1. “God-Honoring Stewardship”
Investing Our God-Given Resources:
Time
Ephesians 5:15-17

2. Who, or what, dictates your schedule?
Who determines what your major goals are for each day?
Who is welcome to enter your world, at any time, free from resentment?
Whom do you love the most with your time?

3. 1. Believers in Christ are stewards of the Word of God. Luke 19:11-27

4. He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.
Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’
Luke 19:12-13

5. The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’
Luke 19:16

6. Typical Approaches to God’s Word: How do I live a Christian life?
What does a Christian believe?
What do I do after I have read the entire Bible?

7. “Mature believers discern that God’s Word is the means by which God makes Himself known so that we might live in union with Him. The ultimate aim of Scripture is making known to the heart the reality of God, who is Himself the ultimate desire, power, meaning, and hope of the children of light.”
- Bryan Chapell

8. I already know what the Bible says about marriage!
Marriage book study:
I already know what the Bible says about marriage!

9. 2.
Believers in Jesus Christ are stewards of all that has been entrusted to them.
Matthew 25:14-30

10. “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.

11. “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.

12. 3.
For the believer in Jesus Christ, life is not segregated between serving Him and serving self.
Vs. 16,17,19-23

13. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.
He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.
So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.

14. here I have made five talents more.’
Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents;
here I have made five talents more.’

15. His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much Enter into the joy of your master.’

16. 4. The ungodly only desire to serve themselves. Matthew 25:24-30

17. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money.

18. He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed,
so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground Here you have what is yours.’

19. But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant
But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.

20. Matthew 25:31-46

21. Ephesians 5:15-17

22. Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.