Friday, November 27, 2009

Enriched in Everything!

You can get the absolute best deal in the universe it’s only going to cost you everything. Everything for everything! Wow, that sounds expensive but what you get is a magnitude more than you give. God sent His only Son and has proposed an eternal relationship. If you receive His Son He receives you into His family and you become His very own child and an heir to everything. This is compared to a marriage and in a true covenant relationship each party gives everything. Salvation is a gift but it’s not free it cost Jesus everything and if you understand covenant it will cost you everything to enter into it. Likewise my wife and kids are a gift to me but they’re not free. We have a covenant connection so I’m willing to give everything even my very life if necessary because that’s how you honor a relationship. It’s everything for everything you take the good with the bad and gladly receive the same grace. That’s why so many people’s relationships are so shallow and fail it’s because they’re so cheap. They want to give a little and get a lot but what you sow is what you reap and you get what you pay for.

When it comes to Christianity how liberal are you with your life! Did you give your all to get the best or are you going for some economy model. You may be able to get to heaven in a Pinto but who wants to drive? And the world is watching and seems to be turned of to the whole idea when they see too many cheap Christians trying to get something for nothing. If you say you received Christ but didn’t give Him your entire life you’re like an unfaithful husband or wife. There’s no questioning His devotion, He gave everything even His life. People that say they “get saved” just so they can go to heaven when they die are the ultimate rip off when it comes to the representation of the relationship. The ambassadors of the Almighty are not just handing out complementary tickets to a “free ride!” If you want the real deal it’s going to cost you everything.

Consider the exchange and you will see that this is really the best deal ever! You give God your everything and He gives you His everything. Gods really got everything and in comparison your all is like nothing but it’s yours so it’s valuable to you. You start with the devotion of your heart and give your life and invite Him in. When you do He fills you with His super-natural Love. He gives you His nature and then you understand the Divine devotion. You are enriched in everything because you’ve received Him who has and is everything. You give Him your temporary life and He gives you His life eternal. What you get is really priceless but you can obtain it for the mere cost of everything you have. And when you get done with the exchange you’ll be as for from broke as you can be, because you will actually become child and heir of the Almighty and Omnipotent Owner of everything!

2 Cor 5:14-15
14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. NKJV

John 1:12-13
2 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: NKJV

2 Peter 1:2-4
2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
NKJV

2 Peter 1:3-4
3 For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).
4 By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.
AMP

2 Cor 9:6-15
6 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. 9 As it is written:

"He has dispersed abroad,
He has given to the poor;
His righteousness endures forever."

10 Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness, 11 while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God. 12 For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God, 13 while, through the proof of this ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal sharing with them and all men, 14 and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding grace of God in you. 15 Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
NKJV

PIE90 Scripture:
Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness, 11 while you are ENRICHED IN EVERYTHING for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God. (2 Cor 9:10-11 NKJV caps. added)

2 Cor 9:11
…wealthy in every way, so that you can be generous in every way, producing with us great praise to God.
MES

2 Cor 9:11
11 You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
NIV

2 Cor 9:11
Yes, God will give you much so that you can give away much,
TLB

2 Cor 9:11
…Thus you will be enriched in all things and in every way, so that you can be generous, and [your generosity as it is] administered by us will bring forth thanksgiving to God.
AMP