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A Cost/Benefit Analysis of Wise Work
The story today is a parable about work assignments.
How much work can each person do?
How will each person be judged for the results of their work?
What is the work assignment in God’s economy?
To do the will of the Father of Jesus.
Here is how we operate...
What is the cost and benefit, to myself,
for following Jesus?
I could just camp out here.
This is religion, this is the question all religions ask.
This is the question that all people ask.
And we ASK THIS QUESTION of GOD.
This is the CORE OF NEARLY ALL MODERN TEACHING.
Think about it.
When you decided to follow Jesus, to become a Christian, how was it sold to you?
Get out of Hell free card?
Get into Heaven free card?
You were in turmoil and you were sold peace
You were in poverty and you were sold wealth
You were hungry and you were sold contentment
You were in fear and you were sold bravery
You were sick and you were sold healing
You were weak and you were sold strength
You were alone and you were sold friendship
Stop and think about this for a moment.
WHY DO YOU FOLLOW?
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
WHAT DOES GOD WANT?
This parable is going to answer this question
If SCRIPTURE IS NOT BENDING YOUR MIND, THEN YOU ARE NOT LISTENING.
IT WILL BE UNCOMFORTABLE
IT WILL BE OFFENSIVE
IT WILL BE HELPFUL…IF YOU HAVE EARS TO HEAR
What were they listening too?
The end of the story of Zaccheaus.
It follows the story of a wealthy chief tax collector who will give half of his money away and restore what he stole four times over.
SALVATION came to this house today, he is a child of ABRAHAM!
IMPORTANT: Notice the mindset of the people who are following him.
THIS IS THE LAST TEACHING of Jesus before he enters Jerusalem for the LAST TIME.
They expect Jesus to institute the Kingdom of God.
It was going to appear.
JESUS IS GOING TO PUT THAT TO BED.
******There was once a nobleman...
There are two kingdoms at play.
First, where the nobleman is
Second, where the nobleman is going
Who does this sound like?
What have we learned about parables?
Is the Nobleman Jesus?
We don’t know yet, but it sounds like him.
He has traveled from His Father’s kingdom to earth to establish his rule, and he will return to the Father.
So maybe, probably...
*******He summoned ten of his slaves...
TEN…NOTICE it is TEN
The language is offensive, but it is accurate.
The silver coin is a mina (100 days wages)
What does “do business with these” mean?
Live on it?
Give it away?
Make money with it?
And when “He comes back” what does he expect to have happened?
Notice, nothing is clearly defined.
The servants are ONE GROUP here...
*******His subjects, though, hated him...
Who are the subjects?
The subjects/citizens of the land he is leaving?
We will return to that.
The language is tricky...
Nobleman:
Goes into a country far away
Given royal authority
Then return
So, this even is taking place while the king is away (in heaven) receiving his kingship.
But, as it turns out, the king has returned to see how the slaves had done.
MATH: TEN servants each received a single Mina (100 days wages)
The return is 1,000%
The payment to the slave is 10 cities to oversee.
What does that mean?
We are not told.
So far so good, 500% return on the investment
The payment to the slave is 5 cities to oversee.
Again, what does take charge of mean?
Practically, we don’t know.
But, here is what we do know so far.
The king TRUSTS them.
He will ENTRUST his cities in the hands of these servants.
TWO DOWN, EIGHT TO GO! :-)
Uh oh...
Starting to get uncomfortable now.
I hid what was yours because you are a THEIF!
You steal the work of others.
BASED ON THE CITIES, IS THAT TRUE?
Is the King/Nobleman a SEVERE MAN?
We don’t know yet...
PAUSE…THIS IS TODAYS WESTERN WORK CULTURE.
I did all the work, you are just in it for the profit (marxism)
I did all the work, you just want to tax it away (republican)
How is this going to go over...
The THIRD servant of the TEN is not doing well...
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