Christian stewardship begins with the correct understanding that everything we have belongs to the Lord.

Stewardship, then, is not just a focus on money or material things, but also encompasses every spiritual blessing. In this study, making the most of all God

has given, Scott Pauley teaches biblical principles for Christian stewardship. One day, we will meet God

and give an account of how we have handled all of the resources he has put in our hands. Let's listen intently to learn how God expects us to steward his resources.

It was James who wrote that every good and every perfect gift

cometh down from above from the Father of Lights in whom is no

variableness, neither shadow of turning. We're discussing the matter of Christian stewardship,

and I must tell you that this subject is so good because it doesn't make you look at your

bank account first. It doesn't make you look at your schedule first. It makes you look at God first. It makes you look at your bank account first. It doesn't make you look at your schedule first.

It makes you look at God first. True stewardship from scripture makes you get your eyes back on the

Lord and your attention on eternity. We return today to 1st Corinthians chapter 4, where we began our

study, where the Bible says let a man

so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is

required in stewards that a man be found faithful. Now, we've discussed already that the greatest

stewardship is not the stewardship of things.

It is not the stewardship of material resources. It is rather the stewardship of the gospel,

the stewardship of truth. In the words of the text, we are stewards of the mysteries, but here's

the operative word of God.

Remember, it's all of God.

In fact, you might want to mark in 1st Corinthians 4 verse number one, this phrase,

and it goes in this order.

I think each one taking us a little deeper of Christ and of God.

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