Stewardship: Managing God's Gifts with Purpose
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"Stewardship, it starts with this understanding that everything in this life, it's not yours, right? None of it belongs to you. It's having a reality check like this woman in the story and realizing that you are sitting in a car that doesn't belong to you. You'll never steward the things that you have well until you realize that none of it is yours to begin with." [00:40:38] (24 seconds)
"God has entrusted to us as his children resources and time and abilities. He's entrusted us with these things to steward wisely and faithfully all for the advancement of his kingdom, for his glory. God owns everything and we are simply his stewards or his managers." [00:41:13] (18 seconds)
"Think about it like this. If you've ever been to a hotel with a steward, someone that takes your bags to your room, you might give your bags to that bag boy, but they're not his bags, right? You have entrusted to him your bags for a short period of time for safekeeping. That's the fundamental principle of stewardship." [00:42:38] (22 seconds)
"Listen, when you put yourself and God in the right place, when you understand that God's the owner and you're simply the steward or the manager of his things, that conflict, you'll see that it'll begin to disappear. You'll start to experience freedom from that bondage." [00:52:10] (14 seconds)
"Listen to Paul's question to the church of Corinth, 1 Corinthians 4, verse 7. For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? And then you received it. Why do you boast as if you did not receive it? The implied answer here to these questions, first, it's nothing. You own nothing." [00:55:53] (17 seconds)
"Guys, in order to discipline ourselves in the practice of stewardship, we have to get to a place to where we understand that God is the owner of all of our stuff, everything, including yourself. And we are simply or merely the managers of that stuff. That's the first point." [00:56:35] (24 seconds)
"Listen, there's two things here I really want you to pay attention to. The first one, it's in that second verse. Turn in the account of your management. Guys, here's what you have to know as managers or as stewards of the things that God owns. We will give an account to God for those things." [00:57:43] (16 seconds)
"Listen, I'm not speaking about works. I want you to hear me. How you steward, it determines the heart that's beating in your chest. As a child of God, as a person that's been given God's heart, you'll care most about the things of God, and you'll take serious the accounts that you will have to give." [01:11:13] (21 seconds)
"Everything that you have in this life, it's going to pass through the fire and it's going to burn up, including your body. But as a believer, your soul will remain and he'll make it all new. He's not going to make all this other stuff new." [01:13:04] (15 seconds)
"Listen, I want you to think about this. We don't struggle in our jobs to do what we're told to do, at least if it's things that they're asking is not unbiblical. Guys, we serve a good and unrighteous God, I'll correct myself there, who owns everything. Why do we struggle so much when it comes to managing His stuff?" [01:15:58] (24 seconds)
"There's three things here, quick things in Scripture when it comes to how we should steward and how we should give. The first one, we're going to give abundantly. Look at King David, the most powerful man on the earth in the Old Testament. We see his life. But during his reign, he understood this owner-manager relationship that he had." [01:19:51] (15 seconds)
"Joyful giving, it's the sign that the giver understands this owner-manager relationship. Cheerful giving, it only comes from a heart that's set on things above, one that's not set on earthly things. Colossians 3:1, If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God." [01:21:05] (23 seconds)
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"God has entrusted to us as his children resources and time and abilities. He's entrusted us with these things to steward wisely and faithfully all for the advancement of his kingdom, for his glory. God owns everything and we are simply his stewards or his managers." [00:41:13] (18 seconds)
"Think about it like this. If you've ever been to a hotel with a steward, someone that takes your bags to your room, you might give your bags to that bag boy, but they're not his bags, right? You have entrusted to him your bags for a short period of time for safekeeping. That's the fundamental principle of stewardship." [00:42:38] (22 seconds)
"Listen, when you put yourself and God in the right place, when you understand that God's the owner and you're simply the steward or the manager of his things, that conflict, you'll see that it'll begin to disappear. You'll start to experience freedom from that bondage." [00:52:10] (14 seconds)
"Listen to Paul's question to the church of Corinth, 1 Corinthians 4, verse 7. For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? And then you received it. Why do you boast as if you did not receive it? The implied answer here to these questions, first, it's nothing. You own nothing." [00:55:53] (17 seconds)
"Guys, in order to discipline ourselves in the practice of stewardship, we have to get to a place to where we understand that God is the owner of all of our stuff, everything, including yourself. And we are simply or merely the managers of that stuff. That's the first point." [00:56:35] (24 seconds)
"Listen, there's two things here I really want you to pay attention to. The first one, it's in that second verse. Turn in the account of your management. Guys, here's what you have to know as managers or as stewards of the things that God owns. We will give an account to God for those things." [00:57:43] (16 seconds)
"Listen, I'm not speaking about works. I want you to hear me. How you steward, it determines the heart that's beating in your chest. As a child of God, as a person that's been given God's heart, you'll care most about the things of God, and you'll take serious the accounts that you will have to give." [01:11:13] (21 seconds)
"Everything that you have in this life, it's going to pass through the fire and it's going to burn up, including your body. But as a believer, your soul will remain and he'll make it all new. He's not going to make all this other stuff new." [01:13:04] (15 seconds)
"Listen, I want you to think about this. We don't struggle in our jobs to do what we're told to do, at least if it's things that they're asking is not unbiblical. Guys, we serve a good and unrighteous God, I'll correct myself there, who owns everything. Why do we struggle so much when it comes to managing His stuff?" [01:15:58] (24 seconds)
"There's three things here, quick things in Scripture when it comes to how we should steward and how we should give. The first one, we're going to give abundantly. Look at King David, the most powerful man on the earth in the Old Testament. We see his life. But during his reign, he understood this owner-manager relationship that he had." [01:19:51] (15 seconds)
"Joyful giving, it's the sign that the giver understands this owner-manager relationship. Cheerful giving, it only comes from a heart that's set on things above, one that's not set on earthly things. Colossians 3:1, If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God." [01:21:05] (23 seconds)
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