Beyond Justice to Generosity

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Beyond Justice to Generosity

• Nehemiah 5

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Reggie White
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The Disease

• Selfishness
• looking after own desires concerned with ones
  own interests, needs, and wishes while ignoring
  those of others

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The Disease

• Consequences
• For humanity spiritual death
• For believers
• Spiritual anemia
• Disunity

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The Cure

• Step 1 Treat one another justly
• Lev 2535-37
• Exod 2225-27

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The Cure

• Step 1 Treat one another justly
• Step 2 Go beyond justice to generosity
• Phil 23-8

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Where to find the Cure

• 518b Find selflessness in compassion
• Grow compassion through
• relationships
• recognition of our mutual dependence (1 Cor
  1214,18-26)
• practice

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Where to find the Cure

• 515 Find selflessness in the fear of God
• Fear gratefulness for His grace
• Lev 2537-38
• Fear reverence for His coming judgment
• Luke 638 2 Cor 59-10

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