1. David Thompson Sunday 4 th November 2012 Part 8: Your Money or Your Life? Acts 4:32 – 5:11

2. …great GRACE was on them all… They were filled with the Spirit They preached Jesus They were on mission They cared for one another They were generous

3. So what went wrong?

6. Hypocrisy! Giving Matthew 6:2 “When you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you like the hypocrites do…”

7. Hypocrisy! Giving Praying Matthew 6:5 “And when you pray you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand… that they may be seen by others.”

8. Hypocrisy! Giving Praying Fasting Matthew 6:16 “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites…”

9. Hypocrisy! Giving Praying Fasting Worship Matthew 22:18 “Jesus, aware of their malice, said ‘Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?’”

10. Hypocrisy! Giving Praying Fasting Worship Mark 7:6 “This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.”

11. Hypocrisy! Giving Praying Fasting Worship Teaching Luke 6:42 “How can you say ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye’ when you do not see the log that is in your own eye. You hypocrite.”

12. Hypocrisy! Giving Praying Fasting Worship Teaching Looking cool Luke 12:56 “You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?”

13. Live righteously Fear God

17. Live righteously Fear God Be motivated by grace

18. 2 Corinthians 9:6-7 “Each must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.”