Poor-ly Done (4 of 6)
Series: The Six Sins Of Sodom
Jeff Strite
Ezekiel 16:48-50
OPEN: A woman wrote in Reader's Digest about the time when she 10 ten years old and she found a wallet. There wasn't any money in it, just a paper with a phone number and address on it. But she knew how these things worked. She'd return the wallet to its owner and THEN she'd get a reward! She called the number she'd found in the wallet all day long but nobody answered. So, she pestered her dad until he finally gave up and drove her to the owner's address. When they got there, was obvious the family that lived there wasn't well off. It was a modest military housing unit with a torn screen door.
She wrote: ''As I rang the bell, my dad took three $20 bills and tucked them into the wallet.'' (Ann Douglas Vaughan, Newport News, VA in Reader's Digest 7/14, p. 22)
APPLY: Now, what was she expecting when she returned the wallet? MONEY! To her 10 year old mind, she deserved a financial reward for helping someone else - and you really can't blame her. She was only 10 years old. But there are adults who think that very same way.
The idea of giving money away just doesn't make sense to a lot of people. I NEED that money. I have bills to pay, I have improvements I need to make on my house and car, etc., I have to entertain myself and satisfy my basic human desires, I have vacations I want to take, and... well, I have WANTS. There are things that I want to buy that would make me feel good about myself.
Now did you notice what that little girl's father taught her that day? He taught her that sometimes other people need money more than we do. Sometimes it's the right thing to help out the poor and the needy. Sometimes it's more blessed to give than to receive.
More blessed to give than to receive? Where have I heard that before? Does anybody remember who said that? That's right - it was Jesus.
In Acts 20:35 Paul reminded the Elders from Ephesus: ''In all things I have shown y ...
Series: The Six Sins Of Sodom
Jeff Strite
Ezekiel 16:48-50
OPEN: A woman wrote in Reader's Digest about the time when she 10 ten years old and she found a wallet. There wasn't any money in it, just a paper with a phone number and address on it. But she knew how these things worked. She'd return the wallet to its owner and THEN she'd get a reward! She called the number she'd found in the wallet all day long but nobody answered. So, she pestered her dad until he finally gave up and drove her to the owner's address. When they got there, was obvious the family that lived there wasn't well off. It was a modest military housing unit with a torn screen door.
She wrote: ''As I rang the bell, my dad took three $20 bills and tucked them into the wallet.'' (Ann Douglas Vaughan, Newport News, VA in Reader's Digest 7/14, p. 22)
APPLY: Now, what was she expecting when she returned the wallet? MONEY! To her 10 year old mind, she deserved a financial reward for helping someone else - and you really can't blame her. She was only 10 years old. But there are adults who think that very same way.
The idea of giving money away just doesn't make sense to a lot of people. I NEED that money. I have bills to pay, I have improvements I need to make on my house and car, etc., I have to entertain myself and satisfy my basic human desires, I have vacations I want to take, and... well, I have WANTS. There are things that I want to buy that would make me feel good about myself.
Now did you notice what that little girl's father taught her that day? He taught her that sometimes other people need money more than we do. Sometimes it's the right thing to help out the poor and the needy. Sometimes it's more blessed to give than to receive.
More blessed to give than to receive? Where have I heard that before? Does anybody remember who said that? That's right - it was Jesus.
In Acts 20:35 Paul reminded the Elders from Ephesus: ''In all things I have shown y ...
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