TOPIC:"Can God Trust You With His Talents?"
"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man traveling to a far country who called
his own servants and delivered his goods to them" (Matthew 25:14, NKJV)
Who can you trust anymore? That's the question that is being asked by many people as the media is full every night with stories about the erosion of trust in many aspects of American life. The rising tide of mistrust has become epidemic. We have now become more distrustful of just about every profession. The legal profession. The medical profession. The political profession. The business profession. This distrust has even entered into the sports profession with partial judges at our Olympic sporting events.
But in this time of the undermining of trust we Christians have one in whom we can put our total confidence. Like Job of old who declared: "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him" (Job 13:15). Like David who cried out: "Trust in Him at all times" (Psalms 6:8). Like Solomon who wrote: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart" (Proverbs 3:5). Like Isaiah who proclaimed: "Trust ye in the Lord forever; for in the Lord is everlasting strength" (Isaiah 26:4). We can trust God for everything.
But in this message I want to put the shoe on the other foot and ask you this important question: Can God trust you? Can He trust us with His talents? That's the question I want you to answer as we look at this parable as told by our trusting Lord. Let's begin our study.
Consider, to begin with, the DISCERNMENT that must be ADDRESSED. Give attention to the words of Jesus in verse 14: "For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them."