Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to
Speaker 1: the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
Speaker 1: glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
Speaker 1: God will transform your life. Did today's message.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you said, come on with it. You know what,
Speaker 2: there's certain people that you can always come wherever I
Speaker 2: preach you hear me, I'm a talkback preacher.
Speaker 3: Now, I know we got all kinds of people.
Speaker 2: I know some of y'all grew up in churches where
Speaker 2: you don't say anything. It's like, but like you can,
Speaker 2: like you can use your cultural expression here, like I
Speaker 2: just want you to. I just want I mean, don't
Speaker 2: offend nobody. But what I'm saying is if you're a
Speaker 2: cowboy and I say something that's good, you can be
Speaker 2: like yeah, how like you can do that.
Speaker 3: Y'all got what I'm saying, Like, I know.
Speaker 2: There are some people that grew up in the hood,
Speaker 2: and if you grew up.
Speaker 3: In the hood, like I'll fight you like.
Speaker 2: That's not a that's not that's not that's not bad
Speaker 2: to me. If you know the kind of of it,
Speaker 2: you understand what I'm saying, so and you can just
Speaker 2: use a man in Hallelujah too, Okay, But at this church,
Speaker 2: we love freedom of expression. And I'm in week four
Speaker 2: of a series that's called Six Figures. And this series
Speaker 2: is important to me because it changed my life. I
Speaker 2: think about pivotal moments in my journey, and one of
Speaker 2: the most pivotal moments that changed and touched every area
Speaker 2: of my life is when God taught me how to
Speaker 2: not be greedy and actually be generous.
Speaker 3: Changed my life.
Speaker 2: You don't know the Michael who was stingy, the Michael
Speaker 2: who was.
Speaker 3: Literally I don't.
Speaker 2: Want to say I was a bad person. I was
Speaker 2: a unfinished person and I'm still unfinished, but I was
Speaker 2: really unfinished. Yeah, yet raw as anybody ever like, just
Speaker 2: look back and be like, man, I was raw back then,
Speaker 2: like that, Dad, I had no understanding, and.
Speaker 3: I thank God for the progression. But today I.
Speaker 2: Want to share this from a place of not speculating.
Speaker 2: I want to share it from a place of trying
Speaker 2: to give you something that has transformed me. And I
Speaker 2: know that there will be many people that find value
Speaker 2: in this because it has not just changed my life,
Speaker 2: has changed this church and there are thousands of you
Speaker 2: that already participate in the level of generosity that I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. But this is not about money. I need
Speaker 2: everybody to hear me say this. If I could just
Speaker 2: wear a shirt not about money like I need you
Speaker 2: to understand that because some people the block is there
Speaker 2: and you won't hear the principle because you think it's
Speaker 2: about money. This is not about money. This is about
Speaker 2: your heart. This is about your thoughts, this is about
Speaker 2: your soul. And so if you can, if I can
Speaker 2: make you a promise today, I'm not going to ask
Speaker 2: you for any money. I'm gonna asking you for no money.
Speaker 2: We're not taking no offerings we've been giving in this series.
Speaker 2: I just need you to hear me. Relax, nobody's coming
Speaker 2: to spy on your bank account. I don't have a
Speaker 2: prophetic sense. That's oh, she's in the negative. I don't.
Speaker 2: I there's nothing I can do to you except present
Speaker 2: to you truth and then you choose.
Speaker 3: So today, look at your neighbor and say you choose.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna make you choose. Look at your other
Speaker 2: neighbors you didn't like as much, and say you choose. Proverbs,
Speaker 2: Chapter eleven, verse twenty four. The Bible says the world
Speaker 2: of the generous. One of my favorite scriptures. The world
Speaker 2: of the generous gets what larger and larger, but the
Speaker 2: world of the stingy gets what smaller.
Speaker 3: And my question is how big is your world?
Speaker 2: I can't answer that question, but you know if your
Speaker 2: world is big, and you know if you're world is small.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking on the outside. I'm talking about right
Speaker 2: on the inside. How big is your world? It says
Speaker 2: the one who blesses others, watch, this is abundantly. Here's
Speaker 2: our word blessed. And those who help others are always helped.
Speaker 2: That's what I want for you, your pastor. If I
Speaker 2: had a desire that I could ask God right now
Speaker 2: to give to you, I would pray that you live
Speaker 2: in abundance of everything you think you need.
Speaker 3: Abundance of love, abundance of peace, abundance of wisdom.
Speaker 2: I mean, like somebody asks a question and just wisdom
Speaker 2: comes out of you.
Speaker 3: Somebody shot at me. Abundance.
Speaker 2: That's the life that God came for you to have.
Speaker 3: John ten ten.
Speaker 2: The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy, But Jesus
Speaker 2: came that we might have life and life abundantly. How
Speaker 2: big is your life? And the truth of the matter is,
Speaker 2: God's not in control of how big it gets.
Speaker 3: You are.
Speaker 2: Today you could change the size of your world by
Speaker 2: changing a few of your actions. But today you've been
Speaker 2: blaming the man. You've been blaming government, You've been blaming
Speaker 2: your parents. You've been blaming and they may all have
Speaker 2: a little peace to do with that.
Speaker 3: But you, forty.
Speaker 2: Nine, Let's be clear, nobody has made you who you are.
Speaker 2: You came out looking like your parents, You die looking
Speaker 2: like your decisions. Daught to hear what I'm saying to
Speaker 2: you right now, and some of you need to choose
Speaker 2: or decide something different that you don't gotta.
Speaker 3: Be mad no more.
Speaker 2: You can forgive.
Speaker 3: You don't have to be broke no more.
Speaker 2: God can give you the ability to produce well. You
Speaker 2: don't have to be stingy no more. You can get
Speaker 2: You do not have to live the life you have lived.
Speaker 2: But it starts with you realizing God has given you
Speaker 2: the power to switch this whole thing up. Look at
Speaker 2: your neighbor one more time and say you choose. And
Speaker 2: So one of the things that is exciting in my
Speaker 2: life right now is that right now I'm in the
Speaker 2: thick of raising children. Like when I say thick of
Speaker 2: raising children I got.
Speaker 3: I'm in the thick of it. You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I got children, WHOA I didn't really know how much
Speaker 2: time and effort and energy children take. It makes you
Speaker 2: need God. Y'all want to know where you need God.
Speaker 2: If you have kids, you need God. But there are
Speaker 2: some beautiful moments that happen where you feel like, man,
Speaker 2: this is why I'm they daddy.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying that a lot of mayo Daddy.
Speaker 2: So one of those happened to me this past week.
Speaker 2: My daughter came in, Isabella. She's so studious, she's so smart,
Speaker 2: and she was a little over whamed.
Speaker 3: By studying for a test.
Speaker 2: She had to learn all sixty six books of the
Speaker 2: Bible and for a test and know how to spell them.
Speaker 2: It's that second part that just rebecook Malachi like and
Speaker 2: and so she she got she got overwhelmed, and I
Speaker 2: had this idea. I was like, oh, yeah, daddy does music,
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I'm gonna make you a song that
Speaker 2: And so I went to my recorder and I started
Speaker 2: Genesis as it is Leviticus, and I started doing this,
Speaker 2: and I threw it in the Ai app and and
Speaker 2: I made a song. Can I share it with y'all?
Speaker 2: It's cool. This is just honest, no spiritual connotation, and
Speaker 2: just wanted to share.
Speaker 3: It with Chip.
Speaker 2: Could you play that real quick? The books are about
Speaker 2: this is just an old testament, real quick. Just play
Speaker 2: it real quicknous, I mean Joshua and Judges, second sent
Speaker 2: your first Kings, second Kings.
Speaker 4: First chronic or second chronic to say eza He and Maya.
Speaker 4: It's the angel songs, Proverbs and cleasyastes, song songs, Isaiah,
Speaker 4: Jebram Byel, Alimentation, Zigiel and Daniel, jose Ye Joel and
Speaker 4: Rose but.
Speaker 2: Dian Jonah and my Knahoma Bibles, zeph and Nyah and
Speaker 2: had Guy Zachariah in malogy. So I did that for
Speaker 2: my daughter.
Speaker 3: Is that okay?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 3: Watch now?
Speaker 2: Watch Immediately she learned all the books of the Bible.
Speaker 3: She got a hundred on a test.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Bella, okay. And that's when I realized
Speaker 2: that's where our similarities end. Because she was so excited
Speaker 2: to take the test, because she was prepared. And then
Speaker 2: I started to think, have I ever been excited to
Speaker 2: take a test? And she's more like her mother on
Speaker 2: the study side of it, and I was like, I
Speaker 2: don't think I've ever been excited to take a test.
Speaker 3: Usually when I went into.
Speaker 2: School test day anxiety. Many times I would come into
Speaker 2: class clown a look at you, your mama doing all
Speaker 2: that other stuff, and then the teacher is like, all right,
Speaker 2: get ready for the test, and my thing would be like,
Speaker 2: what tests? Okay?
Speaker 5: Come on?
Speaker 3: Do I got any what test?
Speaker 5: People?
Speaker 2: I know you hold on?
Speaker 5: What tests? What you talking about?
Speaker 3: Did you study? Give me your notes?
Speaker 2: I thought about this is that anytime you're tested, watch this,
Speaker 2: write this down. A test is either exciting or exposing.
Speaker 3: Y'all.
Speaker 2: Remember them people who used to be excited for tests
Speaker 2: and you want to punch them in the head?
Speaker 3: Teacher, Are we taking.
Speaker 2: The test now? Or shut up? Boy? Okay, I want
Speaker 2: to know those people. Who are those people? Come on,
Speaker 2: we love you with the love of the Lord. Why
Speaker 2: are you saying this past? I'm like, because a test
Speaker 2: is an automatic.
Speaker 3: Definer.
Speaker 2: A test defines either you're ready or you're resistant. And
Speaker 2: there are many people under the sound of my voice
Speaker 2: that think tests are bad. But the truth of the
Speaker 2: matter is when I dig deeper and I go through
Speaker 2: therapy and I do the things that God has done
Speaker 2: on me. I figured out why I didn't like the test.
Speaker 2: It wasn't the test. It was I wasn't prepared. And
Speaker 2: the three times I can count them, the three times
Speaker 2: I was ready for a test, I became the person
Speaker 2: I didn't like. Hey teacher, how are you? When are
Speaker 2: we taking this test?
Speaker 3: It's taking a naim.
Speaker 2: The only reason you get excited is because you're prepared
Speaker 2: for it. And what I found out that there are
Speaker 2: many believers that don't know that we take a test
Speaker 2: every time we get paid. Oh you saw that turned
Speaker 2: you spared everybody. Ah, no, no, no, I'm just letting
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: Maybe you didn't know.
Speaker 2: But every time you get increased, every time your check
Speaker 2: goes up, every time that you chain hits your cash
Speaker 2: app or bank account, it's a test. And the test
Speaker 2: is who do you trust with your finances?
Speaker 3: And maybe you didn't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe the issue of money and church it was all
Speaker 2: about a building fund that never got built, or it
Speaker 2: was maybe about the pastor driving a certain car while
Speaker 2: there was no air conditioning.
Speaker 3: We ain't talking about none of that here.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about a test that God gives to every
Speaker 2: one of his children before there was a law.
Speaker 3: I can prove to you in.
Speaker 2: Scripture that tithing and generosity was litterally twenty five hundred
Speaker 2: years before Moses ever got a law.
Speaker 3: But it's not even about a law.
Speaker 2: It's about are you prepared? Are you ready for this
Speaker 2: test when it comes? And the truth of the matter
Speaker 2: is people are hearing this message. I'm like, what test?
Speaker 2: And then there are other people that are like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm excited about this test every time I get paid.
Speaker 3: Because I'm ready for the test. And today I just
Speaker 3: need you.
Speaker 2: To understand that the tithe exposes who you trust. And today,
Speaker 2: Pastor Mike, what do you say in the tithe? I
Speaker 2: don't understand. Let me give you a definition of what
Speaker 2: the tithe is. Tithing is a biblical principle and practiced
Speaker 2: established not by the church, not by a pastor, not
Speaker 2: by a group of people who thought it was a
Speaker 2: good idea for everybody to do a pyramid scheme and
Speaker 2: put a little bit in and be like's. It was
Speaker 2: established by God. I'm gonna give you examples of it.
Speaker 2: But it was established by God for every person who
Speaker 2: trust him to return the first ten percent and underline
Speaker 2: first ten percent of your increase back to God through
Speaker 2: the local church. Now fight with your mama. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: I just need to say this because there are people
Speaker 2: who are gonna hear this and they're gonna automatically start
Speaker 2: to start trying to tear down the principle God put
Speaker 2: in place. You don't ever have to tithe ever, and
Speaker 2: you can still go to heaven.
Speaker 3: Hold on, look at me.
Speaker 2: Your salvation is not dependent on you tithing, so you
Speaker 2: can go ahead and relax. But your ability to live
Speaker 2: in abundance in this life is dependent watch this, not
Speaker 2: on tithing, on obedience. See you missed it. You missed
Speaker 2: it because there are people who tied that don't forgive.
Speaker 3: Okay, hold on, let me stop.
Speaker 2: Because I'm talking about tithing, but I want you to understand.
Speaker 2: The principle is bigger than tything. The principle is obedience
Speaker 2: to God's word. So there are people who don't tithe,
Speaker 2: but they do forgive, and God saying we need to
Speaker 2: get both of them. You think we could upgrade to
Speaker 2: both of them. But y'all know what, I'm both of them,
Speaker 2: not both of them. It's both them. It's one word.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I'm telling you right now, this is a principle
Speaker 2: that God set up not for his benefit. Heaven's not
Speaker 2: running short on gold for the streets. You think God
Speaker 2: needs our money. He calls gold what we would fight
Speaker 2: over in it. It's concrete the light in heaven. It
Speaker 2: is not too big for God. Y'all got what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So there must be a deeper reason why He put
Speaker 2: this principle in place for the children he made. This
Speaker 2: is why I think tithing is so important, because it's
Speaker 2: not about percentage, It's about priority. Why two percent?
Speaker 3: Why not twenty five?
Speaker 2: Why not fifty? Why not a hundred? It's not about
Speaker 2: the percentage, It's about priority. And my question to you
Speaker 2: is where is God in the priority of your life?
Speaker 2: I can't answer that question, and you don't get to
Speaker 2: worship your way to him being the priority. Okay, all right?
Speaker 2: Why I pray nineteen hours a day, but you disobedient?
Speaker 2: Like do you understand? Like we try to substitute stuff
Speaker 2: for other stuff.
Speaker 3: It's like take out the trash.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll clean the toilet, but the trash it's overflowing.
Speaker 2: But I cleaned out the cobwebs.
Speaker 3: But the josh and.
Speaker 2: What do you do you try to teach your children.
Speaker 2: It's not about just doing things, It's about doing what
Speaker 2: I ask you to do. And I just believe that God.
Speaker 2: I'm coming to you as gently as I can to
Speaker 2: give you a principle that God's saying, could you just
Speaker 2: obey and.
Speaker 3: Do what I'm asking you to do?
Speaker 2: Because if you make me your priority, it changes everything
Speaker 2: in your life. And this is where I hear a
Speaker 2: lot of people that are cynical against this message. They'll
Speaker 2: be like, but why you got to take that test
Speaker 2: all the time?
Speaker 3: Every time you get paid every two weeks every month?
Speaker 3: What if they just cash map me your extra?
Speaker 2: Honey? Do we talk? It ain't my job, but it
Speaker 2: is did you get increase? And people try to finagle
Speaker 2: and play checkers and try to play tic tac.
Speaker 3: Toe with the top? Y'all know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is birthday money. Oh, I've
Speaker 3: heard everything.
Speaker 2: My granny sent me two hundred and fifty dollars. Do
Speaker 2: you tie off of two hundred and fifty dollars? Do
Speaker 2: you bossed up with two hundred and fifty dollars? Did
Speaker 2: you get increased? Did you? God says I need you
Speaker 2: to think. Anytime you get increased.
Speaker 3: Just honor me. Honor me, just honor me. I promise
Speaker 3: you watch this.
Speaker 2: Ninety percent with my blessing is better than one hundred
Speaker 2: without it. Okay, write this point down. Multiple tests reveals
Speaker 2: the value of a material. Anytime something is tested multiple times,
Speaker 2: it's because the material must be very valuable. So the
Speaker 2: reason God tests us every time we get paid because
Speaker 2: He trying to get us a point. This is important
Speaker 2: for you, how you deal with money, your heart, posture,
Speaker 2: what you do. It isn't Nobody would ever tell a
Speaker 2: doctor to go to left school.
Speaker 3: Oh you want to be a brain surgeon. Oh, don't
Speaker 3: take those tests, but please.
Speaker 2: Work on me. Nah, bro, Why because it's so important
Speaker 2: that they are tested because what they're doing is valuable.
Speaker 2: The reason why God gives us this test over and
Speaker 2: over is because what it does to us is very valuable.
Speaker 2: And that's why it's the only place in scripture when
Speaker 2: you talk about the time where God does something, he
Speaker 2: does nowhere else he tells you to test him. What
Speaker 2: would happen if I got to go into my ninth
Speaker 2: grade geometry class and the teacher said, Michael, today is
Speaker 2: your test, and I'm like, yeah, And when I finished
Speaker 2: this test, I'm testing you. That would have felt amazing
Speaker 2: to be able to say I'm testing you. Did you
Speaker 2: do you know what the teacher said? Do you know
Speaker 2: what the principal said? Just give you a test back?
Speaker 2: Because it's so many times there's there's this discrepancy that
Speaker 2: I'm getting tested. But what's the guarantee? God is so
Speaker 2: good that his grace says, I believe in this so much,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you. The Creation tests me. The Creator. Okay,
Speaker 2: you don't believe me. Malachod, chapter three, verse ten, Bring
Speaker 2: the whole tithe everybody say tithe into the storehouse that
Speaker 2: would be our local church, it says, there, so that
Speaker 2: there may be food in my house. Watch this test me,
Speaker 2: Test me in this, test me in this, says the
Speaker 2: Lord Almighty. And see if I won't throw open the
Speaker 2: floodgates of Heaven and pour you out so much blessing
Speaker 2: that you will not have room enough to receive.
Speaker 3: That sounds like abundance to me.
Speaker 2: He gonna pour out so much blessing you don't have
Speaker 2: room enough to receive. That means you become somebody who's
Speaker 2: supposed to give it away. But the truth of the
Speaker 2: ma matter is everybody wants stat without the test. And
Speaker 2: today I'm telling you one of the greatest things you
Speaker 2: can do. I don't care. If you're a high school
Speaker 2: student and you get a thirty five dollars allowance. That
Speaker 2: means out of the thirty five dollars that you get,
Speaker 2: three dollars and fifty cents belong to God. And I'm
Speaker 2: telling you, if you learn this principle at thirty five dollars,
Speaker 2: it's a lot easier to do when you make three
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: And I want to be a.
Speaker 2: Ball of six figures and to learn you're not gonna
Speaker 2: obey God. Then if you don't obey him, it's way
Speaker 2: harder to give away thirty five thousand in a check
Speaker 2: than three dollars and fifty cents. But the principle is
Speaker 2: the same. Okay, all right, somebody's about to get this.
Speaker 2: So I just want to let you know all through
Speaker 2: the Bible the word tie that actually means test ten. Test. Okay,
Speaker 2: So I got a couple of questions. I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: you a test right now, and there's a pattern, So
Speaker 2: get scared. Okay, you're gonna pass this test. Okay, and
Speaker 2: I want you to answer me out loud, even at home. Okay.
Speaker 2: How many plagues were there in Egypt? So look, y'all, ten,
Speaker 2: there's a pattern. How many commandments did God give to Moses?
Speaker 2: Say it with your chest?
Speaker 3: How many? Okay?
Speaker 2: How many times did God test Israel in the wilderness?
Speaker 2: How many times were Jacob's wages changed? It's a pattern,
Speaker 2: even if you don't know the answer. The next one
Speaker 2: is saying, here we go. How many days was Daniel tested?
Speaker 2: How many days of testing were in revelations? How many
Speaker 2: disciples were there?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Some of y'all all right, okay, some hey's like ten? Oh, God,
Speaker 2: get them a Bible. I'm just want to let you
Speaker 2: know this is not a principle that God has made
Speaker 2: exclusive for today. He's a pattern. To God, he.
Speaker 3: Tries to make it easy. So there's a pattern.
Speaker 2: So even if you didn't know, you would hear everybody
Speaker 2: else saying ten or tithe or give or anybody like, Oh,
Speaker 2: I don't even have to study no more. This is
Speaker 2: what we do.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, this is what we do.
Speaker 2: I want you to pass the test.
Speaker 3: What's the answer yes or no.
Speaker 2: Everybody keeps saying yes, yes, Yet we all just do
Speaker 2: what God has put as a principle. And when you
Speaker 2: understand it, it makes it easy. And this is the
Speaker 2: point that I love. God agrees to take the test too,
Speaker 2: he said, if you trust me in this world with
Speaker 2: ten cents out of every dollar, he said, I bet
Speaker 2: you I won't ever fail you financially. Howtor, Mike, why
Speaker 2: are you saying it? Because you put me? Everybody say first,
Speaker 2: Now again, this is about priority, and I can't tell
Speaker 2: you what your priority is.
Speaker 3: But when God.
Speaker 2: Agrees to take a test too, it changes everything.
Speaker 3: And this is what I found.
Speaker 2: Only people get offended about a test if there's something
Speaker 2: on the inside of.
Speaker 3: Them that is not prepared.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me give you a real time sample, and
Speaker 2: I want you to write this point down. A test
Speaker 2: only gets a rise where there is no internal resolve.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it again and then I'm gonna explain it.
Speaker 2: A test only gets rise out of somebody when there
Speaker 2: is no internal resolve. I was talking to a friend
Speaker 2: recently who dealt with infidelity. Their marriage went through a
Speaker 2: really hard time. God healed it, and God has made
Speaker 2: it healthy and changed everything. But time to time, the
Speaker 2: wife is needing some extra reassurance.
Speaker 3: That everything is good. And so.
Speaker 2: This man could have two responses, Hey, could you share
Speaker 2: your location with me?
Speaker 3: Why you mean my location? Don't you trust me?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: But you cheated on.
Speaker 2: Me, like even to this level. Hey, would you take
Speaker 2: a polygraph test? Some of y'all marriages would be destroyed,
Speaker 2: destroyed with just the question, do y'all the eyes that
Speaker 2: are looking at me right now, would you take a polygraph?
Speaker 2: You wouldn't get a rise out of somebody if it
Speaker 2: was internally, if you know you ain't been DM and nobody,
Speaker 2: if you know you ain't had a longer conversation with nobody,
Speaker 2: if you know you took off the channel that you
Speaker 2: wasn't spoiled, if you knew it, you wouldn't. But the
Speaker 2: rise comes because there's something on the internal. There are
Speaker 2: couples that don't even have to close today's spouse's phones.
Speaker 3: I got questions.
Speaker 2: It's quiet, it's tight in here. Okay, let me back
Speaker 2: up off of this. Okay, because I knew we were
Speaker 2: supposed to watch, sir from my sharks slug.
Speaker 3: I see you right now. Let me try to get
Speaker 3: you the principal of tiding.
Speaker 2: Because people rarely get offended by a test they feel
Speaker 2: secure in. If somebody asked me to take a drug test, cool,
Speaker 2: I don't have any there there is nothing in me.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, that could come out of me that I
Speaker 2: didn't put in me. Oh gold, there is nothing that
Speaker 2: do y'all hear what I'm saying, and so and so
Speaker 2: the only reason people and then they try to make
Speaker 2: it about what it's not about.
Speaker 3: Oh, you don't trust me. I'm a grown man. I'm
Speaker 3: a grown woman. I'm just I'm down.
Speaker 2: And it's like, hey, you're missing the point. The test
Speaker 2: offends if you're internally unresolved. This is why a lot
Speaker 2: of people get offended by the tithe, because it's a
Speaker 2: test that exposes internal.
Speaker 3: I don't trust the church. Let's deal with that. You
Speaker 3: said I don't believe in the tithe.
Speaker 2: Hold on, wait, God said that? Why did the church
Speaker 2: just want my money? Which church did you even give
Speaker 2: to to find out if they just wanted your money?
Speaker 3: Let's be honest.
Speaker 2: Nike just wants your money, like they literally tell you,
Speaker 2: do you want to buy it? Just do it? Do
Speaker 2: you understand what I'm saying?
Speaker 3: Like, what are we talking about.
Speaker 2: They tell you straight up, but let's deal with the
Speaker 2: real issue. But anytime there's a test, what most people
Speaker 2: do is deal with the semantics and the things around
Speaker 2: it instead of the real issue. So today I just
Speaker 2: want to move the cover back. Don't ever give anything
Speaker 2: to this church if God has not called you to
Speaker 2: do that and be.
Speaker 3: A part of this. But I do want you to
Speaker 3: get this principal.
Speaker 2: If you actually ever get the mantra, test me, it's
Speaker 2: the freest life you could ever live.
Speaker 3: Test me, coss the mic. Why are you saying it?
Speaker 2: Because I used to be a liar and there would
Speaker 2: be things I would lie about that I knew if
Speaker 2: I got confronted with it.
Speaker 3: That's why I.
Speaker 2: Became really good at lying, because I needed to make
Speaker 2: sure you didn't need to ask me no questions. I
Speaker 2: need to make sure that y'all know some of y'all
Speaker 2: liars are in here. Johnny, you make it so that
Speaker 2: you even forget what an exhausting life. But when I
Speaker 2: got free, Test me, my Michael, where you been?
Speaker 3: Where this thing has tracked me to here?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 3: You need to go.
Speaker 2: You need to what why? Because there's nothing on the
Speaker 2: inside with the test of tithing, What comes up, what
Speaker 2: gets a rise? Is there fear there because you really
Speaker 2: don't think God will provide. Let's deal with that. Don't
Speaker 2: throw out the principle because there's some pain under it,
Speaker 2: Oh God, don't throw out the principle because somebody did
Speaker 2: something and abused it in a different season of your life.
Speaker 3: Let's deal with it.
Speaker 2: You had a bad pastor, Let's let's talk about that.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about how you didn't grieve leaving that church
Speaker 2: where all your friends were there, but it was toxic
Speaker 2: and abuse. Let's talk about that. But let's not take
Speaker 2: away the principle that God put in place, because now,
Speaker 2: guess what you're passing on disobedience to your children because
Speaker 2: they've never seen you do it. A good man, a
Speaker 2: good woman leaves an inheritance for his children's children. I
Speaker 2: found out you can leave an inheritance of ignorance. Oh God,
Speaker 2: y'all not ready to talk to me today. Y'all ever
Speaker 2: heard of that story where there was Yeah, y'all heard
Speaker 2: about the pan where they cut off the ends of
Speaker 2: the ham. And if you ain't heard, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 2: you real quick. You want to hear here? Going a
Speaker 2: young lady was trying to learn how to cook for
Speaker 2: her new husband, and what ended up happening is she
Speaker 2: always remembered her mom cutting off the ends of the ham,
Speaker 2: and she called her mama and was like, I know
Speaker 2: I'm supposed to do this, but I don't know why.
Speaker 2: And so she called her mom and was like, mom,
Speaker 2: why did you cut off the ends of the ham?
Speaker 2: And she said, I don't know, my mama did it.
Speaker 2: And she called her mama and said, Mama, why did
Speaker 2: you cut off the ends of the ham? She said,
Speaker 2: because that's how big the pen was I had. And
Speaker 2: so generationally now we are wasting then half a ham
Speaker 2: bacon jan like half a ham gone because of ignorance. Church.
Speaker 2: What I'm trying to tell you is if somebody could
Speaker 2: get this principle and live it out, what you would
Speaker 2: see is generational blessing.
Speaker 3: On your family and.
Speaker 2: Every how many people want generational blessing to come from you. Okay,
Speaker 2: so watch this. If you were to take that little
Speaker 2: polygraph test and just I'm just being ethereal right now,
Speaker 2: I need to tell you something. The response to the
Speaker 2: question is as important as the result. Hear what I
Speaker 2: just said, Would you take a test to see if
Speaker 2: you're lying. H They already answered, we already know. But
Speaker 2: if the answer is okay, and where yes, so many
Speaker 2: people want the results of hithing. But your response is
Speaker 2: telling on you the way you type looking at me
Speaker 2: right now, some of y'all crusty right here on your lips.
Speaker 2: Just say just do this, do this.
Speaker 3: Because because we're talking.
Speaker 2: About honoring God with our finances, and what I'm saying
Speaker 2: is your response is exposing you. It's not more money,
Speaker 2: it's a different heart posture. So I just want to
Speaker 2: let you know a few things. Number One, write it down.
Speaker 2: Tithing is biblical Lebiticus twenty seven thirty. And all the
Speaker 2: tithes of the land, whether the seed of the land
Speaker 2: or the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's.
Speaker 3: It is holy and set apart for the Lord.
Speaker 2: So the tithe means it's something that I set apart
Speaker 2: first to honor God with. So this is biblical. Give
Speaker 2: you one more because you was like that was Old Testament.
Speaker 2: New Testament Matthew chapter twenty three, verse twenty three. Won't
Speaker 2: to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, church people, for you
Speaker 2: pay tithe of Mint and Annis and Cuman these are
Speaker 2: all spices back in the day.
Speaker 3: It's like saying, you pay tithe of your lawrees and what.
Speaker 2: Other seasons a hot saucin or whatever your season it is,
Speaker 2: but you neglect the weightier matter of the law, justice
Speaker 2: and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done
Speaker 2: without leaving the other one undone. So God is saying
Speaker 2: to these people you tithed off of the things that
Speaker 2: come into your life. Cool, he said, But these other
Speaker 2: things you should tithe on too. It doesn't matter what
Speaker 2: increase comes to your life. You gotta honor God with it.
Speaker 3: So listen to me.
Speaker 2: Tithing is biblical. Say it with me. Tithing is biblical.
Speaker 2: One more time for the people in the back. Tithing
Speaker 2: is biblical. Second one, tithing is practical. Okay, So you
Speaker 2: were like, how does this todd thing work? We given
Speaker 2: to the church and then y'all fedexit to heaven, Like
Speaker 2: what happens? Y'all know, we'll find any excuse. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to be very ground level to let you understand this
Speaker 2: is not just biblical, it's practical. Kbus Chapter seven, verse eight.
Speaker 2: I love the Bible. It says here, when you tie
Speaker 2: mortal men receive the tithes regular people. But there when
Speaker 2: you do the act, it's accredited or it's received in heaven.
Speaker 2: Whom is a witness that he lives. What the Bible
Speaker 2: is saying real right here, if you break it down,
Speaker 2: is like you give it here, but that exchange got
Speaker 2: recorded in heaven, just like unforgiveness gets recorded in heaven. Okay,
Speaker 2: just y'all understand what I'm saying. Just like sin. If
Speaker 2: you don't believe in this, then you wouldn't believe in
Speaker 2: salvation because you're making an act, a heart decision, a
Speaker 2: mind decision, to say I am giving my life to God.
Speaker 2: You say the prayer according to Romans ten nine, you
Speaker 2: believe that he lived and he died, and now you've
Speaker 2: been given a new life. There is not a you
Speaker 2: don't get world up in your whole world like. It
Speaker 2: is a spiritual act that is activated by practical faith.
Speaker 3: Tithing is the same thing.
Speaker 2: It's a spiritual act activated by practical faith and giving
Speaker 2: its practical practice that proves my faith every fifteen days.
Speaker 2: Do you know that, according to the calculations of all
Speaker 2: people that say they go to church, three percent of
Speaker 2: the church tithes. Not this church, No, no, no, no, because
Speaker 2: y'all though ultra three percent, No, no, no, no, I'm talking about
Speaker 2: that's the people who only come once a year. What
Speaker 2: does that say about how the church trust God? Three percent?
Speaker 2: That means out of a thousand of y'all, thirty people
Speaker 2: trust God. So tithing isn't just biblical tithing is practical
Speaker 2: and then watch this tithing is first? Can you bring
Speaker 2: my chairs up here real quick? Because y'all don't understand this.
Speaker 2: I need three very competitive people. Okay, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 2: gonna take you with the Afro Come on, come on,
Speaker 2: I gonna take you sis. I need one more competitive person.
Speaker 2: Come on, you stood up? Come on, two afros? Come
Speaker 2: on you you come come? Just just put them right here,
Speaker 2: all right. I'm gonna need a band, y'all gotta hurry though.
Speaker 2: You can't be cool coming down here. I'm gonna pick
Speaker 2: somebody else. Come on, come on, what's up? Man? What's
Speaker 2: your name? Y? Marion? Your parents was creative with your name?
Speaker 2: Like that's like Marion and some other people. Okay, what's
Speaker 2: I know you? That jacket is fire? Okay, where's my
Speaker 2: last guy? You to being too cool?
Speaker 5: Afro?
Speaker 2: Come here, man, get up here. Okay, now, stand up,
Speaker 2: stand up, Santa. Have y'all ever, what's your name? Bug Jeremiah?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Cool? All right, watch this. We're gonna play musical chairs.
Speaker 2: Have y'all played musical chairs in a while? Okay?
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 2: Whoever wins first place gets one hundred dollars. Okay, so
Speaker 2: very easily, she said, yes, I can pay for this jacket. No,
Speaker 2: just flat.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna play musical chairs. I need the band
Speaker 2: to help me. Okay, So y'all start playing. When you
Speaker 2: hear the band, go around and then stop on it?
Speaker 2: All right, y'all ready here we go, go this way,
Speaker 2: go this way?
Speaker 3: Play band?
Speaker 2: Do we have band? You was slow coming down here,
Speaker 2: and you were slow sitting down. Come on, get off
Speaker 2: the stage. God bless you, God bless you. Y'all gonna
Speaker 2: get up and take one of the chairs. I knew
Speaker 2: he was gonna lose when he came down here. He's
Speaker 2: like on competitive and he took nine years to get
Speaker 2: out here. I was like, he's not gonna. I love you, Bubba,
Speaker 2: get Jeremiah. That is a long walk back. He's like,
Speaker 2: oh my god.
Speaker 3: Okay, start me up. Man, who y'all think gonna man. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: She's a mother.
Speaker 3: She's a mother, she's a mother.
Speaker 2: You lost though, Get out of here, j Marie. Give
Speaker 2: it up for him. Hold on, hold on, hold on,
Speaker 2: hold on, hold on, hold up, hold on, hold on, Sis,
Speaker 2: Sis Sis says, Sis, Sis says, come here, come here,
Speaker 2: come here, come here, come here, come here. You won right,
Speaker 2: here's one hundred dollars. Hold on, wait wait, wait, why
Speaker 2: y'all mad? Hold on?
Speaker 3: Hold on, wait wait wait he was first, but I made.
Speaker 2: Her the priority. No, no, no, no. Now listen, some
Speaker 2: of you are offended at me now because who was
Speaker 2: clearly first. I didn't honor. I did not honor who
Speaker 2: was first.
Speaker 3: I honored who I wanted.
Speaker 2: And this is the exact way most of you treat
Speaker 2: God with the tithe.
Speaker 3: You said you gotta give it up.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, you can give it to you can give
Speaker 2: it to look at it.
Speaker 3: He don't know if you want to take it. Give me, y'all.
Speaker 2: Okay, now watch now watch, thank y'all so much. Y'all
Speaker 2: give it up for him, real quick. God, bless you.
Speaker 2: Good job boy. He was first, whether you acknowledged it
Speaker 2: or not. The question is, will you honor who already
Speaker 2: sits on the throne, and some of us put other
Speaker 2: people in those seats. It's the mortgage, it's the credit card,
Speaker 2: it's the bank, it's it's the lattes. Now, come on, y'all,
Speaker 2: nine dollar coffee twice a day for a year. You
Speaker 2: drink your time and have to use the bathroom after it.
Speaker 2: I've been teaching my kids, I got a I got
Speaker 2: a thousand dollars a year. Why y'all say woo when
Speaker 2: I pulled out a thousand dollars woo. Stop. The reason
Speaker 2: I'm saying this is because if there's ten one hundred
Speaker 2: dollar bills, my question to you is which one is
Speaker 2: the tithe? They're all one hundred dollars, But the only
Speaker 2: one that's the tithe is the first one.
Speaker 3: Because it doesn't take faith to give what's left.
Speaker 2: It takes faith to give what's Hey, sis, where are
Speaker 2: you at? Come get this.
Speaker 6: I want you to see what sparked it. It was her
Speaker 6: willingness to give up what was given to her to
Speaker 6: honor somebody else.
Speaker 2: Let that bless you go by two or three of
Speaker 2: them jackets, God hear me, Okay, watch this. The tithe
Speaker 2: is the first one that leaves your hand, and practically
Speaker 2: God is not up there. It was like you paid,
Speaker 2: you paid the groceryveal.
Speaker 3: What you're doing?
Speaker 2: Are you trying to take the example further? She handing
Speaker 2: out hundreds, y'all? Mad, y'all said, on that side, y'all, mad,
Speaker 2: you better rejoice with those who rejoice? Did you give
Speaker 2: out all of them? Now?
Speaker 3: Why you have to go and do that?
Speaker 2: Now? Why you have to go and do that?
Speaker 5: And do that? All right?
Speaker 2: You know when the holy spirits start talking to you,
Speaker 2: gotta process a little bit. Okay, all right? I was
Speaker 2: hoping she kept one at least one. God No, Jennyson,
Speaker 2: Chapter four, verse three, God dog, Natalie, Okay, Scott, you
Speaker 2: already know all right. Genesis chapter three, verse four. The
Speaker 2: reason why this is important, guys, is because canaan Able
Speaker 2: gave us an example of why God only accepts first.
Speaker 3: Okay, So Genesis chapter four, verse three. Do y'all feel
Speaker 3: like the lightness like?
Speaker 2: Do y'all feel like I'm not trying to attack you.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to beat you over the head. I'm
Speaker 2: not telling I already tell you going to heaven if
Speaker 2: you believe in Jesus. This is.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to give you the principle.
Speaker 2: You can leave it or take it, but I don't
Speaker 2: want to be responsible when I get to heaven.
Speaker 3: And God's like, why ain't you telling them about that?
Speaker 2: You appreaciate everything else. You preave about grace, you preeve
Speaker 2: about love, you preach.
Speaker 7: About relationship goals all the time, but you ain't telling
Speaker 7: about the thing.
Speaker 2: That transformed your life, that changed you from.
Speaker 3: Being more like you to being more like me. I
Speaker 3: gotta give it to you.
Speaker 2: The day came that came brought a gift of the
Speaker 2: fruit of the ground to the Lord. But Abel brought
Speaker 2: a gift of the first born of his flock. And
Speaker 2: the fat parts are the good parts. And the Lord
Speaker 2: showed favor able and his gift. If you know the story,
Speaker 2: the reason why God could not accept Cain's offering because
Speaker 2: the passage says, at some times he gave him something,
Speaker 2: there was no priority with it. It was just like,
Speaker 2: over the course of time, Cain brought something. But Abel,
Speaker 2: he said, he brought the firstborn. He said, as soon
Speaker 2: as he was increased, he said, this one's God's. And
Speaker 2: he said the favor came to him because he put God,
Speaker 2: and can I tell you something that's a little strong,
Speaker 2: but I want you to hear it. Even if Cain
Speaker 2: would have brought the sacrifice, he couldn't have received it
Speaker 2: because God doesn't accept seconds. He only does first. So,
Speaker 2: Pastor Mike, why are you telling me this? Because I
Speaker 2: just want you to remember three things? Three things?
Speaker 3: And we're going home?
Speaker 2: Why does God care.
Speaker 5: About the tithe?
Speaker 2: If you can answer? If I can answer this question
Speaker 2: to you for you, I think a lot of you
Speaker 2: will begin to see this whole thing differently. Why does
Speaker 2: God care about this? Because it's all about remembering? Why
Speaker 2: does God care about the tithe? Number one? Because you
Speaker 2: remember to reset every time you tithe, you remember God
Speaker 2: is my source blank it's not.
Speaker 3: And you get to fill in the blank.
Speaker 2: Every time you get that thousand dollars and you write
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars to whatever church you go to. You
Speaker 2: are remembering. I could not trust God, but I'm choosing to.
Speaker 2: And with goad, price is going crazy, and my keyids
Speaker 2: just keep growing out of their shoes. I just bought
Speaker 2: these last week. Y'all got what I'm saying?
Speaker 3: The cares of this life.
Speaker 2: Heating air bills, I gotta get a wig now because
Speaker 2: my hair thinning back here. Y'all know what in real life,
Speaker 2: I gotta get botox because whoa all these things that
Speaker 2: people make priorities. Hear me what I'm saying. I'm using
Speaker 2: real life examples. I need a new car, I get
Speaker 2: a new.
Speaker 3: Car every three years?
Speaker 2: Are okay? But is that a priority or having God
Speaker 2: rebuke the devourer? Because there's only two options when it
Speaker 2: comes to the tithe.
Speaker 3: The Bible says, bring the tithe. You can't give it.
Speaker 3: Hear what I just said. You only can give something
Speaker 3: that's yours.
Speaker 2: You bring something that already was somebody else's. I got
Speaker 2: four brothers, and I randomly see them wearing my things,
Speaker 2: might be some glasses, some shoes that had We're relatively
Speaker 2: the same size, And if I see him wearing it,
Speaker 2: it's good. They already know it's nothing. But when I
Speaker 2: need it, I don't say, hey, could you give me
Speaker 2: those shoes you had on yesterday? Creasing them? I just say, yo,
Speaker 2: can you bring those Jordan's back? Why? Because it wasn't
Speaker 2: theirs to begin with. God's not asking you to give
Speaker 2: him anything. He's asking you to bring him back a
Speaker 2: piece of what he's giving you, the ability to manage.
Speaker 2: That's a whole different attitude. I have no problem sharing
Speaker 2: one donut out of ten when you paid for them.
Speaker 2: But there are many people that feel like tithing is
Speaker 2: God taking something from me. And the Bible's clear. He says,
Speaker 2: you only have two options with the tithe, you bring
Speaker 2: it or steal it. That's not me saying this. That
Speaker 2: scripture he said, you thief, and the people listening, and
Speaker 2: I don't even want to go into the whole thing
Speaker 2: because I need you to understand this is all scripture.
Speaker 2: I need you to He's like, you stealing from God,
Speaker 2: and it's like, in what way am I stealing from God?
Speaker 2: In tithe and offering? He said, you went to the club,
Speaker 2: you paid for that subscription, you went on vacation, not
Speaker 2: with what. I need you to give me what I
Speaker 2: needed you to bring me back. When we tie it
Speaker 2: resets us. Everybody say reset. Some of us need a reset.
Speaker 2: Often sometimes money is a thing for us. Can I
Speaker 2: tell you that that that that sometimes we gotta reset
Speaker 2: so that we remember this is just a tool. Here
Speaker 2: is my source. If I get let go of my job,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be okay. Because I'm in.
Speaker 5: The hands of God that.
Speaker 2: Y'all remember the song I'm safe sustained. Why not because
Speaker 2: of that job. Thank God for the job, thank God
Speaker 2: for the inheritance, thank God for my parents that left
Speaker 2: me something, thank God for all that. But if I
Speaker 2: ain't got nothing else, I'm in the hands of God,
Speaker 2: and he won't fail me, and he won't drop me,
Speaker 2: and he's gonna to keep me. And that's why I'm saying,
Speaker 2: test me, man, just see if.
Speaker 3: I want to open the windows and blend and come on.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: So you remember the reset. I brought this today. I
Speaker 2: found this cleaning out my attic. This was my reset.
Speaker 2: I remember this great book. I was flipping through it
Speaker 2: and I found a page with a greenwood offering envelope
Speaker 2: from twenty and eleven and a picture with all the
Speaker 2: bills and money that I had, and at the top
Speaker 2: it says, soon to increase finances, God, you are provision.
Speaker 2: I wrote this six months to a year and to me,
Speaker 2: being the pastor of the church, when I told you
Speaker 2: I didn't know how to handle finances, and I wrote down,
Speaker 2: I'm literally twy three hundred and twenty two sixteen since
Speaker 2: plus one thousand I was still contracting people and producing
Speaker 2: for them on the side, so that gave me three thousand,
Speaker 2: three hundred and twenty two dollars and sixteen cent. My
Speaker 2: rent was six hundred dollars at the time. My God today,
Speaker 2: simpler times. My cell phone was two hundred. I was
Speaker 2: paying seventy dollars to my choice, which was a credit
Speaker 2: card that I maxed out. My car was seven hundred dollars,
Speaker 2: but at this time it didn't work, but I still
Speaker 2: had to pay the bill. Don't judge me. I saw
Speaker 2: you uber here today, not just like I'm just flying.
Speaker 2: My bills were three hundred dollars because I had I
Speaker 2: had roommates, and then that left me one four hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty two dollars savings category nothing y'all, this is real.
Speaker 2: But at the top then I start putting food, clothing,
Speaker 2: tall the trees, gas because I had to pay people
Speaker 2: gas money to get When you don't have a car,
Speaker 2: you still gotta pay for gas because the people you
Speaker 2: ask for a ride, if you ask them too many times,
Speaker 2: you don't get no ride. So I had to But
Speaker 2: at the top it says soon to increase finance. This
Speaker 2: was my faith. God, you are provision, and I put
Speaker 2: over here my tides. I got emotional looking at this book,
Speaker 2: and there's other things in here that really really messed
Speaker 2: me up to think of where I am today. But
Speaker 2: the crazy thing is on the offering envelope. It says
Speaker 2: ten thirty one twenty eleven eleven Michael and Natalie Todd.
Speaker 2: It's me and my wife and this is in her handwriting.
Speaker 2: Because we decided as a family we were going to
Speaker 2: honor God with nothing. And how I've watched God prove
Speaker 2: his principle to me over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: I can only stand here as a testimony. It's the
Speaker 2: word of God works. I'm not trying to manipulate you,
Speaker 2: convince you. I'm just here as a testimony. If you
Speaker 2: honor God with all of your increase, he opens up
Speaker 2: the windows of heaven and pours you out of blessing.
Speaker 2: You don't have room enough to receive. And the only
Speaker 2: reason you're scared of this test is if you're not prepared.
Speaker 2: And today I just want you to be prepared. It's coming.
Speaker 2: Some of y'all gonna have a test this week. What's
Speaker 2: today's day? Some of y'all just miss the test ooh
Speaker 2: Jesus fifteenth, or you might get a retake. God's challenging
Speaker 2: some of you take the test and don't just take
Speaker 2: it once. Decide this is how you're gonna always take
Speaker 2: the test. So remember to reset. Second thing, Remember, I'm
Speaker 2: a river, not a swamp. God wants to flow through you,
Speaker 2: not just to me. Put up a picture of a swamp.
Speaker 2: Who would want to go take a bathroom? This? Not me?
Speaker 2: Who will want to go fishing in this?
Speaker 5: Not me?
Speaker 2: There could be an alligator in there. Do you know
Speaker 2: why a swamp is a swamp because there's no flow.
Speaker 2: Some of your life looks like this, Not because you're bad,
Speaker 2: it's just there's no flow. And if you ever been
Speaker 2: around a swamp, it starts to stink. The only thing
Speaker 2: that lives there are predators. Uh, y'all, just hear what
Speaker 2: I'm saying to you. But could you put a picture
Speaker 2: of a river up there? Flowing water, something that people
Speaker 2: come to to drink from. God tells us in his word,
Speaker 2: gives us a picture.
Speaker 3: I want you to be planted.
Speaker 2: Next to the rivers of living. What would happen if
Speaker 2: everything you did was a pass through? Like God said,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'll trust you with millions because I know
Speaker 2: I can get it through you. I'll trust you with
Speaker 2: wisdom because I know you'll give it away. Or I'll
Speaker 2: trust you with those connections because you'll connect people. Some
Speaker 2: of y'all aren't even stingy with money, You're stingy with relationships.
Speaker 2: You got one text message you could make to change
Speaker 2: somebody's life, and you send it.
Speaker 3: No, No, you need to get it out the mud like
Speaker 3: I got it out the mud.
Speaker 2: God said, swamp. Okay, I'm not even gonna go. You're
Speaker 2: a swam. You're a spiritual swam. You're a relational swam.
Speaker 2: You stink. That was me. That wasn't God saying that.
Speaker 2: I said that you stank. What I'm saying is.
Speaker 3: Like, become a river. Let it flow. Say that.
Speaker 2: Let it flow some one more time saying let it flow.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna remember to reset. Every time I'm presented
Speaker 2: with the opportunity to tie, I'm gonna remember that I
Speaker 2: can tie because I'm a river, not a swamp. Somebody
Speaker 2: say there's more. Oh. The last thing is remember tithing
Speaker 2: is reverent. This is one of the most spiritual acts
Speaker 2: you could ever do. Watch this because God did it. First,
Speaker 2: what church did God tie to you? Let's think about it.
Speaker 2: When you tie, it has to be first.
Speaker 3: For God so loved the world.
Speaker 2: That he gave not one of many sons. He gave
Speaker 2: the first and only on the potential that all of
Speaker 2: his other children would be reconciled back to him. He
Speaker 2: gave first so the rest could be blessed. Oh God,
Speaker 2: maybe tithing is more important to God than you think.
Speaker 2: Jesus is God's dithe. Is there any other way? Nope.
Speaker 2: I got to give the first one to be sacrificed
Speaker 2: so that all my other kids can know and I
Speaker 2: love them. Not a point on there, but I think
Speaker 2: it is. Tithing is personal. It's personal to God. There
Speaker 2: was a song that came up in my spirit earlier
Speaker 2: because I know there's people that want to know the
Speaker 2: semantics of everything, and like, Okay, is this The truth
Speaker 2: of the matter is either we're right or we're wrong.
Speaker 2: Either this God thing works or it don't. And literally
Speaker 2: I think I'm on the right side, like either if
Speaker 2: you just like just think about it, If you live
Speaker 2: your life generously, tithing ten percent giving when God tells
Speaker 2: you to give, and we find out at the end
Speaker 2: of this life the Jesus Christ thing was all fake.
Speaker 2: You still would be a better person.
Speaker 3: There's nobody who lives generously.
Speaker 2: That's like, I hate you generous people.
Speaker 3: It's just like, oh, forgive, I'm giving more grace. All
Speaker 3: you need a thousand, you need one hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: Like, let's just say, let's just say we got it
Speaker 2: all wrong, but we forgave.
Speaker 3: Like Jesus doesn't exist at all.
Speaker 2: This is an example for everybody that's watching and just
Speaker 2: tuned in right here.
Speaker 3: I just need you because y'all be liking the clip.
Speaker 2: Stuff up. I'm giving you an example. Let's just say
Speaker 2: Jesus didn't exist at all, but you lived your life
Speaker 2: thinking on things that were good and lovely and of
Speaker 2: a positive report. You lived your life forgiving. You lived
Speaker 2: your life being generous. You will get to the end
Speaker 2: of this life and be like, well, sure lived the best.
Speaker 3: One I could.
Speaker 2: Now imagine if you're wrong and all of this was
Speaker 2: really important, and you're about to get tested again at
Speaker 2: the Great White Throne judgment and you're like, hey, hey,
Speaker 2: hold on, what's happening. I'm three people back? Hold on?
Speaker 2: They really they really pulling up on the big screen
Speaker 2: of heaven. Everything I did on earth, how I spent
Speaker 2: my money, who I slept with, what hold on? Wait? Everything?
Speaker 3: When I lied?
Speaker 2: When I they really can I get a redoo? And
Speaker 2: he said no, you can't get a redo. That's why
Speaker 2: I was trying to reset you. I wanted you to
Speaker 2: have a reset because when you get.
Speaker 3: To heaven you don't get a redo.
Speaker 2: So today, church, we should be ones that would be like,
Speaker 2: you know what, if all of these principles are in
Speaker 2: God's were I'm just gonna obey them because I got
Speaker 2: too many signs of around me. If the stars were
Speaker 2: made to worship, somebody say, so will I. If the
Speaker 2: mountains bow in reverence, if the oceans roar your greatness,
Speaker 2: so will AH. For everything that exists, it exists to
Speaker 2: lift you high, so so will I. That's about priority.
Speaker 2: Standing all over this building today, I'm gonna pray that
Speaker 2: if you're watching online or you're in this room, before
Speaker 2: you move, I want to pray for you. Hear me,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pray that you obey God. Just like the winds,
Speaker 2: the waves, the sea, the trees, the sun, the mountains,
Speaker 2: they're all standing and doing what they were created to do.
Speaker 2: They're obeying God's word, and your response should be so
Speaker 2: will I so? If God tells me to forgive, your
Speaker 2: response should be so. If God tells me to love,
Speaker 2: my response should be if God tells me to tithe?
Speaker 2: Would you lift your hands all over this place? God,
Speaker 2: we're asking for your help because many times there's fear
Speaker 2: around stepping out in faith. And I pray for every
Speaker 2: person from a middle schooler who's just getting allowance to
Speaker 2: the CEO whose business just got bought out. And I'm
Speaker 2: asking you that you would give us a heart to
Speaker 2: obey you by honoring you with the first ten percent
Speaker 2: of everything that you increase us With God, I declare
Speaker 2: and I believe that you are removing all day around
Speaker 2: trusting you. And I'm thinking you that people are about
Speaker 2: to step out in crazy faith and they will never
Speaker 2: be disappointed because you are a God that keeps your word.
Speaker 2: Thank you that when you give a test, you help
Speaker 2: us with it. It's open book test. We can't fail
Speaker 2: if we stay close to you. So for every person
Speaker 2: that is struggling with the concept, give them peace right now.
Speaker 2: For every marriage that needs to come into agreement based
Speaker 2: on the hurts and the pains of the past, I
Speaker 2: thank you for unity in the name of Jesus, for
Speaker 2: every young person who doesn't know if this God thing
Speaker 2: is real. God, thank you for an encounter with you.
Speaker 2: If the stars were made to worship, so will I.
Speaker 2: I will obey your word even if I don't understand
Speaker 2: it fully, because miracles happen when the logic stops. Faith
Speaker 2: begins where understanding ends. Today, God, we say we trust you,
Speaker 2: we will listen, we will hear, we will obey. In
Speaker 2: this moment, many of you need to ask the question
Speaker 2: of Holy Spirit, what are you trying to say to me?
Speaker 2: Because somebody just got laid off and you're like, why
Speaker 2: would this message come to me right now? Because God's
Speaker 2: trying to get your heart. If the stars were made
Speaker 2: to worship, so will I.
Speaker 7: The mountains bowl and rever and so we feel She's
Speaker 7: why your bisness so well, rebel.
Speaker 5: Everything sins to lift you hard.
Speaker 7: So if the wind goes where you send it, so
Speaker 7: will I.
Speaker 5: Jesus. If the rocks cry out in silence.
Speaker 7: So if the sun of v Pregund is still far shared,
Speaker 7: then we're seeing again behind a billion times. So if
Speaker 7: the stars are mad to worship.
Speaker 5: So will line. If the mountains spoul in reverence, so well,
Speaker 5: I A if feels for your pregness, so elle.
Speaker 7: Or if everything says to lift you up, so hella.
Speaker 5: If that's just where you sitting.
Speaker 7: It so well, if he rots, cry out and silence.
Speaker 5: So well. It's the sound of all love. Brent is
Speaker 5: still for s.
Speaker 7: We'll say again and a hundred million times.
Speaker 2: I have to give every person under the sound of
Speaker 2: my voice, as God is still speaking to you, the
Speaker 2: opportunity to receive the benefit of God's tithe Jesus today
Speaker 2: because God gave us first. Now we can be redeemed,
Speaker 2: bought back from the lives of sin, the bondage of sin,
Speaker 2: and you don't even have to do nothing but receive
Speaker 2: it today. It's a heart posture that changes, and your
Speaker 2: eternity changes. So for every person who is like me
Speaker 2: in any way, a liar, manipulator, addicted to pornography, or
Speaker 2: you just don't know Jesus or never accepted him, today
Speaker 2: is your day because of what God gave us in Jesus.
Speaker 2: Today we can be reconciled or put back together with
Speaker 2: the Father, and it changes us. We go on a
Speaker 2: journey of progression over perfection where He's the only one
Speaker 2: that if you give him your heart, he'll help you
Speaker 2: change those habits you've tried over and over. Why can't
Speaker 2: you beat him? Because you need supernatural help. And today
Speaker 2: Jesus wants to come and live with you every day
Speaker 2: of your life. So if that's you and you're saying, pastor,
Speaker 2: I want you to include me in this prayer that
Speaker 2: I want to make Jesus Christ my personal Lord and savior.
Speaker 2: Your eternity is gonna be secure and your history is
Speaker 2: about to be transformed. Today is a day of salvation.
Speaker 2: And if you're watching this from a jail cell, or
Speaker 2: you're in this room, or you're seeing this ten months
Speaker 2: from now on rebroadcast, and it's coming to you because somebody.
Speaker 3: Sent you a link, Today is the day of salvation.
Speaker 2: I need the church to begin to pray. Your whole
Speaker 2: life has led up to this moment, and all you
Speaker 2: have to do is make a choice.
Speaker 3: Choose Jesus.
Speaker 2: I set before you today life and death. And I'm
Speaker 2: gonna give you the answer to the test. Choose life.
Speaker 2: And if that's you on the counter three, I just
Speaker 2: want you to slip your hand up, whether you're online
Speaker 2: or in the room. One you're making the greatest decision
Speaker 2: of your life. Two.
Speaker 3: I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 2: But more than that, your name is gonna be written
Speaker 2: in the Lamb's Book of Life. Three. If you want
Speaker 2: to accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior, lift your hands.
Speaker 2: I see you right there. I see you right there. Amen,
Speaker 2: I see you, God bless you.
Speaker 5: I see you.
Speaker 2: I see you, big God. So proud of you. More
Speaker 2: than that, God sees you. And that transformation church where
Speaker 2: a family nobody prays alone. So would you just lift
Speaker 2: your hands it's our last prayer and just repeat after me,
Speaker 2: say God, thank you for sending Jesus just for me today.
Speaker 2: I give you my life. Here I am, I repent,
Speaker 2: and I turn to you.
Speaker 3: I believe you lived, you died.
Speaker 2: And you rose again so I could live in freedom.
Speaker 2: Change me, renew me, transformance. I'm yours forever in Jesus' name. Amen.
Speaker 2: Can we celebrate right now? Oh, y'all can do better
Speaker 2: than that. All that heaven is rejoicing right now. And
Speaker 2: then we celebrate. We want to say welcome to the family.
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Speaker 2: I want you to remember that God desires for all
Speaker 2: of us to obey his will, and that's in every
Speaker 2: area of our life. You will be tested this week,
Speaker 2: and the question is are you prepared or are you
Speaker 2: ready for the test? Father, blessed this church.
Speaker 3: Bless your people as they.
Speaker 2: Go, keep them safe. And for those who need prayer, Father,
Speaker 2: in need agreement, because things are happening right now. I
Speaker 2: thank you for meeting them right now at the point
Speaker 2: of their need today. Father, whatever you ask us to do,
Speaker 2: we will be the ones who do it. So will
Speaker 2: I have your way, Father God in Jesus name. Feel
Speaker 2: the spirit of worship in this house. If you need
Speaker 2: prayer for anything, if you're online, just stay in this atmos.
Speaker 2: Fear for a second. I believe God's gonna heal you.
Speaker 2: If you need to go, we will see you next week.
Speaker 2: I believe God is gonna do something super special.
Speaker 5: But if you need.
Speaker 2: Healing, if you need prayer, come down. Took a front.
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