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All right, if you've got a Bible, go to the book of Malachai. It is actually in the Bible.

It's the last book of the Old Testament.

Little book, we're going to spend about six weeks of studying,

and it is God's final written word to his people.

It's the last thing that he has to say preparing them for the first Christmas and

the coming of Jesus which would occur 400 years later.

And so it is kind of like an audit, it's an examination, it's an investigation, and it's one of the

three major themes of scripture so as you read the Bible and

we'd encourage you to be reading the Bible there are three major themes

one is sin and how God forgives sin one is suffering and that's how God helps those who are hurting,

and one is stewardship.

And that's really the theme that we'll be studying today.

It's a theme that Jesus spent 25% of his teaching on and that is stewardship and that is that

our lives belong to God our money belongs to God our company belongs to God our

house belongs to God our car belongs to God everything everything that we are, everything that we do,

every word that we say ultimately belongs to God, that God is the owner and that we are the

manager, the manager, meaning we need to invest the resources that God gives in a way that God decrees.

And what we do this time of year, personally, corporately, even as a church family, we do a bit of an audit.

Look back at your year, okay, what was our spending?

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