Parable of faithful servant and evil servants
Jesus told a parable for warning us to remain watchful for His second coming, Jesus told a parable in Matt.24: 45-51. A master has appointed a servant as a ruler over his household to give the food in due season. The said servant becomes a faithful servant if he rules his household in a faithful manner. But the same servant becomes an evil servant if he does not rule his household in a faithful manner. The servant is expected to give the household “meat in due season”. “Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing”. The servant is supposed to give food to the inmates in due season. The Lord has appointed you as a ruler in His body, the Church. You are supposed to give food to the other members of His body. Food means “material help” and “spiritual food”. When the Lord comes again, if He finds you so doing, you will be blessed to have dominion over the world along with Him. He will make you ruler “over all His goods”. After His second coming, the Lord will make that faithful servant to rule over His kingdom.
If that servant thinks that his master is delaying his coming and begins to “smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken”, the lord, when he will come “in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of”, will cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: “there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth”.
Nobody in the body of Christ is supposed to harass or persecute the other members of His body, and to resort to self-indulgence by way of lavish spending of His money for himself/herself. These days, we find many ministers of God indulge in lavish life-style. If Jesus comes on a day when the evil servant is not looking for Him, and at an hour that he is not aware of, He will not reward that evil servant. He will not be allowed to rule with Him but will be thrown into a place where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Through this message, the Holy Spirit wants those who persecute or judge the fellow servants (the other members of His body) and also who commit self-indulgence with His money.
- Job Anbalagan