How we love and help others is the test and purpose-training of this life. PEOPLE are the TALENTS of the parable. How we treat them – all of them in our life – determines if we are faithful servants of our King to whom they belong. Ruling and reigning with Messiah equals HEALING and HELPING the nations and the earth. It will take a thousand years to heal and help and restore all the damage from the last several thousand years of the war over creation. Nothing else matters in life. Everything – every resource every effort every focus – should be oriented towards LOVE and HELPING and HEALING.
Scripture Passages:
- Matt 25:1-46
- Matt 24:42-51
- Matt 25:4 > Matt 5:13-16
- Matt 5:1-12
- Matt 5:4 > Ez 9:4
- Is 3-4
- Is 4:5-6 > Joel 2:31-32
- Ez 20:33-38
- Zech 13:7-9
- Mic 6:8
- Matt 25:10-12 > Matt 7
- Eph 3:17-19
- James 3:14-18
The oil is produced by the fruit (olives), which can only come by abiding in Messiah, then being HARD-PRESSED under PRESSURE. We have to bring everything to our King and allow Him to refine it and produce in us the oil that will burn and shine His light / love to those around us.