I entrust you

I will be teaching on this topic, I entrust you. That's the title, eh? I entrust you.

I entrust you. You know, people are liking my sermons. You know why? They're like,

Tune, you know, your sermon was great. And I ask, why? Because it was short. It was short.

Not the content. Nothing to do with the content. It was short. Yeah. So I think, you know, today

some people might like my sermon again. But I hope that you, you know, you enjoy more than

the length of the sermon, right? You know, anyway, as we start, I want to start with a quiz.

Who are the parents of Moses? Anybody? Without Googling? Say it again? And then dad? Wow, that's good.

No AI. No AI assistance. Yeah? Okay, keep guessing, right? And I'll tell you later.

So when you think of entrusting someone, you entrust someone because you think that they'll

be able to do it, right? The task that you assigned to someone, you entrust them because

you think that they will be able to accomplish what you have asked them to do. So say, for example,

I have asked a few people to play, you know, on worship. Why? Because I think that Sheldon can

play piano. I think that Remy can play bass. And that's why I entrust them, right? So when you are

entrusting someone, you give them a chance, knowing that they have the capacity, they have

the resources, they have the skills to accomplish the very assignment that you give them, right?

So when we think of this, we're talking about God's vision, God's idea of entrusting you and I

with something or an assignment, right? God entrusting you. And you know, the first point

that I want to share with is the scandal of divine trust. The scandal. Why I use the word

scandal is because, you know, scandal is an action, right? It's an action or event or a behavior that

causes a shock or anger or embarrassment because it breaks the moral or the legal, right?

Legal rules, so to say. It's like something unconventional, something that is out of the box.

And when we think of the scandal of divine trust, here I'm talking about God, who is the God of the

universe, who created the heavens and the earth, and he trusts you with his name. He trusts you

with his reputation. He trusts you with his power. He trusts you with his kingdom. He trusts you with

his plans. He trusts you with his salvation, plans and purposes. It's outrageous, guys.

When you think of this, yeah? Just think of this for a second, eh? If I have the reputation of

losing things, making a mess of things, would you be still, would you still be able to give me your

most prized possession to me? Knowing the fact that I'm known for squandering it, knowing the

fact that I am going to make a mess of it. That's exactly the nature of who our God is, right? His

plans, his desires, his secrets, his strategies, his reputation, his power, his fame, his glory,

he entrusts you with. Crazy, guys. When you think of this for a second, it is just outrageous, guys.

Yeah? For me, I find it difficult to trust my car with someone that I even know. Yeah?

Now I may change my mind, but I can trust my car with sin. Yeah? Now I'm saying, sin, I might have

changed my mind now. Yeah? But it's like that, guys. Yeah? It's hard to trust something that you

value, something that you're prized, something that is special to you. And then you give it to

someone who has the high chances of breaking it. Yeah? Which would give your car, like brand new

car, to someone who is learning to drive. There's a high chance of bringing back, you know, you can

imagine, right? So this is something that God does. Let's still stay on point here. So,

let's still stay on point number one. Yeah? Please. Yes. So here, this idea or this pattern of God

and trusting traces back to the Garden of Eden. Yeah? It is his garden, but God entrusts to Adam

and Eve. And the crazy part about God is that, okay, this part is too precious, this part is

too holy, and I don't trust humans. This side, let me manage. This side, let them manage. No.

When God created the heavens and the earth and put Adam and Eve, it says God gave them dominion

over what? Over everything. God doesn't hold back. That's the crazy part. It's the scandalous

nature of this God who is divine. Trust you, trust me. You and I are far from imperfection.

God trusts you, man. God trusts you with a salvation plan. You know, to save people who

are in darkness, to people who are lost, God trusts you. God trusts me. When you think of that,

it'll help you see life differently, guys. When I think of that, it just changes how I see life.

Yeah? The lives of the people around me who are in darkness, God trusts me.

That I can represent him. That I can carry his name. That I can carry his authority.

I can go on his behalf. In fact, he commissions me.

That's the astonishing nature of God, you know?

Here's a crazy nature about God. The father knows full well that the prodigal son has a high chance

of squandering it. He'll still give the inheritance to the prodigal. When you think of Jesus,

no different. Judas. Judas was not changed. Jesus would still give them a place among the 12. Not

the 12. Not only that, Jesus trusts him with the money back. Crazy, man. Crazy, guys.

He takes a chance on you. He takes a chance on me. This is the nature of our God, guys.

And that's why I really want to emphasize on this point and help us understand that no matter how

imperfect you and I are, do not disqualify yourself because God does not disqualify you.

He entrusts you with this. He entrusts with everything he has. He entrusts you with everything

he is. And then he's saying, take it. Go. Be fruitful. Multiply. Represent my name. Represent

my kingdom. You bear my name. You bear my authority. You have my presence. Wow.

You and I don't go in our own names, man. Not the ethnicity you come from. Not the culture. Not

the background you come from. None of those guys. You and I represent a king of the universe.

You and I bear his name. And that's why

it says to those who have been trusted with, be faithful. Right? I think it's 2 Corinthians.

Where is it? 2 Corinthians. Yeah. 1 Corinthians 4 verse 2. One who is faithful. Wait, before this.

1 Corinthians 4:2

I think I'll find it later. Anyway, we are expected to be faithful with what's been given.

Right? And every one of us have been entrusted with something. You can't say, I don't have

anything to take care of. No. Each one of us, some of us have been given, you know, a business to

take care of. Children to raise. Students to take care of. To teach them. To educate them. To train

them. Yeah? You have been given skills. You have been given money. You have been given talents.

You have been given relationships. You and I have been given something that God trusts you with.

He entrusts you with. And we see this in the parable of the talents as well. How God allocates

based on their capacity. So when you think of this for a second, I want us to be very practical.

Yeah? Very practical. So that when you think of this, what's something that God has trusted me with?

Yeah? Say it can be your job. Your employer trusts you that you can do and fulfill your job well.

Yeah? Do you do it for your paycheck or do you do more than that? Right? Do you do it for another

reason? What's been given for you to steward? What's been entrusted to you? The kids that you're

raising. Yeah? Or the people that you are training. The people that you're equipping. Or business that

you're running. Things that God has entrusted to you with. Crazy guys. That's the first one. So then,

if God, who is divine, does not hold back but entrusts you with everything that he has,

and now that leads to the second point. When God entrusts you, he entrusts you for a season.

It's always a period of time. A period of time. And that is so precious.

You know, entrusted for a season. The next point, Brandon. Thanks. You know, entrusting is often

seasonal. When you think of the life of David, one time he was entrusted with his father's sheep.

Later on, he was entrusted with what? An army. Later on, he was entrusted with a nation.

Same thing with Joseph. One time he was made an overseer of, you know, Potiphar's house. Right?

And then later on, we should read this one. You shall be over my house. This is Pharaoh saying

to Joseph. And all my people shall order themselves as you command, without your consent.

Read that. Without your consent, no one shall lift up hand or foot in the land,

in all the land of Egypt. Crazy, hey? Nothing gets passed without the signature, without the approval

of this man, Joseph. But we all know the story. He started very small, betrayed, sold, a slave.

And then he worked his way up. He was faithful with whatever been entrusted to him.

And you know what? When we are entrusted with what has been given for that season,

know that it is only for a season. Because God does not entrust you with one thing for the rest

of your life. No. Because maturity always increases authority. He expands your jurisdiction. Right?

That can be sometimes physical. Sometimes that can be spiritual. Sometimes that can be relational.

Sometimes that can be providence. Yeah? It's like that. Here he has been entrusted for a season.

And you know, that phrase, I love it. He made him overseer of his house and all that he had.

The Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for whose sake? For Joseph's sake. The Lord did not flourish

Potiphar because of Potiphar's faithfulness. Because of Joseph. Of what has been entrusted to

Joseph. Because of Joseph's sake, Potiphar is flourishing here. It is not Potiphar's brilliance.

It has nothing to do with Potiphar, eh? It is because of what has been entrusted to Joseph

that the employer now begins to flourish. Crazy, guys. Entrusted for a season.

Entrusted for a season. Yeah?

You know, I remember when Joy and Sen, oh, both are missing here.

Yeah. Okay. But I remember when Joy and Sen, they were at TWU. And they would show up

on Sundays. We would see them. They were just attending X29.

But now, we have entrusted them to train and raise our kids.

Okay? We have entrusted them to train and raise our kids. Why? We have seen them change. We have

seen them grow. We have seen them mature. Now we trust them with our kids. Crazy, eh?

Okay? That's how it grows, guys. Seasons. Things that you have been entrusted with.

It's season. Parents don't have their kids for the rest of their lives. It's only for a season.

Teachers don't have their students for the rest of their lives. Busters don't have members for the

rest of their lives. They come, they go. But it is only in this short period of time when you are

entrusted for a season. Every one of us knows this. Every one of us. And yet, oftentimes,

we complain. We just wait for these seasons to be over.

And it's very unfortunate, yeah? You know, when you look at, like what I asked earlier, right, about

Moses' mother. She's one such character in the Bible who is hardly mentioned. Everyone knows Moses,

yeah? The deliverer. The man who saw the burning bush. The man who talks to God face to face. The

face to face. The deliverer. The man who parted the Red Sea. Everyone knows Moses. But

very little is mentioned of Moses' mother. And here, yes, I'm specifically addressing

the importance of the roles of mothers here in this room. Yeah? Oftentimes, the roles of mother

are quiet, in the hidden, unnoticed, but they play a critical role, right? And I'm saying,

not only the mothers, but of course, there are so many who plays the roles in the background,

but particularly mothers. But you know, the public may not recognize Moses' mother, but heaven

recognizes her. Yeah? She has the faith to raise him up and the courage to let him go.

Before, you know, we see this brilliant man of God, Moses, the deliverer, there was a woman in

obscurity. Yeah? Before we see the miracles of Moses, you know, the miracles that God did through

Moses, there was this lady who was behind the scene who was risking her own life to raise Moses.

Risking her own life. And you know, when I was reading this story about Moses' mother,

it really, really stood out for me. Even the very name. Okay, now I'm revealing her name,

which Hamari said, you know, yeah, the English word is J-O-C-H-E-B-E-D, right?

Or I'm not sure. But the the Arabic reading is Yokevet, right? Yokevet. That's the name.

And you know what? The meaning of her name is, Yahweh is glory.

Yahweh, the Lord is my glory. And you know, she is the first person in the Bible

to carry God's covenant name in her own name. God's covenant name in her own name.

She's the first person in the Bible. But here's the crazy part. When Moses' mom and dad were

introduced, they were nameless. They were nameless. Here's a man, you know, a Levite,

who got another Levite woman, and then, yeah, like, their names were not even mentioned.

Apparently, they did not even name Moses. That came later. But later on, we read in Exodus 6,

but later on, we read in Exodus 6, and in Numbers 26, we found out that

her name is Yokevet, and then Moses' father's name is Amram. Yeah, Amram. Yeah.

It was new for me. I just learned it two days ago. Yeah.

Never pay attention to this. But you know, God is already writing

her story into the story of God before Pharaoh even noticed. Yeah. A brilliant man. And

the time that she lived in, very interesting. It was not an easy time. Here's this Pharaoh

who had issued a decree, like Daniel's time, right? They issued a decree that every Hebrew-born

is to be killed, right? Thrown into the Nile River. That was the decree. That was the time

she lived in. It was a decree. It was not an option. It was not a request. It was a command.

It was a decree. And now if she is found saving her own child, death penalty, right? Now she's

risking her own life. But I love what it says. In this chaotic dark time, she saw the child

that she was no ordinary child. She was a fine child. Some versions say that

fine child. Some versions say that there was something special about this child.

It was not just a fine child. Every child is fine. You know? But the mom saw something unique,

something special, something extraordinary about this little child. And now that made her risk her

own life. This is something the empire could not see. The nations could not see. The mom saw.

Mom saw something unique, right? And you know what? No fame, no recognition.

Just a mom risking her own life, acts of courage, protecting this child, and raising in the secret.

Crazy, man, guys. This is where many people miss. Because oftentimes, guys, our spiritual battles

are fought oftentimes in the personal, in the private, right? But we want the public

glory sometimes. But sometimes, you know, people change because of relentless prayers behind the

scenes. Many people change because of their mother's prayers. Yeah? Relentless prayers.

For years and years, yeah? So that's the second one, right? You and I are entrusted for a season.

You and I are entrusted for a season.

And so when you think of that for a second, your perspective will change. Because if you know that

the time that has been given to you is only for a season, now, and God's gonna judge that,

then your attitude is gonna change. Yeah? I don't think we will be casual about it.

That leads to my third point. Knowing the moment of surrender and release.

Knowing the moment of surrender and release. You know, what helps you

for the present season may be helpful, and you may be able to enjoy it for

a period of time. But there comes a moment when what worked in one season cannot carry into the next.

Everyone knows that. Yeah? You know, diapers may be helpful, but kids will grow. Diapers

will be useless. Yeah? The car seats for the kids comes a point of time where you remove that,

comes a point of time where you remove that, right? It may serve for the season, but comes

a point where things have to be changed, right? New strategies, new ways. And you know,

this is something many of us struggle. If you have built a business, it's hard to let go.

If you have led a project, it's hard for someone to take over. If you have built a ministry,

it's hard to pass it on to someone because we begin to own them. We begin to draw

meaning from them. We begin to draw our identity from them. I build it. It's my church. It's my

business, right? It's my project, my idea, right? It's hard to let go. Yeah? But what's been given

to you guys? Anything. Here I'm talking about wisdom. Here I'm talking about resources. Here

I'm talking about talent. Here I'm talking about skills or business or ministry or whatever that's

been given to you comes a point of time where you have to learn how to surrender and release,

right? And here's the thing. Moses' mother, she hit him for three months and then comes a period

of time where she could not hide him any longer, right? She could not hide him

no longer. She couldn't, right? She did everything she can.

And so what she did was she put him in a pepperous basket for him and coated him with tar

and pitch and then she placed the child in it and put among the reeds along the bank of Nile. Exodus

Exodus 2:3

2 verse 3, right? His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

It's a very interesting part here. Here the mom tried his best but she couldn't hide him any longer

and so she waves the basket, puts the baby, right? Covers and then now releases. And you know,

I find this very fascinating. You know, the word basket, teva, in Hebrew is the same word that

Noah used the ark. Build, the build, the ark, right? And here's the basket, right? And you know what?

These two are coming from the same root word and no other stories in the Bible matches these two.

These two are unique. So here, you know, as we all know the story, Noah built the ark and then as he

built the ark he brings his family entire into the ark and now the flood comes and then there was

judgment going on. The wrath of God. Judgment was going on but there was protection out there.

Here, same parallel story we read here. Here the basket, the mother weaves the basket,

puts the child, Moses, there and then let's go. Whereas we know the story that every Hebrew boy

was killed in the river Nile. There was death all around and there is this basket where Moses has

been placed there. Judgment was going on. Here is this mother who has released, right?

If this is not abandonment, here is not a mother, you know, abandoning a child. No. If it is

abandonment, she doesn't even need a basket in the first place. Yeah? Just wrap the child and

throw into the river. No. But she builds the basket, hoping. Now the mother

asks sister Miriam to watch and now Miriam is watching what would happen to the child.

Very interesting thing guys. Yeah? And then now the sister was watching, which I'll go a little

later. But here, fate is one of the hardest acts of fate. Yeah? One of the hardest acts of fate is

letting go. Like I mentioned, Nile was not a place of safety. Yeah?

And one similar story that we can draw a parallel with this one is the story of Abraham

when he was told to sacrifice Isaac. When I read and reread that verse, it sounds so cruel, right?

When I read and reread that verse, it sounds so cruel, right? Let me read it. From Genesis 22,

Genesis 22:2

verse 2. Genesis 22, verse 2. Here it says,

Genesis 22:2

take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love and offer him there as a burnt offering. Yeah?

Here it is four phrases. Take your son, Isaac. Sorry, take your son. Take your only son, Isaac.

Yeah? Crazy, eh? And then the next says, whom you love and then offer him.

If I may be allowed, it's like here we have sons and daughters here, right?

Let's just take, you know, Rimi and Hamari, for example. Take your only son, Judah.

Take your son, Judah. And then next line goes like this. Take your son, Judah. Take your only son,

Judah, whom you love and then sacrifice. Crazy, eh? Sounds cruel, man.

Yeah? Hear that again. Take your son, Judah. Take your only son, Judah.

Take your son, whom you love and then sacrifice it.

Here's the point, guys. When God asks you to release what's the most precious thing, your Isaac,

the intent of God is never to take it away. For us, our Isaacs are different. Yeah?

Each one of us, each one of us here in this room have our Isaacs. The things that are

special to you. It can be your family, it can be your job, it can be your future, it can be

your business, it can be you name it, yeah? But something that is so precious to you.

And then I tell you, if you are following God,

he will come a point when God will demand your Isaac. Guaranteed. Guaranteed.

God will demand your Isaac.

For me, I'm being honest here, but family has been a tough one.

My mom, my dad, these last few years, every, almost every phone call has been,

son, when are you returning for good? When are you returning for good?

You said you will go to Canada and study for one year. It's been nine years now.

Yeah. I love my family. I know that mom and dad wants us back, but I know the call of God upon my

life. I know the call that God has upon our lives. Yeah? So sometimes, sometimes, yeah, yeah, yeah,

but sometimes harder conversations too. Yeah. But I'm saying that if you and I are following Christ,

there will come a time when you and I and our Isaac will be demanded. And it's important,

guys, because every time a man or a woman releases his Isaac to God, he finds it back.

I find that fascinating about God. Every time someone releases something, they find it better.

Yeah. You know, Abraham finds, you know, a ram and then Isaac was spared.

Yeah. And here's the thing. Here, Moses' mother, Yocavit, releases Moses now, because she saw that

she was a fine child, something special about the child. And yet there's judgment going on,

and yet she did everything she can. She even risked her own life, erased her, and then to a point

where now she cannot hide him anymore. And now when she releases her in the Nile River,

she's not abandoning the baby, but she's releasing it into the hands of God. And you know what?

One thing that I love about this story is because when the mother releases the basket, the child,

into the Nile River, there were no angels, there were no parting of the Red Sea, there was nothing

dramatic about the story. Yeah. You know, Pharaoh's daughter comes into the river,

you know, to take a bath, and then she saw the child, right? She was drawn out, and then

she took pity. She took pity on the child. Crazy, man, guys. And so that's where I want to

add the next point. When you and I learn how to surrender and release, this always happens.

What I would call it, the divine reversal. The divine reversal. Yeah? So here,

then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, and I love this part, it's nice to have a sister like

this, you know? So she was watching, right? And then Pharaoh's daughter saw that the baby is in

the basket and then now draws him out, and then his sister steps in. Yeah? Sister steps in and

said to Pharaoh's daughter, shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women? Right? And then

he said yes. So she goes and calls Moses' mother, her own mother, right? And then now brings her to

Pharaoh's daughter, and then Pharaoh's daughter says, take this child away and nurse him for me,

and I will give you your wages. This is the divine reversal, guys. Yeah? Divine reversal.

When you think of this story and the story of Abraham at Mount Moriah, right? Where he sacrifices

Isaac and then he gets the Isaac back, but here, Moses' mother is releasing the child and now

the place where it was supposed to be, a place of loss, right? Of letting go. It became

the very place of provision.

You know, we want to control things, you know, because we think that control feels safe.

Yeah? Sometimes, you know, like parents want to control the kids

or their future, their destiny, yeah?

Or not just parents, but every leader who is trying to raise someone comes at a time like this.

But when you and I learn how to surrender to God, it always makes room for God to move,

right? And here we see the divine reversal, the divine reversal. And I love how God is orchestrating

everything because on one hand the mother is releasing it, but God is arranging this

Pharaoh's daughter to come and rescue, right? This is the beauty about God. We think that God

is silent. We may assume that it's taking longer than usual, but God is working behind the scenes.

Like our song says, you know, even when I don't see it, He's working. Even when I don't feel it,

He's working. That's the kind of God, eh? And so, this line, I love it. The very household,

which is the Pharaoh's household, where it issued a decree to kill every Hebrew boy,

that house became the house of provision for Moses' mother and father. Crazy, guys.

This is what God does, man. Only God can do that. You know, when you think of this story,

think of Joseph as well. Joseph was a, he experienced something quite similar, right? His

brothers, you know, betrayed him, sold him, and then later on, much later on, when he came face

to face with Joseph, he was a man of God. He was a man of God. He was a man of God. He was a man of

God. And then, when he came face to face with his brothers, he was like, the brothers were sorry

about it, right? But then he was like, no, no, God sent me ahead of you, so that, and I can not just

save you, but save many more lives. You know, here I'm paraphrasing here, right? But that's the thing.

The divine reversal, right? They mend it for evil, God turned it for good.

This is how God works, guys. What I'm trying to share here is the way God functions, the nature of

God, the way he turned things around, right? And here's the thing, guys. For us, what's been entrusted

to us, you and I are entrusted for a season. You and I do whatever in our capacity to give our best

with what's been entrusted, because it's only for a period of time. But then comes a point when you

and I have to release. And you know, every time you and I release, trusting that God is in control,

this divine reversal always happens, guys. Yeah? And the last point that I want to make is,

and the last point that I want to make is,

this is why, with what's been entrusted to you, make your season count. Why? Because it always has

generational impact and eternal impact. Yeah, next point.

You know, Moses' mother, Yocavid, he did not raise Moses for a long period of time.

The time allotted to her was short, right? Because Moses, we all know, comes a point of time where

Pharaoh's daughter took him, named him Moses, right?

And so it's important for us to use our seasons well. Like I mentioned earlier, how teachers have

their students for a period of time, parents have their kids, sorry, teachers have their students

for a period of time, parents have their kids for a period of time. You know, there are people who

are working under you, or you are working under someone, and you are working with someone who is

parents have their kids for a period of time. You know, there are people who are working under you,

or you are working under someone, whichever applies, right? But it's important that we learn

to use our seasons well. Because, you know, before Moses becomes the prince of Egypt,

before Moses becomes the prince of Egypt, there was a period of time when he spent time with his

mom and his dad. And you know, by the time Moses grew up, he is pretty clear about his identity.

He's pretty clear about what he stands for. Later on, if you read, Moses refuses to be called

Pharaoh's, sorry, the son of Pharaoh's daughter, refuses, right?

When by faith, Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.

Good, eh? Now you notice how well the mother had raised him.

It only required a few years, guys. It only required a few years.

It only required a few years.

Now it doesn't matter where Moses is, he knew who he is.

He knew his people. He knew his God.

Guys, the things that have been entrusted to us is only for a short period of time.

Right? Make it count. Right? Make it count.

No, like we were mentioning about Judah. Judah is not going to be five years old for a long period

of time. And our kids running around here, they're not going to be that small. It's a very short

period of time. Right? Even the jobs that you hold, the business that you run,

the people of your circle of friends that you influence, very short period of time, guys.

And I'm saying make it count, guys. Yeah? You know, the empire, the entire Egyptian empire

could not remove what the mother had sold in that child. Could not. It was so steeped inside.

It was so steeped inside. The roots were already formed. Right? The entire empire of Egypt could

not remove that. And so let me read from Deuteronomy 6 verse 49. I know it's quite lengthy so I didn't

put there, but I'm going to read it. Here, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Right? Moses here is saying this. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul,

and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.

Impress them on your children. Now he's saying impress them on your children. Talk about them

when you sit at home and when you walk along the road. When you lie down, when you get up,

tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates.

Moses is saying that have God conversations all the time.

Yeah? Talk about God all the time. Be it family circle, be it friend circle. Oftentimes,

you know, I myself am part of this, but we can have days and days of conversations about football,

about this, about politics, about that, hardly on God. And I'm not saying, don't talk about politics,

don't talk about sports. I'm not saying that, but I'm saying that Moses here is saying talk about God.

Impress them in their hearts when they're early, when they're young. Yeah?

Jokovet never saw the burning bush.

His mother never saw the Red Sea part.

This mother never saw manna rain down from heaven.

Yeah? And noticed very little heard of

But without her courage, without her part of raising Moses, there's no deliverer.

There's no Moses without Jokovet.

Here's the thing, guys. Like Jacob used to keep saying, it gets more potent.

I'm saying this is so true, right? Because the parents know with what, how much they know,

and they train their kids, the kids get better. And then as we, with what we know,

we pass it on to someone else, they get better than us again. Right?

And then, you know, we pass it on to the children, right?

And then as we, with what we know, we pass it on to someone else, they get better than us again.

Right? That's why it's always generational, guys. Generational.

Yeah? And this is the group of people that God is looking for. And I want to end with this

verse from Paul. Paul's final charge. I love this. Paul, who came to the end of his life,

he says to Timothy, right? Because I know whom I have believed. I am convinced that he is able to

guard until the day what has been entrusted to me until that day. Like what God has entrusted to

him, he's going to be faithful until that day. Right? Now he's saying, I'm going to be faithful

with what has been entrusted to me till the very last. And now he's telling Timothy, guard the good

deposit entrusted to you. Right? By the Holy Spirit who dwells within you. Man, what a man, hey?

On one hand, he knows what has been entrusted to him. And now he's telling Timothy what has been

entrusted to him. Guys, I think this is something you and I should call on each other's lives.

Yeah? Hey, Derek, this has been entrusted to you. You got to be faithful. Right? Hey, Evan,

this has been entrusted to you. Hey, Mark, this has been entrusted to you. You got to run with this.

You cannot give up. Hey, Betty, this is your portion. This is your inheritance. No, you got to take it

and you got to run with it. Right? Can we help each other like Paul and Timothy here? Right? A son,

you know, a father and a son. But they are also colleagues as well. It doesn't matter who is

running faster, who is running slower. It doesn't matter. But can we call out on each other? Right?

What's been entrusted? Guys, like I mentioned, it comes back to this. There's God of the universe

who created the heavens and the earth, who has salvation not for a group of people but for the

entire world. Trust you. Trust me. With his wisdom, with his name, with his fame, with his

glory, with his repetition, with his power, with his salvation plan. He has everything and trust you

with us, with this man. I hope that we can grasp that and we can take that a little more seriously

with what has been entrusted to us. It is precious, man. God trusts you with heaven, guys.

God trusts you with heaven because his plan is heaven and earth becomes one.

And you and I represent the kingdom of God which is the kingdom of heaven.

You and I are to be the salt and light. You and I are supposed to bring heaven here on earth

in spite of the brokenness, in spite of the things that are happening across the globe. You and I are

to bring hope to the hopeless. Yeah? Light to those who are in the dark. Healing to those who are sick.

Man, he entrusts you with this man. He holds nothing back. Let's pray.

Father, we take this moment to think of the things that you have entrusted each one of us

individually and corporately.

It can be a skill, a gift, a person, a relationship, a business, a ministry, or a call to something

that you have entrusted us with. We think of them individually and corporately.

And Father, I say that

just as much as you trust us with these things that you have entrusted us,

Lord, help us. Help us, O God. We know it's for a season. It's for a short period of time.

May there be no regrets about it. We were supposed to go and we didn't go. We were supposed to say

this and we didn't say this. We were supposed to give this. We didn't give. Father, let there be

no regrets in this room. I pray that there be no regrets in this room, O God.

Because you hold nothing back. You entrust us with heaven. Father, may we carry this.

May we carry this with zeal, with wisdom,

with joy, with such pride,

and with such authority because your presence is with us. We're meant to do this, O God. We're

meant to bring heaven here on earth. O God, so I pray, O God,

that the things that you have entrusted us with, Father, we today, we take a stand.

We take a stance today and, Father, we say we will be faithful. We will be faithful with what's been

given to us, O God. Help us, O God, Spirit of God. Father, one phrase that we keep hearing

when it comes to reading the Bible is, the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully on David.

The Spirit of the Lord came upon that rush of the Spirit. Let it come upon us tonight, O God,

because we know that this cannot be done by our own strength, O God. So Spirit of God, I pray,

you descend powerfully on every person above, just like the upper room on a day of Pentecost.

The power came and rested, tongues of fire rested on every head, O God, every head, not on some head.

I pray, O God, let the same thing happen right here, right now. Let the power of God,

let the tongues of fire, the gush wind of the Spirit blow over every head, O God,

so that we will be able to accomplish every task, every word, every promise, every plan,

every purpose that you have here on earth will be accomplished through this group of people.

We lift them up to you, we surrender it to you, and your will be done here on earth as it is in

heaven through us, O God, in Jesus' name, amen.