1 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,480 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:15,880 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:23,730 Now enjoy this message. I want to share with you some 4 00:00:24,290 --> 00:00:27,010 just some stuffs have been stern in me some things that Pastor 5 00:00:27,010 --> 00:00:30,730 said recently that I thought interesting I need to look into 6 00:00:30,730 --> 00:00:33,010 that so. Been looking into that let's 7 00:00:33,050 --> 00:00:35,370 let's see what and we'll have some other show up and said they 8 00:00:35,370 --> 00:00:38,050 were coming so all right let's pray Father we thank you and 9 00:00:38,050 --> 00:00:41,530 praise you for opportunity to come together and and for the 10 00:00:41,530 --> 00:00:46,170 purpose of we understand this group is wanting to come 11 00:00:46,170 --> 00:00:49,450 together to hear how you operate in the earth and the Kingdom 12 00:00:49,450 --> 00:00:53,120 environment concerning business. Father, I praise you and I thank 13 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:56,560 you that as we just take a look at a few things in your 14 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:00,000 scripture this evening that we'll get just get something new 15 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:01,760 that we'll be able to meditate on. 16 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,120 We'll be able to continue to grow in. 17 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,960 And we want to thank you in advance for the outcome of this 18 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:08,120 evening. We'll give you praise for it in 19 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:09,200 Jesus name. Amen. 20 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:12,360 Amen. Pastor made a comment the other 21 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:15,320 night and he was referring to, and I'm going to be referring to 22 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:19,640 it if you brought a Bible or your digital device. 23 00:01:20,580 --> 00:01:23,340 You know, I'm still trying to get a campaign started on paper 24 00:01:23,340 --> 00:01:27,500 Bibles. But anyway, the 25th chapter of 25 00:01:27,820 --> 00:01:31,700 Matthew, we have a story that we have heard dozens of time. 26 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:33,340 You've been with me for any amount of time. 27 00:01:33,340 --> 00:01:36,060 You've heard these this this particular parable that Jesus 28 00:01:36,060 --> 00:01:40,980 told dozens and dozens of times and and he made a comment. 29 00:01:41,180 --> 00:01:45,220 And then I just started looking at some other things that I, you 30 00:01:45,220 --> 00:01:48,140 know I want to I'm going to have a challenge at the end because 31 00:01:48,140 --> 00:01:50,500 you know last month we talked about the fact that. 32 00:01:50,580 --> 00:01:54,340 We've got a whole team going that we need to help going to 33 00:01:54,700 --> 00:01:57,460 India. And I think Pastor told us that 34 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:02,020 it was $25,000, you know, to buy the airfare for what everybody 35 00:02:02,020 --> 00:02:04,860 he needed to go because they're going to be converting that over 36 00:02:04,860 --> 00:02:08,060 to a Anchor Faith Church India and that they're going to be 37 00:02:08,060 --> 00:02:09,820 doing remodel and different things like that. 38 00:02:09,820 --> 00:02:12,140 So he challenged me to challenge you. 39 00:02:12,940 --> 00:02:15,500 And, you know, and the group that we had last month, you 40 00:02:15,500 --> 00:02:18,020 know, to consider investing in that. 41 00:02:18,060 --> 00:02:22,700 OK, so keep prayerfully considering that and seek the 42 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:24,740 Lord. I've never had him ever not tell 43 00:02:24,740 --> 00:02:26,900 me if I went to him. And I said, you know, what do 44 00:02:26,900 --> 00:02:29,740 you want me to do about this or what do you want me to do about 45 00:02:29,740 --> 00:02:30,980 that? That he didn't answer me. 46 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:33,540 And the problem with most believers today and most 47 00:02:33,540 --> 00:02:35,060 business people? They don't spend enough time 48 00:02:35,060 --> 00:02:38,180 asking the world, what do you want me to do other than pay my 49 00:02:38,180 --> 00:02:41,340 bills? OK, and we're going to see. 50 00:02:41,340 --> 00:02:43,860 We're going to see this tonight in this parable. 51 00:02:43,860 --> 00:02:46,500 And then a few things that pastor brought out. 52 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:50,380 But I'm starting verse 14. Listen to this read along with 53 00:02:50,380 --> 00:02:52,860 me if you're And it says for the Kingdom of God, heaven is as a 54 00:02:52,860 --> 00:02:57,100 man traveling into a far country who called his own servants and 55 00:02:57,100 --> 00:03:00,860 delivered them his goods. He's unto one of them he gave 5 56 00:03:00,860 --> 00:03:04,340 talents to another two to another one, to every man 57 00:03:04,340 --> 00:03:07,860 according as severally his several ability. 58 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:09,620 And straight way he took his journey. 59 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:13,340 Then he that received the five talents went and traded with the 60 00:03:13,340 --> 00:03:16,820 same and made them another 5 talents, and likewise he that 61 00:03:16,820 --> 00:03:18,780 had received 2 gained another two. 62 00:03:18,980 --> 00:03:22,180 But he that received one went and dug a hole in the earth, and 63 00:03:22,180 --> 00:03:23,820 he said and he hid his Lord's money. 64 00:03:24,180 --> 00:03:27,140 After a long time the Lord of those servants came back and 65 00:03:27,140 --> 00:03:30,810 reckoned with them. He said, And so he then received 66 00:03:30,810 --> 00:03:33,130 the five talents came, and brought the Lord the other five 67 00:03:33,130 --> 00:03:34,850 talents. Saying, Lord, thou deliverest 68 00:03:34,850 --> 00:03:37,170 unto me 5 talents. Behold, I have gained another 69 00:03:37,170 --> 00:03:39,730 five more. And he said, And his Lord said, 70 00:03:39,730 --> 00:03:42,170 Well done, now, good and faithful servant, you have been 71 00:03:42,170 --> 00:03:44,610 faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many 72 00:03:44,610 --> 00:03:46,690 things. Enter thou into the joy of your 73 00:03:46,690 --> 00:03:48,900 Lord. And he said, He that also 74 00:03:48,900 --> 00:03:52,140 received the two talents came and said, Lord, thou delivers 75 00:03:52,180 --> 00:03:55,140 unto me two talents, And behold, I have gained two other talents 76 00:03:55,140 --> 00:03:58,140 besides them. His Lord said unto him, Well 77 00:03:58,140 --> 00:04:01,300 done, good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a 78 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:03,180 few things. I'll make you ruler over many 79 00:04:03,180 --> 00:04:04,660 things. Enter thou under the joy of your 80 00:04:04,660 --> 00:04:07,220 Lord. And then he he said that he that 81 00:04:07,220 --> 00:04:09,620 received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew that you were 82 00:04:09,620 --> 00:04:11,460 a hard man. You report you haven't sown. 83 00:04:11,460 --> 00:04:13,060 You gathered where you haven't strawed. 84 00:04:13,380 --> 00:04:15,980 He said I was afraid and went and hid your talent in the earth 85 00:04:15,980 --> 00:04:19,540 and and low. Is that what is yours? 86 00:04:19,899 --> 00:04:22,660 And he said, the answer. The Lord answered and said unto 87 00:04:22,660 --> 00:04:25,500 him, You wicked slothful servant, thou knewest where I 88 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:28,140 reap, I reap where I haven't sewn, and gather where I have 89 00:04:28,140 --> 00:04:30,500 not strawed. You should have therefore put my 90 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:32,100 money with the exchangers. That's. 91 00:04:32,750 --> 00:04:34,990 Old Testament for bank. Anybody relate to that? 92 00:04:35,030 --> 00:04:38,070 OK, bank, He said. Then I would have received mine 93 00:04:38,070 --> 00:04:41,950 own usury, which is interest. OK And he said, for everyone 94 00:04:42,390 --> 00:04:45,910 that has, everyone that has shall be given, and him that and 95 00:04:45,910 --> 00:04:48,790 he'll have abundance, but from him that has not, shall be taken 96 00:04:48,790 --> 00:04:52,270 away even which he had. And he said, he said, cast the 97 00:04:52,270 --> 00:04:54,670 profitable servant into outer darkness, and there shall be 98 00:04:54,670 --> 00:04:56,950 weeping and gnashing a teeth. Several things that I'm going to 99 00:04:56,950 --> 00:04:59,670 cover in here tonight. One of the things that I thought 100 00:04:59,670 --> 00:05:03,610 was interesting. Is that they were all servants. 101 00:05:05,010 --> 00:05:08,050 And one of the things you got to know about a servant is a 102 00:05:08,050 --> 00:05:12,890 servant is well taken care of. A servant doesn't go out and try 103 00:05:12,890 --> 00:05:14,890 to figure out how he's going to get his next meal. 104 00:05:15,410 --> 00:05:18,850 Why? Because his master takes care of 105 00:05:18,850 --> 00:05:22,330 that. So the only job that these guys 106 00:05:22,330 --> 00:05:25,510 had? Was to take whatever the master 107 00:05:25,510 --> 00:05:31,030 gave them and invest it or trade with it to see a profit. 108 00:05:32,310 --> 00:05:34,150 See and and I'm. I'm convinced beyond a shouted 109 00:05:34,310 --> 00:05:37,750 that God's extremely interested in us making profit. 110 00:05:38,150 --> 00:05:42,070 He's extremely interest us making making money upon the 111 00:05:42,070 --> 00:05:43,750 money that we have. But I think it's interesting 112 00:05:43,750 --> 00:05:46,230 because if you do some study on this you'll find out you know a 113 00:05:46,230 --> 00:05:48,830 talent. I've seen so many different 114 00:05:48,830 --> 00:05:53,070 scholars give a a rate to the talent. 115 00:05:53,380 --> 00:05:55,940 OK. And if you got a calculator, we 116 00:05:55,940 --> 00:05:58,380 might play a little bit here just to figure out exactly what 117 00:05:58,380 --> 00:05:59,300 it was. OK. 118 00:05:59,900 --> 00:06:03,460 But they one of the ones that I kind of like that has to deal 119 00:06:03,460 --> 00:06:06,340 with measurements and different things from New Testament times. 120 00:06:07,140 --> 00:06:13,580 A talent basically of silver is £100, OK. 121 00:06:13,940 --> 00:06:18,540 A talent of gold is £200, all right. 122 00:06:18,540 --> 00:06:21,980 So if you took 200, you know and divide it by 16. 123 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:25,540 All right. Ounces are divided into 16. 124 00:06:25,540 --> 00:06:27,980 How many pounds are in an ounce? All right. 125 00:06:28,140 --> 00:06:32,500 And you get that times. Today we're talking billion, OK. 126 00:06:32,500 --> 00:06:34,260 I mean, a lot of, a lot of lot of money. 127 00:06:34,260 --> 00:06:35,420 Somebody figured that out for me. 128 00:06:37,620 --> 00:06:41,260 OK. Gold price right now, 17, OK. 129 00:06:41,260 --> 00:06:45,460 Seventeen $1800 and you're going to have to flip your phone 130 00:06:45,460 --> 00:06:57,580 sideways. # OK. And he gave them five. 131 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:05,940 Yeah. Well, times a hundred 500 * 500. 132 00:07:06,420 --> 00:07:09,660 Can you get it? What is it, 21,000 * 500? 133 00:07:11,220 --> 00:07:13,500 Is that right? I mean, you're the dean in 134 00:07:13,500 --> 00:07:14,860 school. You got to know this stuff. 135 00:07:20,930 --> 00:07:23,330 OK, So on five talents. All right. 136 00:07:23,330 --> 00:07:25,330 So he gives it, let's say give him $1,000,000. 137 00:07:25,890 --> 00:07:28,170 All right. This is what I find interesting 138 00:07:28,570 --> 00:07:31,610 because this is how a lot of people at, you know, we, when we 139 00:07:31,610 --> 00:07:33,770 run our businesses and the different things, we're always 140 00:07:33,770 --> 00:07:37,930 looking to find out, you know, what is it, Lord is going to be 141 00:07:37,930 --> 00:07:41,210 our take or maybe we don't find out what is going to be our 142 00:07:41,210 --> 00:07:43,090 take. We just figured that everything 143 00:07:43,090 --> 00:07:46,010 that we have, when we increase it, that's ours. 144 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,960 Okay, I started one time. I started asking the Lord about 145 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:51,920 that. I said, hey, listen, I've read 146 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,600 enough of your scripture, especially in Matthew chapter 6 147 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,240 where he says don't worry about anything. 148 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,880 He said don't be concerned about, you know, what you're 149 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:01,760 gonna eat, what you're gonna drink, what you're gonna wear, 150 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,600 he said the the people of the earth or the world they seek 151 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,080 after that stuff, he said. But your Father, your Father in 152 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:11,240 heaven knows what you have need of before you ask. 153 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:14,780 Now the the biggest problem we have is that we have, we have 154 00:08:14,780 --> 00:08:19,900 basically succumbed to a culture, all right, all of us, 155 00:08:20,180 --> 00:08:22,260 when we were kids, what did they tell us? 156 00:08:22,540 --> 00:08:26,900 They said go to school, get good grades so that you can get 157 00:08:26,900 --> 00:08:29,660 accepted into college. And when you get into college, 158 00:08:29,660 --> 00:08:31,820 you're going to pick a trade, you're going to pick some kind 159 00:08:31,820 --> 00:08:35,340 of of skill or you're going to do something in college. 160 00:08:35,340 --> 00:08:37,299 You're going to get that degree and hopefully you're going to 161 00:08:37,299 --> 00:08:39,530 find you a job. All right. 162 00:08:39,530 --> 00:08:42,010 That's going to allow you to do that and you can work for that 163 00:08:42,010 --> 00:08:46,010 company and once you get to the age of retirement, they'll give 164 00:08:46,010 --> 00:08:50,210 you a gold watch, throw you a party and you can collect Social 165 00:08:50,210 --> 00:08:53,490 Security. And we've all bought into that. 166 00:08:53,650 --> 00:08:58,170 I mean as far as that's the way we were raised and and and you 167 00:08:58,170 --> 00:09:02,490 know I know my my dad, I know my inlaws, the different they 168 00:09:02,690 --> 00:09:06,130 basically work for a company that had a debt defined benefit 169 00:09:06,130 --> 00:09:08,010 program. Right. 170 00:09:08,010 --> 00:09:11,330 They stopped in 74. They stopped the defined benefit 171 00:09:11,330 --> 00:09:12,650 program. Companies did. 172 00:09:12,650 --> 00:09:14,170 Why? Because people were out living 173 00:09:14,170 --> 00:09:17,850 their money. And so you know the major 174 00:09:17,850 --> 00:09:23,530 corporations today, GM, Cocacola, all these May I BM all 175 00:09:23,530 --> 00:09:27,770 these companies are billions and billions of dollars in debt 176 00:09:28,450 --> 00:09:32,490 because of the benefit program. They promised people to come 177 00:09:32,490 --> 00:09:34,530 work for them that they would have. 178 00:09:35,350 --> 00:09:38,950 My fatherinlaw's in his 90s, hadn't hadn't died yet. 179 00:09:39,390 --> 00:09:43,710 All right, but he's got he he he had a great benefit package from 180 00:09:43,710 --> 00:09:48,510 Occidental or City Service Oil. All right, my motherinlaw. 181 00:09:48,870 --> 00:09:53,470 She worked for Southwestern Bell from 18 to dear Lord, 40 years 182 00:09:54,070 --> 00:09:58,190 that she worked for Southwestern Bell and the telephone got a 183 00:09:58,190 --> 00:10:02,280 great defined benefit package. Right, 174, they stopped that 184 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,360 and said, you know what we're going to do now is that if you 185 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,080 want to invest in your own retirement, we'll match your 186 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:14,680 dollars. So you have a 401K and it's, you 187 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:18,800 know, it's a great tool until the market goes and then your 188 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,800 401K turns to a 2O and 1/2, right. 189 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,440 Because I I've, I've talked to so many people about that they 190 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:27,920 they, you know, they'll come up to me and they'll say man, what 191 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:29,840 did you do? I said I got out of the market. 192 00:10:30,770 --> 00:10:33,170 I mean, right before it hit, thank you, Jesus. 193 00:10:33,610 --> 00:10:35,570 You know, he goes, man, I lost half my savings. 194 00:10:36,290 --> 00:10:39,810 I go, yeah, you will because it's tied to a market that you 195 00:10:39,810 --> 00:10:43,450 don't have control over. You know, I had one man that he 196 00:10:43,450 --> 00:10:48,410 worked for Pepsi his whole life and he had like 400,000 and and 197 00:10:48,410 --> 00:10:52,890 back in 2008, I guess it was when the the housing market 198 00:10:52,890 --> 00:10:55,450 crashed and everything like that, the market went down. 199 00:10:55,530 --> 00:10:59,170 He lost half of it and it affected him physically. 200 00:10:59,930 --> 00:11:03,970 I mean, I I was, I was shocked. Heart attack, you know, and I'm 201 00:11:03,970 --> 00:11:07,570 thinking, man, you were tied up pretty close to that, you know, 202 00:11:07,570 --> 00:11:09,730 to have that kind of effect on you physically. 203 00:11:10,010 --> 00:11:12,850 I mean, you know, I, he may have been a bad eater, I don't know. 204 00:11:13,690 --> 00:11:16,730 But you know, the thing was it affected him and and to the day 205 00:11:16,730 --> 00:11:20,250 that he died, you know, he was just distraught about that. 206 00:11:20,850 --> 00:11:25,060 And see, that's a violation. Of what Jesus said how we're 207 00:11:25,060 --> 00:11:28,060 supposed to, you know, how we're supposed to consider how we're 208 00:11:28,060 --> 00:11:30,780 supposed to view, how we're supposed to take care of our 209 00:11:30,780 --> 00:11:32,900 finances. And so, you know, when I was 210 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:36,300 reading this, I said, you know, Lord, I said you got these guys 211 00:11:36,820 --> 00:11:41,100 and when they came to you because it said he came to 212 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:43,380 reckon with them. That is an accounting term. 213 00:11:43,540 --> 00:11:47,700 I need to see your books. And and and you, you all have 214 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:50,100 been with me long enough to know that if you don't have a set of 215 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:54,240 books for your own home. You you are missing out on 216 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,000 opportunities that God could be giving you because if you don't 217 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,600 know where your money is going, why would he give you anything 218 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,480 of substantial amounts? He won't. 219 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,160 And and and years ago I figured it out because for seven years, 220 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,760 the first seven years and next month I'm thinking about having 221 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:12,480 a party. I want to talk to Duncan about 222 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,280 that. I My business in Oklahoma has 223 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:20,130 been in business for 40 years, the 1st of October 2023. 40 224 00:12:20,130 --> 00:12:23,290 years still going today. Still got people you know 225 00:12:23,290 --> 00:12:27,650 working it making more money than I did way back because we 226 00:12:27,650 --> 00:12:31,730 just got better systems now. But you know in in taking a look 227 00:12:31,730 --> 00:12:36,570 at you know Lord I'm I'm I'm kind of getting an idea of what 228 00:12:36,570 --> 00:12:40,250 you wanted done when it came to the fact that you gave me a 229 00:12:40,250 --> 00:12:43,610 talent and my talent was sign making. 230 00:12:44,290 --> 00:12:48,290 I mean, I I went to college for semester and a half freaked me 231 00:12:48,290 --> 00:12:52,030 out. I ran away, got out, didn't I? 232 00:12:52,030 --> 00:12:55,310 I I said I can't stay here. I said this is the weirdest 233 00:12:55,310 --> 00:12:58,150 place I've ever been in my life. And I I was gone. 234 00:12:58,150 --> 00:13:01,230 I went and got a job and it was at a commercial screen printing 235 00:13:01,230 --> 00:13:05,710 firm and I learned the trade from them and and then I had 236 00:13:05,710 --> 00:13:08,510 another opportunity right before Melanie and I got married. 237 00:13:08,510 --> 00:13:10,590 We got married in June. We in April. 238 00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:15,310 I went to a another I I needed some money for a honeymoon. 239 00:13:16,190 --> 00:13:19,590 You know, I mean, I'm making $4.00 an hour, man. 240 00:13:20,150 --> 00:13:24,070 That's all that that I was worth back and again 4 bucks an hour 241 00:13:24,390 --> 00:13:28,470 and and so I I met a guy at a Christmas party. 242 00:13:28,470 --> 00:13:32,270 Melanie worked at Southwestern Bell just like her Mama and I 243 00:13:32,270 --> 00:13:34,190 worked at there. And so we went to a Christmas 244 00:13:34,190 --> 00:13:37,190 party and met this young couple that worked with Melanie and he 245 00:13:37,190 --> 00:13:41,030 had a screen printing company and it was called Randy Screen 246 00:13:41,030 --> 00:13:47,300 Printing and he was named Randy. And so he goes, I hear you know, 247 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:49,180 how to screen print. I said, yeah, I know how to 248 00:13:49,180 --> 00:13:50,820 screen print. And he goes, he goes, you need 249 00:13:50,820 --> 00:13:53,660 any extra work? He says I could use somebody 250 00:13:53,660 --> 00:13:56,900 that would work at night. And I said, yeah, I'll come work 251 00:13:56,900 --> 00:13:57,780 at night. Sure. 252 00:13:57,860 --> 00:14:00,820 You know, so I'm getting married in about 6 months, so I could, I 253 00:14:00,820 --> 00:14:04,380 could accumulate a little bit of money and and go on a great 254 00:14:04,380 --> 00:14:05,420 honeymoon. All right. 255 00:14:05,420 --> 00:14:09,060 I don't know how great it was, but hey, you know as far as he 256 00:14:09,060 --> 00:14:13,230 was in the heels of the Ozark. There wasn't no cruise or 257 00:14:13,230 --> 00:14:16,910 nothing, that's for sure. Anyway, So what was So what was 258 00:14:16,910 --> 00:14:20,270 so interesting is I started working there at night and he 259 00:14:20,270 --> 00:14:21,830 said, man, you really do know what you're doing. 260 00:14:21,830 --> 00:14:24,670 I said, well, I took this in high school and I said I'm just 261 00:14:24,670 --> 00:14:27,310 went from job to job, you know, always looking for the bigger 262 00:14:27,310 --> 00:14:29,910 buck, right? You know, as far as I got a lot 263 00:14:29,910 --> 00:14:34,670 of hobbies, but I don't work. For, for for free, okay I'm 264 00:14:34,670 --> 00:14:37,470 going to, I'm going to look and find those areas that I can I 265 00:14:37,470 --> 00:14:40,670 can excel in. And so anyway he came in the 266 00:14:40,670 --> 00:14:43,430 second night, my second night there and he said, he said how 267 00:14:43,430 --> 00:14:45,870 much would you have to have to come work for me full time. 268 00:14:46,310 --> 00:14:50,230 And I said man you know I love where I'm at. 269 00:14:50,430 --> 00:14:53,390 I mean, you know, and I said I couldn't come for less than 6 270 00:14:53,390 --> 00:14:57,970 bucks an hour and he said. Shoot, we've never paid nobody 271 00:14:57,970 --> 00:15:00,810 those 6 bucks an hour, I said. Well, you asked, you know, next 272 00:15:00,810 --> 00:15:03,370 night he comes in, he said, I talked to my partner and we'll 273 00:15:03,370 --> 00:15:05,330 pay you 6 bucks an hour, but you got to give your notice 274 00:15:05,330 --> 00:15:09,130 tomorrow. I don't want to give no notice. 275 00:15:09,130 --> 00:15:14,210 I said, but 6 bucks an hour. And I went to that man and I 276 00:15:14,210 --> 00:15:16,610 said, can I talk to you? Which he knew something was up 277 00:15:16,610 --> 00:15:18,010 because I never wanted to talk to him. 278 00:15:19,290 --> 00:15:22,290 And I went into the, I went into the the kitchen where we had our 279 00:15:22,290 --> 00:15:24,490 lunches and everything. And I said, man, I've got 280 00:15:24,490 --> 00:15:27,730 another opportunity. He goes, well, really I go, 281 00:15:27,730 --> 00:15:32,770 yeah, tshirt company needs a manager and you know I've been 282 00:15:32,770 --> 00:15:35,530 working at night. There he goes, you're going to 283 00:15:35,530 --> 00:15:39,130 give me a chance to counter. I said if you can pay me 601, 284 00:15:40,210 --> 00:15:42,570 I'll stay. And he goes can't do it. 285 00:15:43,210 --> 00:15:45,330 He said I can't do it, and he said that's way above the 286 00:15:45,330 --> 00:15:47,610 budgets that we have. And I said okay. 287 00:15:47,610 --> 00:15:50,490 He says, let me tell you something, He said I don't care 288 00:15:50,490 --> 00:15:54,010 where you go, you will never, you will never stay there very 289 00:15:54,010 --> 00:15:55,890 long. He says one day you will open 290 00:15:55,890 --> 00:15:59,930 your own place. And I go, who wants to do that? 291 00:16:01,170 --> 00:16:03,650 I have no desire whatsoever. I don't even know what in the 292 00:16:03,650 --> 00:16:07,770 world would be going on. And sure enough, year and a half 293 00:16:07,770 --> 00:16:11,930 later I opened my own place, and it's called Clay Sarah Graphics 294 00:16:11,930 --> 00:16:14,730 at that time. And that is the same company 295 00:16:14,730 --> 00:16:18,650 that's still going today. But I've learned a lot, OK. 296 00:16:18,930 --> 00:16:22,370 I've been everywhere. You can imagine financially. 297 00:16:22,370 --> 00:16:26,730 I have visited with dozens of IRS people. 298 00:16:27,530 --> 00:16:31,210 All right. You know, bank people, all 299 00:16:31,210 --> 00:16:33,170 right. And just you know, and and some 300 00:16:33,170 --> 00:16:36,490 of them visits weren't real good, you know, but you you know 301 00:16:36,490 --> 00:16:38,890 the The thing is is that you've got to trust the Lord. 302 00:16:39,510 --> 00:16:41,750 To take care of those things You can't. 303 00:16:41,750 --> 00:16:43,430 That's why I'm such big on tithing. 304 00:16:43,950 --> 00:16:46,790 If you go to Malachi 310, you've heard me teach it many, many 305 00:16:46,790 --> 00:16:49,350 times before Malachi 310. He goes in there. 306 00:16:49,350 --> 00:16:51,830 He says, bring all the ties into the storehouse, that you might 307 00:16:51,830 --> 00:16:54,990 have meat in my house. And then he said, Now prove me 308 00:16:54,990 --> 00:16:56,590 how. Now if I will not open you, the 309 00:16:56,590 --> 00:16:58,870 windows of heaven pour you out of blessing that you'll not have 310 00:16:58,870 --> 00:17:01,110 room enough to receive it. Then he said, I'll rebuke the 311 00:17:01,110 --> 00:17:04,829 devourer for your sake, and he will not destroy your stuff. 312 00:17:05,670 --> 00:17:09,069 And and so there's something about that tithe that is you 313 00:17:09,069 --> 00:17:12,910 give that tithe, it gives you a protection in the marketplace 314 00:17:13,030 --> 00:17:14,390 that you can't get anywhere else. 315 00:17:14,390 --> 00:17:16,390 Because I asked the Lord, I said, what is that all about? 316 00:17:16,790 --> 00:17:19,430 And he said I will take care of the things you can't take care 317 00:17:19,470 --> 00:17:21,270 of. OK. 318 00:17:21,390 --> 00:17:24,109 He said, you know, and and I remember, you know working for 319 00:17:24,109 --> 00:17:27,829 that, you know that first gentleman there and one time 320 00:17:28,590 --> 00:17:30,870 you've heard me tell it before, you know where Melanie and I 321 00:17:30,870 --> 00:17:32,790 were going out this Friday night and I said I got to go. 322 00:17:33,950 --> 00:17:36,510 And he says, well, listen, we need somebody to stay and we 323 00:17:36,510 --> 00:17:38,270 need somebody to do this one job. 324 00:17:38,830 --> 00:17:41,870 And I said, no, I'm not going to do it. 325 00:17:41,870 --> 00:17:46,110 I got a date and he goes, he get and nobody raises their hand, 326 00:17:47,270 --> 00:17:48,310 man. I raised my hand. 327 00:17:48,310 --> 00:17:50,550 I'll do it, you know, call Melanie. 328 00:17:50,550 --> 00:17:53,350 I'll be late, all right. But I'll be there. 329 00:17:53,470 --> 00:17:54,870 I promise. It's Friday night. 330 00:17:54,870 --> 00:17:58,630 I'll be there. And so I man, I work so fast and 331 00:17:58,630 --> 00:18:00,230 so hard. I mean, I know the boss is 332 00:18:00,230 --> 00:18:02,350 thinking, dude, if we could get this guy to perform like this 333 00:18:02,350 --> 00:18:05,110 every day. We wouldn't have to worry about 334 00:18:05,110 --> 00:18:07,990 it, you know? And I mean, I got to go and the 335 00:18:07,990 --> 00:18:11,430 boss came back and I had just got an understanding about 336 00:18:11,430 --> 00:18:15,750 tithing and and understanding the master requires us. 337 00:18:15,910 --> 00:18:18,150 It's a requirement. It's a standard in the Kingdom 338 00:18:18,150 --> 00:18:22,110 of God to give the 110th. It's a standard, all right. 339 00:18:22,110 --> 00:18:25,310 Don't violate the standards. And so when I gave that, you 340 00:18:25,310 --> 00:18:28,310 know, I started tithing and I started seeing, you know, 341 00:18:28,310 --> 00:18:30,310 because I started out less than $4.00 an hour. 342 00:18:30,310 --> 00:18:32,830 But I tied my way. I said, Lord, I want $4.00 an 343 00:18:32,830 --> 00:18:33,990 hour. So I'm going to give you this 344 00:18:33,990 --> 00:18:37,910 much a week and to get that. And sure enough, got called in, 345 00:18:37,910 --> 00:18:40,390 got the raise that I was wanting, all right? 346 00:18:40,390 --> 00:18:42,830 It just wasn't enough to get married on, I can tell you that, 347 00:18:42,830 --> 00:18:44,510 right? I figured that out real quick. 348 00:18:45,550 --> 00:18:48,870 And I remember that night Boss said he comes back there and he 349 00:18:49,230 --> 00:18:52,310 he he says, man, he says, I so appreciate you Randy staying 350 00:18:52,310 --> 00:18:54,670 tonight because we just didn't have time Monday to get it done. 351 00:18:54,670 --> 00:18:57,590 We have to do it this weekend and if you can just get it 352 00:18:57,590 --> 00:18:59,110 printed, we'll take care of the rest. 353 00:18:59,540 --> 00:19:02,100 And you know, my son Jim, he's over here. 354 00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:04,220 He'll get it all cut down. And it was just a little bitty. 355 00:19:04,220 --> 00:19:06,700 It was a little sticker job is all it was, commercial sticker 356 00:19:06,700 --> 00:19:09,420 job. And so I remember, you know, I'm 357 00:19:09,420 --> 00:19:13,220 cleaning up, I am slinging stuff everywhere, tiles are flying, 358 00:19:13,220 --> 00:19:16,020 ain't being cleaned up. I'm getting it all done. 359 00:19:16,020 --> 00:19:18,340 And what does he do? He comes back there and he says, 360 00:19:18,340 --> 00:19:21,460 he said, hey, I know that you've been dating a little girl in 361 00:19:21,460 --> 00:19:22,900 Sand Springs. He said. 362 00:19:24,220 --> 00:19:27,420 Let me give you something and let it buy you a hamburger and 363 00:19:27,420 --> 00:19:28,660 maybe a movie. Okay. 364 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,000 I I didn't even look at it. I said thanks, I appreciate 365 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,240 that. Put that in my pocket because I 366 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,480 got a date, I got to go and I am cleaning the whole bit. 367 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:38,440 Well, I'm almost done in the sun. 368 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,000 Jim. He comes over and he says I saw 369 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,680 Dad give you something, what he give you. 370 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:48,280 And I pulled it out of my pocket and it was a check for 50 bucks. 371 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:52,600 Now in 1981 you could go a lot of movies and eat a lot of 372 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:56,920 burgers for 50 bucks. And you know what he said? 373 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:58,400 He said. Man, I don't believe it. 374 00:19:59,170 --> 00:20:04,130 My dad has never given anybody a bonus check ever, I said. 375 00:20:04,130 --> 00:20:06,690 And the Lord when I got out to the car, reminded me, he said I 376 00:20:06,690 --> 00:20:10,450 will control those things you can't if you'll just tithe. 377 00:20:11,890 --> 00:20:14,810 And I told her I said man and and even when Melanie and I, you 378 00:20:14,810 --> 00:20:17,250 know we got married, she goes. Now why is it again? 379 00:20:17,250 --> 00:20:20,930 Because we were both raised Southern Baptist Okay and and I 380 00:20:20,930 --> 00:20:25,690 never heard in one lesson from birth to 18 before I left. 381 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,560 Because I got filled with the Holy Spirit and wasn't welcome 382 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,520 anymore. And they let me know that I 383 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:35,760 wasn't and I had. I had never heard one message on 384 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:36,800 Thailand. Not one. 385 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,640 Every year we got a little red card said put on here what you 386 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,640 think you're giving is going to be this year so we can work on 387 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,280 our budget. Well, my dad, I my dad. 388 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:47,880 I said what dad? What do I put on here and go put 389 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:49,680 a quarter? OK. 390 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:54,630 My dad made sure I had 1/4, and there was nothing about no tie. 391 00:20:54,630 --> 00:20:56,870 There was nothing about 10% of nothing every week. 392 00:20:56,870 --> 00:20:59,030 And you know what? If I hadn't heard the message of 393 00:20:59,030 --> 00:21:04,470 the tie, I'd probably still be given 1/4, you know, every year. 394 00:21:04,790 --> 00:21:06,830 You know, say I'll be giving you 1/4 every week. 395 00:21:06,830 --> 00:21:08,310 I'll give you a quarter, you know. 396 00:21:08,590 --> 00:21:11,230 But that's not how we break through in the financial arena 397 00:21:11,230 --> 00:21:13,770 of what God has for us. So I'm thinking about these 398 00:21:13,770 --> 00:21:17,370 guys, Okay. And think about if you're living 399 00:21:17,370 --> 00:21:20,130 in the master's house, so master's gone, Okay. 400 00:21:20,330 --> 00:21:23,730 So hopefully you got enough sense to behave yourself, all 401 00:21:23,730 --> 00:21:27,690 right. But these guys they were had one 402 00:21:27,690 --> 00:21:31,410 mission in their mind is take the finances that their boss 403 00:21:31,410 --> 00:21:35,690 gave them, their employer gave them, their master gave them and 404 00:21:35,690 --> 00:21:40,270 go and increase it. And here's the thing you don't 405 00:21:40,270 --> 00:21:42,750 see them thinking you know what I got to I got to get me 406 00:21:42,750 --> 00:21:46,430 something to eat and take a little bit of that money and get 407 00:21:46,430 --> 00:21:49,630 them something to eat or go and say, man, you know, I got to 408 00:21:49,630 --> 00:21:50,750 get. I got to get the donkey. 409 00:21:50,750 --> 00:21:53,030 Shoeed. I put them shoes on the donkey. 410 00:21:53,030 --> 00:21:57,030 That that was so funny. What it Titus the other day he 411 00:21:57,030 --> 00:22:00,510 goes, he goes, what does that mean to put shoes on a donkey? 412 00:22:01,190 --> 00:22:03,710 I said donkeys have shoes, horses have shoes. 413 00:22:03,710 --> 00:22:07,510 He goes, they do not. I said they sure do. 414 00:22:07,750 --> 00:22:09,190 I said you got to look underneath. 415 00:22:09,670 --> 00:22:12,590 I said it keeps their hoods from wearing out and that's what they 416 00:22:12,590 --> 00:22:14,510 they came up with and it's a great idea. 417 00:22:14,710 --> 00:22:19,030 He goes, is that true? I said Bob ever lied to you? 418 00:22:19,510 --> 00:22:23,750 He goes, that is amazing, Papa. And I said, well you know those 419 00:22:23,750 --> 00:22:25,750 guys, you know, they probably had something they needed to 420 00:22:25,750 --> 00:22:27,870 shoe or they had something they needed to buy. 421 00:22:27,870 --> 00:22:30,390 But there's no indication that they had on their balance sheet 422 00:22:30,390 --> 00:22:33,590 that they went to the master and said, now listen, I doubled the 423 00:22:33,590 --> 00:22:35,590 Bunny, but I had to spend some of it. 424 00:22:36,820 --> 00:22:41,700 They gave him full accounting. They gave him full rendering of 425 00:22:41,700 --> 00:22:43,860 everything. And they didn't go without 426 00:22:44,460 --> 00:22:45,860 because why? They're servants. 427 00:22:46,700 --> 00:22:50,180 And so I got to thinking to myself, what if we challenged 428 00:22:50,180 --> 00:22:54,180 ourselves with a bit of money, And I've already done this, and 429 00:22:54,260 --> 00:22:56,380 I'm going to let you know how it goes in the weeks to come, in 430 00:22:56,380 --> 00:23:00,260 the months to come. And we took some money, you 431 00:23:00,260 --> 00:23:02,020 know, from a closing that Melanie and I had. 432 00:23:02,380 --> 00:23:07,220 And I said I want the Lord blessed us Okay with this this 433 00:23:07,220 --> 00:23:09,820 particular deal. It was it was it was going South 434 00:23:09,820 --> 00:23:14,660 quick Okay and all of a sudden something changed and the the 435 00:23:14,660 --> 00:23:20,020 sellers became extremely gracious and and we had the we 436 00:23:20,020 --> 00:23:22,420 had the house for a long time and and I hate it when that 437 00:23:22,420 --> 00:23:23,300 happens. Okay. 438 00:23:23,300 --> 00:23:25,180 But I know markets. I know that. 439 00:23:25,180 --> 00:23:28,500 You know over a year ago, you know we couldn't keep. 440 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:33,580 We could not get the sign in the yard and people were lining up 441 00:23:33,580 --> 00:23:36,390 wanting to buy these houses. Now you want to talk about the 442 00:23:36,390 --> 00:23:38,670 good old days. OK. 443 00:23:38,950 --> 00:23:41,030 That was a good old day. But you know, when the market 444 00:23:41,030 --> 00:23:44,310 cooled down in November when nobody's buying houses. 445 00:23:44,310 --> 00:23:45,990 What are we thinking about? We're thinking about 446 00:23:45,990 --> 00:23:49,590 Thanksgiving and we're thinking about Christmas presents and 447 00:23:49,590 --> 00:23:53,150 we're thinking about you know, buying some warmer clothes and 448 00:23:53,150 --> 00:23:54,830 the whole bit. So houses is just not one of 449 00:23:54,830 --> 00:23:59,630 those things that is winter you know desire and and we had this 450 00:23:59,630 --> 00:24:03,590 one house it kept well all of a sudden you know things start out 451 00:24:03,590 --> 00:24:10,990 you know Florida and you know we we got somebody interested they 452 00:24:10,990 --> 00:24:14,710 called us and they want to see the house and they said we want 453 00:24:14,710 --> 00:24:19,630 this house because you know 2 doors down is our 454 00:24:19,630 --> 00:24:23,470 granddaughter's best friend and and we want this house and it 455 00:24:23,470 --> 00:24:26,430 worked out. I mean it was unbelievable and 456 00:24:26,430 --> 00:24:28,950 you know, and well it is believable because we sure did 457 00:24:28,950 --> 00:24:31,710 pray a lot about that and so we got that done. 458 00:24:31,870 --> 00:24:34,670 But it but the thing was, is that I said, you know, father, I 459 00:24:34,670 --> 00:24:39,790 said you you're giving me a talent so to speak, not a talent 460 00:24:39,790 --> 00:24:44,510 to accomplish something. But you gave me some money and I 461 00:24:44,510 --> 00:24:49,310 said I am going to invest that money and and guess what I'm not 462 00:24:49,310 --> 00:24:52,470 going to invest it in though anything the world has to offer 463 00:24:53,830 --> 00:24:55,390 because this is what I found out. 464 00:24:55,670 --> 00:24:59,990 We got people in our church and I found out about some needs and 465 00:24:59,990 --> 00:25:03,490 I'm going to make investment in the need because he tells us 466 00:25:03,490 --> 00:25:05,730 that, which I think is interesting because these guys, 467 00:25:06,050 --> 00:25:09,970 you know, they when they they came to the master, it was Full 468 00:25:09,970 --> 00:25:12,090 disclosure. Look what we did. 469 00:25:12,250 --> 00:25:15,010 We gained this and they got the pat on the back, right? 470 00:25:15,330 --> 00:25:18,530 He said well done, you are a good and faithful servant. 471 00:25:18,890 --> 00:25:21,210 But then he gets to the guy with the one and what does he do? 472 00:25:21,210 --> 00:25:23,410 He hides it. And he said, you know, you're 473 00:25:23,410 --> 00:25:26,640 just a tough guy. And so you know that the 474 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,440 comparison here is, is the father, right? 475 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,680 The father is who the the man was in the story. 476 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:37,920 The man is the the man that that was the nobleman or the the guy 477 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,800 that had his servants is our father. 478 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,240 And he is the one that truly blesses us. 479 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:46,160 And when he gives us instruction, here's the problem. 480 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,520 Catch this. The reason that we don't see 481 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,840 more happen is we don't spend time asking him what needs to be 482 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:58,770 done. So I made a change and we did 483 00:25:58,770 --> 00:26:02,650 this a long time ago, is that we don't pay our bills until we 484 00:26:02,770 --> 00:26:05,690 seek the Lord and talk to the Lord about there's going to be 485 00:26:05,690 --> 00:26:08,210 stuff we know, man. We get, you know, you got, you 486 00:26:08,210 --> 00:26:11,290 know, payments to make, you got commitments that you've made the 487 00:26:11,290 --> 00:26:13,250 different things there. I mean, the first thing comes 488 00:26:13,250 --> 00:26:14,930 out, always a tie. That's the first thing. 489 00:26:14,930 --> 00:26:17,010 We don't have to ask God, what do you want to do? 490 00:26:17,050 --> 00:26:19,870 We know, all right. But when it comes to offering 491 00:26:19,870 --> 00:26:22,510 and finding out, I said, you know, Father, show us somebody. 492 00:26:22,510 --> 00:26:26,150 Next thing you know, here comes a need that is, is bigger than 493 00:26:26,150 --> 00:26:28,150 what we've usually gotten involved in. 494 00:26:29,110 --> 00:26:32,670 And I told him, I said, I I'm, I'm going to invest that. 495 00:26:33,190 --> 00:26:36,510 We're going to invest it. Because here this guy, the one 496 00:26:36,510 --> 00:26:39,950 that had the one talent, he didn't, he didn't do anything 497 00:26:39,950 --> 00:26:41,590 with it. And I thought it was interesting 498 00:26:41,670 --> 00:26:45,030 that, you know, while he was in, the thing that Pastor said kind 499 00:26:45,030 --> 00:26:47,710 of shook me for he's still living off the master. 500 00:26:49,730 --> 00:26:52,610 The master gave him that. And he said according to their 501 00:26:52,610 --> 00:26:54,890 several ability. So he said, man, you can handle 502 00:26:54,890 --> 00:26:57,210 five, you can handle 2, but you're going to handle one. 503 00:26:57,210 --> 00:27:00,250 Well, there's probably a reason that he got the one. 504 00:27:01,490 --> 00:27:04,250 But the thing was, is that he was afraid because he said, you 505 00:27:04,250 --> 00:27:06,850 know, you're a hard master, you did all that, but he didn't mind 506 00:27:06,850 --> 00:27:10,990 living off of it. And sometimes that's what we 507 00:27:10,990 --> 00:27:13,710 find ourselves doing when it comes to God giving U.S. 508 00:27:13,710 --> 00:27:16,910 financial assignments is that we're more concerned about what 509 00:27:16,910 --> 00:27:20,830 about us. And Matthew 6 is full about what 510 00:27:20,830 --> 00:27:23,590 about us? He said take no thought. 511 00:27:24,430 --> 00:27:28,110 Then he goes on to say take no thought saying because people 512 00:27:28,350 --> 00:27:30,980 they're talking all the time. You know, they're saying well 513 00:27:30,980 --> 00:27:32,620 what are we going to do about this or what are we going to do 514 00:27:32,620 --> 00:27:34,060 about this? What are we going to do about 515 00:27:34,060 --> 00:27:35,700 this? And I, and you know over the 516 00:27:35,700 --> 00:27:39,420 last couple of years I mean I have been at such peace when the 517 00:27:39,620 --> 00:27:43,100 when I had the high times and the low times, I just, you know, 518 00:27:43,100 --> 00:27:44,500 I said he's going to take care of it. 519 00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:47,260 I don't know how. And and you know the the one of 520 00:27:47,260 --> 00:27:51,420 the greatest days of my life was when I stopped trying to figure 521 00:27:51,420 --> 00:27:55,220 out how you're going to do it because I could come up with a 522 00:27:55,220 --> 00:27:57,940 dozen ways. You know, I need to make this 523 00:27:57,940 --> 00:27:59,740 investment here. I need to do this here or I 524 00:27:59,740 --> 00:28:03,100 could go to make this here or whatever the case may be and and 525 00:28:03,100 --> 00:28:05,740 and come up with a way that you know, I'm fairly sharp. 526 00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:11,260 But you know what we need to find out from him what needs to 527 00:28:11,260 --> 00:28:12,780 be done. Now here's the thing that the 528 00:28:12,780 --> 00:28:16,700 guy that with the one missed, he said you should have taken it 529 00:28:16,700 --> 00:28:19,820 and put it in the bank so that when I came at least I'd have 530 00:28:19,820 --> 00:28:23,260 interest on the money. Now hopefully the interest is a 531 00:28:23,260 --> 00:28:26,850 whole lot better than it is now right per you know I don't know 532 00:28:26,850 --> 00:28:29,210 how much it is now to a couple percent whatever. 533 00:28:29,490 --> 00:28:31,690 Even money market funds you know stuff like that. 534 00:28:31,970 --> 00:28:34,730 But he said even if that would have been an increase and he 535 00:28:34,730 --> 00:28:39,650 called that dude wicked and lazy and slothful and and sent him 536 00:28:39,650 --> 00:28:42,810 out and I think it's interesting because he said he said cast him 537 00:28:42,810 --> 00:28:46,570 out and he said and where he's going will be weeping and 538 00:28:46,570 --> 00:28:49,810 gnashing of teeth. I love Rick Renner has a he, he 539 00:28:49,810 --> 00:28:51,490 said. He didn't send him to hell. 540 00:28:52,330 --> 00:28:57,010 Okay weeping and gnashing a teeth was a place of torture. 541 00:28:57,250 --> 00:29:01,170 And what they did was on the other side of the wall from the 542 00:29:01,170 --> 00:29:06,170 cities, they had the dump okay where they threw discarded food, 543 00:29:06,170 --> 00:29:09,450 discarded stuff like that. Animals, wild animals would 544 00:29:09,450 --> 00:29:12,730 come. And when they punished, you 545 00:29:12,730 --> 00:29:19,250 know, criminals, they hung them over the wall and and in pitch 546 00:29:19,250 --> 00:29:23,410 black dark they could hear the lions and the tigers and the 547 00:29:23,410 --> 00:29:27,170 bears, all right, eating and rummaging and doing stuff. 548 00:29:27,490 --> 00:29:31,490 And they said that they would be so scared at that that they 549 00:29:31,490 --> 00:29:34,650 would, they would, they would just grind their teeth down. 550 00:29:35,410 --> 00:29:37,370 And they said that's why they said they called it the 551 00:29:37,370 --> 00:29:41,170 gnashing, the the gnashing of teeth is that that that 552 00:29:41,170 --> 00:29:44,170 punishment that they gave them. And the next morning they said 553 00:29:44,170 --> 00:29:46,210 when they took, brought them back up because most of them 554 00:29:46,210 --> 00:29:48,820 didn't get eaten, he said. But when they brought him back 555 00:29:48,820 --> 00:29:51,380 up, most of them had lost their mind from fear. 556 00:29:52,740 --> 00:29:55,220 And he said, he said, And I thought, man, that's that's 557 00:29:55,220 --> 00:29:58,620 pretty heavy duty punishment for messing, you know, messing 558 00:29:58,620 --> 00:30:01,300 around with, you know, the Lord's funds. 559 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:05,220 And I said, I don't think I want to involve myself with that. 560 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,280 All right. I want to make sure that I'm 561 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:08,960 doing right. And I think it's interesting 562 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,400 another point that I'd heard when it came down to, you know, 563 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,840 one of Titus Papa, Tell me a story and it's always a Bible. 564 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,400 Tell me a Bible story. And I told him the story of An 565 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,480 and I and Sapphires out of Acts Chapter 5. 566 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,840 You remember this story that there was everybody was selling 567 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,970 their stuff and they were bringing it and laying it before 568 00:30:28,970 --> 00:30:32,170 Bartholomew or Barnabas was one of them. 569 00:30:32,170 --> 00:30:34,170 He was called the Son of Consolation. 570 00:30:34,410 --> 00:30:36,570 He brought, he sold a piece of land. 571 00:30:36,570 --> 00:30:40,490 He was from Cree, the the island, and he sold some land 572 00:30:40,490 --> 00:30:42,850 and brought the money and said it before the apostles. 573 00:30:43,050 --> 00:30:45,690 And the apostles took the money and they divided it amongst 574 00:30:45,690 --> 00:30:47,890 everybody. So everybody there was, there 575 00:30:47,890 --> 00:30:50,770 was some tough times going on in Jerusalem at the time. 576 00:30:51,220 --> 00:30:54,380 And they all came and they what they had, they brought. 577 00:30:54,780 --> 00:31:00,060 And there was a couple that as the the account tells us, they 578 00:31:00,060 --> 00:31:03,980 wanted to, they wanted to get the accolades that apparently 579 00:31:03,980 --> 00:31:06,860 Barnabas got. And so they sold a piece of 580 00:31:06,860 --> 00:31:08,700 properly and they bought it but the property. 581 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:12,220 But they, they said, they came in and said, you know, we sold 582 00:31:12,220 --> 00:31:13,540 this property and here's the money. 583 00:31:13,820 --> 00:31:16,900 And the Holy Spirit spoke to Peter and said, that's not the 584 00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:18,750 money. He said that's. 585 00:31:18,750 --> 00:31:20,830 And they. And so Peter goes, did you know? 586 00:31:20,830 --> 00:31:24,350 He said, huh, he waits and they come back in later. 587 00:31:24,630 --> 00:31:27,630 And the husband comes in and. And and he said, did you sell 588 00:31:27,630 --> 00:31:29,430 the house from this month? And he goes, Oh yeah, that's 589 00:31:29,430 --> 00:31:32,990 what we sold it for. And he says, why did you decide 590 00:31:32,990 --> 00:31:36,830 to lie to the Holy Ghost? And he dropped dead. 591 00:31:38,590 --> 00:31:42,990 Then his wife came in three hours later and he asked her the 592 00:31:42,990 --> 00:31:44,910 same question. She's kind of probably looking 593 00:31:44,910 --> 00:31:49,840 for her husband, you know, and says, did you all sell up for 594 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:50,640 this much? Is it? 595 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:52,760 Yeah, we did. We sold it for that much. 596 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,920 He said, why did you and your husband conspire see these guys 597 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:57,400 that are just now coming back in? 598 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,040 Well, they buried your husband and they're going to bury you. 599 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,280 And she drops dead. All right. 600 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,560 So Titus is telling this story in class. 601 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,480 People are saying, somebody said, is that true? 602 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,360 I said, yeah. I said I'm glad the Lord don't 603 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,840 invoke that story again. You know, when people were 604 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,840 telling that they're doing certain things with their money 605 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:19,370 that they shouldn't be doing and being able to find out, father, 606 00:32:19,370 --> 00:32:22,570 what is it that you want us to do now? 607 00:32:22,770 --> 00:32:26,450 If you go back to chapter, let's let's talk about because the 608 00:32:26,450 --> 00:32:29,570 thing that a lot of people are talking about the second coming 609 00:32:29,570 --> 00:32:32,890 of Christ right now, you know and and and you know if the word 610 00:32:32,890 --> 00:32:38,290 does not show up this month. And and what is funny is Pastor 611 00:32:38,290 --> 00:32:42,440 Huffman was talking to some of us one day and he said, listen, 612 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:47,520 if if the Lord does not show up in during Rosh Hashanah, which 613 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,440 is a feast of the Lord, it's called the Feast of Trumpets. 614 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,880 If he does not show up within you got another year. 615 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:58,610 That's what he believes and his books talk about that and and so 616 00:32:58,610 --> 00:33:00,290 you know every Rosh Hashanah, man. 617 00:33:00,290 --> 00:33:02,450 I'm wondering is it trumpet going this year? 618 00:33:02,770 --> 00:33:05,370 Because I'm more excited about leaving now than I ever have 619 00:33:05,370 --> 00:33:07,890 been. All right, I said because let's 620 00:33:07,890 --> 00:33:11,930 get on with this, All right. You know you got 7 years coming 621 00:33:12,210 --> 00:33:15,770 and it's going to be bad, you know, and and we got we need to 622 00:33:15,770 --> 00:33:20,230 be praying for some people. But one of the things that years 623 00:33:20,230 --> 00:33:23,910 ago there was a man that wrote a book and the book was titled 88 624 00:33:23,910 --> 00:33:26,510 Reasons Why Jesus is Coming in 1988. 625 00:33:27,390 --> 00:33:29,270 Anybody ever heard of that? Did you hear about that book? 626 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,720 He was on national television about it, you know, some of the 627 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,880 big PTL and different stuff like that. 628 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,160 And he had this all mathematically worked out. 629 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:43,000 All right, Well, Jesus didn't show up in 88 or 89 or 90 or 91. 630 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:44,200 I mean, you know what I'm saying? 631 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,160 OK. But the thing was, is that my 632 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:53,040 pastor, David EMI at the time, he had a he waited. 633 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,700 He never said nothing. He didn't say anything and then 634 00:33:57,100 --> 00:34:01,260 when it all passed and the time and that's when you know, you 635 00:34:01,260 --> 00:34:03,700 know it was September is supposed to happen all this 636 00:34:03,700 --> 00:34:06,060 stuff. And he said, he said what about 637 00:34:06,060 --> 00:34:08,940 the end times and preaches A sermon and I'll never forget it. 638 00:34:09,020 --> 00:34:10,820 I'll never forget the scripture that he used. 639 00:34:10,820 --> 00:34:14,540 It's because it's a it's in the 24th chapter, 45th verse of 640 00:34:14,540 --> 00:34:20,100 Matthew, just just over there. And he said in verse 45. 641 00:34:21,739 --> 00:34:26,550 In in chapter 24, verse 45 he says this. 642 00:34:26,550 --> 00:34:29,750 And and and what did he call? What did he call the guys that 643 00:34:29,750 --> 00:34:31,989 handled the talents, right. He called them good and 644 00:34:31,989 --> 00:34:34,110 faithful. OK, well done. 645 00:34:34,110 --> 00:34:36,429 Now good and faithful. Well Jesus tells you, He said 646 00:34:36,429 --> 00:34:38,710 who is the faithful and wise servant? 647 00:34:38,949 --> 00:34:43,909 Verse 45, chapter 24 Who is the the faithful and wise servant? 648 00:34:43,909 --> 00:34:47,630 Who the Lord has made ruler over his household to give them meat 649 00:34:47,670 --> 00:34:50,630 in their season? Blessed is that servant. 650 00:34:50,630 --> 00:34:53,710 When the Lord comes and finds him, so do we. 651 00:34:55,350 --> 00:34:58,470 The question that we have to ask is that are we more concerned 652 00:34:58,470 --> 00:35:02,550 about our brothers and sisters, fellows, servants, than we are 653 00:35:02,550 --> 00:35:09,670 about ourselves? Are we seeking the Lord to ask 654 00:35:09,670 --> 00:35:11,790 him? What is it that we need to do 655 00:35:11,790 --> 00:35:13,990 what you know? I've told people before, I said, 656 00:35:13,990 --> 00:35:18,110 listen, just walk around with your ears open, you're bound to 657 00:35:18,110 --> 00:35:19,870 hear something. The Lord will let you hear 658 00:35:19,870 --> 00:35:22,950 somebody talking about something that they, you know, something 659 00:35:22,950 --> 00:35:25,270 went out, refrigerator, something, something. 660 00:35:25,270 --> 00:35:29,110 And he said, and I I love this. He said giving meat to them in 661 00:35:29,110 --> 00:35:31,590 their due season. He was talking about, he was 662 00:35:31,590 --> 00:35:35,070 talking about feeding them okay, basically. 663 00:35:35,070 --> 00:35:36,990 It's what that in context is about. 664 00:35:37,350 --> 00:35:39,990 But there's a whole lot of other things that people need just 665 00:35:39,990 --> 00:35:43,270 besides food. And this is what happened one 666 00:35:43,270 --> 00:35:45,270 year. I was having really, really 667 00:35:45,270 --> 00:35:51,180 rough quarter and I I got mad and I told the Lord I said, 668 00:35:51,180 --> 00:35:52,820 listen, I've done everything you said to do. 669 00:35:55,220 --> 00:35:59,860 Don't ever say that. He will correct the for sure. 670 00:36:01,140 --> 00:36:04,900 And I said, listen, I said apparently if you're not going 671 00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:07,580 to answer any of my prayers, that's what I said. 672 00:36:07,620 --> 00:36:10,340 I said, apparently if you're not going to answer any of my 673 00:36:10,340 --> 00:36:14,180 prayers, then I'm not going to pray for myself anymore. 674 00:36:15,230 --> 00:36:17,190 But I know some people that have needs bigger than mine. 675 00:36:17,190 --> 00:36:18,310 I'm going to start praying for them. 676 00:36:18,310 --> 00:36:23,230 Is that Okay? This is this is October of this 677 00:36:23,230 --> 00:36:27,710 given year. Okay notoriously the last two 678 00:36:27,710 --> 00:36:29,590 months of the year are very, very slow. 679 00:36:31,110 --> 00:36:35,790 That year was the biggest harvest financially I had ever 680 00:36:35,790 --> 00:36:40,710 experienced. And and and I go back and I know 681 00:36:40,710 --> 00:36:44,640 exactly why because I was praying for my brothers and 682 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,720 sisters and not concerned about me. 683 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,720 And once I get my mind off of me am I get my mind on my brothers 684 00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:54,880 and sisters. That's what gives God the 685 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,400 opportunity to get us increase and help us. 686 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,480 You know I want to think about those guys that had the talents. 687 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,440 The first question I'd ask myself is how did they know how 688 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:11,280 to trade that money and gain that kind of money? 689 00:37:12,410 --> 00:37:15,970 I mean, did they just get out there and fling it and hope it 690 00:37:15,970 --> 00:37:19,090 worked? I think they probably were 691 00:37:19,090 --> 00:37:27,130 fairly studious and watch their owner or their nobleman or that 692 00:37:27,130 --> 00:37:32,650 man and how he operated. The question is, is that are we 693 00:37:32,770 --> 00:37:35,770 get spending enough time with the Lord to figure out how he 694 00:37:35,770 --> 00:37:39,730 operates, what he wants to see done. 695 00:37:40,410 --> 00:37:44,970 Because their whole mindset was he's given us this money, we're 696 00:37:44,970 --> 00:37:47,770 going to make more money and we're waiting on that day of 697 00:37:47,770 --> 00:37:51,090 reconciling. We're going to wait on that day 698 00:37:51,090 --> 00:37:53,850 that when he comes, we're going to be able to present that to 699 00:37:53,850 --> 00:37:56,410 him. There was another story that he 700 00:37:56,410 --> 00:38:02,050 talked about. It was 10 guys with £10 and each 701 00:38:02,050 --> 00:38:05,250 guy got a pound. And the guy, the first guy in 702 00:38:05,250 --> 00:38:11,300 line says, look Lord your pound has gained £10 Now 10 times your 703 00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:15,100 money is more than double. That makes sense. 704 00:38:15,660 --> 00:38:18,780 So God has a way and he gave, He told him the same thing. 705 00:38:18,780 --> 00:38:21,580 He said you've done a great job. He said now I'm going to make 706 00:38:21,580 --> 00:38:24,300 you a ruler. Over 10 cities now. 707 00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:26,460 Pastors preached it so many times letting him know 708 00:38:26,660 --> 00:38:33,940 everything we do here is writing a resume for the next phase of 709 00:38:33,940 --> 00:38:37,300 our lives. I just got a book by Perry Stone 710 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,200 and and it's a it's his brand new book. 711 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,880 It's a brand new book but he says it basically talked about 712 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,680 heading toward your eternity and he said what you what you'll be 713 00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,690 doing the next thousand years. And it was great. 714 00:38:52,970 --> 00:38:56,130 I mean he had some he had some really really good testimonies 715 00:38:56,130 --> 00:39:00,730 in there and you know and he's he's he's a Bible he's he's 716 00:39:00,730 --> 00:39:04,050 Bible through and through man. He studied everything and and 717 00:39:04,050 --> 00:39:09,410 and has great great you know insight to different different 718 00:39:09,530 --> 00:39:11,770 things that but he knows the millennial rain. 719 00:39:11,770 --> 00:39:13,650 He knows, you know, all the different things. 720 00:39:13,650 --> 00:39:16,290 And I want to pick the book up because I'm found out I'm taking 721 00:39:16,410 --> 00:39:20,250 eschatology this year in school, so one and two. 722 00:39:20,410 --> 00:39:23,570 And so I'm going to, you know, I'm going to glean a little bit 723 00:39:23,570 --> 00:39:25,450 from them. I've already read the book, but 724 00:39:25,650 --> 00:39:29,170 I gleaned a little bit from it, you know, on the millennial 725 00:39:29,170 --> 00:39:31,890 reign that I didn't have when I taught it before. 726 00:39:32,330 --> 00:39:36,250 But when we talk about the Kingdom, all right, and finding 727 00:39:36,250 --> 00:39:41,050 out that the Kingdom of God in in in its form of understanding 728 00:39:41,050 --> 00:39:44,770 that it works differently obviously than what we have 729 00:39:44,770 --> 00:39:47,430 here. I mean we've been trained in the 730 00:39:47,430 --> 00:39:50,630 world system of finance. We know how, you know you can 731 00:39:50,630 --> 00:39:54,070 get somebody to be a passive investor for you bonds, stocks, 732 00:39:54,070 --> 00:39:56,070 bonds, mutual funds, different things like that. 733 00:39:56,910 --> 00:40:00,590 And but The thing is, is that most of the people that I want 734 00:40:00,590 --> 00:40:04,070 to run with are the ones that hurt God specifically for them 735 00:40:04,070 --> 00:40:07,870 on something he wanted them to do and they got they received 736 00:40:07,870 --> 00:40:12,600 the reward for getting it done. And so you know when we have the 737 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:13,960 opportunity. I didn't. 738 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:21,000 My challenge was this is that this next this next month set 739 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:29,920 yourself a goal to listen and find out who needs what and and 740 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:35,360 ask the Lord say father can you get me that money to be able to 741 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:39,710 help them out. Like I said I have never I have 742 00:40:39,710 --> 00:40:43,190 never been in a place that once I asked the Lord for it that I 743 00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:45,550 did not get it. I have never never. 744 00:40:46,670 --> 00:40:49,950 I mean I remember when my pastor David he wanted to write a book 745 00:40:50,950 --> 00:40:54,430 and and he said I said well how much is it going to cost to 746 00:40:54,430 --> 00:40:56,590 publish it to get it done. He says $1000. 747 00:40:57,550 --> 00:40:59,590 I went to the Lord. I said, father, can you give me 748 00:40:59,590 --> 00:41:03,230 $1000 thousand dollars is like 1,000,000. 749 00:41:04,780 --> 00:41:08,900 I said can you give me $1000 so that I can bless him and we can 750 00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:11,740 get this book done? And it wasn't too long, 751 00:41:11,740 --> 00:41:14,580 obviously, because we got the book pretty quick. 752 00:41:15,340 --> 00:41:18,140 But I went to lunch with him and I was able to hand him an 753 00:41:18,140 --> 00:41:20,660 envelope with $10100 bills in it. 754 00:41:21,820 --> 00:41:26,500 He was blown away, you know. I know he wanted to ask me where 755 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:29,590 did you get that? All right. 756 00:41:29,790 --> 00:41:32,630 But the thing was, is that every time I've asked the Lord, the 757 00:41:32,630 --> 00:41:38,150 Father speak to me, talk to me, help me see where you need these 758 00:41:38,150 --> 00:41:42,110 funds. Because once we take care of and 759 00:41:42,110 --> 00:41:45,110 I've said it before and somebody else got it and printed it in a 760 00:41:45,110 --> 00:41:47,470 book. But the Lord told me, He said, 761 00:41:47,470 --> 00:41:51,350 listen, He said if you'll take care of my business, I'll take 762 00:41:51,350 --> 00:41:54,590 care of yours. That's Bible, that's Kingdom. 763 00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,960 He's always wanted us to take care of the things that concern 764 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,680 him and he has no problem taking care of the things that concern 765 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,680 us. And he told us don't worry about 766 00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,960 it. He said don't take a thought 767 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:12,120 saying he said the the world system runs after money, they 768 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:16,320 run after making money. He said don't let that be part 769 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,720 of your life. He said find out from him what 770 00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:23,680 it is that you need to be doing and then when the money comes, 771 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,800 find out what you need to do with the money. 772 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,800 And he said, because I desire to hear the same thing these guys 773 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,560 did. Well done, you did great. 774 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,040 That's what I want to hear. All right. 775 00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:39,680 So when we when we we we talk about that and I was going to 776 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,440 give you a little bit because tomorrow night I'm ministering 777 00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:46,240 and the Lord's giving me some stuff to minister and. 778 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,440 But one of the things that I'm going to do is I'm going to tell 779 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,680 a little bit of the history of me getting here and what 780 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:57,520 happened because I was I I was diagnosed with cancer in 2000 781 00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,960 and and seven in July. And I decided that being the 782 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:07,320 great man of faith and power that I wasn't, that I was going 783 00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,600 to beat this because I had taught healing and faith for 20 784 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,690 years and I'm going to beat this. 785 00:43:12,770 --> 00:43:16,490 Well, I didn't understand how I got it until I understood that 786 00:43:16,690 --> 00:43:19,570 how I got the cancer. Then I realized you ain't as 787 00:43:19,570 --> 00:43:25,330 sharp as you think. Well that that Thanksgiving the 788 00:43:25,330 --> 00:43:28,330 Lord dealt with me as far as because I always liked on Black 789 00:43:28,330 --> 00:43:31,530 Friday to get along with him and find out what is it that you 790 00:43:31,530 --> 00:43:34,650 need me to finish up. What is it that I need to do? 791 00:43:35,050 --> 00:43:38,810 And he told me two things. He said, one, you're not Kingdom 792 00:43:38,810 --> 00:43:41,840 minded enough. And I had no idea what he was 793 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:47,760 talking about. I said OK, anything else on that 794 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:49,360 line? Nothing. 795 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:51,200 Just you're not Kingdom minded enough. 796 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:54,960 Second thing he says and he says I just want you to prepare 797 00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:56,000 yourself. I'm going to increase your 798 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,440 teaching ministry. Those two things. 799 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,120 That's all he said. Never forget them. 800 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,160 And so I began to study the Kingdom. 801 00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,120 I began to try to get an understanding for the kingdoms. 802 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,560 2007. All right, 2008. 803 00:44:10,220 --> 00:44:12,540 All right. And that that's November, right? 804 00:44:13,060 --> 00:44:16,540 7th April, we come here for an anniversary service. 805 00:44:16,900 --> 00:44:20,660 We're over at the old place over on Tree Blvd. 806 00:44:21,220 --> 00:44:22,940 All right. We have a big service. 807 00:44:22,940 --> 00:44:26,060 We're having a couple from Rayma come in. 808 00:44:26,060 --> 00:44:29,180 They're doing the service and Pastor doesn't know what 809 00:44:29,180 --> 00:44:32,580 happened because Pastor is on his face unconscious. 810 00:44:33,580 --> 00:44:36,360 All right. Because he had a word, and he's 811 00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:41,280 read that word to us multiple times on growth, exponential 812 00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,720 growth. You don't have 20 years to build 813 00:44:43,720 --> 00:44:45,280 it. Do you all remember hearing 814 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,920 those okay. Well, that came during that 815 00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:51,800 meeting and he was, he the guy with prayed over him in tongues. 816 00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,880 His wife gave the interpretation and then he fell out. 817 00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:56,440 And I'm on the front row and I'm. 818 00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:59,000 I'm over here and he's over there and I'm going. 819 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:00,000 That's awesome. Get him. 820 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,420 Get him Lord and he's. And he's on his knees and he 821 00:45:04,420 --> 00:45:08,380 falls flat on his face and I'm just staring at him. 822 00:45:08,380 --> 00:45:09,900 I'm thinking, what's going to happen, man? 823 00:45:09,900 --> 00:45:13,460 I mean, that's amazing. And I'm standing here. 824 00:45:13,460 --> 00:45:17,580 Next thing I know, I'm not paying attention and the dude is 825 00:45:17,580 --> 00:45:21,060 standing right in front of me and I'm bald by that time, all 826 00:45:21,060 --> 00:45:23,180 right. And he slaps me right in the 827 00:45:23,180 --> 00:45:25,780 head. You can hear it throughout. 828 00:45:25,820 --> 00:45:30,100 The Hulk hits me in the head. And he said, it's about time, 829 00:45:30,100 --> 00:45:34,010 isn't it? And then he starts spraying in 830 00:45:34,010 --> 00:45:39,450 tongues his wife interprets. Nobody, including my wife, knew 831 00:45:39,450 --> 00:45:41,130 what the Lord was dealing with me about. 832 00:45:41,970 --> 00:45:45,690 And and she begins to prophesy not my wife, but the the guest 833 00:45:45,690 --> 00:45:47,930 speaker's wife said it's time to move. 834 00:45:48,810 --> 00:45:50,610 Said there's some things the Lord has been dealing with you 835 00:45:50,610 --> 00:45:54,410 about, and it's now time to start setting that stuff in 836 00:45:54,410 --> 00:45:58,410 motion. Thank you very much. 837 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:04,120 I thought, oh man. Well, that Thursday night we 838 00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:07,800 went out to eat at Steak and Shake and we had the whole 839 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:12,520 restaurant, all the kids, everything and pastor. 840 00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,440 No, that was the second time we came because we went home and I 841 00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,100 didn't say nothing. And everybody was trying to 842 00:46:18,100 --> 00:46:21,100 interpret that word for me. Oh, he must be, you know, 843 00:46:21,100 --> 00:46:22,740 telling you that, you know, there's something in your 844 00:46:22,740 --> 00:46:24,700 company or there's something you're supposed to do, you know, 845 00:46:24,700 --> 00:46:27,260 in the ministry or whatever. It's time to move, you know? 846 00:46:27,460 --> 00:46:29,660 And I knew exactly what he was talking about because he talked 847 00:46:29,660 --> 00:46:32,780 to me about moving down here. And I didn't say nothing because 848 00:46:32,780 --> 00:46:36,220 I was really, I thought, you know, maybe he'll forget about 849 00:46:36,220 --> 00:46:38,500 it. Lord, just forget about it. 850 00:46:39,100 --> 00:46:41,580 Well, I made a mistake and didn't bring my youngest son. 851 00:46:41,580 --> 00:46:45,050 And two weeks later we showed back up down here with him, and 852 00:46:45,050 --> 00:46:47,810 the Lord touched him and he'd always told us y'all ever decide 853 00:46:47,810 --> 00:46:49,250 to move to Florida. You can go alone. 854 00:46:49,250 --> 00:46:53,610 I'll stay with Papa and Grandma here, I said That ain't going to 855 00:46:53,610 --> 00:46:56,130 work for me. I want you coming, man, you 856 00:46:56,130 --> 00:46:57,770 know? And he just and I ain't going. 857 00:46:57,770 --> 00:46:59,450 I ain't going. Well, he comes down here gets 858 00:46:59,450 --> 00:47:05,810 touched by the Lord and and he, he goes down front, talks to the 859 00:47:05,810 --> 00:47:08,210 Lord about some stuff. Then he comes back and he can't 860 00:47:08,210 --> 00:47:10,770 talk. He finally get able to speak 861 00:47:11,310 --> 00:47:14,310 after we get out of church and he says Lord told me that you 862 00:47:14,310 --> 00:47:15,950 guys come down here, I'm supposed to come with you. 863 00:47:16,670 --> 00:47:20,270 I said I'm glad you can listen boy, I'm glad of that. 864 00:47:20,550 --> 00:47:23,990 Well still we had made out and that Thursday we went to dinner 865 00:47:24,270 --> 00:47:28,110 pastor spoke a word over us at dinner and I went to the hotel 866 00:47:28,110 --> 00:47:33,110 room and told Melanie we're moving and she goes, we are, I 867 00:47:33,110 --> 00:47:35,510 go, yeah, we are. I don't know how. 868 00:47:35,970 --> 00:47:37,290 I don't know what we're going to do. 869 00:47:37,290 --> 00:47:38,850 I don't know what to do about the company. 870 00:47:38,850 --> 00:47:41,810 I don't know what to do. We just built a 5000 square foot 871 00:47:41,810 --> 00:47:44,610 house. You know, it was on the market 872 00:47:44,610 --> 00:47:46,450 five years after we moved down here. 873 00:47:47,210 --> 00:47:49,890 Oh, man. I mean, you know, but if I 874 00:47:49,890 --> 00:47:54,530 hadn't moved down here, I'd be dead because, you know, it 875 00:47:54,530 --> 00:47:58,690 wasn't, it wasn't anything but Pastor Earl and the tenacity of 876 00:47:58,690 --> 00:48:02,690 my wife to get me through all of everything that I went through 877 00:48:02,810 --> 00:48:06,670 physically through the cancer and be able to stand here today 878 00:48:06,710 --> 00:48:08,710 to talk to you about it. All right. 879 00:48:09,030 --> 00:48:12,630 But as as we take a look, we have got to be able to spend 880 00:48:12,630 --> 00:48:16,270 time with him on how he wants us to run our companies. 881 00:48:16,270 --> 00:48:18,870 What is it about our company that's better than any other 882 00:48:18,870 --> 00:48:20,430 company? We ought to have the best. 883 00:48:21,270 --> 00:48:23,750 We ought to be the best managers, the best owners, the 884 00:48:23,750 --> 00:48:25,150 best. Why? 885 00:48:25,150 --> 00:48:28,110 Because we have someone living on the inside of us that knows 886 00:48:28,150 --> 00:48:31,910 everything we need to know. Amen. 887 00:48:32,350 --> 00:48:35,180 All right, everybody, good. All right, let's have a word of 888 00:48:35,180 --> 00:48:36,100 prayer. I'll dismiss. 889 00:48:36,100 --> 00:48:40,140 Father, we thank you and praise you that this next month that we 890 00:48:40,140 --> 00:48:42,060 will be sensitive to those around us. 891 00:48:42,420 --> 00:48:46,860 Give us the heart that Jesus had to make sure that as he went 892 00:48:46,860 --> 00:48:49,500 about doing good, as your word says that he was very 893 00:48:49,500 --> 00:48:52,060 philanthropic, that he saw a need. 894 00:48:52,060 --> 00:48:54,860 He just didn't leave them without taking care of 895 00:48:54,860 --> 00:48:56,820 something. Father, we think in praise you 896 00:48:56,820 --> 00:48:59,980 we know had a treasure that was able to do those things. 897 00:49:00,420 --> 00:49:03,750 Father, we just ask right now that you would help us be 898 00:49:03,750 --> 00:49:08,190 sensitive to those around us and and what you have going on and 899 00:49:08,190 --> 00:49:10,310 what you want to see. We want to increase. 900 00:49:10,510 --> 00:49:13,470 If you're going to take care of us, the increase needs to go to 901 00:49:13,470 --> 00:49:16,230 your Kingdom. That's as simple as we can say 902 00:49:16,230 --> 00:49:17,110 it. We know that. 903 00:49:17,430 --> 00:49:20,150 So show us. Show us what we need to do, what 904 00:49:20,150 --> 00:49:22,670 we need to say, where we need to invest, where we need to put 905 00:49:22,830 --> 00:49:24,830 money. And Father, God, you own 906 00:49:24,830 --> 00:49:27,350 everything. 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