January 12, the experiential key. God is able to make all grace abound to you so that having

all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. Second

Corinthians chapter 9 verse 8

We know that faith in God's future grace

is the experiential key to generosity

because

in 2 Corinthians

Paul holds out this wonderful promise.

God is able to make all grace abound to you

so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times,

you may abound in every good work.

In other words, if you want to be free from the need to stash away your money, if you want

to overflow with an abundance of grace for every good work, then put your face in future grace.

Trust the promise that God is able to make all grace abound to you in every future moment

for this very purpose. I just called faith in future grace the experiential key to generosity.

So as not to deny that there is a historical key as well.

There is a key of experience and a key of history.

When talking about the grace they received,

Paul reminds the Corinthians of the historical key of grace.

You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor so that you, by his poverty, might

become rich. Second Corinthians chapter 8, verse 9. Without this historical work of grace,

the door of Christ exalting generosity would remain closed.

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