NOVEMBER 13 THE JESUS QUESTIONS Conclusion: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 13  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  Conclusion: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, Lord and Savior, my Redeemer, You are the Prince of Peace,

 and it is Your Sacrifice that I owe my Eternal Life to — for it was the 

Shedding of Your Blood, the Blood of the Only Begotten Son 

of Father God in Heaven that Bought my Salvation and was the 

Propitiation of all my past, present, and future iniquities.  

Because of those things that my Gracious and Merciful God GAVE

 to undeserving sinners such as I, that I can now look forward with Hope

 to my future and no longer fear death. For it is through the Precious Blood

 of the Lamb of God that God Almighty has freed us from the condemnation 

of sin and we can enter into His Kingdom and the Joy of the LORD!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus uses the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30) to remind

 us that regardless of our situation in life that God has bestowed on our

 individual lives everything that we need to live an abundant life — but 

least we forget where all blessings come from, the Parables and Lessons

 that Jesus has been Teaching in this Passover Week in the final days

 before His Crucifixion is that 

(T1) He is Coming Again!!! 

(T2) When He RETURNS there will be the “settling of accounts” 

(T3) and depending on the “Choices” we have made with our God-given 

Gift of Freewill, we will either suffer the “great tribulation” or we will 

enter into “the joy of the Lord” 

(T4) God Himself will not “judge” us for it is by our own choices and 

actions that we are “witnesses against ourselves”.  God, at the

 “end of the age” will administer our just rewards and penalties that 

were foreordained before the foundation of the world. 

Jesus has Taught again and again that there will be a “Judgement Day” 

and God Himself has shown from generation to generation that He has a Plan! 

God reveals Himself to everyone that seeks knowledge of Him.

 God has given us His Holy Word through the lives of individuals that

 were Divinely inspired to write the TRUTH OF GOD. God has through 

writings of individuals under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit 

documented His Plan of Salvation for all to read in the Holy Scriptures. 

God has sent His Only Begotten Son Jesus to be born of a virgin

 in order that Jesus could become flesh and Live the Perfect Life 

and that as the Lamb of God, Jesus could through His Death

 and the Shedding of His Precious Blood be the only Acceptable 

Sacrifice in the Eyes of The Holy and Just God for the 

sins of the world, a world of sinners that God loved 

enough to send the Messiah to save! 

When we read the parables we must read the “bottom line” and 

understand that it is our actions that will gain us the “reward” of hearing

 God Himself say to us “Well done, good and faithful servant…

Enter into the joy of your lord.”(Matthew 25:23) 

or “Cast the unprofitable servant {who was not a faithful, wise,

 and watchful servant} into the outer darkness. 

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 25:30) 

If we only read the Lessons that Jesus Taught in His Last Week on Earth,

 there would be enough knowledge of God and the Kingdom of Heaven 

to know that God’s Plan of Salvation includes the Blood Sacrifice 

of the Lamb of God which God Himself had promised that He 

Himself would “provide the sacrifice”, a Promise from God 

which was fulfilled with the Life, Death, Burial, 

and RESURRECTION of Jesus Christ!!! 

Jesus came and obeyed the Father’s Will, suffered at the hands of His

 own people and died on a Cross at Calvary, was buried in the 

borrowed tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, and as Jesus had stated clearly

 several times before His Death, on the Third Day He would be 

Resurrected by God and then Ascend into Heaven and sit at the 

Right Hand of God —— until that time when God sends the Bridegroom

 to get His Bride and THEN THE FINAL JUDGEMENT!!! 

There is no confusion to any that study the Holy Scriptures that no one can 

stay the hand of God and if God declares it, it will be done! 

There is no excuse, we have been given every opportunity to know God

 for He has “Revealed Himself” to us, and at the “end of the age” 

when Jesus “Returns” God will “settle accounts” — 

God has provided each with a menu, 

but we must choose what meal we will eat — 

will you eat at the table prepared by the King of Heaven and Earth 

and hear the joyful sounds of the wedding feast and 

“enter into the joy of the Lord”

 or will you choose to eat of the bitter, molded bread of selfishness 

which we must partake of as a result of providing for ourselves, 

a lonely meal which will be served in darkness 

and the only sound the unrepentant will hear will be the

 “weeping and the gnashing of teeth”!?!?!?!?!?!? 

NOVEMBER 12 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 12  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 You alone are greatly to be praised for You are the Only 

Begotten of the Father        who Obeyed the Father’s Will and was 

the Only Acceptable Sacrifice for the sin of the world. Lord Jesus,

 where would we be without You becoming the Lamb of God, yeah 

our Passover Lamb to deliver us from the bondage of slavery to sin? 

Lord, You said plainly on the Cross as You were Suffering in Agony

 for our transgressions — “IT IS FINISHED” —

 O Blessed thought that everything that needed to be done to remove

 the shackles of sin from us has been accomplished and all we have to 

do is to choose to remove our shackles of sin by using the “key” of 

Jesus Christ and letting Him remove our sin and toss it into 

the depths of the sea — removing our sin from us as far as the East

 is from the West!  Thank You Lord Jesus, forgive me my daily iniquities

 and then grant unto me the daily Bread of Life that is Your Word!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus makes it clear in the Parable of the Talents that everything

 we have in the way of “provisions” come from God but we must choose

 how to use them, either to satisfy self or to glorify

 THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD!!! 

Those that choose to use the provisions they receive from God 

for the Glory of God are rewarded BY GOD!  Jesus had just said that

 the [Master] had given to each of “his own servants” talents 

“according to [their] own ability” and then “Immediately 

the [Master] went on a journey.” (Matthew 25:14-15) 

Jesus next lists in the Parable of the Talents what each “servant” 

did with what the [Master] had given each “servant” (Matthew 25:15-18)

 and then Jesus comes to the main point of the parable:

 “After a long time the lord [the Master] of those servants came 

and settled accounts with them.” (Matthew 25:19)   This is a very 

HUGE statement by Jesus about God’s Plan of Salvation for all 

of mankind that we should stop and look at very carefully! This HUGE 

statement has been told in many other ways by Jesus therefore the

 “statement” is not new, but this “statement” made at this time 

(just before His “Last Supper”) and the fact that Jesus makes the 

“statement” and then goes into very graphic detail of the “Consequence”

 of the “Actions” we choose for ourselves relative to the “talents” 

God has given us. His “expectations” as expressed in

 God’s Law of Choice and Consequence 

clearly states the we are free to “Choose” what “Path to Take” but 

God has already established the “Consequence” or “what lies at 

the end of the Path” — therefore, our “Actions” either

 “Commend” or “Condemn” us to God the Judge. 

To be Fair and Equitable to all generations God has declared the

 “Consequences” to be Firm and Fixed for all time! Jesus states “the facts”:

 “So he who had received five talents came and brought five

 other talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look,

 I have gained five more talents besides them.’ His lord [the Master]

 said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were 

faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. 

Enter into the joy of your Lord [the Master].” (Matthew 25:20-21) 

Here is where I always stop and desire greatly to live my life according 

to these principles of the Parable of the Talents: 

>1< God gives us what is necessary to live an abundant life. 

>2< We have also been given Freewill and can choose for ourselves

 what “paths we take” and what we will do with His Gifts He has provided

 to each of us 

>3< God will require an “accounting” of our Actions 

>4< God will reward the “faithful and wise servant” and 

>5< if we prove ourselves “faithful” to God with the little things He gives us, 

then we will be made “rulers” over many things. 

>6< Faithful and Wise Servants who elect to be “His own servants” and 

which I am certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that 

“THE MASTER’S JOY” will be a GREATER JOY 

than can possibly be imagined! 

This would be a good time to reflect over these simple facts and let them

 become your HOPE as they have become mine, for I strive to be found

 “serving Him faithfully” so that WHEN HE RETURNS I will be found doing 

those things that HONOR GOD and God will Commend me and I will hear 

God [the Master] Himself say as He puts His Own Hand on my shoulder,

 “WELL DONE, 

THY GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT”!!!!!!!!!!!!