Liberty Advocate http://www.libertyadvocate.com
February 2025
My dear friend,
Many professing Evangelicals are communists - and don't know it.
Homeless "ministries" are not Biblical charity.
Homeless ministries are communist redistribution of wealth.
The Parable of the Talents makes it very clear that Jesus was not a communist. He does not distribute talents of money or spiritual gifts equally.
Matthew 25:14-30 records Jesus’ telling of the Parable of the Talents…
In sum, a master gives talents to his servants before leaving on a journey. The servants are given different amounts of talents: one is given five talents, another two talents, and the other one talent. All are told to use them to the best of their abilities. He that received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made five other talents. And likewise he that received two, he also gained other two. But he that received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money. The master returns home to find that the first and second servants have used their talents to increase the value of the property. The third servant buried his talent and did not use it. The master punishes the third servant by taking away his talent and giving it to the servant who used it well.
First, let’s briefly discuss the spiritual meaning of the parable.
Matthew Henry explains:
Christ keeps no servants to be idle: they have received their all from him, and have nothing they can call their own but sin. Our receiving from Christ is in order to our working for him. The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. The day of account comes at last. We must all be reckoned with as to what good we have got to our own souls, and have done to others, by the advantages we have enjoyed. It is not meant that the improving of natural powers can entitle a man to Divine grace. It is the real Christian's liberty and privilege to be employed as his Redeemer's servant, in promoting his glory, and the good of his people: the love of Christ constrains him to live no longer to himself, but to Him, that died for him and rose again. Those who think it impossible to please God, and in vain to serve him, will do nothing to purpose in religion. They complain that He requires of them more than they are capable of, and punishes them for what they cannot help. Whatever they may pretend, the fact is, they dislike the character and work of the Lord. The slothful servant is sentenced to be deprived of his talent. ~ Excerpt from Matthew Henry Commentary
29 For 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. 30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Jesus does not excuse or reward the lazy.
And neither should we.
Grace and peace,
Karen Pansler Lam. J.D.
Liberty Advocate
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