WEBVTT 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:09.919 Hey, I'm Pastor Forrest, and welcome to the Multiple Church Podcast. 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:15.439 Each week we open God's word together to help you meet God and multiply good in your everyday life. 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:18.879 We're so glad that you've taken time to join us for this week's sermon. 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:24.079 And if you haven't already, be sure to subscribe and follow us on social media so you never miss a message. 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:27.120 Now, let's dive into this week's sermon. 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:53.840 As we head into this last installment of our Plenty series, we have been talking about generosity as a church, and this is leading up to next Sunday, December the 7th, when we collectively in faith together, as we are going to give to the Lord an over and above offering next Sunday, collectively together, and exercise faith together, jumping into this last installment that's called Plenty of Trust. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:01:02.079 The last few weeks we've talked about opening up our eyes and our hands, and now this morning we're talking about opening up our hearts to our God and generosity. 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:04.799 And before we get into it, I want to show you a couple things. 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:20.480 One of which is this beautiful plaque that was given to Multiply Church, a resolution honoring Multiply Church by Kentucky State University a few weeks ago, honoring our efforts during the flood relief back at the beginning of this year. 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:30.079 And a few weeks ago at the homecoming convocation, our church and two other churches were recognized for the efforts during that time. 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:36.239 And so if you showed up, if you served, if you gave during that time, super grateful. 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:43.200 And also after the presentation, we got connected with some of the administration. 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:58.239 They actually asked us the next week how could Multiply partner more with the university, which, if you know, for the last four years, we have been sowing seeds and planting seeds, and so you know how significant that is for them to ask for more partnership. 00:01:58.319 --> 00:01:59.599 And amen. 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:00.959 Praise God. 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.200 But ultimately, what this is, ultimately, what this is, this is a witness of Christ. 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:06.640 It's a witness of Christ. 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:22.000 And also last week, we uh were presented with a thank you of support for Multiplied Church from the Wanda Joyce Robinson Foundation and the Wanda Joyce Robinson Foundation that helps kids and teens who are impacted by incarceration. 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:26.000 And it came with a letter, and it was a thank you of support. 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:35.439 Some of y'all know the beginning of this year, we gave$10,000 to Wanda Joyce Robinson, and we've invested tens of thousands with them over the last few years. 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:46.400 And along with it came a letter thanking us for our help with them right now serving and helping 400 children and youth in our community this year. 00:02:46.639 --> 00:03:02.080 150 of those that are in one-on-one mentorship, also an intervention program that they started at Franklin County Juvenile Court, and also opening doors to the boys and girls of uh club of Frankfurt for the very first time a few weeks ago. 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:07.919 All of that that they are saying, thank you for the investment, and that's what God has done through you. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:19.280 So, can y'all just celebrate right now the Lord and what God's done with the faithfulness of our God and us being able to serve and ultimately, like I said, this is a witness of Christ. 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:37.039 This is us being able to say, here we are, being in the hands and feet of Christ, wanting to show our city and those in our community who are in need that we love them and that we love our God. 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:44.000 And the reality is that none of that happens without the worship of tithes and offerings. 00:03:44.319 --> 00:04:08.159 And today, as we talk about what it means for us to bring our tithes, our tithes to the Lord, bringing back to the Lord what's already his and 10%, and then also giving over and above in offerings like we're gonna do next Sunday in December 7th collectively together, we are looking to our Lord and knowing that whatever we bring in our hands, even if we feel like it's not enough, heaven calls it plenty. 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:13.360 And then the Lord's the one who's gonna be able to multiply it for his good. 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:26.959 And where we're going today is this big idea that we should, with the Lord's help, bring first, bring first, bring our best and first to the Lord because we trust the one who gave it to us in the first place. 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:32.720 And so all of us are on a generosity journey as followers of Jesus. 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:34.240 We're called to be generous. 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:37.279 And so last week I said just start where you are. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:49.199 So to start giving at a percentage that feels like faith to you, and let that beginning start to then move into a strategy for generosity for you and your life or your family. 00:04:49.439 --> 00:05:02.000 And as you start to give in a systematic way, that that eventually will turn into sacrificial giving, is what we're called to from the Word of God, from the beginning through the end. 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:10.560 And it this is this sacrificial giving is is what we're called into more than just this random giving. 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:11.920 I'll put it to you this way. 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:19.600 I I went to the gym really consistently for like the first few months of the year, and during the summertime, I just kind of slacked off. 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:22.720 And for some reason, right now I'm not ripped. 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:25.199 And I don't know why. 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:35.839 And maybe for you, maybe you you started to give, but along the way you've given up, and now you're wondering why there isn't breakthrough happening. 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:43.040 Or maybe for you, you're you're wanting God-sized blessings on a when I feel like it kind of faith. 00:05:44.879 --> 00:06:07.680 And so today what we're talking about is ultimately we're talking about trusting our God and trusting him with our whole lives and our whole hearts and our pressing in because oftentimes when we're trying to grasp for control, especially in this area when it comes to finances, then it leads to us not stepping into the trust that God's calling us to. 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:16.160 Now, what we're gonna look at today is Jesus in several quotes of his of talking about and about him when it comes to money and finances. 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:22.240 And if you've if if you know the word, you know that Jesus talks about money and finances more than he talks about heaven and hell. 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:29.519 And that I think that's because Jesus knows how personal this is to us, and he also knows that this is a matter of discipleship. 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:35.680 So today is less about dollar and cents, and it's more about us being disciples of Jesus and making disciples of Jesus. 00:06:36.319 --> 00:07:02.399 And we're gonna look at a passage and start in a passage where Jesus is criticizing the religious leaders, he's criticizing them in the chapter before for the way that they're treating people, they're devouring widows, and he sees in Mark chapter 12 this widow, act in a generous way that it exposes to us the way that Jesus thinks about generosity. 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:03.759 And I want us to dive into it. 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:06.240 So if you have your Bible, turn to Mark chapter 12. 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:08.959 If you've got your phone, pull it out and go to your Bible app. 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:09.920 Mark chapter 12. 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:15.120 It's just three verses to start here, and each of these passages are just going to be a couple of verses each. 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:21.519 But starting in Mark chapter 12, verse 41, it also will be on the screen for you as we dive in. 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:22.399 You guys ready? 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:24.240 All right, let's dive in. 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:26.240 Mark chapter 12, verse 41. 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:32.399 Jesus sat down near the collection box in the temple and watched as the crowds dropped in their money. 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:34.959 Many rich people put in large amounts. 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:39.680 Then a poor widow came and dropped in two small coins. 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:49.519 Jesus called his disciples to him and said, I tell you the truth, this poor widow has given more than all the others who are making contributions. 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:59.040 For they gave a tiny part of their surplus, but she, poor as she is, has given everything she had to live on. 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.439 So what does giving actually look like? 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:07.600 I know for me, I oftentimes I can get tripped up on the financial plan around giving. 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:17.600 I told you all last week that my wife and I, we made the decision to give 11% this year so that we're giving and then we're being generous all year long. 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:22.800 And for me, it's easy for me to get focused on uh the financial plan of that. 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:27.680 But what Jesus is really looking for from me is for me to walk in faith. 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:39.200 And for me to get tripped up, and I it's easy for me to get tripped, or maybe maybe for you, you've gotten tripped up because you've gotten to this mode of, well, I'll I'll give when I feel like it, type faith. 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:43.200 And then you're wondering why then you're not being feeling filled with faith. 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:56.080 And it's because what God is calling us to, Jesus is calling us to, is he's in this passage, this this poor widow comes and gives more in Jesus' view than the rich. 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:02.159 And then Jesus says to his boys, hey, hey bros, come over here. 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:03.840 Let me tell you something. 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:05.679 Let me show you something. 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:07.919 Let me tell you some truth. 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:14.159 This woman gave even more than the ones that gave out of their surplus. 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:22.159 Because what we're called to is we're called to, and my first point is we're called to sacrificial over the superficial. 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:41.200 Because here's the thing Jesus is counting our trust in him, not the totals. 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:50.399 Heaven is counting the trust that we have in God, not about the specific amounts. 00:09:51.519 --> 00:10:02.159 And as we bring to him, we're bringing to him in a way that is sacrificial and not just a sometimes or whatever I feel like it type of mentality. 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:03.679 I'll put it to you this way. 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:05.840 Um, I had a really good Thanksgiving. 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:07.360 It was so great. 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:08.960 Hope you did too. 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:28.799 But I bet, and maybe some of y'all are in it aren't into Thanksgiving and didn't do Thanksgiving, but I but I'm just gonna guess that probably what didn't happen at Thanksgiving, if you were hosting people in your home, you probably didn't go to your fridge and pull out all the leftovers from this week and throw them in the microwave and then throw them out on the table. 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:29.759 Why is that? 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:38.639 Because when you had guests come into your home or whoever you're with or bringing the dishes, you were bringing your best because you were serving them and loving them. 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:41.519 And why would we serve leftovers to the Lord? 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:49.600 See, we're asked, and we see in the scripture that we're called to bring to God our first and our best. 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:57.440 And for me, my personal giving changed completely when I started to understand the concept from the scripture of first fruits. 00:10:57.519 --> 00:10:58.960 Everybody say first fruits. 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:13.120 See, I used to scramble and be stressed, and then I was wanting to give, and when I was giving uh after paying all the bills, and then by the time the end of the month came and to make 10% out of everything that was left over. 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:23.440 But when I learned this concept of first fruits, what then began to I understand is that as soon as income comes into the account, then I give from the very first. 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:28.879 And so right now I just have this uh this kind of game with myself. 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:37.360 I see how fast I can get online and give whenever income comes in before I spend one dollar from that check. 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:41.200 And that's not to impress God, that's so that my heart is submitted to God. 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:49.600 For me to bring to him first, this concept of first fruits goes all the way from Genesis when Cain and Abel brought gifts to the Lord. 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:58.480 Abel brought his first and his best, and Cain just brought a portion, not his best, and envy and jealousy followed, and then murder. 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:01.600 First recorded murder in the scriptures. 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:13.759 See, tithes and offerings, what that looks like is just bringing 10% to the Lord and offerings, the generosity over and above that being offerings, and all of that predates the law. 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:21.759 Now, there's some slick teachers out there, so-called teachers on TikTok, that want to talk about that the tithe is no more. 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:22.799 You want to do that. 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:27.600 That gets a lot of likes and clicks and shares, but that's not rooted in the scripture. 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:32.960 Actually, giving, sacrificial giving, it actually predates the law, the Old Testament. 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:40.799 It goes all the way back to Genesis where we see with Cain and Abel bringing their first fruits, and then and then Abraham bringing a tenth of his offering to Melchizedek. 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:43.039 All of that is before the law of Moses. 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:49.440 Do y'all, do you, do y'all, this is this is this is where it comes to, this is about worship. 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:56.159 Because bringing sacrificial offerings to God, it predates singing and sermons by a long time. 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:15.120 And all that, all that is just about the heart and the worship and submitting yourself to the Lord and being a part of the kingdom story that God is writing in and through your life and through the life of this body and the church globally and the God's economy and what he has already given to us. 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:30.320 And nothing shows the heart of Jesus more than the words that he speaks about the tithe when he affirms this and then is criticizing the religious leaders even more in Matthew 23, verse 23 and 24, just two verses. 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:36.559 Jesus is criticizing them, he's calling them hypocrites, he's calling them out. 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:54.240 And in verse 23 and 24 of chapter 23, Jesus says, Woe to you teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites, you give a tenth of your spices, mint, dill, and cumin, but you have neglected the more important matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faithfulness. 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:59.360 You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former, you blind guides. 00:13:59.919 --> 00:14:03.279 You strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel. 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:06.000 So, what is it that Jesus actually wants? 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:08.960 Growing up in my life, I've been a part of four churches. 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:18.399 From when I was a kid through being in ministry, and I've known a lot of people that have attended church and probably tithe, but were as mean as a snake. 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:29.519 I'm just mean, just angry looking, going to church every Sunday, just mean, arms crossed, tore up, always got some complaint and something to say. 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:56.399 Jesus is asking us for us to follow him with more than just our finances with our finances, but first to trust and submit to him that we would give him our whole heart, that we would pursue faithfulness and justice and mercy, and that we would not neglect those things, even if you're checking the box of I'm giving to the Lord. 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:58.799 That we trust him with the whole heart. 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:00.000 So, what does Jesus actually want? 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:03.519 Well, Jesus wants our whole heart and for us not to be a hypocrite. 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:04.879 That's my second point. 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:12.480 Now, if you're in the room, all of us are a hypocrite in one way or another because we are a bunch of sinners who are saved by grace through faith in the name of Jesus. 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:17.759 If you've come into this room today, there's not one of you who are perfect, including me who is standing up here on this platform. 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:21.120 All of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:32.720 But what is happening here is that Jesus, he's saying to them, hey, it just because you're giving, I'm asking you to submit your whole heart to me. 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:38.159 I I'm asking, I'm not just looking at the herbs and spices that you're giving me. 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:39.919 I'm looking for your heart. 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:48.639 We uh you heard earlier about how we're this year with our Frankfurt Ford initiative getting to do a Christmas drive. 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:58.879 Again, we're gonna get to serve 49 families this year to get Christmas gifts for some folks that uh are in need. 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:11.440 Different families across our community, and over the last four years, we've gotten to do this during Christmas time, and we've been able to serve now hundreds of families during this Christmas blessing. 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:12.480 You know why we're doing that? 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:14.080 It's because we want to be real. 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:31.120 We want to be real, we want to be generous, we want to love those in our city that need love right now, the ones that are neglected, are overlooked, the ones that are poor, the ones that we now are able to step up and be able to serve and serve our city because this is listen to me. 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:36.000 This is ultimately about the people that Jesus loves, which is all of us. 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:44.159 And Jesus sees a loss and a broken world, and he wants us to experience a harvest. 00:16:45.360 --> 00:17:00.960 Jesus makes this statement about the harvestness, it's plentiful, and we've been in this plenty series now for a few weeks, and he talks about the plentiful harvest and talks about what it looks like for us to sow a seed and for it to go into the ground and what it produces. 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:12.960 In John chapter 12, verse 24 to 26, Jesus says, I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:18.559 But its death will produce many new kernels, a plentiful harvest of new lives. 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:21.920 Those who love their life in this world will lose it. 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.400 Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity. 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:35.839 Anyone who wants to serve me must follow me because my servants must be where I am, and the and the Father will honor anyone who serves me. 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:41.759 You know, it's easy for me to forget why we're doing all this. 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:50.079 The problems of life happen for me, or the problems of planting a church. 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:54.960 I have to remind myself why we're doing what we're doing. 00:17:55.279 --> 00:18:01.680 Because it's so easy, and maybe it's easy for you at times to fall into loving yourself more than loving God. 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:32.559 And Jesus is asking for us to serve Him and to care more about the harvest than we do about ourselves, for us to follow Him as Jesus is giving this example that this kernel, this seed, this kernel of wheat that would go into the ground and then the seed would die, but then it would produce a harvest just like Jesus is giving this analogy of him going into the grave and being raised from the dead so that you and I could walk in eternity, in power, and glory, and in faithfulness with our God. 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:36.559 Because Jesus was willing to plant the seed. 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:43.519 And so we have to be about the harvest more than a hard-heartedness, which is my third point. 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:54.960 So we have to press into what God has for us and through us and not let the devil trick us into having hard hearts towards what pleases God. 00:18:56.480 --> 00:19:02.079 Because ultimately that which pleases God is faith, which is trust, and trust multiplies. 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:08.240 And so, as we're bringing to God, we're bringing to the Lord not out of guilt, but of gratitude. 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:15.920 And we're bringing to God, not of not out of pressure, but out of the plenty that He has shown us. 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:22.319 Now I'm I'm really excited and looking forward to this next year in 2026. 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:32.480 And some of y'all know that we've had plans of expansion here in this place for us to take over the space that's next door and the consignment shop. 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:42.319 And earlier in the year during the floods, we opened up that space, uh, connected for it to be a shelter, and then ended up being FEMA in there serving our community for six months. 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:45.759 But now they're gone and we're ready to expand in Jesus' name. 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:54.319 And so plans are being drawn up and finalized, and it's gonna be a kid space for 250 kids and youth. 00:19:54.880 --> 00:20:04.799 Praise God for us to invest in the next generation, for us to invest in what God is doing, and so the lease is being battled out right now by lawyers. 00:20:05.039 --> 00:20:07.440 But I just wonder, you know, we're three years old. 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:11.440 Can you imagine what God will have done after 30 years? 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:13.680 I'll be 68 years old. 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:29.119 And investing in the next generation, and the next church planners to send out, and our kids who are gonna be stepping into their life of faith, and we get to invest in the next generation and see more and more families, more kids, more teenagers come to Christ. 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:30.720 And don't you want to see that church? 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:31.519 I want to see it. 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:32.559 And so, you know what? 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:47.519 Let's just keep stepping out in faith and let the Lord do what he wants to do, which is bring a harvest of new lives, and also get an invest in church planning in capital cities and see that happen in the future. 00:20:47.599 --> 00:21:04.240 And there's two church planners we've been talking to in church in capital cities, and also got to invest in a church planning network called the Strategic Launch Network, who's planted 80 churches in the last 20 years across the country in hard to reach places with a 95% success rate, which is unbelievable. 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:22.559 And so we started a relationship with them early this year that they've now connecting the dots with us with other planters that are in other capital cities that we can encourage and that we can spur on and maybe even one day be sending for other planters in other capital cities so that we can be sent out to see the harvest. 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:25.519 And Jesus sends out the 72. 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:33.039 And when Jesus sends out the 72, he talks about this plentiful harvest that we talked about in the first week of this series. 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:43.599 And Jesus is sending out the 72 to go from town to town and begin to see God move and to tell the gospel and call people to be changed. 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:46.960 And he's talking about a harvest that is plentiful. 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:54.240 This isn't theoretical, this isn't poetry, this is a declaration by Jesus that there's more than meets the eye. 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:57.359 That he's sending them out to see a harvest that would come. 00:21:57.440 --> 00:21:59.519 And in Luke chapter 10, verse 2. 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:03.920 He told them the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:09.759 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest fields. 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:11.839 Which is what we want to do. 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:23.200 And then later in the epistles, Paul drops this truth bomb about Jesus himself, that Jesus himself is the first fruits, meaning that God didn't send us his leftovers. 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:26.240 God didn't wait for humanity to deserve to be saved. 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:28.559 He sent us his first and his best. 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:37.039 In 1 Corinthians 15, 20, the scripture says, But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died. 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:45.039 See, we are bringing first fruits not to earn God's love, but to emulate what he's already done for us. 00:22:45.359 --> 00:22:47.359 So then we can be more like him. 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:57.839 Jesus has come to us as first and best from the Father, the first fruits of all creation, so that we could walk in new life with him. 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:01.440 That then we could see a harvest come and see God move. 00:23:01.599 --> 00:23:31.599 Could you imagine, just imagine with me, if every person, every family, every college student had a mentality that, you know what, I'm gonna start where I am, I'm gonna take a step of faith, I'm gonna give for the first time next Sunday, or I'm gonna commit to tithe in 2026 and give to the Lord and bring to the Lord, not random, not when I remember, not when I feel like it, but in a rhythmic, consistent, first and best type manner. 00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:39.119 So let your heart be open to the harvest. 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:46.319 The harvest that God wants to bring to you and through you. 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:53.119 When you head out today, you're gonna get this bag that has kernels of wheat. 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:54.559 This is actually wheat seed. 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:06.720 And it'll be at the doors and you can grab one of these and this is gonna be a reminder to you that seed has to go into the ground before the harvest can come. 00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:10.160 The seed has to be planted. 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:19.200 So grab one of these and throw it on your dashboard or throw it on your desk at work to be a reminder to you that trust in the Lord multiplies. 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:28.559 We collectively, as we're planting the seed, we're believing in faith that God's gonna use it. 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:30.880 I know he's going to. 00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:37.440 And so uh over the last few weeks, you may have grabbed one of these plenty cards like this. 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:39.279 If you haven't, you can grab one on the way out. 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:51.519 And this is for you to take this week and to pray with your family, pray with your spouse, or with yourself to ask the Lord what does it look like for me to trust you, God? 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:54.559 What's the strategy for generosity gonna be? 00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:00.160 For our home for our future. 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:12.000 What we're gonna bring and give next Sunday as we collectively give during our service next Sunday, there'll be a time for us to all come and bring to the Lord and give an offering to him. 00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:21.200 But pray and ask about what God wants to do strategically in you to grow generosity and faith. 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:28.799 Because we're responding to the first fruit that God gave to us in Christ. 00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:35.279 And maybe for you today, maybe your step is that you need to actually receive the first fruit that God gave to you. 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:55.279 You've not yet accepted Christ as your Savior, but today is the day that you need to give your life to Jesus because you are bought with the price Jesus' blood poured out for you on the cross as the first fruits, the first and best to die in your place and to be buried in the ground and raised back to life. 00:25:55.599 --> 00:26:00.880 And Jesus is now calling you home for you to be in right relationship. 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:03.839 We're so grateful you joined us for this week's message. 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:07.359 At Multiply, we believe life was never meant to be lived alone. 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:12.400 If today you made the decision to follow Jesus, we'd be honored to walk with you on this journey. 00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:15.680 Visit multiplyky.com to let us know. 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:18.160 We love you and we'll see you again soon.