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I want you to open up your spirit and begin to contend.

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This is not going to happen if you just go,

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that was nice, that was cute.

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God, you know, if it's your will.

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No, you got to say, God, I know you love me.

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Me, you love me, you have favored me.

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I messed up, I got into debt.

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Now I trust, I believe, supernatural debt elimination

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in my life in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.

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

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

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If you want to connect with City Light Church,

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feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com,

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that's citylightnyc.com.

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

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is already working in our hearts and minds.

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As you listen to today's teaching,

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remember that you are deeply loved by God,

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that you are surrounded by His grace,

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and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

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Welcome, everybody.

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Those of you joining us online,

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so glad that you can be with us.

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Pastor James had mentioned baptisms.

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They're made the fourth.

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I'm going to vote for you.

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You've got my votes, sir.

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Excuse me, I was talking about baptisms,

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but Chris, won't you just stand up right now?

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Chris, just stand up.

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I just...

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Chris...

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for Senate 2024.

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Amen.

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Chris, he's got the power...

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power.

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I mean, what a last name, eh?

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His last name is power.

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Also, ladies, if you liked what you saw,

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he is filled with the Holy Spirit,

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and he's very single,

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and trusting God to mingle in a most holy way.

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I mean, I just...

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I want to talk about baptisms,

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and I see navy blue jacket red tie.

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Somebody get this man a US flag pin right there,

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and he is set.

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Hallelujah.

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All right, baptisms.

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One of the most common objections to baptism

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that I hear is I'm not ready.

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Which what the person is really trying to say is,

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well, I'm not perfect yet.

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I still got work to do,

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to which I would respond and say, join the club.

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If you're waiting to be experientially perfect,

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in every area of your life, to get baptized,

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you're going to be waiting a mighty long time,

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and they don't do baptisms in heaven,

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which is the only place where you'll actually be

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experientially perfect in every area of your life.

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It's really a delay tactic from Satan himself,

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because you getting baptized terrifies him.

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There is power associated with baptism.

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Jesus didn't command you to get baptized for nothing,

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because it's a cute religious act.

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There's power associated with it.

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You say, how do you know?

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Because I saw what happened at Jesus' baptism,

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who is our example.

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He came up out of the waters, and what happened?

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The Holy Spirit came upon him.

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And his ministry began at his anointing during baptism.

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I remember my baptism August 14th, 1992,

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like it was yesterday.

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I remember the water coming up off my face

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as I came out of the water.

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I remember just knowing right then,

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everything was going to be different forever.

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So don't delay.

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Don't settle for that satanic delay tactic.

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It's such a delay tactic that at the Apostle Paul's conversion,

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he was struck blind, and God sent Ananias to him,

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and God spoke through Ananias.

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And this was the word.

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We haven't recorded in scriptures.

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And why do you wait now?

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That's a good question.

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He said, why do you wait now?

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Arise and be baptized, washing away your sins

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and calling on the name of the Lord.

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So if you're waiting,

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I would ask you what the Lord asked the Apostle Paul.

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Why do you wait?

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I'm waiting because I haven't finished reading the whole Bible yet.

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All the people who got baptized in the Bible

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read exactly zero of the Bible.

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And churches, those that are bound by religion and tradition,

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these are all yokes of bondage.

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And they'll make you sit through a six-week class

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because they want to make sure you really, really mean it.

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It's just unscriptural.

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You see the Ethiopian unit.

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He gets one to the Lord by Philip the Evangelist.

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This is also in the book of Acts.

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And as they're writing their horses,

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Philip says, excuse me, the Ethiopian says,

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hey, there's much water.

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What hinders me from being baptized?

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And Philip responds,

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you have not yet taken the six-week class at my church.

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No.

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He says,

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if you believe with all your heart, you may.

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Come on, man.

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You say, what's the prerequisite for baptism

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that you believe with all your heart?

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That Jesus Christ died on the cross for you sins

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and rose from the grave?

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Let's not let religious people make it more difficult

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than the Scriptures.

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You know, woke people are kinder than Jesus.

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Religious people are holier than Jesus.

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Everyone wants to be something more than him.

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And then they would get it all twisted and contorted.

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So may the fourth were doing baptisms?

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That's like less than a month.

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So make sure you're a part of that.

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Also something that can trip people up

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is they say, well, I wasn't I already baptized as a baby?

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You were something.

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I say this with love in my heart.

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You're either going to do things the Bible way

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or you're going to trust a religious person

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who heard it from another religious person

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who heard it from another religious person.

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But I just challenge you.

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Show me one example in the Holy Scriptures,

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which is what we go by, not by what some guy said.

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Though his beard was long and pretty.

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Though his pen and vellum were exceedingly feathery.

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It doesn't matter.

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It's a man.

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We go by the Bible, not by what man says.

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And so show me one example in the Scriptures

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where in infants a baby was baptized, there is none.

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Because you have to make that decision.

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Somebody else, not even your parents,

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can make that decision for you.

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So perhaps you were christened or you were something,

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but why not get baptized the Bible way?

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Now with a little sprinkling of water,

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a little dab won't do you.

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Baptism is symbolic of you getting buried with Jesus.

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And somebody is getting buried.

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They don't just take some dust and throw it over the casket.

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You go completely in the dirt.

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You go completely in the water.

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We've got to start showing videos starting next week.

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Because when I said we go completely in the water,

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that's usually when I start getting emails and calls

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going, how long do you keep me under?

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And that's why we show videos three weeks before baptism.

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I really legit.

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That's the number one question.

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Not how should I prepare spiritually?

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How long do you keep me under?

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You're going to see in the videos.

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It's a brief.

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Quarter second.

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Amen.

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Can I pinch my nose?

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Come in with scuba gear.

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I don't care.

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Get baptized.

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Just go under the water and come up trusting in Jesus.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Well, I'm excited to preach this message.

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This message was birthed out of me hearing,

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unfortunately, a common theme in our own church family.

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And I know it's definitely a common theme out there in the world.

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And this is in relation to being in debt, having debt.

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And if you just do a quick Google search,

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you'll find out that we as Americans

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were more in debt right now today than we've ever, ever been before.

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And when I say we as Americans,

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I don't mean the United States as a country

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and it's national debt.

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I mean, as individually with consumer debt,

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sometimes you go into the store and you look at the prices

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and you ask yourself, how are people doing it?

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And the answer is, what many of them aren't.

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And so they're getting in debt.

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And that debt is rising.

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And I want you to know that God has not called you

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to slavery of any kind.

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He's not called you to sin slavery.

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Jesus came and shed His precious blood that you redeemed from the slavery of sin.

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Also, the Bible says that the lender is a servant.

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Excuse me, the borrower is a servant, a slave to the lender.

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And God does not want you to be a debt slave.

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You have to know that in your spirit.

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He also bled and he suffered in your place to redeem you from the slavery of debt.

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From slavery to kingship.

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When the Bible says that he's king of kings, capital king, capital king,

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king of lower K, kings, what kings do you think he's talking about?

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Some sheep in Saudi Arabia?

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That's tertiary, maybe secondary, primarily talking about you.

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You're the king.

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That he's king of capital K.

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And so you've been redeemed.

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There was this minister also, CFO of a major church.

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I heard this testimony just a few years ago, chief financial officer,

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who kept having a reoccurring dream night after night for days on end.

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And the dream was that he was a cat and that he was sitting in the Lord's lap.

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And the Lord kept petting him and stroking him,

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but he was doing it from tail to head over and over again.

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Have you ever stroked a cat tail to head?

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They don't like that.

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So he had this several nights in a row where the Lord is stroking him.

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He's a cat in the Lord's lap.

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And finally, like around the fifth night,

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and the Lord is stroking him from tail to head, as a cat,

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he looks up at the Lord and says, why are you stroking me tail to head?

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And the Lord says, why don't you adjust yourself?

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You accommodate to me.

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I don't accommodate to you as what the Lord is saying.

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You have to shift.

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You have to change.

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And this holds true in every area, but especially in the area of finances,

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starting with how we think about money.

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Because usually we come into the church and are thinking about money is really messed up.

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It's messed up in that how we think that God is about money.

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We usually have remnants of unbiblical teaching but their cultural teachings.

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And so we may be not admit this to ourselves, but secretly we think

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that God wants us to really live financially lean.

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I mean, yeah, he doesn't want me in the beggar's outfit,

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but not too much because he doesn't want me getting carried away.

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But you think that right now.

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I can smell it in the spirit.

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I can...

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I know what I used to smell like.

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That lack mentality.

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Oh, yeah, spirit of scarcity.

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I remember that.

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Still working progress, growing out of it.

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My pastor, who lived and still does for years in the zone, you know, the zone.

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The God zone, the God of abundance, prosperity zone,

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where it's just popping all around him.

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The zone of multiplication.

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You got to pay attention when somebody is living in the zone, take a look at them.

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Paul said concerning himself in the other apostles, he said, follow our faith, follow our example.

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So I'm 23 years old and I'm always sitting as close to the front as I possibly can.

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I'm drooling. I'm hungry.

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I want to receive what's on this man.

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And he was about to teach on finances.

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And he started with this statement that made such an impact on me.

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Obviously, I remember it 25 years later.

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And he said, when it comes to receiving a breakthrough in finances,

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nothing is as critical, nothing is as important as the renewing and transforming of our mind.

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Keep that in mind as we continue on through this sermon.

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There has to come a change of mind.

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The Bible says, not some motivational speaker.

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He says, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.

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So we have to turn to the Bible and allow the Bible to adjust us, allow the Bible to conform us,

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and not the other way around.

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The Bible strokes in one direction.

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Don't be the cat with its booty out.

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Switch it around.

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Dad said, booty in church.

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That was just for you, bro.

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Luke 16 verse 11.

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You don't do that at your Catholic school, do they?

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No.

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Because when you got a lot of things to hide, you got to say the right things.

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But I got nothing to hide.

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Hallelujah.

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Whoo!

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He's on fire this morning.

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Here's Jesus.

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Therefore, if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous money,

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man is the money God.

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Remember these are the words of Jesus.

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Who will commit to you or to your trust?

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True riches.

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Here's what Jesus is doing right now.

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He's forever establishing that there is a connection between how we handle money and spirituality.

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We usually come into the church and the world definitely thinks that if you're spiritual,

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money shouldn't even be on your mind.

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Whenever I'm around unbelievers, they know I'm a pastor, I talk about money.

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Jesus talks about money.

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Jesus talked, this is a fact.

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He talked about hell twice as much as he did about heaven,

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but he talked about money, lands, giving, stewardship, gold,

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more than heaven and hell combined.

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Why?

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Because he understood that it is important because how you handle money is indicative of what's going on in here.

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He made a money heart connection.

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You know who else does that?

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Why for a job and they ask you for a credit check?

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They do that, right?

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I checked in the first service.

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I know they did that when I was applying.

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Yeah, right.

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Why do you think they do that?

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It's weird, right?

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Because you're like, I'm coming to you to get paid because I need money and you want to know my credit.

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I'm not buying something from you.

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Why?

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Because a credit check is a character check.

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It reveals what's going on in here.

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It also reveals what's going on up there.

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So this is why this is so important.

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If right now you're swimming in debt, I know where you are.

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I've been there.

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If you're feeling convicted, if you're feeling uncomfortable, let me just let the cat out of the bag early and let you know.

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God loves you, God knows, and He provides solutions to this.

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Hallelujah.

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And we're going to see in Jesus' name the back of debt get broken in your life.

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No slavery, no yokes.

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But just please note that Jesus connected the money in the heart.

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And you can't unconnect it.

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I always really crack up at how much people outside of the church have so much to say about what we as Christians should value as important.

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And I go, are you a Christian and you're a pastor?

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Don't think about money.

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Just, yeah, I'm just going to not walk but glide from here to here.

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And when I go to pay for something, I'll just say, I'm a pastor, I don't think about money.

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I'll go to Whole Foods, get all the best stuff, load up on stakes.

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And then when I go to pay, I'll just walk, no, I don't, I'm above money.

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I'm just, I pray.

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I'll pray for you as you don't call 911.

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That doesn't work.

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They don't know any verses concerning money?

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Well, they know a few.

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Everybody, whether in the church or out the first verse, they always misquote is, money is the root of all evil.

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How many of you heard that?

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Money is the root of, when the Bible says the love of money, you making money your God, you making money your everything.

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Pursuing God more, pursuing money more than God.

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That's the root of all evil.

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Another one that some know, people in the church, you have to know right now, here's what I'm doing battle with.

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I love you but I'm fighting old you and trying to cause you to come up into new you.

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Because you've read some of these scriptures and you have a funky mindset when you read them.

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Even that scripture, if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous manman, you go immediately by default.

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I did it, you read it and go, okay, that means don't have too much money and don't be greedy.

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And that's not at all what he's talking about.

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We always look at money scriptures through a lens of poverty and scarcity.

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Let's keep reading this by the way.

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And if you have not been faithful in what is another man's, who will give you what is your own?

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God is calling you to be faithful with money that somebody else gave to you and then God will cause you to increase.

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But here's another verse that really binds people up.

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Jesus, he said, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, right?

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Than a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.

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And you read that and you go, some people who were dead broke are like, good, I'm in the clear.

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Other people are doing all right, they're like, you know?

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And to us, it doesn't make sense.

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But to anybody that Jesus was ministering to, culturally they would immediately know what he was talking about.

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The eye of the needle was a gate.

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It was actually a physical gate in one of the Jerusalem had 12 gates, four walls, three.

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And Hester came up to me between services and she said, oh, I googled it and found a picture.

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Do you want me to throw it up there? Yes, please throw it up there.

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Look at it.

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That's the eye of a needle.

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You see that little door?

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And then there's another gate.

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The eye of a needle was a gate, it was very, very narrow.

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And so now look at me.

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You take the picture of that gate so easily distracted.

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Everybody's still studying.

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Google it out on your own time.

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I got a lot of points I want to get here and plus the Lord wants to confirm this with his anointing.

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Right now, you're not just getting information.

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The Holy Spirit is coming. He's massaging you.

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He's working in you. Open up your heart for that.

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A rich man or merchant or you'll come with a camel, heavy laden with goods and merchandise.

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And could not enter in through that small gate, the eye of the needle.

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But we actually have to bend its knees, come down so that all of the stuff could be taken off of it.

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And then it could be led through the tiny, tight gate.

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And so what Jesus is saying is if you're a rich man, this won't be easy for you, but you'll have to bend the knee.

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And you'll have to take all your stuff off and hold it loosely because it's not your money.

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It's all my money and anybody who's come up in the abundance and prosperity of God.

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That's the heart set that they have to have. It's not my money.

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It's all God's money.

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And then you can be how God wants you to be.

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I'm going to say it wealthy.

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Oh my goodness. He's just saying God wants to be yes.

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Because you see it all throughout the scriptures.

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You see it right early in Genesis with Abraham.

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Do you know when God blessed them and changed his name from Abraham to Abraham?

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The first manifestation of blessed.

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Which by the way, people say bless you.

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They think it's something you tell someone when they sneeze.

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The word blessed means empowered to prosper.

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And God, Scripture says God blessed him there.

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And immediately what you saw was financial abundance and increase in Abraham's life.

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And then went to his son Isaac and then went to his son Jacob.

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And then you see it in David's life.

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Then you see it in Solomon's life. You see it all throughout.

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Amen.

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Oh we're seeing some minds shift here.

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And other Scripture people are so familiar with is the rich young ruler.

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Because the rich young ruler came to Jesus and said what must I do to inherit eternal life?

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And Jesus said sell all that you have.

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Give to the poor and come follow me.

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And then they're such communists.

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They believe that Jesus...

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I'm having fun here this morning, are you?

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No because some Christians are secretly socialists.

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And let me tell you what I mean by that.

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They just want to divide and divvy up everything.

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They read in the book of Acts how the church had all things in common and shared.

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It was never a mandate and this is how the church shall be for 2000 years.

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That was in a specific time and a specific season, that's how it went down.

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Amen.

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And to the rich young ruler, he came bragging to Jesus.

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He said I have fulfilled all of the 10 commandments.

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He hasn't.

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He said everything I do.

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And he started showing... hint.

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You don't show off in brag to Jesus.

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Because he operates in all nine gifts of the Holy Spirit.

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And he threw a word of knowledge.

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This guy's money's got to grip on him.

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Young, rich young ruler, trust fund baby.

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Young Hebrew...

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Young Hebrew, trust a fairion, comes up to Jesus.

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And Jesus puts his finger on that thing that's most important to the young trust a fairion.

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His money.

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And it's, oh, one thing you lack.

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If ever you brag to Jesus about how awesome you are, his response is always going to be,

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hum, one thing you lack.

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And he'll know exactly what that one thing is.

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Sell all that you have, give to the poor, come follow me.

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But people who used that one example, one commandment to a Hebrew wealthy kid,

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and say, well, that's for everybody.

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It's not for everybody.

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The devil has lied to Christians so they don't build generational wealth.

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And acted as though their job is just to stay barely fed just above the poverty line.

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And as soon as they get a little, just give it all away and everybody around them.

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And so there's no momentum, there's no forward movement,

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and there's no building from generation to generation.

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It's a lie that disempowers the church.

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Yes, God wants you blessed.

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Why?

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That's a good question to ask.

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Why?

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Financially blessed.

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Empowered to prosper. Why?

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So that you can build his kingdom up.

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So that you can relieve suffering all around the world.

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I've preached this things day one.

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And just recently, he may be here.

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I can't see right now. He may not be.

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And I don't usually use current members as an example,

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but I know he knows I love him.

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And I know he'll forgive me.

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He's probably here right now.

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I don't want to make eye contact with him.

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But we were talking about money.

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And we're specifically talking about Bitcoin.

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And many of you know that Bitcoin has transformed me in my wife's life financially.

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And he's getting into Bitcoin.

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And we just talked about money very openly.

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And he said these words.

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He said, I'm good.

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I said, what do you mean you're good?

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He said, I'm good.

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Like I have enough.

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And I go, how many churches have you built?

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Silence.

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How many orphanages have you started?

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How many mass crusades have you funded?

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I'm good. It sounds holy, doesn't it?

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That's the devil comes and it seems so holy.

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You know, don't want too much, just enough.

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I'm good.

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You have a responsibility as a Christian to receive the abundance and prosperity of God.

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Not so that you can take selfies and post it on Instagram.

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But so that you can build his kingdom.

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Amen.

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So because he has such an open heart to the Lord the moment I said that, he shifted.

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I never saw it like that.

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And now if he's here, I don't want to make eye contact too much.

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He'll never forget it.

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No, he's good.

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Hallelujah.

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Give me a favor, shout out a man if you're here, just kidding.

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Just kidding.

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It's an attitude of the heart that says, oh, you know, my, my fore and no more.

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Right? Just, I'm good.

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But it's really one of the most selfish things you can say.

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I'm good.

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Well, can you get good?

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So that all the people around you can be blessed by your good.

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Amen.

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I'm good too.

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But guess what? I'm getting good.

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Because there's a whole world out there that needs to be helped.

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Amen.

505
00:27:28.300 --> 00:27:30.300
Hallelujah.

506
00:27:30.300 --> 00:27:32.300
Thank you Lord.

507
00:27:32.300 --> 00:27:36.300
What's another scripture?

508
00:27:36.300 --> 00:27:44.300
You got the whole money is the root of all evil, which they misquote.

509
00:27:44.300 --> 00:27:46.300
Because it's the love of money.

510
00:27:46.300 --> 00:27:48.300
You got the rich young ruler.

511
00:27:48.300 --> 00:27:52.300
You've got the eye of the camel.

512
00:27:52.300 --> 00:27:54.300
Here's another one.

513
00:27:54.300 --> 00:27:56.300
You read in James.

514
00:27:56.300 --> 00:27:58.300
James says, you rich.

515
00:27:58.300 --> 00:28:02.300
Howl and weep for your riches.

516
00:28:02.300 --> 00:28:08.300
And people look at that and go up real hard and go.

517
00:28:08.300 --> 00:28:10.300
You know, well, I don't want to get rich.

518
00:28:10.300 --> 00:28:12.300
Don't worry.

519
00:28:12.300 --> 00:28:14.300
You're definitely wrong.

520
00:28:14.300 --> 00:28:20.300
You know, and you then you got to ask if one is too much, too much.

521
00:28:20.300 --> 00:28:26.300
There has never been ever, ever in the scriptures and indictment against righteous rich people.

522
00:28:26.300 --> 00:28:28.300
Ever.

523
00:28:28.300 --> 00:28:32.300
You just read one more verse down in the book of James.

524
00:28:32.300 --> 00:28:38.300
And you realize these were wealthy people who were defrauding others, robbing them.

525
00:28:38.300 --> 00:28:44.300
They just cry out from the Lord of Subowith in the heavens.

526
00:28:44.300 --> 00:28:48.300
They were bad rich people.

527
00:28:48.300 --> 00:28:50.300
Someone said, oh, well, all rich people are bad.

528
00:28:50.300 --> 00:28:52.300
No.

529
00:28:52.300 --> 00:28:56.300
There's bad poor people, bad rich people.

530
00:28:56.300 --> 00:28:58.300
I've met very holy poor people.

531
00:28:58.300 --> 00:29:00.300
I met holy rich people.

532
00:29:00.300 --> 00:29:04.300
Hallelujah.

533
00:29:04.300 --> 00:29:08.300
You know what's happening right now?

534
00:29:08.300 --> 00:29:10.300
I'm giving you the word.

535
00:29:10.300 --> 00:29:14.300
So it adjusts your thinking.

536
00:29:14.300 --> 00:29:24.300
Some of you in this spirit, it's too much of challenge like decades of stinking thinking in your mind and you're locked in.

537
00:29:24.300 --> 00:29:30.300
And you secretly, you're hurting, but secretly you take some pride from it.

538
00:29:30.300 --> 00:29:36.300
You take some pride that you're on barely get along street.

539
00:29:36.300 --> 00:29:38.300
Don't do that.

540
00:29:38.300 --> 00:29:42.300
God wants you free.

541
00:29:42.300 --> 00:29:52.300
He wants you to know how much He loves you and to not have that chain around your neck, the chain of dead.

542
00:29:52.300 --> 00:29:58.300
Hallelujah.

543
00:29:58.300 --> 00:30:00.300
I'm going to give you some scriptures.

544
00:30:00.300 --> 00:30:06.300
Well, let's start in Hebrews 412 to explain why I'm giving you scriptures.

545
00:30:06.300 --> 00:30:10.300
I'm going to give you three steps to getting out of debt.

546
00:30:10.300 --> 00:30:14.300
Here's step one.

547
00:30:14.300 --> 00:30:17.300
It's to be renewed in your mind.

548
00:30:17.300 --> 00:30:19.300
To be the cat that changes position.

549
00:30:19.300 --> 00:30:23.300
To be transformed by the renewing of your mind, how?

550
00:30:23.300 --> 00:30:25.300
By getting the word of God in you.

551
00:30:25.300 --> 00:30:27.300
Our mind is full of lies.

552
00:30:27.300 --> 00:30:29.300
The word of God is truth.

553
00:30:29.300 --> 00:30:31.300
The word of God when ingested, not when read quickly.

554
00:30:31.300 --> 00:30:35.300
You know the Bible never says to read the Bible.

555
00:30:35.300 --> 00:30:39.300
It says to either study, to show yourself approved, or to eat it.

556
00:30:39.300 --> 00:30:41.300
John goes up into revelation.

557
00:30:41.300 --> 00:30:43.300
He eats the scrolls.

558
00:30:43.300 --> 00:30:47.300
Jeremiah said, your words were found to God.

559
00:30:47.300 --> 00:30:51.300
He says, your words were found and I did eat them.

560
00:30:51.300 --> 00:30:54.300
And your word was unto me the joy and the rejoicing of my heart.

561
00:30:54.300 --> 00:30:58.300
How do you eat God's word?

562
00:30:58.300 --> 00:31:03.300
You read it over and over again to the point where you memorize it.

563
00:31:03.300 --> 00:31:06.300
And then after you've memorized it, you mutter it.

564
00:31:06.300 --> 00:31:08.300
You speak it out.

565
00:31:08.300 --> 00:31:10.300
And what will happen is the word will be made flesh.

566
00:31:10.300 --> 00:31:12.300
That's how you eat it.

567
00:31:12.300 --> 00:31:17.300
What will happen is just like when you eat natural food, natural proteins and nutrients,

568
00:31:17.300 --> 00:31:22.300
and your body grows, and those proteins and nutrients are working inside of you.

569
00:31:22.300 --> 00:31:25.300
The word of God when you ingested will be working.

570
00:31:25.300 --> 00:31:28.300
I got word of God that I ingested 20 years ago.

571
00:31:28.300 --> 00:31:29.300
I ingested it so deep.

572
00:31:29.300 --> 00:31:31.300
I've topped off here and there, absolutely.

573
00:31:31.300 --> 00:31:34.300
By ingested certain scriptures, they're like fused in me.

574
00:31:34.300 --> 00:31:36.300
Someone can hit me over the head with a bat.

575
00:31:36.300 --> 00:31:37.300
I may forget my name.

576
00:31:37.300 --> 00:31:41.300
I won't forget those scriptures.

577
00:31:41.300 --> 00:31:44.300
For the word of God is living.

578
00:31:44.300 --> 00:31:46.300
This is not a dead thing.

579
00:31:46.300 --> 00:31:49.300
It's living and it's powerful.

580
00:31:49.300 --> 00:31:51.300
What is powerful?

581
00:31:51.300 --> 00:31:54.300
That's the Greek from the Greek dunamis.

582
00:31:54.300 --> 00:31:57.300
That means dynamic in its working.

583
00:31:57.300 --> 00:32:00.300
The word of God is not like other words that you read.

584
00:32:00.300 --> 00:32:03.300
The word of God is not static.

585
00:32:03.300 --> 00:32:09.300
It is not ancient words printed on thousand-year-old scrolls.

586
00:32:09.300 --> 00:32:11.300
It's now.

587
00:32:11.300 --> 00:32:12.300
It's fresh.

588
00:32:12.300 --> 00:32:15.300
And when you ingest the word, it'll get to work.

589
00:32:15.300 --> 00:32:17.300
You say, what will it be doing?

590
00:32:17.300 --> 00:32:24.300
It'll be changing you, and it'll be changing your surroundings.

591
00:32:24.300 --> 00:32:27.300
If you're serious about getting out of debt,

592
00:32:27.300 --> 00:32:35.300
you need to memorize, mutter, meditate on 10th prosperity abundance scriptures.

593
00:32:36.300 --> 00:32:41.300
And a lot of people I found and break my heart, they're not serious.

594
00:32:41.300 --> 00:32:45.300
They just want to temporarily feel their pain relieved in a service like this,

595
00:32:45.300 --> 00:32:47.300
and then go out there and be miserable.

596
00:32:47.300 --> 00:32:49.300
Please don't let that be you.

597
00:32:49.300 --> 00:32:50.300
Jesus knew this.

598
00:32:50.300 --> 00:32:55.300
That's why he would come up to people who were sick and say,

599
00:32:55.300 --> 00:32:56.300
do you want to be made well?

600
00:32:56.300 --> 00:32:57.300
What a question.

601
00:32:57.300 --> 00:33:01.300
He asked that to the man who was lame in his legs for 38 years at the pool of Bethesda.

602
00:33:01.300 --> 00:33:04.300
Do you want me to make you well?

603
00:33:04.300 --> 00:33:07.300
How do you ask that to someone who's lame for 38 years?

604
00:33:07.300 --> 00:33:10.300
Well, he knew what he was doing when he asked him that,

605
00:33:10.300 --> 00:33:12.300
because the man didn't cry out, yes.

606
00:33:12.300 --> 00:33:15.300
He said, well, I have no man.

607
00:33:15.300 --> 00:33:18.300
I don't know man to take me to the pool.

608
00:33:18.300 --> 00:33:20.300
She's like, I didn't ask you that.

609
00:33:20.300 --> 00:33:23.300
I want to know what's going on, what's cooking under the hood?

610
00:33:23.300 --> 00:33:25.300
Do you really want to be made well?

611
00:33:25.300 --> 00:33:28.300
Because it could be that he didn't really want to be made well.

612
00:33:28.300 --> 00:33:30.300
He said, why wouldn't he be want to be made well?

613
00:33:30.300 --> 00:33:33.300
Because 38 years hanging out by the pool.

614
00:33:33.300 --> 00:33:35.300
He's already got a social circle.

615
00:33:35.300 --> 00:33:36.300
He settled in.

616
00:33:36.300 --> 00:33:39.300
He's, yeah, he's used to it.

617
00:33:39.300 --> 00:33:44.300
It's like, you ever started a conversation with people who went out in the same corner?

618
00:33:44.300 --> 00:33:45.300
I have.

619
00:33:45.300 --> 00:33:48.300
See people coming to the same corner broke.

620
00:33:48.300 --> 00:33:50.300
And you realize they don't want to be made well.

621
00:33:50.300 --> 00:33:52.300
They actually like that.

622
00:33:52.300 --> 00:33:57.300
They have the same old friends and the same 40, same everything's the same.

623
00:33:57.300 --> 00:34:00.300
I'm comfortable here.

624
00:34:05.300 --> 00:34:09.300
The word of God is living and powerful.

625
00:34:09.300 --> 00:34:12.300
And it goes on, how many of you want to know what the rest of it means?

626
00:34:12.300 --> 00:34:14.300
I didn't get into this in the first service.

627
00:34:14.300 --> 00:34:16.300
But I uncovered what it means.

628
00:34:16.300 --> 00:34:18.300
And then I was like, you know, they never told me what it means.

629
00:34:18.300 --> 00:34:21.300
When I first got saved, this is one of those verses that preachers always shout.

630
00:34:21.300 --> 00:34:22.300
But they never explain.

631
00:34:22.300 --> 00:34:24.300
Have you ever noticed that?

632
00:34:24.300 --> 00:34:27.300
It gets kind of cryptic after this.

633
00:34:27.300 --> 00:34:29.300
I don't know if I can.

634
00:34:29.300 --> 00:34:31.300
It's like, take a few minutes for one person.

635
00:34:31.300 --> 00:34:34.300
It was hungry.

636
00:34:34.300 --> 00:34:37.300
We're going to put that on pause.

637
00:34:43.300 --> 00:34:45.300
I'll go through it real quick.

638
00:34:45.300 --> 00:34:46.300
Because it does, right?

639
00:34:46.300 --> 00:34:49.300
Word of God is living and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword.

640
00:34:49.300 --> 00:34:51.300
What the heck does the rest of it mean?

641
00:34:51.300 --> 00:34:57.300
Peer seeing even to the division of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow?

642
00:34:57.300 --> 00:35:00.300
It means that the word of God will speak to you and you will know when it is the word of God

643
00:35:00.300 --> 00:35:02.300
and when it is not the word of God.

644
00:35:02.300 --> 00:35:06.300
Because your spirit is what responds to the word of God.

645
00:35:06.300 --> 00:35:12.300
Your soul from the Greek suitcase where we get psyche from is your mind, your will and your emotions.

646
00:35:12.300 --> 00:35:15.300
That needs to be renewed by the word of God.

647
00:35:15.300 --> 00:35:19.300
But so many people, they listen to their head and ignore what's going on in their spirit.

648
00:35:19.300 --> 00:35:26.300
You miss God, you miss the voice of God, you miss the word of God when you listen to your head and not your spirit.

649
00:35:26.300 --> 00:35:31.300
And if you listen to your flesh, you're in big trouble because the flesh will always lie to you.

650
00:35:31.300 --> 00:35:33.300
The flesh is still under the power of Satan.

651
00:35:33.300 --> 00:35:35.300
So what does the word of God do?

652
00:35:35.300 --> 00:35:44.300
It's sharper than any two-edged sword and it will teach you to separate your spirit and your soul from the flesh, the joints and marrow.

653
00:35:44.300 --> 00:35:47.300
And it will reveal you to you.

654
00:35:47.300 --> 00:35:51.300
It is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

655
00:35:51.300 --> 00:35:54.300
Hallelujah.

656
00:35:54.300 --> 00:35:58.300
Hallelujah.

657
00:35:58.300 --> 00:36:02.300
First Timothy 6, 17 through 19.

658
00:36:02.300 --> 00:36:04.300
Steps two and three are going to be quick.

659
00:36:04.300 --> 00:36:08.300
Step one is kind of long and that's about us being transformed.

660
00:36:08.300 --> 00:36:13.300
Because we want to experience supernatural detonation.

661
00:36:13.300 --> 00:36:18.300
And we need a good old fashioned mind renewing.

662
00:36:18.300 --> 00:36:23.300
Hallelujah.

663
00:36:23.300 --> 00:36:27.300
Paul is writing Pastor Timothy.

664
00:36:27.300 --> 00:36:31.300
And he says, command those who are rich in this present age.

665
00:36:31.300 --> 00:36:36.300
What did he want? Timothy to go stand up in the marketplace and command all the unsaved rich people? No.

666
00:36:36.300 --> 00:36:42.300
He's telling Timothy what to teach the wealthy people in Timothy's church.

667
00:36:42.300 --> 00:36:47.300
Apparently Timothy, young Timmy, had a lot of high rollers in his church.

668
00:36:47.300 --> 00:36:52.300
Note that Paul did not write and say to the rich people in your church, Timothy,

669
00:36:52.300 --> 00:36:57.300
command them to give all their money away to become as broke as the lowest of the low in your church.

670
00:36:57.300 --> 00:37:04.300
No. He said, just teach them that they have their priorities in order.

671
00:37:04.300 --> 00:37:09.300
Commend those who are rich in this present age not to be proud, not to be horny.

672
00:37:09.300 --> 00:37:12.300
By the way, that's what the tithe is for.

673
00:37:12.300 --> 00:37:17.300
The tithe, because when you start increasing financially, it doesn't number on your head.

674
00:37:17.300 --> 00:37:20.300
And you start to think, well, I'm kind of special.

675
00:37:20.300 --> 00:37:22.300
I'm really, really clever.

676
00:37:22.300 --> 00:37:25.300
And you start to think that it's about you.

677
00:37:25.300 --> 00:37:30.300
And you don't realize you're just a joker that got favored.

678
00:37:30.300 --> 00:37:35.300
And then when you tithe, you're remembering God.

679
00:37:35.300 --> 00:37:39.300
Because you will remember, be careful not to forget the Lord your God.

680
00:37:39.300 --> 00:37:46.300
You remember him with your giving for it is he who gives you power to get wealth due to our enemy 818.

681
00:37:46.300 --> 00:37:51.300
So an antidote for being proud and horny is the tithe.

682
00:37:51.300 --> 00:37:54.300
It's you saying, Lord, I realize that this isn't about me.

683
00:37:54.300 --> 00:37:58.300
And I didn't do this, but I recognize there is a God above who favored me, blessed me,

684
00:37:58.300 --> 00:38:02.300
enabled me, and will continue to increase me.

685
00:38:02.300 --> 00:38:15.300
Nor to trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us all things, all things, all things.

686
00:38:15.300 --> 00:38:19.300
All things.

687
00:38:19.300 --> 00:38:21.300
Amen.

688
00:38:21.300 --> 00:38:26.300
Some of you, you really think you're more spiritual than the apostle Paul.

689
00:38:26.300 --> 00:38:31.300
You think when the Paul says God's going to give you all things, you think he means all kinds of pixie dust, right?

690
00:38:31.300 --> 00:38:33.300
All blessings, but what are blessings?

691
00:38:33.300 --> 00:38:38.300
Or you know, God just sprinkles of haze and fog and pixie.

692
00:38:38.300 --> 00:38:41.300
Glitter.

693
00:38:41.300 --> 00:38:42.300
Heavenly glitter.

694
00:38:42.300 --> 00:38:45.300
All things.

695
00:38:45.300 --> 00:38:47.300
Things is things.

696
00:38:47.300 --> 00:38:49.300
Amen.

697
00:38:49.300 --> 00:38:52.300
God's not against you having things.

698
00:38:52.300 --> 00:38:54.300
He's against things having you.

699
00:38:54.300 --> 00:38:55.300
Amen.

700
00:38:55.300 --> 00:38:56.300
Money.

701
00:38:56.300 --> 00:39:01.300
A wonderful, wonderful servant, a terrible, terrible master.

702
00:39:01.300 --> 00:39:11.300
And so the message has always been to increase, and increase will come from heaven when you've proven yourself trustworthy.

703
00:39:11.300 --> 00:39:12.300
By how?

704
00:39:12.300 --> 00:39:14.300
How do you prove yourself trustworthy?

705
00:39:14.300 --> 00:39:18.300
By what you do with the little, and then he'll make you ruler over much.

706
00:39:18.300 --> 00:39:22.300
To that fellow who said, I'm good.

707
00:39:22.300 --> 00:39:26.300
Which so wonderfully received correction.

708
00:39:26.300 --> 00:39:29.300
I then told him this.

709
00:39:29.300 --> 00:39:33.300
And this is what I'll tell you, you have a responsibility to increase.

710
00:39:33.300 --> 00:39:39.300
There's people who are depending on you to increase.

711
00:39:39.300 --> 00:39:43.300
And God will help you.

712
00:39:43.300 --> 00:39:47.300
And one of the first ways he'll help you is by getting you out of debt if you're in debt.

713
00:39:47.300 --> 00:39:51.300
So you don't know how much that I have.

714
00:39:51.300 --> 00:39:54.300
I remember those days.

715
00:39:54.300 --> 00:40:00.300
I remember having $63,000 of debt spread across 16 credit cards.

716
00:40:00.300 --> 00:40:11.300
Living in a windowless basement that doubled as the church on 7th Street between Avenue A and First F.

717
00:40:11.300 --> 00:40:18.300
My mom remembers.

718
00:40:18.300 --> 00:40:21.300
Because everybody's problem is the worst problem, right?

719
00:40:21.300 --> 00:40:23.300
You might be hearing me and going, you don't know how bad I have it.

720
00:40:23.300 --> 00:40:25.300
You don't know how bad I've had it.

721
00:40:25.300 --> 00:40:29.300
You don't know how bad the guy next to you has it.

722
00:40:29.300 --> 00:40:31.300
But God is able to do it.

723
00:40:31.300 --> 00:40:37.300
Moreover, you need to be convinced that God wants to do it.

724
00:40:37.300 --> 00:40:39.300
Hallelujah.

725
00:40:39.300 --> 00:40:42.300
We're just renewing some minds here.

726
00:40:42.300 --> 00:40:47.300
Proverbs 10-22.

727
00:40:47.300 --> 00:41:07.300
In case the scripture has been vague thus far.

728
00:41:07.300 --> 00:41:13.300
By the way, I'm giving you scriptures that you'll want to memorize in just.

729
00:41:13.300 --> 00:41:19.300
And you've got to know that scripture will be once again working inside of you.

730
00:41:19.300 --> 00:41:22.300
It's that powerful.

731
00:41:22.300 --> 00:41:27.300
So again, in case the scripture was vague thus far.

732
00:41:27.300 --> 00:41:32.300
I get a little bit of holy.

733
00:41:32.300 --> 00:41:35.300
I've got to say holy, holy, glee.

734
00:41:35.300 --> 00:41:41.300
Just knowing how irritating these scriptures are to those who love their poverty.

735
00:41:41.300 --> 00:41:44.300
There are people who will bet their life.

736
00:41:44.300 --> 00:41:46.300
You talk about viciousness.

737
00:41:46.300 --> 00:41:48.300
There's few things that get people seething.

738
00:41:48.300 --> 00:41:51.300
You know, we have to throw a guy out here a few months ago.

739
00:41:51.300 --> 00:41:54.300
I mean, we could say, I've said all these things, nobody ever.

740
00:41:54.300 --> 00:41:58.300
But Pastor James is receiving the tides and offerings and he starts shouting,

741
00:41:58.300 --> 00:42:02.300
and security has to take him out the side.

742
00:42:02.300 --> 00:42:05.300
Why do people respond like that when it comes to money?

743
00:42:05.300 --> 00:42:08.300
And we already received their tides and offerings.

744
00:42:08.300 --> 00:42:15.300
Like this isn't me teaching now trying to pump you up for the great big offering receive at the end of the month.

745
00:42:15.300 --> 00:42:18.300
Why do I have to fight with people to see them blessed?

746
00:42:18.300 --> 00:42:23.300
I have to wrestle them and they're like, no, poverty, it doesn't want no too much.

747
00:42:23.300 --> 00:42:25.300
I'm just, I'm good.

748
00:42:25.300 --> 00:42:28.300
And you're dying.

749
00:42:28.300 --> 00:42:30.300
You don't have two dimes to rub together.

750
00:42:30.300 --> 00:42:32.300
But you're going, no, no, no.

751
00:42:32.300 --> 00:42:35.300
What would I think about what is going on up there?

752
00:42:35.300 --> 00:42:37.300
What are you afraid of?

753
00:42:37.300 --> 00:42:44.300
I'll tell you what, too many people, they're actually so condemned and think so little of themselves.

754
00:42:44.300 --> 00:42:51.300
And they're so conscious of their own sin rather than being conscious of the blood of Jesus which has cleansed them of all their sin.

755
00:42:51.300 --> 00:42:58.300
They reject the blessing of God and they limit, they limit.

756
00:42:58.300 --> 00:43:03.300
It's like somebody wanted to bless you and bring out 128 ounce ribeye and you're like,

757
00:43:03.300 --> 00:43:10.300
I'll just take a slice because I'm not worthy.

758
00:43:10.300 --> 00:43:13.300
Well the blood of Jesus makes you worthy.

759
00:43:13.300 --> 00:43:16.300
I'll tell you what, you know.

760
00:43:16.300 --> 00:43:26.300
Emily and I moved recently and moved into a neighborhood and into a house out in Nassau County.

761
00:43:26.300 --> 00:43:30.300
And I had a difficult time just going to open up here the first six weeks.

762
00:43:30.300 --> 00:43:32.300
Here's what I want to show you with this story.

763
00:43:32.300 --> 00:43:37.300
I don't even know where I was with that but it's story time in the house of the Lord.

764
00:43:37.300 --> 00:43:40.300
Because I know what you must think.

765
00:43:40.300 --> 00:43:41.300
I preach this.

766
00:43:41.300 --> 00:43:42.300
I believe this.

767
00:43:42.300 --> 00:43:49.300
I live this and I went through a struggle for about six weeks of what I think the world would call imposter syndrome.

768
00:43:49.300 --> 00:43:56.300
Because now I'm in this totally new arena of life and I'm going,

769
00:43:56.300 --> 00:44:01.300
this is like, I don't know what it's like to go to a cafe and all the men are wearing golf shirts.

770
00:44:01.300 --> 00:44:04.300
I've never worn those weird golf shirts in my life.

771
00:44:04.300 --> 00:44:08.300
You know, everybody's just, and they got the cute little shorts on and they're like,

772
00:44:08.300 --> 00:44:14.300
you know, I'm like, I know, get my breakfast sandwich from the corner of Bodega but this,

773
00:44:14.300 --> 00:44:16.300
this is different.

774
00:44:16.300 --> 00:44:23.300
And I hear a voice, you know, you don't belong here and they're talking about things I have no clue what they're talking about.

775
00:44:23.300 --> 00:44:28.300
And the taxes are outlandish.

776
00:44:28.300 --> 00:44:36.300
The taxes are more, my first salary at CityLight was a thousand a month.

777
00:44:36.300 --> 00:44:39.300
Don't feel bad for me. God got me back real good. Don't feel bad.

778
00:44:39.300 --> 00:44:42.300
Those are good times.

779
00:44:42.300 --> 00:44:46.300
They are now because they're in the review mirror.

780
00:44:46.300 --> 00:44:52.300
But then I received like five years in, received a raise.

781
00:44:52.300 --> 00:44:58.300
The taxes are more than my entire salary at CityLight, after the raise.

782
00:44:58.300 --> 00:45:05.300
And I remember the, I would feel weird anxiety and at the crux of it was,

783
00:45:05.300 --> 00:45:08.300
am I worthy of this?

784
00:45:08.300 --> 00:45:13.300
Me. I preach this. So this is why my heart goes out to you.

785
00:45:13.300 --> 00:45:18.300
And why I'm identifying what probably a mental struggle is here.

786
00:45:18.300 --> 00:45:25.300
The mental struggle is, am I worthy for God after the mess I made with debt to come in and rescue me?

787
00:45:25.300 --> 00:45:29.300
I acted irresponsibly. I bought more than I should have.

788
00:45:29.300 --> 00:45:32.300
I tried to keep up with the Joneses. Well, I'm even financial mistakes.

789
00:45:32.300 --> 00:45:36.300
Am I, you're not, and neither am I.

790
00:45:36.300 --> 00:45:39.300
But he doesn't give you in proportion to what you're worthy of.

791
00:45:39.300 --> 00:45:44.300
He gives you in proportion to what Jesus Christ is worthy of.

792
00:45:44.300 --> 00:45:48.300
And open your heart up to the voice of the Lord.

793
00:45:48.300 --> 00:45:54.300
I was in bed overwhelmed with anxiety about the taxes.

794
00:45:54.300 --> 00:46:01.300
Just because, because they're a scam.

795
00:46:01.300 --> 00:46:05.300
How do I own the house, if after I've paid off the mortgage, I stop paying taxes.

796
00:46:05.300 --> 00:46:09.300
Then the man comes and shows me who really owns the house by taking the house away.

797
00:46:09.300 --> 00:46:13.300
But that's another sermon for another time.

798
00:46:13.300 --> 00:46:17.300
But there's so much. And be open to this, because it changed everything.

799
00:46:17.300 --> 00:46:20.300
The Lord came and spoke to me. It was about a second.

800
00:46:20.300 --> 00:46:24.300
And he went, you will not even think about this. Don't even consider this.

801
00:46:24.300 --> 00:46:27.300
I can't even quote it word for word.

802
00:46:27.300 --> 00:46:30.300
Because when I say he spoke to me, it wasn't an audible voice.

803
00:46:30.300 --> 00:46:36.300
It was like on the inside, like a beautiful punch in my spirit that felt so good.

804
00:46:36.300 --> 00:46:38.300
He was just like, doof.

805
00:46:38.300 --> 00:46:41.300
And with that same word, he took out the anxiety and yanked it out.

806
00:46:41.300 --> 00:46:46.300
I don't know. I'll never have to worry about it.

807
00:46:46.300 --> 00:46:49.300
Hallelujah.

808
00:46:49.300 --> 00:46:55.300
And just reiterated to me, I'll say it again, the blood of Jesus makes you worthy.

809
00:46:55.300 --> 00:47:04.300
Because the blood of Jesus has elevated you to the status of a king, lowercase K.

810
00:47:04.300 --> 00:47:07.300
Hallelujah.

811
00:47:07.300 --> 00:47:13.300
The blessing of the Lord makes one rich.

812
00:47:13.300 --> 00:47:18.300
I'll say it again, for those who love their poverty.

813
00:47:18.300 --> 00:47:22.300
The blessing of the Lord.

814
00:47:22.300 --> 00:47:25.300
It makes one rich.

815
00:47:25.300 --> 00:47:29.300
Here's a little mental experiment.

816
00:47:29.300 --> 00:47:37.300
How many of you believe that if Jesus Christ came to your house, all of your needs would be immediately met?

817
00:47:37.300 --> 00:47:40.300
How many of you believe that? Let me see your hands.

818
00:47:40.300 --> 00:47:43.300
Yeah, because you see how it is in the scriptures, right?

819
00:47:43.300 --> 00:47:48.300
All of your needs are met, why? Because he's a fountain of provision.

820
00:47:48.300 --> 00:47:51.300
You depress a fountain of joy provision.

821
00:47:51.300 --> 00:47:55.300
You have sin, a fountain of cleansing provision.

822
00:47:55.300 --> 00:47:57.300
Sick, a fountain of healing provision.

823
00:47:57.300 --> 00:48:03.300
Lacking something, a fountain of providential care.

824
00:48:03.300 --> 00:48:07.300
You believe that?

825
00:48:07.300 --> 00:48:10.300
That reveals what you really believe about Jesus.

826
00:48:10.300 --> 00:48:16.300
But underneath that, there's where, like onions, multi-layered.

827
00:48:16.300 --> 00:48:22.300
Underneath that, this proportionate chunk of believers still, they believe,

828
00:48:22.300 --> 00:48:29.300
well, God, I mean, God may like me.

829
00:48:29.300 --> 00:48:32.300
I barely get a long street.

830
00:48:32.300 --> 00:48:34.300
You say, no, I don't.

831
00:48:34.300 --> 00:48:37.300
I'm not going to tell you you do, but I would go to the Lord.

832
00:48:37.300 --> 00:48:40.300
I would check in with him.

833
00:48:40.300 --> 00:48:44.300
Because the Bible says the blessing of the Lord makes one rich.

834
00:48:44.300 --> 00:48:49.300
But secretly, they believe that the blessing of the Lord makes one poor.

835
00:48:49.300 --> 00:48:54.300
It's how, I know, because your words betray you.

836
00:48:54.300 --> 00:49:01.300
You may say you think one thing, but the words that come out of your mouth may the Lord arrest you and shake you till your hair follicles shift.

837
00:49:01.300 --> 00:49:09.300
When you say, when you say anything associated with poverty and lack,

838
00:49:09.300 --> 00:49:13.300
but in your spirit, you have to understand when God comes in, He brings prosperity.

839
00:49:13.300 --> 00:49:18.300
You wouldn't go, you wouldn't go visit your friend and you walk into your friend's apartment,

840
00:49:18.300 --> 00:49:21.300
and it's all dilapidated.

841
00:49:21.300 --> 00:49:25.300
There is paint peeling from the walls, one cup of ramen on the counter.

842
00:49:25.300 --> 00:49:30.300
You wouldn't walk out of there and say, wow, I just saw a blessing.

843
00:49:30.300 --> 00:49:35.300
That was blessed.

844
00:49:35.300 --> 00:49:37.300
I mean, I was wondering what blessed looks like.

845
00:49:37.300 --> 00:49:40.300
This is hashtag blessed.

846
00:49:40.300 --> 00:49:46.300
No, you would walk away going, I know this seems so elementary, but for some of you are going, aww.

847
00:49:46.300 --> 00:49:49.300
Now you're connecting the dots of what you really believe,

848
00:49:49.300 --> 00:49:56.300
and what you're going to get isn't going to shift until what you really believe shifts.

849
00:49:56.300 --> 00:50:01.300
You need to memorize this verse, say it over and over again.

850
00:50:01.300 --> 00:50:07.300
The more you get the word of God in your spirit, it will act like a magnet for the abundance of God.

851
00:50:07.300 --> 00:50:10.300
Some of you, you're going to get serious about this.

852
00:50:10.300 --> 00:50:18.300
Statistically speaking, some of you are going to walk away feeling encouraged and go, that was nice.

853
00:50:18.300 --> 00:50:22.300
And then an hour later, you're going to just go on with your life.

854
00:50:23.300 --> 00:50:26.300
Don't be that person.

855
00:50:26.300 --> 00:50:28.300
Please catch my good side.

856
00:50:28.300 --> 00:50:33.300
I got this surgery right here.

857
00:50:33.300 --> 00:50:36.300
It's just kid having fun, flash photography.

858
00:50:36.300 --> 00:50:38.300
It's all good.

859
00:50:38.300 --> 00:50:42.300
Hallelujah.

860
00:50:42.300 --> 00:50:52.300
Psalm 3527.

861
00:50:52.300 --> 00:50:57.300
Does this, hey, those of you who are in first service, don't let the cat out of the bag.

862
00:50:57.300 --> 00:51:03.300
Does this verse look familiar to anyone?

863
00:51:03.300 --> 00:51:05.300
Who said yes?

864
00:51:05.300 --> 00:51:07.300
Chris, you're the first, no.

865
00:51:07.300 --> 00:51:10.300
Go run for office.

866
00:51:10.300 --> 00:51:14.300
He's the one that'll correct me on what wood was in Noah's Ark and all that.

867
00:51:14.300 --> 00:51:16.300
Just...

868
00:51:22.300 --> 00:51:23.300
He's good.

869
00:51:23.300 --> 00:51:25.300
Anybody else?

870
00:51:25.300 --> 00:51:29.300
Just look at the offering envelope that's in your seat.

871
00:51:29.300 --> 00:51:32.300
I put it there.

872
00:51:32.300 --> 00:51:37.300
I put it there over 15 years ago and none of you raised your hands.

873
00:51:37.300 --> 00:51:42.300
It's a special email to our graphic designer and our then administrator.

874
00:51:42.300 --> 00:51:44.300
Why did I do that?

875
00:51:44.300 --> 00:51:47.300
Because this is the one verse that meant the most to me.

876
00:51:47.300 --> 00:51:50.300
You got to collect 10 verses, not any 10.

877
00:51:50.300 --> 00:51:52.300
Not any 10 prosperity verses.

878
00:51:52.300 --> 00:51:54.300
They got to speak to you.

879
00:51:54.300 --> 00:51:57.300
When you read them, they got to juice you up and you got to feel energized.

880
00:51:57.300 --> 00:51:59.300
They got to bring life to you.

881
00:51:59.300 --> 00:52:01.300
Those are the ones you want to memorize.

882
00:52:01.300 --> 00:52:06.300
I had my 10, but of the 10, this was the one that really got me going.

883
00:52:07.300 --> 00:52:11.300
And I got the breakthrough believing this, speaking this,

884
00:52:11.300 --> 00:52:16.300
writing this out over and over again, letting the Word be made flesh.

885
00:52:16.300 --> 00:52:19.300
That's how I got out of debt.

886
00:52:19.300 --> 00:52:21.300
Amen.

887
00:52:21.300 --> 00:52:25.300
Let them shout for joy and be glad who favor my righteous cause

888
00:52:25.300 --> 00:52:30.300
and let them say continually, this is instruction to God's people.

889
00:52:30.300 --> 00:52:32.300
We need to be doing this.

890
00:52:33.300 --> 00:52:37.300
Let them say continually, let the Lord be magnified

891
00:52:37.300 --> 00:52:44.300
who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.

892
00:52:44.300 --> 00:52:46.300
Check the offering envelope.

893
00:52:46.300 --> 00:52:49.300
It's there highlighted in blue.

894
00:52:49.300 --> 00:52:54.300
Again, another scripture that doesn't leave much wiggle room.

895
00:52:54.300 --> 00:52:57.300
Because people who love poverty,

896
00:52:57.300 --> 00:52:59.300
that's the only way you can describe them.

897
00:52:59.300 --> 00:53:01.300
They love poverty.

898
00:53:01.300 --> 00:53:04.300
I would encourage them to go all the way with their love.

899
00:53:04.300 --> 00:53:07.300
They're actually what they're really saying is I like you in poverty.

900
00:53:07.300 --> 00:53:10.300
But if you really aren't believing any of this and you love poverty,

901
00:53:10.300 --> 00:53:13.300
go all the way, man, be a person of conviction.

902
00:53:13.300 --> 00:53:17.300
Sell all that you have, put on a potato sack, go barefoot,

903
00:53:17.300 --> 00:53:21.300
sleep in the woods, under a bridge, really embrace God's ways.

904
00:53:27.300 --> 00:53:30.300
Who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servants,

905
00:53:30.300 --> 00:53:34.300
get it in your spirit and then throughout the day,

906
00:53:34.300 --> 00:53:38.300
realize that God will take pleasure.

907
00:53:38.300 --> 00:53:40.300
It does Him good.

908
00:53:40.300 --> 00:53:43.300
I keep saying it over and over again because you have to be convinced of that.

909
00:53:43.300 --> 00:53:46.300
You can't be thinking you're trying a strong armed God

910
00:53:46.300 --> 00:53:49.300
into doing something that's not in His character to do,

911
00:53:49.300 --> 00:53:50.300
that He doesn't want to do.

912
00:53:50.300 --> 00:53:52.300
But if you win enough, He's going to go,

913
00:53:52.300 --> 00:53:54.300
all right, I'll help you with some of that debt.

914
00:53:54.300 --> 00:53:56.300
You have to realize that God loves you.

915
00:53:56.300 --> 00:53:58.300
He loves you.

916
00:53:58.300 --> 00:54:00.300
You have to be convinced of it.

917
00:54:00.300 --> 00:54:04.300
The only way is getting that word in you and that He takes pleasure.

918
00:54:04.300 --> 00:54:08.300
He likes it when you're in a place of prosperity.

919
00:54:08.300 --> 00:54:11.300
He doesn't like it when you're in a place of lack.

920
00:54:11.300 --> 00:54:14.300
He doesn't like it when you're in a place of debt.

921
00:54:14.300 --> 00:54:18.300
He doesn't like it when you're essentially in a place of servitude

922
00:54:18.300 --> 00:54:22.300
because the borrow is a servant to the lender.

923
00:54:22.300 --> 00:54:24.300
Hallelujah.

924
00:54:28.300 --> 00:54:30.300
What's Proverbs 227 say?

925
00:54:30.300 --> 00:54:32.300
I don't think I read that yet.

926
00:54:32.300 --> 00:54:34.300
This is in point number two.

927
00:54:34.300 --> 00:54:36.300
We're now moving from one.

928
00:54:36.300 --> 00:54:38.300
I just wanted to give you some prosperity scriptures.

929
00:54:38.300 --> 00:54:40.300
We'll go through two and three.

930
00:54:40.300 --> 00:54:42.300
Rather quickly.

931
00:54:42.300 --> 00:54:46.300
Oh, yeah.

932
00:54:46.300 --> 00:54:52.300
Number two is that you have to be convinced of the love of God for yourself.

933
00:54:52.300 --> 00:54:54.300
This is so important.

934
00:54:54.300 --> 00:54:56.300
Why?

935
00:54:56.300 --> 00:54:58.300
This is so important.

936
00:54:58.300 --> 00:55:00.300
Why?

937
00:55:00.300 --> 00:55:02.300
Because faith is going to bring you if you're in a place of debt.

938
00:55:02.300 --> 00:55:04.300
That's what's going to bring you out.

939
00:55:04.300 --> 00:55:06.300
And the Bible says faith works by love.

940
00:55:06.300 --> 00:55:10.300
Your faith won't work until you realize you're loved by God.

941
00:55:10.300 --> 00:55:14.300
You got saved and got your sins forgiven by faith.

942
00:55:22.300 --> 00:55:24.300
You got saved.

943
00:55:24.300 --> 00:55:30.300
It's forgiven by faith when you realized he loved you.

944
00:55:30.300 --> 00:55:36.300
And everything else you will receive from him is when you realize more.

945
00:55:36.300 --> 00:55:38.300
You receive more of his love.

946
00:55:38.300 --> 00:55:40.300
So, I mean, what does that mean?

947
00:55:40.300 --> 00:55:42.300
Well, I know for me, man, I'm going to spend some time in worship.

948
00:55:42.300 --> 00:55:46.300
I'm going to get in a place of worship where I feel his love for me.

949
00:55:46.300 --> 00:55:48.300
I sense it.

950
00:55:48.300 --> 00:55:50.300
I'm going to get it where I'm convinced of it.

951
00:55:50.300 --> 00:55:52.300
I'm going to read his word and be convinced of his love for me.

952
00:55:52.300 --> 00:55:54.300
I thought he just likes me.

953
00:55:54.300 --> 00:55:56.300
That he loves me.

954
00:55:56.300 --> 00:56:00.300
I got convinced that he was in love with me.

955
00:56:00.300 --> 00:56:04.300
Yes.

956
00:56:04.300 --> 00:56:12.300
And I'm convinced because he loves me that he doesn't want me to be a servant to the lender.

957
00:56:12.300 --> 00:56:14.300
You got to be convinced.

958
00:56:14.300 --> 00:56:16.300
You got to read stories in the Bible.

959
00:56:16.300 --> 00:56:18.300
There's a great story in the Bible.

960
00:56:18.300 --> 00:56:20.300
It's called the Passover.

961
00:56:20.300 --> 00:56:30.300
The Passover is a great redemption story because the children of Israel came out of Egypt.

962
00:56:30.300 --> 00:56:36.300
But the night, the final night when the destroyer was going to go and they were going to get liberated,

963
00:56:36.300 --> 00:56:38.300
God gave them, you know, God's name is Jehovah.

964
00:56:38.300 --> 00:56:40.300
In this case, he would be Jehovah Sneaky.

965
00:56:40.300 --> 00:56:42.300
You heard of Jehovah Rafa?

966
00:56:42.300 --> 00:56:44.300
Jehovah Jaira?

967
00:56:44.300 --> 00:56:46.300
Here, he was Jehovah Sneaky.

968
00:56:46.300 --> 00:56:48.300
It's okay.

969
00:56:48.300 --> 00:56:50.300
He's God.

970
00:56:50.300 --> 00:56:52.300
How do you know it's okay?

971
00:56:52.300 --> 00:56:54.300
Because he did it.

972
00:56:54.300 --> 00:57:02.300
He told all the Hebrews, go to all your neighbors and your owners and all that and ask to borrow gold, silver and precious stones.

973
00:57:02.300 --> 00:57:04.300
Ask to borrow of them.

974
00:57:04.300 --> 00:57:06.300
This is in the scriptures.

975
00:57:06.300 --> 00:57:08.300
This isn't me ad libbing or reading between the lines.

976
00:57:08.300 --> 00:57:10.300
It's right there in the scriptures.

977
00:57:10.300 --> 00:57:12.300
And they did that.

978
00:57:12.300 --> 00:57:14.300
And God must have just like nudged them a little bit.

979
00:57:14.300 --> 00:57:16.300
God won't override your will.

980
00:57:16.300 --> 00:57:18.300
Like a divine Jedi mind trick.

981
00:57:18.300 --> 00:57:20.300
You will give them all your gold.

982
00:57:20.300 --> 00:57:22.300
No, we won't.

983
00:57:22.300 --> 00:57:24.300
Yes, you will.

984
00:57:24.300 --> 00:57:26.300
Yes, we will.

985
00:57:26.300 --> 00:57:32.300
And the Egyptians gave to the Hebrews all their gold, silver and precious stones.

986
00:57:32.300 --> 00:57:34.300
They said, we're just going to borrow it.

987
00:57:34.300 --> 00:57:36.300
And then they fled Egypt.

988
00:57:36.300 --> 00:57:38.300
And then immediately...

989
00:57:38.300 --> 00:57:42.300
That's the appropriate response, actually.

990
00:57:42.300 --> 00:57:46.300
If people really got... I mean, when I was under the anointing reading the scriptures, I left my head off.

991
00:57:46.300 --> 00:57:52.300
There's some such comical, entire passages that are pure comedy gold in the Bible.

992
00:57:52.300 --> 00:57:54.300
This is one of them.

993
00:57:54.300 --> 00:57:56.300
They're now leaving Egypt with all the stuff.

994
00:57:56.300 --> 00:58:00.300
And when the Egyptians come to, they're like, let's go get our stuff back.

995
00:58:00.300 --> 00:58:04.300
So now the creditors are pursuing them.

996
00:58:04.300 --> 00:58:08.300
And God causes the Red Sea to open up.

997
00:58:08.300 --> 00:58:14.300
And their creditors get washed and obliterated in the Red Sea.

998
00:58:14.300 --> 00:58:18.300
You say, what is the theological term for that?

999
00:58:18.300 --> 00:58:20.300
Supernatural debt elimination.

1000
00:58:20.300 --> 00:58:24.300
Hey, man.

1001
00:58:24.300 --> 00:58:28.300
There's another example in Second Kings of a woman.

1002
00:58:28.300 --> 00:58:32.300
It actually uses a term in the New King James, the creditor.

1003
00:58:32.300 --> 00:58:34.300
She said to Elisha, the creditor is coming.

1004
00:58:34.300 --> 00:58:36.300
And they're going to take away my son.

1005
00:58:36.300 --> 00:58:40.300
Today, when the creditor comes, he just annoys you with 6 a.m. phone calls.

1006
00:58:40.300 --> 00:58:46.300
Back then, they would come and take you away or your child until they worked and paid off the debt.

1007
00:58:46.300 --> 00:58:49.300
And so she says, the creditor is coming to take away my son.

1008
00:58:49.300 --> 00:58:52.300
And Elisha says, go and gather a bunch of pots, not a few.

1009
00:58:52.300 --> 00:58:56.300
And take that one jar of oil that you have, and poured in to the pots,

1010
00:58:56.300 --> 00:58:59.300
and just the jar of oil kept pouring and pouring and pouring.

1011
00:58:59.300 --> 00:59:02.300
And he said, go and sell and pay off your debt.

1012
00:59:02.300 --> 00:59:05.300
And then, because God always gives you more than you need.

1013
00:59:05.300 --> 00:59:08.300
And then you and your son live off the rest.

1014
00:59:08.300 --> 00:59:10.300
What do you call that?

1015
00:59:10.300 --> 00:59:12.300
Supernatural debt elimination.

1016
00:59:12.300 --> 00:59:15.300
There's a real funny example.

1017
00:59:15.300 --> 00:59:18.300
A little bit later, same Elisha.

1018
00:59:18.300 --> 00:59:24.300
He uses the power of God to make an axe head float.

1019
00:59:24.300 --> 00:59:26.300
What's up with that?

1020
00:59:26.300 --> 00:59:28.300
Like what a waste of the power of God.

1021
00:59:28.300 --> 00:59:29.300
Have you ever thought that?

1022
00:59:29.300 --> 00:59:30.300
You know what I'm talking about?

1023
00:59:30.300 --> 00:59:31.300
Like make a limb grow out.

1024
00:59:31.300 --> 00:59:33.300
He'll some blind eyes.

1025
00:59:33.300 --> 00:59:37.300
You're walking around until you're doing cheap parlor tricks.

1026
00:59:37.300 --> 00:59:42.300
The guy drops his axe and Elijah makes the axe head float.

1027
00:59:42.300 --> 00:59:45.300
But you look in the scriptures and when he dropped the axe head,

1028
00:59:45.300 --> 00:59:50.300
he said, oh, alas, for it was borrowed.

1029
00:59:50.300 --> 00:59:53.300
When you're poor to be in debt, one axe head is a lot.

1030
00:59:53.300 --> 00:59:57.300
It's not like you can go to Home Depot back there and pick up two.

1031
00:59:57.300 --> 00:59:59.300
And Elisha makes the axe head float.

1032
00:59:59.300 --> 01:00:00.300
What do you call that?

1033
01:00:00.300 --> 01:00:02.300
Supernatural debt elimination.

1034
01:00:02.300 --> 01:00:06.300
I want you to open up your spirit and begin to contend.

1035
01:00:06.300 --> 01:00:08.300
This is not going to happen if you just go.

1036
01:00:08.300 --> 01:00:09.300
That was nice.

1037
01:00:09.300 --> 01:00:10.300
That was cute.

1038
01:00:10.300 --> 01:00:12.300
God, you know, if it's your will, no.

1039
01:00:12.300 --> 01:00:14.300
You got to say, God, I know you love me.

1040
01:00:14.300 --> 01:00:15.300
Me.

1041
01:00:15.300 --> 01:00:16.300
You love me.

1042
01:00:16.300 --> 01:00:17.300
You have favored me.

1043
01:00:17.300 --> 01:00:18.300
I messed up.

1044
01:00:18.300 --> 01:00:19.300
I got into debt.

1045
01:00:19.300 --> 01:00:21.300
Now I trust, I believe.

1046
01:00:21.300 --> 01:00:26.300
Supernatural debt elimination in my life in Jesus name.

1047
01:00:26.300 --> 01:00:27.300
Amen.

1048
01:00:27.300 --> 01:00:33.300
Hallelujah, which moves us on to point three.

1049
01:00:33.300 --> 01:00:38.300
Because while you're trusting for supernatural debt elimination,

1050
01:00:38.300 --> 01:00:43.300
you got to get to work on natural debt elimination.

1051
01:00:43.300 --> 01:00:47.300
Because God will put His super over your natural.

1052
01:00:47.300 --> 01:00:49.300
Don't ever get it confused.

1053
01:00:49.300 --> 01:00:52.300
If you're ever quote unquote trusting God to do something

1054
01:00:52.300 --> 01:00:56.300
without first getting started in natural, you're not trusting God.

1055
01:00:57.300 --> 01:00:59.300
Did you catch that?

1056
01:00:59.300 --> 01:01:02.300
Somebody will hear this message or be like,

1057
01:01:02.300 --> 01:01:04.300
did you hear what pastor said?

1058
01:01:04.300 --> 01:01:06.300
I still got $800 left on this bad boy.

1059
01:01:06.300 --> 01:01:07.300
Proving, bringing.

1060
01:01:07.300 --> 01:01:09.300
Let's go party.

1061
01:01:09.300 --> 01:01:14.300
And then supernatural, God will know.

1062
01:01:14.300 --> 01:01:17.300
You got it right now if you're in debt.

1063
01:01:17.300 --> 01:01:22.300
Which statistically speaking, a good chunk of you are.

1064
01:01:22.300 --> 01:01:25.300
And some of you don't hate your debt because it hasn't hurt you yet.

1065
01:01:26.300 --> 01:01:31.300
The reason why I'm preaching this message is because I've spoken to too many couples who are crying.

1066
01:01:31.300 --> 01:01:34.300
And their pain hurts me.

1067
01:01:34.300 --> 01:01:36.300
They're in bondage.

1068
01:01:36.300 --> 01:01:38.300
They're hurting.

1069
01:01:38.300 --> 01:01:41.300
Some of you have a little and you don't hate.

1070
01:01:41.300 --> 01:01:42.300
You got to hate it.

1071
01:01:42.300 --> 01:01:43.300
Which you don't hate.

1072
01:01:43.300 --> 01:01:44.300
You tolerate.

1073
01:01:44.300 --> 01:01:45.300
You got to hate it.

1074
01:01:45.300 --> 01:01:47.300
You got to be disgusted with not you.

1075
01:01:47.300 --> 01:01:48.300
Don't be disgusted with you.

1076
01:01:48.300 --> 01:01:50.300
But you got to hate that thing.

1077
01:01:50.300 --> 01:01:53.300
And I don't want to get right now into there's good debt, bad debt.

1078
01:01:53.300 --> 01:01:56.300
You know, I know some millionaires, you know, Kiyosaki, Trump.

1079
01:01:56.300 --> 01:01:57.300
They all have the good debt.

1080
01:01:57.300 --> 01:01:59.300
And right now just say no to debt.

1081
01:01:59.300 --> 01:02:00.300
Amen.

1082
01:02:00.300 --> 01:02:03.300
Then later you can get fancy and sophisticated and play games.

1083
01:02:03.300 --> 01:02:05.300
Right now no debt.

1084
01:02:05.300 --> 01:02:06.300
Amen.

1085
01:02:09.300 --> 01:02:12.300
So we're in step three now.

1086
01:02:12.300 --> 01:02:16.300
Step one was renewing of the mind through the word of God.

1087
01:02:16.300 --> 01:02:20.300
Step two is you got to be convinced of the love of God for yourself.

1088
01:02:20.300 --> 01:02:23.300
Step three is you got to get practical.

1089
01:02:23.300 --> 01:02:29.300
And getting practical means now it's going to suck for a while.

1090
01:02:29.300 --> 01:02:31.300
Because you may not be able to have the venti.

1091
01:02:31.300 --> 01:02:34.300
You may not be able to have the tall.

1092
01:02:34.300 --> 01:02:37.300
Your friends might ask you out, you're going to have to say no.

1093
01:02:37.300 --> 01:02:39.300
You're going into monk mode now.

1094
01:02:39.300 --> 01:02:44.300
You're saying no and you're making sure your outflow does not exceed your inflow.

1095
01:02:44.300 --> 01:02:46.300
And that's no fun.

1096
01:02:46.300 --> 01:02:49.300
But you got to prepare for that.

1097
01:02:49.300 --> 01:02:52.300
And I will say the Lord will come to you.

1098
01:02:52.300 --> 01:02:55.300
And it's interesting.

1099
01:02:55.300 --> 01:02:58.300
When I had nothing, I lusted after all these things.

1100
01:02:58.300 --> 01:03:03.300
And then when the Lord brought me up, the greatest pleasures I take with my fan are absolutely free.

1101
01:03:03.300 --> 01:03:06.300
Walks, car rides.

1102
01:03:06.300 --> 01:03:08.300
Doing the stuff that cost me nothing.

1103
01:03:08.300 --> 01:03:11.300
Just giggling in the house, rolling around on the carpet.

1104
01:03:11.300 --> 01:03:13.300
Cost me nothing.

1105
01:03:13.300 --> 01:03:15.300
That is priceless.

1106
01:03:15.300 --> 01:03:17.300
Am I just talking to myself?

1107
01:03:17.300 --> 01:03:19.300
I know some of you, you know what I'm talking about.

1108
01:03:19.300 --> 01:03:24.300
Amen.

1109
01:03:24.300 --> 01:03:30.300
And then when you've turned off your spending faucet, you want to do something.

1110
01:03:30.300 --> 01:03:31.300
Let me get the right term.

1111
01:03:31.300 --> 01:03:34.300
It's a Dave Ramsey classic.

1112
01:03:34.300 --> 01:03:37.300
By the way, Dave Ramsey, great expert on this subject.

1113
01:03:37.300 --> 01:03:41.300
You should become best friends with him via podcast and YouTube.

1114
01:03:41.300 --> 01:03:43.300
The Death Snowball Method.

1115
01:03:43.300 --> 01:03:45.300
I used this nearly 20 years ago.

1116
01:03:45.300 --> 01:03:48.300
Here's what the Death Snowball Method is.

1117
01:03:48.300 --> 01:03:51.300
You have to write out on paper, first of all.

1118
01:03:51.300 --> 01:03:52.300
This is important.

1119
01:03:52.300 --> 01:03:54.300
Who you owe money to.

1120
01:03:54.300 --> 01:03:56.300
You know why this is important?

1121
01:03:56.300 --> 01:03:58.300
I've been doing this a long time now.

1122
01:03:58.300 --> 01:04:00.300
And every time I ask, how much do you owe?

1123
01:04:00.300 --> 01:04:05.300
The nine out of ten times the answer is, well, I don't know.

1124
01:04:05.300 --> 01:04:07.300
And I know why you don't know.

1125
01:04:07.300 --> 01:04:10.300
The same reason I didn't know, because I was ashamed.

1126
01:04:10.300 --> 01:04:11.300
And I was embarrassed.

1127
01:04:11.300 --> 01:04:16.300
And I was terrified to actually look at the numbers.

1128
01:04:16.300 --> 01:04:17.300
Well, what's your APR?

1129
01:04:17.300 --> 01:04:19.300
I don't know.

1130
01:04:19.300 --> 01:04:21.300
I didn't know, because I was afraid.

1131
01:04:21.300 --> 01:04:26.300
And then I saw it was 29.5%.

1132
01:04:26.300 --> 01:04:33.300
That friend's in Brooklyn who told me that the loan shark doesn't even charge that much.

1133
01:04:33.300 --> 01:04:35.300
29.5%.

1134
01:04:35.300 --> 01:04:38.300
A year.

1135
01:04:39.300 --> 01:04:42.300
You know that e-moo bird sticks its head in the hole in the ground.

1136
01:04:42.300 --> 01:04:44.300
You know why it does that?

1137
01:04:44.300 --> 01:04:45.300
It's hilarious.

1138
01:04:45.300 --> 01:04:48.300
Because when it's sticking its hole in the ground and can't see its predators,

1139
01:04:48.300 --> 01:04:54.300
it believes that its predators can't see it.

1140
01:04:54.300 --> 01:04:56.300
That's how many of us are with Death.

1141
01:04:56.300 --> 01:04:58.300
Sticks the hole, head in the hole.

1142
01:04:58.300 --> 01:05:01.300
I can't see my Death, but your Death can still see you.

1143
01:05:01.300 --> 01:05:07.300
And it's actually growing while you're aniting.

1144
01:05:07.300 --> 01:05:10.300
So the snowball method means, hey, I just wanted to read that one scripture

1145
01:05:10.300 --> 01:05:18.300
if you can find it on knowing the state of your flocks.

1146
01:05:18.300 --> 01:05:19.300
Aha.

1147
01:05:19.300 --> 01:05:24.300
Be diligent to know the state of your flocks and attend to your herds.

1148
01:05:24.300 --> 01:05:28.300
So you get out all the papers and you know the state of your flocks

1149
01:05:28.300 --> 01:05:31.300
and you find out everybody you owe money to.

1150
01:05:31.300 --> 01:05:35.300
And the Death snowball method I used it, it really works.

1151
01:05:35.300 --> 01:05:40.300
The tendency you'd want to do is to pay off the person that's charging the highest APR.

1152
01:05:40.300 --> 01:05:41.300
But you don't do that.

1153
01:05:41.300 --> 01:05:47.300
You actually pay the minimum payment to everybody and then the one that you owe the least to

1154
01:05:47.300 --> 01:05:49.300
you pay off as much as you can.

1155
01:05:49.300 --> 01:05:55.300
So if you owe Visa 3 grand and no Mastercard 5 grand and no MX 20 grand,

1156
01:05:55.300 --> 01:05:57.300
you tackle Visa first.

1157
01:05:57.300 --> 01:05:58.300
You say why?

1158
01:05:58.300 --> 01:05:59.300
It actually works.

1159
01:05:59.300 --> 01:06:02.300
Believe it or not, because it's so motivating.

1160
01:06:02.300 --> 01:06:05.300
Because you haven't paid down a card or an entity and forever.

1161
01:06:05.300 --> 01:06:10.300
And when you finally rip and snip off your Visa card, you will celebrate.

1162
01:06:10.300 --> 01:06:12.300
You will have the best time.

1163
01:06:12.300 --> 01:06:14.300
And then you're going to look at who's next.

1164
01:06:14.300 --> 01:06:15.300
Mastercard, you old dog.

1165
01:06:15.300 --> 01:06:18.300
I'm coming for you with Jesus right at my side.

1166
01:06:18.300 --> 01:06:23.300
And then when you take care of Mastercard, you know, Visa is like the lion.

1167
01:06:23.300 --> 01:06:25.300
Mastercard is the bear.

1168
01:06:25.300 --> 01:06:31.300
And then you could look at MX and be like, and this uncircumcised Philistine will fall like one of them.

1169
01:06:31.300 --> 01:06:33.300
And then go after that.

1170
01:06:33.300 --> 01:06:34.300
Amen.

1171
01:06:34.300 --> 01:06:37.300
Could you get ready with communion, please?

1172
01:06:37.300 --> 01:06:41.300
For my final point is we just get ready with communion.

1173
01:06:41.300 --> 01:06:45.300
My final sub point of the third point, which is the practical stuff.

1174
01:06:45.300 --> 01:06:49.300
When you know the state of your herds, this is so important.

1175
01:06:49.300 --> 01:06:50.300
You got to get this.

1176
01:06:50.300 --> 01:06:54.300
And you actually do the math.

1177
01:06:54.300 --> 01:06:58.300
You're going to get very depressed as I got depressed.

1178
01:06:59.300 --> 01:07:06.300
Because when you look at all the numbers, and you do the math on how long will it take me to get out of that given everything else stays the same.

1179
01:07:06.300 --> 01:07:10.300
You're going to realize it's about 182 years.

1180
01:07:10.300 --> 01:07:12.300
Right? For me, it was like 28 years.

1181
01:07:12.300 --> 01:07:16.300
And I'm, oh, I ruined my life by the age of 27.

1182
01:07:16.300 --> 01:07:21.300
Because I'll be my 50s if I don't ever get into that again just paying this down.

1183
01:07:21.300 --> 01:07:23.300
Good. Embrace that feeling.

1184
01:07:23.300 --> 01:07:25.300
Terrifying, but that's the reality.

1185
01:07:26.300 --> 01:07:31.300
Then you're going to put your faith for God to open different doors.

1186
01:07:31.300 --> 01:07:34.300
You cannot remain static.

1187
01:07:34.300 --> 01:07:38.300
You got to trust God for holy ghost surprises.

1188
01:07:38.300 --> 01:07:40.300
Different avenues of revenue.

1189
01:07:40.300 --> 01:07:44.300
Some of you, you're bound, you're not moving because you just keep looking at your paycheck.

1190
01:07:44.300 --> 01:07:46.300
And you think that's all there is.

1191
01:07:46.300 --> 01:07:47.300
No!

1192
01:07:47.300 --> 01:07:49.300
You have the Lord.

1193
01:07:49.300 --> 01:07:52.300
Jehovah Jaira, your provider.

1194
01:07:53.300 --> 01:07:55.300
He can do anything.

1195
01:07:55.300 --> 01:08:00.300
Of course, a stranger come bang on your doors that God spoke to me to bless you.

1196
01:08:00.300 --> 01:08:02.300
All these different ways.

1197
01:08:02.300 --> 01:08:05.300
Put your faith out there.

1198
01:08:05.300 --> 01:08:09.300
And then not just put your faith out there, but you go and beat some bushes.

1199
01:08:09.300 --> 01:08:10.300
And you can't get comfortable.

1200
01:08:10.300 --> 01:08:14.300
If you're in a job where you see no upward growth, you got to that.

1201
01:08:14.300 --> 01:08:16.300
And just know you're not alone.

1202
01:08:16.300 --> 01:08:20.300
Whatever effort you put in, God will come and meet you.

1203
01:08:20.300 --> 01:08:22.300
You're not doing it for nothing.

1204
01:08:22.300 --> 01:08:24.300
You're not doing it for nothing.

1205
01:08:24.300 --> 01:08:27.300
God will come and meet you and reward you.

1206
01:08:27.300 --> 01:08:28.300
Hallelujah.

1207
01:08:28.300 --> 01:08:31.300
Go ahead and pass out communion.

1208
01:08:31.300 --> 01:08:40.300
We're going to drink and eat communion because communion is a celebration of the total life redemption that Jesus offered us.

1209
01:08:40.300 --> 01:08:43.300
That also is the first of the month.

1210
01:08:43.300 --> 01:08:45.300
First Sunday of the month.

1211
01:08:45.300 --> 01:08:48.300
Hallelujah.

1212
01:08:48.300 --> 01:08:51.300
But what a great time.

1213
01:08:51.300 --> 01:08:53.300
What a great time to take communion.

1214
01:08:53.300 --> 01:08:58.300
How many of you say your faith is increased and you're encouraged about your debt situation?

1215
01:08:58.300 --> 01:08:59.300
Amen.

1216
01:08:59.300 --> 01:09:00.300
Amen.

1217
01:09:00.300 --> 01:09:07.300
And even if you're not in debt, you may be encouraged.

1218
01:09:07.300 --> 01:09:10.300
Because the Lord is coming.

1219
01:09:10.300 --> 01:09:13.300
He's been here this whole time.

1220
01:09:13.300 --> 01:09:15.300
And there's an anointing to confirm the Word.

1221
01:09:15.300 --> 01:09:22.300
And if you will say now, Lord, I believe, He'll put His supernatural oil on you to help you.

1222
01:09:22.300 --> 01:09:28.300
And the Word will silence that voice of doubt.

1223
01:09:28.300 --> 01:09:31.300
The Word will silence it.

1224
01:09:31.300 --> 01:09:37.300
Thank You, Jesus.

1225
01:09:37.300 --> 01:09:41.300
Thank You, Jesus, for dying on the cross to take away our sins.

1226
01:09:41.300 --> 01:09:45.300
Thank You, Jesus, for being scorched and whipped to heal our bodies.

1227
01:09:45.300 --> 01:09:54.300
Thank You, Jesus, for going through such mental turmoil in the garden of Gethsemane so we could have peace of mind.

1228
01:09:54.300 --> 01:09:55.300
Thank You, Jesus.

1229
01:09:55.300 --> 01:10:00.300
You went through everyone for shaking you so we could be blessed with true friendships.

1230
01:10:00.300 --> 01:10:04.300
And thank You, Jesus, that the Bible says that you were made poor.

1231
01:10:04.300 --> 01:10:09.300
You were stripped of everything on the cross so that we might be made rich.

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Did you know that's what the scripture says?

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One final scripture for anyone having a problem with this.

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In Corinthians, it says that Jesus was made poor so that we could be made rich.

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Now, guess what religious folks say right away?

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Well, that means spiritually rich.

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Really?

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Was Jesus made spiritually poor?

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The spiritually poor don't raise the dead.

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Also, you know where in Corinthians that verse is?

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It's Magdab in the middle of the longest offering message you ever heard.

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Two chapters, Paul takes up for an offering message.

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Second Corinthians, eight and second Corinthians, nine.

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If any of you ever thought someone here gave a long offering message, two chapters, that's no joke.

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And Magdab in the middle of that, the Holy Apostle Paul says,

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Jesus was made poor as your substitute so that you could be made rich.

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Well, rich in what area?

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Rich in every area.

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But specifically, he was stripped of everything.

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He was naked on the cross.

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So that you might be.

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In fact, it doesn't say rich. I'm sorry, I misquoted it.

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It says very rich.

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This is the City Light Church podcast.

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If you've missed any part of today's message,

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if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church,

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visit us at citylightnyc.com.

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That's citylightnyc.com.

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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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