Sermon
God's Super Natural Supply
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Transcript
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I would pray and speak some things over y'all.
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So, father, we just thank you for time and your word tonight, lord, for supplying us with a service to learn and to be trained.
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Lord, it's not about being entertained, it's about training.
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And so, father, we've gotten to praise you and worship you and spirit and in truth tonight.
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And so, lord, our spiritual ears are open now to hear directly from you what you would have for us.
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So use me, use me as a vessel of honor to pour out what you need to be said.
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Lord, give me utterance, lord, use my mouthpiece, use my stories and just use me to be to say exactly what you need to be said.
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And so, father, we pay attention when you zoom past any distractions and magnify and make you large in our lives.
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And Jesus' name, and I thank you, lord, that we're blessed, that our kids are blessed, that our grandkids are blessed.
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I don't have any of those yet.
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Thank you, lord, for that.
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I will in the future.
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And, lord, as I look out at this congregation, lord, I just thank you for their faithfulness, father, for all these years that they've stood faithful, coming to church, growing in you.
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Lord, what an honor it is to be last day Christians going to a last days church.
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Lord, when we get to heaven, people are gonna ask us what was it like to be on the earth when Jesus returned?
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And we're gonna be able to tell our story and our testimony and all rejoice in heaven.
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We thank you for these things in Jesus' name, amen.
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So I'm preaching about God's supernatural supply, and we've already received the offering right, so you can relax just a little bit.
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So you know it's not just about an offering or another offering, but you know Jesus talked about money more than he talked about heaven.
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Have you realized that?
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Study in your Bible, study in the word, and so there's a supply of the spirit of God that wants to bring you into everything that you need.
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There's a supply when you're connected to the Lord, and so I just I'm honored to be part of a church and under a pastor.
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I know he's my dad, but he's still my pastor and I'm under him as authority goes, and so that teaches me about what the Bible says about finances.
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You know, we were just talking to one of Selina's friends the other day.
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They at least they go to church, but it was more of a secret, sensitive church and I was asking them about their order of service, and nowhere did they talk about the offering.
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They don't receive an offering, they just put a box out in the lobby.
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You know, and maybe people are give or maybe not, but such a disservice to your congregation to not teach them what the Bible says.
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Because, you know, in order to be blessed, we must be tithers, we must be givers, over and above as well, and so we must bear fruit in this earth.
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Right, amen, how many of you could use a greater supply of God's provision in your life?
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Right amen.
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I got both hands up, both feet up, hallelujah.
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And you know, god's provision is drawn towards you, drawn to you, similarly than the animals with Noah in the ark.
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Right, noah didn't have to go out and gather the animals.
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They, god, the spirit of the Lord, gathered those animals into the ark, and that same anointing that draws it can draw supply to you, amen.
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And so, before I get started, I promise you I'm gonna open up the Bible and stop telling stories.
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But I was thinking this afternoon about myself included.
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Some of us can get so focused on just my four and no more, and just what we have.
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And I was reminded.
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You know, years ago we had a member of our church, miss Lisa's, here, so it happened to be her brother and sister-in-law.
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But he gave me my first boat God bless the Adams family, da-da-da-da, oh, anyways and it was just a 12-foot John boat.
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But it got me started and I started fishing in ponds and then I got a bigger boat.
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I bought our youth pastor's boat when he didn't want it anymore.
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He made me a good deal and that was a 19-foot boat.
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And so then I'd go to Lake Conroe and then, but, man, I discovered going out in Galveston Bay and I would launch it in a place where you couldn't see the other side, and go all the way into East Bay and Trinity Bay, and just you know, once you expand your horizons, it's like the world.
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The same thing with the motorcycle.
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I got a motorcycle and started in parking lots and going down the street to breakfast, and now back in May I went 700 miles and the same day all the way to Big Bend National Park.
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It's like give me the world, I'm ready for Colorado, I'm ready for Utah, let's go.
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And so Caleb's not here tonight, unless, is Caleb here?
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Is he working in the back?
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But we went riding on Monday and we just did this simple loop when we get back.
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And we didn't do any talking, we did all riding right.
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And so we get back and he's like man, I hadn't gone that far before, how far did we go?
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And I was like, I don't know, let me go.
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Look, it was like we went 137 miles.
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That's like nothing.
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And he was like, wow, my bike made it.
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It didn't blow up or anything.
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So just expand your horizons.
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You know, it's like.
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You know, like tonight, as I'm preaching, just begin to expand your horizons.
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The provision that you need to reach the harvest that God has for you is greater than what you have right now.
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You know the church has plenty of money, we have money in the bank, we have savings accounts, but we don't have enough to do what God's called us to do.
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There's supply on the way to extinguish and basically to reap the harvest right, and so there's lack that's extinguished by the supply right.
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Amen.
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So open up your Bible with me.
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I'm gonna read it out of the Passion Translation.
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I forgot to send my title Lee in my scripture.
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Sorry about that, but in the book of John.
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I'm gonna read out of the Passion Translation John 15, very familiar, but it's a little bit different.
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In the Passion.
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I kind of like it.
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In this translation it says I am a true sprouting vine.
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Jesus is talking, right, jesus is the true vine and the farmer who tends the vine is my father and he cares for the branches connected to me by lifting and propping up the fruitless branches and pruning every fruitful branch to a yield of greater harvest.
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So I'm gonna stop right there.
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It starts.
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Later on it starts talking.
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If I was reading out on the New King James, you know, I never realized.
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I thought that the word cut off meant like cut off, like they go away, they're useless, the people not bearing any fruit.
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But what it actually means.
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You see the mercy of God that Selena was preaching about earlier, and the love of God.
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He actually, instead of just letting them fall to the ground, he actually brings them closer to him.
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That's what that word means in the Greek.
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I like the way it puts it in the Passion Translation he props them up, those fruitless branches.
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He props them up.
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In other words, he brings them closer so that he can breathe into them until they are fruitful, amen.
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Later on, when you decide to cut yourself off, to separate yourself, it talks about being burned and thrown away off to the side.
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Right, we'll get to that, but I just thought that has nothing to do with what I'm preaching on.
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But it is right here in the Bible.
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But the fruitful branch yielding greater harvest, he prunes.
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The words I have spoken over you have already cleansed you, so you must remain in life union with me, for I remain in life union with you, for as a branch severed from the vine will not bear fruit, so your life will be fruitless unless you live your life intimately joined to mine.
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We must be intimately joined to him.
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Amen.
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I am the sprouting vine and you're my branches.
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As you live in union with me, as your source, fruitfulness will stream from within you.
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But when you live separated from me, you are powerless.
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If a person is separated from me, he is discarded.
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Here's what I was talking about earlier.
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He is discarded.
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Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire to be burned.
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But if you live in life union with me and if my words live powerfully within you, then you can ask whatever you desire and it will be done.
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When your lives bear abundant fruit, you demonstrate that you are my mature disciples who glorify my father, amen.
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And then it goes on to talk about the love of God, and then it even goes on past that, and this talks about those who love God.
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The world is gonna hate you, for the world hated him, so we're gonna be hated.
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It goes on to describe being hated, and so, in order to bear much fruit, we must be intimately connected with Jesus and with the father.
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That connects us to the father, amen.
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And so we're attached to our supply, and our supply never dwindles.
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We get all the nutrients that we need to live a life that's bearing fruit.
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In other words, we're getting people saved.
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I know I'm gonna talk about the fruit of the spirit, and those are two different things, but I'm gonna merge them in together real quick.
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But your life is bearing fruit.
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You've got love, joy, peace, patience, kindness and goodness it's all popping up all over the place but also all of that fruit, the people around you are being led to God, and by your example of his love, by your example of his generosity, but there's supernatural provision coming to you through the vine, through being connected, amen.
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And so everything that you'll ever need is supplied through your connection with the Lord, and so we're to allow the supply of God to take over our lives and then we're to act like it.
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We're supposed to remember it.
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I think sometimes you're sitting in church and maybe you'll even wake up and you'll begin to pray, and you'll pray about relationships or you'll pray about whatever it is that you're facing and then you'll walk into your business and you'll do whatever it is.
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Maybe you're an employee that's worked for a company for 20 years and you'll do the same thing you've always done for 20 years because that's worked.
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You'll do what you think is successful, and God's waiting on you to lean on him.
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He's got fresh ideas, fresh concepts and fresh insight.
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If you'll just let him into that part of your world, he'll take it over, amen, and he'll make the supernatural natural right.
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You'll begin to see it in the natural.
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You'll begin to see the supernatural things God can do and God can supply.
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In your everyday lives, in your work, in the toil of your hands, amen, there's the Zoe life of God.
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In what you do.
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You're blessed and you cannot be cursed.
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Everything, the Bible says, everything that you set your hand to, will be blessed, and so that means that God cares about what you do in your work and he wants to invade that and make you successful.
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And God's idea of success is sometimes a little bit different than our idea of success, but we're to always be bearing fruit.
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That is success, that's a successful life.
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Amen.
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We're always to be bearing fruit for the kingdom.
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And so, you know, there's a ton of these little scriptures, and I said little, but, like you know Psalms and Proverbs, they're filled with them.
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But just one that stuck out to me Psalm 84, 11, for the Lord.
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I was just quoting it, I'm reading it, but you don't have to turn there, for the Lord God is a Son and shield.
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The Lord will give grace and glory.
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No good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
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And so again, the Lord God is a Son and a shield.
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So he's our Son, like when we wake up, he takes over our day, he brings us light, he brings us nourishment.
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Through him we're able to grow right.
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He's our shield, he's our buckler, he's our protector.
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You know the word in the.
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You know it means like a crocodile skin.
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That was what I was reading in my study Bible, that word shield.
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So you're always it's 24 hours a day you're protected from anything.
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Amen.
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And the Lord God will give grace and glory.
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That means he'll give us his ability and he'll give us his manifested presence.
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We get to live inside his manifested presence with his ability, and so, therefore, no good thing at any time, at any place.
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He's never gonna withhold any good thing from you, because we're living uprightly.
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Amen, are you living uprightly?
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Amen, I'm living uprightly, I'm choosing to live uprightly, and so there's lots of scriptures in the Bible about that.
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But again, it's that presence of God that draws that provision to you.
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Like I was saying earlier, you know, you know, selina talked about going on vacation.
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I thought I would give a little bit of a backstory.
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We didn't get to go on a family vacation last year.
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We leave all the time We've been, you know, moved Allison in and out, of, you know, up in Tulsa, and we've taken a lot of time off last year, but we didn't really go anywhere as a family.
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And so Allison began to talk about, hey, let's go to Florida.
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And it started like, hey, let's drive all the way to the keys and I'm thinking that would take forever.
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Wow, I mean, I just said, expand your horizons.
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But wow, and so, you know, and then, as things began to draw closer, you know, her and Selina began to talk about it Going on vacation.
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I'm thinking like, well, I don't know, we just went out of town and celebrated our anniversary.
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And I'm thinking, you know, we just hired Allison.
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She didn't really have any vacation time.
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Have you read like the manual?
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You got to like earn those days.
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And I'm thinking I'm being the practical one and I'm thinking, hey, this year is not going to be it, it's going to be next year.
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Then they start talking about all the stuff that they want to do and I'm immediately thinking budget like and I didn't mean to be so negative, but I did Every time, I would just bring it back to reality.
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And I knew we had this insurance bill coming up.
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And then, a few Sundays ago, before this miracle happened, somehow I started murmuring to Carol up here on the pulpit and I was like man, our house insurance went up 30%.
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Can you believe it?
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I don't even.
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What am I going to do?
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And I just started speaking lack.
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And as soon as I did, man, I felt a check in my spirit, because how can I get up here and preach about this when I have doubt and unbelief, if I'm speaking doubt and unbelief?
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Long story short, I was able to negotiate and get a new insurance carrier, and that didn't go up 30%, praise the Lord.
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Whew, I can breathe again, and so.
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But anyways, they keep talking about this vacation and Allison is like, well, what if somebody just came up and gave us the money?
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And I'm thinking like, well, who would that be and how would that work?
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I'm just still talking doubt.
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And that's exactly what happened.
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A ministry friend, just a week or two later, came up and just blessed our socks off, and then the next day he texts me back and he's like I was praying about it and I'm just gonna give you an extra thousand.
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And so, man, there was the tithe and the offering.
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And so, boom, like I was blessed beyond measure, we were blessed upon measure, and so my dad kept.
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And so then, like we were gonna leave on a Friday, so Monday I'm spending the night with my dad in the hospital.
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I'm thinking, man, none of this is, I can't get my money back for any of that and it's all gonna be wasted, and I'm gonna be right here in the hospital.
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And I'm thinking doubt again.
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After God makes this miracle happen, and my dad, he starts encouraging me.
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It's like, don't worry, you're gonna get to go on your trip and you're gonna forget this even happened and everything's gonna be fine, it's all gonna work out, I promise.
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Just you know.
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And so he's encouraging me to turn my faith around and so, but every time we were on vacation, I called him a couple times to check in, and that's one of his favorite places to go in Florida, and so he was giving us some ideas of restaurants and stuff, and he said it the same way several times.
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He's like I'm so glad God gave you the provision to go on this trip, just enjoy it, just forget about everything else and just enjoy your family and just and so like that's exactly what God did.
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So thanks for Allison's faith and Selina's faith that allowed that to happen.
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And you know, as a spiritual leader of your house, when God has to go around you, it's pretty bad right, you know like.
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So I'm changing.
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I'm just being maybe a little bit too transparent tonight, but I'm changing, my attitude is changing, my faith is changing and I'm gonna start believing God and for both the time off and the money, amen, anyways.
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And so that's how that became about, and so like I was gonna tell one quick story and then I'll get back to the word I promise.
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So one of the things we did, we were kayaking on the Indian River near Jupiter, florida, and it's kind of like I know it's a river, but it's kind of like they're inter-coastal.
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So it's beautiful water, you can see all the way to the bottom and it's like blue, green color and kind of changes and there's sea turtles and all kind of stuff.
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What all do?
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We see Sea urchins and starfish and all kind of things in the water is just.
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But so we're paddling along.
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When we're right next to the guide it's like a see-through kayak you can see.
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It's like clear plastic boat and I worked together in one of them.
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So we're having to work together.
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That was a lot of fun and like figuring out how the first hundred times that our paddles slapped together it's like, okay, we're paddle on the right, will you?
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And I'm in the back trying to lead right and this isn't working.
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But anyways, long story short, this lady I've never seen it before since she's in the middle of the channel, like right next to the drop-off, and she's just like in neck deep water doing her water workout and she's like this good morning and she's like full of joy.
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I don't know if it was the Holy Ghost.
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I think it might've been drugs, because she was like half crazy.
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But we're out there and I'm thinking this lady can't be more happy than me.
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I've got to have an attitude change right now, and this lady's not gonna have more joy than me.
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And so that's just what we need to do, the attitude that we need to have, and nobody, especially on drugs, drugs, can't make you happier than God can, amen.
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So if you'll turn with me, I'm gonna read out of New King James as soon as I find my glasses.
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What did I do?
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Oh, they're under here.
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They're hiding 2 Corinthians 5 in verse 20 and 21,.
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I wanted you to get this language here.
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It says and then we're gonna jump just a few chapters over to 2 Corinthians 8 and you'll understand why I'm reading this.
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And it says in verse 20, now, then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us.
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We implore you, on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.
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For he, for God, made Jesus, who knew no sin, to be sinned for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
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So notice this language here.
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For he was made.
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For he made him, who knew no sin, to be sinned for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
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And then, if you just flip over a page or two to 2 Corinthians, 8, verse nine, very familiar scripture, for you know the grace, wait, I'm in the wrong chapter 9, 8, the glasses help.
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But maybe anyways, and God is able to make all grace abound towards you, that you always having all sufficiency in all things, I'm still reading the wrong verse.
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How did I write that down wrong?
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Oh, cause, I'm reading the wrong verse still, lord, where is it?
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It's right here in front of me, every good word.
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That's the wrong scripture.
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But that he was made.
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Why am I freaking out?
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It's just the wrong verse.
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It's the whole crux of my message that he became poor, that we might be rich.
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Where's that?
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At Eight, nine, there you go, I just had it backwards.
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Thank you, miss Gwynne, all the Bible scholars, for you know chapter eight, verse nine.
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For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich yet for your sakes, that would be our sakes he became poor, that you, through his poverty, might become rich.
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So when was he made poor?
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Was he made poor when he was born?
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No, he was made poor on the cross right.
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So he was rich before the cross.
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He was rich, right, and notice, I did a poor job of reading, but that was the same language, that's the language, that's redemptive language and that's the language of our inheritance, right?
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So he was made sin that knew no sin, so that we would become the righteousness of God.
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And then he was made poor that we might become rich.
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He did it all for us.
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Everything that he went through, he took it all on the cross.
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So if you believe that he took our sin on the cross, and if you believe that he took our sickness or our infirmities on the cross, then you have to believe that he took poverty as well, lack.
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It all died with him on the cross.
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Amen, he took it.
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And so we've been redeemed from the curse of the law and we've been redeemed from poverty.
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We've been redeemed.
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You've been redeemed from lack, and we don't have to walk in lack.
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He took our poverty and so there's no more of doing without.
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I don't know, man, if you came here tonight and you keep seeming to face lack in every direction.
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I just wanted to encourage you to stir yourself up in the Lord and know, get a revelation of this tonight and grab ahold of it with both hands, that you're redeemed from lack, from all lack, that he is gonna supply good things to those that live up rightly, amen.
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And so we need to know that there was no lack and no poverty in Jesus's life before the cross, and he bore it and then he defeated it.
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He defeated death, hell and the grave in those three days right, and he rose from the dead glorious, victorious over death, over hell, over the grave and over poverty, over sickness right Over disease and over lack, amen.
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And so, with a little bit of time that we have left, I just thought we'd have a little bit of fun and just kind of stomp on some religious devils together.
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How many of you, I don't know.
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This kind of puts people on the spot, but maybe you grew up in a religion that taught you that Jesus was poor.
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Anybody in here grow up in a several.
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And so, just in case you're ever tempted to hang on to that, you know, I know Brother Louis over here, he's an entrepreneurial.
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I mean, he's an entrepreneur and he has an entrepreneurial spirit on him, and I'm telling you he's blessed.
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Everything that he sets his hand to is blessed, and he allows God on a daily basis into every decision that he's making.
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And so he knows that Jesus doesn't want him poor.
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And Jesus doesn't want, god doesn't want us to lack.
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He sent his son so that we don't lack, that we have no lack on any side, in any direction of our life amen, especially financially.
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And so we can call upon the Lord and he will answer us and supply exactly what we need.
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And so I just thought we could kind of make it fun and I came up with several reasons why I got most of these from my dad's preaching right, but several reasons why it is impossible that Jesus was poor.
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And let's look at like biblical aspects.
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So in Proverbs it says that a lazy man, if you like to sleep more than you like to work, then you're gonna be poor.
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So was Jesus lazy?
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No, nothing about Jesus was lazy.
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So did he?
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So if you're poor, if you lack education and you lack opportunity, did he lack education or opportunity?
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Absolutely not right, because he was a carpenter.
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Right, joseph was a carpenter.
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But when you look at that word up in the Greek it doesn't mean like trim carpenter.
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My dad says that all the time.
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You know he did just.
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You know the trim carpenter that comes in near the end of the project and pops up some crown molding in your living room or wherever your dining room.
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No, that's not what Jesus did.
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That word really, it means more of like an architect.
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So he was definitely a professional.
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And Joseph had many sons, and so Jesus and his brothers, they were professionals, they had a profession, and so there was no way that he was poor.
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And so mostly most of the reason in his early life that he couldn't have been poor was because the wise men came from the East and they bared expensive gifts.
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And you know, you think in the Christmas story that it was just three wise men, right?
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Have you ever seen like little paintings, little pictures with three little boxes of gold and frankincense and myrrh?
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And I think it was Claire that preached a message many years ago and she broke that out in the Greek and I did a study on that.
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It was really a good message.
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But you know, it wasn't.
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It wasn't just three wise men, it was a whole group and they had a whole caravan with them and I believe that was enough money to fund his whole childhood and launch him into ministry.
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Amen, and it wasn't just a little bit.
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And so because it was a God supply and it was supernatural, and it supplied Joseph and Mary their ability to raise Jesus in that godly home and in, you know, with plenty of supply.
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Right, and so Jesus had 12 disciples and to support in all of the family members.
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Right, and so it would be impossible to be poor and support all those families.
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Right, and so we know that that's.
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And so another one that he had a full-time treasure.
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Who has a full-time treasure if you don't have any money?
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No, that treasure the Bible says.
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You know he carried a purse, and so we also know that Peter carried a sword to protect both Jesus and the purse, or the booty, or the money.
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Right, and so what's?
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Another example?
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His clothes were so valuable that they were gambled for when he went to the cross.
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You remember that Because he was dressed as royalty, he had a purple sash.
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I know purple was worth a lot of money in those days.
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And recently we took well, technically it's my first cousin's daughter, but anyways, we just call her our cousin and we took her with us to the Last Mark Hankins event and she was sharing with us.
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Her name's Christina and you've seen her around here.
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She's been here many times, but she had just had a vision of Jesus during a church service, during a worship service, and the way I teared up when she was telling it, because the way she described what Jesus looked like with that purple sash, it just got me Like it was.
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I knew that her vision was real and it just blessed me, anyways.
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So let's see what's.
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Another example here's a big one when Jesus was feeding the 5,000, right, it was 5,000, men and women, but not counting kids, so the size of the crowd was 20 and 30,000 maybe, right, and my dad has used this one.
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And so the disciples came to Jesus and said Master, should be, take from the treasury and go into town and buy food for everyone.
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They wouldn't have said that if they didn't have the money.
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And you know how much money now it would take to feed 20 to 30,000 people.
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The Bible says that if you break that down it's one year salary, so it's in the neighborhood of $100,000 that it would take in today's dollars to feed that many people.
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So they wouldn't have said that, they wouldn't have suggested that if the purse was empty.
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Right, so he had money, he had supply, he had booty and so.
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But I'm gonna use that example and Peter's example of going fishing with the coin in the fish's mouth, jesus, even though he had it, see, there's nothing wrong with you having a bank account, savings account, but God's way of giving will always outperform man's way of saving.
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It's just, it's true.
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And so God thinks of multiplication and we're thinking of subtraction.
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God's always thinking about multiplication when we sow and when we give and notice that Jesus didn't just take it, he had it in his savings account.
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He could have pulled it right out and he could have told them hey, go buy some food for all these people, but instead he leaned on what he had.
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He leaned on the supernatural, and I think that's what God wants us to do is to not leave out the supernatural and everything that we do.
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Don't forget that God is the God of the impossible, that God is well able.
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You know we still sing that song.
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It's like 15 years old or more and it really still is my favorite song.
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God is able and he is able, and if we would just lean on him more, he would show off on our behalf his glory and his honor and his power through our lives and he'll do things that man cannot do.
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And you know, we always talk about needing man to obey, and that's true in a lot of areas, especially when it deals with finances.
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But God is still able, amen.
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God is still on time every time, and he may not fit your schedule, but he is on time, amen.
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And so we need to walk in the supernatural.
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And so I just thought you know, in a little bit of time we have left anybody have any that I left out, any of our Bible scholars, or maybe brother Keith down here.
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Can you think of any other examples?
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Anybody, come on class, anybody.
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He had his own house.
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I think it was a beach house, cause like two or three times it says that he woke up early and went onto the beach to pray, right, and if that was like 30 miles or 50 miles away, you might you know.
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So I, yeah, he had a house.
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I think he had a house.
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Claire, james, any other?
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Did I miss any Anybody else?
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That was a good one, miss Gwen, yeah, I just.
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I believe he lived like in a secluded area where he could pray, and I don't know exactly where it was.
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Could have been Galilee, we don't really know, do we?
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But to read your Bible and to come away with thoughts that Jesus was poor is just flat wrong.
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And so tonight maybe I brought up things that you hadn't thought about before.
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But there's no way that God sent Jesus to the earth and withheld his blessing from him.
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No, right away.
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Well, within the first two years of his life, he sent wise men from the East with booty, with a whole caravan of supply that supplied him his whole early life and into his ministry, amen.
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And then God continued to take care of him, and if God continued to take care of him, he's gonna continue to take care of us.
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And Matthew, chapter six, that put God first, and all these things will be added unto you.
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So we don't have to worry about what we have to wear, but we're still wearing the best, right.
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We're not to worry about where we live, but we're still gonna live in the best.
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We don't have to worry about what we drive or what we ride, but we're still driving and riding the best, amen.
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I had to take my motorcycle, and I don't know why this popped into my head, but I had to take my motorcycle into the shop for service.
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It wasn't broken, but just service.
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And what was broken?
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Just slightly, but they fixed it, but there was like it was a 2021 Harley-Davidson CVO road glide, so it's about a $45,000 bike, maybe 50.
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And then all these extra things had been done to it and the mechanic was just rolling it out and it had a crate motor in it.
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They took out the 117, somebody cares about this and they dropped in the 131.
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And I can't believe they did that to a CVO.
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And I said, man, that's a nice bike.
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And the mechanic said, well, it was before he blew up the motor.
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And so, man, now he's in a world of hurt, but just being around people with money or like, I guess you could say that could have been my dream bike, maybe not in that color, but God is still able.
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So just, I'm the limiting factor, god is not the limiting factor.
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So we need to press through our limitations and our puny thinking, and God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we dare ask or think.
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So what are you asking for?
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What are you thinking about?
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What are you pushing the envelope in and what's your vision?
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Is it just about?
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I was using a motorcycle example, but God still wants to bless me when I have my thoughts and intents on His purpose, on His plans.
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It's not about riding faster or longer.
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It's about souls.
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It's about following the passionately, the callings and the gifts that he's given me in my life, and so if I'm watching over those intently, then he's gonna bless me, and the same goes for you.
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You're not exempt from that.
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When you're passionately looking after what God's given you to do, only you can do what he's called you to do.
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I can't do what you've been called to do in your neighbor, your daughter, your son, your mother or your father.
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They can't do what you've been called to do.
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God has a specific calling just for you, and when you're after that calling intently, he's gonna bless you, and in that calling is a supply of exactly what you need to have in order to do exactly what God needs you to accomplish.
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Amen, amen.
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So we have a supply that meets all of our needs, and so we just need to think big and expand our horizons.
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Amen, lift your hands and receive the word of God tonight.
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Hallelujah.
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Well, we're grateful and thankful for your word, amen.