As Christians, it is our duty and it is our privilege to do everything in our power to

increase the ministry of the gospel of the kingdom of God.

Productivity. It's been a buzzword for some time. How can we be more effective, more

efficient in our work? But if we ever stopped to wonder, does God care about productivity

when it comes to ministry and the advancement of the kingdom?

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us for this Sunday edition of Renewing

Your Mind. Each Lord's Day, we're hearing sermons from R.C. Sproul that he preached at St. Andrews

Chapel in Sanford, Florida, and he's walking us through the gospel of Luke. Today, we find

ourselves in Luke 19, and a parable of Jesus, and this parable, helps us think about productivity

as it relates to spiritual matters, but not only productivity, also matters of economics

and stewardship. So let's hear from Dr. Sproul.

Our scripture this morning is taken again from the gospel according to St. Luke. We're

in chapter 19, and I will be reading from verse 11 through verse 27. That's a congregation

please to stand for the reading of the Word of God. Now as they heard these things, he spoke

another parable because he was near Jerusalem and because they thought the kingdom of God

would appear immediately. Therefore, he said a certain noble man went into a far country

to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. And so he called ten of his servants delivered

to them ten miners and said to them, do business till I come. But his citizens hated him and

sent a delegation after him saying, we will not have this man to reign over us. And so it was

that when he returned having received the kingdom, he then commanded these servants to whom he

had given the money to be called to him, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.

Then came the first saying, master, your mine has earned ten miners. And he said to him, well done,

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