December 5, 2025 | 2 Corinthians 5-9
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Introduction and Welcome
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Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hello.
Exploring Personality Types: Introverts, Extroverts, Ambiverts, and Otroverts
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Hey, there's a new term out there. Everybody classifies themselves as introverts or extroverts, and I saw recently on social media that scientists have been studying this ambivert This, huh? Ambivert. Ambivert. No, I haven't heard that one.
Oh, that's out there too. Okay. So now there's a fourth, I guess, and it's the otrovert Wow. Which supposedly is somebody that. It because the whole idea is you either recharge around people or you recharge when you're by yourself. And the otroverts are people that are kind of hybrids that they can thrive in people, but they also need their time by themselves.
It didn't shock me. I was like, yeah, that, that makes sense. That's probably the majority of people would classify it in that. I don't think there's too many that are pure, a hundred percent introverts and pure extroverts. I think all of us. Depending on the context, would probably say, Hey, yeah there's times where I really enjoy being around this group of people, and there's other times where I, yeah, I need to disengage.
I need to unplug, I need to be by myself to refuel and recharge. Yeah. I guess I like [00:01:00] systems like that. I like personality tests that give you a sense of like, oh, that's interesting. That's a decent or helpful insight. But by and large, I'm pretty skeptical of systems like that to identify or peg people.
And I think we're naturally resistant against being put into certain boxes or categories. And this is one of those areas where it's like, oh, I'm an extrovert, I'm an introvert. I think most people are some kind of combination or even just a, even more, I ambiverts the same idea. Ambiverts the same concept here, ambidextrous, so to speak.
Gotcha. You can be this or that. You can do both.
Biblical Perspective on Personality
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I don't see Jesus being one or the other. Clearly he needed time alone with his father, but then he's also very much on, he goes out to spend time with people. So if Jesus is the perfection of humanity displayed, then I would have to say then we're probably called to be both and we have our natural.
Human and perhaps sinful tendencies toward one or the other because of our sinful inclinations. And they likely need to be rejected in order to pursue the other ones. So for some of us who like to be by ourselves reading books and watching, YouTube videos about this [00:02:00] or that, we need to push ourselves to be more around people.
And for others who like to be around people, we need to spend more time by ourselves contemplating deeper things and considering our lives and what we're doing with them. So we probably are best when we're doing both and not either or. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's good insight. For sure. For sure.
Transition to New Testament Study
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I mean, we've got, I guess I'll say that next, next thought I had for tomorrow's episode. 'cause we've got quite a bit of ground cover today. That's true for several days. Yeah. We got lots of territory to cover in the New Testament. And this is part of the, this is the beauty of the plan. This is also the difficulty of the plan cover a lot in a short period of time.
Right, right. It's double edged sword. Yeah. Let's let's jump in.
Deep Dive into 2 Corinthians 5-9
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We're in second Corinthians five through nine. Yeah, just so much that we're dealing with here. We talked yesterday towards the end about the concept of the light, momentary affliction, resurrection bodies. We talked about that back in first Corinthians 15 too.
And what that looks like for what the state of our bodies is gonna be when we're awaiting our resurrection bodies. And we get a little bit more on that here in second Cor Corinthians, [00:03:00] chapter five, as Paul builds on the suffering. Motif that he's been talking about, the, including the light momentary affliction that's preparing a weight of eternal glory.
And he goes on in chapter five to talk about the idea that we sense that number one, we're in a temporary dwelling, and that's what he means by this tent right now, while we're here on earth, we're in this tent. And it's not our place that we really wanna be. It's not our ultimate home.
And yet there's this idea that we'd long to put on that the heavenly dwelling, which is the. Body that is gonna be prepared for us, that one Corinthians 15 glorified body. And yet there's this intermediary state where we're gonna be absent from the body, present with the Lord, but waiting for this glorified body.
And we talked about that I think in one of the most recent episodes, just it. Does that mean there's gonna be some sort of casing for our bodies? Is there gonna be something physical that we're gonna have while we're in heaven waiting for the glorified bodies and we just don't know? At the end of the day, we can't point to something scripturally and say, for sure, yes, this is gonna be what that's gonna be like as far as this intermediary state, other than Paul says that the thing that all of [00:04:00] us really are longing for is that glorified body.
That's what we want to have. And in the meantime, whether we're at home, in the body or away from the body Paul says, what we have to do is we have to make it our aim to please the Lord because there's coming a day when we're going to appear before the judgment seat of Christ. So all this is talking about that transition from this life to the next life where we're gonna have to appear before the beam a seat.
That's the judgment seat of Christ that he talks about there in verse 10, to receive what is due for what we've done in the body, whether good or evil. So whether we're here in this body or in the presence of the Lord, our aim should be the same. And that is to please the Lord, glorify God. But we aren't saved by works, Mr.
So please explain why we are clearly here in verse 10 and the works are coming to the surface. What do we do with that? Yeah, yeah. This is the assessment of the believer. This is the bestow of eternal rewards. This is when the believer is going to have their life assessed by Christ, and we are going to receive, as it says there in the text, what is due for what is done in the body now.
Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. It's all [00:05:00] his work. It's all his meritorious sacrifice on our behalf and we get his righteousness. But eternal rewards is something that's different. There's going to be variants of eternal rewards. Even in one Corinthians 15 when it compares to the resurrection body to stars saying one star shines brighter than another star, and it's even there hinting at the idea that there's gonna be differences.
In our glorified bodies that are indicative of the life that we lived in, our obedience to Christ. So your obedience to Christ is not making you more saved, but it does have an eternal impact in the sense that there is gonna be reward that you're going to gain or lose based on how you obey the Lord. So we are saved by grace, but we are judged and rewarded by works.
Yes. Which are grace enabled. So still empowered by God's grace, obviously, right? We're saved ultimately, finally, completely. That is you're made right with God once and for all. There's never a change in that status. By his grace and his grace alone. You simply turn to him in trust turning from your sin, and you are now right with God.
You are justified, right? But. [00:06:00] Everything that you enjoy as a Christian in heaven, in your glorified state is fully dependent upon, contingent upon your acts of service and faith by God's grace. Yes. Okay, so you should pay attention to this then if you're looking at this and you're thinking, man, once I'm in the faith.
That's it. And I guess in one sense that's true. Mm-hmm. But if you wanna have a better there, and then it makes sense that you work here and now to bring glory to God in all the ways that you are serving. So you're serving at your church, or taking care of your family, you're working hard, you're doing something at the office.
Those things really matter. And God does take them into account when he issues out his rewards and even his places of honor. What you're called to do in the next life is gonna be dependent upon what you do in this life. There is a continuity between this one and the next life. I like that. I think I got that from Randy Alcorn.
And there's even continuity in what you know here and now and what you know there. And then lots of people think that when you die, you go to heaven. Suddenly you're made perfect and all of a sudden you know everything and you can do everything perfectly, and you're always gonna swing [00:07:00] the bat and hit the home run, right?
That's not true, right? You will bring who you are into the next life. Granted without sin if you're in Christ, but you're still gonna be you with limitations, and you're gonna grow and learn and become more for the rest of your eternal existence. And where you start is gonna be dependent upon where you left off here.
Don't forget that. Yeah. And to quote the great theologian Maximus, what you do life who echoes in eternity. Oh, is this one of your transformer? This is the, this is the movie. Gladiator. Oh, gladiator, yeah. Russell Crow. Yeah. Russell Maximus. But Maximus is the guy's name in anyways. Yeah. And that's why Paul says, 'cause you're right, we do need to pay attention.
We do need to take this seriously. That's why Paul says so we make it our aim to please him because Paul understands that that's such a weighty thing as well.
The Concept of Reconciliation
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From here, he goes on to talking about the good news of what God has done for us by reconciling us. And that word reconciling is gonna be a key word in the rest of chapter five.
And it's a word that means to take something that's far off and to bring it near. We're actually gonna be talking about this on Sunday a little bit [00:08:00] because we're gonna be in Isaiah chapter nine and one of the titles in a. Isaiah chapter nine of Jesus is that he's the prince of peace and reconciliation and peace.
Those terms have a lot in common with one another, and so we have been given here Paul says is those who have been reconciled to God, brought near to God, the ministry of reconciliation, or as I'm gonna talk about on Sunday, a peacemaking ministry that, that we have been given the message that is. That which enables peace to be made between God and man.
Because to be reconciled, we had to have the chasm close, the gap closed between us and God that was created by our sin. And so in order for that to happen, that sin had to be dealt with. And that's where he goes in verse 21, where he says, for he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God.
And so the gap was closed. The bridge, the gap was bridged by the death of Christ for us. He paid the gap. The penalty that we could not pay so that we could be brought near to God. So, rest of chapter five, dealing with reconciliation. That term reconciliation again means to have that gap closed.
It's to be taken [00:09:00] from far off and to be brought near, and that's only possible through the cross of Jesus. Chapter six.
Paul's Ministry and Suffering
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Then Paul gets into talking a little bit more about his own ministry, and he talks about his, again, his selflessness. He puts nothing in anybody's way that they might not be able to accuse him of any wrongdoing or abusing his office.
And he talks about all of his different suffering that he's gone through, and afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments. He's gonna go through all of this and even just the posture that he says is character. Mystic of him in verse 10, that he is sorrowful, yet always rejoicing. That idea that there's even in the midst of the suffering, there's the reason to joy, there's the reason to have thanksgiving even as we talked about last week together that Paul is saying, look, life is hard.
And this goes all the way back to chapter four when he says, we have this light momentary affliction and yet here's a description of the light momentary affliction. It's not always something that is, is. Just easy. This is not intended for us to just brush it off like, well, it's no big deal because there's an eternal weight of glory.
[00:10:00] No, sometimes it hurts. Sometimes we're gonna be sorrowful, and yet because of the future that we have with Christ, because we've been reconciled, we can at the same time always be rejoicing. This section is here because Paul is looking to defend his ministry by saying, look, you can tell that we're not crooks.
We're not criminals by the way that we're willing to suffer. For your sake. And I think that's gonna be evidence of any good pastor or any good Christian for that matter, who's seeking to follow the Lord faithfully. There's gonna be a sense in which that person is gonna be willing and even able to endure suffering for the sake of doing something good for others.
And that's why Paul can say, look, we're sorrowful, but we're rejoicing. We're being treated in certain ways or being slandered and dishonored. And yet we're doing it because we care for you. And that's why he says in verse 11, we've spoken freely to you Corinthians. Now. In other words, church, we love you guys.
Our heart is wide open, and yet the challenge here is that they are restricting their love for him and for his companions. And so he's begging them, please look at what I'm doing here and trust me, if you, as one pastor said, if you can't trust my hand, trust my [00:11:00] heart. Look what I'm doing for you and look at the fact that my efforts are sincere and they're done for the glory of God for your good.
And I think that's a really helpful. Principle for when you're examining the quality of your spiritual leadership, and this is at least part of the equation as you evaluate somebody. Let's talk in verse 14.
Unequally Yoked: Relationships and Spiritual Maturity
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He is addressing the believers in the church there, and he's gonna talk about not being unequally yoked, and there by that he means not to have a partnership between a believer and an unbeliever.
Now it's been pointed out that this has to do largely with the. Business relations at the time, but I think it, it applies just as equally to a, to relationships. And we often talk about this in the context of the church with regards to dating relationships. And so it, it's one thing to say, okay, believers should not be unequally yoked with an unbeliever.
In other words, if you're a single person out there, then one of your standards. Needs to be that you're looking for somebody who's a Christian to be in a marriage relationship with, even in a dating relationship with, right? We don't date to see somebody saved. We date [00:12:00] believers. That's what God's will is.
What about spiritual maturity that pastor around, what would you say? You were in student ministry for a long time dealt with relationships with high schoolers and I know this is prevalent there, it was prevalent in college ministry too. How much should this factor into, 'cause he's talking about believer or unbeliever but what about the standards for us when it comes to a dating relationship based on spiritual maturity?
Somebody who is more spiritual, spiritually mature than another person, how much should that factor into our decisions? I would say it strongly depends on the person and how much the distance is. Generally speaking I'm gonna tell my daughters, find a man that you can follow. Find a man who is knowledgeable and wise and godly enough where you can follow his leadership and feel comfortable with that.
Because obviously as you preach recently, that's binding. Yeah. And that's gonna be the way things are. So you should choose well. There are other factors though, that are included. If a woman is further along than a guy, then that presents different kinds of challenges, right? She ought to be wise enough to discern this is gonna cause some friction, right?
Because I'm gonna disagree with his decisions and I need to be okay with saying I'm gonna follow that. [00:13:00] So, as a matter of maturity, by and large. You want someone who's gonna be somewhere in the same ballpark, at least someone that you can grow with. And here's the thing the beauty about that is that you're never gonna marry the same person that you end up with 20 years later.
Hmm. Everyone's gonna change. And you can't control that change process, right? You cannot. But what you can do if you're dating a Christian is to know that God's gonna be in control of that process. And we're gonna grow together by his grace, and hopefully we're growing closer together as we're going closer to him, and we're gonna trust him throughout that.
But as a basis for starting, you wanna find someone that's mature enough to challenge you to grow up. In holiness. In fact, what I, the rule of thumb I gave my students was, find someone that helps you glorify God better. Yeah. That was the rule that, that rule of thumb could be applied in a lot of different ways, but that would be my starting place to at least consider as you consider joining somebody in a dating or more serious relationship, what would you add to that?
Yeah, no I would agree with that. I guess maybe a follow up question. Somebody who is a part of a solid church, strong church they're single, they desire to be married, but they're looking around, they don't see that person in that church. Is that reason to say maybe I need to find another [00:14:00] church?
Or is that a, an opportunity to say, okay, I'm gonna trust the Lord's timing in this, and right now this is him saying it's not the time I see it's a strong, maybe. Yeah. It depends, and it depends on how long, depends on what you're looking for. Depends on a lot of factors. I think that would be helpful for me to diagnose with any individual person.
But by itself, I wouldn't be opposed to you saying, look I need to find somebody. And so this is, this hole is dry. I would challenge you and say, well, have you tried everything though? People would come to our church back when we were in California and they would join our college ministry, although their home base would be in a different church and they're efficient.
I'm not necessarily opposed to that. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. It can become a bad thing, obviously, but I would say, are you doing that? Are you using the dating apps? Are you finding ways to get creative on how to do this so that you can still stay connected to a strong church body?
And that would be my biggest qualifier. If you're gonna go to a different church, make sure it's a strong church body. And as I've said before in this podcast, those are not a dime a dozen. You cannot find a strong and healthy church by just turning around to another corner. They just don't exist. A strong and healthy church is a special thing that God does by [00:15:00] his grace through a certain group of people and that takes a lot of effort to keep and maintain.
So I would say, one, have you tried everything? And two, are you sure you're going to a place where you can trust the leadership? And this is a great, healthy place to grow. All those things. So there's a lot of caveats that I would add to this, but I would say by and large, I'm not opposed to it. I just wouldn't make that my first choice.
Yeah, I agree. I think you're right.
Repentance and Godly Grief
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In chapter seven, he turns to address the Corinthians and he says, Hey, you know what I want you to know I'm encouraged by you. I'm comforted by you. And he even talks about the fact that he was heavy handed with them initially, but he says, I initially though, I felt bad about that.
He said I got over it pretty quickly because what I saw the effects that it had in your life specifically, that it moved you into a repentance that is a genuine repentance. And so chapter seven, if you're looking for a word keyword idea for chapter seven, it's the idea of repentance and how godly.
Grief is different than worldly sorrow. Worldly sorrow is, man I'm sorry I got caught. Or, I feel bad about it because it hurt this person. It's not a sorrow that's anchored to men. I've grieved God, I've sinned against God. And so by extension it doesn't create the [00:16:00] change that really needs to take place, which is a change
as it pertains to our relationship with God, that's what Godly grief does. Godly grief is, man my sin, just like David in Psalm 51 against you, and you only have I sinned. God, my sin is more about God than it is anyone else. And so that's what I need to make sure I make right first before I make anything else right?
But I don't feel that. So I did get caught, and I do feel bad about the consequences, as you alluded to, and I wanna feel bad about disappointing God. How do I feel that if I don't feel that? Yeah, I think number one is time. I think when we are a continent, a sin or something like that we. Really wanna rush to soothing our conscience as quickly as we possibly can.
We wanna move through the feelings and pain of guilt, and sometimes we can do that too quickly. And if we have sinned against someone and they issue, forgiveness to us and they're telling us, you know, it's okay. And everything else, I think it can, stunt or short circuit are dealing with the Lord on that.
And so I think sometimes sitting in the feeling of, man, what I did was [00:17:00] wrong. And really thinking about why is it wrong? Why is it wrong in the eyes of God? What law, what thing did I break when it came to my relationship with him? And then also thinking back to the cost of that sin.
That cost of that sin is not just the implications of what happened on the horizontal, earthy relationship, but the cost of that sin is what happened in, in terms of Christ on the cross and reflecting on the punishment that had to be paid for that sin. If Paul says. There is, therefore now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.
Why should I spend time doing that? Seems like it's counterproductive to the gospel of grace, which says, my sins are forgiven, past, present, and future. Well, why would I do this? I'm gonna start feeling shame. I'm gonna feel guilt, and I don't know if that. Is that in conflict with what Paul says, there's no condemnation for those in Christ.
There's no ongoing condemnation and there's no eschatological condemnation. There's, you're not gonna hear depart from me. I never knew you when you're in Christ. But there is a measure of the fact that God, by his spirit, brings conviction and weighs our hearts down with conviction. Even David in the.
In Psalm says, man, my, my heart was heavy. My bones were [00:18:00] wasting away until I confess my sin before you. And so God does that as a, as an act of grace in our lives as an act of keeping us from sin. Because if it was really okay, I shouldn't feel bad about anything at all, well then we go back to the bema seat.
None of us are gonna have any rewards there. Because we're all gonna live however we wanna live and live for the flesh without any concern for obeying the Lord at that point. And so there's a sanctifying element where the conviction of the spirit keeps us pursuing godliness, pursuing holiness and that that's a good thing.
That's a grace of God that he provides for us. Chapter eight.
Generosity and Giving
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He deals with with the idea of generosity and giving. Now this is specifically with giving above and beyond. This is not necessarily, he's not dealing with giving to the church as far as your weekly tithes and offerings, even tithes.
That concept that, that's a word that we throw around the church, but that's not exactly what we're doing on Sunday mornings, unless somebody is gonna give, 35 to 40% of their income, which was. The Old Testament concept of tithing, but this is not your weekly giving. This is a, the, the church.
Being called to [00:19:00] support other believers in the time. And this was going on, Paul references other cities, other churches that he had been to that had participated in this. And he's encouraging the Corinthian church to do this as an expression of their understanding of what God has done for them in Christ.
So what does that look like for us today? Well, that may look like you going above and beyond to support a missionary to support. Ascending organization, something like that. Maybe there's an organization around here that's a Christian organization that you support what they're doing locally here, domestically here.
It's not your weekly contributions or your monthly contribution, whatever that looks like for you with the church, that's something that God is expected and commanded of us to do. This is that next level of going above and beyond, and Paul is saying, it's good to give generously.
It's good to be charitable, it's good to be open-handed with the things that the Lord has given us because of what God has done for us in Christ.
Chapter nine. Then he deals specifically with one of those collections, and he's talking about the collection there for the church in in Jerusalem. And he, again, commends the giving process and even points to the [00:20:00] reward that comes with that. In verse six, he says, whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, but whoever sows bountifully will reap bountifully.
Each one must give as he's decided in his heart. And then he says, God loves a cheerful giver. Again, that is not a situation of your Sunday morning offerings. And so if you're showing up on Sunday going, well, I'm not gonna give because I'm not cheerful about it. There's a difference between the acts of obedience that we're commanded to do and these acts of free will offerings, which are more what these are akin to in the Old Testament where you're giving, you're going above and beyond.
And yet at the same time, God is saying it's good to do that. You're gonna. Reap for doing that. And this is where the health, wealth, and prosperity gospel will take things to that next level and promise things that, that scripture doesn't promise. Here, you'll notice, it doesn't promise that your bank account's gonna be full.
It doesn't promise that that you're gonna immediately see an ROI on what you do, but it does promise that there is going to be a reward for it. Whether that reward is gonna be tangible here on Earth or realized in heaven, that's a different conversation. Can you explain then, with that thought.
Verse 11 says, you will be [00:21:00] enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. So it sounds like God is giving something of a promise here to say, look, if you do these things, you're gonna be generous and you're gonna have more to be generous with.
So I'm not saying that prosperity gospel preachers are right, obviously, but it does seem like Paul is saying that. Yeah. And I think the general principle is there and we see that in the book of Proverbs too, when it talks about living a long life and even, your barns are gonna be filled with plenty.
It, there's a general principle that I think we can agree with that if somebody is generous with what God has given them, I think God's gonna delight to give them more, to be able to do more of that. And I think that's something that we could say, yeah, God is, that's. In keeping with his nature to do that, to, to want to use you as that vessel to bring blessings to other people.
And so if you're gonna be generous with other people then and you're following the Lord and you're running hard after him, then don't be surprised if he's going to bless you with even more to be able to continue to be generous to other people. I think the danger we get into is when we say this is a [00:22:00] guaranteed principle that this is.
Going to happen a hundred percent of the time or that this is exactly what that generosity is gonna look like or what God's provision for you is gonna look like. That's where I think we cross lines into to making promises that we can't support. So when we read something like this, then I could understand why someone would look at verses nine rather 10 and 11 here.
And find that to be something of a promise. It looks like it's a promise of God to say, look, if you do these things, if you learn to be a cheerful giver, God's gonna enrich you to be more cheerfully giving in the rest of your life. How do we read something like this and not go over the edge? Because you're saying here.
Be careful with this verse. Yeah. Don't take it too far and drive over the edge of God's blessing here, but do take it seriously. Yeah. How do you hold it seriously and say this is a serious word of God to be something held close. This is not the Old Testament, right? You're quoting the Old Testament where enrichment for Israel was a legitimate material gift and blessing that God promised to them, lands, seed and blessing to Abraham.
That was part of that covenant, right under the new covenant. God doesn't promise us that, but we do have weird [00:23:00] verses like this that at least give us a sense of, man, if I'm generous, then God's gonna be generous with me. What do I do with that? How do I make sure I don't drive that over a cliff? I think he to quote another passage from Paul, which is a verse that's often taken out of context when Paul says, I can do all things through him, who strengthens me.
Right before that, Paul has said, I've lived in different seasons of life. I've learned how to be content with plenty. I've learned how to be content with not much at all. And so the Apostle Paul is a guy that was generous. He was giving his entire life in service of the church, and yet there were gonna be seasons where he needed others to support him.
And there were gonna be seasons where he was able to be more generous towards other people as well. And yet his conclusion in that was, my main focus is my contentment has to be in Christ, and that's where it needs to be. So I don't think we're gonna ever be generous because we're motivated by the fact that I want more from God.
If God does that, great. He says that's something that he can and does do. But if we're doing that and saying that, I'm expecting that in return and this is gonna be the outcome of that, I, again, I think we're pulling this [00:24:00] verse out and ignoring. The other passages in scripture, even the suffering passages in chapter six that Paul has just gone through when he is talked about everything that he's gone through in his life.
This doesn't mean that if you're generous, that your life is gonna go great. God may supply more to you because you are being faithful to him. And he does do those things, but at the same time, he also may say, Hey, you know what? As a faithful servant of mine here's some suffering as well, because I wanna make you more like Christ in these other areas too.
That's helpful and I would just point out the context here. If you're listening along and you're saying, yeah, pastor Rod's right, why isn't it, lemme just point out the context. Look at verse 11. Actually go back one go to verse 10 here. He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing.
And here we go. Increase the harvest of your. Bank account. You see that there, right? No. It says righteousness. Now this is pointing. Ultimately, the major note is the increase of your godliness, the increase of your growth in Christ. The minor note is money's gonna be involved. Certainly money will be involved and how God uses that and how God determines to supply you with that particular situation.
That's up to him. [00:25:00] And we don't know that. We don't know how he's gonna do that, but he's going to be generous to you, and I'm sure that you could look throughout your whole life and see God has been generous to you. You've gotten far more than what you've deserved, and God is using that to bless you.
I'm sure you can see that even if you can't say, well, the number and I can't right now is lower than I prefer or expect, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Verse 11, you'll be enriched in every way. To be generous in every way. We often think about the one resource money. To the exclusion of all the other resources we have.
True. We have time, we have attention, we have resources to be generous with, and God is not concerned only with a one dimensional generosity. This is not just about money. This is about life, and that's why he says, look, when you do this, when you're living in this particular way, you're generous in your whole life.
This will produce Thanksgiving to God. That's what we're looking for. It's righteousness. Thanksgiving. This is more than money. It's not less than that, but it's more than that. That's helpful. Well, let's pray and they'll be done with this episode.
Concluding Prayer and Farewell
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Gotta pray that we would be generous as a church, that you would bless us, that you would provide things for us in chief among those as Pastor Adam was just saying righteousness.
Lord, I pray that we would be a church that is, is a [00:26:00] church that. Is following Christ with everything that, that we have and that we'd be quick to support others, that we'd be quick to give, that we'd be quick to, to be those that wanna be a conduit of your blessing to other people. And yet at the same time, Lord, help us not to misunderstand this or have expectations that aren't truly in keeping with what you've promised to us and your word at the same time.
And so, Lord, we're grateful, even as Paul says here at the end of chapter nine for the. Inexpressible gift of Christ. And that is the one that we are celebrating this Christmas season even. And so I pray that you'd give us a great focus in selflessness even as we anticipate the celebration of his birth, of the incarnation of the first coming of Christ.
While we wait for a second coming, we pray this all in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Keep in your bibles tune and get tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you. Bye.
Bernard: ​Well, thank you for listening to another episode of the Daily Bible Podcast! We're honored to have you join us. This is a ministry of Compass Bible Church in north Texas. You can find out more information about our Church at compassntx.org. We would love for you to leave a [00:27:00] review, to rate, or to share this podcast on whatever platform you're listening on, and we hope to see you again tomorrow for another episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.
PJ: Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said