March 11 2012 Love In The Life Without Limits

/ Great Plains Community Church/

Love In The Life Without Limits

Mark 12:41-44

Verse 41-42 - Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the Temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts, but a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny.
Three Lessons on Giving Living

1. Your giving is a symbol of your Faith.
Verse 42 - The poor widow woman came.

Matthew 6:33 - But seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

2. Giving needs to be sacrificial.
Verse 44 - But she, out of her poverty, put in everything, all she had to live on.

Romans 12:1-2 - I beseech you therefore brethren that you present your bodies a living sacrifice unto God.

3. Giving expresses love.
Matthew 22:36-37 - Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law? Jesus replied, love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.

Three Practical Thoughts on Life Without Limits

1. Only the gift that costs really counts.
2 Samuel 24:24 - Neither will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.

2. Our privacy is a gift to give.
Paul said - We have been bought with a price.

3. Being personal with others.