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Can’t Talk about Giving without Talking of God
God the Creator
Psalm 24:
God the Redeemer - John 3:16
God the Emancipator
Context
Paul is in Macedonia collection for the believers in Jerusalem.
Titus and 3 other brothers are sent to Corinth to collect he gift promised a year ago.
Only Titus is named — sometimes we serve in obscurity.
2 cor 9
Inspect what you expect!
Grudgingly given: Extracted:Extorted
Cheerful Givers
A mother wanted to teach her daughter a moral lesson.
She gave the little girl a quarter and a dollar for church.
“Put whichever one you want in the collection plate and keep the other for yourself,” she told the girl.
When they were coming out of church, the mother asked her daughter which amount she had given.
“Well,” said the little girl, “I was going to give the dollar, but just before the collection the man in the pulpit said that we should all be cheerful givers.
I knew I’d be a lot more cheerful if I gave the quarter, so I did.”
Bits & Pieces, February 4, 1993, p. 23
4. The Miser
A notorious miser was called on by the chairman of the community charity.
“Sir,” said the fund-raiser, “our records show that despite your wealth, you’ve never once given to our drive.”
“Do your records show that I have an elderly mother who was left penniless when my father died?
fumed the tightwad.
“Do your records show that I have a disabled brother who is unable to work?
Do your records show I have a widowed sister with small children who can barely make ends meet?”
“No, sir,” replied the embarrassed volunteer.
“Our records don’t show those things.”
“Well, I don’t give to any of them, so why should I give anything to you?”
5. Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon and his wife, according to a story in the Chaplain magazine, would sell, but refused to give away, the eggs their chickens laid.
Even close relatives were told, “You may have them if you pay for them.”
As a result some people labeled the Spurgeons greedy and grasping.
They accepted the criticisms without defending themselves, and only after Mrs. Spurgeon died was the full story revealed.
All the profits from the sale of eggs went to support two elderly widows.
Because the Spurgeons where unwilling to let their left hand know what the right hand was doing (Matt.
6:3), they endured the attacks in silence.
We’d all like a reputation for generosity, and we’d all like to buy it cheap.
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Principles
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You cannot out-give God.
God will not be a debtor to anyone!
There must be a reason why God wants us to give.
Spiritual Maturity - Love, Humility, Thankfulness
You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving......
Humility
Giving—manner of.
There is a way of turning a penny into stone or into gold, according to the way in which you give it to a poor man.
You can fling it at him as if he were a dog, and he will be about as grateful to you as a dog, or not so much.
But there is a way in which you can say, "I am sorry for your needs; this is all I can afford you now.
Take it and do what you can with it."
Given with a brotherly look, it will be gratefully received, and made the most of.
There is much in the manner, as well as in the matter of the gift.
You Cannot Out-give God!
Don’t give to Get!
God is a debtor to no one!
God is a debtor to noone!
Attitude of the Heart matters most!
The source of genuine Heart-Service.
David and Goliath
David and a House for God
2 Samuel
But God had a much bigger gift in mind for David.
He said, “the LORD tells you that He will make you a house .…
And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever” (, ).
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