Loving God With My All

Loving God With My All Genesis 1:26-31; 2:15 February 10, 2019 § You can give without loving but you can’t love without giving. And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Matthew 22:37 (ESV) stew·ard·ship (stü-ərd–ship) def: Carefully and responsibly managing something owned by another but entrusted to one’s care. Genesis 1:26-31; 2:15 THE BIG IDEA: The greatest single act of obedience is to love God with my all – heart, soul, mind. Heart, soul, and mind loving encompasses all we are and all we have. Jesus teaches us that loving God in this way is the fulfillment of our reason for existence. 1. God is the Creator and Source of Everything Romans 11:36 – “For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. 2. God is the Owner of Everything Psalm 50:10 (ESV) For every beast of the forest is mine, The cattle on a thousand hills. The Stewardship Confession: “You are God and I am not. God, you own everything, including me.” 3. God Made You in His Image & Gave You an Awesome Job Genesis 1:26-31 Genesis 2:15 Matthew 15:14-30 4. One Day, God Will Call Me to Account for What I Did With All He Entrusted to Me 1 Corinthians 3:13–14 (ESV). 13 each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights…” Psalm 24:1 “The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, The world and those who dwell therein. Implications: • Since God is creator, then everything owes its existence to God and is owned by God. • Nothing exists apart from His decree or His sustaining power; everything is dependent upon God. [Colossians 1:16-17] • As creator, God has the right to establish the boundaries, limitations, and morality of life. • God has embedded creation – even after the presence of sin – with a goodness that says something about Him. 5. In the Meantime, I Choose to Treasure Christ Above All His Creation "And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19). STEWARDSHIP is maximizing God’s blessings for His glory!