1. Jesus and Our Stuff

2. Our Soul Owner

3. God wants us to recognize others’ rights to our stuff

4. Mark 12:13-17a (NET Bible) 13 Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to trap him with his own words. 14 When they came they said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and do not court anyone’s favor, because you show no partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn’t we?” 15 But he saw through their hypocrisy and said to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” 16 So they brought one, and he said to them, “Whose image is this, and whose inscription?” They replied, “Caesar’s.” 17 Then Jesus said to them, “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s…”

5. Our Soul Owner

6. God wants us to recognize others’ rights to our stuff

7. Our Soul Owner God wants us to recognize others’ rights to our stuff God wants us to recognize His rights to our lives God wants us to recognize others’ rights to our stuff God wants us to recognize His rights to our lives

8. Mark 12:15b-17 (NET Bible) 15 “….Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” 16 So they brought one, and he said to them, “Whose image is this, and whose inscription?” They replied, “Caesar’s.” 17 Then Jesus said to them, “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were utterly amazed at him.

9. Since we bear God’s image, we belong to Him. Our Soul Owner

10. Genesis 1:27 (NET Bible) 27 God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

11. Don’t just give God your stuff, Give Him your self. Our Soul Owner

12. Mark 8:34-35 (NET Bible) 34 Then Jesus called the crowd, along with his disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.”

13. Romans 12:1 (NET Bible) 1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God – which is your reasonable service.

14. Romans 14:7-8 (NET Bible) 7 For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

15. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NET Bible) 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

16. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 (NET Bible) 14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died. 15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

17. Our Soul Owner God wants us to recognize others’ rights to our stuff God wants us to recognize His rights to our lives God wants us to recognize others’ rights to our stuff God wants us to recognize His rights to our lives