As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;
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… employed in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God, the many various ways in which God blesses us. Whoever speaks is to do so as one who is speaking the utterance of God. Whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies so that in all things God may be glorified. And he says, through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. Now, God has equipped you with a gift that suits and fits his purpose for your life. There's no such thing as a giftless child of God. And so as you listen to this, I want to encourage you to examine your own heart. Ask yourself the question, do these things sound like me, the way I feel in my relationships? because when you discover what your spiritual gift is or whether you do not discover it, the knowledge of it or absence of it affects all of your relationships, people you work with, your children, your husband, your wife, your friends, because we all have one of those gifts that, listen, that determine how we respond, react, relate, accomplish, achieve, or fail to do so in our life. …
… and so forth? But let me ask you this. In what way are you serving the Lord? Look at 1 Peter chapter 4, verse 10. As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. God has called us to serve Him. He hasn't called us just to be saved, just to be forgiven. He's called us to serve Him. Now think about this. Why didn't God save you one day and take you home to heaven right then? He could have. Why did He leave you here as a representative, as an ambassador? But not only that, God has chosen to carry out His work in the world through those of us who are saved and give our lives to Him. We're not talking about preachers and missionaries, musicians and educators. We're talking about every single one of us. Every single one of us who is saved has a responsibility to serve the living God. And somebody says, I'm just not gifted. …
I. Consider that what you have is not your own; i. e. you have only a subordinate right. Your goods are only lent to you of God, to be improved by you in such ways as he directs. You yourselves are not your own; 1 Cor. vi. 20. “Ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price; your body and your spirit are God’s.” And if you yourselves are not your own, so then neither are your possessions your own. Many of you have by covenant given up yourselves and all you have to God. You have disowned and renounced any right in yourselves or in any thing that you have, and have given to God all the absolute right; and if you be true Christians, you have done it from the heart. Your money and your goods are not your own; they are only committed to you as stewards, to be used for him who committed them to you; 1 Pet. iv. 9, 10. “Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” A steward has no business with his master’s goods, to use them any otherwise than for the benefit of his master and his family, or according to his master’s direction. He hath no business to use them, as if he were the proprietor of them; he hath nothing to do with them, only as he is to use them for his master. He is to give every one of his master’s family their portion of meat in due season. …