Sowing and Reaping: The Joy of Generous Giving

It says, now he who supplies again, we we're this earlier, God who supplies the seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and what does it say? An increase. Right? Will supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. Says, you'll be made rich in every way so that you can be a blessing, so that you can be generous in every way. Right? You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion and through us, your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. [00:35:28] (47 seconds)  #SupplyAndIncrease

God is the same way. You know, oftentimes it seems like, well, if I give this money away, it's gone. Right? And and I how am I gonna be generous with it again because it's gone and unless we have the opportunity like we do with the seed that we plant and we see that it produces 800 fold or whatever the ratio is, unless we have to give the God the opportunity to do the same thing and show us the faithfulness, we don't understand the laws of sowing and reaping apply in the same ways. [00:28:49] (33 seconds)  #TrustTheHarvest

But the second thing that I I talked about that we're gonna weave throughout the morning is you can experience the fun, the blessing, the joy of giving, of using our money the way God intends. Last week, I told you something that I'm gonna correct. Not really but I said that money doesn't buy happiness. Right? I said money doesn't buy and we talked about statistics and and but but really this week in second Corinthians nine, Paul's gonna kinda tell us the opposite. He's gonna say money actually does buy happiness [00:12:28] (34 seconds)  #GivingBuysJoy

And you chose the right answer. Right? Not the easy answer and and he has. And so I just wanted to share a couple things because it's interesting, right, to see how god performs miracles in our lives and the ways that God provides when we take steps and we're generous with who we are and what we are when when we pursue first his kingdom rather than our own kingdom. [00:55:36] (24 seconds)  #SeekHisKingdom

God gives us the seed but it doesn't do anything unless we sow it. Right? If we hold on to it, it it doesn't do anything until we put it in the ground. If we spend it, I mean, there are some things and it talks about that and we'll see in a minute. Sometimes we have needs that for food and for things, so God gives us what we need. But but the what the seed he gives us to sow doesn't grow unless we unless we plant it. Right? And there's a a bit of a [00:27:08] (31 seconds)  #PlantTheSeed

God is able to make all grace abound so that in all things at all times having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. That's a lot of alls. Right? All times, all things that as we sow and again, as we're sowing generous and again, this is generosity we I talked about a minute ago involves not just our money but our time and our talents and but chapter eight and chapter nine are talking about money and and so as we sow, God gives us the ability, one, to meet our needs it says at all times [00:31:19] (36 seconds)  #AllGraceAbounds

For a moment, I'm just gonna jump down to verse 10, we'll come back. But it says verse 10, now he who supplies the seed to the sower, and then it goes on. So he who supplies God is the one who's supplying the seed to the sower and our examples here. So as we go back to verse six, whoever sows sparingly, so God's the one that gave the seed to begin with and then it requires somebody to sow it and and to do something with that seed [00:26:27] (30 seconds)  #GodGivesTheSeed