The evil slave
*** ka chap. 17 pp. 357-358
par. 55 The “Slave” Who Lived to See the “Sign” ***
55 The Lord Jesus Christ will continue to have a “faithful and discreet slave” class down to
the end of its happy service on earth. However, each spirit-begotten, anointed member of that
“slave” class today must watch his conduct that he does not prove himself unfit to continue in
that highly favored class. By failure to maintain his personal faithfulness and discreetness
he would become like a man who turns out to be an “evil slave.” Jesus warned of this danger
when he continued on with his illustration to say:
*** ka chap. 17 pp. 361-362
par. 64 The “Slave” Who Lived to See the “Sign” ***
64 Such a class that was “cut asunder” displayed the characteristics and suffered the
consequences of “that evil slave” described by Jesus and could, at least in a limited way, be
called the “evil slave” class. In his illustration Jesus said that the master “will assign him
his part with the hypocrites.” (Matthew 24:51) In the corresponding illustration in which the
“slave” is called a “steward,” Jesus says: “He will ... assign him a part with the
unfaithful ones.” (Luke 12:46) During his parousia or presence the Lord Jesus definitely does
not care to have any professed Christians who take on the traits of “that evil slave” or
“steward” within his “household staff” or “domestics.” The Christianity of such ones turns out
to be hypocritical and they belong with the religious hypocrites of Christendom. They prove
themselves unfaithful, not faithful, reliable, trustworthy in what the Lord appointed them to
do. They belong with the unfaithful professed Christians of Christendom.
*** w52 2/1 p. 79 par. 9
Jehovah’s Theocratic Organization Today ***
9 To it are committed all the Kingdom interests on earth, a primary one of which is
the flood of new truths that come into existence because of the fulfillment of
many prophecies. The message is becoming more full and complete, more vital
for the critical times in which we live, more effective in dividing the peoples of the nations
into either the sheep or the goat class. These sheep now being gathered are the Lord’s “other
sheep”, belonging to him, and since all of the Master’s belongings are to be cared for by the
discreet slave this faithful anointed class must expand its feeding program to supply not only
the domestics but also these “other sheep” with “their food at the proper time”. (John 10:16)
This the discreet slave faithfully does. Through its legal agency, the Watchtower Society, it
provides the spiritual food in printed form, arranges for meetings, organizes service
activities, sends out special traveling representatives and missionaries, arranges for large
assemblies, and in many other ways provides the means for the domestics and other sheep to be
fed and strengthened and efficiently directed in united action for Jehovah’s praise.
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