“True Greatness Through Service”
Mark 10:35-45
Recap:
• Ticker (Stewarding the Heart): Proverbs 4:23
• Treasures (True Riches: Trust, Generosity and Eternal Rewards):
1 Timothy 6:17-19
o Do not be Arrogant.
o Do not put your Hope in Wealth
o Put Your Hope in God
o Do Good, Be Rich in Good Deeds, Generous and Willing to Share
o Lay Up Treasures with the Firm Foundation
Intro:
• Mark 10:35-45
• Stewardship speaks of two critical realities.
o God is owner of everything.
o God entrusts us to oversee some of his most special gifts.
• Abraham Kuyper (Dutch Theologian) “In the total expanse of human life there is not a single inch of which the Christ who alone is sovereign, does not declare “That is mine.”
• Psalm 139:13-15: For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
• Talents are Special “Gifts.”
• Charisma: that which is freely and graciously given, favor bestowed gift.
• 1 Corinthians 12:4-7: Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all.