THE UNPROFITABLE SERVANT: A BAD ENDING
There is an alarming warning in the scriptures that we should take heed. It is the parable of the servants in Matthew 25 and their end results to their choices. two of the servants took the gifts from God and lived for the Master while the other did nothing. Look at the passage of the unprofitable servant. Matthew 25:24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
25And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
26His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
27Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
28Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
29For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
30And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Notice it said He knew the Master was a hard man. This tells us he actually never knew him. The Master is a loving man who freely gave them the gifts. The man merely saw the Lord as a judge. He was lost. It even says he hid the gift. In scripture in other places this is a fruit of shame. When we are ashamed of something we hide it so that we cant present it to others. Jesus said we cant deny him to men or he will deny us. This was another indication of his lost condition.
The final statement was his outcome. The unprofittable servant was sent to hell for is lack of faith that would have produced his salvation which would have done Gods will in him. The Holy Spirit was absent in this mans life. He never accepted the Lord for who he was; His Savior.
25And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
26His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
27Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
28Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
29For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
30And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Notice it said He knew the Master was a hard man. This tells us he actually never knew him. The Master is a loving man who freely gave them the gifts. The man merely saw the Lord as a judge. He was lost. It even says he hid the gift. In scripture in other places this is a fruit of shame. When we are ashamed of something we hide it so that we cant present it to others. Jesus said we cant deny him to men or he will deny us. This was another indication of his lost condition.
The final statement was his outcome. The unprofittable servant was sent to hell for is lack of faith that would have produced his salvation which would have done Gods will in him. The Holy Spirit was absent in this mans life. He never accepted the Lord for who he was; His Savior.
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