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*INVESTING FOR ETERNITY.*
*SERIES: My To Do List For 2008*
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*1-13-08---SAM*
*EPHESIANS 5:15-17*
*TBC*
*INTRO: *How many of you make New Years resolutions this year?
How many of you have broken your New Years resolutions?
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Spend More Time with Family & Friends
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Fit in Fitness
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Tame the Bulge
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Quit Smoking
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Enjoy Life More
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Quit Drinking
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Get Out of Debt
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Learn Something New
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Help Others
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Get Organized
The good news is this sermon is not about making New Years resolutions.
My challenge to you this morning is not to make a resolution, but to make a commitment.
I have 8 things I want you to make a commitment to do in 2008.
We are going to spend the next five weeks looking at these 8 commitments and the four areas of life they will help us mature in.
----Remember our memory verse--- 1 Corinthians 10:31---/31/Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.(NKJV)
This is also our theme verse for our series.
Now I want to begin, however, by reading Ephesians 5:15-17.
Appointed once to die.
Psalms tells us to number our days.
A divine mystery: Our time in this world matters.
This is the way God has designed.
To help you invest for eternity, There are four areas by which to live life.
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Worship of God.---Worship.
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Walk with Jesus.---Discipleship.
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Witness to Others.---Missions
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Work with other Christians.---Fellowship
We are going to spend the next five weeks looking in detail at these areas, but today let’s look at some general principles for life.
We can sum up these four areas~/these principles with two words.
Faithful Steward.
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A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE ON BEING A FAITHFUL STEWARD.*
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Scripture: Matthew 25:14-30
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I want you to think what the main point of this parable is---why did Jesus teach this parable to his followers.
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It is about being faithful to what He has given us.
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One man had 5
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One man had 2
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One man had 1.
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The owner went on a journey, and gave each slave some talents.
Things to take care of when he was gone.
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At his pleasure did not divide things evenly.
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Whatever the reason, the man gave some 5,2, and 1.
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What we find is that 2 of the 3 were faithful to take care of what their owner had put them in charge of.
They went to work, and made a return for their master.
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One slave wasn’t faithful.
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listen carefully, the point is how BIG of a return the owner got on his investment.
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The point is that the slave wasn’t faithful.
He didn’t trust the owner.
He didn’t love the owner.
He fear the master in an unhealthy way.
He didn’t why try.
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Listen beloved, this applies to us today.
This is the point of my series, and my prayer is that you and I learn to grow in faithfulness.
-1. God has a job for every person to do at TBC.
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There is no job to little in the eyes of the Lord.
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Every job is important.
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But my focus is going to be on 8 things I believe every body can do with God’s help.
So the question is will we grow in our faithfulness this year.
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Just suppose the Lord came back this year---what would he say to you?
What would you say to him?
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Look at the rest of our parable.
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Verses 20-27
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The biblical perspective on being a faithful stewards is be obedient to the things that God has called you to do.
Be faithful in that area.
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A BIBLICAL PROGRAM FOR BEING A FAITHFUL STEWARD.*
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Talk about the word “program.”
Don’t think of this as just another program.
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PDL
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Exper.
God.
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This isn’t a program like that, but it is a way to live life.
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Let’s go back to the four areas again:
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Put God 1st---that’s worship.
Matthew 22:36-39---/36/“Teacher, which /is/ the great commandment in the law?” /37/Jesus said to him, /‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’/
/38/This is /the/ first and great commandment.
(NKJV)
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Live like Jesus---that’s discipleship.
Philippians 2:5--- /5/Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,(NKJV)
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Be a missionary you live---that’s evangelism.
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