Giving God Your Best

Welcome to this edition of PowerPoint with Jack Graham a little later in the program tell you how you can get a copy of Dr. Graham, a man of God first hears his message giving God will invite you to join me in Mark chapter 12. Now I know people rarely request the sermon on money back is it is one of the most significant subjects in all of the Bible always had this sense of secretiveness are regarding our money and privacy, and rightly so we get bombarded by solicitors either on the phone or at the door in the mall and of course we really reached a place where we just brace ourselves to say no when someone asks for something and yet Jesus and the word of God is constantly encouraging us to say yes to generosity to say yes to giving to have an attitude towards giving that has been transformed by our gracious God, your attitude and actions regarding your money. Say a whole lot about who you are what you really believe and what really matters in your life.

So here in the 12th chapter of the Gospel of Mark, with total beginning in verse 41, Jesus sat opposite the treasury saw how the people put money into the treasury. Notice it does not say what the people put in to the treasury, but how the people put money into the treasury. And many who were rich put in much. Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make the quadrant, so he called his disciples to himself and he said to them, here comes the less assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put more and that all of those have given to the treasury, for they all put in out of their abundant, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had her whole livelihood. Jesus watched the offering. He carefully observed the way people were giving in the courtyard of the temple there were treasuries and they were actually shape like large horn something like a old Victrola record player that you may have seen, and when people would come in they would put their coins in the treasury and it would make quite a bit of noise. It certainly if you throw it in there to certain way and so people would come in and no self-respecting dedicated Hebrew would ever come to the temple without an offering. And so Jesus sent there to observe and the word when it says that he watched as the word theater. It was as if it were a theater for Christ.

He gazed at the way people were giving that it is a fact that God is watching our every move in line. That's a good thing God is watching over us. There are no secrets with God. He notes what we are.

He knows what we make. He knows what we give and one day we will give a reckoning account for all of the resources in life, we will settle in eternity. So is important that we take a hard look at our faith, as it is related to our findings do we use our possessions for God's purposes are we investing in those things which really matter because just as Jesus was watching the treasury that day.

We believe that Jesus is present in our lives every day and if Jesus