| E-MAIL SERVICE | Sign me up to receive the daily Word of Righteousness free via my E-mail address! ( ONLY AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH ) | |
| ARCHIVES | I want to check out the daily Words of Righteousness for any of the last fourteen days or from previous weeks. ( ENGLISH ONLY ) | |
| FEEDBACK | I have a question or comment about today's Word of Righteousness. ( ENGLISH AND SPANISH ONLY ) | |
| BOOK LIST | I would like to see the complete book list of the Words of Righteousness author Robert B. Thompson. (SOME SPANISH TITLES AVAILABLE ) |
The Daily Word of Righteousness
A Destructive Concept of Divine Grace, continued
His master replied, "You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so when I returned I would have received it back with interest. Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Matthew 25:26-30—NIV)
Now, whom are we talking about?
We are talking about the Lord's servants to whom He has given talents. We are not referring to physical Jews who do not know Jesus or the unsaved.
What are talents? Talents are whatever the Lord has given you: the body and blood of Jesus, the Holy Spirit, justification by faith, the gifts and ministries of the Holy Spirit.
To one man the Master gave five thousand dollars. To another man two thousand dollars. To another man one thousand dollars.
When we look around us we can see that Christians vary greatly in the amount of spiritual understanding and ability given to them. Isn't it so?
Then the Master returned.
The man who was given five thousand dollars produced ten thousand dollars. The Master congratulated him and put him in charge of many things.
The man who was given two thousand dollars produced four thousand dollars.
The Master congratulated him and put him in charge of many things.
The man who was given one thousand dollars dug a hole and hid his thousand dollars in the ground.
The Master called him wicked and lazy, took his thousand dollars and gave it to the man with ten thousand, and drove him into the darkness.
Today's teachers say this could not apply to Christians because they are saved by grace and could never be put in the outer darkness. "Oh no, they are going to be raptured, hear nothing negative at the Judgment Seat of Christ, and then rule the nations with a rod of iron (after they sit in their mansion wearing their golden slippers and admire their back yard full of diamonds)." The doctrines taught today would be funny if they weren't so appallingly disastrous!
What we are preaching today is sheer mythology. Furthermore we are contravening the Words of Jesus Christ with our ear-tickling traditions.
The people under discussion, in the parable of the talents, belong to one of six groups.
They are unbelievers.
They are the Jews living at the time of Christ.
They are physical Jews who do not know Christ.
They are physical Jews who know Christ but Gentile Christians are not included.
They are Gentiles who know Christ but Jewish Christians are not included.
They are Christians whether Jewish or Gentile by race.
Has Jesus come to the unbelievers and warned them that if they do not use the talents they have they will be thrown into outer darkness? That if they use their talents wisely they will be entrusted with authority in His Kingdom? This is ridiculous and against everything we believe.
To be continued.