Kingdom Math

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Kingdom Math
Trainer Name Ministry
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Introduction

• Have the churches you are planting ever thought
  their church was too needy or small to help
  others?

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Introduction

• Have you ever thought your church was too needy
  to help others?
• Listen to this story . . .

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Key Verse

• He gives strength to the weary and increases the
  power of the weak
• Isaiah 4029

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Key Verse Discovery Question

• How might you translate that verse into a
  mathematical formula?

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Key Verse Discovery Question

• How might you translate that verse into a
  mathematical formula?
• Our Weakness X God Strength

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Supporting Verses

• A Story from the Lake
• John 61-14, Matthew 1421

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A Story from the Lake

• Boy
• 5 Loaves and 2 Fish
• X Jesus
• Food for 5000 Men
• Food for Women and Children
• 12 Baskets

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Questions

• Could Jesus have fed the crowd in another way?
• Then why did He pick on a small boy who only had
  sufficient for himself?

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Supporting Verses

• A Famine Story
• 1 Kings 177-16 181

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A Famine Story

• Widow
• 1 Cake
• X God
• 1 Cake

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A Famine Story

• Widow
• 1 Cake
• X God
• 1 Cake
• X 3 People
• X 2 meals/day
• X 365 Days
• X 2 ½ Years Famine
• 5,475 Cakes

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A Famine Story (alternative)

• Widow
• 1 Cake
• X God
• 1 Cake
• X 2 People
• X 365 Days
• X 3 Years Famine
• 2,190 Cakes

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Questions

• Could God have fed Elijah another way?
• Then why did God send Elijah to a widow who only
  had enough food for one more day?

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Supporting Verses

• A Temple Story
• Mark 1241-44

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Questions

• Didnt Jesus know that these two coins
  represented the total resources of this widow?
• Did God, the creator and owner of the universe,
  need the widows two coins?
• Couldnt Jesus have intervened and at least given
  the widow some help with her need - perhaps
  inviting her to take the two coins and buy some
  lunch?
• Is this behavior of Jesus characteristic of the
  God you know?

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A Temple Story

• Widow
• 2 Coins
• X Jesus
• 2000 Years of Inspiration

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A Common Formula

• Poor People
• Love for God
• Faith
• Obedience and Sacrificial Giving

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A Common Formula

• Poor People
• Love for God
• Faith
• Obedience and Sacrificial Giving
• Great Multiplication by God
• Blessing to Others
• Personal Blessing (sometimes)
• God is Praised

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Supporting Verses

• A Very, Very Sad Story
• Matthew 2514-30

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A Very, Very Sad Story

• Servant
• 1 Talent
• X 0 (zero)
• 0 Talents
• Servant Thrown into Outer Darkness

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Questions

• Who was the poorest of the servants?
• Why did the poorest of the servants receive such
  drastic response from his master?
• Who does the master represent in this parable?
• Is this behavior characteristic of the God you
  know?

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How do you spell FAITH?

• The Faithful Servants
• R I S K

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How do you spell FAITH?

• The Unfaithful Servant
• F E A R

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Reinforcement Exercise 1

• Make a formula from I Samuel 17
• Story of David and Goliath

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David and Goliath

• David
• 5 Stones and Staff
• X God
• Victory
• The whole world knew that
• there was a God in Israel

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Key Ideas

• All believers must invest in the Kingdom

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Key Ideas

• All believers must invest in the Kingdom
• All are required to use what is in their hand

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Key Ideas

• All believers must invest in the Kingdom
• All are required to use what is in their hand
• Nothing is too little or too insignificant
• (Material resources - time prayer love)

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Key Ideas

• All believers must invest in the Kingdom
• All are required to use what is in their hand
• Nothing is too little or too insignificant
• (Material resources - time prayer love)
• Law of the Harvest God multiplies gifts sown in
  loving obedience - 1 Cor 1558

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Key Ideas

• We may not see multiplication
• but, it is there

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Key Ideas

• We may not see multiplication
• but, it is there
• Motivation loving obedience, not blessing

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Key Ideas

• We may not see multiplication
• but, it is there
• Motivation loving obedience, not blessing
• Disobedience is dangerous!

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Application - Reflection

• Is there anything in your hand you are afraid
  to give to God?

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Application

• Lets pray and ask God to show us what we are
  holding onto.
• He is asking you to give it to Him and let Him
  multiply it for His Kingdom.

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Application

• Reflection
• Awareness, repentance, forgiveness
• Action Plan
• Awareness, repentance, forgiveness, change
• Commitment
• Commit yourself to action
• Share and Pray
• Share your plan and pray for each other

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Kingdom Math
Trainer Name Ministry
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Kingdom Math Review

• What does God ask us to give Him?
• What does God do with what we give Him?
• Does God require even the poor to give?
• What about the unemployed?
• Do we always see blessings/multiplication?
• What two words can describe the faithful and
  unfaithful servants actions?
• What is the danger of not risking?
• What is the Law of the Harvest?