NOVEMBER 06 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)

 

NOVEMBER 06  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, Thou art Holy as is the Father and the Holy Ghost and You

 have declared that we are to follow You and to be Holy ourselves 

but Lord I find there are times when I find myself “spiritually” weak

 and I selfishly think that I need more than just following You, 

that somehow my “faith” is not sufficient ——— I need You Lord 

and the Holy Spirit to be active in my life as I am active in

 my pursuit to know the Father, for without Your Grace and Infilling

 of the Spirit in our daily lives we regress into our worldly ways 

and evil thoughts that take us away from God as we recoil from

 the Light and pull the covers up over our heads and bury our 

minds in the sands of darkness and unbelief.

Then God whispers in the darkness and the Holy Spirit 

gently reminds me that “waiting for God to act is fleshly unbelief”

 (See Oswald Chambers “My Utmost for His Highest” DECEMBER 6) —

 O LORD, forgive me of all my shortcomings and worldly ways

 and I pray to be filled with Your Love. Please give us the strength

 and discipline to be “faithful and wise servants” for You and the

 kingdom’s sake and let us not hide in our worldly-selfishness 

but to Joyfully serve others unselfishly in Your Name!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus started His Parable of the Ten Virgins “preparedness” Lesson with

 “THEN the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to…” (Matthew 25:1)

 and ended the parable with “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day

 nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.” (Matthew 25:13)

 The Parable of the Ten Virgins then addresses details of the first 

part of the Jesus Question “Who then is a faithful and wise servant…”

 and now Jesus is going to give us a Lesson in the responsibilities

 of being “…made ruler over [our] household, to give [our household]

 food in due season…” (Matthew 24:45)  

God never requires anything from us that He has not given us

 instructions for and He has already made provisions for us —

 for example: God freed Israel (His Chosen People) from their

 bondage in Egypt (Babylon?) and led (those that chose to

 “Follow Him) to the “Promised Land”  (that was already “flowing with

 milk and honey”) and they were to inhabit cities already built

 and fully supplied with materials — so if God is going to require the

 “ruler of the household” to give “[the members of the household]

 food in due season” then God will provide for them as well

 as giving them instructions which Jesus is doing as He Teaches another

 parable which He starts like the last parable, 

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far

 country, who called his own servants and delivered 

his goods to them.” (Matthew 25:14)  

This “man traveling to a far country” sounds exactly like God

 is “the master” and God has made “his own servant” the

 “ruler over the household” and God has provided the “ruler” 

with the necessary provisions [“delivered his goods to the ruler”] 

in order for the “ruler to give [the household] food in due season.” 

 So we can be confident that Jesus is going to reveal another 

Truth of God 

and give us instructions on how to use the provisions God gives us

 and to use those provisions to provide for our “household” and to

 have confidence that necessary provisions will arrive in their “due season”! 

So let us look at the start of this new parable again and observe

 that the “man traveling to a far country” means the man is going to 

leave “his own servants” but is making provision for them 

[“delivered his goods to”] while he is gone —

 but without reading ahead, if this parable is instruction details

 for the Teaching Question 

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant” 

then at the end of the parable we can expect the

 “man traveling to a far country” that at a later date  “HE WILL RETURN”

 and check to see what “his own servants” have accomplished

 with the provisions that He has “delivered…to [his own]”!!! 

This parable in conjunction with the last parable should make us 

realize the Truth of God that if we want to be “rulers” that we

 must first be a “SERVANT TO THE MASTER” and we should ask

 ourselves the ultimate Question:

 “Am I willing to SERVE GOD in the manner that He requires

 of “HIS OWN SERVANTS” and live up to the responsibility 

that comes with God making you a ‘ruler’?”?!?!?!?!?!? 

If you cannot come to the conclusion that being a “servant” 

to God the Father is far better than being a king in the world, 

then you are well on the way to a day that “there will be 

weeping and gnashing of teeth” — just saying — 

after all it is YOUR CHOICE — but “CHOOSE WISELY” —

 and that may mean you will need a “servant’s heart” 

to hear THE MASTER!!!

NOVEMBER 05 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)

 

NOVEMBER 05  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, just one more day — “TODAY” — let me walk each “TODAY” 

that You give me according to Your Ways and follow Your Commandments

 to Love God with all my heart, all my soul, and all my mind, 

and then each day I will Love others as You have Loved me!  

May the Holy Spirit fill my temple with praise that I may truly 

worship the Holy One. Lord, I am waiting on You Lord Jesus, I seek 

Your Face and Your Righteousness. Let my every desire be a desire

 for You. It is only through Your Grace and Mercy that I have any 

reason to live another “TODAY” — All Praise, Glory, and Honor to

 the Only Begotten of the Father, Jesus Christ!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is Teaching around the Question, 

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant…”

 and He began this Lesson following His discourse on the 

“Great Tribulation” and the “sign of the Son of Man”

 appearing in the clouds. Jesus said that the Son of Man will 

“send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, 

and [His angels] will gather together His elect…” (Matthew 24:29-31) 

Therefore the context of this Lesson on being a “faithful and wise servant”

 has to do with the “Son of Man” and the time frame then is

 AFTER the “Great Tribulation”. 

Jesus first said, “Now learn this parable from the fig tree…” 

(Matthew 24:32-33) 

and then when the sign of the fig tree has occurred Jesus promised,

 “Assuredly, I say to you…Heaven and earth will pass away, 

but My words will by no means pass away.” (Matthew 24:34-35) 

So far Jesus lists these events: 

{E1} The world will witness the “Abomination of Desolation” 

(Matthew 24:15) described in Daniel 7:8 and Revelation 19:20 followed by

 {E2} The “Great Tribulation” (Matthew 24:22) and then the 

{E3} “sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven” (Mathew 24:29-31) 

After listing these three events, Jesus starts the “faithful and wise servant” 

 Lessons with “this parable from the fig tree” (Matthew 24:32-33)

 which includes the warning that when the sign of the fig tree is completed that “Heaven and earth will pass away…” (Matthew 24:24-35) 

Jesus, being the Master Teacher then gives us details of being a

 “faithful and wise servant”  much like we read in 

Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” 

 and then we get details of that creation in the following chapters 

so Jesus is doing the same thing with the Lesson on being a 

“faithful and wise servant”  first by a parable about the fig tree, 

declaring heaven and earth will pass away, and then Jesus declares 

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels

 of heaven, but My Father only.” (Matthew 24:36) 

Jesus explains the warning, “Therefore you also be ready, 

for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” 

(Matthew 24:44) followed immediately with His Teaching Question,

 “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 then praises the “faithful and wise servant” 

 but the servants that were not doing as the master had commanded,

 Jesus called them “evil servant(s)” who when the “master of that 

servant [comes] on a day when the [evil servant] is not looking

 for the [master’s return] that the [master] will cut [the evil servant]

 in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. 

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

 (Matthew 24:46-51) 

Jesus immediately gives more details about being a 

“faithful and wise servant”  as He Teaches the Parable of the Ten Virgins 

in which Jesus stated that “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to…”

 and then makes it clear that there is a time when all those “prepared”

 for His Return will go in with Him to His Home and the “door [will be] shut”

 behind them, but those that were “unprepared at the time [Then]”

 of His Return will be turned away from the door as Jesus concludes the

 “preparedness” Lesson: 

“Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour

 in which the Son of Man is coming.” (Matthew 25:1-13)

Jesus has been consistent in describing the event triggered by

 the “Son of Man” and at the time of HIS RETURN

 that all His “faithful and wise servant(s)”  will be “ready” 

and “[all will] go in with Him to the wedding”. There is great 

discussion about “when” the “Son of Man will Return” 

but there is no question whatsoever that HE IS“COMING AGAIN”!!!  

Jesus Christ, in His Mercy and Grace, is giving us every opportunity to 

“GET READY” 

just like Jesus told His disciples and followers: 

 “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be

 accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come

 to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”  (Luke 21:36)  

Now that would be considered a 

“faithful and wise servant”  

don’t you think?!?!?!!?