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INVESTMENT
ADVICE
Luke 19:11-27
A Wise Investor Knows to Whom
His Possessions Belong.
While they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell
a parable, because He was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that
the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately. So He said,
"A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for
himself, and then return. And he called ten of his slaves, and
gave them ten minas and said to them, 'Do business with this
until I come back.' But his citizens hated him and sent a
delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to reign
over us.'
A Wise Investor Cares More about Future Rewards than Instant
Gratification.
"When he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that
these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him
so that he might know what business they had done.
A Wise Investor Looks at Possessions as Tools Rather Than as
Treasures.
The first appeared, saying, 'Master, your mina has made ten
minas more.' And he said to him, 'Well done, good slave, because
you have been faithful in a very little thing, you are to be in
authority over ten cities.' The second came, saying, 'Your mina,
master, has made five minas.' And he said to him also, 'And you
are to be over five cities.' Another came, saying, 'Master, here
is your mina, which I kept put away in a handkerchief; for I was
afraid of you, because you are an exacting man; you take up what
you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.' He said to
him, 'By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave.
Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not
lay down and reaping what I did not sow? Then why did you not
put my money in the bank, and having come, I would have
collected it with interest?' Then he said to the bystanders,
'Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the
ten minas.' And they said to him, 'Master, he has ten minas
already.' I tell you that to everyone who has, more shall be
given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does
have shall be taken away. But these enemies of mine, who did not
want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my
presence." |
