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April 16, 2024 - Dan Bidondi Show
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Discussing The Book of 2nd Corinthians 8 - The Dan Bidondi Show Bible Series
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truthradioshow.com Shalom and welcome to the Dan Bedani Show on truthradioshow.com and welcome to this in-depth comprehensive study of the Bible 2 Corinthians chapter 8 So if you missed chapters 1 through 7, please go watch them before you go any further.
So before we get going with the study here, we just want to remind you that we don't just read through the Bible, we actually study the Bible.
So what could take People like 2-3 minutes read an entire chapter, we do it in like, probably 45 minutes sometimes, an hour or a half hour, depending on the context, because we like to draw out the context.
So before we get to that guys, we'd like to pray for wisdom and understanding, so let's do that right now.
So Jesus, Yeshua, Messiah, please forgive us of our trespasses, our transgressions that we committed today, individually, and we love you so much with all our heart and soul.
And Father, we pray to you that you can give us divine knowledge and understanding to write your word upon our hearts with the Holy Spirit.
And give us Holy Spirit, Lord, for divine comforting and divine wisdom through our great teacher there.
So Lord, Heavenly Father, thank you for everything.
And please protect us all from the forces of evil and comfort anybody that needs comforting.
And we love you so much.
In your mighty name.
Amen.
So what we do also is read the scripture in context, because context is key.
And let the scripture interpret the scripture.
Don't lean on your own understanding.
So if you guys got a Bible, please open it up.
We use a King James Version.
So we got it up on screen if you don't have a Bible.
But anyway, yeah, we encourage you to read it for yourselves as well.
It's very important to do that.
So let's begin 2 Corinthians chapter 8.
So this is about giving, helping.
We understand that today's world, Well, the Bible doesn't require us to give 10% of our tithes.
That was old, um, in the sacrilegious days there where, and it wasn't 10% of your money.
It was basically, you helped out the church, the temple.
And you, you know, gave the, the priest there food, water, whatever the case, you helped them out around with chores and everything else.
And, you know, even, yeah, give some money here and there too, to help keep up the temple and all that.
but it wasn't 10% of your money, your paycheck.
You know, and that's a lot of churches use that.
And it's funny too that churches do that today.
They say all the old laws were abolished, but yet they'll stick to that 10% tithing to keep the money coming in.
Now I want to let you know too, there's nothing wrong with giving to ministries, because I'd be a hypocrite.
People do donate to this channel and to our ministry, and I appreciate you guys doing that.
If you want to do that, the links are in the description.
It helps our ministry out.
We don't ask often, but we like to let you know that it is there if you feel the need to give.
Because it's important to do that for ministries and your church and all that stuff.
But, again, you're not required 10%.
Nothing at all wrong with giving to a ministry or a church.
But, give what you're left and your right and not know what's going on.
And if you wonder how much you should give, let the Lord work it out with the Lord.
Even if somebody gave a dollar to Boston Trust, I'm going to tell you.
So, 2 Corinthians chapter 8.
So, Paul talks about giving for the churches and all that.
So, moreover, brethren, we do you to wit the grace of God bestowed in the churches of Macedonia.
That's a tongue-tie word for me, liberality.
the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abundant unto the riches of their liberality.
That's a tongue-tied word for me, liberality.
So, and for their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power, they are willing of themselves.
So he's saying that people willingly give.
You know what I mean?
And that's what you need to do.
It's not like forced to give.
Like my listeners when they give money on my show here.
Donating and all that.
It's like they're not forced to do that.
We're not forcing you to do that.
If you want to give, give among yourselves.
Willingly.
And it's not just my ministry or anybody else's ministry, or a church, or whatever the case, but praying us with the entreaty that we'd receive the gift.
And the gift is like a donation, right?
And take upon us the fellowship of ministering to the saints.
So he's saying pray to us with entreaty, right?
That we would receive the gift.
So let me see what entreaty means.
And like I say all the time, don't ever be ashamed to look what a word means.
And treaty definition is an earnest or humble request.
So praying with us with much humble, earnest and humble requests, yeah, that we would receive the gift and take upon us the fellowship of the ministry of the saints.
So I want to declare too, yeah, who are the saints?
Now, if you go to a Catholic church or something like that, Episcopalian, whatever the case, they want you to believe saints are people who their church deems as saints, patron saints and all that stuff.
No, that's not the case.
Are you going to sit in purgatory until you become a saint?
No, that's not biblical.
What a saint is, is a believer.
If you, me, anybody that believes in Jesus Christ and went to the cross for us and he's the Son of God and all that, we're saints.
And adopt the children of God.
You don't need to be deemed a saint by a pope or some kind of a ministry.
Only God has the power to do that.
Anybody that believes is a saint, that follows Jesus Christ are all saints.
Just want to point that out, right?
And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord and not to us by the will of God.
So this is how Paul collected money for the churches there.
Because they want to grow the ministry.
And it's so much that we desired, Titus, that he had begun so he would also finish and you the same grace also.
And therefore, as you abound in everything, in faith, in utterance and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that you abound in this grace also.
So, let's see, abound.
Bounds basically exist in large numbers of amounts.
So therefore, as you...
A large number of amounts and everything.
And faith, and to have a large amount of faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and all diligence.
To have a large number of that.
Like you're saying, lots of that I should say.
To have a lot of faith.
And then your love to us.
Have a lot of love for our people.
And see that you are bound to have much of grace also.
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the fullness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
So you say, I'm not commanding you guys.
I'm just asking.
It's not an order or a strong recommendation.
It's just asking, that's all.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that through He was rich, Now pay attention to this, right?
Though he was rich, I'm sorry.
Yet for your sakes he became poor, that even through his poverty he might be rich.
So you know it's talking about giving, but this is also meaning like Jesus was poor.
He was rich in heaven, yeah, with all the glory of God and all that.
But when he came to the earth here, he came as a poor, humble person.
That's why when Jesus sent the disciples out, right?
He told them, don't take nothing.
Don't take no food or nothing like that.
No money.
Just go out there and minister.
And you let the people invite you into their homes.
To put you up for the night and feed you and all that stuff.
And here then, I give my advice.
For this is expedient for you.
So let's see what expedient means.
The expedient definition is of an action, convenient and practical to a possible improper or moral.
So either side could break the agreement if we are expedient to do so.
It means attaining and especially one convenient and considered improper or moral.
So he's saying, I give my advice for this expedient for you, so this improper moral agreement, right?
Of course of action, basically.
Who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
Now, therefore, perform the doing of it.
That as there was readiness to will, there may be a performance also out of that which you have.
So just, you know, like giving, right?
Having readiness to will.
You know, it's like be willing to give and help out, you know what I mean?
For if there be a first willing mind, It is accepted according to that man has.
And not according to that he has not.
So what does that mean?
So if there be a fresh will in mind, like you might just like, yeah, yeah, I'm just gonna give.
It is accepted according to the man has.
Not according to what he has not.
So in other words, to say you have five bucks in your pocket, right?
And...
If people think, oh, you should give like $10 or $20, it's like, no.
And if you want to give, people say, I got $5.
All right, that's acceptable.
So I mean not that other men be eased and ye be burdened.
So don't be burdened, because you see other people giving more.
If all you can give is like $2 to a ministry, don't be burdened by it because you'll see other people donating more.
It's like in the churches, right?
How many people have seen this?
I'm sure everybody has seen this in churches, right?
You always have the kiss-asses, excuse my language, in the churches.
They're the ones who sit up the front most of the time.
The first front, uh, two rows, most of them.
Not all of them, but most of them do that, right?
And I'm not saying anybody in the first row or so is like this, you know what I mean?
I'm saying a lot of them are.
So they're the ones who sit up in the first row or two, right?
They volunteer for everything, right?
They want to make themselves known that, hey, I'm volunteering for this.
I'm doing that, right?
So when the baskets come around for donations, what do they do?
They fan out that $100 bill to make sure everybody knows they're dropping $100 bill in that basket.
So with you, most of us that work a job and all that, right, all we can give is like $5 or something.
How do you feel?
Oh, man.
So you hide your money because you don't want to feel cheap.
Don't be burdened by it.
You know what I mean?
Give what you got.
You know what I mean?
Like I said, the parable with the woman that Jesus said that she gave all she had as he yelled at the Pharisees because everybody was given gold, silver, and riches, and all she had was like two shekels or two pennies or whatever it was worth, right?
And they all mocked her because everybody gave more than her, and he goes, no, she gave all she had.
She was homeless.
She could have used that for food and stuff that she needed, but she gave because she was out of her heart, not because she was rich and, you know, showing off.
That's not giving, that's just showing off, you know what I mean?
You already got your reward.
When the Bible talks about rewards, if you give in secret, you know, the Lord will reward you openly.
But if you give openly, you already got your reward.
You're not going to get no reward in heaven.
But by inequality that now, at this time, your abundance may be supplied for their want.
Thank you.
That your abundance also may be a supply for your want, that there may be equality.
So, stuff they need, you know what I mean?
So, with this, what I'm getting at this here, it's, you know, you got money, of course, you gotta buy food and stuff for your house, right?
But if you give all your money to a church or something, and you don't have food, you know what I mean?
That's not, you know, what you're supposed to do.
Be a supply for your want, too.
You know what I mean?
Like, you know, it's what you need, too.
You know, and do accordingly, but equally.
That there may be equality.
You know what I mean?
So don't let any ministry tell you, oh, you gotta give me all your money if you gotta... I bet you a church is crazy, right?
Yeah, after they already donated, right?
And later on they had some guest speaker from New York.
And the wife, you know, he was a pastor.
His wife had the mink coat on and came in on a limousine.
Oh, we want to send them to Hawaii for their anniversary.
So, if you got a check out there for $500 to your gas and electric.
Just forward it to us and we'll provide.
No, that's not what you're supposed to do.
Yeah yeah yeah absolutely great giving to a ministry or something because uh you know ministries need money uh for you know different things I mean to keep the lights out like my studio right uh we the only reason we asked for donations for because we paid for um rent of the studio and equipment costs money streaming and everything else it's crazy right and plus I got to work a full-time job to support my family that's the only reason why you ask for money right But if you just for example, like I'm just using me for example.
You know what I mean?
I'm not trying to promote myself yet.
I'm just using me as an example, right?
If you got like, you know, you need $50 of food, right?
And you got $100.
Well, I'm just going to give it to Dan and you know, no.
You know, go get your $50 of food, whatever else you got left, whatever you decide if you want to give it, that's great.
But don't be burdened by it and you know, make sure you got stuff for yourself too.
And Paul says that it is written, as it is written, referring to what?
The Torah.
"He that gathered much had nothing over, and he that had gathered little had no lack." So he that gathers a lot, right, has nothing over.
I know some people say, oh this doesn't make sense, right?
If you have a lot, then you have nothing left over.
You have a lot left over.
No.
And he that gathered a little had no lack.
In other words, like, yeah, no lack of it.
So the person who gathered a little, right, didn't need nothing because there was no lack of it.
But the person who gathered so much of it had nothing left over.
That's another one, so greed.
Person, people just stockpile money and all that stuff.
Yeah.
The rest of the people, and if you notice, right, rich people.
Like a lot of rich people, not all.
A lot of rich people, right?
They're the cheapest.
I used to deliver pizza and all that stuff for years, and do food delivery service and all that.
People who have a lot of money, they go, well, I'll get a nice tip out of this.
No, you don't get nothing.
You get bare minimum, right?
But the people who live in poor communities, they seem to be the ones, most of the time, giving better tips.
They had little, but had no lack of it, you know what I mean?
The people who had much didn't have nothing left over.
Hope that's a good example of that.
If not, guys, put it in the comments section.
I can try to explain that better.
But thanks to be God, which put the same earnest care into the hearts of Titus for you.
So, earnest...
The definition is serious or zealous intention, a purpose or effort.
To have a purpose or effort of care into the heart of Titus for you.
For indeed he accepted the extoration, but being more forward of his own accord, he went to you.
So, he accepted the extoration, right?
Exploration means I'm sorry guys.
It's just like sometimes I get brain clouded here And address or communication typically urges someone to do something oh So, indeed, he accepted the urgence of doing something, but being more forward about it.
You know what I mean?
Like, straight up.
Being more forward means straight up.
Like, you're not shaking a coat and things.
You're not beating around the bush.
You're just straight up forward.
Of his own accord, he went unto you.
So, out of his own will, he did this for you, right?
And we have sent him with the brother who's praising the gospel throughout all the churches.
And not only that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with his disgrace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord in declaration of your ready mind.
Avoidance no man should blame us in this abundance which we administered by us.
Which is administered by us.
Abundance means a lot, right?
For providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah, just being honest in general, you know what I mean?
Don't be, you know, honest in front of people, not honest for the Lord.
Or just be honest for the Lord, not in front of men.
You know, be honest in front of the Lord in.
And we have sent them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, which is good and all that, right?
Diligent means good and, you know, like, dependable.
But now much more diligent upon the great confidence in which I have in you.
So he's telling the church, yeah, which I have great confidence in, because the first letter to the Corinthians, yeah, he was just like straightened up the church because the church fell apart.
There's a lot of stuff going on there and he like put them into place.
So the second letter is kind of tweaking them, so to speak, right?
Which now Paul has confidence in.
Whether any of you, I mean, yeah, with any who do inquire of Titus, so want to know information about him, right?
He is my partner in fellowship concerning you.
Fellow Wilber, I'm sorry, concerning you.
He's like the helper.
Yeah, fellow helper.
I can't read today.
Sorry about that, guys.
So yeah, you can tell it's no script there.
So verse 23, whether any do acquire of Titus.
In other words, anybody out there who wants to know about Titus, right?
He said, Paul said, he's my partner and fellow helper concerning you.
He's my assistant, basically.
And our brethren be inquired of, so if you want to know about our brothers, they are messengers of the churches in the glory of Christ.
So he's telling people, if you want to know who Titus is, because people say, who's Titus?
Who's these people, right?
They're with you, right?
He's saying, Titus, if you want to inquire about him, that means obtain knowledge about him, he's my partner and fellow helper concerning you.
He's my, you know, assistant.
And our brethren, you know, the people that are with them, If you want to know of them, acquire them, right?
They are with me, yeah.
They're the messengers of the churches, in the glory of Christ.
And wherefore, show you to them, like I'm showing you to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and I'm boasting on your behalf.
So Paul's telling the people who these people are with him.
You know, he's telling his partner there, And, you know, the brethren are with them, right?
He says, I'm showing them to you, and before the churches, I'm showing to you guys, all the churches, you know, who these people are, and the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
Boasting is like, you know, glorifying on your behalf.
In this way, you know, sometimes boasting, we're not supposed to boast on ourselves, like, oh, look at me, I'm the best swimmer or something like that, no.
But boasting on him, this isn't a good way.
You know what I mean?
We're boasting about you.
In this church here.
We're boasting about this church on your behalf.
You know what I mean?
So that's pretty cool.
So, yeah.
And if you guys want, sometimes like Paul, like his books are very difficult to understand if you don't read in context.
This is, we gotta point out all the time because we can go with Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.
They're like literally straight up.
But sometimes Paul, you have to read the whole thing to understand.
Because it's very, very easy to take something out of context if you don't read the whole context.
Yeah, I mean, and that's why a lot of people bash Paul.
And it's weird how a lot of religions hate Paul.
It's sickening.
You know, a lot of cults hate Paul.
Like the Ascene, I'm sorry, yeah, a lot of the cults here hate Paul.
I'm just trying to think of the names there, yeah.
So, you know, like, Yeah, just get my thoughts together.
Sorry guys.
The Essenes, the Gnostics, people, the Kabbalistic Jews, they hate Paul.
Isn't that kind of coincidence though?
That they all hate Paul and these are all false religions and beliefs?
Because Paul was very effective.
That's why they hate Paul.
Then you got people out there saying, oh, Paul was like an Antichrist type thing.
Like, you know, he preached against Jesus.
No, Paul taught exactly what Jesus told him to teach.
And Jesus would have never had him lead the apostles.
Because the thing is, Paul didn't take crap from nobody.
He told you how it was and the way it was.
Straight up.
That's why they don't like Paul.
The Essenes, the Gnostics, the Kabbalistic Jews and all that, and many other religions and cults and sects and all that, they hate Paul with a passion.
Because the thing is here, you gotta understand this, right?
They hate Jesus the most, okay?
They lie about Jesus, and they hate Paul most, second most, because Paul is very effective.
And when the world hates you for, like, what you're doing, that means you're doing your job.
When they try to cancel you, when they try to persecute you and all that, they're doing that because they hate you because you're speaking the truth.
Paul spoke much truth, all truth.
He spoke on behalf of Jesus Christ.
That's why they hated Paul.
But, yeah, they usually take Paul's words out of context.
A lot of people do that.
Oh, look, Paul said this.
I'm like, did you bother reading the context?
Because you can take one of the verses, yeah, like anything else out of context.
It sounds like one thing, but like when Paul talks about the commandments, right?
The laws, I mean.
Let's talk about, a single verse might sound like he's saying the commandments are abolished by the laws, but then he says, should we abolish the laws?
God forbid.
That means no.
They don't put that in there.
You know what I mean?
They don't put it in context.
So, yeah, when you read books on Paul, you've got to do it very carefully.
You know what I mean?
And read it in context.
Like we say all the time, that context is key.
Very important to understand that.
Because without the context, I mean, you gotta be misled by these false religions out there and everything.
And so, don't take my word or anybody else's word for it.
Read it for yourself.
And guys, check out truthradioshow.com for our local listings of our Spiritual Warfare Friday shows.
All our other shows are going on up there at truthradioshow.com.
And if you got any questions, answers, comments, or concerns, anything like that, and you want to correct me on something, or whatever the case, because God says to challenge every spirit, right?
We're supposed to hold each other's feet to the fire if we say something wrong.
And if you think I've done that, you're pleased, by all means, put it in the comment section.
I'll get back to you.
Absolutely, you know, hold my feet to the fire if I say something wrong.
I'm just a messenger, that's all I am.
So, thank you for tuning in to this in-depth conference and study of the Bible, 2 Corinthians chapter 8.
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