2024.01.14 Cost Of Living
Cost Of Living
Week 2
2024.01.14
For the Kingdom of Heaven is like…
For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Matthew 20:1
When they received their pay, they protested to the owner, Those people worked only one hour, and yet you’ve paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.
Matthew 20:11-12
answered one of them, Friend, I haven’t been unfair! Didn’t you agree to work all day for the usual wage?
Matthew 20:13
Don’t let someone else’s blessing, keep you from enjoying yours.
Because no one hired us.
Matthew 20:7
Don’t buy things you don’t need, with money you don’t have, to impress people you don’t like!
Don’t let someone else’s blessing, keep you from enjoying yours.
The Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a man going on a long trip.
Matthew 25:14
The servant who received the five bags of silver began to invest the money and earned five more.
But the servant who received the one bag of silver dug a hole in the ground and hid the master’s money.
Matthew 25:16-18
The master was full of praise. ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant.
You have been faithful in handling this small amount, so now I will give you many more responsibilities. Let’s celebrate together!
Matthew 25:21
The master said, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant.
You have been faithful in handling this small amount, so now I will give you many more responsibilities. Let’s celebrate together!’
Matthew 25:23
You have been faithful over this small amount, so now I will give you much more.
Matthew 25:23
Then he ordered, ‘Take the money from this servant, and give it to the one with the ten bags of silver.
To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance.
But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away.
Matthew 25:28-29
Don’t let someone else’s blessing, keep you from enjoying yours.
To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance.
When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required.
Luke 12:48