#13 - Joby Martin // Embracing Your Calling

When the master re-enters the scene , do you know who's first in line to go talk to the master ? Well , it's the five-talent guy . Why ? Because he is pumped to be held accountable for what he has done . I don't know if you've ever done this . Have you ever been tasked with a project while your boss was out of town ?

And when he gets back and you landed the biggest deal in your company's history , then who's going to be the first one in the boss's office ? And you're going to be there with a paper and a cup of coffee saying , hey , how was your vacation ? And you want him to ask you about your week . This is what this guy is doing when he gives an account .

And here's what his master says to him Well done , good and faithful servant . By the way , he says the exact same blessing to the two-talent man , which is a reminder that the master does not compare our outcomes to other people's outcomes . He only compares us to what he has called us to do . He doesn't say good and fruitful servant .

He says good and faithful servant . What we have been called to do , men , is to be faithful to what God has called us to , and the fruit is up to him . He says well done , good and faithful servant . You've been faithful over a little and I will set you over much . You know , oftentimes , especially men , we want more , we want more .

We want more , we want more responsibility , we want more money , we want more influence and , according to the way God has set this thing up , then he who has been faithful over whatever God has given them , then , and only then , will he be proven worthy for God to trust him with more . Again , I asked this earlier this week .

Oftentimes , when I talk to folks about money , I ask them this question if you were God , would you give you more money based on what you have been doing with what God has given you ? And so everything that you have been given is a blood-bought grace gift from God .

It's not fair whether you started as a five-talent guy or a two-talent guy or a one-talent guy , but you will not be held accountable to what other people have done with what God has given them . You will be held to account for what God has given to you , and one day you will settle accounts before the Lord .

And so let me ask you do you think you are going to hear these words well done , good and faithful servant , or do you think you're going to hear the words depart from me , you , wicked and slothful servant ?

Now , the key to understanding this is that the reason that we can hear well done , good and faithful servant from Jesus is not because what we have done on our own power .

The reason that we hear well done , good and faithful servant is because of the faithfulness of Christ to come and do what he has been commanded to do by his father , which means he came to fulfill every promise and prophecy of the old covenant , that he lived the life that we could not live , that he died the death that every single one of us deserve , and

that when Jesus Christ pushed up on his nail pierced feet and says it is finished for anyone who would believe that when he died on the crossced feet , and says it is finished for anyone who would believe that when he died on the cross it counted for them . Then we received the right to be called a son of God .

But the moment you are drafted into the armory of God , adopted into the family of God , then we are given an assignment , and us accomplishing the assignment does not earn our right standing before God . The reason that we do the things that he has commanded us to do is because we are filled by his spirit and we call him our Lord .

And to call him our Lord means I'm not the boss of me , you're the boss of me and I do what you tell me to do . So , men , there will come a day where you stand before your maker , your judge , your creator and your savior , and the way we live our lives will impact forever . And how do we get ready for the end of times ?

We trust Christ , we don't miss the party . We surrender our lives to the lordship of jesus christ . That was the first parable . How should it impact our lives , whatever we've done for the least of these , we've done unto jesus , and how should we conduct ourselves as men ?

That we leverage all the time treasure that he has given us to push back darkness and advance the gospel , and because of what Christ has done for us and because we willfully receive that by grace , through faith , then one day we will hear this well done , good and faithful servant . Now , men , may you go and be about your father's business .