Victory Sunday Service: It’s Not About the Money

Today’s topic: Giving
Speaker: Chinkee Tan

● Finance has a spiritual and practical side. Everything that happens on the exterior has something do with what’s happening in the interior.

● The way you see the father, affects how you approach him. If you know God owns everything, would you hesitate to ask anything?

● Giving is never an issue of what you have but an issue of the heart.

Why are people not giving?
1. Greed.
● You will never have enough.
● We all have different levels of greed: greed 1, greed 2, greed 3.
● Love of money alone is the root of evil because we are focusing on it instead of God.

2. Poverty
● Poverty is an issue of the mind. Even if you have all the money in the world, you will still be poor if you don’t know what to do with it. ● See verses:
Jer 5:4 and Prov 10:21

3. Entitlement mindset
● We worked hard for it, why will we just give it? Is it really our work or God’s work?
● See verse:
Deut 8:17-18

4. Selfishness or self-centeredness
● See verse:
Psalm 119:36

How can we be generous?
● See verses:
Psalm 119:36, 2 Cor 8:1-5, Acts 4:33, Luke     6:38, Gal 6:9, Rom 8:29, and Hebrews 13:21

● Change of mind and a change of heart (Acts 4:32-37)
   ○ Mindset (v.32) – none of those 
      belongings belong to anyone
   ○ Heart (v.32) – they share what they have because it all belongs to God

● God’s ownership = Man’s stewardship

● The purpose of blessing us to become a blessing to others.

● The hardest person to please is yourself.

● Giving should be a lifestyle and not just a one time thing.

● When God removes something from us, we ask why me? When God blesses you, do we ever ask why us?

● Believers of God give in FAITH because they know that they will never lack.

● It will not be hard to ask something from God especially when it’s align to his plan and agenda.

● Money is not the end in itself, it should be used to bless other people. It may be impossible for you, it is not for God.

● The purpose of blessing us is for us to become a blessing to others.

● Believers of God give in FAITH because they know that they will never lack.