Scrooge Was Right

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Scrooge Was Right

• Sometimes it is more
• Blessed to receive
• Acts 2033-35

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Introduction

• This holiday season is
• A time of giving
• A time of sharing
• A time of compassion
• Then there is Scrooge
• Janet sometimes thinks I am Scrooge
• Occasionally Scrooge is right
• Sometimes it is better to receive

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Introduction

• You remember the Scrooge of Charles Dickens A
  Christmas Carol

Or you may be thinking of Scrooge McDuck.
In some ways it is more blessed to receive
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Grace

• Grace is Gods gift to us
• Ephesians 28-9 - 8For by grace you have been
  saved through faith, and that not of yourselves
  it is the gift of God, 9not of works, lest anyone
  should boast. 10For we are His workmanship,
  created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
  prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
• Titus 211 - For the grace of God that brings
  salvation has appeared to all men,

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Grace

• Gods grace is amazing
• You cannot earn it
• You cannot deserve it
• It is a GIFT
• What we must do is ACCEPT it

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Blessings

• Blessings Spoken promises
• Ephesians 13 - Blessed be the God and Father of
  our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with
  every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places
  in Christ,
• Malachi 310 - Bring all the tithes into the
  storehouse, That there may be food in My house,
  And try Me now in this, Says the LORD of hosts,
  If I will not open for you the windows of heaven
  And pour out for you such blessing That there
  will not be room enough to receive it.

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Blessings

• 1 Peter 39 - not returning evil for evil or
  reviling for reviling, but on the contrary
  blessing, knowing that you were called to this,
  that you may inherit a blessing.
• We must learn that
• God promises us many things
• We must learn to receive them

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Peace

• There are 3 types of Peace
• Peace with God
• Peace with Others
• Peace with Self
• Jesus came as the Prince of Peace
• He came to give us peace
• John 1427 - Peace I leave with you, My peace I
  give to you not as the world gives do I give to
  you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let
  it be afraid.

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Power

1. Power of Faith
2. Power of Prayer
3. Power of Hope
4. Power of Love
5. Power of Forgiveness

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Pardon

• Pardon is offered
• We cannot earn or deserve it
• We can only receive it
• It is a GIFT from God
• It must be accepted!

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Contradiction?

• Jesus said it is more blessed to give than to
  receive
• This lesson pointed out some things that are
  better received
• NOTE
• Human to human better to give than receive
• God to human better to receive than to give

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Choice

• Today you have a choice
• You can give to others and reject the gifts from
  God
• You can accept the gifts from God and refuse to
  share with others
• OR You can accept Gods gifts AND gift gifts to
  others