the friends of the
Amazing Facts Ministry.
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(ethereal music)
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- While there's no lack of greed
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across the
annals of human history,
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according to ancient records,
Marcus Licinius Crassus,
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a Roman governor in
the first century B.C.
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may have been the
greediest man who ever lived.
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For example, after establishing
a fire brigade in Rome,
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he would accompany the
firefighters to the scene of a
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blaze and then offer to
buy the burning property
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from the panicked owner
at an insultingly low price.
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If refused, his fireman
would do nothing to help,
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but if the sale was agreed upon,
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the fire was quickly
extinguished and Crassus would
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rebuild and rent
out the property.
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Through this and
other grasping schemes,
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Crassus built his fortune
equivalent to billions today.
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Yet his greed appears to have
contributed to his downfall,
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one legend has it that
his enemies executed him
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by pouring molten
gold down his throat
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in judgment for
his notorious greed.
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Although a common
human tendency today,
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greed isn't part of
God's ideal for His people.
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Thankfully, He has a plan
to cultivate in us generosity,
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the opposite of greed,
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while at the same time
filling our lives to overflowing
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with His true blessings.
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So join me now as
we take a closer look
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at this life-changing topic.
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(ethereal music)
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Tonight's presentation,
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dealing with the
Windows in Heaven
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is gonna be a
little bit different.
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Now I might surprise you,
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but tonight we're gonna talk
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about something
called stewardship.
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And you might think,
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"Pastor Doug,
what does stewardship
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have to do with prophecy."
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Let me show you something here.
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What chapter in Matthew does
Jesus give signs of His coming?
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Matthew 24.
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That's one of the best chapters.
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And what's in
Matthew Chapter 25?
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A continuation of Matthew 24.
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If you've got your Bibles,
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like I've got a
Red Letter Bible here.
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It's all one sermon.
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Matthew 24 drifts right into
Matthew 25, no interruption,
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no black letters.
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Jesus is continuing
after He talks about His coming
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and who will be
ready for His coming,
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He tells a
parable of the 10 virgins
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and the bride groom is
coming, some were asleep.
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And those who were sleeping
they did not have the oil
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in their vessels, they couldn't
go into the wedding feast.
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Then He tells a
parable of the 10 talents
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and He says that
all of His followers,
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His servants
were given resources
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and they were to
properly use their resources
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and that they would be judged
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when He comes on how
they utilize those resources.
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Luke 16 verse 10,
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"Who is faithful
in what is least,
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is faithful also in much.
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And he who is unjust
in that which is least
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is unjust also in much.
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Therefore, if
you've not been faithful
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in unrighteous mammon,"
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meaning that just
the money of this world,
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"who will commit to
you the true riches?"
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One of the most basic things
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that Christians
should be faithful in
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is the resources and
the influence for good
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that we have in our lives.
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Another one, Luke 14:27,
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"Whoever does not bear
his cross and come after me
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cannot be my disciple.
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For which of you
intending to build a tower
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does not sit down
first and count the cost,
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whether he has
enough to finish it.
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Lest after he's
laid the foundation
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and is not able to finish it,
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all who see it
begin to mock him,
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saying this man began to build
and was not able to finish.
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So likewise, whoever of you
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does not forsake all that
he has cannot be my disciple."
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Jesus is very clear that
following Him is a 100% deal.
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You find me a verse that says,
"Give me 50% of your heart."
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Whoever doesn't
forsake all that he has
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and take up his cross and
follow me cannot be my disciple.
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And when you're all in with
the Lord, then He blesses you.
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Seek ye first the kingdom
of God and His righteousness.
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So with this little background,
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I'm gonna study
the subject with you
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of Christian stewardship
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and you will
appreciate as we go on, I think,
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that it does relate to
the themes of being in heaven
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and being faithful in
witnessing in these last days.
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So question
number one in our lesson,
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what portion of our
income belongs to God?
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Answer, all of the
tithe is the Lord's.
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First of all,
what percentage? 100%.
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But He asked us to remember
it by dedicating a 10th to Him
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and to His course
and to His service.
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All of the tithe is the
Lords, it is holy to the Lord.
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You don't wanna
touch that which is holy.
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The Bible should be
treated in a special way
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'cause it's the Holy Bible.
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And marriage is
called holy matrimony.
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That means there's
a sacred relationship.
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You don't interfere
with that relationship.
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And so when God says that a
tenth of all of your increase
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is holy to God,
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that means you're saying
you treat it sacred and separate
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and it is used to
spread the message of Jesus
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around the world.
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What does God do with our tithe?
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Is the Lord short on funds?
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Does God need our money? No.
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The Bible tells us the
cattle on 1,000 hills are His,
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He doesn't need it.
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But why does He ask for it?
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You can tell that
when the children of Israel
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came out of Egypt, the Lord
says there in Numbers 18:21,
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He says, "I've given
the children of Levi,
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all of the tithes in
Israel as an inheritance
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in return for their work."
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Now the children of
Levi were the priests
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that went and they
diffused among all 12 tribes.
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They were to teach
them and their families,
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they were to teach the law,
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they were to
administer the sacred rights.
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The Levites were also
the doctors in the country.
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You notice there were
a lot of sanitation laws
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and a lot of health
laws that were given.
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And the Levites were the
ones who were supposed to,
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and the priest
were supposed to help
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administer these things.
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They needed judges.
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The Levites
often served that way.
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In America, some
of the early pastors
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were called the Parson.
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You know where the
word parson comes from?
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Small towns across
early America, The Parson,
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that was the parson
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and it was usually a
pastor in the community
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and he would settle disputes.
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They didn't have a sheriff
and a Marshall in every town.
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He would officiate for weddings,
for funerals, for baptisms.
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He was called the Parson.
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If there was a dispute,
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they take it to him
and sometimes the elders,
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well the
Levites used to do that.
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But notice it says
for all of their work,
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it wasn't one of
these things where they
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got up and preached
the sermon once a week.
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It was a full-time job.
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And so God had designated that
the tithe was to support them
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to make sure the ministry of
the nation was taken care of.
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Goes on to say the tithes
of the children of Israel,
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I've given to the
Levites as an inheritance.
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Now they were an
agricultural community.
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And so when it
talks about tithe,
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that wasn't
usually paid in money,
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it was paid in
might be grain or oil
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or the fruits of
the field so to speak.
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Do you not know...
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And this is Paul
speaking in the New Testament,
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1 Corinthians
nine, verse 13 and 14.
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Do you not know that they
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which minister
about the holy things
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live of the
things of the temple,
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and they that wait at
the altar are partakers
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with the altar.
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Sometimes people would
bring a sacrifice to the altar
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and a portion of it was burnt,
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but a portion would go to
the Levites in their family
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to help feed their family.
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Someone might
bring a grain offering
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and some of that
would go to the Levites
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to help feed their
families as they did
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the ministry of the Lord
throughout the land of Israel.
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This plan has never
really been altered except that
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it's no longer the Levites,
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it's just anybody who is
called into a sacred ministry.
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That's the plan.
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1 Corinthians 9:13 and 14.
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"Even so the Lord has commanded
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that those who preach the gospel
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should live from the gospel."
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And when people
hear a message like this,
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sometimes you talk about
theology folks, they're fine.
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You talk about people's
money and they get real quiet.
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It's like this man gave
his daughter two silver dollars
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and he said, now one
of these is for the Lord.
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You make sure
and give it to church
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and one you can do
whatever you want with it.
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So she was real
excited about that
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and she was skipping over
to the store to get some candy.
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She dropped both
of the silver dollars
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and one of them
rolled off into the gutter,
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down the drain and she said,
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Lord, there goes your dollar.
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Even so those who
preached the gospel
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should live from the gospel.
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Is the tithing system
part of Moses' old law
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that ended at the cross?
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Some people say, "Oh that's
part of the old covenant law."
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What does the Bible say?
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Genesis 28, verse 20 and 22.
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"Then Jacob made a vow saying,
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of all that you give me,
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I will surely
give a tenth to You."
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Where do you find the 10
commandments in the Bible?
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Exodus chapter 20
is the first place,
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19, he gathers them to
declare the 10 commandments.
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And where do you find Jacob?
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Genesis.
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And so this goes all the
way back to the beginning.
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This was part of
God's original plan.
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He said, I will
surely give a tenth to you.
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Did he keep his vow?
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He did, when he came back.
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It tells about how he
took a large percentage
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of everything that
he had when he came back
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and he gave it
to his brother Esau,
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who was then the really
the priests of the country,
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'cause his father
was old and blind.
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It was often the patriarchs
that served as the priest
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Abraham offered
sacrifice for his family.
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As did Isaac as did Esau,
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as did Jacob.
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They were really
the priest back then
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until you get to the
time of Moses and the Levites.
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But didn't Jesus
condemn the tithing plan?
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Some people say, well tithing,
that's an Old Testament law.
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Jesus said in Matthew 23:23,
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that's easy to remember,
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"Woe to you, scribes
and pharisees, hypocrites!
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For you pay tithes of
mint and anis and cummin."
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Those are little
herbs in their garden.
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And so the
Pharisees and the scribes
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often had herbs in their garden
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and they'd say,
okay, we got one,
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two, three sprigs of parley
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and they are 10 of them.
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And then they'd say
one is for the Lord,
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they'd count out
they got 10 tomatoes
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and one's for the Lord.
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And they were really
precise and fastidious
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about giving their little tithes
out of everything they had.
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And Jesus said, you omit the
weightier matters of the law,
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judgment, mercy and faith,
these you ought to have done
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and not leave the other undone.
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Well wait a second.
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He was condemning their legalism
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but he didn't condemn tithing.
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He said, make sure and
keep the priority of justice,
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judgment, mercy and
faith these you ought to do.
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And notice what Jesus said,
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not leave the other,
paying of tithe, undone.
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If that's clear say amen.
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- [Congregation] Amen.
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- He said don't
forget that part.
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There's no other plan
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that's introduced
in the New Testament.
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In fact, if you
really are interested
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in what the Bible says,
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the New Testament plan
is actually more demanding
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and rigorous.
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It tells us, if you
read in Acts chapter four,
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Barnabas had a
piece of property,
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he sold it and he
gave it to the church.
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Acts chapter five, no man said
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that all that
he had was his own,
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but they sold
their houses and lands
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and they gave them for
the spreading of the gospel.
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The folks in the
early days of the church
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when the Holy
Spirit was poured out
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were incredibly generous
because they had just seen
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Jesus die on the
cross for their sins.
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They knew He wanted to
take this message of salvation
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to the world.
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They realized that
people hearing and believing
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the message is the difference
between life and death.
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Sometimes it's frustrating
for me involved in ministry
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because I literally
see firsthand all the time
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people going from death to
life because of the gospel.
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I see marriages restored,
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I see people who are dried up
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and saved from drugs and alcohol
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and their lives are transformed
by the power of the gospel.
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But we're limited
sometimes in what we can do
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because you're
limited in resources.
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In our particular
ministries, we do radio
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and television
broadcast and publishing.
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You can only do so
much. You have to budget that.
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And I thought if the
people of God got serious
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about giving
for the work of God,
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if they valued eternal
life the way we really should,
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there'd be a lot more generosity
and there'd be no shortage.
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- [Member] Amen.
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- We are without a doubt the
most materialistic generation
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in the history of humanity.
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And I'm not saying
that to be critical,
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I'm saying that
'cause it's not your fault.
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We're all kind
of victims in this.
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Everywhere you turn,
what are the messages you get?
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Buy, buy, buy.
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You can't be happy
unless you own one or two
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or three of these.
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And someone's got the new model.
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Even though
your old model works,
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you're gonna get rid of it
and get the upgrade, right?
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And has there ever
been a time in history
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when there were
more things to buy
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and now you don't
even have to go shopping,
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you just click at home
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and they'll deliver it
to your door the next day.
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It's amazing.
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But you know what happens
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is the devil almost
drowns us in distractions.
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Jesus said beware,
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here's where it
comes into prophecy,
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beware unless you heart be
overcharged with suffering,
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drunkenness and
the cares of this life.
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Don't go anywhere
friends, in just a moment
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we'll return for the
rest of today's presentation.
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Do you trust in God? Really?
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The truth is a lot
of people might say yes,
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but they don't act like it,
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especially when you consider
how they manage their finances.
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In fact, the Bible says
some people are robbing God
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while they curse themselves,
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Well let's get back
to today's presentation
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and learn some more amazing
facts from the word of God.
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Some people can't work for God
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'cause they have to stay home
and take care of their stuff.
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We have to spend more money
on alarms to protect our stuff.
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And then we go to garage sales
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and we buy other people's
stuff that they don't want
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and we put it in our garage.
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And it is funny but it's
also sad 'cause it's true.
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And then the Lord says,
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are you willing to
support my message in the world?
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We say, we love you Lord,
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but now that's pretty serious,
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I gotta pay off my credit cards.
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And you wonder where the
priority of God is in His work.
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What amazing promise
does God make about tithing?
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He says, bring all the
tithes into the storehouse
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that there might
be food in my house
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and try me prove me now,
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says the Lord in this.
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If I will not open for
you the windows of heaven
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and pour you out such a blessing
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that you will not have
room enough to receive it,
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God will bless you so
you don't even have room.
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Now when He talks about
opening the windows of heaven,
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again they were an
agricultural society.
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If they had a drought
and the crops did not grow,
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then they really struggle.
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God says, if we are faithful
in returning a tithe to Him
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and offerings to Him, He said,
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I will open the
windows of heaven.
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Furthermore, He says,
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and I will rebuke the
devourer for your sake.
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This is in the same passage
in Malachi chapter three.
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I'll rebuke the
devourer for your sake.
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They'll not eat up
the produce of your land.
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God tells His people
to bring all of the tithe
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into the storehouse.
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What does He mean by that?
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What's the storehouse?
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Well you wanna
bring the tithe together
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so it can be distributed.
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He doesn't want every person
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sort of deciding for themself.
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In our church, right?
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Some of you know I'm
a Seventh Day Adventist
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and other church
like Methodist Churches
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and many others we're
arranged with conferences
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where people
give their offerings
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and tithe at the
local congregation,
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the tithe is then
sent on to a conference
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where it's used to
spread around the world
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to support
ministers and missionaries
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and teachers that spread
the gospel around the world.
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And this system in our
church has been very successful
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'cause we're now in like
170 countries of the world
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doing school work,
health work, missionary work.
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It would never happen if it
wasn't for the tithing system.
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And I think a lot of people
understand that when we tithe,
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who really receives our money.
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Bible says in Hebrews
chapter seven, verse eight,
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"Here mortal men
receive the tithes,
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but there He,
Jesus, receives them."
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And so really when you
give, you're giving to the Lord.
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Now someone is
thinking, well pastor
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I think I would
support the church
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but I got
hypocrites in the church.
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Or there's some
people in our church that
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I heard that they were in jail
00:17:27.54\00:17:29.04
or they made some decisions
on that decorating committee
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I can never support.
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Does the Bible say you should
only support the work of God
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if they do everything right?
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How many of you say I
would've supported Jesus
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if I lived 2000 years ago,
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I would wanna be
part of Jesus church
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and I would freely
support Jesus, anyone?
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Would you support
Jesus if you live back then?
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I mean you would,
hope you would, right?
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Would it be the
right thing to do,
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to support the
ministry of Jesus?
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Do you realize He
had a Judas in His group
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and the apostles were
arguing among themselves
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and a woman came to the
temple one day, a poor widow,
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and she put in
her last two mites
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about the smallest coin
you can possibly imagine.
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I've got one in my drawer at
home and Jesus commended her.
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And you would think
that He would've said,
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don't give any
money to the temple lady.
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These folks are getting
ready to kill me, right?
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But in spite of the
fact that the scribes
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and the Pharisees and
the priests were after Jesus,
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not all of 'em,
but most of them,
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when she gave
money to God's course,
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He said, God is gonna bless her.
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When Hannah gave
her son to the temple,
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she dedicated her son to
serve in the house of God.
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It was at a time
where the sons of Eli
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were doing things we
don't even wanna talk about.
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And God said,
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I'm gonna bless you
because of your faithfulness.
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He's gonna grow up and he's
gonna bring revival to the land
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and I'm gonna give
you five more children.
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Whatever you do, do it heartily
to the Lord and not to men.
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Remember, we're giving to God.
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In addition to my
tithe, which belongs to God,
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what else does He
ask of His people?
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He says, bring offerings
and come into His courts.
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This is Psalms 96, verse eight.
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So you've got tithes,
which is a specific amount,
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and then you have offerings
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and God will
impress different courses
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and categories on
your heart regarding that.
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What's happening
when that happens?
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Malachi 3:8, He says,
00:19:19.09\00:19:20.96
"Will a man rob God?
Yet you've robbed me!
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But you say, in what
way have we robbed you?"
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He says, "In
tithes and offerings."
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Now do you see that God
mentions two categories there,
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Tithe is a specific amount.
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Offering is not
a specific amount,
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which is a segue
into our next question.
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How much should we
give as offerings? Answer?
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Paul says in 2
Corinthians nine verse seven.
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"So let each one give as
he purposes in his heart,
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not grudgingly or of necessity;
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for God loves a cheerful giver."
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Someone said, God
loves a cheerful giver,
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but He'll accept it from a grum.
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God wants us to be cheerful
about supporting His work.
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And how do you determine
what the offerings are?
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It says, as you
purpose in your heart,
00:20:07.84\00:20:10.04
God will put
different things on your heart
00:20:10.07\00:20:12.14
and He'll impress you
with different courses.
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Holy Spirit will speak to you.
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Tithe is what percent? 10%.
00:20:17.11\00:20:20.18
Someone says, Pastor Doug,
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how can I get by with 10%?
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I mean, I'm
barely making it now.
00:20:24.95\00:20:26.72
The Bible says,
prove me now here with
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if I will not open for
you the windows of heaven.
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Are you aware that
90% that is blessed
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will go farther
than 100% that is cursed?
00:20:34.60\00:20:37.03
- [Congregation] Amen.
00:20:37.07\00:20:38.50
- It's a fact of
life. Don't ask me.
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But I've seen
several times in the Bible,
00:20:40.84\00:20:42.50
when you get to the
bottom of the barrel of flour,
00:20:42.54\00:20:45.37
seems like you keep
pulling out one more handful,
00:20:45.41\00:20:47.48
one more handful.
00:20:47.51\00:20:48.74
That's what happened
in the days of Elijah.
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You know what that's called?
00:20:50.28\00:20:51.95
F-A-I-T-H.
00:20:51.98\00:20:54.28
Faith, the just
will live by faith.
00:20:54.32\00:20:57.05
What commandment are we breaking
00:20:57.09\00:20:59.25
when we refuse to return
tithes and offerings to God?
00:20:59.29\00:21:03.29
Is there a commandment?
00:21:04.26\00:21:05.53
Malachi 3:8,
"Will a man rob God?"
00:21:05.56\00:21:08.66
That's kind of a
horrendous thought,
00:21:08.70\00:21:11.10
"Yet you have robbed me!
00:21:11.13\00:21:13.03
But you say, in what
way have we robbed you?
00:21:13.07\00:21:15.54
In tithes and offerings."
00:21:15.57\00:21:17.91
And what does
the commandment say?
00:21:17.94\00:21:19.41
Exodus 20 verse 15,
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"You shall not steal."
00:21:21.78\00:21:23.61
What other Bible
principles does God share
00:21:24.91\00:21:27.05
in regard to giving?
00:21:27.08\00:21:28.52
There's several things
we're gonna look at here.
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This is just a
spectrum of Bible principles.
00:21:29.75\00:21:32.65
One, it says they first
gave themselves to the Lord
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and then to us
by the will of God.
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So before you give
anything, what is God wanting?
00:21:39.53\00:21:41.96
If you give 'em
your hearts, right?
00:21:43.10\00:21:44.97
Proverbs three verse nine,
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Honor the Lord
with your possessions
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and with the first
fruits of your increase.
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Now do we wait and see
at the end of the month say,
00:21:54.44\00:21:57.11
look, if I've got
anything left, I'll pay tithe.
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No, no, no.
00:21:59.78\00:22:00.68
Where's God on your scale?
00:22:00.72\00:22:02.42
In the bachelor home,
when we get the cheque out,
00:22:02.45\00:22:04.62
we don't even get the
cheque now, it's direct deposit.
00:22:04.65\00:22:06.65
And Karen is one who
takes care of all the books,
00:22:06.69\00:22:08.89
she's good with numbers.
00:22:08.92\00:22:10.46
And right off the
top, first thing is,
00:22:10.49\00:22:13.63
what are our obligations?
00:22:13.66\00:22:14.83
What are our
commitments to God's work,
00:22:14.86\00:22:16.30
to the church,
to other charities?
00:22:16.33\00:22:18.17
We do our giving
00:22:18.20\00:22:19.50
and then we find
that God is gonna continue
00:22:19.53\00:22:21.57
to bless what we have left.
00:22:21.60\00:22:23.87
Honor Him with the first fruits.
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Answer C,
00:22:25.41\00:22:26.88
there's one who scatters
and yet it increases more.
00:22:26.91\00:22:29.81
And then there's one who
withholds more than is right
00:22:29.84\00:22:32.41
and it leads to poverty.
00:22:32.45\00:22:34.05
This is talking
about sowing seeds.
00:22:34.08\00:22:36.22
If you want a big harvest,
it's a very simple principle.
00:22:37.62\00:22:39.92
You can't just put
one seed in the ground
00:22:39.95\00:22:41.46
and expect a big harvest.
00:22:41.49\00:22:43.49
But the thing is
you can't eat that seed,
00:22:43.53\00:22:45.69
if you cast it away.
00:22:45.73\00:22:47.03
If you retain it,
nothing else will grow.
00:22:48.13\00:22:50.60
So the principle is
you wanna cast your bread
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upon the water, so to speak,
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and it will return to you.
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Scatter the seed and it grows.
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God has designed people
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where He wants us to
be channels of blessing.
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So it flows through you.
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And as you've got one hand
open in receiving from God,
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we should have the
other hand open in giving.
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And if we're faithful
in giving with this hand,
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God can put more in this hand.
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And I've just seen it,
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that the more faithful we are
in being a channel of blessing
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to others in the world,
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the more God wants
to put in our hands
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that His goodness and His
blessings might flow through us.
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We're not just talking
about things and resources,
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we're talking about
the truth and the spirit.
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The more you share your faith,
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the more faith
God will give you.
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The more you
share the word of God,
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the more you'll understand
as you study, it's a principle.
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"The generous
soul will be made rich,
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and he who waters
will himself be watered."
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Now, who's saying this?
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Pastor Doug? Or
is this the Bible?
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If it's the generous
soul, He's gonna be watered.
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God will take care of you.
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Do you believe that?
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- [Member] Amen.
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- Answer D Jesus said,
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"It is more blessed
to give than receive."
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And you know
what happens first is
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as you give your
heart to the Lord,
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God is gonna bless you
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and He'll open the
windows of heaven for you.
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That's His promise.
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Answer E,
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"He who lays up
treasure for himself
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is not rich towards God."
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I've been to the
great pyramid in Egypt
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and I went and looked
at King Touch's treasures
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and it was amazing to me
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how they buried
all of this treasure,
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somehow thinking they were
gonna use it in the next life.
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But you realize you
can't take it with you.
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We will all give an
account to God someday
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for what we do
with the time we have
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and what we do
with the means we have.
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I saw this RV
going down the road
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and a great big,
really nice expensive RV
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and it was pulling a Jeep.
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They had the bicycles
and the scooter on it,
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the canoes on the roof.
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And there was a bumper
sticker on the back of the Jeep
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and it said he that
dies with the most toys wins.
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That's the attitude
of many in the world.
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But in reality, life is
kinda like a game of uno.
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You win if
you've got nothing left.
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I mean, do you think Noah
was glad when the flood came,
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that he had invested
in building that boat.
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When the waters rose up
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and he saw that he had
spent everything in years
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building that boat.
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But he looked and he saw
his family was in the boat.
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Did he have any regrets?
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No.
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He who lays up
treasure for himself
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and is not rich
towards God, he loses out.
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"Give, and it
will be given to you,
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good measure, pressed
down, shaken together,
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running over will be
put into your bosom."
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I used to sell firewood.
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You sell firewood by the cord,
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128 cubic feet to
the the cord of firewood,
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four feet high,
eight feet, four feet wide.
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And whenever I had
ads for my firewood,
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I put this verse
in there, I said,
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we're not gonna
give you a short chord,
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we're gonna give
you a full chord.
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And we would
round it at the top.
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And you know what
happened? Everybody called us.
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We could not keep up with
all the orders, my partner and I
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because God blessed.
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And if you're
faithful with people,
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if you don't try
and short people,
00:26:14.84\00:26:16.20
if you're generous with
people, God is gonna bless you.
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"Let each one of
you lay something aside,
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storing up as you may prosper."
00:26:22.74\00:26:24.71
You know the
Methodist principle,
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John Wesley used
to say for Christians
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is you want to
earn all that you can,
00:26:28.62\00:26:31.65
you want to save all you can
00:26:31.69\00:26:33.56
and you want to
give all you can.
00:26:33.59\00:26:35.06
Now you'll have to
decide exactly how that works,
00:26:35.09\00:26:37.39
but you wanna be faithful in
your tithes and your offerings.
00:26:37.43\00:26:40.06
We all need to save,
there's nothing wrong with that,
00:26:40.10\00:26:42.50
but you want to be able to give.
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