2. JESUS’
OWNERSHIP,
YOUR
stewardship

3. James 5: 1-6
1 Now listen, you rich people, weep and
wail because of the misery that is coming
on you.
2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have
eaten your clothes.
3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their
corrosion will testify against you and eat
your flesh like fire. You have hoarded
wealth in the last days.

4. James 5: 1-6
4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the
workers who mowed your fields are crying
out against you. The cries of the
harvesters have reached the ears of the
Lord Almighty.
5 You have lived on earth in luxury and
self-indulgence. You have fattened
yourselves in the day of slaughter.
6 You have condemned and murdered the
innocent one, who was not opposing you.

5. Perceptions

6. SinWe sin against God.

7. SufferingWhen we’re hurting, struggling,
weeping, and dying, we need comfort,
we need encouragement, we need
love, grace, and mercy, and assistance
from God and God’s people.

8. Stewardshipis really about all the things that God
entrusts to us. Our time, our talent, our
treasure, the totality of our life and how
we invest it to God’s glory and others’
good.

9. Four categories
of wealth
inthe bible

10. GODLYPOOR

11. GODLYRICH

12. UNGODLYPOOR

13. UNGODLYRICH

14. Wealth
today

15. Even globally, we live at a standard
and level of living that we just want
to be very careful that we think
biblically, we think historically, that
we don’t just think economically, or
socially, or selfishly.

16. THEGODLY
POOR&THE
UNGODLYRICH

17. Here’s the big idea: You can’t take it
with you, but you can send it on
ahead. That’s what Jesus says.
Store up your treasures in heaven.
You can send it on ahead.

18. Matthew 6:19-20
19 “Do not store up for yourselves
treasures on earth, where moths and
vermin destroy, and where thieves
break in and steal.
20 But store up for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where moths
and vermin do not destroy, and
where thieves do not break in and
steal.

19. By sharing, by being generous,
God, who in the end does all the
accounting, will reward you
eternally for your faithfulness
presently. That’s what he’s saying.

20. HOARDING&
DEFRAUDING

21. So, the first problem is HOARDING.
It’s not that you don’t have a right to
take your wealth and to purchase
something, but if you have things you
don’t even need, if you have things you
don’t even use, does not your heart
open to love, to help, and to serve, and
to bless others? If not, then you don’t
have the heart of God because that’s
God’s heart.

22. God’s heart
is a giving heart.
God’s heart
is a sharing heart.
God’s heart
is a glad heart.

23. So, he rebukes for hoarding and
also DEFRAUDING.

24. The labourers that he’s speaking of do
love the Lord, and they’re receiving
tremendous injustice and so they are
crying out to the Lord. These are
hardworking guys who are supposed to
get paid at the end of the day so they
can go home and provide dinner for
their family. And they worked hard all
day and they didn’t get paid.

25. So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING.
OUR CREATOR
ENDOWEDUS
WITH RIGHTS

26. PRINCIPLESOf
WORLDLY
OWNERSHIP

27. So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING.IDONOTBELONG
TOTHELORD

28. So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING.
NOTHINGIHAVE
BELONGS
TOTHELORD

29. So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING.
IDESERVE
ALLTHAT
IWORKFOR

30. So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING.IONLYANSWER
TOMYSELF

31. That’s the underlying ideology that
James is going after in the ungodly rich.
It’s this issue of ownership. What’s
mine is mine, what’s yours is mine.

32. So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING.IBELONGTOTHE
LORD

33. Romans 1:6
6 And you also are among those Gentiles
who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.

34. Don’t think it’s a bad thing. Jesus is
way better in control than you. He’s
way better in charge than you.
Jesus died for me. He paid a price
to purchase me. We’re his
possession. We belong to him.

35. So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING.EVERYTHINGIHAVE
BELONGSTOHIM

36. Everything we have belongs to him.
It’s his ownership, my stewardship.
Everything belongs to the Lord.

37. So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING.EVERYTHING
IHAVEISAGIFT

38. Everything we have is a gift. When
the sense of entitlement is gone,
the sense of presumption is gone,
and the sense of awe, wonder, and
gratitude has come. Christians
should always live, to some degree,
in that state—that it’s all a gift.

39. Jesus just gives. He gives his
righteousness, he gives his holiness, he
gives his love, his grace, his mercy, and
his forgiveness. He goes to the cross,
he gives his body, he gives his blood.
He gives it all. He gives. Everything you
have spiritually is a gift. Everything we
have physically is a gift. Everything we
have relationally—it’s a gift.

40. The people in your life are a gift.
The opportunities in your life are a
gift. The possessions in your life are
a gift. The resources in your life are
a gift. The days in your life—they’re
a gift. And the greatest gift of all is
salvation

41. So, he rebukes for hoarding and also DEFRAUDING.
IAMA
STEWARD
OFTHELORD

42. If we belong to the Lord, and
everything we have belongs to the
Lord, and everything we have is a
gift from the Lord, then we are a
steward of the Lord. And a steward
recognizes and realizes that if it’s
Jesus’ stuff, he ultimately gets to
decide what I do with it.

43. PRINCIPLES
OFGODLY
STEWARDSHIP

44. GENEROUS
PARENTS

45. This is why James is so angry, and he’s
so frustrated. Because what he has is,
he has godly, poor people who are
generous stewards, and they’re good
givers, and then he’s got ungodly, rich
people who are thinking like owners
and not stewards, and they’re takers,
and they’re not givers, and they’re
stealing and defrauding, and he sees
the injustice in it all.

46. The anecdote to hoarding and
defrauding is giving. It neutralizes
it. It disarms it. It defeats it.

47. Give to get a blessing. Here’s what
we’re saying: “Give to be a
blessing.” God gives, and God’s
blessed by his giving, and God is
joyful in his giving. That’s why the
Bible says that God loves a cheerful
giver. God is a cheerful giver. You
don’t give to get a blessing; you
give to be a blessing.

48. You know what he didn’t need to
hear? A prosperity sermon. “That
God will return it a hundredfold.
That’s going to be a lot more loot.
You’ll add your—” That’s wrong.

49. You don’t give to get a blessing;
you give to be a blessing. And the
blessing is seeing other people
blessed.

50. God gives generously, lavishly. God
enjoys giving. God loves giving and
his joy is in being a blessing. And
then when he saves us and he
entrusts to us as stewards, as we
get an opportunity to give
generously, it’s not giving to get, it’s
getting to give.

51. DON’TWASTE
ANOPPORTUNITY
FORJOY

52. Wouldn’t it be great if you could feed
your family? Wouldn’t it be great if we
could give to the Lord, give to the poor,
help others, and be generous? Wouldn’t
it be great if you could employ people?
And if you do, don’t do James 5. And if
God is generous with us, we want to be
generous with others. We don’t care
how much you make, but God cares
what you do with it faith

53. FAITHWORKS CHRISTIAN CHURCH GLOBAL
Presented By:
Vitaliano C. Gutierrez
FCC Main, San Mateo, Rizal, PH
10AM Morning Service
June 5, 2016
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