This is another of those Sundays I wish we had recorded! I departed from the text substantially in the second half of the sermon and have no record of what I actually said. What I did do was lay out the three ways of looking at this text more clearly:
- as a parable that tells of God’s super-abundance—unmerited and beyond imagining,
- as a reflection on Jesus’ own ministry and returning to the beginning of that ministry in temptation—which path will Jesus take? Wealth and power, or losing everything?
- as a story telling of Jesus’ solidarity with those whose lives are the third servant’s life—no matter what they do, even that is taken away again and again by The Man.
Here is the sermon: