你怎样管理和使用神赐给你的生命和财富?
一. 什么是神赐给你的?
1. 神赐给所有人生命和气息与所有的东西.(徒17:25)
2. 神的大能赐给我们所有生命和敬虔所需的.(彼后1:3)
3. 谁使你与别人不同?你所拥有的,有什么不是接受的?...(林前4:7)
二. 你是向自己富有或是向神富有?(路12:16-21)
耶稣用比喻说:有一个财主的地出产甚丰富.他自己这样想,我要拆旧的仓库,建更大的来储藏我的产物.
我要对自己的魂说,魂阿,你有许多财物储藏,足够许多年享受,你可以轻忪,吃,喝,玩乐.
但是神要对他说,蠢人阿,今天晚上,你的魂要离开你了.你所储存的财物要归谁?
凡是向人自己富足,向神不富足的人,他的命运都是这样!
三. 你一生不可存心爱钱财! (来13:5)
你一生不可存心爱钱财,要以自己所有的为足.因为主说,我不会撇下你,也不会丢弃你.
1. 人怎能一生不爱钱财?怎能以自己所有的为足?
2. 经文给我们的理由是-->神不会撇下你,也不会丢弃你.
这就是,人将信心放在神那里,对神有信心.
我认为,这就是为什么美钞都印着"我们信靠神"的字样的意思!
就算手中有美钞,也要信靠神.不要信靠金钱!
3. 为什么人不可爱钱财?(提前6:10)
因为爱钱财是万恶之根.有人因为爱钱财,离开了真道,被许多苦难刺透了.
许多年来,我都知道,钱财与许多苦难同时来! (中文翻译有"贪"字,原文没有!)
四. 有钱的人怎样掌握永生的生命?(提前6:17-19)
吩咐在世上有钱的人,不要有高傲的眼睛,不要将盼望放在不定的钱财上.要将盼望放在神那里.
神赐给我们丰富财物享受,叫他们要在善事上富足.要乐意捐献,乐意分给人.为来生立好根基,持定永生.
1. 我们也有在世上富足的人在教会里!
2. 要叫他们不可有高傲的眼睛.
3. 要叫他们不可将盼望放在不定的钱财上.
4. 要叫他们将盼望放在神那里.
5. 他们必须知道,所有的东西都是神赐给他们享用的.
但是要将享用寄存在分给人的事工上,为来生建立根基,持定永生的生命.
人必须常常记得,有钱的人进神的国是很艰难的!比骆驼穿针眼更难!(可10:23-25)
愿神赐福保守你从今直到永远! 零七年十二月十三日.
How do you manage what was given you?
A. What was given you?
1. Acts 17:25à God gives to all men life and breath and all things.
2. 2 Peter 1:3à His divine power has given us all things we need for life and godliness….
3. 1 Cor.4:7à For who makes you different from anyone else?
What do you have that you did not receive? …
B. Be rich toward yourself or toward God? (Lk.12:16-21)
Jesus told this parableà The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
and he reasoned within himself, saying, what shall I do because I have not where to bestow my fruits?
He said, this will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my grain and my goods.
And I will say to my soul, soul, you have much goods laid up for many years; take ease, eat, drink be merry.
But God said to him, you foolish one, this night is your soul required of you; and the things which you had prepared,
whose shall they be?
This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God.
C. Be free from the love of money! (Heb.13:5)
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave
you; never will I forsake you.”
1. How can one be free from the love of money?
How can you be content with what you have?
2. This is the reason givenà because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
It is when you put your trust in God!
This is what I understand why U.S. currency has in God we trust printed on it!
With currency in hand you still want to put your trust in God. Don’t put your trust in money.
3. Why must one be free from the love of money? (1 Tim.6:10)
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
Some people eager for money, have wandered from faith and pierced themselves with many grief.
As I said all these years, money come with much trouble!
D. How may the rich lay hold on eternal life? (1 Tim.6:17-19)
Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not high minded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty
of riches, but on God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that
they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate; laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time
to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
1. We do have rich people in the church!
2. Charge them not to be high minded.
3. Charge them not to have their hope set on their riches.
4. Charge them to have their hope set on God.
5. They must understand all things are given by God for them to enjoy.
Enjoy by being rich in good works using it to lay hold on eternal life!
Beware: It is hard for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! Mk.10:23-25
May the Lord bless you and keep you! Dec., 13, 2007.