YOU CAN'T OUTGIVE GOD (4)
by Brad Whitt
Scripture: Luke 6:38, Malachi 3:10
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Title: You Can't Outgive God (4)
Series: The Generous Life: Embracing Stewardship, Experiencing Abundance
Author: Brad Whitt
Text: Luke 6:38/Malachi 3:10
INTRODUCTION
Take your Bibles this morning and turn with me, one last time, to Luke 6:38. This morning, we are concluding our series of studies and sermons on stewardship, giving, and finances entitled, "The Generous Life: Embracing Stewardship, Experiencing Abundance."
If you'll remember, during our "February is for Finances emphasis," we have seen -
-The Basics of Biblical Stewardship
-What it means to give and live by faith
-Last week, in Sunday School, you learned about generosity: God desires us to be generous with the gifts He gives us, and He wants you to see that your best future is on the other side of generosity.
By the way - Do you have to be rich to be generous? No. You just have to be generous to be generous.
That brings us to today's sermon and the third principle, or "secret," of Heaven's economy: the Principle of Abundance, which I've titled "You Can't Outgive God."
Look in Luke 6:38.
Luke 6:38, "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you."
This past week, I was thinking and praying again about what passage or portion of Scripture, what story or account, would best illustrate this very powerful, practical principle. As I thought about it, I just couldn't get away from what God said, through the prophet Malachi, in what I called the foundational, fundamental passage on giving in all the Bible I shared with you two weeks ago.
So, saying that, turn back to Malachi Chapter 3.
The name Malachi literally means "My messenger," and Malachi delivered his message in a day and age much like the day and age in which you and I live.
Here are people who have forgotten God and forsaken God, and as a result, the ble ...
Series: The Generous Life: Embracing Stewardship, Experiencing Abundance
Author: Brad Whitt
Text: Luke 6:38/Malachi 3:10
INTRODUCTION
Take your Bibles this morning and turn with me, one last time, to Luke 6:38. This morning, we are concluding our series of studies and sermons on stewardship, giving, and finances entitled, "The Generous Life: Embracing Stewardship, Experiencing Abundance."
If you'll remember, during our "February is for Finances emphasis," we have seen -
-The Basics of Biblical Stewardship
-What it means to give and live by faith
-Last week, in Sunday School, you learned about generosity: God desires us to be generous with the gifts He gives us, and He wants you to see that your best future is on the other side of generosity.
By the way - Do you have to be rich to be generous? No. You just have to be generous to be generous.
That brings us to today's sermon and the third principle, or "secret," of Heaven's economy: the Principle of Abundance, which I've titled "You Can't Outgive God."
Look in Luke 6:38.
Luke 6:38, "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you."
This past week, I was thinking and praying again about what passage or portion of Scripture, what story or account, would best illustrate this very powerful, practical principle. As I thought about it, I just couldn't get away from what God said, through the prophet Malachi, in what I called the foundational, fundamental passage on giving in all the Bible I shared with you two weeks ago.
So, saying that, turn back to Malachi Chapter 3.
The name Malachi literally means "My messenger," and Malachi delivered his message in a day and age much like the day and age in which you and I live.
Here are people who have forgotten God and forsaken God, and as a result, the ble ...
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