Introduction

• Fallen Condition Focus: We as fallen humans are judging, condemning, unforgiving, and greedy.

• Sermon Proposition: Since God has given and shown his mercy in Christ, we ought to have a merciful and giving heart and so share in his joy

I.  A giving heart is a heart that is strengthened through the awareness, acknowledgement, and gratefulness for God’s many blessings, his goodness, his benefits, his love his mercy, his grace, his forgiveness, etc. (Luke 6:20-23; Psalm 103.1)

II.   A giving heart is a heart that is set free through obedience to God’s command to love and to give to those who “don’t deserve” (Luke 6:27-38)

III.  A giving heart is a heart that is sustained by the confidence and hope of eternal rewards, treasure, and blessings stored up in heaven (Luke 6:38; 12:32-34)