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Beware of the Debtor's Ethic 1 Cor.13:3
Church Life series
 
Secular:
*  Kids at Christmas…
*  Exciting time…
* Birth of Christ
* Family around
* Giving of Gifts
*  “Hey dad… what do you want for Christmas?”
* Regardless of my answer the follow-up question is fairly consistent…
*  Can I borrow some money… (they have redefined borrow)
*  My “gift” is directly related to my willingness to pay for it…
Biblical:
1 Corinthians 13:3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
Personal:
*   Paul it isn’t about what is given…
*  Most of us hold to a debtor’s ethic…
* That means when someone does something for us we feel an obligation to respond… that becomes our motivation to reciprocate
*  Guilt can pervade this relationship
* Well he helped us move… I should
* They took care of our kids when ‘we’ went away… so we should
* They gave Bethany a ride last time… we should…
* Motivation by obligation
Bridge:
* God doesn’t ask us to pay for our gift… nor does he expect us to live under a debtor’s ethic.
* In relationship to the Sovereign and Almighty God…
* Anything we give him was his to start…
* Our resources… our lives….
Our everything
* If we give him from his storehouse… we just owe him more!
* We are never paying off the debt… and need to reflect that…
* It steals the glory from God when we presume that we are somehow lessening our debt to him…
* It glorifies him when we take all that we have and all that we are and purpose to bring glory to his name … commting these things to him… not as repayment… but loving obedience in relationship
* Grace is the means by which we connect to God
* Faith comes from God alone through by Grace…
* It is God who works for us….
His call is then to recognize it and glorify his name
Body:
*Not About Doing the Right Things*
* Well… we don’t get to pay Jesus back…
* Thanks for dying on the cross… Guess I should… pray… give to my church… be nice to other folks…
* If Jesus was willing to do that for me… I should be will to do some serious stuff for him…
* Then we get in a mindset that we should be repaying God for all He has done… We begin to build a debtor’s ethic… dangerous because it robs God of the glory due Him.
It isn’t about how we work to repay him… it is about how he continually and unceasingly works for us!
* Gratitude is a better way… but a dangerous slope…
* Sinful Woman Luke 7:36-50
* Unforgiving Servant Matt.
18:23-35
* Not explicitly gratitude
* Difference between Gratitude and Debt
* */ /*It is about Glory not repayment.
* It is about what God is doing through us…
* Not what we are doing for God.
* */Not About Doing the Right Things/*
 
*The Lure of Enabling Glory Giving*
* Rock Star 1st Pay check to by Mom a house
* Wayne buying Walter a new TV room an satellite system…
* Heart of gratitude….
* Gratitude toward God… by Faith throught he grace given to us… is expressed in the joyful giving of glory!
* NAU Jeremiah 31:33 "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
* My people… God enables… God’s activity…
* NAU Ezekiel 36:27 "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.
* Not you for me… ME FOR YOU!... enabling the giving of glory!
* NAU Matthew 19:26 And looking at /them /Jesus said to them, "With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
* Who does it?
Through whom does he do it?
* God’s activity!
* NAU Romans 6:14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
* God released….
God empowered…
* Are we passive… no
* We are released and God empowered… Christ alive in us…
* NAU 1 Corinthians 1:8 who will also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
* Salvation, Sanctification, Justification, the Christian walk is not us living our purposes it God alive within us!
* NAU Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
* See… Transformation by…?
* NAU Philippians 2:13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for /His /good pleasure.
* By God for God!
* NAU Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
* Anything I can do… Him in me.
* Does this not give you some great sense of relief…
* Hey… this is good!
I recognize the depths of God’s grace
* NAU 1 Thessalonians 3:12 and */may the Lord cause/* you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also /do /for you;
* May the Lord cause you…
* Lazy Christian language… we often say the opposite…
* I don’t want it to be from me… God certainly doesn’t… He wants the glory of providing all the payment and all power.
* NAU Hebrews 13:21 equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom /be /the glory forever and ever.
Amen.
* Holy Spirit in and equipping…
* It isn’t paying off….
It is building our debt…
* It is for His glory… not buying him off… paying back…
* DRAW DEEPLY….
Like air for the believer… BREATHE!... and exhale….
* */The Lure of Enabling Glory Giving/*
 
*The Increase of Debt to His Glory*
* From God
* NAU Luke 9:1 And He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all the demons and to heal diseases.
* Power and Authority
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