GIC: Week 3: Bribes and Offerings

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Sermon Summary:

This sermon explores the delicate balance between maintaining personal purity and demonstrating compassion for the poor and needy. The pastor challenges listeners to examine their hearts, warning against using good deeds as a cover for impurity or focusing solely on outward purity while neglecting care for others. The message emphasizes that true religion, acceptable to God, involves both keeping oneself unstained by the world and actively caring for those in need.

Key Points:

• God desires both purity and compassion from believers
• Good deeds cannot compensate for personal impurity or sin
• Outward purity without genuine care for others is unacceptable to God
• True worship involves both personal holiness and active care for the needy
• God's love motivates His correction and discipline of His people
• Believers should bring their whole lives before God for cleansing and renewal

Scripture Reference:
James 1:27
Galatians 6:7-8
Matthew 23:23-28
Amos 5:21-24
Revelation 3:17-19
Psalm 51:7-10
Psalm 139:23-24

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