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The Foundation of Restoration

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  1. Amen, Amen, Well, welcome to church once again. You are a

  2. beautiful bunch. Today. We're gonna we're in for a lot of fun.

  3. And before I turn it over to mister Pastor Wolf to lead us into the

  4. word, I want to let you know that August thirtieth, we have a

  5. mission team departing for Uganda. Right so this is our second of the last

  6. Sunday here, but we wanted to introduce the team too, So if you're

  7. from the team, just stand up where you're at right now. We have

  8. nine of us going Joe, Sandy, Sophia, Dale, Rummel back there,

  9. Duanne and I Connie, Dennis. Where Dennis go? I thought I

  10. saw him over here. Oh there's Dennis and Sandy back there. So this

  11. is the team that's going to go and represent We are going to You can

  12. have a seat if you'd like to. We are going to be half of

  13. us, or some of us, are going to be ministering at a pastor's

  14. conference of about four to five hundred pastors. So they're going to be keynote

  15. speak and speaking all day all night. So be praying for both Joe and

  16. Dwayne because that's what they're gonna be doing. Miss Connie over here, she's

  17. gonna be sewing shoes all week like crazy with a sewing machine. They hurt.

  18. She's gonna work with the team of my three sixty project. We showed

  19. you those little shoes that grow two sizes with the children when we put them

  20. on them, So she's gonna be thoroughly immersed in that. And at the

  21. end of our time that we're gonna have a shoe give we're gonna be giving

  22. away a couple hundred shoes. It's just gonna be an amazing time. The

  23. rest of us are gonna go down to Matukula and we're gonna have a medical

  24. project down there. We're gonna do a medical clinic for two days. We're

  25. gonna be leading people to the Lord, working with the pastor down there.

  26. We are going to be passing out medications and doing small things with that we

  27. are able to do down there. We're also wanting to participate in feeding people.

  28. So one three hundred dollars will feed one hundred people for two weeks with

  29. a full protein meal pack, and so we're hoping to be passing out quite

  30. a few of those at different places that we're gonna go. We're gonna go

  31. visit the well that you all paid for this last march to be able to

  32. be put in. It is in, it is functioning, people are drinking

  33. from it. We're going to hold a crusade there and pass out food for

  34. the community. So we're going to gather the community and dedicate it to the

  35. Lord. So we're going to be busy, busy people. We are on

  36. the ground I think eight days total. So I had a dream. Anyway,

  37. it's going to take us some finance to be able to do all these

  38. projects. And so today, as you saw the team that's here, we

  39. are going to give you an opportunity to sew into our projects. So if

  40. you would for me, we gave you this little piece of paper. It

  41. talks about what we're doing. I think it was on your chair when you

  42. came in, correct, So pull that out, take a look at it.

  43. It's got our itinerary on the front. I need you to take this

  44. home, put it by your bedside, put it in your kitchen, and

  45. every day between August thirtieth and September nine, I want you to pull this

  46. thing out, see what we're doing, and I want you to pray for

  47. us. Now in reality, when you're awake, we're asleep. So in

  48. reality, what you're what you're praying for is what we did before and what

  49. we're going to do the next day. Right, it's not that very second.

  50. And maybe when you're praying for us, pray that we're actually sleeping because

  51. it's a pretty quick flip and so we're probably awake all night going. I'm

  52. supposed to be awake right now, but it's dark outside, So pray for

  53. our jet lag and all of that kind of thing too. But please be

  54. with us on this team, Be with us moment by moment, just being

  55. prepared next Sunday when we come, you're gonna pray us out of here.

  56. And then we leave that Wednesday. We have packed up nine suitcases. I

  57. think it is filled with brand new free medical supplies that we're taking over.

  58. So we're gonna, yeah, it's just great. We go and we blow

  59. the place up. We don't just go and look around. We go and

  60. change things. So would you be willing? Would you be willing today to

  61. partner with us? There's four once again, four ways to give. You

  62. can do this by that QR code. You can do it anyway. Just

  63. reach in the front the seat in front of you, grab grab a enflo

  64. But would you be willing to help us today? Ushers, come on forward.

  65. We are getting ready. We have to send money. We've sent some

  66. last week, we have to send it this week so that they can get

  67. stuff purchased for us lined up and on the ground and stage, so that

  68. we can be ready to give this away. So would you partner with us

  69. here today, partner with us around the world, changing lives and in ways

  70. that you will probably never be able to know until we go to heaven.

  71. Right then we're gonna see what we stored up with just our righteous acts and

  72. deeds. Amen, Father and Jesus name, thank you so much for these

  73. people and for their willingness to give, for their willingness to be a part

  74. with us. Lord I thank you for the team. Lord God, I

  75. thank you right now that there's health and wholeness in every single one of us

  76. between now and the moment we land. And Lord God, I thank you

  77. right now that you're just going to keep your hand of safety upon us.

  78. Thank you Lord that this team is not just nine, but it's the entire

  79. body of New Horizon going forward to do things and to put our hands to

  80. the plow in Jesus name. Amen, thank you so much, Thank you

  81. so much for your participation, your willingness. We are ever so grateful.

  82. Amen. Pastor Dwayne, why don't you come on up and lead us in

  83. the word I want live. Let stand up and pray for the word.

  84. We have a week for you to continue to give. So if you want

  85. to be a part of this, we've got so much we want to do

  86. the shoe projects, all of our outreaches. I think our outreaches are like

  87. four hundred and fifty a day or something like that. So if you want

  88. to continue to be a part of this, you can, you know,

  89. you can come online and just go into the mission drop down box or you've

  90. gone to drop down box or whatever it is on sub splash or online or

  91. whatever, and just continue to help us. Also, we're collecting electronics so

  92. they love it if we bring stuff over there. And actually we've got one

  93. church we want to provide symbols for they need a whole symbol set. If

  94. you want to be a part of that, I've been asking you to give

  95. into Restored Life books. So we're having two hundred Break your Chains books printed

  96. and we're taking those with us. Fifty restored life books, we're taking those

  97. with us, one hundred and fifty communion books, we're taking those with us.

  98. And twenty five of the brand new child deliverance books, Set Your Child

  99. Free Book, those are gonna go with us as well. So it's a

  100. brand new book we're just finishing. So that's going with us over there.

  101. So that's like those are tubs and every tub is two hundred dollars to get

  102. there. So it's just money, money, money, money. Say I'm

  103. loaded, I'm overflowing, I'm abounding for every good work. And Jesus Name

  104. and Father, we thank you for your word today, thank you that you

  105. raise us up and that we are we are your ecclesia. We are your

  106. ambassadors of transformation, your ambassadors of reconciliation. And we just we bless the

  107. team today and we blessed this house that together we set our hearts on transforming

  108. the nations and doing our part to represent you and to bring your healing word,

  109. your healing ministry. We give you the praise for in Jesus name,

  110. or may said amen, Amen, Amen, you maybe see yeah, electronics,

  111. I didn't finish that thought. So laptops cell phones, stuff that still

  112. might work even if it's locked. Bring it in because we'll figure out way

  113. to unlock it. If you can strub it, great, strub it before

  114. you bring it in or whatever, and then we'll h they are they are

  115. technically they are not technically challenged over there, so they can unlock your phone,

  116. believe it or not. They'll figure it out. So Joel's phone,

  117. I sent it into Apple, her last phone, and I sent it into

  118. Apple, you know, because they were doing a trade in. So whatever

  119. she's on now, she's on it like an eight or eleven or something.

  120. I don't know if she's on anyway. So I sent in her old phone

  121. to do a trade in thing and Apple sent it back and said it doesn't

  122. qualify. It's a piece of garbage, you know whatever. So I sent

  123. it over there. Pastor Andrew got it working. He's using it today,

  124. so he's having a ball with an iPhone. They figured it out. So

  125. just you know, if you think it might work, get it in this

  126. week so we can get it into the luggage. Get it into the stuff.

  127. Right. So this is connect Sunday, by the way, So it's

  128. Picnic Sunday, but it's connect Sunday. That means we want you in a

  129. name tag. And I'm Dwayne the Bathtub. I'm not Dounding, but that's

  130. yeah, okay, but we want you in a name tag. We want

  131. you to stay for the picnic, like Joe said, and we want you

  132. in a name tag because it's Connects Sunday and they were raptick. We were

  133. doing Raffle, were doing the Rapple tickets back there. So if you have

  134. a Raffle ticket, We're gonna give away prizes at the picnic, so you

  135. gotta stay. And I think the prizes are after the apple pie contest and

  136. we have ice cream for the apple pie, so we will dwell together in

  137. fatness and that's very scriptural. So that's going on. I'm want to talk

  138. about restoration through the church today, and I'm just I'm blessed by you.

  139. I'm proud of all of you and blessed that you're here, and thankful for

  140. every one of you. Joel, and I rejoice over you and your friendship

  141. with this house and your your partnership with for the Kingdom, and your love

  142. for him and all that all that he's doing, all that he represents.

  143. Amen. I've been talking to last several sunnis about restoration and how it's God's

  144. plan to restore mankind and it's God's plan to restore the Earth, and that's

  145. really the macro plan. The macro plan is restoration. And we have our

  146. mission. We are comissioned agents. Our mission is in opposition to another mission,

  147. a mission that took over the planet, a mission that usurped first Adam

  148. and his governance and his dominion over the planet. And so our mission in

  149. Jesus is a mission against that mission. So we are comissioned to destroy the

  150. finish, to partner with Jesus in finishing the work of destroying the works of

  151. darkness, banishing Satan off the planet. And as Jude writes and as Peter

  152. writes, seeing to it that the powers of darkness are locked in chains until

  153. the day of judgment, that's really that's our assignment we are. We're on

  154. this assignment, and so we do both at the same time. We're building

  155. the kingdom and we're destroying the works of darkness. And wherever we don't destroy

  156. the works of darkness, the kingdom won't be built. The kingdom has to

  157. be built. Where we have partner with Jesus to bind the strong man and

  158. to plunder the strong men. So that's that's what we do, and we

  159. don't do it on Sunday. This is the training Center, the equipping center,

  160. this is the Joy Center, this is the family Center, this is

  161. this is so much, but it's not everything. Right. We are the

  162. scent ones. We're sent in the culture we're sent into. And your employment

  163. is one of the coolest ways for you to be sent because you are paid

  164. to be a missionary. Wherever you are, you are a paid missionary.

  165. You're a paid missionary. Have you wanted to be a paid missionary? Sent

  166. by an organization? You are. You're sent by Apple, You're sent by

  167. Microsoft, You're sent by you know, some real estate company, or you're

  168. sent by some organization or the carpenters Union or the Electricians Union or Boeing.

  169. You're sent you're your way is paid to be the ecclesia in the midst of

  170. darkness and to bring kingdom word, kingdom, love, kingdom values, kingdom

  171. principle right where you're at. You're a paid missionary and that fun and that

  172. cool. And so I've been thinking a little bit about the church today because

  173. the church the Church is the instrument of restoration to the earth, the Church

  174. Ephesians three, ten and eleven. His intent was that now through the Church.

  175. His intent was now that through the Church, the manifold wisdom should be

  176. made known to the rulers and authorities in heavenly realms. So the principalities and

  177. powers, the very thing that Paul says in Ephesians six ten through eighteen,

  178. the very thing that we battle with, the thing we wrestle with, the

  179. thing that we feel, the thing that's against the righteousness or the Kingdom of

  180. God or the Kingdom of Heaven. It's through the Church. It's through us,

  181. the ecclesia, the called of God, the set apart of God.

  182. It's through us that the manifold wisdom of God is now being made known.

  183. It's being made known through our words, our prayers, our lifestyle, our

  184. speech. It's being made known through all we represent and everything we do.

  185. We are the ones because we carry Jesus as He carried the Holy Spirit.

  186. We carry His Holy Spirit into everything and everywhere. So now through the Church,

  187. the wisdom of God should be made known to rulers and authorities in heavenly

  188. realms or in the spirit realm according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished.

  189. This was his purpose all alone. This was his purpose all along, that

  190. he would have a people, that he would reclaim the earth, that he

  191. would reclaim mankind, that he would bring. This was his purpose all along,

  192. and its launch began with Jesus, according to the eternal purpose that he

  193. accomplished in Christ. Jesus our Lord. So God shows the Church to bring

  194. the Kingdom of Heaven. God shows the Church to expand the Kingdom of Heaven.

  195. We are the blood bought. We are the set apart. We are

  196. the ecclesia of every region. We're the ecclesia of every region. By the

  197. way, I can't. I'm not the ecclesia in Los Angeles today. Somebody

  198. down there is going to need to do something about that weather that's coming.

  199. Right. So I'm not the ecclesia in San Diego. I'm not the ecclesia

  200. in Cabo San Lucas. I'm not the ecclesia in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania today.

  201. I'm not the ecclesia in Washington, DC. The ecclesia is a regional as

  202. it was in Ephesus, or as it was in the Grecian days, or

  203. it was in the Roman days. The ecclesia is a region expression. God

  204. needs me right here, God needs you right here. It's a regional expression

  205. in every region. The Church represents Heaven on Earth. I can pray over

  206. other areas, I can prophesy over area, other areas, but I get

  207. to represent Heaven on Earth right here, right here, right here. I

  208. get to represent Heaven on Earth. The Church is Heaven's legislators. Matthew six

  209. eighteen through nineteen. I tell you that you are Peter, and on this

  210. rock, I will build my church. You've heard multiple sermons on this.

  211. I won't even I don't want to go into where they were and how important

  212. it was, and how they were actually at the Gate of Hades. They

  213. were actually there, they were actually at a place called the Gate of Hades.

  214. I will build my church, my ecclesia, and the gates of Hades

  215. will not overcome it. And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom

  216. of Heaven. Who has the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven? Yeah,

  217. you do, we do. The Church does. The Church does the Body

  218. of Christ that called out the regional expression in a region of God's people,

  219. of God's set apart. People have been given the keys to bringing Heaven to

  220. earth. We have been given the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. What

  221. would the earth do without the Church? What would the earth when the world

  222. would be happening without the Church? Right now? What would have happened over

  223. this last season in the global reset if the Church hadn't have been standing up

  224. in every region and standing up in prayer, and standing up in action,

  225. and standing up in the prophetic word, standing up to thwart the plans of

  226. the enemy, plans that were actually meant to thwart the growing move of God

  227. and the revival that God is loosing over the planet for a billion soul harvest.

  228. What would have happened if the Church would have said not on my watch?

  229. Did you know it is actually our network director. I don't know if

  230. you knew this, but our network director, the one that we belovedly love

  231. and we give in to every single month without missing a beat. It is

  232. chay On who directs the Harvest International Ministry and Harvest Rock Church who stood up

  233. against Gavin Newsom and the powers in California that went all the way to the

  234. Supreme Court, that actually won a victory for the entire global church in the

  235. United States of America, that churches will not be shut down, that worship

  236. will not be legislated, that the way we worship will not be silenced,

  237. and that the church is free to worship as she desires and needs to that

  238. that, by the way, that lawsuit cost them our our functioning. So

  239. we're under two networks. Were under Shay and World Harvests or Global Harvest Harvest

  240. International. We're also under Bethel, and we partner with both of them.

  241. We given to both, We partake of both, and we yield to both

  242. and glean from both. And and those two are brothers in a ministry called

  243. Revival Alliance. So, but I don't know if you know that that cost

  244. Harvest Strock Church and Shay and everything. That costs them one point three five

  245. million dollars to fight that to the Supreme Court. Now, I want to

  246. just ask you a question, where would that where? Where? What would

  247. have happened if they wouldn't have had one point three five million dollars? Wow,

  248. See, some things, some things well all things we pray for,

  249. but some things we need to add shoe leather and greenbacks. Two that as

  250. we said that there would be breakthrough that accompanies the prayer. Now, the

  251. beautiful joy of that is that when they won the victory to the Supreme Court,

  252. then a part of the victory was all of their legal fees had to

  253. be paid back. That's how I know it was one point three five million

  254. dollars is because they on an award from Gavin Newsome and the State of California

  255. that all of their legal fees had to be paid back. But my point

  256. is, what if they wouldn't have had the one point three five million in

  257. the first place. You follow what I'm saying, because that victory was our

  258. victory. That victory was the next plandemic's victory, because another plandemic might be

  259. coming, but there's already been in victory one that just messed up somebody's plandemic

  260. right there, if you know what I'm saying. But it's the church.

  261. It's the church. The church carries the good news of the Heaven. The

  262. church carries the heart of Heaven and the character of Heaven. The church calls

  263. people out of darkness and equips them with Heaven's DNA. The church is the

  264. salt and the light of the world. The Church. The church carries the

  265. values that actually cause society to work. If it weren't for the church,

  266. we wouldn't need have the values that makes society work. It's out of the

  267. Church that comes kindness. The world is not pushing forth kindness. Satan is

  268. not like Satan is not specializing in kindness. Do you understand that it's the

  269. values that make society work. Love, patience, kindness, meekness, gentleness,

  270. servitude, self control, respect for property, respect for one another,

  271. honor. I mean, we could go on and on about the values that

  272. actually all of society cherishes and it makes all of society work. They don't

  273. come out of any place other than the church. They come out of the

  274. Church. We could talk about the Dark Ages. I don't know. You

  275. know, if you realize that the Dark Ages were actually some people blame the

  276. Dark Ages on the churches. You know, it's only the Church that sustained

  277. culture through the Dark Ages. Go back and study again, you're gonna get

  278. a revelation. Stole helping me because she's the church history genius. She helped

  279. me to get a revelation that it was actually the church that brought life through

  280. the Dark Ages. It wasn't the church that brought the dark ages. If

  281. it weren't for the church, the lights would have gone out. That's always

  282. the way it is, and that's always the way it's going to be.

  283. And that's why the lights aren't going to go out because the church is well

  284. alive. The church is well alive. Now here's the crazy thing about the

  285. church. For all of this, the church needs people. People who are

  286. able to lead, equip teach, build up, strengthen those who staff and

  287. care for the most important organization on the planet. This is the most if

  288. there were ever a critical hour for the church, I would say, this

  289. is it. Actually. I mean, I'm sixty four in my lifetime,

  290. and I know that's a short little span in the view of humanity, but

  291. in my lifetime, this is the most critical hour ever for the church.

  292. There has never been a more critical hour for the church in my lifetime.

  293. And I don't know about you. Most of you are younger than me,

  294. so you could probably agree with that. But I would say, even over

  295. the history of our nation, there have been few times that are as critical

  296. for the church to rise up as a time like this. So in my

  297. thinking, this is not a time for us to wonder if we should support

  298. the church. Wonder if we should be on board with the church. Wonderful

  299. like we should be partnering with the church. Should we really be partnering with

  300. the Church? Are you kidding me? Wake up? Wake up, child

  301. of God. This is this could be the most important time in your lifetime

  302. to partner with the Church. And all of this for the most important organization

  303. society, All of it has had its biblical precedent in influence support making it

  304. happen in a crazy thing called the tide the time. The tithe is how

  305. people of God from the day of Abraham, Genesis chapter fourteen, God set

  306. a priest in Abram's life. It's the first act recorded in Abram's walk in

  307. covenant with God. And Abram gives of him a tenth part of increase.

  308. And we see that pattern begins then, and it's a pattern that goes on

  309. and on with God's people ten percent. And God has always used this pattern

  310. biblically to provide for what he wants to do on the earth. And so

  311. I honestly cringe whenever anybody in ministry on a platform or anywhere with a microphone

  312. says God doesn't need your money to keep heaven moving. That's totally true.

  313. To keep Jesus on the throne, totally right, the throne in heaven.

  314. But for God to do everything he wants to do in what we've been describing

  315. as a growing kingdom and a diminishing darkness. Everything God wants to do in

  316. the earth on the earth, he's chosen to do it through people. And

  317. therefore people need to eat, and buildings need to be paid for, and

  318. stuff needs to be supported, and so therefore God needs your money. People

  319. always pour money into things that excite them. You know that, don't you.

  320. The world is pouring so much money into them, the agendas that they're

  321. putting forth right now, do you think the agendas moving forth are moving forward

  322. without money. You've got to be kidding me. They're more than tithing.

  323. They are more than tithing. Tithe means ten percent. But there's people so

  324. sold out to their causes. Whether it's tree hugging causes, whale hugging causes,

  325. a gender affirming causes, whether it's whether it's library causes, whether it's

  326. the destruction of our university causes, whether it's climate change causes. I'm telling

  327. you you can name the cause. People in the world are pouring much more

  328. than ten percent into their cause. They're not just showing up and having a

  329. cheeseburger. They are bringing their wallets. They are bringing their wallets. Loving

  330. a cause means supporting that cause, be it a political party, a conservative

  331. party, a school, university, hospital, or a brick of benevolence.

  332. This is just the way it works in a third dimensional world. And it's

  333. eleven thirty and I just started appreciate it. I just wound up. I

  334. just got wound up. I was the barrier to blow a gasket. You

  335. know. I don't see it as a painful reality. I see it as

  336. the joy of those who are mature in Christ and an expression of childlike faith.

  337. It's really true, you know, Joel and I have proved it out

  338. so now forty years of ministry. Probably never had salaries that compare to most

  339. of yours. No, it's true. You know, our our first little

  340. spot, we joke about what our salary was, and and just kind of

  341. scrapping and digging and all the time, you know, giving ten and twenty

  342. and sometimes thirty percent of our income back to the church, and sacrificing and

  343. just watching God work, watching God do miracles. This is what he says.

  344. In Malachi three ten through twelve. He says, put me to the

  345. test, prove me herein see if I won't open the windows of heaven for

  346. you and pour out a blessing upon you. And I love the translation.

  347. It gives a lot more clarity to it. And we could throw this stuff

  348. up on the passage upon the stream. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse.

  349. That's the ten percent. Bring your ten percent into the storehouse, the

  350. house of the Lord. Test me in this, says the Lord Almighty.

  351. See if I will not throw up in the floodgates or the windows of heaven

  352. and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store

  353. it. So that's one translation. And I you know, folks want to

  354. argue with that, because you can always build a bigger barn. Actually,

  355. Luke twelve condemns the man. Jesus spoke in a condemning man about a man

  356. who built bigger barns because his harvest was so vast. So he said,

  357. I'm just going to build bigger barns, And so he built bigger barns.

  358. But that passage says, but he wasn't rich toward God. Because he wasn't

  359. rich toward God, God cut his life short and he lived in futility.

  360. He didn't enjoy his wealth. There wasn't real fulfillment. Because the joy of

  361. wealth is supposed to be the joy of not just you tasting the wealth,

  362. but if you seeing what your wealth can do. And you can only do

  363. that if you're also rich toward God. God wants to give you a prosperous

  364. field house, family life. God wants to prosper you, but he also

  365. wants you to be rich toward Him and giving. Let's go back to Malachi

  366. because I want you to see it. I outline the nine Everybody say nine,

  367. We're never going to get to that today. I outline nine benefits of

  368. tithing. That's about as ambitious as the bike trip yesterday. I told Joel

  369. and the Conleys we were going to go on a little bit mike trip.

  370. Thirty two miles later, exhausted, fall into the vehicle, nearly fall asleep

  371. on their way home, can't move when we get home, Lord Jesus,

  372. whereas my brain, the ambition just literally overtook me. We need a healing

  373. but it's a healing of the brain, not only the body. Well,

  374. that's the same thing with nine points on the blessings the promises of tithing.

  375. But I promise you this, we will get to those nine. Go back

  376. to verse ten. I want you to see this. I like the translation

  377. that says because we can always get a bigger barn. But there's a translation

  378. that says, pour out so much blessing that you will not be able to

  379. manage it. The inference is that the blessing of the Lord will be bigger

  380. than you can manage alone. That when God's blessings upon you'll you'll need those

  381. to help you manage it. It's more than you can contain or manage by

  382. yourself. You need the help of others around you. And that might even

  383. be happening to you to a degree already. And you're not tithing. But

  384. what he's saying is now, I need you to be rich toward me.

  385. It's interesting with Abram in Genesis fourteen, God gave him the victory over the

  386. five kings first, and then out of a reflection, I'm recognizing that God

  387. gave him the victory, he brought the gift of ten percent to the priest

  388. Malkazidek, and that resulted in a greater blessing because then Melksitic blessed him.

  389. And it says the blesser is always blessed by the greater, So Abram,

  390. who was blessed, received even a greater blessing from a greater one because he

  391. brought the tenth part. And what blows me away? And I'll just touch

  392. on one more blessing. We won't go into the rest of those. But

  393. there's so many tucked into here. There's so many promises tucked into this,

  394. and we've been receivers of all of them. For forty years of marriage,

  395. forty years of ministry, we've been receivers of all of them. With our

  396. children, our home, our finance, our future, our health. We

  397. literally have like lived in the land of Goshen. While while actually by men's

  398. estimation, it couldn't be. Like Caleb says all of his friends, if

  399. you don't believe in God, just look at my parents. That will change

  400. your mind right there, because all of his buddies are coming from rich families,

  401. doctors and lawyers and what have you. And that's all good. If

  402. they've all known that we have laid down our lives to build a church.

  403. And yet God has built our house and protected us and helped us some of

  404. us just wisdom. You know. When he opens up the windows of heaven,

  405. it's it's not envelopes of money dropping on you. It's favor and opportunity

  406. and wisdom and self control. And it's also the windows of heaven mean the

  407. access to heavens, thoughts, values, character ideas, concepts, favor.

  408. It's he didn't say I'm going to open the windows of money and they'll all

  409. drop on you. He's opening the windows of heaven. That's been a theme

  410. for four weeks, the Kingdom of Heaven, accessing living in and out of

  411. the Kingdom of Heaven. That's been our theme. Well, I want to

  412. go to one more thing. Romans eleven sixteen. We have it up there,

  413. Roman's eleven sixteen, and it's back in Leviticus twenty three thirty, and

  414. it's over in another passage that I gave him. Let I give you that

  415. the ninety percent is blessed Proverbs three. If the part of the dough offered

  416. his first fruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy. Now I

  417. want you get over Proverbs three, Mark I few in Proverbs three, it's

  418. the first fus principle. This is really this is a crazy thing about tithing,

  419. is that years ago we figured out because we had to budget, just

  420. like all of you do. We budget today. We do all of our

  421. money on quick books. We budget everything we do. We keep track of

  422. every penny we spend, We keep all of our receipts. We budget like

  423. all of you have to budget. And we figured out a long time ago

  424. that God was really smart and that he wanted the tithe to be the first

  425. check. You're right, He wanted the tithe to be the first expense because

  426. if you'll leave it to the last, you may not have ten percent left

  427. over it. And biblically, that's called the first fruits. Biblically, he

  428. said, give me the first, make the ten percent the first. And

  429. here's what's crazy. He says that when you make the ten percent to him

  430. first, then he sanctifies and blesses the ninety percent. That's why the ninety

  431. percent with him is more than one hundred percent without. This is how our

  432. ninety percent is blast beyond, Like our stuff doesn't wear out, and our

  433. stuff lasts longer and we get more discernment and insight and understanding on our like

  434. our ninety percent is more. There's a miracle on our ninety percent because we've

  435. dedicated the first ten percent to him. Our ten percent, that's the first

  436. he gets the first. Yeah, but I thought Uncle Sam got your first.

  437. Well that's another topic. That means that you tie it off the gross,

  438. not the net. If you tie it off the net, uncle Sam

  439. got the first ten percent. But if you tie it off of the gross

  440. before, what was it before taxes were taken out? Okay, I'm gonna

  441. tie off that the four thousand before they took out my taxes and my Social

  442. Security and then I'm going to tie it off of four thousand. That's four

  443. hundred dollars. I'm not going to tie off of the thirty six hundred dollars

  444. that was left over because that would be second. That would be giving God

  445. my second fruits. So I don't want to give him my second fruits.

  446. I'm going to give him my first fruits. So I'm going to write in

  447. the first check, and it's gonna be based on what it was before Uncle

  448. got his. And this is how God releases miracles in your lifeless same.

  449. We've got a close I've gone over time and the hot dogs are frying right

  450. now. We've got chicken thighs on the barbecue, boneless chicken thighs. We've

  451. got giant hot dogs, little hot dogs, beet fought dogs. We avoided

  452. all portocot dogs, pork free, pork free lunch. We want you to

  453. stay and have fun. We're gonna be hanging out, you know, tell

  454. like four o'clock or whatever. We got whiffleball. We got cornhole. We

  455. have got We've got three cornh hole sets. We can have a corn hole

  456. tournament. We've got apple pie contests. We got ice cream. We have

  457. the jumpy house, and we have the slide for kids. We've got the

  458. playground. It's gonna be fun. But the most important thing is that this

  459. is the most critical hour for the Ecclesia who arise, and for us to

  460. worship not only with our hands up and with our voices, but to worship

  461. with our giving, to love the cause of the Kingdom of Heaven so much

  462. that we get behind that cause financially. And I don't know about you,

  463. but I you know, I care about the earth. I care about the

  464. earth, and I care about trees, and I care about the whales,

  465. and I do I care about climate, and I care about stuff like this,

  466. and I can learn I care about carbon and this and not. But

  467. you know, I think I think the answers are in the church. I

  468. think the answers come out of heaven. And so I'm not going to give

  469. my money into that stuff. I'm going to give my money to this stuff.

  470. I'm going to give my money in the raising up heaven, raising up

  471. a people of heaven, raising up influencers of heaven, raising up households of

  472. heaven, raising up an echlos sea of people, raising up the influencers of

  473. heaven who will go in. I'm going to get my money into equipping the

  474. people who will carry heaven. That's where I'm going to give my money.

  475. And so when the whale people call me, I gave. I already gave.

  476. When the tree people call me, when the sunshine people call me,

  477. or the climate people, I already gave. Where'd you give? I gave?

  478. And I'm pouring it in. I'm pouring it in. I want to

  479. be a part of building the most important people and the most important thinkers,

  480. and the most important legislative body and the most important movers and shakers on the

  481. planet. And that's only coming out of one thing. It's coming out of

  482. the organism and the institution and the living body called the Church of the Lord

  483. Jesus Christ. That's where I want to pour my money. I want to

  484. pour my money into that, and I want that to be raised up.

  485. And so Father I I just join with these people. I just know that

  486. you have knit us together here as a household of faith with people who love

  487. what you love. And we love that Heaven's growing in Heaven's building, and

  488. that you're using us, and that you're raising us up. You've given us

  489. your authority and you're giving us your wisdom. And we just say yes to

  490. you, and yes to funding dramatically funding the Kingdom of Heaven, dramatically funding

  491. the work of the gospel, dramatically funding the people and the houses and the

  492. buildings and the equipment and the books and the stuff that carry your message.

  493. Holy Spirit. We agree to be your faith ones, your mature ones in

  494. Jesus, and your childlike believers in Jesus name. And everybody shouted, God

  495. bless your church.