// If we’re not
with what God has already given to us, why should He trust us with any more?
Luke 16:10-12
Whoever is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much. So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will trust you with what is genuine? And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what is your own?
// God wants us to recognize the powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and how we handle money + possessions.
// No matter what we have, how we
it matters.
// How you spend your money reveals what’s in your
.
Mark 12:41-44 NIV
Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.
Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”
// What matters is
what you have been
with.
1) Ownership: It all belongs to
.
>> Does God really own everything?
Psalm 24:1
The earth and everything in it,
the world and its inhabitants,
belong to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 10:14
The heavens, indeed the highest heavens, belong to the Lord your God, as does the earth and everything in it.
1 Chronicles 29:11-12
[David said,] “Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to you. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom, and you are exalted as head over all. Riches and honor come from you, and you are the ruler of everything.”
// Our
are not even our own.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
You are not your own, for you were bought at a price.
// Your money is
money, and He can do what He wants with it.
2) Stewardship: His money under our
// The steward MUST
the owner!
Luke 16:1-9 NIV
Jesus told his disciples: “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’
“The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg— I know what I’ll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.’
“So he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
“‘Nine hundred gallons of olive oil,’ he replied.
“The manager told him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred and fifty.’
“Then he asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’
“‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied.
“He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it eight hundred.’
“The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light. I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.”
// Use what God has entrusted to you for
purposes.
1 Corinthians 4:1-2 NIV
This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.
Romans 14:12 NIV
So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
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