The Unprofitable Servant

[BelieveItOarKnot]

Harmony can often be a difficult prospect. This one might challenge your spiritual dynamic, and is really meant to punch some holes in the fleshly doctrinal boats:

Jesus, directing this statement to His disciples,

Luke 17:10
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

I can only imagine what we are called if we do less than those things we are commanded, if we do all and are still then directed by our Lord, by our Lord no less, to call ourselves "UNPROFITABLE SERVANTS."

Gotta love a good non positive confession, huh?

Now where the rub comes in is here, oh unprofitable servants:

Matthew 25:30
And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Hmmmm? And all the disciples reading these Words of His start to wonder how they are going to talk their way out of this one.

 

[NewLifeInChristJesus]

Harmony can often be a difficult prospect. This one might challenge your spiritual dynamic, and is really meant to punch some holes in the fleshly doctrinal boats:

Jesus, directing this statement to His disciples,

Luke 17:10
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

I can only imagine what we are called if we do less than those things we are commanded, if we do all and are still then directed by our Lord, by our Lord no less, to call ourselves "UNPROFITABLE SERVANTS."

Gotta love a good non positive confession, huh?

Now where the rub comes in is here, oh unprofitable servants:

Matthew 25:30
And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Hmmmm? And all the disciples reading these Words of His start to wonder how they are going to talk their way out of this one.

This is an interesting post. Thank you so much.

The prelude caught my attention first because I view my "spiritual dynamic" as very solid. I doubted that anything in the post would unsettle me. Then, reading the rest of the post, I just smiled in my heart and said "that is so true".

I never really thought about these verses in the context of today's popular legalistic approach to eternal life. To those seeking to gain or maintain eternal life through obedience or by seeking to be "just good enough", there is no solace in these words. They only drive them to seek mercy. But to those who are confident that their rightness with God is because of the Savior who rescued them and continues to rescue them from their sins, these words contain no condmnation. Thank you, Lord, for your indescribable gift.

 

[BelieveItOarKnot]

This is an interesting post. Thank you so much.

The prelude caught my attention first because I view my "spiritual dynamic" as very solid. I doubted that anything in the post would unsettle me. Then, reading the rest of the post, I just smiled in my heart and said "that is so true".

I never really thought about these verses in the context of today's popular legalistic approach to eternal life. To those seeking to gain or maintain eternal life through obedience or by seeking to be "just good enough", there is no solace in these words. They only drive them to seek mercy. But to those who are confident that their rightness with God is because of the Savior who rescued them and continues to rescue them from their sins, these words contain no condmnation. Thank you, Lord, for your indescribable gift.

Being made a genuine disciple we are actually advised to hate our own life.

When we are honest with God in Christ, about the fact of evil lawless thoughts that defile us, Mark 7:21-23, it's a pretty easy place to get to, and yes, quite the opposite of the pablum we're continually fed about how God in Christ always and only loves us. And that simply isn't true. IT's when we bring the tempter into the picture that our faith lives get extremely interesting, and we can look back at the adversity in our lives in an honest light, and see God working in our lives against those things, even if we thought were all goody goody only. It was never true to start with.

Luke 14:26
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Better to have an honest relationship, than the relationship of a lying hypocrite. I'll honestly say that the evil present within me will never be justified, faithful, obedient or blessed of God in Christ. Only the opposite. Actually just like Job in a lot of ways.

It's a far more interesting life

 

[timothyu]

Does not one meaning state no gain for self while another can mean useless to a movement? They need not correspond