1. A Generous Heart

3. The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world and all who live in it Psalm 24:1

4. A Generous Heart God’s Whose is it?Whose is it?

5. A Generous Heart Psalm 50:8-13

6. A Generous Heart I don't find fault with your acts of worship, the frequent burnt sacrifices you offer. But why should I want your blue-ribbon bull, or more and more goats from your herds? Every creature in the forest is mine, the wild animals on all the mountains. I know every mountain bird by name; the scampering field mice are my friends. If I get hungry, do you think I'd tell you? All creation and its bounty are mine.

7. A Generous Heart

8. I want each of you to take plenty of time to think it over and make up your mind what you will give. 2 Corinthians 9:7

9. A Generous Heart 1.Not a regulated activity 2.Emerges from intimacy not law 3.I love You, thank You 4.I want to give You something before I steward the rest

10. A Generous Heart So what should we do?

11. A Generous Heart Biblical Principles Now about the collection for God’s people … on the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up so that when I come no collections will need to be made…. 1 Corinthians 16:2

12. A Generous Heart Now about the collection for God’s people … on the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up so that when I come no collections will need to be made…. 1 Corinthians 16:2

13. A Generous Heart Now about the collection for God’s people … on the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up so that when I come no collections will need to be made…. 1 Corinthians 16:2

14. A Generous Heart Now about the collection for God’s people … on the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up so that when I come no collections will need to be made…. 1 Corinthians 16:2

15. A Generous Heart Now about the collection for God’s people … on the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up so that when I come no collections will need to be made…. 1 Corinthians 16:2

16. A Generous Heart Now about the collection for God’s people … on the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up so that when I come no collections will need to be made…. 1 Corinthians 16:2

17. A Generous Heart The “10%” Then Abram gave him (Melchizedek) a tenth of everything. Genesis 14: 20 If God will be with me and will watch over me … of all that You give me I will give you a tenth. Genesis 28:20-22

18. A Generous Heart The First-fruits or Offerings When you have settled in the land the Lord is giving you … take some of the first- fruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land that the Lord your God is giving you and put them in a basket … and take it to the Priest. Deuteronomy 26:1-11

19. A Generous Heart Now about the collection for God’s people … on the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up so that when I come no collections will need to be made…. 1 Corinthians 16:2

20. A Generous Heart Now about the collection for God’s people … on the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up so that when I come no collections will need to be made…. 1 Corinthians 16:2

21. A Generous Heart Biblical Principles Now about the collection for God’s people … on the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up so that when I come no collections will need to be made…. 1 Corinthians 16:2

22. A Generous Heart Giving Is not about how Is not about how much

23. A Generous Heart It is not about how much Jesus sat down to watch the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny. Jesus said, “This poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.” Mark 12:41-44

24. A Generous Heart Giving Is not about how Is not about how much Is not about the need

25. A Generous Heart Giving Is not about how Is not about how much Is not about the need Is not about reward Is not even about God But it is All about you

26. A Generous Heart Jesus said, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart is also.” Matthew 6: 19-21

27. A Generous Heart