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Bibles turn over to First Timothy chapter six.
I've never ministered this message here in Saint Augustine.
I've only ministered at one time and and it was in Nicaragua
actually. At our other church there, as
you know, we have 4 churches in Nicaragua and then we have one
in Valdosta. We have another one coming
online in Leon, one in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
Leon's in Nicaragua, Puerto Plata is in Dominican Republic.
And then a few weeks from now, me and the team are going to be
going to India and we're going to be moving Kingsway Church to
become an anchor faith church in India.
And so that's an exciting thing. You know, when I was counting
that up, man, we're going to have nine churches here pretty
soon. That's amazing.
I didn't know God was going to do that, but he did.
And you know, there's some things that happen in other
countries that we really need to be able to communicate some
truths about the Kingdom. And I really want to do some
things concerning God's economic system, you know, but it takes a
little time in other countries. Now we've done some pretty
exhaustive teaching on Kingdom economics here.
In fact, we're in the process of working of of getting the book
Dominionaire in print. And so it's going to be in print
next year. And so it's going to help a lot
of people because you understand you're a Dominionaire, right?
We walk in Dominion. But I want to talk about the
wealth of a king today, because the reality is the the world's
done a really good job of moving a lot of people in its system
because it doesn't understand God's system.
And also the church has gotten a lot wrong concerning Jesus and
who he is and how he functioned on the earth based upon one
scripture. They made some assumptions, and
based upon those assumptions, people carry a thought
concerning Jesus as he grew up, which is absolutely.
In error. And we're going to fix that
today. Say we're going to fix that
today. So in First Timothy Chapter 6,
verse six through 10, All right, it says this, but godliness
actually is a means of great gain.
Say, great game, Great game when accompanied by contentment.
For we have brought nothing into the world, so we can take
nothing out of it either. If we have food and covering
with these, we shall be content. But those who want, who wants,
they want, who want to get rich, fall into temptation and a snare
and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into
what? Into ruin and destruction?
For the love of money? For the what?
Love of money. Not money, but the love of
money. Not money.
The love of money is the root of all sorts of evil, and some by
longing for it. What are they doing?
They're longing for it. Have wandered away from the
faith and pierced themselves of many griefs.
Now if you go back up to the beginning of this, it says.
But godliness actually is a means of great gain when
accompanied by contentment. Meaning, I'm not trying to get
the money. The money just comes.
There's a difference. And whether I'm possessing it or
not is really irrelevant because when I need it, I'll have it and
I'll have it in abundance. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
Well, you're going to. So again, let me just help
everyone out real quick, OK? Do not have a Peter moment on
me. What is a Peter moment?
We've talked about this in Matthew, Chapter 16.
Jesus is asking them who do they say that I am?
And they're like man, Some say you Jeremiah Elijah, one of the
prophets, And he said, but who do you say that I am?
And he said, well you're Peter says you're the king, you're the
Christ, you're the king, that's who you are.
He said flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my
Father in heaven, and you're blessed.
And he says upon the revelation that I'm king, right, I'm going
to build my church and then gates of hell won't prevail
against it. Then he said, I'm going to give
you the keys of the Kingdom. Whatever you bound on earth will
have been bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will
have been loose in heaven. Then he says now I'm going to
die and the mini says die. Peter goes and he quits
listening, but he goes on explains I'm going to die at the
hands of the scribes and the Pharisees.
But on the third day I'm going to come back.
Peter, don't listen to that because he's stuck emotionally
in the thought of Jesus dying. He can't even handle this
emotionally. And because of that, when Jesus
lets them know in three days I'm coming up out of graves I'm
going to win, Peter pulls him to the sign.
He says, Jesus, may it never be that you will die.
I can't bear the thought of you not being with me, right?
I need you right by my side. I need my personal savior.
So Jesus rebukes him. I said rebukes him and says you
got your mind now set on the devil.
And he says get thee behind me Satan, for you've set your mind
on the interests of men, not on the interests of God.
Now you were blessed a minute ago because you know I'm the
king, but now you listen to the wrong thoughts, which tells me a
believer can be saying Amen and then go O me in one sentence,
right? So I don't want you locking up
because I said money. So quit locking up, all right?
Nobody's trying to get in your wallet, all right?
I'm trying to give you the wealth of the king of a king,
All right? So just 'cause we're talking
about it, you're going to be all right now.
Again, if you got a problem, then you'll always have a
problem and you'll miss the wealth of a king.
All right? So if you're going to be godly,
then great gain is actually associated with your life.
Now let me skip ahead a little bit, because I got this all a
bit early, a little bit later on in our past, but I'll bring it
up. Was Abraham a godly man?
Abraham is considered the father of faith, the father of us all.
How much wealth did he have? The Bible says he was
exceedingly wealthy, which means his godliness brought him
wealth, and he never was destroyed because of wealth.
Are you hearing me? So again, great gain comes with
godliness. Why?
Because when you always keep God first, then the wealth that you
acquire will never have you. So God has no problem with you
having wealth. He has a problem with wealth
having you. And if you got a problem giving
now, even though you don't consider yourself wealthy, you
already have wealth, already has you.
Now they can. I break it down real quick.
Everybody in the room is extremely wealthy.
Because what are you comparing your life to?
Because if you're comparing it with other people in the United
States, then sure, you may feel poor, but the reality is you're
not. If I take you to India, if I
take you to Nicaragua, you know what the average Nicaraguan
lives on per month? 300 U.S. dollars a month.
Are you here? So you would have to consider
yourself extremely wealthy in comparison with other humans on
the planet. All right, fine.
I'll go over here. Some people pray in the spirit
for us, OK? If you start comparing in those
capacities, you'll be you understand, people that are
holding a sign right now in Saint Augustine are wealthier
than most people in the world. So what we do is we start
talking poor or poverty based upon a measure that we determine
when the reality is. If we want to go ahead and
measure, go ahead and measure you with the rest of the world
and you'll understand why they consider the United States one
of the wealthiest nations in the world, I said in the world.
Now they call China a very wealthy nation, but do you know
what they pay their people? OK.
I mean, we need to do a little research.
There's a reason why AUS company could go to China and have all
their product made and it's cheaper for them to send it
there and get it back with taxes to bring it back in.
Then it would be to keep it home.
Since you think and think what are they making in the plants?
What's their average salary 'cause I tell you, they don't
have a union over there. And there really, Where do you
go that when you buy something you don't see made in?
All right, praise the Lord, this is going to be a great day.
Hallelujah. Matthew 19.
Well, when you get it, you'll get it, 'cause this is a really
great message. Matthew, chapter 19, starting in
verse 16, verse 24, it says this and someone came to him.
This is Jesus saying, teacher, what good thing shall I do to
obtain eternal life? And he said to him, Why do you
ask me? About what is good, there is
only one who is good. But if you wish to enter into
life, keep the commandments. Then he said to him, which ones?
And Jesus said, you shall not commit murder, right.
He says that you shall not commit adultery, you shall not
steal, you shall not bear false witness.
Honor your mother and your father, and you shall love your
neighbor as yourself. And the young man said all these
things I've kept while what am I still lacking?
Jesus said to him. Notice, Jesus didn't say you're
a liar. He had kept them, OK?
It's how he kept them. It's why he kept them.
It's for who he kept them, he says.
Well, if you wish to be complete, go and sell your
possession, give to the poor and you'll have treasure in heaven.
And come follow me. This is the call of the 13th
apostle, the 13th disciple. Instead of it being 12, we could
have had 13. And could it be that he was
already Judas's replacement? Because it's not like the Lord
didn't know Judas was not going to make it.
Are you hearing me? So we went and drew straws later
on. OK, well, all right, let's go
on. He says the young man said to
him all these things, right? And he says verse 22.
But the young man heard this statement and went away
grieving. Who for?
He was one who owned much property?
And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly, I say to you, it is hard
for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of heaven.
Again, I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of
God. Now it's not the riches that are
the issue, it's why. It's how the riches have him
'cause in essence, this is a test of lordship.
He's saying to him, well keep the commandments and he says I
did it. The question is, did you keep
the commandments? Because Jesus, who is the Word,
said it. Or did you keep them based upon
your own personal keeping? Well, I'll do this and I'll do
that and I'll do this because I can, not because he said.
Because there is a self righteousness of taking God's
word and doing it on your terms. As to taking God's word and
doing it on his terms, so Jesus does the lordship test.
Well, if you've done it because I said it and you're obeying
what I say, sell everything. I said.
Sell everything. Now, obviously this guy had no
context of the law sowing and reaping, because if he would
have known what Jesus was asking, he would have got rid of
it all. Because you cannot give to a
king and come back empty handed. In fact, his wealth would have
been exceedingly abundantly far beyond what he could think or
imagine, because if he'd had done at the bidding of the Lord,
he'd have given it back to him, good measure, pressed out,
shaken together, and run it over.
But his trust was not in the word of the Lord, but in his
riches. And this is the problem, OK?
We need to recognize this. The next one is found in Luke,
chapter 12. God has a problem with people
whose hearts are towards their money.
God does not have a problem with wealth.
And you got to get this because if we don't get this, we're
going to miss out on one of the greatest moves that are coming.
OK, I'm going to go over here. Everybody wants the great move
of God, right? Everybody, You know what they're
looking for. They're looking for the
miracles. They want to see the deaf ears
open, the blind eye, see the lame walk.
You know, these incurable diseases are are people that are
amputees, their legs. I mean, they want to see these
kind of spectacular things. And it's not that God cannot do
them and that he will continue to do them.
That's fine. We want to see somebody be
delivered from the devil or whatever the case may be.
But why aren't we believing? For what he said would take
place in the last days, That the wealth of the wicked would be
paid up for the righteous. Because you got to understand
something, you're not getting that when you're in heaven.
Because first and foremost, there's no wicked in heaven to
transfer a wealth to you. So it has to be something while
we're in the earth. And if we are so adverse to
wealth and think only the world can have it, then we'll never be
in a position when God wants to transfer it because you qualify
as the righteous. But a righteous person who
qualifies but won't receive it, although they're righteous,
won't have it. So he's saying, look, don't be
looking at the money. Look to me that way when it
comes, because here's the heart you want to have whatever I
possess at any time I can give it.
Away. It's no problem.
If the Lord tells me give it away.
Then it's like, here's the check.
I'll, I'll, I'll unload the account.
Are you hearing me? All right, let me go over to the
basics of Kingdom theology. You're ready for this.
Don't worry about what you going to eat and what you going to
drink and what you're going to wear.
But seek first the Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these
things will be added to you. And many of us don't empty
accounts because we're too busy trying to think about what we
going to eat. Well now, Lord, if I give that,
how am I going to take care of my kids?
The Lord's like, really? Have you ever seen the righteous
forsaken and their children begging for bread?
Hallelujah. Luke, chapter 12, verse 16 to
21. And he told them a parable
saying the land of a rich man was very productive.
And he began reasoning to himself, saying, what shall I do
since I have no place to store my crops.
Then he said, this is what I will do.
I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I
will store all my grain in my goods.
And I will say to my soul, soul, you have many goods laid up for
many years to come. Take your ease, eat, drink, and
be merry. Sounds like retirement.
I'm going to say that again. It sounds like American
retirement. You know how many people are
actually living this? They're storing up in their four
O1 KS. They're doing investments.
They're doing everything they can.
They're calculating. Why?
Because I want to retire one day and I want my wealth to serve me
and me alone. OK, that's all right.
Preach it anyway. Be real, pastor.
But God said to him, You what? What do you call him?
So we would go to their financial seminars.
And God says you're taking advice from a fool.
I mean, think of some of the wealthiest people on the planet
today that you know are ungodly, and yet you want to go to their
seminars. And the Lord considers their
education, not wisdom but foolishness.
Well, who takes advice from a fool?
A fool because the devil is fooling the church into thinking
my way is the only way for you to have wealth.
This is why Christian work two or three jobs instead of coming
to church. This is why they'll always make
decisions on whether they going to come to church based upon how
much they're working. This is why people will take
jobs, not because of purpose in the church, but because of more
money. And the enemy continues to pull
and pull and pull. But God.
Just say but God. But God has believers that a dog
gone Listen to him and we'll do his bidding.
And many of us are doing a lot more than we were originally
required because others didn't come along to do their part.
And he says the assignment's going to get done.
I'll go ahead and use you anyway.
Are you hearing me? So he goes on and says.
But God said you fooled this very night.
Your soul is required of you and now who will own what you have
prepared? See the thing that rich people
have? The hardest thing I'm talking
about people whose wealth is their hearts towards their
wealth is they can't even begin to fathom poor people having
their money. There's nothing that makes them
more aggravated than giving money to the poor because they
consider why would I ought to all my work give it to someone
who will have no value, They disdain it.
Will they give Charitably, yes. But you understand, half of the
charities are other people's trusts.
It's the wealthy's trust. Foundation Oh y'all, don't want
to hear this. That's fine.
I mean, how does the rich keep getting richer?
Because they create the so-called foundations to launder
their money and keep it around people who will do it their way
'cause God forbid I give it to someone who can't manage money.
This is why the rich young rulers perplex.
When Jesus said go give it to the poor, he's like, why would I
get I work hard. You want me to get rid of.
I mean, I I was a good steward. Yeah, I was such a good steward.
Why would I squander that? What did Jesus call it?
A squander. You understand this is easy from
Jesus when you understand Jesus. We'll talk about it, he goes on,
and says, So is a man who stores up treasure for say it again,
treasures what for himself and is not what rich toward who.
So wealth was always designed for you to be rich toward God,
rich toward God. God doesn't have a problem with
riches. He has a problem when someone
stores up treasures, for in fact the Bible literally says this Do
not store up treasures on earth where moths eat rust, destroys,
and thieves, but store for yourself treasures.
Which tells me is is Jesus a liar?
So if he's telling you you can actually store treasures in
heaven, then there must be a way to do so.
There's an account, actually. Not only is there a book with
your name in it, but there's an account with your name on it
where you can actually get into that account.
Because when you do with your money what God says to do with
your money, then it gets registered in that account.
And in that account I'm telling you the return is 3060 and 100%
return. Are you hearing me?
I mean, you don't get this kind in no money markets.
The problem is, is you can't go in and check on it and watch
your wealth grow naturally. You have to check on it by
keeping your decree of faith going.
You have to pray in the spirit, knowing that he's going to
handle that. And when the time needs for you
to make a withdrawal from heaven to do the next assignment,
you're going to have more than enough good measure pressed
down, shaken together. And why?
I'm talking to the wealthiest people on the planet right now.
And the problem is you just don't know it.
Why? Because of the wealth of a king.
The wealth of a king. All right, so then let's get
into the verse that has tripped up so many, right?
Because again, we read these. If you read them wrong, you
would think God had a problem with money.
But when you read them right, you realize money was not the
issue. It's the love of money that's
the issue. It's the heart towards money
that's the issue. It's storing up for yourself and
yourself only. That's the problem.
It was not money itself that was an issue.
Are you hearing me? So then let's look at this
scripture, because when you read them wrong, then you interpret
Second Corinthians 8-9 wrong. And 2nd Corinthians 8-9 says
this for you know, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
That though he was what yet for your sake became poor, so that
through his what might become, through his poverty might
become. Rich.
How many think Jesus was broke that he was such a poor guy?
Now again you listen to some ministers #1 you would think
that carpentry. Is one of the lowest level paid
positions. Actually, some Greek scholars
based upon carpentry, what Joseph probably would have been
in, would have been considered a high paying position.
It would been a craft that would have received quite a bit of
money. OK, let me give you case in
point. How many have a Prius?
I got some Prius people in here. All right.
OK. How many have a brand new?
Royals. Roll Royce.
They're both vehicles. Royal Rolls Royce.
A royal roast. Obviously I don't have one, but
I am thinking about a Porsche anyway.
How many of you have? A Rolls Royce Anybody.
Nobody. Why costs a lot of money?
Is it too expensive? Honestly, if you go on, you can
find some of them are, you know, not really bad.
Now you may have to pay a few years back, but you understand
people who are buying those brand new are really taking care
of those cuz they have the finance to do so.
So if you get one that's 15 years old, it's probably looking
like a brand new. And runs like it's brand new and
a yield going to pay on that vehicle about as much as you'll
pay for a brand new Escalade or or Tahoe or, you know, Lincoln
Navigator today. I mean, because those vehicles
are running into hundreds of thousands themselves, the
100,000 themselves. Are you hearing me?
Everybody all right? Can I talk money with y'all
y'all be OK? All right, anyway.
It's tight. So the Prius people out there,
you know, you got a little vehicle because Toyota is
making, but Royal Royce? Rolls Royce I don't know why I'm
having a hard time with this car.
Let me go over to the Porsche. Can I just say Porsche?
I'm going to say Porsche from now on.
So you go over to the Porsche 9/11, all right, A 9/11.
I'm talking like the GT. I'm talking about the ones that
are in the 300,000 range. OK, 'cause you can get a 9/11
for way less than that, but you can get one that's, you know,
they got 3-4 hundred thousand, some $500,000 cars.
OK, And so what's the difference?
Which means the manufacturer of two cars have two different pay
scales. So when you hear Carpenter, I
mean we're not talking about putting trim.
There are some carpenters that did did details within King's
palaces that that work had a different amount of money.
So the first deception is that they assume Jesus is broke
because Dad was a Carpenter. He was just a poor.
Carpenter's son Well, that's a law.
I said that's a law. So I want to show you Jesus's
wealth first on the planet and then we'll explain why the Bible
says he was poor and through his poverty we can become rich.
So in Matthew chapter 2, Matthew chapter 2, this is in your
Bible. I said this is in your Bible.
It says now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the
days of Herod the King, behold, wise men from the east came to
Jerusalem. Jesus is now born, right?
And some guys, the day, night he was born, a star showed up and
they are like, there's the king. This is the one Daniel was
prophesying about. Let's go find him.
OK, so it says, we're saying where is he who was born, what
they recognized he was king. Not that he was a religious
figure, not that he was bringing in Christianity, but he was a
king. He was the head of a government
that is going to be established. That Daniel said would show up
or rot made with that hand and it would destroy every other
government that would ever exist.
And it's the only government that would exist forever.
It would be a Kingdom of which he would be the king and he
would have that he would be king of all that domain and it would
fill the earth. So they came to see and says for
we've seen a star in the east and we've come to worship him.
When Carrot heard this he was what troubled and all say all,
all Jerusalem with him. Now why in the world is
Jerusalem upset over three guys showing up with three little
boxes? Because this is your nativity.
We're coming into the holiday season of which the nativity is
not accurate. The wise men never showed up
with the shepherds. They were never at the Manger.
Ever. This is about two years later.
They show up at a house and Jesus is a toddler.
OK, but yet what do we have? Three guys with a little box in
their hand. Three guys show up and say we
weren't here to see the king of the Jews and the whole city is
upset because three guys showed up.
So that should be #1 indicator. There's a problem with people's
theology. Let's go on.
So jump down to verse 11. And when they came into the
house, they saw the child with Mary.
So they're in a house, not a Manger his mother and fell down
and worshipped him. Why?
Because that's what you do before king.
You bow and let me tell you, is Jesus king?
What's the Bible say concerning him?
Every knee will and every tongue will.
That he is Lord is not a religious word.
It means supreme in authority, because he is supreme in
authority. And so they fell down and
worshiped it. And when they had opened their
treasures, now three could be plural because they presented
gifts. But let me ask you this
question. Just because three are
mentioned, does that mean that's all that was there?
Number one, it doesn't tell us the size of what they were
carrying. In fact, if you actually go back
and do some regular history, you will begin to determine that if
you look at our Bible in context, because our Bible lets
us know how things function. Jesus himself said this.
He said, you remember how Solomon was.
He said even someone greater than Solomon is here now.
What happened when Queen Sheba came to Solomon's house?
Did she come with three boxes? No.
She had what they call an entourage.
Why would Jerusalem be upset? Because these guys were
traveling with an army Because of the gifts that they brought.
I said the gifts they brought and the gifts they brought had
great wealth. Gold.
What's the what? Randy?
What is gold right now? Per oz. 2000 an ounce.
Right now. Just an ounce, just one ounce.
I mean, if that minimum, you're talking about one box full of
coins, that's a lot of wealth right there.
But it says it opened their treasures and other treasures.
There were boxes of gold, there were boxes of frankincense,
there were boxes of myrrh, and most likely there were other
things like materials and different stuff as well.
They just don't mention those particular items at all.
Because when you look at the history of when people came to
kings, see, this is a Western mindset.
Why could we vote in our president?
We kick our president out. You know, we basically don't
even have any honor for those in authority anyway.
So, you know, we scoff at it. God forbid you asked me for any
of my money. We don't have a hard enough time
paying taxes, right? But in a Kingdom, it ain't like
that. In a Kingdom, when you go before
king, you don't go empty handed number one.
So anybody's coming into the King's court is bringing gifts.
And if these guys knowing kings and being in a Kingdom, they
never would have showed up without multiple gifts to pre
presented to the king of the earth.
So you're already at a deficit of thinking that they didn't
honor this kid. I mean, they have traveled two
years. How long now?
How many meals you gonna go through before you get to hell?
How many bandits are you going to pass through lands before you
get to him? And how are you going to entrust
those riches so that they are stolen from?
Oh, you only hear. Do you understand?
There was a lot of effort that these guys had to show up at
Jesus house and the wealth was so much that when Harry comes to
kill, Joseph can pick up camp and live with his family off of
this wealth. In Egypt, in fact this wealth,
how can Jesus walk around with 12 disciples when he gets and
all of a sudden he's not working a job.
He's not like Peter or Paul who's doing some side jobs.
Not only did he have enough wealth from his childhood, but
then other wealthy people. Oh y'all, don't want to hear
this, you understand? You're never going to get in
front of a millionaire or a billionaire.
Broke Jesus came to save the world, the whole systems of the
world, and he's going to get in front of everybody, which means
he had no restrictions. OK, let's talk about Jesus.
Well look over to John chapter 12, verse 3 through 6, it says.
Then Mary took a pound of very expensive perfume, of pure nard,
and she poured it on Jesus feet and wiped his feet with her hair
and the. House was filled with fragrance
of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of the
disciples, the one who was going to betray him says why has this
prefer perfume not sold for 300 denarium.
A denarium was one day wage, so this is almost a year's worth of
money that the lady pours out on his feet.
We would call that waste. Jesus would call that tip.
Money's relevant based upon what you have, he said.
Not because he care for the full poor, for he had never cared
about them, but because he was a thief and since he had the Money
Box serving as treasurer for the 12 disciples he used to pilfer,
pilfer what was put in it. How can Jesus be broke and have
a treasurer? And how can a treasurer embezzle
money if there's not enough in there?
Because I've never heard of someone going to prison for
embezzlement holding some broke person's finance.
People who embezzle money are associated with major
corporations who have major amounts of money, and anytime
you hear they embezzled what, millions?
Well, you know, he embezzled 10. Dollars from me, Are you here?
See the terminology associated with Jesus?
You have to start stripping off your tradition.
I probably should have started today.
I thought I would be able to get past it with this group.
But you know, Jesus said why do you forsake the commandments of
God for the sake of your traditions?
If you traditionally think Jesus is a broke guy, you're wrong.
Jesus is not broke. Jesus was never broke.
But Jesus did not limit his life to his wealth.
Have you ever heard of the guy named Joseph of Arimathea?
Now Rick Renner, who's a Greek scholar, he has traced this back
himself through other scholars. And it is believed that Joseph
of Arimathea was actually Jesus's uncle and he was over
his estate. So when they left for Egypt,
because of all the wealth, they gave it to Joseph.
How in the world can Joseph go before the king and say I want
Jesus's body, the governor, because a poor person is not
going before the pilot. And say I want the body.
He was managing Jesus's assets because the father gave him
enough wealth when necessary to be able to utilize it.
Although Jesus didn't need money to get stuff.
Why? Because he could throw a net on
the other side and get way more. Jesus could turn 2 fish and five
loaves to feed over 10,000 people, 5000 men, not counting
the women and children. So Jesus was not limited to
money, but he had money. And he's an example to us that
you can have wealth. Wealth just shouldn't have you.
All right, let's keep preaching. John chapter 19.
Again, Judas is a treasurer because they have so much wealth
that they're dealing in that they have available to them.
He saw a pastor. What about what Peter, you know,
he said go fishing. Obviously the US rest of the
disciples weren't there for him to go to.
Judas and say pull it out-of-the-box, but you
understand Jesus didn't have to pull out-of-the-box anyway, When
he fed the 5000, they actually came to him and says, do you
want us to buy bread and take 200 Denarion?
And we already know that he had wealth, that some of the stuff
given to him was worth almost a year's salary, although they
didn't sell that particular one. And he says that's not how we're
going to do it today. I don't need.
You to go to the Treasury and go buy the bread.
We're going to do it this way. This is where great wealth
comes, because once you start actually doing what God says,
you never lack. You know how many people are
governed by their wallet? Hey, we're going to go on a
trip. I want to go, but I can't
afford. You want to go, but you can't
afford. So the money's telling you you
can't. You'd have an ask God.
Hallelujah. Well, praise the Lord.
John 1923 to 24 says this. And the soldiers when they had
crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts to
each soldier. A part and also the tunic.
Now the tunic was without seam. Now, why are they talking about
a poor guy's beggar clothes, right?
I mean, why they why they why they trying to get the man they
hate. Jesus.
I mean, the Roman soldiers don't think he's all that.
I mean, they've done beat on him that you can't even tell he's a
man. They've already mocked him, but
yet they want his garments. That's good.
There's no respect for the guy, but they want his.
What is the well, Rome and soldiers.
I mean, if you've done anything where Roman soldiers often walk
with the tax collectors, and the tax collectors would always pull
more. Give the wrong What's wrong?
What's give? The Caesar?
What's Caesar's? Then they keep for themselves.
Then the soldiers would keep for themselves, because their muscle
allowed them to bully the people, to get more than what
Caesar wanted. So you understand this is just
greed, and there's something about his garment.
Now they divide the one, but this particular one, it's
without seam woven from the top. In one place, they said,
Therefore among themselves, let us not tear it, but cast lots
for it. Whose it will be what the
scripture might be fulfilled saying.
They divided my garments among them for my clothing.
They cast lots. Therefore the soldiers did these
things. So there was his clothes were he
was better dressed than most people on the plane.
He had kings close. In essence, Jesus's garments
were of wealth itself. And yet the scripture says in
Second Corinthians that he was made poor.
Well, how can he be poor when wise men are bringing in gold,
frankincense, myrrh, and an abundance?
Women that are in Herod's house and in Rome's places of power
were financing Jesus's ministry? How could he be poor when he can
multiply loaves and fish and turn it from 2:00 and 5:00 to
12:00 basket fulls? How is this even possible that
he's poor? Jesus walked in more with his
garments themselves, were of a wealthy person and he didn't
have a house per SE. Now he may have had a home, he
just didn't stay there. At what?
His purpose is to get a a massive amount of wealth, build
him a castle, sit on the throne. Then why 'cause they're building
his house up in heaven and it's coming down, Oh.
Yeah. Oh yeah, that's fine.
His construction is happening right now in in the heaven
realm. And at the end it's going to
come down out of heaven to the earth where his throne is.
Are you hearing me? So he was already wealthy on the
planet. What in the world could this
even mean? Are you hearing me?
Well, let's take a step back in the beginning.
Was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,
and the Word became flesh, so the Word was God.
And the Word became flesh. Now who is the Word becoming
flesh? Jesus.
Which means Jesus existed as the Word before we know His name is
Jesus, which means he was in the beginning.
Which means then it's God the Father, God the Son, and God the
Holy Spirit. That when the Father says let
there be light, there was. In essence, Jesus created
everything. Says that he holds all creation
together. Now think about this for a
moment. He's God the Son.
The family owns everything in creation.
Every star. Every planet.
Every Galaxy. Every.
You know, I mean everything. He owns it all because by his
words he created it. He's in glory.
He has access to all creation. Yet God says when man fell from
dominion because he gave man a planet called Earth to function
in it, to to manage it, to have dominion over it.
Let us make man in our image according to our likeness.
And let him have what? Dominion over the fish of the
sea, the birds of the sky? That's this planet, this earth
right here. God said, this is my earth.
I own everything. I'm going to have this earth
here. And I'm going to put my man
there that's in my image. I'm going to put him in a skin
suit and he's going to manage that place like I managed the
rest of creation. In essence, heaven's realm
impacts Earth realm because you do what I say.
As Jesus said, when you pray, pray this way.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in so
heaven's realm, anything outside the earth.
God is the ruler of it all, and the Son was the ruler with it.
But the management how we manage the earth, was given to the sons
of men. And God, says, Adam, you can eat
from any tree of the garment of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil. You shall not eat for the day
you eat you will surely what die.
So when he. Eats the fruit.
He hands his dominion over to a fallen cherub named Satan, and
he takes dominion. And now he's, as Paul said, the
ruler of this world. He's the God of this world.
He's the God of this system, not earth 'cause God never lost the
earth. The earth is the Lord's.
But how it's ran, how it's governed, how it's ruled, was
given to the devil. So God comes into the garden and
says, Adam, where are you? What position are you in now?
Have you eaten the fruit? I told you not to.
And so from there he gets to the serpent, of which he says I'm
going to bring my seed through the woman.
He's going to crush your head and you'll bruise his heel.
In essence, God says because I gave man the rulership, it
requires a man to come back and take it.
But it can't be a man in the image of Adam now because Adam
has fallen and now Adam reproduces after his own kind.
And that is the kind that's lost without God.
Separated, for all have sin. Sin is simply disobeying God.
And because that took place, God says I'll have to put another
man. But I can't use man as a help.
I'll have to get a woman pregnant by the Holy Ghost so I
can put my son. That's why Isaiah said a child
is born, a son is given. A son's not born cause the son
always existed. So think about it.
You own. You are controlling everything.
Every star, every Galaxy, every planet, everything.
And God says, Let me take you now and confine.
You to a man's suit, The Bible says.
He emptied himself of his glory and isolated himself in a suit.
I would. Consider that.
Pretty poor in comparison. Not only is he limited to a
suit, he's now limited to only do what the Father says by the
Holy Ghost he's having. Now again, he listened to the
Father even in the Heaven realm, but he is functioning as a man.
When Jesus says he's the Son of Man, that's more powerful than
him just saying he's the Son of God.
Because Jesus did not come to let us see what he what God can
do. He came to show us what we can
do, what we were designed to do as an A first Adam.
Because if you look at the miracles that Jesus performed,
they were all within the dominion that Adam lost.
So I would consider that by comparison poor.
He emptied himself of his glory. He put himself in a skin suit.
Now he's tempted on all accounts like us, because in his earthly
existence, finance was not an issue with Jesus because the
king was still able to acquire wealth for anything necessary to
do the purpose of his father. But when you compare it to the
seat he was in before he came, are you hearing me?
And he's he on a seat today. I said, is he on his seat today?
See, Jesus has taken off the constraints of this mortal life
because of his death, burial, resurrection.
He's now become glorified. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
And now he's returned to the Father.
He's seated at his right hand. But why is this important?
Because John, chapter 12, verse 23 and 24, Jesus said to them,
saying, the hours come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the
ground or the earth and dies, it remains alone.
But if it dies, it bears much fruit again, he said in Genesis
315. And I'll put enmity between you
and the woman, between your seed and her seed, and he shall
bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heels.
So the seed is the seed of a king.
So for God, who loved the world that he gave his only begotten
son, whoever believes in him should not perish but have
everlasting life. In essence I'm putting a king
kind in the earth so that he can die as a king and raise up
kings. And if he raises up kings then
you can function in the same wealth that are associated with
a king. Because God said I'll never
leave you nor forsake you. Yet many of us are still living
like we orphan kids under the control of the devil when
actually our father has given us a trust in Jesus Christ and that
we can have access all this well as kings in the earth to do the
purpose God's called us to do. So no longer should you
sacrifice your children to the world system of wealth.
When you say, let me get you in the Kingdom, well because son,
you are a child of a king. You've made Jesus the Lord of
your life, daughter, you're a child of the king, you made
Jesus the Lord of your life, and the wealth of the king is
associated to your life now because you're born of the same
seed. So there's no reason for us to
go around the earth acting like we're broke or staying in
poverty. So we remain humble because if
if if getting caught up in pride over wealth is an issue, you
need to change your thinking. Well, I'm glad God didn't give
me the money because he knew I couldn't handle it.
Well, get your mind right to handle it.
Pretty simple. You're already admitting the
problem is you, not God, so get ready to handle it.
And what's the best way to handle it?
I can give it away at any moment, 'cause it doesn't define
me, Paul said. Look, I know how to live in any
condition. Why?
Because my living is for his purpose, not for the things that
come with the purpose. So whether I got a bunch with me
today and have nothing with me tomorrow doesn't really matter.
I'm here to do his purpose. So on one side, you know, I may
have a whole lot in my account, And then the next day, empty at
all, knowing that I just stored something in in my account in
heaven. And when the time's necessary, I
can pull it back down, because the wealth of the king is the
wealth of our king, because we've been raised up and seated
in heavenly places in Christ. Jesus.
If you would have followed Jesus on the earth, at least today's
religious Christianity, they'd had a hard time with him and
they would have had little messages about how wealthy he
was. All right.
The wealth is not. The problem is does the wealth
have them. That's the issue.
I know of 1 particular minister. I'm not going to mention their
name, but they haven't yet. And when they were coming out of
Afghanistan recently, a couple years back, guys.
Not even that. Because there were many U.S.
citizens there, this minister gave the plane to an
organization that flew in and stepped started pulling U.S.
citizens out because they had access to equipment to help
save. But yet religious Christians
would call that excess. Aren't you glad he had the
control? The Ministry had the kind of
control to be able to send someone in.
It's amazing how we get so elitist in our poverty, like
we're so holy and righteous, when the reality is God wants
his children to have the resources available that at a
moment's notice they can serve a greater good.
So please own an airline. I have.
I could quit going commercial. What's the problem?
Why does the world have to be the owners of it all?
But because we think we can only stay humble, broke.
Well if that was the case, then why did he give Abraham wealth?
Why did he give his nation wealth?
In fact his whole thing with Moses wealth won the issue.
He said Listen, do read Deuteronomy 28.
You're my people, so this is how this is going to roll out.
You're going to be the head, not the tail.
You're going to be above, not beneath.
All your all, all your cattle's going to give offspring.
You're never going to have a miscarriage.
I mean, all your food's going to multiply.
You going to be so blessed. All the nations of the world are
going to say, how in the world do you do that?
And who is your king? We want to be a part of your
nation, he says. You'll lend to many nations and
you won't even have to borrow. Wow.
If God felt like it couldn't keep them.
He knows that you can maintain humility cause all humility is I
do what God says, pride you more.
There are more pride people poor than there are pride people rich
actually because it's all about doing the will of God.
That's right because God gives us a system to come out of
poverty. Second Corinthians Chapter 9,
verse 6 through 8 says this. Now this I say.
He who sow sparingly will also reap sparingly.
He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Each one must do as he has purposed in his heart, not
grudgingly or under compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver,
and God is able to make all grace abound to you so that
always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an
abundance, say abundance, for every good deed.
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will
supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the
harvest of your righteousness. So giving is actually a
demonstration of our righteousness, that we are
actually the answer to man's problem.
And when money's required, we can have it to give.
Because there's times when money's not required.
And we actually have that as well.
The world is still looking for a cure for cancer.
By the stripes of Jesus, cancer has been destroyed.
You say. Are you against research?
No, because you know what? People need to stay alive till
they find Jesus. I have no problem with that.
No issue. But to say that there's not an
answer for cancer today. It is.
It's called Christ. That's the answer.
And Christ beats cancer every time.
He's never lost. He's never lost to tuberculosis.
He's never lost to AIDS. He's never lost to any disease.
There's never been a disease that Jesus says, whoa, I can't
touch that. Because death.
He even conquered. I said he even conquered death.
He's not even intimidated with death.
He'd show up four days later into Lazarus being the gravest
says big deal, I'll come get him.
Lazarus out of word, Lazarus comes up out of the grave.
It was a sickness. It's not unto death because I
can call him back. I can call him back into his
body, heal his body, and he'd be a functioning citizen until he
dies again. Are you hearing me?
So again, notice you're going to reap either way.
So if you sow sparingly because there's a law of seed, time and
harvest, if you give, you're going to get and notice.
If you put a seed in, you do not come back with one seed.
It produces a plant that produces fruit, fruit that has
way more seeds in those fruits than the one you planted.
So you always get it more back. The word here meaning sparingly
or bountifully, is a condition of the heart if it's hard for
you to let it go. Then it's hard for you to get
it. You'll get it.
But it's hard because you really don't want to let it go.
But if you so bountifully what? Lord, yes, then it gets back to
you that fast, that easy. It comes back to you that easy.
And he says, Look, God's like, you don't have to do this.
You don't have to. I'm not asking you to do it
begrudgingly under compulsion. I want you to do it cheerfully
because for the joy set before the Lord he endured the cross.
He laid his life down. He said This is great because
I'm. Fixing to get more kings in the
earth. Are you hearing me?
Hallelujah. So let me close with this.
Matthew 622 verses. Bestow it for yourself,
treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys,
Where thieves do not break in and steal.
In Luke chapter 6, verse 38. Give and it shall be given to
you. Good measure, pressed down,
shaken together, and running over will, he will be put into
your bosom for the same measure that you used.
It will be measured back to you. If it's easy for you to get into
God, if it's easy for you to give into God's economic system,
then it's easy for you to receive back.
And for some of you are in business.
It's easy for you to get more contracts.
It's easier for you to get more business.
It's easy for you to get more locations.
It's easy for you to franchise. It's easy for you.
Why? Because you can just give it
away. You're not counting your
dollars. You're sowing your dollars.
You're hearing the voice of God and you're giving.
Why? Because Jesus, when he came into
the earth, knew this. My dad owns the planet.
My dad owns the planet, he was saying.
My dad created this hall. My dad created all of it.
That's why Jesus could say this. So the scripture has said I must
come to Jerusalem on a donkey. That's never been written,
written. So I got one.
I'm not going to even have to pay for it with cash.
Because Dad owns it already. So I want you to go to this
house on this street, he tells the Disciples.
There's a donkey waiting for me. I want you to untie it and bring
it to me. If anyone happens to stop you
when this is taking place, then you just let them know the Lord
has need of it. That's like someone's showing up
at your vehicle with another set of keys and you're like, yo,
what are you doing? The Lord has need of it.
OK, take it 'cause that's what took place.
Are you here? Why 'cause he knows my dad owns
the cattle on 1000 hills. All the silver and gold is his.
How am I? Broke.
How are you broke? You can't be broke if you're the
child of a king. Can't be because the wealth that
God has for you is associated with your purpose.
That you'll never be in lack. It may not be in your hands, but
you're not lacking, I said. It may not be in your hands, but
you're not lacking Because when you need it, boy, he can sure
get it to you, I said. He can get it to you.
And he's not even limited to the finance.
That's what's so exciting. He's not limited to it.
At the end of the day, he can do it other ways.
So when Jesus was poor, he came out of Heaven's realm and
limited himself to the earth realm.
And you know as well as I do being here and being there.
It's two different places. In fact, that place has gold
streets. I mean, Can you imagine that
gold streets all through W Augustine, you're like, I'll
take this brick right here out, go cash that in, right.
And then the city comes and puts some another brick in.
That'd be pretty amazing. And there.
It's the streets. Solomon's time.
Silver. We won't even count it.
I mean, we got so much of this stuff.
There's so much finance flowing here.
I mean, I I don't even know what to do at all.
Don't. You want to get to that place.
Now here's the deal. You're already there and you
don't even know it, because it doesn't have to be in your
account to be there. And now this scripture will make
much sense to you. And my God shall supply all my
needs according to his riches in glory, because our king was
never broke, but he was made poor so that we could have his
riches. And now we are seated with him
in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
Let's pray, Father, we thank. You thank you so much for
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