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Well, good evening is good to see everyone.

We're glad that you are here tonight and we're going to continue on our financial system.

The financial system of the church and this is what we're doing the series, and you see here, managing and all and tonight is elements of a healthy Financial system.

So we going to continue where we left off last time which is been I guess, two weeks ago, I didn't put this on your hand out but you want to put just right lesson 2 on it because the first one was lesson one.

That way we can keep up with it, I forgot to put that.

So, we're doing lesson 2. Tonight.

And so,

let me get this out here and I've got this handout is front and back and we'll, we'll try to fill in these Blanks on the front and back tonight and so it shouldn't take too long.

Well, if you remember, the last time we were here, I want to show you the two points that we looked at a couple of weeks ago, the financial system.

We but we broke it down into an offense and a defense.

And of course the offense, the way you take money into a church weekly offerings online, giving special offerings and then of course, missionary support.

And if we have any building projects and things like that, like we want to we're discussing now to paint the church.

Well that would be in the area of building projects and so we going to be look at that looking at that in the coming weeks.

And so that's the financial system on defense.

What we're talkin about is collecting money, counting money accounting, budgeting and monitoring.

And so we kind of talked about that last time, what I want to

talk about tonight and I think you have it in your hand out there is I want to talk about some motivations and it's important that we remember at least from leaders of the church and pastors That you just don't want money from people, you want.

You want folks to give but you want them to grow in Grace and maturity and blessing in their life, by giving back to God and see, a lot of people don't want to talk about money in church a lot because that's just such a personal puppet.

You know, we don't go around most of us, don't go around telling everybody how much money we have or how much money we make.

We, we just don't do that and so it's kind of a personal topic.

But it needs to be talked about because Jesus talked about money so much.

He was constantly talking about money, and I hope that you seen so far on Sunday morning that God use this money in our life.

The test and prove us the see how faithful that we're going to be in.

So I want to give you five reasons here and this is the first point five reasons that people give when they go to church and, and start, you know, maybe a member or maybe a regular tender five reasons that people give well, the first one is because of relationships, sometimes people give money to an organization because they have a relationship with the people there.

Well, that would make sense.

As far as a church, we all have a relationship.

We go to church together, And so some people just simply give because they feel like that they have a portion in that organization or in that church, because they're remember.

And they know, they may have family going.

They know people.

They're so sometimes people give because of relationships, but then there's a second reason, sometimes people give because of vision.

You say, well, what do you mean by that?

I'm talking about the pastor has to lay out A vision for the church, you know, sometimes I can eat, someone can give you something in writing on paper and you can look at it, but if somebody will stand up and give you a word picture of what we're trying to do that sometimes can just grit your emotions.

You know you know some you know some people learn differently of course but we need we need a vision of our financial system.

Look what scripture here.

Look what Proverbs 29:18 says.

Says, where there is no vision, the people perish.

now, plow that To our nation right now, just apply that.

Look at if you can look at the vision or the lack thereof coming out of Washington, d.c.

right now, Where the Bible says, where there is no vision, the people perish.

So it's important that we have a vision.

Well, the third reason that some people give Some people give because of need, you can see that an outpouring of donations, after a hurricane, or some natural disaster, even we, when when the tornadoes went through Kentucky, remember last year, we gave quite a bit of money to the disaster relief of the Southern Baptists many times when people seeing need, they're willing to give and of course you can look and sometimes a church may need up.

They may need something for the Youth.

They may need a van.

That may need a bus or whatever it is.

And quite often people will give to that because they see a need.

So relationships, a good vision.

And then I need that comes up.

Well there's some people number for that, gives out of obedience, many people give out of obedience because they understand what God says in his word.

And I remember this verse we going to put it up here.

Malachi 3 verse 10, remember this?

We priest on this a couple of weeks.

Look what it says bring all the tithes into the storehouse or to the temple that there may be food in my house and try me now on this God the only time in the Bible.

Did God ever said, you can try me prove me.

Prove me, wrong, or right by doing this says, the Lord of hosts.

If I will not open for you, the windows of heaven and pour out for you.

Such a blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.

That's the promise right there.

If we'll bring our tithes, Into the church or the storehouse.

He says here.

He says you wait and see if you don't give it to me.

If I just won't pour out blessing after blessing upon you.

Well, we we need to try the Lord on that.

Some of us needs to, to try on that.

So some people give out of events and look at Luke 6:38.

I just don't want to show you Old Testament, scriptures.

Look what Jesus said, give and it will be given to you in good measure pressed down shaken together and running over will be put into your bosom for, with the same measure that you used.

It will be measured back to you.

So he saying the same thing that Malachi says he says you give, and I'm going to pour it out on you.

I'll give you more to give.

It's what I will do.

So many people give out of Abby dance because they understand what the Bible says and then fifthly Some people give because they're educated and what I mean by that is they've been taught what God God's word says about money.

Now, you say, well, that's just so simple to do because Jesus talks about money, or the Bible talks about money or when's the last time you heard a sermon on money?

You go to many churches and never hear about finances.

Never at all.

And so is we try to instruct on giving I know to some people on a Sunday morning that comes, maybe some things will make more sense to some than others.

Some people respond and a different way to a different drum if you will.

But when were teaching stewardship, We have to understand that people are in different places.

And what I mean by that, is some people come to church and they don't give anything, not because they're just tight.

but they don't know that they've been commanded to give Some people just don't give anything some people, just throw a dollar to him, you know, kind of tempting.

God.

some people give regularly they may not give a tithe but they give every week that that they'll give regularly other people give a top, they'll give 10% and then you have some people who does the tithe Plus Those are the excellent givers and did you know that giving is a spiritual gift?

It is what's a spiritual gift.

It's a supernatural gift that you were given and you were given one or more at the time that you were saved.

At the time that you were saved.

God has given you a supernatural gift.

And one of those gifts of the Spirit is giving You ever notice some people just give that they just get and I'm not necessarily talking about money, they give themselves, they give the time they, they give serviced, they just give and they give money where other people that maybe not, they don't have the gift of spiritual gift of giving like that, their more reserved in their generosity.

So there's people in different areas and in different ways.

And so that's why it's kind of difficult to teach on this because a lot of people may be in different areas in their life as far as their generosity and giving.

So you have to cover kind of everything when you talked about this.

But I would say this about the vast majority of people who go to church, I would say this, most people want to give They do most people want to give now son.

Don't get it because they don't know that they should others.

Don't give because they've never been taught what the Bible says about giving many people make assumptions of how the church Works, without understanding the financial system of a church.

And there's some people who just their kind of scared to give because they don't know how the people that church don't handle that money and they don't want to, they just don't want to give their kind of wary of giving.

And so different people must be led and talked, and encouraged, and inspired celebrated and helped with their personal money management in order to be faithful and generous stewards.

And that's what we all want to be because that's what the Bible calls us to be, but we're all probably in different places in our life in that and the pastor in the leaders of the church need to understand that.

I'm going to say something about Craig, he's not here.

So I'm going to say something about it.

He a couple of weeks ago, he started giving to our church money and he gave he gives I think $20 a week and it's drafted, you know, out I guess he he did it online now, $20 a week would be $80 a month.

And that's probably not 10% of what he makes.

But I'm not going to jump on.