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So quit eyeballing what others have. You won't go without. With plenty left over.

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In Chronicles it says since the people began giving offerings to the Lord,

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they had enough for their needs with plenty left over, plenty left over. God's style is plenty

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left over. Hallelujah, that's his way, that's his will. Welcome to the Citylight Church podcast.

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Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us.

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If you want to connect with Citylight Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com,

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that citylightnyc.com. 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. As you listen to today's teaching,

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remember that you are deeply loved by God, 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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Hallelujah. Well, open up your heart to receive this morning,

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because that's what the Lord wants to do. He's in the giving business. Hopefully if you've been

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around Christianity for five minutes, you've gotten that, that the Lord's in the given business,

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and given is what he likes to do. But that seems to be difficult for us as people to really get,

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because out in life we're getting our butts kicked, life can be harsh,

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and then religion makes it seem like God's in the taking business.

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And God's never looking to see what he can take from you. He's looking to see what he can get to you,

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even when he wants to take something from you, it's so that he can get even more of the thing

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that you really need to you. But we need to position ourselves to realize,

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God is a fountain, an ever-flowing fountain, and he doesn't run out.

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People are funny, and something, by the way, can I confess something to you?

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I have a lot of tolerance. That's the Lord gave in. A pastor should have a lot of, for all manner of sin.

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I can sit down and talk to a crackhead. I can sit down, all manner of sin. Somebody who's in promise,

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I won't list all the sins, but all manner of sin. But something that I have a hard time around

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is cheapness, stinginess, a poverty mindset, a lack. It's such a disgusting spirit. I can feel it a

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mile away. I disdain it. And I'm like, Lord, help me to love a person, but I'm having a hard time,

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because, and this has nothing to do with, oh, they're cheap with me. No, you're breaking.

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I'm talking about, I'm talking about everything they say, their whole world view, their whole outlook,

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is through a lens of lack. Everything is not enough. Their world is a sad world. Their world is

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not enough world. Oftentimes, we're affected with this demonic virus when we're children.

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Oftentimes, it's handed to us by parents and circumstances. And so we see everything

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through this lens of poverty and lack. People who believe that the world is getting too populist,

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the world can sustain. Before all of this population talk was popular. And before we even heard

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of this ever-growing pop, when the world was still around 5 billion people in the 90s,

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I remember just, it was either late in high school or early in college. I was just perusing the

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Barnes and Noble on Austin Street in Forest Hills, Queens. And I came across this book. I tried to

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get it. I know, don't know the exact title, but I'm paraphrasing. It was something like, and it was

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in the secular section, but it was called God's abundant, beautiful, green earth. And it laid

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out the case for how our globe, our earth could easily effortlessly sustain a population of 50 billion.

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How God put inside our planet everything that's needed for easily a population of 50 billion plus.

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God is not cheap. God is super, but people are cheap.

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Can somebody get me a Bible, please?

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Thank you.

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The Bible says that his cup runs over. What version is this, sweetheart?

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Yolde King Jameson. Is this your Bible?

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Yeah, your Bible. And how old are you? 16.

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I wanted the to know that I'm father is well pleased with the daughter of God.

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Hasterwood version. She said, Yolde King Jameson.

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All right, we're speaking of the 90s. We're going back to the 90s where preachers had to

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thumb through Bibles and find the verse. And I used to have almost all the stories memorized,

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but then Google came along. And then it's kind of like driving. He used to not get everywhere,

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but not anymore. What is it? First, can you get past James? Could you just remind me of when

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the Queen of Sheba comes to visit Solomon? Hallelujah.

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Thank you, Lord. So this service is already starting off completely differently than the first service.

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What is it? Is it?

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And I'm in second Kings 9. I knew there was a 9 there and a second book of something.

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Okay. So the Queen of Sheba, really rich, rich wealthy Queen,

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visit Solomon. Interesting, fun tidbit. My mom perks up because she knows what I'm going to say.

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She became lifelong friends as an interpreter during the 1984 Olympic Games. She became lifelong

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friends with the sister of Wendell Phillips, a famous archaeologist who was the first person to

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provide physical evidence found out in Yemen, physical evidence of the Queen of Sheba's existence.

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And we became lifelong friends to just recently until she passed. Just fun fact throwing it out there.

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Let's go to second Chronicles 9.

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Could you Google there was no more spirit within her? Oh yeah. Yeah, let's start at the beginning.

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Second Chronicles 9.1. I have a message by the way if you're a guest and you're like wow it's

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kind of really chill at this church and he's just taken his time. I mean typically I'd already be in

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three out of my six points. Point number three, point number four. But it's what the Lord wants.

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Also, also, it's August 2. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. But this is really what the Lord wants.

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I've been waiting on him and he's a gift giver and I found when I'm rattling off points there's

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some people that are getting something but a lot of you you get caught up in the information

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and then you don't catch with the Holy Spirit himself wants to give to you.

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I'm just trying to assist what he's trying to give to you and that's that's where

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the sophistication of good pasturing and preaching comes in something that's a lifelong journey is

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you got you got to align with what God wants because he's just trying to get his gifts to people

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and the first person who can mess that up is the pastor the preacher because he's got to get his

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points through. He's got to show how smart he is and how he studied all through the week

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and impress you with the Greek and the Hebrew. But just like this in this environment the Lord

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is massaging your heart and getting things to you and I went off in a completely different way

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in the first service but the second service as soon as worship ended it was just clear to me that

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we need to touch on God's massive abundance and that there's there's folk you're going to be

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hindered you're going to be hindered in your life if you've been afflicted by that lack spirit it's

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a spirit you know how that spirit Judas Judas had that spirit should not have this costly oil

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from the salabaster box should not have been sold and given to the poor

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what did you deserve to do for the poor you'll notice anyone who whoever talks about the poor

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they never do anything for the poor I've never met somebody who

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who talks like that but actually helps the poor people say I don't give to the church they don't

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help the poor enough oh okay so what are you doing on the side for the poor well nothing

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oh you really have a burning passion there inside of you huh and people like that are never

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satisfied I can say we've built over 40 churches community centers in Guatemala orphanage in

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Ethiopia there's not much you can do for the poor here in America by the way except what we're

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doing because it's not a some of you you're gonna when I say this it's not an issue of money it's

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an issue of mental health and inner healing you keep throwing money at the it's not helped so far

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what makes you think more will help a lot of times when the Bible says help the poor it means the

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poor what you think is poor there's homeless people with cell phones listen I did I did

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street ministry that's what I cut my teeth on for years I know the ends and I've had every conversation

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even jokingly I said I've never been in a crack house been very close and the first service when

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I mentioned that New York is the only place where you'll find overweight homeless people

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so when we help poor people we help poor people like eight people in a mud hut poor like don't

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know where the next meal is coming no little card no government it's no nothing poor

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but you notice Jesus's response to Judas was the poor you have with you always there will always be

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until the culmination in that day and the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our God

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there will be poverty but Jesus didn't think anything of that oil worth a year's wages was poured

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out on him some of you with the poverty spirit will go stop the waste and that's what Judas said is

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what manner of waste is this what a waste and that sweet woman was just getting wasted on Jesus

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God wants to snap that lack spirit

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I'm working with just you gotta start young I'm training my kids to have an abundance mindset

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what one of the things now my son is gonna watch these old videos and say dad he knows I love him

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as you know he's at that age where I say we get ice cream he immediately sees who has the bigger

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cone you know and he's like dad can I have your cone I'm like we have the same ice cream why do you want

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my cone God looks like you got a half inch extra she was heavy-handed when she served your softy

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I'm trying to nip that on the button now let's you finish that one which you won't I'll get you

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another one have have you ever gone without no so quit eyeballing what others have you won't go

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without with plenty leftover in chronicles it says since the people began giving offerings to the

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Lord they had enough for their needs with plenty leftover plenty leftover God style is plenty

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left over hallelujah that's his way that's his will hallelujah so the blessing of God had been

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activated in Solomon's life and he became very very wealthy you can actually calculate how much

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and no one to this day has touched it nowhere near how can you calculate the wealth it tells you

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it names how many talents of gold you can't calculate all of it because there's some things that are

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named but already if you calculate the talent a talent is 75 pounds so tell you how many talents of

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gold on the talents of silver all the other precious metals and he's already looking in the review

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at one trillion so whether it's the Rockefellers or Elon Musk or the blessing of God on Solomon

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and when the queen of Shiba heard of the fame of Solomon she came to prove Solomon with hard

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questions at Jerusalem with a very great company and camels that bear spices and gold and abundance

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and precious stones and when she was come to Solomon she communed with him she communed with him

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of all that was in her heart and Solomon told her all her questions there was nothing hidden from

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Solomon which he told her not you don't have you old aching James A so we can all no no what kind

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of a heave and churches this you don't have God's version of the Bible and you're

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but you have the passion right the passion you got the paraphrase you got but

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I don't even know who's back there I just see a silhouette is it still you Hester

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oh Cassandra okay to me it's like a 1980s Tony the Tiger commercial where they're all you know

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with the black silhouette around I don't see anything all right next verse

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and when the queen of Shiba had seen the wisdom of Solomon the house that he built

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and the meat of his table and the sitting of his servants and the attendance of his ministers

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and their apparel his cup bearers also and their apparel and his ascent by which he went into

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the house of the Lord there was no more spirit in her this wealthy wealthy ultra wealthy queen

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comes to the servant of the Lord's house why would she do that well of course for negotiations

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proper treaties and to check him out let's see if it's true what I've heard and it says there's

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no more spirit within her that's the old aching James A is it was that an important okay we'll save

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it I don't know if it's something you got on the floor when the Lord was working on you two years

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ago and you took a little piece of lint as memory with Pastor James has got you covered

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she's looking at him checking him out and she goes oh your house oh your cup bearers

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oh your servants your apparel their apparel your whole kingdom and she faints that's what no more spirit

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within her means in the old aching James A it's no more spirit you look at a lot of other versions

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it says that she faints she can't take she's overwhelmed by how much God has blessed him

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that is God's way that is God's style even Psalm 23 which religion made a funeral sound

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that's what religion is religion is a giant funeral everything is sad and depressing the most

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beautiful sound Psalm 23 is the prosperity and abundance sound and religion comes in and they put

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some dead head in a dog collar always on TV standing dear believe it we're gathered here today let's turn

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to Psalm 23 yeah though I walked into the back what talking about your head being anointed with oil

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coming by still waters he's the Lord my shepherd he leads me not to a bunch of tumble dried out weeds

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fresh tender juicy green pastures and then he causes my cup to overflow we don't realize what a

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precious commodity water is with this new house so all the faucets that hit me just the other day

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I thought this is so lovely you can't forget like I want water I hit a switch and because the

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pressure in the house is so good I love good water pressure in the shower I don't want to do a lot

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of work I want the water to blast the dirt right off of me it must have been from all those years

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and county you know I appreciate you getting that Brian very few else did so water is so precious and

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this is my water cup it overflows do you know what a poverty Judas mindset calls that waste

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and God says this is my way I don't run out I have abundance

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was it this service or the first service because both services have been different even last week

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I mentioned that when Nathan busted David Nathan the prophet when he busted David after David had

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committed adultery with Bathsheba Nathan lists everything that God gave to David you got lands you got

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the crown you got a palace and then he says if that had not been enough God would have given you

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much much more too much is because he's a too much God much much more you know that

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battering ram and medieval Dave that's what I'm using right now on some of you I'm coming against

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that cemented part of your psyche it's been cemented over by religion by your own

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gnarly experiences that have warped you and shaped you where you're in a defensive position

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and you just got your grabby you just see the world as cold

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filled with lack and you just got to get yours and eke out in existence

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I rebuked that mindset in Jesus name God is a God of abundance goodness

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Jesus said fear not little flock in some versions fear not little children it's your father's good

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pleasure to give to you the kingdom it's your father's good pleasure to give to you good gifts

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let me since my eyes that land on you earlier Brian your dad just like me what's one of the the

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funniest things you get to do in life isn't that the best he said give stuff to your kids

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that's like the funnest had a few folk over my house yesterday and they saw this this teddy bears

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a seven foot teddy bear because once once my daughter she said daddy how much a teddy bear

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as big as you and I just thought I just thought let's see how we can make this happen

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and I looked online and you'd be surprised you'd get some giant teddy bear says

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but I had the best time I'm now 47 years old it's 11 pm and I'm like and I'm I'm looking at

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different teddy bear features remember when I opened it was I was giddy

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because she was asleep when we opened it it came in a it came in a box like this I didn't know

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what we're getting so many shipments because we just moved I thought but it was heavy and I thought

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maybe it's my new toolbox and then I'm going to have the handyman I hire used

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you left too loud wife but I opened it up and it's this brown thing all

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and I'm like and then there's instructions like open it and stand back

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so it was shrink-wrapped and then I thought how's the quality they got and well I slice it open

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and out pops seven foot teddy bear great quality

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what's my point here about selling all teddy bears I had a delight in giving my child a gift

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you know where that delight comes from it's because I'm such a nice guy all by myself

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no we're made in the similitude of God there's nothing to do with me in and of myself I'm a murderer

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that is what the Lord put in me it comes from him he is the father who loves to give good gifts to his

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kids what are you facing right now you have some goals some things you'd like to see happen

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number one number one before we get into God's abundance make sure you have bowed the need of Jesus

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in every area of your life make sure that you're not marrying him for his money

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make sure you're marrying him out of relationship and because of intimacy and get to a place where

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you love the person of Christ one of the fastest ways to get there real quick is dwell on all of your

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sin for a little bit and realize you're worthy of hell and then realize that every single one of

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them has been thoroughly and completely punished the wrath of God has already come down on your sin

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in the person of Jesus in the body of another and then take that thought and then begin to worship

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God and that's how you quickly will fall in love with him and get into that relationship with him

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and then you start to bend the knee we like to phrase it like bend the knee once and for all

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sometimes but for many people it's many knee bendings before you actually allow him to have full

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lordship over you because you don't trust him the only reason why somebody wouldn't be surrendered

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totally to Jesus is because they don't trust him and I get that why should I trust him

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I don't have much of a history with him I mean the Bible tells me to trust him but other than that

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and besides that everybody I've ever trusted before has done me dirty so why should I now trust him

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do you believe in him I do you believe he's maker heaven and earth I do why won't you surrender your

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whole life I don't I don't really trust him I also love my sin a lot too but it's also because I don't

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trust him and what really when somebody says starts talking about the sins and what what their

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addictions are what they're really saying is I don't trust that the Lord can fulfill me and make

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me happier than these counterfeit pleasures I'm so into so what the Lord does then is he takes

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you in a journey and asks you to surrender something small and you do that and you go oh

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it's actually better his way than my way and the Lord asked you to surrender something else and

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you go all right and then a little while later you realize that didn't hurt so bad either

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and I'm actually better now than before and over time for some people this can be weeks that's

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the accelerated program for some it could be months for some there's low learners there are

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people the Bible talks about people who oppose themselves that's one of my biggest frustrations

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as a pastor God loves you more than you love you I see that God loves you I want to see you get help

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and you're trying to receive but you're like this let me help you out you're a person who

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opposes themselves you say you want help you say you want to get better you say once your life

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to be lifted up but you're constantly tripping yourself up

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as God to put you on the accelerated plan

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don't make it a years long journey that whole story of the children of Israel leaving Egypt

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that's for the people who oppose themselves that was a trip like from here to Rhode Island

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they should have what they were walking it should have taken put it in Google maps

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it should have taken about 11 days 11 day journey took them 40 years

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this and all of you know exactly what I'm talking about whether you've been in the church

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five minutes or 50 years you know why because it's a famous story why because it speaks to everyone

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that you can be going around in circles for 40 years I read that as a teenager and I said

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this cannot be my story because I knew then 50 60 year olds and when they tell me the tale of

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their life I just realized always asking never receiving every day like the previous one

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no God has a better way for you God loves you and if you will surrender God wants to take

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your hand and show you the short route in the 11 day journey as opposed to taking forward years

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and eventually dying and then your children doing it oh we're still back to back to so she faints

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she's overwhelmed by Jehovah gyra the more than enough God

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Jehovah gyra is actually the the providing God the provisional God

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else should die is the more than enough the too much God

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I think sometimes God in his nature and his character he definitely has a sense of humor and he'll

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mess with you he messed with Peter and said throw your net on the other side Peter was like we've

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been fishing all night but he messed with him because he caught so many fish his net began to break and

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his boat began to sink I pictured Jesus just belly laughing on the beach there

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you said that one oh fish and now he's in my way how's laughing now

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the beat is like this boat is sinking the net is breaking he what happened someone from the

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beach does what happened that Jesus he gave too much too much when they fed the 5,000 which is

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really the 15,000 they carried up 12 baskets of leftovers the Bible says they were all eaten and

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were full so think about it the baskets of leftovers there was more left over than the initial

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amount of food that was presented to the people a few fishes and a few loaves that's his way

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that's his style today's service apparently is being shaped and molded for you to take that

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with you that when you approach God you're not approaching some miserly grump in a dark corner

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of the cosmos who's got like his recycling money in a linty pocket and you're at and

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you're approaching Almighty God Jehovah Jaira L L Ion the high and lifted one

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El Shaddai the all sufficient one he actually doesn't have to get stuff like

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that you need it comes out of him and when you now think of him in this way

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I'm not giving you to do list this is a mind renewing here you think of him this way you see him

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in this way and you'll begin to receive these things because you're relating to him based

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on the authenticity of his character you're seeing him as he really is is this registering

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you can have a dead head religious person who prays eight hours a day but nothing ever happens

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because they're praying to God through a lens a warped lens they're not seeing him through the

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scriptures as he really is so they're praying with a scarcity mentality they're praying with guilt

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they're praying with condemnation they're not praying like a little kid jumping on their dad's lap

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and saying Lord I want to give you delight do you know how you give the Lord delight the Bible says

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the Lord takes pleasure he takes delight in the prosperity of his servant so jump on his lap

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and let him delight in you and take pleasure in you because what does him good is the prosperity of

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his servants hallelujah God is what what we're gonna do I hate to say bye to anyone I love you but

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I know how this goes some of you you love poverty so much you're gonna run off

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there are some good churches here though they're gonna tell you that God is angry with you and

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they're gonna give you a big religious to-do list and you'll be right at home with that

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but what's happening here with others is that you are being realigned you're being shifted again

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I've been doing this now 21 plus years this what I'm sensing there was only one other time before in

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2009 2010 when the Lord caused us to be thrust upwardly but that was like 10% of what I'm sensing now

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the Lord wants to come upon our church corporately what he's gonna do to city like church the church

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but then individually and this is something that's got to be it cannot be in your psyche

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cannot be part of your mentality forgot to take you where he wants to take you you cannot be a

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cheap skate you cannot be bound by lack hallelujah

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let's keep reading then she said to the king verse five

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and she said to the king it was a true report which I heard in my own land of thine axe and of

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thy wisdom how be it I believe not their words until I came and mine eyes had seen it and behold the

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one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me for thou exceedest the fame that I heard

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happy are thy men this is the queen of sheba after the ushers picked her up happy are thy men and

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happy are thy servants which stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom blessed be the Lord

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thy God which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne to be king for the Lord thy God because

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thy king loved Israel to establish them forever therefore made he the king over them to do judgment

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and justice I'm reading out of the old King James you're seeing the new King James on the screen

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and I feel like this is one big commercial for the new King James so she's absolutely blown

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king let's keep reading and she gave the king 100 why why this is like you're going to elan musk

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house and you write elan a check elan I'm so impressed by all that you have here's something for you

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why in the world is the queen of sheba giving Solomon money

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what would she do that in fact it says during Solomon's reign gold was still precious but silver

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was like out in the streets it was counted as nothing but be a silver coin and someone would be like

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a penny today is it worth the bending over and picking it up that's how wealthy Solomon was it's

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not because Solomon needed to receive it's because she but needed to give it's not because Solomon

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needed to receive it's because she but needed to give and so when we give it's not because someone

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has to receive it's because we have to give we shouldn't just look at someone and say oh they're

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in need I'll give to them when you give to God do you really think he needs it he doesn't need to

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receive we need to give and that's how we show honor so watch this I didn't even think I'd get

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to this part I just wanted to show you God's abundance in the first few verses so she gave the

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king 120 talents of gold somebody quick whip out their calculator a talent is 75 pounds do 75

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times 16 1200 and gold right now that's just around that 1900 do 1200 times 1900

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how much well I'm missing something hold on no sorry 75 times 16 did I say divide

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75 times 16 to see how many ounces we're dealing with here and I multiply that by 1800

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2 million 160 thousand no we're missing something because sorry I'm sorry this is like

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Bueller Bueller the bad math class one talent is 75 pounds and she gave 20 talents so you multiply

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that amount by 20 120 all right she gave exactly a lot it's over a hundred million dollars in today's

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terms spices in great abundance and precious stones there never were any spices such as those

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the queen of Shiba gave to King Solomon verse 10 also the servants of Hiram and the servants of

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Solomon you chuckled when I started reading this did Debbie read this when you good God

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is that right she heard me preaching it one day and she I haven't preached on this I remember this

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from Bible school when she taught there and then when I saw you perk up I thought I bed I bed Debbie

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went here this is her gem message also the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon who brought

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gold and Ophere brought Algemwood and precious stones and the king made walkways of the Algemwood

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for the house of the Lord and for the king's house also harps and stringed instruments for singers

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and there were none such as these seen before in the land of Judah now King Solomon gave to the

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queen of Shiba all she desired what is happening here she gives to him but you can now out give the

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king it is impossible she gives to him and now there has to be a reciprocity this is why Jesus

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never ever talked about giving without also talking about receiving never ever once never once

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whenever he talked about giving he immediately talked about receiving they go hand in hand I feel

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bad for people who just feel like God is asking them to give their money away

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because eventually you're going to run out and be upset you're going to be angry you're

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going to end up somewhere deconstructing with some millennials somewhere saying how the church

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lied to you and you got to believe believe then when you sow you're going to reap back over and

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over again the apostle Paul used not just Paul but even the Old Testament writers aggregarian terms

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farming terms sewing and reaping any farmer no it's impossible to sow a seed water our water is

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faith that you don't get a harvest back so now immediately this is King Solomon obviously here's

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a type in shadow of Christ there's immediately a response from heaven King Solomon gave to the queen

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if she but all she desired whatever she asked much more than she had brought to the king much more

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so we give by the way this was not supposed to turn into an offering message I was I was talking

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about abundance so those of you who are guests I always think of the guests they're going to go wow

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he had me set up and then turns out the whole message was an offering message it's not

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and if it bothers you I encourage you with all of my heart don't give don't give just the ushers aren't

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trained they're not going to be going in your pockets or just this is I want to get a principle across

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you you just chill and but if you do have a problem with giving that is a manifestation of a poverty

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spirit of a lack mentality always is it's a good gauge

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so God's reciprocity is more than what she sowed whatever she asked much more than she had brought

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to the king so she turned and went to her own country she and her servants is that the end of

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the chapter it goes on it just goes on to talk about his wealth thank you Lord you know what

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the service isn't over but we need a we need a praise break I want the Lord to come and speak to

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some of you I've been pressing into the Lord and those of you've been coming you know I don't

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normally minister this way in fact the first service was a completely different message but you

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just have to believe that you're here at the right place at the right time and God wants to give you

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wants to give you what you need this is the city light church podcast if you've missed any part

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