Bible Verse of the Day Monday April 6th 2020

2 Corinthians 9:10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us, your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.  

Proponents of the “prosperity gospel” have misused these verses as authentication that God will inexorably provide an abundance of worldly goods and wealth as long as you will give Him some of what you possess. These charlatans and pretenders of the gospel of Christ Jesus will attempt to get people to give to God through their ministries, However, the promise from God here has nothing to do with someone multiplying one’s material wealth. Paul was contrasting what God does in the physical arena with the things he will provide in the spiritual realm. When a farmer plants a crop, he will always get back more seeds than he planted. The idea Paul was bringing forth here is that all people that sow spiritually by unselfishly giving to those around them in need will get back more spiritual seed than they planted. Which will come in the form of godly enablement so that the sower will be able to help more and more people?

The theory here is that whatever we give away we will get back tenfold. This does not mean that if we give away our worldly wealth, we will get back more worldly wealth than we gave away. The gospel of Christ Jesus is not a Ponzi scheme or investment structure, it is about the winning of souls for Christ Jesus. God will provide material things that we need for survival on the earthly sphere, however, they are given to us to benefit others around us that have less than we do. God will provide for us so that we can share it with others. There have been many Christians that have missed out on a great harvest simply because they selfishly used their seeds for themselves.

The primary theses in this verse of scripture is the righteousness that will come back to the one that shows righteous acts. This has nothing to do with fancy, high-dollar automobiles and massive houses in gated communities. There is not even a whisper of evidence here to sustain a prosperity theology, the enrichment that is spoken of in this verse of scripture is representational and symbolic and there is not even a hint of self-interest.

Paul was telling the Corinthians that they would not be the ones that decided where the offering would be going, they were only to provide the seed to be sown. The ones that give of themselves and what they have to the ministry is as much a part of the ministry as the ones that do the ministering (Isaiah 55:10-11).  There will be some that furnish the seeds and still others that plant the seed but it is God that gets the increase (1 Corinthians 3:6-7).

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