slides for sermon

1. LAY SOMETHING
ASIDE
1 Corinthians 16:1-4

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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. 10-
14

5. 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.”