How Does God Measure Generosity?, Part 2

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🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Wouldn’t it be great to enjoy the“Christmas Spirit” 365 days year? In this message, Chip shares how you can cultivate that winsome spirit of Christmas in your heart 24/7.

Breakthrough Concept #4: God does not measure generosity by the size of our gift, but by the size of our sacrifice.

The Christmas Story: A graduate course in generosity

The Magi -Mt. 2:11 - Your Money
The Shepherds -Lk. 2:15-17 - Your Time
Joseph -Mt. 1:18-24 - Your Reputation
Mary -Lk. 1:26-38 - Your Future
Jesus -Mk 10:45 - Your Life
The Father -Jn 3:16 - Your Most Precious Possession

Three observations:

Generosity is not so much a virtuous act, as it is a virtuous RESPONSE.
God does not measure generosity by the size of our gift, but by the size of our SACRIFICE.
Increasing levels of generosity bring increasing levels of REWARD / BLESSING.

Generosity is to love as thunder is to lightning: Luke 6:38

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0:00.0	Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
0:04.0	See, the whole point of generosity, I mean, you know this intellectually.
0:08.0	God really doesn't need your money.
0:10.0	He owns everything.
0:12.0	But steps of generosity are a part of his plan
0:16.0	so that intimacy and relationship with him can increase.
0:19.0	And the only way that intimacy ever happens with God
0:22.2	is this mechanism called faith. Well, happy New Year. We commend you for spending part of this
0:29.5	holiday with the living on the edge. Most people start the new year thinking about their finances,
0:34.8	budgets, goals, maybe even charitable giving. But today, Chip Ingram poses
0:39.4	a penetrating question, how does God really measure generosity? What you'll discover might surprise
0:45.4	you. Chip shows us that generosity isn't primarily about money at all. It's about something
0:50.8	far more profound. And by the way, if you're among those who contributed to the December match,
0:56.0	thanks so much. We're deeply grateful for you.
0:59.0	And now let's begin Chip's message called How Does God Measure Generosity?
1:04.0	The Christmas story is very interesting where you have these probably Persian or Babylonian studies of the stars who see a star probably
1:13.6	18 to 24 months before the baby was actually born.
1:16.6	They see it and they go on a journey.
1:18.6	And then you have these low life kind of, actually sort of the disenfranchised social group of shepherds,
1:25.6	they get in the story.
1:26.6	And then you have a teenage girl,
1:28.9	Mary, probably 15, 16 years old, and a blue collar worker who's betrothed to her. Well,
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