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“*EACH ONE GIVING*”
(A Series in I Corinthians)
 
Westgate Chapel 4~/11~/99 a.m.
I Corinthians 16:1-4
 
PROPOSITION:  That God’s plan is for every believer to be a giving believer, providing personally, systematically, and joyfully for the work of the Lord out of God’s provision in his~/her life.
! I. introduction
!! -     THERE has been a consistent attempt among well-meaning Christians down through the years to disconnect  finances from spiritual things.
!! -     SOME of the reason has been a misunderstanding of verses like I Timothy 6:10,
!!!       “*For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs*.”
!! -     SOME of the reason that the subject of finances has been disconnected from spiritual things has been the way the church and Christian organizations have abused finances for the last 2,000 years.
!! -     SOME of the reason has been the fear of man on the part of spiritual leadership.
Finances are one of the most sensitive of subjects because it is one of the closest subjects to the heart.
!! -     I BELIEVE that in all of the above cases the enemy has succeeded in keeping God’s people from dealing with true heart issues and obedience....that have ultimately hindered God’s people and God’s church.
!! -     SO, I am going to be true to God’s Word this morning....
!!! ~*     Not because we need to increase the budget of the church.
!!! ~*     Not because we are in the middle of a stewardship campaign for our Community Ministry Center.
!!! ~*     But because we are wrapping up our study of I Corinthians and the first four verses of chapter 16 are on the subject of finances.
!! -     PLEASE turn with me in your Bibles to I Corinthians 16 (page 1140).
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god’s purposes for your giving
!! -     AFTER dealing with great theological issues such as the resurrection of Christ, seemingly without a breath in between (there were no chapter divisions in Paul’s original letters), Paul goes into the subject of finances.
!! -     NO transitional phrases.
!! -     NO apologies.
!! -     NO lengthy explanations or disclaimers.
!! -     NO pleading or coercion either.
!! -     JUST plain and simple.....
!!!       “*Now about the collection for God's people*...” (I Corinthians 16:1a)
!! -     WE have a giving God.
!! -     EVERYTHING good gift we have is from Him.
!! -     SO giving is as natural as breathing for the follower of Jesus Christ.
!! -     THE church in Corinth is riddled with all kinds of problems that Paul has addressed at length in this letter.
But giving is not one of their problems.
!! -     GIVING is what transformed believers do.
It is part of the Christian life.
!! -     I HAVE got to stop being afraid of offending and start dealing with the subject if I am a true shepherd and genuinely concerned with your spiritual welfare.
!! -     GOD has all kinds of reasons for you to be a giver.
!! -     IN this case in I Corinthians, it was missions giving that was on Paul’s heart.
!! -     THE believers in Jerusalem had gone through a famine and were under great persecution and needed help.
!! -     SO, Paul writes,
!!!       “*Now about the collection for God's people*...” (I Corinthians 16:1a)
!! -     BUT there are many reasons that God has given in His Word for you and me being givers.
!! -     LET me go over some of them with you.
!!!  
!! 1.   GIVING is for the ministries of God’s church in each of its local expressions.
!!! ~*     This is your storehouse.
!!! ~*     It is where you are taught, instructed, nurtured in the things of God.
!!! ~*     This is where your children are dedicated and taught the precepts of God.
!!! ~*     This is where your young people are discipled.
!!! ~*     This is where your young families are instructed in raising kids God’s way.
!!! ~*     This is where your sick are prayed for and visited.
!!! ~*     It is where your youth are married and your elderly are buried.
!!! ~*     This is where the needy of the congregation and the community are fed and clothed....Emergency Services feeds about 300 people a week right here.
!!! ~*     This is your storehouse.
!!  
!! 2.   GIVING is for the mission of the local church outside of its four walls.
!!! ~*     For Regional Missions, reaching out to the hurting in our community.
!!! ~*     For evangelistic ministries outside the walls of Westgate Chapel.
!!! ~*     For reaching the people of India, and Uruguay, and China as our missionaries carry the good news of the Gospel to other nations.
!!  
!! 3.   GIVING is for the benefit of the giver.
!!! ~*     A giver is living a life of surrender and obedience to God and obedience is better than sacrifice.
!!! ~*     A  giver is living underneath the floodgates of heaven’s blessings and will receive a blessing that he~/she cannot contain.
!!!! •     In Malachi 3, God complains that His people have been stealing from Him.
Then in verse 10 He gives a promise to the tither.
!!!!!       “*‘Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.
Test me in this’, says the LORD Almighty, ‘and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it*.’”  (Malachi 3:10).
!!!! •     In Luke 6:38, Jesus Himself said,
!!!!!       “*Give, and it will be given to you.
A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap.
For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you*.” (Luke 6:38)
!!! ~*     A giving Christian is a growing Christian, because God has been given access to the heart.
Jesus said, in Luke 12:34,
!!!!       “*For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also*.”
(Luke 12:34)
!!! ~*     So, giving is for your good.
!!  
!! 4.   GIVING is for the benefit of the church.
!!! ~*     By this I mean that the same principles that apply to the individual apply to the church.
We must be a giving church.
!!! ~*     If a church does not  give it will not grow.
!!!! •     Which is why over $100,000 of your tithes go into missions each year....in addition to what you designate to missions above your tithes.
!!!! •     Which is why we take offerings here as the Lord directs us for special needs outside ourselves.
!!!!! -     When Trinity Lutheran and Antioch Alliance was burned by a arsonists some years back.....we took an offering that amounted to +- $20,000 and sent it to them.
!!!!! -     When we heard that Jack Hayford’s church was housing and feeding earthquake victims, we took and offering and sent over $15,000 to help them.
!!!!! -     The first Sunday that we were back in this sanctuary after our arson fire, we heard that Brooklyn Tabernacle had taken a step of faith for a new building....and we took an offering and sent them $26,000.
!!!! •     Are we to be congratulated about this giving?
NO!!
It is what we should be doing out of gratitude for what God has done for us.
!!  
!! 5.   GIVING is for the glory of God.
!!! ~*     Our giving is one of the proofs that God is alive and well within us....and that brings glory to God when people see our generosity and praise Him for it.
!!! ~*     Turn with me to 2 Corinthians 9:11, where Paul writes to the Corinthian church a second time about their offering, and says to them,
!!!!       “*You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.* (12) *This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.* (13) *Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else*.”
!!! ~*     The world only knows how to get, keep and hoard for a rainy day.
Their treasure is clearly in the things of this world and they hold those things in a death grip all the way to the grave.
It is all they have.
!!! ~*     So, when they see you and me living the confession of our faith in generous giving to the cause of Christ....they are amazed and give God the glory.
!! -     THAT is the why of giving, but what about the how?
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god’s plan for giving
!! -     NOW, in our passage in I Corinthians 16, Paul goes on to tell us how to give.
!! -     PAUL has a plan for giving for the Corinthians.
!!! ~*     He is not leaving it to chance.
!!! ~*     He is not leaving them to do whatever they feel like doing.
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