DISCOURSE: 2032 LIBERALITY TO THE POOR 2 Corinthians 8:1. _Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the Churches of Macedonia; how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For to t... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2033 LIBERALITY TO THE POOR RECOMMENDED 2 Corinthians 8:7. _As ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also. I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others,... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2034 THE GRACE OF CHRIST 2 Corinthians 8:9. _Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich_. THE excellence of Christianity with respect to the mysteries it reveals, and the precepts it i... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2035 LIBERALITY ENCOURAGED 2 Corinthians 8:13. _I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality: as it is writ... [ Continue Reading ]