A speaker argues that generosity flows naturally from the Holy Spirit and should be regular practice for believers. Jesus' sacrifice is the ultimate example. When money controls you instead, generosity dies and you end up serving wealth rather than God.
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I think generosity, first off, is a fruit of the Spirit that we, we should all have as believers. This is something that we should be generous. We're called to be generous, and some of us struggle with that more than others. Would that be the kindness part of the fruit of the Spirit? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Like, well, first off, generosity brings joy, right? It's, uh, it brings kindness. I think it's, it's just something that is like a natural outpouring of what we do as believers. Yeah, right. Jesus being the most generous person out there literally gave his life for us. Yeah, um, that is something that, that it should just be a normal act in our everyday life. Yeah, um, but when money controls us, we're not serving God, we're serving money. Generosity becomes something, you know, that we don't want to do, right? We're holding on to tight-fisted.