Christian stewardship begins with the correct understanding that everything we have belongs to the Lord.

Stewardship, then, is not just a focus on money or material things, but also encompasses every spiritual blessing. In this study, making the most of all God

has given, Scott Pauley teaches biblical principles for Christian stewardship. One day, we will meet God

and give an account of how we have handled all of the resources he has put in our hands. Let's listen intently to learn how God expects us to steward his resources.

No one really understands biblical stewardship

unless they view it through the lens of eternity. Because eternity reveals

all. Today, I want to bring you to a very serious chapter in the Bible in Luke chapter number

16. Now, you're going to remember that Luke 16 is the story of the rich man and Lazarus. So you have a rich man, you have a poor man,

you have a man who is lost, you have a man who is saved, but that story was given in the

context of a larger conversation that began like this. Luke 16 verse one, and he said also unto his disciples,

there was a certain rich man which had a steward, and the same was accused unto him that

he had wasted his goods. And he called him and said unto him, how is it that I hear this of thee,

give an account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest be no longer steward.

And the steward said within himself, what shall I do?

For my lord, takeeth away from me the stewardship.

I cannot dig to beg, I am ashamed.

And so this particular steward concocks a plan or how he can get some of his master's money back and save his own skin.

The Lord Jesus said in verse 9, I say unto you, make to yourselves friends of the mammon of

unrighteousness that when you fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in

much, and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been

faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? Do you see how

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