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Welcome to five-part series called Living Generously.

This series of messages is focusing on the question that Jesus answered when he was asked,

what is the greatest commandments of all?

He did not give them something they did not know. He dug deep

into the Old Testament and was known as the Shama, but the word Shama means here. And it begins

by saying, hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is one God. You shall love the Lord your God

with all your heart, mind, and soul

and your neighbor as yourself. This is really the focus of this whole series of messages.

Now, if you ask yourself the question, where money is mentioned here in the answer that Jesus gave to the questioner. I love the

Lord, your God, with all your heart, mind, and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself. Where does

money, where does money come in here? Nowhere, right? It's never mentioned in the answer that

Jesus gives. No way. Because you've got to understand

that living generously is not primarily about money. The first and foremost, it is about the heart.

That's what generous living is all about. In fact, this is precisely what God is after, our hearts. In fact, he says to

Jeremiah, my son, give me your heart. That's what God wants. I know the natural things for us to

ask sometimes when we're doing things, you know, what's in it for me, how can I benefit? And I hear some of these celebrities when they talk about charity and charitable work.

It's all, it makes me feel good.

The question we should be asking is this.

How does God want to use me?

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