Today, on renewing your mind, he gives to us as stewards, always with the responsibility

of due diligence.

My money is his, my house is his, my life is his.

We are stewards of the very air that we breathe because it all belongs to him.

In the gospel of Luke, Jesus teaches that servants who are good stewards will be blessed,

but those servants who squander what's been given to them who aren't prepared at the

time of the Lord's return will be punished.

Today on renewing your mind, RC sprawl reminds us that the Christian life requires diligence.

Well this morning we're going to continue our study of the gospel according to St. Luke.

We're still in the 12th chapter and I will be reading verses 35 through 48.

Now would ask the congregation please to stand for the reading of the Word of God.

Your waste be girded and your lamps burning and you yourselves be like men who wait for

their master when he will return from the wedding that when he comes and knocks they

may open to him immediately.

Blessed are those servants whom the master when he comes will find watching.

Surely I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat and will come

and serve them.

And if he should come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so,

then blessed are those servants.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come,

he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

Therefore you also be ready for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

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