A Faithful Messenger:
Has a Master – “his masters”. We have three, the trinity. God is the one who loved the world enough to give us his Son. Jesus is the one who died for the sins of the whole world. The Holy Spirit is the one who sends us, and in Acts 13.
Has a Mission – “that send him”. We must go to our divine appointments. Therefore, each day we should pray, “Here am I; send me”. Pastor Welder gave the illustration of being sent to a neighbor named Fred.
Has a Message – “messenger” implies that we have the message. You should prepare your gospel sermon that you will preach when you are sent to a sinner who is ready to hear the gospel preached. I prepared my sermon (preached briefly in this sermon) so that I am ready when sent to preach the good news.
Furthermore, we must be responsive to the Spirit to deliver the specific message he may have for a particular sinner on a particular day. Jesus dealt very differently with the woman at the well in Jn 4, the impotent man at the pool in Jn 5, and the woman taken in adultery in Jn 8.
Has a Mark – “refresheth the soul of his masters”. Our mark is to accomplish with the message what the Holy Spirit sent us to say, and what God and Jesus want to do in the sinner’s life. They are not willing that any should perish. Jesus always did those things that pleased his Father.
Conclusion: A faithful messenger delivers the message, fulfills the mission, and pleases his masters.