WEBVTT 00:00:00.059 --> 00:00:04.506 lift our Bibles around and up and wave them around, make Jesus glad in the devil man. 00:00:04.506 --> 00:00:08.885 Let's say this together say heavenly Father, I'm so glad that Jesus came. 00:00:08.885 --> 00:00:11.144 He came the first time. 00:00:11.144 --> 00:00:13.867 That's what we're talking about this season. 00:00:13.867 --> 00:00:18.885 Jesus is the reason for the season, but he's coming again. 00:00:18.885 --> 00:00:22.047 Our hearts are filled with anticipation. 00:00:22.047 --> 00:00:31.044 We wanna be ready, we wanna be awake, we wanna be found doing what we've been called to do. 00:00:31.044 --> 00:00:35.098 In Jesus' name, amen, praise God. 00:00:35.179 --> 00:00:42.051 Let's turn in our Bibles to two places Third John, two, and also second Corinthians, chapter eight. 00:00:42.051 --> 00:00:54.222 In third John, chapter two, john apostle. 00:00:54.222 --> 00:00:56.409 John, the apostle whom Jesus loved. 00:00:56.409 --> 00:00:57.645 I wanna remind you of that. 00:00:57.645 --> 00:01:04.114 And he told the church. 00:01:04.155 --> 00:01:09.792 He said in verse two beloved, I wish, or I pray above all things. 00:01:09.792 --> 00:01:16.890 Everybody say priority, and this is a priority with God, because he was writing this under inspiration of the Holy Ghost. 00:01:16.890 --> 00:01:19.704 Everybody say God's priority. 00:01:19.704 --> 00:01:30.388 I wish or I pray above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers. 00:01:30.388 --> 00:01:34.087 Our souls, our mind, our will, our intellect. 00:01:34.087 --> 00:01:40.444 You know how you think about things have a whole lot to do with whether you're gonna receive what God wants you to have. 00:01:40.444 --> 00:01:48.750 God wants you to have a whole bunch of things and it's whether we know that they belong to us. 00:01:48.750 --> 00:01:49.182 Amen. 00:01:49.182 --> 00:01:51.966 Well, this is priority with God. 00:01:51.966 --> 00:01:53.587 He wants us a long life's journey. 00:01:53.587 --> 00:01:56.388 In other words, the Greek means a long life's journey. 00:01:56.388 --> 00:02:02.191 He wants us to be successful in business affairs. 00:02:02.191 --> 00:02:04.248 That's the literal part about prosperity. 00:02:04.248 --> 00:02:10.091 He wants us to be wealthy, safe, whole. 00:02:10.091 --> 00:02:14.508 Well, he wants our health just springing forth. 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:21.423 You know they're talking about masking up again, not me. 00:02:21.423 --> 00:02:24.046 You're not wearing any more masks, you goofballs. 00:02:24.046 --> 00:02:25.887 Never again will I wear a mask. 00:02:25.887 --> 00:02:27.846 You can just have to forget it. 00:02:27.846 --> 00:02:31.008 Oh, I'm not at risk of anything. 00:02:31.008 --> 00:02:39.764 I've got health and prosperity accompanying me everywhere I go, whether I'm going to the mall or the hospital or wherever I'm going. 00:02:39.764 --> 00:02:45.086 Mask, let Joe Biden mask up. 00:02:45.086 --> 00:02:48.622 Maybe he could hide his face and not help a little while until we can get rid of him. 00:02:52.609 --> 00:02:53.852 All right, second Corinthians eight. 00:02:53.852 --> 00:02:57.282 Let's read this one. 00:02:57.282 --> 00:03:04.683 Paul wrote to the Corinthian church and I'm going to read it first in the King James, that then I want the message Bible. 00:03:04.683 --> 00:03:12.766 And the King James says for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we just got through talking about his grace living with us. 00:03:12.766 --> 00:03:24.748 You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you, through his poverty, might be rich. 00:03:24.748 --> 00:03:30.668 Might, you see, the word might remind yourself. 00:03:30.668 --> 00:03:36.669 That might means it's on you, it's not on God, because God has provided rich for you. 00:03:36.669 --> 00:03:38.961 What is rich? 00:03:38.961 --> 00:03:39.765 A million dollars? 00:03:39.765 --> 00:03:44.108 No, rich is having an abundant supply, whether that means a million dollars, a billion dollars. 00:03:44.108 --> 00:03:49.408 You know, really, god gave me a new definition of poverty a few years ago. 00:03:49.408 --> 00:03:52.383 He said poverty is the inability to meet the needs of the harvest. 00:03:52.383 --> 00:03:57.686 So in that sense we are all poverty stricken because we're not getting close to it. 00:03:57.686 --> 00:04:01.566 We've got a whole lot of believing to do. 00:04:01.566 --> 00:04:06.503 We've got a whole lot of adjusting of our brain tissue and our willingness. 00:04:06.503 --> 00:04:08.667 That's why I'm preaching this on Christmas. 00:04:08.667 --> 00:04:14.205 Why, pastor, I came to church and I thought you'd preach a Christmas, maybe one to come next Christmas morning. 00:04:14.205 --> 00:04:15.305 We're going to preach a Christmas. 00:04:15.305 --> 00:04:16.826 I'm not even going to commit to that. 00:04:16.826 --> 00:04:17.483 I might not. 00:04:17.483 --> 00:04:19.766 That's the thing about brother Osteen. 00:04:19.766 --> 00:04:21.726 I mean you never knew what he was going to preach. 00:04:21.726 --> 00:04:24.163 He didn't go by the calendar, he went by the Holy Ghost. 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:31.442 You know, I came out of the Catholic church and the Catholic church is liturgical, you know, and they have all their seeds. 00:04:31.442 --> 00:04:32.586 Advent lint. 00:04:32.586 --> 00:04:33.228 You know lint. 00:04:33.228 --> 00:04:36.269 I gave up chocolate one time for lint. 00:04:36.269 --> 00:04:42.545 I thought that would give me a gold star with God and I failed the very first day. 00:04:42.545 --> 00:04:44.487 I mean I could not give up chocolate. 00:04:44.487 --> 00:04:51.187 I cheated all the way for 40 days and 40 nights during lint, giving up chocolate. 00:04:51.187 --> 00:04:56.163 It's nowhere in the Bible says you ought to give up anything like that. 00:04:56.163 --> 00:05:01.345 I mean, look, you know, and you, to go by the calendar, you have where these vestments. 00:05:01.345 --> 00:05:04.649 You know you got the dull ones and you got the bright ones. 00:05:04.769 --> 00:05:10.225 You know I always liked Easter because then they put on the rose, hot pink vestments. 00:05:10.225 --> 00:05:12.204 I thought those were kind of cool. 00:05:12.204 --> 00:05:13.363 I only wore them one Sunday. 00:05:13.363 --> 00:05:15.786 I don't know what those vestments cost. 00:05:15.786 --> 00:05:17.887 It's stuff the Monsignor put on. 00:05:17.887 --> 00:05:20.380 But man, it had to be high dollar stuff, I mean. 00:05:22.266 --> 00:05:28.908 But no, I just, you know, he just preached whatever the Holy ghost put in his heart If that was on giving on Christmas. 00:05:28.908 --> 00:05:30.365 Well, he preached on giving. 00:05:30.365 --> 00:05:33.062 Are you with me now? 00:05:33.062 --> 00:05:34.444 Why are we preaching this? 00:05:34.444 --> 00:05:36.487 Because we are under pressure right now. 00:05:36.487 --> 00:05:40.048 Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the word of God. 00:05:40.048 --> 00:05:54.519 We need at the Christmas time where we're, you know, most of us are giving gifts and we're we're gonna have to pay for this come January probably if we put it on the card and we're cut off. 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:58.048 I read where people are cutting back and there's a lot of pressure on people right now. 00:05:58.048 --> 00:06:04.086 Let's get our hearts built up in the word of God and let's put pressure on the devil. 00:06:04.086 --> 00:06:07.629 Let's let the word of God bear all the pressure. 00:06:07.629 --> 00:06:10.949 Let's obey what the word says about our finances. 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:15.451 I want to talk today about positioned for prosperity. 00:06:15.451 --> 00:06:20.345 We have to be in position, a proper position. 00:06:20.345 --> 00:06:26.747 Now you've been hearing me talk about our redemption as being like a coin with heads and tails. 00:06:26.747 --> 00:06:28.485 There's two sides to redemption. 00:06:28.485 --> 00:06:33.428 There's the legal side what Christ purchased for us at Calvary. 00:06:33.428 --> 00:06:37.788 We just read that he purchased prosperity for us. 00:06:37.788 --> 00:06:43.670 It's a priority with God that we prosper in business affair. 00:06:43.690 --> 00:06:44.874 Don't, don't spiritual. 00:06:44.874 --> 00:06:46.625 I've heard preachers spiritualize. 00:06:46.625 --> 00:06:51.752 Oh, yes, he wants us to be prosperous of our lives and all of that. 00:06:51.752 --> 00:06:55.569 No, he wants our financial world to be prosperous. 00:06:55.569 --> 00:06:59.310 He wants our income to exceed our outgo. 00:06:59.310 --> 00:07:09.206 Well, I have plenty of money to meet the needs of the harvest and meet the needs of the church, to meet the needs of the poor and people that are going through things. 00:07:09.300 --> 00:07:15.071 People do go through things in this life and the church is where they ought to come to get some help. 00:07:15.071 --> 00:07:18.906 It ought to not be the government, the nanny state. 00:07:18.906 --> 00:07:20.904 That's what they're trying to do. 00:07:20.904 --> 00:07:23.166 They're trying to take the place of the church. 00:07:23.166 --> 00:07:29.043 They'll never do it because the church is what Supernatural? 00:07:29.043 --> 00:07:32.920 The church is hooked up with God, almighty he's. 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:38.064 We're hooked up with El Shaddai, the God who's what, more than enough, the overflow and cup. 00:07:38.125 --> 00:07:47.610 God Jesus said I came to give you life and give it to you more abundantly, super abundant in quantity, superior in quality. 00:07:47.610 --> 00:07:54.065 That's the kind of life God lives and that's the kind of life we should live, because that's what we get, we're given. 00:07:54.065 --> 00:07:55.483 That's the legal side. 00:07:55.483 --> 00:08:16.468 Everybody say legal side, but then there's another side of redemption that we call the vital side, taken from the Latin in Vichy, which means according to life, I like to say the functional side, and that is the side that we actually experience as a result of our faith, patience and obedience. 00:08:16.468 --> 00:08:21.911 And usually there's a big gap between legal and vital. 00:08:21.911 --> 00:08:24.485 And what's gonna close that gap? 00:08:24.485 --> 00:08:35.671 Preaching the word and for you to take what I'm preaching and instituted in your heart, start thinking like that and start obeying God in his financial ways of doing business. 00:08:35.671 --> 00:08:38.764 Thank you for three old me's. 00:08:38.764 --> 00:08:42.427 Until I was still hoping you'd preach on the manger. 00:08:42.427 --> 00:08:43.544 Well, you know the manger. 00:08:45.019 --> 00:08:50.308 I mean, you know he listen, he was born in a stable, not because he was poor. 00:08:50.308 --> 00:08:52.287 He didn't have any room at the Ritz Carlson. 00:08:52.287 --> 00:08:55.787 He had plenty of money to stay at the Ritz. 00:08:55.787 --> 00:08:58.985 There wasn't any room there. 00:08:58.985 --> 00:09:02.368 Mary forgot to call for reservations. 00:09:02.368 --> 00:09:10.125 If they'd have had a Rolls Royce, he'd have been driving around the Rolls, but instead he was riding the donkey. 00:09:10.125 --> 00:09:13.908 That's, the donkey was what they had back then. 00:09:13.908 --> 00:09:16.365 Oh, but Jesus was poor. 00:09:16.365 --> 00:09:17.725 No, jesus was rich. 00:09:17.725 --> 00:09:18.302 He was rich. 00:09:18.302 --> 00:09:21.567 Yeah, he was rich in heaven, but he became poor like a person. 00:09:21.567 --> 00:09:23.246 No, that's not when he became poor. 00:09:23.246 --> 00:09:25.727 No, no, no, no, he was rich. 00:09:25.727 --> 00:09:27.105 He was the full listen. 00:09:27.105 --> 00:09:40.424 He had 70 full-time ministers that he was responsible for and their families and his ministry took care of 70, until a bunch of them betrayed him and left him, and then he still had the 12. 00:09:40.424 --> 00:09:42.684 You gonna leave. 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:46.966 Peter basically said well, you know, well, I guess we would, but we don't know where we go. 00:09:46.966 --> 00:09:50.546 Who else has got the words of life but you? 00:09:50.546 --> 00:09:53.206 We don't understand what you're preaching about. 00:09:53.206 --> 00:09:55.807 You know, eat my flesh and drink my blood. 00:09:55.807 --> 00:09:58.268 I see that was the cut right there. 00:09:58.268 --> 00:10:02.423 Sometimes I'm preaching things up here and people can't take it. 00:10:02.423 --> 00:10:04.265 I've had them leave right out that door. 00:10:04.265 --> 00:10:10.162 I mean they'd stand up and go, man, and I'm thinking, oh, I'm hanging the plum line from heaven. 00:10:10.162 --> 00:10:10.825 There it goes. 00:10:10.825 --> 00:10:18.892 I want you blessed, and so does God, financially, health-wise. 00:10:18.892 --> 00:10:23.086 And so we've got to be in position. 00:10:23.086 --> 00:10:44.649 We had the legal and the vital side and I found through my experience I've lived this for 40 plus years and I know it works and I know when it doesn't work I remember one time brother Osteen was really just so intent on giving money to missions he wanted, he wanted. 00:10:44.690 --> 00:10:47.691 They had all kinds of missionaries, but of course his heart was India. 00:10:47.691 --> 00:10:58.774 But they supported missions all over the world and we would send he would send these big back when they used to have these VCR tapes. 00:10:58.774 --> 00:11:11.712 You know he'd have a whole bag full, big old bag full of VCR tapes, bags and bags of them that they were sending out to ministries all over the world and sending money to all over, and he gave millions of dollars to India. 00:11:11.712 --> 00:11:15.952 And we supported India for years too in this church. 00:11:15.952 --> 00:11:21.811 I've been there many times and so he was just. 00:11:22.874 --> 00:11:28.312 He just wanted the church to have what the Bible says and he wanted to preach on prosperity. 00:11:28.312 --> 00:11:38.428 And he wound up preaching 32 times in a row Sunday morning, sunday night, wednesday night on financial prosperity. 00:11:38.428 --> 00:11:41.056 And I was broke. 00:11:41.056 --> 00:11:44.711 I was so broke I listen. 00:11:44.711 --> 00:11:47.471 After the third or fourth message I just wanted to go someplace else. 00:11:47.471 --> 00:11:52.313 I just I knew what he was saying was true, I agreed with every bit of it, but I was out of position. 00:11:52.313 --> 00:11:53.811 I didn't understand it at that time. 00:11:53.811 --> 00:11:57.049 But now I can look back and say, oh, I was just out of position. 00:11:58.125 --> 00:12:02.048 How many of you think you really need to position yourself to have prosperity? 00:12:02.048 --> 00:12:07.831 Because legally it's ours, but functionally we're out of position many times. 00:12:07.831 --> 00:12:12.775 And I just want to just a quick little illustration. 00:12:12.775 --> 00:12:19.928 It's not real deep, but it's profound in the sense that it can help you change your thinking about certain things. 00:12:19.928 --> 00:12:24.835 You can identify where you have maybe gotten out of position with your money. 00:12:24.835 --> 00:12:25.847 It's easy to do. 00:12:25.847 --> 00:12:26.566 Why? 00:12:26.566 --> 00:12:29.951 Because of all the pressure that is being brought to bear in this world. 00:12:29.951 --> 00:12:30.573 But guess what? 00:12:30.573 --> 00:12:32.490 This world is not our source. 00:12:32.490 --> 00:12:39.909 God owns everything that's in this world and he has a way to make it come to you, but only if you're in position. 00:12:39.909 --> 00:12:41.888 You get out of position. 00:12:41.888 --> 00:12:45.748 God is raining it out right over here, but you're standing over here. 00:12:45.748 --> 00:12:48.871 He's not gonna move it to where you are. 00:12:48.871 --> 00:12:50.190 You've got to move to where he is. 00:12:50.190 --> 00:12:52.048 God has a side. 00:12:52.048 --> 00:12:52.931 Get on His side. 00:12:52.931 --> 00:12:53.734 Are you with me now? 00:12:55.304 --> 00:12:59.831 So those 32 messages, man, it was hard sitting through them because I was out of position. 00:12:59.831 --> 00:13:09.312 I mean, I was struggling, struggling, and it was years later when I really realized the real reason why I had such a struggle. 00:13:09.312 --> 00:13:12.149 During that time Nobody knew we were struggling. 00:13:12.149 --> 00:13:17.033 I mean, we looked the same, our countenance looked the same, you know. 00:13:17.033 --> 00:13:18.750 But we knew we were struggling. 00:13:18.750 --> 00:13:32.232 And listen, right now, with the inflation being the way it is and all of the things that are in this world being the way they are, the kind of persecution that Christians are suffering, and we're not victims. 00:13:32.232 --> 00:13:34.549 I said we're not victims. 00:13:34.549 --> 00:13:38.091 We're not worried about what people think of us, what people say about us. 00:13:38.091 --> 00:13:38.908 We know the truth. 00:13:38.908 --> 00:13:49.046 But you know, at Christmastime you've got family around and some of the family agrees with you, and so this is the thing that the Communist Party wants to do. 00:13:49.046 --> 00:13:51.333 It wants to destroy the family. 00:13:51.333 --> 00:13:57.452 It wants to destroy the generations, between the older folks and the younger folks. 00:13:57.452 --> 00:14:00.870 That's how they get involved. 00:14:00.870 --> 00:14:02.993 That's how they take countries over. 00:14:02.993 --> 00:14:04.370 It's a cookbook. 00:14:04.370 --> 00:14:13.274 It's a recipe that they've used over and over, and America is going way down the road on this recipe, on this cookbook. 00:14:14.625 --> 00:14:17.434 Listen, in this church we're gonna identify these things. 00:14:17.434 --> 00:14:27.668 We can still be blessed financially, no matter what is going on with the Democrat Party, the Republican Party, the Independent Party or whoever else is going. 00:14:27.668 --> 00:14:32.615 Whatever is going on, we have a Bible right for prosperity. 00:14:32.615 --> 00:14:40.087 So the vital side is in Vichier, according to life, how we're living. 00:14:40.087 --> 00:14:43.894 We're living at the level that our faith and patience and obedience has brought us. 00:14:43.894 --> 00:15:11.852 And so if you don't like your financial level, if there's too much month left at the end of the money, if you're tired of barely getting along Boulevard at the corner of Lack Lane, then listen and ask God to show you what adjustments you need to make in your thinking, and then you can make adjustments in your behavior, in your actions, cause it's gonna ultimately boil down to that, what you do. 00:15:11.852 --> 00:15:25.371 And so I'm gonna use flying as kind of the way that we're gonna give this to you, cause there's three main things I wanna talk about. 00:15:25.371 --> 00:15:37.416 First of all, positioning yourself with your tithing and giving over and above your tithe, positioning yourself with your attitude and positioning yourself with your guidance from the Holy Ghost. 00:15:37.416 --> 00:15:39.150 So three broad topics. 00:15:40.865 --> 00:15:50.431 And I'm gonna relate that to flying, because I think most of us have probably flown in airplane there might be a few people that've never flown before and I've done a lot of flying. 00:15:50.431 --> 00:15:54.711 I've flown all over the world and I've flown in little planes, prop jobs. 00:15:54.711 --> 00:16:00.035 You know, earlier in my life my partner was a pilot. 00:16:00.035 --> 00:16:02.211 His brother had been killed. 00:16:02.211 --> 00:16:06.313 He was an Air Force pilot was killed in a bomber crash at the end of the runway one time. 00:16:06.313 --> 00:16:12.696 His younger brother, edward, and Hugh just used that as motivation. 00:16:12.696 --> 00:16:17.706 He had been in the military but not the Air Force, and he got his pilot license as a. 00:16:17.706 --> 00:16:27.355 You know, he's 40 years old and he goes out there and gets his pilot license by as a plane single engine, cessna and I watched him go through all of the steps. 00:16:27.355 --> 00:16:37.595 You know we'd fly together here and there and places, you know, and he got his instrument rating and so you know I've done a little flying. 00:16:37.595 --> 00:16:47.554 And so the first thing I wanna talk about is that you've gotta have thrust to get going, you've gotta have power on the airplane. 00:16:47.554 --> 00:16:57.048 An airplane, you can sit out there at the runway and if you don't press the throttle forward and get that engine revved up, get that propeller spinning or that jet engine. 00:16:58.392 --> 00:17:02.114 I'm gonna be talking about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. 00:17:02.114 --> 00:17:07.935 That's the latest big airliner that Boeing has made. 00:17:07.935 --> 00:17:10.313 They're talking about 747. 00:17:10.313 --> 00:17:13.334 I always use 747, because I've always been impressed with those. 00:17:13.334 --> 00:17:16.305 Did you know they came into service in 1969? 00:17:16.305 --> 00:17:21.270 So when you fly on a 747 somewhere, that thing is 50 plus years old. 00:17:21.270 --> 00:17:25.694 Think about a car 50 plus years old. 00:17:25.694 --> 00:17:28.313 Think about driving a 69 Impala. 00:17:28.313 --> 00:17:33.290 How far would it get you, unless it's been restored? 00:17:33.290 --> 00:17:38.545 I mean, it wouldn't get you very far If, in fact, you could find one that was in one piece. 00:17:38.545 --> 00:17:45.708 Most of them are rusted out in the junkyard, but here they still flying a 50 year old airplane, but anyway. 00:17:45.708 --> 00:17:47.765 So I'm moving the 747 off the stage. 00:17:47.905 --> 00:17:49.403 I'm talking about the 787 now. 00:17:49.403 --> 00:17:50.770 It's fly by wire. 00:17:50.770 --> 00:17:52.290 It's the latest technology. 00:17:52.290 --> 00:18:00.648 It's got all kind of technical innovations in the navigation system and the flight systems and all of the materials it's made. 00:18:00.648 --> 00:18:06.667 It's got a lot of composites, carbon fiber, all this lightweight stuff, and it's so efficient. 00:18:06.667 --> 00:18:08.875 It's just got two huge engines on it. 00:18:08.875 --> 00:18:16.065 How do you feel about being one of 400 passengers with just two engines, keeping you at 38,000? 00:18:16.065 --> 00:18:18.025 I'll see, I'm gonna have to get used to that a little. 00:18:18.025 --> 00:18:19.329 I'm gonna have to think about that a while. 00:18:19.329 --> 00:18:23.333 747 had four, so you know, if one goes out you still got three. 00:18:23.333 --> 00:18:26.704 But you got this thing it's got two engines. 00:18:26.704 --> 00:18:29.053 One goes out and you've only got one engine. 00:18:29.053 --> 00:18:30.489 It's just amazing. 00:18:30.489 --> 00:18:32.791 They say it'll still fly with one engine. 00:18:32.791 --> 00:18:36.395 I'm not gonna plan on trying to test that out. 00:18:36.395 --> 00:18:38.929 Everybody say thrust. 00:18:38.929 --> 00:18:44.392 They gotta have thrust to get you out and take off and get to the place where you can rotate. 00:18:44.392 --> 00:18:52.911 And that plane just goes up, you know, and you feel that you press you back in the seat and it takes thrust. 00:18:52.911 --> 00:18:53.709 And what is thrust? 00:18:53.709 --> 00:19:00.433 What's the power that's going to get your life to go through life? 00:19:01.058 --> 00:19:09.714 If prosperity it's your tithing, and giving Tithing is giving God back what belongs to him. 00:19:09.714 --> 00:19:11.907 He really owns. 00:19:11.907 --> 00:19:13.753 Everything you own is his. 00:19:13.753 --> 00:19:16.749 You don't have anything, it's all his. 00:19:16.749 --> 00:19:24.569 But he said I'm gonna give you credit for giving me everything if you'll just put me first and give me the first tenth. 00:19:24.569 --> 00:19:28.213 The tithe is not 10%, it's the first tenth. 00:19:28.845 --> 00:19:30.050 Somebody said I can't tithe. 00:19:30.050 --> 00:19:32.645 Yes, you can, you just choose not to See. 00:19:32.645 --> 00:19:33.970 You're gonna have to change your thinking. 00:19:33.970 --> 00:19:37.874 And 98% of the church is not tithing. 00:19:37.874 --> 00:19:42.796 In fact, it might be 99.5% by now. 00:19:42.796 --> 00:19:44.432 I haven't seen any later figures. 00:19:44.432 --> 00:19:46.951 I think it's so disgraceful. 00:19:46.951 --> 00:19:56.002 They quit doing the people, quit answering the questions, the poll questions. 00:19:56.002 --> 00:20:02.590 But they can figure out that the last was 98%, only 2% tithe. 00:20:02.590 --> 00:20:06.814 Thank you for 100% of Christians, tithe. 00:20:07.034 --> 00:20:07.756 What is the tithe? 00:20:07.756 --> 00:20:09.971 It's not theirs, it's God's. 00:20:09.971 --> 00:20:14.770 The tithe is the Lord's and you're robbing God. 00:20:14.770 --> 00:20:15.953 And what are you? 00:20:15.953 --> 00:20:17.182 You're cheating yourself. 00:20:17.182 --> 00:20:19.333 Brother Robert told me this in 2005. 00:20:19.333 --> 00:20:22.634 He said God told him, my people are cheating themselves. 00:20:22.634 --> 00:20:40.224 It's like you've got those two big old Rolls Royce jet engines and you don't push the throttle forward and you wonder why you hadn't taken off, much less fly at the altitude that you're designed to fly at. 00:20:40.224 --> 00:20:43.634 You're designed to fly way up there, 38,000 feet. 00:20:43.634 --> 00:20:46.748 Are you with me now? 00:20:46.748 --> 00:20:49.571 But I say thrust power. 00:20:51.005 --> 00:20:53.473 In Malachi three, he said you know well, a man robbed God. 00:20:53.473 --> 00:20:55.431 Yes, you've robbed me, this whole nation. 00:20:55.431 --> 00:20:57.589 Have we robbed you? 00:20:57.589 --> 00:20:59.587 What do you mean? 00:20:59.587 --> 00:21:04.914 They said in tithes and offerings, say tithes and offerings. 00:21:04.914 --> 00:21:06.759 So what's offerings? 00:21:06.759 --> 00:21:10.771 Offerings is over and above the tithe Offering is what you God lets. 00:21:10.771 --> 00:21:14.586 You have 90% to deal with your life, and what now? 00:21:14.586 --> 00:21:17.996 Are you gonna give God out of the 90? 00:21:17.996 --> 00:21:20.569 The tithe is not giving. 00:21:20.569 --> 00:21:21.990 The tithe is just returning to. 00:21:21.990 --> 00:21:27.431 He gives you credit for giving everything by only giving the first 10. 00:21:27.431 --> 00:21:32.585 When you don't give the first 10, there's a whole lot of things you don't get Right. 00:21:32.585 --> 00:21:33.891 Are you gonna go to hell if you don't? 00:21:33.891 --> 00:21:36.173 Well, no, I'm not saying you're gonna go to hell. 00:21:36.173 --> 00:21:44.973 I'm just saying you've cheating yourself because you're not gonna have any thrust, you're not gonna have any power to do the things that God has put in your heart to do. 00:21:44.973 --> 00:21:49.413 Yes, it all takes money, all right. 00:21:50.838 --> 00:21:54.759 And while we're on the subject, we're talking about really the being harvest minded. 00:21:54.759 --> 00:21:56.344 We're living in the end days. 00:21:56.344 --> 00:22:04.496 I read where most Americans believe we're living in, that 60 something percent of people believe we're living in the last days. 00:22:04.496 --> 00:22:08.323 Well, why in the world are you voting Democrat then? 00:22:08.323 --> 00:22:09.877 Are you nuts? 00:22:09.877 --> 00:22:13.403 Why aren't you showing up at the poll then? 00:22:13.403 --> 00:22:19.118 That's just as evil as voting for them Not showing up. 00:22:19.118 --> 00:22:20.880 Well, I don't like the can. 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:24.786 Well, you mean, you'd rather have a communist in charge than the other guy? 00:22:24.786 --> 00:22:27.604 He might be a bozo, but he's not as bad as the other bozo. 00:22:27.604 --> 00:22:41.669 That's our job is to hold our nose sometimes and go to the poll because not to go there is a vote, all right. 00:22:44.102 --> 00:22:45.698 So position, so giving. 00:22:45.698 --> 00:22:47.661 See, that's what Jesus talked about. 00:22:47.661 --> 00:22:49.942 He said give, give. 00:22:49.942 --> 00:22:52.182 And then he goes all the way through all the good stuff. 00:22:52.182 --> 00:22:52.763 It's going to happen. 00:22:52.763 --> 00:22:55.118 He just said to give one time Luke 6, 38,. 00:22:55.118 --> 00:23:00.714 Give and it shall be given unto you, good measure, press down, shaking together, running over. 00:23:00.714 --> 00:23:01.961 Shall God give unto your bosom? 00:23:01.961 --> 00:23:05.622 No, shall men give unto your bosom? 00:23:05.622 --> 00:23:10.383 So when you don't give, you're out of position with other people that can bless your life. 00:23:10.383 --> 00:23:11.980 You're out of position with your boss. 00:23:11.980 --> 00:23:13.902 You're out of position with your customers. 00:23:13.902 --> 00:23:16.959 If you're in sales, you're out of Listen, you're out of position. 00:23:16.959 --> 00:23:19.878 And that's where I was. 00:23:19.878 --> 00:23:25.356 There are no 32 messages because all I could do, I thought, was tight. 00:23:26.454 --> 00:23:27.780 Now, I didn't have a credit card. 00:23:27.780 --> 00:23:36.636 My credit was so ruined after the building disaster of the 80s that I couldn't charge anything out of gasoline credit card one. 00:23:36.636 --> 00:23:39.602 And of course you can't do anything. 00:23:39.602 --> 00:23:41.260 You have to pay that balance every month. 00:23:41.260 --> 00:23:41.883 You can't. 00:23:41.883 --> 00:23:45.285 It's not a way to, you know, to float yourself. 00:23:45.285 --> 00:23:53.817 You know if you've got a credit card and you you've got an extra amount of income and all of a sudden, one month, your, your outgo is bigger, well then you can kind of float it on your credit card. 00:23:53.817 --> 00:23:57.840 If you're not careful, if you don't ever pay that back, you can get into great big debt. 00:23:57.840 --> 00:24:01.742 Well, I had no debt because I didn't have a credit card. 00:24:03.134 --> 00:24:05.804 Well, that also meant that I had to stay within my means. 00:24:05.804 --> 00:24:12.304 I had to stay within my compensation and there were times when it just was really, really hard. 00:24:12.304 --> 00:24:14.836 It got to the point where I couldn't really give over the above. 00:24:14.836 --> 00:24:16.862 But my tithe, I just didn't have it. 00:24:16.862 --> 00:24:18.356 My cost of. 00:24:18.356 --> 00:24:19.059 So how do I? 00:24:19.059 --> 00:24:19.982 How do I fix that? 00:24:19.982 --> 00:24:23.098 Well, I've got to shave my cost of living, which I did as best I could. 00:24:23.098 --> 00:24:30.045 I made all the adjustments as best I could and finally, one time I got, during that, 32 messages. 00:24:30.144 --> 00:24:32.701 I, he was, he was building money. 00:24:32.701 --> 00:24:34.185 Seven years of harvest. 00:24:34.185 --> 00:24:36.756 God put it in his heart and he didn't live out the seven years. 00:24:36.756 --> 00:24:40.917 By the way, he passed and went up and went to heaven before the seven years was up. 00:24:40.917 --> 00:24:52.145 But I wanted to give Gladys, wanted to give our family meeting and we had a car sitting in the driveway Somebody had given us and that we weren't driving very regularly. 00:24:52.145 --> 00:24:55.424 And I said, listen, I want to give in that offering. 00:24:55.424 --> 00:24:56.861 We can't give in our normal. 00:24:56.861 --> 00:24:58.180 Let's sell that car. 00:24:58.180 --> 00:24:59.276 What do you think Is it? 00:24:59.276 --> 00:25:12.118 Does everybody on board, if I sell that car and we give the proceeds to the, to the seven years of harvest offering, and it felt so good to give over and above the tithe Well, what was happening? 00:25:12.295 --> 00:25:14.102 Well, I put myself out of position. 00:25:14.102 --> 00:25:19.446 I took all the power out of giving by not giving something. 00:25:19.446 --> 00:25:23.163 I'd have been better off having a garage sale. 00:25:23.163 --> 00:25:31.218 I'd have been better off, you know, doing anything to get money to give over and above the tithe, even if it was just a little bit. 00:25:31.218 --> 00:25:36.559 I look back on it now and I had made a decision not to give over and above the tithe. 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:41.126 That was a huge lack of positioning on my part. 00:25:41.126 --> 00:25:50.744 I took myself out of the supernatural increase and the supernatural favor with men to give them to my bosom. 00:25:53.075 --> 00:25:55.182 You might get this this afternoon about three o'clock. 00:25:55.182 --> 00:26:01.722 I mean, if you can't learn, at least learn from my mistakes. 00:26:01.722 --> 00:26:03.461 I mean, god, that's learned from mine. 00:26:03.461 --> 00:26:06.121 I don't wish those on anybody. 00:26:06.121 --> 00:26:07.769 That's why I preach out of them. 00:26:07.769 --> 00:26:11.305 That's what I appreciate about brother Osteen. 00:26:11.305 --> 00:26:13.122 Pastor Osteen was always like that. 00:26:13.122 --> 00:26:14.961 He always preached out of his mistakes. 00:26:15.674 --> 00:26:33.259 Brother Hagen, all the people that I admire, so you know, in Philippians 415, paul told the Philippians he said no church, but you has opened up this is the amplified has opened up a debit and credit account with me. 00:26:33.259 --> 00:26:37.599 Concerning giving and receiving, but you only so. 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:40.105 Your giving is like opening in a bank account. 00:26:40.105 --> 00:26:46.140 You have to make deposits, because if you don't make any deposits, there are no withdrawals. 00:26:46.140 --> 00:26:47.884 Thank you. 00:26:47.884 --> 00:26:51.881 If you had a bank account that you never made a deposit in, well, how are you going to get any money out of it? 00:26:51.881 --> 00:26:54.336 You could borrow some out of there, maybe. 00:26:54.336 --> 00:26:59.282 I don't know if you can make pretty hard to borrow from a bank when you don't have anything in your bank account. 00:26:59.282 --> 00:27:06.743 No, you have to make deposits and sometimes it's not just instantaneous. 00:27:06.835 --> 00:27:14.906 You know, we have to give with the expectation that we shall reap, seed time and harvest. 00:27:14.906 --> 00:27:15.718 It takes time. 00:27:15.718 --> 00:27:21.522 So let's be patient, let's be faithful over the tides and the offerings. 00:27:21.522 --> 00:27:27.565 And when you give over and above, you know, over and above giving produces over and above living. 00:27:27.565 --> 00:27:29.722 That's what brother Mark Hagen said. 00:27:29.722 --> 00:27:42.029 I love that little statement Over and above giving, over and above what, over above the tide, over and above the tide, giving produces over and above living. 00:27:42.029 --> 00:27:44.319 What would see what happens? 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:45.539 Your airplanes flying. 00:27:45.539 --> 00:27:47.561 It's flying with power. 00:27:47.561 --> 00:27:48.499 It's climbing. 00:27:48.499 --> 00:28:01.221 It might not have reached 38,000, but it's headed there because you're generating that force, you're generating the favor it takes to navigate in this world, and you're going to have to have favor with somebody. 00:28:01.221 --> 00:28:09.864 I said you're going to have to have favor with somebody because this world's goods are in the hands of men, most of them ungodly men. 00:28:09.864 --> 00:28:21.065 So it's a supernatural thing that occurs when you give, not natural supernatural, are you with me now? 00:28:21.065 --> 00:28:26.478 So tithing and giving produces the thrust and the power. 00:28:26.478 --> 00:28:32.476 And then you know the other thing about I didn't mention it, but I will want to say it. 00:28:32.556 --> 00:28:33.618 Set now on tithing. 00:28:33.618 --> 00:28:47.895 Tithing is to bring all the ties in the storehouse Malachi, chapter 3, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me the only place that God invites you to test it. 00:28:47.895 --> 00:28:48.798 Test it out. 00:28:48.798 --> 00:28:50.122 You don't believe it. 00:28:50.122 --> 00:28:55.240 Test it If I will not open up to you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing. 00:28:55.240 --> 00:28:56.603 There's not room enough to receive. 00:28:58.372 --> 00:28:59.976 And so brother Roberts went to God. 00:28:59.976 --> 00:29:02.020 God told him the church didn't tithe him. 00:29:02.020 --> 00:29:03.463 The church is cheating themselves. 00:29:03.463 --> 00:29:09.083 Tell the church to tithe and I'll open the windows of heaven, pour him out of blessing and not room enough to receive. 00:29:09.083 --> 00:29:16.069 He said God, I know that's in the Bible, I understand that, but I have never experienced so much blessing that I couldn't contain more. 00:29:16.412 --> 00:29:19.390 I've all I have to do is open another bank account. 00:29:19.390 --> 00:29:22.717 I've never had enough to have to go and open the endless bank account. 00:29:22.717 --> 00:29:23.618 I don't understand. 00:29:23.618 --> 00:29:29.421 He said I'm not talking about money there, I'm talking about ideas, concepts and insights. 00:29:29.421 --> 00:29:34.797 Everybody say ideas, concepts, insights. 00:29:34.797 --> 00:29:40.250 Well, how are you gonna find those when you tithe where you're gonna have to have a prayer life? 00:29:40.250 --> 00:29:51.156 If you don't have a prayer life to hear back from God about things and he gives you ideas over that will affect your finances, then you're gonna cheat yourself. 00:29:51.156 --> 00:29:55.224 You're gonna miss out on the thrust that it takes for you to fly. 00:29:55.224 --> 00:29:56.430 God wants you to fly. 00:29:56.430 --> 00:29:58.055