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Bringing to Completion What Had Been Started, 2 Corinthians 8:6-17

Giving Regard to Proper Things, 2 Corinthians 8:18-24

Paul Sent Brethren In Advanced to Ensure the Corinthian Saints are Ready, 2 Corinthians 9:1-5

Paul Knows Their Eagerness, 2 Corinthians 9:1-2

2 Corinthians 9:1–2

For concerning indeed the ministry, the one unto the saints, it is excessive for me to write to you

for I intuitively know your eagerness, which I boast concerning you to Macedonia that Achaia prepared from a year ago, and out from your zeal it provoked the many,

Paul Has Boasted About it to The Saints in Macedonia

Their Zeal has Provoked Many

Provoke is used in a positive way, to stir into action

Not Something To be used on Children, Colossians 3:21

Paul Sent the Brethren So His Boasting Would Not Be In Vain, 2 Corinthians 9:3

2 Corinthians 9:3

And I have sent the brethren in order that our boast concerning you is not in vain in this part, in order that just as you said, you all are made ready.

Although Not Likely, but if Some Macedonians Came with them And They Were Not Ready, 2 Corinthians 9:4

2 Corinthians 9:4

Lest somehow if perhaps with me Macedonians come and find you not ready, we ourselves should be put to shame, in order that least we should say you, in this substance of the boasting.

Doing All Things Proper

Not Questioning Their Eagerness

Allowing Them Time to Prepare

Paul Considered it Good to Allow Them To Be Prepared Beforehand, 2 Corinthians 9:5

2 Corinthians 9:5

Therefore, I thought it necessary to encourage the brethren in order that we should proceed ahead to you and arrange beforehand the before announced good word from you, this to be ready, thus as a good word and not as covetousness.

He Sent the Brethren Ahead

They Would Arrange the Gift Before Others Got There

Ready as a Good Word

Not Out of Covetousness

Covetousness is idolatry, Colossians 3:5

It is a work of the flesh, Galatians 5:19-20

Covetousness is seeking what another has

Living Out Who We Are In Christ Will Not Ever Produce Covetousness, Colossians 3:5

Flattering Words Used as a Cloak of Covetousness, 1 Thessalonians 2:5

The Way of False Teachers Today, 2 Peter 2:1-3

Something that Should Not Be Named Among the Saints, Ephesians 5:3

There is No Pressure from Paul to Cause Them to Do This

It was something they determined to do

Paul is supporting the completion of this gift by working with them

How We Sow Impacts What We Reap, 2 Corinthians 9:6-15

The Reaping from Our Sowing, 2 Corinthians 9:6

2 Corinthians 9:6

But this: the one sowing sparingly, sparingly also he will reap, and the one sowing upon a good word, upon a good word also will reap.

What a Man Sows, He Also Reaps, Galatians 6:7

Sowing to the Flesh Always Produces Corruption, Where Sowing to the Spirit Produces Eternal Life, Galatians 6:8

Paul is Not Talking About Giving Producing Money

The Prosperity Gospel is about the flesh

Sowing on the Bases of a Good Word is Sowing to the Spirit

God Speaks Well of Us Concerning Spiritual Things, Ephesians 1:3

Ephesians 1:3 (NKJV)

Blessed (Εὐλογητὸς) be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed (εὐλογήσας) us with every spiritual blessing (εὐλογίᾳ) in the heavenly places in Christ,

Not Returning the Which lacks in Character for Wrong, but a Good Word, for We Inherit a Good Word, 1 Peter 3:9

1 Peter 3:9 (NKJV)

not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing (εὐλογοῦντες), knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing (εὐλογίαν).

How We Are To Give, 2 Corinthians 9:7

2 Corinthians 9:7 (NKJV)

Just as each one purposed in the heart, not out from grief nor out from need, for the God loves a cheerful giver.

The Purpose of the Heart is What a Person Has Before Chosen

Not to be Done Out From Grief

Not Done Out from Need - If by Need, not Voluntary, Philemon 14

God Gives Us What We Need To Share With Others, 2 Corinthians 9:8

2 Corinthians 9:8

And the God is inherently able to make all grace abound unto you, in order that in all things, at all times, in all way, while having sufficiency you all abound in all good works.

If You Have the Means, and the Desire, Do According to What is Voluntary

God Has Prepared Good Works for Us, Ephesians 2:10

Just as it is Written, His Righteousness Remains Into the Age, 2 Corinthians 9:9

2 Corinthians 9:9

Just as it is written, "He sowed abroad, he gave to the day-laborer.

His righteousness remains into the age.

He Gives to the Day Laborer - One Who Works from Paycheck to Paycheck

His Righteousness Remains into the Age

He Supplies the Seed and the Food, 2 Corinthians 9:10

2 Corinthians 9:10

And the One supplying seed to the sower, also bread for food, He will supply and multiply your seed and it will grow the harvest of your righteousness,

Making Us Rich In All Things, 2 Corinthians 9:11

2 Corinthians 9:11

while you are made rich in all things unto all sincerity, which works out thanksgiving to God through you.

Abounding to Giving Thanks to God, 2 Corinthians 9:12-15

2 Corinthians 9:12–15

Because the ministry of this religious service not only is supplying the needs of the saints, but also abounding through many thanksgivings to the God,