Heaven's Economy

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Praise God.

Let's say this together say heavenly Father, you are so good to me.

Now you don't have to remind me how good you are.

I think about it constantly when I look around this lost world, all the chaos and pain, and I look to you and it just gets sweeter day by day.

Thank you for all you're doing for me, in me, through me, in Jesus name.

Amen, you can be seated.

I've got a few verses here.

We're gonna get into some redemptive truth.

You know, thank God for redemptive truth.

We need a constant diet.

That's not enough to have a feel good.

You know a bunch of preaching.

We need more teaching than preaching.

Preaching's great.

I like preaching, but teaching gets it down into you.

And Colossians, chapter one, please first, and then Romans six and Philippians four.

You won't even have to turn there because we can all quote that one.

Colossians one, verse 12.

It says giving thanks unto the Father which hath made us meet.

Or another version says who hath qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath delivered us past tense from the power of darkness and hath translated us past tense again into the kingdom of his dear son, in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness, and really a better rendering would be even the remission of sin.

Even the remission of sin, all right.

And then Romans six few pages over to the left here, verse 14.

It says for sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace.

Sin shall not have dominion over you.

I like one version says a sin cannot lord it over you.

Why?

Because we've been translated into the kingdom of his dear son, we've been delivered from the power of darkness, has no more dominion, has no more hold, can't lord it over us.

Satan is no longer our Lord.

And then over in Philippians 419,.

But my God shall supply 49.8% of your needs.

I've been meditating on all.

You know the blood didn't do part of the job.

The blood didn't just get us kind of halfway out of the muck.

It didn't take one foot and get it on solid ground and leave the other foot sinking and sinking.

So I'm telling you, the blood did everything it needed to do it all.

All my God shall supply shall means just absolute lead pipe cinches, my father would say my dad, he used that.

I mean, I don't even know what it means.

It's a plumbing term, I guess the lead pipe cinch.

Oh my God shall supply all your need.

According to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus, does that sound like barely good?

Along Boulevard at the corner of Lack Lane.

According to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus, that's the measure of his supply.

I wanna speak today about heaven's economy.

Heaven's economy supersedes the world's economy.

I know a lot of you know that and believe that and heard that.

But we need to be reminded, refreshed.

We, our faith, has got to be engaged, especially right now, because the devil will try to talk you out of prosperity.

He'll try to talk you out of your sharing in the inheritance of the saints in life.

I mean we have an inheritance, we're heirs of God and joint heirs or equal heirs of Christ.

I mean where do you think he has all that supply?

He's supplying it, praise God.

It's heaven's economy supersedes the earths or the world's economy.

And heaven's economy is for every believer.

It doesn't belong to the lost, it doesn't belong to the devil's crowd or the devil they think it does.

It doesn't belong to Bill Gates.

It belongs to us.

Everybody say heaven's economy belongs to me.

I mean that's.

I mean you know, that's we?

This is, this is look.

Colossians 112 says the father has qualified us to be partakers, partners, sharers.

I like to put it this way years ago God gave me this, this illustration of God and sons unlimited.

You know, in some places in the earth, I think in Britain and Europe, they have, they have, and now we have limited liability corporations, LLCs.

But back long time ago, they used to have, you know, they have British corporations.

They were called, you know, let's say, british limited, ltd, limited.

Well, we're in God and sons not limited, unlimited.

God and sons unlimited.

We are in a family business.

We're in a family enterprise that we've been invited to sit around the family table where all the decisions are made.

It's not all just top down.

I know Jesus is Lord, I know God is supreme and we're not God.

But you know what?

We're partakers, we're sharers in the family business, and the family business is the kingdom of God and it has its own economy.

It's heaven's economy, but it's down here.

What good would it be if it was just up there?

No, it's down here.

Why do you say that?

Well, because the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof the world.

May that dwell there.

And everything belongs to God.

I mean, these people think it belongs to them, but it does not.

One thing on this earth belongs to anybody but God.

Let's get that straight.

Yes, before we start looking to the government to supply us anything.

And so our inheritance is right now.

It's not gonna be when we go to heaven, it's right now.

He's already delivered us out of the power of darkness.

That word power means authority, control, influence, jurisdiction.

I don't like that word.

Darkness has no more jurisdiction.

So over in Roman 614, when it says that sin shall not have dominion over you.

Let's look at that word sin.

What is sin?

Well, sin is darkness, sin is the devil, the devil's influence.

Sin, sickness, bondage of all kinds, all hindrances, poverty and lack See, these are all equivalent terms.

In other words, we could say this, we could say lack cannot lord it over you and not really do any injustice to the scriptures at all.

See, some people they just never heard this preach this way, they've never heard it taught this way and they have trouble with it.

Oh well, and they just think somehow it's religious and wonderful for people to do without.

No, it's not.

Not when Jesus has bought and paid for us to have a supply.

He's nonchinchy.

When he was a baby he had gold, frank and sense and murder.

When he was a baby, he had an endowment.

He had a family trust.

He was never broke, never, never broke, until he went to the cross.

That's when he was broke.

That's when he gave up, had buried in a borrowed tomb and all of that, all of his garments were gone.

I mean, he hung naked on the cross.

Let's face it, it's not the little cloth over there, no, he was naked.

The shame of it.

He took all that for us so we could have plenty.

Amen, are y'all with me now?

Yes, so Satan, sin, darkness, sickness, lack, bondage they're all equivalent terms and they shall not lord it over us.

We've been translated into see, delivered out of over here and translated into see.

It'd be great.

You know, it feels good when you quit hitting your finger with the hammer, right, but how much better is it when God heals the finger?

I mean, it feels pretty good once you quit hitting your.

You know, one time I was building a deck and I learned that.

You know, it's not that easy.

And I built the deck but my fingers were suffering because I don't know how many times I hit various appendages with a hammer and of course, back in those days I wasn't saved, so I had a lot of inappropriate language that was spewing forth in the backyard.

So I think Gladys took the kids and went somewhere I probably went to Pie-Porgan Pizza Didn't anybody remember Pie-Porgan Pizza in green?

And so, praise God, she steered clear of me when I was hitting my hand with a thing.

But no, we've been.

It's not enough to be delivered out of, but we've been translated into the kingdom of His dear Son.

That's where we are, that's what we.

We are partakers of God and Son's unlimited.

You know, I was meditating on these verses years ago and thinking about the word translated and thinking about the word delivered, and just going back and over and over these, and I was reminded of this program.

I was watching about a scrapyard, a junkyard, and they had this, one of these big, professional, big old junk no, not, you know, not one of these mom and pop organisms, but a real, high level scrapyard.

And these yards often have a big crane with an electrified piece of steel on it that's got a magnet.

So you're going to flip the switch on that and it turns into a big magnet and they've got a pile of what you and I would call junk, it's scrap and they just, they just put that crane up and they, they flip the switch and all the ferrous metals just come up and attach themselves to the magnet, and even the ones that can't get to the magnet itself are magnetized with the other ferrous metals, and so they just pick up this whole big old network of valuable stuff and they swing that crane around and then flip the switch again and drop all of that valuable stuff and they just keep pulling all the good stuff, the ferrous metals, and that's what they sell, that's what they and the rest of the rubber and the plastic and the old tires and all the stuff that they're going to get rid of and that's over here in this pile, and all the valuable stuff is over.

This is exactly what happened.

God drew us out, he turned on the power switch and he raised us up out of a junk heap and he translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son.

We must be worth something.

The blood of Jesus was what he paid for us.

But yeah, we've got Christians.

Just, I ain't got nothing.

I ain't never going to have nothing.

I didn't go to college.

Some of the richest people on earth never went to college Some of them never even graduated high school, if Rush Limbaugh's parents hadn't been professional people his father was a lawyer and all of that grandfather and all.

He came from a very highly educated, high, very educated group of people, and he hated school.

He hated school.

So I mean, I think he finally did graduate high school, but he sure didn't go to college.

And look at how he's thought very many people are richer than him.

God, he's gone now, but all his money's still here.

It's working.

Are y'all with me now?

I'm not against college.

I'm telling you.

What I am for, though, is I'm for redemptive truth.

I believe that we've got to get our eyes off of our own inabilities and our own shortcomings and get it on God, because he doesn't have any shortcomings.

He does not discriminate based on your education.

Thank God for that junkyard magnet.

Praise God.

Even he took me right out of the junkyard, put me over in a place where he could value me and use me.

You know we live on the earth, but Philippians 3.20 says that our conversation is in heaven.

That word conversation is the Greek word polytumo or polytumah, which means citizenship.

We are citizens of heaven, and heaven has its own economy.

That's the whole intent of this message is to get you in that mode of thinking, because right now, when you read the headlines and even when you go to the store I went to the store the other day and Gladys doesn't mind that part of our life right now because I'm going to the store and she stays home.

So I go to the store.

The last time I went to the store a couple of months ago, I bought some bacon.

I bought Oscar Meyer center cut bacon because it has less fat on it and I don't like real fatty fatty and I don't like the thick cut bait.

No, I like it but my teeth don't like it.

And so I just get the same kind of bacon and it costs a little bit more than regular old bacon.

But the last time I went to the store it was five something for 12 ounces.

Used to be 16 ounces.

Now they cut it back to 12 ounces.

That didn't get by me.

The price didn't go down 12 ounces.

All of a sudden it's $5 and something and now it's 12 ounces out of 16.

And now I paid 850 for 12 ounces.

Same package From one time of the store to the next time.

So what is that percent.

That's a pretty hefty percentage.

I don't know what explains it.

They're talking about inflation.

Maybe there's some problem with pork.

Maybe there's distribution problems with pork.

Maybe the hog farmers are going broke.

I don't know what the deal is.

I don't care if the bacon is $15 or $35.

If I want bacon, I'm gonna buy the bacon.

Why?

Because I have a supply for what I need, what I want.

Now I might make a decision.

I might make a decision that I don't want to allocate my present amount of money for that.

I might say to myself you know what?

That's not worth that to me.

I'm not gonna buy that.

But I'm never gonna say, well, I sure I would like some bacon, but I can't afford it.

I just can't afford it.

No, I can afford everything Because I'm on heaven's economy.

See, we've gotta quit thinking the way we've been thinking.

If you're not careful, the world will talk you into giving up your inheritance and start doing business against God's way of doing business.

He's got a way of doing business.

Come on, let's just lift our hands.

Thank God, we don't have to live and lack poverty.

If the truth be known, lack and poverty is one of the sources of death, because when you can't.

You know I didn't want to take social.

I was an engineering major at A&M.

You know I did not want to take sociology, okay, but it was on my.

In order to get my Bachelor of Science degree, I had to have a three hour course in sociology or some other, and it was a couple of different things.

I could have taken psychology, social.

I chose sociology, but I saved it from a very last semester because I just couldn't.

I just, oh, I'm gonna take that.

I don't wanna take it.

But you know what?

I had a really good prof.

He was really good and he said some things in that class that stuck with me 50 years now.

Later, I'm still thinking about what he said.

And he said when you're poor or you're ignorant he didn't say it this way, it was much more profane the way he said it.

So I'll say it in a nice way.

When you're poor or you're ignorant, you get taken advantage of every time.

That's right.

You can use your own imagination if you wanna go and find out what he actually said in class, but I've never forgotten it.

When you're poor, number one, or you're ignorant, number two, and you know what?

That's Bible.

That's right.

I said that's Bible.

He wasn't a Christian.

I know because I wasn't a Christian.

I know he's just like me, but what he said was so profound.

I've never forgotten it in 50 years.

When I started, when I did get saved, started reading my Bible.

I mean it lined up what he said.

When you're poor and or you're ignorant, you get taken advantage of.

This world will take advantage of you, get in your pocket.

It will kill you.

You'll want for proper medical care.

You'll want for proper living conditions.

These poor neighborhoods, almost all of them, are adjacent to polluting industries.

That's not right.

That's not right.

They get taken advantage of.

Oh yeah, we'll put our chrysot, we'll put the chrysot plant right over here next to this old Denver Harbor.

That's all right.

They don't care.

They don't care.

They're getting smart.

Now they finally figured out that.

You know, chryso is a carcinogen.

You know that thing that you see on the telephone posts and the railroad ties.

I used to live pretty close to one in Conroe one time when we lived there for about six months I was glad to move, all right.

So we're citizens of heaven.

We, you know, we might be citizens of this country, but really, above that, we're citizens of heaven and we have a right to operate on heaven's economy.

Everybody shout heaven's economy and God in heaven's economy is our source of supply.

Yes, you know when this COVID thing started happening.

You know anybody remember the PPP, the payroll protection plan?

So they were trying to get all the small businesses to apply for these loans from your bank.

I mean, we got notice after notice from our bank.

Oh, you haven't applied for your PPP, and James and I and J talked about it and you know it's basically what it was is that if you agreed not to lay off anybody on your payroll, that you could get a loan to help you float through the COVID lockdown and then at the end, if you never did lay anybody off, the loan would be forgiven.

So it basically a grant from the government for the amount of money, and so for us is about $150,000 that we could have borrowed from the bank and never paid back if we wanted to fill out all the.

I said no, we're not gonna do it.

I don't wanna give them any information, I don't wanna sign my name to any kind of a loan guaranteed by the federal government.

I'm against them, I'm against this whole thing, I'm against what they're doing.

Sometimes you've just gotta get out of this world's economy, and I knew that.

We've got a divine, heavenly economy that we're part of.

God is supplying all our needs.

Are you with me now?

I'm not against anybody that's getting government help.

Some of you just woke up and you got a government check.

You don't even know what it's for.

I'll tell you what it's for.

I'm not saying y'all to ship it back.

I'm not saying y'all to not cash the check.

I am saying, though, understand what they're doing.

They're trying to get you compliant and complacent and dependent on them as the source of taking away any fear you have.

Well, I tell you what I don't have any fear, and I wouldn't look to government to take away any fear anyway.

Amen, amen, praise God.

Oh, I tell you there's so many Bible example.

Pastor, I know what you're saying, but gosh, this is just pie in the sky.

Well, it's in the Bible.

There's a bunch of pie in the Bible.

It's not in the sky, it's on my pages, the pages of my Bible.

Lots and lots of pies in here, not in the sky, it came from the sky and it landed right here, example after example after example of God and heavenly economy.

So the one that it comes to mind 1st Samuel 17,.

Elisha the Tishbite.

God told him to go to Ahab and tell him it's not gonna rain until I say so.

Book of James, chapter five, says he prayed and it did not rain for three and a half years.

Then he prayed again, it rained.

So you know, when you don't have rain, there's two things that happen to an agricultural economy.

Number one is you get very hungry and number two you go broke Because it's money, agriculture is money, so you don't grow anything in a famine, in a drought, and if you don't grow anything, you don't eat anything.

So this is pretty severe.

Until they repented.

See, ahab was taking Israel off into false gods, and all that married this crazy woman, jezebel, and so God said go tell him.

Well, what's he gonna do?

He's gonna live there in the place where their judgment has fallen.

That's where we are.

We are in a place where judgment has fallen.

America's under judgment.

In case you didn't know it, america the nation, not the church.

America, the nation is under judgment.

Why?

Because it's it come out from under God and it's done it for a long time and gradually, gradually, gradually, gradually, gradually.

I was reading, you know, recently we had November 22, the anniversary of JFK's death.

We had a bunch of specials on, and I saw a couple that I had never seen before.

But it pretty clear the CIA killed him and they covered so much up.

They've been lying.

The government's been lying to us for so long.

We've let them get by.

Who allowed it?

The church, the pulpit?

The pulpit is at fault for not holding government accountable, right, your man?

Jfk got so mad at the CIA.

They lied to him, along with the military brass.

They lied to him about Vietnam.

They lied to him about different things and so forth and so on.

He was, he was bound and determined to disintegrate the CIA.

He had said I'm gonna dismantle it.

And they killed him.

Well, you didn't.

You thought it was Oswald.

Well, oswald didn't kill him.

The shots came from the front.

Well, we're just now.

You know that's all been out there, and they've hidden it from us.

Are you with me?

I might intend it's not some conspiracy theory.

I'm just trying to tell you, though, that we haven't gotten to where we are overnight.

It's been coming a long, long time, and now the judgment is getting stickier and thicker.

Because why?

Because the country has departed from God.

Are you with me.

Now we don't have a righteous people in authority.

They're not.

In the non-elected officials, hardly any of them.

You might find a few Christians here and there, but most of them are just lost people and they got more power than elected officials because they can never be fired.

Once they go to work for the government, they never leave.

So what do we need to do?

Well, we need to get on Heaven's economy, because if you don't depend on those people, you're depending on the wrong thing.

So Elijah goes and he says you know God gonna reign.

They'll say so.

And now he's got to live where he just cursed the country.

How's he gonna eat?

What's he gonna do?

God says go to the Brook Charity, for I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

That sounds like a plan.

I've commanded the ravens to feed thee, and so he goes to the Brook Charity and the Bible says that ravens brought him bread and flesh twice a day.

Bread and flesh, bread and flesh.

In other words, he got two sloppy Joes a day and he drank of the Brook and he was fine.

Why?

Well, god had a supernatural supply in the midst of judgment.

That's what we have already.

We've got built in supply.

We have no supply chain problems, amen.

So, and that worked for a good while until the Brook started drying up.

And I got to meditating on this too.

I thought, man, that didn't happen overnight.

That Brook started drying up and then what happens?

It starts to get kind of soupy, it starts to get kind of muddy, and you know, he dips it in there and pours it through his robe and everything.

So after a while you don't have any place to wash your robe and you're pouring soupy, dark, mud-infested water to try to filter out all the sediment to where you can drink something, until it just gets where it can't drink.

And then, god, go to Zarephath.

I have commanded a widow woman to feed thee there, and I'm sure he thought it was gonna be behind golden gates.

They go, mansion Steady finds this widow woman.

She's not even Jewish, she's a Gentile.

She has no covenant with God and she's gathering sticks to build one last fire, to cook her last meal, and she's gonna eat one last meal and die.

That means she didn't starve because she just ate, so that meant she was gonna commit suicide and murder her child.

Let's read the Bible with some amount of understanding.

This is what she intended to do and God had to do what.

He had to send the man of God who stood for God and get her in a place and said, well, you, okay, go ahead and do what you were doing.

Go ahead and gather the sticks, go ahead and bake you a cake, but bake me a little cake.

First type of tithing.

He had to get her in a place where she could honor God by honoring the man of God and when she did, she had.

What Heaven's economy.

Did it all happen at once?

Did the Heaven 18 Wheeler pull up to the little house a full of green and a big old tanker truck full of oil?

No, it.

Just every day when she cooked, when she went in the kitchen, it was multiplied, just like the loaves and fishes we preached on a couple of weeks ago.

Miracle of increase.

She had a miracle of increase Every day when she honored God by feeding the man of God.

She got fed and her child got fed for an entire year and there was no increase in any kind of.

She didn't go to the store.

Are you with me now?

Nobody came to her house.

It was Heaven's economy.

Then you go on.

You read about Elisha, 2 Kings 4, he had five miracles in one chapter.

Most of them were about supply.

The woman with the jars.

Supply.

The woman that was barren, she had need of a child.

Supply, different kind of supply.

And then there was death in the pot, the gourds.

They had gathered gourds and they cooked them.

Oh, man of God is death in the pot.

And he put some meal in there and healed the pot and they were able to eat.

And then, last miracle was somebody brought the first fruits.

One person brought the first fruits of his crop.

That's one person, and it fed a hundred men.

God multiplied.

Are y'all with me now?

Y'all are looking at me strange.

I mean, that's just just a few.

And then, of course, the miracles of loaves and fishes.

Jesus put 5,000 one time, 4,000 next.

Where did it come from?

Heaven's economy, heaven's.

I said heaven's economy Faster.

This is pie in the sky.

Well, why don't you eat you some pie?

Have some coconut cream pie.

If you don't like coconut, get you some pecan.

You don't like that?

Well, I can't help you.

All right, so Heaven's economy supersedes the world's economy More and more.

We're seeing the world is in a mess all over the world.

Europe is in a mess and America is in a mess by design.

They intentionally messed up the economy.

They intentionally ruined our supply chain.

Well, they can't ruin my supply chain, they can't touch it.

I said they can't touch my supply because my God shall supply all my need, according to his riches and glory, by Christ Jesus, it's still all belongs to God.

It don't belong to them.

They think they're in charge of it, but they're not.

Come on, lift your hands right now.

Glory to God, hallelujah.

I don't know what you're facing.

You could be facing some kind of serious deadlines, some serious things that you know.

This is, you know, time to pay real estate taxes.

I remember one time I had a bunch of lots that I couldn't build on, couldn't even borrow the money to build houses on the lots, and I owed taxes on the lots that I own Ten thousand dollars in school taxes clan independent school district.

And I mean, I was, of course, this is where I was saved and I was just so nervous.

I was a man.

I was thinking where am I going to get ten thousand dollars to pay these taxes?

And if I don't pay them, they're going to start charging me this gosh, I'd already not paid, and now they're starting to pay.

You know they're starting to stack up penalties and then now you're on the deal where it's going to get real, real, real expensive and so buy all the.

When you add it, all these are bare lots.

I don't even have a house on there.

Yet I just bought the lots.

And then, you know, a couple of years before, I had to buy a couple of way out in advance and the economy turned against us.

And here I am stuck paying the real estate taxes.

That never happened before.

I didn't.

I didn't have any way to plan for that.

That never happened to me.

First of all, I never had to buy lots way out in advance.

Lots are in short supply, even though next door, you know, did you notice?

They finally poured some concrete next door, praise God, anyway.

So somehow I don't remember how I did, but I remember going over that that their their play.

I think it's still there on Spring Cypress Dory Road and pulled in there and my hand was shaking and and I pulled out my checkbook and I wrote a check for 10,000, some odd dollars, and gave it to the girl.

That, oh, goodbye forever.

Now I don't remember what all I had to do to get that $10,000 in my business account, but I mean it was a long time.

Coming back to me, are y'all with me now?

Thank God.

See, all those days are gone forever.

You know why?

Because I discovered that I have Heaven's economy.

When I got saved.

God delivered me out of the power of lack and translated me in the kingdom of His dear Son, where there's abundance and where there's a supply.

Glory to God.

Yeah, your celebration is a is an indication of your expectations.

See, the more you celebrate, the more you know that things are going to be great.

Don't let yourself get down in the mulligroves about your debts and about your deadlines that you have facing you.

Some of you've got some deadlines.

I know they're real.

I've been there.

I know exactly what that's like.

A few years ago we had a $31,900 a month mortgage payment.

That deadline came every 30 days and at first it wasn't that bad, but it got to where it was getting harder and harder and harder.

And then our lender changed some things and the lender outsourced the underwriting department.

And the underwriting department were the Antichrist and they started making some little noises like they were looking at us real hard.

And I knew of another pastor who they.

They asked him during the, during one of the storms, if he would like to pass up his mortgage payments.

I had the same thing during Ike.

They called me and said hey, pastor, would you like to suspend mortgage payments?

Absolutely not, but they offered, offered to do that, and if I had done that would have given them an excuse to call the note.

That's what they did to that other pastor.

He skipped, they just he didn't have anything in writing, he just skipped some payments.

They invited him to skip some payments.

He skipped some payments and the underwriter for the loan is of Antichrist and they took the church foreclosed on the mortgage, lost it.

Are y'all with me now?

Oh, I tell you.

So let's operate in heaven's economy, let's not, let's not get over in the world's economy.

That thank God, you know.

We just we knew what economy we were operating on.

What did we do?

When, all those that pressure, we started sowing more seed, I said, oh, I've got 10,000.

Let's, let's sow 10,000 over here.

We wrote a $10,000 check right in the middle of all that need and we sowed it.

And we sowed here and we sowed there.

And the next thing you know, praise God Somebody comes along, says we want to make your payment, a member of this church.

We want to make your payment, $31,900 every month, and we want to give extra over and above.

When did that happen?

When I shared the need with everyone.

I mean, I never forget the first Sunday that I said our mortgage is $31,900 a month.

It's, it felt like a little bit like a mortuary in here.

I mean it got really silent and y'all all turned into cadavers.

I mean it's just all white.

You know, even the people of color were white.

I mean they just it wasn't even white, that Ah-ha $31,900.

I had no idea.

Yeah, they started making the payment, they started giving the money and you know what?

Less than a year later we were able to sell our property.

Miracle after miracle happened.

We paid that.

We paid that mortgage.

You know, total mortgage was 5.7.

We didn't pay it all off at once, we paid off a little at a time, but in the end we paid that mortgage off.

No more payments.

We got 50,000 square feet under the roof, 9.3 acres of land, all paid for because of Heaven's economy.

I said because of Heaven's economy.

So we share our needs with you, because we're all in this together.

And God showed me.

He said you've gone to war at your own expense.

You haven't shared with the people your needs.

You ought to tell them how much your mortgage payment is and when.

I did that.

One of you got up and said hey, I'll make the payments.

Glory to God, I could have had a V8.

How many of you want to operate in Heaven's economy?

All right, number one be a tither and a giver.

You know, tithing is the first 10th, not just 10%, it's the first 10th.

The tithe is the Lord's In the book of Malachi.

Malachi was the last prophet in the Old Testament, before Jesus, before John the Baptist rather, and then Jesus.

And he was sent to Israel and to rebuke the priesthood, because the priesthood was supposed to tithe just like the people did.

And the people weren't tithing because the priesthood quit tithing.

And Malachi is all about rebuking them says you've robbed me, this whole nation, You've robbed me.

Well, a man robbed God, yet you have robbed me.

How did we rob you?

Tithes and offerings?

Does God need your money?

No, but he wants your and his.

Do your honor.

When we don't tithe, we don't honor.

You can't honor God with anything but substance.

You can't honor God with just your lips.

You can praise him with your lips, but you have to honor him with your tithes and you're suffering with your tithes and your substance.

That's the only way to honor God.

And so offerings, over and above the tithe, is where you get multiplied back to you.

That's just God's economy.

And I went to see Brother Oral Roberts back in 2005.

I asked him about the end time harvest and the transfer of wealth from the hands of the wicked into the hands of the righteous.

He said I'm glad you asked that question.

He said God told me my people are cheating themselves, they're not tithing and they're not giving.

I found out from Barna that less than 2% of Christians tithe.

Or I should say it this way less than 2% who consider themselves Christians tithe.

Can't just think about if 98% or 90% or 75% or 50% of Christians tithe.

Think about what the harvest would be like.

The church would be blessed beyond measure.

We would be doing our job all over the world, sending people providing help for people all over the nations, as a witness that God is a good God, getting people saved left and right.

But see, this message is gone.

It's fallen on hard times.

Nobody preaches tithing.

I went to a visitor church one time up in Curveville, texas, years ago and we went through the whole service and I noticed they didn't take it off and so we were leaving the church and they had these big old containers out by the doors and I saw people pitching their offering on the way out the door.

That was their idea.

People just give when you want to.

Don't even make it part of the service, don't even make it part of worship, don't make it part of honoring God.

See, we don't do that.

We have you dance your way down here, put it in the buckets, up here in front of everybody, but especially in front of the Lord, and to let Him know you're honoring Him with your substance.

You rejoice because you know that he's receiving here.

Men receive tithes, there.

He receives them.

So in order to operate on heaven's economy, you have to honor God and you have to give offerings.

Over and above the tithe, you know, there is that scatters and increases, proverbs 11.

There is that withholdeth more than is appropriate and it tends to poverty.

A lot of people just squeeze, squeeze, squeeze.

If they do tithe, that's all.

They shave it down to the penny.

They shave it down to the penny.

Well, let's see, my tithe on this is $102.13.

Can you imagine writing a check for $102.13?

I mean why it takes longer to put the entry into the computer.

I mean, just round it off please.

How about $103?

How about that?

No, I mean, some people are just so, they're so religious about the tithe.

Let's get rid of that let's be generous, let's realize that God is watching us.

Are you with me now?

Giving is a reflection of your affection.

If you don't give anything over and above the tithe, it means you don't really love Him that much, you don't appreciate Him that much.

You kind of take Him for granted.

Oh, I don't like that.

Well, okay, change your thinking.

You want to operate in Heaven's economy?

You better change your thinking, because your thinking is stinking.

We've always honored God, we've always honored Him and we've always been greatly, greatly, greatly grateful for what he's done in this church.

So we are always generous.

I mean, I remember the first preachers who went through this church.

We were just starting out, I mean we were a year old.

We have some preacher come through here and I would just felt like wow, got so and so to come, wow and I don't know, $3,000 came into the offering for them.

We wrote the check for $10,000.

I said we're not going to let that preacher travel all the way to Houston and spend the weekend here and everything and leave here with just barely enough to operate His ministry for a week.

We're going to at least.

So we had a 10,000 minimum in the first year of operation.

We would sow that seed.

We did it gladly, we did it joyfully.

Look where we are today.

And when we talk about a $31,900 payment, one of you comes up and says I'll pay that.

I'll make that payment.

Glory to God, whoo hallelujah.

You know, over and above, giving leads to over and above living.

That's right.

I mean, jesus came that you might have life and have it more abundantly.

Super abundant quantity, superior quality Doesn't bankrupt heaven.

For you to drive nice, live in nice, wear nice Doesn't hurt, that's right.

It's not a zero-sum game, folks.

I said it's not a zero-sum game.

You know, it's one thing to be thrifty because you want to allocate your particular amount of money that you have right now.

You want to allocate it differently, and we can all tighten our belt and be thrifty about certain things.

But then there's people that are just plain stingy, that's right.

There are people that are just tighter than old Dick's hat band.

Come on, man, have you ever heard of Dick in his hat band?

I grew up with that saying man, he's tighter than Dick's hat band.

I don't want to be like Dick.

He's the tight.

He's the tight that when he walks his mouth squeaks.

No, be generous.

All right then.

Number two, operating heaven's economy.

You look for ideas from heaven.

See Malachi, chapter three.

This is what Brother Oral impressed upon me when I went to visit with him.

Here's a man that built a university.

He kept it going under all kinds of pressure and criticism.

This man did amazing things.

He had a variety hour on national television the ORU singers I mean.

He was on every week.

I don't know how long that lasted, but I mean you imagine a ministry having on CBS or something like that, a show that was just clean and uplifting and all that very positive.

He did that in the 70s.

Yeah, he was way ahead of his time.

And he said you know, he was talking to God about tithing.

And he said you know, god, I've got some problem with this tithing business.

You'd open up the windows of heaven, pour out a blessing.

There's not room enough to receive.

I've never been in that state.

I've never been there where I didn't have room to receive.

In fact, it's usually the opposite.

I've got more than I can do and I've never been in a place where I had so much I couldn't handle it.

He said I'm not knowing about money.

That does not talk about money.

I don't have any money in heaven.

If I did, it would be counterfeit, and I'm not a counterfeiter.

Everything you need is down there.

What I'm talking about pour you out a blessing there's not room enough to receive is ideas, concepts and insights.

I'll tell you, god will give you ideas.

God, if you're a tither and a giver, god will show you, he will guide you in your financial affairs.

He's not against you being rich, he's against you being covetous, and most covetous people are poor people.

Just look at the news.

I mean people.

They're just criticizing you know the plumber found a bunch of money at Lakewood Church.

You know, you might have heard it, you know on well, rich Joel, rich Joel.

Well, joel doesn't get the money, it's the church.

And besides that, a bunch of it were checks and the checks have long since.

They didn't cash the checks.

They were in the wall.

Somebody burglarized, somebody stole.

I don't know all the background, but all I know is that there's a plumber that wants a reward for doing the right thing.

How stupid is that?

And it winds up being so negative toward Joel and Victoria.

I mean, what in the world are you nuts people?

Are you totally out of your minds?

They do more good in 10 minutes than you ever will in your entire life and you're begrudging them.

And that offering was taken from them and stolen and put into a wall.

Somehow.

That had to be an inside job, somebody ought to and so the plumber that found it he was there to replace the toilet and found it last week, or, well, in November.

He wants a reward.

Yeah, I deserve a reward.

Nobody even called me.

I'm calling you.

You don't deserve squat.

You get paid, god.

Anyway, look for ideas from heaven.

Everything you need is down here.

Let God lead you financially.

Let him lead you.

I've got a few minutes.

Years ago I had just gotten back in the home building business.

You heard my testimony about, you know, having to praise God about my being laid off for my remodeling job and 30 days later I got in.

I had a partner in $100,000 and we were making plans to build houses in West University Play and to do that.

You tear down.

You buy a house that exists and you look for a tear down in those years and usually it's somebody elderly that's moved out of the house because it's an old subdivision, it's built out in the 20s, and so people are, you know, live there all their adult life and now they're old, and now they've died, and now the kids have the house and they don't want the house and so it falls in disrepair.

So you're looking for deals like that that you can buy the house, tear the house down, and now you've got a lot.

That's, the only way to get a lot is to tear a house down.

And you're tearing a house down that was built in the 20s.

You usually sit up on concrete blocks.

You know it's an old two bedroom, one bath house, it's in disrepair and so all the lots, most of the lots in there are 50 by 100.

Well, I had made a career building out here, building out in the suburbs.

My smallest lot I had was 75 foot wide, most of them 120, 130 foot deep, a lot bigger in the suburbs.

And all the houses I built out here after the first few years of building was were master bedroom down and the rest of the bedrooms up.

That was what was in demand.

And there, when I started looking at the houses that were being built, they were built on 50 by 100 foot lots.

They were all red brick, cubed, flat front.

They called them Georgian, but they really just ugly as they could be.

Ugly, ugly houses.

Just a cube goes straight up.

Red brick, everyone of them, red brick, all it.

No, no, no, red brick, red brick, red brick.

Here's another red brick, red brick, if you like, a red brick house.

You had plenty of those to buy and at that time in the 80s they were $350,000.

And they were crummy.

I walked through the house, the workmanship, the arrangement.

The driveway is eight foot wide.

There's no suburban going to go down that driveway.

It better be a Volkswagen or a Honda Civic.

Well, these are rich people, these are doctors and lawyers.

They don't have little cars, they have big cars.

And so you know, a lot of times it it defeated the whole purpose of having a nice home.

They parked the street, the car in the street, or they park it on the front of the driveway.

It's sitting out outside.

I mean the whole idea of having and then the two car garages tucked in behind the house.

There's no.

Even if you drove down the driveway, you can't pull into the left part of the drive.

You know it's tucked behind the house.

All the things that I'm used to solving those problems and houses in the suburb.

So unique selling proposition USP Get a wider lot and spread the house out and make it more attractive from the street.

That was my idea.

So my first thing was, before I could even design a home is I had to buy a lot that was wider.

So I told my real to oh well, there's not any like that.

I said, well, search, I've searched a few, I think you'll find some.

Sure enough, she finds a 60 foot lot just like that and they want more money for it.

But I bought it 60 foot instead of 50 foot.

You'd be surprised what 10 extra feet of width will do.

So I was able to get my designer to build a completely different house.

Instead of a red brick Georgian, mine was in English and had a portico shea drive under the portico shea where you could unload the groceries and take them right into the kitchen and then go straight through there to the two car garage, and all the 16 foot roll up is exposed.

So you don't have to.

You know you don't have to make an angle like that.

Are y'all with me?

I'm talking too fast.

I had what you call a unique selling proposition.

Where did it come from?

Heaven, I'm operating on heavens, and I mean people went wild over that floor plan.

Why?

Because it had more footed down upstairs than it did downstairs.

We built out the house over the portico shea so you had a huge master bedroom and, more important than that, a beautiful master bath with a nice walk-in closet.

Most of the houses that I saw they were deaky, they were like an apartment.

You try to put four bedrooms upstairs and a little old house like that and the bedrooms are 10 by 10, 10 by 11.

The closets are not walk-in closets.

The master closet is walk-in but you got to walk in like this my houses.

They were so much better and so there was my unique selling proposition.

I started my career in Westview and it worked beautifully until I got out of the will of God and I was late starting this church.

I say the only time that I had trouble selling a house was when it was time for me to start this church and I didn't start it.

Are y'all with me now?

I'm talking about ideas from heaven.

God will give you ideas.

I said He'll give you ideas so I didn't go into detail.

My guy designer I've done him for years.

He'd done some houses for me in suburbs and he really enjoyed working on this kind of project because he'd hadn't done anything in Westview.

So it was a chance for him to get known and so I went and picked up my first set of plans and they had this little design up in the gable over the front door, the second floor, and it was a plus sign with little pieces of limestone at the points of the plus.

Well, it wasn't a cross, it was a plus, but to me it was a cross.

It was like God was saying here's your cross.

And then I had an arch window and I had another cross on the arch window, brick around the arch window, and so it was just God.

So that became my trend, my quiet trademark.

So in first house.

So the second house had another one of those.

So the second house, little different, it was 57 foot wide.

So I had to alter the plan a little bit.

Same idea, got it finished and a guy from Taiwan, buddhist, he said I buy the house you tear out cross.

I said it's not a cross, it's a plus.

Nobody's going to see this house.

Nobody that sees this house is going to see a cross.

But me I see a cross because my God blessed me and you're asking me to tear out something God gave me as a sign that he was in my business.

So no, thank you to find somebody else's house.

I'm not going to sell you the house if I've got to tear that out.

He liked it, he liked me, he liked the fact that I had guts, that I had principle, and he bought the house.

And I laughed because there were several other crosses on there that he didn't see.

They really were crosses.

So I became, you know, my realtor started saying that to people oh, he's the builder of cross, he does crosses on his houses.

And that's how they would find.

I found out it was my realtor was spreading this all the.

It was private.

I didn't, I wasn't trying to just stamp my houses, christian, christian, christian.

I didn't put a fish over the, you know, the front door.

It was just my sign, okay.

But she just wouldn't keep her mouth shut.

Just tell everybody, tell everybody.

So the last of that series, standing in front of the house, the shell engineer, his wife and he both were engineers for shell had no kids built, bought a five bedroom, five and a half bath house.

All they had were cats, so anyway they had closed.

We were standing out front of the house and he said well, he said you know, I understand, you're the builder of crosses in your houses.

And I looked at him like how'd you know?

You know big deal?

I said well, yeah, I guess.

So I said it's just started out as a little sign to me.

I said you know, right up there in the top, same kind of a design, only this was a tip different house, it was a bigger house but it had that plus sign up in the top but it had a lot of archwindows and so he had seen those.

He said you know, so far I've forgotten how the number he said so far I've counted five crosses on here and I said well, you missed one.

He said what?

He's an engineer he didn't like missing.

It took him a while to sign them all.

I said you missed one, he said.

I said I said well, look at the front door.

And he looked and looked and looked at the front door, big old oak front door.

And what are you talking about?

I said that's the upside down cross.

It was.

It was a panel door and the cross was upside down toward the bottom hat third, two thirds of the door.

The top third was a window.

So it was an upside down cross.

I said see that upside down cross.

That's the one Peter hung on and his eyes filled with tears.

Whoo glory to God.

Ideas God will give you ideas.

I said God will give you ideas when you're operating in heaven's economy.

All right.

Last one is claim the supply that you need.

Quit begging God for money.

Quit praying about the money.

Just claim it because it's already here, you don't have to pray.

Oh God, give it to me, give it to me, give it to me right there, give it to me right there.

No, it's here.

Claim it.

God's not holding it up, it's the devil.

If it's being held up, it's the devil or demon inspired people that are holding it up.

Command them to loose your, your, your supply and say angels, now you cause it to come to me.

If you've got a need by the certain period, like like this now we're into December, so you can.

You've got till January 31st to pay real estate taxes without a penalty.

But if you want to write them off in this year's taxes, then you need to pay them by December, the 31st.

So I'm fixing to have to sit down and write some checks for me, cause I like to write my.

I'm going to write them off this year.

But if you have a need where you, where you've got to write checks and pay your taxes and you don't have an escrow count and all of that kind of thing, well start, just tell the devil to take his hands off of your money.

You've got a supply.

It belongs to you.

Whatever the need is, you have a supply.

My God shall supply all.

See, the blood pays for all all.

So don't be frustrated, don't be all under the gun, just demand the devil, take his hands off of your money and loose the angels to bring it to you.

Amen, dispatch them.

I dispatch angels to go get me the money.

Bring it to me by such and such a date.

I'll have the money.

And then, from then on, you just rejoice the whole time, just like we did last week.

We'll keep rejoicing over your money.

Just rejoice that you're on heaven's economy.

You're not in this world's economy, doesn't matter about all this inflation and all of the other crazy things that are happening right now.

Listen, we will always have everything we need because we're operating in heaven's economy.

Come on, lift your hands and receive today.

Glory to God, hallelujah, everybody shout.

Heaven's economy is my economy.

Hallelujah, glory to God.

Thank you Lord, thank you Jesus, praise God, praise God.