Generosity in Scarcity

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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How do you face economic scarcity? The little book of Habakkuk talks about how to handle evil times, and in particular, it describes an economic disaster. Habakkuk’s answer for dealing with economic scarcity is fuller than you might think because he alludes to the Old Testament principle of the firstfruits, where you were supposed to give the firstfruits of your harvest to God. But here, Habakkuk brings up the possibility of having no harvest at all. We’re going to learn three things about financial giving: 1) you should give sacrificially, not just out of surplus, 2) you should give joyfully, not just out of duty, and 3) you should give graciously. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on May 31, 2009. Series: Living by Faith in Troubled Times. Scripture: Habakkuk 3. Today's podcast is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://gospelinlife.com/give and making a one-time or recurring donation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gospel and Life.
0:03.5	The Bible isn't a series of disconnected stories, each one a little moral for how to live.
0:08.8	On the contrary, it's actually primarily a single story, an account of how the world
0:13.8	was made and ruined, how it was rescued through Jesus Christ, and how someday it's going
0:18.3	to be remade into a new heavens and new earth.
0:21.6	Today on Gospel and Life, Tim Keller is teaching on this central storyline of the Bible,
0:26.1	and what that means for our lives today.
0:28.9	Tonight, scripture reading comes from the book of a backic, chapter 3, verses 17 through
0:33.7	19, and Deuteronomy, chapter 26, verses 1 through 11.
0:40.0	Though the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive
0:44.6	crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no
0:50.2	cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, and I will be joyful in God my
0:56.3	Savior.
0:57.8	The sovereign Lord is my strength.
1:00.1	He makes my feet like the feet of a deer.
1:02.7	He enables me to go on the heights.
1:06.6	When you have entered the land, the Lord your God is giving you.
1:10.1	As an inheritance, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, take some of the
1:14.9	first fruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land, the Lord your God is giving
1:19.7	you, and put them in a basket.
1:22.9	Then go to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name, and say
1:28.6	to the priest in office at the time, I declare today the Lord your God that I have come to
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