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LRH: Order in Our Giving - 3

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  1. Do you want to build your faith? Do you desire

  2. to have a true encounter with God through His Word?

  3. Then listen to Logus ramer I with Reverend Doctor Joseph Baubin,

  4. head Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Commercy. He's a seasoned

  5. man of God and the teacher of the Word. In

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  9. God richly loves you. Welcome to the logo streamer are

  10. with God Save and Reverend Doctor Joseph ba Being, Head

  11. Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Commercy. And now to today's message.

  12. Amen, let's take a confession from Joshua and best eight

  13. best book of the Law, shallow depart out of my mouth,

  14. that I shall meditate in a day and night, that

  15. I may observe to do according to all that just

  16. rated it. But then I will make my way prospered,

  17. and then I will have good success. Amen, as we

  18. welcome each other into the presence of God. And Amen,

  19. and so in this man's as we are looking very

  20. very important subjects of bringing order in our giving life

  21. as individuals, as families, and I believe in as a church.

  22. Halleluia haleeluia Amen. So I'm going to read through the

  23. semon on the Mountain and comment if there's the need

  24. for it, so we reach, as I said, the passage

  25. or truth that concerns our attitude towards giving to God

  26. and particularly the context within which God makes this definitive

  27. statement concerning our attitude towards God and my mom. And

  28. you're going to hear some very shocking statements here, Amen,

  29. But let's look. So that's one. Let's go, he says,

  30. and seeing the multitudes, he went up on the mountain,

  31. and when he was seated, his disciples came to him

  32. that there's two. Lets go to two.

  33. Then you open his mouth and taught them.

  34. There's the place that the command that I want to

  35. make is that there's the need for us to be

  36. taught and edicated concending kingdom principles and values. If we

  37. are going to be able to have a healthy church

  38. is very very important.

  39. Halle lujah. Amen.

  40. What Satan dislikes most and is scared of is the

  41. word of God.

  42. So if you have a church and by church, we

  43. mean they envy do us.

  44. If you're a believer and the Word of God is

  45. central in your life, you will be a winner. You

  46. will be a winner. Amen. There's no way you're going

  47. to fail. Contrary, if you despise, you don't like the

  48. word of God, you will fail human opinions, you will

  49. fail the customs, the traditions of men. Somewhere somehow you

  50. will fail. Will you will impane? Isn't it? The world

  51. has a different attitude towards money or even giving our

  52. lives and giving our time, talents and treasures to God.

  53. Have been to how many times I've been to head

  54. that you are serving God too much? And your attitude

  55. is positive attitude every time check it is too much.

  56. And we are talking about our creator, We are talking

  57. about our inventor, and the we're people in the world

  58. are saying we give too much time to God. Halen Loujah. Amen,

  59. let's go on now. As I said, we're going to

  60. read through as much as we can. I said, then

  61. I'm listening to him now. He's laying down the Kingdom principles,

  62. the expectations that he has for us. He said, blessed

  63. and translation we say happy are the poor in spirit?

  64. For years is the kingdom of God, humble hearts towards God,

  65. the attitude that they have, the disposition that they have. Yes,

  66. I may have had an education. I am a very

  67. old person. I'm a very resourceful and very successful person.

  68. But when it comes to the word of God, I'm

  69. going to give first place to the word and authority

  70. of God. Poor in spirit, I will allow the word

  71. of God to order my footsteps. Because God's word says it,

  72. I am going to take it. And then everybody is

  73. shaking your head. No way, after all my education, after

  74. all that lending the university. No, not the word of God,

  75. the philosophies of our day and time. Poor in spirit,

  76. we don't want to submit to the authority of the Word.

  77. Then he says that if like we are saying, the

  78. word of God, your ball means make it, for this

  79. is the kingdom of Heaven. But for pleased are those

  80. who mourn, for they shall be comfort. Telling us about

  81. our current state, Look, there is no way you can

  82. make this journey, which she says with our self denial,

  83. we moan sometimes when they are going to all the places.

  84. I'm sure a lot of us if but for God's

  85. swear and all that we have learnt in church, every

  86. every holiday will also be at beach side. Hallelujah. Amen.

  87. Every holiday all the jams will all be there and

  88. also have some of the facts. But then the word

  89. of God says no, and you hear the spirit of

  90. God echoing the same. No, it's not for you, and

  91. we say no, So we deny ourselves I P I

  92. p Twenty one day first and of man first, breakfast first. Amen.

  93. We moan, but he says what one day we shall

  94. be comforted. Hallelujah. Amen.

  95. There's five.

  96. Let's go on. Blessed are the meek, or they shall

  97. in hell the earth. God is applauding your humility, your meekness,

  98. your submission to the authority.

  99. Of the Word of God.

  100. Keep it in focus the way the authority of the

  101. Word of God. These are principles and values that undgets

  102. the kingdom of God. Six. Blessed are those who hunger

  103. and first for righteousness. They shall be feeled. Like we said,

  104. you have to be determined. It doesn't just come. They

  105. first and hunger for it. They go for it. They

  106. don't want to be stabbed. When they are stabbed, they

  107. reach out until they are satisfied. They test for righteous,

  108. they get it wrong, the Lord corrects. Then they are

  109. open to correction, and they go for it again until

  110. they get it right. It said many and the Righteous

  111. manager for all how many times seven times, But there

  112. will always be the spirit of God giving them a

  113. helpin hand.

  114. You can't do better.

  115. Rise up. Then they take their hand, and then they

  116. go again until they get it right. The hunger and

  117. thirst for riteous neck. When they make mistakes, they don't

  118. throw in the towel and say that's it. I'm out

  119. of this place. Like I said, like people are quitting.

  120. I can't do it. The word of God. There's no

  121. way you can live it out in the twenty first century,

  122. and so a lot of people quit church, they quit God,

  123. and then they imbibe the philosophies of the and beking

  124. to lead according to his dictators and prices. Young man

  125. will be ediqua young lady will be in church. Immediately

  126. they go to school, they say, now I'm old. I

  127. don't want anything to do with the Word of God.

  128. They stop singing in the choir, they stop coming to church,

  129. doing all the things that they were doing, and then

  130. they just reject God. Harley Louiah a man Verse seven,

  131. Blessed are the merciful for this child, Lord, obtain mercy.

  132. Amen, it's sypro car. You read what you see.

  133. He's so mercy. You read mercy eight blessed and the

  134. peo in her but they shall see God childlike attitude,

  135. peore in her childlike attitude. This is what my dad

  136. has said. That's all. That's what the word of God says.

  137. That's all. God is true. And the thing about the

  138. Word of God is that Look, that's why we say.

  139. The Holy Spirit is the teacher.

  140. When you open it and then you read it, the

  141. simple logic of it, the comprehension of it. Boom, it

  142. is your heart. That's it. Give and it shall be

  143. giving back to you, no debate. You take it on

  144. that phace b Look it will work for you. But

  145. ah past that this give What does God mean by

  146. give to? My mother has paid typho and God's God

  147. and then my mother I know they are red black type.

  148. They type them money and then they gave me some.

  149. And you are saying that should type.

  150. And know your in heart.

  151. And your hat. What did the words say didn't bring

  152. all the clauses that you are asking me about. Immediately,

  153. you know the person is making an argument about the

  154. illogicity of the word of God. It's not logical. God,

  155. let me go as pastor and make my point. And

  156. I have an opinion pure in heart. God says that

  157. type out type after all, after all, it belongs to him,

  158. Like David will say, you gave it to us and

  159. we and you have made a demand. I don't have

  160. anything to say. But if you want to argue, oh,

  161. you have a lot of reasons why you should in

  162. obeate the word of God. Blessed and the pear in heart,

  163. or they shall see God. Amen. Nine, Blessed are the

  164. peace makers, for they shall be called sons of God.

  165. We went over this dr inde and session on the

  166. discourses in our conversations or order peace. Make be a peacemaker.

  167. That's all Amen. So there's a kingdom principle. Jesus is

  168. spelling up and it is deciple he is teaching them

  169. because out there there's a contrast. People are not peace makers.

  170. Look at the worlds that have just sprang up from nowhere.

  171. So the president of one nation says that I need

  172. to enlarge my territories.

  173. Can we go, Let's go and bump them out.

  174. Les. Ten, Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake,

  175. for this is the Kingdom of Heaven. Let me say

  176. that most of the thematic areas that Jesus speaks about,

  177. ultimately you will find out that they are the peerless

  178. that define our fear. And he touched on almost every

  179. thematic area that has been identified as the palace.

  180. Of the faith.

  181. If you have them, there's no way you're not going

  182. to be able to construct the New Man. Jesus touched

  183. almost on all of them. Then the prayer fasting giving

  184. everything he touched on them. Joining this, as I said,

  185. very long session with his disciples concerning kingdom values and

  186. principles and the absolute necessity of living.

  187. These troops out a man.

  188. He spoke about the Holy Spirit and coming to take

  189. residence there all of them.

  190. Be all news to them. It's the blessard are you?

  191. When they revial you and persecute you and say all

  192. kinds of evil against you forced me for my sake. Twelve,

  193. rejoice and be exceeding the ground, for great is your

  194. reward in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets who

  195. were before you. So in this verse Jesus categorizes us

  196. and begins to let us know that, look, we are

  197. his prophets. He spokespersis in our age, Amen in our age,

  198. and what is our prophetic message? Jesus is coming again,

  199. that's all. How do we believe it? Not just in words,

  200. but in attitudes, the attitudes we take, the way we live,

  201. our lives, compelling lifestyles that is able to market the

  202. gospel that Jesus is coming. We are reward for great

  203. is your reward in heaven. We are expectant that God

  204. will reward us. When the last trumpet sounds, it will

  205. be a signal that this world is over. We won't

  206. be ratchet, we won't be left by Jesus Christ, and

  207. we will go home, say a beginning man, and we

  208. are not just going home to resc It says that

  209. we are going to begin a new heaven and a

  210. new earth project.

  211. That God Us built, and that is why He's prepared.

  212. I am expectant, and that is why in comparison to

  213. what the rewards are, that is how come the persecution,

  214. the reviling that we are going through the spirit of

  215. endurance and determination sparked by the Holy Spirit. Sparked by

  216. the Holy Spirit. We may weep when we are maligne,

  217. when we are insulted, but will go and then the

  218. Holy Spirit will strengthen us and comfort us, and then

  219. we will come out with the strength and begin to

  220. leave it again. They insulted us, It doesn't matter. I'm

  221. taking that stand. That's it. I'm not going to be corrupt.

  222. They will do everything in the workplace. I said, no,

  223. I don't want to miss heaven. Hallelujah a man for

  224. so they persecuted the prophets who were before. It's simple

  225. prophets being healed.

  226. It's no scripture.

  227. There's no true prophet of God whoever got the air

  228. plus of his age?

  229. Amen?

  230. Amen, So don't seek it. Don't go on social media

  231. seeking applause in your administration, nor that people say that

  232. you are a prophet and I prophesied this, and then

  233. you are throwing banners and flyers all around a prophet

  234. of God advertising himself for God's sake? Where is it

  235. in the scriptures? Amen? We are not coming to school

  236. when you read it. Not. The goal is speak Jesus Christ,

  237. you know, so when his brothers were pushing him to

  238. go and advertise himself on the days that they wanted

  239. them to come and capture him and making king. Then

  240. Bible says, this slipstart with he said, no, no, you're

  241. not getting it. They're not getting it. They're not getting it,

  242. like like a sister want. He says that she wanted

  243. to go into politics and then came to take my

  244. man said. He says, I say, you want to go

  245. for polities, the politics of this world. I said, forget it.

  246. He says, no, I want to go there and make

  247. a difference. You know, because we must go there. We

  248. must go. We must be able to make a difference.

  249. When I said, hold on, who owns this world? He says, Jesus.

  250. When Jesus came in, didn't you see did they come

  251. to do politics? You loved the well worn and Jesus

  252. the man will drafted. And then that when he came,

  253. he avoided God didn't even introduce him in Herod's palace.

  254. Have you seen any believer, true believers succeed in politics

  255. before I said, let me tell your plans, we deceive ourselves.

  256. Jesus Christ, when he came there, he should have been

  257. a politician. That's not what we are being called to do.

  258. To bring chain through politics. No, to make bring chain

  259. through our common, every day life in the lives of

  260. hurting men. Oh what about ball holes and food for

  261. the hungry? Hey, hold on that. After the day that

  262. he gave them the food and then fed them with

  263. the fight, and when they came the next day you

  264. had discourse. I know you guys are chasing me because

  265. of the food that you ate. If it was all

  266. about food for the hungry, he would have commanded another one.

  267. He says, no, no, no, no, that's the Kingdom of

  268. God is not meat and drink. Baa sound mine. Look,

  269. when you get to school, the Holy Spain will teach you.

  270. You're not going to school, you're not attending lectures. So

  271. today when Jesus got them on the same one, the man,

  272. that's what I said. It was a very long session

  273. and they were all listening to him because at the

  274. end of the day when they also another thing about

  275. when you fight time for God, you'll never get tired

  276. when the Holy Spirit is educating you. That's why I said,

  277. you'll be wowing. Oh I see when they finished, they said, wow, Wow,

  278. what a word. He teaches me such authority. They knew

  279. that he was speaking the truth, and they were filled,

  280. and they were full, Harlen Lawyer, Amen, rejoice and be

  281. exceeding the glad, for great is your reward in heaven.

  282. For sue they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Amen,

  283. you are the sword. Now now you see it. Now

  284. we can connect it and with our speech. When he

  285. said that our seek, our speech, world should be seasoned

  286. with salt always. Now listen to Jesus, long before Paul

  287. made that statement, by the Holy spad, you have the

  288. salt of the earth. But if the salt loses is flavor,

  289. how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for

  290. nothing but to be thrown out and trample under back.

  291. You can you can feel the warning and getting that statement,

  292. the warning, and that getting it, And then we are there. Oh,

  293. I'm the salt of the earth. And he said, listen

  294. to Jesus, it says, but if the soul loses is flavor,

  295. how shall it be seasoned? And then he himself conclusive,

  296. it is done good for nothing but to be thrown

  297. now and trample. And so in your conversation. In everything,

  298. the only spirit is one in one in one you season.

  299. If you said no, I'll talk the way I like,

  300. I'll talk the way I like. I'll be as sety,

  301. I'll be in sorting. They can't take me.

  302. Or leave me.

  303. Like we used to say when he said, will be

  304. a halle Luienkoba, and then the Lord is shaking it,

  305. you'll fall Halenlujah Amen. Verse fourteen. He said, now you

  306. are the light.

  307. Of the world.

  308. A city that is set on the hill cannot be hidden.

  309. Fifteen.

  310. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under

  311. a basket, but on a lamp stand, and it gives

  312. lights to all who are in the Sixteen. Therefore led

  313. your life, So shine before men, that they may see

  314. your good works and glorify your father in heaven. Let's

  315. go Seventeen. And do not think that I came to

  316. destroy the law the prophets. I did not come to destroy,

  317. but to fulfill Eighteen. For assuredly I say to you

  318. to heaven, and have passed away one jodge or one title,

  319. will by no means pass from the.

  320. Law till all is fulfilled. Nineteen.

  321. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments

  322. and teaches men so shall be called least in the

  323. Kingdom of Heaven by whoever does and teaches them. So

  324. you saw it, does and teaches there. You can't teach

  325. if you've not done it. Then practice it, that it works,

  326. and that it is rewarded, and that it is fulfilling.

  327. Amen it. Whoever therefore breaks one of the leasts of

  328. this command and teaches men so bioartitude, you may not

  329. need to say, but they are watching you. Amen. Parents,

  330. there are people that you know will be watching us.

  331. You don't type, you don't give to God. We hear

  332. all that you are not giving time, you are don't

  333. giving talent, You're not giving treasures to God. You don't pray.

  334. When when we announced the first thing, you won't do it.

  335. You think they don't see they are saying it and

  336. teaches men. So he says, shall be called least in

  337. the Kingdom of Heaven. By whoever does and teaches them,

  338. does and teaches them, he shall be called.

  339. Great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

  340. Why I say to you that unless you're righteousness that

  341. sees the righteousness, or the scribes and pharasees, you will

  342. by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Twenty one.

  343. Let's go.

  344. You have heard now, now now, so now he's coming

  345. to correction of misconceptions and customs and traditions that have

  346. been held by name as representative of the mind of God,

  347. as representative of the mind of God. He said, you

  348. have heard that. He was said to those of all

  349. you shall not murder, and whoever murders, who be in

  350. danger of the judgment, now listen to it. He is

  351. after all, I'm the one who I'm the true Lord giver.

  352. This is the spirit behind which I made those pronouncements.

  353. But I say to you, I say to you, what

  354. audacity The people who are saying the phrases used to ask,

  355. but who is this man? Who is this man? Everywhere

  356. he goes he is forgiving people, and he's asking people

  357. go and say no more blasphemy. And then I say,

  358. blass me. But I said to you that whoever is

  359. angry with his brother without the cause shall be in

  360. danger of the judgment. He's not saying anything too different

  361. from the law. So it's my mother like. Look, that's

  362. why he says, I came to fulfill them. There was

  363. there was nothing wrong. Look at Ken and the story

  364. of Cana and aber. The Moses tells us it all

  365. began with anger, and ultimately because when God came in

  366. and said, ken, you know something, raining rein in your anger,

  367. reigning your anger because you have no telling what he's

  368. going to lead you to.

  369. And he didn't mind him.

  370. And then one day he just planned it, premeditated murder.

  371. He planned it, and then he called him and killed

  372. him and buried it. But when he came he said, well,

  373. it's your brother, he said, and mind my brother's keeper.

  374. Leave me alone. Hally your anger, well, it can lead

  375. you to shall be in danger of the judgment. And

  376. whosoever says to his brother Raca shall be in danger

  377. of the council. But whoever says you fool, shall be

  378. in danger of health. Let's get to twenty five. Okay, therefore,

  379. now listen to this. So as I said, it's correcting

  380. on he's touching on a lot of thieves.

  381. He's talking about.

  382. The kna nature, the anger, the conflicts that we see

  383. in our homes, in our communities everywhere. And he's telling

  384. Kingdom citizens, and don't go there, don't nurse your anger.

  385. For a long time, indeed, he said, don't let the

  386. sun go down your anger. Forgive, forgive now listen, he said. Therefore,

  387. if you bring your gift to the altar and then

  388. remember that your brother has something against you, twenty four,

  389. leave your gift there before the altar and go your way.

  390. First be reconcern out to your brother, and then come

  391. and offer your gift. Mm hmmm. First be reconcilt to

  392. your brother and then come on. And then I'm saying,

  393. just take it on the face. But what what what?

  394. What was he saying at the end of the day,

  395. you really a comprehension is more like, don't fight if

  396. you are the pirates, settle it. Did Jesus mean that

  397. when I am I'm about to give man as you

  398. leave it and go then immediate you know the person

  399. I'm not prepared to. I'm not prepared to leave. I

  400. leave your gift there before the other and then go

  401. your way. Let's be reconcilt to your brother and then

  402. come and offer your gift.

  403. It's as sample as that. Avoid the scenario.

  404. Take the parents, stop the fights for amen. More or

  405. less an he's saying that if if not, your gift

  406. will not be accepted. No, that's what I mean. When

  407. you bring it, I know you acquired and you bring

  408. this when it's offering time and you come, you does

  409. you with your anger? You know a man. You know.

  410. I'm not going to tell you when I know that Jesus.

  411. Says, but you you, you will know that the state

  412. you will realize that when your heart is not right,

  413. look you give God someping.

  414. You have heard, Oh, you have heard all the giving

  415. projects going on. You are yet to give because there's

  416. something you know. There's always accepting withholding, accepting fear that

  417. God will be whispering in your spirit. I'm not accepting you,

  418. not your gift. I need to accept your past before

  419. the gift. So you realize that the days that you

  420. are in bad moods, moods and moods, you don't give well.

  421. You don't you don't give well, you're not cheerful because

  422. the thing you now, you know that I'm not in

  423. the giving mood the way I'm angry even when God shouts,

  424. you're in here, hallelujah.

  425. Leave your gift there before the altar. Go your way.

  426. First, be reconcile to your brother, and then come and

  427. offer your gift. Rise up on your feet. Will continue

  428. on Sunday and see how best we can bring order

  429. into our giving lives in the day that Jesus, why

  430. don't you begin to talk to God.

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