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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. Did today's message.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you said, come on with it. You know what,

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there's certain people that you can always come wherever I

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preach you hear me, I'm a talkback preacher.

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Speaker 3: Now, I know we got all kinds of people.

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Speaker 2: I know some of y'all grew up in churches where

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you don't say anything. It's like, but like you can,

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like you can use your cultural expression here, like I

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just want you to. I just want I mean, don't

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offend nobody. But what I'm saying is if you're a

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cowboy and I say something that's good, you can be

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like yeah, how like you can do that.

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Speaker 3: Y'all got what I'm saying, Like, I know.

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Speaker 2: There are some people that grew up in the hood,

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and if you grew up.

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Speaker 3: In the hood, like I'll fight you like.

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Speaker 2: That's not a that's not that's not that's not bad

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to me. If you know the kind of of it,

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you understand what I'm saying, so and you can just

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use a man in Hallelujah too, Okay, But at this church,

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we love freedom of expression. And I'm in week four

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of a series that's called Six Figures. And this series

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is important to me because it changed my life. I

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think about pivotal moments in my journey, and one of

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the most pivotal moments that changed and touched every area

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of my life is when God taught me how to

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not be greedy and actually be generous.

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Speaker 3: Changed my life.

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Speaker 2: You don't know the Michael who was stingy, the Michael

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who was.

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Speaker 3: Literally I don't.

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Speaker 2: Want to say I was a bad person. I was

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a unfinished person and I'm still unfinished, but I was

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really unfinished. Yeah, yet raw as anybody ever like, just

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look back and be like, man, I was raw back then,

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like that, Dad, I had no understanding, and.

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Speaker 3: I thank God for the progression. But today I.

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Speaker 2: Want to share this from a place of not speculating.

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I want to share it from a place of trying

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to give you something that has transformed me. And I

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know that there will be many people that find value

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in this because it has not just changed my life,

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has changed this church and there are thousands of you

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that already participate in the level of generosity that I'm

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talking about. But this is not about money. I need

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everybody to hear me say this. If I could just

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wear a shirt not about money like I need you

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to understand that because some people the block is there

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and you won't hear the principle because you think it's

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about money. This is not about money. This is about

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your heart. This is about your thoughts, this is about

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your soul. And so if you can, if I can

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make you a promise today, I'm not going to ask

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you for any money. I'm gonna asking you for no money.

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We're not taking no offerings we've been giving in this series.

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I just need you to hear me. Relax, nobody's coming

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to spy on your bank account. I don't have a

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prophetic sense. That's oh, she's in the negative. I don't.

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I there's nothing I can do to you except present

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to you truth and then you choose.

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Speaker 3: So today, look at your neighbor and say you choose.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna make you choose. Look at your other

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neighbors you didn't like as much, and say you choose. Proverbs,

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Chapter eleven, verse twenty four. The Bible says the world

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of the generous. One of my favorite scriptures. The world

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of the generous gets what larger and larger, but the

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world of the stingy gets what smaller.

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Speaker 3: And my question is how big is your world?

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Speaker 2: I can't answer that question, but you know if your

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world is big, and you know if you're world is small.

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I'm not talking on the outside. I'm talking about right

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on the inside. How big is your world? It says

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the one who blesses others, watch, this is abundantly. Here's

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our word blessed. And those who help others are always helped.

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That's what I want for you, your pastor. If I

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had a desire that I could ask God right now

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to give to you, I would pray that you live

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in abundance of everything you think you need.

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Speaker 3: Abundance of love, abundance of peace, abundance of wisdom.

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Speaker 2: I mean, like somebody asks a question and just wisdom

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comes out of you.

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Speaker 3: Somebody shot at me. Abundance.

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Speaker 2: That's the life that God came for you to have.

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Speaker 3: John ten ten.

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Speaker 2: The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy, But Jesus

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came that we might have life and life abundantly. How

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big is your life? And the truth of the matter is,

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God's not in control of how big it gets.

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Speaker 3: You are.

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Speaker 2: Today you could change the size of your world by

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changing a few of your actions. But today you've been

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blaming the man. You've been blaming government, You've been blaming

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your parents. You've been blaming and they may all have

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a little peace to do with that.

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Speaker 3: But you, forty.

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Speaker 2: Nine, Let's be clear, nobody has made you who you are.

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You came out looking like your parents, You die looking

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like your decisions. Daught to hear what I'm saying to

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you right now, and some of you need to choose

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or decide something different that you don't gotta.

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Speaker 3: Be mad no more.

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Speaker 2: You can forgive.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to be broke no more.

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Speaker 2: God can give you the ability to produce well. You

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don't have to be stingy no more. You can get

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You do not have to live the life you have lived.

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But it starts with you realizing God has given you

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the power to switch this whole thing up. Look at

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your neighbor one more time and say you choose. And

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So one of the things that is exciting in my

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life right now is that right now I'm in the

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thick of raising children. Like when I say thick of

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raising children I got.

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Speaker 3: I'm in the thick of it. You understand what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I got children, WHOA I didn't really know how much

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time and effort and energy children take. It makes you

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need God. Y'all want to know where you need God.

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If you have kids, you need God. But there are

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some beautiful moments that happen where you feel like, man,

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this is why I'm they daddy.

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Speaker 4: Like.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying that a lot of mayo Daddy.

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So one of those happened to me this past week.

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My daughter came in, Isabella. She's so studious, she's so smart,

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and she was a little over whamed.

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Speaker 3: By studying for a test.

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Speaker 2: She had to learn all sixty six books of the

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Bible and for a test and know how to spell them.

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It's that second part that just rebecook Malachi like and

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and so she she got she got overwhelmed, and I

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had this idea. I was like, oh, yeah, daddy does music,

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So I'm gonna I'm gonna make you a song that

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And so I went to my recorder and I started

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Genesis as it is Leviticus, and I started doing this,

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and I threw it in the Ai app and and

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I made a song. Can I share it with y'all?

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It's cool. This is just honest, no spiritual connotation, and

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Speaker 3: It with Chip.

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Speaker 2: Could you play that real quick? The books are about

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this is just an old testament, real quick. Just play

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it real quicknous, I mean Joshua and Judges, second sent

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your first Kings, second Kings.

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Speaker 4: First chronic or second chronic to say eza He and Maya.

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It's the angel songs, Proverbs and cleasyastes, song songs, Isaiah,

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Jebram Byel, Alimentation, Zigiel and Daniel, jose Ye Joel and

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Speaker 2: Dian Jonah and my Knahoma Bibles, zeph and Nyah and

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had Guy Zachariah in malogy. So I did that for

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Speaker 3: Is that okay?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 3: Watch now?

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Speaker 2: Watch Immediately she learned all the books of the Bible.

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Speaker 3: She got a hundred on a test.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Bella, okay. And that's when I realized

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that's where our similarities end. Because she was so excited

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to take the test, because she was prepared. And then

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I started to think, have I ever been excited to

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take a test? And she's more like her mother on

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the study side of it, and I was like, I

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don't think I've ever been excited to take a test.

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Speaker 3: Usually when I went into.

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Speaker 2: School test day anxiety. Many times I would come into

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class clown a look at you, your mama doing all

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that other stuff, and then the teacher is like, all right,

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get ready for the test, and my thing would be like,

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what tests? Okay?

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Speaker 5: Come on?

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Speaker 3: Do I got any what test?

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Speaker 5: People?

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Speaker 2: I know you hold on?

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Speaker 5: What tests? What you talking about?

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Speaker 3: Did you study? Give me your notes?

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Speaker 2: I thought about this is that anytime you're tested, watch this,

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write this down. A test is either exciting or exposing.

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Speaker 3: Y'all.

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Speaker 2: Remember them people who used to be excited for tests

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and you want to punch them in the head?

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Speaker 3: Teacher, Are we taking.

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Speaker 2: The test now? Or shut up? Boy? Okay, I want

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to know those people. Who are those people? Come on,

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we love you with the love of the Lord. Why

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are you saying this past? I'm like, because a test

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is an automatic.

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Speaker 3: Definer.

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Speaker 2: A test defines either you're ready or you're resistant. And

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there are many people under the sound of my voice

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that think tests are bad. But the truth of the

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matter is when I dig deeper and I go through

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therapy and I do the things that God has done

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on me. I figured out why I didn't like the test.

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It wasn't the test. It was I wasn't prepared. And

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the three times I can count them, the three times

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I was ready for a test, I became the person

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I didn't like. Hey teacher, how are you? When are

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we taking this test?

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Speaker 3: It's taking a naim.

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Speaker 2: The only reason you get excited is because you're prepared

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for it. And what I found out that there are

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many believers that don't know that we take a test

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every time we get paid. Oh you saw that turned

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you spared everybody. Ah, no, no, no, I'm just letting

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you know.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you didn't know.

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Speaker 2: But every time you get increased, every time your check

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goes up, every time that you chain hits your cash

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app or bank account, it's a test. And the test

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is who do you trust with your finances?

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Speaker 3: And maybe you didn't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe the issue of money and church it was all

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about a building fund that never got built, or it

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was maybe about the pastor driving a certain car while

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there was no air conditioning.

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Speaker 3: We ain't talking about none of that here.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about a test that God gives to every

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one of his children before there was a law.

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Speaker 3: I can prove to you in.

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Speaker 2: Scripture that tithing and generosity was litterally twenty five hundred

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years before Moses ever got a law.

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Speaker 3: But it's not even about a law.

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Speaker 2: It's about are you prepared? Are you ready for this

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test when it comes? And the truth of the matter

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is people are hearing this message. I'm like, what test?

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And then there are other people that are like, oh,

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I'm excited about this test every time I get paid.

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Speaker 3: Because I'm ready for the test. And today I just

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need you.

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Speaker 2: To understand that the tithe exposes who you trust. And today,

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Pastor Mike, what do you say in the tithe? I

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don't understand. Let me give you a definition of what

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the tithe is. Tithing is a biblical principle and practiced

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established not by the church, not by a pastor, not

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by a group of people who thought it was a

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good idea for everybody to do a pyramid scheme and

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put a little bit in and be like's. It was

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established by God. I'm gonna give you examples of it.

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But it was established by God for every person who

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trust him to return the first ten percent and underline

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first ten percent of your increase back to God through

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the local church. Now fight with your mama. No, no, no,

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I just need to say this because there are people

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who are gonna hear this and they're gonna automatically start

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to start trying to tear down the principle God put

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in place. You don't ever have to tithe ever, and

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you can still go to heaven.

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Speaker 3: Hold on, look at me.

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Speaker 2: Your salvation is not dependent on you tithing, so you

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can go ahead and relax. But your ability to live

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in abundance in this life is dependent watch this, not

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on tithing, on obedience. See you missed it. You missed

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it because there are people who tied that don't forgive.

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Speaker 3: Okay, hold on, let me stop.

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Speaker 2: Because I'm talking about tithing, but I want you to understand.

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The principle is bigger than tything. The principle is obedience

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to God's word. So there are people who don't tithe,

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but they do forgive, and God saying we need to

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get both of them. You think we could upgrade to

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both of them. But y'all know what, I'm both of them,

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not both of them. It's both them. It's one word.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, I'm telling you right now, this is a principle

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that God set up not for his benefit. Heaven's not

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running short on gold for the streets. You think God

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needs our money. He calls gold what we would fight

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over in it. It's concrete the light in heaven. It

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is not too big for God. Y'all got what I'm saying.

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So there must be a deeper reason why He put

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this principle in place for the children he made. This

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is why I think tithing is so important, because it's

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not about percentage, It's about priority. Why two percent?

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Speaker 3: Why not twenty five?

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Speaker 2: Why not fifty? Why not a hundred? It's not about

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the percentage, It's about priority. And my question to you

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is where is God in the priority of your life?

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I can't answer that question, and you don't get to

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worship your way to him being the priority. Okay, all right?

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Why I pray nineteen hours a day, but you disobedient?

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Like do you understand? Like we try to substitute stuff

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for other stuff.

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Speaker 3: It's like take out the trash.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll clean the toilet, but the trash it's overflowing.

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But I cleaned out the cobwebs.

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Speaker 3: But the josh and.

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Speaker 2: What do you do you try to teach your children.

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It's not about just doing things, It's about doing what

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I ask you to do. And I just believe that God.

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I'm coming to you as gently as I can to

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give you a principle that God's saying, could you just

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obey and.

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Speaker 3: Do what I'm asking you to do?

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Speaker 2: Because if you make me your priority, it changes everything

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in your life. And this is where I hear a

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lot of people that are cynical against this message. They'll

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be like, but why you got to take that test

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all the time?

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Speaker 3: Every time you get paid every two weeks every month?

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What if they just cash map me your extra?

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Speaker 2: Honey? Do we talk? It ain't my job, but it

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is did you get increase? And people try to finagle

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and play checkers and try to play tic tac.

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Speaker 3: Toe with the top? Y'all know what I'm talking about.

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I don't know if this is birthday money. Oh, I've

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heard everything.

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Speaker 2: My granny sent me two hundred and fifty dollars. Do

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you tie off of two hundred and fifty dollars? Do

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you bossed up with two hundred and fifty dollars? Did

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you get increased? Did you? God says I need you

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to think. Anytime you get increased.

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Speaker 3: Just honor me. Honor me, just honor me. I promise

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you watch this.

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Speaker 2: Ninety percent with my blessing is better than one hundred

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without it. Okay, write this point down. Multiple tests reveals

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the value of a material. Anytime something is tested multiple times,

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it's because the material must be very valuable. So the

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reason God tests us every time we get paid because

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He trying to get us a point. This is important

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for you, how you deal with money, your heart, posture,

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what you do. It isn't Nobody would ever tell a

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doctor to go to left school.

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Speaker 3: Oh you want to be a brain surgeon. Oh, don't

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take those tests, but please.

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Speaker 2: Work on me. Nah, bro, Why because it's so important

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that they are tested because what they're doing is valuable.

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The reason why God gives us this test over and

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over is because what it does to us is very valuable.

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And that's why it's the only place in scripture when

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you talk about the time where God does something, he

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does nowhere else he tells you to test him. What

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would happen if I got to go into my ninth

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grade geometry class and the teacher said, Michael, today is

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your test, and I'm like, yeah, And when I finished

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this test, I'm testing you. That would have felt amazing

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to be able to say I'm testing you. Did you

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do you know what the teacher said? Do you know

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what the principal said? Just give you a test back?

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Because it's so many times there's there's this discrepancy that

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I'm getting tested. But what's the guarantee? God is so

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good that his grace says, I believe in this so much,

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I'm gonna let you. The Creation tests me. The Creator. Okay,

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you don't believe me. Malachod, chapter three, verse ten, Bring

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the whole tithe everybody say tithe into the storehouse that

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would be our local church, it says, there, so that

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there may be food in my house. Watch this test me,

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Test me in this, test me in this, says the

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Lord Almighty. And see if I won't throw open the

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floodgates of Heaven and pour you out so much blessing

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that you will not have room enough to receive.

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Speaker 3: That sounds like abundance to me.

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Speaker 2: He gonna pour out so much blessing you don't have

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room enough to receive. That means you become somebody who's

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supposed to give it away. But the truth of the

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ma matter is everybody wants stat without the test. And

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today I'm telling you one of the greatest things you

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can do. I don't care. If you're a high school

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student and you get a thirty five dollars allowance. That

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means out of the thirty five dollars that you get,

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three dollars and fifty cents belong to God. And I'm

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telling you, if you learn this principle at thirty five dollars,

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it's a lot easier to do when you make three

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hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: And I want to be a.

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Speaker 2: Ball of six figures and to learn you're not gonna

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obey God. Then if you don't obey him, it's way

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harder to give away thirty five thousand in a check

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than three dollars and fifty cents. But the principle is

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the same. Okay, all right, somebody's about to get this.

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So I just want to let you know all through

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the Bible the word tie that actually means test ten. Test. Okay,

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So I got a couple of questions. I'm gonna give

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you a test right now, and there's a pattern, So

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get scared. Okay, you're gonna pass this test. Okay, and

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I want you to answer me out loud, even at home. Okay.

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How many plagues were there in Egypt? So look, y'all, ten,

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there's a pattern. How many commandments did God give to Moses?

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Say it with your chest?

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Speaker 3: How many? Okay?

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Speaker 2: How many times did God test Israel in the wilderness?

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How many times were Jacob's wages changed? It's a pattern,

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even if you don't know the answer. The next one

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is saying, here we go. How many days was Daniel tested?

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How many days of testing were in revelations? How many

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disciples were there?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Some of y'all all right, okay, some hey's like ten? Oh, God,

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get them a Bible. I'm just want to let you

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know this is not a principle that God has made

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exclusive for today. He's a pattern. To God, he.

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Speaker 3: Tries to make it easy. So there's a pattern.

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Speaker 2: So even if you didn't know, you would hear everybody

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else saying ten or tithe or give or anybody like, Oh,

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I don't even have to study no more. This is

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what we do.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, this is what we do.

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Speaker 2: I want you to pass the test.

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Speaker 3: What's the answer yes or no.

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Speaker 2: Everybody keeps saying yes, yes, Yet we all just do

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what God has put as a principle. And when you

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understand it, it makes it easy. And this is the

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point that I love. God agrees to take the test too,

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he said, if you trust me in this world with

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ten cents out of every dollar, he said, I bet

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you I won't ever fail you financially. Howtor, Mike, why

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are you saying it? Because you put me? Everybody say first,

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Now again, this is about priority, and I can't tell

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you what your priority is.

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Speaker 3: But when God.

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Speaker 2: Agrees to take a test too, it changes everything.

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Speaker 3: And this is what I found.

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Speaker 2: Only people get offended about a test if there's something

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on the inside of.

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Speaker 3: Them that is not prepared.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let me give you a real time sample, and

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I want you to write this point down. A test

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only gets a rise where there is no internal resolve.

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I'm gonna say it again and then I'm gonna explain it.

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A test only gets rise out of somebody when there

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is no internal resolve. I was talking to a friend

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recently who dealt with infidelity. Their marriage went through a

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really hard time. God healed it, and God has made

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it healthy and changed everything. But time to time, the

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wife is needing some extra reassurance.

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Speaker 3: That everything is good. And so.

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Speaker 2: This man could have two responses, Hey, could you share

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your location with me?

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Speaker 3: Why you mean my location? Don't you trust me?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 3: But you cheated on.

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Speaker 2: Me, like even to this level. Hey, would you take

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a polygraph test? Some of y'all marriages would be destroyed,

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destroyed with just the question, do y'all the eyes that

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are looking at me right now, would you take a polygraph?

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You wouldn't get a rise out of somebody if it

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was internally, if you know you ain't been DM and nobody,

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if you know you ain't had a longer conversation with nobody,

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if you know you took off the channel that you

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wasn't spoiled, if you knew it, you wouldn't. But the

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rise comes because there's something on the internal. There are

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couples that don't even have to close today's spouse's phones.

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Speaker 3: I got questions.

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Speaker 2: It's quiet, it's tight in here. Okay, let me back

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up off of this. Okay, because I knew we were

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supposed to watch, sir from my sharks slug.

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Speaker 3: I see you right now. Let me try to get

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you the principal of tiding.

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Speaker 2: Because people rarely get offended by a test they feel

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secure in. If somebody asked me to take a drug test, cool,

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I don't have any there there is nothing in me.

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Yeah yeah, that could come out of me that I

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didn't put in me. Oh gold, there is nothing that

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do y'all hear what I'm saying, and so and so

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the only reason people and then they try to make

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it about what it's not about.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you don't trust me. I'm a grown man. I'm

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a grown woman. I'm just I'm down.

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Speaker 2: And it's like, hey, you're missing the point. The test

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offends if you're internally unresolved. This is why a lot

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of people get offended by the tithe, because it's a

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test that exposes internal.

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Speaker 3: I don't trust the church. Let's deal with that. You

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said I don't believe in the tithe.

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Speaker 2: Hold on, wait, God said that? Why did the church

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just want my money? Which church did you even give

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to to find out if they just wanted your money?

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Speaker 3: Let's be honest.

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Speaker 2: Nike just wants your money, like they literally tell you,

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do you want to buy it? Just do it? Do

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you understand what I'm saying?

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Speaker 3: Like, what are we talking about.

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Speaker 2: They tell you straight up, but let's deal with the

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real issue. But anytime there's a test, what most people

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do is deal with the semantics and the things around

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it instead of the real issue. So today I just

477
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want to move the cover back. Don't ever give anything

478
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to this church if God has not called you to

479
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do that and be.

480
00:27:05,799 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 3: A part of this. But I do want you to

481
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:08,079
get this principal.

482
00:27:10,559 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 2: If you actually ever get the mantra, test me, it's

483
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:18,799
the freest life you could ever live.

484
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 3: Test me, coss the mic. Why are you saying it?

485
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,640
Speaker 2: Because I used to be a liar and there would

486
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be things I would lie about that I knew if

487
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I got confronted with it.

488
00:27:29,759 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 3: That's why I.

489
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Speaker 2: Became really good at lying, because I needed to make

490
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,400
sure you didn't need to ask me no questions. I

491
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,200
need to make sure that y'all know some of y'all

492
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:42,880
liars are in here. Johnny, you make it so that

493
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:50,559
you even forget what an exhausting life. But when I

494
00:27:50,599 --> 00:27:56,240
got free, Test me, my Michael, where you been?

495
00:27:57,799 --> 00:27:59,279
Speaker 3: Where this thing has tracked me to here?

496
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 2: Here?

497
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:02,039
Speaker 3: You need to go.

498
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 2: You need to what why? Because there's nothing on the

499
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inside with the test of tithing, What comes up, what

500
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,799
gets a rise? Is there fear there because you really

501
00:28:16,799 --> 00:28:22,039
don't think God will provide. Let's deal with that. Don't

502
00:28:22,079 --> 00:28:25,279
throw out the principle because there's some pain under it,

503
00:28:26,799 --> 00:28:33,079
Oh God, don't throw out the principle because somebody did

504
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,960
something and abused it in a different season of your life.

505
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:38,079
Speaker 3: Let's deal with it.

506
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 2: You had a bad pastor, Let's let's talk about that.

507
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,839
Let's talk about how you didn't grieve leaving that church

508
00:28:44,839 --> 00:28:47,240
where all your friends were there, but it was toxic

509
00:28:47,279 --> 00:28:49,799
and abuse. Let's talk about that. But let's not take

510
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away the principle that God put in place, because now,

511
00:28:52,519 --> 00:28:57,680
guess what you're passing on disobedience to your children because

512
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they've never seen you do it. A good man, a

513
00:29:02,359 --> 00:29:06,640
good woman leaves an inheritance for his children's children. I

514
00:29:06,799 --> 00:29:11,279
found out you can leave an inheritance of ignorance. Oh God,

515
00:29:11,359 --> 00:29:14,759
y'all not ready to talk to me today. Y'all ever

516
00:29:14,799 --> 00:29:19,039
heard of that story where there was Yeah, y'all heard

517
00:29:19,079 --> 00:29:20,960
about the pan where they cut off the ends of

518
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,759
the ham. And if you ain't heard, I'm gonna tell

519
00:29:23,759 --> 00:29:27,839
you real quick. You want to hear here? Going a

520
00:29:27,839 --> 00:29:29,599
young lady was trying to learn how to cook for

521
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,960
her new husband, and what ended up happening is she

522
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,119
always remembered her mom cutting off the ends of the ham,

523
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and she called her mama and was like, I know

524
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I'm supposed to do this, but I don't know why.

525
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And so she called her mom and was like, mom,

526
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why did you cut off the ends of the ham?

527
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And she said, I don't know, my mama did it.

528
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,519
And she called her mama and said, Mama, why did

529
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you cut off the ends of the ham? She said,

530
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because that's how big the pen was I had. And

531
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so generationally now we are wasting then half a ham

532
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:12,519
bacon jan like half a ham gone because of ignorance. Church.

533
00:30:12,559 --> 00:30:14,799
What I'm trying to tell you is if somebody could

534
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get this principle and live it out, what you would

535
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see is generational blessing.

536
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Speaker 3: On your family and.

537
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Speaker 2: Every how many people want generational blessing to come from you. Okay,

538
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,039
so watch this. If you were to take that little

539
00:30:31,039 --> 00:30:33,599
polygraph test and just I'm just being ethereal right now,

540
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,640
I need to tell you something. The response to the

541
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question is as important as the result. Hear what I

542
00:30:41,599 --> 00:30:45,920
just said, Would you take a test to see if

543
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:53,599
you're lying. H They already answered, we already know. But

544
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:58,440
if the answer is okay, and where yes, so many

545
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,000
people want the results of hithing. But your response is

546
00:31:02,039 --> 00:31:08,079
telling on you the way you type looking at me

547
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,160
right now, some of y'all crusty right here on your lips.

548
00:31:11,039 --> 00:31:13,079
Just say just do this, do this.

549
00:31:15,119 --> 00:31:16,279
Speaker 3: Because because we're talking.

550
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Speaker 2: About honoring God with our finances, and what I'm saying

551
00:31:18,799 --> 00:31:23,839
is your response is exposing you. It's not more money,

552
00:31:24,519 --> 00:31:29,160
it's a different heart posture. So I just want to

553
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,519
let you know a few things. Number One, write it down.

554
00:31:32,599 --> 00:31:36,960
Tithing is biblical Lebiticus twenty seven thirty. And all the

555
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,599
tithes of the land, whether the seed of the land

556
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,400
or the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's.

557
00:31:42,519 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 3: It is holy and set apart for the Lord.

558
00:31:45,319 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 2: So the tithe means it's something that I set apart

559
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,359
first to honor God with. So this is biblical. Give

560
00:31:51,359 --> 00:31:53,000
you one more because you was like that was Old Testament.

561
00:31:53,039 --> 00:31:55,920
New Testament Matthew chapter twenty three, verse twenty three. Won't

562
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to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, church people, for you

563
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:04,119
pay tithe of Mint and Annis and Cuman these are

564
00:32:04,119 --> 00:32:05,319
all spices back in the day.

565
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Speaker 3: It's like saying, you pay tithe of your lawrees and what.

566
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Speaker 2: Other seasons a hot saucin or whatever your season it is,

567
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,799
but you neglect the weightier matter of the law, justice

568
00:32:15,839 --> 00:32:19,400
and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done

569
00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:23,359
without leaving the other one undone. So God is saying

570
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to these people you tithed off of the things that

571
00:32:26,119 --> 00:32:29,000
come into your life. Cool, he said, But these other

572
00:32:29,079 --> 00:32:32,440
things you should tithe on too. It doesn't matter what

573
00:32:32,559 --> 00:32:35,720
increase comes to your life. You gotta honor God with it.

574
00:32:35,759 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 3: So listen to me.

575
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,359
Speaker 2: Tithing is biblical. Say it with me. Tithing is biblical.

576
00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:42,519
One more time for the people in the back. Tithing

577
00:32:42,759 --> 00:32:48,079
is biblical. Second one, tithing is practical. Okay, So you

578
00:32:48,079 --> 00:32:50,720
were like, how does this todd thing work? We given

579
00:32:50,759 --> 00:32:53,720
to the church and then y'all fedexit to heaven, Like

580
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:58,759
what happens? Y'all know, we'll find any excuse. I'm trying

581
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to be very ground level to let you understand this

582
00:33:02,119 --> 00:33:06,279
is not just biblical, it's practical. Kbus Chapter seven, verse eight.

583
00:33:06,319 --> 00:33:09,279
I love the Bible. It says here, when you tie

584
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mortal men receive the tithes regular people. But there when

585
00:33:14,359 --> 00:33:19,119
you do the act, it's accredited or it's received in heaven.

586
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,319
Whom is a witness that he lives. What the Bible

587
00:33:22,359 --> 00:33:24,440
is saying real right here, if you break it down,

588
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,640
is like you give it here, but that exchange got

589
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:34,839
recorded in heaven, just like unforgiveness gets recorded in heaven. Okay,

590
00:33:35,079 --> 00:33:38,599
just y'all understand what I'm saying. Just like sin. If

591
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,559
you don't believe in this, then you wouldn't believe in

592
00:33:40,559 --> 00:33:45,920
salvation because you're making an act, a heart decision, a

593
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,240
mind decision, to say I am giving my life to God.

594
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You say the prayer according to Romans ten nine, you

595
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believe that he lived and he died, and now you've

596
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been given a new life. There is not a you

597
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,519
don't get world up in your whole world like. It

598
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:02,000
is a spiritual act that is activated by practical faith.

599
00:34:04,079 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 3: Tithing is the same thing.

600
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Speaker 2: It's a spiritual act activated by practical faith and giving

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its practical practice that proves my faith every fifteen days.

602
00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:24,440
Do you know that, according to the calculations of all

603
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,960
people that say they go to church, three percent of

604
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:35,719
the church tithes. Not this church, No, no, no, no, because

605
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,199
y'all though ultra three percent, No, no, no, no, I'm talking about

606
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,920
that's the people who only come once a year. What

607
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:54,280
does that say about how the church trust God? Three percent?

608
00:34:56,079 --> 00:34:59,559
That means out of a thousand of y'all, thirty people

609
00:34:59,559 --> 00:35:06,559
trust God. So tithing isn't just biblical tithing is practical

610
00:35:07,159 --> 00:35:11,599
and then watch this tithing is first? Can you bring

611
00:35:11,639 --> 00:35:13,920
my chairs up here real quick? Because y'all don't understand this.

612
00:35:14,679 --> 00:35:19,960
I need three very competitive people. Okay, I'm gonna I'm

613
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,119
gonna take you with the Afro Come on, come on,

614
00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:24,800
I gonna take you sis. I need one more competitive person.

615
00:35:25,159 --> 00:35:27,400
Come on, you stood up? Come on, two afros? Come

616
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:31,599
on you you come come? Just just put them right here,

617
00:35:32,119 --> 00:35:33,840
all right. I'm gonna need a band, y'all gotta hurry though.

618
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,519
You can't be cool coming down here. I'm gonna pick

619
00:35:35,559 --> 00:35:38,679
somebody else. Come on, come on, what's up? Man? What's

620
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,800
your name? Y? Marion? Your parents was creative with your name?

621
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:46,840
Like that's like Marion and some other people. Okay, what's

622
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,920
I know you? That jacket is fire? Okay, where's my

623
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,559
last guy? You to being too cool?

624
00:35:52,599 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 5: Afro?

625
00:35:53,039 --> 00:35:56,159
Speaker 2: Come here, man, get up here. Okay, now, stand up,

626
00:35:56,159 --> 00:35:59,639
stand up, Santa. Have y'all ever, what's your name? Bug Jeremiah?

627
00:35:59,679 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 3: Okay?

628
00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:02,320
Speaker 2: Cool? All right, watch this. We're gonna play musical chairs.

629
00:36:03,079 --> 00:36:05,480
Have y'all played musical chairs in a while? Okay?

630
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 3: Cool?

631
00:36:06,079 --> 00:36:09,760
Speaker 2: Whoever wins first place gets one hundred dollars. Okay, so

632
00:36:10,199 --> 00:36:14,679
very easily, she said, yes, I can pay for this jacket. No,

633
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:15,199
just flat.

634
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:15,639
Speaker 3: Okay.

635
00:36:15,639 --> 00:36:17,559
Speaker 2: So we're gonna play musical chairs. I need the band

636
00:36:17,599 --> 00:36:20,159
to help me. Okay, So y'all start playing. When you

637
00:36:20,159 --> 00:36:23,280
hear the band, go around and then stop on it?

638
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,199
All right, y'all ready here we go, go this way,

639
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:25,679
go this way?

640
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 3: Play band?

641
00:36:26,679 --> 00:36:44,599
Speaker 2: Do we have band? You was slow coming down here,

642
00:36:44,679 --> 00:36:46,719
and you were slow sitting down. Come on, get off

643
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:51,599
the stage. God bless you, God bless you. Y'all gonna

644
00:36:51,599 --> 00:36:53,719
get up and take one of the chairs. I knew

645
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,480
he was gonna lose when he came down here. He's

646
00:36:56,519 --> 00:36:58,360
like on competitive and he took nine years to get

647
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,800
out here. I was like, he's not gonna. I love you, Bubba,

648
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,360
get Jeremiah. That is a long walk back. He's like,

649
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:04,320
oh my god.

650
00:37:05,079 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 3: Okay, start me up. Man, who y'all think gonna man. Okay, okay, okay.

651
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:32,079
Speaker 2: She's a mother.

652
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,119
Speaker 3: She's a mother, she's a mother.

653
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:40,119
Speaker 2: You lost though, Get out of here, j Marie. Give

654
00:37:40,199 --> 00:37:41,960
it up for him. Hold on, hold on, hold on,

655
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,800
hold on, hold on, hold up, hold on, hold on, Sis,

656
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:45,559
Sis Sis says, Sis, Sis says, come here, come here,

657
00:37:45,599 --> 00:37:49,280
come here, come here, come here, come here. You won right,

658
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:56,320
here's one hundred dollars. Hold on, wait wait, wait, why

659
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:02,519
y'all mad? Hold on?

660
00:38:02,599 --> 00:38:09,119
Speaker 3: Hold on, wait wait wait he was first, but I made.

661
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:19,519
Speaker 2: Her the priority. No, no, no, no. Now listen, some

662
00:38:19,559 --> 00:38:23,679
of you are offended at me now because who was

663
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:32,440
clearly first. I didn't honor. I did not honor who

664
00:38:32,639 --> 00:38:33,239
was first.

665
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 3: I honored who I wanted.

666
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Speaker 2: And this is the exact way most of you treat

667
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:48,639
God with the tithe.

668
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 3: You said you gotta give it up.

669
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Speaker 2: Oh okay, you can give it to you can give

670
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:53,880
it to look at it.

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Speaker 3: He don't know if you want to take it. Give me, y'all.

672
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Speaker 2: Okay, now watch now watch, thank y'all so much. Y'all

673
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,599
give it up for him, real quick. God, bless you.

674
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:20,719
Good job boy. He was first, whether you acknowledged it

675
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:28,119
or not. The question is, will you honor who already

676
00:39:28,159 --> 00:39:34,719
sits on the throne, and some of us put other

677
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,719
people in those seats. It's the mortgage, it's the credit card,

678
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:44,760
it's the bank, it's it's the lattes. Now, come on, y'all,

679
00:39:46,079 --> 00:39:50,719
nine dollar coffee twice a day for a year. You

680
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:56,920
drink your time and have to use the bathroom after it.

681
00:40:04,639 --> 00:40:08,119
I've been teaching my kids, I got a I got

682
00:40:08,159 --> 00:40:13,039
a thousand dollars a year. Why y'all say woo when

683
00:40:13,039 --> 00:40:17,199
I pulled out a thousand dollars woo. Stop. The reason

684
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,360
I'm saying this is because if there's ten one hundred

685
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,519
dollar bills, my question to you is which one is

686
00:40:22,559 --> 00:40:29,280
the tithe? They're all one hundred dollars, But the only

687
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,679
one that's the tithe is the first one.

688
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Speaker 3: Because it doesn't take faith to give what's left.

689
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Speaker 2: It takes faith to give what's Hey, sis, where are

690
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:51,679
you at? Come get this.

691
00:40:58,559 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 6: I want you to see what sparked it. It was her

692
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:09,480
willingness to give up what was given to her to

693
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:11,079
honor somebody else.

694
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Speaker 2: Let that bless you go by two or three of

695
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:23,360
them jackets, God hear me, Okay, watch this. The tithe

696
00:41:23,519 --> 00:41:28,000
is the first one that leaves your hand, and practically

697
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,000
God is not up there. It was like you paid,

698
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,079
you paid the groceryveal.

699
00:41:32,639 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 3: What you're doing?

700
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Speaker 2: Are you trying to take the example further? She handing

701
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:44,880
out hundreds, y'all? Mad, y'all said, on that side, y'all, mad,

702
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:52,840
you better rejoice with those who rejoice? Did you give

703
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:57,760
out all of them? Now?

704
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 3: Why you have to go and do that?

705
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:02,679
Speaker 2: Now? Why you have to go and do that?

706
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 5: And do that? All right?

707
00:42:22,079 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 2: You know when the holy spirits start talking to you,

708
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gotta process a little bit. Okay, all right? I was

709
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hoping she kept one at least one. God No, Jennyson,

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Chapter four, verse three, God dog, Natalie, Okay, Scott, you

711
00:42:45,599 --> 00:42:50,639
already know all right. Genesis chapter three, verse four. The

712
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reason why this is important, guys, is because canaan Able

713
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gave us an example of why God only accepts first.

714
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Speaker 3: Okay, So Genesis chapter four, verse three. Do y'all feel

715
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:06,719
like the lightness like?

716
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:08,639
Speaker 2: Do y'all feel like I'm not trying to attack you.

717
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,840
I'm not trying to beat you over the head. I'm

718
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:12,360
not telling I already tell you going to heaven if

719
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:13,800
you believe in Jesus. This is.

720
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Speaker 3: I'm just trying to give you the principle.

721
00:43:16,119 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 2: You can leave it or take it, but I don't

722
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,039
want to be responsible when I get to heaven.

723
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Speaker 3: And God's like, why ain't you telling them about that?

724
00:43:24,599 --> 00:43:26,599
Speaker 2: You appreaciate everything else. You preave about grace, you preeve

725
00:43:26,599 --> 00:43:27,719
about love, you preach.

726
00:43:27,599 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 7: About relationship goals all the time, but you ain't telling

727
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:30,400
about the thing.

728
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Speaker 2: That transformed your life, that changed you from.

729
00:43:35,519 --> 00:43:39,039
Speaker 3: Being more like you to being more like me. I

730
00:43:39,039 --> 00:43:39,840
gotta give it to you.

731
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Speaker 2: The day came that came brought a gift of the

732
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fruit of the ground to the Lord. But Abel brought

733
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a gift of the first born of his flock. And

734
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the fat parts are the good parts. And the Lord

735
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showed favor able and his gift. If you know the story,

736
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:10,679
the reason why God could not accept Cain's offering because

737
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the passage says, at some times he gave him something,

738
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,199
there was no priority with it. It was just like,

739
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over the course of time, Cain brought something. But Abel,

740
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he said, he brought the firstborn. He said, as soon

741
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as he was increased, he said, this one's God's. And

742
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:40,360
he said the favor came to him because he put God,

743
00:44:43,559 --> 00:44:45,480
and can I tell you something that's a little strong,

744
00:44:45,679 --> 00:44:51,639
but I want you to hear it. Even if Cain

745
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:56,360
would have brought the sacrifice, he couldn't have received it

746
00:44:57,559 --> 00:45:08,960
because God doesn't accept seconds. He only does first. So,

747
00:45:09,039 --> 00:45:10,559
Pastor Mike, why are you telling me this? Because I

748
00:45:10,639 --> 00:45:13,440
just want you to remember three things? Three things?

749
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 3: And we're going home?

750
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 2: Why does God care.

751
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,320
Speaker 5: About the tithe?

752
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 2: If you can answer? If I can answer this question

753
00:45:20,519 --> 00:45:22,199
to you for you, I think a lot of you

754
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,000
will begin to see this whole thing differently. Why does

755
00:45:25,039 --> 00:45:30,320
God care about this? Because it's all about remembering? Why

756
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:33,239
does God care about the tithe? Number one? Because you

757
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:38,920
remember to reset every time you tithe, you remember God

758
00:45:39,039 --> 00:45:41,360
is my source blank it's not.

759
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 3: And you get to fill in the blank.

760
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,559
Speaker 2: Every time you get that thousand dollars and you write

761
00:45:48,599 --> 00:45:52,880
one hundred dollars to whatever church you go to. You

762
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:57,519
are remembering. I could not trust God, but I'm choosing to.

763
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:03,800
And with goad, price is going crazy, and my keyids

764
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,360
just keep growing out of their shoes. I just bought

765
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:10,559
these last week. Y'all got what I'm saying?

766
00:46:11,199 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 3: The cares of this life.

767
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 2: Heating air bills, I gotta get a wig now because

768
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,840
my hair thinning back here. Y'all know what in real life,

769
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:27,039
I gotta get botox because whoa all these things that

770
00:46:27,079 --> 00:46:30,519
people make priorities. Hear me what I'm saying. I'm using

771
00:46:30,559 --> 00:46:33,000
real life examples. I need a new car, I get

772
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:33,360
a new.

773
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:34,280
Speaker 3: Car every three years?

774
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:40,760
Speaker 2: Are okay? But is that a priority or having God

775
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:46,039
rebuke the devourer? Because there's only two options when it

776
00:46:46,039 --> 00:46:46,960
comes to the tithe.

777
00:46:47,679 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 3: The Bible says, bring the tithe. You can't give it.

778
00:46:52,159 --> 00:46:55,480
Hear what I just said. You only can give something

779
00:46:55,519 --> 00:46:56,400
that's yours.

780
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:03,199
Speaker 2: You bring something that already was somebody else's. I got

781
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:07,599
four brothers, and I randomly see them wearing my things,

782
00:47:09,679 --> 00:47:12,760
might be some glasses, some shoes that had We're relatively

783
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:17,599
the same size, And if I see him wearing it,

784
00:47:17,599 --> 00:47:20,559
it's good. They already know it's nothing. But when I

785
00:47:20,639 --> 00:47:25,400
need it, I don't say, hey, could you give me

786
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:34,280
those shoes you had on yesterday? Creasing them? I just say, yo,

787
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:38,960
can you bring those Jordan's back? Why? Because it wasn't

788
00:47:39,079 --> 00:47:45,039
theirs to begin with. God's not asking you to give

789
00:47:45,119 --> 00:47:48,880
him anything. He's asking you to bring him back a

790
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:52,760
piece of what he's giving you, the ability to manage.

791
00:47:54,079 --> 00:47:58,840
That's a whole different attitude. I have no problem sharing

792
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:06,800
one donut out of ten when you paid for them.

793
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:09,199
But there are many people that feel like tithing is

794
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:13,639
God taking something from me. And the Bible's clear. He says,

795
00:48:13,639 --> 00:48:16,519
you only have two options with the tithe, you bring

796
00:48:16,599 --> 00:48:21,880
it or steal it. That's not me saying this. That

797
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:28,199
scripture he said, you thief, and the people listening, and

798
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,000
I don't even want to go into the whole thing

799
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,800
because I need you to understand this is all scripture.

800
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,880
I need you to He's like, you stealing from God,

801
00:48:35,159 --> 00:48:37,480
and it's like, in what way am I stealing from God?

802
00:48:37,559 --> 00:48:41,719
In tithe and offering? He said, you went to the club,

803
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:51,400
you paid for that subscription, you went on vacation, not

804
00:48:51,639 --> 00:48:55,840
with what. I need you to give me what I

805
00:48:55,920 --> 00:49:01,559
needed you to bring me back. When we tie it

806
00:49:01,679 --> 00:49:05,800
resets us. Everybody say reset. Some of us need a reset.

807
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:11,360
Often sometimes money is a thing for us. Can I

808
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:15,679
tell you that that that that sometimes we gotta reset

809
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:20,920
so that we remember this is just a tool. Here

810
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,880
is my source. If I get let go of my job,

811
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:30,599
I'm gonna be okay. Because I'm in.

812
00:49:30,559 --> 00:49:34,599
Speaker 5: The hands of God that.

813
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:40,800
Speaker 2: Y'all remember the song I'm safe sustained. Why not because

814
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,599
of that job. Thank God for the job, thank God

815
00:49:43,639 --> 00:49:45,880
for the inheritance, thank God for my parents that left

816
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,199
me something, thank God for all that. But if I

817
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:53,639
ain't got nothing else, I'm in the hands of God,

818
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,519
and he won't fail me, and he won't drop me,

819
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:01,400
and he's gonna to keep me. And that's why I'm saying,

820
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,920
test me, man, just see if.

821
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,119
Speaker 3: I want to open the windows and blend and come on.

822
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:07,519
Speaker 5: Man.

823
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:14,800
Speaker 2: So you remember the reset. I brought this today. I

824
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:18,760
found this cleaning out my attic. This was my reset.

825
00:50:20,519 --> 00:50:24,679
I remember this great book. I was flipping through it

826
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:32,280
and I found a page with a greenwood offering envelope

827
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:37,840
from twenty and eleven and a picture with all the

828
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,199
bills and money that I had, and at the top

829
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:45,239
it says, soon to increase finances, God, you are provision.

830
00:50:47,159 --> 00:50:51,039
I wrote this six months to a year and to me,

831
00:50:51,119 --> 00:50:52,800
being the pastor of the church, when I told you

832
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:57,280
I didn't know how to handle finances, and I wrote down,

833
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:00,400
I'm literally twy three hundred and twenty two sixteen since

834
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:04,119
plus one thousand I was still contracting people and producing

835
00:51:04,119 --> 00:51:06,840
for them on the side, so that gave me three thousand,

836
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:08,880
three hundred and twenty two dollars and sixteen cent. My

837
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:15,840
rent was six hundred dollars at the time. My God today,

838
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:21,320
simpler times. My cell phone was two hundred. I was

839
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,159
paying seventy dollars to my choice, which was a credit

840
00:51:24,199 --> 00:51:30,000
card that I maxed out. My car was seven hundred dollars,

841
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:31,599
but at this time it didn't work, but I still

842
00:51:31,599 --> 00:51:39,840
had to pay the bill. Don't judge me. I saw

843
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,760
you uber here today, not just like I'm just flying.

844
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:48,079
My bills were three hundred dollars because I had I

845
00:51:48,119 --> 00:51:52,599
had roommates, and then that left me one four hundred

846
00:51:52,599 --> 00:52:03,119
and fifty two dollars savings category nothing y'all, this is real.

847
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:09,039
But at the top then I start putting food, clothing,

848
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:13,519
tall the trees, gas because I had to pay people

849
00:52:13,559 --> 00:52:15,280
gas money to get When you don't have a car,

850
00:52:15,599 --> 00:52:18,360
you still gotta pay for gas because the people you

851
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,559
ask for a ride, if you ask them too many times,

852
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:29,440
you don't get no ride. So I had to But

853
00:52:29,519 --> 00:52:31,920
at the top it says soon to increase finance. This

854
00:52:32,039 --> 00:52:37,239
was my faith. God, you are provision, and I put

855
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:41,159
over here my tides. I got emotional looking at this book,

856
00:52:41,159 --> 00:52:44,400
and there's other things in here that really really messed

857
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:46,360
me up to think of where I am today. But

858
00:52:46,639 --> 00:52:50,280
the crazy thing is on the offering envelope. It says

859
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:54,800
ten thirty one twenty eleven eleven Michael and Natalie Todd.

860
00:52:55,519 --> 00:52:58,280
It's me and my wife and this is in her handwriting.

861
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:01,119
Because we decided as a family we were going to

862
00:53:01,159 --> 00:53:09,119
honor God with nothing. And how I've watched God prove

863
00:53:09,199 --> 00:53:12,280
his principle to me over and over and over again.

864
00:53:13,679 --> 00:53:17,119
I can only stand here as a testimony. It's the

865
00:53:17,119 --> 00:53:21,360
word of God works. I'm not trying to manipulate you,

866
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:25,920
convince you. I'm just here as a testimony. If you

867
00:53:26,039 --> 00:53:30,639
honor God with all of your increase, he opens up

868
00:53:30,639 --> 00:53:34,119
the windows of heaven and pours you out of blessing.

869
00:53:34,159 --> 00:53:38,199
You don't have room enough to receive. And the only

870
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:41,840
reason you're scared of this test is if you're not prepared.

871
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:46,719
And today I just want you to be prepared. It's coming.

872
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:54,239
Some of y'all gonna have a test this week. What's

873
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:58,679
today's day? Some of y'all just miss the test ooh

874
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:07,639
Jesus fifteenth, or you might get a retake. God's challenging

875
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:10,760
some of you take the test and don't just take

876
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:14,400
it once. Decide this is how you're gonna always take

877
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:18,320
the test. So remember to reset. Second thing, Remember, I'm

878
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:23,400
a river, not a swamp. God wants to flow through you,

879
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:29,400
not just to me. Put up a picture of a swamp.

880
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:37,440
Who would want to go take a bathroom? This? Not me?

881
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:40,119
Who will want to go fishing in this?

882
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 5: Not me?

883
00:54:40,559 --> 00:54:45,800
Speaker 2: There could be an alligator in there. Do you know

884
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:49,119
why a swamp is a swamp because there's no flow.

885
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,000
Some of your life looks like this, Not because you're bad,

886
00:54:55,039 --> 00:55:00,320
it's just there's no flow. And if you ever been

887
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,760
around a swamp, it starts to stink. The only thing

888
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:11,159
that lives there are predators. Uh, y'all, just hear what

889
00:55:11,199 --> 00:55:13,159
I'm saying to you. But could you put a picture

890
00:55:13,159 --> 00:55:17,840
of a river up there? Flowing water, something that people

891
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:23,199
come to to drink from. God tells us in his word,

892
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:23,920
gives us a picture.

893
00:55:24,079 --> 00:55:25,760
Speaker 3: I want you to be planted.

894
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 2: Next to the rivers of living. What would happen if

895
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:35,760
everything you did was a pass through? Like God said,

896
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:37,400
Oh yeah, I'll trust you with millions because I know

897
00:55:37,679 --> 00:55:40,119
I can get it through you. I'll trust you with

898
00:55:40,159 --> 00:55:42,559
wisdom because I know you'll give it away. Or I'll

899
00:55:42,559 --> 00:55:44,920
trust you with those connections because you'll connect people. Some

900
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:48,559
of y'all aren't even stingy with money, You're stingy with relationships.

901
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,079
You got one text message you could make to change

902
00:55:53,079 --> 00:55:54,519
somebody's life, and you send it.

903
00:55:54,599 --> 00:55:56,039
Speaker 3: No, No, you need to get it out the mud like

904
00:55:56,079 --> 00:55:57,039
I got it out the mud.

905
00:55:57,079 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 2: God said, swamp. Okay, I'm not even gonna go. You're

906
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:08,159
a swam. You're a spiritual swam. You're a relational swam.

907
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:11,960
You stink. That was me. That wasn't God saying that.

908
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:16,639
I said that you stank. What I'm saying is.

909
00:56:16,559 --> 00:56:21,119
Speaker 3: Like, become a river. Let it flow. Say that.

910
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:24,119
Speaker 2: Let it flow some one more time saying let it flow.

911
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:31,199
So I'm gonna remember to reset. Every time I'm presented

912
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:34,039
with the opportunity to tie, I'm gonna remember that I

913
00:56:34,079 --> 00:56:37,239
can tie because I'm a river, not a swamp. Somebody

914
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:42,960
say there's more. Oh. The last thing is remember tithing

915
00:56:43,119 --> 00:56:47,920
is reverent. This is one of the most spiritual acts

916
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,880
you could ever do. Watch this because God did it. First,

917
00:56:52,880 --> 00:57:01,079
what church did God tie to you? Let's think about it.

918
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:06,280
When you tie, it has to be first.

919
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 3: For God so loved the world.

920
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:19,079
Speaker 2: That he gave not one of many sons. He gave

921
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:26,719
the first and only on the potential that all of

922
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:31,679
his other children would be reconciled back to him. He

923
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,599
gave first so the rest could be blessed. Oh God,

924
00:57:38,519 --> 00:57:41,320
maybe tithing is more important to God than you think.

925
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:50,719
Jesus is God's dithe. Is there any other way? Nope.

926
00:57:51,199 --> 00:57:53,280
I got to give the first one to be sacrificed

927
00:57:54,559 --> 00:57:57,199
so that all my other kids can know and I

928
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:01,480
love them. Not a point on there, but I think

929
00:58:01,519 --> 00:58:11,840
it is. Tithing is personal. It's personal to God. There

930
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,000
was a song that came up in my spirit earlier

931
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:16,519
because I know there's people that want to know the

932
00:58:16,519 --> 00:58:19,639
semantics of everything, and like, Okay, is this The truth

933
00:58:19,679 --> 00:58:21,760
of the matter is either we're right or we're wrong.

934
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:27,760
Either this God thing works or it don't. And literally

935
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:29,719
I think I'm on the right side, like either if

936
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:32,320
you just like just think about it, If you live

937
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:37,800
your life generously, tithing ten percent giving when God tells

938
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:40,599
you to give, and we find out at the end

939
00:58:40,599 --> 00:58:43,440
of this life the Jesus Christ thing was all fake.

940
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:47,960
You still would be a better person.

941
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 3: There's nobody who lives generously.

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Speaker 2: That's like, I hate you generous people.

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Speaker 3: It's just like, oh, forgive, I'm giving more grace. All

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you need a thousand, you need one hundred thousand.

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Speaker 2: Like, let's just say, let's just say we got it

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all wrong, but we forgave.

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Speaker 3: Like Jesus doesn't exist at all.

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Speaker 2: This is an example for everybody that's watching and just

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tuned in right here.

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Speaker 3: I just need you because y'all be liking the clip.

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Speaker 2: Stuff up. I'm giving you an example. Let's just say

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Jesus didn't exist at all, but you lived your life

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thinking on things that were good and lovely and of

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a positive report. You lived your life forgiving. You lived

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your life being generous. You will get to the end

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of this life and be like, well, sure lived the best.

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Speaker 3: One I could.

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Speaker 2: Now imagine if you're wrong and all of this was

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really important, and you're about to get tested again at

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the Great White Throne judgment and you're like, hey, hey,

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hold on, what's happening. I'm three people back? Hold on?

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They really they really pulling up on the big screen

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of heaven. Everything I did on earth, how I spent

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my money, who I slept with, what hold on? Wait? Everything?

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Speaker 3: When I lied?

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Speaker 2: When I they really can I get a redoo? And

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he said no, you can't get a redo. That's why

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I was trying to reset you. I wanted you to

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have a reset because when you get.

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Speaker 3: To heaven you don't get a redo.

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Speaker 2: So today, church, we should be ones that would be like,

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you know what, if all of these principles are in

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God's were I'm just gonna obey them because I got

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too many signs of around me. If the stars were

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made to worship, somebody say, so will I. If the

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mountains bow in reverence, if the oceans roar your greatness,

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so will AH. For everything that exists, it exists to

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lift you high, so so will I. That's about priority.

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Standing all over this building today, I'm gonna pray that

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if you're watching online or you're in this room, before

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you move, I want to pray for you. Hear me,

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I'm gonna pray that you obey God. Just like the winds,

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the waves, the sea, the trees, the sun, the mountains,

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they're all standing and doing what they were created to do.

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They're obeying God's word, and your response should be so

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will I so? If God tells me to forgive, your

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response should be so. If God tells me to love,

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my response should be if God tells me to tithe?

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Would you lift your hands all over this place? God,

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we're asking for your help because many times there's fear

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around stepping out in faith. And I pray for every

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person from a middle schooler who's just getting allowance to

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the CEO whose business just got bought out. And I'm

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asking you that you would give us a heart to

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obey you by honoring you with the first ten percent

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of everything that you increase us With God, I declare

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and I believe that you are removing all day around

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trusting you. And I'm thinking you that people are about

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to step out in crazy faith and they will never

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be disappointed because you are a God that keeps your word.

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Thank you that when you give a test, you help

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us with it. It's open book test. We can't fail

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if we stay close to you. So for every person

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that is struggling with the concept, give them peace right now.

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For every marriage that needs to come into agreement based

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on the hurts and the pains of the past, I

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thank you for unity in the name of Jesus, for

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every young person who doesn't know if this God thing

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is real. God, thank you for an encounter with you.

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If the stars were made to worship, so will I.

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I will obey your word even if I don't understand

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it fully, because miracles happen when the logic stops. Faith

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begins where understanding ends. Today, God, we say we trust you,

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we will listen, we will hear, we will obey. In

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this moment, many of you need to ask the question

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of Holy Spirit, what are you trying to say to me?

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Because somebody just got laid off and you're like, why

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would this message come to me right now? Because God's

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trying to get your heart. If the stars were made

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to worship, so will I.

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Speaker 7: The mountains bowl and rever and so we feel She's

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why your bisness so well, rebel.

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Speaker 5: Everything sins to lift you hard.

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Speaker 7: So if the wind goes where you send it, so

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will I.

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Speaker 5: Jesus. If the rocks cry out in silence.

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Speaker 7: So if the sun of v Pregund is still far shared,

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then we're seeing again behind a billion times. So if

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the stars are mad to worship.

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Speaker 5: So will line. If the mountains spoul in reverence, so well,

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I A if feels for your pregness, so elle.

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Speaker 7: Or if everything says to lift you up, so hella.

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Speaker 5: If that's just where you sitting.

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Speaker 7: It so well, if he rots, cry out and silence.

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Speaker 5: So well. It's the sound of all love. Brent is

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still for s.

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Speaker 7: We'll say again and a hundred million times.

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Speaker 2: I have to give every person under the sound of

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my voice, as God is still speaking to you, the

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opportunity to receive the benefit of God's tithe Jesus today

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because God gave us first. Now we can be redeemed,

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bought back from the lives of sin, the bondage of sin,

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and you don't even have to do nothing but receive

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it today. It's a heart posture that changes, and your

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eternity changes. So for every person who is like me

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in any way, a liar, manipulator, addicted to pornography, or

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you just don't know Jesus or never accepted him, today

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is your day because of what God gave us in Jesus.

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Today we can be reconciled or put back together with

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the Father, and it changes us. We go on a

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journey of progression over perfection where He's the only one

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that if you give him your heart, he'll help you

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change those habits you've tried over and over. Why can't

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you beat him? Because you need supernatural help. And today

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Jesus wants to come and live with you every day

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of your life. So if that's you and you're saying, pastor,

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I want you to include me in this prayer that

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I want to make Jesus Christ my personal Lord and savior.

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Your eternity is gonna be secure and your history is

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about to be transformed. Today is a day of salvation.

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And if you're watching this from a jail cell, or

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you're in this room, or you're seeing this ten months

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from now on rebroadcast, and it's coming to you because somebody.

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Speaker 3: Sent you a link, Today is the day of salvation.

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Speaker 2: I need the church to begin to pray. Your whole

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life has led up to this moment, and all you

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have to do is make a choice.

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Speaker 3: Choose Jesus.

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Speaker 2: I set before you today life and death. And I'm

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gonna give you the answer to the test. Choose life.

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And if that's you on the counter three, I just

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want you to slip your hand up, whether you're online

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or in the room. One you're making the greatest decision

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of your life. Two.

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Speaker 3: I'm so proud of you.

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Speaker 2: But more than that, your name is gonna be written

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in the Lamb's Book of Life. Three. If you want

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to accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior, lift your hands.

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I see you right there. I see you right there. Amen,

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I see you, God bless you.

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Speaker 5: I see you.

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Speaker 2: I see you, big God. So proud of you. More

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than that, God sees you. And that transformation church where

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a family nobody prays alone. So would you just lift

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your hands it's our last prayer and just repeat after me,

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say God, thank you for sending Jesus just for me today.

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I give you my life. Here I am, I repent,

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and I turn to you.

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Speaker 3: I believe you lived, you died.

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Speaker 2: And you rose again so I could live in freedom.

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Change me, renew me, transformance. I'm yours forever in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Can we celebrate right now? Oh, y'all can do better

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than that. All that heaven is rejoicing right now. And

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then we celebrate. We want to say welcome to the family.

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You made that decision. I want you to text save

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I want you to remember that God desires for all

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of us to obey his will, and that's in every

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area of our life. You will be tested this week,

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and the question is are you prepared or are you

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ready for the test? Father, blessed this church.

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Speaker 3: Bless your people as they.

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Speaker 2: Go, keep them safe. And for those who need prayer, Father,

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in need agreement, because things are happening right now. I

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thank you for meeting them right now at the point

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of their need today. Father, whatever you ask us to do,

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we will be the ones who do it. So will

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I have your way, Father God in Jesus name. Feel

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the spirit of worship in this house. If you need

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prayer for anything, if you're online, just stay in this atmos.

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Fear for a second. I believe God's gonna heal you.

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If you need to go, we will see you next week.

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I believe God is gonna do something super special.

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Speaker 5: But if you need.

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Speaker 2: Healing, if you need prayer, come down. Took a front.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us today. If you said that

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prayer and accept it Jesus into your heart, it's the

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best decision you could ever make.

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Speaker 2: We want to.

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Speaker 1: Celebrate with you, and we have some tools to help

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