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Using God’s Gifts for God’s Work
Prayer
This past Monday, I sent my boss (Sandy) this email...
“Sandy, I’m going to be making today a shorter day.
I’m going to hit the JV basketball practice today.
I will be in tomorrow morning, but need to be on call to run to Akron at any point.
I will be back after that.
I will then be here Wednesday for a full day, and Thursday as well, and then Friday morning if needed.
Of course, all of this is under the phrase…”Lord Willing”…”
So as I was typing this out, I started thinking back to last Sunday’s sermon…the sermon I had apparently forgotten about - THE VERY NEXT DAY...
I was writing this out on Monday, and then it hit me - OH YEAH - i JUST preached on this - YESTERDAY!
And I had ALREADY forgotten that truth from the day before...
WHAT TRUTH?
You remember last week?
We discussed how the Bible teaches us that the time that we have during our day, is NOT OUR time...
but that it’s God’s TIME...
And the question we wanted to ask is this - How have I been spending God’s time?
Have I been using the time that He’s given me to PURSUE Him?
to reflect Christ to the world?
to love my enemies, as Christ loved His enemies?
OR - have i spent the time He’s given me on OTHER THINGS...
on…pursuing WHAT’s BEEN CREATED....over and above the CREATOR?
See - let’s not forget the context of how we got here.
We started this Sermon Series answering this question: What Do I Believe?
And we looked at 11 Core Christian Beliefs...
And so we wanted to answer the question - What Do I Believe?
NOW - for the past several weeks, we’ve been answering another question: What Do I Do?
If i BELIEVE these things - then how do those beliefs play themselves out in my life.
THAT’s what we want to answer now - If my beliefs walked this earth…what would that LOOK LIKE?
But we have to remember - Our beliefs, DO walk this earth.
They DO play themselves out in our lives.
*Chair Question
And so last week - we came to the topic of “Offering God My Time”…and if you remember, I hated that title...
I had to CHANGE the title…to what? - Giving God HIS Time...
Do you remember the verse we read pertaining to this?
Is this text not speaking to every one of us?
We’re all guilty of saying - Hey, I’m gonna run to the store quick..and be right back.
Now as innocent as that seems, the Bible tells us (we just read it), if i say that, and I don’t believe that God controls me getting to the store and back...
Then it’s in my arrogance that I say it…because I believe that God is NOT in control.
And so remember - we’re trying now to answer the question - WHAT DO I DO?
AND LAST WEEK - we saw a call to Christians:
Christians must WORK the works of God...while we can...
While there's still time to save people...PRIORITIZE saving people...
While there's still time to draw people to the cross of Christ....pick your cross daily!
While there is still time for people to turn to Jesus in faith, BE Jesus to them....display Jesus to them!
THIS was the call - to view the time that we have as GOD’S Time…because it’s His time.
NOW - today, we come to this next topic…SLIDE
ONE that is often a taboo topic in the church....MONEY
Using God’s Gifts for God’s Work
Now - Before you start heading for the doors…KNOW THIS…!
This sermon today is NOT going to be about us putting you in a head-lock, trying to get you to give money to this church.
I think we’ve preached on money ONE time since we’ve been together as a group...
AS YOU KNOW - we DO NOT pass a plate here at church.
(let me repeat that)
NOR will we ever do so! - and we’ll get into WHY we don’t a little later...
But just know - that’s not what today is about!
Today’s sermon is going to be about the heart attitude that we should have in regards to THE MONEY that we have (our resources)
And so to see this, we’ll be bouncing around the Bible a bit, but still keeping things in Context as we go.
These are hard words today, but I hope you find them to be freeing, and light.
To Love Money is to Hate God
And so you might be thinking - WHAT?
How does my affection for God relate to my affection for money?
Let’s look at Luke 16 to see this connection...
I think the first thing to point out here is this -
Christ could have used anything else in the world…to HOLD UP against God here!
He could have said - You cannot serve God and man...
You cannot serve God and satan...
You cannot serve God and this world...
He could have said any of these....but
He didn’t....He chose to hold up GOD - and MONEY
AND SAY - You CANNOT serve God and Money...
And yet if we look at this verse, we can see what Christ means when He says “SERVE God”...
When we think about the idea of SERVING God, we think - DOING THINGS for God…right?
But how does Jesus define it here?
Notice what He doesn’t say - He doesn’t say — You cannot serve two master, for you will do things for the one and not do anything for the other…SLIDE
NO - He says - “you cannot serve two masters, for either you will HATE the one and LOVE the other, or be DEVOTED to one and DESPISE the other”...
Do you hear the AFFECTIONAL aspect of SERVING…??
Do you see - that to PLEASE God is to not merely DO things for Him...
BUT to JOYFULLY do things for Him...
to DO things for HIM YES, but that those things happen as they spring forth from LOVE FOR HIM...
Luke here equates SERVING God - with LOVING God…!
AND when we really start to think about THIS TRUTH...
WHAT COMES to mind is this - IDOLATRY
THIS truth POINTS to what Idolatry is all about -
To LOVE something MORE than God!
To DESIRE something MORE than God!
THAT’S IDOLATRY!
THEREFORE...
when we LOVE money, and REST in our MONEY...
when MONEY is our:
support in life
comfort in this world
pursuit of life
when it becomes our AIM in life, our end all be all...
we’ve gotten to a point where MONEY has become our god...
we worship it
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