Speaker 1: Welcome Just hind Away Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose
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Speaker 1: are on our fourth week of our series Amazing Grace,
Speaker 1: and today we're gonna talk about something important. But before that,
Speaker 1: I want you to I'll give you a picture of
Speaker 1: two of the former wealthiest people on the planet. Okay,
Speaker 1: formerly these two are the most wealthy or the wealthy
Speaker 1: richest people on the planet. That's Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're an overshadow and set on Amazon, Jeff Bezos. But
Speaker 1: several years ago when they were the top two richest
Speaker 1: people on the planet, they they decide the donors of
Speaker 1: Bill Gates, he decided when he stepped down from the
Speaker 1: CEO from from Microsoft, he decided to give at least
Speaker 1: half or more than half of his wealth to his
Speaker 1: foundation in foundations as a million the Gates to fight
Speaker 1: against diseases, poverty and all these things. Okay, half of
Speaker 1: his wealth during that time, probably thirty billion. He donated
Speaker 1: thirty billion or half of his wealth and in Getsi.
Speaker 1: Warrian Buffett now donator in a kalahate okay, so a
Speaker 1: Lakeninon Foundationila unfortunately go in the Pasama in coronaviruses and
Speaker 1: research in Ela. But can you imagine giving away thirty
Speaker 1: billion dollars thirty billion helen zerosion multiply money complete Philippine
Speaker 1: pession and lacenon right to give away? Now what's my point?
Speaker 1: My point is this, it's easy to be extremely or
Speaker 1: extravagantly generous, to extravagantly give if you have tons and
Speaker 1: tons of money. Yes, you gave thirty billion Parama thirty
Speaker 1: plus billion Capana one so okay, land right nmam ubus
Speaker 1: is a lifetime more so okay kaisie Warren Buffett theminigankalahat.
Speaker 1: They still have tens and dozens of billions of dollars left. Now,
Speaker 1: question pettibam, what if okay? What is it possible for
Speaker 1: us to be like this, to be extravagant givers? If
Speaker 1: you don't have billions of dollars minus more than six
Speaker 1: zeros or seven zeros, you para kayaman and more now
Speaker 1: ivan Alan for zeros in Alan youm paramo? Is it
Speaker 1: still possible to be extravagant likely this people right parahmas
Speaker 1: mahira piata. If you don't have enough even for yourself,
Speaker 1: how can we be extravagant givers? Now that's we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about today. We're gonna talk about the grace of giving,
Speaker 1: because grace is not us, is beyond us. It's not
Speaker 1: our ability, it's God's ability. And we need to talk
Speaker 1: about the grace of giving and to be able to
Speaker 1: participate in the grace of giving. I want us to
Speaker 1: jump at the scripture. I believe this example from the
Speaker 1: Macedonian churches will help guide us if you want to
Speaker 1: experience the grace of giving. It's found in Second Corinthians,
Speaker 1: chapter eight, verses one to seven. Second Corinthians, Chapter eight,
Speaker 1: verses one to seven. So let's read it. Verse one says,
Speaker 1: and now, brothers, we want you to know about the
Speaker 1: grace that God has given the Macedonian churches alt of
Speaker 1: the most severe trial there overflowing joy in their extreme poverty,
Speaker 1: welled up in rich generosity. For I testify that they
Speaker 1: gave as much as they were able, and even beyond
Speaker 1: their ability, entirely on their own. They urgently pleaded with
Speaker 1: us for their privilege of sharing in the service to
Speaker 1: the saints. And they did not do as we expected,
Speaker 1: but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then
Speaker 1: to us, in keeping with God's will. So we urged titles,
Speaker 1: since he had earlier made the beginning, to bring also
Speaker 1: to completion this act of grace on your part. But
Speaker 1: just as you excel in everything in Fate's speech, knowledge, earnestness,
Speaker 1: and in your love for us, see also that you
Speaker 1: excel in disgrace of giving. Lord, bless the preaching of
Speaker 1: your word. Help us, Lord, move in disgrace, that we
Speaker 1: will be able to give extravagantly beyond our ability, just
Speaker 1: like the Macedonian churches in Jesus name. Amen. Now to
Speaker 1: understand the context of what the Macedonian churches did and
Speaker 1: why Paul was pleading with the churches, what happened was
Speaker 1: during this time there were two things happening, especially in
Speaker 1: the Jerusalem Church. The Jerusalem Church, the main church. Then
Speaker 1: Kay was undergoing extreme persecution, and also there was famine
Speaker 1: in the land so so Jerusalem, my Famina, so Walammaca
Speaker 1: in and because of the persecution, economically they were sabotage
Speaker 1: human believers Nawa and Trabajo Quinu coolog So the church
Speaker 1: had no money. The believers in Jerusalem Wallampea plus Wallapama,
Speaker 1: Billy yumamae Pera walamabilim paga in so they were in
Speaker 1: dire need. And so Paul what both did? He wrote
Speaker 1: the churches, all the churches everywhere in Rome and particularly Gay.
Speaker 1: He wrote the church in Corinth, Okay, the church in
Speaker 1: Corinth was very wealthy. They were very charismatic. There apparently
Speaker 1: mediuma gulusilla okadaminasic orange an daming correction and meaniviguinny Paul
Speaker 1: including this one. This is actually an admonition. It's like
Speaker 1: a correction to them, because he was saying, guys, they
Speaker 1: remember maritime collection. And I want you to take and
Speaker 1: see the example of the churches in Macedonia. Now, the
Speaker 1: Macedonian churches were composed of Philippi, Presolonica and Birea. Those
Speaker 1: three churches were like provincial churches. So Jerusalem was like
Speaker 1: the Manila church and the Macedonian church was like the
Speaker 1: provincial church. Now, the problem with Macedonia. During this time,
Speaker 1: the Roman Empire took over their business. It was mainly
Speaker 1: known for mining. They had gold and silver mines which
Speaker 1: the Roman Empire took over a latition scenic Questern Laton,
Speaker 1: so main main economic in Genilla. Plus they also had
Speaker 1: copper and bronze melting places. Pero severely taxed Ia sovereign Taxpa.
Speaker 1: In other words, we are in Pera and churches in Macedonia.
Speaker 1: And yet in spite of that, remember if if Paul
Speaker 1: wrote a letter asking for help to help Jerusalem, this
Speaker 1: is not to help Paul, this is to help the
Speaker 1: church in Jerusalem. It was the perfect excuse for the
Speaker 1: churches in Macedonia to tell Paul, Paul, I understand what's happening. Okay,
Speaker 1: in Indiana is a Jerusalem, but we have our own
Speaker 1: problems Pera. In right, it was the perfect excuse for
Speaker 1: the church in Macedonia to tell Paul, and maybe Paul
Speaker 1: would understand the opposite happened. It says they participated on
Speaker 1: their own, on their own. Lem I need even before
Speaker 1: Paul sent the letter Alumni Linga go Inila entirely on
Speaker 1: their own. They gave even beyond their ability. And that's
Speaker 1: called the grace of giving, the grace of giving. Now
Speaker 1: let me ask you, how many of you want to
Speaker 1: be used by God in this capacity to give beyond
Speaker 1: your ability. Okay, how can we experience and participate in
Speaker 1: disgrace of giving? Well, I believe the key verse to
Speaker 1: this passage is found in verse five. The key verse
Speaker 1: is found in verse five. And then I'll make a
Speaker 1: couple more support statements to these key verse, but I'll
Speaker 1: go through it in reverse. So the first key to
Speaker 1: the grace of giving found in verse five. Okay, it
Speaker 1: says here, grace of giving begins as you give yourself
Speaker 1: to the Lord. What does the scripture say? And they
Speaker 1: did not do as we expected, but they gave themselves
Speaker 1: first to the Lord and to us in keeping with
Speaker 1: God's will. So they gave themselves first to the Lord. See,
Speaker 1: giving is not a money issue. It is a heart issue.
Speaker 1: When we understand that it's not our it's not our
Speaker 1: bad accounts, but it's our heart accounts that is more important.
Speaker 1: The Macedonians understood this, understood that everything they had belonged
Speaker 1: to the Lord. When you give yourselves fully to God
Speaker 1: first to God, Okay, that means all that they are
Speaker 1: and all that they have belongs to the Lord. Okay,
Speaker 1: they understood. And once you have given yourself to the Lord.
Speaker 1: It is easy to give everything else or anything else, right,
Speaker 1: because if he owns one hundred percent, you see your
Speaker 1: your wallet. Your wallet is an extension of your heart.
Speaker 1: If your heart belongs to the Lord, everything else about
Speaker 1: you belongs to the Lord. But if your heart is
Speaker 1: not fully belongs to the Lord, then guess what. It
Speaker 1: will be hard to give anything. It will be hard
Speaker 1: to give some things. So it's an issue of lordship. First. Now, question,
Speaker 1: if God owns everything one hundred percent, how much is
Speaker 1: left for you to own? This is not a trick question,
Speaker 1: mat Lantau. If God owns one hundred hundred percent, how
Speaker 1: much belongs to you? Not that zero? Right? Zero? Everything
Speaker 1: belongs to God. Now you may think bad news, Lord, No,
Speaker 1: everything belongs to the Lord. The earth belongs to him
Speaker 1: and everything in it. Yes, yes, Osamasa, everything in it taio.
Speaker 1: Everything belongs to the Lord Walla Parasaten. That's why, if
Speaker 1: you understand this, it's so easy. Hey, Lord Palae. Now
Speaker 1: you may think that is a bad news, but I
Speaker 1: believe it's a good news. You know why, if everything
Speaker 1: belongs to him and nothing belongs to me, then I
Speaker 1: am not the source. He then is the source. We
Speaker 1: are just two words. We are just managers. Papagai lord
Speaker 1: a command the lord in right she lord them along
Speaker 1: my source. So my circumstances does not determine my giving.
Speaker 1: In fact, Baliktan, you're giving many times determines your circumstances.
Speaker 1: And that's why it's so important for us to understand giving.
Speaker 1: In fact, Martin Luther said this, when we are saved,
Speaker 1: when we are converted, there are three conversions that need
Speaker 1: to happen, first with our head and our heart, head
Speaker 1: and our wallet. And the hardness of this to convert
Speaker 1: is our wallet reformation Palan Naint Indianna. Why because your
Speaker 1: wallet is actually a theological statement. It determines who you worship.
Speaker 1: It tells you what is in your heart. Your wallet
Speaker 1: is always connected with your heart or where your treasure is,
Speaker 1: where your heart will be. Also, your wallet determines who
Speaker 1: is your source. Your wallet will determine who is your source.
Speaker 1: You see when when when we talk about wanting or
Speaker 1: healing someone, you okay, when we when we pray for
Speaker 1: someone to get healed, who is the source of healing?
Speaker 1: See Jesus right, Hell, see Jesus not Hell right? When
Speaker 1: someone is being you know when someone oppressed demon demon? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know the oppressed nodemonial when we cast out demons? Right,
Speaker 1: whose authority and whose name? Okay do we use see
Speaker 1: Jesus us right? But when it comes to money, when
Speaker 1: it comes to money and syna being the Lord became
Speaker 1: becaming wallet more became suddenly O Lord source, it's hard
Speaker 1: and we have to deal I have to deal with that.
Speaker 1: The moment we think it's ours, the moment we think
Speaker 1: we own it, that's when the problem starts. Take a long, Lord.
Speaker 1: But and you have to remember. If God is the
Speaker 1: source and he asked you to do something, he is
Speaker 1: a benevolent god. My plan is the Lord Mega Goa
Speaker 1: wins the Lord time and time again. God has proven himself. Listen.
Speaker 1: God is the only source that can supply everything you
Speaker 1: would need to accomplish His purpose and his desires for you.
Speaker 1: You cannot do it on your own. Many times will
Speaker 1: limit ourselves with our circumstance, with our bank account. Itulan
Speaker 1: pakoy hanko hang gandhi to the lamb it winko. But
Speaker 1: gay Lord Iba lage tasabina, this is my plan for you, Lord,
Speaker 1: how can this be? Abraham? You will be a father
Speaker 1: of many nations. Right, Gideon, you will be a mighty warrior.
Speaker 1: I'm the least and the weakest Moses. You will deliver
Speaker 1: the people of Israel out of Egypt. I can't even speak.
Speaker 1: If we just limit ourselves with our circumstance, we will
Speaker 1: never do anything. But God as the source saying, hey, you,
Speaker 1: circumstances will not determine my plan and my purpose for you.
Speaker 1: But it's the other way around. My plans and purpose
Speaker 1: will determine your circumstance. That's why it's important to give
Speaker 1: yourself first to the Lord, and it's you're not limited
Speaker 1: by your bank account or your wall. I remember when
Speaker 1: Sina uh Ian building nothing in phase one, the first
Speaker 1: building okay in BGC, the Ford Katapana Market. Uh. When
Speaker 1: that was being built, okay uh, I was newly married
Speaker 1: with my wife. We just have one baby, sit Danny
Speaker 1: baby balan On, and we were you know, not full time.
Speaker 1: We were you know, upstart bagging business man. My wife
Speaker 1: was a dentist and so we were just making ends
Speaker 1: meet a little over but we had we we gave
Speaker 1: in faith for the building project more than our means. Lord,
Speaker 1: we don't know how this will come. But this is
Speaker 1: the money that This is the amount that God told
Speaker 1: us to give, Lord, laving capacity to do this, but
Speaker 1: we'll give it in faith. And so in the middle
Speaker 1: of that, you know, we we decided we had an
Speaker 1: old car. We were using an old car. It was
Speaker 1: our batmobile Malasha okay, but sometimes naming maintenance ak Lana
Speaker 1: and so Abina me and we we just decided, okay,
Speaker 1: we want to participate. We will sell this car and
Speaker 1: give the proceeds for the building project. So that means
Speaker 1: for us, okay, we'll ham in transportation to the new baby,
Speaker 1: will just commute and all of these things. But it
Speaker 1: was never really galunaman vinee goo to Parakai, Lord, No,
Speaker 1: it was just we were just obeying because it is
Speaker 1: not it did not belong to us, right and so
Speaker 1: bin again Amen, it was part of that. But you
Speaker 1: know it's a God. Six months later or something like that,
Speaker 1: seed money came in for us to buy a second
Speaker 1: hand car, actually a van made the year after so
Speaker 1: much my lacking van, secondhand van to be able to
Speaker 1: for our growing family give my classic telegacy. Lord. But
Speaker 1: we gave that not expecting that in return peral gonna generous.
Speaker 1: The Lord God is generous. God is so generous, and
Speaker 1: that's why it's so important for us to understand the
Speaker 1: grace of giving begins when you give first yourself to
Speaker 1: the Lord. It begins there. If you cannot give yourself
Speaker 1: to the Lord, then it's going to be hard for
Speaker 1: you to give, to be hard. But once you understand that,
Speaker 1: then it will change your perspective because your grace of
Speaker 1: giving then becomes a privilege, not an obligation. Sometimes, especially
Speaker 1: growing up in a religious environment, we know that giving
Speaker 1: is an obligation. Kella coins moo or then Limon Pizzo
Speaker 1: ten twenty whatever began a one hundred persons genus canon
Speaker 1: at least that's my thinking, and a religious community in fact,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just reminded. Last week, you know, I
Speaker 1: attended the wedding of my nephew, okay, and while there,
Speaker 1: it was a it was a church in Bambanga, so
Speaker 1: we were there while going on and manamen, okay, these
Speaker 1: were some of the ninas and they flew in from
Speaker 1: all over Okay. Some of them were British and some
Speaker 1: of them were Baa Rolls, Royce Sabik. I think so
Speaker 1: when the offering back came the big isla, the l
Speaker 1: one twenty pesos sabi one hundred pesos. Don't know but
Speaker 1: they But I'm not judging then, I'm just saying, if
Speaker 1: our minds are set now, this belongs to me. Whatever
Speaker 1: I give to the lords Lord, that will be our
Speaker 1: mindset right, Because it's an obligation, I'm a k do something,
Speaker 1: so I've done my deed, okay. But if it's the
Speaker 1: other way around, if we give first to the Lord,
Speaker 1: it's not an obligation, it's a privilege. Different people give,
Speaker 1: different give have different reasons why they give. Right, need attack,
Speaker 1: shelter and an eyes and sappharirah. They gave para takaham vina,
Speaker 1: I'm so generous. In fact, some people give for the fortune.
Speaker 1: Some people give for the fame. Some people give for
Speaker 1: the power. Yeah, some people give just to play the game. Mhm.
Speaker 1: Some Well, let me tell you. The massive deonience absolutely
Speaker 1: made it clear that our giving does not depend on
Speaker 1: our circumstances. It depends on your relationship with Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: It depends on that. What is your relationship with God?
Speaker 1: Are you doing things to earn His favorite or are
Speaker 1: you doing things because you have already had the favor
Speaker 1: of God. You already have the favor of God. You see,
Speaker 1: the grace of giving lies in the fact that we
Speaker 1: have been forgiven. That we have been forgiven. In fact,
Speaker 1: I made this like a play of words. The fact
Speaker 1: that God has four given us paves the way for
Speaker 1: us to give four others. Jesus put it this way.
Speaker 1: He who is forgiven much loves much. The only way
Speaker 1: for you to be able to give is to know
Speaker 1: how deep we were in the pit. I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about how much money you have, but your life will
Speaker 1: be in the pits until you have experienced the death
Speaker 1: of God's love and forgiveness for you. If you have
Speaker 1: not experienced that, then things will be okay. I'm doing
Speaker 1: God a favor instead of Lord, Thank you for saving me,
Speaker 1: Thank you for forgiving me. Thank you for setting my life,
Speaker 1: turning my life upside down. If you know where you
Speaker 1: came from, then you will just be grateful for the
Speaker 1: privilege to participate. You'll be grateful. In fact, the Macedonians
Speaker 1: did that Sabil entirely on their own Diput the Madathing
Speaker 1: letter Nepal Sail Paul excited m mcbiguym Perah to participate.
Speaker 1: We're so excited. I wish all of you were like that.
Speaker 1: Bagna okay baga may needna kell and i'm a Kanduba
Speaker 1: when you look at their circumstance with Aman, but yet
Speaker 1: their hearts were so overflowing with love and grace and forgiveness.
Speaker 1: The best motive forgiving is the goodness of God and
Speaker 1: the grace of God in your life. In my life,
Speaker 1: I remember this. There was when we were when we
Speaker 1: planted a church in U the Tepuna in Up. There's
Speaker 1: one student who radically saved, but he was dirt poor.
Speaker 1: He was studying up, had no candid life life, real
Speaker 1: life candidatesha, because he was they were so poor. He
Speaker 1: was so bright, but he was so poor that he
Speaker 1: did not eat. He only ate probably two to three
Speaker 1: times a week as lampera and young little stipend that
Speaker 1: he got from Up he would give to his two brothers,
Speaker 1: younger brothers. I mean we knew that. I mean we
Speaker 1: tried to help every now and then, but that's lifestyle
Speaker 1: then Asha. So what happened to us during we had
Speaker 1: our first youth camp and it will take on two
Speaker 1: thousand or two thousand, five hundred vessel way back then.
Speaker 1: And so they had all kinds of things, tutorials whatever
Speaker 1: to raise money. And so Shahidishama and a forced fasting
Speaker 1: Shah for a couple of weeks. I mean in the
Speaker 1: interpersonal manapero ina and paraa. Okay, so because we challenge
Speaker 1: them by faith, Benny students, you know, I said, a
Speaker 1: lot of them pro province and all of these things.
Speaker 1: But saka alamna medium situation. We know. And so what
Speaker 1: happened was na amount amount ready for ready for the
Speaker 1: youth camp. But something happened, Okay, a week before the
Speaker 1: camp was supposed to happen. Nakaranam used that two or
Speaker 1: three of his final example will be on that day,
Speaker 1: three days on. So in Punta, he was an engineering
Speaker 1: student and all of these things MOA and scholarship, all
Speaker 1: of these things, and so he decided, I won't go,
Speaker 1: but I want to give the registration fee to others.
Speaker 1: Nah and some of our student leaders were saying, why
Speaker 1: don't you just give it back to him? But we know,
Speaker 1: we said as leaders, you know what, don't deprive him,
Speaker 1: don't deprive him of this grace of giving, because this
Speaker 1: is an opportunity for him to be blessed. Remember, it's
Speaker 1: more blessed to give than to receive. This is an
Speaker 1: opportunity for God to bless him abundantly. He gave beyond
Speaker 1: his ability. You know what as he grew up. I
Speaker 1: think now he's graduated and he's an expat in another
Speaker 1: country earning lots of money. But he understood this and
Speaker 1: it all began because of his relationship with God. I
Speaker 1: don't think he would do that if it's not if
Speaker 1: you don't have a relationship with God, right, hindikakuma in
Speaker 1: and then he he began will and say bah, that's
Speaker 1: called the grace of giving, the grace of giving. And
Speaker 1: finally have to remember this that we should be grace
Speaker 1: of giving flows. It will flow, andre Yan, as we
Speaker 1: become channels of God's blessings, not containers of God's blessings.
Speaker 1: There's a difference between containers and channels. Don't just become
Speaker 1: a display of God's grace. Wow, I think you know
Speaker 1: Aani lord happy alcohol alo be a channel of God's grace.
Speaker 1: You know one of don Sims, one of our you know,
Speaker 1: one of a man of faith okay, who was teaching
Speaker 1: us before leadership trainings said this Sabrina, God gave us
Speaker 1: two hands, one hand to receive and one hand to give.
Speaker 1: And as the money will flow through you, there will
Speaker 1: be plenty left for you. Channels lamtayo, but pinapadan William
Speaker 1: blessing the Lord, sayo Mama e wan shah kanya something
Speaker 1: to bless you with. Right, But if we are just containers,
Speaker 1: Maawaian flow, but sooner or later Indian flow, just like
Speaker 1: the dead sea, you know the dead sea. Right. Dead
Speaker 1: sea is not only the lowest place on the planet,
Speaker 1: but that's the reason why it's called the dead seas
Speaker 1: because everything flows, everything goes there and nothing flows out.
Speaker 1: That's why it's the saltiest, most buoyant water coppedicant because
Speaker 1: of the buoyant sea. Of course, for the ladies and
Speaker 1: don't guard have a have a it's it's a Hebrew
Speaker 1: for love, facial whatever. So you guidan is a dead sea,
Speaker 1: yumana put takes a dead sea. Minerals daun anyway, that's
Speaker 1: a side. But the point is b channels and Hindia
Speaker 1: dema for flow massas takna right and sooner or later
Speaker 1: Hindian Ema for flow yam listen. Our lives, all of
Speaker 1: our lives belong to God. Anyway. He created us, and
Speaker 1: he redeemed us and bought us. Someone said that we
Speaker 1: are doubly his right, doubly his Let him be the source.
Speaker 1: Give yourself first to the Lord. That is called the
Speaker 1: grace of giving, the grace of giving, because when you
Speaker 1: do that, all things will abound. As it says in
Speaker 1: Chapter nine, verse eight, it says, and God is able.
Speaker 1: Say that God is able. God will make all things
Speaker 1: abound for you, so that you always, being sufficient all
Speaker 1: that you need in all things, you may have abundance
Speaker 1: in every good work. If you give first yourself to
Speaker 1: the Lord. Guess what will happen. Sometimes some people they
Speaker 1: gave one time and work it sabito in all having
Speaker 1: abundance in all that you need, you will abound in
Speaker 1: every good work. Marontal, my Australia, my Corona, whatever, whatever else.
Speaker 1: That's why it's so important for us to live first,
Speaker 1: giving ourselves to the Lord and being directed by him.
Speaker 1: How and how much and how will we give? I'm
Speaker 1: not saying give everything away. I'm saying be directed by God.
Speaker 1: That's lordship, Shanna, the direct on purpose more and as
Speaker 1: you do, so you'll be able to participate as a
Speaker 1: privilege of sharing in disgrace of giving. Amen. You see,
Speaker 1: God's grace makes you exceedingly rich. You are exceedingly rich
Speaker 1: mont to Adiba. If not here the life to come,
Speaker 1: we can give to others because we have been recipients
Speaker 1: of God's grace. You see, giving finds its fullest, fullest meaning.
Speaker 1: Giving finds its fullest meaning when we do it with
Speaker 1: the motive of enriching others. We don't give parah, I
Speaker 1: say it's more blessed now, so I feel good, or
Speaker 1: I will you know, I'll be blessed by God. No,
Speaker 1: the fullest expression of the grace of giving is when
Speaker 1: your motive Lord, I want this person to be enriched.
Speaker 1: I want this person to be healed. I want this
Speaker 1: relationships and zilla, I want their need to be mad.
Speaker 1: I want to help you know, these poor people in
Speaker 1: Taal or wherever this real life called or not. I
Speaker 1: want to help in the other uh rescue kabatan. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of things out there or whatever God
Speaker 1: is directing you. The intention is the enrichment of others.
Speaker 1: That is the grace of giving, and it's ultimately found
Speaker 1: demonstrated by Jesus Christ, as it says in verse nine
Speaker 1: of Second Corinthians eight. For you know the grace of
Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet
Speaker 1: for your sakes he became poor, so that you, through
Speaker 1: his poverty, might become rich. Jesus gave his all to
Speaker 1: us so that we can receive the best. Because the
Speaker 1: grace of giving is ultimately a divine exchange. We exchange
Speaker 1: our poverty, we exchange our sickness, we exchange the curses,
Speaker 1: the sin, the death, the relational dysfunctions. And God gave
Speaker 1: us his blessings, his grace, his richest, a sound mind,
Speaker 1: divine health, So divine exchange demonstrated at the cross. That
Speaker 1: is the ultimate demonstration of the grace of giving. He
Speaker 1: did not receive anything. He gave his all so that
Speaker 1: we can experience his grace and his love. You know,
Speaker 1: before I call up the music group, we're gonna worship
Speaker 1: in a while. This is phase one every nation building
Speaker 1: phase one. It was built during the time when the
Speaker 1: church was around three thousand, five hundred people parn Victory,
Speaker 1: Green Hills Archize, and it was not the best of
Speaker 1: economic atmosphere. We just We just came from the economic crisis,
Speaker 1: Asian crisis, remember that. But overnight, the the conversion of
Speaker 1: passy two dollars from twenty six one is to twenty
Speaker 1: six became one is to fifty two. So I'm Daminacano
Speaker 1: and we needed hundreds of millions of pesos and during
Speaker 1: that time three thousand, five hundred people. Three of those
Speaker 1: were five churches, you five and Metro Manila, some in
Speaker 1: the province but mainly Metro Manila. Three out dout of
Speaker 1: five were campus churches. It was Anamas Judante, so you know,
Speaker 1: mobile Bigatnama offering coins that you built, Malate and Katipuna
Speaker 1: campus churches. And you could count the number of rich
Speaker 1: people in the church in the three thousand, five hundred
Speaker 1: in our in our fingers, you can count them. All
Speaker 1: the rest were just upstart bag and graduate or students. Kay.
Speaker 1: And so how did this happen? How did this miracle?
Speaker 1: We always say this, this is our this is what
Speaker 1: we told tell people. We're not a rich church, but
Speaker 1: we're a generous church. We are filled with people who
Speaker 1: are sacrificial givers. So my story of selling the car
Speaker 1: is just one of many and maybe some of you
Speaker 1: participated there. I heard stories they sold their car, some
Speaker 1: sold their house as they moved to a smaller place.
Speaker 1: Some uripank retirement like babe, different stories. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you beyond our ability, beyond our ability, because I remember
Speaker 1: even our money then yay. Pastor Steam said, okay, this
Speaker 1: money that we have in the account will not even
Speaker 1: cover the down one percent of the down pay or
Speaker 1: ten percent of the down payment. So what he did
Speaker 1: as they prayed, let's just give this. We'll just show
Speaker 1: this to another ministry who has another building project. So
Speaker 1: all of the money they gave to another ministry in
Speaker 1: building project and another ministry, so we had zero plus.
Speaker 1: That was a setting. But you know what out of
Speaker 1: out of that extreme circumstances, generosity and overwhelming joy rose up,
Speaker 1: resulted in the grace of giving to be felt in
Speaker 1: right now we have this may face Tupanga, but time
Speaker 1: layand I could tell you, Tayo, can you imagine, Tayo
Speaker 1: will raise the amount of money. Okay, Tayo will raise
Speaker 1: the money to put up a building word hundreds of millions.
Speaker 1: How is it possible? The grace of giving? It's possible
Speaker 1: when we give first ourselves to the Lord right now.
Speaker 1: I believe this is our proper response God's generosity in
Speaker 1: Christ at the Cross. It's the only way to enable
Speaker 1: us to give generals. If you have not experienced the
Speaker 1: generosity of God at the Cross through Jesus Christ, we
Speaker 1: will never be generous. That's why Paul says, excel in
Speaker 1: the grace of giving. When you need a mouth to preach, Lord,
Speaker 1: Lord aun, Lord, do you need someone to lay hands
Speaker 1: to the sick, use my hands. Lord, you need someone
Speaker 1: to comfort, use me. It's not just about money, but yes,
Speaker 1: money is part of it. Lord. When you when you
Speaker 1: need a financial courier to give to bless another person
Speaker 1: or to meet someone's need, use me paratai in Western
Speaker 1: Union as a being a lorda machael tong taou dun
Speaker 1: sa say b bansa okay Aga and Western Union tai yuan.
Speaker 1: Will you allow yourself like that? Okay where God's union?
Speaker 1: Are you willing to have your resources the galaany lord
Speaker 1: to advance his kingdom? Say Lord, use me, use mine
Speaker 1: because everything I am, all that I have is yours. Amen.
Speaker 1: We're gonna the most practical application here. We're gonna take
Speaker 1: up our titan offering. Remember everything belongs to the Lord,
Speaker 1: not just a ten percent. So at this point I
Speaker 1: want you to if you have any prayer requests or
Speaker 1: answer testimony prayers, write it there. We pray for those,
Speaker 1: we pray for those we look at that we pray
Speaker 1: for those. We praise God for your your your answered prayers.
Speaker 1: But I want you to be directed by in your
Speaker 1: giving today, not by the example. Okay, kailanan ten percent
Speaker 1: ito and dissentabos, just be directed by God how much
Speaker 1: God wants you to give. Let's pray, Father, thank you
Speaker 1: for your people. I ask even right now that you
Speaker 1: would impart that grace of giving. Even as we have
Speaker 1: experienced your grace at the cross, you did not withhold
Speaker 1: anything from us so that we can experience your best.
Speaker 1: And so as we worship you, Lord, I pray that
Speaker 1: you will be glorified in honor in our lives, in
Speaker 1: our hearts, in our giving. Thank you for listening. We
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