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Satan hates the saved. He can not cause them to lose their salvation so he causes them to lose their eternal reward and to even suffer 1,000 years of tears after they get to Heaven. He doe4s this be getting Godly preachers to teach and preach doctrinal errors which he convinced people to make our religious traditional doctrines. Satan gets God's people to pass on the doctrinal errors by convincing them that they do not need to check their traditional doctrines against what the Bible actually says. What follows goes against Baptist traditional doctrine but is true Biblical doctrine based upon using God's way to interpret God's word.
accountin Heaven if we are saved.
fruitto our
accountin Heaven.
Fruitis new life that comes from something that is living. We need God to credit our Heavenly
accountdue to our causing new spiritual life to occur by someone getting saved or by causing existing spiritual life to grow by getting the saved to mature spiritually.
add fruit to our account, it can not have all that we will need or want.
fruitto their Heavenly
accountby supporting missions.
an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God, he is saying that this is part of our
living sacrifice(Romans 12:1)
which is your reasonable service. If we are not financially supporting missions then we are not doing what God says is our
reasonable service.
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.Anything that the Bible says is
by Christ Jesusis available to all saved people, because it uses the title of
Christand of
Christ. However, since
Christis used first, we must mature spiritually before receiving the blessing. In this case, we must mature spiritually enough to support missions on a regular basis before we can expect God to keep this promise that
my God shall supply all your need. The word
accordingmeans 'in direct relationship'. The more that you mature spiritually and support missions, as a result, the more that you can expect God to
supply all your need.
and, which means that it is added to what came before it.
God loveth a cheerful giver. This is the understanding that we are to have when we consider what is said in this sentence.
the region beyond. The Filipino belief that they need Americans to financially send missionaries and to pay for ministries in the Philippines is a denial of the faith in God that comes from Philippians 4:13 (
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.).
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
enrichedmeans 'made rich'. Yes, this speaks about spiritual riches but it also speaks about physical riches. Matthew 6:33 says:
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.The word
firstmeans that receiving physical riches comes second. If we seek worldly riches so that we can use them to promote the Gospel and to financially support preachers and churches which preach the Gospel, then God will let us have worldly riches afterwards and for as long as we put the support of God's work first.
being. This is an ongoing verb of existence. God does not let His people win the Lotto and get sudden riches. God makes His people rich over time using an ongoing consistent method such as giving them a job with a steady and good income. The mistake that many of God's people make is to increase their lifestyle to absorb this increased income in satisfying the lusts of the flesh. 1Timothy 6:17-21 warns God's people about this danger and tells them to use the extra income to help others do the work of God.
to all bountifulness. The word
to'moving towards this goal'. The goal is
all bountifulnesswhich means 'liberality in the bestowment of gifts and favors'. God will make His people to move them from being selfish to being very 'liberal' in giving help to people preaching the Gospel.
which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. God has His people financially support preachers so that the preachers will thank God for their supporters and will pray for God to continue to enrich the supporters so that the supporters will continue to support the ministry.
gracerequires true Biblical
faith. There are times that God supplies the need before the need comes up. We see this with Daniel saving food for seven years before the food was needed. When God provides an abundance, God's people who truly live by faith save the abundance until God shows the need. God's people who spend the abundance prove that they do not
live by faithand can not be trusted to handle worldly riches properly. Pastors who fail to teach God's people Godly attitudes about handling money will find that they have a need which is not met because God provided but God's people wasted the provision through ignorance. When preachers have a need that God does not seem to supply they need to be sure that their people understand God's commands about handling money so that the people in their ministry can be used by God to provide for the needs of the ministry. Now, before getting upset by these statements look at our context. Our sentence started with the word
And, which means that it is added to what came before the sentence and that the context is important. We are talking about receiving God's
graceand our section started in Chapter 8 where we were told that the poor
churches of Macedoniareceived God's grace because they
first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. I doubt that there is a church which can claim to be in worse shape than those churches were. So, the main question is why the people of the church in need are not willing to devote their life to serving God. Why would they rather live in need? One of the main reasons is that their culture has taught them to be beggars instead of going to work for God.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you;. We already discussed this sentence starting with the word
And, which makes the context critical to properly understanding the sentence. Further, our first phrase ends with a semi-colon which makes this half of the sentence two steps. The First Step tells us that God supplies and the Second Step tells us how we are supposed to handle the supply from God.
God is ablemeans that if we don't receive God's grace then it is not God's fault but the lack of God's grace is a failure on our part. In most cases, this is because people fail to realize that God gives us His grace to make Him look good. When people use God's grace to fulfill the lusts of the flesh then that is a misuse and God will often withhold His grace before he allows a misuse of it by His people. God allows a misuse when he wants to gather evidence to use in later judgment. Therefore, when God gives us His grace we want to use it the right way in order to avoid later judgment.
that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. The word
thattells us what God expects us to do with His grace. In addition, the word
yemeans 'each and every one of you personally'. That means that we receive God's grace on an individual basis and have responsibility, and judgment, based upon what we each personally do with His grace. How well people handle God's grace is one reason why some people receive more grace than others receive.
may abound to every good worktells us what God is looking for us to produce with His grace. In the Bible, the word
goodis always used for something that comes from God. Therefore, God is looking for His people to produce Godly works with the grace that He gives them. In addition, the word
aboundmeans 'great quantity'. God wants His people to produce so many Godly works that the world steps back and says 'Wow!'.
always having all sufficiency in all things. When God's people don't have sufficiency to do God's work then there is a problem with God's people, either:
We've looked at the details of this sentence. Now we can put these two verses together, which are two halves of the same sentence and see that both haves tell us the same message. God is able to supply everything needed for God's people to do God's work in abundance. God does this so that he can justify giving eternal rewards to His people that let Him work through their life while denying those same rewards to people who refuse to let God work through their life. In addition, God works this way so that the missionaries who receive the results of God's grace will thank God and pray for God to continue to work through the lives of His people who are supplying their need. Missionaries who fail to thank God or fail to pray for their supporters can expect to be cut off from God's grace.
Now, having looked at the outer sentence we need to look at the included sentence, which is in 2Corinthians 9:9-10 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness
).
As it is written,tells us that this is based upon scripture which is found in Psalms 112:9. This is explained in more detail in the note for this sentence within the Book Study n 2Corinthians. However, the main point to consider here is that his section is said twice. That makes it a Law which will be used by God when He judges us.
He hath dispersed abroadspeaks about supporting foreign missions. God wants us to look further than our own family, church and country, especially when it comes to missions. People who fail in this aspect limit, if not lose, their rewards.
he hath given to the poorIs clear on the surface. What is less clear is that he particular
poor, that this sentence talks about, is the foreign missionary. Almost all of them go out to serve God with less than they really need to support their family and ministry in a foreign country.
his righteousness remaineth for everis very clearly telling us that the rewards are eternal. Quite often people who truly support foreign missions don't see a reward in this life because God is putting all of their rewards into their eternal account where they will not lose them.
multiply your seed sownis probably the most important to understand. Look up 'Multi-level Marketing' on the internet in order to understand the basic concept. Basically, God visits the blessings and iniquities of the fathers onto the descendants to the third and fourth generation. When we train someone to be a soul winner (
sower) we get some credit in our Heavenly
accountfor each soul that they lead to salvation. When we t5rain our disciple to train the next generation of soul winners, we get some credit in our Heavenly
accountfor each soul that the next generation of soul winners lead to salvation. This happens for at least four generations. Thus, by training soul winners to train the next generation of soul winners you
multiply your seed sown.
mansionsimply because they show up to church some times. We must meet the true Biblical requirements in order to be saved and get into Heaven. However, once saved, then we have nothing for eternity unless we do what the Bible says is required to
lay up treasure in Heaven(Hebrews 12:2-LJC; Laying up Treasure in Heaven). By doing those things we
addto our Heavenly account. We need to train soul winners tin order to
multiply your seed sownand we get multiple generations of multiple rewards when we teach those soul winners to pass their training on by teaching their disciples to become soul winners and teachers of soul winners.
he that ministereth seed to the soweris talking about giving doctrinally true Bible lessons (
seed) to soul winners, Bible teachers and preachers. This is literally how the Bible tells us to
multiply your seed sown. The
th, in the word
ministereth, means that this needs to be an ongoing
ministeringand not just providing a one-time message. We can do this by training people to the point that they retain the lessons. We can also do this by providing written lessons which continue to
ministereth seed to the sower.
minister bread for your foodmeans that this is the way to provide spiritual nutrition to our disciples. This is how we are to cause then to mature spiritually.
and increase the fruits of your righteousnessis a second promise of eternal
righteousnessthat is in this sentence. his makes this promise a legally binding promise from God to all who meet the
What we have seen here is the Biblical basis for claiming that the more we obey God, the more eternal rewards that we put into our personal heavenly account. We have also seen that helping to make sure that true Biblical doctrine, attitudes and actions are passed onto the net generation, and having the next generation pass them on to the next, gets us the greatest eternal rewards. Finally, we have also seen that many saved people will have nothing in their Heavenly accounts because they believed doctrinal error which is part of religious traditions. We each determine the amount of eternal rewards that we personally receive by how well we obey what the Bible actually commands us to do.