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Why is it more blessed to give than receive? • followHIM Favorites • July 17 - July 23

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Hank Smith & John Bytheway

Education, Doctrine And Covenants, Hank Smith, Christianity, Courses, Follow Him, Religion & Spirituality, John Bytheway, Follow Me

4.99.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Hank Smith and John Bytheway answer a question from this week's Come, Follow Me study. Show Notes (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese): https://followhim.co Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/followhimpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/followhimpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FollowHimOfficialChannel Thanks to the followHIM team: Shannon Sorensen: Executive Producer, Sponsor David & Verla Sorensen: Sponsors Dr. Hank Smith: Co-host John Bytheway: Co-host David Perr...

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0:00.0

Hello, my friends, welcome to another follow him favorites.

0:05.3

My name is Hank Smith.

0:06.3

I'm here with the incredible John by the way.

0:08.3

Hello, John.

0:09.3

Hank.

0:10.3

John, we're going to take one question from this week's Come Follow Me lesson.

0:13.7

This is Acts 16 through 21.

0:16.0

We're going to look at a single verse and our question comes from Acts 20, 35, where

0:21.4

Paul says it is more blessed to give than to receive.

0:26.2

At face value, that doesn't seem right.

0:28.0

I really like receiving gifts.

0:31.2

Can you help me out and understand why it's more blessed to give than to receive?

0:35.8

That's a great verse.

0:36.8

As a kid, I don't think I understood that either.

0:39.2

What's interesting about this verse is Paul says the words of the Lord Jesus, how he

0:44.2

said.

0:45.2

It's one of those verses that's in Acts that's not in the Gospels.

0:48.9

Here's more words of Jesus, but how does that work?

0:52.6

I always thought it was more blessed to get stuff.

0:56.0

It's been really fun, probably for you too, to watch your kids when as they grow and they

1:01.8

find something perfect, they want to give their sibling and how that excitement lasts from

1:07.8

the time they got to gift until it's wrapped under the tree for a couple of weeks or whatever,

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