The Parables of the Talents & the Minas (1)

2025-10-02

The poorest, the most unlettered, the most obscure have the “very little” which yet can coin enormous future wealth.— D.M. Panton, “The Judgment Seat of Christ,” page 31 In the statement above, Mr. Panton is drawing a lesson from the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25: If we as the believers in Christ are faithful to the Lord as His servants in this age with the “very little” He has committed to us today, we will receive an incalculable reward when He returns and exercises His judgment to begin the next age, His 1,000 year reign upon the earth. ...

The poorest, the most unlettered, the most obscure have the “very little” which yet can coin enormous future wealth.
— D.M. Panton, “The Judgment Seat of Christ,” page 31

In the statement above, Mr. Panton is drawing a lesson from the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25: If we as the believers in Christ are faithful to the Lord as His servants in this age with the “very little” He has committed to us today, we will receive an incalculable reward when He returns and exercises His judgment to begin the next age, His 1,000 year reign upon the earth.

This is one of the two parables in the Gospels where the Lord illustrates how He has gifted His believers for their service to Him in the church age, and how He will either reward or discipline us, based on our service to Him, when He returns.

The other is the Parable of the Minas in Luke 19. Regarding the lesson of that parable, Mr. Panton states,

Officers are required for the administration of a kingdom, and so God has deliberately interposed a prolonged period between His two advents, that our Lord might be enabled to so test his servants, in His absence, as to discover which are fitted for positions of responsibility and trust at His return.
— page 35

How sober is this matter of the Lord’s coming reward, or discipline, of His believers, based upon our service to Him, as revealed in these two parables!

And that is what we consider in this episode of the podcast.

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Bible Verses for this Episode
See Episode #149: “The Parables of the Talents and of the Minas”

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RESOURCES
This Podcast Series: “The Judgment Seat of Christ”
Episode #143: “What Is the Kingdom of the Heavens?”
Note: “D.M. Panton: How the Lord Is Testing Us”

Books
D.M. Panton, purchase The Judgment Seat of Christ
D.M. Panton, download The Judgment Seat of Christ
Witness Lee, A Brief Definition of the Kingdom of the Heavens
Watchman Nee, The Salvation of the Soul

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Recorded…
in Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, 2 October 2025

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