Faith Community Church Of Hopkinton

Week 1 of the series "Don't Just Give" from Faith Community Church. In the OT, God taught the people to bring their first and best as an offering to God when they came to worship. These offerings were generally used in two ways: for sin and celebration. In regards to sin, it was a foreshadow that someday God would send His firstborn son as a sin offering for the people, the best He had to offer. We don't need to give an offering for sin because Christ was the final offering for all sin. However, the offering we bring is a symbol of our obedience/surrender to Christ work of redemption on the cross. We give our lives to God as an offering. In regards to celebration, the offerings the people brought at harvest were a celebration of God's love and faithfulness to provide for their needs. They rejoiced that they were able to give because God gave so abundantly to them. Each Sunday, we give everyone the opportunity to rejoice that God's gift of Christ is the final offering for our sin. We also give everyone the opp