Dr Charles Stanley - A Call to Accountability - Part 1

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We all live in a world that's full of a flesh and temptation.

It's good for everybody to be accountable.

And so when the person says I'm not accountable to anybody, I just do what I please.

I'm telling you, you are asking for trouble because you're going to make decisions that

you're going to regret.

Besides this, the Bible says that every one of us who are giving an account of himself

to God, and you know what, you can't excuse that, you can't eliminate it, you can't remove

yourself from it, that's the law of God.

Most of the time we work hard at hiding our shortcomings.

But on today's edition of In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley will hear

that telling your secrets might help you beat temptation.

If that sounds a little extreme, stay with us as we see from Scripture that accountability

plays a vital role in spiritual growth.

The Scripture says, we are accountable to God for our actions in this life.

We are accountable to God for the resources we have, we are accountable to God for the privileges.

And the awesome, wonderful opportunity to live in this country as God has provided for

us.

Now, what I want to talk about in this message is this whole idea of accountability.

And when I come to freedom, I think about what Paul said in Galatians chapter 5 for a moment.

And he put it this way.

He said in the first verse of this 5th chapter, it was for freedom that God set us free.

Therefore, keep standing, firm, and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

Then he goes right to the 13th verse and he says, watch.

He says, for you are called to freedom, that is to live a life for freedom in Christ.

Do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh.

But through love, serve one of the, which was what he was saying is this, while we are

forgiven children of God, a name is written in the Lamb's book of life, we are heaven bound

one of these days, we have a responsibility.

He says, don't turn that freedom into the flesh, but he says you're responsible.

I had a friend of mine, it was a fellow pastor.

And he believed just like I believed.

And somewhere along the way, somebody convinced him that because he was free in Christ Jesus,

that there are certain things that he could do.

And I watched my friend who was still logically as correct as a guy could be, who was an excellent

pastor, but somewhere along the way, somebody convinced him that freedom in Christ meant

that you could just do most of the thing you wanted to do.

And I warned him and warned him and warned him.

I said, look, I'm telling you, this is going to come back to haunt you because if you slip

over on this side just a little bit, you're going to keep going out of the ministry.

Wonderful servant of God out of the ministry because he did exactly what the Apostle Paul

warned us not to do.

We are accountable to God for our freedom.

And oftentimes people do not recognize that.

And so when I look at that, I want us to go to the 25th chapter of Matthew, if you will.

And here is a passage that I've scripture that a lot of people know maybe not by heart,

but they're familiar with it.

So I want us to read it because this is all about accountability.

That's what I want to talk about is the call to accountability.

Now accountability is sort of like consequences that is people don't like consequence.

They don't want to talk about consequences.

And people don't like talking about accountability because that idea of freedom is you do what

you want to do when you want to do it, how you want to do it.

But sometimes they also add to any person you want to do it.

And you and I know that's not accountability.

So listen to what Jesus said.

He says in this 14th verse, the 25th chapter of Matthew, quote, is just like a man about

to go on a journey who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them.

To the one he gave five talents.

Now remember this, in this particular passage of scripture, he's talking about finances

about money and so forth, but it could be your spiritual gifts, your talents, your skills,

your abilities that God has given you.

And what he's saying is here, this is all about accountability.

And so he says to one, he gave five talents to another two and to another one, each according

to his own ability and he went on his journey and noticed that he gave to them according

to their ability.

That's what God has done.

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For your life in my life, he gives and provides and gives us privileges and opportunities

and work to do according to the ability that we have, and he knows that perfectly.

Then he says immediately, the one who had received five talents went and traded with them

and gained five more talents.

In the same manner, the one who had received the two talents gained two more.

But the one who had received the one talent went away, dug a hole in the ground, and

hid his master's money.

Now, after a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with him.

The one who had received the five talents came up and brought five more talents, saying

master, you entrusted five talents to me, see I've gained five talents more.

You entrusted me with five.

Then he said to him, well done, good and faithful slave.

You were faithful with a few things.

Now I'm going to put you in charge of many.

In into the joy of the master.

Also the one who had received the two talents came up and said, master, you entrusted two

talents to me, see I've gained two more talents.

His master said to him, well done, good and faithful slave, you were faithful with a

few things.

I'll put you in charge of many things, in into the joy of your master.

And the one who had received the one talent came up and said, master, now listen to his

response.

I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered

no seed as if to accuse him as an excuse.

And I was afraid.

And I went away and hid your talent in the ground, see you have what is yours.

But his master answered and said to him, you wicked, lazy slave.

You knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed.

Then you ought to put my money in the bank and on my arrival I would have received my money

back with interest.

Therefore, take away the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents.

For to everyone who has, more shall be given and he will have an abundance.

But from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.

Throw out the worthless slave into the outer darkness, in that place there will be weeping

in gnashing of teeth.

Now this is a parable and that does not mean that if a person doesn't live up to

the God's expectation of their use of their skills and talents and abilities, that they

go in the hell.

That's not what that means.

That whole idea is about accountability.

It's about something that all of us have to deal with because all of us are accountable.

Now let's just define what is accountability.

Accountability in essence is responsibility.

It's sort of like a check and balance system in our life that really protects us from

harm that we would do to ourselves or harm, for example, that someone else will do.

So accountability in its very essence is a protective measure.

It's a way of life that God has given to all of us, for many, many reasons.

Some of them we will talk about here and what it means is simply this.

We live out this accountability by being open and free and by being willing to tell the

truth and to share with someone else what's going on in our life and to be willing, listen,

not only an encourager to other people, but to other people that encourage us and not

only that, that when we need to be brought to accountability about something and something

needs to change in our life, that that is exactly what happened and all of us have been there.

We've all been in situations and circumstances where we may have said something.

It did something that we knew that it was not exactly right.

Then what happens, somebody brings us to accountability.

So here's what I want you to see.

There's nothing wrong with accountability.

Accountability is a gift.

Accountability is the way God, one of the ways he chooses to protect us from ourselves

because.

You remember what Paul said to the Galatians?

He said, now don't slip back into the slavery that you were in and then he said, now you

are free, but don't turn your freedom by being unaccountable for getting that you accountable

to God into the flesh that is to slip over into a life of sin.

So while we are free in many ways, we are accountable and that accountability naturally

is of God.

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Think about that, not think about it in this light.

The truth is, there's accountability as a principle of the world of God.

Well, all through the Old Testament, you'll think about how the prophets came upon the

scene.

And in one occasion, Samuel, who was the prophet when Saul was the king, and Samuel had

given him clear instructions, you are not to offer sacrifices.

That is a responsibility given strictly to the prophet.

And you wait before you go to battle, you wait before you offer sacrifice till I get

there.

Well, he waited a pretty good while, and he thought the day was already over, maybe he

got impatient.

And so he decides, I'll offer the sacrifice.

When the prophet came, he had a given account.

And his giving of account was that he violated the very clear message of the prophet.

And so what happened was, the day of accountability came that very day, and the result was that

he lost his kingdom.

Samuel said, you've lost your kingdom.

You disobeyed what I told you.

Do you remember when Bathsheba and David got together, David knew better, and yet what

happens?

He violated the law of God.

He should have been out with his soldiers in battle.

And Nathan, the prophet, shows up.

And what was Nathan's responsibility to bring him to accountability for his actions?

All through the Scripture, God is bringing man to accountability.

He's still bringing people to accountability today, that you and I may see some people

doing some things who have great notoriety or less than.

And we think, well, I don't see any accountability or listen.

It's coming.

There's no such thing as escaping the accountability of God.

He says, every knee she'll bow, every tongue she'll confess, there's a coming a day of

judgment when all of us, as he says, will give an account of our life to him.

And so when you look at the Scripture, for example, look at Jesus and Peter.

Now on one occasion, Jesus said to Peter, Peter, your name is the rock, a big compliment

to Peter, encouraging him to be strong and to follow him.

First thing you know, what is he saying to Peter?

You're acting just like the devil, get behind me.

Now, that's real accountability.

You encourage and then you bring to confrontation when something is not right.

And Jesus could have said, you're the rock, that's okay.

You know, you get mad with it, no.

You don't want your children to take advantage of you, because you know what will happen ultimately.

If they don't come to accountability for you and with you, you know that they're going

to do it further and further away, violate the very simple principles that you've tried

to teach them as they've been growing up in life.

And so when you think about the importance of accountability, and I think about the fact

that accountability is just good stewardship, whatever you and I do, if we know that someone's

holding us accountable, we're going to do our best.

I think you ought to at least.

You would do your best if you are held accountable and they're expecting the best of you.

And what happens is the very idea of accountability sometimes is very motivating.

And let me give you an example.

My grandson was enrolling in the ROTC, the Army ROTC.

And so his mother wrote this beautiful story of her last day before he went to school.

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And the very day you went to school.

I called him the night before he was to take this test to get into the ROTC, and it was

pretty strenuous, and so he told me what he had to do.

He had to have so many pushups in a short period of time, so many set ups, and he had to

run a certain, I'd run two miles in a certain length of time.

So that night I called him, and I said, now, listen, tomorrow, what time are you running?

He said, I'm running at seven o'clock my time, eight o'clock your time.

I said, now GIMPS is going to be praying for you.

I'm going to be praying for you starting at seven o'clock your time, and I'm going to

pray for you long enough.

I know that you've already done all that.

So remember, GIMPS is praying while you're sitting up, pushing up and running.

So he said, okay, GIMPS, I appreciate that.

Now here's the most important thing.

Not only did he do far more pushups than was expected, far more set ups quicker than

expected, he out ran everybody.

Now here's the issue.

I told him, I said, look, tomorrow, after that's over, I want you to call me.

I want you to call me.

If I'm going to be praying, you call me and tell me what happened.

So accountability is coming the next day.

This just blessed me so much.

He called me back.

He said, GIMPS, tell me what happened.

He said, GIMPS, I was running and he said, and I thought about you praying for me and

he said, I just launched for me.

He said, I just had this burst of energy when I thought about you praying for me.

He was motivated and he was motivated because he loved me one thing and secondly, of course

he wanted to do his best, but just to know that, you know what, shortly he had to call

me and give an account.

Accountability is a wonderful thing.

If I just said to him, well, I'm going to be thinking about you tomorrow while you're

running.

That's one thing.

But he knows me well enough to know that if I tell him, I'm going to be praying.

I'm going to be talking to God and calling you a name while you're running and sitting

and pushing up.

It made a difference.

He said, I felt this burst of energy when I realized that you were praying for me and

I think about how the motivation comes and also you think about this, that accountability,

what does it do for us?

It gives us an opportunity to get promoted.

In other words, wherever you're working, whatever you're doing, if you are accountable,

trustworthy, reliable, dependable, nobody's having a look over your shoulder because they

give you a task, they know it's going to get done.

I've got some staff members like that.

If I ask him about something, I don't have to ask him anything else.

I know that it'll be done.

It'll be done to the very best of their ability.

That's a motivating factor when you know that you're accountable to someone.

Now, think about this.

What could you build?

Think about bridges and big high rises and so forth.

There's no way in the world to build a building or do any kind of construction without accountability.

If the plumber doesn't do his part, the electrician doesn't do his part, and the drywall

man doesn't do his part, and you could just go down to the list, everybody has a responsibility

and everybody has accountability.

I don't want to cross any bridges where there are a bunch of folks who didn't feel very

accountable and didn't do a very good job, neither do you.

We trust these constructions to do what they're supposed to do because these people are

accountable.

And in any business where you have a business and people not accountable, then you've got

a problem.

And when people not accountable, it's bad news for everybody.

Accountability is a principle of the Word of God.

It's a print.

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So the Lord of God, and we just read this passage.

Jesus spent all that time saying that a man or a woman is accountable for what they do.

And they're accountable for what they have.

Watch this.

Everybody is not equally accountable as far as what they achieve.

Some people are more gifted as he says to one, he gave five talents to another two, to

another one.

God did not judge the one talented man by the five talented man.

He judged him on the basis of what he watched as, of what he did with what he was entrusted

with.

And that's the way God judges us.

He doesn't mean that all of us have to excel and to be better than someone else.

We are just accountable to doing as I said to you, look your best, do your best, be your

best.

That's all we're accountable for.

And so it's very motivating to other people when we are accountable.

And likewise, what we are doing in accountability is we sharing our lives with people.

And when we take it out of the business world and just personally, all of you have friends.

And I wonder how many of you have friends that you are accountable to?

How many of you have friends that you are accountable to?

People say, I don't want to be accountable to anybody.

That you're walking on dangerous ground.

We all need to be accountable.

Now you've got to be willing to be accountable.

So when you can't be one sided and say, okay, now if I see something going on in your

life, I'm going to tell you, but since some of the past and you can't tell me that, no,

you can't do that.

We are all accountable to each other.

And when a person has no one to be accountable to, they are automatically in danger.

We live in a world where the devil works day and night, where Satan is there and where

temptation is lurking everywhere and you and I need to be accountable.

Accountability is a protection.

And this is why there are men, for example, who are in accountability groups, women in

accountability groups, and God intends for men to be accountable to men, women to be accountable

to women.

You say, well, I'd really be accountable to some woman who forget it because you are accountable

to your wife if you're married, she's accountable to you, and the two of you are accountable

to each other.

Well, I'm not having some woman telling me what to do, then you shouldn't have got married.

For the simple reason, for the simple reason, God, God set up accountability for marriage.

He set up accountability for families, children, or accountable to their parents.

If they rebel against them, then God's going to hold them responsible.

There's no such thing as being unaccountable to anybody.

And you call the opposite of accountability rebellion.

I don't want to be accountable to anybody.

What you are, and, for example, you're accountable to the government.

And most of you, I certainly hope all of you are accountable at this point.

For example, you're accountable to pay your taxes.

I didn't say you liked it.

I said, we are accountable.

That is, we have to be honest and above board and be truthful about it.

You're accountable to God, for example, about you tired.

Nobody else may know how much you give, but somebody says, well, you know, the truth

is that I just don't know how much I made last year.

Oh, well, I can help you.

Just let me see your tax return and see what you put down.

And the bottom line, and we'll just take 10% of that, and I'm going to answer your question.

You see, you are accountable.

We're all accountable, accountable to the government, for example, accountable to each other.

And accountability is a godly principle.

It is always for our protection, our motivation, our joy, our excitement, our, listen, building

relationships with other people, and the bottom line.

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And is this?

We all live in a world that's full of a flesh and temptation.

We all need to be accountable to somebody or somebody's, and there's no exception.

It's a law of God.

It's a principle of Scripture, but the basic truth is it's just good for everybody.

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Do you have at least one other discreet believer to whom you're accountable?

This kind of person doesn't dictate to you, but is someone who can sharpen and help you

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Accountability is actually a safety net.

With wisdom for believers, here's a moment with Charles Stanley.

It's good for everybody to be accountable, and so when the person says, I'm not account

anybody, I just do what I please.

I'm telling you, you are asking for trouble, because you're going to make decisions,

that you're going to regret.

Besides this, the Bible says that every one of us, you're given an account of himself

to God, and you know what, you can't excuse that and you can't eliminate it and you can't

remove yourself from it, that's the law of God.

So when I look for example in the Scripture, look at Moses, he had Aaron and her, and David

had Jonathan, and you look at the Apostle Paul, had Silas and Barnabas and Timothy, in

other words, relationships.

Now, God intends for us to have good relationships because that strengthens us.

Accountability is part of a source of our strength.

It builds our courage, it builds our faith.

We see others that we're accountable to doing the right thing, and so we're encouraged

and they're good examples to us.

And so all of that is for our benefit.

So when the person says, I don't want to be accountable, I don't think that's what God

wants in my life, then you've missed it.

Accountability, both receiving it and offering it, is part of the Christian life.

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Tell us what you plan to do next.

Tomorrow on Intouch, we'll continue learning why it's so important to have someone in

your life who will keep you on track.

I hope you'll join us Tuesday for the conclusion of a call to accountability on Intouch, the

Teaching Ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

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