WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:06.719 Acts chapter 2, we're gonna pick up in verses 36 through 41. 00:00:06.959 --> 00:00:14.880 Last week we began in Acts chapter 2 at the very beginning with the day of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit being poured out. 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:44.960 The Bible says that the that the wind filled them, that the fire rested on them, and the word of God flowed through them, and that Jesus was magnified, and that God's purposes were being accomplished in the earth, and and that purpose is that his presence would fill the earth as waters cover the sea through his people. 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:50.640 We're gonna continue looking at that this morning and the story that God is unfolding. 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:55.759 Stand with me where you are as we honor the reading of God's word together this morning. 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:58.719 Acts chapter 2, verse 36. 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:06.000 Peter is continuing preaching here, and he says, Therefore, let all of Israel be assured of this. 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:16.400 God has made this Jesus, whom you've crucified, both Lord and Messiah. 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:17.599 Can I? 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:19.760 I just got to pause here. 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:30.400 The baptism of the Holy Spirit is for one purpose above all others, and it's the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus. 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:33.120 And that's what Peter is saying here. 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:37.519 This Jesus whom you crucified is both Lord and Messiah. 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.400 And when people heard this, they were cut to the heart. 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:45.599 Said to Peter and the other apostles, What shall we do? 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:57.760 And Peter replied in verse 38, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus, for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift. 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:59.200 Everybody say, gift. 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:03.280 You will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:13.599 This this gift, this promise in verse 39, he says, is for you and your children, and for all of you who are far off. 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:16.400 He's talking about us, guys. 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:20.800 This isn't just a gift that's for you. 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:31.520 No, it's for your children and your children's children, and for your children's children's children, and for general and for 2,000 years, God's still been giving us this gift. 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:40.960 For all who will call on the name of the Lord, verse 40, with many other words, he warned them and he pleaded with them save yourselves from this corrupt generation. 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:49.759 And those who accepted his message were baptized, and about 3,000 were added to that number that day. 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:51.280 Praise the Lord. 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:56.560 Title of my message this morning is simply this: The God who gives. 00:02:57.759 --> 00:02:59.280 Say that after me this morning. 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:01.680 The God who gives. 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:05.280 Turn your neighbor and say the God who gives. 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:09.039 Turn your other neighbor and say the God who gives. 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:14.000 Turn around the person behind you and say the God who gives. 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:17.280 Father, we thank you for your word this morning. 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:20.319 Your word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.599 It shows us the way to go and how to arrive there safely. 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:24.960 Now pray this morning. 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:29.039 We wouldn't just be hearers of your word, but we would be doers of it. 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:30.319 In Jesus' mighty name. 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:32.080 Everybody said, Amen. 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:33.039 You may be seated. 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:35.120 Caleb, thank you. 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:55.120 Several years ago, a book came out that began to reshape how people perceive relationships. 00:03:55.919 --> 00:04:06.960 It started as a Christian book and it really crossed over into the mainstream and and became a cultural sensation. 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:17.439 To date, some twenty million copies of this book have been published. 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:28.160 And the title of this book, you may know, is called The Five Love Languages. 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:30.959 How many of you guys are familiar with this book? 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:33.600 The Five Love Languages. 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:36.959 Most people are at some level or another. 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:47.839 The premise of this book is that every person has a primary way that they both receive and give love. 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:49.600 That's your love language. 00:04:50.160 --> 00:05:07.839 And it's the goal of husbands and wives and friends to understand the way other people receive love, and so that you can then impart love in a way into their life that fills their love tank. 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:12.160 How many of you guys know what those five love languages are? 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:14.720 Can anybody recall them off the top of your head? 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:17.600 Give me, somebody give me one of those love languages. 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:20.399 Yeah, you're right. 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:23.040 Did everybody discern that very clearly? 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:24.480 Let me help you. 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:26.560 So we have words of affirmation. 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:29.279 Where are all my words of affirmation, people? 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:34.240 That when people speak encouragement into your life, it fills your love tank. 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:40.560 I got I got about four of you that are in here that have words of affirmation. 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:45.680 If there's only about four or five of you in here, that probably explains why you're discouraged today. 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:48.639 So we have words of affirmation. 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:50.160 We've got acts of service. 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:53.439 Where are all my acts of service people at? 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:58.720 Like you really only feel love when somebody does something for you. 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:00.079 Where's your hands? 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:02.000 Y'all got real bashful all of a sudden. 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:05.120 Yeah, few, few, few acts of service. 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:05.519 Yeah. 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:08.480 Where are all my physical touch people? 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:12.399 Every guy in the house raised his hand. 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:14.160 That's right, that's right. 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:18.639 That the only way Lorel, leave Khalia alone. 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:26.639 Where you only feel loved when when somebody's touching. 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:32.160 All right. 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:33.839 Somebody just touch them. 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:36.800 Just just just touch them. 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:38.319 Just touch, touch them. 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:40.720 So it so there's three of them. 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:44.079 Um I'm trying to remember the oh, quality time. 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:50.560 Where are all my quality time people that I only feel loved when I'm spending time with you? 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:52.800 Where's my quality time people? 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:53.519 Right, right. 00:06:53.680 --> 00:07:02.560 And then the last one is the uh gift or uh gifts that that I only feel loved when I'm receiving a gift. 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:04.480 Where are all my gift people? 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:06.720 Gift, gift people. 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:07.920 Yeah. 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:13.680 I'll be praying for your spouses. 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:16.720 God give you a raise. 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:20.639 I gotta fill that love tank with gifts. 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:27.120 I was thinking about gifts in particular this week. 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:46.480 In context with the five love languages and what we read here in Acts chapter 2, where Luke, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says that there's a promise that God has for his people, and it's actually a gift. 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:54.480 It's the gift of the Holy Spirit, and it hit me this week. 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.480 Do you know that God has a primary love language? 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:05.759 I've not really thought about it in those terms, but the Bible's pretty clear. 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:21.839 If you look for it, it's there really from Genesis all the way to Revelation that God has a primary love language, that God has a primary way that He demonstrates love. 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:29.920 And it's found very clearly in one of the most famous verses in all of Scripture. 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:32.960 It's found in John 3, 16. 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:34.960 For God so what? 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:37.200 That he did what? 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:58.240 For God so loved that he one more time, for God so loved that he when you really read Scripture with that filter, what you begin to understand that God's primary love language is generosity, that God is a giver from beginning to end. 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:09.440 And and this resonates with all of us because how many of you have heard something to this effect, or maybe you've even said something to this effect. 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:15.840 Don't tell me you love me, but show me you love me. 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:17.440 Why do we say that? 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:21.519 Because love that isn't demonstrated is no love at all. 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:33.279 For love to be genuine, for it to be authentic, for it to be real and powerful and transformational, love has to have an outlet. 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:43.440 And the Bible tells us that God's outlet for his love is demonstrating generosity. 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:49.120 For God so loved the world that he gave. 00:09:51.440 --> 00:10:07.039 Another little interesting sidebar to this is, you know, in scripture, if you kind of categorize topics, what you find is there's about five hundred verses in scripture referencing prayer. 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:15.120 There's another five hundred or so verses in scripture referencing faith. 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:22.080 Do you know how many verses in scripture are about giving? 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:26.080 Two thousand. 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:34.960 Two thousand verses in scripture referencing giving in some form or fashion. 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:43.840 I I've always thought about that previously because God did that because he knew generosity would be something that we struggled with. 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:53.440 And I do think that's part of the equation, but I think the full other side of the equation is why is there so much in scripture about giving? 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:57.440 Because it's revealing to us the very heart and nature of God. 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:07.279 That God, in his nature, in his character, in his heart, he is a giver. 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:12.159 For God so loved the world that he. 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:16.799 Every tree, every plant, all across the face of the earth, it's all yours. 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:22.960 You can eat from any of it as much as you want, but there's one tree you can't eat from. 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:30.799 And the enemy made them focus on the one thing that God told them not to do and to ignore the plethora of his blessing. 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:35.599 Can I tell you today, church, the enemy still does the same thing to you and I. 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:49.279 His tactic in your life is to get you to forget the goodness, the giving, the generosity of God, and how he has lavished his blessings and his favor upon your life. 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:51.920 And he does it through comparison. 00:18:53.359 --> 00:19:03.759 Matter of fact, comparison is the tool of the enemy to steal from you the gifts of God to you. 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:05.519 Wow. 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:10.079 Yeah, you may have had that, but you don't have this. 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:17.359 And all of a sudden now my mind is on this, and I forget that. 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:20.880 And in the process of forgetting it, I forfeit it. 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:31.359 I want to challenge you this morning to stop comparing your gifts to other people's gifts. 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:33.680 Just thank him for what he's given you. 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:48.319 I found in my life is that when I focus my attention on his blessing that he has poured out upon my life, I can't do anything but worship. 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:59.920 But the moment my attention shifts from his blessing to what I don't have, or maybe what he's given to somebody else, you know what doesn't come out of my mouth is worship. 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:02.640 What comes out of my mouth is complaining. 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:08.240 I'm gonna tell you what, you can't complain your way forward, but you sure can worship your way forward. 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:14.720 God in creation gives us everything that we need. 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:17.680 Number two, God gave us his son. 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:28.240 When you really study the story of scripture, we find a God that gives over and abundant abundantly above all we could ask or think or imagine. 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:33.519 And in Jesus, we find how far God's generosity goes. 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:36.400 We read this verse just a moment ago, but I want to reread it. 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:41.519 For God so loved the world that he gave his what kind? 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:44.000 His one and only. 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:47.359 How does God give? 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:52.000 God gives his best, not his leftovers. 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:54.880 This is the God that we serve. 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:58.720 I'm gonna give you the best that I have to offer. 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:02.240 I'm gonna give you my one and only son. 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:10.240 And this best gift has the power to change your life because through this gift you will receive eternal life. 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:11.200 Come on, somebody. 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:12.640 Thank you, Jesus. 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:17.039 The Father gave the Son so that the world might be saved. 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:26.319 You understand that forgiveness is a gift, grace is a gift, mercy is a gift, righteousness is a gift, adoption is a gift, eternal life is a gift. 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:30.079 Everything that we have in life is a gift from God. 00:21:31.039 --> 00:21:33.519 This is who he is. 00:21:35.599 --> 00:21:46.240 What's interesting is that not only does he give his best, he gives his best sacrificially. 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:57.359 Romans chapter 5, verse 8 says that but God demonstrates his love for us in this way. 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:07.759 While While while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:24.799 While we were still sinners, before we turned our heart and our mind and our attention to the Lord, before we were even concerned or even cared about who he was, before. 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:26.559 Before. 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:35.519 See, in our world, most people operate according to a standard of. 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:42.160 If you want to be loved, you need to be lovable. 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:46.480 Is that fair? 00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:51.599 If you want love, then you need to be lovable. 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:59.519 That the extension of love happens after the fact of me demonstrating my love. 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:04.319 Like if you want to receive love, then you need to be lovable. 00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:10.880 But here we have a demonstration of love that precedes us being lovable. 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:17.920 We have something that is flipping the script on its head that's saying, no, no, no, no, no. 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:27.680 God loves generously and sacrificially before we even turn our attention towards him. 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:32.400 That his demonstration of love precedes our response. 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:36.720 It comes before, but that's not really how the world operates. 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:38.240 The world operates. 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:45.359 If you'll behave, if you'll act right, if you'll do right, if you'll speak right, then you get love. 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:50.720 You've got to fix everything on the front end to get to the love on the back end. 00:23:50.880 --> 00:24:04.559 And Jesus flips it and says, No, I'm gonna love you before you earn it, before you deserve it, before you act right, before you behave right, before you do right, because my love is enough to change you on the back end. 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:07.440 You see the flip. 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:10.400 Let me make it real practical. 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:17.279 Everybody just got sat up in their seats. 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:19.519 Attention. 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:24.720 Somebody said, I'll take that. 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:34.880 So in our world, to get this, you gotta work for it. 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:37.279 You gotta deserve it. 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:39.039 You gotta put in the time. 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:44.880 You gotta, you gotta work hours on end. 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:50.960 Then you get the reward after the fact. 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:55.440 But in the kingdom, I get the reward before. 00:24:58.960 --> 00:25:01.920 See, I'm not let me think of something about this way. 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:09.680 In salvation, I'm saved before I've acted like I've been saved. 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:17.119 I get the benefit of the relationship before my actions reflect the relationship. 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:19.200 Are you following me this morning? 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:21.599 How Jesus is flipping it. 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:38.480 And what Jesus is trying to communicate to us is that He is a giver and that when He gives His love, He gives it to us before the fact and it's so transformational that it causes us to reflect what the love did in our hearts and our lives. 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:48.000 And so if I were to if I were to give this hundred dollars, it would be a gift to somebody. 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:49.359 Jada, come here. 00:25:54.720 --> 00:26:04.559 As we were worshiping, I looked over at you and I just the Holy Spirit stirred my heart and wanted me to tell you that He's proud of you. 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:12.480 And that whether you deserve it or not is irrelevant, you're his daughter. 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:16.799 And he wanted me to give this to you. 00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:30.960 See, church, it's not about earning it, it's not about deserving because we have a God who gives. 00:26:31.279 --> 00:26:32.559 You know what I have found? 00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:36.960 The gift has the power to change the person. 00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:48.240 And when it changes me, all of a sudden I begin to reflect the type of gift that's been given in my life. 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:53.200 And that's what God wants to do in us through Jesus. 00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:56.960 Number three, God also gives us the Holy Spirit. 00:26:57.279 --> 00:27:05.359 Verse 38, we read this: repent and be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins, and you receive what? 00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:11.440 The gift, the gift of the Holy Spirit. 00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:20.960 Peter replied, Repent and be baptized. 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:24.480 Every one of you. 00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:31.119 Not some of you, not a select few, but every one of you. 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:34.400 Everyone means everyone. 00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:36.319 No one is excluded. 00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:38.559 No one has to be special. 00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:41.759 All you have to do is respond. 00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:50.640 And if you respond, every one of you will be lavished with the presence of God in your life. 00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:53.920 I want you to think about how much of a giver God is. 00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:59.519 He has given us creation to inhabit, to experience his glory. 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:08.079 He has given us his son as a sacrifice for our sins that we might be restored into relationship with him. 00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:20.640 And then to top it off, on top of all of that, he has given us his Holy Spirit, literally a piece of himself to live inside of us. 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:23.359 Our God, church, is a giver. 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:43.039 Just three things, and I'm gonna wrap this up this morning. 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:48.720 Number one is this how to respond to a gift-giving kind of God. 00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:53.759 Don't strive for his gifts. 00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:56.559 Just ask for them. 00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:00.720 Just ask. 00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:03.200 Don't strive. 00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:10.559 How many of you would throw your lot in with me this morning and confess out loud? 00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:15.599 I've spent a lot of my time striving to earn God's gifts. 00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:24.799 When the Bible tells us he's a giver who delights in giving his good gifts to his kids. 00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:33.279 Matter of fact, that's what he says in Luke chapter 11, verses 11 through 13. 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:39.599 He says, which of your fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:43.279 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:49.359 If then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children? 00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:51.599 How much more? 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:54.640 How much more? 00:29:54.799 --> 00:30:12.000 If though we are evil and can figure out some kind of way of giving a good gift to our kids, how much more is a good, wonderful, beautiful, pure, heavenly father able to give good gifts to his kids? 00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:13.519 How much more? 00:30:13.839 --> 00:30:16.319 Do you really understand who he is? 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:22.480 He's a giver, and he knows how to give good gifts to his kids. 00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:34.799 And then he says, This will your father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask some of you for years have been striving to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:39.200 Maybe you've been striving to walk in the anointing of the Lord. 00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:51.119 Maybe you've been sacrificing and you've been praying and you've been working and you've been straining and you've been, I'm gonna do everything that I've got to do to experience what He has for my life. 00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:52.880 Can I tell you this morning? 00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:54.640 Stop striving. 00:30:55.680 --> 00:31:02.000 And just ask the lights. 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:48.160 And if we could ask over and over throughout the New Testament, Jesus says to his disciples and says to the multitudes, just ask. 00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:53.279 Why does Jesus emphasize us asking? 00:31:53.599 --> 00:32:01.519 Because he's trying to connect us to the nature and the character of a God who gives. 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:07.359 So just ask. 00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:18.160 Number two is this just receive his gifts with gratitude, with thanksgiving. 00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:19.759 Just let worship. 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:22.559 God, I'm gonna Philippians chapter four. 00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:24.799 I'm gonna present my request to God. 00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:43.039 I'm not gonna be anxious for anything, but I'm gonna present my request to God and let thanksgiving arise in my heart for a God who delights in answering the requests of his kids. 00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:44.240 Just let work. 00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:48.240 Can I tell you that thanksgiving isn't just something that we do after the fact? 00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:51.599 A lot of times it's what we do before the fact. 00:32:52.160 --> 00:33:00.960 That God, I'm gonna present my request to you, and I'm gonna thank you in advance because I know you hear and you love to respond. 00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:04.799 And I don't know when you're gonna answer, but I know that you're going to. 00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:10.480 And so I'm thanking you already for how you're gonna move in my life. 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:12.559 I'm gonna allow worship. 00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:17.119 I'm gonna enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:22.960 And I'm going to thank him in advance for what I'm laying at his feet. 00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:26.640 And number three is this I'm gonna steward it faithfully. 00:33:26.880 --> 00:33:30.559 I'm gonna steward his gifts faithfully. 00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:37.680 If church, if everything in our life is a gift, that means we own nothing. 00:33:41.119 --> 00:33:42.319 It's not mine. 00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:46.880 It's not yours, it's his. 00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:50.240 So, Lord, I offer it all back to you. 00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:56.480 And I want to take the time and the talent and the treasure that you've entrusted into my life. 00:33:57.359 --> 00:34:04.079 I want to steward it faithfully in the fashion that you have given me. 00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:15.679 I know a lot of times in message like this, pastor, preacher, whomever will talk about finances, and man, I'm not really gonna do that other than say this. 00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:28.000 Can I tell you the transformational moment in your life will be when you understand that the 10% tithe isn't God's, it's all God's. 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:37.360 When the 90% is his too, that's when things change in your life. 00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:39.920 That no, no, I'm gonna give, I'm gonna give God 10. 00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:45.679 No, no, I may offer him the 10 to begin with, but he can do whatever he wants with the 90 as well. 00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:48.239 Transformational moment. 00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:56.320 Because when you when you make that shift, what you are declaring is that God, you are the giver. 00:34:56.480 --> 00:35:00.800 And if you ask me to give it all, that you're somehow how gonna replace it back. 00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:06.320 He is the giver of all good gifts. 00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:08.719 Will you stand with me where you are this morning? 00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:17.440 I'm gonna ask my prayer team to join me to my left and to my right this morning. 00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:22.079 And I just have a have a couple questions in conclusion for you today. 00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:30.960 My first question is this Do you need to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit? 00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:40.079 Have you received the outpouring of God's Spirit upon your heart and upon your life? 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:54.239 It was what Peter promised wasn't just for them or their children or their children's children, but it was for all people for all time who would simply ask. 00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:57.360 Every head bowed and every eye closed just for a moment. 00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:06.400 You're here this morning, you say, Pastor, I need the outpouring of the Holy Spirit poured out upon my life. 00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:16.880 I need his anointing, I need his touch, I need a fresh wind to blow into my heart, I need a fresh fire to burn in my spirit. 00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:21.920 I need the Holy Spirit poured out on my life. 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:24.239 If that's you, would you just raise your hand right where you stand? 00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:26.000 Because I want to I want to pray for you this morning. 00:36:26.079 --> 00:36:26.719 Thank you, thank you. 00:36:26.800 --> 00:36:27.519 I see that hand. 00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:28.880 Thank you, thank you. 00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:30.320 Lord, thank you. 00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:41.039 Number two is this how many of you would say, I I've got a very specific need in my life, not just a general need, no, it's very specific. 00:36:41.360 --> 00:36:53.599 I need God to move in my life, I need a miracle in my life, I need revelation in my life, I need vision, I need something from the Lord in a pivotal way in my life. 00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:55.039 If that's you, we just raise your hand. 00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:55.840 Yeah, that's me. 00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:56.400 That's me. 00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:56.880 I see that. 00:36:56.960 --> 00:36:57.519 I see that hand. 00:36:57.599 --> 00:36:58.320 I see that hand. 00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:01.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. 00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:05.440 I want you to look at me this morning. 00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:07.519 Here's what I want you to know. 00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:41.920 We're gonna spend a moment in a in a song here, the end of our service together, and our prayer team is here to my right and to my left to meet you, to pray with you, that God's spirit would be poured out on your life, and that we would partner with you in the request that you are lifting up to the God who gives and believing that he's gonna answer because he's a God that delights in meeting his kids right where they are. 00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:46.880 So, would you just stretch your hands towards heaven with me this morning? 00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:55.280 And God's been speaking in your heart, God's been stirring in your heart, and I want you to begin to move right now out of your seat. 00:37:55.519 --> 00:38:01.360 Don't stay there, take a step of faith and watch God meet you. 00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:26.079 Get out of your seat and come to one of our prayer team partners, because we want to agree with you that God's gonna meet you in a miraculous way this morning, that he's gonna answer, that he's gonna speak, that he's gonna move, that he's gonna stir, that he's gonna feel, that he's gonna empower, that he's gonna do the work that he delights in doing. 00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:47.039 Father, right now, I pray, pour out your prince, I pray, pour out your spirit, I pray, pour out your anointing! God release your answers to every person that raises a request today, not that you would meet them in the greatest point of day, because that's what you delight in doing. 00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:55.519 We worship you this morning, we thank you in advance for the request that will be answered today in Jesus' name.