Most people think they own what they don't own, just because they have it.

Dr. Tony Evans says that's where the concept of stewardship comes in.

God created mankind to manage what he owns, because he owns it all.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

We tell our children again and again to take care of the things we give them.

Today, Dr. Evans explains why God expects the same of us and why we often don't do much better than our kids. Dr. Evans will be teaching

out of the first chapter of Genesis. Let's join him as he opens today's message with this personal

story. During seminary days, money was very difficult to come by. It was a time of almost financial destitution, but it was part of the sacrifice you made

to do those years of seminary, intense seminary training. But with a family, we still had to survive

as best we could. And so there were miscellaneous things that we would

seek to do to make ends meet as best we could. One of those things was house sitting, was house

sitting. People in well-established and well-to-do neighborhoods would call Dallas Seminary and say we want some house sitters.

They trusted the students at Dallas Seminary. They were preparing for ministry, so they expected that nobody would steal from them.

So they would have students come to spend the weekend or even up to a week at their home while they went on vacation or on a business trip.

So these students would come to the home and we put our name on the list of persons to be invited to live large for a weekend.

You can imagine the treat it was to go to some of these palatial palaces, to house it for people who couldn't be there.

This would include not only watching the premises,

but watching the dogs or the pets,

and sometimes if the adults were leaving to watch the kids.

And so we were given pay to house sit.

It was a different feeling being in that house than being in our little old apartment.

There was foods that I'd never heard of before in the refrigerator of that house and those houses.

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