2 CORINTHIANS 13:5-7 Preacher:Bishop Genesis T. Udang

1. THE INVENTORY OF OUR
CHRISTIAN SERVICE
2 CORINTHIANS 13:5-7
Bishop Genesis T. Udang

2. • 2Co 13:5 Keep examining yourselves to see
whether you are continuing in the faith. Test
yourselves! You know, don't you, that Jesus
the Messiah lives in you? Could it be that you
are failing the test?
• 2Co 13:6 I hope you will realize that we
haven't failed our test.
• 2Co 13:7 We pray to God that you will not do
anything wrong—not to show that we have
not failed the test, but so that you may do
what is right, even if we seem to have failed.

3. AREAS IN OUR LIVES THAT NEEDS TO
BE EXAMINED;
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TIME

4. WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TIME
• Eph 5:15 So, then, be
careful how you live. Do not
be unwise but wise,
• Eph 5:16 making the best
use of your time because the
times are evil.

5. • - How we spend it and to
what
• - Priority

6. AREAS IN OUR LIVES THAT NEEDS TO
BE EXAMINED;
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TIME
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TALENTS

7. WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TALENTS
• Mat 25:24 "Then the one who had
received one talent came forward and
said, 'Master, I knew that you were a
hard man, harvesting where you
haven't planted and gathering where
you haven't scattered any seed.
• Mat 25:25 Being afraid, I went off and
hid your talent in the ground. Here, take
what is yours!'

8. • Mat 25:26 "His master answered him,
'You evil and lazy servant! So you knew
that I harvested where I haven't planted
and gathered where I haven't scattered
any seed?
• Mat 25:27 Then you should have
invested my money with the bankers.
When I returned, I would have received
my money back with interest.'

9. • Mat 25:28 Then the
master said, 'Take the
talent from him and give it
to the man who has the
ten talents,

10. • Skills
• Potentials
• Position of Influence

11. AREAS IN OUR LIVES THAT NEEDS TO
BE EXAMINED;
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TIME
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TALENTS
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TREASURES

12. WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TREASURES
• Mat 6:19 "Stop storing up treasures for
yourselves on earth, where moths and
rust destroy and where thieves break in
and steal.
• Mat 6:20 But keep on storing up
treasures for yourselves in heaven,
where moths and rust do not destroy
and where thieves do not break in and
steal,
• Mat 6:21 because where your treasure
is, there your heart will be also."

13. • Pro_3:9 Honour the
LORD with thy substance,
and with the firstfruits of
all thine increase:

14. AREAS IN OUR LIVES THAT NEEDS TO
BE EXAMINED;
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TIME
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TALENTS
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TREASURES
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE DO
OUR TASK

15. WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE DO
OUR TASK
• Rom 12:4 For as we have many
members in one body, and all
members have not the same office:
• Rom 12:5 So we, being many, are
one body in Christ, and every one
members one of another.

16. • Rom 12:6 Having then gifts differing
according to the grace that is given to us,
whether prophecy, let us prophesy according
to the proportion of faith;
• Rom 12:7 Or ministry, let us wait on our
ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
• Rom 12:8 Or he that exhorteth, on
exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with
simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he
that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

17. • 1Co_4:2 Moreover it is
required in stewards, that a
man be found faithful.
• Well done thou good and
faithful servant

18. AREAS IN OUR LIVES THAT NEEDS TO
BE EXAMINED;
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TIME
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TALENTS
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE USE
OUR TREASURES
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE DO
OUR TASK
• WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE KEEP
OUR TESTIMONY

19. WE SHOULD EXAMINE HOW WE KEEP
OUR TESTIMONY
• Mat 5:14 Ye are the light of the world.
A city that is set on an hill cannot be
hid.
• Mat 5:15 Neither do men light a candle,
and put it under a bushel, but on a
candlestick; and it giveth light unto all
that are in the house.
• Mat 5:16 Let your light so shine before
men, that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father which is
in heaven.

20. • 1Ti_4:12 Let no man despise thy
youth; but be thou an example of the
believers, in word, in conversation, in
charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
• Rev_12:11 And they overcame him by
the blood of the Lamb, and by the word
of their testimony; and they loved not
their lives unto the death.

21. • Luk 13:6 Then Jesus told them this parable: "A
man had a fig tree that had been planted in his
vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but didn't
find any.
• Luk 13:7 So he told the gardener, 'Look here! For
three years I have been coming to look for fruit on
this tree but haven't found any. Cut it down! Why
should it waste the soil?'
• Luk 13:8 But the gardener replied, 'Sir, leave it
alone for one more year, until I dig around it and
fertilize it.
• Luk 13:9 Maybe next year it'll bear fruit. If not,
then cut it down.'"