"Wicked and Slothful…"

July 9, 2014

“Wicked and Slothful…”

Blessings folk!

Remember, Jesus is answer the questions asked by the disciples at the beginning of Matthew 24...when will these things occur and what will be the sign of your coming and the end of the age?

Matthew 24-25 is the answer.

Jesus has been giving parables to provide insight.

Here is another.

Read the story.
Be not lost in the details...focus on the big point that Jesus is making…

Matthew 25:14-30
14 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.
16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.
17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.
18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.
19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’
21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’
23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed,
25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’
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?
27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.
28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.
29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’


We are all given a “talent” - literally life itself.

What are we doing with the life the Lord has granted?
Are we “burying” it?
Are we seeking to be fruitful in the Kingdom by the power of the Spirit?

The Lord will deal with those who have not used the life granted in the way He desires.
They will be cast into outer darkness...into a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Be not a wicked and slothful servant.
Be the one that receives abundance from the Lord.