Jesus, thank you!

Monday, February 13, 2006

Matthew Twenty Five - Aaron Turner

I am not much of a note taker...

vs. 14
Q: Who is this man
A: Jesus Christ

He has traveled to a far country and is coming back. *We ourselves belong to Christ. We are called servants. Too many times we act like we belong to ourselves! We have NO right to pursue our own agenda! God send trials into our life to mess up our agenda in order that we might get on his agenda. Because we belong to him, we are his concern and his property, and he takes good care of what he owns.

vs 14
"who called his own servants"^

*What we have belongs to Him.

"delivered unto them his goods."

We have no business taking his goods, and pursuing our agenda. Our relationships are his. Every relationship God gives us has something to do with something God wants to do in our lives.

*He gives what he gives us because in his wisdom he knows what we have the ability and the capacity to take care of what we can handle.

The Lord wants us to use and invest what He gives us. To be in the will of God, you have to take risks. vs. 25 The issue is not what you have, but what you do with it.

*My concept of God has much to do with how I manage what he gives us. Two invested, and one was slothful.

"I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine."

*What we do with what we've been given will effect our eternity.
Matt. 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

Posted by Jeremy Turner :: 12:16 AM :: 1 comments