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What God Loans Us…
Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Feb 26, 2022 (message contributor)
Summary: Have you ever had someone come to you and they asked you for a favor.
Sometime it is a small favor like a screw driver or a pair of pliers and sometime it is a large favor, Such as:
• They might asked you if they could borrow your car!!! THAT IS A BIG FAVOR!
• They might asked you if they could borrow your riding camper!!! THAT IS A BIG FAVOR!
• They might asked you if they could borrow your boat!!! THAT IS A BIG FAVOR!
When people ask to borrow these things we are reluctant to loan them!!!
Illus: A young boy just got his driver’s licence and asked his dad if he could use the family car.
• His dad said: “I’ll make a deal with you. If you bring your grades up from a C to a B average, study your Bible and get your hair cut, we can talk about the car.”
• The boy gladly agreed. After about six weeks, the young boy approached his dad to ask for the car again.
• The dad replied: “Son, I’m proud. You’ve brought your grades up, you’ve been studying your Bible, and even participating a lot more in the Bible study groups. But, I’m really disappointed, that you haven’t had your hair cut.”
• The young man paused a moment, and then said: “You know Dad, I’ve been thinking about that, and I’ve noticed in my studies of the Bible that Samson had long hair, John the Baptist had long hair, Moses had long hair and there’s even a strong argument that Jesus had long hair also.”
• To this, his father replied: “Did you also notice they all walked everywhere they went?”
It is a big thing to loan something of great value to someone.
If we did loan them what they are asking for it would be someone we thought a lot of and that we knew they could be trusted.
But did you know God loans us some big things and He trust us to use them and not abuse them.
For example, God loans us…
(1)TIME
TIME BELONGS TO GOD!
That is, He created every second, every minute, every hour, belongs to Him.
Illus: Bill Gates with his billions if he was on his death bed he could not buy one second of time from God.
Time is so valuable no amount of money on the earth can buy one second.
God loans us TIME and He decides how much time He is going to loan us.
He loans us TIME and He expects us not to waste it or abuse it.
Illus: To waste time would be like taking an expensive fur coat and using it to shine your shoes.
People who are wasting time do not know what they are doing!!!
This is why the Word of God tells us in Romans 14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
That is, on the judgement day everyone of us are going to have to give account of EVERY SECOND, MINUTE AND EVERY HOURS how we have used the time He has intrusted to us.
But there is something else He has loaned, He has loaned us our…
(2) BODIES
Illus: When Rush Limbaugh was alive he would often say in a bragging way on his radio program that HIS BRAIN WAS ON LOAN FROM GOD!
He was absolutely correct!!!
In fact, these bodies that we live in or on loan to us by God our Creator.
Notice, I said OUR BODIES…but actually these bodies belong to God the Creator and He is just loaning them to us.
1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
These bodies that we live in belong to God. We have been intrusted with them and one day we shall have to give account to God how we have used them or abused them.
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
It is a big thing for God to intrust us with THESE BODIES!!!
It is a big thing for God to loan us these bodies and I am going to say something that can be very controversial.
What I am fixing to say can be taken wrong, but I hope you will listen to me carefully and if you believe in the Word of God and take it seriously I believe you will agree with me!
That is, since I am going to give account to God for how I use my body I do not believe at my death putting my body parts on the open market to donate my body parts to every Tom, Dick and Harry is the right thing to do!
