Great Expectations

-You can also go to our website and click on the serve tab to learn about opportunities not only at the church but with other ministries.

-RGR.

So, what can we do to better prepare for reigning in God’s Kingdom?

Serve with humility in whatever capacity and context you can. Secondly,

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2-Practice Giving

Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” (Acts 20:35)

Do you really believe that?

I know that over the years some churches and ministries have created somewhat of a bad reputation about giving but I personally have no reservations about taking an offering. I’ll tell you why. For starters, you’re funding the most important cause on the earth. There’s a solution to the sin virus-Jesus. Giving to a local church that believes in this, the gospel, is supporting our purpose and calling as agents and distributors of grace. The local church is plan A for the implementation of the Great Commission. Secondly, I have no reservations in taking an offering because I’m facilitating an opportunity for people to make an everlasting investment that will follow them, i.e., pay interest, through all eternity.

“A cup of water given in My name has a reward”. You cant take it with you yet to some degree you can send it ahead.

It’s a paradigm shift but let me encourage you to begin seeing your money as God’s money and that you’re simply the caretaker of it.

It’s important to keep this perspective.

Our citizenship is in heaven but we can easily become so attached to this world we can end up living for the wrong kingdom. So, invest in the right kingdom.

CONCLUSION

Ever heard of Conrad Hilton? He’s the founder of Hilton Hotels. Maybe you’ve heard of his great granddaughter, Paris Hilton, who is described as an heiress, meaning that without doing anything aside from being born she received a large fortune. In a similar, but much better fashion, at the moment you were born again, you received an everlasting inheritance. Just by being born, born again, you’ve come into a huge and immeasurable inheritance. You didn’t do anything to earn it. Jesus did all work.

Many of you are probably familiar with Ephesians 2:8-9 but let’s look at the verses that precede it.

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But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2:4-7)

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For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them (Eph. 2:10)

First and foremost, our inheritance includes being adopted into the family of God by having our sins forgiven. This is why Paul says,