The Sermon The All Sufficient, Extravagant God by David McGee
Apr 15, 2012
The All Sufficient, Extravagant God (41:36)
Referenced Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 9:8; Hebrews 11:1; Ephesians 3:20; Luke 15
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2 Corinthians 9:8
8) God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
Hebrews 11:1
1) Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
Ephesians 3:20
20) Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Luke 15
1) Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
2) The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
3) He told them this parable.
4) "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn‘t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?
5) When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
6) When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!‘
7) I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
8) Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma, wouldn‘t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
9) When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.‘
10) Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting."
11) He said, "A certain man had two sons.
12) The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.‘ He divided his living to them.
13) Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and took his journey into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
14) When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
15) He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
16) He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
17) But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father‘s have bread enough to spare, and I‘m dying with hunger!
18) I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
19) I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."‘
20) He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
21) The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no more worthy to be called your son.‘
22) But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.
23) Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;
24) for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.‘ They began to be merry.
25) Now his elder son was in the field. As he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
26) He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.
27) He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him safe and sound.‘
28) But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.
29) But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, and you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
30) But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.‘
31) He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.
32) But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.‘"
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One of the Scriptures. They were using an end. I think the Luke fifteen is the prodigal son coming home from home running so I only use out later, but John, this graphic explanations. Second Corinthians chapter nine verse eight, and also reading from the King James wealth from the message Bible is adding a question in the Sunday school. Why is the message Bible for different NL and when you read the message Bible. It's more of an explanation. It is more what I guess is looking at the terms and the terms that are given in the Greek and then being able to interpret that translated into English and it is interesting when I said this before the contemporaneous notes. Evening 's evening gift contemporary English version Jenny 's dad was the interpreter of the translator of David a Jenny Willis, a daughter-in-law, her dad interpreted from being from the Greek into Aramaic, Greek into and made into English in the CV. He's the sole interpreter of the New Testament for the American Bible Society on that version of the Bible and so on and out spoken briefly to him about that individual. You looking at your looking at the grades and then you're trying to understand what the intent of the writer was, and inspiration. All Scripture is given by the inspiration of God, so that what these the inspiration that was behind the word that was used. The setting that was used and how that fits into the setting today and how that those words are paralleled in the English, so that's why we have different versions of the Bible, but that still goes back to the intent is still the same. If you look at the King James, and then read the King James and read the message or read any of the other ones see the impact on what was that how was translated and how the design can fit into our readings do so. If you are in your Bible apps. If you're looking at it and putting it together. We were just talking about you can read different versions and sometimes they put the two versions on the things on the same page, so a house in this chapter nine verse eight and God is able to make all grace abound toward you that you always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. If we put that into the message Bible says in second gripe is my verse eight through eleven ago talking for him. The blessings in astonishing ways so that you are ready for anything and everything more than just ready to do what needs to be done as one of the Psalmist put it. He throws caution to the winds giving the needy in reckless abandon his right to living like giving ways never run out. Never wear out this most generous God, who gives seed to the farmer that becomes bread for your meals is more than extravagant with you. It gives you something you cannot you can't give you something you can then give away, which grows into full formed lives, robust in God, wealthy in every way so that you can be generous in every way, producing with us great praise to God, while so, God is able to make all grace abound toward you. It's important for movies. There going in the way someone else to take him home. I can breathe. I can bring so I can breathe in the flowers) China hurting a lot better if it is a look at those pictures we wanted to find a couple of times, grace and mercy. It's important that that we understand our hope knowledgeable grace and mercy is something that we used interchangeably, but grace is unmerited favor divine favor kindness towards us means that when God is gracious towards us on. He doesn't look at our faults. He sees when he can get to us in part of our life. So he lets the owner of all PCs are in the need that we have is for his lobbyist forgiveness, and so on to be in our life and mercy is in session and generosity. This is where we would say that God would give us his gifts. Give us what we need in order to function were to live power presents a gift of the Spirit versus despair growing our life so grace is that God loves the last and is not preoccupied with what's wrong with us is not preoccupied with your balls he sees how we can be forgiven and changed anything. Grace is given the mercy and compassion and generosity. One, he will give us in our lives. So both of these are our part of what God is doing as part of his nature, his character. He is grace and mercy. He is loving kindness. He is long-suffering and steadfast. But today were just looking at is gracious and merciful. So he is gracious. We deserve punishment for sale but what is not. He paid the price for a set of moving from last week with the Good Friday and the death of Christ upon the cross and the resurrection. He paid the price for our sin and we cannot her his grace we cannot earn this forgiveness. We cannot be good enough to be forgiving if we were able to earn these things. It would be something that God is paying us to be like doing a job and being paid for while the graciousness and the mercy that we receive from God is that he gives it to us because that is character. Not that we are deserving so mercy. The generous compassion and everything we need to live out the Christian life and how that we have these gifts in our lives, and they are gifts to us that are generously imparted important that we know God wants to give us these things. Why, why would God want to forgive us. Why would God want to impart his gift to us why. While the motivation of God he is. He loves us. He created us a grade of for the purpose. Our life is more than what we and him and what we have and what we do our life and the spiritual round is more than anything that we can accomplish in the physical rock if we world we live a whole life once again. The man April at the gain the whole world and lose his own soul, while it profit us if we want and always doing all knowledge, and in a great against the great abilities a great well and lose our soul means we lost everything, so our life. This has a value that is greater than the accumulation of things in the power of God in our life is to overcome evil overcome our old nature overcome those things that would cause us to become like well destructive hateful, vengeful, get even steal, kill, destroy Knowles characteristics their part of who we are are primarily in the nature of God 's love and forgiveness, grace and mercy letting all the things that will destroy us and that we were able to forgive in and able to go on with our life. Seeing that there is a greater purpose. We know that there is eternal life, and then when his life is over. We go to heaven. We have an eternal reward, so there was not only God working in my life here and now, there is God working in my life here now. It continues to build for that eternal home mercy in the message says gods and for all the blessings in astounding ways so that you you're ready for anything and everything God can form on the blessing in astonishing ways is astonishing or the astonishing genius by a part of God 's blessings in astonishing ways so that you can be ready for anything and everything in the King James. It says that God is able to make all grace abound toward you, God is able to make that terminology sounds like it is futuristic. It is something that we will have in the future, but in actuality, that word is a present tense active work. God continuously enabling all, enabling all grace all favored to abound toward you abundance towards you, so that whenever we're saying, God can give ten for on the blessings in astonishing ways so that you are ready for anything and everything is saying that God is at work in our life to prepare us for anything to combat us well. I wish I knew what was going to borrow above matter what happens tomorrow while assuring it will not happen this afternoon doesn't matter what happens is that because God is given to want in an astonishing ways. Everything you will need out into the deal with lively feeling way because our future is in front of us, not behind us, but life forgiveness so important that we are forgiven, is that we like all of our past. We went all our sin. We forgive them we let we forgive ourselves. We forgive others with a lot, because our futures in front of us, life is about living, not about reliving reliving rehashing thing now. It is a present tense. God continuously enabling all grace all favor to abound toward you. So it is continuously provides a continuously and it is abounding so that means it's ongoing and an abundance God is given to us in an ongoing abundant fashion. God is continually enabling all grace to abound towards me, God is continually abounding abundance generated through our life. So God has an abundance that is coming towards us. The verse goes on verse eight that you always having all sufficiency, so we have we have a continuous abounding sufficiency while continuous abounding sufficiency. This works efficiency can be averted as extravagance extravagance was that says, in the the message Bible. The first ten verse eleven. This allows gracious God who gives seed to the farmer that becomes bread for your meals is more than extravagant. These more than extravagant with you while we have all sufficiency. We have more than extravagance. It gives you something you can then give away, which grows into full formed lives that what God used giving the wireless and extravagant ways is about how we are going to give our life in service to him and others, and is going to be robust in God, wealthy in every way so that you can be generous in every way wealthy in every way generous in every way fertilizing with us great praise to God more than an extravagant God is beginning to lot more about extravagance while now the negative side of extravagance is eyeing the mind myself. This belongs to me, don't touch it. I only problem with Robin, you know I have it you can. You don't agree with me. It would take my marbles and go home. That's not the extravagant God does not give into our lives so that we would be reporters while you like that of the rich man who said he loved God is blessed with so much how my binder full of what he learned it with them while they're down these lines of the bigger barns and Jesus as you fool this night that your your your life is to be part of the year-over-year down your here you all your life you see the idea is called having an opinion and extravagance is that God will pour out blessings and astonishingly so that you're ready for anything and everything. You're right for a very conventional life and more than just ready to do more than just ready to do what needs to be done more than just writing to do what needs to be done. Extravagance. It's going all over the top if giving more than what is expected getting more than what is needed to seek God is a God, it gone him enough is the God of more than enough. God doesn't just give to our lives enough to write essay on is not only good, it's good enough. I like that is not only good is good enough to hit the spot is getting enough of this was good enough to, but not God-given to wildlife, not just enough is more than enough more than enough, the God of enough is the God of more than enough in the bottom extravagance in the divine provision has no limits. Here we are, were attempting to the divine resources of God. There are no limitations on what God can give no limitations on what God can get the limitations come from me. How much of God 's goodness and graciousness and I handle without it being. I mean in my and then I'm worried about putting it and I'm I'm frustrated over people who don't give me enough and that people were only have to meet again with a gift for me because I have and they don't think that extravagant for now, you are going to examine where I'm going to be able to handle that online blackmail to handle because we are looking at it, building bigger barns in the mega millions while we give a little bit. The gallant automobile will blow the rest ourselves that the negative side of extravagance mean nine my lifestyle, my knees, and so on. See you prepare a meal for five or you're preparing a meal for a hundred dessert difference now to prepare for a hundred and five showed up. That would be extravagant. So what would you do with your giveaway is& Bible says he throws caution to the wind. So whatever were looking at this in the extravagance of God is not doing the suddenly we cannot realistically and only charge that God does not bless me out of my thoughts, get out of the fund for the room where the river flows out the glory of God laws out. I'm going to try to have all this wealth in my life and it's always about me. It's about God working through me. If I have all this and I don't and I don't know how to handle it. It's more of a curse than a blessing. I need to know how to deal with the gifts I've already got it. We already have enough. We already have more than enough in our life is just what we use it for how we stay in how we view it with our mother and minute, but the Bible says here that he throws caution to the wind God throws caution to the wind jamming to the needy in reckless abandonment, God, if God is reckless and white again you must mind living in Israel during my never run out everywhere, God 's life-giving right living right attitude towards us and never wears out. God is like your shovel is in your life. I went on all the stuff in your life. All these blessings all the generous as honest, gracious as I is not Lord, thou publicity too much. I don't deserve all this now. Besides aggregates. The problem with it. Now I'm all down sixty two Young got whatever I got to know you can remember what it said. Anyhow, the story of Gwendolyn Arellano, I am handsome, I got hair on the side. My faith, but the essay would you want not say which the this lady and I were visiting her to come to church once every four weeks. It is the church, way back in the forty years ago to come to church earlier by one through four weeks I went and exercises. You know what the government, which similarly, squatting in all the Bible says will be judged for what we know. I want to know too much true story, I said Lady, you already know too much, so we're here to say: we know that when we block went on in our life as we know, not handle it. There are opportunities are presenting themselves possibly save that I'm guilty of it. I'm guilty, and that sometimes, maybe many times am not seeing regardless of your life and his passing is right there in front of us and we'll see if we don't have eyes to see Enron understand it, it's its disguise is a problem with. I want that but maybe never probably will open up the opportunity for us to gamble me got a sufficiency is that we have the ability is already in there if and not the one loving you, and God abides within Islam were able to love the unlovable. We don't know how unlovable. Some people are preacher and I fell and then to seek God in UK so what is needed in our lives that we may have found to every good work. What do we lack that keeps us from every good work. If you do good work apps designed specifically for the benefit of others. If God is going to be gracious and abounding in gaming to what we have to have an outlet. We can have a massive dam that they are and where this film to the brink of grandmother 's massive reservoir and when I'm ultimately strain going out to the desert isn't that type of a life God has aligning with the bless us all what it don't rain. We won't get the stream flowing you forgot him what you've got and is you is what you have to and services. He designed specifically for the benefit of others doing good on the web is a salaried hand for by Jesus told the disciples you don't do it that way. You see, both of our understanding of the sufficiency of the graciousness of God, and the abundance of God. This placement or had it otherwise. The salary being given away. But we were responsible to give up. We have to believe you are presented in front of us into the knee representative front of us. Sometimes we are presented with the need of somebody in Africa will guess what we have a connection with a lot of their charges on the dilemma that we began to the needy in Africa. We give the Navy in El Salvador. We help people that don't have home, we can help people that aren't tornadoes in whatever drove through the law through our disaster relief fund from this at one exit for our nomination for this denomination. Ninety is either ninety four cents or ninety six cents out of every dollar goes to the really highest giving of any organization on the planet. Now some of those things you see on TV sometimes thirty cents out of every dollar gets to where you want to pay for advertising their paper executive that they for the frosts of their denomination. The missionaries have to supply their own monies back will be a missionary to come through. We support every month. The missions. Those missionaries have their needs met through all the churches, and so on. Given to them individually. Then when we give to the needy that it just like you put a dollar in the offering, we send it to Springfield for those missionaries are those people that are are in a the people who are distributing it have to have their own souring that in another way. So basically administration is anywhere from four to six cents out of every dollar. So when we get to Joplin last year and that disaster ninety four cents out of every dollar made it to the people adopt begin eating African hunger ninety four cents out of every dollar gets to the needy in Africa, the highest denomination highest organization that does you see what we see as the main sometimes we have the ability to meet that need. Maybe not by going there are solvable by helping others and see, and what we're doing is allowing the graciousness of God is so in the mercy and in the abundance of God in our life, we are allowing at the funnel through us to touch the lives of others sometimes will never even or not all that but in eternity the loan you his grace never see every of the expression we deserve one thing and God gives us another that's grace and mercy. We deserve one thing grace we deserve punishment for sin 's grace forgives us. He gives us another that person is illegal lameness whatever we limit it is it is an illustration on a Re: not however protect the restaurant not raise your hand was in the other, except when the person and the food didn't merit. I think that's grace and mercy, grace is that they didn't deserve it, but you gave it in the mercy is that you gave it, even whenever it was there to supply their knee. The wink wink resource what you are giving didn't deserve what you pay, but you gave it anyhow. Mistake is that sometimes read it is later fact that went to do it now papers eleven, one, he was on one and two in the message Bible. The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God this fate is the firm foundation under everything that why were living everything that makes life worth living is something that God has given to us if something is a firm foundation upon which we live anything that we can figure it all out to God in his grace, his mercy and his word. We stand upon that foundation. It's all a handle on what we can't see our handle on what you can't see our handle on what we can't see faith is our handle on what we can't see faith as our handle about what we can see the act of faith is what distinguishes our ancestors and sets them above the crowd by faith, we see the world called into existence by God 's word that we see created by what we don't think God created what we save on something that didn't exist. He spoken into existence the King James version says faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. When you think of faith you think of these two words, substance and evidence substance and evidence went where. Second, this is our faith based upon substantive evidence. It is not after you believe in some no God doesn't have to leave and do something. It's based upon substance and evidence, what you speak by faith that these two words come together see faith believes what we pray for existent God 's realm, and God wants to bring it into this realm like God wants you to what the Bush. He says that my faith says okay God, I want to prepare myself the way that I will receive this and that he will guide new wisdom, so that I can bless other people with fifteen. The prodigal son. I can't breathe. God help me here on the prodigal son, the prodigal son. He lives all got giveaways of the father: anymore. Arrogant hothead and I'm not a town goes out of town goes the far country spends everything got on our life is living in lives, parties, party hearty and end up with nothing. Even the pigpen aces know what my father home behind the service of my father better off than the industry and I'm going home. So I got back to his father. This is a story about the character of God 's story about God as as being father and what we have here is a prodigal son, the person, the son, who ran off and came back home what happened. We can back home. Father Stephen Cummings runs down the road hugs and put the robot and put a ring on his finger and yell Watkinson home until the fatted calf of the great big party and everybody celebrating except one. The older brother and the older brother, these after going to the parties as a lifeguard going in there. Father I never got a party, I discerned you all my life and I never got a party like this. I never transgressed I never got a party on the wall that I've done for you all the last all my life but I never got Marty extravagant the negative side of it. I me and mine. He was so hung up on who he was, that he never saw the provision of his father. The father tells him these aside all that I have is yours present tense, present tense, all that I have is yours. The older brother never saw what his father was giving him that's that this is part of this also. This whole idea. We don't really see all that God has given us. We normally see all of the information that our heavenly father is given to us. They believed in the sufficiency of God, and the sufficiency of God. It is more than enough. Ephesians three twenty nine and with this one now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that working in a two hit was able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that work within us, look at that last portion of the text according to the power that works in us faith. What if you were to go with a we don't think up too often by the substantive evidence now in this verse, according to power the work within us, there's a substance and evidence that is at work in our life according to the power that works in us. If you and I think we can be a Christian if I think I can be a Christian and do all the stuff on my own for dinner. We can't do it, and an invoice. I will, God doesn't exist in God and God is in the lineup. I was listening to NPR this morning, going up and there was a scientist and he was talking about when all we need to re- rate rate of our efforts to get people 's imaginations back yard with this culture. This this this a group of white people are in an agreement remembering the sixties, whenever we wanted to go to the moon and how that you had in the project going in the space shuttle and at all the stuff that people are going to learn your head. It was a dream or something. Will we have to take a sip from arc from our culture. It's also from our society. We don't have a dreamers anymore. What questions should be dreamers. Questions should be dreamers on the other magnificence of God, and the greatness of God. How many touches on my harkens fires us inspires us to do things that we never thought were possible that the God who works in us got it about confining us to some little place in our life that that we walk around. They don't touch me. Don't they do something that don't go there, and if you are liberating for a place where the abundance of God want to be blown for once the flowering into our lives now and then that what we think what we believe God is able to inspire our thoughts and what we can become with the talents and abilities. We have letters in our minds whether your great intellects should be great if you like to be Christians but Christians are that family happy that you have faith and believe in God, hope you think they does a substance that is something that is very real, tangible, anyhow. According to the power that works works in us. There is a power work. If you know what the word powered working from the universe units and journalist is Dino might have heard that word wrong, I'm not that late Dino why is I want that power explosive is all the power of God. It is explosive. This is inside of us. In contrast, the human strength. Gone is the source and supplier of all marital through strength through which believers can do all that God got an okay let's look at three twenty now unto him who is able, we could stop there. God is able God is able, what is it coming here. It is all part of God, all-knowing, all sufficient. All strength of our God is able to handle with one knowledge of him who is able to do all that we ask so here's God, and he is able to do everything that we ask last of us were going in our prayers. But the verse goes on now and was able to do all that we ask or think oh were taking on a whole new dimension here were going on a dimension of our thoughts. How many of us have thoughts and trains on what we can become okay what we can do what you want out there the possibility the possibility thinkers. Many Christians actually believers that have tossed into the divine creativity of God was God. The spark of what I wear, God Raven, the breath of life. And we became a living soul in the life of God is inside of us, and finally spoke the world into existence about the stars and their existence. You know them all by name. He- are my wow, he's able to do more than we ask or think no other was able to go on to the driving above all that we ask or think it is able to do a fundamentally unfiled in the last phrases. Nowadays, it was able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think abundance extravagance. How is this going to happen. According to the power that is at work in the same he loves us. The message Bible four three twenty three twenty one God can do anything you know far more than you could ever imagine or gas or request in your wildest dreams. God can do anything you know far more than you could ever imagine or just a request in your wildest dream. He does it not by pushing us but by working within us. God doesn't get out of us by pushing he works within is the purpose spirit of God is the perfect gentleman. Never, never pushy leading encouraging by working within us by his Spirit deeply and gently within us. The lines of God and the church is not about assets for the body of Christ. Glory to God in the Messiah, and Jesus, the glory goes to God not to me. Glory down to all generations. There are blessings enough for us to pass on to our generations and flowing through all the you will make a difference for eternity. While what God is doing in our lives when God was to do in our lives through his word by faith as an evidence there's a substance to our belief very real relationship with God who loves me and you must install blessings upon my life, but you know, I'm so small minded. It's hard for me to even imagine what God wants to do with me, and yet he continues to work but think what he could do and each one of us in the life. The little guy, but potential for what's, but what is the potential interest is not over yet. We've only just begun. This is the first day of the rest of our lives. We got to get living out of aluminum. The life of God electrolytes because there is something for us to know, and that's something is about touching people 's lives for the greater good of everyone in the comes up. I'm in my bath and extravagant of the greedy needy, the greedy needy, those who want to have everything in one more buildup, teardown, the barns and build bigger barns is not interested in that he's interested in blessing us with the five feet a hundred feet, five thousand how does God feed five thousand because with five loaves and two fishes, housing, say, five thousand two love five loaves and fishes five flat pancakes into sardines and got in phase five thousand men plus women and children and takes up while basketball left over. That's God touching our life. The little bit that we have blessing it, and multiplying more than we can ever match. That's for each one of us and then spent. Thank you father for touching our lives with your word with the substance of whole Lord with the evidence of things we can't even imagine it hasn't even entered into our hearts or minds of days which you have prepared for us and that's not just an eternity. Laura Beth are tomorrow and whenever problems come to us disguised as difficulties, let us see through them to see beyond them was see the hand of God taking us in leading us in our thoughts and our doings, and are giving how the UR make a difference in us. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord for saving our soul and God giving us an abundance, abundance is far beyond we could ever imagine in your work within us. Bless us now more than we might be blessings they meant that in a man. God bless youOne of the Scriptures. They were using an end. I think the Luke fifteen is the prodigal son coming home from home running so I only use out later, but John, this graphic explanations. Second Corinthians chapter nine verse eight, and also reading from the King James wealth from the message Bible is adding a question in the Sunday school. Why is the message Bible for different NL and when you read the message Bible. It's more of an explanation. It is more what I guess is looking at the terms and the terms that are given in the Greek and then being able to interpret that translated into English and it is interesting when I said this before the contemporaneous notes. Evening 's evening gift contemporary English version Jenny 's dad was the interpreter of the translator of David a Jenny Willis, a daughter-in-law, her dad interpreted from being from the Greek into Aramaic, Greek into and made into English in the CV. He's the sole interpreter of the New Testament for the American Bible Society on that version of the Bible and so on and out spoken briefly to him about that individual. You looking at your looking at the grades and then you're trying to understand what the intent of the writer was, and inspiration. All Scripture is given by the inspiration of God, so that what these the inspiration that was behind the word that was used. The setting that was used and how that fits into the setting today and how that those words are paralleled in the English, so that's why we have different versions of the Bible, but that still goes back to the intent is still the same. If you look at the King James, and then read the King James and read the message or read any of the other ones see the impact on what was that how was translated and how the design can fit into our readings do so. If you are in your Bible apps. If you're looking at it and putting it together. We were just talking about you can read different versions and sometimes they put the two versions on the things on the same page, so a house in this chapter nine verse eight and God is able to make all grace abound toward you that you always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. If we put that into the message Bible says in second gripe is my verse eight through eleven ago talking for him. The blessings in astonishing ways so that you are ready for anything and everything more than just ready to do what needs to be done as one of the Psalmist put it. He throws caution to the winds giving the needy in reckless abandon his right to living like giving ways never run out. Never wear out this most generous God, who gives seed to the farmer that becomes bread for your meals is more than extravagant with you. It gives you something you cannot you can't give you something you can then give away, which grows into full formed lives, robust in God, wealthy in every way so that you can be generous in every way, producing with us great praise to God, while so, God is able to make all grace abound toward you. It's important for movies. There going in the way someone else to take him home. I can breathe. I can bring so I can breathe in the flowers) China hurting a lot better if it is a look at those pictures we wanted to find a couple of times, grace and mercy. It's important that that we understand our hope knowledgeable grace and mercy is something that we used interchangeably, but grace is unmerited favor divine favor kindness towards us means that when God is gracious towards us on. He doesn't look at our faults. He sees when he can get to us in part of our life. So he lets the owner of all PCs are in the need that we have is for his lobbyist forgiveness, and so on to be in our life and mercy is in session and generosity. This is where we would say that God would give us his gifts. Give us what we need in order to function were to live power presents a gift of the Spirit versus despair growing our life so grace is that God loves the last and is not preoccupied with what's wrong with us is not preoccupied with your balls he sees how we can be forgiven and changed anything. Grace is given the mercy and compassion and generosity. One, he will give us in our lives. So both of these are our part of what God is doing as part of his nature, his character. He is grace and mercy. He is loving kindness. He is long-suffering and steadfast. But today were just looking at is gracious and merciful. So he is gracious. We deserve punishment for sale but what is not. He paid the price for a set of moving from last week with the Good Friday and the death of Christ upon the cross and the resurrection. He paid the price for our sin and we cannot her his grace we cannot earn this forgiveness. We cannot be good enough to be forgiving if we were able to earn these things. It would be something that God is paying us to be like doing a job and being paid for while the graciousness and the mercy that we receive from God is that he gives it to us because that is character. Not that we are deserving so mercy. The generous compassion and everything we need to live out the Christian life and how that we have these gifts in our lives, and they are gifts to us that are generously imparted important that we know God wants to give us these things. Why, why would God want to forgive us. Why would God want to impart his gift to us why. While the motivation of God he is. He loves us. He created us a grade of for the purpose. Our life is more than what we and him and what we have and what we do our life and the spiritual round is more than anything that we can accomplish in the physical rock if we world we live a whole life once again. The man April at the gain the whole world and lose his own soul, while it profit us if we want and always doing all knowledge, and in a great against the great abilities a great well and lose our soul means we lost everything, so our life. This has a value that is greater than the accumulation of things in the power of God in our life is to overcome evil overcome our old nature overcome those things that would cause us to become like well destructive hateful, vengeful, get even steal, kill, destroy Knowles characteristics their part of who we are are primarily in the nature of God 's love and forgiveness, grace and mercy letting all the things that will destroy us and that we were able to forgive in and able to go on with our life. Seeing that there is a greater purpose. We know that there is eternal life, and then when his life is over. We go to heaven. We have an eternal reward, so there was not only God working in my life here and now, there is God working in my life here now. It continues to build for that eternal home mercy in the message says gods and for all the blessings in astounding ways so that you you're ready for anything and everything God can form on the blessing in astonishing ways is astonishing or the astonishing genius by a part of God 's blessings in astonishing ways so that you can be ready for anything and everything in the King James. It says that God is able to make all grace abound toward you, God is able to make that terminology sounds like it is futuristic. It is something that we will have in the future, but in actuality, that word is a present tense active work. God continuously enabling all, enabling all grace all favored to abound toward you abundance towards you, so that whenever we're saying, God can give ten for on the blessings in astonishing ways so that you are ready for anything and everything is saying that God is at work in our life to prepare us for anything to combat us well. I wish I knew what was going to borrow above matter what happens tomorrow while assuring it will not happen this afternoon doesn't matter what happens is that because God is given to want in an astonishing ways. Everything you will need out into the deal with lively feeling way because our future is in front of us, not behind us, but life forgiveness so important that we are forgiven, is that we like all of our past. We went all our sin. We forgive them we let we forgive ourselves. We forgive others with a lot, because our futures in front of us, life is about living, not about reliving reliving rehashing thing now. It is a present tense. God continuously enabling all grace all favor to abound toward you. So it is continuously provides a continuously and it is abounding so that means it's ongoing and an abundance God is given to us in an ongoing abundant fashion. God is continually enabling all grace to abound towards me, God is continually abounding abundance generated through our life. So God has an abundance that is coming towards us. The verse goes on verse eight that you always having all sufficiency, so we have we have a continuous abounding sufficiency while continuous abounding sufficiency. This works efficiency can be averted as extravagance extravagance was that says, in the the message Bible. The first ten verse eleven. This allows gracious God who gives seed to the farmer that becomes bread for your meals is more than extravagant. These more than extravagant with you while we have all sufficiency. We have more than extravagance. It gives you something you can then give away, which grows into full formed lives that what God used giving the wireless and extravagant ways is about how we are going to give our life in service to him and others, and is going to be robust in God, wealthy in every way so that you can be generous in every way wealthy in every way generous in every way fertilizing with us great praise to God more than an extravagant God is beginning to lot more about extravagance while now the negative side of extravagance is eyeing the mind myself. This belongs to me, don't touch it. I only problem with Robin, you know I have it you can. You don't agree with me. It would take my marbles and go home. That's not the extravagant God does not give into our lives so that we would be reporters while you like that of the rich man who said he loved God is blessed with so much how my binder full of what he learned it with them while they're down these lines of the bigger barns and Jesus as you fool this night that your your your life is to be part of the year-over-year down your here you all your life you see the idea is called having an opinion and extravagance is that God will pour out blessings and astonishingly so that you're ready for anything and everything. You're right for a very conventional life and more than just ready to do more than just ready to do what needs to be done more than just writing to do what needs to be done. Extravagance. It's going all over the top if giving more than what is expected getting more than what is needed to seek God is a God, it gone him enough is the God of more than enough. God doesn't just give to our lives enough to write essay on is not only good, it's good enough. I like that is not only good is good enough to hit the spot is getting enough of this was good enough to, but not God-given to wildlife, not just enough is more than enough more than enough, the God of enough is the God of more than enough in the bottom extravagance in the divine provision has no limits. Here we are, were attempting to the divine resources of God. There are no limitations on what God can give no limitations on what God can get the limitations come from me. How much of God 's goodness and graciousness and I handle without it being. I mean in my and then I'm worried about putting it and I'm I'm frustrated over people who don't give me enough and that people were only have to meet again with a gift for me because I have and they don't think that extravagant for now, you are going to examine where I'm going to be able to handle that online blackmail to handle because we are looking at it, building bigger barns in the mega millions while we give a little bit. The gallant automobile will blow the rest ourselves that the negative side of extravagance mean nine my lifestyle, my knees, and so on. See you prepare a meal for five or you're preparing a meal for a hundred dessert difference now to prepare for a hundred and five showed up. That would be extravagant. So what would you do with your giveaway is& Bible says he throws caution to the wind. So whatever were looking at this in the extravagance of God is not doing the suddenly we cannot realistically and only charge that God does not bless me out of my thoughts, get out of the fund for the room where the river flows out the glory of God laws out. I'm going to try to have all this wealth in my life and it's always about me. It's about God working through me. If I have all this and I don't and I don't know how to handle it. It's more of a curse than a blessing. I need to know how to deal with the gifts I've already got it. We already have enough. We already have more than enough in our life is just what we use it for how we stay in how we view it with our mother and minute, but the Bible says here that he throws caution to the wind God throws caution to the wind jamming to the needy in reckless abandonment, God, if God is reckless and white again you must mind living in Israel during my never run out everywhere, God 's life-giving right living right attitude towards us and never wears out. God is like your shovel is in your life. I went on all the stuff in your life. All these blessings all the generous as honest, gracious as I is not Lord, thou publicity too much. I don't deserve all this now. Besides aggregates. The problem with it. Now I'm all down sixty two Young got whatever I got to know you can remember what it said. Anyhow, the story of Gwendolyn Arellano, I am handsome, I got hair on the side. My faith, but the essay would you want not say which the this lady and I were visiting her to come to church once every four weeks. It is the church, way back in the forty years ago to come to church earlier by one through four weeks I went and exercises. You know what the government, which similarly, squatting in all the Bible says will be judged for what we know. I want to know too much true story, I said Lady, you already know too much, so we're here to say: we know that when we block went on in our life as we know, not handle it. There are opportunities are presenting themselves possibly save that I'm guilty of it. I'm guilty, and that sometimes, maybe many times am not seeing regardless of your life and his passing is right there in front of us and we'll see if we don't have eyes to see Enron understand it, it's its disguise is a problem with. I want that but maybe never probably will open up the opportunity for us to gamble me got a sufficiency is that we have the ability is already in there if and not the one loving you, and God abides within Islam were able to love the unlovable. We don't know how unlovable. Some people are preacher and I fell and then to seek God in UK so what is needed in our lives that we may have found to every good work. What do we lack that keeps us from every good work. If you do good work apps designed specifically for the benefit of others. If God is going to be gracious and abounding in gaming to what we have to have an outlet. We can have a massive dam that they are and where this film to the brink of grandmother 's massive reservoir and when I'm ultimately strain going out to the desert isn't that type of a life God has aligning with the bless us all what it don't rain. We won't get the stream flowing you forgot him what you've got and is you is what you have to and services. He designed specifically for the benefit of others doing good on the web is a salaried hand for by Jesus told the disciples you don't do it that way. You see, both of our understanding of the sufficiency of the graciousness of God, and the abundance of God. This placement or had it otherwise. The salary being given away. But we were responsible to give up. We have to believe you are presented in front of us into the knee representative front of us. Sometimes we are presented with the need of somebody in Africa will guess what we have a connection with a lot of their charges on the dilemma that we began to the needy in Africa. We give the Navy in El Salvador. We help people that don't have home, we can help people that aren't tornadoes in whatever drove through the law through our disaster relief fund from this at one exit for our nomination for this denomination. Ninety is either ninety four cents or ninety six cents out of every dollar goes to the really highest giving of any organization on the planet. Now some of those things you see on TV sometimes thirty cents out of every dollar gets to where you want to pay for advertising their paper executive that they for the frosts of their denomination. The missionaries have to supply their own monies back will be a missionary to come through. We support every month. The missions. Those missionaries have their needs met through all the churches, and so on. Given to them individually. Then when we give to the needy that it just like you put a dollar in the offering, we send it to Springfield for those missionaries are those people that are are in a the people who are distributing it have to have their own souring that in another way. So basically administration is anywhere from four to six cents out of every dollar. So when we get to Joplin last year and that disaster ninety four cents out of every dollar made it to the people adopt begin eating African hunger ninety four cents out of every dollar gets to the needy in Africa, the highest denomination highest organization that does you see what we see as the main sometimes we have the ability to meet that need. Maybe not by going there are solvable by helping others and see, and what we're doing is allowing the graciousness of God is so in the mercy and in the abundance of God in our life, we are allowing at the funnel through us to touch the lives of others sometimes will never even or not all that but in eternity the loan you his grace never see every of the expression we deserve one thing and God gives us another that's grace and mercy. We deserve one thing grace we deserve punishment for sin 's grace forgives us. He gives us another that person is illegal lameness whatever we limit it is it is an illustration on a Re: not however protect the restaurant not raise your hand was in the other, except when the person and the food didn't merit. I think that's grace and mercy, grace is that they didn't deserve it, but you gave it in the mercy is that you gave it, even whenever it was there to supply their knee. The wink wink resource what you are giving didn't deserve what you pay, but you gave it anyhow. Mistake is that sometimes read it is later fact that went to do it now papers eleven, one, he was on one and two in the message Bible. The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God this fate is the firm foundation under everything that why were living everything that makes life worth living is something that God has given to us if something is a firm foundation upon which we live anything that we can figure it all out to God in his grace, his mercy and his word. We stand upon that foundation. It's all a handle on what we can't see our handle on what you can't see our handle on what we can't see faith is our handle on what we can't see faith as our handle about what we can see the act of faith is what distinguishes our ancestors and sets them above the crowd by faith, we see the world called into existence by God 's word that we see created by what we don't think God created what we save on something that didn't exist. He spoken into existence the King James version says faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. When you think of faith you think of these two words, substance and evidence substance and evidence went where. Second, this is our faith based upon substantive evidence. It is not after you believe in some no God doesn't have to leave and do something. It's based upon substance and evidence, what you speak by faith that these two words come together see faith believes what we pray for existent God 's realm, and God wants to bring it into this realm like God wants you to what the Bush. He says that my faith says okay God, I want to prepare myself the way that I will receive this and that he will guide new wisdom, so that I can bless other people with fifteen. The prodigal son. I can't breathe. God help me here on the prodigal son, the prodigal son. He lives all got giveaways of the father: anymore. Arrogant hothead and I'm not a town goes out of town goes the far country spends everything got on our life is living in lives, parties, party hearty and end up with nothing. Even the pigpen aces know what my father home behind the service of my father better off than the industry and I'm going home. So I got back to his father. This is a story about the character of God 's story about God as as being father and what we have here is a prodigal son, the person, the son, who ran off and came back home what happened. We can back home. Father Stephen Cummings runs down the road hugs and put the robot and put a ring on his finger and yell Watkinson home until the fatted calf of the great big party and everybody celebrating except one. The older brother and the older brother, these after going to the parties as a lifeguard going in there. Father I never got a party, I discerned you all my life and I never got a party like this. I never transgressed I never got a party on the wall that I've done for you all the last all my life but I never got Marty extravagant the negative side of it. I me and mine. He was so hung up on who he was, that he never saw the provision of his father. The father tells him these aside all that I have is yours present tense, present tense, all that I have is yours. The older brother never saw what his father was giving him that's that this is part of this also. This whole idea. We don't really see all that God has given us. We normally see all of the information that our heavenly father is given to us. They believed in the sufficiency of God, and the sufficiency of God. It is more than enough. Ephesians three twenty nine and with this one now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that working in a two hit was able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that work within us, look at that last portion of the text according to the power that works in us faith. What if you were to go with a we don't think up too often by the substantive evidence now in this verse, according to power the work within us, there's a substance and evidence that is at work in our life according to the power that works in us. If you and I think we can be a Christian if I think I can be a Christian and do all the stuff on my own for dinner. We can't do it, and an invoice. I will, God doesn't exist in God and God is in the lineup. I was listening to NPR this morning, going up and there was a scientist and he was talking about when all we need to re- rate rate of our efforts to get people 's imaginations back yard with this culture. This this this a group of white people are in an agreement remembering the sixties, whenever we wanted to go to the moon and how that you had in the project going in the space shuttle and at all the stuff that people are going to learn your head. It was a dream or something. Will we have to take a sip from arc from our culture. It's also from our society. We don't have a dreamers anymore. What questions should be dreamers. Questions should be dreamers on the other magnificence of God, and the greatness of God. How many touches on my harkens fires us inspires us to do things that we never thought were possible that the God who works in us got it about confining us to some little place in our life that that we walk around. They don't touch me. Don't they do something that don't go there, and if you are liberating for a place where the abundance of God want to be blown for once the flowering into our lives now and then that what we think what we believe God is able to inspire our thoughts and what we can become with the talents and abilities. We have letters in our minds whether your great intellects should be great if you like to be Christians but Christians are that family happy that you have faith and believe in God, hope you think they does a substance that is something that is very real, tangible, anyhow. According to the power that works works in us. There is a power work. If you know what the word powered working from the universe units and journalist is Dino might have heard that word wrong, I'm not that late Dino why is I want that power explosive is all the power of God. It is explosive. This is inside of us. In contrast, the human strength. Gone is the source and supplier of all marital through strength through which believers can do all that God got an okay let's look at three twenty now unto him who is able, we could stop there. God is able God is able, what is it coming here. It is all part of God, all-knowing, all sufficient. All strength of our God is able to handle with one knowledge of him who is able to do all that we ask so here's God, and he is able to do everything that we ask last of us were going in our prayers. But the verse goes on now and was able to do all that we ask or think oh were taking on a whole new dimension here were going on a dimension of our thoughts. How many of us have thoughts and trains on what we can become okay what we can do what you want out there the possibility the possibility thinkers. Many Christians actually believers that have tossed into the divine creativity of God was God. The spark of what I wear, God Raven, the breath of life. And we became a living soul in the life of God is inside of us, and finally spoke the world into existence about the stars and their existence. You know them all by name. He- are my wow, he's able to do more than we ask or think no other was able to go on to the driving above all that we ask or think it is able to do a fundamentally unfiled in the last phrases. Nowadays, it was able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think abundance extravagance. How is this going to happen. According to the power that is at work in the same he loves us. The message Bible four three twenty three twenty one God can do anything you know far more than you could ever imagine or gas or request in your wildest dreams. God can do anything you know far more than you could ever imagine or just a request in your wildest dream. He does it not by pushing us but by working within us. God doesn't get out of us by pushing he works within is the purpose spirit of God is the perfect gentleman. Never, never pushy leading encouraging by working within us by his Spirit deeply and gently within us. The lines of God and the church is not about assets for the body of Christ. Glory to God in the Messiah, and Jesus, the glory goes to God not to me. Glory down to all generations. There are blessings enough for us to pass on to our generations and flowing through all the you will make a difference for eternity. While what God is doing in our lives when God was to do in our lives through his word by faith as an evidence there's a substance to our belief very real relationship with God who loves me and you must install blessings upon my life, but you know, I'm so small minded. It's hard for me to even imagine what God wants to do with me, and yet he continues to work but think what he could do and each one of us in the life. The little guy, but potential for what's, but what is the potential interest is not over yet. We've only just begun. This is the first day of the rest of our lives. We got to get living out of aluminum. The life of God electrolytes because there is something for us to know, and that's something is about touching people 's lives for the greater good of everyone in the comes up. I'm in my bath and extravagant of the greedy needy, the greedy needy, those who want to have everything in one more buildup, teardown, the barns and build bigger barns is not interested in that he's interested in blessing us with the five feet a hundred feet, five thousand how does God feed five thousand because with five loaves and two fishes, housing, say, five thousand two love five loaves and fishes five flat pancakes into sardines and got in phase five thousand men plus women and children and takes up while basketball left over. That's God touching our life. The little bit that we have blessing it, and multiplying more than we can ever match. That's for each one of us and then spent. Thank you father for touching our lives with your word with the substance of whole Lord with the evidence of things we can't even imagine it hasn't even entered into our hearts or minds of days which you have prepared for us and that's not just an eternity. Laura Beth are tomorrow and whenever problems come to us disguised as difficulties, let us see through them to see beyond them was see the hand of God taking us in leading us in our thoughts and our doings, and are giving how the UR make a difference in us. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord for saving our soul and God giving us an abundance, abundance is far beyond we could ever imagine in your work within us. Bless us now more than we might be blessings they meant that in a man. God bless you