PARABLES OF THE TALENTS AND
THE POUNDS
Summary: cont.
THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM
If we are walking under the principle of the law of work,
there will be conflicts,
for under this principle we fall into
Rom. 7:15-25.
Under this principle, we are earthbound.
We are concerned and preoccupied with,
earthly, physical and material things.
The spiritual things of the heavens are
closed to us.
We are earthbound by the works of the
law.
Jesus
said to Peter;
"I will give
you the keys of the kingdom of heaven,
and whatsoever
thou shalt bound on earth,
shall be bound
in heaven ,
and whatsoever
thou shalt loose on earth,
shalt be loosed
in heaven."
(Mat. 16:19).
Emphasize works, and I bind people
to the earth,
and the heavenly things are closed to
them.
Emphasize works, to the unbelievers,
and they cannot be save,
and cannot see nor enter in the kingdom
of God.
Emphasize works, and the Christians
cannot enter
into the deeper things of spiritual realm,
the deeper knowledge of the realm of God.
Emphasize Grace
and heavens are opened,
the spiritual things are revealed,
and the deeper spiritual knowledge is
opened to them.
When you emphasize GRACE,
you are also speaking of THE CROSS OF
CHRIST and of FAITH.
It is all wrapped up in these three words.
Grace is what God hath done.
The Cross is what Christ hath done,
and faith is what the Holy Spirit has
revealed to you,
that it is all done.
The keys are used
to unlock the door to salvation,
for the unsaved,
and to open the door to deeper spiritual
knowledge,
for the believers.
These three things are the attribute of
God.
The attributes or the character of God
are,
Grace, Holiness and Power.
(See notes on The Glory of God)
The word Keys is
in the plural for it is three important things.
These 3 things are the keys,
which opens the door to heavens.
To the spiritual realm of God.
All these 3 things are included,
in the Gospel of God.
And faith is what turns the keys to open
the door to heaven.
Jesus said to the
Lawyers, with the Scribes and the Pharisees,
"Woe unto you
lawyers!
for you have
taken away the key of knowledge:
ye entered in
not yourselves,
and those that
were entering in you hindered."
(Luk. 11:52).
Jesus said,
The lawyers have
stopped others
from entering in
by taking away the key of knowledge.
They have taken away the key by
adding works to the Cross of Christ,
and by adding commandments and traditions
of men.
Emphasize works to the unbelievers,
and you take away the key to the
door of salvation.
Emphasize works to the Christians,
and you close the door,
to deeper spiritual things of God.
This is what the Apostle
Paul warns of,
in the Epistles to the Galatians,
Colossians and in other epistles.
We, too, should not add works to the Grace
of God,
to the Cross of Christ and to faith,
lest we hinder the unbelievers from salvation,
and the Chrisitans from entering,
deeper into the realm of the spiritual
things of God.
The Cross
of Christ,
is the central point of the key
to spiritual knowledge in salvation,
and in spiritual knowledge in the deeper
things of God.
The Cross of Christ reveals
to us His Grace,
Holiness and His Power.
These 3 things are the
attributes,
the character of God.
It reveals to us true spiritual worship.
It is what Christ has done, and we can
do no more,
but to trust and walk by faith in His
Word.
Honor His Word and you honor
Him,
trust in His Word and you
trust in Him,
obey his word and you obey
Him,
Love His Word and you love
Him.
See Isaiah 22:22-25,
for it has reference to the Cross of Christ
as the key.
If
I know the deeper meaning, of the Cross in my life,
I know that I am dead and am crucified
with Him.
Jesus will take residence in my life,
for I yield or step aside, and He takes
full residence as Lord.
This is emptying myself of the position
in my heart.
I step aside because I
know I am crucified on the Cross.
Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ
lives in me,
and the life that I now live,
I live by the faith, of the Son of God
who loved me and gave Himself for me.
The person
in the Parable of the Talents, was given an additional talent,
and no comment was made that he alreadyt
has 10.
He had the 10 by having the 5 and producing
5.
No comments that he already has ten because
He needed the additional talent
(more knowledge in the meaning of the
Cross)
for his progressive sanctification.
In the Parable of the Pounds,
he was given the additional pound, and
the comment was made,
"he hath 10 pounds."
The comment was made here, in this parable,
for he produced 10 (the world and his
soul to the Lord).
Thus he already had the fulness of the
Cross.
We have the
abundant life,
if we understand and have the deeper knowledge
of the Cross.
When we understand the deeper meaning
of the working of the Cross of Christ,
the abundant life becomes a reality in
our lives,
for Christ now reigns and He is LIFE abundant.
Christ is the answer
to all our questions,
and is the victory to whatever adversities
may come.
He has overcome for us, and now we overcometh
by faith
(1Joh. 5:4-5).
Everything is in Christ.
He is our victory, but we must go through
the Cross.
It is knowing the deeper operation of
the Cross,
that is the key that unlocks all the mysteries
of the spiritual realm and the reality
of the love,
holiness and the power of God.
The abundant life is ours in Christ, as
He came to die for us,
to give life and to give life more abundantly.
To know the complete fulness of the
abundant life,
while we are in the mortal bodies,
here on earth, perhaps will not
be fully realized.
We can only know it in full, when we are
changed,
and have a body liken unto His body when
He comes for us.
There is not sufficient words now here
on earth to describe the fulness of it.
It was through grace,
that God gave His Son to die for our sins
on the cross,
and it was through grace that we believe.
It was through grace that we receive the
Holy Spirit,
and all blessings is by His grace.
Yes! It is grace for
grace.
The key (Cross) was given by GRACE,
and when we believe, (faith) we
have turned the key,
and open the door to spiritual truth,
to the realm of God.
Grace is what God the Father hath done,
the cross is what Christ hath done,
by faith we say that it was all what God
has done,
through the power of the Holy Spirit.
"And of His fulness
have all we received, and grace for grace."
(Joh. 1:16).
Emphasize works, and you close the door
to spiritual truth,
and keep others from entering in, and
keep them earthbound.
How ironic, that Christians
are proclaiming to the unbelievers,
that salvation is free and there is no
works involved to be saved.
It was done completely by God,
and all we do is believe and receive it
in our hearts.
To the Christians however, they say, now
that you're saved,
you must do the work of God.
Many are using the key to open
the door to heaven, in salvation,
but because they do not know what the
key
is,
are closing the door to deeper spiritual
knowledge,
by adding works to grace.
Add
one iota of works to it and you close the door
(Rom. 11:6).
We lack the deeper knowledge of His
grace, that is the problem.
Learn more of His Grace, by knowing more
and more of His Love for you,
that was revealed by His Cross.
A love that suppasses all human understanding.
A love that can only be revealed by the
Spirit of God through His Word.
You can receive this knowledge only by
His grace.
Yes, it is a paradox.
We need His grace to learn more of His
grace.
It was
given to us by, through, and in the Cross of Christ.
There on the Cross, was the beginning
of the complete victory over self,
the world and Satan.
The Cross of Christ reveals His grace,
it reveals the love,
holiness and power of God.
Learn of God himself, by learning more
of Christ,
and only through his Word, the Word of
God.
It is in your hand; It must be in
your heart.
Our heart must abandon self,
and open, to receive Him through His Word,
but in spiritual knowledge.
We can only learn of more of His
Grace,
by abandoning ourselves of trying,
and only abandoning ourselves,
can we learn more of His Grace.
His grace touched our hearts and we receive
it by faith.
Continue in His Grace,
and you continue to grow in the grace
and knowledge,
of Christ, who is our grace.
We see degrees of man's
adding works to grace,
according to various religions and faith.
Some rely on the total human efforts for
salvation.
Christians are saved by grace through faith,
but the degrees of works involved in various
denomination continues.
We are saved by Grace through faith,
and we continue in His Grace by faith.
Christians, adding one iota of works to
grace, and we close the door.
The gall of the human
race,
who thinks that salvation depends on his
efforts of goodness,
and of the Christians who forget the Cross,
and His love for us,
(which is our first love)
and think that we can do anything for
Him.
We
cannot even begin to realize the depth of His Grace,
and all that is in store in the heavenly
realm.
His Grace is so tremendously great,
that we in our finite mind,
see only a tiny glimpse,
of the greatness of Himself,
and only what we can,
in our humanly mind,
comprehend.
Oh, if
we could only see in our hearts,
how wonderful the gift of eternal life
is.
All our thanks now is only our thanksgiving,
of what we comprehend.
If we knew more of it,
(for our mind cannot comprehend all
of it now),
our thanksgiving would be deeper and endless.
When He comes, we shall see what life is
really and truly all about.
As we have only a glimpse
of the universe,
we have a lesser glimpse of His greatness,
that shall be revealed in Christ,
in more fullness when He comes for us.
We shall be like Him, for we shall see
Him as He is.
The Apostle Paul says,
there are no words in our vocabulary,
that can describe what he had seen.
The suffering is not to be, nor can be
compared,
with the Glory that shall be revealed
in that day.
The joy of the full
salvation,
and Glory that we shall share with Him,
is the hope we have in eternity.
We shall live with Him in His Glory forever
and ever.
Then shall all knees bow in full adoration
of Him,
who was crucified for and by our sins.
All praises belong to Him who loved us,
and gave Himself for us.
It is by Him, through Him and for Him,
that all creation will worship in eternity,
and all this was done in GRACE.
He will reign as King
of kings and Lord of lords,
our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ.
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