The Parable of the Talents
Amen Podcast
Alex and Lokelani Wilson
5 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Don’t Hide What God Gave You
What happens when fear makes you bury the gifts God gave you? In this episode, we break down Jesus’ Parable of the Talents and why faithfulness—not perfection—is what matters to God.
We’re diving into the fourth of Jesus’ five parables about His second coming, and this one hits different. It’s about a master who entrusts his servants with investments before going on a journey. Two servants double what they’re given. One servant? He digs a hole and hides it out of fear.
Jesus isn’t calling you to be perfect. He’s calling you to be faithful with what He’s given you—whether that’s hospitality, preaching, serving, or loving the people everyone else ignores. This parable shows us that slothfulness isn’t just laziness—it’s spiritual passivity. It’s wanting God without the work. It’s playing it safe when Christ never called us to be safe.
In this episode:
* Why faithfulness matters more than the size of your gift
* What it means to be a “good and faithful slave”
* How fear and passivity can bury your God-given talents
* Why Jesus took the place of the “worthless slave” on the cross
* How to identify and invest the gifts God has given YOU
After the Amen Question: What are the talents God has given you that you need to be more responsible with?
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on, guys, Alex here. Welcome back to the podcast. We are helping out with a little |
| 0:05.0 | internship program on the North Shore of our island. So we're in a little bit of a different room |
| 0:09.1 | today. And the good thing is there's lots of beautiful natural lighting in this room and air |
| 0:15.4 | conditioning, which is some of we have in our studio, because you guys donated so we could get that. |
| 0:20.9 | I guess I always forget that we have it there too. |
| 0:23.6 | But yeah, it's nice to have it somewhere else too and be close to friends. |
| 0:27.7 | But yeah, we're excited to be getting into the fourth of the parosea parables. |
| 0:33.1 | The paroxia, the second coming of Christ, which is what they would have called it in the Greek |
| 0:38.1 | language back then. Parosia, the coming of a king, the appearing of an emperor, that is our |
| 0:44.3 | lord. And he gives us five parables in the book of Matthew that talk about this. And we're in the fourth |
| 0:49.0 | out of five. And this one is the story of the talents. Now, this is a really beautiful story. |
| 1:11.7 | If you are a person that feels like, God, I feel like I'm, I feel like I'm gifted in some ways. And I feel like you have stuff for me to do on this earth while we're here, waiting for you to return. We're going to talk about all those things today. Locilani, thank you for being here because you pray for us. And then I'm actually going to, it's a long passage. |
| 1:13.8 | So we're going to just teach as we go through it. |
| 1:16.0 | So pray for us and then we'll get into it. And then we'll come back together at the end for a question called After the Amen with |
| 1:20.2 | yours truly and led by Lockelawny. |
| 1:24.9 | Yes, let's pray. |
| 1:26.1 | Father, thank you so much for the opportunity to open your word and to learn more about you and to dissect your parables and apply it to our lives and understand the scriptures more. And so help us to open our hearts to hear from you and to just have the faith and the boldness to live out your word. |
| 1:47.9 | We love you, Lord. Amen. Amen. So Matthew 25, 14 through 30. And it is LSB version that we're |
| 1:59.5 | reading from today, the Legacy Standard Bible. |
| 2:02.5 | My favorite translation, very, very accurate translation of the Bible. Verse 14. |
| 2:07.6 | For, it is just like a man about to go on a journey who called his slaves and handed over his |
| 2:12.1 | possessions to them. And to one, he gave five talents to another two and to another one, |
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