Unprofitable Servant Ministries

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21/12/2023

Insight about Luke 17:10..

The essence of the claim "unprofitable servant" is not to degrade ourselves nor to dubbed us useless but to give emphasis that whatever we do, we do it because it is our duty and God deserves every Faithful service and obedience to Him. In the letter of Apostle Paul to the Corinthians he said "For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!"II Cor. 9:16
There is nothing wrong to say or claim that we are unprofitable servants as long as the claim of this title is purely to put ourselves into the position that we magnify and Glorify God. As John the Baptist Said "He Must Increase and I must decrease!"

The people who doesn't really understand the intended interpretation and meaning of Luke 17:10, may rush in the conclusion and promptly judge that we are putting ourselves in the position of unregenerated or unbelievers. What can we say? Their ignorance will not and cannot change the intended meaning of this verse. In the end, there is nothing wrong to use that title, for it is in fact an expression of humility and reminder that there is only one master who deserves our love, obedience and service. We are to accept the fact that we are indeed unprofitable servants in order not to be boastful in the work of the Lord. 😁

We must be faithful to God and we must be faithful to His words. "hoti Δοῦλοι ἀχρεῖοί ἐσμεν"

15/12/2023

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible about Luke 17:10..

Are unprofitable servants - We have conferred no favor. We have “merited” nothing. We have not “benefited” God, or laid him under “obligation.” If he rewards us, it will be matter of unmerited favor. This is true in relation to Christians in the following respects:

1.Our services are not “profitable” to God Job 22:2; he “needs” not our aid, and his essential happiness will not be increased by our efforts.
2.The grace to do his will comes from him only, and all the praise of that will be due to him.
3.All that we do is what is our “duty;” we cannot lay claim to having rendered any service that will “bind” him to show us favor; and,
4.Our best services are mingled with imperfections. We come short of his glory Rom 3:23; we do not serve him as sincerely, and cheerfully, and faithfully as we ought; we are far, very far from the example set us by the Saviour; and if we are saved and rewarded, it will be because God will be merciful to our unrighteousness, and will remember our iniquities no more, Heb 8:12.

15/12/2023

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary on Luke 17:10...

The best servants of Christ, even when they do the best services, must humbly acknowledge that they are unprofitable servants; though they are not those unprofitable servants that bury their talents, and shall be cast into utter darkness, yet as to Christ, and any advantage that can accrue to him by their services, they are unprofitable; our goodness extendeth not unto God, nor if we are righteous is he the better, Ps 16:2; Job 22:2; Job 35:7 (refs3). God cannot be a gainer by our services, and therefore cannot be made a debtor by them. He has no need of us, nor can our services make any addition to his perfections. It becomes us therefore to call ourselves unprofitable servants, but to call his service a profitable service, for God is happy without us, but we are undone without him.

15/12/2023

English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole regarding Luke 17:10..
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; for the infinitely glorious and blessed God can receive no benefit by our services; we have done that which was our duty to do. By which we are instructed,

1. That we are wholly the Lord’s, all our time, strength, abilities; we are obliged to love the Lord with all our heart, and mind, and soul, and strength.

2. That our labour for the Lord must not cease till the Lord ceaseth commanding, till we have done all that the Lord by his revealed will lets us know we have to do.

3. That when we have done all we shall have merited nothing at God’s hands;

a) Because we are servants.

b) Because we have but done our duty.

4. That the Lord may delay our reward till we have done all that he hath commanded us.

5. That when we have it, it is not a reward of thanks, but of grace.

This parable is excellently added to the former discourses. Our Saviour had before pressed the doctrine of charity, he had also showed what must be the root of it, viz. true and lively faith; he here showeth us what we should propose to ourselves as our end in such acts, viz. not to merit at the hand of God, not merely in hope to receive a reward from him, but the glorifying of God by a faithful obedience to his will, owning him as our Lord, and ourselves as his servants, without any vain glory or ostentation, and in all humility confessing ourselves servants, unprofitable servants, and such as have but done our duty, no, though we had done all that he commanded us; waiting for our reward with patience, and taking it at last as of his free grace with thankfulness; which is indeed requisite to the true and regular performance of every good work which we do, and our duty, if the infirmity of our flesh would allow us to do all whatsoever God hath commanded us; but much more when our performances are so lame and imperfect, that the greatest part of what we do amounts not to the least part of what we leave undone.

15/12/2023

Somebody is throwing question at me saying " Why are you using that title Unprofitable Servant? That's not proper to use because we are pastors and we are profitable.. "
I am praying that the following excerpts from different bible commentaries will sufficient enough to justify my stand using this so called "title"..
May the good Lord bless us all😇

1.John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible about Luke 17:10
..say we are unprofitable servants;
not in such sense as unregenerate men are, who are disobedient, and to every good work reprobate and unfit, Ro 3:12 or as the slothful servant, who did not what his Lord commanded, Mt 25:30. Nor is this the sense, that they are unprofitable to men; for they may be, and are very useful and serviceable to men, and to the saints; but that they are so to God, by whose grace and strength they are what they are, and do what they do; and can give nothing to him but what is his own, and his due; and so can lay him under no obligation to them, nor merit any thing from him; no, not even thanks, and much less heaven and eternal life. The Persic version, quite contrary to the sense of the words reads, "we are pure or clean servants, for we have done", c. and the Ethiopic version leaves out the word "unprofitable", and reads "we are servants" we acknowledge ourselves to be servants:
..we have done that which is our duty to do;
wherefore, as diligence is highly proper, and reasonable in doing the work of the Lord, humility is necessary, that a man may not arrogate that to himself, which do not belong to him; or boast of his performances; or place any dependence on them: or have his expectations raised on account of them; since when he has done the most and best, he has done but what he should, and what he was obliged to, and in that is greatly deficient: a saying somewhat like this, is used by R. Jochanan ben Zaccai {z};

"if thou hast learned the law much, do not ascribe the good to thyself; for, for this wast thou created.''

14/12/2022

Love your kids and be careful to follow God's instructions, which includes teaching them His Word, disciplining them out of love, not provoking them, praying with them, and being a good example. “If we don't teach our children to follow Christ, the world will teach them not to.” “Children are great imitators.

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I am a product of an unending Love of God.

If it has not to His workers, I will still be lost in my faith.
Helping God's Ministries is a way of showing gratitude for what He has done for me.
Everyday of my life.