I want to share my thoughts on a very serious topic today, serious because it has become exceedingly controversial lately and many people do not agree with the one-sided unbalanced messages from the pulpit on Giving. It has generated lots of bad blood within the Ecclesia, and the Laity have become emboldened in challenging the Clergy with respect to the perceived imbalance in presenting a very Lovely Doctrine of Giving and Receiving.
I’ll start my Inspire Today piece by asking some very simple questions and give the general answers to the same questions…
Question: Is This Passage In The Bible; ‘…and to remember the Words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, It Is More Blessed To Give Than To Receive’ (Acts 10 v 35)?
Answer: Yes
Question: Is this in red letter In the red lettered version, meaning our Lord Jesus Said So?
Answer: Yes
Question: Is God A Liar and Jesus As Well?
Answer: No way!
Question: Are Preachers Abusing The Magnanimity / Doctrine of Scriptures On Giving to Take Money From People?
Answer: Probably Yes!
Question: Should We Debate His Word and Disagree Because Of a Few Bad People who Are Involved In Scripture Abuse Over Their Flock?
Answer: No Way
The above Questions and Answers gives you my honest opinion on the topic of Giving and Receiving as a Christian not even a Preacher. It is soundly scriptural; it is what God wants us to do and we should obey God and not man on this matter.
However, there are circumstances that It May Not Be More Blessed to Give than Receive; for instance, when we are giving to get back, when we give to deceive, when we give to steal, when we give expecting God to Double the seed back in return etc.
4 TIMES WHEN IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN RECEIVE
- GIVE TO THE POOR: Whenever we give to the poor and feeble, God considers those acts as charity towards humanity and He will surely reward us. It’s more blessed to give to those who can’t reward us back and the Poor People are in that category.
- GIVE TO THE WIDOWS: When we give to Widows and Weak Women without help from Men, God will always look down with Mercy upon those who show love to the Widows. They are indeed the most downtrodden in societies, especially Widows who don’t have sons and helpers in life.
- GIVE TO SERVANTS OF GOD: Now there are different kinds of Men of God; those who are greedy and those who are not greedy. The greedy ones may have lost their places in the presence of God unbeknownst to their followers but there are still many who use the gifts from people to meet the needs of others like the apostles did in Acts 4 v 35-37. I believe God wants us to take care of His servants who haven’t bowed to Mammon.
- GIVE TO CHARITY: There are many good charitable organizations that we can associate with anonymously without expecting things back in return. God will always bless us back when we give to Charities worldwide where our names aren’t mentioned.
Let me stop here and hope you can open activate your generosity by opening your hands to hand over some of the little You have to the categories of people above.
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