Will God find you doing
Will God find you doing?
When God comes back will He find you doing all that you should be doing for Him? Maybe today, or in 6 months, a years or two.
Today we are going to talk about the Parable of the Talents and how it emphasizes the need for personal preparation and faithful service to God.
Let’s take it a step further; what are you going to do with what God has given you? Matt. 25:14-28
I. Each of us as Christians is given gifts, abilities from God as well as duties to perform. Verse 15
A. What will you do with what God has given you?
B. Some of us have the gift to make money. While others have the gift to talk with people. The gifts go on and on.
1. Larry Jackson once told me about his ministry.
C. God wants us to read the Bible, go to church, study the Word.
1. Will He find you doing these things?
2. Will He find you using your gifts?
D. Notice that God gives different amounts of faith and different gifts to different people.
II. God expects us to us them. Verse 26
A. The things God has given you are you using them for Him.
B. Philippians 1:6, 6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
C. God see our potentials just like the potter see the clay for what it will become before he changes it.
1. A person once said to the Artist who had done a great sculpture, you have great talent and the Artist said no, that he only chipped off the rough edges, it was there all the time.
2. That is what God is doing with us right now.
D. God call me to go into the ministry, what if I had not went into biking, I would not be here today.
III. There is punishment if we do not use what God has given us, and rewards if we do them. Verse 29-30
A. Matthew 12:36,36 But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
1. I am going to start this, I am going to do that, I plan on doing this.
2. I plan on getting closer to God.
3. I plan to read the Bible or do some devotion.
B. 2 Corinthians 5:10,10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
C. The more you use what God has given you, the more God will bless you for using them. (Matt. Verse 20-23)
D. Look in verse 19; The master took a long time before he came back.
1. Some of us get tired of waiting for Christ return.
2. We stop doing for God and fall to the side.
3. James 2:18-20,18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
4. Don’t be like the virgins in Matt 25:1 which let their lamps go out while waiting for Christ return.
Conclusion: What has God given you and what will you do with it.
It is time to get busy with what He has given you.
Remember it is all about others and not about you.
I heard a preacher on TV last night that said the same thing.
Sunday Morning Biker Service 6/12/05