What you do with what you have
Category: Integrity & Godly Character
Key Passage: Matthew 25:14-30
Speaker: Paul Chisgar
Date: June 7, 2024
Matthew chapter 25. And I want to look at this, Jesus here, of course, giving this, and just try to pull out a couple things about it tonight. And really the title tonight of the message is why every husband ought to take his wife to McDonald’s for a hot fudge sundae.
And there’s a little private joke in there. Patrick and Marlene, they made a deal if Pastor Mitchon Sundays at McDonald’s, then he’ll take her. But she wasn’t supposed to mention it or kind of persuade pastor to do that. But I heard about it. I won’t say Ms. Marlene, but it did.
So that is the message tonight. And we’ll preach hard on that subject right there. Amen.
Matthew chapter 25. We’re going to start in verse number 14. Would you please stand as to read God’s word together, Matthew 25, verse number 14. We’ll read several verses tonight at the beginning here. Matthew 25, verse number 14.
“For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants and delivered unto them his goods. And under one, he gave five talents, into another two, and to another one, to every man according to his several ability.”
That’s very important, if you will, as much as they could handle, if you will. We all can’t handle the same, and that’s all right. God made us different. According to several ability, and straightway took his journey.
By the way, Jesus journeyed back to heaven. Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same and made them other five talents. And likewise, he that had received two talents, he also gained other two. But he that had received one went and digged in the earth and hid his Lord’s money.
After a long time, the Lord of those servants cometh and reckoneth with them.
So he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, “Lord, thou deliverest unto me five talents. Behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.” His Lord said unto him, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”
He also that had received two talents came and said, “Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents. Behold, I’ve gained two other talents beside them.” His Lord said unto him, “Well done, good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”
Then he which had received the one talent came and said, “Lord, I knew that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed. And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth. Lo, there thou hast that is thine.”
His Lord answered and said to him, “Thou wicked and slothful servant. Thou knowest that I reap where I sowed not and gather where I have not strawed. I ought therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.”
“Take therefore the talent from him and give it unto him which hath ten talents. For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Whether the person had five, two, or one talent had no bearing on whether his Lord was pleased with him or not. Sometimes we spend so much time thinking about what we don’t have and what others do have. It really just played no part of it.
That wasn’t, by the way, how much you have as far as talents. And we want to use the word talent that we’re thinking of musical ability or talent like that. And it could be that, but it’s really speaking of money here. It’s just your resource towards money.
Your money is not yours anyway. God allowed you to have it for a little while. If you have talent, resources, whatever it may be, it’s the same thing. Look down in verse number 25: “And I was afraid and went and hid thy talent in the earth. Lo, there thou hast that is thine.” Look at verse number 27: “Thou oughtest therefore to have put mine”—not his, but my money—“to the exchangers, and at my coming, I should have received mine own with usury.”
Whatever resources you have, whether there’s intellect or ability or whatever it may be—that’s really God gave that. It’s not really yours. God loaned it to you for a while. And all the things we possess are the Lord’s.
I’ve said it so often over the years, you say, “Man, these hands have earned that.” Hey, who gave you the hands? It’s all the Lord’s.
And so we get some focus on what we do and don’t have. Friend, that’s really not the key. The key was what they did with what they had. That’s the key. Whatever you have, whether there be resources, however that may look—maybe you’re just good with people when you have a little influence of people, whatever—the resources God has given you or allowed you to have temporarily here on this earth, friend, it’s not a matter of how much you do or don’t have; it’s a matter of what you do with what you have. That’s the key.
You’ll notice when he’s talking to me, it’s just what he did with what he had.
By the way, finances—so many people, “I’ve got to make a little bit more money”—more often than not, it’s not a matter of how much money they make or don’t make; it’s the matter of what they do with what they make. And our society has just stuck on, “Make a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more.” Friend, those that are in financial trouble often make a pretty good penny. It’s just a matter—more often than not, the problem is what they’re doing with what they have. You check it out, people that win bankruptcy over the years, so often they make a pretty good salary.
And friend, just across the board, it’s not necessarily a matter of what we do or don’t have; it’s a matter of what we’re doing with what we have.
You say, “I’m not a good witness. I’m not good, not good at talking with people and telling them about their soul and salvation and all that.” Friend, it’s not really a matter of how good you are with that; it’s a matter of how faithful you are with what God has given.
The best personal soul winner I’ve ever met is my dad. And I’ve said it often, if you’ve been around very long, Dad wasn’t really—this is my opinion—wasn’t really good as far as dealing with people as far as soul winning. He wasn’t, he wasn’t tactful for sure, but he was the most faithful soul winner ever met in all my life. And he led a ton of people to the Lord Jesus Christ. It wasn’t a matter what he had; it doesn’t matter what he did with what he had; he was just faithful to use it.
And, you know, the little boy had five loaves and two small fishes. He didn’t have much. But it wasn’t a matter how much he had; it doesn’t matter what he did with what he had. That’s the story of the history of Christianity. That’s the story of it. It’s just faithful people. I have a little bit, but it’s what they do with that little, and God blesses that. It’s always the key: What are you doing with what you have? That’s the key.
Now let’s for just a moment here talk about the one that received one talent. Notice what he does with that one talent. Look at verse number 18, verse number 18 to this passage here. We won’t be long tonight. I know I feel that wave of disbelief come across, but I will say, I don’t think we’ll be very long tonight. We’ll see, but I don’t think.
So verse number 18: “But he that had received one went and digged”—here’s very interesting—“in the earth and hid his Lord’s money.” Look at verse number 25: “And I was afraid and went and hid thy talent in the earth. Lo, there thou hast that is thine.”
I believe that one talent, and he’s speaking of there, is faith. You see, when one gets saved, it just doesn’t matter where I put my faith, my belief.
Romans gives an interesting verse. I’ll read it from Romans 12:3: “According as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” Everyone’s been given at least the measure of some faith. It’s just a matter where they put it.
I remember years ago, I remember when Hickory Hollow was a mall. How many remember that? Going to Hickory Hollow Mall. I was coming out of one of those back doors, and there was a group of young people there, and I gave them tracts and started to witness to them, and they were kind. They were an old, rough-looking group, but they were good, and we talked. And they said, “Well, I just don’t have faith in that.” And I said, “You have faith.” They said, “We lost all faith.” If I remember right, they said, “We’ve lost all our faith.” You still have faith; it’s just a matter of where you’re putting it.
Everybody’s got faith. Some in our day and time are putting their faith in science. By the way, that’s a little bit scary because check out how much science has changed in the last 50 years. Wow. I want to put my faith in something solid. You call that solid? They don’t know how many planets we got anymore.
No, friend, it’s just about where you put your faith. Some put their faith in their financial ability. It’s amazing; wealthy people can lose it, boom, like that. Everybody’s got some faith; it’s just a matter of where you—so many put their faith in themselves. Everybody’s got the measure of faith; it’s where they put it.
But you notice, you notice every false religion there is as far as salvation, them getting to heaven—they put their faith here on earth. I say this so often, you can boil down every religion in the world to one or two things: either you do something to go to heaven, or it was done. You’ve heard that.
Now look, all that doing—they put their faith in what they can do to get them to heaven—is here on earth. You know, it’s this guy; he put the talents in the earth. See? But when we go to heaven, we put our faith in Christ.
By the way, do you remember how the book of John describes Christ? His death on the cross, John 3:14: “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up.” John 12:32: “And I”—this is such a good verse for Calvinists—“if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to me.” He clarifies the next verse: “You’re still going to the cross.” No, no.
When I got saved, I wouldn’t put my faith in anything on the earth. I put my faith in Christ that was lifted up from the earth on the cross, and He’s up in heaven now. I said, “I got saved.” If you’re saved, that’s how you got saved. But this one man, out of fear, he kept putting his faith in things here on the earth. There’s one telling everything in the earth and the earth and the earth. This earth is going to burn up one day. And that’s why he tells him, “Hey, outer darkness, weeping, gnashing of teeth.” What a sad thing.
When we try to witness to someone, it’s just mad or just trying to get them to take their faith and put it in Christ. Maybe put their faith somewhere, and you’re asking to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Let’s give it a measure of faith; they’ve got some faith, just where they put it.
Let’s look at one, just a couple more things, and then we will be done for tonight. Look in verse number 21, Matthew 25. Look in verse number 21. And I want you to notice just a very pretty short answer he gives to the five-talent one and the two-talent one. Thirty-one words in one, thirty, and the other just misses one word the second time he says it. But I want you to notice how often faithfulness comes up. Would you do that?
Verse number 21, he’s told him, the five-talent one here: “His Lord said unto him, here we go, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.’” By the way, you know where joy is found? Out being faithful. That’s where you’ll find joy at.
Verse number 23, told him the two-talent one: “His Lord said unto him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.’” Faithfulness.
When we stand before the Lord Jesus Christ, what’s the big thing that He’s going to emphasize? Faithfulness. Faithfulness is the key for Him. Jesus here speaking, and He said, look, when he came back and stood before his Lord, the Master of these servants, the thing He mentions really more often than anything to these successful servants is faithfulness.
You stand before the Lord, and I stand before the Lord. By the way, I think we’ll actually have to say something. Somebody was just talking about it—something will come across the screen, maybe something like that. But the Bible several times says, “Give an account.” And I believe we’ll have to give an account, not of our sins—Jesus paid for those on the cross of Calvary—but for our works. See, 1 Corinthians 3, He’ll try our works, and we’ll give an account of our works. And the key, one of the key things He’s looking for, is faithfulness. Amen. Are you faithful with the resources, the talents, the things that have been given you? Your faithfulness for the Lord Jesus Christ? “Well done, thou good and faithful, for thou hast been faithful over a few things.”
By the way, we so often think about, “Boy, if I ever get there, then I’ll do it.” No, no. What are you doing with the little you have right now? That’s the key. Little bitty things. You get a little young couple living in a little bitty apartment, and yet that lady is faithful to be a good homekeeper there in that apartment. Often God blesses. Whatever it may be, however they’re finding things, just faithful with a little. That little bitty Sunday school class—you be faithful with that, God’s allowed to bless you with more. They’re faithful with the few, and God says, “They’ll give you more.”
By the way, praise the Lord, 2020 has been a tough year. You’ve got some “Amens” on that one for sure. Praise the Lord, at the end of the year, you’re still faithful. I congratulate you on that. So thankful for that.
By the same token, some that are watching online tonight, and you have health conditions and whatnot, and maybe you can’t be here, but you’re faithful to watch services online. God knows about that. Maybe I try, and our deacons, we try to divide them out sometimes. We try to stay in contact with some of these people that can’t come, and so many say, “Man, I still watch.” And someone recently said, “We come out in the living room, we’ve sat down just like we’re in church, we sing songs and all that.” And after all these months, they’re still faithful there. And praise the Lord for that.
Some of you are still at your Bible, getting up every morning all these years, you read your Bible every morning, and I congratulate you on your faithfulness. Wonderful. God’s pleased with that. Some of you are still praying, maybe you’re praying for Uncle Joe to get saved. You’ve been praying for 25 years. Can I congratulate you? Praise the Lord, you’ve been faithful to pray for whoever it is to be saved. That’s wonderful. God’s pleased with that.
I look out and see Ms. Teresa, wonder how many years she prayed for her mom to get saved. God heard that. There’s faithful prayer and the faithfulness of God’s people. I’m so thankful. Our church has got a lot of faithful people over the years. That’s so important, so crucial.
I look out and see Brother Field and I think about his mom, how many years she’s been in church. And before COVID, she would cook meals at her church and make flower arrangements for her church. And she’s still doing what she can do at the house, and she’s up in years and whatnot. But just those faithful people—God’s so pleased with that. The faithfulness, God’s saying, is just wonderful.
There’s a little collie, a dog. His name was King. And it’s in the newspapers years and years ago. And King’s master, his owner, died. And the paper said somehow that dog was able to go to the graveside. And that dog, King, saw his master in that box lowered down into the ground there.
And the neighborhood, and everyone testified, for eight years they said, “We never remember a day that it did not happen.” For eight years, that dog somehow would get over there to that cemetery, and he would lie on top of the grave. And he said they put ropes on him a time or two, trying to kind of keep him locked up—he’s going to get run over or whatnot. He would break ropes, and they would put him on a little pole, they said, and he’d pull over poles. And for eight years, he just found a way to get to that grave, and he would lie on the grave. Eight years. You call that faithful?
Can I say, praise the Lord, there are a lot of faithful God’s people in this world. Just faithful. Faithful to serve God and stand up for the Lord and witness for the Lord and be in church and read their Bible and pray. God, He sees every single bit of that. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good; He sees it all. Faithfulness.
I am—I’m so thankful as your pastor. I’m so thankful for your faithfulness, and I mean that. Years ago, during Pastor’s Appreciation Month on Christian radio, I heard a pastor, and the person asked him, “Hey, Pastor, what do you want from your people in the month of October, Pastor’s Appreciation Month?” And when he said that, I thought, “Wow, what would I say if they asked me?” I couldn’t really thank them.
And the pastor said this: He said, “The one thing I want the most for my people is faithfulness.” When he said that, I said, “Man, he hit the nail right on the head.” That’s exactly what every pastor wants: faithfulness.
And God says, “Praise the Lord for faithful people we have in our church all these years.” Nursery workers—Ms. Gator has been out because of the baby and whatnot, and that’s understandable—but someone’s always in the nursery. I’m faithful to be there. The nursery worker was leaving this morning, and she, I think she said she had four babies. She said she only had one dirty diaper in there today. That’s one too many for me. Praise the Lord for faithful nursery workers.
Faithful musicians—Ms. Barb and Brother Glenn, and my wife typically when she’s healthy and doing good, and Brother Anthony leads singing and choir and specials. And Brother Fontaine had been singing for us; sang this morning. I’ve been singing forever out here. Praise the Lord for the faithful musicians.
Ushers. Now I’ll miss someone; I listen to things off here. But ushers, praise the Lord for ushers. The pastor says, “Hey, why did you come for?” “Come down for offering.” Praise the Lord, they’ll always come down. Isn’t that a blessing? Ever think about that? Praise the Lord, they’re not out, you know, whatever. I’m just honestly, faithful ushers. How do you think of a church and the ushers in and the faithfulness of ushers? Praise for faithful ushers. It’s crucial.
Praise for faithful bus workers. Wow, what an awesome ministry the bus ministry is, reaching those. I really believe if Christ were living here on earth, He’d be involved in the bus ministry. He is involved in the bus ministry right now.
I heard old Bobby Robertson preaching one time, and he said, “The Lord didn’t call me to be a pastor of a church being in full-time ministry. He said, ‘I believe I’d find a church, a good church, and I’d sit in the back row and I’d be a bus captain in that church.’” I praise the Lord, I love it. Probably the same way. I don’t know the Lord, I love it. Bus workers.
I heard D.L. Moody—someone was talking about D.L. Moody was on his deathbed. And D.L. Moody said, if I could go back and change anything, he said, “I would devote my life to children’s ministry.” They still have their life to live. Praise the Lord for the faithful bus workers and children’s church workers and Sunday school teachers. It takes all those.
Praise the Lord for those that are faithful to tithe, give offerings in the offering plate. God sees all that. Every person that gets saved—praise the Lord, Brother Anthony, that’s my Lord yesterday—there’s a decision that filled out today. I haven’t got to check on it. I know what happened there, but somebody maybe got saved today. I’m not sure what happened there. But everybody gets saved and all that; you put somebody in the offering plate, you have a part in that. The faithfulness of God’s people to give. Faith promise of giving and giving to missionaries, and part of our budget goes to missions and all the missionaries. I don’t know; I think 37 now is important. They get to have services all around the world, and all those people get saved. The faithfulness of God’s people to give. God knows about all that.
You know, just the faithfulness to be in church. Let me just watch online. Yeah, it’d be pretty discouraging for the preacher who got up and preached and nobody showed up. In the beginning days, we did that time or two; my wife had to show up. She was my wife; my kids didn’t have a choice; they had to show up, you know. Praise the Lord, just faithful people to come. They want to hear God’s word. Be faithful. Praise the Lord, just the faithfulness of God’s people.
“Well done, thou good and faithful.” I thought about Ms. Brenda Crossland. She’s faithful to just do so many different tasks around here over the years. I always say she’s a worker. “Lead follower, get out of the way,” is her theme line, you know. I’m teasing about that. She’s a worker. There’s a yard sale every year. Wow, could you imagine having your own yard sale at your house is one job, but having a church yard sale? Wow. Some of you avoid her around yard sale time. I would, of course, would never, ever do something like that, you know, and I’m teasing with it. She’s always working. Blankets of Love every Monday. I’ve called her so many times on Saturday or a couple times on Sunday morning, and believe it or not, all these years, she still answers the phone. Usually she’ll answer—this is the way she usually answers: She says, “What does the Lord have for me to do this Sunday?” Praise the Lord for people like that. They’re vital, man. We need them. The faithful, God’s people being faithful is just wonderful.
Brother John Casey is getting a group of men together, and it’s a blessing. A lot of men have already jumped on board. It’s way ahead of schedule, but we’re trying to get together a men’s softball league this spring. A lot of men wanted to do it. And, of course, they went and practiced a couple Saturdays ago, and that kind of hurt a couple. You know, every man—you always say men don’t have egos; they are egos, you know. But anyway, they went and they practiced. You notice I didn’t go. I was smart, amen, you know. I kept my ego a little bit.
But anyway, I’ve been calling other churches. We’re trying to get just a little league together of Baptist churches, independent Baptists if we can. And I’ve been amazed—a little bit sad—this has been the common response. I’ll check, but I don’t know if we have enough interest, enough men, and enough men that have their schedules that can get involved. And I’ve been shocked. Churches that I thought, “Man, they can field the team, no problem”—someone called back and said, “Oh, we just don’t have enough that can fill the team right now with everything going on.” And that’s sad for them. And I want those churches; they’re great churches. Praise the Lord for them. But it also makes me think, God’s been so good to our church. Amen. Yes, we got people sick right now. People [who] attended the last couple Sundays [are] down just to touch base. But overall, wow, just in the middle of COVID, God has blessed. People say people join the church, good attendance. That’s just the Lord for Him, and faithful people. Praise the Lord for them. God sees all that.
And like I say, some can’t be here; understand some are online. And I praise God for those that are faithful even online. And some say, “Pastor, as soon as this thing—we get it, you know, some answer to this COVID thing”—well, not “we’ll be there.” Praise the Lord for people like that. It’s the faithful, God’s faithful people.
They say there was a shipyard in England years ago, and they said they had two classes: the riveters. Any minute, you know what a rivet gun is? How many know what a rivet gun is? You know, they’ll put a little—just a little different sizes—but there’ll be a little hole in the metal. By the way, they didn’t have welding years ago in the shipyard like they do now; it wasn’t as common. So they’d have holes in the ships where they put metal together, plates of metal together, and they’d drill holes. And then they put just a little bit of short piece of metal through there. The riveter’s on this side, and he gets that rivet gun, just like a woodpecker, man, just going 90 miles an hour, pneumatic rivet gun, air tool.
And then on the other side, the other class of people, they said, “the holders-on.” And they were on the inside of the ship typically, and they would have a piece of metal that had a little divot in it. It was hot, and they would hold that up to the rivet. And as they’re on the outside, that rivet gun, you know, just pecking away at it, they must be on the inside. And if they’re not on the inside holding that piece of metal very tight up against it, that rivet is never going to be—you know, like a marshmallow—it’s never going to come out and hold anything.
And they said they had two classes: the riveters and the holders-on. Everybody’s seen the riveters. Everybody could hear the riveters. They’re loud. Everybody can hear them, you know, you can kind of hear them ringing out all over the place. But those holders-on, nobody ever saw them. But if they weren’t there holding on, the rivets were no good.
In every church, there’s—yes, there’s got to be the riveters. Well, pastors out in front of everybody’s always yelling at everybody; you can hear him a mile away. And God puts some people in different positions. But there’s got to be those holders-on. Nobody ever knows about them. You don’t see Brother Chip and Mrs. Tammy back over there battling out in Junior Church while we’re having church in here, you know. You don’t see Brother Josh trying to get all those kids to sit down on the bus while he’s taking them home, you know. You don’t see all that. But for rivets to be made into something useful, there’s got to be both—two classes in every church. So many churches are limited; they have the riveter, and that’s a necessary part of God’s plan, but they don’t have holders-on. They’re so limited in what they can do for Christ. All of it’s part of it. All of it.
Look at one last thing. We’re done for tonight because we’ve got to go to McDonald’s and get a hot fudge sundae. Amen.
Look in verse number 19, Matthew 25. Look at verse number 19 right there: “And after a long time…” You could say approximately 2,000 years. “…the Lord of those servants cometh and reckoneth with them.” There’s a reckoning day coming. “Hey, I will come again and receive you unto myself.” He knows who’s been faithful. He sees it all.
What about that one verse over in Romans 8:18? “I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” He sees it all. He knows the faithful.
There is a missionary in Central America, and he wrote this: “The work is hard. I go about on fishing boats through the day. At nine, I sleep on piles of hides on the decks. The people do not seem much interested in the gospel I bring. Sometimes the adversary tempts me to discourage me in the face of seemingly lack of success. But I take courage and press on anew, as a member that God is not wholly responsible for success, but for faithfulness.” God’s the one that brings the increase, for yes, we watered and planted, but God brings the increase.
One last story, and I’m done. True story, they say, years and years ago, a crowd of distinguished scientists and very distinguished people, some royalty was there. They gathered to listen to a lecture by Michael Faraday. He passed in 1867, so you understand the time frame. He was a very important scientist. In fact, he invented the first electric motor—how important that was—Michael Faraday. And they gathered to listen to him, and for an hour he held the crowd enthralled by the nature and properties of the magnet. Boy, they were amazed. He finished, and they say the house erupted in applause. They went on for a good while, just applauding him. He had sat down; they were just thrilled about what they’d seen and learned. They just couldn’t believe it.
They said finally, after the crowd kind of calmed down a little bit, the Prince of Wales stood and congratulated him. Then after that, King Edward VII congratulated him. And the crowd was just applauding and applauding after all these people had said things. And then they say there came a strange silence over the audience. They were waiting for Faraday to give an answer, but nobody could find him. He was gone. They said, “Where’d he go?” And he said, “Really, only his closest friend knew where he was.”
You see, he went to a little church. They say that church never boasted over 20 people in attendance. It was prayer meeting night, and the hour was late. And he had slipped out because he was always at a prayer meeting. They were applauding him, but he had left; he was faithful to God’s house.
Would you bow your heads, please? Would you just please stand? Would you please stand? I don’t know about you, but I like to be faithful. “Well done, thou good and faithful.” Would you just spend some time tonight? Lord, help me to be faithful. I want to stay faithful. Would you think about this tonight: that God knows your faithfulness and He is pleased? I want you to think about it: He is pleased with your faithfulness. Would you spend some time with Him tonight and say, “I want to be faithful to You”? Would you tell Him that?
Lord, thank You that our faithfulness matters to You. Lord, I realize we can’t do much really without You; we do nothing. But You know and You appreciate it, and You see our faithfulness. Lord, thank You for the faithful people You’ve given our church over these years. Thank You so much for that. Help us to stay faithful until You come. Thank You. There’s a reckoning day. Rewards given. Lord, help us to live our lives in light of that, Father, please. Bless our people in our newness time. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.
Would you come just spend some time with the Lord as we see? You know, the Bible tells us that stewards—someone that God can entrust His riches to. The greatest thing God has is people. But those to whom He can entrust His riches—the cheapest of God’s blessings is money. That’s a blessing. But if God says, “If I can give them my riches, if I can trust them, I require something.” And the thing God says I require is faithfulness. We must be found faithful. Faithful. Lord, I want You to find me faithful. Would you sing? And as we sing, let the Lord know, I want You to find me faithful. Would you tell Him that? Amen. “Well done, thou good and faithful.” And one day we’ll meet Him. And this may be—you just don’t know—this may be the last service we have on this side for Him. And nobody knows the day or the hour. And let’s let Him find us faithful. Just being faithful. And He’s pleased with that. And praise the Lord, you’re faithful tonight. Those of you online, praise the Lord for your faithfulness, too. And let’s just let Him find us faithful. Glad you’re in church tonight. And praise God for you. And I think about Moses walking those streets of gold up there. And he’s at home. He’s doing really, really good tonight, best he’s been in a long time. And praise the Lord, he’s at home in heaven. And we’re going to go to McDonald’s and get a hot fudge sundae. How many are going to get the caramel? You get the caramel or caramel or however you want to say it, caramel sundae? How many are into the caramel? How many are into the hot fudge? How many are into both? Strawberry, Brother Anthony says strawberry. And you can get them all. Amen. Amen. Glad you’re in church tonight. Praise the Lord for that. Appreciate you being here. Brother Phil Ramsey, would you dismiss with the word of prayer, please, brother?
Original File: What you do with what you have - Pastor Paul Chisgar Sunday pm 121320