Little is Much When Righteousness is the Central Component

Subject: Little is Much When Righteousness is the Central Component

Scripture Reading: Luke 21: 1 - 4

Memory Verse: Luke 12: 15

Objective: To remind us that righteousness is the key component to get God’s attention.

Note: The Pharisees of old who equated abundance as a sign of righteousness. Our possession or position does not determine how righteous we are. Whenever we begin to think as the Pharisees did, we have not so learnt Christ. The only way we can develop in righteousness is to allow Christ to take full and complete control of us.

1.     How did Jesus in Luke 21: 1 - 4 highlight that what’s going on in the heart determines how abundance is viewed? What similar lesson was taught in Luke 18: 9 - 14?

2.     With this principle firmly established, what should be standard in every Christian home, and what is the reminder to business operators? Proverbs 15: 16 - 17, Proverbs 16: 8

3.     Righteousness is simply ‘doing right.’ What right action caused a widow and her family to be sustained through years of famine? 1 Kings 17: 8 - 15; And how did little become much for the widow in 2 Kings 4: 1 - 7?

4.     How do these scriptures comfort our hearts with the knowledge that in God’s economy the equations are different? Mark 6: 35 - 44, Psalm 37: 16 - 19

5.     What message is sent in Luke 12: 15 and how practically was this shown in Luke 16: 19 - 24?

6.     It is inherent in man to always want more of this world’s goods. While we seek these things, what exhortations should guide us? Psalm 37: 23 - 25, 1 Timothy 6: 6 - 7