Parable Of the Talents Matthew 25 is a message that was given by brother Ben Wolfswinkel on Sabbath 28 August 2021 at Cedar Creek Seventh-day Adventist Christian Church.
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Parable Of the Talents Matthew 25
The Parable of the Talents
14 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to every man according to his ability. And immediately he took his journey. 16 He who had received the five talents went and traded with them and made another five talents. 17 So also, he who had received two gained another two. 18 But he who had received one went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money.
19 “After a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20 He who had received five talents came and brought the other five talents, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted to me five talents. Look, I have gained five talents more.’
21 “His master said to him, ‘Well done, you good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many things. Enter the joy of your master.’
22 “He who had received two talents also came and said, ‘Master, you entrusted me with two talents. See, I have gained two more talents besides them.’
23 “His master said to him, ‘Well done, you good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many things. Enter the joy of your master.’
24 “Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not winnow. 25 So I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’
26 “His master answered, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not winnowed. 27 Then you ought to have given my money to 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 ten talents. 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from him who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away. 30 And throw the unprofitable servant into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
When Ben shared the Parable Of the Talents Matthew 25, he gave a story of a wealthy business man named Mr. Jones that had three children. Mr. Jones lived in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Jones was having some health problems and his doctor told him that Mr. Jones needed to go away on vacation and take some time off from managing his businesses. Mr. Jones went away and bought an island that was perfect as it had one side that was tropical and the other side had mountains where people could ski.
Mr. Jones children were named Susan, Jack and Richard. Mr. Jones gave all of his children gifts before he went back to his perfect island.
Susan received the Edinburgh, Scotland home and a check for $500.
Jack was mechanically inclined and always admired his father’s Silver Cloud Rolls Royce. Mr. Jones gave Jack the Rolls Royce and a check for $2 million.
Mr. Jones noticed that his son Richard had struggled all his life and gave him all of his diaries and a check for $1 million.
Mr. Jones left to go back to his perfect island and the children all went to see the gifts their father had given them.
After some time, Mr. Jones returned to visit all three of his children. When his private plane landed at the airport, his chauffeur asked Mr. Jones where he wanted to go. Mr. Jones told his driver to take him to the business of Susan Jones.
Susan had gone to the Edinburgh home when she had inherited the home from her father and found a house full of chemistry experiments. She methodically cataloged all of the experiments and organized the home. Mr. Jones had started researching many very successful chemical formulations. Susan built a huge business and with her husband who was an engineer developed a way to help clean the dirty air that was a serious problem at that time in the United Kingdom.
Jack worked on the Rolls Royce and invested the $2 million. Jack was a good steward of his inheritance. He restored the Rolls Royce, started a used auto parts business and then trained his sons how to be successful in the auto parts business.
Richard went and looked at the boxes of his father’s diaries but never read any of the diaries. Richard survived on the $1 million.
When Mr. Jones came to visit Richard and found him just surviving on an office job that paid a meager wage. Richard had never even deposited the $1 million check in the bank to earn interest.
Mr. Jones asked Richard if he had opened the boxes that contained the diaries. Richard replied that he did not want to damage the diaries and never opened them. Mr. Jones took out the first diary and showed Richard a project he was working on but had not had the time to take action on. In the next page of the diary, there was a working diagram of how to harness solar power.
Mr. Jones told Richard that if he had only opened the books, he would have been one of the richest men on earth.
Mr. Jones told Richard to give him the $1 million check and the boxes of diaries. Mr. Jones took them from Richard and went to his daughter Susan’s house and gave her the diaries and the $1 million. Mr. Jones told his daughter to look at the diary that contained the solar power panel project. Within 2 months, Susan’s company had developed working solar panels.
How many of us have libraries full of books? Do we open them? What do we do with what God gives us?
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