THE PARABLE OF THE POUNDS.....
IT IS FOUND IN LUKE 19.
A NOBLEMAN GOES INTO A FAR COUNTRY, GIVES HIS SERVANTS A POUND EACH; HIS CITIZENS HATED HIM, AND SEND A MESSAGE TELLING HIM THEY WILL NOT HAVE HIM REIGN OVER THEM.
WHEN HE RETURNS HE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT HIS SERVANTS DID WITH THE POUND HE GAVE THEM.
ONE INCREASES 10 FOLD, ANOTHER 5 FOLD ANOTHER 2 FOLD....THEY DID SOMETHING WITH WHAT HE HAD GIVEN THEM.
ONE CAME AND SAID HE JUST KEPT IT SAFE THOUGH KNOWING HIS LORD WOULD REQUIRE MORE THAN WHAT WAS GIVEN HIM. HE HAD HIS POUND TAKEN AWAY.......
"FOR I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT UNTO EVERY ONE WHICH HAS SHALL BE GIVEN; AND FROM HIM THAT HAS NOT, EVEN THAT WHICH HE HAS SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM" (verse 26).
APPLYING THIS PARABLE TO "CHRISTIAN SERVANTS" IT IS CLEAR THAT GOD EXPECTS US TO MOVE FORWARD, AT LEAST SOME.....IT IS "GROW IN GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST" (2 Peter 3:18).
PAUL PULLED NO PUNCHED IN WRITING TO THE HEBREWS - HEBREWS 1: 11-14......HE OBVIOUSLY EXPECTED THEM TO MOVE FORWARD FROM "MILK" TO "MEAT" IN GOD'S WORD AND LIFE.
FROM THE TIME WE ACCEPT SALVATION WE MUST MOVE FORWARD!
YES OUR REWARD IS ACCORDING TO OUR WORKS; THE RESPONSIBILITY WE ARE GIVEN IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD, IS ACCORDING TO OUR WORKS. THE ONE WHO DID NOTHING.....WELL I DO NOT WANT TO SAY HE WILL NOT BE IN THE KINGDOM, BUT HE MAY JUST BE A DOOR-KEEPER; AND OKAY DAVID SAID HE'D RATHER BE A DOOR KEEPER IN THE KINGDOM THAN THE HIGHEST POSITION OF KINGS OF THIS EARTH.
BUT THE IMPORTANT THING TO NOTICE IS VERSE 27!
"BUT THOSE MINE ENEMIES, WHICH WOULD NOT THAT I SHOULD REIGN OVER THEM, BRING THEM HITHER AND SLAY THEM BEFORE ME!"
YOU DO NOT GET INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD, IF CHRIST IS NOT BOTH YOUR LORD SAVIOR AND MASTER.
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT A CONDITION TO INHERITING THE KINGDOM OF GOD, IS THAT YOU MUST BE WILLING TO OBEY GOD!
JESUS SAID MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD OF GOD [MAT. 4:4].
SO IT MEANS YOU READ AND STUDY IT; YOU MOVE FROM THE MILK OF THE WORD TO THE MEAT OF THE WORD.....YOU GROW IN GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST!
THEY ONLY WAY YOU CAN HAVE JESUS REIGN OVER YOU, IS TO KNOW WHAT HE TAUGHT.!
AND IT IS WRITTEN, "TO HIM WHO KNOWS TO DO GOOD AND DOES IT NOT, TO HIM IT IS SIN."
ALL THIS MEANS THAT YOU MUST BE IN A REPENTANT HUMBLE ATTITUDE OF MIND; YOU MUST BE WILLING TO BE CORRECTED; YOU MUST LOVE THE TRUTH; YOU MUST LET GOD TEACH AND GUIDE YOU IN HOW HE WANTS YOU TO LIVE.....IT IS INDEED HAVING THE ATTITUDE OF MIND AS TAUGHT IN ISAIAH 66:2.
SO BE IT, LIVE BY IT.....THE KINGDOM IS THEN YOURS!
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