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Speaker 1: two of a message called God's Promises about giving.
Speaker 2: Jesus says, give and it will be given back to you.
Speaker 2: And notice in full measure, you don't get a little back,
Speaker 2: you get it all back and more given it will
Speaker 2: be given back to you in full measure. God's gonna
Speaker 2: make sure he outgives you given it will be given
Speaker 2: to you in full measure, and what you receive will
Speaker 2: need to be pressed down and shaken together. What's that
Speaker 2: talking about. Well, let's say if you're getting grained and
Speaker 2: people are pouring grain in your sack, and you've paid
Speaker 2: for a whole sack, you're gonna shake it like this,
Speaker 2: and then you're gonna press it down so you can
Speaker 2: get the maximum amount of grain or coins or anything
Speaker 2: else into that sack. And he's saying, God wants to
Speaker 2: give you so much, you have to press it down.
Speaker 2: You have to shake it together to make more room,
Speaker 2: because God wants to give you more than your sack
Speaker 2: can hold. He says, what you receive will need to
Speaker 2: be pressed down and shaken together, but it will still notice.
Speaker 2: It will still run over and be poured into your lap.
Speaker 2: That makes me think of a lottery. It's just pouring in.
Speaker 2: It's pouring into your lap. And then he summarizes that,
Speaker 2: Jesus summarizes this this way, the way you give to
Speaker 2: others is the way God will give to you. Whoa
Speaker 2: that we can just stop right there and in the
Speaker 2: message and have you go home and think about this,
Speaker 2: that the way I give to others is the way
Speaker 2: God will give to me. God is waiting for me
Speaker 2: to be generous. He wants me to prime the pomp.
Speaker 2: Why because he wants me to learn to be like him.
Speaker 2: I can't be like Christ without giving. God so loved
Speaker 2: the world that he gave. You've heard me say this
Speaker 2: many times. You can give without loving, but you cannot
Speaker 2: love without giving. You spell love giv God so loved
Speaker 2: the world that he gave. And so if we're going
Speaker 2: to be loving, then we've got to learn to be giving.
Speaker 2: We've got to learn to be generous. So he says,
Speaker 2: give and it will be given to you. And the
Speaker 2: way you give to others is the way God will
Speaker 2: give to you. That's promise. And he says, if you're generous,
Speaker 2: God will give you more than you can handle. Let
Speaker 2: me show you some other verses about this that God,
Speaker 2: I'll get back more than I actually gave out Proverbs
Speaker 2: eleven twenty four says this, some people give generously and
Speaker 2: end up with more, while other people don't give what
Speaker 2: they should and end up poor. That actually rhymes some
Speaker 2: people give generously and end up with more, and while
Speaker 2: others don't give what they should, they end up with
Speaker 2: being poor. He's saying, you are. You are determining how
Speaker 2: much I can bless your life. Proverbs nineteen, verse seventeen
Speaker 2: says this, and if you're a businessman, you need to
Speaker 2: start and circle this verse. Being generous to the poor
Speaker 2: is like lending to the Lord, and God will pay
Speaker 2: you back for what you've done. He's saying that giving
Speaker 2: is an investment that when you try to give it away,
Speaker 2: God says, I'm going to pay you back. He says,
Speaker 2: you see a homeless person on the street and you
Speaker 2: give him some money. Are you support the Peace Plan?
Speaker 2: When you support the Peace Plan, you're helping poor people
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Speaker 2: you're generous to the poor, it's like lending to the Lord,
Speaker 2: and God will pay you back. In one of the
Speaker 2: translations of this verse, it says, and God pays great
Speaker 2: interest on your loan, it's like loaning to the Lord.
Speaker 2: So you're not really giving that money away because God says,
Speaker 2: I'm going to pay you back with interest. Giving is
Speaker 2: an investment number seven and the promises of God about
Speaker 2: giving in generosity. God promises that if I learned to
Speaker 2: give like God tells me to give, God promises to
Speaker 2: meet all my needs. Now that just sounds too good
Speaker 2: to believe. It just sounds too good to be true.
Speaker 2: But over and over and over in scripture, God says,
Speaker 2: if you'll put me first in your money, and if
Speaker 2: you'll learn to be generous and not tightfisted, not tied wad,
Speaker 2: open handed, open hearted, I will meet all your needs. Philippians,
Speaker 2: Chapter four, verse seventeen and nineteen. Paul says this, I
Speaker 2: want you to have the good that comes from giving.
Speaker 2: Circle that I want you to have the good that
Speaker 2: comes from giving. The whole reason I'm teaching this message
Speaker 2: is because I love you and I want you to
Speaker 2: have the good that comes from giving. I know the
Speaker 2: good that comes from giving. I've been doing it all
Speaker 2: my life. I've been blessed all my life because I've
Speaker 2: learned the good that comes from giving. Most of you know,
Speaker 2: Kay and I are reverse pilors. We give away ninety
Speaker 2: one percent of our income and we live on nine percent. Now,
Speaker 2: we didn't start there, But how are we able to
Speaker 2: live that way? Because the good that comes from giving.
Speaker 2: God just says I'm not going to let you outgive me,
Speaker 2: and the Bible says this, I want you to have
Speaker 2: the good that comes from giving. My God will use
Speaker 2: his wonderful, richest in Christ, Jesus to give you everything
Speaker 2: you need.
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Speaker 1: Now back to more from God's Word with Pastor Rick Warren.
Speaker 2: And the Bible says this, I want you to have
Speaker 2: the good that comes from giving My God will use
Speaker 2: his wonderful, richest in Christ, Jesus to give you everything
Speaker 2: you need. Wow, do you believe that verse? If you know,
Speaker 2: you got to just take an exact on ife and
Speaker 2: cut it out of your Bible. Jesus said, I will
Speaker 2: make sure you get everything you need. Now. Notice he
Speaker 2: didn't say I'll give you all your greed. He says,
Speaker 2: I'll give you everything you need. There are some things
Speaker 2: I think I need that I really don't need. God
Speaker 2: says all your needs will be met, doesn't say all
Speaker 2: your greeds, all your desires, all your lust will be met.
Speaker 2: You know it's not like, well, I want to rolls Royce.
Speaker 2: That's not a need. But he said, I will give
Speaker 2: you everything you need if you learn to be generous.
Speaker 2: Look at a couple of other verses there. Again, there's
Speaker 2: so many these verses. I had to cram them on
Speaker 2: your outline and still left out you know so many
Speaker 2: Proverbs twenty eight, Verse twenty seven says this, he who
Speaker 2: gives to the poor will lack nothing. Circle that will
Speaker 2: lack nothing. If you want to lack nothing in your
Speaker 2: life emotionally, physically, spiritually, mentally, then you need to learn
Speaker 2: how to give to the poor. But he who gives
Speaker 2: to the poor will lack nothing. But he who closes
Speaker 2: his eyes to their need will receive their needs, will
Speaker 2: receive curses. When you're driving along and you come up
Speaker 2: to stoplight and there's a homeless person on the side,
Speaker 2: do you just kind of keep looking forward and you
Speaker 2: close your eyes to what is on your side? The
Speaker 2: other night, Kay and I took our eldest grandchild for
Speaker 2: her sixteenth birthday up to see Phantom of the Opera
Speaker 2: in la and we turned under an underpass bridge, and
Speaker 2: I believe there were probably twenty people camped out in
Speaker 2: tents living under that. Every bone in my body wanted
Speaker 2: to stop right there. There were cars behind us, and
Speaker 2: we couldn't because I'm going I can't turn my eye
Speaker 2: to this. And I know that Kay, every time she
Speaker 2: sees a homeless person, she stops, she rolls down her window,
Speaker 2: and she helps him out. That's one of the reasons
Speaker 2: God has blessed us is because he says, you'll lack nothing,
Speaker 2: but if you close your eyes to the needs of
Speaker 2: the poor, your life's cursed. Here's another verse about the
Speaker 2: same thing. Second Corinthians, chapter nine, Versus seven and eight.
Speaker 2: You should give as you have decided in your heart
Speaker 2: to give. In other words, nobody can tell you what
Speaker 2: to give. What's generous for you is your decision based
Speaker 2: on how much income you have. But he says you
Speaker 2: should decide what you've decided in your heart to give.
Speaker 2: Never give reluctantly or under pressure, because God loves the
Speaker 2: person who gives cheerfully. Now you've heard me say this.
Speaker 2: If you ever feel pressured by anybody, including me, on giving,
Speaker 2: don't do it. Don't give why because you don't get
Speaker 2: any credit for it. You don't get any blessing out it.
Speaker 2: God doesn't want stingy givers. God doesn't want grouchy givers.
Speaker 2: God wants people who give cheerfully. That Greek word, there's
Speaker 2: the word hilarious. It means hilariously, I enjoy it. People
Speaker 2: Often you'll hear say, well, I give till it hurts. No, No,
Speaker 2: give till it feels good, till it becomes joyful. Don't
Speaker 2: give reluctantly, don't give under pressure, because God loves a
Speaker 2: cheerful giver. Now that's the premise. Here's the promise. Then
Speaker 2: here's the promise. God will generously provide for you. Sow
Speaker 2: that here's the promise. In all things, at all times,
Speaker 2: you'll have all that you need and plenty left over
Speaker 2: to give more to every good work. You might circle
Speaker 2: all the alls in that. I mean, it's like there's
Speaker 2: no wiggle room. God has not allowed any wiggle room
Speaker 2: for himself in this promise. He said, if you learn
Speaker 2: to give generously, cheerfully, generously, spontaneously, not out of neglect,
Speaker 2: not out of regret, not out of pressure, not out
Speaker 2: of compulsion, but cheerfully and generously, he says, You're going
Speaker 2: to have all you need at all times, in all things,
Speaker 2: in all places. There's no wiggle room there. God says,
Speaker 2: I am guaranteeing I will meet your needs. Do you
Speaker 2: believe that verse? Let's go to a couple more promises.
Speaker 2: Number eight. God says that if I learned to give
Speaker 2: like he gives, he will multiply what I give him.
Speaker 2: He'll take what I give him, and he will multiply
Speaker 2: it and make it go even further. Now, there's so
Speaker 2: many examples of this in scripture that I don't even
Speaker 2: know which one to choose from. I could tell you
Speaker 2: about the story of the Jesus feeding the five thousand,
Speaker 2: where he took a few loads and a fish, a
Speaker 2: bread and fish, one boy's lunch, and he fed five
Speaker 2: thousand people with it. By he took it, he broke it,
Speaker 2: he blessed it, and he multiplied it. And throughout the Bible,
Speaker 2: God does this principle of multiplication, the miracle of multipation,
Speaker 2: many many times. He takes a little, and what you get,
Speaker 2: whatever you give God, he turns into a lot. So
Speaker 2: whatever you need more of, give it to God. Let
Speaker 2: me say that again, whatever you need more of, give
Speaker 2: it to God. You need more time, give your time
Speaker 2: to God. Put him first in your time. You need
Speaker 2: more money, give your money to God. Put him first
Speaker 2: in your money. You need more energy, give your first
Speaker 2: energy to God, and he'll multiply. You'll have more energy.
Speaker 2: You know. Throughout the Bible, God compares giving and generosity
Speaker 2: to planting seeds. Let me show you a couple verses.
Speaker 2: That's a very common metaphor. He says that every time
Speaker 2: you're generous, every time I give to God or to
Speaker 2: other people and need whatever, he says, it's like planting
Speaker 2: a seed. Tewod Corinthians chapter nine, verses ten and eleven
Speaker 2: says this, just as God gives seed to farmers and
Speaker 2: bread for food. God gives you a supply of seed,
Speaker 2: in other words, to plant. He gives you a supply
Speaker 2: of seed to plant, and then He makes it grow.
Speaker 2: So there's a great harvest from your generosity. And here's
Speaker 2: the rest of the promise. God will make you rich
Speaker 2: enough to be generous at all times. Now, you might
Speaker 2: want to write this down. Giving is not a debt.
Speaker 2: I owe, it's a seed. I sew. Giving is not
Speaker 2: a debt. I oh, it's a seed. I sew, and
Speaker 2: I sew it in faith. God doesn't need your money,
Speaker 2: He doesn't need my money. Then why does God want
Speaker 2: to teach me giving? To teach me to trust him
Speaker 2: and so I become more like him and to become
Speaker 2: more generous. Giving is not a debt. I owe, it's
Speaker 2: a seed. I sew. Now, when you plant a seed,
Speaker 2: do you get one seed back?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: You get a whole plant with a lot of fruit
Speaker 2: and eat in those fruits. There's a multiplication of seed.
Speaker 2: No one has ever planted one seed and got back
Speaker 2: one seed. If I take a kernel of corn and
Speaker 2: I plant that corn in the ground, I don't get
Speaker 2: one kernel of corn back. I get a stock with
Speaker 2: three or four ears of corn, with literally hundreds and
Speaker 2: hundreds and hundreds of kernels on that corn. This is
Speaker 2: the principle of multiplication. He says that if you'll take
Speaker 2: when you give to people, if you'll take your money
Speaker 2: and use it to help others, God says, I'll multiply it
Speaker 2: so that when it comes back, it's multiplied. You don't
Speaker 2: get one seed back when you plant it. You get
Speaker 2: one hundred or one thousand seeds out of that one blessing.
Speaker 2: Now here's the important part that I want you to get.
Speaker 2: God says, you can plant. I'm giving you just like
Speaker 2: I give a farmer seed to plant. I'm giving money
Speaker 2: for you to use for good. Money is a tool.
Speaker 2: Money is neither good nor bad. It's just a tool,
Speaker 2: and you should use money for good rather than bad.
Speaker 2: Any money I just spend on myself, it's gone. Any
Speaker 2: money I use for good is actually building an investment,
Speaker 2: and it's multiplying in heaven. But when you plant a seed,
Speaker 2: you reap a harvest. Now, God lets you decide the
Speaker 2: size of your harvest. It just all depends on how
Speaker 2: much seed you plant. Here's what the Bible says. Tewod Corinthians,
Speaker 2: chapter nine, verse six. Remember this. Okay, Now, anytime the
Speaker 2: Bible says remember this, God wants you to remember it.
Speaker 2: Remember this. Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and
Speaker 2: whoever sows generously will also reap generously. That means God says,
Speaker 2: you get to decide. I get to decide how much
Speaker 2: God blesses my life. And how do I decide how
Speaker 2: much God blesses my life by my giving? If I
Speaker 2: sow just a few seeds, then I'm going to reap
Speaker 2: a small harvest. If I sow a lot of seed,
Speaker 2: if I give a lot away, then I'm going to
Speaker 2: reap generously. The size of the harvest is determined by
Speaker 2: the size of sowing. God leaves it up to you.
Speaker 2: If you have little faith, then you get a little result.
Speaker 2: If you have a lot of faith, you get a
Speaker 2: lot of result. If you sow extravagantly, you get an
Speaker 2: extravagant result. Back now, in planting seed and waiting for
Speaker 2: the harvest, the harvest is never immediate. I want you
Speaker 2: to get this because a lot of people don't understand this.
Speaker 2: The harvest is never immediate. Seeds take time to grow,
Speaker 2: so you plant in one season, in the planting season,
Speaker 2: and you harvest in another season, maybe six months later.
Speaker 2: It's not instant. This is true in your generosity and
Speaker 2: your giving. It's not like I give something to somebody else,
Speaker 2: or give something to God today and this afternoon God
Speaker 2: makes up for it a slot machine where you put
Speaker 2: in the coin and pull the you know, the one
Speaker 2: armed bandit, and all of a sudden you hit the jackpot.
Speaker 2: God is not a gambling man with like like a
Speaker 2: like a slot machine. No, he is like a farmer.
Speaker 2: He says, you plant in one season and you reap
Speaker 2: in another. Look at this verse on the screen. Ecclesiastes eleven,
Speaker 2: Verse one says this be generous, and instantly you'll be rewarding. No,
Speaker 2: it doesn't say that. Doesn't be generous and what one day,
Speaker 2: one day, one day, you will be rewarded. There is
Speaker 2: always a time delay between sewing and reaping, between planting
Speaker 2: and harvest, between giving and receiving. Why is there always
Speaker 2: that delay? Because God wants you to trust him. Are
Speaker 2: you going to do the right thing? If you saw
Speaker 2: immediate results every time you gave, there'd be no faith needed.
Speaker 2: You know, you know, like this jackpot I put in this,
Speaker 2: I get this, I put in this, I get this
Speaker 2: this week. You know. I remember one time I was
Speaker 2: out on the patio after service and a guy came
Speaker 2: up to me after a message that I taught on tithing.
Speaker 2: And he came up to me and he said, Pastor Rick,
Speaker 2: tithing didn't work for me. I saw no return on it.
Speaker 2: I said, well, when did you start? He said, last Sunday.
Speaker 2: Last Sunday. You know that's not like a season away.
Speaker 2: God says, have you developed a habit of being generous?
Speaker 2: I want to see if you've developed this habit before.
Speaker 2: I'm not interested in playing games with you. Now. Let
Speaker 2: me just pause right here and share my personal testimony.
Speaker 2: I learned generosity at a very early age. As a child,
Speaker 2: my parents gave me three little envelopes and later three
Speaker 2: little piggy banks, and they would give if my allowance
Speaker 2: was three dimes or three nickels or three quarters, and
Speaker 2: then later it was three dollars. As I got older,
Speaker 2: one's envelopes was marked tithing, one envelope was marked saving,
Speaker 2: and one envelope was mark spending. And if I got
Speaker 2: that money. I was taught from an early age you
Speaker 2: don't get to go out and just spend it all
Speaker 2: on yourself.
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