Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

This parable teaches us that we're not responsible for how much we receive.

That's the decision of the master.

We're responsible to invest what he's given us according to the abilities that he's given us.

The master gave the same commendation to the one who earned back five as he did to the one who earned back 10.

Each did according to his own ability.

Thank you. earn back 10. Each dead according to his own ability. Thanks for joining us today for Summit Life with pastor, author, and

apologist J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovitch. You know, to follow Jesus almost always involves risk.

There's the risk of releasing control, of submitting to God's word and yielding every area of your life to Jesus.

And frankly, it feels a little scary at times, doesn't it? Well, in today's message from the Gospel of Luke,

Pastor Jady looks at the

parable of the 10 Minas, where we see that likewise, sewing for a harvest using our own

resources can also involve risk. But when the risk is for the building up of God's kingdom,

in the end, it's always worth it. So let's join Pastor Jadie right now in Luke chapter 19. Luke chapter 19, if you got your

Bibles this morning, and I certainly hope that you brought them, Luke 19. The year was 1939,

and farmers in Oklahoma faced an excruciating choice. And that choice was whether to use their last remaining wheat seed

to feed their families, because obviously you can eat it, or they could do that for a few months

while they sold off their farms and they moved back east, or they could plant those seeds and hope

for rain. You see, here was their dilemma. In the 1920s, many of them had left their

low-paying factory jobs in the Northeast for a chance of fortune in the great American Midwest.

Things had gone amazing for a few years, but in 1931, Oklahoma went through the worst drought

and recorded history. To make matters worse, years of sloppy farming techniques

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