Here in the parable of the sheep and the goats Jesus is summarizing His admonition to His disciples to be alert and keep watch lest they too be swept away in the flood of destruction that was about to overtake the unbelieving Jews who had rejected Him as their Messiah. The disciples had asked Him…
Recall that upon leaving the temple with Jesus and hearing His prediction of its utter destruction His disciples had asked Him when those things would take place, and what would be the sign of His coming and of the end of the age (Mat 24:3). In conclusion to the signs He gave, Jesus warned that…
Whereas the Master in the Parable of the Talents rewarded His faithful servants by putting them in charge of many things and receiving them into His joy as fellow participants in the establishment of His kingdom, He took away the talent of the unfaithful servant who did nothing with it and gave it to him…
In the Parable of the Talents Jesus is warning His disciples what it means to keep watch in His service, lest judgment overtake them as was about to happen to the unfaithful Jews whom He had just forsaken on the temple mount. After commending and rewarding His faithful servants for furthering His business interests, the…
In the parable of the talents two servants were commended and rewarded for furthering their Master’s interests by going to work and making productive use of the talents He had entrusted to them. But a third servant who perceived his Master as hard and served him only for fear was condemned as wicked and lazy…
Having left the temple mount and predicted its coming destruction, Jesus is on the Mount of Olives answering His disciples’ request for when that destruction would overtake the unbelieving Jews, lest it overtake them also. In summary of the signs He gave, He warned that they must keep watch and be on the alert, and…
In the parable of the talents we have seen from the example of the first two servants who are described as good and faithful that our Master Jesus Christ invites us to enter into His joy by joining Him as participants in His creative act of building a kingdom of righteousness, similar to the way…
In the parable of the talents Jesus is warning His disciples what it means to keep watch as faithful stewards of the manifold riches of His grace entrusted to them, lest they too be swept away to destruction as was about to happen to the unbelieving Jews who proved unfaithful stewards of God’s heavenly treasures. …
In the Parable of the Talents Jesus is contrasting those servants who use the spiritual treasures entrusted to them to further their Master’s interests in the world with those who bury them so they are of no use to anyone, including themselves. After commending the servants who acted according to His will as being good…
We have seen in the parable of the talents that when the Master, who represents Christ, returned to settle accounts with His servants, He commended two of them as good and faithful for using the treasures entrusted to them to further enrich His kingdom. Good and faithful describe God’s own nature, and so the commendation…