GENEROUS GIVING (3 OF 3)
by Brad Whitt
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 9:6-11
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Title: Generous Giving (3 of 3)
Series: My All
Author: Brad Whitt
Text: 2 Corinthians 9:6-11
INTRODUCTION
Take your Bibles this morning and find your place at 2 Corinthians chapter 9, if you would.
Illustration: I don't know if you saw it, but this past Friday ABCNews had an article on a four-year-old young man named Christopher Bess. A video of him went viral showing him shadowing his father, Reginald, who is an assistant basketball coach at Tarboro High School in North Carolina. The video shows Christopher shaking his head, pounding his chest, throwing towels, and talking to the players in the locker room - just like his dad. His father told the reporter, "My wife always asked me, 'Where does he get these antics from?' I'm like, 'I don't know about throwing down the towel. I've never done that.'" "I never in a million years realized what he was doing behind me, as far as imitating everything that I do," said Bess.
I tell you that story to teach this lesson:
Our God is a generous, giving God and as His children we should seek to be more like our Heavenly Father each and every day.
What does John 3:16, the Bible's best-known, most loved verse tell us about our great, gracious, generous God?
It tells us that -
- Love gives first.
- Love gives best.
- Love gives all.
That's why this morning - if you're new to the Christian life, or even if you've been a Christian for many, many years - I want to show you from the Bible how and why you should live generously and graciously in a greedy world.
2 Corinthians 9:6-11, "But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. 9 As it is written: "He has disper ...
Series: My All
Author: Brad Whitt
Text: 2 Corinthians 9:6-11
INTRODUCTION
Take your Bibles this morning and find your place at 2 Corinthians chapter 9, if you would.
Illustration: I don't know if you saw it, but this past Friday ABCNews had an article on a four-year-old young man named Christopher Bess. A video of him went viral showing him shadowing his father, Reginald, who is an assistant basketball coach at Tarboro High School in North Carolina. The video shows Christopher shaking his head, pounding his chest, throwing towels, and talking to the players in the locker room - just like his dad. His father told the reporter, "My wife always asked me, 'Where does he get these antics from?' I'm like, 'I don't know about throwing down the towel. I've never done that.'" "I never in a million years realized what he was doing behind me, as far as imitating everything that I do," said Bess.
I tell you that story to teach this lesson:
Our God is a generous, giving God and as His children we should seek to be more like our Heavenly Father each and every day.
What does John 3:16, the Bible's best-known, most loved verse tell us about our great, gracious, generous God?
It tells us that -
- Love gives first.
- Love gives best.
- Love gives all.
That's why this morning - if you're new to the Christian life, or even if you've been a Christian for many, many years - I want to show you from the Bible how and why you should live generously and graciously in a greedy world.
2 Corinthians 9:6-11, "But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. 9 As it is written: "He has disper ...
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