THE INVENTORY OF OUR CHRISTIAN SERVICE

2 CORINTHIANS 13:5-7Bishop Genesis T. Udang

• 2Co 13:5 Keep examining yourselves to see whether you are continuing in the faith. Test yourselves! You know, don't you, that Jesus the Messiah lives in you? Could it be that you are failing the test?

• 2Co 13:6 I hope you will realize that we haven't failed our test.

• 2Co 13:7 We pray to God that you will not do anything wrong—not to show that we have not failed the test, but so that you may do what is right, even if we seem to have failed.

AREAS IN OUR LIVES THAT NEEDS TO BE EXAMINED;

• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE OUR TIME

WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE OUR TIME

• Eph 5:15 So, then, be careful how you live. Do not be unwise but wise,

• Eph 5:16 making the best use of your time because the times are evil.

• - How we spend it and to what

• - Priority

AREAS IN OUR LIVES THAT NEEDS TO BE EXAMINED;

• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE OUR TIME

• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE OUR TALENTS

WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE OUR TALENTS

• Mat 25:24 "Then the one who had received one talent came forward and said, 'Master, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you haven't planted and gathering where you haven't scattered any seed.

• Mat 25:25 Being afraid, I went off and hid your talent in the ground. Here, take what is yours!'

• Mat 25:26 "His master answered him, 'You evil and lazy servant! So you knew that I harvested where I haven't planted and gathered where I haven't scattered any seed?

• Mat 25:27 Then you should have invested my money with the bankers. When I returned, I would have received my money back with interest.'

•Mat 25:28 Then the master said, 'Take the talent from him and give it to the man who has the ten talents,

• Skills

• Potentials

• Position of Influence

AREAS IN OUR LIVES THAT NEEDS TO BE EXAMINED;

• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE OUR TIME

• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE OUR TALENTS

• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE OUR TREASURES

WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE OUR TREASURES

• Mat 6:19 "Stop storing up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

• Mat 6:20 But keep on storing up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where moths and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal,

• Mat 6:21 because where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

• Pro_3:9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

AREAS IN OUR LIVES THAT NEEDS TO BE EXAMINED;

• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE OUR TIME

• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE OUR TALENTS

• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE OUR TREASURES

• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE DO OUR TASK

WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE DO OUR TASK

• Rom 12:4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: • Rom 12:5 So we, being many, are

one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

• Rom 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

• Rom 12:7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

• Rom 12:8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

• 1Co_4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

• Well done thou good and faithful servant

AREAS IN OUR LIVES THAT NEEDS TO BE EXAMINED;• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE

OUR TIME• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE

OUR TALENTS• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE

OUR TREASURES• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE DO

OUR TASK• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE KEEP

OUR TESTIMONY

WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE KEEP OUR TESTIMONY

• Mat 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

• Mat 5:15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

• Mat 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

• 1Ti_4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

• Rev_12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

• Luk 13:6 Then Jesus told them this parable: "A man had a fig tree that had been planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but didn't find any.

• Luk 13:7 So he told the gardener, 'Look here! For three years I have been coming to look for fruit on this tree but haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it waste the soil?'

• Luk 13:8 But the gardener replied, 'Sir, leave it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

• Luk 13:9 Maybe next year it'll bear fruit. If not, then cut it down.'"