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To: count-your-change
I'm just giving you the passage. I'd actually like your input on it since I'm teaching this parable on Sunday :)

I start preparing for it tonight.

125 posted on 05/03/2013 1:43:24 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce
The parable is clearly about the kingdom and Jesus exercising power as its King. (vs 11).

But Jesus points out that he (the man of noble birth) would not immediately be exerting power as king. So he leaves his minas or spiritual interests in the hands of his slaves (disciples), upon return as king Jesus settles accounts, his disciples were to use what they had been taught, the good news, to make more disciples in proportion to what they had received. To those who failed to use what they had their mina would be taken away from them and given to the productive disciples.

As Jesus said to that Jewish nation that had had the kingdom in their future, he took it away from them and gave it to a nation producing it's fruit. That stood as a warning. Produce the the fruitage of the kingdom or lose it.

Jesus would send his disciples out make more disciple, to teach “this good news of the kingdom”.

But the message had to be his message, not whatever they chose. Those who tried to decide what their ministry was to be whether powerful works done in his name or expelling demons, Jesus called them lawless, they weren't following him. “I never knew you”. And then there were the poisonous weeds of Matt. 13.

Jesus doesn't tell the slaves with the minas to slaughter his enemies but says that to “those standing by”. Who might that be?

Matt. 13:30, 39. The reapers, angels charged with the harvest, no executional role assigned to his disciples, not even doing the harvesting.

That's some of my input for what it's worth.

126 posted on 05/03/2013 2:52:21 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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