Character and Commitment: Give your Time and Money

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Character and Commitment Give your Time and Money
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Giving is like a Christian Tax!
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Givingis like paying your subscription to the
church club!
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Giving is paying protection money to God
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A key mark of every believer

• But just as you excel in everything in faith,
  in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness
  and in your love for us see that you also excel
  in this grace of giving
• ( v7)

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Give because God has Generously Given to us.
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R. G. LeTourneau

• The question is not how much money I give to
  God, but how much of his money I keep for
  myself

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Give because we have family responsibilities
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Give regularly in a planned way

• On the first day of every week, each one of you
  should set aside a sum of money in keeping with
  his income
• 1 Cor 162

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Give according to your means

• according to your means (v11)
• if the willingness is there the gift is
  acceptable according to what one has not what he
  does not have (v12)

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Give willingly and cheerfully

• not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God
  loves a cheerful (hilarious) giver (97)

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Give generously sacrificially even in trials

• out of the most severe trials, their overflowing
  joy and their extreme poverty welled up into rich
  generosity. They gave as much as they were able
  and even beyond their ability
• (2 Cor 8 v2,3)

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Giving Points others to Jesus