UNPROFITABLE SERVANT!

 "FOR  THE  KINGDOM  OF  HEAVEN  IS  LIKE  UNTO  A  MAN  TRAVELLING  INTO  A  FAR  COUNTRY, WHO  CALLED  HIS  OWN  SERVANTS,  AND  DELIVERED  UNTO  THEM  HIS  GOODS.  AND  UNTO  ONE  HE  GAVE FIVE  TALENTS,  TO  ANOTHER  TWO, AND  TO  ANOTHER  ONE.......AFTER  A  LONG  TIME  THE  LORD  OF  THOSE  SERVANTS  CAME,  AND  RECKONED  WITH  THEM.....THEN  HE  WHICH  RECEIVED  THE  ONE  TALENT   CAME  AND  SAID,  LORD,  I  KNEW  YOU  THAT  YOU  ART  A  HARD  MAN,  REAPING  WHERE  YOU  HAVE  NOT  SOWED,  AND  GATHERING  WHERE  YOU  HAVE  NOT  PLANTED.  AND  I  WAS  AFRAID  AND  WENT  AND  HID  YOUR  TALENT  IN  THE  EARTH,  LO,  HERE  IS  WHAT  WAS  YOURS...." (MAT. 25:14-30).

MANY  WOULD  SAY  THIS  HAS  TO  DO  WITH  "WORKS"  AND  YOUR  REWARD  -  NOT  SALVATION.

BUT  WAIT,  THE  WORDS  IN  26  HARDLY  SOUND  LIKE  IT  IS  JUST  "WORKS"  HERE  BEING  TALKED  ABOUT...."HIS  LORD  ANSWERED  AND  SAID  UNTO  HIM,  YOU  WICKED  AND  SLOTHFUL  SERVANT;  YOU  KNEW  I  REAP  WHERE  I'VE  NOT  SOWN,  AND  GATHER  WHERE  I'VE  NOT  PLANTED."

THE  SERVANT  OF  GOD  SURELY  CANNOT  BE  REGARDED  AS  WICKED  JUST  BECAUSE  HIS  "WORKS"  WERE  NOT  LIKE  OTHERS,  OR  VERY  VERY  LOW  COMPARED  TO  OTHERS.

THEN  THERE  IS  THE  END  OF  THIS  PARABLE,  THAT  IS  WAY  MORE  SERIOUS  THAN  JUST  NOT  HAVING  VERY  LITTLE  "WORKS"  -  NOTICE  IT:

"AND  CAST  THE  UNPROFITABLE  SERVANT  INTO  OUTER  DARKNESS: THERE  SHALL  BE  WEEPING  AND  GNASHING  OF  TEETH."

NOW  ONCE  MORE  WE  MUST  LET  THE  BIBLE  INTERPRET  THE  BIBLE.  WHAT  IS  THE  BIBLE'S  INTERPRETATION  OF  "UNPROFITABLE  SERVANT"?

NOTICE  IT  -  LUKE  17: 6-10.

READ  IT  ALL.  NOW  NOTICE   VERSES 9  AND  10.

"DOES  HE  THANK  THAT  SERVANT  BECAUSE  HE  DID  THOSE  THINGS  WHICH  WERE  COMMANDED  OF  HIM?  I  THINK  NOT.  SO  LIKEWISE  YOU,  WHEN  YOU  SHALL  HAVE  DONE  ALL  THOSE  THINGS  WHICH  WERE  COMMANDED  OF  YOU,  SAY,  WE  ARE  UNPROFITABLE  SERVANTS;  WE  HAVE  DONE  THAT  WHICH  WAS  OUR  DUTY  TO  DO."

PUT  THE  TWO  SECTIONS  OF  SCRIPTURE  TOGETHER..... NOW  YOU  SHOULD  SEE  WHAT  JESUS  WAS  TEACHING. 

THE  UNPROFITABLE  SERVANT  WILL  BE  OUT  IN  THE  COLD,  OUT  IN  DARKNESS;  TRULY  THERE  SHALL  BE  WEEPING  AND  GNASHING  OF  TEETH,  IF  YOU  FIND  YOURSELF  ON  THE  OUTSIDE  LOOKING  IN.

TRULY  YOU  ARE  SAVED  BY  GRACE,  NOT  BY  WORKD;  BUT  -  THE  SIMPLE  TRUTH  IS  FROM  THESE  TWO  PARABLES  JESUS  GAVE  -  IF  YOU  DO  NOT  MOVE  FORWARD  IN  YOUR  CHRISTIAN  LIFE;  IF  YOU  JUST  STAY  PUT;  IF  YOU  DO  ONLY  THE  BARE  MINIMUM,  JUST  PUTING  THE  ONE  TALENT  -  THE  BEGINNING  SALVATION  TALENT  IN  THE  GROUND,  AND  ONLY  GIVE  THAT  FIRST  DAY  SALVATION  TALENT  BACK  TO  CHRIST  AT  HIS  COMING..... WELL  THE  WORDS  OF  JESUS  TELL  YOU  PLAINLY  WHAT  WILL  HAPPEN  TO  THAT  SERVANT  IN  THE  DAY  OF  CHRIST'S  RETURN  FROM  THE  FAR  COUNTRY,  TO  RECKON  WITH  HIS  SERVANTS.

SALVATION  IS  NOT  A  ONE  DAY  EVENT.  AND  YOU  ARE  NOT  GIVEN  ALL  TRUTHS  IN  ONE  DAY.  WHEN  YOU  HAVE  ACCEPTED  JESUS  AS  YOUR  PERSONAL  SAVIOR,  WHEN  YOU  COME  UNDER  THE  GRACE  OF  GOD,  YOU  ARE  TO  MOVE  FORWARD;  YOU  ARE  NOT  TO  STAND  STILL;  YOU  ARE  TO  MOVE  FORWARD  AT  LEAST  TO  SOME  EXTENT [EVERYONE  MOVES  FORWARD  AT  DIFFERENT  PACES;  SOME  TWO  PACES,  SOME  FOUR  PACES;  SOME  EIGHT  PACES],  MOVING  FORWARD  -  OR  AS  PETER  PUT  IT,  "GROWING  IN  GRACE  AND  KNOWLEDGE  OF  OUR  LORD  AND  SAVIOR  JESUS CHRIST" (2 PETER 3:18). 

AS  PAUL  SAID,  "HOW  SHALL  WE  ESCAPE.  IF  WE  NEGLECT  SO  GREAT  A  SALVATION...." (HEB. 2:3).  AND..... 

"OF  WHOM  WE  HAVE  MANY  THINGS  TO  SAY.  AND  HARD  TO  BE  UTTERED,  SEEING  YOU  ARE  DULL  OF  HEARING.  FOR  WHEN  FOR  THE  TIME  YOU  OUGHT  TO  BE  TEACHERS,  YOU  HAVE  NEED  THAT  ONE  TEACH  YOU  AGAIN  WHICH  IS  THE  FIRST  PRINCIPLES  OF  THE  ORACLES  OF  GOD;  AND  ARE  BECOME  SUCH  AS  HAVE  NEED  OF  MILK,  AND  NOT  STRONG  MEAT.  FOR  EVERYONE  THAT  USES  MILK  IS  UNSKILFUL  IN  THE  WORD  OF  RIGHTEOUSNESS;  FOR  HE  IS  A  BABE.  BUT  STRONG  MEAT  BELONGS  TO  THEM  THAT  ARE  OF  FULL  AGE,  EVEN  THOSE  WHO  BY  REASON  OF  USE  HAVE  THEIR  SENSES  EXERCISED  TO  DISCERN  BOTH  GOOD  AND  EVIL" (HEB. 5:11-14)

NOW  I  DID  NOT  WRITE  THESE  WORDS  OF  PAUL  AND  PETER;  I  DID  NOT  WRITE  THE  WORDS  OF  JESUS  IN  MATTHEW  25  OR  LUKE  17.

THEY  ARE  THERE;  THEY  ARE  INSPIRED;  THEY  MEAN  WHAT  THEY  SAY  AND  SAY  WHAT  THEY  MEAN.  NO  YOU  CANNOT  EARN  SALVATION  BY  WORKS  -  BUT  YOU  CAN  LOOSE  IT  BY  STANDING  STILL,  BY  DOING  NO  MORE  THAN  WHAT  IS  REQUIRED  OF  YOU.  JESUS  DOES  NOT  EXPECT  YOU  TO  STAND  STILL,  HIDE  SALVATION  IN  THE  GROUND,  AND  GIVE  BACK  TO  HIM  NO  MORE  THAN  WHAT  YOU  HAD  ON  THE  DAY  YOU  WERE  GIVEN  SALVATION.

AFTER  THE  DAY  ON  WHICH  YOU  RECEIVED  SALVATION,  YOU  ARE  EXPECTED  TO  READ  GOD'S  WORD,  TO  BE  TAUGHT,  TO  BE  CORRECTED  EVEN  MORE,  TO  BE  LIVING  BY  EVERY  WORD  OF  GOD,  TO  BE  GROWING  IN  GRACE  AND  KNOWLEDGE,  TO  BE  MOVING  FORWARD  OUT  OF  BABYHOOD  TO  MORE  SPIRITUAL  MATURITY,  TO  PUT  AWAY  THE  MILK  OF  THE  WORD  AND  TO  BE  EATING  THE  MEAT  OF  THE  WORD.

DOING  ONLY  THE  BASICS  OF  WHAT  IS  COMMANDED  OF  YOU,  IS  BEING  AN  UN-PROFITABLE  SERVANT..... AND  WE  HAVE  SEEN  FROM  JESUS'  OWN  MOUTH  WHAT  HAPPENS  TO  THE  UNPROFITABLE  SERVANT.

YOU  NEED  TO  STUDY  MY  STUDY  CALLED  "SAVED  BY  GRACE"  -  AND  GET  THE  WHOLE  PICTURE  OF  SALVATION.

YOU  NEED  TO  READ  THIS  STUDY  AGAIN,  SLOWLY,  MEDITATING  ON  IT.

YOU  CANNOT  EARN  SALVATION  BY  A  MILLION  GOOD  WORKS,  YET  SALVATION,  IS  NOT  JUST  AS  EASY  AS  FALL  OFF  A  LOG,  AS  THEY  SAY.

ONCE  SALVATION  IS  GIVEN  YOU,  YOU  ARE  EXPECTED  TO  NOT  STAND  STILL  -  YOU  ARE  EXPECTED  TO  MOVE  FORWARD.  STANDING  STILL  WILL  ONLY  MEAN  YOU  ARE  AN  UNPROFITABLE  SERVANT,  WHO  WILL  GET  BLACKNESS,  WEEPING  AND  GNASHING  OF  TEETH.

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ELIJAH CAME - AND WILL AGAIN TO RESTORE---- BEFORE JESUS RETURNS!!!

 YOU  MAY  MISS  

THE  PROPHECY  UNLESS........

by Keith Hunt

I  AM  READING  ALL  THE  WORDS  CHRIST  SPOKE  AS  RECORDED  IN  THE  FOUR  GOSPELS;  WITH  A  RED  LETTER  BIBLE  IT  IS  EASY  TO  SEE  THEM.

THERE  IS  A  PROPHECY  IN  THE  BIBLE [FIRST  IN  THE  OLD  TESTAMENT]  THAT  HAS  A  DUAL  FULFILMENT.  A  PROPHECY  THAT  MOST  CHRISTIAN  RELIGIOUS  PEOPLE  WILL  MISS;  ONLY  THE  ASTUTE  WILL  FIND  IT.

It  begins  in  Matthew  11.

"And as they departed Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went you out to see in the wilderness? A reed shaken in the wind? What went you out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold they that wear soft clothing are in king's houses. What went you out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say unto you, and more than a prophet" (verses 7-9).

John [the baptist] was a very different person than the run of the mill people. He lived out in the wilderness. He was not like the average teacher or preacher of the time. He had a life-style that was different from most people as he preached and taught the way of the Lord. The "establishment" teachers and preachers of the Bible, did not take John seriously.....he was to them....well probably to most synagogue attenders.... "different" - and so it was only some who could recognize John was doing the work of the Lord; actually fulfilling a prophecy.

Jesus went on to say, "For this is he, for whom it is written, Behold I send my messenger before your face, which shall prepare the way for you [meaning prepare the way for Christ]. Truly I say unto you, among them that are born of women there has not risen a greater than John the Baptist.....and from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven is gotten by force, and the forcefully strong will take it by force [you have to be right on the ball - exercising a strong mental attitude; the hungering and thirsting for righteousness that Jesus spoke about in Matthew 5]......and IF YOU WILL RECEIVE IT [so obviously the inference is many will not receive it] THIS is Elijah, who was to come" (verses 10-14).

Now that prophecy is found in Malachi 4:5. And if you are already up on some Bible prophecy phrases,  you know the "day of the Lord" comes in the very end times, in fact during the last 42 months of this age [all that is explained to you in my many studies on the outline of Bible prophecy]. So this prophecy of Malachi has and END TIME fulfilment also. But BACK to Jesus in Matthew 11. 

Jesus goes on to say that most of the people had preconceived ideas as to HOW John should have been. Jesus put them like .... well we called the tune but you have not danced AS WE want it. Yes John did not come jumping to the people's and religionists call of how they thought it should be.

Jesus said John came neither eating or drinking as they wanted it to be, and so was basically [for sure the religious teachers] called a man with a demon. They also did not like Jesus NOT dancing to their tune either; because he was not like John the Baptist, but ate and drank with "sinners"  - they said he was "gluttonous and a winebibber (verses 14-19).

It did not matter what people thought about John the Baptist, that he was "strange" or "different" and not what they had expected with the prophecy of Malachi 4.

The MAJORITY of "religious" people just could not imagine this different kind of person, being the fulfilment of the prophecy of Malachi - they had pre-conceived ideas of what John should look like, where he should live, what he should dress like.  And with such strong ideas that was how Malachi 4 would be, in their minds. The prophecy was right under their nose and they walked right by it; no doubt waiting to see the real Old Testament Elijah raised from the dead, or someone fitting THEIR ideas of this person coming to live and act in ways that the teachers and people of the day, had set up in their minds as to how John should live and act.

Because John the Baptist was "different" than what they expected.....they could NOT SEE that HE was the very one to come in the "spirit" and "power" of the Old Testament Elijah.

WE  ARE  NOT  FINISHED  WITH  THIS  PROPHECY!!

We pick up the connection of this whole prophecy in Matthew 17.

JESUS had come down from the mount of transfiguration, where he told those with him, to not tell the VISION to anyone [it was not a reality but a vision they were permitted to see, Moses and Elijah were not really there, it was a vision of the glory in God's Kingdom] before his resurrection. They had seen in vision Elijah, so it prompted the question, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" Ah yes the scribes knew that BEFORE the coming of the Messiah, Elijah was to come. They knew it from Malachi chapter 4!

Jesus answered them, "Elijah truly will come first and RESTORE ALL THINGS!  But I say unto you, Elijah has already come, and  THEY  KNEW HIM  NOT! ……."

THEN NOTICE  -  "Then the disciples UNDERSTOOD that he spoke to them of JOHN THE BAPTIST" (verses 9-13).

AH  DID  YOU CATCH IT?  ARE YOU SEEING WHAT JESUS IS TEACHING?

The "scribes" of that time KNEW the prophecy of Malachi 4…… before the Messiah comes, Elijah will come!

Jesus added something to the Old Testament prophecy:  THIS  ELIJAH SHALL  RESTORE  ALL  THINGS!

The prophecy in Malachi is for the very end time, before the DAY OF THE LORD an Elijah will come!

And Jesus made it plain that an Elijah  HAD  ALREADY  COME!

It was John the baptist  who  was  THE  ELIJAH  TO  COME  BEFORE the Messiah's FIRST COMING!

This  is  proof  that  prophecy  CAN  HAVE  a  DUAL  fulfilment!

The "original" Elijah was NOT brought out of the grave, nor did he come from heaven as many believe he is in heaven today [which just is not true at all - see the study "Death - What Then?" on this website.

The prophecy in Malachi is obviously DUAL in nature - there was one who came in the spirit and power of Elijah BEFORE Jesus the Messiah came the first time - it was JOHN the baptist!

There will come another ELIJAH - in the spirit and power of Elijah  -  BEFORE Jesus the Messiah COMES  AGAIN!

NOTE THIS ALSO - there is not one word in the Gospels or New Testament, that says John DID MIRACLES!  He taught; he preached - but nothing says he did MIRACLES!

JOHN TAUGHT THE TRUTHS OF GOD; John taught real REPENTANCE, THE TRUE  WAY TO SALVATION THROUGH THE MESSIAH.

Jesus  also  added  something  else:  The  Elijah  to  come  in  the  SECOND  fulfilment  of  Malachi  4  would  RESTORE  ALL  THINGS!

HENCE  A  RESTORING  WOULD  BE  NECESSARY!  Things  by  the  time  of  the  end  would  NEED  to  be  restored.  The  Christianity  of  the  world  and  in  the  true  Church  of  God,  would,  before  the  day  of  the  Lord,  NEED  TO  BE  RESTORED!

LOOK  AT  ALL  THE  FORMS  AND  SHAPES  OF  CHRISTIANITY  TODAY;  LOOK  AT  THE  DIFFERENCES  IN  7TH  DAY  SABBATH  CHURCHES  TODAY;  LOOK  AT  THE  DIFFERENCE  IN  ALL  THE  7TH  DAY  SABBATH  AND  FEASTS  OF  THE  LORD  GROUPS,  TODAY.  YOU  SHOULD  GET  THE  DRIFT,  IF  YOU  ARE  ASTUTE.

John the baptist was "different" -  he had a life-style that was WITHIN the way of the Lord, but he was different. Because he was different MANY - especially the "theology teachers" - just could NOT SEE him for what the Eternal God was doing through him. No doubt part of that was due to as Jesus once said, "A prophet is not without honour, save in his own household."  It is the attitude of mind that, "Well we have known this guy, we have seen him grow into a man, we know he is a sinner; now we see he is also different in certain ways from the average person; he just cannot be anything God is using."

SO  IT  WAS  THEN  IN  JESUS'  DAY,  SO  IT  WILL  BE  AGAIN  BEFORE  THE  DAY  OF  THE  LORD.

The prophecy does not say HOW LONG before the day of the Lord this prophecy of Malachi will be fulfilled.

And that's where MANY will fall and fail to see the picture.

God  seldom  does  things  the  way  humans  want  it  done,  or  think  how  it  should  be  done.  Many  will  think  God  will  send  another  that  will  dress  kinda  "hippy  style"  and  live  outside  in  the  wild,  have  a  long  beard,  and  well….. look  like  another  John  the  baptist.  So  they  will  not  see,  they  will  miss  it  completely!

Many  may  think  the  end  time  Elijah  will  walk  around  with  some  placard  saying,  "REPENT  YE,  for  the  Kingdom  of  God  is  at  hand!"  And  with  his  strange  dress  and  long  beard  and  hair  catch  the  attention  of  the  world  TV  news  people,  to  be  on  the  world's  broad-casting.  Many  may  think  he  will  walk  into  the  United  Nations,  and  preach  before  them.  Many  may  think  he  just  must  to  go  to  the  Jewish  State  of  Israel,  and  preach  in  that  land.

Many  in  the  very  Sabbath observing  Churches  of  God,  with  all  their  theology  differences,  will  not  be  astute  enough  to  see  this  end  time  prophecy  before  them.  They  will  be  like  the  disciples  of  Christ,  they  will  not  see  the  prophecy  fulfilled,   UNTIL  Jesus  tells  them.  They  will  be  so  ASLEEP,  so  UN-ASTUTE,   so  BRAIN-DEAD,  or  so  much  like  the  church  at  LAODICEA  in Revelation 3,  thinking  they  are  just  fine  and  dandy,  so  in  tune  with  God,  that  they  need  for  nothing.  They  will  think  they  have  it  all,  and  certainly  don't  need  any  eye-slav  to  really  see  spiritually,  that  they  are  blind  and  naked. They  will  be  so  lukewarm  they  will  MISS  this  end  time  prophecy.

THE  VAST  VAST  MAJORITY  OF  ROMAN  CATHOLICS  THINK  THEY  WILL  "GET  TO  HEAVEN"--- THEY  CAN  NOT  SEE  THERE  IS  ANYTHING  TO  RESTORE.

THE  VAST  VASY  MAJORITY  OF  PROTESTANTS  BELIEVE  THEY  ARE  FINE  IN  THEIR  THEOLOGY,  AND  WILL  "GET  TO  HEAVEN"--- THEY  DO  NOT  SEE  THERE  IS  ANYTHING TO  RESTORE. 

THE  VAST  VAST  MAJORITY  OF  CHRISTIANS  DO  NOT  KNOW  THIS  PROPHECY  EVEN  EXISTS.  THEY  READ  RIGHT  OVER  IT,  IF  THEY  READ  THE  GOSPELS  AT  ALL.  THEY  SURE  AIN'T  TAUGHT  IT  FROM  THEIR  MINISTERS  OR  PRIESTS.  THEY  DO  NOT  SEE  THERE  IS  ANYTHING  TO  RESTORE.  THEY  JUST  BELIEVE  THEIR  BRAND  OF  THEOLOGY  IS  FINE,  AND  GOD  ACCEPTS  ALL  THE  DIFFERENT  SHADES  OF  CHRISTIANITY.

JESUS  OBVIOUSLY  DID  NOT,  AND  TAUGHT  A  RESTORING  WOULD  COME  BEFORE  HE  RETURNS.

YOU  NEED  TO  BE  VERY  ASTUTE;  YOU  NEED  TO  READ  YOUR  BIBLE  FROM  COVER  TO  COVER;  YOU  NEED  TO  STUDY  TO  SHOW  YOURSELF  APPROVED  OF  GOD,  A  WORKMAN  THAT  NEEDS  NOT  BE  ASHAMED,  RIGHTLY  PUTTING  TOGETHER  THE  WORD  OF  THE  LORD.

DO  NOT  LET  THE  PROPHECY  OF  MALACHI  4  PASS  YOU  BY,  DON'T  AS  THEY  SAY  "MISS  THE  BOAT!"  BE  WILLING  TO  THINK "DOES  MY  BRAND  OF  THEOLOGY  NEED  TO  BE  'RESTORED'? - I  WILL  CHECK  AND  INVESTIGATE  MY  THEOLOGY  AND  SEE  IF  IT  LINES  UP  WITH  GOD'S  WORD,  THE  HOLY  BIBLE."

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