Cast Into Outer Darkness - Matthew 25:30

Matthew the apostle wrote how Jesus told His disciples the master of the servant who “hid” the “one talent” given to him said, “You wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed. You ought therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received my own with usury. Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which has ten talents. For unto every one that has shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that has not shall be taken away even that which he has”, and in chapter twenty-five and verse thirty of his book, Matthew writes how Jesus said, “cast the unprofitable servant into outer darkness” where we read:

And cast you the unprofitable servant into outer darkness:

there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The verse reads, “And cast you the unprofitable servant into outer darkness:” Matthew began with Jesus' words, “and cast you” which means “and drive, send and put out with a notion of violence” “the unprofitable servant” or “the useless and good for nothing slave, bondman or man of servile condition” “into outer darkness” which means “into exterior obscurity and darkened eyesight or blindness”. Matthew shared how Jesus said the master of the “useless and good for nothing” servant who was given “one talent” and buried it was to be “thrown” into “exterior obscurity and blindness”.

The verse goes on to say, “there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew added Jesus' words, “there shall be weeping” which means “where will exist wailing, lamentation and compulsive crying” “and gnashing” or “and grinding, snarling, growling with a sense of biting to denote extreme anguish and utter despair of men consigned to eternal punishment in hell” “of teeth” which means “pertaining to the teeth of a person's body” . Matthew shared how Jesus said this place of “outer darkness” would be filled with “wailing, lamentation and people grinding their teeth together” for the anguish around them.

When we think through Matthew's words in this verse, we see the horror that is destined for the “servant” who buried his “talent”. This is why God sent His Son Jesus to be the “Savior” of the world. God desires no person to be “cast into” this horrible place, and He has given to every person the opportunity to know His Son Jesus to escape these things. However, should a person “refuse and reject” God's plan for “salvation”, woe be to those who are thrown into the place where “abject sorrow, darkness and lamentation” will be the daunting norm.

Next time Matthew writes how Jesus shares what will happen, “when the Son of man shall come in his glory”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

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