Participants: Pr. Dwight K. Nelson
Series Code: NP
Program Code: NP041809
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07:25 Now sing together,
07:26 "Over the mountains and the seas." 07:28 Over the mountains and the sea 07:31 Your river runs with love for me 07:34 And I will open up my heart And let the Healer set me free 07:39 I'm happy to be in the truth. I'm happy to be in the truth 07:44 And I will daily lift my hands I'll always sing. 07:47 For I will always sing Of when your love came down. 07:49 Of when Your love came down 07:52 And sing that chorus out together. 07:53 I could sing of Your love forever 07:59 Just raise our voices. 08:00 I could sing of Your love forever 08:06 I could sing of Your love forever 08:12 I could sing of Your love forever 08:18 We're gonna sing that once more. 08:26 Just have every voice singing, all together, 08:29 "Over the mountains and the sea." 08:31 Over the mountains and the sea 08:34 Your River runs with love for me 08:37 And I will open up my heart And let the healer set me free 08:42 I'm happy to be in the truth. I'm happy to be in the truth 08:47 And I will daily lift my hands For I will always sing 08:52 Of when Your love came down I could sing. 08:57 I could sing of Your love forever 09:03 I could sing of Your love forever 09:09 I could sing of Your love forever 09:16 I could sing of Your love-- 09:18 Amazing grace, can we have the ladies sing? 09:21 Amazing grace! 09:27 How sweet the sound 09:33 That saved a wretch 09:39 like me! 09:46 I once was lost, 09:52 but now am found 09:58 Was blind, but now 10:04 I see 10:09 One last time we sing in chorus "I could sing." 10:12 I could sing of Your love forever 10:18 I could sing of Your love forever 10:25 I could sing of Your love forever 10:31 I could sing of Your love forever 10:42 Thank you, Wind Symphony and the worship team. 10:49 I can't believe that in two Sabbath 10:53 the year will be over. 10:54 But you blessed us while you are here. 10:55 Thank you very much. Hope you coming back next year. 10:59 We'll be waiting for you. God give you a blessed summer. 11:05 Let's pray together. 11:08 Holy Father, we could sing of Your love forever. 11:10 Why not? 11:12 When You know, You have been loved that much. 11:16 Can't help, but sing. 11:20 But today's teaching reinforced that truth 11:23 beyond the shadow of a doubt. 11:25 We pray in Jesus name, amen. 11:31 Do you know who this man is? Recognize him? 11:35 You don't? That's Warren Buffett. 11:39 Have you ever heard of Warren Buffett? 11:42 Have you? 11:44 Forbes magazine last month 11:46 came out with a report on Warren Buffett, 11:47 I've got it from Forbes.com. 11:50 Let me just read to you about that man. 11:54 Age, 77. Fortune, self-made. 11:59 Source, Berkshire Hathaway. 12:02 Country of citizenship, United States. 12:04 Residence, Omaha, Nebraska, United States, North America. 12:07 Industry, Investments. Marital status, widowed. 12:10 Re-married, three children. 12:12 Education, University of Nebraska, 12:15 Lincoln, Bachelor of Arts and Science, 12:17 Columbia University, Master of Science. 12:20 Your education stands you in good stead. 12:23 Now, America's most beloved investor 12:25 is now the World's richest man. 12:29 Soared past friend and bridge partner Bill Gates 12:31 as shares of Berkshire Hathaway climb 25 percent 12:35 since the middle of last July. 12:36 Son of Nebraska politician, 12:38 he delivered newspapers as a boy. 12:39 Filed his first tax return at the age of 13, 12:43 claiming $35 deduction for bicycle. 12:47 You go. 12:48 Now you know, why he is, of what he is. 12:52 All right, here we go, let me read one more line. 12:55 Took over textile firm, Berkshire, 12:57 Berkshire Hathaway, 1965, 12:59 today, holding company invested in insurance, GEICO. 13:04 Never heard of that little Australian accented-- 13:08 what is it? 13:09 Gecko, that's it. 13:10 Yeah well, of course, GEICO, gecko. 13:12 Not gonna figure that out, GEICO. 13:15 General RE. 13:16 Jewellery, Borsheim's, 13:17 Utilities, MidAmerican Energy and food, 13:20 Dairy Queen and See's candies. 13:23 Every time you eat an ice-cream cone 13:24 that's dipped from Diary Queen 13:26 you're helping out Warren Buffett. 13:30 Estimated net worth today-- today, put his picture back up. 13:34 Estimated net worth today, $62 billion. 13:42 Wow! I want to give you some advice. 13:46 If Warren Buffett should call you this next week, 13:49 now I'm serious. 13:51 If he should call you this next week, 13:54 and he says over the phone from Omaha, 13:56 Nebraska, I've heard about you 14:00 and I want to become friends with you. 14:03 I'd love to go in a partnership with you. 14:06 I'm willing to put my $62 Billion 14:09 on the line for your success. 14:12 Would you be willing-- he asks on the phone, 14:14 would be willing for me to do just that? 14:17 I want to give you a little bit of pastoral counsel. 14:19 I'm not the brightest crayon in the box 14:21 but let me tell you that if he ever asks you, 14:25 just say, yes, please. 14:32 If Warren Buffett wants to be your friend 14:35 just say, yes! 14:40 Do you know what, 14:41 I've got an even better deal for you right now? 14:43 Open your Bible with me please to, Genesis Chapter 28, 14:46 the book of beginnings, Genesis 28. 14:50 A story, a perfect story for a generation 14:52 in the time of economic crisis. 14:55 Nobody said that the crisis is over. 14:57 Prognosticators are saying this could get worse 15:01 before it gets better. 15:04 A story for the penniless and the hopeless 15:06 that maybe what you feel like today. 15:08 A perfect story for anybody, 15:09 whose life is melting down, right now. 15:11 Open your Bible with me please to Genesis Chapter 28. 15:15 I'm gonna be today in the, 15:16 today's New International Version. 15:17 You didn't-- if you didn't bring a Bible, 15:19 you got to, you got to follow this story. 15:20 It's a great story. 15:21 Grab the pew Bible in front of you. 15:23 The page number in the pew Bible 15:24 would be page 19. 15:27 Genesis 28. Let's dive in this together. 15:29 Those of you watching on television right now, 15:31 find their Bible. 15:32 Read the story. 15:33 We'll put it on the screen for you as well. 15:35 Here you go, Genesis 28:10 15:37 "Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. 15:42 And when he reached a certain place, 15:43 He stopped for the night because the sun had set." 15:47 Now I got to tell you, 15:48 that just read this out of the blue, 15:50 it feels like, you know, this guy Jacob, whoever he is, 15:52 is on some sort of day trip, it turns into an overnighter, 15:55 he is stopping for rest. 15:58 But you need to know, that if we could take 16:01 Jacob's heart-rate right now in this story, 16:04 he's in tachycardia. 16:07 Let me read to you, 16:08 a little bit of background, behind this moment 16:10 from that classic on the Old Testament 16:12 "Patriarchs and Prophets." 16:16 So here's the background, so you get to-- 16:18 so you can know why the heart-rate is so high. 16:20 "Threatened by death. 16:22 Threatened, with death by the wrath of Esau." 16:25 That would be his brother, born just ahead of him. 16:28 They're twins but Esau, just came out first. 16:31 "Threatened, with death by the wrath 16:32 of his brother, Esau." 16:34 You see he tricked Esau. 16:36 Pulled the world over his daddy's eyes, 16:38 and stole the birth right and the paternal blessing. 16:42 Got them both. 16:44 And Esau has vowed and mamma heard about it. 16:46 Esau has vowed, I'm gonna kill that boy, 16:48 as soon as daddy dies Jacob is gone. 16:51 Adios. 16:52 So he's running for his life. He's on the lamb. 16:55 "Threatened with death by the wrath of Esau, 16:57 Jacob went out 16:58 from his father's home a fugitive. 17:00 With a deeply troubled heart, 17:02 he set out on his lonely journey." 17:03 Now, listen up. 17:04 "With only his staff in his hand, 17:06 he must travel hundreds of miles, 17:08 through a country inhabited by wild, roving tribes. 17:11 In his remorse and timidity he sought to avoid men, 17:15 lest he should be traced by his angry brother. 17:17 He feared that he had lost forever 17:19 the blessing that God had purposed to give him 17:21 and Satan was at hand to press temptations upon him." 17:24 That guy is getting it from every direction 17:27 and his heart-rate is, tachycardia. 17:32 "The evening of the second day, 17:33 he found Jacob far away from his father's tents. 17:35 He felt that he was an outcast. 17:37 He knew that all this trouble had been brought upon him 17:39 by his own wrong course. 17:40 Now the darkness of despair pressed upon his soul, 17:44 and he hardly dared to pray." 17:46 I want to stop right there. 17:47 Because every one of us knows 17:49 what it's like to come to that place in life 17:50 when you're feeling so guilty. 17:53 You're so overcome by you own actions 17:56 that you hardly dare to pray. 17:58 I need to tell you, 17:59 with all the authority I can muster that 18:01 whenever you come to those moments 18:03 and we all do, that is a sure sign, 18:06 you must immediately begin to pray. 18:09 When you feel you can't pray, because of what you've done 18:12 it is the moment gotta saying, 18:14 "Pray to me boy, pray to me girl, 18:16 I need to hear from you right now." 18:18 Don't you ever let the devil say, 18:19 "Well, you're too, you're too bad. All right, go." 18:24 He hardly dared to pray. 18:25 "But he was so utterly lonely 18:27 that he felt the need of protection from God 18:29 as he had never felt it before. 18:30 With weeping and deep humiliation 18:32 he confessed his sin to God. 18:34 And he intrigued for some evidence 18:36 that he was not utterly forsaken. 18:38 Still his burdened heart found no relief. 18:40 He had lost all confidence in himself, 18:42 and he feared that the God of his fathers 18:44 had cast him off." 18:47 That's why his heart-rate is so high, tonight. 18:52 Now the story goes on. 18:53 Let's pick it up right there, verse 11, again. 18:55 "When he reached a certain place, 18:57 out in the barren wilderness 18:59 "he stopped for the night because the sun had set. 19:02 Taking one of the stones there, 19:03 he put it under his head and lay down to sleep." 19:06 Verse 12, "He had a dream, 19:08 in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth," 19:11 Now, the New King James reads ladder. 19:14 Something is down here. 19:16 Stairway ladder, it's resting on the earth 19:18 "With its top reaching to heaven, 19:21 and the angels of God 19:22 were ascending and descending on it." 19:25 And at the top of the stairway, 19:26 "There above it stood the Lord." 19:30 By the way, I need to tell you this, 19:31 that when that Lord of the dream, 19:33 eventually would come to earth, 19:34 He would turn to His disciples one day. 19:35 In John 1, he said, "Hey guys, I want to tell you something. 19:38 I am that stairway from henceforth, 19:40 you will see angels ascending and descending, 19:43 upon me, the ladder, between heaven and earth." 19:45 I am your staircase to heaven. 19:48 But that's good to know, you're not disconnected. 19:51 You're not all alone on this planet 19:53 in this crisis you're going through now. 19:54 You're not all alone. I'm the stairway. 19:57 "And there above it stood the Lord, 19:58 and He said, 'I am the Lord, 20:01 the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. 20:05 I will give you and your descendants the land 20:08 on which you are lying. 20:09 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, 20:11 and you will spread out to the west and to the east, 20:13 to the north and to the south. 20:15 And all peoples on earth will be blessed 20:17 through you and your offspring.'" 20:19 Time out, God. Hold it, hold it, hold it. 20:22 Great dream. 20:24 You've just got the wrong dreamer here. 20:26 You don't mean that. 20:27 You don't mean, You're gonna, 20:28 You're gonna bless the human race 20:30 through this guy, whose name-- 20:32 he lived up to his name. 20:33 They named him, the Supplanter. 20:35 Esau came out first 20:36 and Jacob was hanging on to Esau's heels. 20:38 I'm always after you. I'm always. 20:40 You're not gonna name-- 20:41 you're not gonna promise this guy 20:42 who is a cheat, a liar, a crook! 20:47 And you're gonna bless the whole earth through him. 20:50 You know our problem, don't you? 20:52 Our problem is, we who think we are saints. 20:54 Our problem is that we think 20:55 God only does business with saints. 20:57 But come to find out, God cuts transaction 20:59 with anybody who'd give Him the time. 21:02 And He particularly specializes, in sinners. 21:07 So if you're feeling like a sinner today, 21:09 I got good news for you. 21:10 There was a cheat named, Jacob once. 21:12 Lied as much as you did on those reading reports, 21:14 lied as much as you did on that exam, 21:15 lied as much as you did 21:19 and God said," I want to do business with you, boy, girl, 21:22 give Me another shot. 21:24 It's your life. Hallelujah." 21:27 Right dream, right dreamer. It's a sinner. 21:31 That's why I'm talking to you, God said. 21:36 Verse 14, we read that, didn't we? 21:40 "All the peoples on earth will be blessed 21:41 through you and your offspring." 21:42 Now, verse 15. 21:43 "I am with you" look at this, this is-- 21:46 He's making this promise to a sinner. 21:48 "I am with you and will watch over you 21:50 wherever you go." 21:51 It's a sinner who's turned to Him 21:52 and said, you gotta help me God. 21:53 I'm so messed up my life. 21:55 There's no way out of this whole, 21:57 unless You do something. 21:58 He is making the promise to a sinner 21:59 who has turned back to Him. 22:00 That's the deal. 22:01 He can't make the promise to a sinner 22:03 who doesn't turn to Him. 22:04 But how can I help you? You don't want Me to help you. 22:06 But if you want Me sinner, 22:07 if you want Me, I'm there for you. 22:10 Just like that. 22:11 I, as He put it right here verse 15 22:14 "I am with you and I will watch over you 22:16 and wherever you go, 22:18 I'm gonna bring you back to this land. 22:19 I will not leave you until I have done 22:21 what I have promised you." 22:23 Good bye. 22:24 And "When Jacob" verse 16 22:26 "awoke from his sleep, he thought," surely 22:29 "'Surely the Lord is in this place, 22:31 and I was not aware of it.' 22:34 And He was afraid 22:35 and he said," how awesome"' 22:37 How awesome is this place! 22:40 This is none other than the house of God, 22:43 this is the gate of heaven.'" 22:45 You know, I got to thinking when I was studying this story, 22:47 this week, I got to thinking, 22:48 "what would happen, if you and I, 22:49 every time we came in to this church, 22:51 on this campus as worshippers, we thought those words first. 22:54 Whether it was to chapel or to Church on Sabbath?" 22:56 What if we thought, 22:58 "Wow, how awesome is this, this is the house of God. 23:02 This is a gate of heaven." 23:03 I have a feeling, what you and I do in this house 23:06 while we're with God would be affected 23:09 by that little confession as we come through the door. 23:11 I know its Thursday and I know its chapel. 23:13 But this is God's house. This is God's house. 23:20 It would make a difference, wouldn't it? 23:21 If I'd always remember when I stepped up here, 23:24 this is God's house. 23:26 He's here. 23:29 Earlier the next morning, 23:30 because that was in the middle of the night 23:31 when Jacob would woke, after the dream. 23:32 So he's waiting out till the-- 23:33 just to first purple blushes 23:35 of the dawn on the eastern horizon 23:37 "Early the next morning Jacob took the stone 23:39 he had placed under his head and set it up 23:41 his pillow became a pillar 23:42 and he poured oil on top of it." 23:43 He consecrated it to God. 23:44 Verse 19 and "He called that place Bethel," 23:47 house of EL, house of God, 23:50 "though the city used to be called Luz." 23:52 Verse 20 "Then Jacob made a vow," 23:54 this is the first time in the Bible 23:56 a human is described doing this. 23:58 "Then Jacob made a vow, saying, 24:01 'If God will be with me 24:03 and will watch over me on this journey I am taking 24:06 and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear 24:08 so that I return safely to my father's house, 24:11 then the Lord will be my God.'" 24:12 You know what, I've read this so long, 24:15 as a quid-pro-quo, 24:16 that's Latin for, "this for that." 24:18 I've read, okay Jacob said, kind of a crafty guy, 24:21 I'm cutting a deal with You. 24:22 You give me food, You keep me clothed, 24:24 You bring me back, then I'll worship You. 24:26 Ladies and gentlemen, that's-- 24:27 that is ugly illogical. 24:29 You know why? 24:30 We just found this out this last week. 24:31 You know why? 24:32 Because, he's already got the assurance from God, 24:37 I'm with you and he woke up, 24:38 his heart bursting with gratitude. 24:40 This isn't, cutting the deal like, 24:42 I want to know if You're gonna be with me. 24:43 This is now a prayer. 24:45 Oh God, because You've promised 24:48 to cloth me and feed me and bring me back to this land 24:51 I want to do this for You. 24:53 That's what really happened in here. 24:54 And what is it that he wants to do for God? 24:56 Verse 27, So that if I return safely to my father's house, 24:59 then Lord, the Lord will be my God 25:02 "and this stone that I have set up as a pillar 25:04 will be God's house," and all that 25:07 "of all that you give me I will give You a tenth." 25:14 End of story. 25:16 What's going on here? Simple. 25:19 You got a sinner on the run, who has been overwhelmed 25:22 by the divine assurance of mercy and forgiveness. 25:24 I'm gonna start over with you. 25:25 I'm gonna start way over with you. 25:28 And he's so grateful. 25:30 He says, Here's the deal, 25:31 everything you give me for the rest of my life, 25:33 you get the first tenth. 25:34 You get it. I'm giving it to you. 25:38 That's what's going on. 25:40 Apparently ladies and gentlemen, 25:41 it's okay to allow a crisis, to forge a new compact, 25:48 between you and God. 25:51 That point is so critical 25:52 we're gonna write it down right now. 25:53 Let's do it. Let's just grab that study guide. 25:55 Is there a study guide in your worship bulletin? 25:56 Pull that study guide out. 25:58 You didn't get a study guide, you're gonna want this one. 25:59 It's a very practical one. 26:00 Hold your hand up, if you didn't get the study guide 26:02 our friendly ushers are coming your way, 26:04 all the way up to the back in the overflow as well. 26:06 Make sure everybody today gets a study guide. 26:09 And those of you, watching on TV, 26:11 we're so glad to have you. 26:12 I want you to have the same study guide. 26:13 This is a dynamite teaching. Follow along with this. 26:16 Let me put the website on the screen for you, 26:18 where you get the study guide. 26:19 You see it there, 26:20 at the very bottom of that screen. 26:22 Can you see, www.pmchurch.tv. 26:27 That's the website you're looking for, it's our website. 26:30 You're looking for a series, by the way that ends next week. 26:33 Title of the series that you're looking for, 26:35 "Four Secrets to Survive 26:37 in the Coming Economic Earthquake." 26:39 We've already had secret one, we've had secret two, 26:41 today is secret three. 26:43 Title of today's secret, 26:44 "Go Over the Head of Warren Buffet." 26:46 And oh boy, don't you miss secret number 4, next weekend. 26:52 Surviving--no, 26:53 "Thriving in Midst of the Crisis." 26:57 Not surviving, thriving. 26:59 We'll wrap it up next week. Come back for that please. 27:01 But fill out the first line in your study guide. 27:04 Let's put it on the screen, please. 27:05 The very first line of your study guide, 27:06 "Apparently, it's okay to allow an economic crisis 27:12 to forge a new compact between you and God." 27:20 Just jot that down. 27:22 And I'll tell you the reason that's so important is 27:24 because some people are afraid 27:25 that turning crisis into compacts, 27:27 might turn God into-- 27:28 it might turn God away 27:30 from the questionable motivation. 27:32 I mean, come on, why am I turning to God in a crisis? 27:34 And he's gonna say, "Well, you never loved Me 27:35 when you're in affair with a friend. 27:37 Only when it's raining, do you come around." 27:41 No. 27:44 You know what my friends, 27:45 the only thing worse 27:47 than turning to God in a crisis, 27:49 the only thing worse is not turning to God, 27:53 in a crisis. 27:54 That's what crisis are for. 27:55 In fact, will you jot it down please? 27:57 "Every crisis is a call 27:59 for a renewed compact with God." 28:03 It's that way in marriages. Marriages go through storms. 28:06 Trust me. They go through storms. 28:07 Every marriage does. 28:09 Now a storm is either gonna make your marriage stronger 28:11 or it's gonna make your marriage weaker. 28:13 You can't ride a storm out 28:14 and come out the same at the other end. 28:15 No. 28:16 Every crisis produces change that's why God allows crisis. 28:22 So why'd be any different in an economic crisis, 28:25 which by the way is why God allows crisis 28:29 to come to His children because the crisis can, 28:32 if we allow them draw us deeper. 28:35 Now look at, it's a, it's a huge risk for God 28:38 because the crisis that draws you closer to Him, 28:40 can be the crisis that drives me away from Him. 28:42 And so God has to calculate, 28:43 wait-a-minute, wait-a-minute, 28:44 she is doing fine, he is not. 28:46 It is a calculated risk. It may drive you further away. 28:52 But that's why in every crisis-- 28:54 would you jot this down please? 28:55 "Just like it was with Jacob, in the midst of a crisis, 28:58 God draws especially near to us." 29:02 He's not leaving you hanging. 29:03 He's not farther away in a crisis, 29:05 it's the other way around. 29:06 Just like it was with Jacob. 29:07 I got the ladder where you're, boy? 29:09 I'm coming down that ladder, 29:10 right to where you're sleeping now. 29:12 He's always closer in a crisis 29:15 so that He can tilt the risk in His favor. 29:18 He wants to win. 29:19 He wants you to win. He don't want you to lose. 29:24 So that's what happens, 29:28 let's read verse 20 again. 29:29 "Then Jacob made a vow," when he woke up the next day 29:33 "saying, 'If God will be with me 29:35 and will watch over me on this journey I am taking 29:38 and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear 29:40 so that I return safely to my father's household, 29:42 then the Lord will be my God 29:45 and this stone that I have set up as a pillar 29:47 will be God's house, 29:48 and of all that you give me dear God 29:51 I will give you a tenth.'" 29:54 You get a tenth. 29:56 Everything You give to me, I will give you a tenth. 30:02 Jot this down, 30:03 "As a recognition of God as his Savior and Sustainer, 30:07 Jacob offer back to God 1/10 of his income." 30:11 One-tenth! The Bible calls it-- 30:13 jot it down, "The Bible calls it, 'tithe.'" 30:16 In reality-- 30:18 this is not new Jacob, he's-- he come up with-- 30:20 I think I'm gonna come up with this I-- are you kidding? 30:21 He learned it form his grandfather, Abraham. 30:24 Let me show you, 30:25 two very different motivations for giving tithe. 30:28 By the way just go back a few pages to Genesis 14 30:32 because, grandpa Abraham 30:33 really is the one who taught Jacob about this. 30:37 Go back to Genesis 14, drop down there to verse 18. 30:41 "Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine." 30:46 We got some worship going on now 30:47 like a communion service. 30:48 He brought out bread and wine. 30:51 And he was the priest-- this Melchizedek. 30:53 "He was the priest of the God Most High, and he" 30:56 the priest "blessed Abram," known then is Abram "saying, 31:00 'Blessed be Abram by God Most High, 31:03 Creator of heaven and earth. 31:04 And praise be to God Most High, 31:06 who delivered your enemies into your hand.'" 31:08 And now as a response, watch this. 31:10 "Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything." 31:15 Now the King James calls it, then Abraham gave Him-- 31:17 Abram gave Him a tithe. 31:19 But notice how very different are the motivations. 31:23 So it came from Abraham, 31:24 but grandpa Abraham and grandson Jacob, 31:26 very different motivations. 31:28 Jot this down, will you? 31:29 "Abraham returned 'tithe' 31:31 as a grateful act of worship before God, 31:35 whereas Jacob gave it 31:37 as a grateful act of partnership with God." 31:43 But keep you pen moving. 31:44 "Clearly both motivations are acceptable to God." 31:49 He'll take it either way. 31:51 You want to make it a partnership deal? 31:52 Let's do it. 31:53 You want to make it a worship response? 31:54 Let's do it. 31:56 He'll take either one of them. 31:58 After all, that's what the wisest 32:00 and the richest man in the history of earth, 32:02 sorry Warren Buffett, 32:04 we got one richer than you, King Sullivan. 32:07 That's the lesson King Sullivan learned. 32:10 Take a look at this Proverb. 32:11 Proverbs 3. Proverbs 3. 32:14 Proverbs 3, these Proverbs, collected from the wisest man 32:18 who ever lived, King Sullivan. 32:20 Proverbs 3, he's making the very same point. 32:22 What's the page number in the pew Bible? 32:23 Page number is 429. 32:26 Proverbs 3, oh, that looks good. 32:29 So you got Abraham and Jacob in these two little pro-- 32:31 no, that's one Proverb, split in half. 32:33 And Abraham will be in the first half, 32:35 and Jacob will be in the second half. 32:36 You watch this. 32:37 Proverb 3:9, "Honor the Lord with your wealth," 32:41 some of you saying, that's not me 32:44 because I have no wealth. 32:46 Hey, hold on, hold on, hold on. 32:47 In the New King James it reads, possessions. 32:49 Don't you come and tell me, you've no possessions. 32:52 An iPod is a possession. A laptop is a possession. 32:55 You have many possessions. 32:58 Yeah, you're not wealthy, I understand and neither am I. 33:00 But we have possessions. 33:01 "Honor" how is it go here verse 9 33:03 "Honor the Lord with your wealth, 33:05 with the first fruits of your crops." 33:07 So any money coming in, you give Him the first skim. 33:09 Just give him the first little skim. 33:11 Honor Him with the first fruits of your crops. 33:13 Now that's Abraham. Now here comes Jacob. 33:15 Verse 10, 33:16 "Then your barns will be filled to overflowing, 33:20 and your vats will brim over with new wine." 33:24 Watch this. Write it down, please. 33:26 Two lines powerfully depict 33:27 the very different motivations for Abraham and Jacob. 33:31 "Proverbs 3:9," jot it down, 33:32 "describes the human response 33:34 of gratitude for divine blessings." 33:36 That's Abraham. 33:37 He just comes back and says, 33:38 "I want to give this to you God, I'm so grateful." 33:39 In worship, the human response of gratitude. 33:43 But "Proverb 3:10 describes 33:45 the human request in gratitude for more" 33:49 I want more, I want more, I want more. 33:50 The more you give me, the more I give back to you. 33:53 Jacob, has nothing, he's penniless. 33:55 He wants more, he needs more. 33:58 Two very different responses, but remember 34:01 both motivations are acceptable to our divine parent, 34:05 hallelujah. 34:07 And we know that for sure 34:09 because God cannot get any clear than this. 34:11 This is a clear. This is it. 34:13 So go to the last page of your Old Testament. 34:15 The very last page of your Old Testament, Malachi. 34:19 Malachi Chapter 3, 34:23 we'll land our plane right here. 34:25 Malachi 3:8. 34:30 Malachi 3, 34:32 what page number is it in the pew Bible? 34:33 645. 34:35 Malachi 3:8, God is speaking now. 34:39 God is speaking, and He asks the question, 34:41 "Will a mere mortal rob God? 34:47 Yet you" God says to Israel 34:50 "Yet you rob me." 34:52 Now, hit the pause button right there. 34:53 What does it mean to rob someone? 34:57 What does it mean? 34:59 Hey, I could not believe my ears this week. 35:01 True story. 35:02 I'm listening to CBS radio, 35:04 and they've given a story about woman down in Florida-- 35:06 what that town is she from? Boynton beach, Florida. 35:10 This woman's at work. 35:12 And I heard the 911 tape, so I know. 35:14 Okay, this woman's at work, 35:16 you see her house, was robbed, sometime ago 35:18 and so she put, right up there in the corner, 35:20 she put a little webcam, right up there 35:23 so that it could take a picture 35:24 of everything happening in her house. 35:26 So she's at work, this last week and she said, 35:29 "I'm gonna see how it is at my house?" 35:32 Boom, there it is. 35:34 And while she's watching her house, 35:36 one stranger goes by, another stranger. 35:39 Two men, true story, are ripping off her house 35:44 while she's watching, on the computer screen at work. 35:47 She dials, 911 and she says," You got to help me," 35:50 and they played her tapes back. 35:51 She is desperate. 35:53 She says, "They are stealing everything I have." 35:55 There goes my DVD, there goes my Wii, there goes" 35:59 and the little appliances 36:00 were all going under this guy's arms. 36:02 One of the guys had the temerity to go 36:03 to her refrigerator 36:04 and pull out a bag of cheese 36:06 and he's going through the house 36:07 ripping her off, eating her cheese. 36:10 The other guy sees the camera up there 36:12 and goes up near like this and he gonna. 36:16 She says, "You got to help me they're still in the house." 36:19 Oh, and by the way, 36:20 through the images every now and then, 36:22 when her watchdog wagging his tail 36:25 the whole time. 36:28 I get rid of that dog immediately. 36:34 She says, "You got to help me, you gotta help me." 36:36 And it is really something. 36:37 And the dispatcher said," 36:38 Ma'am, ma'am, calm down, calm down ma'am. 36:40 Ma'am, we got the police on the way. 36:41 Eighteen police arrived with guns drawn 36:44 and surrounded that house. 36:45 Can you imagine the look on the burglars 36:47 when they walked out? 36:51 What does it mean to steal? What does it mean to rob? 36:54 It means to take something that belongs to somebody else 36:59 and appropriate it for yourself. 37:02 That's what it means. And that's what God is saying. 37:06 Verse 8 again. 37:07 "Will a mere mortal rob God? 37:14 Yet you rob me. 37:16 But you ask, 37:17 'How are we robbing you?' In tithes and offerings." 37:24 Come on, come on. How can we rob God? 37:27 Please. Oh, simple. 37:30 We take what doesn't belong to us, 37:32 what belongs to somebody else 37:34 and we appropriate it to ourselves. 37:37 How much belongs to God? 37:39 Let's just do a real quick check 37:41 from scripture, how much belongs to God. 37:42 You keep your fingers moving here 37:44 because we're gonna fly through these. 37:45 Haggai 2:8 God is speaking 37:47 "The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine." 37:49 So that means all the money on earth belongs to God, 37:51 all right. 37:52 Sorry Warren Buffett, it all belongs to God. 37:54 You got it from Him. Yes, you did. 37:56 Okay Haggai 2:8, 37:58 "The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine." 37:59 Psalm 50:10, jot it down. 38:01 God is speaking,"For the cattle on a thousand hills are Mine." 38:07 And incidentally from the last reports 38:08 we've gotten, the hills 38:09 under the cattle are also God's. 38:14 Psalm 24:1, jot it down. 38:16 "The earth" here it is "The earth is the Lord's 38:20 and everything in it, 38:21 the world, and all who live in it." 38:24 I'm telling you Maltbie Babcock got it right. 38:26 "This is my Father's world." It's all His. 38:31 The old spiritual sings, 38:32 "He got the whole world, in His hands." 38:35 Ladies and gentlemen, it's all His. 38:39 Is that my? Come on. That is not fair. 38:41 If God has everything, I got nothing. 38:44 That's not what the Bible is teaching. 38:47 In fact, when God creates this planet in the beginning, 38:50 he takes Adam and Eve aside and He says, 38:51 "Hey guys, this is all yours." Can you believe that? 38:54 Well, you know, He said technically it's Mine 38:56 because I made it. 38:57 But I'm giving it to you 38:59 and I want you please to manage this for Me. 39:03 In fact, jot this down in your study guide, 39:06 Genesis 2:15. 39:08 "The Lord God took the man," 39:09 and by the way that's generic human race. 39:12 "He takes this human race 39:15 and He puts them 39:17 in the Garden of Eden to work it 39:19 and to take care of it." 39:21 Take care of it. 39:23 When you care-- 39:24 by the way this is a great green reminder 39:27 on the eve of the week that brings Earth day to us. 39:31 Human beings have been put on this planet, 39:33 to take care of the planet. 39:37 "When you take care of someone else's property," 39:39 jot this down, "you aren't an owner," 39:41 but I got good news for you, you are not a robber either. 39:44 You know what you're? "You're a steward or manager." 39:47 Jot that down. That's who you are. 39:49 You are a steward. You are a manager. 39:52 And by the way that is not a demeaning term. 39:54 or a belittling notion That is a high honor. 39:58 You think about it. 40:00 When you were a kid growing up, how much did you own? 40:02 Tell me the truth. 40:03 When you were a kid how much did you own? 40:06 Zero. Nada. Nothing. 40:09 Every gift you gave to your dad, 40:10 you got it from you dad in the first place. 40:13 He acted like, it was something from you, 40:15 it was from him. 40:18 But you know what, 40:19 you owned not a single thing as a kid growing up, 40:22 but you were as happy as a lark. 40:24 Because you have nothing to worry about, 40:26 somebody-- my daddy has got all the worries. 40:28 My daddy is in control. 40:30 My daddy will take care of everything, 40:32 and you went through life just hunky-dory all the time. 40:36 Not a worry through your childhood. 40:38 You only start to worry when you became a teenager. 40:42 And that's all down hill from there. 40:46 That's the point, ladies and gentlemen, 40:48 to keep fresh in our memory, this parent child relationship, 40:54 this owner, steward, manager paradigm, 40:57 to keep that fresh in our minds. 41:00 God's who's the one that invented it. 41:01 Abraham didn't invent it. 41:02 God invented, Hey I'm gonna take 1/10 of the top. 41:05 By the way don't get all bin-out-of-shape, 41:08 all ten tenths belong to you. 41:10 But I will take a tenth. 41:12 I don't need your nickels and dimes, for Pete's sake. 41:15 I got it all. 41:16 But when you return these nickels and dimes to Me, 41:19 you're saying to Me, "God you're the one that worries, 41:25 I'm the one that lives. 41:27 And I'm hiring You, to work for me." 41:30 And God says, "Cha-Ching, that's exactly what I want." 41:35 Jot it down, will you? 41:36 "God designed the 'tithe' to be a sign of our compact with him. 41:39 He is our CFO." Oh, by the way what CFO mean? 41:45 Chief Financial Officer. 41:48 He's our C-- that's the one that makes 41:51 all the ultimate money decisions. 41:53 "He's our CFO and we are his administrative assistants." 41:59 Now, keep that pen going because this gets even better. 42:01 "When we return His 1/10" okay. 42:03 We return His, because it belongs to Him. 42:06 "When we return His 1/10 back to Him, 42:08 we recognize His 10/10 ownership of us 42:12 and His 100% partnership with us." 42:18 So here's the Bibles great formula 42:19 for getting out of debt and staying out of debt. 42:21 Here it is, "God's ownership, 42:25 plus My stewardship equals, our partnership." 42:30 We're in this to the max, together. 42:36 And because we're partners, 42:37 oh boy, hold on to your pew right now. 42:39 Look how our divine CFO comes through. 42:43 You're not gonna believe this 42:44 but He really is promising this, 42:46 this is verse 10. 42:47 God says, "Bring the whole tithe," 42:48 bring that 1/10. 42:50 Come on, don't give me tithe light, 9%. 42:53 You give me tithe 10%. 42:56 God says, "You bring that tithe to Me, 42:58 bring it into the storehouse, 42:59 that there may be food in My house." 43:01 And then I love this "Test Me" 43:02 the New King James says, you try Me. 43:04 Just try Me, try Me, try Me, try Me. 43:05 "Test me in this, ' says the Lord Almighty, 43:08 and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven," 43:13 I love that "throw open the floodgates of heaven 43:16 and pour out so much blessings 43:18 there will not be room enough to store it." 43:23 Hallelujah. 43:25 Mercy. 43:28 Wow. 43:31 You ever see the game show, Deal or No Deal? 43:35 Who comes up with these things? 43:38 They obviously haven't been to college 43:41 or maybe they've been to college 43:43 and sure gets everybody watching. 43:44 But anyway you know this Deal or No Deal, 43:46 you get a chance to get a million dollars. 43:48 And there's this guy, up in the sky 43:51 behind this smoke glass, 43:53 you can only see as silver, you never see His face. 43:56 I'll deal with you. I'll make a deal. 43:59 You're not gonna get that million, 44:00 I'm gonna offer you this to bow out right now. 44:05 God says, "I'm better than that guy. 44:09 That's My money anyway. 44:11 I'm not trying to take the money away from you. 44:13 But here's the deal, I need to know, 44:16 from My vantage point up in the sky, 44:19 I need to know, if you're willing to trust Me, 44:22 put everything you have in My hands. 44:25 I'm not gonna necessarily make you 44:27 another Warren Buffett. 44:29 Oh, there have been men and women, 44:30 who become exceedingly wealthy, read Abraham, 44:33 who have trusted God. 44:35 But I'm not necessarily gonna make you 44:37 another Warren Buffett, but here's My deal with you, 44:40 I who am richer than Warren Buffett, 44:42 will be your CFO, 24/7, night and day. 44:46 And anytime you need anything, you ask Me. 44:48 Are you in debt right now? 44:50 I'm gonna get you out of debt, God says. 44:52 I'm gonna get you out of debt. 44:53 I know this doesn't make sense, 44:56 because you have less to work with, 44:57 but you got to trust me. 44:58 I'm gonna get you out of debt. 45:02 I just need to know, deal or no deal? 45:06 You're gonna trust me or not? That's the deal. 45:09 Will you trust me? What a God. 45:14 He said, hey, by the way, let me tell you, 45:16 how I took care of My kids 45:17 when they were going through the wilderness, 45:19 40 years on those hot desert sands. 45:21 Jot this down in your study guide. 45:23 Here's what I did to these people 45:24 who tithe with Me, 45:25 "During the 40 years 45:28 your clothes did not wear out, nor did your sandals." 45:33 Apparently, the CFO of the universe 45:35 can make the rubber stay on the heels of our shoes. 45:40 And if He could do it on the heels of our shoes, 45:41 He could probably do it on the tyres of our cars. 45:44 Keep those tyres going. 45:47 I know it says 60,000, but I'm giving you 80,000. 45:52 And I don't know how He's gonna do it with you. 45:54 That's not trivialities 45:55 but you understand what I am saying. 45:56 I'll take care of you. I will take care of you. 46:00 I did for my friends before. 46:02 By the way, my friend David, he says, listen to this, 46:05 David have spoke these words Psalm 37:25. 46:09 David says, "I have never seen the righteous forsaken 46:13 or their children begging bread." 46:16 Some of you, right now have children 46:17 and you're going through this economic crisis with children 46:19 and you're saying to yourself, 46:21 how will I ever make it through this crisis? 46:24 God can't take care of my kids plus me. 46:28 What am I gonna do? 46:29 And God is saying, I will take care of you. 46:35 I will take care of you. 46:38 You're gonna have to trust your kids, mamma. 46:39 You have to trust your kids to God. 46:41 You're gonna have to ask God, to manage their lives as well. 46:44 Papa, I'll take care of you. 46:48 Ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you what, 46:51 you're not gonna find anywhere in scripture 46:53 a deal better than this one. 46:54 This is it. 46:56 So God says, try Me, test Me, prove Me. 47:00 See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven 47:02 and pour you out such a blessing. 47:04 I'm gonna bring you through this debt, 47:05 I'm gonna bring you to economic security, 47:07 I'm gonna bring you to financial salvation, 47:10 one day, if you trust me. 47:12 You gotta trust me. You gotta trust me. 47:18 We'll read it again, 47:20 "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, 47:21 that there may be food in my house. 47:23 Test me in this,' says the Lord Almighty, 47:25 and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven 47:28 and pour out so much blessings 47:30 that there will not be room enough to store it." 47:32 Write it down please. 47:33 There it is, secret number three. 47:35 "Go over the head of Warren Buffet 47:37 and enlist God as your CFO 47:40 by returning his one-tenth back to him. 47:44 That's it. 47:45 Secret number three, it's just simple as that. 47:50 Return his one-tenth back to Him. 47:53 But you're saying, pastor, pastor time-out, pastor. 47:55 I can't, I can't. I'm so far in debt now, 47:59 I cannot afford to return to God, 48:02 His tithe and His offerings. I cannot afford to. 48:05 My dear friend, you cannot afford, not to. 48:09 You can't afford, not to. I'm being honest with you. 48:15 Could it be, that the unselfish act of generosity 48:18 toward God in giving offerings, when you feel 48:20 you're can't afford to give a gift, 48:21 is the very spirit of catalyst your life 48:23 has been needing to set you free 48:24 from you self-centered worries and anxieties. 48:27 You gotta get off of it. 48:28 You gotta get off of that horse. 48:29 Get off of that pony, 48:30 because you've ridden that one to debt. 48:33 Poor me, poor me, poor me. We know it's a crisis. 48:36 It's a crisis for all. But you got to get off of that. 48:40 Could it be, a cut in God end 48:43 right at the beginning is antiote. 48:47 Speaking of giving, 48:50 listen to this, you have it in your study guide, 48:52 Ed Gungor in his book 48:53 "Religiously Transmitted Diseases," 48:55 I like that title. He makes his point well. 48:58 It's in your study guide, 48:59 you're gonna have to fill in the words. 49:01 Here we go. Giving, this is good. 49:03 "Giving touches a nerve in us that nothing else does. 49:10 We look a lot like God when we do it, John 3:16." 49:14 For God so love the world that He gave. 49:17 We look like God when we give. 49:19 "When you give," keep going, write that in "When you give, 49:21 you defy the fear that you won't have enough. 49:25 You insult greed, the impulse to acquire 49:28 or possess more than one needs or deserves. 49:30 If you really believe that God owns it all 49:33 and that he is your source and provider, 49:35 giving will be a simpler matter." 49:37 Keep writing. 49:39 "The arena of giving is the only place 49:43 where exactly what's going on in your heart 49:46 is revealed." 49:47 There's no other way friend, the universe to know 49:49 what's happening in that guy's heart? 49:51 The only way to find out is, check his giving record. 49:53 That's the-- what's happening in that lady's heart? 49:55 Check her giving record. 49:56 The giving record tells the truth 49:58 about what's happening inside. 50:00 If you're not given, you got a heart problem. 50:02 Sure, it's a selfishness issue. 50:05 If you can't give-- you say well, 50:07 what if I am poor as a widow? 50:09 If you're poor as a widow, 50:13 Oh if you're poor as a widow, give. 50:19 Now he goes on here 50:20 "The arena of giving is the only place 50:22 where exactly what's going on in your heart is revealed. 50:23 According to Jesus" keep writing, 50:25 "giving keeps your heart in motion towards God," 50:28 I like that, "and away from material things," 50:29 one more sense. 50:30 "Your heart will follow the direction of your giving." 50:33 Your heart will follow the direction of your giving. 50:36 You know what, you come to think of it, 50:39 see if isn't true. 50:41 If we don't give, it's not because 50:44 we can't afford to, 50:46 it's because we don't trust His promises 50:49 to take care of us, when we do. 50:52 It's not because we can't afford, you can. 50:55 You can give. 50:57 You can give. It's His antidote. 51:01 Had a student, one of my student friends 51:02 here at the university. 51:03 He said pass, I got to tell you this. 51:05 I had $40 in my wallet, $40 eating a hole in my wallet. 51:08 I want to get, I want to get some clothes, 51:10 I needed clothes badly. 51:11 So he said, I got off-campus, I got off-campus 51:14 and bumped into a homeless man. 51:16 Oh, and I knew that I had to share 51:19 something with him and so I gave him some money. 51:21 Now, that's a true story. 51:22 So he gives this homeless man off-campus, some money. 51:25 He goes down to the village gas station 51:26 to get gas 51:28 and a woman and her little child 51:29 come walking up to him and they said sir, 51:31 we need some money. 51:33 He reached into his wallet 51:34 and gave the balance of that $40 51:36 to that woman and that little child. 51:41 And he said, you know what pastor, 51:44 it's kind of crazy. 51:46 But after giving it, this passion to have 51:52 what I just had to have, it just disappeared. 51:56 It just went away. 51:59 You know, it makes you wonder, may be, 52:00 if we gave more we'd be contented with less. 52:09 May be that's what it's all about. 52:10 May be that's why Jesus-- the one thing Jesus spent 52:13 more time on than any other theme 52:15 in the gospels is giving. 52:17 Because He knows, it's the true story 52:20 of what's in your heart, right now. 52:22 If you don't give, you don't trust. 52:26 You don't trust me. 52:28 He says, I just want to know, 52:30 what are you giving these days? Wow. 52:39 God says, okay, try me. 52:42 Secret number three, three steps 52:44 for secret number three and then I'm sitting down. 52:45 Jot these down. 52:46 Three simple steps that you can take 52:47 to make secret number three to work in your life. 52:49 Let's go. 52:50 Secret number three, 52:51 step number one, jot it down, please. 52:53 "Always set aside God's 1/10 whenever you receive money." 52:57 Just jot that down. 52:58 Come on that's the point here from Jacob and Abraham, 53:01 and Jesus. 53:02 Always set aside God's 1/10 whenever you receive money. 53:05 Grandma sends your birthday money, one-tenth. 53:09 Government sends you a tax refund, one-tenth. 53:12 None of this scribbling. 53:13 Let's see if I already tithe this. 53:14 Forget it. One-tenth. 53:16 You say, hey but wait a minute, Dwight, 53:17 what about my unemployment check? 53:20 Well, why not? 53:22 Don't you need God as your CFO, 24/7 53:25 especially, when you're employed? 53:28 One-tenth. All right, that's' number one. 53:30 Number two, three little ways 53:32 to make secret number three come to life. 53:33 Number two, "Incrementally work up 53:35 another 1/10 for God as He blesses you." 53:39 The Bible calls these, offerings. 53:40 The tithe, boom goes right back to Him. 53:42 Nobody argues over that but He says, now as I bless you 53:45 I want you to start giving. 53:46 You bump into a homeless man, you give. 53:47 You bump into somebody who's in need, you give. 53:49 You help out your church, help out-- 53:50 whatever organization, you help, you give. 53:53 It's an antidote to selfishness. 53:55 And little-- point number three 53:56 in the secret number there, 53:57 "Let every gift you give 53:59 be the compact between you and God 54:01 to live 10/10 for the other." 54:03 You each live a 100% for the other. 54:05 I'll tell you what, you can go through anything in this life, 54:07 if you'll live 100% for God, because trust me, 54:09 He's living a 100% for you. Let me end with a story. 54:12 Once upon a time, there was a little widow 54:15 who came to church and gave an offering to God. 54:17 Unbeknown to her, Jesus and His disciples 54:20 were in that church, that very day. 54:23 And when she tried to sneak 54:25 her little offering into that offering plate, 54:28 Jesus was blown out of the water 54:33 when He spotted her. 54:34 And He said in the stage whisper 54:36 that everybody in the back section 54:38 of the church could hear, 54:39 wow, guys did you see that? 54:42 This little woman has just given more 54:46 than all the wealthy in this church combined today. 54:50 Because they gave, they gave, out of their abundance. 54:54 And she, out of her poverty gave everything she had. 54:59 You see, ladies and gentlemen, that's the truth. 55:03 "With God it's not what you give that counts, 55:08 it's what you have left over that matters." 55:15 Once up on a time there was a God, 55:18 who gave everything He had to the human race 55:22 so that there was nothing left over. 55:28 Want you to read this text 55:29 on the screen, out loud with me. 55:30 2 Corinthians 8:9. Read it out loud with me. 55:34 "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, 55:39 that though he was rich, 55:41 yet for your sake he became poor, 55:44 so that you through his poverty might become rich." 55:50 Nothing left over. God loved you that much. 55:53 Nothing, nada, left over. It's all yours. 55:58 I give it all to you. 56:00 Ladies and gentlemen, if the God of Jacob, 56:03 who became the savior of the world, 56:06 gave everything, with nothing left over. 56:08 Here's the question, 56:09 now you give me the answer on this one. 56:11 Here's the question for you. 56:13 Can you not then trust Him 56:19 to take care of you 56:21 when you give back to Him? 56:26 Can't you? Of course, you can. 56:29 You can. Yes, you can. 56:32 Yes, we can. 56:37 It's been a pleasure to be able to worship with you today. 56:39 I hope the Spirit of Jesus has blessed your time 56:42 with us right here in the Pioneer Memorial Church 56:44 in the campus of Andrews University. 56:46 Do you know that around the world, 56:47 people join us every week for this hour of worship? 56:50 We're always looking as a consequence 56:52 for new ways to bridge, 56:53 somehow to connect with these people 56:55 who come here to worship via the telecast. 56:58 One of the areas that's quickly growing 57:00 for us is our website. 57:01 We have a more than a 140,000 visitors last year. 57:05 It's an incredible opportunity 57:07 that God has given us to expand His kingdom. 57:10 If you'd like to help, partner with us, 57:12 as we seek to spread the everlasting gospel 57:15 I'd love to have you call our toll-free number. 57:17 We got very friendly operator standing by. 57:20 Here's the number, 877-His-Will, 877 57:24 and then the two words, His-Will, 57:25 one of the operators will be happy 57:27 to give you the details 57:28 of how you can partner with this global ministry. 57:31 If you prefer, listen, you could do it all online. 57:34 Got to our website please, www.pmchurch.tv. 57:38 I'd be honored to have the privilege 57:39 of partnering with you, as we seek to spread 57:41 the truth about God for this generation. 57:44 We are living in urgent times. 57:47 Now more than ever, we've got to go to the world 57:50 with the good news entrusted to us. 57:52 So once again here's that toll-free number 877-His-Will. 57:56 Thank you in advance for you generosity. 57:59 That blesses me and you grow this ministry. 58:02 I'll pray that the Spirit of Christ 58:04 will abide with you every step of the way 58:06 and I hope you come back again next time right here, 58:09 as we continue our worship journey, together. |
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