Jubilee is about TRUE

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Jubilee is about TRUE

• REST
• OWNERSHIP
• GENEROSITY
• RELIANCE
• FREEDOM
• COMMITMENT

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• Obseving/watched
• ??e??e?
• etheorei
• To look, see, watch, observe

Imperfect tense
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WBC 2008 Budget

• 730,080

52 weeks
14,040
Average through April 14,667
(If one large gift of 40,000 is removed
12,3314)
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Jesus observes how you use His money.
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• Small copper coins
• ?ept??
• Leptos

To peel, to scale like a fish, fine, thin,
small, light
A small copper coins equivalent 1/5 of a cent.
In fact, the lepton is probably the lowest
denomination coin ever struck by any nation in
all of history!
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Jesus evaluates how you handle His money.
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How we use our money demonstrates the reality of
our love for God. In some ways it proves our
love more conclusively than depth of knowledge,
length of prayers or prominence of service.
These things can be feigned, but the use of our
possessions shows us up for what we actually
are. Charles R. Ryrie
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Money cuts deeply into character. Its a
spiritual barometer, a far more accurate index of
your relationship to Jesus Christ than any other
element, including prayer, Bible reading and
witnessing. Howard Hendricks
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Acts 53-6, 9 (NASB)

• But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled
  your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep
  back some of the price of the land? While it
  remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And
  after it was sold, was it not under your control?
  Why is it that you have conceived this deed in
  your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.
  And as he heard

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Acts 53-6, 9 (cont.)

• these words, Ananias fell down and breathed his
  last and great fear came over all who heard of
  it. The young men got up and covered him up, and
  after carrying him out, they buried him.

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Matthew 62-4 (NASB)

• So when you give to the poor, do not sound a
  trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the
  synagogues and in the streets, so that they may
  be honored by men Truly I say to you, they have
  their reward in full.
• But when you give to the poor, do not let your
  left hand know what your

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Matthew 62-4 (cont.)

• right hand is doing, so that your giving will be
  in secret and your Father who sees what is done
  in secret will reward you.

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I Timothy 610 (NASB)
For the love of money is a root of all sorts of
evil, and some by longing for it have wandered
away from the faith and pierced themselves with
many griefs.
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What sort of evil can come from the love of money?
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I Timothy 617-19 (NASB)

• Instruct those who are rich in this present
  world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on
  the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly
  supplies us with all things to enjoy.
• Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good
  works, to be generous and ready to share, storing
  up for themselves the treasure of a good

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I Timothy 617-19 (cont.)

• foundation for the future, so that they may take
  hold of that which is life indeed.

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Matthew 617-19 (NASB)

• But you, when you fast, anoint your head and
  wash your face so that your fasting will not be
  noticed by men, but by your Father who is in
  secret and your Father who sees what is done in
  secret will reward you. Do not store up for
  yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and
  rust destroy, and where thieves break in and
  steal.

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How can we store up treasures in heaven?
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Although the Bible usually speaks to broad
principles rather than specific guidelines on
money, it does present one action that is open to
all of us.  We can disarm the power of money by
giving it away.  ---Phil Yancey
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Jesus wasn't for or against money. His focus was
on our hearts. He was more interested in our
motives than our moneyAccordingly, I believe
Jesus wants us to be rivers instead of
reservoirs. Just as a river allows fresh water to
constantly flow through -- we need to hold God's
blessings loosely. We
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can, and should, enjoy the material gifts God
brings into our lives. But we need to "be ready
unto every good work" (paraphrased from Titus
214) -- ready to share and pass what we have on
to others.---Steve Diggs
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Money can do more to you than it can do for you.
Money is a good servant but a poor master. When
you learn to give, you learn to control your
money not let it control you.
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• Surplus/wealth
• pe??sse?? perisseuo
• From abundance
• To be over and above, to abound, to have more
  than enough to have left over, surplus

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Why is Jesus so impressed with the widows gift?
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Acts 537 (NASB)

• After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the
  days of the census and drew away some people
  after him he too perished, and all those who
  followed him were scattered.

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I Kings 1712-16 (NASB)

• But she said, As the LORD your God lives, I
  have no bread, only a handful of flour in the
  bowl and a little oil in the jar and behold, I
  am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and
  prepare for me and my son, that we may eat it and
  die. Then Elijah said to her, Do not fear go,
  do as you have said, but make me a

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I Kings 1712-16 (cont.)

• little bread cake from it first and bring it out
  to me, and afterward you may make one for
  yourself and for your son. For thus says the LORD
  God of Israel, 'The bowl of flour shall not be
  exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil be empty,
  until the day that the LORD sends rain on the
  face of the earth. So she went and did

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I Kings 1712-16 (cont.)

• according to the word of Elijah, and she and he
  and her household ate for many days. The bowl of
  flour was not exhausted nor did the jar of oil
  become empty, according to the word of the LORD
  which He spoke through Elijah.

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John 123-8 (NASB)

• Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of
  pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and
  wiped His feet with her hair and the house was
  filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But
  Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was
  intending to betray Him, said, Why was this
  perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and
  given to poor people?

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John 123-8 (cont.)

• Now he said this, not because he was concerned
  about the poor, but because he was a thief, and
  as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what
  was put into it. Therefore Jesus said, Let her
  alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My
  burial. For you always have the poor with you,
  but you do not always have Me.

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• Commitment elevates the value of the gift.
• Commitment will never come from your abundance
  but rather from your life.
• Commitment demands that you travel light there
  will be things that you must be willing to give
  up.
• Commitment is being watched by God even when we
  do not suspect it.

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• God directs you to give regularly
• if I make a sacrifice
• if God blesses

• SHOULD
• COULD
• WOULD

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How you handle His money reveals your love for
and your faith in the Lord.
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New Entrance

• New Stairs
• New Lift

• Lower Level Move mens room
• Upper Level Open Lobby (no stairs)

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Worship Center Expansion Additional 20 feet

• Expanded Platform with Storage on Each Side
• Room for 100 more chairs

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June 29 Celebration Sunday

• Green Bags regular offering
• First Fruit Basket banks/cash/checks for
  Jubilee
• Commitment Basket 3 year commitments to be
  completed by end of 2011

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June 29 Celebration Sunday

• Green Bag 50.00
• First Fruit 1,000 (600 tax rebate 400
  extra)
• Commitment 3,000 (given as God provides,
  marked Jubilee, above regular giving)

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Hebrews 116 (NASB)

• And without faith it is impossible to please
  Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He
  is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek
  Him.