Kill’em With Kindness // Receipts: The Proof Is In The Fruit ( Part 9) // Michael Todd

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Well, I'm gonna tell you something that has in my

many years of walking with God, has.

Been an adjutant of change for me.

This is not at all how I planned to come

into this, but the Holy Spirit is doing his thing today.

One of the things that starts working out of me

what's in me, is when God challenges me to give

and it has nothing to do with what I get

to get out of it. It's gonna get quiet in

the church, and it's okay. But many of us have

had greed and selfishness worked into our hearts at such

a level that when God ask us for something, we

act like it's our untrusted, unworthy cousin. Y'all know them

people like you ain't never driving my car like those people.

Many times, that's the attitude and the heart posture when

God ask us for something like his grace and mercy

hasn't been new every morning, like He hasn't put us

in positions and places we know we didn't qualify for

us somehow God. And I was thinking about, like you know,

as a church, we step in every year to this

season of crazy faith, and this year we're calling it

crazy fruit. And I just wanted to take five minutes

at the top and tell you why this is important.

I don't want to convince anybody of anything. Some people

already decided in their heart that they are giving or

they're not giving. I believe it's my duty as a

pastor of this church that God has been so good

to to allow you to at least get in on

this level of blessing and not gate keep for you.

There were too many people gatekeeping the blessing of God

off of my life because they wouldn't give me the

information and the real raw facts about what God's word

said and how it worked in their life.

All we saw a lot of time was everybody.

In the church give, and then the pastor rolling around

in a big Cadillac, and you never knew what happened.

I want to tell you how God changed my life

in the area of finance, trust, generosity, and surrender. I

read scriptures for years of people telling me that everything

belongs to God, and then I started working and I

realized that it feels like it to me.

Oh, y'all gonna be faking here with me.

I feel like I worked really hard for this, and

that's my name.

On that W two line. Feels like this is mine.

And God said, as long as you feel that way,

that's what you'll have.

Keep doing it. And I realized I loved God.

Listen to what I'm about to say, but I did

not trust him. I loved God, I did not trust

him with my future.

And I did not trust him with my finances.

And I want you to ask yourself, do you love

God and do you trust him? Or do you love

him excluding trust? And that sounds crazy right now. But

if I got a parent and say, man, I love

my wife mad I mean, she's so beautiful and gracious and.

Love a wi all my heart, but I don't trust.

Her, everybody'd be like red flag, Why that man just

get up here and tell us that he love his

wife but don't trust her. And in church we think

it's synonymous. We think loving God and trusting him is

the same thing, and.

It's not.

So.

For decades of my life. This is for all the

people who be like give us the real, tell us

the truth. I'm telling you right now.

For years of my life, I loved God, did not

trust him, and I didn't even have no money. It

be the wildest thing. Making twenty two thousand dollars a year.

That ain't no money. If you're making that, we are

praying for you. Because I was there making twenty two

thousand dollars.

That's no money.

And I still loved him but didn't trust him. And

what I learned is it wasn't because I didn't want

to trust him. I just didn't have enough understanding. And

I felt like anytime anybody talked about money, they was

trying to manipulate.

Or con me into something. So I'm gonna give it.

To you the coldest, most simplest way in three minutes,

and I'm gonna use these stairs. When we come into

a relationship with God, everybody starts at this place. They

start at the floor with their ability to trust God

in the area of finance. And then God says, all right,

I want to take you up levels. Somebody say there's

levels to this, And what I found is there's a

trick to trust.

And I want you to hear me say this.

God says in his word, I want everybody, no matter

who you are, I want you to designate ten percent

of your increase to come back to the House of God.

Now there are.

People who feel all types of different ways in this.

All I want to say.

Is in March, I'm gonna teach about finances. I'm gonna

give you the whole thing. But what I want to

let you know is tithing is Old Testament, before the Covenant,

in it and after it.

Argue with your mama, I got scripture for all of it.

But the truth of the matter is us fighting about

is it scriptural? Actually comes down to a deeper heart issue.

When people are why not twenty percent? Why not thirty percent?

You don't give that.

People that convince me and go back and forth with

me about like I give more than you're a liar

because if you won't give the bare minimum, it's the floor,

not the ceiling. So what God asks everybody to do

is watch this tithe. What is tithe? It's obedience. I

need to make this clear distinction. Tithing given ten percent

of your resources back to God's house is not Listen

to me, It's not generosity.

I've been generous. No, you haven't.

It's returning. So if I give you my keys on

my credit card and you give it back to me,

you aren't generous to me. You just returned to me

what I already gave you. And so what I This

is the cool thing about tithing. It's the only place

in the Bible where God.

Says, try it, try it, test me.

See if you don't trust me in this area, consistently,

see what I won't do.

And so many people make it like this thing where

God's reliciously.

He's trying to bless you. But this takes you being obedient.

And so the first level is stepping from here and

saying I'm gonna tithe. I want everybody to hear me

say this in this crazy fruit offering. I don't want

you to think about giving some big amount if you

have never been consistent in tithing. I would rather a

long term transformation for your life. Then some O, Yeah,

I gave God five, Honey, I gave a five, He said,

that's not That's like going to the gym one time

a year and some of us go.

It don't matter.

If you stay in there twenty four hours and you

lift all the weights.

Tomorrow you will.

Say tomorrow your body fat will be the same, and

I just want to be real with them.

I don't want to gave keep this.

One of the greatest things you could do for your life,

your family, your mind, and your future is to make

a decision is did From this point on, I am

going to be consistent in trusting God with the tithe.

I'm gonna everybody say this word try true. But there's

another level.

This is where generosity is inlive when you give an offering. Now,

hear what I'm saying, because nobody in church ever told

me this tithing is required to God's house. Offering happens

wherever God says, hear me. Pastors in churches have made

it to where like if you tied here, when God

tells you to give something else, you give an offering here.

That's a lot stops. That may be manipulation.

I'm supposed to Once I've settled what God told me

to settle in the tide, then he knows that he

has trust that I can be a conduit wherever I'm at,

So I can be on the street, I can be

at the basketball game, I can be at somebody's mastermind,

I can be at a school, and God says, give

them fifty dollars, give them one hundred dollars. Hey, go

up to that lemonade stand where those girls are selling lemonade,

to go to the thing and ask them how much

they need for their whole team.

To go on the trip.

They're trying to raise two hundred, but they need two thousand.

Go find out what the need. And those are considered offerings.

The reason we don't get to this place is because

this place takes trust.

See this down here.

To go from here to here, it's just a try.

But when you go from here to here, you gotta

because sometimes it don't make sense. Hold on, that two

thousand was for my kids to go on family vacation.

You just told me to.

Give it to them, kids who don't look like they.

Love you Lord.

And then we start trying to qualify where our offerings go.

Well, they look like they got money.

Come on, have you ever felt compelled to do something?

And then you're.

Trying to add and subtract on people like well, that

hair is three hundred and them my eyelashes one hundred

and fifty.

In y'all know.

Easy, And God said, I want you to be a

river not a reservoir, because offering is about Watch this

down here with obedience, it's trying. But right here, watch this,

it's about future abundance.

Because offerings are called a seed.

All I'm trying to do at this level is plant

for the future.

And there are too many.

People that get to their future and be disappointed. Not

because they're not good people. It's because when it was

time to plan, they never put any seed in the ground.

But I'm trying to encourage every person in here. The

Bible tells it.

I'm not gonna through a bunch of scriptures today because

this is supposed to be my opener, and I'm gonna

have twenty two minutes left to teach you all the message.

I gotta teach you, but I gotta keep going because

somebody needs I wish somebody would have told me at nineteen,

when I was spending money on fake Jordan's.

I'm pulling up at the gas station.

Dudees popping this truck, taking eighty dollars for the Jordan,

and the Jordan ain't even all the way, like.

He's not even flying all the way. He's y'all know it.

Don't it down, don't look down don't look down.

I had no clue that I was giving away my seed.

I didn't know that that mattered to my kid's future.

Nobody was telling me, plant, plant, plant plant.

One day, you're gonna live in the forest of the siege.

Your kids will find shade in the siege.

Your kids will eat from.

The sieeds you plant.

But everybody was making it like I was losing when

I obeyed God.

I'm just trying not to gate keep. Right now, we.

Stand in lines for Black Friday sales that are really great.

They're not even black no more.

Twenty percent is not a good sound. That year's gonna

be called great Great Friday because I got to do something.

But literally, we feel like we're getting a bargain.

To get something that was overpriced.

At a moment it's cut down, and we go out

of there feeling like we won, and we ain't sow

no seed for future abundance. I would have rather you

go out there and look for who you was gonna bless.

Some of y'all should have took that five hundred dollars

and broke it.

Into twenties and walked through them stores.

Holy Spirit, lead me, show me who's out here. That's

about to go into debt, and you've given me resources

to give an offering, and just to say God loves

you and he told me to come. I'm just saying

because you never know if one of those people turn

into your child or you.

Y'all hear what I'm saying. So down here, he says,

just obey me. Try it.

Ties you step up to a new level. But then

he says, go another level. Give every time I tell

you to give, be ready on any occasion to get

see even just that small thing, do you prepare to give?

I used to be lazy and I would not have

any cash on me, so that I wouldn't have any

cash on me.

I don't care. Oh man, I don't even awe.

Man giving yourself a fool body massage, but you didn't plan.

To be generous. The people who roll with me no more.

I'll tell them, hey, bro, go get this out of

the count put in my bag.

You need it for something.

I just gotta be ready.

And sometimes its sit there.

For months, sometimes minutes.

No no, no, no, I want you to cheer what

I'm saying.

Sometimes it's there for months and sometimes it's there for minutes.

Because God said I got need of it. You said

it was mine right here, we go so to see.

But then there's one more level.

And I only found out about this level about seven

years ago. I thought it was tie offering, and then

you good. Then I started reading the Bible. The Bible

is kind of one of them things that's crazy because

the more you start reading it and the more time

you spend it, you start seeing stuff that you don't

read before. But it didn't talk to you like that before.

And I was reading.

How Solomon when they went to build the temple that

the customary requirement.

Was one bull sacrifice one bull? Do you know what?

This man pulled up on the scene with.

One thousand when the requirement was Now, I just want

you to come with me on the journey to wrangle

up a thousand bulls. This is what we call a

sacrificial offering. This one is going to take something from

you that you may never see back.

In the same way, we.

Have no record of Solomon getting a thousand and one

bulls back. We have no record of one hundred full

on bulls. Because a lot of times when we give sacrificially,

we're like, all right, we gave God a thousand, one

hundred thousand.

Would be nice.

But the sacrificial offering goes past denominators and monetary It

gets into the supernatural. It gets into the stuff money

can't buy. It gets into the level and the lane

that allows things that even if you had all the

money in the world.

That could solve.

And I stepped off into this about seven years ago

in a way where I knew that this is where

God was calling me and this church to live. I

don't know if you know it, but the way that

we give as a church is not normal. Three weeks

ago we gave six hundred thousand dollars away to other churches.

Now now it's so funny.

We live in such an alien planet as Transformation Church.

We don't even know that that's crazy, which is good.

Also may desensitize us.

To the level of house you've been called to. I

believe that the majority of this church is supposed to

live at the level of sacrificial giving.

Now.

Before it, because some of y'all was like, ooh, may

need to go to the church, I felt it.

But let me tell you two things.

God never asked for what He has and already given you.

There has not been one time that God has asked

me for something that I didn't have it, the question

was was I gonna give it? So, no matter how

much the amount was, no matter what the number was,

he had blessed me to the point where I could

consider it because He's not unjust.

Or now sometimes did it take me selling some stuff

or parton with some stuff.

Or yeah, but it was a sacrifice.

And this is what I'm gonna say.

To everybody when you get to this place. Remember at

the bottom it was a trying at offering.

It's trusting God.

At this place, this is God trusting you.

You missed it. Let me go back at this. I

don't even really know if God gonna do it.

So I'm gonna everybody say try. I'm gonna try to

tie h All right, Lord, you have been faithful. There's

always You've always met my need like that.

Where I was three years ago and how I'm.

Still here and what you did God, Lee, No, I

ain't as much as I really won't.

But wow.

So then he says, trust me, get one. I'll tell

you offering. Wow, Man, I felt really good to actually

believe you, see you do it, and then see the

fruit of that in another season.

This last one sacrificial.

Oh snap, this is not me trusting you, This is

you in trusting me.

Remember the story.

Of the Talents, it says the Kingdom of Heaven is

like a man that goes away and in trusts his

wealth to three different servants.

What would it look like for everybody in this church.

To not just trust God, but to be trusted by God.

Hear what I'm saying to you.

It's wrapped up in how we view what God's already

given us the ability to have. So what I'm asking

everybody to do as a church, I want you to

pray and whatever level you're at, whatever, I want you

to take a step to the next level.

So this is your first time coming to church.

You twenty something or you sixty something, and you ain't

never tied.

Before, You ain't never heard of it. It look like

you got.

Enough money past them. It looked like the church is

doing fine. Look at that big old screen. Look it

looked like this ain't got nothing to do with the screen.

I really want you to hear me say this. This

has everything to do with your heart. This ain't about

the church. The church is gonna be all right. This

is God's Church. But is your house not under the blessing?

It needs to be because you won't take this step.

And everybody say, try. If you're here, all I'm asking

you to do and it's one penny on every dime.

If you made four dollars your tithe forty cents. And

God looks at that the same way he looks at

somebody giving forty thousand.

They don't even get it. How can I prove it

to you?

At the time when everybody in the town was given

big butts, Jesus calls attention to one woman, to all

his disciples.

He says, everybody, look at her. I said, what she given?

Two mites? That ain't nothing, Jesus, she gave out of her.

Yes. The reason this connects with me is because there's

been many times where I told Charles this story earlier.

When Bishop was about to pay.

Off the building.

We came to a space where people were given sacrificially.

And I remember I just bought a home.

And we were taking advantage of in the home, and

it was our first winter. We just brought home Bella

and we went to turn on the heat and the

heat didn't work. Called this winter that tults had seen

up until that point, literally in the house with ten

space heaters, which everybody knows that is a hazard and

a half. But we were cold, and our newborn was

in there. And God told us for the first time

to move.

Into sacrificial giving.

And me and Natalie, we've been doing this, have been

doing this.

He said, step into this.

And I said, Lord, it's cold, And why does the

exact amount that it costs to.

Put the heat in is the exact amount you asking

me for? This is the devil? Can I be honest

with you?

He said, The devil never asked you to give. The

devil never asked you to do that. Me and Natalie

looked at each other and we gave for the first

time in our life as young, newly married.

Never was about to take over the church. Didn't know

it like.

We're out here trusting you. None of this was in

a forecast. We didn't have no crystal ball, no prophetic

y'all be thinking like, oh, you knew, we didn't know nothing.

Relationship goes wasn't a thing we didn't have. I didn't

have a car at the time. Now I'm having a flashback,

how dumb I didn't have a car at the time,

Brie was letting me use her sonata.

That's a real thing.

Like And God said, Mike, when you give this, it's

gonna break something over your life. And I can tell

you from that moment to this moment, God has done

something supernaturally in my life that proves that He trusts me.

And so whenever it comes time to give to him,

I can't.

I mean what I'm.

About to say today, I'm challenging every person under the

sound of my voice. This is gonna be prophetic for

your future. To whatever step. If you need to.

Tithe time, try God. If you need to step into

given offerings, trust God.

And if God's requiring you and your husband or your wife,

or your children, or y'all coming together, or you by

yourself to step into sacrificial giving, listen to me.

One is not better than the other. There is not a.

Level that God then says, yay, he says, obedience to

what I told you to do, because I don't know

if I told y'all one time I did too much

and God was unpleased, or you ain't never heard no

preacher tell this story. But God told me to pay

off half of somebody's car, and I paid the whole

thing because I had it. And he said, you're disobedient,

and you stopped the blessing.

I said, Lord, I thought more was always better.

He says, obedience is always better than your sacrifice. He said,

I meant for you to do half, and I had

three other people that were going to do. You took

away their opportunity at the level that they were at

to walk in a blessing. You did it out of

pride an ego because you had it, and you disobeyed me. Y'all,

this is not about anything except obedience.

Amen.

So as we come together next week, families are gonna

come together, people are going.

To fly in.

There are gonna be people that give online. I believe

this is gonna be a holy thing. Some of us

know ourselves. We need to go ahead and do it

this week, because you know, if it's sitting in there, it's.

Gonna burn a hole.

You already know it's already that Amazon car is full

of disobedience.

Did y'all hear it? I mean, come on, let's be honest.

All right, this is what I'm gonna do today. I

had an assignment, and I believe I just finished it.

But I have to give you one piece of the

message that I was going to speak, and I believe

God wants me to speak. I've tried to speak this

three times twice. This is the Yeah. I love God

because when he allows you to prepare, then he can

just do what he wants to do.

I'm just I'm in his hands. So let me say this.

Everybody, just listen to me. I got thirteen minutes. There's

gonna be the shortest message I ever preach. I wanted

to preach a message today. I'm gonna preach you a message

today called kill them with kindness. Write it down, kill

them with kindness, and we're gonna leave all of this.

Everything I just did is dis sermons, so just keep

it off. Kill them with kindness. The subtitle of this

message is behave like Christians.

Say it with me. Behave like.

Look at your neighbor and say it like you the mama,

look at them.

And say, behave like a Christian.

Okay, pick your other neighbor who I don't know why

you didn't pick them the first time, but now.

You got to pick on it and tell them behave

like a Christian.

Now I didn't pick this subtitle. This subtitle picked me

because it was the title in the Bible. When I

looked at the scripture in Romans twelve, verse seventeen, it

literally the title said behave like a Christian, and verse

seventeen it said repay.

No one evil for evil. Have a regard for good

things in the sight of all men.

If it is possible, as much as it depends on you,

live peaceably with all men. Beloved, Dude, not avenge my

God yourselves. That's a hard one to get out. Do

not avenge yours, but God they do not.

Avenge. But don't nobody talk about mind. Do not.

Avenge yourself, but they got one more time.

H y'all know, do not avenge yourselves. Look, rather give

place to wrath.

Now hold on, wait, whoa, don't avenge yourself, but give

place to wrath, which means wrath is not a human response.

Wrath is something that we have to leave space for,

so something divine can do it, the thing that needs

to happen to the people who are coming after your sanity,

your peace.

You you in the way, okay, do not avenge it yourself,

but rather.

Give a room, give place.

For God to do whatever he wants to do. For

it is written, vengeance is mine. I will repay, says

the Lord.

Therefore, this is your job.

And this my job. This is what God's saying. My

job is wrath. Get out the way your job. If

your enemy is hungry, feed him. If your enemy's thirsty,

look at a little parted, give him something to drink.

For in doing so, you will heap hot coals of

fire on his head. Do not be overcome by evil,

but overcome evil with.

Christians.

Aren't leaving space for God to be God and for

you to be kind?

Come after me. I'm gonna back up and ask you,

are you thirsty? You talk about my family. I'm a

back up because I gotta leave space because what I

want to do.

Is getting real close to you and let you know

I ain't no pump.

You understand, Okay? Oh?

Can we be honest with real feelings. I'm gonna let

you know, but.

I can't even do that.

Bunce bah bah, bunce bah.

Peter Burn went the Bactair mack Vanta.

You need to back that day.

Some of y'all knew where I was going, Tustin or

that justin.

Y'all knew what I'm telling you right now, when evil

starts to rise in your heart, you better back that

day God.

Now I have a whole song in my head.

All I'm trying to say is too many believers now

are going towards it, which is disobedience to what he

said to do.

He said, don't repay that evil with evil. Don't get on.

Your don't get your with a finger, don't start making

rebuttal videos, don't start getting a new podcast, don't do that.

You better back that thing up, he said. He said,

if you don't make space, both of y'all get the

wrath if you don't. If you don't make space when

I decide to judge, you're.

In the line and too many believers God's holding his hand.

Get out of there, Get out them comments, get out

that email, get out that rabbit hole, get out stop.

Because what you're doing, because you're in.

The line of fire, well, I'm just protecting my family name.

You can't do that anyway.

There's nothing you've ever said that has made your family

name go to the top of the list. Like, just

think about it.

Make space.

And this is where I just need to tell everybody.

Kindness isn't conditional. It's a command. When we talk about

receipts and fruits of the spirit, and some of us

think that it's a personality trade. Oh, there's just a

kind of person No, this is something that is produced

by the Holy Spirit.

And I just need to say that as a point.

Kind isn't a personality type. It's a principle of the Kingdom.

So if you profess to love God and you are

not kind, you are a fraud. I'm gonna say it

real well, I just want to be direct with people.

If God was as direct with you as you are

with people, would he be considered a kind and merciful God?

What they just need to know? Hold on, wait a minute,

but there's everything can be done rapped. Well, they need

to feel the sting of this. Did you feel the

sting of sin? I'm just trying to figure out are

we playing with different metrics here. What I'm saying is,

if you're a Christian, you are supposed to be kind.

Everybody say I'm kind, even if you're not by faith.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm Some of y'all

ain't even watched this. Some of us haven't even thought

this was a trait to be admirable.

Because all the kind people you know get played, and

so you don't even think it's something to be admired

to be yet out of everything, the Bible says that

we should possess as fruits of our relationship with the

Holy Spirit. He said, you should be with me, and

when you get with them, they should consider you kind.

Oh my God. And the reason I.

Had to bring this out is because I think kind

is kind of confused. It's kind of confused because people mistake.

Nice and kind.

And I'm about to teach you in a four minutes

how God left the difference between nice and kind.

Will you put it on the screen. Remember, kindness is

a fruit of the You can't be kind without him.

I need you to keep this in the forefront of

your mind.

You cannot be kind without the Holy Spirit.

You can be nice without the Holy Spirit. You cannot

be kind without the Holy Spirit.

People have jacked up definitions.

God tells us a fruit of the Spirit is kindness.

So when somebody is nice, put it up there. They

can actually be polite. But to be kind is a

heart posture. My heart posture has to be like, no

matter what I'm about to walk into and no matter

how they're about to treat me, and don't matter what's

about to happen. Thank you, Holy Spirit for transforming my

life so much that I used to be like them.

I used to look at people like that.

God, I thank you that you're expanding my heart for

grace for people who don't even understand what I'm going

through and that I'm this close to the edge and

they don't know me. I used to be an MMA

boxer and I break their neck in another season. But God,

I thank you that you have brought me my God,

I thank you that you brought me a mighty long way.

I thank you that I don't fight with my fists

no more. I thank you that I fight me.

And what ends up happening is my heart posture.

So we meet a lot of nice people.

But when you're kind, that's in power by the spirit.

Go to the second one, when you're nice, because I

want to unconfuse this for us.

Nice people keep a surface. How you doing that? Oh

look at that? Yeah? Oh read you get that? That's nice.

Ah. You met people that you think are nice, but

you don't know them enough to give them any different definition.

Right, So nice? Yeah, my barista. They're so nice, yet

to their spouse they're abusive.

It's because you only know them on the surface.

So nice is surface. But kind is a sacrifice.

To be kind to some people, To be kind of

my wife, to be kind of my kids.

These my kids, they look like me. You just you,

just you.

You just feel the last of the juice.

It don't be it, don't be hard stuff it does.

I don't know if there's any parents that will back

me up in here. I've been waiting to eat for

two hours, and I saved everything specifically for this moment,

and that's my juice.

I'm so sorry, daddy. I didn't mean to. I know

you didn't mean. I know you didn't mean too. I'm

talking about but what does it look like to be kind?

Watch this when you're in conflict that's empowered by the Holy.

Let me keep going. Some people are nice, and when

you're nice, keep going. Put it up there.

It's an acknowledgement, like, ah, you did good.

Oh that's so nice for them to notice me.

It's oh man, nobody ever does that like that. You're powerful.

That's a nice thing. But when you get the kind,

it's active. So kind requires something of me. Okay, nobody's

ever done it like that. So I'm gonna call the

three people that I know that can take that to

the next level for you, and I'm gonna set up

a meeting for you. And I know this has nothing

to do with me, but I know the people that

can take what you just did to the next level.

So I'm about to get active. I'm about to do something.

That is there's a sacrifice that actually is not just polite.

It's my heart posture.

I'm walking into the room looking how I can help,

how I can give, and I'm about to get active.

And they didn't answer my first phone call. Let me

text you back.

I did call them, but I know they're out right now,

so let me get back to you now.

I'm about to get And there are too many believers

that are nice but not kind.

You have a couch that can furnish somebody's apartment, and

you're sick of the couch and you're gonna throw it

away because you don't want to take the time to

have to put it on the truck to get it

to somebody.

I didn't say it. You said it. She said that's lazy.

I didn't say it. One thing it is not is

not kind. Okay, let's keep going.

We're almost there. Do y'all hear what I'm saying. Nice,

it's being considerate. No, you can't have the parking space.

No no, no, no, no, no no. You know what I'm saying.

You're doing a little inch forward and like no no

no you no, no no no you no no, no

no no.

Like and then finally you're about to get in a

car accident because nobody goes like, Okay, it's considerate, kind,

it's compassionate. It's being in the parking space.

When in the parking space and then seeing.

Uh uh uh uh uh, and you didn't even notice

that they had a special needs sticker on the back

of their car.

The reason they needed that parking.

Spot, because if you would have saw the special needs sticker,

you would have been nice. But that conviction of the

Holy Spirit made you compassionate. And you didn't even know why,

but it was something that came on the inside of

you and you saw because you don't know what it

is to lift up that eighty pound boy into the

wheelchair and then have to.

The church. Can't just be nice. We have to be.

And kindness is only empowered by the Holy Spirit. And

many of us let our preferences and our opinions and

our beliefs, and our political parties and the color of

people's skin make us nice to people and not kind.

There are a lot of white people that are nice

to black people. I'll even let you talk to me.

I'll come to your church. But I know you house.

Y'all saw how quiet it.

Just got because we can live in a world where

we're nice to each other.

But you could give me a job and you could

promote me too, because you see how it works. But

you've been nice to me. But the Holy Spirit hasn't

allowed you to be. Oh, and black people do not

think for a second you like the man. No, no, nah,

come here.

You can be nice to your boss, but make jokes

about them behind their back all the time. You can

talk about oh my, my analogies just went very they

went too real.

So I'm gonna I'm gonna come back up.

What I'm saying is racially spiritually, Maybe we don't just

need to be nice to each other.

Maybe we need to be.

There's no better story of this than the Good Samaritan,

where this man gets beat up.

And literally gets mugged.

Everything stolen from him, and the pastor walks by.

And praise for him on the move, hope God does

something for him. Then the worship leader.

Walks by and says, lead in the midnight hour, God's

gonna turn it around. And then somebody that was a

different ethnicity and didn't even know what was happening. The

Bible says they felt compassion, and their compassion made them

go to this person.

Y'all just got to see it.

This my last scripture, Okay, I want to go to

loop ten thirty. Then the despised Samaritan came along and

when he saw the man, he felt compassion for him,

going over to him. The Samaritan watched this, soothed his

wounds with olive oil and wine, and bandaged him. He

had to take something he already had and give it

to somebody he didn't know olive that would have been

his resources. He gave to somebody with no guarantee of

giving back to them. Then he put the man on

his donkey and took him to an end where he

took care of him. The next day, he handed the

innkeeper two silver coins, telling him take care of this

man if his bill runs higher than this, I'll pay

you the next time I'm here.

Think about this.

Think about going to the most expensive hotel in this city,

putting somebody in the hotel knowing they're broke down, and

then saying they don't have a time limit. Let them

stay here as long as they need to, and if

they run it up, I'll take care of it when.

I come back. Most of us would have been like, hey,

give them two nights.

No, come on, give them two nights and then give

them a continumal breakfast on the way out on the

third what time y'all start? Chosen to make sure they're

gone at one thirty.

But this man was kind.

He said, I don't know how this is gonna impact me,

but I moved with compassion. Look what it says, this

is Jesus talking. Now, which one of these three peoples

who prayed for him on the move, the worship leader

who sang to him but didn't stop for him. Which

one of these would you say was a neighbor to

the man who was attacked by abandons?

Jesus asked. The man replied, the one who showed him mercy.

Then Jesus said, yes, Now go and do the same.

See being nice. Put that thing back on here. We're

about to close being nice. Nice is selective. You can

be nice to people in your group, nice to people

who believe like you, nice to people who go to

your church, nice to people who your kids play soccer with,

nice to the come on. Nice is selective, kind, selfless.

This is the fruit of the spirit, and many of

us watch this. To be kind, we're going to have

to face the culture that has raised us. The complex

of how you view the culture of your life is

going to come in.

Conflict with being kind to people.

Because if somebody has on a make America Great hat,

there are people in this room and listening to me

that would not help them. Oh no, Christians, please no,

I'm not talking to anybody other than believers. And please

don't act shocked, because there are certain people if they

wore an Obama shirt or a Camilla Carmella hair a shirt,

you would not even think twice about inviting them to

your church. And it's so crazy that a person can

be dehumanized to the point that what they wear or

what they believe currently makes them no longer your brother.

And sister in Christ.

The collapse are weak and weary, And it's not me.

This the Bible.

And the truth is most Christians aren't acting like Christians.

I had a stat in my.

Message that said, in the fifty seventy eight percent of

America went to some type of religious experience yearly, it's

less than thirty percent. Now do you know why The

number one reason of all the people both is because

they say Christians.

Are judgmental and unkind. How in the world is the

thing Jesus know for we don't look anything like No,

I'm for real, y'all. You've been mean to people for

years and won't apologize.

If they're on the worship team, you'll make it right

so you can use their gift. But the person who

has been has no consequence on what happens on the platform.

But as a child of God, where's.

The It's time for us to not be selective, for

us to be empowered by the Holy Spirit to be selfless.

Two more, being nice is being passively agree Yeah, yeah, yeah,

I kind of believe that. Yeah, come on, yeah, that's okay.

That that doesn't offend me, so okay.

Cool.

Being kind.

Means that you can completely disagree with me, and I'm

powerfully anchored. I do not have to agree with you

to actually be kind with you. There are people that

think things about me in this church that have nothing

but fabricated ideas. I'm being very kind with my words,

straight up lies. Yet God tells me to give to someone.

Now, you want to do much and I don't want

to go.

Okay, I don't want to go because the Lord's still working.

But I'm gonna start by sending you a video.

I'm okay, I'm being too real right now.

Who to give to? Somebody? Put them on the list.

Ooh not them, God said exactly them. Oh but Lord,

I have screens shaved what they said about me. Somebody

sent it to me. I didn't even.

Ask for it, but they told their whole congregation in

the same city give to them.

Lord, be kind, Holy Spirit. Activated Come on, y'all, this

will not be me. And God says, this is you

backing up and making space. Hey, Doc, just want to

thank you brother. You don't know what this means to

what God is doing.

Yeah, hey, bro, just want to let you know God's

thinking of you. And I was gonna lie and say

I'm praying for you, and so watch what I'm telling

y'all A real story.

And so I feel naked.

Up here, okay, And in my mind I was like,

tell him you praying for him?

And the Holy Spirit said, pray for him.

Now I get so weekend, niece, I can't hardly y'all.

It almost took me out.

Because I was about to lie. I was about to

do Christian lion. Hey, I'll be praying for you that

I haven't have not been praying for you. Can I

be honest, y'all. Hey, bro, you're on God's mind. That's right,

because you wouldn't no mind. And Bro, I just let

me pray for you. Father, thank you for blessing this man. God,

Thank you for blessing their ministry. Thank you that their

marriage would be strong. Father, just thank you, Thank you

Lord that.

And somewhere.

In the middle of me making that video, a.

Damn broke in my heart.

And it was almost like it became I saw myself,

I saw my friends, and I saw I don't know

what made him say that, but Lord, and I just

thank you that anything that's been a pressure on him,

any lie that's ever been spoken, God with you. And

I mean, it just started gushing out.

That wasn't me That wasn't my flesh.

That was me being empowered by the Holy Spirit to

be kind.

Standing all over this building.

Last one, nice, nicest. Something that you make an idea

is good and it becomes self improvement. I'm gonna be nicer,

I'm gonna be nicer to people. But being nice it's

self improvement.

Being kind.

Listen, it's spirit empowered. Don't just make a decision to

be nice. Every person in this room, if you are

a believer in Jesus, you should be.

Kind.

I'm going to pray for every person that you would

allow the Holy Spirit watch this.

Everybody, listen.

I know you're excited to leave, but hear what I'm saying,

because this would be all for nothing if you go

out of here and act the same way. I want

you to ask the Holy Spirit what ideas you have

to let go of to actually be kind. One of

the ideas, let me give you an example. I am

time to go all into it, but an example was

I was weak if I was kind in the face

of adversity. Bring the thing real fast in my clothing.

Can you bring that real quick? Just bring it real fast.

You don't even got to bring it on the table.

Just bring yeah, just bring it, because this is what

tries to happen, is when people get in a hot situation,

a pressure situation, a tension situation, what ends up happening is.

It's trying to change your character. Hear what I'm saying

to you.

And what ends up happening is we are not supposed

to allow the situation to turn us into something we're

not supposed to be. So this is burning hot water,

and burning hot water when I put an egg in it,

it becomes hard on the inside. And there are too

many people that when God puts you in a tension

situation or a boiling situation or a pressure situation, you

do not look like God. You become hard. There are

people under the sound of my voice, your heart, something

that's supposed to flow is now very stationary. And today

I believe, by the power of the Holy Spirit, there's

something that's going to change in your heart. And then

there's a another group of people that when they're put

under pressure, you just become soft and mushy.

Nothing in you will stand for anything.

When you're putting pressure, you lose your convictions. Because you

can be kind and still have a conviction. And most

people think that letting anything happen is kind No no, no, no,

no no. You can't talk to my kids any type

of way. I'm telling you no, no, no, no no. You

can cut to your kids, but I'm kindly letting you

know that language is not okay around there.

And so many people think that we have to let.

Anything that anybody does go or we're not being kind.

The goal is not to get hard or to get mushy.

The goal is that when there is something that is

hot and pressure is put on us, we would release

an aroma. See if you are close to this right now,

you would smell the raspberry and the jasmine, and you

would smell the things. Because when I get put into

hot situations, what.

Comes up off of me? It smells like him. Y'all,

don't hear what I'm saying. It's in his kindness and

his mercy. So you got all you want to say

about me? Are you about to smell? Is something sweet?

This is what the believer should be, not hard, not soft.

Lett it be a sweet, sweet smell. Let it be sweet.

Sweet at your job, with your family, with your wife,

with your husband.

It's time for the church Christians to be kind.

Everybody that is under the sound of my voice, I'm

charging you that this next season is not just about

how much power you can produce in your life. It's

actually getting a new definition from people around you. Let

it be one of your goals that people would say

about you when you're not in the room. That's one

of the kindest people I know. Now, listen, you may

never hear it, you may never hear these words. But

on your vision board this year, don't put a car.

Put kind. I mean you can put the car too,

but I'm just saying, like, what if what if the

fruits of the spirit was the vision board? What what if?

What if this year.

Love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness.

Kind. I just want to be more like.

Him because Titus three three says, once we two were

foolish and disobedient, we were misled and became slave to

many lust and pleasures.

That's me. Our lives were.

Full of evil and envy, that's me, and we hated

each other. But when God, our savior, refilled his.

Kindness. The reason we're saved is because God was kind

when he received revealed his kindness and love.

He saved us, not because of the righteous things that

we had done. Because of his mercy, he washed away

our sins, giving us a new birth and new life.

Through I love how the Bible brings everything together.

The only way he did it was through the Holy Spirit.

Would you lift your hands all over, Father, thank you

that today we are all making a decision to be

more like you and allow the Holy Spirit to develop kindness,

not just in our thoughts, but in our actions.

God, will you help me be kind?

Come on, I need you to just ask the Holy

Spirit right there, help me to be kind. Help me

to be kind, not just to those who are far

from me and don't have a close view of me.

Help me be kind to my wife and to my

children and to my roommates.

Help me be kind to my boss and my coworkers.

Help me be kind to people, Father that have told

me they'll stay. Because many times we take advantage of

those who are committed to us. Father, would you allow

us to be kind to those who don't believe like us,

those who don't just don't believe with it, who actually

hate what we love. Father, This is hard, buble, but

I'm asking you, Holy Spirit to give me empowerment that

is not generated by me wanting to be.

Better, Holy Spirit. I need your help, Holy Spirit.

For every person making comments and videos, Would you allow me.

To be kind?

Give me the opportunity to be kind to them. Father,

I'm in space for you to be God and for

me to give them drink, for me to feed them. Father, God,

will you help me remember this message? Oh y'all, I'm

supremeing real prayers right now.

Father, I need you, whether it's the lavender, whether it's

the flower, Father, whether it's the egg or the carrot,

help me remember this is your wheel. This is what

you want from me. You want me to be kind.

I'm not your soldier in a.

Way to make you look big and bad.

I'm your soldier When I'm kind of people. That proves

I'm in the army of the Lord. Help me be

gentle and kind and and still be enjoyed.

Thank you, Father for doing a work on the inside.

That shows up on the outside. We'll give you all

the glory, honor, and praise for it. Even in this moment,

I was thinking like I was about when I said enjoy,

I was about to like I was about to do

my jacket in joy, and I was like, dang, I

didn't put it there. Today because we decided to live

in joy.

Oh it's still on me.

Now it may take different positions. It may not be

Some of y'all like, what is he talking about?

We decided we're going to live in I usually have

it right here.

But as long as it's on me, don't lose your

joy today today I want to give people an opportunity

to receive Christ because it was his kindness. And I

know there's been people that are here and you've heard

like big topics today, like you heard us talk about finances.

You heard me talk about the church not being like

and you like that. I kind of like he going

off on them.

But what I'm saying is join us and represent Like

what I'm saying is the reason we're talking about it

is because we're not.

Gonna live that way.

We're trying to do something different this week. As you go,

I want you to be kind to people.

But some people you.

Don't have the power to be kind because you have

not accepted Jesus and you not receive the Holy Spirit.

So today, if you're in this room.

On account of three, I'm gonna give you the opportunity

to give your life to Christ or rededicate your life

to Christ. And this is the thing that took me

from being a liar of a manipulator, addicted to pornography.

Somebody here very dark stuff in their heart.

And it didn't make me a perfect man, but it

made me a progressing man that transformed everything about me. Today,

even as we're here, there are people around you. There

are people that are you that need to give Jesus

your life. And I need the church to begin to pray.

There are people that are watching right now online. You've

been feeling this tug. It's the Holy Spirit drawing you

with his kindness right now. And on account of three,

I just want you to lift your hands if you

want to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and say,

if you're one, you're making the greatest decision of your

life to the Holy Spirit is about to into your

life and transform.

You for the better and is about to change everything. Three.

Shoot your hand up in the ear if you want

to give your life to Jesus. I saw you right there.

I see you right there. I see you all Transformation Church.

I see you more than that, God sees you. I

see you, my brother, hey TC, I see you.

Glory to God y'all. Don't y'all, y'all don't know what

this is.

Heaven is turning up right now. Hey, listen, TC, We're family.

Nobody prays alone. I want everybody to say this prayer together.

Say God, thank you for in your kindness you sent Jesus.

Today. I give you my life, my life, change me,

renew me, transform me. I'm yours. I repent of my

old ways, and I turn to you. I'm all yours.

Make me more like you can Jesus.

Say amen?

Can we turn up with everybody? Oh, y'all can do

better than that?

Can we? Thank God? Halle lou y'all, hallelujah. Listen.

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There's exciting things that are coming on your horizon.

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and I'm telling you as we go, and I want

y'all to pray about.

Giving next week. Do not be condemned. Hear what I'm

saying to you. I know everybody got to leave but listen.

Do not be condemned on what you want to do

and what you have the ability to do.

Obey God.

And walk away knowing you did everything God told you

to do.

Amen. Until next week, I want you to go out.

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