1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:16,000 Well, the first times I heard that song, I was in Arkansas 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,400 doing a three day revival and there was a bunch of people. 7 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:23,640 There was a big place, big cowboy church and, and I'll 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,400 never forget it long as a little songs always hold a dear place 9 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,160 in her heart when they mean something, you know, And they 10 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:30,920 were singing that song. I'll never forget. 11 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:32,960 It was the last night of the revival and I had preached my 12 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:35,840 heart out, man, and a lot of them hadn't moved. 13 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,600 And I was sitting there and I heard that song and I began to 14 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,000 shake and, and the Holy Spirit spoke to me. 15 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,240 So you're not going to preach tonight? 16 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,200 I said, what am I going to do to these people? 17 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,160 That's my first thought. They ain't moving. 18 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:51,600 I ain't preaching. What's going to happen? 19 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,560 And man, that last song played. I asked him, singing again. 20 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:57,160 I got up there and they didn't know altars. 21 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,080 They had some, they had some old saddles across the front. 22 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,040 There's probably 2 to 250 there. And I didn't preach, I just 23 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,440 begin to speak some things and and the altar just it just 24 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:09,480 filled up around that place, man. 25 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:12,520 And them things, them saddles they had there, they were wet 26 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,120 from people crying. I mean, it was God just moved. 27 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:18,000 And I just, I just agreed to God that I wasn't going to preach 28 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:20,400 and he moved. Sometimes it's simple to just 29 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:21,760 obeying God. Amen. 30 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,880 But sometimes it's hard to do right. 31 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,240 But kids can be dismissed. Get to be in the House of the 32 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,960 Lord tonight. And yeah, I got, you know, 33 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,800 preaching the gospel for a lot of years now and y'all read the 34 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,200 Bible for a lot of years, many of us. 35 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:41,880 And and sometimes you just got to go to reading and something 36 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:43,800 will hit you differently. Something will hit you that 37 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,160 you've read 1000 times. This is kind of one of them. 38 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,240 It hit me a few years ago, but I titled this tonight. 39 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,880 I'm going to do try to do it do a short teaching on this 40 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,160 something that's just it kind of goes on indefinitely really it 41 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,480 has in my life. But I want to speak to you 42 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,880 tonight on the on the subject, or should I say the word it? 43 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:03,440 Have you ever thought about the word it? 44 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,880 Jesus mentioned it many times in the Bible on different things. 45 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,320 The word it, what is it in your life? 46 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:15,400 I titled this understanding the IT in our life because see, 47 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,360 first week, I'm going to come back to that. 48 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:22,760 But I want you to say that with me understanding the IT in my 49 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,800 life, a lot of people's got the IT confused. 50 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:30,440 It's hard to understand, but I'm going to come back to that in a 51 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,160 minute. But I know I'm speaking tonight 52 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,960 to a lot of people. This is nothing that's new 53 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,120 giving to the cause of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 54 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,840 I look around, there's givers everywhere in here and I 55 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,120 appreciate that. And I know the Kingdom 56 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,040 appreciates that. This church appreciates that. 57 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,080 But you know, the enemy doesn't appreciate it and the enemy 58 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,880 tries at some time in your life, he will always try to get you to 59 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:57,720 quit giving that that which God wants over and over again, 60 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:02,680 because he gets our eyes off of what it is and he places them on 61 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,160 what we're really seeing in the flesh. 62 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,680 And when we can look at the flesh and think that it's 63 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:11,160 overriding what we're giving to God, the many times he can win 64 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,920 and he can overcome the and he said, what do you base it on? 65 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:18,080 Because I know lots of people that say I used to you don't 66 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,360 know anybody that used to tithe, used to go to church, used to 67 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,520 see the blessings of God. The but the, the, the church is 68 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,800 full of people that used to many still go to church, but they're 69 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,520 stuck on what used to happen in the church. 70 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,920 But if you understand the end in your life, it will become easier 71 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:37,720 to keep seeing the things of God in your life, keep pressing on 72 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:39,800 when you maybe don't see what you should. 73 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:44,080 But I know God appreciates the giving, the continuing of not 74 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,000 just time, but talents and time around here at this church. 75 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,360 We couldn't do it without people. 76 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,160 But I want to look at this on a different light tonight in 77 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:55,640 Philippians chapter 4 and verse 17, probably one of the most 78 00:03:55,640 --> 00:04:00,600 powerful chapters in the Bible in my opinion, to live in a 79 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,920 victorious life. It's very powerful. 80 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,480 And I've read this a lot of times and I'm going to, I'm 81 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,040 going to do a little reading. I'm going to try. 82 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,200 So I may not finish all this tonight. 83 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:14,280 But in verse 31, the apostle Paul is telling the Philippian 84 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,880 people, he said, I urge you also true companions. 85 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:20,640 He was saying to help some of these women that have labored 86 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:24,760 with him in the gospel with Clement and also the rest of my 87 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,840 fellow workers whose names are in the book of life. 88 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:32,240 Verse 4 to Philippians chapter 4, he says rejoice in the Lord. 89 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,760 Say that with me. Rejoice in the Lord always. 90 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:40,640 And again I say, rejoice, Let your gentleness be known to all 91 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,720 men. The Lord is at hand. 92 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,960 This is a great blueprint for living life. 93 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,800 This chap, this whole chapter of Philippians but in verse 6 he 94 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,600 says be anxious for nothing. But if we could master that be. 95 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,360 I think the older I get sometimes the more anxious I am. 96 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,480 You know about things or having to do something they I think 97 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:05,440 about it more but be anxious for nothing but in everything by 98 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,680 prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving. 99 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,120 Let your request be known to God and I love this right here. 100 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:13,880 How do we receive the peace of God. 101 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:18,080 This prerequisite of not being anxious but by praying and 102 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,920 supplicating our life and being thankful. 103 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:25,040 Let your request be known to God and then the peace of God which 104 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,720 surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds 105 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,320 through Christ Jesus. I quote that Sunday after Sunday 106 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,520 here because there's anything we need in the body of Christ in 107 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:38,120 the world today is a peace that understand that that that that 108 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,000 out passes the understanding of the circumstance. 109 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,120 Well, what would our life be like if we could just look 110 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,560 beyond the circumstance and receive the peace If we prayer 111 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,520 and supplicate. We can't and then finally he 112 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,640 gives us this. He says finally, brother, and 113 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,800 whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, 114 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,640 whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, 115 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,000 whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good 116 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,880 report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything 117 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:07,200 praiseworthy, meditate on these things. 118 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,960 We do right the opposite. We meditate on the bath Could 119 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:18,840 have been, oh, Jesse used that the other day when her kid broke 120 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:21,240 his leg. She said the doctor was coming 121 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,640 up and said, man, this could have been so much worse. 122 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,680 She said, but it wasn't. I love it. 123 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:32,680 If anything's praiseworthy, meditate on these things. 124 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,160 You know, we can receive a blessing or a healing and we 125 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,040 say, well, God heal this, but this over here is still well. 126 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,960 Praise God for what he did. He ain't hurting in two places. 127 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,480 Meditate on these things he says in verse 9. 128 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:49,320 I like this right here. The things which you learned and 129 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:55,200 received and heard and saw where not in Christ, but in a follower 130 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,840 of Christ the apostle Paul. So see it is possible. 131 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:00,200 He said I'm not telling you do something I can't do. 132 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:02,080 You seen it in me. Now go do it. 133 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,480 I like that. But then you always got that one 134 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,520 will say, well he ain't God, but he's got a good attitude right. 135 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,520 So following the God of peace will be with you. 136 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:17,840 Verse 10 but I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at last I 137 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,480 want you to focus in on this, but I'm going to talk about the 138 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:22,240 IT. What is the IT? 139 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,360 I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for 140 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,840 me has flourished again. They were helping the apostle 141 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,040 Paul again. We know the apostle Paul didn't 142 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:34,680 you know he didn't he need no help. 143 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:36,840 He said he made it with his hands, but he's as though you 144 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:40,920 surely did care, but you lacked opportunity. 145 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:47,080 Now that I speak in regard to need, he says I really don't 146 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,200 have need because I what would it be like not to have need in 147 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:51,200 life? We're needy people. 148 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,720 We're needy culture. If we don't have our needs met, 149 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,280 and it ain't usually our needs, really our needs are pretty much 150 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,920 in America, most people's needs are met, right? 151 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,080 I mean, there's some that ain't, But the majority of the 152 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,680 population, they have food, they have clothing, or they can go 153 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,800 get it and shelter. I know there's homeless people, 154 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:11,840 but a lot of that is due to search choices and 155 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,480 circumstances. If you strive for it in America, 156 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:19,120 I think you can have it, right? But he says, I have learned 157 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:20,680 what? What if we could be like this? 158 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,240 It's not something that we are. So we have to learn it. 159 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:25,520 So I want to talk to you not about learning these things, 160 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,760 right? I've learned in whatever state 161 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:31,960 I'm in to be content. We're not that way. 162 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,400 We're hungry. We're in a different state of 163 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,640 mine or in a different state of attitude. 164 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:40,480 We're sleepy, we're cold, we're wet. 165 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,799 We're this, we're that. A preacher preaches a little 166 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:45,160 longer. They sing 5 instead of three. 167 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,240 We get in a different state pretty quick. 168 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,120 But he said, I know whatever state I'm in to be content. 169 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,240 I know how to be a base. I know how to abound. 170 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,480 You know, what is he saying? I know how to be happy with 171 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,360 money in my pocket or no money in my pocket. 172 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:01,000 I know how to be happy when I'm healed, when I'm waiting on my 173 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,720 healing everywhere and all things. 174 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,040 I have learned both to be full and to be hungry. 175 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:12,440 It's hard to learn that. But to abound and to suffer 176 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,040 need. I can do all things. 177 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,680 Yeah, but you know, we're good at quoting that for 13. 178 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:19,840 You know, people don't even have to know Christ to quote 179 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,320 Philippians 4. And I can do all things through 180 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,640 Christ. They forget that it's through 181 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,680 Christ. It's not just by mentioning 182 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:29,040 Christ, right? I can do all things through 183 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,960 Christ who strengthens me. Why could he do all things? 184 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,120 Because he had learned how to react to every situation that he 185 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,560 had been in. We just read, He knew how to, he 186 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:39,120 knew how to stay happy when he was hungry. 187 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,000 He knew how to stay happy when he was broke. 188 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,520 So therefore he knew that he could do all things through 189 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:48,200 Christ who strengthens him because he did not let the 190 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,880 outside circumstance affect his inner being, right? 191 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,920 So that's why he could do what all things. 192 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,320 Well, this is going to get deep tonight, 14 says. 193 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,640 Nevertheless, you have done well that you've shared in my 194 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:05,680 distress. Now you Philippians know also 195 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:09,240 that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed for 196 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:13,360 Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and 197 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,720 receiving, but you only. He was talking to 1 church here 198 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,800 of Philippi. They had been giving to the 199 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:25,640 Apostle Paul for even if Thessalonica you send eight once 200 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:29,880 and again for my necessities. So that was giving to the 201 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:33,480 apostle Paul. And this is where I want to talk 202 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:38,040 about the yet in your life, if you do give, what are you giving 203 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,880 for? Hello, what are you giving for? 204 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:47,440 He says, not that I seek the gift, not that I have to have 205 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,240 your gift. I love this. 206 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,240 This fires me up. He said, but I seek the fruit 207 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:57,480 that abounds upon your account when you do give, because Paul 208 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,320 was saying you're not giving to me, you're giving to the gospel 209 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:05,120 of Jesus Christ. And here in 18 he says, indeed I 210 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:09,640 have all and abound. I'm full having received from 211 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:13,600 Euphrodiphus or however you say that the things sent from you 212 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:16,320 and look what he does here. He goes right to the Old 213 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,960 Testament. He said a sweet smelling aroma, 214 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:23,840 an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God. 215 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,960 He went back here to the Levitical sacrifices being a 216 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,240 type and shadow of Christ. It was sacrificing. 217 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:36,400 It was well pleasing to those who gave, but at verse 19 is 218 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,000 where it really got me today. I've read it all my life. 219 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,680 Many of you have too. And he says all these things 220 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:47,760 I've just read to you is building up to verse 19 and my 221 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:58,040 God shall supply all of your need according to his riches and 222 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:02,640 glory in Christ Jesus. We have changed one word of that 223 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:07,280 today in the prosperity gospel preaching I've shared hanging by 224 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,920 you said my God shall supply all my needs. 225 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:13,920 I looked it up in several different translations that and 226 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,280 I and and the King James says this is new King James already, 227 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,600 but it's possible said the same thing. 228 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:24,720 He said my God, because you've given to him shall supply all of 229 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,680 your needs. So see people use that wrong all 230 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:30,080 the time. Anybody ever seen anybody use 231 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:31,800 that wrong? I'd be on the road rodeo and you 232 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,640 know, and I may mention that or somebody I'd have another guy 233 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,080 over here. He didn't really know more. 234 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:40,520 No more know who God was and how God operated and he would say, 235 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,040 Oh my God is going to supply all of my needs according he can go 236 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,640 out and do whatever he wanted to and pretty soon he's home and 237 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:46,880 broke and not going down the road. 238 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:48,840 I'm still going down the road. Why? 239 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:52,240 Because there's a prerequisite to God meeting all of your 240 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:53,880 needs. We can't walk around and say oh, 241 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,120 I'm just God's going to meet all of my needs. 242 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,720 No apostle Paul says if you do what God's called you to do, he 243 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:01,200 didn't even say his at that point. 244 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,120 He said I know mine's met because already done all that 245 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:05,200 stuff right? He said no, my God's going to 246 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,280 take care of me. But he said when you give it, he 247 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:12,720 said then I can, he can step out and he can take care of you. 248 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,960 And that's what the apostle Paul was worried about. 249 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,320 But I seek the fruit that abounds to your account. 250 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,440 This changes the whole mindset of how Satan tries to get into 251 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,480 us about giving. And believe me, I've heard it 252 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,600 all. I've told the story a lot of 253 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:27,960 times. When we first started this 254 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,000 church we was renting a building at that time and a little lady 255 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,120 could give us through another through through her brother 256 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,800 brought me a $10,000 check for the church. 257 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,760 Said we was doing a lot for the youth and we was helping the 258 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,160 youth and everything and that 10,000 was probably about 9500 259 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,880 more than we had in the church account to be honest. 260 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:50,920 We might have $1000 and I had a $10,000 check. 261 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:54,400 I put it in there and it wasn't about 3 or 4 weeks or maybe a 262 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:58,320 month longer I don't know but but all I know is it was still 263 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,400 in there when this happened and I got a call. 264 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,720 We had us a bunch of services lined up and things going on 265 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:08,960 over there and come be when we first started and this y'all 266 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,400 have heard me tell this story before many of you, some of you 267 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,800 haven't. But anyway, I got a call. 268 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,400 He said he said my sister not too happy with you older lady 269 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:18,040 getting up in years. Won't you go to her house? 270 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:22,440 So I went to her house and she was sitting there and and she 271 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:26,280 said she said, you know, he said you misled me. 272 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,960 You never told me what denomination you were point 273 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,440 blank. I said you never ask. 274 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:35,840 I said, but since you have, I'm not a denominational guy. 275 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,800 I said I preach the Bible and the whole Bible from the front 276 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:42,200 to the back. And she said, well, she said I 277 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,880 go to the Baptist Church. I went there and she said I 278 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,320 thought you were doing stuff in the youth and I thought you was 279 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:50,720 under the Baptist covering. Said no ma'am, I am not under 280 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,040 any covering. He said the blood of Jesus. 281 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:57,600 And she said, well, if I would have known that boy got whoo she 282 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:01,920 got all up, if I would have known that I would have give it 283 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:03,280 up there. I said, well, I'll tell you 284 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,000 what, I got it. Let me go the truck. 285 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:08,480 I wrote her a $10,000 check, praise God. 286 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:13,800 And I said here's your check. I said, but I want to tell you 287 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:17,000 this, I love you, I appreciate it, but my ministry is not for 288 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,120 sale. I said it's not about the money 289 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,160 to me. I said I left a lot of money to 290 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:25,520 preach the gospel. It's not about the money and I 291 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,120 said if you want to give it out of the goodness of your heart, 292 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,280 we receive it. But I don't want the bitterness. 293 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:33,920 I said I didn't ask to come here in the 1st place. 294 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:38,760 You invited me here and you wrote me the check and I got to 295 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,480 the door and I was walking out. She said come here. 296 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:45,320 She said they ain't a preacher around would have had that 297 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,320 $10,000. She's even had it for two, a 298 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:49,480 month or two. Whatever. 299 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:51,360 She said it's yours. I said no ma'am. 300 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,320 I said I don't want it. I said the only way I'll take it 301 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,200 is when it touches my hand. It's used for the glory of God 302 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,320 and it's not yours anymore. It's not mine, but it's his. 303 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,800 And I said if you want to give it without any stipulations, 304 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,240 without any denominational strings to it, I said I will 305 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:12,480 receive it. And I walked out with a $10,000 306 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,680 exactly how the story went down. God is my witness. 307 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:20,240 But see to to understand that you have to understand the IT 308 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,000 because the IT, it's not about the money, right? 309 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,640 See, God keeps a record of of everything. 310 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:28,600 Boy, I get excited about this because, you know, Jesus taught 311 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,400 more as much on money in the Bible as he did on any subject. 312 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,760 And the church, some churches preach all on that and the 313 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,120 prosperity. But when you realize what it 314 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,080 really is, it's not about the money. 315 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:42,120 You can live on God's program, right? 316 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,960 God keeps a record of everything, even our gifts, 317 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:49,040 whether giving or receiving. He either said that it's more 318 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,480 blessed and boy do we got this backwards. 319 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:55,240 It's more blessed to give than it is to receive, right? 320 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:57,880 Because he's keeping record of it. 321 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,560 Because see, what you receive is much better because as I found 322 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:03,640 that what I receive, money cannot buy. 323 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,359 Hey, man, there ain't a price tag can be put on the Holy 324 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:08,119 Ghost. There ain't a price tag can be 325 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,440 put on blessings and laying down at night that knowing whatever 326 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,359 state I'm in, my God, somehow, some way is going to take care 327 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,240 of me. Can I get an Amen in the house? 328 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:21,000 The apostle Paul said it's a sweet smelling aroma. 329 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,280 See, it presents an Old Testament Levitical order here 330 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,640 that we're talking about a sacrifice and it's all typifying 331 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:30,560 Jesus Christ, the supreme sacrifice. 332 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:34,680 See though those who gave to Paul was enabling him to take 333 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:39,800 the message of the cross to others through their gifts. 334 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,840 See their gifts and the such things that we're presently 335 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,560 looking at today. It it it's part of being part of 336 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:50,400 the gospel of Jesus Christ. The sacrificial atoning work is 337 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,240 what we're a part of, of Christ on the cross. 338 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,400 Nothing could be much be higher than that. 339 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,960 So I have so I have to read to you what it says here. 340 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:05,680 One of the most commonly known verses in the Bible. 341 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,520 My God shall apply. Set shall supply all of my needs 342 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:11,360 and it does not say that it says your needs. 343 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:15,240 Isn't that cool? So you so really when you quote 344 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:18,320 that, you ought to be quoting it to somebody else telling them 345 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,520 why, because you've learned already how to be a base or a 346 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:24,320 bound to live in poverty or lack, to live in sickness or in 347 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:25,840 hell. So you can look at it somebody 348 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,000 say, I don't know, but my God shall supply all the ordinance. 349 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,360 That's faith that's moving beyond myself to knowing that 350 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:34,920 because but there's still there's someone to go a little 351 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,680 deeper with this. See we in the church or as the 352 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:42,240 church age, we messed this one word up tremendously and that 353 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,360 and it's it's it's kind of gets confusing here, but I'm going to 354 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:46,520 try my best. Y'all help me through this. 355 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:50,000 But see Paul was assuring the Philippians and all the other 356 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:55,120 believers as well that they have not write this down because this 357 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:58,120 hit me when the Lord give me this today and and I see 358 00:18:58,120 --> 00:19:01,600 Christians doing this. They think sometimes by giving 359 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,000 that they're impoverishing their self. 360 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:07,880 You know, you ever say it says the Lord doesn't like a 361 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,360 grudgingly giver. If you'll be grudgingly, don't 362 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:12,440 give it. If you think you need it, don't 363 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,120 give it, right? This will change it. 364 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:18,640 This will help you on your perspective of of getting you to 365 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,320 where God wants you to be because it's not about the 366 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,160 money. It's about the trusting of God. 367 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,960 We have to figure that out. When we mentioned Tyler, we 368 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,920 mentioned all for people just get all weird and it's not about 369 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:31,440 that at all. God's word will go forth if he 370 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:33,960 finds a man with faith that'll go out and preach it, he going 371 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:37,080 to take care of him, right? I've seen it time and time 372 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:38,920 again. But Paul was assuring the 373 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:43,040 Philippians here and all other believers as well, that they 374 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:47,560 have not impoverished, that hid themselves in giving liberally 375 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:49,920 to the cause of Christ. Never let the enemy think you're 376 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,320 impoverishing yourself, that it's going to hurt you, right? 377 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:54,280 Because there, there's so much more to this. 378 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,880 Jesus said in Luke chapter 6 and 38. 379 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,880 Let's go there. This gets really good here and 380 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:03,400 and Luke 6 and 38. I want you to I know people 381 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,880 give, but I want people to understand why they give, right? 382 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,480 I want to understand why they give in Luke chapter 6 and verse 383 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:14,880 38. Very powerful Jesus talking 384 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,200 here. Luke 6. 385 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:19,840 I'm gonna give her time to get there, get a drink. 386 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,760 Luke the 6th chapter there's a lot of things going on in verse 387 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:28,800 20. Jesus begins to give the 388 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:32,640 beatitudes here and he ends up in 30 set 38. 389 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:40,440 He says give, say that with me give and it will be given to you 390 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,680 good measure pressed down, shaken together, running over. 391 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:48,160 I like what it says right here. It will be put into your bosom 392 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:52,520 put not that you have to go out running and begging like you say 393 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:58,040 the televangelist today he said put but as we look at this word 394 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,960 right here it and I read back on this. 395 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,240 He talked a little bit about about finances. 396 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,360 He says, but woe to the rich back in who you are rich in 397 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:09,520 verse 24 he pronounces some woes. 398 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,800 Money's mentioned there rich and money, but right here Jesus is 399 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:17,280 not really referring to monetary. 400 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:21,920 I don't believe could be, but he says give and it will be given 401 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:23,680 to you. Good measure, pressed down, 402 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:27,120 shaken together, running over. It'll be put into your bosom for 403 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:32,800 with the same measure that you use it, it will be measured back 404 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,320 to you. I want to look at this a little 405 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,920 bit. Give and it will be given. 406 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:42,440 It will be measured back to you. So what is this? 407 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,200 We have connected this it especially reading this 408 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,360 particular verse and praying this verse over the offering as 409 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:53,680 a pastor do it, people do it. It could mean money, but I want 410 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,080 to look at this it it what does it mean? 411 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,320 Which its meaning is what anybody school teachers in here? 412 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,360 I'm I don't like teaching school teachers because y'all know 413 00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:10,080 everything but it what is it? It's a non translatable 414 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,480 grammatical particle. What is that? 415 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,120 Can I say it again? When you look up a 2 letter word 416 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:24,440 called it, it's a translatable. That means you can translate, I 417 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:25,640 guess you can pass it to someone. 418 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:30,680 You can explain what it is if it's placed before direct order 419 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:34,200 marker. OK, because we can refer to the 420 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,720 bicycle or you can stomp your toe as I talked about on the 421 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,320 little shelf that's in the hall. And next time you walk by and 422 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:46,120 you say I hit my foot on it, it's a marker. 423 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,360 So let's read the definition of it. 424 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:52,000 Its meaning is a non. Help me with that word. 425 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:58,160 Translatable grammatical particle used as a definite 426 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:03,240 direct object marker. But if you don't know what it 427 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,440 is, how can you directly mark the object? 428 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,640 Well, I get deep with the stuff, me and the Lord in my mind and 429 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,040 then I'll get on another study and just taking in my shoulders 430 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,120 go to her and say God just give me a word, let me preach. 431 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:18,880 I don't want to teach tonight. Can I read that again? 432 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:20,240 I like it. Sounds sophisticated. 433 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:27,280 A non translatable grammatical particle used as a definite 434 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,200 direct object marker. That ain't even all of it. 435 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,240 How does this little word get so complicated? 436 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:37,480 It's placed between a verb and its specific object. 437 00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:41,320 So it's between a verb, which is, I remember that's an action 438 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,800 word, and it's I don't know how I remember that and it's 439 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,120 specific objects. So what is it? 440 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,960 Did I explain it Then? A theologian can't figure out 441 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,640 what Jesus was talking about either. 442 00:23:53,720 --> 00:24:00,560 When he said give, what was it? That's powerful? 443 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,440 Anything, That's what I come up with. 444 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:07,280 It sounds good, but when related to money, it can People make it 445 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,560 sound or give it and you're going to get it back. 446 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:14,320 Jesus didn't say that but so many being taught by especially 447 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,320 the church today right that's all up and about the money the 448 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:22,160 church and it's especially at offering time given it will be 449 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,720 given press down good shape measured running the over sounds 450 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,320 really good and yes, it's true because in Malachi. 451 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,600 Let's go to chapter 3 and verse 8 because I heard a preacher the 452 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,560 other day saying that that that tithe is not mentioned in the 453 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,280 New Testament Testament. I'll never forget the time in my 454 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,000 life. I was about 18-19 years old and 455 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:45,040 I, I was at a, I heard a preacher say that the, that, 456 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,280 that the 10th is required, right? 457 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,040 He said, you want to get into the supernatural blessings of 458 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:55,480 God, get out of the 10th and get into it when you get into it. 459 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,880 And he was preaching a little give and it be given. 460 00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:59,800 But hey, it, it can happen, right? 461 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,840 But I want to look what the, what the old law, the law said 462 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:04,720 about it said, will a man rob God? 463 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,720 Yet you have robbed me. But you say, in what ways have 464 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,200 we robbed you? And Malachi says in tithes and 465 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,720 offerings. Let's go on down to read the 466 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,920 rest of them verses. You're cursed with a curse. 467 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:22,320 So if you get 100% and you you everybody wants to check when 468 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,000 you get it to be 100% right. You don't want to hold anything 469 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,000 back. You don't want them holding 470 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,680 anything back. But it says that you're cursed 471 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,200 with a curse for you have robbed me. 472 00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:36,320 Even the whole nation he was talking to, he says bring all 473 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,680 the tithe in, there's a storehouse that there may be 474 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:43,840 food in my house and try me, boy, I like that when God says 475 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:50,240 try me, there's something there. He says try me, try me in this, 476 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:54,920 says the Lord of hosts and see if I will not open for you the 477 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,360 windows of heaven and pour out money. 478 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:03,760 No, he didn't say money. He said blessing, blessing that 479 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:08,200 there will be not a room enough for you contain it or receive 480 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,040 it. You know, that's a promise. 481 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,880 That's not a command to me. That's a promise, isn't it? 482 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,120 To you. That's a promise of, of 483 00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:17,840 blessing. Money can come in blessings, 484 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,160 healing can come in, but it's a blessing of many things that it 485 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:26,080 is big. the IT is big and then we can go and we can read about 486 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:27,560 it, right? This demo, slow down, let you 487 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,000 get this. And under the in Leviticus 488 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,480 chapter 2730 and 32, we're not going to cover these, just write 489 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,680 these down. It speaks of a tenth Numbers 18 490 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,960 and 26. It speaks of a tenth Holy 491 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:45,200 Deuteronomy 14 and 22. It speaks of 1/10 of their 492 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,800 fields annually in Genesis 28 and 22. 493 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,160 What happened? Jacob promised to give a tenth 494 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,480 holy, mostly mentioned in the Old Testament. 495 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,400 And then and then Abraham set up when the order of Melchizedek, 496 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,640 the tithe, and it was set up. We read about that, but let's go 497 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,920 to Matthew chapter 23 and verse 23 and 4 because I heard a 498 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:08,400 dignified preacher preaching the other day and said that tithing 499 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,360 was not in the New Testament, but yet it is. 500 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,760 How many anybody ever been guilty saying tithing is not in 501 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,440 the New Testament? It says give it, but it don't 502 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,800 mean money. But in Matthew chapter 23, once 503 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,040 again, your mind's already going to money. 504 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,880 I'm not talking about the money. I'm talking about why we give 505 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,920 the money. I'm talking about what giving of 506 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,560 whatever it is, time, talents, whatever it is in your life. 507 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:38,600 But see the reason it's placed upon robbing God because it is 508 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,320 money. In most of our life it is money. 509 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,080 It determines where you go, what you do. 510 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,920 It determines a lot of things in our life. 511 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:53,560 But in Matthew chapter 23 and verse 23, it says woe to you, 512 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:54,960 scribe. Who was he talking to? 513 00:27:54,960 --> 00:28:00,280 Scribes and Pharisees wasn't Baptist, Baptist and Methodist. 514 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,920 It was scribes and Pharisees and he called them hypocrites. 515 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,000 He said, look what Jesus said. He said, because Jesus separates 516 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,080 this thing really good here because see, many are hung up on 517 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,360 the tithe. Many. 518 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:16,560 I've had it happen here. Boy, I could just give a little 519 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,040 more. If you wouldn't preach a little 520 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,200 this, if you just do a little, do you really have to get on 521 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:22,520 that? And they'd be big givers, I 522 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,480 guess. And at that time I had somebody 523 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,560 do, I didn't know who give what, but I'm like, no, really don't 524 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,360 matter because the gospel is the gospel. 525 00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:32,400 Whether you give or not, it doesn't change. 526 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,120 Say we can understand this stuff. 527 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,160 It'll change your life. It'll break you out of that 528 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,320 prison of lusting for money. And know that God's going to 529 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,840 supply what you need no matter what. 530 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,600 And he'll take the love of money away. 531 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,000 He said it's not the love of, it's not money that's the root 532 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,920 of all evil. It's the love of the money, but 533 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,400 we need the money to make it. We know that that's what our 534 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,920 that's what our society. Jesus called him hypocrites. 535 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,040 But look how this is so cool how he separates it right here. 536 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,400 He says for you, cleanse the outlets. 537 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:01,640 Let's back up. Where am I at? 538 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:07,200 Somebody help me. 27 What do you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites 539 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:08,760 for? You don't know that ain't where 540 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,600 I'm at. Let me get back. 23 What do you 541 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,400 scribe? They said scribes too many times 542 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:14,600 and he calls them hypocrites a lot. 543 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,120 Don't. What are you, scribes and 544 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,680 Pharisees? Say it with me, hypocrites. 545 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,680 Has anybody ever heard that statement? 546 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,600 Man, I'd go to church. There's hypocrites there. 547 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,400 I told a guy one time I said, well, can I tell you something? 548 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,760 The hypocrites closer to you are to God that you are because he's 549 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,960 there. Well, there's hypocrites there. 550 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,400 How many has that kept people out of church? 551 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,920 Raise your head if you know somebody that you've heard that 552 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,680 in the church. I ain't going to that day the 553 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,280 hypocrites there. The only difference is we've 554 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,160 forgiven hypocrites. We all hypocrites. 555 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,200 Some of them just forgiven and seek seek repentance. 556 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,520 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees say it with me. 557 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,360 But look what he says right after that he says for you pay 558 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,200 tithe, but yet he called him a hypocrite right. 559 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:01,720 A lot of people think the tithe keeps from being a hypocrite. 560 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,440 No, no, no. It's the IT he says for you. 561 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:11,800 Pay tithe of men and ants and coming and have say that word 562 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,160 for me for making fun of me. Say it. 563 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,840 Whoever made fun say it. Who made fun of me? 564 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,400 Raise your hand. OK. 565 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:20,720 How's that word pronounced? Y'all want? 566 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,640 I got 3 ladies sitting on the background. 567 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,240 They're going to pronounce this word for me. 568 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,640 I ain't worried about that word. I'm trying to get the IT to you. 569 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,840 What word did I say wrong? Where? 570 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,960 A niece. A niece is what little kid is to 571 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:41,760 you. Niece. 572 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,120 We ain't talking about your niece. 573 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,600 I made it sound real dignified. I said a nice, what did I say? 574 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:55,880 What is it? Let's just camp out and let's 575 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,320 miss the IT tonight and let's camp out on the niece. 576 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,920 I always want to do that on the Sunday. 577 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,080 Let's just miss this whole message because I messed the 578 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,880 word up. God help them back there. 579 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,880 Let's just mess this whole. Let's just miss the IT tonight. 580 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:14,320 That's what I'm talking about right there. 581 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:21,080 Hypocrite. Did you look it up? 582 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,400 OK, I can't look it up up here. So when I'm scanning over 583 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:25,680 something, I don't know what means that. 584 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,800 I don't know how to say it. I just have to do that and say 585 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:34,000 whatever comes out, OK? I'm not lacking preachers. 586 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,800 It's buttoned up and tied up. I ain't had time all week to 587 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:44,760 look up a niece and to be honest with you, when Jesus called him 588 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,560 a hypocrite forgiving it, I really don't care. 589 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,400 I want to see what he what the what hypocrite. 590 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,000 But thank you for your help back there. 591 00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:01,600 So this is a niece they paid tithe on mint and a niece. 592 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,120 I'll never forget that word long as I preach the gospel. 593 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:13,880 So you fixed it all right, here we go to coming cumin, cumin and 594 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,480 have neglect. They're all OK. 595 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,240 They're all something that come out of the ground. 596 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:18,520 They're ours. We agree on that. 597 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,040 Let's move forth or y'all going to be griping because I'm late. 598 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,920 But look what he says. You give all these things and he 599 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,080 could have put right there and you know what they mean. 600 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:29,760 He could have said and you've camped out and you've learned 601 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,560 what they mean. You pay your tithe. 602 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,920 You know all about these fleshly things, but look at this, he 603 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:37,920 said. And have neglected the way dear 604 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:45,080 matters of the law, justice, mercy and faith. 605 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,280 And boy, I love this part right here. 606 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,880 And the people say, well, we just keep the law, keep mercy. 607 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,440 We don't have to give nothing. We just be good people. 608 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,520 Then we don't have time. They try to separate the thing. 609 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,040 You've seen this brother Tim, try to separate the two things. 610 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,520 We try to separate and we even do it in the church with 611 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,640 holiness. We try to separate holiness 612 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,160 because of grace, right? We don't have to live holy 613 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,280 because of grace. So we separate grace, we 614 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,840 separate holiness, we separate the tithe across from the 615 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:12,440 living, right? And then pretty soon we got a 616 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,920 messed up church that don't know which way they're headed, ain't 617 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,800 seen in a miracles of God. Are you recording this tonight? 618 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:24,600 I hope so. I'm not ashamed. 619 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:27,320 But look what he says right here. 620 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,560 Jesus, man, he don't leave nothing out. 621 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,160 He's a God of nothing broken, nothing missing. 622 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,320 He said, OK, you've given and you've tithe you talking to this 623 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,160 particular sect, but he said you take the tithe is making you 624 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,240 whole and you forgot the justice and the mercy. 625 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,000 Look what Jesus said right here. I love it. 626 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,720 He said these you ought to have done without leaving the others 627 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,360 undone. Boy, isn't that exciting? 628 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:50,720 He said you ought to have done both of them and then you'd have 629 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,720 something that you could brag and that you could look at. 630 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:55,320 But he said, but you don't do that. 631 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,360 You just blind guides. I've preached on this verse a 632 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:02,360 lot of times, blind guides who strain out the gnat, the little 633 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,640 bitty thing, but you swallow a big old camel. 634 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,920 So y'all figured out what the IT is that it will be given. 635 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,679 Let's go back to Luke 6 and 20. I'm gonna read you what I think 636 00:34:12,679 --> 00:34:18,920 the IT is. Luke chapter 6 and verse 20. 637 00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:24,560 Give everybody time to get there. 638 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:32,760 Luke chapter 6 and verse 20. That might be it in your life 639 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:37,960 right there. Luke chapter 6 and verse 20. 640 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,400 Y'all ready? He lifts up his eyes toward his 641 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:45,360 disciples and he said I believe this is understanding it right 642 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:50,840 here. Blessed are you poor? 643 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,560 Wow. You know some of the happiest 644 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:59,400 people I knew in my life were the poorest people, some that 645 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:00,880 see the greatest miracles of God. 646 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:02,920 I'm talking about pray to God and see a healing like that. 647 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,240 Pray to God and see the fever break just like that. 648 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,200 Pray to God and see flowered in the cover just like that. 649 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,360 They were the poorest, but they had learned in whatever state. 650 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,520 He said blessed are you poor for years is the Kingdom of God. 651 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,520 What do you say about the rich? It's easier for camel in through 652 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:23,120 the eye of the needle. Well, brother, that doesn't 653 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:24,960 really mean that. There was a place over there 654 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,240 called the Eye of the Needle. The camel could get through if, 655 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:28,640 well, maybe there was. I don't. 656 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,640 I've read that too, but I like to take it for what it says. 657 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,840 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. 658 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,920 Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh. 659 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,240 Blessed are you when men hate you and when they exclude you. 660 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,600 We have Christians whining about that today. 661 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,840 He said, Blessed are you and revile you, and cast out your 662 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,120 name is evil for the Son of man's sake. 663 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,920 Rejoice in that day, leap for joy, for indeed your reward is 664 00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,560 great in heaven. Why can't we get excited about 665 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,200 that? For in like manner their fathers 666 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:07,520 did the prophets, he says, But woe to you who are rich, for you 667 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:11,600 received your consolation. Woe to you who are a fool for 668 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,040 you for you. Woe to you who are a fool. 669 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,920 For you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for 670 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,640 you shall mourn and weep. Woe to you when all speak well 671 00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,920 of you. For so did their fathers to the 672 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,440 false prophets. Stay with me. 673 00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:27,880 I believe this is the IT right here. 674 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:37,440 But I say to you, I say to you who here love your enemies hard 675 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,120 to do. Do good, though. 676 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,480 Those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those 677 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,280 who spitefully use you. Anybody ever had to do that? 678 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:48,000 I've had to do that the last month for someone. 679 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,560 It's just it's hard to him who strikes you on one cheek, all 680 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,720 for the other. I come from a Pentecostal 681 00:36:55,720 --> 00:36:57,520 background on one side, the other side. 682 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,880 When my mom married my stepdad they didn't know God and I heard 683 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,880 my granddad and he said one I knew who God was. 684 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,520 He did but he didn't live for God at the time. 685 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,440 Let him the Lord before he died. But he always told me he said 686 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,000 turn 1 cheek they hit you on the other. 687 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:15,800 Fight him because of the devil. That was his philosophy of it. 688 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,840 I kind of liked it. But from him who takes away your 689 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,960 cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. 690 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:27,720 Give to everyone who asked of you and from him who takes away 691 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,280 your goods. Do not ask them back. 692 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:36,880 You know, I went and helped the guy one time and he had this 693 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,520 little piece. I was going to had to go get 694 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:39,880 something down there. He's building fence. 695 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,200 He got go in there and get this deal. 696 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:46,200 He honestly, I think he'd bought a pack of them double packs of 697 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,600 combo locks and locked this thing up and the locks cost more 698 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,040 than the part I was going to get. 699 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:56,560 That's the way some people are. Lock it up, got to replace it if 700 00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,680 they steal it. And just as you want men to do 701 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,640 to you, you also do likewise to them. 702 00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,240 What is this I'm reading about tonight? 703 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:07,120 Say it with me the IT. But if you love those who love 704 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:11,120 you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who 705 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,600 love them. And if you do good to those who 706 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,520 do good to you, what credit is that to you? 707 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:19,680 For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from 708 00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,720 whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? 709 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,320 For even sinners lend to sinners, and receive as much 710 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,640 back. But love your enemies, do good, 711 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,640 lend, hoping for nothing in return. 712 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,480 And your Father will be great, and your reward will be great, 713 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,720 and you'll be sons of the Most High that's powerful. 714 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:42,160 For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. 715 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:48,920 Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. 716 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:55,280 And see that led us up to where he says give and yet shall be 717 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,520 given. See, this is a blue plant. 718 00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,880 This is a blueprint. What we're reading here, a 719 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:03,160 beatitude is a blueprint. The happiness often referred to 720 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,360 the happy sayings of Christ because if we live by them, it's 721 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,320 a blueprint. It may not be money. 722 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,480 It could be because God does bless. 723 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,160 But as I said, some of the most happy people are those that had 724 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,840 given their time, tithe and talents. 725 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:24,360 It will come back in good measure, pressed down, shaken 726 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:28,200 together and running over. See most of the time it's not 727 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,960 money because he goes way beyond our thoughts, right? 728 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,160 Ain't there a scripture that says he be goes beyond our 729 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,960 thoughts to what? To our needs? 730 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,360 There's old song says he saw beyond thank God he sees beyond 731 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,360 my thoughts. He saw beyond my thoughts to my 732 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:46,560 knee. That's what happened to you when 733 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,200 you got saved. You thought you needed all the 734 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,840 world, but he went beyond your thoughts to your needs. 735 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:56,160 Aren't you thankful tonight? So I challenge you, as I said, 736 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,320 most of here tonight. I'm sure our tithers I'm sure 737 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:03,840 are givers, but never let the enemy tell you how much you 738 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,440 could have done with what you give to God. 739 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,240 It doesn't matter. I'll never forget what I settled 740 00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:12,880 that with a devil. When you don't, I said it 741 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:13,960 doesn't matter what I could have done. 742 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,600 It's not mine, it's God's. It's a commandment from him. 743 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,440 Look what God's doing. With the IT that I give him, 744 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,560 he's multiplying it. He's people seeing me living in 745 00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,080 my life and they're coming to Christ. 746 00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:28,680 They're seeing you living in that your life. 747 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:30,880 I'm far beyond your words can ever speak. 748 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,160 They're watching your actions and they're coming to Christ. 749 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:37,360 Somebody ought to say, man, I'm glad I figured this out a long 750 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:38,880 time ago. It doesn't matter. 751 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:40,760 I give it to God. God knows. 752 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,720 So see now what happens or something supernatural happens 753 00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:49,320 right here because I've taken the curse off the 100% and I've 754 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:53,520 given the 10 to God and now God can bless the 90. 755 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,440 I can do way more on 90 blessed than I can 100 cursed. 756 00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:04,320 So however God chooses to bless me, whatever the IT is, let it 757 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:08,440 happen, may not be money, it could be money. 758 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,640 But I pray that your prayer tonight, whatever it is, 759 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,840 whatever the IT is, I want you to say, not that I seek the 760 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:20,480 gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account. 761 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,120 Isn't that powerful? I'm not preaching you something 762 00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,680 I have not practiced. I have. 763 00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:29,200 I'm not preaching to you that I have practiced it. 764 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:34,080 I've saw this work for me so many times, so many times. 765 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,600 And you know, we want to say, well, brother, you got to give 766 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:37,680 this way. I'll never forget it. 767 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,680 And I'm not bragging on anything I've done. 768 00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,640 I don't want you to take it that but as Ronnie Christian come 769 00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,720 here that time told the story about me walking across the 770 00:41:44,720 --> 00:41:48,080 parking lot giving $1000 and it was because it wasn't because it 771 00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,280 was me and Ronnie, it's because the Holy Spirit struck me down 772 00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:55,160 and said go give the man $1000. And that's what I did. 773 00:41:56,240 --> 00:42:01,800 That's what I did and I'll never forget one night I was early on 774 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,080 when I was when I grabbed the concept of it's not about the 775 00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,600 money. The Lord spoke to me and I 776 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,520 didn't have the money on what God told me to give this mother 777 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:14,320 man, but I give it anyway. And I said, God, you better get 778 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,240 me that rodeo. You better make sure I win that 779 00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:18,280 day and you better make sure that check is the banker that 780 00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,400 that preacher gonna have a hot check in his pocket. 781 00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,760 I said, I'm just telling you, but I obeyed you and man that 782 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:26,880 you know, and it's not about the money, it's about the obedience. 783 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,320 But God took care of it. Amen. 784 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:32,120 But that's the place we have to come back to and know that God 785 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,160 does not operate. God doesn't want you in your 786 00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:37,120 financial security blanket. He wants you dependent on Him. 787 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:42,480 And until we grasp that, we're going to remain bound up, 788 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,800 indebted up. We're going to, I've been there. 789 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,720 We're going to remain these ways until we start listening to the 790 00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:50,440 voice of God of what to give and what to take and what to receive 791 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,280 and what to let go. Amen, Because it's about sowing 792 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:57,040 and reaping in this life. But I can stand and I can say as 793 00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:01,800 you do tonight, my God shall supply all of your needs 794 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:05,560 according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. 795 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,480 So when you have given of your time, your tithe, and your 796 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:15,160 talent, and also your heart to him, you can change this word. 797 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,760 I can say tonight, my God shall supply all of your needs. 798 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,480 He shall supply all of my needs because I've entrusted my, I've 799 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,440 entrusted my life with him, right? 800 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,800 And you can change this word to all my needs. 801 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:31,640 Have you ever quoted that? You ever quoted the other way 802 00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,360 and told somebody, my God shall supply all your needs. 803 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:36,920 Why? Because I've already trusted him 804 00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:39,520 and I've already seen what He can do in my life. 805 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:41,400 Say man, we had a flat one night. 806 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,640 On the other, donut tires, when they 1st come out, do you all 807 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:45,000 remember them little bitty tires? 808 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:50,400 And we had bought a set of tires in Arizona recaps and I was 809 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,160 running 80 miles an hour trying to get to Idaho. 810 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,520 We was going Phoenix to Idaho to rodeo in Idaho. 811 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,840 We was leaving Idaho and going back across to Sheridan, WY. 812 00:43:57,840 --> 00:43:59,920 You'll mop that. It's not a little bitty area. 813 00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:03,040 And we was in a minivan. I had a blowout and the side of 814 00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:06,360 the road was gravel running 8590 miles an hour trying to make it 815 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,040 because we just put a rear end in that van that week before and 816 00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,880 trying to get to the rodeo in in Idaho. 817 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:16,200 And we're running on this tire and it blows. 818 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,640 At my first experience with recaps, that was all we had the 819 00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:23,560 money to buy at that time. We put that $20 recap on there 820 00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,040 and it blew out like they killed us. 821 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:29,080 So we run out. We, we, we've got this spare and 822 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:30,640 it's a little donut. We've already heard these 823 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,120 stories. You don't need to drive 10 miles 824 00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,800 on these donut, 20 miles to Max. Remember when they 1st come out? 825 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:38,440 Well, we jacked it up, borrowed 2 jacks from a trucker, put the 826 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:41,120 doughnut on the back, put the good tire off the back on the 827 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,160 front. Now we had no spare and was 828 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:44,560 almost Idaho. We get to Idaho. 829 00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:46,520 Then we got to go to Sheridon Wyoming the next day and 830 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:50,240 somewhere is nothing was open. We're running 8085 at night on 831 00:44:50,240 --> 00:44:52,680 that doughnut. We put all we put over 1000 832 00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,080 miles on that donut that week before we put a tire on it. 833 00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:01,680 My God shall anybody played prayed over tires with the deal 834 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,040 sticking out. I was going down. 835 00:45:03,240 --> 00:45:05,720 I could tell you story after story. 836 00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,920 I was about to get on airplane one time and something happened 837 00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,760 to God said don't and it it had a bunch of problems. 838 00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,560 One of them little puddle jumpers had friends go down in 839 00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:17,240 them not to see again. There's so many time just 840 00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:20,200 listening to the voice of God. See, that's the IT in my life. 841 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,720 When you're on an airplane that's going down, you don't 842 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:26,040 think about money. When you have a blowout running 843 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:27,880 85 and you're sliding in rocks, you're going. 844 00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,160 The money's the last thing on your mind. 845 00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,600 So what's the IT in your life? Could it be eternal life? 846 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:37,040 Could it be happiness, peace and joy? 847 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,720 Take all the money. Take all the wealth and riches, 848 00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,680 but see God, if you read his word, there's no way that you 849 00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,800 can that you can trust Him with every part of it and not trust 850 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,720 Him with the financial part of it and expect for it all to mix. 851 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,800 Jesus said, what did he say that was a good y'all are to memorize 852 00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:55,080 that. I had to remember a lot tonight. 853 00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,400 Y'all could remember that one. What I said we remember a niece 854 00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:02,160 from now on. But what did Jesus say? 855 00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:05,960 He said you shouldn't have left one undone without the other. 856 00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,920 You come into the temple and you give so everybody would see you. 857 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,880 Jesus called that hypocritical because he said you ain't got 858 00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,480 the mercy and the grace and the things down yet. 859 00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,240 So what good is the giving going to do that? 860 00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:19,840 You'd be surprised. People trying to buy their way 861 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,040 to heaven. Hey, man, get your mercy and 862 00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,360 your grace and, and, and your forgiveness and your love for 863 00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,680 you now and all that stuff. When you get that in your 864 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:30,960 spirit, guess what? The money ain't going to mean 865 00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,120 nothing to you because you know, it's all God's and he owns the 866 00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:37,160 cattle on 1000 hills and somehow, someway, my God's going 867 00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,360 to take care of me. I was going down. 868 00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:41,880 I was going down that big old mountain Passover there in 869 00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:43,440 Colorado. I don't know, there's so many of 870 00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,080 them, but we had this old guy Rodie, I got to tell. 871 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,520 This is 8:00. We had this old guy. 872 00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:51,800 I told Jared I was going to preach to 9. 873 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:56,840 He asked me 12 and I said 9. But we we was going down there. 874 00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,280 You know the wires over here. We turn the headlights on. 875 00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:01,920 This was early years. This is for God got the 876 00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,680 blessing. But I done figured it out to get 877 00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:06,480 from where I was to where I wanted to go. 878 00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,360 It took God. We had these two little wires 879 00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,960 that he had stuck in there and tighten them down and they stuck 880 00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,320 out and you had to twist them together to have headlights. 881 00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:19,480 Oh, Chevy Astro vans, that is tough. 882 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,080 But we was driving that thing and I was coming down that Raton 883 00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:27,200 Pass I think it was and the headlights went out. 884 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,440 I'm talking about out and I hadn't drove his van that much. 885 00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:31,840 He just told me, hey, turn the headlights on. 886 00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,280 You got to twist some 2 wires over dash was missing. 887 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,720 I mean junkers, you know, I'm talking about Scott, you 888 00:47:36,720 --> 00:47:42,680 probably drove a few, but I mean rodeo and I'm not picking on if 889 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:45,600 you rodeo, you drove junkers because if they wasn't a junker 890 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:50,080 this year, next year with AI put 100,000 miles a year on a 891 00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,240 vehicle, go buy a brand new one and then walk up here and be 892 00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:55,880 upside down. Forty $30,000, you know, but you 893 00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:59,760 could buy a new one then for 25. What like it is now. 894 00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:05,320 But so my first thought is I started praying and then I 895 00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,200 thought I better start driving while I'm praying because this 896 00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:10,200 vehicle ain't moving. I'm running fast. 897 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:12,600 So I'm trying to find these wires and get them twisted till 898 00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,400 the headlights will come on. They're this dark. 899 00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:17,640 I can barely see the white line to keep it off these mountain 900 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,160 and time I got it twisted. I never got it twisted. 901 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,080 It didn't make contact. So we pulled over. 902 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:27,280 Headlights were out. But my God shall supply all my 903 00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:30,840 needs according to his riches and glory. 904 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:35,720 What a God we serve. I'm telling this stuff works 905 00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:38,640 y'all, but you got to figure out what your it is. 906 00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,760 A lot of people ain't figured out what their it is. 907 00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:43,760 You got to go to work. You got to. 908 00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,160 I get all that. I've been down all those roads, 909 00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,840 but I still have figured this out as you stand your feet. 910 00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,440 Thanks for listening to the Cross Power Church podcast. 911 00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:57,400 May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be 912 00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,800 found in Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we 913 00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,960 would love for you to join us in person. 914 00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,520 You can find service times at crosspowerchurch.com.