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Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church podcast, where we represent God to

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the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so

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glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe

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God will transform your life. Do today's message.

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Speaker 2: Well, I have an assignment today.

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Speaker 3: Get out your notepads because we're about to go crazy

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today on Mother's Day. One of the things that we

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do at Transformation Church, if this is your first time,

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is I always feel like I have an assignment that

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helps people move forward in their transformation journey. And the

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word of the year at Transformation Church is say it

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like you got faith, Say it like that's where you're moving.

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Speaker 2: We're moving forward.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know about you, but I have since

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a shift in my life since that prayer conference a

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week ago.

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Speaker 2: And if you haven't, it's okay.

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Speaker 3: You can jump on this train right now. We're moving.

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Everybody shot at me forward And one of the areas

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that we need to move forward in is in the

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area of how we deal with finances. The reason I

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have to say this is because God talks about finance's

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generosity money in the scriptures almost one third.

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Speaker 2: Of the time he speaks publicly. It's about these issues.

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Speaker 3: Because he knows it's the issue of the day. Because

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the truth of the matter, your attitude is actually good

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or bad based on that account you just checked. Some

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of y'all didn't come to church this morning because you

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checked your tank.

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Speaker 2: Come on, come on.

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Speaker 3: Last night you got home and I was like, that's

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got the last meet till Wednesday. And the way these

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gas prices are set up right now, I'll catch it online.

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Some of us in the room right now, we have

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everything we need financially, but we are very There are

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things that are happening around us watch that are affecting

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how we live. And it has to do how we

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see finances, generosity and stewardship.

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Speaker 2: And so today I'm gonna.

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Speaker 3: Walk us in week three of a series we're calling

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six Figures how to Live a Life of abundance.

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Speaker 2: How many people when I.

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Speaker 3: Just say that desire to live a life of abundance,

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I need hands in the chat or in the room

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you desire Okay, So if you desire to live a

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life of abundance, I want to give you the key

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to understanding abundance.

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Speaker 2: Watch this.

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Speaker 3: If you don't get anything else I say, I need

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you to get this word right. Here humility. If you

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think you know everything, you can't learn anything. I'm telling

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you right now, humility is the way to gain a

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life of abundance. But the problem is, there are people

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in this room right now. What this little boy gonna

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tell me about some money? I've been grown and doing

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my budget since before he could say good, good God, God,

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look at him up.

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Speaker 2: No, I know.

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Speaker 3: I see how you're looking at me. I get the comments.

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I see what's going on. And the truth of the

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matter is this is not my playbook. This is God's playbook.

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And you gotta realize no matter the vessel God uses,

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he may be trying to give you a new vision

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for your life. So today I'm not gonna ask you

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to believe me because it's me.

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Speaker 2: Now. I do got some proof.

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Speaker 3: I just want to say in my own life I

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got I used to be greedy, stingy, broke and impoverished.

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Oh y'all, okay, I thought we were in a humble, opening,

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transparent church. I thought we was hot. Let me take

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you one step further. I used to be all of.

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Speaker 2: That as the pastor of this church. Oo, look at you.

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Speaker 3: I just I want to let you know I did

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not understand how to live a blessed life, an abundant life,

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a life that was watch this not centered around me

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when it came to finances and generosity. And so instead

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of acting like I had it all together, I.

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Speaker 2: Have proof in the room.

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Speaker 3: When I became the pastor of Transformation Church February first,

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twenty fifteen, my first series was a series about how

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to break poverty off of our church.

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Speaker 2: And I did not teach it.

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Speaker 3: I found somebody else who had great teaching on it,

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and we watched the video on Sunday morning together.

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Speaker 2: Am I telling the truth?

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Speaker 4: I would say, hey, y'all, he's your pastor.

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Speaker 3: And you know what, I really want all of us

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to live a blessed life. And notice how I said

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all of us, and I don't have this revelation yet.

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So I found the revelation and I I would pray

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you would be humble.

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Speaker 2: Enough for us to learn it together.

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Speaker 3: And I would say play the video and come sit

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on the front row. Now, most of y'all would leave

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if I did that today, because you want your pastor

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or whoever's leading you to know everything instead of taking

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a posture of humility. But I would rather give you

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the right content. Okay, then act like I have the

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I could get up here and yeah and this is

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what but knowing that wasn't real in my life.

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Speaker 2: And for three years.

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Speaker 3: We did this every single year, and every year I

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was like, God, you think I could teach one now?

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He said, nope, sit yo, butt down. I'm not making

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this up, y'all. And it was the third year of

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the series. God said, you can preach one message, and

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I preached one, and I said for the next six weeks,

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come for movie time. And there were a group of

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people that came consistently and faithfully since that moment that

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I was humble enough to say, I'm not gonna front

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in front of the world. And really it was only

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like two hundred people in my mom's prayer group, but

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at that time, but I'm not gonna front in front

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of the world. I'm gonna be humble enough to actually

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learn it. God said, that's something I can work with.

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And what God has done since then has allowed my

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life to expand because I actually got the principle. So

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what I'm saying to you for the next four weeks,

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I want to give you what I got. This is

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not just a series of information it's a series of impartation.

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Speaker 2: If you will hear what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: To you practically and prophetically, this could actually change your

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entire life and your relationship with finances, stewardship, generosity, giving

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all of it. You will never be scared when it's

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time to give, and you will never be manipulated when

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it's time to give. You will be steady and steadfast.

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Speaker 2: God will speak to you.

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Speaker 3: You will have investments going over here, you will have

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blessings coming over there.

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Speaker 2: The reaping will overtake the swing.

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Speaker 3: Somebody should be shouting right now because I want you

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watch this to understand that giving is all about the heart.

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It's not even about money. God just uses money as

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a tool to expose what's in your Okay, So today

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I just need to stop and acknowledge that many of you,

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depending on where you came into this Christian journey, there

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may have been some abuse and manipulation around how finances

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were taught to you watch this, or the manipulation around

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how they were trying to get it from you, and

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for that I want to apologize. There is nothing in

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the Bible that tells us to form one thousand dollar lines.

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The Bible says like each man should give in his

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heart what he's already decided. The problem is most of

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us don't pray about what to give before we come.

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Speaker 2: So it's a twofold thing.

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Speaker 3: I can't be convinced if I've already gone to him,

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supposed to give, then when somebody says we're reading Psalms

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one hundred and three, I just feel like you need

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to give one hundred and three dollars times ten.

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Speaker 2: And everybody. I can do that, getting the line right here.

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Speaker 3: And then I'm gonna pray for you because you're given

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that's the money.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: What it does is I understand the concept, but it's

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a lack of teaching. And so that's why I've decided

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during our series we don't ask for any money. You

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don't have to give a don We actually give money away.

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Last week at the end of service on Profit Sherman

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Doomis that was here we were able to send one

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hundred thousand dollars to their Oh come on Transformation Church,

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to their church and bless them. They had a tragedy.

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But that's because there are people who have already understood

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the figure of.

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Speaker 2: Faith that it takes to.

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Speaker 3: Give, because giving is all about the heart. Okay, So

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maybe you never taught, and maybe you were taught wrong,

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and maybe there's some cares of this life that have

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really been weighing you down.

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Speaker 2: And I want to let you know I see.

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Speaker 3: All that, But I believe this series is gonna help

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you move forward and you're gonna be able to live

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in a life of abundance. John ten ten This has

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been my anchor scripture.

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Speaker 2: The thief does not.

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Speaker 3: Come except to steal, kill, and what but Jesus has

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come that you might have life, and that you might

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have life more abundantly. Write this down. God desires for.

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Speaker 2: Me to live an abundant life. God desires for you.

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Put your name in there.

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Speaker 3: God desires for Michael to live an abundant life.

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Speaker 2: Let's write again.

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Speaker 3: God desires for Michael to live an abundant life. Some

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of you have never said that, never believed it, never

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Speaker 2: It was possible.

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Speaker 3: But God desires for all of us to live in

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an abundant life. And abundant life is not just finances. It's

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God's overflowing grace, spiritual fullness, material provision, and generosity. And

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that's why I've told you every week of this series

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you have permission to prosper. I'm speaking to your soul

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right now. You're looking at all that debt piled up.

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Speaker 2: In them student loans that are looming over you.

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Speaker 3: You done deferred and deferred, and deferred and deferred and deferred.

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Speaker 2: You're waiting for Sally May to die. You're just deferred.

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permission to prosper. Just somebody say that over your life,

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I have permission to prosper. So if you're gonna have

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permission to prosper, I have to do a little representing,

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or I'm gonna call it correction of how some scripture

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has been presented to us. All my life, I've been

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in church, and anytime I hear Luke six thirty eight,

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give and it shall be given to you?

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Speaker 2: Are y'all bobski? Y'all know the rece good measure? First dan.

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Speaker 2: Will men give unto? Okay? All right?

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Speaker 3: The only time I've ever heard that scripture is that

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offering time. Nobody will ever say it any other time.

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Speaker 4: It's give.

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Speaker 3: But what I found out is context this king.

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Speaker 2: So if you go to Matthew.

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Speaker 3: Chapter seven, I want you to see that this whole

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verse is not in the context of giving. I want

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you to just see if you see the word giving

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or giving money anywhere.

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Speaker 2: In this verse.

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or you too will be judged, for in the same

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way you judge others, you will be Do you see.

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Speaker 2: The theme.

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Speaker 3: It says, and with the measure you use, it will

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be measured back to you. Say that with me, With

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the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

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Speaker 2: One more time for the people in the back, with the.

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Speaker 3: Measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

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in the context of judging. And if you read closer,

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thirty eight, and I'm gonna show you this whole thing.

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but I want you to get the context. Luke six

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thirty seven, it says, do not judge, and you will

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not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not

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be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. And if

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you skip down the thirty nine, it says, and with

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the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

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Speaker 4: This one, give and it will be given to you.

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Speaker 3: Give what in this context is judgment, condemnation and forgiveness.

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Speaker 2: You give.

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Speaker 3: Judgment is coming back you give. Condemnation it's coming back.

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You give. Forgiveness, it's coming back.

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Speaker 2: Give it. And then it says, like.

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Speaker 3: This, and with the measure you you, it'll be measured

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back to you.

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Speaker 2: Not just measure back to you.

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Speaker 3: How good measure, press down, shaken together and running over.

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Will men give judgment back to you, condemnation back to you,

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forgiveness back to you. Now, the thing that I wanted

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to bring to everybody's attention is that giving is the

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main subject. It's not what you give that's the main subject.

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It's the fact that you give it. So if giving

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is God's theme of the Bible, for God so loved

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the world that he we're the subject of the Bible.

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But the theme of the Bible giving, Oh God, I heard

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somebody ask a pastor how many times do you preach

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about giving in a year? And the pastors say every week?

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And a person said, you preach about giving every week?

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He said, I think you meant to ask how many

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times do I preach about giving money? Because I can't

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talk about grace if I don't talk about Jesus giving

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us grace, and I can't talk about us giving our

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life to Him or salvation if we don't talk about giving.

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I can't even talk about marriage because marriage takes two

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people giving. If you're not a giver, your marriage won't work.

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It's not fifty to fifty, it's one hundred, one hundred.

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You got to all the marriage people just say, hey, man, okay.

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Speaker 2: So the theme of.

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Speaker 3: The Bible is what giving, and that's why the enemy

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is playing you so hard to be stingy, plan you,

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so hard to be your own source, plan you so

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hard to think that God has forgotten about you and

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what I need to let you know that God is saying,

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I want you to be general. I want you to give,

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and whatever you give is coming back. You give the comments,

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you give opinions.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, all right, some.

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Speaker 3: Of you are living in a harvest of what you've

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already given.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's around me, but you're the best ghoster. You leave

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people high and dry all the time. I'm not answering

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that text message. And then when you and your time

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and kne he's like, well's the one to hear from

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me harvest time. Okay, y'all don't want to hear.

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Speaker 3: That it's harvest time. We want to stream harvest when

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it's about something good. But when you stream harvest when

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you've been sewing gossip for the last six years, I

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don't even understand why they would make something up like that.

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Speaker 2: With me, it's harvest time. Okay. What I'm saying, if

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it was me, if.

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Speaker 3: This principle really works, I'd be trying to give good things.

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Speaker 2: And that's why when.

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Speaker 3: People hear this, they don't understand. Write this down that

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giving is big to God. Giving is big to God.

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Giving is not a small thing. I'm not talking about

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money yet, I'm talking about giving period. I'm trying to

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separate this for you, you stingy with your fruit loops. Oh,

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y'all know, y'all know, there's certain cereals you de tell

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your kids, don't uh uh.

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Speaker 2: This is my seria. If you want, you get fruitios.

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Speaker 3: But the actual fruit the name brand wants them as mine.

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Got your kids stealing through loops in your own house, No,

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I'm saying, apply it where you are. Some of y'all

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got cars, won't let your children or family members use them? Now,

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some of y'all got good reason not to let your

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family members use them. But some of y'all are stingy Okay.

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You see people struggling have something to meet their need.

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I guess they need to learn. Oh come on, I mean,

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I guess God's trying to work on them.

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Speaker 2: What I'm saying is giving.

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Speaker 3: Is something that God presents to us all the time

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to see if his reflection is in us.

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Speaker 2: You ever been somewhere and you heard that they were

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some money short. You have the thing.

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Speaker 3: You see them struggling to pay the bill at the end,

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and he's like, I.

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Speaker 2: Told them to come earlier. I'm trying to get out

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of here.

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Speaker 3: And God somehow got you sitting there and it's your

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waitress and the car. I don't know the car. Let's

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try another card and they don't try seven cards and

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you just sitting there.

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Speaker 2: Why might God let that happen? Right next to you.

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But they don't know. They don't know. They don't, they don't,

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they don't. They don't know what I got going on.

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They have no idea what's coming.

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Speaker 3: And God's like, I'm looking for my reflection. I'm looking

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for somebody to meet a need. When they see a need,

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they don't know their salvation is attached to that seed

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you're gonna pay for.

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Speaker 2: They sheddars and it's gonna lead them to me. You

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don't know that.

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Speaker 3: They just prayed and asked God.

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Speaker 4: You have no.

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Speaker 3: Idea, But He's working with people who have not fully

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bought into the heart of generosity. And that's why giving

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is big to God. How we hear scripture is like this,

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give money.

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Speaker 2: That's how we hear it. God wants us to give money.

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That's mike, What does God want us to do? Give money?

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Speaker 3: The thing that's big in that is money, But switch

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in the give gotta be big. What God is saying

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is give money, give money, and then they'll say, give encouragement,

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give encouragement. Oh y'all don't hear what I'm saying. You

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think the money is big, The.

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Speaker 2: Encouragement is big.

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Speaker 3: It's the giving that he wants to be big on

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the inside of you.

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Speaker 2: Whatever he says, give, that's what we should do.

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Speaker 4: Give time, help me yo, give give time?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I like that one. Mama Clay, you said

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give love. Let's try it.

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Speaker 4: Give love?

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Speaker 2: What about peace? Give peace? What would happen if the

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give was big? What would happen? Is at that job

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you went in there and they knew.

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Speaker 3: You as a giver of what needed to be given

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at the time, it wasn't what you was given. It's

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the give. Today I came to let you know that

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the give is supposed to be the big. It don't

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matter what comes after it.

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Speaker 2: It might be give of hair shoes, it might be

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give some time. It might be give a donut, it

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might be You'll know what I'm saying. But what is big?

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Speaker 3: Gif? And my question to you is the give big

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in your life? Is there any evidence that giving is

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bigger in your life than keeping?

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Speaker 2: Is there any evidence that giving is bigger?

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Speaker 3: And today I don't want to challenge you that God

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is looking for people who would say, Hey, God, my

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give is too small. I need you to help me

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learn how to get my gift big. You want a

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new prayer? God, help my gift get big. God, do

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whatever you got to do on the inside of me

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to help my give get big. Father, let me not

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be somebody who hoards. Let me be a river, not

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a reservoir. God, it can come through me. Father, God,

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you don't have to stop it with me.

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Speaker 2: I get to touch it on the way through.

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Speaker 3: Father. God, give me this house so I can give

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it away. Give me that cause so I can give

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it away. Give me this business so I can give

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it away. God, let my give get big. And you

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don't have to hit the lottery for your give to

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get big. You can start right here because whatever you give,

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it is coming back to you good measure, first down,

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shaken together and what running?

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Speaker 2: Will men not God?

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Speaker 3: God doesn't give back the blessing he uses men to.

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Speaker 2: Some of y'all are giving. It's like God's gonna know.

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Speaker 3: God's gonna speak to them, and they're going to y'all

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not ready for this thought. Can I represent something to you?

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What if you're the one that's not looking to receive,

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but what if you're the one God's looking to give through.

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Speaker 2: Jared. They don't understand. That's my job.

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Speaker 3: See See, I'm trying to shift your mind transformation because

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some of y'all all, wait, oh, I just can't wait

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till it comes back.

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Speaker 2: What if you don't need it to.

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Speaker 3: So wright? What if I don't need it to come back?

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Because everything that God's done, it's blessed so much that

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when God says, men will give and put it in

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your lap, you don't want to be like, Yeah, I'm

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the man that puts stuff in the lap, I'm the

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lap givel. Let's stay away from that.

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Speaker 2: Let's let's y'all got what I'm saying. Let's go the

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other way. Here we go.

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Speaker 3: Giving is all about the heart.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So here we go.

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Speaker 3: I found out as I looked at this and I've

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passored for almost eleven years. That's crazy to even say

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I passed for almost eleven years. Amen, let's just pray

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with making another three.

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Speaker 2: Okay, here we go.

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Speaker 3: Many people are suffering from heart attacks because your treasure

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and your heart are attached. Today, I need to title

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this sermon how to prevent a heart attack, because if

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giving is all about the heart.

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Speaker 2: What's keeping you from giving is your heart is being attacked.

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Speaker 3: And what I've found out through my small study on

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chat GPT about a heart and heart attacks is that

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a heart attack is caused because there is a blockage

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of flow. There's something that comes to block or make

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a barrier, and flow stops, eventually stopping.

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Speaker 2: All life from coming.

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Speaker 3: Could it be that many of us have stopped the

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flow in our life because something has gotten into the

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ventricles of our thinking that has blocked us from understanding.

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Hold on, this is what God wants me to do.

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He wants me to be generous.

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Speaker 2: He wants me.

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Speaker 3: To be able to give on every occasion. He wants

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me to even while I'm saving, even while I'm building,

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even while I'm trying to get out of debt. He

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wants me to honor Him with my resources. And today

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I need everybody to hear me say this, because this

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is going to change. You're like, this is things your

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parents should have told you, but probably didn't have the

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language to today. Generationally, you need to sit down with

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your children and make them watch this so they can

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get it in their spirit. I'm telling you, the understanding

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of this revelation can change your world forever. The Bible

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tells us you have to guard your heart above all else,

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because out of that place flows every issue of your life.

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You cannot guard from what you're not aware of.

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Speaker 2: Did you hear what I just said?

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Speaker 3: If the Bible says, remember givings all about the If

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the Bible says, now guard your heart above all else,

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because out of that place flows every issue of light.

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You will not guard from what you're not aware of.

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So today I want you to make you aware of

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some things that come to attack your heart, because the

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truth of the matter is Matthew six twenty one.

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Speaker 2: For where your treasure is there, your heart will be. Also.

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Speaker 3: This Bible is nasty, and it comes together like legos.

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Speaker 2: Y'all hear me. It's nasty.

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Speaker 3: So watch this guard your heart because out of that

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heart everything flows. Then he says, you want to locate

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your heart? Where's your treasure? Where have you put your money?

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Because your treasure does not.

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Speaker 2: Follow your heart.

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Speaker 3: Your heart follows your treasure. You want your heart in

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the kingdom. Put your treasure there.

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Speaker 2: You want your heart in your family. Put your treasure there.

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Speaker 3: You want your heart in the next generation. Put your

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treasure there, not just your opinion.

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Speaker 2: This generation.

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Speaker 3: Don't did this generation.

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Speaker 2: Don't expose them to something.

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Speaker 3: Take them somewhere, teach them something, have enough grace to

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impart into them.

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Speaker 2: But you want to judge from afar and never.

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Speaker 3: Give them anything. Okay, it got quiet, didn't hear Okay?

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Wherever your treasure is, your heart will be also question

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to everybody listening, whether you're in the penitentiary, you're watching

477
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at a gym, you're in this room, where's your treasure?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 3: No, I'm not talking about Ethereally, open up your bank account.

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Some of your treasures in your stomach and it's in

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their good measure. Press down.

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Speaker 2: And it's overflowing over that beltline. I'm telling you right

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now what I'm telling you, y'all hear me? Where's your treasure?

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Speaker 3: Some of your treasures in your car, some of your

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treasures on cosmetics.

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Speaker 2: I'm not here to judge you.

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Speaker 3: Some of your treasures on the lake house, some of

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your treasures on the golf course. You live in an apartment,

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but you have a country club membership. It's a word

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called priorities. Brother, you, where's your treasure? Some of your

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treasure is in your children. Some of your treasure is

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in design or clothes.

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Speaker 2: Some of your treasure I just want you to Can

494
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you locate your heart?

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Speaker 3: Because until you can locate your heart.

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Speaker 2: You cannot tell God he can have it. Okay, God,

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you can have my heart? Where is it? Okay? So

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today I want to teach you four This is what

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I want to do.

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Speaker 3: I want to teach you how to prevent a heart

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attack by giving you four conditions that attack your heart.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's do this. Number one.

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Speaker 3: The first condition that comes to attack.

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Speaker 2: Your heart is greed. It's greed.

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Speaker 3: Now, most of us in this room would never ever,

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ever admit to being greedy. But maybe greed is not

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as demonstrative and overt. Maybe your greed is silent in

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your head and comes out in very calm actions.

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Speaker 2: I mean.

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Speaker 3: Some symptoms of greed is you're never satisfied, constant comparison,

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obsession with more identity tied to your success, inability to

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celebrate others.

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Speaker 2: Some of y'all just greedy with celebration.

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Speaker 3: Oh oh they had another child, good for them.

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Speaker 2: May become ugly. Oh y'all know, y'all do it oohoo.

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Speaker 3: And instead of just celebrating, thank you God for life,

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Thank you God that you give them more grace, God,

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thank you for thank you. You might be dealing with greed.

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Always watch this. Here's another symptom, always chasing the next thing,

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contentment avoids you. As soon as you like your room,

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you go to Pinterest and like, oh my God, I

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gotta redo it.

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Speaker 2: Come on, could there be something in.

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Speaker 3: There is like I need more, I gotta have more.

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And the reason I'm saying this is is you have

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to understand that greed will stop up what God wants

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to do in your life as far as generosity and giving,

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and it blocks the areas that He wants to use you.

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And that's why I'm telling you you got to understand this.

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Every time you give, you remind your soul that money

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is a tool, not a God. Every single time you give,

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you're saying no, no, no, no, I use this.

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Speaker 2: This don't rule me, Oh God.

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Speaker 3: Deuteronomy fifteen, I want you to see how many times

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God's directly trying to deal with our heart.

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Speaker 2: He says, if there is among you a poor man

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or a.

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Speaker 3: Brethren within your gates in the land which the Lord

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your God has given you. Notice that he's saying, the

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Lord God has given you everything you've got. So even

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though you claim in it, he's saying, the Lord.

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Speaker 2: Gave it to you.

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Speaker 3: He said you shall not harden your heart.

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Speaker 2: Say it with me, you shall not.

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Speaker 3: Harden your or shut your hand. That means your heart

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in your hand are connected. If your heart becomes hard,

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your hand becomes closed. Don't harden your heart, because at

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the moment you harden your heart.

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Speaker 2: You close your hand.

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Speaker 3: Okay, it says, nor shut your hand to your poor brother.

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Speaker 2: But you shall.

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Speaker 3: Open your hand why to him willingly? So your giving

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should be wide and willing. Okay, lend him sufficient for

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his need, whatever he needs. Beware, let's there be a

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wicked thought in your heart saying the seventh year, the

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year of release is at him and your I'd be

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evil against your poor brother and give him nothing, and

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he cry out to the Lord against you.

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Speaker 2: It will become cinema among you. Let me explain this

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to you.

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Speaker 3: God had an economic system in playback in this time

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that said every seven years was the year of jubilee,

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and on that seventh year all debts were released. How

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many people wish that that could be the plan? Again, Trump,

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go back to the Bible. We need that in the plan. Okay,

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But hear what I'm saying to you. The Bible is saying,

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don't get in the sixth year and somebody need to

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borrow some money. From you and being like, hold on,

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I ain't giving it nothing because next year is the

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year of release, and if they don't pay me back

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by that time, I'm not gonna be able to claim

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my money no more. He said, don't have that thought.

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Stop that, because that thought is a greedy thought. That

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thought is a selfish thought. That thought is Watch this Wicked.

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I heard the cast the Wicked is here. Shout out

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to y'all, whoever y'all are, wherever y'all are.

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Speaker 2: I love you.

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Speaker 3: Okay, hey man, thank you for coming to church. Said that,

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God bless you.

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Speaker 2: Wiz. It's a w the Wiz. Y'all here too, God

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bless you. It's in the same, is it? The wis?

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Is that y'all? What's up to the cast of the Wiz.

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He's on down, He's on down the road. Y'all got

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a part from me? Don't you care me? Okay?

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Speaker 3: Never let me stop, white people. The Wiz is great.

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I want to let you know that too. Okay, it's

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like the black version of Okay, never mind, we'll talk

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about that later. I love our church. Okay, here we go.

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I need everybody to eat. Everybody to hear me say this,

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that the scripture says, greed turns into selfishness, and selfishness

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turns into wickedness. I'm not wicked, are you greedy?

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Speaker 2: I'm not wicked? Are you selfish?

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Speaker 3: Because this is the natural progression of how you get

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into wickedness? And look what the Bible takes it up

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another level, he says, Then it becomes sin in the

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eyes of God. So I just want you to think,

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like if you've ever gone to get one donut but

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you saw two, and you know you only need one,

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but you end up taking the box anyway for later,

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be careful because greed, watch this becomes selfishness. Selfishness becomes wickedness.

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Wickedness getscounted as sin.

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Speaker 2: What's the point?

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Speaker 3: Take one donut. What I'm saying is take sufficient for

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the moment.

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Speaker 2: Don't try to hoard everything.

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Speaker 3: Maybe somebody else needed their glue.

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Speaker 2: Close level to.

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Speaker 3: Go up in the office, and they needed a little

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sugar high. They would be less angry. Y'all know what

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I'm talking about, hungry and angry. And you could have

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left that and you wouldn't have had the argument later.

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But you two two donuts now that you're about to

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get fired. Somebody asked me, what's an area pastor Mike

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that you're still greedy in? See, I like the people

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around me because we don't just preach about stuff. They

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be trying to dig. They be like, so were you

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still greedy?

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Speaker 2: Man of God?

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Speaker 3: And I took a second to think about it because

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I invite those type of questions because I don't want

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God to stop working on me. And they were like,

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you're generous with finances, You're generous with this, like where

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are you greedy? And I said, I found it. I'm

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still having to kill the need for credit. Okay, I

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may be the only one, but there's moments where.

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Speaker 2: I know I did something. I know I helped them.

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Speaker 3: I know I did something, and that thing.

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Speaker 2: In me will raise up and be like you did that,

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and God will be like it don't matter, and I'll be.

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Speaker 3: Like yeah, yeah. Like even today, it's Mother's Day and

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my children are gonna present my wife with some amazing

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gifts and I have been diligent on asking them what

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they want to get their mother. And there's gonna be

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some a quandary of how Jia got her hands on

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one hundred and forty doctors at five years old, And

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I'm saying this to be funny, but they're gonna get

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praised and they're momcoming. Oh my god, this is the

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sadly way I wanted. Every father in here knows what

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I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: Wife, I just hope you remember tonight.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, all right, work on me, Lloyd.

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Speaker 2: But let me give you. Let me give you a

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new prayer. He's not done with me yet. All right,

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here we go.

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Speaker 3: Let me give you a brand new scripture of break

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Psalms one thirty nine, verse twenty three.

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Speaker 2: It says, search me, Oh God.

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Speaker 3: No, my heart, I still need some work on my

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heart because there's areas in my light. I'm not just

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greedy with money. I might be greedy with credit. I

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might be greedy with my time. I might be selfish

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with my desire to help you. Okay, he says, search me. No,

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my heart tests me and know my anxious thoughts. See

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if there is any offense or offensive way in me,

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watch this and lead me in the way that's everlasting.

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The cure. Here we go. We're not just gonna give

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you the condition. The cure for the condition of a

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greed is watch this generosity. Every time you feel greed

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in an area give something in that area. Do y'all

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hear me At the moment you feel like, ah, let

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it go.

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Speaker 2: Oh, y'all don't hear me.

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Speaker 3: But I'm telling you this is why you have to

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get give big, because the Bible says the world of

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the generous.

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Speaker 2: Gets and larger.

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Speaker 3: How many people want to live in a large world,

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Like I'm not just talking about the earth, I'm talking

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about Your world is large, your relationships are large. You

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can help people near and far, he said. The only

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people that live that type of life are people.

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Speaker 2: Who are generous.

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Speaker 3: But the world of the stingy, or the greedy, or

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the self indulged or the wicked, it gets smaller and smaller.

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My question is will you grow your world this week?

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You can grow your world this week by being generous.

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You can go to lunch after church and grow your

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world by leaving a tip for somebody else, and you

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don't have to.

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Speaker 2: Let's the tip for you. You broke people like you,

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y'all know that's how we do.

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Speaker 3: Look at you peasants eating here at Tennis Roadhouse.

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Speaker 2: All you came for was the rolls. Here is a

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tip for you.

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Speaker 3: The best type of generosity is the one they don't

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even know you did.

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Speaker 2: Well, hear what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Do you know how many times I've gone into Quick

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Trip and gone up?

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Speaker 2: Watch this. I don't even have a car to eat gas.

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Speaker 3: So my intent was to go there to bless somebody,

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and I.

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Speaker 2: Watched Scott know it.

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Speaker 3: We'll go into Quick Trip and I'll look out there

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and see where there's cars on the thing, where people

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are caring about gas, and where the prices are going

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up and people are stressing all that.

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Speaker 2: Walk into Quick Trip.

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Speaker 3: This week with one hundred dollars and say, could you

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put twenty on six, twenty on four, twenty on eight,

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put forty on nine and walk away.

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Speaker 2: Don't go outside?

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Speaker 3: Hello all if you broke gas, people like, don't do that.

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Speaker 2: I love my church. The next condition that comes.

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Speaker 3: To attack your heart is watch this the wrong grip.

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Some of y'all got a death grip on your stuff.

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It's my house, it's my money, it's my time. Knowing

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you didn't give yourself a breath today, the breath you

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have is borrowed.

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Speaker 2: This is my church. Everybody knowing this church. I'll hold

711
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,679
this church just like this. Sometimes be trying to give

712
00:41:40,679 --> 00:41:43,920
it away. No y'all don't hear me. I'll be like God,

713
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,639
damn was good. We met it end and.

714
00:41:47,599 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 3: God's like no, no, no no, Just keep holding everything like

715
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:53,079
this whole people like this. If you stay open handed,

716
00:41:53,119 --> 00:41:55,800
that means I have your heart. But at the moment

717
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,119
your heart becomes hard, what if nothing else comes?

718
00:41:59,559 --> 00:42:05,159
Speaker 2: This is my idea. These are my kids. Some parents.

719
00:42:05,159 --> 00:42:07,079
Speaker 3: This ain't the point, but some parents are losing their

720
00:42:07,119 --> 00:42:09,280
relationship with their kids because they won't loosen their grip.

721
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:18,039
You're a coach now, you're not the authority anymore. You're

722
00:42:18,039 --> 00:42:19,159
supposed to cheer from the.

723
00:42:19,119 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 2: Sidelines, say don't do that. Ooh that hurt in it.

724
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:24,480
That's what you're supposed to do.

725
00:42:25,639 --> 00:42:28,199
Speaker 3: You're not supposed to bring respect and honor into decisions

726
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,920
they had to make to actually learn that God is

727
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:32,079
real in their own lives.

728
00:42:32,199 --> 00:42:36,599
Speaker 2: But you got the wrong grip, and some of.

729
00:42:36,599 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 3: Y'all have the wrong grip when it comes to finances, generosity,

730
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:41,559
your job, and stewardship.

731
00:42:42,519 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 2: Here are some symptoms that you may have.

732
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 3: Fear of not having enough anxiety around finances, constant control

733
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,719
issues where all the control freaks in the room, come on,

734
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:55,519
we're a humble opening transparent church.

735
00:42:55,679 --> 00:42:58,119
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Lord, you saw them. Here we

736
00:42:58,159 --> 00:43:00,880
go can help you with it.

737
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:08,079
Speaker 3: People have a hoarding mentality, struggling to release anything, trusting

738
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:12,000
money more than they trust God, which in scripture is

739
00:43:12,039 --> 00:43:15,199
called the spirit of mammon. But we see this in

740
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,400
Luke chapter fifteen, verse twenty. You can go read the

741
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,800
whole thing. But there was a rich, young ruler who

742
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:21,360
came to God enthusiastically.

743
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:25,679
Speaker 2: God, what must I do to inherit the kingdom?

744
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,119
Speaker 3: Verse twenty one of Luke fifteen, it says, looking at

745
00:43:28,119 --> 00:43:31,239
the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him. Another translation

746
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,159
says he felt compassion for him. He said, there's still

747
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:37,199
one thing that you haven't done, or there's one thing

748
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,880
you haven't changed your grip on. Go ahead and sell

749
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:42,920
all your possessions and give the money to the poor,

750
00:43:43,519 --> 00:43:44,920
and you will have treasure in heaven.

751
00:43:45,559 --> 00:43:48,519
Speaker 2: Then come follow me. At this, the man.

752
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 3: Was like, hold on, Jesus, you must not realize who

753
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,159
I am God. I've done all of these things. I'm

754
00:43:58,159 --> 00:44:00,840
just saying I want to follow you. He said, Yeah,

755
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,480
you gotta change your grip. He said, you can't follow

756
00:44:04,559 --> 00:44:08,079
me holding on to that that tightly. He said so

757
00:44:08,159 --> 00:44:11,599
sell that, and it said the man watch this. The

758
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:17,320
rich young ruler didn't even try. The money had such

759
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,719
a grip on him that at the thought of the instruction,

760
00:44:21,519 --> 00:44:23,159
he was like, well, I guess I'm want to be

761
00:44:23,199 --> 00:44:23,719
following you.

762
00:44:27,199 --> 00:44:28,159
Speaker 2: He didn't even.

763
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 3: He didn't even bother to try, because it was so

764
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:37,039
ingrained in him to control this money. God didn't promise

765
00:44:37,119 --> 00:44:38,840
him that he was not gonna give him something back.

766
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,480
He said, I'm gonna store up your treasure in heaven.

767
00:44:41,559 --> 00:44:43,199
And that's where he tells us. He couldn't even get

768
00:44:43,199 --> 00:44:45,599
the concept because of how he had such a hard grip.

769
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:47,880
What do you have such a tight grip on that

770
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:53,920
God's asking for? At this the man went away sad,

771
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,039
for he had many possessions. Watch this, write this point down.

772
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:04,000
You can have God and have the You can have

773
00:45:04,119 --> 00:45:09,000
God and still be holding money the wrong way. Some

774
00:45:09,079 --> 00:45:11,599
of y'all don't even think about tithing, don't even think

775
00:45:11,639 --> 00:45:14,519
about honoring God with your possessions. Will pray and worship

776
00:45:14,559 --> 00:45:16,599
and twirl and dance and.

777
00:45:16,639 --> 00:45:19,119
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, I'm serious. I know you,

778
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:19,880
I hug you.

779
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 3: I love you, shot like you will do all the things.

780
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,320
But when it comes to the way you grip money.

781
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:30,760
God is not your supplier, He is not your source.

782
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,400
It's because you have the wrong grip. There's clear, like

783
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,360
over and over in the world. Word how he tells

784
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,360
us to handle our resources, he said, honor God with

785
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,320
your resources, with your wealth, he said.

786
00:45:43,199 --> 00:45:45,199
Speaker 2: Because he's the one that gets. He's all over the world.

787
00:45:45,199 --> 00:45:46,360
And I'll teach you some of the scriptures.

788
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 3: But the truth of the matter is you not letting

789
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,159
go of that grip of that sixteen dollars an hour job.

790
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,679
Speaker 2: The way you hold on to now that you.

791
00:45:55,800 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 3: Make over sixty k, over one hundred k, it's like

792
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:02,440
you got stingier the more money you've got.

793
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:11,559
Speaker 2: How was you broken generous and now you've got a savings.

794
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:15,679
Speaker 3: And stingy Because I'll never.

795
00:46:15,639 --> 00:46:16,559
Speaker 2: Be broken another day.

796
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:20,079
Speaker 3: In my life. My mama's boke, my great grandmama broke,

797
00:46:20,119 --> 00:46:21,239
my great gret great grandmama broke.

798
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 2: But We're not gonna be broke. The problem is the

799
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:29,440
grip is costing you. Watch this. The blessing.

800
00:46:31,159 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 3: God has more for you. Oh God, Okay, how are

801
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,280
you holding what you have? I can't answer that question,

802
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:43,760
but you can. Is there anything that you're trembling, like

803
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,800
if God came close to asking you for it, that

804
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,199
you would be like, God, I can't follow you no more.

805
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,639
Speaker 2: Say la pause.

806
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,519
Speaker 3: Think if he asks you to give your car away,

807
00:47:00,679 --> 00:47:07,800
would you stop following him? God would never ask sheesh quiet,

808
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:11,880
there are some things. He asked some fishermen to give

809
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,280
their business away to follow him. Do y'all remember the

810
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:16,599
first disciples, throw.

811
00:47:16,519 --> 00:47:17,519
Speaker 2: Your net on the other side.

812
00:47:17,599 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 3: They did it biggest day, They company ten xt everything.

813
00:47:22,159 --> 00:47:26,679
Next they would have been all over the fisherman news.

814
00:47:27,599 --> 00:47:29,679
And Jesus said, now I'm gonna make you, fishers of men,

815
00:47:30,679 --> 00:47:31,400
lead a business.

816
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 2: Follow me.

817
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,159
Speaker 3: Most of us couldn't see our businessness get ten x

818
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,159
in the next week walk away from it. For the

819
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:49,360
sake of Jesus, we gonna keep moving. Jesus looked around

820
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,559
at his disciples and said this verse twenty three. He said,

821
00:47:52,599 --> 00:47:54,800
how hard is it for a rich man to enter

822
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,880
the Kingdom of God? This amazed them, but Jesus said again,

823
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,360
dear children, it is very hard to enter the Kingdom

824
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:01,679
of God.

825
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,159
Speaker 2: In fact, it is easier for a camel.

826
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,280
Speaker 3: Jesus was wild, and right here he just picked the

827
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:09,519
wildest example he could find. It would be easier for

828
00:48:09,639 --> 00:48:11,400
a camel to go through the eye of a needle,

829
00:48:11,519 --> 00:48:15,199
What then, for a rich person to enter the Kingdom

830
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:19,880
of God? Not because God had anything or any aught

831
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,360
against riches. It's because he knew that when you have

832
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:29,320
a lot, those riches usually have you. He said, That's

833
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,280
why we got to deal with the heart.

834
00:48:32,199 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 2: The heart.

835
00:48:33,119 --> 00:48:35,800
Speaker 3: The disciples were astounded. Then who in the world can

836
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,360
be saved? That asked Jesus looked at them intently and said,

837
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:42,199
humanly speaking, it is impossible, but not with God.

838
00:48:43,039 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 2: Everything is possible. With God.

839
00:48:44,519 --> 00:48:48,079
Speaker 3: Do y'all know that everybody uses this for miracle signs

840
00:48:48,119 --> 00:48:52,960
and wonders that scripture right there. With man it is impossible.

841
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,519
But with God, all things are possible. He's talking about

842
00:48:56,599 --> 00:49:02,280
being generous. Nobody wants to hear about that.

843
00:49:03,079 --> 00:49:05,519
Speaker 2: Lift your hands, I'm telling you. With God, he's gonna

844
00:49:05,559 --> 00:49:06,559
move them out that. He said.

845
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:11,039
Speaker 3: I'm telling you it's impossible to be generous and take

846
00:49:11,119 --> 00:49:14,400
your hand off of stuff like this if that's your source.

847
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:19,559
But with Me, you ain't gotta worry. It's possible. We

848
00:49:19,679 --> 00:49:23,639
can do anything if you have the right heart. That's

849
00:49:23,679 --> 00:49:27,840
why generosity and giving is all about the heart. Writes

850
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,320
this the cure for the condition of the wrong grip.

851
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,039
Speaker 2: Watch this. I got this from prophetess Elsa.

852
00:49:33,559 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 3: Let it go.

853
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:38,079
Speaker 2: I don't know.

854
00:49:38,199 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 3: That's one of the most prophetic Disney movies I've ever seen.

855
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,480
That woman coming into her identity, icing up everything, and

856
00:49:45,599 --> 00:49:46,519
she just said.

857
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 2: What let it go? No, I didn't ask you to sing, just.

858
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,760
Speaker 3: What I'm telling you. What I'm telling you right now

859
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,679
is if you got the wrong grip, time to loosen

860
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:05,599
it and let it go. Some of y'all, I dare

861
00:50:05,639 --> 00:50:07,400
you to ask God, what are you trying to say

862
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:11,719
to me at this moment? Some of y'all gonna be

863
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,760
scared of the answer. That's why don't pray this if

864
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:18,639
you're not ready to make a transformation. But God, watch this,

865
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:24,960
Where is my grip too tight? The next condition that

866
00:50:25,039 --> 00:50:26,039
comes to attack your heart?

867
00:50:26,079 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 2: Watch this one. We're almost done grief.

868
00:50:30,519 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 3: So greed tries to get you before you give, and

869
00:50:34,559 --> 00:50:36,119
the grip tries to get you to stay in the

870
00:50:36,159 --> 00:50:39,599
same place. I can't can't trust God, can't give, can't tie.

871
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:43,199
But grief tries to come and attack you after you

872
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:43,920
actually give.

873
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:48,039
Speaker 2: Has anybody ever given something and them is like ooh, shoot.

874
00:50:50,639 --> 00:50:53,599
Trust to you. God really want you to be the

875
00:50:53,599 --> 00:50:53,960
big one.

876
00:50:54,119 --> 00:51:01,320
Speaker 3: Do you got to do your big one on this one? Man? See,

877
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:07,679
grief tries to attack you after you obey God. Part

878
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,760
of my ministry of generosity that I started where I

879
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:13,880
was at when I didn't have nothing, was giving shoes away.

880
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 2: That that has always been a thing.

881
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:18,519
Speaker 3: I used to go to Ross and find the best

882
00:51:18,599 --> 00:51:21,559
shoes I could for twenty nine to ninety nine, and

883
00:51:21,679 --> 00:51:24,119
sometimes they have Jordan's in there, and sometimes they be

884
00:51:24,199 --> 00:51:26,480
having all this stuff that me and my brothers got

885
00:51:26,559 --> 00:51:28,119
that honest from my dad. He used to go to

886
00:51:28,199 --> 00:51:30,800
pawn shops and find stuff that cost a lot, but

887
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:32,519
he had an anointing to find it for it, so

888
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,960
that I think that got transferred in the blood lines.

889
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:37,239
So I used to have all kinds of shoes, and

890
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:39,519
God said, you want to be generous, start giving your

891
00:51:39,559 --> 00:51:42,320
shoes away. So literally, people I would look at their

892
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:44,000
feet and I'd be like, man, I could help them,

893
00:51:44,039 --> 00:51:46,480
I could bless them, I could upgrade ja.

894
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 2: And I was just asking, what's that shoe you wear?

895
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:51,360
Speaker 3: And they tell me, and if they were my size,

896
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:53,559
I would just be like, stay right here, and I'd

897
00:51:53,599 --> 00:51:55,199
have a pair in my car. I would This was

898
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:58,480
something I started a long time of go because listen

899
00:51:58,599 --> 00:52:02,800
to me say this. You can get the spirit of

900
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:08,840
generosity right where you're at now. You don't need a

901
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,880
bigger paycheck, you don't need more money, you don't need

902
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:16,960
a new job. You need a heart posture. So because

903
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:18,480
this was my heart posture and I wanted to be

904
00:52:18,519 --> 00:52:22,119
able to do this, I was not even sad when

905
00:52:22,159 --> 00:52:23,079
I gave the people.

906
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 2: The shoes, the thing that grieved me the most.

907
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,199
Speaker 3: And maybe this is just me venting because my spirit

908
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:30,159
is grieved at this current moment. But sometimes I would

909
00:52:30,199 --> 00:52:36,519
give the too good of a shoe to somebody who

910
00:52:36,559 --> 00:52:40,079
didn't know what to do with it. And there's certain

911
00:52:40,119 --> 00:52:42,079
shoes that don't go with certain nowfish, y'all know what

912
00:52:42,119 --> 00:52:45,440
I'm talking about. I needed my desernment to be higher

913
00:52:45,519 --> 00:52:47,480
because I was like, maybe you, and then I would

914
00:52:47,519 --> 00:52:49,239
see them in the shoes, and that would grieve me.

915
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:54,960
Oh God, what I'm saying. And the Holy Spirit, watch this.

916
00:52:55,039 --> 00:52:57,800
The Holy Spirit checked me. He said, it's not even

917
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:04,079
yours to have an opinion on anymore. When it left

918
00:53:04,199 --> 00:53:07,320
watched this, not when it left my hand, it was theirs.

919
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:09,760
When it was settled in my heart.

920
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:13,599
Speaker 2: It was theirs. Oh my God, I need some of

921
00:53:13,679 --> 00:53:16,880
y'all to hear me say this. Some of y'all need

922
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:18,079
to settle in your heart.

923
00:53:18,199 --> 00:53:20,159
Speaker 3: The car you're driving, you're gonna give it away.

924
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:23,559
Speaker 2: You may not know where, you may not have figured

925
00:53:23,599 --> 00:53:24,239
out the other thing.

926
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 3: But God, if you can get it in your heart,

927
00:53:27,039 --> 00:53:28,760
He'll make it happen in your hand.

928
00:53:29,079 --> 00:53:30,039
Speaker 2: And many of us are.

929
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:31,679
Speaker 3: Waiting to see how it can work in our hands.

930
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:32,960
To actually get in your heart.

931
00:53:33,039 --> 00:53:38,320
Speaker 2: That's too late. Today. I'm challenging you make the give big.

932
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:40,760
What is God requiring of you?

933
00:53:41,039 --> 00:53:43,199
Speaker 3: And some of you need to stop grieving because of

934
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:47,360
financial fear or a scarcity mindset that was passed down generationally.

935
00:53:48,159 --> 00:53:52,480
Anxiety from your past experience is stressed around bill's and dead,

936
00:53:52,639 --> 00:53:57,639
can't find a job, comparison, shame, even trauma connected to money.

937
00:53:59,159 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 2: What I'm telling you is you have to trust God.

938
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:06,079
Speaker 3: I always see this meme and it always reminds me

939
00:54:06,159 --> 00:54:09,760
of the time that God was asking me to actually

940
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:12,119
stop grieving over what I was giving him because He

941
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:14,360
always had something better for me. Can you put that

942
00:54:14,599 --> 00:54:16,480
little meme up that I know some of y'all have

943
00:54:16,559 --> 00:54:19,159
seen this somewhere, But it's like a picture of Jesus

944
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and he has a teddy bear behind his back, and

945
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then there's a little girl holding on.

946
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Speaker 2: Y'all seen this before today.

947
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 3: I brought this up because I believe this is a

948
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:34,199
prophetic picture of what God is asking you. Would you

949
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give me what I'm asking you for so I can

950
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already give you what I've already had in store for you.

951
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 2: But this means you can't grieve or keep the grip.

952
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You gotta let it go, give it away.

953
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Speaker 3: And that's why Deuteronomy fifteen ten it says you shall

954
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:58,840
surely give to him. This goes back to the story

955
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:01,039
where God is saying, I don't want you to have

956
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:03,119
a selfish or greedy heart. I want you to develop

957
00:55:03,159 --> 00:55:06,159
a generous heart. It says you should surely give to him,

958
00:55:07,679 --> 00:55:10,559
and your heart watch this should not be grieved. What

959
00:55:10,679 --> 00:55:14,480
shouldn't be grieved your heart. He's talking about the condition

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of your heart, because giving is all about the heart,

961
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and your heart should not be grieved when you give

962
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to him. Because for this thing, Ah, the Lord your God,

963
00:55:24,599 --> 00:55:28,800
will bless you in all your works and into which

964
00:55:29,039 --> 00:55:32,280
He puts in your hand. What God is saying is like,

965
00:55:32,519 --> 00:55:35,280
if you would do what he tells you to do

966
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around giving, you cannot stop the flow of what God

967
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will bless you with to do it again. So many

968
00:55:44,119 --> 00:55:47,280
people teach you give and you'll get given. You'll get given,

969
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:53,000
you'll get that actually works greed into your heart. Part

970
00:55:53,039 --> 00:55:55,440
of our culture code is we give just to give.

971
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Speaker 2: And not to give. Now you cannot stop the that's

972
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:04,960
at work. Watch this with the right motivation. So I

973
00:56:05,039 --> 00:56:07,079
want to say this, and I'm gonna say his statement,

974
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but I want.

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00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,599
Speaker 3: You to know the statement is not finished. Okay, stay

976
00:56:10,639 --> 00:56:16,599
with me real quick. God does not let me say

977
00:56:16,599 --> 00:56:21,719
it like this. God does not bless giving unless it's

978
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with the right heart.

979
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Speaker 2: Did y'all hear me?

980
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Speaker 3: Or you could say it this way, God blesses giving

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with the right heart.

982
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 2: He doesn't just bless giving.

983
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Speaker 3: He's like, if the motive is wrong, if the motive

984
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is to manipulate the system, if the motive is to.

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00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 2: Give two and get ten, he said, you should just go.

986
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 3: To DraftKings and gamble, he said, But if the motive

987
00:56:49,079 --> 00:56:52,199
is to trust me, it's the motive is to actually

988
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have a heart like mine that will look at needs

989
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and sow and share. He said, Ah, you got the

990
00:56:58,079 --> 00:57:02,440
right motivation. That's why on the little thing. It's a heart,

991
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:04,400
but it say his motive behind it, because the motive

992
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:05,719
has to be This is.

993
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Speaker 2: My response to what I've already experienced.

994
00:57:10,079 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 3: For God so loved the world that he How many

995
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:19,800
people deserve to God's grace? How many people deserve the

996
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:24,199
second chance? And you on your nineteenth life in Mario, do.

997
00:57:24,239 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 2: Yall understand what I'm saying. But you're back again. God

998
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:28,400
has given you.

999
00:57:28,559 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 3: Another You didn't deserve it, though. My response is I

1000
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:40,199
gotta continue to be more like him. We're almost done.

1001
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,760
I was thinking about it after service. I know my

1002
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,039
wife is gonna want to go somewhere to eat, and

1003
00:57:46,159 --> 00:57:49,960
I spent my last hundred. I spent my last hundred

1004
00:57:50,039 --> 00:57:52,480
this week on getting my kids gifts for their mama,

1005
00:57:53,199 --> 00:57:54,960
and I was wondering, what's.

1006
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Speaker 2: Up, PC? You got this hundred from me?

1007
00:57:59,519 --> 00:58:04,639
Speaker 3: WHOA, oh, PC, ro thank you. Don't even worry about

1008
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it now.

1009
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,519
Speaker 2: Watch she stood up and clasps. But this is.

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00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:15,199
Speaker 4: The truth of the matter is PC is not grieving

1011
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:16,079
this hundred dollars.

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00:58:16,119 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 3: You know why because I gave it to him before

1013
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:25,719
I came on the platform. I told him in the sermon,

1014
00:58:26,039 --> 00:58:27,559
I'm gonna say I need a hundred dollars.

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00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:32,239
Speaker 2: Get up and give me this hundred dollars back. He

1016
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doesn't have to grieve what's not his.

1017
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Speaker 3: What I'm saying to you is, if you think this

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00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:44,679
is yours, you don't think you're a manager, you think

1019
00:58:44,719 --> 00:58:48,719
you're an owner, then every time God asked you for

1020
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:53,000
something back, it's like, oh man, God again, y'all know

1021
00:58:53,039 --> 00:58:55,360
what I'm talking about. Oh man, you act like your

1022
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,280
bills come every surprise.

1023
00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 2: Muffl like it's like, oh bills, this it's the first.

1024
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:08,639
Speaker 3: And we do the same thing with God, and God

1025
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:12,119
saying if you had just returned to me what I

1026
00:59:12,239 --> 00:59:17,000
already gave you, he said. This goes from grieving to

1027
00:59:17,119 --> 00:59:17,440
watch this.

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00:59:17,639 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 2: This is the cure.

1029
00:59:18,719 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 3: Gratitude. We'll take get at to arlow or something.

1030
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:25,599
Speaker 2: All right, here we go. Rload, that's yours. I'm saying

1031
00:59:25,599 --> 00:59:32,840
it publicly. Arload, that's your one hundred dollars. Oh, Abby said,

1032
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:38,159
it's Mother's day. Here we go.

1033
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:43,039
Speaker 3: The cure for the condition of grief is gratitude. The

1034
00:59:43,159 --> 00:59:46,920
only way that I'm not grieving is that I remember

1035
00:59:47,119 --> 00:59:51,079
the good times. I remember man it's a blessing to

1036
00:59:51,159 --> 00:59:57,559
even it's a blessing to even have anything to be God,

1037
00:59:57,559 --> 01:00:01,760
I remember it is foo. I took somebody to fifteen

1038
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:05,320
nineteen this past week, and I got emotional because I

1039
01:00:05,599 --> 01:00:07,079
for the first year and a half of being the

1040
01:00:07,119 --> 01:00:09,599
pastor of this church, while I was still learning generosity,

1041
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I did.

1042
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 2: Not have a car.

1043
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:14,559
Speaker 3: I used to walk to church to preach to people

1044
01:00:14,599 --> 01:00:19,400
about being blessed. What do you want to talk about?

1045
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:23,280
Humility is when your church members are passing you asking

1046
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:24,199
you do you need a ride?

1047
01:00:28,559 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 2: See? People think, oh, he's flashy. You don't know my story.

1048
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:35,480
You have no clue what.

1049
01:00:35,679 --> 01:00:39,159
Speaker 3: God has brought me through to develop the heart of generosity.

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01:00:39,679 --> 01:00:42,519
Speaker 2: If I give away so much more than I have.

1051
01:00:43,239 --> 01:00:45,159
The truth of the matter is listen to me. What

1052
01:00:45,239 --> 01:00:47,480
I'm saying is the process.

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01:00:49,519 --> 01:00:51,679
Speaker 3: God said, you're not generous yet, and you bought a

1054
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:55,639
land Rover you couldn't pay to get fixed. So I'm

1055
01:00:55,679 --> 01:01:02,360
not supernaturally blessing you. I'm gonna let that car sit

1056
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:07,719
in your driveway broke because of your disobedience. You should

1057
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:11,920
have had a Honda Accord sitting up here in a

1058
01:01:12,599 --> 01:01:18,400
land Rover. Discovery worked for six months. So walk.

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01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:20,440
Speaker 2: And believe me.

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01:01:22,679 --> 01:01:28,719
Speaker 3: Walk and don't be ashamed. Walk and no one day

1061
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:29,840
you'll give away cars.

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01:01:31,239 --> 01:01:33,760
Speaker 2: Walk and don't think.

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01:01:33,599 --> 01:01:35,079
Speaker 3: That this is where I'm leaving you.

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01:01:35,239 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 2: This is where I'm starting you. So you never forget

1065
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:44,119
who your supplier is. I'm telling you.

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01:01:45,039 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 3: When I went back to fifteen nineteen and I was

1067
01:01:47,039 --> 01:01:49,320
showing in the building, I said, this is the sidewalk

1068
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:53,159
I used to walk with my backpack to come preach

1069
01:01:53,239 --> 01:01:57,880
to people and tell them that Jesus loved them. I said,

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01:01:57,920 --> 01:01:59,760
when I go up to that building, that's almost two

1071
01:02:00,199 --> 01:02:02,760
thousand square feet, and we own all the land, even

1072
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:03,519
the land Chick.

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Speaker 2: For Ley sits on.

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Speaker 3: And I said, I get overwhelmed because it was God.

1075
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:16,599
Speaker 2: Who changed my mind first by changing my heart.

1076
01:02:17,719 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 3: And when my heart changed, I stood up in front

1077
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of our church and I rehearsed this story.

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01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:22,519
Speaker 2: All the time.

1079
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Speaker 3: We broke the seed of poverty over our church with

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01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:29,360
an eighty three hundred dollars seed. I stood up in

1081
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:32,039
a series like this and I said, y'all, we're gonna

1082
01:02:32,079 --> 01:02:35,360
do something we probably have never done in our church before.

1083
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:38,800
I said, we're gonna all take an offering. And this

1084
01:02:39,159 --> 01:02:41,360
entire offering is going to go to other churches in

1085
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:47,440
this community. Eight three hundred dollars came in and we

1086
01:02:47,559 --> 01:02:49,159
took all of that money and we gave some of

1087
01:02:49,159 --> 01:02:51,719
the friendship in Metropolitan and First back.

1088
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 2: We just gave it away and God said, I can

1089
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:55,760
trust you.

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01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,280
Speaker 3: And the amount of money, it doesn't even make the

1091
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:04,239
amount that we've been able to give away to other nonprofits,

1092
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:11,239
orphanages to widows, to girls' homes, to help people do

1093
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:14,599
a God's place in their heart. And it wasn't alone,

1094
01:03:16,599 --> 01:03:19,599
It wasn't give it back when you get it because

1095
01:03:19,639 --> 01:03:22,320
of the generosity of these people and people like you

1096
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:25,320
who have believed in this vision and honestly decided to

1097
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:26,400
live an abundant life.

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01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:29,880
Speaker 2: It didn't just translate to the church. It translated to

1099
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:30,519
their homes.

1100
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 3: And all I'm trying to do is put out an

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01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:37,639
invitation for everybody who's not yet subscribed to this level.

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01:03:37,559 --> 01:03:38,440
Speaker 2: Of heart posture.

1103
01:03:40,039 --> 01:03:44,480
Speaker 3: This is your chance to be a part of God's

1104
01:03:44,559 --> 01:03:49,000
plan for humanity to reflect him. Because God soul loved

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01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:53,000
the world that he would you stand all over this building.

1106
01:04:03,199 --> 01:04:04,159
I have to address this.

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01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:06,239
Speaker 2: Please don't leave. We're going in five minutes.

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01:04:07,199 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 3: But there are some people in this room that the

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01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:14,400
reason why this topic of generosity and finances hits you

1110
01:04:14,559 --> 01:04:19,599
so hard is because there's another g word that's coming

1111
01:04:19,679 --> 01:04:23,920
to attack your heart, and it's guilt. And I need

1112
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:27,280
to address this right now, because the Bible says there

1113
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:31,199
is for now no condemnation for those who are in

1114
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:34,440
Christ Jesus. And maybe you've been on hard times and

1115
01:04:34,599 --> 01:04:39,400
maybe you once were really adamant about being generous to

1116
01:04:40,039 --> 01:04:42,280
God and the local church and others around you, and

1117
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:44,840
maybe you stop for some reason, and maybe you just

1118
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:47,400
decided I can't let go of his grip. And God's

1119
01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:50,239
saying it's time to do it. I come to rebuke

1120
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:54,159
guilt and shame off of you right now. Yes, the

1121
01:04:54,239 --> 01:04:57,519
best time to plant a tree in a forest was

1122
01:04:57,599 --> 01:04:59,960
fifty years ago, but the next.

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01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 2: That's time today right now.

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01:05:05,159 --> 01:05:08,519
Speaker 3: So if guilt has been on you, that's been trying

1125
01:05:08,559 --> 01:05:12,400
to attack your heart, let me give you the antidote

1126
01:05:12,559 --> 01:05:15,880
or the cure for guilt grace.

1127
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 2: Today. Some of you just need to experience the grace

1128
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:23,239
of God. He's saying, I love you so much that

1129
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:24,960
I'm giving you another opportunity. Y'all.

1130
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:27,079
Speaker 3: Put past the mic in that whole sheep up there,

1131
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:31,000
sheep jacket. This has been hot all day. I just

1132
01:05:31,119 --> 01:05:33,559
have to confess to you. I've been sweating like woo

1133
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:37,880
and look all right, all right, thank you because I'm hot.

1134
01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:43,239
But he put me up here today. And this Mary

1135
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:49,239
had a little lamb, the lamb that was slaying. I

1136
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:53,800
gotta get off the stage. I'm feeling good. I'm getting

1137
01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:56,320
excited about my wife knowing I got her some gifts.

1138
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 2: Okay, It's time for me to go.

1139
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:04,159
Speaker 3: And what I'm saying to you is God interrupted everything

1140
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:08,039
to give you another opportunity to Hey, I want your

1141
01:06:08,079 --> 01:06:12,480
give to be big. I'm gonna give you grace for

1142
01:06:12,599 --> 01:06:14,800
another day for your give to be. Hey, even on

1143
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:18,199
this Mother's Day, it would be probably for some of you,

1144
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:21,840
a big deal for you to stop by and say

1145
01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:28,000
how to your mom? Give a video, give a call,

1146
01:06:29,519 --> 01:06:33,760
write a letter. I know everything's not resolved, and I

1147
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:35,599
know you saying I can't be fake and I can't

1148
01:06:35,679 --> 01:06:37,320
Tha Da Da. You don't know how much time you

1149
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:43,559
have with them. There are people going on to be

1150
01:06:43,679 --> 01:06:50,159
with the Lord. What if God, what if it would

1151
01:06:50,159 --> 01:06:53,199
be a big give for you to give a call.

1152
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:00,599
I'm just saying, what if the giving's not just about money.

1153
01:07:00,639 --> 01:07:03,280
What if money's just a test of giving, But what

1154
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:09,719
if giving's God's big deal. Today, I'm asking you if

1155
01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:15,480
you've been having the wrong grip, if you've been actually

1156
01:07:15,599 --> 01:07:18,079
being attacked in the area of greed, if you've been

1157
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:22,480
attacked in the area of guilt, if you've been attacked

1158
01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:26,039
in any one of these areas. Today, I'm telling you

1159
01:07:26,159 --> 01:07:29,400
the cure for it is give. And I'm going to

1160
01:07:29,559 --> 01:07:33,320
impart and pray that a spirit of generosity would come

1161
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:37,480
over you, that your eyes would be open to see.

1162
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:42,800
How can I be like Jesus in any situation and give?

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01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:44,639
If you want to receive that, lift your hands all

1164
01:07:44,679 --> 01:07:47,039
over this place. Father, in the name of Jesus, if

1165
01:07:47,039 --> 01:07:49,119
you're watching online, this is for you. Father. I thank

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01:07:49,199 --> 01:07:54,800
you that your word is eternal, everlasting and strong, and

1167
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:56,960
today I delivered your word. But God, I thank you

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01:07:57,039 --> 01:08:00,239
that it's going into people's hearts, because giving is all

1169
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:01,039
about the heart.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 3: We want a heart like yours. We want a heart

1172
01:08:05,079 --> 01:08:06,880
that sees the need and meets the need. We want

1173
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:09,000
a heart that is not greedy. We want our heart,

1174
01:08:09,079 --> 01:08:12,800
Father God, that flows with abundance. We want a heart, Father,

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that goes against the generational patterns that we may have learned.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 3: God, I thank you that you're interrupting bloodlines right now

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with revelation, and today we're asking start with us. Let

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us pass down generationally a spirit of generosity. If our

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children and our family know us for being a certain way. God,

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I thank you that you would do the work so

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deep on the inside of us that we would get

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relabel the renamed in the people that are around us.

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Speaker 2: Father, I thank you that you can do the transformation today.

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Speaker 3: God, we are asking in the areas that people may

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not see, would you search our hearts and would you

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expose anything that may be offensive, creating us a clean

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heart and renewing us the right spirit. Father, change our motives,

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because once we can give, our world gets larger and larger.

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And so today God I impart the gift of faith

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around giving, we will have the faith to trust you.

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Speaker 2: You are the supplier of every one of our needs.

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Speaker 3: If the birds don't worry about what they gonna eat,

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and that the flowers are not going shopping for what

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they're gonna be dressed in, how much more for each

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one of us, your children that you love today make

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the give big in our life so that we never

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have to have a heart attack. We trust you, we

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believe you, and we thank you in Jesus' name. Listen

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to me real quick. The place you need to let

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Jesus into is your heart. He's the only one that

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if you let him into your heart, he'll help you

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change your habits. So some of y'all were about to

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go at this and be like, all right, I got

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my points, I know what to do. I'm about to

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make this happen. And God's like, godly, they missed all

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of it. All of it points back to me. I

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want to be in relationship with you. I don't want

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you to just see me once or twice a year

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or call me when you're in need. I want to

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walk and talk with you. I want to lead and

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guide you. I don't want to just be savior.

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Speaker 2: I want to be Lord.

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Speaker 3: But you got to let me into your heart. And

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today some of y'all have been feeling the spirit whispering

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to you. Today's the day to come home. Today is

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the day of transformation. All do it next week.

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Speaker 2: I gotta clean up.

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Speaker 3: God said, you can't clean up what I'm made to

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clean up. If that's you and you want to let Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Into your heart. He already gave his son. All you

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have to do is receive him. So watch this.

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Speaker 3: He gave his son, you get your life. You get

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to practice giving right now. He gives away, you give

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up your way. You get to practice giving right now.

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If that's you, and you want to make Jesus Christ

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your personal lord and savior. On the counter three, I

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want you to lift your hands and we're gonna prayer

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your same pastor include me into that prayer. I want

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my name to be written in the Lamb's Book of life.

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I want to give control over to God. I want

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my eternity to be secure, and I want my history

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to be healthy. This is what God gives us the

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ability and passorm like, why are you so passionate about this?

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Because it's the thing that took me from being a liar,

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a manipulator, addicted to pornography, bad things in my heart,

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stuff that nobody could see that was around me.

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Speaker 2: But I knew what's in there. And God said, I'm

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not gonna make you perfect, Well, I'm gonna make you progressive.

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And today that's somebody's future.

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Speaker 3: And if that's you, man, woman, boy, or girl, I

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don't care how old, how long you've been around church.

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You know God needs your heart. Today is your day one.

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You're making the greatest decision of your like to Your

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name is gonna be written in the Lamb's book of life.

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Speaker 2: I'm proud of you.

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Speaker 3: But more than that, Heaven is about to rejoice. If

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you want to receive Jesus. Three, shoot your hand up

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in the air in the room.

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Speaker 2: I see you. I see you. I see you, my brother,

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Transformation Church. I see you, my sister. More than that,

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God sees you. Come on CC, let's give God praise. Hey, listen.

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Speaker 3: As the altar workers come right now. As a family,

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we're gonna pray. Nobody at TC praise alone. We're a

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family and we all been there. Can we say this

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prayer together? Say God, thank you for sending Jesus just

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for me today.

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Speaker 2: I give you my heart. I admit I've sind, I repent,

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and I.

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Speaker 3: Turn to you. Here's my life. Change me, renew me,

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transform me. I'm yours forever.

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Speaker 2: In Jesus name. Amen.

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Speaker 3: Hey, can we celebrate with every person?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Come on, TCE.

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Speaker 3: All that happen is rejoicing right now.

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Speaker 2: Hey, listen, if you just said that prayer in the

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room or watch it online line.

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Speaker 3: I want you to text saved to eight two eight

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two eight to or click the QR code.

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Speaker 2: We want to send you some information.

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Speaker 3: We got some videos me and the team if made

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to let you know what your next steps are and

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how to go on this journey. And I'm telling you

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get in a good Bible based church. TC will always

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be here for you. If you're in the city or

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anywhere around, come to church. Man.

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Speaker 2: This is not just Mother's Day. This is every Sunday

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and we want to love on you and help you grow.

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Speaker 3: And for every person that's in this room that's dealing

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with something, maybe grief, maybe greed, maybe something's going on

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and you need prayer. God gives us the technology of

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prayer that transforms our life. I'm telling you from all

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over this room as the worship team sings, I want

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you to come get prayer. And if you're online, stay

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on where ship us with us for a minute. I'm

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gonna come in the back. Go ahead and type your

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prayer requests up there. The team is gonna feed them

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to me. I'm gonna pray for you. But today I

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believe God's gonna do something to change our hearts. Amen, Father,

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bless this church. Give them hearts that are big enough

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to receive all the blessing that you were giving them.

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And today God alter us right here at this altar,

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have your way.

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Speaker 2: In Jesus' name.

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Speaker 3: We agree, somebody say we agree, we expect.

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Speaker 2: Amen, go out and live a transformed life. Hollylujah.