1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,640 Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church. 2 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:18,520 Man, going to a hand-held. 3 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:19,520 Can you hear me now? 4 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,120 All right, good, good. 5 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:25,000 Well anyways, it was a great week at camp and it's been awesome. 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,200 God moved at camp, but one of the things, there's a ton of work if you've ever gone 7 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:33,200 to work to youth campers and an amazing amount of work that takes an incredible amount of 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:38,360 work that goes on on the back end of things or maybe on the front end. 9 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:43,960 But we watched as God spoke to children and really to teenagers and just blessed and moved 10 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:45,120 and they come home different. 11 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:50,080 I know for a lot of teenagers and even a lot of kids, it's a pivotal moment in their life 12 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:51,520 when God speaks to them. 13 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,400 It's kind of like going on a mission trip. 14 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:59,360 Get that week away where you're just focused on God for the week and things change. 15 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:03,360 So if you have children that haven't been to camp, think about it next year. 16 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,420 Get them involved in going to youth camp and we'll get you information about that. 17 00:01:07,420 --> 00:01:08,920 Even if you want to volunteer, come on. 18 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:10,840 If you want to go be tired, right? 19 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:16,600 A little bit hungry, exhausted, but with a smile on your face, go work a youth camp, 20 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:20,200 spend a week with these kids, with these teenagers and watch what God does. 21 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:21,200 Amen? 22 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:22,200 It's been good. 23 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:23,200 It's been good. 24 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,440 Today is the last day in a message series that I have spread out. 25 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:31,040 I usually do message series and do all the messages right in a row, but this one's been 26 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,920 spread out over a period of time and it's called In God We Trust. 27 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:35,920 How many remember it? 28 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:36,920 Come on. 29 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,560 Yeah, there's been messages in between that say, In God We Trust. 30 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:44,760 It's really about God and what the Bible has to say about financial principles and something 31 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,240 that really has to do with each one of us. 32 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,360 And since it's been so spread out, I thought I'd do just a little bit of a review. 33 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,000 How many know reviews okay once in a while? 34 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,560 Just kind of go back, get your memory refreshed and give you some of the truths that maybe 35 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:01,360 you want to go back and listen to these messages if you haven't heard them, but you might want 36 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,920 to go back and hear about these messages and some of these truths that come out of God's 37 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:06,920 Word. 38 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:11,920 The first one was number one is that I am a manager and I am not an owner. 39 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:16,640 One of the great freedoms in life and in God's Word is understanding that I'm a manager of 40 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:18,720 God's stuff, but I don't really own it. 41 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:19,720 He does. 42 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:24,000 And it shifts your thinking, it shifts how you move, it shifts how you do things in life. 43 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,440 If you haven't heard that message, go back and hear it. 44 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:31,080 Freedom truth number two, financial truth number two is too much debt can rob me of 45 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:32,080 freedom. 46 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:33,080 That was the second thing we talked about. 47 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:34,980 Pastor Eric preached on that. 48 00:02:34,980 --> 00:02:40,920 Number three was God blesses me with money so I can be generous to others, but I should 49 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:43,880 be generous towards God first. 50 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,880 I know that's a long one, but I should be generous towards God first. 51 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:49,720 That's really that first fruits principle. 52 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:55,160 It's really understanding who God is and what his prescription for finances is. 53 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,560 And number four we're going to hit today and there's a lot more. 54 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,360 I could probably just keep preaching for a couple of months, but I'm only going to do 55 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:01,600 four of them. 56 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,440 But today we're going to discover this. 57 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:10,560 We experience freedom later because of what we are doing right now. 58 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:15,480 We experience freedom later because of what we're doing right now. 59 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:21,080 Now this is true in finances and this is true in life. 60 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:26,960 I may know if I eat properly now, I'll have some freedom in my waistline. 61 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,000 Come on a little later, right? 62 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:34,400 If I pass up on the dessert six times a week and only have dessert one time a week, I have 63 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,120 some freedom in my waistline. 64 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,640 I might actually be able to button my pants. 65 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,680 I won't be in fear of that button flying off and killing somebody because my pants are 66 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:43,680 so tight. 67 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:48,200 So if I eat properly now, I've got some freedom in my waistline later. 68 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:53,240 If I study for my ninth grade test now, I might actually have the freedom to go to 10th 69 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:54,240 grade in the future. 70 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:55,240 Right? 71 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:56,240 There's freedom there. 72 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:00,440 If I go to work today, I'm going to receive a paycheck somewhere up the line. 73 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,160 And if I have freedom, right? 74 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:05,400 There's some financial freedom that comes with getting that paycheck. 75 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:10,440 If I invest today, I'm going to reap a harvest tomorrow. 76 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:15,320 So there's free what I do today really has a lot to do with what's going to take place 77 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:16,320 tomorrow. 78 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:20,400 If I'm following godly principles with my money today, I'm going to experience financial 79 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,400 freedom tomorrow. 80 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:24,400 Tomorrow. 81 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:25,880 How many want freedom in your finances? 82 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:27,320 And it's true. 83 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:28,320 I do. 84 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,680 And it may be a lot of different ways you can talk about freedom. 85 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,640 It might be freedom from too much debt. 86 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:34,640 Right? 87 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:35,960 Sometimes we get debt that piles up. 88 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:37,340 It might be freedom from debt. 89 00:04:37,340 --> 00:04:42,000 It could be freedom from the bondage of greed and materialism, because sometimes that can 90 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,160 grip our hearts and our minds. 91 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:45,160 It could be freedom. 92 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:50,120 You know, just there can be a freedom factor in just knowing that God is the owner and 93 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:51,120 I'm the manager. 94 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,240 I spoke about that in that message. 95 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:57,420 There's a freedom that comes with that because I begin to realize I'm just managing the whole 96 00:04:57,420 --> 00:05:00,240 thing and it's really all his to begin with. 97 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:01,240 There's freedom. 98 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:02,240 There's freedom. 99 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:07,160 If that comes, if I learn to save now right for something in the future, because God, 100 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:14,680 um, has been generous towards me first, I can have the rest blessed and I have freedom 101 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:16,600 later. 102 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:22,880 Freedom because I'm implementing God's financial principles on a daily basis. 103 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,640 Today what I do right? 104 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:30,040 What I do today is going to really lead towards what's going to happen tomorrow. 105 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:31,040 It's true. 106 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:36,640 I experienced freedom later because of what I'm doing right now. 107 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:37,640 Say it with me. 108 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:42,160 I experienced freedom later because of what I'm doing right now. 109 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,280 Now you might say, well, why are you talking about money at church? 110 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:46,280 Right? 111 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:47,760 A lot of people like, what are you talking about money for? 112 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:48,760 This is church. 113 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:49,760 That doesn't sound very spiritual. 114 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,080 You know, you should, you should talk about something else. 115 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:57,760 Well, I don't know if you know this or not, but 11 of Jesus 40 parables was about money. 116 00:05:57,760 --> 00:05:58,760 That's one fourth. 117 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,640 One fourth of the parables that he taught was about money. 118 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:06,260 Um, I don't know if you know this as well, but there are over 2000 different references 119 00:06:06,260 --> 00:06:08,800 in scripture that have to do with money. 120 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:12,440 There's only about 500 verses about prayer in all of the Bible. 121 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:14,800 There's over 2000 scriptures about money. 122 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,960 Jesus talked about a money a lot. 123 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,680 And the reason for that is, is because of a principle that you'll understand if you 124 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,520 look at first Timothy six 10, first scripture verse to go and bring it up. 125 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:30,440 It says this for the love of money, the love of money, that's key by the way. 126 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,000 It's not saying for money. 127 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,640 It just says the love, right? 128 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:34,640 That's different. 129 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:39,000 The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil for which some have strayed from the 130 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:45,480 faith and their greediness and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 131 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,000 The word of God says it doesn't say money's evil. 132 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:54,440 It says the love of money is evil and so much so that it can cause you to stray from faith 133 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:55,440 in God. 134 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:58,660 And literally it says you can be pierced through, right? 135 00:06:58,660 --> 00:07:01,800 You can be pierced through with many sorrows. 136 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,240 There's a danger that is associated with money. 137 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,280 There's a danger that comes along with it. 138 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:09,680 Money likes to play God in our life. 139 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:11,480 I don't know if you know that or not. 140 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:13,600 Money likes to take the place of God. 141 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,320 It likes to steal our heart away. 142 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:17,960 We have the potential. 143 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:18,960 We really do. 144 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:24,480 Each one of us, we have the potential to love money and to put it first in our life. 145 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:25,480 We really do. 146 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:31,780 We have, how am I know anything that you put first in your life, you're making God, right? 147 00:07:31,780 --> 00:07:32,780 You really are. 148 00:07:32,780 --> 00:07:34,600 Back in the Old Testament, they talk about idols. 149 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,680 They put an idol before God. 150 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,040 God said not to put, have any idols before you. 151 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:40,040 Money can be an idol. 152 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:41,040 It really can. 153 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:45,420 It can be this thing that you put first and it goes and it'll rule us instead of us ruling 154 00:07:45,420 --> 00:07:46,420 it. 155 00:07:46,420 --> 00:07:48,720 It'll pierce us through. 156 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:57,560 It'll cause us to, every motive in our life will shift and it'll change and it'll be wrong 157 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:01,520 because we're coming because money is God first. 158 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,060 Jesus talked a lot about money. 159 00:08:04,060 --> 00:08:06,220 He talked about it in Matthew 6 19. 160 00:08:06,220 --> 00:08:07,380 Listen what he says there. 161 00:08:07,380 --> 00:08:12,720 He says, lay up, lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth where moth and rust does 162 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,680 corrupt and where thieves breakthrough and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures 163 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:21,920 in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not breakthrough 164 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:22,920 nor steal. 165 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:29,200 Now, listen to the last part of this for where your treasure is, there will be your heart 166 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:30,840 also. 167 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,520 Another way to say that is what has our money has our heart. 168 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:38,560 I don't know if you realize it or what has our money has our heart. 169 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:43,040 We invest in what our heart has a hold of. 170 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:45,680 We put money into whatever our heart is. 171 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:48,120 We spend on what is priority to us. 172 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:49,160 It really is. 173 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:51,160 And what is important to us. 174 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:54,680 Yeah, all you have to do and this is a self inventory. 175 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:58,560 If you want to know really what you value in life, if you want to take a hard look at 176 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:04,080 what you think you value, you can think one thing, but just I want you just to take a 177 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:05,080 moment in your mind. 178 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:06,080 This is a self inventory. 179 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:08,360 What do I spend my money on? 180 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:11,440 You know, I'm not talking about the bills you pay, right? 181 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,480 I know none of you value the garbage. 182 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:15,480 I don't either. 183 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,400 I don't like playing, paying that, but that's part of it. 184 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:22,320 But what you value is what you spend your money on. 185 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,360 Jesus knew the power of money in our lives. 186 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:29,560 He knew that he could either be a tool in your hands and that's why you have money. 187 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:33,000 I don't know if you know that or not, to do the things of God in your life, to pour out 188 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:37,200 and walk out the things of God or it could be a God itself. 189 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,360 It's either a tool or it's a God. 190 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:41,440 And God wants you to use it as a tool. 191 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,680 He wants you to use it for the right purposes and for the right reasons. 192 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:49,240 And he's got a reason that the word of God lets us know just a few reasons, honestly, 193 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:54,040 why he gives us the ability to earn money and to make money. 194 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:57,480 Number one is this, first is so we can be generous towards God. 195 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,120 I preached about this a few weeks ago. 196 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:00,460 It's about first fruits. 197 00:10:00,460 --> 00:10:02,160 You want to be generous towards God. 198 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:06,760 The reason for that is if you give God the first, if you give God the 10th, if you give 199 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:10,880 him the offering, God blesses all the rest. 200 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:12,120 It's already blessed. 201 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:13,120 God's hands on it. 202 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,240 Nobody can mess with it, right? 203 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:16,320 It's already blessed. 204 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:17,320 So that's first. 205 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:22,560 Secondly, he gives you an ability to provide income so you can take care of your family. 206 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:27,600 The word of God says the person who does not take care of his family is worse than an infidel. 207 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:32,920 The word of God declares that God gives us the ability to make funds or to raise money 208 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,440 or to earn money so that we can take care of your family. 209 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:38,960 It's a godly thing that you take care of your family. 210 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:43,280 I love that you all take care of your family, that you provide for your family, that you 211 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:47,920 make sure your family is taken care of, that you walk that out in their lives for your 212 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:48,920 children. 213 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:50,880 How many of we got children in this church? 214 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:51,880 Amen. 215 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:54,760 If you were planning, you're thinking, man, I got a lot coming up, right? 216 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,760 In the future, there's things I got to buy. 217 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:58,840 I got to start getting ready for education. 218 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:02,600 Some of you are going to spend so much money on braces, it's going to make you cry. 219 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:03,600 All right? 220 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:04,600 Yeah. 221 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:05,600 You don't even know yet. 222 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:07,840 So all these things are going to come up, right? 223 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:08,840 And it's biblical. 224 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:10,880 You're to take care of your family. 225 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:14,360 God is blessing you so that you take care of those around you. 226 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:16,440 We're supposed to do that. 227 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:17,520 Everybody in our family. 228 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:23,160 And God gives us money for a third reason, so if we have excess, He bless others. 229 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,160 He wants to give you more than enough, right? 230 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,700 God's a God of abundance so you can bless Him. 231 00:11:28,700 --> 00:11:35,760 Jesus talked about money a bunch because it's so important what we do with it, because it's 232 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:41,320 so easy to put it in the wrong priority and the wrong place in our lives. 233 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:46,560 He talked about this because He knew that money can grab your heart and take a wrong 234 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:47,840 position in your life. 235 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,320 I want you to think about money as a tool in your hands. 236 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:55,320 God gives it to you to get some things done, to get some things accomplished. 237 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:56,320 Amen? 238 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:00,600 You just got to know the order of what that is and how to walk that out. 239 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,520 And that's why I talk about message. 240 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:07,380 I talk about money because I'm the message boy and Jesus talked about it. 241 00:12:07,380 --> 00:12:08,560 So I'm going to talk about it. 242 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:10,040 Now, listen, I got a second reason. 243 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:11,760 Say a second reason. 244 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,600 I talk about money because my grandfather talked about money. 245 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:15,600 All right? 246 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,380 My grandfather was good with money. 247 00:12:17,380 --> 00:12:20,840 He probably never made more than ten dollars an hour his entire life. 248 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:22,240 He was an auto mechanic. 249 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,320 He worked as an auto mechanic his entire career. 250 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:26,760 My grandmother stayed at home. 251 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:28,520 She did not work at all. 252 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:33,960 And my grandparents were this amazing example of how to handle money because my grandfather 253 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:40,240 and grandmother, they really lived out this verse description that's in Proverbs 13 22. 254 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:44,880 It says a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. 255 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:46,760 And my grandparents were like that. 256 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:47,960 They lived through the depression. 257 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,300 They were careful what they spent their money on. 258 00:12:50,300 --> 00:12:53,420 They watched what they were doing and they would save their money up. 259 00:12:53,420 --> 00:12:57,880 And when they got older in life, I watched as they took care of the three sons. 260 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:02,200 They would help their three sons when their three sons got married, one which was my dad. 261 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,420 They would they would step in sometimes and help out financially. 262 00:13:06,420 --> 00:13:08,320 And they had the money to do it. 263 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:09,320 They packed it away. 264 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:10,940 They got ready for the children. 265 00:13:10,940 --> 00:13:13,480 They got ready for their children and their children's children. 266 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:15,280 I was one of the children's children. 267 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:16,920 I was a grandson. 268 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:20,920 My grandparents financed a good part of me going to school. 269 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:21,920 They had the money to do it. 270 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,000 I don't know how in the world they did it. 271 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,120 And they did it for all the grandkids. 272 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:26,300 I wasn't special. 273 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:28,000 They did it for all the grandchildren. 274 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,080 They poured money. 275 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:30,080 They saved up. 276 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,240 They had money for their children's children. 277 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:34,280 They said they paid for a good chunk of my education. 278 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:38,920 A matter of fact, not many people know this, but my grandfather helped finance my first 279 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:40,360 house. 280 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,760 He was a mechanic. 281 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:44,640 And he knew how to handle money. 282 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:47,480 My pap used to say things about money all the time. 283 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:48,480 Right. 284 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:49,480 He'd have these little things. 285 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,800 He'd say, Kip, he'd say a penny saved is what a penny. 286 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,360 Yeah, your parents, grandparents said it too. 287 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:56,360 Right. 288 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:57,360 Right. 289 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:58,600 A penny saved was a penny earned. 290 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:03,960 And he says, if you save up those pennies, those dollars are going to take care of themselves. 291 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:08,600 And he said, Kip, you need to save up for a rainy day. 292 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:12,680 He said, you need to make money while the sun shines because he says it's going to rain. 293 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:13,960 It's going to rain. 294 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:15,720 How many know it rains sometimes financially? 295 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,160 Anybody you ever get your financial parade rained on? 296 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:20,520 Come on. 297 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,840 How many this week got your financial parade raided on? 298 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:24,840 Yeah. 299 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,680 Sometimes you're going to get your financial parade rained on. 300 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:28,680 Right. 301 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:32,000 Because sometimes you're going to be driving down the road and your car is just going to 302 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,000 conk out. 303 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,780 You're going to be like, what happened? 304 00:14:34,780 --> 00:14:37,360 And then you get the good news right at the garage. 305 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,160 First of all, you got to pay the hundred twenty five bucks, hundred seventy five bucks to 306 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:41,620 get it towed to the garage. 307 00:14:41,620 --> 00:14:45,040 You get it to the garage and your mechanic comes out with the great news that your car 308 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:46,040 is now dead. 309 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:47,040 OK. 310 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:48,880 That it is time to put it away. 311 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:49,880 Right. 312 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:50,880 Put it down for the last time. 313 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:51,960 Hey, come on. 314 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:52,960 That's fine. 315 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:54,000 It rained all of a sudden. 316 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,300 You got to go to the dealer. 317 00:14:55,300 --> 00:14:56,620 You got to get a new car. 318 00:14:56,620 --> 00:14:58,040 How many know the dishwasher dies? 319 00:14:58,040 --> 00:14:59,040 Right. 320 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:00,040 Leaks all over the floor. 321 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:01,040 You get the dishwasher. 322 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:02,040 The kids need braces. 323 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,440 I talked about this little man. 324 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:05,440 Come on. 325 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:06,640 You got to go to the dentist. 326 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:07,640 Right. 327 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:08,640 You need a root canal. 328 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:09,640 There's hospital stays. 329 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,880 How many know you could just talk all day long? 330 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:12,880 Right. 331 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:14,480 About financial rain. 332 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,840 It rains in the house. 333 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:21,480 It comes down and he will always be telling me you need to save up because because a rainy 334 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:22,480 day is coming. 335 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,000 It's not always going to be sunshine. 336 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,920 You know, and he would do this. 337 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,160 And it's true. 338 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:35,440 Handling what God put into our hands on the expected days will help set us up for the 339 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:37,160 unexpected day. 340 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:38,160 Right. 341 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:43,000 If you learn to manage what God put in your fingers and in your hands on the expected 342 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,320 day, you're going to be ready for the unexpected day. 343 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,160 You're going to have days that are expected. 344 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:49,160 You're going to go to work. 345 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:50,160 Everything's going to be fine. 346 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:51,160 You're going to drive home. 347 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,960 The car is actually going to make it right into the garage. 348 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:54,960 It all is going to be well. 349 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:55,960 And you're going to get a paycheck. 350 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:56,960 And then you're going to be timed. 351 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:58,960 You're going to be sitting along the road. 352 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:05,200 The unexpected injury, the unexpected illness, the unexpected breakdown, the unexpected financial 353 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:06,200 storm. 354 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,920 God wants you ready. 355 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:12,880 Set aside seed for the year. 356 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:13,880 Okay. 357 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:15,120 Set aside seed for the year. 358 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:16,560 Say seed to somebody, turn to somebody. 359 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:20,520 Tell them to talk about seed for a couple of minutes. 360 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:26,280 Setting aside seed now ensures provision for next year. 361 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:30,580 There's a little saying I used to hear and it's stuck in my head over the years and hopefully 362 00:16:30,580 --> 00:16:31,580 it sticks in yours. 363 00:16:31,580 --> 00:16:32,580 And it's this. 364 00:16:32,580 --> 00:16:34,340 Say, don't eat your seed. 365 00:16:34,340 --> 00:16:35,340 Talk to yourself right now. 366 00:16:35,340 --> 00:16:36,340 Talk to yourself. 367 00:16:36,340 --> 00:16:37,340 Say, don't eat your seed. 368 00:16:37,340 --> 00:16:39,400 Come on, say it to yourself. 369 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:40,400 Don't eat your seed. 370 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,000 Don't eat your seed. 371 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,480 Do you know what a farmer never does while they're farming? 372 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,800 They don't eat all their seed. 373 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:49,640 They don't eat all the seed. 374 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:55,280 If you got a farmer who's a crop farmer and he's planting corn and he's putting corn in 375 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,000 the ground, do you know what he does not do at harvest time? 376 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,000 He does not get to harvest and he says, you know what? 377 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,320 I'm just going to eat all this. 378 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:02,320 Man, I'm hungry. 379 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:03,920 I've been waiting for this to come up. 380 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:04,920 Right? 381 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:05,920 I'm going to sit down. 382 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,320 I'm going to get all this corn and I'm just going to eat it all. 383 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:09,760 I'm going to feed my animals. 384 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:10,760 Right? 385 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:11,760 What's a farmer do? 386 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:17,120 A farmer, he harvests and some of it's for food for him and some of it's food for his 387 00:17:17,120 --> 00:17:21,320 family and some of it's food for the animals and the livestock that he has. 388 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,180 But he also puts seed away. 389 00:17:24,180 --> 00:17:25,180 He puts it in. 390 00:17:25,180 --> 00:17:26,880 Do you know why he puts seed away? 391 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:30,880 Some of that seed gets put away because he's got to put something in the ground next year 392 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:32,820 to get a harvest. 393 00:17:32,820 --> 00:17:37,280 You got to plant some corn in the ground next year for the harvest. 394 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:41,460 And what happens to a lot of people, they eat all their seed. 395 00:17:41,460 --> 00:17:42,880 They make money. 396 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:47,440 God gives them and blesses them to make money and they eat it all up and they don't put 397 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,820 any seed aside. 398 00:17:49,820 --> 00:17:50,820 Constantly spending all. 399 00:17:50,820 --> 00:17:54,160 Listen, you can keep eating all your seed. 400 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,440 You're not going to have seed for next year. 401 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,520 You're not going to have seed for the unexpected. 402 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:02,000 Come on, I'm talking about savings right now. 403 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,240 You didn't think you'd hear about that in church, did you? 404 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:05,240 All right. 405 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:06,240 Come on. 406 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:07,880 It's a principle. 407 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,280 Scripture tells us don't eat all your seed. 408 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:12,280 Don't eat it all. 409 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:14,900 As a matter of fact, the word of God says, you know what? 410 00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:16,840 You just need to be a little bit like an ant. 411 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:17,840 All right. 412 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:19,800 He says, I want you to be like an ant. 413 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,080 They're going to put a picture of an ant up there. 414 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:24,600 I got a really nice picture of an ant. 415 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,220 Come on, isn't that a nice picture? 416 00:18:26,220 --> 00:18:27,220 Come on. 417 00:18:27,220 --> 00:18:28,960 You need to be like an ant. 418 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,780 That's what the word of God says. 419 00:18:30,780 --> 00:18:33,400 Listen to this scripture in Proverbs. 420 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:35,160 Proverbs is a book of wisdom. 421 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:36,960 If you look into God's word, it's a book of wisdom. 422 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,680 It says this in Proverbs 6, 6, go to the ant. 423 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:40,680 Now I love the language. 424 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,840 Before I go any further, I love the language in this scripture because sometimes Proverbs 425 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,640 is just shoot straight, right? 426 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,240 It says, go to the ant. 427 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:49,240 You sluggard. 428 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:50,240 All right. 429 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:55,520 Consider her ways and be wise, which having no captain or overseer or ruler provides her 430 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:59,520 supplies in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest. 431 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,240 How long will you slumber? 432 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:02,680 Oh, sluggard. 433 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:04,880 When will you arise from your sleep? 434 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:09,180 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. 435 00:19:09,180 --> 00:19:15,840 So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler and your need like an armed man. 436 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:17,620 Got to love the language in here. 437 00:19:17,620 --> 00:19:23,160 Got to love how this passage addresses what I would call the under, under energetic laborer. 438 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:24,160 Amen. 439 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:29,000 The unenthusiastic worker, the less motivated possibly among us. 440 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,200 Okay, just the lazy. 441 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:32,200 Okay. 442 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,280 It uses these words and it says, go to the ant. 443 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:36,280 You slugger. 444 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:40,760 Whoever this, I don't know who this brother's writing to, but he's writing to somebody that 445 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:41,760 he's trying to get motivated. 446 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:45,680 That's not what I'm saying about you this morning, but there's some lessons in here. 447 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,120 And he says, listen, you just got to watch the ant. 448 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:49,680 You got to look to nature. 449 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:51,480 You got to see how the ant does this. 450 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:52,480 Right. 451 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:54,360 And he says, go to the ant, you sluggard. 452 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:55,720 Consider your ways sluggard. 453 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:56,720 He uses sluggard a lot. 454 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,040 I just kind of like saying that word. 455 00:19:58,040 --> 00:19:59,040 Right. 456 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,200 No captain, no ruler, no overseer. 457 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,440 Yet the ant provides enough for himself, right. 458 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,200 For the colony and for the future. 459 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,080 He's showing them something. 460 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,960 He's saying, listen, your mama and daddy shouldn't have to chase you around in this. 461 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:15,440 You need to go after this. 462 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:16,440 Look at the ant. 463 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:20,400 Look, look, look what I'm, you know, pick up what I'm putting down here. 464 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:21,400 Look at the ant. 465 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:22,840 Go to work. 466 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,240 Earn, collect, right. 467 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,000 Give to God first. 468 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:31,600 Take care of your family and then begin to set some seed aside. 469 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:35,160 So you've got some seed next year. 470 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:41,440 I experienced freedom later because of what I'm doing right now. 471 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:47,080 We experienced provision later if we're saving something up right now. 472 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:50,800 The ants do this all the time, constantly and consistently. 473 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:51,800 They're doing this. 474 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:52,800 Right. 475 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:53,800 How many of you ever been to a picnic? 476 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:54,800 Right. 477 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:55,800 You're eating your food. 478 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:56,800 You got your hot dog. 479 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,120 And all of a sudden the end of your dog falls off under the ground. 480 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:01,280 And you got a big debate going on in your mind. 481 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,520 Do I go with the five second rule or do I just let that puppy lay? 482 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:05,520 Right. 483 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:06,520 Right. 484 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:07,520 You don't know who's been walking there. 485 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:08,520 You don't know what the dogs have been doing there. 486 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:10,120 So you decide to let that thing lay. 487 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:11,120 Right. 488 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:13,680 You're just going to let that piece of dog sit right where it fell and you're just going 489 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:14,680 to pretend it never happened. 490 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:15,680 And you walk away. 491 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:20,160 And 10 minutes later, you're walking along or you're standing there and you look down 492 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:24,800 and all of a sudden that little piece of hot dog's moving across the ground. 493 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:26,480 It's just inching its way across the ground. 494 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:27,480 What's happening? 495 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,680 Ants got to it. 496 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:30,680 Right. 497 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:31,680 They're collecting. 498 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,240 There's a hundred ants just marched right over to your little piece of hot dog and they're 499 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,280 carrying that thing away. 500 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,940 Do you know that ants can carry 20 times their weight, their body weight? 501 00:21:40,940 --> 00:21:45,480 If you want to understand how amazing that is, this was what it would be like if we all 502 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,040 dismiss church right now and you all went out and got in your cars, right? 503 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,720 Your mid-sized car, your SUV, about a four thousand pound car. 504 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,480 It would be like you just instead of getting in and starting it, you just pick it up and 505 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,960 put it on your back and carry it home. 506 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,860 That's about what it would be like in comparison in a ratio. 507 00:22:01,860 --> 00:22:05,640 But that ant takes that thing and it goes back to the colony. 508 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:09,120 And I won't go into all the things that I read about what ants do because it involves 509 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:13,200 regurgitation and a couple of other things that I don't want to get into. 510 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,400 But it provides provision. 511 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:20,960 It takes care of the colony and it puts a way for the future. 512 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:22,800 It does both. 513 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,400 They go to work. 514 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:25,400 They don't play. 515 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:26,800 They don't make excuse. 516 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:27,800 They have provision. 517 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,000 Learn from the ant. 518 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,760 Don't eat all your seed. 519 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,000 Teach your children. 520 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Teach your grandchildren this concept, this principle. 521 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:41,000 God spoke this way from the very beginning. 522 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,880 He said, go to work and do this. 523 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:48,080 People think, you know, sometimes when we talk about work and we talk about what we're 524 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:53,000 going to do in life to earn funds, sometimes we think, well, you know, that's just part 525 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,160 of the curse, because if you read in Genesis, you'll find out that when Adam and Eve came 526 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:01,920 into the garden and God set them in the garden and they sinned and rebelled against God, 527 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:06,440 part of the curse that was spoken over the earth was that man would go and work by the 528 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,960 spread of his the sweat of his brow. 529 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,960 What that statement means is that when you go to work, it's going to be hard. 530 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:12,960 Right. 531 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,140 He told man, when you go to work, it's not going to be easy. 532 00:23:15,140 --> 00:23:16,320 It's going to be difficult. 533 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,200 It's going to be by the sweat of your brow. 534 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,560 But he did not say that work was cursed. 535 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:24,320 In matter of fact, if you look into God's word and I want you to think about Adam and 536 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:29,320 Eve, that first man, that first woman that God created, God sets them in Eden. 537 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:30,320 All right. 538 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:31,840 Eden is a virtual paradise. 539 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:36,120 It is a place that God prepared for Adam and Eve. 540 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:37,600 It has I don't know. 541 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:38,740 I wasn't there. 542 00:23:38,740 --> 00:23:43,360 But the word of God says that there were fruit trees, all kind of trees that bore bore all 543 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:45,440 kinds of food, food, right. 544 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:46,600 That was good for them to eat. 545 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,340 They had food and provision everywhere. 546 00:23:49,340 --> 00:23:51,000 The temperature was just right. 547 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,600 We know that because they didn't wear any clothes. 548 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:54,600 All right. 549 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:55,600 It was just right. 550 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:56,600 They weren't frigid. 551 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:57,600 They weren't sweat. 552 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:58,920 It was just right. 553 00:23:58,920 --> 00:23:59,920 The temperature was right. 554 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:03,520 And a lot of people, I don't got time going to, but a lot of people wonder, well, you 555 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:04,720 know, why didn't they wear clothes? 556 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,840 I think the glory of God was on them. 557 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,320 I think God's presence was all over them because the word of God says that they walked with 558 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:11,800 God in the cool of the day. 559 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:16,080 He literally set them in a place that had rivers and it had food and it had provision 560 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,800 and there were no thorns, there were no thistles, there were no difficulty. 561 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:23,760 He literally sets them in the middle of a virtual paradise and look what God says to 562 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,800 them in Genesis 2 15. 563 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:30,600 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to what? 564 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,200 To tend and keep it. 565 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,800 He drops them in the middle of paradise. 566 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,440 I want you to think about paradise for just a second. 567 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:41,640 I want you to think about a beach that you've been to somewhere and maybe it's down in the 568 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,640 Caribbean and it's incredible. 569 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:44,640 Right. 570 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:49,000 You sat out in the sun and somebody fed you grapes all day long, right. 571 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,000 And they fanned you. 572 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,000 And you know, all right. 573 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,960 And then you woke up, right. 574 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:53,960 From the dream. 575 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,120 But I want you to think about a virtual paradise. 576 00:24:57,120 --> 00:25:02,520 God sets them in a virtual paradise and He doesn't say, you know what Adam and Eve, you 577 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,920 can just go float around on the rivers right now and eat grapes all day long. 578 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:06,920 Right. 579 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:07,920 Grapes and dates. 580 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:09,280 Just go ahead and eat them all day long. 581 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,360 He doesn't say just go lay. 582 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:12,760 Just go bask in the sun. 583 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:13,760 Right. 584 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,680 He doesn't do that. 585 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:23,000 He says, I made this place for you and now I want you to tend it and to keep it. 586 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,920 I want you to go to work. 587 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:30,520 See God's built us to do something and it doesn't matter if it's a job where you're 588 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,880 getting a paycheck or if you're at home taking care of children or wherever space you're 589 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:35,880 in. 590 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,360 Maybe you're retired and you saved up and you're retired now. 591 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:40,040 God has built us to do something. 592 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,660 He's built us to engage. 593 00:25:41,660 --> 00:25:47,800 We are built to work in some capacity to strive in some way. 594 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:48,800 Right. 595 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,680 And maybe physically you can't anymore. 596 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,200 You can engage your mind. 597 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:53,840 You engage whatever you got. 598 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:54,840 Right. 599 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:55,840 He built us. 600 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:56,840 He took. 601 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,820 He built us to take care of whatever business is around us. 602 00:25:58,820 --> 00:26:06,440 He set him in the guard and he said, he said them there and he said, take care, tend, work, 603 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,200 strive, be like the ant. 604 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,240 Right. 605 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,840 Keep moving, keep going forward. 606 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,320 Listen, earn right when you can. 607 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:23,440 Bless, give to God, take care of your family along the way and set some seed aside. 608 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:24,720 Don't eat all your seed. 609 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,480 So you got provision in the unexpected day. 610 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:30,400 Do you know God has a financial plan? 611 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,520 You might say, well, pastor, why are you preaching all this? 612 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:33,880 Because here's what I believe. 613 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:38,840 I believe that a healthy disciple, a healthy follower of Jesus is a person who puts Jesus 614 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:40,840 first in every area of their life. 615 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,160 And that includes finances. 616 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:44,160 God has a plan. 617 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:49,200 And if you follow it, he will walk you through and you'll watch his blessing in your life. 618 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,720 You'll watch his hand in your life. 619 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,080 I'm getting ready to close. 620 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,280 And I thought I'd just throw this in there. 621 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:57,280 When do you save? 622 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,720 You know, when's the best time to save? 623 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:03,440 And I kind of alluded to this, but you save during the harvest. 624 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:04,440 Right. 625 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:05,560 When there's increase, it comes in. 626 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,600 That's when you say you give first, you save second. 627 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:09,680 Say this with me. 628 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,320 Give first, save second. 629 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:13,320 All the world says that the opposite. 630 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,480 Do you ever notice God always does things the opposite of the world? 631 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,040 The world say save first, give later. 632 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,460 God says give first, save later. 633 00:27:21,460 --> 00:27:23,360 God says give first, I'll bless it. 634 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:24,840 I'll have my hand upon it. 635 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:29,920 I'll increase it because everything he put in God's hands, he breaks, blesses and he 636 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,000 multiplies. 637 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,800 Look in God's word, it's true. 638 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,520 So he says give first and save second. 639 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:40,600 In the world say save first and give second. 640 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,480 Give first, save second. 641 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,560 And do that during a time of harvest. 642 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,960 A time when you're getting increased. 643 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:53,300 And it doesn't, you know, it could be if you're an employee, that could be a paycheck time. 644 00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:56,280 If you're a business owner, that could be when the profits come in. 645 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,800 If you're invested, that's when the royalties roll in. 646 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:03,680 Whatever it is, give first, save second. 647 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,720 Give first, save second. 648 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,920 God wants to bless you. 649 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,040 He wants to give you increase in your life. 650 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,400 But I know this about God. 651 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,920 We have to do it His way. 652 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:21,040 The moment that I step out of God's order, and it's not that God doesn't want to bless 653 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:26,720 me sometimes, He can't because I step out of His, out of His, out of His truth. 654 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,120 See God never lies. 655 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:29,480 The word of God is clear in this. 656 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:30,480 God will never lie. 657 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:31,680 He will not lie. 658 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:37,400 So He will not, He cannot, will not and cannot place His hand and His blessing upon something 659 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,400 that is not His truth. 660 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,200 He will stick to His truth. 661 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,720 And as long as I'm walking in that, blessing is already there. 662 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:49,840 But as soon as I walk out of that, I step out from underneath His blessing. 663 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,800 Happens all the time, right? 664 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:52,800 It really does. 665 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:54,680 And it's the same financially. 666 00:28:54,680 --> 00:29:00,720 We want to, listen, what you do today has everything to do with what's going to happen 667 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:01,720 tomorrow. 668 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:02,720 It's true. 669 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,080 I'm going to ask you to stand. 670 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:10,480 Now I didn't want to kind of come with this last message and get to, you know, and I know 671 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:15,000 this has kind of been an instructional kind of message without giving you a kind of a 672 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,920 plan because I know what some of you are thinking. 673 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,080 You know, some of you are in a place and I understand this. 674 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:25,600 I got my own testimony about finances personally and I'd love to sit down sometime and talk 675 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,560 with you about that if you'd like to. 676 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:29,560 I know what some people are thinking. 677 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,720 Some people are thinking, you know, I've tried this. 678 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,440 I've tried to follow God's prescription and you don't understand, Pastor. 679 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,760 I got all this debt, all this stuff that's bottle-backed. 680 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:37,760 I got school loans. 681 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:38,760 I got this. 682 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:39,760 I got that. 683 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,200 And I'm just completely strapped. 684 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:42,800 And I'd love to do everything that you're saying. 685 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,600 I'd love to walk in that. 686 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,040 But I just literally can't do it right now. 687 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:47,520 And I understand what you're saying. 688 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,200 I get what you're saying. 689 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,200 But here's the thing. 690 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,840 If you're going to follow God, you've got to follow His plan. 691 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,120 So I want to give you a little bit of a plan. 692 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,920 If you're feeling like, man, I'd love to do this but I just can't do it right now, I'm 693 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:00,920 overwhelmed. 694 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,440 And some of you have even said, you know what, I've even tried it and I just gave up. 695 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:05,640 I just gave up on it. 696 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:07,920 I've been buried in debt. 697 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,040 I've been strapped. 698 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,560 I don't make enough money. 699 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,720 You know, I just, I, I, I, I've just given up. 700 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:14,720 I'll just be honest with you. 701 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,080 I've just given up. 702 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:17,080 I can't do it. 703 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,080 Right? 704 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,720 And, and, and you're just hoping this, you just, you just can't wait until this message 705 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:22,720 ends. 706 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:23,720 Right? 707 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:24,720 To go home. 708 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,280 Don't forget about it. 709 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,280 Let me give you some steps, some real advice. 710 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:29,280 Alright? 711 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:30,280 Step one is this. 712 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,400 We're going to do this in just a moment. 713 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,320 Pray and invite God into your finances. 714 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:35,560 Okay? 715 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,240 First thing you have to do is you have to pray and invite God in. 716 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,560 The moment you invite God in, God does come in. 717 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:43,560 He does step. 718 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:44,560 That's a step of faith. 719 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:45,560 You start moving towards Him. 720 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:46,560 He starts moving towards you. 721 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,720 And God always changes things when, when, when you step out in faith. 722 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,840 So you've got to pray and get God into your finances. 723 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,280 Secondly, get a financial consultant. 724 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:01,800 Get somebody that, that is a godly, godly, now listen, I want to say that a couple of 725 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:02,800 times. 726 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,720 A godly, professional, financial consultant. 727 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,160 We can get you connected with someone like that. 728 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,280 And hear what they have to say. 729 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:17,680 Let them help you put a plan together to start moving towards a biblical plan for your life. 730 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:18,680 And then do this. 731 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,800 Work at it one bite at a time. 732 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,440 How do you eat an elephant? 733 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:24,440 That's right. 734 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:25,440 Okay? 735 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,400 You eat an elephant one bite at a time. 736 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,040 And God, you step forward. 737 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,920 You take, man, none of us get this all right. 738 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:35,440 At the first step out. 739 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:39,440 When none of us got, none of us got all our stuff together. 740 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,240 If you think, if you come into this house and you think there's a bunch of people in 741 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,880 here that got all their stuff together, we'll have a talk. 742 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:45,880 Okay? 743 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,200 We'll sit down and really give you the real stuff. 744 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:49,680 None of us have it all together. 745 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,480 But you do this one bite at a time. 746 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,800 And Jesus will walk with you one bite at a time. 747 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,800 And I don't preach this because I want you to get more in the offering. 748 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:58,720 Or I don't get some kind of raise out of this. 749 00:31:58,720 --> 00:31:59,720 I promise you. 750 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,200 My paycheck is set by the denomination. 751 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:03,200 You can give a million dollars. 752 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:04,880 I ain't going to change my paycheck one iota. 753 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:05,880 All right? 754 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:06,880 Not going to happen. 755 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:07,880 All right? 756 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:08,880 Doesn't change a thing. 757 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:09,880 All right? 758 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:10,880 Really doesn't. 759 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,960 This is about you coming into a place where God is going to bless you in your finances. 760 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,840 And He wants to do that. 761 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,040 He wants to walk with you. 762 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,040 But we've got to walk in what He says. 763 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,440 We've got to do what He says. 764 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:23,800 Amen? 765 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,760 So let me give you just those three practical steps. 766 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,000 Now I want you to pray. 767 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,560 Here's all I'm asking you to do. 768 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,480 As we get ready to close. 769 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,800 I want you to just invite God into your finances. 770 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,400 Now some of you already have. 771 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:36,400 Some of you. 772 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,240 Some of you actually would work well as consultants in this church. 773 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,840 It's good if you go see a professional and it's good if you have somebody walk beside 774 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:42,840 you that's been where you've been. 775 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,560 And there are a lot of people in this church that have been where you've been. 776 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:46,560 Including me. 777 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:47,560 On some thanks. 778 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:48,560 Okay? 779 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:53,560 So let me tell you your testimony and watch what God does in your life. 780 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:54,680 You know what I always do? 781 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,360 I always look at, if I want to get somewhere. 782 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,720 I look at, no matter what it is. 783 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,760 If I want to get to a destination and I've never been to that destination before. 784 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:04,760 Do you know what I do? 785 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,480 I go find somebody who's been to that destination already. 786 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,560 I go find them and I say, hey, how'd you get there? 787 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,260 How does this work in your life? 788 00:33:12,260 --> 00:33:14,680 I need to know because I'm not there yet. 789 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,440 And I need to know how to get there. 790 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:17,960 Can you help me out for a minute? 791 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,000 Can you talk to me for just a little while? 792 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,800 Man, get with someone. 793 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,220 They want to help. 794 00:33:24,220 --> 00:33:26,120 They love it that you want to get there. 795 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:27,120 I do that. 796 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:28,120 I still do that. 797 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:29,120 I'm 57. 798 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,240 I'm still consulting with people all the time. 799 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,360 Asking questions because like man, I haven't been there. 800 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:34,720 I need to know. 801 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,200 I need to know how to get there. 802 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:37,200 Do this. 803 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:38,200 Amen? 804 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:39,200 Amen. 805 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:40,200 I'm asking you to close your eyes. 806 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:41,200 I'm going to read a little story. 807 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:42,200 Just to hopefully support you. 808 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,840 If you won't do this for you, I want you to hear this story. 809 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:46,360 Maybe you'll do it for this reason. 810 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:47,360 I love this story. 811 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,040 Lord Patterson tells this story in his book Circle Maker. 812 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:51,560 He says this. 813 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:56,580 Hony the wise one was also known as Hony the Circle Maker. 814 00:33:56,580 --> 00:34:00,960 By drawing a circle and stepping inside of it, he would recite special prayers for rain, 815 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,480 sometimes even argue with God during a drought. 816 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,120 And the rains would come. 817 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,560 He was indeed a miracle maker. 818 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:11,880 As wise as he was, Hony sometimes saw something that puzzled him. 819 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,740 Then he would ask questions so he would unravel the mystery. 820 00:34:15,740 --> 00:34:20,280 One day Hony the Circle Maker was walking on the road and saw a man planting a carob 821 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:21,280 tree. 822 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,560 Hony asked the man, how long will it take for this tree to bear fruit? 823 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,520 The man replied, 70 years. 824 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:31,800 Hony then asked the man, and do you think you will live another 70 years and eat the 825 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:32,800 fruit of this tree? 826 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,840 And the man answered, perhaps not. 827 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:40,960 However, when I was born into this world, I found many carob trees planted by my father 828 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:42,200 and grandfather. 829 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:46,640 Just as they planted trees for me, I am planting trees for my children and grandchildren so 830 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:51,800 they will be able to eat the fruit of these trees. 831 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:58,360 If you won't do this for you, do it for your children and grandchildren. 832 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:06,000 So God could show you what He can do through you, through your children, through your grandchildren. 833 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,120 For those maybe who are around you that you can pour it. 834 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,760 And it doesn't have to be physical grandchildren or physical sons and daughters. 835 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,680 It could be spiritual sons and daughters as well. 836 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,960 Father, we come to you right now. 837 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:20,960 I thank you for each one that is in the house. 838 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:27,920 Lord, I know this wasn't any kind of shouting message, super amen-y kind of message. 839 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,240 But Lord, this is your word. 840 00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:33,480 And God, I believe in freedom in the house. 841 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,480 I believe freedom in your people. 842 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,920 Lord, I know, God, that your word sets us free. 843 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:39,920 It delivers us. 844 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:40,920 It makes us whole. 845 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:42,960 And Lord, you can do that one step at a time. 846 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,080 And God, I pray for each person in this house. 847 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,440 Lord, some are here, they could actually be consultants in all this. 848 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,680 God, some are here, they need somebody to walk beside them. 849 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:52,680 They need the help. 850 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,640 They felt like they have been drowning for a long time financially. 851 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,920 And Lord, God, you want them free. 852 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:02,880 God, I want them to realize in their heart that what they do today can change everything 853 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,680 for tomorrow in their lives. 854 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,720 I ask now, Lord, that you would minister, that you would touch in Jesus' name. 855 00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:14,840 And Lord, I pray right now that they would make a commitment in their heart and mind, 856 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,440 if this is them, if this is where they are at, that they will consult. 857 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,160 That they will ask the question to somebody. 858 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:22,160 In Jesus' name. 859 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:23,160 Amen, amen. 860 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:27,160 Can I leave you with one last thing? 861 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:28,160 There is a stigma with this. 862 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,680 A lot of people won't ask for help because they feel like they failed in something. 863 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:32,680 You did not fail. 864 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:37,520 There are a lot of reasons why you can get to a place of financial difficulty. 865 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:38,520 Tons. 866 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:43,080 There are some of them way outside of your control. 867 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:48,880 If you go get help with this, it is the equivalent of consulting a doctor. 868 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:52,640 How many of you would not even think twice about consulting a doctor and saying, listen, 869 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:53,640 I have something going on. 870 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,960 My knee is acting up and I really need some help with this thing. 871 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:57,960 You would not even blink. 872 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,240 It is the same thing. 873 00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:02,240 Don't hold back. 874 00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:03,240 Don't do it. 875 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:04,240 Amen. 876 00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:05,240 Amen. 877 00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:06,240 God is so good. 878 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:07,240 Thank God I am done preaching on finances. 879 00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:08,240 Amen. 880 00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:09,240 Turn to somebody and give them a high five. 881 00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:10,240 Tell them it is good to be at LifeHouse. 882 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:11,240 I will see you next Sunday on Student Sunday. 883 00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:12,240 God bless you. 884 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:13,240 Thank you for joining online this morning. 885 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:14,240 Amen. 886 00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:15,240 Thank you for tuning in to this message from LifeHouse Church. 887 00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:16,240 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 888 00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:17,240 God bless you. 889 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:18,240 Amen. 890 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:19,240 Amen. 891 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:20,240 Amen. 892 00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:21,240 Amen. 893 00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:22,240 Amen. 894 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:23,240 Amen. 895 00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:24,240 Amen. 896 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:25,240 Amen. 897 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:26,240 Amen. 898 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:27,240 Amen. 899 00:37:27,240 --> 00:37:28,240 Amen. 900 00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:29,240 Amen. 901 00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:30,240 Amen. 902 00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:31,240 Amen. 903 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:32,240 Amen. 904 00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:33,240 Amen. 905 00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:34,240 Amen. 906 00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:35,240 Amen. 907 00:37:35,240 --> 00:37:36,240 Amen. 908 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:37,240 Amen. 909 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:38,240 Amen. 910 00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:39,240 Amen. 911 00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:41,980 If you have been personally affected by our ministry 912 00:37:41,980 --> 00:37:43,720 and you would like to partner with us 913 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:46,820 as we love God, love people every day, 914 00:37:46,820 --> 00:38:09,820 visit our website at www.lifehousecog.com.