Brothers, We Still Have Time

Text: Matthew 25:14-30

Introduction: Are you a servant of the Lord?

              Story:  The instruction of my mother every

                            Saturday before she left us.

      

Title: Brothers, We Still Have Time

Body

Plot: The Master of the servants will go on a journey.

Scene I - Before the Journey (v14-15)

• He entrusted His Properties
• We are all servants - believers and unbelievers (in church context
• According to their ability -
• time, possession, education, capability
• God knows the portion for us because He created us and designed us according to His purpose.

Illustration: A 60 plus-year old  pastor

Point: A faithful servant has a true knowledge of his life.

Everything you have is not yours.

           Death will prove it.

           

Challenge: The differences does not matter, but what are you

 going to  do with what God has entrusted to you?

Let us find out what they have done with the things that were entrusted to them.

Scene II - While on the Journey (v16-18)

• The two immediately invested what they have received.
• There is a sense of urgency. (last days)
• They need to make a profit out of what they have received from their master.

• The third servant dug the soil and buried his

Illustration: Networking, Insurance, Educational Plan

Point: A faithful servant has a true knowledge of his liability

            God is expecting us to be fruitful for His kingdom.

Challenge: Do we care for the vineyard of God to make it   

                    fruitful.?

         Do we invest the things God has given to us

         Are we advancing the Kingdom of God?

         Are we serving right now? What ministry are you

         in?

Scene III - After the Journey (v19-30)

• The master returns to settle the accounts with them

• Accomplishment and Commendation (v20-23)
• Alibi and Condemnation (v24-30)
• This is an unbeliever - justifying his wickedness and laziness.
• His assessment about his master (v24)
• Lawgiver - not to burden us but to protect us.
• Allowing us to experience trials is not just to punish or test us, but to tell us that we need a Savior, or to make us grow in character for those who are in Christ.
• His alibi (v25)
• Condemnation
• The master's assessment of his character.
• Wicked - for accusing his master.
• Lazy - for his alibi
• His alibi cannot justify his laziness (v26-27)
• Nothing will be left, but judgment (v28-30)

Point: A faithful servant has a true knowledge of his Lord

Challenge: Do you know our Lord Jesus Christ?

Question: Who are the faithful servant of the Lord?

Main Idea: Let us be faithful as we wait the Lord.

True knowledge of life, liability, Lord.

Conclusion:

To those who are faithful servants, keep faithful all the more.

To those who are not, to those who are unbelievers, now you know that your life is not yours but entrusted by God, and you are liability while you are living. Know the Lord Jesus Christ according to His claim and not to our assessment.

There is still time to dig and get the life that God has entrusted to you. Live out the life, be faithful before His return.