11-19-17 - "Safety First?"

Rev. Steve Ahlersmeyer


 

Matthew 25:14-30

 

 14 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and
entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two,
to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who
had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made
five talents more. 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents
more. 18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground
and hid his master’s money. 19 Now after a long time the master of those
servants came and settled accounts with them.

20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents
more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five
talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.
You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy
of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying,
‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’
23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been
faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I
knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering
where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent
in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him,
‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sowed and
gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money
with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with
interest. 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.
29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But
from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 30And cast the
worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.’