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.

The stewardship of your life is not restricted to the financial and the material.

It is connected to every area of your life, but there is a physical area that I think is sorely

neglected by most believers, and that is the stewardship of your body.

Think about this. Your body, created God uniquely shaped and fashioned and given to you

is given to you to serve the Lord. Don't you think you ought to take care of the only vessel you're

ever going to have in this world? Don't you think you ought to pay more attention to the stewardship

of the body that God has

entrusted to you. You know, we live in a world of superficial, shallow surface people who

are consumed with their body and they're concerned with how others perceive them. The ironic

thing about that is that our God is a spirit. And the God who is a spirit is the one who chose to give us a

body. The body was the first thing that God gave man in Genesis chapter 2 in verse number 7. And I

would point out to you that it started in God's hands. God intended from the very beginning that our

body would be in his hands. The body is the area where

Satan loves to appeal, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes. What is that? That is an

appeal to the body. The body is the part of a saved man that's not yet redeemed. We'll get a

redeemed body someday. Our salvation will be made

complete. Won't that be a glorious thing made like to the Lord Jesus? And the body is the one thing

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