The Sermon Serving with Purpose by David McGee
Oct 09, 2011
Serving with Purpose (35:56)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 4:10; Matthew 6:24; Matthew 20:28; John 12:26; Matthew 6:19-21; 2 Corinthians 6
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- To be furnished or supply with something needed or desired
- To contribute to
- To provide service that benefits or helps
Matthew 20:28:
- Serving is a quality of greatness
- Serving is an Attitude
- Service is about a desired outcome not just a type of action
The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
Matthew 4:10
10) Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.‘"
Matthew 6:24
24) "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You can‘t serve both God and Mammon.
Matthew 20:28
28) even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
John 12:26
26) If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Matthew 6:19-21
19) "Don‘t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
20) but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don‘t break through and steal;
21) for where your treasure is, your heart will be there also.
2 Corinthians 6
1) Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
2) for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you, In a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
3) We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
4) but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
5) in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6) in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
7) in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8) by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;
9) as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;
10) as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11) Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
12) You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
13) Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be enlarged.
14) Don‘t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness?
15) What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?
16) What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
17) Therefore, "‘Come out from among them, And be separate,‘ says the Lord, ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
18) I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,‘ says the Lord Almighty."
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The when you are. I see lots of things appear and I you Bibles to have four different Scriptures and then place them on the other screen for us and the part of the messages serving the purpose and I know we hear a lot about serving service deal things like that but I at least for scriptures in the hopefully we can arrive at seeing how the we serve and how that serving has a purpose and first one is Matthew chapter four verse ten, and this is where Jesus is been tempted by Satan, and this is his declaration of the chapter, chapter four verse ten to to Satan. Jesus sent him away from me, Satan Ford 's report for it is written, worship the Lord your God and serve him only to serve him only the second Scripture is in Matthew chapter six verse twenty four Matthew six twenty four no one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Then Matthew twenty twenty eight just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. And in the fourth Scripture is in John chapter twelve verse twenty six whoever serves me must follow me and Diane, my sermon also will be my father will honor the one who serves me. So whoever serves me must follow me and my father will honor the one who serves me. Now, why are you a questionnaire, you know you're presented with this idea of servant OSA server, you know what would we define as being a servant or what does the servant do. And often our first thought is perhaps someone who is a servant in the house or one who is a pay individual or a slave who meets the needs of people and some definitions that I have found another dictionary were to be a servant is to attend to give the service and respect due a superior& Avs are okay still started with purpose. So we start serving the purpose now to comply with the commands and demands of someone to perform duties to act as a server to work through a term of service, so whenever we think of my concept of what I would think of when I think of the sermon would generally file fall within those well within those definitions, but there are some other definitions that I think are more appropriate for what the Scripture is telling us about serving the other definitions come to be furnished or supplied with something needed or desired. Okay, a servant is someone who has been furnished with something that is needed or desired. Now, whenever we'll put this within the context of the Scriptures that we were looking at that age I must walk. Nearly we spoke about this many times while you were getting your mother 's womb, God formed, you knew you put in you all the things that were necessary for you to be a person and the person you are and what does it take to bring those things to the surface while and we are as we are serving God, we find we are serving with the purpose and that you are already furnished or supplied with something needed or desired were serving to furnish professional service to answer the need of to be enough for or to be suffice to contribute to and to provide service that benefits are help. So whenever we are looking at the Scriptures that we just read here that all we are to to to serve or to be of service that there are things about sauce qualities about us that are necessary for us to use and to be of service to people knowing Jesus rebuked Satan informed him that the worship of God is first and serving God only is our only option K Europe to worship the Lord your God only, and serve him: so we are in this declaration, then from Christ that the qualities that he has and he is as a person is has only one purpose and that is to serve God in whatever he is telling us in regard to us that we are to serve not only, and that is our only option and he wasn't referring to a slavish loyalty to a master. He was speaking that God had furnished us and supplied us with something needed the new furnished you with that which is needed and useful and what you and I are are is only forgot use. So when we talk about speak of being a servant, then who you are is for God 's use, and God will use what qualities he has as you for your interest and for the best interests of other people. Everyone has purposes. Everyone has a purpose. Everyone has talents and we all have that which is of value, something that we have to offer. And Jesus said, away, away to Satan. What I have is for God 's use and him only will I serve. So when we are making a declaration that I'm going to serve God where making a declaration that we have something apartments we have something of value, and that what I'm going to do with my purpose in my value is I'm going to serve God, I'm going to serve him now. Matthew six twenty four. What that say no one can serve two masters. You can't serve two masters. You can't serve both God and money. Now glasses represents that there are choices that we have in our life about serving, we are going to serve God or serve ourselves, we're going to serve that which will have eternal benefit or we will serve that which has temporal or temporary benefits. So we have a choice in using the values of who we are and we make choices about are our values and whether they are going to have eternal benefits or temporal benefits so you cannot serve well in all we do, we can elegantly serving God 's family and I'll are serving humanity, and they won't have any eventual have an effect upon eternal benefits. It doesn't work that way. What we used to live for or live for Wolf at either one of these two categories it will fit into the category of that which is eternal world fit in the category of that which is temporal, so Melissa has a very high price to think of our lives being of such value that they are eternal benefit and sometimes regret coming over, caught up, and in our everyday living, and everyday living, and we hope we don't just live paycheck to paycheck, but you know we we we survived and we have our talents we have our abilities. We get paid more than an end and we are years later years and now they may we trade money for time NL. We tried money for time time for money and and so we are paying so that gets us thinking that our values and who we are as a person somewhat diminished to temporal urgency. We can be in this world and doing our everyday living, but still have qualities of our life and aspects of our life that are beyond this round went beyond just the temporary things that were doing, but having the eternal benefit have an eternal perspective that blesses the lives of others. So, the Bible says that so often. Matthew six twenty that we are to be read in Matthew six twenty and I have it there. Let's say you're not verse nineteen. Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, Vermont and rust destroy and where thieves break through and instill us thought for yourselves treasures in heaven, where Malkin must do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal first twenty one for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. So whenever we are putting together this service with the purpose we are seeing how that God has a way of working in our lives. That is, and I mean eternal benefit, even as we are all about temporal things because our work here is for purpose and it is in the purpose on that work is that we have an eternal perspective of who we are and what we do all that you are all that you ever will be is dedicated to one of these two categories, temporal or eternal. We're all serving one of these two masters where your treasure is there we are. Harvey also self-serving is imparting treasure into another's life serving is imparting the treasure of who you are what you do the qualities that have been given to your life and you are imparting them to others. Everything that we have everything that we possess is part of being stewards of our life and of our possessions, and that as we live our life, we are sharing those with other, we are sharing with others. No, the ally of Satan is that you don't have value in what your value is. Is it beyond doesn't work very well and it all and is a very important. That's a lot. Jesus said to say can get away it away from him because what I am and what I'm about more than what you are trying to give worship the Lord and him only shall I serve, there shall you serve that we are worshiping God, and that worship of God allows us to be infused with allow and not allowing his spirit and his word to work in our life to make a difference. To make a difference in how we think and make a difference in how do we feel about ourselves and make a difference in where we are going and who we are working for serving is serving to gammon serving to get the lot we can be serving the about what this untrue. You see both of these are correct serving to give serving to get. You cannot give away what you don't have words that come from where it is what you have come from, how are you to be wise stewards of what you possess. If you don't possess anything, so we have to have possessions is what possession was. That's awesome and problem if you don't have, you can begin so acquiring is not a sin. See how life you treasure your relationship with Jesus Christ. How much does our relationship with Jesus Christ means a lot. Doesn't that that relationship have an effect upon who we are is the principles that God is teaching us in his in his word affect how we think and do insane dollars. All that all all of that because that is how we are outlining the value of the treasure we are. We are outlining the value of the treasure that Jesus Christ is given us heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will never pass away the word of God is eternal. What does the word of God speak to us. It speaks to us words of life. It speaks the last words of hope. He gives her last words of encouragement. He just lost that we have purpose in this life and in and in the life to come, that we are part of the body of Christ, and there is no part of your body that you can do without it has an important part of all. Therefore, reason, it's all the same thing is that you are part of the body of Christ for reason. Now, unless you treasure your relationship with Jesus Christ. Unless you treasure your possession. Now I'm not going to have you denounced everything -year-old and send money to me the policy Diane, I like your juveniles. The worldly treasures you don't need them about this one. The world is ending and that Jesus is coming back at. We need to. We need to probably need to spread spread the gospel, and I never told you to get all your money to be used as people sold their house and everything sentences someone who was the car in the world to be over and the world didn't end. And they don't have a house so that not what this is about you see if you are getting and acquiring wealth to build bigger barns and hoarding, then you than that. That's what that's worth the wrongness comes in we. We have patients that you know that we seeing I go into the homes and another there. Sometimes there's individuals who are orders there been an house for the order, a professional quarter, not just an accumulation of things, a professional order, personalize it. I like all professionals with a person who has this sickness you see on TV is the always TV and literally you walk into the house and you cannot get through the house, because there's just a little path, and there are things the hallway to the ceiling and you can reach the things over here because there's too many things in the way and have even know what's over there and when you vow to take away something they get very uneasy. You can do this. They don't know what they are. They don't let your view when inputting data they may know every little item, but then they may not, but they don't even want to the takeout bags diligently got anything because something to be missing in their life and they may need on. That's the idea that the really sick part of recording, but that whenever we never we look at ourselves as we say, you know what I need to build something bigger to hold all my stuff and an end of the needs of other people go on unmet and you know I I like the idea that the one man said that we should be in the recycling, not just the idea of putting cans in the recycling bin. But the closer don't fit the lives of those TMS shrink one get in your closet either shrink wonders the strength one has gotten into my closet and shrunk so much of my stuff in our ices just one of those things. I'm wanting one of the commandos expansion worms not already here. I have to let the straight line got in my closet. Anyhow, but the ideas that the recycling and taking taking things evaluating garage sales and stop him. They have their purpose and your recycling things giving things away and is also wrong to acquire its wrong to and an end. This is whenever something about purpose that you and I have gifts, no wait, we can think of things like we can think about in the context of things that we can award, but what about our talents. What about your gift things. What about your your your thinking, what about your things. We give you see, but it's more than just the using the acquiring of stuff is not necessarily wrong if they expel that the attitude of how we keep it. You can't serve two as the site. While I don't not bring in getting that we can get. We can't afford to get because she the idea of giving is the idea of being a steward over what God has placed in our hands. What were doing is an in him. I had ever get the idea. Preaching a sermon timing out. We decided nobody also been on, Natalia added items be a surprise. Now, Pratt said he was into that last week he was and is a siding son, but the idea of giving is that it's it's like the Bible says that we give the first the first fruits, meaning that whenever whenever any Old Testament whenever they would harvest the grain is there their fields they would bring the first of their harvest and bring it to the Temple and what they did was as a way of sanctifying the rest of the harvest. It was a way of thanking God in advance for everything that was going to be in the field yell, never saying God hears the foregoing, our harvesting and this is the first fruits of our harvest and were bringing it to you. And this is FAQ we don't know when I read what the what the fields are going to produce. But this is what sang in advance, we thank you for everything they were going to get from our harm, so that the idea of giving in and work with. Thank you. I'm thanking you for all the provisions are bringing into my life will wall. What about the provisions of how much out there and how much is out there that I need more goggles will be the one who supplies all of my needs. So I'm saying up front guys who take care of everything and I'm trusting him with my life with my hearts the digits, but that's a different server so you can't serve two masters. God has given to you, then the Scripture. He talked about the five thousand three thousand one tell ten thousand who know whatever it is, there's two different two different stories about same thing. Any ideas that God has given us talents and the talents are to be used challenge of those things which are placed and if we don't use them, we lose them. The president had one tell what to do with as they buried it. They hit it. They said it is not that much value and I'm just a beginner back exactly what he gave me the first place and it's like going to school and say whenever you get out a graduate from the first grade. You know exactly what you group knew whenever you went to our letter do is maintain what I've got to learn only will I know what I know already know now she and that's that's wrong in our life. We are to continue to grow and record continue to advance in our understanding and our knowledge and in our faith, seek God is furnished he has entrusted you with you supplied you with something needed or desired. God has entrusted you with supplied you with something that is needed or desired. God has entrusted you with supplied you with something needed or desired. He's already given that you provide a service to to answer the need to be enough for her to contribute you to provide a service that benefits our house. You cannot serve two masters in these two masters will contradict each other. One will want to port and one will want to be generous to be wise in the stewardship we must choose who we will serve Matthew twenty twenty eight. Jesus did not come to be sorry, but the start to give his life as a ransom for many surveying is more than doing serving as a quality of greatness. We think of serving as acts of helping, supporting, encouraging, being kind, Jesus did this, but that's not all that he did in the idea of wildlife services are helping, supporting, encouraging trying that type of services to restrictive serving is an attitude, not just the list of things we do, starting with serving with an idea what's entitled sermon back to the beginning serving the purpose of K C supporting helping encouraging being kind is too restrictive. If we are going to be supportive. It's more than just doing certain things, serving as an attitude, not just the list of things starting is about a desired about a desired outcome, not a type of action serving is having a desired outcome. Trish topic of new and old you are. It's now pretty fast request, but you deserve why I'm a group of people right senior adult senior golf with the water school record by now you serve them by connecting them with education and mouse ways, ways of paying for education and jobs are in jobs after that, okay, but you serve them with the desired outcome and through the school getting them paying for the school and getting them to have a job so it isn't just serving people as doing something nice for them. Let's let some less vegan lunch. It's a good idea if you teach them how to fish the Lord certainly with the desired outcome that each of us served, but there has to be it. What is the what is the outcome of our serving the like. When David is in El Salvador that people NATO, the Americans are coming why, after all the disasters they've had it with billions of dollars dumped into the country and people just handed out money to solving the American show up. People line up for what for money. The time that you guys can do anything. So here let's give you some money so people show up. They give the money and what happens after the money is gone, they come back and want more natural response on the market student for them. Okay that you need a narrative business days. Then when I got. But what happened and what was the White House whenever God has provided so many things in our lives. You know anything. Okay, you got a purpose here. You have things in you that no one else has, and you will have what you have for desired outcome. No use what you have with a outcome in mind so we are serving ourselves. We are serving God where serving the community by what by doing something with the desired outcome was wrong to have a desired outcome of his seat so the desired outcome, not just the type of action. Jesus is desired outcome was to prepare his disciples to be the leaders of the spiritual rebuild it was going to come after his resurrection. John the Baptist is called Alanna Brodrick takes away the sin of the world John the Baptist. He was therefore purpose of preparing the way and then when Jesus showed up. That was the desired outcome of his entire life he must increase, and I must decrease. Jesus his life, his teachings, his miracles, they were all focused toward a desired outcome and here is the Messiah, the one who would come to remove the sin of the world. Our services about a desired outcome. Jesus serve the rich young roller when he challenged his value system image on roller and what I did. I'm not everything Jesus says you've got to sell everything you have. It wasn't that what he had was wrong. It was where he was placing his trust, the desired outcome. The Jesus had for the rich young roller was to get him to move his trust from things to God and his faith. What does it take for Austin move to the place of faith, though, that he served the woman at the well when he is always spoke to her about while many houses you have while in allergies is why the guy your letter with his address many of at least five oh what's going on here, broken relationships. Jesus served her by challenging where she was at her she needed to go. He was serving in every case, the will you serve to make choices on their all and in their response to the service of Jesus provided. So when Jesus confronted them. He confronted them. He was driving them, and they were making choices felt like an hour and I service you know, we have wonderful wash of group one. What is the desire of what is the desired outcome of this on the Psalms and the worship to inspire worship to inspire us in our worship of God, what's that once the desired outcome of the message are no preacher what you think it is while at the desired outcome of our message of preaching and teaching that will be inspired and encouraged to help us become more than what we've been in the past as an independent encourage us in our walk with God, and to know that there are choices that we make in our choices have an effect upon us, in effect upon our friendships and families that would affect upon our our life from here on out, and I look back on where I'm a thirty seven years of being here and I think of individuals that came to this place here in Lake Charles, not to serve God, and how destructive that choice was in their families, and I wish I wish I could go back and maybe I could if I would've said something different or challenge the more challenging differently. Maybe we made a difference in the life but you see, each of us are challenged and each of us are here for purpose and each of us have a design we have a desire apply our purpose of the plan by God in our life. And as we challenge ourselves as we start our children start our parents serve our friends, our family. We haven't a tired of closer walk with God. We see we are part of something bigger than ourselves were part of the body of Christ were part of an eternal kingdom will last forever. We are part of the movement of God in the lives of others. You are God 's messenger to the people around what you say what you do what you don't say how you live your life. You are God 's message to the people around you and you think there is a divine purpose. We are serving with a purpose seek John twelve twenty six whoever serves me must follow me. And this is the last part is my father will honor the one who serves me to follow Jesus, we sent in heavenly places. We have to be where Jesus says ever. Jesus is is is, what will the father, but he is with us. We are with him and he was with us. We must follow him and God will honor our commitments. God will bless you will bless those who know who to bless others and annually will not process will bless us. It has a purpose of the plan for our lives in the window work that out and services about a desired outcome. What is the desired outcome of God serving you and I got it serving us is serving Odyssey service with his word never leave you nor person not, is a friend of the close of the brother that nothing shall separate us from his hands and from his love, you know, there's this other Scriptures Marine second Corinthians six and I close with this. This is Paul writing. He says it is God 's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God 's grace in vain, for he says in the time of my favor I heard you in the day of salvation I helped you. I tell you now, I tell you, now is the time of God 's favor, now is the day of salvation. We put no stumbling block in anyone's path, so the minister will not be discredited. Rather, as servants of God we write, we commend ourselves in every way in great endurance in trouble in hardship and distress in beatings, imprisonments and riots in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger in purity, understanding, patience and kindness in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love and truthful speech and in the power of God with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the lab through glory and and dishonor, bad report good report, genuine, yet regarded as an imposter 's known, yet regarded as unknown, dying, and yet we live on Beacon and yet not killed sorrowful, yet always rejoicing poor, yet making many rich, having nothing, and yet possess remember Paul is writing about how Lindsay was beaten and imprisoned how that he was he was tortured for his faith, but he had a service with a purpose to the farther the kingdom of God. And no matter what hardships happened to him. He saw God 's hand being there, where they had everything, or whether you have nothing whether he was beaten and drug and drug on the city for debt where they spent a day and a night floating in the deep. He always saw that the divine hand of God was upon him. This is the challenge. I think it's serving with the purpose realizing the hand of God is upon you say the hand of God upon the blessing to directly to help, and there is a purpose behind that hand being upon it, is that God can work through you to touch the lives of others and make a difference. You can acquire things, it can be billionaires. It's not the problem where you put your trust. God has blessed you, you can be poplars doesn't matter. God has blessed you, God is able to work through each of these circumstances anywhere in between. God has desired outcome for our lives as we serve him. He will make a difference in us, we will make a difference in others, and it will last for eternity. The hand of God is upon the blessing to take that which is already placed in you and fulfill it, make it grow and cause it to be fruitful and thenThe when you are. I see lots of things appear and I you Bibles to have four different Scriptures and then place them on the other screen for us and the part of the messages serving the purpose and I know we hear a lot about serving service deal things like that but I at least for scriptures in the hopefully we can arrive at seeing how the we serve and how that serving has a purpose and first one is Matthew chapter four verse ten, and this is where Jesus is been tempted by Satan, and this is his declaration of the chapter, chapter four verse ten to to Satan. Jesus sent him away from me, Satan Ford 's report for it is written, worship the Lord your God and serve him only to serve him only the second Scripture is in Matthew chapter six verse twenty four Matthew six twenty four no one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Then Matthew twenty twenty eight just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. And in the fourth Scripture is in John chapter twelve verse twenty six whoever serves me must follow me and Diane, my sermon also will be my father will honor the one who serves me. So whoever serves me must follow me and my father will honor the one who serves me. Now, why are you a questionnaire, you know you're presented with this idea of servant OSA server, you know what would we define as being a servant or what does the servant do. And often our first thought is perhaps someone who is a servant in the house or one who is a pay individual or a slave who meets the needs of people and some definitions that I have found another dictionary were to be a servant is to attend to give the service and respect due a superior& Avs are okay still started with purpose. So we start serving the purpose now to comply with the commands and demands of someone to perform duties to act as a server to work through a term of service, so whenever we think of my concept of what I would think of when I think of the sermon would generally file fall within those well within those definitions, but there are some other definitions that I think are more appropriate for what the Scripture is telling us about serving the other definitions come to be furnished or supplied with something needed or desired. Okay, a servant is someone who has been furnished with something that is needed or desired. Now, whenever we'll put this within the context of the Scriptures that we were looking at that age I must walk. Nearly we spoke about this many times while you were getting your mother 's womb, God formed, you knew you put in you all the things that were necessary for you to be a person and the person you are and what does it take to bring those things to the surface while and we are as we are serving God, we find we are serving with the purpose and that you are already furnished or supplied with something needed or desired were serving to furnish professional service to answer the need of to be enough for or to be suffice to contribute to and to provide service that benefits are help. So whenever we are looking at the Scriptures that we just read here that all we are to to to serve or to be of service that there are things about sauce qualities about us that are necessary for us to use and to be of service to people knowing Jesus rebuked Satan informed him that the worship of God is first and serving God only is our only option K Europe to worship the Lord your God only, and serve him: so we are in this declaration, then from Christ that the qualities that he has and he is as a person is has only one purpose and that is to serve God in whatever he is telling us in regard to us that we are to serve not only, and that is our only option and he wasn't referring to a slavish loyalty to a master. He was speaking that God had furnished us and supplied us with something needed the new furnished you with that which is needed and useful and what you and I are are is only forgot use. So when we talk about speak of being a servant, then who you are is for God 's use, and God will use what qualities he has as you for your interest and for the best interests of other people. Everyone has purposes. Everyone has a purpose. Everyone has talents and we all have that which is of value, something that we have to offer. And Jesus said, away, away to Satan. What I have is for God 's use and him only will I serve. So when we are making a declaration that I'm going to serve God where making a declaration that we have something apartments we have something of value, and that what I'm going to do with my purpose in my value is I'm going to serve God, I'm going to serve him now. Matthew six twenty four. What that say no one can serve two masters. You can't serve two masters. You can't serve both God and money. Now glasses represents that there are choices that we have in our life about serving, we are going to serve God or serve ourselves, we're going to serve that which will have eternal benefit or we will serve that which has temporal or temporary benefits. So we have a choice in using the values of who we are and we make choices about are our values and whether they are going to have eternal benefits or temporal benefits so you cannot serve well in all we do, we can elegantly serving God 's family and I'll are serving humanity, and they won't have any eventual have an effect upon eternal benefits. It doesn't work that way. What we used to live for or live for Wolf at either one of these two categories it will fit into the category of that which is eternal world fit in the category of that which is temporal, so Melissa has a very high price to think of our lives being of such value that they are eternal benefit and sometimes regret coming over, caught up, and in our everyday living, and everyday living, and we hope we don't just live paycheck to paycheck, but you know we we we survived and we have our talents we have our abilities. We get paid more than an end and we are years later years and now they may we trade money for time NL. We tried money for time time for money and and so we are paying so that gets us thinking that our values and who we are as a person somewhat diminished to temporal urgency. We can be in this world and doing our everyday living, but still have qualities of our life and aspects of our life that are beyond this round went beyond just the temporary things that were doing, but having the eternal benefit have an eternal perspective that blesses the lives of others. So, the Bible says that so often. Matthew six twenty that we are to be read in Matthew six twenty and I have it there. Let's say you're not verse nineteen. Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, Vermont and rust destroy and where thieves break through and instill us thought for yourselves treasures in heaven, where Malkin must do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal first twenty one for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. So whenever we are putting together this service with the purpose we are seeing how that God has a way of working in our lives. That is, and I mean eternal benefit, even as we are all about temporal things because our work here is for purpose and it is in the purpose on that work is that we have an eternal perspective of who we are and what we do all that you are all that you ever will be is dedicated to one of these two categories, temporal or eternal. We're all serving one of these two masters where your treasure is there we are. Harvey also self-serving is imparting treasure into another's life serving is imparting the treasure of who you are what you do the qualities that have been given to your life and you are imparting them to others. Everything that we have everything that we possess is part of being stewards of our life and of our possessions, and that as we live our life, we are sharing those with other, we are sharing with others. No, the ally of Satan is that you don't have value in what your value is. Is it beyond doesn't work very well and it all and is a very important. That's a lot. Jesus said to say can get away it away from him because what I am and what I'm about more than what you are trying to give worship the Lord and him only shall I serve, there shall you serve that we are worshiping God, and that worship of God allows us to be infused with allow and not allowing his spirit and his word to work in our life to make a difference. To make a difference in how we think and make a difference in how do we feel about ourselves and make a difference in where we are going and who we are working for serving is serving to gammon serving to get the lot we can be serving the about what this untrue. You see both of these are correct serving to give serving to get. You cannot give away what you don't have words that come from where it is what you have come from, how are you to be wise stewards of what you possess. If you don't possess anything, so we have to have possessions is what possession was. That's awesome and problem if you don't have, you can begin so acquiring is not a sin. See how life you treasure your relationship with Jesus Christ. How much does our relationship with Jesus Christ means a lot. Doesn't that that relationship have an effect upon who we are is the principles that God is teaching us in his in his word affect how we think and do insane dollars. All that all all of that because that is how we are outlining the value of the treasure we are. We are outlining the value of the treasure that Jesus Christ is given us heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will never pass away the word of God is eternal. What does the word of God speak to us. It speaks to us words of life. It speaks the last words of hope. He gives her last words of encouragement. He just lost that we have purpose in this life and in and in the life to come, that we are part of the body of Christ, and there is no part of your body that you can do without it has an important part of all. Therefore, reason, it's all the same thing is that you are part of the body of Christ for reason. Now, unless you treasure your relationship with Jesus Christ. Unless you treasure your possession. Now I'm not going to have you denounced everything -year-old and send money to me the policy Diane, I like your juveniles. The worldly treasures you don't need them about this one. The world is ending and that Jesus is coming back at. We need to. We need to probably need to spread spread the gospel, and I never told you to get all your money to be used as people sold their house and everything sentences someone who was the car in the world to be over and the world didn't end. And they don't have a house so that not what this is about you see if you are getting and acquiring wealth to build bigger barns and hoarding, then you than that. That's what that's worth the wrongness comes in we. We have patients that you know that we seeing I go into the homes and another there. Sometimes there's individuals who are orders there been an house for the order, a professional quarter, not just an accumulation of things, a professional order, personalize it. I like all professionals with a person who has this sickness you see on TV is the always TV and literally you walk into the house and you cannot get through the house, because there's just a little path, and there are things the hallway to the ceiling and you can reach the things over here because there's too many things in the way and have even know what's over there and when you vow to take away something they get very uneasy. You can do this. They don't know what they are. They don't let your view when inputting data they may know every little item, but then they may not, but they don't even want to the takeout bags diligently got anything because something to be missing in their life and they may need on. That's the idea that the really sick part of recording, but that whenever we never we look at ourselves as we say, you know what I need to build something bigger to hold all my stuff and an end of the needs of other people go on unmet and you know I I like the idea that the one man said that we should be in the recycling, not just the idea of putting cans in the recycling bin. But the closer don't fit the lives of those TMS shrink one get in your closet either shrink wonders the strength one has gotten into my closet and shrunk so much of my stuff in our ices just one of those things. I'm wanting one of the commandos expansion worms not already here. I have to let the straight line got in my closet. Anyhow, but the ideas that the recycling and taking taking things evaluating garage sales and stop him. They have their purpose and your recycling things giving things away and is also wrong to acquire its wrong to and an end. This is whenever something about purpose that you and I have gifts, no wait, we can think of things like we can think about in the context of things that we can award, but what about our talents. What about your gift things. What about your your your thinking, what about your things. We give you see, but it's more than just the using the acquiring of stuff is not necessarily wrong if they expel that the attitude of how we keep it. You can't serve two as the site. While I don't not bring in getting that we can get. We can't afford to get because she the idea of giving is the idea of being a steward over what God has placed in our hands. What were doing is an in him. I had ever get the idea. Preaching a sermon timing out. We decided nobody also been on, Natalia added items be a surprise. Now, Pratt said he was into that last week he was and is a siding son, but the idea of giving is that it's it's like the Bible says that we give the first the first fruits, meaning that whenever whenever any Old Testament whenever they would harvest the grain is there their fields they would bring the first of their harvest and bring it to the Temple and what they did was as a way of sanctifying the rest of the harvest. It was a way of thanking God in advance for everything that was going to be in the field yell, never saying God hears the foregoing, our harvesting and this is the first fruits of our harvest and were bringing it to you. And this is FAQ we don't know when I read what the what the fields are going to produce. But this is what sang in advance, we thank you for everything they were going to get from our harm, so that the idea of giving in and work with. Thank you. I'm thanking you for all the provisions are bringing into my life will wall. What about the provisions of how much out there and how much is out there that I need more goggles will be the one who supplies all of my needs. So I'm saying up front guys who take care of everything and I'm trusting him with my life with my hearts the digits, but that's a different server so you can't serve two masters. God has given to you, then the Scripture. He talked about the five thousand three thousand one tell ten thousand who know whatever it is, there's two different two different stories about same thing. Any ideas that God has given us talents and the talents are to be used challenge of those things which are placed and if we don't use them, we lose them. The president had one tell what to do with as they buried it. They hit it. They said it is not that much value and I'm just a beginner back exactly what he gave me the first place and it's like going to school and say whenever you get out a graduate from the first grade. You know exactly what you group knew whenever you went to our letter do is maintain what I've got to learn only will I know what I know already know now she and that's that's wrong in our life. We are to continue to grow and record continue to advance in our understanding and our knowledge and in our faith, seek God is furnished he has entrusted you with you supplied you with something needed or desired. God has entrusted you with supplied you with something that is needed or desired. God has entrusted you with supplied you with something needed or desired. He's already given that you provide a service to to answer the need to be enough for her to contribute you to provide a service that benefits our house. You cannot serve two masters in these two masters will contradict each other. One will want to port and one will want to be generous to be wise in the stewardship we must choose who we will serve Matthew twenty twenty eight. Jesus did not come to be sorry, but the start to give his life as a ransom for many surveying is more than doing serving as a quality of greatness. We think of serving as acts of helping, supporting, encouraging, being kind, Jesus did this, but that's not all that he did in the idea of wildlife services are helping, supporting, encouraging trying that type of services to restrictive serving is an attitude, not just the list of things we do, starting with serving with an idea what's entitled sermon back to the beginning serving the purpose of K C supporting helping encouraging being kind is too restrictive. If we are going to be supportive. It's more than just doing certain things, serving as an attitude, not just the list of things starting is about a desired about a desired outcome, not a type of action serving is having a desired outcome. Trish topic of new and old you are. It's now pretty fast request, but you deserve why I'm a group of people right senior adult senior golf with the water school record by now you serve them by connecting them with education and mouse ways, ways of paying for education and jobs are in jobs after that, okay, but you serve them with the desired outcome and through the school getting them paying for the school and getting them to have a job so it isn't just serving people as doing something nice for them. Let's let some less vegan lunch. It's a good idea if you teach them how to fish the Lord certainly with the desired outcome that each of us served, but there has to be it. What is the what is the outcome of our serving the like. When David is in El Salvador that people NATO, the Americans are coming why, after all the disasters they've had it with billions of dollars dumped into the country and people just handed out money to solving the American show up. People line up for what for money. The time that you guys can do anything. So here let's give you some money so people show up. They give the money and what happens after the money is gone, they come back and want more natural response on the market student for them. Okay that you need a narrative business days. Then when I got. But what happened and what was the White House whenever God has provided so many things in our lives. You know anything. Okay, you got a purpose here. You have things in you that no one else has, and you will have what you have for desired outcome. No use what you have with a outcome in mind so we are serving ourselves. We are serving God where serving the community by what by doing something with the desired outcome was wrong to have a desired outcome of his seat so the desired outcome, not just the type of action. Jesus is desired outcome was to prepare his disciples to be the leaders of the spiritual rebuild it was going to come after his resurrection. John the Baptist is called Alanna Brodrick takes away the sin of the world John the Baptist. He was therefore purpose of preparing the way and then when Jesus showed up. That was the desired outcome of his entire life he must increase, and I must decrease. Jesus his life, his teachings, his miracles, they were all focused toward a desired outcome and here is the Messiah, the one who would come to remove the sin of the world. Our services about a desired outcome. Jesus serve the rich young roller when he challenged his value system image on roller and what I did. I'm not everything Jesus says you've got to sell everything you have. It wasn't that what he had was wrong. It was where he was placing his trust, the desired outcome. The Jesus had for the rich young roller was to get him to move his trust from things to God and his faith. What does it take for Austin move to the place of faith, though, that he served the woman at the well when he is always spoke to her about while many houses you have while in allergies is why the guy your letter with his address many of at least five oh what's going on here, broken relationships. Jesus served her by challenging where she was at her she needed to go. He was serving in every case, the will you serve to make choices on their all and in their response to the service of Jesus provided. So when Jesus confronted them. He confronted them. He was driving them, and they were making choices felt like an hour and I service you know, we have wonderful wash of group one. What is the desire of what is the desired outcome of this on the Psalms and the worship to inspire worship to inspire us in our worship of God, what's that once the desired outcome of the message are no preacher what you think it is while at the desired outcome of our message of preaching and teaching that will be inspired and encouraged to help us become more than what we've been in the past as an independent encourage us in our walk with God, and to know that there are choices that we make in our choices have an effect upon us, in effect upon our friendships and families that would affect upon our our life from here on out, and I look back on where I'm a thirty seven years of being here and I think of individuals that came to this place here in Lake Charles, not to serve God, and how destructive that choice was in their families, and I wish I wish I could go back and maybe I could if I would've said something different or challenge the more challenging differently. Maybe we made a difference in the life but you see, each of us are challenged and each of us are here for purpose and each of us have a design we have a desire apply our purpose of the plan by God in our life. And as we challenge ourselves as we start our children start our parents serve our friends, our family. We haven't a tired of closer walk with God. We see we are part of something bigger than ourselves were part of the body of Christ were part of an eternal kingdom will last forever. We are part of the movement of God in the lives of others. You are God 's messenger to the people around what you say what you do what you don't say how you live your life. You are God 's message to the people around you and you think there is a divine purpose. We are serving with a purpose seek John twelve twenty six whoever serves me must follow me. And this is the last part is my father will honor the one who serves me to follow Jesus, we sent in heavenly places. We have to be where Jesus says ever. Jesus is is is, what will the father, but he is with us. We are with him and he was with us. We must follow him and God will honor our commitments. God will bless you will bless those who know who to bless others and annually will not process will bless us. It has a purpose of the plan for our lives in the window work that out and services about a desired outcome. What is the desired outcome of God serving you and I got it serving us is serving Odyssey service with his word never leave you nor person not, is a friend of the close of the brother that nothing shall separate us from his hands and from his love, you know, there's this other Scriptures Marine second Corinthians six and I close with this. This is Paul writing. He says it is God 's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God 's grace in vain, for he says in the time of my favor I heard you in the day of salvation I helped you. I tell you now, I tell you, now is the time of God 's favor, now is the day of salvation. We put no stumbling block in anyone's path, so the minister will not be discredited. Rather, as servants of God we write, we commend ourselves in every way in great endurance in trouble in hardship and distress in beatings, imprisonments and riots in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger in purity, understanding, patience and kindness in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love and truthful speech and in the power of God with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the lab through glory and and dishonor, bad report good report, genuine, yet regarded as an imposter 's known, yet regarded as unknown, dying, and yet we live on Beacon and yet not killed sorrowful, yet always rejoicing poor, yet making many rich, having nothing, and yet possess remember Paul is writing about how Lindsay was beaten and imprisoned how that he was he was tortured for his faith, but he had a service with a purpose to the farther the kingdom of God. And no matter what hardships happened to him. He saw God 's hand being there, where they had everything, or whether you have nothing whether he was beaten and drug and drug on the city for debt where they spent a day and a night floating in the deep. He always saw that the divine hand of God was upon him. This is the challenge. I think it's serving with the purpose realizing the hand of God is upon you say the hand of God upon the blessing to directly to help, and there is a purpose behind that hand being upon it, is that God can work through you to touch the lives of others and make a difference. You can acquire things, it can be billionaires. It's not the problem where you put your trust. God has blessed you, you can be poplars doesn't matter. God has blessed you, God is able to work through each of these circumstances anywhere in between. God has desired outcome for our lives as we serve him. He will make a difference in us, we will make a difference in others, and it will last for eternity. The hand of God is upon the blessing to take that which is already placed in you and fulfill it, make it grow and cause it to be fruitful and then