I heard the voice
of the Lord saying,
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"Whom shall I send
and who will go for us."
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Then I said,
"Here am I, send me."
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Three Angels
Broadcasting Network
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in the South England conference,
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present London 2016.
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Each night pastor
Lomacang has been taking us
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on a journey of
Biblical discovery.
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Last night we were introduced
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to the wonderful
message of God's Blessed Day,
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and we truly
appreciated the Word of God
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being opened up to us
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to understand that
in a more detailed way.
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This evening,
the journey continues
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and the topic is
Making Ends Meet.
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Making Ends Meet
and I'm sure that
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we can all relate to that phrase
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at some point in the month.
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But we were hear what
the Word of God has to say
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and how we can
truly make ends meet.
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Before pastor
Lomacang speaks to us,
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we're grateful
Yolanda Innocent-Palmer
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to sing for us.
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Everyday they pass me by
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I can see it in their eyes
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Empty people filled with care
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Headed who knows where
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On they go through private pain
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Living fear to fear
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Laughter hides
their silent cries
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Only Jesus hears
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People need the Lord
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People need the Lord
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At the end of broken dreams
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He's the open door
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People need the Lord
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People need the Lord
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When will we realize
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People need the Lord
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We are called to take this light
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Into a world
where wrong seems right
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What would be too great a cost
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For sharing life
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With one who's lost
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And through His
love our hearts can feel
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All the grief they bear
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They must hear the words of life
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Only we can share
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People need the Lord
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At the end of broken dreams
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He's the open door
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People need the Lord
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I know, I need Christ my lord
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When will we realize
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That we must give our lives
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For people need
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The Lord
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People need
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The Lord
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Open up your heart
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And receive Christ the Lord
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Amen.
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Amen.
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That was not just a
song that was from the heart.
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Thank you so much.
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For ministering to my heart,
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I've heard that song many times,
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I've actually requested that
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Yolanda sing that song tonight,
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but she didn't sing it,
she ministered that song.
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And it is unmistakably true
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that every one
of us needs the Lord
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in every area of our lives.
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And that's why
tonight's presentation,
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it may seem to take a turn
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from a vertical message
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to a horizontal message.
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But any message from the Bible
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is always
horizontal and vertical.
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It has
application and implication
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in both directions
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and before I open
God's Word tonight,
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on the topic Making Ends Meet,
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I would like to
invite you to bow your heads
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with me this night.
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Loving father in heaven,
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thank you for
your promise to provide
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for your people
both spiritual, physical
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and temporal needs.
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And Lord this
night is no different,
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each one of us has a need.
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But father in
your love and mercy
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you've said to us in your word
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that you will provide
our need and your name
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through those provisions
will be continually glorified.
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So send your spirit now
Lord to speak to our hearts,
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we pray in Jesus name, amen.
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What would you do if I told you
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that there was some one
going to visit you tomorrow,
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and then they
knocked on your front door,
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and when you
Went to the front door
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and opened the door you met him
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and that said to you I'm here
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that I promise to
provide all of your need,
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the rest of your life.
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Would you slam the door?
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Would you be suspicious?
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Now if you're from New York,
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you might be a
little suspicious.
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My wife and I have
had moments in our lives
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that have raised
the antenna of suspicion
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only to be
reminded that sometimes
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what seems suspicious
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is a moment that
God steps into your life
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and blesses you in a way
that you could never imagine.
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I mean, if I stop right here
and spend the rest of the night
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just testifying about
God's provision in our lives,
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I really wouldn't
have enough of the evening.
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My wife and I
periodically would sit down
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and recount our journey.
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And remember, that
we are where we are
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not because of
some planet of our own
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but of God's faithfulness.
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As David and Psalms says,
"I was young and now I am old,
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and I've never seen
the righteous forsaken,
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nor his seed begging bread."
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Come on, somebody say amen.
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When you connect to
God's plan for provision,
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your age may change but
God will remain the same.
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And He will show up in moments
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when you least
understand your need
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and remind you that
He is the omnipotent,
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the omnipresent,
the omnipotent one.
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He is the one that
knows all, understands all
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and could
provide all of our need
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according to his
riches and glory.
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You know, one
knows that very well
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as the apostle Paul
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who mingled with
cultures and philosophies.
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He was surrounded
in his many journeys
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by many Lord's and many God's.
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He was in villages and cities
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where the unknown God was
never known to the people,
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he was where
people worshiped stone
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and wood and brick
and gold and jewels.
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Paul the apostle understood
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the difference
between lack and abundance.
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He had prison food
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and he also ate
royal delicacies.
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That's why the apostle Paul,
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through God's Holy
Spirit preserved a word
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that we need to
begin with tonight
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from the book of
Philippians 4:11-13.
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Notice, as the
text is brought up
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to the screen tonight.
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Notice what Paul
communicates to us,
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Centuries later there he says,
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"Not that I speak
in regard to need,
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for I have learned
in whatever state I'm in
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to be content."
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When I'm in the United States
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I say whether I'm in
the state of New York
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or Illinois.
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I know that where ever
I am, I could be content.
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But Paul was not
speaking of a physical state,
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but Paul was speaking
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of whatever situation
life you're confronted with.
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Be content, why?
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He says, "I know
how to be abased,
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and I know how to..."
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What church?
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Abound.
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Everywhere and in all things
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I have learned both to
be full and to be what?
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Hungry. Both to
abound and to what?
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Suffer need.
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And then he said in the
context of all these together,
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"I can do all
things through Christ
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who strengthens me."
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We've been here at Croydon,
now going into our second week
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and I have been
saying to the cooks
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and those providing our meals,
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please, don't keep
feeding me so much,
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because I want to
be able to standup
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and make it through the message,
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and now my suit
feels a little tighter
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than it was last week.
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And I want to say,
praise God for saints
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who promise to
provide as God enables them.
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And now I understand
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the righteous have
never been forsaken
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not here at Croydon.
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Come on, say amen church.
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See when the
apostle Paul proclaimed
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that I can do all things
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through Christ
who strengthens me,
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he was in essence saying,
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"If we have
Christ we have everything
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and everyone we will ever need.
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If we have Christ
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then he says in
Philippians 4:19,
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And my God, come on together.
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"And my God shall supply what?
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All your need
according to His what?
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Riches in glory
by Christ Jesus."
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Amen.
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I must say tonight in a
world of economic stability
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I need to know
that God will provide
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what do you say?
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Amen.
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In a culture of
depression and recession
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I need to know
that God will provide.
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In a society of
raising and falling investments
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I need to know
that God will provide
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in a competitive job market
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I need to know
that God will provide.
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When I was a young man
growing up in New York city,
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and I was working at
an insurance company.
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My commitment was
to God not to money,
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and so when the opportunity
came and they told me
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that I was
scheduled to work on Sabbath.
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I told my
supervisor I won't be here.
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He says, you have to be here.
I said well, I won't be here.
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So you need to
schedule someone else.
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He said well, it
is your responsibility
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as an employee of this
company to be here on Saturday.
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I said I won't be here. He
said, what is your schedule?
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I was in church
on Sabbath morning.
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I got to work on Monday morning.
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He said, you were not here.
I said, is it any surprise.
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I told you on
Friday I wouldn't be here.
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He said, what is your
schedule for the next,
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in two more
you're scheduled again.
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I said, let's not
hesitate, I won't be here.
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And after the
two weeks had passed
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and they scheduled me
again on Sabbath morning,
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I wasn't there.
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Monday morning, I
got called into office,
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they gave me my final check.
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I would rather loose a job
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than a loose a
connection with Christ.
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Amen.
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Because my God,
come on somebody.
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My God shall
supply all of our need
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according to his
riches, not insurance companies,
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not banks, not investment
holders, not stockbrokers,
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God's provision is not
based on anything that man has.
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As a matter of fact God could
out testify any billionaire
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that has ever existed.
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I wish somebody was
listening to me tonight,
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God could out testify.
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Have you seen those cars
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that pull up in
front of Harrods?
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My wife and I went
there the other night
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got sick, not physically
sick, we got financially sick.
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Walked in the store
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and I looked in
the glass window,
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went to get some candy.
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Chocolate, a box of chocolate
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3450 pounds,
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I had to ask what's in it?
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She said, "A slither of gold."
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But she said, "You
don't need that because
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you can't digest
the gold anyway."
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So she said why
do people buy it?
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Because they can.
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And I look
around that department
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and I saw people, I
want to say this clear,
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I saw people that
have wealth on their face.
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They were reaching
over buying by the multiple,
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by the
multiples, they were buying
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they seemed to be
and I said to my wife,
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"Honey, we need to
get out of this store,
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we don't belong in Harrods."
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So my wife leaned over to
get a little gift for a friend
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and we kind of figure
out all we could afford is,
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two small pieces of
chocolate for seven pounds.
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So we took our samples
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and walked out
like we had money.
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But I thought
about it when I got out,
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we do have money
because we have got God.
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There nobody in
Harrods that has more than God.
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God could out
testify any billionaire
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that ever was alive.
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Listen to God as
He testifies tonight
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Psalms 50:10-12, he said,
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"For every beast of
the forest is Mine,"
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you know anybody
that can say that?
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"And the cattle
on a thousand hills."
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God doesn't count his
cattle by heads, but by hills.
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Do you anybody
that can say that?
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He continues, "And
I know all the birds,"
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He can call them by
name and they will arrive.
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I know all the
birds of the mountains,
00:16:34.56\00:16:36.09
and the wild beasts
of the field are Mine."
00:16:36.12\00:16:38.29
Do you know
anybody that can say that?
00:16:38.33\00:16:40.93
"If I were hungry,
I would not tell you,
00:16:40.96\00:16:42.86
for the world is
mine, and all its fullness."
00:16:42.90\00:16:46.10
Can you say amen child of God?
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Amen.
00:16:48.20\00:16:49.54
Two little boys sitting down,
00:16:49.57\00:16:51.41
one obviously
wealthy the other poor.
00:16:51.44\00:16:53.74
And then little wealthy boy
didn't like the neighbor boy
00:16:53.78\00:16:55.98
anyway because he was poor
00:16:56.01\00:16:57.35
and so he decided to
boast on his father and he said,
00:16:57.38\00:16:59.85
"You see that
large hill over there,
00:16:59.88\00:17:04.42
you see that big
mansion on that hill,
00:17:04.45\00:17:06.29
that's my daddy's mansion."
00:17:06.32\00:17:08.92
And that little
boy that have nothing
00:17:08.96\00:17:11.39
lowered his head
in apparent shame
00:17:11.43\00:17:15.10
and without anything to say.
00:17:15.13\00:17:17.57
And he said, "You see that board
00:17:17.60\00:17:19.87
that yacht down at the dark,
00:17:19.90\00:17:22.27
that yacht is my daddy's yacht,"
00:17:22.30\00:17:26.11
even hammering at
this poor little boy.
00:17:26.14\00:17:30.18
And then he said,
00:17:30.21\00:17:31.55
"You see that plane flying over,
00:17:31.58\00:17:34.02
that's my daddy's plane."
00:17:34.05\00:17:37.35
And God touched
that little poor boy
00:17:37.39\00:17:39.59
to respond to
that little rich boy
00:17:39.62\00:17:41.22
who thought he had something
over this little poor boy.
00:17:41.26\00:17:44.53
And that little poor boy said,
00:17:44.56\00:17:45.89
"You see that
mansion on that hill,
00:17:45.93\00:17:47.83
that hill belongs to my daddy."
00:17:47.86\00:17:51.93
He said, "You see
that boat on that water,
00:17:51.97\00:17:53.87
that water belongs to my daddy."
00:17:53.90\00:17:56.74
"You see that
plane flying in the air
00:17:56.77\00:17:58.77
that air belongs to my daddy."
00:17:58.81\00:18:01.01
And he got up and walked away
like he was wealthy little boy.
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Sometimes we've got to remember
00:18:04.75\00:18:06.31
that we don't
serve a material God
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but we do serve a God
that owns every material.
00:18:08.02\00:18:10.89
Psalms 24:1-2 he
said, the Bible says,
00:18:10.92\00:18:13.79
"The earth is the Lord's,
and the fullness thereof,
00:18:13.82\00:18:18.29
the world and
those who dwell therein.
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For He has
founded it upon the seas,
00:18:20.66\00:18:24.03
and established
it upon the floods."
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That's the kind of God
that I have is a father,
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what about you tonight?
00:18:28.60\00:18:30.67
You see it that's why
if you trust in anybody
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or anything other than God,
00:18:32.81\00:18:34.41
you will be disappointed
00:18:34.44\00:18:37.61
'cause your friends no
matter how close they are,
00:18:37.65\00:18:40.12
they can or not
always come through for you.
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David also
says, in Psalms 146:3,
00:18:44.12\00:18:47.42
"Do not put your
trust in princes,
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nor in the son of man,
in whom there is no help."
00:18:50.93\00:18:53.70
Don't trust people that
can't do anything for you.
00:18:53.73\00:18:56.73
Sometimes your
friends see your phone number
00:18:56.77\00:18:58.70
they decide I can't help her.
I ain't picking up the phone.
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That's why sometimes
you got to go to your God
00:19:02.60\00:19:05.27
on your needs.
00:19:05.31\00:19:06.88
Let me sometimes you
got to go to God first,
00:19:06.91\00:19:11.98
because you got a folk
one person to the other
00:19:12.01\00:19:14.92
would disappoint you
00:19:14.95\00:19:16.28
you can go to church with a need
00:19:16.32\00:19:17.65
and leave without
that need being there.
00:19:17.69\00:19:19.39
But you will never
go to God with a need
00:19:19.42\00:19:21.79
and not leave with
that need being there.
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God has a system
00:19:25.49\00:19:26.83
that guarantees
that we will be blessed.
00:19:26.86\00:19:29.63
Look in Luke 6:38.
00:19:29.66\00:19:33.07
He talks about
this revolving door
00:19:33.10\00:19:36.81
of blessings
00:19:36.84\00:19:38.17
and he begins by with what word?
00:19:38.21\00:19:39.54
Give.
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Together,
00:19:40.94\00:19:42.28
"Give, and it
will be given to you:
00:19:42.31\00:19:44.78
good measure,
hovels pressed down,
00:19:44.81\00:19:48.48
shaken
together, and running over
00:19:48.52\00:19:51.22
will be put into your bosom."
00:19:51.25\00:19:53.22
And here is the
law of blessings.
00:19:53.25\00:19:56.93
"For with the same
measure that you use,
00:19:56.96\00:20:00.66
it will be
measured back to you."
00:20:00.70\00:20:03.16
Let me make it clear,
00:20:03.20\00:20:04.93
stingy folk will
get tiny blessings.
00:20:04.97\00:20:09.07
The same measure you meet,
00:20:09.10\00:20:10.44
it would be
measured back to you again.
00:20:10.47\00:20:13.78
If you a little
teaspoon of salt,
00:20:13.81\00:20:15.51
you're going to
get a teaspoon of salt.
00:20:15.54\00:20:18.35
But if you feel
that God has blessed you
00:20:18.38\00:20:20.15
and you can be abundant,
God will bless you abundantly.
00:20:20.18\00:20:24.19
It's a reciprocating law.
00:20:24.22\00:20:26.55
The fact of the
matter is it is impossible
00:20:26.59\00:20:30.06
to make a bank withdrawal
without making a bank deposit.
00:20:30.09\00:20:34.70
Can I say that again? Yes.
00:20:34.73\00:20:36.36
It's impossible to
make a bank withdrawal
00:20:36.40\00:20:38.93
without putting
some money in the bank.
00:20:38.97\00:20:41.30
Somebody once said,
00:20:41.34\00:20:42.67
"I can't be broke I
have a lot of checks left."
00:20:42.70\00:20:47.21
You better have
someone to back that check up.
00:20:47.24\00:20:50.35
But when you have God,
he can back up anything.
00:20:50.38\00:20:53.75
Come on, somebody say, amen.
00:20:53.78\00:20:55.85
The law of blessings
00:20:55.88\00:20:57.22
is a reliable law
as reliable as gravity.
00:20:57.25\00:21:00.22
Galatians 6:7,
00:21:00.26\00:21:02.12
listen to the words
of the apostle Paul.
00:21:02.16\00:21:04.23
He said, "Do not be deceived,
00:21:04.26\00:21:06.13
God is not mocked;
for whatever a man what?
00:21:06.16\00:21:09.96
Sows, that he
will also what?" Reap.
00:21:10.00\00:21:13.87
When you sow...
00:21:13.90\00:21:16.14
And sometimes, I
want to just say this.
00:21:16.17\00:21:18.11
Sometimes I get
sick and tired of people
00:21:18.14\00:21:20.61
that use God's word for
their own financial gang.
00:21:20.64\00:21:24.65
Have you listen sometimes
to those televangelists?
00:21:24.68\00:21:28.18
They talk about
planting a seed of faith.
00:21:28.22\00:21:30.89
Tonight somebody
needs to give me a $1,000.
00:21:30.92\00:21:33.96
I need $5,000
00:21:33.99\00:21:35.89
and then you see
them on television
00:21:35.92\00:21:37.46
with their multiple jets,
00:21:37.49\00:21:39.63
their 15 mansions,
their opulent homes
00:21:39.66\00:21:42.56
and they're taking the
fall things of a poor widow
00:21:42.60\00:21:46.13
and spending it on
themselves for self-praise
00:21:46.17\00:21:49.57
and self-exaltation.
00:21:49.60\00:21:50.94
That's not what this
text is talking about.
00:21:50.97\00:21:53.91
So I'm not talking
about sowing the seed,
00:21:53.94\00:21:55.51
I don't need a seed, I got God.
00:21:55.54\00:21:57.38
Come on, help me out.
00:21:57.41\00:21:58.75
You don't need
to give me anything,
00:21:58.78\00:22:01.15
'cause God will
give me whatever I need.
00:22:01.18\00:22:03.15
Amen.
00:22:03.18\00:22:04.52
And let me just also say,
00:22:04.55\00:22:05.89
sometimes God will
keep some of us poor
00:22:05.92\00:22:07.62
just so that we can be saved.
00:22:07.66\00:22:09.09
Amen.
00:22:09.12\00:22:12.33
Isn't that right?
00:22:12.36\00:22:13.70
Because, some of
you wouldn't be in here
00:22:13.73\00:22:15.06
if God didn't
keep you on your knees.
00:22:15.10\00:22:17.03
Sometimes God got to give you
00:22:17.07\00:22:18.40
more months than you got check.
00:22:18.43\00:22:21.17
So you can pray.
00:22:21.20\00:22:22.90
And I believe this,
then I'm not going to say it
00:22:22.94\00:22:25.37
but some Christians,
00:22:25.41\00:22:28.81
some Adventist
Christians play the lottery,
00:22:28.84\00:22:32.91
'cause they don't know
God's method of blessing.
00:22:32.95\00:22:36.48
God's method of
blessing is not luck or chance,
00:22:36.52\00:22:40.12
it's a promise.
00:22:40.16\00:22:42.99
Look at what he says
in 2 Corinthians 9:6.
00:22:43.02\00:22:47.30
"But I say to
you, He who sows how?
00:22:47.33\00:22:50.50
Sparingly, will also reap how?
00:22:50.53\00:22:53.07
Sparingly, but he who sows how?
00:22:53.10\00:22:55.47
Bountifully will also reap how?
00:22:55.50\00:22:57.74
Bountifully."
00:22:57.77\00:23:00.71
God is in essence saying
when you stand behind God,
00:23:00.74\00:23:04.18
you know, when we do evangelism
00:23:04.21\00:23:05.65
it is always
amazing to me as a pastor.
00:23:05.68\00:23:08.62
That on Sabbath morning
the pastor has to get up
00:23:08.65\00:23:11.99
and say please give,
00:23:12.02\00:23:13.86
our churches in a
deficit please give.
00:23:13.89\00:23:17.06
I tell you if
Jesus is your Lord,
00:23:17.09\00:23:19.69
He should never have to beg
you to give anything to God.
00:23:19.73\00:23:23.77
Because the least
that we can do for Jesus
00:23:23.80\00:23:28.10
is give him everything we have.
00:23:28.14\00:23:32.04
Let me illustrate
00:23:32.07\00:23:33.74
how terrible it
is to not recognize
00:23:33.78\00:23:37.31
that God has given us
00:23:37.35\00:23:38.95
so that we can be
a blessing to others.
00:23:38.98\00:23:41.88
If God gives us and we
hold it to ourselves notice,
00:23:41.92\00:23:45.42
the rebuke in
his word James 5:1-3,
00:23:45.45\00:23:48.92
how terrible it is
00:23:48.96\00:23:51.59
to keep everything that
God gives us to ourselves.
00:23:51.63\00:23:54.56
"He says, "Come now, you rich,
00:23:54.60\00:23:57.43
weep and howl for your miseries
that are coming upon you!
00:23:57.47\00:24:01.20
Your riches are corrupted,
and your garments are what?
00:24:01.24\00:24:04.87
Moth-eaten, your
gold and silver are what?
00:24:04.91\00:24:08.21
Corroded, and their corrosion,
00:24:08.24\00:24:10.38
this is amazing, will
be a witness against you
00:24:10.41\00:24:14.05
and will eat
your flesh like fire.
00:24:14.08\00:24:16.28
Why?
00:24:16.32\00:24:17.65
You have heaped up
treasure in the last days."
00:24:17.69\00:24:21.82
We were standing by
Harrods and we walked outside,
00:24:21.86\00:24:25.53
and I saw cars that I could
not even pronounce the name.
00:24:25.56\00:24:30.93
You know what I'm talking about.
00:24:30.97\00:24:33.47
My wife said, what
kind of car is that?
00:24:33.50\00:24:34.84
Well, let me look at the symbol
00:24:34.87\00:24:36.20
and I saw a symbol I
ain't seen in my life.
00:24:36.24\00:24:39.64
A Maybach, never
heard of that car,
00:24:39.67\00:24:42.51
and I'm a car enthusiast,
I never heard of that.
00:24:42.54\00:24:45.01
I looked at it closely and said,
00:24:45.05\00:24:46.38
"Honey, we'll
just it put this way,
00:24:46.41\00:24:47.75
it's a car we can't afford."
00:24:47.78\00:24:50.99
But even if I could afford it
00:24:51.02\00:24:52.42
I still can't
drive it to heaven.
00:24:52.45\00:24:54.06
That's why we're told
that when we're blessed
00:24:57.53\00:25:00.13
God gives us financial
and materialistic blessings
00:25:00.16\00:25:03.03
to advance his
cause and not to spend it
00:25:03.06\00:25:05.70
wastefully on ourselves.
00:25:05.73\00:25:07.67
Because in reality when
that Maybach $350,000 car
00:25:07.70\00:25:11.77
is on the free way
or on the road way,
00:25:11.81\00:25:14.64
it's right next to what?
00:25:14.68\00:25:16.01
A $2000 car.
00:25:16.04\00:25:18.81
And that $2,000
car could conk out
00:25:18.85\00:25:21.02
just like that $350,000 car can.
00:25:21.05\00:25:23.45
And no matter how much
fuel you put in that car,
00:25:23.49\00:25:26.19
neither one of
them can drive you
00:25:26.22\00:25:27.79
to the kingdom.
00:25:27.82\00:25:29.72
Heard about
story of a man who died
00:25:29.76\00:25:31.49
and he was so in
love with his Corvette
00:25:31.53\00:25:36.26
that he had himself
buried in the front seat
00:25:36.30\00:25:38.87
of his Corvette, a
big old gigantic grave.
00:25:38.90\00:25:41.70
They put him propped
up, dead as a doornail.
00:25:41.74\00:25:46.78
Don't want to sound insensitive,
00:25:46.81\00:25:49.38
dead as a doornail,
lowering him got him propped up
00:25:49.41\00:25:53.25
in the front seat of
his car, dead as a doornail
00:25:53.28\00:25:55.98
couldn't put his
finger for to start the car.
00:25:56.02\00:25:59.39
In the car as
though there is some glory
00:25:59.42\00:26:02.06
they burry him in his car.
00:26:02.09\00:26:03.49
I guarantee you he
won't be driving that out.
00:26:03.53\00:26:06.29
If he's going to come at all,
00:26:09.43\00:26:10.90
it's going to be
under God's power
00:26:10.93\00:26:12.43
and that car is
going to stay in the grave.
00:26:12.47\00:26:13.90
Come on say, amen. Amen.
00:26:13.94\00:26:15.77
That's why the Lord says
00:26:15.80\00:26:17.14
people that are stingy and tight
00:26:17.17\00:26:18.97
don't have a financial problem,
they got a heart problem.
00:26:19.01\00:26:23.04
Matthew 6:21, "For
where your treasure is,
00:26:23.08\00:26:27.32
together, there
your heart will be also."
00:26:27.35\00:26:32.45
Got to fail to realize
some people fail to realize,
00:26:32.49\00:26:36.12
that we're not saved by
stuff, we're saved by Jesus.
00:26:36.16\00:26:41.73
When we first got married,
everything my wife and I owned,
00:26:41.76\00:26:45.50
when we move from
Florida to California
00:26:45.53\00:26:48.14
everything we owned,
00:26:48.17\00:26:49.67
fit in the back of a five
by eight foot U-Haul trailer.
00:26:49.70\00:26:54.51
That was it,
every procession we had
00:26:54.54\00:26:57.55
was in the back of that trailer.
00:26:57.58\00:27:00.05
Lord have mercy, 33 years later.
00:27:00.08\00:27:03.55
Come on you old
people, say amen.
00:27:03.59\00:27:06.19
You got stuff you
don't even know you have.
00:27:06.22\00:27:09.26
And you keep stuffing
stuff on top of stuff.
00:27:09.29\00:27:12.23
There are some
men in this church
00:27:12.26\00:27:13.60
when they driving to the street
00:27:13.63\00:27:14.96
they see a piece of wood
they pull of them pick it up,
00:27:15.00\00:27:16.70
honey, am I need
that piece of wood.
00:27:16.73\00:27:18.77
Anybody know who
I'm talking about.
00:27:18.80\00:27:20.84
There are people
that pickup scrap metal
00:27:20.87\00:27:22.70
and go say before a rainy
day and it ain't rain yet.
00:27:22.74\00:27:27.28
And we're stuff and stuff
like we're saved by stuff,
00:27:27.31\00:27:31.35
and we have yacht sales
00:27:31.38\00:27:32.71
and it doesn't seem
like it even dents our stuff.
00:27:32.75\00:27:35.42
My wife and I have
stuff that in boxes
00:27:35.45\00:27:37.95
that we haven't
opened them 12 years.
00:27:37.99\00:27:40.89
And somebody
said, throw it away.
00:27:40.92\00:27:42.26
I said no I might throw
some stuff away that I need.
00:27:42.29\00:27:45.53
I hadn't need it
for that 12 years,
00:27:45.56\00:27:48.13
but that's how we are.
00:27:48.16\00:27:49.66
We like to horn
but the Bible says,
00:27:49.70\00:27:51.17
in Luke 12:15 listen
what the Lord says to us
00:27:51.20\00:27:53.84
and He said to them,
00:27:53.87\00:27:55.20
"Take heed and
beware of covetousness.
00:27:55.24\00:27:58.71
Why?
00:27:58.74\00:28:00.08
For one's life does
not consist in what?
00:28:00.11\00:28:03.24
The abundance of the
things he possesses."
00:28:03.28\00:28:05.81
" Don't let your
possessions possess you.
00:28:05.85\00:28:09.95
You got to be so
loosely connected
00:28:09.98\00:28:12.45
to your possessions
that when the Lord says run,
00:28:12.49\00:28:15.69
you don't go
get a trailer truck.
00:28:15.72\00:28:20.30
Let me even go deeper.
00:28:20.33\00:28:22.16
There are some
folk that are canning
00:28:22.20\00:28:24.93
and pruning stuff
00:28:24.97\00:28:26.30
and put them in
jars and sealing it thing
00:28:26.33\00:28:28.74
and that they
got a food supplier
00:28:28.77\00:28:30.11
for the time in trouble.
00:28:30.14\00:28:31.77
You better cut that out.
00:28:31.81\00:28:33.68
You know you can be buying
them in those shopping bags
00:28:33.71\00:28:35.51
to the hills.
00:28:35.54\00:28:37.35
The Lord says
your food, your bread,
00:28:37.38\00:28:39.58
and your water shall be what?
00:28:39.61\00:28:41.35
Sure and if God can feed Elisha,
00:28:41.38\00:28:44.82
he can provide for us.
00:28:44.85\00:28:48.02
You know, that some folk
that they got this philosophy
00:28:48.06\00:28:50.56
you know, I'm
leaving out the country.
00:28:50.59\00:28:51.93
That's a good thing to do.
00:28:51.96\00:28:53.29
We live in the country,
00:28:53.33\00:28:54.66
we love it we were from New York
00:28:54.70\00:28:56.03
but we love to
wake up in the morning
00:28:56.06\00:28:57.40
and listen to the
birds, not hear gunshots.
00:28:57.43\00:29:00.14
But anytime we heat
gunshots in our community,
00:29:00.17\00:29:02.67
little different in England,
00:29:02.70\00:29:04.04
there is
somebody shooting a dear,
00:29:04.07\00:29:05.77
not shooting each other.
00:29:05.81\00:29:08.01
We go to bed at night and
if we hear tap on our roof,
00:29:08.04\00:29:10.21
it's a squirrel
running after another squirrel.
00:29:10.25\00:29:13.38
If somebody taps on our window
it's a bird, wanting food.
00:29:13.42\00:29:16.89
we got birds that recognize
us and we recognize them.
00:29:16.92\00:29:20.09
Well, we sit at our table,
00:29:20.12\00:29:21.62
they fly up and
they look at us like,
00:29:21.66\00:29:23.59
hey, what's up.
00:29:23.63\00:29:25.66
You ain't get my food yet.
00:29:25.69\00:29:29.70
And they know us.
00:29:29.73\00:29:31.07
And we love it and
they come everyday.
00:29:31.10\00:29:32.63
They're because they
know that we care about them,
00:29:32.67\00:29:35.54
if we care about
birds, does God care about us?
00:29:35.57\00:29:39.37
Yes.
00:29:39.41\00:29:40.74
O ye of little faith,
00:29:40.78\00:29:42.44
consider the lilies of the field
00:29:42.48\00:29:43.98
how they need to toil nor spin,
yet I say unto you that Solomon
00:29:44.01\00:29:48.15
in all his glory was not
a rate like one of these.
00:29:48.18\00:29:51.82
So take no care about tomorrow
but we've got to understand
00:29:51.85\00:29:55.26
some people think
00:29:55.29\00:29:56.62
that they
engineer their prosperity
00:29:56.66\00:29:59.09
and when they think
00:29:59.13\00:30:00.46
that they
engineer their prosperity
00:30:00.50\00:30:01.83
by their education and
by their accomplishments
00:30:01.86\00:30:04.57
and by their financial stability
00:30:04.60\00:30:06.67
they tend to forget God.
00:30:06.70\00:30:08.60
Listen to Deuteronomy
00:30:08.64\00:30:09.97
couple of verses
follow carefully.
00:30:10.01\00:30:12.54
Chapter 11, chapter 8:11-17
listen to what God's word says.
00:30:12.57\00:30:17.48
He says, "Beware that
00:30:17.51\00:30:18.85
you do not
forget the Lord your God
00:30:18.88\00:30:20.28
by not keeping His what?
00:30:20.32\00:30:22.22
Commandments, His
judgments, and His statutes
00:30:22.25\00:30:24.45
which I command you today.
00:30:24.49\00:30:27.42
Now follow carefully,
00:30:27.46\00:30:28.79
lest-when you have
eaten and are what?
00:30:28.82\00:30:30.83
Full.
00:30:30.86\00:30:32.19
And have built beautiful
houses and dwell in them.
00:30:32.23\00:30:35.93
And when your herds
and your flocks multiply,
00:30:35.96\00:30:38.23
that today that's your
cars and your bank accounts.
00:30:38.27\00:30:42.14
And your silver and
your gold are multiplied,
00:30:42.17\00:30:44.34
when your stock is rolling over.
00:30:44.37\00:30:46.98
And all that you
have is multiplied.
00:30:47.01\00:30:49.04
When your heart is lifted
up, you begin to get proud
00:30:49.08\00:30:52.01
and say to your
friends look what I got.
00:30:52.05\00:30:54.58
And you forget the Lord your God
00:30:54.62\00:30:56.82
who brought you out
of the land of Egypt,
00:30:56.85\00:30:59.59
from the house of bondage.
00:30:59.62\00:31:01.59
Who led you through the
great and terrible wilderness,
00:31:01.62\00:31:04.93
in which were fiery
serpents and scorpions
00:31:04.96\00:31:07.10
and the thirsty land
where there was what?
00:31:07.13\00:31:10.33
No water.
00:31:10.37\00:31:11.87
Who brought water for
you out of the flinty rock,
00:31:11.90\00:31:15.67
who fed you in the
wilderness with manna,
00:31:15.70\00:31:18.77
which your fathers did not know,
00:31:18.81\00:31:20.81
that He might humble you
and that He might test you,
00:31:20.84\00:31:25.61
to do you good in the end.
00:31:25.65\00:31:28.42
Then you have the
nerve to say I added that in.
00:31:28.45\00:31:33.46
'My power and
the might of my hand
00:31:33.49\00:31:36.46
have gained me this wealth.'
00:31:36.49\00:31:39.49
Some of you came from nothing,
00:31:39.53\00:31:44.33
no response required.
00:31:44.37\00:31:47.80
Some of us came
from a Shanti Shack
00:31:47.84\00:31:50.57
and some
Caribbean country somewhere,
00:31:50.61\00:31:54.51
all of a sudden
dropped into London,
00:31:54.54\00:31:56.81
and we're doing good now.
00:31:56.85\00:31:59.65
Got a house, that's
appreciating in value.
00:31:59.68\00:32:02.88
Let me remind you,
you better appreciate God
00:32:02.92\00:32:05.55
more than the
value of your house.
00:32:05.59\00:32:07.36
Amen.
00:32:07.39\00:32:09.09
Some of us are
born with a wooden spoon
00:32:09.12\00:32:12.23
or a plastic spoon
00:32:12.26\00:32:14.76
and all of a
sudden we're doing good
00:32:14.80\00:32:16.97
and we think that
I'm doing okay for myself
00:32:17.00\00:32:19.17
don't forget and save my power
00:32:19.20\00:32:21.94
and my might have
gained me this wealth.
00:32:21.97\00:32:25.27
'Cause in a moment
when God pulls his breathe
00:32:25.31\00:32:27.94
you'll discover
how much you need God.
00:32:27.98\00:32:30.25
Always give God the
glory for your possessions
00:32:30.28\00:32:32.41
and notice this
in Luke 12:16-21,
00:32:32.45\00:32:35.85
you see as you go there
success is a two edged sword.
00:32:35.88\00:32:38.95
Listen carefully,
success can cut away poverty
00:32:38.99\00:32:42.66
but if your sweeping success
can also cut away eternity.
00:32:42.69\00:32:48.93
I'll say that again,
success can cut away poverty
00:32:48.96\00:32:53.23
but success with deception
can cut away your eternity.
00:32:53.27\00:32:57.51
Luke 12:16-21, look
what the Bible says to us.
00:32:57.54\00:33:03.98
"Then He spoke a
parable to them, saying:
00:33:04.01\00:33:07.15
'The ground of
a certain rich man
00:33:07.18\00:33:08.78
yielded what?
00:33:08.82\00:33:10.49
Plentifully.'
00:33:10.52\00:33:12.02
And he thought within himself,
saying, 'What shall I do,
00:33:12.05\00:33:14.32
since I have no
room to store my crops?'
00:33:14.36\00:33:18.63
So he said, 'I will do
this: I will pull down my barns
00:33:18.66\00:33:21.73
and build what?
00:33:21.76\00:33:23.10
Greater.'
00:33:23.13\00:33:24.73
And there I will
store all my junk.
00:33:24.77\00:33:29.00
Oh, that's sorry, all
my crops and my goods.
00:33:29.04\00:33:34.08
And I will say to my
soul, "Soul, just chill out.
00:33:34.11\00:33:38.98
You have many goods
laid up for many years,
00:33:39.01\00:33:43.22
take ease, eat,
drink and just party."
00:33:43.25\00:33:48.62
But God said to him, 'Fool!
00:33:48.66\00:33:52.69
What did he call them?
00:33:52.73\00:33:55.16
It's in the Bible
what did he call them?
00:33:55.20\00:33:57.03
Fool.
00:33:57.07\00:33:58.73
This night your soul
will be required of you;
00:33:58.77\00:34:02.47
then whose will those things
be which you have provided?'
00:34:02.50\00:34:07.64
So is he who lays up
treasure for himself,
00:34:07.68\00:34:11.58
and is not rich toward God."
00:34:11.61\00:34:13.62
Some people are going
to die with seven or six
00:34:16.82\00:34:20.26
or five figures in the bank,
00:34:20.29\00:34:23.22
but no one to leave
it to but the state.
00:34:23.26\00:34:27.93
The government steps in
and takes it and uses it
00:34:27.96\00:34:30.37
for corrupt means.
00:34:30.40\00:34:32.07
'Cause they don't
think about God's word.
00:34:32.10\00:34:36.67
I remember the story of a lady
00:34:36.71\00:34:38.04
who inherited
millions, millions.
00:34:38.07\00:34:41.34
I know her personally.
00:34:41.38\00:34:43.95
And when there was something
that needed to be fixed
00:34:43.98\00:34:46.72
in the house, in her kitchen,
00:34:46.75\00:34:48.25
there is a little broken
piece of wood on the floor,
00:34:48.28\00:34:50.49
she inherited
millions and she said,
00:34:50.52\00:34:52.42
in her years of,
in her hoarding years
00:34:52.45\00:34:57.06
she says bent down in year,
00:34:57.09\00:35:00.00
she says, "I don't
think I have enough money
00:35:00.03\00:35:02.30
to fix that piece
of wood on the floor."
00:35:02.33\00:35:04.37
My wife and I look
at each other and said,
00:35:08.00\00:35:10.91
Lord please, don't
ever let me get like that.
00:35:10.94\00:35:14.08
Seven figures easily
in the bank, millions.
00:35:14.11\00:35:19.91
But the comfort
comes and they say
00:35:19.95\00:35:21.68
well, I'm saving
it for rainy day.
00:35:21.72\00:35:23.85
Well, if I'm going to say
this and I'm going to say this
00:35:23.89\00:35:26.39
in complete respect.
00:35:26.42\00:35:27.76
When you've got
more time behind you,
00:35:27.79\00:35:30.89
then you got in front of you,
00:35:30.93\00:35:33.26
you better make
your own rainy days
00:35:33.29\00:35:35.83
and start giving
something to the work of God.
00:35:35.86\00:35:38.93
'Cause that rainy day will come
00:35:38.97\00:35:40.30
and you won't be
able to open an umbrella.
00:35:40.34\00:35:42.54
The days when you say I
have no pleasure in them.
00:35:42.57\00:35:45.27
Don't wait till
somebody else comes in
00:35:45.31\00:35:46.88
and takes your hard earned funds
00:35:46.91\00:35:49.71
and start applying it
00:35:49.74\00:35:51.08
to whatever they
desire to give that too.
00:35:51.11\00:35:52.58
People will come
and spend the money
00:35:52.61\00:35:53.95
that you said you
were holding on to
00:35:53.98\00:35:55.68
on their own pleasures,
00:35:55.72\00:35:57.05
if you're not
assured of God's provision
00:35:57.09\00:35:59.69
and leave that for his work.
00:35:59.72\00:36:01.39
The fact of the matter is
God won't give us anything
00:36:01.42\00:36:03.39
that will lead us away from him.
00:36:03.43\00:36:04.76
Amen somebody. Amen.
00:36:04.79\00:36:06.46
But if you can't
trust God with your money,
00:36:06.49\00:36:08.43
he won't trust you with his.
00:36:08.46\00:36:11.23
Wealth does not
equal to abundance
00:36:11.27\00:36:12.70
and poverty does not equal lack.
00:36:12.73\00:36:15.27
And God does not
need all you have,
00:36:15.30\00:36:18.27
he just wants all your heart.
00:36:18.31\00:36:20.34
That's that simple.
00:36:20.38\00:36:22.11
You see the fact of the
matter is in God's sight
00:36:22.14\00:36:24.51
sometimes a little
has more value than a lot.
00:36:24.55\00:36:28.22
You heard the story of the widow
00:36:28.25\00:36:29.58
with how many mice?
00:36:29.62\00:36:30.95
Two mice.
00:36:30.99\00:36:32.89
The Bible says when
that widow gave all,
00:36:32.92\00:36:34.69
when that widow gave,
00:36:34.72\00:36:36.06
she gave all she had,
00:36:36.09\00:36:37.43
they will fold that
roll big gigantic checks
00:36:37.46\00:36:39.43
and put in the offering plate
00:36:39.46\00:36:40.96
and the mistake we
often make is sometimes
00:36:41.00\00:36:43.47
we glorify the persons
that can write a big check
00:36:43.50\00:36:46.77
and we ignore the widow
that just gave all she had.
00:36:46.80\00:36:50.21
But the Lord in the
same situation says,
00:36:50.24\00:36:52.14
"Oh, he gave
because he should have,
00:36:52.17\00:36:55.04
but she gave because she loved."
00:36:55.08\00:36:57.61
Don't ever measure
people by what they give.
00:36:57.65\00:36:59.75
Everybody has
value in the side of God,
00:36:59.78\00:37:01.98
say amen somebody.
00:37:02.02\00:37:03.35
Amen.
00:37:03.39\00:37:04.72
The Lord says that
that women, Mark 12:44,
00:37:04.75\00:37:06.96
"For they all put in,
out of their abundance,
00:37:06.99\00:37:11.26
but she out of her poverty
00:37:11.29\00:37:13.86
put in all that she
had, her whole livelihood."
00:37:13.90\00:37:18.60
I heard a poem about
00:37:18.63\00:37:20.47
how we have to be
careful not to be greedy.
00:37:20.50\00:37:22.20
Listen very carefully, it talks
about the full human journey.
00:37:22.24\00:37:26.51
When we were born
with no possession,
00:37:26.54\00:37:29.21
the love received,
it was our confession.
00:37:29.24\00:37:32.05
No worries, no
fears, no troubles, no fuss.
00:37:32.08\00:37:35.45
In mothers arms
we put our trust,
00:37:35.48\00:37:38.59
but as we grew
we looked and craved
00:37:38.62\00:37:41.36
and all too
soon became enslaved.
00:37:41.39\00:37:44.69
The more we saw,
the more we wanted.
00:37:44.73\00:37:47.83
Our quest for
more became undaunted.
00:37:47.86\00:37:51.37
Out thirst for more
could not be quenched,
00:37:51.40\00:37:53.94
the more we grasped
the tighter we clenched.
00:37:53.97\00:37:58.17
We scampered and
gathered and stored to hoard,
00:37:58.21\00:38:01.24
possessions became
our master and our Lord.
00:38:01.28\00:38:05.81
And when we were old
with our treasures all heaped,
00:38:05.85\00:38:09.08
a sad example of
what greed has reaped.
00:38:09.12\00:38:12.02
Our fists still
clench in a grasping motion
00:38:12.05\00:38:16.66
to let our death,
our hands were open.
00:38:16.69\00:38:20.40
Some people hold
on, hold on, hold on,
00:38:20.43\00:38:22.86
refuse to let go
00:38:22.90\00:38:24.83
until they have no
more breathe in their lives.
00:38:24.87\00:38:29.74
We have to remember tonight
00:38:29.77\00:38:31.41
that the best plan is
investing in God's plan.
00:38:31.44\00:38:33.58
Can you say amen?
00:38:33.61\00:38:34.94
Amen.
00:38:34.98\00:38:36.51
Investing in self
00:38:36.54\00:38:38.08
sometimes
measures in robbing God.
00:38:38.11\00:38:40.35
Look at Malachi 3
this is an amazing.
00:38:40.38\00:38:42.62
my wife and I
have put this practice,
00:38:42.65\00:38:44.99
we have put this text,
00:38:45.02\00:38:47.59
the series of text
to a test over and over
00:38:47.62\00:38:50.63
and after I read it
out I'll tell you a story.
00:38:50.66\00:38:52.89
Here it is Malachi
3ABN, beginning with verse 8.
00:38:52.93\00:38:57.13
Here is the question,
let's read this together.
00:38:57.17\00:38:59.10
"Will a man rob God?
Yet you have robbed Me!
00:38:59.13\00:39:03.17
But you say, 'In what
way have we robbed You?'
00:39:03.20\00:39:06.54
And the Lord says in what?
00:39:06.57\00:39:08.34
In tithes and in offerings."
00:39:08.38\00:39:10.11
See robbing God
also robs not only us,
00:39:10.15\00:39:13.38
it robs our faith community
and it robs our family.
00:39:13.42\00:39:16.75
Look at verse 9, He says,
"You are cursed with a curse."
00:39:16.79\00:39:20.26
In other words what you have
00:39:20.29\00:39:21.62
is not going to
be a blessing to you.
00:39:21.66\00:39:23.69
For you have robbed me,
even this whole nation."
00:39:23.73\00:39:26.86
Even your family can be affected
00:39:26.90\00:39:29.46
by your unfaithfulness.
00:39:29.50\00:39:31.70
But look what
happens when we're faithful.
00:39:31.73\00:39:33.34
Look at the promise, verse 10.
00:39:33.37\00:39:35.94
"Bring all the
tithes into the what?
00:39:35.97\00:39:38.57
Storehouse.
00:39:38.61\00:39:39.94
That there may be what?
00:39:39.97\00:39:41.31
Food in My house,
and try Me now in this,
00:39:41.34\00:39:44.15
Says the Lord of
hosts, "If I will not do what?
00:39:44.18\00:39:47.15
Open for you the
windows of the heaven
00:39:47.18\00:39:50.99
and pour out for
you such a blessing
00:39:51.02\00:39:53.36
that there will not be
room enough to do what?
00:39:53.39\00:39:56.66
To receive it."
Here is God's promise.
00:39:56.69\00:39:58.86
90% in God's plan
goes farther than 100%.
00:39:58.89\00:40:04.30
You know why?
00:40:04.33\00:40:05.67
Because the 90% is blessed.
00:40:05.70\00:40:07.64
And the fact of the matter
is you don't ever pay tithe.
00:40:07.67\00:40:13.14
I wish we would
stop saying that.
00:40:13.17\00:40:15.34
We don't ever
pay tithe, we what?
00:40:15.38\00:40:17.65
Return.
00:40:17.68\00:40:19.01
The Lord gave us ten
oranges and said I just need one
00:40:19.05\00:40:23.55
and he doesn't need it,
he's just testing our hearts.
00:40:23.59\00:40:26.65
You see this
entire system is a test
00:40:26.69\00:40:28.99
but it's so
beautiful when you trust in it,
00:40:29.02\00:40:31.66
I don't have a whole lot of time
00:40:31.69\00:40:33.03
but I got to tell this story.
00:40:33.06\00:40:34.40
When I was a young man
just beginning in ministry
00:40:34.43\00:40:36.33
and my tithe and offerings
00:40:36.36\00:40:38.87
where $75 and my
insurance that was due on Monday
00:40:38.90\00:40:43.34
was $75 I was in
a small parsonage
00:40:43.37\00:40:45.77
up in the mountains
of Northern California.
00:40:45.81\00:40:48.18
And I said to the Lord
00:40:48.21\00:40:49.54
as I was going
to preach the sermon
00:40:49.58\00:40:50.91
I said, father my
insurance is due on Monday
00:40:50.95\00:40:53.45
it's $75 for my car
and you know very well
00:40:53.48\00:40:56.25
insurance companies,
as you don't pay the money
00:40:56.28\00:40:57.62
what did they do?
00:40:57.65\00:40:58.99
They cancel you right away.
00:40:59.02\00:41:01.82
I walked across the parking lot
and into the back of the church
00:41:01.86\00:41:04.23
and when they play
the opening the song
00:41:04.26\00:41:05.83
in this little small church,
00:41:05.86\00:41:07.73
I was mounting the
podium or the rostrum
00:41:07.76\00:41:11.00
standing behind my elder
and as I mounted the rostrum
00:41:11.03\00:41:14.90
and stood
singing the opening song,
00:41:14.94\00:41:17.14
I heard the Lord say to me,
00:41:17.17\00:41:19.27
"If you don't trust me,
you cannot speak for me."
00:41:19.31\00:41:24.51
There I was, I know what
it's like to write a check
00:41:24.55\00:41:27.32
on Sabbath morning
with a trembling hand.
00:41:27.35\00:41:31.59
So I took out my check book.
00:41:31.62\00:41:33.36
Okay, got them
and I write the check.
00:41:37.33\00:41:39.09
You watching?
00:41:39.13\00:41:43.10
75, broke it down and
my tithes and offering.
00:41:43.13\00:41:48.54
Put it trembling in the plate
00:41:48.57\00:41:51.17
because I knew
Monday was coming,
00:41:51.21\00:41:54.31
but God also know
Monday was coming.
00:41:54.34\00:41:57.31
That night I went to
the post office in town,
00:41:57.35\00:42:00.52
and my wife and I,
00:42:00.55\00:42:01.88
we always went to the
PO Box to get our mail.
00:42:01.92\00:42:04.05
Pulled up in the
post office on Sabbath
00:42:04.09\00:42:06.45
after the sunset
on Saturday night,
00:42:06.49\00:42:07.82
I went there,
00:42:07.86\00:42:09.19
got an envelope from
somebody I never met in my life.
00:42:09.22\00:42:12.46
Opened that envelope,
I gave $75 back to God
00:42:12.49\00:42:16.23
because it belong
to him it was his.
00:42:16.26\00:42:18.73
I got a check
that night for $238,
00:42:18.77\00:42:21.20
come on say amen somebody.
00:42:21.24\00:42:23.00
God triple that and
then a little extra money
00:42:23.04\00:42:25.94
just so we could do it
to prove that he is God.
00:42:25.97\00:42:29.21
And I want to tell
you, I could spend a rest
00:42:29.24\00:42:30.75
of this message but
I want to communicate
00:42:30.78\00:42:32.61
some very principles
because what God is in essence
00:42:32.65\00:42:34.62
saying to us not
only will he bless us
00:42:34.65\00:42:37.19
but what we have he
will keep it moving.
00:42:37.22\00:42:41.49
He will let the enemy
make your car break down,
00:42:41.52\00:42:44.49
anybody know what
I'm talking about.
00:42:44.53\00:42:46.49
You might have
just a little bit of gas
00:42:46.53\00:42:48.06
and you go
further than the person
00:42:48.10\00:42:49.56
who has a whole lot of
gas but no faith in God.
00:42:49.60\00:42:51.43
That's right.
00:42:51.47\00:42:52.80
Listen what he says
in Malachi 3:11 and 12,
00:42:52.83\00:42:54.74
He says, I'll tell the
devil stop and go no further
00:42:54.77\00:42:57.77
just because you're
faithful, listen to this words.
00:42:57.81\00:43:00.68
He says, "I will rebuke
the devourer for who sake?
00:43:00.71\00:43:04.11
For your sake.
00:43:04.15\00:43:05.58
So that he will not destroy
the fruit of your ground,
00:43:05.61\00:43:07.75
you'll invest and it
will come to fruition.
00:43:07.78\00:43:09.82
Nor shall the vine fail
00:43:09.85\00:43:12.12
to bear fruit
for you in the field,
00:43:12.15\00:43:14.86
says the Lord of hosts;
00:43:14.89\00:43:16.22
And all nations
will call you what?
00:43:16.26\00:43:18.49
Blessed.
00:43:18.53\00:43:19.86
For you will be a what?
00:43:19.89\00:43:21.30
Delightful land,
says the Lord of hosts."
00:43:21.33\00:43:25.27
That's a promise from
God, that's in what church,
00:43:25.30\00:43:28.60
promise from God.
00:43:28.64\00:43:32.47
But God also
says something else.
00:43:32.51\00:43:36.58
1 Timothy 6:6 and
7, 1 Timothy 6:6 and 7.
00:43:36.61\00:43:42.92
The fact of the matter is
we really don't own anything.
00:43:42.95\00:43:46.76
When you, when the next baby
is born, go to the hospital,
00:43:46.79\00:43:52.39
when that baby comes
out and they slap it,
00:43:52.43\00:43:56.56
I can guarantee you
00:43:56.60\00:43:57.93
that baby is not
going to talk about
00:43:57.97\00:43:59.30
how much money
he brought with him.
00:43:59.33\00:44:01.37
You're going to open his hands
and what are you going to see?
00:44:01.40\00:44:04.87
Nothing. Absolutely what?
00:44:04.91\00:44:08.64
Nothing.
00:44:08.68\00:44:10.35
Look at how Paul communicated
that to his protégé Timothy,
00:44:10.38\00:44:14.22
1 Timothy 6:6 and 7,
00:44:14.25\00:44:18.15
"Now godliness with
contentment is what?"
00:44:18.19\00:44:22.59
Now let me stop
and do this backward.
00:44:22.62\00:44:24.83
The Bible didn't say great gain
with contentment his godliness.
00:44:24.86\00:44:30.43
See some folks think that,
now I go I have a whole lot,
00:44:30.47\00:44:34.14
I'm content so I must be godly.
00:44:34.17\00:44:36.77
And it didn't say great gain
with godliness is contentment,
00:44:36.81\00:44:43.75
it says, godliness
first with contentment
00:44:43.78\00:44:48.78
to be godly next is great gain.
00:44:48.82\00:44:52.05
What do you say?
00:44:52.09\00:44:53.42
And here sis the reason why?
00:44:53.46\00:44:55.06
"For we brought how much?
00:44:55.09\00:44:57.79
Nothing.
00:44:57.83\00:44:59.46
How much?
00:44:59.49\00:45:00.83
Nothing into this world,
and it is certain we can carry
00:45:00.86\00:45:03.16
how much?
00:45:03.20\00:45:04.53
Nothing out."
00:45:04.57\00:45:06.27
Absolutely nothing.
00:45:06.30\00:45:10.07
So I want to testify tonight,
00:45:10.11\00:45:12.14
how good God
is, how good God is.
00:45:12.17\00:45:17.21
My wife and I, I
told you've got the call
00:45:17.25\00:45:19.95
that we got to go
to Northern California.
00:45:19.98\00:45:22.55
Like in 1987, we
prayed and God opened the door
00:45:22.58\00:45:26.05
in a field of ministry
that we did not even know
00:45:26.09\00:45:28.32
that door was even
there to be opened.
00:45:28.36\00:45:30.89
We were then sent to a
Florida and we got a call
00:45:30.93\00:45:33.40
from the Northern
California conference president
00:45:33.43\00:45:35.60
to come and to be
involved in evangelism.
00:45:35.63\00:45:38.37
And Pastor Doug
Batchelor and I worked
00:45:38.40\00:45:39.90
in evangelism together.
00:45:39.93\00:45:41.97
Well, they told us
00:45:42.00\00:45:43.34
when we got the phone
call they said, pray about it
00:45:43.37\00:45:44.81
but we've had already
been praying for a week
00:45:44.84\00:45:46.17
so when that call came through
00:45:46.21\00:45:48.51
we knew that God had called
and when He calls like Samuel
00:45:48.54\00:45:52.21
the Bible says,
we said speak Lord
00:45:52.25\00:45:55.42
for yourself and hear it.
00:45:55.45\00:45:57.42
So they said think about it
00:45:57.45\00:45:58.79
we packed while
we thought about it,
00:45:58.82\00:46:01.46
'cause we knew this
was a God's door opening
00:46:01.49\00:46:04.03
so we packed and
when we left Orlando,
00:46:04.06\00:46:06.19
it was raining.
00:46:06.23\00:46:07.56
Every part of our
journey was some kind of a test.
00:46:07.60\00:46:12.53
When we got
middle way into Texas,
00:46:12.57\00:46:14.67
I never forgot
my wife began to cry
00:46:14.70\00:46:16.50
because she realize
we were leaving home
00:46:16.54\00:46:19.34
what we said we would
never do, we were leaving home
00:46:19.37\00:46:21.71
and her family, her mother,
her sisters, her brothers,
00:46:21.74\00:46:24.38
all were behind her
and she began to weep there
00:46:24.41\00:46:28.42
and I said honey, what's wrong?
00:46:28.45\00:46:29.78
She said, "We were leaving home.
00:46:29.82\00:46:31.45
Some times God's got to
take you from everything
00:46:31.49\00:46:33.39
to show you that
he is everything."
00:46:33.42\00:46:36.69
Amen.
00:46:36.73\00:46:38.06
So that will be
continued our journey
00:46:38.09\00:46:39.43
we got to California
00:46:39.46\00:46:40.86
and to provide this
journey the conference,
00:46:40.90\00:46:43.87
I didn't have we
hardly had anything.
00:46:43.90\00:46:46.43
We hardly had anything.
00:46:46.47\00:46:48.14
So I said I'll need some money
00:46:48.17\00:46:49.94
they said, will give
you X amount of dollars,
00:46:49.97\00:46:51.51
a $1000 a month and you know,
00:46:51.54\00:46:53.71
you got to make it
work and they said,
00:46:53.74\00:46:56.38
furthermore you got to find
a place to live on your own,
00:46:56.41\00:47:01.22
you have no
insurance, no health insurance,
00:47:01.25\00:47:05.29
no coverage at all
from this conference,
00:47:05.32\00:47:07.62
you got to get
out here how you can,
00:47:07.66\00:47:10.09
find your own place to live,
00:47:10.13\00:47:12.23
put your own down
payment on apartment,
00:47:12.26\00:47:14.43
we ain't helping you
in any of those areas,
00:47:14.46\00:47:17.67
but we went by faith.
00:47:17.70\00:47:19.57
When we got to California,
00:47:19.60\00:47:21.10
I'm gonna talk
about Jesus tonight.
00:47:21.14\00:47:22.77
When we got to California
we were below the $400 range.
00:47:22.80\00:47:28.11
Now if anybody knows
anything about California,
00:47:28.14\00:47:30.98
California is kind of like
00:47:31.01\00:47:32.35
trying to get a place in London.
00:47:32.38\00:47:33.75
That's right.
00:47:33.78\00:47:35.12
First and last months
rent plus security deposit.
00:47:35.15\00:47:39.15
So we went from one
apartment to the other
00:47:39.19\00:47:41.96
trying to find a place
that we can afford to move into
00:47:41.99\00:47:46.06
and every place we went,
they required a $25 deposit
00:47:46.09\00:47:50.57
just to put an application
in to see if you can fit.
00:47:50.60\00:47:55.37
And we got
turned down three times
00:47:55.40\00:47:57.27
so now let's do the math.
00:47:57.31\00:47:58.64
We had under 400 left
that was $75 gone already
00:47:58.67\00:48:02.58
and we're staying in
this tiny little No-Tel Motel.
00:48:02.61\00:48:06.72
When no how they in,
when no free breakfast
00:48:09.82\00:48:11.89
it was like you
walk from your car
00:48:11.92\00:48:13.76
right into the room.
00:48:13.79\00:48:15.42
You leave the room,
your car is right there.
00:48:15.46\00:48:18.09
One of those
truckers stops Motel.
00:48:18.13\00:48:19.96
When you walk in
00:48:20.00\00:48:21.33
you know everybody
had been in that room.
00:48:21.36\00:48:24.63
One of those No-Tel you
know, what I'm talking about.
00:48:24.67\00:48:26.97
No frills, you be
lucky if you get a towel.
00:48:27.00\00:48:30.87
The bed has a dent
where everybody else sat.
00:48:30.91\00:48:34.08
But that's all we could afford.
00:48:34.11\00:48:38.01
$75 less, we went
the next day, more.
00:48:38.05\00:48:42.32
No sorry, you haven't
had a job long enough,
00:48:42.35\00:48:45.45
you don't qualify with this,
00:48:45.49\00:48:46.82
we got back to
that hotel and my wife
00:48:46.86\00:48:48.59
to that No-Tel
Motel get out of here.
00:48:48.62\00:48:51.66
The Lord of the
flies won't irritate me.
00:48:51.69\00:48:54.26
And my wife said, honey,
00:48:54.30\00:48:55.63
we got enough
money if we turn around,
00:48:55.66\00:48:57.37
now we got just enough
money to make it back to Florida
00:48:57.40\00:49:00.74
if we just use it for fuel.
00:49:00.77\00:49:03.14
Three days journey,
00:49:03.17\00:49:05.61
I look to my
dear wife and I said,
00:49:05.64\00:49:07.61
"Honey, God has not
brought us this far,
00:49:07.64\00:49:10.41
first to turn around."
00:49:10.45\00:49:12.55
Not through the newspaper
on the bed and frustration
00:49:12.58\00:49:14.92
and it appeared as though
00:49:14.95\00:49:16.28
God made this once,
00:49:16.32\00:49:17.65
this small one inch by one inch
00:49:17.69\00:49:20.02
add in the
newspaper jump out at me.
00:49:20.06\00:49:24.33
And a $75 dep
abbreviate deposit,
00:49:24.36\00:49:28.36
four forty seven
00:49:28.40\00:49:29.86
they said call by 5
o'clock, let's call them.
00:49:29.90\00:49:32.93
Lady said come on up
and fill out an application,
00:49:32.97\00:49:37.47
we were looking all
around in the valley
00:49:37.51\00:49:39.37
but when we went to
this apartment building
00:49:39.41\00:49:41.54
it was the
newest apartment complex
00:49:41.58\00:49:44.05
in the North Bay of California
right in a city called Vallejo.
00:49:44.08\00:49:48.75
We mounted that hill
00:49:48.78\00:49:51.55
and when we enter
that apartment complex
00:49:51.59\00:49:53.46
I looked at my wife and I said,
honey, we need to turn around
00:49:53.49\00:49:55.46
as we couldn't afford
that junk in the valley,
00:49:55.49\00:49:57.23
ain't no way we
are moving in here.
00:49:57.26\00:49:58.83
There is no way that
they're gonna give us
00:49:58.86\00:50:00.56
a place in this
00:50:00.60\00:50:01.93
but we went ahead by faith
00:50:01.96\00:50:03.30
went ahead through the emotions.
00:50:03.33\00:50:04.83
Manicured grass green
00:50:04.87\00:50:07.00
and the same
color green everywhere,
00:50:07.04\00:50:08.74
anybody know what
I'm talking about.
00:50:08.77\00:50:10.54
And a God that looked like
his uniform just got pressed
00:50:10.57\00:50:14.61
and the yellow
lines were yellow,
00:50:14.64\00:50:16.31
you could see them at night.
00:50:16.34\00:50:18.21
And they had a club
room, in a club house
00:50:18.25\00:50:21.28
that waterfall that all of water
00:50:21.32\00:50:23.39
flowed in the same direction
and they were even sprouts,
00:50:23.42\00:50:29.06
and I thought how can we then
00:50:29.09\00:50:30.79
because we were in the valley.
00:50:30.83\00:50:33.73
Went to the
apartment office lady look like
00:50:33.76\00:50:36.33
she was just in
hurry to get of there,
00:50:36.36\00:50:37.87
kind of threw us the
application fill it out
00:50:37.90\00:50:39.77
gave her another $25 check.
00:50:39.80\00:50:44.17
And she said I'll
let you know tomorrow,
00:50:44.21\00:50:49.84
I'll let you know
tomorrow, she wants to go home.
00:50:49.88\00:50:52.41
Went down back into that valley,
00:50:52.45\00:50:54.02
back tot our No-Tel Motel.
00:50:54.05\00:50:57.29
And honey, we said well,
okay if we don't get an answer
00:50:57.32\00:51:00.06
by the time we got to checkout
00:51:00.09\00:51:01.42
we got to do
something seriously drastic.
00:51:01.46\00:51:04.13
Tomorrow is D-Day.
00:51:04.16\00:51:06.46
Got up in the morning anxiously
00:51:06.49\00:51:07.93
made this waiting
for her phone call
00:51:07.96\00:51:09.56
she didn't call us
00:51:09.60\00:51:10.93
so just about hour and half
before checkout we called her.
00:51:10.97\00:51:14.77
Ma'am, this... Who is this?
00:51:14.80\00:51:16.87
This is John
Lomacang, remember me?
00:51:16.91\00:51:19.71
Yes.
00:51:19.74\00:51:21.11
I'm waiting for response
so any news of application.
00:51:21.14\00:51:25.35
What application?
00:51:25.38\00:51:26.72
Oh, the
application for the apartment.
00:51:26.75\00:51:28.08
Yeah, the apartment.
00:51:28.12\00:51:29.45
She says, you were approved.
00:51:32.45\00:51:36.93
You miss the chance to say amen.
00:51:36.96\00:51:39.69
She said, you were approved.
00:51:39.73\00:51:41.36
Amen.
00:51:41.40\00:51:44.27
Something for her to
initiate she said, I said,
00:51:44.30\00:51:46.63
so when could we come up there,
she said well, come on up now.
00:51:46.67\00:51:49.30
Amen.
00:51:49.34\00:51:50.67
We hooked up that
little U-Haul trailer
00:51:50.71\00:51:52.04
and dragged our No-Tel Motel
00:51:52.07\00:51:53.94
broke bottoms up that
hills as fast as we could.
00:51:53.98\00:51:57.28
Talk about rejoicing,
00:51:57.31\00:51:58.65
but there was some other issues
that was still in front of us.
00:51:58.68\00:52:00.35
How much is it going
to cost again this place?
00:52:00.38\00:52:02.98
Do we have the deposit?
00:52:03.02\00:52:04.35
We knew we didn't
hardly have anything,
00:52:04.39\00:52:05.75
all we had was God
and when you got God
00:52:05.79\00:52:07.89
you got everything.
00:52:07.92\00:52:10.13
Moving to that went that office,
00:52:10.16\00:52:13.60
had a different walk.
00:52:13.63\00:52:16.93
So tell us about the apartment.
00:52:16.97\00:52:20.70
She said, we only have one left,
00:52:20.74\00:52:22.27
I said, we only need one.
00:52:22.30\00:52:24.67
So she took us she
said, now come with me.
00:52:24.71\00:52:27.78
She said, but now first
let's do the paper work.
00:52:27.81\00:52:31.41
I said, how much is it
going to cost to get in?
00:52:31.45\00:52:33.55
I brought in
crossing no fingers,
00:52:33.58\00:52:35.35
I don't believe in
like I believe in God.
00:52:35.38\00:52:37.15
Come on somebody.
00:52:37.19\00:52:38.52
Don't be saying,
cross your fingers.
00:52:38.55\00:52:41.12
You better get on your knees
and if you don't kneel down
00:52:41.16\00:52:43.53
you better be in a
constant attitude of prayer.
00:52:43.56\00:52:46.66
So we're in attitude of prayer.
00:52:46.70\00:52:49.43
She said, well, now we
do, what we're doing a special
00:52:49.46\00:52:51.50
$75 deposit
00:52:51.53\00:52:53.03
it's about the
middle of the month,
00:52:53.07\00:52:54.87
so we're going to pro rate
from the middle of the month
00:52:54.90\00:52:56.40
to the end of the month
00:52:56.44\00:52:57.77
and this month
you're having a special,
00:52:57.81\00:52:59.54
'cause we just have
about a few apartments
00:52:59.57\00:53:01.98
so it's going to cost you about
00:53:02.01\00:53:04.18
that only one
apartment left, one.
00:53:04.21\00:53:07.48
She says it's
going to cost you about,
00:53:07.52\00:53:08.85
she around the 200
plus dollar range under 300.
00:53:08.88\00:53:11.95
Amen somebody. Amen.
00:53:11.99\00:53:13.69
I said any I
almost didn't want to say.
00:53:13.72\00:53:16.32
I said, but what
about the Deposit?
00:53:16.36\00:53:19.23
She said, well,
the deposit is 75.
00:53:19.26\00:53:21.73
What about the first
and last months rent?
00:53:21.76\00:53:25.27
It's included in
that whole special.
00:53:25.30\00:53:27.54
Amen.
00:53:27.57\00:53:29.70
Can God do it? Yes.
00:53:29.74\00:53:31.87
So she took us across the lawn,
00:53:31.91\00:53:33.51
now we're walking with
the real serious drive.
00:53:33.54\00:53:36.11
Come on, honey, this is
where we're going to be living,
00:53:36.14\00:53:38.95
right over there.
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You know, God sometimes give you
00:53:40.35\00:53:41.68
an attitude of gratitude.
00:53:41.72\00:53:44.85
We walk into this apartment
and she walks she said,
00:53:44.89\00:53:47.39
now let me tell you
about this apartment.
00:53:47.42\00:53:49.22
Sometimes God's got
to fingerprint so big
00:53:49.26\00:53:51.46
you can't miss it.
00:53:51.49\00:53:53.33
She walks us up to the door
00:53:53.36\00:53:54.80
and as we're
standing in front of the door
00:53:54.83\00:53:57.43
it was like a
blood stop or heart stop
00:53:57.47\00:53:59.93
then our hair raised.
00:53:59.97\00:54:01.57
'Cause the
number on the apartment
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was number seven.
00:54:03.20\00:54:06.71
God when he does
he does it completely.
00:54:06.74\00:54:09.24
We walk through that beautiful.
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She said, let me tell
you about this apartment.
00:54:10.65\00:54:11.98
She said, this was
one of the first one's
00:54:12.01\00:54:13.92
built with this complex
00:54:13.95\00:54:15.45
because this is
the model apartment.
00:54:15.48\00:54:18.49
I said, what does that mean?
00:54:18.52\00:54:19.85
She said, this one
has all the amenities.
00:54:19.89\00:54:22.12
I never heard the
word of amenities.
00:54:22.16\00:54:24.53
What is that? Is that a disease?
00:54:24.56\00:54:26.80
What is amenity?
00:54:26.83\00:54:28.50
She said well,
it's got the tile,
00:54:28.53\00:54:31.30
the upgraded tile,
00:54:31.33\00:54:32.67
it's got the stone counter tops,
00:54:32.70\00:54:34.47
it comes with
curtains and special drapes.
00:54:34.50\00:54:37.41
It does.
00:54:37.44\00:54:38.77
And it's got real tile on
the floor in the bathroom,
00:54:38.81\00:54:41.91
not linoleum, it does.
00:54:41.94\00:54:44.15
Talking about
hobnobbing and praising Jesus.
00:54:44.18\00:54:48.18
We were thanking
God for everything.
00:54:48.22\00:54:50.89
And I said now
what about the lights?
00:54:50.92\00:54:53.15
How much it's going
to cost to get that?
00:54:53.19\00:54:54.52
She said, it's
already on, just call in
00:54:54.56\00:54:56.32
and have a change in
your name, can God do it?
00:54:56.36\00:54:59.46
What about the phone?
00:54:59.49\00:55:01.66
She said, well here
is your phone number,
00:55:01.70\00:55:03.16
just call them and tell
them put it in your name.
00:55:03.20\00:55:05.17
Can God do it?
00:55:05.20\00:55:06.84
I said what about the heat?
00:55:06.87\00:55:08.20
She said, oh, just call
and she gave me the company,
00:55:08.24\00:55:10.67
of the heating
company just call them,
00:55:10.71\00:55:12.51
it's already on, just
have them put it in your name.
00:55:12.54\00:55:14.98
The Lord was saying,
if you call on my name,
00:55:15.01\00:55:17.21
I will honor your name.
00:55:17.25\00:55:18.91
So I'm not talking
about making ends meet,
00:55:18.95\00:55:20.98
I'm talking about
putting God to the test.
00:55:21.02\00:55:22.98
My God, come on say it, my
God shall supply all my need
00:55:23.02\00:55:28.49
according to his riches
in glory, God bless you.
00:55:28.52\00:55:31.83
Amen somebody. Amen.
00:55:31.86\00:55:34.50
So tonight why
don't you stand with me,
00:55:34.53\00:55:36.06
we're going to praise the Lord,
00:55:36.10\00:55:37.67
we're going to thank him
that He is not just a God,
00:55:37.70\00:55:42.00
who provides but the Bible says,
00:55:42.04\00:55:44.87
"He is able to do exceedingly,
00:55:44.91\00:55:48.91
abundantly above all that
00:55:48.94\00:55:52.18
you're going to ask or think
00:55:52.21\00:55:54.58
according to the power
that is at work in us."
00:55:54.62\00:55:58.59
To God be the
glory, what do you say?
00:55:58.62\00:55:59.99
Amen.
00:56:00.02\00:56:01.36
>> Our Father in heaven,
as the musician plays softly,
00:56:01.39\00:56:03.76
our Father in heaven.
00:56:03.79\00:56:06.06
Tonight Lord Jesus,
we've got some folk here
00:56:06.09\00:56:09.53
that don't know what
it means to trust Jesus.
00:56:09.56\00:56:12.70
They've been
trying to Make Ends Meet
00:56:12.73\00:56:14.27
and they have
been coming up short.
00:56:14.30\00:56:15.67
They don't have enough month,
enough money to make the month.
00:56:15.70\00:56:21.51
They don't have enough faith
00:56:21.54\00:56:24.41
to find their
way through the dark
00:56:24.45\00:56:27.25
exchanges of life.
00:56:27.28\00:56:29.38
They don't know
what it's like to say,
00:56:29.42\00:56:30.75
Father I'm going
to give you my all
00:56:30.79\00:56:32.12
and I will trust you
00:56:32.15\00:56:33.49
even though I can't see
what tomorrow is all about.
00:56:33.52\00:56:37.09
Lord Jesus, I
didn't come tonight
00:56:37.13\00:56:38.46
to talk about the Bible only,
00:56:38.49\00:56:40.76
I came to tell
people what you mean to us,
00:56:40.80\00:56:44.00
what you've done in our lives.
00:56:44.03\00:56:46.23
Oh, Father, cause
us to be faithful,
00:56:46.27\00:56:50.41
cause us to always know
that you're there for us.
00:56:50.44\00:56:54.08
How we proved you over and over.
00:56:54.11\00:56:56.75
Lord if there's
somebody here tonight
00:56:56.78\00:56:58.15
that needs that act of faith,
00:56:58.18\00:57:00.22
may they leave here not confused
00:57:00.25\00:57:03.18
but may they leave here and say,
00:57:03.22\00:57:04.55
"I'm going to trust Jesus,
00:57:04.59\00:57:06.52
I'm going to trust him
with my heart, with my family,
00:57:06.55\00:57:10.23
with my finances, with my faith
00:57:10.26\00:57:13.40
and one day my
faith will be made side.
00:57:13.43\00:57:16.16
Father, thank you
for your blessings,
00:57:16.20\00:57:18.07
both great and
small, thank you for help,
00:57:18.10\00:57:20.77
thank you for sustaining
me through this series
00:57:20.80\00:57:23.17
that has been taxing physically,
00:57:23.20\00:57:25.24
but yet I'm
standing here tonight
00:57:25.27\00:57:26.61
in your grace and your power.
00:57:26.64\00:57:28.24
I give you glory for that.
00:57:28.28\00:57:29.84
Amen.
00:57:29.88\00:57:31.21
And Father, one day
our faith will be made side
00:57:31.25\00:57:32.88
as we see you and
then we'll be able to begin
00:57:32.91\00:57:35.78
that eon endless journey
00:57:35.82\00:57:38.19
of thanking you for
everything that we knew about
00:57:38.22\00:57:41.36
and didn't know about.
00:57:41.39\00:57:42.89
So Lord take us from this
place but Lord help us know that
00:57:42.92\00:57:45.59
we're never out of your presence
00:57:45.63\00:57:47.60
and we give you all
the glory, all the honor
00:57:47.63\00:57:50.80
and all the praise in Jesus name
00:57:50.83\00:57:53.37
and all of God's people said...
00:57:53.40\00:57:54.87
Amen.
00:57:54.90\00:57:56.24
Amen and amen. Amen.
00:57:56.27\00:57:57.97