Sermon on the Mount Part 3 - The SAFETY of Generosity (52 minutes)

The Sermon on the Mount teaches us how to climb God's Holy Mountain to safety BEFORE the storm of the Great Tribulation makes landfall.  One of the key aspects of safety is generosity.  God doesn't need your money.  You need to break the heart ties to it before the antichrist uses your fear of money against you.

 Generosity is safety over and over in the Bible:

 Isaiah 32:7-15  Also the schemes of the schemer are evil; He devises wicked plans To destroy the poor with lying words, Even when the needy speaks justice.  8  But a generous man devises generous things, And by generosity he shall stand.  9  Rise up, you women who are at ease, Hear my voice; You complacent daughters, Give ear to my speech.  10  In a year and some days You will be troubled, you complacent women; For the vintage will fail, The gathering will not come.  11  Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent ones; Strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, And gird sackcloth on your waists.  12  People shall mourn upon their breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.  13  On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers, Yes, on all the happy homes in the joyous city;  14  Because the palaces will be forsaken, The bustling city will be deserted. The forts and towers will become lairs forever, A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks— 15  Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, And the fruitful field is counted as a forest.

 We live in the generation that will see the fullness of this promise...