SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/10/2024 7:45 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “The Reckoning We Face”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
25:19-27
Message of the verses: “19 "Now after
a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them. 20 "The one who had received the five
talents came up and brought five more talents, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted
five talents to me. See, I have gained five more talents.’ 21 “His master said
to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few
things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your
master.’ 22 "Also the one who had received the two talents came up
and said, ‘Master, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have gained two more
talents.’ 23 “His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You
were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter
into the joy of your master.’ 24 “And the one also who had received the one
talent came up and said, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where
you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed. 25 ‘And I was
afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is
yours.’ 26 “But his master answered and said to him, ‘You wicked, lazy slave,
you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed.
27 ‘Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would
have received my money back with interest.”
The first thing that I want to say is that this
section of this 25th chapter of Matthew will take us a while to get
through, and second is that it is Sunday and my Spiritual Diaries are usually
much shorter on Sunday mornings.
It
can be seen in verse 19 that there is no definite time as to how long the
master was gone other than saying that it was a long time. I have mentioned that the 24th and
25th chapters of Matthew are about the Tribulation period, and as we
look at this parable in that way we can see that Jesus repeatedly states that
His second coming will be at a time when He is not expected, and so the
implication is that the master of those slaves came back unexpectedly.
Now
we want to look at the first order of business that takes place upon his arrival
back home, and that would be what the slaves had done with his assets, and so h
sat down and settled accounts with them.
John
MacArthur writes “In this discourse Jesus was addressing those who would be
alive at the time of His return (24:34), and the statement in the parable that
indirectly telling the Twelve that His coming back would not be as soon as they
anticipated (see Luke 19:11). He did not
tell them that it would not be in their lifetimes, because that would have
tended to decrease their motivation for diligence. The idea was that, whether He would be gone
for a seemingly long or seemingly short time by their human reckoning, they
would have opportunity to serve Him and were obligated to be about His work.”
I
have mentioned many times that when I became a believer fifty years ago that
the Lord used end-time events to get my attention to hear and understand the
gospel, and my great need for salvation.
In the 1970’s there was a lot of talk in the Christian world about the
second coming of Jesus Christ, which certainly has to do with end-time
events. The problem is that this kind of
slowed down after a number of years and is not much talked about. I have to say that it has not died down for
me as the things that I am studying now still have a lot to do with end-time
events and as I look at what is going on in the Middle East at this time that
makes me even more desiring to get the word out that Jesus Christ could return
in the Rapture of the Church any time now.
3/10/2024 8:09 AM
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