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God's Promises About Giving
Today we're going to begin a new series for the summer that I'm very excited about.
I want to begin by telling you that the words, promise and promises, are actually used over a thousand times, in different English translations of the Scripture.
One scholar did a study.
He counted over 8,000 different promises of God in the Bible.
The Bible tells us that God is a promise-making, and a promise-keeping God.
He makes promises in the Bible to literally everybody.
Now, God's promises are like a divine insurance policy.
In an insurance policy, when you know what's covered, then you don't sweat it when that circumstance happens in your life.
Or that illness, or that accident, when you know what's covered in the policy, you relax.
On the other hand, if you don't know what's covered in the insurance policy, if you're ignorant of it, you worry.
One of the problems that we have today, is people don't know the promises of God, so they spend a lot of time worrying.
Today, we're going to begin a new series, that I'm calling Living on God’s Promises.
Each week we're going to look at a different set of God's promises to you.
We'll look at promises of God's help, the promises of wisdom, of power.
Promises of forgiveness and guidance.
Promises of salvation and blessing, and heaven.
Promises of guidance and salvation, of success, of victory, and many, many other benefits.
Fundamental facts about God’s promises
1. God wants me to build my life on His promises.
God doesn't want you to live a life built on petty rules.
He wants you to live a life built on great promises.
We're going to look at many of these 8,000 promises in God's word to you, God's insurance policy to you.
2. God makes unconditional and conditional promises.
The unconditional promises, there are no strings attached.
No matter what you do, when God promises something unconditionally, it's going to happen.
For instance, God has made an unconditional promise about the second coming of Jesus Christ.
It's not going to be dependent on anything that you or I do.
That's an unconditional promise, and we'll look at many of those.
God also makes conditional promises, and these promises are based on your obedience.
God says, "If you do this, then I will do this."
It's not automatic.
These promises aren't automatically yours.
You have to meet a requirement, or a circumstance or a condition.
If you don't meet that requirement, then you forfeit the promise.
In other words, there's a premise to every promise that's conditional.
We'll look at what some of those conditions are.
3. God makes promises for us for two reasons:
The first reason God gives us all these 8,000 promises in the Bible, is to teach us to trust Him in difficult times.
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To teach us to trust Him in difficult times.
The Bible says in Psalm 119:50, “When I'm hurting, I find comfort in your promises that lead to life."
If you weren't in ever bad circumstances, you wouldn't need the promises of God.
If everything went great in your life, you wouldn't need the promises of God.
God first gives us promises to help us get us through the tough times in life.
The difficult times, the times when we're hurting or it just looks like maybe He's not even around.
We hold on to His promises.
2. To make us more like Him.
God's number one goal in your life is to make you like Jesus.
One of the ways that He does that, is through the promises in this book.
The more you trust in God's promises, the more it's going to change your life.
That's what we're going to do the series, on God's amazing promises.
You grow more like Jesus through God's promises.
In fact, you can't become like Jesus, without trusting God's promises.
Can you guess what subject in the Bible God makes more promises about, than anything else?
Can you guess what subject in the Bible God makes more promises about, than anything else?
It's not faith.
It's not prayer.
It's not love.
It's not patience.
It may surprise you that God makes more promises in the Bible, about generosity or giving than anything else.
Now, why is that?
Why does God make more promises about being generous and being giving?
Well, there's a couple of reasons.
First, because God is generous, and He wants us to become like Him.
God wants His children to take on his qualities.
Everything we have in life, is because of the generosity and grace and giving of God.
Everything you and I have in life, is because of God's generosity.
God wants us to become like Him.
He wants his children to be like father, like son, like father, like daughter.
Second reason God wants us to learn generosity is because giving is hard.
The reason giving is hard, because it challenges our selfishness.
"I don't want to give anything to anybody else.
God, I wanted to spend it all on me," so it's hard.
God gives rewards for us learning to be like Him.
God is a generous God.
Everything you have in life, is because of the generosity of God and He wants us to become like Him.
To kick off this series on God's amazing promises, we're going to start with the most frequent promises in the Bible.
The promises about generosity.
In fact, there are so many of them, we couldn't possibly cover the hundreds and hundreds of promises about this.
God’s promises to me when I’m generous with money...
I've just picked out nine categories.
That's all we have time for.
We're going to have to go through this fairly quickly anyway.
Let me give you nine rewards that God promises to me and promises to you, if we learn to be generous with our money, right?
Let's look at nine different rewards that God promises to us, if we learn to be generous with our money.
1. God promises good things will happen to me.
When I learn to give like God gives.
God promises that good things will happen to me.
Psalm 112:5 says, "Good, will come to him who is generous."
Good things come to him who is generous.
Proverbs 22:9, "Generous people will be blessed."
That's a promise of God.
2. God promises my children will be blessed.
If you're not generous, you're not Godly because God is generous.
"The Godly are always generous," and notice, "Their children will be blessed."
Now, I want you to notice, that when you learn to be generous, when you learn to give the way God gives, that blessing not only blesses you now, good comes into your life.
God says, "It gets passed onto the next generation."
3. God promises He will bless my work.
Not just my family, but also my business.
Let me show you a couple of verses about this.
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