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The Mandate to Multiply God's Gifts 0:01 Welcome to the men's global livestream. If you have a Bible, I want you to hold a spot in Matthew chapter 25. That's the key chapter for this whole series, which we called multiply.0:13 Now, if you multiply anything, here's what it means. It means that there's going to be more of whatever that thing is, not less. So when Jesus, in the context of talking about his return,0:24 is telling a story about a master and some servants and how the master entrusted his servants with a ton of dough and then goes0:36 away and then the master comes back to see what they did with it. The headline for them and for us is, what did you do with0:48 what I gave you? And in each of these sessions, parts 1 through 5 and now 6, what we're doing is we're taking a fresh look at the master's heart, Jesus's heart in the parable1:00 of the talents, and then we're looking at the servants and their knowledge of the master's heart and their response to being entrusted with the master's1:11 money. And so what we've done is we've then made a connection to us and said, okay, what has God entrusted us with? And while it's not exhaustive, we1:23 have decided that god has entrusted us with life and existence. God has entrusted us with salvation. God has entrusted us with people and relationships. God has entrusted us1:35 with natural talents and spiritual gifts and in part 6, we're going to look at the biggie and it's parallel with the parable of the talents. God's entrusted us with1:47 material resources. Now, why are we looking at this? Because in the parable of the talents, Jesus is the master and we as his followers are his servants, and Jesus1:59 says to the servants after he comes back, well done, good and faithful servant. You've been faithful with a few things. I'm gonna put you in charge2:10 with with many. Come and share your master's happiness. Now, if you're a believing person, those are the words that you wanna hear. So that's why we've done this whole series,2:22 multiply. And today in our final session, we're gonna look at material blessings that God has entrusted us with and how to multiply them. So to2:34 get us thinking in the right direction, I just want to ask you a really simple question. You don't have need to say the answers out loud, but let me ask you a simple question. Would you say that materially2:46 speaking, you have a, a lot, b, just enough, or c, you're struggling. Okay?2:58 So answer that in your own mind. Alright? Hold that thought. Alright? Now let's make matrix it with some facts that are true today. The3:09 global median income was only 2 dollars and 95 cents a day in 19 90. By 20 19, the global median income3:21 per day shot up to an astronomical 7 dollars and 56 cents a day, and that's from Zipia3:33 Research. They track those stats, and I'm glad they did because it gives you a little bit of perspective on maybe not where you live or certainly if you live in the West. But if you look3:44 outside of the developed West into the rest of the world and then you you averaged, what does a person make per day 73:56 and a half billion people, 7 dollars and 56 cents a day. So if you're making above 7 dollars and 56 cents a4:08 day, get this. Alright? I want you to hear me. You're living someone else's dream. Right? There's there's there's somebody who's here at 7 dollars 56 cents, and then they look4:20 at, oh gosh, they make 10 dollars a day, and then the 10 dollar a day person is like, oh my gosh, they make 15 dollars a day, and then another person is like, hey, make 20 dollars a day, and the scale just keeps going on4:30 and on and on and on and on and up and up and up and up after 7 dollars and 56 cents. So if you make more than that, you're living someone else's dream. It's kinda funny to put it into that4:42 that context. Right? Just a little perspective though. I think we need a little bit of perspective on that elusive and that ever present more that most of us4:54 are shooting for and and into this material existence, right, as humans and as believers. Right? Whether we have a lot just enough or5:06 we're struggling, God says this in scripture, in second Corinthians 8 verse 7. He says, see that you excel5:17 in everything, in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness, and in the love we have kindled in you. See that you also excel, listen, in this grace5:30 of giving. Wow. You notice that that God's word doesn't qualify when we're supposed to excel? If you have a lot, you5:42 should excel in it, or if you have just enough, well, maybe you can press the pause button on that until you have enough, or if you're struggling certainly, you you shouldn't have to be5:54 required to excel in this grace of giving, but God's word does not do that. Because in each of those categories, we are commanded in the present active imperative of God's word6:06 to excel in the grace of giving. So just how important is giving to God? Well, it doesn't matter what bucket6:18 you fall on, you should be giving. Also, when we read God's word, we think that that God emphasizes certain things more than than others. For example, the word believe6:30 and the present active imperative, which means a command. Is there 272 times? The word pray in the present active imperative, which is pray, right, is there6:42 371 times? The word love in the present active imperative, right, is used 714 times. So there's 2 x, right? Love over pray. Do you know how many times6:54 the word give is given in the Bible in the present active imperative?7:02 2162 times. Not only is God a giver, but he wants us to become like him7:14 and be givers ourselves. Now I say that as basis for where we're headed because in session 6, we're talking about how do we multiply, right,7:26 eternally the material and financial resources that God has given us? Well, that gives us a little clue right there. So in part 6, we're gonna talk7:38 about multiplying material and financial, resources. So here's here's the way forward. We're gonna review our theme. We're gonna take a fresh look at Matthew 25, make some fresh observations.7:50 Then we're gonna start down this road of talking about and thinking about God and generosity. And then we're gonna finish out by talking about what God's word says8:02 about multiplying material blessing. So let's look on the downloaded notes to find multiply simply means to make more of or become greater. Right?8:14 Progressive growth in size, in amount, or intensity. Okay. So we have to get out there's going to be more. Whatever God has entrusted, he wants us to multiply.8:26 What does that mean? Means we make more of it. What we have becomes greater. It grows in size amount and intensity. Okay? Now, let's go right back to our core passage in Matthew8:38 25 and let's take a fresh look. Now some of these these path these verses we've we've said but we're gonna see some fresh looks. Alright? Let's let's read Matthew chapter 25Faithful Service: Risking for the Master's Heart 8:50 verses 24 to 27. The servant given 1000 said, master, I know you have high standards and hate careless ways that9:02 you demand the best and make no allowances for error. I was afraid. I might disappoint you, so I found a good hiding place, and I secured your money. Here it is, safe and9:14 sound. Down to the last cent. The master was furious. That's a terrible way to live. It's criminal to live9:25 cautiously like that. If you knew that I was after the best, why did you do less than the least? Right? And then he goes on to share, you could just put it in the bank and gotten me9:37 some interest. But what I but what I wanna do, the fresh look, the final fresh look on this Matthew 25 passage in the parable of the talents is that you can learn9:49 by by contrast what is faithful and what is not faithful. Now, in in parts 1 through 5, we've seen servants 1 and 2, right? They're10:01 the gold star, they they did it the right way. They understood the heart of the master, they they moved to please the master by multiplying what he had10:13 entrusted to them, and and then you have the third dude, and he takes a little bit a different approach and his thinking is a little bit different, but we can learn by what10:25 he did and the master, parenthetically, Jesus's response to him, right? What good and faithful is not. And just10:37 pro tip, when you're studying the Bible, we learn just as much by contrast as we do by direct revelation. So the servant, the third servant is what we10:48 learn. Oh, see see him? Jesus not pleased, master not pleased. He came back not pleased. So let's study the third servant and let's see what faithful is not. Alright?11:00 Number 1, faithful is not fearful. Write that down. Right? He's like, I was afraid. Okay?11:13 Right there. Servants 1 and 2, good and faithful. Right? Servant 3, I was afraid, he says. Afraid what?11:24 That I might disappoint you. And by Jesus's response, it wasn't like all the risk, you know, was was born by the third servant. It's just like, you know, I don't want to11:36 disappoint you. I was going to take a risk, and what if I didn't get, you know, what if I didn't multiply, and, you know, servants 1 and 2 had the same risk factor. It's just that in faith, understanding the master's11:48 heart, they thought, well, if we disappoint him, we're going to disappoint him while daring greatly. It reminds me of that Theodore Roosevelt quote, and we're gonna put it12:00 on the screen. It says, what counts is the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly,12:12 who errs, who comes short again and again, who spends himself in a worthy cause, and who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and12:24 who at the worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly so that his place will never be with those cold, timid souls who neither know12:36 victory or defeat. Isn't that the third servant? Right? He didn't even dare to try, so he'll never12:48 know. He knew neither victory nor defeat, and I just believe the master's heart was like, okay, you might disappoint me, but if you disappoint me while daring greatly,13:01 you know, that's okay. You know, at least you took the risk because you knew my heart. But in the in the case of servants 1 and 2, they they did risk, you know13:13 not giving their master back more, but guess what? Because they dared, they now knew in the end the triumph of multiplication. The third servant, he'll never know because he13:25 never took the risk. So faithful, good and faith is not fearful. Secondly, faithful is not doing the minimal, okay? That's the third servant. What do13:37 we see him doing? Okay? I mean I I don't know if he even does the minimal because the master says, you know, the minimal you could have done is put it in the bank, got me some some interest and multiply it, maybe just13:49 just a hair. But the third servant's like, I'm gonna hide it. I'm, you know, I'm not gonna risk it. I'm gonna hide it. And then when he14:01 comes back, I'll just give it. Right? Not more because I hid it, but not less because I hid it. So it's sort of like, I'm I'm just going to hide it and forget it.14:13 Right? When he comes back, I'll go to the spot, give him his money back, then I won't disappoint him. Right? Well, we learn because of the furious response of the14:24 master, who in this parable is Jesus when he returns, right, that faithful is not doing the minimal. Number 3, faithful is not14:37 courting the comfortable. And we we get that both in what the third servant did and in the response of the master to the third servant. He says, that's14:49 a terrible way to live. It's criminal to live cautiously like that. And so you see that the master, Jesus, in15:00 entrusting his servants with with what he gave them I mean, he he wants them to risk. And anytime there's a risk, you don't know the outcome before15:12 the fact. Right? I mean, that's what it means to risk. But the parable says good and faithful. Alright? But faith is risking15:24 before the fact, not knowing the outcome before the fact. They can't know. They can be persuaded or they might they might go, man, if I invest in this, I'm really persuaded, but they can't know. They have to do it15:36 in faith. And so what we want to learn from this fresh take, doing study by contrast on the third servant, is that faithful is not fearful. Faithful is15:48 not doing the minimal. Right? Phoning it in, just same. Right? The master returns, same. Okay? That's not16:00 faithfulness. And faithful is not courting the comfortable. There's attention to it. And actually, I'm glad Jesus tells us the truth about what it means to follow him, that there will16:12 be a healthy tension because the relationship requires faith. In fact, he says in Mark 8 35, he says this, for whoever would save his life, there's your third servant, will lose it.16:25 But whoever loses his life for my sake and the Gospels will save it. Okay. So Jesus is saying there's a tension. Okay? Yeah. You16:36 you you might disappoint me risking you know, you might disappoint yourself. You're not gonna disappoint me if you risk in my direction, and that's what faithful is. Let's we did what faithful is not. It's not fearful16:47 doing the minimal according to comfortable. Faithful is, and write this down on your downloaded notes, risking in the direction of the master's heart. That is the clear message16:58 of the parable of the talents. Okay? Could servants 1 and 2 have lost what he entrusted to them? Of course. But they risked in the direction of the master's heart. They knew the17:10 master's heart. They knew, like, he's gonna want me to multiply. He's gonna want me to see more. And that's really kind of the the kingdom word for you and me17:22 is the master's returning. He's entrusted us with things, life and existence, salvation, relationships, natural talents, spiritual gifts, material17:34 resources, relationships. What did we do with what he gave us? Did we risk to multiply what he's given us17:46 in those dimensions because we know his heart? Okay. So faithful is risking in the direction of the math. And those are the words we wanna hear. Right? So now we back it up and we go, okay. What's my job17:58 now as modeled by servants 1 and 2 where there's joy in the servant, joy in the master, joy in the reward. It's, you know what? I'm going to risk18:11 in the direction of what I know to be the master's heart. So in part 6, today's session of multiply, we want to pay close attention. Right? We're gonna learn18:23 the master's heart in a powerful way so that we can model, we can see the model, see what he models, and then what he models for us is18:34 meant for us, then we know that we can risk in that direction of his heart. And on your notes, it says experiencing God is experiencing generosity. When youShow more In this video 0:00 The Mandate to Multiply God's Gifts8:39 Faithful Service: Risking for the Master's Heart18:44 Embracing God's Extravagant GenerosityComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
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