Many Christians regard their financial giving as little more than a goodwill gesture to God for the service He has rendered to us. They think that as long as they have given their “weakly” [weekly] offering to God, the rest is theirs to handle as they please.<\/p>\n
Folks, the Christian life consists of more than just money or possessions (Luke 12:15; cf. 1 Timothy 6:17-19).<\/p>\n
The Bible tells us that our Creator owns the cattle on a thousand hills (Psalm 50:10). The world is Mine ….. and all its fullness (Psalm 50:12). Everything comes from Him, and everything we have belongs to Him including our very existence<\/strong> (cf. Acts 17:25).<\/p>\n God has not only provided us with every material thing we need (Matthew 6:33), He also provides us with every spiritual benefit “in Christ” (Ephesians 1:3).<\/p>\n Paul used the liberality of the Macedonian Christians as an illustration of what our giving should look like in the light of Gods generosity toward us. Financially speaking, the Macedonians were in deep poverty, but gave with “liberality” (2 Corinthians 8:2) their liberality being contingent upon their first “giving themselves to the Lord (2 Corinthians 8:5).<\/p>\n Brethren and friends, God doesn’t need any financial aid from us rather, He wants our whole being!<\/strong><\/p>\n When I survey the wondrous cross<\/strong> <\/strong>Were the whole realm of nature mine,<\/strong> Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n Many Christians regard their financial giving as little more than a goodwill gesture to God for the service He has rendered to us. They think that as long as they have given their “weakly” [weekly] offering to God, the rest is theirs to handle as they please. Folks, the Christian life consists of more than … Continue reading “On First Giving Ourselves To The Lord – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
<\/strong> On which the Prince of glory died,<\/strong>
<\/strong> My richest gain I count but loss<\/strong>
<\/strong> And pour contempt on all my pride.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
<\/strong> That were a present far too small;<\/strong>
<\/strong> Love so amazing, so divine,<\/strong>
<\/strong> Demands my soul, my life, my all.<\/strong><\/em> Isaac Watts<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n