Now we have another message in the 19th chapter of the Gospel of Luke. The parable of the 10 pounds is what it's called, but I think I'll just entitle this thing the Angry Lord. Now, by the way, this is a true story. This really happened. This really happened to a politician or a ruler in the land of Israel. He was accused falsely, came back and he had no land. And boy did he get mad. And he brought some retribution. And now we see the story, Jesus takes a familiar story, turns it into a parable so they can understand because they knew this story. Let's go from the Greek first and we'll go back to the Amplified Bible. And having, furthering, going on down the road, that's what the little week adversity conjunction there is, and hearing them, these things, having placed before, he said, this parable, because near to be to Jerusalem, him, and to thank them that at once it is about the kingdom of God to appear. in plain sight. They all thought the Kingdom of God was going to appear right now. 19 and verse 12, Epane un anthropos, tis igenes eporuthes eis Koron. Makron, Labane, hiato basileon kai hi pas trepsa. And he said, therefore, there was a certain man. And, yeah, there was a certain man. well-born, born well-to-do, a rich cat from birth, and he went into a country far away to receive for himself the kingdom and to return to rule, basically. Turn around and rule. And now he does something. He's got to go, so he's got to put somebody over the land and over what he's been taken care of. And they call out sauce. They DECA do Lowe's. He out to a deck in our toes DECA Mina's. Hi, a pen throws out to Prague. Ma to sauce day in Hey, Eric, am I in Hawaii with the mind? And having called ten slaves belonging to him, he gave to them one thousand days' wages. Ten minutes. One thousand days' wages. Why? One thousand days' wages. And he said to them, you do business while I'm coming. While I go and while I'm coming back, I want you to do business for me. Now this really happened. This really happened to a man. Verse number 14, hoides polite, But the citizens belonging to him, they kept on hating him. And they sent a delegation of elders after them saying, not we wish this one to rule over us. This happened now. This is a real story. And the Jews did this. And they sent a delegation catching up with him and going to tell the ruler, we don't like this guy. He's a scoundrel. He's a rat. Now he gave them great authority and a great gift. And this is how they show their appreciation for what he's done for them. De er pragmatus santo. And it came to pass that in his return, having received the kingdom, he said to be called to him the one slaves, these to whom it had been given the money. In order to that, he might receive what was gained by their stock market activity, so to speak. Now let's see what happens here to these rats. This book is just full of rats so far, isn't it? The rich young ruler that was a rat, the rich little short tax collector that was a rat, They got saved, and now we've got some bad boys. And these bad boys stand for these Jews that assassinated the character of this man. Parageneto deho protos legon, kyrie he minasu deka, trozerko santo minos. And it came to Cather, it became the first reporting, saying, Lord, the hundred days' wages of you, ten, it has gained one hundred days' wages. It's got, I've got more money for you. Now, in verse number seventeen, Cai, Epane, Avto, Ige, Agathe, dule, hote, en, ilos kisto, pistos, egenu, iste, exusion, econ, epano, deca, polio. And he said to him, Well done, good and faithful slave, because in little things, in little aloskiton, In a little elastic, that's where we get that word. In this little thing, you were faithful. And you shall become authority having over ten cities. Ten cities. Now this guy was faithful. Some of them weren't. There were some faithful friends that he had appointed, and some weren't. And he came the second one saying, the hundred days wages you gave to me Lord, he made five hundred days wages out of it. Epan de kai tuto kai su epanu ginu pente polion. And he said also to this one, and you shall be over five cities in his kingdom. 1920. kai ho heteros elthain lagon kyrie idu he minas su ein ikon apokane minain en su dorio. And the one different, different kind, he came saying, a different kind, heteros. Behold, the hundred days wages you which I have, I put away in a napkin, in a sweat cloth, a sweat cloth. This is a handkerchief, a sweat rag. He had no honor, no respect for what he had been given. This would be the ultimate disrespect, the ultimate insult, put the money that he gave to him basically in toilet paper. Many children of God have great talents, God-given, but will not use one of them for the glory of the kingdom of God. They have dishonored their Savior, and God, and Lord. Twenty-one. E pho bemen, gar si hote anthropos. Asteros e eres, ho uc ethikos, cai therizes, ho And I kept on fearing you because you are a demanding, exacting man. You are. You take what not you laid down and you reap where you had not sown. He's insulting him again. Insulted again. And he says to him, out of your own mouth, Out of the mouth of you, I shall judge you. Evil slave, ponera, twisted, crooked, rat you are. Disrespectful slave, you have known that I am a man exacting, and I am taking up what I not laid down, and reaping which not I have sown. Verse number 23. And because of this, not you give me the money upon the table, among the banker's table, the money match. You didn't give it to me. like the tables that Jesus turned over. And I, having come with interest, if it would have earned or exacted. Trapezium. When Jesus went into the temple area and turned over the money benches, the money changers benches, they were banks. In the pagan temples a long time ago, the Trapezium, there was a bench and every citizen that worshipped this god, this pagan god, whatever, they would go there and they would have a priest and they could give their money to the priest and he would give them a note that they had deposited with him $10. And there was a certain amount of interest. Now if that banker and priests proved not to be worthy. He was taken out and flogged and possibly even executed. Jesus, when he went into the temple area and he turned over the tables of the money, the benches of the bank of the money changers, this is what you call bankrupt, broken bench. They would break the bench of the unworthy steward, flog him and possibly even execute him. Now what happened with Jesus? Jesus turned over the money tables and told the high priest, you people are rats, you people are thieves, you've turned my house that should be a house of prayer into a marketplace. He condemned them and yet they flogged him and they crucified him. but they have been crucified many times over. There's been many, many masadas, been many holocausts since then. And there's going to be one more, right here, in the middle of that tribulation period. The tribulation period has come upon the earth for one reason, to bring Israel back to God, because of the Abrahamic and the Davidic covenant. Let's go on and see what I was saying here. And to the ones having stood by, he said, you take from him the hundred days wages and you give it to the one that had the ten minus having. Kai et pein auto kurie eke diakamanos. And they said to him, Lord, he has ten minas already. And now he says in verse number 26, verse number 26, lego himen hoteh panteh toh, hekonteh dothi seiteh apoteh du me hekonteh iskai ha ekeh. Ar theiseteh. And I say to you that every the one having it shall be given from, taken from, or given from. From and to the one not having even also what he has. it shall be taken from him." One last verse. Plaintus ecthrus. Mu tutos tus me thella santos. Me basileusi. Ef autos agagete. Hode kai kada strasete. Autos em prosthen mut. And to the ones hating me, these the ones not having wished me to reign over them, you bring here and you slay them. Right? You execute them in my presence. Yes, he's talking about Israel. Yes, he's talking about Israel. Let's read this now. Go back into the 19th chapter of Luke. And let's read all the way from 11 to 27. Now as they were listening to these things, he proceeded to tell a parable because he was approaching Jerusalem because they thought that the kingdom of God was going to be brought to life and shown forth immediately. They were looking for the wrong kind of king, people. And therefore said a certain omen went into a distant country to obtain for himself a kingdom and then to return. And calling ten of his own slaves, bond servants, he gave them 10 minus each equal to about 100 days wages, nearly $20, and said to them, buy and sell these things while I am gone. But his citizens detested him. They sent an embassy after him to say, we do not want this man to become ruler over us. But he did anyway. And when he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these bondservants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, and he might know how much each had made by buying and selling. And the first one came before him, and he said, Lord, your hundred days' wages has made ten additional minas. 100 days wages. And he said to him, well done, excellent bond servant, because you have been faithful and trustworthy in a very little, you shall have authority over 10 cities. And the second one, he also came and said, Lord, your 100 days wages have made 500 days wages. And he said to him, you will have charge over five cities. Then another came and said, Lord, here is your mina that I have kept laid up in a detestable handkerchief. And I was constantly afraid of you because you are a stern, hard, severe man, and you pick up what you have not laid down, and you reap what you did not sow. And he said to that servant, I will judge and condemn you out of your own mouth, you wicked slave, you twisted perversion. You knew, did you not, that I was a stern, hard, severe man, picking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow? Then what do you do? Why didn't you put my money in the bank, so that in my return I might collect it with interest?" And he said to the bystanders, take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas. And they said to the Lord, he already has ten minas, ten hundred days wages. And he said, Jesus, I tell you that everyone who gets and has will more be given, and from the man who does not get and does not have, will that be taken away from him which he has. What do you have that is the Lord's in your life? What do you have that is Jesus? The indignant king ended by saying this. But as for those enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them in my presence. Slaughter them in my presence. What does the Lord have for you today? What does the Lord have for you to do today? Are you a faithful servant? Can he trust you with what he's given you? I pray you will. Father, we send this message out with a prayer that those that are not saved will come to know you and those that are saved will come to serve you. Forgive me where I failed you, Father. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.