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Everybody wants to talk about how in the book of Acts they all shared and help nobody held anything in common

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Like that was supposed to be every single day every single month forever. We're not a commune

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That will happen once in church history as an example of what the power and love of God can do

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But after that people lived lives and they were able to accumulate wealth because the Bible says a good man

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Leaves an inheritance to his children's children

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and

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Truth that he has for us. If you want to connect with City Light Church, 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 is already working in our hearts and minds

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As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God that you are surrounded by his grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you

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Hallelujah

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You gotta be hungry, amen

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You have to be hungry when you come into the presence of God because God is moved by hunger

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Hunger is the expression of faith in action

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There's a passion and it may not sound scriptural because it sounds emotional, but yes God is moved by passion

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That's why in James it says the fervent prayer fervent. That means red hot fiery

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The fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much has tremendous power. It's dynamic and it's working

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Not the cold

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Soul is prayer

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Not the little script that we read

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But something from the heart

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That's why King Hezekiah he was told he was gonna die

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He then passionately petitions the Lord for help and the Lord changes his mind. He says fine. You get 15 more years

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What made the difference a fervent prayer? I'm saying this to provoke you because God forbid you wake up early on a Sunday morning

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And just show up and expect nothing because according to your faith be it unto you

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If you come into church and don't expect to get something you're gonna get exactly what you're expecting

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Nothing

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You gotta come in hungry

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Every time we're together

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God has something in mind for you

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There is a divine deposit he wants to give you

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Amen and it's activated with hunger with passion

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You should personalize it for yourself

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David didn't say the Lord is ushepard

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He said the Lord is my shepherd

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He personalized it for himself the Lord is my shepherd

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Some people don't want no I shall not want

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He takes some people put some in green pastures. No, he leads me

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He made it his own he appropriated the truth about God for himself

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That's what you gotta do and when the truths that are gonna be presented to you this morning they're for you

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They're not generalizations and they only work when you make them your own in fact. That's how you get saved

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Jesus is the savior of the world

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Yes, but he's my savior

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Hey, man

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Songs in Spanish

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Gonna sing it passionately. I wouldn't even know what I was singing

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If it didn't have the English in the next line

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But you listen to me and I'm trying to pronounce it

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My name isn't bow it's bow chacho jans regas

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When I sing those songs I turn extra Spanish

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I'm not gonna just mess with it a little bit

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I'm gonna sing it with my whole cord is on

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Hey, man

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Hey, man

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And I expect you know I expect to receive something every time I minister

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Yeah, and I do he fills me up as I'm pouring out

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So this is a time where we get together

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In Galatians Paul says the Holy Spirit who works miracles among you

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This is a time where you can get exactly what you need God will fill up your tank. He'll put a divine deposit inside you

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Amen

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All right a couple announcements that I want to bring you the word this morning number one life groups are beginning tomorrow

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All these people are getting excited

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Because life groups are vital they just are

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We see it in the early church. They met all together

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But they also met from house to house they did both they met in a big giant corporate setting in the temple

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And then they met in smaller settings because in smaller settings you can ask questions

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You can give answers you yourself can pour out

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I've noticed now we've been doing life groups for over 20 years

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The people who I see mature the fastest and the best their part of life groups

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Everyone we've ever had in leadership. They've gone through life groups and still enjoy life groups

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And the commitment isn't that great

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It's for 12 weeks and it's for 75 minutes

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So make a decision to be a part of a life group. Amen. I had to look again

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I so I can tell people check out you just get that glassy. I'd look and I oh they play in the video

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As you can see all of our life groups are 90% woman and 10% men

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It was just that day

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It's just that day just kidding do not be turned off

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By anything I'm saying all right next thing that's happening

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Next thing that's happening baptisms November the first

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We do baptisms twice a year in the fall and in the spring

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Baptisms are for those people who have come along throughout the year and you've given your lives to Jesus

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It's the next step for you or maybe you came back to the Lord, but you were never biblically baptized

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What's biblical baptism? Well, it's baptism that you actually see in the Bible

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hint infant baptism or baby baptism

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It's not in the Bible you just won't find one verse of a baby getting baptized

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You said why then do some places baptize babies? That's a rabbit hole for you to go down yourself

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And now you got chat just ask a question and find out

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But it's not in the scriptures

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So you have to get baptized when you're

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Of age when you understand what you're doing because the prerequisites for baptism are repentance and faith

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You got a repentant. You got to believe a baby can't do that someone else has to do that for them

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So if you were christened really as a baby you need to get biblically baptized

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When you're of age when it's your choice not your parents

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And you need to go completely under the water a little dab won't do you a little sprinkles not enough

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We're burying you baptism as you can see is a big celebration service

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It's also glorious funeral service. We're burying your old self

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You're going all the way underneath the water. We play the video so you wouldn't know that I don't keep you under for too long

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Just a second and then you come up in the newness of life

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I've been criticized for my baptism technique that people need a chiropractic adjustment afterwards

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I'm going to be much gentler next to nobody in the church

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But other pastors who've seen our videos have teased me. He said wow you really

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Do you do you instruct the people it does look violent on video look? Ah water splashing. I'm like

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But it's actually quite lovely and quite beautiful

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If you see the videos it does look like I'm like performing an exorcism slash baptism

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I'll be very very gentle gonna lower you into the water you'll come up and it will do something in your life

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What will it do what are you doing? Jesus's life at his baptism is when the Holy Spirit lighted upon him

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God wouldn't ask you really tell you to get baptized if there was no blessing attached to it

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At the very least the blessings of obedience come upon you

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For doing what he said in his word to do amen

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Are you ready for the word this morning?

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Let's begin in Psalm 92 and verse 12

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Psalm 92 and verse 12 the righteous shall flourish

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Like a palm tree. Let me just ask the same question. I asked last week

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How many righteous people do we have here lift your hands

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Much better this week

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Praise God and if you're a guest and you're thinking I just came into the most arrogant proud church

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Wow these people really need to humble themselves so many people lifted their hands that they're righteous

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Let me assure you that they understand that they are righteous because of Jesus and not in and of themselves

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But there are so many blessings associated with the righteous person

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How do you go about appropriating them for your own life

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Anytime you see the righteous person you need to be able to say that's me

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Not because of what I do but because of what Jesus has done for me

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He who knew no sin this is what the scripture says he who knew no sin the perfectly innocent

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The perfectly guiltless

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Became sin for me on the cross and that sin

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Was dealt with it was judged it was punished how beautiful is that your sin in Jesus

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So the punishment doesn't land on you the wrath of God the holy and just deserved wrath of God

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Doesn't fall on you if fell upon Jesus he took that in your place

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So that the perfectly innocent who was made sin now because of that

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You have been made the righteousness of God in Christ

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So ask your question how many righteous people we had a lot of good hands went up because you understand that Jesus has given you his righteousness amen

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Let me ask the follow-up question that really gets people going

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Who's more righteous you were Jesus

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Any takers

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Amen to the third row how about that cluster over there who's more righteous you were Jesus

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Take the the answer is yes

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I'll take that

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The answer is yes any takers who's more righteous you were Jesus

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What both the same

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The same is the answer

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It sounds almost heretical doesn't it it sounds almost blasphemous

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Because you meet in the world. Oh, no Jesus is more righteous

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You think he Jesus has more right standing with the father than you then you don't understand that he's giving you his righteousness

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He gave you his he doesn't have a higher degree. He gave you what he has

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If you had a lower degree of righteousness, how could you make it into heaven?

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Because you you don't get into heaven within a minus

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You know that right you get into heaven you got to be perfect a plus with the extra credit on top

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And the only one who ever got that grade was Jesus and then he gave his grade over to you

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You have to be perfect entering to heaven you come in because he's giving you his righteousness

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That's why in Hebrews it says the Jesus is also your brother

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He's lifted you up people think they lift he lifted them up just a little bit just out of the pit

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But they still have slime covering them

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No, he lifted you up to himself

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To the degree that the Bible says you're now seated in heavenly places

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In Christ

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So that when you speak to God the Father it's like Jesus speaking to God the Father

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You bringing a request to God the Father it's like Jesus bringing a request to God the Father

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That's what happened he gave you his right standing with God. So now you know you qualify amen

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The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree

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a palm tree

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Is a rare tree that can grow and that can flourish

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in the desert in the wilderness and harsh

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And he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon

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A libanon a cedar in Lebanon. That's a tall and majestic tree

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It's regal it's kingly. There's a duality here the Bible is saying

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You will flourish and you will grow you've been taken and exalted God has given you his righteousness

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You're also like a cedar

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Of Lebanon majestic regal and tall but also because we still live on this side of heaven the Bible is saying

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Because of its extensive root system the palm tree can flourish anywhere

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In the sand on the beach

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Far away from water sources, but that extensive root system which is in Christ goes deep and you still flourish

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I want to talk to you about flourishing this morning

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I want you to flourish. I'm after you flourishing

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And thank God that we serve a God of abundance a God who causes our cup to overflow

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I feel this in my spirit this morning because

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We're gonna need it

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We need to be rooted and grounded in the abundance and the blessing and the prosperity. I got if you haven't caught out

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I'm talking about finances this morning

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Hey, man

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I want you

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How do you not?

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I took my kids four of us Friday night. Whoo

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They're done with school. I got to do the dad thing. I'm gonna take them to yogurt

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We go five minutes away

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Old town arousine get yoga 35 dollars

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When did that happen?

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We're not a family of 19. We're family of four

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The other day five minutes ago that would have been 12 to 15 dollars

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Now it's 35 dollars people. Does anybody ever stop and go what is happening here?

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You really want to get freaked out check out your Amazon cart from 2019

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You know how you can go into orders and look at past orders and you can click one more time

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And actually see the receipt and what you paid do that and compare what you paid for toothpaste for your lifestyle or fabuloso

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Maybe I am bro chacho because in my house, right? It's only fabuloso

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There's something I want to know that the house is clean and fabuloso slaps you it's clean

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It just lets you know you're in a clean house. Whoo fabulous. Oh

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You know there's no doubt in fact

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Mr. Clean you wonder but fabuloso

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You know all the bacteria are dead

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Because they're printing money

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You guys many of you know my story. I fell in love with Bitcoin and Bitcoin changed my life

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Because it is anti-inflationary. It's deflationary. There's a set limited supply

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There will always be only 21 million that's programmed. They can't be changed

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So there's a cap you can't create or make more Bitcoin

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What gives something value scarcity? So it's a scarce hard asset

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The dollar however, they just keep printing it and you know what if you're a liberal

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Kind of in the wrong church, but

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Look, I'm gonna frustrate you. It's the truth

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But you know who's printing it the conservatives

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And if you're conservative, you know who's printing it the liberals

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You know who's printing it everybody's printing it

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It doesn't matter who's in office what administration you look from

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Biden to Trump before to Obama to Bush to they all just turn on the money printer and they printed and what they're doing is

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It's like an invisible tax that's deflay that's robbing you and stealing the purchasing power of your dollar

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This is the for when I was growing up in the 80s. I had a certain confidence not even saved

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I had a confidence in me that I just picked up from my environment my atmosphere my teachers other adults the kids

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I hung out with I had a confidence that I was gonna do better than my parents

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Everybody did back then today you see people they don't have that same confidence because the middle class is just getting erased

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You're gonna have a bunch of elites on one side and a bunch of surfs on the other and the middle class is getting erased

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Guess where I want you to believe be on the elite elite side. Amen

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I want to write like Paul did to Timothy and said now concerning the rich people in your church tell them

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That means Timothy had rich people in his church because Paul's giving instructions on what to tell the rich people in the church

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Everybody wants to talk about how in the book of Acts they all shared and held nobody held anything in common

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Like that was supposed to be every single day every single month forever. We're not a commune

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That would happen once in church history as an example of what the power and love of God can do

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not a bad thing

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Remember to have a few weeks back. I preach the message on how penicastles are the poorest denomination

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Only beat by Jehovah's witnesses

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Why cuz penicastles can be goofy and weird

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Do you know how much good you can do with wealth multiplying wealth?

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How much suffering you can relieve

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How much of the gospel you can spread

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So I'm preaching this number one. I'm not preaching this because we need anything

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You have to know that when I preach this

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Maybe you're used to a church that whenever the topic of money is brought up. It's secretly because

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The pastor can't make budget. So he starts talking about money. We can make budget

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We can make budget a hundred times over

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Some people just want to give where there's a huge need if I get up here go you know

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I'm trapped. I'm by the way. I'm going to Poland in a few hours

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Guys, you know, they don't serve snacks on the planes like they used to

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And Hudson uses whoo so expensive

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And could you please just like give a little extra this afternoon

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And the light bill is due even got a gas bill to

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Somebody help you should never give because of a need Paul said in Corinthians don't give out of necessity

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It's not because there's a need. It's because I have a need to give

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I make a living by my giving

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Here's what I believe because God did this right God did this this is a rare thing

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Family we just recently gave two million dollars to the church

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I dreamt of the day and remember what our goal was a year and a half ago

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I said I said no, I wanted to give a million but out loud. I said half a million

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That was like the leap but but when we dreamed when I said maybe imagine if we can give a million and to her eyes

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You know like that will be us but how could that I don't know how but we imagine we talked about it

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I believe with all of my heart because that is a unique thing a peculiar thing a strange thing

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I believe with all of my heart God wants to fill our church up with unusual testimony say that's me

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unusual miracles

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Unlock one thing and it set off a ripple effect chain events and your whole life is transformed

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Hallelujah, that's what I want to see here people who are blessed to be a blessing walking around their cup is overflowing

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And they're just relieving suffering everywhere they go amen and money is not an issue come on church

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Let's just read this out of Matthew 621. I want to just show you some things that Jesus said about finances and money

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You have to be at peace with the topic of money

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Because Jesus was at peace with that topic and he spoke about it often

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somebody tell me

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More than heaven and hell combined

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He talked about offerings lands stewardship talents not like your talent you got talent you can sing

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Talent is a unit of measurement for gold

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When he says to the one he gave five talents it doesn't mean he gave him an ability to sing and dance and sculpt and no he gave him money

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My microphone is on this morning, right

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So I can 1980s comedian hello is this thing on

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Jesus said for where your treasure is there your heart will be also

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So there's a connection between the heart and treasure

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There's a connection between money and your heart

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Where your treasure is

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So stewardship is a matter of the heart

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It's a matter of discipleship

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And a matter of building trust

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So that God can entrust you with more

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Therefore if you have not been faithful in unrighteous maman

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Who will commit to your trust the true riches

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So again, Jesus is establishing a connection

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Between the heart and money he's saying if you're not a good steward of unrighteous maman money

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How will you get the true what are the true riches the anointing the gifts of the spirit the power of God the glory

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He said there's actually a connection between the anointing you walk in the glory you enjoy and how you handle money

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Yeah, you want to know the quickest way to have a revival in a church have a bunch of generous people

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You have a bunch of generous people it brings the move of God

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I've never seen the power of God poured out when a group is white knuckling every nickel and every dime

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And because a heart that's close to give is also going to be a heart that's close to receive

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You know some people they put walls up because they don't want to get hurt

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They put walls up to keep some people out, but those walls keep everybody out including God

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You can't decide what walls are going to keep who out you put walls up everybody's locked out

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That's how it is with a heart that's close to give it's also close to receive

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You ever try to give something to a stingy person I have they can they don't know what to do with it

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They can't handle no no, it's on me. Are you sure? Are you really sure they freak out because they'd never do that. They don't even have to handle that

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Hallelujah

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Let me go to Matthew 26 6 through 13. I want to show you Jesus

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Show you Jesus and the connection between

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worship and giving

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You guys know that it normally takes me about a minute maximum to to receive the tides and offerings

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usually a minute

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I would spend about 15 to 20 minutes because it's actually a holy time

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It's a precious time. It's a time where we worship the Lord with our giving

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But because we have multiple services

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And you can't fit everything into multiple services that have to meet in the morning and we've tried for so many years different service

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We had a 1.6 weekend services

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As do we do a 5 p.m. A 6 p.m. You know we have a 10 a.m. and an 11.30 you know why it's 11.30 because the moment you put 12 noon

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All of a sudden people treat it as a late after you might as well put 4 p.m. If it's 12 p.m.

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And so if we went to just one service one third of the people would stop coming

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How do I know we actually done that years ago? Why do one third of the people stop going? I don't know you tell me

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Why do we just stop coming? I don't

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But it just seems like the moment you take variety away

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people bounce out

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You know why like when there's a product launch like apple just came out with a new phone. They got like now they got

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A dozen different versions. Who even gets those weird little ones the thin air and whatever cracks like a

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Saltine cracker in your hands

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But it's a proven fact that when you go down the supermarket aisle and there's only two serial types of cereals

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You don't buy any cereal but you go down an American supermarket aisle and there's 50 different cereals

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Then all of a sudden you're buying cereal because people love variety

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That's all my long way of saying why I have to have multiple services because people love choice and variety

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Maybe that'll happen in the future as we get bigger and we have a larger sanctuary

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There should be a time

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Set aside for our giving

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Now we have just a few minutes

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But you can have that time in your heart where you're worshipping the Lord with your giving and it's important

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If you want to be a good receiver

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It's important that you understand what giving is I don't want people who are just givers only

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I want people who are givers and receivers because the Bible says that what you give comes back to you 100 fold

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Yeah, not everybody receives a hundred fold it actually doesn't say hundred folds is 30 60 and 100 I want to be the hundred guy

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I don't want to be the 10 guy 20 guy or 30 guy

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I want to do what I need to do

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Biblically speaking to get maximum harvest and maximum return off of what I give

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And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper

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A woman came to him having an alabaster flask a very costly fragrant oil

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And she poured it on his head as he sat at the table how much was this perfume oil

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Say louder somebody from the back to how much a year's worth a year's salary

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And the Bible is specific to let us know that in other gospels maybe it doesn't matter to you and it came before after this

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A woman came to him having an alabaster flask a very costly fragrance oil and she poured it on his head

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Why this waste and other gospels emphasize that it was Judas who was the most upset

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A Judas spirit always wants to tell you what to do with your money and where you should give and where you shouldn't

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Here's a ghost someone gave me BMW I ended up giving it away, but it was this atheist who's trying to

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Make a name for himself he came into one of our services

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And he wasn't even happy that I gave it away. He said how long did you have it before you gave it to acid for a few years

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Oh, so you kept it for a few years

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I want to say what color was the BMW that you gave away

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How many BMWs have you given away

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But he had something just Judas always wants to tell you what you saw

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Someone gave a BMW to me, but you're not happy that it took me two years

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I want why did they take me tears because I wanted to enjoy it for a couple of years. How about that?

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I thought you were telling me I'm drunk

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He's in the front he's going like this, but it's because my bottle was about to fall off

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We got to we got to come up with different codes

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Next verse. Oh, this is the kicker for this fragrance oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor

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But when Jesus was aware of it, he said to them why do you trouble the woman for she has done a good work for me

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For you have the poor with you always, but me you do not have always

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For in pouring this fragrant oil on my body

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Particularly special act of worship because the spirit of sacrifice was introduced to her worship

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Because what she broke was an alabaster box that contained perfume and oil worth a year's salary

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The Bible noted that that means it's important to God and on top of that

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Jesus noted it in the next verse he says

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Assuredly I say to you wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world

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What this woman has done will also be told as a memorial

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I'm fulfilling that prophetic word

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This morning and that word has been fulfilled millions of times since Jesus said it because we still talk about that woman

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We still mention her why what else has she done nothing she gave one gift

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But with the spirit of sacrifice introduced into it and God received it as worship

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When you give

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Understand that it's worship unto the Lord and give from a place of worship you're not giving to man

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You're not giving to an organization you take your friend out to lunch even you bless them

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See Christ in them and know that you're giving it to the Lord

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I'm trying to give you keys on how to get a harvest off of your giving

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There's people that don't understand these basic things

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That's either why they don't give or when they give they just bucket plunkers

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You know a bucket plunker my mom used to scold my dad my dad would come in

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And like the bucket we don't even pass buckets anymore you don't even know what a bucket plunkers because we haven't had buckets since 2020

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Now it's all it's all in the air

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But the bucket would come by my dad would literally you know people prepare their gifts

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This isn't the my dad is awesome, but I do tease him about this

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I know I mentioned my dad whenever it's offering time

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He really got hung up with the idea of money

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Being talked about in church

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He had no problem money in his own life did really well for himself

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Works in finance some market analysts

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But in church it's like no you can't talk about that

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And he his body would seize up in service when I when the preacher would be preaching about it

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I'll be a teenager brought my parents trying to win him to the Lord get him saved

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The preacher would start talking my money and he would

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It would like he would have you know

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Stuff could just stuff would get stirred up

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He had his own issues with that and then the bucket would come up and he would

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Like move like this and he would take out a five and

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Flick it in the butt like literally a bucket plunker

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Like wow Abraham Lincoln the last of the big-time givers

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Abraham Lincoln got a tear coming down his face because he was just being held onto it so tight

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Don't be a bucket plunker

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Give with worship in your heart know that the Lord receives it as worship

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Proverbs chapter three verse nine

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Ha thought who yeah

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In 2009 listen to me church

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The great recession hit full force. Oh wait. We had the market crash

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2000 just wasn't that long ago

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Every crane I moved into Williamsburg and oh wait. They were 30 cranes in Williamsburg back then in oh wait

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It was like New York time says the biggest urban Renaissance ever

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Skyscraper's buildings kind of is going to pull over they all they all stopped in oh nine

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No new buildings were everything stopped midway people were scared

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I was scared what is going to happen. I went to the Lord

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The Lord gave me a word and the word was do not participate in this recession

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What that sounds great how do I not participate in what's happening all around me

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He said do not participate in this recession

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You are not subject to this earth's economy. You're a citizen of heaven

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You're an ambassador of Christ. You know what an ambassador is when an ambassador leaves the sending nation

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He goes with the full force and authority and privilege of the host sending of the sending nation

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So if you're an American ambassador to the poorest country in the world

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You're not living that way. You're living like you would be in America

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You're an ambassador of Christ. You may be here on earth

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They might be saying whatever they're saying about the economy

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But you're representing heaven and you should have and believe God for heaven on earth

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And in oh nine he said don't participate in the recession. You don't have to be subject to what's happening

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Let me lift you higher I announced this to the whole church and in oh nine

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Which was one of the toughest years financially we had it was beautiful the most people we've ever had getting married

454
00:35:02.120 --> 00:35:08.760
Starting businesses and buying co-ops condos and making moves throughout the city because we just chose not to participate

455
00:35:09.080 --> 00:35:10.760
And what I'm setting you up for is

456
00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:17.480
We're ending oh five 2025 we're going into 2026. I don't want you to participate in the nonsense

457
00:35:18.680 --> 00:35:22.600
The sound of the Lord is him saying come up here

458
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:32.120
Come up now you don't have to live the low life come up and live the high life in a protected place as my precious people

459
00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:40.200
The blood of Jesus is on you favors all around you. You're different. You're marked. You're sealed by the holy spirit

460
00:35:40.600 --> 00:35:43.800
Look a thousand may fall at your right hand

461
00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:46.760
10,000 at your side

462
00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:55.640
Death and destruction all around you sam's 91, but it shall not come near you. Why your difference

463
00:35:57.240 --> 00:35:59.240
Hallelujah

464
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:05.800
So all we're talking about right now. I'm just trying to recalibrate us and get us

465
00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:08.760
Using maximum faith and giving correctly

466
00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:13.960
One of the essences of giving in a biblical way is with worship in your heart

467
00:36:14.680 --> 00:36:18.920
For example here it says note honor the Lord with your possessions

468
00:36:19.720 --> 00:36:21.720
So who are you giving to?

469
00:36:22.040 --> 00:36:24.040
You don't honor an organization

470
00:36:24.520 --> 00:36:28.440
You don't honor a church. You don't honor a person. I might

471
00:36:28.520 --> 00:36:30.520
Make

472
00:36:30.520 --> 00:36:34.840
Make a physical checkout and in the two-field it's an organization

473
00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:40.280
But in my heart I'm giving to Jesus. It's like I'm going right up to heaven and putting it on his lap

474
00:36:40.600 --> 00:36:43.800
Just like when he was sitting and watching what people gave into the offering

475
00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:46.760
You know he was sitting right close. He was the Bible says he was sitting right by the offering

476
00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:50.760
That's how I picture myself giving to him. I love you Lord

477
00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:57.080
This is for you. It's the least I can do for everything you've given me and no matter where I was even in the early days

478
00:36:58.040 --> 00:37:00.920
If I do what times I gave a piece of gum in the offering

479
00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:06.920
That's real in Bible school had nothing to give had a pack of riglies

480
00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:12.920
Give one piece like I'm not gonna give nothing. I wonder what they did with that piece of gum

481
00:37:13.640 --> 00:37:15.640
Always wondered but it was in there

482
00:37:20.680 --> 00:37:22.680
Somebody gave me an envelope

483
00:37:23.640 --> 00:37:27.080
Stuffed with cash this morning for the church in Poland

484
00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:30.760
They never been to Poland

485
00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:33.880
I said what church because it's a conference of several churches

486
00:37:33.880 --> 00:37:37.240
And we'll then just give it to whoever needs it most there. Why do they do that?

487
00:37:38.120 --> 00:37:41.800
They've been to Poland now going to Poland. Don't even know mr. Whiskey was Whiskey

488
00:37:43.320 --> 00:37:45.320
Lot of Z's and C's in Poland

489
00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:47.640
Gonna be using Google translate for that

490
00:37:48.600 --> 00:37:52.120
Why do they do that? Who are they honoring? That's somebody they never met

491
00:37:52.680 --> 00:37:54.680
They're giving to Jesus

492
00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:58.920
They're honoring the Lord with your and with the first fruits of all your increase

493
00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:01.800
Why next verse

494
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.800
So your barns will be filled with plenty

495
00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:12.200
And your vats will overflow with new wine

496
00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:15.320
There is always a blessing attached

497
00:38:16.040 --> 00:38:20.360
When the Bible tells you to do something that sounds like it hurts

498
00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:26.680
That sounds like a sacrifice. Yes, it is but there's always a greater benefit and blessing attached to it

499
00:38:28.040 --> 00:38:31.560
Jesus never talked about giving without also talking about receiving

500
00:38:33.640 --> 00:38:36.920
So your barns will be filled with plenty does that sound like poverty?

501
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:39.480
Does that sound like a broke god?

502
00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:41.960
Barnes filled with plenty vats

503
00:38:42.520 --> 00:38:47.800
I like the amplified it says they'll burst forth with new wine. They'll overflow with new wine

504
00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:50.440
Hallelujah

505
00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:53.480
Hallelujah

506
00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:59.480
So when you give whether it's a tithe or an offering or a gift to a friend

507
00:39:00.200 --> 00:39:03.800
Or sandwich to a homeless man. Don't see the homeless man. See Jesus

508
00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:08.440
Even if you pick up a friend's lunch see Christ in them

509
00:39:09.240 --> 00:39:11.720
You give someone a happy birthday card with a gift card in it

510
00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:16.920
Do it for the Lord do it unto the Lord and you're worshiping him with it

511
00:39:18.760 --> 00:39:20.760
One more

512
00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:25.160
All right, since you're so hungry that one person who said yes Matthew 2 11

513
00:39:31.880 --> 00:39:33.880
Hallelujah

514
00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:42.840
You know

515
00:39:43.560 --> 00:39:45.560
I

516
00:39:45.560 --> 00:39:50.520
Got I got one job and then under that one job of being pastors little mini jobs

517
00:39:51.160 --> 00:39:56.760
And one of the mini jobs that's under the umbrella of being a pastor is to provoke you to a place of faith

518
00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:05.560
Because left to our own devices we all become like driftwood floating down a river

519
00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:09.640
That's the world just has a way of just

520
00:40:10.600 --> 00:40:17.480
Hypnotizing us and then really lulling us to sleep with this demonic stupor we come sleepy

521
00:40:18.200 --> 00:40:22.680
And then we just drift along wherever the current takes us

522
00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:26.040
I got to provoke you to a place of faith so you go

523
00:40:27.880 --> 00:40:32.520
I get to decide I get to receive from heaven my faith makes a difference

524
00:40:32.680 --> 00:40:35.720
I'm gonna choose to trust God. I'm gonna take him at his word

525
00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:39.400
I'm gonna see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living

526
00:40:43.080 --> 00:40:45.080
Hallelujah

527
00:40:45.560 --> 00:40:47.880
Oh Lord fill us with people of faith

528
00:40:50.520 --> 00:40:53.400
This is talking about the magi the wise men

529
00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:57.880
And when they had come into the house they saw the young child as Jesus

530
00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:02.920
By the way notice it says young child in the in the hallmark we have to talk hallmark

531
00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:05.720
In the hallmark art is always a baby right

532
00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:11.400
But they saw the star when he was a baby one the by the time they reached him

533
00:41:11.400 --> 00:41:13.400
He was probably two or three years old

534
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:18.360
He was a small child why that's how long it takes to get from India wherever they were coming from to Israel

535
00:41:19.560 --> 00:41:21.560
And how many of them were there

536
00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:23.960
Oh

537
00:41:32.120 --> 00:41:34.120
How many wise men were there

538
00:41:34.600 --> 00:41:36.600
No

539
00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:43.800
There were three gifts there was many wise men how do we know there was many and why do I always make a big deal out of this

540
00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:47.640
Because there's some stuff we just believe that's not in the Bible

541
00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:52.760
And I want us to be good students of the Bible so that we can call out the nonsense whenever we see it

542
00:41:53.240 --> 00:41:55.560
Hallmark carts lots of nonsense

543
00:41:56.120 --> 00:41:59.560
They show three what you hear that all the three wise men. It's not three

544
00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:05.480
Show me a group of three that traveled from the far east India China maybe even

545
00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:09.400
Three you're dead overnight

546
00:42:10.200 --> 00:42:12.920
You have to travel in large caravans just to survive

547
00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:20.120
They brought three gifts there was more how do we know there was more than three because the Bible says when the wise men came into town

548
00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:22.760
The whole town was in an uproar

549
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:27.240
You don't get a whole town in an uproar when three dudes stroll in

550
00:42:28.040 --> 00:42:30.040
That's just three guys

551
00:42:30.040 --> 00:42:35.000
But when a whole caravan from a far off exotic place comes in then the whole town notices

552
00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:38.760
Has nothing to do with my message. I'm just provoking you

553
00:42:39.160 --> 00:42:41.160
Ah

554
00:42:41.800 --> 00:42:43.800
Thank You Lord

555
00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:51.480
They saw the young child not a baby the young child with Mary his mother and then they fell down and worshiped him

556
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:54.280
And when they had opened their treasures

557
00:42:54.760 --> 00:43:00.760
They presented gifts to him gold frankincense and murk one version says and they opening up their treasure bags

558
00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:06.440
They worshiped him do you see how it's connected. They're giving of gifts to Jesus and their worship

559
00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:08.600
It's connected

560
00:43:09.320 --> 00:43:12.680
They worshiped him with their giving when you give

561
00:43:15.240 --> 00:43:18.920
If you will make it so when your heart you worship him with it

562
00:43:20.120 --> 00:43:22.840
Hallelujah just lift up your hands say Lord Jesus

563
00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:27.160
You are moving in my life. You are positioning me

564
00:43:28.200 --> 00:43:31.240
I believe that a harvest is inevitable

565
00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:34.760
In Jesus name

566
00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:36.520
Amen

567
00:43:36.520 --> 00:43:38.520
Philippians chapter four

568
00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:40.920
versus 14 through 19

569
00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:46.360
Hallelujah

570
00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:48.840
Is this helping anyone this morning?

571
00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:57.480
I feel like somebody should just ask a question. I never do that. But right now

572
00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:00.440
Before I get to my next point

573
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:04.040
Somebody got a question about what I'm talking about

574
00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:08.280
Imagine preaching on finances and giving and then just opening up the mic

575
00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:11.480
You know, I mean, am I a glutton for punishment?

576
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:17.000
But I feel like somebody has like yes shout it out

577
00:44:26.200 --> 00:44:29.080
Can somebody run and give them a make real quick?

578
00:44:31.240 --> 00:44:33.240
This is going to be a good one

579
00:44:34.040 --> 00:44:36.040
And then we want to catch it on

580
00:44:40.520 --> 00:44:43.240
Yeah, um, stand sit whatever you like

581
00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:45.080
Um

582
00:44:45.080 --> 00:44:49.880
Yeah, so for me my in my experience whenever I'm going to the next little specifically and financially

583
00:44:50.200 --> 00:44:53.000
There's always a temptation a trip wire

584
00:44:53.640 --> 00:44:56.200
For me not to be obedient right and

585
00:44:57.160 --> 00:45:00.440
You know, if I break through that then I see the promises of God

586
00:45:01.160 --> 00:45:03.160
Specifically, you know

587
00:45:03.240 --> 00:45:11.240
In their finances, so I'm wondering if the pattern holds true for you if you've had something similar where there was a temptation for you not to

588
00:45:11.800 --> 00:45:15.480
Say yes in this area that could have you know dethrone the whole thing

589
00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:20.120
Yeah, that's that's a good one. And what is that if you're coming through the sharing?

590
00:45:20.680 --> 00:45:23.080
Well, it really mainly happened just recently

591
00:45:24.040 --> 00:45:26.680
When when the Lord told us to give two million plus

592
00:45:28.520 --> 00:45:30.520
That's

593
00:45:30.680 --> 00:45:36.600
For the look I made a decision when I was 16. I'm going to tie and I just made a decision. I never look back

594
00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:39.800
But frankly the tide was never that much

595
00:45:42.520 --> 00:45:45.640
You know and then I also made a decision to give offerings on top

596
00:45:45.640 --> 00:45:47.960
But frankly that was never like some earth shattering money

597
00:45:48.920 --> 00:45:49.880
You know

598
00:45:49.960 --> 00:45:53.960
And then the Lord blesses us and then he asks for this amount

599
00:45:55.320 --> 00:46:00.280
And I mean we didn't just like peel it off the top and go yeah, it was like we gulped real hard

600
00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:02.840
And we sat on that for a couple of days

601
00:46:03.880 --> 00:46:05.880
And it wasn't easy

602
00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:09.560
But as as we you know, you got to focus on the benefit

603
00:46:10.200 --> 00:46:13.240
And I had to realize well the Lord is always going to do what he's done

604
00:46:13.240 --> 00:46:16.600
He's asking me to do something not to get something from me

605
00:46:16.600 --> 00:46:20.040
But to get something to me. So it is going to result in increase

606
00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:23.400
Yeah, does that answer the question?

607
00:46:24.200 --> 00:46:29.000
Does anyone have another one? I like this one more. Yeah, right in the back. See how we get to started

608
00:46:31.160 --> 00:46:33.160
I'm how you doing um

609
00:46:33.160 --> 00:46:38.520
I want to start off by saying that I really love how you um, you know incorporate

610
00:46:39.080 --> 00:46:41.560
Financial gain and stuff like that through

611
00:46:42.040 --> 00:46:46.360
Scripture and you know and titles both together. I think you do it really beautifully

612
00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:51.720
But I want to know what event was it what event happened for you

613
00:46:52.520 --> 00:46:56.040
That made you able to discuss you know, it's a touchy topic

614
00:46:56.600 --> 00:46:59.640
It's like what event like made you like the cypher

615
00:47:00.120 --> 00:47:06.280
From the negativity and the positivity when it intertwines with strict with scripture if that makes sense

616
00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:12.920
You mean whether to be like like financial like like finance like speaking about finances and regards to

617
00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:17.080
To religion and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. No, that's great great question

618
00:47:18.600 --> 00:47:24.280
Why talk about it's not an event is just seeing that the scriptures themselves talk so much about yeah

619
00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:29.000
And so you have Jesus who talked about money

620
00:47:29.800 --> 00:47:34.200
Lands giving finances stewardship more than he did about heaven and hell combined

621
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:38.200
There's a verse in Proverbs where it says money answers everything

622
00:47:39.640 --> 00:47:42.040
Because we live on this side of heaven on earth

623
00:47:43.560 --> 00:47:45.080
We're gonna need money

624
00:47:45.080 --> 00:47:48.280
mankind has always had to be whether with seashells at one point

625
00:47:48.920 --> 00:47:50.920
mankind has had something

626
00:47:50.920 --> 00:47:52.920
called money

627
00:47:53.560 --> 00:47:56.840
And so because it's a very real need for people

628
00:47:57.960 --> 00:48:01.960
I would be doing everybody a disservice if I didn't preach on it

629
00:48:02.600 --> 00:48:08.280
When you see that the Bible has so much to say about it and it has so much to say about it

630
00:48:08.840 --> 00:48:14.040
Because you need it the funniest people are people who come into church and you're talking about money go

631
00:48:14.040 --> 00:48:17.480
Well, why does he got to talk about money or something? Why does it always got to be about money?

632
00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:20.840
Because you're the one thing about money all the time don't tell me you're not

633
00:48:21.640 --> 00:48:24.280
Every decision you make the limitation is money

634
00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:26.920
every plan you have

635
00:48:27.240 --> 00:48:32.280
When God did this in our life one of the greatest things was the limits came flying off

636
00:48:33.640 --> 00:48:37.800
And that's what I was pressing in for to have a life of no limits

637
00:48:39.080 --> 00:48:43.400
You know you go into a supermarket and you're looking at the grapes at 699 a pound

638
00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:47.480
And you're like do I get one bunch or two I used to live that way

639
00:48:48.200 --> 00:48:50.120
And then he just blows the liminear

640
00:48:50.120 --> 00:48:55.000
You know little things like she said she had a cricket her back. I bought a $12,000 massage chair

641
00:48:55.240 --> 00:48:59.320
No limits. Here's what I like put it in a corner have a daily massage honey

642
00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:02.280
Kids you want some yogurt?

643
00:49:02.280 --> 00:49:04.920
$35 yogurt. Let's do it

644
00:49:05.560 --> 00:49:08.520
Hallelujah and as long as I can keep giving

645
00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:14.280
The Lord will keep adding you wants to blow the limits off of the stuff

646
00:49:15.080 --> 00:49:17.080
Amen

647
00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:24.360
A life of no limitations only but he will give you no limitations to degree that you are subject to him

648
00:49:25.080 --> 00:49:26.840
So on the one side you're free

649
00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:31.960
But on the other side you're a slave to Christ and you can only do what he tells you to do and

650
00:49:33.080 --> 00:49:37.160
God forbid he bless you financially and then you start airing with that

651
00:49:37.240 --> 00:49:39.320
I mean that fountain will dry up like that

652
00:49:39.960 --> 00:49:43.320
And I've been humbled enough times to know I don't want to be humbled again

653
00:49:44.040 --> 00:49:45.480
Amen

654
00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:48.360
I'm gonna get my orders from headquarters good question

655
00:49:50.040 --> 00:49:52.040
Should we do one more?

656
00:49:52.040 --> 00:49:54.440
Let's read one verse that I'm going to ask for one more question

657
00:49:55.400 --> 00:50:01.240
Philippians chapter four verses 14 through 19 I feel faith stirring with those couple of questions here

658
00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:06.440
I break that spirit of lack

659
00:50:07.240 --> 00:50:10.760
It starts in the head what we're doing here is we're just doing a mind cleansing

660
00:50:14.600 --> 00:50:16.600
Break the spirit of lack

661
00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:18.840
Limiting scarcity thinking

662
00:50:19.720 --> 00:50:23.080
See the thing with giving is

663
00:50:24.040 --> 00:50:27.080
Especially when it comes to first fruits it means you're giving the first

664
00:50:27.640 --> 00:50:30.680
What you're actually saying to God as I trust you

665
00:50:32.360 --> 00:50:35.800
To bring second third fourth and fifth fruits since I'm giving the first

666
00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:40.600
Every time I give every time you give what you're saying is Lord. I'm not moving in fear

667
00:50:41.640 --> 00:50:44.600
But I'm trusting that you're gonna make it up to me

668
00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:50.520
People who are afraid and that's the number one emotion with money's fear they're afraid then they're afraid to give

669
00:50:51.640 --> 00:50:53.640
But I'm releasing my faith through my giving

670
00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:57.000
I'm demonstrating that I believe

671
00:50:59.240 --> 00:51:01.800
That even though I'm giving which seems like I should end with less

672
00:51:03.240 --> 00:51:05.240
But yet I'll end with more

673
00:51:07.640 --> 00:51:13.160
Paul writes nevertheless you have done well that you shared in my distress is writing the Philippians

674
00:51:13.560 --> 00:51:16.600
Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel

675
00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:23.160
When I departed from Macedonia no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only

676
00:51:23.640 --> 00:51:25.160
Notice what he said

677
00:51:25.160 --> 00:51:29.240
Concerning giving and receiving these are the reciprocals

678
00:51:29.960 --> 00:51:35.560
They'll always go together giving and receiving he wasn't saying you're giving I'm receiving

679
00:51:35.880 --> 00:51:37.880
He's saying these are the two things that always go together

680
00:51:38.840 --> 00:51:43.000
Jesus he never talked about giving without also talking about receiving

681
00:51:44.040 --> 00:51:48.840
I've offered up a reward. You know, it's funny. It was a hundred dollar reward back when a hundred dollars meant something

682
00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:55.480
You know I said a hundred dollar reward to anyone who can find that would say I'll do a ten thousand dollar reward

683
00:51:55.800 --> 00:52:01.640
You won't find it though. I can make it any number of where Jesus talked about any kind of giving or sacrifice

684
00:52:02.120 --> 00:52:04.360
without talking immediately about the benefit

685
00:52:05.160 --> 00:52:09.560
Give and it shall be given to you good measure pressed down shaken together

686
00:52:09.880 --> 00:52:12.200
He didn't tell people hey you should just be last

687
00:52:13.800 --> 00:52:18.680
Just get him back in the line. No, he said the first will be last but the last will be first

688
00:52:19.240 --> 00:52:21.240
He didn't just say go on off and die

689
00:52:22.040 --> 00:52:25.400
He said those of you who lose your life will find it

690
00:52:25.800 --> 00:52:31.320
He always connected the benefit the giving and the receiving they go they go together

691
00:52:31.800 --> 00:52:34.840
And I think people who haven't gotten a hold of biblical giving

692
00:52:35.240 --> 00:52:38.840
It's because they they don't understand that that God is not even after their gift

693
00:52:38.840 --> 00:52:43.560
He's after they're receiving but in order to activate the receiving they got to get within with the giving

694
00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:48.200
They're waiting for a ship to come in have you met that person? I've met them

695
00:52:48.680 --> 00:52:54.040
They're like they don't give anything and I'm not even talking about church. I'm just talking about the skinny life. They live

696
00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:57.960
They're the ones who order extra and leave before the check comes

697
00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:02.600
They just live that skinny mangy life where everything is scarce and

698
00:53:03.160 --> 00:53:07.800
You know, they wanted they always have to come out on top one where that's really a sad pathetic existence

699
00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:11.960
You had lunch with someone like that didn't show you did

700
00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:17.000
He got what can you do you just bless them and go and enjoy the extra coke you had

701
00:53:18.760 --> 00:53:20.760
I got you

702
00:53:20.760 --> 00:53:22.760
What was I saying

703
00:53:23.160 --> 00:53:25.160
What was I saying

704
00:53:26.120 --> 00:53:28.120
Skinny scrotting

705
00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:34.920
Lord help me

706
00:53:40.120 --> 00:53:42.120
That was gonna have to come back to me too

707
00:53:44.280 --> 00:53:46.280
Giving and receiving

708
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:49.320
It's reciprocal

709
00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:53.800
I guess I made that point a man

710
00:53:55.720 --> 00:54:03.480
When I did okay for even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities

711
00:54:04.360 --> 00:54:06.360
Not that I seek the gift

712
00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:12.280
Now even Paul here is saying he understands that the Lord is the one who sustains him

713
00:54:13.160 --> 00:54:18.440
But he's saying it's not even I who seek the gift I seek the benefit that comes to your account when you give

714
00:54:18.840 --> 00:54:31.000
This is I'm just being reminded of of what I was going to say it was it was along the lines of people who have a hard time giving

715
00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:33.720
It's because they they don't understand that there's a receiving part

716
00:54:35.080 --> 00:54:41.720
And when you focus on that that it's coming back now your faith is active and you will draw these things into your life

717
00:54:41.800 --> 00:54:47.000
Look when I first met my wife one of the first questions by the way I asked her was are you a tither

718
00:54:47.720 --> 00:54:50.040
Why would I ask you that because I wanted to know

719
00:54:50.920 --> 00:54:52.920
Who I was thinking about dating

720
00:54:55.400 --> 00:55:00.760
What if what if it came out what if it came out I'm gonna just pick on what if it came out Tiffany

721
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:04.760
I'm gonna pick on you because you're such a beautiful soul and you're so flawless that

722
00:55:05.400 --> 00:55:10.360
If I pick on you, it's obvious that I'm exaggerating, right? But Tiffany's past your most wife

723
00:55:11.480 --> 00:55:15.240
What if he just came out that Tiffany doesn't believe in diving

724
00:55:16.200 --> 00:55:19.400
And she actually influenced past your mo and past your mo is not a tither

725
00:55:20.920 --> 00:55:24.600
Now would you be able to receive from him when he got up here and preached

726
00:55:25.400 --> 00:55:29.080
Why not because it would show something about his heart, right

727
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:34.440
Would you what if Sean was and it just came out it came out Sean doesn't dive

728
00:55:35.240 --> 00:55:39.480
Doesn't believe in it next time you see him and he's happy where you're gonna be like

729
00:55:40.280 --> 00:55:44.360
Unable to receive it and be able to look at that why would you be so angry

730
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:46.840
Because you would go look at that

731
00:55:48.360 --> 00:55:50.360
God doesn't have his whole heart

732
00:55:50.680 --> 00:55:55.560
He's not really submitting trying to leave me to work, but when you tie that's the first step in declaring

733
00:55:56.200 --> 00:55:59.320
I'm a submitted vessel Jesus is Lord of all

734
00:56:01.240 --> 00:56:06.120
So I asked I asked her if she tied she said yes

735
00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:12.600
I was real excited because that you know if you're gonna date date to marry don't date for fun

736
00:56:13.560 --> 00:56:16.760
And then figure out what they're about one of the quickest ways is

737
00:56:17.640 --> 00:56:20.360
Do they tie are they generous do they give

738
00:56:21.320 --> 00:56:24.840
Because then that communicates that the Lord has their whole heart

739
00:56:25.720 --> 00:56:30.280
Because the bank bank account and the wallet that's the last area of conversion

740
00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:34.120
People will convert everything about their lives, but hang on to that part

741
00:56:36.360 --> 00:56:38.360
Oh hallelujah

742
00:56:43.320 --> 00:56:48.520
Indeed, I have all and a bound I am full having received from a perfect that is the thing sent from you

743
00:56:48.840 --> 00:56:53.960
Now look at the language he uses he's talking about the offering they sent to them and he's saying your offering was

744
00:56:54.840 --> 00:56:57.640
a sweet smelling aroma

745
00:56:58.440 --> 00:57:02.120
An acceptable sacrifice well pleasing to God

746
00:57:02.920 --> 00:57:10.120
It is all testament language for worship and the fragrance you know worship creates a fragrance by the way even when we worship

747
00:57:10.840 --> 00:57:15.160
Just with song if you could look in the spirit. There's a fragrance that goes up into heaven

748
00:57:17.240 --> 00:57:24.520
It's a picture in the Old Testament. They would sacrifice the animals and the flesh would be burnt and the fragrance of the offering would go up and God said

749
00:57:24.520 --> 00:57:31.400
That's a well-pleasing sacrifice a well-pleasing aroma Paul is saying it's the same thing when we give it comes up as a fragrance

750
00:57:31.400 --> 00:57:35.800
See I just believe the word and I believe when I give the Lord

751
00:57:36.760 --> 00:57:43.320
He receives it as worship as a fragrance offering hallelujah and I want to I want to smell good to God

752
00:57:44.360 --> 00:57:46.360
Amen you know

753
00:57:48.360 --> 00:57:51.560
When people are generous they're just good people

754
00:57:53.080 --> 00:57:59.240
There's a there's an anointing on them. There's a glow on them. They're they're good to be near when somebody is

755
00:58:00.600 --> 00:58:04.040
White knuckling and scarcity minded and stingy and

756
00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:09.240
Well you guys have had encounters with people like that because of course none of you are that

757
00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:11.800
You've had encounters with people like that

758
00:58:13.240 --> 00:58:15.240
I mean how do you feel when you're near them?

759
00:58:16.120 --> 00:58:17.240
It's like

760
00:58:17.240 --> 00:58:19.480
It's like the life force is draining out of you

761
00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:22.840
You got it you got to even kind of talk to them with your mouth closed because if you open your mouth

762
00:58:22.840 --> 00:58:24.840
They take the gold tooth right out of your mouth

763
00:58:25.080 --> 00:58:27.080
and

764
00:58:33.080 --> 00:58:35.880
And then in verse 19 that famous verse

765
00:58:36.760 --> 00:58:39.480
Everyone equals this verse, but they leave out what was just said

766
00:58:40.840 --> 00:58:46.360
When you've worshiped the Lord I'm just trying to show you that giving is worship the wise men worshiped with their giving

767
00:58:46.440 --> 00:58:52.680
The woman with the alibaster box worshiped with their giving the Bible says you honor the Lord honor worship the Lord

768
00:58:53.320 --> 00:59:04.520
With your giving we read in Proverbs and my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ

769
00:59:05.160 --> 00:59:06.520
Jesus

770
00:59:06.520 --> 00:59:08.520
hallelujah

771
00:59:10.040 --> 00:59:12.040
hallelujah

772
00:59:12.280 --> 00:59:16.120
Worship team come on up. I'll close with this second Corinthians chapter 9

773
00:59:16.840 --> 00:59:18.840
Verses 6 through 7

774
00:59:19.400 --> 00:59:21.720
While you're sitting here the Lord is moving

775
00:59:22.520 --> 00:59:25.160
If your heart is open the Lord is moving in your life

776
00:59:27.480 --> 00:59:30.840
It is amazing how quickly the Lord can move and what he can do

777
00:59:31.960 --> 00:59:35.240
Sometimes it's one connection away a person he's gonna have you

778
00:59:36.360 --> 00:59:41.560
Cross paths with sometimes it's just something that hasn't been released that gets released in your life

779
00:59:44.120 --> 00:59:48.760
I I can't I'm only a little frustrated right now because I feel like I'm more excited about your future

780
00:59:48.840 --> 00:59:50.840
Than you are

781
00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:52.840
I'm excited

782
00:59:56.040 --> 00:59:59.800
I believe the Lord wants to move at city light do something unique among us

783
01:00:02.200 --> 01:00:06.200
Where my testimony is multiplied and miracles pop like popcorn

784
01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:11.160
I've and the reason this isn't something I just invented. I've seen how the Lord moves

785
01:00:11.640 --> 01:00:13.640
I've seen them when he comes in churches

786
01:00:13.960 --> 01:00:17.400
There are flavors he puts on churches. There's certain miracles

787
01:00:17.560 --> 01:00:20.360
It's not just one person that gets it and then becomes like a whole flow

788
01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:24.280
Yeah

789
01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:31.800
Remember this this is out of the amplified Paul saying remember this he who's so sparingly and grudgingly will also reap

790
01:00:31.880 --> 01:00:33.880
sparingly and grudging

791
01:00:33.880 --> 01:00:41.560
And he who so generously that blessings may come to someone will also reap generously and with blessings by the way

792
01:00:41.800 --> 01:00:43.800
You like you ask what made me

793
01:00:43.960 --> 01:00:47.720
Preach on this more you see this it says from 2nd Corinthians chapter 9

794
01:00:48.840 --> 01:00:52.680
All of chapter 8 and all of chapter 9 is an offering message

795
01:00:53.720 --> 01:00:55.720
Like that's mind blowing to me

796
01:00:55.800 --> 01:01:02.040
People get upset if the preacher spends more than two minutes on the offering yet Paul took out two chapters to talk on the offering

797
01:01:03.240 --> 01:01:05.880
I'm not gonna read all two chapter reading your portion of them

798
01:01:06.520 --> 01:01:10.200
But if in the holy bible Paul is talking about the importance of giving

799
01:01:11.160 --> 01:01:16.040
The importance of giving concerning your own abundance and your own prosperity took two whole chapters then

800
01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:18.840
Why would I want to do?

801
01:01:18.840 --> 01:01:24.440
The opposite of what he did he got great results. I like Paul's results. I'd like to get a tenth of Paul's results

802
01:01:26.520 --> 01:01:29.640
Let each one give as he is made up in his own mind

803
01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:36.200
And purposed in his heart by the way. This is the apostle Paul who communicated with other churches

804
01:01:37.160 --> 01:01:39.880
He wasn't about to take the tithe from another local church

805
01:01:40.600 --> 01:01:42.840
So he's talking about what you purpose in your heart

806
01:01:44.440 --> 01:01:49.240
You don't have to purpose the tithe in your heart. It's already an amount. It's called a tithe a tenth

807
01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:51.080
10%

808
01:01:51.080 --> 01:01:54.760
When you give an offering that's something you purpose in your heart. Is this making sense?

809
01:01:55.560 --> 01:01:57.240
You sure

810
01:01:57.320 --> 01:02:02.040
Because that's all right because there's people who who believe that this negates tithing they love this

811
01:02:02.120 --> 01:02:03.800
This is like the verse

812
01:02:03.800 --> 01:02:09.320
They have this blown up right in their living room this one verse. This is their reason they don't tie they go see

813
01:02:09.880 --> 01:02:15.000
They're going to ignore the hundred other scriptures on tithing and say see the scripture say whatever you purpose in your heart

814
01:02:15.400 --> 01:02:18.920
So if you purpose in your heart a bazooka gum. Hey you purpose that in your heart

815
01:02:21.560 --> 01:02:26.440
This is what you purpose in your heart. First of all you invite the Lord in your heart concerning and offering

816
01:02:27.240 --> 01:02:29.480
Tithe you don't need to debate about do any math

817
01:02:29.640 --> 01:02:33.080
The only math you have to do is move the decimal place over one point to the left

818
01:02:36.120 --> 01:02:37.720
Jesus

819
01:02:37.720 --> 01:02:41.080
Not reluctantly or sorrowfully or under compulsion

820
01:02:42.040 --> 01:02:44.280
For god loves

821
01:02:44.280 --> 01:02:47.080
Now watch this he takes pleasure in

822
01:02:47.800 --> 01:02:54.600
Prizes above other things and is unwilling to abandon or to do without now

823
01:02:55.240 --> 01:03:00.920
in 2009 as part of me not participating in the recession

824
01:03:02.200 --> 01:03:03.880
When money

825
01:03:03.880 --> 01:03:08.680
They were saying the economy was tight. That's when we launched in full force our whole missions program

826
01:03:10.120 --> 01:03:13.800
And we adopted that gray center the orphanage in Ethiopia

827
01:03:14.120 --> 01:03:18.680
We started working with the macooms back then we supported a church in Croatia now

828
01:03:18.680 --> 01:03:24.360
We're supporting in mountain aegro and in Serbia and we did Liberia for nearly half a decade

829
01:03:25.320 --> 01:03:27.080
I launched that whole thing you know why

830
01:03:27.800 --> 01:03:31.960
Really quite a selfish reason. I wanted to be indispensable to the Lord

831
01:03:33.320 --> 01:03:36.200
You see how it says that a prompt to do a cheerful giver

832
01:03:36.760 --> 01:03:39.480
God is not willing to abandon or to do without them

833
01:03:40.280 --> 01:03:47.240
So my mindset is Lord I want to be such a generous church such a giving church that you don't allow us to be taken out

834
01:03:47.800 --> 01:03:50.040
Not that you ever need us you don't need anyone

835
01:03:50.840 --> 01:03:54.520
But I want you to smile down on us and I want to be so that

836
01:03:55.160 --> 01:03:58.680
You're sustaining powers on us because you not only care for us

837
01:03:58.680 --> 01:04:02.840
But you also care about the orphanage in Ethiopia you care about the macooms in Guatemala

838
01:04:02.920 --> 01:04:07.960
You care about Liberia and other works overseas are you catching this when you're a giver your confession

839
01:04:07.960 --> 01:04:12.840
It's to be God is unwilling to do without me. He's unwilling to abandon me

840
01:04:13.720 --> 01:04:19.480
I'm a joyous prompt to do a giver whose heart is in my giving and so I reap generously

841
01:04:20.200 --> 01:04:22.920
And God is on my side. Let's say this together

842
01:04:25.720 --> 01:04:27.720
The Lord takes pleasure in

843
01:04:29.240 --> 01:04:33.960
Prize is above other things and is unwilling to abandon

844
01:04:35.480 --> 01:04:37.480
Or to do without me

845
01:04:38.120 --> 01:04:45.400
Because I'm a cheerful joyous prompt to do a giver whose heart is in my giving

846
01:04:45.720 --> 01:04:47.720
I

847
01:04:56.840 --> 01:05:01.160
Feel that the only thing this message is missing and I can't get into it right now

848
01:05:01.160 --> 01:05:03.320
But I want to encourage some of you are still stuck

849
01:05:04.040 --> 01:05:08.520
Because for some reason you just equate Jesus with poverty

850
01:05:09.080 --> 01:05:10.760
Probably because of the hallmark cards

851
01:05:11.640 --> 01:05:16.360
But really it's not the hallmark cards hallmark cards just kind of copy Catholic art

852
01:05:17.320 --> 01:05:23.320
And it's in the Catholic art that present you know in the Catholic Church they make them take a vow of poverty

853
01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:26.360
Why?

854
01:05:27.000 --> 01:05:29.000
What good does it do?

855
01:05:31.080 --> 01:05:33.160
God's not a god of poverty

856
01:05:33.160 --> 01:05:37.000
God's a god of prosperity look throughout the scriptures whenever the presence of the Lord

857
01:05:37.640 --> 01:05:42.360
Moves away whenever the blessing lifts you know what one of the first things to come in is poverty

858
01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:47.080
Have you ever been to a third world country anybody here come from a third world country?

859
01:05:47.400 --> 01:05:51.800
You know electricity only on three hours of the day plumbing that doesn't work broken roads

860
01:05:52.120 --> 01:05:54.600
I've been to I've been to many of those countries

861
01:05:56.120 --> 01:05:59.640
You know what happens when you're there you don't think wow there's something holy about this place

862
01:06:00.360 --> 01:06:05.640
So much poverty so much holiness no you think the opposite you think this place is cursed

863
01:06:07.720 --> 01:06:12.040
Fruit of the curse is poverty fruit of the blessing is prosperity

864
01:06:12.360 --> 01:06:15.160
They shouldn't be so hard yet people get so tripped up about it

865
01:06:15.400 --> 01:06:18.760
But they have a hard time getting it because they think Jesus was poor

866
01:06:19.400 --> 01:06:21.400
They think he walked around in rags

867
01:06:22.360 --> 01:06:25.880
And just kind of they really what they think is that Jesus was like a hobo

868
01:06:27.400 --> 01:06:32.440
They just traveled around old dirty and hobo like but happened to teach you know, he had a good word and he did miracles

869
01:06:33.400 --> 01:06:39.960
But look at the gospels from a fresh lens and see that gold was brought to him when he was an infant

870
01:06:40.840 --> 01:06:47.880
And whenever he needed anything whether it was the upper room or Colton which never man sat or in John chapter 8

871
01:06:47.880 --> 01:06:51.160
It says how people ministered to him out of their substance. He was a money magnet

872
01:06:51.640 --> 01:06:59.400
He never ever once lacked any financial thing you never see a finances as a limiting factor in Jesus's life

873
01:06:59.960 --> 01:07:01.720
In fact even in his death

874
01:07:02.600 --> 01:07:06.200
There was a prophecy in the Old Testament that he'd be buried in a rich man's tomb

875
01:07:06.440 --> 01:07:09.800
How was that going to happen? He didn't have a rich man's tomb

876
01:07:10.040 --> 01:07:17.000
But as he was as his body was being carried off after he died in the cross a man by the name of Joseph of Arimathea

877
01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:21.640
Stepden and said he's going to be buried in my family tomb and he was the rich man

878
01:07:22.840 --> 01:07:25.400
Even in death Jesus drew prosperity to himself

879
01:07:25.720 --> 01:07:29.560
Do you know why you're asking us of why they gambled for Jesus' clothing

880
01:07:30.360 --> 01:07:36.200
Why did the why did well-paid Roman soldiers the Bible says they gambled for Jesus' clothing why

881
01:07:36.920 --> 01:07:39.880
They didn't even believe he was the son of God. You think they wanted like a relic

882
01:07:41.400 --> 01:07:43.800
You start a deep question because he had fine clothes

883
01:07:44.440 --> 01:07:46.280
That's why

884
01:07:46.360 --> 01:07:48.840
He wasn't wearing the white potato sack they show you in the art

885
01:07:49.960 --> 01:07:54.520
In fact theologians and his turns believe that it could be likely that he was wearing purple

886
01:07:54.920 --> 01:07:58.280
With golden thread there was some people from the line

887
01:07:59.240 --> 01:08:05.960
That Jesus had from the line of David that would wear a golden thread to signify that they're coming from a messianic line and

888
01:08:05.960 --> 01:08:07.960
Where potential candidate to be the Messiah

889
01:08:09.320 --> 01:08:11.320
Yeah

890
01:08:13.240 --> 01:08:15.240
Hallelujah

891
01:08:15.640 --> 01:08:20.120
A broke man would freak out if a year's worth of salary was poured out over his feet

892
01:08:21.080 --> 01:08:23.080
Jesus was like this is nice

893
01:08:23.960 --> 01:08:25.960
Now leave her alone. She's done a good thing

894
01:08:28.280 --> 01:08:30.280
Hallelujah

895
01:08:30.440 --> 01:08:32.280
I want to pray for you

896
01:08:32.280 --> 01:08:34.280
Heavenly Father in Jesus name

897
01:08:34.840 --> 01:08:36.840
We are your people your special

898
01:08:37.720 --> 01:08:39.720
possession

899
01:08:39.960 --> 01:08:43.720
The Bible says with favor you will compass us around about us with a shield

900
01:08:45.080 --> 01:08:46.920
I pray Lord

901
01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:49.960
Raise up your people that their cups overflow

902
01:08:50.920 --> 01:08:58.280
A life of no limitations of abundance of increase in Jesus name amen

903
01:09:00.120 --> 01:09:03.880
Amen. Well, let's worship and honor the Lord with our tides and offerings shall we?

904
01:09:07.000 --> 01:09:09.000
Amen

905
01:09:09.640 --> 01:09:13.800
Now most of you have already given I know some of you the giving information is on the side

906
01:09:13.800 --> 01:09:16.360
You're going to be scanning now a lot of you have already given

907
01:09:17.800 --> 01:09:22.520
This morning or yesterday or two days ago or automatically or you give through your phone on the way to church

908
01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:25.720
But just take this moment to worship him

909
01:09:26.600 --> 01:09:33.000
Take this moment to say thank you Lord receive my giving as worship and I trust you for increase

910
01:09:35.000 --> 01:09:38.200
I believe in giving and receiving amen

911
01:09:40.120 --> 01:09:42.120
Hallelujah

912
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Yeah, I know I know I know the good stuff is up here

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Hallelujah

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If you want prayer a ministry team will be right over by that blue light

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If you need hands laid on you you want someone to agree with you

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In prayer

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We love you

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Jesus loves you

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This is the city light church podcast if you've missed any part of today's message

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Or if you would like to find out more about pastor boy on jansic and city light church

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Visit us at citylight nyc.com that's city light

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NYC.com

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Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime we would love to connect with you

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We pray that you have been encouraged today

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That you have been reminded how much God loves you

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And that you are surrounded by grace

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Thank you for listening

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