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*Giving Series #2*
*The Grace Of Giving*
*By Bill Denton*
*Introduction*
A. Illustration
A preacher paid a visit to a farmer and asked, "If you had 200 dollars, would you give 100 dollars to the Lord?
"Sure would," said the farmer.
"If you had two cows, would you give one cow to the Lord?"
"Yeah, I would."
"If you had two pigs, would you give one of them to the Lord?"
The farmer replied, "That's not fair.
You know I have two pigs."
There is no other time for giving but now.
It will never be easy.
-- Kent Hughes, Preaching Today #205
B.
We continue our series on giving today
1.
Last week we focused on attitudes
a. your attitude will shape how you receive what scripture says about giving
b. your attitude will determine what you do with that teaching
c. your attitude will determine how you respond, growing as a giver
2.
I would remind you that the Bible contains more instruction on money, possessions,
and the subject of generosity to others than almost any other topic
a. that much space given to something ought to tell us it's important
b. so, I hope you will take these lessons seriously
C.
Today, I want to talk about the grace of giving
1.
I thought for a long time that the phrase, "grace of giving" was a strange one
2.
Frankly, it didn't make much sense to me, and I suppose the only explanation I have
for that is that I didn't understand some important things about both grace and giving
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You might feel the same way, and so I want to encourage you to try hard to expand
your thinking and deepen your understanding of how grace connects with giving
4.
If you do, you cannot help but to grow in your generosity, regardless of where you
might be right now
*I.
Some Background On New Testament Giving*
A. Most of the passages in the New Testament dealing with the subject of giving are actually
passages that encourage caring for needy Christians, or supporting those who preach
1.
We might infer from this that caring for the needy and enabling men to preach should
be high on the priority list for the church
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However, we might be surprised to know that what motivated a lot of what is said
about giving is that people were not giving as they should
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Giving to help needy Christians is by far the subject that motivated most of what the New
Testament says about giving
1. Acts 2:44-45
44And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common; 45and they /began /selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need.
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