The reason it is one
of my favorites is that it addresses a couple of my hot button issues. The first issue being those who think Jesus
is a Socialist. Jesus says "do business
till I come". That is an awfully
funny thing for a socialist to say. In
addition you don't see Jesus condemning those who do business well do you? In fact he goes on to castigate the one who
doesn't use his God given talents to the fullest.
The second thing I
like is that the last sentence once again puts to rest the idea of Kumbaya
Jesus.
Luke 19:12-27(NKJV)
Therefore He
said: “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a
kingdom and to return.
So he called ten of
his servants, delivered to them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business till I come.’
But his citizens
hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We will not have
this man to reign over us.’
“And so it was that
when he returned, having received the kingdom, he then commanded these
servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might
know how much every man had gained by trading.
Then came the first,
saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned ten minas.’
And he said to him,
‘Well done, good servant; because
you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.’
And the second came,
saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned five minas.’
Likewise he said to
him, ‘You also be over five cities.’
“Then another came,
saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have kept put away in a
handkerchief.
For I feared you,
because you are an austere man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap
what you did not sow.’
And he said to him,
‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you
wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man, collecting what I did not
deposit and reaping what I did not sow.
Why then did you not
put my money in the bank, that at my coming I might have collected it with
interest?’
“And he said to those who stood
by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to him who has ten minas.’
(But they said to him, ‘Master,
he has ten minas.’)
‘For I say to you, that to
everyone who has will be given; and from him who does not have, even what he
has will be taken away from him.
But bring here those enemies of
mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.’”
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