To what should stewards-servants-slaves be alert?
Listen up! Watch out! Be warned! Be careful! Be alert! Be aware! May I have your attention please!
By now you know how important your/our job is. You know what’s expected of us. You know we will be held accountable. Are you scared? Are you nervous? Are you challenged? Are you convicted? Are you confident?
Not to worry. “God’s work, done God’s way will not lack God’s supply”. Remember who said that? It was Hudson Taylor. Do you believe that? I hope so because we are now living in a different realm and our job may/will involve supernatural intervention on the part of the Master. And yet He wants us to know that stewards must be alert and on guard.
Rom 6:16 _____________________________________________
Job 42:7 ______________________________________________
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Math 25:15 ____________________________________________
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Ps 123:2 ______________________________________________
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Rom 6:16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? NASB
Job 42:7 And it came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has. NASB
Rev 2:20 ‘But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray, so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. NASB
Luke 16:1-13 Now He was also saying to the disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and this steward was reported to him as squandering his possessions. 2 “And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’ 3 “And the steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg. 4 ‘I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from the stewardship, they will receive me into their homes.’ 5 “And he summoned each one of his master’s debtors, and he began saying to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6 “And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ 7 “Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ 8 “And his master praised the unrighteous steward because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light. 9 “And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that when it fails, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings. 10 “He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much. 11 “If therefore you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous mammon, who will entrust the true riches to you? 12 “And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? 13 “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” NASB
Matt 25:15 “And to one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey. NASB
Gal 1:9-10 As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed. 10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ. NASB
Ps 123:2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; So our eyes look to the Lord our God, Until He shall be gracious to us. NASB
Matt 20:26-28 “It is not so among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, 27 and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave; 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many. ” NASB
Prov 14:35 The king’s favor is toward a servant who acts wisely, But his anger is toward him who acts shamefully.
Prov 17:2 A servant who acts wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully, And will share in the inheritance