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Sermon Details:
Pastor Tim Grieves preached this sermon on September 16, 2018.
Sermon Outline:
- Parables are stories with a point, where the people and things represent aspects of life.
- The word ‘talent’ comes from the Greek word τάλαντον which means a large sum of money. A talent was a weight of precious metal, and in terms of coins, it was worth 6,000 denarii. In today’s economy, a talent would be worth about a million dollars.
- Jesus is going to use this story to convince us of one simple principle – Don’t Bury Your Talent!
- Don’t Bury Your Talent on the foolish pretense that God is hard.
- Don’t Bury Your Talent because you’re afraid you’re not good enough.
- Don’t Bury Your Talent to punish God because you don’t think he gave you enough.
- Don’t Bury Your Talent because you lazily think working for God will cause you to miss out.
- Instead, Faithfully Steward God’s Blessings!
Scripture Passage:
Matthew 25:14-30 (ESV)
14 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money.19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’