Sermon Tone Analysis

SPEAK TO NEED

Come Alive, Worth IT, You are a Finisher What is most important to you is the place you will most want to be, and will end up being.

What?

Yet,many of us spend our time, talents, and treasure in areas that we don’t want; AM I RIGHT ABOUT IT? How many of you are excited about paying your electric bill, your phone bill, car payment, student loans?

It not our mission in life to be debt to BGE or Delmarva… But where we give should be where we want to see great things happen!

Hallelujah, God has a word for us today to help us resist the pull!

Tell someone near your resist the pull; resist the pull!

PLEASE STAND WITH ME FOR THE READING OF GOD’S HOLY WORD!

State Key Verse: Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift! (2 Cor 9:15)

I like to preach this morning as the Holy Spirit guides from the thought...

State the Title: MAKING A DIFFERENCE! <Tells somebody you are making a difference!

MAKING A DIFFERENCE!

Prayer of Illumination: Father, send your Holy Spirit and fill us that our hearts are receptive to your word.

Help me to be faithful to your word, give me clarity needful for our journey, give me your power to preach with the authority you have given, and passion for your glory to be revealed, guide us by your wisdom, may I decrease and you INCREASE LORD JESUS and set all captives free, loosen every chain in Jesus name.

INTRODUCTION

My Grandmother sowing economically!

Reaping what you sow.

In similar ways Paul has been in labor...

Who: The Apostle Paul writes this letter to the church of Corinth (planted on second missionary journey) and sends it by Titus hand.

This is the 4th and final letter; 1 Cor was the second letter, the first letter as lost, the 3rd was the tearful letter possibly following his painful second visit.

What: A minority of the church of Corinth are still questioning Paul’s Apostleship; false apostles are now there in the church, Paul defends his apostleship of Jesus Christ because the Gospel and the spiritual life of the Corinthian Church is as stake.

When: He wrote this letter on his 3rd missionary journey.

Where: From Macedonia

Why: The Apostle Paul now acknowledges that the church of Corinth has been eager to give for some time.

They may not be perfect, but their hearts are generous.

So, he is sending people ahead of him so that the offering is ready when he comes.

He does not want them to be ashamed because they are not prepared, nor does he want to annoy them like a bill collector repeatedly asking for collections.

He realizes that poor planning often hurts people!

Also, that giving must be a deliberate action and deliberate decision not under compulsion or pressure, but born out of a cheerful heart.

The cheerful heart celebrates the sufficiency of God’s grace; the His grace abounds for those who give so that their needs will be met and can continue to do good works.

But how?

How does God do it?

Our text this morning teaches God given motives why the Corinthian church gave generously.

So, why was the Corinthian Church given to generosity that can help us?

Because they are learning that...

I. GOD SUPPLIES THEIR CAPACITY IN CHRIST (v.

10)

A. ________ I don’t know about you but there was a time in my life when I didn’t think I was anybody, couldn’t see my own potential, wasted my time, wasted my money, and had nothing to show for my time on the earth?

But thanks be to GOD he didn’t leave me, but deposited in me a new life in Christ Jesus!

GOD MADE EVERYBODY SOMEBODY IN CHRIST JESUS?

AM I RIGHT ABOUT IT?

look at our text.

LISTEN

B. WHEN YOU ARE SOMEBODY WHO SEEKS TO DO RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD YOU ARE SOMEBODY!

YOU ARE SOMEBODY WHEN JUSTICE IS COMING FROM YOU.

He takes what he gave you and increases it

God supplies, multiplies, and increases the justice you sow.

It us unjust for children to go to be hungry

it is unjust for people to be homeless

it is unjust for people to not have the clothes they need to survive

C. YOU ARE SOMEBODY______________? God can take your little and turn into allot.

If he can take two fish and five loaves of beard an feed 5000; surely he can stretch what you have to do even more.

When we use what we have materially spiritually it can go ten and a hundred times further.

Everybody is somebody in the kingdom of God!

I EXPECT NEW THINGS TO HAPPEN WITH MY GIVING!

Our text this morning teaches God given motives why the Corinthian church gave generously.

So, why was the Corinthian Church given to generosity that can help us?

Because they are learning that...

II.

GOD HAS MADE THEM COMPLETELY WEALTHY IN CHRIST (vv.

11-12)

A. ______ SOMETIMES WE JUST DON’T REALIZE HOW BLESSED WE ARE.

IN FACT SOMETIMES WE EVEN CONFUSE OUR BLESSING FOR A BURDEN.

IT IS A BLESSING HELPING TO MEET THE NEEDS OF POOR

WAtch this; look what Paul sees in them...

B. WE MUST BE CREATIVE WITH WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN US.

WE MUST EXPECT NEW THINGS TO HAPPEN; NOT ONLY THE NEEDS ARE MET BUT THAT GOD IS SEEN AND NOT US.

WHEN GOD PROVIDES SOMEONE WITH WEALTH, HE DOES IT SO THAT WEALTH MAY BE SHARED.

IT IS NOT TO BE HELD ON TO BUT SO THAT IT MIGHT BE SOWN.

C. YOU ARE BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING________.

YOU MAY FEEL PULLED FROM MANY DIRECTS FROM FAMILY AND FRIENDS IT’S BECAUSE YOU ARE BEING MADE WEALTHY IN EVERYWAY.

YOUR WEALTH IS YOUR ANOINTING AND YOU ANOINTING IS THE PROVISION (SPIRITUAL, FINANCIAL) THAT WITH KEEP YOU AND BLESS OTHERS TO SEE AND BE THANKFUL TO GOD.

HE PROVIDES THE FIRE, BUT WE PROVIDE THE SACRIFICE!

Our text this morning teaches God given motives why the Corinthian church gave generously.

So, why was the Corinthian Church given to generosity that can help us?

Because they are learning that...

III.

GOD’S GIFT TO THEM KEEPS ON GIVING (vv.

13-15)

A. _______Some people wonder why noting is happening in there lives after God has blessed them and it is because you frustrated what God was doing.

He gave to you that you too would be a giver!

Look that the last verses

When you are a giver others can see you as a gift from God.

B. PROOF THAT GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST IS WORKING IN YOU IS HOW GENEROUS YOU ARE BECOMING.

he showers us with his word to make things happen.

It is the word of God that is ushering me through the tough times

It is the word of God that gives birth to what I need

It is the word of God that is going to inform my heart

It is the word of God that is going to shape me and my future

It is the word of God increasing in me that enriches my life

Jesus Christ is the word of God come down from heaven; the seen that is spring up wealth and wholeness.

C. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE________? GOD HAS SUPPLIED YOU WITH ABUNDANT GRACE TO SHOW HIM GENEROUS.

Recapitulation: The Corinthian Church was given to generosity that can help is because they learned that God supplies the capacity in Christ, God has made them completely wealthy in Christ, and God has given them the gift that keeps on giving.

Exhortation ; That’ll Preach!

Final Application

Dr King in 1965 after ending the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to Montgomery’s state capital encouraged the people concerning their sacrifice and the seed they had sown for justice.

He said,

I know so of you are asking today, How long will it take?”

I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because the truth pressed to earth will rise again.

How long?

Not long, because no lie can live forever.

How long?

Not long, because you still reap what you sow.