Walking on Eggshells

Good morning. There's been a lot of new people over the course of this

summer. I'm Shamus, one of the one of the pastors here. It

is my joy to be able to share the Word with you this morning.

I hope you brought a copy of God's Word with you. If you did

not, our ushers who've already serviced this morning and Lord Supper are gonna be

walking around. If you need a Bible, or if you need a bulletin

to be able to take notes, if you'd like to fill in blanks,

we get Bible bulletin pins. Those things are coming around. Just kind of

wave at one of them and they'll hand you that in just a moment.

And of course we have a few weeks ago just gotten to start the Gospel.

I've gotten to start Romans, right, So we've started Romans just a

few weeks ago. So naturally I'm going to ask you, as you have

your Bible, or as you open your Bible, go ahead and turn into

the Gospel of Matthew. That makes sense, right, It's the next thing

this week, by God's grace, we're gonna be going through, working through

the same passage of scripture that they're teaching at this moment and Crossway kids,

and that we're gonna be working through this afternoon and Crossway students. So it's

gonna be sort of a same page Sunday. We'll be in Matthew chapter twenty

five. Turn in your bibles to Matthew chapter twenty five before we get there

in just a moment. It's gonna work coming in in the middle of a

conversation. Definitely, the second word in Matthew in this section is going to

be for it. Right. So before we get to this section in Matthew

twenty five, I want to explain a little bit. This is towards the

end of Jesus, jesus life, his journey here walking with his disciples.

He's teaching on the Mount of Olives. His disciples have just asked him,

just a few chapters back in chapter twenty twenty four, verse three, tell

us what will be the sign of your coming and the sign of the end

of the age. And so he goes on to answer their questions. He's

answering what they should be looking for as the sign of his coming when the

Son of Man comes and the sign of the end of the age talks a

lot about judgment. He talks a lot about what they should prepare for,

and that they should be, in fact watchful and waiting for his return,

because judgment is coming with the advent to the Kingdom of Heaven. And so

the parables and then the preview in chapter twenty five bur an answer to this

question, what will the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven be like? What

will the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven be like? And what will the

coming of the Son of Man look like? Let's listen intently with that in

mind, Matthew contexts this morning is Matthew twenty five, verse fourteen through thirty.

God's word says, for it will be like a man going on a

journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one,

he gave five talents to another, two to another, one to each

according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the

five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents

more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.

But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and

hid his master's money. Now, after a long time, the master of

those servants came and settled accounts with them, And he who had received the

five talents came forward bringing five talents more, saying, Master, you delivered

to me five talents. Here I have made five talents more. His master

said to him, well done, good and faithful servant, you have been

faithful over a little. I will set you over much. Enter into the

joy of your master. And he also, who had the two talents,

came forward, saying, Master, you delivered to me two talents. Here

I have made two talents more. His master said to him, well done,

good and faithful servant, you have been faithful over a little. I

will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master. He

also, who had received the one talent, came forward, saying, Master,

I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not

sew, and gathering where you scattered no seed. So I was afraid,

and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what

is yours. But his master answered him, you, wicked and swathful servant.

You knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where

I have scattered no seed. Then you ought to have invested my money with

the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own

with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who

has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will be given more,

and he will have an abundance. But the one who has not even what

he has, will be taken away and cast the worthless servant into the outer

darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. This

is God's word. I'm not sure what would come to your mind when I

use the phrase walking on eggshells, but for some of you, you've got

a very visceral memory of what that would feel like. There's a real you've

got to maybe a face that comes to your mind. You maybe got a

situation that comes to your mind. It's a it's maybe a person that you're

close to, maybe even a person that you're related to, A kind of

person that that most of the time you're hoping, for whatever reason, that

they're in a good mood. Maybe you're hoping they've woken up on the right

side of the bed, so to speak, that you've maybe caught them on

a good day. Maybe it's a boss, maybe it's a spouse, maybe

it's a it's a parent or was a parent, maybe it's a teenager.

You figured out maybe some ways around to sort of navigate what it's like when

they're in that place, to avoid maybe them blowing up, you know what

it is to walk on eggshells. And those experiences impact us in a very

deep way. We can't help but those experiences having an impact on us in

the way that we relate to everything around us, and even I would say

even in the way that we consider that we relate to God, not because

He's acted that way towards us, but because we have categories that we feel

from people that we know, and so we sort of extrapolate and map that

onto our understanding of who God is. No no person should ever use their

influence or proximity or strength or power over another person to scare them into compliance

with their anger or shortness. That should never be the case, but for

some reason, we tend to project that even on the perfect, holy,

loving, merciful, gracious God. And depending on how we've been raised,

depending on how we've been impacted by these angry people, it's easy for us

just to sort of accept those expectations that's just the way they are, that's

the way they have been. It's easy for us to sort of again set

our patterns of living, to walk around in such a way that we just

try really hard not to tick them off. And that seeps into what we

believe about our heavenly Father. I like the third servant here, We'll see

in just a moment, we can see God's absolute sovereignty. We can recognize

the fact that he is ultimately the master over everything because he owns it all,

everything belongs to him, everything already belonged to him. And so we

can automatically sort of make that switch and think, well, he's infinitely powerful,

he's infinitely sovereign, and we can assume that he commands our obedience simply

by the threat of consequences. And yet that's not who we see, that's

not we says he actually is. We are prone to misunderstand God's heart.

Behind providing us with everything that we have and then commanding us to be faithful

stewards, He's actually inviting us. You see it in this text. He's

actually inviting us into his joy. That's what he's doing. He's calling us

in, He's drawing us and he's saying, answer, look at what I

have for you. It's not a relationship where you're just barely hoping you get

it right or you're gonna cause him to explode. The more we encounter the

God of the Bible, the more we realize that this God draws us in

not with threats of destruction and annihilation, but with his kindness, his mercy,

and his peace and his promise that those who are faithful to his word

will have a share in his joy for those who are hidden in Christ.

There should be no more walking on eggshells with this God. If you're looking,

what's the what's the one main idea we want to get through today?

And this passage and from draw from this it's in your notes. But Jesus

will come to settle accounts with us. He will settle accounts with us,

and so let us, in that light leverage our little for the Master's joy.

Leverage our little for the Master's joy. For you're taking notes, and

I encourage you to just to kind of follow along as we can go.

The first section there I recognize and teaching a parable like this is it's kind

of like in kind of breaking the pieces apart it's a little like explaining a

joke. If you have to explain it, you're gonna have a hard time

catching the point. So I hope as we were reading it, this was

something that you you have a category from in a category in your mind for

what this story would have felt like to hear. And we're going to also

walk through some of the characters in particular. First we'll look at the character

of the Master. We should first faithfully leverage our little because it and that

is everything, It all belongs to our master. It all belongs to our

master. Like the master, God wisely entrusts his stuff, his material,

his goods, his things to each person according to their capacity for his own

purposes. This master was, he was, you see, going on a

long journey. He was going on a journey that ended out ended up in

verse nineteen to be a long one, but we didn't tell them that at

the beginning, and in his absence, he naturally wanted his capital, he

wanted his goods to be put to work as a good master would. He

knew his servants really well, and he understood their abilities, and he understood

their capacities, and so he gave to each of them and trusted to each

of them his property to be stewarded, not as something that was going to

be their own, but it's something that they were going to steward on his

behalf and his absence. Although it was an astronomical amount of money, an

astronomical amount of wealth that was actually entrusted to them. The Master was so

rich that he later refers to this five talents and two talents as little a

talent would have been about six thousand days worth of just an ordinary day laborers

wages. So one talent is like twenty years worth of money. And so

one guy got five of those, right, He understood that this guy was

of an ability that he could take that and he could do something with it.

And like the Master, but even more so, God owns everything,

not just the money, not just the stuff, not just the Catalan a

thousand hills, although that as well the earth and all of its fullness,

everything belongs to the Lord. And by our service we're not actually giving him

anything that he doesn't already own or rightfully deserve, even when he calls us

to worship him. And so, also, just like the Master, but

even more so, God perfectly knows each one of us, all the way

down to the last minute detail of who and what we are. And he's

entrusted to each one of us, believer and nonbeliever alike, his stuff for

our good and his glory, to increase our joy joy in him. But

the real and most important question, and that's what is revealed in the course

of this story, the real and most important question when it comes to this

master servant relationship, and it's the same for you and me as it was

for these servants, is this, Yes, Yahweh is the Lord of all.

Yes, he's definitely your master, and he's certainly God. But who

is he to you? How do you relate to him? And often the

answer to that question has everything to do with how we think He has handled

us, how we feel about how He has handled us. For some reason,

this entire I was tuesday years old when it first occurred to me in

the conversation that we had at launch, that the things that God gives us,

the talents that he entrusts to us, are not just the positive things.

Right we think of God giving us the talents or giving us that we

think. We think of natural talents, we think of maybe wealth, we

think of influence, we think of power, We think of maybe our our

personal capacities, influence and everything that we think of, mental capacity, youth,

energy, strength, whatever youth we have. We think of all the

things on the positive side of what we've got to work with in this life.

And yet for some reason I missed the fact that this was the same

Jesus of Nazareth who's going to finish his teaching on the amount of olives here,

and he's going to go out, and he's going to predict to his

disciples. You know that after two days the passover is coming, and then

the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified. And did he

not also say back in Matthew chapter sixteen, if anyone would come after me,

let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For

whoever would save his life will lose it. For whoever loses his life for

my sake will find it. And for what will it profit a man if

he gains the whole world and forfeits his self, Or what shall a man

give in return for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to

come with his angels and the glory of his father, and then he will

repay each person according to what he has done. Prince, we follow our

king who carried his cross with a cross of our own. If you're here

today and you can functionally believe, and you have functionally believed, God's never

going to give you more than you can handle. Right at some level,

in one sense, that's true, right, and carrying your cross behind pierced

feet will entail more than you just having to bear the cross of your winning

personality and dashing good looks, because your cross, like mine, is going

to have splinters and shards in it. Your talents might include things like waking

up in the middle of the night and having to go to the er to

get your appendix removed. And then now, what will you do with that?

Right, especially in this your Master knows what he's doing. It doesn't

always feel that way. It feels like you're getting something that you don't deserve.

How did this happen? What must I have done to have received this

thing? This was not the plan. But there are things in this life

that can only be learned through suffering, and friends, we dare not waste

our suffering. Even here we can and we must learn to trust the hand

of the Master who apportions to each according to his or her ability as one

who is united to Christ. God's never going to give you more than you

can handle. United with Christ, you will never receive more than you can

handle. Hidden with Christ in God, he apportions these inflictions for the good

of those who love them, who are called according to His purpose. We're

not supposed to just as Christians learn to rejoice in suffering because suffering is in

itself somehow a good thing. It's not, and it's not going to be

a part of the age to come. You think there's gonna be an er

in heaven, we sing a song with the little kids. There'll be no

band aids in heaven, right, No emergency medical care, no stings from

bees, no scrapes of neese. There'll be no band aids up there.

Why because all of that stuff is going to be done away with. We're

not supposed to just like it because it's fun. Jesus came to bear it

so that he could do away with it. We're not called to be religio

masochists. We rejoice in suffering because we believe that even in these things,

our good heavenly Father could have sent to us of all those things. This

is what He's entrusted to us for our good and for his glory, and

we can trust him in it, and the only entrust stuff to us for

our good. Belove it again. Please don't waste your trials because of who

your Master is. You can trust him. They are talents in disguise.

And even if you have gifts positive things, there's things that you want to

try to leverage for the master's gain. You want to I want to do

something with this. I want to make much of God because of what He's

invested in me. Don't think at any moment in time that you're ever actually

giving something to God that he doesn't already deserve, that He hasn't already given

to you in the first place. Paul talks about this, we have no

gifts that we've not received and C. S. Lewis, if you've read

the Book of Mere Christianity, he explains this in one of his books,

to explain that you know, actually everything belongs to him. He says,

every faculty you have, your power of thinking, you're moving of your limbs

from moment to moment, is given to you by God. If you devoted

every moment of your life exclusively to his service. You could never give him

anything that was not in some sense is already. It's the same thing that

Jesus says in Luke seventeen ten. At the end, even if we do

it all right, so that when we have done all that we were commended,

the best we're going to be able to say, he says, is

we were unworthy servants. We have only done that which was our duty,

because everything belongs to him. So naturally whatever we've received from him, we

have received from him. And so whatever the reason, it's a battle in

this life for us to come to the realization that what we've been entrusted with

is not actually ours, it doesn't actually belong to us. And so for

that reason, it's true that we never actually add anything to God's investment.

Not really. Lewis continued in that same section, he said illustrated by saying,

it's like this. It's like a small child going to a father and

saying, Daddy, give me a sixpence to bry you a birthday present.

And of course he says, the father does. Of course he does,

right, and he's pleased with the child's present. It's all very nice and

proper, But only an idiot would think that the father is sixpence to the

good on the transaction. Right, do you have it added anything to the

father? You've done this right, I mean the parents and other people like

at some point you had to give a yeah, yeah, sure, it's

Father's Day, or it's a it's a whatever, it's a birthday. Go,

I'll give you some money. You can give me your birthday present.

You've experienced this thing, right at some level in your life, some resources

to purchase a gift that's inevitably for you. It feels a little weird,

the in fact, the Bible that I'm preaching from is just such a gift.

It was. It was something that I was finishing, my doctor Thompson,

my family I asked, I actually asked for this as a gift,

and so yes, of course they went and got it. And and inside

the front cover here it has all of their names, right, and so

it's it's special and precious to me. And and yet I'm pretty sure it

came out of my checking account to cover that. Right. No, I

wasn't a richer, right, It wasn't like, oh I got a new

Bible, thank you so much. I mean, yes he was, it

was, it was wonderful. Yes I wasn't richer, But I don't think

that's what my wife and my children were after in that instance any more than

the kid who went out and bought his father at birthday present. They weren't

aiming at the father's gain. They were aiming at the father's pleasure. That's

a joy for me to preach from this for that reason, because it's special

to me, not because that somehow was a gain, but because it meant

something that they wanted to do that for me. No, not richer,

It all belongs to him. We're gonna add nothing to his riches, but

we should seek, as his children to increase his joy of love for the

father. The gain the Master is after isn't monetary. He owns everything.

He was never after the blood of bulls and goats. They already belonged to

him. What did he want. He didn't want the gift. He wanted

the pleasure he take in his faithful children, because not after the gift.

It's got no interest in that, merely preserving his capital, that's all his

already. He takes pleasure in those who fear him and those who hope in

his steadfast love, friends, is your heart his? Why do you obey

out of a fear that somehow he's gonna zap you if you don't. May

it never be merely external actions, not merely obligation, not merely a wrong

kind of fear. Do you believe that he delights in your faithful obedience.

Let's leverage our little because it belongs to him, but not merely because it

belongs to him, but because we love him. Secondly, let's leverage our

little because it's entrusted to us for gain. Like the good and faithful servants

here Jesus's disciples, who understand their roles as servants faithfully aim at kingdom gain,

and we'll see their master's benediction and joy on that day. Again,

here what we see is the faithful servant goes out and he makes five talents.

More the second faithful servant he has two, and he goes out and

does Likewise, they were aiming at. They had an eye towards a gain

for the master. Multiplication, fruitfulness, more of the Kingdom's advance, and

the hearts of men and women in the wider world be kind of the parallel

for us. The sums here again are staggering, and yet what the Master

calls it is little. What would the Master have expected of them? Well,

the story doesn't explicitly say, but it seems like the first two guys

got it right. It seems like the first two guys wanted, out of

an overflow of love for and concern for and care for the Master, that

they wanted to do what the Master had called them to do. There was

an expectation of return. So it's no wonder when the Master returns that the

guy who made five, he was the first one in line. Like when

I come home, the kids who I see are not the ones I'm worried

about. That's the ones who are hiding. The five talent guy was right

there, The two talent guy was right behind him, and then the one

talent guy, well he we'll talk about him in a minute. But notice

what he does not just praise, is hey, look at that game.

Look at what he says to them. Look at what he says to each

of them. It's the same. It's the same thing. Well done,

good and faithful servants. Is this say look at all this that you made.

Well done, good and faithful servants. He was after their faithfulness.

He was he wanted their their faithfulness. Many years ago, there were two

young men, Leonard and David, who had heard the story of a man

who had escaped from a slave island in at the time, it's now known

as Saint Thomas. There were three thousand slaves on that island in the year

seventeen thirty one, and the only people who were allowed on that island because

of the owner of all of those slaves, were people who were slaves.

He basically said he was an atheist and he was not going to allow anyone

to go there and to preach the gospel. There's going to be no gospel

work. There was going to be no churches there. There was going to

be nothing like that. And Leonard heard about this happening. He was it

was just a potter, meaning he just made pots, that's what he did

for a living. And he just he heard this three thousand people who were

going to live and die without ever being able to hear the gospel, and

he could not sleep that night at all. He went up the next day

and went and talked to his mission sending organization, and he asked, like,

we've got to do something. I have to do something. But what

could he do? He wasn't trained for this, He wasn't in any way

specialized in order to be able to go and do this thing. So that

organization said, tell you what, wait a year, we'll see how it

goes. He prayed, he continued faithfully. The year comes, the year

goes, he says, I still want to go. So he lear and

David boarded this ship as a European Dutchman. He said, if they don't

let you in, what are you gonna do? He said, well,

I will just sell myself into slavery if that's what it takes for me to

be able to share the gospel with these people. And of course everybody who's

hearing this story, everybody who's talking to him, said, this is absurd.

This is not what you're prepared for, This is not what you've trained

for. Why would you do this? And a whole bunch of people show

up at the dock as he's pulling away. They're not there to just encourage

him. They're there to pray, but they're hoping that somehow they're going to

be able to persuade him to get off the boats. He was able to

get a job on that particular ship to head in that particular direction. And

as people are waving and they're crying, and they're thinking, this is a

terrible idea. Why in the world would you do this, He is believed

to have said, We don't know which one of them said it, but

called back to the shore. May the Lamb of God receive the prize,

the reward of his suffering. That was what motivated him, that the Lamb

of God will receive the reward of his suffering. That man was eighteen years

old. As he boarded that ship to go to that place, there was

no Christian on that island. A year and a half later, there were

four Christians on that island. Six years after that, there were eight hundred

Christians on that island. Because he was willing to suffer for the sake of

the name of Christ, that Christ would receive the reward of his suffering.

God himself will see to the gain. Be it through an eighteen year old

potter to go and do missionary work in a field that has never been sown.

God will see to the gain. You Christians, seek to be faithful.

You put one foot in front of another. Seek to be faithful.

Your parents and grandparents. You may be a parent and a grandparent who's praying

and weeping continually regularly asking for prayer for your children and your grandchildren who have

turned away from the Lord. Continue to pray, and do not give up

for the prayer of a righteous person as powerful and as great power as it

is working. That persistence and that prayer is hurt in heaven and will accomplish

what God sends it through you, for He is deepening your capacity to one

day enjoy more of His joy with it to you who are here and are

hoping to one day, Mary, but it doesn't seem like it's just around

the corner. Don't let one moment of your capacity go to waste capacity.

What Paul says is it's an opportunity for undivided devotion to the Lord. It's

never going to be greater than it is right now. And whether you're receiving

this part of your journey with open arms or as more of one of those

like middle of the night er visits, don't bury this talent while you're waiting

for his spouse. Faithfully serve the Lord with the capacity that he has entrusted

you with today. If you're finding yourself here, and you're still battling sin,

and it seems like it's the same kind of sin over and over again.

Don't at that disillusion you. You're gonna be fighting sin until you breathe

your first breath in glory. Don't just throw your hands up because it's too

hard. God is faithful and he's not going to let you be tempted beyond

what you're able. He knows your ability, and with the temptation he allows,

he says he's going to provide a way out so that you'd be able

to stand up under that temptation. Don't give up. Your master knows your

capacity. Take the next step and multiply his joy and your joy in his

joy. And he realizes an important point as well. If you've read these

good and faithful servants, somehow being the ones that are saved by their faithful

plotting, you've missed the point. Let's get to the twist in the story.

Lastly. Thirdly, let's leverage our little because it will reveal our true

fear like this wicked, slothful servant, those who are paralyzed by a wrong

fear of God so as to ignorantly and lazily go about their daily life.

They're going to receive the wages of sin, separation from him forever. And

now, if peoplek at verse eighteen, look at verse eighteen. The one

who would receive the one talent went out and dug in the ground and hit

his master's money. He was as eager to avoid the responsibility as the other

two were to be faithful with the responsibility. All three servants were being tested.

It seems like the first two understood that, but all three of them

are being tested, just like we are, all of life here on this

earth in some way, as a weight is a testing ground intended by God

to purify and to strengthen our faith and fit us for eternal life. All

of those things are tests for us, and they're going to reveal what we

really worship. They're going to reveal where our fears really placed. The servant

was quick to go and to bury that twenty years salary worth of silver in

the ground. And it's funny, because it's not funny, it's ironic because

the Master says later, you could have at least given it to the ans

and gotten interest from it. And I'm wondering in my head, like wouldn't

that have taken less energy than running out and digging a hole to bury it

in the first place. Have you ever, parents, who know exactly what

I'm talking about, You spent more energy being disobedient than you would have been

doing and just doing being the obedient thing? Right, ever, walked around

the same hamper of clothes for two weeks would have been anyway. The Master

was owed more than that. Right, this one talent servant had a one

talent capacity, but he couldn't even be bothered to give a one talent effort.

He took no ownership of the stewardship that had been entrusted to him.

Do we because fear was twisted, he had a deficient view of the Master.

He defined him Verse twenty four weeks His Master, I knew you to

be a hard man. And here we come back around to what do you

think of the Master? Do you see him as one who is a hard

man of whom you're supposed to be afraid? Aren't we supposed to fear God?

Yes? Yes, But in Scripture there are a couple of kinds of

fear when it comes to God. There's the kind that runs away from him

and the kind that runs to him because of how beautiful and wonderful and amazing

we believe that He is. For one who is a believer, one who

has trusted Christ's sacrificial death on their behalf to count for them. The wrath

of God has been satisfied, fully drank by the by Jesus Christ on the

cross. He is fully paid for our sin appeared to Stephen Charnock put it

this way. He said, nothing of God looks terrible in Christ to a

believer. The sun has risen, the shadows are vanished. God walks upon

the battlements of love. Justice hath left its sting in the Savior's side.

The law is disarmed, the weapons are out of his hands. Nothing in

God looks terrible in Christ to a believer. Praise the Lord. That's the

kind of fear that takes in the little bit of God that a human being

can really understand, and is terrified that we would not get more of him,

The kind of dread that would characterize the wicked slawful servant only comprehends one

facet of God, and that imperfectly but beloved. Can you honestly say,

honestly, if you're here today and you are not bought in? Yet,

can you honestly say, knowing that God so loved the world that he gave

his only son to be wounded and crushed for our iniquities, beaten and afflicted

for our sentence, even forsaken by his heavenly father, while they drank the

cup of God's wrath against sin, so that whoever would believe in him could

live forever in his joy? Can you honestly say that he deserves to be

thought of as hard? Is that even intellectually honest? And here we have

the shocking part of this At the end, the last servant gets tossed into

the outer darkness, whether it's weeping and nashing of teeth. My hope is

that you would you would see today where your hope is, rather than find

it on that day. Because there was one seated among them. There was

one seated among them named Judas, whose fear was revealed to be something other

than Christ. Easy is always going to be easier next episode. Just keep

scrolling, turn up the music, check your notification, scan the scores,

make sure you have a mystity news on and on and on. Become very

easy for us to amuse ourselves to death. I hope for you is that

you'd be more more fully assured as one hidden in Christ. Nothing of God

looks terrible to you. Any inclination that you have to work and a live

for Christ is out of love and an ever deepening appreciation for who He is

and what He's done, that you would realize that you're free to be faithful.

God take care of the game. And for those of you who are

still tempted to believe that God is hard, maybe because your lot in life

has been harder than you think, worse than you deserve. Maybe because you're

still not quite wrapped your head around the reality that He never demands anything that

he doesn't fully deserve. Maybe because you're still holding onto the things of this

world because you know that Christ wants your all and you're not ready to give

it up yet. The only gods that you're going to have to walk on

eggshells around are the fleeting gods of this world. The lust of the flesh,

the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Those are

the little g gods that are going to demand and demand and demand and never

deliver on the happiness that they promise. This God calls you to share in

his joy,