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I got a lot to do today um cuz we

starting week two of a series we’re

calling secure the back now if you were

here last week you realize that securing

the bag is not what we really want to do

we want to Stewart the bag and I know

there’s a lot of people because that’s a

cultural term that really want to really

are having a hard time with this whole

thing like okay so fasten like what am I

supposed to do here I’m saying because

I’m out here hustle and I’m out here

grind and I’m trying to secure the bag

but you just told me don’t secure the

bag just stored the by hacking am I

supposed to be broke inside of the Lord

or am I supposed to and I said hold on

let me let me help everybody understand

this just a little better see this is my

bag and all God is asking everybody to

do is to surrender your bag to the one

who gave you the bag in the first place

now I want to help you because I didn’t

buy this bag I didn’t print on this bag

you didn’t wake yourself up this morning

you didn’t you didn’t give yourself all

the abilities you may have worked on

them and stewarded over them but they

were given to you and so the thing that

I believe God wants us to do is open up

our bag in this series and say father

whatever is in my bag you can have it

and I know some of y’all are frustrated

right there cuz don’t nobody see inside

your bag everything in your life is

secure that’s why even when we mentioned

today we’re starting be groups and

belong groups and it’s a roomful of

people I don’t know and we’re sharing

our life together you’re like uh-uh no

I’m not telling anybody giving anybody

showing anybody what’s in my bag because

when you’re insecure about something you

secure there are many people that are 20

years old 25 years old 35 years old 45

years old and you have had such a tight

grip on your life everywhere you go

everybody you meet you barely can give

anybody a hug because you holdin

everything

hey how you doing what up bro what up

what up what up the only reason is

because you’re trying to protect

something that you think that God won’t

and I decided that in this series where

we’re talking about stewardship and

finances that may be the best thing I

could do is encourage you at the second

week of this series to open up your bag

see in my bag the things that I like to

secure I’m not gonna talk about you I’m

gonna talk about me the things that I

like to secure is my family so you cool

on all of y’all but the thing that I

can’t fully trust God with it’s my

family I got to provide for my family

and I gotta be the one to make sure that

all my kids do what they supposed to do

and grow up and be model citizens and

then when I get old and I put me in a

nursing home and many of us we want to

secure the family and then we want to

come we don’t want to give God our time

oh so you’re talking about tithe and

Pastor Mike you’re talking about giving

like like we don’t even need to get to

the money part of it cuz the Bible says

that we’re supposed to tithe or give a

tenth portion of everything that God

gives us well I started to really get

rekt this week as God told me that he

gives me 24 hours and everyday and when

I start complaining about not having

enough time to pray and read the word he

says 2 hours and 40 minutes don’t even

belong to you they’re mine

[Applause]

how much would it cost you to return 2

hours and 40 minutes back in the

presence of God every day in prayer we

can watch a horrible Netflix documented

a and it doesn’t do anything but depress

us and take away from us but we want to

secure our everybody say time uh-huh

for me this this represents my talent

and I play drum since I was two years

old and many of us when it comes to our

talent we don’t have the same talent but

we try to secure and not give away what

God’s given us and I remember there’s

things that God said hey you’re supposed

to go play for them and I said they only

paying $25 he said I didn’t ask you how

much they were paying I told you where

you needed to sow your talent and many

of us have such a guardrail around what

we are securing that when God’s telling

us to so we’re asking how much do we get

paid for it

uh-huh well don’t nobody need I mean I

know there’s somewhere in the scripture

that a workman is worthy of his hire

yeah that’s in there but when the God

who manages everything tells you to sew

something somewhere you got to trust

someone but we don’t trust God like that

so we we we guard and secure our time

and our talent and y’all know I know

everybody in here doing this we securing

these these Benji’s hello because the

only time you answer the phone is when

they’re talking about money the only

thing that gets your time your talent he

said facts

and the the fact is that’s true but the

truth is that God’s not even concerned

about this he’s concerned about the

thing that allows you to give this which

is your heart y’all y’all not ready I

can’t show you what else is in the bag

today cuz y’all came to be a little

faith so let me just go ahead and get

back to my notes uh-huh see cuz we’re

not supposed to secure it we’re supposed

to steward it

we’re not the manager we’re not the

owner everything that we have and

there’s people right now frustrated and

ready to leave cuz you be like how you

go tell me I work 45 hours this week

that’s my morning but but did you supply

the breath that you need it I’m just

asking questions the card that your

credit that sure denied you for and that

God somehow it was a miracle

five months ago now you’re entitled now

y’all know that’s how it happens it’s

that God does something and it’s a

miracle in a moment and now that we got

it and this is how it is and God say

hold on I gave you that so you could

Stuart over everybody say Stuart the bag

but there’s some people in here that

still think they want to secure it cuz

they’re the owner look what it says when

we don’t store what we have already been

given we think we can control what only

God can give let me explain it to you so

now we have people trying to control

their joy and the crazy thing about 2020

is that people think they can buy joy

but if you look at the Word of God

joy is a fruit of the it’s not a fruit

of success

oh I’m dropping bombs up here already

[Applause]

joy is not a fruit of success joy is a

fruit of God’s and that’s why so many of

y’all got two first-class tickets to

everywhere you want to go and you still

have no joy in touch the cake of Italy

around still no joy see cuz when you

don’t Stuart over the things that God’s

already put in your hand you get

entitled and you think that you can

Stuart over things that you could never

do coz joy only comes from the spirit

something else hmm a lot of us go to

stuff like this for peace I’m about to

preach

[Applause]

been a hard day at work kids acting up

uh Your Honor I just need a little

something to take the edge off and what

we do is we go to things and for you

you’re like I don’t even do that it

might be peels for you it might be um

weed for you it might be anything but

anything other than God that you think

you can get peace from is a counterfeit

it won’t come in the car and while

coming uh it won’t come in the

relationship it’s a counterfeit but some

of y’all got a cabinet right now it’s

your house

that you’re securing whatever brings you

peace cuz you don’t trust God for peace

but I think his name is the prince of

some of us don’t have patience and so

what you try to do is be so efficient

this is a stopwatch and you give people

three weeks to change

[Applause]

you didn’t change you’re out of my life

I’m gonna give I’m gonna give them mmm

I’ll give them two months to recognize

my leadership ability or I’m out of this

church and I think patience is another

fruit of the I’m just in somebody’s

house right now and Valentine’s Day how

many people had a good Valentine’s Day

come on

all right we’re a hot church humble open

and transparent how many people had on

all right Valentine’s Day okay he’s like

me I don’t even know all right let’s be

for real how many people’s Valentine’s

Day was whack okay

she said me pastor me you know the crazy

thing is when you don’t Stuart over the

season you’re given a season of

singleness I seen a season of marriage a

season of discovery you search for love

in all the wrong places and this is a

little black book and I know some of

y’all on Valentine’s Day was

well I’m doing anything today all I’m

saying is when you don’t trust God to

secure you you go to all the wrong

things and that’s why for me like

everything from possessions some really

expensive shoes but if God tells me that

I have to give them away whose are they

no I need y’all to really be for real

cause like all of this stuff the money

my talents the time me trying to find

joy peace secure my family all this

other stuff

who owns the whole table and the problem

is some of you are still wondering some

people in this room we’re being like

well okay I see how the time could be

gods

[Applause]

but I found a scripture that really

convicted me and I want to share it with

you it’s proverbs chapter

I mean Psalms chapter 4 verse 5 it says

off offers sacrifices in the right

spirit like all it is God doesn’t even

want it if I’m mad about giving it go

ahead God take my relationship go ahead

you want my shoes you want my passion

here my time he said no no baby you can

keep that uh-huh he’ll give it back to

you here you go you want your little job

in your low house and you want all them

bad relationships that’s gonna keep you

in cycles for the next thirty years cuz

a good parent knows that at some point

you gotta let your kids have what they

want so they can find out it’s not what

they needed and some of y’all y’all

don’t hear me some of y’all are living

in the fruit of having the wrong

attitude when God’s asking you to give

something say you want the job have it

you want that relationship that I’ve

been trying to remove for you for years

keep it

uh-huh somebody texting somebody like

I’m so sorry we cannot see each other

anymore

not gonna make it tonight but look what

it says it says offer sacrifices in the

what right spirit and then it gives you

the key to all of it and trust the Lord

like trust them with everything you’re

trying to secure like everything you’re

working for everything you’re trying to

make happen for yourself it says trust

him everybody say trust God that’s the

key to this whole thing he said trust

the Lord and it says watch this culture

starts talking many people will say who

will show us a better time than this but

let your face smile on us Lord coz you

have given me greater joy

so everything in culture that you’re

looking at where people are saying nice

this is the life this is living my best

life this is how we do it when we get 40

this is how we do it when we get 60 this

is how we do it when we’re empty nesters

this is how we do it when we’re in

college all these people got saying if

you let me secure it I will give you

greater joy you see they don’t believe

it like greater than nothing them so you

see the thing is we’re talking about

living a blessed life everybody say

blessed life and the thing about a

blessing is the Bible tells it of the

blessings of the Lord make it rich and

add if no see you’re seeing the front

side of the blessing with the picture

and with the things that are happening

but God says there’s sorrow that comes

along with blessing that I wasn’t in and

that’s why it’s not good to look at

people’s Instagram and Facebook’s and

what they show you because I know people

celebrities people of influence that

died commit suicide with 50 million

dollars in the bank why would you do

that it’s because what seemed to be a

blessing came with sorrow and God saying

if you do it my way if you let me secure

you and you don’t secure the bag he says

I will give you greater joy than those

who own Instagram that have an abundant

harvest of grain and new wine everybody

stuntin he said I’ll give you greater

joy than that and this is my favorite

part right here I love the scripture it

says in peace don’t you mean that I can

I can live a blessed life be a blessing

to other people be able to walk into

rooms and not have animosity and be have

my hater radar on I like who’s a hater

who’s a hater who’s a hater i can i can

walk in and have everybody shot at me

peace and then i will lie down in sleep

with peace is it that the thing that all

of us would give any amount of money to

have like i don’t even really care about

the bills because i know god is Jehovah

Jireh my provider so too

I’m not going to be getting up and down

for something that I can’t even fix

anyway because I know who I trust and

not who just secures the bag but secures

my life I can sleep in peace and do you

know one of the biggest epidemics that

are in the world right now is people

that are not getting enough sleep it’s

because the things of this world are

robbing them of peace and then they go

to things of this world to try to find

peace but you only can find peace and

the one who is peace it says in peace I

will lie down and sleep I love that for

you alone O Lord you by yourself no

amount of money no connection group no

networking team you alone O Lord will

keep me safe or you could say secure

what I’m trying to challenge everybody

in this room is that maybe it’s time for

you to open up everything you’ve been

securing it and offer it to God we can

literally in the service right here I

could do a also call and be gone but the

Lord’s giving me a couple more things to

say today but for some of you that’s all

you needed

are you going to keep securing what God

gave you are you gonna open up your

heart see cuz the only reason that I

would secure all of this these are hard

issues you don’t trust God in your heart

you trust him enough to come to church

you trust them enough to log on and post

the picture like transformation they

shine but you don’t trust them in your

heart it’s a little deep for some people

right now I see the faces some of y’all

look like y’all just drink pickle juice

so I’m gonna just switch i’ma switch

gears for everybody that doesn’t know

this is a multi-generational Church and

this right here is called a check

now I know y’all got a we got to be real

about it there’s some people here all

right let’s be honest how many people in

this room have never written a check

before in your life come on let’s be

honest hundreds of hands are going up

because they invented these things

called debit cards and credit cards and

we don’t use checks okay let’s be honest

right here how many people don’t use

checks all the time anymore like now

like come on that’s that’s over 70% of

the room okay so I thought it would be

um advantageous of us to actually learn

something that that many of us may need

to use one day for record-keeping

purposes this is a check and if you’re

ever to write a check I’m just gonna

teach you how to fill one out the first

thing is this is the date and today’s

date is 2:23 right okay 20 okay and then

the next thing that you understand is it

says paints are the order of and when

you say paid to the order of that’s who

the check is going to now by faith

because you know we believe in crazy

faith here at transformation Church one

day I plan to give transformation church

and tithe and offering a hundred

thousand dollars in one boom so I’m

gonna write this to the order of

transformation Church

very God they’ll still cast it if from

one of the words is spell wrong don’t

they I promise you we do it for you all

the time

no let me say so I Honey Bow Wow

1 1 2 I don’t know I did that wrong

dinner where we go make it a millionaire

see y’all gonna go on that baby faith

but uh we gotta make it a value

I’ve never done this before so then you

have to write it now this always tripped

me out is that you told them how much

here but you had to confirm it with the

word see some of y’all don’t understand

that the kingdom of God is

voice-activated and you think that you

can just do it in your head and you can

just do it but but sometimes we gotta

spell it out in a word we got to write

it and make it plain and so one em and

then they tell you to do something put

0-100 cuz ain’t no sense in this don’t

make no sense

you’ll get it double entendre I love

having the fun in a house of God

and then these last two lines are

interesting cuz the memo is what this

check is for it’s to keep a record of

what you are giving towards and for me

in my faith check I’m keeping this check

y’all and one day I’m telling you I’m a

write this check and i’ma play this

video again y’all know I like to do this

and God’s gonna allow this to happen but

I’m writing this because I’m believing

from this day on that I’m gonna live a

blessed life

but do you know that this entire check

means nothing

like right now everybody that has a

checkbook could write this exam exact

cheque and give it to people giving you

get a check you get a check you get a

check but it means nothing until it’s

signed the one thing that I figured out

about writing checks is that the

signature shows where your heart is cuz

I’m not signing nothing that I don’t

already have in me I can’t write a check

for something that there’s been no

deposit for it and what God told me

today is to do this whole analogy to say

that I need everybody to stop signing

your name on the check and I need you to

sign your heart he said because a lot of

people are writing checks but their

heart it’s not in it said people honor

me with their lips but their hearts are

far from me today the title of the

message is heart check okay heart check

everybody say heart check and today this

is this is all it’s gonna be is a heart

check I want you to turn to Matthew

chapter 7 verse 1 because God doesn’t

want you to just have a blessed wallet

he wants you to live a blessed life just

say it one more time with me say blessed

life that means he wants your marriage

your family healthy he wants your

relationships bless he wants everything

you do to be blessed and I want to look

at how we can live a blessed life

Matthew chapter 7 verse 1 it says judge

not that you be not judged for with what

judgment you judge you will be judged

and when with the measure you use it

will be measured back to you I have a

simple question for everybody is the

word money used in that scripture i’ma

say it again was the word money using

that scripture

okay so the context of this whole

scripture is judging so I want you to

say this with me say judge not and you

will not be judged and with the measure

you use it will be measured back to you

I need you to say it one more time like

you drink coffee this morning everybody

say judge not and you will not be judged

and with the measure you use it will be

measured back to you look at Luke

chapter 6 verse 37 it says judge not and

you will not be judged

no no y’all don’t have to just let this

me now it’s me

condemn not and you shall not be

condemned forgive and you will be

forgiven give and it will be given to

you good measure pressed down shaken

together and running over will it be put

into your bosoms look at the last last

verse for with the same measure that you

use it will be measured back to you this

may shock you but the word money was

nowhere in those verses but every time

we hear Luke 6:38 is that offering time

gee hey y’all about this it can’t we are

and it will be given back to you good

measure pressed down shaken together and

my life I’ve heard that and we’ve used

this as a money scripture but it’s not a

money scripture this whole thing is

talking about what you give judgment

condemnation forgiveness at the level

you give that that’s the level you’re

getting it back a pastor friend of mine

was asked by a reporter it said how

often do you preach on giving and he

said every week and she said you preach

on giving every single week he said yeah

he said I think what you meant to ask me

is how much do I preach on giving money

and that’s once a year at transformation

church when we do our series like this

but you

cannot talk about God’s grace without

talking about giving for God so loved

the world that he a marriage will not

work if there is not two people that are

willing to sacrifice and give and see

this is the enemy’s plan for your life

it’s to pervert giving with money

because if anytime somebody talks about

giving you always think they’ll just

want my money they just want my money

you get locked out of a key of the

kingdom that when you give that is the

thing that unlocks everything else in

your life and I know it’s hard for some

people but you got to realize my first

point write this down

giving is all about the heart it’s all

about the heart you can never give if

your heart’s not in and there’s some

people right now that you’re you’re

tight I see them

but everybody just do this for me

everybody take a deep breath in let it

out relax I’m not taking no second offer

and I’m not standing up people we not

checking nobody’s bank account

the reason I’m teaching in this series

is because it transformed my life and I

would be a horrible pastor if I was back

here holding these secrets that God has

shown me the keys to the kingdom and I

didn’t at least give them to you the

church is fine

the church has been in is in the best

financial position it’s ever been in

because of people like you who’ve

already caught this no y’all don’t hear

me who’ve already caught the revelation

of generosity and stewardship but

there’s a few people in here and a few

people watching that are still trying to

secure what God wants them to give and

it’s my passion that you would not live

your life in a way and in a place that

would keep you from God’s best for your

life and his best for your life is that

you would live a blessed life somebody

say one more time bless life look at it

I love this scripture Matthew 6:21 it

says for where your treasure is not

where you promise it’ll be not not where

you’re saying that it will be once you

get enough money where your treasure is

right now there your heart will be also

this is one of those crazy things that

people be like the law of God you don’t

love God what’s wrong way to but then

any time it comes to giving their time

their treasure their talent they have an

excuse and I know some of y’all

everybody do you all know this that

everybody excuse makes sense to them no

no no there was some things that happen

on the first so because it happened on

the first what I was doing was back

dating it to the to the 15th and and on

the 15th I messed up so you understand

what I’m saying it when my birthday

weekend so then I did this and I think

and everybody’s excuse makes sense to

them what I want to say very clearly is

if you don’t tithe if you don’t give if

you’ve been securing what you’re

supposed to be stewar stewarding you’re

not a bad person

I want you to say that cuz a lot of

times in churches it makes it seem like

you’re bad

going to hell like no no you’re just not

living your best life and and and and I

want you to know you’re not a bad person

maybe you weren’t taught these things

maybe maybe you weren’t given these keys

at a young age maybe you had to fend for

yourself and your parents did bad things

and messed up your credit and do all

this other stuff and now you here left

with the the pieces and God says I’m the

only one that can take pieces and with

the right truth I can bring them

together and I can create a masterpiece

what am I telling you that it’s not too

late for you no matter how old you are

no matter where you are in life and for

every young person in this room please

get this before you get money no y’all I

ain’t even hear me whatever money you

got right now you ain’t got no money and

if you can get these principles down in

your heart before you’re looking at

zeros on your account you will be in a

position to be used by God in a way that

your parents and your grandparents and

your great-grandparents were never

because giving is all about the what

okay when you read Matthew 6:21 in the

message version it even gives it to you

so much clearer look what it says it’s

obvious isn’t it

the place where your treasure is is the

place where you place you will most want

to be and you’ll end up being there and

that’s why right now whenever we put our

treasure in something our heart

automatically goes there there are

people right now who if you put your

your money into a stock or a bond you

will be online checking that mug all the

time and you never checked it before

some of y’all right now check your bank

account more than you check on your kids

you know you only get paid on the 1st

and the 15th but before you swipe you

like let me check let me see it’s almost

like there’s a string attached to your

wallet in your heart and anytime you get

ready to do something like oh that hurts

because where our treasure is there our

heart would be that’s why there’s some

men in this room right now if they put

their treasure into remodeling a car

nobody can drive a car

that guy he said it was me I’m sorry

pastor top that car gets more bass than

you do you watch it you Stuart

over it it’s because your treasure is

there some people right here if you get

the shoes you want it and somebody

stepped on them yeah so trifling but you

know the shoes and if they stepped on

come on brown why because your treasure

was there some of us our house is where

our treasure is and that’s and that’s

why we protect it more than we protect

our marriage because you used to invest

in your marriage you used to put your

treasure in to date nights and vacations

and being intentional with gifts when it

wasn’t a holiday or Valentine’s Day or

their birthday

you used to put your treasure there but

somewhere around three years in you say

we stuck together so you stop putting

your treasure there and now your heart’s

not there no more I didn’t know this was

going to be a marriage series but

wherever your treasure is your heart

will be awesome you want your heart in

the kingdom of God you got to put your

treasure there I know it’s tight but

it’s right this is the Word of God and

it’s coming to challenge us because

giving is all about what the heart okay

so so I want you to see that all of

these scriptures are talking about

giving judgment giving giving

forgiveness and if this whole thing this

principle can be used for sowing and

reaping I think as the body of believers

we should be more into giving good

things because nobody talks about this

but some of us give judgment and God

says that the measure you give judgment

it’s coming back to you good measure

press down oh yeah I’ll talk about this

and shaken together and running over

will judgment be given back to you

that’s why if you are going to give

anything you should be giving good

things but some of us at our job

tomorrow are gonna give a lotta

judgement and then you wonder why things

come back to you in the same way it’s

time for us to live the blessed life if

we don’t want it to come back multiplied

we’re not giving it out I’m gonna say it

again if we don’t want it to come back

to our life’s multiplied we’re not gonna

give it out imma give people compliments

cuz I want that coming back to me good

measure pressed down shaken together and

running over I’m gonna lend to people

who are in need because I want that to

come back and that is a key of living

the blessed life so so I’m gonna help

you cuz I thought it was gonna be a

finance series but I feel like I have to

do this I’ll talk to the marriage I got

to talk to the parents for one second

this principle still applies with your

kids so the way you talk to them the way

you’re short with them the way you get

embarrassed by the ones that carry your

last name oh I don’t know why he’s doing

that in his store girl he don’t do that

all the time

shut your mouth put it back I told you

before we got out the car we wasn’t

getting none put it put it back I saw

that this week no that’s not and so you

wonder why when they get to the age

where they start understanding stuff

they talk back they disobey they hide

stuff oh snap you sewed it in them and

what you’re getting back is what the

scripture says good measure pressed down

shaken together and running over will

your kids give back to you the respect

that you gave to them

they’re gonna be a few people that leave

the church over this one but you still

got to live with yourself and your kids

all I’m saying is if we’re gonna live

the blessed life we have to give the

things that we want to be multiplied

back into our life so we got to develop

a heart of generosity so go to

Deuteronomy chapter 15 verse 7 and we’re

gonna find four things in this scripture

that all of us need to do if we’re truly

gonna live the blessed life

it says if there is any among you who is

a poor man of your brother within any of

the gates in your land which the Lord

your God is giving you who gave them the

land the Lord you shall not harden your

heart cuz it’s all about the heart nor

shut up your hands to your poor brother

who they just gave us a secret right

there your heart in your hand are

connected when your heart is hard your

hand is close when your heart is soft

your hand is open that’s why when you go

through season and gods like give to

that person you like nope and you don’t

walk right past somebody god bless you

and then with this what we do we pray

for them and God said you were the

answer to the prayer you could have

saved that prayer cuz I stopped I sent

you there to answer the prayer but

because he’s a homeless man that I ain’t

begging on the street he there every

Sunday God said when you give it’s not

about what they do with it when you give

is about to obedience to me ah and some

of y’all are passing people that God

said you’re supposed to open your hand

but you can’t open your hand when your

heart is hard I ain’t even gonna talk

about family members

they did me wrong in 1978 it was

September 22nd and I lent them $68 and

God’s saying after all that I blessed

you with and after all that I’ve done

for you your heart is hard so your hand

is close he said but don’t be like that

don’t shut it to your poor brother he

said but you shall open your hand wide

to him and willingly lend him sufficient

for his needs who whatever he needs

sufficient for his knees whatever he

needs for things we’re gonna have to

deal with write this down you’re gonna

have to deal with the selfish heart all

of us pass the mic every year has to

deal with the selfish heart cuz it never

it never stays open like it never stays

like oh I’m just generous like something

will happen that will make you feel

entitled and that you need to hold this

or keep this or secure this and so this

is a never-ending work that’s why living

a Christian life is not about reaching a

milestone it’s about actually staying in

relationship with God as he continues to

perfect you every single day and you

have to deal with the selfish heart look

at Deuteronomy 15 verse 9 it says beware

least there be wicked thought in your

heart it can’t be a wicked dart in your

heart saying that the seventh year the

year of release is at hand and your eye

be evil against your brother and you

give him nothing and he cry out to the

Lord against you and it becomes sin

among you notice selfishness is

wickedness in God’s eyes and become sin

selfishness is wickedness in God’s eyes

and it become sin see a lot of us don’t

understand the concept but back in this

day they had this thing called the year

of Jubilee and there was something

instituted by God that every seven years

no matter who you were all of your debts

were canceled at

seven years let’s just stop real quick

would anybody like God to reinstitute

yeah that would be a blessing

so back in this day he’s saying if your

brother comes to you and let’s say his

name is Jerome and Tyrone comes to you

and Jerome says hey bro my crops were

bad I got all of these kids everything

is not going could you lend me a little

money so we can get through the season

he said don’t think in your heart hold

on it’s only six months until the year

of release and Jerome he don’t got a

good track record so if he don’t pay me

back within six months then I got to

forgive the debts he said don’t think

like that

he said cuz that’s selfishness that

turns into wickedness and it becomes sin

in your heart he said if you have it to

be able to bless him with he said I want

you to give it to him and this is the

thing about most of us most of us try to

calculate other people’s finances we try

to calculate when we gonna get back what

God’s done in us we even with our time

if I’m gonna go help you with your

wedding you better remember this when I

get married I ain’t appeared to just put

all these flowers up here for no reason

you look gorgeous but really in your

heart the only reason you’re doing it is

you’re giving to get and that’s why a

transformation church we we have a part

of our culture code we give just to give

not to give because that’s where

manipulation comes in and that’s why I

hate most of this preaching that’s

happening about finances cuz it’s giving

you’ll get give three hundred great

three thousand that’s just a smart

business decision that’ll take no faith

to do that and that’s why a lot of

people are saying oh yeah I’ll give if I

give this thing God oh did it and I bet

God is in heaven like great all my

children are catching the revelation of

getting but they’re missing the heart of

giving and that’s why I need everybody

to think about this for one second think

about everything that God has given you

think think about why God even created

giving I want you to think about this

think about it why did God create giving

I asked this to a couple of people and

somebody said he created given so that

we could support God’s work and I said

really you really think that God created

giving cuz he did it so that his work

could be supported did the light bill in

heaven get two beams for God did the

gold that they used for concrete run out

it makes me know that giving was not

created for God’s sake giving was

created for giving more than anything

else in the Bible work selfishness and

greed out of your heart and there are

some people right now whose like I got

to get out of here I got to get out of

here because this is messing with me

this is bothering me that means you’re

in heart surgery right now and anytime

you’re in heart surgery nobody wants to

feel the pain of that cut but they

sedate you so they can finish the work

I’m challenging every person in this

room for the next three weeks you need

to stay in this heart surgery because if

you get up too soon if you get out of

the thing that God’s trying to change in

you and reveal in you too soon you may

not have the healing that God wants for

you to live in and that’s why you have

to develop a generous heart now let me

tell you there’s one area of really

selfishness that I don’t think men are

ever gonna grow out of we don’t want to

share our food let me just help somebody

right now when we go through the

drive-thru and I just got to tell on

myself right now when we go through the

drive-thru and we ask you do you want

something please do not say no I’ll just

have some of yours

get you on I’ll buy you three orders of

fries but please let me eat my fried

thank you my brother let me eat my fries

and the fries at the bottom of the bag

are mine to say if the Lord ice again

some a man’s from some brothers in the

room we need to deal with the selfish

heart number two we need to deal with

the grieving heart Deuteronomy chapter

15 verse 10 it says you shall give to

him and your heart should not be grieved

when you give to roof

because for this thing that’s giving

with the right heart the Lord your God

will bless you in all your works and in

all to what you put your hands see this

is the thing that you got to understand

when you give with the right heart you

get a Midas touch God says you gave over

here but I’m working stuff out over here

when I when you give over here

he said I’m changing situations over

here the thing you gotta understand is

the attack of the enemy selfishness

attacks us before we give but grief

attacks us after we give so what the

enemy will try to do is be like ah you

can’t do that and then you get up the

courage to give him the crazy faith

offering or give your time at that

school or give your give your treasure

or your talent in the thing and right

after you give then the enemy comes to

be like you shouldn’t have done that and

you start grieving how many people have

ever given time finances something and

then something you own breaks and guess

what the enemy does see told you

should’ve done it should’ve kept it

should have not given your time for them

and God says don’t do that he said I

need you if you’re gonna live a blessed

life never to grieve anything you give

in the name of the Lord you were never

giving you were sowing it into another

time in your future you missed it you’re

never giving it away you’re investing it

for something else that God sees up the

road you know what I’m having this

thought right now that and I should let

the thought go away right now but I’m

going out to eat after service today and

I just realized that I don’t have any

money like to actually go out and and

and be able to pay for something whistle

Charles honey

y’all Charles just gave me $100 man I

love you Charles

now stay here for one second in that

white jacket now why did Charles so

readily give me $100 it’s because I gave

it to him before the service he’s not

grieving because I gave it to him the

only reason you start grieving is

because you thought it was yours and

when God is asking us for the time the

talent our treasure a lot of us grieve

because you forgot he gave it to you

before Charles ain’t grieving and the

thing I do as the one who gave it to him

is because any time I need it I can have

it here you go Charlie

keep that bro god bless you now watch

this is how God wants us to work huh

don’t cha cha cha run come here hey

Charles could you go ahead and give that

hundred dollars to run now run god bless

you yeah true now watch because Charles

was faithful to obey he was blessed to

be a somebody who didn’t even know they

were gonna be a part of this just got

blessed because Charles was not a

reservoir he was a river it didn’t stop

with him some of y’all are a dam when

God blesses you you hold everything in

but God says I’m looking for some rivers

that if I give it to you

you can get it to somebody so I have no

problem giving Charles another hundred

because Charles will always obey me to

give it away but the test really is is

Ron there’s somebody sitting next to you

what’s your name

who Ron give Nicole your hundred dollars

Charles give Ron the hundred dollars

you’re missing it Oh y’all come up here

just real quick you’re missing it

listen listen I want everybody to hear

me I’m not even worried about my lunch

no more it started with me trying to get

a need men and it ended up with me being

a blessing to more people that didn’t

even know they were a blessing to so now

because Charles is the factor in this

that I can continue to give stuff to

Charles here’s $200 Kate now watch now

watch

now I want you to give $200 to line and

Ron I want you to give all 300 to her

and something the call you have how much

she has $400 Charles doesn’t have

anything but he’s not grieving cuz he

knows where his supply comes from

somebody in this section is about to get

it when God is asking you to give it’s

never because he’s gonna leave you out

he just wants to know teddy did it if he

gets it to you can he get it through you

so Charles here’s another hundred can

you get that to Ron can’t get that to

Nicole see what you don’t know is my

whole intent this whole time was to

bless Nicole

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she said she literally has $25 to her

name right now

but when I came out here God said you

need to bless Nicole but I need to see

if I can trust Charles and Ron to be a

blessing and this is what our God is

looking for people who he can use to

live a blessed life somebody give God a

shout of praise in this place

Rob uses thank you guys yeah

somebody’s about to get this so Charles

and Ron aren’t grieving anymore because

they just experienced what the Bible

says when it says it’s more blessed to

give than it is to receive I didn’t know

she had $25 to her name but God did so

when I walked out here and I saw her he

said but the blessing is coming through

others that have a heart of generosity

point number three we’re gonna have to

develop a generous heart so the thing

that we have to understand is that

everything that we’re doing we got to

deal with the selfish heart we got to

deal with the grieving heart but then we

have to develop a generous heart look

what it says verse 14 you will supply

him liberally that means abundant from

your flock from your job from your bank

account from your giftings from your

threshing floor and from your wine press

from what the Lord your God has blessed

you with you shall give to him see God

wants us to be generous but we’re born

selfish you don’t have to teach a kid to

be selfish all of us come out and one of

the first words that all kids say is

mine you don’t got to teach him that

mine your little kids playing with

something and another kid wants to come

play with it they say my and then you’re

like okay and then the little kid goes

over here and they start playing with

something like I was playing with that

mind and then you be like Oh Lord that’s

my child and what are you trying to

teach your kid share share come on share

and I believe that’s what God is trying

to teach us see one of the crazy things

about it is

a child can get this sometimes better

than adults can a couple years ago me

and my wife were teaching our daughter

Isabella how to share and Bree was there

and um and so we was like hey baby we’re

gonna give away some of these dolls you

have too many dolls you have too many

toys

let’s give to some kids who are little

less fortunate let’s bless him and she

was like no and I was like Bella come on

let’s let’s let’s share and she was like

no she got real strong with it and then

her God mom explained it to her and she

was like okay we can give away a couple

so we started giving away a couple of

her toys and she started getting into it

she was like oh no I don’t want this one

either here my mama was like hold up we

just bought this ha ha ha I’m glad you

did his baby but you’re not giving away

and she was like no mom it’s ok I don’t

even play with the anyway she said you

don’t play with it

to see and what ended up happening was

God convicted me in that moment he said

your daughter is developing a generous

heart but you and Natalie are still

having a selfish heart and he said what

if you would be more like Bella and have

childlike faith

she didn’t care how much those dolls

costs because she knew she didn’t pay

for him in the first place

ah they showed up to her as gifts they

were brought to her so when it came to

giving them away she didn’t have the

attachment to him because she knew her

father and her mother was standing right

there with her and my question is if

Bella kept walking in that level of

selfishness at some point when she got

older we’re gonna say why don’t you

share when are you gonna grow up and be

more like your father and I think that’s

what God’s saying to all of us after all

I’ve shared with you they’re everything

that I’ve given to you when are you

gonna grow up as a church and share be

like your father who loves so much that

he gave and he didn’t give out of a

plethora he gave His only

last thing we got to do is develop a

grateful heart develop a grateful heart

so we’re not just gonna develop a

generous heart we’re gonna be grateful

that God is using us it says you shall

remember verse 15 that you were a slave

in the land of Egypt some of us forget

where we used to be and that the Lord

your God redeemed you therefore so I

command you this day that you need to be

generous how can God make us generous he

said because I’m the one who rescued you

out of what you were in see I got a

reminder this week I have it in the back

I got a yellow piece of paper thank you

Lord just a few years back before all

the lights and before everybody came

before Instagram was popping I had a

felony case and I was facing I was

facing a lot of jail time for car

insurance fraud I got in an accident

didn’t have insurance went to the house

I was manipulating I went to the house

called Geico fifteen percent or less in

15 minutes and it worked so the people

called me do you have car insurance I

had insurance of the day of the accident

no did you have it at the time yes I had

it on the day of the accident so you had

insurance at the time of the accident

yes sir I had it on the day of the

accident and I was manipulated

five years later life totally changed

youth pastor at Greenwood Christian

Center is there a Michael Todd here yeah

what’s up man you got a soul I know you

got to turn yourself in what what you

mean

we have recordings documents that you’ve

committed car insurance fraud and you’re

facing time I said let me go talk to

Bishop garry mcintosh real quick

say [ __ ] I am I telling the truth

bishop said [ __ ] uh I’m supposed to

preach it on Wednesday night uh I might

be starting a jail ministry and he stood

with me through that situation him and

pastor Debbie and I said okay let’s do

this

so if i’ma do it I’m gonna do it right

so I went to the barbershop and I got a

haircut cuz if they gonna take my money

not yours there when you got a haircut

this week we’ll post it I’ll post my mug

shot cuz I’m not ashamed of it Oh y’all

forgot yeah I’m not ashamed that we’re

God I remember and when I looked at that

yellow piece of paper this week it was

the completion of my community service

hours and God reminded me he said Mike

you about to go talk to hundreds of

thousands of people this week you’re

gonna you’re gonna be generous with your

finances you’re gonna be generous with

your time you’re gonna be generous he

said but it’s not hard for you no more

is it I said no sir

he said why he said cuz I remember I

remember when you brought me from

I remember how you saved me I remember

how you put me in in just enough heat to

make me see that I never wanted to live

that life

I remember where you had people to stand

with me Bishop

had me my mom my dad we went on stage

together and they stood with me at my

most embarrassing moment in front of our

whole church and our church was about as

big as this section right here but it

didn’t matter it felt like the whole

world was judging me and they stood with

me and they and they said this was this

was a mistake you made this was from

your past but any man who be in Christ

he’s a new creation the old has passed

away somebody needs to get excited about

this and behold I’ve made all things new

I don’t know if there’s anybody watching

or in this room but can we thank God for

the grace of God who saved us so now

it’s easy for me to give because I

remember what I where I was I was a

slave and it don’t matter if you have a

whole bunch of money without Jesus

you’re a slave anyway your slave trying

to secure all of these things that only

God can give and that’s why I’m telling

every person in this room it’s time for

us to live a blessed life money doesn’t

matter if your heart is bankrupt

I’ll say it one more time money doesn’t

matter if your heart is bankrupt

somebody say it’s all about the heart

can I prove it to you real quick is

Kevin Jackson here come here bro just

come here real quick just yeah just just

jump right here just we don’t have time

for you to go to the back it’s all he

said I’m sure you’re fine

get me what’s up bro um transformation

church this is Kevin Jackson

don’t miss this cuz giving is what all

about the heart Kevin Jackson runs a

nonprofit called freedom what is it

House of freedom and you and you work

with the homeless right and he works

with the homeless in Tulsa sheltering

them giving them food giving them needs

helping them get into a place where they

can be oh yeah this is huge a model

citizen and these aren’t bad people

these are people were situations and

circumstances happen and this man of God

he has a heart like God a generous heart

we got this story that at the end of the

year we were given our crazy faith

offering and this man of God he said God

would not get off of me we have been

saving up $15,000 to redo a house for

the homeless and he said but God

challenged my heart and he said I don’t

want you to give a portion of it I want

you to so the entire $15,000 so he

didn’t do it publicly we’ve never met

before

not never

but somehow the story got back to me and

because he gave not grieving just

obeying he was happy to do it because he

knew that he didn’t have to secure what

God was asking him to do so today on

behalf of transformation Church you

didn’t you didn’t just give that away

you so did today transformation Church

wants to be the first because there’s

more coming but we want to be the first

to sow a seed of $30,000 run into your

king oh is that how you go ahead

run it see

we go help the homeless transformation

Church this is your Shack burger oh can

we give God some praise in this place

the sacrum

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see at this moment at this moment

they’re saying about us this this is

this is not about the ten you gave the

thirty you gave the hundred you gave the

500 you gave we’re getting to see what

it means and the crazy thing about this

is this not for him he’s crying because

now he gets to meet the need of the

homeless in our city transformation

church we will live a blessed life we

will develop generous heart

we won’t grieve when God says it to us

we will be blessed to be a blessing

hands lifted all over this place

watching online I declare that something

is stirring on the inside of our church

that father God you would do a work on

the inside of us that would allow us to

truly live a generous and a blessed life

god I thank you that we won’t have to

grieve and we won’t be selfish but we

will develop a generous heart and we

will have a grateful heart because we

know where you’ve brought us from I’m

declaring that as we catch this

revelation you will open up the windows

of heaven and pour out a blessing that

this church and everybody watching

online doesn’t have room enough to

receive bless their businesses bless

their investments bless their homes

bless their jobs

thank you for promotion go from glory to

glory God we do this all for your name

say god this is not about us but it’s

about you we will be your hands and feet

on this earth and we won’t be blessed to

be a blessing if you believe it all over

this room and watch it online

will you give God the biggest shot up

the biggest shower praise you got cuz

you’re never gonna you’re never gonna

let me that’s what Kevin believes now

safe well somebody needs to believe that

hands lifted and just safe in your house

and your family and your business

believe it somebody say just one more

time with faith in your heart say

well we will be generous we will do what

you say god

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I am about to jump off this stage y’all

I’m so excited right now but we can’t

leave this place without giving people

the chance to really understand what it

means to trust God any not giving him

your possessions giving him your life if

everybody would right now I know

everybody’s trying to leave but please

give me two minutes to not be a

distracting to somebody that’s making

this decision this is why our church

exists if you’re in this room and you

want to accept Jesus Christ as your

personal Lord and Savior today I want to

give you that opportunity it’s the thing

that took me from being a liar a

manipulator as I’ve already shared

addicted to pornography not a good

person didn’t make me perfect but now

I’m progressing and there’s some people

in this room that are saying yeah I’m

securing everything because I haven’t

given him my life today if that’s you

this is your moment the Bible says today

is the day of salvation and there’s some

people that have been running and you’re

so tired you’re so tired of going to

your bag trying to find peace and joy

and love and God saying I got it all

right here it’s not what I do it’s Who I

am and today I want to give you that

opportunity watching online everybody in

this room if that’s you on the count of

three I want you to raise your hand and

this is something we celebrate @tc this

is not a like oh no they’re gold the bad

people everybody was a bad person and

everybody is a bad person if not for the

grace of God and so don’t let nobody

fake you out you can belong here before

you behave some people have to this

message you got to go outside and smoke

a cigarette you just go be like hi some

of y’all gonna smoke some single week

listen let’s be real

youyou can belong here but before you

behave because remember it’s all about

the heart and if God gets your heart

he’ll help you change your habits

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so one if that’s you you’re about to

make the greatest decision of your life

– I’m so proud of you but more than that

God is three if you want to give your

life to God today I see hands going up

all over the building I see you sis I

see you I see you I see you

we’re so excited for your seat hey

transformation church is a family nobody

prays alone let’s all pray this prayer

together everybody say God thank you for

sending Jesus just for me

today I stopped securing my life and I

trust you I believe you lived you died

and you rose again just for me take my

life change me renew me transform me I’m

yours in Jesus name Amen can we

celebrate with the dozens of people oh

come on and the hundreds online we love

you sign up for big group and let’s see

God change thank you so much for

watching transformation churches YouTube

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if this is feeding you join

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