Many followers of Christ cringe when the topic of giving comes up.

Even when we do give, we're often motivated more by guilt than gratitude.

But this is not how scripture motivates us to give.

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Well, in this sermon on Psalm 86, David Platt points us to several biblical motives

for our giving.

And ultimately, we'll see that we give in response to God's infinite grace so that others might see his glory.

Here's David with a sermon titled Behold His Grace from Psalm 86.

I was praying about our time together today. I thought it would be helpful for you to hear from my heart on a biblical approach to giving,

because the last thing I want us to do is talk about giving

or for us the church to approach giving

the way the world approaches giving and a godly approach to giving is radically

different than a worldly approach to giving. Unfortunately I'm concerned that much supposedly Christian giving is actually godless.

You know, I suspect you can turn on any number of TV stations and see supposedly Christian ministries

manipulating the Bible and people to make all kinds of money and it's sick.

It's not biblical Christianity, it's practical con artists who are defaming the name of Jesus Christ.

What I'm most concerned about though is how worldly godless approaches to giving can suddenly creep into the church.

So I, as one of your pastors, I want to make sure that when we talk about giving,

we know the difference between worldly giving and godly giving.

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