Heart Treasure

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Heart Treasure
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Principle

• If you give, you will receive. Your gift will
  return to you in full measure, pressed down,
  shaken together to make room for more, and
  running over. Whatever measure you use in
  givinglarge or smallit will be used to measure
  what is given back to you. Luke 638 NLT

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Rationale

• Then he said to them, Watch out! Be on your
  guard against all kinds of greed a mans life
  does not consist in the abundance of his
  possessions. Luke 1215 NIV

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Gods Outlook

• 29Dont always think about what you will eat or
  what you will drink, and dont keep worrying.
  30All the people in the world are trying to get
  these things, and your Father knows you need
  them. 31But seek Gods kingdom, and all the other
  things you need will be given to you. Luke
  1229-31 NCV

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Surprises

• Well be surprised at the amount of money we have
  for the Lords work.
• At the deepening of our spiritual life.
• How easy it will be to meet our regular
  obligations as we manage the 90.
• How easy it will be to give more than a tenth as
  we test the Lords promise.
• Youll be surprised that you didnt start to
  tithe sooner.

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Heart Treasure

• 32So dont be afraid, little flock. For it
  gives your Father great happiness to give you the
  Kingdom. 33Sell what you have and give to those
  in need. This will store up treasure for you in
  heaven! And the purses of heaven have no holes in
  them. Your treasure will be safeno thief can
  steal it and no moth can destroy it. 34Wherever
  your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts
  will also be. Luke 1232-24 NLT

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Warning

• 11If you cannot be trusted with worldly riches,
  then who will trust you with true riches? 12And
  if you cannot be trusted with things that belong
  to someone else, who will give you things of your
  own?13No servant can serve two masters. The
  servant will hate one master and love the other,
  or will follow one master and refuse to follow
  the other. You cannot serve both God and worldly
  riches.

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Promise

• 29Yes, Jesus replied, and I assure you,
  everyone who has given up house or wife or
  brothers or parents or children, for the sake of
  the Kingdom of God, 30will be repaid many times
  over in this life, as well as receiving eternal
  life in the world to come. Luke 1829,30

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Leftovers

• 26Yes, the king replied, but to those who
  use well what they are given, even more will be
  given. But from those who are unfaithful, even
  what little they have will be taken away. Luke
  1926 NLT

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God hates leftovers!

• Think of it! Animals that are stolen and
  mutilated, crippled and sickpresented as
  offerings! Should I accept from you such
  offerings as these? asks the LORD. 14Cursed is
  the cheat who promises to give a fine ram from
  his flock but then sacrifices a defective one to
  the Lord. For I am a great king, says the LORD
  Almighty. Malachi 113b, 14

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Sacrificial Giving

• Just then he looked up and saw the rich people
  dropping offerings in the collection plate. Then
  he saw a poor widow put in two pennies. He said,
  The plain truth is that this widow has given by
  far the largest offering today. All these others
  made offerings that theyll never miss she gave
  extravagantly what she couldnt affordshe gave
  her all! Luke 211-4 The Message

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Proportional Giving

• Now I will write about the collection of money
  for Gods people. Do the same thing I told the
  Galatian churches to do 2On the first day of
  every week, each one of you should put aside
  money as you have been blessed. Save it up so you
  will not have to collect money after I come. 1
  Cor. 161,2
• For if the willingness is there, the gift is
  acceptable according to what one has, not
  according to what he does not have. 2 Cor. 812
  NLT

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• A man there was, and they called him mad the
  more he gave, the more he had! John Bunyan