Has Jesus come to the Jews of His own day with this warning concerning the talents? This is not possible for He is speaking of His return. Will He raise them at His coming and either throw them into the darkness or entrust them with great authority?

Has Jesus come to the physical Jews who do not know Christ and warned them that if they do not use their talents they will be thrown into outer darkness? That if they use their talents wisely they will be entrusted with authority in His Kingdom? There is no basis for such an idea.

Has Jesus come to the physical Jews who know Christ and warned them that if they do not use their talents diligently they will be thrown into outer darkness? That if they use their talents diligently they will be entrusted with authority in His Kingdom, but this does not apply to Gentile Christians?

To make a division between Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians would be to do away with Paul's teaching of the one Olive Tree, the one Seed of Abraham, the one new Man.

Has Jesus come to Gentiles who know Christ but not Jews who know Christ? This is impossible for the previous reason.

The plain, simple truth that every Christian would recognize if his mind had not been poisoned with the current teaching is that Jesus Christ is warning His servants, the Christians, both Jewish and Gentile, that if they are careless and lazy with the grace He has given them, not working at it, not bearing the fruit He is looking for or reproducing that fruit in others, they will be thrown into outer darkness at the coming of the Lord.

To believe otherwise is to choose to be deluded.

The penalty for not being diligent with what God has entrusted to us is the loss of what we were given and confinement in the outer darkness. This is an exceedingly severe punishment that we would suppose would be reserved for murderers and adulterers. The fact that being careless with the things of God, as so many believers are in the United States, will bring such consequences upon us, shows us that the Gospel of the Kingdom is much stricter than is being presented.

There is too much emphasis today on God's love and mercy. The severity of God is not being stressed as a scriptural balance. The lawless grace we are preaching, the grace that does not require a new righteous creation but brings us to Heaven on the basis of a sovereign intervention of God, is pure mythology. I believe the Lord God would have the current teaching of lawless grace thrown out of the churches because it is ruining His intentions concerning man. Our current view of grace makes Jesus Christ the minister of sin! It is a horrible error!

We would have to think a long time before we could create a doctrine deadlier in effect than the current teaching of lawless grace.

To be continued.