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Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine and fifty three. Today,

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Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the Gospel

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Speaker 1: of Luke as we carry on with more of Chapter nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Kristensen.

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Speaker 1: We're going to continue on with the story of the

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Speaker 1: ten Minas, but first a word from this sponsor, starting

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Speaker 1: in verse eleven, the Parable of the ten Minas. While

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Speaker 1: they were listening to this, I'm going to pause there

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Speaker 1: for a second because this that we've got here is

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Speaker 1: the story of Zachias. And so Jesus goes to Zachias's house,

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Speaker 1: and Zachiah says he's going to change, and then Jesus says,

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Speaker 1: Salvation has come to this house for this man to

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Speaker 1: is a son of Abraham, for the son of Man

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Speaker 1: came to seek and to save the lost. And then

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Speaker 1: we get While they were listening to this, he went

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Speaker 1: on to tell them parable because he was near Jerusalem

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Speaker 1: to appear at once. He said, a man of noble

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Speaker 1: his servants and gave them ten minas. Put this to work,

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Speaker 1: he said, until I come back. But his subjects hated

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Speaker 1: him and sent a delegation after him to say, we

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Speaker 1: don't want this man to be our king. He was

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Speaker 1: made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for

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Speaker 1: the servants to whom he had given the money, in

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Speaker 1: order to find out what they had gained with it.

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Speaker 1: The first one came and said, Sir, yrmina has earned

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Speaker 1: ten more. Well done, my good servant. His master replied,

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Speaker 1: because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter,

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Speaker 1: your mina has earned five more. His master answered, you

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Speaker 1: take charge of five cities. Then another servant came and said, Sir,

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Speaker 1: here is your mina. I have kept it laid away

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Speaker 1: in a piece of cloth. I was afraid of you

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Speaker 1: because you are a hard man. You take out what

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Speaker 1: not sew. His master replied, I will judge you by

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Speaker 1: your own words, you wicked servant. You knew, did you

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Speaker 1: that I am a hard man, taking out what I

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Speaker 1: did not put in and reaping what I did not sew.

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Speaker 1: Why then didn't you put my money on deposit so

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Speaker 1: with interest. Then he said to those standing by, take

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Speaker 1: one who has ten minas. Sir, They said, he already

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Speaker 1: has ten. He replied, I tell you that to everyone

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Speaker 1: who has more will be given, But as for the

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Speaker 1: one who has nothing, even what they have will be

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Speaker 1: taken away. But those enemies of mine who did not

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Speaker 1: want me to be king over them, bring them here

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Speaker 1: that amina is about three months wage, and so it's

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Speaker 1: a lot of money. The story of the Menas is

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Speaker 1: similar to the parable of the Talents, but with some

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Speaker 1: other different things that going on. And the things that

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Speaker 1: guy who wants to become king, this noble who wants

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Speaker 1: the end. That's certainly very different. One of the biggest

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Speaker 1: noticeable differences from the story of the parable of the Talents.

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Speaker 1: What does this have to do with Zichius and what

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Speaker 1: Luke tells us while this is the keyst thing was

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Speaker 1: Palm Sunday story here in Luke nineteen. We are winding

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Speaker 1: So he went away and came back as king, and

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Speaker 1: but apparently not to this guy who's going to become king,

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