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The Call to Multiply Salvation 0:01 Welcome to the men's global livestream. If you have a Bible, hold a spot in Matthew chapter 25. That is the key text for this session and actually for our0:12 entire series that we're calling multiply. Now just by way of review, when you multiply anything, there's gonna be more of whatever that thing is, not0:24 less. So when Jesus, in the context of talking about his return, is telling a story about a master and 3 servants who the master0:36 gives money to to manage while he is away, and then he returns to see what they did with what he gave them. The headline is this, what0:48 did you do with what I gave you? Or in other words, did you multiply what I entrusted you with? In part 1, if you're joining us for the first time, we just looked with kind of1:00 fresh eyes at the master's heart in the parable of the talents and the servant who understood it. We also identified 5 specific things that God has given every1:11 believer that he wants us to multiply. And just by way of review, what are those 5 things? Life and existence, salvation, relationships, natural and spiritual1:23 gifts, and material resources. So if you're joining us for the first time, we're gonna unpack Jesus's words from Matthew 25. We're now looking at the second1:35 area that we've identified, salvation today, and then how we can multiply our salvation that God has entrusted to us practically. Why? So that we1:47 can hear those same words that servants 1 and 2 in the parable of the talents are. Well done, my good and faithful servant. So let's look today at how1:59 God wants us to multiply salvation and to get us thinking in the right direction for today's time. I want you to think about a phrase that you probably heard, and the phrase is this, when opportunity2:11 knocks. Right? It just means that we are given moments when there is a chance for something really good and really meaningful2:23 to happen, if we make the right choice. I love the quote by Oscar Wilde, the famous Irish playwright and poet when he says, when opportunity knocks,2:35 make sure the door is not locked. When opportunity knocks, answer the door. A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. So2:47 we don't want to be pessimists. We want to respond properly to when opportunity knocks and we want to make sure that our door is not locked when God gives us2:59 something to multiply and gives us an opportunity to please our master. Now, when talking about opportunity knocking, sometimes when opportunity knocks, it's disguised3:11 and soft, and we really have to be paying close attention. Okay? Other times, the the opportunity just swack. It just it's just right in the face, and we don't really3:23 have to wonder about, well, should I recognize that or respond it to that? Why is that important? Because the Bible says in Revelations chapter 3 verse 20,3:35 Jesus is talking and he says behold I stand at the door and knock and if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into3:47 him and be with him and he with me. Wow. So there's the most amazing door knock opportunity that's been3:59 ever given to any person is to open the door and there is the King of the universe and the King of Salvation who wants relationship with us. Now how does that4:11 Jesus knocking, opportunity knocking, making the right choice relate to our theme multiply and to you personally as God's men. Well, the Bible says that any4:23 person who chooses, listen, to begin a relationship with Jesus Christ and eternally continue that relationship with Jesus Christ,4:36 that decision is a magnitude 8 earthquake on the opportunity scale. Alright? We're going to look at this verse in our study but I want us to hear God's4:47 word speak into this when it says, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who works in you to will and4:59 to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. We're going to unpack that in greater detail but what we want to set forth here at the outset of this session on how to multiply our5:11 salvation is this, God's word says that there is a moment initially when Jesus invites you into a relationship and you say yes to that relationship, but then what5:23 happens? There will be moments continually to multiply that relationship into so much more. And I believe that you and I are together right5:34 now looking at God's word is because we are up for that multiplication. Opportunity is knocking and our door is unlocked, and we're gonna open that door. So today, we're going to go back to the parable of the talents.5:46 We're going to take a look at the third servant's response to the master appearing and holding him accountable for what he's been given, and then what we're5:58 gonna do is we're just gonna paint some pictures from scripture on what it looks like to multiply our salvation. Then we're gonna wrap it up by looking at the specific transformations6:11 that multiply our salvation. So let's remind ourselves on your downloaded notes, make sure you download those. Let's remind ourselves from the downloaded notes what multiply means and it simply means6:23 to make more or become greater progressive growth in size, amount, or intensity. Alright. Now with6:34 that definition firmly in mind, let's roll the film as Jesus introduces us to the second and third servants in the parable of the talents, the story where the master has6:46 entrusted his servants to multiply. We roll the film beginning in Matthew chapter 25 verse 22. The man with 2 bags of gold also6:58 came. Master, he said, you entrusted me with 2 bags of gold. See, I've gained 2 more. His master replied, well done. Good and faithful servant. You've been faithful with a7:10 few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness. Then the man who had received 1 bag of gold came.7:21 Master, he said, I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid, and7:33 went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you. His master replied, you wicked, lazy servant.7:45 So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed. Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers so that when I returned, I would have7:57 received it back with interest. So Jesus introduces us in this section of the parable of the talents to8:09 the second and to the third servant. And what we want to do right now is we want to look at that third servant because the second servant essentially is a mirror of the first8:20 servant. He was just given maybe a little less quantity, but he managed it and multiplied it the same way. It's the third servant where we observe 4 areas8:32 of, I'm just going to call it bad thinking, bad thinking about God, bad thinking about self, bad thinking about what God had given him, and bad thinking about8:44 the future moment and return of the master. So let's simply unpack some of the thinking of the third servant, all right? And the first8:56 area of bad thinking is this, write this down, He didn't know the master's heart, Okay? And we we read about this. There, he assumed something, and9:08 he went with that assumption, and he missed the opportunity to multiply and please the master. Have you ever done that? Have you ever made a big choice based on the9:20 wrong assumption? I mean, I don't know about you but isn't that everyone's worst nightmare? And and here is the third servant, he assumed9:33 things about the master, really didn't understand the master's heart, and then to make it worse, he proudly parades his choice in front9:45 of the master, Right? And very clearly by the master's response, we can glean 1 imperative. Are you ready for it? Don't do that. Okay? Don't9:56 make assumptions about the master's heart without knowing the reality of the master's heart because then it's setting up a moment after you make bad decisions on bad10:08 assumptions that differ from the reality of the master's heart. So bad thinking regarding knowing the master's heart. Second area is bad thinking regarding discounting10:20 his own efforts. The third servant discounted his own efforts, and he does it in a very kinda kinda sneaky sort of sketchy way where he10:32 excuses his own personal efforts and lack of multiplication. Listen to this. Because of the master's great power and10:44 and and almost sovereignty. Right? By his excuse when he says, you know, I know that you're a hard man, and, you harvest where you have not sown and gather10:56 where you have not scattered seeds. So, you know, I was afraid I went out. I I I just hit the goal, the gold in the ground. And and and here, here's here's what blocked you. Translation, you know,11:08 your power and your greatness is so so awesome. You don't need me. Right? My efforts are gonna do very little. They're not gonna be missed.11:20 They're not gonna tip the scale. They won't make that big of a difference. Now, whatever his motives were, whether he believed that or whether it was just, 0, 0,11:31 0, I guess that wasn't the right thing to do. Right? Jesus does not let him off the hook with this horrible11:43 logic. The logic of I'm sovereign and powerful, you're not, so you should be lazy about what I've given you and not multiply it. Right?11:55 Jesus, through the response of the master who returns in the parable of the talents is saying, hey, listen, My sovereignty and my power is12:07 never an excuse for poor stewardship of what I've given you. Let the paint dry on that 1. I mean, these are pretty strong words,12:19 but those strong words come in response to really bad thinking about the master's heart and about his own efforts. The third area of bad thinking is that he12:30 diminished what god had been God gave him, what had been given to him. Like he he was given so much and if you remember from part 2, a12:42 talent was 6000 pounds, okay, of silver or gold. Okay. So it wasn't it wasn't a little. It was a lot. Now proportionally, it was12:54 less than servant number 1 and servant number 2, but servant number 3 was given a lot. And and what I like about this is that stewardship is individual. I may not have as much13:06 as the guy over there or even the guy over there, but I still have been given a lot from God. Right? And so13:18 he possesses so much, but he acts like he has so little. And Jesus doesn't let let him off the hook. And and just13:30 by way of application, you know, you might think, well, I don't I don't have as much as that guy over there. I don't have as but in god's eyes, you do have a lot. You've13:42 been given much. You've been given life. You've been given salvation. You've been given a set of relationships. You've been given natural and spiritual gifts. You've been given some13:54 material provision. Right? And in God's eyes, it's a lot, it's not a little. So the third servant diminished what his14:05 master had given him, and even there he had given him a lot, but he possessed it like he like he had nothing. Okay. The fourth area of bad thinking14:18 is that he delayed his readiness. Jesus labels him lazy. Okay. His laziness, his14:29 lack of attention, basically communicated to the master. You know, like, what you give me is not it's not important enough to be energetic about. Woah.14:41 Okay. You can, you can tell why there's a little bit of energy in in the master. The master sees it as I've given you stuff that's super valuable,14:53 and your thinking is that it's not so important what what you've given to me. And when we we kind of pull back, when we pull back from these observations15:05 and and this bad thinking of the third sermon, we have to put ourselves right in the shoes of the third servant. How are we thinking15:17 about the master's heart regarding what he gives us? Are we discounting our own efforts, phoning in our multiplication, our call to multiply what he's given15:29 us because, you know, it's just a drop in the bucket? You know? Are we diminishing in any way what God has given us? And are we15:40 delaying our readiness? He's coming. And are we thinking the wrong way? Are we thinking, like, thoughts that are low and unworthy of what he's15:52 given, when God says what he's given us is super valuable and super worthy of our energy and our expression? So the questionPictures of Continuous Transformation 16:04 is, how? How how am I? How are you? How are we as God's men around the world gonna be responsible with what God has given us specifically now16:16 as we kinda turn the page in the area of salvation. Well, this passage from God's word sort of pokes at this. It's second Corinthians 5 15, and I want us to to read this16:28 together. It's gonna be on your screen. And it says this, and he died for all, that those who live should no longer16:40 live for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised again. Well, there's your answer to how we're gonna be responsible with16:52 what Jesus did for us to save us. Right? We're gonna switch. We're gonna make a pivot. We're gonna stop living for ourselves17:04 and we are going to start living for the 1 who loved us and gave himself for us. We're gonna multiply our salvation17:17 by transforming the way we live on a continuous basis. And so that's where we're gonna go to next. We wanna look at some pictures of17:30 and encouragements from God's Word that go to our theme of multiplying our salvation through continuous transformation. And so we're gonna look at a17:42 couple a couple passages from God's word that sort of paint some pictures. The first 1 is in Philippians chapter 2 verses 12 and 13 and it says this, continue to work17:54 out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.18:06 There's 1 picture. Now let's look at some other pictures, and we find those in Colossians 2 6 through 8. It says this, so then, just as you've received18:18 Christ Jesus as Lord, there is salvation. Continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith18:30 as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. See to it that no 1 takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends18:41 on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. So what we have in just those 218:53 encouragements from God's word is 4 pictures of transformation. And you know, I'm a visual person and so I like pictures that are painted, and we just kinda wanna touch on those,19:06 briefly. The first picture that we see is that is this, and write this down, we work out what God has worked in. Right? That's the Philippians passage that says to continue to work out19:17 your salvation with fear, and trembling. I want you to notice that it doesn't say work for your salvation because Jesus19:29 did that. He accomplished. He did the work to to accomplish your salvation. Alright? It's not work for, it's work out what he's already19:41 done. Multiply it, right? And then it says, your salvation, very individual. I'm not working out his salvation or my wife's salvation or my kid's salvation. Whose19:53 salvation are you working out? Yours, highly individual, just like in the parable of the talents, where the first servant was entrusted with a proportion, the second20:05 servant, a proportion, the third servant, a proportion, but they were all measured the same way. Did they multiply what God had given? Okay? So we work out what God has20:17 working in. And I just want to to make sure that you understand that we're not supposed to be walking on eggshells. Some of you could read work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Fear and trembling is a Hebrew20:27 expression that that suggests being in awe of God's goodness. Now, that's a little different motivation. Gratitude is a little bit of20:39 different motivation than being afraid. Okay? Some world religions make you afraid, that you're going to displease God and somehow he's going to judge you for what you20:51 didn't do. And then your salvation goes away. Right? That's not Christianity. Christianity, Jesus did the work. He accomplished our salvation.21:03 And when we say yes to his person and his work of salvation on our behalf with gratitude, we then pursue working out what21:15 he has worked into us and accomplished for us. Right? Secondly, the second picture that we see is we grow down to grow up. It's a great it's a great21:27 picture. It says, so then just as you receive Christ, continue to live your lives in him then it starts gives you this little rooted in him and built up in him. So there's this this21:39 down to go up. Right? And if you know anything about rooting trees, a tree has to grow down before it grows up. If it just grows up, when the winds come, knocks over the tree. But if a tree is21:50 rooted, if the tap root goes down deep, right, if the lateral roots go and you can't see any of this, Right? Which suggests where our spiritual rooting happens. It's unseen.22:03 It's in the heart. It's in the inner man. It's in the mind. The lateral roots go out. The synchro roots go down. And if you look at an x-ray of a tree, you have the ground, and22:15 you have the tree up here, and then you see this network of the main tap root going down, the lateral roots going out. Right? And now it has the strength22:26 and stability now to grow up. And when the storms come, if it's well rooted, built up, strengthened, and and the Bible talks about22:38 how we're rooted in him, built up in him. So this picture of transformation, of rooting, going down, you know, multiplying your salvation through transformation so that22:50 you can be built up in him. The third picture, write this down, is we transform to overflow. The next little picture says, strengthened23:02 in faith as you were taught and overflowing with thankfulness. Right? I am transformed from within. I'm strengthened from23:14 within in my inner man, in God's love, in my identity, in this inner security I have in God's love, and I'm strengthened in the faith23:26 as I learn it, as I learn the truth from God's word and from Christ, and then what happens? Right? I'm transformed from the inside out and that transformation now becomes visible23:38 and begins to overflow. So I'm transformed to overflow. Think about water flowing into a pot and the level coming23:50 up, and now that it's filled up, there's an expression of spillover. Okay? That's the picture of what transformation should be doing. There's transformation from the24:02 inside out, and it's just naturally spilling over. So we work out what god has worked in. We grow down to grow up. We transform to overflow. And then there's a a pretty severe warning here at the end, and24:13 this is the picture. We manage the mind to multiply focus. Now, if you're living and hearing my words today,24:25 you live in a digital time, you live in the information age, you live in the age of artificial intelligence, you live in a24:37 time where there is, an overwhelming amount of information bombarding you, and a lot of it is aimed at24:49 who you are, how you should live, what you should believe, how you should behave. It wants to give you an identity, and the warning here, if you want to multiply25:01 salvation for transformation, is that is that you have to have a serious disciplined mind, and you have to know what the marshmallow stuff is, and the fluff is, and the lie25:13 is, versus the truth. And you have to focus on, okay, what's true? What do I need to depend on? What information do I allow in? That's why it says, see to25:25 it. Okay? That's an imperative. Right? Okay. Like, alright. Pay attention. Listen. See to it. Like, elevate this to a high priority. Don't25:37 be deceived by lies, by the hollow and deceptive philosophies, which depend on what man thinks,25:48 and what the flesh in the world, and culture, and the devil think. Rather, and that's how the scripture finishes, you might want to start, rather than on Christ. So here's there's26:00 4 pictures really quickly of working out what God is working in, continuous transformation. Grow down to grow up. Right? Continuous transformation. Strengthening in the faith. Right?26:12 Transform to overflow. Okay? Getting strengthened in the faith and then you overflow naturally. Right? And then just we're transforming by having our minds depending26:24 and focusing and depending on the the words and truth of Christ, right? And so we get these pictures. Now, just in26:35 case, you know, if you were you were cloudy up to this point in our session on, gosh, you know, this this this transformation thing, it's it's kind of important. Well, the Bible states it in black and white. It's26:47 on the notes on the bottom of page 1, Galatians chapter 6 verse 15. I'd like for us to read this together. It's gonna be on the screen. Ready? It doesn't matter whether26:59 we've been circumcised or not. What counts is whether we've been transformed into a new creation. So it's getting27:11 clarity on what doesn't matter and what does matter to God, and then again, we go back to the third servant and he was thinking bad. We don't want to think bad about what really matters27:23 versus what doesn't matter. And and God's word is telling us right now that what doesn't matter is religious behavior and image.27:35 The object lesson there on this is circumcision because the book of Galatians was written to people who thought, You know what? I got to project the outward image, so I got to have the outward27:47 surgery of circumcision if I'm believing in Jesus just as a sign outwardly that something inward has has happened. And the Bible states27:59 emphatically, it's not what you do on the outside. The Kingdom of God is something that is internal and is to be received into a man. Right? So outer mal28:11 outer behavior, outer religious behavior doesn't matter the size of your bible, doesn't matter even how tattered it is, it doesn't matter, how many times a week you go to church, it doesn't matter.28:23 That's all spiritual disciplines that pour gas on the real process, which is transformation. Right? Those disciplines, they're28:35 important, but they're not primary. What's primary is your inner transformation, and we're going to get into that, right, of your heart and mind. That is how you multiply28:46 your salvation. It says that God works in us. Alright, to act and to will according to his good pleasure.28:58 But that comes out of a connection to Jesus. He opportunity knocks, he woos us, we say yes, We invite him into our life, and what we're going to get into now isShow more In this video 0:00 The Call to Multiply Salvation16:03 Pictures of Continuous Transformation29:10 Practices for Christ-Like Living and SharingComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
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