358: Rob Oosthuizen - Exhortation: Our Abundant God

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   Hello and welcome back. This is brother Chris. Back with another expectation to share with you and a talk to encourage you on your week. First of all, I want to apologize that we’ve missed the last two weeks. We had our annual Idaho Bible School and the schedule got away from me, so we’re posting two talks here to catch up and get back on schedule. And then for the month of August, we have something really exciting planned that we’ll cover more on the first episode for next week as we roll into the month of August. But excited to share with you something kind of special we’re doing for August.

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   I know normally we do that in July, but we ended up needing a little bit more coordination time, so we’re going to do it in August instead. But I hope that you enjoy what we have planned for our exhortation and our talk this week. We’re listening to one that was given just a few days ago at the Verdugal Hills Ecclesia.

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   We had brother Rob Ustaison from New Zealand visiting and he gave a fantastic exhortation, which was both a wonderful way to look at a week after a Bible school, which I know for many of you there’s been youth camps and Bible schools going over the summer. So hopefully this can be an excellent capstone to a fantastic week with a vision of the Kingdom. And his exhortation is talking about our abundant God. I found it to be super encouraging, just a reminder of how amazing our God is and that he doesn’t hold back. He wants to give us everything and just an encouraging of how incredible our Father is and the hope that we share. Brother Rob is super engaging and interesting to listen to. I enjoy getting to know him better when he was at the Bible school with a few of his kids.

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   And I hope that you find this expectation to be encouraging and uplifting to you and just a reminder of how bountiful and abundant our Heavenly Father is. So I hope this encourages you on your walk and uplifts you. So with that, I’ll turn it over to our brother Rob Ustaizen for his excitation entitled Our Abundant God. Well, good morning everyone.

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   We love coming to California because we get to see our beloved brothers and sisters and the Lord Jesus Christ and to grow together in our faith, hope, and love in Him. And it’s such a joy. It’s such a privilege, such a blessing to have family around the world and throughout time that share our common faith in the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ that we’ve just read about.

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   And because we come from so far away, I gladly bring to you the loving greetings of your brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ in Invercargill, New Zealand. I do have a picture here of our immediate family taken outside our ecclesial hall earlier this year in January. And it was a very special day for our ecclesial family because our youngest daughter Alexa, who’s here with us today, was baptized and committed her life to the Lord Jesus Christ.

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   So our immediate family bring their loving greetings to you if you have met them in the past. We have a sample representative representation here today. But more importantly, your ecclesial family who live in Invercargill also gladly share their loving greetings to you this morning. Then for a word of exhortation, I’d like to really share with you something about a wonderful God, his marvellous character, an aspect that Sister Rochelle and I have spent the last couple of years, I guess you might say, thinking a lot about, talking about, looking for in the Scriptures as we read God’s Word and learning more of Him. And I hope that you’ll find it encouraging for your own lives as we not only think about an aspect of God’s character, but appreciate its deep implications for our own lives in Christ Jesus.

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    And perhaps one way of receiving an insight into this aspect is by thinking about the words that we know well from Exodus 34, which outline the name of Yahweh, God’s name in his glorious character. So many wonderful attributes that we know and love about our own Father in heaven, hallowed be his name. But there’s one word that for me, I I confess that for many years of my life I had very much overlooked, and it’s that little word there abundant, that’s the Lord. The Lord God is merciful and gracious. He’s long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands and forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin.

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    And the abundance here is an abundance in goodness and the Hebrew there, I’m sure you have perhaps heard others speak of the the covenant love of God, the hesed love of God. That’s his goodness. It is abundance is shown in many different ways. It’s it’s certainly highlighted as we’ll see a little later on in his covenant love and mercy, but he is a God who is very generous and overwhelmingly good and a variety of different ways. And I hope initially this morning just to quickly try to let this give you some examples to try to highlight this out of the record of Scripture.

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    And then we will think about how it flows through into the New Testament afterwards and to our discipleship in Christ and what it means for that. So good place to start is so often said is in the beginning. And if you recall that from Genesis chapter 1, when God is unfolding the marvels of his creation for us, that we find when he has created the platforms, the stage for his creative work in, in the heavens and the earth and the separation of the, of the waters and the dry land appearing. He then starts to fill the stage set of the skies and the heavens and the earth which has appeared. And you’ll recall that on day five and on day 6, God creates abundance.

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    In Genesis chapter 1 and verse 20, God said let the waters bring forth abundantly the living creatures and let the birds fly in the earth. Now it’s a different Hebrew word that used in Exodus 34, but it conveys very much the same idea. The ESV says let the waters swarm with living creatures and let the birds fly in the expanse of heaven.

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    Now for any of you who’ve put on a pair of goggles or a snorkel and gone scuba diving or you know, just looking at at a reef somewhere, your mind is just completely blown away by the abundance and variety of amazing things that God has created. It’s like another world opens up to you and all its colour and beauty as you see the the ocean teeming with fish.

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    Wouldn’t it have been a creative marvel if God had created two or three amazing fish, but teeming with fish and abundance there in the oceans? And the same with the flora and the fauna, all of the vegetation and all its various beauty that God has created for us. Not just one type of flower throughout the world, but multitudinous varieties and colours and a diversity there that is God glorifying when we see it and acknowledge it for all its its beauty.

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    And on days 5 and 6, God then adds this beautiful blessing. It says God bless them and said be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth that was for the oceans filled with the fish, with the heavens, with the birds, and with the animals and mankind upon it. Be fruitful, multiply and fill.

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    And here in Genesis, we’re already seeing God’s intention for the new creation in Christ Jesus. I, the Almighty God says, have filled this earth with the abundance to show you that I want you to have an abundant life, to be fruitful, to multiply, to fill, because I am Yahweh, abundant in my goodness, my covenant love towards those who love and fear me. And we’ll come back to that in a moment, but let’s just move on just with a couple of a few other examples to highlight this marvellous character of our heavenly Father. You’ll recall that when God filled the heavens, all that Genesis record says is he made the stars also. Well two or three, five stars again would have been very impressive.

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    But innumerable galaxies, galaxies upon galaxies of stars, we as as mortals, we can’t even comprehend the abundance that is there out in in space. And interestingly, God then carries this over into the life of Abraham to convey to him a very special meaning in the promises which he gave to him. Because you remember, Abraham, Abraham and Sarah were anything but abundant as far as be fruitful, multiply and fill is concerned. We know that they had no child.

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    And in that situation, God puts Abraham to the test when he’s worried about who will be his heir. And in Genesis 15, he says to him, come Abraham, step outside the tent, have a look up at the night sky, look at those stars and all their majesty and see if you can count them.

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    That’s how many children you’re going to have as descendants, Abraham. And to Abraham’s credit, he believed, and it was counted to him for righteousness. He believed in an abundant God that could bless far more than he could ever imagine. And we know that God did that for him. And we know that that story unfolds through Scripture. I’m just going to bounce forward to Exodus chapter 1 where we find Abraham’s descendants in Egypt and the Genesis record, sorry, the Exodus record starts in a very wonderful way when it gives this little summary by saying in verse 6 that Joseph died and his brothers and all that generation. It’s like the passing away of the patriarchs there in the land of Egypt.

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    And we know that this chapter is now going to introduce to us almost genocide towards the people of Israel, an attempt on the part of the Egyptians, great tribulation for them, whether we’re going to try to wipe out the existence of God’s people or at least keep them severely restricted in their numbers because of the potential security threats that might pose for their country. But the summary introduction to the chapter says that the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly. They multiplied and they grew exceedingly strong so that the land was filled with them.

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    There’s a beautiful echo back to Genesis chapter 1. Be fruitful, multiply and fill. And here God is showing that this is what He wants to do for his people, and He is faithful to his covenant of promise that he had made to Abraham and demonstrating it here for us. Reminding us that whatever the circumstances of the lives of God’s people, even when times are extremely difficult and tough for us, should never doubt that God is faithful to His Word and His promises towards us.

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    Even down at verse 20, after all of the terror and the persecution that they have experienced at the hand of a cruel and mean overlord, A pharaoh, king of Egypt, it says so God dealt well with the midwives and the people multiplied and grew very strong. So isn’t that encouraging for us that even in life’s darkest hours, when things seem to be stacked against us and aren’t going well at all, God’s character is unchanging and there is abundance that can come out of even the most constrained and overbearing circumstances of our lives so that by His grace all things can work together for good. That chastening may not seem to be joyous but grievous, but afterwards it can yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it and by His grace, His hope is that they will be abundance and fruitfulness that can come through all circumstances of our lives. Wonderfully encouraging reminder of God’s good character towards His people in Genesis chapter 1.

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    So I’m sorry, I thought I had that up there to highlight that for you, but hopefully you were listening. And there you have it. So Deuteronomy chapter 8. Again, I won’t dwell on this here because I’m just really trying to highlight a few lovely examples. I invite you in your own time to read through Deuteronomy chapter 8, Where the land of promise is explained and described by Moses to the people before they enter in.

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    And we know that God didn’t just bring them out of Egypt and say, look, I’m going to rescue you and then you’ll be away. And I hope that you find a good place to live. He had in mind, remember, a land, How was it described? A land, Something about milk and land. It wasn’t just a land of milk and honey, was it?

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    It was a land flowing with milk and honey, Yes. So God was trying to, in that little description, help them to hold on to the hope that there was going to be an abundance. It was going to flow in the land of Israel. And in these verses here, he says you’ll come into a land that you’ll find vineyards that you haven’t planted and houses that you haven’t built, and there’ll be waters flowing in the valleys and there’ll be minerals that you’ll be able to access. And there’s an amazing abundance described for God’s people so that they could look forward to a vision where they would experience this aspect of God’s character that he delights to be good to his people and to fulfil and make good on his promises beyond even human expectation.

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    And that’s the next point that I’d like to bring to you from this, this last little example in the Old Testament. And, and, and I invite you really during, during, during your daily readings that look out for examples where you see God’s abundance and see it in situations where people say God has not only answered my prayer, he’s answered it in perhaps a way I didn’t expect. And it’s way better than I could ever have imagined. And you find that that say is is often a repeated theme in in the Old Testament examples of God’s intervention and working in the lives of his people.

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    Think of Hezekiah pleading just for their lives to be preserved. And then outside the city, 185,000 Syrians slain in one night by the Lord. It was way beyond, I’m sure any of those who were pinned up in Jerusalem could ever have imagined. I’m getting distracted. I’m sorry. Second Kings, chapter 4. Second Kings chapter 4 in the life of Elisha the prophet.

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    And there was a widow woman who came to Elisha because she was being threatened by somebody who was owed a lot of money by this widow. And you’ll recall that her distress was that the that the creditor wanted to come and and take her two boys as partial payment of some way of getting compensation for the debt that was owed to him.

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    And so the poor widow comes to Elijah and pleads for some mercy and some help so that she can hold on to her two boys. So Elijah, you’ll recall in the story says, what do you have with you? And she says, I just have a little cruise of oil, little vessel with some oil in it.

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    Eliza’s message and and advice to her was to go and to collect as many containers as she could, as many vessels from neighbors and friends, and bring them into her house and to start to fill them. And God’s overflowing abundance became evident to that widow as she poured and poured and poured and filled and filled and filled vessel upon vessel, until she said, bring me another. And they couldn’t find another, because God had been so abundant to fill every vessel, every available vessel to them. And then Elisha says to her something absolutely marvellous. He helps her understand the abundance of God’s blessings for her.

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    Because her main hope, remember, was that she would be able to hold on to her family. Her surviving sons needed to be with her, to care for her. And that prayer was answered, but God blessed more, exceeding abundantly above what she had asked or thought her debt would be cleared because she could sell surplus oil. And then Elijah says even more than that. He says you go and pay your debts and you and your sons can live on the rest.

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    So there was going to be more than settling the immediate problem. There was going to be a future income stream for them from the abundance of that oil. Isn’t that a God who showered his blessings upon them more than they could have imagined in that situation? Again, evidence of the character of our God.

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    You and your sons can live on the rest. So one more little example, and I hope that picture conveys to you A a wonderful memory of Second Kings 5 where Naaman is struggling with his leprosy. And you’ll recall how when he eventually submits and humility to the will of God and he washes himself seven times in the river Jordan, the record doesn’t say that he was healed and he got his old skin back again.

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    It says that his skin became like unto a little child. All of us will have held a little child and know the beauty and how wonderful it is that new fresh skin that little babies have. And so for Naaman, he got the best. God wanted to give him the best that he could in that situation to help him appreciate that he was now conscious of a God who is abundant in his goodness towards those who submit to His will in his life.

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    And Malachi 3 entices and encourages the children of Israel at a time when they were really being self-centered and denying the obligations that they had under the law to honour their gods through what Moses had asked of them. They weren’t showing any appreciation for God’s ways. And God says to them, bring your whole tithes into the storehouse and test me, Prove me, if I will not open the windows of heaven and shower down blessings upon you, that you won’t even have room enough to receive them. He’s inviting them to experience the abundance of God’s goodness and grace.

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    Now please be assured that this is not a message of the prosperity gospel. This is about understanding God’s demonstration of his characters that in ways that we do not expect. When, when, when, when we show under willing to show faith and trust and confidence in our God. He is wanting us to be assured that He has our best interests at heart. He really does want to go over and above beyond what we might expect or hope for, even through to eternity, as we hope to be able to highlight when we draw our thoughts to a close. God really does have an abundant mindset and it was shown in the life of His Son.

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    Look at the pictures on the screen there and think about what they remind you of and the miracles and life of our Lord Jesus Christ. His healings that the multitudes that came to Him and He healed them all. Imagine the joy and the blessings. There would have been so many people who came who went away thrilled that their vitality was far better than they could ever have expected. Think of how that played out in in Acts chapter 3 with the lame man laid at the gate of the temple and in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ when he rose up and walked. He then went leaping, walking and leaping because the vitality was so abundant and he was so thrilled it wasn’t a staggering around asking for a stick as he tried to grapple with the new found mobility.

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    The Lord Jesus Christ demonstrated wonderful blessings to those who came for healing. But you’ll recall at Cana and Galilee bottom right hand side there. It wasn’t just that there was a top up to a little bit of wine that was missing when the Lord Jesus Christ converted the water into wine. There were six huge ceremonial, a reservoirs that were filled and then were changed into wine.

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    And was it any ordinary wine? No, it was the best, wasn’t it? And of course, there’s wonderful spiritual teaching and meaning in the new wine of the, the new covenant and how we ought to be filled. And but this, this, this is also evidence that as the Father does, as Jesus said, so the Son does likewise. He wanted God’s people to appreciate that he was living with the same spirit that his Father had shown in the past. And yeah, we have there the, the multitude of fish, the disciples who had hoped that, yeah, they might just pull up a few fish from all their hard labours all night, Nets that are overflowing on 2 occasions.

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    This has demonstrated to us in the Gospel records that when God is at work, there can be an abundant harvest for his name if we are willing to work in his service. And the young lad, of course, 5 loaves and two fishers. And how the Lord Jesus fed a multitude through the power of God. Well, I hope that that briefs

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    potted gathering of some examples through the scriptures will not only encourage you to look for them yourselves to see this aspect of our Father, but also to really understand that he is a God abundant in his goodness and truth. And now to really focus in on the implications of this for our lives. We’ve hinted at that from Genesis chapter one that God says be fruitful says this to his creation to us as the new creation in Christ be fruitful, multiply and fill. And the Lord Jesus Christ in John 10 said this wonderful gave this a wonderful message of encouragement to his disciples. Speaking of his sheep, he says I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly and yes, we do live in hope of life everlasting. That will be an abundant life.

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    But I truly believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was wanting his disciples now to experience life abundantly in a way in which we then start to reflect his character in our lives, in our service, and in our love for one another. The apostle Paul encouraged the believers of the 1st century to understand this about God and says, and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another.

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    Understand God’s character, be filled with awe and amazement for his abundant love towards us, and show it then towards others. Let it flow through you in the way in which you treat and care for each other. And this I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgement. For if these things be in use, says Peter, and abound they make you that you shall be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Again, it goes back to the Genesis record to the for the new creation in Christ Jesus, don’t be unfruitful, but let’s be a fruitful bear fruit and a bound so that it brings blessings to the lives of our family and the Lord Jesus Christ around us and those that we share our faith with in the world around us.

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    That they may come to know our heavenly Father and to know his Son, which is life eternal and abundant life and deed through eternity. I invite you to come to 2nd Corinthians chapter 8, where the apostle Paul, I guess you might say, works the conscience of the Corinthian believers by letting them know a bit about the character and the love of their fellow believers in Macedonia. And he says something to them here which conveys to us that they understood the implications of believing in an abundant God. Chapter 8 starts with a description of the generosity that the Macedonian believers had shown, and their generosity had been described as the grace of God. Look at this one.

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    We want you to know. This is the English standard version here. Want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the eccleses of Macedonia. You might say, well, maybe that’s just a reference to the conversion of believers and that they had accepted God’s grace. But in the context here, the grace of God is actually God’s grace appreciated and reciprocated in generous giving by the believers in Macedonia.

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    It’s read on and you’ll you’ll see that this is what Paul is trying to say. He says Corinthian brothers and sisters know about this, that the believers in Macedonia about them. Verse 2. In a severe test of affliction, the Macedonian believers abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

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    For they gave according to their means, yes, as I can testify, and beyond their means of their own free will, begging us earnestly for the favour of taking part in the relief of the Saints. And this not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and then by the will of God, to us. Accordingly, we urge Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace. These believers in in Macedonia were an amazing example, Paul says, of those who responded to the abundance of God in their lives.

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    They gave themselves first to the Lord and then they wanted to give themselves to other believers. And they responded with overflowing wealth of generosity in wanting to care for the believers who were in need. And so he’s trying to provoke the conscience of the 1st century believers in Corinth. And so verse 7, the King James Version actually brings us out really nicely says, But as you are bound in everything, in faith, in speech or utterance and knowledge, in all earnestness and in your love toward us, King James, see that ye abound in this grace also.

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    So yes, we want to be abundant in our own conviction and our discipleships, abundant in the growing of our grace and our love and appreciation of all that God has done for us. But God wants us to overflow as well in that in the love and the care and the blessings that we bring to the lives of those around us. And the Corinthian believers will be encouraged to follow the example of their Macedonian family in Christ just for a few more verses over in Chapter 9 here as we look at this wonderful message of Paul.

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    The point is this Chapter 9, verse 6, Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. Whoever says bountifully will also reap bountifully. So be bountiful. Paul is saying human nature is not by default bountiful. I believe I, I, I, I hope that that’s not an unfair assessment. I’ll speak for myself anyway, gladly, but my default position would tend towards laziness more so than energy and and bounty.

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    I know that if my father when I was young asked me if I would please mow the lawn, I would grudgingly do that and then sneak off in the hope that he wouldn’t find me for another job. A bountiful son would have said, Dad, I’ve mowed the lawn, can I cut the hedge as well?

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    Could I also wash your car? That’s abundance of service going over and beyond expectations because that’s the character of our Heavenly Father. He delights in wowing his children and you’ll know you will all, I’m sure, have experienced somebody doing something for you much more than what you expected. And it really does bring a warmth of love that’s shown because you know, there’s a free will offering that’s been put in there that you have received so generously.

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    So verse 7, each one of us, this is Chapter 9, Verse 7, each one of us give as he’s made-up his mind. And of course, the context here is he’s trying to raise funds for the Saints in Jerusalem. This has marvellous application for ourselves when we are trying to raise funds for particular causes, but I hope you’ll appreciate this is far bigger than just raising funds. This is about a life of abundance and a character that is abundance and service.

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    That’s abundance. God loves a cheerful giver, the right spirit behind it. God is able to make all grace abound towards you, so that having all sufficiency of all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. What a beautiful verse to summarize so much of what we’ve been saying here. God is so good in its abundance, so how about responding to that? Rise to the example of your Father as much as you can and you will know this beautiful verse in First Corinthians that he wrote to the believers.

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    My beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord because it’s never going to be futile. It’s always going to add value because it’s manifesting the character of our heavenly Father. It won’t be in vain in the Lord. So as we come now this morning and we here on this gift of an occasion to remember our Lord Jesus Christ and the way in which he appointed, I’d like you to turn to Ephesians chapter 2.

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    Because if there is any time in which we are in need of experiencing God’s abundance of His grace, brothers and sisters, it’s it’s when we recognize and we own and we know our own need for His grace. If He weren’t abundant and overflowing in His willingness to forgive iniquity, transgression and sin and keep mercy for thousands, we would not be here today rejoicing in the gift of grace and the hope of life everlasting. This aspect of God’s character we’re looking at today finds its greatest impact and meaning in the table of our Lord Jesus Christ, when God’s his head, his covenant love and mercy is shown towards us.

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    And the apostle Paul, who understood that perhaps more than any of us might begin to appreciate in our own lives because of his own life and experience and what he had been through and his persecution of the very household of faith, and had come to know that as the chief of sinners, he had been forgiven. And he wanted to convey that grace towards others in his life of service and love.

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    And so he reminds the Ephesians here in chapter 2 and verse four, he says, but God being rich in mercy, rich is plenteous. It means an abundance, A wealth, an overflowing of His mercy because of the not just the love, but because of the great love wherewith He has loved us. Even when we were dead and in in our trespasses, He’s made us alive with Christ. By grace you have been saved.

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    He’s raised us up with Him, seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. As we share bread and we drink wine together today we will have opportunity to reflect on so much of God’s abundant goodness shown towards us. I I counted a blessing beyond description just to be with you here together as family in Christ, sharing in this precious hope, knowing that we have exceeding great and precious promises that have been given to us by our loving Father.

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    We live in earnest expectation of a marvellous, a revelation of God’s abundant goodness again in the earth, and we can live in that abundance now when we experience His grace and then enter into service abundantly. But Paul is saying here, yes, we receive abundance now, but the best is yet to come. You see all of that that he has said from verses 4 to verse 7, sorry to verse 6. He then brings to this great climax because he says God’s done all of this, verse 7, so that in the age to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.

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    Isn’t that wonderful, the immeasurable riches of His grace and kindness towards us in the age to come? Or have we got something to look forward to? We need to hold on to that hope and enter into the spirit of living that abundant life. Because when we think of the future, we know these words. That eye has not seen, ear hasn’t heard. It hasn’t entered into the heart of man the things that God has prepared for those that love Him. Yes, He’s revealed to us so much in His Word, but there will be an experience that will wow us in the Kingdom age, of that we can be sure, when the fullness of God’s abundant character is made known to us in life everlasting. So May God bless you all, brothers and sisters here and Veduga Hills and all other represented ecclesias to help you live that life more abundantly now and in the age to come.

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    And I leave you with a beautiful prayer that the Apostle Paul had for his fellow believers that I have for you, and I trust that you have for one another. We lift our hearts in prayer to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we could ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

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