Amen. All right we're in Luke chapter 12 and there's many great truths in this
chapter. This is a great great chapter in the Bible and if you were following
along with the reading you could see that there are many great truths. I'm
just going to touch on some of these truths really quickly and then I'll
get into the sermon here. But one of the great truths is in verse number four.
It's telling us to not be afraid and God that's a great truth that we need to
know from God. Hey don't be afraid not only just of things and people but don't
be afraid about your finances. Don't be afraid about what God's going to clothe
you with because God promised to take care of us and we don't have to worry
about those things. Hey at least He promised you food and
raiment and so as long as we have that we're supposed to be satisfied with
those things. Another great truth is also that we need to fear the person that can
throw us or could throw us or throw other people into hell. See God's the one
with the ultimate power the devil's I preached about this on Thursday that the
devil's they do have power they can't do many things to us but as far as
possessing a Christian they can't do that and you should take comfort of
knowing that hey greater is he that is in you than he is in the world and also
that we need to fear him above all things. See we fear a lot of things don't
we in this world and you know everybody goes through fear but God always says
fear not. Hey as long as our trust is in the Savior then we should not worry
about things and fear those things and we're above animals we're above the
sparrows we're worth more than much sparrows the Bible says and so another
great truth verse 15 says he said unto him take heed and beware of covetousness
for a man's life consists of thought and the abundance of the things which he
possesseth and this time of year it's a great time to preach that sermon I've
already preached that sermon before but it's good to put it into your
remembrance that hey I've learned hey it's wrong to be covetousness and take
heed beware hey watch out for this sin because in all honesty covetousness is
probably the sin that we really commit the most in this life and people we're
not supposed to covet things and so we need to be aware of that we need to be
aware of that we need to take heed to that truth and it says in verse 21 so
is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God so
some people get trapped in the riches of this world and caring about money and
things too much and property and quads and and whatever else a boat you know
brother Scott said one time he said I've never seen someone save that had you
know a motor home and they're in their their carport or a soup a Subaru so but
he did he did he did get someone say that a Subaru finally and we have saved
people in this church to drive Subaru's a couple of them it's few and far
between that's the remnant of the Subaru drivers but but God says hey you know
you should be aware of covetousness and you should also be rich towards God
first see seek the things seek the things of God and all the all these
things shall be added unto you seek you first the kingdom of God and all these
things shall be added unto you verse number 23 says the life is more than
meat and the body is more than raiment don't worry about all the things that
you think that you need because God's gonna take care of you another great
truth is found in verse 31 but rather seek you the for the the kingdom of God
and all these things shall be added unto you I've got ahead of myself
unfortunately but hey that's a great truth hey when you seek the things of
God everything that you were seeking for would be added unto you you seek first
the kingdom of God and then all these things should be added unto you don't
worry about the things that you don't have God's gonna provide for you verse
34 for where your treasure is there where your heart be also hey whatever is
in in your heart the things that you seek and desire after those that's where
your heart whatever you seek after that's where your heart's gonna be too
so that's those are the things that draw you away from God the things that are of
this world the things that people covet the things that people want and so hey
where your heart is that or where your treasure is that's where your heart's
gonna be also if your treasure is all the things of this world your heart's
gonna be there also and guess where it's not gonna be with God and the things of
God okay so look at verse 40 it says be therefore ready also for the Son of Man
cometh at an hour when you think not I'm not teaching the pre-trib rapture here
this morning but hey Jesus said we're supposed to be ready for his coming you
know and unfortunately there's a lot of people who would take this verse of rest
it and say well he could come back at any moment that's not true that's
garbage and we know that that that's not true because the Bible says immediately
after the tribulation so the Sun and Moon be darkened and it won't give its
light and then shall you see the sign of the Son of Man coming in the clouds
of heaven with great power and great glory right so we know that Christ is
gonna come back after the tribulation so what would you think that this verse is
obviously this verse is talking you know to someone you know it's supposed to be
to have our hearts to be ready but it's also for those people that are in that
time for their hearts to be ready and so it goes on to talk about in verse 51
suppose you that I am come to give peace on the earth I tell you nay but
rather division see people to get saved they think all my life's gonna be roses
and a bed of roses and it's just gonna be all great and fine but I'll tell you
what you're gonna lose some friends you're gonna lose some family members
because they see what you are and they don't want to be that they don't want to
be where you're at they would rather put their head in the sand and just live
their life out and not worry about these things so it says verse 52 from hence
forth there shall be five in one house divided three against two and two against
three so even what households will be divided some people will be saved some
people won't be we have to learn to deal with that and and understand that hey
don't put your family members above Christ why because because you know God
is the most important thing that's why we're supposed to love the Lord our God
with all of our heart with all of our mind with all of our soul with all of
our strength right and the second commandment is like unto it thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself those are the two greatest commandments and hey so
what it what when you break it down really God's number one and helping your
neighbor to get saved helping people to get saved is number two okay so that's
the thing that's how we should prioritize our lives and so if your
house is divided look don't go see people try to put their family above God
and really people say well I don't I don't feel that way but then when the
chips are down when that family member says I'm walking away then they take
that family member side over the people of God they put their family member over
God and it happens all the time so it's a warning to us to hey we're gonna be
divided hey make sure you're on the right side of things first number 56
says he hypocrites you can discern the face of the sky and of the earth but how
is it that you do not discern the time and so you we need to understand that we
need to observe the time in which we're living in observe the places which we're
living in it's important that we know where we're at in time where we're at in
history and what God requires of us so the title of my sermon this morning is
to whom much is given much will be required let's pray Heavenly Father we
thank you Lord so much for these great scriptures Lord and there's just so much
here but Lord I just want to focus in on this this subject here this morning I
pray you'd help me fill me with the Holy Ghost and fill me with power and
boldness I pray that you'd fill the the congregation with the Holy Spirit Lord
and help them to discern your word Lord this morning in Jesus name we pray
amen so who's ever heard the Peter Parker doctrine before with great power
comes great responsibility that's the Peter Parker doctrine have you ever
heard of that before spider-man right okay I think that Stan Lee took that
from the Bible he did okay it's a fact all right so brother Sean knows it is a
fact and it kind of is the same thing hey with grit who too much is given much
is required when God gives us things and and we get a measure above what other
people are getting God requires more from us that he would require from Joe
blow that we got saved at the door that never sorry Joe that never followed
after Christ that never came to church that didn't get baptized God requires
more of us who have received that knowledge and have put some of these
things into practice and when he gives us things and he gives us above what
other people get he requires more of us and that's a principle that we need to
understand today so I'm not preaching the Peter Parker doctor I'm just saying
that hey if Stan Lee can take this principle and and that's he's a worldly
guy he's probably roasted in hell right now right he invented a lot of things
that probably weren't good right comic these comic books that people take
people's minds into places where they shouldn't go and make superheroes out of
people that are just not really superheroes God has more superpowers than
all those stupid superheroes all put together he's the real superhero amen
so anyway let's look we're gonna focus in on verses 43 through verse 48 this
morning and I'm preaching this sermon to whom much is given much will be required
and hopefully by the end of this we'll be edified and maybe a little swift
kick in the pants for some of us and some will rebuke for some of us and
hopefully this sermon will help you today that's why I wrote the sermon so
it'll help our congregation so including myself so look at verse number 43 says
blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh find so doing doing what
working for him see we're all servants of Christ you know we're not slaves it
doesn't mean slave okay I'll get to that in a little bit but bless is that
servant whom the Lord when he cometh shall find so doing hey when God comes
back or maybe when you go to God do you want God to see that you're doing
something for him you know if your last day on earth you went soul winning your
last day on earth you read the Bible your last day on earth that you were
praying to him your last day on earth that you were still trying to get the
sin out of your life to the last minute you know that would be a good that'd be
good to have to be found in Christ having our lives put in order at that at
that time it says of the truth verse 44 I say to you that he will make him ruler
over all that he half hey that's a great honor to have hey if you're if you're
blessed when when Christ comes back if we're here when Christ comes back and
he finds us still doing the things that he's asked us to do hey we're gonna be
blessed above most people right says well he'll be ruler of all that he half
so we're gonna rule and reign with Christ for a thousand years and then
we're gonna reign with him forever it's not just for a thousand years the
thousand year reign is a thousand year reign and I believe a lot of us just to
show what this world would have been like if Christ was ruling for the whole
time and we all know what a real ruler is supposed to be like but then for
eternity we're with him for eternity and we're gonna be reigning with him for all
eternity so look at verse 45 says but and if that servant say in his heart my
Lord delayeth his coming and shall begin to beat the men servants and maidens and
to eat and drink and be drunken the Lord of that servant will come in a day when
he looketh not for him and at that at an hour when he's not aware and will cut
him and sunder and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers so this
person is not getting a lot of rewards you know you might unbelievers don't get
any rewards do they they get to go to hell for all eternity but what it's it's
not saying that you're gonna lose your salvation okay I don't think that that's
what that's saying it's not saying that at all it's saying that your portion of
the inheritance that you were supposed to get would be basically pretty much
nothing you're getting in by the skin of your teeth so to speak it says in that
servant which knew his Lord's will and prepared not himself neither did
according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes so you get to get
beat so and that would go for anybody even currently I think that God when you
are given a lot of you're yet you're given a lot of gifts and given a lot of
talents in this world and you're you're saved and you're in a good church and
you're doing all these things God's gonna beat you worse because you know
better yeah that's what the Bible is teaching right there and especially if
you're not doing the Lord's will and you know that you're supposed to be doing it
and you begin to you know it's saying beat your maid servants you know I mean
I don't have any maid servants or men servants for that matter and I don't
even drinking I don't drink so you know but that could be I mean just put
anything there you begin to quit going to church you begin to quit reading your
Bible you just are totally backslidden and you're not doing the things that
God's called you to do and you're not using the gifts and talents that he's
given to you then he's gonna beat you severely with many stripes the Bible
says look at verse 48 says but he that knew not and did commit things worthy of
stripes shall be beaten with few stripes excuse me for unto whomsoever much is
given of hint of him much shall be much required and to whom men have committed
much of him they will ask the more so the people that don't know they're not
gonna be beaten with as many stripes as a person that knows better and knows
what they're supposed to be doing and doesn't do it so but also to those that
are given a lot God's gonna require a lot from you and when you don't produce
what he's requiring of you you're gonna get beaten and you're like man I I think
I should have just stayed in that community church man I maybe I just
should have never gone to church after I got saved you know I don't want to get
beaten with many stripes but that's a wrong attitude to have your attitude to
have should be hey maybe I need to get going and do more for God and I should
do what he's requiring me to do because he's given me so much and so because he
requires more of me I'm gonna do those things that he's requiring of me but it
says and also to whom men have committed much of him they will ask the more so
when it's kind of like that in church work there's people that just like want
to do a lot of stuff and like when I ask for volunteers to do thing it's a person
that's already doing like five or six things that person wants to do more and
so it is kind of biblical for that to happen but unfortunately there's people
that don't want to do anything and they just kind of float by and they know what
they're supposed to be doing they know that they should be doing something hey
look sweeping the floor is doing something picking up after yourself is
something I mean anything that you do in this house the house of the Lord God's
gonna reward you for those things even if it's a carnal thing even if it's just
being a blessing being an encouragement to somebody so once we're saved God
expects us to be servants of his okay God expects that and so do all people do
that though no they don't he wants us to do good works he wants us to obey his
word pretty simple stuff it's like that's amateur hour right now but we all
know this stuff but a servant is not it's not a slave so when these new modern
Bible perversions put slave there they're wrong because even if you just
look up the definition of a servant it says a person who performs duties for
others especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a
personal attendant so God expects us to be a personal attendant to him God
expects us to perform duties for others God expects us to you know we're we're
in the house of Lord it says by the definition says a person employed in a
house hey this is the house of Lord and you're all employees you know we're all
employees here we all work for God we're all his servants and turn to 1st
Corinthians chapter 7 verse number 21 1st Corinthians 7 verse number 21 1st
Corinthians 7 verse 21 says art thou called being a servant care not for it
but if thou mayest be made free use it rather let's talk about a literal
servant here for he that is called in the Lord being a servant is the Lord's
Freeman because you work for the Lord ultimately and that's what the attitude
that you should have if you are a servant likewise also he that is called
being free is Christ's servant so the Bible very clearly lays it out right
here that we are Christ's servant if are you called are you chosen are you got
are you God's elect are you saved today well hey then you are Christ's servant
that's what the Bible says Ephesians 2 10 I won't have you turn there I'll have
you turn to John chapter 14 verse 15 Ephesians 2 10 says for we are his
workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained
that we should walk in them now obviously we're saved by faith we're not
saved by works we're under grace we're not under the law but God still created
us in Christ Jesus unto good works he still wants us to work for him and it's
a thing that's an obedience thing God ordained that we should walk in them we
should see there's a should you don't have to but guess what if you don't
you're not gonna get any rewards see the thing about the person that doesn't know
a lot that does it gets beat with few stripes they're still gonna get beaten
just with few stripes but they don't know any better so they're not gonna get
the rewards that someone like a person in a church like this is gonna get
you've been set up you've been set up with a whole smorgasbord in front of you
you can get your your rewards here on earth and you can also get your rewards
in heaven and there's a lot of things that go into adding up those rewards
which I don't know the complete formula I know that we can give to missionaries
and that and those souls are put onto our account somehow I don't know how he
divides the spoils like that but hey if you give unto a missionary or something
like that or our church provides for missionaries and helps them out there's
gonna be stuff accounted to us for those things that we do everything that we do
and all labor there's profit the Bible says everything you do for the Lord adds
up unless it's some ministry that's like you know underwater basket weaving for
Christ or something like that God you know I don't think that's gonna be in a
very ineffective ministry okay I'm gonna weave this underwater and then you know
put a little sign that says Jesus or something on it that's not gonna get you
any rewards that's wood hay and stubble okay that's ridiculous I don't even know
if there is a ministry like that I I shudder to think that there is there
probably is so anyway you're in John 14 look at verse 15 it says if you love me
keep my commandments if you have a red letter edition Bible you see that that's
Jesus saying that but we're under grace but God still wants us to keep his
commandments not to be saved but he just wants us to it's really for our own good
because he doesn't want to have to beat us severely he doesn't want to have to
beat us with few stripes he doesn't want to have to beat us with many but I'll
tell you what he will beat us if we don't keep his commandments that's why
he's saying if you love me keep my commandments Romans chapter 12 turn to
Romans chapter 12 verse 3 Romans chapter 12 verse number 3 as they're
turning there I'm going to begin reading Romans chapter 12 verse number 3 says
for I say through the grace given unto me to every man that is among you not to
think of himself more highly than he ought to think see if you have some
position or you have something that you do for God don't think you're better
than anybody else because you're not it says but to think soberly according as
God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith see God's dealt a measure of
faith to every single one of us all right and we all have been given
something it's not like you're the one Christian that didn't get any gifts
you're the one Christian that didn't get any anything from God and so that's why
I don't do anything for God I just I just don't think I have any gifts not
true not true look at verse 4 for as we have many members in one body that's
talking about the church together and all members have not the same office
all right and so that just means that like not everybody's the pastor not
everybody's a deacon not everybody's an evangelist not everybody's whatever but
we all we don't all have the same office but it says so we be many or one body in
Christ and every one members one of another so there's every member has
something some function that they perform or are supposed to be performing
in the church verse 6 having then gifts see that having then gifts differing
according to the grace that is given to us so is it saying that everybody gets
gifts yeah whether prophecy prophecy let us
prophesy hey if you got the gift of preaching get up and preach don't be
scared get up and preach if you think that you have the gift of prophecy now a
lot of people I know they're the number one thing people think they have is the
gift of discernment and usually people that say that they have the gift of
discernment don't have any at all so be careful not to just say well I think my
gift is this hey you're gonna know what your gifts are okay says according to
the proportion of faith according to the proportion of faith or ministry let us
wait on our ministries lock it down whatever it is your ministry you should
be doing that or he that teaches on teaching or he that exhorteth on
exhortation and look exhortation could just be a motivator someone says hey you
know I missed it so any brother I really want to go so one with you next week and
you're just exhorting someone to go solely with you or you're exhorting
someone to help out with something or just whatever it is you're exhorting
someone to action you're getting someone to do things for God he that
giveth let him do it with simplicity he that ruleth with diligence he that
showeth mercy with cheerfulness so whatever your gift is you should be
cheerful you should be diligent that means you're just you're on top of it if
you're ruling and if you you're showing even if you're just showing mercy with
cheerfulness you know nobody wants to have someone walk up and say hey brother
here's 20 bucks it's my lost 20 bucks but you know I just wanted to help you
out you're lucky or you know hey dude what's your from this say hey brother I
just want to help you out here you go no I mean it's just we got to have the
right attitude when we're serving the Lord obviously and don't just do
something just so people can see you do it you know do those things in secret so
some people have also been born in different time periods and there's no
way to control what time period we're born into we're all born in the last
days in this room because when Jesus came that's beginning of the last days
started when he came and so everything after that we're still in the last days
so we need to understand that we're in the last days we understand that we're
all born in the time of the New Testament we're not born in the Old
Testament we're born when God wanted us to be born everybody in this room God
gave something for them to do God gave you all gifts that you're supposed to
perform God put you in the church that he wanted you to do things in and that's
just the way it is and so here you are and some of you are here by choice so
hopefully most of you are here by choice not just out of duty but you know the
Lord Jesus has already come he's already died he was already buried he is risen
again from the dead amen and God expects certain things from us according to what
we have been given we've been given eternal life as saved believers that's a
great gift isn't it we've also been given other gifts beyond salvation we've
been given a perfect Bible that's a good gift the King James Bible and you know a
lot of people speak different languages in this world did you know that and not
all of them have a perfect Word of God in their language so hey you know what
the fact that you have a perfect Word of God in your language that's a great gift
and you know what God expects you to use that gift he expects you to read out of
it he expects you to show people how to be saved out of it it's a great gift not
everybody has that gift but you everybody in this room has a that speaks
English can read a King James and know it's perfect and know what's good and
know it's trustworthy that's a great gift how about having a the great gift
of a great church you know and I'm not saying I make it great you guys all make
it great everybody in this room makes it great but hey don't don't get complacent
on the fact that you're in a good church don't start getting drawn away by the
lust of this world and the pride of life and all the riches and and hey I just
want to do go to Disneyland with my kids but I know my church is gonna judge me
and all this other garbage hey you're in a great church you know what God gave
you the gift of a great church you know what you ought to be in it you ought to
serve in it it's it's worry it's here for for you to use and God gave it to
you and you know God gave us the ability and freedom to preach the gospel do all
churches send people out to preach the gospel God's given you a great gift of a
great church that you can go out and preach the gospel in and we need to
understand that our with that gift comes a great responsibility because if
we stop doing it if we stop giving the gospel if we stop coming to church we
stop reading our Bible we stop praying then God is gonna beat us with many
stripes so God you know and I'm not saying I'm the greatest preacher but I'll
tell you what I'm gonna preach the Bible to you and hey you at least be able to
get something out of that because I'll tell you what there's a lot of church
is that don't preach the Bible they don't preach the right version of the
Bible though they're all their churches is a big in a social club and for them
to get rich for the pastor to get rich and live high on the hog it's his career
path what am I gonna do I'll be a pastor yeah I'm gonna be a pasta I'm gonna be
rich I'm gonna be God's man do you think that that was my attitude becoming the
pastor of this church you know it wasn't I still drive the same gremlin
the same slime or mobile that I have I'm not I don't have a Jaguar I'd like an
Escalade someday but it's gonna be used that way very expensive but you know
they fit me really well anyway God's given us a lot of gifts in this life
hasn't he what about your family what about your family are you thankful for
your family that God gave you some of you have family that are in here praise
God for that you know how many family members I have in here I have a lot
it's my household though I don't have you know much beyond that be thankful
for the fact that you have your family in church today be thankful for the kids
that God's given you today be thankful for the spouse that God's given you
today because they're great gifts aren't they and sometimes we take we we just we
forget how great we have it we forget how great of gifts God has given us and
you know what with great when he gives us a great gift he's expecting stuff out
of us he's gonna requires more from us James 1 17 says every good gift and
every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the father of lights
with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning God is the one that
gives us the gifts that we have every good gift every safe family member you
have in here every sit every brother and sister in Christ that you have in here
that's a good gift hey we have the gift of fellowshipping with other believers
you know those people in countries that they're the only person that believes
like we do or if they're if they are out there they don't know about them there's
people in other countries that don't even have a Baptist Church to go to at
all and all they want is just to go soul wanting all they want is just to have a
pastor sent over to him but just there's not enough men there's not enough people
that are faithful there's not enough men that want to be pastors that meet the
qualifications to even send them over there and some of these countries you
couldn't even have a church there because it would be illegal despite what
people think about China look it's a godless country and they are under the
rule of communism which is a wicked system the Bible actually sometime I'm
gonna preach a sermon about the the communist manifesto and I'll show you
from the Bible that everything that's said in there is not of God it's
ungodly put that on my list somebody remind me all right 1st Corinthians
chapter 4 verse number 1 says if you want to turn there you can let a man so
account of us as of the ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of
God moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful hey Paul
was the mitt was the minister of Christ he was a steward of the mysteries of God
and you know what we also are stewards of the things of God in this church but
you know what it's required of a steward that a man be found faithful if you're
not faithful you're not a good steward see good stewards take care of the
things that they've been given the gifts that God has given them they take care
of those things they foster those things they nurture those things and they use
those things but you got to be faithful and so that's what God is requiring of
us today hey be faithful be faithful to him be faithful to church be faithful to
the Bible be faithful to your spouses be faithful to your children care about
your care about the things that you have their gifts from God and you should not
take them for granted so with these things in mind and I really do have like
four points but they're very they're fast I didn't put like a mountain of
scripture underneath them so hopefully I can get through this and we'll get out
of here on time today I'm really trying hard I need to try harder to make my
sermons a little bit shorter but anyway number one the number one thing today
that we need to understand is that God's promises God promises a blessing to the
vigilant Christian God promises a vigil the blessing to the vigilant Christian
let's look back in our text and we'll go to verse number 43 Luke chapter 12 verse
number 43 go ahead and just put a rip in our bookmark there so we're gonna be
coming back to him and it says in verse number 43 blesses that servant whom his
Lord when he cometh shall find so doing of a truth I say unto you that he will
make him ruler over all he hath now I have already kind of skim covered some
of this stuff but turn over to Revelation chapter 20 let's look at the
promises for ourselves see and the reason why I went through all those
things at the very beginning of this sermon is because everything that was
read there in front of your eyes today or hurt in your ears while you were
thinking about the things that you wanted to do later or the things that
you wanted to do after church or the things that you have to get done
tomorrow you're still responsible for the things that you've heard today
you're responsible for every word in that chapter in this book okay and God
expects you to know that you're accountable for the things that you read
in the Bible it's too late for you you got it you got it you're stuck now so
Revelation chapter 20 verse 4 this is a great blessing here look at it says and
I saw thrones and they sat upon them and judgment was given unto them and I
saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the
Word of God which he had not worshiped which had not worshiped the beast neither
his image neither had received his mark upon their foreheads and in their hands
and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years see there's some people
are gonna take the mark of the beast there's some people are not gonna get
saved there's some people are not gonna repent of their sorceries there's people
are gonna be wicked and they're gonna be damned because of it but there's also
people that that got their heads chopped off because they they believed in what
was given to them there was a big requirement for but you know what they
have they have a better resurrection this is they lived and reigned with
Christ a thousand years this is they lived and reigned with him so there's
some people that are gonna actually get to live in the same place that he lives
so and if I'm not one of those people please Lord send me to Hawaii I I was
preaching about this and I you know Babylon us Babylon is supposed to be
destroyed with fire and the smoke of his brain goes up forever I'm not sure if
that's the whole continent of the United States I hope not but Hawaii's way out
here like 2,000 miles away I don't think it's gonna cross the sea I hope it
doesn't and that land was stolen away from Babylon USA so maybe God will give
them a break when it comes to that but hey it's beautiful there and I wouldn't
mind raining and ruling from there so anyway Vancouver Washington too as long
as the rain was cut off just a little bit more anyway I'm kidding but look at
verse number five it says but the rest of the dead lived not again until the
thousand years were finished this is the first resurrection blessed and holy
is he that part in the first resurrection on such the second death
hath no power but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign
with him a thousand years hey God has a special blessing for those people that
are gonna be vigilant and those people that are gonna it says bless is that
servant who when his Lord whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing hey
when God when Jesus comes back there's gonna be people that are still gonna be
doing the things that they're supposed to be doing but you know what these
verses apply to us too in the time that we live in say Christ doesn't come back
in our time but you know what if he sees that we're faithful unto the end he's
gonna bless us also number two God promises great chastisement upon those
that waste their gifts look over Luke chapter 12 verse 45 number two God
promises great chastisement upon those that waste their gifts Luke 12 verse 45
says but and if the servants say in his heart my Lord delayeth his coming and
shall begin to beat the men servants and maidens and to eat and to drink and be
drunken the Lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for
him and at the hour when he's not aware and will cut him and sunder and will
appoint him his portion with the unbelievers and that servant which knew
not the Lord's will and prepared not himself neither did according to his
will shall be beaten with many stripes so God only beats his children okay he
doesn't beat people that are not saved so took for someone to twist this
scripture and say this is talking about people being unsaved it's not what it's
saying because the Lord isn't gonna beat people with many stripes he's gonna cast
them into a fiery lake of hell so God just kind of lets though I mean
obviously there's a lot of reprobates and things like that that have untimely
ends or some kind of bad way that they die or something like I mean if you
think of Jezebel you know he she got thrown out of a window and the dogs ate
her I mean that was pretty bad right all that was left was the palms of her hands
so but God killed her in a bad way but the thing is she wasn't beaten she
wasn't chastised you know why because she wasn't saved she was a reprobate
all right so but God wants us to use the gifts that we've been given and he
doesn't want to have to beat us with many stripes but if we don't use the
gifts and talents that God's given us that's what he's gonna do look at
Hebrews chapter 12 verse number 5 Hebrews chapter 12 verse number 5
you see and the thing is that we can you can apply this to people you can
apply this to the time when Christ come that's what it's immediately talking
about isn't it it's saying it but if my servant say in his heart the Lord
blaeth is coming and shall begin to beat the mate men servants and maidens to him
that eateth and drink and to be drunken the Lord of that servant will come in a
day when he looketh not for him so we know that Christ isn't coming till after
the tribulation but these so this is immediately talking about people in this
time but think about this what if you're not doing the things when the Lord comes
for you when the Lord comes and requires your soul when the Lord comes and it's
your last day on earth and you just don't realize it what are you gonna be
doing on that day are you still gonna be serving him are you gonna go into the
Christian retirement program and quite honestly we do have a small window of
the things that we can where we can serve Christ at our greatest hey there
is this thing called the prime of life you know most men get to the prime of
their life about 30 years old and so you can do a lot of work within the prime of
your life you're the most you can be you're the best you can be but there's
gonna be time when you're 90 years old and guess what you're probably not gonna
be walking three flights of apartment stairs to knock on doors unless you're
just like blessed beyond measure by God most people at 90 years old will not be
knocking doors so I know that people say well we're never supposed to retire I
agree with that but there's always something that you can still do you can
still be faithful you can still pray even Jacob when he lost all of his his
vision and he could hardly hear he still prayed didn't he still prayed for his
sons so you're in Hebrews chapter 12 verse number 5 it says and he have
forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children my son despise
not the chastening of the Lord nor faint when thou art rebuked of him for
whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth if
you endure chastening God deal with with you as with sons for what son is he whom
the father chasteneth not see God chastens his children so the person is
getting beaten with many stripes this person's a saved person but they're
getting beaten why because they're not using their gifts they're not using
their talents they're in a great church they're not doing anything with the fact
that they're in a great church they're just kind of going through the motions
hey any of us can get disconnected at any time and get backslidden but hey
when you know you're backslidden that's the time when you're like hey I realize
I'm backslidden what can I do to get myself out of this mess well get the sin
out of your life you know whatever the sin it is that easily is besetting you
and making you backslidden try to try to flip the script try to get that sin out
of your life so that you can go on serving God and that way you're not
gonna continuously get it beaten some people are like I just don't understand
why I'm going through all this and hey sometimes it's not because you're
getting beaten sometimes it's because you're going through a trial but
sometimes you know when you're getting beaten you know everybody here knows
when they get beaten you know and you you might know yourself but not
everybody else does but see God beats you in different ways he's not gonna
literally pull a spanking spoon out and and and get you down to your undies and
spank your behind okay that's not literally gonna happen what's he talking
about he's gonna chasing something in your life and hey we don't want to get
to the point where God is killing family members or things like that thing really
serious bad things are happening because you're so far off the path that he has
to really get your attention don't put God in that position that's your fault
and God will take it out on family members because it's proof that when
David and Bathsheba had their child and guess what that child died because they
were committing adultery and David committed murder and what was the
punishment he killed their child he had their child die because of that sin so
what's it he didn't spank David with a wooden spoon he spanked him with a sword
never leaving his house also in his own sons turning against him a man after
God's own heart was chasing severely of God so don't think that you're above
being chastened by the Lord because you know if you're if you're not being
chastened at all then you're probably not saved look at number verse number
eight but if you be without chastisement where of all our partakers then are you
bastards and not sons that means you're illegitimate you're not really part of
the family and it says furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which
corrected us and we gave them reverence shall we not much rather be in
subjection unto the father of spirits and live see sometimes God will also
kill you God will take out the believer themselves what did he do to Saul when
Saul died David loved still love Saul even though Saul tried to kill him so
many times and what do you say how are the mighty fallen Saul was a mighty man
of God at one point but you know what he got so backslidden that God had to kill
him he went and saw a witch that's the old that's how his life ended so he was
chastised with many stripes wasn't he things just never seemed to go well after
Saul after he decided to disobey God over and over and not get right so God
will chat chastise us with many stripes especially those that know what they're
supposed to be doing and they refuse to do it that should be scary to you you
should be scared since furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which
corrected us and we gave them reverence shall we not much rather be in
subjection unto the father of spirits and live for they verily for a few days
chastened us after their own pleasure but he for our profit that we might be
partakers of his holiness now no chastening for the present seemeth to be
joyous but grievous nobody likes getting spanked kids do you like getting spanked
raise your hand if you do if you are if you do you're weird all right so nobody
likes getting spanked nobody but nevertheless it says afterward it
yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are
exercised thereby spankings are good for you because it's supposed to bring forth
the peaceable fruit of righteousness when I've spanked my kids you know there
seems to be this peace that happens between us we hug it out you know and
then we're good and those kids you know the kids say they're sorry when they say
they're sorry you know all that I can't think of a time when I've spanked my
kids and they didn't say that they were sorry except for Nia but she was mad at
me for a couple weeks one time but she got over it she got spanked a little
late in life and she didn't think it was too cool but hey I will spank my kids so
the day they leave my house you better believe that cuz God's gonna spank his
his sons and daughters until the day they leave this world isn't he yeah so I
will still spank my kids though you better believe Josh has a couple months
left with us well he's probably gonna be there longer than that as long as he's
in my house he's gonna get the spoon that ladle that ladle is deadly that's
the ultimate spanking weapon it hurts but it just leaves these little tiny
marks where the the end of the ladle hey yeah but boy I wouldn't I wouldn't want
to get spanked by that thing and look we shouldn't as God's children want to be
spanked either if you like getting spanked you're twisted and nobody like
it says nobody likes to get spanked nope I notice no kids raised their hands when
it said they like to get spanked now and I know kids that you think that mom
doesn't spank as hard as dad please don't let dad spank me hey ladies that
should tell you that you need to spank harder because don't be the softy and
make your husband do all the hard work when it comes to spanking hey they
should fear both mother and father if they don't fear a mother guess what
they're gonna do they're gonna trample right over the top of her anyway I'm
getting off of my subject here let's look at the third point God will
chastise the ignorant less God will chastise the ignorant less but verse 48
in Luke chapter 12 it says but he that knew not and did commit things worthy of
stripes shall be beaten with few stripes so I kind of explained a little bit that
a little bit earlier who will this be well say people that don't follow after
Christ you know say people that don't follow after Christ will still get
beaten it's just with fewer stripes why because they're ignorant of the things
they haven't been getting given you know maybe they got gifts but they never went
further in their Bible reading they never started going to church they
never started doing all these things that God requires of them and so when
they get beaten they're gonna get beaten with fewer stripes so to those that go
to weak sauce Baptist Church or Shekinah Community Church or never go to church
they're not gonna get beaten as bad unless you know that you're supposed to
be in church and you know these things like I said it's too late for you
already if you've already gotten the knowledge then God's still gonna hold
you responsible just from point number two so you can't just say well you know
what I'm just gonna be ignorant now nope you already know you're listening
to this sermon right now you're responsible God requires more of you
God's given you that gift he's given you the talents in your life he's given you
the gifts that you have he's given you membership in a great Baptist Church and
as one of those members you have a responsibility whether you're the nose
whether you're the eyes whether you're the arm whether you're the leg whether
you're the behind your parts the least esteemed doesn't matter you still have a
place in this church you still have a job you still have a requirement from
God and he wants his requirement to be paid in full he wants you to do the
things he's asking you to do so if you think that you're getting out of number
three by being ignorant you're not ignorant you're here you've heard it
you're responsible now haha trick yeah anyway so like if you're going if I'm
just talking about people that get saved and they their family member goes hey
you want to come to my church she kinda and they go to that church they don't
hear they hear a bunch of garbage preaching they don't they get on the NIV
they never get they never get the things that you're getting at this church or
churches like this church then they're not gonna be beaten like you are because
they're ignorant they don't know that's why it says but he that knew not so
ignorance isn't stupidity ignorance is not knowing so if you know not then you
might even you're still responsible for the sins you commit but God's not gonna
beat you like he would beat someone that knows what they're what they're supposed
to be doing does that make sense look at chapter 14 and 1st Corinthians for 1st
Corinthians 14 verse 37 turn over there
I'm gonna start reading because I gotta hurry up if any man think himself to be
a prophet or spiritual hey would you tell would you do you think of yourself
as a spiritual person if you're saved you should let him acknowledge that the
things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord but if any man
be ignorant let him be ignorant if anybody wants to go to week sauce Baptist
Church and they just didn't know any better hey let him be ignorant and
they're not gonna get beaten as badly but hey you that are spiritual you that
and you just heard this right here from the Apostle Paul acknowledge that the
things that he's writing unto you are the commandments of the Lord hey Paul
had authority to it's not just Jesus it's not you know people getting this
dispensational weirdness where they say well we're supposed to listen to Paul
not Jesus that's ridiculous Jesus Christ is our Lord he's God but
everything that Jesus Christ preached Paul the Paul preached agrees with each
other don't give me that dispensational garbage so you might say to yourself I
want to go back to category this category here and in verse number three
you can't do it it's too late you're not ignorant anymore you know the truth and
if you try to fit in this category you're gonna get beat down in category
number two which is point number two which is many stripes number four this
morning if God has given you much he's going to require much let's look back in
Luke chapter 12 and I believe it's verse number 48 says for on to the second part
of that verse for unto whomsoever much is given of him shall much be much
required to him and excuse me and to whom men have committed much of him they
will ask the more so we've already gone over these things you have a perfect
Bible you have a great church where the truth is taught from the pulpit the
Bible is preached you've been given an environment to do much work for God and
that number one work is soul winning God's blessed you with great spouses and
great families and if you if you're not married or you're or whatever he still
bless you with family here in this church great brothers and sisters in
Christ God has blessed our church with many children everyone in this room has
been given much everyone not just a knowledge but just monetarily
everything God's given us a lot so what are you doing with your gifts what are
you doing with what God's given you are you doing as much as you were when he
first came here are you doing less are you kind of just disillusioned are you
just going through the motions and showing up when you feel like it what
are you doing with your gifts because everything is done in the New Testament
through the local church now obviously you have your stuff that you do at home
I'm not talking about that come on what are you doing with what God's given you
with what God has been give you has given you as a steward are you being a
good steward are you doing all the things you're supposed to be doing you
know I don't have to look at anybody in particular everybody in here knows what
they're doing what they're not doing right and so God speaks to your heart
through his word what's he spoken to your heart through his word this morning
what does he convicted you about because everybody has something that flashes
through their minds on these scriptures that just are like darts going through
your heart right if you move to this church to serve the Lord are you doing
it understand this just because you come to this church it doesn't
automatically make you blessed yeah just because you come here you're not
automatically blessed you still have to take the preaching in apply it to your
life you still have to do the works that God's asked you to do I can't do those
things for you I can't fix your life you know the word of God has to fix your
life and you have to apply it to yourself you have to apply it you have
to put into practice the things that you are given here at this church and
God expects you to do it are you not showing up for the all the services that
you could be and look if you live two three hours out of town I understand if
you don't show up for the Thursday night service I do but I don't understand
people who live in town they miss service in the midweek for any reason
whatsoever it's three to thrive baby be here when the doors are open quit
finding other stupid things to do that aren't as important as well guess what
you're just gonna get beaten for it you already know I preach the sermon to you
if you're just skipping church for no reason then God is gonna require of some
lashes and it's not just little ones it's gonna be the big ones God bless you
with the great family are you leading your wife and family right are you
ruling over your home men because you're supposed to be and wives you should be
allowing them to lead you and not trying to take all the decisions away from your
husband not trying to run the pocketbook not trying to run the finances hey if
your husband gave you the finances to to do then that's fine but you know what if
your husband wants to do the finances you should let them do it you know who
runs the finances of my house me because I'm the man I'm the man the man
of God no just kidding that's a joke I am but no I am kidding
mothers are you're rearing your children right and keeping your home or are you
playing all day on Facebook and just have no you know you're not keeping your
house clean you're not doing the things you're supposed to be doing at home hey
you better get on God's program cuz hey he gave you a lot and he's expecting you
to take care of it the right way when you have a child that you take care of
your child quit pawning them off on everybody and I'm not saying don't let
anybody hold your child I'm just saying hey raise your children great take care
of your home ladies you know don't just use the the fact that God doesn't want
you to work outside the home for your chance to be on Facebook all day or for
your chance to be on Instagram which I still don't understand Instagram so I
used to like Myspace and then they got rid of that but hey take care of the
things you're supposed to be taking care of while you're supposed to be taking
care of them okay and if you don't work for the Lord through the through the
church God gave you are you doing the required amount that God requires of you
if you don't work for the Lord through this church that God gave you are you
doing the required amount God requires of you you got to work for the church
whatever it is you're doing hey a lot of people put a lot of hard work in here
but it's just like there's a lot of churches that just you know some people
just want to float through and not have to do anything that's garbage so we need
to do the best we can if you don't apply the preaching you here in your life then
you're gonna get me in trouble with God right period and you know that you're
supposed to be in church be here you know you're supposed to work for the
Lord work for him you know you should be applying the preaching apply it you know
that you should be tithing give look and I preached about this in Hawaii I
didn't I haven't preached a full-length sermon on tithing here in a long time I
think it's been a long time I don't know I think it's been at least a couple
years but maybe I'm wrong about that but look part of trusting God is trusting
with your finances and look you'll never look back once you learn to trust him
with your finances you're never gonna look back once you realize that God's
just gonna take care of you even though the the bills aren't adding up things
aren't adding up oh how am I gonna pay this bill if I tie Pastor Mendez said a
really profound thing that I thought was really good when he preached because he
preached a little bit about tithing when he was in Hawaii and he said that people
come up to him go pastor I just can't afford to tithe I can't afford it and he
said you know what he said I can't afford not to I can't afford not to
once you learn to trust God with your finances you'll never look back you'll
never have to worry because you know what God's gonna rebuke the devourer for
your sake but you know what if you don't give the tithe and he's not gonna rebuke
the devourer for your sake and your car is gonna break down and you know you're
gonna he's gonna get your tithe anyway he wants to so beware of people that
cars break down a lot so I'm just kidding I'm kidding sometimes your car
just breaks down okay Justin hasn't put oil in his car for years somehow it's
still running he must be tithing you know it's like the children of Israel
their souls that are feet you know their shoes never wore out or anything you
know God will take care of your stuff God will take care of the things that
you have but you got to put him first you know you should be obeying the
Bible and doing what it says you know you should be reading it read it you
know you should be ruling your family rule them and rule them well not like a
tyrant you know you should be keeping your home ladies loving your children
obeying your husband do it what do you mean obeying yeah obeying that's what
the Bible says we're supposed to you're supposed to obey your husband don't get
mad it's God's Word and to those that don't understand why you're getting
chastised hey re-listen to this sermon later go through the scriptures if you
just fell asleep mentally through this whole sermon then re-listen to it okay
because it should be very helpful to your life so let's turn to our last
scripture I'm done Philippians chapter 3 verse 12 it says
Philippians chapter 3 verse 12 give you a second this is the things that we need
to keep in our remembrance here this is not as though I had already attained
either were already perfect but I follow after if that I may apprehend for which
also I am apprehended of Christ brethren I count not myself to have apprehended
but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching
forth unto those things which are before forget about the things of the past hey
today's the day you can change turn the page and have a clean slate with God and
guess what you can do it tomorrow too but you might get beaten in between days
you know I'm saying but you can forget those things that are done in the past
and hey today you can say you know what I know I've been failing in these areas
and I need to step it up step up my game God expects it God requires it and know
that you're gonna get beaten if you don't it says I press towards the mark
for the prize of the high calling of God and Christ Jesus hey it's a high calling
you've been called to a high calling everybody in this room here and God
expects us he requires more from us than he does from others and hey you might be
upset that you got put in that category but it's too late now just got to deal
with it and know that it's for the best because look if you're the person that's
ignorant you're not getting any rewards if you're the person that's disobeying
you're not gonna get as many rewards because you're not doing what you're
supposed to be doing but you know be that person the in the first category
that follows God obeys him and we all screw up we all mess up we all do things
that we regret and we all have our bad days but hey you can get back up you
know a just man falls seven times and rises up again right so we can rise back
up again we can turn the page and we can start doing our best for God we can
start today we can start after the service all right let's pray Heavenly
Father we thank you Lord for this great truth in the Bible I pray Lord that we'd
all know that we're responsible for what we've heard including myself and I know
that we're Lord we're just people that go astray sometimes Lord I pray you'd
help us if there's anybody backslid in here pray that you just help them speak
to their heart Lord and I pray that you would bless the congregation bless us
only today bless the second service in Jesus name we pray amen