6. Numbers: Buildings: Money:
“These days we’re just all about numbers”
“We should be spending money on mission, not on buildings”
“We shouldn’t talk about giving, it’s a secret”

7. “A great multitude that no man can count”12 12 7
Numbers:
120
5000
3000 2
“A great multitude that no man can count”
4000
5000 10 7 72 5

8. The Temple in Jerusalem The rebuilt Temple The walls of Jerusalem
Buildings:
The Ark
The Tabernacle
The Temple in Jerusalem
The rebuilt Temple
The walls of Jerusalem

9. “Where your treasure is, your heart will be”
Money:
“Where your treasure is, your heart will be”

10. Investing Everything
Matthew 25 v

11. God gives us resources, and we must use them wisely on his behalf.
What does the parable mean?
God gives us resources, and we must use them wisely on his behalf.

12. What do you have that you did not receive?
“For who makes you different from anyone else?
What do you have that you did not receive?
And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?”
1 Corinthians 4 v 7

13. “What if I’ve only given you two talents?”

14. “What if I’ve only given you two talents?”
I understood my place
Everything I had was a gift of God
It didn't matter how much I had, it only mattered how I used it
Deep down I really wanted to serve Jesus with my life
Jesus knows my anxious thoughts and he cares

15. “What if I’ve only given you two talents?”
6. There would be a fourth site
7. Doubling is possible
8. We are only in competition with ourselves
9. God has the right to distribute his resources however he chooses
10. “Why do I bother?” is dangerously close to burying what we have in the sand

17. Philippians 2 v

18. “It doesn’t matter how much God has given you, but it matters eternally what you do with it.”

19. Investing Everything
Matthew 25 v