Sunday, January 10, 2016

The Cost of the Journey

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Point 1: Don't curse the 90% DEMONSTRATE
Malachi 3:6-11 - 6 “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. 7 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty. “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’
8 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me.10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the Lord Almighty.
A. God gives you most of your money to move forwardmanage it better
B. You contaminate the 90% when you use the 10%
C. Set yourself up to take care of the pest/pestilence
Point 2:  Release the power of 10%
A. Genesis 8:2222 “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
B. Galatians 6:7 7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
C. Corinthians 9: 6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously

Point 3: Paul’s prescription for giving

A. Give freely/cheerfully  2 Corinthians 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. 8 And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
B. 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.
C. Give to a cause – Acts 2: 45 and they began selling their property and possessions, and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need.
Life application
1. Do the 90-day tithe challenge
2. Sign up and attend Monday Money Matters small group
3. Sign-up and attend small groups to go deeper

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