For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have more than enough. But from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. And throw this good-for-nothing slave into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.      Matthew 25:29-30 HCSB

This passage is how Jesus ends the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30). In this parable a man going on a journey gives talents to three men. To one he gives five talents, to one he gives two and to the third he gives one. The first two men invested their talents and doubled them by the time the man returned. The third man fearing the master because he knew he was a harsh man, buried his talent and had only that one talent to return to the master.

The master was displeased with this young man and told him he could have at least invested it into a bank where it would have earned some interest.

This third person condemned himself with his own words when he told the master, “I know you are a difficult man, reaping where you haven’t sown and gathering where you haven’t gathered seed. So, I was afraid and went off and hid your talent in the ground.” If he knew this man was so difficult, why did he do nothing with the talent given to him.

In this parable, the man going on the journey represents Christ. The servants represent those who profess to believe in Christ and are given different levels of responsibility.

Being a believer means we truly believe in Christ. It means we have faith in Him and put all our trust in Him. If we do this, we will want to do good works. We will want to be fruitful and produce good fruit meaning we will want to do the work He has called us to do.

If we claim to believe but do no work, we are fruitless. We produce no fruit and therefore we are hypocrites. We are useless slaves to Christ and will be condemned to hell, that dark place where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The God we serve is a good God, He is a good Father, He is a loving God who has given His own Son to die to save us from our sins. He wants each and every one of us to come to Him and He waits with open arms.

We can accept Him, or we can reject Him. If we accept Him, we receive His blessings beyond measure, we receive divine grace, we receive eternal life and His favor.

But if we reject His goodness, it’s like burying the blessings He gives us in the ground and clinging to the things of this world. If we do this, we will ultimately lose everything we have.

This is what Jesus meant when he said to those who have more will be given. If we accept Him as our Savior, we have the Holy Spirit living inside of us. We have God’s favor, grace, protection in times of trouble, eternal life and riches in heaven.

But for those who are not saved, they lose it all.

Will you be one who has or one who has not? The choice is yours.

Have a great day!