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GENEROUS 2018_pt1: Generous God
[STORY] – Saw friend at restaurant, connected, agreed to spend time in meeting, ended up doing father’s funeral
[STORY] – Parent’s gas card.
Tithe on it.
Business greater than ever imagined.
[STORY] – Now God has put something BIG on my heart – I cannot wait to see what it turns into now!
Not because of any return to myself, but because of what we will see next from God!
[UNDERLINE] - “able” and “so that”
“Able” – I want to focus on that word for the 1st part of the message today.
[ILLUST] - Jeff Bezos ($112B) - wealthiest man on earth.
You could spend $3M a day… for 100 years!
If there is something only 1 person in the world could afford, it would be him!
Our God is more than any man on this earth!
Generous God
[NOW] Let’s talk about our generous God.
He gave His Son.
How generous is our God?
So generous that He gave His son.
We believe this, but many of us are deceived when it comes to other needs in our lives…
If he gave His son, then we must believe…
He supplies all needs.
Believing for healing?
Family?
House?
Job?... HE SUPPLIES!
[SAY IT WITH ME] - HE SUPPLIES!
According to His riches??? Think about Mr. Bezos… He blows him out of the water!!!
[NOW] We are further deceived when believing God is able to do, while struggling to believe… (write it down…)
He can do it for me, too!
It’s more than believing He CAN do it, but He WILL do it for YOU!
Listen to these words from Jesus…
“He feeds them” - We can look at that and feel all warm inside about God taking care of the sweet little birds...
But do we see His care for us???
Live generously
“So that” – Remember we were coming back to this.
God has poured out His generosity on us, because He loves us.. because He is that kind of God…
But also, according to 2 Corinthians, we can live generously!
1. Give Him everything!
Hold on pastor… he must be talking about our bodies and how we live…
We’ll, I know there are times when I’d rather have just given some $$ instead of what it really cost…
[STORY] Planting the church (Misty)…
But if that isn’t enough, Paul clarifies in his letter to the Colossians…
2. Seek Him above all things!
There is a motivation to give it all… and it’s not to get more back…
The motivation comes from Christ’s words…
“Your Father knows that you need them.”
- He’s got you!
That’s His deal!
Seek Him above all things!
There will be some of us who are struggling, or will struggle with all of this…
My cry to you this morning is…
3. Believe Him, it’s available!
Paul had the same prayer for the church…
“inheritance” - so much more than “money stuff.”
Take Away
Can I be trusted with His generosity?
The take away is obvious: our God is a generous God!
But I want to challenge you even further… I want to leave you with a question to ponder all series long…
There are things that money cannot buy.
And this one, salvation, is at the top of that list.
Riches beyond what this world can offer or even knows.
Can I be trusted with His generosity?
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