Day 312 (Matthew 25) - Year 6
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As jesus gets closer and closer to his death, he takes the time to coaches, followers on what that means to wait. Well, because they in the rest of the church will be waiting for his return for quite some time. We still are, in fact, when we're waiting for something that process can produce a lot of different emotions in us, maybe you grow especially impatient and frustrated IT.

That usually happens when you're really excited about what you're waiting for. On the other hand, if you're not looking forward to IT, maybe you're filled with dread or maybe you forget all together, that is going to happen. Jesus knows humanity and he knows that we're more likely to treat his return like the thing.

Were not super excited about. First of all, we don't have any concept of what we're entering into. So it's more common to be scared of something like that because IT feels like a bit of an unknown.

Second, it's easier to want things we are familiar with, like kids and husband's and vacations to rosia. And those things take up our mental and emotional energy. Instead, in today's reading, jesus encourages us to wait well, and he tells us why that's important.

He starts out with the parable of the ten virgins, which is they call to steward our time wisely while we wait. They all have laughs, but only half of them get oil. They just don't think about the future.

They live in the moment IT slip their minds that there was anything they might need prepare for. This reminds me of what jesus has been saying so frequently for the past few days. Stay awake.

Don't be loved to sleep by the world in its priorities, especially early on in Christian ny. There were people who even took this literally. They would stay awake through the night watching for his return. But as with a lots of things jesus says, this seems to be more of a spiritual command.

Don't zone out and just be Carried along, whether world in its culture, especially because god and his kingdom often run contrary to those things, by the way, in scripture, oil often represents the holy spirit. So if we wanna go oil this parable down to one clear point, IT. Would be this the only way to be prepared for the return of Christ, our bride, groom m, is to have the holy spirit.

At this point in the story, the holy spirit hasn't started to dwel inside believer shit that will happen after jesus's resurrects in a sense of heaven. So jesus is preparing them to understand that Better when that happens, since he won't be there physically to explain IT. Then he continues his dissertation on waiting with the parable of the talents, which is a call to steward our gifts wisely while we wait.

Jesus talks about a master who gives his servants talents to use while he's away. One thing that can be confusing here is that we think of talents as our natural gifts and abilities. But the word talent here is a financial term.

IT was roughly fifteen to twenty years wages. So one talent would be about three hundred and four, four hundred thousand dollars. First fifteen helps clara fy.

This for us. IT says he gave them specific amounts of talents based on their abilities. So the talents are in the abilities. There are the funds given, based on how the servants were already gifted. Two servants invest them any well, but servant member three has a different approach.

He doesn't trust the major's heart and actions and mistrust almost always leads to fear and hiding, which is exactly what serve at number three does with the money he buried IT. Not only does he miss out on the master's joy, but when the master gives his talents to the others, he loses the very thing he was trying to protect. Service number three accuses the master of being a hard and unfair man, but that's not what we see in the text.

Quite the opposite. In fact, the master invites his servants into his joy. When you're trying to serve a god you don't know or trust, you will miss interpret his motives and miss out on his joy.

Ultimately, we are responsible for how we use the time and money and gifts god has interested this with. The more we have, the more we are responsible for, and the more we trust our father's heart, the more we will use what he's given us in ways that both please him and blest us. Jesus talks about this will need impact.

Some of the details about the final judgment, he says the flocks will be brought before guard, and he'll separate the sheep from the goats. The sheep, or guys, kids, and the goats are those who aren't. The sheep go on the right, and the goats go on the left.

By the way, the same hydron ra group of jewish rulers who were sort of like america's supreme court, for lack of a Better example. And i've heard when they presided over a case, there was a scribe you said on the right and describe, you said on the left, the scrap on the left would write convictions and punishments, and the scrap on the right would write acquittals in blessings. The side of favor is always the right side.

I know those of you who are left handed probably hate them with this stuff. I'm sorry, I can't change the story for you. All I can say is god loves you and made you just the way you are.

And some of my favorite people are left tended. The goats go to the eternal fire prepared for the forces of darkness, including seating in his Angels. It's the whole thing about saying having Angels is a new idea to you.

Here is a bit of input that might help. Angels are a type of being god created to be his messengers and assistance in the spirit realm. But just like mankind fail, some of the Angels fell as well.

At least a third of end of that third, the highest drinking Angel was named a user. hr. We generally refer to him as site, but that's more of a title than a name that means accuser.

So the lead accuser and his fAllen Angels will be punished in eternal fire. Despite what you may see in the movies, certain doesn't rule over hell. He's being punni shed there, just like the goats.

And as for the sheep, we go into the kingdom of eternal life with god. Universe thirty four. Jesus gives us a really beautiful picture.

He says, come, you who are blessed by my father, inherited the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. what? Oh, man, this is definitely my god shot for today.

How beautiful is that invitation? And he's been preparing IT for so long. This invitation reminds me of the master inviting his servants into his joy.

Those who trusted the master's heart got IT. They stood at their time and money and gifts well, and jesus says the same of the servants of god. They've shared with the poor and hungry.

They visited this sick and imprisons the servants of the master in the parable and the servants of god are both working for their masters benefit, but the master gives them his blessings. As a result, the blessings of god or one's, our father has been preparing for us for a long time. I don't know if for how it's possible for a god who wait, given that he's outside of time, but in whatever since that's possible, god seems eager to share his blessings with us. Count me in. He's where the joy is.

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