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Matthew chapter 25 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Matthew chapter 25. Let us pray.
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  Thank you, Lord Jesus, for another day.
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  Thank you, Lord Jesus, for your holy scriptures.
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  Thank you, Lord Jesus, for life abundant.
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  Thank you, Lord Jesus, for the promise of eternity.
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  Thank you, Lord Jesus, for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
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  Thank you, Lord Jesus, for all the many blessings that you've
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  already given us. The breath in our lungs, our
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  heartbeat, God, our cognition. Thank you Lord for our families.
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  Thank you Lord for this land. Thank you God for all of
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  creation. Thank you Lord for all the
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  little hidden intricacies all around us Lord to be discovered.
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  Thank you Father for the gems and jewels inside of this word.
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  Thank you Father for the saving blood of Jesus Christ covering
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  us. Thank you Lord for the cross and
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  Calvary. Thank you, Lord, that we are
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  going to be there with you and we wait patiently.
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  Help us to run this race well and help us to finish well in
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  Jesus Christ. Holy and precious name I pray,
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  Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  Then shall the Kingdom of heaven be likened unto 10 virgins which
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  took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
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  So here in verse one, you're going to have to understand that
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  in the Jewish culture, there were three different stages of
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  marriage. And the fathers would agree on
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  the marriage and then the bride and the groom would be betrothed
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  but lived separately. And then the bride would wait
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  upon the groom and she did not know when he would come.
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  And a lot of this is likened to our waiting upon our groom.
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  We are the bride of Christ and we're waiting for Him and we
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  wait expectantly for Him and He's going to show us here how
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  we are to wait. Verse 2 And five of them were
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  wise, and five were foolish. 3 They that were foolish took
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  their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took in their
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  vessels with their lamps. That was verse 4.
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  Verse 5. While the bridegroom tarried,
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  they all slumbered and slept. So here we can see that we are
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  to keep our oil filled. We are to keep our lamps burning
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  bright. We are to trim the Wicks.
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  We are not to be the foolish virgins who took no oil with
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  them. We'll be able to finish this
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  race well if we are filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  That is the idea here. We are not to slumber and sleep.
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  We are to look expectantly and not to be taken off guard when
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  He comes back for us. Friends 6 And at midnight there
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  was a cry made. Behold, the bridegroom comes,
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  go, you out to meet him. So here this is the return of
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  Jesus Christ, and we are to go and to meet him in the air.
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  Seven Then all those virgins arose, and they trimmed their
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  lamps. 8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us your oil,
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  for our lamps are gone out. This is a picture of the
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  personal relationship that we are to have with Jesus Christ.
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  It is to make sure that we are actually indwelled with the Holy
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  Spirit. And you can be sure of it today,
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  friends, you do not have to sit and scratch your head and
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  wonder. It is a very, very simple idea
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  of acknowledging Jesus Christ as Lord.
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  It is confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord.
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  It is believing in your heart that God raised him from the
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  dead and you shall be saved. God will give you the baptism of
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  fire. God will give you the indwelling
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  of the Holy Spirit today friends, you can be sure of it.
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  And then when we have the Holy Spirit, we become the temple of
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  God and we are to burn bright. We are to be filled with the
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  Spirit, friends, we are not to just put our faith on the back
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  burner. It's not to just be a get out of
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  hell free card. There are many who have a false
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  sense of salvation and that is not fear mongering friends.
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  That is making sure that you are checking your dialogue with Him,
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  that you are checking for that still small voice that speaks.
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  Be still and know that He is God.
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  Ask Him to come and then dwell. You ask Him to make sure that
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  you have the Holy Spirit. And it is not something that we
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  should be afraid of. If we have truly started
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  following after him, if we have truly asked Him to be our Lord,
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  if we have truly acknowledged His supremacy, if we have truly
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  confessed with our mouth and believed in our heart, then we
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  can know that we know that We know that we know that when we
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  die, we're going to bust heaven wide open.
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  That we can know that we know that we know that we know that
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  the Holy Spirit does live inside of us and speaks to us.
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  And we should not sear our consciences and we should not
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  grieve the Spirit, friends. And that is part of the
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  Christian walk is making sure that your life is vibrant, that
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  your walk with him is vibrant. Friends, that is the call here
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  is to make sure that we are filled with the Holy Spirit and
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  not just put our faith on the back burner to not just think
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  that we can make it to the end and then get serious about
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  following after him. We are called today.
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  Today is the day of salvation. Friends, do not wait, do not
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  carry, do not wait another minute.
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  Make sure that you know that you know you don't have to have a
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  hope. So maybe so kind of faith you
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  can have a no so kind of faith. You can know that you know that
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  the Holy Spirit lives inside of you and that you belong to Him,
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  friends, and it is as simple as confessing with your mouth that
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  Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised him
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  from the dead. I cannot say it enough, friends.
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  Do it today. Ask God to save you and to
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  acknowledge that you're a Sinner.
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  Acknowledge that you need a Savior.
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  Acknowledge that you cannot save yourself.
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  Acknowledge that Jesus is who he says he is.
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  He's the Son of God, He is the long-awaited Messiah.
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  And he will come in and he will dine and Sup with you and make
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  sure that you know that you are marked and saved and that you
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  will be passed over in the day of judgment.
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  And these foolish virgins are trying to ask the wise ones to
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  give them their oil and it doesn't work that way.
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  Friends, we must have a personal relationship with him.
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  But the nine. But the wise answer saying not
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  so, lest there be not enough for us and you, but go you rather to
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  them that sell and buy for yourselves.
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  We can spend a lifetime talking about this one verse.
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  And what does it all mean in context to our day and our our
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  age and our friends? But I want you to know that it
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  is personal and you cannot go to other believers.
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  You're not going to get into heaven off of grandma's faith.
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  You're not going to get into heaven off of all the things
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  that your church does for the community.
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  It doesn't work that way. Friends, go for yourself, have a
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  personal relationship and get in the good book. 10 And while they
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  went to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that were ready
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  went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.
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  The door was shut, the door was shut, and it will not be
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  reopened. There is no purgatory, there is
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  no third option. There is no praying anyone out
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  of hell. It is shut and it is final.
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  When you take your last breath, that's it.
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  You have no more chances, friends. 11 Afterward came also
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  the other virgin, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
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  And this is likened to the verse.
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  There will be many who come and say, Lord, Lord, and I will say,
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  Depart from me, for I never knew you. 12 But he answered and
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  said, Truly I say unto you, I know you not. 13 Watch
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  therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour, where the
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  Son of Man comes, Never, ever go with anybody who sets a date.
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  If somebody's trying to tell you that Jesus is coming on a
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  specific date, run, flee, and hide from those people.
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  Do not go around them, for they are dangerous. 14 For the
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  Kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country,
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  who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
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  15 And unto 1 he gave 5 talents, and to another two and to
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  another one to every man according to his several ability
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  and straightway took his journey.
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  So this was a monetary value, these talents, this would have
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  been like bricks of gold or bricks of silver or bricks of
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  copper. And this was a large amount of
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  money. Even the one that he only gave
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  one talent to was still a very large amount of money.
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  And notice it's according to His ability.
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  And that is a word for us today. If you have been faithful with
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  little, you can be faithful with much.
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  And that is the idea here is that those that were given much
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  can steward much, and those that are given little can only
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  steward little. But it is still an extravagant
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  amount. Friends, what you have been
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  entrusted with in your little lifetime, this little 100 or 120
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  years that you have on this earth.
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  Yes, it might seem insignificant of the things that you could do,
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  but just remember that there are people that that only you can
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  reach, friends, and God expects for you to be telling them your
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  salvation story, sharing with them the good news of Jesus
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  Christ. We have been entrusted this
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  entirety, this authority of God's word.
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  We've been entrusted with the complete authority and we have
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  all the tools in our tool belt needed to reach the World.
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  We do not need to add or subtract anything to it,
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  Friends. 16 Then he that had received the five talents went
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  and traded with the same, and made them other 5 talents. 17
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  And likewise he that had received two, he also gained
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  other 218 But he that had received one went and dug in the
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  earth and hid his Lord's money. 19 After a long time the Lord of
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  those servants came and reckoned one with them.
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  We need to wait. Well, we do not need to be
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  afraid, and we're going to see what happens to this servant who
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  only had one. We know the other two doubled
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  their money. He wanted to reckon with them.
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  20 And so he that had received 5 talents came and brought another
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  5 talents, saying, Lord, you delivered unto me, 5 And behold,
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  I have gained beside them five more talents. 21 His Lord said
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  unto him, Well done, you good and faithful servant, you have
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  been faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many
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  things. Enter you into the joy of the
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  Lord. 22 He also came and received 2 talents, came and
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  said, Lord, you delivered unto me two talents.
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  Behold, I have gained two other talents beside them. 23 His Lord
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  said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant, you have
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  been faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many
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  things into you, into the joy of the Lord.
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  So here we can see that He was rewarding them because they
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  doubled their money, and they were faithful what he had
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  entrusted to them, and he knew they could steward it well. 24
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  And then he which had received the one talent came and said,
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  Lord, I knew you, You are a hard man, reaping where you have not
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  sown, in gathering where you have not strawled. 25 And I was
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  afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the earth.
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  Lo, there you have that is yours. 26 His Lord answered and
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  said unto him, You wicked and slothful servant, you know that
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  I reap where I have not sown, and gathered where I have not
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  strawed. You ought therefore to have put
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  my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have
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  received my own with usury. 28 Take therefore the talent from
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  him, and give it unto him which has 10 talents.
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  For unto everyone that has shall be given, and he that shall have
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  abundance, but from him that has shall not be taken away, even
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  that which he has. 30 and casts you, the unprofitable servant,
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  into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of
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  teeth. So this servant, he did not even
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  know the Lord. He did not even think there was
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  no. There was no pity upon him, He
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  had no regret. He just thought that by hiding
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  it that he was going to be commended.
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  But the Master came, and the Master showed that with a little
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  bit of time that we have, He wants us to steward it well.
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  Our time, treasure, and talents is important in our little
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  lifetime, Friends. 31 And when the Son of Man shall come in His
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  glory, and all the holy angels with him, they then shall He sit
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  upon the throne of His glory. 32 And before Him shall be gathered
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  all nations, and he shall separate them one from another,
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  as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And he shall
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  set the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left. 34
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  And then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come,
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  you blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for
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  you from the foundation of the world.
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  So this is not the great white throne.
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  This is the judgment of the nations before the thousand year
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  reign. And you can see King Jesus after
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  the Tribulation, King Jesus after Armageddon, He's amassing
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  all the people and he is putting some of them into banishment and
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  into hell, and the other ones he's welcoming into eternity,
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  into the thousand year reign. And So what is he going to say?
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  35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat.
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  I was thirsty and you gave me drink.
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  I was a stranger and you took me in.
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  He's talking about the Jews here.
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  He's talking about during the Tribulation and how there will
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  be Gentiles who treated them with these same respects.
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  They were thirsty, and they gave them something to drink.
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  Drink 36 Naked. And you clothed me, and I was
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  sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came
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  unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying,
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  Lord, when do we see you hungry, and feed you, or thirsty and
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  give you drink? 38 When saw we you a stranger,
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  and took you in, or naked and clothed you?
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  39 Or when do we see you sick, or in prison came unto you?
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  40 And the King shall answer, and say unto them, Truly I say
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  unto you, In as much as you have done it unto one of the least of
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  these, my brothers, you have done it unto me.
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  So he's talking about his brethren.
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  He's talking about the Jews here, friends during the
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  tribulation. 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left
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  hand, depart from me you cursed into everlasting fire, prepared
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  for the devil and his angels. Just remember that we send
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  ourselves there. He does not send us there.
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  They had the opportunity to help out, and they had the
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  opportunity to show love, but they did not. 42 For I was
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  hungry, and you gave me no meat. I was thirsty, and you gave me
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  no drink. I was a stranger, and you took
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  me not in naked, and you clothed me not sick and in prison, and
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  you did not visit me. 44 Then shall they also answer him,
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  saying, Lord, when do we see you hungry and thirsty, and
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  stranger, and naked and sick and in prison, and did not minister
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  unto you? 45 Then shall he answer them,
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  saying, Truly I say unto you, inasmuch as you did it not, not
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  to one of the least of these, you did it not to me, we'll end
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  on 46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but
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  the righteous end to eternal life.
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  So here we're getting to see all of these events, this
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  eschatology being laid out for us to try and understand.
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  And there is a lot of debate, and we could debate it till the
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  cows come home. And you need to know that Jesus
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  meant what he said and he said what he meant.
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  And as time goes on, all of these things will become clearer
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  and clearer and clearer. And there are many prophets who
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  had wished to see the days that we're in today.
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  We're actually got to see Israel regathered as a nation.
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  We've actually got to see so many markers along the way.
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  But what we need to know more than anything is that we need to
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  be found faithful to the end. We need to be found doing the
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  Lord's work and ready for him. Is the entire point of this
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  entire chapter is be ready for the Lord at all times, never
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  letting your guard down. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this chapter. I know I sure have.
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  Praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow.