2 Corinthians 9:8–10 (MEV): 8 God is able to make all grace abound toward you, so that you, always having enough of everything, may abound to every good work. 9 As it is written: “He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness remains forever.” 10 Now He who supplies seed to the sower and supplies bread for your food will also multiply your seed sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness.
God’s grace came from what he did on the cross. God prospered his people to do good works.
The gospel was never about acquisition. We’ve already acquired that which we need to prosper because of the grace shed abroad by what Christ did on the cross.
He gives seed to the sower for the purpose of good works, not to store up mountains of money that those in need will never see. Those like widows, the fatherless, and the poor. We give to God because of what he has already given to us. To think that we could out give God is nonsense.
We could never give to get, because he has already given to us the one who paid the ultimate price, God’s only son Jesus Christ.
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