SUNDAY SERVICE | UNREASONABLE GENEROSITY - Sunday 31st May 2026 AM | Pastor Mike

Going the extra mile on the experience always requires going the extra mile on generosity.

In this message from 1 Chronicles 29:3–5, Pastor Mike shows that David didn't just want to build a Temple — he wanted to build the best one. Not for his own legacy, but because the One taking up residence in it was worth nothing less. So he gave from his personal treasury, over and above everything already contributed, and then turned to the congregation and asked who would do the same. The word he used was milevad — over and above. Not the language of the minimum. 

God set a floor in Leviticus. Ten percent. He called it holy — His. And in Malachi He names not meeting it for what it is — robbery. Not negligence. Not oversight. Robbery. The tithe is where obedience starts. The milevad is where devotion begins. Mary understood this when she poured a year's wages over Jesus' feet. Judas called it waste. Jesus called it worship — and said she didn't even realise her generosity was financing something eternal.

That's the pattern from Genesis to Chronicles to the cross. Unreasonable generosity has always been how God finances environments where everything else falls away. He gave first — and gave what no amount of gold could ever match.

Because where your treasure is, your heart will be also. The extra mile not only finances the best experience for others — it finances something for you too.