Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness. Now He who supplies seed to the sowerThis phrase introduces God as the ultimate provider. The Greek word for "supplies" is "epichorēgeō," which means to furnish or supply abundantly. In the historical context, sowing was a common agricultural practice, and seed was essential for sustenance and future harvests. This imagery emphasizes God's role in providing the necessary resources for both physical and spiritual growth. The "sower" represents those who work diligently in faith, trusting in God's provision. and bread for food
Bread is a staple in many cultures and symbolizes sustenance and life. The Greek word "artos" refers to bread, which in biblical times was a daily necessity. This phrase assures believers that God not only provides the means to plant (seed) but also the end product (bread), signifying His comprehensive care for our needs. Historically, bread was a symbol of God's provision, as seen in the manna provided to the Israelites in the wilderness. will supply and multiply your store of seed
The promise here is twofold: God will "supply" (from the Greek "choregeo," meaning to lead or furnish) and "multiply" (from "plethuno," meaning to increase or abound) the resources needed for sowing. This suggests that God not only meets our needs but also enhances our capacity to give and serve. The "store of seed" implies a reserve or abundance, indicating that God equips us beyond our immediate needs, enabling us to contribute to His work generously. and will increase the harvest of your righteousness
The "harvest" is a metaphor for the results or fruits of one's labor. In this context, "righteousness" (from the Greek "dikaiosynē") refers to the moral and ethical fruits of a life lived in accordance with God's will. The promise of an increased harvest suggests that God will amplify the impact of our righteous actions. Historically, a bountiful harvest was seen as a blessing from God, and here it symbolizes the spiritual blessings and growth that result from faithful living and giving. Persons / Places / Events 1. Paul the ApostleThe author of 2 Corinthians, writing to the church in Corinth to encourage generosity and faithfulness. 2. CorinthA major city in ancient Greece, known for its wealth and commerce, but also for its moral challenges. The church here was diverse and faced various issues. 3. GodReferred to as the provider of seed and bread, emphasizing His role as the ultimate source of all provision and blessing. 4. SowerRepresents believers who are called to sow seeds of faith, generosity, and righteousness. 5. Harvest of RighteousnessThe spiritual and practical outcomes of living a life aligned with God's will, characterized by acts of generosity and faith. Teaching Points God as the Ultimate ProviderRecognize that all resources and blessings come from God. Trust in His provision, knowing that He supplies both physical and spiritual needs. The Principle of Sowing and ReapingUnderstand that our actions, particularly in generosity and righteousness, have consequences. What we sow in faith, we will reap in God's timing. Generosity as a Reflection of FaithEmbrace generosity as a demonstration of trust in God's provision. Giving is not just a financial act but a spiritual discipline that reflects our faith. Righteousness as a HarvestPursue righteousness actively, knowing that it leads to a harvest of spiritual growth and blessings. Our righteous acts are seeds that God will multiply. Encouragement in PerseveranceBe encouraged to continue in good works and generosity, even when immediate results are not visible. Trust in God's promise to increase the harvest. Bible Study Questions 1. How does understanding God as the provider of "seed to the sower" change your perspective on giving and generosity? 2. In what ways can you actively sow seeds of righteousness in your daily life? 3. How do the principles of sowing and reaping apply to your current spiritual journey? 4. Reflect on a time when you experienced God's provision in a significant way. How did it impact your faith? 5. How can you encourage others in your community to trust in God's provision and engage in acts of generosity? Connections to Other Scriptures Isaiah 55:10-11This passage speaks of God's word being like rain and snow that waters the earth, making it bud and flourish, similar to how God provides seed to the sower. Galatians 6:7-9Paul discusses the principle of sowing and reaping, encouraging believers not to grow weary in doing good, for in due season they will reap a harvest. Philippians 4:19Paul assures that God will supply all needs according to His riches in glory, reinforcing the idea of God as the provider. Matthew 6:33Jesus teaches to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added, aligning with the promise of increased righteousness. Psalm 37:25David reflects on never seeing the righteous forsaken, emphasizing God's faithfulness in provision. People Corinthians, Macedonians, PaulPlaces Achaia, Corinth, MacedoniaTopics Abundant, Almsgiving, Bread, Care, Cause, Continually, Eating, Enlarge, Field, Fruits, Gives, Growth, Harvest, Increase, Increasing, Minister, Ministereth, Multiply, Plentiful, Putting, Resources, Righteousness, Seed, Sower, Sowing, Sown, Store, Supplies, Supplieth, Supply, Supplying, YieldDictionary of Bible Themes 2 Corinthians 9:10 4406 agriculture
4418 bread
4464 harvest
4506 seed
7027 church, purpose
8349 spiritual growth, means of
8443 growth 2 Corinthians 9:6-11 1330 God, the provider
4510 sowing and reaping
5556 stewardship
6710 privileges 2 Corinthians 9:6-13 5856 extravagance 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 5503 rich, the 2 Corinthians 9:8-11 5325 gifts 2 Corinthians 9:8-14 4035 abundance 2 Corinthians 9:10-11 8811 riches, attitudes to
8813 riches, spiritual Library December 25 Evening
Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.--II COR 9:15. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with singing. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.--For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. …
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily PathGod's Unspeakable Gift
'Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.'--2 COR. ix. 15. It seems strange that there should ever have been any doubt as to what gift it is which evokes this burst of thanksgiving. There is but one of God's many mercies which is worthy of being thus singled out. There is one blazing central sun which shines out amidst all the galaxy of lights which fill the heavens. There is one gift of God which, beyond all others, merits the designation of 'unspeakable.' The gift of Christ draws all other …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Praise for the Gift of Gifts
"Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift."--2 Corinthians 9:15. IN the chapter from which my text is taken, Paul is stirring up the Christians at Corinth to be ready with liberal gifts for the poor saints at Jerusalem. He finishes by reminding them of a greater gift that any they could bring, and by this one short word of praise, "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift," he sets all their hearts a-singing. Let men give as liberally as they may, you can always proclaim the value of their …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 38: 1892 3D Day. All-Sufficient Grace.
"He is Faithful that Promised." "God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work."--2 COR. ix. 8. All-Sufficient Grace. "All-sufficiency in all things!" Believer! surely thou art "thoroughly furnished!" Grace is no scanty thing, doled out in pittances. It is a glorious treasury, which the key of prayer can always unlock, but never empty. A fountain, "full, flowing, ever flowing, overflowing." Mark these three …
John Ross Macduff—The Faithful Promiser Letter Lviii to the Duchess of Lorraine
To the Duchess of Lorraine He thanks her for kindnesses shown, and deters her from an unjust war. I thank God for your pious goodwill which I know that you have towards Him and His servants. For whenever the tiniest little spark of heavenly love is kindled in a worldly heart ennobled with earthly honours, that, without doubt, is God's gift, not man's virtue. For our part we are very glad to avail ourselves of the kind offers made to us of your bounty in your letter. But having heard of the sudden …
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux—Some Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux 1872-1874. Letter from Rev. A. M. W. Christopher --Letter from Gulf of St. Lawrence-Mrs. Birt's Sheltering Home, Liverpool --Letter to Mrs. Merry --Letter from Canada --Miss
Letter from Rev. A. M. W. Christopher--Letter from Gulf of St. Lawrence-Mrs. Birt's Sheltering Home, Liverpool--Letter to Mrs. Merry--Letter from Canada--Miss Macpherson's return to England-- Letter of cheer for Dr. Barnardo--Removal to Hackney Home. Though human praise is not sought, we cannot but feel peculiar pleasure in giving the following testimony from a servant of the Lord so much revered as the Rev, A. M. W. Christopher of Oxford:-- "Of all the works of Christian benevolence which the great …
Clara M. S. Lowe—God's Answers How to be Admonished are those who Give Away what is their Own, and those who Seize what Belongs to Others.
(Admonition 21.) Differently to be admonished are those who already give compassionately of their own, and those who still would fain seize even what belongs to others. For those who already give compassionately of their own are to be admonished not to lift themselves up in swelling thought above those to whom they impart earthly things; not to esteem themselves better than others because they see others to be supported by them. For the Lord of an earthly household, in distributing the ranks and …
Leo the Great—Writings of Leo the Great Perhaps There is no Book Within the Whole Canon of Scripture So Perplexing and Anomalous...
Perhaps there is no book within the whole canon of Scripture so perplexing and anomalous, at first sight, as that entitled "Ecclesiastes." Its terrible hopelessness, its bold expression of those difficulties with which man is surrounded on every side, the apparent fruitlessness of its quest after good, the unsatisfactory character, from a Christian standpoint, of its conclusion: all these points have made it, at one and the same time, an enigma to the superficial student of the Word, and the arsenal …
F. C. Jennings—Old Groans and New Songs The Spiced Wine of My Pomegranate;
OR, THE COMMUNION OF COMMUNICATION. I would cause Thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate."--Song of Solomon viii. 2.And of His fulness have all we received, and grace for grace."--John i. 16. THE SPICED WINE OF MY POMEGRANATE. THE immovable basis of communion having been laid of old in the eternal union which subsisted between Christ and His elect, it only needed a fitting occasion to manifest itself in active development. The Lord Jesus had for ever delighted Himself with the …
Charles Hadden Spurgeon—Till He Come Meditations of the State of a Christian Reconciled to God in Christ,
Now let us see how happy a godly man is in his state of renovation, being reconciled to God in Christ. The godly man whose corrupt nature is renewed by grace in Christ and become a new creature, is blessed in a threefold respect--First, in his life; Secondly, in his death; Thirdly, after death. I. His blessedness during his life is but in part, and that consists in seven things:-- 1. Because he is conceived of the Spirit (John iii. 5), and is born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor …
Lewis Bayly—The Practice of Piety The Work of the Holy Spirit
The Church of Christ. "It is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is ruth."--1 John v. 6. We now proceed to discuss the work of the Holy Spirit wrought in the Church of Christ. Altho the Son of God has had a Church in the earth from the beginning, yet the Scripture distinguishes between its manifestation before and after Christ. As the acorn, planted in the ground, exists, altho it passes through the two periods of germinating and rooting, and of growing upward and forming trunk and …
Abraham Kuyper—The Work of the Holy Spirit Perseverance Proved.
2. I REMARK, that God is able to preserve and keep the true saints from apostacy, in consistency with their liberty: 2 Tim. i. 12: "For the which cause I also suffer these things; nevertheless, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." Here the apostle expresses the fullest confidence in the ability of Christ to keep him: and indeed, as has been said, it is most manifest that the apostles expected …
Charles Grandison Finney—Systematic Theology Sunday after Ascension Day
Text: First Peter 4, 7-11.[1] 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer: 8 above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves: for love covereth a multitude of sins: 9 using hospitality one to another without murmuring: 10 according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; 11 if any man speaketh, speaking as it were oracles of God; if any man ministereth, ministering …
Martin Luther—Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Of the Public Fast.
A public fast is when, by the authority of the magistrate (Jonah iii. 7; 2 Chron. xx. 3; Ezra viii. 21), either the whole church within his dominion, or some special congregation, whom it concerneth, assemble themselves together, to perform the fore-mentioned duties of humiliation; either for the removing of some public calamity threatened or already inflicted upon them, as the sword, invasion, famine, pestilence, or other fearful sickness (1 Sam. vii. 5, 6; Joel ii. 15; 2 Chron. xx.; Jonah iii. …
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