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Nov 26, 2023

God Owns It All

Click Here to View the Sermon Watch & listen to every sermon on your favorite podcast software: Information about this sermon: Preacher: Pastor Jim McCaslin Scripture: Matthew 25:31-46 Just as Jesus gave His all, the basic principle for our Christian giving of tithes and offerings and indeed for all our financial decisions is that God owns it all. The principle that God owns it all underlies all of Scripture. Once we come to terms with the basic principle that God owns it all, we’ll be open to handling our finances God's way. Transcript Well good morning morning I pray you're having a blessed uh Thanksgiving weekend praising God for being with you for providing for you even if you're dealing with some tribulations in your life right now as many of us are Jesus said remember that we would have tribulations in this world but be of good cheer since he has overcome those tribulations already well speaking of tribulations I know that some of you have heard the story about the old country preacher who was preaching about the last judgment from today's Gospel in Matthew 25 Heaven or Hell Eternal punishment and fire or eternal life sheep to the right goats to the left with his emotions and his voice Rising he spoke about the goats languishing in Eternal Hellfire and Damnation while the good Shepherd's sheep enjoyed the Eternal Bliss and the joys awaiting each one of his rights to his children on the other side and the preacher was on a roll he paused for effect and he said now how many of you here want to go to heaven and everybody raised their hand except for one young boy in the front row and the preacher said what's a matter son don't you want to go to heaven he said well yes yes I do but I was afraid you were making up a load to go right now we're all a bit uneasy about the last judgment and yet this morning we're GA gathered to celebrate the second coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and one unique aspect of our Christian faith is that we believe that life on this Earth had a beginning and it will have an end and that it all has a purpose history is going somewhere because God is acting in our daily lives to accomplish his divine plan today is the last Sunday of the church year and we call it Christ the King Sunday and next Sunday that church year will will'll begin again with the season of Advent teaching us about the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ his life and his ministry today we celebrate the climax of The church here by looking at the climax of history when Christ will come again we say it together with enthusiasm in our celebration of the Lord's Supper every Sunday Christ will come again this is a treasured and a trusted promise we have from God today's lesson from First Corinthians 15 a glorious chapter in the Bible by the way teaches us in verse 22 that we are all dead in sin like Adam but that we can all be made alive in Jesus Christ and when he comes again he'll restore all things with a new Heaven A New Earth and we'll receive our resurrected bodies now we're also told in today's Gospel Matthew 25: 31 and 32 that he will judge the earth and the gospel describes the last judgment this way when the son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him he will sit on his glorious throne before him will be gathered all the nations and he will separate people one from another as a Shepherd separates the sheep from the goats and don't we all want to be counted as his righteous sheep the ones who will be called to his right hand one day we will see Jesus face to face and we rejoice in thinking of him as our saor but the sad fact is that many who call themse...

28 min