WEBVTT 00:00.934 --> 00:04.371 (MUSIC) 00:06.740 --> 00:10.210 WELL, GOOD EVENING, LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. HOW MANY OF YOU 00:10.210 --> 00:14.217 CAME TO WORSHIP THE LORD TONIGHT? ALL RIGHT, WELL, WE'RE 00:14.220 --> 00:20.609 GONNA TEACH YOU SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT NEW SO THAT YOU CAN 00:20.609 --> 00:22.829 KIND OF FOLLOW ALONG, AT LEAST FOR THE CHORUS 00:22.829 --> 00:24.024 OF IT. AND IT GOES, 00:49.982 --> 00:52.185 ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT THAT? LET'S GO. 00:54.954 --> 09:20.500 (MUSIC) 09:20.500 --> 12:19.722 (MUSIC) 12:19.722 --> 18:01.413 (MUSIC) 18:10.757 --> 18:18.170 FOR MEN HAVE NOT KNOWN NOR HAVE THEY SEEN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 18:18.175 --> 18:23.036 HEAVEN COLLIDES AND TOUCHES THE EARTH. FOR EVEN NOW, SAYS THE 18:23.036 --> 18:27.836 LORD, DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME YOU'RE LIVING IN? FOR YOU'RE IN 18:27.836 --> 18:33.843 THE TIME AND THE SEASON WHEN MY GLORY IS BEING POURED OUT UPON 18:33.843 --> 18:39.236 THIS EARTH. AND MEN SHALL SEE AND KNOW WHO IS IN CONTROL AND 18:39.236 --> 18:43.976 WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. FOR MEN SHALL SEE 18:43.976 --> 18:49.105 ME MOVE. FOR WHO IS IT THAT HAS FLUNG THE STARS INTO THE SKY AND 18:49.105 --> 18:53.365 PLACED THE PLANETS IN THEIR ORBIT? AND WHO IS HE THAT HAS 18:53.365 --> 18:58.226 SET THE MOUNTAINS AND BROUGHT MEN UP AND BROUGHT THEM LOW? WHO 18:58.226 --> 19:03.358 IS HE, THE KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS? IT IS THE LORD OF 19:03.358 --> 19:09.266 GLORY AND MY GLORY SHALL BE SEEN AND IT SHALL BE SHOWN IN THIS 19:09.266 --> 19:14.875 TIME. AND YOU WILL KNOW IN YOUR OWN LIFE THAT MY GLORY IS UPON 19:14.875 --> 19:21.925 YOU AND I'M WORKING FOR YOU AND I'M WORKING WITHIN YOU. SAY NOT 19:21.925 --> 19:24.744 FROM YOUR LIPS, WHERE IS THE LORD? WHERE IS THE LORD? FOR IS 19:24.744 --> 19:29.935 HE MOVING IN MY SITUATION? NO, THE LORD SAYS, SEE, IT WILL 19:29.935 --> 19:34.826 BECOME OBVIOUS, EVEN AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF ISRAEL, WHEN 19:34.826 --> 19:39.175 PEOPLE SAID IN NAZARETH, AND THEY SAID IN GALILEE, NO, WE'VE 19:39.175 --> 19:43.465 NEVER SEEN IT ON THIS FASHION. WE'VE NEVER SEEN A MIRACLE LIKE 19:43.465 --> 19:49.165 THIS ONE. WE THOUGHT ALL THINGS THAT WERE MIRACULOUS HAD BEEN 19:49.165 --> 19:54.145 PASSED AWAY OR DONE AWAY. BUT THE LORD SAYS NOW THIS IS A TIME 19:54.145 --> 19:58.705 MEN WILL SEE UNFASHIONABLE. THEY WILL SEE THE UNUSUAL. THEY WILL 19:58.705 --> 20:03.726 SEE THE ANOINTING. THEY WILL SEE THE MOVE OF MY GLORY. AND IT 20:03.726 --> 20:07.655 WILL SHOCK THEIR MINDS. IT WILL SHOCK THEIR EYES. AND THEY WILL 20:07.655 --> 20:13.655 SAY, "SURELY THE LORD GOD OF HEAVEN IS ON HIS THRONE AND HE'S 20:13.655 --> 20:25.057 MOVING AMONG MEN." COME ON, GIVE THE LORD A COME ON, PRAISE! COME 20:25.057 --> 20:37.954 ON, PRAISE HIM! JESUS! JESUS! WOO-HOO! OH LORD! WE WORSHIP 20:37.954 --> 20:48.036 YOU. WE PRAISE YOU. AND WE THANK YOU. NOW, TOUCH THE HOLY ONE FOR 20:48.036 --> 20:54.065 A FRESH ANOINTING. SAY, LORD, ANOINT ME AFRESH FOR THE TIME 20:54.065 --> 21:00.246 AND THE SEASON THAT WE'RE IN. LET ME NOT MISS MY MOMENT. OPEN 21:00.246 --> 21:06.036 HEAVEN IS DOING. I REBUKE ALL SPIRITS OF DECEPTION FROM TRYING 21:06.036 --> 21:13.026 HEAVEN IS DOING. I REBUKE ALL SPIRITS OF DECEPTION FROM TRYING 21:13.026 --> 21:20.825 TO PERSUADE ME, SWAY ME, OR PULL ME OFF COURSE. AND LORD NOW I 21:20.825 --> 21:26.465 ASK FOR YOUR GREAT GRACE TO BE UPON ME IN A FRESH WAY THIS 21:26.465 --> 21:33.786 NIGHT IN JESUS HOLY NAME. AMEN. AND AMEN. PRAISE THE LORD. 21:33.786 --> 21:40.806 HALLELUJAH. WE'RE LIVING IN A GOOD TIME. I WAS WORKING ON SOME 21:40.806 --> 21:44.046 THINGS TODAY AND I THOUGHT, LORD, WHO WOULD WANT TO BE ALIVE 21:44.046 --> 21:48.546 ANY OTHER TIME? THIS IS THE BEST TIME. CAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT? 21:48.546 --> 21:52.175 WHENEVER, WHATEVER TIME YOU'RE BORN INTO, THAT'S THE BEST TIME 21:52.175 --> 21:55.895 TO BE ALIVE. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SAY, OH, I WISH IT WAS LIKE THE 21:55.895 --> 21:58.684 GOOD OLD DAYS. WELL, THERE WERE SOME GOOD OLD DAYS. WE WERE 21:58.684 --> 22:04.355 YOUNGER. THERE'S SOME GOOD OLD DAYS, BUT NOTHING IS LIKE THIS 22:04.355 --> 22:10.684 DAY. EVERY DAY IT'S NEW. THERE'S A FRESH ASSIGNMENT. THERE'S 22:10.684 --> 22:14.855 SOMETHING TO BE REALIZED AND TO WALK IN AND DO. SO LET'S JUST 22:14.855 --> 22:19.385 GIVE JESUS ONE MORE GREAT BIG HAND CLAP OF PRAISE. TELL HIM 22:19.385 --> 22:23.526 HOW MUCH IN YOUR OWN WORDS YOU LOVE HIM AND YOU'RE GLAD TO BE A 22:23.526 --> 22:27.349 SERVANT OF THE MOST HIGH GOD. AMEN. ALL RIGHT. WELL, WE GOT A 22:27.349 --> 22:30.125 LOT TO DO TONIGHT. PASTOR MARK'S TAKING THE OFFERING. HE MIGHT 22:30.125 --> 22:33.125 GET ANOINTED AND KEEP US HERE TILL 12. SO WE GOT TO SEE WHAT'S 22:33.125 --> 22:36.454 GOING TO HAPPEN. AMEN. TURN AROUND, LOVE ON SOMEBODY, TELL 22:36.454 --> 22:40.536 ‘EM, YOU'RE SO GLAD TO SEE THEM IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. WELCOME 22:40.536 --> 22:43.440 ONLINE, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE JOINING US. IT'S GOING TO BE A 22:43.440 --> 22:47.105 GOOD NIGHT HERE AT LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. LET SOMEBODY KNOW, SHARE 22:47.105 --> 22:51.425 THE STREAM AND TELL THEM YOU NEED TO BE IN THE HOUSE ONLINE 22:51.425 --> 23:21.965 BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO GET GOODER AND GOODER IN JESUS NAME. GLORY 23:21.965 --> 23:27.516 TO GOD. IT'S OFFERING TIME. AND I'M HAPPY. I JUST LEARNED I'M 23:27.516 --> 23:29.976 GOING TO GET OUT OF HERE AN HOUR EARLIER THAN I HAD PLANNED. I 23:29.976 --> 23:37.115 WAS GOING TO GO TO 1 A.M. BUT NO, I WON'T DO THAT. I'M GOING 23:37.115 --> 23:39.815 TO BE COMING IN QUICK TONIGHT. PASTOR BRENDA'S GOT TO HAVE 23:39.815 --> 23:43.746 PLENTY OF TIME TO PREACH ON THE POWER OF CONTINUALLY SOWING 23:43.746 --> 23:47.405 TODAY FOR THE REAPING OF TOMORROW'S HARVEST. I'M EXCITED 23:47.405 --> 23:51.694 FOR THAT MESSAGE. SO IF THEY'LL PUT TONIGHT'S SCRIPTURE UP ON 23:51.694 --> 23:53.226 THE SCREENS, WE'LL GET RIGHT INTO IT. I'M GOING TO LOOK AT 23:53.226 --> 24:01.865 PSALM 91, 11 THROUGH 16, BOOK OF PSALMS, CHAPTER 91, VERSES 11 24:01.865 --> 24:05.375 THROUGH 16. THIS IS GOING TO BE FAMILIAR TO MOST EVERYBODY. IN 24:05.375 --> 24:10.684 FACT, PROBABLY MOST EVERYBODY PRAYS THIS OVER THEMSELVES AND 24:10.684 --> 24:14.105 THEIR FAMILIES ON A ROUTINE BASIS. I KNOW WE DO AT HOME. 24:14.105 --> 24:17.346 POWERFUL SUMMARY OF OUR BENEFITS PACKAGE AND MAKES FOR GREAT 24:17.346 --> 24:21.036 PREVENTIVE MEDICINE WHEN TAKEN DAILY. AMEN. BUT TONIGHT I WANT 24:21.036 --> 24:24.425 TO HOME IN ON THIS PARTICULAR SECTION, VERSES 11 THROUGH 16. 24:24.425 --> 24:28.746 IT SAYS IN THE NEW LIVING TRANSLATION, I'LL READ FROM 24:28.746 --> 24:32.736 THERE FIRST, IT SAYS, "FOR HE WILL ORDER HIS ANGELS TO PROTECT 24:32.736 --> 24:36.905 YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. THEY WILL HOLD YOU UP WITH THEIR HANDS SO 24:36.905 --> 24:41.465 YOU WON'T EVEN HURT YOUR FOOT ON A STONE. YOU WILL TRAMPLE UPON 24:41.465 --> 24:45.635 LIONS AND COBRAS AND YOU WILL CRUSH FIERCE LIONS AND SERPENTS 24:45.635 --> 24:49.895 UNDER YOUR FEET. THE LORD SAYS, 'I WILL RESCUE THOSE WHO LOVE 24:49.895 --> 24:54.605 ME. I WILL PROTECT THOSE WHO TRUST IN MY NAME. WHEN THEY CALL 24:54.605 --> 24:58.684 ON ME, I WILL ANSWER. I WILL BE WITH THEM IN TROUBLE. I WILL 24:58.684 --> 25:04.355 RESCUE AND HONOR THEM. I WILL REWARD THEM WITH A LONG LIFE AND 25:04.355 --> 25:08.496 GIVE THEM MY SALVATION. I ALSO LIKE THIS VERY MUCH IN THE 25:08.496 --> 25:13.145 CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH VERSION AND IT SAYS IT LIKE THIS, GOD WILL 25:13.145 --> 25:17.496 COMMAND HIS ANGELS TO PROTECT YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. THEY WILL 25:17.496 --> 25:20.556 CARRY YOU IN THEIR ARMS AND YOU WON'T HURT YOUR FEET ON THE 25:20.556 --> 25:25.806 STONES. YOU WILL OVERPOWER THE STRONGEST LIONS AND THE MOST 25:25.806 --> 25:30.756 DEADLY SNAKES. THE LORD SAYS IF YOU LOVE ME AND TRULY KNOW WHO I 25:30.756 --> 25:35.194 AM, I WILL RESCUE YOU AND KEEP YOU SAFE. WHEN YOU ARE IN 25:35.194 --> 25:40.415 TROUBLE, CALL OUT TO ME. I WILL ANSWER AND BE THERE TO PROTECT 25:40.415 --> 25:44.885 AND HONOR YOU. YOU WILL LIVE A LONG LIFE AND SEE MY SAVING 25:44.885 --> 25:49.410 POWER. NOW, YOU MIGHT ASK, HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO OFFERING? 25:50.976 --> 25:54.605 WELL, I BELIEVE THAT THE GREATER YOUR REALIZATION OF GOD'S LOVE 25:54.605 --> 25:58.266 FOR YOU PERSONALLY, INDIVIDUALLY, AND THE SHARPER 25:58.266 --> 26:02.645 YOUR FOCUS ON THE MANY WAYS THAT HE DEMONSTRATES THAT ON A DAILY 26:02.645 --> 26:07.385 BASIS, THE MORE COMPELLED YOU'LL BE TO GIVE BACK TO HIM, 26:07.385 --> 26:11.496 FINANCIALLY AND OTHERWISE. AND IF YOU JUST THINK ABOUT IT FOR A 26:11.496 --> 26:15.575 MOMENT, THE KIND OF PROTECTION AND PERSEVERE, SORRY, 26:15.575 --> 26:19.954 PRESERVATION, PERSEVERANCE IS GOOD, THE DELIVERANCE AND RESCUE 26:19.954 --> 26:24.756 FROM ALL EVIL THAT HE PROMISES TO THOSE THAT ABIDE IN HIM, I 26:24.756 --> 26:29.075 THINK THE QUESTION THEN BECOMES, HOW COULD WE SHRINK BACK? HOW 26:29.075 --> 26:33.635 COULD WE NOT BE OBEDIENT? AND HOW COULD WE NOT BE GENEROUS IN 26:33.635 --> 26:39.246 OUR GIVING? LOOK AT WHAT HE SAYS IN VERSE 11. HE WILL COMMISSION 26:39.246 --> 26:43.565 HIS ANGELS TO PROTECT YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. SO NO MATTER 26:43.565 --> 26:48.036 WHAT CIRCUMSTANCE OR SITUATION YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF IN, THE 26:48.036 --> 26:51.726 ANGELS ARE DIRECTED TO PROTECT YOU. I LOOKED IT UP IN 26:51.726 --> 26:56.796 MERRIAM-WEBSTER, IT SAYS, ACT MEANS TO COVER OR SHIELD FROM 26:56.796 --> 27:02.346 EXPOSURE, INJURY, DAMAGE OR DESTRUCTION. FOLKS, THAT'S AN 27:02.346 --> 27:07.954 AMAZING SHIELD OF FAVOR THAT RESTS OVER US. AND I KNOW THAT 27:07.954 --> 27:10.085 YOU PROBABLY DO TOO, YOU PROBABLY HAVE TO TRUST THAT YOUR 27:10.085 --> 27:13.548 ANGELS ARE ALWAYS SURROUNDING YOU AND THAT YOU CAN RELY ON 27:13.548 --> 27:17.135 THEM TO RESCUE YOU. I KNOW I DO. SOMETIMES I NEED THEM TO RESCUE 27:17.135 --> 27:21.305 ME FROM MYSELF. SOMETIMES I NEED THEM TO PHYSICALLY MANIFEST AND 27:21.305 --> 27:24.846 THAT CAN HAPPEN. I MIGHT HAVE SHARED THIS BEFORE, BUT YEARS 27:24.846 --> 27:27.486 AGO WHEN WE WERE MOVING FROM ONE STATE TO ANOTHER BACK OUT ON THE 27:27.486 --> 27:31.660 EAST COAST, I WAS DRIVING A 26-FOOT TRUCK AND I HAD A CAR I 27:31.660 --> 27:35.256 WAS TOWING BEHIND US. I HAD APPROXIMATELY 40, MAYBE 42 FEET 27:35.256 --> 27:37.655 OF VEHICLE BEHIND ME. I WASN'T REALLY USED TO THAT AT THAT 27:37.655 --> 27:41.346 TIME. AND WE PULLED OVER FOR GAS ALONG THE WAY AND IT WAS THERE 27:41.346 --> 27:45.006 THAT I FIRST DISCOVERED THAT I WASN'T QUITE AS GOOD A DRIVER AS 27:45.006 --> 27:49.204 I THOUGHT I WAS. I WASN'T REALLY ABLE TO MANIPULATE THAT 40 SOME 27:49.204 --> 27:52.325 FEET BEHIND ME AS WELL AS I THOUGHT I WAS. AS I WAS TRYING 27:52.325 --> 27:55.925 TO GET CLOSE TO THE PUMP, I GOT THE REAR WHEEL WELL OF THE 27:55.925 --> 28:00.065 DRIVER'S SIDE OF THE TRUCK PERCHED RIGHT ON TOP OF THE 28:00.065 --> 28:03.934 BOLLARD THAT PROTECTS THE GAS PUMP. AND TRY AS I MIGHT, I 28:03.934 --> 28:08.105 COULDN'T WRIGGLE OUT OF THAT JAM NO MATTER WHAT I DID. AND KATE'S 28:08.105 --> 28:11.375 PARENTS WERE FOLLOWING US ALONG ON THE JOURNEY AT THAT TIME. AND 28:11.375 --> 28:14.105 MY FATHER-IN-LAW CAME UP AND HE STOOD THERE WITH ME AND WE BOTH 28:14.105 --> 28:16.835 LOOKED AT THIS THING LIKE THIS AND WE BOTH LOOKED AT IT LIKE 28:16.835 --> 28:19.986 THAT. AND PRETTY SOON WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND SAID, "WELL, I 28:19.986 --> 28:22.506 DON'T KNOW HOW WE'RE GOING TO GET OUT OF THIS ONE." BUT 28:22.506 --> 28:27.454 SUDDENLY, JUST THEN A GUY CAME RUSHING OUT OF THE STATION, THE 28:27.454 --> 28:30.546 CONVENIENCE STORE THERE, AND HE WAS COMING DIRECTLY AT US AND HE 28:30.546 --> 28:34.835 SAID, "I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO HERE." I SAID, "OKAY, 28:34.835 --> 28:38.556 I'M LISTENING." HE INSTRUCTED ME TO GET BACK IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT 28:38.556 --> 28:42.306 AND JUST FOLLOW HIS DIRECTIONS. I THOUGHT, "WELL, OKAY, NOTHING 28:42.306 --> 28:44.585 I'VE DONE HAS WORKED, SO I'LL TRY IT OUT. I MEAN, WHAT'S WORTH 28:44.585 --> 28:48.215 A SHOT AT THIS POINT?" SO I JUMPED BACK IN THE TRUCK, AND 28:48.215 --> 28:50.855 TWO QUICK TURNS, AND WE WERE OUT OF THERE, AND WE WERE FREE TO 28:50.855 --> 28:55.085 ROAM ABOUT THE CABIN AGAIN. I JUMPED OUT OF THAT TRUCK TO 28:55.085 --> 28:57.486 THANK THAT MAN AND GIVE HIM SOMETHING FOR COMING TO MY 28:57.486 --> 29:03.605 RESCUE. NOW HE JUST SUDDENLY VANISHED. NOW IN THE NATURAL, 29:03.605 --> 29:06.454 THERE'S NO WAY IN THAT WIDE OPEN PARKING LOT THAT ALL OF US COULD 29:06.454 --> 29:09.306 HAVE MISSED HIM. THERE WAS FOUR ADULTS LISTENING INTENTLY TO HIS 29:09.306 --> 29:13.684 INSTRUCTION ON HOW TO ESCAPE THAT JAM, AND YET HE WAS GONE. 29:15.006 --> 29:18.221 OKAY, YOU CAN THINK WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE TO ABOUT THIS, BUT I'M 29:18.221 --> 29:21.694 GOING TO TELL YOU, THAT MAN WAS AN ANGEL THAT WAS SENT TO RESCUE 29:21.694 --> 29:26.645 ME IN THAT PARTICULAR SITUATION. GOING BACK TO THE SCRIPTURE REAL 29:26.645 --> 29:31.684 QUICK, VERSE 14, HE SAYS HERE, "HE WILL RESCUE THOSE WHO LOVE 29:31.684 --> 29:37.175 HIM AND PROTECT THOSE WHO TRUST HIM. HE WILL KEEP THEM SAFE." 29:37.175 --> 29:41.405 AND THAT IS SO TRUE. BACK IN THE DAY, I USED TO DRIVE 60,000 29:41.405 --> 29:45.965 MILES A YEAR. I WAS OVER THE ROAD IN SALES MANAGEMENT AND ALL 29:45.965 --> 29:48.605 TYPES OF WEATHER, ALL TYPES OF CONDITIONS AND EVERYTHING. AND 29:48.605 --> 29:52.835 ONE DAY I WAS JUST TOTALLY DRAINED, BOTH PHYSICALLY AND 29:52.835 --> 29:55.596 MENTALLY. AND I WAS PROBABLY STILL AN HOUR FROM HOME. 29:55.596 --> 29:59.135 NIGHTFALL WAS SETTING IN, MONOTONOUS ROADWAY, TWO-WAY 29:59.135 --> 30:08.311 TRAFFIC, I FELL ASLEEP. AND THERE WAS THIS TRACTOR TRAILER 30:08.311 --> 30:11.971 THAT WAS APPROACHING ME RAPIDLY IN THE OTHER LANE. WELL, IT'S 30:11.971 --> 30:13.981 NOW MY LANE 'CAUSE I'M OVER THERE, RIGHT? I CROSSED THE 30:13.981 --> 30:18.511 CENTER LINE. AND SUDDENLY I WAS AWAKENED BY AN AUDIBLE VOICE 30:18.511 --> 30:23.642 THAT SAID LOUDLY, "MARK, ARE YOU OKAY?" AND IT STARTLED ME, IT 30:23.642 --> 30:26.612 SHOOK ME TO THE CORE. AND I OPENED MY EYES JUST IN TIME TO 30:26.612 --> 30:29.731 SEE THAT TRUCK RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. I HAD JUST A COUPLE OF 30:29.731 --> 30:33.632 SECONDS TO REACT. I WAS ABLE TO CORRECT COURSE INSTANTLY, SWERVE 30:33.632 --> 30:38.852 TO AVOID THAT. AND AGAIN, I'M JUST GONNA SAY, YOU'RE ENTITLED 30:38.852 --> 30:42.301 TO THINK WHATEVER YOU WANNA THINK, BUT WHAT I THINK IS THE 30:42.301 --> 30:48.211 LORD SPOKE TO ME IN THAT MOMENT TO ENSURE THAT HIS DESIRED 30:48.211 --> 30:54.092 RESULT WAS ACHIEVED. HE RESCUED ME, HE DELIVERED ME, HE SAVED ME 30:54.092 --> 30:57.541 FROM DISASTER, HALLELUJAH. LET'S GO BACK TO THE SCRIPTURE ONE 30:57.541 --> 31:01.862 MORE TIME REAL QUICK. IN VERSE 15, HE SAYS, "WHEN THEY CALL ON 31:01.862 --> 31:05.852 ME, I WILL ANSWER. "I WILL BE WITH THEM IN TROUBLE. I WILL 31:05.852 --> 31:10.201 RESCUE AND HONOR THEM." WELL, IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, YOU'VE HAD TO 31:10.201 --> 31:15.182 CALL ON THEM ONCE OR TWICE. I KNOW I HAVE. ONE TIME THAT COMES 31:15.182 --> 31:17.343 TO MIND, I WAS COMMUTING TO WORK AND I HAD ABOUT AN HOUR DRIVE. 31:17.343 --> 31:20.642 IT WAS IN THE WINTER. IT WAS UP NORTH. WELL, WE ARE UP NORTH. IT 31:20.642 --> 31:25.801 WAS BACK OVER EAST-NORTH, NORTHEAST. SO, I GOT ON THIS ONE 31:25.801 --> 31:29.192 EXIT AND I WAS GOING ONTO THE HIGHWAY AND I HIT A PATCH OF 31:29.192 --> 31:32.311 BLACK ICE. IT WAS A TWO-WAY EXIT, SO THERE WAS TRAFFIC BOTH 31:32.311 --> 31:37.142 WAYS. AND I WAS PERPENDICULAR TO THE ROAD. AND I COULDN'T REGAIN 31:37.142 --> 31:40.051 CONTROL AND I WAS HEADED SIDEWAYS RIGHT TOWARD THESE TWO 31:40.051 --> 31:45.001 CLUB CABS THAT WERE TRAVELING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. AND WHEN 31:45.001 --> 31:47.605 I'D REACHED THE END OF MY NATURAL, I HAD TO CALL IN THE 31:47.605 --> 31:50.761 SUPERNATURAL. FINALLY, WITH A COUPLE OF SECONDS BEFORE IMPACT, 31:50.761 --> 31:56.311 I WENT, "JESUS!" AND INSTANTLY, JUST AS THOUGH HE HAD GRABBED 31:56.311 --> 32:01.382 THE CAR HIMSELF, I WENT DIRECTLY BACK IN REVERSE, ALL THE WAY 32:01.382 --> 32:05.342 ACROSS TWO LANES OF TRAFFIC, MISSING CARS COMING BOTH WAYS, 32:05.342 --> 32:08.912 AND LANDED WITH THE REAR END OF THE CAR AGAINST THAT GUARDRAIL 32:08.912 --> 32:13.082 ON THE OTHER SIDE WHERE I'D STARTED. NOW, THAT CAR WAS 32:13.082 --> 32:16.801 TOTALED ALL THE WAY UP TO WHERE I WAS SITTING. THE ENTIRE BACK 32:16.801 --> 32:19.465 SEAT AND EVERYTHING ELSE BEHIND IT WAS GONE. I WAS STILL SITTING 32:19.465 --> 32:23.251 IN THE FRONT SEAT, BUT I GOT OUT OF THERE WITHOUT A SCRATCH. WHEN 32:23.251 --> 32:27.422 I WAS IN TROUBLE, HE RESCUED ME. AS HE PROMISED, HE PROTECTED ME 32:27.422 --> 32:31.201 AND HE PRESERVED MY LIFE. NOW, THESE ARE EXPERIENCES THAT I'VE 32:31.201 --> 32:34.771 HAD. THEY'RE NOT ALL YOUR TESTIMONIES. YOU HAVE YOUR OWN. 32:34.771 --> 32:37.711 BUT I'M GOING TO SAY GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS. WHAT HE'S 32:37.711 --> 32:40.862 DONE FOR ME, HE'S GOING TO DO FOR YOU. AND THAT'S FOR YOU OUT 32:40.862 --> 32:45.511 THERE ONLINE TOO. GOD CHARGES THE ANGELS TO KEEP US IN ALL OF 32:45.511 --> 32:50.221 OUR WAYS. HE ANSWERS WHEN WE'RE IN TROUBLE AND WE'RE IN NEED OF 32:50.221 --> 32:53.942 RESCUE. AND HE PROMISES US THAT HE'LL PRESERVE US AND REWARD US 32:53.942 --> 32:57.913 WITH A LONG LIFE. AND THERE'S NOTHING MORE VALUABLE THAN THAT 32:57.913 --> 33:01.799 ON THIS EARTH, ON THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, 33:01.799 --> 33:04.352 BUT WHEN I THINK OF THESE TYPES OF DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE LORD'S 33:04.352 --> 33:08.582 FAVOR AND HIS LOVE FOR US AND HIS GENEROSITY IN KEEPING WATCH 33:08.582 --> 33:13.231 OVER US IN EVERY DETAIL, I SIMPLY CAN'T SHRINK BACK. I 33:13.231 --> 33:18.751 CAN'T BE FEARFUL. I CAN'T BE HESITANT TO GIVE INTO HIS WORKS. 33:18.751 --> 33:22.142 AND AFTER SEEING HOW HE DELIVERS ON HIS PROMISES, I KNOW HE CAN 33:22.142 --> 33:26.942 BE TRUSTED TO HOLD UP EVERYONE AND SUPPLY ALL OF OUR NEEDS. SO 33:26.942 --> 33:32.102 I INVITE YOU TO SOW INTO THIS WORD TONIGHT, REAP A HARVEST IN 33:32.102 --> 33:38.402 THE FUTURE OF PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION BECAUSE AFTER ALL, 33:38.402 --> 33:43.291 THERE'S REALLY NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT. SO LET US 33:43.291 --> 33:47.132 GIVE GENEROUSLY TONIGHT TO THE ONE WHO COMMANDS THE ANGELS TO 33:47.132 --> 33:51.741 KEEP US. THE GIVING INFORMATION WE PUT UP ON THE SCREENS. 33:54.991 --> 34:01.682 ENVELOPE, WEBSITE, MOBILE APP, TEXT TO GIVE, QR CODE. MANY 34:01.682 --> 34:04.832 WAYS, ANYONE YOU CHOOSE, YOU CAN MAKE AN APPROPRIATE OFFERING TO 34:04.832 --> 34:08.911 THE LORD THAT RESCUES, DELIVERS, PROTECTS AND PRESERVES YOU. AND 34:08.911 --> 34:12.422 IF YOU HAVEN'T COMPLETED YOUR PENTECOST OFFERING TONIGHT, VERY 34:12.422 --> 34:16.322 IMPORTANTLY, WE'VE GOT THE ENVELOPES FOR THAT IN THE SEAT, 34:16.322 --> 34:19.922 THE DROPDOWN IS STILL LIVE ON THE WEBSITE, STILL LIVE ON TEXT 34:19.922 --> 34:24.391 TO GIVE. IF YOU MADE A PLEDGE THIS PAST SUNDAY DURING THAT 34:24.391 --> 34:28.802 SERVICE FOR A PENTECOST OFFERING AND THAT MONEY ALREADY CAME IN, 34:28.802 --> 34:32.282 PLEASE BE QUICK TO GIVE IT. THERE'S SPECIAL ENVELOPES, AS I 34:32.282 --> 34:37.891 SAID. THIS IS PARTICULARLY CRITICAL RIGHT NOW AND TIME 34:37.891 --> 34:43.382 SENSITIVE. AS PASTOR SHARED HIS HEART, I KNOW ON SUNDAY, ABOUT 34:43.382 --> 34:49.081 WHERE HE'S GOING, WHAT HE WANTS TO BUILD, AN ACTIVITY CENTER, A 34:49.081 --> 34:56.012 SCHOOL, AND ALL THOSE THINGS FOR THE FUTURE OF LOH. THAT SHILOH 34:56.012 --> 35:01.922 PROPERTY THAT WE LOOKED AT THREE YEARS AGO OR SO, IT'S RESURFACED 35:01.922 --> 35:05.521 FOR SALE AGAIN, AS I THINK HE SAID, AND WE'RE WORKING QUICKLY 35:05.521 --> 35:10.561 TO BUILD UP THE FUNDS NEEDED TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. FOR YOU, YOUR 35:10.561 --> 35:13.922 CHILDREN, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN. AND THERE ARE OTHER IMPORTANT 35:13.922 --> 35:18.032 PROJECTS THAT ARE JUST ABOUT TO MANIFEST THAT WE CAN'T GO INTO 35:18.032 --> 35:23.251 RIGHT NOW. SO WE REALLY NEED TO IMPROVE OUR CASH POSITION HERE. 35:23.251 --> 35:28.141 WE NEED YOUR HELP. WE'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF 35:28.141 --> 35:32.641 THESE OPPORTUNITIES AND STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT. SO I'M 35:32.641 --> 35:36.112 GOING TO ASK YOU, ONCE AGAIN, GIVE GENEROUSLY THIS EVENING. 35:38.012 --> 35:40.411 AND WHEN YOU'RE READY, WHEN YOU'VE WRITTEN OUT YOUR MILLION 35:40.411 --> 35:43.831 DOLLAR CHECKS, OR THOSE THAT ARE LESS THAN A MILLION, WE TAKE 35:43.831 --> 35:48.871 THOSE ALSO. WE'RE NOT FUSSY. LET'S HOLD UP OUR ENVELOPES OR 35:48.871 --> 35:52.592 OUR PHONES, FOR GIVING ELECTRONICALLY, AND WE'LL 35:52.592 --> 35:56.311 DECLARE A BLESSING OVER TONIGHT'S HUGE OFFERING. 35:56.311 --> 36:00.512 HEAVENLY FATHER, WE DECREE AND DECLARE THAT AS WE TRUST YOU 36:00.512 --> 36:04.831 UNEQUIVOCALLY TO DELIVER US FROM ALL EVIL AND RESCUE US FROM ALL 36:04.831 --> 36:09.572 TROUBLE, TO ANSWER US WHEN WE CALL, TO SEND YOUR ANGELS TO 36:09.572 --> 36:13.561 PROTECT US AND TO PRESERVE US AND TO GIVE US LONG LIFE. YOU 36:13.561 --> 36:18.181 WILL BLESS EVERY GIFT AND EVERY GIVER, BOTH HERE AND ONLINE. WE 36:18.181 --> 36:21.661 DO NOT FEAR, WE DO NOT SHRINK BACK, BUT WE GIVE FREELY IN 36:21.661 --> 36:25.202 OBEDIENCE TO YOUR PROMPTING. AND WE KNOW WE CAN EXPECT AN 36:25.202 --> 36:29.012 ABUNDANT HARVEST TOMORROW IN RETURN FOR THE SEEDS THAT WE SOW 36:29.012 --> 36:33.331 HERE TODAY. AND IN THE MIGHTY MATCHLESS NAME OF JESUS, ALL WHO 36:33.331 --> 36:37.900 AGREE SAID, AMEN. AND NOW LET'S WELCOME PASTOR BRENDA 36:37.900 --> 36:39.422 BACK TO THE PULPIT. 36:39.422 --> 36:44.552 AMEN. ALL RIGHT. WELL, YOU CAN BE SEATED AS THE USHERS BEGIN TO 36:44.552 --> 36:47.672 SERVE YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT. YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE NEEDS TO 36:47.672 --> 36:51.541 BE LIKE A BOOK, KATE, WRITTEN OF PASTOR MARK'S STORIES. 36:51.541 --> 36:56.431 I'M LIKE, I'M LIKE THE NUMBER 14 AND ALL THESE THINGS. AND I'M 36:56.431 --> 36:59.461 LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, I HAVE MIRACLE STORIES TOO. AND, BUT 36:59.461 --> 37:02.041 THE THING OF IT IS, IT'S LIKE, I NEVER GET UP AND THEN ALL OF A 37:02.041 --> 37:04.351 SUDDEN REMEMBER THEM LIKE HE DOES. I'M LIKE, THAT'S PRETTY 37:04.351 --> 37:08.762 INCREDIBLE. YOU GUYS NEED TO MAKE A JOURNAL CALLED THE MARK 37:08.762 --> 37:11.521 LOOMIS MIRACLE STORIES OR SOMETHING. I DON'T KNOW, IT'S 37:11.521 --> 37:14.822 JUST INCREDIBLE. DON'T YOU LOVE THAT? I LOVE HEARING THOSE 37:14.822 --> 37:18.992 THINGS. ANYWAY, IT WAS SO GOOD, SO GOOD. SO, WELL, WE'RE GONNA 37:18.992 --> 37:22.231 GET INTO TONIGHT AGAIN, AS ALWAYS, PASTOR SENDS HIS LOVE, 37:22.231 --> 37:27.481 AND OF COURSE, HE'LL BE THIS FRIDAY WITH TIM SHEETS AT OASIS 37:27.481 --> 37:33.242 CHURCH IN OHIO, SO BE SURE, I'M SURE YOU'LL TUNE IN, I'M SURE 37:33.242 --> 37:37.231 THEY'RE STREAMING IT, SO TUNE INTO THAT. IT'S GONNA BE A VERY 37:37.231 --> 37:42.391 POWERFUL TIME, SO HOW MANY OF YOU CAUGHT HIM YESTERDAY? ELIJAH 37:42.391 --> 37:47.762 STREAMS, FLASHPOINT, AND BY THE WAY, I FEEL LIKE THERE IS NO 37:47.762 --> 37:50.911 BETTER MENTOR OF THE PROPHETIC THAN PASTOR HANK KUNNEMAN. I 37:50.911 --> 37:54.601 MEAN, I'M NOT COMPARING TO ANYBODY, BUT HE JUST ALWAYS 37:54.601 --> 37:58.802 BRINGS SUCH A BALANCED, THOROUGH WORD, AND IN FACT, THAT'S ONE OF 37:58.802 --> 38:02.282 THE THINGS WE WANNA DO WITH THE SHILOH PROPERTY, IS BE ABLE TO 38:02.282 --> 38:06.782 BUILD A PROPHETIC SCHOOL OF SOME SORT, SO WHERE WE CAN ACTUALLY 38:06.782 --> 38:10.981 TRAIN AND EQUIP PEOPLE AND JUST REALLY GROW. I FEEL LIKE THE 38:10.981 --> 38:14.072 PROPHETIC'S BEEN UNDER ATTACK. SOME OF IT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE 38:14.072 --> 38:18.181 HAVE ASKED FOR IT BECAUSE IT'S NOT BEEN HANDLED WELL. I THINK 38:18.181 --> 38:22.891 THERE'S PROTOCOLS AND THINGS THAT PROBABLY NEED TO BE TWEAKED 38:22.891 --> 38:25.862 AND ADJUSTED, BUT YOU KNOW, THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU THROW THE BABY 38:25.862 --> 38:30.271 OUT WITH THE BATHWATER, DOES IT? YOU HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, GUIDE IT 38:30.271 --> 38:33.391 AND DEVELOP IT JUST THE SAME WAY THAT IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE 38:33.391 --> 38:36.512 CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT, THERE WERE THINGS WITH THE GIFTS OF THE 38:36.512 --> 38:40.922 SPIRIT THAT HAD TO BE ADJUSTED. YOU CAN'T JUST TOSS IT, BUT YOU 38:40.922 --> 38:43.831 NEED TO GROW IT AND DEVELOP IT. SAME WAY WITH THE MESSAGE OF 38:43.831 --> 38:47.972 FAITH. ALL OF THE THINGS, WHENEVER GOD HAS AN OUTPOURING 38:47.972 --> 38:51.782 OR A MOVEMENT OF THINGS, THERE NEEDS TO BE A TEACHING ABOUT IT. 38:51.782 --> 38:55.141 THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD GAVE SOME APOSTLES, 38:55.141 --> 38:58.831 PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, PASTORS, AND TEACHERS FOR THE, WHAT? 38:58.831 --> 39:02.012 PERFECTING OF THE SAINTS. THAT MEANS FOR THE GROWTH OF THE 39:02.012 --> 39:05.731 SAINTS THAT WE TEACH ON THESE THINGS. BY THE WAY, IT'S GOOD 39:05.731 --> 39:09.032 THAT YOU CAME OR TUNED IN ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WE CAN'T DO ALL 39:09.032 --> 39:13.081 THE PREACHING ON A SUNDAY, SO IT'S GOOD THAT YOU COME. AND HOW 39:13.081 --> 39:15.121 MANY OF YOU STILL LIKE WEDNESDAY NIGHT CHURCH? NOT A LOT OF 39:15.121 --> 39:18.152 CHURCHES DO THAT ANYMORE, BUT I THINK IT'S JUST A GOOD 39:18.152 --> 39:21.661 OPPORTUNITY. AND YOU GET TO HEAR FROM SOME OF OUR OTHER PASTORS, 39:21.661 --> 39:26.192 AND SO WE'RE SO THANKFUL TO ALL OF OUR PASTORAL TEAM FOR JUST 39:26.192 --> 39:29.101 THEIR CONTRIBUTION. BUT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE GOOD 39:29.101 --> 39:31.621 TEACHING FOR THE PERFECTING OF THE SAINTS, FOR THE WORK OF THE 39:31.621 --> 39:35.791 MINISTRY, TO THE EDIFYING OF THE BODY OF CHRIST. SO WE NEED ALL 39:35.791 --> 39:41.251 THE EXPRESSIONS OF THE DIFFERENT MINISTRY GIFTS TO GROW US. SO 39:41.251 --> 39:44.822 I'M JUST VERY THANKFUL. I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE RESURFACING OF 39:44.822 --> 39:49.472 THE SHILOH PROPERTY, BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE MONEY TO DO IT. SO 39:49.472 --> 39:53.311 AS GOD LEADS YOU, JUST BE PART OF THAT. WE'LL BE MAKING MORE 39:53.311 --> 39:56.371 ANNOUNCEMENTS ON EXACTLY WHAT THE PLANS ARE. AND BY THE WAY, 39:56.371 --> 40:00.992 I'M JUST GOING TO TELL YOU, YOU WILL BE IN SHOCK HOW THIS CAME 40:00.992 --> 40:04.382 ABOUT. IT'S MIRACULOUS. YOU THINK MARK LOOMIS HAS GOOD 40:04.382 --> 40:09.422 STORIES. I'M TELLING YOU, THIS IS A GOOD STORY. AND SO WE'RE 40:09.422 --> 40:12.902 VERY, VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT. SO I KNOW IT'S BEEN, THERE'S BEEN 40:12.902 --> 40:16.757 SOME THINGS SURFACING. SO JUST BE OBEDIENT TO GOD AND WE'LL BE 40:16.757 --> 40:17.657 GIVING YOU SOME FURTHER 40:17.657 --> 40:20.507 DIRECTION. INTERNET, BY THE WAY, THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE 40:20.507 --> 40:24.407 FAITHFUL E-MEMBERS AND THOSE OF YOU THAT SOW AND GIVE INTO THIS 40:24.407 --> 40:29.567 CHURCH AND THE MINISTRY AND HELP US DO WHAT WE DO. IT IS ALL YOU 40:29.567 --> 40:33.916 HERE AND YOU THAT MAKE IT SO AMAZING. SO I JUST WANT TO SAY 40:33.916 --> 40:36.766 THANK YOU FOR THAT. WELL, LET'S GET INTO THE WORD TONIGHT. NOW 40:36.766 --> 40:39.503 WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT SOWING AND REAPING, BUT I'M GOING TO 40:39.503 --> 40:43.007 KIND OF SHIFT A LITTLE BIT. I KNOW ALL OF THE ANNOUNCEMENTS 40:43.007 --> 40:45.556 SAYS I'M GOING TO TALK ON SOWING AND REAPING AND FINISH THAT. AND 40:45.556 --> 40:48.556 WE'LL GET BACK TO THAT ON A WEDNESDAY. BUT I DON'T KNOW, BOB 40:48.556 --> 40:53.987 ROGERS SPARKED SOME THINGS IN ME THAT I WROTE DOWN ON SUNDAY. AND 40:53.987 --> 40:55.697 SO I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT 40:55.697 --> 41:02.177 ABOUT, HERE IT IS, YOU READY? FINANCIAL PROSPERITY. AND IT'S 41:02.177 --> 41:06.496 LIKE A CURSE WORD IN SOME CIRCLES. YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO 41:06.496 --> 41:09.947 PREACH THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, HEY, THOSE PROSPERITY PREACHERS, 41:09.947 --> 41:13.487 THEY'RE OUT TO GET YOU. AND THERE MAY BE A FEW THAT HAVE 41:13.487 --> 41:16.786 MISHANDLED THAT. BUT I THINK THERE IS SOME BIBLICAL 41:16.786 --> 41:20.356 RIGHTNESS, IF YOU WILL, THAT WE NEED TO BRING ABOUT. AND OF 41:20.356 --> 41:24.376 COURSE, WE REAP WHAT WE SOW. WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT. 41:24.376 --> 41:27.706 YOU KNOW, "WHATSOEVER MAN SOWS, THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP. BE NOT 41:27.706 --> 41:30.257 DECEIVED. GOD'S NOT MOCKED. EVERYTHING IN LIFE'S A SEED." 41:30.257 --> 41:33.347 THAT'S WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT LAST TIME I WAS HERE. EVERY SINGLE 41:33.347 --> 41:36.047 THING WE DO IS A SEED INTO SOMETHING. EVERY WORD THAT'S 41:36.047 --> 41:40.427 SPOKEN, EVERY ACTION, EVERY DECISION, ALL OF THE THINGS WE 41:40.427 --> 41:44.896 SAY AND DO ARE SEEDS. AND OF COURSE, GIVING FINANCIALLY IS A 41:44.896 --> 41:48.047 SEED, THAT'S TRUE TOO, BUT THAT'S NOT THE ONLY SEED. 41:48.047 --> 41:51.166 EVERYTHING IN THE EARTH, AS LONG AS THE EARTH REMAINS, GENESIS 8, 41:51.166 --> 41:56.746 22 SAYS THAT THERE IS SEED TIME AND HARVEST. AND SO I ALWAYS SAY 41:56.746 --> 41:59.987 IT LIKE THIS, PAYDAY ALWAYS COMES, HARVEST DAY ALWAYS COMES. 41:59.987 --> 42:02.387 WHAT, IF YOU SOW TO YOUR FLESH, WHAT, 42:02.387 --> 42:06.047 YOU'LL OF YOUR FLESH REAP WHAT? CORRUPTION. IF YOU SOW TO 42:06.047 --> 42:10.577 SPIRITUAL THINGS, YOU'LL OF THE SPIRIT REAP LIFE EVERLASTING. 42:10.577 --> 42:14.056 HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED PEOPLE WHO HAVE SPENT THEIR WHOLE LIFE JUST 42:14.056 --> 42:17.416 SOWING TO THE FLESH, THEY'VE GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER TO 42:17.416 --> 42:21.766 PROMISCUITY AND DRUGS AND DRUNKENNESS AND ALL OF THESE 42:21.766 --> 42:25.909 THINGS AND YOU KNOW, IN FACT I RAN INTO SOMEBODY, THIS PERSON, 42:25.909 --> 42:30.467 NOT TOO LONG AGO AND I SAID, "OH, HOW OLD ARE YOU?" AND I 42:30.467 --> 42:35.266 MEAN, THEY LOOKED 80, JUST BEAT UP, HAIR FALLING OUT AND YOU 42:35.266 --> 42:39.226 KNOW, SKIN AND BONES AND JUST A MESS. THEIR HAIR WAS A DISASTER 42:39.226 --> 42:42.932 AND WRINKLED UP ALL OVER THE PLACE AND THEY SAID, "OH, I'M 42:42.932 --> 42:48.407 65." AND I THOUGHT, "DEAR LORD, YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'RE 87." BUT 42:48.407 --> 42:52.697 YOU KNOW, A LIFE OF THE FLESH WILL HAVE ITS EFFECT EVENTUALLY. 42:52.697 --> 42:55.757 AND SO SOWING TO SPIRITUAL THINGS, NOW MAYBE YOU HAD A LIFE 42:55.757 --> 42:59.206 OF THE FLESH IN YOUR YOUNG YEARS, AND BUT YOU KNOW, YOU CAN 42:59.206 --> 43:03.467 START SOWING TO SPIRITUAL THINGS NOW. AND SO THAT'S THE KEY 43:03.467 --> 43:06.827 THING. SO I FEEL LIKE AS WE TALK ABOUT SEED AND HARVEST, IT'S 43:06.827 --> 43:09.677 IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT FINANCES. FINANCES, AS WE'VE 43:09.677 --> 43:13.367 BEEN SAYING, ISN'T THE ONLY SEED AND HARVEST, BUT IT IS PART OF 43:13.367 --> 43:18.016 IT. I BELIEVE IT'S ONE OF THE PRIMARY PARTS OF IT. BUT LET'S 43:18.016 --> 43:22.157 TALK ABOUT BIBLICAL PROSPERITY. I'M GONNA GIVE YOU TONIGHT IN 43:22.157 --> 43:27.436 ABOUT, OH, 55 MINUTES, I'M GONNA GIVE YOU, MAYBE A LITTLE LESS 43:27.436 --> 43:32.447 THAN THAT, SEVEN PRINCIPLES TO PROSPER FINANCIALLY. AND I THINK 43:32.447 --> 43:35.447 THESE ARE SO IMPORTANT, THEY'RE BIBLICAL. NOW, WE'LL TALK ABOUT 43:35.447 --> 43:40.427 IT, BUT THE FIRST TWO ARE PROBABLY THE PREMIER ONES, AND 43:40.427 --> 43:43.757 THEN THE OTHER FIVE ARE THINGS THAT PEOPLE CAN DO WHEN THEY 43:43.757 --> 43:46.817 DON'T EVEN KNOW GOD. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN PROSPER FINANCIALLY AND 43:46.817 --> 43:50.896 NOT KNOW GOD. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DO. BECAUSE THEY PUT CERTAIN 43:50.896 --> 43:55.847 PRINCIPLES, BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES TO PRACTICE, ACTUALLY. OKAY, BUT 43:55.847 --> 44:00.317 NOW HERE'S THE THING. THE BIBLE HAS, AND IF YOU'VE EVER GOTTEN 44:00.317 --> 44:05.027 MY BOOK ON DAILY DECREES FOR DIVINE HEALING, YOU'LL KNOW THAT 44:05.027 --> 44:09.436 IN THAT BOOK I TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT GOD HAS ALWAYS HAD A 44:09.436 --> 44:13.186 COVENANT FOR OUR HEALTH. ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE, AND I GIVE 44:13.186 --> 44:16.697 SCRIPTURE AFTER SCRIPTURE, WE WON'T GO INTO THAT, BUT HOW FROM 44:16.697 --> 44:21.226 THE OLD TESTAMENT ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE NEW TESTAMENT, THERE 44:21.226 --> 44:26.027 IS A COVENANT, GOD ALWAYS HAD A PLAN TO HEAL PEOPLE. THE REASON 44:26.027 --> 44:31.067 THAT JESUS HEALED PEOPLE WHEN HE CAME TO EARTH AND ON THE, ACROSS 44:31.067 --> 44:35.686 NAZARETH AND IN GALILEE, HE DIDN'T JUST HEAL THEM TO SHOW 44:35.686 --> 44:39.527 HIS DEITY. PEOPLE OFTEN PREACH THAT, THEY'LL SAY, "WELL, HE 44:39.527 --> 44:41.956 ONLY DID IT TO SHOW THAT HE WAS GOD." WELL, THAT'S NOT TRUE, 44:41.956 --> 44:45.286 BECAUSE THEN HE PUT THAT SAME POWER UPON THE DISCIPLES, AND HE 44:45.286 --> 44:48.376 SAID TO THEM, "NOW YOU TAKE WHAT I'VE GIVEN YOU, "AND YOU GO OUT, 44:48.376 --> 44:50.956 AND YOU HEAL THE SICK, "AND YOU RAISE THE DEAD, YOU CAST OUT 44:50.956 --> 44:54.317 DEVILS, "AND ALL THE REST." AND HE TAUGHT THEM TO DO THAT SAME 44:54.317 --> 44:59.266 PATTERN. AND THAT'S, THEY DID WHAT THEY KNEW TO DO IN THE BOOK 44:59.266 --> 45:04.157 OF ACTS. AND THEY WERE FOLLOWING THE PATTERN OF JESUS. SO, GO GET 45:04.157 --> 45:06.737 THE BOOK AND YOU CAN READ IT. IT'S IN DAILY DECREES FOR DIVINE 45:06.737 --> 45:10.487 HEALING. I TEACH THAT THE PATTERN OF GOD WAS ALWAYS TO 45:10.487 --> 45:13.246 BLESS AND TO HEAL PEOPLE. WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT, GOD ALWAYS HAD A 45:13.246 --> 45:17.806 PLAN TO PROSPER HIS PEOPLE. NOW RELIGION WILL TELL US THAT, YOU 45:17.806 --> 45:22.726 KNOW, IT'S SOMEHOW BEING BROKE IS SIMULTANEOUS WITH GODLINESS 45:22.726 --> 45:25.757 AND BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE MOST GODLY PEOPLE ARE BROKE. WELL, 45:25.757 --> 45:31.186 THAT'S A LIE, AND THAT DOESN'T EVEN LINE UP WITH THE BIBLE. SO 45:31.186 --> 45:36.467 IF YOU GO, THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHAPTERS ON HEALING. I 45:36.467 --> 45:40.577 LOVE HOW PASTOR MARK, HE REFERENCED HOW ALL THAT GOD WILL 45:40.577 --> 45:45.260 DO IN PSALM 91, PSALM 112 SAYS, AND IF YOU LOOK AT IT, AND YOU 45:45.260 --> 45:47.567 CAN GO THROUGH IT, WE WON'T READ THE WHOLE THING TONIGHT, BUT IF 45:47.567 --> 45:50.717 YOU READ THROUGH IT, IT SAYS IN VERSE THREE THAT WEALTH AND 45:50.717 --> 45:54.947 RICHES SHALL BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS. NOW THIS 45:54.947 --> 45:58.757 ACTUALLY, THIS PSALM, I'LL SAY IT LIKE THIS, THIS PSALM 45:58.757 --> 46:03.527 ACTUALLY COVERS ALL THE PROMISES OF GOD TO PROSPER YOU. TOUCH 46:03.527 --> 46:07.577 YOURSELF AND SAY GOD WANTS TO PROSPER ME. LOOK AT YOUR 46:07.577 --> 46:13.606 NEIGHBOR AND TELL HIM, "GOD WANTS TO PROSPER YOU TOO." GOD'S 46:13.606 --> 46:19.456 NOT A RESPECTER OF PERSONS. NOW, PROSPERITY MAY LOOK DIFFERENT 46:19.456 --> 46:23.447 FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE. OKAY, IT'S NOT THE SAME FOR EVERY PERSON. 46:23.447 --> 46:27.077 WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY CERTAIN JOBS 46:27.077 --> 46:30.226 PAY MORE THAN OTHERS. IF YOU TOOK THE TIME TO GO TO SCHOOL 46:30.226 --> 46:35.327 AND BECOME AN ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEER PER SE, AND YOU MAKE 46:35.327 --> 46:39.077 MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY MAKE NOW, MAYBE OVER SIX FIGURES 46:39.077 --> 46:44.237 A YEAR, IF THEY'RE GOOD AT WHAT THEY DO, AND SO MAYBE YOU WENT 46:44.237 --> 46:48.706 TO SCHOOL FOR THAT, BUT IF SOMEBODY, THEIR JOB AND TRADE 46:48.706 --> 46:53.686 WAS TO MAYBE WAIT TABLES, THAT'S GONNA MAKE LESS MONEY, RIGHT, 46:53.686 --> 46:57.166 THAN MAYBE THE PERSON THAT INVESTED IN THAT AS THEIR 46:57.166 --> 47:03.137 MEASURE TO PROSPER, BUT GOD WILL STILL PROSPER PEOPLE REGARDLESS 47:03.137 --> 47:07.757 OF WHAT THEIR JOB LEVEL IS. BUT PROSPERITY MAY LOOK DIFFERENT TO 47:07.757 --> 47:12.137 EACH PERSON. ARE YOU TRACKING WITH ME? SO WE READ THROUGHOUT 47:12.137 --> 47:15.586 PSALM 112 THAT GOD SAID, "WEALTH AND RICHES SHALL BE IN THE HOUSE 47:15.586 --> 47:19.456 OF THE RIGHTEOUS." YOU'LL SEE IN THAT SAME CHAPTER, YOU CAN GO 47:19.456 --> 47:21.617 HOME AND STUDY IT, BUT IN THAT SAME CHAPTER, YOU'LL SEE THE 47:21.617 --> 47:25.907 ATTITUDE OF OUR FAITH REGARDING PROSPERITY. YOU'LL SEE WEALTH 47:25.907 --> 47:29.266 MANAGEMENT IN THERE, RIGHT? IT SAID HE'LL GUIDE HIS AFFAIRS 47:29.266 --> 47:31.847 WITH DISCRETION AND GOOD JUDGMENT. THAT'S PART OF 47:31.847 --> 47:34.726 PROSPERING. OKAY, YOU'VE GOTTA HANDLE YOUR MONEY WELL. WE'LL 47:34.726 --> 47:38.507 TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT TONIGHT. IT TALKS ABOUT THAT 47:38.507 --> 47:44.206 HE'LL NOT BE FEARFUL OR MOVED FOREVER IN PSALM 112. WELL, 47:44.206 --> 47:47.927 THAT'S FINANCIAL FEAR. ANYBODY EVER HAD FINANCIAL FEAR BEFORE? 47:47.927 --> 47:51.407 I HAVE, I HAD SOME FINANCIAL FEAR WHEN WE BUILT THIS 47:51.407 --> 47:57.166 BUILDING. I THOUGHT, OH DEAR LORD, HELP US SPEND IT RIGHT, 47:57.166 --> 48:01.757 GOD. BUT SO EVERYBODY'S BEEN THERE. EVERYBODY'S HAD THAT FROM 48:01.757 --> 48:03.916 TIME TO TIME. IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN WHERE YOU DON'T KNOW HOW 48:03.916 --> 48:07.367 YOU'RE GONNA PAY YOUR RENT OR YOUR MORTGAGE, I'VE BEEN THERE, 48:07.367 --> 48:12.586 OKAY? YOU'RE NOT ALONE IF THAT'S YOU. BUT HERE IT SAYS THAT THE 48:12.586 --> 48:16.936 ONE THAT TRUSTS GOD WITH THEIR FINANCES WON'T BE MOVED FOREVER. 48:16.936 --> 48:21.947 THIS CHAPTER, PSALM 112, TALKS ABOUT GIVING TO THE POOR AND 48:21.947 --> 48:24.677 THAT YOU'LL BE BLESSED FOR IT. IT SAYS THAT YOU DELIGHT IN 48:24.677 --> 48:27.827 GOD'S COMMANDMENTS. WELL, HOW CAN YOU DELIGHT FINANCIALLY IN 48:27.827 --> 48:30.586 GOD'S COMMANDMENTS? TITHE, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE 48:30.586 --> 48:33.677 BIT. AND THEN IT GOES ON, AND MY FAVORITE VERSE IN THAT WHOLE 48:33.677 --> 48:37.097 CHAPTER IS THE LAST ONE. IT SAYS, "THE WICKED WILL SEE YOUR 48:37.097 --> 48:40.936 PROSPERITY "AND THEY'LL BE GRIEVED FOR IT." YOU EVER NOTICE 48:40.936 --> 48:43.067 HOW PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, THEY ALL GET MAD IF THE PREACHER HAS A 48:43.067 --> 48:47.777 PLANE? YOU KNOW, NOW HERE'S THE THING, IF THEY NEED ONE, YOU 48:47.777 --> 48:52.786 KNOW, I MEAN, NOBODY'D BE MAD IF THEY HAD A PLANE. YOU EVER 48:52.786 --> 48:55.817 FIGURE THAT OUT? ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WRITE AND SAY, WELL, THE 48:55.817 --> 48:58.876 PREACHER SHOULDN'T HAVE A PLANE, THEY WOULDN'T BE MAD IF THEY HAD 48:58.876 --> 49:03.242 ONE. AND THEY WOULDN'T CRITICIZE ANYBODY ELSE THAT HAD ONE. THEY 49:03.242 --> 49:06.496 WOULD BE HAPPY THEY HAD A PLANE. NOW, I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, 49:06.496 --> 49:08.806 THERE'S PART OF ME THAT WOULDN'T WANNA OWN A PLANE. THEY ARE A 49:08.806 --> 49:12.467 BIG RESPONSIBILITY. AND I'M LIKE, GOD, I DON'T KNOW THAT I'M 49:12.467 --> 49:16.067 CALLED TO TRAVEL THAT MUCH TO MAKE SENSE OF IT. BUT YOU KNOW, 49:16.067 --> 49:19.347 WE'LL DO WHAT WE CAN. AND THANK YOU, BY THE WAY, THOSE OF YOU 49:19.347 --> 49:22.157 THAT HELP WITH THE TRAVEL FUND, IT'S HELPING US TO GO PLACES, 49:22.157 --> 49:25.637 ESPECIALLY PASTOR HANK. BUT YOU KNOW, WHEN IT MAKES SENSE, WE'LL 49:25.637 --> 49:28.170 TRAVEL COMMERCIAL. IN FACT, WE HAVE A TRIP COMING UP WHERE 49:28.170 --> 49:30.496 WE'RE GONNA TAKE COMMERCIAL AIRLINE. I DON'T WANNA PAY THE 49:30.496 --> 49:35.626 EXTRA TO GO A SHORT TRIP. SO IF GOD CAN GET US OUT OF OMAHA ON 49:35.626 --> 49:39.077 AMERICAN AIRLINES, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO, AMEN. BUT THE 49:39.077 --> 49:43.637 THING OF IT IS, IS THE KEY PART IS THE WICKED, THEY DON'T LIKE 49:43.637 --> 49:48.257 THE RIGHTEOUS TO PROSPER. THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO PROSPER, OKAY? 49:48.257 --> 49:52.666 YOU KNOW, THE PREACHER MIGHT GET CRITICIZED FOR BEING ABLE TO USE 49:52.666 --> 49:56.777 A JET TO GO SOMEWHERE, BUT GENERAL CHRISTIANS CAN BE 49:56.777 --> 50:00.197 CRITICIZED BY THEIR RELATIVES BECAUSE THEY GOT A NEW CAR. 50:00.197 --> 50:04.246 WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU TITHED, YOU SOWED. THEY DON'T KNOW THAT YOU 50:04.246 --> 50:06.556 BELIEVE FOR THEM. WELL, YOU KNOW, I KNEW SOMEBODY ONE TIME, 50:06.556 --> 50:09.617 THEY SAID, "WELL, MY WHOLE FAMILY GOT MAD THAT I GOT A NEW 50:09.617 --> 50:14.027 CUTE RED CAR." AND THEY ARE ALL UPSET. YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE, 50:14.027 --> 50:19.112 NOBODY IN OUR FAMILIES HAD A NEW CAR. OKAY, BUT SEE, IT TAKES THE 50:19.112 --> 50:21.572 RIGHTEOUS TO BREAK IT. BUT YOU KNOW, THE WICKED WERE GRIEVED 50:21.572 --> 50:26.041 WHEN THEY GOT THE NEW CAR. NOW, PROSPERITY ISN'T ALL ABOUT 50:26.041 --> 50:28.592 FINANCES, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FINANCIAL PROSPERITY 50:28.592 --> 50:30.842 TODAY. SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD PEOPLE 50:30.842 --> 50:33.632 TALK ABOUT THE WEALTH AND THE HEALTH GOSPEL? WELL, THE TWO 50:33.632 --> 50:35.731 THINGS PEOPLE DEAL WITH THE MOST ARE THEIR MONEY AND THEIR 50:35.731 --> 50:40.891 HEALTH. SO WE MIGHT AS WELL TALK ABOUT IT AND BE HONEST AND READ 50:40.891 --> 50:44.612 FROM THE BIBLE. AND IF YOU READ FROM THE BIBLE, YOU'LL FIND OUT 50:44.612 --> 50:48.152 THAT GOD WANTS YOU WELL AND HE WANTS YOU WELL SUPPLIED FOR. 50:48.152 --> 50:52.351 COME ON, SOMEBODY. AND THAT'S BIBLICAL. THAT'S NOT JUST 50:52.351 --> 50:56.012 PROSPERITY PREACHING. I ALWAYS SAY, YOU KNOW, LISTEN, I HAVEN'T 50:56.012 --> 50:59.222 LIKED EVERYTHING PEOPLE PREACH ON PROSPERITY. JUST BE HONEST, 50:59.222 --> 51:03.362 THIS IS JUST ME. HOWEVER, IF PEOPLE WOULD TAKE A MOMENT JUST 51:03.362 --> 51:08.161 TO HEAR THE BIBLE OF IT AND HEAR BIBLICAL TRUTHS SURROUNDING IT, 51:08.161 --> 51:11.672 THEY MIGHT NOT BE SO CRITICAL. THEY'LL FIND THAT IT'S ACTUALLY 51:11.672 --> 51:14.942 IN THE SCRIPTURE. WEALTH AND RICHES SHALL BE IN THE HOUSE OF 51:14.942 --> 51:18.577 THE RIGHTEOUS. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT THEN CHOP IT OUT 51:18.577 --> 51:21.715 OF YOUR BIBLE AND CALL IT HERESY. BUT NOBODY WANTS 51:21.715 --> 51:25.485 TO DO THAT. THAT'S WHAT THE WORD SAYS. SO, IF GOD 51:25.485 --> 51:28.420 SAID THAT HE'LL PROSPER YOU, THEN TAKE IT AND BELIEVE IT 51:28.420 --> 51:32.925 AND HOLD ONTO IT. ALWAYS SAYING, DON'T BE STUPID, TAKE 51:32.925 --> 51:37.429 THE PROMISES OF SCRIPTURE FOR YOURSELF. AMEN. 51:37.697 --> 51:39.599 ALRIGHT, SO LETS GET INTO IT. LET ME JUST, 51:39.599 --> 51:41.034 I WANT TO PREFACE A COUPLE MORE 51:41.034 --> 51:44.581 THINGS. I ALWAYS TRY NOT TO GO TOO LONG IN MY INTRO, BUT 51:44.581 --> 51:48.722 THERE'S ALWAYS SO MUCH TO SAY. THAT FIRST OF ALL, ESTABLISHING 51:48.722 --> 51:52.532 YOUR HEART THAT GOD WANTS TO PROSPER HIS PEOPLE. JUST MARK 51:52.532 --> 51:56.041 THAT DOWN. AND IF YOU AREN'T SURE OF THAT, TAKE SOME TIME IN 51:56.041 --> 51:59.641 YOUR LIFE TO GO THROUGH THE BIBLE AND SEE HOW GOD PROSPERED 51:59.641 --> 52:04.501 ALL OF HIS PATRIARCHS OF THE OLD COVENANT. JESUS' MINISTRY WAS 52:04.501 --> 52:07.351 PROSPEROUS, OKAY? THEY HAD A BOAT, HE HAD A TREASURER. YOU 52:07.351 --> 52:11.311 DON'T NEED A TREASURER IF YOU'RE BROKE. OKAY, HOW MANY OF YOU IN 52:11.311 --> 52:14.173 THIS ROOM AND THOSE WATCHING HAVE HIRED A PERSONAL TREASURER? 52:16.771 --> 52:23.161 I MEAN, YES, SPEAK THAT. OKAY, VERY FEW PEOPLE HAVE A PERSONAL 52:23.161 --> 52:26.762 ACCOUNTANT FOR THEIR OWN FINANCES. AND USUALLY IT'S THE 52:26.762 --> 52:32.342 ONES THAT ARE FILTHY RICH, RIGHT? SO JESUS' MINISTRY, HE 52:32.342 --> 52:36.152 HAD A TREASURER, OKAY? AND SO YOU CAN EVEN GO THROUGH THE 52:36.152 --> 52:39.902 SCRIPTURE AND FIND THAT JESUS' MINISTRY WAS WELL SUPPORTED BY 52:39.902 --> 52:44.942 WEALTHY PEOPLE. JOHN CHAPTER EIGHT, JOHANNA, THE WIFE OF 52:44.942 --> 52:48.811 CHUSA, HEROD'S STEWARD OR WHOEVER SHE WAS, SHE WAS A WOMAN 52:48.811 --> 52:53.282 OF STATURE. AND THEY SUPPORTED JESUS' MINISTRY OUT OF THEIR 52:53.282 --> 52:56.222 SUBSTANCE. SO JUST GET THAT DOWN, NUMBER ONE, THAT GOD WANTS 52:56.222 --> 53:00.632 TO PROSPER YOU AND SEE THAT. NOW YOUR FINANCES MAY LOOK EXACTLY 53:00.632 --> 53:03.331 THE OPPOSITE OF THAT. AND IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'LL LOOK AT IS 53:03.331 --> 53:06.032 YOUR FINANCES AND NOT WHAT GOD HAS SAID, THEN YOU'LL HAVE WHAT 53:06.032 --> 53:10.831 YOU LOOK AT. AMEN, AND THAT'S NOT TO BE HARSH, RIGHT? BUT WE 53:10.831 --> 53:15.181 HAVE TO BREAK A FINANCIAL MENTALITY. THE CHURCH, RELIGION 53:15.181 --> 53:18.661 HAS MADE THE CHURCH AFRAID OF THE TOPIC OF MONEY. WELL, I JUST 53:18.661 --> 53:23.161 SAY WE SMACK IT BETWEEN THE EYES AND WE DISCUSS IT PLAINLY AND DO 53:23.161 --> 53:26.851 IT IN A BALANCED AND TRUTHFUL WAY. SO PEOPLE WILL CRITICIZE 53:26.851 --> 53:30.961 AND SAY, YEAH, BUT IF YOU HAVE TOO MUCH, YOU'LL BE COVETOUS, AS 53:30.961 --> 53:36.481 IF COVETOUSNESS IS ASSOCIATED WITH WEALTH OR THAT SOMEHOW 53:36.481 --> 53:40.081 FINANCIAL LIMITATION IS THE VEHICLE TO AVOID IT. WELL, 53:40.081 --> 53:43.771 THAT'S NOT TRUE, OKAY? 'CAUSE GOD WOULDN'T SAY WEALTH AND 53:43.771 --> 53:46.291 RICHES WILL BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS. IF YOU ACTUALLY 53:46.291 --> 53:50.371 STUDY, AND IT'D BE GREAT IF WE HAD TIME TO DO IT, IF YOU 53:50.371 --> 53:55.952 ACTUALLY STUDY THE COVETOUSNESS IN THE SCRIPTURE, YOU'LL FIND, 53:55.952 --> 53:59.251 IN FACT, I WROTE A COUPLE SCRIPTURES DOWN, BUT YOU'LL FIND 53:59.251 --> 54:03.271 THAT IT'S OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH OTHER SINS OF THE FLESH. A LOT 54:03.271 --> 54:07.532 OF COVETOUSNESS IS ASSOCIATED WITH DISHONESTY, IT'S ASSOCIATED 54:07.532 --> 54:12.722 WITH POOR BUSINESS PRACTICES, SHADY DEALS, IT'S OFTEN 54:12.722 --> 54:17.431 ASSOCIATED WITH SEXUAL IMMORALITY, LASCIVIOUSNESS, ALL 54:17.431 --> 54:20.925 OF THE SINS OF THE FLESH, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WITH SOME OF 54:20.925 --> 54:24.092 THE WEALTHIEST OF THE WORLD, IT WASN'T JUST THAT THEY WERE 54:24.092 --> 54:31.322 COVETOUS OF MONEY, THEY USED IT FOR EVIL THINGS. BUT IMAGINE IF 54:31.322 --> 54:36.242 WEALTH IS IN THE HANDS OF THE RIGHTEOUS WHOSE HEART'S FOR GOD, 54:36.242 --> 54:39.782 THEY'RE NOT GONNA USE IT TO ABORT BABIES, THEY'RE NOT GONNA 54:39.782 --> 54:44.012 USE IT TO TRAFFIC CHILDREN, THEY'RE GONNA USE IT FOR 54:44.012 --> 54:48.061 RIGHTEOUS PURPOSES, THEY'RE GONNA USE IT TO HELP THE GOSPEL 54:48.061 --> 54:52.771 GO FORTH IN AN UNHINDERED WAY. THE REASON THE WORLD HAS HAD 54:52.771 --> 54:56.581 SUCH POWER IS BECAUSE THE CHURCH BELIEVES IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE 54:56.581 --> 55:01.862 BROKE AND THE WORLD IS OUT THERE TAKING PROSPERITY BY STORM. IT'S 55:01.862 --> 55:07.081 TIME FOR THE CHURCH, COME ON, TO TAKE GOD'S BIBLICAL PROMISES 55:07.081 --> 55:13.802 THAT GOD WANTS YOU BLESSED. HALLELUJAH. NOW, 1 TIMOTHY 6, I 55:13.802 --> 55:16.239 WISH I COULD BREAK THAT DOWN, BUT LET ME, YOU KNOW WHAT, LET'S 55:16.239 --> 55:20.492 TURN THERE REALLY FAST. I'M GONNA SAY IT IN SPEED. LET'S GO. 55:20.492 --> 55:23.791 FIRST TIMOTHY SIX TALKS ABOUT COVETOUSNESS, AND I'M GONNA JUST 55:23.791 --> 55:26.291 READ THIS TO YOU, AND THE LOVE OF MONEY, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE 55:26.291 --> 55:29.461 HEARD THAT? PEOPLE SAY MONEY'S THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL. NO, WE 55:29.461 --> 55:32.371 KNOW THAT'S NOT TRUE. IT'S THE LOVE OF MONEY THAT IS THE ROOT 55:32.371 --> 55:36.242 OF ALL EVIL. FIRST TIMOTHY SIX, LOOK AT VERSE SIX, "BUT 55:36.242 --> 55:39.692 GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT IS GREAT GAIN." THAT WORD 55:39.692 --> 55:44.402 CONTENTMENT IN THE GREEK IS THE WORD TO BE SUFFICIENT, TO HAVE 55:44.402 --> 55:48.632 ALL SUFFICIENCY. YOU KNOW, IN 2 CORINTHIANS 9, WE QUOTE IT 55:48.632 --> 55:52.322 OFTEN. IT SAYS THAT TO THE SOWER, THE PERSON THAT GIVES 55:52.322 --> 55:58.322 OFFERINGS LIBERALLY AND IS FAITHFUL IN THEIR GIVING, THAT 55:58.322 --> 56:04.141 THEY SHALL HAVE, COME ON, ALL SUFFICIENCY IN A FEW THINGS. NO, 56:04.141 --> 56:06.692 IT SAYS IN ALL THINGS. WELL, DOES ALL THINGS INCLUDE YOUR 56:06.692 --> 56:12.032 FINANCES? YOU SHOULD ALWAYS LIVE A SUFFICIENT LIFE. THAT MEANS 56:12.032 --> 56:15.242 THAT YOU'RE NOT STRUGGLING FROM PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK. YOU'RE NOT 56:15.242 --> 56:18.362 HAVING A HARD TIME PAYING YOUR BILLS. YOU'RE NOT STRUGGLING TO 56:18.362 --> 56:21.302 MAKE ENDS MEET. YOU'RE NOT QUESTIONING WHETHER YOU COULD GO 56:21.302 --> 56:25.442 BUY A NEW DRESS ALL THE TIME. YOU'RE NOT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, 56:25.442 --> 56:28.711 YOU KNOW, DO I HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN BUYING TOILET PAPER OR 56:28.711 --> 56:33.422 PAPER TOWEL? YOU'RE ABLE TO BE SUFFICIENT AND GO THROUGH THE 56:33.422 --> 56:36.536 GROCERY STORE AND GET WHAT YOU NEED FOR YOUR FAMILY AND IF A 56:36.536 --> 56:41.612 FEW EXTRA THINGS HOPS IN YOUR CART, THEN SO BE IT. I MEAN, IF 56:41.612 --> 56:46.561 YOU EVER WENT IN FOR FOUR THINGS AND CAME OUT WITH 15, OH LORDY. 56:46.561 --> 56:49.202 I DID A GROCERY ORDER THE OTHER DAY, I THOUGHT I JUST NEED SOME 56:49.202 --> 56:55.472 LETTUCE. AND OH MY GOODNESS, YOU KNOW, I WENT OUT WITH 12 SACKS. 56:55.472 --> 56:59.431 HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? YOU KNOW, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU SHOULD NOT BE 56:59.431 --> 57:03.782 FEARFUL OF THAT. AMEN. YOU KNOW, I'M SITTING THERE WONDERING IF 57:03.782 --> 57:08.012 YOU COULD BUY YOUR KIDS SOME POPSICLES BECAUSE MONEY IS SO 57:08.012 --> 57:11.942 TIGHT. WE GOTTA BREAK THAT CEILING SOMEHOW. SO 57:11.942 --> 57:14.942 COVETOUSNESS, HE SAID THAT YOU WOULD HAVE ALL SUFFICIENCY WITH 57:14.942 --> 57:17.731 ALL THINGS, GOD, OR I'M SORRY, GO BACK. GODLINESS WITH 57:17.731 --> 57:21.992 CONTENTMENT OR SUFFICIENCY IS A GREAT GAIN. SO GOD WANTS YOU 57:21.992 --> 57:25.172 SUFFICIENT. FOR WE BROUGHT NOTHING INTO THIS WORLD AND WE 57:25.172 --> 57:29.192 CERTAINLY CAN CARRY NOTHING OUT. AND HAVING FOOD AND CLOTHES, LET 57:29.192 --> 57:33.572 US THEREFORE BE CONTENT. THAT WORD CONTENT MEANS THAT YOU'RE 57:33.572 --> 57:38.072 CHILL WITH IT. NOW WE ALWAYS THINK IT MEANS CONTENT AS IF, 57:38.072 --> 57:41.702 OH, I SHOULD HAVE JUST ENOUGH AND NOT MORE. I'M JUST CONTENT 57:41.702 --> 57:46.922 WITH MY RIPPED UP SOFA. I'M JUST CONTENT WITH THESE 57:46.922 --> 57:51.331 HAND-ME-DOWNS. I'M CONTENT. THIS IS WHAT I LIVE IN AND I'M 57:51.331 --> 57:56.072 CONTENT. NO, CONTENT MEANS THAT WE ARE TO BE CONTENT AND CONTENT 57:56.072 --> 58:00.032 MEANS THAT WE DON'T, PART OF NOT BEING CONTENT FINANCIALLY IS TO 58:00.032 --> 58:03.902 BE FINANCIALLY FEARFUL. OKAY, YOU'RE NOT CONTENT WHEN YOU'RE 58:03.902 --> 58:08.041 TERRIFIED THAT YOU CAN'T, CAN YOU PAY YOUR MORTGAGE. YOU ARE 58:08.041 --> 58:11.672 NOT CONTENT, THAT IS NOT CONTENTMENT. YOU'RE NOT CONTENT 58:11.672 --> 58:15.422 WHEN YOU'RE WONDERING WHETHER OR NOT YOU'RE GONNA LOSE YOUR JOB. 58:15.422 --> 58:19.021 THAT'S NOT FINANCIAL CONTENTMENT. GOD WANTS YOU TO BE 58:19.021 --> 58:24.121 SUFFICIENT. SO LET US BE CONTENT IN THE SITUATION WE'RE IN. BE 58:24.121 --> 58:29.222 CONTENT WITH THE STUFF WE HAVE. BE AT PEACE WITH IT. DON'T BE 58:29.222 --> 58:32.847 WORKED UP. AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY, AND HE CLARIFIES IT A 58:32.847 --> 58:37.472 LITTLE BIT, HE SAID, "FOR THEY THAT WILL BE RICH FALL INTO 58:37.472 --> 58:40.922 TEMPTATION." OH, SEE THERE, PASTOR BRENDA, SEE? IF YOU HAVE 58:40.922 --> 58:44.882 A DESIRE TO HAVE WEALTH, YOU'RE GONNA FALL INTO TEMPTATION. NOW 58:44.882 --> 58:49.652 THAT WORD FALL OR WILL MEANS, IF YOU LOOK IT UP IN OTHER 58:49.652 --> 58:54.271 TRANSLATIONS, IT MEANS TO HAVE A LONGING LUST FOR MONEY. NOW JUST 58:54.271 --> 58:58.411 BECAUSE YOU MAKE MONEY AND ARE WEALTHY DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE A 58:58.411 --> 59:03.152 LONGING LUST FOR FINANCES. THERE ARE THINGS THAT GOD HAS DONE IN 59:03.152 --> 59:08.402 OUR LIFE SUPERNATURALLY AND PROSPERED US THAT WE DID NOT 59:08.402 --> 59:13.681 HAVE A LONGING LUST FOR. IT JUST HAPPENED. COME ON. I MEAN, YOU 59:13.681 --> 59:16.952 KNOW, THAT IT SHOCKED US. AND I'M LIKE, WOW, GOD, YOU REALLY 59:16.952 --> 59:19.862 BLESSED US RIGHT HERE. YOU REALLY DID THIS. YOU KNOW, I'M 59:19.862 --> 59:23.762 SURPRISED BY IT. THERE WAS NO LONGING LUST TO HAVE THAT 59:23.762 --> 59:28.831 HAPPEN. OKAY, PEOPLE THAT HAVE A LONGING LUST FOR MONEY DO CRAZY 59:28.831 --> 59:33.692 THINGS. OKAY, THEY BECOME SHADY SALESPEOPLE. THEY CHEAT ON THEIR 59:33.692 --> 59:39.541 TAXES. THEY DO DISHONEST THINGS. OKAY, ARE YOU TRACKING WITH ME? 59:39.541 --> 59:43.771 SO THOSE THAT HAVE A LUST TO BE RICH. LISTEN, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE 59:43.771 --> 59:47.101 SAW BACK IN 2020, REMEMBER ALL THE LOOTING THAT HAPPENED AFTER 59:47.101 --> 59:51.362 THE GEORGE FLOYD RIOTS AND PEOPLE WERE GOING INTO STORES 59:51.362 --> 59:57.931 AND TAKING OUT TELEVISIONS AND STEREOS AND ROBBING PLACES $250 59:57.931 --> 01:00:00.811 TENNIS SHOES OR WHATEVER THEY COST, I DON'T EVEN KNOW, BUT 01:00:00.811 --> 01:00:04.351 THEY WERE EXPENSIVE. AND THEY WENT AND TOOK ALL THESE OUT OF 01:00:04.351 --> 01:00:08.521 THE STORE. THAT IS THOSE THAT DESIRE TO BE RICH FALL INTO A 01:00:08.521 --> 01:00:15.481 SNARE. BECAUSE THOSE THAT HAVE A LUST TO HAVE WEALTH AND GAIN IT 01:00:15.481 --> 01:00:20.266 BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY WILL FALL INTO A SNARE. BUT IF YOU, 01:00:20.266 --> 01:00:23.731 YOU KNOW, AND BY THE WAY, IF YOU THINK THAT GOD DOESN'T WANT YOU 01:00:23.731 --> 01:00:28.262 TO BE RICH OR HAVE WEALTH IN THIS WORLD, THEN DON'T TAKE A 01:00:28.262 --> 01:00:33.762 RAISE AT WORK AGAIN. OKAY, PEOPLE THAT WILL PREACH THAT, 01:00:33.762 --> 01:00:37.121 COME ON, I'M GONNA PREACH SENSE TO YOU RIGHT NOW. PEOPLE THAT 01:00:37.121 --> 01:00:40.871 WILL PREACH THAT WILL SIT THERE AND GO, WELL, I THINK I NEED TO 01:00:40.871 --> 01:00:45.552 GO FIND A JOB THAT PAYS ME MORE. RIGHT? PEOPLE THAT, THEY'LL SAY, 01:00:45.552 --> 01:00:49.931 THEY'LL STAND THERE AND SAY, ALL DAY LONG, WELL, I DON'T KNOW 01:00:49.931 --> 01:00:53.052 THAT GOD WANTS ME BLESSED. AND THEN TURN AROUND IN THE NEXT 01:00:53.052 --> 01:00:58.302 SENTENCE AND GO AND TRY TO GET A RAISE. NOW THAT MAKES NO SENSE 01:00:58.302 --> 01:01:03.791 TO ME. NONE AT ALL. OKAY, IF YOU THINK GOD WANTS YOU TO BE POOR, 01:01:03.791 --> 01:01:13.661 THEN EMBRACE IT. EMBRACE IT, TAKE HOLD OF IT. SELL YOUR STUFF 01:01:13.661 --> 01:01:19.902 AND LIVE ON A CAMP CHAIR UNDER A BRIDGE. IF THAT IS HOW YOU 01:01:19.902 --> 01:01:26.472 BELIEVE. SERIOUSLY, THAT MAKES NO SENSE. SO, THOSE THAT FALL, 01:01:26.472 --> 01:01:29.231 WHEN PEOPLE WENT INTO THESE STORES AND THEY RIOTED AND DID 01:01:29.231 --> 01:01:33.101 ALL OF THESE THINGS, AND MY NECKLACE IS NOT TOUCHING THAT 01:01:33.101 --> 01:01:35.929 MIC, SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON UP IN HERE. BUT PASTOR, 01:01:35.929 --> 01:01:36.965 YOU KNOW, PASTOR BRENDA 01:01:36.996 --> 01:01:40.871 AND LAPELS GET ALONG REALLY GOOD. THEY THAT WILL BE 01:01:40.871 --> 01:01:45.041 RICH OR HAVE A LONGING LUST, THAT'S WHAT THAT MEANS, WILL 01:01:45.041 --> 01:01:49.271 FALL INTO TEMPTATION AND A SNARE. THOSE PEOPLE, YOU CAN 01:01:49.271 --> 01:01:54.882 COMMIT THAT SIN AND NOT HAVE A DIME TO YOUR NAME. OKAY, PEOPLE 01:01:54.882 --> 01:01:58.391 GO ROB A CONVENIENCE STORE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LONGING LUST 01:01:58.391 --> 01:02:03.762 TO GET MONEY IN THEIR HANDS. AND INTO MANY FOOLISH AND HURTFUL 01:02:03.762 --> 01:02:06.882 LUSTS, WHICH WE SAW, WHICH DROWN MEN IN DESTRUCTION AND 01:02:06.882 --> 01:02:11.652 PERDITION. WE'VE SEEN IT. FOR THE LOVE, THAT WORD LOVE THERE, 01:02:11.652 --> 01:02:16.001 IF YOU LOOK IT UP, IS THE WORD AVARICE. IT MEANS TO HAVE AN 01:02:16.001 --> 01:02:20.922 INSATIABLE THIRST TO GET A HOLD OF MONEY. THAT'S WHY PEOPLE 01:02:20.922 --> 01:02:23.411 STEAL AND ROB THINGS. THEY DON'T WANNA WORK FOR IT, THEY JUST 01:02:23.411 --> 01:02:27.161 WANNA TAKE WHAT SOMEBODY ELSE HAS. BY THE WAY, AND THAT'S WHAT 01:02:27.161 --> 01:02:32.831 SOCIALISM IS. FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL, 01:02:32.831 --> 01:02:37.902 NOT SOME, BUT ALL EVIL. OKAY, THEN SO I WANNA SAY, BUT WHAT IF 01:02:37.902 --> 01:02:40.902 YOU HAVE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO LOVE GOD AND WANNA HANDLE MONEY 01:02:40.902 --> 01:02:44.742 RIGHT? HOW WILL THEY DO IT? IT WON'T BE THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL, 01:02:44.742 --> 01:02:47.831 IT'LL BE THE ROOT OF ALL BLESSING. THINK ABOUT THAT. 01:02:48.942 --> 01:02:52.692 WHICH WHILE SOME COVETED AFTER, THEY ERRED FROM THE FAITH. SO 01:02:52.692 --> 01:02:57.132 THEIR FOCUS BECAME THEIR WEALTH AND NOT GOD. I'M GONNA TELL YOU, 01:02:57.132 --> 01:03:04.001 TITHING WILL CURE YOU FROM HAVING A LUST FOR THINGS. SO 01:03:04.001 --> 01:03:07.722 DON'T ASSOCIATE WEALTH WITH COVETOUSNESS. THERE ARE PEOPLE 01:03:07.722 --> 01:03:12.581 THAT HARDLY HAVE 10 CENTS THAT COMMIT THAT SIN EVERY DAY. SO 01:03:12.581 --> 01:03:16.032 COVETOUSNESS AND WEALTH DO NOT NECESSARILY GO TOGETHER. SO 01:03:16.032 --> 01:03:19.992 THEY'RE NOT THE SAME THING. SO ANYWAY, LET'S TALK NOW, LET'S 01:03:19.992 --> 01:03:22.722 SKIP FORWARD. I'M GONNA GO QUICK. I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME 01:03:22.722 --> 01:03:27.521 ALREADY. ARE YOU GETTING ANYTHING SO FAR? AMEN. LET ME 01:03:27.521 --> 01:03:30.702 GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF REASONS WHY GOD'S PEOPLE OUGHT TO PROSPER. 01:03:30.702 --> 01:03:36.101 OKAY. SOME WILL SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, YEAH, FINANCIAL BLESSING 01:03:36.101 --> 01:03:40.152 CAN COME WITH HARD WORK, BUT WE'LL STILL GO ON TO CRITICIZE 01:03:40.152 --> 01:03:43.481 EXERCISING ANY FAITH FOR FINANCES. I THINK WE OUGHT TO 01:03:43.481 --> 01:03:47.742 EXERCISE MORE FAITH. I DON'T THINK WE EXERCISE ENOUGH. I 01:03:47.742 --> 01:03:50.262 THINK ANOTHER REASON GOD'S PEOPLE SHOULD PROSPER, IT'S 01:03:50.262 --> 01:03:54.972 ENOUGH OF ENOUGH OF ENOUGH THAT THE WORLD HAS ALL THE FUNDS, 01:03:54.972 --> 01:03:58.842 OKAY? THESE SECULAR COMPANIES THAT BUILD THESE BIG THINGS, YOU 01:03:58.842 --> 01:04:01.121 KNOW? I MEAN, THEY WROTE THAT HIT PIECE ON THE CHURCH, "OH, 01:04:01.121 --> 01:04:04.065 THEY HAVE THIS BIG OLD BUILDING, AND THEY'RE JUST BUYING UP ALL 01:04:04.065 --> 01:04:07.782 OF MILLARD AND, YOU KNOW, AND ALL THAT." AND I'M LIKE, "WHAT, 01:04:07.782 --> 01:04:12.492 FOUR BUILDINGS?" YOU CAN HARDLY CALL THE ONE ACROSS THE ROAD A 01:04:12.492 --> 01:04:17.802 BUILDING. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, PAINT CAN'T EVEN FIX THE PIZZA 01:04:17.802 --> 01:04:22.211 BUILDING. HELP US, LORD. IT'S IN ROUGH SHAPE, I'LL BE HONEST WITH 01:04:22.211 --> 01:04:25.302 YOU, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE PROTECTING OUR PARKING, AND IT'S 01:04:25.302 --> 01:04:28.481 GOOD. AND WE'RE GOOD TO OUR TENANTS, BY THE WAY, AND WE 01:04:28.481 --> 01:04:31.481 TREAT THEM ALL REALLY WELL. BUT, YOU KNOW, WELL, THEY'RE BUYING 01:04:31.481 --> 01:04:34.722 UP ALL OF MILLARD AND ALL THAT, AND I'M LIKE, "WELL, IF YOUR 01:04:34.722 --> 01:04:37.405 COMPANY BOUGHT UP ALL OF MILLARD, YOU WOULDN'T BE UPSET." 01:04:39.217 --> 01:04:43.181 PEOPLE JUST, IT'S CRAZY. THEY'RE JUST MAD BECAUSE THE KINGDOM HAS 01:04:43.181 --> 01:04:47.681 IT. OKAY? THE WICKED SHALL SEE YOUR PROSPERITY AND BE GRIEVED 01:04:47.681 --> 01:04:51.617 BY IT. AND GUESS WHAT THOUGH? BUT THE CHURCH PEOPLE, WE'RE 01:04:51.617 --> 01:04:56.891 GLAD BY IT. AMEN. AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU GET TO COME TO A PRETTY 01:04:56.891 --> 01:05:01.331 CHURCH? COME ON, SOMEBODY. I DON'T MIND IT AT ALL. I PREACHED 01:05:01.331 --> 01:05:04.632 IN SOME REALLY ROUGH LOOKING CHURCHES IN MY DAY. AND LISTEN, 01:05:04.632 --> 01:05:08.501 IF THAT'S ALL THEY GOT, I'M OKAY WITH THAT. BUT CAN I JUST TELL 01:05:08.501 --> 01:05:11.922 YOU, IF YOU'VE GONE TO A REALLY BEAT UP CHURCH OR YOU'VE GONE TO 01:05:11.922 --> 01:05:15.382 A PRETTY CHURCH, IT'S A LITTLE MORE FUN TO GO TO A NICE ONE. 01:05:15.382 --> 01:05:22.992 HALLELUJAH. OH BOY. ALL RIGHT. SEVEN BIBLICAL GUIDELINES FOR 01:05:22.992 --> 01:05:27.282 PROSPERITY. LET'S GO QUICK. YOU READY? NUMBER ONE, THE FIRST TWO 01:05:27.282 --> 01:05:31.331 ARE THE SUPERNATURAL ONES, TITHES AND OFFERINGS. NOW YOU 01:05:31.331 --> 01:05:34.422 KNEW THAT WAS COMING, THAT I'M GONNA SAY THAT, BUT THE BIBLE 01:05:34.422 --> 01:05:38.442 SAYS, PROVERBS 3, DON'T, YOU KNOW, JUST, YOU KNOW, SAY, WELL, 01:05:38.442 --> 01:05:41.952 PASTOR BRENDA, IT'S JUST BEEN SO HARD TO TITHE, AND MONEY, MY 01:05:41.952 --> 01:05:45.371 MONEY'S TITHED, AND YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST, I CAN'T, AND SO 01:05:45.371 --> 01:05:48.431 PEOPLE IGNORE IT. I LOVE WHAT R.T. KENDALL SAID MANY YEARS 01:05:48.431 --> 01:05:51.251 AGO, IT WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SAYINGS IN HIS BOOK ON TITHING. 01:05:51.251 --> 01:05:57.072 HE SAID MOST PEOPLE ARE ALLERGIC TO TITHING BECAUSE THEY DON'T 01:05:57.072 --> 01:06:04.271 WANNA GIVE UP THAT TENTH OF THEIR WEALTH. BUT IF YOU CONNECT 01:06:04.271 --> 01:06:07.902 YOURSELF TO THE PROMISE OF TITHING AND YOU REALLY BELIEVE 01:06:07.902 --> 01:06:11.081 THE BIBLE AND WHAT IT SAYS, I MEAN, YOU THINK ABOUT, I CAN 01:06:11.081 --> 01:06:13.481 PICTURE A LOT OF THINGS AND WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE THE WINDOWS OF 01:06:13.481 --> 01:06:18.402 HEAVEN OPENED OVER ME. I CAN THINK, AND THE SCRIPTURE SAYS 01:06:18.402 --> 01:06:21.521 THAT THERE'LL NOT BE ROOM ENOUGH TO RECEIVE THAT. NOW, COME ON 01:06:21.521 --> 01:06:25.811 SOMEBODY, THAT IS NOT AN EMOTIONAL BLESSING. NOT HAVE 01:06:25.811 --> 01:06:31.541 ROOM TO RECEIVE IT. OKAY, THAT MEANS, I DON'T KNOW, YOUR HOUSE, 01:06:31.541 --> 01:06:34.271 YOUR BANK ACCOUNT, I MEAN, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THEY DIDN'T 01:06:34.271 --> 01:06:37.992 HAVE THE INTERNET, BUT MAYBE IT MEANT THAT YOUR BARN WOULD BE 01:06:37.992 --> 01:06:41.112 TOO FULL. YOU WOULDN'T HAVE ROOM, YOU'D HAVE TO BUILD A NEW 01:06:41.112 --> 01:06:44.891 BARN. YOU HEARD ME TELL THE STORY ABOUT OUR FREEZER. I MEAN, 01:06:44.891 --> 01:06:47.231 YOU KNOW, AND WE FINALLY RETIRED. ACTUALLY, IT'S NOT 01:06:47.231 --> 01:06:53.327 RETIRED, IT'S JUST, IT'S RUNNING UNUSED. I FINALLY TOLD PASTOR, I 01:06:53.327 --> 01:06:59.681 SAID, I NEED A NEW ONE THAT DEFROSTS ITSELF. WE CAN KEEP IT 01:06:59.681 --> 01:07:04.121 AROUND, BUT YOU KNOW, IT CAN SIT THERE AND WE'LL JUST REMEMBER. 01:07:04.121 --> 01:07:07.422 BUT YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES GOD WILL JUST BLESS YOU IN WAYS YOU DON'T 01:07:07.422 --> 01:07:10.242 HAVE ROOM TO RECEIVE IT, AND YOU BETTER GET READY FOR THAT. AND 01:07:10.242 --> 01:07:14.621 PREPARE YOUR HOUSE. YOU KNOW, I'VE TOLD PEOPLE BEFORE, IF 01:07:14.621 --> 01:07:18.192 YOU'RE BELIEVING GOD TO HAVE A CHILD AND DOCTORS HAVE TOLD YOU, 01:07:18.192 --> 01:07:24.702 YOU'RE BARREN, MAKE A NURSERY. DO SOME BOLD THINGS. OKAY, 01:07:24.702 --> 01:07:29.592 BELIEVE THE WORD OF THE LORD. BELIEVE GOD'S WORD. IF HE SAID 01:07:29.592 --> 01:07:34.242 HE'LL OPEN THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN AND POUR OUT A BLESSING TO THE 01:07:34.242 --> 01:07:38.202 TITHER AND THOSE THAT GIVE THEIR OFFERINGS, THEN TAKE IT AND 01:07:38.202 --> 01:07:42.702 BELIEVE IT AS IF GOD CAME DOWN AND SAT WITH YOU ON THE COUCH 01:07:42.702 --> 01:07:49.632 AND SAID IT TO YOU PERSONALLY. AMEN. SO PROVERBS 3:9, HONOR 01:07:49.632 --> 01:07:53.472 THE LORD WITH YOUR SUBSTANCE. OKAY, THAT'S ONE OF THE PREMIER 01:07:53.472 --> 01:07:56.532 WAYS TO HONOR GOD. I MEAN, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT TITHING 01:07:56.532 --> 01:08:01.690 THAT UNLOCKS YOU. "WELL, PASTOR BRENDA, IT'S HARD, I'VE BEEN 01:08:01.690 --> 01:08:06.492 UNABLE." WELL, START HONORING GOD SOMEWHERE, OKAY? HONOR GOD 01:08:06.492 --> 01:08:10.961 WITH YOUR SUBSTANCE. DON'T JUST IGNORE IT. "WELL, I CAN'T 01:08:10.961 --> 01:08:14.621 TITHE." YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TURN YOUR SPIRITUAL DEAFNESS ON EVERY 01:08:14.621 --> 01:08:22.061 SUNDAY OFFERING. NO, RESPOND, START, DO SOMETHING, REACT, ACT 01:08:22.061 --> 01:08:25.872 TO IT. START TELLING YOURSELF, YOU KNOW WHAT, I BELIEVE THE 01:08:25.872 --> 01:08:29.921 WORD. HONOR THE LORD WITH YOUR SUBSTANCE, AND WATCH THIS, THE 01:08:29.921 --> 01:08:34.841 FIRST FRUITS OF ALL YOUR INCREASE. NOW, DO WE BELIEVE 01:08:34.841 --> 01:08:42.551 VERSE 10 OR NOT? SO SHALL THY BARNS BE FILLED WITH WHAT? WITH 01:08:42.551 --> 01:08:48.372 PLENTY. WELL, THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE NOT HAVING ENOUGH. YOUR 01:08:48.372 --> 01:08:51.372 BARNS WILL BE FILLED WITH PLENTY AND YOUR PRESSES BURST OUT WITH 01:08:51.372 --> 01:08:55.032 NEW WINE. NOW WE WON'T GO ON TO READ MALACHI, 2 CORINTHIANS, WE 01:08:55.032 --> 01:08:57.851 ALREADY QUOTED IT. YOU'LL HAVE ALL SUFFICIENCY IN ALL THINGS. 01:08:57.851 --> 01:09:02.412 BELIEVE THE PROMISES CONNECTED TO TITHING. BELIEVE IT. HOLD ON 01:09:02.412 --> 01:09:05.681 TO IT. STAND WITH IT. IF YOU'RE GOING THROUGH A HARD TIME AND 01:09:05.681 --> 01:09:08.716 YOU'RE A TITHER, DON'T GO, "WELL, YOU KNOW, GOD, I TITHE. 01:09:08.716 --> 01:09:12.702 "I TITHE, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS HAPPENED." NO, SAY, "I'M A 01:09:12.702 --> 01:09:18.702 TITHER AND I HAVE TITHER'S RIGHTS. AND WHATEVER THE DEVIL 01:09:18.702 --> 01:09:21.902 HAS STOLEN FROM THIS TITHER, HE'S GOING TO PAY BACK TO ME." 01:09:24.702 --> 01:09:27.612 TAKE A HOLD OF THE SCRIPTURE, QUOTE IT, BELIEVE IT, HOLD YOUR 01:09:27.612 --> 01:09:31.181 BIBLE UP. I REMEMBER ONE TIME WE WERE FIRST MARRIED, WE HAD A 01:09:31.181 --> 01:09:35.261 WHOLE BUNCH OF BILLS COME DUE AND NO MONEY TO PAY HIM. AND WE 01:09:35.261 --> 01:09:37.631 HAD A LITTLE MONEY, BUT IT WAS NEVER ENOUGH. ANYBODY BEEN IN 01:09:37.631 --> 01:09:40.511 THAT ONE? AND YOU KNOW, YOU'RE LOOKING AT THEM. WE DIDN'T HAVE 01:09:40.511 --> 01:09:44.442 THEM COME ON THE INTERNET. THEY USED TO COME IN THE MAIL. SO 01:09:44.442 --> 01:09:47.742 HERE THEY WERE, AND ONE WOULD COME, AND I'D THINK, OKAY, GOD, 01:09:47.742 --> 01:09:49.992 I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU FOR THAT ONE UNTIL ANOTHER ONE CAME THE NEXT 01:09:49.992 --> 01:09:52.902 DAY. AND WE WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PAY 01:09:52.902 --> 01:09:57.792 EVERYTHING. AND SO FINALLY ONE DAY, PASTOR HANK TOOK HIM INTO 01:09:57.792 --> 01:10:01.511 THIS LITTLE SIDE ROOM IN OUR APARTMENT, AND HE THREW HIM IN 01:10:01.511 --> 01:10:03.671 THERE, AND HE SAID, "GOD, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT 01:10:03.671 --> 01:10:07.481 THESE BILLS." AND HE THREW THEM UP AND SAID, "GOD, CATCH." AND 01:10:07.481 --> 01:10:10.301 THEN WALKED OUT AND SHUT THE DOOR. AND THEY SCATTERED ALL 01:10:10.301 --> 01:10:16.391 OVER THE FLOOR. HE SAID, "GOD, I SAID CATCH." AND NOTHING, WE 01:10:16.391 --> 01:10:20.442 JUST, YOU KNOW, WAITED, LEFT THEM OUT THERE. SO FINALLY ONE 01:10:20.442 --> 01:10:23.771 DAY WE WENT IN, HE GOES, "ALL RIGHT, GOD, I AM STANDING ON 01:10:23.771 --> 01:10:26.981 YOUR WORD "FOR THESE BILLS TO GET PAID. "I AM STANDING AND I 01:10:26.981 --> 01:10:30.072 AM BELIEVING "EVERY ONE OF THESE ARE GONNA GET PAID SOMEWHERE, 01:10:30.072 --> 01:10:35.367 SOMEHOW." AND SO HE SAID, "I'M STANDING ON THE WORD." YOU KNOW, 01:10:35.367 --> 01:10:40.407 WE USE THAT PHRASE, "STAND ON GOD'S WORD." SO HE TOOK HIS 01:10:40.407 --> 01:10:44.307 BIBLE AND LAID IT ON THE BILLS AND STEPPED ON IT AND SAID, 01:10:44.307 --> 01:10:48.507 "GOD, I'M STANDING!" AND YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THAT SOUNDS JUST 01:10:48.507 --> 01:10:51.807 SO CRAZY. AND WE WEREN'T RUDE ABOUT IT, BUT WE TOOK, AND SO I 01:10:51.807 --> 01:10:53.846 THOUGHT, WELL, I GUESS I BETTER DO THAT TOO. WE HADN'T BEEN 01:10:53.846 --> 01:10:56.877 MARRIED THAT LONG. I'M JUST BEING, SO TRYING TO BE IN 01:10:56.877 --> 01:10:59.846 AGREEMENT. SO I TOOK MY BIBLE AND WE BOTH STOOD IN THERE. AND 01:10:59.846 --> 01:11:03.688 WE SAID, GOD, WE BELIEVE AS WE STAND ON YOUR WORD PHYSICALLY 01:11:03.688 --> 01:11:08.217 THAT THESE BILLS WILL BE PAID. AND YOU KNOW, THROUGH A SERIES 01:11:08.217 --> 01:11:11.367 OF MIRACLES, GOD PAID OFF EVERY ONE OF THOSE. ONE WAS A TAX 01:11:11.367 --> 01:11:16.498 BILL. AND THIS WAS IN THE EARLY 90S. WE OWED $3,000 TO THE IRS. 01:11:16.498 --> 01:11:19.738 I MEAN, IT FELT LIKE A MILLION DOLLARS. I THOUGHT, LORD JESUS, 01:11:19.738 --> 01:11:22.438 I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE'RE EVER GETTING OUT OF THIS ONE. 01:11:22.438 --> 01:11:26.578 AND, YOU KNOW, GOD USED SOMEBODY, SOMETHING WORKED OUT 01:11:26.578 --> 01:11:29.697 AND TURNED AROUND, AND YOU KNOW, WE PAID OFF EVERY SINGLE ONE OF 01:11:29.697 --> 01:11:33.688 THESE AND A LOAN THAT WE HAD ON OUR CAR. I'M TELLING YOU, THE 01:11:33.688 --> 01:11:37.467 WORD OF GOD IS TRUE, AND IT WILL WORK IF YOU PUT IT TO PRACTICE. 01:11:37.467 --> 01:11:39.926 NOW, HERE IS WHY TITHING AND GIVING OFFERINGS IS SO 01:11:39.926 --> 01:11:44.188 IMPORTANT. THAT CONNECTED TO THE SECOND ONE, WHICH I'VE ALREADY 01:11:44.188 --> 01:11:47.636 BEEN TALKING ABOUT A LITTLE BIT, WHICH IS TO HAVE FAITH FOR 01:11:47.636 --> 01:11:50.846 PROSPERITY. NOW, BELIEVE IT, WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A 01:11:50.846 --> 01:11:54.268 MINUTE. BUT THE FIRST TWO, TITHING AND GIVING OFFERINGS AND 01:11:54.268 --> 01:11:58.947 HAVING FAITH TO PROSPER ARE THE TWO THINGS THAT CONNECT GOD TO 01:11:58.947 --> 01:12:02.877 YOUR MONEY. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO CONNECT GOD, HOW MANY OF 01:12:02.877 --> 01:12:06.657 YOU WANT GOD TO BE CONNECTED TO YOUR FINANCES? RAISE YOUR HAND. 01:12:06.657 --> 01:12:09.867 COME ON, RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU REALLY WANT GOD TO BE CONNECTED 01:12:09.867 --> 01:12:12.478 TO YOUR FINANCES. YOU KNOW THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO CONNECT 01:12:12.478 --> 01:12:16.228 GOD TO YOUR FINANCES BUT TWO THINGS. NUMBER ONE, YOU TITHE 01:12:16.228 --> 01:12:19.707 AND YOU GIVE OFFERINGS AS THE SCRIPTURE TEACHES, OKAY? AND YOU 01:12:19.707 --> 01:12:22.287 BE OBEDIENT TO THAT. AND ASK GOD, IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING WITH 01:12:22.287 --> 01:12:24.747 YOUR TITHE, THEN YOU ASK GOD TO HELP YOU. YOU KNOW HE'LL HELP 01:12:24.747 --> 01:12:27.627 YOU. HE'LL HELP WALK YOU THROUGH IT. HE'S NOT UP THERE LIKE, "AH, 01:12:27.627 --> 01:12:32.787 I'M GONNA GET YOU." NO, GOD'LL HELP YOU. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T 01:12:32.787 --> 01:12:38.337 ASK GOD TO HELP THEM EMBRACE THE TRUTH OF THE TITHE. SO TITHING 01:12:38.337 --> 01:12:40.858 AND GIVING OFFERINGS CONNECTS GOD TO YOUR MONEY. YOU KNOW HOW 01:12:40.858 --> 01:12:45.028 YOU KNOW? JESUS SAID IT. HE SAID, "LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES 01:12:45.028 --> 01:12:49.497 TREASURES IN HEAVEN "WHERE MOTH AND RUST CAN'T CORRUPT IT." 01:12:49.497 --> 01:12:53.310 OKAY, YOU PUT IT HERE ALL ON EARTH AND YOU JUST INVEST IT OR 01:12:53.310 --> 01:12:57.478 DO WHATEVER WITH IT ON EARTH, IT IS SUBJECT TO DECAY. BUT IF YOU 01:12:57.478 --> 01:13:01.167 CONNECT IT TO GOD, FIRST OF ALL, YOU LAY UP FOR YOURSELF, THIS IS 01:13:01.167 --> 01:13:04.557 MATTHEW SIX, YOU LAY UP FOR YOURSELF TREASURE IN HEAVEN. 01:13:04.557 --> 01:13:07.886 JESUS, THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID THAT. LAY UP, WELL, I MEAN, WHO 01:13:07.886 --> 01:13:11.127 DOESN'T WANT TREASURE IN HEAVEN? I MEAN, THAT SCRIPTURE RIGHT 01:13:11.127 --> 01:13:13.707 THERE, I MEAN, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT GOES ON DOWN HERE. I'VE GOT 01:13:13.707 --> 01:13:17.636 TREASURE IN HEAVEN. BUT YOU KNOW, TREASURE IN HEAVEN ALSO 01:13:17.636 --> 01:13:23.907 AFFECTS WHAT YOU DO HERE ON THE EARTH. PRAISE THE LORD. SO, 01:13:23.907 --> 01:13:28.497 TREASURE, JESUS SAID, YOU LAY UP TREASURE IN HEAVEN. AND THEN HE 01:13:28.497 --> 01:13:31.078 GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT, DON'T BE AFRAID OF WHAT YOU'RE GONNA EAT 01:13:31.078 --> 01:13:33.148 OR YOU'RE GONNA DRINK, WHAT CLOTHES YOU'RE GONNA WEAR. DON'T 01:13:33.148 --> 01:13:36.596 WORRY ABOUT ALL THOSE THINGS. DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO ALL THAT. 01:13:36.596 --> 01:13:40.108 WELL, WHY CAN A PERSON DO THAT? AND I READ THAT SCRIPTURE ONE 01:13:40.108 --> 01:13:42.926 NIGHT, PRAYING ABOUT FINANCES, PROBABLY SOMETHING RELATED TO 01:13:42.926 --> 01:13:46.797 THE MINISTRY. WE'VE BEEN AT THIS A HOT MINUTE. AND I'VE HAD MANY 01:13:46.797 --> 01:13:49.797 A NIGHT PRAYERS WITH GOD UNTIL I'M PAYING FOR THE STUFF THAT HE 01:13:49.797 --> 01:13:52.797 CALLS US TO DO. PASTOR HAS ALL KIND OF FAITH. I HAVE TO GET THE 01:13:52.797 --> 01:13:55.797 FAITH FOR THE MONEY. AND HE'S LIKE, "YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA 01:13:55.797 --> 01:13:58.546 BUILD THIS "AND GO OVER HERE AND DO THAT." I'M LIKE, "HONEY, DO 01:13:58.546 --> 01:14:01.978 YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT COSTS?" AND HE'S LIKE, "GOD WILL DO IT." 01:14:01.978 --> 01:14:05.931 I MEAN, HE, I DON'T KNOW, HE HAS MORE FAITH FOR PROSPERING THAN I 01:14:05.931 --> 01:14:09.957 GUESS I DO. I HAVE FAITH FOR IT THOUGH. AND SO I WAS UP PRAYING 01:14:09.957 --> 01:14:14.188 WITH THE LORD, I THOUGHT, "GOD, I'M JUST ASKING YOU TO WORK THIS 01:14:14.188 --> 01:14:18.447 OUT "AND DO THAT, AND IT SEEMS FEARFUL." WELL, THE REASON 01:14:18.447 --> 01:14:22.136 THOUGH, AND THE LORD REMINDED ME OF THIS, THE REASON THAT YOU 01:14:22.136 --> 01:14:24.747 DON'T HAVE TO LAY UP WONDERING ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE GONNA EAT, 01:14:24.747 --> 01:14:27.207 COME ON, THAT'S WHAT JESUS WAS SAYING, WHATEVER THE PROVISION 01:14:27.207 --> 01:14:30.926 IS, WHAT YOU'RE GONNA WEAR, IS BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU HAVE 01:14:30.926 --> 01:14:35.127 TREASURE IN HEAVEN. OKAY, I WISH I COULD TEACH ON THAT WHOLE 01:14:35.127 --> 01:14:37.828 CHAPTER, IT'S AN AMAZING, AMAZING ONE. MAYBE WE'LL DO IT 01:14:37.828 --> 01:14:42.447 OVER A MONTH IN THE OFFERINGS ON SUNDAY, I DON'T KNOW. BUT THEN 01:14:42.447 --> 01:14:46.617 JESUS GOES ON AND HE SAYS IN VERSE 33, AND BY THE WAY, IT'S A 01:14:46.617 --> 01:14:51.386 FINANCIAL SCRIPTURE, "SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS 01:14:51.386 --> 01:14:55.978 RIGHTEOUSNESS." WELL, THAT SCRIPTURE THAT WE SEE QUOTED AT 01:14:55.978 --> 01:15:00.148 FOOTBALL GAMES AND WE SEE ALL OVER THE INTERNET AND PEOPLE 01:15:00.148 --> 01:15:06.837 QUOTE SO OFTEN, THAT VERSE IS IN A FINANCIAL SERMON. THINK ABOUT 01:15:06.837 --> 01:15:11.278 THAT. JESUS, GO READ IT IN CONTEXT. JESUS IS TEACHING ON 01:15:11.278 --> 01:15:15.386 MONEY. AND HE SAID, "BUT IF YOU WILL SEEK FIRST GOD'S KINGDOM 01:15:15.386 --> 01:15:19.797 "AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, ALL THESE THINGS." OKAY, HE DIDN'T 01:15:19.797 --> 01:15:22.197 SAY EMOTIONAL PEACE, HE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING. HE SAID, NO, HE 01:15:22.197 --> 01:15:25.438 WAS TALKING ABOUT MATERIAL STUFF. HE SAID, "ALL THESE 01:15:25.438 --> 01:15:29.636 THINGS WILL BE ADDED TO YOU. "SO YOU'LL NEVER BE SHORT OF 01:15:29.636 --> 01:15:34.886 ANYTHING." BUT THE ONLY WAY THAT WE CONNECT GOD TO OUR MONEY IS 01:15:34.886 --> 01:15:39.837 THROUGH TITHES AND OFFERINGS. THAT'S THE SUPERNATURAL KISS OF 01:15:39.837 --> 01:15:43.467 GOD TO OUR FINANCES. THAT'S WHAT THE WORLD DOESN'T HAVE. ALL THE 01:15:43.467 --> 01:15:47.096 PEOPLE THAT ARE OUT THERE, THEY MAY LOOK WEALTHY TODAY, BUT LOOK 01:15:47.096 --> 01:15:51.688 HOW MANY WEALTHY PEOPLE LOST THEIR WHOLE FORTUNE OVERNIGHT 01:15:51.688 --> 01:15:56.037 BECAUSE OF SOMETHING HAPPENING. THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED, THINGS 01:15:56.037 --> 01:16:01.078 HAPPENED. THERE ARE MORE WEALTHY PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN MASSIVE 01:16:01.078 --> 01:16:04.407 MANSIONS THAT ARE SO DEEP IN DEBT THEY CAN'T PAY THEIR WAY 01:16:04.407 --> 01:16:09.148 OUT. OKAY, SO DON'T JUST LOOK AT THE OUTSIDE. THERE'S DEEPER 01:16:09.148 --> 01:16:14.127 THINGS THAN THAT. SO FINANCES, YOU WANT GOD CONNECTED TO YOUR 01:16:14.127 --> 01:16:16.738 MONEY? TITHE AND GIVE YOUR OFFERINGS. THE SECOND ONE IS 01:16:16.738 --> 01:16:19.738 HAVE FAITH FOR IT. NOW I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS 01:16:19.738 --> 01:16:24.029 THAT TITHE AND THEY GIVE BUT THEIR MOUTH IS SO WRONG. OH, I 01:16:24.029 --> 01:16:26.818 DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN. I TRIED TITHING AND IT DID 01:16:26.818 --> 01:16:30.057 NOTHING HAPPEN. WELL, TITHING AND GIVING IS NOT A SLOT 01:16:30.057 --> 01:16:34.947 MACHINE. OKAY, YOU DON'T TITHE ON SUNDAY AND EXPECT DOLLAR 01:16:34.947 --> 01:16:39.507 BILLS TO FALL ONTO YOUR LAWN ON MONDAY MORNING. NOW, I MEAN, 01:16:39.507 --> 01:16:42.867 ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. I'M OKAY, THERE'S A FISH IN A COIN'S MOUTH 01:16:42.867 --> 01:16:46.768 AND THEY PAY TAXES WITH IT, I CAN TELL YOU THAT. BUT I'M JUST 01:16:46.768 --> 01:16:50.877 SAYING, YOU DON'T TREAT IT LIKE THAT. IT'S A LIFESTYLE HABIT 01:16:50.877 --> 01:16:55.828 THAT WE DO THAT GOD CARRIES US THROUGH THE ENTIRE SPAN OF OUR 01:16:55.828 --> 01:17:00.596 LIFE. SO, BUT HAVE FAITH FOR PROSPERITY, OKAY? THAT'S WHAT 01:17:00.596 --> 01:17:02.997 WEALTH, IF THE BIBLE SAYS, "WEALTH AND RICHES SHALL BE IN 01:17:02.997 --> 01:17:06.596 THE HOUSE," ARE YOU THE RIGHTEOUS? THEN BELIEVE THAT FOR 01:17:06.596 --> 01:17:09.898 YOURSELF. DON'T JUST BELIEVE IT FOR SOMEBODY ELSE. WELL, THEY 01:17:09.898 --> 01:17:12.957 ALL LOOK SO PUT TOGETHER, I GUESS IT ONLY APPLIES TO THEM. 01:17:12.957 --> 01:17:17.787 NO, IT APPLIES TO YOU. YOU COULD BE IN A SITUATION WHERE YOU ARE 01:17:17.787 --> 01:17:22.318 ON GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE. I HEARD A STORY YEARS, AND GOD CAN 01:17:22.318 --> 01:17:25.438 PROSPER YOU. I HEARD A STORY YEARS AGO, SOMEBODY SAID, "OH, 01:17:25.438 --> 01:17:29.938 THAT PROSPERITY IS JUST AN AMERICAN GOSPEL." NO, OKAY, 01:17:29.938 --> 01:17:34.136 THERE'S PEOPLE OVERSEAS AND MANY PLACES THAT HAVE BELIEVED GOD. I 01:17:34.136 --> 01:17:37.947 HEARD A STORY ABOUT SOME PEOPLE THAT LIVED IN THIS VERY 01:17:37.947 --> 01:17:42.507 DESTITUTE AREA IN AFRICA. IN FACT, WE KNOW THE MAN THAT 01:17:42.507 --> 01:17:45.926 SHARED THE TESTIMONY. AND HE SAID THEY TOOK THE SCRIPTURES ON 01:17:45.926 --> 01:17:48.568 PROSPERITY AND THEY APPLIED IT. THEY PLANTED THEIR CROPS. I 01:17:48.568 --> 01:17:52.136 MEAN, THE GOVERNMENT WAS AGAINST THEM. THE WEATHER, I MEAN, 01:17:52.136 --> 01:17:54.627 EVERYTHING OVER THERE, THERE WAS FAMINE EVERYWHERE, THERE WAS NO 01:17:54.627 --> 01:17:57.807 CLEAN WATER. AND THEY SAID, "NO, GOD, WE BELIEVE YOU. "IF IT'LL 01:17:57.807 --> 01:18:02.007 WORK IN THE BIBLE, IT'LL WORK FOR US." IN THIS LITTLE, I THINK 01:18:02.007 --> 01:18:06.028 THEY WERE IN ZIMBABWE, THIS LITTLE COUNTRY IN AFRICA UNDER 01:18:06.028 --> 01:18:09.207 TYRANNY AND ALL THE THINGS, WELL, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THEIR 01:18:09.207 --> 01:18:13.407 CROPS BEGAN TO GROW AND NOBODY ELSE'S DID. AND THEN ALL OF A 01:18:13.407 --> 01:18:16.346 SUDDEN, THEY WERE ABLE TO GET CLEAN DRINKING WATER AND NOBODY 01:18:16.346 --> 01:18:18.837 ELSE COULD. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, EVERYBODY'S LOOKING AT THEM 01:18:18.837 --> 01:18:22.346 LIKE, WELL, WHAT ARE THEY DOING THAT NOBODY ELSE IS DOING? WE 01:18:22.346 --> 01:18:27.627 ALL GOT THE SAME WEATHER. WE HAVE THE SAME SITUATION. WE'RE 01:18:27.627 --> 01:18:30.507 UNDER THE SAME TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT. SEE, GOD IS NOT 01:18:30.507 --> 01:18:35.697 SUBJECT TO WHAT GOES ON IN THE NATURAL REALM. THEY BEGAN TO 01:18:35.697 --> 01:18:41.007 PROSPER BECAUSE THEY HAD FAITH THAT GOD WANTED THEM BLESSED AND 01:18:41.007 --> 01:18:44.907 HE WOULD BLESS THEM, COME ON, DESPITE THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES. YOU 01:18:44.907 --> 01:18:48.867 MIGHT BE IN A PLACE WHERE YOU'RE ON GOVERNMENT HELP, BUT IF 01:18:48.867 --> 01:18:52.797 YOU'LL PUT FAITH TO IT AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, GOD, I'M ASKING 01:18:52.797 --> 01:18:57.117 YOU, I READ A STORY OF A LADY ONE TIME. SHE WAS ON GOVERNMENT 01:18:57.117 --> 01:18:59.667 ASSISTANCE AND SHE SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, I'M NOT CONTENT TO 01:18:59.667 --> 01:19:04.078 LIVE LIKE THIS. SHE BECAME A SINGLE MOTHER UNEXPECTEDLY, BUT 01:19:04.078 --> 01:19:07.377 I'M NOT CONTENT TO LIVE LIKE THIS. AND SHE SAID, NOW I'LL BE 01:19:07.377 --> 01:19:11.007 ON IT FOR A LITTLE WHILE JUST TO KIND OF GET MYSELF RESET. BUT 01:19:11.007 --> 01:19:13.676 SHE BEGAN TO APPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF THE BIBLE. AND SHE 01:19:13.676 --> 01:19:18.507 SAID, GOD, YOU KNOW, SHE WENT ON TO BECOME A WEALTHY 01:19:18.507 --> 01:19:23.578 BUSINESSWOMAN AND WAS ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, HAVE AN INVESTMENT AND 01:19:23.578 --> 01:19:26.488 A SAVINGS AND ALL THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE WHO WANT SUFFICIENCY 01:19:26.488 --> 01:19:31.409 COULD HAVE. AND ONLY BECAUSE SHE BELIEVED THE LORD. SO HAVE FAITH 01:19:31.409 --> 01:19:34.917 THAT GOD WANTS TO PROSPER YOU. START LOOKING AT YOUR BANK 01:19:34.917 --> 01:19:39.148 ACCOUNT IN FAITH. WELL, BANK ACCOUNT, I TALKED TO YOU. WEALTH 01:19:39.148 --> 01:19:43.978 AND RICHES ARE IN YOU. WEALTH AND RICHES ARE UPON YOU. YOU'RE 01:19:43.978 --> 01:19:47.697 GONNA QUADRUPLE AND QUADRUPLE AND QUADRUPLE AGAIN. THAT'S WHY 01:19:47.697 --> 01:19:51.988 WE SAY THAT EVERY SINGLE SUNDAY. IF THE CHURCH IS GONNA QUADRUPLE 01:19:51.988 --> 01:19:55.521 AND QUADRUPLE AGAIN, THEN THE PEOPLE THAT TITHE AND SOW INTO 01:19:55.521 --> 01:20:00.328 IT SHOULD BE QUADRUPLING AS WELL. WHAT YOU CONNECT TO, YOU 01:20:00.328 --> 01:20:04.197 WILL RECEIVE THE BENEFIT BACK. GOD SAID THAT HE THAT GIVES TO 01:20:04.197 --> 01:20:08.217 THE POOR, LENDS TO THE LORD AND THE LORD WILL REPAY HIM. GIVEN 01:20:08.217 --> 01:20:10.947 IT SHALL BE GIVEN BACK TO YOU, GOOD MEASURE PRESSED DOWN, 01:20:10.947 --> 01:20:14.846 SHAKEN TOGETHER, AND RUNNING OVER SHALL PEOPLE GIVE BACK TO 01:20:14.846 --> 01:20:20.398 YOU. THAT'S BIBLE. SO, THE TWO THAT THE WORLD CAN'T DO IS 01:20:20.398 --> 01:20:22.528 NUMBER ONE, AND THEY TITHE AND GIVE OFFERINGS. THEY'LL JUST 01:20:22.528 --> 01:20:26.367 CRITICIZE IT. WELL, THAT'S ON THEM. TOO BAD FOR YOU, I'M SORRY 01:20:26.367 --> 01:20:33.148 FOR YOU. I READ A BOOK ONE TIME, IT WAS A DOWNLOAD BOOK. I'LL 01:20:33.148 --> 01:20:37.738 JUST SAY WHAT IT WAS CALLED. IT WAS CALLED THE TITHING HOAX. AND 01:20:37.738 --> 01:20:40.828 ANYWAY, IT WAS THE STUPIDEST THING I'VE EVER READ. AND I 01:20:40.828 --> 01:20:43.886 THOUGHT, WELL, SEE NOW, ALL THAT PERSON DID WAS BURN THEIR OWN 01:20:43.886 --> 01:20:47.957 BARN DOWN. AND I THOUGHT, AND THEY SAID, ALL THE REASONS WHY 01:20:47.957 --> 01:20:51.078 YOU DON'T HAVE TO TITHE UNDER THE NEW COVENANT. SO I SAID TO 01:20:51.078 --> 01:20:54.648 GOD, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, AND OF COURSE I MADE ALL KINDS OF NOTE. 01:20:54.648 --> 01:20:57.948 I PRINTED IT AND JUST THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY TIMES THEY 01:20:57.948 --> 01:21:02.118 MISQUOTED THE BIBLE. BUT I THOUGHT, WELL, LORD, IF SOMEBODY 01:21:02.118 --> 01:21:06.347 REALLY BELIEVES THE TITHING IS OLD TESTAMENT AND YOU'RE 01:21:06.347 --> 01:21:09.738 LIBERATED FROM DOING IT, WHAT HAPPENS IF THEY JUST DO IT 01:21:09.738 --> 01:21:16.547 'CAUSE THEY LOVE YOU? DOES MALACHI 3 THEN STILL APPLY? IF 01:21:16.547 --> 01:21:20.898 THEY DO IT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, IF THEY TITHE, GOD SAID HE WOULD 01:21:20.898 --> 01:21:24.677 OPEN THE WINDOWS, REBUKE THE DEVOURER. I SAID, WELL, LORD, 01:21:24.677 --> 01:21:30.438 THEN IF THEY STILL DECIDE TO DO IT OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL, DOES 01:21:30.438 --> 01:21:34.578 THE PROMISE OF TITHING STILL APPLY? ARE THEIR BARNS GONNA 01:21:34.578 --> 01:21:37.908 STILL BURST OUT WITH PLENTY? AND I THOUGHT, OF COURSE IT STILL 01:21:37.908 --> 01:21:42.137 APPLIES. AND I THOUGHT, IF YOU BELIEVE IT DOESN'T, WATCH THIS, 01:21:42.137 --> 01:21:44.837 THEN DON'T BELIEVE ANY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PROMISES THAT ARE 01:21:44.837 --> 01:21:48.047 IN THERE. GOD WILL PROTECT YOU, HE'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU, HE'LL 01:21:48.047 --> 01:21:50.747 GIVE YOU PEACE, THE LORD WILL GIVE YOU PEACE. I WOULD HAVE 01:21:50.747 --> 01:21:52.818 DESPAIRED UNLESS I HAD BELIEVED TO SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD 01:21:52.818 --> 01:21:55.818 AND THE LAND OF THE LIVING. DON'T BELIEVE ANY OF THAT IF 01:21:55.818 --> 01:21:59.118 YOU'RE GONNA CUT MALACHI 3 OUT OF THE BIBLE. 'CAUSE NOW YOU 01:21:59.118 --> 01:22:03.047 JUST SAID OLD TESTAMENT PROMISE DIDN'T APPLY, THEN THAT MEANS 01:22:03.047 --> 01:22:08.087 NONE OF THEM APPLY. OH, I SURE SHOULD GET A GOOD AMEN OUT OF 01:22:08.087 --> 01:22:14.597 THAT. SO, TITHING, TITHING, GOOD IN THIS, WHAT DID BOB ROGERS 01:22:14.597 --> 01:22:19.747 CALL US ON SUNDAY, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. NO, WE'RE PENTECOSTAL. 01:22:22.037 --> 01:22:25.637 SO, HAVE FAITH FOR PROSPERITY. HERE'S THE THIRD ONE. WELL, I 01:22:25.637 --> 01:22:28.637 GUESS THIS ONE THE WORLD DOESN'T HAVE EITHER. THIRD ONE IS PUT 01:22:28.637 --> 01:22:34.068 GOD'S KINGDOM BEFORE YOUR OWN AGENDA. OKAY. THE BIBLE SAYS 01:22:34.068 --> 01:22:38.148 THAT WE SHOULD FIRST SEEK THE LORD, RIGHT? OKAY. FIRST ONE 01:22:38.148 --> 01:22:41.207 AGAIN, TITHES AND OFFERINGS, HAVE FAITH FOR PROSPERITY. IF 01:22:41.207 --> 01:22:44.957 YOU'RE GOING TO TALK NEGATIVE AND YOUR ATTITUDE AND YOUR 01:22:44.957 --> 01:22:48.738 BELIEF SYSTEM DOESN'T CHANGE AND ALIGN WITH GOD, YOU COULD TITHE 01:22:48.738 --> 01:22:51.768 ALL DAY AND NOT RECEIVE THE BENEFIT OF IT. DON'T BE THAT 01:22:51.768 --> 01:22:54.978 PERSON. BUT THE THIRD ONE IS PUTTING GOD'S KINGDOM BEFORE 01:22:54.978 --> 01:22:59.387 YOUR OWN AGENDA. WELL TITHING LARGELY CURES US AND HELPS US 01:22:59.387 --> 01:23:03.078 WITH THAT, I WILL TELL YOU THAT. BUT INVOLVE YOURSELF IN GOD'S 01:23:03.078 --> 01:23:07.547 PLANS FIRST. WHAT DOES GOD WANT FOR YOU? WHAT DOES GOD WANT FOR 01:23:07.547 --> 01:23:11.087 YOUR LIFE? THE BIBLE SAYS WE SHOULDN'T JUST MAKE PLANS, 01:23:11.087 --> 01:23:14.028 "WELL, I'M GONNA GO DO THIS AND TAKE THAT JOB "AND GO OVER HERE 01:23:14.028 --> 01:23:18.588 AND DO THIS OR THAT." AND NO, WHAT WE SHOULD SAY IS, "WELL, 01:23:18.588 --> 01:23:22.698 LORD, WHAT IS YOUR WILL AND PLAN FOR ME?" YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU 01:23:22.698 --> 01:23:26.177 DON'T WANT ME TO GO TAKE THAT JOB. YOU KNOW, I HAD SEVERAL 01:23:26.177 --> 01:23:28.877 PEOPLE OVER THE COURSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAD PEOPLE COME AND GO 01:23:28.877 --> 01:23:33.887 THROUGH HERE IN 30 YEARS' TIME. AND I CAN REMEMBER THERE WAS A 01:23:33.887 --> 01:23:37.547 FEW TIMES PEOPLE WOULD SAY, "OH, I GOT THIS HUGE JOB, THIS GREAT 01:23:37.547 --> 01:23:41.189 PAYING JOB, AND I'M GONNA GO OVER HERE AND TAKE THAT." AND 01:23:41.189 --> 01:23:43.307 YOU KNOW WHAT, THERE ARE FREEDOM TO DO THAT IF THAT'S WHAT THEY 01:23:43.307 --> 01:23:47.238 FEEL. BUT WE WERE LIKE, "WELL, DID YOU PRAY? AND DID GOD SAY 01:23:47.238 --> 01:23:50.957 THAT? YOU KNOW, YOU NEED TO ASK THE LORD." "NO, I JUST KNOW, I 01:23:50.957 --> 01:23:53.627 JUST FEEL LIKE IT'S GONNA, I'M GONNA MAKE FOUR TIMES WHAT I'M 01:23:53.627 --> 01:23:55.637 GONNA MAKE." AND THERE WAS ONE PERSON THAT WENT AND DID THAT, 01:23:55.637 --> 01:23:58.757 AND THE PASTOR SAID, "YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE IT'S ALL SMOKE AND 01:23:58.757 --> 01:24:02.688 MIRRORS. IT'S NOT GONNA BE WHAT YOU THINK." AND THEY WENT AND 01:24:02.688 --> 01:24:05.387 SOLD EVERYTHING AND WENT OFF AND TOOK THIS JOB, AND THAT'S 01:24:05.387 --> 01:24:08.957 EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. WITHIN A YEAR, THEY MOVED BACK TO TOWN. 01:24:08.957 --> 01:24:10.847 THEY DIDN'T COME BACK TO THE CHURCH. I THINK MAYBE THEY WERE 01:24:10.847 --> 01:24:13.398 EMBARRASSED. THERE WAS NO REASON TO BE EMBARRASSED. ALL I'M 01:24:13.398 --> 01:24:17.417 SAYING IS, FIND OUT WHAT GOD WANTS. JUST TAKE A MINUTE TO 01:24:17.417 --> 01:24:19.967 PRAY. I LOVE WHAT BOB ROGERS SAID, PRAY IN THE SPIRIT. IF YOU 01:24:19.967 --> 01:24:24.108 DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, BUT YOU KNOW, ASK GOD. THE SCRIPTURE WE 01:24:24.108 --> 01:24:28.217 JUST QUOTED, "SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, 01:24:28.217 --> 01:24:31.007 AND THINGS WILL BE ADDED TO YOU." SOMETIMES WE JUST DO WHAT 01:24:31.007 --> 01:24:33.948 WE WANT TO DO. AND WE THINK, "WELL, IT'S ALL I KNOW TO DO, 01:24:33.948 --> 01:24:38.747 PASTOR BRENDA." WELL, IS IT? PRAY AND ASK THE LORD, HE MAY 01:24:38.747 --> 01:24:42.648 HAVE ANOTHER IDEA. I'VE HAD A FEW IDEAS THAT I THOUGHT WERE, 01:24:42.648 --> 01:24:45.768 "OH, THIS IS A GOD IDEA." CAN I TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES? I 01:24:45.768 --> 01:24:48.078 REMEMBER WHEN THE CHURCH FIRST STARTED, WE WERE LIKE, "WE NEED 01:24:48.078 --> 01:24:51.618 A BUS MINISTRY." HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THAT? THOSE OF YOU THAT 01:24:51.618 --> 01:24:55.307 ARE HERE, PROBABLY LIKE THREE PEOPLE REMEMBER. AMY, THE 01:24:55.307 --> 01:24:59.148 BLACKBURNS, AND PASTOR CHRISTY. AND WE'RE GONNA GET A BUS 01:24:59.148 --> 01:25:03.438 MINISTRY. WELL, PASTOR, WE WENT OUT AND WE RAISED, I DON'T KNOW, 01:25:03.438 --> 01:25:06.137 A FRAGMENT AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BUY THESE BUSES. THEY WERE THE 01:25:06.137 --> 01:25:12.108 WORST BUSES. AND WE HAD A PERSON THAT RAISED UP AND WE SAID, 01:25:12.108 --> 01:25:14.988 WELL, THEY SAID, I'M CALLED, I'LL DO THE BUS MINISTRY. AND WE 01:25:14.988 --> 01:25:16.997 THOUGHT, WELL, WE'LL GET THESE BUSES. I MEAN, THEY RAN 01:25:16.997 --> 01:25:20.507 TERRIBLE, IT WAS AMAZING. THEY MADE IT FROM, WELL, PIZZA 01:25:20.507 --> 01:25:23.387 MACHINE USED TO BE HOBBY LOBBY. IT WAS OVER HERE BACK, HOW MANY 01:25:23.387 --> 01:25:26.868 OF YOU GO BACK THAT FAR? AND IT WAS A HOBBY LOBBY BACK OVER 01:25:26.868 --> 01:25:30.347 THERE. AND I MEAN, THOSE BUSES WOULD BARELY GO FROM THE CHURCH 01:25:30.347 --> 01:25:33.587 TO HOBBY LOBBY. WELL, THEN THEY WOULDN'T LET US PARK 'EM HERE. 01:25:33.587 --> 01:25:36.137 'CAUSE WE DIDN'T OWN ANYTHING HERE. THIS IS WHY THE CHURCH HAS 01:25:36.137 --> 01:25:39.768 TO OWN STUFF. AND SO WE THOUGHT, WELL, THEN WE COULD HAVE HAD TO 01:25:39.768 --> 01:25:44.417 PARK IT ELSEWHERE. AND THEN THE PERSON THAT SAID THEY WERE VERY 01:25:44.417 --> 01:25:48.978 CALLED BY GOD TO DO BUS MINISTRY SUDDENLY LEFT AND SAID, "WE'RE 01:25:48.978 --> 01:25:55.667 NOT CALLED TO BUS MINISTRY." MY GOD, WE HAVE TWO PIECES OF JUNK 01:25:55.667 --> 01:25:59.358 AND NOBODY TO DRIVE 'EM. AND THEN, I DON'T REMEMBER, I THINK 01:25:59.358 --> 01:26:03.528 IF I REMEMBER RIGHT, HELP ME, ONE OF 'EM BROKE AND WE DIDN'T 01:26:03.528 --> 01:26:08.028 HAVE THE MONEY TO FIX IT. AND IT WAS SUPER BROKE, LIKE THE ENGINE 01:26:08.028 --> 01:26:13.398 BROKE. IT WAS A BROKEN BUS. AND WE WERE LIKE, "GOD, WHAT ARE WE 01:26:13.398 --> 01:26:15.917 GONNA DO NOW? "WE HAVE TWO PIECES." AND YOU KNOW, IT 01:26:15.917 --> 01:26:19.608 SOUNDED LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO GET A BUS MINISTRY. AND THEN WE HAD 01:26:19.608 --> 01:26:22.698 PEOPLE THAT CAUSED PROBLEM ON THE BUS AND DIFFERENT THINGS. 01:26:22.698 --> 01:26:25.810 AND NOW I'M LIKE, "GOD, I AM SO THANKFUL "WE HAVE TWO LORD OF 01:26:25.810 --> 01:26:29.328 HOSTS VEHICLES "THAT DRIVE THE PARKING LOT." THAT'S OUR 01:26:29.328 --> 01:26:33.762 FULFILLED BUS MINISTRY. THANK YOU, BERNICE. HALLELUJAH. BUT 01:26:33.762 --> 01:26:36.587 SOME THINGS SEEM LIKE A GREAT IDEA, BUT DID GOD CALL YOU TO DO 01:26:36.587 --> 01:26:42.528 IT? WE REALIZED GOD DIDN'T CALL US TO A BUS MINISTRY. AMEN. SO, 01:26:42.528 --> 01:26:45.797 THAT, SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM, SEEK GOD, THAT'S THE THIRD ONE. 01:26:45.797 --> 01:26:51.408 THE FOURTH ONE, AND IS, AND THIS IS, YOU MAY NOT EXPECT IT, IS 01:26:51.408 --> 01:26:54.377 FORGIVE AND GET FREE FROM BITTERNESS. YOU KNOW, BITTERNESS 01:26:54.377 --> 01:26:57.557 WILL CAUSE YOU TO DO STUPID THINGS WITH YOUR MONEY. YOU 01:26:57.557 --> 01:26:59.988 KNOW, YOU THINK ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE WITH THEIR WILL, THEY'RE 01:26:59.988 --> 01:27:03.467 LIKE, I'M MAD. I MEAN, THEY COULDN'T GET EVEN WITH PEOPLE IN 01:27:03.467 --> 01:27:07.368 LIFE, SO THEY'RE GONNA GET EVEN IN THEIR DEATH. AND MAKE SURE 01:27:07.368 --> 01:27:10.158 THAT SO-AND-SO IN THE FAMILY DOESN'T GET ANYTHING. HEBREWS 01:27:11.537 --> 01:27:15.078 12, 15, NEW LIVING SAYS, "LOOK AFTER EACH OTHER SO THAT NONE OF 01:27:15.078 --> 01:27:19.217 YOU FAILS TO RECEIVE THE GRACE OF GOD. WATCH OUT THAT NO 01:27:19.217 --> 01:27:22.847 POISONOUS ROOT OF BITTERNESS GROWS UP TO TROUBLE YOU, 01:27:22.847 --> 01:27:27.828 CORRUPTING MANY PEOPLE." JAMES 3 SAYS THAT SWEET AND BITTER WATER 01:27:27.828 --> 01:27:32.627 CANNOT OPERATE IN THE SAME MOUTH. SO WE, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE 01:27:32.627 --> 01:27:35.537 IT ALL BECOMES BITTER. YOU JUST PUT A DROP OF VINEGAR IN SOME 01:27:35.537 --> 01:27:38.358 WATER AND YOU WILL TASTE THE VINEGAR IN THAT GLASS OF WATER. 01:27:38.358 --> 01:27:43.217 IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH. BITTERNESS WILL OVERTAKE. IT'LL OVERTAKE 01:27:43.217 --> 01:27:46.757 YOUR FAITH, IT'LL OVERTAKE YOUR FINANCES, IT CAUSES US TO MAKE 01:27:46.757 --> 01:27:51.797 POOR DECISIONS, AMEN. AND BY THE WAY, I HEARD A THING ONLINE 01:27:51.797 --> 01:27:54.497 SOMEBODY HAD POSTED AND I THOUGHT THIS WAS REALLY GOOD 01:27:54.497 --> 01:27:58.037 THAT FORGIVENESS, IF YOU FORGIVE SOMEBODY, YOU GET FREE FROM 01:27:58.037 --> 01:28:01.158 BITTERNESS. IT IS NOT THE SAME AS BEING RECONCILED TO THAT 01:28:01.158 --> 01:28:04.097 PERSON. A LOT OF PEOPLE CONFUSE THAT AND I DON'T WANT TO GET 01:28:04.097 --> 01:28:08.297 DOWN ON THAT TOPIC, THAT IF PEOPLE DO EVIL THINGS TO YOU, IT 01:28:08.297 --> 01:28:12.557 DOESN'T MEAN YOU'D BE RECONCILED TO THEM. IT SIMPLY MEANS YOU GET 01:28:12.557 --> 01:28:17.207 THAT BITTER, ANGRY SPIRIT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO NOW AND CALL 15 01:28:17.207 --> 01:28:20.268 PEOPLE AND SAY HOW BAD THEY WERE. YOU'RE FREE FROM THAT. TO 01:28:20.268 --> 01:28:23.717 FORGIVE SOMEBODY MEANS I AM LIBERATED FROM WHAT THEY DID TO 01:28:23.717 --> 01:28:26.087 ME. BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO NOW 01:28:26.087 --> 01:28:29.807 BE CLOSE TO THEM. SOMETIMES WE ASSOCIATE FORGIVENESS WITH BEING 01:28:29.807 --> 01:28:33.047 RECONCILED TO PEOPLE. WELL, IF I FORGIVE THEM, THEN WE CAN BE 01:28:33.047 --> 01:28:37.037 FRIENDS AGAIN. THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY TRUE. OKAY? SO DON'T 01:28:37.037 --> 01:28:39.318 THINK, WELL, I DIDN'T FORGIVE THEM BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO BE 01:28:39.318 --> 01:28:42.858 THEIR FRIEND ANYMORE. NO, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT. IT MEANS THAT 01:28:42.858 --> 01:28:45.557 YOU'RE NOT THINKING ABOUT THEM, YOU'RE NOT SITTING THERE LETTING 01:28:45.557 --> 01:28:48.648 THEM TAKE UP FREE RENT INSIDE YOUR BRAIN, THAT YOU ARE FREE 01:28:48.648 --> 01:28:53.028 FROM THAT. YOU FORGAVE IT. YOU LET IT GO AND YOU'RE NOT GOING 01:28:53.028 --> 01:28:57.047 TO GO OUT AND NOW, YOU KNOW, RUIN THEIR REPUTATION ONLINE AND 01:28:57.047 --> 01:29:00.858 TALK ABOUT HOW BAD THEY WERE, EXCEPT I WON'T NAME NAMES, BUT 01:29:00.858 --> 01:29:04.127 I'M JUST GOING TO TALK ABOUT WHOEVER IT WAS. YOU JUST GOT TO 01:29:04.127 --> 01:29:09.828 PUT THE SECRET POST. SO BITTERNESS, FORGIVENESS, 01:29:09.828 --> 01:29:14.087 UNFORGIVENESS WILL CAUSE A PERSON TO LOSE FINANCIAL 01:29:14.087 --> 01:29:16.518 PROSPERITY. AND THERE'S LOTS OF SCRIPTURE THAT TALK ABOUT 01:29:16.518 --> 01:29:19.068 BITTERNESS AND UNFORGIVENESS. IT COULD CAUSE PEOPLE TO LOSE THEIR 01:29:19.068 --> 01:29:23.688 SALVATION. YOU KNOW, THE LAST THING YOU WANNA DO IS BE IN 01:29:23.688 --> 01:29:27.738 TERRIBLE STRAITS WITH SOMEBODY AND HAVE ONE PERSON PASS AWAY 01:29:27.738 --> 01:29:31.007 AND YOU COULD NEVER MAKE IT RIGHT. THAT IS A TRAGEDY AS FAR 01:29:31.007 --> 01:29:35.177 AS I'M CONCERNED. SO FORGIVE, GET FREE FROM BITTERNESS. IF 01:29:35.177 --> 01:29:37.457 THERE'S A ROOT OF BITTERNESS AND SOMEBODY COMES UP TO YOU AND 01:29:37.457 --> 01:29:40.337 GOES, NOW YOU SHOULDN'T TALK LIKE THAT. YOU JUST LEARN TO 01:29:40.337 --> 01:29:45.047 RECEIVE. GET FREE FROM BITTERNESS, AMEN? THE FIFTH ONE, 01:29:45.047 --> 01:29:48.347 WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT, WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT. LIVE RIGHT AND AVOID 01:29:48.347 --> 01:29:51.108 SIN. I DON'T EVEN THINK I NEED TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON THAT. 01:29:51.108 --> 01:29:55.398 THE BIBLE SAYS, PROVERBS 28, 13, HE THAT COVERS HIS SINS SHALL 01:29:55.398 --> 01:29:59.387 NOT PROSPER, BUT WHO SO CONFESSES AND FORSAKES THEM 01:29:59.387 --> 01:30:04.667 SHALL HAVE MERCY. I KNEW A STORY OF A MAN WHO WAS VERY WEALTHY 01:30:04.667 --> 01:30:10.457 AND BUSINESS PROSPERING, I MEAN, JUST VERY WELL OFF, WENT AND 01:30:10.457 --> 01:30:14.778 DECIDED, HE WAS A BELIEVER, WENT AND DECIDED SOMEWHERE, GOT OFF 01:30:14.778 --> 01:30:18.858 TRACK, WHO KNOWS WHAT CAUSED HIM, I MEAN, WHO KNOWS, MAYBE IT 01:30:18.858 --> 01:30:23.028 WAS PORNOGRAPHY, I HAVE NO IDEA. BUT THEY WENT OFF AND DECIDED TO 01:30:23.028 --> 01:30:28.457 HIRE A PROSTITUTE. AND ANYWAY, THE WIFE FOUND OUT, IT WAS A 01:30:28.457 --> 01:30:32.868 WHOLE BIG DISASTER. AND THE THING OF IT WAS, IS THAT MAN 01:30:32.868 --> 01:30:35.478 ENDED UP LOSING HIS WHOLE BUSINESS. I MEAN, EVERYTHING 01:30:35.478 --> 01:30:40.278 WENT BELLY UP. NOW, WHAT DID HIRING A PROSTITUTE HAVE TO DO 01:30:40.278 --> 01:30:42.828 WITH, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE HE WAS GIVING ALL THE MONEY TO HER, I 01:30:42.828 --> 01:30:46.877 HAVE NO IDEA. BUT WHAT DID IT HAVE TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL 01:30:46.877 --> 01:30:51.377 BUSINESS ITSELF? OKAY, IT WAS CONDUCTING THE SAME BUSINESS. 01:30:51.377 --> 01:30:54.768 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, WE DRY UP OUR BLESSING WHEN WE KEEP SIN IN THE 01:30:54.768 --> 01:30:58.757 MIDDLE OF OUR LIFE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THERE WOULD BE NO 01:30:58.757 --> 01:31:01.307 EXPLAINABLE REASON WHY THAT MAN'S WHOLE BUSINESS WAS 01:31:01.307 --> 01:31:05.148 DESTROYED, LOST EVERYTHING, ENDED UP IN ALL KINDS OF 01:31:05.148 --> 01:31:10.033 TROUBLE, ILL. I MEAN, WHAT DOES ILLNESS HAVE TO DO WITH THAT? 01:31:10.033 --> 01:31:12.944 YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THERE'S A DEMONIC WORLD OUT 01:31:12.944 --> 01:31:17.533 THERE. SO HE THAT COVERS HIS SIN WON'T PROSPER, BUT HE THAT 01:31:17.533 --> 01:31:20.863 CONFESSES AND FORSAKES, YOU KNOW, LIVE MORALLY PURE, LIVE 01:31:20.863 --> 01:31:25.123 RIGHT. OKAY, AVOID SIN. AND IF THERE'S AREAS YOU NEED TO GET 01:31:25.123 --> 01:31:28.064 RIGHT WITH GOD, GET IT RIGHT. GOD WILL FORGIVE YOU. THAT'S THE 01:31:28.064 --> 01:31:32.623 THING. GOD IS, GOD FORGIVES. SO LIVE RIGHT AND AVOID SIN. I'M 01:31:32.623 --> 01:31:36.073 TELLING YOU, I'VE SEEN MORE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FINANCES, THEIR 01:31:36.073 --> 01:31:41.354 LIFE JUST GO CRAZY BECAUSE THEY WENT AND DID SOMETHING STUPID. 01:31:41.354 --> 01:31:47.173 SO DON'T DIE DUMB, AS THEY SAY. NUMBER SIX, WORK HARD AND BE 01:31:47.173 --> 01:31:50.654 DILIGENT. NOW THAT GOES BACK TO THAT LADY WHO WAS ON GOVERNMENT 01:31:50.654 --> 01:31:54.014 ASSISTANCE AND BECAME VERY WEALTHY. BUT PROVERBS 10, VERSE 01:31:54.014 --> 01:31:59.779 FOUR SAYS, HE BECOMES POOR THAT DEALS WITH A LAZY HAND, BUT THE 01:31:59.779 --> 01:32:05.594 HAND OF THE DILIGENT MAKES RICH. AMEN. GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE IS 01:32:05.594 --> 01:32:09.823 GREAT IF IT'S USED RIGHT. OKAY, WE KNOW IN THIS COUNTRY, THERE'S 01:32:09.823 --> 01:32:13.634 A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT JUST ABUSE IT. AND YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I'M 01:32:13.634 --> 01:32:16.184 GLAD WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY THAT CAN HELP PEOPLE, 'CAUSE A LOT OF 01:32:16.184 --> 01:32:20.293 COUNTRIES DON'T HAVE THAT. IF PEOPLE HAVE A REAL, YOU KNOW, 01:32:20.293 --> 01:32:23.054 SPECIAL NEEDS SITUATION, THERE'S A LOT OF COUNTRIES THAT DON'T 01:32:23.054 --> 01:32:25.934 HAVE IT. BUT HERE'S THE PROBLEM, NOW PEOPLE HAVE ABUSED IT. THE 01:32:25.934 --> 01:32:29.984 BIBLE TEACHES THAT IF YOU DON'T WORK, YOU DON'T EAT. AND THAT'S 01:32:29.984 --> 01:32:34.904 FOR REAL IN SOME PLACES. 2 THESSALONIANS 3:10, "FOR EVEN 01:32:34.904 --> 01:32:37.904 WHEN WE WERE WITH YOU, THIS WE COMMANDED YOU, THAT IF ANY WOULD 01:32:37.904 --> 01:32:41.413 NOT WORK," THIS IS THE APOSTLE PAUL TALKING, "NEITHER SHOULD HE 01:32:41.413 --> 01:32:44.113 EAT." YOU KNOW, THE ONE THING I'VE NOTICED WITH THIS 01:32:44.113 --> 01:32:50.083 GENERATION, THEY WANT A LOT FOR NOTHING. I MEAN, WE WERE TALKING 01:32:50.083 --> 01:32:52.394 ABOUT, IN FACT, I WAS TALKING WITH RYAN, I WAS GIVING HIM MY 01:32:52.394 --> 01:32:54.823 SCRIPTURES IN THE BACK, AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT SUMMER. THE 01:32:54.823 --> 01:32:58.003 KIDS ARE IN SUMMER NOW, PASTOR CHRIS IS THERE. AND I REMEMBER 01:32:58.003 --> 01:33:01.904 MY DAD, SUMMER DIDN'T MEAN PLAYTIME ALL THE TIME. MY DAD 01:33:01.904 --> 01:33:05.713 WOULD SAY, "YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING FUN UNTIL YOU DO ONE 01:33:05.713 --> 01:33:11.743 PAGE OF MATH EVERY DAY, MONDAY TO FRIDAY. YOU CAN HAVE SATURDAY 01:33:11.743 --> 01:33:15.014 AND SUNDAY OFF." HE WOULD SIT THERE, WE'D GET UP, HAVE OUR 01:33:15.014 --> 01:33:19.753 CHEERIOS ON MONDAY MORNING AND WE WOULD HAVE MATH CLASS AT 01:33:19.753 --> 01:33:23.474 HOME. AND HE WOULD STAND OVER US AND MAKE SURE WE LINED UP THE 01:33:23.474 --> 01:33:27.673 DIGITS. IF WE DIDN'T, I'D HAVE TO ERASE IT. I HAD HOLES IN MY 01:33:27.673 --> 01:33:30.583 PAPERS. I'D SIT THERE AND CRY. I'M LIKE, HE SAID, NO, IT'S NOT 01:33:30.583 --> 01:33:34.694 LINED UP. AND THEN HE'D GET A RULER OUT AND MAKE US LINE IT. 01:33:34.694 --> 01:33:40.033 NOW KIDS TODAY WOULD THINK THAT IS THE MEANEST, MEANEST DAD IN 01:33:40.033 --> 01:33:45.073 THE WORLD. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M TIDY TODAY BECAUSE, OKAY, I 01:33:45.073 --> 01:33:49.363 RECOGNIZE I GOT TO COLLEGE THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE A NEAT PAPER. 01:33:49.363 --> 01:33:56.774 THE PROFESSORS ARE ABOUT AS MEAN AS YOUR DAD. SO YOU THINK ABOUT 01:33:56.774 --> 01:33:59.863 HOW MANY PEOPLE START THINGS THEY NEVER FINISH. OH, I'M GOING 01:33:59.863 --> 01:34:02.564 TO START A BUSINESS. OKAY. I KNOW PEOPLE THAT START 01:34:02.564 --> 01:34:07.363 BUSINESSES EVERY YEAR. THEY NEVER FINISH ANYTHING. I LOOK AT 01:34:07.363 --> 01:34:10.123 HOW MANY PASTORS WHO SAY, OH, WE'RE GOING TO GO START A 01:34:10.123 --> 01:34:14.024 CHURCH. AND I'M LIKE, DID GOD CALL YOU TO DO THAT? BECAUSE I'M 01:34:14.024 --> 01:34:17.293 GOING TO TELL YOU, WHEN YOU PASTOR A CHURCH, ESPECIALLY IN 01:34:17.293 --> 01:34:20.684 THOSE FIRST FEW YEARS, IT AIN'T SO PRETTY. WE HAD MORE PEOPLE 01:34:20.684 --> 01:34:25.663 LEAVE THAN CAME, I THINK. BUT THE REALITY IS THAT A LOT OF 01:34:25.663 --> 01:34:30.884 PEOPLE DON'T FINISH WHAT THEY START. SO HE THAT DOESN'T WORK 01:34:30.884 --> 01:34:35.474 DOESN'T EAT. FOR THIS, FOR WE HEAR THAT THERE ARE SOME WHICH 01:34:35.474 --> 01:34:41.923 WALK AMONG YOU DISORDERLY, WORKING NOT AT ALL. RIGHT? 01:34:41.923 --> 01:34:45.913 DILIGENCE. BUT OUR BUSY BODIES, OKAY, I'LL TELL ONE MORE STORY. 01:34:45.913 --> 01:34:48.944 CAN I TELL, I'M PULLING A PASTOR MARK, I GOT TO TELL ONE MORE 01:34:48.944 --> 01:34:53.203 STORY. I REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE GROWING UP, AND YOU CAN ZIP YOUR 01:34:53.203 --> 01:34:57.793 BIBLE AS I GIVE YOU NUMBER SEVEN. I REMEMBER, THIS WAS 01:34:57.793 --> 01:35:01.634 YEARS AGO, WE WERE GROWING UP, AND WE WERE IN THE MILITARY, WE 01:35:01.634 --> 01:35:05.684 ALWAYS LIVED ON BASE HOUSING, AND SO MY DAD WAS ON REMOTE 01:35:05.684 --> 01:35:09.823 ASSIGNMENT, I DON'T KNOW WHERE CHRISTY AND I WERE, WE MUST HAVE 01:35:09.823 --> 01:35:13.304 BEEN AT SOMETHING, AND MY MOTHER HAD A WEEKEND AT HOME BY 01:35:13.304 --> 01:35:17.984 HERSELF, AND SO SHE HAD PLANNED THIS OUT, SHE HAD SET SOME MONEY 01:35:17.984 --> 01:35:23.384 ASIDE, AND SHE WAS GONNA GO SHOPPING ON SATURDAY. AND WE HAD 01:35:23.384 --> 01:35:26.953 THIS LADY, I WRITE THIS STORY IN THE BOOK COMMANDING PEACE, IT 01:35:26.953 --> 01:35:30.673 COMES OUT IN SEPTEMBER. BUT WE'RE GONNA CALL HER IRENE, ALL 01:35:30.673 --> 01:35:36.734 RIGHT? AND THIS LADY LIVED DOWN THE STREET, IRENE, AND SO SHE 01:35:36.734 --> 01:35:40.783 WAS ONE OF THESE PEOPLE, WORKING NOT AT ALL, WAS JUST A BUSYBODY, 01:35:40.783 --> 01:35:48.524 LAZY. HER HOUSE WAS A PIT, IT SMELLED BAD, JUST A DISASTER. 01:35:48.524 --> 01:35:51.583 AND SO MY MOTHER GETS UP ON SATURDAY AND SHE DECIDES SHE'S 01:35:51.583 --> 01:35:57.073 GOING TO GO SHOPPING. AND SHE GOT ALL, SHE DID HER NORMAL 01:35:57.073 --> 01:35:59.894 THING. SATURDAY WAS CLEAN THE HOUSE DAY. YOU KNOW, WE HAD A 01:35:59.894 --> 01:36:02.384 RULE IN OUR HOUSE BEFORE WE COULD GO OUT TO PLAY. WE HAD TO 01:36:02.384 --> 01:36:05.774 CLEAN OUR BEDROOM AND MAKE OUR BED, CHANGE OUR SHEETS AND CLEAN 01:36:05.774 --> 01:36:09.463 UP THE BATHROOM AND DO ALL THE THINGS. SO SHE LIVED BY THAT. 01:36:09.463 --> 01:36:11.743 SHE GOT UP, MADE THE BED AND CLEANED THE WHOLE HOUSE FOR 01:36:11.743 --> 01:36:16.213 EVERYBODY TO ENJOY ALL WEEK AND GOT HERSELF ALL FIXED UP AND DID 01:36:16.213 --> 01:36:18.764 HER HAIR AND FIXED HER MAKEUP AND PLANNED A DAY AT JCPENNEY. 01:36:19.934 --> 01:36:25.213 AND LO AND BEHOLD, SHE'S ABOUT TO LEAVE AND IRENE SHOWS UP. AND 01:36:25.213 --> 01:36:28.423 SHE WALKS IN AND HERE'S MY DECORATED UP MOTHER AND SHE 01:36:28.423 --> 01:36:32.804 LOOKED ALL GOOD AND HAD A PRETTY BLOUSE AND WAS GOING TO GO DO 01:36:32.804 --> 01:36:38.804 HER SHOPPING AND IRENE WALKS IN AND LOOKS AROUND AT THE HOUSE 01:36:38.804 --> 01:36:44.863 ALL CLEAN AND SMELLING GOOD AND BLEACHY AND ALL THE STUFF AND 01:36:44.863 --> 01:36:47.713 SHE, THE FIRST THING OUT OF HER MOUTH IS, "I JUST WISH I HAD A 01:36:47.713 --> 01:36:52.094 JOB." AND YOU KNOW, NOW I DIDN'T KNOW THIS, MY MOTHER TOLD US THE 01:36:52.094 --> 01:36:55.064 STORY LATER, HAD I BEEN THERE AND I'D BEEN GROWING UP LIKE I 01:36:55.064 --> 01:36:57.104 AM NOW, I WOULD HAVE SAID, "WELL, GO TO MCDONALD'S, IT'S 01:36:57.104 --> 01:37:00.673 DOWN THE ROAD, YOU WANT A JOB BAD ENOUGH." NO, BUT SHE WANTED 01:37:00.673 --> 01:37:05.144 THE RESULTS OF WHAT SOMEBODY WORKED HARD FOR. AND THERE'S A 01:37:05.144 --> 01:37:08.354 LOT OF PEOPLE THAT DON'T PROSPER, OKAY, THEY'LL LEAVE 01:37:08.354 --> 01:37:12.493 THEIR HOUSE A PIGPEN, THEIR STUFF IS UPSIDE DOWN, THEY CAN'T 01:37:12.493 --> 01:37:16.213 CLEAN UP ANYTHING. "WELL, I GOT KIDS." AND YOU GOT LAUNDRY ALL 01:37:16.213 --> 01:37:21.764 OVER THE PLACE, OKAY? THAT'S NOT A TESTIMONY, OKAY? IF YOU'RE 01:37:21.764 --> 01:37:25.033 GONNA WORK HARD AND BE DILIGENT, THE HAND OF THE DILIGENT MAKES 01:37:25.033 --> 01:37:32.804 RICH. HARD WORK, OKAY? START AT HOME. SATURDAY IN THE GARAGE. 01:37:32.804 --> 01:37:38.083 HALLELUJAH. OKAY? CLEAN OUT THE SOCK DRAWER, DO SOMETHING. 01:37:38.083 --> 01:37:40.724 PASTOR AND I HAVE HAD A RULE, AND FOR AS LONG AS WE'VE BEEN 01:37:40.724 --> 01:37:45.253 MARRIED, ALMOST 37 YEARS, EVERY NIGHT BEFORE BED, WE BOTH PICK 01:37:45.253 --> 01:37:50.083 UP. EVERY NIGHT. AND WE'VE DONE IT ALL OUR LIFE. EVERY NIGHT, 01:37:50.083 --> 01:37:53.594 EVERY MORNING I GET UP AND MAKE THE BED. IN FACT, FOR A WHILE I 01:37:53.594 --> 01:37:55.394 WASN'T DOING IT ON SUNDAY. I THOUGHT, WELL, WE'RE JUST GONNA 01:37:55.394 --> 01:37:58.634 COME HOME AND NAP. I'LL LEAVE IT A WRECK. AND THEN I'D GET HOME 01:37:58.634 --> 01:38:01.104 AND HAVE A TERRIBLE NAP. YOU'D BE TANGLED IN THE COVERS. IT'D 01:38:01.104 --> 01:38:03.944 BE LIKE YOUR LEG WAS IN A KNOT WITH THE SHEET AND IT WAS 01:38:03.944 --> 01:38:07.184 TERRIBLE. SO FINALLY I THOUGHT, WHAT DOES IT TAKE ME? FIVE EXTRA 01:38:07.184 --> 01:38:09.554 MINUTES TO MAKE THIS BED ON A SUNDAY AND COME HOME TO A 01:38:09.554 --> 01:38:16.634 GLORIOUS NAP THAT WE NEED? AND SO I CHALLENGED MYSELF. I 01:38:16.634 --> 01:38:19.873 CHALLENGED MYSELF TO DO IT. BUT ALL I'M SAYING, I'M NOT SAYING 01:38:19.873 --> 01:38:23.533 YOU HAVE TO BE LIKE ME. WHAT I'M SAYING IS HARD WORK. WORK HARD, 01:38:23.533 --> 01:38:29.203 IT WILL YIELD RESULTS. PEOPLE DON'T PROSPER BECAUSE OF THAT 01:38:29.203 --> 01:38:32.774 REASON RIGHT THERE. THE LAST ONE, YOU CAN STAND. PRACTICE 01:38:32.774 --> 01:38:37.423 GOOD MONEY MANAGEMENT. PROVERBS 21, 20, THERE IS A TREASURE TO 01:38:37.423 --> 01:38:40.573 BE DESIRED, AN OIL IN THE DWELLING OF THE WISE, BUT 01:38:40.573 --> 01:38:46.154 FOOLISH PEOPLE SPEND IT ALL UP. OKAY, THEY DON'T PRACTICE GOOD 01:38:46.154 --> 01:38:49.243 MONEY MANAGEMENT. YEARS AGO WHEN WE USED TO, I USED TO TEACH SOME 01:38:49.243 --> 01:38:52.033 FINANCIAL CLASSES HERE AT THE CHURCH, MAYBE WE'LL GET BACK TO 01:38:52.033 --> 01:38:56.354 IT. BUT I DID A, THIS IS BEFORE, YOU CAN FIND THESE ONLINE NOW, 01:38:56.354 --> 01:38:59.444 BUT I DID A BUDGET SHEET. I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE I CAN PULL 01:38:59.444 --> 01:39:03.524 THAT BACK OUT, BOB, AND PUT 'EM IN THE FOYER. AND I HAVE TO 01:39:03.524 --> 01:39:06.913 CHECK IF I STILL LIKE IT FIRST, IT MIGHT NEED TO BE UPDATED. BUT 01:39:06.913 --> 01:39:10.543 THE POINT IS, IS I PUT OUT A WHOLE LIST TO JUST TEACH PEOPLE. 01:39:10.543 --> 01:39:13.543 YOU KNOW, IT WAS ONE OF MY JOBS IN THE BANK IS TO HELP PEOPLE 01:39:13.543 --> 01:39:17.435 THAT CAME IN, DIDN'T KNOW WHY THEIR ACCOUNT WAS OVERDRAWN. AND 01:39:17.435 --> 01:39:20.594 I REALIZED NOT EVERYBODY, I'LL SAY THIS IN CLOSING, NOT 01:39:20.594 --> 01:39:25.604 EVERYBODY GREW UP WITH PARENTS THAT MANAGED MONEY WELL. SO A 01:39:25.604 --> 01:39:30.043 LOT OF TIMES WE INHERIT THE ILLS OF OUR PARENTS AND OUR FAMILIES 01:39:30.043 --> 01:39:34.573 AND THE GENERATIONS BEFORE US. BUT THE THING OF IT IS YOU CAN 01:39:34.573 --> 01:39:39.583 LEARN. SO TEACH YOURSELF. THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD PROGRAMS AND SO 01:39:39.583 --> 01:39:44.354 MANY GOOD THINGS THAT WE CAN LEARN FROM AND TRAIN OURSELF AND 01:39:44.354 --> 01:39:47.054 TEACH OURSELF. I'M NOT SAYING YOU HAVE TO BECOME AN ECONOMIC 01:39:47.054 --> 01:39:50.894 EXPERT, BUT LEARNING HOW TO JUST MANAGE YOUR OWN FINANCES 01:39:50.894 --> 01:39:55.783 EFFECTIVELY IS KEY. AND YOU KNOW GOD WILL HELP YOU. BUT INVEST IN 01:39:55.783 --> 01:39:59.594 YOURSELF. DON'T JUST BE LIKE, "WELL, IT IS WHAT IT IS." AND 01:39:59.594 --> 01:40:03.913 I'VE KNOWN PEOPLE WHOSE FINANCES ARE A DISASTER, AND THEY'RE THE 01:40:03.913 --> 01:40:08.713 SAME WAY 30 YEARS LATER. MAKE A CHOICE AND A DECISION. "WELL, 01:40:08.713 --> 01:40:16.363 GOD, HELP ME GROW." AND WHAT'S THAT SCRIPTURE? MATTHEW 3, 8, 01:40:16.363 --> 01:40:19.394 JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS PREACHING. HE SAID, "BRING FORTH FRUITS 01:40:19.394 --> 01:40:21.856 THAT ARE MEAT FOR REPENTANCE." IT SAYS MEAT FOR REPENTANCE IN 01:40:21.856 --> 01:40:24.673 THE KING JAMES. IT MEANS WORTHY OF REPENTANCE. SOMETIMES 01:40:24.673 --> 01:40:27.764 BRINGING FORTH FRUIT MEANS YOU JUST GO LITTLE BY LITTLE. FRUIT 01:40:27.764 --> 01:40:30.314 DOESN'T GROW IMMEDIATELY. YOU DON'T PLANT AN APPLE SEED AND 01:40:30.314 --> 01:40:34.904 POOF, THERE'S AN APPLE. MAKE SMALL DECISIONS TO BE A BETTER 01:40:34.904 --> 01:40:37.963 FINANCIAL MANAGER. LIKE START WITH BALANCING YOUR ACCOUNT 01:40:37.963 --> 01:40:41.474 EVERY SINGLE MONTH. DON'T JUST FLY BY. AND YOU KNOW, WE GOT 01:40:41.474 --> 01:40:45.823 PROGRAMS NOW TO HELP US. ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT CAN HELP US 01:40:45.823 --> 01:40:49.333 LEARN HOW TO BE A BETTER FINANCIAL MANAGER. AND I'M NOT 01:40:49.333 --> 01:40:54.913 SAYING DON'T GO SPEND $800 ON THE FINANCIAL PEACE SERIES. I'M 01:40:54.913 --> 01:40:58.033 NOT SAYING IT'S NOT GOOD. DO SOMETHING SIMPLE THAT YOU CAN 01:40:58.033 --> 01:41:01.514 DO. I REMEMBER ONE TIME I THOUGHT, I'M GONNA BECOME AN 01:41:01.514 --> 01:41:05.474 EXPERT ON THE STOCK MARKET. I'M GONNA DO IT. I WENT AND ORDERED 01:41:05.474 --> 01:41:09.305 THIS WHOLE THING AND NEVER READ THE FIRST CHAPTER. I'M LIKE, I 01:41:09.305 --> 01:41:13.805 LOOKED AT THAT AND I'M LIKE, I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR YOU. I DON'T 01:41:13.805 --> 01:41:15.815 KNOW, THEY GOT ME FOR MY MONEY AGAIN, JUST LIKE THAT 01:41:15.815 --> 01:41:20.345 FRANKINCENSE OIL. I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY. I'M LIKE, LORD, I'M A 01:41:20.345 --> 01:41:25.895 SUCKER FOR THIS STUFF. AND YOU KNOW, I'M LIKE THAT, THAT AGAIN, 01:41:25.895 --> 01:41:29.284 START SMALL, DO SOMETHING, BUT BECOME BETTER AT HOW YOU MANAGE 01:41:29.284 --> 01:41:32.555 YOUR MONEY. IT WILL MAKE GOOD FOR YOU. AMEN. DID YOU GET 01:41:32.555 --> 01:41:37.475 ANYTHING OUT OF IT TONIGHT? ALL RIGHT. HUG SOMEBODY AS YOU GO. 01:41:37.475 --> 01:41:41.466 PLANT SEEDS OF GOOD IN JESUS NAME. INTERNET, THANK YOU FOR 01:41:41.466 --> 01:41:44.914 JOINING US TONIGHT. GOD BLESS YOU. TUNE IN TO PASTOR HANK 01:41:44.914 --> 01:41:48.126 FRIDAY NIGHT AND THEN WE WILL SEE YOU ON SUNDAY. BYE-BYE.