LAY SOMETHING ASIDE

1 Corinthians 16:1-4

TWO NEEDS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

• Gifts are sent to saints in need• 1 Corinthians 16:1-4

• Gifts are collected to support the ministering of God’s Word• Philippians 4:16-17• Ministers are “worthy of their wages”

• Luke 10:7, 1 Timothy 5:18

COLLECTION FOR THE SAINTS

• “On the first day of the week”• Tells us when

• “As I have given orders to the churches of Galatia”• Tells us who

• “Storing up as he may prosper”• Tells us who

• “Whomever you approve by your letters I will send to bear your gift to Jerusalem”• Tells us to cut out the middle man in our giving as a

church

ATTITUDES OF GIVING

• Liberality – 2 Cor. 8:1-3• Urgency – 2 Cor. 8:4-5• Grace – 2 Cor. 8:6-9• Love – 2 Cor. 8:24- 9:4• Cheerfulness – 2 Cor. 6-9• Thankfulness towards our God – 2 Cor.

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THE WOMAN AT THE TEMPLE

• Luke 21:1-4• And He looked up and saw the rich putting their

gifts into the treasury, 2 and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. 3 So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; 4 for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had.”