Reaping What You Did Not Sow (Matthew 25:14-30)
Douglass Church - Douglass Blvd Christian Church
English - November 15, 2020 17:24 - 22.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality Spirituality disciple christ progressive christian church open affirming lgbt justice sermon Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The third slave is treated like whistleblowers regularly are when they lay bare the despicable truth: The master in this story, as has so often been the case throughout history, isn't a benevolent employer handing out generous Christmas bonuses; he's a boss who's gotten rich by exploiting the labor of others—and when he's called on it, he lashes out to defend himself.
In fact, if the third slave looks like anyone, he looks like Jesus before both the Roman authorities and their collaborators in the temple in the next two chapters. And what do the masters of empire do to Jesus for presuming to speak the truth to power?
They do what they do to every whistleblower: they "vilify, shame, and humiliate him so that his words will carry no weight."
And then they kill him.
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