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This is a study that left me in tears. I will offer it to you for consideration.
Luke 12:48
Peter asked him, Lord, are you addressing this parable to us or to all alike?
The Lord answered, Who then is the faithful and sensible manager, whom the master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their food allowance at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master at his coming will find so doing. Truly I tell you, he will set him over all his possessions.
But if that servant shall say in his heart, My master is taking his time in coming, and shall begin to beat up the men and the women servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that servant shall arrive on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not figure on, and shall cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unfaithful.
And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act in accordance with that will shall receive many blows of the lash. But he who did not know and did things that call for a beating shall receive few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, all the more will be demanded.
“From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked” (Luke 12:48). This statement of Jesus has become somewhat of an idiom in Western culture and is found, paraphrased, in Uncle Ben’s words of wisdom to Peter Parker in Spider-man: “With great power comes great responsibility.”
The idea of “to whom much is given, much will be required” is that we are held responsible for what we have. If we are blessed with talents, wealth, knowledge, time, and the like, it is expected that we use these well to glorify God and benefit others. Jesus is the Master that is going away, we are the servants that are to be true to Him and Look for His return.
I want to discuss some of what this passage means to us in the “Body of Christ”
We will start with where do these things given come from?
Then look at, How did we get them?
And finally we will look at, Just how much were we given to use for Our Lord? And the responsibility that goes with what we were given.
They came from GOD!
God is "Self-existent". All that is in existence beyond the point of God's Self-existent Person is from and in God. God inhabits Eternity (all of time), which is from His self-existence. God does not live moment by moment, day by day in eternity, God inhabits Eternity, IN PRESENT TENSE, All of Eternity and every second of time before Him NOW!
All the Majestic Glory of the HOLY GOD exist in His self-existent Person.
All Knowledge exist in eternity before Him thus He knows all.
All eternity is before Him thus He is present to all, all the time.
All Power, Majesty, and Glory are from His self-existence thus He is all powerful.
This is the God from whom we get all that is for us in Christ. All we are, all we have, comes from God, and His Grace in us.
God has given us MUCH, let’s look at just what that is.
In the passage Luke 12, Our Lord’s Galilean ministry was drawing-rapidly to a close. The time was near when He would go to Jerusalem to die. In view of this and His promised return He urged upon His disciples the importance of loyalty when He should no longer be present with them in person. He was going on to Calvary-there to make an atonement for sin. And in God’s due time He will return, not as He came before as a little Babe, as a lowly Man to be despised-but as King of kings and Lord of lords, to whom every knee shall bow. We read in the Revelation, “Behold, He cometh with clouds: and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindred of the earth shall wail because of Him.” H. Ironsides
The Son of man returns clothed with power and majesty and with awe and terror. Royalty’s robe to his feet; that golden belt buckled at the breast; that hair so glistening white like the purest snow on which the sun is shining it hurts the eye; those eyes of flashing fire, eyes which read every heart and penetrate every hidden corner; those feet of burning metal glowing in order to trample down the wicked and stand firm in Holiness; that loud, reverberating voice, like the mighty thunder of Niagara falls in all it power; The word of His mouth a sharp, great-sword with two biting edges of Truth; that entire appearance “as the sun shines in its power,” too intense for human eyes to stare at—the picture taken as a whole, is a symbol of Christ, the Holy One, coming to purge His world.
The Good Master has gone away, the suffering servant that came as a man will return in Power beyond what we understand, The question is will HE find us watching for HIM? Will we be ready?
From everyone who has been given much, much will be required,
When He comes what will we have done with what he has given us?
1. Grace, Jesus work on earth and the BLOOD of Calvary.
Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
2. Holy Spirit indwelling believers. We have in Christ the indwelling Power of the Living God.
1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Romans 8:9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
2 Corinthians 6:16 Ezekiel 36:27 2 Timothy 1:14 Acts 6:5 Ephesians 5:18 Romans 8:11 John 16:13 1 John 2:27 John 14:17
3. We are Priest of the Most High GOD.
A royal priest hood to make sacrifices and offerings to HIM.
1Pe 2:9 But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellences of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
4. We are New Creatures.
Old things and sins passed away and remembered no more, all things are made new in Christ.
2Co_5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Psa 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
There are several passages in the Bible that indicate that God forgivesand forgets our sin. Isaiah 43:25says, “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more. ”Hebrews 10explains how Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross for sin was a once-and-for-all sacrifice. Unlike the sacrificial system of the Old Testament, in which sacrifices were continually made for sin, Jesus paid for sin once. His payment was complete. Hebrews 10:14–18says, “For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
5. Adopted into the family of God.
Romans 8:15For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!
Galatians 4:6 Rom_8:23 Rom_9:4 Gal_4:5 Eph_1:5
6. Heirs of God, joint heirs with Jesus.
Rom 8:17 and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.
7. We are the temple of God Indwelled by the Holy Spirit.
1Co_3:17 If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.
1Co_6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
How much was given? What is our responsibility?
Peace, Joy, faith, hope, adoption of sons, Temple of God, Indwelling Holy Spirit, Priest of the Most High God, Gifts – we have the Power of the Living God!
What have we done with what God gave us?
We so often teach the illustration we miss the point! The “servant” was to meet the needs of his fellows. The illustration is of food, but that is spiritual needs as well as physical. The evil servant says “My master is taking his time in coming, and shall begin to beat up the men and the women servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk“ this is more than just food but wellbeing.
We to whom Much Is Given must also live our lives so others can see Jesus in us.It has always been the office of a Priest to teach, guide and minister to the people. We are to be the example both in this life and in “Watching for That Glorious Returning”.
The birthright with Christ carries with it a great responsibility.
What have you done with what Christ gave us?
Luke 12:48
Peter asked him, Lord, are you addressing this parable to us or to all alike?
The Lord answered, Who then is the faithful and sensible manager, whom the master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their food allowance at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master at his coming will find so doing. Truly I tell you, he will set him over all his possessions.
But if that servant shall say in his heart, My master is taking his time in coming, and shall begin to beat up the men and the women servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that servant shall arrive on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not figure on, and shall cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unfaithful.
And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act in accordance with that will shall receive many blows of the lash. But he who did not know and did things that call for a beating shall receive few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, all the more will be demanded.
“From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked” (Luke 12:48). This statement of Jesus has become somewhat of an idiom in Western culture and is found, paraphrased, in Uncle Ben’s words of wisdom to Peter Parker in Spider-man: “With great power comes great responsibility.”
The idea of “to whom much is given, much will be required” is that we are held responsible for what we have. If we are blessed with talents, wealth, knowledge, time, and the like, it is expected that we use these well to glorify God and benefit others. Jesus is the Master that is going away, we are the servants that are to be true to Him and Look for His return.
I want to discuss some of what this passage means to us in the “Body of Christ”
We will start with where do these things given come from?
Then look at, How did we get them?
And finally we will look at, Just how much were we given to use for Our Lord? And the responsibility that goes with what we were given.
They came from GOD!
God is "Self-existent". All that is in existence beyond the point of God's Self-existent Person is from and in God. God inhabits Eternity (all of time), which is from His self-existence. God does not live moment by moment, day by day in eternity, God inhabits Eternity, IN PRESENT TENSE, All of Eternity and every second of time before Him NOW!
All the Majestic Glory of the HOLY GOD exist in His self-existent Person.
All Knowledge exist in eternity before Him thus He knows all.
All eternity is before Him thus He is present to all, all the time.
All Power, Majesty, and Glory are from His self-existence thus He is all powerful.
This is the God from whom we get all that is for us in Christ. All we are, all we have, comes from God, and His Grace in us.
God has given us MUCH, let’s look at just what that is.
In the passage Luke 12, Our Lord’s Galilean ministry was drawing-rapidly to a close. The time was near when He would go to Jerusalem to die. In view of this and His promised return He urged upon His disciples the importance of loyalty when He should no longer be present with them in person. He was going on to Calvary-there to make an atonement for sin. And in God’s due time He will return, not as He came before as a little Babe, as a lowly Man to be despised-but as King of kings and Lord of lords, to whom every knee shall bow. We read in the Revelation, “Behold, He cometh with clouds: and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindred of the earth shall wail because of Him.” H. Ironsides
The Son of man returns clothed with power and majesty and with awe and terror. Royalty’s robe to his feet; that golden belt buckled at the breast; that hair so glistening white like the purest snow on which the sun is shining it hurts the eye; those eyes of flashing fire, eyes which read every heart and penetrate every hidden corner; those feet of burning metal glowing in order to trample down the wicked and stand firm in Holiness; that loud, reverberating voice, like the mighty thunder of Niagara falls in all it power; The word of His mouth a sharp, great-sword with two biting edges of Truth; that entire appearance “as the sun shines in its power,” too intense for human eyes to stare at—the picture taken as a whole, is a symbol of Christ, the Holy One, coming to purge His world.
The Good Master has gone away, the suffering servant that came as a man will return in Power beyond what we understand, The question is will HE find us watching for HIM? Will we be ready?
From everyone who has been given much, much will be required,
When He comes what will we have done with what he has given us?
1. Grace, Jesus work on earth and the BLOOD of Calvary.
Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
2. Holy Spirit indwelling believers. We have in Christ the indwelling Power of the Living God.
1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Romans 8:9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
2 Corinthians 6:16 Ezekiel 36:27 2 Timothy 1:14 Acts 6:5 Ephesians 5:18 Romans 8:11 John 16:13 1 John 2:27 John 14:17
3. We are Priest of the Most High GOD.
A royal priest hood to make sacrifices and offerings to HIM.
1Pe 2:9 But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellences of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
4. We are New Creatures.
Old things and sins passed away and remembered no more, all things are made new in Christ.
2Co_5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Psa 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
There are several passages in the Bible that indicate that God forgivesand forgets our sin. Isaiah 43:25says, “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more. ”Hebrews 10explains how Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross for sin was a once-and-for-all sacrifice. Unlike the sacrificial system of the Old Testament, in which sacrifices were continually made for sin, Jesus paid for sin once. His payment was complete. Hebrews 10:14–18says, “For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
5. Adopted into the family of God.
Romans 8:15For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!
Galatians 4:6 Rom_8:23 Rom_9:4 Gal_4:5 Eph_1:5
6. Heirs of God, joint heirs with Jesus.
Rom 8:17 and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.
7. We are the temple of God Indwelled by the Holy Spirit.
1Co_3:17 If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.
1Co_6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
How much was given? What is our responsibility?
Peace, Joy, faith, hope, adoption of sons, Temple of God, Indwelling Holy Spirit, Priest of the Most High God, Gifts – we have the Power of the Living God!
What have we done with what God gave us?
We so often teach the illustration we miss the point! The “servant” was to meet the needs of his fellows. The illustration is of food, but that is spiritual needs as well as physical. The evil servant says “My master is taking his time in coming, and shall begin to beat up the men and the women servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk“ this is more than just food but wellbeing.
We to whom Much Is Given must also live our lives so others can see Jesus in us.It has always been the office of a Priest to teach, guide and minister to the people. We are to be the example both in this life and in “Watching for That Glorious Returning”.
The birthright with Christ carries with it a great responsibility.
What have you done with what Christ gave us?
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