To receive and give. And then with giving it's not just give that God says.
Messiah didn't just tell his disciples to give. He said give abundantly. Two kinds of life.
Or two kinds of giving, for those who are saved, for those who are giving.
Giving sparingly and giving bountifully. The sparing life you try to hold on
to everything. You know you have, that's your security. I've got that, you know.
And keep holding on. The problem, the problem is if you have to get, get, get, get, what are you
saying about yourself? You're saying you're empty. If you have to get and get
and get and get you're saying you are, inside, you are poor. You are, you don't have.
You're desperate. You've got to hold on, hold on, hold on.
Means you're ... you're living like a pauper. I'm not talking about, I'm not
talking about your bank account. I'm talking about in your life. If you're living that
I have to get and I have to get, I have to get, you are testifying that you don't have.
That is a sparing life. And when you give, you give because you're obliged to give.
You give what's your duty to give. You pay your taxes. You give. You may even do your tithes.
That's good. But. Your heart has to be into it. You know ...
the offering basket comes around and you look calm but inside sometimes there's
a war raging. You know it's that little, little version of you with the halo.
And the other version with a pitchfork, you know. And it's saying, one's saying yeah, give.
And the other one's saying [sigh]. Hold on. Don't do that. You can fake it, you know.
Just make it look like that. You don't have to give as much, you know. But the thing is that, that
the point is it's not just that you're giving. Your heart has to be giving.
If you're heart is ... you, we have to get, get into the, to get into the spirit
of being a giving person. And God will bless us. Because it says God loves what?
A cheerful giver. A cheerful giver. You, there's something about how you do it.
So if you want a full abundant life you've got to get into, not the, you've got to reverse
the spirit of taking, I've gotta have, I gotta get, with the spirit of, I've gotta give.
I want to give. To live bountifully. With faith. You got to be flowing. You have
to reject this attitude, this fear that I have to hold on ... because, because
it's like saying I'm an orphan. I don't have a father who's gonna bless me.
But if you have a father, you know you've got a father who loves you. You have God.
You can give. That doesn't mean recklessly. It means bless. But you ...
a decision to say, I'm committed. I'm choosing the primary aim why
I'm on this planet is to bless and give blessings to others. And I have to make that
unconditional. I have to sow. The farmer has to sow no matter what's going on.
You know it doesn't matter, in every area of your life. I'll give you one area.
Not just in giving financially. In every area. The Gospel. Are you giving the Gospel?
Or are you sparing with the Gospel? You know, how many of you have had
Jehovah Witnesses at your door? How many people have been at doors for the Gospel?
Look at the difference. Who's witnessing more? They are!
And the thing is, Jehovah's Witnesses are not many people compared to how many
born-again believers there are. And yet they're still doing it more. Far more than
the Kingdom of God. Mormonism. One of the fastest spreading
faiths. Why? Because it's a good message? It's not a good message. The people are nice.
They live clean. Nice people. They have nice commercials. Good commercials.
But the teaching is not very smart at all. It's kind of dumb. An angel named
Moroni. You can stop right there. I mean, and with all due respect to nice Mormons,
an angel named Moroni? That's like an angel Ronzoni. I mean what is that?
The Archangel Ziti? I don't know what that is. You know and then and this thing, that
... Hebrews, it says the Jews ... came to America and they became American Indians.
Real ..., I mean, you know, you know and we're gonna reign as gods on other planets.
So why is it spreading so much? Because they send their youth for like two years
in the mission field. They sow abundantly. Even if it's not good seed. And ... still
there's a law of sowing. You've got the good seed. You've got the Gospel. And you're
not sowing it? People around you, are they getting saved? Well they have a choice.
That's right. They can reject it. But there should be some who are getting
saved. Or the chances are you're not sowing it.
And you're saying well, well how come people aren't getting saved? Well are you sowing
the Gospel? And if you are sowing it, are you doing it abundantly, or sparingly?
Occasionally they force it out of you. I'm a Christian. De de da, you know.
But ... how many have invited people out all the time? There's people all
around us. God's saying there's a harvest. Are you, if you'll sow abundantly,
you will reap abundantly. It still may be that many reject. Fine. But you're gonna
have people getting saved around you. The good news. So you sow. And even if they,
most, many reject, well the Bible, you know, He speaks about the sower. Some fell
on this ground, this ground, and this ground. Okay. But the one that sowed ... the seed
that went on the good ground bore a hundredfold. It's worth more. You save
one person it's more, it's worth more than the whole world. And it's the greatest
blessing ... because it actually, it actually gives life to you when you are
around new believers that you led to the Lord, it blesses, it renews you. Sow the Word.
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