Speaker 1: Welcome Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose
Speaker 1: of inspiring from heartfelt tagalog sermons from different characters and
Speaker 1: speakers all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast
Speaker 1: finds you in good shame and now here's your message.
Speaker 2: You were listening to a message from Victory. We hope
Speaker 2: it inspires you to honor God and make disciples in
Speaker 2: your humanity.
Speaker 3: We are in our sixth week of our series Truth
Speaker 3: Be Told. Okay, on my way here, I was reminded
Speaker 3: of very embarrassing and painful story after will I tell
Speaker 3: this story or not? But this happened when I was
Speaker 3: applying for a Korean visa. Early in the morning, my
Speaker 3: daughter and I went to the embassies because so that
Speaker 3: we will finish early, so I brought my daughter with me.
Speaker 3: Then at the gate, they asked for my papers. Can't
Speaker 3: remember anymore if that's the confirmation of the appointment or
Speaker 3: the papers, but they asked for my papers, and then
Speaker 3: they asked for my ID and then they gave me
Speaker 3: a number. Then after that I went to the building
Speaker 3: and when we entered the building, I saw a lot
Speaker 3: of people, but I still I felt like we're going
Speaker 3: to finish early. If I'm not mistaken, I think your
Speaker 3: application of visit I think nine from morning to twelve
Speaker 3: noon only, So we've waited patiently. I was there. I
Speaker 3: was looking at the numbers being called, so one or
Speaker 3: two hours a big opara p s Korean embassy. I
Speaker 3: saw people coming late, but they're being called ahead of me,
Speaker 3: so should contempatients. So I've waited eleven and then almost
Speaker 3: twelve noon, they're starting to close the windows. So I
Speaker 3: was a bit mad already and confused at the same time.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what's happening. So I made the decision
Speaker 3: to approach the wind one of the windows and ask
Speaker 3: the guy. Because your your system is so inefficient, say
Speaker 3: what's happening here? I have this number. I've waited here.
Speaker 3: I was early, first in the line, but my number
Speaker 3: wasn't cold, so I've been a circain. I check your number.
Speaker 3: So I gave the number and said, sorry, this is
Speaker 3: for claiming your ID. You did not ask for a
Speaker 3: number when you entered the building, so I was waiting
Speaker 3: the whole time. I stayed there for four hours and
Speaker 3: nothing happened. So we went home, brought my daughter with me.
Speaker 3: Was boss and pinto and then my wife was there,
Speaker 3: opened the door and said and asked me what happened?
Speaker 3: And my daughter said nothing, So I walked out. So
Speaker 3: I felt really bad during that time because I felt
Speaker 3: like my half of my day was wasted. I felt
Speaker 3: like it was really a complete waste of time. And
Speaker 3: you know, I told you that story because that is
Speaker 3: really connected to what we're going to talk about here
Speaker 3: as we look at another story that we're going to
Speaker 3: look in the Bible, stories that Jesus told because as
Speaker 3: people generally, we don't like the feeling of wasting time. Okay,
Speaker 3: how many of you here you want your time to
Speaker 3: be productive? Okay, you hate the feeling of just killing
Speaker 3: time and not doing anything. You want your You want
Speaker 3: to do something productive. And that's innate in each and
Speaker 3: every one of them us, because we're wired that way.
Speaker 3: In Genesis, when we're created, God said, here's the charge
Speaker 3: that is given to Adam and Eve. That is also
Speaker 3: a charge for all of us. He said, go and
Speaker 3: bear fruit and multiply and subdue the earth. We're called
Speaker 3: to be fruitful, be fruitful, and increase in number and ephicients.
Speaker 3: Chapter two, verse ten, it says, for we are God's workmanship.
Speaker 3: In other words, we are God's masterpiece. Can you please
Speaker 3: look at the person see that next to you, and
Speaker 3: tell that person you are a masterpiece, work of art abstract,
Speaker 3: but you are a masterpiece. And the Bible says you
Speaker 3: are God's workmanship, created to do good works which God
Speaker 3: prepared in advance for us to do. So when God
Speaker 3: created you, he prepared you, He wired you to do
Speaker 3: something in this world. You're created to do something good.
Speaker 3: That is why there's that inner sense in each and
Speaker 3: every one of us to do something, to make a difference,
Speaker 3: to be productive. And this parable we're going to look
Speaker 3: at this afternoon is really part of a series of
Speaker 3: parables that Jesus thought to explain to us how the
Speaker 3: kingdom works, or how do we live as part of
Speaker 3: this kingdom? How do we live our lives while waiting
Speaker 3: for Jesus promise to come back again? How do we
Speaker 3: live our lives? And Jesus told this story in order
Speaker 3: to explain to us how do we live as people
Speaker 3: of the kingdom. The story we're going to read today
Speaker 3: is the parable of the talents. Okay, how many if
Speaker 3: you're familiar with this parable talents, And that's what we're
Speaker 3: going to look at today. Can you bow your heads
Speaker 3: with me and close your eyes as we as we
Speaker 3: commit this time to God before we read our word
Speaker 3: for today, Lord, we thank you once again for this
Speaker 3: opportunity to hear your word. Lord. You wired us, Lord
Speaker 3: to do something great to make a difference in this world. God,
Speaker 3: we thank you you said in your word, we are
Speaker 3: your workmanship. We are your masterpiece. And Lord, I pray
Speaker 3: God that you will call out that greatness in each
Speaker 3: and every one of us today. I pray Lord that
Speaker 3: you will just ignite something in our hearts, Lord that
Speaker 3: would make us desire, Lord, to honor you with whatever
Speaker 3: you've given us wherever you've placed us in Jesus name
Speaker 3: me pray. Amen. Okay, if you have your Bible with you,
Speaker 3: we're going to read from Mathew chapter twenty. And this
Speaker 3: is a long story, so we're just going to read
Speaker 3: through the verses and then I'm going to make some
Speaker 3: comments and applications here and there. Matthew twenty five, verse fourteen,
Speaker 3: it says, for it will be like a man going
Speaker 3: on a journey who called the servants and entrusted to
Speaker 3: them his property. To one he gave five talents, and
Speaker 3: to another two to another, one to each according to
Speaker 3: his ability. Then he went away so early on, like
Speaker 3: to said a context, when this master went away for
Speaker 3: a journey, the Bible said that he gave his servants
Speaker 3: talents each one of them one he gave five, the
Speaker 3: other he gave two, and then to the other he
Speaker 3: gave one. It was a substantial amount. Some commentarists that
Speaker 3: I checked saying that one talent is rual equivalent to
Speaker 3: twenty years of a man's salary. So if you're earning
Speaker 3: a minimum wage of four hundred to five hundred pesos,
Speaker 3: times that to twelve in times that two twenty years,
Speaker 3: it's like three point five million pesos. That's in our currency.
Speaker 3: So some of them receive five talents, one two talent,
Speaker 3: and then one regardless, there's still a substantial amount. And
Speaker 3: all of them were entrusted with something. You know, we
Speaker 3: know that in every story God is the hero of
Speaker 3: the story, and in the story, definitely the Master represents
Speaker 3: God and the servants represents us and the way we
Speaker 3: respond to him. In the story, we will learn that
Speaker 3: just like the servants, all of us are given different
Speaker 3: gifts and resources. All of us are gifted. Can you
Speaker 3: please strength to the person see it next to you
Speaker 3: again and tell that person I'm gifted. Sorry, not gifted child, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm gifted. You are an asset, not a liability. Whoever
Speaker 3: you are, God has given you something that is valuable.
Speaker 3: God has given you gifts and talents and resources, you know.
Speaker 3: Browsing through my Facebook newsfeed this week, I saw this
Speaker 3: short video that I'm going to show you later on
Speaker 3: one minute video of Nick Voyage check. And I'm sure
Speaker 3: some of you have heard of him. I've definitely watched
Speaker 3: many of his preachings and talks. But this guy, he's
Speaker 3: an Australian Christian evangelist. And for those of you who
Speaker 3: don't know him, he was born without arms and legs.
Speaker 3: Sure enough. In the early days of his life, he
Speaker 3: struggled really making sense of his design. Why was I
Speaker 3: born like this? I have no arms, I have no legs.
Speaker 3: At one point of his life, he just wanted to
Speaker 3: die until he had an encounter with God and God
Speaker 3: opened his eyes and he finally realized that he's actually
Speaker 3: given something valuable. He discovered how gifted he was and
Speaker 3: how much God has entrusted to him. By the way,
Speaker 3: he's married with two kids. He's offered seven books and
Speaker 3: continually going around the world preaching powerful messages to point
Speaker 3: people to Jesus and inspire hope in the hearts of people.
Speaker 3: This guy is gifted. You are gifted. God has given
Speaker 3: you something important. How many gifted people do we have
Speaker 3: in this room today? If you know you've received something
Speaker 3: valuable from God, can you give the alloyed a big
Speaker 3: shout today? You are gifted. Actually, in my notes, I
Speaker 3: wrote here a title for this message, and the title
Speaker 3: of this message is Victory Greenhills got talent. This church
Speaker 3: is full of people with so much gifts and talents
Speaker 3: and resources that God has given all of us. You
Speaker 3: are gifted. You're talented. Some of you are very charismatic.
Speaker 3: That's your gift. That's one of your gifts. You're very
Speaker 3: good with people like Pastor Larry. If you know Pastor Larry,
Speaker 3: just give him five minutes, even if it's your first
Speaker 3: time to meet each other, just five minutes. After five minutes,
Speaker 3: you would feel like you've been best friend for years.
Speaker 3: Very charismatic into fifteen seconds. Palanng. We don't know what
Speaker 3: to talk about anymore. We're afraid the people. That's why
Speaker 3: even before I say amen, you're already at the door. Jokelan,
Speaker 3: some of you are very good in math, in music,
Speaker 3: in arts. Some of you are very good in creating
Speaker 3: wealth and selling. Some of you are very good in
Speaker 3: cooking and engineering. I mean God has given us different gifts.
Speaker 3: God has given us different talents and resources. And that's
Speaker 3: what we can see in this parable. And what is
Speaker 3: the purpose? First Peter chapter four verse Then, as each
Speaker 3: has received a gift, use it to serve one another
Speaker 3: as good stewards of God's varied grace. That's the purpose
Speaker 3: of your gift. The purpose is to enrich the life
Speaker 3: of other people. The purpose is to serve you know,
Speaker 3: the purpose of life is not just for us us
Speaker 3: to work and secure our retirement. Some people are working
Speaker 3: very hard preparing for retirement. That is not the purpose
Speaker 3: why we are here on earth. The Bible says, we
Speaker 3: are here and we're loaded with gifts so we can
Speaker 3: make a difference in the world he created. God has
Speaker 3: called you and me to serve other people. We're missing
Speaker 3: the point if we think that our talents are simply
Speaker 3: for us to make money to retire and today eventually,
Speaker 3: you know, the talents here also represents these talents really
Speaker 3: are monetary money, but yet it also represents other things,
Speaker 3: not only money, but it also represents opportunities. If you're
Speaker 3: given talent, if you're given money to invest, you're actually
Speaker 3: given an opportunity to build something and to grow something.
Speaker 3: So we are given opportunities. And what I'm encouraged to
Speaker 3: know reading this parable and I feel like God wants
Speaker 3: to say to all of us today, is that God
Speaker 3: has loaded our life with opportunities. We are blessed with opportunities.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we just don't recognize it, or sometimes we are
Speaker 3: thinking that it's not yet here. It's something that we're
Speaker 3: going we might see in the future. You know, I
Speaker 3: posted a vlog this week and the title of the
Speaker 3: vlog was remove someday from your vocabulary. I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: I think it has seven thousand views now. I think
Speaker 3: it resonated with a lot of people. But what I
Speaker 3: mean by remove someday from your vocabulary is this thinking
Speaker 3: that our best hope, our best opportunity, and our best
Speaker 3: chance for success and to make a difference is in
Speaker 3: the future. It's someday when things are better, when we
Speaker 3: are less busy, when we are ready, when we have
Speaker 3: all the resources that we need, When when our situation improves,
Speaker 3: then maybe I can make a difference. But someday is
Speaker 3: not going to come. It's not going to happen. We
Speaker 3: will never be less busy, we will never come to
Speaker 3: a point that we are completely ready, and we will
Speaker 3: never have all that we need to accomplish everything that
Speaker 3: God is placed in our heart. Our greatest opportunity is
Speaker 3: not someday, it's today. Today is the best chance that
Speaker 3: we have to do something with what God has given
Speaker 3: to us. Every day is loaded with opportunities. You know
Speaker 3: Lamentations Chapter three, verse twenty two to twenty three, as
Speaker 3: the steadfast love of the Lord never seeses His mercies
Speaker 3: never come to an end, and they are new every morning.
Speaker 3: Great is your faithfulness. You know what I like about
Speaker 3: God is we don't need to wait for January one
Speaker 3: in order for us to have a fresh start. Every
Speaker 3: day we can have a fresh start. Every day is
Speaker 3: a new beginning. Every day we can press the reset
Speaker 3: button and have a new start. The Bible says, every
Speaker 3: day it's a new morning. Greate is thy faithfulness just
Speaker 3: you waking up today? You already have an opportunity. The
Speaker 3: Master gave the servants each one of them talents for
Speaker 3: them to invest and to use in the same way
Speaker 3: with us. We're all given talents by God. And in
Speaker 3: Matthew chapter twenty five, verse sixteen, two seventeen, moving on,
Speaker 3: just like the servants in the parable who were given
Speaker 3: five and two talents, it says, he who had received
Speaker 3: the five talents went at once and traded with them,
Speaker 3: and he made five talents. More so also he who
Speaker 3: had the two talents made two talents more They had
Speaker 3: that sense of urgency. They did not wait for another day,
Speaker 3: they did not wait for another year. As soon as
Speaker 3: they received the talent, the Bible says, immediately they went
Speaker 3: at once and traded with them. And I believe that's
Speaker 3: an encouragement for all of us today. You're loaded with gifts,
Speaker 3: you're loaded with opportunities, and God is saying to you,
Speaker 3: do something about it today, do something about what God
Speaker 3: has given to you. And Matthew twenty five, verse eighteen,
Speaker 3: here's the other servant. But he who had received the
Speaker 3: one talent went and dug in the ground and hid
Speaker 3: his master's money. So there's this servant who was given
Speaker 3: five the other servant given two. And then there's this
Speaker 3: servant who was given one talent and instead of investing it,
Speaker 3: the Bible says he hid the talent he did not use.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine getting three point five million pesos and
Speaker 3: you're praying to God, Lord changed my life, change my situation.
Speaker 3: And then one day somebody knocked at your door and said,
Speaker 3: somebody is giving you three point five million pesos. Okay,
Speaker 3: does likud numba that has been on muyunjak? That was Melican.
Speaker 3: Lord changed my life, change my situation. That's almost like
Speaker 3: what this person did. And we're going back to him
Speaker 3: and we're going to discover and will know later why
Speaker 3: he did that. And verse nineteen. Now, after a long time,
Speaker 3: the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them,
Speaker 3: and he who had received the five talents came forward
Speaker 3: bringing five talents more, saying, Master, you delivered to me
Speaker 3: five talents. Here I have made five talents more. And
Speaker 3: his master said to him, well done, good and faithful servant.
Speaker 3: You have been faithful over a little. I will set
Speaker 3: you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.
Speaker 3: And he also had the two talents came forward saying, Master,
Speaker 3: you delivered to me two talents. Here, I have made
Speaker 3: two talents more. And his master said to him, well done,
Speaker 3: good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little.
Speaker 3: I will set you over much. Enter into the joy
Speaker 3: of your master. So when the master came back, they
Speaker 3: showed up and they gave a report of what happened.
Speaker 3: And both of them, the guy who was given five
Speaker 3: and the guy who was given too, they said, see
Speaker 3: what happened. What you gave us doubled. And the master
Speaker 3: was so happy. He commended them. He said, well done,
Speaker 3: good and faithful servant. He promoted them, he said, I
Speaker 3: will put you in charge more. And then third they
Speaker 3: were invited. He said, come and share the joy's happiness,
Speaker 3: your master's happiness. You know, if you're working here and
Speaker 3: if you have a boss, it's almost like your boss
Speaker 3: bragging about you and social media in his Facebook account
Speaker 3: having a best employee ever, broadcasting to the whole world.
Speaker 3: Not only that he gave you a raise, he doubled
Speaker 3: your pay, and he gave you a high position in
Speaker 3: the company. And then not only that, he invited you
Speaker 3: in his house to have dinner with his family, grabbing
Speaker 3: them and town Master is really happy, you know, with
Speaker 3: this guy who received five and the other one who
Speaker 3: received two. They were given two different amounts of talents,
Speaker 3: but yet they were both commended the same way, and
Speaker 3: they were promoted as well. The Master didn't compare what
Speaker 3: they produced. The Master did not expect the two to
Speaker 3: produce what the guy who received five produced. He simply
Speaker 3: commended him based on how faithful he was with what
Speaker 3: was given to him. You know, in the same way,
Speaker 3: we're given talents gifts, and eventually, when God ask us
Speaker 3: for an account of what He has given to us,
Speaker 3: he will not compare it. He's not expecting you, you know,
Speaker 3: Praise God. God is not expecting me to excel the
Speaker 3: way Jason is excelling in his field. In the same
Speaker 3: way God is not expecting you to produce or excel
Speaker 3: how I am producing or excelling where God displaced me.
Speaker 3: Each one of us were given talents and gifts, and
Speaker 3: God will hold you accountable based on the faithfulness that
Speaker 3: you are putting in what God has given to you.
Speaker 3: He's not comparing us to one another. That's why it's
Speaker 3: foolish to compare yourself with others. You know, early on
Speaker 3: I struggled with that that in a pyprayer. Oh my Lord, Lord,
Speaker 3: why do I process information this way? Lord? Why am
Speaker 3: I not that friendly compared to other pastors? Is colord?
Speaker 3: I'm ready to go home. I don't want to see
Speaker 3: people anymore. That's my capacity. I mean, if you can relate,
Speaker 3: sometimes I look at others? Why can't I preach that way?
Speaker 3: So I would compare until God taught me how to
Speaker 3: be grateful for what I have. Comparing will lead to discontentment,
Speaker 3: and it will lead to resentment. Eventually, you are going
Speaker 3: to hate God for creating you that way, not realizing
Speaker 3: how low that you are with gifts and opportunities, just
Speaker 3: like other people. You know. Faithful, the Master said, well done,
Speaker 3: good and faithful serve and faithful means growing and not
Speaker 3: simply maintaining what God has entrusted to us. Faithful means
Speaker 3: growing and not simple maintaining what God has entrusted to us.
Speaker 3: It means Faithful means not just going to church every
Speaker 3: single week. Just because we show up in church every
Speaker 3: Sunday doesn't mean we are faithful. Faithful means what do
Speaker 3: we do with what we hear every week? So it's
Speaker 3: not just showing up, but it's really doing something with
Speaker 3: what we're receiving. It's increasing. How's our relationship with God?
Speaker 3: How's our faith in God? How's our marriage, our family,
Speaker 3: our ministry, our work? Is it the same today like
Speaker 3: last year? Is it growing? Is it increasing? That's what
Speaker 3: faithful means. And we can see that in the parable.
Speaker 3: And here's the last part of the parable. In verse eighteen.
Speaker 3: He also had received the one talent came forward, and
Speaker 3: the story of this guy is really tragic because he
Speaker 3: was given the same opportunity. He had the same master.
Speaker 3: But here's what happened. He showed up and said, Master,
Speaker 3: I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where
Speaker 3: you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no scene.
Speaker 3: So I was afraid. Then I went and hid your
Speaker 3: talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.
Speaker 3: But his master answered him, you wicked and sloughful servant.
Speaker 3: You knew that where I have not sown, and gathered
Speaker 3: where I scattered no scene. Then you ought to have
Speaker 3: invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming
Speaker 3: I should have re what was my own with interest.
Speaker 3: So take the talent from him and give it to
Speaker 3: him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who
Speaker 3: has will be will more be given, and he will
Speaker 3: have an abundance. But from the one who was not
Speaker 3: even what he has will be taken away and cast
Speaker 3: the wordless servant into the outer darkness. In that place
Speaker 3: there will be whipping and gnashing of teeth. And that
Speaker 3: was really sad. You know, this one talent guy. Not
Speaker 3: only that he was ungrateful, but he made accusation against
Speaker 3: his master. He said, you're a hard man, you're unfair,
Speaker 3: you're unjust. You take money where you have not invested.
Speaker 3: And as we can see from the story, these are
Speaker 3: not true, these are lies. The master was actually very kind.
Speaker 3: You know, during that time, it's not common for masters
Speaker 3: to actually distribute his wealth to his servants. Servants don't
Speaker 3: own anything, and it's not cost to marry for masters
Speaker 3: too if they go away to distribute his wealth. Even today,
Speaker 3: we don't do that. Right, If you have a household
Speaker 3: helps in your in your house and you're going out
Speaker 3: for one week vacation trip and tye Yumaha bank account
Speaker 3: you and je will Reno Samana helper you a bank
Speaker 3: accounts of BP I sayu yan no we don't do that.
Speaker 3: We entrust the house, but we don't entrust the weald
Speaker 3: and the properties that we have, and the same during
Speaker 3: that time. It's not something that they do normally. But
Speaker 3: this master, he wants his servants to start and build something,
Speaker 3: so he gave them well. And not only that, masters
Speaker 3: don't normally talk to their servant, but he's having a
Speaker 3: dialogue with so this guy made really evil accusations again
Speaker 3: the master. But the master right along with his argument, Sabin, Okay,
Speaker 3: if you really believe that, if you're saying I'm bad,
Speaker 3: I'm hard, I'm unjust because I demand interests where I
Speaker 3: have not invested. If you, if you really believe what
Speaker 3: you're saying, you should have invested the money in the
Speaker 3: bank because you know I'm going to demand that from you,
Speaker 3: so when I come back, I will earn interest. But
Speaker 3: you did not do anything about it. I was actually
Speaker 3: wondering when I was preparing this. The Bible says the
Speaker 3: master was gone for a long time, long enough for
Speaker 3: the other servants to actually double what was given to them.
Speaker 3: So I wonder what did the servant do while the
Speaker 3: master was away? He buried the talent? So whin Sabah,
Speaker 3: What did he do the whole time? Did he play
Speaker 3: video games the whole time? Did you check Facebook or
Speaker 3: YouTube channel the whole time? Did he just do mulling
Speaker 3: or partying the whole time? I don't know. But but
Speaker 3: the Master said, you're lazy, You're wicked. Not only that,
Speaker 3: you're ungrateful. You actually made up stories to accuse me.
Speaker 3: You made all this, made up all these lies, and
Speaker 3: you're blaming me for you not being able to produce
Speaker 3: something productive with what I've given you. So the Master
Speaker 3: ride along and then he followed it up and he said,
Speaker 3: because I was afraid. I was petrified, but I was afraid.
Speaker 3: So what he did is he played safe, zero risk.
Speaker 3: The safest thing I can do not to suffer loss
Speaker 3: is to bury this talent. And because of that fear,
Speaker 3: he did not venture out, and he did not invest.
Speaker 3: God did not call us to live in fear. He
Speaker 3: called us to live by faith. The opposite of fear
Speaker 3: is not doubt. The opposite of fear is faith. So
Speaker 3: we have a choice. We either live by faith, trust God.
Speaker 3: Take Chris, step out in faith and invest what God
Speaker 3: has given to us, whether that's the ability to speak,
Speaker 3: whether that's the ability to serve, the ability to give
Speaker 3: whatever that is that God is given to you. If
Speaker 3: you're playing safe, you it's like you heeding your talent.
Speaker 3: But God is calling us not to play safe. He's
Speaker 3: calling us to take Chris. Not for us to be careless,
Speaker 3: impar risk. No, but faith requires risk. God is calling
Speaker 3: all of us to trust him, to actually invest what
Speaker 3: God has given to us. Are you living by faith
Speaker 3: or are you living in fear? If I give this well,
Speaker 3: I still have in the future. If I go out
Speaker 3: and step out in faith, what would people say? I
Speaker 3: might lose my reputation. And a lot of people are
Speaker 3: playing safe. A lot of people are not taking risk.
Speaker 3: A lot of people are not stepping out in faith
Speaker 3: so that God can do something extraordinary, so that God
Speaker 3: can multiply what we have. A lot of people are
Speaker 3: so fearful, and you know, if I do this, I'm
Speaker 3: not sure what they're going to think. And some people
Speaker 3: are valuing what other people will say rather than what
Speaker 3: God will say to them when we come and stand
Speaker 3: before Him face to face. I want to encourage you.
Speaker 3: If you're always fearful of what other people will say,
Speaker 3: God won't bless you based on other people's opinion. He
Speaker 3: will blame bless you based on your faithfulness, based on
Speaker 3: your obedience. So if you're always thinking what will other
Speaker 3: people say, you are pleasing man rather than pleasing God.
Speaker 3: And God is calling us to please God. God is
Speaker 3: calling us to take risk, and God is calling us
Speaker 3: to live by faith. You know, the main problem of
Speaker 3: this one talent guy is his false concept of his master.
Speaker 3: And here's where I want to land, and here's where
Speaker 3: I want to end, desparable. You know, God called us
Speaker 3: from Genesis up to New Testament. God has called us
Speaker 3: to be fruitful, to do good works. God has given
Speaker 3: us gifts to serve others. These gifts are not for
Speaker 3: us just to become, not really for us to be
Speaker 3: famous or to be rich, but to enrich the lives
Speaker 3: of others. And God is calling us to invest, to
Speaker 3: use it, to double it. This desire to grow what
Speaker 3: God has given to us and not be like this
Speaker 3: one guy who was dominated by fear all his life
Speaker 3: and he had this false concept about God. All of us,
Speaker 3: we all have ideas of who God is. Some of
Speaker 3: us we get our ideas of who God is from
Speaker 3: just the books and the movies. We watch, or maybe
Speaker 3: from our teacher in school, or some people made this
Speaker 3: conclusion of who God is based on their experience. You know,
Speaker 3: I've lost my parents when I was younger. God allowed
Speaker 3: my parents to die there for God is not good,
Speaker 3: and that became their theology growing up. We have all
Speaker 3: this kind of picture and idea of who God is,
Speaker 3: but we have to make sure that we base our theology.
Speaker 3: We base our idea of who God is not on
Speaker 3: our experience, not on what other people say, but in
Speaker 3: the Word of God. The Bible is the accurate basis
Speaker 3: of who God is. If we want to know who
Speaker 3: God is, we have to know God's word and add
Speaker 3: this false idea, and it affected the way he related
Speaker 3: to God and it affected the way he lived. If
Speaker 3: you know God, if you're understanding of who God is, right,
Speaker 3: it will result to right living. It will result to
Speaker 3: a right relationship with God and right relationship with one another.
Speaker 3: One last story. I heard the story from Pastor Dennis,
Speaker 3: and he was telling us about the story of this
Speaker 3: guy who participated in one of our victory weekend actually
Speaker 3: not from Victory Greenhills, one of our victory churches. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to mention anymore. But during the ministry time
Speaker 3: first day, this is the time when the leader would
Speaker 3: talk to the participant and talk about what God has
Speaker 3: revealed to him. Is there anything God showed them, especially
Speaker 3: something that happened when he was younger, during his childhood.
Speaker 3: And then they would pray together, and this person shared
Speaker 3: to the pastor ministering to him that is really struggling
Speaker 3: with hatred for his mom because growing up, he said,
Speaker 3: I struggled with hatred because my mom abandoned me. He
Speaker 3: sold me for in exchange for money, and he was
Speaker 3: really mad. And then they prayed together. The pastor reministered
Speaker 3: to him, and when they prayed, the pastor said, can
Speaker 3: you at this moment think of that time, the time
Speaker 3: that you remember that your mom abandoned you, and let's
Speaker 3: pray together that God would heal you. Because many people
Speaker 3: they tried to bury their past without the past being
Speaker 3: dealt with, without experiencing healing, and so they thought they've
Speaker 3: already overcome that, but somehow it still affect the way
Speaker 3: they live. And so while they're praying some God gave
Speaker 3: him a picture. He cried. He was crying because when
Speaker 3: they were praying, God gave him a picture. God actually
Speaker 3: showed him the scenario and he saw his mom for
Speaker 3: the first time. The picture that God showed him was
Speaker 3: that his mom was actually very sick and dying and
Speaker 3: and when she was talking to one of their relatives,
Speaker 3: she knew that his time was near and she's very
Speaker 3: concerned for his son, and he wants to make sure
Speaker 3: that when he died, when she dies, her son will
Speaker 3: be in good hands. So for the first time he
Speaker 3: saw his mom did not actually abandoned him. His mom
Speaker 3: actually loved him so much her and her mom made
Speaker 3: sure she will be in good hands before she dies.
Speaker 3: And when she understood when that actually when he realized
Speaker 3: that things change, he cried. He repented before God and
Speaker 3: his life was never the same again. His false concept
Speaker 3: was corrected. And I believe the same way with us.
Speaker 3: I believe that God wants to do the same. God
Speaker 3: wants to give us an accurate picture of who God is,
Speaker 3: what kind of God he is, and indespirable we can
Speaker 3: see not only that he's very loving, he is very good,
Speaker 3: and he's very generous. God has scattered his gifts and
Speaker 3: God has loaded us with opportunities. God wants to take
Speaker 3: away our fear and he wants us to live by faith,
Speaker 3: and he wants us to be fruitful while we're here
Speaker 3: and waiting for his glorious return. Amen, Lord, we thank
Speaker 3: you for your word today. Lord, thank you for opening
Speaker 3: our eyes and helping us understand how blessed we are.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we don't realize that. Sometimes we think that Lord,
Speaker 3: you've not really wired us to be successful and to
Speaker 3: be fruitful. But Lord, I thank you that today you've
Speaker 3: reminded us that each one of us we've received gifts
Speaker 3: and talents from you, and you're actually expecting us to
Speaker 3: be faithful. So Lord, make us faithful. Word. I pray
Speaker 3: whatever it is that you've given to us, I pray God,
Speaker 3: we will not only maintain it, but we will grow it.
Speaker 3: I pray it will increase, it will double, it will multiply.
Speaker 3: It will not only be a blessing to me because
Speaker 3: you called me to become a blessing. You called us
Speaker 3: to be a blessing. Lord, and I pray we will
Speaker 3: be faithful with our calling. Lord, open our eyes for
Speaker 3: the opportunities you're giving us every single day to enrich
Speaker 3: the life of others. Word, I pray God open our
Speaker 3: eyes that we might see the opportunities you're giving us
Speaker 3: to actually build something, to actually grow something, and do
Speaker 3: something that will make a huge difference in this world. Lord,
Speaker 3: thank you God that all of us here, Lord, God,
Speaker 3: we are your masterpiece. We are assets, not lie abilities. Lord,
Speaker 3: you blessed us, and Lord, I pray that we would
Speaker 3: live up to that truth. But I also pray for
Speaker 3: all of us here, Lord, that we will know you better,
Speaker 3: we will have an accurate picture of who you are
Speaker 3: and of your word. I pray we will be men
Speaker 3: and women of the Word of God. You said that
Speaker 3: we will know the truth, and the truth will set
Speaker 3: us free. So Lord, I pray God, if there's any
Speaker 3: wrong picture that we have of you, if there's any
Speaker 3: lie that's kipping us from obeying you and giving our
Speaker 3: life to you. If there's any fear, fore, God that's
Speaker 3: holding us back, Lord, and stopping us from taking risk
Speaker 3: and stepping out in faith and going all out for you,
Speaker 3: I pray God that you will take away that fear.
Speaker 3: I pray that you will take away that lie in
Speaker 3: the name of Jesus. Lord, you said that you've given
Speaker 3: us the spirit of power, not of fear, of sound
Speaker 3: mind and self discipline. So Lord, I pray for every
Speaker 3: person here that you will give us sound mind. In
Speaker 3: the name of Jesus, I pray that you will give
Speaker 3: us power to live the life you've called us to live,
Speaker 3: and Lord, that you will give us the power to
Speaker 3: live a disciplined life.
Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to this message. For more messages
Speaker 2: like these from other Victory centers, please visit Victory dot org,
Speaker 2: dot pH, Slash resources, Slash Podcasts.
Speaker 3: Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2: We hope that you enjoy today's episode.
Speaker 1: Don't forget to share and subscribe to this podcast for more.
Speaker 3: God bless you all.