Where Your Treasure Is…                        

         

   Money over Matter: Could vs Should – The Treasure Principle

   Haggai 1 / Malachi 1

June 3, 2007

 

 

getting’ goin’ …

 

How much?

 

Leviticus 27:30 –

 

  - tithe =

 

 

       …tithing… the ‘floor’, not the ‘ceiling’

 

Which part?

 

Proverbs 3:9

 

  - Malachi 1:6-14 / Haggai 1

 

How do we fare?   …STATS!

 

Gross or Net?

 

God sees the heart, not the hand…the giver, not the gift.

 

 

Give: now or later?

 

What about my kids?

 

 

  - plan to leave some, but not enough to change their need

to depend on God to provide…

 

“We are merely God’s money managers. 

What would you think if your money manager

left all your money to his children.”

 

Isn’t 10% a lot?

 

…could or should

 

  - “The daily factor” –

 

Can I slide by…cheat?

 

 

Malachi 3:8-12

 

  - giving “gradually”  …

 

    * the point is to not rob God at all…not just to rob

Him less

 

 

“God looks at what we keep, too!”

 

 

Exodus 36:5-7

 

God gives to me AS I give to Him…

 

Luke 6:38

 

“God prospers me not to raise my standard of living,

but to raise my standard of giving.”     - Randy Alcorn

 

II Corinthians 9:10-11 - not the “prosperity gospel”

 

“I will not give to the Lord that which costs me nothing.”