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Sermon Notes

Generosity isn’t a sharing issue, it’s a heart issue.

 

“What did you do with Jesus?”

“What did you do with what he gave you?”

 

How would the world be different if we were generous with the Gospel?

 

John 1:43-45, NIV

“The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. Philip found Nathanael and told him, ‘We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph’.”

 

John 1:45-46, NIV

“Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.’ ‘Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?’ Nathanael asked. ‘Come and see,’ said Philip.”

 

"Come and see."

 

John 3:16, NIV

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

 

John 13:34-35, NASB

“I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another.”

 

“Loving people the way Jesus did is always great theology.” 

--Bob Goff

 

The Gospel rooted in law is cancerous. The Gospel rooted in love is generous.

 

John 1:47-48, NIV

“When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, ‘Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.’ ‘How do you know me?’ Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, ‘I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you’.”

 

It does our souls good to share the Gospel with others, and the Gospel is good for the souls of others.

 

John 15:11-12, NIV

Jesus tells us a little bit about joy, he says, “I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.”

 

Matthew 6:19-21, NASB

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

 

John 1:49-51, NIV

“Nathanael answered Him, ‘Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel!’ Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.’ And He said to him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man’.”