This sermon was preached by Justin Rogers on October 30, 2023 and is part of the series Parables.
Have you ever been a part of something, but you never gave 100%? It'd be easy to understand an "extra" actor in a play not dedicating his life to it. He still wants to be in the credits, but other things may take priority.
We treat Jesus like that a lot. We say we want to be his. We want to have life. Yet, we don't live completely for him. We want to be affiliated with His story, but He doesn't have our whole heart. Here's a hard truth: You can't live half-way for Jesus. It's all or nothing.
This parable makes that explicitly clear. Here, Jesus challenges us to be faithful in how we live for him. No matter how important you think you are, you are to use what you have been given for His Kingdom.
This sermon was preached by Justin Rogers on October 30, 2023 and is part of the series Parables.
Have you ever been a part of something, but you never gave 100%? It'd be easy to understand an "extra" actor in a play not dedicating his life to it. He still wants to be in the credits, but other things may take priority.
We treat Jesus like that a lot. We say we want to be his. We want to have life. Yet, we don't live completely for him. We want to be affiliated with His story, but He doesn't have our whole heart. Here's a hard truth: You can't live half-way for Jesus. It's all or nothing.
This parable makes that explicitly clear. Here, Jesus challenges us to be faithful in how we live for him. No matter how important you think you are, you are to use what you have been given for His Kingdom.