Biblical Stewardship

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Biblical Stewardship
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Job 4111

• Who has a claim against me that I must pay?
  Everything under heaven belongs to me.
• -God

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Mt 619-20

• "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on
  earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where
  thieves break in and steal. But store up for
  yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and
  rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not
  break in and steal.

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Mt 622-23

• "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes
  are good, your whole body will be full of light.
  But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be
  full of darkness. If then the light within you is
  darkness, how great is that darkness!

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Mt 624

• "No one can serve two masters. Either he will
  hate the one and love the other, or he will be
  devoted to the one and despise the other. You
  cannot serve both God and Money.

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Mt 621

• For where your treasure is, there your heart
  will be also.

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• You cannot be financially bound
• and spiritually free.
• Larry Burkett

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Malachi 37-12

• Ever since the time of your forefathers you
  have turned away from my decrees and have not
  kept them. Return to me, and I will return to
  you," says the LORD Almighty.
• "But you ask, 'How are we to return?'
• "Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me.
• "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?'
• "In tithes and offerings. You are under a
  cursethe whole nation of youbecause you are
  robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the
  storehouse, that there may be food in my house.

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Malachi 37-12 (contd)

• Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and
  see if I will not throw open the floodgates of
  heaven and pour out so much blessing that you
  will not have room enough for it. I will prevent
  pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in
  your fields will not cast their fruit," says the
  LORD Almighty. "Then all the nations will call
  you blessed, for yours will be a delightful
  land," says the LORD Almighty.

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Acts 432-36

•   All the believers were one in heart and mind.
  No one claimed that any of his possessions was
  his own, but they shared everything they had.
  With great power the apostles continued to
  testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus,
  and much grace was upon them all. There were no
  needy persons among them.

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Acts 432-36 (contd)

• For from time to time those who owned lands or
  houses sold them, brought the money from the
  sales and put it at the apostles' feet, and it
  was distributed to anyone as he had need.
   Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles
  called Barnabas (which means Son of
  Encouragement), sold a field he owned and brought
  the money and put it at the apostles' feet.

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2 Corinthians 81-5

• And now, brothers, we want you to know about
  the grace that God has given the Macedonian
  churches. Out of the most severe trial, their
  overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled
  up in rich generosity. For I testify that they
  gave as much as they were able, and even beyond
  their ability. Entirely on their own, they
  urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of
  sharing in this service to the saints.

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2 Corinthians 910-11

• Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread
  for food will also supply and increase your store
  of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your
  righteousness. You will be made rich in every way
  so that you can be generous on every occasion,
  and through us your generosity will result in
  thanksgiving to God.

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2 Corinthians 912-13

• This service that you perform is not only
  supplying the needs of God's people but is also
  overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.
  Because of the service by which you have proved
  yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience
  that accompanies your confession of the gospel of
  Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with
  them and with everyone else.

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Proverbs 1311

• Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who
  gathers money little by little makes it grow.

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Proverbs 2120

• In the house of the wise are stores of choice
  food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he
  has.

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Luke 1610-12

• "Whoever can be trusted with very little can
  also be trusted with much, and whoever is
  dishonest with very little will also be dishonest
  with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in
  handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with
  true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy
  with someone else's property, who will give you
  property of your own?