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The meaning of the parables:

1. The Parable of the Virgins: Be ready for His coming!
2. The Parable of the Talents: Be faithful until His coming!

I The Delegation of Authority

1. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man traveling to a far country: [Verse 14]

Traveling to a far country = Apodemeo = “To visit a foreign land”

Matt 21:33 “Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.”

1. He called his own servants

Servants = Doulos = “Bond slaves” (used 6 times in this parable)

1 Cor 6:19-20 “… you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”

1. He delivered his goods to them

Delivered = Paradidomi = “To entrust or commit”

Illustration: The disciples were made fiduciaries of the Kingdom of Heaven

Definition: “A fiduciary is a person legally appointed and authorized to hold and manage the assets of another person for their benefit rather than for his or her own profit.”

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The meaning of the parables:

1. The Parable of the Virgins: Be ready for His coming!
2. The Parable of the Talents: Be faithful until His coming!

I The Delegation of Authority

1. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man traveling to a far country: [Verse 14]

Traveling to a far country = Apodemeo = “To visit a foreign land”

Matt 21:33 “Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.”

1. He called his own servants

Servants = Doulos = “Bond slaves” (used 6 times in this parable)

1 Cor 6:19-20 “… you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”

1. He delivered his goods to them

Delivered = Paradidomi = “To entrust or commit”

Illustration: The disciples were made fiduciaries of the Kingdom of Heaven

Definition: “A fiduciary is a person legally appointed and authorized to hold and manage the assets of another person for their benefit rather than for his or her own profit.”

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I The Delayed Coming

The parable of the “Two Servants” in Mt 24:45 addresses the Rapture of the Church!

The parable of the “10 Virgins” in our text today addresses the 2nd Coming of Christ!

The proper interpretation of parables:

1. Allegorical: Everything in the parable has a mystical, deeper meaning
2. Historical: The parable has a plain meaning and one primary truth

Background on the three stages of Jewish weddings:

1. The engagement: a formal agreement made by the fathers.
2. The betrothal: the ceremony where mutual promises are made in the presence of family and friends.
3. The marriage (gamos= wedding celebration and feast): following a year of preparation, the bridegroom would come at an unexpected time and make his way to the home of his bride to retrieve her and take her to place the had prepared for her! The bridesmaids, along with others, would then make their way to the home of bridegroom (often at night with lighted torches), where there would be a week of feasting and celebration!

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