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Now, look at Luke 16 verse 10. It says, he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much. And he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. So that tells me that God is going to test us by seeing if we're faithful in the little things, and if we're faithful in the little things, then he'll know, okay, I can trust you with the big things. Look at verse 11, if therefore you've not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, referring to money, he says, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you've not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? So right there the Bible's teaching that if God's going to entrust us with great responsibility and with great things of our own to take care of and to handle, we have to be faithful in the little things and in the things that belong to someone else. For example, you want to preach someday, well, when you come to the preaching class, are you well prepared? Are you doing your best? Are you filled with the Spirit? Are you taking it seriously? Because, you know, when God looks down from heaven and sees you not taking the preaching class seriously, not being well prepared, not having a sermon, you know, not making it a priority, then he's going to think to himself, well, this guy's not serious about preaching. This guy can't even do a good job with a ten minute sermon. How's he going to do with the full length sermon? You know, how's he going to do preaching in a church three times a week? If he can't preach a sermon and prepare a sermon, you know, for ten minutes every two weeks, is he really serious about ever, you know, doing it three times a week for an hour? And so the Bible's teaching us that we need to start being faithful now if we want to be responsible. You know, if you want to be responsible one day for having a wife and children, you know, show God that you're a responsible kind of a guy because the Bible says a prudent wife is from the Lord. The Bible says children are inherited from the Lord. You know, be faithful with the areas of responsibility you have right now and then God will give you greater responsibility. Okay, I mean, there are probably a lot of young men who preach who would like to someday pastor a church. I'm sure there are a lot of single young men that would like to be married. There are married couples who'd like to have children. There are couples with children that like to have more children. There are employees who would like to own their own business someday, right? And I mean, you know, there are people who pastor a small church that might like to pastor a larger church. They want the church to grow. Okay. These areas of responsibility and growth and increased load upon us require us to first be faithful with what we have. And sometimes we can look at what we have and say, it's so small it doesn't matter. But if you're not faithful in the small, you're not going to be faithful in what's big. And so you need to be serious about what you do. You know, you might have a job right now that you don't take seriously. And you're like, this isn't a real job. You know, I'm just doing this temporarily. I'm just filling time. This ain't a real job. I'm not going to give it my best. But you know what? If you're not going to be faithful on that job that's a throwaway job or a temporary job or a filler job, if you're not going to be faithful on that job, then God may not bless you with an important job. Because He wants to see you be faithful with that beginner job and do your best and give it everything you've got and do your service as unto the Lord and not in a man. And when He sees that faithfulness, then He'll bless you with more. And He's going to look at how you handle your money now and say, okay, can this guy handle being married? You know, can this guy handle a family? Because how is He handling His money right now? And God says, look, you need to be faithful with the unrighteous mammon. You know, if you can't be trusted with it, you know, and if you're going to basically be a tightwad, you're going to be stingy with it, and you're not going to give the tithe unto the Lord and you're basically just going to say, you know what? This is my money and I'm going to do what I want with it, or you're just going to mess it up so bad that you, you know, I've heard people say like, well I can't afford a tithe, you know, because my finances are so messed up. But again, God wouldn't be asking you to do something that you're unable to do. And here's the thing, people said they didn't have the money to tithe, but it's impossible not to have the money to tithe if it's the first 10 percent, and then you see what's left. I mean, that's what the Bible teaches. The firstlings and the firstfruits go unto the Lord, okay, and if you can't be faithful with that, if you can't be faithful to read your Bible, if you can't be faithful to pray, if you can't be faithful with your job, you can't be faithful to take care of yourself and take care of your wife and take care of your kids, then how can you take care of the house of God? Because if a man knew not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? So do you see how the things that we go through in life are preparation for other things down the road where God is constantly testing us and seeing how we're doing.