Luke 6:38-40 (New Living Translation)
38 Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.”

39 Then Jesus gave the following illustration: “Can one blind person lead another? Won’t they both fall into a ditch? 40 Students are not greater than their teacher. But the student who is fully trained will become like the teacher.

I. The thesis of generosity (v. 38)
• God will act

to us in judgment, forgiveness, and giving.
• God allows us to test him in one area – to

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Him. (Lk. 4:12)
• The tithe is investing

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% of our income and time into God’s kingdom.
• The tithe measures our

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but never our generosity. (Lk. 11:42)
• God can do more with

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% than we can with

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%.
II. The sight of generosity (v. 39)
• Obedience to the tithe is the

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to seeing generosity.
• There are two

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for life: 1. other people’s stuff exists to serve me. 2. my stuff exists to serve others.
• The non-generous Christian lacks spiritual sight to see God as

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and

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of our resources. (Lk. 19:12-27)
• The illustration reminds us that our practice of generosity reveals
our current

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and future

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.
• The orbit of every life intersects with

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the lives of others.
III. The teacher of generosity (v. 40)
• The second illustration for God’s symmetry of generosity towards us is the “

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” dynamic.
• Jesus is the

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for generosity.
• Discipleship and salvation can be

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due to exploitation of God. (Jer. 3:8)
• Jesus did not redeem us to make us

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from giving.
• Jesus redeemed us to restore us to the status of the

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in love, generosity, and service.

1. Read Luke 6:38. What have you learned in this series from our thesis verse about the importance of being generous and how does this relate to sowing and reaping? Why can’t God bless Christians who are not generous with their time, affection, and resources?
2. Read Luke 6:39 & Matthew 23:23. How do Christians lead other Christians into the ditch with generosity? How do you feel knowing that other Christians are following your example with generosity? Even though Jesus endorses the tithe in Matthew 23:23 he states that there are more important things. What are these things and how do we demonstrate generosity with them?
3. Read Luke 6:40. How does being obedient to the tithe help us to be generous? Why isn’t the tithe a measure for generosity? Why is Jesus the ultimate standard for generosity? What are examples of ways that we can serve and bless others with the same attitude that Jesus had?
4. Did anything else stand out to you from the sermon that you have questions about in this passage of Scripture?