No one wants to be a legalist.

 

“Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope.”

 

- Titus 2:12-13 KJV

I hope you are!

“Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.”

- Titus 2:12 KJV

Live in it!

“For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.”

- Titus 2:11 NKJV

It was the beginning of his end.

“But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep … and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.”

- 1 Samuel 15:9 NKJV

You’re going to be okay, if…

 

“Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,’ and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing.… You shall surely give to him, and your heart should not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand.”

 

- Deuteronomy 15:9-10 NKJV

The problem with having enough...

 

“Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments … lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; when your heart is lifted up, ... you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.”

 

- Deuteronomy 8:11-14 NKJV

Eight billion dollars…

 

“So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.”

 

- 2 Corinthians 9:7 NKJV

What do you do with disagreements?

 

“Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

 

- Romans 15:5-6 NKJV

It’s like a ghost town.

 

“Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.”

 

- Luke 14:23 KJV

Word got around.

 

“When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto Him, and besought Him that He would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.”

 

- John 4:47 KJV