THE JUMP: The Generosity Jump

Sunday November 17th, 2024

One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.(Prov 11:24)

LIVING THE LIFE YOU HAVE ALWAYS WANTED

• Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered. (Prov 11:25)

• All day long he craves and craves, but the righteous gives and does not hold back. (Prov 21:26)

• …remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” (Acts 20:35)

• A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge. (Prov 29:7)

• Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered. (Prov 21:13)

• When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved because I delivered the poor who cried for help and the fatherless who had none to help him. The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth. (Job 29:11-17)

• Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor. (Prov 22:9)

• Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse. (Prov 28:27)

• Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed. (Prov 19:17)

• “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done. (Rev 22:12)

• But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.” (Lk 12:20-21)

• “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. (Mt 6:24)

• For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs. (1 Tim 6:10)

THE WORLD OF THE GENEROUS

• It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice. For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever. He has distributed freely; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn is exalted in honor. (Ps 112:5-6, 9)

• 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.” (Lk 6:38)

A LEGACY LIFE

• “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” ( 1 Thessalonians 5:18)

• Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me. (Phil 4:11-13)

• I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. (Rom 12:1)

• Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. (Heb 13:16)

• For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, (2 Cor 8:3)

• Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (Heb 11:1)

• “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, (Mt 6:19)

• Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. (Eph 5:15-16)

• But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also. (2 Cor 8:7)

• But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, will be blessed in his doing. (James 1:25)

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