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0:00Be seated.
0:15[Music]
0:27If you are guest 2018, we welcome you to
0:32these sacred gatherings, these holy
0:35assemblies, this body of believers where
0:38we are serious about the spread of the
0:40gospel and the multiplying of disciples.
0:45to all of our digital disciples watching
0:47me live right now across the country and
0:49around the world. You are our family. I
0:51want you to hear my heart. We love you.
0:54We pray for you every week. You mean
0:56everything to us.
0:59And I just thank you for being a part of
1:01this gathering wherever you are.
1:03If you're not a follower of Christ, if
1:06you're outside of the kingdom,
1:09man, I am praying for you that in a
1:11moment during prayer or during worship
1:14or during the proclamation of God's
1:16word, you would you would hear something
1:18that would move you from where you are
1:20towards the light, from darkness towards
1:23the light, from the kingdom of darkness,
1:25towards the kingdom of God, that you
1:26would come aboard this ark of safety
1:29before it's too late. For tomorrow is
1:31not promised to you, my brother or my
1:33sister. For we make plans for tomorrow
1:37and we are not guaranteed to see
1:40tomorrow. And so if you're sitting in
1:41that first overflow or if you're sitting
1:43in that second overflow, if you're in
1:45that double overflow, you all the way at
1:48the back, I'm talking to you right
1:49across this camera. I'm talking to you
1:53that today is the day of salvation.
1:56Today is the day to repent. Today is the
1:59day to trust in Christ with all of your
2:00heart. Today is the day to know Jesus as
2:04your savior. Today is the day to do
2:06that.
2:08For you're not even guaranteed to get
2:10home when you leave here today.
2:15If an accident will take you when you
2:17left this building, would you be
2:19prepared to meet the savior you don't
2:21believe in?
2:23I'm talking to you in that double
2:25overflow. I'm talking to you in that
2:27second overflow. I'm talking to you in
2:29this room. I'm talking to you across
2:31that camera.
2:34Death should awaken us to our mortality.
2:39Remind us that we are not finite. We are
2:42weak individuals
2:45in desperate need of a savior.
2:49We are in the last two messages
2:52in a series called Entry and End Times.
2:56But we are walking through Matthew
2:58chapter 21-2
3:00together.
3:02We are studying the final actions and
3:04the final prophetic words of the Lord
3:06Jesus Christ. And I want to say to you
3:09for the last two times this week and
3:11next week,
3:13God willing
3:15that final words are very important
3:19and that they are more important when a
3:22person is facing death. And they are no
3:24more more important words than the final
3:27words of the one we call Lord and
3:29Savior. And I feel passionately about
3:32these words because of the times that
3:34we're living in. And I feel passionately
3:36about these words because I want you to
3:37do more than just come to church. I want
3:41you to hear the words of Christ and I
3:43want you to take them serious. I want
3:45you to hear the words of Christ and I
3:47want you to go home and read and study.
3:49I want you to hear the words of Christ
3:50and appropriate them in your life. I
3:54want for you church to be more than just
3:56gatherings. I want it to be something
3:58you hear the proclamation of God's word
4:00and something in you wants to go out and
4:03live out what you hear and lean into
4:05what you hear. That we value the words
4:08of people more than we value the words
4:09of the one who saved us. We put more
4:12stock in men than we do the Lord Jesus
4:14Christ.
4:15>> And I want you to get to a place in your
4:17life where you learn to love these
4:18scriptures. When you read them for
4:21yourself, when you study them, you lean
4:23into them. You stop saying, "I can't
4:25hear God." But you don't read
4:29knowing that all of this book testifies
4:32of the Lord Jesus Christ. For we search
4:34these scriptures for in them that Jesus
4:37said to the Pharisees, you you're trying
4:39to find life, but it is them that
4:41testify
4:43of me. All of it testify of Christ. And
4:47I plead for you that you would love
4:49Christ more than anything in this life.
4:51Man, I shed tears over you this week.
4:53And I cried out over you and my children
4:55sitting over there that you learn to
4:57love Christ more than any person in this
4:59life, more than pam,
5:02more than your favorite preacher. You
5:04would love him and adore him. He will be
5:06the object of your worship and your
5:07affection. And you would not make idols
5:10out of men, but we would worship and
5:12deify the one who rescued you. No man
5:14did that for you.
5:18and that these would not just be sermons
5:22but they will be rally cries from our
5:24savior to his children.
5:27Amen.
5:28Our text is coming from Matthew chap 25
5:32verse 14-30
5:36and the title of our messages don't
5:38waste your talents
5:43spirit of the living God
5:51just minister to us.
5:55I pray you would pour into us a hatred
5:57for just the depravity and the ugliness
6:00of humanity.
6:02A hatred for it that would move us
6:04towards prayer and tears and brokenness
6:08and gospel witness.
6:11Let us hear your words proclaimed to us
6:14today with humble hearts and open ears.
6:18And Lord, you've seen my tears this week
6:19and you know my weakness and my
6:21frustration. I want to be home.
6:25But help me Lord in my weakness to just
6:28for the next few moments to share with
6:30these the brothers and sisters I love
6:32with my whole heart.
6:34Give us stamina to listen and our heart
6:38to take it serious. I ask in the mighty
6:42and the majestic
6:44and the matchless name of our Lord and
6:46soon cominging King Jesus Christ. Amen
6:49and amen and amen.
6:53Don't waste uh your talents.
7:00Uh uh last night as I was sitting up in
7:02bed and just meditating on this text,
7:06I was reminded that in 2009 when Lena
7:10and I lived in Columbus, Ohio, attending
7:12Bible college, I was reminded how my
7:16wife was serving in the children's
7:18ministry at that church. And I was
7:20serving in an outreach ministry that was
7:22responsible for going into the inner
7:24city of Columbus, Ohio. And we would
7:27preach the gospel in the streets and
7:28preach the gospel in the projects. We
7:31would give out food and we would give
7:32out clothing. And there was a particular
7:35project in downtown Columbus that we
7:37sort of adopted. We have an affinity for
7:39this particular projects. And we would
7:42go through those projects and knock on
7:43doors and go into homes and sit down
7:46with junky mothers and sit down with
7:48junky fathers. And we would hold crack
7:50babies in our arms. And we would sit
7:52there and let people blow smoke in our
7:54face while we try to teach them about
7:56the Lord Jesus Christ. Never judging
7:58them for what they did not know, but
7:59just loving them and meeting them where
8:01they are. And it was during that season
8:04that my my my team and I fell in love
8:07with a group of teenagers who became
8:09very dear to me. I don't know where any
8:11of them are today. They are probably in
8:14their 20s or 30s now. But but I had a
8:16deep affinity for this specific group of
8:18teenagers who most of them had no father
8:21and and some of them had no mother and
8:23they were living in homes that were
8:25really ratty and torn and and the only
8:27time they felt life is when we would
8:28show up each week to just sit with them
8:31and love on them and listen to them. And
8:33I just want to remind somebody that
8:35sometimes children does not spell love g
8:37i f t but they spell love t i m e. And
8:41what they wanted from us was just time.
8:43them and we would just sit there and
8:45enjoy them and sit in their presence.
8:49And on one occasion when I was leading
8:52the evangelistic ministry, the campaign
8:54on that day, I took that group of
8:56teenagers outside of the projects and we
8:59walked towards downtown Columbus and as
9:01we walked, we came to a graveyard and I
9:04stopped in front of the graveyard and I
9:05tapped all of them. I said, "Look out
9:07there in that graveyard and tell me what
9:08do you see?" And they responded. They
9:11said, "Oh, Brother Phillip, we see
9:13tombstones." And I said, "Good. What
9:15else do you see?" We say, "Brother
9:17Phillip, we see memorials." I said,
9:19"Good. What else do you see?" They said,
9:21"Brother Phillip, we see grass and trees
9:24and flowers." I said, "Good. What else
9:26do you see?" We see, "Brother Phillip,
9:28we don't see anything else." I said,
9:30"Are you sure? Look again. Tell me, what
9:31do you see?" They said, "Brother
9:33Phillip, we don't see anything else."
9:35And I will never forget getting those
9:37teenagers to focus for just a moment.
9:39And I said, "Look out there. Let me tell
9:40you what I see. I see unfulfilled
9:44potential.
9:47I see ministries that were never
9:49started.
9:51I see books that were never written. I
9:54seen marriages that were never formed,
9:56children that were never born, visions
9:59that were never realized.
10:01I seen wasted potential out there in
10:04that graveyard. I seen anointings and
10:07giftings and callings that people
10:10carried with them to the grave. I told
10:12them, "Look out there in the graveyard.
10:14You see now the wealthiest place on
10:16earth. For out there in that graveyard,
10:18there are many people who carried with
10:20them to their grave. Things that God
10:23placed on the inside of them that was
10:25supposed to come out of them while they
10:26was in this life. And for whatever
10:28reason, whether excuses, hard times,
10:31challenges, ignorance, they carried with
10:33them to their grave
10:36the things that God had intended for
10:38them to do in this life. And I never
10:41forgot that moment.
10:43This is a tragedy of modern humanity
10:46that there are people dying every day
10:48and going to the grave carrying inside
10:51of them things that they were supposed
10:53to do in this life. This is even a
10:56greater tragedy in Christianity of
10:59people who talk about callings and talk
11:01about giftings and talk about anointings
11:04and have all this show of all these
11:06things we do. And yet there are
11:07Christians leaving this life every week
11:09and every day carrying to their grave.
11:12Things that the master intended for them
11:14to do while they was here, intended for
11:16them to accomplish while they was here,
11:18intended for them to pour out while they
11:20was here. But for whatever reason, they
11:23made excuses. They were busy bodies in
11:25church, man. They died having gone to
11:28the grave with the figurative babies
11:30that was inside them they were supposed
11:32to give birth to. They aborted those
11:34babies for whatever reason. And now they
11:37got to give an account to the Messiah
11:38for that.
11:40This is the tragedy that we approach at
11:44the center of our text. The tragedy
11:45happening in this room in the overflow
11:47in the double overflow. This is what we
11:50approach at the center of our text. a
11:52very serious passage of scripture. But
11:55Christ, you know this, for the final two
11:57weeks, has come to the final days of his
12:00life. He is just days away from being
12:02executed for your sins and for mine.
12:06He is on top the Mount of Olives where I
12:09was in Jerusalem, just outside of the
12:12city walls. And there he's surrounded by
12:14his followers. And they're asking him a
12:17question at this time. are you going to
12:19restore the kingdom back to Israel?
12:22They're asking him when will these
12:23things be? They're concerned about the
12:26coming of his kingdom. They want to
12:28overthrow Rome. He begins to prophesied
12:30to them about the signs of the end of
12:33the age. And I said to you last week, I
12:37said to you this week, and I'm going to
12:39say to you next week, man, we are seeing
12:41the beginning of these things happening
12:43right now in our society. Man, I was
12:45sitting with my children last night
12:47doing our homework because I gave you
12:49homework, you know. And I was sitting
12:51with my children right over there
12:53reading through Revelation 19:20 and 21.
12:56I let them read and I taught. They read
12:58and I taught. They read and I taught.
13:00And I made it aware to them. Do y'all
13:02see some of these things in this text?
13:04I'm showing them videos on Tik Tok and
13:07Instagram. Do you see how some of the
13:09things happening in society right now is
13:11reading right out of the pages of the
13:13scripture and they are shocked eyes wide
13:15open. I'm showing them right now about
13:17the increase of another great monotheism
13:21that has taken over all of the east has
13:24taken over all of England. It's starting
13:26to take over American cities. I read to
13:29them in the text if you did your
13:31homework where it said during the
13:32tribulation period Christians will be
13:34beheaded for the witness of Christ.
13:37There's only one type of militia, one
13:39type of religion that takes joy in
13:41beheading other people. It's why they're
13:44the fastest growing religion on the
13:45planet. And while we playing church and
13:49playing conferences and not paying
13:51attention, I was showing my children
13:52from social media and the scriptures
13:54together how right now we see all the
13:57pieces aligning all over the earth. God
14:00preparing the world for the coming of
14:01the sun. The scripture talks about the
14:04alliance between Russia and China. They
14:06are hidden in biblical prophecy. I
14:09showed my children on social media how
14:11the president of Russia was just with
14:13the president of China just two weeks
14:15ago while people are not paying
14:17attention. I talked to my children about
14:19the rise of cryptocurrency and the rise
14:21of digital currency and the devaluation
14:23of paper money. The scripture tells us
14:26in the last days there will be one world
14:28currency. Can't have one world currency
14:30with paper. Yeah,
14:33>> that's why we see an increase in digital
14:35currency and plastic and cards and tap
14:37for get cash. Let's just tap for get
14:39cash. Let's have crypto for get cash.
14:41Let's have it makes it easier for the
14:43antichrist to control the world. And I'm
14:45showing my kids from the scriptures and
14:47from their phone how God is allowing
14:50things right now all over the earth
14:52preparing the world for the coming of
14:54the sun while you just want a sermon.
15:01don't want to live on mission. Don't
15:03want to pray like people on mission. You
15:05just want a sermon. You want to go to
15:07Chick-fil-A and then you want to chill
15:09out the rest of the week. You want to
15:10Netflix and chill. Never mind God called
15:12you to be on mission.
15:16And I'm showing them from the scriptures
15:18and from social media
15:22how the words of God is colliding with
15:24the things we see. And there is the Lord
15:26prophesying about these end times,
15:29prophesying about the return of his. And
15:31I'm telling you, we're living in the
15:32beginning of these times. Now, we might
15:35be the generation that sees the rapture,
15:38the tribulation, and the return of
15:41Christ, which the Lord said all these
15:43things will happen in rapid succession
15:44like birth painans. We might be the
15:46generation to see all those things. And
15:48my question for you is, are you ready?
15:55And the Lord prophesies his return. And
15:57on the back side of that prophecy, he
15:59gives his followers and everybody who
16:01will listen three parables, a trilogy of
16:04short stories to communicate the
16:06seriousness
16:08of his second coming. The first one, the
16:10parable of the faithful servant and the
16:12wicked servant to communicate
16:13faithfulness. The second one, the
16:15parable of the 10 virgins to communicate
16:17some people will be ready and some
16:19people will not be ready. And on the
16:20heels of that second parable, he gives
16:23us this last parable before he will be
16:26executed. The parable of the talents.
16:28Matthew chapter 25. Matthew who was the
16:30eyewitness recorded this passage. He
16:32recorded what Jesus said. Verse 14.
16:35Jesus continues teaching. He says, "For
16:37it will be like
16:39a man going on a journey who called his
16:43servants and entrusted to them his
16:46property." I want to draw your attention
16:48to the word it. The word it there is
16:51speaking of the kingdom of God. This is
16:53a continuation from the parable of last
16:55week. He started the parable of the 10
16:57virgins by saying the kingdom of heaven
16:59will be like 10 virgins. He finishes
17:03that teaching. He goes right into the
17:04second one. So the kingdom of heaven
17:06will also be like a man going in a long
17:10journey. The kingdom of heaven, the
17:12sphere of God's rule in the earth. And
17:14we see in God's rule in the earth, there
17:16were virgins who were wise and virgins
17:18who were foolish. Because in the sphere
17:20of God's rule in the earth, there are
17:22people who are truly saved and people
17:23who are not truly saved. He goes
17:25straight into this one. He says, "The
17:27kingdom of heaven, the ending, will also
17:29be like a man who went on a long
17:30journey, who called his servants and
17:33entrusted to them his property." Now, I
17:36want to draw your attention to the man
17:37in the text. He said, "The man went away
17:40on a long journey." The man we see is
17:42akin to a type of Christ who also went
17:46away on a long journey. The Lord is
17:48saying this in the first century AD.
17:50He's trying to help his followers
17:51understand there will be no overthrow
17:53right now in the first century. My
17:55brothers, I am about to bounce for a
17:57very long time. And what they did not
17:59see is what you and I are living in
18:01right now. The church age, which has
18:03been happening for over 2,25 years. This
18:06man has been gone for a very long time.
18:09Two millennia this man has been gone.
18:11But when the man left, he did not leave
18:14his servants empty-handed. No, he
18:15entrusted to them his property. I want
18:19to draw your attention to the word his
18:21property. And the word entrusted. Jesus
18:23again reminded his followers. And as I
18:26remind you that you and I are stewards
18:28of everything that God has given to you,
18:31that the earth is the Lord and the
18:32fullness thereof. There is no one under
18:34the sound of my voice who is a owner of
18:36anything but everything under your
18:38fingertips you have been given to
18:40steward. And I want to say to you again
18:43and next week I might say to you again
18:45that the most important things you are
18:46stewarding write them down. You are
18:48stewarding your time,
18:51your resources, your opportunities,
18:55your assignments, your relationships.
18:57These are the five most important things
18:59that you are stewarding. You are
19:01managing these things for the glory of
19:03God. I want you to notice he said his
19:06property and his servants because you
19:09also are a stewardship your personal
19:11life because you belong to the Lord if
19:13you are saved. So we are only stewards.
19:17We are only managers and your management
19:21is a test in this life for what you will
19:24enjoy in the life to come. Verse 15. To
19:27one he gave five talents, to another two
19:32talents,
19:33to another one according to his ability.
19:38Then the master went away. So I want you
19:42to notice that the man did not leave
19:43these servants empty-handed. He did not
19:46leave them to be idle, but he gave each
19:49one of these servants talents plural. To
19:53one man, he gave five talents. To
19:56another man, he gave two talents. To
19:58another man, he gives one talent. Then
20:00he bounces and been gone for 2,000
20:02years. Now, I want you to notice the
20:04talents. Historically, the talents was a
20:08sum of money in silver in the first
20:10century. It weighed collectively
20:12somewhere between 50 and 85 pounds for
20:15one talent. One talent was equivalent to
20:18some 10 to 20 years of wages. So to give
20:21a person five talents is to give them a
20:24large sum of money. To give a person two
20:27talents is to give them a large sum of
20:29money. Shoot. To give a person one
20:31talent is to give them a large sum of
20:33money. So the first thing the Lord
20:34entrusted to these servants was
20:36resources. It's the same thing God has
20:39entrusted to you and I. One of the most
20:41important things God has entrusted to
20:43you, listen to me, is resources. I harp
20:46on this because this is the only thing
20:47that God ever exalted to the status of a
20:50God. Lord said that you cannot serve God
20:52and money at the same time. So one of
20:55the most important things that you are
20:56stewarding in this life are resources.
20:59God gave it to you. Your check, your
21:01job, your businesses, your ministries,
21:04all the income that comes into your
21:06house is a stewardship in the eyes of
21:08God. Now this is very important because
21:11this is the one part of your life that
21:12is very private. See, people see your
21:14post. They see your preaching. They see
21:17your podcast. They see your ministry.
21:19They see you serving. They see you on
21:21the line. They see you as a usher. They
21:22see in the room, but they don't see your
21:24bank account.
21:26And the stewardship of money is very
21:27important. Listen to me. Money is a
21:30moral. Like a dollar, $20. Let's go
21:34higher. $100. I wish somebody just give
21:36me $20. Like, like just give me some
21:39money.
21:42>> Oh, I forgot. Y'all genz's y'all y'all
21:44tap
21:45money.
21:47Oh. Oh. Oh. Come on. You're not getting
21:49that back either.
21:53Money.
21:55Money is immoral.
21:57It has no heart, has no eyes, it has no
22:01soul, has no thoughts. It has no will.
22:03But when it lands in the hands of a
22:05human being, it takes on a personality.
22:10With this $20, I could go buy groceries
22:12and give $5 to the poor and put a dollar
22:15in the offering. Or with this $20, I
22:17could go get blow and snuff out for the
22:19rest of the week. The money has no will
22:21of its own. It only has a will when it
22:23lands in the hand of a person. Why?
22:26Because money reveals what's in the
22:27heart.
22:30>> If you want to know what's in people's
22:31heart, just give them resources. As soon
22:34as resources lands in a hand, it reveals
22:36what's in the heart. Where the heart is,
22:38so your treasure will be
22:40>> also.
22:42>> So money in and of itself is not evil.
22:45People are evil.
22:48>> And so if you want to know what's in
22:49people's hearts, just put money in their
22:50hands. As soon as resources land in a
22:52person's heart, we see what's in their
22:53hands. We see what's in their heart.
22:56>> So the first thing that you are
22:57stewarding are resources for the glory
22:59God. No, I didn't beat you up for a
23:01tithe. I just told you to be a good
23:03steward of the resources God has given
23:04you. Why? because he's watching how you
23:07handle this thing right here is not a
23:08god. Although some of you worship it and
23:11you bow down to it and you exalt it like
23:14an idol in your heart. You hold it so
23:16high you afraid to part from it. You're
23:19afraid to share it. You're afraid to
23:21invest it into the kingdom. This is so
23:23temporary. It's going to be gone. You
23:24ain't going to be using this in the
23:25millennial kingdom. The Lord is just
23:27allowing you to manage a little bit of
23:29it just to see how good you can handle
23:30it. It's crazy to me that some of you
23:32will be praying to be a millionaire, but
23:34you can't steward a few thousand dollar.
23:38[Applause]
23:40>> You're praying for God to bless your
23:41business, but you can't steward a check.
23:45>> You're praying for God to increase your
23:46finances, but you can't steward what you
23:49have.
23:51And so, the first thing he gave them to
23:53steward was resources. But I think the
23:55parable does not just stop with money. I
23:58think the parable is broader than money
23:59because of the key word ability which
24:02speaks about work and task and
24:04assignments. So your talents I believe
24:06are not just only resources but your
24:08talents are the opportunities God has
24:10given you to serve and to have
24:12assignments and to do tasks and to carry
24:15out functions. So what God has given you
24:17is the ability
24:20and the responsibility to steward
24:22resources, to steward opportunities, to
24:26steward assignments. Now pay attention.
24:28Watch in the text. We see that there is
24:30a tiered system of allocation. To one
24:33man he gave five talents. To another man
24:35he gave two. To another man he gave one.
24:38Watch this. According to their ability.
24:41This is very important. This means that
24:43for every human being, God has already
24:45assigned them a certain level of
24:46cognitive ability, a certain level of
24:49acumen, a certain level of work ethic,
24:51and then he will give them resources and
24:53assignment according to their ability.
24:56This is the love of God because he's not
24:58going to give you something you cannot
24:59handle.
25:00>> This is very important because too many
25:02of us be praying and asking God for
25:04things that you don't have the character
25:05to handle and you don't have the ability
25:07to store it. If God gave it to you, it
25:09will hurt you.
25:11>> See, I got people around me who are like
25:13five talent people. If you give a five
25:15talent person a one talent assignment,
25:18they're going to be bored and
25:19frustrated.
25:20If you give a one talent person a five
25:22talent assignment, they're going to feel
25:24overwhelmed and crushed. God who is very
25:27wise is not going to give a five talent
25:29person a one talent assignment. And God
25:31who's very wise is not going to give a
25:33one talent person a five talent
25:34assignment. This is why we need to stop
25:36being jealous of other people's
25:38assignments.
25:40>> Come on, man. I'm talking to y'all. This
25:43ain't about competition. And this ain't
25:45about condemnation or or cond or or
25:47being condescending towards somebody.
25:49This is you watch having enough personal
25:52awareness to embrace whatever level you
25:54on and just be faithful on whatever
25:57level you're on.
25:59>> The Lord is not asking you for more than
26:01what you can give.
26:04He just wants you to be faithful on what
26:05you on. So if Billy Graham is a five
26:08talent minister and Philip Anthony
26:10Mitchell is a two talent minister and
26:12some other man is a one talent minister.
26:14Man, am I jealous of Billy? Should I
26:15condemn the one talent man? No. I should
26:18just be in the middle trying to be
26:19faithful to what God has called me to
26:21do. There is some man in the country who
26:23got 50 people in his church. But he
26:25loves his family, loves his children.
26:27He's faithful to the Lord Jesus. He
26:29prays. He's a good steward. He's not
26:31cheating money from the from the He's
26:33faithful. Is he any less of a minister
26:36than I am?
26:39>> Am I any greater of a minister than he
26:41is? No. If we're faithful on our level,
26:43that's all God wants from us. All God
26:45wants for you is for you to be a
26:47faithful servant on the level that he's
26:49given you. But it's only our brokenness
26:52in humanity. Why? That we like to exalt
26:54five talent people and make them gods
26:57and put down one talent people and make
26:59them trash.
27:02But why condemn somebody if that's the
27:04limit of what God gave them?
27:06>> And why exalt a man if that's what God
27:08gave them?
27:09>> Man, if that person is a five talent,
27:11that's God's grace. And if they're one
27:12talent, that God's grace. Ours is to be
27:14honest about what level we on and just
27:17be faithful on our level.
27:21I'm trying to, that's all God wants for
27:24us to just be faithful on our level. So
27:26I don't have to be jealous of a five
27:28talent person. All I got to do is be
27:30faithful what God has given me.
27:35Verse 18.
27:37But he who had received
27:42well verse 16. He who had received the
27:45five talents went out and at once he
27:47traded and he made five talents more.
27:50And also the one who had two talents
27:51made he went out and traded and made two
27:53talents more. So I just want you to see
27:55that the first two servants immediately
27:57went out and they begin to trade. They
28:00did not wait. Immediately they went out
28:02and they begin to multiply their
28:03talents. They did not sit on what God
28:06gave them, but they multiplied what God
28:08gave them. The man who had five
28:09multiplied his talent. The man who had
28:11two, he multiplied his talent. They had
28:14some sense of purpose, some sense of
28:16meaning. They knew God gave them an
28:17assignment. And immediately they set out
28:19to do that assignment. I just want to
28:21draw some attention to you. I want you
28:23to draw some attention to some things in
28:25the text. I want you to notice the words
28:27at once. They did not wait. They
28:30recognized that they were saved. They
28:31recognized that they were given gifts
28:33and talents. Immediately they put their
28:34life on the altar. They went out to
28:36serve God. The man who had five
28:39multiplied. The man who had two
28:40multiplied. What does this look like in
28:42context? What multiplication looks like
28:45in context is you watch using the
28:47potential God has given you and
28:49maximizing that potential to do
28:51everything God has called you to do. So
28:53what this look like in context,
28:54everybody look right. This is if I've
28:56been saved for 5 years or 20 years, I
28:58should be a better husband today than I
29:00was when God saved me. I should be a
29:02better father today than when I was when
29:04God saved me. I should be a better
29:06steward today than I was when God saved
29:08me. I should be a better preacher today
29:10than I was when God saved me. If 20
29:12years go by and you're still the same
29:14person, you are not multiplying your
29:16talents. If 20 years go by and you're
29:19not a good steward with money, you are
29:20not multiplying your talents. But if we
29:23would multiply our talents, my brothers
29:25and my sisters, that as time goes by,
29:27you will show fruit that you're being
29:29transformed in different areas. You're
29:31becoming a better husband. You're
29:33becoming a better wife. You're becoming
29:34a better friend. You're becoming a
29:36better person who stewards money. You
29:38should be growing. And that's how you
29:40multiply the things that God has given
29:41you. That is, man, you should be more
29:43obedient. You should be more faithful.
29:46The Lord should be able to look at you
29:4720 years down the road and say, "I don't
29:49have to fight you when I talk now. Now
29:51when I talk, you obey right away. When I
29:53first find you, you had to reason for 3
29:55months before you carried out anything.
29:57But now when I talk to you, you move
29:59right away. You don't even need all the
30:01answers. You just trust my voice when I
30:03speak.
30:07[Applause]
30:08So if you're becoming better in
30:11character, you're becoming more like the
30:13person of Christ, you're becoming more
30:15obedient, you're becoming more faithful,
30:17you're doing the things God has called
30:19you to do in your sphere of influence,
30:21that is how you multiply your talents.
30:23You multiply talents by giving God back
30:26something that he has deposited into
30:28you.
30:30But verse 18,
30:33but he who had received the one talent,
30:36he went out and he dug in the ground,
30:40he buried his master's money.
30:43The first two dudes producing what they
30:45supposed to. And the Lord doesn't work
30:47from the five talent person more than
30:48what he gave him. And he doesn't want
30:50from the two talent person more than
30:52what he gave him. I want to help some of
30:53you man who be feeling burdened all the
30:55time. You think the Lord wants from you
30:56things he did not ask of you. So you
30:59crucify yourself all the time. You
31:00condemn yourself all the time. You beat
31:03yourself all the time. Now look, the
31:04Lord, listen, if you're a two talent
31:05person, the Lord is not asking you for
31:07five talents. He just wants you to
31:09multiply what you have. But then we see
31:11this last brother right here. Too many
31:13of us are like this last brother. You
31:15have gifts, you have abilities, you have
31:17talents, you have money, you have
31:18resources, but you don't use it for the
31:20kingdom of God. You're not developing in
31:23character. You're not growing as a man
31:25and a woman. That's what this brother
31:26is. He goes out and he buries his talent
31:29in the ground. Now, burying his talent
31:31is not uncommon in the first century
31:33when banks was embriionic. If people
31:35wanted to protect something that was
31:37assets, they would dig a hole in the
31:38ground, put that thing in the ground,
31:40and cover it up and come back and find
31:41it later. That's how they protected
31:43assets. I just want you look, I just
31:46want you to pay attention that the man
31:48had to dig a hole in the ground to bury
31:50that talent.
31:51It takes effort to dig a hole.
31:54It is activity to dig a hole. So the
31:57brother is busy, but he's not fruitful.
32:02>> The brother has activity, but he's not
32:05obeying his master. And there's too many
32:08of us who are just like this brother. We
32:10have all this activity in our life, but
32:12we're not fruitful for the kingdom. We
32:14are busy bodies, but we're not fruitful
32:17bodies. We're running here and there,
32:19and we're doing all these things, and
32:21we're saying yes to all these people.
32:23You're building this over here and
32:24you're building that over there and
32:25you're running here. You're do you're
32:27doing all that stuff. But my question
32:28is, are you doing what God has called
32:30you to do? Are you doing what God has
32:32purposed you to do? You can be busy and
32:34not fruitful. You can be full of
32:36activities and not fruitful. Some of you
32:38are running from conference to
32:39conference, but you still have not
32:41obeyed the last thing God called you to
32:43do. So, I want you to see that this
32:45brother dug a hole and he put his
32:48resources in the hole. And I'm trying to
32:50stop some of you from continuing to do
32:51that. In fact, I'm trying to strip you
32:53of your shovel. My prayer today is some
32:55of you will lay down that shovel that
32:57you have that you're always busy doing
32:59everything other than the father's
33:00business. You got time for everything
33:03except the father's business. You're too
33:05busy to pray, too busy to read, too busy
33:08to fast, too busy to love, too busy for
33:10your wife, too busy for your husband,
33:12too busy for your children, you're too
33:14busy for everything except the word of
33:15God. You're too busy for everything
33:17except what God called you to do. My
33:19brother and my sister, listen to me,
33:20man. Give me that shovel,
33:22man. Leave that shovel in the room
33:24today. Leave it in the overflow. Leave
33:27it in the second overflow. Leave it on
33:29the couch. I'm talking to those of you
33:31who are always active, but you're not
33:33fruitful, man. Leave that shovel here
33:35today. Lay it down. Take inventory of
33:39the things that you're doing. And ask
33:40yourself a question. Is this in line
33:42with what God has called me to do?
33:50Verse 19.
33:52Now after a long time, the master of
33:55those servants came and he settled
33:58accounts with them.
34:00This is a picture of the second coming
34:02of Christ. I want y'all to notice now
34:04because Christ is delayed, that doesn't
34:06mean he's not coming. Christ is delayed,
34:09but Christ is also coming. When the
34:11master comes, look at the first thing
34:12that he does. He comes and immediately
34:14he settles everyone's accounts. That is
34:18nobody is going to escape Christ. The
34:21atheist will not escape him. The Muslim
34:23will not escape him. The unbeliever will
34:26not escape him. The fake Christian will
34:28not escape him. When the Lord returns in
34:31return, he shall he will settle
34:33everyone's accounts. If you did your
34:35homework, you would have read that books
34:37are going to be open.
34:40And in those books, he will look at what
34:42everybody has done in this life. And
34:43then according to those books, people
34:45will either be judged or people will be
34:47rewarded. You would have saw that in
34:48your homework that when Christ comes,
34:51he's coming to give watch a time for
34:54everybody to stand before him and then
34:56all of us are going to have to give an
34:57account for how we manage the things in
35:00how did you steward your children? How
35:02did you steward your resources? How did
35:04you steward your time? How did you
35:06steward your opportunities? We will give
35:08an account for how we stewarded the
35:10things that he gave us in this life.
35:12Nobody escapes that account.
35:15Verse 20. And he who had received the
35:17five talents came forward during the
35:18account bringing five talents more and
35:20saying, "Master, you delivered to me
35:22five talents here. I have made five more
35:24talents." His master said to him, "I
35:26know you want to hear these words." Well
35:29done, good and faithful servant. You
35:32have been faithful over a little. I will
35:35now set you over much. Enter into the
35:38joy of your master. This is what's going
35:40to happen at the end. The Lord makes it
35:42no darkness for us to know. Verse 22.
35:44And he says to the other one who had two
35:46talents. He came to him saying, "Master,
35:49you delivered to me two talents. Here
35:51I've made two more." His master said to
35:53him, "Well done, you good and faithful
35:55servant. You have been faithful over a
35:57little things. I will now set you over
35:59much. Enter into the joy of your
36:01master."
36:02So I I just want you to see from the
36:04words of Christ that in the end when we
36:06all give an account man some people will
36:09be commended for what they have done.
36:11These two servants they are ready for
36:13their account. They come with excitement
36:15in their voice. You could hear it in the
36:17text. Master look you gave me five
36:19talents I give you back 10. You gave me
36:22two I give you back four. We hear in
36:24them men who had a sense of assignment a
36:27sense of mission. Men who was living on
36:29purpose. people who understood that
36:30their life mattered would hear in them
36:33men who were serious about the time they
36:35spent in earth. This is what I want for
36:37you. This is what I shed tears for you.
36:39I want you to be men and women that live
36:41with a sense of purpose, live with a
36:43sense of assignment. Live with a sense
36:45of mission. I want you to get up in the
36:47morning thinking, man, God has anointed
36:49me for whatever fill-in-the-blank roles
36:51he has given you to be a mother, a
36:52father, a minister, a speaker, a
36:54teacher, whatever it is. These men are
36:57ready for their account. They said,
36:59"Lord, look, you made an investment in
37:01me. I give you back your investment."
37:04This is powerful. This is me being able
37:06to stand before the Lord and say, "Lord,
37:08you saved a brother from Queens. And
37:11look at all of the good that has come
37:12out of my life. I messed up a few times.
37:15I fell down a few times. I made a few
37:18mistakes, but look, there's souls in
37:20heaven because of my preaching. Look, my
37:22children made it because of my
37:23disciplehip. Look, people love you
37:25because of my preaching. Look, they love
37:26the B." He wants to see our ROI on your
37:29salvation.
37:33>> He wants to know that when I saved you,
37:35I got something out of you on the day of
37:37judgment. What the Lord wants to see is
37:40that watch, your salvation was not a
37:41waste.
37:43And he does not have to regret that I
37:45saved you from sin. Man, I want to
37:47arrive in heaven with the Lord having no
37:49regrets. Like, man, that brother, man,
37:51he was difficult in the beginning, but
37:52man, he cleaned up really good after 20,
37:5420 years, man. Man, he really started
37:56listening. He really started praying. He
37:58was reading. He really started preaching
38:00from the Bible, man. He was serious
38:02about study. Like, I want the Lord to I
38:04want to be able to stand before him and
38:05said, "Lord, look, you rescued me. This
38:06is what you gave me. I give you back
38:08more than what you gave me." I want to
38:10be able to do that with joy in my heart.
38:13>> And look at the commenation they get.
38:15This is the commenation we're living
38:16for. Well done,
38:19you good and faithful servant.
38:22>> I know you got that on your t-shirt. And
38:24I just want to remind you, he didn't say
38:26that to people just because they were
38:27believers.
38:28>> Well done, my good and faithful servant
38:30is not an empty platitude. Well done, my
38:32good and faithful servant was attached
38:34to good stewardship.
38:36>> And there'll be a lot of believers who
38:38might die and arrive in heaven and never
38:40really hear that. You hear that at every
38:42funeral. We always say, "Man, well done,
38:44my good and faithful servant." How are
38:45we saying that about somebody in a box
38:47that hated Jesus and never went to
38:49church?
38:50>> The preacher is a liar. Well done my
38:53good and faithful servant is for
38:54believers who are good stewards in this
38:57life. So if you want to hear those words
38:59from your savior, you have to start
39:01taking serious the stewardship of
39:03everything that God has placed under
39:04your care. If you will hear from your
39:06savior, "Well done, my good and faithful
39:08servant. You don't hear that for going
39:10to church. You hear that for being a
39:12good steward." He says, "Watch. You were
39:14faithful over a little. Now I'm going to
39:17make you ruler over much." I want you to
39:19pay attention to the word little and the
39:20word much. He said everything y'all did
39:23in this life was little.
39:27That means the biggest ministry in this
39:29life in the eyes of God little. The
39:31biggest fortune in this life in the eyes
39:33of God little. He said everything in
39:35this life you were just rulers over
39:37things that were little.
39:39But he says now my coming here I will
39:41make you a ruler over much. This is
39:44important because I want you to see
39:45we're not going to be in heaven floating
39:47around on clouds and playing harps all
39:49day and being bored. He said to him,
39:51"For those who are faithful in this life
39:53over little, I'm going to make you ruler
39:55over much. That your service in this
39:57life is going to translate into a
39:58greater service in the next life." Man,
40:01man, this ministry 2019 is little in the
40:04eyes of God. But I can't even get if if
40:06he calls this little, just imagine what
40:08I'm going to be ruling over when I come
40:10into the into glory with my savior. Man,
40:14if you think the things you have now are
40:15big, just imagine what you're going to
40:17be ruling over when you come into glory
40:19with your savior. Man, the things we're
40:21stoing right now are small. They're
40:22nothing compared to what God is going to
40:24give us. Now, the wisdom of Paul makes
40:26sense, man. No eye has seen and no ear
40:29has heard, nor has it entered into the
40:32heart of man, what God has prepared for
40:33those of us who love him. Man, the
40:35biggest thing you admire in this earth,
40:37the biggest ministries, little and not,
40:39if these things are little, just imagine
40:42what you're going to rule over in
40:43eternity. We're not going to be floating
40:45on clouds board. No, we're going to have
40:47rulership. We'll have assignments. We'll
40:49serve God at another capacity. We'll
40:51serve him with joy, and we'll be over
40:53things much greater than anything that
40:55we can imagine.
41:00Enter into the joy
41:02and the rest of your master is what he
41:05said. Come now be rewarded for your
41:08labors.
41:12Verse 24. But he who had received the
41:15one talent came in and said, "Master, I
41:17knew you was a hard man, reaping where
41:20you did not sow, and gathering where you
41:22did not scatter seed. So, I was afraid
41:25and I went and I hid your talent in the
41:27ground. Here you have what is yours.
41:30Family, this is a tragedy right here
41:33that I'm trying to protect as many
41:35people as possible from being in this
41:36position. That there too many people.
41:38Look, he appeals to the master with two
41:40things. He appeals to the master with an
41:42insult and he appeals to the master with
41:44a felt need. He's hoping the master is
41:46going to feel sorry for him. He tells
41:48the master, "I knew you was a hard man,
41:50reaping where you have not sewed and
41:52harvested where you have not planted."
41:53He is accusing the master of taking what
41:56does not belong to him. Like the
41:57scripture didn't say, "The earth is the
41:59Lord and the fullness thereof." He is
42:00now arguing with the master based on bad
42:03theology.
42:04And there are a lot of people, man, who
42:06have poor hermeneutics and bad theology.
42:09You're going to arrive in glory before
42:10God. You're not going to be able to get
42:12into glory. And in that moment, you're
42:14going to argue with God with bad
42:16theology. That's why you should love
42:19biblical teaching. That's why you should
42:21read the scriptures for yourself so you
42:23don't die and come into a place of
42:25shock.
42:26>> This brother now is shocked. He makes an
42:29excuse why he wasn't faithful, why he
42:32wasn't fruitful. He makes an excuse. I
42:35knew you was a hard man. He insults his
42:37master. And then he tried to appeal with
42:40some felt need garbage. I was afraid.
42:44He he he he said I was afraid. Too many
42:47of us are like that. We we paralyze with
42:49fear. So because of fear, we don't we
42:51don't do anything that God has called us
42:52to do. This man said, "I was afraid."
42:55And and I just want to remind some of
42:56you who deal with fear. I I need to say
42:58this before I finish this text. There
43:00are some of you, man, you you are
43:02waiting for everything to be perfect for
43:03you to obey. You're just like this dude.
43:05You battling fear. You're not like the
43:07two dudes that immediately went out and
43:08did what they was called to do. I want
43:10to tell you something and you're not
43:11going to like it. Some of you you you
43:12waiting to be ready before you do what
43:14God that it ain't coming.
43:17>> You uh we you've been dating for 25
43:20years and you said when we get enough
43:21money then we're going to get married.
43:23It ain't coming.
43:25God is calling you to be obedient in
43:27some area and you said when I feel ready
43:29I'll start the ministry. I'll write the
43:31book. You're never going to feel ready.
43:33You need to just obey and do it afraid.
43:35You need to just be faithful afraid. You
43:37need to just jump out on faith and let
43:39God catch you. You You waiting for the
43:42planets and the stars to align before
43:44you choose to be be obedient. Man, I'm
43:47telling you right now today, some of you
43:48what you're waiting for, it ain't
43:50coming. When I started this ministry, I
43:52wasn't ready. When I changed the name of
43:54the church, I wasn't ready. When I start
43:55traveling and preaching, I wasn't ready.
43:57Everything I'm doing right now, I had to
43:58do it afraid.
44:01>> I still get up on Sunday mornings and
44:02sometimes feel afraid. I still battle
44:04with insecurities. You're never going to
44:06feel perfectly ready. What broken human
44:08being is going to feel perfectly ready?
44:09You need to just do what God is calling
44:11you to do with all of your fears and
44:12insecurities. Just do it afraid and do
44:15it insecure.
44:17[Applause]
44:20He gives the Lord an excuse.
44:24I was afraid. So I went and I I I buried
44:28what you here Lord. I I give you back
44:30the talent that you gave me. The Lord
44:32don't want back the talent he gave you.
44:33He want back more than what he gave you.
44:39>> And this is too many of us right here.
44:42I'm talking to you.
44:45This is all this is. It's just it just
44:47come here and listen to PAM.
44:50but but not going out there and and and
44:52and and multiplying your talents, not
44:56being intentional about growing as a
44:58man, growing as a woman, growing as a
45:01disciple, growing in character, growing
45:03in faithfulness, growing in obedience,
45:06growing in knowledge of God's word,
45:08growing in pe where's the intentionality
45:10in those areas. The Lord wants to be
45:13able to look at you when he calls you
45:15home and see that he got something out
45:18of your life. I gave you assignments and
45:21you carried them out. I whispered to
45:23your ear to be obedient in that area and
45:25you carried that out. I told you to be a
45:28better husband and you took that
45:30serious. I called you to be a better
45:31wife and you took that serious. I told
45:33you to be a better mother or father to
45:35these children and you took that
45:37serious. I told you to be faithful at
45:38your local church and you took that
45:40serious. I told you start giving some of
45:41your income to missions and to gospel
45:44ministries and you took like I want to
45:45get something out of your life. The Lord
45:48made an investment in you. He put his
45:50spirit in you. He wants something out of
45:53you. He does not want to look at you at
45:55the end and say, "Man, I made a mistake
45:57in serving way saving this person." No,
46:00man. No.
46:02He wants to be able to say, "This woman
46:04I saved.
46:06This man I saved.
46:09Look how much I got out of them. I got
46:11songs out of them and albums out of them
46:14and sermons out of them. I got a better
46:16husband out of them. I got a better
46:17father out. Look what I got out of this
46:19man. Look what I got out of this woman.
46:22Look at all that came out of them. And
46:23nobody else saw in them what I saw. I
46:26saw something in them. I gave them my
46:29spirit. I gave them assignments. I
46:31pulled out of them.
46:38Not like this brother who buried his
46:39talent.
46:41Not like this brother who's going to
46:42give the Lord wrong theological excuses.
46:46The Lord said, "Shoot, if you was going
46:47to do that, verse 27, you should have
46:49put my money in the bank, which was in
46:51Briana, and give me some investment,
46:53man. Give me some interest. I mean, give
46:54me something back."
46:57That's what the Lord was saying. Well,
46:58if you going to disobey me half your
46:59life, at least give me something back.
47:01Give me some ROI for saving you. I
47:05didn't save you to just sit in rooms
47:07like this and be a churchgoer for 50
47:09years, die, and be disobedient. Give me
47:11something back for my investment. Give
47:14me something back. It's what the Lord
47:16has said. Give me something back.
47:23And for those of you who think like,
47:25[Music]
47:27tired of that brother yelling at us, I
47:29ain't taking that serious. Yeah. Verse
47:3128 and 29 and 30 is for all of you. The
47:35Lord says, "For the one who comes in the
47:37end, so take that talent from him, that
47:41wicked and lazy servant, and give it to
47:44the one who has 10 talents. For everyone
47:47who has will be given more, and he will
47:50have an abundance, but from the one who
47:51has not, even what he has will be taken
47:54away from him." The Lord says in the
47:57end, he will strip every disingenuous
47:59servant, every fake Christian, everyone
48:01who arrives in glory with an excuse. He
48:04said he's going to strip people of all
48:05the assignments. He's going to give it
48:07to somebody else.
48:09Man, this is going to happen in the
48:10judgment. I like to think, man, this may
48:12even be happening right now. There may
48:14be people right now you are living out
48:16somebody else's assignment. Maybe there
48:18was somebody else the Lord was trying to
48:20get to be obedient and they wouldn't be
48:22obedient. So, he had to strip them of
48:23that assignment and give it to you.
48:25Maybe there was somebody else that was
48:26supposed to change your family. He
48:28stripped them of that assignment and he
48:30gave it to you. Maybe you are the man to
48:32change the trajectory of your family.
48:34Maybe you are the woman to change the
48:36trajectory of Some of you may be living
48:38in assignments that some other person
48:40could not be faithful to, so he gave it
48:42to you. Your uncle could not do it, he
48:44gave it to you. Your father could not do
48:45it, he gave it to you. Your mother could
48:47not do it, he gave it to you. Man,
48:49people are going to be stripped of
48:50things they were supposed to do and it's
48:52going to be given to people else. And
48:54then those of us who are faithful are
48:55just going to have an abundance of God's
48:57blessing for our faithfulness. Verse
49:0930.
49:10And cast that worthless servant into
49:13outer darkness.
49:15Gosh.
49:17And in that place there will be weeping
49:20and nashing of teeth.
49:23The Lord is saying in the end for those
49:26who are going to bury their talent,
49:28they're going to be poor stewards of
49:29money, poor stewards of opportunities,
49:31poor stewards of relationships, poor
49:33stewards of assignments, those who are
49:35not going to take stewardship serious.
49:36Those who are not even really believers,
49:38they're going to be exposed in the end
49:40when they stand before the Lord and he's
49:42going to say, "Take that lazy servant.
49:44You didn't give me back what I put in
49:45you. Take that. Throw him into outer
49:47darkness." And in that place, hell,
49:50there will be weeping and nashing of
49:51teeth. There will be a consciousness
49:54of suffering for not being good
49:56stewards. And if we're hearing the voice
49:58of our savior, seriously, man, we we we
50:01go to our houses tonight. We kneel down.
50:03We pray. We say, "Lord, I repent. I'm
50:06sorry for every place I've been a
50:07mismanager of your resources. Lord, help
50:10me to be a good steward over everything
50:12you've entrusted to me. Lord, you save
50:14me. I want to give you a return on that
50:16investment." Here is my cry for you. I
50:18want everybody in this room to die
50:20empty.
50:22>> Look at me. This is what I want as your
50:24pastor and as your friend and as your
50:26brother. I mean this with my whole
50:27heart. I'm praying that everybody under
50:30the sound of my voice, you die empty.
50:34You arrive in glory not carrying
50:36anything that God intended for you to
50:39pour out in this life. I want you to
50:41arrive before heaven. Say, "Lord, I
50:43wrote the book. I made the songs. I did
50:47the album. I started the ministry. I did
50:50the podcast. I became a man. I'll be
50:52looking at Lena. This word to my mother.
50:54I'll be looking at I'll be looking at
50:56her. I I'll be looking at in bed at
50:58night. I roll over and I'll be staring
51:00at her saying, "Lord, I want to be a
51:01better husband to this woman."
51:03>> Amen.
51:04>> Man, she's she's put up with a lot.
51:06She's been through a lot. She's
51:07sacrificed a lot. I've heard her a lot.
51:09I'll be staring at her like, "Lord, I
51:11want to be a better husband to these
51:12women." I'll be looking at my children
51:15like, "Man, I missed time with them when
51:17I was young and trying to build a
51:18ministry. I want to be a better father
51:20to them. I want to be available to
51:22them." Man, I cut my sermon prep short
51:24yesterday to hang out with them and we
51:26went to Bart Taco and and and we went to
51:28Pon City Market and we was running the
51:30streets. I'm not I'm supposed to be in
51:32the house on Saturday. I never go out
51:34the house on Saturday, but I'm running
51:35the streets with them kids because I I'm
51:37I'm in there working on my message and
51:39and I'm feeling broken. And I said,
51:40"Ben," I closed the computer. Said, "I'm
51:43going to spend some time with these kids
51:44and I text easy." He said, "I'm coming
51:46upstairs. I'll take y'all wherever y'all
51:48want to go. I do whatever y'all want to
51:51do." Said, "Father." That's why I didn't
51:53call me father.
51:55She don't call me dad no more. Father,
51:57we want to go to Bar Taco in the city.
52:00We want city. We want vibes.
52:04We We want vibes, father. I said, "I'll
52:06be up at 3:00. Be ready." And we in the
52:09streets
52:11on Saturday when I'm supposed to be
52:13consecrating and being in the glory for
52:15for No, I'm I'm with them. I I want to
52:17be I miss time with them when they were
52:19young. I want to be a better This is me
52:21trying to give God a better return
52:24>> on his investment.
52:26[Applause]
52:33I'm I'm back there before this gathering
52:34on my on the floor in the green room
52:37crying saying, "Lord, I'm a mess today.
52:40I'm all over the place. I'm heavy. I'm
52:43frustrated from all the things that
52:44happened this week. Lord, I feel like my
52:46proclamation is like it's off today."
52:48And I'm saying, "Lord, I I just I need
52:49to do better. I I'm I'm I'm I'm
52:52conscious of the fact that I'm
52:54stewarding this. And and when I suck, I
52:56want to say I want to do better. I don't
52:58I don't want to just suck and walk off
52:59and then go get go go go get uh kava."
53:02No, I I want I want I I want to be
53:04Cabba's dope. I I want I want to I want
53:05to be Greed. Like Cabba. Like I want
53:08Cabba when I leave. Like Cabba is dope.
53:11But but I'm I'm back there crying like
53:12Lord my I'm I'm I'm struggling today.
53:16>> I I'm I'm legit struggling. I I want to
53:19go home.
53:23Lena's out of town. I'm daddy daycare. I
53:25want to just go be with my kids. It's
53:27been a like come home, Lena. I I I'm I
53:29want to I want to I'm struggling
53:33struggling today. I'm doing dishes last
53:35night. I'm trying to What are we going
53:36to eat for dinner? I'm I'm I'm I'm the
53:38boys. I'm struggling this week.
53:44And and and I'm back there at the 8:00
53:46like, "Lord, I'm I'm struggling in my
53:48preaching. I'm over time. I'm I'm a
53:50mess.
53:53Help me to do better. I I I'm I'm
53:56talking like that because I'm a steward.
54:00That's how stewards talk.
54:03>> They want to be better managers
54:05>> of the things that God has given them.
54:09So
54:13my
54:16no
54:19[Applause]
54:27so like I would get on my knees and beg
54:29you.
54:33This is my desire for you that you would
54:35you would lay down your shovel.
54:38You would stop being busy and not being
54:40fruitful. You will learn to start saying
54:42no to things that have nothing to do
54:45with you. You will start being faithful
54:48to the things God has called you to do.
54:50You will start looking at your
54:51relationships and want to be a better
54:52steward. You will look at your marriage
54:54and want to be a better steward. You
54:55look at your children and want to be a
54:56better steward. You look at your
54:57ministry and want to be a better
54:59steward. You look at your assignments.
55:00You want to be better on your job. You
55:01want to be better in your service. You
55:03want to be better as a servant leader, a
55:05better squad leader. Like, Lord, I want
55:06to I want to give you more than what you
55:08gave me. You're not going to have a
55:09wasted investment in me. Your salvation
55:12was too pricely. Your spirit was too
55:14costly. The cross was too costly.
55:18You will get a return out of me. This is
55:20my I lay down the shovel.
55:31Be a good steward over everything God
55:33has entrusted to you. That is my prayer.
55:37Eternal God and ever of a wise father, I
55:40am.
55:44I don't know.
55:46I'm just everywhere.
55:51God, I pray for my brothers and my
55:53sisters. I do pray for them.
55:56This will be more than a sermon.
56:00Something in them
56:02would look in the mirror today and see a
56:05steward.
56:07They would look around and see all that
56:09you have blessed them with. And they
56:11would marvel over your goodness and your
56:13kindness.
56:15And that goodness would bring them to a
56:17place of greater accountability
56:20where they said, "I want to be better in
56:23this area.
56:26Lord, you're going to get a return out
56:27of me."
56:30I pray for the five talent person, they
56:32would multiply. And for the two talent
56:34person, they would multiply. And for the
56:36one talent person, they would multiply.
56:38Deliver us from jealousy and
56:40covetousness of other people's talents.
56:43Help us to embrace who we are and the
56:46level that we are on.
56:50I pray there'll be an explosion of
56:51fruitfulness in 2019.
56:55Our local and digital disciples, I I
56:57don't know what else to say or do. Lord,
56:59this is my humble prayer. I pray over
57:01them in the mighty
57:04and the majestic
57:08and the matchless name
57:11of our soon cominging king,
57:14the Lord Jesus Christ.
57:18And all the stewards under the sound of
57:20my voice said,
57:27[Applause]

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