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SO LETS ASK OURSELVES:

How has God


financially?

me to

(1)

(2)

Am I a spiritual

it gives us ten promises to build our lives on,


and it gives us ten steps for renewing our lives and growing.

or a spiritual

Am I a person of
in other words,
do I
I give 10% of my income to the Lords work through
Bethany?
(3)

(1 CHRONICLES 29:17; LEVITICUS 27:30; 1 CORINTHIANS 16:2)


(4)

Am I
to serve Christs CHURCH...and help it

my financial gifts

Pastor Doug Wilson BETHANY A PLACE OF NEW BEGINNINGS

In 2017, hundreds of churches around the world are going to join


together in a YEAR OF HOPE with Pastor and best-selling author Rick
Warren.

October 16, 2016 Week 3 of a series on Hope Grows, Gives & Goes

WHAT IS GODS VISION FOR BETHANY THIS YEAR?

Bethany offers Hope!

Well go through 4 renewals in one year:


1st quarter of 2017 PERSONAL RENEWAL: Hope for our character!
2nd quarter (Apr-Jun)
RELATIONAL RENEWAL: Hope for our
relationships!
3rd quarter (Jul-Sept)
MISSIONAL RENEWAL: Hope for our
churches!
4th quarter (Oct-Dec)
The Hope You Need! Hope for our
community!
Ricks new book, THE HOPE YOU NEED, will provide the framework for a
nationwide
12-week outreach campaign to help us reach unbelievers in our city!
The book, which will be released in January, will focus on the Lord's
Prayer and will dissect each of the ten phrases found within the prayer.
[The Lord's Prayer] gives us ten pictures of God,
it gives us ten reasons for hope,

Why? Because THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE:

1. Those with

Hope.

the red zone

EPHESIANS 2:12 (TNIV)

...without hope and without God in the world.

Now to EACH ONE


the manifestation of the Spirit is given
FOR THE COMMON GOOD.

HOPELESSNESS is the defining emotion of this generation.


[It] is the most widespread epidemic on earth.
RICK WARREN

2. Those with

Hope.

the yellow zone

JOB 17:11 (Living Bible)

My good days are in the past. My hopes have disappeared. My hearts desires
are broken.

3. Those with

& OVERFLOWING Hope!

the green

zone
ROMANS 15:13 (TNIV)

May THE GOD OF HOPE


FILL YOU with all joy and peace
as you trust in him,
so that you may OVERFLOW WITH HOPE
by the power of the Holy Spirit.

(NLT: AS A MEANS OF HELPING THE ENTIRE CHURCH. )


All these are the work of one and the same Spirit,
and he distributes them to EACH ONE, just as he determines.
18
...in fact God has placed the parts in the body,
EVERY ONE OF THEM, just as he wanted them to be.
11

EPHESIANS 4:15b-16 (NLT)


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[Lets be] growing in every way more and more like Christ,
who is the head of his body, the church.
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He makes THE WHOLE BODY fit together perfectly.
As EACH PART DOES ITS OWN SPECIAL WORK,
it helps THE OTHER PARTS grow,
so that THE WHOLE BODY is healthy and growing and full of love.
SO LETS ASK OURSELVES:
(1)

How has God

d me to

But...what does hope DO?

JOB 10:8a (GN)

Your hands formed and shaped me.


S
H

1. Hope GROWS.
.

(my passion, my great

desires)

A
P
E

a. We are to GROW in our Love Relationship with

(and skills or talents)


(or temperament)
(positive, painful, educational,

spiritual, ministry)

b. We are to GROW in our Love Relationship with


.

(2)

What gifts did He give

Am I
CHURCH...
and help it
(3)

my spiritual gifts to serve Christs


?

b. We are to GIVE to
by giving our
work.

2. Hope GIVES.
a. We are to GIVE to
by using our
them.

Gifts to serve

...to use in serving

resources to His
LEVITICUS 27:30

A tenth of everything YOU produce belongs to the Lord;


it is holy to the Lord.
1 CORINTHIANS 16:2

1 PETER 4:10 (LIVING BIBLE)

God has given EACH OF YOU some special abilities;


BE SURE TO USE THEM to help EACH OTHER,
passing on to OTHERS
Gods many kinds of blessings.
1 CORINTHIANS 12:7, 11, 18 (TNIV)

EACH ONE OF YOU,


on the first day of each week,
should set aside a specific sum of money
in proportion to what you have earned
and use it for the offering.
2 CORINTHIANS 8:7 (TNIV)
THIS GRACE OF GIVING.

...See that you...excel in

with joy.

1 CHRONICLES 29 (NLT)
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King David turned to the entire assembly & said, My son Solomon, whom God
has clearly chosen as the next king of Israel, is still young & inexperienced. THE
WORK AHEAD OF HIM IS ENORMOUS , for the Temple he will build is not for mere
mortals it is for the Lord God himself! 2 Using every resource at my
command, I have gathered as much as I could for building the Temple of my
God. Now there is enough gold, silver, bronze, iron, & wood, [and] great
quantities of onyx, other precious stones, costly jewels & all kinds of fine stone
& marble.

1. Its our responsibility to


coming
after us...not to mention to
the way!

the way for the generation


the way &

10

Then David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly: O Lord,
the God of our ancestor Israel [i.e., JACOB], may you be praised forever and ever!
11
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the
majesty. EVERYTHING in the heavens and on earth is yours, O Lord, and this is
your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things. 12 Wealth and
honor come from you alone, for you rule over everything....
13

O our God, we thank you and praise your glorious name! 14 But who am I,
and who are my people, that WE could give anything to YOU? Everything we
have has come from YOU, and we give you only what YOU first gave us!

3. What I give to the Lord comes out of what Hes already given
!

And now, because of my devotion to the Temple of my God, I am giving all of


my own private treasures of gold and silver to help in the construction. This is in
addition to the building materials I have already collected for his holy Temple. 4 I
am donating more than 112 tons of gold from Ophir and 262 tons of refined
silver to be used for overlaying the walls of the buildings 5 and for the other gold
and silver work to be done by the craftsmen.
Now then, who will follow my example and give offerings to the Lord today?

2. I give to the Lord by giving to my place of


!
6

...& its

Then the family leaders, the leaders of the tribes of Israel, the generals and
captains of the army & the kings administrative officers all gave willingly. 7 For
the construction of the Temple of God, they gave about 188 tons of gold, 10,000
gold coins, 375 tons of silver, 675 tons of bronze & 3,750 tons of iron. 8 They
also contributed numerous precious stones, which were deposited in the
treasury of the house of the Lord... 9 The people rejoiced over the offerings, for
they had given freely & wholeheartedly to the Lord, and King David was filled

15

We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our
ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a passing shadow, gone so
soon without a trace.

4. We give to leave a
lives!

LEGACY that outlives our

16

O Lord our God, even this material we have gathered to build a Temple to
honor your holy name comes from you! It all belongs to you! 17 I know, my God,
that YOU EXAMINE OUR HEARTS and REJOICE WHEN YOU FIND INTEGRITY THERE . You know I
have done all this WITH GOOD MOTIVES , and I have watched your people offer their
gifts WILLINGLY and JOYOUSLY.

5. The Lord KNOWS whether we are people of


giving!

in our

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