The Overflow: “Let’s Go Farming”

The Overflow
“Let’s Go Farming”
9/21/25
Pastor Mark England

2 Corinthians 9:6-8 (CSB) The point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously. ⁷ Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of compulsion, since God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸ And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work.

Let’s Go Farming

The American Dream is the pursuit of , , and .

In American Christianity, we often associate “blessed and highly favored” with our .

This ideology of the American Dream has crept into the Church and has become the .

Have you traded the sovereignty of for the sovereignty of the ?

God is , not at .

1 Timothy 6:15 (CSB) God will bring this about in his own time. He is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords,

Psalm 103:19 (CSB) The Lord has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all.

1 Samuel 2:7 (CSB) The Lord brings poverty and gives wealth; he humbles and he exalts.

Don’t get it twisted, God is against .

3 John 1:2 (CSB) Dear friend, I pray that you are prospering in every way and are in good health, just as your whole life is going well.

1 Corinthians 4:11 (CSB) Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless;

There will always be a in the and in the .

God wants us to have the right as believers.

Mark 4:19 (CSB) but the worries of this age, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Luke 12:15 (CSB) He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed, because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

God’s focus for the believer is not the accumulation of riches. The focus is the accumulation of .

God is pulling us from the American Dream, to .

2 Peter 3:8-9 (CSB) Dear friends, don’t overlook this one fact: With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. ⁹ The Lord does not delay his promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.

The Kingdom Agenda is that everyone will come to and know Him in an .

If the believer is not a giver, then they either don’t know that their resources are a , or they simply don’t God.

Generosity is not an , it’s an .
Generosity is not , it’s .
Generosity is not a , it’s an .

This is the principle of farming.
When you plant an apple seed, you don’t get back one apple. You get an apple tree that can produce an of apples.

When we have a twisted view of generosity, we desire to be full , not knowing we’ll tomorrow.

The inflation tax on every believer is called “”.

Proverbs 11:24 (CSB) One person gives freely yet gains more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.

You can have the best in the world, but it will never produce without .

The matters.

Matthew 13:19-23 (CSB) When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path. ²⁰ And the one sown on rocky ground—this is one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy. ²¹ But he has no root and is short-lived. When distress or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away. ²² Now the one sown among the thorns—this is one who hears the word, but the worries of this age and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. ²³ But the one sown on the good ground—this is one who hears and understands the word, who does produce fruit and yields: some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times what was sown.”

2 Corinthians 9:7 (CSB) Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of compulsion, since God loves a cheerful giver.

God is reading the of the believer.

Cheerful giving has an E-ROI.
Eternal Return On Investment

2 Corinthians 9:8 (CSB) And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work.

God gives overflowing grace so that you can use it to .

The goal is not to take God’s grace and it.
The goal is to take God’s grace and it!

How is your soil?
Can God produce a harvest from ?