Title: Christ is the Absolute Owner of Everything Meta: Christ is the absolute owner of everything. Go out to your car this afternoon and you just stop in your tracks and look at it and you recognize that’s His. Look at yourself in the mirror those eyeballs in your head those are His. Your hand, it’s His. He can take it away from you. Tags: sovereign,property,Lord,owner,Matthew 25,parable,servants 1 00:00:00,359 --> 00:00:04,360 Christ... 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:08,749 is the absolute owner. 3 00:00:08,749 --> 00:00:10,379 Go out to your car this afternoon 4 00:00:10,379 --> 00:00:13,709 and you just stop in your tracks and look at it 5 00:00:13,709 --> 00:00:17,240 and you recognize 6 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:19,110 that's His. 7 00:00:20,610 --> 00:00:22,580 Look at yourself in the mirror 8 00:00:22,580 --> 00:00:25,600 those eyeballs in your head 9 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,730 those are His. 10 00:00:28,730 --> 00:00:31,240 Your hand, 11 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,400 it's His. 12 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:38,640 He can take it away from you.(P) 13 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,260 Many of you are familiar with Abraham kuyper's quote: 14 00:00:42,260 --> 00:00:47,170 There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence 15 00:00:47,170 --> 00:00:51,500 over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry 16 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:53,840 "Mine!" 17 00:00:55,740 --> 00:00:59,630 It is His.(P) 18 00:00:59,630 --> 00:01:03,790 You ever thought... 19 00:01:03,790 --> 00:01:07,409 Here comes the guy with Legion. 20 00:01:07,409 --> 00:01:13,080 The demons say, "Lord, let us" their pleading with Him, 21 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,640 "Let us go into those pigs." 22 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,080 "OK, go." 23 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:19,990 They went into the pigs, 24 00:01:19,990 --> 00:01:24,240 the pigs all freak out and they run down the hill and they all die. 25 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,869 You say, "Wow" 26 00:01:27,869 --> 00:01:35,260 "Was that a gracious thing for the Lord to do to these swine herders?" 27 00:01:36,510 --> 00:01:39,450 "It kinda destroyed their produce." 28 00:01:39,450 --> 00:01:43,340 But you see, it wasn't theirs. 29 00:01:43,340 --> 00:01:46,729 Those pigs are His. 30 00:01:46,729 --> 00:01:49,670 They're His to do with as He pleases. 31 00:01:49,670 --> 00:01:51,960 And those demons are His. 32 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,490 And He can do with them as He pleases. 33 00:01:55,490 --> 00:02:00,079 He is absolute owner of everything.(P) 34 00:02:00,079 --> 00:02:01,180 You can look at some of these pictures, 35 00:02:01,180 --> 00:02:02,890 you come back from the Middle East, 36 00:02:02,890 --> 00:02:05,729 you look at those pictures of a mosque 37 00:02:05,729 --> 00:02:10,110 and all of the Muslims bowed down to Allah. 38 00:02:10,110 --> 00:02:13,470 You just remember that when you see pictures like that 39 00:02:13,470 --> 00:02:15,239 they are Christ's. 40 00:02:15,239 --> 00:02:20,550 He is absolute sovereign owner.(P) 41 00:02:20,550 --> 00:02:24,620 These savages, 42 00:02:24,620 --> 00:02:27,920 John Dees has been talking in recent times with me 43 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:29,230 about this island, 44 00:02:29,230 --> 00:02:30,790 North Senntinel Island 45 00:02:30,790 --> 00:02:34,069 off of the coast of India 46 00:02:34,069 --> 00:02:36,260 it is one of the darkest places, 47 00:02:36,260 --> 00:02:40,610 one of the most unreached places on the face of the earth. 48 00:02:40,610 --> 00:02:45,590 Probably the least reached place. 49 00:02:45,590 --> 00:02:49,520 Jesus says, "Mine. They're mine." 50 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:51,510 He owns it all.(P) 51 00:02:51,510 --> 00:02:54,450 In this parable, all is His. 52 00:02:54,450 --> 00:02:57,989 All are His servants. 53 00:02:57,989 --> 00:03:04,690 You notice how the flow of this runs? 54 00:03:04,690 --> 00:03:08,650 Matthew 25. 55 00:03:08,650 --> 00:03:12,769 In verse 14, "His servants." 56 00:03:12,769 --> 00:03:18,300 Again in verse 14, "His property." 57 00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:20,480 That's the flavor that you get here. 58 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,489 In verse 27, "My money." 59 00:03:24,579 --> 00:03:29,050 He says, "I should have received what was My own with interest." 60 00:03:29,050 --> 00:03:29,920 All is His. 61 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:32,250 All shall answer to Him.(P) 62 00:03:32,250 --> 00:03:34,489 You see brethren, we live the Christian life 63 00:03:34,489 --> 00:03:38,010 and sometimes we encourage one another. 64 00:03:38,010 --> 00:03:41,720 "Lay everything on the altar." 65 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:53,239 We think about ,"Unless you forsake all that you have you cannot be His disciple." 66 00:03:53,239 --> 00:03:56,310 You see what Jesus is saying? 67 00:03:56,310 --> 00:04:02,580 Unless you recognize the reality of who owns everything, 68 00:04:02,580 --> 00:04:04,540 you can't be My disciple. 69 00:04:04,820 --> 00:04:11,060 That's what He is saying there at the end of Luke Chapter 14. 70 00:04:11,060 --> 00:04:13,010 This is the reality.(P) 71 00:04:13,010 --> 00:04:16,539 Well that's the first thing, that's the first point. 72 00:04:16,539 --> 00:04:19,410 Christ is the absolute owner. 73 00:04:20,108 --> 00:04:23,898 (Excerpt taken from the full sermon: The Joy of the Lord)