Title: God's Steward
Author: Robert Dawson
Text: Matthew 25:14-30
Swiss watchmaker, Patek Philippe, is known for luxury watches. They are beautiful. They have also become well-known for their clever advertising. One slogan says, "You never actually own a Patek Phillippe; you merely take care of it for the next generation."
"You never actually own it...you merely take care of it." The same is true of our lives. They are never truly our own. They belong to another.
Think about that for a moment. Everything we have, our wealth, our time, our resources, our very breath, has been entrusted to us by God. We are merely stewards of them.
The question is, how are we managing what God has given?
How we manage what God has placed in our hands demonstrates what we value most, what our treasure is and who we worship and serve.
That's the question Jesus challenges us with in the parable of the talents. In Matthew 25, Jesus tells a story about a master who entrusts his servants with something valuable, something they did not own, but were expected to manage well. Some were faithful. One was not. And the consequences were eternal.
Let's turn to Matthew 25:14-30 and see what Jesus has to say about the stewardship of our lives and what it means to live in light of eternity.
Matthew 25.14-30 - "For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey. 16 The one who had received the five talents immediately went and did business with them, and earned five more talents. 17 In the same way the one who had received the two talents earned two more. 18 But he who received the one talent went away and dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master's money.
19 "Now after a long time the master of those slaves *came and *settled accounts with them. 20 The one who ...
Author: Robert Dawson
Text: Matthew 25:14-30
Swiss watchmaker, Patek Philippe, is known for luxury watches. They are beautiful. They have also become well-known for their clever advertising. One slogan says, "You never actually own a Patek Phillippe; you merely take care of it for the next generation."
"You never actually own it...you merely take care of it." The same is true of our lives. They are never truly our own. They belong to another.
Think about that for a moment. Everything we have, our wealth, our time, our resources, our very breath, has been entrusted to us by God. We are merely stewards of them.
The question is, how are we managing what God has given?
How we manage what God has placed in our hands demonstrates what we value most, what our treasure is and who we worship and serve.
That's the question Jesus challenges us with in the parable of the talents. In Matthew 25, Jesus tells a story about a master who entrusts his servants with something valuable, something they did not own, but were expected to manage well. Some were faithful. One was not. And the consequences were eternal.
Let's turn to Matthew 25:14-30 and see what Jesus has to say about the stewardship of our lives and what it means to live in light of eternity.
Matthew 25.14-30 - "For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey. 16 The one who had received the five talents immediately went and did business with them, and earned five more talents. 17 In the same way the one who had received the two talents earned two more. 18 But he who received the one talent went away and dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master's money.
19 "Now after a long time the master of those slaves *came and *settled accounts with them. 20 The one who ...
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