MATT 25: THE KINGDOM
TRILOGY, (TRAINING FOR
ETERNITY)
PREVIOUSLY MISNAMED “THE END
OF DAYS TRILOGY,” PART 2, WORKS
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God is Thought. The brightness
of our revelations depends upon the correctness of our
doctrines, our building blocks, our Godly Thoughts laid
one upon
another, ascending into the mind of Christ.
MATT 25: THE KINGDOM TRILOGY (STUDENT
TRAINING FOR ETERNITY)
Part
1 (Matt 25:1-13) Kingdom Education, Part 2 (Matt
25:14-30) Kingdom
Works, Part 3 (Matt 25:31-46) Kingdom Graduation
KINGDOM WORKS
(OJT, ON THE JOB TRAINING)
(Matt
25:14,15) For the kingdom of heaven is as a man [Jesus
Christ] travelling into a far country [Heaven],
who
called his own servants [believers (soldiers/angels)],
and
delivered [Gk: yielded up, intrusted, transmitted]
unto
them his goods [Gk: substance] [1]. (Matt
25:15) And
unto one he gave [“the knowledge of the truth” 1 Tim
2:4] five
talents [2,3], to another two, and to
another one;
to every man according to his [the man’s innate,
inborn, inherent]
several [Gk: idios; pertaining to self, one’s own] [4] ability
[Gk: power] [willingness to understand] [5]; and
straightway took
his journey [Acts 1:9].
1.
Commentary:
“his goods”
= Thought is God’s substance. God is love.
God is Loving Thought. All thoughts have power. Internal
thoughts change (modify, alter, transform) our internal minds, and
also
create externalized word-vehicles (symbols, seeds, languages)
containing
our thoughts which change (modify, alter, transform) the minds of
others. What
does God want accomplished through His seed-thoughts as
expressed by
Jesus Christ (the Bible: John 1:14)?
a.
(1
Tim 2:3,4) For this is good
and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will
have all
men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
[AND
HOW…?]
b.
(2
Tim 2:15) Study
to shew thyself approved unto God, a work man [Gk:
toiler]
[student] that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the
word [Gk: logos] [the seed] of truth.
2.
talent
= Gk: to bear;
a balance (as supporting [of] weights), a
certain
weight (thence a coin or sum of money). [i.e., perhaps
offices, things
of value to God for accomplishing salvation]
a.
(Matt
23:23) Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have
omitted
the weightier [Gk: weight, fig. burdensome, grave:
grevious,
heavy] matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith [i.e,
components of the salvation message]: these ought ye to
have done
[also], and not to leave the other undone.
b.
(1
Chron 4:9,10) And Jabez
[Heb: sorrowful] [a type and shadow of Jesus Christ “a man of
sorrows”
Isa 53:3] was more honourable [Heb: heavy;
weighty: noble]
than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying,
Because
I bare him with sorrow. And Jabez called on the God of Israel,
saying,
Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge [Heb:
increase] my coast [Heb: borders], and
that thine
hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from
[doing] evil, that it may not grieve me! And God
granted him
that which he requested.
3.
(Eph
4:10-12) He [Jesus
Christ] that descended is the same also that ascended up far above
all
heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave [five
offices]
some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,
evangelists;
and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting
of the
saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying [Gk:
building (up)]
of the body of Christ:
a.
Commentary:
“five talents”
= representing five sacred offices each empathizing similar but
different skills for the work of the ministry of salvation, whereas the
nine
gifts of the Spirit are like nine farmer’s tools
employed for
sowing and reaping crops of salvations.
4.
Commentary:
“several”
= Greek: “idios” appearing only one other time (1 Cor 12:11) in the
Bible.
5.
Commentary:
“ability”
= to use (actualize oneself), a cooperative venture between God and man
to
enhance the Kingdom of God according (proportionate) to the strength of
one’s
own natural abilities – and willingness to think, to understand and to
use
those abilities.
(Matt
25:16-18) Then he that had received the five talents went
and traded
[Gk: toiled (as a task, occupation, etc.): worked] with the
same,
and made them other five talents [he doubled].
And
likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two
[the doubled]. But he that had received one [talent not
only
showed no increase, but disobeyed his master] went and digged
[Gk:
burrowed] [i.e., used effort] in the earth, and hid [Gk:
concealed away fully: kept secret] [intentionally locked it away where
it could
never gain anything] his lord's money [i.e.,
symbolic of
the salvation message, i.e., stony ground].
(Matt
25:19-21) After a long time the lord of those servants
cometh, and
reckoneth with them. And so he that had received five talents
came
and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst
unto me
five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
[I
have obeyed and done the best of my ability] His lord said unto
him, Well
done, thou good and faithful [Gk: trustworthy] servant:
thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler
[the authority] over many things:
enter thou
into the joy of thy lord.
(Matt
25:22,23) He also that had received two talents came and
said, Lord,
thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two
other
talents beside them. [I have obeyed and done the best of my
ability]
His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant;
thou
hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler
[the authority] over many things: enter thou into the
joy of
thy lord.
(Matt
25:24,25) Then he which had received the one talent came and said,
Lord, I
knew [Gk: to “know” (absolutely)] thee that thou
art an
hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and
gathering where
thou hast not strawed: And I was afraid, and went and hid
[Gk:
concealed away fully: kept secret] thy talent in the earth: lo, there
thou hast that is thine [but he did not do what was
commanded of him
to the best of his ability, or even to the least of his ability].
(Matt
25:26,27) His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked
[Gk: hurtful, evil] and slothful [lazy: not
wanting to do
the Lord’s work] servant, thou knewest that
I reap
where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
Thou
oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and
then at
my coming I should have received mine own with usury [Gk:
interest].
(Matt
25:28-30) Take therefore the talent from him [take
his limited
understanding (he was a servant)], and give it unto him which
hath ten
talents. For unto every one that hath [obedience and
understanding]
shall be given [more understanding], and he shall have
abundance [of
understanding]: but from him that hath not [obedience
and
understanding] shall be taken away even that [understanding]
which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable [Gk:
useless] servant
[i.e. the unprofitable professing Christian] into
outer
darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Amen