10-05: Let’s Do Good :: Time
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Thank you for joining us for worship today! We begin a new series this morning called Let's Do Good where we take a deeper dive on Galatians 6:10 and how we can use our TIME, TREASURE, TALENT, and TALK to do good in our communities. This week we discuss TIME as we study Luke 19:11-27.
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Luke 19:11-27
The Parable of the Ten Minas
[11] While the people were listening to this, Jesus proceeded to tell them a parable, because He was near Jerusalem and they thought the kingdom of God would appear imminently. [12] So He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to lay claim to his kingship and then return. [13] Beforehand, he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas. ‘Conduct business with this until I return,’ he said.
[14] But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
[15] When he returned from procuring his kingship, he summoned the servants to whom he had given the money, to find out what each one had earned.
[16] The first servant came forward and said, ‘Master, your mina has produced ten more minas.’
[17] His master replied, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you shall have authority over ten cities.’
[18] The second servant came and said, ‘Master, your mina has made five minas.’
[19] And to this one he said, ‘You shall have authority over five cities.’
[20] Then another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece of cloth. [21] For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’
[22] His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow? [23] Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?’
[24] Then he told those standing by, ‘Take the mina from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’
[25] ‘Master,’ they said, ‘he already has ten!’
[26] He replied, ‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more; but the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. [27] And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
Notes:
*Notes are slides used on Sunday morning made available for your personal notes and study.
Slide 1
How would you grade what you have done with your time up to this point?
Slide 2
What would October need to look like for you to say you used your time well?
Slide 3
Luke 19:11-27
Slide 4
"He was convicted for a gross dereliction of duty"
Alison A. Trites Cornerstone Biblical Commentary
Slide 5
- Servant one turns $10,000 into $100,000
- Servant two turns $10,000 into $50,000
- Servant three turns $10,000 into $117.04
Slide 6
13 But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. 15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’ (Matthew 20:13-15)
Slide 7
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? (Matthew 20:15)
Slide 8
If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me! (John 21:22)
Slide 9
What are you doing with what you have been given int he time you have been given?
