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Originally Posted by Scott Pitta

JUST WHAT IS A REAL CHRISTIAN?
God wants only volunteer giving. We do not have to give. Giving la a privilege not of compulsion. We are the losers or gainers for eternity. There is a great recompense of reward. All we keep we lose. All give to God we keep. Nothing goes beyond the grave but the good we have done. This then should be the passion of our lives to live for others. An unselfish life is the only one that pays. All that is spent On self is lost. It perishes with the using. Souls are the only thing of real value. The only thing worthwhile is the opportunity of doing good today. Tomorrow even that is gone. In Eternity’s light we will despise the selfishness that caused us to miss it. Let us seek to help others toward heaven today. The man who lives not in the fight of eternity lives not at all. We can go to heaven a pauper and beggar if we will. Rewards are for sacrifice only not for selfish living. If we believe a hand shake, a kind word, or a needed gift may make the difference of heaven or hell for eternity for a soul how dare we withhold it? It will help them toward heaven Oh the poverty of a life lived for self! The only thing of value in the fight of eternity is the good deed done. Things withheld are lost forever But the future life is far too problematic with us. We believe only in the present material one that we can see Our five senses are our heaven.

Only those who like their Master are living wholly for God and others are real Christian. Like Jesus they are seeing how much they can give. He put His life into it. Only those who sacrifice will have reward. Seeking selfish blessings brings no reward. To follow Christ is not to see how much we can give without thought of getting. Such unselfish living gets the most. Let us give of our influence. We will receive fullness of joy for using our influence for souls. This a wonderful privilege and responsibility in living.

All the energy of the human race to live without God has been lost in all time spent in vain only to gain death and hell. A million dollars if secured could not add one hair’s weight to the life or joy of the soul. It could only feed and satisfy the animal man like the home or cow to perish with the using. Someone has said “God judges of what we give now by how much we give but rather by how much we keep for ourselves” Instance the “widow’s mite”. The rich young ruler went away sorrowful for he was very rich”. We are living our fives now. Let us do good today now before the opportunity is gone. If we really “seek first the Kingdom of God”. He will not fail us.

We shall receive reward for good or evil at compound interest. And who is able to compute it. It can be reckoned only at the final judgment. How careful we should be not to miss the opportunity for doing good. The fives we Influence today for right or wrong will touch other lives tomorrow with an influence that we can never recall. It Is like the waves of radio passing out into the other. Only its waves go on Into the lives of millions we cannot avoid it. Every life has this influence, this responsibility, and account to give this reward for good or evil which it cannot escape whether it wishes it or not. It is the price tor living of existence— Frank Bartleman (1929)

The interesting thing is that Jesus never asked people to give to him, but to the poor. However, many women supported him and his disciples.
Modern preachers when they get all on fire about giving is ALWAYS about giving to "ministry" which is basically for themselves, and NEVER to the poor in the congregation that may be driving a unsafe car, barely making it with SS, getting into credit card debt more and more because can't afford necessary things and services, or needing rides because can't afford a car, etc...
Once I heard a call to a Dave Ramsey show about tithing. This single mom said that when she gave tithing, she would get more and more in debt, but when she didn't she was able to make it. It was an eye opening call. It is easier to blame those poor among us by pointing to their past mistakes, but really, at the end the reality is that they are not been helped thanks to cynical excuses, while they asked in their heart "who sinned, she or her parents?". Nowadays, in the modern version of the Gospel, the poor is instead asked to give a substantial amount, and then they are given a promise of prosperity on the merits of obedience to the preacher's plea.
I hope those preacher asking for giving for "ministry" gets also on FIRE for the congregation to give to the poor among them, ... hoping they can still afford to do that after giving hundreds of dollars a month in tithing.