Motivation for

Excellence

Stewardship90 days of…

John 14:15-2415 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—

Scripture Reading:John 14:15-24

John 14:15-2417 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

John 14:15-2418 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.19 “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.

John 14:15-2420 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

John 14:15-2421 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

John 14:15-2422 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”

John 14:15-2423 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

John 14:15-2424 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

Stewardship Tithing Challenge

• One week in March, give

10% or greater of your pay

• One week in March, give

16.8 hours or more to God

• During those 16.8 hours or

more, use your gift(s)

(talent)

Motivation for Excellence

• The reward of heaven

John 14:1-31 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

John 14:1-33 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”

Revelation 21:1-41 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.

Revelation 21:1-42 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 21:1-43 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.

Revelation 21:1-44 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”

2Peter 3:13Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

Motivation for Excellence

• The reward of heaven• The fear of punishment

Matthew 13:41,4241 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness,

Matthew 13:41,4242 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:41Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.’

Mark 9:43-4843 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched—

Mark 9:43-4844 where ‘Their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched—

Mark 9:43-4846 where ‘Their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’ 47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire—

Mark 9:43-4848 where ‘Their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’

Motivation for Excellence

• The reward of heaven• The fear of punishment• An overflow of love

2John 1:6This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.

John 14:15If you love Me, keep My commandments.

John 14:21He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

John 14:23,2423 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

John 14:23,2424 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

Motivation for Excellence

• The reward of heaven• The fear of punishment• An overflow of love