Sunday, January 17, 2016

A Superior Journey

Sermon Text: 2 Corinthians 12: 13How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong
Sermon Title: My New Life Forward 2016 Pt 4 A Superior Journey
1.          Give generously 2 Cor. 9: 6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
2.          Give cheerfully 2 Cor. 9:7-8 7 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
3.          Give methodically 1 Cor. 16: 2 On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.
4.          Give to a cause 1 Cor. 16: 3c…send them with your gift to Jerusalem.

Point 1: Give out of your poverty 2 Cor. 8: 1 – 15
a)  Guts to give vss. 2 – 3 Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity (3) For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability
b)  Grace to give vs. 7c…see that you also in this grace of giving
c)  Give like Christ gave vs. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich
d)  Finisher giver vs. 11 Now finish the work, o that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means

Point 2: Give to fill your account Phil 4: 14 – 19

a)  Partners with God’s work vss. 14 – 16 Yet it was good of you to share in my troubles. (15) Moreover, as you Philippians know in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only; (16) For even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent me aid again and again when I was in need.
b)  Pleases God vs 18c…an acceptable sacrifice pleasing to God
c)  Pays off your needs vs. 19 And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus

Point 3: Give to change your status2 Cor. 9: 10, 11

a)  Financially 2 Corinthians 9: 10, 11 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed… (11) You will be made rich in every way so…
b)  Spiritually 2 Corinthians 9 10c…and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness

Life Application:
1.  Attend small group
2.  Automate the important…90 Day Tithe Challenge
3.  Prepare to give your first fruit
4.  Learn how to get out debt join IWBBNT



+Geoffrey V. Dudley, Sr.
Bishop Geoffrey V. Dudley, Sr., D.Min.
Senior Pastor New Life in Christ
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www.nlicic.org

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