1 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:04,760 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message Podcast 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:06,160 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:15,960 Now enjoy this message. All right, if you have your. 4 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,400 Bibles turn over to First Timothy chapter six. 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,880 I've never ministered this message here in Saint Augustine. 6 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:27,680 I've only ministered at one time and and it was in Nicaragua 7 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,420 actually. At our other church there, as 8 00:00:30,420 --> 00:00:33,740 you know, we have 4 churches in Nicaragua and then we have one 9 00:00:33,740 --> 00:00:35,620 in Valdosta. We have another one coming 10 00:00:35,620 --> 00:00:39,180 online in Leon, one in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. 11 00:00:39,180 --> 00:00:42,660 Leon's in Nicaragua, Puerto Plata is in Dominican Republic. 12 00:00:42,660 --> 00:00:45,620 And then a few weeks from now, me and the team are going to be 13 00:00:45,620 --> 00:00:49,820 going to India and we're going to be moving Kingsway Church to 14 00:00:49,820 --> 00:00:51,620 become an anchor faith church in India. 15 00:00:51,980 --> 00:00:54,500 And so that's an exciting thing. You know, when I was counting 16 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:56,180 that up, man, we're going to have nine churches here pretty 17 00:00:56,180 --> 00:00:57,580 soon. That's amazing. 18 00:00:58,330 --> 00:01:00,530 I didn't know God was going to do that, but he did. 19 00:01:01,010 --> 00:01:03,690 And you know, there's some things that happen in other 20 00:01:03,690 --> 00:01:06,370 countries that we really need to be able to communicate some 21 00:01:06,370 --> 00:01:10,290 truths about the Kingdom. And I really want to do some 22 00:01:10,290 --> 00:01:14,930 things concerning God's economic system, you know, but it takes a 23 00:01:14,930 --> 00:01:17,570 little time in other countries. Now we've done some pretty 24 00:01:17,570 --> 00:01:20,690 exhaustive teaching on Kingdom economics here. 25 00:01:20,690 --> 00:01:25,170 In fact, we're in the process of working of of getting the book 26 00:01:25,170 --> 00:01:29,600 Dominionaire in print. And so it's going to be in print 27 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,040 next year. And so it's going to help a lot 28 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,560 of people because you understand you're a Dominionaire, right? 29 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,760 We walk in Dominion. But I want to talk about the 30 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,920 wealth of a king today, because the reality is the the world's 31 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:48,360 done a really good job of moving a lot of people in its system 32 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,800 because it doesn't understand God's system. 33 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:58,810 And also the church has gotten a lot wrong concerning Jesus and 34 00:01:59,130 --> 00:02:03,530 who he is and how he functioned on the earth based upon one 35 00:02:03,530 --> 00:02:06,570 scripture. They made some assumptions, and 36 00:02:06,570 --> 00:02:08,930 based upon those assumptions, people carry a thought 37 00:02:08,930 --> 00:02:12,450 concerning Jesus as he grew up, which is absolutely. 38 00:02:12,450 --> 00:02:13,850 In error. And we're going to fix that 39 00:02:13,850 --> 00:02:15,690 today. Say we're going to fix that 40 00:02:15,690 --> 00:02:18,330 today. So in First Timothy Chapter 6, 41 00:02:18,330 --> 00:02:21,850 verse six through 10, All right, it says this, but godliness 42 00:02:21,850 --> 00:02:24,130 actually is a means of great gain. 43 00:02:24,130 --> 00:02:29,560 Say, great game, Great game when accompanied by contentment. 44 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,080 For we have brought nothing into the world, so we can take 45 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,080 nothing out of it either. If we have food and covering 46 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:40,520 with these, we shall be content. But those who want, who wants, 47 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:45,360 they want, who want to get rich, fall into temptation and a snare 48 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:49,520 and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into 49 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:51,800 what? Into ruin and destruction? 50 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,120 For the love of money? For the what? 51 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,580 Love of money. Not money, but the love of 52 00:02:57,580 --> 00:02:59,100 money. Not money. 53 00:02:59,700 --> 00:03:03,380 The love of money is the root of all sorts of evil, and some by 54 00:03:03,380 --> 00:03:05,300 longing for it. What are they doing? 55 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:08,900 They're longing for it. Have wandered away from the 56 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:10,900 faith and pierced themselves of many griefs. 57 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:13,420 Now if you go back up to the beginning of this, it says. 58 00:03:13,660 --> 00:03:18,020 But godliness actually is a means of great gain when 59 00:03:18,980 --> 00:03:24,060 accompanied by contentment. Meaning, I'm not trying to get 60 00:03:24,060 --> 00:03:26,260 the money. The money just comes. 61 00:03:27,590 --> 00:03:31,750 There's a difference. And whether I'm possessing it or 62 00:03:31,750 --> 00:03:38,710 not is really irrelevant because when I need it, I'll have it and 63 00:03:38,710 --> 00:03:42,350 I'll have it in abundance. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 64 00:03:42,670 --> 00:03:45,190 Well, you're going to. So again, let me just help 65 00:03:45,190 --> 00:03:49,630 everyone out real quick, OK? Do not have a Peter moment on 66 00:03:49,630 --> 00:03:51,670 me. What is a Peter moment? 67 00:03:51,670 --> 00:03:53,950 We've talked about this in Matthew, Chapter 16. 68 00:03:54,370 --> 00:03:57,490 Jesus is asking them who do they say that I am? 69 00:03:57,650 --> 00:04:00,610 And they're like man, Some say you Jeremiah Elijah, one of the 70 00:04:00,610 --> 00:04:02,530 prophets, And he said, but who do you say that I am? 71 00:04:02,530 --> 00:04:05,530 And he said, well you're Peter says you're the king, you're the 72 00:04:05,530 --> 00:04:08,090 Christ, you're the king, that's who you are. 73 00:04:08,090 --> 00:04:10,050 He said flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my 74 00:04:10,050 --> 00:04:11,490 Father in heaven, and you're blessed. 75 00:04:11,930 --> 00:04:15,250 And he says upon the revelation that I'm king, right, I'm going 76 00:04:15,250 --> 00:04:17,769 to build my church and then gates of hell won't prevail 77 00:04:17,769 --> 00:04:18,930 against it. Then he said, I'm going to give 78 00:04:18,930 --> 00:04:21,950 you the keys of the Kingdom. Whatever you bound on earth will 79 00:04:21,950 --> 00:04:24,550 have been bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will 80 00:04:24,550 --> 00:04:26,550 have been loose in heaven. Then he says now I'm going to 81 00:04:26,550 --> 00:04:33,470 die and the mini says die. Peter goes and he quits 82 00:04:33,470 --> 00:04:37,230 listening, but he goes on explains I'm going to die at the 83 00:04:37,230 --> 00:04:39,270 hands of the scribes and the Pharisees. 84 00:04:39,470 --> 00:04:42,150 But on the third day I'm going to come back. 85 00:04:42,310 --> 00:04:46,270 Peter, don't listen to that because he's stuck emotionally 86 00:04:46,870 --> 00:04:51,460 in the thought of Jesus dying. He can't even handle this 87 00:04:51,460 --> 00:04:53,820 emotionally. And because of that, when Jesus 88 00:04:53,820 --> 00:04:57,020 lets them know in three days I'm coming up out of graves I'm 89 00:04:57,020 --> 00:05:00,140 going to win, Peter pulls him to the sign. 90 00:05:00,140 --> 00:05:03,540 He says, Jesus, may it never be that you will die. 91 00:05:04,020 --> 00:05:08,020 I can't bear the thought of you not being with me, right? 92 00:05:08,420 --> 00:05:11,740 I need you right by my side. I need my personal savior. 93 00:05:13,060 --> 00:05:18,470 So Jesus rebukes him. I said rebukes him and says you 94 00:05:18,470 --> 00:05:21,190 got your mind now set on the devil. 95 00:05:22,190 --> 00:05:24,830 And he says get thee behind me Satan, for you've set your mind 96 00:05:24,830 --> 00:05:26,910 on the interests of men, not on the interests of God. 97 00:05:27,110 --> 00:05:29,190 Now you were blessed a minute ago because you know I'm the 98 00:05:29,190 --> 00:05:33,630 king, but now you listen to the wrong thoughts, which tells me a 99 00:05:33,630 --> 00:05:40,390 believer can be saying Amen and then go O me in one sentence, 100 00:05:41,470 --> 00:05:43,630 right? So I don't want you locking up 101 00:05:43,630 --> 00:05:50,000 because I said money. So quit locking up, all right? 102 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:55,080 Nobody's trying to get in your wallet, all right? 103 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:57,720 I'm trying to give you the wealth of the king of a king, 104 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,440 All right? So just 'cause we're talking 105 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,040 about it, you're going to be all right now. 106 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:04,840 Again, if you got a problem, then you'll always have a 107 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:06,520 problem and you'll miss the wealth of a king. 108 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:12,120 All right? So if you're going to be godly, 109 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:16,120 then great gain is actually associated with your life. 110 00:06:16,620 --> 00:06:18,700 Now let me skip ahead a little bit, because I got this all a 111 00:06:18,700 --> 00:06:21,340 bit early, a little bit later on in our past, but I'll bring it 112 00:06:21,340 --> 00:06:23,700 up. Was Abraham a godly man? 113 00:06:24,540 --> 00:06:28,580 Abraham is considered the father of faith, the father of us all. 114 00:06:28,860 --> 00:06:32,340 How much wealth did he have? The Bible says he was 115 00:06:32,340 --> 00:06:37,460 exceedingly wealthy, which means his godliness brought him 116 00:06:37,620 --> 00:06:41,500 wealth, and he never was destroyed because of wealth. 117 00:06:44,060 --> 00:06:47,730 Are you hearing me? So again, great gain comes with 118 00:06:47,730 --> 00:06:49,050 godliness. Why? 119 00:06:49,130 --> 00:06:53,770 Because when you always keep God first, then the wealth that you 120 00:06:53,770 --> 00:07:00,250 acquire will never have you. So God has no problem with you 121 00:07:00,250 --> 00:07:03,090 having wealth. He has a problem with wealth 122 00:07:03,090 --> 00:07:06,410 having you. And if you got a problem giving 123 00:07:06,410 --> 00:07:10,410 now, even though you don't consider yourself wealthy, you 124 00:07:10,410 --> 00:07:12,490 already have wealth, already has you. 125 00:07:13,540 --> 00:07:15,140 Now they can. I break it down real quick. 126 00:07:15,420 --> 00:07:18,020 Everybody in the room is extremely wealthy. 127 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:21,860 Because what are you comparing your life to? 128 00:07:23,100 --> 00:07:25,460 Because if you're comparing it with other people in the United 129 00:07:25,460 --> 00:07:29,660 States, then sure, you may feel poor, but the reality is you're 130 00:07:29,660 --> 00:07:33,700 not. If I take you to India, if I 131 00:07:33,700 --> 00:07:38,540 take you to Nicaragua, you know what the average Nicaraguan 132 00:07:38,660 --> 00:07:44,770 lives on per month? 300 U.S. dollars a month. 133 00:07:46,730 --> 00:07:48,490 Are you here? So you would have to consider 134 00:07:48,490 --> 00:07:55,650 yourself extremely wealthy in comparison with other humans on 135 00:07:55,650 --> 00:07:59,010 the planet. All right, fine. 136 00:07:59,010 --> 00:08:02,490 I'll go over here. Some people pray in the spirit 137 00:08:02,490 --> 00:08:07,410 for us, OK? If you start comparing in those 138 00:08:07,410 --> 00:08:10,010 capacities, you'll be you understand, people that are 139 00:08:10,010 --> 00:08:13,210 holding a sign right now in Saint Augustine are wealthier 140 00:08:13,210 --> 00:08:20,970 than most people in the world. So what we do is we start 141 00:08:20,970 --> 00:08:27,770 talking poor or poverty based upon a measure that we determine 142 00:08:29,050 --> 00:08:30,650 when the reality is. If we want to go ahead and 143 00:08:30,650 --> 00:08:32,850 measure, go ahead and measure you with the rest of the world 144 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,960 and you'll understand why they consider the United States one 145 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:41,679 of the wealthiest nations in the world, I said in the world. 146 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:46,440 Now they call China a very wealthy nation, but do you know 147 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:53,200 what they pay their people? OK. 148 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:55,760 I mean, we need to do a little research. 149 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:02,320 There's a reason why AUS company could go to China and have all 150 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:06,330 their product made and it's cheaper for them to send it 151 00:09:06,330 --> 00:09:11,330 there and get it back with taxes to bring it back in. 152 00:09:12,930 --> 00:09:14,570 Then it would be to keep it home. 153 00:09:19,370 --> 00:09:24,330 Since you think and think what are they making in the plants? 154 00:09:25,370 --> 00:09:29,650 What's their average salary 'cause I tell you, they don't 155 00:09:29,650 --> 00:09:35,490 have a union over there. And there really, Where do you 156 00:09:35,490 --> 00:09:37,890 go that when you buy something you don't see made in? 157 00:09:41,130 --> 00:09:45,130 All right, praise the Lord, this is going to be a great day. 158 00:09:46,170 --> 00:09:48,490 Hallelujah. Matthew 19. 159 00:09:48,490 --> 00:09:50,410 Well, when you get it, you'll get it, 'cause this is a really 160 00:09:50,410 --> 00:09:52,890 great message. Matthew, chapter 19, starting in 161 00:09:52,890 --> 00:09:55,730 verse 16, verse 24, it says this and someone came to him. 162 00:09:55,730 --> 00:09:58,570 This is Jesus saying, teacher, what good thing shall I do to 163 00:09:58,570 --> 00:10:00,450 obtain eternal life? And he said to him, Why do you 164 00:10:00,450 --> 00:10:03,040 ask me? About what is good, there is 165 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,960 only one who is good. But if you wish to enter into 166 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,360 life, keep the commandments. Then he said to him, which ones? 167 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:10,800 And Jesus said, you shall not commit murder, right. 168 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,840 He says that you shall not commit adultery, you shall not 169 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,600 steal, you shall not bear false witness. 170 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,600 Honor your mother and your father, and you shall love your 171 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,520 neighbor as yourself. And the young man said all these 172 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,440 things I've kept while what am I still lacking? 173 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,240 Jesus said to him. Notice, Jesus didn't say you're 174 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:29,440 a liar. He had kept them, OK? 175 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,610 It's how he kept them. It's why he kept them. 176 00:10:33,570 --> 00:10:36,530 It's for who he kept them, he says. 177 00:10:36,530 --> 00:10:39,250 Well, if you wish to be complete, go and sell your 178 00:10:39,250 --> 00:10:43,690 possession, give to the poor and you'll have treasure in heaven. 179 00:10:43,690 --> 00:10:46,730 And come follow me. This is the call of the 13th 180 00:10:47,730 --> 00:10:53,170 apostle, the 13th disciple. Instead of it being 12, we could 181 00:10:53,170 --> 00:10:56,130 have had 13. And could it be that he was 182 00:10:56,130 --> 00:11:00,740 already Judas's replacement? Because it's not like the Lord 183 00:11:00,740 --> 00:11:03,260 didn't know Judas was not going to make it. 184 00:11:04,100 --> 00:11:06,900 Are you hearing me? So we went and drew straws later 185 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:09,140 on. OK, well, all right, let's go 186 00:11:09,140 --> 00:11:11,060 on. He says the young man said to 187 00:11:11,060 --> 00:11:13,580 him all these things, right? And he says verse 22. 188 00:11:13,580 --> 00:11:15,900 But the young man heard this statement and went away 189 00:11:15,900 --> 00:11:18,020 grieving. Who for? 190 00:11:18,020 --> 00:11:20,340 He was one who owned much property? 191 00:11:20,340 --> 00:11:23,660 And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly, I say to you, it is hard 192 00:11:23,980 --> 00:11:26,020 for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of heaven. 193 00:11:26,020 --> 00:11:29,180 Again, I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through 194 00:11:29,180 --> 00:11:33,820 the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of 195 00:11:33,820 --> 00:11:36,020 God. Now it's not the riches that are 196 00:11:36,020 --> 00:11:39,460 the issue, it's why. It's how the riches have him 197 00:11:40,420 --> 00:11:42,660 'cause in essence, this is a test of lordship. 198 00:11:42,940 --> 00:11:46,740 He's saying to him, well keep the commandments and he says I 199 00:11:46,740 --> 00:11:48,900 did it. The question is, did you keep 200 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:51,460 the commandments? Because Jesus, who is the Word, 201 00:11:51,460 --> 00:11:55,080 said it. Or did you keep them based upon 202 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:59,720 your own personal keeping? Well, I'll do this and I'll do 203 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:04,840 that and I'll do this because I can, not because he said. 204 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,280 Because there is a self righteousness of taking God's 205 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:15,200 word and doing it on your terms. As to taking God's word and 206 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,320 doing it on his terms, so Jesus does the lordship test. 207 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,920 Well, if you've done it because I said it and you're obeying 208 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:26,280 what I say, sell everything. I said. 209 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,080 Sell everything. Now, obviously this guy had no 210 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:33,360 context of the law sowing and reaping, because if he would 211 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:35,640 have known what Jesus was asking, he would have got rid of 212 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:38,560 it all. Because you cannot give to a 213 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:44,120 king and come back empty handed. In fact, his wealth would have 214 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:49,360 been exceedingly abundantly far beyond what he could think or 215 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,360 imagine, because if he'd had done at the bidding of the Lord, 216 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,920 he'd have given it back to him, good measure, pressed out, 217 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,280 shaken together, and run it over. 218 00:12:57,560 --> 00:13:01,480 But his trust was not in the word of the Lord, but in his 219 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:07,440 riches. And this is the problem, OK? 220 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:10,320 We need to recognize this. The next one is found in Luke, 221 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,570 chapter 12. God has a problem with people 222 00:13:14,890 --> 00:13:17,330 whose hearts are towards their money. 223 00:13:18,290 --> 00:13:20,890 God does not have a problem with wealth. 224 00:13:23,250 --> 00:13:26,130 And you got to get this because if we don't get this, we're 225 00:13:26,130 --> 00:13:29,290 going to miss out on one of the greatest moves that are coming. 226 00:13:30,130 --> 00:13:33,490 OK, I'm going to go over here. Everybody wants the great move 227 00:13:33,490 --> 00:13:35,360 of God, right? Everybody, You know what they're 228 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:36,480 looking for. They're looking for the 229 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,120 miracles. They want to see the deaf ears 230 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,240 open, the blind eye, see the lame walk. 231 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:46,080 You know, these incurable diseases are are people that are 232 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,640 amputees, their legs. I mean, they want to see these 233 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,600 kind of spectacular things. And it's not that God cannot do 234 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,200 them and that he will continue to do them. 235 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,760 That's fine. We want to see somebody be 236 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:59,200 delivered from the devil or whatever the case may be. 237 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,600 But why aren't we believing? For what he said would take 238 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,400 place in the last days, That the wealth of the wicked would be 239 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:07,160 paid up for the righteous. Because you got to understand 240 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,200 something, you're not getting that when you're in heaven. 241 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:15,120 Because first and foremost, there's no wicked in heaven to 242 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:19,400 transfer a wealth to you. So it has to be something while 243 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:23,920 we're in the earth. And if we are so adverse to 244 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:27,920 wealth and think only the world can have it, then we'll never be 245 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:32,760 in a position when God wants to transfer it because you qualify 246 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:38,410 as the righteous. But a righteous person who 247 00:14:38,410 --> 00:14:44,050 qualifies but won't receive it, although they're righteous, 248 00:14:44,330 --> 00:14:49,850 won't have it. So he's saying, look, don't be 249 00:14:49,850 --> 00:14:54,210 looking at the money. Look to me that way when it 250 00:14:54,210 --> 00:14:58,250 comes, because here's the heart you want to have whatever I 251 00:14:58,250 --> 00:15:01,330 possess at any time I can give it. 252 00:15:01,330 --> 00:15:03,890 Away. It's no problem. 253 00:15:04,530 --> 00:15:06,930 If the Lord tells me give it away. 254 00:15:07,130 --> 00:15:08,810 Then it's like, here's the check. 255 00:15:09,090 --> 00:15:11,130 I'll, I'll, I'll unload the account. 256 00:15:12,210 --> 00:15:15,290 Are you hearing me? All right, let me go over to the 257 00:15:15,290 --> 00:15:17,890 basics of Kingdom theology. You're ready for this. 258 00:15:18,250 --> 00:15:20,810 Don't worry about what you going to eat and what you going to 259 00:15:20,810 --> 00:15:22,650 drink and what you're going to wear. 260 00:15:22,810 --> 00:15:27,610 But seek first the Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these 261 00:15:27,610 --> 00:15:33,410 things will be added to you. And many of us don't empty 262 00:15:33,410 --> 00:15:36,210 accounts because we're too busy trying to think about what we 263 00:15:36,210 --> 00:15:38,610 going to eat. Well now, Lord, if I give that, 264 00:15:38,610 --> 00:15:40,250 how am I going to take care of my kids? 265 00:15:41,810 --> 00:15:47,250 The Lord's like, really? Have you ever seen the righteous 266 00:15:47,250 --> 00:15:50,130 forsaken and their children begging for bread? 267 00:15:54,810 --> 00:15:59,110 Hallelujah. Luke, chapter 12, verse 16 to 268 00:15:59,110 --> 00:16:00,950 21. And he told them a parable 269 00:16:00,950 --> 00:16:03,870 saying the land of a rich man was very productive. 270 00:16:04,350 --> 00:16:07,470 And he began reasoning to himself, saying, what shall I do 271 00:16:07,470 --> 00:16:09,470 since I have no place to store my crops. 272 00:16:10,630 --> 00:16:12,910 Then he said, this is what I will do. 273 00:16:12,910 --> 00:16:17,590 I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I 274 00:16:17,590 --> 00:16:19,510 will store all my grain in my goods. 275 00:16:19,510 --> 00:16:23,710 And I will say to my soul, soul, you have many goods laid up for 276 00:16:23,710 --> 00:16:27,120 many years to come. Take your ease, eat, drink, and 277 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:28,680 be merry. Sounds like retirement. 278 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:33,600 I'm going to say that again. It sounds like American 279 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:38,200 retirement. You know how many people are 280 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,640 actually living this? They're storing up in their four 281 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:43,200 O1 KS. They're doing investments. 282 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:44,280 They're doing everything they can. 283 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:45,640 They're calculating. Why? 284 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:51,280 Because I want to retire one day and I want my wealth to serve me 285 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:58,970 and me alone. OK, that's all right. 286 00:17:00,090 --> 00:17:03,330 Preach it anyway. Be real, pastor. 287 00:17:05,730 --> 00:17:10,369 But God said to him, You what? What do you call him? 288 00:17:11,210 --> 00:17:14,609 So we would go to their financial seminars. 289 00:17:15,569 --> 00:17:17,810 And God says you're taking advice from a fool. 290 00:17:24,650 --> 00:17:26,609 I mean, think of some of the wealthiest people on the planet 291 00:17:26,609 --> 00:17:30,290 today that you know are ungodly, and yet you want to go to their 292 00:17:30,290 --> 00:17:34,170 seminars. And the Lord considers their 293 00:17:34,170 --> 00:17:40,290 education, not wisdom but foolishness. 294 00:17:41,730 --> 00:17:43,330 Well, who takes advice from a fool? 295 00:17:44,730 --> 00:17:52,730 A fool because the devil is fooling the church into thinking 296 00:17:52,890 --> 00:17:55,450 my way is the only way for you to have wealth. 297 00:17:56,850 --> 00:18:00,170 This is why Christian work two or three jobs instead of coming 298 00:18:00,170 --> 00:18:03,490 to church. This is why they'll always make 299 00:18:03,490 --> 00:18:06,410 decisions on whether they going to come to church based upon how 300 00:18:06,410 --> 00:18:10,050 much they're working. This is why people will take 301 00:18:10,050 --> 00:18:15,170 jobs, not because of purpose in the church, but because of more 302 00:18:15,170 --> 00:18:20,780 money. And the enemy continues to pull 303 00:18:20,940 --> 00:18:23,020 and pull and pull. But God. 304 00:18:23,460 --> 00:18:26,900 Just say but God. But God has believers that a dog 305 00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:30,220 gone Listen to him and we'll do his bidding. 306 00:18:30,420 --> 00:18:33,500 And many of us are doing a lot more than we were originally 307 00:18:33,500 --> 00:18:37,500 required because others didn't come along to do their part. 308 00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:39,180 And he says the assignment's going to get done. 309 00:18:39,180 --> 00:18:40,660 I'll go ahead and use you anyway. 310 00:18:41,700 --> 00:18:44,510 Are you hearing me? So he goes on and says. 311 00:18:44,510 --> 00:18:46,070 But God said you fooled this very night. 312 00:18:46,070 --> 00:18:49,070 Your soul is required of you and now who will own what you have 313 00:18:49,070 --> 00:18:52,430 prepared? See the thing that rich people 314 00:18:52,430 --> 00:18:53,630 have? The hardest thing I'm talking 315 00:18:53,630 --> 00:18:56,870 about people whose wealth is their hearts towards their 316 00:18:56,870 --> 00:19:02,910 wealth is they can't even begin to fathom poor people having 317 00:19:02,910 --> 00:19:06,390 their money. There's nothing that makes them 318 00:19:06,390 --> 00:19:11,850 more aggravated than giving money to the poor because they 319 00:19:12,050 --> 00:19:15,770 consider why would I ought to all my work give it to someone 320 00:19:15,770 --> 00:19:20,530 who will have no value, They disdain it. 321 00:19:20,770 --> 00:19:25,130 Will they give Charitably, yes. But you understand, half of the 322 00:19:25,130 --> 00:19:27,570 charities are other people's trusts. 323 00:19:27,930 --> 00:19:31,170 It's the wealthy's trust. Foundation Oh y'all, don't want 324 00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:32,130 to hear this. That's fine. 325 00:19:32,970 --> 00:19:34,690 I mean, how does the rich keep getting richer? 326 00:19:34,730 --> 00:19:40,990 Because they create the so-called foundations to launder 327 00:19:40,990 --> 00:19:45,950 their money and keep it around people who will do it their way 328 00:19:46,310 --> 00:19:50,430 'cause God forbid I give it to someone who can't manage money. 329 00:19:51,910 --> 00:19:53,950 This is why the rich young rulers perplex. 330 00:19:53,950 --> 00:19:56,910 When Jesus said go give it to the poor, he's like, why would I 331 00:19:56,910 --> 00:19:59,310 get I work hard. You want me to get rid of. 332 00:19:59,550 --> 00:20:07,950 I mean, I I was a good steward. Yeah, I was such a good steward. 333 00:20:07,990 --> 00:20:11,410 Why would I squander that? What did Jesus call it? 334 00:20:11,410 --> 00:20:14,490 A squander. You understand this is easy from 335 00:20:14,570 --> 00:20:19,810 Jesus when you understand Jesus. We'll talk about it, he goes on, 336 00:20:19,810 --> 00:20:23,970 and says, So is a man who stores up treasure for say it again, 337 00:20:24,050 --> 00:20:30,530 treasures what for himself and is not what rich toward who. 338 00:20:31,130 --> 00:20:39,010 So wealth was always designed for you to be rich toward God, 339 00:20:41,020 --> 00:20:43,900 rich toward God. God doesn't have a problem with 340 00:20:43,900 --> 00:20:46,460 riches. He has a problem when someone 341 00:20:46,460 --> 00:20:52,940 stores up treasures, for in fact the Bible literally says this Do 342 00:20:52,940 --> 00:21:03,660 not store up treasures on earth where moths eat rust, destroys, 343 00:21:03,660 --> 00:21:07,020 and thieves, but store for yourself treasures. 344 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,680 Which tells me is is Jesus a liar? 345 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:15,440 So if he's telling you you can actually store treasures in 346 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:19,200 heaven, then there must be a way to do so. 347 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:28,000 There's an account, actually. Not only is there a book with 348 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,360 your name in it, but there's an account with your name on it 349 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,840 where you can actually get into that account. 350 00:21:37,090 --> 00:21:40,890 Because when you do with your money what God says to do with 351 00:21:40,890 --> 00:21:43,970 your money, then it gets registered in that account. 352 00:21:44,930 --> 00:21:54,290 And in that account I'm telling you the return is 3060 and 100% 353 00:21:54,290 --> 00:21:56,770 return. Are you hearing me? 354 00:21:57,330 --> 00:22:00,690 I mean, you don't get this kind in no money markets. 355 00:22:01,810 --> 00:22:06,150 The problem is, is you can't go in and check on it and watch 356 00:22:06,150 --> 00:22:10,270 your wealth grow naturally. You have to check on it by 357 00:22:10,270 --> 00:22:12,230 keeping your decree of faith going. 358 00:22:12,350 --> 00:22:15,070 You have to pray in the spirit, knowing that he's going to 359 00:22:15,070 --> 00:22:17,110 handle that. And when the time needs for you 360 00:22:17,110 --> 00:22:20,750 to make a withdrawal from heaven to do the next assignment, 361 00:22:20,830 --> 00:22:23,310 you're going to have more than enough good measure pressed 362 00:22:23,310 --> 00:22:24,510 down, shaken together. And why? 363 00:22:28,910 --> 00:22:31,390 I'm talking to the wealthiest people on the planet right now. 364 00:22:32,700 --> 00:22:34,380 And the problem is you just don't know it. 365 00:22:35,460 --> 00:22:37,460 Why? Because of the wealth of a king. 366 00:22:38,300 --> 00:22:41,620 The wealth of a king. All right, so then let's get 367 00:22:41,620 --> 00:22:46,700 into the verse that has tripped up so many, right? 368 00:22:46,700 --> 00:22:49,980 Because again, we read these. If you read them wrong, you 369 00:22:49,980 --> 00:22:51,660 would think God had a problem with money. 370 00:22:51,660 --> 00:22:54,060 But when you read them right, you realize money was not the 371 00:22:54,060 --> 00:22:56,340 issue. It's the love of money that's 372 00:22:56,340 --> 00:22:58,700 the issue. It's the heart towards money 373 00:22:59,020 --> 00:23:02,720 that's the issue. It's storing up for yourself and 374 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,320 yourself only. That's the problem. 375 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,160 It was not money itself that was an issue. 376 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,240 Are you hearing me? So then let's look at this 377 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,240 scripture, because when you read them wrong, then you interpret 378 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,880 Second Corinthians 8-9 wrong. And 2nd Corinthians 8-9 says 379 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:25,280 this for you know, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. 380 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:33,950 That though he was what yet for your sake became poor, so that 381 00:23:33,950 --> 00:23:40,510 through his what might become, through his poverty might 382 00:23:40,510 --> 00:23:41,390 become. Rich. 383 00:23:44,310 --> 00:23:48,590 How many think Jesus was broke that he was such a poor guy? 384 00:23:48,670 --> 00:23:51,990 Now again you listen to some ministers #1 you would think 385 00:23:51,990 --> 00:23:56,410 that carpentry. Is one of the lowest level paid 386 00:23:56,490 --> 00:23:59,410 positions. Actually, some Greek scholars 387 00:24:00,090 --> 00:24:04,050 based upon carpentry, what Joseph probably would have been 388 00:24:04,050 --> 00:24:07,690 in, would have been considered a high paying position. 389 00:24:08,810 --> 00:24:11,770 It would been a craft that would have received quite a bit of 390 00:24:11,770 --> 00:24:13,730 money. OK, let me give you case in 391 00:24:13,730 --> 00:24:15,650 point. How many have a Prius? 392 00:24:17,530 --> 00:24:19,570 I got some Prius people in here. All right. 393 00:24:19,890 --> 00:24:22,970 OK. How many have a brand new? 394 00:24:22,970 --> 00:24:24,570 Royals. Roll Royce. 395 00:24:26,010 --> 00:24:31,130 They're both vehicles. Royal Rolls Royce. 396 00:24:31,490 --> 00:24:39,610 A royal roast. Obviously I don't have one, but 397 00:24:39,610 --> 00:24:42,170 I am thinking about a Porsche anyway. 398 00:24:42,890 --> 00:24:48,330 How many of you have? A Rolls Royce Anybody. 399 00:24:49,130 --> 00:24:54,010 Nobody. Why costs a lot of money? 400 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,600 Is it too expensive? Honestly, if you go on, you can 401 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,160 find some of them are, you know, not really bad. 402 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,440 Now you may have to pay a few years back, but you understand 403 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,480 people who are buying those brand new are really taking care 404 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,440 of those cuz they have the finance to do so. 405 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,920 So if you get one that's 15 years old, it's probably looking 406 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,960 like a brand new. And runs like it's brand new and 407 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,760 a yield going to pay on that vehicle about as much as you'll 408 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:25,200 pay for a brand new Escalade or or Tahoe or, you know, Lincoln 409 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:29,440 Navigator today. I mean, because those vehicles 410 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,880 are running into hundreds of thousands themselves, the 411 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,200 100,000 themselves. Are you hearing me? 412 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,920 Everybody all right? Can I talk money with y'all 413 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,680 y'all be OK? All right, anyway. 414 00:25:47,700 --> 00:25:51,620 It's tight. So the Prius people out there, 415 00:25:51,620 --> 00:25:57,580 you know, you got a little vehicle because Toyota is 416 00:25:57,580 --> 00:26:08,460 making, but Royal Royce? Rolls Royce I don't know why I'm 417 00:26:08,460 --> 00:26:09,780 having a hard time with this car. 418 00:26:10,130 --> 00:26:11,930 Let me go over to the Porsche. Can I just say Porsche? 419 00:26:11,930 --> 00:26:13,170 I'm going to say Porsche from now on. 420 00:26:14,450 --> 00:26:18,090 So you go over to the Porsche 9/11, all right, A 9/11. 421 00:26:18,090 --> 00:26:19,930 I'm talking like the GT. I'm talking about the ones that 422 00:26:19,930 --> 00:26:23,290 are in the 300,000 range. OK, 'cause you can get a 9/11 423 00:26:23,290 --> 00:26:25,530 for way less than that, but you can get one that's, you know, 424 00:26:25,530 --> 00:26:28,410 they got 3-4 hundred thousand, some $500,000 cars. 425 00:26:28,410 --> 00:26:31,330 OK, And so what's the difference? 426 00:26:31,490 --> 00:26:37,690 Which means the manufacturer of two cars have two different pay 427 00:26:37,690 --> 00:26:44,660 scales. So when you hear Carpenter, I 428 00:26:44,660 --> 00:26:46,420 mean we're not talking about putting trim. 429 00:26:48,540 --> 00:26:53,420 There are some carpenters that did did details within King's 430 00:26:53,420 --> 00:26:58,940 palaces that that work had a different amount of money. 431 00:27:00,940 --> 00:27:04,700 So the first deception is that they assume Jesus is broke 432 00:27:04,700 --> 00:27:07,820 because Dad was a Carpenter. He was just a poor. 433 00:27:08,510 --> 00:27:11,790 Carpenter's son Well, that's a law. 434 00:27:11,790 --> 00:27:16,150 I said that's a law. So I want to show you Jesus's 435 00:27:16,150 --> 00:27:21,190 wealth first on the planet and then we'll explain why the Bible 436 00:27:21,190 --> 00:27:25,910 says he was poor and through his poverty we can become rich. 437 00:27:26,710 --> 00:27:31,270 So in Matthew chapter 2, Matthew chapter 2, this is in your 438 00:27:31,270 --> 00:27:33,470 Bible. I said this is in your Bible. 439 00:27:33,990 --> 00:27:39,430 It says now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the 440 00:27:39,430 --> 00:27:42,430 days of Herod the King, behold, wise men from the east came to 441 00:27:42,430 --> 00:27:45,950 Jerusalem. Jesus is now born, right? 442 00:27:46,750 --> 00:27:50,750 And some guys, the day, night he was born, a star showed up and 443 00:27:50,750 --> 00:27:52,990 they are like, there's the king. This is the one Daniel was 444 00:27:52,990 --> 00:27:55,110 prophesying about. Let's go find him. 445 00:27:55,710 --> 00:28:01,110 OK, so it says, we're saying where is he who was born, what 446 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,440 they recognized he was king. Not that he was a religious 447 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,760 figure, not that he was bringing in Christianity, but he was a 448 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,160 king. He was the head of a government 449 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,320 that is going to be established. That Daniel said would show up 450 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,240 or rot made with that hand and it would destroy every other 451 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:17,600 government that would ever exist. 452 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,320 And it's the only government that would exist forever. 453 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,400 It would be a Kingdom of which he would be the king and he 454 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,360 would have that he would be king of all that domain and it would 455 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:30,400 fill the earth. So they came to see and says for 456 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,680 we've seen a star in the east and we've come to worship him. 457 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:39,400 When Carrot heard this he was what troubled and all say all, 458 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,000 all Jerusalem with him. Now why in the world is 459 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,560 Jerusalem upset over three guys showing up with three little 460 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:52,160 boxes? Because this is your nativity. 461 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,880 We're coming into the holiday season of which the nativity is 462 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,570 not accurate. The wise men never showed up 463 00:28:58,570 --> 00:29:02,170 with the shepherds. They were never at the Manger. 464 00:29:02,610 --> 00:29:04,770 Ever. This is about two years later. 465 00:29:05,610 --> 00:29:08,450 They show up at a house and Jesus is a toddler. 466 00:29:09,010 --> 00:29:13,570 OK, but yet what do we have? Three guys with a little box in 467 00:29:13,570 --> 00:29:16,610 their hand. Three guys show up and say we 468 00:29:16,810 --> 00:29:19,770 weren't here to see the king of the Jews and the whole city is 469 00:29:19,770 --> 00:29:22,290 upset because three guys showed up. 470 00:29:25,930 --> 00:29:30,210 So that should be #1 indicator. There's a problem with people's 471 00:29:30,210 --> 00:29:31,890 theology. Let's go on. 472 00:29:32,770 --> 00:29:35,410 So jump down to verse 11. And when they came into the 473 00:29:35,410 --> 00:29:37,610 house, they saw the child with Mary. 474 00:29:37,610 --> 00:29:41,450 So they're in a house, not a Manger his mother and fell down 475 00:29:41,450 --> 00:29:42,490 and worshipped him. Why? 476 00:29:42,490 --> 00:29:44,410 Because that's what you do before king. 477 00:29:45,730 --> 00:29:49,290 You bow and let me tell you, is Jesus king? 478 00:29:49,890 --> 00:29:51,530 What's the Bible say concerning him? 479 00:29:51,690 --> 00:29:54,300 Every knee will and every tongue will. 480 00:29:54,820 --> 00:29:57,180 That he is Lord is not a religious word. 481 00:29:57,180 --> 00:29:59,940 It means supreme in authority, because he is supreme in 482 00:29:59,940 --> 00:30:01,820 authority. And so they fell down and 483 00:30:01,820 --> 00:30:03,700 worshiped it. And when they had opened their 484 00:30:04,380 --> 00:30:07,580 treasures, now three could be plural because they presented 485 00:30:07,580 --> 00:30:08,620 gifts. But let me ask you this 486 00:30:08,620 --> 00:30:11,820 question. Just because three are 487 00:30:11,820 --> 00:30:14,620 mentioned, does that mean that's all that was there? 488 00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:24,300 Number one, it doesn't tell us the size of what they were 489 00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:28,380 carrying. In fact, if you actually go back 490 00:30:28,380 --> 00:30:32,660 and do some regular history, you will begin to determine that if 491 00:30:32,660 --> 00:30:37,780 you look at our Bible in context, because our Bible lets 492 00:30:37,780 --> 00:30:41,380 us know how things function. Jesus himself said this. 493 00:30:41,540 --> 00:30:44,180 He said, you remember how Solomon was. 494 00:30:44,860 --> 00:30:48,460 He said even someone greater than Solomon is here now. 495 00:30:48,460 --> 00:30:51,420 What happened when Queen Sheba came to Solomon's house? 496 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,880 Did she come with three boxes? No. 497 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,800 She had what they call an entourage. 498 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,760 Why would Jerusalem be upset? Because these guys were 499 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,160 traveling with an army Because of the gifts that they brought. 500 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:08,880 I said the gifts they brought and the gifts they brought had 501 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,560 great wealth. Gold. 502 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,240 What's the what? Randy? 503 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:17,240 What is gold right now? Per oz. 2000 an ounce. 504 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:23,910 Right now. Just an ounce, just one ounce. 505 00:31:23,990 --> 00:31:27,030 I mean, if that minimum, you're talking about one box full of 506 00:31:27,030 --> 00:31:31,070 coins, that's a lot of wealth right there. 507 00:31:32,970 --> 00:31:35,610 But it says it opened their treasures and other treasures. 508 00:31:35,610 --> 00:31:39,330 There were boxes of gold, there were boxes of frankincense, 509 00:31:39,490 --> 00:31:42,930 there were boxes of myrrh, and most likely there were other 510 00:31:42,930 --> 00:31:48,210 things like materials and different stuff as well. 511 00:31:48,210 --> 00:31:51,250 They just don't mention those particular items at all. 512 00:31:51,780 --> 00:31:55,300 Because when you look at the history of when people came to 513 00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:58,220 kings, see, this is a Western mindset. 514 00:31:58,220 --> 00:31:59,860 Why could we vote in our president? 515 00:31:59,860 --> 00:32:02,220 We kick our president out. You know, we basically don't 516 00:32:02,220 --> 00:32:04,140 even have any honor for those in authority anyway. 517 00:32:04,260 --> 00:32:06,580 So, you know, we scoff at it. God forbid you asked me for any 518 00:32:06,580 --> 00:32:07,900 of my money. We don't have a hard enough time 519 00:32:07,900 --> 00:32:10,500 paying taxes, right? But in a Kingdom, it ain't like 520 00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:12,860 that. In a Kingdom, when you go before 521 00:32:12,860 --> 00:32:14,860 king, you don't go empty handed number one. 522 00:32:15,580 --> 00:32:19,380 So anybody's coming into the King's court is bringing gifts. 523 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:25,000 And if these guys knowing kings and being in a Kingdom, they 524 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,560 never would have showed up without multiple gifts to pre 525 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:33,120 presented to the king of the earth. 526 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,520 So you're already at a deficit of thinking that they didn't 527 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:41,360 honor this kid. I mean, they have traveled two 528 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:42,920 years. How long now? 529 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:48,040 How many meals you gonna go through before you get to hell? 530 00:32:52,310 --> 00:32:56,990 How many bandits are you going to pass through lands before you 531 00:32:56,990 --> 00:32:59,790 get to him? And how are you going to entrust 532 00:32:59,790 --> 00:33:02,790 those riches so that they are stolen from? 533 00:33:04,390 --> 00:33:06,670 Oh, you only hear. Do you understand? 534 00:33:06,670 --> 00:33:09,270 There was a lot of effort that these guys had to show up at 535 00:33:09,310 --> 00:33:14,750 Jesus house and the wealth was so much that when Harry comes to 536 00:33:14,750 --> 00:33:20,970 kill, Joseph can pick up camp and live with his family off of 537 00:33:20,970 --> 00:33:26,450 this wealth. In Egypt, in fact this wealth, 538 00:33:26,450 --> 00:33:32,610 how can Jesus walk around with 12 disciples when he gets and 539 00:33:32,610 --> 00:33:34,930 all of a sudden he's not working a job. 540 00:33:35,450 --> 00:33:38,610 He's not like Peter or Paul who's doing some side jobs. 541 00:33:39,090 --> 00:33:43,290 Not only did he have enough wealth from his childhood, but 542 00:33:43,290 --> 00:33:46,380 then other wealthy people. Oh y'all, don't want to hear 543 00:33:46,380 --> 00:33:49,580 this, you understand? You're never going to get in 544 00:33:49,580 --> 00:33:53,020 front of a millionaire or a billionaire. 545 00:33:53,340 --> 00:34:00,260 Broke Jesus came to save the world, the whole systems of the 546 00:34:00,260 --> 00:34:04,140 world, and he's going to get in front of everybody, which means 547 00:34:04,140 --> 00:34:09,960 he had no restrictions. OK, let's talk about Jesus. 548 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,960 Well look over to John chapter 12, verse 3 through 6, it says. 549 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:18,080 Then Mary took a pound of very expensive perfume, of pure nard, 550 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:22,440 and she poured it on Jesus feet and wiped his feet with her hair 551 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,360 and the. House was filled with fragrance 552 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,239 of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of the 553 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,330 disciples, the one who was going to betray him says why has this 554 00:34:30,330 --> 00:34:34,170 prefer perfume not sold for 300 denarium. 555 00:34:34,170 --> 00:34:38,810 A denarium was one day wage, so this is almost a year's worth of 556 00:34:38,810 --> 00:34:42,449 money that the lady pours out on his feet. 557 00:34:44,449 --> 00:34:47,889 We would call that waste. Jesus would call that tip. 558 00:34:53,570 --> 00:34:58,740 Money's relevant based upon what you have, he said. 559 00:34:58,740 --> 00:35:02,940 Not because he care for the full poor, for he had never cared 560 00:35:02,940 --> 00:35:06,100 about them, but because he was a thief and since he had the Money 561 00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:10,260 Box serving as treasurer for the 12 disciples he used to pilfer, 562 00:35:10,660 --> 00:35:14,820 pilfer what was put in it. How can Jesus be broke and have 563 00:35:14,820 --> 00:35:19,660 a treasurer? And how can a treasurer embezzle 564 00:35:19,660 --> 00:35:22,420 money if there's not enough in there? 565 00:35:23,620 --> 00:35:26,340 Because I've never heard of someone going to prison for 566 00:35:26,340 --> 00:35:31,710 embezzlement holding some broke person's finance. 567 00:35:33,950 --> 00:35:38,030 People who embezzle money are associated with major 568 00:35:38,030 --> 00:35:44,630 corporations who have major amounts of money, and anytime 569 00:35:44,630 --> 00:35:47,750 you hear they embezzled what, millions? 570 00:35:48,830 --> 00:35:54,500 Well, you know, he embezzled 10. Dollars from me, Are you here? 571 00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:57,300 See the terminology associated with Jesus? 572 00:35:57,540 --> 00:35:59,820 You have to start stripping off your tradition. 573 00:35:59,940 --> 00:36:01,260 I probably should have started today. 574 00:36:01,260 --> 00:36:03,500 I thought I would be able to get past it with this group. 575 00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:06,220 But you know, Jesus said why do you forsake the commandments of 576 00:36:06,220 --> 00:36:07,780 God for the sake of your traditions? 577 00:36:07,940 --> 00:36:11,340 If you traditionally think Jesus is a broke guy, you're wrong. 578 00:36:12,780 --> 00:36:15,460 Jesus is not broke. Jesus was never broke. 579 00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:19,260 But Jesus did not limit his life to his wealth. 580 00:36:21,470 --> 00:36:24,190 Have you ever heard of the guy named Joseph of Arimathea? 581 00:36:25,350 --> 00:36:28,910 Now Rick Renner, who's a Greek scholar, he has traced this back 582 00:36:28,990 --> 00:36:32,350 himself through other scholars. And it is believed that Joseph 583 00:36:32,350 --> 00:36:36,670 of Arimathea was actually Jesus's uncle and he was over 584 00:36:36,670 --> 00:36:40,870 his estate. So when they left for Egypt, 585 00:36:40,870 --> 00:36:42,950 because of all the wealth, they gave it to Joseph. 586 00:36:43,110 --> 00:36:47,830 How in the world can Joseph go before the king and say I want 587 00:36:47,870 --> 00:36:51,680 Jesus's body, the governor, because a poor person is not 588 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,720 going before the pilot. And say I want the body. 589 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:04,640 He was managing Jesus's assets because the father gave him 590 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,680 enough wealth when necessary to be able to utilize it. 591 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,840 Although Jesus didn't need money to get stuff. 592 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,000 Why? Because he could throw a net on 593 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:16,920 the other side and get way more. Jesus could turn 2 fish and five 594 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:21,860 loaves to feed over 10,000 people, 5000 men, not counting 595 00:37:21,860 --> 00:37:25,300 the women and children. So Jesus was not limited to 596 00:37:25,300 --> 00:37:31,020 money, but he had money. And he's an example to us that 597 00:37:31,020 --> 00:37:33,540 you can have wealth. Wealth just shouldn't have you. 598 00:37:37,460 --> 00:37:40,580 All right, let's keep preaching. John chapter 19. 599 00:37:40,580 --> 00:37:48,940 Again, Judas is a treasurer because they have so much wealth 600 00:37:52,510 --> 00:37:57,070 that they're dealing in that they have available to them. 601 00:37:58,310 --> 00:38:00,110 He saw a pastor. What about what Peter, you know, 602 00:38:00,110 --> 00:38:03,070 he said go fishing. Obviously the US rest of the 603 00:38:03,070 --> 00:38:05,030 disciples weren't there for him to go to. 604 00:38:05,610 --> 00:38:07,610 Judas and say pull it out-of-the-box, but you 605 00:38:07,610 --> 00:38:09,890 understand Jesus didn't have to pull out-of-the-box anyway, When 606 00:38:09,890 --> 00:38:12,250 he fed the 5000, they actually came to him and says, do you 607 00:38:12,250 --> 00:38:14,170 want us to buy bread and take 200 Denarion? 608 00:38:14,290 --> 00:38:17,410 And we already know that he had wealth, that some of the stuff 609 00:38:17,410 --> 00:38:20,850 given to him was worth almost a year's salary, although they 610 00:38:20,850 --> 00:38:25,970 didn't sell that particular one. And he says that's not how we're 611 00:38:25,970 --> 00:38:28,210 going to do it today. I don't need. 612 00:38:28,210 --> 00:38:30,490 You to go to the Treasury and go buy the bread. 613 00:38:30,730 --> 00:38:34,920 We're going to do it this way. This is where great wealth 614 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:39,440 comes, because once you start actually doing what God says, 615 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:45,240 you never lack. You know how many people are 616 00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:48,800 governed by their wallet? Hey, we're going to go on a 617 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,000 trip. I want to go, but I can't 618 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,400 afford. You want to go, but you can't 619 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:53,560 afford. So the money's telling you you 620 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:54,760 can't. You'd have an ask God. 621 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:03,280 Hallelujah. Well, praise the Lord. 622 00:39:04,870 --> 00:39:08,950 John 1923 to 24 says this. And the soldiers when they had 623 00:39:08,950 --> 00:39:12,830 crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts to 624 00:39:12,830 --> 00:39:16,310 each soldier. A part and also the tunic. 625 00:39:16,310 --> 00:39:21,830 Now the tunic was without seam. Now, why are they talking about 626 00:39:21,830 --> 00:39:32,060 a poor guy's beggar clothes, right? 627 00:39:32,060 --> 00:39:34,820 I mean, why they why they why they trying to get the man they 628 00:39:34,820 --> 00:39:35,820 hate. Jesus. 629 00:39:36,930 --> 00:39:39,530 I mean, the Roman soldiers don't think he's all that. 630 00:39:39,730 --> 00:39:41,970 I mean, they've done beat on him that you can't even tell he's a 631 00:39:41,970 --> 00:39:44,930 man. They've already mocked him, but 632 00:39:44,930 --> 00:39:46,890 yet they want his garments. That's good. 633 00:39:49,370 --> 00:39:52,330 There's no respect for the guy, but they want his. 634 00:39:52,370 --> 00:39:55,410 What is the well, Rome and soldiers. 635 00:39:55,570 --> 00:39:58,810 I mean, if you've done anything where Roman soldiers often walk 636 00:39:58,810 --> 00:40:03,130 with the tax collectors, and the tax collectors would always pull 637 00:40:03,130 --> 00:40:06,230 more. Give the wrong What's wrong? 638 00:40:06,230 --> 00:40:07,350 What's give? The Caesar? 639 00:40:07,350 --> 00:40:09,150 What's Caesar's? Then they keep for themselves. 640 00:40:09,150 --> 00:40:13,150 Then the soldiers would keep for themselves, because their muscle 641 00:40:13,230 --> 00:40:16,470 allowed them to bully the people, to get more than what 642 00:40:16,470 --> 00:40:19,480 Caesar wanted. So you understand this is just 643 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,440 greed, and there's something about his garment. 644 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,800 Now they divide the one, but this particular one, it's 645 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:30,320 without seam woven from the top. In one place, they said, 646 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,120 Therefore among themselves, let us not tear it, but cast lots 647 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,080 for it. Whose it will be what the 648 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:36,320 scripture might be fulfilled saying. 649 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,840 They divided my garments among them for my clothing. 650 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,880 They cast lots. Therefore the soldiers did these 651 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,600 things. So there was his clothes were he 652 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,040 was better dressed than most people on the plane. 653 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:51,560 He had kings close. In essence, Jesus's garments 654 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:57,640 were of wealth itself. And yet the scripture says in 655 00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:59,800 Second Corinthians that he was made poor. 656 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:06,200 Well, how can he be poor when wise men are bringing in gold, 657 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,200 frankincense, myrrh, and an abundance? 658 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:16,790 Women that are in Herod's house and in Rome's places of power 659 00:41:16,910 --> 00:41:24,070 were financing Jesus's ministry? How could he be poor when he can 660 00:41:24,070 --> 00:41:29,710 multiply loaves and fish and turn it from 2:00 and 5:00 to 661 00:41:29,710 --> 00:41:37,190 12:00 basket fulls? How is this even possible that 662 00:41:37,190 --> 00:41:41,030 he's poor? Jesus walked in more with his 663 00:41:41,030 --> 00:41:47,030 garments themselves, were of a wealthy person and he didn't 664 00:41:47,030 --> 00:41:49,710 have a house per SE. Now he may have had a home, he 665 00:41:49,710 --> 00:41:51,190 just didn't stay there. At what? 666 00:41:51,190 --> 00:41:54,670 His purpose is to get a a massive amount of wealth, build 667 00:41:54,670 --> 00:41:58,150 him a castle, sit on the throne. Then why 'cause they're building 668 00:41:58,150 --> 00:42:00,470 his house up in heaven and it's coming down, Oh. 669 00:42:00,950 --> 00:42:01,950 Yeah. Oh yeah, that's fine. 670 00:42:02,790 --> 00:42:05,590 His construction is happening right now in in the heaven 671 00:42:05,590 --> 00:42:06,950 realm. And at the end it's going to 672 00:42:06,950 --> 00:42:10,580 come down out of heaven to the earth where his throne is. 673 00:42:11,620 --> 00:42:16,340 Are you hearing me? So he was already wealthy on the 674 00:42:16,340 --> 00:42:19,140 planet. What in the world could this 675 00:42:19,140 --> 00:42:22,980 even mean? Are you hearing me? 676 00:42:23,940 --> 00:42:27,500 Well, let's take a step back in the beginning. 677 00:42:27,500 --> 00:42:33,100 Was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, 678 00:42:33,300 --> 00:42:37,020 and the Word became flesh, so the Word was God. 679 00:42:37,740 --> 00:42:40,700 And the Word became flesh. Now who is the Word becoming 680 00:42:40,700 --> 00:42:42,260 flesh? Jesus. 681 00:42:42,260 --> 00:42:47,460 Which means Jesus existed as the Word before we know His name is 682 00:42:47,460 --> 00:42:50,380 Jesus, which means he was in the beginning. 683 00:42:51,460 --> 00:42:56,100 Which means then it's God the Father, God the Son, and God the 684 00:42:56,100 --> 00:43:01,740 Holy Spirit. That when the Father says let 685 00:43:01,740 --> 00:43:07,490 there be light, there was. In essence, Jesus created 686 00:43:07,690 --> 00:43:12,050 everything. Says that he holds all creation 687 00:43:12,050 --> 00:43:14,490 together. Now think about this for a 688 00:43:14,490 --> 00:43:18,410 moment. He's God the Son. 689 00:43:19,650 --> 00:43:24,050 The family owns everything in creation. 690 00:43:24,650 --> 00:43:27,250 Every star. Every planet. 691 00:43:27,410 --> 00:43:29,290 Every Galaxy. Every. 692 00:43:30,810 --> 00:43:36,600 You know, I mean everything. He owns it all because by his 693 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,480 words he created it. He's in glory. 694 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:45,160 He has access to all creation. Yet God says when man fell from 695 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:50,400 dominion because he gave man a planet called Earth to function 696 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,760 in it, to to manage it, to have dominion over it. 697 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,760 Let us make man in our image according to our likeness. 698 00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,600 And let him have what? Dominion over the fish of the 699 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,280 sea, the birds of the sky? That's this planet, this earth 700 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,360 right here. God said, this is my earth. 701 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,040 I own everything. I'm going to have this earth 702 00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,000 here. And I'm going to put my man 703 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,280 there that's in my image. I'm going to put him in a skin 704 00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,520 suit and he's going to manage that place like I managed the 705 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:21,010 rest of creation. In essence, heaven's realm 706 00:44:21,410 --> 00:44:24,810 impacts Earth realm because you do what I say. 707 00:44:25,490 --> 00:44:27,170 As Jesus said, when you pray, pray this way. 708 00:44:27,170 --> 00:44:28,890 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. 709 00:44:28,890 --> 00:44:33,890 Your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in so 710 00:44:33,890 --> 00:44:36,250 heaven's realm, anything outside the earth. 711 00:44:37,170 --> 00:44:43,410 God is the ruler of it all, and the Son was the ruler with it. 712 00:44:43,900 --> 00:44:48,380 But the management how we manage the earth, was given to the sons 713 00:44:48,380 --> 00:44:51,340 of men. And God, says, Adam, you can eat 714 00:44:51,340 --> 00:44:53,060 from any tree of the garment of the tree of the knowledge of 715 00:44:53,060 --> 00:44:54,460 good and evil. You shall not eat for the day 716 00:44:54,460 --> 00:44:56,460 you eat you will surely what die. 717 00:44:56,500 --> 00:44:57,820 So when he. Eats the fruit. 718 00:44:58,540 --> 00:45:03,610 He hands his dominion over to a fallen cherub named Satan, and 719 00:45:03,610 --> 00:45:06,850 he takes dominion. And now he's, as Paul said, the 720 00:45:06,850 --> 00:45:09,490 ruler of this world. He's the God of this world. 721 00:45:09,610 --> 00:45:13,250 He's the God of this system, not earth 'cause God never lost the 722 00:45:13,250 --> 00:45:14,730 earth. The earth is the Lord's. 723 00:45:14,930 --> 00:45:20,050 But how it's ran, how it's governed, how it's ruled, was 724 00:45:20,050 --> 00:45:24,210 given to the devil. So God comes into the garden and 725 00:45:24,210 --> 00:45:27,850 says, Adam, where are you? What position are you in now? 726 00:45:28,690 --> 00:45:30,570 Have you eaten the fruit? I told you not to. 727 00:45:31,270 --> 00:45:34,470 And so from there he gets to the serpent, of which he says I'm 728 00:45:34,470 --> 00:45:37,830 going to bring my seed through the woman. 729 00:45:38,350 --> 00:45:40,950 He's going to crush your head and you'll bruise his heel. 730 00:45:41,270 --> 00:45:45,310 In essence, God says because I gave man the rulership, it 731 00:45:45,310 --> 00:45:47,950 requires a man to come back and take it. 732 00:45:48,630 --> 00:45:52,710 But it can't be a man in the image of Adam now because Adam 733 00:45:52,710 --> 00:45:57,810 has fallen and now Adam reproduces after his own kind. 734 00:45:57,890 --> 00:46:00,570 And that is the kind that's lost without God. 735 00:46:00,570 --> 00:46:04,650 Separated, for all have sin. Sin is simply disobeying God. 736 00:46:05,450 --> 00:46:08,930 And because that took place, God says I'll have to put another 737 00:46:08,930 --> 00:46:11,490 man. But I can't use man as a help. 738 00:46:11,730 --> 00:46:16,880 I'll have to get a woman pregnant by the Holy Ghost so I 739 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,800 can put my son. That's why Isaiah said a child 740 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:24,360 is born, a son is given. A son's not born cause the son 741 00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,880 always existed. So think about it. 742 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:31,600 You own. You are controlling everything. 743 00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:39,920 Every star, every Galaxy, every planet, everything. 744 00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:43,200 And God says, Let me take you now and confine. 745 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:50,190 You to a man's suit, The Bible says. 746 00:46:50,190 --> 00:46:59,550 He emptied himself of his glory and isolated himself in a suit. 747 00:47:04,390 --> 00:47:05,510 I would. Consider that. 748 00:47:05,510 --> 00:47:10,910 Pretty poor in comparison. Not only is he limited to a 749 00:47:10,910 --> 00:47:16,870 suit, he's now limited to only do what the Father says by the 750 00:47:16,870 --> 00:47:21,670 Holy Ghost he's having. Now again, he listened to the 751 00:47:21,670 --> 00:47:25,870 Father even in the Heaven realm, but he is functioning as a man. 752 00:47:28,830 --> 00:47:31,550 When Jesus says he's the Son of Man, that's more powerful than 753 00:47:31,550 --> 00:47:33,190 him just saying he's the Son of God. 754 00:47:33,590 --> 00:47:37,310 Because Jesus did not come to let us see what he what God can 755 00:47:37,310 --> 00:47:39,310 do. He came to show us what we can 756 00:47:39,310 --> 00:47:44,750 do, what we were designed to do as an A first Adam. 757 00:47:45,230 --> 00:47:47,790 Because if you look at the miracles that Jesus performed, 758 00:47:47,790 --> 00:47:50,990 they were all within the dominion that Adam lost. 759 00:47:51,430 --> 00:47:56,550 So I would consider that by comparison poor. 760 00:47:57,550 --> 00:48:02,230 He emptied himself of his glory. He put himself in a skin suit. 761 00:48:02,230 --> 00:48:16,430 Now he's tempted on all accounts like us, because in his earthly 762 00:48:16,430 --> 00:48:23,430 existence, finance was not an issue with Jesus because the 763 00:48:23,430 --> 00:48:30,710 king was still able to acquire wealth for anything necessary to 764 00:48:30,710 --> 00:48:35,670 do the purpose of his father. But when you compare it to the 765 00:48:35,670 --> 00:48:38,830 seat he was in before he came, are you hearing me? 766 00:48:39,430 --> 00:48:42,920 And he's he on a seat today. I said, is he on his seat today? 767 00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:47,360 See, Jesus has taken off the constraints of this mortal life 768 00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:50,640 because of his death, burial, resurrection. 769 00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,920 He's now become glorified. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 770 00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,120 And now he's returned to the Father. 771 00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,560 He's seated at his right hand. But why is this important? 772 00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:03,000 Because John, chapter 12, verse 23 and 24, Jesus said to them, 773 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:07,080 saying, the hours come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 774 00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:09,840 Truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the 775 00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:13,220 ground or the earth and dies, it remains alone. 776 00:49:13,220 --> 00:49:18,860 But if it dies, it bears much fruit again, he said in Genesis 777 00:49:18,860 --> 00:49:20,820 315. And I'll put enmity between you 778 00:49:20,820 --> 00:49:23,500 and the woman, between your seed and her seed, and he shall 779 00:49:23,500 --> 00:49:25,780 bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heels. 780 00:49:25,780 --> 00:49:27,900 So the seed is the seed of a king. 781 00:49:28,540 --> 00:49:30,660 So for God, who loved the world that he gave his only begotten 782 00:49:30,660 --> 00:49:32,460 son, whoever believes in him should not perish but have 783 00:49:32,460 --> 00:49:35,300 everlasting life. In essence I'm putting a king 784 00:49:35,300 --> 00:49:39,940 kind in the earth so that he can die as a king and raise up 785 00:49:39,940 --> 00:49:45,120 kings. And if he raises up kings then 786 00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:49,480 you can function in the same wealth that are associated with 787 00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:53,380 a king. Because God said I'll never 788 00:49:53,380 --> 00:49:57,420 leave you nor forsake you. Yet many of us are still living 789 00:49:57,420 --> 00:50:00,980 like we orphan kids under the control of the devil when 790 00:50:00,980 --> 00:50:06,140 actually our father has given us a trust in Jesus Christ and that 791 00:50:06,140 --> 00:50:10,580 we can have access all this well as kings in the earth to do the 792 00:50:10,580 --> 00:50:14,460 purpose God's called us to do. So no longer should you 793 00:50:14,460 --> 00:50:18,140 sacrifice your children to the world system of wealth. 794 00:50:18,220 --> 00:50:22,500 When you say, let me get you in the Kingdom, well because son, 795 00:50:22,500 --> 00:50:25,300 you are a child of a king. You've made Jesus the Lord of 796 00:50:25,300 --> 00:50:28,060 your life, daughter, you're a child of the king, you made 797 00:50:28,060 --> 00:50:31,180 Jesus the Lord of your life, and the wealth of the king is 798 00:50:31,180 --> 00:50:34,940 associated to your life now because you're born of the same 799 00:50:34,940 --> 00:50:41,660 seed. So there's no reason for us to 800 00:50:41,660 --> 00:50:46,780 go around the earth acting like we're broke or staying in 801 00:50:46,780 --> 00:50:51,690 poverty. So we remain humble because if 802 00:50:51,930 --> 00:50:56,170 if if getting caught up in pride over wealth is an issue, you 803 00:50:56,170 --> 00:50:59,890 need to change your thinking. Well, I'm glad God didn't give 804 00:50:59,890 --> 00:51:02,010 me the money because he knew I couldn't handle it. 805 00:51:02,010 --> 00:51:03,930 Well, get your mind right to handle it. 806 00:51:05,610 --> 00:51:08,890 Pretty simple. You're already admitting the 807 00:51:08,890 --> 00:51:14,010 problem is you, not God, so get ready to handle it. 808 00:51:14,210 --> 00:51:15,690 And what's the best way to handle it? 809 00:51:15,730 --> 00:51:18,810 I can give it away at any moment, 'cause it doesn't define 810 00:51:18,810 --> 00:51:22,480 me, Paul said. Look, I know how to live in any 811 00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:23,280 condition. Why? 812 00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,240 Because my living is for his purpose, not for the things that 813 00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:29,280 come with the purpose. So whether I got a bunch with me 814 00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:31,840 today and have nothing with me tomorrow doesn't really matter. 815 00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:35,160 I'm here to do his purpose. So on one side, you know, I may 816 00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:37,840 have a whole lot in my account, And then the next day, empty at 817 00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:41,280 all, knowing that I just stored something in in my account in 818 00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:43,240 heaven. And when the time's necessary, I 819 00:51:43,240 --> 00:51:48,990 can pull it back down, because the wealth of the king is the 820 00:51:48,990 --> 00:51:53,710 wealth of our king, because we've been raised up and seated 821 00:51:54,030 --> 00:51:58,830 in heavenly places in Christ. Jesus. 822 00:52:04,110 --> 00:52:07,590 If you would have followed Jesus on the earth, at least today's 823 00:52:07,950 --> 00:52:11,390 religious Christianity, they'd had a hard time with him and 824 00:52:11,390 --> 00:52:13,830 they would have had little messages about how wealthy he 825 00:52:13,830 --> 00:52:20,670 was. All right. 826 00:52:23,950 --> 00:52:26,470 The wealth is not. The problem is does the wealth 827 00:52:26,470 --> 00:52:29,950 have them. That's the issue. 828 00:52:31,110 --> 00:52:33,630 I know of 1 particular minister. I'm not going to mention their 829 00:52:33,630 --> 00:52:39,990 name, but they haven't yet. And when they were coming out of 830 00:52:39,990 --> 00:52:44,110 Afghanistan recently, a couple years back, guys. 831 00:52:44,750 --> 00:52:48,180 Not even that. Because there were many U.S. 832 00:52:48,180 --> 00:52:53,900 citizens there, this minister gave the plane to an 833 00:52:53,900 --> 00:52:58,060 organization that flew in and stepped started pulling U.S. 834 00:52:58,060 --> 00:53:06,940 citizens out because they had access to equipment to help 835 00:53:06,940 --> 00:53:12,300 save. But yet religious Christians 836 00:53:12,300 --> 00:53:16,970 would call that excess. Aren't you glad he had the 837 00:53:16,970 --> 00:53:18,930 control? The Ministry had the kind of 838 00:53:18,930 --> 00:53:21,890 control to be able to send someone in. 839 00:53:26,770 --> 00:53:36,490 It's amazing how we get so elitist in our poverty, like 840 00:53:36,490 --> 00:53:43,610 we're so holy and righteous, when the reality is God wants 841 00:53:43,610 --> 00:53:47,970 his children to have the resources available that at a 842 00:53:47,970 --> 00:53:50,810 moment's notice they can serve a greater good. 843 00:53:53,530 --> 00:53:55,610 So please own an airline. I have. 844 00:53:55,730 --> 00:54:01,410 I could quit going commercial. What's the problem? 845 00:54:02,090 --> 00:54:04,610 Why does the world have to be the owners of it all? 846 00:54:06,810 --> 00:54:09,850 But because we think we can only stay humble, broke. 847 00:54:13,580 --> 00:54:16,300 Well if that was the case, then why did he give Abraham wealth? 848 00:54:19,540 --> 00:54:21,260 Why did he give his nation wealth? 849 00:54:22,500 --> 00:54:26,380 In fact his whole thing with Moses wealth won the issue. 850 00:54:26,380 --> 00:54:29,020 He said Listen, do read Deuteronomy 28. 851 00:54:29,420 --> 00:54:33,300 You're my people, so this is how this is going to roll out. 852 00:54:33,300 --> 00:54:34,820 You're going to be the head, not the tail. 853 00:54:34,820 --> 00:54:35,980 You're going to be above, not beneath. 854 00:54:37,410 --> 00:54:40,210 All your all, all your cattle's going to give offspring. 855 00:54:40,210 --> 00:54:41,930 You're never going to have a miscarriage. 856 00:54:44,090 --> 00:54:45,890 I mean, all your food's going to multiply. 857 00:54:45,930 --> 00:54:49,010 You going to be so blessed. All the nations of the world are 858 00:54:49,010 --> 00:54:52,610 going to say, how in the world do you do that? 859 00:54:52,610 --> 00:54:55,370 And who is your king? We want to be a part of your 860 00:54:55,370 --> 00:54:57,970 nation, he says. You'll lend to many nations and 861 00:54:57,970 --> 00:55:01,810 you won't even have to borrow. Wow. 862 00:55:02,530 --> 00:55:05,210 If God felt like it couldn't keep them. 863 00:55:05,580 --> 00:55:09,900 He knows that you can maintain humility cause all humility is I 864 00:55:09,900 --> 00:55:14,340 do what God says, pride you more. 865 00:55:14,340 --> 00:55:18,020 There are more pride people poor than there are pride people rich 866 00:55:18,700 --> 00:55:24,220 actually because it's all about doing the will of God. 867 00:55:24,220 --> 00:55:30,220 That's right because God gives us a system to come out of 868 00:55:30,420 --> 00:55:32,780 poverty. Second Corinthians Chapter 9, 869 00:55:32,780 --> 00:55:38,320 verse 6 through 8 says this. Now this I say. 870 00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:41,120 He who sow sparingly will also reap sparingly. 871 00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:44,080 He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 872 00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:47,480 Each one must do as he has purposed in his heart, not 873 00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:51,960 grudgingly or under compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver, 874 00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,320 and God is able to make all grace abound to you so that 875 00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:58,400 always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an 876 00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:01,680 abundance, say abundance, for every good deed. 877 00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:05,200 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will 878 00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:08,400 supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the 879 00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,600 harvest of your righteousness. So giving is actually a 880 00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:15,600 demonstration of our righteousness, that we are 881 00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:17,760 actually the answer to man's problem. 882 00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:25,080 And when money's required, we can have it to give. 883 00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:27,840 Because there's times when money's not required. 884 00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:29,560 And we actually have that as well. 885 00:56:31,630 --> 00:56:34,070 The world is still looking for a cure for cancer. 886 00:56:36,310 --> 00:56:39,150 By the stripes of Jesus, cancer has been destroyed. 887 00:56:42,750 --> 00:56:44,150 You say. Are you against research? 888 00:56:44,150 --> 00:56:47,190 No, because you know what? People need to stay alive till 889 00:56:47,190 --> 00:56:49,230 they find Jesus. I have no problem with that. 890 00:56:50,110 --> 00:56:52,550 No issue. But to say that there's not an 891 00:56:52,550 --> 00:56:54,510 answer for cancer today. It is. 892 00:56:54,510 --> 00:56:59,190 It's called Christ. That's the answer. 893 00:56:59,710 --> 00:57:03,140 And Christ beats cancer every time. 894 00:57:04,300 --> 00:57:09,020 He's never lost. He's never lost to tuberculosis. 895 00:57:09,020 --> 00:57:11,940 He's never lost to AIDS. He's never lost to any disease. 896 00:57:12,100 --> 00:57:14,620 There's never been a disease that Jesus says, whoa, I can't 897 00:57:14,620 --> 00:57:18,140 touch that. Because death. 898 00:57:18,140 --> 00:57:22,580 He even conquered. I said he even conquered death. 899 00:57:23,540 --> 00:57:25,340 He's not even intimidated with death. 900 00:57:25,660 --> 00:57:28,540 He'd show up four days later into Lazarus being the gravest 901 00:57:28,540 --> 00:57:31,440 says big deal, I'll come get him. 902 00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:35,280 Lazarus out of word, Lazarus comes up out of the grave. 903 00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,360 It was a sickness. It's not unto death because I 904 00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,320 can call him back. I can call him back into his 905 00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:47,480 body, heal his body, and he'd be a functioning citizen until he 906 00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:51,880 dies again. Are you hearing me? 907 00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:56,760 So again, notice you're going to reap either way. 908 00:57:56,840 --> 00:58:01,320 So if you sow sparingly because there's a law of seed, time and 909 00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:05,560 harvest, if you give, you're going to get and notice. 910 00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:08,120 If you put a seed in, you do not come back with one seed. 911 00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:13,600 It produces a plant that produces fruit, fruit that has 912 00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:16,880 way more seeds in those fruits than the one you planted. 913 00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:23,480 So you always get it more back. The word here meaning sparingly 914 00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:27,720 or bountifully, is a condition of the heart if it's hard for 915 00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:31,070 you to let it go. Then it's hard for you to get 916 00:58:31,070 --> 00:58:32,990 it. You'll get it. 917 00:58:33,430 --> 00:58:37,590 But it's hard because you really don't want to let it go. 918 00:58:39,150 --> 00:58:44,070 But if you so bountifully what? Lord, yes, then it gets back to 919 00:58:44,070 --> 00:58:48,590 you that fast, that easy. It comes back to you that easy. 920 00:58:49,070 --> 00:58:52,230 And he says, Look, God's like, you don't have to do this. 921 00:58:54,590 --> 00:58:57,790 You don't have to. I'm not asking you to do it 922 00:58:57,790 --> 00:59:03,270 begrudgingly under compulsion. I want you to do it cheerfully 923 00:59:04,350 --> 00:59:07,230 because for the joy set before the Lord he endured the cross. 924 00:59:07,390 --> 00:59:11,310 He laid his life down. He said This is great because 925 00:59:11,310 --> 00:59:12,750 I'm. Fixing to get more kings in the 926 00:59:12,750 --> 00:59:17,070 earth. Are you hearing me? 927 00:59:18,030 --> 00:59:21,230 Hallelujah. So let me close with this. 928 00:59:21,230 --> 00:59:25,670 Matthew 622 verses. Bestow it for yourself, 929 00:59:25,670 --> 00:59:28,710 treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, 930 00:59:28,710 --> 00:59:30,510 Where thieves do not break in and steal. 931 00:59:30,790 --> 00:59:34,590 In Luke chapter 6, verse 38. Give and it shall be given to 932 00:59:34,590 --> 00:59:36,630 you. Good measure, pressed down, 933 00:59:36,630 --> 00:59:41,150 shaken together, and running over will, he will be put into 934 00:59:41,150 --> 00:59:44,150 your bosom for the same measure that you used. 935 00:59:44,150 --> 00:59:47,390 It will be measured back to you. If it's easy for you to get into 936 00:59:47,390 --> 00:59:51,950 God, if it's easy for you to give into God's economic system, 937 00:59:52,230 --> 00:59:55,870 then it's easy for you to receive back. 938 00:59:55,910 --> 00:59:57,470 And for some of you are in business. 939 00:59:57,750 --> 00:59:59,750 It's easy for you to get more contracts. 940 00:59:59,750 --> 01:00:01,310 It's easier for you to get more business. 941 01:00:01,430 --> 01:00:03,270 It's easy for you to get more locations. 942 01:00:03,270 --> 01:00:05,710 It's easy for you to franchise. It's easy for you. 943 01:00:05,710 --> 01:00:07,150 Why? Because you can just give it 944 01:00:07,150 --> 01:00:08,830 away. You're not counting your 945 01:00:08,830 --> 01:00:11,230 dollars. You're sowing your dollars. 946 01:00:12,630 --> 01:00:15,070 You're hearing the voice of God and you're giving. 947 01:00:15,070 --> 01:00:16,950 Why? Because Jesus, when he came into 948 01:00:16,950 --> 01:00:20,750 the earth, knew this. My dad owns the planet. 949 01:00:26,340 --> 01:00:28,780 My dad owns the planet, he was saying. 950 01:00:28,780 --> 01:00:33,100 My dad created this hall. My dad created all of it. 951 01:00:33,900 --> 01:00:39,420 That's why Jesus could say this. So the scripture has said I must 952 01:00:39,420 --> 01:00:42,700 come to Jerusalem on a donkey. That's never been written, 953 01:00:42,860 --> 01:00:45,860 written. So I got one. 954 01:00:47,500 --> 01:00:49,820 I'm not going to even have to pay for it with cash. 955 01:00:50,940 --> 01:00:54,220 Because Dad owns it already. So I want you to go to this 956 01:00:54,220 --> 01:00:56,740 house on this street, he tells the Disciples. 957 01:00:56,940 --> 01:01:01,420 There's a donkey waiting for me. I want you to untie it and bring 958 01:01:01,420 --> 01:01:04,220 it to me. If anyone happens to stop you 959 01:01:04,620 --> 01:01:09,260 when this is taking place, then you just let them know the Lord 960 01:01:09,260 --> 01:01:13,980 has need of it. That's like someone's showing up 961 01:01:14,660 --> 01:01:20,820 at your vehicle with another set of keys and you're like, yo, 962 01:01:20,820 --> 01:01:23,280 what are you doing? The Lord has need of it. 963 01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:28,560 OK, take it 'cause that's what took place. 964 01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:33,960 Are you here? Why 'cause he knows my dad owns 965 01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:39,080 the cattle on 1000 hills. All the silver and gold is his. 966 01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:40,280 How am I? Broke. 967 01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:42,680 How are you broke? You can't be broke if you're the 968 01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:47,680 child of a king. Can't be because the wealth that 969 01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:51,960 God has for you is associated with your purpose. 970 01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:57,280 That you'll never be in lack. It may not be in your hands, but 971 01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:01,040 you're not lacking, I said. It may not be in your hands, but 972 01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:05,640 you're not lacking Because when you need it, boy, he can sure 973 01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:08,280 get it to you, I said. He can get it to you. 974 01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:11,920 And he's not even limited to the finance. 975 01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:16,080 That's what's so exciting. He's not limited to it. 976 01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:20,400 At the end of the day, he can do it other ways. 977 01:02:26,620 --> 01:02:32,300 So when Jesus was poor, he came out of Heaven's realm and 978 01:02:32,300 --> 01:02:34,220 limited himself to the earth realm. 979 01:02:35,980 --> 01:02:39,580 And you know as well as I do being here and being there. 980 01:02:40,020 --> 01:02:44,620 It's two different places. In fact, that place has gold 981 01:02:44,620 --> 01:02:47,960 streets. I mean, Can you imagine that 982 01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:50,840 gold streets all through W Augustine, you're like, I'll 983 01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:53,720 take this brick right here out, go cash that in, right. 984 01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:55,840 And then the city comes and puts some another brick in. 985 01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:58,800 That'd be pretty amazing. And there. 986 01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:02,800 It's the streets. Solomon's time. 987 01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:04,880 Silver. We won't even count it. 988 01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:07,040 I mean, we got so much of this stuff. 989 01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:09,200 There's so much finance flowing here. 990 01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:10,640 I mean, I I don't even know what to do at all. 991 01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:12,840 Don't. You want to get to that place. 992 01:03:13,850 --> 01:03:16,370 Now here's the deal. You're already there and you 993 01:03:16,370 --> 01:03:19,970 don't even know it, because it doesn't have to be in your 994 01:03:19,970 --> 01:03:26,210 account to be there. And now this scripture will make 995 01:03:26,210 --> 01:03:32,090 much sense to you. And my God shall supply all my 996 01:03:32,090 --> 01:03:48,240 needs according to his riches in glory, because our king was 997 01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:57,000 never broke, but he was made poor so that we could have his 998 01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,520 riches. 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