Sunday Morning April 22, 2012
scriptures: Malachi 3, Mark 12, 1 Corinthians 16, Malachi 1, Romans 1, Romans 2
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Housekeeping Notes
Tithes – One should be giving to the church to help the service continue
Malachi 3:8-11
Sometimes God would make people’s things fail because people fail to give to Him
Mark 12:41-44
Jesus watched how people gave. The widow stood out so much that He called the disciples to witness that she gave very much, even if the amount did not seem much. She gave all that she had. She didn’t think that being poor excused her from giving God what she could.
Everyone owes God.Our responsibility is always to God. He is never optional, He should be priority one.
1 Corinthians 16:1-2
Giving to God’s service is biblical.
Malachi 1:6-14
Your actions in not giving God your best says to God that His table is contemptible. Not doing what you know to do is good is sin.
Do your best to be your best for God. You don’t want to offer God less.
When you show no diligence to contribute to the work, it shows disrespect for the work of God and for the persons who are doing the work.
Sometimes an offering is polluted because of a lack of intention to do the best for God.
Teachers in the school system are responsible for finding a sub when they have to be out. Do you do that for your service to God?
Take it seriously. God said offering something blind, that is unpleasing to God, is evil.
If your church track record was used to recommend you for a job, how would it look?
It is an insult to treat the service of God as a weariness. Getting tired doing the things that you want to do and then telling God that His work is tiring or boring is bad. God said we are cursed if we give Him less than the best and less than full effort.
People who complain the most about being tired are doing the least work.
ROMANS
You cannot assume that you can just sin one more time and that God will forgive you. Some times God turns people over to a reprobate mind.
Roman 1:28-32
You need to make decisions in order to try to represent Christ.
Some people can’t do right just because they don’t want to do right due to a reprobate mind.
You have to decide whether or not you want to get your house in order. You have to evaluate and make a decision. Is it what God will accept?
Romans 2:4-9
There are some people you just cannot get through to. People who are so hard against God will one day be destroyed. There are blessings and cursings.
We all have to give an account of what we do for God.
Do you continuing to stay involved in well doing in God?
Or do you obey your emotions or whatever you feel at the time?
There will be problems for the evildoers. The way of the transgressor is hard.
If life is hard, you need to ask God what is it that you need to be.
You have to make a commitment to drop wrath out of your life. When you get saved, you give up all of the foolishness, anger, go-offness.
Take care of the house, take care of the home, take care of the heart.
Make God the priority and give Him the best. Be profitable.