WEBVTT 00:00:00.081 --> 00:00:11.137 Pick up your Bibles, wave them around, make Jesus glad in the devil, mad before we're seated, and let's say this together Say Heavenly Father forever. 00:00:11.137 --> 00:00:14.909 Oh Lord, your Word is settled in heaven. 00:00:14.909 --> 00:00:24.111 You originated everything about our covenant and we've got good sense enough to believe what you say. 00:00:24.111 --> 00:00:54.154 Adjust our thinking where necessary, correct our false teaching and our lack of understanding of certain truths that are holding us back from helping bring forth this unprecedented manifestation of God's power in 2023, in Jesus' name, amen, you can be seated. 00:00:54.154 --> 00:00:54.457 Praise God. 00:00:54.457 --> 00:00:57.110 How about that for a confession? 00:00:57.110 --> 00:01:00.979 Thank you, holy Ghost, you helped me get through that one. 00:01:00.979 --> 00:01:03.780 All right, let's look at Romans, chapter one. 00:01:03.780 --> 00:01:08.713 We've got two verses verse 16 and verse 811. 00:01:08.713 --> 00:01:23.132 And we've been sharing a series of messages on 2023, the year of God's power, and this is the fourth of those messages Romans 1, 16,. 00:01:23.753 --> 00:01:38.566 Paul is writing and he said for I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it, that is, the gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believe it. 00:01:38.566 --> 00:01:42.067 See, if you don't believe it, it doesn't do you any good. 00:01:42.067 --> 00:01:51.045 There's no salvation To everyone that believe it, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek, or to the Gentile, or, in other words the whole world. 00:01:51.045 --> 00:01:54.530 See, in the Bible it says there's three kinds of people. 00:01:54.530 --> 00:01:58.784 First Corinthians, chapter 10, says there's three kinds of people that live on the earth. 00:01:58.784 --> 00:02:01.388 There's the Jews, the nations and the church. 00:02:01.388 --> 00:02:04.125 The Jews have a covenant. 00:02:04.125 --> 00:02:08.509 The church has a better covenant than that. 00:02:08.509 --> 00:02:12.468 Hebrews 8, 6 says our coven is better than the Jews had. 00:02:12.468 --> 00:02:14.705 They had one, but now we've got a better one. 00:02:14.705 --> 00:02:16.966 And then there's everybody else. 00:02:16.966 --> 00:02:23.811 There's the nations, or the ethnos, everybody, every person, all the other people. 00:02:23.811 --> 00:02:26.165 They might be going to church every Sunday. 00:02:26.165 --> 00:02:30.030 They might consider them Christians, selves Christians. 00:02:30.030 --> 00:02:31.706 That's what I considered myself a Christian. 00:02:31.706 --> 00:02:32.563 I wasn't born again. 00:02:32.563 --> 00:02:36.126 Anybody that's not born again is the nations. 00:02:36.126 --> 00:02:37.610 Guess what? 00:02:37.610 --> 00:02:39.740 They don't have a covenant. 00:02:39.740 --> 00:02:42.425 Book of Ephesians says they're alone and without hope in the world. 00:02:42.425 --> 00:02:44.908 That's what their situation is. 00:02:44.908 --> 00:02:47.649 They're alone and without hope in the world. 00:02:47.649 --> 00:02:50.848 That's why we've got good news for all of that group. 00:02:50.848 --> 00:02:53.807 They don't have to stay uncobundated. 00:02:53.807 --> 00:02:57.508 They can enter into the new covenant with us. 00:02:57.508 --> 00:03:01.847 It's the power of God, the dunamis. 00:03:01.847 --> 00:03:05.330 Dunamis is supernatural power associated. 00:03:05.330 --> 00:03:07.004 And what's it for? 00:03:07.004 --> 00:03:09.187 To bring people into salvation. 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:16.743 When you look up salvation in your concordance, it includes deliverance, preservation, healing and soundness. 00:03:16.743 --> 00:03:19.645 Well, it doesn't say finances. 00:03:19.645 --> 00:03:24.426 Well, soundness includes finances, because I'm gonna tell you something, if you're poverty stricken, you're gonna be sick. 00:03:24.426 --> 00:03:25.801 You're gonna be. 00:03:25.801 --> 00:03:27.528 I mean, I've been all over the world. 00:03:27.528 --> 00:03:29.861 I've seen where people live when they're poor and you know what. 00:03:29.861 --> 00:03:33.947 They're also sick Because they live in unsanitary conditions. 00:03:33.947 --> 00:03:40.366 They live in houses that aren't houses, they live in shacks, they live in lean twos, they live in pieces of cardboard. 00:03:40.366 --> 00:03:41.562 I've been there. 00:03:41.562 --> 00:03:46.050 Don't tell me that this doesn't include prosperity. 00:03:46.050 --> 00:03:51.667 Soundness is part of the gospel, it's part of the salvation that we have. 00:03:51.667 --> 00:03:53.241 All right. 00:03:53.441 --> 00:03:58.052 And then Romans, chapter eight, verse 11. 00:03:58.052 --> 00:04:07.146 For if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, well, he does, doesn't he? 00:04:07.146 --> 00:04:09.867 He's not questioning whether it does. 00:04:09.867 --> 00:04:10.823 He's saying since. 00:04:10.823 --> 00:04:32.987 Really, a better translation would be since, since the spirit of God, the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, jesus from the dead, dwells in you, since he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken or make alive your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you. 00:04:32.987 --> 00:04:38.584 And what kind of power is that that the spirit's gonna use to quicken your mortal flesh? 00:04:38.584 --> 00:04:40.245 It's resurrection power. 00:04:40.245 --> 00:04:41.946 It's the same power of the gospel. 00:04:41.946 --> 00:04:43.944 We have it, folks. 00:04:43.944 --> 00:04:55.461 Jesus said in Acts one eight, you shall receive power, dunamis, after the Holy Ghost comes upon you, amen. 00:04:55.461 --> 00:05:01.750 So we've got this power and we've been talking about 2023, the year of God's power. 00:05:02.660 --> 00:05:04.406 There's a series of prophetic messages. 00:05:04.406 --> 00:05:07.886 This is God speaking to glorious way church, I really believe, to the whole church. 00:05:07.886 --> 00:05:21.050 But it starts here and in week one we outline what God's plan was an unprecedented display of God's power in this year. 00:05:21.050 --> 00:05:29.766 He's been willing every year, but this year he's underlining that he's getting us set up and positioned, and I gave you the reasons why. 00:05:29.766 --> 00:05:33.369 You know what I how I interpreted that prophecy. 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:47.567 We talked about the diesel locomotives that were sitting there, abandoned, and God spoke to me about churches that allowed government to declare that they were non-essential, and every one of them that allowed that God has moved to the sidetrack. 00:05:47.567 --> 00:05:49.487 That's where all those diesel locomotives were. 00:05:49.487 --> 00:06:08.211 Instead of dragging trains, they're over there being wasting away in salt air, rusting, mass mass building this all in the wiring, totally deteriorating right there, crumbling, and some of them are gonna go to the scrap heap. 00:06:08.211 --> 00:06:13.007 They hadn't hauled them off there yet and God said everybody that allowed that to happen. 00:06:13.007 --> 00:06:16.103 They're on the sidetrack and they're headed to the scrap yard. 00:06:16.103 --> 00:06:22.589 If I was in one of those churches I'd get out yesterday. 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:25.285 Quit praying and asking God. 00:06:25.285 --> 00:06:26.348 You know what to do. 00:06:26.348 --> 00:06:28.749 You already know that your church left you. 00:06:28.749 --> 00:06:35.925 Why are you hanging around giving your tithe in a dead, decaying Amen? 00:06:35.925 --> 00:06:40.927 Come on, what do you want God to do right across the sky? 00:06:40.927 --> 00:06:48.166 If you stay there much longer, you're gonna be like the rest of them and you might be on the sidetrack and you might wound up on the scrap heap. 00:06:48.166 --> 00:06:52.108 Now we need the word of God right now. 00:06:52.108 --> 00:06:54.781 We need it preached, all right. 00:06:54.821 --> 00:06:56.408 So we talked about that the first week. 00:06:56.408 --> 00:06:59.709 The second week we talked about the power of prayer. 00:06:59.709 --> 00:07:03.026 If we're gonna have the power manifest, we're gonna have to have a prayer life. 00:07:03.026 --> 00:07:10.966 We're gonna have to retrench and dedicate ourselves, rearrange our schedule such that we have time to read our Bibles and pray every day. 00:07:10.966 --> 00:07:13.367 It's not enough for once a week, once a month. 00:07:13.367 --> 00:07:15.346 It's not enough just to come to church and that's it. 00:07:15.500 --> 00:07:19.266 No, that happened 25, 30 years ago, but today is a different day. 00:07:19.266 --> 00:07:20.545 This is the end days. 00:07:20.545 --> 00:07:23.024 I just wanna look. 00:07:23.024 --> 00:07:26.286 It's not gonna happen if you don't know where you're going and what you're doing. 00:07:26.286 --> 00:07:30.529 Unless the Lord builds a house, they labor in vain that built it. 00:07:30.529 --> 00:07:33.747 It's not that the house won't get built. 00:07:33.747 --> 00:07:36.509 It'll get built with blood, sweat and tears, but it won't profit. 00:07:36.509 --> 00:07:38.603 It won't be a blessing, it'll be a curse. 00:07:38.603 --> 00:07:40.103 I've been there. 00:07:40.103 --> 00:07:42.983 I know what that's like. 00:07:42.983 --> 00:07:50.588 Well, the Lord built this house, and he did it out of the power of prayer. 00:07:50.588 --> 00:07:51.062 He did it. 00:07:51.062 --> 00:07:54.684 When I connected with him and found out what his plan was, he was already blessed. 00:07:54.684 --> 00:08:01.946 My plan didn't work, but as soon as I got on his plan, this thing I mean it's been singing ever since. 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:05.048 We're celebrating our anniversary. 00:08:05.048 --> 00:08:13.528 Praise God, it's actually next Sunday, but brother Mark and Trent are gonna be here, so we're gonna celebrate a little bit this Sunday. 00:08:13.528 --> 00:08:16.846 And it happens to be my birthday too. 00:08:16.846 --> 00:08:17.762 Praise the Lord. 00:08:17.762 --> 00:08:19.208 How old are you? 00:08:19.208 --> 00:08:26.230 Well, I'm not ashamed to tell you how old I am, but I read another explanation. 00:08:26.230 --> 00:08:26.641 You know so. 00:08:26.641 --> 00:08:28.848 Women, they don't like to be asked their age. 00:08:28.848 --> 00:08:30.122 Most of them don't. 00:08:30.122 --> 00:08:36.666 And so this one lady said my mother had a really good answer when people asked her how old she was. 00:08:36.666 --> 00:08:41.043 I think she was 102 when people were still asking her how old she was. 00:08:41.043 --> 00:08:48.128 And instead of being proud that she was 102, she says you know, I'm just as old as my tongue and a little younger than my teeth. 00:08:48.128 --> 00:08:54.303 Y'all are gonna get that this afternoon when you think about it. 00:08:54.303 --> 00:08:59.701 All right. 00:08:59.740 --> 00:09:03.226 So power of prayer, we need to be people of prayer. 00:09:03.226 --> 00:09:05.126 We need to know what God is wanting us to do. 00:09:05.126 --> 00:09:08.966 We need to get orders from headquarters, we need to get our instructions. 00:09:08.966 --> 00:09:14.303 We need to allow God to have time to correct us, to adjust our course. 00:09:14.303 --> 00:09:15.801 You know chase. 00:09:15.801 --> 00:09:17.267 The Bible costs about chasing. 00:09:17.267 --> 00:09:20.284 He doesn't use car wrecks to chase and you he uses his word. 00:09:20.284 --> 00:09:26.524 Sometimes you know, as children you've got to grow up and he's got to show you some things that you didn't know and it's not fun. 00:09:26.524 --> 00:09:29.365 He chases every son that he loves. 00:09:29.365 --> 00:09:34.285 Book of Hebrews says chasing is not a car wreck, it's not cancer, it's not that. 00:09:34.285 --> 00:09:36.164 God chases with his word. 00:09:36.164 --> 00:09:44.686 And prayer is the time when we can hear, and sometimes we just need to judge ourselves on things that we're doing wrong and let's get rid of those things. 00:09:46.875 --> 00:09:47.500 I say prayer time, all right. 00:09:47.500 --> 00:09:49.500 Then last week, god's healing power. 00:09:49.500 --> 00:09:57.379 Healing is God's dinner bell and the church should be manifesting God's healing power through their hands, laying hands on the sick and they shall recover. 00:09:57.379 --> 00:10:18.870 These signs shall follow them that believe, not just apostles, believers, and I believe if this year, if we'll stir ourselves up in our prayer time to allow the Holy Ghost to know that we're available, he can sometimes tell us or later on in the day he can guide us to the people who need what we have and we can just give it away. 00:10:18.870 --> 00:10:19.815 In whose name? 00:10:19.815 --> 00:10:32.220 In the name of Jesus, god gave the church the exclusive right to use the most powerful name, the most majestic name, the name of Jesus. 00:10:32.220 --> 00:10:42.437 Every knee has to bow, every sickness, every disease has to bow, and so today, and so you know, god's dinner bell. 00:10:42.456 --> 00:10:42.919 What does that mean? 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:46.480 Well, when healing occurs, it causes a crowd to show up. 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.090 I'm telling you, it causes a stir. 00:10:48.090 --> 00:10:52.216 I mean, when somebody gets healed, I mean it affects that person's family. 00:10:52.216 --> 00:10:56.059 It affects if that person's married, it affects their spouse. 00:10:56.059 --> 00:10:57.559 I mean it affects everybody. 00:10:57.559 --> 00:10:59.980 I mean it affected my whole family. 00:10:59.980 --> 00:11:03.080 The Holy Ghost went through my family like a tornado. 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:09.375 The Holy Ghost went through my family like a tornado because healing showed up. 00:11:10.650 --> 00:11:13.730 My 70 year old Catholic mother was healed instantly. 00:11:13.730 --> 00:11:23.054 Not all healings are instant, some are gradual, but my mother had bone density loss in her back and she was osteoporosis. 00:11:23.054 --> 00:11:26.905 She was just in pain, couldn't get comfortable. 00:11:26.905 --> 00:11:28.303 Sitting couldn't get comfortable. 00:11:28.303 --> 00:11:29.833 Standing couldn't get comfortable. 00:11:29.833 --> 00:11:31.259 She couldn't get comfortable, period. 00:11:31.259 --> 00:11:38.750 And God healed her through the hands of a believing couple that laid hands on her in her living room. 00:11:38.750 --> 00:11:42.350 She wasn't even in a church service, did they pray for her? 00:11:42.350 --> 00:11:45.277 No, they never prayed a thing, they just said in the name of Jesus. 00:11:45.277 --> 00:11:47.014 In the name of Jesus. 00:11:47.014 --> 00:11:49.980 I saw my mother's hands go up and nobody caught her. 00:11:49.980 --> 00:11:58.090 She fell right out on the living room floor on that thin carpet and she was instantly healed. 00:11:58.090 --> 00:12:07.235 She got up, glowing like a light bulb and she lived on into her 90s 93, when she went home to be with the Lord. 00:12:07.235 --> 00:12:15.215 And Gladys was healed that night too, instantly Chronic sinus trouble. 00:12:15.215 --> 00:12:21.817 She had had a sinus headache that whole day and I drug her to a meeting where we met these people and she was healed that night. 00:12:22.010 --> 00:12:22.513 Are you with me? 00:12:22.513 --> 00:12:22.693 Now? 00:12:22.693 --> 00:12:24.013 I'm talking about it. 00:12:24.013 --> 00:12:25.017 It transforms. 00:12:25.017 --> 00:12:27.537 I mean it's God's dinner bell. 00:12:28.509 --> 00:12:34.294 Sometimes people get healed and then they get saved, and that's happened to my mother. 00:12:34.294 --> 00:12:35.798 Now Gladys was saved. 00:12:35.798 --> 00:12:37.470 Now she's saved when she's nine years old. 00:12:37.470 --> 00:12:39.690 She's got her testimony, she can tell her testimony. 00:12:39.690 --> 00:12:42.169 But my mother was Catholic and she was not saved. 00:12:42.169 --> 00:12:43.177 She was not born again. 00:12:43.177 --> 00:12:48.471 But after she got healed she got born again, all right. 00:12:48.611 --> 00:12:52.638 And so then, today we wanna talk about God's power to get wealth. 00:12:52.638 --> 00:12:54.153 We've got two verses. 00:12:54.153 --> 00:13:01.799 Let's look at Deuteronomy, and I got ahold of this many years ago. 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:09.938 I've lived through it, I've tested it, I've been on the edges of things. 00:13:09.938 --> 00:13:15.395 I wanna probably spill some of this over into the diet, because it's just too much to share. 00:13:15.395 --> 00:13:21.120 This morning we wanna take communion together, but let me give you what God gave me for you. 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:23.214 Deuteronomy 8, verse 18,. 00:13:23.274 --> 00:13:29.389 This is Moses teaching the children of the rebels. 00:13:29.389 --> 00:13:32.575 Their parents died in the wilderness because they had unbelief. 00:13:32.575 --> 00:13:36.616 They didn't believe they received. 00:13:36.616 --> 00:13:39.195 They said we'd be not able. 00:13:39.195 --> 00:13:41.133 God said it. 00:13:41.133 --> 00:13:42.498 They didn't believe it. 00:13:42.498 --> 00:13:50.057 Hebrews 4 says the gospel was preached unto them, this group of rebels, and unto us. 00:13:50.057 --> 00:13:51.832 Isn't that amazing? 00:13:51.832 --> 00:13:55.980 The book of Hebrews calls this promise land thing the gospel. 00:13:55.980 --> 00:14:05.836 The gospel was preached unto them as well as unto us, but it did not profit them. 00:14:05.836 --> 00:14:07.900 Because why? 00:14:07.900 --> 00:14:10.479 It was not mixed with faith in them that heard it? 00:14:10.479 --> 00:14:16.938 They didn't mix what they heard from God through Moses with faith, and so they didn't go in and take the promise land. 00:14:16.938 --> 00:14:19.357 So God said all right, I'm gonna give it to your kids. 00:14:19.357 --> 00:14:21.355 You're gonna die here in the wilderness. 00:14:21.355 --> 00:14:26.537 And the 10 spies who gave an evil report died of the plague right there on the spot. 00:14:26.537 --> 00:14:32.591 They didn't last very long, till sundown, all right. 00:14:32.591 --> 00:14:34.376 So here he is. 00:14:34.758 --> 00:14:37.115 Deuteronomy means second giving of the law. 00:14:37.115 --> 00:14:51.754 He's going through the entire law of Moses, the entire Judaic law, to this group of children, who are now adults, before they go across the river and possess their land. 00:14:51.754 --> 00:14:58.614 And he says to them but you shall remember, see, their fathers forgot. 00:14:58.614 --> 00:15:02.157 They forgot what God did in Egypt. 00:15:02.157 --> 00:15:04.135 They forgot the miracles. 00:15:04.135 --> 00:15:08.080 They forgot how God brought them out with substance. 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:09.936 I mean, they spoiled the Egyptians. 00:15:09.936 --> 00:15:16.239 They were already pretty well fixed financially, but there was more that God wanted to do. 00:15:16.239 --> 00:15:17.894 That was just the down payment. 00:15:17.894 --> 00:15:23.114 He wanted to transfer the entire wealth of Canaan land into their hands. 00:15:25.169 --> 00:15:26.133 We be not able. 00:15:26.133 --> 00:15:32.154 There's inflation, joe Biden's president. 00:15:32.154 --> 00:15:35.658 We be not able to do anything. 00:15:35.658 --> 00:15:43.153 We're just gonna have to hide in a closet and hope God does something. 00:15:43.153 --> 00:15:47.095 That's really the attitude. 00:15:47.095 --> 00:15:54.934 That's all those empty, that's all those locomotives that are sitting there on the sidetrack, and we ain't one of them. 00:15:57.421 --> 00:16:06.000 All right, you shall remember the Lord, your God, for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth. 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.115 Why? 00:16:08.115 --> 00:16:25.495 That he may establish his covenant which he swear unto thy fathers, the rebels, and it goes all the way back to Abraham, isaac and Jacob really the fathers To establish his covenant which he swear unto thy fathers. 00:16:25.495 --> 00:16:26.077 What is that? 00:16:26.077 --> 00:16:29.955 That's the gospel, that's the good news. 00:16:29.955 --> 00:16:33.476 Hey, good news, jews, you just got hooked up with God. 00:16:33.476 --> 00:16:37.855 Almighty El Shaddai, I'm Jehovah Rafa, I'm the Lord at Helethy. 00:16:37.855 --> 00:16:40.418 I'm Jehovah Jireh, the Lord that provided. 00:16:40.418 --> 00:16:43.434 I'm Jehovah Shama, I'm always with you. 00:16:43.434 --> 00:16:45.498 I mean, he's a covenant keeping God. 00:16:45.498 --> 00:16:47.015 You're hooked up with God. 00:16:47.015 --> 00:16:49.736 Nobody else on the earth is hooked up with God. 00:16:49.736 --> 00:16:53.979 I'm gonna bless you to make you a blessing. 00:16:53.979 --> 00:16:56.256 That's what he told Abraham. 00:16:56.256 --> 00:17:04.597 Surely, multiplying, I will multiply thee, and blessing I will bless thee, and then they shall, all the world, be blessed. 00:17:04.597 --> 00:17:06.713 That was the Jews. 00:17:08.650 --> 00:17:12.757 You ever wonder why Jews just seem to be all the best doctors, the best lawyers? 00:17:12.757 --> 00:17:18.138 You know they're in positions of authority, they own the biggest businesses, they're in Hollywood, they're all the. 00:17:18.138 --> 00:17:22.016 I mean, you know there's something in them that just they know they're supposed to have money. 00:17:22.016 --> 00:17:23.460 Why do you think that? 00:17:23.460 --> 00:17:25.237 Because you know Moses all the way back. 00:17:25.237 --> 00:17:27.818 They don't have any hangups about money. 00:17:27.818 --> 00:17:29.549 We're the ones, our. 00:17:29.589 --> 00:17:31.057 Dennis Prager say this on the radio. 00:17:31.057 --> 00:17:34.078 You know Dennis Prager and he's a rabbi. 00:17:34.078 --> 00:17:38.298 You know he has a charge of people. 00:17:38.298 --> 00:17:45.403 He said I was having a Shabbat service on a Passover, a wonderful Passover. 00:17:45.403 --> 00:17:49.473 My Passover service is you ought to come, even if you're Christian, you ought to come to my Passover service. 00:17:49.473 --> 00:17:52.237 He said man, it is quite a production. 00:17:52.237 --> 00:17:54.595 You talk about food, you talk about a production. 00:17:54.595 --> 00:17:59.518 He said people come from all over and I don't really know where he is located. 00:17:59.518 --> 00:18:04.876 He said people come from all over, they fly in for it and of course I sell tickets. 00:18:04.876 --> 00:18:12.517 And when my I sell tickets, I said he said I sell tickets to my Shabbat. 00:18:14.490 --> 00:18:17.516 And he said you know, my Christian friends, they seem to have hangups about money. 00:18:17.516 --> 00:18:22.617 They, when I tell them that I sell tickets, well, they cause a fortune for me to put that on. 00:18:22.617 --> 00:18:27.435 I'm not gonna just put it on and hope that somebody puts a little nickel in the offering bucket. 00:18:27.435 --> 00:18:30.536 Offering plate is what he said. 00:18:30.536 --> 00:18:32.431 We don't have plates around here, we have buckets. 00:18:32.431 --> 00:18:40.634 But anyway, my Christian friends, we have a hangup about money. 00:18:40.634 --> 00:18:42.029 They're kind of dual minded, see. 00:18:42.029 --> 00:18:44.057 And so he is exactly right. 00:18:44.210 --> 00:19:01.013 Even if we've heard this message, we still have stuff in the back of our minds that hang around from what I said earlier, your upbringing, your family, the way your parents raised you, your circle of friends. 00:19:01.013 --> 00:19:05.478 These hangups can block your faith. 00:19:05.478 --> 00:19:12.178 They can interfere with your ability for this power to get wealth. 00:19:12.178 --> 00:19:21.034 That God gave the Jews and by virtue of the fact that we're the seed of Abraham through faith in Christ, it applies to us too. 00:19:21.034 --> 00:19:23.575 Well, I just can't accept that. 00:19:23.575 --> 00:19:25.938 Well then, you can't accept what I'm saying this morning. 00:19:25.938 --> 00:19:27.115 That's why I'm persuading you. 00:19:27.115 --> 00:19:27.932 I want you to see it. 00:19:27.932 --> 00:19:30.174 If God said it, can you believe it? 00:19:30.174 --> 00:19:38.861 I didn't say it, kenneth Copeland didn't say it, brother Hagen didn't say it, jesse DePlanistan, joel Osteen didn't say it. 00:19:39.089 --> 00:19:46.069 All these people get such criticism because they happen to be rich, they happen to be living nice houses, fly planes and all. 00:19:46.069 --> 00:19:46.952 So what? 00:19:46.952 --> 00:19:51.335 They've helped millions of people. 00:19:51.335 --> 00:19:55.410 Anyway, I'm not here to defend them. 00:19:55.410 --> 00:19:57.978 I'm just here to say that it's wrong-headed. 00:19:57.978 --> 00:20:04.434 Why don't you save all your scorn for the people that are doing evil instead of the people that are doing good? 00:20:06.890 --> 00:20:14.701 All right, so turn over to 2 Corinthians, chapter 8. 00:20:14.701 --> 00:20:19.678 And this is what Paul said to the Corinthian church. 00:20:19.678 --> 00:20:25.076 And if you'll recall the Corinthian church, the Corinthian church was carnal. 00:20:25.076 --> 00:20:27.535 He said you're all carnal. 00:20:27.535 --> 00:20:28.732 You need to grow up. 00:20:28.732 --> 00:20:32.431 You're so. 00:20:32.431 --> 00:20:33.595 They were far from perfect. 00:20:33.595 --> 00:20:38.515 A lot of people exclude themselves from prosperity because they don't think they're perfect. 00:20:38.515 --> 00:20:40.615 Well, nobody is, hello. 00:20:40.615 --> 00:20:42.515 That's why the blood was shed. 00:20:42.515 --> 00:20:43.933 We're going to have communion here in a minute. 00:20:43.933 --> 00:20:48.414 2 Corinthians 8, verse 9. 00:20:53.390 --> 00:21:01.556 For you know the grace of our Lord, jesus Christ, that, though he was rich Now the Bible said he was rich why do you keep saying he was poor? 00:21:01.556 --> 00:21:07.490 People say, oh, jesus was poor Jesus. 00:21:07.490 --> 00:21:10.019 Well, no, he became poor, but he wasn't poor. 00:21:10.019 --> 00:21:15.836 How can you be poor when kings bring you all of their treasure and lay it at your feet when you're still in the manger? 00:21:15.836 --> 00:21:27.912 He had an endowment, his father worked an honorable trade and his father was not poor, amen. 00:21:27.912 --> 00:21:30.180 Well, they had no place to lay his head. 00:21:30.180 --> 00:21:32.613 Well, it's because he's a traveling preacher and he had a house. 00:21:32.613 --> 00:21:38.372 The Bible says he had a house and he's traveled from point A to point B and there was not always a place to stay. 00:21:38.372 --> 00:21:40.369 He had to camp out on the side of the road. 00:21:40.369 --> 00:21:41.450 That's what that's talking about. 00:21:41.450 --> 00:21:42.300 It's not because he's broke. 00:21:43.049 --> 00:21:44.375 Jesus was never broke. 00:21:44.375 --> 00:21:57.534 He was the sole support of 12 apostles and their families, and his mother, who was a widow, and his little brothers and sisters, however many there were, that's not broke. 00:21:57.534 --> 00:21:59.414 And then, finally, 70. 00:21:59.414 --> 00:22:07.999 70 families were looking at him for support, making sure that they had money to pay their bills. 00:22:07.999 --> 00:22:19.020 Leave everything, leave what you've got, leave your nets, leave your boat, leave your business and follow me and I'll make you to become poor. 00:22:19.020 --> 00:22:26.571 He became poor where at the cross, though he was rich. 00:22:26.571 --> 00:22:38.551 Yet, for our sakes, our sakes, he became poor that we, through his poverty, might be rich. 00:22:38.772 --> 00:22:48.131 There you can see clearly the substitution and identification, the two Things that are necessary for redemption to occur. 00:22:48.131 --> 00:22:55.496 We're redeemed from poverty just as much if we've been redeemed from sin, just as much as we've been redeemed from sickness and disease. 00:22:55.496 --> 00:22:58.104 Now, I know most of us in here believe that. 00:22:58.104 --> 00:23:04.012 I Know that there's a few that maybe never heard it white this way, which is why I'm doing it. 00:23:04.012 --> 00:23:18.902 But also I want to blow up and Eliminate any of those nagging little things in the back of your mind that's hindering you and Excluding you and saying well, I'm excluded for this message because I'm just not perfect enough. 00:23:18.902 --> 00:23:23.358 I didn't go to school, I didn't have daddy, daddy, dad, I'm on a fixed income. 00:23:23.358 --> 00:23:24.442 Well, you're the one that fixed it. 00:23:24.442 --> 00:23:26.489 God, god, god doesn't fix your income. 00:23:26.489 --> 00:23:28.074 There's always more for you. 00:23:28.074 --> 00:23:28.996 If you just believe it. 00:23:28.996 --> 00:23:29.846 He said it. 00:23:29.846 --> 00:23:30.710 I don't believe it. 00:23:30.710 --> 00:23:33.396 I mean you could just said long as you say it, it's gonna be that way. 00:23:33.396 --> 00:23:36.088 I'm not picking on you, but there's. 00:23:36.169 --> 00:23:38.796 We all have our little sayings, and where do they come from? 00:23:38.796 --> 00:23:40.807 They come from the people we hang around, we. 00:23:40.807 --> 00:23:42.330 They come from our upbringing. 00:23:42.330 --> 00:23:45.538 They come from you know, customs that need to be blown up. 00:23:45.538 --> 00:23:50.309 Dynamite is going out, see, dunamis. 00:23:50.309 --> 00:24:00.979 Dynamite is going out, blowing up these customs, blowing up these thought processes, these endless loops of negative thinking excluding you from being rich. 00:24:00.979 --> 00:24:05.834 Oh no, pastor, he's not talking about rich. 00:24:05.834 --> 00:24:06.695 Yes, he is. 00:24:06.695 --> 00:24:09.310 You hadn't looked it up, have you? 00:24:09.310 --> 00:24:15.510 Rich doesn't mean just spiritually rich, or you, we already have that. 00:24:15.510 --> 00:24:18.419 It's talking about money, honey. 00:24:18.419 --> 00:24:19.385 All right. 00:24:21.945 --> 00:24:28.613 So let's go back to the Old Testament, moses speaking to the children of the rebels Remember your covenant. 00:24:28.613 --> 00:24:30.464 Don't be like your fathers. 00:24:30.464 --> 00:24:34.394 Get this right. 00:24:34.394 --> 00:24:35.858 Now You're fixing across this river. 00:24:35.858 --> 00:24:36.361 I can't go with you. 00:24:36.361 --> 00:24:36.942 You know he was punished. 00:24:36.942 --> 00:24:37.765 He couldn't go across with. 00:24:37.765 --> 00:24:43.260 Josh was gonna take you across the river and gosh, josh, did Joshua take him across the river. 00:24:43.260 --> 00:24:46.060 Yeah, they do, supernatural, I think. 00:24:46.060 --> 00:24:50.940 Piled up the river, you know all the way, piled up on one side and they walked over on dry ground. 00:24:50.940 --> 00:24:52.042 Kind of reminds you of the Red Sea. 00:24:52.042 --> 00:24:54.944 Right same thing, same miracle, same God, same power. 00:24:55.984 --> 00:25:01.528 God was so ready for them to reap this financial harvest. 00:25:01.528 --> 00:25:04.401 It was a financial harvest. 00:25:04.401 --> 00:25:07.394 They ate food the first time that they didn't plant. 00:25:07.394 --> 00:25:09.305 They was all stored up in storehouses. 00:25:09.305 --> 00:25:19.984 They're busy walking across all these years, the desert and they get in there and they got all this food stacked up that they ate until they could grow their own crop. 00:25:19.984 --> 00:25:35.684 They went into Jericho and they spoiled the greatest city on earth and spoiled all the and gave it all into the Treasury To finance the building later of everything that they needed to worship God. 00:25:35.684 --> 00:25:37.471 And then, after that, that was the devoted city. 00:25:37.471 --> 00:25:40.464 That was like represented the church. 00:25:40.464 --> 00:25:43.593 That was the devoted city that was like represented the tie. 00:25:43.593 --> 00:25:52.519 They gave God the first fruits of their endeavors and I mean that place was full of gold and silver and and precious things of all kinds. 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:55.218 And Then they started having a wealth transfer. 00:25:55.218 --> 00:25:59.753 City by city by city, they spoiled the cities and they gathered all the wealth. 00:25:59.794 --> 00:26:00.737 Are y'all with me now. 00:26:00.737 --> 00:26:03.534 Well, we got a better covenant than they do. 00:26:03.534 --> 00:26:04.176 What are we doing? 00:26:04.176 --> 00:26:05.785 Griping about what's going on right now? 00:26:05.785 --> 00:26:07.371 It we're exempt from all of it. 00:26:07.371 --> 00:26:15.736 Yeah, I know it's kind of vexing, it's hard to read the paper and hard to watch television, but look, let's just let me let that hang on you and affect you. 00:26:15.736 --> 00:26:22.156 God has a supply that's richer than anything going on here. 00:26:22.156 --> 00:26:29.114 So he said Remember this covenant, remember that God gives you the power. 00:26:29.173 --> 00:26:33.592 That word power is koak, it's a Hebrew word, and what does it mean? 00:26:33.592 --> 00:26:36.067 It means ability, force. 00:26:36.067 --> 00:26:42.758 How many of you know, it took a lot of force to get all the wealth of each of those cities and Canaan land. 00:26:42.758 --> 00:26:49.117 They had to defeat those people, they had to either kill them or expel them, and they took all their goods. 00:26:49.117 --> 00:26:55.896 That's a transfer of wealth, the wealth of wicked's laid up for the just, and it still is. 00:26:55.896 --> 00:27:04.164 There's a whole lot of this world's wealth Hung up with people who God wants to take it away from them and give it to the church. 00:27:04.164 --> 00:27:07.511 I'm not talking about robbing people. 00:27:07.511 --> 00:27:10.719 I'm talking about, though God has a supernatural way of doing that. 00:27:10.719 --> 00:27:23.548 It means ability, force, might, and if you keep reading, it means chameleon, chameleon, yeah, lizard, co-op lizard. 00:27:23.568 --> 00:27:25.296 So I got a hold of this 40 years ago. 00:27:25.296 --> 00:27:26.019 I said God, what? 00:27:26.019 --> 00:27:29.829 What does lizard have to do with prosperity? 00:27:29.829 --> 00:27:34.057 I mean, I got it, I had the power to get wealth, ability, you know. 00:27:34.057 --> 00:27:36.587 And Chameleon what? 00:27:36.587 --> 00:27:43.785 And so, imentionally, god took me back in my childhood when I was 11 years old. 00:27:43.944 --> 00:27:53.494 I was in my driveway on Bailey Street in refurio and my dad had just bought a 1958 Ford fair lane 500 Ford or Saban ugly car. 00:27:53.494 --> 00:27:57.933 I thought, god leave, pop, Couldn't you gotten something a little nicer looking? 00:27:57.933 --> 00:28:00.663 This thing is ugly, pontiac's kind of nice looking. 00:28:00.663 --> 00:28:02.567 Oh, it's more than you know. 00:28:02.567 --> 00:28:03.932 All of those are pretty guys looking. 00:28:03.932 --> 00:28:07.489 But man, that Ford was ugly and I wait till next year. 00:28:07.489 --> 00:28:14.736 59 was the ugly, oh well, anyway, so 58 and it's powder blue and I'm. 00:28:14.978 --> 00:28:31.444 I got the keys off the table, I went out and I turned the accessory on and I turned the radio on channel 55 KTS, a San Antonio, listen to radio making engine noises, steering the steering wheel, because I'm bright, I mean, I couldn't wait to be able to drive. 00:28:31.444 --> 00:28:42.316 I wanted to drive and by when I was 12 I drove that part of Victorian back and my dad taught me how to drive on and I had to go through that. 00:28:42.316 --> 00:28:45.569 That two lane Bridge, that's just barely enough. 00:28:45.569 --> 00:28:56.282 I mean, you know, you just thought you're gonna have a head on carash right there over the San Antonio River and it just was so narrow and and I was so nervous, I did, yeah, you got it, you're fine. 00:28:56.282 --> 00:28:56.664 You're fine. 00:28:56.664 --> 00:28:58.171 You know, you're fine. 00:28:58.753 --> 00:29:01.223 I just held my breath when a car would pass. 00:29:01.223 --> 00:29:04.484 You know, you just think your mirrors gonna knock off, you're gonna side swipe. 00:29:04.484 --> 00:29:08.625 I knew I wasn't gonna be head-on but I just it didn't look like there was enough room. 00:29:08.625 --> 00:29:12.016 See, I had to develop confidence of how big the car was. 00:29:12.016 --> 00:29:17.780 Anyway, getting back to this, so I'm sitting there and I'm just having fine by my, by myself. 00:29:17.780 --> 00:29:18.785 You know listen radio. 00:29:18.785 --> 00:29:29.446 You know driving the car making engine sounds like kids do or used to, and because now they have games, make this more as this form and Plop. 00:29:30.289 --> 00:29:32.175 And here's this lizard falls out on the hood. 00:29:32.175 --> 00:29:40.213 Green lizard, it was a tree over the driveway, just fell right down on the hood and I'm looking at it and it kind of laughs at boy, that was a belly flop. 00:29:40.213 --> 00:29:41.016 I bet that hurt. 00:29:41.016 --> 00:29:49.337 Just I was kind of laughing and within 30 seconds it turned powder blue and I I'd never seen that. 00:29:49.337 --> 00:29:51.345 Well, I didn't know, I didn't know they did that. 00:29:51.345 --> 00:29:57.894 I mean I didn't know they had the ability to just blend in when you can't say this thing was powder blue. 00:29:59.948 --> 00:30:01.792 And God reminded me when he had that. 00:30:01.792 --> 00:30:03.478 He said adaptability. 00:30:03.478 --> 00:30:08.996 God will give you the power to be adaptable in any kind of financial situation. 00:30:08.996 --> 00:30:15.010