There is great danger in using substitute methods (other than tithe, offerings, wills, trusts, et cetera) for supporting God’s cause. Other methods may actually encourage you to withhold yourself from God. Please read CS 201-206 or CSA 128-131. CS-SG 39.1
18. Describe the minds from which spurious plans to support God’s cause come. CS 201:1 or CSA 128:1
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19. Why are such plans invented? CS 201:1 or CSA 128:1
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20. Here is revealed a spiritual danger. CS-SG 39.4
“Men refuse to give for the _______________________ of God; but for the _______________________ of _______________________, and the CS-SG 39.5
_______________________ of _______________________ for selfish considerations, they will part with their money.” CS 202:3; 203:1 or CSA 128:3 CS-SG 39.6
21. Christ cannot accept these funds, because “they were not given through their _______________________ and _______________________ to Him, but through their _______________________ of _______________________.” CS 204:2 or CSA 130:2 CS-SG 39.7
“What profit is there if you gain the whole world—and lose eternal life? What can be compared with the value of eternal life?” (Matt. 16:26, TLB *Text credited to TLB is from The Living Bible. Copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois.). CS-SG 39.8