GIVE

Sunday Sermon
March 21, 2010
Rhema Community Church

Sermonic Skeleton:

Sermonic Pericope: ESV Luke 6:38 give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you."

Sermonic Theme: Judgment (Jesus forbade his followers from indulging in hypocritical judging of other people. This is not the same as exercising discernment between right and wrong, which Jesus did encourage.)

Sermonic Subject: The Doctrine of Stewardship (Generosity)

Sermonic Tension: Measure (You get what you give.)

Sermonic Sentence: Give today from the abundance God keeps given you. (Abraham, Hannah, the widow of Zarephath, The boy who gave up his lunch, Christ Jesus our Lord…etc.)

Sermonic Footnote: You cannot afford not to give. (Life’s fulfillment is in the act of giving.)

Sermonic Question: Do you desire goodness in abundance? (Well …etc. GIVE!)

Sermonic Help: We may so give for God as to get in the giving, so spend as to increase in the spending, so die for God as to live more than ever. (Spurgeon at his best)

The events at the end of the world at which Jesus will judge the living and the dead. This will be the final triumph of God’s will and justice. See: Matthew 10.15; 18.23-35; 24.43-51; 25.31-46; Mark 14.62; Luke 17.20-31; John 5.24-35; 1 Thessalonians 5.3; Galatians 5.5; Colossians 3.4; 1 Corinthians 6.1-5; Romans 8.31-39; 1 Peter 1.5-9

Sermonic Title: Give

Sermonic Structure:

I. We are Commanded to Give (give,)

II. We are Compensated for what we Give (and it will be given to you…etc.)

III. We are in Control of the amount we Give (for with the measure you use…etc.)