Money by Rev Andrew Murray

Chapter 3
The Grace of God and Money
“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was
rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his
poverty might become rich.” 2 Cor. 8: 9.
In this and the following chapters we have Paul's teaching on the
subject of Christian giving. In connection with a collection he wishes
the Corinthian Christians from among the Gentiles to make for their
Jewish brethren, he opens up the heavenly worth of our earthly gifts,
and unfolds principles which ought to animate us as we offer our
money in God's service. He does this especially as he cites the
example of the Macedonian Christians and their abounding liberality,
and makes them for all time the witnesses to what God's grace can do
in making the ingathering of money the occasion of the deepest joy,
of the revelation of the true Christlikeness, and of abounding
thanksgiving and glory to God. Let us gather up some of the principal
lessons; they may help us to find the way by which our money can
increasingly become a means and a proof of the progress of the
heavenly life within us.
1. The Grace of God always teaches us to give. "We make known to
you the grace of God which has been given to the churches of
Macedonia." 2 Cor 8:1. In the course of the two chapters the word
grace occurs eight times. Once of "the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who for our sakes became poor." Once of "the grace which God is able
to make abound to us." The other six times of the special grace of
giving.
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