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anybody ready for the word this morning

and man listen hey if you’re the first

time gets to guess to transformation

Church we want to say welcome we love

you we’ve prayed for you to be here we

honestly don’t care how you got here

like if somebody bribed you like yeah

I’m gonna take you to lunch but we got

to go to church force good friend we

really hope that you would get here and

that God would align your life and I

don’t care what you did yesterday I

don’t care what you smell like right now

see a lot of churches want you to clean

up on the outside before something

happens on the inside and that

transformation Church you can belong

before you behave now I know that

message that some people’s theology and

they messed up but you can’t clean a

fish you ain’t call

and and I would I would rather be like

Jesus then talk about it because he

always was with the people that nobody

wanted to be with he was hanging out at

tax collectors house he was hanging out

the prostitutes house they would that

would have been like oh Jesus going

again but maybe he was after their soul

today at this church all we want to do

is represent God to you and I don’t care

if you’re lost or found there’s one ring

thing that we really care about and

that’s that you would be transformed in

Christ so today I hope you just take a

step further in your journey of faith

you don’t have to become some brand new

person all today we hope you do but if

it takes you 10 years and everybody else

is taking big steps but you just school

the next week you come back and you

scoot again and the week after that you

scoot again and it’s been a year all I

came to tell you is God sees your

progression and he loves that more than

perfection look at your neighbors they

keep scooting I love you

well today we are gonna start part 11 of

a series that we’re calling help me

crazy fail okay I got I got I got a

challenge for somebody who thinks that

they can name eight out of the ten

message titles that we’ve done so far in

this series and I saw a hand go up and

then come down who do you think you got

it you got it okay come on bring bring

the mic to him right here come right

here y’all give it up tell me your name

bossman tell me your name

setting it Lucas Lucas don’t don’t hold

the mic Lucas he he gonna hold the mic

okay I got you all right Lucas you got

to get eight out of ten and then hand me

that hand me that hoodie what I want to

give him I’m gonna give you this new

represent okay hoodie if you can name of

eight out of the ten okay do y’all think

that Lucas got it

they wit you let’s go Lucas so week one

we got crazy faith

crazy faith then we got maybe faith then

maybe faith we got pastor Jeremy with

hazy fie hazy faith we got lazy faith

one lazy say to that don’t count for two

okay

so crazy baby baby faith wavy faith wavy

faith crazy baby

maybe lazy hazy watch them all on

YouTube okay you get to choose one

person Lucas to help you finish you get

to choose one of your if he look like me

you ready he don’t look ready are you

ready okay you got three more here we go

we got crazy faith daily faith there’s

another one that’s six you got two more

FOMO okay we got one more last one one

of y’all better get it

[Applause]

trading faith trading save there we go

now there’s only one hooding let’s give

it up for for my guys right now it was

like you got it or do you got it he was

like I don’t know um I’m so excited that

we have fun in church and I believe that

church should be enjoyed and not endured

and we’re gonna take this thing one step

further today and I’m excited because

this message series has literally been

reverberating around not our city not

our state not even our country but it’s

been revolving and reverberating around

that everybody saved the world they told

me the team came to me and said over 4

million people have watched a message

from crazy faith in the past 10 weeks

y’all can give they’ve been impacted by

that now the people who are like oh

they’re just all about numbers the thing

that God tells us in his word is to go

into all the world and make what descent

teaching them and this is a way that God

is allowing us to go into all the world

and teach him I just thank God for every

person in the room everybody who’s

sharing and liking everybody who’s

inviting friends this is what

transformation looks like and I believe

we just getting started amen well I want

to tell you a story cuz a lot of people

come to me and like pesum like how do

you get sermon messages you know I’m

saying you ten weeks into this series

and you said we’re gonna be crazy til

Christmas and there’s not that many easy

words in the dictionary and I’m gonna

let you into how I get messages um my

mother in love LaDonna she sitting right

here on the front row I love you girl

this is my wife’s mom we have a great

relationship since the time I was about

15 she just brought me in loved on me

and um because we have a great

relationship she randomly calls me text

me and come over the house to talk about

random stuff and one day I’m sitting at

my kitchen table and I hear this frantic

knock on the door like

and I was like mom what’s up she said

Michael

Oh God thank you Jesus thank you oh God

thank you Jesus a key she and I’m like

mom calm down

tell me what’s happening and she

hyperventilating and she pulls out this

a letter and she says my god think God

and answer my prayers I read it so I

read this letter and it says mislead Ed

Miller

you’ve just been awarded $100,000 sit

down man you say in a miracle I love our

church because if you actually said let

me just warn you this ain’t a miracle uh

save your energy uh this she said you’ve

won $100,000 she said Michael I’ve been

praying and got them done I said mom the

key breathe and it said if you send us

$700 will release your hundred thousand

dollars she said to you do you think

this is real I said mom anybody who has

a hundred thousand dollars to give you

ain’t and don’t need yo seven hundred

and hello you just saw like somebody

popped her balloon and she just deflated

and I said mom that’s Fugazi

and she said for who I said Fugazi

and she says what does that mean I said

it’s fake I said I said this is not real

it’s counterfeit

it’s Fugazi and as this happened to me

my little mind said Bing and I said

maybe this would be a good topic to talk

about in this sermon series because

there’s too many people walking around

saying they have faith but their faith

is Fugazi uh-huh they got faith

and so today I just want you to ask your

neighbor as we expand our vocabulary

today is your faithful Daisy

come on asked at least three people is

your faith Fugazi I see you in the back

Tricia the English teacher is like some

kz it’s not a word I do not believe

Trish I we’re leaving okay here it is a

made-up word and it’s in popular culture

right now but it does have a definition

that I think we can work with in this

series

Fugazi actually means fake not off or

false and how many of us talk like we

have faith act like we have faith get it

tattooed on our body wear a shirt poster

scripture but our faith is a knockoff

not real say let me help help you this

chain that I’m wearing

Fugazi don’t laugh at me cuz the purse

you walked in here with Fugazi’s I some

of y’all hair oh let me stop

[Applause]

she said you can tell yes I watch this

Netflix documentary the other day called

fire festival and and it was this

documentary about the greatest festival

party that that was ever gonna happen

and they had celebrities around it and

they sold these pictures of how it was

gonna look and thousands of people flew

to this private island and it looked

nothing like what was advertised these

are some pictures of fire festival they

advertised that there were going to be

stuff lobster dinners and that’s the

actual dinner they advertised that it

was going to look like that behind

everybody’s house and that’s what it

actually looked like they advertised

that everybody’s we’re gonna have

bungalows on the beach and it looked

more like a concentration camp

it was Fugazi it was fake it had no

legitimacy and my question is are you

claiming of faith that when people cut

it open and look at your life they say

they talked about going to church but I

see how he talks to his wife they talked

about being generous but I see how they

didn’t even give that little kid or I

that’s on the same team as their son

because it was income I see it but their

faith looks everybody say Fugazi uh-huh

it’s fake it’s kind of like all of these

instagrams that keep popping up every

week that claim to be me

I am the real Michael Todd and they’re

asking people for money let me help you

if I need the money from you I come to

you and ask you if you get in hit up on

Instagram please know that every day

every day don’t send no money to whoever

this is everybody’s safe Fugazi and and

it’s affected so many other people in

business in lifestyle when a company

tells you to invest in something and

they’re selling you a product kind of

like Enron did and people lost hundreds

of millions of dollars because they put

stock into something that was Fugazi my

question is at the end of our Christian

life after all the church services

you’ve been in after all the worship

songs that you’ve sung after all the

things that you have done in the name of

God will you get to the pearly gates and

God say that was faith like you acted

like you knew me you you you acted like

I was the head of your life you you you

acted like your first response was

prayer but when I rolled back the play

or the film of your life I just keep

seeing a lot of actions that were empty

and those saddest things for us as a

church everybody in the room and

everybody watching a lot is that we will

go through 16 to 18 weeks of a series

and at the end of it our faith be plaque

stick today I want to show you how to

make your faith real alive vibrant

moving and infectious see the type of

faith that I’m talking about is you

can’t get too close to me cuz it might

jump off on you

see the faith that I’m talking about

what I’m believing for you get around me

it’ll make you start believing for some

stuff that you y’all don’t hear me where

are the people in this room that have

the type of faith that will make other

people say you know what I need to

believe God more

I need those people to give God a shout

of praise real quick so so I want us to

walk through this and I don’t want you

to understand because some of y’all are

offended right now cuz some of you are

like Pastor Mike how do you have the

authority to diagnose the state of my

faith okay just stay with me to the end

of this service let me give you my first

point

Fugazi faith has no owner see see fake

faith it is is the type of faith that

does not have an owner explain that to

me Pastor Mike well I think what happens

is most of us confuse faith and optimism

that we start thinking things like this

somehow it’s gonna work out things are

looking up

somehow the universe the wind the the

elements are gonna bring everything

together and everything’s gonna work out

optimism is not faith because optimism

has no owner but when you have safe

you’re putting your faith in an object

and his name is Jesus and the thing that

you’ve gotta understand is that a lot of

people get tricked because they think on

the bright side but they haven’t put

their faith that Jesus is gonna be the

one to change their situation Jesus is

gonna be the one to turn everything

around I can prove it to you I can look

at Martha when her brother Lazarus died

and they wanted Jesus to come and he

waited for days to come and Lazarus is

dead now and Martha has an attitude I

think she was sister because she walked

right up to Jesus and said

watch a statement if you would have been

here not if the universe would have

showed up not if something would have

happened

that’s just optimism but if you Jesus

would have been here

Lazarus wouldn’t have died but watch the

most gangster statement in faiths

history Lazarus is dead she going off on

Jesus because he’s the who that her

faith was attached to and he didn’t show

up when she needed him to show up but

then look at this thing she said even

now while the situation is dead and now

you’ve shown up I have faith not in the

universe not that something or work out

nothing that things are looking up but I

was facing Jesus that even some of y’all

you’re looking at situations that have

been dead you’re looking at

relationships that are on a life support

and I came to tell you if Jesus is here

you can get the faith to say even but

Martha wasn’t optimistic she wasn’t

looking on the bright side faith has to

be assigned to a hook that can change

your situation and there are too many of

us in this room because we’re not we’re

not steeped in fear anymore we think we

have faith but our faith is not working

because we have been more optimistic

than faith-filled let me show you I’m

gonna try to illustrate this put the

faith continuum up there for me because

I need people to see this right now like

like like what happens is many people in

this room that they started on foot no

faith and when you don’t have any faith

like like what happens is you you you

try to get and-and-and get encouraged

enough to be able to start speaking

faith and let me help somebody cuz life

and death is in the power of the one

that’s proverbs telling us that we

should be speaking life we should be

speaking good

and most of us speak optimistic and not

faith-filled

can I prove it to you optimism says I

think my sickness is gonna get better

safeTALK assigns it to Jesus by His

stripes see there’s a who in there by

Jesus Christ stripes

I am what heal optimism says my marriage

should work but faith talk says what God

who God has put together let no man

separate

see the thing is because most of us

can’t delineate between optimism and

true faith we settle and we speak words

that aren’t faith filled but they’re

hopeful with know who who’s gonna change

your situation

who’s gonna heal your situation who’s

gonna deliver you from that addiction

who’s gonna change your family around

see when you put a demand on your daddy

and you call him by name something

happens to any father can I tell you a

true story my youngest daughter Ava ray

Michele time is going through a season

of not sleeping through the night pray

for your pastor and every night around

3:00 4:00 a.m. no matter if I have to

preach or not she starts yelling a name

she doesn’t say whoever whoever she

doesn’t say random and she doesn’t say

kid that I was playing with at the park

do you know the name that she begins to

call on she says daddy daddy daddy and

she’s relentless

I have listened to that girl called my

name for an hour straight standing up in

the crib with her eyes closed in

complete darkness

daddy daddy daddy daddy but at the

moment she hears the door crap open her

arms gulping she says daddy and some of

you are in a position right now that is

complete dark in your situation and you

ain’t been able to see and it seems like

you’ve been calling them all night but

I’m telling you God’s about to step into

the room of your situation if you call

on him that’s why I’m not optimistic

I’m faith-filled cuz my faith is the

sign today somebody give God a shout of

praise in this building so that’s why

you got to get your long language right

don’t just talk don’t just talk

optimistic talk everybody say

faith-filled see see let me give you a

couple more because this will help

somebody optimism says I won’t always be

addicted to porn there’s light at the

end of the tunnel somewhere but faith

talk says I’m pure and I’m a new

creation in Christ that’s the hope I’m

hiding myself in the Word of God

optimism says I’ll feel joy one day save

talk says the joy of the Lord is my

strength

today there is a who attached to it

somebody will be optimistic and say well

I’ve got enough money to get by what

that’s not the way a king’s kid should

be talking

when my Bible tells me that our God owns

the cattle on a Thousand Hills and you

talking about I got enough money to get

by you need to change the optimism into

faith talking unittest say my God who my

god who my God shall supply all my needs

according to his riches in glory ain’t

looking at my bacon head count through

Jesus who loves me and I will one day be

the lender and not to borrow y’all don’t

even believe it in the world if you’re

gonna be faith filled in this building

give God one more shout of praise yep

faith is rising safe is rising see

whatever you do you better believe in

the who I know I sound like dr. Seuss up

in here Sam I am but I’m trying to tell

you like if you don’t attach your belief

to our who it’s fruitless and I don’t

want you to I don’t want you to get me

misunderstood optimism is not bad it’s

just not the goal I’m not just trying to

be optimistic I want to see these things

change in my life and that means I have

to have God a part of this thing let me

show you on this faith continuum if you

put this up here this is where most of

us start most of us start not having any

faith the opposite of faith is fear so

we’re usually in fear we’re usually not

wanting to ask God for anything we

usually think why bother like maybe God

if you had a little second of the time

to you know work on my situations and my

Bible says he’s concerned about the

details of our lives

so maybe somebody sent you week one of

the message and you saw crazy faith and

we got the keys and your faith is

starting to expand and it goes from a

place of fear and it raises up a little

bit and then you join a big group shout

out to the 2213 people who joined to be

proved last week

maybe you get in community and and and

y’all know how faith comes right faith

comes by hearing and hearing what the

word

so you around other people who aren’t

perfect but that are progressing and

your weight your your your faith goes up

just a little more but this is the trick

of the enemy is that we get to the place

where we’re not in fear and we’re more

optimistic but we never take the journey

to go pass optimism and get fully into

faith and that’s why I’m here that’s why

I’m your pastor to get you from just oh

god well I mean the universe is really

just working things out for me oh no no

no because the universe ain’t dependable

the Bible says the grass withers and

what does it say the UM said the flowers

thank you Pastor Charles the grass

withers and the flower fades but the

Word of God stands everlasting and

that’s what I’m trying to get you to

connect to and so so so this is the

thing I need everybody to understand

that for us to get from optimism to

faith there’s something that goes in the

middle of that that most people don’t

want to do it’s a cuss word write it

down in your nose work I think a prophet

Rihanna said it best work work work work

work and this is the thing because what

we want to do is we want to expect God

to do everything but the truth is that

God will do everything you can’t do but

will not do anything you can do they

missed it

because they sitting here mad like God

ain’t worked you ain’t made a budget God

won’t do it he said you haven’t

apologized he will not do for you

what you have to do but he’ll do

everybody say everything that you can’t

do and the problem is that Fugazi faith

write this down won’t work and faith

without works is dinner dang it

so this is where I dare say 70 to 80% of

Christians live their entire life at a

place where I’m no longer in fear I had

enough faith to put my trust in Jesus

but not enough faith to live in abundant

life I had enough faith to get saved but

not enough faith to actually change I

had enough faith to join the church but

not enough faith to forgive other people

who keep doing me wrong it’s going to

take everybody say what does faith

without works is what I think I found a

picture of a lot of y’all’s faith it

popped up on my phone and and and I was

reading James chapter 2 verse 21 I want

you to go there with me real quick look

look at this and then I’m gonna show you

the picture of many of our faith it says

don’t you remember that our ancestor

Abraham was shown to be right with God

by his what oh that’s the work we got to

do that’s the things that we have to do

our actions

it says when he offered his son Isaac on

the altar you see his faith and his

actions worked together his actions

Otis my favorite his action made his

faith completely most of you have had a

missing link to your faith it’s been

action

and you’ve been saying God why I gave

even it didn’t work or I tried Ennis

because you haven’t been consistent in

the action part of what you have been

called to do and God saying Abraham was

not called a man of faith because he had

a dream and he and he heard from God he

was called a man of faith when he went

to his son Isaac which was the promise

child and said boy get up why daddy what

we doing we’re going to worship and what

the boy didn’t know is that God told

Abram to sacrifice your son I gave him

to you when you weren’t even supposed to

have him so give him back to me now

don’t that sound like a lot of our

careers don’t that sound like a lot of

our relationships that you prayed and

God did a miracle and gave you something

and now he no longer owns that you do so

when he asks for it back you like now

man and God said are you really about to

fight with me what you did with what you

didn’t even deserve that’s why it’s

crazy when I hear people talking about

they don’t tithe and give 10 percent or

give offering you didn’t even qualify

for the job you got and then God gave

you a job making two times more than

what you even deserve to make and then

he asked you for 10% back if I do the

math you make him more than he is and he

just said I want to do this not for my

sake but to rebuke the Devourer for your

sake but cool keep it and then the enemy

comes in to devour what God wanted to be

increased in surplus for you and Abraham

picks up his son and he takes them to

this mountain and he tells the people

around he had a servant he said hey stay

right here me and the boy are going up

to do what worship and this is what God

says there it is there’s the action that

moves with my faith I bet God was in

heaven like he about to really do it

y’okay come here Mike come here I spoke

to him last night and I said I want I

want Isaac back and I didn’t think he

was gonna do it because they waited 25

years for this promise and you know I’m

usually most of my children when they

wait so long to get something and then I

asked him to do something different with

it they forget about me and leave the

faith and say it was all me hey bout to

do it

he done left the servant and he called

it worship oh shoot

let’s see let’s see he put him he lifted

up the knife okay go get it go get it go

get it and out of the bush God provided

a sacrifice he didn’t want his son he

wanted Abraham’s heart and I’m trying to

tell you that a lot of what God is

asking you for has nothing to do with

what he’s asking you for he really wants

your heart and that’s how you know your

faith is fake

because when God asks you to do

something or he asked you to say

something or ask you to pay for that

person behind you meal and you like they

got in the line they had money that had

nothing to do with the money it had

everything to do with your heart I’m

talking to somebody he said his actions

made his faith everybody say complete

whoo I’m hoping that the missing link in

your faith is actually having action

with your faith verse 23 and so it

happened just as the scriptures say

abraham believed God and God counted him

as righteous because of his faith he was

even called a friend of God you can get

called a BFF with God when you walk in

that level of faith it said see oh this

is the powerful scripture so you see we

are shown to be right with God by what

we do

not by faith alone so how you treat the

waitress that didn’t serve you well

shows if you’re actually right with God

[Applause]

how you forgive your family members who

jacked you over the last time they came

in for holiday season and you thinking

about telling them you dead for this

holiday season

that shows if you’re really right with

God how you respond back to that nasty

email they sent you it’s what you do not

what you say not what you quote it’s

what you everybody say it’s my work and

if if we don’t become a church that puts

corresponding action with the faith that

we are talking about when we walk out of

here our faith is incomplete and the

world doesn’t need another broken system

your boss is not looking for another

broken system to take time away from him

on his Sunday but if we could present to

him a complete faith that transformed

you from the inside out and that makes

you a light every dark place you walk

into they will they will ask like the

people in the Bible said what must I do

to be saved and we have to have complete

faith somebody say complete faith so

look at verse 26 it says just as the

body is dead without breath so also is

faith dead without good works what are

you saying Pastor Mike faith without

works is what day and this is where when

I got to this place in my scripture

reading this image popped up on my phone

and God just showed me something can you

show them what and where a lot of their

faith is right now it’s in a Christian

coffin the Holy Spirit spoke to me he

said Michael this is the true definition

of the Living Dead

he said that they’re alive in me through

salvation but their faith is dead so

they walk around and everything that

want to do after salvation is laying in

a coffin penny said I want faith to be

revived what is a revival it’s what’s on

the inside of you coming alive again and

I’m just here to tell you that that

crazy faith is not just a cool sermon

series title it is the title of a

movement that we are starting at this

church it’s a movement that will make

people that who who have never believed

before they’re gonna believe for the

first time and it’s a movement that will

allow people whose faith has been dead

and sitting in a Christian coffin that

thing is gonna be like Lazarus and it’s

gonna rise again I’m telling you right

now you may not believe it but mark my

words and record the video that a

revival is starting from this place

right here that’s about to touch the

entire world and I’m just looking for

about 2,000 people because if one can

put a thousand a flight and to 10,000

less than 2,000 people transformation

nation make some noise people in this

building make some noise if we are gonna

have active faith there’s people right

now they’re like I don’t know how to

feel about this is it does it take all

that it takes all that and more if we’re

really going to fulfill the Great

Commission

it takes all that and more if we’re

gonna see the person that you think is

hopeless actually come to Christ and be

transformed they don’t got to be

transformed here they don’t got to be

changed

at TC but maybe what you get here and

those nudging from the Holy Spirit to

send them an encouraging text message

and to take them out to lunch and to

give them a Christmas present and when

their whole family has forgotten about

them maybe that’s more of a work of

Jesus the hands and the feet than

anything you could do on a platform

maybe what God is trying to do is may

you the church instead of this the

church see when I say where’s the church

at most people think of this building

but somebody just touch yourself and say

I’m the church God cares more about the

organism than the organization he said

if I could get her just a bunch of

organisms to be faith-filled

to not be in fear or just optimism but

believe what I say will lay hands on the

sick and they’ll recover I know y’all

don’t do Church like that but I’m

talking about people who will speak

those things that are not and those

things actually start coming to bat

you’re sitting in something that was

impossible but I spoke the thing out and

we’re sitting in faith but how sad if we

have a faith as a big group you don’t

have faith for your home how devastating

if you can watch people like the

testimony of the person that we gave an

offering

who is it who is delivered from the

addiction of something and you can clap

for that but then go back to your

addiction tomorrow and not believe that

God could actually change you either we

believe this or we don’t I’m not gonna

waste my whole life in something I

actually don’t believe if you don’t want

to be a part of this army that God is

rising up you might want to find some

other place to go but as for me at my

house

I said as Fermi and this house we will

stay in flat-footed on the Word of God

in faith and belief that God is good and

he’s still working in the affairs of his

people give God some craziness I will

not have Fugazi faith my faith won’t be

fake it won’t be fabricated it won’t be

hollow that may mean I have to study

more that may mean that imma have to get

in a small crew that may mean I have to

go to pray her that may mean I have to

say I don’t understand something but I’m

telling you if we keep progressing as a

church to the faith that God has called

us to eyes have not seen and ears I’m

just talking faith talk right now

for everybody that want three points in

a poem come back next week but I’m

talking to somebody’s baby and I’m

trying to make it lethal the inside of

you

eyes have not seen ears have not heard

neither has it injured into the hearts

of man the things that God has already

prepared he’s not making this up as he

goes we already have a preferred future

prepare but will you have the faith to

believe it and it’s crazy like as I look

at the Deneb dynamics in the room you

have people whose eyes are twinkling

like they’re excited like this can

actually happen and it’s just crazy that

in the same moment there’s people that

when I’m talking you feel more defeated

you and I want to be sensitive to that

right now cuz I don’t want to just hype

the hype people I’m gonna love on the

Lothian

cuz that’s what God wants he said okay

everybody but I’ll leave the ninety-nine

for the one and so I just want to talk

to somebody in here who when I’m talking

faith like that it’s making you feel

more desperate when I’m talking faith

like that it’s filling you like you’re

more in the spirit well if God is so

good why am I in this situation and the

thing that you got to understand

is how faith works because faith without

works is dead so how does how does faith

work point number three faith works by

love see most people don’t connect this

but in Galatians 5:6 it tells us that

faith worketh by luck it’s the gasoline

to your faith and this is what many

people don’t really have faith because

you don’t have love I’m in your business

now because you thought it could just be

you and God but he puts us on this earth

to be annoyed I mean surrounded by

people who you’re gonna need his help to

love God do I really want to know how

this faith things works faith without

works is dead but the only way that

faith works is by know let me prove it

to you first Corinthians chapter 13 it

says you know what you could speak in

the language of the earth all of the

languages Spanish Italian I don’t know

no more languages what are some other

languages okay you got him French okay

he said you can speak and all of those

language and then even be upgraded to

the language of angels I don’t even know

what that sounds like

but if you did love others it would only

be like a noisy gong and a clanging

cymbal hey I just prayed for three hours

that’s all God heard father I’ve been in

surf when you walk into your job which

I’ll cross on in your Bible but you

don’t love the people that are at the

cooler when you stand up and say um

honoring God who’s the head of my life

God says I’d rather you love them and be

ignorant than have all the language in

the world and not love them cuz all I

hear but it’s time for a church that

will begin to love people where they’re

at with their messed-up cells in their

broken this is how faith works faith

works by love and then he goes on he

says if I have the gift of prophecy you

can see the future you can know what

happens before it happens he said and if

you understood all God’s secrets plans

and possessed all knowledge and if I had

such faith then I could move mountains

literally you could walk up to the Rocky

Mountains and say move over you could go

to the Himalayas I want you to think

about this you have so much faith you

like Himalayas up over down

he said if you could do that in real

life but you didn’t love others it would

be nothing I I really feel like it is my

duty to not sell you on an idea and give

you the results of faith when you’re not

ready for the responsibility of faith

see the responsibility of faith is

you’re gonna have to love people who you

don’t want alone you’re gonna have to go

back to God and say God I want to cut

some out and slap them and snatched a

wig off because you know it’s a wig but

today father I’m asking you to give me

that first Corinthians 13 type of love

that’s patient kind long-suffering

doesn’t keep record of wrong and so this

is why many of our faith is not working

because faith works by what learn and

your faith without corresponding action

of loving people the Bible calls it

nothing so all of your accolades without

loving your kids not providing for me

because that’s what you thought loving

them was

not taking them to Disneyworld because

that’s what you thought loving them was

nurturing being that I’m talking to the

men in the building well I’m just not

affectionate you better shut up and

learn how to get up in God’s lap and

tell them daddy I’m sorry I need you I

don’t know how to run this family on my

own I’m making a whole bunch of money

but I feel empty inside you better get

to the father so that he can teach you

how to be a father to your children I

don’t know where we got this notion that

me and have to be this then those are

all actual debts perversion cuz those

are exact opposite characteristics of

our Heavenly Father do you take your

kids on the walk

cuz God took Adam on a walk in the cool

of the day yeah I can’t even get off

into that we might have to do a

parenting series I’m not claiming to do

it right but we have the best father in

the world he’s called a good good father

and and so what ends up happening here I

got eight minutes don’t start playing I

don’t want you to start moving me up yet

I’m still ready to buy what I’m saying

to you is that we gotta put love back

into the equation if we could get get

love what’s that song that old song

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it’s a lot of them

insert your own love song right there

that voice thing made me very insecure

in that moment I I was gonna sing some I

had songs but that really took me back

Wow edit no I’m just leaving it but but

look at verse 13 chapter 13 first

Corinthians 13 verse 13 it said three

things will last forever forever ever

ever ever thank you I’m Jay three

thousands for not singing watch these

three things it says faith hope and what

look and then there’s a distinction like

like it’s like I want you to know that

these three things are gonna last

forever this crazy faith thing is gonna

be here when all of us were gone

faith and then there’s gonna be hope

because I hope is in Jesus Christ but

then he says love and then he makes a

distinction and the greatest of these

three is what so so for me not to have

Fugazi faith I gotta have corresponding

actions and work with my faith because

faith without works is okay but how does

faith work faith works by love well I

got one more question Pastor Mike how

does love work let me let me give you my

last point love always gives so so what

ends up happening is you can tell if

your faith has the opportunity to go to

another place if there’s some type of

sacrifice attached to it a sacrifice of

your time a sacrifice of your effort of

your talents of your gifts of your

resources there has to be a giving a

part of your faith because if it’s not

it’s not authentic it’s Fugazi can I

prove it to you when God wanted to prove

his love to all of us look what he did

he said in John 3:16 for God so what

love and who did he love don’t work not

Christians

not faithful people not the church the

people you hate God loves I must say it

again for you because you you’re praying

against him and gods rooting for them

you’re hoping that they fail and gods

hoping they succeed the people you hate

are the exact same people that God loves

and maybe he sent you there to be a

physical representation of his love to

them and the only way you truly have

faith is if you step outside of your

safe self and give to them now see how

quiet it is for God so loved the world

that he did what yeah and he didn’t give

a hundred dollars he didn’t give a

country he didn’t give the Pacific Ocean

I mean if you’re a baller and you could

give away the Pacific Ocean just think

about that for these people who maybe

will accept me and maybe won’t I’ll give

the Pacific throw in the Indian Ocean –

that would have been an extravagant gift

but he said no I love him so much that

I’m gonna give I’m gonna give them the

thing that’s valuable to me I’m gonna

give them not one of my many sons I’m

gonna give them my only a true test of

your faith is when you will be willing

to give your only that’s how he tested

Abraham he waited 25 years for Isaac got

Isaac and then he asked him to sacrifice

his that’s why I went when people say

like God told me to give my car away but

it’s my only car so that had to be the

devil

it’s in God’s characteristics well I

only got one off day I show any

volunteering at the church on that day

it’s in God’s characteristics to ask for

your only oh my let that sit for a

second well this is the money that I’ve

been saving for this vacation it’s the

only one I’m gonna take all year

it’s in God’s characteristics again look

how quiet it is I’m only coming to this

place because I don’t want you to live

in a place of feeling like your faith is

optimistic but you never walk in crazy

faith and if you’re ever gonna get into

crazy faith in your family in your

business in your marriage you’re gonna

have to put corresponding action with it

and that action only can work by love

and love works by giving help me help me

finish this my prayer for you is that

you would move from an optimistic faith

to an action faith a faith that when God

says something to you you would obey Him

and you would listen that means you’ll

give up your time your resources your

attention because Fugazi faith won’t do

any of that

Fugazi faith won’t work won’t love and

won’t give I’m gonna say it again

faith faith won’t work won’t love and

won’t give and that’s some of the

relationship advice that you needed

today because your relationship in this

room some of your marriages are going

through but one of y’all won’t go to

marriage counseling because you’re not

willing to work and you don’t want to

put in what it’s gonna take and love

that person through what they’re going

through and and so you won’t give the

time it takes I’m only a business people

is really shifting right now all I’m

telling you is if you don’t work you

don’t love you don’t give you actually

will have a fake version of whatever the

real thing is the relationship you think

you have with your kids is probably fake

and you won’t find out until they’re 40

in on Maury Povich talking about how

jacked up their childhood was because in

your mind you think working a job is

working on your relationship with them

and it’s too tall I feel like I have to

do a parenting something I’m gonna have

to do that at some point but what’s

happening is I’m counseling yo crazy and

it’s because people have the wrong view

of work love and give but God doesn’t

want anything you do to be counterfeit

who wants the real thing so so why is

this an important concept

I need y’all just to stay focus for one

more second why is this an important

concept because at this church we will

not talk about faith and not live it

hear what I’m saying to you and we put

it to the test every year at the end of

the year many of you are new here and so

I just want to give you an opportunity

to join your faith with what we do every

year a pillar of our church is at the

end of every year we give a sacrificial

offering together as a family for the

expansion in the building of this house

so that people can be transformed in

Christ and and what happens is is that

we ask God what should we give there’s

no number there’s no magic water there’s

no three sprays and then God’s gonna do

a miracle all that is gimmick all we

know is the Bible tells us to honor the

Lord with our wealth it tells us I want

you to see it right now in and in

proverbs chapter 3 verse 9 it says honor

the Lord with your wealth and with the

best part of everything you produce then

he will feel your barns with grain and

your vats will everybody say overflow

that that’s what we’re believing for

that everything that we touch will

overflow but it comes with honoring God

and putting our faith to the test

December 15th we’re gonna come and do

our end-of-the-year offering and there’s

nothing else we could call this thing

except the crazy faith offering and

literally families it’s probably one of

the most holy things that we do cuz some

of y’all think of like oh my god he did

all this to take

money he about to take her offering

y’all run one run we’re not taking

anything from you today I wanted to come

and tell you this eight weeks in advance

so you don’t feel no pressure you don’t

have to come in here like everybody stop

close the doors

are we hostage yeah we’re not doing

under that all I want you to do is ask

God ask god what am I supposed to do to

help build this vision because this

faith has to have action and actions are

our works and and that works by love and

love always gives so what are you saying

Pastor Mike this is just an opportunity

you go have opportunities this week you

gonna have opportunities next week but

on December 15th we’re gonna come

together as a family and some of you are

going to give the largest gift you’ve

ever given in your life to a church

because you know what we do here is not

for what we do here is for

transformation in Christ and let me let

me let me tell you because I know

there’s been a lot of abuse in the area

of finance especially when it comes to

church as long as you’ve been here we’ve

never taken a second offering we’ve

never fleeced anybody we’ve never done

anything because we don’t believe in

that but we do believe in what the Word

of God says and look what the Word of

God says in in first Corinthians I want

you to see this so clearly it tells us

that we are not supposed to give second

Corinthians 9:7

it says each of you should give what you

have decided in your heart to give like

like giving is all about the heart the

joy just want my money no the judge

don’t want your money

God wants your heart and he uses your

finances as a way to get to your heart

because where a man’s treasury is there

his heart will be also and this is just

for some of you this is gonna be your

time you ain’t never done no no don’t

scale and all guys gonna say it’s give

that little number I told you and what

that loom number you he told you it’s

gonna break you out of the chains

that have been keeping you bound

mentally emotionally financially

physically because it’s going to show

you have everybody shot at me faith and

so we’re gonna come and and and we’re

going to give for the future expansion

of what God’s gonna do yup know we’re

standing in a miracle right now but

before that miracle happened on 1519

West pine the first year I became a

pastor there was a smaller group of

people who who heard me stand up with

with puberty still in my throat I still

got it I guess and I said I believe God

has told us to raise $80,000 for new

cameras and people left the church over

it left how you gonna come up in here

asking 80,000 he is irresponsible well

if you’ve ever heard a message through

YouTube if you’ve ever heard anything

online outside if you’ve ever seen

anything on Instagram it it was because

a small group of people had crazy faith

to step beyond their border and say I

don’t even know but I’m 51% sure

Pastor Mike Earth from God so we’re

gonna do it now this ministry has

touched tens of millions of people when

we get to heaven everybody that gave in

that offering there are gonna be people

who say thank you

cuz my life wouldn’t have been turned

around if you wouldn’t have given

they’re gonna say thank you because I

was transformed by the 120,000 you gave

and now we get that opportunity again

cuz last year in our Tabernacle offering

at the same time of year this church

gave over 1.2 million dollars in one

offer Oh y’all to give God glory I

remember the first time we did it it was

eight thousand dollars and we shouted

and we praise and we gave it away to

other churches we didn’t use one of

those dollars for us God says I want you

to be a conduit we gave that eight

thousand

and because of the faithfulness of what

God’s doing guess what we got to give

away this year put it up on the screen

we got to give to sex trafficking this

year we got to give to the Dream Center

this year we built new churches with art

we gave to action chapel we ended sex

slavery for somebody in a third world

country

we helped prisoners reintegrate back

into I don’t hear me we help families

and single mothers from $8,000 so this

year we gave over $300,000 oh wait

if you know the choice over that you

ain’t got the heart of generosity

outside and the craziest thing sit down

I need y’all for five minutes the

craziest thing that happened is that

when this hurricane came I didn’t have

to stand up here and ask for an offering

to help the people in the Bahamas

because of your consistency and

faithfulness we were able to go to the

department and write a check for $40,000

to give a mother y’all don’t hear me if

you were in that and you lost everything

no stores are around for formula for

your baby we were to do that what would

happen it’s not everybody around the

world but if everybody that’s in this

moon right now that’s everybody watching

and transformation nation and everybody

physically in this room what if

everybody heard from God and just obeyed

him and made our faith complete that it

wouldn’t be Fugazi that it wouldn’t just

be taught that it wouldn’t be we just

share the the video on Instagram we got

the keys keys keys keys okay we’re gonna

pay for the lights lights lights lights

we got to help people people people

people like you on the cylinders and

people would rather celebrate than

participate but not transformation

church not this group of people that

we’ve been in a series called crazy

faith for half a year we are going to be

the ones who do like the people who had

to real rebuild the temple and Haggai

Haggai chapter 1 verse 5 it says a call

to build the house of the Lord now this

is what the Lord Almighty says who said

it the Lord okay he said give careful

thought to your ways like just don’t be

doing anything I’m moving right now you

have planned it much but harvested

little you eat but you never have enough

you drink but never are fool you put on

clothes but you aren’t warm you earn

wages at that job but only to put them

in your purse with holes in it isn’t

that what a life that has faith in no

action seem like I’m doing a lot of work

I’m doing a lot of work but for a little

results God says trust me with it and

verse 7 it says this is what the Lord

Almighty says who said it the Lord he

says give careful thought again to what

what you’re doing in your ways and then

he gives instruction and I believe for

everybody who has doubt or frustration

or has maybe a hurt when it comes to

finances in church this is your

instruction right now it says go up into

the mountains bring down the timber and

build my house so that I may take

pleasure in it and be honored says the

Lord who said it so these are the steps

that I want you to do over the next

eight weeks I promise you I would never

abuse you in any way as a pastor or a

leader the Bible says that there are so

many consequences for any leader yeah

I’m scared to stand up here every Sunday

not not because I don’t think I can do

it it’s because if I leave one person or

strength like if what I say is

sending you down the wrong path the Holy

Spirit don’t come after you he come

after me and so I’ve been so careful you

can ask the team we didn’t try it over

this 100 times just because I want to

make sure this is coming up with the

heart of God which is love

remember God does not um God doesn’t

give love he is know so this is what

we’re gonna do number one we’re gonna go

to the mountain

what do you mean Pastor Mike Moses would

always go up into the mountain to get in

the presence of God and all I’m asking

you to do is over this next eight weeks

I want you to get in the presence of God

I want you to pray father God you heard

pastor Michael they’re talking that was

great what do you want me to give what

do you want me to do cuz I can’t do

anything you don’t lead me to do and I

don’t care if you have a bunch of money

don’t just be given just to say that I

did it I would rather you fine-tune your

voice to hear the Holy Spirit then just

give what you can out of your out of

your abundance

I want your faith to grow so no matter

if you have a million dollars in the

bank or two cents in the bank because

there was a woman in the Bible who gave

a more extravagant gift than anybody she

had two mites and the Holy Spirit do

Jesus said look what she’s giving she

just gave more than all these people

that was making it raining in the temple

he said because they came out of their

abundance but she gave out of her faith

and that’s what I’m asking you to do so

pray go to the mountain and then it says

get the timber and what is the timber

it’s the resources that are needed to

build the temple the resources we need

our finances I’m telling y’all right now

we moved in this place but 48 hours

notice and and this stage and these

lights and all this stuff is rented and

I hate renting stuff because that money

just gone away that we could be giving

to somebody to transform their situation

so I told the team I have faith that we

bout to buy everything we’re bout to buy

the cameras we bout to buy the sound

system I just need five people to agree

with me we go buy the screams we

but we buy it and oh we go take a look

so that we could be better stewards of

over what God’s given us so we need

resources everybody say resources so

after you pray I just want you to bring

whatever resources that God tells you to

bring to do one thing he said build my

house and what are we gonna do we’re

gonna give generously on December 15th

we’re gonna come in this place and we’re

gonna have faith and right now there are

people that have cards there are crazy

faith cards I want y’all to start

handing those out right now and give me

one right here sweetheart

give me one thank you so much like this

is this is what it looks like and I’m

asking everybody to take one of these

and on the back of it it says I have

crazy faith that we don’t ever give and

not assign our faith to the everybody

say who ya are who is Jesus and and some

of you are gonna be believing that God

does it turn around and your family

you’re gonna be believing that God

changes your financial situation you’re

gonna be believing that that wayward

son’ cousin friend would actually come

to Christ some of you are gonna be

believing that your business turns

around and actually has a successful

year I don’t care what your gonna

believe in believing I don’t care how

much you’re given we’re gonna pray over

all of this stuff but I want you to

bring this back on December 15 and

everybody from around this place we’re

gonna come and bring our offering it’s

going to be a special holy moment in our

service in the season where Christmas is

there and everybody’s thinking about

what they’re getting getting getting

we’re gonna be giving giving giving and

what a perfect picture for us to

recenter our heart on what really

matters it’s eternity your kids is going

we’ll play with that for the week they

out of school and then it’s gonna be

over but what if we can do God’s work

together and build this house me and my

family are gonna be believing for some

significant things and we’re gonna give

towards building this house I will never

stand up a day in this pulpit and ever

ask you to do something that I’m not

doing

last year my daughter Bella she gave

with me and my family and at five years

old she said daddy what are we doing coz

the envelope was fat I wanted to see

every dollar I wanted to feel that

sacrifice I wanted

I didn’t just send it I went to the bank

and I got it out coz I needed to I

needed to know like and then you don’t

got to do that you can wire you can do

whatever you want but for me I needed to

see it she said daddy why are you why

are you giving all this money I said cuz

there used to be a time her daddy was a

loss broken hurting and confused

and God gave everything for me and so as

a family whatever God asks us to give we

gladly give it back to him I thought she

was gonna say something deep she said

okay and what would happen if our

response to whatever God would say to us

would be that simple

give the 10,000 okay give the 200 okay

I’ve seen high school students and

middle school students come and

participate in this and God’s giving

them full ride scholarships and done so

many different things and it wasn’t a

bunch of money it was a five God’s not

looking for amounts he’s looking for

obedience

December 15 transformation church is

going to the next level

cuz we’re given in this crazy faith

offering and transformation nation you

are as just a much as part of what is

going on here as everybody in this room

and I want you to know that every dollar

you seen sinned into this place is going

to help transform your lives all over

the world this is for you as a matter of

fact I’m gonna make sure the team puts

this exact thing online screenshot on

youtube or on our app so that you can

take it and listen everybody put it up

on your refrigerator put it in your car

make it your cell phone screen saver for

the next eight weeks we’re believing in

faith and on December 15th we’re gonna

come and give because we won’t have

faith faith faith without works is what

but faith works by love and love always

gives can I pray for you right now

father I thank you for every person

under the sound of my voice I declare

that what you’re doing in our life is

preparing us for every victory that’s

coming father God I declare father God

that as we join in faith and make this a

holy moment to just go to the mountain

ask you what do you want us to give and

we bring those resources into this house

to build your house to see people

transformed in Christ father I’m asking

you that you do our work in us right now

and right now father before we leave

this place we want to declare the

victory god we want to say that we don’t

know how it’s gonna happen father but we

have crazy faith to believe I’m even

speaking it out right now father God the

4.5 million dollars that we still need

to be debt-free in this building I’m

declaring we will be debt-free by 2020 I

need somebody to believe me with it

father God we’re gonna have crazy faith

and I thank you that you don’t do

anything for this house that you’re not

trying to do in everybody’s individual

house I trust you and I believe you and

we will see a victory in

just name somebody say in Jesus name hey

let me show you one thing real quick I

pulled out this sheet my faith sheet my

crazy face sheet and and it’s crazy that

I need you to see this and I need us to

record this cuz I’m just stepping out

and crazy faith

I didn’t say crazy stuff before so I’m

gonna just keep stepping out and we’ll

just see what happens but it says the

spirit bank event center will be

transformation Church we will have

state-of-the-art facilities I want you

to pay attention to line two and three

it says the Kids Zone will be a place

that draws students from around the

world I’m believing that as we give we

are going to outfit transformation kids

this entire area over here to be able to

be world class for kids to come and

learn about Jesus Christ and be

transformed can I get somebody to

believe with me

and then check this out don’t miss this

moment it says somebody everybody say

somebody it’s going to underwrite the

whole thing now watch when I first read

that I read that with a very narrow mind

that Warren Buffett was in the church

and he was just gonna take care of it

and if you here brother Buffett hits

your boy but the Holy Spirit he said

Michael it’d be easy for me to allow one

person to come in and take care of this

but he said I said some Bobby what would

happen if this Body Transformation

nation and the people in here if we had

the crazy faith to believe that God

could take our little bit individually

and put it together to see a miracle

happen we got our first check from

somebody the other week and Finance

people came to me and said Pastor Mike

somebody didn’t wrote us a check I said

would you mean somebody he said somebody

wrote us a check for what we believe in

God for and a member of this church

wrote a one-time check of two hundred

and thirty three thousand

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I didn’t say $200 I said 233,000

now watch

what is that dude God said I’m not

waiting till December 15th to start this

thing he said I’m placing it on people’s

heart to obey me everybody say now and

what does that do that gives us the

ability to buy three of these lights in

the Navy customize why are you being

this forward and transparent with us

because I’ve seen too many people do

stuff behind the scenes and I just want

to put it all out there we’re believing

God and crazy face standing all over

this building if you can I know some of

y’all came in late because of the

traffic but if you could just sing this

one time just say I’m gonna see you

believe it for the battle

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come on let’s get ham steak believe it

come on for the battle

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if everybody could stop where you’re at

right now stop stop stop stop stop stop

y’all hear me in the back stop stop stop

stop unless you got an emergency if

you’re in this room and you’ve never

accepted Jesus Christ as your personal

Lord and Savior and you want to make

that decision for Jesus right now on the

count of three I’m about to pray for you

if that’s you and you’re tired of living

your own life and you’re tired of being

in control would you say pastor that’s

me I want you to include me in that

prayer all over this one two three just

lift your hands I see you I see I see

people’s eternity of shame

we’re a family at transformation church

for everybody this is your day can I

believe God’s changing you we don’t pray

alone so let’s pray together everybody

just say God thank you for sending Jesus

– just for me I believe you lived you

died and you rose again just for me

today I give you my life and I’m gonna

see a victory change me renew me

transforming I’m yours

in Jesus name transformation church

let’s celebrate with every person that

just made that decision we believe in

you we thank God for you and this is

just the beginning as you leave this

week you have an opportunity to let your

faith be Fugazi or you can make your

actions and your faith completely today

is gonna be the best day of your life

this week is gonna be the best day of

week of your life and we believe that

God has victory in your future if you

believe it will you give God a shout of

praise no from this place and leave a

transformed life we love you come on