Entrusting: Part II

So... this is a review of yesterday's study...

Entrust (verb):

• To give over (something) to another for care, protection, or performance.
• To give as a trust to (someone).
• To charge or invest with a trust or responsibility; charge with a specified office or duty involving trust.
• To commit (something) in trust to; confide, as for care, use, or performance.

Now, I have been entrusted by God.

And to be entrusted by God is a serious matter. Why? Well, if God gives something to me, entrusts something to me, he is confiding and investing in me. That means I should give God something back on his investment. If not, I am a loss. And no invester cares for a loss.

I Have Been Entrusted:

• Entrusted with God’s Word (Rom 3:2)

Romans 2:25 to 3:2 says: Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised. If those who are not circumcised keep the law's requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised? The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

A man is not a Jew if he is only one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man's praise is not from men, but from God.

What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision? Much in every way! First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.

• Entrusted with a measure of Faith (Rom 12:3)

Romans 12:3 Says: For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.

• We will not be tempted beyond our Faith (1 Cor 10:13)

1 Corinthians 10:13 Says: No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

• Entrusted with the secrets of God (1 Cor 4:1)

1 Corinthians 4:1 Says: So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God.

• Entrusted with God’s Kingdom (Matt 25:14)

Matthew 25:14 Says: "Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them."

Here's more of this parable: "To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. The man who had received the five talents went at once and put his money to work and gained five more. So also, the one with the two talents gained two more. But the man who had received the one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money."

"Then the man who had received the one talent came. 'Master,' he said, 'I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.'"

"His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest."

"'Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'" (Matthew 25:15-18, 24-30)

I am a bit emotional right now. I think I might comment some tomorrow... I don't know. Johnny Out.

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