Monthly Question Page
*Continued from last month (August 26).
Q. How is the word “usury” used in the Bible?
A. The point is simply this: each of us have been given abilities and gifts that we are to use for the glory of the Lord, for the blessing of souls, and in His service. If we use what has been supplied by His grace, there will be increase, Paul desired for the believers at Philippi, when he wrote concerning “fruit that may abound to your account” (Philippians 4:17).
In a parable in Matthew the Lord said, “Thou oughtest therefore to have put My money to the exchangers, and then at My coming I should have received Mine own with usury” (Matthew 25:27). In Luke He says, “Wherefore then gavest not thou My money into the bank, that at My coming I might have required Mine own with usury?” (Luke 19:23). Note that the one who did not trade, or put his money to the “exchangers,” or as Luke says, the “bank” was only a professor and was cast into “outer darkness” (Matthew 25:30). However, the principle applies to all. As believers we will be held accountable at the judgment seat of Christ. Have we been faithful?
