If God Left, Would You Notice? (Stop Coasting, Start Investing) | Matt Gordon | Acts

Описание: In this message, Matt starts with Bach’s work ethic and a big question: are you investing your life, or burying it? Using Matthew 25 (the parable of the talents), he contrasts fear-driven “break-even living” with faithful risk and stewardship.

From there, Matt connects spiritual systems across Scripture, Exodus 18 (Jethro coaching Moses on delegation and sustainable leadership), Acts 2 (the early church’s rhythms), and Daniel 6 (discipline as a daily custom). Then he brings a cautionary tale from Samson, a gifted man whose lack of discipline and community led to drift, including one of the saddest lines in Judges: “he did not know the Lord had left him.”

Matt closes with simple next steps: add one discipline, build one protecting system, and share it with someone for accountability.

Recorded date: February 1, 2026

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Key ideas:

*Bach’s fuel: vocation as calling, excellence as obedience, “to God alone be the glory.”
*Matthew 25: fear buries what God entrusts, faith invests and multiplies.
*“Learning to Move Again” = repeatable spiritual systems, not motivation spikes.
*Exodus 18: plurality, delegation, discipleship, scalable leadership prevents burnout.
*Acts 2 rhythms: teaching, meals, communion, prayer, generosity, shared life.
*Daniel 6: discipline as “custom” that holds when pressure rises.
*Rule of life: rules that give life, not manipulation or optics.
*Samson: gifted but isolated and undisciplined, chaos follows.
*The warning line: drifting is most dangerous when you don’t notice it.

Passages referenced:
Matthew 25:14–30
Acts 6 (series context)
Exodus 18:13–23
Acts 2:42–47
Daniel 6:10
Judges 14
Judges 16:20
Judges 21:25
Proverbs 29:18
Ephesians 2:10
John 10:10