It’s My Gift to Him (part 2)
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GIVING GOD YOUR TEMPLE
GIVING GOD YOUR TEMPLE
For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
MEANS GIVING GOD
MEANS GIVING GOD
YOUR TREASURE
YOUR TREASURE
YOUR TIME
YOUR TIME
YOUR TALENTS
YOUR TALENTS
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them.
And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey.
Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
And likewise he who had received two gained two more also.
But he who had received one went and dug in the ground, and hid his lord’s money.
After a long time the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
“So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more talents besides them.’
His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
He also who had received two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents; look, I have gained two more talents besides them.’
His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
“Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed.
And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’
“But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed.
So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest.
So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents.
‘For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
CREATED TO WORK
CREATED TO WORK
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS
SPIRITUAL GIFTS
There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.
And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:
As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
WHATEVER YOU DO
WHATEVER YOU DO
And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
What has God given you? What skills, talents, abilities, you have?
What gifts has God given to you? What are you holding back?
GIVE GOD YOUR TIME
GIVE GOD YOUR TIME
And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OPPORTUNITIES
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OPPORTUNITIES
Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.
TIME IS SHORT
TIME IS SHORT
whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
WE NEED HELP
WE NEED HELP
So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Do not boast about tomorrow, For you do not know what a day may bring forth.
Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the difficult days come, And the years draw near when you say, “I have no pleasure in them”:
What are you doing with the time God has given you?
Are you wasting time?
Are you maximizing your time?
Are you at home on Sunday Morning when you could be assembling with the saints?
Are you at home on Wednesdays when you could be assembling with the saints?
How much time are you giving to praying?
How much time are you giving to studying God’s Word
What time are you giving to Serving
to Instructing
to Nurturing
