Celebrating God’s Amazing Grace: Responsibility

We can complete the grace of God through generosity.

6  So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well.

We can abound in the gracious work of God.

7  But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also.

We can prove the sincerity of our love.

8  I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.

We can know the grace of God through Christ.

9  For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

We must finish the gracious work of God.

God gives us a desire for the work.

10  I give my opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin a year ago not only to do this, but also to desire to do it.

God gives us an ability to complete the work.

11  But now finish doing it also, so that just as there was the readiness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability.

God holds us accountable for what we have not what we don’t have.

12  For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

We can demonstrate the grace of God through giving.

We must demonstrate an awareness of the need.

13  For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction

We must demonstrate an awareness of our ability.

14  at this present time your abundance being a supply for their need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for your need,

We must demonstrate an awareness for equality.

13...but by way of equality—

14...that there may be equality;

We must demonstrate an awareness of eternity.

20 But store up for yourself treasure in heaven. . .

21 Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. . .

Matthew 6:19-21

The purpose is not to make it hard on you by giving to make it easier on others.

13  For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction, but by way of equality—

14  at this present time your abundance being a supply for their need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for your need, that there may be equality;

15  as it is written, “He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

God has demonstrated His grace through His Son and we can know God through His Son

9  For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

God calls us and supplies us and gives the responsibility to us to demonstrate His grace through generosity.

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