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Financial Stewardship

2 Corinthians 9:6-11

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Scripture - Reaching for Him - Spiritual Disciplines

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Fasting

Deut 8:2-3

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Prayer Thoughts:

Luke 18:1-8

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Advent - Joy - 2020

Opener

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Isaiah 9:1-7

Define peace - A rest in your soul that God is in control and that God is at work.

2 mo. agoIsaiah 92 mo. agoMatthew 9:35–38

A heart like Jesus

What if I held that back from someone.

3 mo. ago1 Corinthians 7

I Corinthians 7:17-40

Big Idea - Stand firm in your identity.

4 mo. ago

I Corinthians 7:10-16, Divorce

Pastoral address - Today I Corinthians leads us into a difficult and in some cases painful topic.

5 mo. ago1 Corinthians 7

I corinthian 7:1-16,

Today we look at 2 subjects specifically in our study through I Corinthians: Sex within Marriage and Divorce

5 mo. ago1 Corinthians 6

Read I Corinthians 6:12-20

Pray

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I Corinthians 6

Read

6 mo. ago1 Corinthians 5:10

I Corinthians 5, sermon overflow

-A man says, Jonathan I’ve battled and struggled with lust my whole life - or I’ve struggled with gossip for years. It seems like a repetitive sin I don’t think I’m a Christian.

6 mo. ago1 Corinthians 5

I Corinthians 5

Introduction -

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I Corinthians 4

Hook - Example of doing something challenging, but good.

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I Corinthians 3

Define “people of the flesh” 7 “babes in Christ”.

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Zechariah 8:20-23

There are two basic divisions to the chapter and I’ll just call them to your attention. Here are a few little notes. Verse 1 gives us the key phrase. “Again, the word of the Lord of hosts came to me saying.” Now look at verse 18, “And the word of the Lord of hosts came unto me saying.” Now, you have two words of the Lord here and divide – this divides the chapter into its two parts. In the first one, verses 1-17, God gives them the promises of the kingdom. From verses 18-23, God tells them the results of that kingdom or the results of that fulfillment of the promise. So really you have two times here when the word of the Lord of hosts comes to the prophet Zechariah. Once, to describe the kingdom and the second time to describe the results of such a thing.

7 mo. ago1 Corinthians 1:18–31

I Cor 1:18-31

Scripture - Natalie McLeod reads.

7 mo. ago

I Corinthians 1

I. Prevision of Christ? Unity of Christ?

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Self-Control

2 Peter 1:5-11

8 mo. ago

Philippians 4:10-20

God’s Power 4:10-13

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Philippians 4

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Questions to consider while preparing

How does this passage show the greatness of God?

9 mo. agoPhilippians 4:4

Therefore - What is “therefore” there for?

-I am going to build on the previous truth.

-What I am will make sense if you understand what I just said.

9 mo. ago

Philippians 3:12-21

Vs. 12, Paul has not fully apprehended Christ. Christ has fully apprehended Him, but Paul has not fully apprehended Christ.

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MEEKNESS — an attitude of humility toward God and gentleness toward people, springing from a recognition that God is in control. Although weakness and meekness may look similar, they are not the same. Weakness is due to negative circumstances, such as lack of strength or lack of courage. But meekness is due to a person’s conscious choice. It is strength and courage under control, coupled with kindness.

The apostle Paul once pointed out that the spiritual leaders of the church have great power, even leverage, in confronting a sinner. But he cautioned them to retrain themselves in meekness (Gal. 6:1; 5:22–23).

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These men, he said, “convinced me of the absolute impossibility of being half a Christian. I determined, through His grace, to be all devoted to God.”

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The Christian life was less a personal relation to Christ and more a matter of membership in the state church. Faithful attendance at public worship and reception of the sacraments offered by orthodox ministers were the essential marks of a good Christian.

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A2 yr. ago1 John 3:22 ESV

22 and mwhatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and ndo what pleases him.

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No one can be a true Christian without aspiring to holiness in his life.

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The consequence of faith to Calvin—far more than to Luther—is strenuous effort to introduce the kingdom of God on earth. Though no longer judged by the law of God, the true Christian finds in the law the divine pattern for moral character. Man is not jusitified by works, yet no justified man is without works. No one can be a true Christian without aspiring to holiness in his life. This rigorous pursuit of moral righteousness was one of the primary features of Calvinism. It made character a fundamental test of genuine religious life and explains Calvinism’s dynamic, social activism. God calls the elect for his purpose!

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While Calvin did not profess to know absolutely who were God’s chosen—the elect—he believed that three tests constituted a good yardstick by which to judge who might be saved: participation in the two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper; an upright moral life; and a public profession of the faith. These were adequate for a disciplined church on earth.

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Years later, looking back over his career, Calvin observed, “Being by nature a bit antisocial and shy, I always loved retirement and peace.… But God has so whirled me around by various events that He has never let me rest anywhere, but in spite of my natural inclination, has thrust me into the limelight and made me get into the game,’ as they say.”

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. In the Anabaptist assemblies all members were to be believers baptized voluntarily upon confession of personal faith in Christ. Each believer, then, was both a priest to his fellow believers and a missionary to unbelievers.

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Thoughts & Quotes from “Church History in Plain Language”

In the Anabaptist assemblies all members were to be believers baptized voluntarily upon confession of personal faith in Christ. Each believer, then, was both a priest to his fellow believers and a missionary to unbelievers.

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First among these convictions was what the Anabaptists called discipleship. The Christian’s relationship with Jesus Christ must go beyond inner experience and acceptance of doctrines. It must involve a daily walk with God, in which Christ’s teaching and example shape a transformed style of life. As one Anabaptist put it, “No one can truly know Christ except he follow him in life.” This meant resolutely obeying the “bright and clear words of the Son of God, whose word is truth and whose commandment is eternal life.”

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Many of the persecuted fled to Germany and Austria, but their prospects were no brighter there. In 1529 the imperial Diet of Speyer proclaimed Anabaptism a heresy and every court in Christendom was obliged to condemn the heretics to death. During the Reformation years, between four and five thousand Anabaptists were executed by fire, water, and sword.

To us the Anabaptists seem to have made a simple demand: a person’s right to his own beliefs. But in the sixteenth century the heretics seemed to be destroying the very fabric of society. That is why the voice of conscience was so often silenced by martyrdom.

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Finally, the Zurich council lost all patience. On 7 March 1526, it decided that anyone found rebaptizing would be put to death by drowning. Apparently their thought was, “If the heretics want water, let them have it.” Within a year, on 5 January 1527, Felix Manz became the first Anabaptist martyr. The Zurich authorities drowned him in the Limmat, which flows through the city. Within four years the radical movement in and around Zurich was practically eradicated.

2 yr. agoCHPL

That is the kind of church Grebel and Manz wanted in Zurich, a church free from the state, composed of true disciples. The baptism of believers was merely the most striking feature of this new kind of church. Zwingli, however, would have no part of this revolution. He needed the support of the city fathers.

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In Zurich’s city-state, as in the rest of the Christian world, every newborn child was baptized and considered a member of the church. As a result, church and society were identical. The church was simply everybody’s church. In the New Testament, however, the church was a fellowship of the few, a company of true believers committed to live and die for their Lord.

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In one important respect Zwingli followed the Bible even more stringently than did Luther. The Wittenberger would allow whatever the Bible did not prohibit; Zwingli rejected whatever the Bible did not prescribe. For this reason the reformation in Zurich tended to strip away more traditional symbols of the Roman church: candles, statues, music, and pictures. Later, in England, men called this spirit “Puritanism.”

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Actually, the Anabaptists rejected all thoughts of “rebaptism” because they never considered the ceremonial sprinkling they received in infancy as valid baptism. They much preferred “Baptists” as a designation. To most of them, however, the fundamental issue was not baptism. It was the nature of the church and its relation to civil governments.

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A2 yr. agoLuke 2:12 ESV

swaddling cloths and lying in a manger

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Financial Stewardship

2 Corinthians 9:6-11

Everyone is calm until someone brings up the subject of money.

-A relative dies. There is money in the estate and a question on who it is to go to. Everyone is calm until money is involved.

-The cable company sends you a bill it’s $30 too much. That kind, nice person you know calls the cable company and tuns into a pit bull with customer service. Everyone is calm until money is involved.

-The preacher at church starts talking about giving. Your blood pressure goes up and lunchtime conversation gets passionate.

Everyone is calm until money is involved.

2 Corinthians 9:6-11

6 The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. 9 As it is written,

“He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor;

his righteousness endures forever.”

10 He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Here is what I hope you will do at the end of this message.

-If you are currently giving to the Lord. Be encouraged. Grow in rejoicing in your giving. Rejoice at a deeper level. Take pleasure and worship in your giving.

-If you are not giving, make a decision to begin to give. Set a goal for yourself or your family.

Intro - God desires me to give with cheerfulness - with joy. My financial giving is part of my spiritual growth and my reaping of blessing in my life.

Later this month I will have been here 2 years, & we haven’t had a specific message on giving.

99% of pastors don’t want to be known for squeezing their congregation for money.

-There are over 2000 bible verses that mention money.

-Jesus talked about money in many of his parables.

-Talking about money is not something that God runs from.

-God’s church should not either.

Why? Money has a very strong spiritual thread that is tied to our hearts.

Money has a very strong connection to our spiritual lives.

We are going to look at 4 Biblical Principles about money and then return to our focal text for today.

Have you ever heard or seen someone with the attitude, “It’s my money and I will do with it what I want to”?

-Maybe you’ve heard it said or seen the attitude,

Don’t tell me what I should do with my money.”

Those statements are fundamentally flawed.

There is not a dime on this earth that you own.

The Bible tells us this...

1.God owns everything you have

-God owns everything and I am his manager.

Psalm 24:1 (NLT)

1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.

The world and all its people belong to him.

Job 41:11, God says this,

11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?

Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

In case we need more clarity - Not only is all your stuff God’s, but your money is God’s.

Haggai 2:8

8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts.

When we think - I can do with MY money what I want, you can. But YOU have Zero money.

It’s all God’s money and you have been called to be a good manager (steward) of His money.

Everything you have is on loan from the Great King: Your money, your house, your job, your friends, your marriage, your vehicle, your phone … all of it is God’s.

Be encouraged by this.

-You are the child of a God in heaven that has ultimate ownership of everything in the Universe.

-Not only is all money, Gold, and Silver his, but the planets are His, the starts are His.

-A God who owns all things, is a God of power. You - a Christ follower have placed your life in the hands of the one who is the most powerful.

-Your God does not just own Jupiter. He created Jupiter and gave it enormity and it’s own strength.

-Your God is not the biggest most powerful thing in the Universe. God is bigger than the Universe. He more powerful than all of the strength in the universe combined.

-He has loaned you a few dollars to enjoy and live off of.

Giving is an act of worship & Surrender/sacrifice

-From the very beginning with the first sacrifice of Cain and Able, we see that the worshipers of God never came to God with empty hands. A sacrifice of value was always brought.

-When you come to worship God corporately, you come to give yourself fresh to God in surrender.

Matthew 16:24-26

Romans 12:1

-God desires you to give to Him as part of your worship.

-God loves a cheerful giver.

Illustration -On Christmas morning the children are happy to receive gifts.

-If you are a parent or grandparent, you watch your gifts be opened. You take joy. You take joy to give, because it pleases your children.

-When we give. We give with joy, knowing that when we give it

pleases our Father.

Giving reflects faith in God’s Provision

Mark 12:41-44

The Widow gave out of her poverty.

The widow had the deepest faith.

When we give, we say - I trust that God will provide for me.

I am not white knuckling on to money looking for money to provide security.

I am trusting that God will provide for my every need.

Illustration - When Susan and I bought out first starter home I remember getting an idea of what size house we could buy based on what we could afford in monthly payments.

-I did the math and realized that if we had taken our tithe and used that toward our house payment that we could have purchased a house twice as big as the homes we were looking at.

-Susan and I had to make a decision. Was a house that we could afford to buy after giving our tithe enough?

-Is it better to give to God and have a smaller house,

-Or not give to God and have a larger house, to materially have more?

Your giving reflects your faith in God’s provision.

Transition - And this truth is directly reflected in our next point.

Giving shows where your heart is

Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

-If you want to see what you value the most, look into your bank statement.

Abundant giving brings abundant reaping.

Enter 2 Corinthians 9:6-11

6 The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

We see this same truth given earlier in the Bible in Malachi

Malachi 3:10

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Let’s be clear about the blessing.

The blessing may be monetary, it may relational, the longest lasting blessing is eternal.

I am not saying if you give generously your stocks will go up or your small business will succeed.

What I am saying is this, There is a clear promise in scripture that generous blessing follows generous giving.

This promise also holds true with other forms of giving and investing. You see the poor are not exempt from great blessing from God.

You sow - you invest what you have.

-As you generously invest in encouraging others, there is great blessing.

-As you generously invest in discipling and spiritually pouring into other believers, there is great blessing.

-As you generously invest in praying for your children and grandchildren, there is great blessing.

-As Christ generously offered Himself as a living sacrifice for sins, there is the greatest of blessings for Him, His Father, for Millions - maybe Billions of people.

Abundant giving brings abundant reaping. Pause

Transition - You may ask, Preacher, how much should I give?

I’m glad you asked that. Verse 7 gives us that answer.

7 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

-You need to decide what God has called you in your heart to give.

-Let me be clear that you pastor gives regularly and gives more than 10%.

-I give to the general fund.

Illustration - This past spring I planted a tomato garden. When my first tomatoes started to ripen I thought … In the O.d Testament God asked for an offering of first fruits. I want to give my first fruits. I found widows and unchurched neighbors to give my first ripened fruit to.

I want to take a minute and talk about your giving to our church:

-State that the pastors of this church do not see the giving record and who has given what.-We don’t have access to giving records and we do not want to have access to giving records. Our financial team handles the giving very well.

3.- How much should I give?

A. What you have decided in your heart to give cheerfully.

B. The model in the Bible that we see is 10%. 10% is a good minimum goal.

-You say, Jonathan if you knew how over leveraged I’ve become with debt or financial obligations - 10% is not even thinkable.

-Here is my council to you, begin. Begin regular giving. If 2% or 5% is all you can do right now. Begin. Make it a goal to increase your giving each year by 1% as you work yourself free of financial constraints.

-If you are young. Begin to give.

-Susan and I began to give when we were first married because we were taught to give when we were children and in High School.

-Teach you children to give their allowance, birthday and Christmas money.

-Susan and I give now, because we started giving when we were married.

Not only give, but give with cheerfulness.

??? You say I feel scared sometimes that I will come up short, or that an emergency may take place.

Here is God’s Promise. vs. 8

God Will Multiply My Giving

8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. 9 As it is written,

“He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor;

his righteousness endures forever.”

10 He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

How do I know that God will multiply my giving?

A. vs. 8, GOD IS ABLE

Giving to grow you blessings goes against your natural thinking to keep what you have made.

We think that keeping all our money is a blessing.

Giving your money is part of what brings a blessing.

How do we know this blessing will happen?

3 words in verse 8, God is able

He is able to make all grace abound to you.

What is grace = an undeserved gifts.

God is able to give to you abundantly gifts that you don’t deserve.

You say, OK - He is able to do it. How do I know that God will bless?

Answer - Look at His promise in verse 10.

B. God has promise to multiply.

10 He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

10a, Not only has God given to you what you have,

10b, When you reinvest what you have in God’s Kingdom God will multiply (Compound) what you have cheerfully given.,

God multiplies:

The money you give.

The time you give.

The love you give.

The prayers you give.

He multiplies them into what?

“...the harvest of your righteousness.”

What is the harvest of your righteousness?

Saving what you have made

Good scriptures

“And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only. Even in Thessalonica you sent me help for my needs once and again. Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit. I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God. And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.” (Philippians 4:15–20, ESV)

Under Moses, the people were to give a tithe of all of their wealth. Tithe means “a tenth”. Leviticus 27:30 says, “Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord.” (Leviticus 27:30, ESV) “And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord.” (Leviticus 27:32, ESV)

1 Timothy 6:17-19 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

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