1. What belongs to whom?
1. What does God say you belong? Psalm 24:1
a )_______________________ b )_______________________
c )________________ ________
Psalm 50:10, 11 _____________________________________________
Haggai 2:8 _________________________________________________
During the civil war United States, a runaway slave was caught in Vermont and brought to court. Although the judge say that the evidence was not adequate property, counsel for the "master" the slave asked, "What do you need your excellency?"
To which the judge replied: "Nothing less than a bill of sale of the Creator himself."
2. What three areas does God claim ownership of everything?
a. Exodus 20:11 _________________________________________________
God created the Earth out of nothing (Hebrews 11:3) and hung on nothing (Job 26:7). He took the dust of the earth and formed man (Genesis 2:7). He created everything and provided the material, therefore, owns everything. Some people think they have, or at least part of it. Some even pretend to govern, but the true owner and governor es Dios. Cuán reconfortante resulta este pensamiento en los días en que el mundo está amenazado por la destrucción atómica. David dijo: Dios “puso la fundación de la tierra, para que no pudiese ser quitada jamás” (Salmo 103:5).
b. Hebreos 11:3 Dios _______________ los mundos por el poder de su Palabra.
Hechos 17:28 “Porque en Él ____________, y nos _____________, y ____________________”.
“Sostener todas las cosas”. El hombre lo llama gravedad, la fuerza que mantiene a la tierra alrededor del sol. Bien, ¿entonces cuál es la fuerza que la empuja a dar vueltas alrededor the same? That's gravity. And so we are going around. What power can be that but the will and power of God? Our very lives are sustained by Him. Every beat of our heart is a response to God's touch. We eat, drink, work, play, think, love, worship, and we can not understand it at all, but in our hearts we know that in Him we live and move and have our being.
c. 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20; Isaiah 43:1 ___________________________________
Each loaf of bread, every blessing we have, is marked with the cross of Calvary. Had it not been for God, there would neither man nor bread. Can a man hold something or to ask the Lord himself, apart from their beautiful Creator and Savior?
3. Who gives us the ability to earn a living? Deuteronomy 8:18
________________________________________________________ 4. What is the relationship of man with these possessions? Luke 12:42, Matthew 25:14 ________________________________________________________
A steward is someone entrusted with the supervision or management of the property or business of another. Runs what belongs to another. God has made us stewards to entrust your possessions. We will be judged, not by the amount we have, but what they did with it and how we use it.
2. The responsibilities of the stewards of God.
1. What prompted the stewards? 1 Corinthians 4:2
____________________ "He who is faithful in little is faithful also in much" (Luke 16:10). Infidelity works the same way. To steward the Lord will say, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (Matthew 25:21).
2. How do you monitor their stewards God? Matthew 25:19, Luke 16:1, 2
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Surely not everyone has come up with the idea that Judgement Day is accountable to God for life, health, wealth, time, and everything else.
3. What is the first responsibility of the steward? Matthew 6:33 ________________________________________________________
"What I give to the Lord for all his goodness to me," asks the Psalmist (Psalm 116:12). Can we ever make "too much" for Jesus? What if we all cost?
4. How can we honor our Lord? Proverbs 3:9 _______________
A steward must do the best with what has been entrusted, not for himself but for the owner. The butler sinner of himself first, the Christian steward does God first.
5. How much of our time God calls you? ______ Exodus 20:8-11
6. How much of our possessions claim God as holy to him? Leviticus 27:30 ______________________________________________________
God calls us one-seventh of our time, and one-tenth of our resources, not because you need them, because everything belongs; but at the request of our time and a proportion of our resources, we reminded that we are stewards and testing our love for Him Like the economic toll was asked by the Roman Caesar in recognition of its authority, the sacred tithe and Holy Saturday acknowledge the Lordship of God. Christ said: "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God what is God" (Matthew 22:21).
The word tithe means a tenth. If a man earns 10, a tenth of that amount is 1, and if you win 100, the tithe is 10. If cattle are 1000, the tithe is 100. And that's when it becomes more difficult. Strangely, the more God blesses more is hard for some to return to God the tithe.
"It was very poor, my small bag was barely noticed a tenth in it. Happily I gave my poor storage, with the desire for more power I give. But now my bag, which was so small, it contains a million. And every day I wonder if one-tenth could I give! "
7. What other area is tested steward? 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20 "For ye are bought with a price _____________ therefore to God in ________________________________".
Romans 12:1 "... offer your bodies on ____________________, holy and pleasing to God-this is your _______________________________".
3. Decimated through the centuries.
1. How Abraham revealed that tithing and was valid in his day? Genesis 14:18-20
____________________________________________________ 2. What God promised Jacob? Genesis 28:20-22 ________________________
This vote came from a heart full of gratitude for the assurance of love and mercy of God. Every blessing of God's hand raises an answer from our heart.
3. What words Jesus showed approval as to tithe? Matthew 23:23 "That's (tithe even the smallest) ____________________ do not stop doing that."
Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for tithing and be small plants, however dishonest and unfair, which is equally important. Still, they said they had to continue tithing. He wanted to teach them that they could not compensate for the lack in one area to be too strict in some other.
4. The purpose of tithing.
At first the family was the unit organized in spiritual matters, there was no centralized cult. As soon as the figure of the priest appeared (at the time of Abraham), the tithe was given to him.
1. What should be the tithe used once Israel became a nation? Numbers 18:21 "Behold I have given the children of all ________ ________ in Israel for an inheritance, by ________________ of the tent of meeting."
When Joshua brought the Israelites in Canaan, each tribe was given a piece of land, except the Levites, who were spending their time serving the Lord. The other tribes gave a tenth of their earnings to support them. During the time that the sacrificial system was in place, the Levitical priests had to be supported from the tithe.
2. How should hold the ministry today? 1 Corinthians 9:13, 14 ______ _________________________________________________________
Paul insisted that those who preach the gospel should live in it, just as the Levites lived for his work on the temple. If the Jews returned the tithes and offerings to God's request to keep the temple service, should Christians do less, having all the world to reach with the Gospel? We should learn a lesson from the first Christians, who hit sacrifice (Acts 4:34, 35) to meet the needs within and outside the church. They found themselves going door to door and town to town with the Gospel, in spite of the persecution (Acts 5:42, 8:1-4). Paul worked tirelessly to that "by all means save some" (1 Corinthians 9:22).
And is not better than the ministers of the Gospel are paid tithing instead of relying on the collection with the dishes, shops church bake sales or good will of some rich man in the church who could offended if the preacher would give direct messages from God? How best are the plans of God than those of men! No minister at a small church forget to address larger economic reasons! No pastor will be afraid to proclaim the truth that your church needs for fear of losing their source of income!
3. What are two ways we keep God's storehouse full? Malachi 3:8, 10, Psalm 96:8 ________________________________________
-tenth belongs to God. It is his holy tithe. While the church there are not free to leave your support. Tithing test our honesty with God, the offerings prove our generosity.
man's heart, by nature is selfish, and God wants us in his likeness and generous. He could do the job without our help, but he does because he knows that giving our time, our money and our service, we help! Does not save us, only God's grace saves us. Yet every act of faithful stewardship of our hand made with love and desire, becomes a means by which God takes away little by little our selfishness, and through which fills us with more of his love and generosity until the image is completely restored in us.
5. "Blessing or Curse?
1. How does God call the person that does not give the tithe? Malachi 3:8, 9 ________________________________________________________
selfish man reaps what he sowed. The unprofitable servant only receives, but does not provide, he is cast (Matthew 25:30).
2. What does God promise to those who tithe faithfully? Malachi 10, 11, Proverbs 3:9, 10 ______________________________________________
Any order? Yes Robo if retained? Yes But have you ever read a promise like that? Do you see wrapped up the adventure? The windows of heaven open! A blessing too large to be received! The defeated enemy! Will not you experience this? As you can see God's math does not work like ours. In his arithmetic, nine-tenths of a profit with their blessing, it is much more than ten-tenths without his blessing. No man understands how it works, but every man who has proved it will be the case. So really does not cost anything at all. But while all cost, would it be too much for him who died for you?
3. How does God reward you give freely? Luke 6:38 __________________________________________________________________ ___________ Paul
said: "He who sows bountifully will reap, and he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. Each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver "(2 Corinthians 9:6, 7).
There are three kinds of givers: That is like stone, which is like a sponge, and that is like a honeycomb. To get something of a rock, you have to hit it with a hammer, and only get sparks and bits of stone. To get water from a sponge, you must squeeze, drain. The more you squirm, the more you get. The honeycomb, anyway overflows with sweetness. Those who delight in giving are the givers cheerful.
count could be thousands of stories of those who have tasted God's plan and have found it impossible to give over to God. One day a farmer who had always tithed faithfully to God, he saw a black cloud of locusts was approaching his farm. If locusts ate your crops, would face ruin. With his family gathered around him, he remembered God's promises in Malachi 3:10, 11. Then they retired to rest assured in the knowledge that their heavenly Father never sleeps, but watches over his people. The next morning, the farmer got up to see their fields. The locusts had arrived just up the fences that surround fields. There had been not a single green stalk on the other side of the fence, but God rewarded the loyalty of the farmer to protect his crop of locusts.
4. Where Jesus tells us to do our treasure? __________________ Matthew 6:20-21 Why? __________________________________
Mark 8:36 "For what shall it profit a man if ________________ around the world, and _________________________________________?"
The great loving heart of God wants everyone to be saved (1 Timothy 2:4). The value of an individual can not be estimated, except in the light of Calvary. And although we have no nothing to offer except a heart to be cleansed, and a commitment that we can not fulfill ourselves, Jesus thought of such inestimable value that wanted to go all the way to Calvary that we might be yours, and theirs for our own choice. He loved us so much that the cross was not too great a price to pay. And he had paid this price if only a man, woman or child could be rescued. He had done only by you. The Saviour's heart is lonely, like yours and mine. The heartache of separation from their prodigal sons can not be described. He just can not finish by ending the separation. Only you and I can stop this. Would you like that to happen? -------------
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