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Harvesting Generosity: A Journey of Faith and Giving
Generosity and Faith: Stephen Johnson and His Father's Testimony
In this powerful sermon, Stephen Johnson and his father share their journey of faith and dedication to God's ministry. Opening with a warm welcome, they recount their personal stories, including their roots in India and a deep calling into ministry. By exploring 2 Corinthians 9:5-11, they highlight the biblical principles of generous giving, drawing a parallel to the Macedonian church's example of abundant joy and generosity despite hardships. Through personal anecdotes of divine intervention and provision, they encourage the congregation to give cheerfully and wholeheartedly, promising that such giving pleases God and leads to abundant blessings. This session is a moving blend of scriptural insights and real-life experiences, aimed at inspiring deeper commitment and generosity in building God's kingdom.
00:00 Welcome and Introduction
01:56 Personal Testimony and Family Background
03:12 The Call to Ministry
05:34 Scripture Reading and Sermon Introduction
06:18 The Principle of Sowing and Reaping
08:47 The Cheerful Giver
14:25 The Example of the Macedonian Church
20:31 Encouragement to Give Generously
36:39 Personal Stories of Faith and Provision
40:14 Conclusion and Prayer
Transcript
Good morning.
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:Oh, that's, that's English.
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:I just said English, so you
don't have to be like, what?
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:No.
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:Good morning, church!
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:There you go, there you go.
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:You can come forward.
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:You can start, yes.
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:Speaker 7: Good morning.
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:Speaker 6: Greetings greetings
to you all in the name of the
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:Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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:I take this opportunity to welcome
everyone who's here, welcome everyone
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:watching us online and from every
other locations and also I wanna
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:take this time to thank Pastor Nate
and family for this opportunity.
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:Uh, I, I wanna take, uh, this time to
honor God first and also, uh, honor your
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:senior pastor, our senior pastor, pastor
Nate Gagne, for giving me this opportunity
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:to preach the gospel this morning.
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:Uh, first of all, I want
to introduce myself.
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:Uh, I'm a, uh, I'm from India.
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:My, me and my family, we are from
India and we are a small family.
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:Uh, I'm serving in a denomination called
New the Church of God back home in India,
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:and I've been there for many years.
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:I was born in a Syrian Orthodox family.
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:Speaker 7: And
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:Speaker 6: at the age of 13, I
was, I was called into the ministry
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:in a Syrian Orthodox church
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:Speaker 7: school
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:Speaker 6: after my high school.
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:Uh, God enabled me to serve in the,
uh, as a minister in this church.
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:Uh, during those moments, uh, God enabled
me to get married to my awesome wife.
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:Uh, during that time when I was in, in
the Surn Orthodox Church, uh, God met
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:me and I had a eager to learn the word
of God and to convert into Christianity.
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:Uh, 34 years ago, God had, I had an
encounter with God and I got saved.
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:And from since then, 34 years
ago, I became a Christian and
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:followed Christ in the sense.
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:I'm blessed with three, uh, uh,
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:Speaker 7: three kids.
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:Speaker 6: My oldest son, uh, when he
was studying in eighth grade, ninth
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:grade, he started his full-time ministry.
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:Uh, he, he fought the good fight
in this earth till he was 26
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:and when to be with the Lord.
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:Speaker 7: Pastor Steven Johnson.
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:Speaker 6: Uh, second Child is Ringo
Kos and her husband Steven Johnson.
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:I don't have to, uh,
introduce them to you.
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:You already know them.
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:Speaker 7: They serve as
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:Speaker 6: one of the pastors at
the Restoration Church in Bethlehem.
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:Speaker 7: We
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:Speaker 6: are all also blessed with
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:Speaker 7: three grandkids.
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:Speaker 6: They're also in
this, uh, in this building,
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:and the youngest son, Rufus
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:Speaker 7: and the wife Elizabeth,
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:Speaker 6: uh, wife Elizabeth.
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:Uh, they're also in the ministry,
uh, back in North India.
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:Uh, the one good thing is we
all are in ministry, but in
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:different parts of the world.
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:God has been so faithful
in our lives till now.
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:I request your sincere
prayers, continue your prayers.
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:If you have your Bible stern
with me to second Corinthians
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:chapter nine, verse five,
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:why I chose this verse.
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:As many of you know, we started this
series called Kingdom Builders last week.
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:And I want to continue
in those, in that series.
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:Speaker 7: Um, uh, when we look
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:Speaker 6: at, uh, 2 Corinthians
chapter 9 verse 6, it reads like this.
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:Remember there's a farmer who
plants only few seeds will get a
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:small crop, but the one who plants
generously will get a generous crop.
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:Speaker 7: Here,
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:Speaker 6: the writer, Paul
uses a terminology that is
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:understandable to the farmers.
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:Uh, I, I came to know that
Americans love farming.
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:Uh, there are, uh, different kinds of
farming in this, uh, in the United States,
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:but what we read in this chapter is he,
Paul is talking about the Kingdom of God.
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:We also see that in the Bible there
is, uh, there is this, uh, this theme
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:called sowing and reaping that we see,
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:but Paul here talks about
giving to the kingdom of.
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:Paul reminds us this.
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:A farmer who plants few seeds will, uh,
will have small crop, but who, who plants
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:generously will have a generous crop.
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:The person who gives generously
will reap generously.
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:We need to remember that
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:Speaker 7: for a farmer.
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:Speaker 6: A farmer always,
uh, buys the best seed for
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:him to sow it into the field.
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:He looks under the field and he buys the
seed according to how large his field is.
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:Speaker 7: If
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:Speaker 6: you give the best seed,
if you sold the best seed into the
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:field, you'll reap the best harvest.
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:Speaker 7: A
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:Speaker 6: farmer who plants a seed, he
waits for the biggest harvest in return.
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:That's the same thing that
a farmer stores the seed.
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:So Paul here reminds us about
sowing into the kingdom of God.
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:Speaker 7: When we
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:Speaker 6: come to verse seven,
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:we see a question there,
how we need to give.
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:We read that God loves a
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:Speaker 7: cheerful giver.
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:The Bible reminds us this.
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:Don't give sadly.
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:Don't give with peer pressure.
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:For
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:Speaker 6: God loves a cheerful giver.
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:Let me ask you this.
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:How should we give to God's kingdom?
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:We read that we, whatever your heart has
decided, that's what you need to give.
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:Don't give
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:Speaker 7: reluctantly.
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:You
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:Speaker 6: must.
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:You must each decide in your
heart how much you should give.
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:And you need to make sure you give,
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:Speaker 7: you give with, uh, gladness
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:more than the amount that we give.
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:Your attitude matters,
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:uh,
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:Speaker 6: how much that we sow
our attitude matters for it.
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:Uh, the, the farmer who sows,
he's expecting something.
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:And what is that expectation?
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:The expectation is that he
will reap a harvest in return.
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:Paul reminds us again in these
verses, Please don't give, sadly,
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:don't think that, oh God, I'm going
to give $10 or two a hundred dollars.
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:What is going to be my next situation?
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:Oh God.
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:Uh, I'm going to give a thousand
dollars, or I'm going to bless this,
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:uh, ministry, uh, and wait to what
is next or what we are expecting.
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:God, what is going to be my life next?
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:Speaker 7: Please
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:Speaker 6: don't give like that.
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:Speaker 7: Don't, don't give
because somebody is forcing you.
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:We are not giving because
somebody is forcing us.
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:Speaker 6: We are giving because God
has done gracious things in our lives.
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:He's not, he's not a God
who's withhold stuff from
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:Speaker 7: us.
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:He's a God who provides for us.
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:He's a good God.
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:He's a God who will enrich
and generously give us.
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:When we go back to the verse four,
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:we read that he loves a cheerful giver.
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:How we give,
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:How are you giving to God?
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:Are you, are you giving to
God's ministry with sadness?
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:Are you giving with, uh, are
you giving to God's ministry
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:with, uh, with peer pressure?
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:Or are you, are you giving
it from your own heart?
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:If we need to understand what the
word of God is saying right here,
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:we need to go, uh, to the, to the,
uh, portion of this scripture.
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:Second,
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:uh, let's go to second cor.
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:This chapter nine, verse five.
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:So, so I thought I should send these
brothers ahead of me to make sure the gift
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:you promised is ready, but I want it to
be a ruling gift, not one given grudge.
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:Speaker 7: Paul
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:Speaker 6: is reminding
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:Speaker 7: us here.
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:The gift you promised is ready.
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:Speaker 6: I want to urge you that
whatever you have promised, the gift
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:that you promised, make it ready.
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:Speaker 7: In the
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:Speaker 6: mission field,
there is a lot of expenses.
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:Uh, that's, that needs to come
through the mission of the church.
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:Uh, uh, spreading the gospel is one of
the, one of the missions of the church.
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:Speaker 7: Uh, getting people saved
is one of the mission of the church.
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:Speaker 6: Helping to spread this
gospel or this mission is one of the
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:critical mission for us as a church.
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:Speaker 7: What Paul is teaching here,
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:the gift that we need to give,
we need to make it ready.
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:There needs to be an enthusiasm in us.
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:And we also need to encourage
other people to give.
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:And
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:Speaker 6: that's when we can see
the goodness of God moving through
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:our lives and in the church.
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:Uh, when we, uh, when we look into
the giving portion of, in the,
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:in the, in the Kingdom of God,
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:Speaker 7: Macedonian,
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:Speaker 6: uh, Paul shows us an example.
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:He sets an example as a Macedonian church.
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:Speaker 7: Macedonian.
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:Speaker 6: Uh, let's look
into the, uh, Bassian Church.
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:When we go to, uh, second Corinthians
chapter eight, verse one to five,
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:we see an example set before
us as in the Macedonian Church,
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:Speaker 7: Macedonia.
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:Speaker 6: This example that we
have set in Macedonian church,
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:how they gave to the mission or
the, or the mission of the church.
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:We need to, uh, we need to, uh, we
need to take that and grab us and then,
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:uh, do the same thing in the church.
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:A Paul is reminding us this again.
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:Now, uh, 2 Corinthians chapter 8 verse
1, it reads like this, Now, I want you
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:to know, dear brothers and sisters,
what God in his kindness has done
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:through the churches in Macedonia.
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:Uh, what kind of kindness has,
has the Macedonian Church got?
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:Speaker 7: Uh, one
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:Speaker 6: of the things that we see is
the kindness that they got is because
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:they gave to the Macedonian Church.
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:Uh, the situation around them was
not favorable for them to give.
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:We read in the chapter two, they were,
they've been tested in many troubles
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:Speaker 7: and they were very poor.
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:The verse two, it reminds us,
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:Speaker 6: uh, second quarter,
chapter eight, verse two reads like
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:this, they are being tested by many
troubles and they are very poor, but
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:they are also filled with abundant
joy, which has overflowed in rich.
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:Generosity.
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:Uh, Paul is reminding us the how the
situation in the Macedonian Church,
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:they're being tested in many troubles,
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:but they're also filled.
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:Abundant joy.
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:They're very poor stage situation.
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:If you look at the situation, the, uh,
what they're going through, they cannot,
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:they, they don't have much to give to God
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:Speaker 7: our,
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:Speaker 6: but we read that
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:Speaker 7: they overflowed
with the rich generosity.
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:Speaker 6: I wanna ask you this, what are
the situation that we are encountering?
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:Speaker 7: Some people
go through hardships,
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:some people go through, uh,
tough situations in their life.
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:Speaker 6: Some people have a death
situation that they're going through
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:or other troubles in their life.
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:We cannot wait for the situations
to all be a favor for us to give
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:to God, but we need to turn the
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:Speaker 7: opposite.
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:Speaker 6: When we look at the Macedonian
church, even though they were tested
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:in many troubles, even though they were
in very poor stage, we see that they
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:were filled with abundant joy and which
has overflowed in rich generosity.
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:Where did this happiness or joy came from?
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:The kingdom of God is not just, uh,
drinking water or being filled, but
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:it's the Holy Spirit raining down on us.
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:We see that they were
filled with abundant joy.
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:When
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:Speaker 7: we come to, uh, verse
three, uh, second Corinthians,
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:chapter eight, verse three,
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:Speaker 6: we can see that how, how the
Macedonian Church gave Paul was a witness.
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:Speaker 7: We.
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:Speaker 6: For I testify that according
to their ability and beyond their
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:ability, they gave voluntarily begging
us insistently for the privilege
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:of participating in the service.
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:The Macedonian Church is begging, begging
them incidentally for the privilege
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:of participating in the service.
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:Even though they were, when we see,
when we look at the Macedonian Church,
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:even though they were going through
things and hardships, we see that even
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:in the midst of all that, they were
having a joy that was overflowing.
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:The, the, the rich generosity or the
abundant joy that they're feeling.
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:It reads like this, they gave according
to their ability and beyond their ability,
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:Speaker 7: how did they
give to God's mission?
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:They gave, uh, they gave
according to their ability.
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:And beyond their ability.
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:I want to ask you this question today.
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:How are we, uh, giving to God?
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:We need to give according to our ability.
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:And also beyond your ability.
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:And the, and
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:Speaker 6: the way the Holy
Spirit leads us, we need to give.
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:Speaker 7: We need to sow into the
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:Speaker 6: kingdom of God
according to how the Spirit
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:Speaker 7: leads us.
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:Speaker 6: Uh, as I mentioned
earlier, God is not a God who,
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:who withholds stuff from us.
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:Paul reminds us in the next verse
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:we read in verse five.
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:They, they even did more than we hoped.
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:For their first action was to
give themselves to God and to
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:Let me remind that verse again,
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:Speaker 7: Adam.
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:Speaker 6: They even did
more than we hoped for.
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:For their first action was
to give themselves to God
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:Speaker 7: and to us.
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:Speaker 6: This we need to
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:Speaker 7: carefully look into this verse.
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:Paul was thinking this church
is going through very hardship.
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:They were in a very poor stage.
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:How much
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:Speaker 6: can this church
give to the mission of the,
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:Speaker 7: uh, mission of the church?
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:Speaker 6: But when he understood how much
they gave to the mission of the church,
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:Paul is reminding us that Beyond
their, beyond what Paul thought
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:that church in Macedonia gave.
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:First, they themselves gave to God.
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:And not only they gave it
to God's ministry, but they
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:have blessed me as well.
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:Speaker 7: So
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:Speaker 6: what can we
understand in these verses?
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:They also gave it to the pastors
that were there, which was Paul
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:and their, and their friends.
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:And not only that, they
gave themselves to God.
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:Speaker 6: uh, chapter nine.
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:Speaker 7: Let's come to verse eight.
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:Speaker 6: And the God is able
to make all grace, uh, come in
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:abundance to you so that you may
always have complete sufficiency in
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:everything and have an abundance for
every good work and act of charity.
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:Paul here reminds us that we need
to be, uh, sufficient or condemned
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:in every situation that we have.
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:We need to have contentment or
we need to be condemned in every
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:While we live in this earth, we
go through things in our life.
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:Though we are living in this world,
when we are faced with troubles and
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:sores, we need to make sure that
we are content in what we have.
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:In the next verses, we see that.
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:Then you will always have
everything you need and plenty
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:left over to share with others.
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:Uh, let me ask you how much
can, uh, how much things that
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:you're doing for the community?
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:Speaker 7: Uh, Paul Hermine says
we need to, we need to have plenty
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:left over to share with others.
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:Gonna,
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:Speaker 6: well, when we, when we give
out of our generosity, God will make sure
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:that we will reap the harvest in return
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:Speaker 7: when we go to the next verse.
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:I'm going to need an egg and
then I'm going to look into it.
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:Speaker 6: They share freely
and give generously to the poor.
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:Their good deeds will remember it forever.
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:If, if, if you're sitting here and
you're going through things in your life,
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:God is here to bring a
generous life for you.
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:God is the one who promotes you.
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:Speaker 7: There's nothing
impossible with God.
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:The Bible reads as this.
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:Speaker 6: God is the one who
brings the generosity in our lives.
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:Alright?
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:Uh, when we work, when we work, we earn.
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:The blessings of God is what
we have for us in our lives.
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:In order for our things to
shift, God has to bless us.
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:In order for us to have a better
life, God needs to bless us.
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:In order for us to have, uh, to remove
our hardships, God needs to bless us.
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:Only then we can, we can be
in that rich, abundant life.
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:this chapter nine verse
standing reads like this, for
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:seed for the farmer and then bread to eat.
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:Paul is reminding
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:Speaker 7: us here again,
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:we need to
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:Speaker 6: underline that
verse 10 and read it carefully.
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:Uh, the verse like this, he who provides
seed to the sower and bread for life will
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:provide and multiply your seed for sowing.
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:The Paul reminds us here that only
a sower needs this, this seed.
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:Uh, for a farmer,
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:Speaker 7: Uh,
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:Speaker 6: for a farmer, he carries
that seed in his shoulder and have
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:that burden to, to sow into the field.
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:He carries that burden
and goes to the field.
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:And he takes that seed and
he sows it into the field.
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:And when he sows the seed into the field,
he's expecting something in return.
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:And what is that expectation is this,
that he will reap a huge harvest.
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:And Paul is in the same sense
is reminding us here again.
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:Uh, the, only the sower will get the seed.
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:Uh, I want to ask you this.
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:How much are we willing to
sow into the kingdom of God?
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:How much are we willing to
sow into the kingdom of God?
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:According to that, God is able
to give us the best seed to
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:sow into the kingdom of God.
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:Only if you sow the best seed,
you will reap the best harvest.
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:The field that is already prepared
for the harvest is the only field
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:that will reap the best harvest.
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:The farmer who sows like that
will never be disappointed.
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:The farmer who sows, there's
an expectation in his heart.
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:When I sow into those fields, he
is expecting at the right time
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:he will reap the best harvest.
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:Speaker 6: 11,
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:We see that God enriched us in every way.
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:What does it mean to be
enriched in every way?
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:It's the generosity or it's the
increase or the harvest of that field.
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:God is faithful, God is gracious
enough to change the circumstances
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:that we are going through right now.
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:Children of God, Church, we need to
have a heart to sow it into the kingdom.
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Yes, you will be enriched in every way
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:so that you can always be generous.
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:And when we take your gifts to those
who need them, they will thank God.
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:Speaker 7: Paul is reminding us,
uh, reminding us here that when
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:Speaker 6: he takes the gifts
to the poor or who is in need.
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:They will thank God for the gift.
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:Speaker 7: They will.
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:Thank God for the gift,
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:Speaker 6: the value.
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:The value of praise is written in Psalms.
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:When, when
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:Speaker 7: we give to the God's kingdom,
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:Speaker 6: it's much more than the,
the, the big stuff that we see.
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:When we praise God, it's more than,
more than the big stuff that we see.
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:It's much more valuable
when we praise God for what
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:Speaker 7: He has done.
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:Speaker 6: How I wanna ask you, how much
are we thanking God for what he has done?
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:Uh, here, Paul reminds us when
we, when we take your gifts to
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:those who are in need, they will.
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:Thank God for your gifts,
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:whatever you have done
to the kingdom of God.
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:When we give that way, we
will be enriched in every way.
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:Speaker 7: In everything,
you will be enriched.
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:You'll be enriched in your spiritual life.
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:Speaker 6: And also, God is able
to enrich our physical life.
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:God can also change or
enrich your finances.
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:Speaker 7: God can enrich your kids life.
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:God can enrich and bless you with homes.
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:God can, God can
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:Speaker 6: bless you
with everything that you
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:Speaker 7: need.
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:God can change your circumstances today.
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:Our God is a God who blesses us.
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:Our God is a God who enriches.
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:Speaker 6: God is not a God who who likes
to see us crying or be in a bad situation.
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:He's a God who enrich and
enriches us and be glad about it.
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:Speaker 7: So when we give it to
the God's mission, we will, we
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:need to be content in what we do.
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:And
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:Speaker 6: when we do that way,
he's a faithful God to enrich our
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:circumstances in everything that we do.
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:Uh, the band can come forward,
uh, the band can come forward.
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:Uh, what he said was, uh, we have
an opportunity right in front of us.
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:God has given us an opportunity
right in front of us today.
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:What is this, what is this opportunity?
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:Uh, I heard that there is a miracle
offering that is happening next week.
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:Uh, it was
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:Speaker 7: shown, it was shown before.
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:In this offering,
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:Speaker 6: we want to make sure
we give the best offering to God.
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:Speaker 7: What is,
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:Speaker 6: what is it reminding us?
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:What Paul is reminding us here
again, is how much what we give
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:our tides and kingdom builders
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:and the terminology he's he Paul
has used is the farming language.
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:We also saw that how Macedonian
Church gave it to the work of God.
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:They gave it with their ability
and beyond their ability.
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:And I pray that God, God blesses you
in that way that you can give with
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of God, they will be blessed.
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you will reap a harvest.
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want to share something that
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where I couldn't feed my kids.
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I couldn't buy basic necessities,
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couldn't even buy things for our family.
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uh, we had, we had hardships that were
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upon the face of Jesus and earnestly cry.
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of God move in our family
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ha my oldest son had cancer.
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money to send him to the hospitals.
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and to seek the face of God.
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for the funding too, so that I can send
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going through hardships, We made sure
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we sew it back to the kingdom of God.
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:Speaker 6: She's a prayer
warrior and God used
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my ministry is her prayer, prayer
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son was, uh, as passed away.
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who met with an encounter.
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was almost done and we didn't have money
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God was faithful in our lives.
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came and we could treat her.
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that she was going through
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the ministry together.
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we gave it back to the kingdom of God.
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encourage the church today that,
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and with your, within your ability.
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invite the prayer team to be, uh,
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provided for us and our needs.
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enrich us in every way.
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that you continue to, uh, pray for
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you think about us, say a prayer,
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remember us in your prayers.
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