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Don't Take It for Granted

"For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: 
but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." 

Jesus, Matthew 25:29
  


Readings
 

Reading
Common
Catholic
First
Judges 4:1-7  or
Proverbs 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31
Second
I Thessalonians 5:1-11
1 Thessalonians 5:1-6
Psalm
123 or 76 or 90:1-8 (9-11), 12
128:1-2, 3, 4-5
Gospel
Matthew 25:14-30
Matthew 25:14-30 or 25:14-15, 19-20

 
 

Quotes & Notes on:     Matthew 25:29   

  • John Wesley's Notes:
          To every one that hath shall be given-So close does God keep to this stated rule, from the beginning to the end of the world. Mt 13:12.
     

  • The Fourfold Gospel:

     (No comment on this verse).
     

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:

    * unto. Mt 13:12; Mr 4:25; Lu 8:18; 16:9-12; 19:25,26; Joh 15:2
    * shall be taken. Mt 21:41; La 2:6; Ho 2:9; Lu 10:42; 12:19-21; 16:1-3,20-25; Joh 11:48 Re 2:5
     

  • Robertson's Word Pictures:
         (No comment on this verse).
     

  • William Burkitt's Notes:

     (No comment on this verse).
     

  • Family Bible Notes:

     Every one that hath; a disposition to rightly use the blessings which God gives, is a preparation for more and greater blessings. That hath not; he that hath not this disposition, when God calls him to account, will be deprived of all blessings, and for his unfaithfulness will be punished as he deserves.
     

  • 1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
     (No comment on this verse).
     

  • People's New Testament Commentary:

    To every one that hath shall be given. Every attainment of honor, wealth, knowledge, or spiritual grace helps to render further attainment more easy and more assured; while it is spiritually as well as materially true that "the destruction of the poor is their poverty" (Pr 10:15).

    Shall be taken away even that which he hath. For every hath there is a richer hath; and in every hath not a deeper, poorer hath not.
     

  • Albert Barnes' Commentary:

    For unto every one that hath shall be given. See Barnes for Mt 13:12. This seems to be a proverbial expression. It means, whosoever rightly improves what is committed to him shall receive more, or shall be rewarded; but he that misimproves what is committed to him shall not be rewarded. In pecuniary matters--in the literal sense of this parable--they who improve their money by industry or merchandise, increase it; they who do not--who are indolent or vicious--lose what they did possess, and it goes into the hands of the faithful and industrious. In the spiritual sense of the parable, it means only that they who are faithful shall be rewarded --not, however, that anything shall be taken from the unfaithful and given to them; and that the unfaithful and indolent shall be taken away from their privileges and punished.

    {s} "For unto" Mt 13:12; Mr 4:25; Lu 8:18; 19:26
    {t} "taken away" Lu 10:42

     

  • Jamieson-Faussett Brown:

    (No comment on this verse).
     

  • Spurgeon Commentary on Matthew:

    (No comment on this verse).
     

  • Spurgeon Devotional Commentary:

    (No comment on this verse).
     

  • Adam Clarke's Commentary:

    (No comment on this verse).

     

  • Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:

     (No comment on this verse).
     


Hymns
Bob VanWyk, Lectionary Hymn Reviewer
 
 
  • Take My Life and Let It Be  
  • Come, Labor On  
  • When I Had Not Yet Learned of Jesus   - verses 2 and 3 relate to the Gospel passage. Translated from the Korean. In Presbyterian Hymnal.
  • Almighty Father of All Things That Be   - relates to the Gospel passage
  • How Happy Is Each Child of God   A version of Psalm 128.
  • Revive Us Again
  • Rock of Ages
  • Showers of Blessing
  • Power in the Blood
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    Title:  Opportunities for Responsible Stewardship
    Theme:   We are responsible for making the most of our God given  opportunities.

    Context:  Holy Week discourse on events surrounding the end-times;  series of 5 parables on the Judgement.
     


    Notes
    • On the Entire Parable
      • "Our Lord proceeds by a parable still plainer (if that can be) to declare the final reward of an harmless man." --John Wesley's Notes Upon the New Testament
      • "The Parable of the Talents teaches the duty of working while the day lasts."   D.D. Whedon's Commentary on the Gospels
      • " Vs. 14-30 show the need for responsible use of the gifts of God in His service during the time when Jesus is not present."  --Eerdman's New Bible Commentary, 1970 Edition
      • "This parable illustrates the state of the Church before and at Christ's second coming."   --Eerdman's New Bible Commentary, 1954 Edition
      • "The parable of the talents, adapted from Q (cf. Luke 19:12-27), is also intended as a message on the need for faithful stewardship of the responsibilities that have been assigned during the interim before the end -- an interim for which no one can predict the terminus... The issue is stewardship in light of the unexpected return of the owner."  --Interpreter's One Volume Commentary on the Bible
    • On Matthew 25:21 and 23
      • "For though we are not saved for the merit of our works, (for our sins infinitely overbalance all our good,) yet having been forgiven all our sins by the merits of Christ, all that we have done of good, or avoided of evil, by faith in Christ, our final judge will applaud, and will view in it a merit which he will reward."   D.D. Whedon's Commentary on the Gospels
      • "The first two servants were good and faithful, for they made the most of their opportunities for their master's sake."    --Eerdman's New Bible Commentary, 1970 Edition
    • On Matthew 25:29
      • "The parable concludes that different spiritual opportunities are given to different people.  Those who take them will have further ones (presumably especially in the life to come) and those who do not will be thrown out as useless."    --Eerdman's New Bible Commentary, 1970 Edition
    • On Matthew 25:30
      • "For what?  What had he done?  It is true he had not done good.  But neither is he charged with doing any harm.  Why, for this reason, for barely doing no harm, he is consigned to outer darkness.  He is pronounced a wicked, because he was a slothful, and unprofitable, servant.  So mere harmlessness, on which many build their hope of salvation, was the cause of his damnation!"  --John Wesley's Notes Upon the New Testament
    A72: Proper 28;  25th Sunday After Pentecost;  33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
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