Faithfulness in Service: Lessons from the Ten Minas
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "With the merciful, you show yourself merciful. With the blameless man, you show yourself blameless. With the purified, you show yourself pure. With the crooked, you make yourself seem torturous. Do you hear what the psalmist is saying? God, when people look at you and they think you're a good God, you demonstrate to them you're a good God. You foster that kind of attitude and that kind of way of looking at you. But when people think you're mean and when they think you're cruel and they think you're torturous, you just let them dwell in that." [53:18]
2. "The harvest is plentiful, but the labors are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out labors into the harvest. Go your way. Behold what? I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves." [38:58]
3. "When we reject Jesus as king, in the end he will reject us. We now have the opportunity for forgiveness. But when the opportunity is spurred, Jesus will bring judgment. It is with this parable that Jesus prepared to enter Jerusalem. With him there is no neutral position in our relationship with Jesus. One either responds to his gracious works, or one aligns himself against him, whether in outright rebellion or by faithless association to him." [58:08]
4. "Our good works aren't so that we can get a star and our crown in heaven. Our good works, the sharing of the blessings that we have been given is our way of engaging with the world around us to show the goodness of the king that we serve." [34:48]
5. "The servants were expected to work in the nobleman's name among the hostile people. This little detail about a delegation going saying we reject him, I think then tells us a little bit broader, paints a little bit broader picture in the world of this parable that tells us these servants who wear the noble name, the nobleman's name, have to also work among these citizens who don't like their master." [37:47]
### Quotes for Members
1. "If you think you have some spirituality, if you think you have some grace that you're enjoying from the Lord, if you think you have mercy and you think you have forgiveness, but you're not engaging the world with those things, even what you think you have will be taken away. But then suddenly this parable takes a dramatic turn and the enemies who did not want this man to be their king are brought in. Verse 27. But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me." [54:03]
2. "The nobleman returns as king and he commends his servants, not for their success, but for their what? Their faithfulness. But then we have this other servant. Another servant is going to be rebuked for his faithlessness. Let's begin reading with verse 20. Then another came, saying, Lord, here is your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief. For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit and you reap what you did not sow. And so he said to him, I will condemn you with your own word, you wicked servant." [48:30]
3. "The first two servants are commended and rewarded for their faithfulness, not their success. If you write faithfulness in the, I think that's the blank in your handout, circle that word. Just circle it a bunch. Because that's what they're commended for. They're commended for their faithfulness. Look with me. Let's go back to Luke 19. Look with me beginning with verse 16. The first came. So he returns. He calls his servants. The first one came. He was saying, Lord, your mina has made ten minas more. And he said to them, Well done, good and faithful servant. Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities." [45:24]
4. "He is so careless, he is so thoughtless, he just took out his handkerchief, wraps it up in that, and just sets it on the shelf. That word handkerchief, by the way, is the same word that describes the cloth that is placed over Jesus' face in the tomb. Maybe a little foreshadowing, I don't know. But he's just careless with it. Anybody could have stole it and took it at any time. And he does this because as he explained, he was afraid of his master. But clearly, he did not know this man. Because when the other two servants come, did the master quickly gobble up what they had earned? And said, oh, thank you for enriching me. No. He rewarded them. He was generous to them." [50:17]
5. "With Jesus' ascension, he entered heaven to receive his crown, to receive his kingdom. You know we talk about Jesus being king. We recognize king of kings and lord of lords. Yet there are so very few passages in the New Testament that actually talk about Jesus being king. If we want to read about his coronation, we can't go to a passage in the New Testament. We actually have to go to a passage in the Old Testament. So go back with me to Daniel chapter 7. Daniel through prophecy of the Holy Spirit told his audience hundreds of years before the coming of Jesus what would happen when Jesus ascended into heaven." [30:06]
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1. "With the merciful, you show yourself merciful. With the blameless man, you show yourself blameless. With the purified, you show yourself pure. With the crooked, you make yourself seem torturous. Do you hear what the psalmist is saying? God, when people look at you and they think you're a good God, you demonstrate to them you're a good God. You foster that kind of attitude and that kind of way of looking at you. But when people think you're mean and when they think you're cruel and they think you're torturous, you just let them dwell in that." [53:18]
2. "The harvest is plentiful, but the labors are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out labors into the harvest. Go your way. Behold what? I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves." [38:58]
3. "When we reject Jesus as king, in the end he will reject us. We now have the opportunity for forgiveness. But when the opportunity is spurred, Jesus will bring judgment. It is with this parable that Jesus prepared to enter Jerusalem. With him there is no neutral position in our relationship with Jesus. One either responds to his gracious works, or one aligns himself against him, whether in outright rebellion or by faithless association to him." [58:08]
4. "Our good works aren't so that we can get a star and our crown in heaven. Our good works, the sharing of the blessings that we have been given is our way of engaging with the world around us to show the goodness of the king that we serve." [34:48]
5. "The servants were expected to work in the nobleman's name among the hostile people. This little detail about a delegation going saying we reject him, I think then tells us a little bit broader, paints a little bit broader picture in the world of this parable that tells us these servants who wear the noble name, the nobleman's name, have to also work among these citizens who don't like their master." [37:47]
### Quotes for Members
1. "If you think you have some spirituality, if you think you have some grace that you're enjoying from the Lord, if you think you have mercy and you think you have forgiveness, but you're not engaging the world with those things, even what you think you have will be taken away. But then suddenly this parable takes a dramatic turn and the enemies who did not want this man to be their king are brought in. Verse 27. But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me." [54:03]
2. "The nobleman returns as king and he commends his servants, not for their success, but for their what? Their faithfulness. But then we have this other servant. Another servant is going to be rebuked for his faithlessness. Let's begin reading with verse 20. Then another came, saying, Lord, here is your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief. For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit and you reap what you did not sow. And so he said to him, I will condemn you with your own word, you wicked servant." [48:30]
3. "The first two servants are commended and rewarded for their faithfulness, not their success. If you write faithfulness in the, I think that's the blank in your handout, circle that word. Just circle it a bunch. Because that's what they're commended for. They're commended for their faithfulness. Look with me. Let's go back to Luke 19. Look with me beginning with verse 16. The first came. So he returns. He calls his servants. The first one came. He was saying, Lord, your mina has made ten minas more. And he said to them, Well done, good and faithful servant. Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities." [45:24]
4. "He is so careless, he is so thoughtless, he just took out his handkerchief, wraps it up in that, and just sets it on the shelf. That word handkerchief, by the way, is the same word that describes the cloth that is placed over Jesus' face in the tomb. Maybe a little foreshadowing, I don't know. But he's just careless with it. Anybody could have stole it and took it at any time. And he does this because as he explained, he was afraid of his master. But clearly, he did not know this man. Because when the other two servants come, did the master quickly gobble up what they had earned? And said, oh, thank you for enriching me. No. He rewarded them. He was generous to them." [50:17]
5. "With Jesus' ascension, he entered heaven to receive his crown, to receive his kingdom. You know we talk about Jesus being king. We recognize king of kings and lord of lords. Yet there are so very few passages in the New Testament that actually talk about Jesus being king. If we want to read about his coronation, we can't go to a passage in the New Testament. We actually have to go to a passage in the Old Testament. So go back with me to Daniel chapter 7. Daniel through prophecy of the Holy Spirit told his audience hundreds of years before the coming of Jesus what would happen when Jesus ascended into heaven." [30:06]
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