God Owns It All | Margin KC | Randy Frazee

The Big Idea: “Everything we are, and everything we own, belongs to God.” 

Moses - 

To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.

Deuteronomy 10:14

David - 

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.

Psalm 24:1

Job - 

Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.

Job 41:11

Haggai - 

‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty.

Haggai 2:8

Asaph - 

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine. If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

Psalm 50:10-12

Solomon–  

Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb,  and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. You might say to yourself, ‘My power and strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.’ But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 8:10-18

The Big Question: “How does God want me to manage what he has entrusted to me? 

‘Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this, says the Lord Almighty, ‘and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.’

Malachi 3:10

But God is not just interested in the 10%. He is interested in how you manage the other 90%. 

The Big Application 

The Trust Project 

Learn from this what it means for someone who loves you to take a risk, because they trust you so much, because God’s love for you and trust in you is a million times stronger. 

Discussion Questions: 

 1. How does the idea of God as the owner of all we have and all we are and we are managers, sit with you? What do you like about the idea? Where do you struggle with it? 

2. Moses invites us to “not forget” where he came from and how God has provided for us along the way. What is your story of where you used to be and how God provided for you? 

3. Moses invites us to “remember” that it is God who gives us “ability to produce wealth.” What does this mean in your story?