3rd Fruit — Synopsis …
SYNOPSIS: Generous Actions are Kind to others … They are selflessly giving, intimate in completion & self-sacrificial in intention.
DETERMINING FACTOR: During decision-making, ask your Self — “Is this particular option a self-centered or a selfless one? Am I engaging this Choice to obtain a benefit therefrom for myself or rather to Serve another?”
ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURE:
“Store up Treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves cannot break in to steal. For where your Treasure is, there your Heart will be also.” ~ Jesus Christ (Matthew 6:20-21)
“Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.” ~ Jesus Christ (Mark 9:35)
“Whoever wishes to be great among you must be a servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must become as a slave for all. For the Son of Man came not to be served but to Serve, and to Give his entire life as a ransom for many.” ~ Jesus Christ (Mark 10:43-45)
“Do not work for the food that perishes, but rather for the food that endures for eternal Life …” ~ Jesus Christ (John 6:27)
“Those who love their own life will lose that Life, and those who sacrifice their own life in this world will have Life for Eternity.”~ Jesus Christ (John 12:25)
“Do not give as the world gives.” ~ Jesus Christ (paraphrased in John 14:27)
“It is more blessed to Give than to receive.” ~ Jesus Christ (quoted in Acts 20:35)
“Extend hospitality to all strangers.” ~ Romans 12:13
“Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy.”~ Ephesians 4:28
“Whatever your task, put yourselves into it as if doing it for the Lord and not your masters.” ~ Colossians 3:23
“They are to Do Good, to be rich in Good Works; generous and ready to share … so that they may take hold of the Life that really is Life.” ~ 1 Timothy 6:18-19
“They profess to Know God, but they deny Him by their actions … They are unfit for any Good Work.” ~ Titus 1:16
“Ground that drinks up the rain falling on it and that then produces a crop useful to those for whom it was cultivated, receives a blessing from the Lord.” ~ Hebrews 6:7
“Every generous Act of Giving, with every perfect Gift, is from Above, coming down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.” ~ James 1:17
“Religion that is pure, and un-defiled before God the Father, is this: to Care for orphans and widows … and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”~ James 1:27
“Do not Love the world or the things of the world. The Love of the Father is not in those who Love the world; for all that is in the world – the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches – comes not from the Father but from the world.”~ 1 John 2:15-16
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