OCTOBER 28 THE JESUS QUESTIONS 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)

 

OCTOBER 28  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  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 Prayer    

JESUS, let us this day do nothing but Praise the One that is the 

Giver of Life and the One that created the day and then fills it 

with both abundant daily life and daily bread sufficient to cover

 all our daily needs.  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 with Your Spirit daily 

cannot exist without Hope and Hope only comes from You, 

Jesus the Son of God, 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

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 of God 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 

whomever 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 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 of God 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!!!