The People Generous Confidential

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Sunday Morning Worship August 28 ,2022
The P’s of giving

Selected scripture
The plan
The people
Review!
For Christians, the decision to give is not primarily financial in nature.
It’s rooted in the nature of God and our relationship with Him.
We learned 4 weeks ago:
1. The person behind the plan
▪ This person is:

1.1 The Sovereign
1.1.1 God’s sovereignty was seen by virtue of creation
1.1.2 God’s sovereignty was seen by virtue of Procreation
1.2 The Savior

1.2.1 This savior was a teacher
1.2.2 This savior was a giver
2. The people in the plan

▪ When God made the plan of giving, who is the people in mind to receive it?
2.1 The people he created

2.2 The people he regenerated
3. The projection of the plan

Two things to share about God’s projection of Giving.
3.1 Material projection

▪ God has created these things to provide all our needs.
3.2 Spiritual projection
▪ As to our Christian life

God gave his nature for us to live in godliness.
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We have given eternal life
▪ As to our Christian love

God gave us the capacity to give for the Lord’s work.
The first P of giving was the:

I. The PLAN of Giving
The second P is on the second week now!

II. The PEOPLE of giving
The people of giving!
Intro:
“People go through three conversions in their Christian faith: their head, their heart,
and their hand”.
Today, we’re going to learn the kind of scriptural givers we found in the scriptures.
Last week!
1. Generous people
Generous people are openhanded people; Liberal in giving
As we have learned last Sunday, we learned that:
Generous giver is:
1.1 Reverential in their giving
We learned that a generous giver gives in the light honor. Generous giver
gives to honor God.
Proverbs 3:9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits
of all thine increase:
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Giving is not detach to honor, or honoring someone.
For example, to the elder or Pastor of the church:

1 Timothy 5:17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double
honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. 18 For the
scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.
And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
In returning our tithes:

Leviticus 27:30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the
land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD.
Many verses that will tell us that giving is so attach to giving honor.
The second point I’d like to share about the generous giver is that:
Not just Reverential in their giving:

But also today:
1.2 Confidential in their giving

This term is widely known as “secret” or “top secret” it is sometimes
means “classified” when it has to do with security.
But the term was first known in 18century as “willingness to confide”
Confide means to have confidence or trust. Some related words are,

commit or entrust.
So, the use of the word “confidential” in this lesson about giving, is this:
Giving that is full of trust or confidence.
Generous giver gives with a trustful heart. Thus, generous giver does not
expect something in return for he/she trust the Lord will recompense
everything he/she generously distributed.
Generous giver does not worry what to give for he/she knows God will
provide for him/he to give.
We are not giving enough because we don’t trust him enough.
Let me illustrate this truth:
If you are generous to the man of God, we may learn from this
Shunammite woman.
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2 Kings 4:8-17 (KJV)

8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great
woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft
as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an
holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for
him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall
be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the
chamber, and lay there.
12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he
had called her, she stood before him.
13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been
careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou
be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she
answered, I dwell among mine own people.
14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered,
Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the
door.
16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt
embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie
unto thine handmaid.
17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha
had said unto her, according to the time of life.
Another illustration of giving that is full of confidence.
The widow in Zarephath

1 Kings 17:8-16 (KJV)
8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there:
behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of
the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he
called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that
I may drink.
11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I
pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
12 And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an
handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am
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gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that
we may eat it, and die.
13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but
make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make
for thee and for thy son.
14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not
waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD
sendeth rain upon the earth.
15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and
he, and her house, did eat many days.
16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail,
according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
A trustful giver gives:

Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed
down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your
bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be
measured to you again.
In our church, we need people who are giving with confidence, with trust,
with faith- in that sense, a giving that is confidential that means a wiliness
to confide, to entrust to God.
A beautiful illustration found in repeatedly in the Gospel

Matt. 14: 13-21; Mark 6: 30-44; Luke 9: 10-17; John 6: 1-14
The four evangelists record this event when Jesus fed the 5000 men with
the 5 loaves and 2 fishes.
Though this miraculous work of Jesus must be on the front page, but it is
worthy to take note the lad who brought the 5 loaves and 2 fishes
unselfishly, generously, trustfully given to Jesus, so all the people can eat.
Generous people when they give, it is not only reverential in nature, it is

also confidential in culture. When we give trustfully, the Lord will use it
for the benefits of all. That’s supposed to be the culture of our giving- be
a channel of blessings.
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Sunday Morning Worship August 28 ,2022

The P’s of giving

▪ This person is:

1.2 The Savior

2. The people in the plan

2.1 The people he created

3. The projection of the plan

3.1 Material projection

3.2 Spiritual projection

▪ As to our Christian life

We have given eternal life

▪ As to our Christian love

The first P of giving was the:

The second P is on the second week now!

The people of giving!

Generous people are openhanded people; Liberal in giving

As we have learned last Sunday, we learned that:

Generous giver is:

1.1 Reverential in their giving

Giving is not detach to honor, or honoring someone.

For example, to the elder or Pastor of the church:

In returning our tithes:

Not just Reverential in their giving:

1.2 Confidential in their giving

But the term was first known in 18century as “willingness to confide”

Confide means to have confidence or trust. Some related words are,

We are not giving enough because we don’t trust him enough.

Let me illustrate this truth:

2 Kings 4:8-17 (KJV)

Another illustration of giving that is full of confidence.

The widow in Zarephath

A trustful giver gives:

A beautiful illustration found in repeatedly in the Gospel

Generous people when they give, it is not only reverential in nature, it is

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