My faith includes my finances

Generosity is a heart condition

BiG Idea: How I handle the

Generosity

1 Timothy 6:6–10
6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out. 8 If we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.9 But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Luke 18:18
18 A ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Luke 18:19-20
19 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good except God alone. 20 You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not bear false witness; honor your father and mother.”,

Luke 18:21
21 “I have kept all these from my youth,” he said.

Luke 18:22
22 When Jesus heard this, he told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell all you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

Matthew 6:21
21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Jesus calls me to

2 Corinthians 9:7
7 Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of compulsion, since God loves a cheerful giver.

Luke 18:23
23 After he heard this, he became extremely sad, because he was very rich.

Good Behavior isn’t

Matthew 6:24
24 “No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

What would you struggle to give up?

What’s keeping me from

Generosity is a

Mark 8:34–37
34 Calling the crowd along with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and the gospel will save it. 36 For what does it benefit someone to gain the whole world and yet lose his life? 37 What can anyone give in exchange for his life?

Luke 18:24-26
24 Seeing that he became sad, Jesus said, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! 25 For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” 26 Those who heard this asked, “Then who can be saved?”

Luke 18:27
27 He replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

Generosity is an act of