SERMON POWERPOINT
Sunday,
January 12, 2020
Stewardship—Our Money
Series: Stewardship
Sermon: Stewarding our Money
Verse: Matthew 6:33 ESV But seek first the kingdom of
God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Description: Money can seem like a necessary evil at
times: we need and want more of it; we stress over it; we argue about it. Yet we also see good from money: providing for needs; giving it away to good causes. What is the Lord’s view on money? He is our Creator and heavenly Father, so
what does he tell us? What heavenly
perspectives and solutions does he have?
Introduction
My grandparents raised my dad and his four sisters through
10 years of the Depression and another 4-5 years of World War II.
Those were very stressful times for
them and most of the nation.
And if you knew people from that
generation, more than likely you noticed that they viewed money and possessions
much differently than later generations.
Such stress and frugality for 15
years changes a person.
Finances for all of us is typically shaped in large part by
our upbringing.
If your family was quite frugal,
that affected you.
If they were stingy or generous,
that shaped you.
Sometimes our shaping from
childhood goes the opposite way. We say
to ourselves, “My family was this way, but I want to be the opposite.”
So family shapes
us. Our own personality shapes us. Some
of us just naturally seem to be
frugal, while others like to spend, while others like to give.
I want to propose that the One dominating influence in our lives concerning Money and
Stuff—the Bible calls it Mammon—ought
to be God Himself.
Slide A long-time favorite passage of
mine:
Psalm 24:1 NIV The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in
it, the world, and all who live in it;
The whole earth and all who live
on it belong to him.
And since he is Owner of all
things, we ought to take our cue from him.
And ask him, “How should we use what we have?”
We are in Week 2 of a 3-week series on Stewardship.
We are stewards of our lives.
Managers. Not owners. God is the Owner.
And He entrusts us with all that
goes on in our lives.
He asks us out of love and
respect for him to steward our
lives.
One passage that says it so well:
Slide
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV So,
whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
To do it for his glory. That is, “do it for his honor.”
Let everything you do, even your use of money and
possessions—earning, saving, spending, giving—everything… everything….
do it to bring him glory.
To honor him. To lift him up high in your heart and to
everyone around you. To thank him for who he is and what he has
done. To love him more.
We steward our lives because, fundamentally, he is worthy of
it.
We honor him with our very lives.
This is our Stewardship.
In this 3-part series, we are looking at three areas of our
lives in which we are to steward:
Our time. (last week)Our money. (today)Our health. (next week)
In today’s passage, an assortment of topics come up: What we treasure. Comparing eternity to this life. Worry.
Faith.
PRAY
Lord, we may have many distractions
in our lives, even this morning. Would
you help us to place ourselves at your feet this morning, to find peace, to
listen to your Word.
We humbly yield ourselves to you.
Introduce self.
Welcome to you who are
visiting. We are glad you are here.
I am Brad Barrett, one of the
pastors here.
I hope that my wife and I can meet
you afterwards.
Matthew 6:19–34 (ESV)
This morning our main text is from a sermon given by Jesus on a mountain.
It’s called the Sermon on the Mount.
One of the more…
