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Please pray for me. I have ADD. I can be forgetful and I noticed that it is hard for me to be motivated. I love Jesus Christ with all my heart. I fear love is not enough. I will be asking the Lord for more energy and better focus so I must do All I need to do. Thank you Jesus for speaking to my heart and healing me to be less lazy. Pray for my smart momentum. I love you all Thank you for praying.
I have always loved this parable, and took it’s meaning of the talents are my salvation, and that in the Master’s absence, it was my duty to multiply the salvation of my soul, to as many other souls along with mine as I can. This does not just mean converting others to the faith, but most times to encouraging those who maybe were losing heart from difficulties, or recovering those who have lost their way to the ills of the world. Every soul is precious.
That's a Way of saying it ...parables of the talents are "my" salvation... Nice you're right too as a parable is of my faith then it must also represent salvation. We are to "establish our faith" by walking in the Way in and of Jesus. This doctrine of Jesus Christ called The Way, is what Jesus taught that we are to walk in his Way by repenting of sin or anger unto the acknowledging of Truth then in that truth is found a witness in the gospel and in that truth the love of God the Father is revealed as the Way you can choose to submit to, Abide in and become transformed to become One. One in love, one with love all because walking in the Way of repentance to also learn truth in Jesus that transforms us to know the knowledge we perish for the lack of... Knowledge of God's Righteousness and the knowledge of God's Love. That love is real even as the truth that reveals it is real. Faith to believe is born .. Jesus said, noman knoweth the Son but the Father. And noman knoweth the Father but the Son AND those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. By his love faith lives in the heart. We each have a measure of faith to find 5, 2 or 1 part. The knowledge of faith is our proven reason for belief. PROVEN!!! Did you not repent and find the truth and the gospel witnesses of the truth
Not by works! We dont add anything to our soul, Christ Jesus did it all. Its our duty to do the work God has assigned each one of us, and to pursue sanctification, becoming more like Christ every day
Bringing others to The Kingdom of God is multiplying and bearing fruit . The example used was money but it's about Jesus shining thru us to others . You may have but one spiritual gift just being kind to others is a gift to use reaching others ! Use what ever God has Blessed us with to reach others !!! John 14:9 KJV Bible Jesus IS GOD !!!
@William White Amen Sir you get it. "The harvest is great (8 Billion humans) but the workers (Parable of the Talents trying to increase the Lords Talents) are few." Jesus warned us about these the climate change END TIMES with the book of REVELATION & the cause with the 7 north stars of the PRECESSION of the Alpha Omega equinoxes. When eclipsing the nucleus of he galaxies double torus mangetospehre RESETS the planet with Lots Fire/Lightning Brimstone/Sulfur storms & Noah's east to west Tsunami's to come when Mercury-Venus-Moon-Earth are in conjunction 2033.
@@meudeusefiel9820 Yes but carefully with spiritual discernment for tithing offerings and charities but ALL in Jesus name !!! Plenty of crooks including fake preacher's who are only about money !!!
I want to hear that "well done". I crave and covet to hear it! This is why I strive to hone my gift of teaching, which God has given me, by reading, studying, praying, and taking advantage of every opportunity to teach and exhort others how to live to please their Lord. I strive to keep myself in the love of God, and to please Him in all I say and do -- understanding that I will never be perfect, yet reaching for perfection.
Father, I pray to you today for @kimberly a that you may look for or receive the gift that God has or will be given to you, so that she may use it, grow from it, and help her give glory to you o lord, in Jesus' mighty name, Amen.
The best way to begin using your gifts to glorify God is to identify which talents you enjoy using, and which ones you would like to invest time in. Consider things that are easy for you, whether that is a sport, an artform, a subject in school, or a social skill. Some good questions to help you identify your talent are: 1. What do you like to do in your free time? 2. What spiritual gifts do you possess? You may be able to identify a variety of skills that come naturally to you, or there may be one that you are looking to hone in on. 🧎♂️🙏🏻 Dear Lord, thank you for creating @Kimberly with different gifts. Help her to see your craftmanship in her strengths. God please give her guidance in the best way to glorify You with her talents. I pray that through her strengths, others would be able to see You and know that she is Yours. Please open her eyes to opportunities to use her gifts to spread the Gospel. Thank you, again, for giving her these abilities. I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, my only Savior, amen.
Pray for the LORD to open your heart to receive this message. You can look up the scripture Matthew 25 and use a Bible commentary to help you to understand. We all have gifts from God. The "talents" are those gifts. We are to use our gifts for God's glory.
May the Lord help you 🙏. In my opinion you should ask the question : "how can I serve People in my church, my family ? Etc." When you do it sincerely in general People will let you know how you helped them the most. "The one who loses his/her life for the Lord will find it"
Amen to All of the above! Lord God we come together in agreement with your word that says in Matthew 7:7 Ask and it shall be given, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened. Lord help us to center our hearts with your word daily. Your word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our pathway. Give Kimberly and all here direction and discernment Lord. Use us mightily! In Jesus name, Amen!!!
Seeking understanding, growing in knowledge of JC & Scriptures and acting from wisdom that God, Jesus, Holy Spirit is the foundation of your inner and outward life. This would be the minimum. Just a thought. Have a blessed day.
Mark 4:11-12 11 He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables, 12 so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’
Psalm 19:The Perfect Revelation of the Lord 7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; 8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; 9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them Your servant is warned, And in keeping them there is great reward. 12 Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults. 13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of great transgression. 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. Titus 2:Trained by Saving Grace 11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, 13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. 15 Speak these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.
Pray for me!! I read Gods Word i pray and not afraid to proclaim Christ as my Lord BUT!! im unsure if i am truely GOD'S child, i at times think i dont have the Holy Spirit in my heart😭
A lot of people struggle with this. Don't spend your time worried about this and instead just focus on loving, serving and obeying. Fear is a rabbit trail away from relationship. God bless you.
Matt 7:21. I always think of that on too.......I was at church on Sunday and I had not been there in a long time. The Lord spoke to my heart and said you can’t give me an hour a week. I’m off on Sundays so I will keep going. We need to be around other children of God. Iron sharpens Iron. Only hands can wash hands. Holy Spirit I ask that you bring everyone on this platform a strong church family. In Jesus name. Awmn
Biblical salvation is not needed by anyone alive today. Romans 5:13- "Where there is no (Old Covenant) law, sin is not taken into account." This of course means that salvation was only needed by those who had sin taken into account, which was only the ancient Israelites cursed with the Old Covenant law of sin and death, which is no one alive today. Also, Hebrews 9:15 is clear…”Redemption was only for those who sinned under the first covenant”, which again… is not us today.
@@paullee1521 Stop hijacking and inserting yourself into ancient Israel’s exclusive and fulfilled redemption narrative, the Bible. It’s not about us today.
@@paullee1521 Yeah, I really expected Sproul to explain how this fits with salvation through faith. Because that's something that needs more explaining than what he did.
Faith and works are not mutually exclusive. Test your own faith by doing something hard that only God can see. You aren’t saved by this but it is confirmation that your faith is real.
Always remember Jesus Christ said human bodies are TEMPLES of the HOLY SPIRIT and the HOLY SPIRIT is the LORD of hosts that gives LIFE to humans. Those people who have caught the souls of others to follow Jesus Christ to give HONOUR and GLORIFY the HOLY SPIRIT in their midst as their MASTER will be GLORIFY as well by the HOLY SPIRIT as God's children. Those people who DISHONOUR the HOLY SPIRIT not his/her MASTER and did not catch the souls of others to follow Jesus Christ to HONOUR and GLORIFY the HOLY SPIRIT is the LORD of hosts and ALMIGHTY FATHER they will not come to enter in HEAVEN and be with Jesus Christ.
At 9 :55, R.C. said that our talents are gifts from God, It was Rush Limbaugh who said on his daily radio program that his great talent was a gift on loan from God.
All gifts from God are really loans - he will want them back (as in the parable) when our time is up. But we can call them gifts for now, so long as we remember that all things belong to Him.
Listening to a radio program about philanthropic giving, the moderator had invited a clergyman to the panel. He said something I found quite surprising. "More than any other subject, Jesus talked about money." I wondered how he could make such a statement. The parable of the talents came to mind. Also, when Jesus held up a coin and said. "Whose image and inscription is this?" Neither discussion is actually about money. A talent is actually twenty years' wages at a denarius per day. Jesus didn’t have that kind of money. What did he have of value? He left his deciples and their listeners a valuable message about the Kingdom of God. He trained the twelve and the seventy how to approach people in their homes and on the street to talk to others about a new administration, a new government that would change the fabric of society. Every person who comes to know of this arrangement is expected to "do business" with that valuable information, joining in sharing that information with others. Jesus' most common subject is the Kingdom, over which he eventually would become King. Do you want to really understand what this Kingdom is? It is not merely a pleasurable reward for good behavior. Find the most-translated website on the web and look for "What Is the Kingdom?"
Please help me understand. Very much so sounding like works salvation. I'm about as unskilled, clumsy, lacking communication skills of a person that's out there. Really hoping he addressed this confusion many are hearing as works salvation
He went way off base with this. This is one of the most misinterpreted scriptures ever. There’s at least five or more active explanations for it. You are saved by grace, and nothing could take that away. To basically sum this up to make it easy to understand is that you could be saved, yet completely bankrupt in heaven. Read 1 Corinthians chapter 3. You will see that an unproductive serving of the Lord, still gets into heaven, but by the skin of his teeth. Another way to look at the parable of the talents, is that he was talking directly to the Jewish leaders as well. Another summary would be to be faithful and productive in the Lord, so that way when we return with him in the millennial reign, we will be awarded high positions of responsibility.
This Parable has always been one of the most difficult for me to understand. You explain it so good here ! Thank you so much. But I still wonder what would have happened to the servant who put the money in the bank but lost everything (eg because the bank went bankrupt). Could Jesus have blamed him for something? How would He have reacted?...
The parable is not necessarily limited to financial profit. The gift you may receive from God could be the ability to speak 5 languages. What have you done with those 5 languages? How have they profited the Kingdom of God? Have you witnessed to people who speak different languages? Have you steered them toward the Lord Jesus Christ? Has your gift brought anyone to seeking salvation? Numerous other examples. The 5 Talents could be a long life rather than money. Have you used those years productively serving God or wasted the years worshipping the self? That's what I draw from the parable.
@JColas1 It depends on which bank you choose, choose a bank that which never goes to bankrupt.. as far as I know there is only one bank that never go bankrupt, which is truely founded on Jesus Christ for Glory of God not of this world. How do you know which is that bank ? by its fruits ! Search for a Christ's ministry which really bear good fruit and deposit in it.
You have to remember there’s no expectations being put on the servants for if they accumulate or lose the talents. The talents given are based off of the servants ability…..it’s also worth mentioning that reading the two parables before this also helps to understand it better. Ultimately this parable commends faithful work and prudent planning. The first two, not knowing how much time they had went with vigor to multiply their master’s money trading and investing….according to their ability. Now the unfaithful servant attempts to deflect judgment when he says he was paralyzed with terror bc of the master’s character and reputation. Classic blame shifting and an ungodly slander against the actual kindness of the master. None of the allegations were true and even if they had been it would be a bad excuse for inactivity. Bc if the master was really as bad as the servants said he was then the absolute worst thing he could have done was bury the money where it was guaranteed to make nothing. So truthfully if that was what he was thinking he could have just put the money in a bank and at least made interest off of it. The biggest problem was the faithless servants own wickedness. He lacked both fear and respect for his master
How can we be unproductive with our talents if God has determined or ordained our path? We don't have free will to decide, right? Aren't we following the path God has set for us?
Free will doesn't mean it isn't knowable in advance. At least that's how I understand it. We don't choose our situation (where we start) but we choose what we do. God knows what we will do. Its hard to believe but how else could it make sense? Everything about Jesus's life was as planned and those who opposed him were punished in spite of it being part of the plan.
Doesn't the whole explanation *contradict* what RC believed of Election and Predestination? How then was the *believer* who was given a gift of the Holy Spirit thrown into hell?
Isn’t it convenient as to how the word ‘talents’ means a great quantity of money in it’s original delivery, but just so happens to mean something completely different in the English language. It doesn’t have the same sort of appeal to it when we just think of it as gambling with investing money.
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Incorrect. The parable is regarding the miraculous Grace of the Fruits of the Spirit. We begin at the time of justification/salvation with 'firstfruits', so to speak, of the Gal. 5:22-23 nine Fruits. God prunes them (Jn. 15:2) by stressing them to the breaking point. If we fall in a heap of failure at the foot of the Cross and upon the Rock, we become candidates for an increase of a particular Fruit, even their instantaneously-given fullness. All the above by Grace, so that "no flesh shall glory in His Presence." While I explain in greater detail in X, suffice it to say that even if given the fullness of the supernatural/holy/agape' Fruit of Love, for example, we must still allow ourselves to be perfected in it by getting out of and staying out of its, Love's, Way.
Talents is analogous for humans. "The harvest is great (8 Billion humans) but the workers (Parable of the Talents trying to increase the Lords Talents) are few." Jesus warned us about these the climate change END TIMES with the book of REVELATION & the cause with the 7 north stars of the PRECESSION of the Alpha Omega equinoxes. When eclipsing the nucleus of he galaxies double torus mangetospehre RESETS the planet with Lots Fire/Lightning Brimstone/Sulfur storms & Noah's east to west Tsunami's to come when Mercury-Venus-Moon-Earth are in conjunction 2033.
Curious, what passage of scripture refers to being cast into outer darkness as being the fire of hell? I do not just accept that because he is being cast into outer darkness that it is the same as the fire of hell. There are those who say, well it must be the meaning - No, proof is needed, not just a summation of perception.
Okay....so we all get the metaphor used here for the talents, got it, but metaphorically speaking, how would one put his talent with the bankers, on a literal level how is this done?
Excellent word by brother Sproul. The only part I question is the implication that one who's a believer will be sent to hell, meaning they will lose their salvation. There is a dispensational punishment for the unprofitable servants of the Lord which is the loss of the kingdom reward which will cause the weeping and gnashing of teeth, extreme regret. But I don't believe this is hell because I believe in eternal salvation.
Since God ordains everything, isn't He determining them to lose their salvation or kingdom reward? If not, you are implying freewill, which Sproul and other 5 pt don't agree with
No one should ever end up telling me that I am too old to receive something. No one should end up telling me to get out. No one should try to argue with me over my stuff when I should get it. No one should argue with me over my stuff when I should get it. No one should argue with me in any way over my stuff when I should get it. No one should argue with me in any way. No one should put me in jail. No one should stand against me being successful. No one should block me from being successful. No one should argue with me over my stuff. I should not drop out of school. No one should drop me out of school. People should do all sorts of things so that I get hired for the job immediately when I want it. No one should fix anyone who doesn't want to be fixed. No one should be looking for me to throw me out of the United States. Any person looking for me to be thrown out of the United States should be thrown out of the United States and blocked from entering back into the United States and other countries as well, including any foreign country that I came from before entering the United States. None of my things should be hung in the closet and not used by me. No one should be comfortable making me uncomfortable. No person should use their personality disorder or disorders to cause any problems. Any person who uses their personality disorder or disorders to cause any problem or problems should be arrested and jailed. I should not be violated. Jesus should put my name in the ear of someone who will change my life. God should put my name in the ear of someone who will change my life. My name should be put in the ear of someone who will change my life. If a person is going to waste another person's life, he or she, including me, should not go into that other person's life. Everyone who says something to me should party with me at Miami Beach. No one should take my being alive for granted. Americans should be ashamed of themselves when other people from other countries decide to go back to their previous country to raise their own children. A teacher should be called a failure if he has allowed any of his students to fail. All the people who love me should prosper. I should not go to school and study and then not become what and who I am supposed to be. I should not think that I am a sluggard. I should not feel like a sluggard. I should not look like a sluggard. I should not hear the word sluggard. I should not be called a sluggard. No one should think that I am a sluggard. No adult should do what he or she told a child not to do. I should stay away from people who make me believe that they are going to give me what I really want in the future and then leave me to figure out and/or wonder how I am going to get it. I should not have any belly pooch fat. No person should speak to me in any language that I don't understand. When I meet people, it should always be on the victory lap. God and Jesus should tell me the truth. No one should give me life without Jesus and God. No person who is going to attempt to make me sick in any way should be in my life. At the right time, the Lord should make it happen, which he will do. No one should place any person who was ever rude to me more powerful than me. I should get help from every source. No one should accuse me of anything or have the power to do so. No one should use anything to accuse me or have the power to do so. No one should make up anything to use to accuse me or have the power to do so. Everything is going to be alright, which everything should turn out to be, and I should continue to trust God because my being alive says more than the statement that God is not done with me, which no person should change or be able to change. I should not turn into a ghost. I should not be ghosted. I should not lose anything at all. I should not lose anything when I am close to winning. I should not lose anything after winning. I should retain every piece of knowledge that I read in my head and get more than the grade that can move me forward and not make me repeat anything. All my prayers should be answered. Even everything that I did not pray to be removed that should be removed should be answered by removal without affecting me in any way. God should triple my income. I should become all that I am perfect for, which would make me great. No should only be for those who block me from prospering when I can prosper by them saying yes. The people who look like they can save me and/or someone else and cannot but only want the money should not be in the workforce. I should not go to sleep with someone who has already hurt me, is still hurting me, and is comfortable with it wherever they are. All cash collected for fraud is to turn into duppy money and fly away later when the collector isn't looking, and the sender should not lose his or her funds, including mine. I should be considered notable. I should be notable. I should know how to get into everything that I need and want to get into. I should be allowed into everything that I need and want to get into. I should more than be allowed to get into everything that I need and want to get into. Jesus and God will make a way for me to be in a lot of movies and TV series shown on IMDb, because both of them should. Jesus and God will make a way for me to finish everything that I have started instead of doing something else instead of what I started, because both of them should. Jesus and God will make a way for me to be a model in magazines and on magazine covers, because both of them should. Amen.
This is the best summation I have to date. FROM Michael Bradley (with THANKS to Ron Schofield) THE BIBLE IS THE STORY of Yahweh's fulfilled plan of redemption given exclusively to ancient Israelites cursed with the Old Covenant law of sin and death and pertains to no one alive today, soteriologically and eschatologically speaking. Here's more... IF YOU BELIEVE THE BIBLE, then you'd have to agree with Jesus in Matthew 15:24, that he only came for the lost sheep of the house of Israel. YOU'D HAVE TO AGREE with Jesus in Matthew 5:18, that no jot nor tittle of the (Old Covenant) law would pass away until the Old Covenant system, temple and people associated with (what Jews referred to as "heaven and earth") passed away. YOU'D HAVE TO AGREE with history, that the Old Covenant system, temple and people associated with it passed away in AD 70. YOU'D HAVE TO AGREE with Paul, who said in Romans 5:13, "Where there is no (Old Covenant) law, sin is not taken into account." This of course means that salvation was only needed by those who had sin taken into account, which is not us today. YOU'D ALSO HAVE TO AGREE with Hebrews 9:15, that redemption was only for those who sinned under the first covenant, which again...is not us today. THE BITTER PILL OF TRUTH is that nobody has been saved nor redeemed for nearly two thousand years. The "church today" has been in a massive error; a complete hijacking of ancient Israel's exclusive and fulfilled plan of redemption, the Bible. "BUT...BUT...I'M A GENTILE!" Are you? The gentiles Paul and the disciples were preaching to were either Greek converts to Judaism or the elect diaspora, grafted-in descendants of the tribes of Israel who had been dispersed among the nations. Through the ministry of the disciple's great commission, they were called out from the nations to again be a holy nation of kings and priests, to be sealed for the day of redemption, which only they lived to see. Nobody today is a gentile of that sort. TODAY'S SELF-APPOINTED, SELF-PROFESSING "Christians" have been hoodwinked into believing they're sinners under a law that passed away, and need a savior who said he came for someone else, who will save them from a sin that's already been removed and a judgement that already happened and allow them into a covenant that was made with someone else. The fact is, we today have never been and are not part of ancient Israel's exclusive and fulfilled redemptive narrative, the Bible. ~Michael Bradley
@@josephrohland5604 studying the passages you shared revealed more of Jesus Holy and Glorious nature to me. Thank you and I will pray for you. It amazes me as what was meant for evil He will use for good.
@@freegraceau Have Fun waiting and hoping (begging) and praying to crash a wedding party that took place nearly two thousand years ago, wannabe. The Bible: It’s Not About Us Today!
The LORD's Prayer: Premise; The LORD is Jesus. The LORD's Prayer is Jesus's prayer to His Heavenly Father. The Prayer begins: Our ... O U R Father, who are't in Heaven ... . If the LORD's prayer is Jesus's prayer to His Father, shouldn't the beginning go something like: My ... M Y Father, who are't in Heaven? If we run with "Our Father, who are't in Heaven ..." then who are the other LORDS? And, is it the LORD's (possessive) Prayer or the LORDs (plural) Prayer? Can the LORD be also praying on behalf of its slaves the "Christians"? I am also looking at Adam and Jesus. Adam was a physical Son of God. Jesus was the spiritual Son of God in the flesh. If man are related to Adam, then, by extension, we are also sons and daughters of God? Add in Jesus being a Son of God, does this, also by extension, mean we are the Sons and Daughters of Jesus who is the Spiritual Son of God? If so, how does Jesus become our LORD and we His SLAVES? Where did we dump our relationship to the family of God? Don't "think" I have fully explained myself ... tends to be a DNA problem with me ...
The judgement was surrender to Cesar what belongs to Cesar and because Cesar reaped where he did not sow it was those who choose not trade with Cesar’s talents that did not accept those talents therefore Cesar could not reap the purchase of the fruits he did not sow or work for.. if you serve Cesar as your lord he will take from those who don’t have and rewarding those that do have by taking from those without. Rewarding evil with goods extorting the poor out of the fruits of their labor. Tax and interest number pushers borrowers dilution depreciation deceptive trading practices.
Why are you still using the word "Christian "? God never authorized the use of the word Christian. That word was invented by the godless world. Paul and the rest of the apostles never called each other Christian. Let it go.
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Your contradicting yourself here. First you say it's about money, and what's used as an example is money, but then you say it includes your God given abilities. I firmly believe that in reality it's all about your God given abilities, the use of money is only the example.
Sorry, This dear brother is talking about the Lord’s slaves, not unbelievers. There will be discipline in the outer darkness to recover this slothful one but not perdition. How could the Bible say a believer possesses eternal life and that no one, even the believer, can remove him from the Father’s hand. Weeping indicates it will not be pleasant, but while the faithful are in the Lord’s joy, the slothful will be severely disciplined so as to relearn their lesson for a period of time. As believers we can be secure in our eternal salvation according to the New Testament promises.
This is a totally wrong interpretation of this parable. It is about the second coming of Jesus, not applicable to the church or our 'works' or financial responsibility at all.
RC believed in infant baptism for salvation and doubted his own salvation in one video at the end of his life -- so much for the doctrine of election. Really, avoid the tedium of the seminary and download the audio bible to your phone or electronic device or computer and listen to the Bible every day. Faith comes by hearing the word of Christ. You do not need clergy. Jeremiah 31:31-37 and 2 John 5.
R.C. did not believe that infant baptism saves, he believed it was a sign of the covenant of being in the visible church. That child is still responsible to repent and place their faith in Christ. That is what we as Presbyterians believe. Sir I suggest you actually find out what R.C. actually believed before making such a foolish statement lest you be found bearing false witness. And if we don't need clergy, then why did the Apostle Paul command those in the various churches he wrote to to ordain elders in every city? Why is it that pastors and teachers are specifically listed among those in the church? Why is it that the Bible tells us to obey those who watch over you? You are very out of line with Scripture here, so I would say you are the one who needs to go back and read your Bible
@@danieljones4601 Did you actually review the video of the debat between Sproul and Mcarthur? do it. The problem with the clergy today is that they are like you. They do not trust the believer to be taught by the Holy Spirit. The point of the New Covenant is found in Jeremiah 31:31, Ezekiel 36:25, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, Hebrews 8:11 and 1 John 2:27. You fail to teach the independent believer's dependence and life in the Holy Spirit. I have listened to the Reformed teachers and they all make the congregant dependent upon them as the last word in bible interpretation. Teachers and elders are not appointed today like Paul instructed to do. The reformation is 500 years old and full of dead men's bones. Find life in the daily work of the Holy Spirit. Acts 1 :6 and 8. The Reformed Church = Ichabod.
@@danieljones4601 I am rereading my two volumes of the Institutes by Calvin and will get back to you Danny boy. By the way have you read the institutes? Calvin was not bashful or loving in his language in the institutes. He was caustic and graceless. I see that in the torpid reading of Romans by many Calvinists. Did you see where RC condescendingly said that arminians are barely saved? What does that mean and why so caustic? Which raised the question can you be partially saved? RC thinks so. So the reformed ministers breach the bond of the Holy Spirit. Maybe you could read 1 John 2:27. What in the world do Calvinists think the New Covenant brings? I think they rest on mental reason and not the Holy Spirit. Jeremiah 31:31 et seq. See also Hebrews and Ezekiel.
If you think any, or all, of your problems can be solved by Jesus then think again. You have to realize that Jesus is the cause of all your problems, if you don’t think about him then he’ll go away, it’s time to dump Jesus and all his silly rules for your life, you’ll begin to feel free and so much better. Tell him to take a hike.
Pretty pitiful teaching. Pretty good reading though. I love how he explains that the unprofitable servant is thrown into hell but somehow it is still "grace"...
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And remember fellows that ur first so called ministery is your family and ur closer ones
Uninteresting narration! Why is it that these type of narrations are quite boring!
Thank you for making these available.
Please pray for me. I have ADD. I can be forgetful and I noticed that it is hard for me to be motivated. I love Jesus Christ with all my heart. I fear love is not enough. I will be asking the Lord for more energy and better focus so I must do All I need to do. Thank you Jesus for speaking to my heart and healing me to be less lazy. Pray for my smart momentum. I love you all Thank you for praying.
God bless you and receive your strength from His Grace and the joy of the Lord
I often worry about my performance as a Christian. Thankfully, our assurance comes in looking to Christ and going from there
Prayers goes out to you to love. Stay blessing beautiful love
God bless you brother 🙏, praying now!
Try not eating or drinking added sugar
I have always loved this parable, and took it’s meaning of the talents are my salvation, and that in the Master’s absence, it was my duty to multiply the salvation of my soul, to as many other souls along with mine as I can. This does not just mean converting others to the faith, but most times to encouraging those who maybe were losing heart from difficulties, or recovering those who have lost their way to the ills of the world. Every soul is precious.
That's a Way of saying it ...parables of the talents are "my" salvation... Nice you're right too as a parable is of my faith then it must also represent salvation.
We are to "establish our faith" by walking in the Way in and of Jesus. This doctrine of Jesus Christ called The Way, is what Jesus taught that we are to walk in his Way by repenting of sin or anger unto the acknowledging of Truth then in that truth is found a witness in the gospel and in that truth the love of God the Father is revealed as the Way you can choose to submit to, Abide in and become transformed to become One. One in love, one with love all because walking in the Way of repentance to also learn truth in Jesus that transforms us to know the knowledge we perish for the lack of... Knowledge of God's Righteousness and the knowledge of God's Love. That love is real even as the truth that reveals it is real.
Faith to believe is born .. Jesus said, noman knoweth the Son but the Father. And noman knoweth the Father but the Son AND those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. By his love faith lives in the heart. We each have a measure of faith to find 5, 2 or 1 part. The knowledge of faith is our proven reason for belief. PROVEN!!! Did you not repent and find the truth and the gospel witnesses of the truth
Not by works! We dont add anything to our soul, Christ Jesus did it all. Its our duty to do the work God has assigned each one of us, and to pursue sanctification, becoming more like Christ every day
Bringing others to The Kingdom of God is multiplying and bearing fruit . The example used was money but it's about Jesus shining thru us to others . You may have but one spiritual gift just being kind to others is a gift to use reaching others ! Use what ever God has Blessed us with to reach others !!! John 14:9 KJV Bible Jesus IS GOD !!!
@William White Amen Sir you get it.
"The harvest is great (8 Billion humans) but the workers (Parable of the Talents trying to increase the Lords Talents) are few."
Jesus warned us about these the climate change END TIMES with the book of REVELATION & the cause with the 7 north stars of the PRECESSION of the Alpha Omega equinoxes. When eclipsing the nucleus of he galaxies double torus mangetospehre RESETS the planet with Lots Fire/Lightning Brimstone/Sulfur storms & Noah's east to west Tsunami's to come when Mercury-Venus-Moon-Earth are in conjunction 2033.
Well Done is for The Lord Jesus not for me.
But giving money is a powerful way of expressing christ to others
@@meudeusefiel9820 Yes but carefully with spiritual discernment for tithing offerings and charities but ALL in Jesus name !!! Plenty of crooks including fake preacher's who are only about money !!!
If it wasn't about money Jesus wouldn't have mentioned banks.
I want to hear that "well done". I crave and covet to hear it! This is why I strive to hone my gift of teaching, which God has given me, by reading, studying, praying, and taking advantage of every opportunity to teach and exhort others how to live to please their Lord.
I strive to keep myself in the love of God, and to please Him in all I say and do -- understanding that I will never be perfect, yet reaching for perfection.
Great sermon. Always learn so much from R.C. Sproul sermons.
The Well Done is not for me but for The Lord Jesus Christ. Apart from Christ I can do nothing. Grace alone
thank you, dr. sproul. :) you are now sharing in the joy of the Lord.
So inspiring. These always make my heart softer for His Word. It's helped me so much. Thank you very much for sharing.
May the Lord be praised forever🙏
I praise God for such teachings. May God's grace help us.
Please pray for me…..I want to serve
I didn't get far in this. It's a parable for those who believe in Jesus to work to increase his kingdom.
I want to show fruit of my faith. 🙏🏽
Praise God (Christ) for His Word. 😊
Hello Rhonda
How are you doingtoday?
You shall know them by their fruit. Amen. The fact that this message is often misunderstood, is a sign that this truth is not taught enough.
I would appreciate prayers, I have no idea what my talents are for the Lord
Father, I pray to you today for @kimberly a that you may look for or receive the gift that God has or will be given to you, so that she may use it, grow from it, and help her give glory to you o lord, in Jesus' mighty name, Amen.
The best way to begin using your gifts to glorify God is to identify which talents you enjoy using, and which ones you would like to invest time in. Consider things that are easy for you, whether that is a sport, an artform, a subject in school, or a social skill. Some good questions to help you identify your talent are:
1. What do you like to do in your free time?
2. What spiritual gifts do you possess?
You may be able to identify a variety of skills that come naturally to you, or there may be one that you are looking to hone in on.
🧎♂️🙏🏻 Dear Lord, thank you for creating @Kimberly with different gifts. Help her to see your craftmanship in her strengths.
God please give her guidance in the best way to glorify You with her talents. I pray that through her strengths, others would be able to see You and know that she is Yours. Please open her eyes to opportunities to use her gifts to spread the Gospel. Thank you, again, for giving her these abilities.
I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, my only Savior, amen.
Pray for the LORD to open your heart to receive this message. You can look up the scripture
Matthew 25 and use a Bible commentary to help you to understand. We all have gifts from God. The "talents" are those gifts. We are to use our gifts for God's glory.
May the Lord help you 🙏. In my opinion you should ask the question : "how can I serve People in my church, my family ? Etc." When you do it sincerely in general People will let you know how you helped them the most. "The one who loses his/her life for the Lord will find it"
Amen to All of the above! Lord God we come together in agreement with your word that says in Matthew 7:7 Ask and it shall be given, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened. Lord help us to center our hearts with your word daily. Your word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our pathway. Give Kimberly and all here direction and discernment Lord. Use us mightily! In Jesus name, Amen!!!
I remember hearing this story from the late James Rohn. It’s great to hear it from someone else. Thank you for sharing.
Seeking understanding, growing in knowledge of JC & Scriptures and acting from wisdom that God, Jesus, Holy Spirit is the foundation of your inner and outward life. This would be the minimum. Just a thought. Have a blessed day.
We are to work not for receiving salvation but because we are saved
Sweet LORD, I will use my “talents” to the to the best of my ability for Your beloved Kingdom. 🙏❤️🙌
Mark 4:11-12
11 He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables,
12 so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’
Every thing we have is our talent.Invest for
more and more fruit for our Lord. Stay blessed.Amen.
Surprisingly trivial interpretation. Learned more about what he thinks of his own importance.
Psalm 19:The Perfect Revelation of the Lord 7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; 8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;
9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, Yea, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them Your servant is warned,
And in keeping them there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse me from secret faults. 13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me.
Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of great transgression. 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
Titus 2:Trained by Saving Grace 11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, 13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. 15 Speak these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.
Hello Amanda
How are you doing today?
Pray for me!! I read Gods Word i pray and not afraid to proclaim Christ as my Lord BUT!! im unsure if i am truely GOD'S child, i at times think i dont have the Holy Spirit in my heart😭
A lot of people struggle with this. Don't spend your time worried about this and instead just focus on loving, serving and obeying. Fear is a rabbit trail away from relationship. God bless you.
Beautiful.
This sermon shows a lot of care, craftsmanship, truly like a beautiful piece of art.
This is one of the most horrifying passages in all of Scripture.
Or, "I never knew you"
That one is powerful too.
Matt 7:21. I always think of that on too.......I was at church on Sunday and I had not been there in a long time. The Lord spoke to my heart and said you can’t give me an hour a week. I’m off on Sundays so I will keep going. We need to be around other children of God. Iron sharpens Iron. Only hands can wash hands. Holy Spirit I ask that you bring everyone on this platform a strong church family. In Jesus name. Awmn
@@catbreath8361 Yep.
This is why it is so hard for people to accept that salvation is free
Biblical salvation is not needed by anyone alive today. Romans 5:13- "Where there is no (Old Covenant) law, sin is not taken into account."
This of course means that salvation was only needed by those who had sin taken into account, which was only the ancient Israelites cursed with the Old Covenant law of sin and death, which is no one alive today.
Also, Hebrews 9:15 is clear…”Redemption was only for those who sinned under the first covenant”, which again… is not us today.
I think it's because of sermons like this, by stating the productivity is important. Or, is it free with conditions?
@@paullee1521 Stop hijacking and inserting yourself into ancient Israel’s exclusive and fulfilled redemption narrative, the Bible. It’s not about us today.
@@paullee1521 Yeah, I really expected Sproul to explain how this fits with salvation through faith. Because that's something that needs more explaining than what he did.
Faith and works are not mutually exclusive. Test your own faith by doing something hard that only God can see.
You aren’t saved by this but it is confirmation that your faith is real.
Always remember Jesus Christ said human bodies are TEMPLES of the HOLY SPIRIT and the HOLY SPIRIT is the LORD of hosts that gives LIFE to humans.
Those people who have caught the souls of others to follow Jesus Christ to give HONOUR and GLORIFY the HOLY SPIRIT in their midst as their MASTER will be GLORIFY as well by the HOLY SPIRIT as God's children.
Those people who DISHONOUR the HOLY SPIRIT not his/her MASTER and did not catch the souls of others to follow Jesus Christ to HONOUR and GLORIFY the HOLY SPIRIT is the LORD of hosts and ALMIGHTY FATHER they will not come to enter in HEAVEN and be with Jesus Christ.
At 9 :55, R.C. said that our talents are gifts from God, It was Rush Limbaugh who said on his daily radio program that his great talent was a gift on loan from God.
What's your point?
All gifts from God are really loans - he will want them back (as in the parable) when our time is up. But we can call them gifts for now, so long as we remember that all things belong to Him.
@@michaelbaker2465 .........well said Michael. ( margarita does not get it)
Listening to a radio program about philanthropic giving, the moderator had invited a clergyman to the panel. He said something I found quite surprising. "More than any other subject, Jesus talked about money."
I wondered how he could make such a statement. The parable of the talents came to mind. Also, when Jesus held up a coin and said. "Whose image and inscription is this?" Neither discussion is actually about money.
A talent is actually twenty years' wages at a denarius per day. Jesus didn’t have that kind of money. What did he have of value? He left his deciples and their listeners a valuable message about the Kingdom of God. He trained the twelve and the seventy how to approach people in their homes and on the street to talk to others about a new administration, a new government that would change the fabric of society.
Every person who comes to know of this arrangement is expected to "do business" with that valuable information, joining in sharing that information with others.
Jesus' most common subject is the Kingdom, over which he eventually would become King.
Do you want to really understand what this Kingdom is? It is not merely a pleasurable reward for good behavior. Find the most-translated website on the web and look for "What Is the Kingdom?"
Blessings
Hopefully you won't misunderstood this guy's but "Salvation has a Duty"
Please help me understand. Very much so sounding like works salvation. I'm about as unskilled, clumsy, lacking communication skills of a person that's out there. Really hoping he addressed this confusion many are hearing as works salvation
He went way off base with this. This is one of the most misinterpreted scriptures ever. There’s at least five or more active explanations for it. You are saved by grace, and nothing could take that away. To basically sum this up to make it easy to understand is that you could be saved, yet completely bankrupt in heaven. Read 1 Corinthians chapter 3. You will see that an unproductive serving of the Lord, still gets into heaven, but by the skin of his teeth. Another way to look at the parable of the talents, is that he was talking directly to the Jewish leaders as well. Another summary would be to be faithful and productive in the Lord, so that way when we return with him in the millennial reign, we will be awarded high positions of responsibility.
Amén 🙏 ❤
Absolutely !!!
This Parable has always been one of the most difficult for me to understand. You explain it so good here ! Thank you so much.
But I still wonder what would have happened to the servant who put the money in the bank but lost everything (eg because the bank went bankrupt). Could Jesus have blamed him for something? How would He have reacted?...
The parable is not necessarily limited to financial profit. The gift you may receive from God could be the ability to speak 5 languages. What have you done with those 5 languages? How have they profited the Kingdom of God? Have you witnessed to people who speak different languages? Have you steered them toward the Lord Jesus Christ? Has your gift brought anyone to seeking salvation?
Numerous other examples. The 5 Talents could be a long life rather than money. Have you used those years productively serving God or wasted the years worshipping the self?
That's what I draw from the parable.
@JColas1
It depends on which bank you choose, choose a bank that which never goes to bankrupt..
as far as I know there is only one bank that never go bankrupt, which is truely founded on Jesus Christ for Glory of God not of this world.
How do you know which is that bank ? by its fruits !
Search for a Christ's ministry which really bear good fruit and deposit in it.
You have to remember there’s no expectations being put on the servants for if they accumulate or lose the talents. The talents given are based off of the servants ability…..it’s also worth mentioning that reading the two parables before this also helps to understand it better. Ultimately this parable commends faithful work and prudent planning. The first two, not knowing how much time they had went with vigor to multiply their master’s money trading and investing….according to their ability. Now the unfaithful servant attempts to deflect judgment when he says he was paralyzed with terror bc of the master’s character and reputation. Classic blame shifting and an ungodly slander against the actual kindness of the master. None of the allegations were true and even if they had been it would be a bad excuse for inactivity. Bc if the master was really as bad as the servants said he was then the absolute worst thing he could have done was bury the money where it was guaranteed to make nothing. So truthfully if that was what he was thinking he could have just put the money in a bank and at least made interest off of it. The biggest problem was the faithless servants own wickedness. He lacked both fear and respect for his master
@@Onewiththejedi Thanks a lot !
How can we be unproductive with our talents if God has determined or ordained our path? We don't have free will to decide, right? Aren't we following the path God has set for us?
Free will doesn't mean it isn't knowable in advance. At least that's how I understand it. We don't choose our situation (where we start) but we choose what we do. God knows what we will do. Its hard to believe but how else could it make sense? Everything about Jesus's life was as planned and those who opposed him were punished in spite of it being part of the plan.
Doesn't the whole explanation *contradict* what RC believed of Election and Predestination? How then was the *believer* who was given a gift of the Holy Spirit thrown into hell?
Isn’t it convenient as to how the word ‘talents’ means a great quantity of money in it’s original delivery, but just so happens to mean something completely different in the English language. It doesn’t have the same sort of appeal to it when we just think of it as gambling with investing money.
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Incorrect. The parable is regarding the miraculous Grace of the Fruits of the Spirit.
We begin at the time of justification/salvation with 'firstfruits', so to speak, of the Gal. 5:22-23 nine Fruits.
God prunes them (Jn. 15:2) by stressing them to the breaking point.
If we fall in a heap of failure at the foot of the Cross and upon the Rock, we become candidates for an increase of a particular Fruit, even their instantaneously-given fullness.
All the above by Grace, so that "no flesh shall glory in His Presence."
While I explain in greater detail in X, suffice it to say that even if given the fullness of the supernatural/holy/agape' Fruit of Love, for example, we must still allow ourselves to be perfected in it by getting out of and staying out of its, Love's, Way.
I use my talents
Talents is analogous for humans.
"The harvest is great (8 Billion humans) but the workers (Parable of the Talents trying to increase the Lords Talents) are few."
Jesus warned us about these the climate change END TIMES with the book of REVELATION & the cause with the 7 north stars of the PRECESSION of the Alpha Omega equinoxes. When eclipsing the nucleus of he galaxies double torus mangetospehre RESETS the planet with Lots Fire/Lightning Brimstone/Sulfur storms & Noah's east to west Tsunami's to come when Mercury-Venus-Moon-Earth are in conjunction 2033.
Curious, what passage of scripture refers to being cast into outer darkness as being the fire of hell? I do not just accept that because he is being cast into outer darkness that it is the same as the fire of hell. There are those who say, well it must be the meaning - No, proof is needed, not just a summation of perception.
Okay....so we all get the metaphor used here for the talents, got it, but metaphorically speaking, how would one put his talent with the bankers, on a literal level how is this done?
I didn't understand a word of that Brother SPROUL
Is this salvation by works?
No, it’s more of a responsibility since you received salvation
Everyone has to play a part in a kingdom..for lack of better words
This parable teaches salvation by works then
No it doesn’t fruits are a result of our faith. Not by works lest anyone should boast
Excellent word by brother Sproul. The only part I question is the implication that one who's a believer will be sent to hell, meaning they will lose their salvation. There is a dispensational punishment for the unprofitable servants of the Lord which is the loss of the kingdom reward which will cause the weeping and gnashing of teeth, extreme regret. But I don't believe this is hell because I believe in eternal salvation.
Since God ordains everything, isn't He determining them to lose their salvation or kingdom reward? If not, you are implying freewill, which Sproul and other 5 pt don't agree with
@@rocketsurgeon1746 Great point
@@rocketsurgeon1746 those nasty fruit inspectors.
@@rocketsurgeon1746 where does Scripture say that God ordains everything?
@@bugsocsollie1694 it doesn't. 5 point calvanists like piper think it does
No one should ever end up telling me that I am too old to receive something. No one should end up telling me to get out. No one should try to argue with me over my stuff when I should get it. No one should argue with me over my stuff when I should get it. No one should argue with me in any way over my stuff when I should get it. No one should argue with me in any way. No one should put me in jail. No one should stand against me being successful. No one should block me from being successful. No one should argue with me over my stuff. I should not drop out of school. No one should drop me out of school. People should do all sorts of things so that I get hired for the job immediately when I want it. No one should fix anyone who doesn't want to be fixed. No one should be looking for me to throw me out of the United States. Any person looking for me to be thrown out of the United States should be thrown out of the United States and blocked from entering back into the United States and other countries as well, including any foreign country that I came from before entering the United States. None of my things should be hung in the closet and not used by me. No one should be comfortable making me uncomfortable. No person should use their personality disorder or disorders to cause any problems. Any person who uses their personality disorder or disorders to cause any problem or problems should be arrested and jailed. I should not be violated. Jesus should put my name in the ear of someone who will change my life. God should put my name in the ear of someone who will change my life. My name should be put in the ear of someone who will change my life. If a person is going to waste another person's life, he or she, including me, should not go into that other person's life. Everyone who says something to me should party with me at Miami Beach. No one should take my being alive for granted. Americans should be ashamed of themselves when other people from other countries decide to go back to their previous country to raise their own children. A teacher should be called a failure if he has allowed any of his students to fail. All the people who love me should prosper. I should not go to school and study and then not become what and who I am supposed to be. I should not think that I am a sluggard. I should not feel like a sluggard. I should not look like a sluggard. I should not hear the word sluggard. I should not be called a sluggard. No one should think that I am a sluggard. No adult should do what he or she told a child not to do. I should stay away from people who make me believe that they are going to give me what I really want in the future and then leave me to figure out and/or wonder how I am going to get it. I should not have any belly pooch fat. No person should speak to me in any language that I don't understand. When I meet people, it should always be on the victory lap. God and Jesus should tell me the truth. No one should give me life without Jesus and God. No person who is going to attempt to make me sick in any way should be in my life. At the right time, the Lord should make it happen, which he will do. No one should place any person who was ever rude to me more powerful than me. I should get help from every source. No one should accuse me of anything or have the power to do so. No one should use anything to accuse me or have the power to do so. No one should make up anything to use to accuse me or have the power to do so. Everything is going to be alright, which everything should turn out to be, and I should continue to trust God because my being alive says more than the statement that God is not done with me, which no person should change or be able to change. I should not turn into a ghost. I should not be ghosted. I should not lose anything at all. I should not lose anything when I am close to winning. I should not lose anything after winning. I should retain every piece of knowledge that I read in my head and get more than the grade that can move me forward and not make me repeat anything. All my prayers should be answered. Even everything that I did not pray to be removed that should be removed should be answered by removal without affecting me in any way. God should triple my income. I should become all that I am perfect for, which would make me great. No should only be for those who block me from prospering when I can prosper by them saying yes. The people who look like they can save me and/or someone else and cannot but only want the money should not be in the workforce. I should not go to sleep with someone who has already hurt me, is still hurting me, and is comfortable with it wherever they are. All cash collected for fraud is to turn into duppy money and fly away later when the collector isn't looking, and the sender should not lose his or her funds, including mine. I should be considered notable. I should be notable. I should know how to get into everything that I need and want to get into. I should be allowed into everything that I need and want to get into. I should more than be allowed to get into everything that I need and want to get into. Jesus and God will make a way for me to be in a lot of movies and TV series shown on IMDb, because both of them should. Jesus and God will make a way for me to finish everything that I have started instead of doing something else instead of what I started, because both of them should. Jesus and God will make a way for me to be a model in magazines and on magazine covers, because both of them should. Amen.
Isn’t this parable about the permission to invest your money so to reap many folds as taught by the health and wealth preachers?
One gives a tithe every month to your church and offering is giving to
Individual s who are poor is were you get your blessings Malachi 3:7-10
Money is a talent.
Ayayay
Thank you for this.
This is the best summation I have to date.
FROM Michael Bradley
(with THANKS to Ron Schofield)
THE BIBLE IS THE STORY of Yahweh's fulfilled plan of redemption given exclusively to ancient Israelites cursed with the Old Covenant law of sin and death and pertains to no one alive today, soteriologically and eschatologically speaking. Here's more...
IF YOU BELIEVE THE BIBLE, then you'd have to agree with Jesus in Matthew 15:24, that he only came for the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
YOU'D HAVE TO AGREE with Jesus in Matthew 5:18, that no jot nor tittle of the (Old Covenant) law would pass away until the Old Covenant system, temple and people associated with (what Jews referred to as "heaven and earth") passed away.
YOU'D HAVE TO AGREE with history, that the Old Covenant system, temple and people associated with it passed away in AD 70.
YOU'D HAVE TO AGREE with Paul, who said in Romans 5:13, "Where there is no (Old Covenant) law, sin is not taken into account." This of course means that salvation was only needed by those who had sin taken into account, which is not us today.
YOU'D ALSO HAVE TO AGREE with Hebrews 9:15, that redemption was only for those who sinned under the first covenant, which again...is not us today.
THE BITTER PILL OF TRUTH is that nobody has been saved nor redeemed for nearly two thousand years. The "church today" has been in a massive error; a complete hijacking of ancient Israel's exclusive and fulfilled plan of redemption, the Bible.
"BUT...BUT...I'M A GENTILE!" Are you? The gentiles Paul and the disciples were preaching to were either Greek converts to Judaism or the elect diaspora, grafted-in descendants of the tribes of Israel who had been dispersed among the nations. Through the ministry of the disciple's great commission, they were called out from the nations to again be a holy nation of kings and priests, to be sealed for the day of redemption, which only they lived to see. Nobody today is a gentile of that sort.
TODAY'S SELF-APPOINTED, SELF-PROFESSING "Christians" have been hoodwinked into believing they're sinners under a law that passed away, and need a savior who said he came for someone else, who will save them from a sin that's already been removed and a judgement that already happened and allow them into a covenant that was made with someone else. The fact is, we today have never been and are not part of ancient Israel's exclusive and fulfilled redemptive narrative, the Bible. ~Michael Bradley
Sometimes I doubt the Devil is real and a true force that influences peoples thinking and actions. Then I read a post like this.
@@freegraceau Your problem is not with me.
Your problem is with the Bible.
@@josephrohland5604 studying the passages you shared revealed more of Jesus Holy and Glorious nature to me. Thank you and I will pray for you. It amazes me as what was meant for evil He will use for good.
@@freegraceau Have Fun waiting and hoping (begging) and praying to crash a wedding party that took place nearly two thousand years ago, wannabe.
The Bible: It’s Not About Us Today!
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bro there's no way that he really thought this parable was actually about money, you got to be joking
Perhaps the one if he had done something could have produced 100 fold instead he loses.
Gbu
The LORD's Prayer: Premise; The LORD is Jesus. The LORD's Prayer is Jesus's prayer to His Heavenly Father. The Prayer begins: Our ... O U R Father, who are't in Heaven ... . If the LORD's prayer is Jesus's prayer to His Father, shouldn't the beginning go something like: My ... M Y Father, who are't in Heaven?
If we run with "Our Father, who are't in Heaven ..." then who are the other LORDS? And, is it the LORD's (possessive) Prayer or the LORDs (plural) Prayer? Can the LORD be also praying on behalf of its slaves the "Christians"?
I am also looking at Adam and Jesus. Adam was a physical Son of God.
Jesus was the spiritual Son of God in the flesh.
If man are related to Adam, then, by extension, we are also sons and daughters of God?
Add in Jesus being a Son of God, does this, also by extension, mean we are the Sons and Daughters of Jesus who is the Spiritual Son of God? If so, how does Jesus become our LORD and we His SLAVES? Where did we dump our relationship to the family of God?
Don't "think" I have fully explained myself ... tends to be a DNA problem with me ...
Adam was created, Jesus was begotten, Christians believe following Christ is the way to becoming sons and daughters of God.
The HOLY SPIRIT is the MASTER. Those who blaspheme against the HOLY SPIRIT will not receive the blessings from the HOLY SPIRIT.
Don't use it to help Narcissist they will drain you dry
Act 3:6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none ….
The judgement was surrender to Cesar what belongs to Cesar and because Cesar reaped where he did not sow it was those who choose not trade with Cesar’s talents that did not accept those talents therefore Cesar could not reap the purchase of the fruits he did not sow or work for.. if you serve Cesar as your lord he will take from those who don’t have and rewarding those that do have by taking from those without. Rewarding evil with goods extorting the poor out of the fruits of their labor. Tax and interest number pushers borrowers dilution depreciation deceptive trading practices.
Hey RC, God has factory job for you in a Chinese tire factory if you wanna produce something before you meet him.
Why are you still using the word "Christian "?
God never authorized the use of the word Christian.
That word was invented by the godless world. Paul and the rest of the apostles never called each other Christian.
Let it go.
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Your contradicting yourself here. First you say it's about money, and what's used as an example is money, but then you say it includes your God given abilities. I firmly believe that in reality it's all about your God given abilities, the use of money is only the example.
Well said RC.
Sorry, This dear brother is talking about the Lord’s slaves, not unbelievers. There will be discipline in the outer darkness to recover this slothful one but not perdition. How could the Bible say a believer possesses eternal life and that no one, even the believer, can remove him from the Father’s hand. Weeping indicates it will not be pleasant, but while the faithful are in the Lord’s joy, the slothful will be severely disciplined so as to relearn their lesson for a period of time. As believers we can be secure in our eternal salvation according to the New Testament promises.
I'm not understanding this properly
@@ogkush865 more clarification in an article from Affirmation & Critique, 1997,No.3 by John Campbell on ‘Sproul’s Faith Alone’:
🗑 for a man his age that’s it?
a talent was a unit of weight. Much more than 1 year's wages
This is a totally wrong interpretation of this parable. It is about the second coming of Jesus, not applicable to the church or our 'works' or financial responsibility at all.
You have wrongly interpreted
RC believed in infant baptism for salvation and doubted his own salvation in one video at the end of his life -- so much for the doctrine of election. Really, avoid the tedium of the seminary and download the audio bible to your phone or electronic device or computer and listen to the Bible every day. Faith comes by hearing the word of Christ. You do not need clergy. Jeremiah 31:31-37 and 2 John 5.
R.C. did not believe that infant baptism saves, he believed it was a sign of the covenant of being in the visible church. That child is still responsible to repent and place their faith in Christ. That is what we as Presbyterians believe. Sir I suggest you actually find out what R.C. actually believed before making such a foolish statement lest you be found bearing false witness. And if we don't need clergy, then why did the Apostle Paul command those in the various churches he wrote to to ordain elders in every city? Why is it that pastors and teachers are specifically listed among those in the church? Why is it that the Bible tells us to obey those who watch over you? You are very out of line with Scripture here, so I would say you are the one who needs to go back and read your Bible
@@danieljones4601 Did you actually review the video of the debat between Sproul and Mcarthur? do it. The problem with the clergy today is that they are like you. They do not trust the believer to be taught by the Holy Spirit. The point of the New Covenant is found in Jeremiah 31:31, Ezekiel 36:25, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, Hebrews 8:11 and 1 John 2:27. You fail to teach the independent believer's dependence and life in the Holy Spirit. I have listened to the Reformed teachers and they all make the congregant dependent upon them as the last word in bible interpretation. Teachers and elders are not appointed today like Paul instructed to do. The reformation is 500 years old and full of dead men's bones. Find life in the daily work of the Holy Spirit. Acts 1 :6 and 8. The Reformed Church = Ichabod.
@@danieljones4601 I am rereading my two volumes of the Institutes by Calvin and will get back to you Danny boy. By the way have you read the institutes? Calvin was not bashful or loving in his language in the institutes. He was caustic and graceless. I see that in the torpid reading of Romans by many Calvinists. Did you see where RC condescendingly said that arminians are barely saved? What does that mean and why so caustic? Which raised the question can you be partially saved? RC thinks so. So the reformed ministers breach the bond of the Holy Spirit. Maybe you could read 1 John 2:27. What in the world do Calvinists think the New Covenant brings? I think they rest on mental reason and not the Holy Spirit. Jeremiah 31:31 et seq. See also Hebrews and Ezekiel.
If you think any, or all, of your problems can be solved by Jesus then think again. You have to realize that Jesus is the cause of all your problems, if you don’t think about him then he’ll go away, it’s time to dump Jesus and all his silly rules for your life, you’ll begin to feel free and so much better. Tell him to take a hike.
I'll keep my double time penalty rate for working on Sunday...
Free advice go after him fully and thank us later
Pretty pitiful teaching. Pretty good reading though. I love how he explains that the unprofitable servant is thrown into hell but somehow it is still "grace"...
this has to be one of the most twisted interpretations ever.
It’s a man made god written by in a fictional book
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Stewardship... Be fruitful...
This story lacks the loss of the talent....
Well, that would be even worse then the guy with the one, wouldn't it...
I hate this story 😑
wrong interpretation ….
I praise God for such teachings. May God's grace help us to live according to His word!