{"id":1918,"date":"2013-12-29T12:40:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T18:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:20:44","slug":"man-is-a-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1918","title":{"rendered":"Man Is A Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Corinthians 1 6:15-20, Ephesians 4:1-7, &amp; Psalms 24:1-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Man may strut across the pages of history like a peacock, &amp; die like a buzzard.<br \/>\nMan may put up his posted &#8216;keep out&#8217; signs, but cold and lifeless hands hold nothing.<br \/>\nNo man can say his life is his own and he can do as he pleases with it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: No Man Is Self-Made.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. God made man.<br \/>\n2. Every breath belongs to God.<br \/>\n3. Every drop of blood is His.<br \/>\n4. When man thinks of himself as owner of time and things, he loses the touch of eternity on his mind and soul.<br \/>\n5. Man is a steward and that cannot be changed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: God Has Attached Responsibility to Man&#8217;s Stewardship.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. &#8220;The Earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof,&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Psalms 24:1.<br \/>\n<\/strong>2. &#8220;The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Job.<br \/>\n<\/b>3. We are renters in God&#8217;s house.<br \/>\n<\/span>4. The man that said, &#8220;I will build bigger barns&#8221; met God empty-handed that night.<br \/>\n5. The Universe does not cater to the will of man.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: What Do We Belong To?<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. The things that makes great men and women on the worthy desires that possesses them.<br \/>\n2. Not what we possess, but what possesses us makes us strong Christian stewards.<br \/>\n3. Sad and sorry is the man that feels he does God little favors along the road of life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. England, Havana\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;I thought I would honor you with my presence this morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: Actions Speak Louder than Words.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. Where your treasure is, there will be your heat also, (heart-felt stewardship).<br \/>\n2. Daily walk tells people what possesses us.<br \/>\nBusiness, social, job, and pleasures.<br \/>\n3. We belong to what we value most.<br \/>\n&#8220;Seek ye First&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Walk worthy&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>V: Total Stewardship:<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. &#8220;How deep can I go?&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Milk.<br \/>\n<\/strong>2.\u00a0<strong>Romans 14:12\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;Every one of us shall guide an account of himself to God.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. Well done my Good and Faithful Servant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11\/29\/1972, 3 PM: Perris Valley Stewardship &amp; fifth Sunday with Valley Vista.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corinthians 1 6:15-20, Ephesians 4:1-7, &amp; Psalms 24:1-2 Man may strut across the pages of history like a peacock, &amp; die like a buzzard. Man may put up his posted &#8216;keep out&#8217; signs, but cold and lifeless hands hold nothing. No man can say his life is his own and he can do as he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}