Glorifying God Through Generosity and Financial Stewardship

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Whether you eat or drink or use your money, do it all to the glory of God. That is, use your money in a way that makes God look like He really is supremely glorious, more glorious than money or anything money can buy. That's the fundamental principle: live to show that God is supremely beautiful, great, valuable, and thus use your money to show that. [00:02:02]

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you, and if it is better than life, it's better than money. Money is used to sustain life, enhance life, and if the steadfast love of God is better than life, it's better than money, and if we live to show that, we glorify God with our money. [00:03:16]

Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, which is more precious than life, that we may rejoice and be glad in you all our days. We need to pray, "Oh God, do this, make my heart the kind of heart that is satisfied in you and your love more than in money." [00:04:01]

Keep your life free from the love of money, be content with what you have, for He has said, "I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you." How could you love money more than God when God is with you always as your helper? Everything is going to work for your good, even in the hour of your death. [00:05:05]

As for the rich in this world, in the present age, charge them not to be haughty. Don't let money make you proud; let God be your pride. Nor set their hopes on uncertainty of riches; let God be your hope, not the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. [00:06:08]

They are to do good, they are to be rich in good works, they are to be generous, they are to be ready to share. How many times must he say it, right? Do good, be rich in good works, be generous, be ready to share, and thus in that way, in those ways, you store up treasure for yourself as a good foundation for the future. [00:07:14]

Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." We glorify God by treasuring God above money so that the giving of money becomes part of our delight in glorifying God. [00:08:21]

The way we seek to glorify God with our money is to get it, and use it, and lose it in a way that shows how much we treasure God above money. And I used the word lose here, thinking of Job, who lost all of his possessions and his ten children, and how did he lose it? [00:09:09]

Freely you've received, freely give. We saw years ago in Matthew 10:8 a very significant principle for guiding our ministry: heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying, give without pay. That's the way biblical truth was spread in Jesus' ministry. [00:09:41]

What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right. Paul knows he has a right. Don't muzzle the ox when it's treading out the grain; the ox has a right to eat. The worker is worthy of his wage. [00:11:21]

We do not require any payment for any of our products. We do not require any registration or sign-in. We don't distract anybody with advertisements as to give the impression we're really trying to make money off lots of views here. We do invest in a team of gifted, Bible-saturated writers and editors. [00:12:23]

We do it by encouraging people who have encountered something glorious and beautiful and life-changing at Desiring God by encouraging people to transition from encountering the truth freely to spreading the truth generously. From this kind of person to this kind of person, and the reason we do it this way is because this is the way we saw Paul do it. [00:13:52]

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