Your Money's Worth
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This document discusses how to get the most value from attending church. It is divided into three sections: 1) Information - receiving information from God, such as through reading scripture. 2) Application - applying the information in our lives through wisdom and obedience. 3) Explanation - explaining the information through illustration, demonstration and teaching others, with the help of the Holy Spirit. The goal is to continue sharing both new and old knowledge from God.
Your Money's Worth
- 1. Your Money’s Worth A bank: a place that will lend you money, if you can provethat you don't need it. ForeignAid: The transfer of money frompoor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. Inflation: Being brokewith a lot of money in your pocket. Get your money’s worth out of the New Birth I. Information Neh 8:4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose… The purpose of church is to get information from God (just don’t limit it to church) Neh 8:8-9 8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. Exhortation Prov 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spiritunto you, I will make known my words unto you. 1) You turn; 2) I will- pour out, make known my words Prov 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: Counsel: 1) Information 2) Reproof Prov 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
- 2. 1Kgs 12:6-8 6 And king Rehoboam consultedwith the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people? 7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever. 8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him: 1Kgs 12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkenednot unto them, the people answeredthe king, saying, Whatportion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents. 2Tim 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learnedand hast been assuredof, knowingof whom thou hast learned them; Information II. Application Ps 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Prov 22:17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heartunto my knowledge. Prov 23:12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, andthine ears to the words of knowledge. Mark 6:51-52 51 And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazedin themselves beyond measure, and wondered. 52 For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.
- 3. Matt 16:5-12 5 And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. 6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees andof the Sadducees. 7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. 8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? 9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? 10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? 11 How is it that ye do not understandthat I spake it not to you concerningbread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? 12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees andof the Sadducees. Matt 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. Matt 13:51-52 51 Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructedunto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old. Information Application III. Explanation Illustration and or Demonstration
- 4. Persian Proverb: He Who Knows not, and knows not- that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows- that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not- that he knows, is asleep, wake him He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him. Heavenly example John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. John 16:13-14 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 14 He shall glorifyme: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. Paul’s charge 2Tim 1:14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us. 2Tim 2:2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses,the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. Titus 1:3 But hath in due times manifested his word throughpreaching, which is committed unto me accordingto the commandment of God our Saviour; The Blessing of Obedience Exod 4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shaltsay.
- 5. Exod 4:15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. Exod 18:20 And thou shalt teach them ordinancesand laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. (Demonstration) Matt 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be calledthe least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdomof heaven. Apathy Equals Injury Ezek 3:18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Ezek 33:8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I requireat thine hand. Conclusion Information Matt 28 18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Application Matt 28
- 6. 20 Teachingthem to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Explanation Matt 28 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizingthem in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Your Money’s Worth I. Information Exhortation II. Application III. Explanation Heavenly example Paul’s charge The Blessing of Obedience Apathy EqualsInjury