Sermon Tone Analysis

Scripture Reading

2 Cor 9:6-7

Intro

Grace Giving is is Worship

Grace Giving Reveals God’s Grace & Glory

Grace Giving is Proportionate

Grace Giving is Sacrificial

Grace Giving is Free

Grace Giving is Fair

2 Reasonable Request

Integrity

2 cor 8:8-15

Integrity

Integrity

Vss.

10-11 -

“started to do” = Their Initiative

“desired to do it” = Their Heart

“So now finish doing it...” = Their Integrity

Do you have integrity in your grace giving?

When no one but God can see, what is the heart and action of your grace giving?

Are you seeing through what you have communicated in your heart to God or others even at your own inconvenience?

Fairness

Grace giving is fair, it does not requiring you to produce an income that isn’t there, but to give from the income God has provided you

This is not advocating a formal economic/political system (e.g.

communism, socialism, capitalism, welfare,etc), but hat those God has provided with an abundance of resources should do their fair share in helping meet the needs of the church “as a matter of fairness” (vs 13).

(Vs 14) Those who have been blessed by the grace giving of another should also be eager to give generously from whatever other abundance God has blessed them with.

Grace giving is fair - it does not require you to go without basic necessities so another can have things easy or without working.

When God blesses you, seldom does he have only you in mind.

See your blessings/abundance as a primary means to invest eternally and to bless others!

Grace giving is fair - (e.g.

other resources - skills, materials, etc.) you

Grace Giving is Committed & Selfless

“Arrange in a advance…be ready”- whereas the emphasis of integrity of grace giving is on the initial heart and initiative taken behind the scenes, the emphasis here is the final result.

The commitment has been fulfilled or honored.

“not as an exaction” [Trans] “covetousness” (NASB95; KJV), “a grudging obligation” (NKJV); “an extortion (NRSV).

What’s your motivation?

If your generosity is just a means to expect some greater temporal/material blessing, receive glory/recognition (like those who are drawn to the prosperity gospel) then you are like Peter said, “in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity”.

― Puritan Preacher John Bunyan (Most known “Pilgrims Progresss” said “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

― John Bunyan

The Harvest of Grace Giving

The Truth is the power of Grace Giving is in the right motivation cultivated by a...

Love for God

The Lordship of God

A gambit of bad teaching that focuses on quantity, leads people to powerless living, and selfish-giving is all from a bad interpretation of verses 6-7.

(Today in verses 6-7) Love for others

A gambit of bad teaching that focuses on quantity, leads people to powerless living, and selfish-giving is all from a bad interpretation of verses 6-7.

The Truth is the power of Grace Giving is in not in the quantity, but in the right motivation cultivated by a...

Love for God

The Lordship of God

(Today in verses 6-7) Love for others (Vs.

7 “God loves a cheerful giver”)

By the way all NT commands to act/do are a call to find joy in the doing.

The Truth is the power of Grace Giving is in the right motivation cultivated by a...

Love for God

The Truth is the power of Grace Giving is in the right motivation cultivated by a...

A Beautiful Eulogy

The Lordship of God

Love for God

Rooted in Love for God

(Today in verses 6-7) Love for others

The Lordship of God

(Today in verses 6-7) Love for others

“Bountifully” [Grk - Eulogia (Lit) “good words”.

Most commonly translated blessing.

Literal Greek rendering of verse 6 “ Now this: sow sparingly, sparingly reap, and sow to blessing to blessing reap.

Blessing in other key passages:

By it’s very definition a blessing already embodies within itself the idea of the right quantity.

Literal Greek rendering of verse 6 “ Now this: sow sparingly, sparingly reap, and sow to blessing to blessing reap.

“Bountifully” [Grk - Eulogia (Lit) “good words

The Darby Bible Translation captures it well

“But this [is true], he that sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that sows in [the spirit of] blessing shall reap also in blessing:”

The Darby Bible Translation captures it well

“But this [is true], he that sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that sows in [the spirit of] blessing shall reap also in blessing:”

It’s about love for others- When the heart of the giver(s) just wants to be a blessing God ensures that the blessing is not too much or too little.

The Harvest

:8

This is the practical application of chapter 8 & 9

2 Co

God’s Action

Vs. 8 “makes all grace abound to you

Vs. 8

Vs. 10 “supplies seed to the sower”… “bread for food”… “supply and multiply your seed”

Vs. 11 “you will be enriched in every way”

God’s Purpose

Vs. 7 to be “a cheerful giver”

2 Cor 9:8

Vs. 8 to “abound in every good work”

Vs. 10 “for sowing”… to “increase the harvest of your righteousness”

“He” ( ) is the “man (vs 1) who fears the Lord” (Heart) and “distributes freely and gives to the poor” (act/do).

“He (vs 10) who supplies seed to the sower” is God

Vs. 11 “to be generous in every way”

Vs. 11, 12, 13 “thanksgivings and glory to God”

When God blesses you, seldom does he have only you in mind.

See your blessings/abundance as a primary means to invest eternally and to bless others for the praise, and thanksgiving, and glory of God!

(vs8) - God’s Riches at Christ Expense, unmerited favor

What does this grace look like?

sufficiency in all things at all times

the power to “abound in every good work”

Righteousness

Psalm