Test Drive His Promises

I am here to just call our mission team forward because I promised you last

week that we were going to pray us out this week. So last week

we took our offering, and this week we are this. We leave on

Wednesday. So if you're on on the mission team, I know that quite

a few aren't here this morning. Come on up, line up here,

Connie, Dwayne, yup, yup. Here we do. Here we go.

We have eight of us. We did shrink by one because Dale Rummel

is not going to be able to be with us. He injured himself last

week at the church picnic. Let me just tell yeah that church picnic was

crazy, right, So we are down one. So we're gonna have to

work double hard, all of us. So we have a lot planned,

We've got a lot on the docket, and we we have a it's going

to start with a twenty nine hour fly day tinnerary. That's why we need

prayer. We need your help. Twenty nine hours. I've you know,

I've never spent that long trying to get to Uganda, but that's what it

is these days. So we're gonna We're just we just got a lot to

do. We got it. We got amazing things. Danne and Joe are

going to be speaking at the pastor's conference there, so we just need to

pray over them that they have mighty mighty downloads for that whole there's gonna have

somewhere between three and four hundred pastors. So these guys are gonna rocket,

They're gonna do just They're gonna bring the word, They're gonna bring the spirit.

Connie's gonna be sewing, No she has She's gonna have a pedal sewing

machine because they don't have electric ones there. I just I sprung that news

on her the other day. She's like, what, So that's gonna be

great for her. Sophia and Sandy and I and Debbie and Dennis, we

are all headed down to a medical outreach. So just pray, just pray.

We got so much to do. Would you reach your hands forward to

us and pray for traveling mercies. Father, God, I just ask you

right now, thank you so much for this honor, this honor, and

this privilege to do this for you a father and God, I just ask

you right now to just settle upon us. Lord, give us grace and

mercy on those four flights to get us there. Lord, every landing,

every takeoff, Lord, four coming back, that's eight. Just think about

that, people. God, I just ask you right now you'll give us

grace and mercy. Let us sleep when sleep hits us. Lord, that

just life would be good. Lord. I thank you that no sickness will

come upon us, no injury would come upon us. That we are kept

in your hand, Lord and Father, every word out of our mouth,

every person we touch. Lord, I just ask you right now for just

a mighty outpouring of your holy spirit, mighty mighty outpouring of your holy spirit

in Jesus name. Amen, hallelujah, Thank you so much. Apparently so

last week, now you guys can be seated. Last week, I told

you that I had a dream. Did I tell you about that? Was

that your first service or second service? I said that in I was only

one service. So y'all got it right. So I told you I ad

a dream, and I never told you my dream. Do you know what

my dream was? My dream was that when we took the offering last week,

that you gave one hundred and three thousand dollars. So I was like

dancing in my dream one hundred and three that So you know, that's it.

We didn't get quite one hundred and three thousand. So if you want

to, you know, add to the pile, that's perfectly fine. But

I just wanted to, you know, if you were all waiting all week,

you know, hanging by that thread of what was the dream, I

want to make sure you knew that. So anyway, God blessed you,

and we're gonna have a great time. And we won't be here next Sunday,

but you will. We'll send a video. All right, So here

you go, sir, Thank you love. Let's stay in prayer for the

word. Yeah, we're excited to go, and we're excited to come back.

Hallelujah. Oh but it'll be awesome. It'll be fun. We will

represent and God's moving. Amen, fun stuff, Kingdom's growing. Father.

We thank you for your word today. Thank you that your present by the

Holy Spirit to lead us into the fullness of Jesus. We welcome you.

We will give you, transform our hearts, transform our thoughts. Thank you,

give you the praise for it in Jesus name. Everybody said, Amen,

you may be seated. We've been talking about restoration and I'm going to

jump right into the word because of time, and so oh, I don't

want to. I don't want to be labor things. But we've been talking

about our restoration theme and that God has restoration and mind, and of course

we want you to we want you to have that in your heart. Because

God is optimistic, he's not pessimistic. God is excited about the future.

He's not depressed about the future. God has a good plan for us already

and still and he hasn't changed his mind about that. And every day is

a new day. And it doesn't matter if you live in Babylon. God

can show up, delivery out of fiery furnaces, shut them out of lions.

So never never evaluate how life's going to go based on where you live

in this realm, because your citizenship is that's right, you're already a citizen

of heaven. Right. Your resources flow out of heaven, and your authority

flows out of heaven, and your knowledge flows out of heaven, and every

answer and every solution flows out of Heaven for you, right, So we

can't be depressed. Everybody say it with me. I can't be depressed.

I refuse to be oppressed. Come on, come on, come on,

come on, say it like you believe it. I can't be depressed.

I refuse to be oppressed. Amen. Amen, Amen. And so we've

been talking about this growing kingdom from the first advent to the last advent.

Jesus came right, not two thousand years ago. We celebrate that, and

there's this progression of kingdom growth. And so the kingdom is growing. It

started with just a grain, with just a seed. John twelve twenty four,

started with the seed. But in the end, it's going to be

many sons and daughters. Right in the end, it's going to be an

overwhelming kingdom. And in the process, He's restored us so that he can

restore the Earth. It's the sun. The earth is waiting for the sons

of God. The earth is waiting. So it's the Sun's being restored first,

then the earth, because the Earth is waiting for the sons of God

to be restored, the sons of God to live in sonship. Right,

Yeah, And so this is exciting stuff. All this is exciting stuff.

And even though we're imperfect, God's using us. Even though we're imperfect,

God is doing great things through us. And this is the most strategic organization

and organism on the planet. This is the most powerful, the most strategic,

the most life changing organization and organism on the planet. You're not a

church at tender. You're a world changer. Come on, say it with

me. I'm not a church at tender. I'm a world changer. You're

a world changer. Amen. Amen. And if you haven't changed the world

yet, just say that a few times over yourself begin to shift. You're

thinking that you're not. You know, a church attender can be a spectator.

You're another spectator. You're a game changer. You're not a spectator.

You're a church attender. Could be a consumer, but you're not a consumer.

You've been consumed and so you represent Jesus everywhere you go because you've been

consumed consumed by him. You have one obsession that you might obtain why He

obtained you, that you might find out why he found you. You have

one obsession, and together we come and we form the church. The church

is a bunch of stuff. We've talked about a lot of this stuff in

the past. A church is the ecclesia, right, and the ecclesia borrowed

from the Greeks and the Romans. The ecclesia terminology, the ecclesia is a

legislative body. They bring the government of God into the government of the earth.

Yeah, so we are we are the ecclesia. But he also said

that the church is those who are restoring David's Tabernacle. So that's another aspect.

So the church is a lot of stuff. The church is restoring David's

tabernacle. So we're a people of worship, crazy worship. We're a people

of exuberant, undignified, devoted praise in the worship, prayer, sacrifice.

That's the church David's Tabernacle. We are patterned after David. He's named after

David. And so that's one aspect of the church is that we live to

restore the glory that existed in David's tabernacle and to restore it in the earth.

Yes, the church is also a body, right, the Bible talks

about that a bunch. The church is a body, and the church comes

together as a body. This is part of why we come together. Part

of why we need each other is because we build one another up. We're

attached to one another. We strengthen one another in love, We sup we

supply love to one another. The body builds itself up in love and we

all have different functions. We all have different functions, and so that's part

of why we come together and why we flow together, and why we go

together, and why we function together and why we go further together is because

we're a body. And I've never seen my arms stay in bed when I

got up. My arm goes with me all day, My foot goes with

me all day, My ears go with me all day. Aren't you glad

your body doesn't? Aren't you glad you don't have protesting body members? That

would be a little embarrassing, right, And so that's one aspect of us.

And we're the most important organization and organism on the planet and what God

is doing through us. God is doing all of this through us. But

but there's a structure to it. I maybe you know, there's a structure

to it. There's a structure to the call to restore. There's a structure

too. And he's and he's even said he's even given his offices effusions forces.

He distributed his offices in the body. So that's interesting. There's a

there's structure to the body. And so there's pastors and profits and teachers and

so He's He's given all of these like there's there's actually organization right to the

Body of Christ, those things that we you know, the things that we're

enjoying today, even in a building with with people functioning and people in different

roles, and we had the we had ap staffs, we had David's mighty

singers and musicians up here. What would this gathering be like if we didn't

have David's Mighty musicians and singers up here? Right? How many of you?

How many of you could sense the Holy Spirit here during the worship?

I could. I ran out to the restroom. Wasn't a lot of annointing

in the four year so I feel sorry for the youth sitting out there today.

There was less annointing in the bathroom. But when I came back in,

I felt I literally felt the annointing as I came toward the front.

This is why I always want to sit in the front. As I came

toward the front, the anointing was stronger. I started getting goosebumps as I

came toward the front. I'm serious, I don't make this stuff up.

I'm like, oh, I got a weepy right here. I got all

weepy. I'm like, oh, my goodness, Holy Spirit, you're so

good to us that you would calm and abide with this in our worship,

that she would calm and dwell with this in our worship. But these are

privileged things. All of these privileged things crazy goofy odd interesting, But the

way it works in a tangible third dimension in the world, they all take

money. They all take money, they all take money, they all have

to be supported. So God determined. This isn't interesting. God determined even

with the first priest and the first priesthood. This is interesting with the first

priest and the first priesthood, that that first priest and the first priesthood would

be supported by the first member of the family of God, Abraham with ten

percent of his injuries. Isn't that a crazy thing? So way back here

in Genesis fourteen, Abraham is called out of err. Everybody say, err,

aren't you glad you didn't live there? Abraham is called out of error

when he was the pagan. He's called out of err to the land I

will show you. And so he's led to this land and he gets to

the most He got to a land like Eden is what he got to the

Lord led him right to a land like the Garden of Eden, and then

he said, lift up your eyes as far as you can see. This

is the land I'm going to give to you and to your descendants. And

so he comes. This is Genesis chapter twelve. Genesis chapter twelves. Over

here, this is chapter twelve. And so God calls him, and God

ask him to come into a covenant relationship with him, and God says,

I will bless you. And God says, I will make your name great,

and through you will all be blessed to That's Genesis chapter twelve, the

first act of the first act of Abraham's prosperity, the first recorded act of

his increase after Genesis twelve four Genesis twelve, there is no We aren't told

one thing about Abraham or Abram was his name in the beginning. Remember,

his name was changed because God said, I'm going to add the consonant of

my name to your name, because you will you will be known as a

father of many nations. So Abram became Abraham because God added a portion of

his name to his name, and he became known as the father of many

nations. Before he had a child. But way over here. All of

this we aren't here. We don't hear anything about Abram giving any wealth,

any money to God. There's no claim on Abram's increase. And yet he

was doing pretty good. He had three hundred and eighteen servants. Is that

pretty good? Pretty good? But when we get over here to Genesis chapter

twelve and God asked him to come into covenant, then we see the first

thing that happens in Genesis chapter fourteen. The first thing that happens on the

first increase of Abram is that Abram connects with a priest, a priest called

melk kaesidek anybody here in milk kesideck old time Christians, king good, all

the gray hairs in the building. Okay, So in Genesis chapter fourteen,

he wins this crazy battle defending Lot because Lots his nephew that came with him,

and Lot was stolen away with all of his stuff, and so he

takes his servants and he pursues five Kings, and he overtakes five Kings and

beats the snot out of him. Then he steals all of the plunder,

not only the plunder that was taken, but everything he took, all the

booty. He took all the plunder and then he and as he when he

comes back, he comes back and connects with this priest called milk Keasident Jenesis

chapter fourteen. And in the presence of Melkesedic, they have communion. Melkesitic

serves him bread and wine. They have communion. It's a sign of covenant.

Bread and wine are a sign of covenant. The wine represents blood spilled

blood. The bread represents a broken body. That's really what a covenant says

is that I will go to the death for you. So he it's recorded

Genesis chapter fourteen, and it says that as he came back, he gave

ten percent to Melkesedic, ten percent of all the plunder, gave it to

Malkkesident. Yeah, we can go there later. Wait for me. Thank

you, though I appreciate him went for him to kill it. I'll come

back to it. I'll come back to Genesis fourteen. We do want you

to think I'm telling the truth. It's the first act of giving. Where

do I want to go with all this thinking about you know, thinking about

restoration. What if restoration if frustrations through the church, what if restoration is

hampered or hindred if the church is not prospering, Like, what if the

people of God are not prospering as they could? Right? Does you know

if the people of God are not prospering as they could, then that means

the church isn't prospering as it could. Right. Abraham was, this is

joyful giver. This is this first time he's given. He's this crazy joyful

giver because God promised to make him rich. Did you know that God had

promised to set him apart and make him rich? And so giving ten percent

to God seemed like a little bitty thing, Like, if God's going to

make me rich, what in the world, why would I want to hang

on to ten percent? Why not just recognized him that he gave me the

victory of this battle, and that he gives me everything. But then he

was offered by the Kingdom Sodom. He was offered everything, all of the

plunder. Don't even give it back. Don't give it back to us,

don't give it back to our cities. Don't give it back everything that was

taken, everything that you brought back, all of the booty, all the

plunder. You keep it all. And Abram said, no, I can't

I've had a conversation with God. I can't keep it. I've had a

conversation with God. See, God already promised that he would make me rich.

And far be it for it ever to be said that you made me

rich. Let's go there, let's read it, Michael. You jumped,

You jumped the gun. Let's jump the gun. Go Genesis chapter were okay?

Genesis chapter fourteen, verse seventeen. After Abram returned from defeating ked Lamore

and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet

him in the valley of Chevab, that is the king's valley. Then Melkesedeck,

king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. He was the priest

of God most hie. By the way, this was a Christophanie. How

maybe you know what a Christophan he was. So we're told that Malkzedek had

no lineage. We're actually told that Melkzedek was actually a pre existent Christ.

That actually, when Abraham was called into relationship with God, God sealed the

relationship with a blessing by an actual visitation of Christ. So that's who this

was. By the way, he was the priest of God most High,

and he blessed Abram, saying, blessed be Abram by God Most High,

creator of heaven and Earth. And praise be to God Most High, who

delivered your enemies into your hand. Say it together with me, delivered your

enemies into your hand. Now this is interesting. I mean, we don't

know. We don't know that before mentioned history of Abram. But what we

know is that from the moment he went into covenant with God, from then

on, God was going to give him victory all over all of his enemies.

He gave the Abraham victory over all of his enemies even when Abram lied

all you mean, Abraham wasn't perfect. Yeah, he wasn't perfect, and

he lied about his wife one time to a Beameleca king, and God still

showed up and honored his word to Abram. Even though Abram failed on his

word to God. Praise be to God Most High, who delivered I'm just

saying that God, from the moment you came to Christ, God is the

one giving you your victories. God is the one giving you prosperity. God

is the one giving you increase. God is the one giving you wisdom.

God is the one who's giving you overcoming power. God is the one who's

giving you grace. God's the one giving you life. God's the one who's

stas saying you. God's the one who's giving you breadth from the moment you

came in the covenant with God. It's God who gave you those victories.

But this is interesting. Then Abram gave him Melkezedek a tenth of everything.

Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, give me the people. Just

give me the people back, all the people that were stolen and you brought

them back. Give me the people back. But you keep the goods for

yourself, the rest of the goods. But Abram said to the King of

Sodom, with raised hand, I have sworn on an oath to the Lord

God Most High. Oh, they had a conversation. There was the conversation,

with raised hand, I have sworn on an oath to the Lord God

most High, feeder of heaven and Earth, that I will accept nothing belonging

to you, not even a thread or a strap of a sandal, so

that you will never be able to say I made Abram rich. Isn't that

interesting? Isn't that something I want you to see? Something I want you

to see the promise to Abraham was I'm going to make you rich. I'm

gonna make you rich. I'm going to make your rich. I'm gonna make

you rich. Not your cunning, not your proudness, not your cheating,

not your lying, not your deceiving, not your skill, not your knowledge,

not your dissalinesty, not your fraudulent means. I'm gonna make you rich.

Lean on me, trust me, walk with me, Give me my

tenth. I'm gonna make you rich. That's a crazy thing. I think

these things are powerful to talk about, and you know, when it always

comes to the preaching time, I've always got twenty pages of notes and two

minutes to say it, you know. But these things are important to talk

about because I think that we are we as a people, we don't realize

what God wants to do for us, and so we struggle with tithing.

We struggle like in a body like ours, which is a very devoted We

got prophetic ministry, deliverance, ministry, outreach ministry, food bank ministry.

This is a very devoted ministry. Only about half of us tithe in your

average congregation in America, only twenty percent of the people tithe. Now I

didn't say tip. Lots of Christians give a tip. Lots of Christians give

probably one hundred percent give a tip. But I'm talking about a ten percent

tide. A tithe is ten percent pre tax, pre tax giving. It's

the first fruits. It's not the second fruits, the third fruits. It's

the first. Fact is Leviticas look at Leviticus twenty seven thirty. I think

we haven't Leviticus twenty seven thirty. And I wouldn't even go there. I'll

just let's go to the street, and well, can you find it like

a tide of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit

from the trees, belongs to the Lord. Did you hear that it isn't

even my money. It's not even my money. It belongs to the Lord.

It is holding to the Lord. Whoever it would redeem it, any

of their tithe must add a fifth to the value of it. Did you

know that that under the Mosaic law, God said, if you want to

hang on your tide for a while, you owe me twenty percent interest,

add a fifth to it. Is that crazy? You would only owe a

fifth to something that belonged to somebody else. See, it doesn't belong to

you. The ten percent doesn't belong to you. It actually doesn't belong to

you. I'm trying to answer the question this morning, because I know that

we struggle with this a little bit. Is that is the tide the valid?

We've had so many arguments about it. You can just go online and

there's all sorts of people saying that the tithe is not even valid, that

it's moot, it's nothing. We should even discuss that the tithe has no

place in the New Testament church because because the tithe was a part of the

law, and Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the law for us, and when

he filled the requirements of the law for us, then we are no longer

under the law. And if we're not so, then we were not under

the penalty of violating the law because He's delivered this from the curse of the

law. Right and the tithe all belongs to the law. And I'm trying

to answer some of that for us today because in any church there's people struggling

with that argument. I've struggled with that argument. Maybe Frank struggled with it

when he had to give five dollars to the church. What in the world.

Okay, well, all right, that's what I should do. Fast

word. Five years later, he's abounding with blessings. I don't know if

anybody that's sprung up out of incarceration faster and better than Frank Cashier home.

I just don't. So answering this question, I want you to see that

in answering this question, Yeah, tithing was spoken of in the law,

and tithing was made like super clear in the law. Like there's all sorts

of stuff about tithing in the law, like the one we just read out

of it, Leviticus twenty seven. But it didn't start with the law.

The law was added open it here. The law was added four four hundred

and thirty years after Abraham received the promise. So Abraham received the promise,

then there's instruction. There had to be instruction about tithing, because he's the

father of faith, and he gave ten percent in faith, and faith cometh

by, so he must have heard something. So joyfully he gives unto this

swan who's called him out of paganism and promised he's going to give him a

great name, bless him and through him, everybody else is going to be

blessed. Right, So then four hundred and thirty years later the law is

added. But when the law was added, God didn't change his mind.

It wasn't like tithing was a new thing. Actually, he was just clarifying

what he started with. And what's really weird is that he started this way

on purpose, so that when he introduced the priesthood under the law, which

was a new priesthood to watch over the Mosaic law. There the new priesthood

introduced. But he started this way because the Bible says that Levi and Aaron,

those who watched over the priest it and collected tithe from the people,

they actually gave a tithe to Christ through Abraham. So Paul says, the

validation of the Mosaic law and the right of the Levites and Aaron to collect

the tithe from the people is not because I say so, It's because they

already tithed to mel Keesedic through Abraham, because they were in the loins of

Abraham when Abraham tithed to Christ. Is that crazy? So it wasn't like

God changed his mind. And so then we get over here, right,

Let's get over here. Galatians three nineteen, we could go there. Galatians

three nineteen. This is Christ and he's restoring us to Abraham. He fulfills

the requirements of the law and restores us to Abraham. Follow So, yeah,

I'm no longer under Moses or the law of Moses. But this is

weird. The promise was higher than the law. The law was only the

old law was only given because these people four hundred and thirty years later weren't

led by the Holy Spirit, so they had to have laws written. But

when we get back over here and we're restored to the promise, then the

laws are written on our heart. So actually, this coming back under Abraham

and the shift of priesthood from Aaron and Levi back to melk Kezedek. By

the way that it's a shift of priesthood, Hebrews makes it super clear that

when we come back under Jesus, the priest Jesus is a priest in the

order of melk Kezedek. It's a shift of priesthood and a shift of the

law. We go back to the law of the Spirit of the life of

in Christ Jesus. We go back to the law of the Spirit, the

law of promise. Right but it's a higher law. It's a higher law.

What's that mean. It doesn't mean that we would give less. It

means that we would give with a heart of giving. See when I lost

the spirit four hundred and thirty years later, when I did, we go

to Glacians three nineteen. You had it up for a long time. Why

would law given? He was added because of transgressions. Oh, transgressions increased,

lack of the spirit. Transgressions increased until the seed of whom the promise

referred to. The promise wasn't just Isaac. The promise was Yahia until the

promise would come. So the law was given because of an increase of transgressions.

We gotta make this clear. We gotta spell it out. This is

God's money. Give it back to him. Spell it out. You know

why. Because they were doing this. The law was epitomized by deeds with

no heart. Yeah, I'm not gonna kill my neighbor, but I wish

I couldn't. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, but I'll tell you I'm

not gonna lie about that. I'm not gonna lie. I'd like to lie.

Yeah, I'm not gonna cheat, only because they're watching, right,

now. But as soon as they aren't watching, I'm gonna cheat. The

law was epitomized by doing good with no heart in it, and so under

the law they were bringing their tithe, but it was it was a stingy.

There was no heart in it. There was no heart in it under

the law. When we're restored to Abraham, this is why, this is

why Paul says God loves a cheerful giver. When we're restored to Abraham,

were restored to knowing. Oh, oh my goodness, I'm a child of

Abraham. Let's see. Let's see he's making he's making my name great because

he's making his name great. And I've hooked up my name to his name,

and he's blessing all people through me, and and he's promised to make

me rich. I don't need the shock and job. I don't need the

trick and scheme. I don't need to lie. I don't need to deceive.

He's gonna make me rich. He's gonna make me rich. You don't

believe me, None of you believe me. You don't believe that part to

you. You've been deceived. You've been deceived. God wants to pour out

upon you riches. Remember the Lord, your God. It is he who

gives you the power to create wealth, that he may confirm the covenant that

he swore to Your Father's God wants to bless you be on your wildest dreams,

but he's gotta work on your heart attitude and his love. As our

heart attitude is still the mosaic heart, we have to get rid of the

mosaic heart. If our heart attitude is Let's see, I brought in forty

nine hundred and fifty six dollars, I'm gonna bring four hundred and ninety five

point six. That's what I'm gonna bring, not a pennymore if her heart,

If her heart is hard, and we're bound up in legalism of the

heart, then we're not making the connection with Abraham, who received the promise,

who walked by faith, who heard from God, who joyfully gave,

and would not let any unclean thing declare that it made him rich. No

unclean thing, no covenant relationship with Sawdom, or any unclean thing can declare

will ever declare that it made Abram rich. Only that which has been birth

of God. We'll make Abram rich. I'm talking about you. I'm talking

about you right now. I want you to make this association that God wants

you to know. He wants you to he wants to bless you. That's

what these things are all about. The tithe and he needed a way.

He needed a way to care for his flock. He needed a way to

care for the body. He needed a way to grow the church in a

third dimension world. So He's ordained all of this to be this way.

But then he said, I'm going to attach crazy, crazy promises to it.

I'm literally going to blow them away. This is what God has done.

We have to see that any requirement like this moves us into privilege that

nobody else has. Like if you're if you're an unbeliever today you're with us

and you've never come to know the Lord, Like this isn't you don't even

have to worry about this. This is not for you. You're like the

pre Abraham state. But you're also that's a bummer because you're you're not walking

in the privilege of this either. This is a privilege like when God declared

over Israel. Remember there's sixty nine other nations. There's seventy nations on the

planet. When God declares over Israel. I want you to rest on the

seventh day. Oh Bomber, we can't work. I'm so mad. I

wanted to work, but at Bad Bad I wanted to work. Mad,

mad, Mad? Are you kidding me? If the privilege God's trying to

show them something, I'm gonna give you a day of rest. Every other

nation is going to work their tail off just to make it. They're barely

going to get by fighting against the curse and the thorns seven days a week.

They will have no rest. They're gonna work seven days a week.

But for my kids, I'm going to tell you something. Here's the privilege.

You're gonna have a day off. See, sometimes we want to see

the things that God calls us to do as a yoke constead of a privilege,

as a burden instead of a relief, instead of a blessing. We

want to see it as a hardship. But that's not the way it works.

Everything Kingdom is to give you peace, it's to give you relief,

it's to help you, it's to lift burden off of you. You're only

going to work six days a week, and I'm going to give you more

than everybody else on the planet. In six days than they have in seven.

That's the principle. The tithe is the same way. You're gonna give

me ten percent, and I'm going to give you more, more blessing,

more peace, more fulfillment, more riches, more outstanding, crazy stuff.

I have a whole list of these blessings. Let's put them up. This

is what the message is supposed to be on today. Gives supposed to be

on the ten blessings. But I realized that we can't really talk about the

blessings fully if half of us don't even believe tithing is valid. About half

of us in this church do not believe that tithing is valid. Did you

know you haven't even given an offering until you've actually tied. You can't give

an offering until you're tied because the tithe is the Lord's. So if you're

just giving a little bit, calling it an offering, it's not an offering.

You can't give an offering to lefter you've given a tithe. The first

ten percent is the Lord's after that, and you can give an offering that's

called a free will offering. In other words, he it belongs to the

first ten belongs to the Lord. I don't have a choice about that that

belongs the Lord. I'm just gonna come with faith and celebrate. He gave

me victory. But the other ninety percent that's mine. He gave me mine.

He gave me ninety percent to manage. I'd like to give him an

extra five. Oh, that's called the free will offering. Let's call with

the love offering. Here's ten benefits, here's ten promises. The ninety percent

comes under a sanctified blessing. Number two, inherit the spiritual riches of the

kingdom. You want the heavens to open up with wisdom and revelation. Can

you believe that your money is actually associated with your understanding in the kingdom?

It is number three. Be entrusted with greater management responsibility. He that's faithful

with five dollars will be faithful with much. Be given property of your own,

because if you treat his property good, he's going to give you your

own property. Come under an open heaven of opportunity in favor. Receive Father's

protection against depth and loss. Become enviable. All the nations will call you

blessed. Become a delight a delightful land, a delightful house, enjoy long

life with fulfillment and escape the oppression of fear and greed. The stand this

morning, and that's Jeff to come to the platform. Chef's got a testimony.

I think he felt what I've felt many times last week, and he

shared it with me this week at prayer, and I want him to share

it with you while he's coming and just going to share. Today, I

called the day's sermon test drive drive. We're gonna go test a Tesla.

We're gonna go test rind of a Tesla. They're on sale, so we're

gonna go test drive a Tesla. If I'm calling a test drive because Malachi

three ten through twelve says, test me, test me, put me to

the test, test drive tithing. But lord, I'm only making a thousand

a month. Test him in this, But lord, I'm only making six

hundred dollars every two weeks. Test but lord, I'm only I'm only getting

a social Security check. Test me in this, but Lord, I'm making

ten thousand a month. Test me in this test drive. Put a test

drive. See if I will not open the windows of heaven. Right.

So I'm asking you today we're gonna take a second offering for missions, but

we're not going to do that. We're gonna just open up an offering after

Jeff Jeff talks, and I want the elshers to come though and prepare and

I want to I want to ask you to embrace a tithing challenge. And

that only applies to some of us, right, But for some of us,

if we've just been tipping God, or we haven't dove all the way

in, or we really haven't calculated what a true tithe is, or we've

been kind of fudging the numbers, or we just you know, we've been

dealing with an ideal with it. I've dealt with fear. I've looked at

those numbers and got nervous. I'm with help. Tithing in the past,

had to repent, had to get us straightened out. Whatever it's kind of

been hitting you that has kept you from really embracing this. I'm just asking

you allow Holy Spirit to bring faith to your heart. Allow him to bring

faith to your heart, because there's faith in the atmosphere this morning that will

shift you up into a new realm, a higher realm in Him, a

higher realm and Him. So Karen, my wife and I have been tithing

for decades, and maybe there's times where it kind of slipped into the routine

legal side. And so this last month, some deals came together all at

once, and so my income was triple what it normally is. And so

it came time to write the check, and I just felt this little tinge

of do I really want to do this? And it's like, you know,

what else could I do with that money? You know, all these

thoughts run through your mind. And so wrote out to check, brought it

to church, let it go into the bucket as it came by, But

my hand was kind of gripping it a little bit. But as Pastor Dwayne

taught the message last Sunday, this faith began to rise up in my heart

and my hand just opened so where I could release that gift to Heaven,

release back to Him what's his. And now I'm I'm feeling the connection again.

So I'm back. We're back open to His wisdom, his love.

And when we give our tithes to the Lord with our whole heart, that's

our Heart's the step ladder that takes it to Heaven, and where unrighteous mammon

is converted into the love of God, that ends up pouring back out on

all of you and makes the work of the Kingdom of God happen. It's

the love of God that builds the Kingdom of God, and we can convert

unrighteous mammon into the love of God going out to people. So anyway,

I just got free in that service. As I heard the word and faith

came. I was just able to open my hand and let that tithe.

It was already in the basket, but my heart wasn't attached to it yet

until I got my hand open. Thank you for teachings, Thank you Lord

for this beautiful congregation. Thank you Lord, and thank you Lord. We

are we are fulfilling our covenant with you. We are we are entering into

this love life with You, where where we can transfer unrighteous mammont into worship

to You, and where it's your love pouring out back on us. So

I thank you Lord, that that all of us would be able to taste

this and experience it and know that we're we're safe and protected. Even when

the math says you have less, we have less, our heart tells us

we're enriched with the blessings of Heaven and we're well provided for. Lord,

We thank you for that Jesus name, keep your heads about just for a

minute, eyes closed, just from an heads about, just from a I

just want to talk to your heart a little bit. It's where ever you're

out. I want you to just trust the Lord. Not a mission's offering

this morning, but just even if it's a gift this morning, that just

says, I want to make this right in my life. I want to

believe God. I want to trust God with my whole heart. I want

to be a hundred percent in I want to be generous in this. I

want you to grab an envelope, or Michael, are the four ways up

on the screen. Put the four ways on the screen, Rob an envelope

this morning, open your phone, do something. But that's if the lug

Lord is. If the Lord is tugging in your heart, he's saying,

test me, test me, test me, test me. I was thinking

this morning, I'm so glad that I've never retreated on this, because I

was thinking, you know, sometimes it takes a while for Ecclesiastics. I

think it's eleven twenty five says cash your bread on the water, and after

many days it will come back. You know. I hate to say do

a ninety day challenge. I hate to say, let's do a thirty day

challenge. I hate to put a time I'm limit on it, because over

time what has happened is that God has done the miraculous with so many of

us, with Joe and Sandy calling him, Melissa, Craig and Claire,

just so many of us here that I know and I'm close with, you

know, just various ones that have been part of the body. The Lord's

done miracles where you know, we look at we look at what we have

had for an income, and then we look at what God has done with

us, and it doesn't make any sense at all. The only thing that

makes any sense is that God has done miracles and he wants to do He's

not a respecter of persons. He doesn't love me more than he loves you.

So it's not really a ninety day challenge. It's kind of like I'm

in. I'm a lifer. Jeff and Karen, we're lifers. We're gonna

be lifers. But I'm not going to be a lifer without my faith.

I'm not going to be you know, if the Lord never blesses me,

I'm good. No, that's impossible. He that comes to God must believe

that he is and that he is the rewarder of those that diligently seek him.

He doesn't even want me to say, if he never blesses me,

I'm good. What he wants me to say is he's gonna bless me.

Are you kidding me? This is the God of blessing. So my invitation

is, just do something to mark this day, do something to seal,

and to mark this day as this is a day where I've decided I'm going

to go all in with the first fruits. I'm gonna go all in with

the first ten percent. Just mark this day, set it apart, and

then let it be the beginning of an of not just a test drive,

but a complete agreement with Father and his kindness over you, Alder, We

thank you for him. We seal this day before you. She's this name.

Amen. Let's your church love you. Let's worship as we go