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the more money you spend on a project
the more concerned you are about how
well that project is done you want the
Excellence to reflect what you are
building you don’t want a high price for
cheap effort and when it comes to your
and my salvation he paid the ultimate
price to give us the gift of Salvation
Jesus Paid top
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dollar but question on the floor is with
the stuff I gave you with the time I
allotted to you with the talents that I
loan you with the treasures that I
entrusted to you show me what you
got show me what you got what what what
you
got with my stuff see but if it ain’t
his
stuff then you’re not concerned about
what he got you concerned about what you
got cuz it was never his stuff
his time talents or Treasures he says
I’m coming back and I want to know what
business did you
do for me what do you have to show for
what I gave you what I loaned
you anybody here ever been audited by
the
IRS where they want to do an
analysis of your
situation this is a
audit
well the first guy
appears master your minor has made 10
minutes
more I invested what you gave me for
your benefit because it was yours
remember he says your Menor it was
yours so I utilized it for your benefit
and I double the effect of what you gave
me I I went to work and I got busy I
took care of business and look what I
have to show you upon your
return He said to him verse 17 well
done good
slave because you have been faithful in
a very little thing you will be in
authority over 10
cities so let’s get this straight in
heaven you’re not see sitting on the
cloud playing a harp singing Praise
songs eternity as we’ll see when we get
to heaven uh discussion of Eternity is a
busy busy
place because we will have bodies like
his which his body stepped on a cloud
went up to heaven you and I will be able
to be able to be transported from the
New Jerusalem from Heaven back down to
earth and back again to carry out our
responsibilities given to us based on
how much business business we did while
he was
absent so I’m going to put you over 10
cities you gonna be over Dallas Fort
Worth Mid
Cities we we going we GNA give you we
GNA give because you took seriously what
I loaned you this is my reward well
done Verse 18 the second one came saying
your men master has made five
minners you gave me 10 and I I did
50%
increase with the use of my time my
talents and my
treasures and he said to him also and
you are to be over five cities well wait
a minute
now he gave the first one 10 he doubled
it he made
10 well done 10
cities the second
one five cities but no well
done there no well done to the second
one because he was half
stepping now it’s not that he did
nothing that’s right but there is no
glowing
condemnation because he only gave half
effort and therefore there was
recognition for the part he did but
there was not celebration because of the
part he did not
do no well done no
commendations but a
recognition that half effort was placed
says I gave 10 you made five in
increasing your influence and impact for
me my name and my
kingdom there will be
Christians who will stand before the
Lord who gave it
all they will stand before the
Lord and he says they were consistent in
their commitment to him in the use of
their time their talents and their
Treasures they were all in yes in their
commitment to Jesus
Christ and what he had Steed them to
handle on his
behalf then there will be those
Christians who are half
in
they they did some stuff they gave some
time some talent and some treasures and
half of their commitment was there but
the other half just wasn’t there they
weren’t all in they were half in and
that does bring benefit but it also
brings the recognition that something is
missing oh but now we come to the next
guy another came verse
20 saying
Master here is your
Menner which I kept put away in a
handkerchief cuz I was scarred
verse 21 I was afraid of you because you
are an exacting man you take up what you
did not lay down you reap what you did
not
sow he said look you you you you you you
you a hard person to work
for you are an exacting man you you have
all these high
standards and you want Excellence all
the time and you you just you just have
these high standards and I was scared
that I couldn’t meet your standards so
rather than risk losing your
Menor I was too scared I put it in a
handkerchief he said to him by your own
words I’ll judge you okay I’m an
exacting man I have high standards major
requirements so let’s use your words for
your
judgment you worthless
slave you no good
Christian you shucking and jiving
Saint says you’re
worthless you no good worthless you no
good
Christian cuz remember all of these guys
are servants that’s right he’s not
talking about servants versus non-s
servants all of them are called servants
all of them receive the gift all of them
but in number three he is no
good it is possible to be saved than be
a no- good
Christian having no value to God or his
kingdom having accepted Jesus Christ as
Savior but have been no
useful been useless to
him when it comes to representing what
he’s given you for his
benefit these are Christians who want to
be blessed these are Christians who want
to be highly
favored these are Christians who talk
about God is good all the time time and
all the time God is good but when you
look at what they’ve done for his name
his glory and his
kingdom is in a
handkerchief he says you worthless
servant worthless
Christian you you knew I have a stand
you to you just told me that in fact I
heard you say Amen at church
I heard you hear the sermon and agree I
heard you see the word of God and you
commiserated with it I heard you affirm
it so you
knew it wasn’t a
secret so what you did was agree with
what you heard and done the
opposite he
says did you know that I am an exacting
man taking up what I did not lay down
and reaping what I did not sow high
standards then why did you not put my
money in the
bank and having come I would have
collected it with
interest you are so
lazy you wouldn’t even go to Wells Fargo
Bank of America you you would you you
know chase you wouldn’t you are so
trifling that you wouldn’t even put it
in the back I know they not giv much
interest but you wouldn’t even do
that so the question
is why wouldn’t he at least least go to
the
bank why would he why would he use a
handkerchief you know what what is it
about the bank that he wouldn’t go to
bank but he would go to the
handkerchief Banks keep
records see Banks see Banks you got they
know who put it in put it out they sign
keep keep record this guy did not want a
record C
why does he not want a record
kept because he’s doing like a lot of
Christians today he’s playing the end
against the
middle see he he he he working this
thing here here’s what he saying he’s
saying now now look I am not about to
spend a lot of my
time I am not about to spend a lot of my
talent I am not about to spend a lot of
my treasure on this Kingdom stuff I’m
going to heaven when I die that’s good
enough for me I ain’t doing all that I
ain’t doing all that I ain’t going I
ain’t I ain’t I ain’t going to do all
that and I don’t even want a record kep
of what I’m doing and not doing so what
I’mma do is I’mma get my
handkerchief and the way I’mma work this
thing is if he comes
back I have his
Menner if he don’t come
back I got his Menor and ain’t had to do
no
work ain’t had to do no business so if
he comes back I’m not worse off and if
he don’t come back I got a little
something I can keep and I ain’t got
broke out no sweat have to deal with no
church have to serve in no Ministry have
to give no ties I don’t have to do none
of
that I to do none of that so I’mma let
I’m I’mma let them other folk do all
that I’m I’m just going I’m just going
to hang out here and I’m just going to
work this thing to my
convenience you worthless trifling
servant he
says you
know most of us have seen the original
version of Lilies of the
Field with Sydney portier Sydney porier
he’s building this building this Chapel
for these
nuns and there’s his
businessman and he wants the businessman
to help out you know to get this thing
funded and get this little chapel built
and one day Sydney p8 comes out
there because the guy the business guy
really wasn’t interested but after a
while they got it Go and the guy is
working on the
chapel and Sydney porier said well you
don’t even believe in God why you out
here
working and the businessman said just in
case just in case there’s a God I want a
little something God’s got a lot of just
in case
Christians just in case Christianity is
real just in case the Bible is true just
in case Jesus is coming back just in
case heaven is real I want to at least
have a little something in the
handkerchief so for a lot of folk this
is handkerchief
Church a lot of folk do handkerchief
giving a lot of folk do handkerchief
serving cuz they want a little something
in a handkerchief but they ain’t about
to take a trip to the
bank cuz they ain’t going to be that
committed ain’t going to be all in like
that but let me just remind you says he
returned that’s the Judgment seat of
Christ he he came back and he said show
me what you got how have I benefited
because of what I gave
you how is my kingdom benefited how has
my name been Advanced because of what I
gave
you see this the thir guy he he was on
his own agenda he had his own
program
verse
24 then he said to the bystanders take
the men away from him and give it to the
one who has the 10
minutes one of the questions I was asked
here recently by a person who when they
first heard me start the series on J SE
the
crisis will anybody be witnessing our
judgment
is it like a private thing
or me and Jesus in the cubical just me
and
him or other folk going to see all my
stuff well the verse says the
bystanders for the third
guy for the god who had nothing to
show except a
handkerchief with unused effort unused
service unused
sacrifice he says and the bystander said
you
giving you’re giving his one to the one
who got 10 so the one who got 10 now has
11 because God God gave he made 10 so he
was put over 10 cities so now he takes
from the one and he gives it to the one
who make
10 how would you feel if you went to the
bank and they told you well your money
we just gave it
to money in your account your account
empty empty we gave it to your
neighbor you wouldn’t like that would
you that that would affect
you we just took you your money out of
your account and gave it to your
neighbor that’s exactly what Jesus says
we took what we gave you and we gave it
to your neighbor we gave it to the one
who was all
in and so even the little you thought
you have you don’t
have because you didn’t
care you didn’t care you didn’t care
about me you didn’t care about my gift
you didn’t care about my sacrifice you
didn’t
care about what I’ve done for
you and that’s when he says the sumon
statement in verse 26 I tell you that
everyone who has more shall be
given but from the one who does not have
nothing to show even what he does have
shall be taken
away he’s not talking about eternal life
you can’t lose eternal life eternal life
is eternal it’s forever he’s talking
about the reward that comes at the
Judgment seat of Christ and the loss
that will be felt by believers who have
little or nothing to show for the time
that they were
saved they went through the motions he
went through the motions he had the one
minute there it was hidden in a
handkerchief but he wasn’t planning to
do any business for God he wasn’t
planning to do any business for the
king look the more money you spend on a
project the more what concerned you are
about how well that project is
done if you spending a lot of money
building a house you don’t want nobody
give you some cheap material and cutting
Corners cuz if you paying that much
money you want the Excellence to
reflect what you are
building you don’t want a high price for
cheap effort a high price for cheap
material and when it comes to your and
my salvation Jesus Paid
dollar when it comes to you and I
eternal life he paid the ultimate price
of dying on the cross to give us the
gift of Salvation And he says you going
to treat me
cheap yes I’mma give it to you I’m not
going to take it away but I’m sure going
to evaluate how you viewed
it and how you used it or how you
ignored
it
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