God’s Commands for Stewards
The Lord's Day Morning November 7, 2004 I Timothy 6:17-19 “God's Commands for Stewards” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Open your Bibles with me to First Timothy, chapter six, as we continue to work our way through this book. I was sorely tempted to preach on Psalm 24:1, the verse chosen by the Deacons’ Stewardship Committee, because it does so beautifully capture the emphasis of the theme of our Stewardship Season, which is “The Earth Belongs Unto the Lord.” Everything is God's, and that controls our approach to everything that we have; not just what we give to the church, but the way we view…our attitudes toward every use of everything that we have. But, in God's providence, as we have been working our way through First Timothy, we have come to the passage where…