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(!) GENEROSITY

A Sermon in the Fruit of the Spirit Series

by Thomas R. Henry

August 14, 2005

Texts: Proverbs 11: 17-21; 23-25 / Mark 12: 41-44

I have to make a confession. I intentionally left out one verse of one of
todayšs scripture readings. If you look in your bulletin, you will see
that in Proverbs the reading goes from verse 21 to verse 23, specifically
skipping verse 22. I didnšt like that verse. I didnšt know what to do with
that verse. So, I decided to leave it out of the reading. But then I said
to myself, "Hey, you canšt just leave out verses you donšt like." (Even
though both liberals and fundamentalists have been known to do that.) I
didnšt know what to do with that verse. So, I decided to make Proverbs
11:22 the text for this sermon.

Proverbs, the eleventh chapter, the twenty-second verse reads:

Like a gold ring in a pigšs snout is a beautiful woman without good sense.

Now do you understand why I left it out? Like a gold ring in a pigšs snout
is a beautiful woman without good sense. That gets your attention. Paris
Hilton and Jessica Simpson come immediately to mind. But not to my mind.
Not to my mind as I was thinking about this sermon. What came to my mind
was the poor widow and her two small copper coins, worth about a penny.
The poor widow Jesus observed while he was sitting in the marketplace
sipping a Grande Iced Vanilla Skim Latte with a double shot. That poor
widow was a beautiful woman without good sense.

Mark tells us in his Gospel:

Jesus sat down opposite the treasury (the temple treasury was a collection
for the poor which would later be called in Christian churches, "the poor
box." and still later, "the benevolence collection.") And he watched the
crowd putting money into the treasury. Many people put in large sums. A
poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a
penny.

Between sips, Jesus commented to his disciples that many people had
contributed out of their abundance, giving perhaps a very small percentage
of what they had to give, but...she...put in everything she had, all she
had to live on. Definitely a woman without good sense.

Generosity...the fruit of the Spirit for this day in our Summer Sunday
Sermon Series... often does not make good sense. But good sense is what we
strive for; what we have been taught; what we teach our children; what we
admire and even envy. Good sense.

Good sense teaches us to be generous to a point, but not beyond that. It
certainly is without good sense to give everything we have, all we have to
live on. And yet, there is something in that attitude of all-out
generosity which makes a person beautiful, like a gold ring in a pigšs
snout. But, but, on the other hand, generosit