Speaker 1: Father, we welcome you in the word. Now we just
Speaker 1: welcome you to make a deposit in us through the
Speaker 1: Word and grow us up into the fullness of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Grow us up, grow us up, grow us up, grow
Speaker 1: us up, stretch our faith, build edify, strengthen our inner man.
Speaker 1: We ask in Jesus' name, and everybody said, a man,
Speaker 1: you may be seated. My focus is on offerings again today.
Speaker 1: And here's what barn And Research says. Do you know
Speaker 1: who George Barney is? Anybody know who George Barne is?
Speaker 1: George Barna is upholster so like gallup. Have you heard
Speaker 1: of the galloper? Heard of the gallop? Okay, George Barne
Speaker 1: is a polster like gallop. According to Barna Research, twelve
Speaker 1: percent of born again Christians and five percent of all
Speaker 1: Americans tied. Twelve percent of born again Christians. Yeah, can
Speaker 1: you believe that twelve percent? So I think the assumption
Speaker 1: is as long. You know, we had a saying when
Speaker 1: I was growing up. When I was growing up, there
Speaker 1: was acute little saying that church members would joke about.
Speaker 1: Because my dad was a pastor, and so church members
Speaker 1: had a little saying. They would say, Lord, praying for
Speaker 1: their pastor. They would say, Lord, you keep him, We'll
Speaker 1: keep him poor, and you keep him humble. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine what would the church be like today? Right?
Speaker 1: If one of Christians gave a tithe of their income.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine how powerful the church would be? What
Speaker 1: an influence the church would be in our nation? If
Speaker 1: imagine these churches that are you know, suffering. I've told
Speaker 1: you seventy five percent of all churches are by vocational
Speaker 1: in America. That means the pastor has to work full
Speaker 1: time and lead the church, lead the building project of
Speaker 1: the church, care for all of the flock members, do
Speaker 1: all the hospital visitation, pray for the sick, preach a
Speaker 1: sermon that has to be perfect on Sunday. And then
Speaker 1: his wife has so lead worship and lead the worship
Speaker 1: team and lead the children's ministry. Yeah. I mean they
Speaker 1: got right, They got a million things going on. Uh,
Speaker 1: and there run and work full time. You know my
Speaker 1: dad Uh if I remember right, I'm trying to remember Marcola. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think my dad never pastored the church where
Speaker 1: he didn't have to work full time in a career
Speaker 1: of ministry and assimbly of God. Churches. He never pastored
Speaker 1: to church where he didn't have to work to to
Speaker 1: pay the bills. But what what if uh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you hear what I'm saying. Isn't that crazy? So I
Speaker 1: think part of this is there's so much unbelief woven
Speaker 1: into the church. We are we are ununder a blanket
Speaker 1: of unbelief. And fact is, if you just go to
Speaker 1: if you just go to any of your web browsers,
Speaker 1: right and just start typing in some stuff about giving offerings,
Speaker 1: tithing or anything like that, immediately you run into the
Speaker 1: common theological position of the church today across America, which
Speaker 1: is that God does do not give to get, do
Speaker 1: not expect anything from God if you give to God.
Speaker 1: And that's bananas.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Terrell. That's beautiful, that's beautiful. That's better than amen.
Speaker 2: That's bananas. That kind of theology is bananas exactly.
Speaker 1: So, you know, and just all of this, and I
Speaker 1: think that's part of the problem. The other part of
Speaker 1: the problem is this, this this negative view toward the future.
Speaker 1: You know, we believe that the church, we believe that
Speaker 1: the church season is essentially over. We believe that we
Speaker 1: are at the cusp of the Antichrist taking over. We're
Speaker 1: going into one world government, one world money. We're going
Speaker 1: into the appearance of the anti Christ. We're going into
Speaker 1: a preparation for tribulation, and that's going to be great
Speaker 1: because we're all going to get out of here right
Speaker 1: before it happens, anyway. I mean, this is the mindset
Speaker 1: of the common Christian across America is they have this
Speaker 1: very pessimistic view toward the future. So why in the world, subconsciously,
Speaker 1: why would I invest my money in the church? Why
Speaker 1: would I invest my money in a sinking ship? Like,
Speaker 1: why would I really sacrifice for something that's about ready
Speaker 1: to kind of fold up? Anyway? And we're all going
Speaker 1: to ride off in a fivery chariot in the rapture anyway. Right,
Speaker 1: So you got this pessimistic view of the future, which
Speaker 1: is if you're a New Horizon, I you know, that
Speaker 1: is not the thrust of New Horizon. The thrust is
Speaker 1: an expanding kingdom, a growing kingdom, a billion soul harvest.
Speaker 1: We listen, We're not even gonna throw France out. We're
Speaker 1: not even gonna throw France to the to the dogs. Right.
Speaker 1: You heard about the opening ceremony for the Olympics. You
Speaker 1: heard it was just a big queer show. And you
Speaker 1: know you heard about all of the garbage was going on, right,
Speaker 1: did you hear about it? Anybody in the building heard
Speaker 1: about it? All right? Well, those of you that didn't
Speaker 1: be informed, France is the apex of hell in the
Speaker 1: world right now, So okay?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: And it was clear across all of the world with
Speaker 1: billions of people watching, right, And they had they had
Speaker 1: the drag. Folks did a mockery of the Lord's Supper.
Speaker 1: If you didn't see it, I mean it was open mockery.
Speaker 1: They had Moloch on the platform. I mean it was
Speaker 1: they had open mockery of everything that is good in God. Right,
Speaker 1: guess what they're in for a big surprise because God
Speaker 1: is not done with France. God is not done with France. Now,
Speaker 1: God is done with Satan, but he's not done with France.
Speaker 1: And I think they they just marked themselves with a
Speaker 1: big old branding iron of revivals, coming, revivals, coming, Revival's
Speaker 1: coming and awakening. Who is coming to France? And that's
Speaker 1: the kind of kingdom we want to give into. Right.
Speaker 1: This is Isaiah nine seven through nine Isaiah and nine
Speaker 1: Isaiah nine seven through nine. We will call him wonderful
Speaker 1: counselor Almighty God, Prince of Peace, Almighty God. And of
Speaker 1: the increase of his government of peace. There shall be
Speaker 1: no end from that day until it's accomplished. Is what
Speaker 1: it was. What it says, from the day of Him,
Speaker 1: until it's accomplished. The increase of his kingdom is here.
Speaker 1: We're living in the days of increase, not the days
Speaker 1: of darkness. So that's you know, that's part of it.
Speaker 1: If we shift our heart toward a growing kingdom, then
Speaker 1: we will know that every dollar that we're sowing in
Speaker 1: the kingdom endeavor is well worth it. If Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: an unsaved, ungodly guy, can put forty three million dollars
Speaker 1: a year a month, he's investing forty three million dollars
Speaker 1: a month into a conservative platform and the advancement of
Speaker 1: a conservative president. Surely we can bring a dollar or
Speaker 1: two and make a difference for the Kingdom of God
Speaker 1: by building the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Malachi
Speaker 1: three seven through twelve. I mentioned last week. There's two
Speaker 1: things mentioned in Malchi three. I want to allude to
Speaker 1: those again because we're going to focus again on offerings,
Speaker 1: not on tithing, but on offerings. Though I told you
Speaker 1: something super important last week theologically, I want you to
Speaker 1: study it for yourself. I'm not ending this message as
Speaker 1: we did last week. I'm not ending two weeks in
Speaker 1: a row. I'm not ending with an offering. This is
Speaker 1: not about coercion. This is not about convincing. This is
Speaker 1: not about trying to get more money from you. This
Speaker 1: is all about money, trying to get more money to you.
Speaker 1: And this is about entertaining just the purity of your mind,
Speaker 1: with drawing you in to look at the scripture yourself,
Speaker 1: be a barean and see what the Bible says, because
Speaker 1: the Bible will shed a lot of light on people's opinions.
Speaker 1: The Bible will shed a lot of light on denominational opinions.
Speaker 1: The Bible will shed a lot of light on preachers
Speaker 1: who think they know more than the Bible. So I
Speaker 1: talked to you about tithing and about offerings. One of
Speaker 1: the things that I said, I humbly presented again is
Speaker 1: that you haven't given an offering until you've given a tithe,
Speaker 1: because the tithe means that it's something you freely bring
Speaker 1: above and beyond the tithe. So the tithe is ten
Speaker 1: percent of your increase, and the offering is something above
Speaker 1: that ten percent. So if I'm not tithing, I'm not
Speaker 1: giving offerings because an offering means I've got a tithe first,
Speaker 1: then I give an offering. So and my focus, though,
Speaker 1: is on the offering because the offering is so crazy
Speaker 1: significant and what it does in our lives is significant,
Speaker 1: and so I'm focusing on that again this morning. Malachi
Speaker 1: three seven through twelve. Return to me, and I will
Speaker 1: return to you, says the Lord of Hosts. But you say,
Speaker 1: how shall we return? By the way, where America has
Speaker 1: been heading is not far from France. Where America has
Speaker 1: been heading is not far from France. And the change
Speaker 1: doesn't start at the White House. The change doesn't start
Speaker 1: at the courthouse. The change doesn't start at the Olympia House.
Speaker 1: The change starts at your house. And Jesus said, it
Speaker 1: starts with your money. He's going to know where your
Speaker 1: heart is by looking at where your treasure is. Wherever
Speaker 1: you put your treasure, that's where you put your heart.
Speaker 1: If you're not putting treasure in what he wants to build,
Speaker 1: then your heart isn't with him. So when we see
Speaker 1: twelve percent. Another study, the van Co study, it's another
Speaker 1: surveyed don based on actual giving through credit sources, actually
Speaker 1: says it's even worse. It says only five percent of
Speaker 1: the Christians or those who attend church in America tithe crazy. Right.
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying that for us to partner with
Speaker 1: God for the growing kingdom and the increase of heaven
Speaker 1: on earth, right, then, really the repentance starts right here
Speaker 1: in this room. It starts with us, with this house,
Speaker 1: not the White House. It starts with this house. And
Speaker 1: it starts with our house, our personal house. When we
Speaker 1: say me, for me and my house, we will serve
Speaker 1: the Lord, it means that we gladly bring the tenth part,
Speaker 1: and we gladly bring offerings. And God loves not a
Speaker 1: loathsome offering bringer, but he loves a hilarious offering bringer.
Speaker 1: And I've said it to you before. The only way
Speaker 1: you can possibly be a hilarious offering giver is if
Speaker 1: you know what an offering's doing, how God's actually using
Speaker 1: an offering to bring you increase. God's using your faith
Speaker 1: woven up in an offering to leverage you forward to
Speaker 1: bring you increase. Return to me, and I will return
Speaker 1: to you, says the Lord. How we'll return in tithes
Speaker 1: and offerings. Two things in tithes on offerings. Then he
Speaker 1: goes down below. He says, test me in this, says
Speaker 1: the Lord of Hosts. If I will not open for
Speaker 1: you the windows of heaven and pour out for you
Speaker 1: a blessing until it overflows. Does anybody in this room
Speaker 1: believe that? Because I'm telling you this is you know
Speaker 1: it's all about seed, and I'm going to get there
Speaker 1: in a minute, but you know the offering is about seed.
Speaker 1: But I want you to I just felt the Holy
Speaker 1: Print spirit just on me so strong this morning that
Speaker 1: the breakthrough we need is a breakthrough of believing. The
Speaker 1: breakthrough we need is a breakthrough of believing. Because we've
Speaker 1: looked at these scriptures and then we've heard in the
Speaker 1: back of our head then they saying of this person,
Speaker 1: that person, the other person, this theologian, this commentary, this writer,
Speaker 1: this speaker, this radio teacher. We've heard in the back
Speaker 1: of our head how we aren't supposed to expect anything
Speaker 1: from God. And so when we read this stuff or
Speaker 1: we hear that we should expect from God, then like
Speaker 1: we've got this big argument. And as long as you've
Speaker 1: got an argument, you haven't conquered. You're stuck in unbelief.
Speaker 1: And as long as you have unbelief, then even though
Speaker 1: you might give, you can't partner your faith with the giving.
Speaker 1: And if you can't partner your faith with the giving,
Speaker 1: then the giving cannot produce. You are killing the seed
Speaker 1: instead of igniting the seed because you don't see it
Speaker 1: providing sufficiency for you. You don't see God moving because
Speaker 1: of your sacrificial seed giving. You see that you're just poorer,
Speaker 1: and that's a real pain. It's a pain that I'm poorer.
Speaker 1: And that's what you're seeing, and that's what's even determining
Speaker 1: your offerings. Your offerings are actually small because we have
Speaker 1: to twist your arm to give an offering, and so
Speaker 1: after we get it up to a certain height, you say, okay, okay, enough,
Speaker 1: would you stop the offering? Message, I'll put in ten bucks.
Speaker 1: And so you're not partnering with your faith with the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit and calling it seed that will produce a
Speaker 1: great harvest. Instead, you're giving out of being worn down,
Speaker 1: being constrained, being convinced, being talked into it, and feeling
Speaker 1: like okay, well, others are given to all right, Okay,
Speaker 1: well I'm a worm. If I don't, who wants to
Speaker 1: be a worm? Honey, write them a check for twenty bucks.
Speaker 1: How much you spend it on your mags this week?
Speaker 1: Three thousand, But don't tell anybody. Those are special billet aluminum,
Speaker 1: specially made for aim. You don't even know what billet
Speaker 1: aluminum is. Uh huh. They make a mag out a
Speaker 1: one junk of aluminum. Oh, it's called billet. The lathe
Speaker 1: cuts it out of one piece of aluminum. But I
Speaker 1: put in twenty bucks in the offering. I'm a good guy.
Speaker 1: He wants to overflow. What he's saying is that even
Speaker 1: in our drawing near to him, when we're drawing near
Speaker 1: to him, and we say that we're drawing near, and
Speaker 1: we're establishing more prayer and more devotion, and we're setting
Speaker 1: aside time with him, even in all of that, if
Speaker 1: we don't bring our money, then he truly doesn't have
Speaker 1: our heart. And if he doesn't have our heart, he
Speaker 1: can't fully pour out all that he wants to upon us.
Speaker 1: We're actually closing the windows of wisdom, opportunity, self control,
Speaker 1: risk taking, insight, understanding, creativity, we're closing the release of
Speaker 1: those things over our inner man because we're withholding gracious giving,
Speaker 1: gracious giving. But if we turn that loose, Wow, what
Speaker 1: would happen? So crazy enough, he calls scripturally, by the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, he calls the giving of an offering. This
Speaker 1: is an offering, not a tithe. But he calls the
Speaker 1: giving of an offering. Everybody say offering. He calls it seed.
Speaker 1: Everybody says seed. Now the moment he calls by the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit the giving of an offering a seed, he
Speaker 1: creates this metaphor. And remember, the Bible was written in
Speaker 1: two metaphors, only two metaphors, agricultural metaphor architectural metaphor. That's
Speaker 1: the Bible. The whole Bible is either agricultural or ur textural.
Speaker 1: So when he starts talking about a seed, this is
Speaker 1: an agricultural parable or metaphor. He wants us to get
Speaker 1: a picture and understand what's happening. Every time we give money,
Speaker 1: every time we give offering money. Every time we give
Speaker 1: offering money to the poor, to the needy, to the outreach,
Speaker 1: to the building, to the evangelist, to the profit. Every
Speaker 1: time we give money like this to the prison ministry
Speaker 1: to the mission. We've been pouring money into missions. I mean,
Speaker 1: we get these phone calls. We got a phone call
Speaker 1: the other day us AS needed two thousand dollars to
Speaker 1: license the clinic, and then they a bunch of their
Speaker 1: crops failed. And literally, you know, if we don't get
Speaker 1: money over there, so we can take money right and
Speaker 1: we can convert it into that which blesses them, and
Speaker 1: he calls it sowing seed. So and there's you know,
Speaker 1: there's other instances where we see, like in Luke eight eleven.
Speaker 1: So when he says this, it's interesting because then we
Speaker 1: get this interesting understanding about money when money is given
Speaker 1: as an offering. And like in Luke eleven eleven, he
Speaker 1: says that the word of God is seed. That's the
Speaker 1: parable of the sawyer. Have you heard the parable of
Speaker 1: the sower? Does it seem weird to you that the
Speaker 1: Word of God could be a seed? Anybody? No, So
Speaker 1: if we tell you the word of God is a seed,
Speaker 1: and that that word of God gets sown like the
Speaker 1: word of God doesn't do you any good under your arm.
Speaker 1: The word of God has to get sown in the
Speaker 1: soil of your heart. Then the word of God can produce.
Speaker 1: It can produce a harvest, right, so that we start
Speaker 1: learning all sorts of stuff about the power of the
Speaker 1: Word of God. Well, the Word of God is a seed,
Speaker 1: and we understand other things about the Word of God.
Speaker 1: Like Galatians Galatians six. Everybody said Galatians six. So Galatians six, six, seven,
Speaker 1: and eight says, do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked.
Speaker 1: Whatever a man shows that will he also reap. So
Speaker 1: Genesis one starts its way too, that as long as
Speaker 1: the earth remains, there will be seed time and harvest.
Speaker 1: Then in Genesis one it says another thing it says
Speaker 1: about the word. It says that the fruit has the
Speaker 1: seed in it, and that the fruit always, according to
Speaker 1: the seed, reproduces in like kind. Right, it always produces
Speaker 1: after its own kind. This is a monitor right here.
Speaker 1: It's not a sound monitor. Did you know that that's
Speaker 1: a TV screen in there? You didn't know that. So
Speaker 1: the Word of God produces after its own kind as well.
Speaker 1: If you read on righteousness, it begins to grow righteousness
Speaker 1: within you. If you read on love, it begins to
Speaker 1: grow a capacity of love within you. If you read
Speaker 1: about mercy, it begins to grow a capacity of mercy
Speaker 1: in you. Right? Why because seeds always produce after their
Speaker 1: own kind. Here he says, don't be deceived about that.
Speaker 1: They always produce after their kind. Right. So that means
Speaker 1: if you sew money, if Paul and if Solomon called
Speaker 1: money a seed, if you sow money, then you can
Speaker 1: expect like a farmer. Right, do you know of any
Speaker 1: farmers that sow seeds and don't expect a harvest? Did
Speaker 1: you know? Did you know that Jesus is the word
Speaker 1: of God, meaning he's seed. Jesus is the fullness of
Speaker 1: the Word of God, meaning he's the fullness of seed.
Speaker 1: That's why he said over himself in John twelve twenty four,
Speaker 1: if the seed is not sown into the earth and dies,
Speaker 1: then the seed will abide alone. But the seed has
Speaker 1: to be sown. If the seed is sown, then it
Speaker 1: produces a great harvest. He was speaking about himself, because
Speaker 1: he is the fullness of the Word of God, and he,
Speaker 1: through death was sown. And even the father expects a
Speaker 1: harvest on what he sows. The father expects a harvest. Now,
Speaker 1: that's not like a nasty thing, that's not like a perverse, nasty,
Speaker 1: naughty thing. I don't know a farmer that doesn't expect
Speaker 1: a harvest on what they sow. There isn't why because
Speaker 1: it's called the law of reciprocity, right sowing and reaping.
Speaker 1: Sowing and reaping is actually a law, just as sure
Speaker 1: as the law of gravity. Sowing and reaping is called
Speaker 1: the law of reciprocity. So the moment he calls an
Speaker 1: offering a seed, he's telling you that you should actually
Speaker 1: partner your faith with your giving, and you should believe
Speaker 1: that God will multiply that seed back to you, and
Speaker 1: that there will be a harvest, not only a reward
Speaker 1: harvest in but there will be a harvest of economic
Speaker 1: increase over you. Otherwise you'd run out of money. Otherwise
Speaker 1: you'd run out of money. But what he's trying to do,
Speaker 1: he's trying to get more money to you by rewarding
Speaker 1: your righteousness. So he's converted an offering to a sde
Speaker 1: so that you could partner with your offering with your faith,
Speaker 1: so that he could then partner with you to bring
Speaker 1: you more increase, so that you would have more to
Speaker 1: sew in the future. Let's read it second Corinth end,
Speaker 1: chapter nine. I'm intentionally calming myself. Helu jah. See I
Speaker 1: get all wound up. Then they turned the microphone down.
Speaker 1: Then I get more wound up. And I'm living proof
Speaker 1: of this. Joel and I are living proof of this.
Speaker 1: Many of you in the building are living proof of
Speaker 1: God's goodness, living proof of God's goodness. And guess what,
Speaker 1: He's not done. He's not done. I just feel like
Speaker 1: I need to say that you didn't miss anything yet,
Speaker 1: because today and tomorrow you can begin to dive into
Speaker 1: God's goodness in a new way. Now this, I say,
Speaker 1: the one who sews sparingly will also reap sparingly. No
Speaker 1: is that true? No? No, no, no, I mean farming talk.
Speaker 1: Farming talk. Joel's relatives over in Spokane. You know, they
Speaker 1: had about a thousand acres, but then they were prospering,
Speaker 1: and so then they got like another thousand and then
Speaker 1: you know, if you're prospering, then you can lease other
Speaker 1: parcels from other neighboring families, you know, and next thing
Speaker 1: you know, you got three thousand acres of wheat grown
Speaker 1: over there. You know. But if you go out and
Speaker 1: you just oh, a hundred of those acres, are you
Speaker 1: going to reap a thousand acre? Reaping. Sometimes we think
Speaker 1: that way, like, you know, why hasn't God come through
Speaker 1: for me? You know, I can't believe it. I've been
Speaker 1: putting in ten dollars every so often, and I can't
Speaker 1: believe I'm not having these crazy breakthroughs in my life.
Speaker 1: Like Pastor says, we should have. Well, God has Spokane
Speaker 1: or anybody over in the Columbia Basin with a large
Speaker 1: farm and asks them to get a thousand acre harvest?
Speaker 1: Can they do that with a hundred acre seed? Not
Speaker 1: gonna happen, right, So this I say, the one who
Speaker 1: says sparingly will also reap sparingly. In the one who
Speaker 1: says generously will also reap generously. Each one must do
Speaker 1: what he's decided in his heart, whilst not reluctantly or
Speaker 1: under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. Now, remember
Speaker 1: I talked about this passage. This is coming out of
Speaker 1: second from the chapter eight, that's the preceding part of
Speaker 1: the story. Because in chapter eight they were going there
Speaker 1: to collect a offering for the saints in Jerusalem who
Speaker 1: were suffering. They weren't collecting a tithe for the leadership
Speaker 1: of the church. They were collecting an offering for the
Speaker 1: saints in Jerusalem that were suffering a year before. Now
Speaker 1: they're coming to collect what they purposed in their heart
Speaker 1: to give a year ago. And God is able to
Speaker 1: make Now he's encouraging them, right, He's like He's gonna
Speaker 1: lay this stuff on them, this truth, on them, to
Speaker 1: encourage them. And I mean today we would call this
Speaker 1: like crazy preaching, Like this is what all of the
Speaker 1: Internet is blown up against. Just go read on the internet.
Speaker 1: You'll find that common Christians of today don't believe this
Speaker 1: stuff at all. So that means they're completely contrary to
Speaker 1: the man who wrote a third of the Bible, you know,
Speaker 1: a third of the New Testament, and who was caught
Speaker 1: up to the Third Heaven, and of whom we've got
Speaker 1: all of our new Creation theology from. And this guy says,
Speaker 1: God is able to make all grace overflow to you,
Speaker 1: so that always having all sufficiency and everything, you may
Speaker 1: have an abundance for every good deed, as it it's written.
Speaker 1: And then he quotes like out of Psalm one twelve,
Speaker 1: he's scattered abroad. This is what the righteous man does.
Speaker 1: The righteous man scatters abroad seed talk again, seed he
Speaker 1: gives to the poor. His righteousness endewers forever. Sam one twelve.
Speaker 1: This is what the righteous man does the righteous generation. Now,
Speaker 1: he who supplies seed to the sower, who supplies seed
Speaker 1: to you. To me, well, God gives us seed, right,
Speaker 1: he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food.
Speaker 1: So you know what we do in farming. Not that
Speaker 1: I'm a genius by any means, But a bunch of
Speaker 1: the harvest is to eat. It's going to produce bread
Speaker 1: for me to eat. But then some of the that
Speaker 1: I can't eat all of it. I shouldn't eat all
Speaker 1: of the harvest. If you eat all of the harvest,
Speaker 1: pretty soon you're going to be starving. Because you save
Speaker 1: seed to sew for the next harvest. This is what
Speaker 1: he's trying to talk to us about. He's saying that, actually,
Speaker 1: when you're making money, you don't want to eat all
Speaker 1: the money. Some of the money you got to market
Speaker 1: as seed for next season's harvest. So he who provides
Speaker 1: seed to you, he provides bread for you to eat,
Speaker 1: and he provides seed for you to sew. Some of
Speaker 1: this is for me to eat, but some of it
Speaker 1: I gotta hang on to and distribute as seed to
Speaker 1: sew some of this I've got to sew. I can't
Speaker 1: eat it all. If I eat it all, I don't
Speaker 1: have something for that next harvest. He who's applies seeds
Speaker 1: for the sewer, bread for food will supply and multiply
Speaker 1: your seed, or missay, multiplood, multiply your seed for sewing,
Speaker 1: and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You'll be enriched
Speaker 1: in everything for all generosity or liberality, which through us
Speaker 1: is producing thanksgiving to God. Now, I think if you
Speaker 1: want an assignment for this week, say this over yourself
Speaker 1: every day. Say this over yourself every day, and especially
Speaker 1: if you are already an offering giver, and we identified
Speaker 1: last week areas to give into. You know, there's the widows,
Speaker 1: the poor, the orphans, the prisoners, right, there is missions,
Speaker 1: there's the building of the Tabernacle, the House of God
Speaker 1: uh and there is any prophetic ministry that's not a
Speaker 1: part of the Malkizedic or the levitical stream. So you know,
Speaker 1: so if you're giving offerings into something like that, right,
Speaker 1: maybe you're involved with Compassion International and you're sending money
Speaker 1: to feed some kids, or you're involved in supporting some
Speaker 1: orphans somewhere you're doing. But if you're involved in giving
Speaker 1: and offering somewhere, you ought to be declaring this over yourself.
Speaker 1: And if you haven't been declaring it, declare it over
Speaker 1: yourself until you wear your heart. You got to wear
Speaker 1: like a fire spot in your heart. So this just
Speaker 1: becomes a part of you. Stand with me this morning,
Speaker 1: and we're going to do this together. And I want
Speaker 1: you to see this. I want you to say it,
Speaker 1: especially versus eight versus eleven, versus eight versus eleven, say
Speaker 1: this with me first Father, Claire, erased, eradicated, removed, and renounced.
Speaker 1: Is every word, doctrine, commentary, teaching, preaching that I've ever
Speaker 1: heard that has diminished your reward and your harvest and
Speaker 1: your outbreak of blessing on me when I partner with
Speaker 1: you through the seeds of offerings. I don't want that
Speaker 1: in my life anymore. I don't want to pay attention
Speaker 1: to it anymore. I don't want it dominating my heart anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't want it hindering the grace of Heaven over
Speaker 1: my life anymore. I want it broken off of me
Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. I want you to see something too.
Speaker 1: It says so sparingly, reap sparingly? Right? Does it say that?
Speaker 1: Did you know what that means? Though? That means that
Speaker 1: you can test this with a sparing offering. You don't.
Speaker 1: You don't have to test God with a giant offering.
Speaker 1: You can actually start testing God with a small offering.
Speaker 1: I think that's exciting. You guys needed more coffee this morning,
Speaker 1: But I mean, I think that's exciting. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: God is saying, put me to the test, Go ahead
Speaker 1: and risk risk a small offering, and see if I
Speaker 1: won't do something with it. Now. It won't be a
Speaker 1: giant harvest, but it's going to be a small harvest.
Speaker 1: And a small harvest will still write something on your
Speaker 1: heart that it awakens faith within you for a little
Speaker 1: larger trust and a little larger seed to be sown.
Speaker 1: I think that's exciting. I think that's exciting. Verse eight.
Speaker 1: Let's say it together. God is able to make all
Speaker 1: grace overflow to me so that I will always have
Speaker 1: all sufficiency in everything, so that I will have an
Speaker 1: abundance for more good deeds. Verse eleven. I am enriched
Speaker 1: in everything for generosity, which is producing thanksgiving in those
Speaker 1: who are blessed by my sewing. I want you to
Speaker 1: think about this, and he talks about it here in
Speaker 1: this pathage. I want you to study it on your own,
Speaker 1: but I want you to see something that your generosity
Speaker 1: is lifting somebody else by becoming sufficiency to them. So
Speaker 1: God comes and he's sufficiency to you, and others come
Speaker 1: along and they pour into you and their sufficiency to you,
Speaker 1: and then you pour into others with generosity and they
Speaker 1: are lifted into sufficiency, so they can become generosity. And
Speaker 1: if their generosity to those around them, then they are
Speaker 1: lifted into sufficiency. And if they're lifted into sufficiency, then
Speaker 1: they can pour out of that with generosity. And now
Speaker 1: all at once, now, all at once, everybody is getting touched.
Speaker 1: Everybody's getting lifted. Others come into sufficiency, and out of
Speaker 1: their sufficiency, they can be generous and lift utters into sufficiency.
Speaker 1: And this is what God wants, so that everybody, everybody receives,
Speaker 1: and everybody is blessed and everybody is strengthened, and God
Speaker 1: gets the glory. God gets the glory. I want to
Speaker 1: say one thing I said last week. I think one
Speaker 1: of the things God does with this realm when we
Speaker 1: partner in faith is He opens us up to a
Speaker 1: harvest that's beyond our education, the strength of our arm our, creativity,
Speaker 1: our wisdom, our skill, our knowledge, our background, our risk taking.
Speaker 1: Everything that's important. Everything I'm naming right now is super important.
Speaker 1: Like you have to have relational eq IQ. You have
Speaker 1: to have relational like you. You gotta have risk to
Speaker 1: You gotta have all this stuff. You gotta have diligence,
Speaker 1: you gotta have all this stuff. But what happens when
Speaker 1: we partner with God through our seed is the harvest
Speaker 1: is bigger than the sum total of all of that.
Speaker 1: And so who's going to get the glory for everything
Speaker 1: God does? You're not going to get the glory because
Speaker 1: it was beyond you. You are compelled. You have to
Speaker 1: give the glory to God. You have to give the
Speaker 1: glory of the God because you wreck recognize that even
Speaker 1: though I did my best, and I worked hard, and
Speaker 1: I was creative, and I was diligent, and I lived
Speaker 1: a holy life and I did every there's no way
Speaker 1: what I was doing could have produced this. This was
Speaker 1: only what God could only God, only God, and that's
Speaker 1: what he wants. He wants so much grace on you
Speaker 1: that you have these only God harvest experiences. So Father,
Speaker 1: we bless their people right now with the courage to
Speaker 1: rise up like they've never risen in faith, in faith,
Speaker 1: and partner with you with offerings like they've never partnered.
Speaker 1: We believe for it right now in Jesus' name and agree.
Speaker 1: The strongholds of the enemy against God's people, against these people,
Speaker 1: those strongholds are broken, and we're no longer listening to
Speaker 1: the enemy. We are no longer listening to the enemy
Speaker 1: in Jesus' name, And everybody said, Amen. Prayer teams coming
Speaker 1: up front as we leave in worship this morning. If
Speaker 1: there's something you need to leave here be prayed for about,
Speaker 1: or you're recommitting your life to the Lord, just come
Speaker 1: and do it. As we're dismissed this morning