Extravagant In Generousty Series

We say trhings like I'd love to give more, I'd really love to be more generous, but there's not enough in the bag. I'd love to make a difference, I wish I didn't always worry about money, but there's just not enough in the bag.

Words we speak reveal the bag mindset.

Don’t have enough

Money doesn’t grow on trees.

We will have go w/o.

She gets all the breaks.

I work just as hard.

Rich get richer. My chocolate.

My seat. My time. My money. This is my bag!

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Judas—had a bag.

? Woman gives valuable perfume—Didn’t hold back. A year’s wage—Most valuable possession—

Judas sees it as a Tool for business. Judas has a bag mindset Waste—Money poor!

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? Betrayed Jesus—sold Jesus for 30 coins—Gotta put more in my bag

4.) THE BASKET

There's the bag mindset. There's another mindset that we call the basket mindset, the basket mindset. In the bag there's never enough, but the basket there actually is enough. Let me show you the blessings of the basket.

2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God… 5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. Deut 28:2, 5

The people of Haggai, in his time, did not put God first, they didn't rebuild the Temple, they didn't obey God, but when

God's people did, Scripture says in verse five, "Your basket," everybody say, "Your basket, "and your kneading trough will be blessed." There will be enough. Let's take it to the New Testament, Luke six, verse 38 , Jesus says this,

38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap.” Luke 6:38

Notice He did not say keep and it would be given to you, He did not say hoard and it will be given to you, He says, "Give and it will be given to you. "A good measure pressed down, "shaken together and running over, "will it be poured into your lap." Why did Jesus say, "Give and it will be given to you?"

Jesus understood that you can keep what you have or you can give it. He knew that when you keep what you have, that's all you have, but when you give, God can multiply what you give.

What you keep is all you have, but what you give, God multiplies. Give and it will be given to you, good measure pressed down shaken together and running over.

You may say what is that imagery about good measure pressed down shaken together and running over?

The crowd that was listening to Jesus teach on this would've had a good contextual understanding because they knew that a rich farmers would often be very generous to those who were poor. And the rich farmers would say to his workers at the end of the week leave some grain at the edge of the field, and that way those who are struggling and those who are hungry can come and take that as a gift as God has blessed us with so much, we want to be a blessing to others.