Church Planting Sunday (Chantilly Sermon)

Luke 19:11 CSB – “As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem, and they thought the kingdom of God was going to appear right away.”

Luke 19:12 CSB – “Therefore he said, “A nobleman traveled to a far country to receive for himself authority to be king and then to return. He called ten of his servants, gave them ten minas, and told them, ‘Engage in business until I come back.’

Luke 19:14 CSB – “But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to rule over us.’

Luke 19:15-26 CSB – “At his return, having received authority to be king, he summoned those servants he had given the money to, so that he could find out how much they had made in business. The first came forward and said, “Master, your mina has earned ten more minas.’ Well done, good servant! he told him. ‘Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, have authority over ten towns.’ The second came and said, “Master, your mina has made five minas.’ So he said to him, ‘You will be over five towns.’ And another came and said, ‘master, here is your mina. I have kept it safe in a cloth because I was afraid of you since you’re a harsh man: you collect what you didn’t deposit and reap what you didn’t sow. He told him, ‘I will condemn you by what you have said, you evil servant! If you knew I was a harsh man, collecting what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow, why then didn’t you put my money in the bank? And when I returned, I would have collected it with interest.’ So he said to those standing there, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas But they said to him, ‘master, he has ten minas.’ I tell you, that everyone who has, more will be given; and from the one who does not have, even what he does have will be taken away.”

Life in this world is training for reigning in the next.

Matthew 6:19-20 CSB – “Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal.”

Luke 16:9 CSB – “And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of worldly wealth, so that when it fails, they may welcome you into eternal dwellings.”

Luke 16:10 CSB – “Whoever is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much. So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will trust you with what is genuine?”

Matthew 16:27b NIV – “he will reward each person according to what they have done.”

Luke 19:27 CSB – “But bring here these enemies of mine, who did not want me to rule over them, and slaughter them in my presence.”