Luke, The Orderly Account of Truth - Did You Do Your Chores - Luke 19:11-27

All right, grab your bibles. We are in Luke chapter

nineteen today. If you don't have a Bible, we have

a bunch at the resource desk in the lobby. Please

grab one it keep it. We want you to have

the Bible in your hands every single day. It's our

spiritual food. If you waited from Sunday to Sunday to

eat real food, your body wouldn't be doing very well.

It's the same thing when we wait that long to

read our Bibles. So we want you to be reading

your Bible throughout the week. Today we're going to be

in verses eleven through twenty seven to us Luke chapter nineteen,

eleven through twenty seven. We're going to read the text,

and then we'll pray together verse eleven. As they heard

these things, he proceeded to tell a parable. Because he

was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the

Kingdom of God was to appear immediately, he said, therefore

a nobleman went into a far country to receive for

himself a kingdom, and then return, calling ten of his servants,

he gave them ten minus, and he said to them

engage in business until I come. Citizens hated him and

sent a delegation after him, saying, we do not want

this man to reign over us. When he returned, having

received the kingdom, he ordered the servants to whom he

had given the money to be called to him, that

he might know what they had gained by doing business.

The first came to him, saying, Lord, your mina has

made ten minas more. And he said to him, well done,

good servant, Because you have been faithful and very little,

you shall have authority over ten cities. And the second

came saying, Lord, your minah has made five minas. And

he said to him, and you are to be over

five cities. Then another came saying, Lord, here's your mina,

which I kept laid away in a handkerchief. For I

was afraid of you, because you are a severe man.

You take what you do did not deposit, and reap

what you did not sow. He said to him, I

will condemn you with your own words, You wicked servant.

You knew that I was a severe man, taking what

I did not deposit and depositing and reaping what I

did not sow. Why then did you not put the

money in the bank? And am I coming? I might

have collected it with interest, and he said to those

who stood by, take the minah from him and give

it to the one who has ten minas. And they

said to him, Lord, he has ten minus. I tell

you that everyone who has more will be given, but

from the one who has not, even what he has.

Will be taken away.

But as for these enemies of mine who did not

want me to reign over them, bring them here and

slaughter them before me. Let's pray, God, we thank you

for your word.

God.

We pray that we have ears to hear it today,

that you make it make sense in our hearts and

our minds, that you open up our minds to understand

what you have to say for us today. God, we

just pray that these words are clear, that we know

how to apply them to our lives. God, that everything

that's said today brings you glory and helps us be

better followers of you. So God, we just thank you

for this moment and give it all to you in

Jesus name. Everybody said, Amen, All right. We've been in

a series called Luke The Orderly Account of Truth, and

Luke went through and investigated everything that Jesus did through

throughout his ministry.

And wrote it all down.

And he wrote it all down, which is awesome because

now we get to have because of this orderly account,

we get to have certainty about who Jesus is. It's

pretty good news for us that someone went and did

all the homework.

For us, right.

They did the research, they did all the hard work,

the legwork. All we get to do is read it

and learn right. So because of his orderly account, we

can have certainty about who Jesus is. And ever since

Luke chapter nine, if you remember, way back in Luke

chapter nine, Jesus has been headed to Jerusalem. That was a.

Pinnacle moment in the whole book, the whole book of Luke.

He switched and said, now he has really resolutely set

his eyes or set his face toward Jerusalem, that Jesus

is going to Jerusalem with some determination. He's like, I'm

going to get there. And now he's getting really close

to Jerusalem. He's near Jerusalem, and he pass through this

city of Jericho on the way, and he's been performing

miracles all along the way, and he's been teaching the

crowds who've been following are from city to city to city.

And as he passed through Jericho.

He has this really cool interaction with a guy Zachieas, right,

and we preached on that last week. Zachieas is a

rich chief tax collector, very rich, very chief ye and

very tax collectory.

Also very short.

Right. He has to climate tree to see Jesus over

the crowds. But Jesus says something very important at the

end of his interaction with Zachieas. He said, for the

son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

For the son of Man came to seek and to

save the lost. And he said this to the whole

crowd of people that were following him. Right. He didn't

just say it to Zachieas, he said it to everybody.

And the crowd what do they do?

Their response was they grumbled at him, right, And they

grumbled at him every single time he actually tried to

seek and save the lost. So the crowd was doing

Jesus is doing his mission. Crowd starts grumbling. So Jesus

is basically reminding the people of his mission. He's like,

this is why I'm here, this is why I've come.

But Jesus isn't just reminding the people of his mission.

That's not all he's doing now because the people had

all kinds of ideas about how they thought all the

prophecy about God's forever king was going to be fulfilled. Right,

there will be a king on the throne of David forever.

This is like Old Testament prophecy stuff. And all the

people who follow God had these very incorrect ideas of

how they thought that was going to be fulfilled. So

Jesus spends a bunch of time correcting that, And our

text today shows Jesus using a parable to do exactly that.

He's correcting what the people's incorrect ideas of how these.

Prophecies are going to be fulfilled. He's correcting them.

He tells them, this is what's actually going to be like,

this is what the Kingdom of God is going to

be like. And in that process he also gives us

a really good lesson about stewardship, taking care of the

things that you've been given, how you handle the things

you have or the things that you've been given. Who

remembers being a teenager and your parents left you at

home when they went on trip or they just left

the house. You guys, remember that as a teenager they'd

leave you.

Well, it never fails.

They would always leave you what a list of things

you had to do while they were gone, right, They'd

always say, these are things I'd like for you to

do while we're away.

And I remember my parents. I don't know if you guys.

My parents are sitting right here by the way.

I don't know if they remember this, but there was

a time where they're getting ready to walk out of

the door, and the last thing they say to.

Me is don't throw any parties.

I mean, I didn't throw a party party, but I

definitely invite my friends over to play video games. So

I invite a bunch of my friends over to play

video games. We made pizzas, oven caught on fire. It

was a whole thing. But that's not the point. The

point is not me and my little Halo party. I

called it to play video games. No, the point is

that our parents would leave us with a list of

things they wanted us to do before they got back.

These are the things I'd like for you to have

done before we get back. And Jesse and I do

this with our boys every single day. They have chore lists.

Our oldest jackson usually gets home before us, and when

we get home, it's the first thing we asked was like.

Did you do your chores?

Did you do what we told you to do before

we got home? And I think that's what Jesus is

asking through this parable. I think that's actually what he's

kind of saying. What he's saying is I'm going away

for a while. I'm taking this from then to now

really fast. I'm going away for a while, is what

Jesus is saying. And when I return, how did you

do with what I left you to do? So I

called today's message, did you do your chores? Did you

do your chores? When your parents got back from the trip,

you were either rewarded or we were punished. And it

was determined based on how you did with what they

left for you to do. Right, most of the time,

we'd wait till the very last second to.

Do it all, really quo.

They always knew we were not slick. They knew that

we waited the last second to do it all. But

Jesus is saying the same thing here.

He is the king. He is going to leave for

a while, but he will return.

Jesus is going to come back, and when he does,

he will reward his faithful servants, and he will destroy

his enemies. That's the basis of what's being said here

that Jesus King Jesus is going away for a while,

but he will return, and when he returns, he will

reward his faithful servants and he will destroy his enemies.

Look at verse eleven because Luke sets this up for

us in a really important way and a very helpful way.

I think as they heard these.

Things, these things being all this stuff we just talked

about with Zacchius, right as he heard what he was

saying about the son of Man comes to see can

say the lost As he heard these things, or as

they heard these things, he Jesus proceeded to tell a

parable because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they

suppose is that the Kingdom of God was to appear immediately.

So this setup is really important. So it tell us

why Jesus is telling this parable. I'm is anybody else

a why guy or a why girl? I want to

know why? And this is great because we get that

why right here. We'd find out why Jesus is telling

this parable. It's because he's getting close to Jerusalem and

what happens in Jerusalem. He's prophesied about it, like at

least three times. By now, he's going to be crucified.

Jesus is going to get crucified, put to death in Jerusalem.

The first time Jesus came to Earth was to die

on the cross. That's why he came to be crucified, buried,

and raised from the dead.

Amen.

But that's not what the people thought was going to happen.

That's not what all the people who were following God

thought was going to happen. No, they thought that Jesus

was going to go to Jerusalem, wipe out the Roman

government and establish himself over all of Israel and all

of the world, to take over in a political and

governmental way. That's what they expected, and they expected that

it was all going to happen as soon as Jesus

got there, or as soon as God's forever king got there.

But that wasn't God's plan.

This wasn't the way that he was going to bring

about his kingdom.

Right. So Jesus tells this parable about a nobleman a king.

All. He's saying this whole thing to correct their misunderstanding

or their incorrect thoughts about how this was going to happen.

He tells a story about a king who goes away

to get a kingdom. Verse twelve. He says, therefore, after

finding out why he just told this parable, he says, therefore,

a nobleman went into a far country to receive for

himself a kingdom and then return. So the intention is

he is going to go away and he is going

to return.

That's the intention here.

Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas

and said to them, engage in business until I come.

So he calls ten of them together and gives them

all a mina and amna is about three months days wages.

Three months of the daily wage. Does that make sense?

So if he handed out ten and I had used

my calculator for this, that's a total of about two

and a half years wages that he's wanting to be

invested here, two and a half years total wages that

he wants them to invest with.

So what does he do.

He gives them the money and then he gives them

a task. Gives them the money and gives them a

task to do with it while he's gone.

So he gave him their chore list verse fourteen.

But as citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying,

we do not want this man to reign over us.

So we get this is a little bit of insight

into well the end of the parable that talks about

the enemies of the king. But we see that these

citizens have rejected their king. They're rejecting their king.

They don't like.

Him or want them to rule over them. And I

don't believe this is talking about the faithful servants. And

the reason I don't think this is talking about the

faithful servants is because of how the rest of the

parable unfolds. Right, we just read through the whole thing,

So it seems like these are some different citizens here

that hate this king, and they went as far as

to send a delegation behind him to tell others like,

we don't like this guy, and we don't want to

be ruled by this guy. And through their rejection, they're

showing that they are the enemies of this king. If

they are not with him, they are against him. But

after some time this king he returns and calls his

servants forward to report. When he returned, having received the kingdom,

he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money,

to be called to him that he might know what

they had gained by doing business. The first came before

him saying, Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.

And he said to him, well done, good servant. Because

you've been faithful and very little, you shall have authority

over ten cities. What did you gain with the money

I gave you? That's the question he's asking. Gave you

something to do? Now, how did it go?

Well? The first guy did awesome, right.

He turned one mina into ten, which is three months

wages into two and a half years wages. That's a

pretty sweet investment right there. It's not quite crypto good,

but you know it's close.

Just kidding. No investment advice from here.

But what happened after he reported to the nobleman the

results of his investment.

The nobleman rewarded him.

He gave him something, didn't he He gave him authority

over ten cities, probably of his new kingdom, which is

a foreshadowing, I think, or maybe a parallelism for this

illustration that Jesus is giving.

But the servant was rewarded for his faithfulness.

He did what the nobleman told him to do, and

the nobleman rewarded him.

But what about the second servant?

He comes forward, and he said, Lord, your mina has

made five minus. And he said to him, and you

are to be over five cities. So, after seeing the

first guy get a reward, the second guy's like me,

next call on me, pick me a teacher. Right, He's like,

I want to tell you how I did. He saw

the first guy get rewarded, so he says, I turned

one into five. And this faithful servant was rewarded as well.

He was rewarded with authority over five cities. But what

about the third servant when he came forward? How did

that go? Then another came saying, Lord, here is your mina,

which I have kept laid away in a handkerchief.

For I was afraid of you because you are.

A severe man. You take what you did not deposit

and reap what you did not sew. He said to him,

I will condemn you with your own words, You wicked servant.

You knew that I was a severe man, taking what

I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sew.

Question Mark, why then did you not put my money

in the bank? And am I coming? I might have

collected it with interest? The servant did nothing with the mina.

He was told what to do and instead did not

do anything with it. He hid it in the handkerchief.

He didn't do what he was told. He didn't even

do the bare minimum. It like it costs you nothing.

I'm trying to use the word like a costs you

no energy to just put it in the bank and

sit and let it collect interest. Right, it doesn't really

cost you any energy to do that. He could have

at least done that the bare minimum, but he didn't

even do that. But he said it was because he

was afraid of the nobleman. He was afraid. He claimed

that the nobleman was, what he said, a severe man

who takes what he doesn't deposit and reaps what he

didn't sew. So how does a nobleman respond to that?

He says, that's what you think of me, then I

will treat you exactly that way. That's what the nobleman

does in this situation. That's what you think of me,

Then that's why I'm gonna treat you. But I want

to pause here and talk about something that I think

is really important. I don't know, maybe God was just

putting on my heart as I was reading to the

text and wrestling over it when I was studying it.

But what we believe about people will influence or affect

the way we affect the way we interact with them.

If you don't believe me, If someone is believed to

be a known gossip, are you gonna tell them a secret? No,

of course you're not gonna tell him a secret. You're

not gonna give them any information because they're not gonna

keep it to themselves. If you know someone can't keep

their mouth shut, you're not giving them any sensitive or

secret information. You have now adjusted, or your interaction with

that individual has been affected based on your belief about

who they are. Or how about this, have you ever

known someone who gets their feelings hurt easily? We all

know someone like that. We're much more sensitive and how

we say stuff to people, we will handle them much

more gently. Are the wives elbowing the husbands right now?

In here? I'm a little sensitive. I don't lie. Yeah,

I've read there with you.

So sometimes we've gotta put the kid gloves on right

when we talk to these people who are a little

more sensitive. So we do adjust the way we interact

with people based on our belief. But I think this

also applies with how we interact with God. What we

believe about God determines how we interact with him. What

we believe about God determines how we interact with him.

So if we believe him to be a big, scary, mean, God,

how do we interact with that? Well, maybe we'll cower

before him, never asking him for anything. We may even

struggle to run to him and repentance when we're sinning.

That's the opposite of what we should do in both accounts.

Right.

What if we believe God to be a loving and

forgiving father, that's a pretty sweet one. Then we may

have no problem coming to him for anything and everything,

which we should. But maybe we don't take our battle

with sin seriously because we know he'll just forgive us.

What if we believe God to be a generous God

who provides for his children, we never have to worry

about having what we need in life. What if we

believe him to be a holy, perfect and sovereign God, Well,

we may not feel worthy to stand before him.

That's why we need Jesus.

There's a big hint in there, right, Because in our

own we're not worthy to stand in front of him.

We need Jesus. But God tells us all through scripture

what he's like. He tells us, He tells us exactly

what we should believe about him. He's like, this is

who I am, this is how I am, and.

This is what we should believe.

We should believe what he says about himself, right, not

what the world says about him. Don't believe what other

people say about him. What does he say about him?

He is truth. He is the one who gets to

decide who he is and how he is, and then

we get to believe that. I'm not gonna lie. God

says a lot about who he isn't here. It's a

big book, right, It's a lot. Every attribute about himself

that we learn. We got to understand this. He's all

of them perfectly, all of them perfectly. If he says

he's one thing, he's that thing perfectly. If he says

he's another, he's also that other thing perfectly. If he

says he's a third thing, woe three. I thought it

was only one of the No. Three, He's all three perfectly.

He's all of his attributes perfectly. But we can't go

too far in any direction with any of them, And

what do I mean by that? For instance, everybody knows

that God is love. Even the world who doesn't follow

God knows that God is love.

Right.

God is love, but he's also just, so he's fully

love and he's fully just both of them.

Right.

And we've seen people go too far down the God

is Love path before, haven't we Well, that leads to

all kinds of weird places. If you say God is

only love and you just run all the way down

that path, you end up in weird places like, well,

if God is love, then why would a loving God

send people to hell?

Or why would you let them go to hell?

If you go too far down the God is Love

path and ignore all the other attributes about who God is,

you go too far down that you end up believing

in universalism. Universalism as there is no hell and everyone

goes to heaven. There's one very, very big problem with

that theology.

That's not what the Bible says, That's not what God says.

So we can't go too far down the route of

God is love even though he is love, because he's

perfectly all his attributes all at the same time. Sin

has to be dealt with and because of that, That's

why we know God is not just love. He's also just,

and sin will be dealt with. That's why Jesus had

to die on the cross to pay the penalty for sin.

That's why Jesus had to die. God is just by

dealing with sin, but he's also loving by providing a

means for jesus death to be applied to us. He's

both fully and we didn't deserve it. Oh, he's also gracious,

fully and merciful.

Fully.

The whole reason I'm talking about this and understanding the

different attributes of God fully is because what you believe

about Him will determine how you interact with him. So

we have to believe the right thing about God so

that we interact with him. And I think that's the

same thing we're seeing Jesus talk about in this parable.

The servant believed one thing about the nobleman, and he

told it to the nobleman's face, and it caused him

to believe or excuse me to behave in a certain

way or interact.

With him in a certain way.

And the nobleman responded by being exactly how the servant

expected him to be. So let's see what he did

verse twenty four, And he said to those who stood by,

take the minah from him and give it to the

one who has ten mina. And they said to him, Lord,

he has ten minas. I tell you that to everyone

who has more will be given, but from the one

who has not, even what he has, will be taken away.

The king took the mina from the wicked servant and

gave it to the one who made ten. But he's

already got ten. Everyone's like, that doesn't make sense. Why

are you give it to him he's already got ten.

And the response is, yes, I know, everyone who has

more will be given, but for the one who has

not even what he when he has, oh my gosh,

even what he has will not be taken. I'm really

learning how to read, apparently, But what point is Jesus

making here? Like, what is he trying?

What is he getting at? This has to do with stewardship.

What did you do with what I left for you

to do? Stewardship?

They were all given what they had, all these servants, right,

they were all given The mina was given to them,

meaning it wasn't something they had, It wasn't something they

crafted or created, it was given to them, right, we're

all tracking, Okay, the ones who did well with what

they were given were given more, but the ones who

did poorly with what they were given was taken away.

It was taken away.

And I think that this is most I mean most

theologians push in this direction as well, but that this

is most likely an indictment against the religious leaders of

the day specifically has much grander ramifications, but an indictment

against them because they were the ones who had been

given leadership over the people. They've been given that responsibility,

but they weren't good stewards. They did not steward that leadership. Well,

they did not steward that responsibility. Well, they didn't do

what God told them to do.

They didn't do their chores.

So what is Jesus saying here, God's going to take

away what they had? Kind of the band come up,

please or Aidan, whoever's coming up. So he took away

what they had. And the last thing this nobleman did

was he dealt with his enemies. Right, so we see

that in the last verse there twenty seven. But as

for these enemies of mine who did not want me

to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them

before me. That seems hardcore personally, but king's gonna king, right,

this is what they do, and when that happens, everyone's like,

long live the king.

That's what we do.

But the enemies of this nobleman, this king, were brought

before him and slaughtered. So, just to like really quick

recap these short verses, there's a king who is going

away for a while.

He's given his servants a job to do until he

gets back.

When he returns, he rewards his servants based on how

they did, and he slaughtered his enemies. You guys, see that.

That's a pretty quick summary, right. There's a king who's

going away for a while. He gives his servants a

job to do while he's gone. He returns and he

rewards the servants for how they did and destroys his enemies. Well,

Jesus is about to get to Jerusalem where he's going

to be crucified.

He's going away for a while. That's what that means.

He's going to be crucified and he's going to go

away for a while, but one day.

He will return.

He's coming back, and when he returns, it will be

to judge the living and the dead to judge every

single one of us for how we did with what

he told.

Us to do or what he gave us to do.

The faithful servants will be rewarded and get to enter

the joy of their master. The same story is told

in the Talents in the Book of Matthew, and I

love part of the reward was enter the joy of

your Master.

I love that.

So the faithful servants are rewarded, but the enemies of

the Lord will be destroyed.

They will be destroyed.

And right now we live in the in between at

the time, and when Jesus said this, he hadn't left yet.

He's left now.

Right when I say left, you know, he's sitting at

the right hand of the Father in heaven right waiting

to be told to come down and start judgment.

But Jesus that hadn't He hadn't left yet.

So when he's saying these words out of his mouth

to these people and we read this parable, he hasn't

left yet. So these people are like, what is going on?

I think Pastor Duncan talked about it a couple of

weeks ago talking about our perspective based on contrasting to

the perspective of those in scripture who haven't seen what

we've seen. We have the benefit of having seen a

lot more stuff than they did at that moment. So

when Jesus is telling them, I'm gonna go to Jerusalem,

I'm going to die.

And I'm gonna be raised again, They're.

Like, what are you talking about? Jesus, God hid those

things from them, but it's been revealed to us. Now

we get to see these things, and so now we

know what Jesus is saying. When he says the king

is going away for a while and will return, he

gets crucified and he goes away for a while, but

he will return. King Jesus has gone away to prepare

his kingdom. This nobleman went away to go get his kingdom.

I mean, that's pretty on the head, right, and we're

all waiting for his return. So my question is are

we busy taking care of the list he gave us?

Are we busy taking care of the list that.

He gave us?

Are we doing our chores? When the Master returns, will

he find us at work? But I guess before we

get too far into that, really, the first question I

should ask is are we one of his servants or

are we one of his enemies? It's kind of an

important question to know. So the first and most important question,

because when Jesus returns in power and glory, in strength

as the king, every single knee will bow and every

single tongue will confess that Jesus's Lord.

Nobody escapes that dead or alive. No one escapes that.

Every single knee will bow, and every single tongue will

confess that Jesus Christ is lord. And that will either

happen as a willing servant who submits to Jesus's king

and savior, or that will happen as a rebellious person

who rejects his his lordship and is forced to bow

and then further or in the future then destroyed. And

for those who this is a complete side note. Just

if you've studied in the idea that what's it called

when everyone's destroyed and there's no hell?

What's that called?

You guys? Remember annihilationism. We're not talking about anhilationism here.

That's not biblical.

So the only way for us to not be found

as one of his enemies, but to be one of

his servants, is to turn to Jesus that's the only

way to confess with your mouth that Jesus's Lord and

believe in your heart that God raised them from the dead.

Because if you look to Jesus and believe, you're forgiven

of all of your sins, past, present, future, and you

get to spend eternity face face to Jesus.

In perfection, that's amazing. That's such good news. That's not

based on the things we do.

We don't have to do enough good things to make

it into heaven or to make it into eternity. I

should say that internal peace with Jesus. No, it's based

on what he did. All we have to do is

believe in him. That's how we're found to be his

servants and not his enemies who get destroyed. So let's

now go back and close with this talking about us

as his servants. As his servants, Are we serving him?

That's what a servant does. Are we serving him? Are

we in his service? Do we do what he tells

us to do? How are we doing with what he

left for us to do? Because the Lord rewards his

servants for how they did while he was away. Now,

the Bible, like I said earlier, is a big book

there's a lot to keep us busy in there. We

know that if you read it for a little bit,

you're like wow, I mean understanding it first off is

one thing, so you gotta study, and then coming down

to all the lists, like what do I gotta do?

There's a lot in there to keep us busy. But

I have a list here of a few things just

to go through. So how are you doing with telling

others about Jesus? It's kind of an easy one to

talk about sharing the gospel message with those around you,

the lost and dying world around you, people who are

perishing in their sins, never experiencing the forgiveness and redemption

of Jesus Christ.

Telling others about Jesus.

How are we doing about with growing in my knowledge

of him? Just reading the Bible part of how we're

transformed in His images through knowledge of him. So do

we learn about who Jesus is? Do we read our Bibles?

Do we learn about who God says he is? And

believe that? How are we doing it? Praying without ceasing?

I forget to pray all the time, be in constant

fellowship with the Lord. How am I doing at loving

others or just being loving? But they don't deserve it,

neither did you.

That's kind of a point.

How are you doing it forgiving others when they do

harm to you, whether that's physical or otherwise. What about

keeping no record of wrong? I mean, I forgive them,

but they've done this like twelve times. It's keeping a

record of wrong. How am I doing it being generous?

Or do I find every reason not to be generous?

Or can I find every excuse for why I don't

have to be generous? How am I doing it putting

my flesh and my sin to death. Here's a big

difference between falling off the horse and climbing back up

and falling off the horse and rolling around in the mud.

How am I doing it actually fighting my sin? How

am I doing it putting love for Jesus over everything

else in my life? It's a subtle one that I

forget all the time. I put all kinds of other

stuff as higher importance. And there's sometimes things He told

me to take care of, like my family.

It's kind of a side note on that.

Like there was many years ago I had this vivid

picture in my mind. I can't remember where I was

reading in scripture, but I had this picture of me

being in the living room of the first house we owned,

and I just the door was dumb because it opens

right in the middle of the living room.

It's just a terrible lay out for how house. But whatever.

So I had this image of Jesus coming and knocking

on my door. And the way our door was set

up is it would open up in and then we

had a white like metal screen door. And so I

hear the door knock, I walk up to the door.

I open the door and look and I see Jesus

standing on the other side of that screen door, and

all he said was come with me. And in that moment,

I was like, okay. I felt like God was telling me,

like what are you going to do? And there's a

bit of a bit of me that's like, okay, Jesus,

let me go grab my family real quick. My wife

and at the time we only had one son. It

was like, let me go grab them real quick. But

I heard in my I don't know, like God in

my head and my heart, whatever it was, he was like,

just walk out the door and follow me. So it's like,

do I put And that's like the hardest thing, Like

if you have to love him more then father, mother, brother,

a sister. Right, that's what he tells you. So I'm

sitting here, do I put my love for Jesus over

everything else in my life?

Even my own family?

Now? I think if he's calling you, he's gonna call

your family. I'm not telling you to say, all right,

see you later, family, I'm gonna go follow Jesus in

some other country. I really think he called you to

lead them. Well, husbands, but who's first? Who's first?

How am I doing it? Putting him first over literally everything? Husbands?

How are you doing it loving your wife or living

with your wife in an understanding way? Do you even

seek to understand her? Or leading and loving your wife?

Like Christ loved the church? What did Jesus do for

the church? He died for the church to sanctify her,

washing her with the word Ladies, wives, how are you

doing it submitting to your husband? But he's not leading

me the way Christ led the church. I don't think

there's an exception as long as it's not sinful. How

are we doing to submitting to our husbands about not

being anxious? I put that one on the list last

second because I was like, man, that's just like in

the Bibles, I do not be anxious or be anxious

for nothing. I don't know of a sin. We all

like just blatantly disregard more than that one.

We're worried about everything all the time.

I mean to trust the Lord, trust him. The list

goes on, though, right. I took forever going through that list,

and it's not even that long. There's so many more

things in scripture that we're told to do, told to believe,

told to think, how to be all of it? I mean,

Jesus does simplify it for us with the greatest commandment, right,

love the Lord your God with all your heart's soul,

mind and strength. And love your neighbor as yourself. All

the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.

It's really what it all boils down to. But oftentimes

if we just see this big picture idea, which I'm

a big picture guy, it lets me not focus on

the real, practical, very specific things I gotta do. Jesus

is going to return, The King is going to return.

He's gonna return like a thief in the night. You

don't know when it's gonna happen. Only God, the Father knows.

It's Whaten, the God and Father says. Now is the

time we don't know, so we must always be ready.

We always have to be ready at any moment that

the Master would find us at work when he returns,

just like our parents when they return from the trip.

Did you do your chores? God will reward us for

how we did with what he left us to do.

So let's get to work. Amen, Let's get to work.

Can you guys stand on your feet please,