Full Throttle Part 6 - All Out Generosity Part 2

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We're staying in Third Gear and diving deeper into all out generosity. If you've truly been touched by the One who loves you, giving becomes not just easy—it becomes pure joy. There's no grief in generosity; it's absolutely fun to bless and help others!

4. Generosity is empowered by God's ability, not ours.

I'm not generous based on what's in my bank account. I'm generous based on who my Daddy is. Why can I be generous? Because I know He's more than enough.

Here's the key: See yourself as a river, not a reservoir. Most people give out of their reservoir—"Oh no, the water's getting low, shut it down!" But God wants us to be the path, the avenue for His blessings to keep flowing through us. Only with money do we worry about running out. I've never worried about running out of love, prayers, or blessings. Generosity should flow in every facet of our lives.

Paul says in 2 Corinthians 9: "A stingy planter gets a stingy crop; a lavish planter gets a lavish crop. God loves it when the giver delights in the giving." God doesn't want forced, reluctant giving. He wants cheerful, joyful generosity!

God gives you seed to plant, not just bread to eat. So many people take everything God gives them and consume it all. But the farmer doesn't eat his seed—he plants it. The seed is there for us to enjoy, but it's also there for us to plant into people's lives and into God's Kingdom so a harvest can come back.

Generosity believes: if I give it away, I'll have more, not less. Stinginess believes: if I keep it, I'll have more. God's Word says giving produces more. You'll be more blessed with 90% plus God's favor than with 100% and no blessing. You can never out-give God!

5. Generosity is released by faith and demonstrated through faithfulness.

How do you forgive someone? By faith—you don't feel like it. How do you help someone move? By faith. Generosity is an act of faith. James says, "Do not merely listen to the word... Do what it says" (James 1:22). You have to believe and act like what you have is not all you have. There's always more coming.

The parable of the talents (Matthew 25) shows us that faithfulness with what God gives opens the door for more. The servant who buried his one talent was called wicked and lazy—not because he lost it, but because he was afraid to let go. That money owned him. We need to be faithful and generous, not fearful.

6. Generosity produces contagious abundance and blessings.

Proverbs 11:24 says, "The world of the generous gets larger and larger; the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller." Generosity creates a contagious environment of blessing. When you bless others, you are abundantly blessed. When you help others, you are helped.

What would happen if...

• You became unconditionally generous in your marriage and family?
• You were extravagantly generous at work—doing more than expected?
• You trusted God with your finances and resources, saying, "God is my source"?

Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Live like a river, not a reservoir. Go full throttle in generosity!

Key Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 (MSG); Proverbs 11:24-25 (MSG); Proverbs 28:27; Luke 6:38 (MSG); James 1:22; James 2:17; Matthew 25:14-30

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Hi everyone, Pastor Don Smith here. Welcome to the Talk About It Podcast, where we take relevant topics with a biblical point of view and we talk about it. You know you want to, so do I. Let's talk about it. Well, welcome back, everyone. Pastor Don here, season 10, episode 6 of the Talk About It podcast. Thanks for coming back this week, guys. I'm so glad that you are here. I'm glad to be here. I hope you're glad to be here. What a conversation we are having, but I got some news for you, and we're going to talk about that in just a few minutes. I'm so thankful uh to have the opportunity to come uh to you each and every week with our podcast. I've been looking at some podcasts. Maybe you, maybe there's several different podcasts that you listen to. I I have a couple of my favorites. Some of them are very informative, some of them are entertaining and and hilarious, and and uh so whatever it is that you you listen to, I've got a couple of different genres that I love to listen to. But here on Talk About It, we just take biblical, or we take relevant topics with a biblical perspective. So we got a biblical perspective on a on a relevant topic, and we talk about it for a while. So if this is your uh first time listening to the podcast, uh we're glad you're here. Where you've been? We've been waiting for you. Uh, I'm excited that you've joined us, and I hope that you will consider joining us each and every week. Uh, and the reason that I mention uh different podcasts is because not every podcast puts out one every week. Uh, it's a lot of work. And uh those of you who listen uh each and every week, I'm so grateful that you return. Uh, those that have just been here, just go ahead and push pause if you're new. Go back to the beginning of season 10, episode one, uh, start there. We'll be here waiting for you when you get back, won't we? Everybody say, Yes, we will, because we that's what we do here. We just continue this topic. And uh here on season 10, we've been talking about what it means to live wide open for Jesus. I've titled it Full Throttle. So um we've been just talking about that. Uh, and and I we're covering a lot of ground, a lot of different thought processes and what it means to live out loud, wide open for Jesus. There's a lot of areas in our life. I I think that um, let me just say it this way, that we kind of like to live in silence over if we're Christians or if we're living for Jesus. We don't there's some areas we don't like to talk about. Uh, we don't really want to invest a lot of time in it because those are areas that for some reason or another, we don't live out loud. We don't talk about a lot. For instance, uh last week uh we started on the subject in uh this season on generosity. And I I knew where it was gonna go. Uh I knew I knew that it wasn't gonna be very popular. And sure enough, it played out this week that uh, wow, uh not a lot of people listened because boy, they saw the title, Generosity. I know exactly what happens. Uh, it's all out generosity part one. Well, welcome back if you endured, because this is all out generosity part two. And I'm committed to this because I want you to understand why I'm committed to this conversation, especially this. I don't want any area of my life that I live for Jesus to be lived in silence. Hello, somebody. Come on, talk about this for just a minute with me. I don't I don't want I want any area of my life to be lived in silence. I want to live wide open, full throttle for Jesus in every area of my life. But the truth of the matter is when we start talking about money, people tune out. And um, it it does that. I'm a pastor, I've been doing it for a long time. And every year I do a I do a couple of sermons on tithing uh once a year. And uh, you know, it's it's it's inevitably, boy, an area where what and I announce it in advance. Somebody's told me one time, well, just don't uh don't announce it. No, I'm gonna announce it in advance. I don't want to surprise you. I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna be talking about, okay? But boy, uh the tithing sermons, they can be some of the least attended church services of the year. But let me put it to you this way: the services that I do our marriage sermon series on every year, highest attended church services of the year, they beat Christmas and Easter in attendance. It does. So generosity, I knew it was gonna happen, but I'm committed to the topic and I'm thankful. I want to say I'm thankful to all of you who are listening and at least wanting to hear a perspective, a biblical perspective on the idea of generosity. So uh we're gonna press through. We really are gonna press through. And today, I I want to just pick up where we left off. You know, and last week I said, you know, you can give and not love, but it's impossible to love and not give. Hello, somebody. Come on, help me out, talk about it. That's that's a true statement, okay? If if you if you love and you've been touched by the one who loves you, I believe it's gonna be easy to be a giver. Let me put it to you in our perspective here. Uh, my wife, she's the secretary of our house. She kind of handles the money and she pays the bills and all that. I work full-time. And uh, you know, she she uh I am a full-time job for my wife, so it's not like she doesn't work. Uh, but you know, that's one of her, let's say, assigned responsibilities in our relationship. She she handles those things and and moves through that. And and so when we put in our tithe and our offerings, it's not like I'm on the other side of the aisle going, no, no, no, man, I know we got to do it, or I regret doing these things. There's absolutely no grief in my life. There's absolute joy when I get to give. It's absolute joy when I can help somebody, when I can bless somebody. I have found that it has become addictive and it's absolutely fun to be generous. Why? Because generosity is empowered by God's ability, not ours. Okay, so I've given you three reasons in last week's episode. Okay, this is reason number four that generosity is important to living out loud, full throttle for Jesus. Generosity is empowered by God's ability, not ours. Now I'm not generous based on what I have, I'm generous based on who he is. I'm generous based on what he has. I'm not generous based on looking at my own bank account and what's there. I'm generous based on the love of God. Why can I be generous? Because I know that he's God and He's the God who's more than enough. Somebody say amen. Come on, help me out. Help me out. See, it doesn't matter how much money you have coming in that determines whether you can learn to be generous. Some people say, Well, I'm just too poor. I don't know. You can be generous with any amount that you have. The point we want to teach people is that what generosity really looks like. Okay, and so what I need everyone who's listening to the Talk About It podcast right now, when we're in this season and we're talking about what it looks like to live out loud for Jesus, to be full throttle and wide open for him, it doesn't exempt the money in our lives or the resources that we have. Talk about it. What I want you to do is I want you to see yourself as a river and not a reservoir. You see, most people see generosity by giving out of their reservoir. Oh, oh, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. The water's getting low. We better, we better shut it down. But God wants us to view ourselves as a river, not a reservoir. God wants us to view ourselves that we are the path and the avenue of his blessing, of his goodness, of his forgiveness, of his grace, of his mercy, of his generosity. That's what God wants to do. Here's, let me put it to you this way. I'm gonna give you an illustration right here, okay? Here's the interesting thing. Only in my money do I ever get concerned that I'm gonna run out. Okay, I got a friend named Eddie. Now, those of you who are my friends, you know who Eddie is, okay? And if you, if you, if you know him, you love him, all right? But I never go up to Eddie and I'm I'm never tempted when I go up to Eddie and go, hey Eddie, I I'd really like to love on you right now, but I've only got so much love. And I'm afraid that if I give you love, I'm gonna run out of love. I'm afraid that if I love you and hug you, right? I'm gonna be tapped out and I won't have any love left to give my kids or my family. I've never been concerned about running out of love. Right? No, because it's there. I'm gonna give love. I've never said, I got another friend, his name is Mike Munson, and some of you might know Mike. He's one of the founding elders of our ministry. And I've been going up to Mike and said, you know what, Mike, I'd I'd I'd love to release the blessing of God over you. I'd love to pray for you, but I'm I've only got so many prayers. And so I gotta save some for myself. It's easy to be generous in prayer. We need to be generous in every facet. We need to be generous in what we have, generous in blessing, generous in giving. I just had a conversation this past week on Saturday. Some friends of mine called me that live in a different state, and I love them. And as a husband and wife, they were having a conversation about generosity. And uh, you know, they had this kind of like moment between them that they didn't really know what to do. And so they thought, well, let's just call Pastor Don. Now, I'm I'm I'm their friend, they don't go to my church because they live in a different state, but I was so honored that they called me. You know what I mean? This is what I told them. I said, here's what I love about you two. Most husbands and wives are fighting about, you know, sex, money, and kids, um, selfish things. And these two are having a discussion about how generous they could be. Not whether they should be generous, but they wanted to make sure that they were and they had different opinions. They weren't arguing about not being generous. That I was so blessed. They were arguing about how generous should we be. And this is an incredible thing. Because I'm gonna read it, some I want to read a scripture to you, but here's what I want to do, talk about it. Now, in the message paraphrase, again, now I'm a good Bible teacher. It's not a translation, it is a paraphrase, but from time to time I look at it, and I am just very taken back sometimes at the way it phrases some things. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't. But here in 1 Corinthians chapter 9, I really like the way the message has paraphrased something that the Apostle Paul was talking about when he wrote to the Corinthians. He he was he was talking about generosity. And he says in verse 6, now this is in the message, not translation, paraphrase. Okay, he says, remember, remember, a stingy planter gets stingy crops, a lavish planter gets lavish crops. I want each of you to take plenty of time to think it over and make up your mind what you will give. He didn't say if you will give, he said what you will give. He said, I want you to decide if I'm going to be a generous person or if I'm gonna be a stingy person. And then he goes on to say, that will protect you against sob stories and arm twisting. God loves it when the giver delights in giving. That's so great. I love the way the message puts that. God doesn't want you to give with a stingy heart, where you have to whine and cry, you know, I I have to give because Pastor Don said so. And so here you go, take it. No, I'd what I'd do is I would just, if you were to come up to me and say, Well, here you go, just take it, I'd probably give it back to you. Because I I don't want what you have to give if you have to give it with a bad attitude. How many of you want a birthday present like that? Someone comes up and says, Oh, it's your birthday, you know, so here's your birthday present. Geez, you know, you get a birthday today. It's like you're special or something. And so I have to give this to you because it's your big day. How many of you are gonna be like, oh, I really feel loved in this moment? No, God wants us to be a cheerful person when we give. Verse 8. 2 Corinthians chapter 9, verse 8. Watch this. God can pour on the blessings in astonishing ways so that you're ready for anything and everything, more than just ready to do what needs to be done. As one psalmist puts it, he throws caution to the wind, giving to the needy in reckless abandon. Wow. Wow. What if we're going to be generous? If we are, we should be generous in every facet of our life. In other words, with reckless abandon. Okay? What if we said, um, you know, I don't want to help you? Then we can't be generous. But what if we said, I want to help you, I want to bless you. Let me take care of that. No, it's my turn. How about how about if we said this to our men, if we said this to our wives, hey, hey, sweetheart, let me empty the dishwasher. It's my turn. I want to empty the dishwasher. Yeah, my wife's gonna be like, amen, brother. Go ahead and have at it. You see, giving is ministry too. And what if we decided to do ministry with reckless abandon? 2 Corinthians goes on to say this. Remember, it says giving to the needy and reckless abandon. His right living, right giving ways, never run out, they never wear out. The most generous God who gives seed to the farmer, that becomes bread for your meals, is more than extravagant with you. He gives you something you can then give away, which grows into full-formed lives, robust in God, wealthy in every way, so that you can be generous in every way, producing with us great praise to God. Watch this. Watch this talk about it. He provides seed to the farmer. But here's what happens: God blesses you, God gives you a job, God opens the door and overtime and sales and bonuses and all of those things. And then so many people are taking it all in, and they're like, we're gonna eat everything that we get, and we're gonna buy everything, we're gonna do all of these things, we're gonna go out and we're gonna do this and that. What happens is you're eating all of your seed. How does a farmer get more crop? He he doesn't eat all of his seed. He may take his seed and grind it and make some bread. Yes. The seed is there for us to enjoy, but the seed is also there for us to plant into people's lives and to plant into the kingdom of heaven so that a harvest will come back, just like we read in the book of Luke, chapter six. Now, 2 Corinthians chapter 9, verse 12, again in the message. Listen to this. Carrying out this social relief work involves far more than helping meet the bare needs of poor Christians. It also produces abundant and bountiful thanksgiving to God. This relief offering is a prod to live at your very best, showing your gratitude to God for being openly obedient to the plain meaning of the message of Christ. You show your gratitude through your generous offerings to your needy brothers and sisters, and really towards everyone. Meanwhile, moved by extravagance of God in your lives, they respond by praying for you in passionate intercession for whatever you need. Thank God for this gift, his gift. No language can praise it enough. Wow. You know, some of you are sponsors for Talk About It. I pray for you every day. You're on my list. You're on my list. I because, like, no language I could say could say, man, Lord, thank you for these people. And some of you are like, well, Pastor Don, it's only like, you know, $3 a month. It doesn't matter. Because, see, I understand what it means to be generous, even with $3. Hello, somebody. Because what it does is it makes this podcast happen. What it does is it helps me get to Africa once or twice a year so that I can train pastors who then in turn can sow more seed into the world. You see, generosity believes if I give it away, I'll have more, not less. Stiness believes if I keep it, I will have more. God's word says that if we give it away, we're gonna have more. Now, I believe that an individual that steps out and tithes and gives and makes that commitment, I believe that you're gonna be more than blessed with the 90% and the favor and the blessing of the goodness of God and the generosity of God upon your life, than you would be if you kept 100% and you said, forget God, I got this. I promise you, I've seen it over and over and over again in my own life and those around me. I just got a text message from someone this past week, in between last episode and this episode, okay, who sent me a message. These people don't come to my church, but they happen to attend our church on a Sunday when I was preaching on tithing. I just hate it. I hate that, you know, visitors have to show up on, and the only Sunday they came is on the Sunday that I'm preaching a tithing sermon. And because, see, it just adds to the confirmation bias. See, that's all church does, is it talks about money. That's all they want is my money. That's all they want is my money. That's why I don't go to church because all they want is my money. And I get it, but I I also want to say that's not the same attitude you have when you go to Walmart. Why are you going to Walmart? All they want is your money. Hello, somebody. Why are you going to do the barber shop? Why you going to the beauty shop? You don't ever say that. It's only in church or on a podcast that's talking about a relevant topic with a biblical perspective that we turn it off when we talk about money. Come on, Christians, come on, talk about it. Why do we not want to live out loud for Jesus in this area of our life? Why would we rather this area of our life be silent? And let me just tell you something. When it is silent and we don't talk about it, it becomes one of the most dysfunctional areas of our Christian walk. Somebody say amen or omen. When we don't talk biblically about generosity, when we don't talk biblically about stewardship, when we refuse to hear it, okay, it's those people who always live in dysfunction over finances. Am I right or wrong? I promise you, I've seen it over and over and over. I believe in the the aspect of tithing. I believe in the aspect of giving. Why? Why, Pastor Don, do you believe in that? Let me tell you why. It's point number four. Generosity is empowered by God's ability, not my own. I just have to be faithful with what the Lord is giving to me. How about this? Number five, generosity is released by faith and demonstrated through faithfulness. It's released by faith. How do I forgive somebody? By faith. Because I never feel like forgiving people. Oh, come on. How do I live generously by faith? Because I never feel like being generous. I feel like being selfish. So see, it's only in money that we talk. All those people want is money. Someone sent me this message and said, Pastor Don, I attended your church on your tithe sermon, and it was one year ago, almost to the date, okay? And they said, We want to say to you, we're so thankful for that message. It changed our life. We began to tithe and we began to be good stewards with the other 90%, and now we are debt free. Somebody help me. Here. That see, it's the only subject in our life that we don't want people to talk about. Money. Money, money. Think about this. How do I learn to live generously? By faith. The same way I forgive people. By faith. Hello, somebody. How do we help somebody when they're moving? Does anybody go, oh man, is is anybody moving today? I really feel like I'm in the mood to help somebody move, to pack up their house and move. No, we don't do that. But when we have friends who need to move, we go and help them. Why? We do it by faith. We're like, I wasn't looking to help someone move. It wasn't on my bucket list. It's not like I got up this morning and said, Oh Lord, I really want to help people move today. No, we found a need and we got involved. Come on, somebody. I'm gonna help you out. Okay. James chapter 1, verse 22. This time in the NIV. Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Wow. If we're doers of the word, we'll trust God. Being generous is going to open up doors of blessing and favor. We'll know that we're going to see God and do extravagant things in our life if we learn to live generously out loud. Here's faith, okay? Here's generosity by faith. This is it it's this. You have to believe and act like what you have is not all you have. Does that make sense? You can't you can't say this is just what I currently have. Because it's it's it's learning to live in a reservoir, then when God has called us to live as a river. So we give honor to God. We we have to be faithful with what God has given us because Jesus declared that if we're faithful over a few things, if we're faithful over the little things, then it opens up the doors for God to trust us. Remember the story of the parable in Matthew chapter 25. The ruler left and he gave his servant five talents. He gave another one two talents, he gave another one one talent. And when he comes back, okay, the servant with five talents gives him five talents and tells him he's invested and planted it and had been generous, and he gives him five more. Then the servant with two talents gives him two talents back, and he tells him, Hey, I invested and planted and generous, and I give you two more talents back. And the the ruler tells him, Well done, good and faithful servants. Enter into my happiness and enter my joy. But the servant who had one talent, he came back and said, Hey, I knew you to be a taskmaster and you were a hard man, and I went and buried your one talent in the ground, and here's your one talent back. And Jesus said to the master, You're wicked, you're lazy. Why? Because he was afraid to let go. That money owned him. Amen. Or owned me. We see we need to be faithful and we need to be generous. James chapter 2, verse 17 says, in the same way, faith by itself, if it's not accompanied by action, is dead. So generosity is released by faith the same way forgiveness is. I just how come the only subject we have trouble with is the idea of generosity and money. Why do you go to the barbershop? Oh, they want your money. Why do you go to Walmart? Oh, they want your money. Why do you go to the gas station? Oh, they want your money. You never have the same attitude about going to Walmart and giving them your money like you do at church. Because you're like, well, I I go there and and I leave with something. Oh, really? You don't you don't leave with something when you come to church? Hello, somebody. I'm so grateful for our church. I'm so grateful for the church that I was discipled in. I'm so grateful. I left every time with something. I grew. I and I and I matured because someone was generous. And you know what I love about generosity? It's contagious, number six. It produces contagious abundance and blessing. Generosity produces a contagious environment. It produces abundance and blessing. Everybody wants a blessed life. Everybody wants to be on top. Nobody wants to be on the bottom. But if you take God's word, if you live it by faith and you apply these principles in your life, be generous in every facet, in every area of your life. You're going to live a life like nobody else. Proverbs chapter 11, I think it's verse 24. The world of the generous gets larger and larger. The world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller. That's in the message. And the one who blesses others is abundantly blessed, and those who help others are helped. Proverbs chapter 28. In the NIV, those who give to the poor will lack nothing. Those who close their eyes to them receive many curses. Now let me let me do this as we come to a close here. Let's rewind to where we started about this generous lifestyle. You remember I mentioned to you Luke chapter 6 earlier? In the message, Luke chapter 6, verse 38. Give away your life, and you'll find life given back. But not merely given back. Given back with bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Oh my goodness. What would happen if you and I became unconditionally generous in our marriage? What would happen if we became unconditionally generous in our family? Or at work? Where could your career go? Where could your job go if you said, I'm going to be an extravagant, generous person at my workplace? I'm going to do what's asked of me and I'm going to even give more. I'm going to do what is expected and required, but I'm also going to do more than that. I'm going to be generous. Yes, I can do that. Yes, I can help you. Yes, I can help handle that. Yes, what else do you need from me? Generosity begets generosity. And lastly, what if you were generous with your finances and your resources? What if you saw your life as a river for the Lord instead of reservoir for the Lord? What if you trusted God and you said, God is my source, I'm not my source? What would happen in our lives? Oh my goodness, talk about it. I had to do this episode. And I'm I started off by saying I knew what was going to happen. People are going to see the title and they weren't even going to push play. This last week's podcast was probably the least less listened to episode of any episode of the last two and a half years. Does that shock you? It didn't shock me. I just had a conversation. I I knew it was gonna happen. It didn't shock me. We want to live out loud when it's about us. We don't want to live out loud when maybe I need to invest my life in others. And so I'm glad you're here. And I'm not upset about it. I knew it was gonna happen, and I told you that I was going to have these conversations because they're relevant. Nothing could be more relevant, okay, than Christians being generous and being a river for God and not a reservoir. Nothing could be more relevant than the resources God has put in our life as his people in order to help him accomplish what he's doing on planet earth. Nothing could be more relevant than that. And there is no area of our life as believers that should be lived in silence. Hello, somebody, especially when it comes to money. And so I had to have this conversation. I had to take two episodes and have this conversation. And you know what? I bet it's not gonna be the last time that we have to have this conversation because it's a relevant topic. Okay? It's so relevant that the scripture speaks more about how you and I as Christians should handle money than it does about heaven. Hello, somebody. And so, you know what I want to do for us today? I'm gonna just pray for us. Is that all right? I really do. Heavenly Father, show us how to be generous in every way, shape, and form in our homes, in our communities, in our churches, in our jobs, in our support. Show us how we can live a life of generosity and go all out, go full throttle, and see the word generous everywhere we go in our spirit. We just give, we just help, we just bless, we just aid. Lord, I pray that you would birth a love within your people of generosity, that we would see this city, this community, this area we live, this place that you've given us as a place we can be a river and not a reservoir. God, that we would see people that we would come in contact with daily, and we would help them to see you through our generosity. We thank you for the supernatural abundance you give us when we learn to live wide open, full throttle, out loud for you in generosity. In Jesus' name we pray. And everybody said, Amen. Hey, I thank you for listening this week. Oh my gosh. Okay, we've pressed through. All right, we really have, and I am so grateful for that. Okay, now we're gonna move on next week. So I want you to be back. I need you to be back because it's gonna be incredible. Next week I'm gonna move into fourth gear, if you will, and I want to talk about our maximum potential. All right, and I'm gonna talk about how God is going to move us, okay, into the aspect of reaching our maximum potential for him and what that looks like. Because so many people never reach or never attain where God wants them to be. So I'm gonna do that next week, and I think it's gonna be great. I hope you'll be back. Do me a favor though, okay? I need you to share this episode. Uh, there are people who need to learn, they need to hear this topic. I don't know whether they want to hear this topic or not. But I think that if we can help people understand that God has called us to be rivers and not reservoirs, then we can see that God wants us to live full throttle for Him, even in that area of our finances. It's not about the amount, it's about what we do with it. And God is teaching us not to eat all of the seeds that come into our life, but we gotta save some, okay? So we can sow them and be more generous. I believe it's a good topic. I hope you'll like, share. If you haven't subscribed to the podcast where you do that, also maybe you'll pray about just being a monthly supporter. I could really use it. You know, and you think, man, my $3 wouldn't go very far. But listen, we've got a hundred people, it goes a long way. And I trust that you'll know and you'll trust that I'll use it for the glory of God. I thank you for enduring, listening. I can't wait to be back with you last or next week. Listen, I love you. But as much as I love you, Jesus loves you more. I'll see you next week.