David Thompson Sunday 4 th November 2012 Part 8: Your Money or Your Life? Acts 4:32 – 5:11.

David ThompsonSunday 4th November 2012

Part 8: Your Money or Your Life? Acts 4:32 – 5:11

…great GRACE was on them all…

They were filled with the Spirit

They preached Jesus

They were on mission

They cared for one another

They were generous

So what went wrong?

Hypocrisy!

GivingMatthew 6:2

“When you give to the needy, sound

no trumpet before you like the

hypocrites do…”

Hypocrisy!

Giving PrayingMatthew 6:5

“And when you pray you must not

be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand… that they may be seen

by others.”

Hypocrisy!

Giving Praying

Fasting

Matthew 6:16

“And when you fast, do not look gloomy

like the hypocrites…”

Hypocrisy!

Giving Praying

Fasting Worship

Matthew 22:18

“Jesus, aware of their malice, said

‘Why put me to the test, you

hypocrites?’”

Hypocrisy!

Giving Praying

Fasting Worship

Mark 7:6

“This people honours me with

their lips, but their heart is far from

me.”

Hypocrisy!

Giving Praying

Fasting Worship

Teaching

Luke 6:42“How can you say

‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye’ when you do not see the log that is in your own eye. You

hypocrite.”

Hypocrisy!

Giving Praying

Fasting Worship

Teaching

Looking cool

Luke 12:56“You hypocrites! You

know how to interpret the appearance of

earth and sky, but why do you not know how

to interpret the present time?”

Live righteously

Fear God

Live righteously

Fear God

Be motivated by grace

2 Corinthians 9:6-7

“Each must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under

compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace

abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you

may abound in every good work.”