Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Wednesday service episode 47. I am your host, Josh and Monday,

Peter Nome, I'm a Christian rapper, devoted husband, father and army veteran. This is brought to you

by Cope of Conspiracy Podcasts. Thank you so much. Jonathan and Jacob and Raven. I'd thank all

three of you now because I know that Raven's a new host. So I got to thank

all of you now. And I just want to give shoutouts to those that did comment last week.

Angela, as always, thank you. J-Con 440. Thank you. Brad Gillis. Thank you. MDMP 22.

Thank you so much for commenting on Wednesday service.

And then for those that commented on Sunday service, I have Angela at MDMP 22.

So if you guys happen to catch this, please go back and check out Sunday service, episode 63.

I'm going over First Kings 8 through 10. And yeah, if you guys can go

and leave an emoji or a comment on that, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you. And this week,

we're going to be going over 2 Corinthians 8. And first I like to go over a little intro. So 2 Corinthians 8 provides a powerful exposition on the grace of giving.

Paul uses the explanary generosity of the Macedonian churches, despite the poverty and affliction, to encourage the Corinthians to excel in the same grace.

The chapter also stresses the importance of integrity and handling church resources and

introduces Titus and other brothers as trusted servants.

So perfect.

All right.

And let me just go ahead and get to my teaching points here and also my other notes.

There we go. And just let you guys know before we start, we're going to be talking about the Macedonian churches.

And I'll just let you know before we start that the Macedonian churches in the Bible

refer to the congregations established by the Apostle Paul and the region of Macedonia, a Roman

province north of ancient Greece. During his missionary journeys, the most prominent are Philippi,

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