{"id":2604,"date":"2016-09-25T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2016-09-25T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T19:10:00","slug":"the-righteous-act-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"The Righteous Act of Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Message by Dr. David Drake<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rec0925-112737.mp3\">rec0925-112737<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Series: &#8220;Inside \/ Out&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Living Today The Life Of Jesus<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>A study through The Sermon On The Mount<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Matthew 5-7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Righteous Act Of Giving<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Matthew 6:1-4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"ind\"><strong>Matthew 6:1-4 (NASB)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<span class=\"JesusWords\">&#8220;Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.<\/span><br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<span class=\"JesusWords\">&#8220;So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.<\/span><br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<span class=\"JesusWords\"><span class=\"versemode\">&#8220;<\/span>But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,<\/span><br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<span class=\"JesusWords\">so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees <i>what is done<\/i> in secret will reward you.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><u>1. This portion of the sermon begins with a WARNING<\/u><\/b><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>*<u> ALMS &#8230; Our Righteous Conduct<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>*<\/b><u><b> PRAYER &#8230; Our Righteous Conversation \/ Communion<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>*<\/b><u><b> FASTING &#8230; Our Righteous Consecration<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><u><b>2. These righteous behaviors are to be spiritual acts<\/b><\/u><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><u><b> within our DAILY CONDUCT<\/b><\/u><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><u><b>3. Jesus Christ is more concerned with MOTIVE<\/b><\/u><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><u><b> rather than METHOD<\/b><\/u><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><b><u>When It Comes To Alms \u201d\u00a6<\/u><\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>1. The Responsibility &#8230; vs. 2<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Romans 13:13-14 (NASB)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">13 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">14 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to <i>its<\/i> lusts.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>2. The Revelation &#8230; vs. 3<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Acts 5:1-2 (NASB)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1 <\/span><\/sup><span class=\"ind\">\u00a0But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0and kept back <i>some<\/i> of the price for himself, with his wife&#8217;s full knowledge, and bringing a portion of it, he laid it at the apostles&#8217; feet. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>3. The Reward &#8230; vs. 4<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Matthew 6:4 (NASB)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<span class=\"JesusWords\">so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees <i>what is done<\/i> in secret will reward you.<\/span> <span class=\"ind\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Eternal Significance&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><strong>John 3:16 (NASB)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">16 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<span class=\"JesusWords\">&#8220;For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">*God is the greatest giver<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">*God gave the greatest gift<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">*To the greatest recipient<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">*For the greatest reward<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message by Dr. David Drake rec0925-112737 &nbsp; &nbsp; Series: &#8220;Inside \/ Out&#8221; Living Today The Life Of Jesus A study through The Sermon On The Mount Matthew 5-7 &nbsp; &nbsp; The Righteous Act Of Giving Matthew 6:1-4 Matthew 6:1-4 (NASB) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=2604\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages","category-sermon-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}