Making the most of this year- part 2

January 10, 2021

Landon Henry

Note: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oFYaP9XMwY4uZmhoNUfver2Si-aPJ2n4/view?usp=sharing MAKING THE MOST OF THIS YEAR – 2 Matthew 25:14-30 2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. 1. EVERYTHING belongs to God. Matt.25:14 For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property 2. God has GIVEN each of us TALENTS. Matt. 25:15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away Romans 12:6 In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. 3. God EXPECTS us to USE what we have been given for Him. Matt. 25:16-19 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. 19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 2 Corinthians 5:10-11a For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. 4. A wrong VIEW of God keeps us from using our TALENTS. Matt. 25:20-24 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 5. If we don’t USE our talents we LOSE them. Matt 25:25-28 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 6. If we use our talents WISELY, we will be REWARDED. Matt 25:21,23