15 Nov 2020
Mathew 24:45
Mathew 24 is about the destruction of the
temple and the long wait for the return of Christ. The temple is referring to our bodies and how
we have been trying to destroy the temple of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was showing us step by step how we are
destroying our own temple and these are the signs of how we are destroying our temple.
Mathew 24:25 is about the virgins and letting
us know that we won’t know the time that Jesus will come for us. Mathew 24:48 to the end is about the servant
of God whom God loved so much and is being told, “Therefore I give you food and
here is your role, look after others” but
he responded, “The master is not here with me, I will do what I want,” and he
decided not to feed others and to beat others up.
When you think about this, it is not about
your soul but about the actions of your temple.
Since the day that you met with Jesus, you have been fed and you have
been given a lot of food and I am sure when someone talks about a verse, you
remember it or when a preacher gives a message from the Bible, you know that
story and you remember it.
God has given us the privilege of not
forgetting what we have already heard from His Word. It is like a mystery. You can find someone who went to church 20
years ago and they remember the Word but you may not remember what you spoke to
your mum about 20 years ago. That stock
of the food is because God has chosen you to be like a master chef in a
restaurant and you can cook food depending on the order of that person.
When you go to a restaurant, they will
offer you a place to sit and then they give you a menu. If you say no to drink, they will start with
water. The chef is you and I. Someone will start with a list and say, “This
person needs this food”. Chefs know how
to cook what is on the menu and are able to deliver it and he/she will cook it
in a way that we can’t tell how.
Something that takes 45 minutes at home to cook will only 15 minutes at
the restaurant and it tastes different to our cooking and much better decorated.
Sometimes I won’t feed myself at home and
prefer to go to a restaurant so others can serve me. Many today are hungry. We are the master chefs of the restaurant but
we have no time to cook for them. We
tell them to go somewhere else. We can
only offer you our insults, hatred, judgment and bring in the fruit of the
flesh from Galatians 5:19 instead of giving the fruit of the spirit.
This is the destruction of the temple. Signs are there. Jesus asks us to do good things to
people. If someone smacks your left
side, give your right side. Even if someone
tries to tempt you say, “No, yesterday I fell but today I won’t”.
We have everything we need to make the food
but we don’t have the willingness of serving the Lord. We decide that we are not doing this, better
to watch tv. Sometimes I used to stay up
to 3am to watch a tv series because I needed to know what is next and I would
even tell myself I have to go to bed but then I will tell myself, “Sleep wait”. I reached a point of no return. I watched the tv series “24” from beginning
to end. I burnt my time and destroyed my
time.
Sometimes I become angry because some
people in the movie did something I didn’t like. Have I become angry when I see others going
astray from God or when myself sins? No
but for things that are not important to God, I can.
Yesterday I was asking myself about the actor
from the tv series, “Blacklist” who was a little person and he passed away. He was a very good actor and I liked him a
lot. I said, “God, why this? You should take an old person and leave this
young talented man”. Who am I to judge God? If I can fight for the death of this person,
can I fight for the soul of others?
After the death of this guy, Blacklist will continue to honour him and I
can’t wait to see him for the last time.
It will be sad but I will ready for that.
Are you ready for the return of Jesus? Will you be sad when your friends don’t enter
the Kingdom of God? It is my decision
sometimes to not care about Jesus. How
many people have you beaten up since you were saved? To beat someone means to hit someone and they
feel pain. Our tongues give words that
hurt others and you can see someone crying because of one simple word.
One time in Taupo, we went to this Muslim
man’s house and he was ready to give his life to Jesus. Because we live a bit far from this area, we
decided to give a sister in Jesus who lives in the area a call so that she can
take the man to church. When the lady
arrived, the man said, “Is she a believer?
If so, I will not accept Jesus because her behaviour is so bad”. That sister put her eyes down and said, “It
was once only and I said sorry”. The man
did not want to accept Jesus because this sister’s mouth was like fire and
could abuse any person.
Sometimes we destroy those that God sent to
us and once we destroy them, we don’t care.
In Taupo, this man was told by a friend, “Do not marry this woman. I see that God’s will is not here, go
somewhere else”. He responded, “I have
already fallen in love with her,” and he took the lady and they started to live
together. 20 years later he wanted to
meet the wife’s family.
They would send money to the village of the
family and they would call and say, we received the money. When the man went to
see the family, the lady called Anna whom he was married to had already passed
away several years ago. This man had 2
children with Anna. How will you feel if
they tell you that your wife died many years ago? You will be shocked and you won’t believe
it. This man couldn’t believe that he
was living with a demon.
Sometimes (see Genesis 6) demons can walk
around and live among human beings, they drink alcohol, go to night clubs, walk
on our streets and they seem very similar to human beings. They exist.
When you belong to Jesus, you need to ask Jesus to show us the right path
to walk on. Who should we be with? Who is our good friend, and who is not? Many quit the relationship with Jesus and
start a new relationship with demons. They
divorce Jesus to live with evil and even give birth to new fruit with that evil
while they are living in our community.
That is why Jesus said, the bad servant
will be thrown away from Kingdom of God because of that bad decision. How many people will die starving from us not
feeding them the Word of God? The day of
judgement will come, you have about 100,000 people in Hamilton and maybe half
of them have never been fed the Word of God, why don’t I feed them?
If you have been offering and they don’t
accept, that is ok but if you don’t offer, you will look like the five foolish
virgins who looked only at their virginity.
It’s not enough to be a virgin. The
Lord doesn’t look at that but who is wise and who is foolish.
10 of them were virgins but who among them chose
to be foolish or wise? You have the
choice of deciding how wise/foolish you want to be. The wise one picked up another jerry can and
filled it with oil. The foolish one
didn’t. Maybe the foolish one was lazy,
or didn’t want to look ugly, or didn’t think they need it.
Foolishness comes with justifications. Foolishness accompanies laziness. When someone is full, they become lazy. When we try to help them, they say, “Don’t
tell me what to do, I know what I’m doing”.
The 5 foolish girls decided at the wrong time to find oil. Their knowledge was empty and a punishment.
You are chosen among those 10. He has chosen you among thousands. “I give you My word, you have the grace to
read My Bible, I will take you to my Kingdom, get ready for your wedding”. Some respond, “I don’t want to be wise, I
don’t want to be led by the Holy Spirit, I reject that Holy Spirit. You gave me gifts of the Holy Spirit, but I
prefer the gifts of the flesh”.
Am I a good servant of Mathew 24 who feeds
others or am I a bad one who beats up souls and destroys them? When Jesus comes back, the door will be closed. Those that are not in the room, will not be
able to enter now. Better to stay in the
Lord with my weaknesses than to go outside but many say, “I want to live my own
life, Jesus you stay there, I want to do my own life outside of the church and
outside of Godly life, I am tired of Jesus”.
When you go out, just like the ark of Noah, the door will be closed, you
can scream and shout and He will tell you sorry, the door is closed.
Don’t fool yourself and say, “God is full
of mercy and will forgive me, he will understand”. No, when it finishes, it finishes, and you
can’t change that”.
