“Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them,” so begins Jesus Parable of the Talents. (Matthew 25:14-30) Actually, the main issue Paul has been addressing for three chapters, Jesus cleverly presents in one brilliant easy to grasp parable.
Apostle Paul concludes his theological dissertation, “So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God.” (1) Paul again calls himself a servant entrusted by God with secret things. He first wrote of this in 2:6-10.
The mysterious secret is the gospel which God made known through the Spirit to the apostles and the prophets that the Gentiles would be saved along with the Jews through Christ Jesus (Romans 16:25-26; Ephesians 3:4-6; 1 Timothy 3:16). This is what God entrusted to all of his people, the message of Christ Jesus, the Savior crucified, died, buried, and risen from the dead.
Filled with the Spirit, Paul’s next statement is important for the church to heed: “Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful,” for it is also the conclusion and warning of Jesus’ parable, “For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'” (Matthew 25:29-30)
