Before we talk about the meaning of the term stewardship as related to a Christian it was explained that stewardship takes its definition from the first words used in the Bible.
At the very beginning of Genesis one, we read these words “In the beginning”.
In the beginning is the term used to describe the moment when God inaugurated the start of everything. It was the moment time began.
Ancient Hebrews used the word beginning to describe their term first fruits.
Creation is God’s gift to Himself.
Have you stopped to consider that when God created the earth that was the absolute beginning; if the term beginning is used in the Bible then isn’t it obviously that it could only mean there …show more content…
The concept of a God created world is not just an Old Testament standard.
When you read 1 John 1-3 the Disciples are explaining to us that the God of the Old Testament was present and visible to them as they describing Jesus Christ who had stood in their very midst.
1 John 1-3. 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to …show more content…
And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
The biblical people lived life with a better understanding of who actually owns everything.
Stewardship to modern people has a definition of someone who acts as a surrogate for another by managing property, financial affairs estates for others.
Stewardship means that we have responsibility to overseeing and protect something and preserving.
The lesson pointed out that in biblical times every seven years a field was taken out of production for one year.
Every fiftieth year in biblical Israel there was a year called “Jubilee”.
Imagine what would happen in this country if in this year the United States declared a year of “Jubilee”.
First for the Jubilee year the land would be taken out of production.
Obviously in the long run if the land was taken out of production for a year, this would give the soil an opportunity to rest and be more productive in the future.
Second for the former owners or heirs of the property that had been sold would have the property returned to them. “Jubilee” in biblical Israel was a system for the redistribution of