MOTIVATED TO SACRIFICE FOR THE SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
4/21/2024
Text: 2 Corinthians 8 & Philippians 4
Theme: The understanding and motivation to be involved in grace giving and the spread of the Gospel.
Sacrifice vs Surrender
Are you willing to sacrifice for the missionaries that have surrendered?
Are you willing to sacrifice for your Saviour who surrendered?
2 Cor 8:4 …take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. 5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
I. A general understanding of grace giving – or giving by grace to others for the spread of the Gospel (2 Cor 8:1-11)
v. 9 is key to our motivation
Faith Promise vs Grace Giving – explain the difference
II. A specific understanding of grace giving – their giving by grace to help Paul spread the Gospel (Phil 4:10-19)
v. 17 is key to our motivation
3 John 1:7 Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. 8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.
