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Please note that your answer is in Jesus.

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Please know that He loves you and that He will set you free.

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There's all different types of addictions.

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I've had various, He will set you free.

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It won't be by your strength, it'll be by His.

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It won't be your power, it'll be His.

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You say, what do I do?

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There's things I've been addicted to.

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You come and you tell God your power list on your own.

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And you say, Lord, I trust You.

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Lord, I lean into You.

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.

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Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's Word

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and discover the hope and truth that He has for us.

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If you want to connect with City Light Church,

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feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com.

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That's citylightnyc.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit

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is already working in our hearts and minds.

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As you listen to today's teaching,

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remember that you are deeply loved by God.

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That you are surrounded by His grace and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

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We have concluded now for the last eight plus weeks our series on Galatians.

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And we have talked about the different covenants, the differences between the old and the new.

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Over and over again, we've read the words of the Apostle Paul,

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anointed by the Holy Spirit because it's not just some guy Paul writing.

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It's the very word of God inspired by the Holy Spirit.

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As you let us know, we're no longer under the curse of the law.

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And the curse of the law is that you have to keep doing the law

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and if you're guilty in one part, you're guilty of all.

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But now you've been invited into a covenant of grace that's God's unmarried favor.

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And it's yours for free.

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And hopefully if you've walked away with anything, you've walked away with a greater sense of God's love.

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That He loves you.

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And that's not cheap. It's not a cheap love.

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And it's not just an emotional love.

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It's a love that springs into action.

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It's a demonstrative love.

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Love can mean so many different things for people.

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God loves you and they think God from a distance just waving,

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sending good vibes and good energy.

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But the Bible says God so loved the world that He's sprung into action

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and gave His only begotten Son.

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His love does something. His love is a love of action.

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His love is a love of movement.

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And so the Scriptures declare over us over and over again that God loves us.

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It means that He is acting on your behalf.

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He's moving on your behalf.

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Amen.

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And so if you're a guest here,

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I just want to say welcome,

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and also we have waxed incredibly theological over the last eight weeks.

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We dove into the deep stuff.

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And I went line upon line, precept upon precept,

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verse by verse through the entire book of Galatians.

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But today is going to be a little different.

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I want to talk about a different subject matter,

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but something that's been brewing in my heart for some time.

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And something that I believe if you're a good shepherd,

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you'll want your people to be aware of and to know,

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because my job is to be an under shepherd to Jesus

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and to feed you the Word of God and to protect you

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and to issue a warning if necessary.

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And it's in the realm today that I want to discuss.

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It's in the realm of finances.

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Because you may not be paying attention.

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Some people subscribe to the ignorance is bliss model of living their lives.

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And then some people may be paying attention to the wrong things.

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Let me just say this right now.

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It's 2023. We're going into 2024.

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This, the media was always full of lies,

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but never so much like today.

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So some of you may think you're paying attention to what's going on.

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I would just question where you're getting your sources.

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I have to get my sources from dozens of different places

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and then come up with my own conclusion.

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The days of sitting in front of any media and just saying,

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oh, that's what's going on. Those days are gone.

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I'm telling you, you're going to be brainwashed within three weeks, tops.

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Amen.

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Because I'm not just reporting the news.

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They're telling you what to think about them.

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How to respond.

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Sometimes within 10 seconds of meeting someone,

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I just feel like saying your programming is showing.

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Excuse me, your programming is sticking out.

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Yeah. Please, tuck that away.

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I mean, I can just tell exactly where you're coming from because of...

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And in the natural, I stress, in the natural.

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Thank God we're not in the natural, we're in the spirit.

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But in the natural, the situation doesn't look too good financially

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for the country.

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If you haven't been paying attention, the country is massively in debt.

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This has been the story for years, but now it's really approaching

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if it hasn't already reached a critical point, a breaking point.

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30 plus trillion in debt during 2020,

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the country printed four plus trillion dollars just created it out of thin air.

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If you follow me on social media, I've posted the videos of Powell

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just talking about how they created the money out of thin air.

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And the guy on 60 minutes says, well, you printed the money?

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They don't even printed anymore.

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There's no. We just basically clicked on the keyboard

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and added several trillion.

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And people are not wondering, where does the inflation come from?

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And arguing about what inflation is.

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Inflation comes from inflating the money supply.

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Money gets its value from a thing called scarcity.

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And if you can just add four plus trillion, make it rain on the nation

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and now it loses the value.

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I remember in 2020 I started talking about inflation and people looked at me

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like I had two heads.

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I told it, majority of Americans, I feel,

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just from the responses I got, didn't even know what inflation was.

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It wasn't in the vernacular.

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Then you have it maybe as a distant economic concept.

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And now you hear about it all the time and you've experienced it

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when you go to buy a dozen eggs.

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This thing is on, right?

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She hit the jackpot.

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If you can just dial that volume down, it's just a smidgen.

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It reminds me when I go through the airports and the jackpot.

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They don't have that in American airports,

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but other ones that have slot machines and different dependable conchula.

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I understand. I got kiddos too.

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I get it.

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Just a volume, just a smidgen.

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I get so easily distracted when I preach.

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I'm going to come alongside her and play.

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Are we dismissed as at the end of the survey?

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Where am I?

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I'm just getting started.

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I want you to be prepared.

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This doesn't have to be the story for you.

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I want you to be financially sound.

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We prepared going into 2024.

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And so just to set the foundation,

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I want to read to you from Deuteronomy 8.

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Deuteronomy 8.10.

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When you have eaten and are full,

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say full.

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Just I want you to catch God's heart for prosperity.

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He doesn't say when you have eaten just enough.

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But when you have eaten and are full,

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just that shout it one more time.

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Full.

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That means you're waddling away from the table.

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You're full.

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This is God's heart.

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This is Jesus when he fed the multitudes.

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They took up 12 baskets of leftovers.

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That's his way.

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That's his style.

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When you have eaten and are full,

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then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land.

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Shout good lands.

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Good land which he has given you.

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Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God

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by not keeping his commandments,

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his judgments and his statutes which I command you today.

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Less when you are eaten and are full

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and have built beautiful houses.

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Shout beautiful houses.

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Beautiful houses.

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Not shacks.

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I just want you to catch God's heart.

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Look, you can either read this and go,

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that's nice or you can say,

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when I first saw this in the Bible,

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I was shacked.

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I was blown away.

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Because somehow I was taught to equate poverty with Godliness.

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And poverty has nothing to do with Godliness.

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Poverty is not something anybody should be welcoming

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into their lives.

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You're not some 15th century monk going up into the hills,

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taking a vow of poverty,

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which I don't know why they did that,

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or I mean I know historically why,

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but I don't really see the fruit.

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You can find God in wealth.

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You can find Him in spite of poverty.

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But I've tried both and I'm telling you wealth is better.

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I promise you.

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When you have eaten in our full

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and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them.

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And when your herds and your flocks multiply,

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back then they use herds and flocks instead of bank accounts.

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When your herds and your flocks multiply,

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and your silver and your gold are multiplied,

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and all that you have is multiplied.

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Shout multiplied.

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When your heart is lifted up,

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and this is the danger as the Lord begins to bless you,

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that your heart is lifted up and you think that it's you who did it.

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And there really is a real temptation.

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You want to lean into the humility of the Lord

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and show your dependence on Him.

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When your heart is lifted up and you forget the Lord your God

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who brought you out of the land of Egypt

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from the house of bondage,

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who led you through that great and terrible wilderness

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in which were fiery serpents and scorpions,

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in thirsty land where there was no water,

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who brought water for you out of the flinty rock,

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who fed you in the wilderness with mana,

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which your fathers did not know.

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This is talking about that wilderness season

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that He might humble you and that He might test you.

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Why? To do you good in the end.

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Your end state will be better than your beginning state.

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And I've been serving the Lord for 30 plus years.

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And I think I've had about six in 30 plus years,

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actual wilderness seasons.

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I'm not talking about a bad day, a bad week,

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but I'm talking about a wilderness season.

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Practically you're having a crisis of faith.

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You ever been through a wilderness season?

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That's when you want to just jump out of your skin.

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You don't even want to be you.

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You even have the thought, Lord, take me up.

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Nothing makes sense and you're in the crushing.

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It's at about six.

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Now I didn't think this one I was going through,

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when I was going through it,

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I'd do anything to not be going through it,

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but having gone through it, I look back and I think,

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yeah, I wouldn't trade those for anything.

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How many of you can relate?

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You have made it through a wilderness.

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I wouldn't trade it for anything,

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because I will look back then and see

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that there was a promotion associated with that.

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Usually, months up to a year and a half later,

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I'll look back and go,

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my life is in a totally different place.

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After that wilderness season, I went through a crushing,

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I went through a pressing, I was tested.

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Humility means your dependence, your neediness for God,

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that he might humble you and that he might test you,

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become more humble and then he did you good in the end.

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Hallelujah.

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Next verse.

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Then you say in your heart,

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my power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.

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No, don't do that.

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Don't do that.

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And you shall remember the Lord your God,

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for it is He who gives you power to get wealth.

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When I first read this verse,

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it had an impact on me.

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And you can read this and go,

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isn't that sweet?

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Or you can say,

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this is God and this is God for me.

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Power is anointing,

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creative ability,

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power to get wealth,

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that he may establish his covenant

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which he swore to your fathers

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as it is this day.

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The covenant is established when you increase.

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Hey, it's part of the covenant.

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Say that belongs to me.

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It belongs to you.

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It belongs to you.

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Increase.

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Hallelujah.

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Then he may establish his covenant

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which he swore to your fathers

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as it is this day.

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So God is on your side.

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You are not a citizen of earth.

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The Bible says your citizenship is in heaven.

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And I want to provoke your faith

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as we go into 2024

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that no matter what is happening,

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I want to see you on the increase

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and in a better place financially.

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Can we agree to that?

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Amen.

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I know for some people

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to talk about finances in church,

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it's almost sacrilege

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because they just think

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the two don't go together.

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That's not my fault.

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You don't think the two go together.

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Jesus put them together all the time.

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You know, Jesus talked twice

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as much about hell as he did about heaven.

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But he talked about finances,

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offerings, talents.

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Talents, not like I'm talented,

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I can sing but talent as a unit of measurement

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for precious metal.

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And real estate,

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he talked about all that

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more than heaven and hell combined.

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Why?

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Because he knows that's important to you.

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Isn't it crazy how people can come to church

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and then separate and think

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that's not important?

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But it is important

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because you still live on earth,

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although your citizenship is in heaven

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and your son of God

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and a daughter of God,

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but you still have to interact with the earth.

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You can't go to the grocery store

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and buy a dozen eggs for eight dollars.

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And when it's time to pay,

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say, you know,

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my citizenship is in heaven.

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And actually, I don't talk about finances.

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I should talk about it more.

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The more I talk to people

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and the church, the more I realize

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I should talk about it more.

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Because honestly,

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some things,

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I've done my homework.

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I've dove into this

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and the practicality of this.

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And the Lord has blessed me.

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And then I'm shocked that some people still,

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I say this with love,

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but it really sends a shutter

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through my heart.

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They're in a high school level.

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They could be over 50,

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but they're in a high school level

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in understanding how finances work

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and they're wondering

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why they're always broke.

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Why they're always on barely

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get along street

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and just barely have enough.

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And it shouldn't be.

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Your silver and your gold

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should be multiplying.

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And your oxen,

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multiplying,

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and all that you have,

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multiplying,

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that's God's heart.

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So let's get out of his way

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and allow him to do that

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in our lives, amen.

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And don't let the news out there scare you.

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Yeah, in the natural,

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it is bleak.

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But that's when we just

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rev it up.

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I'm giving more.

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I'm not giving less.

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I'm believing more.

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I'm not believing less.

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I'm expecting for more.

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I'm not expecting for less.

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Hallelujah.

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Please don't.

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Don't make me be the only one.

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Please.

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I don't want to be here

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in a year apologizing.

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Oh, for my wealth.

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I...

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I won't do it anyway,

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but I don't want to be here

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a year from now having to explain.

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Let me not say,

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I'm having to explain.

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Oh, 2024 is going to be delicious.

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For me and my family,

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that's my...

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It's going to be amazing.

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If you could do it back then

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and cause a water to come out

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of a dry and flinty rock,

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furnish a table in the wilderness,

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2024 is going to be our best year yet.

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Declare that over yourself.

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Over your family.

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The best year.

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Hallelujah.

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So what comes in the way

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of this kind of thinking,

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probably what I'm facing

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a little bit right now as a ministering,

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is something called a poverty spirit,

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or poverty mentality,

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because when I say poverty spirit,

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don't think of a broke demon.

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Like a shoeless demon

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with a coat and holes

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goes around.

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Is that what you thought?

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You must have read Christian books

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in the 90s.

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Illustrated ones.

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Did you...

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Did I know?

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I've been in the biz long enough.

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I know exactly where it comes from.

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Yes, there is a demonic spirit,

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but in order for it to function,

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it has to be a mentality first

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where transformed by the renewing of our minds.

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The principalities and the powers

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they can only function

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when there is this particular thought

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that runs through people.

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And if enough people have the same thought,

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that's when you get a stronghold.

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A stronghold is a house made of thoughts.

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So, poverty spirit,

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and I've just hated it, it's disgusting.

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And it's a mentality that afflicts people.

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I've been to over 50 different countries.

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I can sometimes feel at the moment

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the playing touches ground.

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You can feel the poverty spirit.

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I love poor people, by the way.

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I just hate the poverty spirit.

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Jesus loved poor people,

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but didn't glorify the poverty spirit.

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Some people think the poverty spirit equates to holiness.

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We have, by the way, missions programs

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in some of the poorest countries on earth.

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We spend years working over in Liberia,

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fourth poorest nation on the earth.

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I never ever got off that plane

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and said, wow, the holiness of God is in this place.

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You just feel, because of the poverty you know,

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it's the holy.

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Oh, it's the exact opposite.

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Oh, Lord.

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So, I want to give you some characteristics

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so that you can be open and find

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where you are aligning yourself

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or agreeing with this poverty spirit in your own life.

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And let's put an end to it, amen.

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Let's say no, what's in for all.

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Hallelujah.

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It is, I believe, with all my heart,

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it is our responsibility to be financially blessed.

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It's not just something we can indulge in,

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but it's our responsibility.

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It's our responsibility to have a cup that overflows.

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I don't want him to come to me and say,

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you just buried your talents.

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What did you do?

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You did nothing.

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But no, you grew.

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And now, with more finances,

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you can help more people.

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Hallelujah.

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So, this should never, anything I say,

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by the way, it may be to provoke you,

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it's never to condemn you.

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If you get upset at me, I welcome that good.

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But just know, I'm on your side,

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and I'm never, ever condemning you,

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but I may be provoking you.

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But we live under no condemnation

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thanks to the blood of Jesus, amen.

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So, you ready?

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Let's go through some characteristics of the poverty spirit.

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In no particular order of importance.

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But number one,

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a characteristic of the poverty spirit

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is resentment,

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specifically towards people of means,

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towards wealthy people.

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If you find that you resent people

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who are better off than you,

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that is a type of the poverty spirit.

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And usually, in the media,

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wealthy people are presented as like evil.

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And I'm telling you right now,

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they're not.

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There are some, but you know what?

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This might blow your mind.

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Just hang on.

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Did you know there's evil poor people?

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Did you know that?

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There's wealthy people that are harming you.

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Did you know there's poor people that are harming you?

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I know.

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There's wealthy people who are proud and selfish.

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Did you know there's poor people that are proud and selfish?

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But statistically speaking,

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percentage wise, wealthy people

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give way more and relieve way more suffering than poor people.

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I don't yourself, of course, they're wealthy.

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They have more money.

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I mean percentage wise.

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They'll give a greater percentage

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of money that they have.

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This country has done so much good concerning Christianity.

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We were at the height responsible

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for over 91% of the missionaries in the world.

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Before Korea came.

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How Korea sending out missionaries wholesale into the world.

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But we were responsible for 91%.

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Warfinages being built, churches being built.

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People doing good with their finances.

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Where I come from, there's a severe poverty mentality

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that's still from the old communist days.

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And they just think every poor rich person is evil.

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I'll never forget.

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This is nearly 20 years ago now.

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After the war ended, I came.

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And I'm taking a boat ride off the coast.

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I see this beautiful house.

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And I asked the boat operator,

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who's house is that?

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He goes, ah, mafia.

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Everybody who seems to have money,

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they just say mafia.

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Mafia.

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They don't even know them.

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Just must be evil because they have money.

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Mafia.

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I just said, wow.

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The mob is big here.

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Mind you, it's like the safest place in Eastern Europe.

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There's no...

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Later, after my trip, I'm on the airplane

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and I open up the inflight magazine

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and I see the same house.

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And it's a woman who sells perfume

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and has her own perfume factory,

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has a huge cosmetic slime.

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Not mafia.

539
00:23:13.500 --> 00:23:15.500
It's just a business owner.

540
00:23:15.500 --> 00:23:17.500
But when you're under the poverty spirit,

541
00:23:17.500 --> 00:23:20.500
everything is mafia.

542
00:23:20.500 --> 00:23:23.500
Now, when the Bible condemns rich people,

543
00:23:23.500 --> 00:23:25.500
it always qualifies specifically,

544
00:23:25.500 --> 00:23:27.500
like in the book of James,

545
00:23:27.500 --> 00:23:29.500
rich people who keep back by defraud.

546
00:23:29.500 --> 00:23:32.500
Rich people who specifically are becoming wealthy

547
00:23:32.500 --> 00:23:35.500
because they're defrauding poor people.

548
00:23:35.500 --> 00:23:37.500
But that's not all wealthy people, amen?

549
00:23:37.500 --> 00:23:39.500
And by the way, you can't become

550
00:23:39.500 --> 00:23:43.500
something you're cursing under your breath.

551
00:23:43.500 --> 00:23:45.500
Amen.

552
00:23:45.500 --> 00:23:47.500
Hallelujah.

553
00:23:47.500 --> 00:23:49.500
So, give it to that resentment.

554
00:23:49.500 --> 00:23:51.500
If you have instant resentment,

555
00:23:51.500 --> 00:23:53.500
if you see someone in a nice car,

556
00:23:53.500 --> 00:23:55.500
well dressed in a nice home,

557
00:23:55.500 --> 00:23:59.500
repent of that.

558
00:23:59.500 --> 00:24:03.500
Hallelujah.

559
00:24:03.500 --> 00:24:07.500
Or don't.

560
00:24:07.500 --> 00:24:11.500
And it'll be another round around the mountain.

561
00:24:11.500 --> 00:24:13.500
Don't do another round around the mountain.

562
00:24:13.500 --> 00:24:15.500
You know what that's a reference to?

563
00:24:15.500 --> 00:24:17.500
The children of Israel.

564
00:24:17.500 --> 00:24:19.500
40 years.

565
00:24:19.500 --> 00:24:21.500
Should have been an 11-day journey.

566
00:24:21.500 --> 00:24:23.500
The walk is like here from here to Rhode Island.

567
00:24:23.500 --> 00:24:27.500
Can you imagine that taking you 40 years?

568
00:24:27.500 --> 00:24:31.500
Going around Central Park 20 times for a few months.

569
00:24:31.500 --> 00:24:35.500
This is getting monotonous.

570
00:24:35.500 --> 00:24:39.500
But you literally have some people still live their lives.

571
00:24:39.500 --> 00:24:41.500
Another round.

572
00:24:41.500 --> 00:24:45.500
Oh, we owe.

573
00:24:45.500 --> 00:24:47.500
Number two.

574
00:24:47.500 --> 00:24:53.500
Part of the spirit of poverty.

575
00:24:53.500 --> 00:24:57.500
Is always having an idea of what rich people should do

576
00:24:57.500 --> 00:24:59.500
with their money.

577
00:24:59.500 --> 00:25:01.500
Like Judas.

578
00:25:01.500 --> 00:25:05.500
The woman came with an alabaster box inside the alabaster box.

579
00:25:05.500 --> 00:25:07.500
Precious perfume.

580
00:25:07.500 --> 00:25:09.500
Worth a year's wages.

581
00:25:09.500 --> 00:25:11.500
Think of that in today's term.

582
00:25:11.500 --> 00:25:13.500
And Judas says,

583
00:25:13.500 --> 00:25:15.500
what a great waste.

584
00:25:15.500 --> 00:25:17.500
Really she got wasted on Jesus.

585
00:25:17.500 --> 00:25:19.500
But he says, what a great waste.

586
00:25:19.500 --> 00:25:21.500
This should have been sold and given to the poor.

587
00:25:21.500 --> 00:25:23.500
It seems so noble, right?

588
00:25:23.500 --> 00:25:25.500
This could have been sold and given to the poor.

589
00:25:25.500 --> 00:25:29.500
And Jesus as only Jesus could.

590
00:25:29.500 --> 00:25:33.500
So Christ-like, because after all he is Jesus the Christ.

591
00:25:33.500 --> 00:25:35.500
He in a very nice way says,

592
00:25:35.500 --> 00:25:39.500
mind your business to Judas.

593
00:25:39.500 --> 00:25:41.500
Mind your business.

594
00:25:41.500 --> 00:25:45.500
What do you care what she did with her stuff?

595
00:25:45.500 --> 00:25:47.500
If she wants to spray it around,

596
00:25:47.500 --> 00:25:49.500
bathe in it, play catch with it,

597
00:25:49.500 --> 00:25:53.500
or annoyed me with it before my burial.

598
00:25:53.500 --> 00:25:57.500
That's her business.

599
00:25:57.500 --> 00:25:59.500
Is this resonating with anyone?

600
00:25:59.500 --> 00:26:03.500
I don't know if you've noticed there's this whole cry of people

601
00:26:03.500 --> 00:26:07.500
telling wealthy people what they should do with their money.

602
00:26:07.500 --> 00:26:09.500
Right, tax the rich,

603
00:26:09.500 --> 00:26:11.500
tax them, tax them into oblivion.

604
00:26:11.500 --> 00:26:13.500
It sounds so nice.

605
00:26:13.500 --> 00:26:17.500
Do you know, if you took, there's 700 billionaires in America.

606
00:26:17.500 --> 00:26:19.500
700 of them.

607
00:26:19.500 --> 00:26:21.500
If you confiscated all their wealth,

608
00:26:21.500 --> 00:26:25.500
it wouldn't be worth more than $3 trillion.

609
00:26:25.500 --> 00:26:27.500
That's less than a tenth of our national deficit.

610
00:26:27.500 --> 00:26:29.500
It wouldn't be a drop in the bucket.

611
00:26:29.500 --> 00:26:31.500
And they're telling you they're the problem,

612
00:26:31.500 --> 00:26:37.500
while they're hiding their absolute reckless out of control spending.

613
00:26:37.500 --> 00:26:39.500
And by the way,

614
00:26:39.500 --> 00:26:43.500
the best way to demoralize and destabilize a country

615
00:26:43.500 --> 00:26:45.500
is to incite class warfare.

616
00:26:45.500 --> 00:26:47.500
America was doing the best

617
00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:49.500
and everybody was on the increase

618
00:26:49.500 --> 00:26:51.500
and we're all cheering each other on

619
00:26:51.500 --> 00:26:53.500
and everybody could believe that they could make it here

620
00:26:53.500 --> 00:26:55.500
but no, the really evil,

621
00:26:55.500 --> 00:26:57.500
bad rich people.

622
00:26:57.500 --> 00:26:59.500
They're getting in your way.

623
00:26:59.500 --> 00:27:03.500
No, this is still the best country on the planet

624
00:27:03.500 --> 00:27:07.500
for upward mobility on planet earth.

625
00:27:07.500 --> 00:27:09.500
And if you don't believe that,

626
00:27:09.500 --> 00:27:11.500
go find a country that's better.

627
00:27:11.500 --> 00:27:13.500
Tell me a country that's better

628
00:27:13.500 --> 00:27:15.500
and then back it up.

629
00:27:15.500 --> 00:27:17.500
Words are cheap, back it up, move.

630
00:27:17.500 --> 00:27:19.500
We need to receive postcards from you

631
00:27:19.500 --> 00:27:21.500
of how well you're doing there.

632
00:27:21.500 --> 00:27:25.500
We will all pray for you for success.

633
00:27:29.500 --> 00:27:31.500
Oh, Hallelujah.

634
00:27:39.500 --> 00:27:41.500
Oh, praise God.

635
00:27:41.500 --> 00:27:43.500
And

636
00:27:45.500 --> 00:27:47.500
number three.

637
00:27:49.500 --> 00:27:51.500
And this is key.

638
00:27:51.500 --> 00:27:53.500
Part of the poverty spirit

639
00:27:53.500 --> 00:27:57.500
is living above your means.

640
00:27:57.500 --> 00:28:01.500
Living above your means.

641
00:28:01.500 --> 00:28:07.500
Letting your outflow be more than your income.

642
00:28:07.500 --> 00:28:09.500
And I would say that right now

643
00:28:09.500 --> 00:28:11.500
I say this with love in my heart

644
00:28:11.500 --> 00:28:13.500
as high as 80% of the people right here.

645
00:28:13.500 --> 00:28:17.500
You're living above your means.

646
00:28:17.500 --> 00:28:19.500
Part of the reason why I'm preaching this message

647
00:28:19.500 --> 00:28:23.500
is before COVID, right before COVID hit.

648
00:28:23.500 --> 00:28:27.500
The amount of savings in America

649
00:28:27.500 --> 00:28:31.500
was in the trillions.

650
00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:33.500
Not national savings,

651
00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:35.500
but I'm talking about all the US citizens

652
00:28:35.500 --> 00:28:37.500
and how much they had in their savings account.

653
00:28:37.500 --> 00:28:39.500
Now,

654
00:28:39.500 --> 00:28:41.500
not even four years later,

655
00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:43.500
it's the tenth of that.

656
00:28:43.500 --> 00:28:45.500
What happened to the savings?

657
00:28:45.500 --> 00:28:47.500
And at the same time,

658
00:28:47.500 --> 00:28:49.500
credit card debt has

659
00:28:49.500 --> 00:28:51.500
increased.

660
00:28:51.500 --> 00:28:53.500
Have you ever

661
00:28:53.500 --> 00:28:55.500
gone out of a supermarket

662
00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:57.500
and walked out with a bag and gone,

663
00:28:57.500 --> 00:28:59.500
how's that $62?

664
00:28:59.500 --> 00:29:01.500
It's like six items jingling in there.

665
00:29:01.500 --> 00:29:03.500
And then I would ask how are people making it?

666
00:29:03.500 --> 00:29:05.500
How are they doing it?

667
00:29:05.500 --> 00:29:07.500
Then I realized they're not.

668
00:29:07.500 --> 00:29:09.500
It's the same old song.

669
00:29:09.500 --> 00:29:11.500
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

670
00:29:11.500 --> 00:29:13.500
Charge!

671
00:29:13.500 --> 00:29:17.500
And living off credit.

672
00:29:17.500 --> 00:29:19.500
And they're living above their means.

673
00:29:19.500 --> 00:29:27.500
I encourage you.

674
00:29:27.500 --> 00:29:29.500
Before any of the other things

675
00:29:29.500 --> 00:29:31.500
I mentioned, even if you're married

676
00:29:31.500 --> 00:29:33.500
to get together with your spouse

677
00:29:33.500 --> 00:29:36.660
if you're single to get together with yourself in Jesus

678
00:29:36.660 --> 00:29:38.140
and do some real inner work.

679
00:29:39.660 --> 00:29:43.260
Get do some real, take an inventory of yourself

680
00:29:43.260 --> 00:29:45.980
and see what expenses you can cut off.

681
00:29:50.420 --> 00:29:53.220
And it actually comes from a spirit of poverty.

682
00:29:53.220 --> 00:29:55.980
I'm familiar with it because of my former country

683
00:29:56.980 --> 00:29:59.420
and how they operate.

684
00:29:59.420 --> 00:30:00.420
And you see it everywhere, really.

685
00:30:00.420 --> 00:30:02.900
Everywhere there's a part when I was in Bible school down South,

686
00:30:02.900 --> 00:30:06.420
I drive by a trailer park and there'd be three kids running around

687
00:30:06.420 --> 00:30:08.180
in their underwear, dirty feet,

688
00:30:08.180 --> 00:30:11.420
but there's a brand new sparkling Ford F-150.

689
00:30:11.420 --> 00:30:12.820
Right in front of the...

690
00:30:12.820 --> 00:30:16.500
Where I'm from, the big thing was gold chains.

691
00:30:17.500 --> 00:30:19.700
It was this whole thing where every minute you are in a man

692
00:30:19.700 --> 00:30:21.140
if you don't have a gold chain.

693
00:30:22.140 --> 00:30:23.860
It was a particular kind too.

694
00:30:26.380 --> 00:30:29.060
And good shoes, good sneakers.

695
00:30:29.060 --> 00:30:30.660
My cousins were like that.

696
00:30:30.660 --> 00:30:31.660
I'd always pay for lunch,

697
00:30:31.660 --> 00:30:34.380
for they had the gold chain and the fancy sneakers.

698
00:30:34.380 --> 00:30:37.180
And then I'd go into their house and have a bottle of ketchup in the fridge.

699
00:30:38.700 --> 00:30:39.700
But you have...

700
00:30:41.340 --> 00:30:44.140
You know that scripture that says you have a form of godliness

701
00:30:44.140 --> 00:30:45.860
but deny the power they're off?

702
00:30:45.860 --> 00:30:49.020
Well, too many people, they have a form of prosperity

703
00:30:49.020 --> 00:30:51.020
but deny the actual money they're of.

704
00:30:53.020 --> 00:30:55.260
So the Instagram feed is fire.

705
00:30:56.460 --> 00:30:57.980
And they look so good.

706
00:30:57.980 --> 00:30:59.300
But really, they're broke.

707
00:30:59.300 --> 00:31:01.820
They're broke, hooked up to their eyebrows.

708
00:31:03.140 --> 00:31:04.900
That is not God's best for you.

709
00:31:06.780 --> 00:31:07.980
You know how I...

710
00:31:07.980 --> 00:31:11.940
And I know this and I can recognize it so quickly

711
00:31:11.940 --> 00:31:13.380
because I was there.

712
00:31:13.380 --> 00:31:14.780
I was afflicted by it.

713
00:31:16.700 --> 00:31:19.180
And when I dug deep, I realized that's just pride.

714
00:31:20.380 --> 00:31:23.420
Many of you know our story and I've shared

715
00:31:24.380 --> 00:31:27.580
my family and the journey we've been on

716
00:31:27.580 --> 00:31:30.380
and I got into Bitcoin back in 2019.

717
00:31:31.340 --> 00:31:32.860
It was the best decision I ever did.

718
00:31:32.860 --> 00:31:36.300
And we did a whole seminar here in the church and I...

719
00:31:38.060 --> 00:31:40.860
This is not financial advice, but I'm giving financial advice.

720
00:31:41.980 --> 00:31:43.340
I believe in it with all my heart.

721
00:31:45.660 --> 00:31:47.580
I believe in it because you can't make any more of them.

722
00:31:48.300 --> 00:31:50.140
And they'll ever only be 21 million of them.

723
00:31:50.140 --> 00:31:52.940
But anyway, I won't give you a Bitcoin lecture.

724
00:31:53.020 --> 00:31:56.780
But we got our whole finance has changed as a result of that.

725
00:31:57.740 --> 00:32:01.100
And we got flooded in that condo that we had in Williamsburg

726
00:32:01.100 --> 00:32:02.940
and moved to a beautiful house out in Long Island.

727
00:32:03.740 --> 00:32:05.660
And then we needed a second car.

728
00:32:05.660 --> 00:32:08.860
Well, we have a second car, but it's really a 2011 clunker.

729
00:32:09.500 --> 00:32:11.100
I mean, it's Alexis, but I'm telling you,

730
00:32:11.100 --> 00:32:12.860
it's like there's no air conditioning that works.

731
00:32:13.580 --> 00:32:16.700
Like you got to put the windows down, the house is beautiful.

732
00:32:17.260 --> 00:32:19.020
And now my prize started getting activated

733
00:32:19.020 --> 00:32:21.820
and started thinking, you know, I need a car to match the house.

734
00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:28.380
I think God, I have such an amazing wife, really.

735
00:32:29.180 --> 00:32:31.660
She's never once said, you know, I deserve.

736
00:32:32.460 --> 00:32:33.260
She was just...

737
00:32:33.260 --> 00:32:35.260
She, in fact, when I'm the one who gets heated up

738
00:32:35.260 --> 00:32:37.020
and she has to talk me down off the ledge.

739
00:32:38.460 --> 00:32:40.300
Because I'm sitting there and I'm going,

740
00:32:40.300 --> 00:32:41.500
you know, start fantasizing.

741
00:32:41.500 --> 00:32:46.140
I'm like, oh, I wonder what a 2024 would feel like.

742
00:32:47.660 --> 00:32:50.380
I bet the leather is extra buttery.

743
00:32:51.340 --> 00:32:56.060
I bet, I bet it's, I bet my phone completely syncs up with it.

744
00:32:56.060 --> 00:32:57.740
I mean, do I even have to drive that thing?

745
00:32:57.740 --> 00:33:01.180
I bet I just lay back and makes this presso for me and I sip

746
00:33:01.180 --> 00:33:02.620
and it just takes me where I need to go.

747
00:33:03.180 --> 00:33:06.540
And then I do the math and I realize this will be the worst decision.

748
00:33:06.540 --> 00:33:09.420
Even though financially, we could buy it right now.

749
00:33:10.300 --> 00:33:13.740
But I'm going to end up buying the worst possible asset you could possibly own.

750
00:33:14.620 --> 00:33:15.900
And ice cube that's melting.

751
00:33:17.180 --> 00:33:18.940
And just losing value every single day.

752
00:33:20.780 --> 00:33:24.620
So we opted and she talked me off that ledge.

753
00:33:24.620 --> 00:33:27.740
I was like, oh, thank goodness for wives through whom the Holy Spirit speaks.

754
00:33:30.380 --> 00:33:33.180
Now, I'm not suggesting, look, there's a balance here.

755
00:33:33.660 --> 00:33:36.300
I'm not suggesting that any luxury items are bad.

756
00:33:36.860 --> 00:33:40.540
But I'm saying that to get into debt over them is bad and we'll keep you broke.

757
00:33:41.660 --> 00:33:44.940
But luxury items, if you save up for them, if you believe for them,

758
00:33:45.740 --> 00:33:46.620
knock yourself out.

759
00:33:47.260 --> 00:33:51.100
Oh, quality items, don't get suckered in by just...

760
00:33:52.540 --> 00:33:55.180
What's with the bumper sticker, the Supreme bumper sticker?

761
00:33:55.180 --> 00:33:56.380
Is it on Honda Civics?

762
00:33:59.260 --> 00:34:02.780
I guess I asked my questions later, but I'm just like, okay, I guess they became...

763
00:34:03.340 --> 00:34:06.860
But, you know, anyway, that's a whole other thing.

764
00:34:08.380 --> 00:34:11.100
Tell you how to carry hell together by Supreme bumper stickers.

765
00:34:17.100 --> 00:34:22.140
If that's you, I will see you after service.

766
00:34:22.940 --> 00:34:25.660
We can commune, make up if we need to.

767
00:34:32.060 --> 00:34:35.580
Hey, number four, a victim mentality.

768
00:34:36.140 --> 00:34:39.500
That is an expression of the poverty spirit.

769
00:34:40.060 --> 00:34:43.500
Do not allow yourself no matter what you've been through, no matter what you've got.

770
00:34:43.580 --> 00:34:48.940
Look, newsflash, every single one of us has a sob story.

771
00:34:48.940 --> 00:34:52.780
Every single one of us, every single one of us can play the victim.

772
00:34:53.500 --> 00:34:57.420
It gets you nowhere, all you get is cheap sympathy.

773
00:34:57.420 --> 00:35:01.100
That's all you get in its cheap because it's given to you for a little bit of...

774
00:35:01.100 --> 00:35:02.620
And then you're going to seek out for more.

775
00:35:04.060 --> 00:35:05.180
It doesn't help you.

776
00:35:05.180 --> 00:35:09.980
It keeps you stuck and yes, it is a manifestation of the poverty mindset.

777
00:35:10.860 --> 00:35:14.860
And whenever you see a victim mindset, you're going to find it's cousin.

778
00:35:14.860 --> 00:35:16.940
Actually, it's twin brother, poverty.

779
00:35:21.900 --> 00:35:24.220
Sean, thank you. You're playing such beautiful music.

780
00:35:25.100 --> 00:35:31.500
This message would be, I feel like it would come across so much harsher

781
00:35:32.860 --> 00:35:36.140
if Sean wasn't back there. Just so sweet.

782
00:35:36.300 --> 00:35:42.860
I'm like, Supreme bumper stickers and he's like the psalmist, the bard of God.

783
00:35:45.100 --> 00:35:48.780
Lord, speak to us, your people.

784
00:35:51.420 --> 00:35:54.780
Oh, a number five.

785
00:35:55.980 --> 00:35:59.420
We're talking about characteristics of the poverty spirit.

786
00:36:00.060 --> 00:36:00.700
Envy.

787
00:36:02.700 --> 00:36:08.220
When somebody that you know gets blessed with something, what is your knee jerk response?

788
00:36:08.220 --> 00:36:09.980
What comes out of your belly?

789
00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:14.700
What should come out is an understanding that God does not run out.

790
00:36:15.740 --> 00:36:18.540
What he did for someone else, he can do for you.

791
00:36:18.540 --> 00:36:20.620
But people, if you feel envy, yeah.

792
00:36:21.180 --> 00:36:25.500
If you feel envy about anything, what you really deep down in your heart thinking,

793
00:36:25.500 --> 00:36:29.500
because of that poverty mindset, that scarcity mentality,

794
00:36:29.500 --> 00:36:34.860
you're thinking that God is going to run out, or that he blessed someone that you know,

795
00:36:34.860 --> 00:36:36.220
and now there's none left for you.

796
00:36:37.580 --> 00:36:39.580
And he's not, he doesn't run out.

797
00:36:40.620 --> 00:36:41.420
Hallelujah.

798
00:36:42.140 --> 00:36:47.180
You should champion anyone around you who's promoted, who gets success,

799
00:36:47.180 --> 00:36:48.780
or who, do you know what I've done?

800
00:36:49.340 --> 00:36:52.780
I have financially blessed people who didn't need it at all.

801
00:36:52.860 --> 00:36:53.900
By the way, that's good.

802
00:36:53.900 --> 00:36:54.780
That's right.

803
00:36:54.780 --> 00:36:55.660
That's healthy.

804
00:36:55.660 --> 00:36:56.540
They didn't need it.

805
00:36:56.540 --> 00:36:57.580
I needed to bless them.

806
00:36:58.940 --> 00:37:00.140
I needed to sew into them.

807
00:37:01.180 --> 00:37:03.820
To them, it was just a little more on the top.

808
00:37:04.620 --> 00:37:08.220
But I wanted to set my heart free and I wanted to bless them.

809
00:37:08.220 --> 00:37:12.620
And I'm honoring the one that God has blessed and acknowledging that what he did for them,

810
00:37:12.620 --> 00:37:13.420
he can do for me.

811
00:37:15.660 --> 00:37:16.460
Hallelujah.

812
00:37:16.940 --> 00:37:22.220
For these next few, we might need the whole band up there.

813
00:37:26.060 --> 00:37:28.780
Proverbs chapter 6, verse 10 through 11.

814
00:37:36.780 --> 00:37:41.500
Manifestation of poverty, spirit, laziness, slackness, and love of sleep.

815
00:37:42.460 --> 00:37:48.140
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

816
00:37:48.700 --> 00:37:55.260
and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity, like an armed man.

817
00:37:56.860 --> 00:37:58.220
Proverbs 20, 13.

818
00:37:59.660 --> 00:38:02.860
Do not love sleep or you will grow poor.

819
00:38:03.740 --> 00:38:07.260
Stay awake and you will have food to spare.

820
00:38:07.500 --> 00:38:12.220
Number 7, and this is a big one for me.

821
00:38:13.580 --> 00:38:15.660
Sloppiness and disorganization.

822
00:38:15.660 --> 00:38:17.420
Let me just show you the scripture for this.

823
00:38:17.420 --> 00:38:20.380
Here's, there's many, but Proverbs 27, 23.

824
00:38:20.380 --> 00:38:24.940
Daniel's stuck out and all his friends stuck out because they had a spirit of excellence.

825
00:38:26.300 --> 00:38:30.940
Be diligent to know the state of your flocks and attend to your herds.

826
00:38:31.740 --> 00:38:33.740
You have to know the state of your flocks.

827
00:38:33.740 --> 00:38:36.060
You have to know what's coming in, what's going out.

828
00:38:36.060 --> 00:38:38.460
And that has to transfer into every area of your life.

829
00:38:38.940 --> 00:38:43.100
Sloppiness, messiness, uncleanness, disorganization,

830
00:38:43.100 --> 00:38:47.100
it's all a manifestation of the poverty spirit and it will keep you poor.

831
00:38:48.460 --> 00:38:49.980
It'll keep you in a place of lack.

832
00:38:51.260 --> 00:38:55.500
Kenneth Hagen tells the wonderful story of the president of the Bible school,

833
00:38:55.500 --> 00:38:57.340
not his, but years before that even.

834
00:38:58.780 --> 00:39:01.980
How he would, to all the young potential pastors, all the ministers,

835
00:39:01.980 --> 00:39:03.820
the candidates that were going through the school,

836
00:39:03.820 --> 00:39:07.020
he had a habit of just showing up to their house unannounced.

837
00:39:08.220 --> 00:39:11.020
And then he would just go and like, mind if I come in and look around a little bit,

838
00:39:11.020 --> 00:39:11.900
what are you going to say now?

839
00:39:12.860 --> 00:39:13.900
And he would just look around.

840
00:39:15.660 --> 00:39:18.460
And he said to those that were sloppy, to those that were disorganized,

841
00:39:18.460 --> 00:39:21.260
to those that are like open drawers and stocks, and it was all just a mess.

842
00:39:21.260 --> 00:39:23.660
He said, not a one of them did I see them succeed.

843
00:39:24.380 --> 00:39:25.020
Not a one.

844
00:39:28.860 --> 00:39:29.820
Is this making sense?

845
00:39:29.820 --> 00:39:34.460
I know people in all areas of the economic spectrum,

846
00:39:34.460 --> 00:39:38.780
when and with wealthy people, you get into the car, smells nice, is nice, all clean.

847
00:39:40.620 --> 00:39:41.260
Poor people.

848
00:39:42.460 --> 00:39:45.180
It's like a 7-Eleven and a Walmart exploded inside of them.

849
00:39:51.180 --> 00:39:52.220
But they're waiting, right?

850
00:39:52.220 --> 00:39:52.780
They're waiting.

851
00:39:54.380 --> 00:39:56.380
It's going to change somehow.

852
00:39:56.380 --> 00:39:58.380
And oftentimes they'll Christianize it.

853
00:39:58.620 --> 00:40:05.980
They'll Christianize, they'll Christianize their breaking of biblical principles

854
00:40:05.980 --> 00:40:10.620
and have this powerful lottery mentality like, I just know my breakthrough is a comment.

855
00:40:11.740 --> 00:40:14.780
And it's not a comment if you don't align with the word of God.

856
00:40:15.340 --> 00:40:17.100
And it'll always be in the future.

857
00:40:17.100 --> 00:40:19.260
And I don't want to be 95 years old.

858
00:40:20.140 --> 00:40:21.340
My bike pillow will come in.

859
00:40:22.700 --> 00:40:24.460
We're not getting any younger, any of them.

860
00:40:24.460 --> 00:40:25.580
I want to know.

861
00:40:25.580 --> 00:40:26.060
Amen.

862
00:40:26.540 --> 00:40:27.740
I want to move forward now.

863
00:40:29.740 --> 00:40:30.540
Hallelujah.

864
00:40:35.260 --> 00:40:41.020
My first car was a thousand dollar Chevy spectrum.

865
00:40:41.020 --> 00:40:43.580
I learned to drive way too late.

866
00:40:43.580 --> 00:40:46.780
I was age 22 because I was raised in New York City.

867
00:40:47.740 --> 00:40:48.780
So I didn't need to drive.

868
00:40:49.500 --> 00:40:51.660
Then I found out after college I'm going to Bible school.

869
00:40:51.660 --> 00:40:53.260
I was like, I got to learn to drive.

870
00:40:54.060 --> 00:40:56.860
So I learned to drive that spring and that summer I went off

871
00:40:56.860 --> 00:40:59.420
to Tampa, Florida, to the River Bible Institute.

872
00:40:59.980 --> 00:41:01.740
And I didn't have any money.

873
00:41:01.740 --> 00:41:04.540
So my first car was a 1986 Chevy spectrum.

874
00:41:04.540 --> 00:41:06.700
I got $4,000 and it was bad.

875
00:41:07.420 --> 00:41:11.100
It was just, it had per mistake.

876
00:41:11.900 --> 00:41:14.700
There was no amount of blade, no amount of air fresheners.

877
00:41:14.700 --> 00:41:16.140
It's just in a steering wheel.

878
00:41:16.140 --> 00:41:18.140
Smelt, so I don't know what they did to that thing.

879
00:41:18.780 --> 00:41:21.500
And then I would always have to wash my hands after I drove my car

880
00:41:21.500 --> 00:41:22.860
because my hands would smell.

881
00:41:24.060 --> 00:41:25.260
And I hated that car.

882
00:41:26.460 --> 00:41:28.300
And I was asking God to get me another car

883
00:41:29.100 --> 00:41:31.180
yet I disdained and despised this car.

884
00:41:31.180 --> 00:41:33.500
And because I hated it, I didn't take care of it at all.

885
00:41:34.860 --> 00:41:37.180
And what's the point of paying for a car wash

886
00:41:37.180 --> 00:41:39.500
when at that point the car wash costs more than the car?

887
00:41:41.980 --> 00:41:43.740
But I got corrected on my attitude.

888
00:41:44.700 --> 00:41:46.460
And another brother in the Bible school

889
00:41:46.940 --> 00:41:48.940
who had a greater revelation than me on this, he said,

890
00:41:48.940 --> 00:41:51.260
you know, God's not going to get you a better car

891
00:41:51.260 --> 00:41:53.740
and tell you a grateful and take care of what he's gotten you.

892
00:41:54.300 --> 00:41:56.540
And he showed me, you're sloppy, you're disorganized.

893
00:41:56.540 --> 00:41:59.180
And I'm like, not in any other area of my life, I'm not.

894
00:41:59.180 --> 00:42:02.300
But with my car because I hated it, I just let it go to hell.

895
00:42:02.940 --> 00:42:04.700
Kind of arrived from hell, but I let it go.

896
00:42:07.500 --> 00:42:09.180
And I said, what do you suggest they do?

897
00:42:09.180 --> 00:42:11.980
He said, you need to go to the whatever it was.

898
00:42:12.860 --> 00:42:13.660
Not the car wash.

899
00:42:13.660 --> 00:42:16.300
No, no, no, he wanted me to wax it myself.

900
00:42:16.940 --> 00:42:19.980
And he told me that he said, no, no, no, you need to feel every inch of the car.

901
00:42:20.540 --> 00:42:22.780
And thank God for every inch of the car.

902
00:42:22.780 --> 00:42:25.580
I'll never forget $50 was a lot of money back then.

903
00:42:25.580 --> 00:42:26.300
The auto zone.

904
00:42:27.180 --> 00:42:29.180
I went to the auto zone, this is all fun.

905
00:42:29.180 --> 00:42:32.460
Now, 23 years old, my first time going into an auto zone.

906
00:42:33.420 --> 00:42:35.420
And I'm picking up the wax and the sponges.

907
00:42:35.420 --> 00:42:40.220
And he's teaching me how to, all the different things you got to do to properly clean a car

908
00:42:40.220 --> 00:42:40.940
and then wax it.

909
00:42:40.940 --> 00:42:44.140
And, you know, you can't just use any old tile.

910
00:42:44.140 --> 00:42:46.860
He got me the microfiber and not to scratch it.

911
00:42:46.860 --> 00:42:50.140
Like, you know, the thing had gashes in it.

912
00:42:50.140 --> 00:42:51.340
Like it'd been through World War Three.

913
00:42:51.340 --> 00:42:55.100
But he got me to, I spent, it killed me to spend $50 on it.

914
00:42:55.900 --> 00:42:59.580
And I spent the whole afternoon in that hot floor to sun.

915
00:43:01.100 --> 00:43:05.020
Washing it, then waxing it, then buffing it, then two coats.

916
00:43:05.020 --> 00:43:09.420
And finally, this old clunky car, though, it's shown like a pearl.

917
00:43:10.220 --> 00:43:12.060
And it looked like I cared.

918
00:43:15.100 --> 00:43:19.900
And soon after that, I wasn't driving the Chevy Spectrum.

919
00:43:19.900 --> 00:43:22.780
I'd upgraded, not by much, but by little.

920
00:43:24.780 --> 00:43:26.540
At least it didn't have a premise thing in it.

921
00:43:26.540 --> 00:43:27.340
To a red truck.

922
00:43:28.780 --> 00:43:30.620
It was a Sanford and Son type red truck.

923
00:43:31.580 --> 00:43:32.620
But it was a red truck.

924
00:43:32.620 --> 00:43:36.220
From, from, from, from, from, from, from, that's how I felt.

925
00:43:36.220 --> 00:43:37.820
But I was high and lifted up.

926
00:43:40.540 --> 00:43:42.540
And I'm not kidding, people don't believe me, this is true.

927
00:43:42.620 --> 00:43:45.660
With the Chevy Spectrum, there was at least half a dozen times

928
00:43:45.660 --> 00:43:48.540
where I would hit on the brake and my foot would just go right through.

929
00:43:49.980 --> 00:43:51.420
Yeah. And then I'd pump it.

930
00:43:52.220 --> 00:43:53.900
And then it would get to working again.

931
00:43:53.900 --> 00:43:55.740
So at least the truck had a functioning brake.

932
00:43:59.980 --> 00:44:02.380
You don't, you don't say, you need whisper, it's dangerous.

933
00:44:02.380 --> 00:44:05.180
You have no idea, you have no idea.

934
00:44:05.180 --> 00:44:10.460
When I, when I tell you I'm grateful to the Lord and, and the stupid stuff I've done,

935
00:44:10.460 --> 00:44:13.180
and how I lived in my early 20s, it's amazing.

936
00:44:13.180 --> 00:44:14.300
I'm here ministering to you.

937
00:44:15.180 --> 00:44:17.820
Amazing what he's delivered and rescued me from.

938
00:44:17.820 --> 00:44:19.180
Because I stayed on the road.

939
00:44:19.180 --> 00:44:20.860
I was like, well, I'll just pump it. I have no choice.

940
00:44:25.500 --> 00:44:27.740
I can feel your disappointment expressing me.

941
00:44:29.980 --> 00:44:31.740
I thought I'm going to go minister over here.

942
00:44:31.740 --> 00:44:32.060
What?

943
00:44:35.100 --> 00:44:38.300
But after the truck, after the Sanford and Son truck,

944
00:44:38.300 --> 00:44:39.660
I took care of that too.

945
00:44:39.660 --> 00:44:43.180
I was given a 325 IBMW, Hallelujah.

946
00:44:44.780 --> 00:44:48.060
The point of my story is take care of what you have

947
00:44:48.860 --> 00:44:51.100
and take care of the apartment of the home that you have.

948
00:44:52.060 --> 00:44:55.100
Hallelujah and love it and thank God for it.

949
00:44:55.100 --> 00:44:58.620
Do you know it's possible to be grateful for what you have

950
00:44:58.620 --> 00:45:00.940
while still believing for an upgrade?

951
00:45:00.940 --> 00:45:02.780
You don't have to hate the thing you have.

952
00:45:02.780 --> 00:45:03.980
Then the upgrade won't come.

953
00:45:04.540 --> 00:45:07.100
But taking care and thanking God for what you have.

954
00:45:08.780 --> 00:45:12.460
And knowing the state of your flocks when it comes to finances.

955
00:45:13.660 --> 00:45:15.020
I've shared this before.

956
00:45:15.020 --> 00:45:15.820
I'll share it again.

957
00:45:16.540 --> 00:45:18.380
If you come to me for financial help,

958
00:45:18.380 --> 00:45:20.860
the first thing I'm going to ask you is how much debt do you have.

959
00:45:21.500 --> 00:45:24.540
In over 80 percent of the people I meet with,

960
00:45:24.540 --> 00:45:26.780
their responses, I don't really know.

961
00:45:29.340 --> 00:45:29.660
Why?

962
00:45:30.620 --> 00:45:31.740
Do you know the emu bird?

963
00:45:33.260 --> 00:45:35.900
That the people think it's an ostrich but it's really the emu bird.

964
00:45:35.900 --> 00:45:37.820
It sticks its head in a hole.

965
00:45:37.900 --> 00:45:38.860
Do you know why it does that?

966
00:45:39.500 --> 00:45:40.300
It does that.

967
00:45:40.300 --> 00:45:41.340
It's not looking for food.

968
00:45:42.380 --> 00:45:46.860
It stays like that because it believes that if it can't see its enemies,

969
00:45:46.860 --> 00:45:48.540
its enemies can't see it.

970
00:45:49.260 --> 00:45:50.540
So it sticks its head in a sand.

971
00:45:52.140 --> 00:45:53.500
And that's how people are with their debt.

972
00:45:54.380 --> 00:45:55.900
It sticks their head in a sand.

973
00:45:55.900 --> 00:45:57.180
Like if I can't see it,

974
00:45:57.180 --> 00:45:59.500
maybe it'll just magically go away and it can't see me.

975
00:45:59.500 --> 00:46:00.540
It'll find you.

976
00:46:00.540 --> 00:46:01.100
Trust me.

977
00:46:02.460 --> 00:46:03.100
It knows.

978
00:46:04.060 --> 00:46:06.140
And while your head is in a sand, it's growing.

979
00:46:07.100 --> 00:46:08.540
That's not the growth that you want.

980
00:46:08.540 --> 00:46:09.980
You don't want the penalties.

981
00:46:09.980 --> 00:46:15.020
You don't want the 29 percent APR that would make a true mobster blush

982
00:46:15.740 --> 00:46:19.900
at the amount that they're ripping and scamming the American public for.

983
00:46:21.740 --> 00:46:22.220
But being...

984
00:46:24.540 --> 00:46:28.380
I remember when I first had to figure out how much debt I had.

985
00:46:28.380 --> 00:46:31.980
And we've been consumer debt-free for all our marriage and before then.

986
00:46:32.700 --> 00:46:39.100
But there was a time when I had over $60,000 of consumer debt spread across 16,

987
00:46:39.100 --> 00:46:41.260
16 different credit cards.

988
00:46:41.900 --> 00:46:45.100
I just keep getting new credit card offers in the mail and saying yes

989
00:46:45.100 --> 00:46:46.620
and then robbing Peter to play Paul.

990
00:46:47.260 --> 00:46:50.460
A little voice, the voice of the Holy Spirit would say,

991
00:46:50.460 --> 00:46:52.140
you know, this will catch up one day.

992
00:46:52.140 --> 00:46:53.260
Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

993
00:46:53.260 --> 00:46:54.060
That day will come.

994
00:46:54.060 --> 00:46:54.940
I'll get a breakthrough.

995
00:46:57.500 --> 00:47:01.420
By the way, the breakthrough came and came in the form of me waking up.

996
00:47:02.700 --> 00:47:05.820
And then paying it off slowly and do you know what?

997
00:47:05.820 --> 00:47:08.460
As I stayed faithful and played it off slowly,

998
00:47:08.460 --> 00:47:11.500
then some true genuine breakthroughs came.

999
00:47:11.500 --> 00:47:12.620
Some surprises.

1000
00:47:17.980 --> 00:47:20.860
But you got to put one foot in front of the other and do the right thing.

1001
00:47:21.820 --> 00:47:22.860
Get that thing in motion.

1002
00:47:24.940 --> 00:47:25.660
Hallelujah.

1003
00:47:28.060 --> 00:47:29.820
We're going to be receiving communion soon.

1004
00:47:32.460 --> 00:47:39.100
Right about right around now is a great time to read Proverbs 5, 11, 13,

1005
00:47:39.100 --> 00:47:39.660
number 8.

1006
00:47:40.940 --> 00:47:42.860
Hating correction and instruction.

1007
00:47:48.300 --> 00:47:52.780
Hating correction and instruction is a form of the poverty spirit.

1008
00:47:58.380 --> 00:48:00.220
Do you know when I'm with wealthy people, one thing?

1009
00:48:00.780 --> 00:48:02.060
They ask me a lot of questions.

1010
00:48:05.020 --> 00:48:07.820
And I've had people who are struggling with their finances,

1011
00:48:07.820 --> 00:48:08.940
struggling, struggling.

1012
00:48:08.940 --> 00:48:10.620
Meet with me, come to my new house,

1013
00:48:11.260 --> 00:48:13.580
spend hours with me, and I'd ask me a single question.

1014
00:48:14.220 --> 00:48:15.020
That one question.

1015
00:48:15.820 --> 00:48:17.260
Just look out of curiosity.

1016
00:48:17.900 --> 00:48:19.660
Hey, tell me about Bitcoin.

1017
00:48:19.660 --> 00:48:21.660
Tell me about, isn't it too late?

1018
00:48:22.460 --> 00:48:23.500
Tell me any question.

1019
00:48:24.060 --> 00:48:24.860
What's the weather like?

1020
00:48:24.860 --> 00:48:25.500
Any, who know?

1021
00:48:27.260 --> 00:48:28.860
There's no questions asked.

1022
00:48:28.940 --> 00:48:30.300
I hear a lot of what they have to say.

1023
00:48:31.100 --> 00:48:31.900
But no questions.

1024
00:48:35.660 --> 00:48:39.020
A type of the poverty spirit is hating any kind of instruction.

1025
00:48:43.740 --> 00:48:44.700
Any kind of correction.

1026
00:48:45.820 --> 00:48:48.540
And you mourn at last when your flesh and your body are consumed.

1027
00:48:51.420 --> 00:48:55.820
And say, how I have hated instruction and my heart despised correction.

1028
00:48:56.540 --> 00:48:59.580
I've not obeyed the voice of my teachers

1029
00:48:59.580 --> 00:49:02.380
nor incline my ear to those who instructed me.

1030
00:49:02.380 --> 00:49:04.940
I feel like, you know, I have a lot of people over,

1031
00:49:04.940 --> 00:49:06.860
and some people are looking at me funny.

1032
00:49:06.860 --> 00:49:08.620
I'm not, if you're here, I'm not talking about you.

1033
00:49:08.620 --> 00:49:10.140
I'm not talking about anybody from the church.

1034
00:49:13.020 --> 00:49:15.100
Next time I'll make sure I ask them all these questions.

1035
00:49:15.100 --> 00:49:16.460
No, I'm not talking about you.

1036
00:49:16.460 --> 00:49:18.540
Look at people outside of the church.

1037
00:49:20.300 --> 00:49:21.180
Jesus, Lord.

1038
00:49:21.980 --> 00:49:26.620
This is where communion's coming up.

1039
00:49:34.540 --> 00:49:37.740
My point here was people think rich people are proud.

1040
00:49:37.740 --> 00:49:42.940
I actually find a lot of rich people to be very, very humble and inquisitive and curious.

1041
00:49:42.940 --> 00:49:46.540
And when I hang out with poor people, I find them to be incredibly proud.

1042
00:49:47.180 --> 00:49:50.540
There's a, you can't tell me nothing, attitude.

1043
00:49:51.260 --> 00:49:52.140
There's a, I know it.

1044
00:49:52.140 --> 00:49:52.780
I got it.

1045
00:49:52.780 --> 00:49:56.620
I don't want to, uh, no, you need to sit and learn.

1046
00:49:57.260 --> 00:49:58.540
But I'm not going to shove it down.

1047
00:49:58.540 --> 00:49:59.980
You need to ask some questions.

1048
00:50:04.940 --> 00:50:06.140
You need to love instruction.

1049
00:50:07.420 --> 00:50:09.020
Keep pushing away.

1050
00:50:09.020 --> 00:50:10.380
People who are there who can help you.

1051
00:50:17.340 --> 00:50:23.500
Addictive behavior is a lack of temperance as a type.

1052
00:50:24.460 --> 00:50:25.500
Or as associated.

1053
00:50:25.500 --> 00:50:26.220
I don't say a type.

1054
00:50:26.220 --> 00:50:27.100
Excuse me.

1055
00:50:27.100 --> 00:50:31.260
It's affiliated and associated and reinforces the poverty spirit.

1056
00:50:32.220 --> 00:50:39.180
Proverbs 23, 21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty and drowsiness will

1057
00:50:39.180 --> 00:50:41.340
close a man with rags.

1058
00:50:42.860 --> 00:50:48.700
Now, if you're suffering from any kind of addiction, any kind of addiction at all,

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00:50:49.820 --> 00:50:52.540
please note that your answer is in Jesus.

1060
00:50:52.540 --> 00:50:55.100
Please know that he loves you and that he will set you free.

1061
00:50:55.580 --> 00:50:57.340
There's all different types of addictions.

1062
00:50:57.340 --> 00:50:58.380
I've had various.

1063
00:50:58.380 --> 00:51:00.380
He will set you free.

1064
00:51:00.380 --> 00:51:01.820
It won't be by your strength.

1065
00:51:01.820 --> 00:51:02.860
It'll be by his.

1066
00:51:02.860 --> 00:51:04.220
It won't be your power.

1067
00:51:04.220 --> 00:51:05.260
It'll be his.

1068
00:51:05.260 --> 00:51:06.300
You said, what do I do?

1069
00:51:06.300 --> 00:51:07.820
There's things I've been addicted to.

1070
00:51:07.820 --> 00:51:10.380
You come and you tell God, you're powerless on your own.

1071
00:51:11.020 --> 00:51:12.700
And you say, Lord, I trust you.

1072
00:51:14.700 --> 00:51:15.980
Lord, I lean into you.

1073
00:51:16.940 --> 00:51:19.340
I renounce Satan in Jesus' name.

1074
00:51:19.340 --> 00:51:21.740
I receive grace from you, O God.

1075
00:51:21.740 --> 00:51:24.220
I believe you transform me from the inside out.

1076
00:51:24.220 --> 00:51:28.300
And every addiction falls off of me now in Jesus' name.

1077
00:51:29.260 --> 00:51:29.660
Boom.

1078
00:51:30.540 --> 00:51:31.900
He's, oh, I did that.

1079
00:51:31.900 --> 00:51:32.460
Do it again.

1080
00:51:33.180 --> 00:51:34.300
And then praise him for it.

1081
00:51:34.300 --> 00:51:35.500
And then do it again.

1082
00:51:35.580 --> 00:51:37.980
And the righteous man falls down seven times,

1083
00:51:37.980 --> 00:51:39.660
but each time gets back up again.

1084
00:51:40.940 --> 00:51:42.700
And keep putting one foot in front of the other.

1085
00:51:43.420 --> 00:51:44.540
He's big enough.

1086
00:51:44.540 --> 00:51:45.340
He will do it.

1087
00:51:46.860 --> 00:51:47.660
Hallelujah.

1088
00:51:50.700 --> 00:51:51.420
And finally,

1089
00:51:56.940 --> 00:51:59.900
following frivolous people and pursuits,

1090
00:52:00.780 --> 00:52:02.540
Proverbs 28, 19,

1091
00:52:02.940 --> 00:52:06.860
he who tells his land will have plenty of bread,

1092
00:52:06.860 --> 00:52:08.940
but he who follows frivolity.

1093
00:52:08.940 --> 00:52:10.300
Just say that with me, frivolity.

1094
00:52:11.900 --> 00:52:12.860
Frivolity.

1095
00:52:12.860 --> 00:52:16.220
That was hundreds of years before the New Testament was written.

1096
00:52:16.220 --> 00:52:18.380
Nearly a thousand years before the New Testament was written,

1097
00:52:18.380 --> 00:52:20.460
there still was something called frivolity.

1098
00:52:20.460 --> 00:52:23.100
But now we live in the age of frivolity,

1099
00:52:23.100 --> 00:52:27.340
where you can burn hours and hours in a day just by scrolling.

1100
00:52:28.540 --> 00:52:29.660
Now that I'm in Long Island,

1101
00:52:29.660 --> 00:52:31.500
I went to this place called the mall.

1102
00:52:31.500 --> 00:52:32.300
It's an amazing place.

1103
00:52:34.140 --> 00:52:37.020
Just yesterday, went to the mall first time.

1104
00:52:38.780 --> 00:52:42.220
Since I moved, visited a few other times in my life.

1105
00:52:42.220 --> 00:52:44.140
But honestly, I felt like something changed.

1106
00:52:46.300 --> 00:52:48.060
I'm walking around and Emily said at first,

1107
00:52:48.060 --> 00:52:49.100
that kept it on the inside.

1108
00:52:49.740 --> 00:52:52.140
I don't know if it's the legalized weed everywhere,

1109
00:52:52.700 --> 00:52:54.460
or the devices, or both,

1110
00:52:55.100 --> 00:52:57.340
but everyone looked like a space cadet.

1111
00:52:58.300 --> 00:52:58.940
It just felt...

1112
00:52:58.940 --> 00:53:00.140
Honestly, I thought I was...

1113
00:53:00.140 --> 00:53:03.420
Remember that old show, the walking dead, or whatever?

1114
00:53:03.420 --> 00:53:04.700
It looked like the walking dead,

1115
00:53:04.700 --> 00:53:06.220
except their flesh wasn't falling apart.

1116
00:53:11.100 --> 00:53:12.860
Everybody's just shuffling their feet,

1117
00:53:12.860 --> 00:53:15.340
looking like the lights are on and no one's home.

1118
00:53:18.380 --> 00:53:20.220
I think people are just totally burning

1119
00:53:21.980 --> 00:53:23.420
their brain out on devices.

1120
00:53:27.900 --> 00:53:29.900
And it tends to poverty.

1121
00:53:31.100 --> 00:53:32.300
And it's by design, you know.

1122
00:53:32.300 --> 00:53:34.540
How many of you remember, several years ago,

1123
00:53:34.540 --> 00:53:37.740
those articles came out that the top Silicon Valley executives

1124
00:53:37.740 --> 00:53:40.140
who invented this stuff and invented the apps

1125
00:53:40.140 --> 00:53:41.500
don't let their kids on it.

1126
00:53:43.100 --> 00:53:44.620
But they put it out into the world.

1127
00:53:45.260 --> 00:53:46.940
And there's kids addicted to the stuff.

1128
00:53:50.140 --> 00:53:53.260
We limited our kids iPad time to one hour a day.

1129
00:53:54.620 --> 00:53:55.740
And we thought that was awesome.

1130
00:53:55.740 --> 00:53:57.100
Big breakthrough.

1131
00:53:58.300 --> 00:54:00.540
But just about a week and a half ago,

1132
00:54:01.900 --> 00:54:02.940
I won't get into details.

1133
00:54:02.940 --> 00:54:03.900
It wasn't really that bad.

1134
00:54:03.900 --> 00:54:05.820
But we just, honestly, we snagged it.

1135
00:54:05.820 --> 00:54:07.100
Bigger messed up.

1136
00:54:07.100 --> 00:54:07.740
Not bad.

1137
00:54:07.740 --> 00:54:08.540
It's a little mess up.

1138
00:54:09.500 --> 00:54:10.780
But we took it as an opportunity,

1139
00:54:10.780 --> 00:54:12.860
and said, we're removing your iPad indefinitely.

1140
00:54:13.420 --> 00:54:14.540
First time we ever did that.

1141
00:54:15.660 --> 00:54:18.940
Within 72 hours, we couldn't believe it.

1142
00:54:18.940 --> 00:54:20.460
He was always a good boy.

1143
00:54:21.260 --> 00:54:21.900
But it was like...

1144
00:54:24.300 --> 00:54:26.860
His attention span and his creativity,

1145
00:54:27.660 --> 00:54:32.780
and he just looked more contented and happier.

1146
00:54:32.780 --> 00:54:35.260
And now he's painting and drawing.

1147
00:54:35.260 --> 00:54:36.860
And now when I tell a long story,

1148
00:54:36.860 --> 00:54:38.860
he listens and he asks questions.

1149
00:54:39.500 --> 00:54:41.500
It's like someone flipped the switch back on.

1150
00:54:42.300 --> 00:54:43.100
I couldn't believe it.

1151
00:54:43.100 --> 00:54:44.700
I thought I was doing good with an hour a day,

1152
00:54:44.700 --> 00:54:46.460
and I go, he doesn't need it.

1153
00:54:47.820 --> 00:54:49.180
Really, the only reason we,

1154
00:54:49.180 --> 00:54:49.980
I'm going to be honest here,

1155
00:54:49.980 --> 00:54:51.340
the only reason we would give it to him

1156
00:54:52.140 --> 00:54:53.420
is out of selfishness.

1157
00:54:54.380 --> 00:54:57.420
Because now I have to think of a way,

1158
00:54:57.420 --> 00:54:58.700
it's something for him to do.

1159
00:54:58.700 --> 00:54:59.900
It's much easier to say here.

1160
00:55:01.180 --> 00:55:02.460
Here's a pad, here's a screen.

1161
00:55:03.100 --> 00:55:05.900
Go zone out for a few hours.

1162
00:55:13.020 --> 00:55:13.900
Let me pray for you.

1163
00:55:15.340 --> 00:55:17.100
Listen, hey, good news here.

1164
00:55:17.100 --> 00:55:17.900
God is on your side.

1165
00:55:17.900 --> 00:55:18.540
Before we pray,

1166
00:55:19.740 --> 00:55:20.620
put your hand on your heart.

1167
00:55:20.620 --> 00:55:21.500
Say this out loud.

1168
00:55:22.140 --> 00:55:22.460
God.

1169
00:55:23.500 --> 00:55:24.460
You're God of abundance.

1170
00:55:25.260 --> 00:55:26.540
You're God of prosperity.

1171
00:55:27.740 --> 00:55:30.460
I renounce the spirit of poverty,

1172
00:55:31.020 --> 00:55:34.140
the mentality in Jesus' name.

1173
00:55:34.860 --> 00:55:35.900
Lord, I trust you.

1174
00:55:37.180 --> 00:55:39.900
For 2024, it's going to be

1175
00:55:41.100 --> 00:55:42.940
my best year yet.

1176
00:55:44.380 --> 00:55:45.420
In Jesus' name.

1177
00:55:46.540 --> 00:55:47.020
Amen.

1178
00:55:48.460 --> 00:55:48.860
Amen.

1179
00:55:49.980 --> 00:55:52.460
This is the City Light Church podcast.

1180
00:55:52.460 --> 00:55:54.700
If you've missed any part of today's message,

1181
00:55:54.700 --> 00:55:56.300
or if you would like to find out more

1182
00:55:56.300 --> 00:55:59.260
about Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church,

1183
00:55:59.260 --> 00:56:02.140
visit us at citylightnyc.com.

1184
00:56:02.140 --> 00:56:05.260
That's citylightnyc.com.

1185
00:56:05.260 --> 00:56:08.780
Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime.

1186
00:56:08.780 --> 00:56:10.460
We would love to connect with you.

1187
00:56:11.180 --> 00:56:13.740
We pray that you have been encouraged today,

1188
00:56:13.740 --> 00:56:16.220
that you have been reminded how much God loves you,

1189
00:56:16.780 --> 00:56:18.940
and that you are surrounded by grace.

1190
00:56:19.660 --> 00:56:21.020
Thank you for listening.

1191
00:56:21.100 --> 00:56:23.820
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1192
00:56:23.820 --> 00:56:29.980
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