Focus On Giving Acts 20:32-35

“But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.” 2 Corinthians 8:7, ESV

Some Bible Teaching On Giving Focus On Giving – Acts 20:32-35

“The Bible has more to say about giving than it says about faith, repentance, confession, baptism, and church organization all combined.” V.P. Black

Moses & The Tabernacle

Exodus 35

David & The Temple

1 Chronicles 29

The Prophets

1 Samuel 2:29

Malachi 1:6-9 “You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings, or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, or wearied you with frankincense. You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.” (Isaiah 43:23–24, ESV) “For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.” (Ezekiel 20:28, ESV)

Jesus & The Disciples

Mark 12:41-44

Paul & The Corinthians

2 Corinthians 8-9

“Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards” – William Arthur Ward

“You and I can never do a kindness too soon, for we never know how soon it will be too late.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do we give like we should?

Do we exhort one another to give like we should?

Some Attitudes & Principles On Giving Focus On Giving – Acts 20:32-35

How can we be encouraged to grow in the grace of giving?

How can we encourage one another to grow in the grace of giving?

Follow God’s Example

Acts 17:28 “If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:11, ESV)

Philippians 2

Be A Good Steward

Psalm 24:1 “Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.” (Deuteronomy 8:17–18, ESV)

Matthew 25 “So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.” (Romans 14:12, ESV)

Be Obedient To God’s Command

“God prospers us not to raise our standard of living, but our standard of giving.”

Galatians 6:10 “Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.” (Ephesians 4:28, ESV) “But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?” (1 John 3:17, ESV)

1 Corinthians 16:1-2 “If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows.” (1 Timothy 5:16, ESV)

Store Up Treasure In Heaven

Matthew 6:19-21

How should we give?

Freely & Joyfully

2 Corinthians 9:6-7

Purposefully

2 Corinthians 9:7

Give Your Best

Proverbs 3:9-10 “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33, ESV)

God has blessed you so much!

God has blessed us to bless others!

God wants us to grow in the grace of giving! “And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.” (Ephesians 4:11–16, ESV)

“But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.” 2 Corinthians 8:7, ESV

Are you abounding in the grace of giving?

Focus On Giving Acts 20:32-35