Chapter 9

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9:1 Now, concerning the service into the saints, it is unnecessary for me to write to you. 2 For I know your eager willingness, for which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been prepared from a year ago, and your zeal has been stirring up many. 3 I have sent the brothers, however, so that our boasting for you should not be made empty in this matter, so that you might be prepared, as I have been saying. 4 If the Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we (not you) would be put to shame inside our confident assurance. 5 Therefore, I thought it necessary to encourage the brothers that they should go before to you and that your foreannounced good-speaking should be completed beforehand, that your preparedness would be as a blessing and not as wanting more.

• 6 Consider this: “The one who sows sparingly, will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows upon good-speaking, will also reap upon blessings” (Proverbs 11:24 & 22:9). 7 Give as each one proposes in the heart, neither out from grief nor out from necessity, for God loves a hilariously cheerful giver. • 8 God is powerfully able to make all grace abound into you, so that you may abound always, in every way, having all sufficiency in every good work. 9 As it is written: “He has distributed abroad, He has given to the poor, His just approval abides and continues into the age” (Psalms 112:9).

• 10 The One who continuously supplies seed to him who sows and bread for food, will supply abundantly, will multiply your seed for sowing, and will increase the fruits of your just innocence, 11 enriching you inside of everything into all simplicity and generosity, which works thanksgiving and the speaking of good grace through us to God. 12 For the ministry of this service is not only filling up completely the needs of the devoted ones, but it is also overflowing through much thanksgiving and speaking of good grace to God. 13 Through the proving of your service, they glorify God into the gospel of Christ, even as you place yourself under, speaking the same word inside the simplicity and generosity of your fellowship with them and with all. • 14 And their prayer is for you, a deep desire for you through the over and beyond favor and gift of God upon you. 15 Grace and thanks be to God for the indescribable gift He is to us.

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Gospel Word	Notes
• Ruling Verse 1: God’s purpose for us is that we might synergeo with Him to bring all things into goodness. This is our work, shared with God inside the overflowing might of His Spirit flowing out from us (Ruling Verse 3). Grace is our shared life with God out from which His abundance flows in power. We know with certainty that all that is needed, to turn every interaction we share together as His Body into such goodness, is always abounding through us. • Life: Life is giving; giving is Life. As we give, God through us, so we have “all sufficiency in every good work.” God gives all that He is to us through Jesus; we give all that we are back to Him in return through one another. It is reciprocity, the return to God, that enables this Flow to continue unhindered.

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Notes

• Ruling Verse 1: God’s purpose for us is that we might synergeo with Him to bring all things into goodness. This is our work, shared with God inside the overflowing might of His Spirit flowing out from us (Ruling Verse 3). Grace is our shared life with God out from which His abundance flows in power. We know with certainty that all that is needed, to turn every interaction we share together as His Body into such goodness, is always abounding through us.

• Life: Life is giving; giving is Life. As we give, God through us, so we have “all sufficiency in every good work.” God gives all that He is to us through Jesus; we give all that we are back to Him in return through one another. It is reciprocity, the return to God, that enables this Flow to continue unhindered.