A Call to Stewardship – Dave Ramsey
The Bible contains 2350 verses on money and possessions.
(Faith – 458 times; Love – 686 times)
15% of what Jesus said is related to issues of money
Back to the Beginning…
Steward- one who cares for something owned by someone else, managing something on someone’s behalf
To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.
Deuteronomy 10:14 (NIV)
Lock It Up: GOD’S MONEY
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
Matthew 6:24 (NIV)
who or what is your #1
John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.” Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?” “Don’t collect any more than you are required to,” he told them. Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” He replied, “Don’t extort money and don’t accuse people falsely — be content with your pay.”
Luke 3:11-14 (NIV)
Be Generous – Be Fair and Honest – Be Content
As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”
Luke 21:1-4 (NIV)
A “Tithe” is a tenth.
“Ever since the time of your ancestors 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 mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me.
But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me.”
“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. 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 there will not be room enough to store it.”
Malachi 3: 7-10 (NIV)
WHAT ABOUT YOU?
How would Jesus want us to spend God’s money on His birthday?
Dave Ramsey’s “Financial Peace” program begins Feb. 5, 2020.