How y'all doing. Welcome back? You've been gone for two weeks? Oh
it was me. I was gone. Okay, did you missus? Did
you missus? H we uh we um. We were able to watch the
services from our RV. So that's pretty cool, don't you think. We
uh, we went off on a trip. And anyway, we celebrate you,
We celebrate you. It was awesome to see what was going on.
Elder Joe was preaching with fire and the worship was crazy, and the whole
team and all of you were holding down the fort and the kingdom was continuing,
and we are just blessed and proud of you. Blessed and proud of
you. So thank you so much, all of you that allowed us to
get away. We've never gone on a vacation for two weeks in our lives,
so and that's a long time. How many of you know that's a
long time. That's a long time. I know when Joel goes on these
mission trips about this long, I started kind of freaking out about it.
If it goes too long, it's like I started losing it. So I
don't know if you all started losing it with us gone, But we were
going a long time, so that was what. We had a great time
and it was awesome and again we just thank you for letting us get away.
How many of you have followed us on Facebook or Instagram? Maybe I
don't know if I don't know if some of the posts they transfer over or
not. But anyway, we were touring Italy. We were doing it bravely.
We rented a camper van and we were actually supposed to be here for
church last week, so we would have seen you. But when we woke
up early in the morning, they had canceled our flights. So I had
to jump on the computer and we had seventy three I found two flights to
Roam instead of Florence, and we had seventy three minutes to get from our
house to buy those tickets, to get from our house and get on the
airplane. So we made it. And so we didn't see you last Sunday.
And that's why we two Sundays ago, two Sundays ago, that's why
we didn't see you, because we were blitzing to the airport as fast as
we could go. We woke up mister Solomon in the back and he ran
us up to the airport. We were breaking all the speed limits by the
grace of God, and we got up there and got on that flight,
got to Rome, took a train to Florence and picked up our RV.
So we did a crazy thing. We found that in Italy they drive on
the proper side of the road and the steering wheels on the proper side of
the vehicle, and so that was a blessing. So we had this little
six speed diesel camper van with all of the amenities of home, and we
ran around Italy for eleven days or whatever it was and had a bowl.
We're celebrating our fortieth anniversary and for the most part, we still like each
other and that's a big deal. And we're celebrating a really big birthday for
her this year as well. It ends with a zero and it starts with
a six, and I don't know if you can figure out the rest of
that, but anyway, so this is this is a really big, really
big year for us, and so we knew we had the mission trip coming,
all sorts of summer stuff coming, so we knew we needed to jump
in and make this happen before the tourist season hits Italy like crazy. So
dads, raise a hand all across the building, where's dads each other,
and put a hand on on their shoulders right now, just as they have
their hands up, just reach over and put a hand on their shoulders with
Jim and we just want to bless dads this morning. Yeah, lots of
criss cross hands going on over there. I see lots of that. Father.
We just shout over the dads. We shout over fathers this morning.
That grace has increased the power of the Lord. The ability of the Lord
is theirs. The armament of the Lord is theirs. We just declare,
you're blessing on them as they lead, as they guide, as they govern,
as they pastor, as they prophesy, as they provide, as they
protect Holy Spirit, Your richness increases on them in this season in Jesus name.
And everybody said, amen. Amen. When our kids, you know,
like all of you, we we want our kids to have abundance.
We've wanted our kids to have more than we ever had and to walk in
abundance in every area of life, and to be protected from garbage, to
be protected from harm, injury, abuse, defamation, hardship. We you
know, we've wanted that for our kids, and so we had this crazy
opportunity come upon us when you know, when they were young. Cadab was
fifteen, Cabb's in the back wave a hand, Cadib was fifteen, Solomon
was seven, Austin, who was on the drums this morning, was twelve,
and we came up with this brainstorm to start a long business and a
pressure washing business for the boys. And so it's seventeen years later. Cadibreu
fifteen fourteen, somewhere in their fifteen or fourteen. So we didn't have any
you know, all we had it was just an idea, like an entrepreneurial
idea, but we wanted them to have an entrepreneurial like a feel for life.
We wanted them to taste of it. And we were also poor.
So we started this church almost thirty thirty one and a half years ago,
and we mortgaged our home a couple times to keep the church alive. Essentially,
I don't know if you knew that, but because our salary was low
and our ambition for our children was high, so we were making crazy sacrifices
for the church and for our family, and it all paid off. Because
God is good. God is the hundredfold God. He is, He is
the Mark ten twenty nine hundredfold God. And so we had this trazy idea
for the boys, and we had another idea for the girl, for Jasmine.
You know, Jasmine's up leading worship often. Many of you know who
she is. She's not here this morning, at this moment. She was
in first service. But you know, she had always wanted to play the
harp. We had her in piano instead, and so we had this entrepreneurial
idea to get her into a harp. And so we found a harp on
Craigslist. This is years ago, twenty thousand dollars harp on Craig's list,
and her and mom drove to San Francisco to get it and to buy it
and to bring it home because it was at a pretty heavy discounted price.
And so we launched her in kind of a harp business, and we launched
the boys in this long business. And this is you know, seventeen years
later, they still do it. They paid, they paid their way through
college, they bought all their own cars, and you know, they've just
seen abundant, abundant abundance just due to not only what that season gave them
every year this entrepreneurial season. It gives them something like thousands of dollars they
make, but in addition, it gave them an entrepreneurial spirit. And I
think God is a lot like this. I think God is more into giving
us fishing poles instead of giving us fish. And there's something there's something exciting
about using the fishing poles that God uncovers, reveals or shows us. There's
something exciting about that. It's actually more exciting to use the fishing pole in
a partnership with Holy Spirit to see what can happen than it is just to
have fish fall out of the sky. So there's something about that partnership with
God. But as much as we yearned for and I know all of you
do, all of you yearn for this, as much as we yearned for
abundance for our kids, the Bible says Father yearns for it even more,
even more, even more. I think this is part of the good news.
Part of the good news. It is too good to believe. The
good news is so good that most of us actually don't believe it. Most
of what we believe is that we're going to heaven when we die. When
we die, but most of us don't fully embrace the good news of the
good news, because it's so good it's hard to believe. The Bible says
in Matthew seven, this is this is Jesus talking, and he's talking about
this issue of God of goodness. And he says to that crowd, it's
not to you. But he says to that crowd, if you, then,
though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who
ask him? No, My emphasis this morning is on the heart of Father,
and that the heart of Father toward you is a heart of abundance beyond
anything any of us understand or discern or perceive. That's the message I want
to focus on. That's what I feel like the Holy Spirit wants to say
over you today, wants to speak over you today. But during the first
Service sermon and after the First Service, the Holy Spirit really highlighted something about
abundance to me. And it popped out of that passage and it comes out
of the one in Luke fifteen with a prodigal son. And if I don't
get back around to it, I want to say it now and kind of
get it out of the way, because I believe this is a really big
part of what Holy Spirit's trying to say. Let's go back to that scripture
if you can. How much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts
to those who ask him, to those who ask him, to those who
ask him. It's somewhere probably in my notes, and I don't know if
I'll get to all my points. It's already late. We've already had a
Holy Spirit bath. I've been a mess both services this morning. I am
soon blown away with the presence of the Lord. His presence is better than
anything. But he wants you to get this that um. For the most
part, we we don't partner with the ask. It's like we don't.
We don't partner with the ask with regard to abundance. But the heart he
wants us to see that he has toward us is a heart of abundance.
It's actually a heart of lavishness. It's a heart of it's a heart of
overflow. I'm gonna read us in versus it's a heart that is wasteful.
Most of us grew up in frugality, and you know what I'm talking about
like my home was super frugal, like if you spilled the milk, you
were going to get a spanking. Like it was that frugal, right,
I mean it was like super frugal. Like my rear is smaller than it
would have been because I spilt the milk a lot, so you know,
um, yeah, don't be thinking about that too much. Still holds my
breeches up. But most of us, most of us thinking in terms of
frugality. But the word and the understanding of father and a true father's heart
toward us, and the father heart that he calls us to emulate and really
to lean into and abide in and receive is actually a lavish heart. It's
actually a wasteful heart. It's really weird. But most of us who grew
up with frugality would kail it, call it wasteful because the word speaks supervously
about abundance, about overflow, about too much. Let's look at some of
those verses. Can't we do that? John ten ten, You've read it
a thousand times. The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy,
But I've come that they would have life and have it abundantly. The
picture of abundance is overflown. The picture of abundance is more than enough.
Deuteronomy eight. I did a lot of I've drawn a lot of my thinking
out of this message and just thinking about Father toward us, out of the
picture of the promised Land. And so I was drawing a little bit of
it. We don't have time to go into all of it, but I
was drawing some thoughts from that, because the promised Land really shows us God's
heart toward Abraham, and God's heart toward Isaac and Jacob, and God's heart
toward the Christ. And Christ is the seat of Abraham. We've been grafted
into Abraham. We are sons by faith of Abraham. And the promised Land
was actually the promise originally to Abraham. And actually that promise and this is
like this is point number six. It will never get to. But the
promise out of Genesis thirteen, it is very interesting. The promise was related
a lot, oddly enough to what Abraham could see. Therefore, it was
related a lot to what Abraham could ask for to In Genesis thirteen, he
says to Abraham, look up, lift up your eyes and look all that
you can see. That's the land I'm giving to you. You know it
still works that way. You can't have what you can't see. That's just
that's points number six. Promilis somewhere. But in Italy they bring you a
lot of bread. I've never I've never ate so much bread and Boston because
you know, they don't eat salads in Italy. It's really weird, lots
of bread. I'm giving you a little free bread right now, a little
free bread right now, with all with olive oil and psalmic vinegar. Deuteronomy
eight sixty nine. Observed the commands of the Lord your God, walking in
obedience to him and revere him. But the Lord your Gods bringing you into
a good land, a land with brooks and streams and deep springs gushing out
into the valleys and the hills. The land with wheat and barley, vines
and fig trees, pal mcgradins, all live oil and honey. A land
where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing. A land where
the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills. It's
this land of abundance. It's a crazy land of abundance. Deuteronomy twenty eight
eleven. The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your womb,
the young of your livestock, the crops of your ground, in the
land that He swore your ancestors to give you abundant prosperity. This is the
heart of Father toward you, abundant prosperity. So I'm twenty three five.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint
my head with oil. My cup has just enough. My cup what,
Oh, that's wasteful. That is that's that cannot be, That cannot be
Christian. That sounds extremely wasteful. My cup overflows, My cup overflows Proverbs
three nine and ten. Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first
fruits of all your crops, and your barns will be filled too filled to
overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. Have you been
asking him for more than enough? What would you do with more than enough?
Have you even been asking for more than enough? This is part of
what he wants to just kind of speak over you today, is that it's
kind of okay if you start asking for more than enough, Because it's his
heart toward you. His heart toward you is more than enough. And I
just heard a little accusations say, yeah, but what are you going to
do with that? Yeah? And aren't you going to mess up if you
have that? And who do you think you are? Do you think you
deserve that? But His word over you is more than enough. Psalm sixty
five eleven. You crowned the year with your bounty, and your cards overflow
with abundance, and it goes on, and it goes on, or no,
it goes on Ezekiel twenty verse six. On that day I swore to
them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land
that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with molk and honey,
the most beautiful of all lands. What if the Holy Spirit's going before
you, preparing a way for you that is abundant and overflowing and more than
enough. But you are the hindrance, You were the roadblock, You were
the obstacle to his glory. Could that be? Could that be that the
Holy Spirit is already He's already made up his mind concerning you, because you're
hidden in the beloved, He's already made up his mind what he wants to
provide for you. But it's your limitations, it's your hindrances, it's your
thoughts, it's your vision, it's it's it's things with you that are keeping
you from partaking of the abundance that Father already wants to shower on you.
You know, you don't have to talk God into more goodness. He has
to talk you into it. Every time you bring a big prayer request to
him, you think you're talking to him into something it's smaller than what he
already planned. He's abundantly able to do more than you ask or think.
He's abundantly able to do more than you ask or think. He's abundantly able
to do more than you ask or think. Every time you bring that big,
giant prayer request, he's already seeing it is smaller than what he already
prepared. What he would love you to do is come into an intimate place
and listen so that you could see the abundance that he would rather you ask
for. Because the abundance he'd rather you ask for is bigger than what you're
going to settle for. Because all your limitations and all of your mindsets are
framed into the smallness of your request. I want to talk about some of
those hindrances quickly, and it's got to be quick. Number one. I
talked about it three weeks ago when we launched into the Receiving series. Number
one. Hindrance is what we deserve, what we deserve. The enemy,
your upbringing, legalism, perfection, performance based thinking. It's all working to
keep you thinking that you should only believe for and only ask, and only
receive what you deserve. But that's not biblical. That's not biblical. You're
justified and he who is justified will be glorified. It's not biblical. You're
hidden in Christ, hidden in the Beloved. Your life is hidden. Who
you were is dead and cautions three three. We have the verse. Who
you were is dead and your life is now hidden in Him. You don't
deserve, are you? You cannot. You cannot see your request, your
future, what gods are damed for you. You cannot see it in the
light of what you deserve according to the flesh, because you are hidden in
him. But the enemy will work over time to keep you bound to that
that will become the lid to what you receive, deserve what you receive.
Number two second hindrance, the second hindrance, and I'm kind of talking about
it now. The second hindrance is what we need and just enough, what
we need and just enough. Yeah, but pastor doesn't Philippians four nineteen say,
and my God shall meet all of your needs according to his riches,
the riches of his glory, and Christ Jesus, I mean, I shouldn't
believe for more than my needs, trying to show you that Father's heart is
beyond your needs, that the abundance that is yours is the riches of his
glory, the riches that belong to Christ Jesus actis biblically. There's only one
place biblically where just enough he is actually the theme of scripture with God.
And we see a people walking in just enough, you know where that is
the wilderness, and the wilderness they had just enough and the wilderness they didn't
have abundance. They came out of Egypt and they came into the wilderness.
And you know why they were in the wilderness, and maybe you know why
they were in the wilderness because they refused to go into the promise. Why
did they refuse to go into the promise? Because though they came out of
Egypt, they still had Egypt in them. Those who were delivered out of
Egypt couldn't go in the Promise until Egypt was out of them. So the
wilderness period was all about getting Egypt out of them. But the goal was
the Promise. The goal was the promised land. The typology of that experience
is not life. Here on earth is a wilderness and Heaven is a promised
land. That's not the typology. The typology is that when you come out
of bondage, you still have some Bondage in you. When you come into
Christ, you still have some Egypt in you. And as that Egypt is
removed, it's the circumcision of your heart. The last meal of manner and
quail that they had was in Joshua chapter five, and they were circumcised.
All of those of faith were to go in and possess the land, and
they were circumcised at Gilgal they had their last meal, and then they were
to go in and possess their promise of abundance. God never called his children
to adjust enough life. He has called you and ordained that you would have
an abundant life, an overflowing life, a lavish life, This is his
desire, and it's his desire for every person, for every people, for
every nation. This is not an American desire. This is not the American
gospel. This is the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's so good it's too
good to believe. That's how good it is. Listen to Deuteronomy chapter eight,
Truth or four. Remember how the Lord led you all the way in
the wildernesses forty years to humble you and to test you in order to know
what was in your heart whether or not you would keep his commands. He
humbled you, causing you to hunger, and then feeding you with manner which
neither you or your ancestors had known to teach you that man does not live
on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these
forty years. Now did God need to know what was in their heart?
Or did they need to know what was in their heart? They're the ones
that needed to know what was in their heart so their hearts could be purified,
so God could raise up a generation of faith, because only a generation
of faith could go in and possess their promise. You are a generation of
faith. God's ordagned for you to possess your promise. God's ordigned for you
to be circumcised of heart, to be clear, to be delivered, to
be set free, so that you can go in and possess your promise.
So that's hindrance number two. The enemy will use that hindrance against you time
and time again. Don't get out there too far. Don't be asking God
for too much. Don't be asking for more than your needs. Oh,
that'll mess you up. You do that, you're gonna mess up. Oh.
Don't be looking for a lavish thing now, don't be. Don't be
looking for overflow, don't be looking for abundance. Calm down, What are
you gonna do with all that extra? Come on, now, what are
you gonna do with all that extra? Shut up? I'm gonna do something
good with it. Talk back, Talk back to accusation, talk back to
a lying spirit. Put it under your foot, child of God. Remember
the prodical son prodical son Luke fifteen eleven. The frustrated upset, the jealous
elder son who had never sinned. What's going on? What are you doing?
Why are you lavishing? All of this on my brother. I've been
here all along, I've worked for you all along. What did Dad say?
Come on? Now? Everything I have has been yours all along,
but you've never asked for it. What did John fifteen? John fifteen say?
Ask that your joy might be full? Ask that your joy might be
full? Ask? Wouldn't it be a shame if we went to glory?
If you died and went to heaven and found out that your life could have
been totally different? Something different was actually written about you in your book that
you never entered into. Because you, like the senior prodigal son, like
the senior brother, we're afraid to ask. It's afraid to ask. Just
didn't want to ask, didn't want to didn't want to assume, didn't want
to get too lavish, didn't want to get out there, didn't want to
Hello somebody, I'm out of time. We're gonna take communion. I'm just
preaching. Are you happy? Hindrans number three? Hindrance number three. I
might sin or misuse the abundance, so father's keeping it from me. That's
a lie. Did you know Father knows you're not going to be perfect with
the abundance? Did you know that Father knows you're not going to be perfect
with his abundance. Did you know he wants to pour it upon you anyway?
The whole book of Deuteronomy is all about the Promised Land and the abundance.
But in the last chapter Moses, the prophet Moses says in verse twenty
of thirty one, the prophet actually says, I know you're gonna mess up.
I know you're gonna mess up. God knows you're gonna mess up.
He's gonna pour it out on you anyway. When the enemy comes along and
tells you that you're being helped from the abundance of God or the goodness of
God or the overflow of God because of your motives, or because you're impure,
or because you're gonna mess it up, or because you're gonna sin.
I'm guaranteeing right now it's a lie. It's another accusation you need to put
underneath your feet. God knows you're not gonna do things perfectly, and he's
willing to teach you to drive while he pours out the car on you.
Come on, here's the keys. Let's go. But Dad, I might
reckon it might hit some stuff. Let's go. Put put it, put
it in ignition. Let's go. But but but dad, I might not
keep it clean all the time. Take the keys. Let's go. But
dad, it's too cool, it's too much. Take the keys. Let's
go. It's just his hard toward you. It's his herd toward you.
We radiged form how many of how many of you that have bradged children knew
that they would wreck your car or their car or the combination of the two.
So did you did you you know from the natural we learned about the
spiritual? So did you knowing that? Did you knowing that? Say?
But ye, no car in my family? Not giving you a car and
you're not driving mine? No, no, you're just give them the key.
Anyway, let's go, Just go. You're gonna be okay, You're
gonna be okay. Just go, take the car. But I just had
a wreck last week. Take the car. But the week before I totally
take the car. But I'm just gonna make a message. Take the car.
How much more does your father want to pour upon you and overflow of
goodness? How much more does he want to mend your heart? How much
more does he want to meet you? How much more does he want to
fulfill you? How much more does he want to love you? How much
more does he want to lavish upon you? So much that it appears wasteful.
It's wasteful. Overflow means more than I need? Are we serving that?
How we doing it? Because we ran out of down, We ran
out of the stare of room. I mean the tinfoil cups, we ran
the microplastic cups, we ran out of those. Come on, stand with
me this morning, this morning, I want you to hear Father's heart towards
you, because he wants you to receive of his goodness. Well, the
way, this really sounds very selfish. It sounds like prosperity Gospel selfish kind
of a thing. I mean this, I don't know if that's for.
I mean, this sounds a little ridiculous, a little out there. No,
this is Bible. This is the Bible that if you will simply lay
down your sinful life, if you will lay down your selfish life, if
you will lay down your limited life, if you will lay down your cursed
life, if you will lay down your prideful life, that if you will
lay down your deceptive life, that if you will bring your unclean nature to
the cross and leave it there. That he will fit you with a grace
and with an armor, and with an abundance, and with a new DNA
and a new vision and a new perspective. He will fit you with a
resurrected life. And he'll begin to pull the old tapes and the recordings of
Egypt out of you, the desires of Egypt out of you. You won't
any longer be comfortable with small vision. You won't any longer be comfortable with
small prayers. You won't any longer be comfortable with sin and its pleasures.
Did you feel the kiss of the Holy Spirit in't here this morning? The
kiss of the Holy Spirit is so much better than anything. So Father,
we come and we just recognize what you've done for us in Jesus. Stick
to bread because this is his broken body, and his broken body was broken,
and this sounds like too much as well. His broken body was broken
so that yours would not have to be He took up on him self all
that you deserved so that your body would not have to be broken. The
brokenness that I experienced as a believer is not a brokenness of poverty and death
and destruction. And sickness and disease. It's a brokenness of me bringing my
carnal nature to the cross and giving it to him because his body was broken
on my behalf. Let's take it together, Let's thank him that he took
what we deserved in his body on the tree. And the cup is the
blood of the new covenant. The cup symbolizes him laying down his life on
our behalf, cutting a covenant on our behalf with Father, making us one
with Father. That's why it's called common union, communion, common union.
He's brought us into Father, He's brought us into the family. He's brought
us into all of the rights and the privileges of heaven through his blood.
The shedding of his blood on our behalf, the shedding of his blood was
the giving of all, and we enter into that today. So we come
and we give our all. Let's take the cup together. Just thank him,
just thank him. It's too good to believe. The gospel is too
good to believe. The good news is too good to believe. But he's
asking you, would you believe it? Would you believe him? Would you
trust him? Would you trust him so much? Would you believe it so
much? That you would ask him audacious, audacious, bring audacious requests before
him, Bring before him the craziest request. Lift up your eyes, Lift
up your eyes. Let Holy Spirit, vision come upon your eyes. See
what you could not see in the natural realm. He's asking you, like
Abraham, what can you see? How far can you see? I'll give
you what you can see. I'll give you what you can see. Lift
up your eyes, I'll give you what you can see. Holy Spirit,
We abandon hindrances this morning. We set aside blockades to the abundance you've ordained
for us. We welcome right now the breaking off every accusation, every lying
word, every hindrance of our lineage. We welcome the breaking off, the
breaking off, the breaking off of every hindrance. Holy Spirit, we welcome
you bring us into understanding and rejoicing and receiving the fullness of all that Father
has ordained for us, the abundance he desires. Set us apart, set
us apart. We bless you for it in Jesus name, when as the
destiny seemed to calm and help us close. And if you're just here this
morning, reaffirming your walk with God, giving your life to Him, leaving
the known for sure, your sins are forgiven. You're here today leaving a
word from Him or a fresh fire, baptism in the spirit, whatever it
is you're believing. For this morning, altars are going to be open.
I would just encourage you to calm and put a seal on this day.
Put His seal on this day. Let the Holy Spirit put a seal on
this day that you know you leave transformed, strengthened, empowered, changed.
His worship has be gone.