10/24/2021 – Midtown Church – Online
Series – Building Together: A Call to Kingdom Stewardship
Kingdom Stewardship
10/24/2021 – Pastor Bob Balian
Main Text-
Luke 16: 1-13 (NIV)
“Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. 15 To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. 16 The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more. 17 So also, the one with two bags of gold gained two more. 18 But the man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.
19 “After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. 20 The man who had received five bags of gold brought the other five. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five bags of gold. See, I have gained five more.’
21 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
22 “The man with two bags of gold also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with two bags of gold; see, I have gained two more.’
23 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
24 “Then the man who had received one bag of gold came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’
26 “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27 Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.
28 “‘So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags. 29 For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Keys to Kingdom Stewardship
- All of Life, is connected to your Spiritual Life
Luke 16:1:
“Jesus told his disciples: ‘There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.’”
Luke 16:2:
“So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.”
Luke 16:3-4:
“The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg—I know what I’ll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.’”
- Invest Your Assets to Fortify Your Future
Luke 16:5-6:
“So he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ‘Eight hundred gallons of olive oil,’ he replied. “The manager told him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred.’”
Luke 16:7:
“Then he asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied.’ He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it 800.’”
- God Owns It – You Borrow It
Luke 16:8a
“The master commended the dishonest money manager because he had acted so shrewdly.”
Luke 16:8b
“For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.”
- Be more Clever for Christ than the Secular is Shrewd
Luke 16:9
“I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.”
- Leveraging your Resources leads to Gratitude in Glory
Luke 16:10-11
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth who will trust you with true riches?”
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