1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,160 Today we have a special treat because Pastor Rob Ketterling 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,280 who is the founding and lead pastor of River Valley Church in 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:11,320 Minneapolis, MN is with us in the house today. 4 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:15,600 Now here's the deal, Church family. 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,240 Pastor Rob pastors a multi site church just like our church. 6 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:23,560 They, we have 4 locations. They have 11 locations all 7 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,040 across the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Saint Paul. 8 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,480 But Pastor Rob is not just a pastor, he is a friend. 9 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:33,200 And so Sarah and I have been doing life with Pastor Rob and 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,920 his wife Becca for almost a quarter of a century. 23 years 11 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,080 ago we met at Rob's church in Minnesota. 12 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,480 And I'm just so thankful for your friendship. 13 00:00:41,480 --> 00:00:43,240 Friendship, your mentorship to me. 14 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,560 He's been a Big Brother in ministry to us and so thankful. 15 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,680 But he's also an author. And about a year ago he released 16 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:51,800 what's this book called, The Generous Life, or we'll say The 17 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,880 Generous Life. And man, oh man, oh man, as soon 18 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,400 as I saw this book and the concepts inside of it, I said, 19 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,360 Pastor Rob, you have to come to our church. 20 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:01,360 That was 14 months ago, you guys. 21 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,240 That's how in demand this guy is. 22 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,560 He literally just got back from teaching these principles in 23 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,440 Australia. God has an anointing on Pastor 24 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,920 Rob's life to minister to us. And so man, we are pumped that 25 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:16,200 in the middle of this financial series, I said, Pastor Rob, come 26 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,680 on, don't just teach us, challenge us. 27 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,800 Somebody say challenge come on every location, put your hands 28 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:32,800 together for my friend pastor. Rock, come on. 29 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:33,360 Amen. Amen. 30 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:35,240 You can be seated. You can be seated. 31 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:39,040 It's a joy to be here. And like your pastor said, Matt 32 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,680 and Sarah have been friends of ours for almost 25, which is 33 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:43,680 hard to believe. Before we had Gray hair. 34 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,760 And it's a joy. And I just want you to know 35 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,440 this. We've admired your pastors as 36 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,960 they multiply. I you have no idea how many 37 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,640 churches were on the brink of closing and they coached them up 38 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,720 or those that were struggling and they coached them up like 39 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 your reward for sending them on the road and letting them 40 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,160 minister and to help these churches. 41 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:10,400 Their heart is for pastors and when they're out from here, they 42 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,760 are multiplying the effectiveness of what God's 43 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:14,880 doing here. And if you love your pastors, 44 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:16,360 can you show your love and appreciation? 45 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,600 Just give them a handclap like love, love, love them. 46 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,480 When he asked me to be here at this time of year, I said yes, 47 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,200 it's 4° in Minnesota. Praise God, when it's seven, 48 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:35,200 it's 76° warmer here than back home right now. 49 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:37,200 That was an easy prayer to answer. 50 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,000 All right. Oh, man, it's a joy. 51 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,880 And as he said, I have a book on the generous life, and I can't 52 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:45,760 believe that God has allowed me to do that. 53 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:51,760 I'll be honest, we started our whole church on credit cards. 54 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,720 Nobody would give us a loan. I went to seven different banks. 55 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,160 They all said no, there was no church planning group that gave 56 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,440 you money. And I had five Visa Gold credit 57 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,480 cards, each with a $20,000 limit. 58 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,760 And I said to my wife, I think the Lord provided with Visa 59 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,320 Gold. So we did. 60 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:15,320 We put $100,000 on credit cards at 21% interest. 61 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,760 OK, the first time I met Dave Ramsey, financial peace guy, I 62 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,040 said, forgive me Dave for I have sinned. 63 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,040 I mean like, that's all I said to him. 64 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,600 Our our conference room, true story. 65 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,840 Our conference room is named the Visa Gold conference room. 66 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:33,360 And people like, were you sponsored by them? 67 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,160 I said, no, I sponsored them. You know, like, and it's just to 68 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:41,960 remind people that like, look what God did, Look what God did. 69 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,560 We, we gave our first offering away. 70 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:45,960 We got our first offering. I gave it all the way. 71 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:47,800 And my wife said, like, you know, we do have bills. 72 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:49,760 Like, do you plan on? I was like, I don't know, I 73 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:54,120 didn't think that through. So I just, I look at where we 74 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:58,080 are and what God has done. And, and I can just tell you, 75 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,680 I've learned lesson after lesson after lesson. 76 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:05,120 And in 2008 we started doing Kingdom builders like a lot of 77 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:10,240 churches do you do. And we raised 800,000 over our 78 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,000 tide, which was incredible. And over the years, this very 79 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:20,079 last year, our church raised 12.5 million over the tide. 80 00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:22,360 Something supernatural has happened. 81 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:26,560 Yeah. And it also let you know we gave 82 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,840 $10 million to world missions gave away. 83 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,880 And, and we have a our church is obsessed with missions. 84 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,560 We want to send 500 missionaries out from our church and right 85 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,760 now we're at 299 that we've sent out into the world and we're 86 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,240 just like God take us on this generosity journey. 87 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,360 Let us be generous with the people we send with the money we 88 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,320 give. And so he's asked me to steward 89 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:56,280 this and and so I at least likely, least likely guy to do 90 00:04:56,280 --> 00:04:58,440 it, but it gives God all the glory. 91 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,360 OK, so we're going to get into generosity, but I'm going to do 92 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,400 a little mini sermon after I show you my family. 93 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,440 And it's not the generosity sermon, but take a look at my 94 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:08,440 family. Take a look at this picture. 95 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,800 You'll see our family up there. You'll see my wife Becca up 96 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,720 there and my our oldest son Connor and his wife Alexia on 97 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,600 the far right. And he's holding Beckham and 98 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,360 Anastasia, first two grandchildren, then our youngest 99 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,400 son Logan, his wife Mac, and then our little Enzo. 100 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,120 They just adopted Enzo. And we're so excited to have 101 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,920 three grandkids. And here's where the little mini 102 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,240 sermon comes in. Connor, our oldest son, was born 103 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:36,000 with autism, OK. And we didn't know it at the 104 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,320 time. We just noticed each little 105 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,160 idiosyncrasy. He'd only sleep in the car seat, 106 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,280 buckled in. If we laid him in the crib, 107 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:47,840 cried all night, put him in the car seat, He would sleep. 108 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:50,920 And how many sleep deprivation? You're like, bring that car seat 109 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,960 in, you know, and we're putting it in his room like he likes the 110 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:55,400 car seat. We're going to do that, you 111 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,920 know? But that was a sign of autism. 112 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,120 And then we noticed that everything was a train. 113 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,000 He lined everything up. So we bought him trains. 114 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,560 And then we noticed that he didn't make eye contact. 115 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:06,240 And he. Yeah. 116 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,360 And we thought, oh, he's shy. He's very shy. 117 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:10,240 Father's very outgoing, but he's very shy. 118 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,400 And then we noticed that he only parroted back to us. 119 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:14,520 Where are we going? Where are we going? 120 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:15,520 To the mall. To the mall. 121 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:16,720 So you anywhere. OK. 122 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:19,280 And we brought him to the doctor, and they said your son 123 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:21,160 has autism. And we didn't know that. 124 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,680 And they said you need to put him into special Ed and get him 125 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,120 some schooling and help. So we did that. 126 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:31,800 And we, as we saw him, we just thought we could pray for a 127 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:33,040 miracle. Let's pray for a miracle. 128 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:34,440 So we started praying for miracle. 129 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:38,000 We said, God, we love our Son where he is, but we know that 130 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,080 you're a miracle working God and there's a miracle waiting for 131 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:42,440 him in heaven. So we're going to pray for that. 132 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:46,320 And and nothing happened. And I just want you to know that 133 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,160 we loved our son like he was, but we knew a miracle was 134 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:50,920 possible. And if you have a child with 135 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,960 special needs and you've never read this, there's a poem or a 136 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:55,920 little story called Welcome to Holland. 137 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,800 Says all your friends are going to Italy and you dream of going 138 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,080 to Italy and your plane gets diverted to Holland. 139 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:03,000 Don't get bitter. Love Holland. 140 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,880 So we're like, OK, God, we love him. 141 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:06,720 But you know, we'd love to see heal. 142 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,160 It didn't happen. So after two years of praying, I 143 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:10,720 gave up. I'm just going to be honest, I 144 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,400 gave up. I said, God, you're a kind God 145 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,240 and a loving God. But I'm not seeing very much 146 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,720 power right now. So I'm not even going to pray 147 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:18,760 for it. I don't even know how I'm going 148 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:20,920 to have faith for anybody else. And can I tell you that's a 149 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,640 terrible way to live. Don't let your reality go 150 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:28,040 against God's word. God's word is true no matter 151 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,880 what your reality is. So I'm living. 152 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,000 Yeah, that's that's somebody needed to hear that. 153 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,640 And so one day this visiting pastor is there and he goes, 154 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:38,080 hey, is there anything we can pray for? 155 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,280 And I was just about to say church growth or better 156 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,240 offerings or some pastoral prayer request. 157 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,560 And my wife goes, our son has autism and we want to see him 158 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,320 healed. And I'm thinking we kind of gave 159 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,000 up on that one. But I'm not getting in front of 160 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,160 Mama bear. How many, you know what I'm 161 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:55,280 talking about? You're just not. 162 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:56,760 She's kind of tenacious in that moment. 163 00:07:57,520 --> 00:07:59,760 And, and he goes, OK, so he lays hands on our son. 164 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,080 And he goes, the Lord has heard that you've called him a good 165 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:06,000 God and a kind God. But now to show you that he's a 166 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,240 powerful God, he's going to heal your son for his glory. 167 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:10,040 How many of you got my attention now? 168 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:12,400 Word of knowledge going on right there. 169 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,000 And he lays hands on Connor. And Connor gets done, the 170 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,640 prayers finished. Connor looks up. 171 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:19,200 He goes, hey, dad, where are we going? 172 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,040 He starts to play with all the other kids. 173 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:25,600 He starts to run. Miraculously healed 100% of 174 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:31,200 autism just like that. We, we bring him to the teacher 175 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:32,919 at special Ed. We bring him in teacher Pam. 176 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:34,520 We're like, look, she goes, Oh my goodness. 177 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,320 She gets her supervisor. She goes test Connor and she 178 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,760 goes, what am I looking for? He's he's, I don't see anything. 179 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,080 She goes, he had autism. He got miraculously healed in 180 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,760 church yesterday. The supervisor goes, I don't 181 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:47,880 believe in healing. I don't believe it happened. 182 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:50,800 I believe you've been putting a perfectly normal child in 183 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,320 special Ed for two years. How dare you steal from Special 184 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,200 Ed? And I said, yeah, it's every 185 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:58,280 parent's dream to RIP off Special Ed. 186 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:02,480 You know, I said, no, God healed my son, and he gets all the 187 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:03,640 glory. Yeah. 188 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,640 So now I share this with you. And. 189 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,520 And I can't show a family picture and not give God the 190 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:13,600 glory. Do you see what I'm saying? 191 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,920 So let me just show you how your miracle is possible. 192 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:17,920 All right? I just want to show you 193 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:19,640 something. Put this slide up on the screen. 194 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:20,520 I want to show you where you're at. 195 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,560 You're living in your now. But the Bible says in first 196 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:27,160 Peter 24 that by his stripes you're healed, that Jesus Christ 197 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:28,920 has already paid for your healing. 198 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,760 The Bible also tells us in Revelation 21 that whatever is 199 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,520 wrong on this earth will be righted in heaven. 200 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,360 It's going to be fixed. OK, so go ahead, put the next 201 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,320 slide up. What we're doing when we're 202 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,720 praying for this right now, we're acknowledging where we 203 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,560 are. We're saying, God, I know I'm in 204 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:46,720 this sickness. I'm not denying it, but I am 205 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,600 asking for what you paid for on the cross. 206 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,720 And I'm asking for what is waiting for me into heaven to be 207 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:55,840 pulled into my now. And you see the line with the 208 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:57,360 miracle. That's all it is. 209 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,840 So we can have faith to pray for this. 210 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,880 It's waiting for us in heaven. And you're not crazy to say I 211 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:08,400 believe I'm healed. Well, in heaven, I'm healed. 212 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,440 I know my reality right now, but I'm aligning with heaven's 213 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:14,640 reality. And you say, can we do that? 214 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,600 Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in 215 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:21,880 heaven. Do you understand? 216 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,760 You're just saying I want heaven's reality in mine now. 217 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:27,200 Now you don't control the release date. 218 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,880 Some people make us feel guilty, like if you had faith, you'd get 219 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:31,360 it. Otherwise, you know, how about 220 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:32,720 me? I had given up. 221 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:35,840 How about the man at the pool of Bethesda? 222 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:37,840 He didn't even know who Jesus was. 223 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,200 So don't live under any condemnation. 224 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:44,280 Just realize we serve a loving God that releases miracles into 225 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:46,680 our now. Can I just share something with 226 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:49,160 you? When my kids were little, they 227 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:50,760 used to ask for ice cream. This way. 228 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,440 They go, dad, you're probably not going to do it. 229 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:56,480 And I go, what am I not going to do? 230 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,480 And they're like, well, you're probably not going to get us ice 231 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,040 cream. I said, don't ever come to me 232 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:02,640 and ask for ice cream like that ever again. 233 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,840 Do it like this. Hey, Dad, you're the best dad on 234 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,280 planet earth. Wouldn't today be a great day 235 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,520 for ice cream? How many know they got a lot 236 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:17,280 more ice cream that way? We go to God for a miracle. 237 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,440 We say, God, you're probably not going to do it. 238 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,080 Why don't we go to God? God, you're a loving God and a 239 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,600 Thai God. Wouldn't it be just like you? 240 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:28,880 They say wait, wait. Sometimes I'd say to the kids, 241 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,320 it's not the time for ice cream. It's 4:00. 242 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,440 Dinner's coming, trust me. Ice cream's coming. 243 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,080 Just trust me. I'm a loving dad. 244 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,320 Ice cream's coming after dinner. So we got to trust our loving 245 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,680 heavenly Father. He releases it at the right 246 00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:45,800 time, but we're allowed to ask. So if faith is rising up in you 247 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,120 right now and you want me to pray with your prayer, maybe 248 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,440 you've prayed against the disease, the sickness, something 249 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,600 you didn't want to know in the name of, and you just want to 250 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,240 say, God, one more time, I want to pray for a miracle. 251 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:56,960 I want to join your faith in my faith. 252 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,080 Let's pray together. Raise your hand here at all the 253 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,320 campuses, East downtown Cape Coral. 254 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,480 Come on, raise your hand if you're believing, Lord, you see 255 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,320 these hands. We are believing for miracles. 256 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:11,640 We are believing for miracles. Lord, forgive our just giving 257 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:13,440 up. Lord, I just said you're kind 258 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:15,880 God and loving God, but you are a powerful God. 259 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,160 And so God, I pray that you would still do miracles. 260 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,040 You would do breakthroughs, things that they've been waiting 261 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:22,680 for. I pray with them, their 100th 262 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:25,880 prayer, their thousandth prayer. I pray Lord Jesus and come to 263 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:28,680 agreement they're one day closer to their miracle and today would 264 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:31,600 be a great day for a miracle to be released. 265 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,400 Lord, we trust you. We trust you with the timing, 266 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:38,280 but we will not stop asking for what is waiting for us in heaven 267 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,000 to be released into our now. And when it does, we will give 268 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,040 you all the praise and all the glory and all the honor because 269 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,560 you are a powerful God and it's your name, Jesus, that we lift 270 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:50,480 up and pray in. Amen, Amen, Amen. 271 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,240 Come on, let's thank God for what he has done, what he will 272 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:59,160 do. Thank you so much. 273 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:00,920 Appreciate that. That was awesome. 274 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,280 I said if you keep going, I'll go to the altar call right now. 275 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:10,240 We're here to talk about generosity and I want to read 276 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:12,560 the Scripture, 2nd Corinthians 9/11. 277 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:19,200 Apostle Paul says you'll be enriched in every way so that so 278 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:23,240 that you can be generous on every occasion and through US, 279 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:27,320 your generosity will result in Thanksgiving to God. 280 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:32,520 I want to talk to you about living out your so that you've 281 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:37,400 been enriched in all these ways so that you can be generous. 282 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:39,880 Now you say, well, I, I don't feel rich. 283 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:43,440 I didn't say you had to be rich. I said you could be generous. 284 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,960 I've seen rich people that are not generous and I've seen poor 285 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:48,960 people that are like take the shirt off their back, give it to 286 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:50,600 you. There's something about this 287 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,080 living out the so that, and I want to let you know that where 288 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:58,600 we live, it makes this verse really apply to us. 289 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,640 In the Bible, we have been enriched. 290 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,520 Where we live right now, we have been enriched. 291 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:09,600 If you make $50,000 in America, 50,000, you're one of the 292 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:15,000 richest 1% on planet Earth. Now we compare to millionaires 293 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:20,760 and billionaires, but 50,000 means you're the richest 1% on 294 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,160 planet Earth. We better get this right to live 295 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:27,080 out the so that and so I want to talk to you about a few things 296 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:31,440 that we've taught to our church and combat a couple lies that 297 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,160 keep us from living out the so that to be generous. 298 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,360 Now, the first thing we teach at our church is generosity starts 299 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,480 with understanding. Like we're going to start with 300 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:43,440 tithing. And I love that your church does 301 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,720 that. Tithing has come under a lot of 302 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,160 attack. That's giving your first 10th to 303 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:52,280 the work of the Lord saying God, I honor you and you're my God 304 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:56,080 and I'm on mission with you. I live differently and I honor 305 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:57,960 you with this. OK, people say like, well, 306 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:00,880 that's law. Well, it's in the law, but you 307 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:04,560 know what? It predates the law, it predates 308 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:07,640 the law. Abraham before there was law, 309 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,720 there was relationship and Abraham tithe. 310 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,080 Little bit later we see Jacob and Jacob says, God, if you Get 311 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:16,800 Me Out of this mess, you will be my God. 312 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:18,720 And what will I do? I'll tithe. 313 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:23,000 I'll tithe 10% of everything. So I look at that and say a 314 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,560 heart touched by God wants the tithe way before there was ever 315 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:28,280 lost. So we start there at our church 316 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,200 and we say, if you're not doing that, start there and watch what 317 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,200 God does. And I love that you're in this 318 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:37,600 series, but then when it comes to living out the so that you're 319 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,160 like, how am I going to live this out? 320 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:41,560 How am I going to do this? I want to tell you one of the 321 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:45,040 most important things to do for your Kingdom builders and you're 322 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,920 over and above this to live out the so that is to give your very 323 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:53,280 first gift, your first gift. Some of you watch Kingdom 324 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:56,680 builders and you watch these offerings that are received and 325 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:58,960 you're like, oh, that's for other people. 326 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,040 That's for them. That's not for me. 327 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,360 We're barely getting, we're just going to do the tithe. 328 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,360 We're we're barely getting by. We're not going to do that. 329 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:09,400 That's for other people. And sometimes you're in a 330 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,080 service like this and you feel a little tinge of like, you know 331 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:13,800 what? I want to do something. 332 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,280 I want to, I want to, I want to step out and do that. 333 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:17,920 And then you know what the enemy does. 334 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:21,880 The first lie that he says to us is your gift won't matter. 335 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,160 Your gift won't matter. Just just keep it. 336 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,680 Don't worry. It it's so interesting to say 337 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:32,080 it's it's only $50, you're going to get $50. 338 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,360 Don't give it. That's so long, so little. 339 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:37,320 You know what, just go to bass pro shops and spend it there. 340 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,120 It's better over there at Bass Pro Shops. 341 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:41,520 The enemy says to the other person that's like, oh, I'm 342 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,800 going to give $500 and the enemy says don't, don't do that. 343 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,040 That gift won't matter, $500 what? 344 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,440 Just go, go to Dick's Sporting Goods and buy that new driver 345 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:51,760 that that'll be best. Don't. 346 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:53,240 It won't make a difference for the church. 347 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:57,480 Isn't it interesting the enemy wants to stop you from giving 348 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,560 your first gift? I had a guy come up to me after 349 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:00,320 church. True story. 350 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,800 He said I was going to give today, but I don't know it was 351 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,800 only $5000 like that would make a difference. 352 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:08,640 I was like that, that would that would help. 353 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,800 That would that would work, that would that would really move the 354 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:13,920 needle. You know it, it is interesting. 355 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:19,440 Same lie, different amounts, same lie. 356 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:24,960 The enemy knows that generosity is so powerful as a weapon to 357 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,119 build the Kingdom of God and to do this that he doesn't even 358 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,360 want you to get started. Now, Matthew 621 gives us a 359 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:35,600 little insight into this. It says for where your treasure 360 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:40,160 is, there your heart will be. So where you put your treasure 361 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,400 and where you put your money, your heart follows it. 362 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:47,240 And so when you start giving money to Kingdom builders, you 363 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:49,520 say, I'm going to live out the so that I'm going to change the 364 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:51,440 world. This church has vision and I 365 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:53,560 want to do this. You start living out the so that 366 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:54,640 and you put a little money there. 367 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,000 Then you're like, Hey, how's it going with the new campus? 368 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,280 Hey, how's the expansion coming? How's the land thing coming? 369 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:03,680 Because your money is going there and so your heart follows 370 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,440 behind it. And So what the enemy wants you 371 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:08,480 to do, the enemy says, don't give it. 372 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,800 Keep living selfish, keep going, don't go that way. 373 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,400 Keep spending it on yourself. Don't worry about that's for 374 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,840 other people, not for you. And he doesn't want you to 375 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,200 change your direction because the first gift changes the 376 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:24,120 direction. Now I had a bill collector come 377 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:26,360 up to me after church. I was preaching this years ago. 378 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:28,360 He goes, that's so true. I said, what do you mean? 379 00:18:28,360 --> 00:18:31,520 It's so true. He goes, I collect money for 380 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:33,760 bills. I collect bills and I'll call 381 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,160 people and they might owe us $10,000. 382 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,440 And he goes and they're walking away from their debt. 383 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:40,760 And I call them and they answer and I say, can you pay off your 384 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:41,560 debt? I can't do it. 385 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:46,160 Can you pay me $20? And he's $20 like 20. 386 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:47,920 That's that will make a difference. 387 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,720 And he said just send us $20. And as soon as I get them to 388 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:53,560 send $20, you know what I've done? 389 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,560 I've turned their direction and now they're facing towards their 390 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:00,840 debt. All $20 did is change the 391 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,560 direction they were living their life. 392 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:08,120 So the enemy knows if I can keep you from giving $5.50 dollars, 393 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:12,200 5, whatever it is, I just want to keep you in that direction. 394 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,200 And the Bible tells us where your treasures there, your heart 395 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,000 will. That's why it's so important. 396 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,720 Can I just tell you as you do your Kingdom builders year after 397 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,240 year, as you expand, as I've heard the vision that your 398 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,680 pastors have, the vision is gigantic. 399 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:30,560 And so as soon as you can get one gift in, it changes your 400 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,000 direction on this. And then God's like now you're 401 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,240 on the generosity journey. Now you're living out to so 402 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:36,960 that. All right. 403 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,040 So I just want to speak to somebody. 404 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:43,080 You've never done it before. This is the time to do it. 405 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,160 This is the time to get in. There's something happening in 406 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,160 your church and you're going to go to the next level, as people 407 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,920 say, for the very first time. We're in, We're in, and our 408 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,360 little added up with everybody else's little is going to add up 409 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:57,880 to a lot. And we're going to move 410 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:00,960 mountains. And then here's the thing that 411 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,640 we've taught our church. So first lie is won't matter. 412 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,040 Then there's a tool that we've taught our church and it's in 413 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,600 the book along with different teachings like giving is a 414 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,400 muscle. Who's your source? 415 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,520 But this is a teaching that we've done at our church. 416 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,840 Like now that I'm on this journey with Kingdom builders 417 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,880 over and above living out the so that give me some practical ways 418 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:25,160 to live out the so that generosity and it's planned 419 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:26,720 vision dream. That's what we've done at our 420 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:28,000 church. Planned vision dream. 421 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,440 Here's where I learned that I was in Kenya with this couple, 422 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,000 Clive and Mary. Go ahead and put them on the 423 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,840 screen. Clive and Mary are here. 424 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,680 They could be in your church. They're just a older couple. 425 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,080 They were in Kenya and they started an orphanage. 426 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,240 And I said, this is amazing. You got multi site orphanage all 427 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:44,640 across Kenya. How did this start? 428 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,720 They said we saw the need of the orphans and we said, God, what 429 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,440 can we do? And so we just said, well, 430 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:51,360 you've already put this money into our hands. 431 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,960 We're just going to work a plan and buy a little house and start 432 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,280 an orphanage in the house. I said it just started with a 433 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,240 little plan. That's it, I said, But then how 434 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,560 did it go bigger? Because they have this whole 435 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,520 complex in Nairobi. They said one day we're doing an 436 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,680 adoption ceremony and this guy says, Clyde, that's my best 437 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,480 friend and you just gave him and his wife a little baby boy. 438 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,880 I wish there was a way I could say thank you to you for doing 439 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:16,080 that. Goes, Do you have a vision of 440 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,040 what you want your orphanage to be? 441 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,600 And he goes, I do. Clive goes in and lays the 442 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,400 blueprints down. He goes right over there. 443 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,520 I want a boys dorm right there. I want a girls dorm right there. 444 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,240 I want a baby building. And the guy goes, Clive, I'm 445 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,920 going to build this for you for free. 446 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:33,440 I mean, I'm like Clive, That's how it happened. 447 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,040 He goes, yeah, it goes. He goes, it's even better. 448 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:36,320 He goes, he wasn't even a Christian. 449 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,080 He was a Buddhist. A Buddhist guy built his vision 450 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,000 for free. Can you imagine that? 451 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,760 Only God. Only God, I said, but wait, 452 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,680 Clive, you're multi site all across Kenya now you have 453 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,040 orphanages all over. Like how that happened. 454 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:54,120 He goes, same guy came back three years later and said, 455 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:56,480 Clive, are you a dreamer? Do you have a dream in your 456 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,560 heart? And Clive said, I do. 457 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,240 He said, I've been praying for these three cities. 458 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,120 I want to do multi site orphanage across Kenya. 459 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,000 And the guy goes, Clive, you're never going to believe this. 460 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,720 I own buildings in those three cities and my company is leaving 461 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,920 Kenya. We're going to give them to you 462 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:18,120 for free. Imagine that all from planned 463 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:20,040 vision dream. This guy has multi site. 464 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,840 And by the way, one of the orphanages in in in in Nairobi 465 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,440 is on the road where all the consulates are, all the 466 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,120 ambassador like embassies are right there. 467 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:32,320 And then there's the orphans right in the middle of it. 468 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,240 Only God could put, you know, orphans right next to 469 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,400 ambassadors, you know? Yeah, incredible. 470 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:39,880 And as I'm leaving there, wow, that's pretty cool. 471 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,200 Plan, vision, dream. I felt God say that's how you 472 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,440 should teach people to live out the so that they can be 473 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,280 generous. Plan, vision, dream. 474 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,560 So it starts with this a plan. What? 475 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,360 What's your plan to give? What is God already placed in 476 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:56,960 your hands? Just like Clive and Mary, a lot 477 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,680 of us say, oh, I want to do this way out here. 478 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,160 God's like, no, what have I put in your hands already? 479 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,280 Plan, vision, dream. So the plan is Psalm 20, verse 480 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:05,880 4. May He give you the desires of 481 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,600 your heart and make all your plans succeed. 482 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,280 He's already put resources in your hands. 483 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,720 All you have to do is decide how much you'll give over and above 484 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:20,480 your tide to keep blessing the Kingdom of God $50.00 a month 485 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:24,560 $100 a month 505,000. I don't know what God's put in 486 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,840 your hands already, but you just worked the plan. 487 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,960 But you don't stop there. Then you have a vision. 488 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,120 A vision, Habakkuk Tutu. And the Lord answered me. 489 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:37,560 Write the vision down. Make it plain on tablets so he 490 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,680 may run Who reads it? Write down a vision amount every 491 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,240 year. God, here's what I'm going to 492 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:44,600 do. Because you've already kept me 493 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,040 alive and you put it in my hands. 494 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:50,240 But I believe there's more in your hands and I'm going to 495 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:52,280 write it down. And if you put that amount into 496 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,720 my hands, I'm going to give it towards the work. 497 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:58,360 It's called a faith promise. It's just living what Hebrews 11 498 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:00,960 talks about. Without faith, it's impossible 499 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,480 to please him. So you're just believing God. 500 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,520 You, you have more in your hands than I have in my hands. 501 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,360 And so I'm going to trust you to put it in mine. 502 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:12,600 And when you do, I want to live out the so that I, I, I live in 503 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,200 such a generous place and such a wealthy place, I'm going to try 504 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,360 to live out this. So that, and then the third one 505 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:21,920 is to have a dream. Have a dream of what's the 506 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,440 greatest gift you could ever give to God. 507 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,160 See, you simply work the plan and you write the vision down. 508 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,680 I tell everybody, hold on to the dream. 509 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,360 Just hold it. Don't tell anybody. 510 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:36,640 Like when I see people sharing dreams too early in their life, 511 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,200 like I see their brothers getting jealous, throwing you in 512 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,800 a pit, selling me into slavery. Some of you know that story 513 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,560 about Joseph. So just hold the dream. 514 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:45,200 Hold the dream. All right, hold it, hold it, all 515 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,360 right, hold it. And you just hold on to it and 516 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:50,320 see God, could you let me ever give that amount of money? 517 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,760 Wouldn't it be incredible if I could do that? 518 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,600 And you say, can can we do that as Christians? 519 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,520 How come the world gets to do it? 520 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:02,320 Think about all the athletes when they signed the big 521 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,680 contract, they've been dreaming of the day they and they signed 522 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,480 that contract. And then they say it's always 523 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,320 been a dream of mine to buy my mom and dad a house. 524 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,440 And the day I'm buying them, how come they get to live like that? 525 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,560 But I can't live like that for Jesus. 526 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,680 And so everyone in our church just is working the plan, 527 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,160 writing the vision down, saying God, we're going to write it 528 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:24,440 down. We're going to pray for it. 529 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:25,760 And then we're going to have that dream. 530 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,680 You're going to do like Ephesians talks about, 531 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,480 immeasurably more than we could ask or imagine. 532 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,680 And we're just going to hold on to that dream and see what 533 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,560 happens. Now, let me give you some 534 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,680 practical ways that this works in our life. 535 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,160 Park is a young man in our church, 14 years old. 536 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,360 He's an youth group. Here's this message. 537 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,720 And so he goes, I like this. I think God has more in his 538 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,720 hands than I have in mind. And he says to his mom and dad, 539 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,520 I'm going to give $500 this year. 540 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,800 God's going to put $500 in my hands. 541 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,480 And they're like, Park, you have $50.00 in your dresser drawer. 542 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,320 And, and the dad said this on the way out of church, he said 543 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,760 to his wife, looks like we're going to write a check at the 544 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,760 end of the year so Park can reach his goal. 545 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,800 That's what he said at the end of the year, Park didn't give 546 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:15,680 $500, Park gave $1200. And his mom and dad sent me a 547 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,800 text. They said forgive our lack of 548 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,880 faith. Our little boy had more faith 549 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,800 that God had more in his hands than we did. 550 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,280 And here we are. So it worked for Park, another 551 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,040 family in our church, young married couple. 552 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,080 You know, again, remember, this is for everybody. 553 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,920 This is not for rich people. It's for generous people. 554 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,840 During COVID, they, they had their bills just like everybody 555 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:39,200 else. But he kept his job and so he 556 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,240 got the stimulus check. So he got the stimulus check and 557 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:43,800 he said, you know what? I kept my job. 558 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:45,760 Why do we give that to Kingdom builders? 559 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,720 So each year they're given the stimulus checks right over to 560 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,480 Kingdom builders. Like this is awesome. 561 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,320 Each year we pray planned vision dream as a church and they 562 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,040 prayed and they're in church and he says, honey, I, I think God's 563 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,400 got a bigger number for us this year and the stimulus checks are 564 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:02,640 over. I don't know how this is going 565 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,360 to happen. She goes, I have a big number 566 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:06,040 too. He goes, what is your number? 567 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,000 She goes $7500. He goes, that's exactly my 568 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,560 number. So they write it down like God, 569 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:15,840 we're believing for $7500, it's in your hands, put it in ours. 570 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,960 OK, This is Sunday. On Friday, she looks at their 571 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,880 bank account. There's $7500 from his company 572 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,680 in their account. She calls them up. 573 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,880 She goes, honey, there's $7500 just deposited today. 574 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,200 She goes, go talk to your boss. He goes in there and he goes, 575 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:34,520 hey, there's like some money in my bank. 576 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:35,800 If it's a mistake, can I keep it? 577 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,600 You know, like he's like, what happened? 578 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:40,240 And the boss said, you know what? 579 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:43,760 I came in on Monday and I just felt so guilty. 580 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,400 We've done so well during COVID and we haven't done bonuses. 581 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,960 So I told our CFO, get everyone a bonus check by Friday. 582 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,040 How many know? You can pray on Sunday? 583 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:55,720 Your boss can feel guilty on Monday and the check can be 584 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:56,720 there Friday. How many know? 585 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,360 So you're like, not my boss, not my boss. 586 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,000 OK. Prayer and fasting for your 587 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,240 boss. Sorry, prayer and fasting. 588 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,560 All right, And please, some. I know. 589 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,720 Here's what happens. Some of you right now like that 590 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,680 happens. OK, Wait, wait, wait, wait. 591 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:14,720 The God we serve when his disciples need to pay their 592 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,720 taxes, he said go catch a fish. And in that fish, there's going 593 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,680 to be a gold coin. The God we serve fed millions of 594 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,440 people every day. Mana came out of the ground 595 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,280 every day. Do we believe that or not? 596 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,160 The God we serve took a little boy's lunch and fed thousands of 597 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,560 people. He can make a boss feel guilty 598 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:38,240 on Monday in my own life, my wife and I we've lived this up. 599 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,080 We want to lead the way. So we're like playing vision 600 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,440 dream Lord we're just going to work the plan you love it 601 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:46,760 desires of our OK but we have a vision and six years ago God 602 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,640 said go up $10,000 this year you're going to give 10,000 more 603 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,000 to Kingdom builders than last year. 604 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,680 OK Lord where's the money It's in your hands. 605 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,320 We start to pray. Two weeks later, I get a phone 606 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,920 call and this guy says, hey, we'd like to know if you'd like 607 00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:02,600 to join our board. And I was like, no, I'm not a 608 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,400 lot of boards. I'm so busy, I don't have time. 609 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,240 You know, he goes, well, that's too bad. 610 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,400 We got your name from, you know, my brother-in-law. 611 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,480 He said, you're pastor the loves missions. 612 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,240 We give away money on this board and and each board member gets 613 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,600 $10,000 to give to their favorite charity. 614 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,720 And I said, does Kingdom Builders count as my favorite 615 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,240 charity? And they said, Oh yeah. 616 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:23,760 I said, when's the board meeting? 617 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,120 You know, here's a board in Indiana. 618 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,080 I live in Minnesota. I've never met this guy. 619 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,680 I've met his brother-in-law. They call me and say we want you 620 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,720 to join us. How many know the money was in 621 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,760 God's hands and I just needed to have faith to believe God that 622 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,600 he would do this. He puts it in my hands. 623 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,000 I bring back the $10,000 check. And by the way, the board that I 624 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,000 joined, it was a group in Indiana, a couple guys at 625 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,480 breakfast that said we want to start a business just to give 626 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,280 money to missions. That's all they did. 627 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,960 They started a business and when I joined the board six years 628 00:29:54,960 --> 00:30:00,000 ago, they gave away 890,000. This last year, we gave away $4 629 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,040 million from that. Yeah, yeah. 630 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,800 Oh, and it gets better. They said every board member now 631 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,640 gets 50,000 to bring back. I brought back a check for 632 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:15,760 50,000 to Kingdom Builders from a prayer I prayed 6 years ago. 633 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,880 It's in his hands. That's the God we serve. 634 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,760 I mean you, when you think about when the Israelites left Egypt, 635 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,560 it says that the Egyptians threw money at them when they were 636 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,920 leaving. Like take our money, take our 637 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:30,600 gold. If you put that in a movie, you 638 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,600 wouldn't believe it. That's the God we serve. 639 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,880 All right, one more because there are some business owners 640 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,320 here and I want to speak to you for just a minute and then we're 641 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,600 going to address 1 more lie that attacks us. 642 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:44,400 OK, couple in our church, business owners. 643 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,960 OK, they're they hear plan vision dream. 644 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,960 I'll tell you they sent me their giving report from years ago 645 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,360 when they joined our church. The first year they joined our 646 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,720 church, they gave 70,000 to Kingdom builders. 647 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,760 They'd never heard planned vision dream. 648 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,640 And he looks at his wife. He said, honey, let's go on this 649 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,680 journey. Let's do this because we could 650 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,840 give a quarter million because let's just do what God put in 651 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,480 our hands. So they start doing it. 652 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:12,760 They start praying for their vision. 653 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,600 Their vision was a half a million, 18 months later, their 654 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,880 company is exploding and growth. They're giving half $1,000,000, 655 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,720 eighteen months after that. So three years on the journey, 3 656 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,160 years. He calls me up and says pastor, 657 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,280 your wife and my wife and I, we all need to go to dinner. 658 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,920 So we go to dinner and he says it's our joy today. 659 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,480 He said we thought this would take 10 to 15 years to get to 660 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,520 our dream number. We thought it would, but we're 661 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:43,520 here today to give our dream gift, and it's $1,000,000. 662 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:45,880 And as he's doing that, they're crying. 663 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,120 My wife and I, we're all crying. And this is what I really did 664 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,880 say this. I go, what's your new dream? 665 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:56,160 That's what I said. And he goes, I'm not supposed to 666 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,920 tell you. I'm supposed to keep it secret. 667 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,920 And I said, I'll pray for you. I'll cheer you on. 668 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,640 And he said, I want to do it every year for the rest of my 669 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,000 life. And then I said, I pray you live 670 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,480 to be 100. And at the time, he was 39 years 671 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,880 old, and he and his wife have done it every year since. 672 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,360 Matter of fact, the tagline on my book, Giving Meaning to Your 673 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:22,320 Money came from him, he said. You've given meaning to our 674 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,240 money. Planned vision, dream from Park 675 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,920 as a high schooler to a business owner and everybody in between. 676 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:34,680 We can live this way, we can live this adventure, we can make 677 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,440 a difference and live out the so that being some of the richest 678 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,960 people on planet Earth. But there's one lie that attacks 679 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,360 the backside of this that I want to address. 680 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,160 The first lie is your gift won't matter. 681 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:55,960 This lie here is just in case. Maybe we shouldn't give so much 682 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,880 just in case. I know God whispered something 683 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,000 to me to do this year and it felt like a stretch. 684 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,160 But now that I get closer to giving that large amount or 685 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,680 following through with it just in case the economy changes, I 686 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:16,880 should hold Just in case my retirement portfolio doesn't go 687 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,680 all the way. Like I just in case I live to 688 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,600 100. Just in case you get see what 689 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,600 I'm saying? It's not unique to us. 690 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,840 It's all over the Bible. Abraham was promised you're 691 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,040 going to have a son. He said my wife is old. 692 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,400 Like, I don't know how that's going to happen. 693 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,440 I'm old. So he says, God, just just in 694 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,120 case you can't have a son through us, here's my servant 695 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:42,720 Eliezar. He could be my son. 696 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:47,280 God's like, no, don't want him. OK, God, just in case Sarah and 697 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,120 I can't have a baby, here's Hagar. 698 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,840 We'll have a baby here. Isn't that interesting? 699 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,440 It's all over the Bible. Children of Israel when they 700 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,920 were told manna, it's going to come up every day and you just 701 00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:02,360 take enough for one day. That's all you need. 702 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,600 Don't take any just in case God doesn't show up tomorrow, 703 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,080 because he's going to show up. And if you take any extra, you 704 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:10,199 know what's going to happen to it. 705 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,719 It's going to turn to rot and it's going to turn to worms. 706 00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:17,639 And the Bible tells us that some of the people took a little 707 00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:21,679 extra just in case God didn't come through for him and it 708 00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:26,520 turned to rot and the maggots. It's all over the Bible and it's 709 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,199 an attack that the enemy says. So I want to speak to anybody 710 00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:33,120 right now that feels a whisper of a gift that's bigger than you 711 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,040 thought. That feels like God's prompting 712 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,639 you to do something. You need to break that lie of 713 00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:41,159 Justin Case off of you in Jesus name. 714 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:45,400 Jesus is your source. He knows what he's doing. 715 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,360 His promises are true and I know this. 716 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:53,000 In 2020, God told my wife and I, you will give your dream goal, 717 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,960 you will do it. You've been praying for over 10 718 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,040 years for this dream goal, you will give it. 719 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,240 And that year I'm telling you, royalties came in, inheritance 720 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:05,560 money, unexpected blessing, and we are sitting with the largest 721 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,000 amount of money ever in our life. 722 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,760 A dream goal to give to God was right there and it's the end of 723 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:15,360 the year And I said, wow, just in case you think we should hold 724 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,440 like Covid's still going on. It's not over and there's been a 725 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,080 change in the presidency and I don't know, just in case. 726 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,840 So we went to bed that night. We couldn't sleep, couldn't 727 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,720 sleep. Woke up the next morning, my 728 00:35:26,720 --> 00:35:28,680 wife said we can't believe the lie of just in case. 729 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,000 And we Dave it and we shared that with our church, very 730 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,040 vulnerable and transparent that we almost believed the lie of 731 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,720 just in case and held back something God told us to do. 732 00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:43,120 And when we share that with our church, it broke the lie of just 733 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,360 in case off of our church. And our giving was 6.6 million 734 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,520 for Kingdom builders. Now it's 12.5. 735 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:55,400 We're the exact same size church, exact same size church 736 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,720 as 2019. But something supernatural has 737 00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:00,960 broken off. And some of you need that broken 738 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,760 off in Jesus name. You have enough resources. 739 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,880 You have enough. God's your source. 740 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,600 He will never let you down. If he can make manna grow every 741 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,320 day, He can take care of you. He can take care of you. 742 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,680 The Bible says he knows the number of hairs on your head. 743 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,480 He doesn't see a Sparrow fall without noticing it. 744 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:21,920 He can take care of you. So Lord, I pray right now for 745 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,440 next level. I pray that they would live this 746 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,040 out. They're going to the next level. 747 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,800 The dream, the vision in this church is so big, they want to 748 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,720 reach the Southwest Florida. So God, we just pray in Jesus 749 00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:54,840 name that people would break Amen.