And so God is gonna be there for us, but here's the thing, our walk with God's a two-way street.
It's not a one-way valve, it's a two-way street. He said draw an eye to God and He'll draw an eye
to you, you know, and if we're faithful to Him, then He's gonna be there for us when we need Him.
Are you there for Him when He needs you? He needs you to be faithful to the house of God.
He needs you to be faithful, soul-winning. He needs you to be faithful, serving Him. He's
committed to us the ministry of reconciliation. You know, of course, the Calvinists would hear
that and say like, "Well, I mean, he doesn't need us for anything." Why don't we all just
die then? We're all dirt, okay? Thank you, Calvinists. None of us matters. We're all
expendable. We're all dirt. Why are we even here? You know, that's not what the Bible...
You know, the Bible teaches me that if our Gospel be hid, it's hid to them that are lost,
and He's committed to us the ministry of reconciliation, and that He wants us to be
faithful. Let me ask you, why would God want us to be faithful if He's not even relying on us anyway?
Some of you guys, it's like, hey, you know, Raymond, Brother Sigoura, you know, Corbin,
man, I need you guys to be faithful. I need you. Why do I need you guys to be faithful? Corbin,
why do I need you to be faithful? Because I'm relying on you, right? Think about it.
What if I didn't need these guys for anything? What if I just did everything myself, took care
of everything myself, and everything they were doing was extra? Everything they're doing is bonus
because I got it all figured out all by myself. Would it make sense for me to be like, "Man,
I need you guys to be reliable"? No, because whether they show up or not, it's going to get
done anyway, right? No, no. I need them to be reliable because I'm relying on them. I mean,
think about it. Moses went up in the mount. He's relying on Aaron. Am I right? And Aaron let him
down. But he's relying on Aaron. Aaron needed to be faithful. See, when you have employees,
you rely on those employees, so you need them to be reliable. And God says, "I'm committing to you
the ministry of reconciliation. I'm trusting you to preach the gospel. I'm trusting you to be a
witness for Christ. I'm trusting, look, if your gospel is hid, it's hid to them that are lost.
I'm trusting you. I'm relying on you." That's why he says, "It's required in stewards that a man be
found faithful." What is a steward? Now, that's a word that we probably don't use very much in 2021,
but a steward is someone who you trust with everything. Like, for example, in the Bible,
you have the story about Joseph, where Potiphar just relies on him to take care of everything.
Potiphar doesn't know how much money's in his bank account. All he knew was the food on his plate,
and he just left everything for Joseph to handle. He trusted Joseph. He relied on Joseph. Joseph was
Potiphar's steward. Does everybody understand what that word means? Joseph was the steward of
Potiphar's household. So it'd be like if I had a guy that worked in my home, and he runs my checking
account, and he deposits my paycheck, and he pays all the bills, and he basically, you know, makes
sure that everything's accounted for, and he does my taxes. Now look, wouldn't you want that to be
someone that you could trust? You know, if you're going to bring somebody in and kind of have them
handle everything, you know, if I'm going to sign over power of attorney to this guy and give him
the keys to the kingdom, I'm trusting him. That's what a steward is, okay? So a steward is someone
who you're trusting with valuable items, and remember Luke chapter 16, the unjust steward.
He'd been wasting his master's substance. He'd been squandering the finances, and when the boss
finds out, he says, "You can't be a steward anymore, because you were unfaithful. You were unreliable."
So the Bible says, "Moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful."
"We are stewards," Paul said. "We are stewards of the mysteries of God. We're stewards of the gospel."
We've been entrusted with this valuable treasure, as the Bible calls it. We have this treasure in
earthen vessels. We are stewards of the mysteries of God, and it's required in stewards that a man
be found faithful. So we've got to be reliable, right? So God is relying on us. He says, "You're
the light of the world. If your gospel's hid, it's hid to them that are lost." I don't care what the
Calvinists say, and they've got all their logical arguments and rationale, but you know what the
Bible actually says, though, is that the ministry of reconciliation has been committed to us, and
if our gospel's hid, it's hid to them that are lost, and that we are commanded to go out and
save them with fear, pulling them out of the fire, okay? So God's relying on you, and imagine if
your job is relying on you to show up on Monday morning, and you don't show up on Monday, you don't
show up on Tuesday, you don't show up on Wednesday, you don't show up on Thursday, but then you show
up on Friday, and you're like, where's my paycheck? You know, and this is what a lot of Christians are
doing. They're unfaithful, they're unreliable, they're not doing the work, but then all of a
All of a sudden they want to show up and make a withdrawal.