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00:00:00 today's scripture passage is taken from Matthew 25: 14- 30 the parable of the bags of gold again it will be like a man going on a journey who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them to one he gave five bags of gold to another two bags and to another one bag each according to his ability then he went on his journey the man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gain five bags more so also the one with two bags of gold gained two more but the man who had
00:00:49 received one back went off duck a hole in the ground and hit his master's money after a long time the master of those servants returned and settle accounts with them the man who had received five bags of gold brought the other five Master he said you entrusted me with five bags of gold see I have gained five more his master replied well done good and faithful servant you have been faithful with a few things I will put you in charge of many things come and share your Master's happiness the man with two bags bags of gold also came
00:01:32 Master he said you entrusted me with two bags of gold see I have gained two more his master replied well done good and faithful servant you have been faithful with a few things I will put you in charge of many things come and share your Master's happiness then the man who had received one bag of gold came Master he said I knew that you are a hard man how was ing where you have not sown and Gathering where you have not gathered seed so I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground see here is
00:02:13 what belongs to you his master replied you Wicked lazy servant so you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gathered where I have not gathered seed well then you should put my money on deposit with the bankers so that when I return I would have received it back with interest so take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has 10 bags for whoever has will be given more and they will have an abundance whoever does not have have even what he what they have will be taken from them
00:02:55 and throw that worthless servant outside into the darkness where there will be weeping and nashing of teeth this is the word of God and today we're looking at the parable of the talents par of talents and it's Matthew 25: 14 to3 as ear as I read just now and today what we want to talk about is how should we wait for the Master's return how should we wait for the Master's return we know that Jesus is coming back but what should we do what are we supposed to do now why didn't Jesus just um after we say the sin prayers that
00:03:31 just let us die but why why didn't Jus do that why after you say the S prayer why don't you suddenly just go to heaven why are we still here what are we supposed to do and so this is what we can actually glean from the text for today so let's pray father we thank you for your word we pray the Lord as we come to your word pray that you help us to understand it to apply to our hearts and let your word go out and not return void thank you Lord pray that you open our hearts and help us to to really
00:04:05 understand it in Jesus name we pray amen all right so let me ask you this question are you gifted or are you talented if you think you're gifted or if you think tented can you raise your hands one two three so few only the front row front row got a special annoying thing the back one or two okay things a bit hard to see yeah okay can see the back so not many people so I think it's true for everyone if I ask you if you're get gifted talented most people say no I'm just average La I'm just average you know I'm not really as
00:04:37 good as other people and we talk about giftedness people are gifted and talented we think about people like this Marie cury right so Marie C is actually a scientist and she was one of the really amazing person who actually found out about radio activity so she discovered the polonium polonium and radium elements uh and because of her Discovery now cancer can be treated yeah so she was so good and so important in the field of uh science actually the at Atomic Number 96 was name after her cuum and she's actually amazing woman uh for
00:05:11 those of you uh who are wondering can woman do science you can see she's actually the first person to get two Nobel prizes first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win in two Fields she's actually she did a lot of work and not only science you know during World War I she actually even went out to build this Mobile X-Ray machines so that people who actually went to war uh she she didn't create machines to kill people but these x-ray machines allowed the doctors to know where the bullets are so they can take
00:05:40 it out so this is what we call giftedness right people are talented but how about us over here now if you look at the sermon today you look at this first passage you can see that there's something for us to learn let me just quickly go through over here for you to see it says over again it'll be like a man going on a journey who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them to one he gave five bags of goal to another two bags and to another one bag each according to his ability then he went on his journey so the first thing I
00:06:07 want to share with you all is if you look at here it means that we are all given backs of go so Jesus is master and we all given bags of goal this bags of goal is actually called talent that is actually where the word talent CES from in English so if you hear people say you're talented what it means is you've been given bags of goal that's actual word of English where it came from and if you take not over here people all of them got different amounts of um go and but the key note is Jesus has entrusted
00:06:39 what he has to us and also we have different abilities so we all we are not all the same we are all actually brought up and actually uh created differently as well so the first point for all of us today is you are gifted and you are talented you are gifted and you're talented no matter what Society tells you you are gifted and you are talented now but some say but I'm just medoc some of my my my skills are cannot use in church right I cannot really play the guitar I I'm not really a good uh person
00:07:11 not friendly cannot do assuring I only can do normal things only can use it Ser in church but let's take a look at this all your gifts and talents actually matter all your gifts and talents matter does God just care about gifts in church the answer is if you look at what Martin Luther said over here um there is no spiritual and temporal estate there's no divide between the sacred and secular long long time ago in his time what happened was uh the popes bishops priests and monks were called the spiritual estate you go to heaven you
00:07:43 become a monk right because what you do as monk actually pleases God but if you were princes Lords Artisans Farmers all these useless people temporal what you're doing is temporary it doesn't matter one so that was it but all what what is stated over here is all Christians are truly of the spiritual estate and there's among them no difference at all but that of office as Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12:12 we are all one body yet every member has has his own work whereby it serves every other so all your gifts can be used by
00:08:14 God and will be used by God if you choose to actually give it to him so in fact Martin Luther vanon to say that we are all the mass of God what it means is this in Psalm 147: 13 Martin Luther says uh in the Bible it says he strengthened the bars of your Gates and blesses your people within you he grants peace to your borders and satisfies you with the finest of we so this he here is God God strengthens the bars of your Gates do you see God coming to become a blacksmith you don't see that right and
00:08:50 so and when you see the bars of your of your Gates it also means that the security of your town of your city the police force the government the Judiciary all these things are part of God which means is when a black Smith is actually hammering and creating the bars of the gates it is actually God God is hiding behind the mass we are all the mass of God and we actually working on behalf of God and that is what it means over here so look at over here we have all these different profession is there
00:09:21 any profession that is more important than the rest right or if you actually got to know your friend and you say you know I'm a good Christian he's not a Christian so I tell him about Jesus right let me ask you this question you see a pilot over there a pilot let me ask you what should a good pilot do what should a good Christian pilot do when does announcement he should say Jesus loves you is that a case what should a good Christian pilot do can youone tell me the answer is he must land the plane
00:09:56 true or not he must land the plane if you're good chrisan pilot you make sure you land the plane if you don't land the plane what will happen everybody will go to heaven right maybe there's a different strategy as well right but the answer is we all need to understand that every single role that God has created has his purpose and we are all the hands of God we all the Mas of God the next one sometimes we pray you know God uh give us a secure house make sure things are safe you're actually praying for the
00:10:22 engineer to make sure that he does his work correctly or next one over here you pray for your daily bread where does your bread come from the Baker needs to do his work to make sure that he creat something that you can eat and for example over here I want to share with you this one cleaners anyone here cleans their homes Yes Men also need to clean their home right so if you don't raise your hands oh you need to listen to this cleaners are very very important people we look down on them sometimes you know
00:10:50 on the streets you see them you never go and say hello to them yeah if it's a for example some politician you say you want to shake the hands right but cleaners are very important I share with you this person have you heard of Florence 19 before so FR 19 G is actually called the lady with the lamb and she changed the entire uh Healthcare System especially nursing um profession as well uh first thing is she refused to be married at 17 at that time was actually quite common for people to be married at 17 and she
00:11:16 actually pursu a calling to become a nurse so nursing was a very lowly job at the time nobody wanted to be a nurse even now sometimes you ask people they said Doctor very good nurse okay you know never mind doctor doctor very important but what happened is in 1853 he actually actually went through the crean wall to help out over there and reason is because many people are dying a lot of people were dying at the time and when she went to scutari she find that patients were lying on the floor not on bed on the floor with their own
00:11:46 excrement and there were rodents just running around them so no wonder you know what happened at the time you can actually go for a surgery it could be successful but it could die as well in fact half of the people actually would die after surgery because of gang green surgery was very good eight the the success rate was eight out of 10 of time you actually be able to successfully come up from surgery but half of those people would die and the reason is because there was no good practice in nursing she went in and she
00:12:15 introduced infection control assessment and spiritual she did all these things to make sure that the when you actually treat a person you don't just do the surgery but you must treat the environment as well the the place is clean so your baed sheets your floors must be clean and that is is part of work part of the talents God has given us so she reduce the death rates by more than 2/3 just by cleaning the hospital can you understand how important this is every single role that you have in life it may seem meal you
00:12:48 may not know why you're doing it you may not understand why God asked you to be actually be doing all these things but every single Ro that you have it matters your gifts your talents given by God matter and we need to understand remember that so spefic there are specific talents given to you alone some people say yeah I'm good in maybe I'm good in um uh let's say I'm good in teaching but that person is better but you need to understand God has placed you at a certain position for you to actually do something about it for
00:13:19 example there may be other people who are better parenting but only you can take up a children for teenagers then your mother or your parents may be better in cleaning the room but you are supposed to clean it if you're an engineer if you're a scientist if you work outside maybe God is asking you to create a better iPhone one which where Android also can use or maybe you know it's not so expensive and for some of us who maybe are not so able bed like Nick W over here God has special talents given to to
00:13:59 you bags of go given to you that you need to deal with you need to work on it and generate return for the master so this is all encompassing no matter who you are God has something that he has asked you to do so the first point is you are gifted and talented for God's good purpose the second point today is you are expected to invest boldly you expected to invest Bly now if you look at this second part over here it says that the man actually gave bags of gold to people and immediately the one with
00:14:33 five bags of gold went out to put the money to work first thing the second one is uh the two bags of go person also did the same but the one bag of go person went off duck a hole and hit it in the ground and after a while the master came back to uh setle accounts this after a long time means a very long time enough time for you to do your work for life to actually happen right so this is what happened uh in this in the passage but please take not what happened when the master came back he said to the person
00:15:04 who had five bags of gold well done good and faithful servant you were faithful in a few things I put you in charge of many things come and share your Master's happiness the same was said to the two bags of go and for the one that actually has only one back uh Jesus or the master said you Wicked lazy servant right you actually should have at least put the money with the bankers so that when I return I would have received it back with interest the good servants had to invest boldly now you need to understand if I
00:15:34 were to give you five bags of gold at the time it wasn't like you can go to unit trust put it in the unit trust or mutual funds and it worked no at that time if I give five backs of go five backs of gold comes up to about 2.5 million the current time uh money of of ring currently so if you get 2.5 million ring and there's no Bank how do you double it there's no cryptocurrency last time okay otherwise you buy I don't simp say stock compan right but there's nothing much you can do and so what you need to do
00:16:05 actually is there's no banks no interest and you actually need to work you have to purchase land you to work and manage maybe the plantation hire people manage your finances make sure the crops actually produced and actually after that make sure it's secure and nobody steals away your money only then when the master comes back you can actually give something to the master so it means that you have to invest it is not passive being chrisan isn't about being passive and sitting there but you need
00:16:31 to work you need to invest and boldly go out to do something so what did the one Talent servant do wrong at that time actually it's very normal to hide your treasure in the ground because there's no bank when there's no banks you can actually put you're supposed to hide yourself in the ground and after that then it's safe that's their safe deposit yeah so what was wrong with what he said the answer is because again Christianity is not about avoiding and just being a good person okay a Christian isn't someone who does not do
00:17:04 anything wrong many times when we ask what should I do as a Christian say we start with the negative don't sin law don't be bad law you know so we say things that we shouldn't do but we don't say things that we are supposed to do a Christian is someone who always tries to do the right thing and over here in the context here is for you to be faithful to the master to serve your master and the master expects a return so you're supposed to boldly invest take what God has given you and use it to generate
00:17:30 something in return for example over here how can we invest boldly so last time um uh in my previous Church my pastor love to tell stories like this so what he said is when he goes and Mak everyone goes to eat right and so a lot of times you do like to find a place whereby it's too crowded yes or no right especially now with covid you don't want to do that but before Co what happened was this pastor of M will always go to coffee shop and find where people are sitting alone purposely look for people sitting alone
00:18:02 and he sit over there and start talking hi who he address himself and she start to talk to people to tell people about Christianity or or just to to make friends and so this is one way you can invest all of us need to eat right all of us we need to do something it's actually much uh it's not that hard actually for us to invest this time to do something about it to eat with strangers to con people and let people know about Christ the next one over here this Stanley time is a very interesting story that happened to him he when he
00:18:30 started off before he became who he was uh Stanley Tom actually went to sell things from house to house so he was salesman he had a bag and he went around selling things and so uh one day he went to a house that was owned by Mrs long and when she met Mrs long Mrs long actually didn't really want to buy stuff but I just asked to come in and talk and listen to him doing his presentation and after the whole presentation Stanley wanted to leave ready but Mrs long said I give you time to tell me about the
00:18:59 things you have to sell now maybe you would be willing to listen to my presentation so she didn't want to buy something she just bought anyway to get time to talk to Stanley and for the next two hours Mrs long actually be became a really good salesperson and so Jesus Christ to Stanley keep on telling her Stanley about Jesus he didn't believe immediately as well right but people actually invest you try to do something invest and share with strangers and so uh over here it says that Mrs long could
00:19:30 sell she believe in the product do you believe in your product do you believe in what you actually hold on to now she had experience with his benefits have you experienced Jesus if you have you will tell people about it and also we are To Boldly invest maybe we can invest in strangers right so in FBC over here on 7 of August we have a foot Fair that's upcoming and it's going to be just here at F Garden Cafe where this is by The Haven Ministry uh where we are trying to uh the church is trying to have an opportunity for
00:20:03 this marginalized people to cook food and sell so everybody needs to eat right okay I'm quite sure you need to eat so on sth of August come to FBC without your breakfast and make sure L youran and support them over there now there's a video that I'm going to ask Michelle to have play [Music] [Laughter] [Music] okay that's a rather short video but the idea I think you can understand it already so uh come on 7 August and try to support this now this may be just the first time we try and do it but the key
00:20:48 thing is is if you don't invest if you don't try you don't know whether it works or not so sometimes in church we also talk hey why do you do this this is not good this is not a good idea we shouldn't do this but Christianity for us we are asked we are called by God to invest boldly and the truth is we can boldly invest you know why because there's no risk if everything you have belongs to God what is there there's no risk to you right there's no risk actually so invest go and do something about everything
00:21:16 that God has given to you so the second point is you expected to invest boldly because there is no risk next one you actually however will not serve the master unless you truly know him you won't serve the master unless you truly know him at this point actually took a while for me to actually really understand it but why the thing that I want to share with you this look at it the good servants actually went out to joyfully serve they very happy to serve to take the backs of goal to invest to actually work and earn something so when
00:21:48 the master came you can see there's a sense of pride in them they said see I've gained five more for you already they happily went out and he says they went out at once to actually work as work on it as well so the master replied well done good and faithful servant you have been faithful with a few things I put you in charge of many things come and share your Master's happiness but do we really know God for the wicked servant the reason why he didn't work is because he didn't really know God see
00:22:16 what he says I knew you are a hard man when you see God what is a perception of God is God a serious angry judge who just wants to penalize you you don't listen uh then you go to hell and maybe from Young a lot of us actually get it from our parents already the way our parents teach is basically warnings if you do this I'm going to can you and I do this to my kids also so perhaps that because of that we condition to see God the Father the same way but over here we need to understand who is God God is
00:22:49 actually a good person okay it says over here number one well done good and faithful servant do you tell your in those times these servants slaves that you have do will tell them well done good and faithful servant it was not common it really looked as a page that says when the servants come back the master will say okay go and do more that's actually how it is normally Masters will not give praise to their servants like this and at the same time it says come and share your Master's happiness will you tell your your
00:23:22 servants come Mar come together come sit together I got my friends come come let's sit together you won't do that but what you have is you have a very good master and we need to find out why we need to know him more I want to take not I want us to actually take note of this word over here you Wicked lazy servant the first one the good servants were called good and faithful why are they good they're good because they are faithful why is this person Wicked he's wicked because he's lazy and is this the
00:23:53 is this a photo that shows you what laziness is yes and no yes and no laziness may be just a person that's slow the word if you look at the other translation it says slothful means a person is very slow doesn't really to move there's no energy but if you look at it why is this person lazy why is it slothful because the answer is there's something within this person that's wrong and Dy Sayers say something very um profound over here SLO is the six daily sin and is often ignored listen to what she says over here the six daily
00:24:28 sin is named by the church AIA or sloth in the world it calls itself tolerance but in hell it is called despair despair Bas means you have no hope in anything at all it is the accomplice of the other sins and their worst punishment it a sin that believes in nothing cares for nothing seeks to know nothing interferes with nothing enjoys nothing loves nothing hates nothing finds purpose in nothing Lees nothing and remains alive only because there's nothing worth to die for and many times I will believe
00:25:05 that whether in church or not in church this is what we are doing we are very careful we are very careful what we do we don't take risk because we don't see anything worth dying for if you have gone after Girls before and I was going after my wife we actually went for the same job interview can share went for the same job interview and we actually talk and I took the courage to go nearer to her and ask hi what's your name and that was first time meeting and ask for a number as well you need to take risk
00:25:40 you need to take risk right so game song same goes for all of you do you see something worth dying for or not in your life do you see something worth dying for your life you only start to make sense when you see something worth dying for and so friends you have to to find that something worth dying for and what is that that is the Lord Jesus Christ but me telling you this doesn't help go back and really understand who God is the more you go into the word of God the more realize who he is and your life
00:26:13 will change so despair SLO is something that is everywhere but we need to understand we don't want to live a life that cares for nothing has no joy and the only reason we are alive is because we don't want to die we don't want that we need to live a purposeful life CS Le says what's the reason for SLO the reason for SLO is because your passion is too weak a lot of times for us in the world currently we've been taught to chase after certain things and CS L says it would seem that our Lord finds our
00:26:44 desires not too strong but too weak we are half-hearted creatures fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite Joy is offered us like an anoran child who wants to go on making mud pies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea we are far too easily pleased will you prefer to play the longang outside or go to maybe shanga for hotel Holiday what he's saying is we are all playing at the long Kang outside you're not wanting to go to shanga although
00:27:20 it's so nice but you just are happy with the longang with the drain outside over here and playing in the mud Waters because your passion is too big you have not seen who God is some of us if you go to corporate world you want to be the boss you want to be the boss right you want to be the master and people listen to you can come in anytime you can do anything you want that's what you want to do but that is just the drain you're still in the drain why do you want to be in the drain because this is actually how a boss
00:27:50 looks like most of the time this is how it looks like actually why do you want to be the boss when you can be the Master's child why a lot of us want to rub shoulders with the Rich and Famous um when you meet people some of us uh purposely we find people who actually are high profile want to talk to them want to network with them and always happens we want to network people want to know people who are powerful but why do you want do that when you can get really good fellowship with people why the true Joy doesn't come
00:28:25 through other those do not play in the long come out there's actually good Fellowship in church in FBC and this is a CIA life group we recently went to Rin Matias and rin's uh house and we had a very great time uh and we had a very good Chef Matias and Alvis was cooking for us as well so we have very good Fellowship look for something that's much better than what the what the world offers so be interested a small promotion over here call Johnson and Alex they will actually bring you kids I come the noisier they are also can no
00:29:00 problem come right following Jesus isn't hard following Jesus is amazing amen so especially when there very good food right so you interested give us a call next one so you won't serve the master unless you truly know him you cannot gradually serve him it doesn't work it will not last until you really know who he is and the final point today is our Master prioritizes faithfulness over results you see over here when you read the passage there are two servants who were called who who were being said
00:29:40 well done good and faithful servant the first one had five bags and generated five bags the other had two bags and generated two more if you look at it let me ask you which one is easier do you think the effort is the same no the effort is not the same to generate a return of 100% on 2.5 million is way harder than generating a return on 1 million okay so if you go for funds and uh you look at Finance this is why the bigger the fund size the higher it is what the general return because there's less opportunities and less things you
00:30:19 can go for but look at what the master said over here to both he said the same thing well done good and faithful servant well done good and faithful servant why were they being say why did God say good job to them why did God say that they did a good job the reason is not because well done for producing 100% returns but it says well done because you were faithful it's like us you go to work and your boss says that oh because you came from 9:00 a.m. to 6: p.m. and you V very hard right well done I'll give you a
00:30:54 race is that how it works in work in world in the world nowadays there's a boss tell you oh because it worked from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and I saw they work hard okay I give you a race does it work like that no never okay now this is about kpi is about numbers do you hit your target or not if you're the nicest guy and you don't hit your target I'm so sorry you need to leave true or not but the world of God doesn't measure and doesn't look at things like this so and some more this master says come and
00:31:25 share your Master's happiness even though your returns are the same you're treated the same way as well so even though your returns are different you're treated the same way and I want to share with you this person called Clayton Christensen very interesting person uh if you heard of the word disruption in business you always hear this term disruption he created it yeah and what he said was God does not have to aggregate I explain a bit more on this what does it mean by God does not have to aggregate you see
00:31:54 for us if I were to ask you how was church today you tell me oh there were maybe 400 people attended and uh there are so many people who for this year so many people came to know Jesus uh we we ran 10 Alphas right we actually had so many things happening and we start counting numbers true or not same goes for your work if you ask you how do you do you said I manag to reduce my uh work from two hours I could finish this production in one hour we count things like this we use numbers we aggregate
00:32:27 things together and so in this society that we're living in humans have been changed into numbers we post something on Facebook we don't ask who has seen it we ask how many people have seen it how many clicks are there how many Impressions what is the conversion ratio is all numbers but God does not have to aggregate when God sees all of us over here he does not start counting what's the statistics over here how many people are listening 20% how many people are actually falling asleep 30% he doesn't do things like that he
00:33:02 does not need to aggregate he will ask is Anor listening is Katy responding is Matias actually doing something about it God looks at us differently from how we look at others for us we have to aggregate because we are limited but it says over here I realize that God has an infinite mind and because God has an infinite mind he doesn't have to agrate people into numbers and so with that when you meet God he will not ask you you live for 70 years 60 years were productive 10 years were useless that's not what God
00:33:36 will talk to you about he will ask you about every single encounter what were the day that you saw that lady on the street what were the day when your boss ask you to stay back to do work and you said no what about that day that the church cell group needed help somebody to play guitar and you say no I cannot want God will ask you all this question and we are being called to account to every single encounter every single thing that happens to in our life because God doesn't Aggregate and if we not use a pie chart can you imagine you
00:34:07 go to heaven and there's a pie chart out there showing you everything that happened to you God doesn't do that he doesn't to do that and there's eternity there's enough time to cover every single person and what you did and everything you did in life will be called to account that changes the way we see things we shouldn't see humans we shouldn't see people as numbers anymore in work maybe we do aggregate we need to do calculate stat statistics but in our life we need to be able to see humans as
00:34:39 humans each person as individuals unique people are we faithful in everything that's a question we need to ask are we faithful in everything that God has given us when your son your daughter is asking you for help with studies what you do ah okay that one ask the tution teacher Outsource everything is that what we do we sometimes we need do it but do we try to do more do we try to serve him in whatever the God has given us because these are bags of goal given to us now we need to be faithful in
00:35:15 everything that God has given us and so I'm just going to summarize and close this off with a few things to share with you first one is I hope that after today's sermon we'll be faithful in our testimony now I think there lawyers here lawyers if your lawyers can ra hands lawyers there should be at least one hand where's po okay no lawyers are okay now if you meet lawyers I hope you don't need to but sometimes you have sometimes you go if you meet lawyers and you tell them your situation what would the lawyers
00:35:48 tell you the answer most of time can sue one you have a case let's do something about it true or not let's what lawyers to do because when you have a hammer everything looks like a new Sue soe and the same goes for everything you sell when you go out in the market and you buy things have you ever encountered people tell you actually this one I'm selling this but you shouldn't buy this you go and buy from the uncle over there God or not 20 30 years ago yes people will do that because people were not so
00:36:18 hard up on trying to build their Castle build their Kingdom but nowadays when a person comes to you the first question what do I need to say in order for him to sell cor not so for us we may not see it and some of us say no I'm just working for people what is there to me what what how much can I do but you don't understand one point you know the toll in the highway you know the toll does the lady actually earn money noways don't have last time this lady sitting there and collecting money right to her maybe she doesn't really
00:36:48 earn M much money she earns hourly wages but do you know the number of interactions she gets and the same goes for all of us when you're working outside true maybe you're dealing with uh maybe you're only earning earning a salary but you may be dealing with Millions hundreds of millions you may be required to teach hundreds of children you may require to do work that involves and touching many many lives these are all testimonies on how and what you can do with it God has given you this and when you go
00:37:18 up very likely God will ask you how about all the interactions I gave you you tell God you didn't give me much money what can I do God ask you what about all the interaction I gave to you and every single soul that you could touch every single person you could talk to what do you do with that that is perhaps a question we have so I remember I spoke to poet um about December last year and she said when a person comes to her and ask about uh her uh divorce cases she always tell people uh she always try to find a
00:37:51 way for them to not need to actually go to court for them to actually reconcile for them to settle for them to find a way to actually create cons so friends this is a testimony and the same goes for all of us over here when you go to work on Monday do you start to say can sue everything also can R when you know that there's actually a better option what do you do yeah so it's not easy because your boss will ask why you like that one and you need to find a way to compensate on different ways right being
00:38:22 a Christian is harder than just being a good performer because you got you need to be not just being able to perform but be different as well that is what we need to do and the other one is perhaps we can be say we need be faithfulness we need to be faithful in our time God has given all of us 24 hours are we faithful in our time are we faithful in our time that God has given us and without getting approval um I'm actually sharing something that I see happening so what's happening is this have you met Dr Peter
00:38:55 in the in the hospital have you seen the mass he wear does he wear mask like this what do he wear he wear something like this and he sounds like Dar weer do you know that cor not and that day there was this chance and I went out to uh lunch with a friend that apparently knows Dr Peter so I asked where do you work he said oh hgmc then oh I know this guy in JC Dr Peter said oh that one oh r that Mas you see him very scared to die know right very scar of diamond gangs right when he comes to church do you see
00:39:36 him wearing this so why does he wear this why question right I didn't ask him but I'm DED I'm deducting right I'm deducing this and that day uh there was one week I actually told him that I got Co and I was supposed to preach and Anor actually took over so I think everything got quiet and I bumped into him in G grer I didn't have Co actually I bumped into him in G grer and he was actually at the aisle where he was taking oranges if you see oranges on the counter how do you put it in your trolley can you tell
00:40:15 me you take it like this and put in a trolley right yes or no he doesn't know this you know what he did he was throwing you know why do you think he was trowing oranges into his trolley and these oranges are expensive and okay why was it throwing oranges in his trolley because every single minute every single hour will be accounted for yes or no every single thing we do one day you meet God and we need to tell God do we do the best that we could with everything that God has given us and perhaps for us we need to be
00:40:58 faithfulness in the Treasure given to us now when it comes to your material possessions that one you know what to do but perhaps how about your children these are Treasures given by God what do you do with them do we just Outsource them to others do we tell them oh just go for all this programs out there and personal time no long I don't have time for you really I'm very tired every time I come do we do that or perhaps what is God telling you on how you should Steward your child your child tells you Dad can I be an
00:41:35 artista what's the answer that canot don't earn money can I be a pastor oh that worse that one every time people die must go on oh no good no good you know what's good Elder Elder good is that what you tell y children because I know this is happening from Young I hear it from my PR churches as well this is what people have in their minds but what is God calling your children to not everyone is meant to be an Elon m in fact one is more than enough really cor not one is more than enough perhaps what God is asking you to do is
00:42:14 raise up more Pastor Joes raise up more ulam raise up more yidan raise up more Anno do you think so God has his plan for every single person and if you look back at the start of it we are all created with our own abilities and we all given different talents not everyone is meant to be an oil and gas engineer and my time I graduated everybody wanted to become oil and gas engineer because oil prices was at $120 per barrel and after that or before that everybody wanted to be Banker before 2007 do you
00:42:50 know that everybody went to study MBA then after oil and gas now I hear people saying what they want to be you YouTuber Tik tocker if not maybe they want to do crypto mining I want to be a KO okay I'm be influencer online God did not create so many influencers one okay God has made artists Engineers doctors Architects Homemakers without Homemakers there will not be us here you have died do you know that where to find food if you're two year old cannot every single person made by God was made for a purpose so be
00:43:31 faithful in the treasures given to you and finally I will ask all of us when Monday comes when you go home and you start to have this Monday blues remember you are not just another human you're not just another digit God sees you God knows you by name and he is with you all the time can you please take out your hands please can you please look at your own hands look at your hands these are the hands of God on Monday these are the hands they will go and serve and bless and minister to others the only way for a church to grow
00:44:17 is not by bringing more people here is by you being effective outside it's by you being the light of the world outside that is what we need to do so whether you are a doctor a nurse like like forence Nill you're business person you're in digital marketing whatever it is remember you are the hands of God so I'd like to invite the worship team today what we have covered is these few points if I can quickly recap for you we are all gifted and talented for God's good good purpose you expected to invest boldly because
00:45:02 actually there's no risk however you will not serve the master unless you truly know him and don't rush to oh now I'm Christian I need to do this find out more about who Christ is in instead of just wanting to serve because there's no numbers there's no pie chart when go to heaven saying that out of the time in church you were serving so many days and this is a bankard where you went this is how the hierarchy went how many people under you it will not be like that God will ask you about every single encounter that
00:45:33 you had what you did with the opportunities given to you whether you're working whether you're Homemaker whether you're business owner whether you're politici God will call her to account for all of these things they did and our Master doesn't judge like the world he doesn't asks us in terms of results but he asks us about our faithfulness are we faithful or everything that God has given us what did we do with it may God bless you with ears to listen to the still Small Voice May you have strength to follow
00:46:12 Christ's call to be his disciple may you discern the spirit's Bountiful gifts for you that's been showered every day and may you live a life of service for others in joy and and gratitude service is over after moment of prayers you may be dismissed
