The Purpose of Prosperity
Solid Joys Daily Devotional
Desiring God
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🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | October 17th, the purpose of prosperity. |
| 0:05.3 | Let the thief no longer steal. |
| 0:08.6 | But rather, let him labor doing honest work with his own hands so that he may have something |
| 0:15.7 | to share with anyone in need. |
| 0:20.5 | Ephesians 4.28. |
| 0:22.6 | There are three levels of how to live with material things. |
| 0:26.4 | One, you can steal to get them. |
| 0:30.9 | Two, or you can work to get them. |
| 0:35.3 | Three, or you can work to get in order to give. |
| 0:41.7 | Too many professing Christians live on level two. |
| 0:47.0 | We glorify work over against stealing and mooching |
| 0:51.7 | and feel we have acted virtuously if we have spurned stealing and mooching |
| 0:56.9 | and given ourselves to an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. |
| 1:01.7 | That's not a bad thing. |
| 1:03.9 | Work is better than stealing and mooching. |
| 1:07.2 | But that's not what the Apostle calls us to. |
| 1:12.1 | Almost all the forces of our culture urge us to live on level two. |
| 1:17.6 | Work to get. |
| 1:19.8 | But the Bible pushes us relentlessly to level three. |
| 1:23.4 | Work to get to give. |
| 1:26.6 | God is able to make all grace abound to you |
| 1:31.1 | so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, |
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