What does the word “honor” mean? According to the dictionary the word “honor” means to esteem, to respect, to admire, to look up to, to appreciate, to value, to cherish, to adore, to worship or to put someone on a pedestal.
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Have you ever received a promotion at a job before? That can be an exciting day right? A day filled with happiness. A day of promotion is a day of affirmation for a job well done. But it’s also a day where you receive more responsibility right? It’s the kind of day we see in the passage we are looking at today.
What do you think it will be like to be alive when Jesus returns? You’ve spent your life on this earth for however many years you’ve been alive and then boom, Jesus comes back and he’s standing at the door of your house. What do you do? How do you feel? What will that day be like?
What are the results of people giving away their time, talent and treasure? What is the outcome of our generosity? Why should we be generous?
Why is it important to give? Our giving is an investment that reflects our belief in the generosity of God in the gospel.
When I was a kid I was part of a boy’s club called Royal Rangers. Think, Boy Scouts meets Jesus. One of the things the leaders of this club taught us was what they called the Royal Ranger Motto. Every time a leader would yell “What’s the Royal Ranger motto?” We would yell at the top of our lungs, “Ready. Ready to work, play, serve, worship, live and obey God’s Word.”
Think about your commitment to the community of the gospel for a minute. We begin in the community of the gospel as consumers in need of the community of the gospel. Then we are transformed by the gospel into a community of contributors who continue to receive benefits in gospel community but also begin to give generously to one another as we mature in the gospel.
God generously loves you and he generously saves you therefore we should be motivated to give generously because of the message of the gospel. When we give generously it is a tangible expression or a genuine extension of our love for others in the gospel, which proves the authenticity of our love for the Lord.
Think about the crazy acts of generosity you’ve witnessed in other Christians. How often have you been the recipient of someone else’s sacrificial generosity? How have you been blessed or even challenged by someone else’s generosity? I believe that God wants us to be examples of generosity because he has been so generous to us through the cross of Christ.
How do you stop worrying? That seems like the million dollar question. We know what we worry about. We usually worry about earthly things. We worry about food and drink and clothing. We worry about physical needs.