 Okay. Good morning. Good to see you all. Hope you all had a good night's rest and feel fresh this morning. How about all of you this morning? Good. Thank you for joining class. Today we're going to look at the last chapter in first Timothy and then we'll move on to second Timothy. Okay. Last week we saw, we looked at chapter four and chapter five. Can anyone tell me what we studied in chapter four and chapter five please? Any idea what we studied in chapter four? Okay. So basically in chapter four, yes, we saw about, yeah, believers, responsibility, leadership, that's chapter five, chapter four. He talks about false teachers and then he talks about how, you know, Timothy needs to set an example in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith and in purity. First Timothy chapter four was 12 and then he tells Timothy not to neglect the gifts that has been given to him and then he tells him to take heed for himself, his way of life, the doctrine that he's teaching. And then in chapter four, like you all said, talks about, you know, relationship within the church, relationship within the family, responsibilities, the believers responsibility towards their own family. The church's responsibility towards widows. Yes, he talks, thank you, Arinn. He also talks about leadership. Even Kiran has mentioned about that leadership. Thank you. Talking about how Timothy as a leader should be a spiritual leader and how he should lead others. And then he gives some personal notes on spiritual leadership. Okay, so that was chapter five. Okay. And, you know, the key takeaway versus verse 17, where he says, you know, we need to honor everybody in the church. We need to honor fathers, mothers, young people, young women, widows, and also he says that those who are elders in the church, those who have a spiritual responsibility, especially those who teach and preach the word and doctrine. They are, you know, worthy of double honor. So the key takeaway was, was, was 17 of chapter five. Now we'll move on to chapter six. So I'll request all of you to please turn to your bibles to first Timothy chapter six so that you can follow through. Also, if you can have your notes opened, you know, I'll be giving a lot of extra notes so you can take it down. So hence you can follow in your notes and also write down anything extra you want to write and also keep your bibles open so that we can read from that. Okay, can read each verse or the section which I ask you to read. So for our study today, we're going to divide this, this chapter, chapter six, which is the last chapter in first Timothy, we'll divide it into six sections. So in verses one and two, you know, Paul is addressing workplace relationships, how believers should be in the workplace. In verses three to five, he's, you know, giving words of truth. In verses six to ten, he's talking about godliness with contentment, how it's important to, you know, be godly and to be content. In verses 11 to 16, he's talking about the life of man, of a man of God. Okay, how a man of God, how a leader, a spiritual leader or how a believer, one who has faith in God, how they should live their lives. Verses 17 to 19, he's talking about the responsibilities of the rich. And verses 20 to 21, he's admonishing Timothy, encouraging him how to guard what has been entrusted to him. Now Paul is writing to Timothy, but there are a lot of lessons that we can learn because he's talking about the church, he's talking about leadership. He's talking about believers, he's talking about our responsibility towards our own family, towards the people in the church, towards, you know, even if you're in the workplace, how we need to, you know, how we need to behave, how we need to act our relationships. So it's not something that is just written to Timothy, so we have to study but something that we can apply to our own lives here and now in the present. Okay, so we look at verses one and two, the first section, workplace relationships. So can somebody read verses one and two please. Those who are safe must consider the master worthy of all respect, so that one will speak evil of the name of God and of our teaching slaves belonging to Christian must master must not despise. And for they are the brothers, instead, they are to serve them even better, because those who benefit from their world are believers whom you must teach and preach these things. Thank you, Erin. So here we see that Paul is talking about how believers should be at the workplace and their relationships at the workplace. And so he's talking about born servants, basically referring in our present day and time, employees. Okay, so all of us are employees, whether we're working in the secular or even in the ministry. Okay, so as employees, we are to honor or we are to respect our employers. Our employers are those who are over us, who God has placed over us our bosses or supervisors. So we need to honor them, we need to respect them. And Paul is saying why should we honor them? Why should we respect them so that the name of the Lord is glorified, and it's not dishonored. And hence it's so important how we conduct ourselves in our workplace, how we conduct ourselves in ministry, how we conduct ourselves in church and how we live our lives is so important because whatever we do say and the way we behave and act, you know, it's either going to glorify God or it's going to bring this honor to his name. Now, if you notice in the previous chapters, Paul is talking about honoring people. Okay, honoring different people in the church. So he's saying you have to honor everybody in the church and he first he talks about fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, widows. And he then goes on to talk about, you know, giving double honor to those who are elders, especially those who teach. And here he's talking about honoring how employees have to, you know, honor their employers or how servants have to honor their masters. Okay, now at the workplace, when we respect, now in the workplace when I say it's not talking about the secular field only if you have been in your ministry. Okay, so at the workplace, we respect and honor those who God has placed above us, because when we do, we are actually doing what God wants us to do, or what God expects of us to do. Okay, which means, you know, we should not be badmouthing about them criticizing behind their back, you know, tearing them down their character behind their backs. You know, doing things that will disrupt their plans, their agendas, doing things that are contrary to what they are saying, they are wanting, they are planning. But, you know, we need to, yes, we work with human beings, none of them are perfect, everyone have their weaknesses. So instead of going and sharing with others and talking about our bosses and pastors and leaders who God has placed above us, you know, even if, you know, we might sound very spiritual when we say, you know, I'm just sharing it with you so that you can pray about it. Okay, but if you really have to pray about it, you can pray about it because God is going to hear your prayer is going to answer. And it's important that you speak it out with the person directly and not badmouth about them criticize do things behind their back. Because when we do all of these things, it's not going to benefit anyone, it's not going to benefit your employer, your boss, it's going to create a lot of confusion, a lot of strife to the end that it will bring this unity and division. So that's not what God wants us to do. And that's not what he expects us or expects of us. And so it's important that, you know, we are very careful in how we live our lives and how we honor and respect our employers whom God has placed over us. So what and how we work itself is a testimony to God, and there's also an opportunity for us to glorify God in the workplace, because when people see us, and the way we work, the way we honor, the way we respect, the way we keep time, discipline, the way we act, you know, it's going to bring glory and honor to the God we serve, the God we worship. Now a good example about this is Joseph and Daniel as well, you know, they tried to find some fault in Daniel's work, but he was so excellent. You know, he had an excellent spirit, he did, he was, he never manipulated things, he kept record of things, they could, no way they could find any way, you know, where he would a fault or a mistake, he was so perfect in what he did. And that is the God we serve, a God of perfection, a God who does everything perfect in order, a God who is one God in three persons, but each one of them work in perfect, unity and in oneness, and we see that it is their desire that each one of us also work in unity and in oneness, because it's in John chapter 17, in the high priestly prayer where Jesus says, Father let them be one as we are one. So God desires unity and oneness and sometimes, you know, it's okay for us to drop down our egos, even to the point where, you know, even to the point where it's okay if we have to lose things in life, lose our privileges, honor, but if, you know, we say, God, I'm just doing this so that there's unity maintained, you know, this person is trying to do this in my team, not trying to work for me, trying to work against me, trying to bring everyone against me. God, you see it, you know it, I'm not going to talk about it to anybody, you are going to handle that. You know, when we do that, this is God's work, this is God's ministry, God's vineyard, you know, God is for us, if God is for us, who can be against us, you know, and God will move for you, he will work things, he will either move that person, or he will keep so much of favor in front of people that people will be able to see through, understand what you're doing, and you know, God will just fight your battles, you don't fight for God, God will fight your battles, all you need to do is continue to love that person, continue to maintain unity, continue to keep steady in what you are doing, you don't try to talk about this person to that person, create more division, create more disruption, because that is going to cause even more confusion, okay. So personally, in my own journey in the ministry, it's not been easy handling teams, you know, I've seen people who come against me do things, but I've never tried to fight them because I have no time fighting them, I have no energy fighting them, I just leave it to God, say God, you see, you know, I don't even have time to hear what people are saying, I have no proof, but God, you see everything, you will work, you will fight my battle, and I've seen God fight my battles for me, okay. All we need to do is continue to, you know, keep that unity going in the team, keep God's work going, progressing, don't deviate into all of these things that the enemy brings in so that it will train you of your time, energy, and finally it just, you know, breaks everything or brings down everything that you're trying to build up, you just continue building like Nehemiah, there are a lot of people who are trying to, you know, cause confusion, try to bring him out from his work so that they can prove him, but show him wrong that he's made a mistake, but we see that Nehemiah never left his post, he never left his position, he was at his workplace always, even if they called him to come to the temple or called him to come and we'll discuss about this and that he never went, he stayed positioned, he did what he came to do and he fulfilled it, and that is what we need to do, okay, don't deviate into a lot of other things, but keep your focus right, and God will fight our battles, he will take care like Nehemiah, sorry, for Nehemiah God fought the battles, okay, he didn't have to do anything, they just stayed positioned and God fought the battle for them, just like he did for the rest of the battles for the Israelites, okay, so when we honour God in our workplace and the way we live and the way we honour our bosses, the way we work, God is glorified and also people are watching us, okay, non-believers for them as we are lives are the only Bible that they are able to read in the world, okay, they will never read a Bible but they will be reading our lives, so your life is going to be the first touch point through which they are able to know God, you know, know about Jesus or know about the Christian faith, but if our life is such, you know, that it turns them away or it's disgusting in their sight or they're quite irritated with the way we live, the way we do things, then even if they, you know, somebody is bringing the gospel, they'll have nothing to do, because they say, I know our Christian, he or she worked with me in the workplace and what the Bible is saying and their lives is totally different and contrary, I don't want anything to do with the Bible, okay, so it's very important how we portray ourselves in this world, but if we don't, then we become a hindrance or a stumbling block for them to come to the faith, so our lives are the open Bible or the only Bible that they are going to read and they are going to see, okay, so you know, watch your life and your conduct and how you live your lives, but the name of God and his doctrine are not blaspheme, that's what Paul is writing to Timothy, he says, you know, people will judge Christianity, who God is, the name of God, what the Bible teaches that is talking about the doctrines, based on how believers conduct themselves in the workplace or how believers conduct themselves as workers, so we should not give an opportunity for people to blame God or blame the church for the wrong behavior of Christians at the workplace, okay, and Paul also goes on to say when you have a believer boss, it's very easy for us to think, okay, he's a believer boss and now he's become a Christian, so you know, he will give me more favor above all the other employees and since he's a believer, he's my brother in Christ, he should not expect me to work very hard, well that is the wrong kind of thinking, also we cannot expect them to think that, you know, okay, my boss is a believer, so he'll understand that I was not able to complete this work because I went for fasting prayer or went for the special meeting, the special man of God came and we had this meeting and so, you know, I know today was a deadline but I couldn't finish it because, you know, I had to go for this prayer meeting or I had to attend this Bible study, well, he's a believer boss but Paul is saying, you know, just like for elders in chapter five, he's saying you have to give them double honor, he's saying, so also like for believer bosses, you have to work more than you work for, you know, a boss in the world, okay, so he says that, you know, give them greater honor, don't take advantage of them and, you know, work more for them, work much harder for them and don't take advantage because he's a believer, he will grant you favor, he will lessen your workload and he will favor you above the rest of the employees, that's a wrong thing to, you know, wrong way of thinking and you also need to work sincerely even if it's a believer boss and then he says, let them not despise them because they are brethren but rather serve them, okay, so you have to serve those who are even believer bosses, okay, and here he's saying that, you know, he's talking about a born servant and just imagine if a slave, you know, tells, is saying my master is my brother and we are equal before the Lord and he has no right to tell me what to do, okay, well that is so totally wrong, so it's equal to that, if we as believers are going to say that, you know, my master or my boss is a brother in Christ and we both are equal before the Lord because for God there is no Jew or Greek male or female, all are one, then he has no right to tell me what to do, that's totally wrong, okay, so we have, and when we do that, we're actually dishonoring God and that's not pleasing in God's sight, so even as Paul is writing this to Timothy, he's telling him please teach these things to the people in church, you know, exhort them, teach them these things, teach them how they should, their responsibilities at home, their families, the responsibility towards the widows, how they have to honour father, mother, brother, sister, widows, how they have to honour elders and how they also have to honour their bosses and how they have to behave in the workplace and he says please teach them and exhort all of these things, so if you are pastors, we also are supposed to be teaching and preaching these things, or if you're doing a Bible study, you can go ahead and preach and teach how people should conduct themselves at home and at the workplace and each one of us, even as we have God has placed people above us, you know, we need to walk in submission, obedience and give them respect and not take advantage of them, okay, then we move on to the second section that is words of truth verses 3 to 5, can somebody read that please? If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the doctrine which accords with godliness, he is proud knowing nothing but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words from which come and bring strife, reviling evil suspicions on this useless wranglings of man of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain, from such withdraw yourself. Thank you Dave, so here Paul is saying that we must teach, we must address matters about how to relate to widows, to extended families that he mentions in chapters 3 and 5 and the workplace relationship, and he says when we teach these things we are actually teaching wholesome words, that means we are teaching words of truth or we are teaching truthful words and this teaching is aligned to godliness, so it's so important to teach these things because when we do we are teaching them the words of truth, truthful words and these teachings are aligned to godliness, if we don't teach such things then Paul is telling Timothy that we will simply be engaging in mere arguments and he is saying don't engage in arguments which are just mere words because these arguments come out of people who are corrupt minded, whose minds are decayed, who are rotten, they don't have the truth okay so corrupt means rotten and decayed, so corrupt minds and they are devoid of truth, that means they're totally away from the truth, so there's no point in arguing with them, but you just preach and teach what is the wholesome truth and he says such people who bring in wrong teachings, false teachings, corrupt teachings whose minds are corrupt, such people think that godliness is a means for making money okay and so Paul is saying stay away from such people, now there were these elders in the church, Jewish elders who are bringing about all these wrong teachings and they were doing it so that in a form of godliness to deceive the people but they're doing it to make money and hence Paul is saying don't keep away from such people because such people think that godliness is a means of making money, so he's telling Timothy don't use godliness, don't use your walk of faith as a means of making money for yourself okay so when we see people using matters of faith, of church, ministry, the kingdom of god and to make money we need to keep away from such people and so Paul is saying withdraw from these people sorry so Paul is saying stay away from these people, withdraw from them because they're using their godliness for a way to make money now what Paul is not saying here is that if you're godly you shouldn't be making money, no that's not what he's saying you can be godly and have money, there's nothing wrong with that, you can be godly and make money, there's nothing wrong with that but what Paul is really trying to say here is don't use your godliness, don't use the church, don't use your faith, don't use the kingdom of god as a means to make money okay so you know it's sad that some pastors manipulate people you know to get money to rob the rich you know or make use of them or take advantage of them that's very wrong so we can't use our godliness, our faith to make money but there's nothing wrong in you know being godly and working hard and earning a good sum of money or it's nothing wrong in being godly and making money in the right way which honors god and is not wrong so that is what he's saying in these verses and he's saying you know stay away from such people Timothy don't have anything to do with them and then he goes on to talk about in the next section verses 6 to 10 about godliness with contentment so can some here read verses 6 to 10 please okay thank you so Paul is saying now godliness so Paul has just told Timothy that those who misuse God's word wrongly think that godliness is a means of material gain and Paul knows that his statement will be understood so he follows it up with an explanation and he says now godliness with contentment is great gain it's true that godliness is great gain but only when it is accompanied with contentment okay a very important scripture here that Paul is mentioning on how we need to live our lives we need to live our lives with godliness and with contentment because when we do that it is great wealth what is contentment contentment is basically being satisfied with what we have you know just being happy with what you have it does not mean that you should not you know work hard to get you know a better position a better pay salary a better hike it does not mean that you need to get better with the kind of person you are okay but it does not mean all of these things yes you need to get better you need to work harder so that you get promoted the job where you are working you can get a good increment a good pay hike if you're running a business you know you would want to work harder to see your business making profit but Paul here is not talking about all of these things that you know you just be content with what you have that means you know just be content where you are in your position just keep doing the same things no we need to improvise we need to work hard we need to bring in more excellency more ideas in the place where we are working what Paul is basically talking about here is about the heart issues the attitudes he's saying that you know we need to live with godliness and we need to live with contentment that means we need to be grateful for what we have we need to stop comparing ourselves with others stop competing ourselves with others in terms of material positions in terms of what they have their talents what they good at you know so stop comparing yourself with others basically with their material possessions stop competing with others you know if you don't do it we will never be happy we will always feel discontent because there's always somebody who is better than us there's always somebody having a bigger car a bigger home a bigger this a bigger that doing things better than us so you know we will never be content so stop comparing and stop competing with others yes you can always look at others and say wow you know when they were able to do it I too can do it you know there's nothing that's going to be difficult or impossible it's going to challenge you strengthen you to move forward to work harder to do be the best at where you are okay and but don't compare and compete in the wrong sense because it will constantly make you feel discontent will always be happy no matter how much you have you will always be wanting more and more and more because there's always somebody who's having more than you there's somebody who's always better than you and you know who better to write this to Timothy than Paul himself when you know Paul is writing in Philippians chapter 4 verses 11 to 13 where he says not that I speak in regard to need for I have learned in whatever state I am to be content I know how to be a based and I know how to abound everywhere in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need I can do all things to Christ who strengthens me so Paul is the right person to write this because you know he's gone through times when he was hungry was beaten up shift back he was left almost dead he had you know plenty of times times he had nothing and he's saying that you know whatever the situation was I always learned to be content or I was always content in whatever state I was in plenty or when he lacked something he learned always to be content he learned always to be satisfied and we see that you know Paul never lost his inner peace and joy his inner peace and joy his contentment and satisfaction that did not depend on his outward circumstances okay it was because his peace and joy but directly connected to his relationship with God and not to this outward circumstances and that is why in this context he was able to say I can do all things to Christ who strengthens me and so he's telling Timothy that you know he wants Timothy to teach the believers in the church about these things okay and then moves on to in verses 9 and 10 where he says but those who desire to be rich fall into temptation in a snare and to many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and prediction and then he says in verse 10 the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil for some people have strayed away from the faith in their greediness and pierced themselves through with many sorrows so there's nothing wrong to be rich you know we read from scripture that God himself brings abundance into our lives God gives prosperity wealth riches honor blessings God gives richly all things for us to enjoy you know God seeks to put wealth of the world into the hands of his people and God does that he loves to do it he does that for his people and but God wants to make sure that we have the right heart capacity to handle what he gives us okay so what is the right heart attitude or the right heart capacity that God is looking for it's not that you know we have this attitude and say God you've blessed me with all this this is for me okay let's not be like the rich fool who built bigger bonds to store all of his riches but he was so poor in giving or blessing people who worked for him so don't keep everything for yourself see yourself as we need to see ourselves as a good steward of everything that God has put into our hands God has blessed us abundantly you know he's given us all that we need he's given us sometimes more than what we have need and he's done that for a reason and Paul later on tells us in this chapter you know he writes later on what we need to do with the riches with which God has blessed us with so here we're basically seeing that we need to keep our hearts free from the love of money the desire for riches keeping it all for ourselves holding it for all for ourselves keeping ourselves free from the love of money if we don't have you know the right kind of heart attitude then Paul is saying that we come in a place of danger okay if you have a heart attitude where we're saying all is for I me myself you know and we become desiring for more of riches more for money all just for ourselves then you know Paul is saying in a place of danger and the place of danger that we are in is a place where it will lead us into many temptations snares that means you know the evil one is trying to trap us to catch us to destroy our lives we will also get into many lustful passions that will hurt us will bring misery and pain and hurt us and it will draw us away from God okay it will draw us away from our faith it will draw us away from the relationship with God and why is Paul mentioning this here and writing it to Timothy is because this is what is happening in the church at Ephesus okay the leaders you know who are you know being godly but they're trying to preach and teach false doctrines doing it all for to make more money it's not only happening around it's also something that we see very prevalent in churches today so you know we need to take heed we need to learn you know it's easy for us to say okay this pastor does this that pastor does it but we need to guard our faith we need to guard what is entrusted to us that is what Paul goes on to tell Timothy okay so it's easy to look at others and you'd say okay they have fallen they made a mistake but we need to ourselves guard be careful in those areas and so even as we're learning this we can say okay I'm not rich or I'm not you know going to get rich or you know I'm so I'm not going to fall into all of these temptations you know I am somebody who constantly gives others it's a good thing but we need to guard ourselves because we never know when we are going to fall okay and then he moves on to talk about the next section the life of a man of God versus 11 to 16 so can somebody read verses 11 to 16 please 11 to 16 but you oh man of God fill these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness, fight, the good fight of fight, lay hold on eternal life to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses I argue you in the sight of God who gives life to all things and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before pointers, pillars that you keep this commandment without sport, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ appeared which he will manifest his own time he who is the blessed and only patent the king of king and a lot of plots who along has immorality dwelling in unappreciable light whom no man has seen or can see to whom be honored and everlasting power. Amen. Thank you Prince. So in the view of the potential dangers and how some people abuse the faith from making their own personal gain Paul is here admonishing Timothy to flee away that means to run away speedily quickly away from such things stay away from such people who love money who use godliness as a means to make money and you know stay away from using himself using godliness as a means for gain and then he's telling Timothy what he needs to focus on saying so you focus on things such as righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness, and then he says fight the good fight of faith keeping a firm grip on what is eternal. Okay, so here we see it's so important for us as believers as ministers of God to guard ourselves from the love of money and from all such things that will draw us away from God and from our faith and Paul says fight the good fight of faith which means he's saying you know Timothy there is an enemy, he's real and he's not going to be easy, it's not going to be an easy walk and because there is an enemy you need to make a choice to fight a good fight of faith. You need to make a choice to take hold of the eternal life, you need to hold on to your good confession which you have professed in the presence of many witness so and then he goes on to remind Timothy about Jesus and he's talking about this instance when Jesus was standing before Pontius Pilate you know Jesus does not change his confession he did not quit from doing what he came to do, he went through moments of intense pressure and pain and suffering and agony and he held on to his stand to the truth and he did what he came to do and so Paul is telling Timothy follow the example of Jesus and he's saying also follow the example of Jesus because the same Jesus is coming back and he says you know he says that Jesus who's coming back is the king of kings the Lord of lords who alone has immortality, he dwells in unapproachable light whom no man has seen or can see okay so he's saying Jesus is going to come back and so Timothy you and all the believers have to live a godly life because you are going to meet this king who is the king of kings the Lord of lords who is immortal who lives in unapproachable light but we are going to see this great awesome and mighty king okay and so you know for us as well you know we need to live our lives not quit not given to pressure not given to doing things to please our masters when they tell us to do things that are wrong say things that are wrong to live standards that are wrong you know we don't compromise but we take our stand boldly and we do what is right in God's sight because we know that Jesus himself set us an example and the king of kings is coming back and we have to meet the king and if we have to meet the king and live with the king then we need to live holy lives pleasing and acceptable in his sight and then Paul goes on to say in view of all this what should be our response or what should be the responsibility of the rich so if God has blessed you with riches blessings when not talking about riches in being a millionaire multimillionaire billionaire if he's just blessed you more than what you basically need or what you basically use then you are rich then he's he goes on to give us what is the responsibility of the rich or what should be the response of the rich in verses 17 to 19 because can somebody read verses 17 to 19 please yeah sure thank you canan comment those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty not to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God who gives us richly all things to enjoy let them do good then that they be rich in good works ready to give willing to share storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life. Thank you so here it was 17 he says you know those who are rich should not be haughty means let them not get proud because all that they have is God's blessing and God has blessed us with riches or given us abundantly not because we are good or not because we are more spiritual than the others or not because of our faith or our good deeds no we shouldn't think that God is blessing us because of our goodness our faith our good deeds or how spiritual we are you know God is blessing us because that is who he is he desires to bless his people instead we need to not have a proud attitude but we need to be stewards of what God has entrusted us with or you know what God has given to us and Paul is saying don't put your trust in money but put your trust in God. So what should people who are rich or those who are blessed by the Lord do he says do good be rich in good works be ready to give willing to share bless others with God God has blessed you it's basically saying be a generous person give give to the church give to the needy give to the poor give to those who are around you who are suffering struggling give to family members who have a need give be generous and he says when you are doing that you know when you are a generous person there is something that is happening on your behalf in eternity and he mentions about this also in Philippians chapter four verses five to nineteen where Paul is writing to the Philippians and he informs the Philippians that what they have given to him is a sweet smelling offering before God and the Philippian the church at Philippi is collected offerings sent Paul that so he's saying whatever you have done or given me is like a sweet smelling offering before God and he says that fruit will be credited to their account and God himself will provide for all their needs okay. So likewise you know when we are generous when you are giving for the work of God's kingdom there's fruit abounding in your account we do not know what kind of account God is having for us in heaven okay we don't know about that but there's something that's happening in eternity on your behalf okay and also we see here we read here that when we give is a sweet smelling aroma before God so our giving is also like worship to God God is pleased with it you know as you give God will supply all your needs okay because God Jesus says given be given to you a good measure pressed down shaken you know full and overflowing will be poured into your lap the amount you give that you will receive okay so the reason you can give is because you know God will again fill you up or supply all that you need because you know that God is the source so he's the one who supplies you will never run out you will never run drive so don't be afraid to bless others don't be afraid to give to others your eyes should not be on your money your eyes should be on the Lord who is your source who's your giver who will bless you and who is the one who will totally support you so here is talking about giving blessing others you know just giving through your riches with what God has blessed you with okay we just have one minute before the break we stop here if anyone has any questions any doubts before we look at the other verses no questions no doubts okay if not we'll go for a break and then we'll come back after the break okay