God Gives to Create Cheerful Givers: 2 Corinthians 9:6-11, Part 3

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Teacher: John Piper
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[@ulricdiggs7610]

This is it!!! Thank you God. My purpose. After so, so long of wonder why I am here to have it all hit at once. All I can say is thank you and I love and I will be about my Fathers business joyfully.

[@alli1115]

So good!!

[@jewishbride5010]

Praise God whom gives freely in order we can give freely, binding myself, my family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, acquitances, opponents and the body of Christ to be generous and a cheerful giver with one's time, prayers, effort, listening, comfort, being of help and with one's finances, binding to hell being unequally yoked and having any common share with those who are not generous and cheerful givers with one's time, prayers, effort, listening, comfort, being of help and with one's finances, in accordance with this word and 2 corinthians 9:6-11, 2 corinthians 6:14-18 in the name and blood of Jesus Christ, amen and hallelujah!

[@oranlkr]

Profound Biblical truth encapsulated and explained in profound words. Thank you

[@johneduardoctavianoiv9749]

I’m atheist but knowing I am guilty of giving cheerfully most of the time makes my eyes water. 😢

[@denominationsdontsaveonlyj8896]

2 Corinthian is all about giving of yourself to the ministry, learning and preaching. To be fruitful is to work in the ministry.

[@freddybaez1884]

wow ...great study and very rich in the application to our life!!!

[@danielverhulst1378]

He called the thing sowing, so you might at once look into the recompense, and having in mind the harvest, you might feel that you receive more than you give. For this reason he did not say, 'he who gives,' but 'he who sows' ...A man when left to himself, does a thing more readily than when compelled. Therefore he dwells on this...For if it is a work of virtue and yet all that is done is of necessity, it is shorn of its reward. So he labors at this point with reason. And he does not merely advise, he also adds a prayer ... By this prayer he waylays a thought which lay in wait against this liberality and which is now also a hindrance to many. For many persons are afraid to give alms, saying, 'Lest perchance I become poor' ...To do away with this fear then, he adds this prayer, saying, May 'He make all grace abound towards you.' Not merely fulfil, but 'make it abound.' 'Fill you,' he means, 'with such great things, that you may be able to abound in this liberality ...He does not pray for riches, nor for abundance, but for all sufficiency ...For in carnal things he asks for a sufficiency for them, but in spiritual things for abundance, not only in almsgiving, but in all others things as well, 'unto every good work.' Then he brings the prophet forward as a counsellor for them, having sought out a testimony inviting them to bountifulness ... Let us not therefore nicely calculate, but sow with a profuse hand. Do you see how much others give to players and harlots? Give at any rate the half to Christ, of what they give to dancers ... For they clothe the persons of wantons with untold gold, but you do not cover even with a threadbare garment the flesh of Christ, and that though beholding it naked. ~St. John Chrysostom. Homily XIX on II Corinthians IX, 2, 3. B#56, pp. 369-370

[@tommartin5667]

So mom gave her daughter a dollar bill and a quarter and told her to choose which one to put in the collection plate and she could keep the other one for herself. Later mom asked which one she gave. "Well I was going to put the dollar bill in the plate, but when the preacher said "God loves a cheerful giver", I know I would be much more cheerful about giving the quarter!

[@freespirit7450]

If a preacher pressure people to give he is a false teacher. My grandmother pastor mad me feel guilty because I didnt give, now I know he is false prophet only after money never will go back to his demonic church.

[@dudeman9390]

May Yeshua bless you..... I've been so hated on for doing this in my life.....

[@gregg2086]

People hate you for giving to others??

[@MarcusMavundla-kb2jx]

​@@gregg2086 some preachers don't like it when you give outside the church.

[@ec169]

How do I change my heart to want to give?

[@FOTWC]

Yes?

[@spidalegs1]

Try finding someone who is suffering from something you've struggled with. For example, if you grew up in poverty, find a foster child you can give to. If you had a hard time paying for dental work, find someone who needs dental work and donate funds to them. Basically find someone you can relate to and give to them.

[@emilebeetha779]

Decide in your heart Difficult at first and it gets easier with time. I think it Malachi says try the Lord. So try the Lord.

[@jonathanfargalla5427]

Pray that God changes us. And gives us cheerful hearts in giving.

[@Pondsofpeace]

Just curious how you can claim you won’t get rich when the scripture you shared literally says enrichment and every king including Jesus distributed to the poor but they had the wealth to do so. Can’t give a lot of your broke.

[@chloe1575]

You can give time, listening ear, service, skills. There are more ways to give than merely financially.