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Missing the Mark: The Rich Young Ruler 0:01 Aerosmith, the classic rock group, put out a song, to go along with 19 99 summer blockbuster Armageddon. And this song resonated with all of us because it just captured the movie. It had it had the0:13 the the passion between the the guy and the girl that he loved, the daughter of his hero as this giant meteor is hurling towards the earth. And you see this couple, and and they just they want to experience each0:25 other. Right? The song is called I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing. And it captures and it resonates deep with all of our hearts. Right? I don't I don't wanna fall asleep because I don't wanna miss a thing. As God's people, we0:37 don't wanna miss anything. We wanna live with our eyes wide open, fully awake to everything that he's doing. We don't wanna miss a thing. But it's true.0:49 Often in our lives and certainly in the lives of people in scripture, we see people who were just missing it. I mean, saddest of all is the people who miss out on Jesus the Messiah, his1:01 offer of salvation. But even those who see Jesus for who he is can miss what it is that Jesus invited them into. They can miss the life that he offered, the adventure that he wanted to live1:13 with them, the things that he wanted to do in them and through them. In our first session, we looked at 1 of the most famous parables that Jesus ever told. Alright, about a man who had 2 sons, more commonly known as1:24 the prodigal son. And we know, that the story was about 2 sons who were both missing it for different reasons and really different ways, but both were missing it. You have the 1 son and1:36 he was lost out in sin. He was lost far away. He was missing it. He thought that the good life existed apart from his father. He thought that the good life could be found in stuff. And so he he asked his1:48 dad for his inheritance, and he went out and he lived loosely. And then he continued to miss it. Right? He comes to his senses and he thinks, I'll go home. I'll work for my dad. I'm now a servant. I'm not a son. He1:58 missed God's grace and God's love. But he had 2 sons, and the older son was missing it up close. He was missing it in his pride thinking that he had earned everything that the2:10 father had given him, that he had earned his relationship. And instead of experiencing it with the dad, his legalistic heart of earning made it so that he couldn't even celebrate. He wasn't even willing to celebrate when2:22 his lost brother finally comes home. 2 sons, both lost. Today, we're gonna head back into the scripture. And we're gonna encounter a few other people who who missed it.2:34 As we step into session 2 in our series, missing it, we don't wanna miss it. Brothers, we don't wanna live small lives. We don't wanna live for things that are wasting away. We don't wanna miss the adventure2:46 that Jesus Christ invites each of us into it. So let's head over to the book of Luke. Interesting cat, Luke. He he was the only gentile to have written any portion of the2:58 New Testament. And from historical counts of his life we know that he was a physician. We know that he wrote 2 books of the Bible. Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit he wrote the book of Luke and he wrote the book3:08 of Acts. And both of which are addressed to a person named Theophilus. We don't really know who Theophilus was, but it's clear. Luke wants Theophilus to have certainty about the works of3:19 Jesus and about the person of Jesus. And that's a great place for us to start today if we do not want to miss it. So turn to chapter 18 in the book of Luke. Luke chapter 18. Now3:31 Jesus has just told 2 different parables. He's told the parable of the persistent widow about the importance of just continuing to present our request to God and the Pharisee and the tax collector. And after these 23:43 incredible teachings, Jesus takes a moment to pause and to bless some children who are being brought to him. And then he continues in this education about the3:54 upside down kingdom, right? The nature of his kingdom. And Jesus is approached by a man that scripture calls the rich young ruler. It sounds like just a flex like an Instagram4:06 bio, right? I mean rich young ruler. You can even picture the green check marks next to it, right? This rich young ruler, we don't know a ton about except for what we can learn that, you know, he's he's successful.4:18 He's young. We do learn a little bit more about his bio when we start reading. Look at Luke, chapter 18 in verse 22. And it says, once a religious leader asked Jesus this4:30 question, good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? So now we learn that he wasn't just a rich young ruler apparently he's a religious leader as well. He knows who4:42 Jesus is. We'll learn that he knows what Jesus has taught, what the scriptures have taught even before Jesus came on the scene and he's been trying to live his life according to that. And I don't wanna dissect his every4:53 word. I don't wanna read more in the description that's here. But the way he addresses Jesus gives us some insight into his heart and lets us see the first place that he's missing it. You see,5:05 he starts off by saying good teacher. Comes out in the reverse in Greek, you know, teacher good, didaskalos agathos, which is completely true.5:17 Jesus is a good teacher, a great teacher. There was none better. But Jesus was also a lot more than just an an educator or a philosopher.5:29 And like I said, brothers, I don't wanna read too far into every single word and dissect it all, but there was another dude in scripture, who addressed Jesus similarly as just being a good teacher.5:42 During the last supper, Jesus drops a bomb on his disciples and says that 1 of you here is going to betray me. 1 of you here is a traitor. And each of the disciples starts tripping and rightfully5:54 so, understandably so. And each 1 of them in turn asks Jesus if it's them. And the way that they ask Jesus actually demonstrates their heart. Each 1 says,6:06 Lord, is it me? I mean, it just it reveals what's going on in their heart. They're saying to him, Lord, King, Master, Leader. It's it's6:18 the Greek word kurios. Right? It means supreme. The way that they're addressing Jesus proves that it's not them. But there was 1 who referred to him differently.6:30 Matthew chapter 26 25 says this, Judas, the 1 who would betray him also asked, Rabbi, am I the 1? Subtle difference.6:43 Huge revelation of what's going on in Judas's heart. Because he says, am I the 1 teacher? Professor? Wise 1? Sage? Religious man, dude with good6:55 moral ideas. Is it me? Am I the 1? Just like the rich young ruler, Judas was missing it because to both of them we see that Jesus7:07 was just a teacher. It's an easy trap that men can still fall into today. Men that can miss it. To the ones who who are missing it. To the ones who missed it in scripture. Jesus was just a7:18 teacher whose ideas could be considered, rather than a king whose will was to be obeyed. A teacher whose ideas I could decide7:30 if I agree with them or not. A teacher who I could say has has nice things to say. Not a king to be followed or a lord to be worshiped. Exalted above all things, kurios,7:42 lord. We can miss it whenever we reduce Jesus to just being another teacher. Because as a teacher, I can appreciate his teachings without7:54 submitting to them. I can sit in judgment over this and decide which parts of it I think are still relevant. And while we might not say that out loud with our mouths, that I believe Jesus8:06 is only a teacher, we can certainly prove it by the way that we live. And when we see Jesus only as a teacher, everything in our life starts to become unglued. It starts to fall8:18 apart. It's just like what happens when we start to reduce our faith to just a list of things that we're supposed to do, to some moral code we're supposed to abide by unemotionally, or whenever our faith8:30 becomes just a good set of truthful principles. We miss it. Because Jesus never invited us to just agree with him. He invited us to8:42 follow him. And so the rich young ruler is missing the very heart of what it means to follow after Jesus. He's missing Jesus's divinity, right, as he reduces him to this teacher.8:54 And then he goes on to reveal that he's missing it in other areas. Look at his next question. What must I do? What must I do in order to inherit, receive,9:06 earn eternal life? And he says, Jesus, how how do we play this game? Right? How do I win this game? How is this heaven thing accomplished here? He wrongly believes that that his faith, his9:18 faith journey, that heaven, that salvation is something that he can earn. That it's some kind of reward if he does everything right. Instead of what scripture tells us, the gift of grace9:30 authored and perfected by Jesus alone. Let's not miss it. Let's not miss this important truth brothers because it'll shape our lives. Is that both our salvation, the moment9:42 we're saved, and our ongoing sanctification, right, our Christ formation, they're both works of God by his Holy Spirit. I mean, we're involved. It doesn't happen9:54 against our will. But remember, we are saved supernaturally, and we're sustained supernaturally. What saves us also sustains us. Remember, it's grace poured out by the father10:05 through the son, and it's this mysterious work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. It's not against our will, but it's not according to our performance.10:17 Philippians 1 6 says, God who began a good work within you, he will be faithful to complete it. He will carry it on to completion. Listen who the active agent in that is.10:29 Hebrews 12 2 says Jesus, the champion who authors begins and perfects completes our faith. I love this 1, Acts 4 12. How's this reminder? There's salvation found10:41 in no 1 else. That includes in you or in me. It's in Jesus. It happens because of what he's done. We can no longer earn our sanctification anymore that we10:53 earned our initial salvation. But we see this rich young man who has great intentions. He comes to Jesus, but he's just he's just missing it. It's not it's not right.11:05 And then Jesus calls out the area of his life where he's missing it by the greatest margin. You see, after his question about what should I do, Jesus kinda plays along. And he responds by giving him a list of11:16 commandments that he knows the rich young ruler has been keeping. But he lobs him a softball. Right? He's trying he's trying to warm him up here. And so he says, make sure you do these things, don't do these things. The11:25 rich young ruler says check, check, check. Right? No murder. I haven't stolen. I'm not falsely testifying against anybody. Like, I'm in. I'm acing this test, Jesus. You you know, this is why I came by. I kinda wanted to11:36 to prove that I'm doing the right things. But the next statement reveals where the greatest disconnect is happening. It's subtle. It's dangerous.11:48 It's where the rich young ruler and many men today are still missing it. Look at Luke chapter 18 verse 22 when Jesus responds like this. There is still 112:00 thing you haven't done. Sell all your possessions. Give the money to the poor. And you will have treasure in heaven. Then, come follow me.12:13 I mean, Jesus just blows up this guy's world. Jesus says, you're right. You are doing a lot of the right stuff. In fact, son, you're doing a really good job at sin management, but I want more than12:25 that. I want your heart. I wanna be number 1 in your life. I wanna break the hold that this world, that its stuff has on you, my12:37 son. You see, the rich young ruler believed that he could keep his internal life and his external circumstances separate. What do I mean by that? He believed that he could ensure12:48 that as long as he was doing all the right religious stuff, that he could just let his heart run rampant after this world, run rampant after false gods. And Jesus said to him, you're missing it,13:00 son. I love you too much to allow you to keep missing it. You're missing me, Jesus is saying. And he's saying, son, you're believing some dangerous lies. You're believing that your treasure can13:12 exist apart from me, but I wanna be your greatest treasure. But to do that, you're gonna have to let go of what is currently your greatest treasure. And I love, brothers, that Jesus is willing to turn this man's life13:23 upside down to bring him into what's best, to bring him into the adventure that he's offering. I love that Jesus says, then come follow me. The The rich and real must have been thinking, Jesus, weren't you paying13:35 attention? I'm obviously following you. But Jesus is showing him that he's not. Jesus is not comfortable being 1 of our heart's greatest affections. Jesus is not13:47 okay being 1 of our life's greatest pursuits. It's an all or nothing gain. And the rich young ruler was believing a lie that13:58 unfortunately is still being taught by even well meaning teachers today. And it's this. It's a subtle lie. It's that you and I can have and love and14:10 pursue whatever we want in this world, and it somehow won't affect our hearts or our relationship with Jesus. But Jesus promised the exact14:22 opposite. Over and over again, he said, your heart can only have 1 king. You can only have 1 chief desire. 1 thing is gonna sit above the charts in your life and call the shots about where you spend your time14:34 and how you allocate your treasure and your resources. Jesus is offering the rich young ruler a chance to step into the greatest adventure in life, following Jesus,14:46 going where he goes, being with him to become like him. And Jesus is offering him freedom. He's saying, be free of all this other stuff that's holding you back. You need to let it go if14:58 you're gonna come and follow me. All of the money this man owned actually owned him and was like a weight around his ankle holding him back. Ultimately, you15:10 keep reading you see that all of that shiny stuff took him by the hand and led him away from Jesus. Says with his face downcast because he was very wealthy. He was not willing to let go of the15:21 things that he had to let go of to follow Jesus. I pray that's never true of us. The writer of Hebrews encourages us similarly. Hebrews 12 1 says, let us strip off every15:33 weight that slows us down, especially the sin that trips us up. Look look how this verse is broken down. It's not just the obvious and the sinful. As we look at our lives and we see the effects of15:45 sin. As we look at scripture and what Jesus tells us about sin, you're rarely gonna find the Christian that's okay allowing sin to trip them up, to weigh them down, especially when they've seen the effects in their15:55 lives. Once they're made aware of it, we see the rich young ruler. He had done a good job of keeping sin out of his life. But this verse says, let us strip off every weight.16:08 Now, it's not saying everything is sinful. It did say also the sin, but he's saying every weight. The stuff this guy had was not inherently wrong until it became a weight so large that it was16:20 keeping him from King Jesus. Things are not a problem until they are. When our things start to trip us up, when our stuff starts to keep us from Jesus16:32 either physically or emotionally, the weight of this man's wealth was not wrong in and of itself until it began to hold him back from following Jesus. From not16:43 engaging in the adventure of giving his life over fully. Now most of us hear that and think, man, I'm glad I'm not rich. I'm glad I'm not young, and I'm glad I'm not a ruler. This verse clearly doesn't apply to me. You16:54 might even be thinking about someone in your head that you're like, I gotta send this message over to him because he's he could really hear, you know, this, but I wanna I wanna challenge you. I wanna challenge you17:05 because this stuff is subtle. What does it look like in our life when our stuff starts to dictate our life, when our stuff starts to tell us what we can do? 1 of the most common ones that we allow, to grab hold of our17:16 hearts and our time and our treasure is our homes. We look to our homes, to tell us who we are, to tell us what we're worth. We look to our homes to make sure they don't need anything. Home, do you need any17:28 upgrades? Do you need to look better? Do you need to get fixed before I give this money over here? Before I go on this missions trip? Before I help out a brother in need. Home, do you need anything? Do you see how the17:39 home is dictating how I use the thing God's given me? Or maybe it's what the home does for me in my heart. Maybe it's that sense of accomplishment that it gives me as I look around. Maybe it's that sense of pride as I17:49 fill it up with my friends. And it doesn't have to be a home. It could be a car. It could be a boat. It could be anything we have. It could be something that's much less fancy than we think, but it it's what it has on us18:00 as it become a weight that's holding us down, that's keeping us from being as generous as we'd like to be, as spending as much time with the Lord and his people as we'd like to. I pray that we would never miss out18:12 on what Jesus had for us because we're clinging to our stuff. That we would never cling to anything of this earth in a way that would slow us down or keep us from following Jesus in every aspect of our life.18:23 Remember, the rich young ruler walked away clinging to his stuff. What his stuff did for him. What his stuff told him he was worth. And he missed out on the adventure of a lifetime. He missed18:35 it. He missed out on the life that's truly life. Brothers, our enemy is so crafty. His desire, 1 of his greatest desires in this world right now is to get18:47 us to fix our eyes, to to place our efforts towards anything other than Jesus. He he doesn't really even care what it is. So he'll turn18:59 our gaze to the things of this world. That's why scripture is so often warns and encourages us. Sons, raise your eyes up. Don't get so bogged down in the things of this world. Lift your19:11 eyes up. Lift your heart up daily to the things of god, to what he's doing because it's just easy to be consumed by the rat race. Look Look at how Paul encouraged the church in Colossians in Colossians chapter 3 verse 1,19:23 2 and 3. Since you have been raised to new life, because this is true of you, because you're a follower of Jesus and you've been raised in life, he says, set your sights on the realities of heaven,19:35 where Christ sits in the place of honor at god's right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of this earth. For you died to this life, and your real19:47 life is hidden with Christ in god. I love this verse. It's not something that we have to earn. He's saying because this is true. Because you've been raised to do life, there's some new ways that you should think.19:59 You should think about new realities, not hopes, realities. Jesus has positioned heaven is a reality currently. We have to think in new ways to live according to this new20:11 reality, this this heaven reality because he says, we've died to this life. Says our real life is hidden with Christ. But if there's, like20:23 we said, something the enemy is up to in this world is to take our eyes off of the reality of heaven, get us overly focused on the reality of this world, to get us to die to our spiritual lives in order to live20:35 for this world in opposition of scripture is what the enemy is is luring you and I in with. And that sounds harsh. And we think it would be obvious if we started to do that, but I wonder. If we look20:47 at our week, does our life prove it? Are we dying to this life to live for the next? Do I spend more time on Netflix or in God's word? Are we more concerned with the health20:59 of our physical bodies and the time we spend in the gym or the health of the the local body at our church in helping it to get healthy? Do we give away more money than we spend even on our own21:11 entertainment? Do we listen to more podcasts about politics or health or about money and investment or our hearts tuned in to the things of God. It's 1 thing to say in21:23 our hearts that, man, we're dead to this life and we're living for the next. But if we look at our calendars and consider how we're spending our time, is it lining up? It's sometimes hard to argue that21:34 we've died to this life when we're so clearly living for it. And scripture reminds us, we reap to the flesh to this life. We're just gonna sow death because that's all this world can offer21:46 us. Everything is decaying. Every car is slowly resting, slowly breaking down, slowly becoming outdated. Every phone will be replaced by the next model.21:58 Our physical bodies, as much as we obsess over them, they're just going downhill. I'm not trying to be negative, but termites are gonna eat your house. Moths are gonna eat your clothes. That's why we're encouraged in22:09 Matthew chapter 6 to not store up treasures for ourself here. It's just a losing investment. It's it's like calling your financial planner and saying, I wanna invest in this company. And he goes, every year they're22:20 making less and less and less money. And you go, I know, but it's really fun. I wanna put my money there. Jesus is saying, store your treasures in heaven where nothing can break in and steal. No 1 can steal.22:32 Nothing can cause them to rust or decay. No moths can eat them. And then he reminds us wherever your treasure is, there your heart is. Wherever you're putting the things God entrusted you, your time and your talent and22:43 your treasures, your resources, your heart is going to be there. So let's intentionally, brothers, put those things in the things of God so that our hearts follow after him. Could Jesus22:55 have been more clear in Matthew chapter 6? He's saying you have a choice of what you're going to live for. And it starts by what you allow your heart to value. Right? It starts with what you allow yourself to23:07 think about. By the stuff you're willing to exchange literally your life for, your time in order to earn, in order to purchase. 1 of my favorite places to go is the23:18 dump. I know that sounds very strange. Hear me out. There's something so freeing about going to the dump. I always encounter some powerful truth as I stand there. I23:30 also love just throwing old crap away and getting rid of stuff. I love emptying the house out of things that we're not using anymore. But as I stand there and I see this giant field full of things. Right? Over there are23:42 the mattresses. Over there are the appliances. Over there is the the television sets. Over there is just trash. As I look out on all this stuff, I think every single thing here at 1 time was23:53 shiny and new. So new in fact that someone traded their lives. Right? The time to earn money to buy. Traded them selves in order to get it.24:05 People had worked and earned and saved and bought, and now it's being placed in a giant trash hole in the ground to be covered up with dirt. Let's24:17 not let's not wait until we're at the end of our lives watching things go into the dump. To join Jesus on the adventure of living for him. The adventure of24:29 generosity, of using what we've been given to bless somebody else. The journey the the radical journey of reading God's word as truths come alive, as as new ways of living are unpacked for us. Or24:41 how about the thrill of learning to hear God's voice? God wants to speak to us as his children. Let's not exchange that for stuff. I don't wanna live for things24:53 headed for a hole in the ground. Let's live for King Jesus. Let's never live smaller than that. I wanna look at 1 more group ofThe Parable of the Talents: Using God's Gifts 25:04 people in scripture that were also missing it. People who I believe were living for Jesus or are supposed to represent those living for Jesus who still were missing it. These are people who were given25:16 gifts and then missed what God had intended them to do with it. So as we've already looked at today, Jesus often taught in parables. He took something people understood25:29 and used that to help explain spiritual truths that people didn't understand yet. It was how he kind of made the unknown known. He always taught this way. In Matthew chapter 25, Jesus is again teaching more stories. He25:41 just told the parable of the bridesmaid. He begins this story, in Matthew chapter 25 verse 14 in the hope that we would learn from it and not similarly miss it. It says again, the kingdom of25:52 heaven can be illustrated by the story of a man going on a long trip. He called together his servants. He entrusted his money to them while he was gone. He gave 5 bags of silver to 1, 2 bags26:04 of silver to the other, 1 bag of silver to the last, dividing it in proportion to their abilities, and then he left on his trip. So the story tells us there's a guy, he's going on a trip, and he wants to26:16 entrust his things for a time to some people to steward them, but he has expectations. He's gonna equip his servants to be able to achieve something26:28 while he's gone. But then he's very clear that he's going to come back and he's gonna discuss how things went. And the first thing we notice is that different amounts were entrusted to each servant26:40 based upon the discretion of the owner. Right? It's an important truth for us to grasp, brother. This is an important place where you and I can easily miss it. When it26:52 comes to the gifts that God's given us, and we're gonna talk about what all those are, but whatever God's entrusted to us, because make no mistake, this parable is about what we've been entrusted by God, that God has27:02 given us things, our abilities, our resources, the influence that we have, whatever wisdom we've gained, our relationships, where we work, where we live, the experiences that we have, the27:14 stuff and the people that we have access to, all of that that's been given to us has been given to us for a reason. But we can be paralyzed as we look around and think that I don't have as much as that. I'm not quite27:26 enough to do that. God decides what is given. I decide what to do with it. I didn't pick to be born where I was born. So many things27:38 that influenced my life was God's sovereignty, God's decision. God decided what I would receive, the family I'd be born into. My job is to humbly, prayerfully, and obediently discern27:49 what he wants me to do with it. So many men are stifled and sidelined by the comparison trap. I mean, I don't I'm not as gifted as he is.28:02 I don't have as much influence as he does. I certainly don't have as many resources as he does, and that's where the enemy wants you and I to stay stuck. That analysis paralysis, the comparison trap.28:14 It gives us a reason to stop before we even try to start doing something with what God's given us. Brothers, at the end of your life, God is not going to ask you why you weren't like Moses. Why didn't you act more like28:25 Billy Graham? Why didn't you do what Rick Warren did? He's gonna ask you, son, why didn't you trust me enough to become fully who it is that I made you to be? To28:37 let me make you who I desire to make you. To step into the personality that I gave you. To utilize the stuff that I entrust you. To just be faithful and trust that I28:49 had a plan, son. Look what it says in verse 16. Their servant who received the 5 bags of silver began to invest the money, and he earned 5 more. The servant with 2 went to work, and he29:01 earned 2 more. But the servant who received the 1 bag, here's our guy who's looking around and comparing himself, dug a hole in the ground and hid the master's money. The first29:13 2, 5 and the 2, they they get their stuff, they see the opportunities, and they go to work. They take seriously the master's charge to be about his business while he's gone. They realized that what they29:24 had been given, they had been entrusted for a season and for a reason. There was purpose in it. Do you ever pause to consider just that truth in your life, brothers?29:36 That nothing in your life's a mistake. Now you've gone through some hard things that was not God's desire for you. We live in a broken world where relationships and our health and our finances29:48 are not as God intended this world to feel like. I'm not telling you that all the things in your life have been good. What I'm telling you is, what if you live in the city you do on purpose? What if God placed you at the30:00 company you're in for a mission? What if you're in the family of Orangen that you're in? What if you have the neighbors that you have because God intentionally placed you in those places?30:11 He did. He chose so many of those things. The only question is, what will we do with what he gave us? The first 2 get their gifts, they go to work. The third30:23 servant received the gift, he doesn't go to work. And I don't know why. Scripture doesn't really tell us why. He could have been self conscious like we said. Right? Comparing himself, I don't have as much as these. He30:35 could have figured my impact, how big can it be? Even if I double my 1 bag, I I only get up to what he started with. Figured my impact is gonna be minimal. Either way, he missed it.30:47 He missed the chance to just go to work, to just be faithful, to just do what the Lord was calling him to do. And instead, he starts to cook up lame excuses. Right? The the the the rich man comes back31:00 and it's accounting time. He wants to know what everybody's done and the first 2 he sees how they've grown and he praises them. Well done. Well done. And then the third starts off with an excuse.31:12 Then the servant with the 1 bag of silver came and said, master, I knew you were a harsh man. That's how he starts explaining why he didn't do anything. It's your fault31:23 because I know that you're harsh. Harvesting crops you didn't plant, gathering crops you didn't cultivate. I was afraid. So first he blames, then he exposes his fear. I was afraid I would lose your31:35 money, and so I hid it in the earth. Look. Here's your money back. He blames and then he claims fear. Right? In this kind of weird dance that he's31:47 doing, he tries to explain it's your fault while I've been lazy. I mean, he's missing it, brothers. And the master is not having it. And there's not there's not a loving rebuke here. Look at31:59 what he's the master says in verse 26. The master replied, you wicked and lazy servant. Those are not 2 words I wanna hear in my life, especially not from the Lord. If you knew I harvested crops I didn't plant and32:11 gathered crops I didn't cultivate, why don't you deposit my money in the bank? At least then I could have gotten some interest on it. And he says, take the money from this servant, give it to the 1 with the 10 bags the32:22 most. To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given. They'll have an abundance. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken32:33 away. Now this useless servant throw this useless servant into the outer darkness where there'll be weeping and gnashing of teeth. It's a gnarly response. Wicked, lazy, takes the money,32:45 gives it to the 1 who had been faithful. It just proves to us, guys, that in our lives, anything we've been given, we were given for a purpose. Anything God has32:57 entrusted to us in his absence, he's entrusted to us with a purpose, for a reason, with a kingdom intention. God's purposes always carry with33:09 them expectation. Expectation not of performance and perfection, but of obedience. God expects that we'll be obedient to use33:21 what he gave us. But I don't even really wanna focus on missing it by being lazy or missing it by making excuses. I just wanna focus what is it that he missed out on?Show more In this video 0:00 Missing the Mark: The Rich Young Ruler24:59 The Parable of the Talents: Using God's Gifts33:32 Living for the Eternal: A Call to ActionComments No comments yet. 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