What controls you: money or God? Your answer to that question reveals what you’re cuffed to. This week, Pastor Mike teaches us how cash is important to life, but it cannot be the center of it. The only thing that can provide us with a truly fulfilling life is Jesus, and finances are always something He calls us to use to build His Kingdom. Our money will always have control until we can give it. If you’re looking for some help with your money, this message is for you!
hi my name is Amberly and I have the
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I really believe this cuffing series
has been delivering people
like P anybody who’s checked in to this
series Full Throttle
they’re they’re having to face
themselves
like we talked about being cuffed to
cake
almost six months ago
let’s take a poll
how many people now we’re hot humble
open and transparent
look at somebody said
how many people are still cuffed to cake
in this room right now as we’re going
into the holiday season some of y’all
are lying thank you my brother for being
truthful
some of us are still cuffed to the
comments
what everybody’s saying about us
checking back every three seconds
checking the email
checking to see what like some of us
have been cuffed to constant
let me ask that one how many people are
still cuffed to constant you don’t stop
you keep running
you think somehow you’re made better in
the sight of God if you do more
but he called you a human being not a
human doing
what I believe my assignment is in this
whole series it’s to challenge the
things that have become watch this word
Idols in our lives
some of us are Pace our production our
success our relationships they have
become the thing that have replaced God
so as long as those things are going
good we don’t think that we need him
and it’s not until those things
disappoint us
that we somehow call him back on Jesus
and God said I want you to have the
things that I have designed for you to
enjoy in this life but never at the
expense of our relationship
and the truth of the matter is the
reason why we can’t be connected and
cuffed to Christ is because we’re cuffed
to a lot of other things some of y’all
are like okay Pastor Mike you talk about
this cuffing season this is week 12 of a
series
we’re not just starting this if this is
your first time hearing this you need to
go back and watch from one all the way
to today because it is a process of
actually shedding the things that we
think love us that but don’t actually
love us back
there are so many of us okay let me just
back up because somebody’s like Susan
cuffing season
are they talking about hancocks
never had that happen before tell me
what is this cuffing season thing mean
let me give you a definition
straight out of the Urban Dictionary
cuffing season is a season where because
of loneliness and Desperation watch this
you settle for a relationship that is
way Beneath Your Standard
this is literally cuffing season the
fall and winter is when people get into
really dumb relationships because they
want to snuggle with somebody Netflix
and chill and end up with issues by the
summer
okay let me okay
and the past couple of weeks we’ve been
talking about being cuffed to control
like some of us have to be in control
all the time and we worry ourselves and
we’re frustrated because we got to know
how everything’s gonna work out and then
last week we went kind of deep on them
and I I kind of snuck it in on you I
said cuffed to contamination but we
talked about the spirit of Jezebel where
there’s there’s a spirit that is trying
to control from the back seat and get
you to do things and say things that are
not like you or not like Christ and it’s
been running your life today
I think this message is going to be uh
more real than both of those
because some of y’all could have dodged
them to like control
contamination nope but this one
see let me walk you into it slowly so
your heart will be prepared for the uh
pounding that you’re about to take in
the spirit today
um anybody ever play video games I need
hands like in the chat video games what
was the first video game system you ever
remember shout it out at me right now
okay Nintendo 64. we gotta go further
back than that which one
Sega Genesis we gotta go further back
she said Atari
[Applause]
okay anybody got further back than Atari
y’all what’d you say
legal vision
Calico vision is is that real
man on the front row like uh
okay cool
so so I didn’t make the Atari
um timeline
but that in the Todd household the first
game system was the original
y’all know what I say
Nintendo
okay y’all remember the gray box and you
had to lift it up and you had
breath of the spirit
pneuma of God
like if you’ve never blown on a
cartridge you haven’t lived it’s the
first miracle you’ve ever seen in your
life
first miracle ever
they don’t increase your faith
and um me and my older brother Gabe will
play Nintendo but then one Christmas Dad
took it to the next level
and we opened up this box with this
little blue Hedgehog on it
and when the Sega Genesis came in to
play
that I mean there was nothing like
playing Sega until
Sony
came out with this little device with
three circles on it
called a PlayStation
and I don’t know if I was the only one
but I was a professional CD cleaner
I had alcohol see some of y’all know
what I’m talking about because the games
could get scratching if it gets
scratched then you can’t play it no more
so I had alcohol I had cotton swabs and
if you would I mean if you really had to
do it you had to use the bottom of your
T-shirt
I love y’all
okay
and and and and all of these games were
so fun but the one thing I hated about
all of them is that you only could be so
far away from the console
because there was a control that had a
wire that you had to be connected to so
y’all see how I preach like like so
there would be times
that I would be playing and get so into
it that right at the moment
that I was about to win
no no
and I would lose not because I didn’t
have the moves
I lost because I lost connection
okay
and then what ended up happening is
um
um probably about three years later we
got this thing called a Nintendo 64.
and Nintendo 64 changed the game because
the game started changing on the
Nintendo 64. we got this one game called
NFL Blitz
[Applause]
and then we got this other game called
NBA Jam
he’s on fire some people are still
looking at me like what is he talking
about I know you’re too safe for this
but this was Ministry to me
okay
and and then
I still had the same problem with those
things because it had the controller
but then the PlayStation 2 came out
and when the PlayStation 2 came out they
invented this new technology
called Wireless
controllers
you could be in another room
and still controlling what was happening
and I began to think about that when we
were talking about being controlled by
things the past two weeks
is that many of us
are being controlled by something we
don’t even think is connected
okay
our wireless controller you don’t see
the connection but it’s controlling your
life
like this doesn’t look like it has a
direct path but somehow every time this
issue comes up it’s moving something on
the screen of my life
okay
the reason this came to my mind is
because I was sitting in my room
and my kids was playing a game
and I sat down on the couch and the
character on the screen just started
moving
and I’m watching it like wow
they’re going to get beat
this is not the moves they should be
making
this doesn’t look good and my daughter
starts yelling dad get up
you’re sitting on the controller
and I know my booty mask
I said booty Mass okay m-a-s-s I know it
I didn’t feel it
and she said I promise you’re sitting on
the controller it’s right there I get up
and I was sitting on a controller
and what I realized is because there was
a connection I did not see
when I sat down and it came into contact
with me it started making decisions on
the screen I was looking at but I didn’t
even know it was me that was controlling
it
I didn’t see how there was a everybody
say connection
okay
what I’ve come to realize is many of the
things that we are dealing with and that
we are cuffed to are because we have
control it has control over our life
without obvious connection
what are the things that are in your
life right now that have control without
an obvious connection
think about it
because there are reasons why you do
what you do
and reasons why you go where you go
and reasons why you don’t like certain
type of people
not not because you don’t even know them
but they remind me of
that anybody I see like that
what is in the background controlling
what you’re doing now but you don’t see
the obvious connection
literally when I’ve been getting to
write down all of the things in my life
God said you can talk about that you can
talk about that you can talk about that
you can talk about that but Mike in this
season you’re coming into right now I
need you to talk about one that has been
controlling people without an obvious
connection and I need you to do it now
and I was like God I don’t really want
to do it now because they’re gonna be
mad at me and he said but they need to
be transformed and I was like but then
they’re not gonna listen to me no more
and he said but then because if they
listen to you they’re gonna be listening
to me because this one I told you to
speak and I said okay guys so you want
me to talk about it he said boy if you
ask me one more time if you want me to
talk about it then we gonna have
problems and so I’m gonna tell you the
title of today’s message is tough to
cash
I didn’t want to
let’s just be very clear cue I didn’t
want to do this
but God told me he said there are so
many of my children
who are cuffed
to cash
they’re cuffed to the idea of finances
you live a life you hate
for cash
you wake up every day mad to go to work
because of cash
I need cash to live in this neighborhood
because I ain’t never going back to the
hood
and literally you pay for a house you’re
never at
e you’re cuffed to the cat
you got shoes
uh did I just step on something
you got shoes still in boxes
that you’ve never want my man in the
back as I oh dude he didn’t have to he
didn’t have to do me like that you got
shoes still in boxes
that you will never wear for the next
five years
because you’re waiting for the right
opportunity
to kill him you know what I’m saying
y’all know what I’m saying when I pull
these I’m gonna kill him with it okay
you’ve been waiting on the moment to
kill them
but you’re in debt
it’s killing you
but you won’t sell them you won’t let
them go cause you’re cuffed too
they won’t even say it
um
everybody say cuff to cash
you get a makalaki Taki Taki Tate
vinti
every day you don’t even like Starbucks
but the people at your job
it’s a cultural thing oh
you like the good old forager Folgers
is the best part of waking up
his Folgers in your Pub
you you’ve you’ve become accustomed to
that nasty taste
that’s what you like
but you spend eight dollars every day
buying a drink that stays halfway filled
because you’re cuffed to the idea of
what cash gets you
Fendi don’t make you more expensive
Louis does not increase your love
product does not give you purpose
[Applause]
a new truck a new boat a new gun a lake
house that stuff does not increase your
value
it usually increases your responsibility
I just said a mouthful right there
but the problem is we are going after
the American dream
climbing the corporate ladder missing
out on our children being raised
why
because we’re good
we’re cut to the idea of having cash
and
ain’t nothing wrong with cash
there’s nothing wrong with it
the only problem is when it becomes the
thing finances money more
when that becomes your driving force in
life
it will always disappoint you because it
never has the power to fulfill
I know people with so much money
that they could literally give everybody
in this room a hundred thousand
somebody said where they at call them
invite them to church
but the truth for the matter is when you
run through the hundred thousand
you still depressed
when you run through the hundred
thousand
the hundred thousand is just gonna
magnify who you really are
if you pop in two pills you get a
hundred thousand you pop in a hundred
pills if you’re a liar you’re just gonna
be more manipulative in the way that you
lie money doesn’t make it magnifies
oh I’m talking right now money doesn’t
make you it just magnifies who you
really are and because so many people in
the church
so let me give everybody a pass that
don’t love God and doesn’t call Christ
his King okay go after it
it kind of feels good
but everybody who calls himself a
believer
if you’re still cuffed to cash
God may not be your God
I’m a tread lightly today
no I ain’t here we go
first point
cash is critical
but it’s not Christ
it’s a servant not a savior
we gotta have like we got to be able to
function it’s a tool
savior
the truth of the matter is some of y’all
would shout more over a thousand dollars
then God giving you Joy in your heart
[Applause]
you you will act a fool if somebody
walked in Target and gave you a band
but we come in here it’s time to praise
God
[Music]
you see my shoes killing them
[Applause]
that cash is critical we need it
but it’s not Christ
it is a servant money works for me
somebody say that money works for me
I don’t work for money
uh see now I’m having to come against
generational curses and and generational
Habits Like I’m fighting I don’t work
for money
I work for purpose
and because I work for purpose even if
I’m doing a job that I don’t like it’s a
part of my purpose that’s developing me
into something or somewhere or some
something that I need for the next step
but I’m going towards what God wants for
me but I don’t work for money
money
works
that’s gonna be somebody’s faith
statement for the rest of the week
because some of y’all are just trying to
figure out well if I carry the two and
then I go sell plasma and then if I uh
don’t be acting like y’all don’t be up
there like
[Applause]
when can I come back in two weeks okay
stop it
[Music]
we’re trying to figure out what God
provides
for those who do his will first
I’m gonna teach you Matthew 6 24. no one
can serve two masters
for either you will hate one and love
the other
you will be devoted to one
and despise the other
you cannot serve God
and be enslaved to money
this is the Bible
you cannot serve God and be cuffed to
cash
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do you know how strong that is
you cannot serve God and have money as
your God
I wake up and the first thing I think
about is getting this money
I go to sleep and the last thing I think
about is getting his money
when I look at people I how much money
do you think they got
you look at people’s car like can they
help me make money
hold on y’all
nowhere in the scripture
does Jesus say that needs to be our
Focus
it should be our fruit
okay let me let me stop
when we talk about this in the original
language it it this is one of the only
places that God distinguishes himself
against anything because most things
ain’t even worth comparing him to
but he says you cannot serve God and the
the original Aramaic word is a Mammon
you can’t serve both of these let me
take y’all back up because some of y’all
looking at me like because I’m like
really just like really take me and show
me Luke chapter 16 verse 10. so we just
read it in Matthew but Luke is a
Doctrine is a little more detailed than
certain things so you’re going to see a
little more right here Luke chapter 16
verse 10. he who is faithful and what is
least is faithful also in much
and he who is unjust or sloppy or
raggedy in what is least is unjust also
a much clean your car
let me
let me put my glasses on maybe you’ll
take me seriously okay
this is what we call stewardship he
don’t care what it looks like right now
can you keep it in the condition that it
is in or better right now
he’s watching how you handle what’s in
your hand
keep screaming for more but he’s
watching how you handle what’s in your
hand
okay he says therefore if you have been
faithful and on in this unrighteous
Mammon
who will commit to your trust true
riches
hold on what we’ve been talking about is
like money he said but I want to give
you true riches that’s what I want to
trust you with
and if you have not been faithful oh
watch this one I can’t even I ain’t got
time to even talk about this but if you
have not been in faithful what Faithful
over what is another man’s
imma see oh I’m a boss I don’t work for
nobody
hold up
if you are not storing over something
that somebody else’s
there are certain principles you miss
this is for another day
it says if you are not faithful or been
faithful and what’s another man’s who
will give you what is your own no
servant can serve two masters for either
he will hate one and love the other or
else he will be loyal to one man we’ve
been loyal to cash
man we wake up when we don’t want to for
cash
man we will we will throw somebody under
the bus for cash
but what what do you really think about
them because I was thinking about
promoting them you were them well you
know I’ve seen them a couple times
they don’t always stay till it’s time to
leave
and uh
that last presentation they gave
subpar
like
why because you thought somehow their
elevation
was gonna take away
your ability to make more cash oh God
how loyal have we been
we we have taken
our character and put it
under dirt
for the possibility of more cash
okay
it says
you cannot serve God and Mammon
this is an arid um Aramaic word that
means riches okay it was a Syrian god
named Mammon it actually came from
Babylon just giving you a little history
you remember Babylon comes from the
Tower of Babel in Genesis chapter 11
verse one through nine and these people
thought that they they could get to God
on their own what this Spirit of Mammon
is write this down the spirit of Mammon
is a belief that we don’t need God if we
have riches
this is the truth of the matter
most people think if I got enough
cake
don’t really need God
if I got enough money what I need to
pray for I’ll pay for it
oh God
if I got enough money I can step in and
be God instead of need God
you don’t say it out loud we don’t we
don’t actually
confess this but this is what we think
and the church has been cuffed
to this Spirit of Mammon and that’s why
we’ve been cuffed to cash and today I
came to tell somebody that we’re about
to break this thing today in the name of
Jesus this Spirit of Mammon is arrogant
it’s prideful and it makes you look to
to other things than God
write this down Mammon promises you
everything only God can deliver
I’m saying this
I’m gonna just tell him the truth
because I used to live like this
I used to think that money if I make
enough beats and Beyonce
allows me to produce her album along
with Usher
and Lil Romeo that was the time I was in
okay
then I’ll make enough money
to be able to come back to the church
and impact it for God
I’m gonna go outside of God make some
cash and then come be effective for
Jesus
don’t act like you ain’t never thought
that Lord please just let me hit the
lottery
they got about a good 52 bill
and Lord I’ll serve you with all of it
these are the thoughts and it may not be
at that level but but what I’m saying is
somewhere we replace needing god with
needing money
and Medicine Man listen that being comes
to cash it promises identity
security
significance and happiness and it cannot
provide any of that
only God can give you identity
security
significance and happiness this is the
LIE of Mammon
and everybody has had this thought
before
this imma prove it to you
either I need God to come through
I need somebody to give me some money
if you’ve ever had that thought
I either need God to come through
or I need somebody to give me some money
you’ve been cuffed
to cash
and the reason I’m bringing this to you
is because I don’t want you to be
Shackled by this another day of your
life I don’t want your children being
growing up in a situation my daughter
the other day she Bella’s becoming more
aware of everything and so literally
we’re at the cash register and we’re
paying for a bunch of people to get into
amusement park and she sees the price
and once she sees the price she said
she said dad you spent that much money
on that she said no no never mind no I
don’t want to do it
hold on
maybe why wouldn’t you want to do this
if daddy’s providing this for you could
you see how much it cost
do you see how much that’s so much
I said I I love your spirit
watch this
but daddy wants to bless you
and you have been obedient
and you’ve done what I’ve asked you to
do
let me bless you
but Daddy you’re gonna bless all of them
too
because because you know sometimes it’s
like all right bless me but
get all of them
it’s like but you’re gonna bless all
them I said yeah she was like you got it
like that
and I sit back and say yes yes I do like
and in that moment God said Michael
that’s how I want you to come to me
when you do what I ask you to do
when you’ve been Faithful over what I’ve
given you
I want to bless you
you and you won’t bless all of them too
yes
this ain’t got to be one person or is it
somebody like I’m bless all of them
and I’m like you got it like that
and guess what God Said I got it like
that
this
only happens when you keep him in his
rightful place so here we go okay
um
money is not the answer to your problems
God is always the answer to your
problems
and some of you right now think money
money’s gonna answer that yeah money may
help it
money may be the tool you need but
anytime you have a problem
how did you even get in the situation in
the first place
if you’re going to get out of the
situation and stay out of the situation
you need God to transform your mind
so what I’m saying to you is money might
be a part of the solution but it is
never
the thing
that is what we need fully God is the
answer to every problem we will ever
have and I know all the way up until
this point some of y’all y’all just
battling struggling because you thinking
about your situation right now and how a
cool 30 000 would solve all your issues
and and take away it wouldn’t take away
the anxiety
you wouldn’t get that alert every month
but you still wouldn’t be able to sleep
why because you need God to do more than
give you cash and if you’re still
debating right now if this is okay
you’re cuffed to cash
I heard one of my friends
um um ask some people he said what’s the
highest form of value and a lot of
people say cash
and my friend Dr Darius Daniels he said
it like this he said get cash money
ain’t even in the top three
of the things that you need he said like
this if I give you a million dollars
today and you die tomorrow which one do
you want the million or your life
you want your life so that means time is
more valuable than cash
if I give you a million dollars today
but then you have to be sick for the
rest of your life
which one do you own you want your help
so that means health is more valuable
than cash if I give you a million
dollars today and then I tell you your
mama Gotta Die Tomorrow
somebody’s like well I know you you
you’re no stop it not my mama
what that means is relationships are
more valuable
than cash
so why are we being controlled
by this thing that’s not even as
valuable as everybody makes it seem
you will get up and work a double
for more cash and won’t go to your kids
recital
I’m provided
well
your children need more than Jays and
dresses
shoes and vacations
they need you to see them
soothe them
Comfort they need light
but the truth is
it’s a little easier because a lot of us
are cuffed too
cash okay so um
write it down to the point finances
aren’t the highest form of compensation
watch this fulfillment is
I have never by the grace of God I have
had
as I’m about to turn 36 I’ve had some
opportunities to receive some resources
from different things that are like God
how did that happen
and I’ma just tell you because nobody
ever told me like when whatever the
biggest check you’ve ever gotten is when
you get it it feels good for 48 hours
like after you like dang
wow
you start walking with a little Swagger
you go to the bank different though
you don’t do the drive-through you go in
you’ll be like hello hello
hey
like you just be doing random weird
stuff
and then it goes into this magical
disappeared land
and then you feel anxiety for a second
like
did they take it
ah there it is
you check your account
you go eat a nice dinner
and then all the things
that was a problem before
it would be a problem
after the check
I’m telling you I thought it was going
to be like a match like I thought I was
gonna lose weight when I made more money
like I don’t know I just thought it was
like you rich you skinny like I thought
it just it felt like you needed
did he said it
the more money
do you know they take more money
government takes more money when you
make more money
I don’t know if everybody knows that but
like a million ain’t a million
a hundred thousand ain’t a hundred
thousand
I mean it looked like that on the chat
do you know people want to be paid
for helping you count your money
no I’m just telling you things that I
didn’t know
that when people find out you might got
a little money
they start asking
if they can have some of y’all
money and it be the people you love too
like I heard God blessing you
why are you telling us
because I don’t want you cuffed to it
I want you to know the greatest thing
the greatest form of payment is
fulfillment
and some of the most fulfilling things
in my life I didn’t get paid for
you are missing moments that God wants
to richly bless you
because you’re looking for there to be
zeros behind it when it might be a hug
some of the greatest moments you may
ever have may not come in commas
it may come in a conversation
like God’s using you
to help somebody else and you are
feeling fulfilled
and and that’s why I just I just want to
help you understand Matthew 6 33 which
is my favorite Bible scripture and I’ve
always been wired for things
um um that that make me understand the
Bible finances all that other stuff and
I remember being 17 years old when this
scripture came alive to me and I took it
to heart this is my favorite Bible
scripture and I’m gonna preach a lot
about it in 2023 listen to this Matthew
6 33 but seek
first
the kingdom of God and his righteousness
and all these things
all of these things
they’ll be at it
it’s like going to the fast food
restaurant
and you ordering five baskets of fries
you’re not worried are you gonna get
ketchup
like you’re not like oh my God
I wonder if I just order all these fries
and I wonder if they’re gonna allow me
to have ketchup
you ordered the fries first
the ketchup is added
like why am I stressing
about what’s added if I did the
prerequisite
and most of us are worried about the
after thing
because we have not done the first thing
when you seek everybody shout at me
first
the kingdom the king what he wants you
to do how he wants you to act how he
wants you to maneuver money
cash influence
that’s at it
that’s small men when I got this
connection at 17 MO
it changed my life because I had never
heard anybody say just go Full Throttle
after God
and everything that you think you need
it’s added
everybody was telling me go after the
things you think you need
and hopefully God can be a part of it
and this is why some of y’all know y’all
called into Ministry but you’re still
working a job because it pays you six
figures
it’s 19 years and you’re working for a
Rolex and a plaque it ain’t even a Rolex
it’s a Movado let’s be honest they’re
not giving you no Rolex at that job
25 years for a Movado
and a plaque and an insurance plan and
God said it’s been 25 years you’ve not
been working on purpose
why are you saying this because I’m like
I pray for it and counsel so many people
who are cuffed to cash
why don’t you just give them man I just
I’m so burdened
by the problems in this world
all of the homeless people why doesn’t
the church do something
you the church
you have nine jackets
it’s cold outside
you put a heart
on a post by be heard movement but you
didn’t take nobody a jacket
I see I don’t I don’t
but not the
uh-uh
this is a exclude my grandma bought this
for she dead
she doesn’t even
let me start
we make all of these excuses because
somehow that’s giving us value
cuff to it
cuff to it
and why am I so passionate about this
because it almost took my generosity
it being close to cash almost robbed me
of the blessing of being a generous man
of God
I was almost the most stingy
greedy
selfish person you’ve ever met until I
found the Revelation that it is more
blessed to give than it is to most
people will never live that out in their
life because they are so cuffed to cash
because the suit makes you the shoes
make you the house make you the clothes
make you what my kid has on your baby
got baby Jordans and they only gonna be
that size for 13 days
you spent 78 dollars on a shoot this big
I’m not judging you but you spend 78
dollars on a Shooters and then keep them
don’t even give them to somebody else
your brother having a baby you’re like
that’s fine but he ain’t gonna look as
good as my baby and it’s like
what are you cuffed to cash
okay
so so when it says seek first the
kingdom and it’s righteousness all these
things are added
um I I wrote this down because it helped
me get it cash always needs to be
connected to the kingdom
like when I seek first the kingdom cash
comes
like if I Kingdom if you’re doing what
God’s asked you to do in the Kingdom
he’s always going to fund it so when
when you get into your Kingdom Purpose
cash come my cash is connected to the
kingdom
that’s why money should never be the
focus it should be the fruit
stop focusing on cash stop focusing on
money start focusing on helping start
focusing on Solutions start focusing on
being a blessing
when you start focusing on the right
thing the thing you want comes because
it’s the fruit of the seed you planted
you never reap if you did not sow
and everybody looking for God to rain
down the Harvest on seeds they’ve never
ever
why do you say connect because the heart
of the kingdom is give somebody
something
bless somebody if I seek first the
kingdom I walk into the restaurant and I
was about to buy two of them I’ma buy
one of them and I’m about a person
behind me something
that seek first the kingdom seek first
the kingdom is you know what instead of
my all my kids 50 presents this year I’m
gonna let them pick their top five and
then we’re going to as a family bless
another family with Christmas why are
you saying that Pastor Mike because
that’s the heart of the Kingdom
and when God gives seed he looks for
people who will sow
and most people don’t have sower on
their name tag
laughs have y’all seen any Sowers I’m
ready to give something to somebody
like think about it
yeah I’m coming to bless somebody who’s
A sower
look somebody’s hand they was like uh I
think is this real or is he really doing
it or no I don’t know I don’t is he
trying to really get us
I said who’s A sower in the room
[Applause]
um can you bring me uh my cash machine
real quick
I Need A sower like somebody who like if
if I if I bless you you would bless
somebody else
now in the context of the message
everybody’s like me
Jeffy if I call me Bobby sower
real quick I just need one more person
somebody from this section who’s A sower
uh where where I said I heard right here
come come here right here the one that
said right here who’s that right here
come here y’all give it up for my man
the sower
okay now I want to do this little
example for everybody
just this is a real money machine okay
and we got a couple dollars in it
yeah get my man up on the yeah come on
bring them up here come on what’s your
name my man
Andre give it up for Andre soul
all right Andre
I need you to step inside the money
machine real quick my man come on just
go on here look right here baby right
here
that was some 50s and hundreds and 20s
in their own country
you got
how much time should I give him
he said um this minute
how much I give him
30. well hold on how much time should I
give him put it in the chat how many she
said 20 minutes no
[Applause]
all right I’m gonna give him I’m gonna
give him 15 seconds okay
[Applause]
you ain’t got no seconds in here why are
you saying nah
how much do I give him Roman 30 seconds
all right we’re gonna give him 30
seconds because Roman said to give him
30 seconds you got 30 seconds
to pick up as much cash as you can
okay
are y’all gonna cheer them all
right go ahead and start let’s go home
start come on start start me up I don’t
know no no no no no no no no no no no no
stop stop stop stop stop stop
put it down no no I’m not playing but
stop the blower
okay
[Applause]
that man said
I ain’t never seen no cash machine you
can’t do that
you gotta stay upright
and you gotta catch it
[Applause]
all right he got 30 seconds to start to
start to start it right now okay now you
gotta catch it now you better figure out
a technique
[Applause]
and encourage him
he didn’t let his belly come out and
everything he’s I’m about to get this
money
how much we got oh no oh no keep going
[Applause]
all right five four three
two one all right stop it stop it stop
it y’all give it up for my man right
here all right come on come no no no no
no no
he about to give it away no all right
all right okay
um Malia will you come over here with my
man and uh can you just count well I
might just count it with you all right
just you hand it to me hundo
200
300.
oh Hondo
500.
6 hundo them a lot of hundreds you
picked up right there
700 just passed me to 100 800.
nine ten that’s a thou that’s a band
here we go one
two all right I’ll get it I’ll get it
three he said uh
three come on four we gotta hurry up
five come on six yo you got way more
than I thought seven hey
nine ten that’s another band that’s two
one how much you think it is two
three come on all right we got three
that’s four right there come on five six
brother this is just magical six
okay so now we only twenties we have six
60 80.
one
without someone he said oh this man is
serious right now so that’s seven right
yeah yeah
okay
okay yeah so is that okay we got oh
that’s the 18th no no no that’s 18. 18
20. okay
um two thousand three thousand hold on
two thousand eight hundred
right
two thousand eight hundred and twenty
two thousand eight hundred and twenty
dollars y’all give it up for my man okay
now
you came up here
and I told you that wasn’t yours
so you did the work
to be a blessing
all of the work huh let me do it I’m
ready you found somebody I’m boom boom
you know hold on
this baby is excited I don’t even know
what I asked him to do boom boom boom
like hold on brother okay okay
I want you to find one person
that you’re led to
lead
oh y’all miss the word
that should let you from up here
because all of your work he’s sweating a
little bit he’s like he’s he did
something
but he did it knowing the purpose was
not for him to keep it
he would be blessed to be a
if you need a for real blessing in the
room right now like they’re like
something for real is going on raise
your hand okay
who you got five seconds
go who is it
oh there my man or over there with the
orange beanie are there a lot of people
over there at the very back yep very
very hey my man it’s you no no it’s you
you turned around yeah you come here
come here
hey he thinks the Price Is Right he like
oh shoot
come on hey bro you gotta hey
come on Bryce is right come on y’all
give him high fives all the way down the
high heels come on
you gotta hurry we on live TV you know
come on y’all come on
yes sir all right so um yeah you’re
gonna have to come on come on bro come
on bro I couldn’t even hurt me brother
all right
yeah he said that’s crazy
until it happened what’s your name bro
what’s up bro
hey watch this
God called you from the back
until it happens
I Know Who You Are
crazy until it happens
God called you from the back he blessed
somebody from over here
to find somebody over there
to be a blessing but this is how God
works half of what you were blessed with
you got to bless somebody else oh that’s
fine okay so who else need has a need in
the building right now okay so just find
somebody real quick just just we got to
do it real fast though a real live
example
real life example
he said ah
don’t play them like that no no no no no
no no no no no no no no no just just
buddy right here okay right on the Block
right right where right here right here
come here sis blonde right here right
here right here come on
all right come on hurry up
okay so watch this
so watch this
now most people would think
that my man who started it off is the
loser
I don’t know
how you doing since you’re good okay
so you got 1400 okay there’s real money
okay there’s not a fake like it’s like
the real okay all right cool
so
so the blessing
was provided by somebody’s work
but it was received
by grace
they did nothing
to earn
work like and then they were trusted
to then be a blessing to somebody else
okay now watch I’m trying to tell you
how Kingdom cash works
because you’ve been faithful
and haven’t asked me your Pastor Mike
when uh
when when all this is over you’re gonna
slide me something
beforehand I didn’t know how much he was
going to pull out of there but I already
have five bands ready to give to you
you missed it
you missed it cause I trusted
the character of the one you don’t know
what it’s doing for him right now but
you better get I want you to get a
visual
bless so you can be a blessing but
before he blessed you he already has
something else prepared for you
okay
now now
who leaves off of this stage blessed
I want to invite you to the kingdom
the kingdom is not about one person
being blessed or this group of people
being but I don’t like this scene
because it’s only black people up here
I don’t like this we’re a multi-ethnic
church
sweetheart
I need you to pick somebody white out
here or Hispanic
there’s a black woman like my daddy
white like no stop
can you pick somebody please
get somebody
hurry hurry come on sister
[Applause]
okay come here now watch then just hurry
just hurry
now now watch before before you get I
need somebody Hispanic or Asian or
come on somebody you come on come on
come on okay okay come here come here
come here come here come here come here
come here come here we got to make some
room oh hold on we got to make some what
some rules
we have to make room because the
blessing
has gotten too big
to contain by one group of people in one
space I’m trying to show you our actual
picture of what kingdom is supposed to
do okay
so so so so so everybody 1400 1400 1400
1400 all y’all getting 1400.
you getting five thousand
now watch
that’s watch it
the reason
she said you need African to up there
you need an African
my brother
black wakanda forever
you need African
I said I heard you you ready come on you
come on to International
come on let’s get some International in
here
I see you
she came ready
see what does she said don’t fall don’t
fall at the end don’t follow just stand
right there
[Applause]
now stop no stop calling I ain’t nobody
else coming up
but that doesn’t mean you can’t be
blessed thank you
because it should not stop
here
see the only thing I’m asking you didn’t
come to church looking to be blessed but
God blessed you
now he’s giving you the opportunity
to bless someone else
okay
this
is what kingdom
and cash
this is how it should relate
do you all hear me can we give God
praise for all of these people
y’all can go off Joe’s gun they gonna
take all your information we’re gonna
make sure why you crying bro
you don’t understand
[Applause]
it’s all good bro
we moved here
[Applause]
moved here from Oregon
you have his God through you has
inspired my family
you don’t understand
oh sweet
I never saved money before
I never gave a homeless person stuff
before until I started become a part of
this church
foreign
I didn’t never know how to hold a job
following this service to the word of
God through you
changed my life
[Applause]
I was hoping one day I could meet you
and now look what God did he let us meet
in front of the whole world can we give
God praise
for transformation in Christ
that’s what it looks like come on we
gonna talk afterwards brother he he
messed up y’all this brother he
it’s like your drunk friend it ain’t
anything it’s nice
and what he said going off he said it
ain’t about the money
he’s been transformed
okay
five thousand
one five thousand dollars did five
thousand dollars didn’t do that
God did that
the 5 000 just was a catalyst to be able
to point to how good God was in that
man’s life like do you all see what I’m
saying and and I
I’m not gonna make it through this whole
thing but that was a message in itself
so
so if you want to understand how Kingdom
works
it means you have to uncuff from cash
there was a Rich Young Ruler you can go
look at this whole story in Mark chapter
10 verse 17.
that he ran after Jesus it says in verse
17. and he he came running up to him
knelt down and asked good teacher what
must I do to inherit eternal life
Jesus always dropping gems and just
making you think why you call me good
only God is truly good but never mind
you ain’t ready for that to answer your
question
you know the Commandments you must not
murder you must not commit adultery you
must not steal you must not testify
falsely you must not cheat anyone honor
your father and mother nature it’s your
boy I’ve done all of these things
since I was young
looking at the man Jesus felt I love
this genuine love
he felt genuine love for him
um
Come Close bro
there’s still one thing that you haven’t
done yet he told him go and sell all
your possessions and give the money to
the poor and you will have treasure in
heaven then come follow me
I’ve heard this scripture butchered for
years
that God wants people to be poor that’s
dumb
that’s that’s it doesn’t even make sense
how are we going to bless people if we
ain’t got nothing
like that did it like where I’m supposed
to steal it oh nope that’s one of the
Commandments thou shall not seal what
they’ve misinterpreted the Revelation
and I’m gonna give it to you today and
this is gonna set you free
it said at this man’s at this that Jesus
told me go sell your possessions give
the money to the poor the man’s face
fail
and he went away sad
he didn’t even try y’all
he didn’t try for he had many
possessions
one thing
um that we don’t give this Rich Young
Ruler credit for
is um he at least was seeking Jesus
like literally if you look at it in
verse 17 as Jesus was starting out on
his way Jesus was going this way a man
came running up to him and knelt down
he had the first part of Matthew 6 33
down
seek
first
he did that part
but
at some point and I’m telling all
Christians this
you’ll seek can’t just stay a seek
at some point you can’t just be look I’m
going after God
I’m in your presence
I’m here for you Lord
at some point he’s going to ask you to
do something
let me put it in a point at some point
your seek has to turn into a sacrifice
oh that’s nasty Bible right there
keep seeking him
he says to do
at some point seek Him and stop hanging
out with those friends what is that
going to be a sacrifice
you’re gonna have to sacrifice your
social life for a season because you’re
not emotionally as stable enough to make
your decisions by yourself so you need
to get away from them so you can hear
from God and find your own identity
outside of that friend group oops I’m in
your business
what God is going to ask you to
sacrifice somebody say sacrifice
if your seek never turns into a
sacrifice you will never see the
promises of God
and I wish somebody would have told me
this you can’t just sing the songs and
come to church if you not giving up
something it will never materialize what
you’re believing for
and how does Jesus test this man
he says um yeah go sell all your
possessions
he wanted his seek to turn into a
sacrifice
and this is not just in money y’all
um
fella
if you seeking her
you like the way she moving
you like the way she talking and walking
and you infatuated and you holler at all
at some point
it’s gonna go from a seek
through a sacrifice
you you’re gonna have to do stuff you
didn’t think you was going to do
she said I know that’s right
you’re gonna have to put if you like it
I think it was prophetess Beyonce
she said if you like it
you’re missing out on your promise
because you don’t want your seat to turn
into a sacrifice
oh God
yeah
some of y’all go to the gym seeking for
the best gym
is it Gold’s Gym is It lifetime is it
it’s my hotel you’ve been seeking for
months
but at some point
that seat got to turn into a what
you’re gonna have to lift something
you go half shoe gone you can make all
the stretching videos you want to
but at some point the seek has to turn
into a
I just came to tell you
it’s the same thing with money
if you’re gonna seek God at some point
he’s going to say I want some of it
I want you to use it for something that
you would naturally use it for
I know you could go buy yourself another
but I want you to sow into this
and and let me let me show you the the
key to it because when I looked at the
scripture he said go sell all your
possessions man when you really dig into
the Scripture it just changed your life
he said sell all your possession that
was the sacrifice but then he said sow
it
what do you mean give it to the poor
those are two totally different things
I could sell all my stuff and just have
more for my investment
but he said sacrifice
and then sow it
let me say it in a point sacrifice is
solidified in sowing
like
there’s something exponential that
happens when you take what you sacrifice
for did y’all see what happened to this
man he sacrificed it was his hands it
was when he was picking up that money
nobody else was working
but it was solidified did y’all see he
broke down crying after the fourth
person
his blessing sowed into them
this is what God is requiring all of us
this is why God asked us to share our
testimony
it’s cause all the crap you went through
does not get solidified until you give
that story to somebody else
I think about my friends who who are up
here Brian Aaron a couple of weeks ago
all the crap that they went through all
the sacrifice all the marriage
counseling all the different things they
went to it didn’t get solidified until
Aaron told me God’s coming into his
Barbershop saying man thank you
for sharing that message me and my wife
were going to actually work on our
marriage now
what
all the sacrifice was actually
solidified when they gave it away
and what I’m saying is some of y’all
been through a whole bunch of crap that
hasn’t made nothing yet because you’re
not willing to give it away
the same thing with your finances God
said do you know how much I could do if
I had control
of the resources that I give you the
ability to get it does not become
solidified until it’s sown
so um
as I was reading this to bring it to an
end the goal of this Parable was not for
church people to think either I follow
Jesus or I live a broke life
that wasn’t it the goal was not broke
the goal was broken
he was trying to get this Rich Young
Ruler
to be uncuffed
or broken from the thing that gave him
significance
his title was
rich
they didn’t say his name
they had identified him by what he had
accumulated
Rich Young Ruler Jesus said if you’re
gonna follow me that can’t be your first
title
so I don’t want you broke I want you
broken
and there is no telling
if this young man would have not been
the replacement for Judas
in the treasury
because he was obviously good with money
it just was
he didn’t have money
money had him
he didn’t even try
he didn’t even try to uncuff
and today I’m just asking everybody in
here
if you’re going to uncuff from cash
you got to give it
there’s no other way how I got rid of
Being Greedy in my heart
is I gave it I’ll give it to you in a
point it’s got you until you give it
I’m done
it’s got you
until you give it
anything in your life in your bank
account in your closet that you can’t
give away you don’t have it
it has you
I told I told him bring me that last uh
that last little thing Birmingham shoes
I literally got a pair of shoes last
night
Mo am I lying I’m telling the truth I
got these last night most seen them
bring me the shoes in the jacket you got
it you got them thank you baby
they not open y’all these didn’t even
come
DJ Khaled came out with a shoe
called we the best and
these mugs is so clean they’re Jordan
Fives
and I mean they just
and I was literally preaching
this sermon to Charles in The Green Room
and just finished I mean on the inside
y’all it’s so I’m not sponsored if DJ
Khaled if you want to sponsor me that’s
fine but um
I literally was in The Green Room
and the Holy Spirit said if you don’t
give them away this morning they got you
it’s my birthday
is mine
and God said what a blessing
that I had you pay for something that
was somebody else’s
and you got to enjoy carrying them
around
for one day
will come here we’ll uh hegemon
I’ve been watching you so
y’all can clap it up real quick as soon
as soon as the Holy Spirit say you got
to give them away he showed me will
and uh y’all don’t know but will is one
of the best people in the world serves
this Vision tirelessly and
um
today I just wanted you to know I love
you I appreciate you I care about you
and your family
you the best
another one
but y’all know what happened
God just
allowed me
to graduate
to the place where he can trust me
with anything
those shoes didn’t have me
I had them
and now will has them
my question is do you have cash
or does cash have you
the only way
to break this cycle is to give
now
we’re not taking No second offering
today
so this is will be the time in most
churches where they cue the music
and the pastor would be like
I heard the number one million
620 like
I’m doing that crap
because at the end of the day if it
doesn’t come from a pure place of your
heart
it’s manipulation anyway
we don’t want that
all I’m asking everybody to do every
year we do this but I think it’s going
to be a more spiritual act than it is
anything else
on December 4th people are going to come
from all over the country
to sow in Crazy Faith y’all and the
testimonies we have of people who
trusted God with whatever he said not
what we said all we want you to do is
pray God is there anything you would
have me to give in this offering and
this is the crazy thing this is the time
of year like I tithe like that’s the
first level if you don’t Dive Right now
y’all missing out
it’s a protection it’s blessing it’s all
kinds of stuff ten percent we waste it
anyway
we wasted on stuff that don’t fit us we
got the clothes that we bought for a
size we ain’t about to be like y’all
know what I’m saying let’s be honest
like we wasted anyway but
uh 90 what God’s blessing is better than
a hundred percent without it
so if you’re if you’re not tied to man
I’m encouraging you start tithing that’s
the first level but then you can
graduate to a second level the second
level is offerings
and when God tells you and breaks it on
your heart to give something but there’s
nothing better than doing it but there’s
a third level everybody say there’s
another level
the highest level is sacrificial
offerings
what you mean you just seen one
it’s one that you’d be like oh
that hurt
that’s the level where God starts doing
things you never thought
you would ever see in your life
and it was possible I’m believing God
that this year before this end of this
year I think there’s 40 something days
left in the year like we ain’t got that
much more time
like I’m believing that there’s
thousands of people that won’t just do
the first level of tithing but in this
short span of time we will go from the
first level to the third level
like I’m gonna start tithing but dang
I’ma get before the end of 22 to
sacrificial offering and as we come and
sow in Crazy faith
I’m ready to see God do a miracle
not in the church
in the church
like God has blessed this building we
got a nice building we got everything we
don’t need that we need the spirit of
Mammon to be broken off of our minds we
need the the principles of poverty to no
longer pass down from generation we need
the the goal of greed in our lives and
our families to be eradicated how does
that happen we gotta everybody say give
generosity is the number one
way that people become more like God
for God so loved that he
it’s his core characteristic what
everybody stand all over the world
if you’ve been cuffed to cash
or you just want a a deeper heart of
generosity would you just lift your
hands everywhere because I’m the first
one to say it father
I thank you that I delivered your word
in the best way I knew how
today God I’m asking that you would
uncuff us
from our need
for cash more than our need for Christ
let us be married
to the idea of you being providered
the one who has and the ability not to
just meet our financial needs but meet
all of our needs today somebody needs a
healing today somebody needs
breakthrough today somebody needs their
mind shifted father thank you that we
are going to the one who is the source
of it all
and no longer will we be cuffed to cash
today we are severing
our tie to the spirit of Mammon
we are connecting
to the life-giving source
Jesus Christ
thank you for generosity erupting in
this church
thank you that this we’re looking for
places to be a blessing you
said if you give C to the sower so we
have to make up in our hearts right now
that we’re gonna sow and you will
provide seed
father let us be the answer to prayers
not just praying to get prayers answered
thank you that families change
thank you Father that legacies change
because we will seek first everybody say
first the kingdom
God I thank you that you’ll add
everything else
[Music]
if you’re in this room and you’ve never
accept Jesus as your personal Lord and
Savior let me introduce you to the king
of the Kingdom
he’s the one that took somebody like me
who was addicted to pornography a liar a
manipulator somebody who had a felony uh
car insurance fraud case and say yeah
bring that all to me
and I’m not gonna make you perfect but
I’m gonna make sure you’re progressing
and today the man you stand that’s you
see standing before you
has transformed because Jesus’s love has
come in and wrapped his arms around me
I’ve experienced the grace of God
and today I want to offer that to you
yeah your eternity will be secure but
that’s not the best part you get to walk
with God every day of your life
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today if that’s you and you’re saying
Pastor Mike I want I want to make Jesus
my Lord and Savior not just savior not
just get me out of this but Lord show me
which way to go tell me what to do
because I know your plan is best for me
I want to let you know that’s the best
decision you could ever make if that’s
you on the count of three I want you to
lift your hand we’re not going to
embarrass you and call you up or do
anything like that we’re going to pray
together but I want you to identify just
like if I said does anybody want a
thousand dollars hands will go up right
now this is way more valuable than any
amount of money
it’s a relationship with the one who is
and is to come
if you want a relationship with Jesus
today whether you’re in the room or
you’re watching online on rebroadcast or
10 years from now I want you to lift
your hand today is the day of salvation
one I’m so proud of you two your name is
about to be written in the Lamb’s Book
of Life I hear claps already three
somebody lift your hand right now if
you’re in this room I see you I see you
sister I see you my brother I see you
over wow oh come on church I see you
this is what it’s about
hey Transformation Church is a family
nobody prays alone so let’s all just
lift our hands and pray this prayer
together God
thank you for sending Jesus
just for me
today
I’m uncuffing
from everything that’s not like you
I believe you lived
you die you rose again from my freedom
and today I give you my life
changed me renew me transform me I’m
yours in Jesus name amen hey can we
celebrate all over this room oh y’all
Heaven is turning up right now can we
celebrate all over this room Hallelujah
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next week we’re going to take it to a
whole nother level
this week watch the message back anytime
you get frazzled about finances watch it
again
because God’s going to uncuff us because
he’s our source I love you thank you for
all the birthday wishes this is the best
Church to lead in the whole wide world
and until next week go out and live a
transformed life hug two or three people
we love you
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