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In the New Testament, abundance is also used in terms of survival and provision, but not quite as often as it is used in terms of grace and the gifts we receive from the Holy Spirit. For instance, Romans 5:17 says "those who receive the abundance of grace," and 2 Corinthians 8:2 says that "their abundance of joy... overflowed in the wealth of their liberality." Then in 2 Corinthians 1:5 "the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance."
I can't help but see all of these things as our provisions. We no longer need the provisions of the world in order to see our God at work in us, but the provisions of grace, joy, suffering and all the other gifts that come from the Holy Spirit living within us.
The world can also see the Lord in these gifts of abundance. Just as the other nations recognized the power of God in the time of David because of Israel's strengths and wealth, the world can now see God for who He is by the grace that is given to us. No God but ours, the One True God, gives such gifts to His children.
Just as Israel needed what the Lord gave to them in abundance in order to survive, so we also need what the Lord gives to us in abundance through the Holy Spirit in order to survive this world and fight against the evil in it.
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