Stewardship

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The Love Test

• (1 John 316-17 NKJV) By this we know love,
  because He laid down His life for us. And we also
  ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
  17 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees
  his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from
  him, how does the love of God abide in him?

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Judgment or Mercy?

• (James 213-18 NKJV) For judgment is without
  mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy
  triumphs over judgment. 14 What does it profit,
  my brethren, if someone says he has faith but
  does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If
  a brother or sister is naked and destitute of
  daily food,

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What did you Do?

• (James 213-18 NKJV) 16 and one of you says to
  them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,"
  but you do not give them the things which are
  needed for the body, what does it profit? 17
  Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have
  works, is dead. 18 But someone will say, "You
  have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith
  without your works, and I will show you my faith
  by my works.

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Pure Religion is Helping

• (James 127 NKJV) Pure and undefiled religion
  before God and the Father is this to visit
  orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep
  oneself unspotted from the world.

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Pure Religion is Helping

• (James 127 NCV) Religion that God accepts as
  pure and without fault is this caring for
  orphans or widows who need help, and keeping
  yourself free from the world's evil influence.

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The Love Test

• (1 John 317 NKJV) But whoever has this world's
  goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up
  his heart from him, how does the love of God
  abide in him?

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Give an account of your stewardship

• (Luke 161-3 NKJV) He also said to His
  disciples "There was a certain rich man who had
  a steward, and an accusation was brought to him
  that this man was wasting his goods. 2 "So he
  called him and said to him, 'What is this I hear
  about you? Give an account of your stewardship,
  for you can no longer be steward.'

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Give an account of your stewardship

• (Luke 161-3 NKJV) 3 "Then the steward said
  within himself, 'What shall I do? For my master
  is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot
  dig I am ashamed to beg.

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Will it cost you eternity with God?

• (Luke 1610-12 NKJV) "He who is faithful in what
  is least is faithful also in much and he who is
  unjust in what is least is unjust also in much.
  11 "Therefore if you have not been faithful in
  the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your
  trust the true riches? 12 "And if you have not
  been faithful in what is another man's, who will
  give you what is your own?

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God or Money

• (Luke 1613 NKJV) "No servant can serve two
  masters for either he will hate the one and love
  the other, or else he will be loyal to the one
  and despise the other. You cannot serve God and
  mammon."

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The Pharisees get the point!

• (Luke 1614 NKJV) Now the Pharisees, who were
  lovers of money, also heard all these things, and
  they derided Him.

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Lazy or Irresponsible?

• (Mat 2524-30 NKJV) "Then he who had received
  the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you
  to be a hard man, reaping where you have not
  sown, and gathering where you have not scattered
  seed. 25 'And I was afraid, and went and hid
  your talent in the ground. Look, there you have
  what is yours.

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Lazy or Irresponsible?

• (Mat 2524-30 NKJV) 26 "But his lord answered
  and said to him, 'You wicked and lazy servant,
  you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and
  gather where I have not scattered seed. 27 'So
  you ought to have deposited my money with the
  bankers, and at my coming I would have received
  back my own with interest.

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Lazy or Irresponsible?

• (Mat 2524-30 NKJV) 28 'Therefore take the
  talent from him, and give it to him who has ten
  talents. 29 'For to everyone who has, more will
  be given, and he will have abundance but from
  him who does not have, even what he has will be
  taken away. 30 'And cast the unprofitable
  servant into the outer darkness. There will be
  weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

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You know to Serve

• (2 Cor 91-2 NKJV) Now concerning the
  ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for
  me to write to you 2 for I know your
  willingness, about which I boast of you to the
  Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago
  and your zeal has stirred up the majority.

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It pays for Evangelism

• (Phil 415-17 NASB) And you yourselves also
  know, Philippians, that at the first preaching of
  the gospel, after I departed from Macedonia, no
  church shared with me in the matter of giving and
  receiving but you alone 16 for even in
  Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for
  my needs. 17 Not that I seek the gift itself,
  but I seek for the profit which increases to your
  account.

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they gave themselves to the Lord,

• (2 Cor 85 NKJV) And not only as we had hoped,
  but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and
  then to us by the will of God.

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Stewardship

• Are you a good steward?

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Stewardship