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August 30, 2026 · Cornerstone Apostolic Church (Chattanooga, TN)

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Summary

Summary prepared by Acts 2:38 Life from the transcript below — the preacher’s words follow in full.

A world of finished processes

  • The sermon opens in prayer, with thanks for a baptism that morning, and takes up the word done — a world full of processes that finish, wear out, and run their course.
  • Against everything in this world that comes to an end stands the hope of one day hearing well done.
  • The preacher's greeting and his recognition of the morning's baptism flow into the message.

What God has prepared

  • Isaiah says no one has heard or seen a God like ours, who works for those who wait for him; 1 Corinthians 2:9 takes it up — eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
  • The author of Hebrews calls believers strangers and pilgrims in this land — what God is preparing is not measured by what man can make.

Scriptures: Isaiah 64:4; 1 Corinthians 2:9; Hebrews (book-only, as spoken)

Well done: the milk-and-Oreos object lesson

  • An object lesson with milk and Oreos drives the point home: some things are only finished when they are done right, and done is done.
  • The preacher presses for a life that will end in the Lord's well done rather than in mere busyness.

The talents and the judgment

  • The parable of the talents is read from Matthew 25:14 — the lord who delivers his goods to his servants, travels to a far country, and returns to reckon with them.
  • The faithful servants hear well done and enter into the joy of their lord; the judgment turns on what was done with what was given.

Scriptures: Matthew 25:14-40

Done is done

  • The sermon closes in prayer that God would let his people live so as to hear his voice in their lives.
  • The prayer ends in Jesus' name, and the altar ministry that follows is outside the sermon.

Scripture index: Isaiah 64:4; 1 Corinthians 2:9; Hebrews (book-only, as spoken); Matthew 25:14-40.

Transcript

Would you guys pray with me now? Lord, we are so thankful to be in your house today. Thankful for the power of a risen savior, for the name of Jesus, for the name that's above every name that changes us. Thank you for that, Lord. Right now, we come to you in faith, believing that your word will speak into our lives. We have sung songs, Lord. We have prayed. We have brought our needs to you. Right now, Jesus, we ask that the word would speak into us. You are faithful. You are kind. You're true. >> You are Jesus. Lord, >> you are Jesus. You are Jesus. Hallelujah. So good to see all of you out today in the house of the Lord. If you're new or you're a guest here at CAC, we honor you. Thank you for being here today.

If you're online joining us, we're so glad that you have joined with us. If you're driving, please keep your hands on the wheel. your eyes open. Thank you. Singers and musicians, teachers, cahoots. You said the wise folk won. Is that what I >> How cool is that? Huh? Young folk are just hungry for victory. What? Where's Where's the little guy? Where's [name redacted]? Is he in the room yet? >> >> No, he's still changing, I guess. Good job, [name redacted]. >> Baptized in the name of Jesus. I think that's a cool thing. I do. I do. I do. >> Amen. >> So good to see all of your smiling faces out today. And couple [name redacted], is that you? Come here, buddy. [name redacted], I meant to say. Come here, [name redacted]. right here, buddy. Oh, come on, somebody. Good job, buddy. Congratulations.

Yeah, that's a cool thing. That is so cool. Thank you, buddy. Now, you can stay or go sit, however you want. All right. You're supposed to bow. No, I'm joking. Beautiful. Why not? Why not? Good job. I tell you what, I baptized my two kids and there's no greater joy as a dad. >> So, glad you're here today. You can be seated in a minute. I'm joking. All of you are halfway. You go ahead and have a seat. Oh, my my my All right. All right, I'm watching the clock for what it's worth. That way you guys know. Thank you, brother Herb. Thank you. There's a whole lot of stuff going on as we sit here today. In fact, there's a whole lot of stories being told right now that aren't even spoken. Some of you, some of you have stories that cannot be told.

uh like like the way that somehow you should have lost your mind but you didn't or the manner in which you're still in health and able to come to the house of the Lord. Some of us perhaps even have thrilling stories to tell about how you actually got to the chair you're sitting in today. Come on somebody. We are all walking testimonies of the hand of the Lord. Aren't you thankful today for what God has done and is doing in your life? >> Some of you maybe you can't tell the story because you don't know how to explain how you got in the house of the Lord. It could be that the power of God drew you here. Or it could be that you were driving by and something said stop.

Maybe your life was a mess and you begin to talk to God and ask him to show you a path and lo and behold, you're in the congregation of the Lord today. Somehow someway, we all got here. Look at your neighbor and say, "You're right there." >> Did that encourage anyone? We all have a story to tell. Absolutely. Every day in fact that we live, we are moving in the processes of life. Right? We're learning, growing, failing, falling, loving, hurting, helping, doing, eating, sleeping. How many of the ins do I need to give you? All of these things are what humanity faces and it's part of who we are. Go with go with me for just a moment, please. Our our world is full of systems and procedures and policies that make things. Stay with me.

The chair you're sitting in, the book you hold, a cup that you might drink out of, a brick that you might put in a wall. There are smart people out in our world that somehow they have designed and engineered such things and we simply have them in our everyday activities. The days, for an example, of eating off of a rock, raw meat of an animal because you couldn't figure out HOW TO START A FIRE, THOSE DAYS ARE GONE. >> SAY, "AMEN." >> The times when you were eating on the run BECAUSE A T-REX WAS CHASING YOU, those days are long past, >> right? Or or THE THE QUESTION ABOUT THAT LITTLE WHITE FRAGILE THING THAT fell out from under that chicken. What do I DO WITH IT? THAT HAS BEEN SOLVED. IT'S called a fried egg, somebody.

Any concern about how to get a document resume turned in before somebody made a computer, that's all been taken care of. All of us today, we sit here as a result of the equipment, the materials, the things that are in processes in everyday life. coffee makers, microwave ovens that can bake cakes to perfections, sugars and spices and all THE THINGS NICES THAT COMPLIMENT things in SO MANY WAYS. HERE'S ONE FOR YOU. FOR THOSE WHO ARE WORRIED TO death about a 20 lb pumpkin CAN BE TASTED IN A PANCAKE THAT HAS CREAM CHEESE FROSTING. THEY TOOK CARE OF THAT FOR YOU. If you wonder where pumpkin spice comes from, I don't know. Everything today is at the tips of your fingers because that's the culture in which we live.

The processes and procedures, they've been established get from point A to point B and all of the steps in between. The ingredients, listen to this, of a plastic bag are readily involvable right now. The manner of which a shape mold and make something designed to accomplish a task at hand. That is already been established right now. Cardboard can be cut, SHAPED, FOLDED INTO A DURABLE PACKAGE TO SUSTAIN THE ONSLAUGHT OF HANDS REACHING for it as a midnight snack. As humans, we've got a whole lot of things at our disposal. Somebody say, "I'm so glad to be alive. It used to take weeks and weeks to complete some things, and now you can finalize them in moments." There were obstacles, a distance to travel.

You never thought of it, but now you can purchase a ticket and be anywhere on planet Earth within a matter of hours. We are living life and it is a simplistic bliss. As long as everything works as it should, we are all just fine. But Uhhuh. 2026, if something doesn't work as it's supposed to, we fall apart at the seams. Come on, somebody. We don't understand. in the fullest extent of the LAW SHOULD BE APPLIED TO THEM BECAUSE THE COFFEE SHOULD HAVE TASTED BETTER. >> I mean we all as humans deserve top-notch attention and all the details to be seen so that we don't have to. I am today at 12:49 in the afternoon.

I am presently trying to present a simple way of a picture for us to understand that the advancements of technologies and manufacturing geniuses that the world has turned and turned and turned and now we simply accept them as normal. I am here also to declare that every generation brings a new thought and a new idea to the table of life. Not many of us, for an example, are looking for ways to complicate things and to drag things out longer than they should. Now, maybe somebody in here loves the slow pace of that. Coffee shops are trying to speed up their process because of the supply and demand. I know I'm using coffee a lot. I'm trying to help these young folk. That's all.

Due to the fact that there's not many adults that have imaginations anymore, we have the need for video and for media because people can't see it in their mind. We have to present it on a large screen. Children can no longer use their minds as simp as simplistic belief. But now they want to see the goods up close and in person before they believe in it. It's what's happened in our world. A desire and a demand for stuff has driven many of of things to the point of disconnecting with their families and friends because they can't tolerate the excuses of the inabilities that people have to not perform. And so our world is at a place now, a juncture, a a a point, listen carefully to this. This is something that amazes me.

interstage right meta universes ways that our young folk are saying I can't deal with this one and in that one I don't have limitations and I can be and do as I want to do and look however I want to look and I can survive in that universe don't understand IT BUT IT'S A THING today Presley did you know that can you explain it to me someday welcome to 2026 Six, I am aware that we all see the challenges of the day. I also know that we are enjoying much of the development of the technologies and and the things that have happened, the techniques that have been brought to us. But I rise today to this sacred desk to remind all of us, we are still looking for a city whose maker and builder are not touched by human hands nor ideas. Amen.

>> Isaiah 64 and4 said it like this. For since the beginning of the world, men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, oh God, beside thee what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him to the church at Corenth in the first letter 1 Corinthians 2:9. But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. The plans and the processes of God are so far greater than whatever humanity can imagine. HIS DESIRES FOR HIS CREATION, MADE IN HIS own image, it would simply blow your mind IF YOU KNEW WHAT GOD WAS THINKING ABOUT YOU RIGHT NOW.

THE GREATEST of the inventions of mankind cannot create the same blessings OF A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN ABOVE THAT'S IN OUR HEARTS and in THIS PLACE TODAY. THE bestlaid plans of man ARE WAY BELOW THE POSSIBILITIES OF A HOLY GOD THAT PUT EVERYTHING INTO MOTION BY A SPOKEN WORD. I COME TO ENCOURAGE someone today. UH HERE WE ARE. WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL THE MISTAKES OF HUMANITY. WE'RE MAKING BAD CHOICES ON THE LEFT AND ON THE RIGHT. BUT SOMEHOW GOD REACHES THROUGH ALL OF THAT AND SAYS, "I LOVE YOU. I CARE ABOUT YOU. I WANT TO SAVE YOU. I WANT TO PULL YOU OUT. I WANT TO GIVE YOU HOPE. I WANT TO GIVE YOU LIFE. I WANT TO WIPE AWAY THE OLD. I WANT TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE. THIS IS THE GOD THAT WE SERVE.

IN SPITE OF ALL OF WHAT YOU AND I CAN DO AS HUMANS, IT STILL TAKES A HOLY GOD, >> A HOLY, righteous God. I can honestly say that the journey of life IS FULL OF GOOD DAYS AND NOT SO GOOD DAYS. SOMEBODY give a good old nod here. >> Can also confirm that every sunrise is a reminder of the plans of God are in motion. Come on. >> Also, there are so many things that I can say about the here and now and the great blessings of simply waking up this morning. Can somebody confirm what I just said? God has been good to you today. >> But if you ALLOW ME A MOMENT TODAY, I want to explain some things to you. Church, this world is not our home. The author of Hebrews said it like this. We are strangers and pilgrims in this land.

We are looking for a place called heaven. In spite of the ease of living the right now, there are things that we have to understand about the place where you and I are going. I wish somebody would shout it out loud today. I'm going to heaven. >> I'm going to heaven. Come on, somebody. I'm going to heaven. No matter what the coffee shops there or not. No matter if there's popcorn there THAT YOU CAN BUY. IT DOESN'T matter that if I'm enticed to travel to ANOTHER LAND. BUT WHEN I THINK OF what the LORD IS PREPARING FOR ME, MY HEART BEGINS TO JUMP. MY MIND BEGINS TO LEAP. MY SPIRIT BEGINS TO REJOICE. WHY? BECAUSE HE DIED ON A CROSS OF CALVARY. AND HE DIED SO THAT I COULD HAVE LIFE AND HAVE IT ABUNDANTLY.

HE DID THAT FOR YOU AND HE DID THAT FOR ME. UH, AS FOR ME, UH, YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE TECHNOLOGIES AND THINGS OF THIS WORLD IF YOU WANT TO, BUT I AM ONLY COMPLETE IN JESUS CHRIST. HE LOVES ME. HE SAVED ME. HE'S GOT ME ON THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW RUNNING TO HIM EVERY DAY. SOMEBODY SHOUT, "I WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN." >> NOW, some of you guys may wonder about my object lesson today. This is whole milk. No, Jaden, I don't need help. This is actually an O reo. In this package, there are a lot of cookies. This is a glass. Ready for it? That's what coke That's That's what Coke does. Milk doesn't do that. If it does, it's spoiled. Leave it alone. The milk has turned. Sorry. Follow me. Please. Follow me. Please. Y'all y'all y'all know my pastor.

My pastor brain just gets all messed up. I tried my best to sleep last night and all that I could think of was this. True story. I got up three or four times. herb and decided I didn't have cookies at home. Anybody ever done this at your house? No, Jaden, you're not getting a cookie. Has anybody ever had milk and cookies at home? Oh, come on. Somebody identify. >> Huh? Some of y'all might ruin them like brother Sam over there. Brother Sam opens these dudes up and Lauren, I don't understand. Oh, come on, somebody. All set back there having revival right now. Sam broke out with church. But see, he take that. You got to put it back right there cuz all Sam does is eat the inside, right? Or the outside. I don't know. One or the other. And just ruins it.

And then he puts them back in the package. And I eat them, but they ain't near as good. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking. But then you can't eat the cookie by itself. You got to Now, if you leave it too long, it'll get soft and fall to the bottom. And then you got to get a spoon. Oh, that was boom. And then and then on count you ate one, you got to get another one. How many? >> Four. Oh Lord Jesus, help me. I got to have a napka and a going to be running down your shirt and on your tie and just get another one cuz you got look you got plenty of milk. >> You got I mean am I right? That's like chips and salsa. When do they ever equal? >> Oh, hold on.

You know, YOU GOT SOMEHOW I GOT more salsa needs more chips. I got more chips than I got. ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT right here. H is you ain't know is you don't know. You don't know some of y'all. Oh, okay. I know. I know. I didn't finish. >> Y'all are nervous, aren't you? Y'all don't know where I'm headed, do you? Follow me for a moment. I'm gonna say something here and I want Look at there. Look. Look. Oh, that's a good cookie when it gets on your fingers. Now, if it's aging me doing this, he licks that part off. There you go, buddy. Joking. I got something to say about this. Well done wheat farmers. Well done cream maker uppers. Well done. Well done. Well done sticky. Watch this.

What happens if you can't eat all 39 of them at one setting? You can come back tomorrow night. I mean, they have invented everything. Well done, Oreo. Ch. What kind of chocolate is it is in an Oreo? Good one. That's all I know. Well done. Well done, Mayfield milk. Well done. Got a Anybody know why this dent right here? I don't know either. Okay. But well done. Look how that plastic shaped and formed right there. Look at it. Holds the milk. It's nice and cold, too. Brother George brought this up here for me. Thank you, brother George, for going to pick this up today. Oreo cookie guys, you guys in Bisco, y'all have made an incredibly good cookie.

And every one of y'all sitting there saying, "Mhm, the milk that's in that jug right there is whole milk." See, at my house, I don't get whole milk no more cuz I'm above the age. I now get fair life 2% that lasts three months. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Thank you, brother Jeff. Cuz if this stuff right here, see, it only lasts like two weeks. But mine, I can drink it for months and it won't go bad. I tried six months and that's a little long. It don't last much. It clumps out after that. Anyway, dairy farmers, I applaud you for what you've done to put that milk in that jug. The plastic jug maker uppers, you got great shape, great design. Anybody else know what I'm talking about today?

I am satisfied that you guys understand that there is a whole list of things that goes into the manufacturing of something that you enjoy so very simply. But there's one thing today that I want to say to the church of the living God, if you'll allow me. ALL OF THE TECHNOLOGIES AND ALL THE things and techniques that COME TO PUT THIS BAG OF cookies together or to put this half gallon of milk together. All the things that we accept in our daily lives. These techniques and technologies that bring us such joy, they do not COMPARE TO ONE MOMENT WHERE we're going to stand on streets of glory and worship the King of all kings and the Lord OF ALL LORDS. WE UNDERSTAND THE GOODNESS OF A good Oreo or A CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE.

BUT TODAY I RISE TO THIS PODIUM TO TELL SOMEBODY THERE IS AN ANOINTING AND A GLORY THAT THE LORD GOD OF ALL CREATION HAS SAID IT'S BETTER THAN OREOS AND IT'S BETTER THAN WHOLE MILK. AND IT IS THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST THAT'LL WASH AWAY YOUR SINS AND PUT YOU ON THE PATH TO MAKE HEAVEN YOUR ETERNAL HOME. THIS RIGHT HERE WON'T LAST BUT UNTIL 9 10 26. BUT I'VE GOT A GUARANTEE OF A PLACE CALLED HEAVEN. AND I'LL LIVE THERE FOR ETERNITY. LOVING GOD, SERVING GOD ALL THE REST OF MY DAYS AND NIGHTS AND YEARS. SOMEBODY HEAR WHAT I'M SAYING TODAY. UH THE WORD OF GOD DOES NOT LIE. GET YOUR EYES OFF THE STUFF AROUND YOU. UH AND FOCUS ON HIM. UH OH JESUS. UH COME LORD JESUS. COME LORD JESUS. UH CATCH YOUR BRIDE AWAY. UH GET US OFF PLANET EARTH.

UH LET US WALK INTO THE HEAVENLIES WITH YOU. >> AS MUCH AS WE CAN ENJOY THIS, IT HAS NOTHING TO COMPARE. >> It's 103 for us clock watchers. >> Matthew, not this is in red in your Bible. You can stand or sit. I got 105 verses to read. Matthew 25:14, "For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, y'all with me? To every man according TO HIS SEVERAL ABILITY, AND STRAIGHTWAY took his journey." 16 Then he that HAD RECEIVED THE FIVE TALENTS went and traded WITH THE SAME MADE THEM ANOTHER FIVE TALENTS. LIKEWISE HE THAT HAD RECEIVED TWO, HE ALSO GAINED, SAY IT, >> other two.

But he that had received one went, digged in the earth, hid the Lord's money. After a long time, the Lord of those servants cometh, reckonth with them, and so he that had received five talents came, brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou delivers UNTO ME FIVE TALENTS. BEHOLD, I'VE GAINED BESIDE THEM FIVE talents more. His lord said unto him, WELL DONE, THOU GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT. THOU HAST BEEN FAITHFUL OVER A FEW THINGS. I WILL MAKE THEE RULER over many things. ENTER THOU INTO THE JOY OF THE LORD. COME ON, SOMEBODY. HE ALSO THAT RECEIVED TWO TALENTS CAME TO THE LORD, came and said, Lord, THOU DELIVEREST UNTO ME TWO TALENTS. BEHOLD, I'VE GAINED OTHER TWO TALENTS BESIDE THEM. HIS LORD SAID UNTO HIM, WELL DONE, THOU GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT. THOU HAST BEEN FAITHFUL OVER A FEW THINGS.

I WILL MAKE THEE RULER OVER MANY THINGS. ENTER THOU INTO THE JOY OF THY LORD. THEN HE WHICH HAD RECEIVED THE one >> talent came, said, Lord, I knew thee, that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, gathering where thou hast not strolled, and I was afraid, went and hid thy talent in the earth. Lo, there hast thou that that that is thine. HIS LORD ANSWERED, SAID unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant. Thou kneest that I reap where I sowed not. Gather where I have not straw. Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers and then my coming I should have received mine own with usery. Take therefore the talent from him. Verse 28 says, GIVE IT TO him which hath 10 talents.

For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he that hath and he shall have abundance, but from him that hath not shall BE TAKEN AWAY, EVEN THAT WHICH he hath. and cast ye the ye unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There shall be weeping and nashing of teeth. Notice verse 31. When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the the throne of his glory, and before him shall be gathered ALL NATIONS. HE SHALL SEPARATE THEM ONE FROM ANOTHER, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats, and he shall set THE SHEEP ON HIS RIGHT HAND, THE GOATS ON HIS LEFT. THEN, COME ON, SAY WITH ME. VERSE 34. THEN shall the king say unto them on HIS RIGHT HAND, "COME, YOU BLESSED OF MY FATHER.

INHERIT THE KINGDOM prepared for you from the foundation OF THE WORLD. FOR I WAS HUNGERED, YOU GAVE ME ME. I WAS THIRSTY, YOU GAVE ME DRINK. I WAS A STRANGER, YOU TOOK ME IN. NAKED AND YOU CLOTHED ME. I WAS SICK AND YOU VISITED ME. I WAS IN PRISON, YOU CAME TO ME. THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS ANSWER HIM, SAYING, LORD, WHEN SHALL WE SEE AND HUNGER SEE THEE HUNGER AND FED THEE, AND THIRSTY, AND GAVE THEE DRINK? WHEN SHALL WE THEE A STRANGER TOOK THEE IN? OR NAKED and clothe thee, or when we OR WHEN SAW WE SICK OR PRISON, and came to thee. And the king shall answer and say unto them, verily I say unto you, in as MUCH AS YE HAVE DONE IT unto the least of these, my brethren, YOU HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME, WELL DONE, GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT.

Notice what the word of the Lord says. I had to read the entirety of THIS BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE CAN GET SO WRAPPED UP IN THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE THAT we forget that there is a God of CREATION THAT HAS PUT HIS POWER AND HIS LOVE WITHIN US. AND WHAT HE DESIRES OF US IS TO SAY, LORD, WHAT YOU GAVE ME, I AM DOING WITH IT WHAT YOU'VE ASKED ME TO DO. AND WHAT I AM ASKING GOD FOR YOU TO DO IS TO REMEMBER ME AT THAT DAY. I'VE COME TO TELL SOMEBODY TODAY. I AM LOOKING FOR HIM TO SAY, "WELL DONE. YOU HAVE FINISHED YOUR RACE. UH YOU HAVE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT. UH YOU HAVE KEPT THE FAITH. UH I'M HERE TO TELL SOMEBODY TODAY. UH THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT KNOWING THAT YOUR NAME IS WRITTEN IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE.

UH THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT KNOWING THAT YOU ARE DOING WHAT THE LORD GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO DO. I'M TELLING SOMEBODY TODAY, GET UP OFF YOUR BACKSIDE AND ALLOW THE GOODNESS OF GOD TO BE SEEN WHEREVER YOU GO. UH IT IS NOT ABOUT MILK AND COOKIES, BUT IT IS ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD AND THE WAY IT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE. UH SOMEBODY IN THIS ROOM TODAY, UH YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE STUFF AND TAKING YOUR EYES OFF OF HIM. CHANGE YOUR POSITION. GET YOUR EYES BACK ON JESUS AND LET HIM BE NUMBER ONE IN YOUR LIFE. >> GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT. WELL DONE. >> Y'all are still looking at my milk cook cuz I know you are. >> The words that you and I should desire to hear.

I don't want to hear the master say to me, "Slothful, wicked." I want to hear him say, "Well, done. >> What are we doing today with what we've been given?" We've already talked about a few moments. The technologies and things of today, they have surpassed anything in our imagination. I even had a little sample here of plastic and cardboard, cookies, filling, sticky stuff, unsticky stuff, sticky stuff, unsticky stuff, nice napkins that are five and 3/4 inch squared because some reason that makes sense to somebody. They engineered it that way. A half gallon of milk because a whole gallon will not do. And the dent in it that nobody knows why it's there. There is an answer, but I won't give it to you. Because this we see and we expect and we understand.

There's going to come a day, it hasn't even entered into my brain what God has prepared for me cuz I hasn't seen it. Ear hadn't heard it. The mind can't wrap itself around it. But I am convinced, brother Don, that one day when he simply speaks my name. How can he know my name? Today in this place, I want you to know something, friend. Done is done. >> And there is a heaven to gain. There is a hell to shun. No one in this place do I wish would go to eternal damnation. Weeping, nashing of teeth, wailing, falling, crying, screaming, no relief from it. No one in this place, no one watching or listening online would I hope that for.

But I would that all men would come to repentance and understand, Lord, what you've given me, I didn't hide it, but I took it and I let everybody know where I got it. That's called your witness. Where'd you get five talents? My master gave me these. >> Really? Yeah. And I'm going to make something of them. So, they made something. Where'd you get those two talents? My master gave me these. I He put them in my hand and I brought them and I'm going to multiply them. Yeah. Come on. I'm I'm going to do something. The guy with one, he had all this declaration of his testimony. I knew you. I knew how you were. And the master steps back and goes, "You didn't know nothing." Because the least you would have done if you knew me was took it.

Anybody tell me what usery means? Interest. You would have said to somebody, "I don't know when my master's coming back, but I'll let you borrow this coin, this talent, this thing, and when he comes back, you can pay me a little lecture for being able to use it." Some of us have the greatest examples of an excuse that we've ever heard, and they matter nothing in the mind and the ears of God. Some of us will sit in the presence of a holy God on our hands, cross our arms, and say, "God, thank you for changing my life, but I can't do what you've called me to do because I don't know how." And the Lord's saying, "You slothful person.

You'll eat the cookies of all the technology that I give people in their minds, but you won't speak about my goodness in your life." Brother Herb, would you come please? Are you true servants of the Lord? then you already understand whatever he's given you 521 doesn't matter you can declare it today as you leave this place you can in fact in this room you can tell somebody look what the Lord has done I come to help somebody today to realize and know in this hour more than ever before it is time to rise to the occasion technology is not the excuse you know I'll be honest with you it's 113 for us clock watchers I'm I'm an old school kind of guy. I am I used to write my notes, handwrite them, man cursive. And then I couldn't read that.

So I went to manuscript and it got worse. So then somebody said, "Try a computer." And I type, don't laugh, two fingers. Am I right, buddy? Come on. I can hunt that dude down. back spacing. Sorry. To this day, that's how I type. But I can tell you this though, I learned a long time ago that anything that I have is because of his goodness and grace. >> And with all the technologies that are at our fingertips today, we'll blame that in so many ways. I was glad when in the house of the Lord, we came and we were able to do media send us out all there's people today watching. I have no doubt. I have no doubt because we have the technology to do so.

But I also know, if I may, that there are folk that will log in and turn it on and if they don't like what they see on >> and when they swipe it, wait. I learned on the new iPad iOS, you can go left, right, D. I ain't know. I ain't know. The whole time I've just been backing out and restarting. Oh, don't laugh. You did the same thing. Anybody here got fat thumbs? You try to text and it's all wrong. You don't even know. Anybody? Brother Rob, you got that problem? Man, I got this big old fat thumb and it's all and it always if it's the top row of letters, it always goes to the word up there. And I'm glad I take time to read them.

The other day I got a text that said, "And Aggregate's going to be there as well." I don't even know who Aggregate is, but I guess they'll be there. And then it was resent with the name of the person. I went, "Oh yeah, I know who that is. I don't know who aggregate, but Aggregate was listen. Listen to listen to I have no qualms whatsoever with Good old technology. Somebody designed this. Somebody did. Next thing they're going to design now is a potato chip bag that you can rec close cuz now when you open it goes and it's all down the side. Come on manat. Well, you can't close it up now. You got to eat them all. Oh, come on. Revival ought to break out right there. Seth back there tearing up all the packages. But here's the thing.

I want to hear him say, "Well done. Thou good and faithful servant." This whole month of August, Brother Sam, we've been talking about greater serving. So I will declare that with five, with two, or with one, I am his servant. And what I desire more than anything is to know that it's well done. Would you bow your head with me right now? Lord, you're in this room today. You've been here, Lord, since early this morning when I got here. Your spirit, Lord, was speaking in this room. And I thank you for that right now. Lord, I pray the word of God would touch a heart or a mind or a soul that it would ignite something within them to reach past all of the stuff to reach beyond all of what they don't know and to simply speak into their hearts.

Lord, there is something greater, simply greater than anything in this world. And there can be without doubt without doubt the words well done good and faithful servant well done. I pray in this room right now Lord that you would speak into hearts. I pray God those online that they would hear the voice of God in their lives in Jesus name

Scripture references as spoken: Isaiah 64:4; 1 Corinthians 2:9; Hebrews (book-only, as spoken); Matthew 25:14-40.