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Good to be here today.

Good to see.

I'm glad that you are here and ask.

He said we will have the dinner on the grounds next Sunday after after church.

So be sure that you invite someone to come with you next Sunday and we will have that.

And of course I will be getting that meal up.

Thanksgiving meal.

For John's friend who lost her husband.

And so what we'll be doing that we need to be doing some things that we can in the community to reach out and touch other people.

That's what we need to do.

And so and so we will do that.

Well today we want to continue in our series a life.

Well spent.

And we've been talkin about sewing and stewardship and sacrifice and giving and generosity.

And I want to continue on that theme today.

If you remember last week, we talked about three things that we learned about God, how he owns everything and three things that we learn about man in our passage from Chronicles last week, what I want to do today, Is I want us to consider three principles.

Regarding how we use our money for the Lord.

And so, if you remember this definition of stewardship in the title, today's message is drawing spiritual interest.

And principles regarding how we used our money for the Lord.

So as a steward, and that's what we are.

And let's look at our definition for Steward stewardship is the act of organizing your life so that God can stand you.

So that's what we're trying to do.

We're trying to get Place ourselves in a position where God will use us as far as giving tithing stewardship.

And so, what I want to show you today is I want to give you three principles that we have to keep.

In the front of our heart, in mind, if we're going to be the giver's that God wants us to be.

Now, we're not going to these principles.

I'm going to give you or not some principles that I just came up with myself.

All three of these come straight out of the word of God.

Now, we don't have a certain passage today to study.

This is more about the topical message.

So we're going to look at several scriptures.

But these principles, I believe are given to us in order to guide our giving and to guide our stewardship.

So let's keep these in mind when we think about giving.

So we have three principles.

Let's go ahead and start with the first one point.

Number one, It is what I call the principle of Prior consecration.

The principle of Prior, consecration.

Now, giving our resources to God.

Is simply.

A reflection of the fact that we have already given ourselves to him.

In other words, those of us here today, if you're saved and you are a Christian, you've already consecrated yourself in that word consecrated, just means to dedicate.

You've already dedicated yourself to the Lord for his purposes and it's only natural.

That because of that, the part of a the our financial resources, we would also offer that to him.

That's just a part of being consecrated to the Lord.

So you think of it like this, this principle of Prior consecration, we have dedicated ourselves to the Lord and because of that, we know that that means that he owns everything we talked about that last week and that even means our finances.

So the highest most noble calling of any Christian is their commitment to Christ.

And when we do that, Financial stewardship is just a natural outgrowth of are consecration sacrificial.

Given is a reflex response.

If you want to look at it like that, to the one who loves us into the one who gave his son to die for us.

It's just a natural response.

So this principle recognizes that God owns everything.

Now we talked about that last week that the Lord owns it all.

So, what I want to do is I want to give you some more scripture to back this up.

Let's look at Romans, 14:8 and look what the Bible says here.

For if we live, we live to the Lord.

And if we die, we die to the Lord.

Therefore, whether we live or die.

We are the Lord's.

He owns us.

If you're on Earth and you're breathing, like we are today, you alive.

He owns your body when you die.

And your spirit goes to heaven, guess who owns your spirit.

He does, whether you live or whether you die.

God owns us.

He owns it all.

Well, if he owns it all.

Kind of says this principle of Prior consecration that we've given him our life.

And if he owns it all all the aspects, different aspects of our life.

We give him that as well.

Look, at Ezekiel 18 for what this says.

This is the Lord speaking behold.

All Souls are mine.

All Souls are my the soul of the father as well as the soul.

The sun is mine too.

So who said she'll die?

All Souls are mine.

And then look at 1st Corinthians 6:20.

For you were bought at a price.

Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's.

You see God owns the body God on the spirit and we were bought with the prop.

What was the price Jesus death on the cross.

That's what brought us our Salvation.

He owns up, he owns the body, he owns the spirit.

What does that not go against popular culture today?

Especially those who say

It's my body.

I do what I want to my body.

Is that true?

Is it your body know?

It's not, you don't own your body, God on it.

Also, those are mine is what he said you were bought with a price.

So the principle of Prior consecration, the Lord on us.

He created us.

He paid for our souls with his own body.

We do not belong to ourselves, but to God, everything we have yes, he has and friends when we give an offering, when we give a tie It reflects the fact that we have already given ourselves to him.

I think about that.

It reflects.

The fact, when I give my money to the Lord, when I give my tithes were offering it reflects the fact that I have previously given myself to him because I'm saying I'm a Child of God.

My name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, been sealed with the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption.

He's coming back and he's going to get me and take me home, I've dedicated my life to him and because of that, every aspect of my life is dedicated to him.