#338 – Generosity in the Church (Exodus 36:3–7)

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David Platt

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🗓️ 14 July 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let us pray to the end that by God's grace we might overflow with generosity for the glory of Christ in the church and among the nations.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net.
0:05.8	Exodus chapter 36 verses 3 through 7.
0:09.4	You gotta hear this in light of what we saw in Exodus
0:12.9	chapter 35 about generous hearts listen to this and they received from
0:17.6	Moses all of the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for
0:21.7	doing the work on the sanctuary.
0:24.2	They still kept bringing him free will offerings every morning.
0:28.2	So that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each
0:32.1	from the task that he was doing and said to
0:33.8	Moses the people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the Lord has
0:37.6	commanded us to do. So Moses gave command and word was proclaimed throughout the camp, let no man or woman do anything
0:45.4	more for the contribution for the sanctuary.
0:48.3	So the people were restrained from bringing, for the material they had was sufficient to do all the work and more.
0:55.0	Do you realize what this just described?
1:00.0	God had called his people to give for the construction of the tabernacle.
1:06.0	They started giving, Exas chapter 35 out of generous hearts,
1:10.0	and they gave so much to the point where Moses had to tell them to stop giving.
1:17.0	They had more than they needed.
1:20.0	I think about when was the last time in any church a pastor said you're giving too
1:28.7	much like stop giving that crazy, like to think about a people who are giving more than what's
1:37.1	needed to the point where they have to be told to stop. Oh, what if that were the case among us though?
1:44.0	What if we were that generous in our giving?
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