Life.Church with Craig Groeschel - The Responsibility of Being Blessed | More Than Enough | Part 4
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Have you ever seen someone who's really, really rich and thought to yourself,
if I were rich, I'd be better at being rich than they are.
How many have you ever thought that?
Be honest, raise your hands.
Online, you can type it in the comment section.
I would be better at being rich than they are.
I don't know what it would mean for you, but you might think,
I wouldn't spend my money on dumb stuff like dumb rich people do.
I'd spend my money on different things.
You might say I'd spend more on experiences, or I would spend more with people, or I might travel more,
but definitely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, I would be way, way, way more generous with the money that God entrusted to me than those rich people.
If I were rich, I would be better at being rich than those rich people are.
Now, what's funny to me about the subject of wealth and generosity is that most of us think
that we're not rich.
And the truth is, many of us are richer than we think we are.
Most of us think that we're not rich and we really are.
And most of us think that we're generous and we're really not.
Welcome to Life Church, where I promise to step on your toes at least once to do.
day. What's interesting is most of us think that we're really not rich, but I want to tell you that
you're probably richer than you think you are. But the reason you think you're not rich is because
you know a lot of people, a lot richer than you. And the problem is that if we do get more,
we never really know where the rich line is. For example, if you do actually name a number and say
one day if I made this much money in an income, or if I had this much money in the bank,
If you name a number and you say, there's the line.
The funny thing is that when you come up to and cross the line, what does the line do?
The line actually moves.
You thought, if I just got to this point, then I would have plenty.
And then one day you have that much, and the line tends to move.
The reason why most of us don't think that we're rich is because we just don't feel like we're rich.
In fact, I can just give you real numbers.
When we started the church years ago, I remember telling Amy,
if we could one day just make $40,000 a year,
we would be so, so rich.
And several years later, with six children,
we made $40,000 a year,
and I didn't feel rich at all.
We were very blessed, but we didn't feel that way.
And so what I want to do is suggest that most of you
are actually richer than you think you are.
So if you ever wake up one day and say, wow, God has actually blessed me. I am rich. We want to be
rich in a way that honors God. So let's all pray. Father, we thank you. You're a good God
that blesses your children with good gifts. May we honor you with wisdom and wise stewardship
as you bless us, God.
Help us be a blessing to others.
We pray this in Jesus' name, and everybody said, amen.
All right, today we are going to conclude our message series called More Than Enough,
and we're going to finish our study in 2 Corinthians chapter 9.
We'll start in a moment in verse 11.
But first, I want to give credit to North Point Church,
who does an annual series called Be Rich
for the idea behind this message series.
I'm grateful to them.
and will be using some of their ideas as well as a lot of my own.
I want to start with a question, what do you want to hear first?
I'm going to let you vote on this.
Do you want to hear the good news first, or do you want to hear the bad news first?
How many say, hear the good news first?
Raise your hands, raise them up, raise them up.
How many say, no, let's get the bad news down the way, raise them up,
raise them up.
Okay, bad news wins.
The problem is good news is it in my notes.
So we're going with what's in my notes.
Sorry about that.
Let's start with the good news.
Are you ready for the good news?
The good news is, you are richer,
than you think you are.
That's good news.
You're richer than you think you are.
In fact, God's word says in 2nd Corinthians 9-8,
says this,
God will generously provide all that you need.
Then you will always have everything you need
and plenty left over to share with others.
You have all that you need
and you'll have some leftover to share with other people.
Yes, you will be, what, let's all say this word aloud.
Yes, you will be enriched in every way.
I'm going to talk to you about the word enriched for a minute.
This word enriched only appears in Scripture three times,
and each time it appears in the book of Corinthians,
and I'm going to show you the Greek word, and here's the pronunciation,
I am not even going to try to say this word.
But what I want to do is show you how this word is translated
in different versions of the Bible.
It's translated in the CEV, you will be blessed in every way.
It's translated in GWT, God will make you rich enough.
It's translated in the CEB, you will be made rich in every way.
You will be enriched, you will be blessed, you will be made rich, you will have everything that you need.
Scripture says, and some left over.
And that's why I want to tell you today that most of you, you're richer than you think you are.
and that's really good news.
It's odd that none of you are cheering.
And they're like, yeah.
Nobody leaned over to their spouse said,
oh, I'm so relieved.
We're actually rich and I didn't know it.
I thought we were struggling,
but we're really, I'm just so relieved.
And again, most of us don't believe that we're rich
because we don't feel rich,
and that's a challenge.
I want to say for a moment that I am aware
very aware, in fact, very prayerful,
that there are some of you that are significantly hurting right now.
I know of some in our life that are facing a mountain of medical bills.
We've got one friend that's been unemployed for quite some time.
We know some single parents that are working two and three jobs,
just trying to make ends meet.
And so I do want to acknowledge that there is real significant financial pain,
even represented here.
The same time, I want to say just lovingly,
and truthfully, compared to most people in the world, the majority of us are doing pretty good.
I mean, when you got a thousand dollar phone that you can play video games on and take selfies,
that's better than a lot of people around the world. And we have choices. When you think about
the choices we have, the options we have, we're actually doing better than you might think.
For example, you can, you have the choice, you can make coffee at home in the morning. Or,
you can actually pay someone to make your coffee as you drive to work.
Compared to a lot of the world, that's really pretty blessed, right?
I think about groceries.
The fact that you actually can go to a store that's got groceries.
That's better than most of the world.
And many of you, you're rich enough where you don't have to buy the generic.
You can get the name brand macaroni and cheese anytime you want to.
That's pretty good.
compared to most of the rest of the world, when you drive a car, they're envious.
Only about one in five of the people living today own a car.
If you got here in a car, you're in the top 20% of people living today.
Some of you, like me, we're so rich, we got two cars.
And I hate to admit this out loud, but I'll just go ahead and say it.
Don't judge me.
we are so blessed that we have a house for our cars.
Like for real.
Like I drive up to it, I push a button, the door opens,
I drive my cars into a house for my cars
to keep them protected from the elements.
My kids are not that rich.
Their cars are vulnerable to all the extreme elements,
but my car goes into a house.
some of you you see where i'm going with this some of you you're so rich that you'll drive your car
to something called a restaurant where someone else makes your food meaning someone else killed the
chicken and cook the chicken and put it on your plate and put a little green bar thing
decoration thing on your plate next one they brought it out and some of you are so rich you will
literally drive by seven or eight or nine or ten different restaurants
to get to your favorite one.
And some of you, you're so rich,
you'll even fight with the people you love
about which restaurant you want to go to.
And I even know someone who's so rich,
just one person, they will eat more than they need to.
Because that's how blessed they are.
And so I want to tell you some really good news.
Is it most of you you're actually richer
than you think you are?
So, if you're going to be good,
at being rich in a way that honors God.
The first thing we have to do is we have to admit that we're rich.
So I want you to say this with me if you don't mind.
Everybody just say this with me.
Say it aloud.
God has blessed me with more than I need.
I'm rich.
Let's say this again.
Those of you online, you can type it in the comment section if you want to,
but let's say it again in a way that you start to internalize the truth of it.
Ready?
God has blessed.
me with more than I need, I'm rich. One more time, just slow it down. I want you to just feel it.
God has blessed me with more than I need, I'm rich. Now, I'm guessing that for a few of you,
just saying those words, I'm rich, probably made you a little bit uncomfortable.
If it makes you uncomfortable, I get it because I grew up, I think I was actually taught that rich
people are bad, that rich people did something wrong, that they're selfish. I know some of you,
what are you talking about? Like, I honestly think that I was taught that because I grew up believing
that rich people were bad, people who can't trust them, and they're selfish. I want you to pause for a
moment. If you feel uncomfortable at all saying that I am blessed by God, I am rich,
why do you think you're uncomfortable admitting that? Because I'll ask you this,
where do all of your blessings come from? They come from God, right?
In fact, when it comes to financial blessings and every other kind of blessing, they come from God.
And scripture tells us this in Ecclesiastes 5.
Moreover, when who gives someone to wealth?
Scripture says whenever God gives someone wealth and possessions and the ability to enjoy them
to accept their law to be happy and their toil, what is this?
This is a gift from God.
So anything good that you have is actually a gift from God.
And so if God does bless you financially, why would you apologize or be?
embarrassed by financial blessings when you don't apologize or be embarrassed for other types of
blessings. Like if someone compliments your jacket, you tend to apologize for it. Like, oh, this ratty thing,
I got it on sale. I got it at salvation. You tend to apologize. But if someone compliments
your marriage and says, oh, you've got an amazing marriage, you don't say, oh, yeah, she's just an old hag.
You don't say that. You better not say it. Or you're not going to have a good marriage. Oh,
he's not, he's not as good as he looks.
You're not going to say that.
But if someone says you're blessed financially,
we often feel embarrassed.
I want you to say it again.
God has blessed me with more than I need.
I'm rich.
And the good news is you're richer than you think you are.
Now for the bad news.
And it actually is bad news.
The good news is you're richer than you think you are.
And the bad news is you're richer than you think you are.
it's actually bad news because most people i know really want to be rich and massively rich but i want to
remind you that it is a significant spiritual disadvantage to be distracted by the wealth of this world
in fact there was a rich young guy that came up to jesus one time and said jesus what do i need
to do to inherit eternal life and jesus said you need to obey the commands the guy said i've done all that
I've done all that. And Jesus, knowing the condition of this guy's heart, looked at him and loved him,
and he said, there's one more thing you need to do. Jesus said, you need to go sell your possessions
and then give the money to the poor. Now, Jesus didn't tell this man to sell his possessions because
the man had possessions. Jesus told him to sell his possessions because the possessions had him.
His heart was taken up by them. It was a spiritual distraction. And the man was very, very
sad because he had great wealth. In fact, we read the parable in Luke 18. Jesus looked at him and said,
how hard is it for the rich to enter the kingdom of God? Indeed, it's easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. It's actually a
disadvantage spiritually to be distracted by the things of this world. And when you're rich,
you never get to pray. Lord, give me today my daily bread, because you already got a cabinet
full of every kind of gluten-free, brazen-filled waffle, toast bread that you could imagine.
And the more that you have, the easier it is to put your trust in what you have instead of putting
your trust in God. So if we're more blessed and more rich than we think we are, if God has blessed
us with more than we need, why did God bless us? Is it so you can get your nails done once a week?
Is it so you can play golf on the best golf courses around? Is it so you can get your dream car,
or travel, or spend it all on yourself? And the answer is, maybe,
It's for some of that, meaning God blesses you and he may want you to get your nails done.
Maybe once every two weeks because they're pretty expensive.
But I don't know, you do whatever you do.
You do, you boo-boo.
Okay.
But ultimately, the fundamental mistake that many of us make is we tend to think whenever God gives us more, all the more is for us.
The mistake that we make is we think whenever God blesses us with more that is absolutely,
actually for us. In fact, Jesus told a parable about this very, very subject in Luke chapter 12. He talked
about a rich farmer that had a very, very good year. God had blessed the farmer with a bountiful crop.
And so the farmer said, hey, this is what I'm going to do. I'll tear down my barns and I'll
build bigger ones. And there I'll store my surplus grain. Our version of that is our closet is so
full of clothes, and yet we walk by and we touch them all, and what do we say? I've got nothing to wear.
Our closet is so full that we put stuff in our garage, but then our garage becomes so full we can't
drive our car into it, so we actually rent storage places to store all of our stuff, and yet we think
we're not rich, even though we can't keep all of our stuff in our closet and in our garage,
and we need an additional storage place. This is what this guy was thinking. I'll build bigger barns
for myself, and I'll store my surplus grain there.
And I'll say to myself, you have plenty of grain laid up for many years.
Take life easy, eat, drink, and be merry, he said.
But God said to him, you fool.
This very night your life will be demanded from you.
Then who will get what you prepared for yourself?
This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves,
but is not rich toward God.
This is how it will be for anyone who thinks that everything is for them.
And what's crazy about this story is that God wasn't angry with the man for being rich.
He was a farmer.
God was the one who blessed him, right?
God made him rich.
He planted seed in God's ground and God set the rain and the sun.
God made him rich. God called him a fool because the guy thought it all belonged to him.
So if we're going to be rich in a way that honors God, let's look at God's word and apply what it
says to our lives. This is our key text. We looked at the beginning of it. Now we're going to look at
the end. You will be enriched. There's that fancy Greek word. You'll be enriched in every way.
Why? So you can buy 14 pair of shoes, even though there's only 7.7.
days in the week. So you can get more jewelry than anybody that you know in your sorority.
Now, you're going to be made rich in every way so that what? So say it loud. So that you can
always be generous. Why is God going to bless us so that we can always be generous? And when you
take your gifts to those who need them, what are they going to do? They're actually going to thank
God. Here's what's amazing. You're richer than you think you are. And the good news is you've been blessed by
God so that you can always be generous. So with that in mind, let's add to our statement that we've been saying,
we're going to add a little line to it. Let's say the first part. Say it with me. God has blessed me with more
that I need, I'm rich. Now, because I have more, I will do more and give more. Let's say it one more
time, let's slow it down, even quiet, and just feel it. God has blessed me with more than I
need. I'm rich because I have more. I will do more and I will give more. So how do you do more?
you give more. And the answer is, we actually do it together. We do more and we give more together
through the church and as the church. And here's what's amazing is nobody's ever going to feel like
they're doing a ton. You're going to say, hey, all I do is serve an hour a week in life kids. All I do is
smile at people and make them feel welcome on the front door. Hey, all I do is give a portion of what God
trust to me. It's not even a lot, but I give it back to God through the local church. And you're
not going to think that you do a whole lot. But when every single one of us in the church,
as the church does our part, we actually make a massive difference in the world. In fact,
I want to show you how big of a difference you make.
And this is mind-blowing, God-glorifying truth.
How many of you have ever invited someone to come to church with you?
Raise your hands up.
Raise your hands up.
Excellent.
Some of you brought someone today.
Almost everybody said I brought someone with.
Let me tell you how God has used your little invitation to change lives.
The church started in 1996.
Fast forward 28 years.
How much do you think?
our church has grown every year on average for 28 years.
I will answer it and tell you, if we grew by 3% year over, year over, year over, year over, year over, year over, year over, decade,
that would be amazing.
If we grew 5% on average every year, that would be mind-blowing.
If there was a church that grew 7% year over, year over, year over, year over, year over, year for 28 consecutive years,
average growth at 7%.
People would call that a revival.
But because of your little part
of consistently inviting people,
our church has grown at an average of 21%
annually for 28 years.
May God be glorified through one invitation,
followed by another.
That alone would be worth our tithe.
That alone would be worth every single hour
that we use our God.
gifts to be a blessing to other people. But that's not all that God does through our church.
You take, that's physical attendance alone. There are literally millions of people at countries
around the world that attend Life Church online every single week with tens of thousands of
salvations. That alone would be worthy of everything that we could do to impact people
around the world.
But wait, there's more.
It's a Ginsu knife with this thing.
Not only do we impact people in physical locations and digitally around the world,
but our church provides free resources to churches all over the world.
And to give you a little bit of context,
there are about 350,000 churches in the United States,
about 350,000 churches.
How many pastors around the world do?
you think of downloaded free resources. The answer is over 700,000 pastors, more than double
the number of churches in the United States. And we haven't even talked about the U-Version
Bible app. People are calling it the greatest Bible engagement tool in the history of the
world. The U-Virgin Bible, this is people opening it right now, live, like right now.
This is, you can tell where people are awake and in other parts of the world, they're not awake yet.
Right now, live at this moment, opening, opening, opening, opening, opening.
The U Virgin Bible app family is now on over 700 million devices on its way to a billion,
funded by your little bit, on top of your little bit, on top of your little bit,
100% funded by donors to give it away to free.
And if you don't know it's at church, we got big vision.
When it comes to the Bible, we want to see God's Word.
available to everyone, everywhere, every day, and we will not stop doing our part until they have access.
Glory to God. Glory to God when you do your little part. Say, Craig, what about all the other needs in the
world? What are we doing to meet needs of people? Well, when you do your little part and I do my little
part and 45 different life church locations do their part, we actually touch a lot of people.
Tell you some behind the scenes. We have full-time staff members. Their only job is to research,
investigate, study, and find the very best mission partners to work with in the very most important
areas of needs around the world. You want to help somebody, we have full-time people who have
looked into every ministry nearby to find the very best. And we don't just send money, but we send
people. Every time we send dollars, we send volunteers, not just money, but people to help these
different ministries. And we have 130 local mission partners, served by local people just like you,
and 13 global mission partners. And what do we do? I can't tell you all, but I will show you.
this is a list of every different ministry
touched through the body of Christ
Bible translations for every heart
marriage ministry for hurting ministry
health for exploited children providing clean drinking water
community empowerment discipleship for new believers
I'll skip down provision for experiencing
daily food security support for those trapped
enforced marriage of ministry gang members
ongoing health for the homeless human traffic
leadership development literacy
you want to take a picture of that
if you want to take a picture so you can look at it I'll smile
if you want to you can look at it later
what is this this is this is
through the local church.
This is the greatest mutual fund
of ministry giving known to mankind.
When you give your time,
when you give your heart.
Here's what I want you to feel.
Let this sink in.
Because I have more than I need
and can share with somebody.
And because you may have a little more time than you need
or a little more resources than you blessed by God
as a church family, we are big enough to reach the world. Do you see it? And we are small enough
to care for the one. We are big enough to impact every corner of every continent, every country
in the world. And yet, we're small enough to where somebody's going to know your name and somebody's going to
know your story. And you can do the same for someone else. If we're going to be rich,
we're going to be rich in a way that honors God. We're going to be rich in a way that loves those who
are hurting. We're going to be rich in a way that helps those who are broken. And I want to try to
close out with this story. I hope I don't get too emotional. This is stories about Beth. And Beth was
not a Christian. Her husband had cheated on her, and she ended up being a single mom. And she said
later on, she said, I was either mad at God or I didn't believe in God. I didn't know if I believed
in God, but if there was a God, I was a God, I was mad at him. Furious at God. And a friend,
kind of like one of you, maybe it was one of you, kept inviting her to church. You got to come to
church with me. You got to come to church with me. You got to come to church. Beth's like, I'm not
coming to your stupid church. If there is a God, I don't like him. I'm not coming.
and Beth hit a really, really low point and thought, well, maybe I'll come to church.
But she didn't want her friend to know she was given in.
So she went to a different service so her friend wouldn't know she was actually going to church.
And when the offering bucket came by, she said, well, here it goes.
All they wanted your money.
And she said, I got nothing.
I'm a single mom.
I'm in big trouble.
And the campus pastor said the same thing that we've said, I've said since day number one.
And if there's somebody here that's in need, you can take back out of the offering and let God meet your need in that way.
And she heard that and she was disoriented.
She's like, what?
Did I just hear that right?
You can take back out of the offering?
And she's like, well, I'm in need.
She told me.
And so she took out.
And she walked away going, that wasn't that bad.
And I got lunch paid for her.
And so she thought I'll go back again.
And she went back again.
And she felt welcome from other people.
And the offering bucket came by and she took out.
And for week after week after week, she came, the people growing on her a little bit,
the music growing on her a little bit, the message growing on her a little bit,
and every week she took back out of the offering.
And then one week it hit her.
When she was taken out, the campus pastor said,
feel free to take back out and let God meet your need in that way.
And she looked down and she realized, wait a minute,
this is actually God loving me and meeting my needs.
And so on that day, as she told me later on,
when I explained the gospel,
that God loved her so much that Jesus gave his life
to meet her deepest need, her spiritual need.
But the innocent one died in her place
so that she could be forgiven.
Suddenly, God meeting her physical need transformed
and she recognized God met her deepest spiritual need,
and she lifted up both hands on that day
to surrender her life to Jesus.
Well, there was a lady that was behind her
and saw it happen and came up and said,
hey, saw you do it, can I pray for you?
And she's like, yes, he can.
She said, can't take you to lunch.
She's like, yes, you can.
And they became friends.
And that lady invited her to her small group
and helped her find a better job.
And 18 months later, she married a guy from the life.
How good is that that God brought someone
from the life with them.
Really, really cool.
is to this day, she's now a tither.
And every week she worships God with a tithe.
And every week she and her husband
take out a $20 bill in cash
and put extra as an offering into the offering plate
because she said,
if God could use someone else to meet my need,
I want to do the same thing for someone else.
That's who we're going to be as a church.
And so without apology or reservation,
I want to ask you, inspire you to give often, give big, meet needs wherever you go.
I would encourage you to start with the church, start with the tithe.
The first 10% goes back to God as an act of worship through the local church.
And I'll tell you why I believe this.
Because Jesus said, I will build my church.
And the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
If Jesus was building his church, if the church is plan A, I want to be a part of building.
what Jesus is building. Do you see it when we all do our little part through the church?
God does big things all over the world through the church. That's why we are not spiritual consumers.
We're spiritual contributors. The church doesn't exist for us. We are the church and we exist for the
world. And one day you recognize it. My little small part is actually a very big part.
because our church is big enough to impact the world.
And it's small enough to care for the one.
And so yes, Scripture says,
you will be enriched in every way.
Why?
So you can be generous on every occasion.
You can always be.
And when you take your gifts to those who need them,
they will thank God.
So I hope you see it as a responsibility.
You're richer and you think you are.
And the reason you are is so you can be generous
on every occasion.
And when you are, people around the world will thank God.
So one more time, very soft,
though, let's all say it together.
God has blessed me with more than I need.
I'm rich.
Because I have more, I will do more, and I will give more.
And that's how you're rich in a way that honors God.
So, Father, thank you that we're a part of your church, your body.
Help us to be rich and be blessed in a way that honors you.
As you're reflecting today at all of our churches,
I wonder how many of you would say,
I really want to be blessed in a way that honors God.
But you lift up your hands right now.
I hope every hand goes up.
You can type it in the comment section.
I want to be blessed in a way that honors God.
Father, I thank you for what your Holy Spirit is doing in all of us.
Help us to realize, God, just how good you are and just how blessed we are.
And God, I do pray for those who are facing significant financial burdens.
God, I pray that in community, you would help meet those needs.
And God, I pray for the rest of us that really are blessed.
That really do have more than we need.
That we wouldn't see it as all just for us.
Sure, we'd enjoy a lot of it as a gift from you.
But we would take a portion of it and use it in a way that honors you
and blesses and meets the needs of others.
God, help us as a church.
to grow in irrational generosity because we know it's truly more blessed to give than to receive.
As you keep praying today at all of our different churches and those of you online,
nobody looking around. I want you to hear the story of Jesus in the same way that the Beth did years ago.
God doesn't just want to meet your physical needs, but more than anything else, he wants to meet your spiritual need.
If we sat down and had a conversation and said, hey, how are you doing with God?
Somebody would say, like, I don't know.
I'm trying to be good.
Whatever.
I say, how are you doing in life?
You're like, oh, I'm looking for that thing that's going to make me happy.
I'm looking, I'm trying, trying to.
What's the problem?
You've got a spiritual void.
There's something missing.
And it's not a thing.
It's a who.
It's a relationship with God.
What did God do?
He loved you so much that he sent his one in,
only son Jesus, who died in your place, the innocent died in the place of the guilty, the perfect
sacrifice. And the good news is our God, who is so good, raised Jesus from the grave so that anyone,
and this includes you, who calls on his name, God would hear your prayer, he would forgive your
sins, he would make you brand new. Today, there are those of you, you're not here by accident.
It's not a coincidence. God is loving you because you need him.
What are you going to do? Let him meet your need. Receive his forgiveness. Let him give you
eternal life. Wherever you are today, those of you say, I have. I've sinned against him.
I know I need his forgiveness. We're stepping away from the old life. We're stepping into the
grace of God. Today, those who say, yes, I need Jesus. I need his forgiveness. I give my life
to him. That's your prayer. Lift your hands high right now. All over the place and say, yes. I give
my life to him today. We thank God for hands going on. Oh, gosh, there. Others have you guys saying yes.
praise God for all of you online you can type in the comment section i am giving my life to
jesus and as we have people today all over the world saying yes to the grace of god would you pray
aloud with them pray heavenly father forgive all of my sins jesus save me fill me with your spirit
so i could know you and serve you you have blessed me with more than i need
I am spiritually rich.
Because I have more, help me do more, and help me give more to show your love and share your
grace.
Thank you for new life.
You have all of mine.
In Jesus' name, I pray.
I need some people to worship God.
Let's welcome those born into this family.
