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Principled Generosity
1. God is not a beggar.
Psalm 50:12 (ESV) If I were hungry, I would not tell
you, for the world and its fullness are mine.
A. God does not beg because He owns the universe.
Psalm 50:10–12 (ESV) 10For every beast of the forest is
mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
11I know all the
birds of the hills, and all that moves in the eld is mine.
12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world
and its fullness are mine.
B. God does not beg because He has no needs.
Psalm 50:13 (ESV) Do I eat the esh of bulls or drink the
blood of goats?
C. God does not beg because even if He had needs, we are
incapable of meeting them.
2 Chronicles 2:5–6 (ESV) The house that I [Solomon] am
to build will be great, for our God is greater than all
gods.
6But who is able to build him a house, since
heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him?
Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to
make offerings before him?
Ways Ministries Make God Look Like a Beggar
• gimmicky fundraisers
• desperate pleas
• twisting scripture
Gimmicky Fundraisers
•Often consumeristic
•rely on generosity of non-Christians and non-churchgoers
•can appear cowardly
•usually insuf cient
•not distinctively Christian
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Desperate pleas
•time is running out
•the debt-breaking anointing
Twisting Scripture
•The Day of Atonement offering
•the magic Bible verse
John 14:14 (ESV) If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
Matthew 17:20 (ESV) He said to them, “Because of your little faith.
For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard
seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and
it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
The Magic Bible Verse
John 14:14 (ESV) If you ask me anything in my name, I
will do it.
Matthew 17:20 (ESV) He said to them, “Because of your
little faith.
For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like
a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain,
‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and
nothing will be impossible for you.”
The Magic Bible Verse
John 15:16 (ESV) You did not choose me, but I chose
you and appointed you that you should go and bear
fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever
you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
John 16:23 (ESV) In that day you will ask nothing of
me.
Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the
Father in my name, he will give it to you.
The Magic Bible Verse
Psalm 37:4 (ESV) Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you
the desires of your heart.
Luke 6:38 (ESV) give, and it will be given to you.
Good
measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over,
will be put into your lap.
For with the measure you use
it will be measured back to you.”
2. There is lots of money that God doesn’t want.
A. Sordid gain
Deuteronomy 23:18 (ESV) You shall not bring the fee of
a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the
LORD your God in payment for any vow, for both of
these are an abomination to the LORD your God.
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1 Timothy 3:8 (ESV) Deacons likewise must be
digni ed, not double-tongued, not addicted to much
wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.
B. Manipulation money
Acts 8:18–20 (ESV) Now when Simon saw that the Spirit
was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands,
he offered them money, 19saying, “Give me this power
also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may
receive the Holy Spirit.”
20But Peter said to him, “May
your silver perish with you, because you thought you
could obtain the gift of God with money!
C. Life-Debt money
2 Kings 4:1, 7 (ESV) Now the wife of one of the sons of the
prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead,
and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the
creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”She
came and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil
and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the
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