Parable of the Talents
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We long to hear that blessed affirmation, "Well done, good and faithful servant." Yet no one will hear it who is unproductive with the gifts entrusted to them. Today, R.C. Sproul highlights the necessity of wise stewardship in the Christian life.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | You've been faithful over a few things, and I'm going to make you roar over many things. |
| 0:05.9 | Enter into the joy of your Lord. |
| 0:10.7 | I mean, can you imagine what it be like to hear that from Jesus? |
| 0:14.0 | Have Jesus look at you in the eye at the end and said, I know you. |
| 0:19.1 | The door's not shut to you. |
| 0:21.7 | So happy you're here. |
| 0:24.4 | Well done. |
| 0:31.2 | Those are the words we long to hear from our Lord. |
| 0:34.7 | But in the parable of the talents, a servant hears the opposite message, |
| 0:39.3 | you wicked and lazy servant. Hello, this is the Friday edition of renewing your mind. I'm |
| 0:45.3 | Lee Webb. This week, R.C. Sprole has helped us understand some of the hard sayings of Jesus, |
| 0:51.5 | along with some of his I Am sayings, and today he considers one of Jesus |
| 0:55.9 | parables. This message is one of 12 in his complete series titled The Parables of Jesus, and |
| 1:02.3 | you can request all 12 on DVD when you give a donation in support of renewing your mind |
| 1:08.1 | at redoingyourmind.org before midnight tonight. |
| 1:12.1 | So how can we avoid being unprofitable servants? There is only one way. Let's join Dr. Sproll |
| 1:19.3 | now. In this session, we come to the longest parable that is found in the gospel according to St. Matthew. |
| 1:29.7 | It's one of the three that Jesus gave to warn people of the suddenness of his coming. |
| 1:39.2 | And his coming can be seen eschatologically at the end of the age or in our personal eschatology, where we may meet |
| 1:50.6 | him in the next hour. |
| 1:53.2 | And we don't know the day or the hour of our own death, but we are to be prepared as Christian people for his coming, either |
| 2:05.9 | at the end of our lives or at his return at the end of the age. |
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