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by faith able offered giving God first takes faith it takes faith to say I

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don't have enough to pay my bills this month it's going to take 100% of my

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money but I believe that God will bless my 90 if I give to him first it takes

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faith when the ends are not meeting up and you're saying God I want to put you

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first anyway welcome to the city light church podcast thanks for joining us

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today as we look into God's word and discover the hope and truth that he has for

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us if you want to connect with city light church feel free to visit us at

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citylightnyc.com that's citylightnyc.com faster boy on Janskik and his team

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believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and

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minds as you listen to today's teaching remember that you are deeply loved by

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God that you are surrounded by his grace and that he has a real hope and a

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future for you put your hands together for our guest minister today in the

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Can you sing to Lord hallelujah how many blessed people in the house that's

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how many blessed people are in the house man I am blessed I'm blessed in the city

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I'm blessed you know that's not just words that's scripture when you're singing

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that song you're making a confession over yourself no matter where I go no

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matter where I live it's not based on my geography is based off my revelation I'm

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blessed it doesn't matter you can put me in the worst situation I'll be blessed

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there it don't matter how bad things are once you put me there the blessing of

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the Lord has to be there because I'm blessed how many blessed people are in the

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house all right let's go let's get into this word I'm excited okay can I say

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something past the mo is so nimble on his feet for a big guy this is insane the

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way he moves he moves like he's 135 pounds it is as scary as he's like you know I'm

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like this is crazy nimble nimble with hides oh he got hides feet

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Genesis chapter four got hides feet you jumping over the walls yes if you don't

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know that you gotta read your word some of you didn't get the joke they're like

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hides feet I don't understand those are for like the super say people Genesis

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chapter four I'm excited to be here for this series talking about abundance is

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something I love talking about is something that I believe in I don't believe

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it because like like past most said it's it didn't come from a teleavangilist

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or from some preacher it's in the scriptures and here's the problem church

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people don't like when you step on their feet talk about what makes me

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comfortable let's not get into the areas that are uncomfortable but these type of

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areas are a little bit uncomfortable when God is demanding us to give and he's

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saying bring the tides into the storehouse ooh that hurts or maybe it's just the

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church doing this as a manipulation play no it's the scriptures all right y'all

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ready to go into the word you sure they don't sound as videos for service okay

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yes I like that Genesis chapter four let's do it oh man this is good so I want

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to talk about something a little bit different I think for the first few weeks

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we talked about God wanting to bless us God desire his will like I think it

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helped build your faith to know that God wants to bless you he wants you to be

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blessed he wants you to have abundance he wants you to be in harvest he wants

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open doors for you he wants opportunities he wants supernatural things to come

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your way he wants like that Jeremiah chapter 17 where it doesn't matter what

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season you are your leaves are gonna be green you won't you won't with her you're

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gonna be by the river and everything you do is gonna prosper I believe that's

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what we've been learning this last few weeks but I want to challenge you on your

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responsibility in walking in the blessing because Jesus already died for you to

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be blessed amen he already rose from the grave so you could be blessed amen he

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did everything he did his part he did everything he had to do it is finished your

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blessing is already here it's in store but there are things that the Holy

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Spirit is expecting you to do and requiring you to do so that you can walk out

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in that blessing do you believe that all right let's talk about it Genesis chapter

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four verse three and I want to talk about the first fruit I want to talk about the

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first fruit or let's call it the first things first first things first I like

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that title first things first all right Genesis four verse three here's what it says

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and in the process of time it came to pass that came brought an offering of

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fruit of the fruit of the ground to the Lord verse four able also brought of

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the first born of his flock and their fat and the Lord respected cable able's

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offering but did not respect Cain and his offering and Cain was very angry and his

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countenance felt we can read later on he kills his brother but I don't want to talk

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about that I just want to stop right there I look at this verse and I see

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something really important and I see something really valuable because in order to

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understand Genesis chapter four you have to read Genesis chapter three and Genesis

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chapter three the the serpent comes and he tricks and deceives Adam and Eve and

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they get kicked out of the garden and God puts these fancy clothes on them and

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they have children and the two children that they have at first are Cain and

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able they're the first children that were born of a woman on the earth and I'm

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thinking that if you're writing about the first children you should write about

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their childhood you should write about their lives you should write about how

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they grew up you should write about the circumstances that they have to go

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through knowing that their parents messed everything up for the world nope none of

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that is written about the first thing we hear about when we hear about Cain and

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able was how they gave I see this is very important because for the Holy

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Spirit to emphasize for the first people born of human beings and the first thing

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he wants to talk about in their lives is how they gave the importance of their

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giving I thought that God would have talked about something that was more

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significant but obviously the Holy Spirit sees this as such an important aspect

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that he puts it right at the front center I want to talk about Cain and able

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and the first thing I want to mention is their giving and he wants to list down

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their resume and giving and he doesn't hear in Genesis chapter 4 so clearly it says time

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went by and finally Cain and able were able to offer give and offering to the Lord

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listen to this and you can see the difference between these two in their giving you know in Sunday

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school I was always taught like you know when you do those like little coloring things in Sunday

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school and there's the picture of Cain and able and you would see Abel's sacrifice and offering

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and it looked really amazing and beautiful and then you saw you saw Cain's fruit that he brought

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to the Lord because Cain was a tiller of the ground and Abel was a herdsman he had his flock

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so his flock would always look very beautiful in the pictures and then

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Cain's fruit would always look rotten and decrepit like it was disgusting and you were like oh my

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gosh why would he give that to the Lord but that's not the context of this verse it never says anything

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about Cain's offering being decrepit are looking rotten there's a major difference between

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these two people and they're offering and it's clear in the text you can see it clear in the text

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let's go back to verse 4 here's what it says Abel also brought of his firstborn of the flock

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okay you can see the major difference and the Lord respected Abel in his offering go back to

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verse 3 and you're gonna see Cain's you gonna see the major difference in the process of time it

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came to pass that Cain brought an offering so he brought an offering but you'll see the difference

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is that the Bible says Abel brought an offering but he brought an offering of the firstborn the

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difference wasn't that Abel's offering looked better the difference was the order in which he gave

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it this is really good right here it was the order in which he gave it that made it completely

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different than Cain it was the order that God respected it was saying I'm gonna give you first

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God before I give the mortgage company I'm gonna give you first before I go to no strums

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I'm gonna give you first before I pay my kids tuition what God respected with the offering

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was not the offering per se it was the order of the offering it was saying God I'm gonna put you

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as primary and first in my life well Cain goes God I'll just give you whatever's left over

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and God says I don't respect it I don't respect when you decide to put everything else before

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me and you put me second this is good but they say any man is it's tight but it's right

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I'm looking at this and I see two different people Abel goes God I'm gonna give you the first

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born of my flock a flock was at least 20 to 200 animals so every time a female in the flock

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would give birth here's what Abel would do he would take that animal and he would say this is for

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the Lord then the next female that had a baby this is for the Lord then the next one this is for

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the Lord and when I read that I realized that took faith why would that take faith because imagine

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that female in the flock may never give birth again that could be the only child and he took the

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future away and said I'm gonna give it to the Lord first it took faith to give that away and

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believe that God is gonna bless me even though I give him what's first all right let me say it

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like this it's like saying God I believe that 90 is better than a hundred oh my God I knew

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they were gonna get quiet God you know the president of Chick-fil-A came to my Bible college and he

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preached and he preached a message he said six is better than seven that was his sermon six is

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better than seven and I'm like what does that mean no seven I went to school right I went to

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school seven is greater than six nope but for him he understands a kingdom principal the kingdom

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principal is you give God what he requires the six days and guess what he does he will bless your

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business as if you are open seven days and so Chick-fil-A now is the fastest growing fast food company

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and the reason why is because he made a decision that he was gonna dedicate his day the rest day

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the Sabbath day to the Lord and the Lord now has blessed him I dare you to begin to give God first

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and watch him open up the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing you don't have room to

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receive I dare you to put him first and you're giving put him first in your life put him first

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in your situation and watch the windows of heaven open for you and your family and abundance come

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the difference was the order I was read the story and thought man maybe his offering was

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more exceptional no it wasn't more exceptional it just took more faith it took faith because

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it said God if you don't bless me after I do this I'll have nothing left you know you got to make

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a decision who's your God is it the ability to be able to pay your bills are feeling comfortable

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enough because the Holy Spirit wants to challenge your comfort level because some of you are so

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comfortable yeah I have enough to pay my bills and then maybe I can give something to God at the end

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of the month and that's not what God's requiring he goes I don't accept one person's offering and

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I accept the other person's offering because in the order that they gave it not the amount

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you may not be as rich as someone else and guess what you're blessed and they're not blessed

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because it's the order that matters all right let's go to Hebrew chapter 11 verse 4 because you're

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saying this is Old Testament but here's what I like about this because even though it's Old Testament

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it predates the law so it shows me something it shows me that this was God's desire from the beginning

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being put first was always God's desire and what the Lord did was the Lord just confirmed what

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Abel did in his sacrifice all right look at this Hebrew chapter 4 verse 11 y'all with me

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I sent a service they're very cerebral too they're very they're chilling

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they had a late night you know all these young people it's all these young people all the old

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the folk they're like I want to sleep at nine o'clock got ready for all these all these young people

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went to sleep two o'clock in the morning and now they're trying to get a coffee jump

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y'all can laugh I'm joking I'm also serious but I'm Hebrews 11 for his or his says

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by faith able offered by faith by faith by faith giving God first takes faith it takes faith to say

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I don't have enough to pay my bills this month it's gonna take 100% of my money but I believe that

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God will bless my 90 if I give to him first it takes faith when the ends are not meeting up and you're

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saying God I'm gonna put you first anyway there may not even be a sign of provision for me but

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I'll still put you first I don't see how the doors are gonna open but I'm still gonna put you first

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I don't see how things are gonna turn around in my life but I'm still gonna put you first

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the over gyro if you don't come through I have no other options I came up here with my child

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and I came up here to sacrifice and all I have left is your provision and if you don't come

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through we're dead out here now that's the type of faith the Lord's looking for if you've never

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given like that you've never given by faith oh that's good some of you give based on how much

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you have you haven't ever given by faith giving my faith looks like God I barely have enough for

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myself and God goes all right cool now give me everything I remember I have my nice beautiful

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guy had a a Nissan Altima no it was a maximum my first car was the ultimate second car was a

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maximum I called her Maxine I'll tell you I loved Maxine oh she was a butler she was red

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oh she's a woo Maxine Maxine

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now remember I'm in church my hands are lifted up I look over the losses give that person your car

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I said the devil is a liar God is exalted

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but I knew was the Lord let's say give him Maxine I'm not Maxine God

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so give him Maxine I'm like all right so I go and I'm like all right I want this car to be at

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100% I brought it to my mechanic I said all right um how is the car he's like your car's like 80%

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it's really good you know you need to change this this a few things can cost you like a thousand

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dollars for your car to get to a hundred percent like it's drivable it's really good but to get

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it to a hundred percent you need to spend a thousand dollars I said all right cool spent a thousand

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dollars and then I call him I just got back from Vietnam I went on a trip to Vietnam I called

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him I said hey I'm you need to come to my house he was like okay I was like now you got to come like

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now because when you got faith for something just do it don't waste six months some of you waiting too

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long God but like give that $10,000 seed okay I'll do it next month God and then the faith is

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gone for it once I got faith for something let's do it now that's how I got in trouble the other day

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I was trying to give my money right at that moment because I don't want to give it after I preach

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and then pass the bars like come up and preach oh y'all weren't here for first service oh y'all

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second service people and then I'm giving it and he's like our preacher's texting I was like no

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I'm giving I promise and I showed him the screen and he believed me so look at this I I'm like all

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right God I'm gonna give this so I called him I said come over my house he comes over and we're

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talking and I was like oh yeah we just came back for Vietnam and he's like kind of like why did

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you ask me to come to your house this is weird I said um you know God told me to do something for you

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and he was like okay I said the Lord told me to give you my car and he's like oh no but I don't

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have money for it I was like I had to say anything about money as the Lord said to give you the car

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I'm not exaggerating I give him the car he starts crying he goes you know I started a job in three days

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I didn't know how I was gonna get there because it's an hour away from my house

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he said you giving me the car is exactly the prayer God this job is an hour away it's two

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and a half hours away through the bus and public transportation I don't know how I was gonna be

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able to do it and the Lord answered my prayer and I said all right God's gonna bless you I get a

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phone call two weeks later someone's like hey I just want to bless you with a car

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three years newer 30,000 miles less come on somebody

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by faith see there's some stuff you don't see I had to drive my wife's Nissan

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no Nissan what does she have what does she have she had a Hyundai Alotra at that time

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do you know I don't want you driving no hundred Hyundai Alotra

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we had to share a car for a few weeks and I promise you I'm like God you about to bless me

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because I didn't give that because I had it I gave it by

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look what happened by faith able offer to God a more excellent sacrifice than came

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which shows me Cain's sacrifice wasn't shabby a more excellent which means it was a cool sacrifice

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but it wasn't what God required because God doesn't require a cool offering a decent offering

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he requires first and anything that's not first is not God's will anytime you look at your bills

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and you put your bills before God that means you love more money more than you love God

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you can say out that means you love your house more than you love God you love your comfort more

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than you love God you love your stuff more than you love God because he always requires being first

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he is preeminent he's first no matter if you put him first I know you like man I

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well you know I got responsibilities well you can stay broke

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I'm serious because the way to blessing is putting him first man you seek he first the kingdom of God

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all right let's look at this by faith able offer to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain

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through which he obtained witness that he was righteous God testifying of his gifts

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and through it being dead still speaks can I just stop right there where it says God

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testifying of his gifts I looked at that word testifying it literally means to preach God started

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preaching about how good Abel's offering was I was like this is powerful God started becoming

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a messenger Abel your offer is amazing he started preaching about Abel and this is the part

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that really messed me up and through it being dead still speaks so Abel even though he was dead

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his offering still had a voice can I tell you your offering has a voice your seed has a voice

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that even though you may not be alive your seed still going to speak for your children

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this is good your seed is going to speak for your children children do you know that when you give

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your seed literally has a voice and start speaking it says things it says this person can't be broke

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they're a giver no no no no they can never fall into poverty because they're a giver

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the Bible says I've never seen the righteous forsaken neither his seed begging for bread

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no no you're blessed in the city you're blessed in the field you're blessed when you come

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the blessing of the Lord makes you rich and as no sorrow you have to prosper you must prosper and

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be in help even as you're so prosperous you must be blessed so his offering started speaking

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because he put God first his offering had a voice hey hey children children children have to be blessed

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all right let's go to the next verse

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y'all here with me can I just go to another verse this is not even in my in my notes but

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I think we need to hear this our first king chapter 17 look at this I took I had a lot of verses

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in the first service adding use all of them because if I do we won't go home

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so first king 17 and I'm going to read verse 13 so this is Elijah Elijah goes to

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man Elijah goes to this widow who's not even part of the covenant she's not a Jew she's a Gentile

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she's a pagan she's an idol worshipper she doesn't know God but the principal works for anyone

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because it's a principle that works even if you're an unbeliever that's why all these

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billionaires want to give away 90% of their wealth even before they die and the more they give is the

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more they get rich all right they understand the principle of giving that's my point all right

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look at this first king 17 verse 13 here's what Elijah said to the widow this seems very

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insensitive she's saying I'm going to make my last meal and then me and my kids are going to die

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look what Elijah says and this is the same thing heaven says to us and God says to us

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when you're at your lease here's here's what God still saying to you and Elijah said to her do not

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fear go do as you have said but make me a small cake from it that seems mean that seems

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insensitive why would I give you first when I have a need if you give God the seed you'll take

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care of your need I'm gonna say it again if you give God the seed he will take care of your need

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the problem is we think if we take care of the need then God gives the seed the Bible says he only

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gives seed to the he gives seed to the soul not to the person in need he gives seed to the person who

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souls so if you so just know you'll always have seed my God I feel this in my spirit if you so

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you'll never be without the ability to give more oh God I want to fund your kingdom start now

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if you start sowing now you will always have more than enough to be a giver givers become givers

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because of they start giving and when they start giving God gives them seed to become givers

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and even more opportunities and territory you want to be a bigger giver start giving what you have

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and watch God increase it he'll take that small amount and then he'll give you more seed and more

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seed and more seed all right look at this do not fear go do as I said make a small cake from it

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I'm talking about the first fruit and bring it to me and afterward make some for yourself and your

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son look at what verse 14 says for the saint the Lord of Israel she doesn't know the God of Israel

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this how God is proving to her that he's God it's through provision he's saying unlike the other

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gods who during a famine can't provide for you unlike the other pagan gods who they can't do

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anything for you during a famine bail you know what bail was bail was supposed to be the God of

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rain Astero was supposed to be the God of rain those gods can't provide for you and they're

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supposed to be the God of rain but I'm going to prove to you why the God of Israel is not like your

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gods because even though they can't provide for you the God of Israel will make sure that the

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bin of flower will not be used up nor the jar of oil run dry until the day the Lord sends rain

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on the earth so I'm going to bless you even in the midst of famine because you gave first

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I don't care how bad things get in America I don't care how bad things get in this nation

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I don't care how challenging things get if you give God first this is the promise for you

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that in the midst of famine God will make sure you have divine provision somebody say man

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all right that was a detour because I didn't even share that in the first service

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so when you put when you give God first your first fruit you open it door for abundance and blessing

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you know you know Jericho right when God told the children of Israel going to Jericho the walls fell

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down Joshua chapter six you know that was the first land that he told them to go and to conquer

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and to conquest and compared to all the other lands he gave them a command that was completely

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different from all the other lands he said because this is the first place you conquer and conquest

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I want you to get all the gold I want you to get all the silver I want you to get all the possessions

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and I want you to bring it to me as an offering because it was the first place they conquered and

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guess what happened when they gave that first that's what set them on course to win

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because they gave God first in their conquest God was like all right I'll set the lane easy for you

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to win the rest of the battles when you give God first you set yourself on course to prosper you set

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yourself on course that no matter what you have to do and what you have to overcome you can overcome

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it because you gave God first it's interesting you know it's interesting God never commanded that with

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any other place they want to it was only in the first place they want to if you give me the first

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fruit I bless you if you give me first I bless you all right let's go Matthew chapter six verse 33

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I want you to see this and if you've been saved for more than five seconds you know this verse

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but we got to know it verse 33 let's look at 33 I want you to see it in the context someone's kid

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is giving trouble you better go get your kid

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y'all could love thank God it's not my kid

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but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added to you

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oh yeah if I pray if I pray God's going to bless me if I fast God's going to bless me that's not

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what this verse is saying you got to read verses in the context this verse is talking about

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money all right let me prove it let's go back to verse 31 let's go to 31 here's what it says

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therefore do not worry saying what shall we eat what shall we drink or what shall we wear so

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people are worrying about things possessions and God say don't worry about that kind of stuff

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don't worry about what you're gonna eat don't worry about what you're gonna drink don't worry

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what you're gonna wear verse 32 he's gonna tell you who does that people who don't know God

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for after all these things the Gentiles seek pagans they don't know God so they're worried about

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clothes they're worried about food they're worried about the roof over their head they're worried

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about all their possessions because they don't know God people who know God are not supposed to

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worry about that stuff it says for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things

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well look at the next verse but seek the first so the pagans worry about the stuff unbelievers worry

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about what they're gonna have and what they're gonna eat and how much money's in their car you don't

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have to worry about that here's why because when you seek first anytime you put God first you

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put yourself in position that all of these things shall be added to you I'm thinking this has to

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do with prayer fasting and seeking the presence of God no it had to do with giving when you put

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God first and you put his kingdom principles his kingdom initiative his kingdom perspective when

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it comes to giving first he goes everything that they're worried about you'll have

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everything they're concerned with it won't concern you don't worry because when you seek first

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his way everything else is going to be provided for oh man I feel this for someone who may be

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struggling right now and you don't know even how you're going to pay your bills I dare you I

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double dog dare you to put God first and watch he said prove me in this if I would not open the

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windows of heaven and pour out a blessing you won't have room to receive I double dog dare you

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even God double dog dares you he says prove me in this test me in this that I would not open the

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windows of heaven I believe that if you would put him first you will put his kingdom first you

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will put giving first you'll see heaven open up for you in a way like you've never seen it before

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the grass will definitely never wither where you are the favor of God will follow you in every

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aspect of your life where are those with saying God I'm ready to put you first I'm ready to put you

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first all right let's let's go to the first John chapter 2 first John 2 I was trying not to preach

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I'm trying to do like some more teaching but I couldn't help myself look at this first can't first

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first John let's open up that that that one first John would you see this okay I think oh sorry

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first John 3 I said 2 I'm sorry look at look at first John 3 all right look at this

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what does it say we must not be like I am bringing it back to the story we must not be like

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says who belonged to the evil one and killed his brother he aligned himself with the devil

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and he killed his brother and then is going to show you what happened to Kane and why did he

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kill him because Kane had been doing what was what was Kane doing before he killed his brother

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he was putting God second evil equals putting God second

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his brother had been doing what was righteous righteous equals putting God

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y'all are smart I read this and I couldn't believe it because it's the New Testament it's not

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the Old Testament it's bringing up Old Testament reference but it's it's the New Testament saying

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because of his posture the posture of his heart and giving it opened the door for him to align

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himself with the devil and kill his brother you know what will reveal your heart you know how you

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can see where someone is you can look at their checkbook and I guarantee you can determine you

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know what's funny when church people get offended at the pastor of the leader you know the first

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thing they do they stop giving because they think oh I'm gonna hurt the church I'm in such offense

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it shows me you got the spirit of Kane oh God this is good because what did God equate

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Kane's evil too what he was doing and what was he doing he was giving an offering but he was

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giving God second see this isn't this is not just about money some of you like man that he really

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wants people to give I really want people to be blessed and I know what the scripture requires

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but I really want you to see that this is more of an issue of the heart than anything else there's

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an issue with God's challenging your heart and challenging the preconceived notions of your heart

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are even challenging some of the toxic things that happen in the past with churches you were a part

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of before and saying that doesn't matter what matters is doing what God tells you to do I know you

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were hurt by the past I know things happened in your last minister in your last church and you're

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you're kind of disillusioned about giving but giving was not a principal instituted by man

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so your feelings can't come in the middle of your giving

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because if it was instituted by emotions and feelings you can give based on how you feel

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and one day you feel like giving a lot and in other days you feel like giving a little bit

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someday you feel like putting God first and in other days let me take care of all my other

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expenses and my other bills and then whatever's left over I'll give it to God but faith says God

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I trust you with the 90 that the 90 will be blessed more than a hundred that's cursed

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because can I have been doing what was evil and his brother had been doing what was righteous

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putting God first we just ready see you first the kingdom of God and his

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all right two more verses and then we're done is that cool with everyone

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let's hope you put on their jackets already my God talk about putting God first

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like we can't even give an hour and a half in church I am done with this loud black man

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oh my gosh it has to come from the heart first that's where it starts it starts at the place of

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the heart giving starts at the place of the heart that's where it starts all right let's do

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Proverbs chapter three let's look at verse nine and ten I want you to see this

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Proverbs three honor the Lord with your possessions and with the first fruit of all your

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increase verse 10 so your barge will be filled with plenty and your vats will overflow with new wine

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I want to show you something that before we can even get to this place the first thing that the

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writer of Proverbs does is that he deals with the heart issue and he gets right to the heart of the

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issue and then he starts talking about honoring the Lord with your giving because the word

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honor is completely different than respect right respect is something that's lost and gained

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is lost and earned that's why the Bible doesn't tell you to respect your mother and your father

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because your parents are gonna do stuff that's gonna make you lose their your respect for them

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and never said respect them oh they got quiet oh the daddy issues started coming up

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well I felt it I felt it because they're like oh I don't respect my the Bible never said

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respect them it said to honor them honor means no matter what they do no matter what they say no

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matter how they act no matter how they treat you no matter what they've done I'm not saying you

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put up with toxic behavior but you still should have a position where you place them that no matter

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what they do that position cannot leave because they're your parents they got quiet

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they got oh I got itchy because they started making me feel weird honors different than respect

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all right let's go to Proverbs chapter 3 verse 1 I'm gonna show you over and over this you know

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the Proverbs is a father writing to his son and giving him wisdom principles telling him this is

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what you should do this is how you should live this how you should treat people these are the type

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of women to stay away from some of you who got problems with with these Jezebels need to start

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reading Proverbs they'll tell you don't walk by her house go around the block that's

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what the Proverbs I know I I didn't say it like he said but he said don't walk by her house

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because she will pull you in make sure you go around the don't follow her on Instagram don't

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like her pictures while preaching better than they say in a man

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I believe she could get saved no no no we ain't doing no missionary dating out here

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oh they got quiet my son do not forget my law but let your I told you there's an issue of the

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giving's always an issue of the heart because the Bible says where your treasure is that's where your

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giving and money's always an issue that starts right here and God always wants to attack it

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here a lot of people want to attack it here that's how you lose man but it doesn't make sense

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why does the church need that's not coming from here God you said it all right I want to

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live according to what your word says someone told me they're like man but preachers still I don't

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care it doesn't change my giving no matter what anyone else does I know what the principal says

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and I know what God's word says I I want to get into it too much tangents my son do not forget

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my law but let your heart keep my commandments heart verse two look what happens when his heart

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keeps the commandments for length of days and long life and peace I talked about the word peace

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last week the word shalom it doesn't mean just peace it means prosperity in every area of your life

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hey if your heart's in the right place if your heart's in the place of my commandments I'm gonna

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allow you to prosper in every area and I'm gonna allow you to live a long blessed life look at this

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verse three let not mercy and truth forsake you bind them around your neck right them on the

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tablet of your I told you it has everything to do with the heart look look at verse four

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and so find favor who attracted favor the person who wrote

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grace and truth on their heart they attract favor and not only favor favor in the sight of God

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and man that means God ain't only looking out for you God's gonna allow people to start looking out

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for you and to give you opportunities you weren't even qualified for that you didn't have the skill

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or the pedigree to get God says I'ma make sure you get it because you wrote

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it on your heart verse five I tell you it's all about the heart

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this is an issue of the heart giving has to start here and it's so interesting the father could

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have started with the best verse to me the best verse was honor the Lord with your first fruit

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I would have started that verse one that would have been verse one for me verse nine would have been

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verse one hey that's the best part my vats overflow I get wine all of that to me that's the best

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verse I'm putting that as number one but but this father this rider was so wise he was like I

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can't put that first without putting the heart first

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trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean on your own understanding in all your ways

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acknowledge him and he will direct your path so you can go to the next one do not be wise in your

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own eyes fear the Lord in the part from evil which has to do with the heart right it will be

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health to your flesh and strength to your bones verse nine honor the Lord see now this verse makes

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more sense it's not just a weird verse misplaced because it seems like it's a verse that's misplaced

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it's not misplaced because every time it talks about the heart it talks about favor it talks about

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blessing it talks about you having favor with God and man so it talks about getting to the heart

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and then it finally brings you to this place here's the place when you get your heart right with God

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what happens honor the Lord with your possessions and with the first fruits the way to get to being

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able to give God your first fruit is dealing with the heart says with all the with all of your

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increase and look what happens when you do that verse 10 so your barns will be filled with plenty

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how do you even want their barns to be filled with plenty all right y'all are like I don't have a barn

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all right let me how do you even want their bank accounts to be filled with plenty okay three people

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said amen how do you even want their bank accounts to be filled with plenty how do you even want

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their vets to overflow with new wine that means God giving you strategic ideas for wealth

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creativity for wealth business ideas for wealth promotion for what I believe it's yours

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but the Bible says first fruits once you give him first he'll open all that up for you

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oh I want to live in overflow I'm gonna share one testimony one verse I want to share more than one

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but do I have do I have 10 minutes I have about three and a half can I get 10 minutes just to share

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this I know I'm family but please all right so two verses and a testimony is that okay all right

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don't get me in trouble now I was preaching from my spiritual father Apostle Ryan Lestrange and I was

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talking about the thousand dollars seed because I've sold at least five or six thousand dollars

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seeds that broke stuff open in the atmosphere for me that shifted stuff in my life and it's not

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a gimmick it's not I just was like God at one point in my life a thousand dollars seed was the

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number like I gave that every time I gave it the Lord would just open something up for me and so

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I'm talking about the thousand dollar seed and one of my friends in ministry she was sitting

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out there and she's like the Lord is telling me to sow this thousand dollar seed but I don't know

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I'm just up there and I'm like sharing about it and I'm like all right we're gonna give and I'm

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sharing about the power of the thousand dollar seed and she's like I got to give the seed I got

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to give the seed I got to give the seed and she's like all right she said she looked over at a

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husband she's like do we have the money he's like no we just we gave our time we we we paid all of

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our bills we don't got it she's like man I feel in my spirit God saying to give she's like all right

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what should I do so she's like let me look at my accounts so she looks at her accounts no money

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so she looks at Venmo no money she looks at cash out no she's white white people don't use cash out

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I'm sorry I never see the white person use cash out before but we're gonna use Venmo and pay

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cow that's it and Zell and Zell I've never seen a white person use cash out that is black people

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all the way I'm a I came in one time I was selling my books every black person's like you

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got cash out every white person was like oh do you take Venmo yeah that makes a lot of sense

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write the letters to pass the boy or not to me write him the emails you don't write me the emails

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um now for God where I was oh cash out so yeah she did check her cash out because you don't

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got a cash out white people don't use cash out so she checked her Venmo she checked her Zell

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and then she checked PayPal and when she checked PayPal she realized she had a thousand dollars

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in her PayPal account someone had sent her the money earlier and she didn't realize it and she's

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like I have need but I believe this is seed you gotta know the difference because the problem with

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some of us is we eat our seed and we wonder why we're hungry next week see I'm not eating my seed

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oh yeah yeah let's go out to eat let's do this no that's called seed I'm I plant that I don't

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eat it good so she's like man this is this is seed I'm gonna I'm gonna sow it she takes a thousand

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dollars she's like she's so did that she comes to me she said man a god I sow a thousand I believe

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in the Lord is gonna bring increase in my business I said yes and Jesus name Lord is gonna do it for

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you she said I was starting an online business the next week she said me she said I made she's a

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pastor in Arkansas and Jonesboro Arkansas and she said my salary at the church was $29,000

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y'all thinking passes is rich $29,000 she goes I started this online business believing the

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Lord is gonna bring me into another level of wealth she said I sowed that seed by faith a thousand

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dollars he for someone who makes $29,000 that's major so she's like I'm believing the Lord's

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gonna bring me into increase she said I started my online business she said in one week I made

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$40,000 I'm on her church's board she said I spoke to her the other day we were in a board

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meeting she's like yeah you know now I'm about to step into millionaire status

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she said you know what I needed to do though I had to sow first and believe that if I gave

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God first he'll do the rest I give God my best he'll do the rest

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one more verse I'm not gonna do the last verse one more verse and I want you to see this because

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this is very valuable Philippians do that Philippians verse want you to see this Philippians 4 look

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at this now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel when I departed from

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Macedonia no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but only you no other church

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no other church wanted to give to Paul's ministry there was only one church who was willing to

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give to Paul's ministry instead of point where Paul talks about this church and fonts over this

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church so much that he talks about them in a different book second Corinthians chapter 8 he

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starts talking about the church in Macedonia he's talking about the Philippians church and he's

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like yeah no Corinthians y'all didn't want to give to me but the Philippians gave to me hey

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hey Corinthians y'all didn't want to sow but the Philippians they were so generous they didn't even

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have any money and they gave they were at the point of poverty because of persecution and they

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still gave and he's boasting about how much they gave and then he's writing a letter to them

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years later a year later and then he's like hey guys thank you so much for your giving

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and it is what he says to them verse 16 for even in Tesla Nica you sent aid once and again for my

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necessities I was preaching out another church I was out there in another city and you wanted to

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bless me so much you brought seed to where I was and you gave oh that's serious this is what he says

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to this church keep going verse 18 oh sorry go back to verse 17 for a second not that I seek the

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gift but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account verse 18 indeed I have all and abound I am

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full and receiving from a paphroditus the things set from you a sweet smelling aroma and acceptable

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sacrifice well pleasing to God look at verse 19 we always quote this out of context we always quote

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this out of context we don't put God first we don't give God first and then we quote this verse

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this was a church that put God first is a church that sowed to God first even when you read in

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second Corinthians chapter eight it says they gave themselves to the Lord first and then gave to

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us in giving there were always the people who gave first and look what the promise was for them

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and my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus

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Philippians you gave to the kingdom of God you sowed to the kingdom of God like my friend hey I'm

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starting this business and before I start the business what I want to do is I want to give to God

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first here's the first fruit God here I want to give to you first because I believe if I get to

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you first you're going to bless me and here's the promise for every single person who's saying

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who got that disposition in their heart who from this day forward God I'm not going to put my

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mortgage before I put you I'm not going to put my bills before I put you I'm not going to put

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my needs before I'm not going to put my kids to wishing before I put you I'm not going to put

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the things that I want before you I'm not going to put Macy's and Nordstrom's before you I'm

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going to put you first and look at what happens when you do that my God shall supply all your needs

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according to his riches got a broke he owes cattle on a thousand hills he ain't broke

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according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus you know there's different ways to seal words

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you know how we're going to seal this word with our giving some some words you seal it with praise

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you seal it at the altar you seal it by going home and like I got to throw everything out

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oh I'm deleting her number I'm deleting his number I'm getting rid of this toxic thing you know how

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we're going to seal this word by putting into practice God I haven't put you first

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but I'm going to put you first I'm going to give you first and believe that you're the God of

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provision so let's get prepared to give they're going to put the giving information up on the

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screen there's four ways to give and they're going to show you all the ways that you can give

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and they're going to put it up for a few seconds a lot longer than it was when I try to do it the

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other day four ways that P.O. Boxes for you know people give them the P.O. Box that means they

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really love the Lord for you to have to get a stamp and envelope instead of just going like

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this online that's some serious dedication if you want to give you can scan the QR code

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you can give online at city light NYC.com slash give you can text city light to 4577 you can mail

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in your check money order however you want to give and there's some offering boxes in the back

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for those who aren't going to give digitally I'm going to give you just a few seconds to

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get your seed ready and I understand for those who want to give right now because I don't like

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giving at home I like when I'm in church I feel like my faith is activated and I'd like to give

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here so if that's you I'm going to give you just another minute or so

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to give and then here's what we're going to do we're all going to stand together

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and I'm going to have you lift up your seed so it might be your phone if you're giving digitally

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it might be an envelope whatever it is I want you to lift up your offering your tithe

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and I want you to speak over it and make the declaration I'm blessed I'm blessed I'm blessed I'm blessed

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I declare the blessing of the Lord's overtaking you did everyone have a chance to give

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amen all right let's stand to our feet

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and I want you to get your phone your check your money order some of you gave during the first

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service thank you you can just symbolically lift up your hand or lift up your phone

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some of you gave throughout the week some of you the Lord is impressing on you I want you

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to put me first in your giving

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make sure on first I'll bless the 90 if you put me first

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I just lifted up and let's make this declaration I declare and I decree I am blessed

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in the city in the field when I come when I go everything I touch by faith increases now favor

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favor favor follows me and I am abundantly blessed in Jesus name if you believe it give God a shout of praise

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come on give him a shout of praise

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