![]() ![]() Jesus gives the ten servants a treasure of a gold coin. Let’s get into the heart of the Parable and what Jesus is teaching.Similarly, hell is not merciless but merciful, for as CS Lewis once said, there are only two types of people, those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “ Thy will be done.” Hell is for those who want self-separation, and choose it continually through their actions. He doesn’t punish or slay them because in a sense he doesn’t have to: they’re already spiritually dead because they’ve self-alienated from the source of life. In this month of November, in which we meditate on death and judgment, there’s a spiritual equivalent for those who don’t want to accept God as King. The emperor confirmed him without the title king - he named him tetrarch - and upon the return, Archelaus executed those who didn’t want him to be king. The king of Judah, Herod Archelaus, went to Rome but the people sent a delegation saying that they didn’t want him as king. The second introductory point involves the setting of the story, which involves history known to Jesus’ listeners but not to people today. Jesus was taking advantage of the infamous story of how after King Herod the Great’s death - who was king at his birth and murdered the Holy Innocents - his kingdom was divided into three parts, but each needed to go to Rome to be confirmed by the emperor in the kingship. ![]() How important this point is for us to grasp: time is a kairos of investing in and for the kingdom. Jesus told the people the Parable “because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the Kingdom of God would appear there immediately.” The Parable of the Coins was given to help people know why the Kingdom of God they were expecting politically wasn’t going to appear, but rather, how the Kingdom among them, as it was awaiting fulfillment, was a place in which some people were growing the kingdom by investing the King’s gifts and others were not.
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