The difference is what is the primary focus of your ministry. I want you to shift your mindset for a moment and understand something. Remember, one had 5 talents, one had 2 talents, and one had 1 talent. Now that you are aware of the responsibility, because it applies to everyone, what are you doing with it? I don’t just want to be theoretical here, I want to be very practical. The message of the gospel (the goods) is alive in you if you know Jesus as your savior. Whether God has positioned you to do this full-time or not, please recognize what God has given you. These are the goods God has delivered to you and me. Some may have more responsibility if God has called them to do that in a full-time capacity, but we are all called to this purpose. Well, the reality is that calling is for all of us. So often we leave the work of preaching the gospel and making disciples to those who are “called” to do it. God has given you a responsibility, according to your ability. Remember, he began the parable by saying the kingdom of heaven is like. One of the phrases that leaps off the page to me when I read this story is “to each according to his own ability.” This leads me to ask the simple question: what has God given you to do? What is your role and expectation in the kingdom?

I want to highlight some of the top takeaways from the parable of the talents, which I will do by asking four questions. When you look at this parable, it really is one of self-examination.and that is what we're going to do.

More importantly, it is talking about stewardship, responsibility, and preparedness. However, the parable of the talents is not really talking about money. One talent could be valued at around $400,000 in today’s dollars. And, comparatively speaking, it was no small sum of money. A talent, just so you know, was a measure of money. The whole parable is found in Matthew 25:14-30. These verses are the opening to what is known as the parable of the talents. And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability and immediately he went on a journey. For the kingdom of heaven i s like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them.

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