02.21.16 Notes (Good News Week 7)

“Little Is Much”

Pastor Bill Petty

Revolution Church – February 21, 2016

The Gospel of Mark: Week Three

The world presses in on us every day, trying to convince us that Bigger is _______.  Smaller is not better…most of the time.  The worldly believe that more is better and less is not good; there is strength in numbers and the few becomes unimportant; that the rich and famous are more important than the poor and insignificant.

A LITTLE __________ IS MUCH WHEN GOD IS IN IT

·      A LITTLE ARMY (Judges 7)

·      A LITTLE WEAPON (1 Samuel 17)

·      A LITTLE CHILD (Matthew)

·      A LITTLE FOOD (Mark 6)

·      A LITTLE PRAYER (Matthew 6)

Mark 12: A Little ______ is much when God is in it.

Mark 12: 41-44 

⁴¹ Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. ⁴² But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.
⁴³ Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. ⁴⁴ They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

“Ask not what your country can give to you, but what you can give your country!”

The world’s attitude is: “Get all you can and can all you get” but God speaks a completely different perspective in Prov. 11:24.

One person gives freely, yet gains even more;
    another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.

²⁵ A generous person will prosper;
    whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.

Mark 12: 30-31

³⁰ Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’^{[f] 31} The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[g] There is no commandment greater than these.”

“Ask not what a friend can give to you; ask what you can give a friend.”

“Ask not what the Church can give to you; ask what you can give to the Church.”

“Ask not what the Lord can give to you; ask what you can give to the Lord.”