Free-Will Offerings

1.While Moses was in the mount, what did God tell him to say to the children of Israel? .
2.Of what was their offering to consist? .
3.What were these offerings for? .
4.Who only were to bring an offering? ; .
5.What sort of things did they bring? .
6.How did they come to have so many valuable things? .
7.What did the women do? .
8.What kind of service was all this? .
9.How are we exhorted to give? .
10.What kind of a giver does God love?—
11.Cite another instance where the people offered willingly to the cause of God? .
12.How was it that the people were enabled to give so willingly? .
13.Is there danger of coming to poverty through generous giving to the cause of God? .
14.What is God able to do? .
15.How is this? ; .
16.Then when people make offerings to God, whose property do they give? .
17.What was the result when the people gave with a willing heart? .
18.What proclamation had to be made? .
19.How many have known of such an instance in the history of the cause?
20.Is there in this record any lesson for us?

Notes

In his second epistle to the Corinthians, the apostle Paul makes the grace of Christ the grand spring of all Christian giving. Giving that is prompted by anything else is not Christian giving. As an incentive for them to give liberally, the apostle said: "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." . The plan of salvation begins and ends in a gift. "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." . Christ "gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." . And when the work of redemption shall have been completed, the saints will share a glorious immortality as the free gift of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. This consideration should incite to prompt and cheerful giving. Indeed, it will lead to such giving, on the part of every soul who feels the worth of the Saviour's love. Surely it is a slight thing to give the temporal riches which come from God in the first place, and belong to him, when he so freely gives to us eternal riches. "The riches of his grace" is an expression often used by the apostle Paul. But the grace of God is a gift, and consists wholly in giving; we are exhorted to be "good stewards of the manifold grace of God." . The spirit of willingness to give is a grace, and a manifestation of the grace of God. See . A converted church must be a liberal church. A revival that does not increase the contributions of a church, is not the right kind of a revival; for those who, like the brethren in Macedonia, first give themselves to the Lord, will, like them, abound in liberality, even in deep poverty. See . This is further proved by the experience of the people in the time of Hezekiah. See and 31, comparing especially and 31:4-11.

Bible texts in this lesson

Exodus 25:1 · Exodus 25:2 · Exodus 25:3-7 · Exodus 25:8 · Exodus 35:5 · Exodus 35:21 · Exodus 35:22-24 · Exodus 12:35 · Exodus 12:36 · Exodus 35:25 · Exodus 35:26 · Exodus 35:29 · 2 Corinthians 9:7 · 1 Chronicles 29:6-8 · 1 Chronicles 29:9 · Proverbs 11:24 · Proverbs 11:25 · 2 Corinthians 9:8 · 2 Corinthians 9:11 · Psalms 24:1 · Psalms 50:10-12 · Haggai 2:8 · 1 Chronicles 29:14-16 · Exodus 36:4 · Exodus 36:5 · Exodus 36:6 · Exodus 36:7 · 2 Corinthians 8:9 · John 3:16 · Titus 2:14 · 1 Peter 4:10 · 2 Corinthians 8:4-7 · 2 Corinthians 8:1-5 · 2 Chronicles 30 · Exodus 30:18-20

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