Luke 19:11-28 - Responsibility while Waiting for the King
11 Now as they heard these things, He spoke another parable, because He was near Jerusalem and because they thought the kingdom of God would appear immediately.
12 Therefore He said: “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.
13 “So he called ten of his servants, delivered to them ten minas,[fn] and said to them, ‘Do business till I come.’
14 “But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’
15 “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.
16 “Then came the first, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned ten minas.’
17 “And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant; because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.’
18 “And the second came, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned five minas.’
19 “Likewise he said to him, ‘You also be over five cities.’
20 “Then another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have kept put away in a handkerchief.
21 ‘For I feared you, because you are an austere man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’
22 “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.
23 ‘Why then did you not put my money in the bank, that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’
24 “And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to him who has ten minas.’
Main Topics/Questions
Please consider the following topics/questions as you listen to the sermon:1. Despite Jesus clearly telling his disciples what would happen, what did they expect to happen?
2. What does Jesus tell us in Matthew 24:14? How does that relate nations or people groups? What are some misconceptions about the end times?
3. What are the differences between the Parable of the Minas in Luke 19:12-27 and the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25:14-30?
4. How did the Herod family come to have control over Jewish lands when those lands were under the authority of the Roman Empire? What does that have to do with the text? How does that compare to what Jesus will be doing?
5. What hope does Jesus give us? What should we do in the meantime?
6. The Bible teaches that every person in the world is a slave. Who are you a slave to?
7. What does “Do business till I come.” mean for us?
8. Why do some people not receive this gospel as good news?
9. What happened after the death of Herod? How did Jesus apply Archelaus’ situation to His own? How does that relate to what is going on today?
10. What are the lessons to be learned from the Parable of the Talents and the Parable of the Minas?
11. How is the person who hid what he was given like people who refuse to believe in Jesus?
12. How can we apply these lessons to our lives today?
Conclusion:
In Genesis 18:25 (NRSV) Abraham asks, “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” The answer is, “Yes!” The love of God and the justice of God are not compartmentalized. All the attributes of God work together. And when a person spends their whole life in rebellion against God, despite God proving His existence through nature and showing His saving grace through the Scriptures then God has no other choice. Unrepentant sin against an eternal God justly deserves eternal punishment. And we know that the love of God and the justice of God both work together because the cross is picture of both. After Jesus says these things, Luke 19:28 says Jesus went on ahead going up from the valley of Jericho to the mountains of Jerusalem. And Jesus goes to Jerusalem in order to go to the cross. And when Jesus goes to the cross He does so both because of His love and His justice.
The cross demonstrates Christ’s love because it was His love for you that compelled Christ to go there. Yet the cross also demonstrates Christ’s justice because by dying on the cross Jesus takes the punishment for your sins upon Himself. God’s love and God’s justice are not separate from each other. Instead they are united in the cross. So what is your response to Christ? Will you be about the business of discipleship until He comes or will you be destroyed in your ungrateful laziness? The decision is yours.
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