Why is it more blessed to give than receive? • followHIM Favorites • July 17 - July 23
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Hank Smith & John Bytheway
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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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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