The Sermon God's Investment by David McGee
Feb 01, 2015
God's Investment (33:35)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 25:14-21; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11
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Matthew 25:14-21
14) "For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and delivered his goods to them.
15) To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability, and he went on his journey.
16) Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
17) In like manner he also who got the two gained another two.
18) But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord‘s money.
19) Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.
20) He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.‘
21) His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.‘
1 Corinthians 12:4-11
4) Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5) There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.
6) There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.
7) But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.
8) For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
9) to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit;
10) and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.
11) But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
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Johnson investments God 's investments in Matthew chapter twenty five versus fourteen beginning at verse fourteen with the story of the individuals who she is a the landowner divvied out monies for them to invest and to use wisely and sometimes we are aware of what we possess as being very important. Sometimes we look at our life and think that we don't have that much to invest and what we have to see is what God has and what the intent of God is in our life. I was moved with our Sunday school lesson this morning because of how that everything that we know of God is reflective of the character of God, reflective of the character of Jesus. Everything that we understand we must understand it is coming from the heart of God to our heart to help us in dealing with life and to dealing with whatever is before us. So as we find ourselves of encountering difficulties, we find ourselves looking to God to allow what he has for us to come into our lives to help us deal with it. You know, and if we if we pray for God to change somebody else. We've also got a pray that God would change us, because in the prayer and in the things that are causing the difficulties sometimes it's just things that we don't see correctly. Sometimes it just things that we haven't perceived correctly. So the challenge is what it is that God wants to what is God investing in us and how are the circumstances of life, teaching me about God 's investment in in my life. How that God is trying to do a work created me a clean heart. Renew a right spirit. How is God trying to do all of this while in Matthew chapter twenty five or fourteen. It is also like a man going off on an extended trip, he would like to go on an extended trip. That's what we're going to go with this lesson. I recall this service together and the delegated responsibilities now where we look at who we are. Everyone of us have responsibilities of some sort, every one of us have responsibilities. So here is the landowner, but here is God giving us a picture that he is given to every one of us responsibilities we have responsibilities to God, to ourselves and to others to live our life and to be productive in what we say do feel, think, go in on the whole aspect of our person is to be in a producing environment. Now we know that were not going to earn our way in the kingdom of heaven, we know that we can earn positions in God 's kingdom. But what we're looking at is how that who God is going to become greater in the nanny is now and that is this character of God flowing into my life will be one that has delegated to us. Responsibilities my responsibilities are not in China. My responsibilities are not in San Diego. My responsibilities are with where I am and what I touch what I influenced how that influence the people that are that are about me as so as God is delegating responsibility. We each have responsibility to be the best person God wants us to be right for Murat and now that that person is being interpreted how that person is being live, nothing people can misinterpret nuts that happens, but the ultimate judges that God is the judge, and he will interpret the knows our thoughts and intents, and he will reward us. Accordingly, so he has delegated responsibility to one he gave five thousand dollars to another two thousand two the third one thousand depending on their ability and you notice that it is by their abilities that this was divided that God has not given us something that is above us, and God has not invested in our lives and something you know and he should have thought twice about that investment know you know exactly what he is doing a no exit. He knows exactly what rat they knows exactly the responsibilities that he is delegated to our lives and we all have different abilities don't sometimes we would think that where lacking in some area and therefore we withhold ourselves and hold ourselves back from going and doing, because that's just not who we are there. How do we know unless we try and how do we know that God is not expanding our boundaries expanding who we are and what he wants to do inside of us and with us. But anyhow, we see that he is. He knows our abilities and he knows what we're made of. And he knows exactly what's going on and what he needs to invest in our life. Then he left, right, often first servant went to work and double his masses inverse investment. The first servant went to work at a hearing. Amen, so I think he went to work. They've been commonly go to work now. I guess you would go to work we go to work we go to work on what we have. We work with what we have, that the spirit of God is the spelling upon 's supernatural powers and abilities and gifts and promises and things beyond our wildest dreams and he is bringing that into our life, and he is calling us into work to be investors to take what is been given to us and to invest in the lives of other people to invest in the lives of other people did you know that sometimes the greatest work that we have is a is a gift of encouragement that we can be encourage us to other people that we can complement people go on our granddaughter Emma. She can. She can look against his while. What beautiful fingernails to have a heart. What beautiful earrings you have intellect, because she sees these little bcc. They think that you can complement on the auto David and Jenny are teaching her to do this, but that's what she does. She comes and she basically looks you up and down and she doesn't find the fault with, you should find something she likes about you. She loved the glitter stuff in our lives when we see what we see that glitters widely seen. It's about people that is encouraging that we can encourage them with it is not a small thing to be encouraging is a great thing because it is our heart looking for their hard to make an impression of the hand of God upon their life so this parable down this story that is given to us implies that we are in a state of work we are in a state of businesses is where I'm giving of what has been given to us to be able to share it in such a way that it is going to come back into our lives by the hand of God has pressed down, shaken together, and running over what we give. We got with the same measure you given out is the same as you get it back. So here we have a talents and we have abilities we have gift things that someone else gave us. We have televised live abilities and give things that somebody else and health has invested in our lives and we have this, so we are at work we are in the business of making sure the what others have invested in on us. We invest back what is the unwise servant, the unwise servant is the one who takes what he has since while the Meadville, the bigger bar but the wise seven is the one who recognizes that the gift things that he has the gift things that are given to us are about investing in the lives of others while what is the expectation with that investment was the expectation to grow. Do we really believe that revenue growth. We really believe that what we have is his growing up. It's going to really take off the gym. Ask yourself why would God invest in the enough not have another place to put it right, but he has invested us because he sees our abilities and that what we have is in the expansion business that we are growing. We are in the is aware the relational experience the relational times that we can make somebody else's life better because of what we have in Christ. As believers we have somebody who believes in us to the reason that Jesus and God invested us because he believes in you. He believes in you to the point that he is willing to invest his Spirit 's power of his love, his encouragement easily needs bringing into our life. All that he has these is the stalling upon us, so that it can be part of our reservoir can be part of our demeanor can be part of what we are sharing with other people. It is the changing of our character to become more like the character of Christ. He was God. He can speak everything into existence. You change anything that he wants back to just the audio. I'm tired of these people now I'm tired his personal part of failure that in a guy doesn't. His character is one of grace and mercy. So God who can speak and do anything that he wants he has chosen to work through your life is chosen, the work through your words through your hands through your presence through your heart through your abilities. He has limited himself to become due to invest himself through you to reach the world. He has decided to work through you. Is he sick. No, that he would limit himself just the work to us that he has some thing to hide that he would limit himself to work through us know Tony Dundee. He was the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl thirteen and is now up commentary on TV base is noted very much for his Christian character and his Christian morals and yes, a couple books. It is written, but whatever he went to the Super Bowl with a team that he was coaching his words to them were that it's not. If we win or lose the game. It's how we play the game. The people are going to remember and how that we play the game is what people are going to remember if you win, you're immortalized if you lose is for the rest of them, but what are they going to remember you pass this is an and in the end, the character of God is placed inside of us, so that when people remember review they remember the quality of God in you, the character of God, and you that they remember the goodness of God, because you are an encourager. You are an uplift their you are the one could be counted on that. Your word was your bond. Your desires were all analyzing up with the desires of God, the people can look at you and your character and I can look at you and say wow there, they reflect the image of Christ and when we would also throw in error, that while you know they don't know that this this new don't know that the NATO. God knows two things that I am always amazed that is that... not only knows all the bad things we done deals all the bad things were going to do fails all the failures of our life, and because him them all up against what the sum total of all of our failures from the time of my birth to the time of my death on the sum total of those failures can never amount to an incontestable view in light of the grace and mercy of God, they are completely overshadowed by his grace and mercy so we cannot allow the failures we cannot allow allow the sacred things, or whatever to get in the way we must allow the presence of God. The purpose of God, and that the influence of God to be part of what we say and do an act and become, and that all of the things that are seeming failures in our life. We continue to turn them over to God. We continue to ask God for his grace and his mercy. We continue to ask God to change us to change others to make us stronger to make them stronger to help us become what God wants us to be there so this this lady was her husband was setting other on the couch in the TV room to conduct behind in its lower than ever frying pan, the flow would you do that for set. I found this note in your pockets. It was Sarah Lee is all that's nothing. That's if the horse I would bet on at the track in a week later she comes back in. She has a big pan, she whacked someone had bought lots amount and he gets back up to was that for and she said your horse called that that that that that I know what that has to do with this message may just popped in Mary and the cellular lives. We we are. We have a responsibility delivered correctly, the obligor, your sins will find you but the finding out of my sin. The finding out of our character defining out of our flaws, is something we already know we don't hide from anything we don't hide from anything. We don't hide from the bad. We don't hide from the good we don't hide from the failures we don't hide from the possibilities. Not everything in our life is open it's open before God, and he knows the thoughts and intents of a hard and everything is open before him everything that we see this is why the devil uses all of your faults to trip you up, because if you can be preoccupied with your fault. You will never venture out to see which are possibilities are endless. God they're all open everything is open on an open book before God you are an open book before God, PS and secretly committing out and I knew that that whatever this is not. He comes in and he touches our lives and changes us from the inside out. His divine character flows into our life and the more we know of God, the more we know of his character. This character of God then takes the gift things that he is placed in our life. Some five thousand some two thousand, some one thousand, but he is put them in our life according to our abilities. Something are most of our problems arise whenever we think and what he only gave me a thousand is a really intensive than a thousand, but really it's five he's given us the potential to double to triple, quadruple, he has given us the potential of being able to take two years. What he has given us and to multiply God is in the multiplication business, but in the addition is always multiplying his blessings. He's always multiplying his grace. He's always multiplying our talents, because as we become better in our counts as we become better to get the we spent and what the fault is, we don't think of them as being very important, because if they were really important to be somebody in the summary also have on the God want us to help them. And you know if we if we wanted if God wanted another house. It is years ago my mom. She would always say that will Billy Graham started on the farm in own week I sent out a form. She thought I could be Billy Graham and I said mom, thanks but no thanks God wanted another milligram of Schroeder, the neighbor didn't want to the only wanted one, and if he had made me what he had if he had given somebody else's life to me would be a burden if he got headgear is somebody else's life to you. You would, you wouldn't. You can live with it to be a burden if you had somebody else's looks wouldn't fit you would be a bargain issue, which is our art thing is we put people out there as a idol American idol with the people out there as idols, and then we think they are the perfect person and we wish we could be like them, and reality. If we can't be like in their life to be a burden to us if we could have the gift things that other people have. They were not suit our life, and it would destroy us. God has made honest the perfect us get used to it, it's you. There is no other you there is no alternative view, there is only you and God has given you the ability to become what he wants you to be, and he has invested his talents invested himself in our lives and it is important for us to see that the investing that God has in on us is an investment that is going to quadruple will continue to multiply right up into into eternity, because who knows who knows the long-term benefit of influencing one person 's life to do good. Who knows the person who influenced Billy Graham 's life to be who he was, you know, we don't know who that was but one or two individuals, info and see how what a difference it makes that owning his life within the untold millions of people that he is affected and it continues to go in people 's lives and know that the negative preachers. The evangelists. The individuals that are godly men and what is happening there life last night on the D NFL whether doing their down. They were giving out these honors, and they were looking for the individual who was the NFL's Man of the year and it almost at times and I think of that. Think of privilege esteem and things like this in the guy that won it talked about his childhood, and they were going. They filmed it, and he was he was. He and his sister and his mom was there part of the time, and they lived in a house in which they ran an extension cord to their neighbors house so they would have a light, a light in their house and that she left them out whenever he was in eleventh grade and that he had to fend within the community for clothing deodorants and so things like that and he spoke so much of his poverty how how he came from that type of the setting, to now being one of the top players in the NFL and how that the foundations that he now runs his for underprivileged children and how that he gives the credit to God for how that God has brought him from those places to be where he is at now to affect the lives of children who are just like him, who influenced this man's life as a child to follow God who influenced him to be the individual to see himself through the most difficult times of his life. You see in our lives. Whenever we look at the difficult times we are facing very difficult because there are perhaps the worst of our times, the worst of our life, but it doesn't mean they are the worst that life is ever offered. I was ever given up and on the face of the earth. It just means these are difficulties and people have a habit heart. My mom used to say we were so poor we didn't know we were poor. Now we result forward anyway. Now we were the poor people in town, an analyst is these things that we are so used to our life being our life that it's all we see in no but think of it in the context that God has given you. Blessings and investments into your life that he then is coming to anoint and he is coming to empower. He is coming to take those blessings and multiply them, and that's what we see in this five thousand from two thousand and one, we see how that God has invested and in first Corinthians twelve gods of various gifts are handed out everywhere God 's various gifts are handed out everywhere. They headed out these of his body, you are handed out. God is handing out his gifts, but these gifts all originate with God. They aren't things. See, there's nothing within us that causes the spirit of God to boost forth. It's like somehow inside of me is a specialness that God has any discloses out of me because I'm different than the rest of you, I assure than you see that is blaspheming God to think that we are better than that we are above that people are beneath, and that somehow we are abnormally special we are abnormally gifted because people without God don't have this, that the people of God have hope the people that live in Christ have the potential. The people that allow the spirit of God to live in their life will make a difference in their lives today and in the lives of others, and it is the power of God. The flows from God into our life that enables us that empowers us that gives us strength and it all comes from God, and we see that but that they are originate in God Spirit, God 's various ministries are carried out everywhere, but they all originating God, spirit guides, various expressions, God 's various expressions of power are in action everywhere so we have gifts given out everywhere. We have actions empowered to being demonstrated everywhere, everyone gets it in detail on it everyone gets in on it. Everyone gets Enron suit when we want to sit on the sideline and think that we don't have anything worth giving. We are then degrading the gift that God has given us were devaluing something that has originated in God, and then invested in our life to you can't, we can't back off from who we are. You're the best you ever been created. You're the best years ever been created. Not only has one of you that this one. You're it, and what you are is not beneath is not. Second, this is a snowman seconds that they don't turn out quite perfect, so we sell them at a discounted rate. You're not a second and not flawed. You just you with your talents, your abilities with your quirks and networks back, tell me about somebody last works well I have works well I have those idiosyncrasies that make us different, but these things are not our deterrence. These are just part of who we are. God loves us in spite of our works but each person is given something to do, each person is given something to do that shows who God is. We are each given something to do to show who the audience God 's investment in our life, no matter how small or how great it is about showing portraying giving the lead being part of who God is and and and standing out to other people. Everyone gets in on it. It's for everyone's benefit. All kinds of things are handed out by the spirit to all kinds of people in the river and over and the variety is wonderful you are a variety of wonderful people. Yes, a man you are variety of wonderful people and then you are a variety in how is the variety pack, and what does it mean we are variety of people who have words of wisdom words of knowledge words of understanding words of trust words of healing the sick miraculous acts proclamations distinguishing between spirits knowing the difference between good and evil divers kinds of tongues and interpretation of tongues. You see, we each have this wonderful relationship with God, and after a long absence, the master of these three seven and settled up with them. Given five thousand dollars showed up how he had doubled the investment 's master commended him. Good work you did your job well. Well done thou good and faithful servant. You take what you had it took what you have and you invested it in you- stir up the gift that is in you. Second, the sermon with the two thousand showed up in the also double of his master 's investigators. Five winners to widen the guy with to get five. Why did I was five. What was wrong about what how what made him so special. He get God gave to him according to his talent according to his missing. We are not called to be somebody else were called to be the best person we are. I don't have to give account for your life or you have to give account for mine the opportunity to come to your life are not the opportunistic and the my life and soul of the things that are presented to us. We are to live the best life that God is preventing given to us in the best life is now, it's not coming any year is not coming in ten years whenever we retire. It will really be good, no, when we wake up dead. That's when it's over now. That's it. We can going until we we get to arrive at the end of time. It's all there and so we take what we been given. Take what's in your hands. Take what's in your hands. That's what God has given you take what's in your hands. Moses had a rod got says what's that to throw down further down because the snake will allow what would a rod contacted your data to the damage. See what you do. There Moses bowed out there see parts you see the rod we just take what you have. Take what you have allowed God to bless five thousand three thousand two thousand and one, the lady do you know what I have is really of no value and won't be missed. What I have is of no value and God won't care. Anyhow, whether I use it or not, I'll just bury it. The master sister slothful servant, you haven't got a clue about what value is take what you want, take what you have and give it to somebody that's where we are that we are not to the value the gift things that are in our life, because if we set on what we've got. We're saying that God didn't think of us very highly were thinking that what we have is not that important, and God doesn't think that way, or he winded given it to you. So we spent. Thank you Lord for the gifts that you give to us for us being who we are that you have blessed us with your gift things you have poured into our lives. Blessings and understanding power and gift things. Oh Lord, that are far above anything we could have ever thought of for ourselves and so Lord in you continue to pour these things into us. Help us Lord to become that person. This person that you have created how that this person will grow on from here to become what you intended us to be. Thank you Lord for your blessing. Thank you Lord for your divine provision. Thank you. Oh Lord, for how that you have called us to be us made in your image. Bless us, guide us, we pray in Jesus name we ask a man, Ayman God bless you and Johnson investments God 's investments in Matthew chapter twenty five versus fourteen beginning at verse fourteen with the story of the individuals who she is a the landowner divvied out monies for them to invest and to use wisely and sometimes we are aware of what we possess as being very important. Sometimes we look at our life and think that we don't have that much to invest and what we have to see is what God has and what the intent of God is in our life. I was moved with our Sunday school lesson this morning because of how that everything that we know of God is reflective of the character of God, reflective of the character of Jesus. Everything that we understand we must understand it is coming from the heart of God to our heart to help us in dealing with life and to dealing with whatever is before us. So as we find ourselves of encountering difficulties, we find ourselves looking to God to allow what he has for us to come into our lives to help us deal with it. You know, and if we if we pray for God to change somebody else. We've also got a pray that God would change us, because in the prayer and in the things that are causing the difficulties sometimes it's just things that we don't see correctly. Sometimes it just things that we haven't perceived correctly. So the challenge is what it is that God wants to what is God investing in us and how are the circumstances of life, teaching me about God 's investment in in my life. How that God is trying to do a work created me a clean heart. Renew a right spirit. How is God trying to do all of this while in Matthew chapter twenty five or fourteen. It is also like a man going off on an extended trip, he would like to go on an extended trip. That's what we're going to go with this lesson. I recall this service together and the delegated responsibilities now where we look at who we are. Everyone of us have responsibilities of some sort, every one of us have responsibilities. So here is the landowner, but here is God giving us a picture that he is given to every one of us responsibilities we have responsibilities to God, to ourselves and to others to live our life and to be productive in what we say do feel, think, go in on the whole aspect of our person is to be in a producing environment. Now we know that were not going to earn our way in the kingdom of heaven, we know that we can earn positions in God 's kingdom. But what we're looking at is how that who God is going to become greater in the nanny is now and that is this character of God flowing into my life will be one that has delegated to us. Responsibilities my responsibilities are not in China. My responsibilities are not in San Diego. My responsibilities are with where I am and what I touch what I influenced how that influence the people that are that are about me as so as God is delegating responsibility. We each have responsibility to be the best person God wants us to be right for Murat and now that that person is being interpreted how that person is being live, nothing people can misinterpret nuts that happens, but the ultimate judges that God is the judge, and he will interpret the knows our thoughts and intents, and he will reward us. Accordingly, so he has delegated responsibility to one he gave five thousand dollars to another two thousand two the third one thousand depending on their ability and you notice that it is by their abilities that this was divided that God has not given us something that is above us, and God has not invested in our lives and something you know and he should have thought twice about that investment know you know exactly what he is doing a no exit. He knows exactly what rat they knows exactly the responsibilities that he is delegated to our lives and we all have different abilities don't sometimes we would think that where lacking in some area and therefore we withhold ourselves and hold ourselves back from going and doing, because that's just not who we are there. How do we know unless we try and how do we know that God is not expanding our boundaries expanding who we are and what he wants to do inside of us and with us. But anyhow, we see that he is. He knows our abilities and he knows what we're made of. And he knows exactly what's going on and what he needs to invest in our life. Then he left, right, often first servant went to work and double his masses inverse investment. The first servant went to work at a hearing. Amen, so I think he went to work. They've been commonly go to work now. I guess you would go to work we go to work we go to work on what we have. We work with what we have, that the spirit of God is the spelling upon 's supernatural powers and abilities and gifts and promises and things beyond our wildest dreams and he is bringing that into our life, and he is calling us into work to be investors to take what is been given to us and to invest in the lives of other people to invest in the lives of other people did you know that sometimes the greatest work that we have is a is a gift of encouragement that we can be encourage us to other people that we can complement people go on our granddaughter Emma. She can. She can look against his while. What beautiful fingernails to have a heart. What beautiful earrings you have intellect, because she sees these little bcc. They think that you can complement on the auto David and Jenny are teaching her to do this, but that's what she does. She comes and she basically looks you up and down and she doesn't find the fault with, you should find something she likes about you. She loved the glitter stuff in our lives when we see what we see that glitters widely seen. It's about people that is encouraging that we can encourage them with it is not a small thing to be encouraging is a great thing because it is our heart looking for their hard to make an impression of the hand of God upon their life so this parable down this story that is given to us implies that we are in a state of work we are in a state of businesses is where I'm giving of what has been given to us to be able to share it in such a way that it is going to come back into our lives by the hand of God has pressed down, shaken together, and running over what we give. We got with the same measure you given out is the same as you get it back. So here we have a talents and we have abilities we have gift things that someone else gave us. We have televised live abilities and give things that somebody else and health has invested in our lives and we have this, so we are at work we are in the business of making sure the what others have invested in on us. We invest back what is the unwise servant, the unwise servant is the one who takes what he has since while the Meadville, the bigger bar but the wise seven is the one who recognizes that the gift things that he has the gift things that are given to us are about investing in the lives of others while what is the expectation with that investment was the expectation to grow. Do we really believe that revenue growth. We really believe that what we have is his growing up. It's going to really take off the gym. Ask yourself why would God invest in the enough not have another place to put it right, but he has invested us because he sees our abilities and that what we have is in the expansion business that we are growing. We are in the is aware the relational experience the relational times that we can make somebody else's life better because of what we have in Christ. As believers we have somebody who believes in us to the reason that Jesus and God invested us because he believes in you. He believes in you to the point that he is willing to invest his Spirit 's power of his love, his encouragement easily needs bringing into our life. All that he has these is the stalling upon us, so that it can be part of our reservoir can be part of our demeanor can be part of what we are sharing with other people. It is the changing of our character to become more like the character of Christ. He was God. He can speak everything into existence. You change anything that he wants back to just the audio. I'm tired of these people now I'm tired his personal part of failure that in a guy doesn't. His character is one of grace and mercy. So God who can speak and do anything that he wants he has chosen to work through your life is chosen, the work through your words through your hands through your presence through your heart through your abilities. He has limited himself to become due to invest himself through you to reach the world. He has decided to work through you. Is he sick. No, that he would limit himself just the work to us that he has some thing to hide that he would limit himself to work through us know Tony Dundee. He was the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl thirteen and is now up commentary on TV base is noted very much for his Christian character and his Christian morals and yes, a couple books. It is written, but whatever he went to the Super Bowl with a team that he was coaching his words to them were that it's not. If we win or lose the game. It's how we play the game. The people are going to remember and how that we play the game is what people are going to remember if you win, you're immortalized if you lose is for the rest of them, but what are they going to remember you pass this is an and in the end, the character of God is placed inside of us, so that when people remember review they remember the quality of God in you, the character of God, and you that they remember the goodness of God, because you are an encourager. You are an uplift their you are the one could be counted on that. Your word was your bond. Your desires were all analyzing up with the desires of God, the people can look at you and your character and I can look at you and say wow there, they reflect the image of Christ and when we would also throw in error, that while you know they don't know that this this new don't know that the NATO. God knows two things that I am always amazed that is that... not only knows all the bad things we done deals all the bad things were going to do fails all the failures of our life, and because him them all up against what the sum total of all of our failures from the time of my birth to the time of my death on the sum total of those failures can never amount to an incontestable view in light of the grace and mercy of God, they are completely overshadowed by his grace and mercy so we cannot allow the failures we cannot allow allow the sacred things, or whatever to get in the way we must allow the presence of God. The purpose of God, and that the influence of God to be part of what we say and do an act and become, and that all of the things that are seeming failures in our life. We continue to turn them over to God. We continue to ask God for his grace and his mercy. We continue to ask God to change us to change others to make us stronger to make them stronger to help us become what God wants us to be there so this this lady was her husband was setting other on the couch in the TV room to conduct behind in its lower than ever frying pan, the flow would you do that for set. I found this note in your pockets. It was Sarah Lee is all that's nothing. That's if the horse I would bet on at the track in a week later she comes back in. She has a big pan, she whacked someone had bought lots amount and he gets back up to was that for and she said your horse called that that that that that I know what that has to do with this message may just popped in Mary and the cellular lives. We we are. We have a responsibility delivered correctly, the obligor, your sins will find you but the finding out of my sin. The finding out of our character defining out of our flaws, is something we already know we don't hide from anything we don't hide from anything. We don't hide from the bad. We don't hide from the good we don't hide from the failures we don't hide from the possibilities. Not everything in our life is open it's open before God, and he knows the thoughts and intents of a hard and everything is open before him everything that we see this is why the devil uses all of your faults to trip you up, because if you can be preoccupied with your fault. You will never venture out to see which are possibilities are endless. God they're all open everything is open on an open book before God you are an open book before God, PS and secretly committing out and I knew that that whatever this is not. He comes in and he touches our lives and changes us from the inside out. His divine character flows into our life and the more we know of God, the more we know of his character. This character of God then takes the gift things that he is placed in our life. Some five thousand some two thousand, some one thousand, but he is put them in our life according to our abilities. Something are most of our problems arise whenever we think and what he only gave me a thousand is a really intensive than a thousand, but really it's five he's given us the potential to double to triple, quadruple, he has given us the potential of being able to take two years. What he has given us and to multiply God is in the multiplication business, but in the addition is always multiplying his blessings. He's always multiplying his grace. He's always multiplying our talents, because as we become better in our counts as we become better to get the we spent and what the fault is, we don't think of them as being very important, because if they were really important to be somebody in the summary also have on the God want us to help them. And you know if we if we wanted if God wanted another house. It is years ago my mom. She would always say that will Billy Graham started on the farm in own week I sent out a form. She thought I could be Billy Graham and I said mom, thanks but no thanks God wanted another milligram of Schroeder, the neighbor didn't want to the only wanted one, and if he had made me what he had if he had given somebody else's life to me would be a burden if he got headgear is somebody else's life to you. You would, you wouldn't. You can live with it to be a burden if you had somebody else's looks wouldn't fit you would be a bargain issue, which is our art thing is we put people out there as a idol American idol with the people out there as idols, and then we think they are the perfect person and we wish we could be like them, and reality. If we can't be like in their life to be a burden to us if we could have the gift things that other people have. They were not suit our life, and it would destroy us. God has made honest the perfect us get used to it, it's you. There is no other you there is no alternative view, there is only you and God has given you the ability to become what he wants you to be, and he has invested his talents invested himself in our lives and it is important for us to see that the investing that God has in on us is an investment that is going to quadruple will continue to multiply right up into into eternity, because who knows who knows the long-term benefit of influencing one person 's life to do good. Who knows the person who influenced Billy Graham 's life to be who he was, you know, we don't know who that was but one or two individuals, info and see how what a difference it makes that owning his life within the untold millions of people that he is affected and it continues to go in people 's lives and know that the negative preachers. The evangelists. The individuals that are godly men and what is happening there life last night on the D NFL whether doing their down. They were giving out these honors, and they were looking for the individual who was the NFL's Man of the year and it almost at times and I think of that. Think of privilege esteem and things like this in the guy that won it talked about his childhood, and they were going. They filmed it, and he was he was. He and his sister and his mom was there part of the time, and they lived in a house in which they ran an extension cord to their neighbors house so they would have a light, a light in their house and that she left them out whenever he was in eleventh grade and that he had to fend within the community for clothing deodorants and so things like that and he spoke so much of his poverty how how he came from that type of the setting, to now being one of the top players in the NFL and how that the foundations that he now runs his for underprivileged children and how that he gives the credit to God for how that God has brought him from those places to be where he is at now to affect the lives of children who are just like him, who influenced this man's life as a child to follow God who influenced him to be the individual to see himself through the most difficult times of his life. You see in our lives. Whenever we look at the difficult times we are facing very difficult because there are perhaps the worst of our times, the worst of our life, but it doesn't mean they are the worst that life is ever offered. I was ever given up and on the face of the earth. It just means these are difficulties and people have a habit heart. My mom used to say we were so poor we didn't know we were poor. Now we result forward anyway. Now we were the poor people in town, an analyst is these things that we are so used to our life being our life that it's all we see in no but think of it in the context that God has given you. Blessings and investments into your life that he then is coming to anoint and he is coming to empower. He is coming to take those blessings and multiply them, and that's what we see in this five thousand from two thousand and one, we see how that God has invested and in first Corinthians twelve gods of various gifts are handed out everywhere God 's various gifts are handed out everywhere. They headed out these of his body, you are handed out. God is handing out his gifts, but these gifts all originate with God. They aren't things. See, there's nothing within us that causes the spirit of God to boost forth. It's like somehow inside of me is a specialness that God has any discloses out of me because I'm different than the rest of you, I assure than you see that is blaspheming God to think that we are better than that we are above that people are beneath, and that somehow we are abnormally special we are abnormally gifted because people without God don't have this, that the people of God have hope the people that live in Christ have the potential. The people that allow the spirit of God to live in their life will make a difference in their lives today and in the lives of others, and it is the power of God. The flows from God into our life that enables us that empowers us that gives us strength and it all comes from God, and we see that but that they are originate in God Spirit, God 's various ministries are carried out everywhere, but they all originating God, spirit guides, various expressions, God 's various expressions of power are in action everywhere so we have gifts given out everywhere. We have actions empowered to being demonstrated everywhere, everyone gets it in detail on it everyone gets in on it. Everyone gets Enron suit when we want to sit on the sideline and think that we don't have anything worth giving. We are then degrading the gift that God has given us were devaluing something that has originated in God, and then invested in our life to you can't, we can't back off from who we are. You're the best you ever been created. You're the best years ever been created. Not only has one of you that this one. You're it, and what you are is not beneath is not. Second, this is a snowman seconds that they don't turn out quite perfect, so we sell them at a discounted rate. You're not a second and not flawed. You just you with your talents, your abilities with your quirks and networks back, tell me about somebody last works well I have works well I have those idiosyncrasies that make us different, but these things are not our deterrence. These are just part of who we are. God loves us in spite of our works but each person is given something to do, each person is given something to do that shows who God is. We are each given something to do to show who the audience God 's investment in our life, no matter how small or how great it is about showing portraying giving the lead being part of who God is and and and standing out to other people. Everyone gets in on it. It's for everyone's benefit. All kinds of things are handed out by the spirit to all kinds of people in the river and over and the variety is wonderful you are a variety of wonderful people. Yes, a man you are variety of wonderful people and then you are a variety in how is the variety pack, and what does it mean we are variety of people who have words of wisdom words of knowledge words of understanding words of trust words of healing the sick miraculous acts proclamations distinguishing between spirits knowing the difference between good and evil divers kinds of tongues and interpretation of tongues. You see, we each have this wonderful relationship with God, and after a long absence, the master of these three seven and settled up with them. Given five thousand dollars showed up how he had doubled the investment 's master commended him. Good work you did your job well. Well done thou good and faithful servant. You take what you had it took what you have and you invested it in you- stir up the gift that is in you. Second, the sermon with the two thousand showed up in the also double of his master 's investigators. Five winners to widen the guy with to get five. Why did I was five. What was wrong about what how what made him so special. He get God gave to him according to his talent according to his missing. We are not called to be somebody else were called to be the best person we are. I don't have to give account for your life or you have to give account for mine the opportunity to come to your life are not the opportunistic and the my life and soul of the things that are presented to us. We are to live the best life that God is preventing given to us in the best life is now, it's not coming any year is not coming in ten years whenever we retire. It will really be good, no, when we wake up dead. That's when it's over now. That's it. We can going until we we get to arrive at the end of time. It's all there and so we take what we been given. Take what's in your hands. Take what's in your hands. That's what God has given you take what's in your hands. Moses had a rod got says what's that to throw down further down because the snake will allow what would a rod contacted your data to the damage. See what you do. There Moses bowed out there see parts you see the rod we just take what you have. Take what you have allowed God to bless five thousand three thousand two thousand and one, the lady do you know what I have is really of no value and won't be missed. What I have is of no value and God won't care. Anyhow, whether I use it or not, I'll just bury it. The master sister slothful servant, you haven't got a clue about what value is take what you want, take what you have and give it to somebody that's where we are that we are not to the value the gift things that are in our life, because if we set on what we've got. We're saying that God didn't think of us very highly were thinking that what we have is not that important, and God doesn't think that way, or he winded given it to you. So we spent. Thank you Lord for the gifts that you give to us for us being who we are that you have blessed us with your gift things you have poured into our lives. Blessings and understanding power and gift things. Oh Lord, that are far above anything we could have ever thought of for ourselves and so Lord in you continue to pour these things into us. Help us Lord to become that person. This person that you have created how that this person will grow on from here to become what you intended us to be. Thank you Lord for your blessing. Thank you Lord for your divine provision. Thank you. Oh Lord, for how that you have called us to be us made in your image. Bless us, guide us, we pray in Jesus name we ask a man, Ayman God bless you and