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0.000000 3.240000 I want you to take out your Bible and turn to Malachi chapter three.
3.240000 7.200000 I'm going to go back to that and we're also going to look at second Corinthians chapter
7.200000 8.720000 number eight.
8.720000 14.320000 And second Corinthians chapter number eight and nine are two of my favorite chapters
14.320000 15.320000 in the Bible.
15.320000 18.120000 I love preaching out of those.
18.120000 22.480000 Paul is my favorite writer of the New Testament.
22.480000 29.280000 Paul was an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ before he was Paul, he was Saul, he was kicked
29.280000 33.040000 off his beast in the Acts chapter nine.
33.040000 34.760000 He was converted to Christianity.
34.760000 36.840000 He was the first terrorist in the Bible.
36.840000 40.560000 He killed Christians because he hated the church.
40.560000 45.720000 He was a devout, a law man and he hated the Christian church.
45.720000 52.840000 But God turned him around when Jesus visited him on the road to Damascus.
52.840000 60.800000 This Easter will celebrate our 28th year public birthday, bridge church, come on.
60.800000 64.760000 It's awesome, 28 years.
64.760000 70.480000 That is a long, long time, 28 years ago I was 27.
70.480000 75.520000 If you want to take out your handy dandy calculator and compute that, that comes to 55.
75.520000 78.120000 I'll be 56 this year.
78.120000 81.600000 I know I don't look a day or 40.
81.600000 87.440000 But it's been a long time and God's done some tremendous things over the last 28 years.
87.440000 92.240000 Now thousands of people are being reached on a weekly basis.
92.240000 99.160000 But I can remember when I told my dad that tangent how we're moving to Virginia Beach to
99.160000 101.280000 start a church.
101.280000 103.480000 He was in his latter years.
103.480000 105.280000 He was given three months to live.
105.280000 108.680000 He was basically on his deathbed and I told him.
108.680000 112.760000 And he asked me what were we doing, how were we going to do it.
112.760000 118.920000 He asked me was I crazy to leave a church and getting paid to move somewhere, to not get
118.920000 119.920000 paid.
119.920000 123.080000 I said it can be crazy, but we're following God.
123.080000 128.040000 And during that conversation while he was in his bed, he took out his wallet from his
128.040000 134.080000 nightstand and opened it up and handed me $20 and he said, I want you to put that into your
134.080000 136.200000 new church plant.
136.200000 141.120000 And almost like he thought about it man, for a split second he thought about that $20 and
141.120000 145.440000 then he motioned for my mom to come in and he said can you get the checkbook and then he
145.440000 153.440000 wrote a $500 check along with that $20 and the first offering, the first gift given to
153.440000 160.640000 bridge church was by my dad who would never see this building, who would never see the
160.640000 165.200000 first service because he died several weeks later after that.
165.200000 171.600000 But that $520 though he's dead is still bearing fruit.
171.600000 180.240000 I mean that's the power of a seed that is sown and Paul calls money and second Corinthians
180.240000 187.560000 chapter 8 and chapter 9 he calls it a seed and he says this that God gives seed to the
187.560000 194.920000 sower, God never gives seed to the hoarder.
194.920000 199.000000 The Old Testament minor prophet said this is the seed still in the barn.
199.000000 204.200000 How many seed in the barn has potential but it will never reach the potential until it's
204.200000 205.200000 planted.
205.200000 206.200000 Amen.
206.200000 210.320000 You can have a million pounds of seed if you're a farmer but if you never put it in the ground
210.320000 212.520000 you'll never see a harvest.
212.520000 220.000000 So Paul relates this type of seed time in harvest in chapter 8 and 9 of second Corinthians.
220.000000 226.880000 He relates it to money that if I'll plant money if I'll use money with the potential of
226.880000 235.680000 planting it into the harvest field for God to bless other people that seed will produce
235.680000 236.680000 a harvest.
236.680000 238.120000 My dad is in heaven.
238.120000 244.640000 I wonder does he see the tally of salvations go up every time somebody gets saved at
244.640000 252.320000 bridge church and I wonder if God lets him connect that to that $520 seed that he gave.
252.320000 257.440000 $520 is a pretty good sum of money and it was a whole lot more money in 1998.
257.440000 261.480000 That's when gas was like a dollar.
261.480000 266.280000 I can remember when gas when I was in college was 65 cents.
266.280000 267.280000 Good.
267.280000 268.280000 Gracious hallelujah.
268.280000 270.080000 I can shout on that.
270.080000 274.480000 I'm looking for 65 cents gas, amen.
274.480000 282.000000 I can remember I'm going to go back into the 70s before President Carter.
282.000000 284.720000 It was in the 30s.
284.720000 285.720000 My goodness.
285.720000 289.160000 I mean y'all could fill up your navigator very cheap at 30 cents.
289.160000 290.960000 Y'all be traveling ever.
290.960000 291.960000 You want income to church?
291.960000 296.160000 You just be traveling.
296.160000 304.920000 But that seed was sewn and I would look at that and then I think 14 years after that we
304.920000 311.080000 were building this building and I brought my mom from North Carolina just to see the construction
311.080000 312.080000 of this building.
312.080000 313.080000 She just wanted to see it.
313.080000 314.080000 I drove her up.
314.080000 315.080000 There was no payment.
315.080000 316.080000 It was dirt.
316.080000 317.080000 They were working on this building.
317.080000 322.320000 When she got here she began to cry and she took out her checkbook and she wrote a thousand
322.320000 328.020000 dollar check to the building fund.
328.020000 333.000000 Those seeds never die.
333.000000 338.080000 And so when we look at Malachi chapter 3 and we look at 2 Corinthians chapter 8 we begin
338.080000 344.720000 to understand that God talks a lot about money.
344.720000 350.560000 Malachi 3 10 it says this, bring the whole time into the storehouse and we're going to talk
350.560000 353.240000 about excelling in grace.
353.240000 358.200000 Bring the whole time into the storehouse that there may be food in my house.
358.200000 364.440000 Test me in this as the Lord, Almighty and see if I will not throw open the flood gates.
364.440000 367.360000 They flood gates of heaven.
367.360000 370.280000 Some translations say the windows of heaven.
370.280000 373.360000 Now let me tell you something about the windows of the flood gates of heaven.
373.360000 380.880000 It's not a literal window that opens up over you like you win the lottery.
380.880000 390.000000 It is a metaphor of God being able to favor you through people and through circumstances.
390.000000 396.720000 And pull out so much blessing that there will not be room enough for you to store it.
396.720000 400.840000 2 Corinthians chapter 8 and we're going to look at one verse that says, "But since you
400.840000 407.280000 excel in everything, you're talking to the Corinthian church and faith and speech and knowledge
407.280000 410.040000 and in complete earnestness and in the love.
410.040000 418.000000 We have kindled in you, see that you also excel in this grace of giving."
418.000000 420.760000 Now I want you to notice Paul's language there.
420.760000 428.960000 See to it that you also excel in this grace of giving.
428.960000 435.160000 See generosity is a grace that reflects God's character and leads to abundant blessings in
435.160000 436.640000 our lives.
436.640000 440.920000 It's constantly leading to abundant blessings in our lives.
440.920000 447.680000 In our culture today, in our world today, everyone's teaching us how to secure the bag.
447.680000 449.080000 Get the money.
449.080000 453.640000 But God's teaching us how to manage the blessings.
453.640000 458.480000 See we live in a culture that's constantly telling us to get more, get more, get more,
458.480000 459.800000 and get more.
459.800000 463.880000 Can all you get and sit on the can.
463.880000 469.840000 But God's constantly reminding us that we have to manage the blessings that come our way.
469.840000 471.920000 And those blessings are powerful.
471.920000 475.800000 Those blessings come from the Father.
475.800000 482.000000 In fact, James the Hepper, the Jesus in chapter 1 verse 17, it says, "Every good and perfect
482.000000 487.840000 gift comes down from the Father of lights in whom there is no shifting, shadow or variation
487.840000 488.840000 in Him."
488.840000 493.320000 "Every blessing that you receive in life comes from God."
493.320000 498.000000 The very oxygen that you and I are breathing today is coming from God.
498.000000 504.560000 The life in your body, the bio-slife, the biological life in your body today has been given
504.560000 506.320000 to you by God.
506.320000 510.920000 Since the time he breathed into Adam, the breath of life, that breath of God has been
510.920000 517.200000 breathed into us and we are living beings because of God.
517.200000 523.280000 And God blesses us, not to hoard, God blesses us to be a blessing.
523.280000 529.160000 In fact, it goes all the way back to Abraham, Abraham, God blessed him so that he could be a
529.160000 531.040000 blessing to the nations.
531.040000 535.880000 The reason God blesses Bridge Church, the reason he blesses you individually, the reason
535.880000 542.360000 he blesses your family, not so you can hoard it up, but because he wants you to be a blessing
542.360000 548.040000 to the people around you so that we can get the gospel out to the nations of the world.
548.040000 550.840000 We are blessed to be a blessing.
550.840000 552.480000 You get to choose today.
552.480000 557.960000 You can be a person who dams up the blessings of God or you can be a person that becomes
557.960000 563.240000 a conduit of the blessings of God and allow the blessings of God to flow through you to
563.240000 568.280000 people who are in need in situations and circumstances.
568.280000 573.360000 God wants his people to be a blessing.
573.360000 581.920000 Never put the word stingy in front of Christian.
581.920000 586.960000 I'm going to say that one more time and I'm going to hit you today and I'm going to run.
586.960000 591.120000 Never put the word stingy in front of Christian.
591.120000 593.600000 They don't coexist.
593.600000 598.200000 If you have been redeemed and if your life has been transformed and if you are partake
598.200000 605.440000 or the nature of God, you become a generous person because your heart has been transformed.
605.440000 607.480000 We can no longer be stingy.
607.480000 608.480000 Come on.
608.480000 610.760000 You're going to try to hold it onto it until you get to heaven.
610.760000 613.200000 You can't take it with you.
613.200000 617.040000 You've never seen a hearse pulling on you heart?
617.040000 619.280000 No, no, no, no.
619.280000 628.160000 You can't take anything with you in life, but the souls that you've led to Christ.
628.160000 638.880000 The souls that have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus, blessings, supernatural blessings,
638.880000 644.040000 bridge, church can be a blessing because God has blessed us.
644.040000 649.080000 In the last three months, we've able to partner with a church in Panama City, Florida.
649.080000 650.080000 That's just started.
650.080000 654.920000 We're able to give them money to help them kick off their first Sunday.
654.920000 660.760000 In Gainesville, Florida, we helped another church with 15,000 that was just getting started.
660.760000 662.840000 We were able to bless them.
662.840000 668.600000 Two weeks ago, three weeks ago, we were able to give $10,000 to Tanzania to dig a well for
668.600000 670.920000 people who need water.
670.920000 676.160000 I mean, if somebody is first and if somebody is hungry, you don't just go preach the gospel.
676.160000 680.800000 You meet the physical need and allow them to hear the gospel, amen?
680.800000 684.760000 So that's why we can be a blessing because God has a blessed us.
684.760000 688.240000 We're not looking at a pastor that's begging you to give money because we're about to go
688.240000 689.240000 under.
689.240000 695.600000 If you don't give, if you don't give, we're going to go under.
695.600000 697.800000 No, I'm not going under.
697.800000 703.360000 I'm connected to the blesser and he has blessed me with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
703.360000 704.360000 realm.
704.360000 708.080000 Come on, somebody, we're blessed to be a blessing.
708.080000 712.280000 I'm just trying to get you in on the blessing.
712.280000 719.280000 Sometimes we think God's trying to take something from us, but he's trying to get something to
719.280000 720.840000 us.
720.840000 723.720000 He's trying to get supernatural blessings to you.
723.720000 728.900000 He's trying to get you to operate at a kingdom level, at a supernatural level.
728.900000 737.080000 And so he invites you into his story of redemption in every area of your life.
737.080000 739.440000 See oftentimes we talk about discipleship.
739.440000 741.480000 We think it's just learning scripture.
741.480000 744.280000 No, Jesus didn't tell the disciples to learn scripture.
744.280000 746.400000 He said, "Come follow me."
746.400000 748.080000 Jesus said, "Come follow me."
748.080000 750.320000 Come on, and I'll make you fissures of men.
750.320000 754.400000 He said, "If any man wishes to come after me and deny himself and take up his cross and
754.400000 756.000000 follow me, that's what you've got to do.
756.000000 761.200000 You've got to follow Jesus and it is in the following of Jesus that Jesus transforms
761.200000 762.200000 your life.
762.200000 766.960000 You don't follow Jesus just on Sunday morning and forget about him Monday through Saturday.
766.960000 771.160000 You follow him every day of your life.
771.160000 773.280000 It's the laying down of your life.
773.280000 775.280000 It's the crucifying of the flesh.
775.280000 779.920000 It's saying, "Lord, I'm going to trust you when I don't even understand it.
779.920000 786.600000 When I can't see it, I'm going to trust you and take you at your Word."
786.600000 789.600000 See we all have to come under authority.
789.600000 794.320000 And the Word of God for the Christian is the authority of God in our lives.
794.320000 802.440000 And so we come up under His Word as we come up under His Word, the blessings flow.
802.440000 808.400000 Come on, everybody wants to be up under a umbrella when it's raining.
808.400000 813.760000 But in the kingdom, we constantly stay up under the umbrella of the Word of God.
813.760000 816.200000 And when culture changes, we don't change.
816.200000 820.600000 I'm going to say that one more time.
820.600000 825.920000 When culture tries to redefine marriage, we don't change.
825.920000 831.120000 When culture says that same sex, people can legally get married, we just keep saying what
831.120000 832.720000 the Word of God says.
832.720000 837.120000 This is how God defined marriage and why would the world try to redefine it?
837.120000 842.800000 I believe they try to redefine it because they're wicked in their own hearts.
842.800000 844.440000 I'm preaching real good.
844.440000 851.800000 See wickedness, wickedness, breeds wickedness.
851.800000 855.920000 That's why you don't see anything happening with the Epstein files, because everybody's
855.920000 861.680000 trying to cover their own rear end.
861.680000 864.480000 Let's just get back to the text.
864.480000 866.880000 Y'all ain't ready for that.
866.880000 867.880000 Y'all ain't ready for that.
867.880000 868.880000 But that's the truth.
868.880000 869.880000 Amen.
869.880000 870.880000 Amen.
870.880000 876.600000 He began to speak to us about priority.
876.600000 877.600000 He talks about the tide.
877.600000 885.880000 He says, bring the whole tide, say, whole into the storehouse, the whole tide.
885.880000 888.960000 So you've got to prioritize the principle.
888.960000 896.000000 Tithing for me is not a law, 700, nearly 700 years, anywhere from five to 700 years before
896.000000 905.680000 the law, Abram tithe to Melchizedek, Melchizedek was a typology of Jesus.
905.680000 912.820000 He gave a tenth of all the spoils, nearly 400 years before that Jacob made a vow to tithe
912.820000 915.160000 to God.
915.160000 917.360000 It goes back further than that, I believe.
917.360000 922.160000 I believe it goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden.
922.160000 926.280000 Number 2 verse 7, it says that God formed man from the dust of the earth and breathed into
926.280000 929.440000 man the breath of life and man became a living being.
929.440000 931.280000 He created him.
931.280000 935.800000 He gave him a home called the garden and then he gave him a job.
935.800000 936.800000 Come on.
936.800000 940.720000 That is a good place for every woman in here to shout.
940.720000 947.720000 He gave the man a home and he gave, and he gave him a job, amen.
947.720000 949.920000 And he ain't got a home, he ain't got a job.
949.920000 950.920000 That's a good indication.
950.920000 953.520000 You need to say, "Hadios Amigos."
953.520000 956.400000 See you later, wouldn't want to be a jack.
956.400000 961.720000 You got to have a home, you got to have a job, where am I going when I get married?
961.720000 967.800000 And if he doesn't want to marry you, he doesn't want to put a ring on it, leave him alone.
967.800000 972.480000 Stop playing, stop playing house.
972.480000 974.760000 You want the blessings of God to come on your life?
974.760000 977.400000 Do what God tells you to do.
977.400000 980.600000 He who finds a wife.
980.600000 981.600000 He who finds a good thing.
981.600000 985.280000 He didn't say, "He who finds somebody to live with."
985.280000 988.160000 He who finds somebody to shack with.
988.160000 990.360000 He who finds somebody to play house with.
990.360000 994.120000 He says, "He who finds a wife finds a good thing."
994.120000 995.120000 Amen.
995.120000 999.720000 Say pastor, pastor, pastor, get married.
999.720000 1004.840000 Come by the office.
1004.840000 1005.840000 We won't charge your thing.
1005.840000 1010.240000 You don't have to spend $30,000 to get married.
1010.240000 1013.620000 Come on, come under the authority of God's Word.
1013.620000 1020.360000 He puts him in this garden and he says, "Adam, look at all these trees.
1020.360000 1023.040000 They're all yours."
1023.040000 1025.600000 Except one.
1025.600000 1031.000000 That one that stands in the middle, don't touch it, don't eat it.
1031.000000 1032.480000 That's my tree.
1032.480000 1033.800000 What was God teaching him?
1033.800000 1040.720000 He was teaching him sovereign authority, that God has sovereign authority in our lives.
1040.720000 1047.240000 God used that tree to represent the principle of tithing all the way back in the garden
1047.240000 1048.240000 of Eden.
1048.240000 1049.240000 He says, "Don't touch it.
1049.240000 1053.440000 The day you touch it, you will surely die."
1053.440000 1055.680000 That word die in the Hebrew.
1055.680000 1058.400000 It means a cessation of dialogue.
1058.400000 1063.760000 We know that Adam and Eve didn't die immediately when they ate the fruit, but their relationship
1063.760000 1070.480000 with God was suffering and it was no longer at the level of communication because God kicked
1070.480000 1076.860000 them out of the garden and put an angel at the gate.
1076.860000 1080.480000 I believe most Christians don't fully understand this.
1080.480000 1083.240000 They go through life, Jesus loves you.
1083.240000 1088.600000 You're going to go to heaven, but when you choose to disobey him, your relationship with
1088.600000 1090.120000 him suffers.
1090.120000 1094.400000 I believe there are a lot of prayers that are being prayed that are not answered because
1094.400000 1098.400000 we're trying to be obedient in one area and God says, "No, I want you obedient in this area
1098.400000 1099.400000 also."
1099.400000 1106.160000 So we get amnesia and we forget about that area and we keep coming to God about this area.
1106.160000 1112.760000 I'm preaching good up in this gospel church, mighty quiet.
1112.760000 1115.800000 So you have to prioritize the principle.
1115.800000 1120.120000 What are you talking about, Pastor?
1120.120000 1125.120000 I'm talking about, he said, bring the whole tide into the storehouse.
1125.120000 1128.880000 Tithing isn't about pressure.
1128.880000 1129.920000 It's about priority.
1129.920000 1133.160000 Pastor, man, you don't know.
1133.160000 1135.360000 You don't know my finances.
1135.360000 1140.880000 You don't know how my wife constantly buys from Amazoners, packages showing up every
1140.880000 1144.880000 week, every day, every minute, Pastor, you don't know.
1144.880000 1147.080000 My kids need food.
1147.080000 1149.200000 I know all that, folks, I'm 55.
1149.200000 1153.800000 We have four kids.
1153.800000 1158.840000 When we moved here, we was as broke as Job's turkey.
1158.840000 1161.520000 We wasn't just poor, we were poor.
1161.520000 1164.160000 That's one level under poor.
1164.160000 1169.480000 We had nothing, but we chose to obey God and from the time I was seven years old, and
1169.480000 1174.840000 my mom taught me the tide, I'd been tithing, I'd been given to God and we just kept doing
1174.840000 1175.840000 that.
1175.840000 1181.900000 When we had our first baby, man, we couldn't even afford milk, ethin, ate us out of the house
1181.900000 1182.900000 and home.
1182.900000 1184.400000 The kid never slept.
1184.400000 1190.080000 He was always wanting to eat, and I said in my heart, I don't want no more.
1190.080000 1192.480000 And I want to ship this one off.
1192.480000 1195.040000 I need my sleep.
1195.040000 1196.040000 What is wrong?
1196.040000 1198.760000 And come to find out it wasn't the baby, it was the parents.
1198.760000 1201.080000 We'd never been parents before.
1201.080000 1204.720000 We had to read some books, and once we read the books, the next three were a dream.
1204.720000 1210.560000 Ethan was a nightmare, and the next three was a dream, ain't it?
1210.560000 1214.200000 But doing that time raising, and Ethan, we were giving man, and we were struggling, we were
1214.200000 1219.320000 planting this church, we had basically a little bit, I think the first year in Virginia
1219.320000 1222.520000 Beach, we earned seventeen thousand dollars.
1222.520000 1225.880000 You can't lay off seventeen thousand dollars in Virginia Beach.
1225.880000 1229.120000 Not even in 1998.
1229.120000 1230.120000 But we were struggling.
1230.120000 1234.200000 We had to buy food, we had to buy groceries, we had to buy milk for this baby, and milk
1234.200000 1240.040000 was expensive, and one of those little cans of formula, powder formula, was 13, 14 bucks
1240.040000 1241.040000 that time.
1241.040000 1245.200000 Man that was a lot of money, because he was eating a lot, it was like $180 a month.
1245.200000 1249.360000 Back then that was like a car payment.
1249.360000 1252.840000 And we just kept honoring God, and God some way would bless us.
1252.840000 1259.560000 I remember waking up one morning, and outside of our door were like sixteen cans of formula
1259.560000 1260.560000 for Ethan.
1260.560000 1263.160000 I don't know how I got that God just blessed.
1263.160000 1270.400000 You have to learn to trust God, if you can't trust God with natural money.
1270.400000 1275.120000 How can he trust you with the true riches of the kingdom of God?
1275.120000 1283.280000 Money is a test, and we have to learn to prioritize money, it says honor the Lord with your wealth,
1283.280000 1288.800000 with the first fruits of all your crops.
1288.800000 1294.160000 Now some of them, all of them, the reason he says crops is because they were living, and
1294.160000 1296.760000 a culture where farming was big.
1296.760000 1303.640000 Today he would say honor the Lord with your money, with your paycheck, with a draw off
1303.640000 1308.880000 your business, business man, when you draw quarterly, or you draw monthly, or you draw annually,
1308.880000 1313.040000 a bonus, he says honor me with that.
1313.040000 1314.480000 Honor the Lord, what's that word honor mean?
1314.480000 1317.520000 It means to respect, to revere, to put first.
1317.520000 1322.600000 He goes along with what Jesus said in Matthew 6, 33, seek first the kingdom of God and his
1322.600000 1327.960000 righteousness, and all these things will be added to you as well.
1327.960000 1336.000000 What things, the things that you are chasing, the clothes, the house, the vehicle, the expansion,
1336.000000 1339.400000 the greater business, he says why are you chasing those things?
1339.400000 1344.440000 Why don't you chase kingdom things and allow those things to chase you, because my favor
1344.440000 1349.760000 will come upon you, my goodness will come upon you, because you are prioritizing the principal
1349.760000 1352.760000 of putting me first through the tithing.
1352.760000 1358.120000 Now only we prioritize the principal, but we prove the promise, they prove, prove the
1358.120000 1363.720000 promise, Melachite 3, 10, bring the whole tith into the storehouse, he says whole, why would
1363.720000 1369.400000 he say whole, they were bringing God something, they were just bringing him the bad sheep, the
1369.400000 1376.600000 stuff that was worth less, it's like the clothes you take to the good will.
1376.600000 1380.760000 You don't want them throwing a garbage, but you are willing to give them away.
1380.760000 1383.120000 That's what they were doing.
1383.120000 1387.320000 They were driving up and bringing the good will stuff to God.
1387.320000 1389.680000 There is nothing wrong with good will, my kid is shopping good will.
1389.680000 1394.280000 When I was growing up, if you shop the good will, man, nobody is shopping good will, but
1394.280000 1399.280000 now it's a fat, everybody wants a shopping good will, there is nothing wrong with it.
1399.280000 1406.600000 When I go there I just can't find anything, I remember my wife, she went into a knockoff
1406.600000 1410.600000 store and she bought me a shirt, she bought me a shirt and she brought a home, she said this
1410.600000 1411.920000 is a beautiful shirt.
1411.920000 1412.920000 I said where did you get it?
1412.920000 1417.800000 I'm not going to call the name of the place, I don't want to be little anybody, and she's
1417.800000 1422.040000 I got it from here, so I put that up thing on man, this sleeve was beautiful man, just
1422.040000 1427.640000 fit right and I put my other arm on, that sleeve was that long.
1427.640000 1432.600000 I said baby, I'm going to tell you where I want you to shop for me.
1432.600000 1441.420000 I don't want a knockoff store, I don't want a good will, I need something that fits, amen.
1441.420000 1447.880000 I keep clothes a long time, men only need a couple things, they need one pair of pants and
1447.880000 1451.400000 they need five t-shirts.
1451.400000 1459.920000 My kids laugh at me, I have a North Fates t-shirt that I have worn for about 15 years.
1459.920000 1465.180000 But you gotta understand, it doesn't no longer says North Fates.
1465.180000 1471.200000 It dropped at n one time and it dropped at r, the face came off of that sucker, it's just
1471.200000 1477.720000 a plain t-shirt but every time I take a picture they laugh at that, you wore that 15 years ago,
1477.720000 1481.920000 it feels good on my skin.
1481.920000 1485.740000 Any men like that, that feel good t-shirt on your skin, I like that, that stuff just feels
1485.740000 1492.840000 it, don't get me in a thick cotton hot t-shirt, I ain't wearing it.
1492.840000 1498.560000 Bring the whole tithe into a storehouse, there they may be food in my house and look what
1498.560000 1506.360000 he says, test me in this, that word test there.
1506.360000 1514.860000 It means to prove the reliability of God, that he is reliable.
1514.860000 1522.480000 He says, test me in this honor the Lord with the first fruits of all your increase, test
1522.480000 1531.600000 me in this, I mean we can't test God if we don't trust God and trust is born out of a relationship.
1531.600000 1539.680000 That relationship is born out of personal knowledge, Paul said in Philippians 310, "I may know him."
1539.680000 1544.920000 That word "know" there is ganosco in the Greek, it means a close personal intimate knowledge
1544.920000 1546.240000 of another person.
1546.240000 1548.920000 The more you know God, the more you trust God.
1548.920000 1555.760000 I trust my wife more today than I did 32 years ago when I met her, why?
1555.760000 1561.120000 Because I have a personal intimate knowledge of her character and who she is and so I trust
1561.120000 1565.460000 her, I'm not worried about when she goes on a trip, I'm not worried about when she goes
1565.460000 1569.000000 to town, I'm not worried about when she's on Facebook, I'm not worried about when she's
1569.000000 1570.320000 on the internet, why?
1570.320000 1573.920000 Because I have a knowledge of her, I have an intimate personal knowledge of her and
1573.920000 1580.440000 I trust her and that trust is born out of relationship and our trust in God is born out
1580.440000 1582.040000 of relationship.
1582.040000 1588.480000 So I can't honor God until I trust the Lord with all my heart and I lean not in my own
1588.480000 1596.840000 understanding, but in all my ways I acknowledge Him and He directs my path, Amen?
1596.840000 1598.920000 That's a good amen, amen.
1598.920000 1603.840000 The whole time, He says, "Test me, test me, I can be tested."
1603.840000 1609.720000 That's the only place in the Bible where God says, "Test me."
1609.720000 1615.920000 But here's a deal, when you test God in the time, God is testing to see if you will be
1615.920000 1620.640000 consistent.
1620.640000 1629.240000 Test me in this, prove the promise, the promise is, test me and if you do this and if you keep
1629.240000 1636.120000 doing it, I will continue to open up the floodgates of heaven, the windows of heaven.
1636.120000 1640.960000 Every time the enemy wants to curse your life, he'll send a person into your life.
1640.960000 1645.120000 Every time God wants to bless your life, he'll send a person, why?
1645.120000 1654.000000 Those people are either the window of heaven or the window of hell.
1654.000000 1659.660000 If God wants to favor you, He will open up a door of opportunity through people.
1659.660000 1664.760000 Every time God's ever favored my wife and I, every time God has done something supernatural
1664.760000 1671.680000 at bridge church, there's always been a divine connection, a person that comes into our lives
1671.680000 1676.160000 and gives us a little bit of information or helps us along the way.
1676.160000 1684.160000 I believe that's because we have chosen to honor God with our lives in the area of tithing,
1684.160000 1690.800000 in the area of giving, in the area of stewardship, because we're all called to be faithful stewards
1690.800000 1692.320000 of the blessings of God.
1692.320000 1697.400000 You've got to steward your time, your talent and your treasures and in the New Testament,
1697.400000 1705.720000 the Bible says, "A man, if he's a steward or a woman is a steward, must be found faithful."
1705.720000 1710.560000 That word "faithful" means faith filled.
1710.560000 1718.720000 We need to be faith filled stewards of the blessings of God.
1718.720000 1727.360000 Now after we prove the promise, you can't prove the promise until you perfect the practice.
1727.360000 1732.120000 This is where the rubber meets the road.
1732.120000 1736.720000 This is where I have to trust God when it comes to my finances.
1736.720000 1742.600000 When I get paid once a week, twice a month or a monthly, or I take a draw in my business,
1742.600000 1746.040000 this is where I have to perfect the practice.
1746.040000 1754.840000 See, giving is not a one-time transaction, it's a lifelong transformation.
1754.840000 1761.840000 See, some of us think, "Today, if I give a tie, when I walk out of here, I can look up and
1761.840000 1766.920000 $10 bills are going to fall out of heaven, I'm going to win the lottery."
1766.920000 1771.080000 That's not the way it works.
1771.080000 1780.120000 Is this consistent obedience to God that I perfect the practice?
1780.120000 1782.560000 Look what he said to the church at Corinth Paul.
1782.560000 1790.200000 He said, "See that you also excel in the grace of giving."
1790.200000 1795.960000 He said, "You've excelled in knowledge, and faith, and speech, and earnestness."
1795.960000 1801.720000 But here, Corinthian church, he was talking to a wealthy church.
1801.720000 1810.640000 He would be in our day talking to bridge church, say pastor, "Man, I'm not that wealthy."
1810.640000 1817.800000 From worldly standards, worldwide, you're in the top one percent.
1817.800000 1820.480000 You're in the top one percent.
1820.480000 1826.200000 You're what the politicians are calling one percenters.
1826.200000 1833.120000 You ever notice how politicians get mad at one percenters and they're one of the percenters?
1833.120000 1840.600000 How do you go and serve for $190,000 a year and your net worth increase at $250 million?
1840.600000 1843.000000 Come all the down.
1843.000000 1846.160000 The one percenters are no gooders.
1846.160000 1852.160000 Up there, they're manipulating the system and manipulating you for votes.
1852.160000 1857.000000 I hope this is online, isn't it?
1857.000000 1866.880000 Amen, let's get some term limits.
1866.880000 1873.440000 They're not going to vote for term limits because if they do that, they've got to get kicked out.
1873.440000 1877.440000 But we ought to demand it, amen.
1877.440000 1878.440000 Amen.
1878.440000 1882.600000 You're loud, amen.
1882.600000 1892.880000 So he's speaking to these one percenters in Corinth, which was a town city that was huge.
1892.880000 1896.040000 It was very rich, very eclectic.
1896.040000 1900.160000 It was very worldly.
1900.160000 1901.480000 It was polytheistic.
1901.480000 1905.960000 That means the worship of many gods, it's very sensual.
1905.960000 1911.400000 There was a lot of sensuality, a lot of homosexuality, beastiality.
1911.400000 1914.520000 It was wicked.
1914.520000 1922.040000 These people had been saved out of that culture and they come into the church and Paul begins
1922.040000 1927.140000 to challenge them on their worldly thinking.
1927.140000 1934.360000 And he uses the churches of Macedonia to challenge this rich church to give.
1934.360000 1939.200000 He says the churches in Macedonia, that's a region, it's not one church, it's a region
1939.200000 1943.000000 of churches in Philippophe, Thessalonica, and Berea.
1943.000000 1949.040000 He says those churches are in extreme poverty.
1949.040000 1956.240000 They have been persecuted, they are in famine, but out of their extreme poverty overwhelmed
1956.240000 1958.160000 great generosity.
1958.160000 1960.840000 How many know?
1960.840000 1964.000000 Poor people can be generous.
1964.000000 1966.400000 Rich people can be generous.
1966.400000 1969.080000 Poor people can be stingy.
1969.080000 1972.120000 Rich people can be stingy.
1972.120000 1974.560000 You get to choose.
1974.560000 1979.540000 He says out of their poverty flows great generosity.
1979.540000 1983.080000 He's pushing to Corinthian churches, hey look what they're doing.
1983.080000 1985.240000 Why was he taking an offering?
1985.240000 1990.680000 Because there were some Jews in Jerusalem that were struggling during the famine that was
1990.680000 1997.600000 prophesied in Acts chapter 11 by Agabus, the prophet, and so they're in a famine and Paul
1997.600000 2003.860000 is going to this different ethnic group which are Gentiles and saying, hey guys, let's
2003.860000 2009.700000 give to the Jews in Jerusalem, how many in a, that probably offended their mind.
2009.700000 2013.380000 You think I'm going to help a Jew?
2013.380000 2018.320000 They don't like us and we don't like them.
2018.320000 2028.140000 The Paul's challenging them to excel in the grace, the carus, the gift of giving.
2028.140000 2030.580000 This gift is not just for certain people.
2030.580000 2034.580000 The gift of giving that he's talking about is an empowerment.
2034.580000 2041.100000 It's an enablement to give above and beyond what you think you can give.
2041.100000 2047.860000 And so in 1 Corinthians chapter 16 Paul begins to give us a pattern of giving.
2047.860000 2050.380000 The pattern of giving is this right here.
2050.380000 2051.860000 It has to be periodic.
2051.860000 2055.900000 It has to be done at regular periods whenever you get paid.
2055.900000 2061.740000 You get paid once a week and God has tied them the first of every week.
2061.740000 2067.100000 If you get paid biweekly, tied biweekly, if you get paid monthly, bring it monthly.
2067.100000 2069.780000 He says, be periodic about it.
2069.780000 2070.780000 Number two, planned.
2070.780000 2074.540000 It has to be thought out in advance.
2074.540000 2080.760000 Don't just come to church and when the pastor mentions it, pull out the wallet and what
2080.760000 2082.780000 am I going to give today?
2082.780000 2088.820000 You know, he says, plan your giving, be strategic and what you do when you plan giving you're
2088.820000 2093.140000 not manipulated.
2093.140000 2100.140000 I was sitting in my recliner the other day and this commercial came on, advertising, helping
2100.140000 2104.980000 dogs and they had the saddest music.
2104.980000 2112.260000 They almost had me pulling out my wallet to help a straight beagle.
2112.260000 2113.620000 I'm not against dogs.
2113.620000 2114.620000 I have one.
2114.620000 2115.620000 That's my daughters.
2115.620000 2120.580000 When she gets married, I'm probably going to donate it.
2120.580000 2121.580000 It's a lot of work.
2121.580000 2122.580000 Dogs are a lot of...
2122.580000 2123.580000 I raised four kids now.
2123.580000 2126.040000 I don't need another baby, amen.
2126.040000 2127.040000 I got one baby.
2127.040000 2128.040000 That's my wife.
2128.040000 2129.040000 Hallelujah.
2129.040000 2133.580000 We coming into that nice, nice area of life, amen.
2133.580000 2134.580000 We got grandkids.
2134.580000 2138.440000 They come over, but just a couple of hours and then we send them back.
2138.440000 2141.940000 We give them jacked up on sugar and we send them back, amen?
2141.940000 2147.500000 So, it has to be planned.
2147.500000 2148.900000 It has to be proportional.
2148.900000 2154.260000 He says, let it be proportional, giving and proportion, proportion to the blessings of God
2154.260000 2155.340000 on our lives.
2155.340000 2161.500000 Paul is teaching this and then he says, and he needs to be private, say, private.
2161.500000 2168.540000 When you give and you help somebody, don't get on Facebook and tell everybody who you
2168.540000 2171.780000 help.
2171.780000 2175.300000 If you do, that's your reward.
2175.300000 2178.340000 You will not have a reward when you get to heaven.
2178.340000 2180.140000 You do it in private.
2180.140000 2182.060000 Jesus taught this in Matthew 6.
2182.060000 2187.460000 He said, when you pray, when you give, when you fast, don't go out there like the Pharisees
2187.460000 2193.700000 and the Sadducees and make a public declaration of what you're doing and letting people see
2193.700000 2204.260000 your righteousness or your perceived righteousness, which is self-righteousness, so you do it in private.
2204.260000 2208.980000 This is what Lord, I have committed, I'm committed to iron you in the New Testament.
2208.980000 2212.540000 10% is the floor people.
2212.540000 2216.620000 If God begins to bless your business and you become a multi-millionaire, guess what?
2216.620000 2217.700000 You don't need all that money.
2217.700000 2219.460000 Keep giving.
2219.460000 2221.260000 Jacket up to 20%.
2221.260000 2222.980000 Jacket up to 30%.
2222.980000 2225.900000 Once heard of a businessman in Canada, God had blessed him so much.
2225.900000 2230.180000 He was living up to 10% and giving them 90%.
2230.180000 2237.180000 Man, what if Elon Musk got saved and baptized in the Holy Ghost?
2237.180000 2238.660000 What if he became generous?
2238.660000 2245.340000 That dude, I read yesterday that he is, his net worth is like $830 billion.
2245.340000 2246.980000 He will be the first trillionaire.
2246.980000 2251.420000 You say, I wish I had that kind of money.
2251.420000 2254.980000 You would not know what to do with $830 billion.
2254.980000 2260.260000 They would never see you in church again.
2260.260000 2262.740000 Probably why God doesn't give it to Christians.
2262.740000 2266.020000 He says, as soon as I give it to them, they leave.
2266.020000 2267.020000 I bless them.
2267.020000 2268.820000 That's what happened in Israel.
2268.820000 2271.820000 Every time God blessed them, they went back to wickedness.
2271.820000 2275.900000 Every time God blessed them, they dishonored him.
2275.900000 2288.900000 I always pray this God, give me what I can manage and help me increase my management.
2288.900000 2291.340000 Help me to increase my management.
2291.340000 2297.300000 So he gives us this pattern of giving in the New Testament.
2297.300000 2301.740000 Now, let's go back to Malachi 3.
2301.740000 2305.340000 And the whole tithe into the storehouse.
2305.340000 2312.380000 Only you and God know if we're bringing the whole tithe.
2312.380000 2320.100000 That there may be food in my house as the Lord tests me in this, test me, prove my reliability.
2320.100000 2322.700000 Test me right now.
2322.700000 2327.340000 Test me in this and see if I will now open up the windows of heaven, the floodgates of
2327.340000 2336.220000 heaven and pour out on you a blessing that you have no room, no room to hoard, that you
2336.220000 2338.860000 just have to keep blessing other people.
2338.860000 2344.300000 You have to find needs to meet.
2344.300000 2349.500000 My wife is one of the most generous people I know.
2349.500000 2350.500000 How do I know?
2350.500000 2355.100000 I look at my checkbook.
2355.100000 2365.900000 I just felt like I needed to give that person this, I said, "Ooh, hey man."
2365.900000 2370.420000 But that's been developed over time.
2370.420000 2376.980000 How many, you know, I used to be almost six, three, I'm probably not quite there.
2376.980000 2380.500000 But I didn't always wear a size 13 shoe.
2380.500000 2383.460000 I had to grow into it.
2383.460000 2389.060000 You have to grow into excelling in the grace of giving, first of all, you just take a stab.
2389.060000 2394.060000 You say, "I'm going to give it to you first, God.
2394.060000 2395.380000 I'm going to give it to you first."
2395.380000 2400.140000 Here's $10, $1 bills, not a whole lot of money.
2400.140000 2406.100000 I had to stop by a gas station even getting it because I don't carry cash.
2406.100000 2408.660000 Some people say, "Man, we're coming into a cashless society.
2408.660000 2413.140000 I've been in that for a long time."
2413.140000 2419.820000 Folks, you've been there, you just don't know it.
2419.820000 2422.820000 There's 10 of them.
2422.820000 2425.020000 Bring the tithe, the whole tithe.
2425.020000 2429.420000 Now which one of these is the tithe?
2429.420000 2430.940000 It's the first one.
2430.940000 2432.740000 There it is right there.
2432.740000 2436.300000 God before I do anything else, I'm going to bring you yours.
2436.300000 2440.820000 Whether it's the cash app online or bringing it to the church or giving it on Sunday, whatever
2440.820000 2445.840000 way I choose to give a bank draft or a check for my bank, "Look, I'm going to do this.
2445.840000 2447.740000 This is what I'm going to do."
2447.740000 2450.700000 Why does God say first?
2450.700000 2456.100000 Because it takes faith to give first.
2456.100000 2460.180000 It don't take faith for me to spend all this and come down to 40 cents and say, "Whoah,
2460.180000 2461.180000 here it is.
2461.180000 2462.460000 God, I'm going to give you that."
2462.460000 2466.060000 It doesn't take faith.
2466.060000 2470.020000 But when I give to God first, not in the middle, when I give to Him first, when I give
2470.020000 2473.460000 Him the first fruit, it takes faith.
2473.460000 2477.500000 And when I give Him the first dollar, guess what that dollar does.
2477.500000 2482.700000 It sanctifies the other nine.
2482.700000 2485.260000 It blesses the other nine.
2485.260000 2490.220000 Jesus said in Matthew 6, "You cannot serve God and Maman."
2490.220000 2492.460000 Some translations say money.
2492.460000 2499.580000 The word "Maman" is the Spirit that's on money.
2499.580000 2504.620000 So when I give this first, the Spirit of Maman comes off my money.
2504.620000 2506.820000 The Spirit of the world comes off my money.
2506.820000 2515.780000 The Spirit of greed comes out of my life because I choose to give God His first.
2515.780000 2523.380000 And then He gives me the wisdom to manage the ninety.
2523.380000 2528.340000 And somehow the ninety, because it's blessed, it's consecrated, it's sanctified, and goes
2528.340000 2539.060000 way further than if I would rob God and keep the one hundred percent and live my life.
2539.060000 2545.980000 Jack Hayford said, "Wherever there's hilarious giving, revival soon follows.
2545.980000 2554.380000 Maybe there's not personal revival and corporate revival because we're not generous and we
2554.380000 2556.180000 don't honor God."
2556.180000 2557.500000 Amen.
2557.500000 2558.500000 Amen.
2558.500000 2559.500000 Amen.
2559.500000 2565.180000 See, when we give the God first, He will bless the rest.
2565.180000 2568.220000 Every year we do a child challenge.
2568.220000 2571.020000 Our ushers are going to give you a card.
2571.020000 2575.520000 You don't have to take this challenge, but I'm going to encourage you to do so.
2575.520000 2576.520000 It's a child challenge.
2576.520000 2579.300000 It's a ninety day child challenge.
2579.300000 2580.300000 Our ushers are coming by.
2580.300000 2587.640000 They're going to hand you a stack, just pass one, take one, pass it down, pass it around.
2587.640000 2591.100000 You want to take this challenge?
2591.100000 2594.760000 I want you to check that box and I want you to put your name on it.
2594.760000 2598.780000 Put your name on it because it's a challenge.
2598.780000 2601.060000 We're not going to use your name to compare your tithing record.
2601.060000 2602.820000 We don't look at that.
2602.820000 2608.140000 The only tithing record I look at is our paid staff.
2608.140000 2612.420000 I'm not going to pay you to rob God.
2612.420000 2614.420000 God quiet.
2614.420000 2615.820000 I'm not going to pay a thief.
2615.820000 2617.420000 I'm just not going to pay a thief.
2617.420000 2618.660000 I can get that free.
2618.660000 2619.660000 Amen.
2619.660000 2621.380000 Get that free.
2621.380000 2623.940000 If you're new here, you don't have to do this.
2623.940000 2624.940000 We don't do this every week.
2624.940000 2628.820000 We do it once a year.
2628.820000 2632.620000 You came and said, "That pastor, as soon as I came the first day, man, he's talking about
2632.620000 2633.620000 money."
2633.620000 2640.880000 Well, Jesus talked more about money than he did heaven and hell combined.
2640.880000 2645.160000 Most of his parables are about money.
2645.160000 2648.320000 See, understood the power of money in our lives.
2648.320000 2655.500000 This is what it says, Malachi 310, "On the back, bring the full tide into the temple treasure
2655.500000 2659.260000 so there will be ample provisions in the temple, test me in this and see if I will not
2659.260000 2665.340000 open up heaven itself to you and pour out blessings beyond your wildest dreams."
2665.340000 2668.460000 That's the message by them.
2668.460000 2669.460000 There's a check.
2669.460000 2673.060000 I accept the 90-day tide challenge, right, your name right under that.
2673.060000 2675.140000 What you can do, you can leave it on your seat.
2675.140000 2677.860000 Just turn it open so we don't see your name.
2677.860000 2678.860000 Turn it over.
2678.860000 2683.860000 Leave it on your seat or put it in the giving boxes that are mounted in the back wall.
2683.860000 2684.860000 Next steps.
2684.860000 2688.580000 Register to take the 90-day tide challenge by placing the card and then make a different
2688.580000 2691.300000 box, or put it on your seat, or else just we'll get it.
2691.300000 2696.580000 Return to 10th of your income to God for 90 days, record what God has done in your life,
2696.580000 2703.340000 and if God has not done anything, if you have not seen the blessings of God come to you.
2703.340000 2706.260000 Bring this to our counting office.
2706.260000 2710.900000 We'll compare your name to the tithing record, and we will take all that money and give
2710.900000 2714.260000 it back to you.
2714.260000 2717.340000 No strings attached.
2717.340000 2723.020000 Come between first and second service, so a guy who owns a farm, I'm a fun guy came to
2723.020000 2728.700000 my wife and I said, "You know what, I hadn't been honoring God, but last week I came and brought
2728.700000 2729.940000 my whole tithe.
2729.940000 2733.180000 I hadn't given, he just started coming here.
2733.180000 2734.580000 I hadn't given since January.
2734.580000 2739.860000 I calculated it all the way up until last Sunday, and I brought it.
2739.860000 2744.940000 And this week I gotta know where somebody sent me a 500-all check for no reason.
2744.940000 2746.580000 I'm sure he gave more than that.
2746.580000 2748.860000 But God was just showing himself.
2748.860000 2751.500000 I'm going to prove myself to you, son.
2751.500000 2756.060000 I'm going to prove that I can handle everything you have, if you'll honor me first.
2756.060000 2761.540000 Say, Pastor, I need to go all the way back to January if I've been robbing that no.
2761.540000 2765.700000 What you need to do is repent, say, "Lord, forgive me of my stingen, forgive me of not
2765.700000 2769.820000 honoring you, and change your mind and start today, amen."
2769.820000 2772.820000 Aren't you glad that his mercies are new every morning?
2772.820000 2773.820000 They're new every morning.
2773.820000 2774.820000 They are.
2774.820000 2775.820000 They are.
2775.820000 2778.100000 I want you to take that test.
2778.100000 2779.420000 Go ahead and fill that out.
2779.420000 2782.100000 I want you to stand.
2782.100000 2788.420000 What we're going to do, our staff's going to pray over these Tuesday when we meet.
2788.420000 2789.420000 What if everybody?
2789.420000 2793.020000 I always wanted to see, I hadn't seen it yet.
2793.020000 2798.220000 But what if everybody in the local church, especially here at British, I can't speak for
2798.220000 2802.500000 everywhere, so what if everybody tithe at Bridge Church?
2802.500000 2807.300000 Did you know we would never have to do a building campaign?
2807.300000 2812.820000 I know Pastor Scott Smith last week, he talked about bazaars and selling pies, and I've never
2812.820000 2813.820000 done that.
2813.820000 2814.820000 I'm not doing that.
2814.820000 2822.060000 You can't build a $4.7 million building in North Carolina selling cake.
2822.060000 2823.740000 It just ain't happening.
2823.740000 2831.580000 But it can, when the generosity of God's people come into play, come into play, we're building
2831.580000 2833.040000 a building down in North Carolina.
2833.040000 2835.820000 It's going to be about $4.7 million.
2835.820000 2846.700000 The leaders at that campus, the leaders, have already committed to giving $1.6 million.
2846.700000 2851.460000 The leaders, that's not congregation.
2851.460000 2856.580000 The biggest gift Bridge Church has ever been given was given to us in this campaign for
2856.580000 2857.580000 that building.
2857.580000 2869.660000 $1.7 million was given, not pledged, given, the check didn't bounce, given, come on, there's
2869.660000 2874.500000 always provision for the vision.
2874.500000 2879.860000 It's not, guess what, every one of us are going to give different levels of money, but we're
2879.860000 2885.620000 all going to give the same percentage.
2885.620000 2893.700000 They're not going to give $2,000 a month, they're going to give $200 a month.
2893.700000 2899.660000 But that's the blessing of the time, as God increases, you can give more, amen?
2899.660000 2900.660000 That's our heads.
2900.660000 2905.340000 Well, I just thank you, God that we've come into this place, been challenged by your word
2905.340000 2908.540000 over the last three weeks today, Lord.
2908.540000 2914.780000 We choose to take the time, challenge, that I pray that you approve yourself, the reliability
2914.780000 2918.220000 of your character to your people.
2918.220000 2924.260000 Bless your people in supernatural ways, in Jesus' name and everybody said, amen, this is one
2924.260000 2929.260000 last thing, one last thing, this is how we kick this off every year, next week, next Sunday
2929.260000 2933.860000 is a all-time Sunday, that's when you can get it straight.
2933.860000 2937.540000 We're changing our mind today, but actions follow repentance, amen?
2937.540000 2944.020000 If I say I repent, but actions never change, we haven't truly repent.
2944.020000 2946.020000 Sunday, all tithes Sunday.