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2 Corinthians chapter 9 · Scripture Unscripted

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  2nd Corinthians Chapter 9. Let us pray, God.
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  You are greater and higher than any other entity.
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  Lord, we're praying for the peace that surpasses all
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  understanding. God, I pray healing over our
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  broken bodies and broken marriages.
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  God, I'm praying, Lord, that you'll continue to raise up
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  spiritual leaders. Father, raise up righteous
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  judges. God, raise up those that will
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  teach the nations about you. Father, I pray that you'll stir
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  up a spirit of revival, God, all over this globe, every nation,
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  every continent. We love you, Father.
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  Thank you, God, for all the many blessings that you pour out on
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  us. Thank you God, for the freedom
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  that we have, Lord, to come and to worship you in spirit and
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  truth. We thank you, God, that the keys
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  were snatched to death and hell. We thank you, God, that we can
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  experience the abundant life. Lord that you promised, God, I
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  pray that you will kick down the doors.
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  God, you'll scale the wall, Father, and find the one that is
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  lost. God, I pray that you'll bring
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  them back into the fold. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that you'll continue to lavish us with your presence,
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  Lord, and take us to new heights and let us feel new depths.
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  Father of your love and your mercy and your grace.
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  God, we love you with all of our heart, with all of our strength,
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  with all of our mind. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, you'll give us a supernatural zeal for your house
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  and let it consume us. Lord, I pray that you'll help us
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  to rightly divide the word today as we get into it, God, let it
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  get into US. Father, I pray we'll be filled
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  with the Holy Ghost overflowing. God, I pray that we will be a
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  blessing to others. Lord, I pray that you'll help us
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  to share our testimony with others and the goodness of who
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  Jesus Christ is and what he's done for us.
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  Lord, I'm thank you, Father, that you have prepared a place
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  for us, that we're seated with you there in heaven.
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  I pray God that you'll come soon.
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  Yes, Lord Maranatha, we cry out. The Spirit and the Bride say,
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  come Lord, make every wrong thing right, God, and help us to
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  be the answer, Lord, to what is happening in this world.
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  Help us not to shrink back. Help us not to live in fear.
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  Help us, God, to break off cowardice from us in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. Help us, Lord, to be bold in our
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  faith. Help us to be bold witnesses for
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  such a time as this. For Father, you are worthy and
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  holy and lovely and we love you God and I decrease as you
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  increase and Holy Spirit you come and teach us and it's in
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  Jesus Christ, holy and precious name that I pray.
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one
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  for as touching the ministering to the Saints, it is superfluous
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  for me to write to you. So you need to know that Paul is
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  wanting these Corinthian church congregants to know that he is
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  coming, and whenever he comes, he wants them to already be on
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  the same spiritual plateau that he is friends.
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  And he wants to encourage them to.
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  For I know the foreignness of your mind, for which I boast of
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  you to them in Macedonia, that Achaea was ready a year ago.
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  And your zeal has provoked very many.
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  So Paul's going around and he's saying, look at the Corinthians.
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  They are getting ready to give to the church in Jerusalem, and
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  so should you. And so it has provoked many of
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  the other churches because of the Corinthians obedience.
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  It has provoked many to get together a blessing box to send
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  to Jerusalem. 3 Yet have I sent the brothers, lest you're
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  boasting, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this
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  behalf, that as I said, you may be ready, Paul saying, don't
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  drop the ball now. Here we come.
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  We're coming to gather it. Do not let us get there and find
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  that you did not make good on your promise.
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  For lest happily if they of Macedonia come with me and find
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  you unprepared, we that we say not you should be ashamed in
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  this same confident boasting. So he's saying when we come to
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  you, we don't want to find you unprepared.
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  It would be a shame not only to us, but also to you.
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  Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren that they
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  would go before you and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof
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  you had noticed before that the same might be ready as a matter
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  of bounty and not of covetousness.
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  So he's saying he wants it to be given from the right posture in
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  the right heart. And that is how God expects for
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  our giving to be, not just to be moved with emotionalism, not
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  just to be cohorted and to be thwarted towards it in the midst
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  of a person who is giving a long spiel about giving.
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  You need to be doing it because it's overflowing out of the
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  natural heart. You need to be doing it in the
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  private times of your time with the Lord and getting it ready
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  before you go. Do not just be reactionary
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  friends. But we need to be proactive.
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  And that is what He is referencing here. 6 But this I
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  say, he which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly, and
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  he which sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
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  So that is what you need to understand is with the same
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  measure that you give out is the same measure that is given back
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  to you. If you're just giving little
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  teaspoons out, you're going to get teaspoons back.
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  But if you're giving pictures out, you're going to get
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  pictures back. And that is the principle of
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  God. And you cannot out give God.
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  And God sees it as a very high spiritual practice that we are
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  to be great stewards of our finances and not just squander
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  it all the way and then wonder where it all went.
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  It is a spiritual practice to be able to steward your finances.
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  And that is why we are trapped by the enemy in this
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  materialism. We are trapped by
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  discontentment, we are trapped by commercialism and
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  consumerism. And far be it from us, friends.
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  We need to be sending these things ahead, friends.
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  And that is how the Lord taught us not to put all of our
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  adoration on this world, but to be preparing ourselves for what
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  is to come, and by giving to the orphans and the widows and
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  taking care of them in their time of distress.
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  That is what is pleasing to God. And we need to be in tune with
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  what God is doing in your circle of influence, in the needs of
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  people that are in your circle of influence, and not just be so
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  self-centered friends and so incredibly greedy friends with
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  the blessings that God has given us.
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  If God blesses you, it is to be a blessing to others. 7 Every
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  man according as he purposed in his heart.
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  So let him give, not grudgingly or of necessity, for God loves a
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  cheerful giver. God loves a hilarious giver.
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  And do not be surprised whenever people find out that you are
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  giving, if they ridicule you. Do not be surprised friends,
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  whenever you are giving and the world tells you to be different
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  and to do differently. We need to be pleasing to God
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  and God alone. We do not need to be worried
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  about what the world tells us. We need to be spending our money
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  upon. And God is well pleased with the
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  man that is in tune with what he would have them to do with their
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  finances. And we don't do it grudgingly,
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  and we don't just move the decimal to get God off our back
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  friends, so that we can do whatever we want with the 90%.
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  You need to go to God and ask Him what it is that He would
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  have you to give. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound
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  towards you, that you always having all sufficiency, and all
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  things may abound to every good work.
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  That is what the great exchange is.
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  Whenever you will go to God and ask God how he would direct your
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  finances, He's going to turn right around.
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  When you give out of that cheerful heart, then he is going
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  to turn right around, and grace is going to shower you.
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  Friends, you will have all sufficiency for everything that
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  you need. Friends, he will make sure you
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  have your food and your clothing and you will abound in every
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  great work. So what is going to happen is
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  you're going to, as you become a cheerful giver, it is going to
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  result in a different countenance.
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  You will have a different countenance before men, those
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  that are greedy and stingy, it is written all over their faces
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  in their body language. But those that are cheerful and
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  they give liberally, it is written all over their
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  countenance and all over their faces, friends and body
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  language. And that is what you need to
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  know as you operate within the realm of this life that God has
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  given you. It is no surprise a man that is
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  backslidden and a man that is walking in freedom, it is shown
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  without him ever saying a word. 12 For the administration of the
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  service not only supplies the walk of the Saints, but is
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  abundant also by many Thanksgiving to God.
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  That is what you need to know. There's a practical application
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  that is intermingled with the spiritual application.
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  And yes, in the practical people are getting fed and clothed, but
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  in the spiritual you're sending those things ahead. 13 whiles by
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  the experiment of this administration, they glorified
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  God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of
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  Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them and to
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  unto all men. So we are going to prove our
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  faith by our works, and we're going to take care of the widows
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  and the orphans in their time of distress.
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  And we're going to make sure that there's nobody who's going
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  hungry, friends. And that is the great practice
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  that you're finding out here. Whenever we're going through
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  this 9th chapter of Second Corinthians.
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  It results in the Thanksgiving of God.
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  It results in the distribution unto all man.
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  It results in the glorifying of God.
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  Friends, whenever we're subject to the good news of the Lord
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  Jesus Christ, and we give because he gave 1st and we love
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  because He love 1st. 14 And by their prayer for you, which long
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  after you, for the exceeding grace of God in you, so he can
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  see that their gift giving to the Saints in Jerusalem is going
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  to produce the prayers in Jerusalem for the church in
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  Corinth. And what a great exchange
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  they're going to as the gift arrives there in Jerusalem.
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  It is going to spark them to pray for them.
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  And there is no greater gift than the gift of prayer Whenever
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  someone says, hey, I want you to come alongside my ministry and
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  you can partner with me in many ways.
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  Just know the greatest way you can partner with somebody is in
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  prayer, not in finances. At the end of Billy Graham's
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  life, he said if he would have known how short life was, he
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  would have spent more time in prayer.
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  If we even understood the Daniel 10 concept of what prayer does
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  in the spiritual realm, we'd spend a whole lot more time on
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  our knees, friends. And that is what Paul is
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  referencing here to the church in Corinth is saying, listen,
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  when the gift arrives, it's going to spark them to pray for
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  you. And there is no amount of money
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  that could ever amount to the wealth that prayer produces. 15
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  Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift, the gift of
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  salvation and the gift of Yeshua.
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  They are synonymous. They mean the same thing.
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  Jesus is salvation, friends. And it is unspeakable because
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  there's no word that was in the language at the time that could
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  even measure up to the unspeakableness of Jesus Christ.
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  Paul had to make up a word just to try to wrap our minds around
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  how unspeakable this exchange is that we give a little money and
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  then that results in this prayer.
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  We devote our little 100 year life and we receive salvation by
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  placing our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  It's unspeakable the plan that God has put together for all
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  those who will choose him. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter here in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.