his servants and entrusted his money to them while he was gone. For I was hungry, and you fed me. The godly are like sheepinnocent, mild, patient, useful: the wicked are like goats, a baser kind of animal, unsavoury and unruly. 18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.. He is Judge himself, and therefore the heavens shall declare his righteousness. Christ will come when he pleases, to show his sovereignty, and will not let us know when, to teach us our duty. The Parables of Jesus - Full List with Bible Verses - Bible Study Tools 15To one he gave five (D)talents,[b] to another two, to another one, (E)to each according to his ability. Saints, in this world, are as heirs under age, tutored and governed till the time appointed of the Father (Gal 4 1, 2); and then they shall be put in full possession of that which now through grace they have a title to; Come, and inherit it. First, Christ's faithful servants acknowledge with thankfulness his vouchsafements to them; Lord, thou deliveredst to me such and such things. They that follow the Lamb, are said to be virgins (Rev 14 4); this denotes their beauty and purity; they are to be presented as chaste virgins to Christ, 2 Cor 11 2. 1. These are things of awful consideration, because of everlasting concern to every one of us.

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