A Master's Money

Listen from:
Matthew 25:14-46
The Lord Jesus told a parable of a man who went away to a far country. Before he started, he gave money, called “talents,” to each of his servants with which to trade and earn more talents. To one he gave five talents, to another two talents, to another one talent.
“A talent” was a certain weight of metal of great value. So even the servant entrusted with one talent had a large amount to use. The master did not say how much they were to gain, hut it was the duty of the servants to use as well as they could.
The man was gone a long time, and when he returned, the servant to whom he had entrusted the five talents, had gained five more, and the servant to whom he had entrusted the two talents, had gained two more. But the servant entrusted with one talent, had not used the money at all; he had dug a hole in the ground and buried it, until the maer’s return. He said he did that bause he knew the master was a hard, unjust man; which was not true.
The master was well pleased with the gain of the first two servants, and said to each of them, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things, enter thou into the joy of thy lord (master).”
But the last servant he called, “wicked and slothful” (one who will not work); in all the time of his master’s absence he had done nothing.
The parable has a lesson hidden in the story: in this one, Jesus is “the master” to go to ‘“the far country,” Heaven.
Before He left He told the disciples to teach others what He had taught them (Matt. 28:19,20). He had taught them the words or truths of God, and those are “the talents” of great value, which He gives His sernts to use for Him in His absence, and which will gain “treasure” for Him.
The Lord Jesus is a good Master, not “hard” or “unjust,” as the wicked servant said. He will fully reward the faithful servants, whether they have done little or much. And more than rewards, He will have them share His joy!
Verses 31-46 tell of a time after the Lord Jesus has taken away from this earth, all who are His own, as we read in the first 13 verses in our chapter. Soon after that time, He will come in all His glory, and sit upon the throne of His glory, to judge all His enemies, —all who have not accepted Him in this time, as their Lord and Saviour. And He will judge all nations.
There will he some living then who have not heard of Him, and His work of salvation for lost sinners, as it is now preached, who will believe the message given out by His “brethren”, the faithful Jews, that the Lord is cong as Lord of lords, and King of kings, to reign in peace for 1,000 years. They will believe this message, and will be saved.
Then, and then only will this poor world have peace. The Lord Jesus is the “Prince of Peace.”
ML 10/17/1943