Prepared, Willing and Able. Sermon by Russell Preddie on August 2,2025.
Revelation 14:12-16.
God has given us a task. How do we do it? What is the task?
If a hole is 6 feet, how big is a half a hole? Three feet? No. There is no such a thing as half a hole. A hole is a hole.
Reflect on Matthew 20. We believe in fairness. People want fair servings at a meal, each with equal quantity. A landowner goes out in the morning and offers people a day's work for $50 for the day. At noon the landowner goes out and offers some people to come work the remainder if the work day for $50 for the day. At 6pm the landowner again went out and asked some people to come work for him for the remainder of the day for $20.00 for the day. At the end of the people the workers line up and each worker gets $50.00. The man who started in the morning says "Wait!! How does he get the same money as I do?"
This story indicates eternal life. There is no such thing as half eternal life, or it is not eternal. The story of the landowner's workers represent those who have eternal life, regardless when their life decisions were made.
Many church goers, regardless of church come for generations of church goers. Some are converted later on, God owes us nothing. He gives as a gift. As Christians everyone needs to work together regardless how long they have been at church. We notice our work, but do we notice the work of the Holy Spirit?
We are not hired. We are called.
"And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. "
Mark 16:15
"And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
and said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went.
Matthew 20:3,4
‘"Well done, good and faithful servant". Matthew 25:21