Speaker 1: Welcome to Commission Thursday this week, where we believe that every believer is a witness of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: We believe that every believer is an ambassador and the salt and the light of this earth.
Speaker 1: So today we are going to look at a passage that will help us to be able to engage effectively to bring in the ready harvest into the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1: So let me take us to the passage found in Matthew, matthew, chapter 25, verse 14, all the way to verse 18.
Speaker 1: And I read Again it will be like a man going on a journey who called his servants and entrusted his property to them.
Speaker 1: To one he gave five talents, of money, to another two talents and to another one talent, each according to his ability.
Speaker 1: Then he went on his journey.
Speaker 1: The man who had received the five talents went at once and put his money to work and gained five more.
Speaker 1: So also the one with the two talents gained two more.
Speaker 1: But the man who had received the one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.
Speaker 1: So from this passage we are able to pick three key lessons that we can exercise and practice as believers of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Point number one we are to be aware that God has entrusted us with a harvest.
Speaker 1: He called us from the darkness and brought us to light, and he has commissioned us as children of the light and as children of God, to go light up our world, to light up the situations in our world, using what he has given us.
Speaker 1: As we see from the passage, we see that it is the master who gives the talents of the money.
Speaker 1: These people are not required to come with anything, but God gives us what we have to go share with the dark world.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that we can carry out is to know, to be aware that we have been entrusted by God to carry this gospel and go light up our world.
Speaker 1: Point number two is that I take out from this passage is that it is God who gives the talents, and it's God who gives the talents.
Speaker 1: So for these servants, we see that it is God who gave them the talents.
Speaker 1: One was given five talents, the other was given two and the other one was given one.
Speaker 1: So as we take this gospel out, we don't go in our own ability, but we go in the power of God.
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit is the one who equips us and gives us the talents we are all gifted in different ways.
Speaker 1: Some of us can be a very good encourager.
Speaker 1: Some of us are very good in encouraging others and comforting others.
Speaker 1: We carry the gospel of God depending on how he has gifted us.
Speaker 1: And the third point that I would like us to take from this is that it is God who gives the ability.
Speaker 1: We see that this master gives the servants according to their ability.
Speaker 1: So with that, we learn that we have been entrusted, we have been given the talents by God and we have the ability to go out and bring in the harvest to the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1: None of us is inadequate.
Speaker 1: God has already equipped us.
Speaker 1: So I encourage us to go out and focus and engage with the harvest and bring in souls to the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1: Be blessed as you do that.