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“At nine o’clock in the morning he was passing through the marketplace and saw some people standing around doing nothing.“Matthew 20:3“So, they went to work in the vineyard. At noon and again at three o’clock he did the same thing.“

Matthew 20:5

What kind of return on His investment will God get from me?

Luke 19:11-27

Spurgeon applied this to us spiritually: “Why is any one of us remaining idle towards God? Has nothing yet had power to engage us to sacred service? Can we dare to say, ‘No man hath hired us?”

• We don’t work to be saved, but because we are saved.
• We work from the overflow of God’s goodness not to earn His goodness.

“Appearance before Christ’s tribunal is the privilege of Christians. It is concerned with the assessment of works and, indirectly, of character, not with the determination of destiny; with reward, not status.” – Robert L. Harris

• The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
  Proverbs 13:4 (ESV)

• And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
  Galatians 6:9 (ESV)

• For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
  Matthew 16:27 (ESV)

• His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
  Matthew 25:21 (ESV)

• For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
  Hebrews 6:10 (NKJV)

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Don’t be idle, the Kingdom is at hand. How often does God look from Heaven and find me idle.