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A Gift Given for His Business

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A Gift Given for His Business
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  • Luke 19:11-27
    • He will Return to Obtain His Kingdom
      • 11 Now as they were listening to these things, He proceeded to tell a parable, because He was approaching Jerusalem and because they thought that the kingdom of God was going to be brought to light and shown forth immediately.
      • 12 He therefore said, A certain nobleman went into a distant country to obtain for himself a kingdom and then to return.
      • 13 Calling ten of his (own) bond servants, he gave them ten minas (each equal to about one hundred days' wages or nearly twenty dollars) and said to them, Buy and sell (do business) with these while I go and then return.
      • 14 But his citizens detested him and sent an embassy after him to say, We do not want this man to become ruler over us.
    • Let us be Faithful
      • 15 When he returned after having received the kingdom, he ordered these bond servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know how much each one had made by buying and selling (doing business).
      • 16 The first one came before him, and he said, Lord, your mina has made ten (additional) minas.
      • 17 And he said to him, Well done, excellent bond servant! Because you have been faithful and trustworthy in a very little (thing), you shall have authority over ten cities.
    • Let us not be Wicked, Let us not be Fruitless
      • 20 Then another came and said, Lord, here is your mina, which I have kept laid up in a handkerchief.
      • 21 For I was (constantly) afraid of you, because you are a stern (hard, severe) man; you pick up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.
    • Let us Believe, Let us not be enemies
      • 24 And he said to the bystanders, Take the mina away from him and give it to him who has the ten minas.
      • 25 And they said to him, Lord, he has ten minas (already)!
      • 26 And (said Jesus,) I tell you that to everyone who gets and has will more be given, but from the man who does not get and does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
      • 27 (The indignant king ended by saying) But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them--bring them here and slaughter them in my presence!
    • In Spirit we can do His Business: We share this gift of the Spirit
      • 1 Corinthians 12:7 - But to each one is given the manifestation of the (Holy) Spirit (the evidence, the spiritual illumination of the Spirit) for good and profit.
      • 1 Peter 4:10 - As each of you has received a gift, employ it for one another as (befits) good trustees of God's many-sided grace (faithful stewards of the extremely diverse powers and gifts granted to Christians by unmerited favor).
    • Ephesians 2:8-10
      • 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not of yourselves; it is the gift of God;
      • 9 Not of works that no one should boast.
      • 10 For we are His masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand in order that we would walk in them.
  • How do we do it?
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