GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANTS

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GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANTS

• Well done, good and faithful servant. You have
  been faithful with a few things . . .
• Matt. 2521

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What will be written on your tombstone as an
epitaph?
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Ben Franklin
The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer (like the
cover of an old book, its contents worn out, and
stripped of its letters and gilding), lies here,
food for worms. Yet the work itself shall not be
lost, for it will, as he believed, appear once
more in a new and more beautiful edition,
corrected and amended by its author.
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Winston Churchill
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is
prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is
another matter.
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Dean Martin

• Everybody loves somebody sometime.

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Stan Laurel

• A master of comedy, his genius in the art of
  humor brought gladness to the world he loved.

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Isaac Newton

• Nature and natures laws lay hid in night,
• God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

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Unknown dentist

• Stranger! Approach this spot with gravity.
• John Brown is filling his last cavity.

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Unknown hypochondriac

• See, I told you I was sick.

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My Choice . . . todays text

• Well done, good and faithful servant. You have
  been faithful with a few things . . .

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THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS
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THE APPLICATION THEN TO THE JEWS
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THE APPLICATION TODAY TO THE CHURCH

• Has given us every spiritual advantage in Christ
• Have we embraced Christ and his Gospel?
• ARE not only FAITHFUL to the Gospel, but FAITHFUL
  with it?

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• How can they call on the one they have not
  believed in? And how can they believe in the one
  of whom they have not heard? And how can they
  hear without someone preaching to them? And how
  can they preach unless they are sent?
• Romans 10

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MANAGING FAITHFULLY ALL OF LIFES RESOURCES
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LIFE ITSELF NUMBER OF DAYS WE ARE GIVEN

• When he comes again he wont ask if we had the
  time of ours lives . . . but how we invested
  his gift of time in service to others!

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OUR BODIES AND OUR HEALTH
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OUR TALENTS and ABILITIES

• Wont ask how talented we were . . . but how we
  used our talents to his glory, service of others!

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OUR DAILY OCCUPATIONS

• He wont ask what our job was and how far we
  advanced in our profession . . . but how our work
  reflected his glory, served our neighbor!

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OUR MATERIAL POSSESSIONS

• Wont ask what kind of car we drove . . .
• Or how big a house we had
• Or how much money we have in the bank . . .

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OUR RELATIONSHIPS

• How have your cared for them, made their life
  better?
• How many of them came to know Christ thru you?

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SOME MODELS

• My father
• Jesus

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A FITTING EPITAPH

• Well done, good and faithful servant-sons! You
  have been faithful with a few things . . .

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