What's My Attitude | Elder Terence Atkinson

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All right, so we know that this this year we've

activated revival.

Right.

Last year it was discipleship. We continue with discipleship. This

year is revival, and then next year will be evangelism

and then A and M. All right, dream So uh

if you got that that that opening slide with with

the title, you can just flash it on. Okay, Remember

the last time I said that I made a mistake.

I didn't put the revival on the horror So I remember,

so dream revival and ea, M that's for next year,

year after next and year after next. What's my attitude?

What's my attitude? The last time I shared with you,

I think I shared that revival is a personal choice, right,

Revival is something that happens to believe us. Revival is not.

We we mistake revival, we get we we make this mistake.

Between revival and evangelism, it's two different things. Evangelism comes

after revival takes place, all right, and revival takes place

with the believers. And I want to share with you

something from the parable.

I think I spelled. Is it right? Mixed ors.

Okay, I got it right. Okay, the spelling because in

my notes is wrong. Okay, Parable of the talents. Wow,

something to be learned about this from the Parable of

the talents. Look, God has something for us in this scripture,

and I pray that if we catch on to it,

if you realize what it's all about, is going to

change our lives.

So let's read.

From Matthew twenty five, reading from verse fourteen.

For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man.

Ooh, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man traveling

to a far country who called his own servants and

delivered his goods to them. The Kingdom of Heaven is

like a man traveling a pharaoh place faraway place, and

he gave his goods to his servants. Now why the

Kingdom of Heaven. I really had a trouble with this

for some time. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man.

And then as I did a little bit more reading

and understanding, I realized that the writers revered God so

much that they would not use the word God. They

wouldn't use the Kingdom of God. They wouldn't use God

is like a man. They won't do that all right.

So when Jesus was reciting this parable, and a parable

is a story that we can learn from. It's not

necessarily a real story, but it has a life meaning

and it could be based on something actual. So Jesus

was actually speaking to the Jewish people who understood the

term that he was referring to. So when he said

the kingdom of Heaven, he was speaking a language that

they understood. So it it could be the Kingdom of

God is like a man. It could also be God

is like a man. Not it's drawing a picture. It's

not something specific or something real. It's not saying God

is a man, all right. It's like trying to explain

him in a way that we will understand. So a

far away country, it says that this man Kingdom of

God is like this man who traveled to a far

away country and he delivered his goods to his servants.

I want to draw your attention to this.

Do you know why? And I think I spelt it

wrong again?

Mix one okay, never mind good, it's not okay the

one before, all right. The reason this is because the

reason that God can go far away is because he

trusts us. If you read that scripture if you read

it very carefully, He's like a man who delivered his

goods to his servants. He went to a far away country.

How many of you will do that? You go to

a far away country, You call your housemaid. Here's my

bank account number, This is my password. You know the

ten million in the bank account. You use it according

to how you feel. Would you do that? You wouldn't

write your master bedroom. You look, you won't let craigna.

Why is that? Because your trust level only goes so far?

But do you know when this is talking about God,

Your God and my God?

He trusts us.

You got to understand that he trusts us. If he

did not trust us, he would still be here right

by our sideway. You and I can see, like the

cloud and the fire that followed his people. You know

why the cloud and that fire followed the people? Could

he trust them to understand just how much he cared

for them? They would not be able to do it.

So he had to have a visual But here he

traveled to a far away country. You and I better

appreciate God. We better appreciate him on a different level

because you and I know who we are. We know

what kind of people we are. We know what a

situation is. But God still trusts us. Amy that counts

for something. It when he in Matthew twenty eight says

go into the world and make disciples. He and trusted

the biggest task that he had on his mind with

sinners like you and me. Guys, gotta understand God is

a different level.

Okay, I mean he is. He is matchless.

None of us can sometimes even trust our own family

members like that.

God can.

And then it said in scripture he said, who called

his servants called his servants? You know it is a calling.

It is a calling to be a believer. You think

you are a believer because you said, Jesus coming to

my heart and be my Lord, and say it true.

That's true. But do you think that you did that

because you just felt like you wanted to do it?

He called you. And in my case it's true because

when I got saved forty seven years ago, he actually

came down in a pillar and I actually heard him say, Terence,

you're not a believer, receive me now. And only after

he said those words, which I heard with my years,

did I give my life to Christ. So he calls

it is a calling servants. Who did he call? He

called servants. You know what this word servant means. It

means a slave. He called his slaves. He called his

bond servern, you know as a bond servern. Bond servant says,

I will serve you all my life. So they put

their ear to the to the door, and then they

puncture where they all so that blood falls on the

on the door posts. Okay, that means that guy has

given his life to the Lord forever.

You know.

It's a voluntary, fully devoted servant. Guys, the House of

the Lord is filled with servants or visitors. Remember I

said this is a meet message. Do we attend church

just to hear the word? Is that why we come

to worship the Lord every day every Sunday? Or do

we come into the house just to hear the word?

I mean, if that's all we do coming to the house.

And this is how this message came about. Okay, I'm

going to share a little bit of the end before

the beginning. This is supposed to be the climax. But

I can't wait. I really can't wait.

God gave the.

Talents to whom the servants of the house. But the

church is full of visitors, the ones who come in

and go out.

Immediately.

They come in before service, or they come in during

service and immediately after service go out because they have

come to be served.

And not to serve. Think about it, God is your restaurant.

You see. This whole thought.

Came about when someone once told me, it's okay, what well,

I don't need to come to this. I can go

to any church. God is there, God is any Is

God in any church? Can I see your hands being

put up? God is lay? God is any any Okay?

He is right.

So that guy told me. That person told me, oh,

God is in any church. You can go to any church.

God is there? Why do I need to come to

this church?

On me?

So that's when I went to the Lord and I

asked the Lord, Lord, is this true? Is this what

you mean for us? Then the Lord gave this to me.

He said, I gave my goods only to my servants.

So that means those who just go from place to

place to hear this, they are being served by God.

Think about it. I'm just going there to hear the message.

Ah today, this Quitel message, I think I want Claiyport message.

So I will go to this other place. They are

serving Clayport message there. The Clayport message is not so good.

Maybe I have to try that desert. That that that

you know Joe is talking about. Ye're going to try

that in that other place. So you know what, you

go from place to place to place to place. You

know what you're doing. You're making God your chef. He's

got to serve you the food. And you sit there.

I like it.

I don't like it. You get up and you go

somewhere else. Let me tell you gain nothing. In fact,

that you only pay. You go to a restaurant, they

give you anything. No, you pay what you pay. So

that's but I wanted to draw your attention to God.

He delivered his goods. He gave his goods to hisself.

And you know that I studied this word, delivered, gave

this good It wasn't a loan. You know, you know

that your God and minor, he doesn't believe in giving

us loans.

He gives, he gives. He delivered his goods to us.

It was ours, it became ours, It now is ours.

It belongs to us.

So God gave us talents. A scripture talks about talents

as money. But this is word talent is quite interesting.

He could also mean the things that he can do.

You can pray for the sake and they can recover.

You can write songs, you can sing, you can play

nice guitar, you can keep a good beat.

For me.

The Lord opens up and I ask the Lord Lord,

how come this is my gift to you. I can

see Scripture a little bit differently. It opens up to me,

and this is my gift. Now if I keep it

to myself, you know what I am. I'm going to

a restaurant. The restaurant my restaurant is called a Bible.

But you see, God doesn't expect me to go to

a restaurant. He expects me to serve him. So he

gives me a gift, a talent that I don't keep

to myself.

I use. So he delivered his goods.

And then Scripture says, and to one he gave five talents,

and to another two, and another one to each according

to his own ability. And immediately he went on a journey.

As I said, God gave. And the reason why I

believe that this parable is in reference to God is

because in the later part of this parable, you will

see that this person had the authority to do something

which we will discuss a little later on. So when

I'm referring to this person this parable is talking about,

I believe that it is a type referring to God.

So God did not lend it, wasn't alone. He didn't

consign here. I give you this and then later on

you give it back to me. He didn't consign it.

He put it completely under our authority and dominion. What

is the gift that God has given you? What talent

has he placed in your hand? You say, I'm not

a person of talent, There's nothing I can do.

Well, it's like this. My Bible tells me.

If you are a servant in the house, my Bible

tells me he gives talents. So either my Bible is

wrong or you are wrong.

Who do you think. I will believe.

There is nobody here who doesn't have a talent that

the Lord has given because the.

Bible tells me this.

It says it is given each to his own ability.

And that is really revolutionary, because if your ability is

to say hello to one child, that is your ability.

When you say hallo to that one child, you have

done what the Lord has told you to do You

mean to say, you cannot do that. If the Lord

has told you to stand up here and share the

word of God, that is your talent. You stand up

here and you share the word of God. If the

Lord has said come up here and draw a poster

for the church, and you draw a poster for the church,

that is your talent. If you are a person, the

Lord has said, go and say hello to one child,

draw a poster for the church, and preach the word

of God.

Three talents. Do it? Love some people he gives more. Right,

So do you get jealous?

No, because the scripture says, here's one each according to

his own ability. That means that he recognizes where you

are and he doesn't want to burden you. He doesn't

want to stretch you beyond your capability. He wants to

be just for you. You know, you can be the

best guitarister. I give you another example. Okay, you can

be a guitarist. You can be the best guitarist. You

can be a great music producer and a musician. So

the ability to play instruments and produce albums. To sing

us sometimes maybe just to sing, but some singers can

also produce albums and play the guitar very well. You've

heard of this guy, Prince Anna Purple. Okay, that guy Prince.

I only discovered very lately that he was an exceptional

guitar player. Guitarist. I mean you listened to him play

the guitar. Michael Jackson couldn't play guitar. I know, Michael

Jackson could dance and sing, but you know he couldn't

play the guitar.

But Prince could dance, he could sing.

Man, he played fantastic guitar and listened to him play

the bass is something else. So this is a person

that had many talents. Guys, what's the talent that God

has given you?

Each?

According to you know what? Your distinct ability unique only

to you. It was more towards your suitability rather than

to the amount of war you could do, rather than

you know, God is telling you each and every one

of you you have something to offer. So don't look

at that other guy and say, you know, I want

to do what he is doing. Don't look at that

other person and say why they can do so many things?

I cannot do so much, so I better not do. No,

You got to understand the Lord gave you that which

is distinct only to you. Then he verse sixteen, then

you will receive five talents, went and traded with them

and made another five more, and likewise he would received

two gained two more. You want to know something, both

of them produced one hundred percent. You see, why are

we worried whether this guy produces five or this guy

produces two? Remember what scripture say gave according to their ability,

distinct ability, what they could do, he gave when they produce?

What did they produce one hundred percent? So is their

production level same or different?

It's the same. It is the same.

Because they both produced one hundred percent. You see, if

you can do more and you don't do one hundred percent,

what are you doing?

You're doing less. If you.

Can do something that one thing and you do it, well,

what are you doing? You're doing one hundred percent. See,

God looks at things differently, doesn't look like us. He

doesn't see things the way we see things. Maybe that's

why there's so much problems in the world today. Guys,

they both produced exactly the production value of their distinct abilities.

What is the talent that God has given you? Are

you keeping it to yourself? Are you keeping it to yourself?

Are you working with it?

Please?

Don't just keep it to yourself. Work with it. Success

came in doing what they could do best. What can

you do?

Do it? Well?

Success will come to you. You look back at your

life and say, wow, I've come so far. How did

this happen? Well, you are just doing what God told

you to do. You're not doing what somebody else could do.

That fella can do ten things, you can only do one.

You did that well, and guess what. You look back

and say, Ah, I have moved forward. Isn't that wonderful?

God is really good the affair? So they did it.

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

was to sing, they did. If it was to produce

an album, they did. When God asks you to do something,

you can do it using equals gain. Don't use no,

use no gain, use this gain. And sometimes the Lord

will ask you to do something, maybe not directly to you,

but through your CPC. Your CPC comes up to you

and say, hey, can you do this? You say no,

I cannot do. Who are you saying no to? Ask yourself?

Are you saying no to the CPC? Are you asking?

Or are you saying no to the God who's given

you a talent. You and I will live a line.

We don't take notice of these things. Maybe that's why

we don't live as well as we should be living.

Guys like I said, this is not milk, this is meat.

But he let's talk about number eighteen, verse eighteen. But

he there's one guyer, one joker, the real joker. He

who received one went and dug in the ground and

hid his lord's money. After a long time, the lord

of this servant came and settle accounts with them. You know,

the first two went and traded. The first two worked

with what the Lord had given them. The first two

used their talents. Let's look at the third one. The

third one, he left, He departed. He took a direction

away from the task. Scripture says he left and doug

he did not get with the program. You know, this

is like an under somebody I know, somebody I know

here's a believer or I don't know whether he's still

a believer, but a believer had some kind of grudge

against God. I don't know what kind of grudge. Do

you know there are people in this world of God

grudge against God? And they try and fight God like

God will fall to pieces. Hey, dear God, you are

not who are you to fight against God? So he

thinks he's like some sort of Jacob wrestling with God.

And one day the Lord will touch his tie and

God will give him what he wants, and never mind

if he comes out limpin. To me, that is mere foolishness,

because you don't go fight against God, you will lose

all the time. Don't fight God, you will lose all

the time. Just get with the program. So this is

this kind of character, this kind of ca And you

know he had something against the Master because you listen

to what he said later on.

So he dug and he hid it.

You know when you dig and you hide that telling

you know what it is you are, You are rejecting

that entrustment. I don't want any part of it. Wow,

do we dare? Tell God that I don't want any

part of your kingdom. So I'm gonna do what I want,

and I want to submit myself to you.

I did not, you know. Do you know in church?

I think almost all my leaders, or let me not,

almost all my leaders are younger than me. Do you

know that all my leaders are have known the Lord

less than me. All I'm talking about from the very

top right down. I'm older than them. I've been a

believer longer than they have been a believer. But you

know I submit to them.

Do you know why I do that?

Because I don't want to be like someone who hit

my talent in the ground and said, I'm not going

to do that. It's beneath me to work under those

who should I who I should be leading?

Is that the way it is?

No, God's never been about who's at the top.

You know what God has been about? What are you doing?

Where are you at? What will you do to please me?

The time is coming short. The time is very short.

Jesus is coming again soon. If you do not know

how to read the signs of the times, let me

tell you Jesus is coming again very soon. I pray

that when he comes, he'll find you and I to

be people who are using the talents He's given us.

Look at what after some time he came back. Do

you know that time was given for all of us

to get a act together?

We are all.

Given time, But do you know that time can run out?

There is time is finite, you know for us time

is finite. What is our timeline. Our timeline is from

the time we are born to the time we expire.

That is our timeline. But do you know the timeline

to do God's work also has an expiry date. I

pray that you and I will get over ourselves and

start submitting ourselves in the house of the Lord as servants,

so that we can utilize the talents that He's given

us for his glory. We are not restaurant goers. Church

is not a restaurant to us. Let it never be

a restaurant to us. Let it be a place where

we serve, not where we get God to serve us. Came, okay,

this is now talking about God Verse twenty. And he

came and he received He who had so, he who

had received five talents came and brought five to the

other servants, saying, Lord Lord, look you delivered to me

five talents. Look I gained five more. And his Lord said,

well done, good and faithful servant. You were faithful over

a few things. I'll make you ruler over many things. Enter,

come on in into the joy of the Lord. H

You know what was this person's reward? First reward, good

and faidful, good. He describes what originates from God and

is empowered by Him in their lives through faith.

Wow, the.

Master commended this servant as good. You know, it wasn't

the more money that the God was pleased about.

You you look at it.

He didn't say, wow, I got five more talents. Great,

I'm richer. Did the Master say that? No, he said

the first thing was he commended the servant well done,

good and faithful.

It wasn't the money the Master was pleased about. It

was faith forness. Do you know that? That is? What

is that?

That is what God is seeking from each and every

one of us for the talents He's put in our hands.

Faithfulness.

Now we have to be faithful over the gifts that

God has given us. To those of us who just

have young children. Now, Bible says their gifts from the Lord.

Are we faithful with demonad? Do we look after them?

Na? Do we care for them or not? Do you

know what I tell you?

My wife and me, we never cared for our children

in such a way that we told God we care

for our children more than you.

You know what that means. That means we subjected our

parenthood to our service. Of the Lord. You should have.

Seen my kids. They were with us in church until

two am. Yeah, I come to service, six am, go

back to am Monday morning. My baby's one year old,

one and a half years old, they're with us. Did

we ever say no, no, no, I got to go back home.

My child, my child, my child.

No. You know why.

Because we told the Lord we can never look after

our children better.

Than you can. We need your help.

So every time we serve the Lord, we were serving

the Lord with full knowledge of the fact that God

was looking after our children. And I told you the Testimonyum,

my little girl had her arm dislocated, crying for so

many hours while you're such bad parents, you allow your child.

We didn't know.

I mean, we don't have extra vision, only supermandos, so

we didn't know he had she had a dislocated arm.

She's maybe one, one year, one month, one year of

two months, crying and crying and crying the whole service,

wondering why is she crying. So immediately after service we

took her to the hospital. We checked out and say, oh,

we need to take an X ray. Your child is

probably dislocated the arm.

So I just looked.

At Elder Mayble, and I said, there is no way

we're going to allow our child to be x rayed. Okay,

So we're going to trust the Lord Lord.

We pray.

We just interceded, We prayed, we prayed, We prayed in

the name of Jesus.

So Ashley was.

Sitting on Elder Mabel's lap and I was standing praying

for her, had a.

Toy in my hand.

Immediately after I said Jesus name that injured hands, she

just reached out and took the toy and she started laughing,

giggling and laughing. We saw tested out her arm. She

was completely chuck and cheeser changed. We just walked right

up to the county said, non need for x ray.

We left the hospital exactly like that. God looks after

our children better than we can, Okay, So we have

to be faithful over the gifts he's given us.

The joy of your Lord. Enter into the joy of

your Lord. This is what was their reward, what was

his reward? Enter into the joy of the Lord. The

word refers to someone supreme. Hey, God is supreme. Enter

into my supreme joy. This is why I believe this

parable refers to God and his interaction with us specifically, Well,

isn't it wonderful to enter into the juggle? You mean

to say, Elder Mable and myself, we were not happy

when Ashley was healer. We were over enjoyed. What an

amazing testimony. The other day, I went to the hospital

and I was leaving my mom and I was in

the hospital and three am, three four am. Okay, yeah,

I see that. Okay, So until three am I was

in the hospital and because you reading my mom, and

then of course we were in the emergency and you know,

they every five minutes they're bringing in people on the stretcher,

bleeding everywhere, cart broken, you know, accidents, was almost all

of their motorcycles. So it was these two guys. I

didn't tell you this, right, no, okay. So there was

these two guys who came and they sat by my side,

chain broke the chin, you know, all damage bleeding here there, everywhere,

you know, and they sat in the chair by me

waiting for their turn to be looked at. So this

was at seven forty five, just before it. Then they

look at the nurse and say, it can be going

eat because you know it's fasting and we haven't eaten yet.

So we're hungry. It's both brothers are. The nurse looked

at them and say, no, I'm sorry, you can't. You

have to wait until the doctor sees you. The doctor

can call you it anytime. So I heard this, and

then after that the Lord said. I heard the Lord

say feed them. The Lord said feed them. So I

turned to them and said, you all a fasting today?

Yeah?

Yeah, yeah, we haven't. You know, we're a little be hungry.

So I went and got themn food. I got them food.

I got them drink because I heard the Lord say,

do it. I gave it to them. They were so grateful. No, no,

let me pay you. I said, no, no need to pay.

Give them the food.

And I know why. The Lord told me to give

them food. Do you know what time they were released.

They were released at two am. Can you imagine already

in pain, bleeding everywhere? And then I'm very hungry.

Do you know that the Lord cared for the two

of them. The Lord was compacted. The Lord was thinking

of them. You think that Lord only thinks of believers.

He thinks of everyone because everyone is a potential to

coming to know him as personal Lord and savior.

He loves them.

So was that being a good servant? I guess so

at that moment I heard the Lord.

I did it?

How many times the Lord telling us things we don't do,

we miss out? So he came now to the one

where two talents He came and said, Lord, Lord, you

delivered to me too. Look I have gained two more

besides them. And his Lord said, well done, what good

and faithful? You have been faithful over a few things.

I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into

the joy of the Lord. I want to draw your

attention to this. Is there any record that the Master

took back the money? Do you know that the Master

did not take back the money from them? In fact,

the Master said, whatever you have, you get more. The

Lord is not interested in reclaiming the talents he's given you.

In fact, he wants to give you more. He wants

to bless you more. You got to know the heart

of the Lord. The heart of the Lord is to

bless you. That is the heart of the Lord. Are

we living his heart? So there's no record the Master

taking back the money, say in other words, it was given.

In fact, he let them keep it.

God has never been interested in the money or the

gifts perceived, but our faithfulness to use it and produce?

Are we producing? I ask yourself this question. Don't I

got to speak to you? Do not treat church as

a restaurant. Whichever church you settled in, you must serve.

And if you haven't settled in in a church, do

it quickly. Time is short Verse twenty four. Then he said,

Then he who who had received the one talent came

and said, Lord, this guy's happy for the wrong thing.

Lord, I knew you were a hard.

Man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where

you're not scattered seed. He's even insulting the Master.

You know.

You are an unfair man. You do things that not nice.

This is what he's telling the Master. You know, like

that person I was telling you just now, and I

was afraid. And when it hit your talent in the ground,

Look there you have what is yours? Do you think

you can get away with it? To tell God you're

not right? Something wrong with you? So I was afraid

because you're a gangster, So I didn't want to lose

your money, so I hid it.

You dare tell God that do I tell? Dare tell

God that we are crazy? We do.

But you know, there are a lot of brave people

in the world today, lots of brave people in the world.

The Church is full of brave people. The Church is

full of brave people who all the time tell God, Hey,

get out of my life, I will do what I want.

That's the same man, same kind of character. The one

with the one talent claimed to be fully knowledgeable of

his Master. He said, I know who you are. You

know you're like this, like this, like this. It was

a deep miscalculation. You know why, because you do not

miscalculate that relationship with God. The word that he used

was your heart. You're tough, you're hash severe. The word

is skelos. That was the word that the servant used

against the Master. To me, his statement reflects his contempt

of God. He basically accused God of being unjust. Rather

than face that just, rather than face that, he returned

the talent to God. I do not need you, nor

do I work for you. That is exactly the message

he was telling the Master. That's like us when God

gives us a talent and we don't use it for

His kingdom. We are just telling God God, I do

not need you. Do you think you're gonna be in

the Master's joy. There are lots of people who will

get surprised on the last day. I'm sorry to say,

this is what scripture says. Lots of people will be surprised.

How do you know that? Because scripture does say, did

I not call you Lord? Lord?

Did I not cast out demons in your name? You

know he will say. You know what the Lord says,

depart from me. I never knew you, but his Lord

answered and said to him, you wicked and lazy seven.

You knew that I read where I'm not sown, and

gathered where I have not seen. In other words, he's saying,

you say that about me, and yet you do not

do anything. Not to do what God has given us

talents to do equates is equal to wickedness. You know,

God calls us wicked. If we don't do that, do

we want to be called wicked by the Lord? Come on, guys,

realize I told you this is not a milk message.

It's a meat message. Wake up and grow. We got

to grow. You want revival that happened in your life.

You make a decision. Revival is a decision. It's not

HEIGHTI flighty. You know casa, Whatever will be will be.

I know your young ones do not know that song,

but the old ones will understand.

Kay. You know it.

Speaks of being hurtful. It speaks of disease, derelict.

This is this is.

What that word wicked. That the word that the master user.

It is derelict, vicious, mischief, malicious even means the devil.

Oh, lazy. You know what the word lazy means. Hesitate.

It means tardy, always late? Oh are you always late

to church?

Oh?

Let's not the Lord call us tardy. Okay, let us

not let him not call us och neuros. That's what

it means, a neros. That's the word there was used here,

ach neuros. Reluctant or reluctant to do God's are you guys?

You mean to say God?

You may say your face may be like that, but

in your space, God sees the eye doesn't look at

your face.

Nice.

You know this about God. It's an attitude that is lazy, unambitious.

You know, if we are unambitious for the wordly things,

that's okay. Let us not be unambitious for the Lord's things,

because the Lord equates that to wickedness.

And laziness. Are you still with me?

I hope I'm not, you know, being so harsh with

I'm not being harsh with you.

I'm being harsh with mere Lord.

This is what the Lord spoke. This is on his heart.

Have you ever heard the five the parable of the talents?

Like this or not?

This is actually a deeper understanding of what is trying

to get to us. So you ought this is what

the Master said? So you ought to have deposited my

money with the bankers at my coming, I would have

received back my own with interests.

You know what is this? Deposit money? See?

This is the difference between wickedness and lack of confidence

or something like that.

This is it.

There is always something we can do to serve in

the house of the Lord, however small it might be,

but it is a forward step that grows. I give

you an example of what could be. I give you

an example of what could be in the bank with interests.

You want to know, haven't you always wondered what scripture

mean by you put the money in the bank and

get interest.

In this context, it means this.

What was the great commission going into the world and

preach the gospel? Making disciples. Right, that's the biggest thing

on God's heart, right, the most important thing. How many

of us do it? Don't put up your hands, how

many of us do it? Almost all of us don't.

To be true, you know what is the money in

the bank. At least, at the very least, we serve

as a host in the house of the Lord, welcoming something,

welcoming somebody, or we clean the church, or we arrange

the furniture, or maybe we make some food for expresso,

or maybe we decorate the place. You know, that is

you know what that is. That is not trading the talent,

you know, because the talent is not dead. But you

know what that is, That is just putting the money

in the bank to gain some interest. At least, when

the Lord sees us her, we don't come to him

empty handed. We come to him having done something for

his kingdom. The Lord is actually telling us that he

is looking for even user to work with us. This

tells me he's looking for a way with which not

to be upset with us. He's looking for a way

with which to approve us. At least the guy said, hey,

hey Lord, I'm not very clever. I'm not very able.

So I was afraid to lose your money. But I

was quite sure that if I put the money in the bank,

at least I gave you some interest. The very most,

the Lord would have said that I've got some more

work to do with you.

Now, mind not mine. Come, I'll help you.

Rather than away with you, you wicked person. Even what you have,

I take away from you and give it to the

one who's God. Is that how we want the Lord

to valuidate us. At the very least there is something

we can do. There's a very least there's a way

that we can still.

Please the Lord.

Doesn't that tell you something good about your God? He's

not out to get us, you know. The Lord is

you know what is the statement, I'm out to get you,

I'm out to destroy you. Lord is not like that.

He is out to bless us. He wants to find

that opportunity to approve us. He wants that opportunity to

do something good for us. Are we giving him that opportunity.

I want to say this to you, and this.

Will ending versus ending ending.

And I think I got five minutes ago. I'm reaching

right time. I'm doing well for time time up already

oh yo, sorry, but not so sorry. I'm ending in

the last three in the next three minutes. So is this, Ah,

don't lose everything. Okay, let's end with this. Don't lose everything.

That only happens when we do nothing. You know, when

you do nothing, guess what you lose everything. Isn't that

quite funny? You got money in your pocket, right, I'm

not going to spend it. I'm not going to use it.

I'm going to keep in my pocket and I'm not

gonna do anything. And next thing you put your hand

in the pocket, money's not there. Don't be like that.

Don't lose everything. This only happens when we do nothing.

It's the master's house. This is not just a church.

Always remember it is the master's house. When you come

to the Master's house, you should come as a servant,

not as a visitor, not as a restaurant goer.

This is not a restaurant. He's the house of the Lord.

He gives talents only to his servants, not visitors. Visitors

who keep going from one church to another, take God

for a cook or a chef, and go to his

restaurants called churches, to simple cuisine called the word. Their

years are tickled with good food, and 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, and I'll end with

the statement, what a dangerous place to be in. Guys,

the Lord wants to bless you. He wants to help,

He wants to turn your life around. He wants to

give you joy.

He wants to.

Turn your morning into dancing you're sorry into joy. He

wants to bless you. Let's give him every opportunity we

can for him to do that for us.

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