Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received it back with interest.You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back mine own with interest.
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… And if you're in here, I want you to go back and study. But in Matthew 25, verse 14 through 30, this whole story was about three different people who who the grace of God gave one of them five, one of them, two and one of them, one. And he didn't matter. It didn't matter about the amounts. He just wanted them to do something with what they had been given. So in this series, this whole thing about us being the blessed people that God wants us to be. I really started to look at this scripture because verse 29 really struck me. And I want to go there real quick as we end last week's service today. And I'm going to start a new message today, too. But I want you to see this real quick. Matthew 25, verse 29. It says, those who use well. Everybody say use well. Those who use well what they are given Even more will be given And I said man god what if we could have nobody have an excuse? …
… listen in and hear what the Savior can teach us about the shape of ambition in his kingdom. Matthew chapter 25, verses 14 through 30. Jesus said, For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now, after a long time, the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, Master, you delivered to me five talents. Here I have made five talents more. His master said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant. …
… What? No profit? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers. And on my return, I would have received what was my own with interest. Somebody take away the little bit they have in Mosier and give it to those with ten times as much. For to all those who have, more will be given, but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away. And you know what? I can't imagine it. I can't imagine it at all. So maybe this is not a sermon about the parable of the talents at all. Maybe it's a sermon about how we read scripture, about why we are so reluctant to challenge established meanings, about what is at risk if we do, about what would happen if we stopped thinking of the truth of Scripture as something already embedded in it, set down in a book, and instead reconceived the truth of Scripture as something that happens when people of faith get together and let the sharp edges of our real lives poke at that Scripture until it yields new and living truth by the power of the Holy Spirit. …