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Solid Joys Daily Devotional

The Experiential Key

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Jesus, Devotional, Joy, John Piper, Religion & Spirituality, Daily Devotional, Desiring God, Solid Joys, 163859, Christianity

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Freedom from greed comes from the deeply satisfying faith in God’s future grace.

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January 12th, the experiential key.

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God is able to make all grace abound to you,

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

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you may abound in every good work.

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2 Corinthians 9 verse 8.

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We know that faith in God's future grace

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is the experiential key to generosity because,

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in 2 Corinthians, Paul holds out this wonderful promise.

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God is able to make all grace abound to you,

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

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you may abound in every good work.

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In other words, if you want to be free from the need to

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stash away your money, if you want to overflow with an abundance

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of grace for every good work, then put your face in future grace.

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Trust the promise that God is able to make all grace abound to you

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in every future moment for this very purpose.

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I just called faith in future grace the experiential key to generosity.

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

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

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When talking about the grace they received,

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Paul reminds the Corinthians of the historical key of grace.

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You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ

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