Time’s Up, Part 2

Jeannie, what legacy are you leaving for others that are in your life. What kingdom are you leveraging your resources for do you live as if eternity is real and it is eminent. If you did an honest assessment about what you are using your resources for what kingdom is it pointing toward what kingdom are you pointing in teaching your kids live for also.

The Bible and Molly is going to be first in our lives in the Bible makes it very clear that it should be God today.

Pastor Jenny continues the message that we begin yesterday titled times to show is that while both God and money can be important to us. We simply cannot serve them both. One has to step to the friends and I'm sure you can guess which one as we better understand our role simply as stewards of all of God's gifts we can better devote our short time on earth to serving our master and preparing for eternity.

Let's jump back in where we left off in Luke chapter 1660 verse what Jesus told his disciples those rich man. His manager was accused of wasting his possession; man asked him what is this that I hear about you, your management because you cannot be manager any longer because you're such a bad manager/and you don't get up to 11 o'clock in your thoughts everyday except for the manager said no. So we just got fired. What I do this two week notice my master taken away my job. I'm not strong of the day will know what I'll do, so that when I lose my job here people welcome in the analysis we call in each of his master's debtors. And yes, the first one people to notice you master money how much you are my master 900 gallons of olive oil. He bought what the manager told you what you're not hundred takedown right now, sit down, take out your checkbook make a 450 million outside one how much you owe thousand bushels of wheat, he replied.

I told him that your bill and make it 800 what is unlimited what is a modern terms. In case you like the hundred gallons oil you dislike internal accounts manager for really rich guy is given us two week notice. Basically he's fire but is yet to be suffering the job goes home and in despair. He says his wife.

Wife one of my many as a brilliant idea because both bosses, clients, he still owes boss money is SAIC here you all my boss hundred thousand dollars to you what, sit down right here right now. Write out a check for $25,000 and I will give you an official debt settled certificate.

I will just call it even does that with every single person who owes his boss money right so after he's fired.

Now he's got a huge bunch of people feel like they own the big huge favor. Then Jesus in a really surprising twist in the story.

Verse eight the master who just gotten hosed by the way. Okay, the master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. I mean, seriously, you never read the Bible before, did you see that coming here is the son of God like and that is a really really smart manager right Jesus is such a great storyteller. Then Jesus explains the surprising lesson. You see, the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than all the people of a like. In other words, Jesus the same.

If you know if you know that your current reality is coming to an end wouldn't be wise to use whatever moment you have left to prepare for the next reality if you got your two week notice in that wise to use whatever remaining time you have in that window to get ready for that. The reality that you're about to go into. Should you be making friends for the next reality to what is that mean Jesus asked for money and the resources that God has made you manager over I tell you. Verse nine. Use worldly wealth again friends for yourselves and eternity so that when it is gone you will be welcome into internal dwellings. Jesus continues. Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with very much reverence, dishonest, very little will also be dishonest with much so if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth trust you with real riches and if you've not been trustworthy in somebody else's property. Who in the world to give you property of your own.

Jesus explains here that in some mysterious way that I'm not sure I totally understand but some mysterious way our faithfulness with our resources here is going to determine both our responsibility level and our enjoyment level and the life to come. The point is that God gave us what he gave us down here to steward steward is a word that just mean somebody you manager something to blame somebody else when you're steward you're not the owner near the manager, you will realize write that as God sees it every single resource that you have all of your money doesn't really belong to you write me understand that right was what's in a Will Smith interviewed the Fresh Prince of Bel Air got the interviewer asked to visit when is your kids learn that they were rich Will Smith and Roger said, let me just stop your either I'm rich.

My kids or not. I let them use some of my money, but it is not there as it is mine every parent said they man right.

Same thing with us and God. God gave us what he gave us and has a purpose for them. My question for you is be honest.

Is that how you see your resources. Do you see your resources as fundamentally yours or fundamentally God who really owns them, because if you see your resources as yours. You will ask how much of this.

Do I have to give the God so that he will curse me and I will feel guilty, but if you see your resources as fundamentally his. You ask not.

About 10% of it but about 100% of its what does he want me to do with this and what are the internal purposes that he gave me these things for time on earth. 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