BALANCING THE BOOKS – AN EASTER SERMON (1 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Romans 6:1-11
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Balancing the Books – an Easter Sermon (1 of 4)
Series: The Math of God
Jeff Strite
Romans 6:1-11
There’s been a story in the news recently about the US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, otherwise known as HUD. Apparently HUD has had a problem balancing their books. It seems their books were off about (PAUSE) $516 BILLION dollars. Now that’s not an error of a few 100,000 dollars… or a few 100 million dollars. That’s an accounting error of several HUNDRED BILLION dollars!!!
Now, the question is… how did this happen? How does a government agency misplace $516 billion? Well, the article I read on this said: “Some of the errors were caused by HUD rounding dollar amounts to the nearest ‘billion,’ when financial guidance calls for rounding to the nearest ‘million.’”
Well that explains everything!!! If they’d just rounded to the nearest MILLION rather than the nearest BILLION, everything would have been OK!
I’m sure what I find more disturbing – that the government misplaced $516 billion… or that they are comfortable rounding things off to the nearest million.
You know, if I could round to the nearest million I could afford all kinds of things… at least for a while.
APPLY: Now you might ask: Jeff why are you talking about accounting on Easter? (I wait until someone asks me that question). Well I’m glad you asked that question. I’m talking about accounting today, because Easter is all about accounting.
Romans 14:12 says “… every one of us shall give ACCOUNT of himself to God.”
And Hebrews 4:13 declares “Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give ACCOUNT.”
In other words – the day will come when you and I will stand before the judgment seat of God and God will open up the books and we’ll have to account for how we’ve lived on earth.
ILLUS: When I was younger, I went to Purdue University for a couple of years, and while I was there, I took a semester of accounting. I learned just enough about acc ...
Series: The Math of God
Jeff Strite
Romans 6:1-11
There’s been a story in the news recently about the US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, otherwise known as HUD. Apparently HUD has had a problem balancing their books. It seems their books were off about (PAUSE) $516 BILLION dollars. Now that’s not an error of a few 100,000 dollars… or a few 100 million dollars. That’s an accounting error of several HUNDRED BILLION dollars!!!
Now, the question is… how did this happen? How does a government agency misplace $516 billion? Well, the article I read on this said: “Some of the errors were caused by HUD rounding dollar amounts to the nearest ‘billion,’ when financial guidance calls for rounding to the nearest ‘million.’”
Well that explains everything!!! If they’d just rounded to the nearest MILLION rather than the nearest BILLION, everything would have been OK!
I’m sure what I find more disturbing – that the government misplaced $516 billion… or that they are comfortable rounding things off to the nearest million.
You know, if I could round to the nearest million I could afford all kinds of things… at least for a while.
APPLY: Now you might ask: Jeff why are you talking about accounting on Easter? (I wait until someone asks me that question). Well I’m glad you asked that question. I’m talking about accounting today, because Easter is all about accounting.
Romans 14:12 says “… every one of us shall give ACCOUNT of himself to God.”
And Hebrews 4:13 declares “Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give ACCOUNT.”
In other words – the day will come when you and I will stand before the judgment seat of God and God will open up the books and we’ll have to account for how we’ve lived on earth.
ILLUS: When I was younger, I went to Purdue University for a couple of years, and while I was there, I took a semester of accounting. I learned just enough about acc ...
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