Investing in Eternity: Generosity as Spiritual Return on Investment

``Put your greatest value on spiritual ROI, not earthly ROI. Earthly ROI will be eaten by the moths and the rust and the decay and a stock market that crashes sometime, an investment that goes south. ROI, earthly ROI is not always up and to the right, my friends. Spiritual ROI can always be up and to the right. Meaning, can get better and better and better. [00:38:06] (29 seconds)  #SpiritualROI

Don't rob yourself. Don't steal from yourself something that is gonna bring you so much joy. The Bible says this, it's better to give than to receive. You're gonna find more joy in giving. Why? Because God's developing a harvest, a heart of generosity in you. There's something that you're gonna want from God, and it's not just the tangible of heal this, provide for that. It's gonna be it's gonna be in it's gonna be the intangible. It's gonna be inside of your heart. [00:31:02] (31 seconds)  #JoyInGiving

We like to give to things that are the tangible, the the gratification of giving so that we can see our giving at work, and it comes back to us, and we're like, man, look at what we just did. We we love doing that, but I have a warning for you today. The warning is this. Don't don't overvalue the tangible and undervalue the intangible. It's it's a tricky thing. It's addictive to give with instant gratification. It's it's easy to do, especially when you're early in your faith. [00:20:38] (35 seconds)  #ValueTheIntangible

and when people are in life groups, and when when people are praying and reading reading the word, right, when people are engaged with practical application of God, there is a spiritual ROI that's coming back to you. Where your heart is growing, you're becoming more like Jesus. This is what I want for every single one of you. This is what I want for my personal life as well. I I I I don't wanna have a year where there's not a spiritual ROI. [00:16:37] (25 seconds)  #SpiritualDisciplinesPayOff

Now, please, let's just can we just be balanced in this? Jesus isn't saying don't have earthly possessions. We've already talked about that in this in this series. Earthly possessions is not the problem. Here's what the problem is, the desires of our heart. That's what Jesus is going after. Where is the desire of your heart? Jesus is saying this to you and me. Put your greatest value on heavenly investment. [00:37:39] (26 seconds)  #GuardYourHeartDesires

Your children loving the Lord. That could be it. And I know as a father of four adult children, you cannot control them. And some of them are going to choose to be the prodigal like I have, and they're gonna be running away from the Lord. And some of them are gonna run to the Lord. But your greatest investment will be who's in heaven because of your testimony and because of your generosity. [00:36:52] (26 seconds)  #InvestInEternalFamily

Notice this. Like, this is not even this is not even like this is above and beyond. Like, this is like sell a house and bring a 100% of it. And what would they do? They would bring it to God, and they would put it into the hands of the leaders, and they would say, meet the needs of the people. That is extravagant giving. That's not even at the level that we're talking about. That's at a whole different level of giving. [00:23:27] (26 seconds)  #ExtravagantGiving

Because if all you give to are the tangible things, then in the end, the motive is most likely I give for the way it makes me feel. And we don't give for the way it makes us feel. We give we give because God God invites us to be a part of advancing his kingdom. [00:21:57] (21 seconds)  #GiveToAdvanceKingdom