2. 1.Parable of the Talents (Matt 25)
•This parable teach us:
•To use our given talents / skill wisely,
•The servant with 1 talent failed to invest . He was afraid , wrong
information/knowledge of his master lead to wrong actions - resulted in
wrong relationship & ended in catastrophic,
•Second look of this man ! Is he a crook? He faithfully kept the 1 talent
until return to the Master
•He was a good man but Goodness /honesty alone don’t save him
•Wrong information / being ignorant due to Satan’s influence
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3. 2. Sirach 15:11-20
•People perished due to lack of knowledge & ignorant
•The tone noted that God is Sad or angry?
-Angry means due to things had happened & can be corrected
- Sad means duo to things had happened but can’t be corrected
•Goodness alone can’t save!
•Salvation is thru goodness & true knowledge of God
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4. Three areas under mind :
1.God’s Will
2.God’s Punishment
3.Curse
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5. 1. God’s Will:
• Hardly people talks of God’s will upon Good/ success
events happen to them!
Examples: One’s Wedding, Graduation, etc..
• Often people talk of God’s will upon bad /sad events
happen to them!
Examples: Infant birth followed by illness /death , fatal
accident, etc.
• How long God make a baby? 9 months or 6K hours
• Is God is Stupid enough to waste his time to make a baby
& then kill? Do think again!
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6. God did kill people in the Old Testament:
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8. Our Image of God
• Jesus’s own clear words the
final revelation of the Father
i.e. on true image of God &
warned about satan
Jn10:10 , Jn 8:44 Rom 1:29
• God is life-giving
Ezekiel 18:23 Mat 22:32
• Satan- thief SDK & causing
unnecessary sufferings
Lifr
GOD
LIFE
IN
ABUNDANCE
Satan
-Steal (S)
-kill (K)
-destroy(D)
-lies Jn 8:44
9. • Two kinds of Sufferings:
1. Unnecessary suffering
2. Necessary suffering- The Cross
E.g. unnecessary suffering:
• OT – war, famines due to Israel’s
sinfulness (Dt 30)
• NT- Jesus cured all the sick
( Mt 8:16)
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10. FREEWILL & FREEDOM
• God gives us life & Freewill
• Freewill is precious, hardest
to maintain , our personal
sovereignty
• No-one comes in without
our consent – our choice!
• When we choose to allow
the Evil One to come into
our lives – we have
exercised our Freewill
(even if we are not aware that we
have made that choice)
11. • Becoz we or those over
us have exercised our
Freewill – God cannot
stop but only watch
• What we choose, we
reap the consequences,
not only for ourselves
but for all those
attached to us
FREEWILL & FREEDOM
Unless and until this
choice for sin is revoked
and renounced, God
cannot come in
