Peter Barnes | Ephesians 4:28
SERMON NOTES
From Stealing to Honesty and Generosity
(Ephesians 4:28)
– general in 4:17-24, and more specific from verse 25 onwards.
– John Wesley: 1. Gain all you can; 2. Save all you can; Give all you can.
1. Put off stealing.
– Ps.37:21; Tit.2:9-10; Deut.25:13-16
– no laziness or gambling; John 12:1-6
2. Put on useful honest work.
– Gen.2:15; Mark 6:1-3; 1 Cor.4:12-13; Acts 20:34-35; 1 Thess.2:9
– Prov.23:4a but also 2 Thess.3:11-12; Prov.6:6
3. Put on generosity.
– Deut.24:19-22; Acts 6:1-7
– Gal.2:1-10; 6:10; 2 Cor.9:6-7
– George Herbert: Teach me, my God and King,/ In all things Thee to see/ And what I do in any thing/ To do it as for Thee.