Now sing together,
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"Over the
mountains and the seas."
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Over the mountains and the sea
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Your river runs with love for me
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And I will open up my heart
And let the Healer set me free
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I'm happy to be in the truth.
I'm happy to be in the truth
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And I will daily lift
my hands I'll always sing.
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For I will always sing
Of when your love came down.
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Of when Your love came down
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And sing that
chorus out together.
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I could sing of
Your love forever
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Just raise our voices.
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I could sing of
Your love forever
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I could sing of
Your love forever
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I could sing of
Your love forever
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We're gonna sing that once more.
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Just have every voice
singing, all together,
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"Over the
mountains and the sea."
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Over the mountains and the sea
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Your River runs with love for me
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And I will open up my heart
And let the healer set me free
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I'm happy to be in the truth.
I'm happy to be in the truth
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And I will daily lift my
hands For I will always sing
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Of when Your love
came down I could sing.
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I could sing of
Your love forever
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I could sing of
Your love forever
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I could sing of
Your love forever
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I could sing of Your love--
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Amazing grace, can
we have the ladies sing?
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Amazing grace!
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How sweet the sound
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That saved a wretch
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like me!
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I once was lost,
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but now am found
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Was blind, but now
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I see
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One last time we sing
in chorus "I could sing."
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I could sing of
Your love forever
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I could sing of
Your love forever
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I could sing of
Your love forever
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I could sing of
Your love forever
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Thank you, Wind
Symphony and the worship team.
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I can't believe
that in two Sabbath
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the year will be over.
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But you blessed us
while you are here.
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Thank you very much. Hope
you coming back next year.
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We'll be waiting for you.
God give you a blessed summer.
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Let's pray together.
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Holy Father, we could
sing of Your love forever.
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Why not?
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When You know, You
have been loved that much.
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Can't help, but sing.
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But today's teaching
reinforced that truth
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beyond the shadow of a doubt.
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We pray in Jesus name, amen.
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Do you know who this
man is? Recognize him?
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You don't?
That's Warren Buffett.
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Have you ever
heard of Warren Buffett?
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Have you?
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Forbes magazine last month
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came out with a
report on Warren Buffett,
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I've got it from Forbes.com.
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Let me just read
to you about that man.
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Age, 77. Fortune, self-made.
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Source, Berkshire Hathaway.
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Country of
citizenship, United States.
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Residence, Omaha, Nebraska,
United States, North America.
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Industry, Investments.
Marital status, widowed.
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Re-married, three children.
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Education,
University of Nebraska,
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Lincoln, Bachelor
of Arts and Science,
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Columbia
University, Master of Science.
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Your education
stands you in good stead.
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Now, America's
most beloved investor
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is now the World's richest man.
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Soared past friend and
bridge partner Bill Gates
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as shares of Berkshire
Hathaway climb 25 percent
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since the middle of last July.
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Son of Nebraska politician,
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he delivered
newspapers as a boy.
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Filed his first tax
return at the age of 13,
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claiming $35
deduction for bicycle.
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You go.
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Now you know, why
he is, of what he is.
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All right, here we go,
let me read one more line.
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Took over
textile firm, Berkshire,
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Berkshire Hathaway, 1965,
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today, holding company
invested in insurance, GEICO.
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Never heard of that
little Australian accented--
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what is it?
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Gecko, that's it.
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Yeah well, of
course, GEICO, gecko.
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Not gonna
figure that out, GEICO.
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General RE.
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Jewellery, Borsheim's,
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Utilities,
MidAmerican Energy and food,
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Dairy Queen and See's candies.
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Every time you
eat an ice-cream cone
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that's dipped from Diary Queen
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you're helping
out Warren Buffett.
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Estimated net worth today--
today, put his picture back up.
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Estimated net
worth today, $62 billion.
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Wow! I want to
give you some advice.
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If Warren Buffett
should call you this next week,
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now I'm serious.
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If he should call
you this next week,
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and he says over
the phone from Omaha,
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Nebraska, I've heard about you
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and I want to
become friends with you.
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I'd love to go in a
partnership with you.
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I'm willing to
put my $62 Billion
00:14:06.09\00:14:08.97
on the line for your success.
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Would you be
willing-- he asks on the phone,
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would be willing
for me to do just that?
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I want to give you a
little bit of pastoral counsel.
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I'm not the
brightest crayon in the box
00:14:19.49\00:14:21.63
but let me tell you
that if he ever asks you,
00:14:21.66\00:14:25.88
just say, yes, please.
00:14:25.91\00:14:32.64
If Warren Buffett
wants to be your friend
00:14:32.67\00:14:35.37
just say, yes!
00:14:35.40\00:14:38.40
Do you know what,
00:14:40.16\00:14:41.57
I've got an even
better deal for you right now?
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Open your Bible with me
please to, Genesis Chapter 28,
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the book of
beginnings, Genesis 28.
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A story, a perfect
story for a generation
00:14:50.26\00:14:52.66
in the time of economic crisis.
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Nobody said that
the crisis is over.
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Prognosticators are
saying this could get worse
00:14:57.59\00:15:01.06
before it gets better.
00:15:01.09\00:15:02.46
A story for the
penniless and the hopeless
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that maybe what
you feel like today.
00:15:06.76\00:15:08.62
A perfect story for anybody,
00:15:08.65\00:15:09.74
whose life is
melting down, right now.
00:15:09.77\00:15:11.64
Open your Bible with me
please to Genesis Chapter 28.
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I'm gonna be today in the,
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today's New
International Version.
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You didn't-- if you
didn't bring a Bible,
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you got to, you got
to follow this story.
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It's a great story.
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Grab the pew
Bible in front of you.
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The page number in the pew Bible
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would be page 19.
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Genesis 28. Let's
dive in this together.
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Those of you watching
on television right now,
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find their Bible.
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Read the story.
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We'll put it on the
screen for you as well.
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Here you go, Genesis 28:10
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"Jacob left Beersheba
and set out for Harran.
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And when he
reached a certain place,
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He stopped for the night
because the sun had set."
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Now I got to tell you,
00:15:47.03\00:15:48.07
that just read
this out of the blue,
00:15:48.10\00:15:50.08
it feels like, you know,
this guy Jacob, whoever he is,
00:15:50.11\00:15:52.68
is on some sort of day trip,
it turns into an overnighter,
00:15:52.71\00:15:55.70
he is stopping for rest.
00:15:55.73\00:15:58.75
But you need to
know, that if we could take
00:15:58.78\00:16:01.43
Jacob's heart-rate
right now in this story,
00:16:01.46\00:16:04.40
he's in tachycardia.
00:16:04.43\00:16:07.06
Let me read to you,
00:16:07.09\00:16:08.14
a little bit of
background, behind this moment
00:16:08.17\00:16:10.24
from that classic
on the Old Testament
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"Patriarchs and Prophets."
00:16:12.30\00:16:14.88
So here's the
background, so you get to--
00:16:16.83\00:16:18.21
so you can know why
the heart-rate is so high.
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"Threatened by death.
00:16:20.63\00:16:22.77
Threatened, with
death by the wrath of Esau."
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That would be his
brother, born just ahead of him.
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They're twins but
Esau, just came out first.
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"Threatened, with
death by the wrath
00:16:31.20\00:16:32.72
of his brother, Esau."
00:16:32.75\00:16:34.16
You see he tricked Esau.
00:16:34.19\00:16:36.26
Pulled the world
over his daddy's eyes,
00:16:36.29\00:16:38.12
and stole the birth right
and the paternal blessing.
00:16:38.15\00:16:42.70
Got them both.
00:16:42.73\00:16:44.01
And Esau has vowed
and mamma heard about it.
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Esau has vowed, I'm
gonna kill that boy,
00:16:46.65\00:16:48.55
as soon as daddy
dies Jacob is gone.
00:16:48.58\00:16:51.06
Adios.
00:16:51.09\00:16:52.79
So he's running for
his life. He's on the lamb.
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"Threatened with
death by the wrath of Esau,
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Jacob went out
00:16:57.42\00:16:58.78
from his
father's home a fugitive.
00:16:58.81\00:17:00.50
With a deeply troubled heart,
00:17:00.53\00:17:02.04
he set out on
his lonely journey."
00:17:02.07\00:17:03.47
Now, listen up.
00:17:03.50\00:17:04.53
"With only his
staff in his hand,
00:17:04.56\00:17:06.66
he must travel
hundreds of miles,
00:17:06.69\00:17:08.39
through a country inhabited
by wild, roving tribes.
00:17:08.42\00:17:11.77
In his remorse and
timidity he sought to avoid men,
00:17:11.80\00:17:15.17
lest he should be
traced by his angry brother.
00:17:15.20\00:17:17.50
He feared that
he had lost forever
00:17:17.53\00:17:19.19
the blessing that God
had purposed to give him
00:17:19.22\00:17:21.49
and Satan was at hand to
press temptations upon him."
00:17:21.52\00:17:24.87
That guy is getting
it from every direction
00:17:24.90\00:17:27.87
and his
heart-rate is, tachycardia.
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"The evening of the second day,
00:17:32.31\00:17:33.55
he found Jacob far away
from his father's tents.
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He felt that he was an outcast.
00:17:35.93\00:17:37.29
He knew that all this trouble
had been brought upon him
00:17:37.32\00:17:39.29
by his own wrong course.
00:17:39.32\00:17:40.91
Now the darkness of
despair pressed upon his soul,
00:17:40.94\00:17:44.30
and he hardly dared to pray."
00:17:44.33\00:17:46.54
I want to stop right there.
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Because every one of us knows
00:17:47.78\00:17:49.28
what it's like to
come to that place in life
00:17:49.31\00:17:50.84
when you're feeling so guilty.
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You're so
overcome by you own actions
00:17:53.02\00:17:56.39
that you hardly dare to pray.
00:17:56.42\00:17:58.50
I need to tell you,
00:17:58.53\00:17:59.62
with all the
authority I can muster that
00:17:59.65\00:18:01.46
whenever you
come to those moments
00:18:01.49\00:18:03.26
and we all do,
that is a sure sign,
00:18:03.29\00:18:06.19
you must
immediately begin to pray.
00:18:06.22\00:18:09.16
When you feel you can't pray,
because of what you've done
00:18:09.19\00:18:12.48
it is the moment gotta saying,
00:18:12.51\00:18:14.16
"Pray to me
boy, pray to me girl,
00:18:14.19\00:18:16.32
I need to hear
from you right now."
00:18:16.35\00:18:18.30
Don't you ever
let the devil say,
00:18:18.33\00:18:19.75
"Well, you're too,
you're too bad. All right, go."
00:18:19.78\00:18:22.64
He hardly dared to pray.
00:18:24.09\00:18:25.91
"But he was so utterly lonely
00:18:25.94\00:18:27.72
that he felt the need
of protection from God
00:18:27.75\00:18:29.31
as he had never felt it before.
00:18:29.34\00:18:30.51
With weeping
and deep humiliation
00:18:30.54\00:18:32.24
he confessed his sin to God.
00:18:32.27\00:18:34.93
And he intrigued
for some evidence
00:18:34.96\00:18:36.07
that he was not
utterly forsaken.
00:18:36.10\00:18:38.17
Still his burdened
heart found no relief.
00:18:38.20\00:18:40.22
He had lost all
confidence in himself,
00:18:40.25\00:18:42.22
and he feared that
the God of his fathers
00:18:42.25\00:18:44.43
had cast him off."
00:18:44.46\00:18:45.89
That's why his
heart-rate is so high, tonight.
00:18:47.87\00:18:52.07
Now the story goes on.
00:18:52.10\00:18:53.13
Let's pick it up right
there, verse 11, again.
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"When he
reached a certain place,
00:18:55.18\00:18:57.38
out in the barren wilderness
00:18:57.41\00:18:59.90
"he stopped for the
night because the sun had set.
00:18:59.93\00:19:02.46
Taking one of the stones there,
00:19:02.49\00:19:03.72
he put it under his
head and lay down to sleep."
00:19:03.75\00:19:06.00
Verse 12, "He had a dream,
00:19:06.03\00:19:08.78
in which he saw a
stairway resting on the earth,"
00:19:08.81\00:19:11.64
Now, the New King
James reads ladder.
00:19:11.67\00:19:14.64
Something is down here.
00:19:14.67\00:19:16.43
Stairway ladder,
it's resting on the earth
00:19:16.46\00:19:18.95
"With its top
reaching to heaven,
00:19:18.98\00:19:21.03
and the angels of God
00:19:21.06\00:19:22.34
were ascending
and descending on it."
00:19:22.37\00:19:23.97
And at the top of the stairway,
00:19:25.51\00:19:26.83
"There above it stood the Lord."
00:19:26.86\00:19:30.19
By the way, I
need to tell you this,
00:19:30.22\00:19:31.48
that when that
Lord of the dream,
00:19:31.51\00:19:33.22
eventually would come to earth,
00:19:33.25\00:19:34.48
He would turn to
His disciples one day.
00:19:34.51\00:19:35.95
In John 1, he said, "Hey guys,
I want to tell you something.
00:19:35.98\00:19:38.53
I am that
stairway from henceforth,
00:19:38.56\00:19:40.93
you will see angels
ascending and descending,
00:19:40.96\00:19:43.05
upon me, the ladder,
between heaven and earth."
00:19:43.08\00:19:45.35
I am your staircase to heaven.
00:19:45.38\00:19:48.17
But that's good to
know, you're not disconnected.
00:19:48.20\00:19:51.87
You're not all
alone on this planet
00:19:51.90\00:19:53.35
in this crisis
you're going through now.
00:19:53.38\00:19:54.88
You're not all
alone. I'm the stairway.
00:19:54.91\00:19:57.45
"And there above
it stood the Lord,
00:19:57.48\00:19:58.86
and He said, 'I am the Lord,
00:19:58.89\00:20:01.52
the God of your father
Abraham and the God of Isaac.
00:20:01.55\00:20:05.72
I will give you and
your descendants the land
00:20:05.75\00:20:08.09
on which you are lying.
00:20:08.12\00:20:09.68
Your descendants will be
like the dust of the earth,
00:20:09.71\00:20:11.65
and you will spread out
to the west and to the east,
00:20:11.68\00:20:13.46
to the north and to the south.
00:20:13.49\00:20:15.20
And all peoples on
earth will be blessed
00:20:15.23\00:20:17.46
through you and
your offspring.'"
00:20:17.49\00:20:19.84
Time out, God. Hold
it, hold it, hold it.
00:20:19.87\00:20:22.45
Great dream.
00:20:22.48\00:20:24.09
You've just got
the wrong dreamer here.
00:20:24.12\00:20:26.36
You don't mean that.
00:20:26.39\00:20:27.42
You don't mean, You're gonna,
00:20:27.45\00:20:28.66
You're gonna
bless the human race
00:20:28.69\00:20:30.55
through this guy, whose name--
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he lived up to his name.
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They named him, the Supplanter.
00:20:33.51\00:20:35.08
Esau came out first
00:20:35.11\00:20:36.19
and Jacob was
hanging on to Esau's heels.
00:20:36.22\00:20:38.43
I'm always
after you. I'm always.
00:20:38.46\00:20:40.65
You're not gonna name--
00:20:40.68\00:20:41.71
you're not
gonna promise this guy
00:20:41.74\00:20:42.92
who is a cheat, a liar, a crook!
00:20:42.95\00:20:47.34
And you're gonna bless
the whole earth through him.
00:20:47.37\00:20:50.57
You know our problem, don't you?
00:20:50.60\00:20:52.11
Our problem is, we
who think we are saints.
00:20:52.14\00:20:54.55
Our problem is that we think
00:20:54.58\00:20:55.61
God only does
business with saints.
00:20:55.64\00:20:57.28
But come to find
out, God cuts transaction
00:20:57.31\00:20:59.67
with anybody
who'd give Him the time.
00:20:59.70\00:21:02.64
And He particularly
specializes, in sinners.
00:21:02.67\00:21:07.75
So if you're
feeling like a sinner today,
00:21:07.78\00:21:09.16
I got good news for you.
00:21:09.19\00:21:10.27
There was a cheat
named, Jacob once.
00:21:10.30\00:21:12.08
Lied as much as you did
on those reading reports,
00:21:12.11\00:21:14.04
lied as much as
you did on that exam,
00:21:14.07\00:21:15.93
lied as much as you did
00:21:15.96\00:21:17.29
and God said," I want to do
business with you, boy, girl,
00:21:19.03\00:21:22.59
give Me another shot.
00:21:22.62\00:21:24.21
It's your life. Hallelujah."
00:21:24.24\00:21:27.79
Right dream, right
dreamer. It's a sinner.
00:21:27.82\00:21:31.40
That's why I'm
talking to you, God said.
00:21:31.43\00:21:32.81
Verse 14, we
read that, didn't we?
00:21:36.24\00:21:40.45
"All the peoples on
earth will be blessed
00:21:40.48\00:21:41.72
through you and your offspring."
00:21:41.75\00:21:42.78
Now, verse 15.
00:21:42.81\00:21:43.88
"I am with you"
look at this, this is--
00:21:43.91\00:21:46.50
He's making this
promise to a sinner.
00:21:46.53\00:21:48.54
"I am with you and
will watch over you
00:21:48.57\00:21:50.52
wherever you go."
00:21:50.55\00:21:51.68
It's a sinner
who's turned to Him
00:21:51.71\00:21:52.78
and said, you gotta help me God.
00:21:52.81\00:21:53.95
I'm so messed up my life.
00:21:53.98\00:21:55.47
There's no way
out of this whole,
00:21:55.50\00:21:57.33
unless You do something.
00:21:57.36\00:21:58.41
He is making the
promise to a sinner
00:21:58.44\00:21:59.73
who has turned back to Him.
00:21:59.76\00:22:00.88
That's the deal.
00:22:00.91\00:22:01.94
He can't make the
promise to a sinner
00:22:01.97\00:22:03.17
who doesn't turn to Him.
00:22:03.20\00:22:04.40
But how can I help you?
You don't want Me to help you.
00:22:04.43\00:22:06.26
But if you want Me sinner,
00:22:06.29\00:22:07.79
if you want Me,
I'm there for you.
00:22:07.82\00:22:10.04
Just like that.
00:22:10.07\00:22:11.86
I, as He put it
right here verse 15
00:22:11.89\00:22:14.91
"I am with you and
I will watch over you
00:22:14.94\00:22:16.65
and wherever you go,
00:22:16.68\00:22:18.36
I'm gonna bring
you back to this land.
00:22:18.39\00:22:19.72
I will not leave
you until I have done
00:22:19.75\00:22:21.55
what I have promised you."
00:22:21.58\00:22:23.38
Good bye.
00:22:23.41\00:22:24.44
And "When Jacob" verse 16
00:22:24.47\00:22:26.07
"awoke from his
sleep, he thought," surely
00:22:26.10\00:22:29.92
"'Surely the
Lord is in this place,
00:22:29.95\00:22:31.93
and I was not aware of it.'
00:22:31.96\00:22:34.00
And He was afraid
00:22:34.03\00:22:35.85
and he said," how awesome"'
00:22:35.88\00:22:37.19
How awesome is this place!
00:22:37.22\00:22:40.19
This is none other
than the house of God,
00:22:40.22\00:22:43.01
this is the gate of heaven.'"
00:22:43.04\00:22:45.87
You know, I got to thinking
when I was studying this story,
00:22:45.90\00:22:47.44
this week, I got to thinking,
00:22:47.47\00:22:48.55
"what would
happen, if you and I,
00:22:48.58\00:22:49.62
every time we
came in to this church,
00:22:49.65\00:22:51.14
on this campus as worshippers,
we thought those words first.
00:22:51.17\00:22:54.52
Whether it was to chapel
or to Church on Sabbath?"
00:22:54.55\00:22:56.90
What if we thought,
00:22:56.93\00:22:57.98
"Wow, how awesome is
this, this is the house of God.
00:22:58.01\00:23:02.15
This is a gate of heaven."
00:23:02.18\00:23:03.54
I have a feeling, what
you and I do in this house
00:23:03.57\00:23:06.62
while we're with
God would be affected
00:23:06.65\00:23:09.23
by that little confession
as we come through the door.
00:23:09.26\00:23:11.72
I know its Thursday
and I know its chapel.
00:23:11.75\00:23:13.87
But this is God's
house. This is God's house.
00:23:13.90\00:23:19.98
It would make a
difference, wouldn't it?
00:23:20.01\00:23:21.74
If I'd always remember
when I stepped up here,
00:23:21.77\00:23:24.62
this is God's house.
00:23:24.65\00:23:26.44
He's here.
00:23:26.47\00:23:27.52
Earlier the next morning,
00:23:29.01\00:23:30.06
because that was in
the middle of the night
00:23:30.09\00:23:31.13
when Jacob would
woke, after the dream.
00:23:31.16\00:23:32.50
So he's waiting out till the--
00:23:32.53\00:23:33.59
just to first purple blushes
00:23:33.62\00:23:35.29
of the dawn on
the eastern horizon
00:23:35.32\00:23:37.40
"Early the next
morning Jacob took the stone
00:23:37.43\00:23:39.13
he had placed under
his head and set it up
00:23:39.16\00:23:40.97
his pillow became a pillar
00:23:41.00\00:23:42.55
and he poured oil on top of it."
00:23:42.58\00:23:43.85
He consecrated it to God.
00:23:43.88\00:23:44.94
Verse 19 and "He
called that place Bethel,"
00:23:44.97\00:23:47.77
house of EL, house of God,
00:23:47.80\00:23:50.16
"though the city
used to be called Luz."
00:23:50.19\00:23:51.98
Verse 20 "Then
Jacob made a vow,"
00:23:52.01\00:23:54.47
this is the
first time in the Bible
00:23:54.50\00:23:56.49
a human is described doing this.
00:23:56.52\00:23:58.34
"Then Jacob made a vow, saying,
00:23:58.37\00:24:01.62
'If God will be with me
00:24:01.65\00:24:03.75
and will watch over me
on this journey I am taking
00:24:03.78\00:24:06.25
and will give me food
to eat and clothes to wear
00:24:06.28\00:24:08.24
so that I return
safely to my father's house,
00:24:08.27\00:24:10.99
then the Lord will be my God.'"
00:24:11.02\00:24:12.66
You know what,
I've read this so long,
00:24:12.69\00:24:15.29
as a quid-pro-quo,
00:24:15.32\00:24:16.51
that's Latin
for, "this for that."
00:24:16.54\00:24:18.61
I've read, okay Jacob
said, kind of a crafty guy,
00:24:18.64\00:24:21.33
I'm cutting a deal with You.
00:24:21.36\00:24:22.40
You give me food,
You keep me clothed,
00:24:22.43\00:24:24.06
You bring me back,
then I'll worship You.
00:24:24.09\00:24:26.90
Ladies and gentlemen, that's--
00:24:26.93\00:24:27.96
that is ugly illogical.
00:24:27.99\00:24:29.48
You know why?
00:24:29.51\00:24:30.56
We just found this
out this last week.
00:24:30.59\00:24:31.83
You know why?
00:24:31.86\00:24:32.89
Because, he's already
got the assurance from God,
00:24:32.92\00:24:37.01
I'm with you and he woke up,
00:24:37.04\00:24:38.56
his heart
bursting with gratitude.
00:24:38.59\00:24:40.59
This isn't,
cutting the deal like,
00:24:40.62\00:24:42.08
I want to know if
You're gonna be with me.
00:24:42.11\00:24:43.83
This is now a prayer.
00:24:43.86\00:24:45.42
Oh God, because You've promised
00:24:45.45\00:24:48.71
to cloth me and feed me
and bring me back to this land
00:24:48.74\00:24:51.55
I want to do this for You.
00:24:51.58\00:24:53.04
That's what
really happened in here.
00:24:53.07\00:24:54.52
And what is it that
he wants to do for God?
00:24:54.55\00:24:56.81
Verse 27, So that if I return
safely to my father's house,
00:24:56.84\00:24:59.79
then Lord, the
Lord will be my God
00:24:59.82\00:25:02.90
"and this stone that I
have set up as a pillar
00:25:02.93\00:25:04.95
will be God's
house," and all that
00:25:04.98\00:25:07.88
"of all that you give me
I will give You a tenth."
00:25:07.91\00:25:14.62
End of story.
00:25:14.65\00:25:16.41
What's going on here? Simple.
00:25:16.44\00:25:19.77
You got a sinner on the
run, who has been overwhelmed
00:25:19.80\00:25:22.56
by the divine assurance
of mercy and forgiveness.
00:25:22.59\00:25:24.50
I'm gonna start over with you.
00:25:24.53\00:25:25.70
I'm gonna start
way over with you.
00:25:25.73\00:25:28.01
And he's so grateful.
00:25:28.04\00:25:30.15
He says, Here's the deal,
00:25:30.18\00:25:31.24
everything you give me
for the rest of my life,
00:25:31.27\00:25:33.41
you get the first tenth.
00:25:33.44\00:25:34.66
You get it. I'm
giving it to you.
00:25:34.69\00:25:38.37
That's what's going on.
00:25:38.40\00:25:40.16
Apparently ladies and gentlemen,
00:25:40.19\00:25:41.85
it's okay to allow a
crisis, to forge a new compact,
00:25:41.88\00:25:48.39
between you and God.
00:25:48.42\00:25:51.07
That point is so critical
00:25:51.10\00:25:52.57
we're gonna write
it down right now.
00:25:52.60\00:25:53.68
Let's do it. Let's
just grab that study guide.
00:25:53.71\00:25:55.11
Is there a study guide
in your worship bulletin?
00:25:55.14\00:25:56.94
Pull that study guide out.
00:25:56.97\00:25:58.03
You didn't get a study guide,
you're gonna want this one.
00:25:58.06\00:25:59.59
It's a very practical one.
00:25:59.62\00:26:00.76
Hold your hand up, if you
didn't get the study guide
00:26:00.79\00:26:02.68
our friendly ushers
are coming your way,
00:26:02.71\00:26:04.19
all the way up to the
back in the overflow as well.
00:26:04.22\00:26:06.46
Make sure everybody
today gets a study guide.
00:26:06.49\00:26:09.17
And those of
you, watching on TV,
00:26:09.20\00:26:11.03
we're so glad to have you.
00:26:11.06\00:26:12.61
I want you to have
the same study guide.
00:26:12.64\00:26:13.93
This is a dynamite teaching.
Follow along with this.
00:26:13.96\00:26:16.69
Let me put the
website on the screen for you,
00:26:16.72\00:26:18.49
where you get the study guide.
00:26:18.52\00:26:19.83
You see it there,
00:26:19.86\00:26:20.89
at the very
bottom of that screen.
00:26:20.92\00:26:22.32
Can you see, www.pmchurch.tv.
00:26:22.35\00:26:27.39
That's the website you're
looking for, it's our website.
00:26:27.42\00:26:30.42
You're looking for a series,
by the way that ends next week.
00:26:30.45\00:26:33.81
Title of the series
that you're looking for,
00:26:33.84\00:26:35.76
"Four Secrets to Survive
00:26:35.79\00:26:37.54
in the Coming
Economic Earthquake."
00:26:37.57\00:26:39.47
We've already had secret
one, we've had secret two,
00:26:39.50\00:26:41.69
today is secret three.
00:26:41.72\00:26:43.11
Title of today's secret,
00:26:43.14\00:26:44.48
"Go Over the Head
of Warren Buffet."
00:26:44.51\00:26:46.59
And oh boy, don't you miss
secret number 4, next weekend.
00:26:46.62\00:26:52.48
Surviving--no,
00:26:52.51\00:26:53.94
"Thriving in
Midst of the Crisis."
00:26:53.97\00:26:57.56
Not surviving, thriving.
00:26:57.59\00:26:59.03
We'll wrap it up next
week. Come back for that please.
00:26:59.06\00:27:01.52
But fill out the first
line in your study guide.
00:27:01.55\00:27:04.04
Let's put it on
the screen, please.
00:27:04.07\00:27:05.44
The very first line
of your study guide,
00:27:05.47\00:27:06.95
"Apparently, it's okay
to allow an economic crisis
00:27:06.98\00:27:12.55
to forge a new
compact between you and God."
00:27:12.58\00:27:18.14
Just jot that down.
00:27:20.81\00:27:22.80
And I'll tell you the
reason that's so important is
00:27:22.83\00:27:24.13
because some people are afraid
00:27:24.16\00:27:25.45
that turning
crisis into compacts,
00:27:25.48\00:27:27.21
might turn God into--
00:27:27.24\00:27:28.96
it might turn God away
00:27:28.99\00:27:30.89
from the
questionable motivation.
00:27:30.92\00:27:32.21
I mean, come on, why am I
turning to God in a crisis?
00:27:32.24\00:27:34.34
And he's gonna say,
"Well, you never loved Me
00:27:34.37\00:27:35.45
when you're in
affair with a friend.
00:27:35.48\00:27:37.74
Only when it's
raining, do you come around."
00:27:37.77\00:27:40.54
No.
00:27:41.94\00:27:42.99
You know what my friends,
00:27:44.84\00:27:45.92
the only thing worse
00:27:45.95\00:27:47.42
than turning to God in a crisis,
00:27:47.45\00:27:49.65
the only thing worse
is not turning to God,
00:27:49.68\00:27:53.22
in a crisis.
00:27:53.25\00:27:54.46
That's what crisis are for.
00:27:54.49\00:27:55.62
In fact, will you
jot it down please?
00:27:55.65\00:27:57.59
"Every crisis is a call
00:27:57.62\00:27:59.57
for a renewed compact with God."
00:27:59.60\00:28:03.35
It's that way in marriages.
Marriages go through storms.
00:28:03.38\00:28:06.00
Trust me. They
go through storms.
00:28:06.03\00:28:07.82
Every marriage does.
00:28:07.85\00:28:09.20
Now a storm is either gonna
make your marriage stronger
00:28:09.23\00:28:11.82
or it's gonna make
your marriage weaker.
00:28:11.85\00:28:13.29
You can't ride a storm out
00:28:13.32\00:28:14.62
and come out the
same at the other end.
00:28:14.65\00:28:15.68
No.
00:28:15.71\00:28:16.74
Every crisis produces change
that's why God allows crisis.
00:28:16.77\00:28:22.56
So why'd be any
different in an economic crisis,
00:28:22.59\00:28:25.49
which by the way is
why God allows crisis
00:28:25.52\00:28:29.39
to come to His
children because the crisis can,
00:28:29.42\00:28:32.52
if we allow them draw us deeper.
00:28:32.55\00:28:35.22
Now look at, it's a,
it's a huge risk for God
00:28:35.25\00:28:37.97
because the crisis that
draws you closer to Him,
00:28:38.00\00:28:40.39
can be the crisis that
drives me away from Him.
00:28:40.42\00:28:42.44
And so God has to calculate,
00:28:42.47\00:28:43.84
wait-a-minute, wait-a-minute,
00:28:43.87\00:28:44.90
she is doing fine, he is not.
00:28:44.93\00:28:46.61
It is a calculated risk.
It may drive you further away.
00:28:46.64\00:28:50.90
But that's why in every crisis--
00:28:52.35\00:28:54.04
would you jot this down please?
00:28:54.07\00:28:55.65
"Just like it was with
Jacob, in the midst of a crisis,
00:28:55.68\00:28:58.60
God draws
especially near to us."
00:28:58.63\00:29:02.46
He's not leaving you hanging.
00:29:02.49\00:29:03.81
He's not farther
away in a crisis,
00:29:03.84\00:29:05.24
it's the other way around.
00:29:05.27\00:29:06.44
Just like it was with Jacob.
00:29:06.47\00:29:07.52
I got the ladder
where you're, boy?
00:29:07.55\00:29:09.06
I'm coming down that ladder,
00:29:09.09\00:29:10.23
right to where
you're sleeping now.
00:29:10.26\00:29:12.17
He's always closer in a crisis
00:29:12.20\00:29:15.72
so that He can tilt
the risk in His favor.
00:29:15.75\00:29:18.69
He wants to win.
00:29:18.72\00:29:19.78
He wants you to win.
He don't want you to lose.
00:29:19.81\00:29:22.35
So that's what happens,
00:29:24.50\00:29:25.72
let's read verse 20 again.
00:29:28.60\00:29:29.70
"Then Jacob made a vow,"
when he woke up the next day
00:29:29.73\00:29:33.48
"saying, 'If God will be with me
00:29:33.51\00:29:35.55
and will watch over me
on this journey I am taking
00:29:35.58\00:29:38.15
and will give me food
to eat and clothes to wear
00:29:38.18\00:29:40.10
so that I return safely
to my father's household,
00:29:40.13\00:29:42.88
then the Lord will be my God
00:29:42.91\00:29:45.20
and this stone that I
have set up as a pillar
00:29:45.23\00:29:47.20
will be God's house,
00:29:47.23\00:29:48.28
and of all that
you give me dear God
00:29:48.31\00:29:51.74
I will give you a tenth.'"
00:29:51.77\00:29:54.53
You get a tenth.
00:29:54.56\00:29:56.82
Everything You give to
me, I will give you a tenth.
00:29:56.85\00:29:59.29
Jot this down,
00:30:02.38\00:30:03.42
"As a recognition of God
as his Savior and Sustainer,
00:30:03.45\00:30:07.81
Jacob offer back to
God 1/10 of his income."
00:30:07.84\00:30:11.89
One-tenth! The Bible calls it--
00:30:11.92\00:30:13.56
jot it down, "The
Bible calls it, 'tithe.'"
00:30:13.59\00:30:15.30
In reality--
00:30:16.91\00:30:17.97
this is not new Jacob,
he's-- he come up with--
00:30:18.00\00:30:20.02
I think I'm gonna come up
with this I-- are you kidding?
00:30:20.05\00:30:21.88
He learned it form
his grandfather, Abraham.
00:30:21.91\00:30:24.48
Let me show you,
00:30:24.51\00:30:25.91
two very different
motivations for giving tithe.
00:30:25.94\00:30:28.63
By the way just go back
a few pages to Genesis 14
00:30:28.66\00:30:32.28
because, grandpa Abraham
00:30:32.31\00:30:33.37
really is the one who
taught Jacob about this.
00:30:33.40\00:30:37.19
Go back to Genesis 14,
drop down there to verse 18.
00:30:37.22\00:30:41.92
"Then Melchizedek king of Salem
brought out bread and wine."
00:30:41.95\00:30:46.00
We got some worship going on now
00:30:46.03\00:30:47.72
like a communion service.
00:30:47.75\00:30:48.91
He brought out bread and wine.
00:30:48.94\00:30:51.78
And he was the
priest-- this Melchizedek.
00:30:51.81\00:30:53.55
"He was the priest of
the God Most High, and he"
00:30:53.58\00:30:56.56
the priest "blessed Abram,"
known then is Abram "saying,
00:30:56.59\00:31:00.63
'Blessed be
Abram by God Most High,
00:31:00.66\00:31:03.58
Creator of heaven and earth.
00:31:03.61\00:31:04.83
And praise be to God Most High,
00:31:04.86\00:31:06.67
who delivered your
enemies into your hand.'"
00:31:06.70\00:31:08.32
And now as a
response, watch this.
00:31:08.35\00:31:10.60
"Then Abram gave him
a tenth of everything."
00:31:10.63\00:31:15.93
Now the King James calls
it, then Abraham gave Him--
00:31:15.96\00:31:17.73
Abram gave Him a tithe.
00:31:17.76\00:31:19.85
But notice how very
different are the motivations.
00:31:19.88\00:31:23.02
So it came from Abraham,
00:31:23.05\00:31:24.08
but grandpa
Abraham and grandson Jacob,
00:31:24.11\00:31:26.53
very different motivations.
00:31:26.56\00:31:28.01
Jot this down, will you?
00:31:28.04\00:31:29.82
"Abraham returned 'tithe'
00:31:29.85\00:31:31.50
as a grateful act
of worship before God,
00:31:31.53\00:31:35.87
whereas Jacob gave it
00:31:35.90\00:31:37.52
as a grateful act of
partnership with God."
00:31:37.55\00:31:43.17
But keep you pen moving.
00:31:43.20\00:31:44.55
"Clearly both motivations
are acceptable to God."
00:31:44.58\00:31:49.47
He'll take it either way.
00:31:49.50\00:31:51.27
You want to make
it a partnership deal?
00:31:51.30\00:31:52.57
Let's do it.
00:31:52.60\00:31:53.63
You want to make
it a worship response?
00:31:53.66\00:31:54.92
Let's do it.
00:31:54.95\00:31:56.10
He'll take either one of them.
00:31:56.13\00:31:58.48
After all,
that's what the wisest
00:31:58.51\00:32:00.25
and the richest man
in the history of earth,
00:32:00.28\00:32:02.59
sorry Warren Buffett,
00:32:02.62\00:32:04.78
we got one richer
than you, King Sullivan.
00:32:04.81\00:32:07.80
That's the lesson
King Sullivan learned.
00:32:07.83\00:32:10.47
Take a look at this Proverb.
00:32:10.50\00:32:11.92
Proverbs 3. Proverbs 3.
00:32:11.95\00:32:14.55
Proverbs 3, these Proverbs,
collected from the wisest man
00:32:14.58\00:32:18.75
who ever lived, King Sullivan.
00:32:18.78\00:32:20.27
Proverbs 3, he's
making the very same point.
00:32:20.30\00:32:22.74
What's the page
number in the pew Bible?
00:32:22.77\00:32:23.93
Page number is 429.
00:32:23.96\00:32:26.77
Proverbs 3, oh, that looks good.
00:32:26.80\00:32:29.60
So you got Abraham and
Jacob in these two little pro--
00:32:29.63\00:32:31.66
no, that's one
Proverb, split in half.
00:32:31.69\00:32:33.77
And Abraham will
be in the first half,
00:32:33.80\00:32:35.29
and Jacob will be
in the second half.
00:32:35.32\00:32:36.36
You watch this.
00:32:36.39\00:32:37.42
Proverb 3:9, "Honor
the Lord with your wealth,"
00:32:37.45\00:32:41.93
some of you
saying, that's not me
00:32:41.96\00:32:44.03
because I have no wealth.
00:32:44.06\00:32:46.22
Hey, hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:32:46.26\00:32:47.41
In the New King James
it reads, possessions.
00:32:47.44\00:32:49.94
Don't you come and tell
me, you've no possessions.
00:32:49.97\00:32:52.60
An iPod is a possession.
A laptop is a possession.
00:32:52.63\00:32:55.57
You have many possessions.
00:32:55.60\00:32:58.07
Yeah, you're not wealthy, I
understand and neither am I.
00:32:58.10\00:33:00.12
But we have possessions.
00:33:00.15\00:33:01.61
"Honor" how is
it go here verse 9
00:33:01.64\00:33:03.09
"Honor the Lord
with your wealth,
00:33:03.12\00:33:05.46
with the first
fruits of your crops."
00:33:05.49\00:33:07.84
So any money coming in,
you give Him the first skim.
00:33:07.87\00:33:09.91
Just give him the
first little skim.
00:33:09.94\00:33:11.52
Honor Him with the
first fruits of your crops.
00:33:11.55\00:33:13.89
Now that's Abraham.
Now here comes Jacob.
00:33:13.92\00:33:15.57
Verse 10,
00:33:15.60\00:33:16.65
"Then your barns will
be filled to overflowing,
00:33:16.68\00:33:20.02
and your vats will
brim over with new wine."
00:33:20.05\00:33:24.28
Watch this.
Write it down, please.
00:33:24.31\00:33:26.48
Two lines powerfully depict
00:33:26.51\00:33:27.93
the very different motivations
for Abraham and Jacob.
00:33:27.96\00:33:31.12
"Proverbs 3:9," jot it down,
00:33:31.15\00:33:32.85
"describes the human response
00:33:32.88\00:33:34.36
of gratitude for
divine blessings."
00:33:34.39\00:33:36.07
That's Abraham.
00:33:36.10\00:33:37.13
He just comes back and says,
00:33:37.16\00:33:38.19
"I want to give this to
you God, I'm so grateful."
00:33:38.22\00:33:39.88
In worship, the human
response of gratitude.
00:33:39.91\00:33:43.04
But "Proverb 3:10 describes
00:33:43.07\00:33:45.01
the human request
in gratitude for more"
00:33:45.04\00:33:49.28
I want more, I
want more, I want more.
00:33:49.31\00:33:50.66
The more you give me,
the more I give back to you.
00:33:50.69\00:33:53.02
Jacob, has
nothing, he's penniless.
00:33:53.05\00:33:55.81
He wants more, he needs more.
00:33:55.84\00:33:58.67
Two very different
responses, but remember
00:33:58.70\00:34:01.23
both motivations are
acceptable to our divine parent,
00:34:01.26\00:34:05.88
hallelujah.
00:34:05.91\00:34:07.14
And we know that for sure
00:34:07.17\00:34:09.76
because God cannot
get any clear than this.
00:34:09.79\00:34:11.69
This is a clear. This is it.
00:34:11.72\00:34:13.56
So go to the last
page of your Old Testament.
00:34:13.59\00:34:15.45
The very last page of
your Old Testament, Malachi.
00:34:15.48\00:34:19.66
Malachi Chapter 3,
00:34:19.69\00:34:20.96
we'll land our plane right here.
00:34:23.13\00:34:25.23
Malachi 3:8.
00:34:25.26\00:34:30.33
Malachi 3,
00:34:30.36\00:34:32.09
what page number is
it in the pew Bible?
00:34:32.12\00:34:33.50
645.
00:34:33.53\00:34:35.12
Malachi 3:8,
God is speaking now.
00:34:35.15\00:34:39.46
God is speaking, and
He asks the question,
00:34:39.49\00:34:41.94
"Will a mere mortal rob God?
00:34:41.97\00:34:46.33
Yet you" God says to Israel
00:34:47.47\00:34:50.19
"Yet you rob me."
00:34:50.22\00:34:52.19
Now, hit the pause
button right there.
00:34:52.22\00:34:53.87
What does it
mean to rob someone?
00:34:53.90\00:34:57.50
What does it mean?
00:34:57.53\00:34:59.67
Hey, I could not
believe my ears this week.
00:34:59.70\00:35:01.44
True story.
00:35:01.47\00:35:02.51
I'm listening to CBS radio,
00:35:02.54\00:35:04.22
and they've given a story
about woman down in Florida--
00:35:04.25\00:35:06.31
what that town is she
from? Boynton beach, Florida.
00:35:06.34\00:35:10.63
This woman's at work.
00:35:10.66\00:35:12.29
And I heard the
911 tape, so I know.
00:35:12.32\00:35:14.83
Okay, this woman's at work,
00:35:14.86\00:35:15.97
you see her house,
was robbed, sometime ago
00:35:16.00\00:35:18.90
and so she put, right
up there in the corner,
00:35:18.93\00:35:20.80
she put a little
webcam, right up there
00:35:20.83\00:35:23.21
so that it could take a picture
00:35:23.24\00:35:24.89
of everything
happening in her house.
00:35:24.92\00:35:26.58
So she's at work, this
last week and she said,
00:35:26.61\00:35:29.36
"I'm gonna see how
it is at my house?"
00:35:29.39\00:35:31.18
Boom, there it is.
00:35:32.72\00:35:33.98
And while she's
watching her house,
00:35:34.01\00:35:36.93
one stranger goes
by, another stranger.
00:35:36.96\00:35:39.75
Two men, true story,
are ripping off her house
00:35:39.78\00:35:44.06
while she's watching, on
the computer screen at work.
00:35:44.09\00:35:47.70
She dials, 911 and she
says," You got to help me,"
00:35:47.73\00:35:50.71
and they played her tapes back.
00:35:50.74\00:35:51.78
She is desperate.
00:35:51.81\00:35:53.23
She says, "They are
stealing everything I have."
00:35:53.26\00:35:55.61
There goes my DVD,
there goes my Wii, there goes"
00:35:55.64\00:35:59.76
and the little appliances
00:35:59.79\00:36:00.83
were all going
under this guy's arms.
00:36:00.86\00:36:02.27
One of the guys
had the temerity to go
00:36:02.30\00:36:03.81
to her refrigerator
00:36:03.84\00:36:04.87
and pull out a bag of cheese
00:36:04.90\00:36:06.56
and he's going through the house
00:36:06.59\00:36:07.62
ripping her off,
eating her cheese.
00:36:07.65\00:36:09.00
The other guy sees
the camera up there
00:36:10.88\00:36:12.63
and goes up near
like this and he gonna.
00:36:12.66\00:36:14.20
She says, "You got to help
me they're still in the house."
00:36:16.56\00:36:18.99
Oh, and by the way,
00:36:19.02\00:36:20.06
through the images
every now and then,
00:36:20.09\00:36:22.03
when her
watchdog wagging his tail
00:36:22.06\00:36:25.78
the whole time.
00:36:25.81\00:36:26.84
I get rid of
that dog immediately.
00:36:28.33\00:36:30.25
She says, "You got to
help me, you gotta help me."
00:36:34.99\00:36:36.46
And it is really something.
00:36:36.49\00:36:37.72
And the dispatcher said,"
00:36:37.75\00:36:38.78
Ma'am, ma'am, calm
down, calm down ma'am.
00:36:38.81\00:36:40.21
Ma'am, we got the
police on the way.
00:36:40.24\00:36:41.56
Eighteen police
arrived with guns drawn
00:36:41.59\00:36:44.26
and surrounded that house.
00:36:44.29\00:36:45.67
Can you imagine the
look on the burglars
00:36:45.70\00:36:47.27
when they walked out?
00:36:47.30\00:36:48.33
What does it mean to
steal? What does it mean to rob?
00:36:51.10\00:36:54.50
It means to take something
that belongs to somebody else
00:36:54.53\00:36:58.99
and appropriate it for yourself.
00:36:59.02\00:37:02.40
That's what it means. And
that's what God is saying.
00:37:02.43\00:37:06.11
Verse 8 again.
00:37:06.14\00:37:07.17
"Will a mere mortal rob God?
00:37:07.20\00:37:11.68
Yet you rob me.
00:37:14.22\00:37:15.98
But you ask,
00:37:16.01\00:37:17.04
'How are we robbing
you?' In tithes and offerings."
00:37:17.07\00:37:22.71
Come on, come on.
How can we rob God?
00:37:24.18\00:37:27.21
Please. Oh, simple.
00:37:27.24\00:37:30.66
We take what
doesn't belong to us,
00:37:30.69\00:37:32.85
what belongs to somebody else
00:37:32.88\00:37:34.34
and we
appropriate it to ourselves.
00:37:34.37\00:37:37.45
How much belongs to God?
00:37:37.48\00:37:39.17
Let's just do a real quick check
00:37:39.20\00:37:41.25
from scripture, how
much belongs to God.
00:37:41.28\00:37:42.87
You keep your
fingers moving here
00:37:42.90\00:37:44.33
because we're
gonna fly through these.
00:37:44.36\00:37:45.42
Haggai 2:8 God is speaking
00:37:45.45\00:37:47.12
"The silver is Mine
and the gold is Mine."
00:37:47.15\00:37:49.63
So that means all the
money on earth belongs to God,
00:37:49.66\00:37:51.33
all right.
00:37:51.36\00:37:52.39
Sorry Warren Buffett,
it all belongs to God.
00:37:52.42\00:37:54.37
You got it from
Him. Yes, you did.
00:37:54.40\00:37:56.95
Okay Haggai 2:8,
00:37:56.98\00:37:58.04
"The silver is Mine
and the gold is Mine."
00:37:58.07\00:37:59.39
Psalm 50:10, jot it down.
00:37:59.42\00:38:01.55
God is speaking,"For the cattle
on a thousand hills are Mine."
00:38:01.58\00:38:05.84
And incidentally
from the last reports
00:38:07.13\00:38:08.66
we've gotten, the hills
00:38:08.69\00:38:09.86
under the cattle are also God's.
00:38:09.89\00:38:14.23
Psalm 24:1, jot it down.
00:38:14.26\00:38:16.86
"The earth" here it is
"The earth is the Lord's
00:38:16.89\00:38:20.03
and everything in it,
00:38:20.06\00:38:21.10
the world, and
all who live in it."
00:38:21.13\00:38:24.03
I'm telling you
Maltbie Babcock got it right.
00:38:24.06\00:38:26.88
"This is my Father's
world." It's all His.
00:38:26.91\00:38:31.56
The old spiritual sings,
00:38:31.59\00:38:32.92
"He got the whole
world, in His hands."
00:38:32.95\00:38:35.93
Ladies and
gentlemen, it's all His.
00:38:35.96\00:38:39.52
Is that my? Come
on. That is not fair.
00:38:39.55\00:38:41.86
If God has
everything, I got nothing.
00:38:41.89\00:38:44.18
That's not what
the Bible is teaching.
00:38:44.21\00:38:47.10
In fact, when God creates
this planet in the beginning,
00:38:47.13\00:38:50.05
he takes Adam and
Eve aside and He says,
00:38:50.08\00:38:51.42
"Hey guys, this is all
yours." Can you believe that?
00:38:51.45\00:38:54.23
Well, you know, He
said technically it's Mine
00:38:54.26\00:38:56.16
because I made it.
00:38:56.19\00:38:57.84
But I'm giving it to you
00:38:57.87\00:38:59.17
and I want you please
to manage this for Me.
00:38:59.20\00:39:03.58
In fact, jot this
down in your study guide,
00:39:03.61\00:39:06.10
Genesis 2:15.
00:39:06.13\00:39:08.29
"The Lord God took the man,"
00:39:08.32\00:39:09.61
and by the way
that's generic human race.
00:39:09.64\00:39:12.38
"He takes this human race
00:39:12.41\00:39:14.24
and He puts them
00:39:15.90\00:39:17.00
in the Garden of Eden to work it
00:39:17.03\00:39:19.21
and to take care of it."
00:39:19.24\00:39:21.37
Take care of it.
00:39:21.40\00:39:23.36
When you care--
00:39:23.39\00:39:24.68
by the way this is
a great green reminder
00:39:24.71\00:39:27.71
on the eve of the week
that brings Earth day to us.
00:39:27.74\00:39:31.25
Human beings have
been put on this planet,
00:39:31.28\00:39:32.98
to take care of the planet.
00:39:33.01\00:39:37.32
"When you take care of
someone else's property,"
00:39:37.35\00:39:39.09
jot this down,
"you aren't an owner,"
00:39:39.12\00:39:41.76
but I got good news for you,
you are not a robber either.
00:39:41.79\00:39:44.23
You know what you're?
"You're a steward or manager."
00:39:44.26\00:39:47.46
Jot that down.
That's who you are.
00:39:47.49\00:39:49.69
You are a
steward. You are a manager.
00:39:49.72\00:39:52.29
And by the way that
is not a demeaning term.
00:39:52.32\00:39:54.43
or a belittling
notion That is a high honor.
00:39:54.46\00:39:58.67
You think about it.
00:39:58.70\00:40:00.00
When you were a kid growing
up, how much did you own?
00:40:00.03\00:40:02.73
Tell me the truth.
00:40:02.76\00:40:03.80
When you were a kid
how much did you own?
00:40:03.83\00:40:06.10
Zero. Nada. Nothing.
00:40:06.13\00:40:09.31
Every gift you gave to your dad,
00:40:09.34\00:40:10.57
you got it from you
dad in the first place.
00:40:10.60\00:40:13.33
He acted like, it
was something from you,
00:40:13.36\00:40:15.44
it was from him.
00:40:15.47\00:40:16.50
But you know what,
00:40:18.48\00:40:19.67
you owned not a single
thing as a kid growing up,
00:40:19.70\00:40:22.31
but you were as happy as a lark.
00:40:22.34\00:40:24.78
Because you have
nothing to worry about,
00:40:24.81\00:40:26.10
somebody-- my daddy
has got all the worries.
00:40:26.13\00:40:28.52
My daddy is in control.
00:40:28.55\00:40:30.04
My daddy will take
care of everything,
00:40:30.07\00:40:32.74
and you went through life
just hunky-dory all the time.
00:40:32.77\00:40:36.50
Not a worry
through your childhood.
00:40:36.53\00:40:38.73
You only start to worry
when you became a teenager.
00:40:38.76\00:40:42.02
And that's all
down hill from there.
00:40:42.05\00:40:43.13
That's the point,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:40:46.55\00:40:48.80
to keep fresh in our memory,
this parent child relationship,
00:40:48.83\00:40:54.49
this owner,
steward, manager paradigm,
00:40:54.52\00:40:57.95
to keep that fresh in our minds.
00:40:57.98\00:41:00.18
God's who's the
one that invented it.
00:41:00.21\00:41:01.31
Abraham didn't invent it.
00:41:01.34\00:41:02.59
God invented, Hey I'm
gonna take 1/10 of the top.
00:41:02.62\00:41:05.88
By the way don't get
all bin-out-of-shape,
00:41:05.91\00:41:08.26
all ten tenths belong to you.
00:41:08.29\00:41:10.57
But I will take a tenth.
00:41:10.60\00:41:12.18
I don't need your nickels
and dimes, for Pete's sake.
00:41:12.21\00:41:15.41
I got it all.
00:41:15.44\00:41:16.68
But when you return
these nickels and dimes to Me,
00:41:16.71\00:41:19.77
you're saying to Me, "God
you're the one that worries,
00:41:19.80\00:41:25.53
I'm the one that lives.
00:41:25.56\00:41:27.61
And I'm hiring
You, to work for me."
00:41:27.64\00:41:30.47
And God says, "Cha-Ching,
that's exactly what I want."
00:41:30.50\00:41:35.43
Jot it down, will you?
00:41:35.46\00:41:36.51
"God designed the 'tithe' to be
a sign of our compact with him.
00:41:36.54\00:41:39.82
He is our CFO." Oh,
by the way what CFO mean?
00:41:39.85\00:41:45.29
Chief Financial Officer.
00:41:45.32\00:41:48.43
He's our C--
that's the one that makes
00:41:48.46\00:41:51.27
all the
ultimate money decisions.
00:41:51.30\00:41:53.62
"He's our CFO and we are
his administrative assistants."
00:41:53.65\00:41:59.34
Now, keep that pen going
because this gets even better.
00:41:59.37\00:42:01.38
"When we return His 1/10" okay.
00:42:01.41\00:42:03.94
We return His,
because it belongs to Him.
00:42:03.97\00:42:06.30
"When we return
His 1/10 back to Him,
00:42:06.33\00:42:08.55
we recognize His
10/10 ownership of us
00:42:08.58\00:42:12.51
and His 100%
partnership with us."
00:42:12.54\00:42:18.03
So here's the
Bibles great formula
00:42:18.06\00:42:19.91
for getting out of debt
and staying out of debt.
00:42:19.94\00:42:21.95
Here it is, "God's ownership,
00:42:21.98\00:42:25.09
plus My stewardship
equals, our partnership."
00:42:25.12\00:42:30.40
We're in this to
the max, together.
00:42:30.43\00:42:36.67
And because we're partners,
00:42:36.70\00:42:37.73
oh boy, hold on to
your pew right now.
00:42:37.76\00:42:39.80
Look how our
divine CFO comes through.
00:42:39.83\00:42:43.90
You're not gonna believe this
00:42:43.93\00:42:44.96
but He really is promising this,
00:42:44.99\00:42:46.44
this is verse 10.
00:42:46.47\00:42:47.50
God says, "Bring
the whole tithe,"
00:42:47.53\00:42:48.91
bring that 1/10.
00:42:48.94\00:42:49.97
Come on, don't
give me tithe light, 9%.
00:42:50.00\00:42:53.91
You give me tithe 10%.
00:42:53.94\00:42:56.43
God says, "You
bring that tithe to Me,
00:42:56.46\00:42:58.54
bring it into the storehouse,
00:42:58.57\00:42:59.69
that there may be
food in My house."
00:42:59.72\00:43:00.98
And then I love this "Test Me"
00:43:01.01\00:43:02.71
the New King
James says, you try Me.
00:43:02.74\00:43:04.36
Just try Me, try
Me, try Me, try Me.
00:43:04.39\00:43:05.96
"Test me in this, '
says the Lord Almighty,
00:43:05.99\00:43:08.26
and see if I will not throw
open the floodgates of heaven,"
00:43:08.29\00:43:13.00
I love that "throw open
the floodgates of heaven
00:43:13.03\00:43:16.24
and pour out so much blessings
00:43:16.27\00:43:18.57
there will not be
room enough to store it."
00:43:18.60\00:43:23.04
Hallelujah.
00:43:23.07\00:43:24.29
Mercy.
00:43:25.32\00:43:26.58
Wow.
00:43:28.10\00:43:29.14
You ever see the game
show, Deal or No Deal?
00:43:31.84\00:43:35.78
Who comes up with these things?
00:43:35.81\00:43:38.29
They obviously
haven't been to college
00:43:38.32\00:43:41.71
or maybe they've been to college
00:43:41.74\00:43:43.80
and sure gets
everybody watching.
00:43:43.83\00:43:44.89
But anyway you know
this Deal or No Deal,
00:43:44.92\00:43:46.87
you get a chance to
get a million dollars.
00:43:46.90\00:43:48.52
And there's this
guy, up in the sky
00:43:48.55\00:43:51.56
behind this smoke glass,
00:43:51.59\00:43:53.02
you can only see as
silver, you never see His face.
00:43:53.05\00:43:56.34
I'll deal with
you. I'll make a deal.
00:43:56.37\00:43:59.32
You're not gonna
get that million,
00:43:59.35\00:44:00.84
I'm gonna offer you
this to bow out right now.
00:44:00.87\00:44:03.76
God says, "I'm
better than that guy.
00:44:05.37\00:44:09.69
That's My money anyway.
00:44:09.72\00:44:11.29
I'm not trying to take
the money away from you.
00:44:11.32\00:44:13.55
But here's the
deal, I need to know,
00:44:13.58\00:44:16.10
from My vantage
point up in the sky,
00:44:16.13\00:44:19.03
I need to know, if
you're willing to trust Me,
00:44:19.06\00:44:22.16
put everything
you have in My hands.
00:44:22.19\00:44:25.02
I'm not gonna
necessarily make you
00:44:25.05\00:44:27.13
another Warren Buffett.
00:44:27.16\00:44:29.13
Oh, there have
been men and women,
00:44:29.16\00:44:30.88
who become exceedingly
wealthy, read Abraham,
00:44:30.91\00:44:33.95
who have trusted God.
00:44:33.98\00:44:35.85
But I'm not
necessarily gonna make you
00:44:35.88\00:44:37.71
another Warren Buffett,
but here's My deal with you,
00:44:37.74\00:44:40.16
I who am richer
than Warren Buffett,
00:44:40.19\00:44:42.43
will be your CFO,
24/7, night and day.
00:44:42.46\00:44:46.07
And anytime you need
anything, you ask Me.
00:44:46.10\00:44:48.92
Are you in debt right now?
00:44:48.95\00:44:50.30
I'm gonna get you
out of debt, God says.
00:44:50.33\00:44:52.74
I'm gonna get you out of debt.
00:44:52.77\00:44:53.84
I know this doesn't make sense,
00:44:53.87\00:44:56.08
because you have
less to work with,
00:44:56.11\00:44:57.59
but you got to trust me.
00:44:57.62\00:44:58.88
I'm gonna get you out of debt.
00:44:58.91\00:45:02.32
I just need to
know, deal or no deal?
00:45:02.35\00:45:04.72
You're gonna trust me
or not? That's the deal.
00:45:06.78\00:45:09.95
Will you trust me? What a God.
00:45:09.98\00:45:14.04
He said, hey, by the
way, let me tell you,
00:45:14.07\00:45:16.10
how I took care of My kids
00:45:16.13\00:45:17.59
when they were going
through the wilderness,
00:45:17.62\00:45:18.99
40 years on
those hot desert sands.
00:45:19.02\00:45:21.35
Jot this down in
your study guide.
00:45:21.38\00:45:23.25
Here's what I
did to these people
00:45:23.28\00:45:24.43
who tithe with Me,
00:45:24.46\00:45:25.50
"During the 40 years
00:45:25.53\00:45:28.25
your clothes did not wear
out, nor did your sandals."
00:45:28.28\00:45:33.43
Apparently, the
CFO of the universe
00:45:33.46\00:45:35.67
can make the rubber stay
on the heels of our shoes.
00:45:35.70\00:45:40.04
And if He could do it
on the heels of our shoes,
00:45:40.07\00:45:41.51
He could probably do it
on the tyres of our cars.
00:45:41.54\00:45:43.98
Keep those tyres going.
00:45:44.95\00:45:47.46
I know it says 60,000,
but I'm giving you 80,000.
00:45:47.49\00:45:52.20
And I don't know how
He's gonna do it with you.
00:45:52.23\00:45:54.00
That's not trivialities
00:45:54.03\00:45:55.09
but you
understand what I am saying.
00:45:55.12\00:45:56.70
I'll take care of you.
I will take care of you.
00:45:56.73\00:46:00.10
I did for my friends before.
00:46:00.13\00:46:02.07
By the way, my friend
David, he says, listen to this,
00:46:02.10\00:46:05.15
David have spoke
these words Psalm 37:25.
00:46:05.18\00:46:09.57
David says, "I have never
seen the righteous forsaken
00:46:09.60\00:46:13.15
or their
children begging bread."
00:46:13.18\00:46:16.32
Some of you,
right now have children
00:46:16.35\00:46:17.49
and you're going through this
economic crisis with children
00:46:17.52\00:46:19.84
and you're saying to yourself,
00:46:19.87\00:46:21.24
how will I ever make
it through this crisis?
00:46:21.27\00:46:23.99
God can't take
care of my kids plus me.
00:46:24.02\00:46:28.01
What am I gonna do?
00:46:28.04\00:46:29.59
And God is saying, I
will take care of you.
00:46:29.62\00:46:35.50
I will take care of you.
00:46:35.53\00:46:38.04
You're gonna have to
trust your kids, mamma.
00:46:38.07\00:46:39.58
You have to
trust your kids to God.
00:46:39.61\00:46:41.28
You're gonna have to ask God,
to manage their lives as well.
00:46:41.31\00:46:44.82
Papa, I'll take care of you.
00:46:44.85\00:46:48.27
Ladies and
gentlemen, I'm telling you what,
00:46:48.30\00:46:51.93
you're not gonna
find anywhere in scripture
00:46:51.96\00:46:53.89
a deal better than this one.
00:46:53.92\00:46:54.95
This is it.
00:46:54.98\00:46:56.87
So God says, try
Me, test Me, prove Me.
00:46:56.90\00:47:00.70
See if I will not open
the floodgates of heaven
00:47:00.73\00:47:02.93
and pour you
out such a blessing.
00:47:02.96\00:47:04.37
I'm gonna bring
you through this debt,
00:47:04.40\00:47:05.92
I'm gonna bring you
to economic security,
00:47:05.95\00:47:07.74
I'm gonna bring you
to financial salvation,
00:47:07.77\00:47:10.59
one day, if you trust me.
00:47:10.62\00:47:12.89
You gotta trust
me. You gotta trust me.
00:47:12.92\00:47:16.22
We'll read it again,
00:47:18.25\00:47:20.08
"Bring the whole
tithe into the storehouse,
00:47:20.11\00:47:21.82
that there may
be food in my house.
00:47:21.85\00:47:23.35
Test me in this,'
says the Lord Almighty,
00:47:23.38\00:47:25.76
and see if I will not throw
open the floodgates of heaven
00:47:25.79\00:47:28.52
and pour out so much blessings
00:47:28.55\00:47:30.25
that there will not be
room enough to store it."
00:47:30.28\00:47:32.69
Write it down please.
00:47:32.72\00:47:33.88
There it is,
secret number three.
00:47:33.91\00:47:35.65
"Go over the
head of Warren Buffet
00:47:35.68\00:47:37.54
and enlist God as your CFO
00:47:37.57\00:47:40.47
by returning his
one-tenth back to him.
00:47:40.50\00:47:44.59
That's it.
00:47:44.62\00:47:45.65
Secret number three,
it's just simple as that.
00:47:45.68\00:47:48.29
Return his
one-tenth back to Him.
00:47:50.94\00:47:53.71
But you're saying,
pastor, pastor time-out, pastor.
00:47:53.74\00:47:55.77
I can't, I can't.
I'm so far in debt now,
00:47:55.80\00:47:59.71
I cannot afford
to return to God,
00:47:59.74\00:48:02.56
His tithe and His
offerings. I cannot afford to.
00:48:02.59\00:48:05.28
My dear friend, you
cannot afford, not to.
00:48:05.31\00:48:09.57
You can't afford, not to.
I'm being honest with you.
00:48:09.60\00:48:15.04
Could it be, that the
unselfish act of generosity
00:48:15.07\00:48:18.23
toward God in giving
offerings, when you feel
00:48:18.26\00:48:20.16
you're can't
afford to give a gift,
00:48:20.19\00:48:21.49
is the very spirit
of catalyst your life
00:48:21.52\00:48:23.44
has been needing to set you free
00:48:23.47\00:48:24.91
from you self-centered
worries and anxieties.
00:48:24.94\00:48:27.43
You gotta get off of it.
00:48:27.46\00:48:28.49
You gotta get off of that horse.
00:48:28.52\00:48:29.70
Get off of that pony,
00:48:29.73\00:48:30.76
because you've
ridden that one to debt.
00:48:30.79\00:48:32.99
Poor me, poor me, poor
me. We know it's a crisis.
00:48:33.02\00:48:36.88
It's a crisis for all. But
you got to get off of that.
00:48:36.91\00:48:40.83
Could it be, a cut in God end
00:48:40.86\00:48:43.24
right at the
beginning is antiote.
00:48:43.27\00:48:47.62
Speaking of giving,
00:48:47.65\00:48:50.12
listen to this, you
have it in your study guide,
00:48:50.15\00:48:51.97
Ed Gungor in his book
00:48:52.00\00:48:53.15
"Religiously
Transmitted Diseases,"
00:48:53.18\00:48:55.37
I like that title.
He makes his point well.
00:48:55.40\00:48:58.73
It's in your study guide,
00:48:58.76\00:48:59.79
you're gonna have
to fill in the words.
00:48:59.82\00:49:00.98
Here we go.
Giving, this is good.
00:49:01.01\00:49:03.46
"Giving touches a nerve
in us that nothing else does.
00:49:03.49\00:49:10.26
We look a lot like God
when we do it, John 3:16."
00:49:10.29\00:49:14.94
For God so love
the world that He gave.
00:49:14.97\00:49:17.44
We look like God when we give.
00:49:17.47\00:49:18.98
"When you give," keep going,
write that in "When you give,
00:49:19.01\00:49:21.81
you defy the fear
that you won't have enough.
00:49:21.84\00:49:25.13
You insult greed,
the impulse to acquire
00:49:25.16\00:49:28.80
or possess more than
one needs or deserves.
00:49:28.83\00:49:30.93
If you really
believe that God owns it all
00:49:30.96\00:49:33.64
and that he is your
source and provider,
00:49:33.67\00:49:35.69
giving will be
a simpler matter."
00:49:35.72\00:49:37.92
Keep writing.
00:49:37.95\00:49:38.98
"The arena of
giving is the only place
00:49:39.01\00:49:43.32
where exactly what's
going on in your heart
00:49:43.35\00:49:46.42
is revealed."
00:49:46.45\00:49:47.74
There's no other way
friend, the universe to know
00:49:47.77\00:49:49.50
what's happening
in that guy's heart?
00:49:49.53\00:49:51.00
The only way to find out
is, check his giving record.
00:49:51.03\00:49:53.61
That's the-- what's
happening in that lady's heart?
00:49:53.64\00:49:55.50
Check her giving record.
00:49:55.53\00:49:56.57
The giving
record tells the truth
00:49:56.60\00:49:58.82
about what's happening inside.
00:49:58.85\00:50:00.25
If you're not given,
you got a heart problem.
00:50:00.28\00:50:02.39
Sure, it's a selfishness issue.
00:50:02.42\00:50:04.97
If you can't
give-- you say well,
00:50:05.00\00:50:07.61
what if I am poor as a widow?
00:50:07.64\00:50:08.84
If you're poor as a widow,
00:50:09.45\00:50:11.00
Oh if you're
poor as a widow, give.
00:50:13.81\00:50:17.85
Now he goes on here
00:50:19.84\00:50:20.88
"The arena of
giving is the only place
00:50:20.91\00:50:22.22
where exactly what's going
on in your heart is revealed.
00:50:22.25\00:50:23.81
According to
Jesus" keep writing,
00:50:23.84\00:50:25.28
"giving keeps your
heart in motion towards God,"
00:50:25.31\00:50:28.13
I like that, "and
away from material things,"
00:50:28.16\00:50:29.76
one more sense.
00:50:29.79\00:50:30.82
"Your heart will follow
the direction of your giving."
00:50:30.85\00:50:33.19
Your heart will follow
the direction of your giving.
00:50:33.22\00:50:36.28
You know what, you
come to think of it,
00:50:36.31\00:50:39.54
see if isn't true.
00:50:39.57\00:50:41.11
If we don't
give, it's not because
00:50:41.14\00:50:44.33
we can't afford to,
00:50:44.36\00:50:46.95
it's because we
don't trust His promises
00:50:46.98\00:50:49.78
to take care of us, when we do.
00:50:49.81\00:50:52.84
It's not because we
can't afford, you can.
00:50:52.87\00:50:55.00
You can give.
00:50:55.03\00:50:57.96
You can give. It's His antidote.
00:50:57.99\00:51:01.55
Had a student, one
of my student friends
00:51:01.58\00:51:02.78
here at the university.
00:51:02.81\00:51:03.84
He said pass, I
got to tell you this.
00:51:03.87\00:51:05.09
I had $40 in my wallet,
$40 eating a hole in my wallet.
00:51:05.12\00:51:08.43
I want to get, I
want to get some clothes,
00:51:08.46\00:51:10.26
I needed clothes badly.
00:51:10.29\00:51:11.78
So he said, I got
off-campus, I got off-campus
00:51:11.81\00:51:14.63
and bumped into a homeless man.
00:51:14.66\00:51:16.81
Oh, and I knew
that I had to share
00:51:16.84\00:51:19.19
something with him and
so I gave him some money.
00:51:19.22\00:51:20.97
Now, that's a true story.
00:51:21.00\00:51:22.03
So he gives this homeless
man off-campus, some money.
00:51:22.06\00:51:24.98
He goes down to
the village gas station
00:51:25.01\00:51:26.90
to get gas
00:51:26.93\00:51:28.10
and a woman and her little child
00:51:28.13\00:51:29.51
come walking up to
him and they said sir,
00:51:29.54\00:51:31.33
we need some money.
00:51:31.36\00:51:33.14
He reached into his wallet
00:51:33.17\00:51:34.55
and gave the balance of that $40
00:51:34.58\00:51:36.88
to that woman and
that little child.
00:51:36.91\00:51:39.56
And he said, you
know what pastor,
00:51:41.33\00:51:42.48
it's kind of crazy.
00:51:44.17\00:51:46.18
But after giving
it, this passion to have
00:51:46.21\00:51:52.13
what I just had to
have, it just disappeared.
00:51:52.16\00:51:56.68
It just went away.
00:51:56.71\00:51:59.29
You know, it makes
you wonder, may be,
00:51:59.32\00:52:00.90
if we gave more we'd
be contented with less.
00:52:00.93\00:52:06.69
May be that's
what it's all about.
00:52:09.17\00:52:10.94
May be that's why Jesus--
the one thing Jesus spent
00:52:10.97\00:52:13.64
more time on
than any other theme
00:52:13.67\00:52:15.46
in the gospels is giving.
00:52:15.49\00:52:17.90
Because He knows,
it's the true story
00:52:17.93\00:52:20.21
of what's in
your heart, right now.
00:52:20.24\00:52:22.83
If you don't
give, you don't trust.
00:52:22.86\00:52:25.98
You don't trust me.
00:52:26.01\00:52:28.05
He says, I just want to know,
00:52:28.08\00:52:30.73
what are you
giving these days? Wow.
00:52:30.76\00:52:34.57
God says, okay, try me.
00:52:39.00\00:52:42.58
Secret number three, three steps
00:52:42.61\00:52:44.30
for secret number three
and then I'm sitting down.
00:52:44.33\00:52:45.49
Jot these down.
00:52:45.52\00:52:46.55
Three simple
steps that you can take
00:52:46.58\00:52:47.82
to make secret number
three to work in your life.
00:52:47.85\00:52:49.39
Let's go.
00:52:49.42\00:52:50.45
Secret number three,
00:52:50.48\00:52:51.51
step number one,
jot it down, please.
00:52:51.54\00:52:53.65
"Always set aside God's 1/10
whenever you receive money."
00:52:53.68\00:52:57.44
Just jot that down.
00:52:57.47\00:52:58.50
Come on that's the point
here from Jacob and Abraham,
00:52:58.53\00:53:00.54
and Jesus.
00:53:01.24\00:53:02.81
Always set aside God's
1/10 whenever you receive money.
00:53:02.84\00:53:05.24
Grandma sends your
birthday money, one-tenth.
00:53:05.27\00:53:09.53
Government sends you
a tax refund, one-tenth.
00:53:09.56\00:53:12.05
None of this scribbling.
00:53:12.08\00:53:13.11
Let's see if I
already tithe this.
00:53:13.14\00:53:14.25
Forget it. One-tenth.
00:53:14.28\00:53:16.41
You say, hey but
wait a minute, Dwight,
00:53:16.44\00:53:17.85
what about my
unemployment check?
00:53:17.88\00:53:20.89
Well, why not?
00:53:20.92\00:53:22.27
Don't you need
God as your CFO, 24/7
00:53:22.30\00:53:25.29
especially,
when you're employed?
00:53:25.32\00:53:28.62
One-tenth. All
right, that's' number one.
00:53:28.65\00:53:30.84
Number two, three little ways
00:53:30.87\00:53:32.33
to make secret
number three come to life.
00:53:32.36\00:53:33.84
Number two,
"Incrementally work up
00:53:33.87\00:53:35.36
another 1/10 for
God as He blesses you."
00:53:35.39\00:53:39.29
The Bible calls
these, offerings.
00:53:39.32\00:53:40.94
The tithe, boom
goes right back to Him.
00:53:40.97\00:53:42.76
Nobody argues over that
but He says, now as I bless you
00:53:42.79\00:53:45.21
I want you to start giving.
00:53:45.24\00:53:46.27
You bump into a
homeless man, you give.
00:53:46.30\00:53:47.65
You bump into somebody
who's in need, you give.
00:53:47.68\00:53:49.42
You help out your
church, help out--
00:53:49.45\00:53:50.94
whatever organization,
you help, you give.
00:53:50.97\00:53:53.55
It's an antidote to selfishness.
00:53:53.58\00:53:55.25
And little-- point number three
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in the secret number there,
00:53:56.79\00:53:57.94
"Let every gift you give
00:53:57.97\00:53:59.31
be the compact
between you and God
00:53:59.34\00:54:01.29
to live 10/10 for the other."
00:54:01.32\00:54:03.46
You each live a
100% for the other.
00:54:03.49\00:54:05.35
I'll tell you what, you can go
through anything in this life,
00:54:05.38\00:54:07.38
if you'll live 100%
for God, because trust me,
00:54:07.41\00:54:09.60
He's living a 100% for
you. Let me end with a story.
00:54:09.63\00:54:12.85
Once upon a time,
there was a little widow
00:54:12.88\00:54:14.98
who came to church and
gave an offering to God.
00:54:15.01\00:54:17.34
Unbeknown to her,
Jesus and His disciples
00:54:17.37\00:54:20.27
were in that
church, that very day.
00:54:20.30\00:54:23.34
And when she tried to sneak
00:54:23.37\00:54:25.00
her little offering
into that offering plate,
00:54:25.03\00:54:28.26
Jesus was blown out of the water
00:54:28.29\00:54:33.11
when He spotted her.
00:54:33.14\00:54:34.76
And He said in the stage whisper
00:54:34.79\00:54:36.28
that everybody
in the back section
00:54:36.31\00:54:38.39
of the church could hear,
00:54:38.42\00:54:39.72
wow, guys did you see that?
00:54:39.75\00:54:42.85
This little woman
has just given more
00:54:42.88\00:54:46.23
than all the wealthy in
this church combined today.
00:54:46.26\00:54:50.82
Because they gave, they
gave, out of their abundance.
00:54:50.85\00:54:54.84
And she, out of her
poverty gave everything she had.
00:54:54.87\00:54:59.86
You see, ladies and
gentlemen, that's the truth.
00:54:59.89\00:55:03.85
"With God it's not
what you give that counts,
00:55:03.88\00:55:08.34
it's what you have
left over that matters."
00:55:08.37\00:55:12.83
Once up on a
time there was a God,
00:55:15.71\00:55:18.38
who gave everything
He had to the human race
00:55:18.41\00:55:22.92
so that there was
nothing left over.
00:55:22.95\00:55:28.15
Want you to read this text
00:55:28.18\00:55:29.29
on the screen, out loud with me.
00:55:29.32\00:55:30.36
2 Corinthians 8:9.
Read it out loud with me.
00:55:30.39\00:55:34.57
"For you know the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
00:55:34.60\00:55:39.14
that though he was rich,
00:55:39.17\00:55:41.47
yet for your
sake he became poor,
00:55:41.50\00:55:44.75
so that you through his
poverty might become rich."
00:55:44.78\00:55:50.38
Nothing left over.
God loved you that much.
00:55:50.41\00:55:53.50
Nothing, nada, left
over. It's all yours.
00:55:53.53\00:55:58.59
I give it all to you.
00:55:58.62\00:56:00.60
Ladies and
gentlemen, if the God of Jacob,
00:56:00.63\00:56:03.60
who became the
savior of the world,
00:56:03.63\00:56:06.21
gave everything,
with nothing left over.
00:56:06.24\00:56:08.69
Here's the question,
00:56:08.72\00:56:09.75
now you give me
the answer on this one.
00:56:09.78\00:56:11.36
Here's the question for you.
00:56:11.39\00:56:12.97
Can you not then trust Him
00:56:13.00\00:56:19.30
to take care of you
00:56:19.33\00:56:21.62
when you give back to Him?
00:56:21.65\00:56:26.60
Can't you? Of course, you can.
00:56:26.63\00:56:29.18
You can. Yes, you can.
00:56:29.21\00:56:32.12
Yes, we can.
00:56:32.15\00:56:35.07
It's been a pleasure to be
able to worship with you today.
00:56:37.29\00:56:39.83
I hope the Spirit of
Jesus has blessed your time
00:56:39.86\00:56:42.68
with us right here in
the Pioneer Memorial Church
00:56:42.71\00:56:44.50
in the campus of
Andrews University.
00:56:44.53\00:56:46.55
Do you know that
around the world,
00:56:46.58\00:56:47.72
people join us every
week for this hour of worship?
00:56:47.75\00:56:50.05
We're always
looking as a consequence
00:56:50.08\00:56:52.08
for new ways to bridge,
00:56:52.11\00:56:53.35
somehow to
connect with these people
00:56:53.38\00:56:55.44
who come here to
worship via the telecast.
00:56:55.47\00:56:58.30
One of the areas
that's quickly growing
00:56:58.33\00:57:00.23
for us is our website.
00:57:00.26\00:57:01.75
We have a more than a
140,000 visitors last year.
00:57:01.78\00:57:05.57
It's an incredible opportunity
00:57:05.60\00:57:07.44
that God has given us
to expand His kingdom.
00:57:07.47\00:57:10.36
If you'd like to
help, partner with us,
00:57:10.39\00:57:12.44
as we seek to spread
the everlasting gospel
00:57:12.47\00:57:15.08
I'd love to have you
call our toll-free number.
00:57:15.11\00:57:17.84
We got very friendly
operator standing by.
00:57:17.87\00:57:20.30
Here's the
number, 877-His-Will, 877
00:57:20.33\00:57:24.19
and then the
two words, His-Will,
00:57:24.22\00:57:25.48
one of the
operators will be happy
00:57:25.51\00:57:27.75
to give you the details
00:57:27.78\00:57:28.87
of how you can partner
with this global ministry.
00:57:28.90\00:57:31.74
If you prefer, listen,
you could do it all online.
00:57:31.77\00:57:33.98
Got to our website
please, www.pmchurch.tv.
00:57:34.01\00:57:38.37
I'd be honored to
have the privilege
00:57:38.40\00:57:39.90
of partnering with
you, as we seek to spread
00:57:39.93\00:57:41.88
the truth about God
for this generation.
00:57:41.91\00:57:44.32
We are living in urgent times.
00:57:44.35\00:57:47.33
Now more than ever,
we've got to go to the world
00:57:47.36\00:57:50.88
with the good
news entrusted to us.
00:57:50.91\00:57:52.59
So once again here's that
toll-free number 877-His-Will.
00:57:52.62\00:57:56.83
Thank you in
advance for you generosity.
00:57:56.86\00:57:59.44
That blesses me and
you grow this ministry.
00:57:59.47\00:58:02.52
I'll pray that
the Spirit of Christ
00:58:02.55\00:58:04.20
will abide with you
every step of the way
00:58:04.23\00:58:06.43
and I hope you come back
again next time right here,
00:58:06.46\00:58:09.67
as we continue our
worship journey, together.
00:58:09.70\00:58:12.46