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The Call to Multiply: Focusing on Relationships 0:01 Welcome to the men's global livestream. If you have a Bible, hold a spot in Matthew 25. That is where our key passage is for this series that we're doing called multiply. Now just by0:13 the word multiply, if you multiply anything, there's more, not less of whatever that thing is. So when Jesus, teaching in the context of his return,0:25 is telling a story about a master who gives a pretty big chunk of change to 3 of his servants and then returns to see what the servants did with what he gave them. The0:36 headline is this, what did you do with what I gave you? Now what we're doing in this series, if you're joining us for the first time, we're looking afresh at the master's0:48 heart, at Jesus's heart. Because in the story, the master is Jesus and the servant is you and I. And so we're looking at the master's heart in the parable of the talents and1:00 specifically, the servants who understood the master's heart and the servant who didn't quite get the master's heart and watching the master respond to the servants who got1:12 him and the servants who really didn't understand him. We have also identified in this series 5 areas that God has entrusted to every man1:24 that he desires for us to multiply. And by way of review, those are life, that is salvation, that is relationships1:36 God has entrusted to us, natural and spiritual gifts, and then the fifth 1 is material resource. So life, salvation, relationships, natural and spiritual gifts, and then the last1:47 1 is material resources and that'll be in part 5. So if you're with us, for the first time, we're unpacking the way we're going about each session is1:59 we're unpacking Jesus's words and then we'll look at that specific area that God has entrusted to us and then we'll get really practical in how to multiply2:11 that in real time, listen, while we're here on earth so that, okay, keywords. So that, here's the payoff, you and I2:23 can hear those words when our heart stops beating, we go to meet with the master. Well done, good and faithful servant. Alright? Now,2:35 for this next session, let me get you thinking in the right direction by asking you a question. Actually creating a scenario. Imagine it's your celebration2:47 of life, it's your memorial. Okay? Your heart is stopped, you've gone to be with the Lord, and people are gathering at some church or some location to celebrate your life.2:59 Question, what will they talk about the most? Now, as a person who's done hundreds of celebrations of life and hundreds of memorials,3:11 I will tell you what they will not be talking about. They will not be talking about your bank balance. They will not be talking about where you went on vacation. They will not be talking3:23 about what your golf handicap was. They're not gonna be talking about what kind of car you drove, what brands of clothing you wore, or if you're an influencer, your vast social3:34 media following. They're not gonna be talking about any of those things. But I'll tell you what people will be talking about. They'll be talking about the quality of your relationships.3:47 In fact, they will talk about it at length if the quality of your relationships on earth were healthy and loving? How did you love people? How did3:59 you serve your family? How did you serve other people in your life? Did you know that the same is true with God when you land on the other side of heaven? So there's a celebration of4:11 life, going on down here, and then there's a celebration of your life that's going on the second you die and you go to heaven, God's gonna say, okay, you're in.4:23 Now let's talk about what you did with the relationships I placed strategically in your life. Did you love people4:36 the way I loved you? You see, if you believe that that when you die you're going to have a meeting with God and there will be like the master in the parable of the4:48 talents, a review of what God has trusted you with. And he's gonna ask the question, how did you invest in and multiply the relationships I've given you? Then5:00 while you're here, if you're smart, you are gonna discipline yourself toward the relationships and people God has placed in your5:11 life, and you will do whatever it takes to love and serve them the way God has loved and served you. So in this5:23 session, we're gonna talk about getting relationships right in order to prepare for heaven. Right. So let's start as we have each time by unpacking a little bit more of theStewardship and the Eternal Test 5:35 message of the parable of the talents. If you have your downloaded notes, and I encourage you to do that, at the top, we have the word multiply and then a passage of scripture. So to multiply5:47 simply means to make more of or become greater progressive growth in size, amount, or intensity. Okay? That's key in this series. Alright?5:59 God's entrusted us things and we want what he's entrusted to us to grow in size, in amount, in quality, and in intensity. Alright. Let's go to the passage of scripture where we're gonna add a little6:11 bit more. Each time we've added a little bit more from the parable of the talents to get some foundational thoughts down. So we're gonna look at Matthew 25 19 to 21 and 28 and6:22 29. After a long time, the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. The man who had received 5 bags of gold brought the other 5. Master, he said,6:34 you entrusted me with 5 bags of gold. See, I have gained 5 more. The master replied, well done, good and faithful servant. You've been faithful with a few things. I will6:46 put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness. So take the bag of gold from him who hid his 1 talent6:58 in the ground and give it to the 1 who has 10 bags. For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have even what they have7:10 will be taken from them. And so in this passage, what we've added is we've seen the servant who understood the master's heart and multiplied and then we see the master's7:22 response to not multiplying what was entrusted to servant number 3 and the master says, take the bag of gold or take the talent of gold7:34 from him and give it to the 1 who has 10 bags. You see, there's a displacement. Because of the mis stewardship of what was given to him,7:46 he's not worthy of stewarding that anymore. And so that that amount is given then to the good steward of what the master has entrusted. So some7:58 observations that we wanna make are that in this life, number 1, every man is given his portion. You have your portion to steward8:10 and it's not the amount that counts, it's how you invest in and multiply what was given that the master is concerned with. I'm gonna say it again. It's not the amount that you've been8:21 given, it's how did you invest what I gave you and invest in what I gave you and multiply what was given, whether it's your life, your salvation, your relationships, your natural and8:33 spiritual gifts, or your material resources. Number 2, every man is responsible to God for it. Alright? It being your portion.8:45 So it's entrusted to you. It's God's. He's given it to you to manage and steward and multiply, and there's only 1 person responsible for what he's given to8:57 you, and that's you. Number 3, every man will report personally. Okay? I'm not gonna report for how you managed your relationships in your9:08 life. You're not gonna report for me on how I managed my relationships in my life. Your parents, your wife, your kids, they're not gonna report for you. They're not9:20 they're not gonna say, man, he was really a good guy. No. You're gonna report for you. Alright? And then number 4, every man will be rewarded or suffer9:32 loss. Okay? Now those those those are 2 opposite results, right? So you re you're given a portion, you're responsible to God for9:44 it, you report personally, and then there's going to come a moment. And we're not talking about losing your salvation or not being able to get into heaven, that's not what we're talking about. You're in, just like I9:56 talked about at the top, but it's okay. Now that you're in, let's do a little review on what happened down there on Earth. Okay? Now, a picture in the Bible10:08 that is given, the Bible uses parables to talk about your life. So sometimes just talk about talk about like a tree, k, that produces fruit. Sometimes just talk about like a tree that's planted,10:20 next to rivers of of flowing water and and its leaves are green. Other times in the Bible, your life is talked about like a house, and houses get tested. You remember in Matthew10:32 7 when when Jesus says, you know, the man who hears my words and puts them into practice is like a man who built his house on a rock. The winds came and storm blew and and that house stood because it was built on a rock.10:44 Okay? Now the apostle Paul, takes that analogy of stability, foundation, wise building, and he applies10:56 it to the test of having your encounter with your maker, having your personal encounter with God after11:09 you have died and gone to be with the Lord. So you're saved, you're in the presence of God, and now your life symbolically a house is being tested by11:20 fire. Okay? So let's listen very closely to this analogy, that God's word gives us in first Corinthians chapter 3 verses 10 through 15. Paul says this,11:32 by the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder and someone else is building on it. But each 1 should build with care, for no 1 can lay11:44 any foundation other than the 1 already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones,11:57 wood, hay, or straw, their work will be shown for what it is because the day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the12:09 fire will test the quality of each person's work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder12:20 will suffer loss, but yet will be saved even though only as 1 escaping through the fire, through the flames. So12:33 there's that analogy of your life, how you choose to build it, and the quality, I repeat, the quality of the materials that you use to build your life,12:44 which is your choices. What is the nature of your choices? The nature of your choices that you make determine the quality of your life when it gets tested. Okay?12:57 And then you discipline your choices around the day, right, when you meet the Lord, right? Because it says in the passage, because the day will bring it to13:08 light. Bring what to light? How you built your life? How you invested in your life? Did you make good choices? Were they high quality choices that showed love for God and people? Or were they based on feelings, the13:20 world, culture, you know, or what was going on around you? Right? So the clear picture in first Corinthians 3 is a man, God's man13:31 Paul, and he's talking about, man, you know what? God let me into this life by the grace God has given me. K. What does he mean? He means like, man, I got I got into god's family13:43 and now I get to help him through my choices build a life that will last and go past me. My13:55 choices can actually be eternal. They can actually outlive me the choices that I make now. And so then he talks about building a foundation and that foundation is on Jesus. And then the next14:07 choices set of choices, he can use 2 different kinds of materials. He can use gold, silver, costly stones, okay. Now those are durable, those last or14:19 wood, hay or straw. Now when you throw fire on the gold, silver, and costly stones, wood, hay, and straw, 2 different results. Wood, hay, and straw,14:31 and then gold, silver, and costly stones survive the fire and outlast the testing. Okay. So what is Paul saying? Build your life with14:43 care. Think. Build on your life in Christ, there's your foundation, make choices in Christ that14:55 survive the test, right, of eternity, right? Choices that show love toward God, love toward people, that show faith in God's promises, God's15:06 truths, that outlast Earth because there's only 2 things that are going to last, and that's people and God's word. Those go on. So we can make choices right now15:19 based on God's word and people, which are eternal. Okay? And it's not about discomfort. Earth is uncomfortable.15:31 Alright? And while you're here on earth, you can choose the pain of discipline in terms of the choices that you make because it's not always easy to choose that thing15:43 that shows love toward God and love for others. So there's the pain of discipline or you're gonna experience if you don't choose the pain of discipline here on earth and doing those things that show love toward God and15:54 people, you're gonna experience the pain of regret later on the day Paul's talking about. The fire tests your life16:07 or the fire tests your life and what you built survives and goes with you into your eternity. Now think about that, please, just for a second. Earth16:20 and the choices you make on Earth is preparation for eternity. Wow. If that is not a game changer for you, I don't16:32 know what could be. Right? The choices you're gonna make after you watch this and go back into your life, back into your relationships, back into your workplace, back into your ministry, alright, back16:43 into your family, back as a dad, back as a husband, back as a neighbor, back as a boss, back as a business owner, the choices that you make here today,16:56 the next day, the next week, the next year for the scope of your life on the continuum of eternity, which is just a little speck, that little speck of life that you're living 60, 70, 80, 90 years, okay, that17:08 determines the quality of your eternity. And I just have to impress that upon you because in this series multiply, man, you can multiply your17:19 choices and they those choices can go with you or they die with you based on why you made them. So my encouragement, the encouragement of scripture, the encouragement of Jesus in the parable of17:31 the talents is this, choose the pain of discipline now and avoid the pain of regret later. The the servant, the the first servant and the second servant, they chose the pain of discipline now. They risked17:44 multiplying what the master had give them had given them and I'm sure it wasn't, you know, a bowl of cherries and easy. I mean, they had they they risked loss to gain more but they invested in and17:56 invested what they were given. Right? And then on the day, the master returned, man, there was well done. Could it that's what you're gonna have to do. You might have to take a risk with the life you've given.18:08 Right? And so we gotta take that mindset now of the parable of the talents, this picture of the day when we're going to stand before the Lord into the next area of18:19 focus which is multiplying the relationships God has entrusted to us individually by doing what? By spillingShow more In this video 0:00 The Call to Multiply: Focusing on Relationships5:31 Stewardship and the Eternal Test18:22 Spilling Jesus: Loving Others as He Loves Us
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