OCTOBER 28 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#31-13 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” (Matthew 24:45)

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

OCTOBER 28  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#31-13  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?”  (Matthew 24:45)

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Jesus, let us this day but Praise the One that is the Giver of Life and the One that created the day and then gives us both daily life and daily bread. Lord Jesus, we know that of our own we can only plant but You Lord make the seed grow, we can only pray for the rain but You can produce living waters to sustain our existence — and if we have no water we perish so let us see the TRUTH that without You there is no life and no hope and without hope, we perish, for our souls which You water daily cannot exist without hope and Hope only comes from the Giver of Hope. Lord Jesus, therefore let this life that You have given me and blessed me so abundantly with Hope always have this prayer of Thanksgiving on my lips and in my heart for my Savior and Redeemer from whom all blessings and life itself flows—Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God.        AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

OCTOBER 28  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#31-13  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?”  (Matthew 24:45)  Jesus after giving signs of the “end of the age” and His “coming again” to pronounce the verdict of the “Final Judgement” on the world and take His Rightful Place as King of His Creation, Jesus has laid out plainly for all who will open their “spiritual eyes” what is expected of each individual prior to that “Final Judgement”. Jesus announces both the “rewards” for those who are “faithful and wise” in their “service” to the MASTER and the “penalty” that awaits those that reject God and insist that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are “fairy tales”. The Truth is that God has been rejected by seekers of self and they therefore follow the selfish “doctrines of men” that have defiled the Commands of God and promote “self gratification” over “serving others”! Jesus goes into detail of the reward of “the kingdom of heaven” when He again uses a parable to describe what “heaven shall be likened to” and this time Jesus uses “ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.” (Matthew 25:1) My first thought when I read this verse was to ask, “What does being a virgin have to do with heaven?” — this “question” on my part was “of the world” and my spiritual understanding was blinded to the Truth of God that Jesus  reveals to us through the “Parable of the Ten Virgins”. Jesus had just been discussing being a “faithful and wise servant” and my secular mind related more to being “made ruler of [my] household” and missed the fact that the True Master of all households places whom He chooses to be “rulers” over each household and once a “ruler” is placed in a ruling position by the “master”, then the “master” places additional responsibilities on the “ruler” to provide for those under his “rule” — when being a “ruler” is viewed as having “responsibility to provide for others” then it is understood that even “rulers” are “servants” therefore we learn a Truth of God that there is only ONE MASTER and everyone else either falls into one of two types of servants: Servant Type 1 - a servant that is “faithful and wise” and does that which is required by the Master and is “ready” at all times for the Master’s Return or Servant Type 2 - is an “evil servant” that takes advantage of the Master being gone and the “evil servant” does not do that which the Master requires of their position, regardless if the Master is present or not, and the Master makes it clear that He will Return and hold everyone accountable for their “reasonable service”. Thinking like an “evil servant” therefore would make one “unfaithful and unwise”. Jesus is using the Parable of the Ten Virgins (also known as the Parable of the Wise and Unwise Virgins) to confirm an earlier Truth when He said about Servant Type 1: “Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find [the “faithful and wise servant” providing for others]” (Matthew 24:46) and then about Servant Type 2: “the master of that [“evil  servant”] will come on a day when [the “evil servant”] is not looking for [the master] at an hour that [the “evil servant”] is not aware of, and [the master] will cut [the “evil servant”] in two and appoint [the “evil servant”] his portion with the hypocrites. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 24:50-51) Jesus is using the Parable of the Ten Virgins then to tie together all the Truths of God that Jesus has been demonstrating His whole earthly life and now is Masterfully Teaching with His Last Week before becoming the “Lamb of God” as the culmination of the Passover Week. Jesus cleansed the temple, cursed a fig tree and pronounced seven times, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!” and now Jesus is describing to His disciples what the sign of the end times and His “coming” again will be like as Jesus warns that “the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” and that we should “watch therefore” ——— the Parable of the Ten Virgins ties all this together making it obvious that the main point of this Parable is not about being a “virgin” but about being “wise” and being “ready and prepared” for the Master’s Return!!!