Don't Fail This Test // Wicked: The Worship Of Wealth (Part 2) // Michael Todd

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Well, get out your Bibles, get out your smartphones, get

out your tablets. Today we are in week two of

a series we're calling Wicked, and this series is about

the worship of wealth. And last week God really did

challenge us to view the categories of what God calls wicked.

He said in his word that the worship of wealth

is wicked. And some of y'all like, obviously, yeah, like

obviously like greedy people, people who won't obey what God

says to do with the people who are stingy, like yeah.

But the other thing that he explicitly calls wicked is

people who waste their wealth. And I know there are

a lot of people, especially if you in church, a

lot of people won't necessarily claim being ones who are

wicked because they're actually worshiping wealth. No, I worship God.

I worship God. I only worship God. But God thought

it so important that he put it in his words

so plainly. Only one place in the Bible. Does he

compare himself to anything, because he just know he's him

and he don't got to compare himself to nobody. But

there was only one place he said. You cannot serve

both God and money. He said, because I know you'll

never call it this, but you'll make it your idol

or your God. And so if you waste it or

you worship it, it's everybody say wicked, and the word

y'all ain't even say it. Say wicked, yeah, because the

truth of the matter is some of y'all have been

living a wicked life. When it comes to finances, nobody's

saying it. But go through your budget and see how

much you wasted last month. Come on, let's think about it.

Some of y'all don't even return stuff that don't fit

no more. Oh, come on, let's be honest. You don't

like the process of returning it. So you buy three sizes.

Oh I'm in somebody's business, get the one that works,

and lead another two in a dirty bag on the side,

and then one day you'll give it away to goodwill

or anything. And God said you could even get your

money back if you would just be intentional. But you're wasteful.

Yet you're gonna be praying God, make a way, Just

make away, God, just make a way, he said, I did.

It's on your floor. Some of us are playing for

subscriptions that got us with one TV show. I ain't

opened up Peacock in nine months. Come on, ain't opened

it up in nine months. But they've taken twelve dollars

every month. But you can't honor God. They taken it

from you, not even asking you for it, and you

gave them permission. I'm just saying that is wicked when

it comes down to you standing before God and him

tallying up all the resources he gave you. Hello, John,

I'm so grateful that you made it here. In your lifetime.

You had seven million, six hundred and seventy two dollars.

Seventeen of them went to the church, seven hundred went

to the church seventeen thousand in the seven million, seventeen thousand.

That's not even a comparison. It's not even a tithe

How somebody, why are you telling me this. It's because

for many years of my life I was in the dark,

or I was ignorant of what God's word said about wealth.

And if you don't know, you don't even gotta act

like you know. Come on, when you know better, you

do better. Some of y'all do, cause some of us know.

But you get to abdicate yourself, you get to act dumb,

you get to not even try if you don't know. So,

if you came to church Todari you're watching online, you're

in trouble because by the end of this serment you'll know,

and then what you do with what you know, that's

only you watch this, you can go to heaven and

never give anything. I want to be very clear because

a lot of people think that when you talk about

money or tithing or generosity, they feel like it's a

condemnation message. If anybody has ever done that to you,

I want to apologize as a pastor on a platform.

Your money is not sending you to hell. Let me

be very clear about that. Once you put your faith

in Jesus Christ, he is now your Lord and savior,

you will be in heaven. I want you to know that.

But you do not become more like Jesus if you

don't give. So, if the goal is not just to

get a get out of Hell free card, but to

actually be transformed, into the image of our Lord and Savior.

If that's the actual goal to represent or represent him

on earth. We can never look more like Jesus if

we never give anything. And the crazy thing about it

is given and everything. When you're selfish with God, you're

selfish with your wife. Oh gosh, when you're selfish with God,

you're selfish with people. You don't know how many times

did God tell you to do something or ask you

to give an extra tip, or ask you to do something.

You'd be like, they don't look like they need it.

You ain't never seen them before in your life, but

you just summon up the whole situation. Today. I'm asking

us not to be wicked because we worship wealth, or

be wicked because we waste it. I want us to

walk in say this word with me, wisdom. When you

have wisdom with wealth, you can look at Solomon as

an example and see what God does when people ask

for wisdom. I want you to go read it later,

but I just need to let you know the wisest man.

The Bible declares that ever lived, when God gave him

a choice, he said, you can ask me for anything

you want. Most of us would have been like could

you please let me hit that lottery in Texas? What

is it? Two hundred and fifty? Like? He says, I

don't want riches, I don't want wealth, I don't want

my name. He said, would you please watch this? Give

me wisdom to govern your people? And God liked the

answer so much that he said, you know what, boy,

I don't know where you found that answer at, But

because you asked for what wisdom, he said, I'm gonna

give you all the money you could ask for, because

now watch this, you have the mindset to handle more.

And most of us that are sitting here today listening

to me do not have the mindset for more. If

God gave you more, it would destroy you. If God

gave you more, you wouldn't come to church no more.

If God gave you you wouldn't pray no more. If

God gave you more, you would be at you, you

making it rain. Oh, come on, If God gave you

more those substances, you would spread them to other people

because you wasn't greeting no more, and so you would

spread death to other people. Because you had more to give,

you would be generous with the wrong thing. Okay, come on, y'all,

and God said, I need to give you my heart

and my mind about wealth, resources, and stewardship and generosity,

because if you get that, I can trust you with

everybody say more. That's all. God wants to trust us

all with more. Ain't that what every parent want for

their kids. I want to be able to trust you

with more. Right now, I can't trust you to not

take the cookies out the cookie jar. That's why I

gotta put them up. Can't put the oreos or the

chocolate chips where the kids can get them because they

do not have the mindset or the heart to obey

you to stay out of it as soon as you

turn your but one day, as a parent, I would

hope that my word would be able to keep them

out of the cookie jar, not the placement. At some point,

I want to be able to leave something right there

for them to get and they desire to obey my word,

so it doesn't take me putting a booby trap and

a mouse trap and a camera. I'm watching some of

our parenting is not actually parenting. It's surveillance. Okay, let

me stop. All I'm saying is I'm an't nothing wrong

with camera. We have cameras. I'm just saying, we scare

them into knowing where instead of giving them the ability

to grow so we can trust them with everybody say more.

So today I'm gonna try to give you a principle

that has changed my life. One of my friends came

up to me on the side and just said, testify, Mike.

You lived this, and so today I just want to

testify of what happens when you focus on what Jesus

says about money. When you focus on what Jesus says,

somebody say, focus Hebrews twelve one. I'm reading it every week.

It says, therefore, since we are surrounded by such a

great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that

hinders us, especially the sin that so easily entangles us,

and let us run with perseverance the race marked out

for us. I just want somebody to know that the

race marked out for you is not supposed to be

one that is just full. What broke eyes ideas struggling

situations and needing and begging. How do you know, Pastor Mike,

God says it is in his will that you be

the lender and not the ball. He said, I want

to use you So first off, you just gotta believe

that how I was raised, what I was grown up in,

or even all that out of a mask. But I

still don't feel the actual burden of how to handle it.

I need you to know there's another race marked out

for us. Fixing our eyes on Jesus, somebody say, focus

the pioneer and perfector of our faith for the joy

that was set before him. He endured the cross, scorning

its shame and sat down at the right hand of

the throne of God. Fixing your eyes on Jesus gives

you the faith to focus. So today I'm gonna focus

us on some scriptures that you're gonna have to eat

on beyond this meal. If today was your only day

of eating for the rest of the week, y'all would

show up here next week angry, malnourished, dehydrated. Some of

y'all wouldnt show it because you be in jail from

the things that you did mentally. Because so I want

you to feast on the word of God when it

comes to us honoring God with what he gives us.

Proverbs three nine. This is one of the greatest scriptures

of wisdom and wealth. It says Honor the Lord, not

your pastor, not your church, not your bishop. Honor the

Lord with your what wealth, with the first fruits of

your crops. So what I need everybody to do is

understand that God has put a principle in place where

he's saying, I'm gonna bless you. The only way that

I know that you honor me is not by your

lip service, not by your shouting. Y'all dance some of

y'all was like, I gave God ten percent of my praise,

Come on some of us. Thing that well, he said,

honor me with your wealth. And then he's more specific

with the first fruits. I want the first of it,

because it doesn't take faith to give the last. It

takes faith to give the And then it says, watch this.

He makes a promise. Then your barns will be feeled

to overflowing ah and your vats will brim over with

new wine. What God's saying is, if you ever try

me at this principle, he said, I'm going to make

your life an example of abundance. And most people who

fight with this, it's their fear to believe that God

is a man of his word. And so today I

want you to know that honoring God with our wealth

is the way that we get over flow. We sing

the song over flow. Most of us have never experienced it,

especially in the area of finance. God says, do it

my way, and I will present overflow to you. So

I was thinking of this time when I was fifteen

years old, and I think this is a good way

to get right into this series, into this message. Me

and my now wife but then girlfriend had this wild

idea to go get our driver's license together. And Natalie

is a very safe and cautious person. She's one that

read the whole Driver's ed manual. She actually went to

a class. Me, on the other hand, I got the

gist of it, and you know, I'm saying, I know

the basics and I can drive, so it doesn't really

make sense to go through all of that work. So

let's go get our driver's license. Her sister, Naive took

us to the North Side DMV and we went to

take our driving test and they were like, who wants

to go first? And I'm sitting there like, oh, chivalrous ladies. First,

Natalie goes out and takes her driver's test. She's out

there for about fifteen minutes she turns back in. I'm

watching from the window like, derema, girl, look at that,

look at it? Back in? Up you signed goga and

comes back in and I'm like, yo, how was it? Like,

what was it scary? Was anything? And she's like, no,

that was simple. That was easy. And she got her

little passing certificate, and so I got real confident, and

I was like, if she got her license that easy. Well,

I had this little thought in my head like what

if I feel this test, Like how embarrassing would that

be for me to fail this test with this woman

that I'm her strong, mighty, strapping fifty year old man.

But I threw it to the back of my head.

The lady says, all right, start the car, Start the car,

go out. She says, turn onto the street, Turn onto

the street. And then there was a car that was

next to me that was acting like you know them

people that don't know if they want to get in

front of you or go behind. And so I'm like, ah,

I'm not playing with this, So I just speed up

a little bit, just a little bit, speed up, I

mean normal, get in front. So like, do what you're

gonna do if you're gonna have the inn she would

throw a ten potential. I'm gonna get right here. That

woman said okay, She said, okay, right here at the light.

Why don't you turn left? Okay, and then turn back

into the parking lot. And it didn't even register to

me that I was out for exactly one minute and

forty five second and she asked me to turn the

car off and heat rolls from my feet all the

way to my I instantly started sweating, and I was like,

what happened? What happened? She was like, well, that was

not appropriate driving, specifically for a driving test, and she

said I'm gonna have to ask you to come back,

and Nat standing at the window, but she knew the

time was too short. And I am sad to say

that I failed my first driving test. Natalie got her

picture and her license and she had to drive me home.

I failed the test. Now, I thought about that as

a good injury story, because it was my pride that

allowed me not to actually take seriously the opportunity I had,

and I failed the test because I didn't actually do

what was asked of me. Today, I want to title

this message, don't fail this test, like as a big brother,

as a pastor as a leader. I'm just asking everybody

in this room who has a pay check gets paid

some type of way. How many people get paid two

times a month? Like two times a month? Okay? How

many people get paid once a month? Hands lifted? Some

of y'all not even lifting, y'all, hand y'all don't get paid. Well,

maybe that's what we need to pray for. Any grace

for you. Cool, But the mindset becomes before the motion. Okay,

So every time you get paid, people don't know this.

God's given you a test. And today I came to

tell everybody don't fail this test because the test that

God gives is an open book test. He has in

his word so many places where he says, Yo, if

I give you something, I need you to watch this word,

return ten percent of it so that I know that

you know who all it is comes from. And I'm

telling you it's the fourth month or the third month

of the year, and some of y'all have failed this

test six to eight times. And today I'm just coming

to you at your big brother and say, don't fail

this test because this test can actually change your life.

Malachi three, verse six. And I'm about to bring some

clarity to this that the church has messed up for years.

For I am the Lord who's talking the Lord. I

am the Lord. I do not change tap in with

me right here. Therefore, you are not consumed, oh, sons

of Jacob. Yet from the days of your fathers, you

have gone away from my ordinances or that means ordinary behavior.

This is ordinary behavior for people who call themselves Christians,

and you have not kept them. Return to me, or

come back to the way I meant for it to be.

And I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts.

But you say, in what way shall we return to you? God?

Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me.

Think about how strong that language is. If God is

saying you robbing me? No no, no, no, no no no.

You talk about son or daughter, but you keep robbing me.

Think about it, and you say, hold on, God, in

what way have I robbed you? Exactly? He said, let

me be very specific. You have robbed me in tithes

and offerings. A pastor didn't make this up. A church

didn't make this up. This wasn't a board of directors

that was like, yo, we need money somehow. This is

God the Lord of host and he keeps saying it.

He says, you've robbed me and ties an offering, and

you are cursed with the curse, for you have robbed me.

Even this whole nation is robbing me. So what do

you want me to do? God? Bring all the tithes

into the storehouse that's the house of God, that there

may be food in my house, and trot all this

my part, and try me now in this test, me,

says the Lord of hosts. And see if I will

not open for you, who is he talking to open

for you? He's talking to us the windows of heaven

and pour out for you. I think people when they

read this, they think it's about the church, or they

think it's about a group of people. God says, everybody's

not gonna get this, but for those who do. This

ain't for everybody, But this is for the ones who do.

He says, See if I won't open up the windows

of heaven, how big could that be? And pour you

out such a blessing who I love this that there

will not be room enough to receive it. And on

top of that, I'll rebuke the devourer for your sakes,

so so that he will not destroy the fruit of

your ground. He's gonna protect your stuff. Nor shall Divine

fail to bear fruit for you in the field, says

who the Lord of Hosts, and all nations will look

at you and say they are blessed for you. Will

be Oh, I like this a delightful land, says the

Lord of And many people jack this up because of

two things. They get hung up at the curse. And

they get hung up on how did I rob God?

So let me bring clarity to it right now, gossa, mike,

how am I curse? How can I rob God? Watch this,

write this down. If you give your life to Jesus Christ,

the curse is broken. Let me be very clear. It

is it is it. This is an Old Testament passage

that God send because you didn't do it my way. Y'all.

Remember all the laws he gave, all the commandments he gave,

and people were having to sacrifice everything. He said, God

said this, You know what, this was not probably the

best idea I'm gonna send Jesus now because they're not

gonna get it. I made a whole bunch of rules,

whole bunch of regulations, spelled out everything for them. They're

not gonna get this. So I'm gonna take away the

curse if they believe in Jesus. So I just need

everybody to sday because a lot of people get up here.

You're cursed when you don't todd your curse. If you

believe in Jesus, the curse that was on your life

because you did not put your faith in Jesus, it

is broken. Somebody should shout right there, Okay, this is good.

This is why the grace and mercy of God. So

I want to relieve you. Everybody, take a deep breath in,

release it out. Relax. You don't got to wake up

to mom and be like, oh God, I'm cursed. I'm cursing. No,

if your faith is in Jesus, the curse is what

broken Galatians three thirteen. So I can give you scripture

to back this up. Christ has redeemed all of us

from the curse of the law, having become the curse.

For come, Oh, I love the Bible, for it is

written curses everyone who hangs on a tree. He said,

I went to the tree and took every curse that

would be put up on you. And all you gotta

do is believe and receive me, A curse is broken. Okay,

does everybody get that? So if anybody ever tries to

play you with that, if you don't give you're a

curt tell them I have a scripture right here Galatians

three thirteen curses. Brodekin. This is why I want you

to study to show yourself approved. But watch this. If

you don't obey Jesus Christ, consequences still continue. So when

you put your faith in Jesus, the curse is broken,

but if you don't obey him, the consequences continue. Oh God,

I just need you to hear me. Say this. If

you slap somebody and they punch your face, no, I

just need you to hear me like at that point

they can say I'm sorry and there can be no

charge is pressed, but your mouth, nose, and cranium are

still under the consequence of being punsed. Do I understand

what I'm saying, ma'am. I'm sorry, Bro, that was a mistake.

I ain't mean to do it like that. Bro, I

thought you was gonna scare me. Like, oh bro, Bow,

you are still experiencing the consequences and some of us

living paycheck to paycheck, getting increased and still feeling broke, knowing,

not knowing what to do with our resources, fighting over finances,

husbands and wives. Ah, we know there's a big wedge

between a lot of people's bed husband on this side,

wife on this side, money in the middle. The prop

me is is that most people are still suffering under

the consequences because they won't do it God's way. Let

me tell you the difference. The difference between a curse

and your consequences is your choice. Deuteronomy thirty nineteen. This

day I call on heaven and earth witnesses against you

that I have set before you life and death, doing

it my way, doing it your way, doing it how

the Bible says, doing it how culture says, I'm setting

it before you. Now you get to choose. And I

love the open book test. God is so good. He

asked you a question and give you the answer. I

don't know if you had never had a class that

you didn't study for the test, and you come in

and you scared, and then the teacher says, it's an

open book test and you can share answers with a partner.

How do you fail that test? Said? What school you

go to? What I'm saying is the truth of the

matter is when God gives you an open book test,

I'm just saying to you, don't fail this one. Don't

fail this test of tithing, of returning back to God.

He says, choose life so that your children may live.

Choose life. If you can't do it for you, do

it for those who come after you. If you don't

feel that it's good enough for you to actually set

this pattern and these principles in place, do it for

those kids you prayed for me to bring into this

world and show them what it looks like to have

a parent that honors God. So passor Mike, what's the

big revelation on that Malacho scripture? The Holy Spirit showed

it to me this and I'm so proud of everybody

because I feel you locked in right now, and I'm

telling you this principle is gonna change everything if you

just allow God to work it into your heart. When

I saw that the curse was a hold up, we

just solved that. Nobody's cursed. But you can still get

consequences when you put your faith in Jesus Christ. The

second thing is how do I rob God? This is

what the Holy spirit told me. He said, Michael, every

time you don't do it my way by returning that tenth,

he says, you rob me of an opportunity to bless you.

And today I'm telling you, tied, give whatever he tells you,

because if you don't, you're robbing our God, who owns everything,

of the opportunity to bless you in the way that

he wants. Hous Mike, he can bless me the way

that he wants. He just won't go against his word

to do it. I need everybody to hear me say this. Well,

God can bless me. He won't violate his own word

to bless you. And some of y'all are sitting here like, ugh,

it's not that that hundred dollars is not worth you

not having God's blessing. Twelve hundred dollars, it's not worth you.

That ten thousand dollars is not worth you not having

God's blessing. I promise you, I am telling you. I've

sat where you've sat, and I've reasoned and done the

numbers and crunched and tried to make things make sense.

And maybe God will accept this. And it's ninety percent

with God's blessing it's better than one hundred percent without it.

Did you hear what I just said? Ninety percent is

better with God's blessing than one hundred percent without. Okay,

so watch this. Many things God ask us to do

aren't easy, but they are simple. Don't overcomplicate it. Tithing

is not easy, but it is definitely simple. Is one

out of every dime, it's ten cents out of every dollar,

It's ten dollars out of every hundred. Does anybody know

what the tithe of a million is? I like it

one hundred thousand. I want you to know because some

of y'all need to stop praying for money, and you

need to start praying for an amount to tithe. You

missed it. Y'all missed it. I gotta talk. I need

to do it. I need to do it different. Some

of y'all, if you would start praying Lord, let my

tithe be fifty thousand dollars this year, it would change

the way. I got goosebumps saying that. Lord, I thank

you that my tithe is sixty five hundred dollars. I

made that last year in my business. But I thank

you that my tie. I thank you that my tithe

of a month is fifteen thousand dollars. God, I thank

you that with goode, with gratefulness. God, I will give

you everything that, but you won't. If you not faithful

with fifteen you will not get fifteen thousand. If you

are not faithful with fifteen dollars, I'm trying to give

you the principles that create crazy faith. Everybody want to

write stuff down on a paper about a building, I'm

gonna tell you what I wrote down on the paper.

I put the number I wanted to tie. Oh God,

I'm sharing too much. Okay, here we go. Bring me

that real quick, because some of them are not gonna

get it, because some of them are hungry. Because we

had long worshiped today. Last week I roasted Krispy Kreme donuts,

so I had to go support them. This was twenty

four dollars though. Who like donuts? In here? That's the

loudest you've been all service. That's ridiculous. Okay, somebody like donuts?

Anybody like donuts? Okay? Right there in the Nike the hoodie,

yeah right there, you and the great niked you. No,

yeah right there, come here, all right, real quick, real fast,

real quick. All I want you to do is know

that this represent come on, sweear, this represents a gift

that I'm giving you. This is an increase of calories

and sugar. Okay, there are ten donuts in here. All

I'm asking you for is one of them. You can

have this no matter what. But as the one who

gave it to you, that paid for it, that gave

you the ability to take it out of my hands,

I'm gonna take it. All I'm asking is for one.

Are you gonna give me one? That's easy to give

me one, because you'll give me more than one. But

all I'm asking you for is did you see the heart?

Thirty seconds ago? I had none, and now all you're

asking for is one? She said, I'll give you more

than one. But this is what I'm gonna ask you

to do. I'm not greedy, even even though economy prices

are going up, and the stock markets and the value

menu it's like two dollars and ninety nine cent it

used to be in ninety nine cent. It's not even

ninety nine cent no more. Everybody's going up in price,

But my principles the same for every ten. All I

want is want Now if you walk over there to

your friends and your family and your section, and you

feel compelled to give them one. You could do that,

but I'm not going to require more than what I

already told you enjoyed. Thus, God bless you. Now watch, sweetheart, sweetheart,

what's your name? Terran Tarryn? Would you hand that to

the sweet lady with the with the hat on right there? Yeah,

blond heir, just hand it to her. Now, you took

your hands off of it. I need you to come

back to the father because you took your hands off

of what I gave you. And that person may not

even know the principle we teach him. But when you

heard my voice, you obeyed and gave it to where

I told you to give it. And all of that

came because you obeyed and you gave me one. Could

you bring out? See? What you didn't understand is that

in the back the whole time, my plan wasn't to

give you one. Come on, give them to me first.

My plan wasn't to give you one. My plan was

to give you ten. Now. I don't know if you've

ever carried this many donuts before. I don't know if

you've ever overflowed like this before. Y'all got to hear

what I'm saying. But what God wanted to do for

you is see if you would trust. Oh look they're

sharing going on in the section over there, now, sweetheart,

how many donuts is left in there? It's four? What's

your name in the hat? Kanya? One of those belonged

to God? See. See the problem is we we we

we will get blessed, and we will think the blessing

had something to do with us, and we'll forget to return.

So I'm gonna keep blessing the one who's blessing right now.

You got ten boxes? Now hold on, if you got

ten boxes, almost can't see you now. If that's ten,

I'll bless you with not one donut is mine? One

of them boxes is mine? Kanya? How godfriend, it's our Donah,

I didn't return one to God. I see she got

tears in her eyes. Y'all. Something is happening right now.

God's revealing himself. See what you didn't know? Bring him out? Please?

What you didn't know, as I have plenty of do

that's ready. What you didn't know is I God? Someone

come here? Got ya come here? She's like, I don't

even want this many go give him out, be a conduit,

be a blessing. I think this is what the scripture means. Well,

I'll pour you out of blessing that you don't have.

Looked like she needs some help. Well, somebody come in helping.

I mean him and you, and hold on. I'll get some.

I'll get some. But she need a friend. I got

any friends? Now, Yeah, y'all gotta help. This baby's about

to all day about the fall. Don't have room enough

to receive, don't have room enough to receive, don't have

room enough to receive, don't have he said, I got

room to receive, don't have room enough to receive. Now

watch now, watch not watch now, hold on wait wait

wait no, wait wait just wait now look what happens.

Look what happens. The whole room is standing up and

calling her blessed because of one step of obedience. Hear

what I'm saying. Now, everybody would a box. Everybody would

a box. Everybody would a box. She said, I can't

even over my box. I got too much to go.

Everybody would a boss. Now hear what I'm saying. This

is an easy example. Thank all of y'all, for y'all,

y'all give it up for everybody that's down here. Okay,

don't stop stealing her stuff. Let her give it to you, y'all.

Go back to your seat. Go back to your seat.

You got yours. God Man, he said, I'm gonna tithe.

I'm tithing off of this. She said, let me get

that donut. I'm tithing. Let me. Yeah, come on, let

me give one. Come on, here we go, Here we go,

Here we go, Here we go. No, I just I

want you to see this. Yeah, y'all, y'all stay right there.

I want y'all see that. Thank y'all. Look at she's

convincing people to give them a box. Take the box.

Snip at the girl giving y'all, mom, take the box

for your station, but don't leave without tithing. Give it

for your section. But where are you? You worried about them,

But you ain't worried about me. You know. We all right?

Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. Listen,

watch this, watch this? All right, we do. We're good, y'all. Good, y'all,

go eat them donut share with other people up there. Amen. Here,

hear what I'm saying. Hear what I'm saying. There's steal

boxes in the back. Did y'all hear what I just had?

There's still boxes in the back. I got my daughter

of Ooh you done God? Something you said I got

to give. You got blessed by somebody, and you got

to come. Oh Lord, it's okay. You don't got to

pick it up you No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no no. This is what God does. He's got more

than y'all do us here. This is what God. If

you get around God, you can eat. You can pick

up the clubs like it. Okay, okay, I'm gonna just

lead these right here, y'all. Nobody got to come get

these donuts. This was an example. Everybody calms down. The

truth of the matter is, my daughter now has just

seen a picture of what you had. A donut. You

had to give me a peace? Come on, God wanted that. Yeah,

I appreciate that. Okay, listen, I didn't ask none of

these people to come up here. I didn't have to

beg them to return what was not theirs in the

first place. Does everybody hear what I'm saying? My daughter

is watching her father practice a principle that has created

provision for her. She may not understand fully what's going on.

But the principle, the one thing she did understand this

morning is I had a bunch of donuts and she

took a whole box and she hid it. Ava, did

you hide a box of donuts? There is another box

that's supposed to be out here, and she did what

that third person did in the story of the Talents.

This is my baby, smart girl. I love her, but

she hid what I entrusted her with. And right now

I'm gonna go to the back and I'm gonna find

her adonuts and she gonna give her daddy one. But

what does it look like for us to have all

of this resource? This is all the ten percent is

of all the donuts I gave out. That don't look

like nothing compared to what just it was. Just this

off of all of that. Maybe this is a picture

that God wants you to see. Thank y'all. You can

give those donuts out to Huh, you want to give

it to people? You're feeling generous, Gone over there and

give some to people. All right, here we go. Is

this helping y'all? No, come on, help me? Is this

helping guys? Okay? So watch this? Tithing is a test.

Write it down. Tithing is a test. Tithing is a test.

Don't fail this test a biblical principle. This is tithing

and practice established by God of returning. See that I'm

not saying giving, We're returning it. The first ten percent

of your increase back to God through the local church.

God chose this percentage and that's why we obey it. Okay.

And if you go through the Bible, ten is a

term of testing anyway. Okay. I want you to answer

me when I ask these questions. Okay, some Bible trivia

for you. How many plagues where there in Egypt? Ten?

Somebody says seven, we need to read the Bible again,

it's ten? Okay, And this is what I'm saying. I

could have asked it a different way. I could have said,

how many times did God test Pharaoh's heart? He was

telling them let my people go, and he gave them

ten opportunities? Okay, there's a pattern here. How many commandments

are there? How many times does God test Israel in

the wilderness? Ten? Again, there's a pattern here. Everybody answer outloud, okay.

How many times were Jacob's wages changed? How many days

was Daniel tested? How many of days are mentioned of

testing in revelation to how many disciples were there. There

were twelve disciples. Thank God for y'all, because y'all that

was a test somebody like tenn But the thing about tithing,

watch this, it's a two way test. When you tie,

you get to go big dog on God and say, hey, Dear,

what you said, and you say it? I could test

you at this. This is the confidence we have in

our God. Bring the whole tide, not part of it,

not some of it, not some now some later. It

takes faith. He says, bring the whole tide into the storehouse,

which is whatever house that God resides in. What church

you belong to, So I want you to bring that

into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.

Test me in this. It's like almost like God's saying,

I dare you to do it. I dare you to

every time you get increased. Well, God is so tight.

He said, you wanted to expand. Test me, Well, God,

I don't know how it's gonna play. I'm gonna lose.

Test me, he says, Test me and see if I

won't open up the windows of heaven and pour you

out of blessing. You don't have wom enough to receive

somebody catching this revelation. Tithing is a test second thing,

tithing is biblical Leviticus twenty seven thirty Old Testament and

New Testament. I'm gonna give it to you because some

people's like God's the Old Testa. I'm gonnaive it to

you in a New Testament. And it's Jesus saying it. Okay,

here we go, Leviticus twenty seven thirty. And all the time,

how much to the tide? How much? Okay, all the

tithe of the land. He not just talking about the money.

He's saying the tithe of the land. I want everybody

to hear the language. Bring all the tide of the land.

Whether the seed of the land this was their currency

at the time, or the fruit of the tree is

the Lord's. It is the holy set of part. That's

what holy means. It's the holy portion to the Lord.

He's saying. If your tree makes ten lemons, bring me one.

That's all he's saying. He said, it's holy and set apart.

And I know, even as I'm sitting here, I need

you to hear me. I am fighting the enemies. Plan

to keep you in bondage. That's why some of you,

even as you're hearing me, everything's starting to distract you. Now,

everything's trying to get your attention. Now you need to

even pray and focus a little more because the enemy

doesn't have to set a new trap if he's got

you wound up in one already. So for some of you,

your life can be going good, and it's always a

money problem. Always. You can look back at the last

decade of your life, and every time it feels like

you get momentum and your trust in God and you've

donea da there's always something attached to money that comes

to trip you up. The enemy ain't had to mess

with you in a decade and a half because he

know there's gonna come one moment or something that's gonna

mess you up. And I'm trying to show you right here,

this principle is what Jesus wants us to do. Jesus

talking and New Testament Matthew twenty three, twenty three, woe

do you scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites, for you pay

tithe on mint and honest and cuman, which were spices,

and you have neglected the weightier matter of the law,

justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have

done without leaving the others undone, what is Jesus saying?

He is like, you tithe on all your increase, but

you don't do the mercy, justice and faith. He said,

both of them you ought to do. Jesus said, tithes

and love people. She's saying, give up your increase and

show people mercy. That's Jesus talking. And the crazy thing

is right now, if Jesus came to you and said

you should tie, some of you would still have to

think about it. Last thing, tithing is practical. It's a test,

it's biblical, and it's practical Hebrew seven eight. Because some

of y'all like, Okay, I'm tithing, I'm giving ten percent

of my income. I'm doing all of this. How does

God get it? Watch this, He confronts it. Here on

this earth, mortal men received tithes, the church, the people

that govern this, the board, they manage it. But there

he receives them. He said, this whole thing is by faith.

He's like, it's practical for there to be lights and

tissue and the little soap in the soap dispenser salaries, staff,

these tubs, people getting free baptism shirt. Somebody got to

give to it. And you know the crazy thing about

it is less than five percent of all Christians tithes.

Did you hear what I just said? So all of

the transformation that has happened because of the Church, from

hospitals to people's homes being saved, to people being rescued

out of that has high been with five not even

a tithe of Christians. What would happen? What could we do?

How could we change the city? Could we change an industry?

We can't do nothing because we don't have resources, because

people are paying people who are wicked, because somehow you

trust a wicked man with your resources and not And

I get it. There been some bootleg preachers. No, come

on your building fund ain't never gotten done that. Everything leaking,

but we done gave all to the building fun I

get it. But the fruit will speak. And I don't

know if you've ever been about of church that's been

more generous than transformation church. Hear me when I say this,

I'm not saying this too. We made a decision that

we were gonna represent and represent what it meant to

actually live generously. And in the ten years that we

have been the senior pastors of this church, because of

the great foundation that Bishop and Pastor Debu laid for us,

we've given away over thirty four million dollars. Y'all don't

know in the claus And so the truth of the matter,

the truth of the matter is I get it. You

don't get it. I get it. And it's hard when

you've never actually done the principle in your life. For

any business or company to set aside that much money

to give to other churches and other people, that would

be insane to most people. And it's the only reason

we're blessed. But it started at home. It started with me,

It started with Natalie, It started with us actually taking

this test. And yeah, I failed my driver's test. I did.

But since I understood this principle, I've never felt this

one because giving is a practical practice that proves my

faith every fifteen days. Don't tell me you trust God,

show me you trust him. And some of y'all, thankfully,

the Holy Spirit's not backdating you like the government does.

Oh come on, let's be honest. Some of y'all are

in tax evasion, right now you're evading. I see, y'all.

I shouldn't have said that. Can I have ten minutes, y'all,

I'm gonna share this last principle and it's gonna change everything,

and then we're going home. Okay. I started to think

with some of my friends that are pastors at the

church earlier, it's like, what really keeps people from giving?

Because I've said all these scriptures before, I lived them

in my own life. I've seen God do crazy stuff

I like, but I want people to I want everybody

else to get it. Like, it's not cool for you

to be the only few people who like get the

principal and that everybody think you get it because you're

the pastor. Some people like I bet you do get it.

It's like, hold on, wait, when you give, I don't

get the money. I don't touch some money, Like I

don't like I get a paycheck just like everybody. Like,

it's not the same. It's I gotta trust God with

everything that comes to my house the same way you

gotta trust them with everything that comes to your house.

I've been doing this since I made twenty nine thousand

dollars a year. I want to be very clear, with you.

My whole time check for the year was twenty nine hundred,

and I was faithful. I have friends that know, like, yo,

I can't go to that because I got some things

to handle, and only things to handle was keeping my

word to God. And it changed in me before it

changed for me. Once it changed in me, God's like,

thank you Lord, Now I can trust them. The amount

of increase that God has done would make most men

turn into a different person. I only can say this

because I've lived through it. I see how them celebrities

go from broke to then like they get all this

money doing all kinds of wild stuff. It's because money

just exposes what's on the inside and brings it out.

And that's why the change in me first. And so

when I think about the things, the progression of giving,

I want to give it to you like this. It

starts with your thinking. If you think tithing is foolishness,

that's the first category that most people are in when

they don't have an understanding. And I want to say,

there may be some people watching online, a part of

this service or in this room that think everything that

I'm saying right now is foolishness. You may not say

it out loud like that, but that's how you actually

think about it. It's like, that's foolish that don't make

no sense, that don't make no practical sense. I don't

believe in it. I don't think this is gonna happen.

And right now, if you think it's foolishness, I want

to let you know what your response is will be.

If anybody the word Mean, God, Bible ever ask you

to give, you have one of two responses. If you

think it's foolishness right now, you're either going to number one,

fight it. You're gonna fight it, or you're gonna fear it.

If these are your motivations right now. You may not

say it like this, but you think this principle is foolishness,

make it up with me, Take it up with him.

If I say, hey, this next pay period, you got

paid this week, you give it honor God give him

ten percent at the beginning. If there's a part of

you right now that wants to fight it, or there's

a part of you that's saying, I don't know how

this is gonna work. I can't do it, this is

not going to work. I'm gonna be suffering I'm gonna

God is not giving us a spirit of fear, but

of power, love and a sound. He's saying, test me,

don't fail this test. And if you're here, you're a

good person. If you're here, you're not mean or crazy

or it doesn't make sense outside of God. But in

the Kingdom, it's a command. Are you fighting or are

you fearing? If you're past that and you've progressed to

this next place, this is where you're at. This's a

fun one. Some of y'all are wrestling through this message

in this series, and there's friction. And what's happening right

now is this is rubbing up against your ideas about

how you're gonna live your life. And this is rubbing

up against how you've lived up until this point. And

this is rubbing y'all know what friction is, right, This

is rubbing you the wrong way. Why you gotta talk

something long about it? Though? We get it. Okay, okay,

tie tie tide, we get it. If you if you

bothered by stuff like it, it ain't gonna be up

there wearing pink pants with a flair with a flare.

Like I'm just saying, like, watch, watch, watch, watch, watch

the things that make you frustrating. Right now, watch the

thing and then in the surface is gonna run long

and yeah, yeah, a lot of times there's friction. And

I want to say that friction is a regression from

going from thinking his foolishness to actually like being rubbed

the wrong way by it. Like m I I should

have came after Easter. I s wicked. I thought it

was different. I thought this was a different message. But

if you get into this place of friction, you get

two of one of responses, and this is where everything

either clicks or goes back. Many of you right now,

after you hear this very clear call to honor God

with the tithe many of you are going to freeze.

And if you freeze, what you do is you rob

God of the opportunity to bless you. At the same

level you're willing to release, is at the same level

he's willing to release. When that girl was willing to release,

I was willing to release. If she would have held

onto that one box, she would have had watch, we

would have never known. The scariest thing to me is

not doing the principle of God and not knowing what

could have happened. Everybody got excited. Sister crying and eating

a donut. Have you ever cried eating the donut before?

Because she was client eating a donut, God was working

on her. There was people coming from my man took

enough for his family for the week. There's all kinds

of stuff that was happening. But the only reason it

happened is because somebody took a leap of faith. But

what would have happened if she freezed? Right here? So everybody,

when when I'm telling you you're about to get tested

when God increases, you don't freeze. What I'm gonna tell

you is to do what every mama egle tells they

child to do. Fly. I don't know if you've ever

seen a bird teach their kids how to fly? Is

that they do it? Come back, do it, come back,

show them and then guess what they do who Because

at some point we're gonna have to try it. And

that's why I'm just challenging you right now. Let this

be the last time you hear a message about tithing

and generosity and you're questioning what you do. Anytime I

get in a message like this now and there's several

of y'all in here, like anytime you're in a message,

it's like that's right, breach, got it, passler, because you know,

when it comes to this thing, I've already decided that

I'm not gonna fail this test. There's a lot of

stuff I can't control, but this one thing I can

control this. And so if you think it's foolishness today,

I just want you to move from foolishness to at

least friction. And if once you get past friction, this

is where it gets fun. You go from friction to

now thinking. When it comes to tithing, this is fundamental.

This is what I'm supposed to do. I don't get it.

I don't like it all the time. Oh, can we

be real? This ain't always this, ain't this? I mean,

I really wish I could do something else with this money.

God's fine with that. Obedience with an attitude is still obedience.

He'll change the attitude. No, I'm telling okay, you've never

been a kid, and you don't say it loud to

your parents, but they're like, take out thing. Any kids

ever gone screamed in a pillow? Okay, some of y'all

not crazy, Like I was, like, Okay, what I'm saying

is the parent will even excuse that because they know

that you're maturing, but they still want the obedience. And

for many people that are in this room, I'm proud

of you because you've heard a message from can't wait

till I get wait till I get my money right,

or ducts in the row or paper Chasers, and you

said I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna test God. And

now when you get the fundamental watch this. You know

it's formation spiritually, that's the first thing. This is what

God told me to do. It's gonna make me more

like him. And the other thing, you know, it's your

faith in action. I'm praying everybody listen to me. I'm

praying that after this series, after this message, that at

least ninety percent of our church would be at this place.

I don't know a church in the world that has

over fifty percent people who tithe, not one in the world.

But we're called to represent. What would happen. What would

happen if everybody watching online, everybody in this room, decided

ten percent of my income I'm returning back to God

through the local church. What if we started praying that

God increase our tithes I'm giving y'all practical things right now.

What if you started praying, God show me where to

make wealth, you give me the ability to produce It

is my job. My job won't do y'all know that

there's a side hustle that God can give you to

replace your job. Like I just want you to. I

just I don't want you to without getting out of

your purpose. Because some of you are called to be

a teacher, and that salary ain't never. It's sad, but

it ain't never. But God can give you one idea,

one thing, one system, one course. He can do something

that changes the trajectory. But you so fixed on something

that is not your father. And so I'm praying that

everybody gets tithing as fundamental. But then you take the

mental off of it. You know what, I'm about to

go to Mama Chloe, and it becomes fun. If you

don't ever get here in your life, I'm sorry, but

I have crossed over into a place of giving where

it's fun. I'd be making plans years in advance. Now,

y'all don't hear what I'm saying. I can't even tell

you something of it right now because they're about to happen.

It excites me to get to do things that God

has just placed on my heart. You seeing me and

be like, oh, don't even talk to the people about it.

Go up to a waitress and you could tell she's

struggled and it was bad service. Oh no, y'all if

God blessed you according to your service. Okay, let me stop,

Let me stop. All I'm saying is we don't get

what we deserve. I'm talking about bad service, and we

about to bless they socks off. They don't deserve that,

neither did I. It gets fun, And watch this. When

it gets fun, you realize you're favored by God. Not

that anybody's not favorite, but there's some people who do

what he says that you can be like, oh, I

already know I can get this away, and God about

the he about to re up me. Nah, that's easy.

I'm favored. I walk into every room knowing that there's

favor on my life. My wife be so annoyed because

she's a rule follower. When I tell you, Natalie Diane

Todd is a rule follower, She's like, what season we

pay for? We pay for zz zz Todd only thank you,

Carl forgetting that we en rose z at the top. Okay,

but I walk in knowing I'm gonna see somebody. Somebody

gonna like my outfit, y'all. Don't y'all be getting dressed

of it, I be getting dressed. No, somebody gonna know

one of my brothers. Somebody gonna have seen some I

walk into I know him favored because I do what

my father tells me to do. I don't got I

don't gotta question it. I don't gotta try to make

it happen. I know that everywhere that I go, he

goes before me. And some people are like, this is

prosperity gospel, this is no this is the principles of God.

And once you get favored by God, you can give.

You can give stuff because you know it's always come back.

I'm not stingy with nothing. People that are around me,

people that know me, I'm not stingy with nothing, Go

ahead and take it girl together. Why Because I believed

the principle and worked it too long, and I've never

watched this seen God fail this test. You're missing The

goal is for me not to fail the test, because

God never fails this test. And so once you once

it gets fun, you figure out that your favored and

then watch this one figure out that your faith is

fixed right now, for the rest of my life, I

will give and I will get hear me say this.

When I am not the pastor of this church, I

will give more than I have given as the pastor

of this church. I'm here. I want everybody look at

me and here, look look at me. Bags under my

eyes for a spring break. Look at this. That is

not a break for all parents that spring work. But

I have prayed and I have sown to be able

to give more when I'm no longer on this platform

than I ever did while I was, because I just

want to prove that God's word is not a respector

of person or platform. That He's looking for his children

to obey his word. And this whole thing for me

is fixed in my heart. And do you know what,

This is such a universal principle. I'm proud of y'all

sticking in here with me. I'm so grateful for y'all.

We almost done. This is such a universal principle that

people that don't even believe in God practice these principles.

How much more for his children who actually want to

see his kingdom come, and his will be done on

earth as it is in heaven. Last part because I

was gonna stop at fun and then, honestly, if it

was two years ago, I couldn't even put this last

one up here. That's why I, as your pastor, I

like to go and try everything, like I'm gonna jump

off the cliff and believe God and then yell back

it's good because I can't lead you to somewhere I've

never been. I want to be honest and I have

not perfected everything, and I promise you I'm gonna be

doing that today, and I'll tell y'all. I'll tell y'all

the truth. I don't know nothing about this yet, but

this is what the Bible says, so I'm gonna tell

you what it's say. But this last piece. When you

start understanding that when you tie, it makes you free, guys,

it goes from foolishness to friction, friction to fundamental, fundamental

to fun, and it goes from fun free. Just to

be clear, for everybody that think your time dollars went

to paying for them donuts, I paid for them personally.

I'm saying that because I didn't even think about it.

When the example came to my mind and I told

y'all them donuts was twenty four dollars last week, my

mind didn't start doing what it would have done two

years ago. I can't do that example, because if I

do one, then I got to do ten and then

do ten. Hold on, wait a minute. I was free

to carry out what God showed me in my head

in the back, because I mean, did y'all hear what

I'm saying? I got goosebum I'm saying it. It's because

now there's certain things I don't even I don't even

think it fine, I don't even think about it, Like,

oh God, what would happen if you never thought about

your car payment? Some of our lives. I remember a

season where my life was hinged around my rent payment

and my car payment. That's it. Nothing else matters. I

may not eat, like you know, I'm saying, I gotta

make this payment. I'm mad at people for the car

I chose. It is your birthday again? Like, hold on,

it happens once a year. Passer, Mike, why are you

telling us this? I just want you to know it's possible.

Only boasting what God has done. But he did it

because I chose his principles. And somebody's gonna try to

clear this up and make it seem like I'm trying

to get money from somebody. I don't care. At the

end of the day, we're not asking for anything. Next week,

we're gonna give one of the largest offerings we've ever given,

and we're gonna bless other people. You can clap right now,

y'all's chee. But we're free to give. And when you're

free to give, watch this. You understand You're a funnel.

I'm just a pass through. I'm just the manager. I'm

just the one God chose that he know that if

he say them, I'm not gonna be like, why them them? Okay?

Iyf God. I can't tell you how many times I'm

walking in the mall just trying to get something my

wife sent me in there for, and the Holy Spirit

will tell me that ask somebody they suicides, and I'll

just walk in. What's our shoe you wear? Bro? Everybody'll

tell you what's o shoe they wear? I promise you

watch it like you don't have to worry about nothing,

but like, yo, what's that shoe you wear? Ten and

a half and the Holy Spirit tell me buying through

pair of shoes. God, I came in here for some

bad and body works up shit. But since I'm just

the funnel, since that young man came up here with

no money but was just coming to dream, I'm gonna

bless them through you. Guys. I'm giving you real examples

because I want you to dream. I can't wait till Okay,

I'm gonna go ahead and say it. When we first

started giving, I was like, man, I want to do

what churches have never done. I want to give houses

and cars and all that other stuff. So we did it,

and then I found out that it's not the best

thing to do when it comes to the irs, and

you know, all these other things, and we learned and

so a lot of because I'm looking I want to

meet people's needs. I want to I want to like

I don't want it to be like given to such

and such organization, they will never see Like I'm like Shanning,

we're buying you a house, Like that's my energy, Like

that's the energy I want. But we've had to do

certain things differently and all that other stuff. And then

the Holy Spirit last year I got bummed because I

wanted to do stuff like that, like Tammy know all

the team know. It's like, I don't buy people cars.

I want to like I want to open these mugs

like you get a car, You get a car, Take

that devil? Like I just like that. Sorry, And the

Holy Spirit said, you do it and believe that you'll

raise up a hundred other people in the church that

you've left. Because peer to peer it don't mean nothing.

What would it take for us to buy somebody at

two hundred and fifty thousand dollars house and change their life?

I thought there would be more collaps than that boo

that was? That was I hope you get it. There's

over two thousand people in here, there's tens of thousands

people watching online. What would it take? And the truth

of the matter is one of y'all can do it.

What would it take if there was a group of

people in this church that was like, yeah, whenever God

asked for it, whenever pastor says were about to bless somebody,

let's go who needs a car? No? No, no, yeah,

how much? Thirty five thousand, y'all hold on on this one,

y'all don't got to do this one. I got it.

What would it ever? I got goosebumps saying this stuff?

What would it look? What would it look like for

instead of us taking all of our cars to CarMax

to get six thousand dollars on the trade in y'all

know what I'm talking about. What if it became a

common practice that when we get a new car, we're

coming to the church and asking who needs a vehicle?

I can't even get a man's from the church. That's crazy.

All right, well just be me and my few little people, okay,

But where is the church that will embrace God's principles

to the place where there's not room enough to receive?

Passa mike. What are you saying? When you get free,

you know you're a funnel. But this is the second

thing you start forgetting how much you give? Y'all. This

is the place I pray this church gets to, not

as a whole. I'm talking about individually, because when you're

in that fundamental place, you remember everything you give. No,

I gave thirteen dollars there, I gave thirty six dollars.

There they owe me six dollars, right like. But there's

a place that you get to where it's like did

I I did get it to them? Snap? Oh wow,

they gave it to somebody else. Wow, is that my jacket? Jacket?

I'm dang, that's a tight jacket, is that? Yeah? No? Baby,

how daddy? How do you know this house? We used

to live there, but God blessed us to be able

to bless him with that. I forgot, I forgot. I'm sorry, baby.

Exodus thirteen fourteen. This is where we end in the

days to come. When your sons or daughters ask you

what does this mean? Say to him with a mighty hand.

The Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the

land of slavery. When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go,

the Lord killed the first born of both people and

animals in Egypt, the tithe. This is why I sacrifice

to the Lord the first male offspring of every womb,

and redeem each of the firstborn sons. Let me break

it down. What ends up happening is Spen's child comes

to him and says, Dad, why do you keep sacrificing

the first of our cattle industry, our cattle because they're

in the cattle industry. He says, God delivered me and

so I freely give ten percent the first of mine

back to God and the Bible saying one day your

sons and daughters will come and ask you. And the

crazy thing about it is I've been using her a lot,

but she's my road dog. Ava came last week and

as I was writing a check from our family to

this church, she saw it and she said that why

are you giving that much money to the church. And

I remember this Deuteronomy scripture where it said one day

your sons and daughters are going to ask you. Would

you honor God like that? And I was able to

tell her, Baby, Daddy used to be addicted to some

bad things, had very selfish ways, but with a mighty hand,

God rescued Daddy. God transformed Daddy's life, and God's blessed

us with everything that we have. So it's Daddy's honor

to obey God and give back to him. Many of

you know that Ava started a business last week of

selling bracelets. Ava last week made two hundred and ten dollars.

That's powerful. Let's give it up for a seven year

old entrepreneur. After she heard the message last week and

I told her what mommy and Daddy was doing she

handed me this this morning, twenty one dollars. This right

here means more to me because at seven years old,

she's developing the principles that will change her life. And

it was so funny. Scott as my witness, we're standing there.

She said take it now. She said take it now.

I'm gonna lose it or forget. She made it a

priority because she didn't want to forget, and she didn't

want to make it not a priority. Am I gonna

have to reteach her in another season? Probably? But the

fact the seven year old didn't fail the test means

that each of us don't have to fail this test. Well,

everybody stand all over this moment. What I'm gonna ask

guys before you leave. I got one thing. I have

a gift for you. I have what we're calling a

tithing commitment card. You're not about to sign over your

life or do anything. I just felt like we were

supposed to make a actual physical representation of a commitment

that all of us need to make in our hearts

and in our lives. And if the ushers are available

and have them right now, I need everybody to get

one of these. Please, please do not leave with one

if you're online right now, there's a QR code that's

coming up on the screen, and it really just says.

On one side, it says, I won't fail this test.

Somebody say, I won't fail this test. Come on, say

it in faith, I won't fail this test. And on

the back it says I and I want you to

put your name. Choose to honor God with the first

ten percent of my increase as an act of faith

and obedience to God's word. And you can put your

name in your email and your phone number down there,

and we're gonna We're going to help encourage you. Ain't

gonna be no hassling because the Bible tells us to

be cheer forgivers. That's why I wanted to get fun

for you, because once it gets fun, you can actually

be a cheerful giver. And I want you to take this.

I want you to put it somewhere. Everybody, listen, Salvation

has not happened yet. I know you're ready to go,

but Eternity is still calling. We're about to leave, but

I want you to put this somewhere in your car,

in your mirror, take a picture of it. Make Siri,

Siri remind you hit the QR code will help you.

But I think God wants to do something special in

all of us. I'm asking for ninety day commitment. Whether

you go to this church or you're somewhere else, make

a ninety day commitment and see if God will not

open the windows of heaven and pour you out of

blessing that you don't have room enough to receive. I

don't care how many millions you make, give them ten percent.

Do you know I had to argue with a financial

adviser about what I did with my money because everybody

won't understand this, and they don't have to because everything

we have belongs to God. Would everybody just lift your

hands all over this place. I want to pray for you.

I'm going to pray that God moves you in the

progression of giving, and as we take this commitment, God

will do exceedingly abundantly above. Father, I pray for the

people that are under the sound of my voice. God,

I thank you for transformation that has happened in our

minds and our hearts today. For those Father God who

are listening live on rebroadcast, for those who even try

to ignore this message. God, I thank you that there

has been such a unique spirit of love all over

this that they'll hear your voice today. I'm praying that

you would increase my brothers and sisters. You would increase

this house, increase my life, increase our community. Father, God,

let us be an example to the world of what

it looks like when a small body of believers go

all in. I pray that Father, we will never fail

this test again. That we will return to you everything

that belongs to you, God, and you will do exceedingly

abundantly above all we can ask or thank Father God.

For those who may be in fear or fighting it

right now, God, I thank you that you will give

them a new testimony. I thank you. By this time

next year, yeah, there will be a total transformation in

their life. And today God, I thank you, thank you

that your spirit is speaking. Father. I pray for husbands

and wives who have different views on this. Would you

unify them, Father, where this has been a source of

contention and argument. God, I thank you for unity. Bless

their household in the name of Jesus. I thank you

Father that we will take the test and we will

believe you. And you are not a man that you

should lie neither the son a man that has to repent. God,

you don't care about amounts. You care Father about obedience.

So if it's two mites like the woman Father that

was giving, thank you that you honored that, because it's

the obedience today. Increase our trust and our faith in you.

I trust you God. There's a deep burden in my

heart for some people who are stuck in addictions. My

pornography addiction was broken with a seed. And I say

this to people, It's like, what happened? What made you stop?

I'm getting emotional thinking about it. Because I was a Christian,

I was believing, I was saved, I was serving, I

was doing all these things. But God still didn't have

a whole heart. We read last week that wherever your

treasure is, your heart will be also. And when I

started giving God on my small little salary, making little money,

producing for people and stuff like that, and I started

making a priority every time I give five hundred dollars,

I give fifty every time. And I made it a priority.

I was consistent with I was intentional with it. It

was the last piece of my heart that God needed

to help change my habits. Because when God gets your

heart he can help change your habits. But I was

holding back a piece of my heart because I wasn't

given him my treasure. But where my treasure is, there's

my heart. Where my heart is, my habits changed. Where

my habits change, I get to live a blessed life.

And I just feel pressed to say to somebody, maybe

this is deeper than actually just giving the money. How

much would you give to be free from that thing

that wakes you up at night and that actually steals

your money and actually makes you create the environment you

don't want to raise your kids. I'm just saying how much?

And I'm telling you as sure as I'm standing here

that when I made a decision, the reason I don't

miss tything is because I don't want to ever withhold

the peace of my heart from him again, because I

just know it takes me withholding my heart that changes

my habits back into what the words, and then I

destroy everything I say I love. Today, I just felt

like I'm not taking an offer, I'm not doing nothing.

I'm just putting it out here for you that maybe

this is deeper than just money. Today, God, I thank

you for those who need a heart transformation, and I

thank you that it starts with us receiving you. If

you're in this room you've never see Jesus as your

personal Lord and savior. I know service went long today,

but I think it was worth it. Y'all. Hear me,

hear me, hear me, hear me. If you're under the

sound of my voice today and you've never accepted Jesus

as your Lord and savior, today we talking about tithing

and all this other stuff you like. I just need

to surrender. I'm sick of caring all this weight. I'm

sick of lion. I'm seeking seek, sick of secrets. I

just I need to get free today. If you're under

the sound of my voice, the church is beginning to

pray right now because life and death. He's saying, choose life.

If you're in this room and you want to make

Jesus Christ your personal Lord and savior, today, I want

to pray for you. On the count of three. I

just want you to lift your hands and all you're

saying is pastor. I want to be included in that prayer. One,

you're making the greatest decision of your life. Two I'm

proud of you. But your name is about to be

written in the Lamb's Book of Life. I see you,

my brother three. Would you just lift your hands if

you want. I see you, my brother right there. I

see you, my brother. Yes, sir, I see you, A

whole family right there, I see you, my sister. I

see you up there. And more than that, God sees

you at home. Come on, Church, I see you. I

see you my man at TC. We're a family. Nobody

prays alone. Let's pray this prayer together. Just lift your

hands and say, God, thank you for sending Jesus just

for me today. I give you my life. I surrender everything,

use me. I believe you lived, you died, and you

rose again with all power, so I may live today.

I make you my lord and say in Jesus' name, Amen,

Can we celebrate? Oh, come on, church, can we celebrate?

Holla louij'a, Hey, listen if you just made that decision,

Tech saved to eight two eight two eight two. But

it reminds me. We got these pools down here, and

I know some of y'all saw the one hundred and

something people get baptized earlier, and he was like, man,

one day, I want to do that. Well, there's this

story in the Bible where this man got saved, and

then he was so determined to get baptized that the

Christian was trying to keep him away from it. And

the man looked out he said, ain't that some water

right there? Let's get baptized. So there are some people

in this room that you're saying, you know what, I'm

not gonna wait till next Sunday. I know people are leaving,

but this is your day right now. You're saying, I

want to make a new declaration and a new decision today.

I'm opening up the service. I'm gonna have a praise team,

go back into praise. What about my clothes, what about

my hair? All of those things can be washed later today.

If you want to make a decision for Jesus, I

want you to come down right now, Come on from

off and I need the church. I'm beginning to clap

and praise God. Don't fight it. There's already people that

are coming right now, y'all every week, and I need

a few thousands of y'all to stay around and celebrate

with us. If you want to come, where do you

need them to go? I need you to go to

the back to that prayer, that sign that says prayer

right there. I want you to go there, and y'all,

everybody who's here, I need us to celebrate. I need

us to celebrate what God is doing if you want. Oh, y'all,

don't hear what I'm saying in here today. These are

people going down and coming to new life. And some

of y'all gonna sit there and y'all gonna clap and

worship with us. Others of y'all are gonna make a

decision to get baptized. If you're watching at home, Transformation Nation,

I'm telling you this is the season where God's asking

us to respond to him. Are y'all wanting to get

baptized as y'all want to get baptized? I see people

looking what they want to do? Go right back there

to the prayer. Do we got people? Go to the

back to the prayer. But make it quick, y'all. Let's

start this thing. Evenness, people right there castorow lit up?

Can you lead us in so much? You real quick?

Let's give God some praise right now. Thank you for

joining us today.

If you said that prayer and accept it Jesus into

your heart, it's the best decision you could ever make.

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