Giving

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• Giving

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Do not store up for yourselves treasures on
earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where
thieves break in and steal.
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where moth and rust do not destroy, and where
thieves do not break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there your heart
will be also. Matthew 619-21
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• Dont renounce treasure relocate it.
• Dont abandon the idea of storing up treasures
  for yourself put it where itll last.
• When it comes to treasures, be smart, not stupid.

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You cant take it with you, but...
you can send it on ahead.
Sell your possessions and give to the poor.
Provide money belts for yourselves that will not
wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be
exhausted. Luke 1232-34
Not that I am looking for a gift, but I am
looking for what may be credited to your
account. Philippians 417
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• The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes
  are good, your whole body will be full of light.
  But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be
  full of darkness. If then the light within you is
  darkness, how great is that darkness!...

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• No one can serve two masters. Either he will
  hate the one and love the other, or he will be
  devoted to the one and despise the other. You
  cannot serve both God and Money.
• Matthew 619-24
• Two Treasuries
• Two Perspectives
• Two Masters

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KEY 1 God owns everythingIm His money
manager.
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Gods Ownership
The earth is the Lords, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it. Psalm 241
The land is mine and you are but aliens and my
tenants. Leviticus 2523
The silver is mine and the gold is mine. Haggai
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You are not your own you were bought at a
price. 1 Corinthians 61920
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My Stewardship Im Gods money manager
It is God who gives you the abilityto produce
wealth. Deuteronomy 818
It is required of a steward that he be found
faithful. 1 Corinthians 42
We will all stand before the judgment-seat of
Godeach of us will give an account of himself to
God. Romans 1410-12
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KEY 2 My heart always goeswhere I put Gods
money.
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The abundance of a rich man permits him no
sleep. Ecclesiastes 512
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• Where your treasure is, there your heart will be
  also.
• Not a value judgment a simple fact.
• The law of vested interests
• Whatever we invest in, we care about.

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• Where we put money shows where our heart is.
  But it also determines where our heart goes.
• Good news the choice is yours you can put
  your heart wherever you want to.

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• Dont wait to take action until your hearts in
  it. Take action so your heart will be in it.
• Dont let your giving follow your heart. Give
  so your heart will follow your giving.

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• Your heart is NOT where
• your treasure used to be
• you wish your treasure was
• you hope or plan your treasure to one day be
• Your heart is where your treasure IS NOW

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• How do we solve a problem of hearts being in
  the wrong place?
• Give, to put them in the right place.
• Ask If I were the person God wants me to be,
  what would I do with Gods money?
• Do it nowthen watch God make you into the person
  He wants you to be.

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KEY 3 Heaventhe New Earthnot Earth under the
Curse, is my home.
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They were aliens and strangers on earth looking
for a country of their own longing for a better
countrya heavenly one, for he has prepared a
city for them. Hebrews 1113-16
Our citizenship is in heaven.

Philippians 320
We are looking forward to a new heavens and a new
earth, in which righteousness dwells.
2 Peter
313
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KEY 4 I should livenot for the dot,but for
the line.
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The DotLife on earth
The LineLife in heaven
Moses chose to be mistreated along with the
people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures
of sin for a short time. He regarded disgrace for
the sake of Christ as of greater value than the
treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead
to his reward. Hebrews 1125-26
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to
gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot, 1927
1956 1927
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KEY 5 Givingis the only antidoteto
materialism.
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People who want to get rich fall into temptation
and a trap and into many foolish and harmful
desires that plunge men into ruin and
destruction.
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.
1 Timothy 69-10
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Command those who are rich in this present world
not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in
wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their
hope in God, who richly provides us with
everything for our enjoyment. 1 Timothy 617
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Command them to do good,to be rich in good
deeds, and to be generous and willing to
share.In this way they will lay up treasure for
themselves as a firm foundation for the coming
age, so that they may take hold of the life that
is truly life. 1 Timothy 618-19
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KEY 6 God prospers me not to raise my
standard of living, but to raisemy standard of
giving.
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Gods Grace Lightning

Our GivingThunder
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As thunder follows lightning,
giving follows grace.
The more Gods grace grips you, the more you
give. The more you give, the more Gods grace
grips you.
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Grace given by God
More Joy, more giving
Joy overflowing us
A cycle of addiction
Giving Grace welling up in rich generosity
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.remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself
said It is more blessed to give than to
receive. Acts 2035
Keep remembering that our Master said, Youre
far happier giving than getting. Acts 2035,
The Message
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Test me in this giving not only of tithes, but
freewill offerings 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. Mal. 310
Jesus 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
638
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He will also supply and increase your store of
seed and will enlarge the harvest of your
righteousness. You will be made rich in every
way SO THAT______________________
___________________.
2 Corinthians 910?11
you can be generous on
every occasion.
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• 6 Remember this Whoever sows sparingly will
  also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously
  will also reap generously.

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• Jesus 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 638
• The question isnt whether God often prospers
  givers, but why.

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• The most generous Christians of my acquaintance
  have been always the most happy, and almost
  invariably the most prosperous Men trust good
  stewards with larger and larger sums, and so it
  frequently is with the Lord He gives by
  cartloads to those who give by bushels. Where
  wealth is not bestowed the Lord makes the little
  much by giving contentment.
• Charles Spurgeon