What’s My Attitude | Eld Terence Atkinson

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D message to my heart. And of course ten am,

this is revision for you. Okay. But it's all right

because if you hear a message second time and third

time and a fourth time, it means you didn't get

it the first time, all right. So yeah, yeah, that's

the way God works. God always will keep telling you

and telling you and telling you what you need to

hear until you get it, all right. So what's the message?

The message is what's my attitude? And when it does

come on, we will know what it is. Okay, what's

my attitude? Okay? So you know my poor attempt at

art the D. The last time I did Discipleship, I said,

you know, I forgot to put the D in red.

So now disciples is activated, and now revival is activated.

So I put that R in red and then you

wait for EAM. Okay, EAM will come with over the

next few years. So yeah, it's related to revival. And

you know, I think the last time I came, I

shared with you that revival being revived is a personal

something that happens to Christians, all right, because we tend

to confuse revival with evangelism, But if you look at revival,

revival is really about your own spirit getting revived alive again. Okay,

so what has the message got to do with this?

Let's look at Matthew. We're going to be doing Matthew

chapter twenty five Versus fourteen to thirteen. We're going to

be learning about this from the parable of the talent. Guys.

Ah ah ah ah. This is a meat message. Okay,

there's no fluff here. Okay, it's a meat message meaning that.

Now I'm gonna put the the the plane out so

that you know there's no misunderstanding. When I say you,

I mean me as WELLA So I'm not saying, oh you,

you're so bad. You're so good, and I'm so good

and I'm so bad. No, no, no, no, We're all

in this together. Okay, all right, So when I say you,

it also means me. When I say me, it also

means you. Okay. This message, I gotta tell you came

about as a result of a conversation that I had

with some believers, and these believers decided that they wanted

to leave church, and they wanted to go to one

of those big, big churches. I got nothing against big churches. Man,

if you're going to go to a big church, listen

very carefully to what I'm saying. Whatever you're doing that

big church, make sure you do something because it doesn't

matter whether the church is big or whether the church

is small. God is not going to judge you according

to the size of the church you went to, but

He's gonna look at you from what I'm about to

share with you. So this person said, hey, it's okay.

What so because I asked this person, did you seek

the Lord before you left? What is to seek the Lord? For?

Church is church is name? God is there? What I mean?

God is in church here right now? Right? Or not?

You mean to say God is not in that church.

God is in the church olsoul. So it seemed like

I had no answer, and truth be told, I had

no answer. And then I went to the Lord. I said, God,

what do you think about this statement that it's easier

to just pack up and go? And the Lord gave

me the parable of the talents, and let's learn from it,

and as we go on, we'll understand a little bit more. Okay.

Reading from verse fourteen for the Kingdom of Heaven is

like a man traveling to a far country who called

his own servants and delivered his goods to them. For

the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man. I had

problems with this. Wha the Kingdom of Heaven is like

a man. So what is the Kingdom of sitting like

a woman? No? Bad joke, bad joke, Wipe it off,

bad joke. No, no, no, no, no, no no. The

reason that Jesus used this term the Kingdom of Heaven

is who was he speaking to? He was speaking to

the Jews. Now, you gotta understand. The Jewish people held

the name of God in such high regard that they

would not mention God's name that they refused to call

God God. They'll call him everything else, but they cannot

use the name God. So who was Jesus talking to.

Jesus was talking to these people, and he wanted to

talk to them in a language they understood. So he

said this, the Kingdom of God is like a man.

Because how horrible it would have been for him to

say God is like a man. The Jews that killed

him there and then, because is God like a man? No,

what was Jesus trying to do Jesus was speaking a parable.

What is parable a story that has a spiritual impact.

It may or may not be true, all right, but

it was done in such a way that people would

understand what Jesus was trying to get it. So Jesus said,

the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man. To me,

this whole parable is speaking about God. So it's very

important for us to understand what this parable is talking

about because it's talking about God. And I will prove

it as we go a little bit later on. So

the scripture says that, you know, the Kingdom of God

is like a man, is like a man who went

away to a far country. Why would scriptures say this? Hey,

you and I, we don't believe in an ordinary god.

You know, we believe in a God who is so extraordinary.

Because this tells me he trusts us. Did you ever

realize that that God trusts you and me to do

what he has told us to do. He trusts us.

That's why he can go away. He didn't just go

away to the shop. Okay, he didn't go away to

the neighbor. He went away to a far country. So

how many of you know that your boss doesn't trust

you when he's all the time looking over your shoulder.

Is it done yet? How many of you had bosses

like that? Is it done yet? Is it done yet?

Is it ready? You know? I had a project I

needed to complete because Japan wanted to buy over the

Cerebus division in Singapore and they needed you know, they

gave me this amount of papers to fulfill. You know,

you know how many days I had. I had three

days I had to present this report. This stick. So

I told my bosses, I cannot have you hanging over

my head. So this is what I'll do. You keep

the other bosses away from me. I'll be in that room.

I'm locking that room. I'm pulling out the phone while

I'm not listening to you. I'm not answering you. I

can't be bothered with anything that's happening. I'll give you

the report. I went to work Monday at am. I

left that room Thursday evening at six pm. Did I sleep. No?

I had food brought up to me. It was left outside.

This is like prison, you know, believe it outside the door.

I will only open the door and I know nobody's

when I know nobody's there. So I didn't see people

for four days. But you know what, on Thursday, I

presented that God trusts us, he gives us a task,

then he goes away. He's not hanging over your head

like some helicopter parents do. They send the child to schooler,

Oh you're doing this, you're doing that. How come you're

not teaching them health? I got news for helicopter parents.

You teach your own kids, don't send him to school.

The reason you send your child to school is not

just to get an education. You know, it is to

develop socially social growth, social education. But if you're going

to be there, it's not gonna happen. Okay. Then Scripture

says he called his own servants, guys, you gotta know,

the day you entered fellowship with Jesus, you were called.

Get this. The day you and I entered fellowship with Jesus,

we are called how do we know this? What in

in Matthew twenty eight when he says going into the

world and preach the gospel, he's only talking to those

people in the at that timer, Then you just take

the Bible and throw it a whaler, because two thousand

years ago already ended. They finished their job. Nothing left

to do. It was meant for us. It was meant.

It is a calling. We are called people. What you

mean to say? Only the pastor is called guys. That's

where we make our mistake, sir, we make a mistake

and thinking. Only Julian is called paster. Julian is called

to play the keyboards. So many of us who got

the skill to play, I don't want to play? Why

because we don't want to come on Thursday to practice?

Ask yourself, it is a calling? Are we call? Scripture

says he called his own servants. Are you God's servant

or not? The moment you say no, I'm not, You're

in trouble because every one of us are God's servants.

And I want you to know. Remember I told you

about this person that left you know what God's answer

was to me. I only give talents to my servants,

my own servants. I do not give talents to visitors.

You know why people go to a church because they

can sneak in and sneak out. They get lost in

the crowd. They are Christians in anonymity Cia Christians anonymous

cannot be seen. Guess what your so cannot be seen?

Even Jesus cannot see you you think heaven is like earth.

Hen let me tell you something about Heaven. Okay, Heaven's doors.

I don't know whether it's why which I think scriptures is.

It's not quite narrow, but one thing's for sure. You

get in, you can't come out. So those of us

who like to come to church one hour and fifty

minutes after service starts and leave five minutes before he ends,

do the math because I cannot stand the noise. I

don't like the worship. How are you going to take heaven?

Heaven is one big worship service. You know. You go

into the Kingdom of Heaven, you think what Jimmy Hendrix

is there? He's not. It's not a gala party with booze.

It's a worship service, you know. Yeah, how many of

you don't like worship? You go in, you can't come out.

And let me tell you something about Jesus very protective

over his house. God is very protective over his home.

Do you think he's going to allow just about anybody

to get in there? Or is he going to allow

ones who love him? Think about it? You see, we

have a wrong thinking about what heaven is. Sometimes we

fail to realize that God protects his home and the

people that he allows in are those who are going

to want to be there. So how can you tell me?

How can anybody tell us that they want to be

in heaven when they can't even be in church? O,

but I'm in a big church one. So you're going

there to hear the message. We're well done, You're going

to be served, or you're going to serve. You've just

made God a cook. Oh. I don't like this message today.

It's just too hot. I want to go to another

place where they just preach about the love of God.

So what if you made God? You made God your

cook word? Because you don't like the cuisine here, you

get up and go to another place and then there's

no drums here. I want drum ice cream, So I

want some dessert. How can there's only two guitars down? No,

no bass guitar. Hey, I want to go a place

where there's a nice music, full bad, full choir. I

sing on the cake. Hey, I love that ice cream,

full of it. That's the dessert. So basically, you went

to that church to do what to hear the nice music?

Did you go there to participate? Do you think God

is interested in attendees or participants. Guys, we've got God wrong.

We have him wrong. I got nothing against big churches.

If you need to go to a big church, goal,

but make sure you go there to serve. Because if

you're not serving, you just made God your cook. Who

is serving? Whom? Is God serving you? Or you serving God?

My scripture tells me he wants to give talents to

his servants. You know what that word servant means. He

means slave, It means bond seven. You know what's a

bond seven? They put their ear to the door. They

take a sharp thing, poke it in until he bleeds

on the door, meaning what forever yours Lord? Bond seven, voluntary,

fully devoted seven. Oh, and I want you to know

what God delivered his goods to his servants. One translation

says he put his goods like in a prison, there's

no escape. It's yours. It's fully given to you. It's

yielded up, surrendered, full of excess, like a personal computer

without the password. It's yours forever. Did you know that

there's no pointing in scripture that says God took those

talents back? You know you check it out. When he

gave it to those servants to use. He gave it.

He did not loan it, He did not consign it.

He gave it. Hey, we got to understand something about God.

He's got so much. He's not stingy. Okay, he wants

to give. He wants to give, and to one. He

gave five talents into another two and another one to

each according to his own ability, and immediately he went

on his journey. So God gave right to each according

to his own ability. I love this. You know why

this is so important because we don't have to live

up to somebody else, so that person can do one

hundred and one things. If I run like pasta kenneth,

I think I would have worn my legs away up

to my knees. Okay, the way he runs for the

lorder just that that running my legs will be worn out.

But you see, God did not ask me to run

like past the kennet because he gave each one according

to his own ability. I can only do so much.

That's the ability he has given me. It says here,

not an indictment or one's character. You know, it doesn't

mean that you get one you're a bad person, you

know it doesn't mean too you got to you're better

than no one who got one. You know, doesn't mean that.

It simply means that that's your ability. God trusts you

for that amount. So if you can play the guitar,

if you can play the keyboard, and you do that

for God's glory, and those are the only thing two

things you can know? What is that one hundred percent?

If God has given you five talents and you produce four,

have you reached your full potential? No, because you only

did eighty percent. But the one guy whose only job

is to turn the pager and he turns the page,

you know what he's done better than you because he

did one hundred percent. You have to understand how God sees.

God is a just god. But you and I look

from eyes of fairness, or you it's so unfair. I

did so much that will only turn the page. You

gotta understand God's not about fairness, you know, He's about

being just distinct ability unique only two you. It was

more in relation to the suitability that you have rather

than the quantum to be done. I want to give

you a testimony, and this is a present testimony. I

know some of you may be thinking, what this felony

talks about old testimonism. Hey, the reason I talk about

old testimony is is because those old testimonies are only

being seen now, but they were then done then. So

I give you a present testimony. Okay, yeah about and

not about exactly On this day, December eighteenth, two thy

and twenty five, I hurt my knee while doing work

in church, going up and down the ladder. My knee

was then painful, and then I couldn't bend. I could

belly walk. If I bend, I cannot come up. It

was that painful. So I went through this for months,

for months, it came to such a stager where you

know I opened up the school in the morning on Wednesday,

and you know the glass door you have to bend

down to open that lock. You know, when I bend

and I cannot get up, then I have to pull

the glass handle to stand up. And I'm thinking to myself,

it's only a matter of time before I shattered this glass,

because how many of you know I don't weigh I'm

not light again, So I thought of myself, no, no, no,

I'll buy this pole from wherever. So I actually bought

this this cane pole. It's a can Okay, So thick came,

you know, like the Last Airbender sort of thing, so

that when I go down, I can put this pole

and pull myself up. So that's what I did. The

pole came, I opened, glass, got up, and I was

preaching that Sunday, and uh so God wanted to see

to what extent I would go to do what was right.

So in spite of that pain for four months, I

did not stop doing it. I still struggled and I

did it. And then I bought this pole. And God,

so this pel is willing to do that. Okay, Okay.

As that Wednesday, as I was going downstairs, I was

met by one of the parents. Just you, you look

like you're having problems with your ney. I say, yeah, yeah, yeah,

you know sometime he says, I'm a physiotherapist. You come

and see me on Monday. He's a very he's a

professor at physiotherapy. Okay, so he saw me on Monday.

Now Friday Sunday, I'm preaching, right, So Sunday I did

my morning walk. I tried to walk. I could only

manage two kilometers, you know, for someone who used to

do between ten and fifteen. That's a struggle. And you

know what kind of time fourteen minutes twenty seconds. I

mean that is like crawling for me. But on that

Sunday I could barely stand. It was so painful. Going

up the stairs was a problem at go you know,

I was hobbling. Then somebody asked this question, so why

don't you pray for your healing? I say, God didn't

tell me to God must tell you. I say, when

you grow older, God has to tell you certain things,

like you know, when's the right time. So anyway, I

preached this message. I preached, and my knee was really problematic.

So the next day I went for physiotherapy. Mind you,

as a guy, the first time you get paid, I'm macho.

I'm not going to do anything about it. It will

heal in time. So after two months or three months,

I'm thinking, oh, this pain is not going away. I

think I better go and see the doctor. So the

doctor went and took an X ray and say, oh,

nothing wrong. It must be a muscle issue. You need

to retrain your muscles. I'll send you for physiotherapy. So

when was my appointment for physiotherapy in June? Okay, So anyway,

that Monday, I went the guy felt my knee and

it says, ah, you went to the doctor. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

extra you said nothing wrong. He said, well, you have

a dislocated knee. For four miles I was struggling with

a dislocated knee. My right kneecap had fallen two inches

below my left. So you know what is what is

the feeling like? It's loose, it's time, it's swollen, it's painful.

All at the same time. I cannot sleep at night

because it gets so stiff, and then it's the pain

wakes me up in the night. That was my knee.

I get down, I cannot get up. I cannot walk

properly going up the stairs. It is difficult. This is

my knee. He says, you know what, I'm going to

do something, and he didn't want to let me know

when he's gonna do it. Say you don't worry, you know,

I'm just gonna do something, and you learn. And then

guess what. I didn't feel my knee anymore, for the

first time in four months, I did not feel it,

and then almost immediately I had my mobility back. Now,

the knee was still swollen because for four months. It

was like that the swelling would go down over time.

On Thursday, I did ten kilometers. On Saturday, I went

to Kupong Botanic Garden and you've gotta climb up the

staircase to go around something in the jungle. I did that,

and this morning, what I always loved to do to

pray for the service, I did my ten kilometer walk

again and it's fine. You see. On Sunday and I

was telling the church on Sunday, I said, did you

see me dance? I was moving from side to side.

I said, my knee was killing me. But you know

why I moved from side to side. I told this

to the church. I moved from side to side because

God will look at me and he will say to me,

if there's anyone I'm going to give mobility to, it's

this guy. Because whether his knee is hurting or not,

he's still praising me. My talent. It's my talent. So

I praised the Lord and on Monday I was healed.

Today Jorome walked in and I saw both his shoelaces

were untied, and I thought leave it. Then the Lord

said he will trip and fall. Help him. So I

went up to Jerome and said, Jerome, your shoelaces are

Can I tie it for you? He says, sure, I

got down on my knees. I got down on my

knee to tie the shoelace you know which knee, the

knee that was giving me problems for all those months.

And I got up and I'm fine. And then the

Lord said, do you know why I gave you mobility

to your knee? It's for to help others. Guys, if

you find that things are not working so well in

your life, ask the Lord is am I missing something?

So he would received five talents. This is what it is. Guys.

You gotta understand that God is just as excited to

bless you, more so than you can even think. But

we are just busy doing our own stuff. Hey, do

you know that God may ask you to do certain

things through who you know, your CPC. When your CPCs

can you do this? You say, God never asked me.

Let me tell you. God also speaks through your CPC.

So when you tell your CPC I won't do it,

are you telling your CPC no? You're telling God no.

You gotta ask yourself this question, because when we meet

the Lord, we have to give an accounting. Then he

who received the five talents went and traded with them

and made another five. Guys, you get those talents, not

to keep it to yourself. Work it, work it, you

know how? Just look at my size. Man, I put

on all that weight in four months. You know I'm

going to lose it. Now praise the Lord because I

can walk again. Work it, and likewise he whould received

to gain two more. Also both produced one hundred percent. Guys,

It's not about how many things you can do, it's

about whether you do the whether you do everything that

you have one hundred percent they produced. Both produced exactly

the production value of their distinct abilities. So I got

to ask you, are you a visitor in the house

of the Lord or are you his seven meet messenger?

Success came in doing what they could do best. How

did it come they did it. If they were to

play the guitar, they did it. If it was to sing,

they did it. If it was to produce an album,

why did it? So? When God asks you to do something,

you can using equals gain, using equals gain, let me

tell you in church, I dare say, from the leadership,

the topmost leadership, right now I'm the oldest in terms

of knowing the Lord from the top right down, I'm

also the oldest. Does that matter where God is concerned, No,

that doesn't matter. You know what matters when a young person,

a young leader, asks me to do something? Do I

tell that young leader? Do you know who I am?

You know how many years have been in the lot?

Forty seven years you have been alive? How long twenty

five years? I've been in the law longer than you

have been alive, and you are asking me to do Yeah? Yeah,

I can say that, And I wonder what God is

gonna deal with me after that, you see, because that's

not what it is. You know what it is. When

that young person asked me to do something, I say,

how do you want it done? Just let me know.

I'll do my best, And God looks at me and says,

well done. That's what it's all about. It's not about

how long you've been a Christian. It's not about how

much you know. It's never been about that. It's been

how a variable are you to His service? So he

who had received one, Oh you gotta love this joker.

He went away. He went, He dug in the ground

and hid his lord's money. And after a long time

the lord of those servants came and settle accounts with that.

Jesus is coming soon, guys. In case you don't know,

Jesus is coming very soon. You look at what scripture says,

when the whole world has turned against his people, Jesus

will come. You know how many people love his You

know how many in the world love his people. Now

nobody except for one country, and that country is almost

at a stage where they will turn the other way.

When that happens, Jesus will come. And when he comes,

will he find you his servant having produced, or will

he find you having dug and put his money in

the ground. So the first two went and traded. The

third went away. He left, He departed. He took a

direction away from the task he speaks to intend. No,

I will not do it. I've been burnt. I'm not

going to serve the Lord. I don't want to get involved.

Somebody else will do it. I'm on holiday. I have

other things to do. I want to see the world.

I want to taste other churches. I want to quit

their message somewhere else. What about a honey chicken message?

I don't want to get involved. Just leave me alone.

What is that he dug in and hid it? A

rejecting of the entrustment? Hey, you know why we have time?

You know why Jesus hasn't come back yet? Is giving

us time to get a act together. Hey, if we

haven't done what the Lord has told us to do,

Lord forgive me, Can I do so now? So? He

who received five terrans came and brought five other talents, saying, Lord,

you've delivered to me five terrans. Look, I gained five

more beside them. Did he tell the Lord, a Lord,

here's your money back. I made you another five. Did

that servant give the money back to the Lord? Check?

And see he kept all ten to himself. Don't you

get it? When the Lord gives us something, it's not

for the Lord to keep it for you. And then

he says this, well done, good and faithful. Wow, How

many of us lived to get well done from our parents?

I tell you it's very difficult to get well done

for my dad and mom. And you know I always

did well my studies. He was so horrible, you know,

because studies came easy to me. I was always doing

well first, second, third in class, first, second class. Never

did they say well done. You know, I'm thinking to myself,

what's wrong with then? And the other thing I hate

is you can do more? You can do better. I

used to hate that, But you see, God is not

like that. What does God say? Where has done? Good

and faithful servant? I will make you rule over many things.

Enter into the joy of the Lord. Do you see

who he got to enter his home? Do you see

who he got to enter his home? A fruitful servant.

He's very selective about who goes into his home. You

make no mistaker. That's why I say this is talking

about God, very very selective. So good describes what originals

from God and is empowered by him through faith. That's

what good is. It wasn't more money that the Lord

was pleased about. It was faithfulness. God was not interested

in a wealth. That is what God seeks from us.

We have to be faithful over the gifts He has

given us. Joy of the Lord. This word refers to

someone supreme. This is God, man God even. That is

why the scripture is talking about an interaction that talks

about God. Now, he who had received two talents Verse

twenty two came and said Lord, you delivered to me

two talents. Look, I have gained two more besides them.

And the Lord said same thing. The Lord said to him,

well done, good and faithful serven. Did he say, well done.

I wish you could have been that guy who made

another five, because he has got more, you only made four.

Did he say that he had the same blessing? Well done,

good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a

few things. I will make you ruler over many things.

Enter into the joy of the Lord. Your God is just.

He's a just god. He sees things so different than

all of us. We look at crowds. Oh you know

what God thought of crowds. He didn't think anything of them.

Crowds did not bother him. How do I know this?

He was just coming out and a multitude came around him, multitude, many, many, many,

many people pressing up against it. Did any of them

get anything? Nothing? Except a woman who crawled on the

ground through that sea of people, just to touch the

hem of his garment. And they say, if I touch that,

I will be that one woman. And when she did,

he said, who touched me? And you gotta love the disciples? Lord,

what's the matter with you. Can you see as a

multitude people around you touching you? He said, you don't understand.

The one that touches me touches me in faith, and

our will reach that person. She was healed. There's no

record of the Master taking back the money he had

given the servants to trade. In fact, he let them

keep it. God is never interested in the money or

the gifts. He's interested in our faithfulness and what we

use that faithfulness to produce? Are we producing? Then he

who received the one talent came to the Lord and said, Lord,

I knew you were a hard man, reaping where you

have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed.

And I was afraid and went and hit the talent

to the ground. Look there you have what is yours.

Don't you understand what this was? This was a rejection

of the Lord. You think, and I think one said

always say it, by the way, I believe that, okay,

one saved, always say. But I also noticed there's only

one person who can make a mess of it. Let's

we ourselves. Do you know what scripture said? Not all

of you will enter, some will say, Lord, Lord, I

did this, and I did that what he say, away

from me, I never knew you. Oh but I did

this and I did that. He said away from me,

I never knew you. You've got to understand something. If

you look at Matthew. In the Book of Matthew, it

talks about him giving power to all the disciples, and

you know who was included, Judas, who betrayed him. You

gave them power over demons, power to heal, power to pray,

seek miracles. And you look, Judas was one of them

who actually experienced it. Did Judas make it to heaven?

Judas betrayed the Lord. Guys, it's not about one save

always say, it's about us making sure that once we

are saved, whatever the Lord has given us to do,

we do. We must be fruitful. We must be fruitful.

This guy had no intention of serving the Lord. You know, here,

take back what is yours? You tell if I were

to tell my father here, tack back what is yours?

One slap? I'll get how many of your dad tell

your parents that? Now? Of course kids will those days

you try and see here? Here here, take back what

is yours? You are dead meat, you are his story.

I brought you into this world. I can take you out.

That's the kind of attitude we will have, or you

know what will come towards us. This guy had the

cheek to tell Hire, take back what is yours. The

one who had one talent claimed to be fully knowledgeable

of the Lord. But you know what, it was a

severe miscalculation on his pack. Do we miscalculate about our

relationship with God. Let's not make a miscalculation of our

relationship with the Lord. Let's not miscalculate what he will

do to us if he finds us not doing what

we're supposed to do. Don't miscalculate that relationship. He said,

you are hard, You're a scallos. That was the word.

You're scallous. You are hard, you're tough, you're harsh, severe.

That's what he was telling Jesus, telling the Lord all right,

he was telling God, he's telling his master. Wow. Not

only he didn't do the work, he was ridiculing his master,

attacking his master. His attitude was all wrong. What's your attitude?

What's my attitude to me? A statement reflects his contempt

of God. He basically accused God of being unjust, and

rather than face that, he returned the Lord's tell him

I don't want it, I don't need you. I don't

need to work for you. But the Lord answered and

said to him, you wicked and lazy servant. You knew

that where I'm not sown and gathered, where I'm not

scattered seed? Do you know that when we don't use

the talents that God has given us, it equates to wickedness.

Oh that's a tough one. This word. You're wicked. It

means you're hurtful, you're evil, your calamitous, meaning you're full

of trouble. Hum hm, you're diseased. O. God was telling him,

you're a diseased person. It's terrible. You're derelict, You're full

of malice, you're guilty. And get this, this word also

means you are the devil, because there was another character

who didn't want to work for the Lord. Who was it?

It was the devil. You are the devil, your sinner.

And this word lazy means It comes from the word ognros,

which means to hesitate, to be tardy. Oh, I hesitate

to do the Lord's work. I hesitate to serve in church. No, no, no,

I don't want hey wire do wanna hey? Guys, my

church was here and Klanger, I get up at five am,

go to church, load up all the instruments with another

guy onto the church van. And we're not talking about

all these nice instruments, very light, full of transistors. Every day,

I mean we carried monsters. Okay, seriously. Every guitar had

its own amp, jazz chorus and the other. Every amp

weighed like about fifty pounds. And then we had the

base amp, you know, the base amp. The speaker alone

was bigger than this, and the unit, the amplifier unit

weighed about fifty pounds and it was small like that.

The amplifier. My goodness, you needed two people to carry

the amplifier. And that's not all. We had to carry

a roads piano. How do you know what a roads

piano is. It's an electric piano. It weighed about one

hundred pounds. Two people, we load up the van, We

drive all the way to care and guess what. The

hotel would not allow us use the lift. So the

two of us would carry all these instruments up to

the third floor, set it up, praise the Lord in worship,

put it away, bring it down, put it back in

the van, and send it back to clang at two

a m. Monday morning. I did this for ten years,

ten years, and some of us, oh yeah, I've been

playing already for two weeks in a row. I cannot it.

I need a break. Ask yourself when you're serving the Lord?

Is it a pleasure or is it a curse? Because

if you're worshiping the Lord, and you're serving the Lord,

you don't care you do it six months in a row.

If you have to have a thought, why am I

doing it? I've been on for so long. You got

to correct, you gotta have There has to be an

adjustment the way you think today Today I receive the

blessings of all those things that I did then because

I did not count myself as anything then and now

the Lord blesses me until today. It's an attitude. Are

we slothful? Are we unambitious? Are we uninterested in the

Lord's things? And this is what the Lord said, and

this thankfully will cover a lot of us. Okay, So

you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers

and at my coming I would receive my I would

have received back my own with interest. Praise the Lord.

God is very kind. Okay, because there are many of

us who've got talents were not using Do you know that?

Now for those of us that don't use the talents

that God has given us, we have an option to survive.

You w as the option to survive. Put the money

in the bank to earn interest or bury it in

the ground. You know what happens if we bury it

in the ground, right? We did me? So what is

this putting money in the bank to gain interest? Hey,

whatever you can do for the Lord, do with a

good heart. Okay, I cannot serve all the time as

a host, but when I come I can shake somebody's

hand and welcome them to church. What is that money

in the bank earning interest? Or why you got nowhere

to have the homes? I cannot have the homes in

my house every week, but never mind, this week I

opened my house. What is that money in the bank

bending down to tie somebody's shoelace? What is that money

in the bank interest? Did you think of that? Did

you know that that every time you bless somebody? What

is that money in the bank interest? So when I

meet the Lord and he says, now, who are you

stopp being a musician? Did I ask you so I'm

going to tell the Lord. Yeah, true, you didn't ask me. Sorry,

by at least money in the bankler, You know what

did I wrote some songs for you to bless your name.

Got interest, man, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got interest. God

is kind, God is for us making it. There's always

something we can do. The problem is when we do nothing,

however small it may be. It's a step forward and

it will grow. Be a host, be a cleaner, be

a decorator. Christmas is coming. That's the only thing you do.

You put up one tinsel there? Do it? Learn that

is what is that money in there bank? You know

when I first came to church to ask many years ago,

thousand and nine, I think, yeah, two thousand and nine.

You know I told pasta, Pasta maybe and me, we

will clean the toilets. But we were leaders in our

church before. Did we say we we we can be

a leader in your church? No? What did we say?

We've cleaned the toilets because we understand that it's not

about the face that we have. It's about the things

that we can do for the Lord. You know what

pastor said, there's no need to do that. But I'm

sure that spoke to Pasta's heart. There's something about these guys. Guys,

what are you going to do? What are you going

to do? Do something for you know, for your sake,

do something. So take the talent from him and give

it to him who has ten talents. You know. The

only time God took back what was his was when

we did not use what he gave us. That's the

only time he took it back. He took it back

and he gave it to the one who has more.

And then it says, don't lose everything. This only happens

when we do nothing. When we do nothing, we will

lose everything. And this is the master's house. I do

not care whether it's small or whether it's big. But

whichever house you call your own, you had better be serving.

And if you don't call anyone your house, you're in

big trouble at the very start. Okay, don't tell me

every church is God's house. I know that. But you

have made God's house your restaurant that you go to

receive your food when all you do is go to

hear the word. You have made God your servant. God

is not your severn. He is God. You are not.

I am not so he gave talents only to his servants,

not to the visitors. Of course, if you're visiting from

another church because you're not where your church is, that's okay.

What is that? That's money in the bank showing God. God,

I put you first. But if you're here for a

few months, serve the Lord. That's the way it is.

Who are you doing this for us? For me? No,

you're doing it for you. You're doing it for the Lord.

Visitors who keep going from church to another, one church

to another, take God for a cook or a chef,

and go to these restaurants called churches to sample the

cuisine or the word. The ideas are tickled with the

good food. But they will not trade the talents God

has given them, nor will they serve God in any

capacity to give God interest. They want to come in

and leave. What a dangerous place to be. For to

everyone who has more will be given into him who

has in abundance. But from him who does not have

even what he has will be taken away. And this

is why I say this one refers to God and

cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will

be weeping and gnashing of teeth. I believe one's safe,

always saved. But if you don't serve the Lord, if

you don't trade with the talents he has given you,

you put yourself in very dangerous territory, because when the

Lord comes back and he requires an accounting, maybe be

found to have done something with the talents he has

given us. Are you faithful? God wants to give you more.

Remember he did not take the money back from the servants,

but ask them into his home. He wants to not

only give you talents, He doesn't want to take it back.

He wants to invite you into his home. If you

want to remain lazy, Not only does he strip you

of what you have, the last one says he won't

have anything to do with you. Remember I said you

means me, so you know you cannot say there's any

finger pointing going on. We're all in this together, okay.

Revival comes with having the right attitude and devotion to

doing what God has called us to do. It starts yeah,

and with that, praise the Lord. I've given the Lord

my talent for the day. Guys, God wants to get

you ready. He wants to get you ready because the

end is coming soon. Jesus is coming soon. Okay. I

always say the candle burns on both ends. When we

are born, one end starts burning and then the Lord.

The time it takes for the Lord to come, the

other end is burning. So like for my wife and

me that the candle has burned quite far on one side.

But you guys that are young, I think for you

all that the candle of Jesus returning soon is coming

quite short. Don't be found napping, don't be found sleeping,

be found working.

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