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Hello friend. My name is Denise Renner.
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Welcome to my program.
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I'm so excited that you're with me today
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because we've been talking about something that's
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so important
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and the Bible says in Ephesians 5:1,
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that we are to imitate God as dear children.
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And as I told you before, you
can go back to the archives,
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but we talking about imitating God.
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And when I saw that
scripture years ago, I think
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what in the world does
it mean to imitate God?
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I don't understand this verse at all.
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And maybe you've thought that too.
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Just, you know, just reading it
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and thought, I don't
know how to imitate God.
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Well we are gonna talk about
how we can imitate God.
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And on my last program I talked about how
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that he is a victor.
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And in this world it can try to put a
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identification
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or an image on us like we're an victim.
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But Jesus was never a victim.
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So we're gonna imitate him.
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We are gonna act like a victor
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because that's exactly who he was.
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And that's exactly who he
is on the inside of you.
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He is a victor on the inside of you.
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And today we're gonna
talk about the giver.
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God was never, ever and
never can be stingy.
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And he lives on the inside of us
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and he is always a giver.
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If you need prayer, I
want you to please call us
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and let us know how we can pray for you.
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And I also wanna offer you my series.
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to imitate God.
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I'm telling you, when
we start imitating God,
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it helps us sleep better.
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That's what I'm finding out.
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And there's also a study guide
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Well, I want you to stay with me
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'cause I'm gonna be right back
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and we are gonna talk about
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how we can imitate God as a giver.
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It's time for big miracles
and changes in your life.
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Join Denise Renner
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and dive into the study of God's word which has great power
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to strengthen faith, inspire, change,
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heal physically and spiritually.
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And most importantly help
you learn about the power
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of Christ Jesus living in you.
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It's time with Denise Renner.
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We're talking about God the giver,
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and we are to imitate
him as dear children.
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And the first verse I wanna
direct us to is a verse
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that probably you already know:
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John 3:16, what does it say?
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For God so loved the world that he gave
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his only begotten son,
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that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish
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but have everlasting life.
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So we see right there
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that God is a giver.
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He gave his only begotten son.
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Look at John 6:12,
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13; I wanna show you this and this is amazing.
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This is the story where
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Jesus multiplied the fish
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and the bread where as my husband teaches,
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found out from the Greek language, it wasn't fish
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and it wasn't bread, it
was little crackers that
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that little boy was carrying
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and it was little minnows that he had
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to put on those crackers.
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And when Jesus prayed over
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that such a small amount, it multiplied,
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it multiplied, multiplied, multiplied.
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And some scholars say
that not only did Jesus
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feed 5,000, he fed probably 30
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to 40,000 people that day with
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just two little minnows
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and five small crackers.
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Such a giving God: he multiplied
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and multiplied and multiplied.
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And when you give God something, I'm telling you he wants
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to multiply it and multiply it
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because he's not, I don't
look at God as one who adds,
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I look at God as one who multiplies.
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He is such a giver. Oh, I'm so
excited about this teaching.
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You are going to see what
an amazing giver he is.
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So look at verse 12 of John 6.
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So he multiplies and multiplies
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and all those people in the language,
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the Greek language, it
says that they were filled
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and it means that they
were like on their sides
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just stuff to the gills, just
like you feel at Thanksgiving.
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They had had so many crackers
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and so many minnows, they
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And so it says,
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and when they were filled,
he said to the disciples,
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gather up the fragments that remain so
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that nothing is lost.
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Therefore they gathered them up
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and filled 12 baskets with fragments
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of the five barley loaves
which were left over
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by those who had eaten.
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So on the ground,
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after all those people had eaten,
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there were all these crumbs
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and it filled 12 baskets.
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Well who do you think
those 12 baskets were for?
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It was for those 12 disciples.
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God had multiplied
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and now he was supplying
for the disciples.
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Well, I was meditating on that one day.
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And do you know who one
of those disciples were?
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Judas God gave
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Judas the same basketful
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as he gave John, Peter, James,
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Andrew to Judas.
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And when I meditated on that,
I said, God is such a giver,
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he gave to his betrayer.
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God is such a giver.
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Now I want you to go with me to Matthew 5,
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and you're gonna see how extravagant,
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extravagant God is in his giving.
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And it is verse 43
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and it says, You have heard that it was said,
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you shall love your neighbor
and hate your enemy.
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But I say to you,
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love your enemies.
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Bless those who curse you.
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Do good to those who hate you
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and pray for those who spitefully use you
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and persecute you, that you may be sons
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of your Father in Heaven.
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For he makes his sun rise
on the evil and on the good
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and sends rain to the just and the unjust.
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For if you love those who love you, what reward have you?
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Do not even the tax collectors do the same.
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And if you greet your brethren only,
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what do you do more than others?
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Do not even the tax collectors do that.
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Therefore you shall be perfect just
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as your father in Heaven is perfect.
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What does that mean? It means that God
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is such an amazing giver
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that we see that Jesus gave a basket
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of crackers and minnows to his betrayer.
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And God is showing us in his
word that we are not only
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to bless and love our friends
and those that love us,
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but our enemies and those who despitefully use us.
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Now that's amazing, but that's our God.
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That's what kind of giver that he is.
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And friend, when I think
about that, I am so glad
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that God is that kind of giver because you
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and I at one point in our
life, we didn't know Jesus.
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We weren't such great,
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wonderful people - saved people.
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Maybe right now you may see
yourself, you're struggling
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and maybe you are not just
doing everything right,
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but it doesn't stop God from loving you
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or giving to you.
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That is our God.
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That's the kind of giver
that I'm talking about.
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That's what I want you
to see in this teaching.
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God is such a giver that when you
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and I were dead in our sins,
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we did not know God at all.
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We had never done one thing for God.
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He made us alive in Christ Jesus.
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How much does he give?
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Romans 8:32 says, and I wanna read that to you.
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It it says that - one
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one little second -
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it says that he
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who did not spare his own son
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but delivered him up for us all,
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how shall he not with him
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also freely give us all things.
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He did not spare his very
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best, but he gave him up for us all.
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You know, sometimes when
we give, I've done this,
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maybe you've done this; you didn't give your very best.
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If you gave something away,
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maybe it was something you
didn't even use anymore.
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You had no need for.
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That's, that's not the
kind of giver God is.
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God's the kind of giver that
he said, what is my very best?
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What's my very best? Oh,
my very best is Jesus.
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I'm not going to spare him.
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I'm going to give him
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and then I'm even going
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That's how much he loves you.
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That's what kind of giver that he is.
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This is so amazing.
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2nd Peter 1:3 says
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that we are partakers of his life
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and will he not also give us all things
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that pertain to life
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and godliness through the knowledge of him. Oh friend,
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we've got to get our minds renewed
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because it's through the knowledge of him that we understand
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that God is not stingy; God is not trying
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to hold back from you,
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but God is trying to
get everything to you.
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He did not spare Jesus so
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that he could give you all things.
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That's what kind of giver he is.
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It's totally amazing and wonderful.
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Look at James 1:5.
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Oh, this is so beautiful.
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I want you to see this
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because you're gonna see
what more kind of a giver
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that he is.
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It says in verse 5; it says, If any
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of you lacks wisdom, let him ask
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of God who gives to all liberally
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and without reproach and
it will be given to him.
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Now, this is us coming to God
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and asking him for something.
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This is us coming to God
and asking for wisdom.
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Now it says though that if any of you ask wisdom,
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let him ask of God.
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Well that word ask of God, it means to
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get so very close to God.
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Well, when you draw close to him,
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when you say, Lord, Holy Spirit, I'm going
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to, I want to draw close to you.
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You know, sometimes we think
drawing close to God means
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that you do everything perfect.
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That's not what it means.
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It means that you draw close to him.
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We are..perfect on the inside
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in our spirit, we look just like Jesus,
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but our minds are not renewed.
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Our bodies are not perfect and
our emotions are not perfect.
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And so when we take our imperfect selves
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and we say, God, I'm coming to you.
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I'm drawn to you, father,
as close as I can,
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I'm gonna think about this
first Lord, as much as I can.
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I'm gonna talk to you as as I can.
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I'm gonna draw as close to you as I can.
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God give me your wisdom. That's what this verse is saying.
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And my wonderful husband,
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he has a a new, he's translating what's actually,
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it's an interpretation of the New Testament.
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And so he has already
James and Jude finished
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and I was studying in there,
James, oh, you should get it.
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It's called the RIV.
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But what I'm telling you is that God
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is the God who gives.
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That's what that word means.
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He's not the God who's holding back.
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He's the God who gives and
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and even if we have not been seeking him,
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and we come to that situation
where, oh, I need God.
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Oh, I need his wisdom,
and we start seeking him.
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He's such a giver.
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He doesn't say - Oh, you haven't talked to me in 5 years.
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I'm not gonna do anything for
you. No, that's not our God.
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He is obliged to give to us wisdom
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as we seek him.
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He is not the God with the clinched fist. In
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that language it even means he is the God
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with the open hand.
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That's the kind of giver that
I'm talking to you about.
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What about Lamentations 3?
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It says that every morning
our God is such a giver
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that every morning he gives to us
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brand new mercies.
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When you wake up, it's
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as if there was a package at
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for you to receive.
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And that is the new mercies of God
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for you every day.
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What an amazing giver he is.
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He is the best giver.
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He is habitual giver.
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So we have to ask ourselves
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and do in this teaching,
I definitely ask myself,
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do I imitate God as a giver?
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Do I only give to those who give to me
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like in John 5? Do I just give
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to those who love me,
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those who do good to me?
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Do I just give something I don't need and
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and I can cast away or do
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I give my very best.
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We have to ask ourselves that question.
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It says in Luke 6:38,
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this is the kind of God we have.
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It's says, Give
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and it shall be given you, good measure, pressed together,
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shaken together,
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and running over shall
God give back to you
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through the hands of men. We give to God.
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You can't out give him
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because he's always gonna give back to you
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a lot more than you ever gave him.
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And now look at who was stingy
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because if we look at God,
okay, God's the giver.
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We've talked about that,
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but what's the opposite of giving - being stingy and greedy.
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So what happens to those
who are stingy and greedy?
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We have an example in the Old Testament of Laben.
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Laben was the father in law
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to Jacob and you'll have to go there and read it.
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It's in Genesis.
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But he so lied
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and cheated Jacob
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and not just once: over and over again.
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And what did it bring
to that selfish Laben?
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Everything that Laben
tried to clinging to,
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he absolutely lost.
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What about Nabel?
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Nabel, he was the husband
of a beautiful woman.
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We know her and her name is Abigail
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and she is the one
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that when David came seeking help, seeking
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a provision for his men and his men had served Nabel
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and Nabel refused to give to
David, and David got angry
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and he was gonna go in
and destroy them all.
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Abigail and all her wisdom and humility
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and kindness, she went to David.
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She begged for mercy. She fed them all.
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But what happened to Naval?
What happened to Naval
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the stingy one? He lost his life.
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Everything he wanted to clinging to he lost
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and he even lost his life.
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That's what Stinginess gets you. What about Judas?
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Judas was stingy. He wasn't thinking about feeding the poor.
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The Bible says he was thinking about the treasury
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and what he could do with the treasury himself
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because he was over the Treasury.
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What happened to stingy Judas?
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He betrayed the son of God and he died.
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He lost his life.
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So where does giving get you
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and where does Stinginess get you?
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God is not a hoarder.
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Hoarding is all about self.
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God is a provider.
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Even right now, friend, God is in heaven
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and Jesus said in John 14:2 &
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3, he said that he was in Heaven going
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to Heaven to prepare a place for you.
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What's he doing? He's
already preparing the gift
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that he's going to give you
and he's given you salvation.
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So how can we imitate God?
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We can't give what we don't have.
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God would never expect that,
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but we can give what we do have.
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So we have to ask ourselves:
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Am I stingy acting
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or am I imitating God as a giver?
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Ephesians 5:1,
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Therefore be imitators
of God as dear children.
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So it's saying be
imitators of God, the giver
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as a dear child.
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So what can you give?
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Can you give more of your
time to people who need you?
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What about your money, your forgiveness?
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What about your patience?
Could you give more of that?
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What about your mercy?
What about your love?
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What about believing
the best about somebody?
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Could you do that?
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What possession can you
give that you don't need
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and somebody else does?
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Maybe it's your enemy.
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God is showing himself
to us as such a giver.
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He loved us when we were dead
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and he made us alive in him.
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His gifts are enormous.
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They're coming towards us right now.
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How can you act like God
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and give something today?
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Well, I want you to stay with me
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because I'm gonna be right back
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and we are going to pray together
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and surrender ourselves to God more so
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that we can act like him
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and be that wonderful giver.
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Imitating your heavenly
Father is the greatest
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compliment you can give him.
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According to Ephesians 5:1, as a child of God,
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you are called to imitate him each
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and every day. By following his example,
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you can overcome obstacles,
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I have enjoyed being with you today so much
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and talking about imitating God as a giver.
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And we saw in that teaching
what kind of giver that he is
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and also what the rewards
of being stingy is.
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And they're not good.
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But being a giver, you can't outgive God.
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So when you give, he's always
gonna give back more to you.
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Oh, I want you to have the Study guide
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or the five part video series
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because it's gonna encourage you
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to get this teaching deeper
down on the inside of you.
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Or maybe you need to give
that to somebody else.
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You need to give a gift to somebody else
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to help them in their journey
with God and acting like him.
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Well, let's pray together.
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Father, I just thank you
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and praise you that the giver
lives on the inside of us,
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Lord, and that we can listen to him,
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and that we can give,
Lord, as you direct us to,
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as we listen to the giver on the inside,
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we can become a channel of a blessing
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to somebody else.
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Lord. Oh, thank you Jesus.
You live on the inside of us.
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You're absolutely a giver.
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We identify with you right now,
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and Lord, today we agree with
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that scripture
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that we will imitate you today
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as a giver.
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Oh Father, thank you for
the power of the Holy Spirit
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that gives us the power to
do that and to be a giver.
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And we love you today,
father, in Jesus' name.
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Well, I've enjoyed you so much
and thank for being with me
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and I'll see you on the next program.
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Pray this prayer with me right now; Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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I faithfully promise that
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