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good morning transformation church men I
am so excited that you are in the
building today and if you are here I
know that God has an extremely amazing
plan for your life this is the start of
a brand-new series week one that we are
calling secure the band look at your
neighbor and say secure the bag come on
um this is a time every year that we
take to be able to honestly realign our
lives and get stronger which is the word
for the year to get stronger in the area
of stewardship and finances and
generosity and since the very beginning
of me being the pastor of transformation
church we have you done this it was my
second sermon series that God told me
Michael I want you to teach
transformation church how to live a
blessed life everybody say a blessed
life not just a blessed wallet not just
a blessed home but a blessed life and
the problem is many of us don’t know how
to live a blessed life and Robert Morris
which has been one of my spiritual
mentors from afar he wrote this book and
has this revelation on living a blessed
life and so we came in to being the
pastor’s of the church and I preached a
series for a month on vision and then
God said you need to sit down and you
need to teach your church through video
how to live a blessed life and y’all
already know that I can’t preach nothing
I don’t know and so what God said is
Mike I need you to be an example of
being hot humble open and transparent
and I stood in the front of my church
the second month of being the pastor and
I said listen y’all God wants us to live
a blessed life and I haven’t quite
figured out how to do it yet so I’m not
gonna play you and teach you a bunch of
Lies that I haven’t lived out imma let
this man teach you and we’re gonna see
here and he white and he’s older and his
humor is dry but he got the revelation
and we sat and we listened to the blend
blessed life for five weeks in a row and
I sat on the front row taking notes
because a leader is not a leader because
you know more a leader is a leader
because you do what is best for the
people that are following you I already
hear me
some of y’all needed that nugget right
there and so I said and every year God
would continue to give us more
revelation until two years ago he said
Michael I think you’ve learned a few
things about the blessed life
you can teach not the whole series a
couple of messages in the series and we
and we did wait till I get my money
right and then last year we did ducks in
a row and this year we’re doing a series
call secure the what the bad and some of
you are like Sally securing the bag I
have no idea what that means well I’m
about to teach you right now but I need
to calm everybody down who may be a
little insecure about the topic of
finances generosity and stewardship
because I know some of y’all’s they just
want my money the church just want my
money meter is going off right now relax
everybody say relax we don’t want your
money we’re not doing any separate
offerings during the series we don’t
have a capital campaign in case you
haven’t heard the build is paid off Oh
y’all hear me and listen we are walking
in a season of abundance so we’re not
teaching this series because the church
needs more money this is the best the
church has ever been financially in our
church history I’m teaching this because
I’m passionate about you living a
blessed life I don’t want the church to
be flourishing as an organization and
the church as an organism is not
flourishing I want your home to be
blessed
I want your bank account to be blessed I
want your health to be blessed somebody
say I’m gonna live a blessed life silly
I don’t believe it yet but say it one
more time I’m going to live a blessed
life and so for the next four weeks I
need you to walk in with me not because
we’re trying to get something from you
I’m trying to get something to you and
the crazy thing about it is these
principles and God’s Word are something
that I’ve last
time and we need to adopt these
principles live these principles and be
ones to actually live a blessed life the
coolest thing about this entire series
is that in a series where we’re talking
about us being generous and stewards
over what God’s placed in our hand we’re
not just not taking second offerings and
trying to get money we’re actually gonna
give money away now some of y’all don’t
understand this cuz you just started
watching transformation church but when
we first started this God told me he
said Michael I want you to take up an
offering and I want you to give
everything in that offering away and I
am so grateful for the people who’ve
been down for transformation Church and
his vision of crazy faith from the very
beginning of us being leaders because
that day we raised $8,000 and on that
day this you may be like oh that’s not a
lot but to us that was everything we
brought our finances together and
there’s people in this room who gave in
that offering and when we gave we took
all of that money and we gave it away as
a seed and we said this is going to
produce a life for our church that we
would be marked as a generous church
well I’m glad to tell you during the
next four weeks
we’re not giving away eight thousand
dollars we’re gonna be giving away to
different organizations and nonprofits
that help change cities the US and the
world we’re gonna give away three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
the y’all come on that’s huge
and I’ll see you in the back right how
can I get some of that money it’s
already designated what I’m telling you
though is because of transformation
church’s generosity and people who’ve
already caught this message of the
blessed life we’re able to be a blessing
not just ask for one what would happen
if you can be a blessing and not just
ask for one what can happen when you
walk into the room the blessing just
showed up what happens that our church
whatever we work whatever we go
we are the blessing that people are
praying for and that is my desire is
that we could be the answer to prayer
instead of just the ones praying for
things but that takes us being able to
walk in a level of generosity and
stewardship that allows us to live say
it one more time the blessed life all
right so I want to talk about this whole
concept of securing the bag for a second
because a lot of people don’t know how
to live a blessed life because they
don’t know how to be generous but look
what proverbs 1124 says it says the
world of the generous gets larger and
larger but the world of the stingy gets
smaller and smaller now that’s a
powerful piece of Scripture right there
cuz somebody I won’t even share french
fries you hear what I’m saying you just
Angie you just mean but I’m trying to
think about in the kingdom of God when
we are generous with whatever we have
our gifts and talents our finances our
love God says people’s world get bigger
and bigger but if we hold back if we try
to keep it if we try to keep it only for
our family our four and no more God says
that your your world gets smaller and
smaller and some of you are in such a
tight space not because that’s where God
wants you is because where you have been
having your faith act for generosity
over the years God will bless you and
you won’t give anything God will expand
you you won’t share your knowledge he
gives you more contacts and you won’t
hook nobody else up and your world has
just begin to collapse on you silly
Allah claustrophobic right now not
because of what God has done because of
what you have done I’m talking to
somebody but today I want us to get
stronger in the area of generosity and
stewardship and that’s why we’re gonna
secure the bag now this is this whole
thing I’ve secured the bag this is a
phrase a cultural phrase that came up
over the past five years and for some of
you I say secure the bag then you have
different meanings in your head for some
of you when I say secure the bag you
think of this you think of the little
brand ties that you have to put back on
to the braid because we want our brand
to not be um hard so that’s
secure in the back for others of you
when I say secure the bag you think of
this
yeah that’s a chick-fil-a bag and and
and it’s a Monday through Saturday
that’s the only thing you want to secure
is Christ um chicken is its Christ
chicken Jesus chicken whatever they’re
some of the ladies in the room we’re
securing the bag looks like this yeah
yeah this is the celebrities purse
closet and some of y’all wouldn’t want
this to be the bag that was secured for
you and then some of my fellows in the
the room we got to work out because we
have secured the bag those are bags of
potato chips and she knows that you have
been securing for a long time but when I
say secure the bag this this looks like
something a little different today and I
want us to look at a definition of this
and I want you to write it down um this
is from the most reliable source that I
could find the Urban Dictionary an
expression used to describe the act of
taking advantage of a situation or this
is what I want you to focus on keeping
something of value like when I secure
the bag
I keep something of value when I secure
the bag I do what I teach something of
value today I want to talk about what
you found as we start this series as we
go down this journey I need to ask you
what you value because when you see
something that you value our natural
inclination is to secure it just to
think about the most expensive thing
that you own that’s the thing you don’t
leave sitting out that’s the thing you
don’t let kids play with that’s the
thing you don’t poor things up because
it’s valuable to you you try to secure
it and a lot of times we keep things
secure that are valuable or we keep them
the secure because they’re vulnerable
now I want you to think about that why
do I secure anything because of its
value and its vulnerability now I’m
about to teach you something I had a
very hard time with this concept of
giving and this concept of generosity
because I valued by
and I know there’s nobody in here like
this but I wasn’t giving my money to
nobody not a little things when I like
would you like to get 50 cents to some
kids in the day I’m like no I got three
kids in the car I got to give to I got
to feed these children laughs II don’t
like be honest okay maybe I’m being too
real right now
but-but-but because I value my money I
don’t just give it away and any time my
money’s vulnerable I’m trying to secure
it and the thing about our entire life
specially when it comes to finances the
only reason you secure something I want
you to write this down the only reason
you secure something is when what’s
extremely valuable becomes extremely
vulnerable when it’s valuable and
vulnerable your security I want to show
you a practical example here’s a picture
of me and my kids
and whenever you get past how beautiful
my wife is and how I’m cute these little
offspring we made are and how much we
spent being at this Disney park the
thing I want you to notice is that we
all have on the same colored t-shirt and
the reason that we have on the same
colored t-shirt is because me as the
father of this beautiful family got a
little insecure before we went to Disney
World the night before we went to Disney
World I don’t know how I ended up on it
but I was looking up rides for Disney
World on YouTube and the best thing and
then I got to this page where they was
talking about kids who got lost at
Disney World and um your boy started
freaking out and so 24 hours before we
went to Disney where I stayed up all
night designing these beautiful t-shirts
that talked about our trip and all the
t-shirts were nice I really did he
design them for the ascetic I designed
it because what was valuable to me
wouldn’t be vulnerable when we got into
the park with thousands of people and so
when something is valuable and
vulnerable our natural inclination is to
secure it
and so what I was trying to do in that
moment by giving us all the same color
shirt was trying to secure that if my
kids ran off I could easily identify
them and if they got separated from me
that they could easily identify us I was
trying to secure what was valuable and
vulnerable so when I think about our
finances our families our gifts our
talents many of us have been securing it
because it’s valuable to us
but in some area of our life it’s been
vulnerable and this is the thing I need
you to hear because I’m trying to build
visit this foundation for a god to get
to our hearts in this thing if we do not
feel like something is secure we secure
it ourselves and this is the key to what
many of us do not walk in our callings
while many of us don’t give what we’re
supposed to give is because we’re
insecure in the environment that we are
in and when you are insecure let me just
give you the point because some of y’all
don’t even understand it
insecurity always comes from a lack of
trust and when I am insecure I secure
Maceda game but there’s a lack of trust
you start saying oh if they not gonna do
this for me I’m insecure and how they’re
gonna treat me I’m insecure about how
this is gonna work out when I’m insecure
than an eyes secure I’m God I’ll take
matters into my own hands how many
people in the room right now look at me
be honest how many people are control
freaks come on let’s be honest do you
know the truth about you always wanting
to be controlled if somewhere along the
road trust was broken and you don’t
trust nobody
so you’re insecure now and when you’re
insecure you secure ah I’m gonna give
you the equation of insecurity and this
don’t have to do nothing with finances
you can apply this to every area of your
life but when you have something that is
valuable
and then you put it in a position that’s
vulnerable and you take away trust it
equals insecurity value plus vulnerable
– trust equals insecurity let me give
you an example okay so if you had a
dream when you were young it was
valuable and you you believed in the
dream and you were gonna do great things
and then you got vulnerable that sub
moment and you told a friend somebody
that you you trusted but then they took
away trust they say you could never do
that and nobody in the family has ever
done that and it equals insecurity now
you’re 48 years old questioning your
purpose because what was valuable the
dream I’m talking to somebody right now
was vulnerable and they talked down and
took Trust away and now you’re here
questioning your purpose there are
people who are teenagers and they had
something of value they had their period
they were sexually pure and then they
were vulnerable now yeah we’re just
gonna go over to uncle’s house to spend
the night and they went over to uncle’s
house to spend the night and the trucks
was taken away from them and somebody
touched him inappropriately and I’m
being very sensitive but this is
somebody’s real story right now and now
that’s equal than being insecure and
they haven’t been able to stay faithful
in a relationship and stay true to
something because now they’re insecure
and they don’t know their own self-worth
I’m trying to help you and that’s why I
want everybody in this room to
understand the wounds and the pain that
you have in your life all the things
that are going on a lot of it we’re just
trying to secure what has been damaged
in other seasons that’s why when you get
a cut on your hand the first thing is
put a bandaid on it because if I feel
insecure I secure I’m trying to help
somebody in the room right now that’s
why many of you were type no I’m shy
no you weren’t always shy you used to go
out and do stuff but then trust was
taken away and now you’re trying to
secure yourself from getting hurt
anymore
so you don’t try anymore you don’t step
out you won’t do what God’s called you
to do but if you feel insecure then you
secure that’s why many of you won’t get
in small groups cuz I tried to trust
people one time before and I told
somebody something that really hurt and
they talked about me they got something
about me and so so now I’m insecure
about that and when I’m insecure then I
secure and that’s why others of you we
have thousands of people in this room
right now and only a fraction of them
serve and that’s not because you don’t
have the ability to service because at
your last church somebody took advantage
of your time and so now you’re making
everybody else pay for the mistake of
one person and you’re securing yourself
not to be able to be the blessing that
you could be I’m talking to somebody
right now because when you’re insecure
everybody say I secure so this is what
I’m trying to get everybody to give when
it comes to your family to your future
and specifically in this series your
finances are you securing the bag like
like like people say that in a positive
term and culture like I gotta go secure
the bag baby
I’m out here working secure in the bag
I’m out here I’m about to secure the bag
but but I don’t think that’s such a
positive term when it comes to the
kingdom of God because I found out if
you’re securing the bag that means God
is it if you are the provider in your
life that means God is it if you’re the
way later in your life that means God is
it I don’t think it is a ain’t something
we need to be proud of that yeah I’ll
secure the bag cuz you’re securing what
you’re insecure about and so when you
have to be the one securing your
family’s future when you’re the ones
secure in the family I can’t come I
can’t spend time with the kids I prayed
for cuz I got to make sure they got
money to do this that in the third
the family cuz you’re the man of the
house that means you’re not letting God
secure what he’s already paid for so do
you want to be the provider do you want
to really secure the back because that
goes in exact opposite of what God says
he is in the word he says he’s Jehovah
Jireh you’re pro fighter that only can
be one of those and that’s what I’m
begging you in this series to open up
your heart stay with me through this
whole series cuz I want you to trust God
with your finances trust God with their
family trust God with your future cuz
the truth about it is many of us are
securing what we should be sowing many
of us are supposed to be sowing our
gifts and talents but we’re securing
many of us should be showing our
abilities but we’re securing we should
be sowing our time but we’re securing
them and this is it’s a shame because we
didn’t do anything to earn what we’re
securing in the first place it was God’s
grace who gave us our abilities it was
the grace of God who brought us to the
place we’re at right now see some of
y’all don’t forgot where you used to be
but it’s nothing but the grace of God
and now we’re securing what God says no
if you give it away it’ll multiply if
you give it away it’ll come back to you
if you don’t give it away if you’re
blessing to somebody else it’ll be a
blessing to more but he said no you’re
securing it and that’s not what you need
to do so really maybe the series should
be called don’t slit ear to bag because
if you’re securing it it means that God
isn’t and God is so good that he knew
that we would struggle with this in our
mortal bodies and so he gave us this
parable which is a truth alongside of a
story parabola
to see what the kingdom of God looks
like when we start talking about these
bags and securing the bag turn with me
to Matthew chapter 25 and we’re gonna
start in verse 14 it says again the
kingdom of heaven can be illustrated by
the story of a man who goes on a long
trip that man is God in this in this
passage he called together his servants
and he entrusted money what did he
entrust what did he entrust the only
reason that I’m saying this is he could
have used any other example in the world
but he uses money and I want you to know
in the Bible that we read money and
possessions is referenced over 800 times
it is the second most talked about
subject in the Bible because it matters
okay so I want everybody to check in
with me to this he says um he trusted
them with the money while he was gone
verse 15 he gave five bags of silver to
one two bags of silver to another and
one bag of silver to the last dividing
it in proportion to their abilities and
then left on the trip and some of y’all
a man right there cuz you’re like why do
you give one father and he gave one to
man and he gave me one man si si
all of us are already assuming that
God’s unfailing because my situation
wasn’t like their situation that my
setup wasn’t like their setup and that’s
the plan of the enemy for God’s grace to
then be snuffed out because of
comparison none of them deserved any
bags
none of them deserved the one bag the
fire bag are the two bag and what
happens is we get the grace of God and
then we start looking at what they got
him what they got and we need to
understand that god is so good he said
good master look what it says it even
tells us why he gives them the bags that
they got he says he divided it in a
proportion to their abilities and and
and and most of us we want it to be
something that’s fair even though we
squandered the last season that God gave
us
even though the last opportunity we
didn’t do what we were supposed to do
maybe we should be all on the same level
but God is a good master and I need you
to understand this the next season of
ability is gonna depend on the last
season of responsibility oh that’s good
word right there the next season of
ability it’s going to depend on the last
season of responsibility how did you
steward over the last year how did you
steward over the people that you have
under your leadership how did you
steward over the $50 and 62 cents that
you got from that job last week and many
times we don’t count it as anything and
so we’re like I don’t have to really do
anything with that but the Masters
watching your ability he’s watching how
you handle what he’s placed in your hand
and he’s saying this next level is gonna
be based on how you were responsible
with the last level so right this point
now God knows what you can handle
because he’s watching how do you handle
he knows what you can handle
cuz he’s watching how you handle some of
you have on your crazy face board a new
house it ain’t coming until you handle
that apartment
y’all don’t enough they don’t want to
hear nothing like this but but it’s not
the new car that you’ve got looking
clean on the picture it is far away from
you because of the big size you drove to
get here today you we know what you hate
for the last four weeks if we just look
at the bottom of your floorboard in your
car what I’m telling you is God is
watching how you handle what you have
right now and many of us need to know
that God wants us to go to a whole
nother level of being blessed but our
next season of ability is coming from
our last season of responsibility see
the biblical term for this is
stewardship everybody say stewardship
it’s not even a sexy were like
stewardship like that’s not a sexy word
but it’s a powerful one because if you
could ever get the concept of true
stewardship then you wouldn’t be able to
do things that your your pedigree
doesn’t call for your education doesn’t
call for God’s looking for somebody he
can trust and the thing that you got to
understand about stewardship this is
what stewardship says today matters when
I’m a good steward I’m not looking to
the future I’m looking to what I’m doing
today and that’s why people are like I’m
gonna be a better friend in the future
be a better friend today call the one
person text them back everybody’s
talking about I’ll be a better employee
tomorrow I just got to get through this
season know stewardship says today
matters how I love today matters how I
respond today matters how I saved my
money today matters the thing you gotta
know about stewardship the reason why
today matters come closer
cuz today always shows up tomorrow
some of y’all y’all look at pictures of
yourself when you were smaller I’m
coming for your house today and you’ve
been like oh my god why didn’t y’all
tell me why didn’t y’all tell me that
wasn’t that didn’t happen overnight
that wasn’t a shock to anybody that was
you not stewarding over the day and
because he didn’t do it over at that day
and showed up the next day and you
didn’t show it over at that day and it
showed up the next day and then it shows
up the next day do you hear what I’m
saying to you today matters body needs
to get a revelation in this place
somebody shot at me today matters so in
this story of Matthew we see two
different types of people one who would
steward over it and the one who was
security they would steward over what
the master day
and the other one that with security and
I kind of want to introduce this thing
because when we start talking about
finances and we start talking about
stewardship you know people get a little
antsy there’s some people in this
section that’s tight like all tight
right now and I want you to know that
I’m not coming to judge you but I want
you to be able to assess yourself okay
and and that’s one of the best spiritual
gifts is self-awareness so I want to
give you an opportunity to assess
yourself by something I’m calling the
bag barometer okay and we’re gonna put
up a couple of different scenarios and
you’ll be able to see where you are
either you’re gonna be a person who
stewards the bag which is what God wants
us to do are you gonna be a person who
secures the bag which is what our fear
has us to do so so I’m gonna put these
up in and do this I’m gonna show us and
illuminate some revelation that shows
what those two type of people do either
we’re gonna do it over what God’s given
us or we’re gonna secure this bag okay
and honestly as I look at this story
it’s a perspective if you’re gonna
Stuart the bag that means you know
you’re a manager not an owner see
everybody who’s a steward knows that
it’s somebody else’s and they’re just
taking care of it
they’re just managing it but if you’re
gonna secure the bag you take the idea
of an owner the reason why why why I got
to do this with my money cuz this is my
job and this is my money and this is my
family you do feel like you own
something and the thing that you have to
know as somebody who was steward over it
though this is God’s family this is
God’s job this is God’s money this is
God’s church all I am is a everybody say
manager yeah some of y’all couldn’t even
say it cuz he’s like I’m not that’s a
lie many of us are taking the place of
the owner and that’s what we see in this
in this chapter we can verse 16 it says
is a servant who received five bags of
silver they went to invest the money and
earn five meal the servant with two bags
of silver also went told ooh is that a
cuss word in the Bible what
they went to work oh snap it earns you
four I just gotta talk to somebody real
quick that if you’re in a season right
now where you’re just so creative and
waiting on God that you’re not
stewarding over the season that you’re
in right now you need to be responsible
enough to work and work on your passion
and there’s some people under the sound
of my voice waiting on this big break
maybe you need to do that and clocked in
at settings do you hear what I’m saying
because you have to manage the seasons
so that you can be prepared for what God
has for you to do somebody say that
customer Whitney work I don’t know who
that was for but I just went off on a
tangent
just on somebody here we go verse 18 it
says but the servant who received the
one man he dug a hole in the ground and
he secured the bank or you could say he
hid the money so so let me go back to my
bad barometer if you’re gonna store it
in the bag that means you know you’re a
manager of the bag and that means that
you would be one like the guys with five
and two that they invested they sewed
the bank see the thing that you got to
understand when you’re managing
something that God gives you that you
can show it because any good farmer
knows when I saw something I’m not
saying goodbye to it forever I’m putting
it into the ground
or putting it into a place where they
can produce more and so many of us are
so scared to so because we don’t
understand the concept of sowing and
reaping when I put something good in
that means I’m gonna give you something
good but if I don’t put anything good in
see the guy with the five and the two
they sewed the bag but the guy who tried
to secure the bag he dug a hole and hid
the bag and I just wonder how many of us
are trying so hard to secure what was
supposed to be a seed like that that
book you haven’t given to anybody
because you’re scared of them judging
that wasn’t the best book that you were
supposed to write that was supposed to
be a seat you were supposed to so that
that wasn’t even the one that was gonna
blow up that was the one that was going
to allow somebody to see you who was
gonna partner with you for the book that
was actually gonna blow up but because
you dug a hole and hidden it you’ll
never be able to see what God wanted to
do with it because you wouldn’t show it
and I don’t know who I’m talking to
right now but the Spirit of God is
challenging me to challenge you to dig
up what you ever tried to put in the
ground and high dig up the song dig up
the curriculum dick I feel the presence
of God in this place you better dig up
that art piece you better dig up that
idea and take it out of the place where
was gonna be a grave and planted in say
thank God is going to take that thing
and multiply it
somebody say how much so the bag say it
again I’m gonna show the bag I’m telling
somebody in this room right now that God
is in the idea of trying to get what he
placed in you out of you and he don’t
want it back the same way he gave it to
you
he wants it won’t apply but you only can
multiply something when you’re steward
in the bank and you know you’re not the
owner but you’re the manager of the bag
and you’re not gonna dig a hole for the
bag but you’re gonna sew the bag verse
19 after a long time the master returned
from the trip and called them together
to give an account of how they used his
money remember that they don’t own it
they were managing it but if if you’re
managing something but you have the
perspective that you’re honoring owning
it you’ll do the wrong thing with it
verse 20 the server to whom he had
trusted five bags of silver came forward
and say hey what’s going on master like
it is respected you gave me five bags of
silver to invest and guess what I did
maybe boy
five more I want you to see what the one
who knew he was stewarding the bag with
the with the perspective of prosperity
look what he did he acknowledged where
the bag came from if you’re gonna stew
it over what God is giving you you have
to acknowledge God and many of us have
been walking around like everything that
we have somehow we deserved it and God’s
saying hey it’s me the air that you’re
breathing that’s me
the use of your limbs that’s your boy
everything that’s going on right now
that’s me and I don’t even want you to
turn to stop doing what you’re doing
all I need you to do is everybody say
acknowledge me that’s why the Bible
tells us in proverbs 3 6 in all your
ways acknowledge him and he will be so
good he’ll be your GPS he said and I
will direct your and some of you have
been on the wrong path because you
stopped acknowledging the one who made
the pan and I don’t know who I’m talking
to today but that was the key you came
for is that I am gonna start
acknowledging God this ain’t the job
that I want but I’m here and I thank you
that you allowed me to be here god I
acknowledge that you can make a good
situation out of a bad one God I
acknowledge that the only reason I have
my right mind right now is to be able to
bless people and help people father
hired knowledge I was about to test them
out but I acknowledge this you helped me
team up like we got two egg knowledge
but in direct contrast if you trying to
secure the bag and on the bag and dig a
hole for the bag what you do is what
happens in verse 24 look at it then the
servant was the one bag of silver saying
oh man you know what you look good you
know what I knew I said self and self
same would and I said you know what
the master I know he is a harsh man
yes he is I knew it I knew it was about
you and I know you don’t harvest in
crops that you plant and I know I know
you gather crops that you didn’t
cultivate and I got stopped right here
because this man said I knew he assumed
that he knew what God was gonna do with
what he gave me when you are stewarding
the best bag you acknowledge God but
when you are securing the bag
you assume of God and some of us have
gotten so prideful that we will get
relationships and we own I know what
that relationship is gonna be doing you
look at the money that God asked you to
give her you look at the time he asks
you to sew and you go I know what God
didn’t do do you really there have been
so many times in my life that God was
working something behind the scenes that
I had no clue about but in my pride in
my own arrogance I assumed I knew what
God was going to do and God says that is
a characteristic of somebody who doesn’t
trust me and is trying to secure the bag
because you are one that wants to be
provided for yourself you want to be in
control for yourself and God begin to
tell me Michael you don’t know me have
you ever met somebody who who who acted
like they knew you but they really
didn’t know you and there’s some people
try to make assumptions about what they
don’t know let me say it even clearer
that makes assumptions about people who
they don’t know that’s why it’s very
very very bad to listen to people who
don’t have a real relationship with God
when it comes to the area of your life
because they will assume and put on you
what they assume about God and they
don’t even got a real relationship with
him
and this man he is sold to you what God
was gonna do but I hear God from heaven
telling all of us like he’s told me a
hundred times what he told in Isaiah 55
verse eight my thoughts are nothing like
your thoughts since the Lord and my ways
are far beyond your imagination for just
as high as the heavens are of the earth
so my ways are higher than your ways and
my thoughts are higher than your
thoughts
you better stop assuming how God can
take a little bit of sacrifice a little
bit of seed a little bit of
intentionality and multiply it into
something that will bless so many others
you don’t know what God has in store for
you I feel that thing you have no clue
what God will do it a little obedience
with the little faithfulness with a
little bit of love to somebody who feels
like they’re broken in downcast you have
no clue that’s why any time I walk into
a situation I acknowledge God you’re the
reason that I’m here
direct my path now whenever you want me
to do here who whatever you want me to
say here I’m open somebody needs to
thank God right now come on just give
him praise right now that you are going
to be one that acknowledges the p’pon
come on take 5 seconds and acknowledge
God right now
we thank you Lord we magnify you we
listen to up I don’t have to secure my
future I don’t have to secure my
finances I don’t have to secure it
because I’m just storing all this anyway
the truth is when you’re securing the
bag
securing your finances securing your
family securing all of this it exposes
who you trust and the sad thing to say
in Rome this being a thousands of people
watching and transformation nation is
that most of us are in a building and in
a lifestyle of Christianity where we
where we act like
but we actually don’t I know we don’t
say it in public but our actions our
actions expose who we actually trust and
today I want us to get a different
response than the dude that had one bag
and dug a hole and he secured his own
bag and he thought he owned the bag and
he dug a hole for it and he soon dove
God look at the response that God gave
to the people who steward it the bag in
the right way Matthew chapter 25 verse
21 look what it says and the master was
full of praise well done my good and
faithful servant you have been faithful
in handling this Psalm all am and now
this always messes me up because he’s
talking to the guy with five bags and
remember at the beginning everybody was
probably comparing themselves like you
got one you got two you got five and
look what the master says the one with
five he said that was still a smaller
man oh you thought this was just a test
you thought you was starting up here I
the business that you have right now the
still a small amount the influence that
you have right never still a small
amount like I’ve stuck to what you think
that this is I am the god of abundance I
am the god of a blessing right that’s
the reason I came that you might have
life and have life abundantly turned a
fool and what I’m trying to tell you no
matter if you say well that’s oh my god
don’t need anything unless I have a boat
my kids are in private school all that
that’s still a small amount baby but God
wants to do is take it from Gloria glory
level to level and that’s why you got to
understand this point God is not limited
by our small thinking he’s limited by
our small obedience if we don’t start
obeying God at the small things
the things that seeming significant he
told you to go read with those kids at
that school and you don’t think that
it’s important because nobody else is
doing it because it’s not a church wide
event and God said
I need you to do is be faithful over the
small thing so one day you’re gonna be
the principal on that school but I
wanted you to sow seeds into that school
when it didn’t matter but you’re singing
so narrow you seem so small and God is
saying I see so much bigger whatever you
think it is right now that’s still a
small thing that’s the small thing like
when I started as the sound man at
Greenwood Christian Center when I
decided to stay and be obedient in the
small thing
God saw this he saw the arena full of
people he saw it paid off but he said
will you be faithful I feel this thing
to sow a slow seed to be obedient when
nobody’s looking and all I’m asking you
right now it’s not to look and what
anybody else is doing cuz what your
obedience is it’s significant and that’s
true stewardship whether you’re an
intern who you’re a CEO where you’re
obedience at that level is significant
for what God has for you in your life
verse 22 so the servant who I received
the two bags of silver came forward and
said master you can take three back to
silver to invest and I earned two more
and the master said well done my good
and faithful servant you have been
faithful in handling the small amount
now I will give you more responsibility
not money ah
see y’all thought this was a prosperity
gospel you thought it is you give you
three hundred and thirty three dollars
you get three thousand and thirty three
dollars but this is the key of what God
is saying the reward of being a good
steward is more responsibility you
thought it was more money you thought
this was a magic trick you thought this
was the lotto God says when you handle
what’s in your hand I’m gonna give you
more responsibility so you can go ahead
and tween this this is not a gospel of
prosperity this is a gospel of
responsibility can God trust us the
problem has been and I have to apologize
on behalf of all the pastors and leaders
who mishandled the responsibility of
guarding people’s finances and Trust in
their lives
I’m so sorry that God would trust men
with influence who are imperfect
because they didn’t have accountability
or were drunk on pride or didn’t
understand the weight of what they were
holding on behalf of all of them I say
I’m sorry what God is trying to do is
not make us rich to be rich he’s trying
to make us bless so he can be a blessing
there’s a world out here that’s dodging
there are people who need leadsmen they
don’t want to hear about our God if we
can’t meet their need they need homes
they need shoes they need to be rescued
out of sex trafficking and because we’re
so broke many times we cannot be a
physical extension of God’s hand in his
heart and so what we have to do now is
repent
I’m repenting on behalf of every leader
every CEO every boss who miss use your
trust or subtracted trust and made you
insecure today I’m coming to ask you to
give God another chance through another
leader to another group of people to be
able to stand and say you know what God
doesn’t want us to Stewart over this so
we can just add more and be OK for our
family we don’t need to secure anything
we have to be chitinous and we have to
steward over what God has given us and I
don’t know right now I feel such a
burden right there is that people have
been hurt but what’s happened to them
and today I’m believing that God might
his Spirit is healing people
he’s healing your perspective he’s
healing your heart he’s healing your
mind and the enemy’s trick would be to
let a man keep you from a blessed life
the enemy’s trick wouldn’t make you be
able to blame somebody and now you’re
not living in the fullness of what God
has called you to live but today we’re
coming to reverse that thing I believe
in this room come on somebody help me I
believe in this room that God is coming
to restore trust and his word and the
men and women of God that he has
entrusted this to because we are
supposed to live a blessed life look at
verse 24
did he a servant with one bag of silver
came and said master harvesting crops
you get any plant and gathering crops
that you didn’t cultivate here’s the
whole reason
he dug a hole this is why he tried to
secure the back I was a friend fear was
the culprit that kept him from faith
we’re yelling crazy things we’re wearing
it on our hoodies but you can wear a
crazy faith hoodie and still be walking
in fear you can sit in this big
auditorium that God provided in faith
and still leave out of here in fear and
what I’m coming to do as your pastor is
over the next four weeks I’m about to
break the spirit of fear off of you
first Timothy tells us that God didn’t
give us that experie he didn’t give us
the spirit of fear and timidity but he
gave us the spirit of power love and
what speak that over your language the
man trying to secure the bag he wasn’t a
bad man just the way many of you who
have been trying to secure the bag for
yourself secure your family secure
you’re not a bad person
you’re just afraid you’re afraid that
God doesn’t have a plan that’s bigger
than your savings account you you’re
afraid that God doesn’t have a plan
bigger than your first divorce
you’re afraid that God doesn’t have a
plan bigger than your failure but I’m
here as a living witness telling you
that God’s plans for you and not to harm
me to give you a hope and a good future
and that’s why we can’t be ones to
secure the bag and on the bag and dig a
hole for the bag and assume of God
because he was afraid that man was
afraid to lose the bank and there are
too many of us right now if you’re
living status changed you wouldn’t be a
rank if you went for the home to the
apartment you would fall upon if you
went from three cars to one car that was
ten years old you would feel like you
were
taxi aren’t you driving aren’t you
aren’t you still being able to do what
God’s asks you to do and I don’t know
but this spirit of fear has taken over
our culture when it comes to finances
when it comes to our family when it
comes to disease when it comes to all
this stuff and many people are digging
holes and securing bags because they’re
afraid but when you stew it over
something that you know you’re not the
owner of but you’re just the manager of
and heal so what God gives you and you
acknowledge God at every step away what
you knew is you trust God’s plan for the
future man I’ve got a worry where the
next is coming from I don’t gotta worry
if God has a plan if transformations are
shut down the top household is don’t be
fine cuz I made a declaration to God as
for me in my house we will serve the
Lord
that means I’m a manager so if he takes
something away that means he has
something better for me Oh y’all better
hear me in this room I do not worry
where the next bag comes from because I
am secure any the one who called me to
this place some of y’all need to catch
that you’ve been worried about the
healing you’ve been worried about your
family you’ve been trying to secure it
and all God is saying have faith and
trust me he that began a good work to
see it to completion
his name is alpha and beginning
I don’t worry about where the next bag
comes from I know if I saw it today and
I love today and I’m faithful today and
I screw it over today the next bag is
coming from the one who supplies all the
bags verse twenty-nine to those who use
well what they are getting underlined
that use will not use not use up use way
what they have been given look at this
even more will be given and they will
have an abundance better not sound like
the blessed life to me that sounds like
the black dog bond in life and that’s
what you have to know maybe securing the
bag is not the way that we want to live
our life because when we secure the
bagging exposes our insecurities it
exposes that we don’t trust cuz we only
secure what’s valuable and what’s fun
and in this scripture it tells us if
you’re gonna secure the bag you use
excuses for the bag that you have right
now he said I knew you are a hard master
so what I did was not the faith thing I
did the thing that would just give you
back what you gave me I said I couldn’t
I just could have kept it at that when I
gave you that singing ability I didn’t I
didn’t I didn’t give you that too so you
could give it back to me the way I gave
it to you when I gave you that
administration ability I didn’t I didn’t
ask you to give you that back to me the
same way I gave it to you when I dated
he said I wanted it to multiply and
that’s why when you steward the bag you
use the bag you have it reminds me of a
saying that all you have is all you God
said you don’t need another bag just
flip the one you got
he wasn’t looking for the one with one
bag to end up with ten bags the one with
five ended up with ten cuz he doubled it
the
or to ended up with four cuz he’s
doubled it all he was looking for from
the person with one bag was too many my
question to you is some of us because
we’ve been so anxious and fearful and
trying to secure the bank
double what you have double just exactly
and if you do that you get a well done
my good and faithful but for those who
this is scary all even what little they
have will be taken away now throw this
useless piece of servant and it took
other darkness where there will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth and that’s
what many of our finances look like I do
let me help our only true security is in
trusting God i’ma say one more time our
only true security is in trusting God I
gave you the equation of insecurity
earlier but let me give you the equation
of security trust plus value plus being
vulnerable equals security when Trust is
the foundation I trust them with what I
value my money I trust God with my money
I trust God with my resources and it’s
vulnerable so it’s vulnerable when I
bless others when I give it to a church
when our tight end presents it
vulnerable but that’s the only way you
have true security let me give a
practical example I have a daughter
named Bella and Bella trust her father
so because she has trust and she knows
she’s valuable to me
she has no problem being vulnerable with
me we were at the pool this summer right
after we took that
Disney picture and um we were out of poo
at the little rental house the Airbnb
that we had and Bella she can’t quite
swim yet and so her mom is super like
stay away do the water and um I was in
the deep end of the pool
I said Bella jump and her mama in the
background saying don’t jump
and I’m saying I’m looking her in our
eyes and I’m saying jump and she’s
Mama’s like don’t do it but because she
trusted her father and she she said I
don’t know how this is gonna end up but
in a place that I can’t secure myself in
my hands like the hands of the Father I
see it stretching out to some of you are
gonna take steps in this next season
trust God and I just feel that in this
room that’s the picture that God wants
to give some of you as you step out and
you put your trust in the one who will
never fail you he you can be vulnerable
in them and he won’t touch you insecure
today I just want your heart to be open
to what God is saying when you trust God
with what you consider valuable and you
are vulnerable enough to sowing he
provides trust in God we have to learn
so much more about generosity and
stewardship over the next four weeks you
don’t want to miss one moment of this
series because it can change like
every year and I’m telling you we would
not be here today if we didn’t embrace
this idea of living the blessed life
maybe it’s not the best thing for us to
secure the bag maybe it’s better if we
steward the bag
cuz I don’t have to secure the bag
because I’m secured by God oh that’s
good teaching right there
I don’t gotta secure nothing because I
secure by God the reason you find that
revelation it was found in verse 28 from
me and I saw for the first time last
year because you know the man that that
did that secured the bag his bag got
taken from him but what God do with that
bag like I’ve never paid attention to
what he did with the bag until this
moment and this is God’s grace and his
love and His mercy for people who
steward over what was given to him look
at verse 28 of Revelation this is the
real part of God right here it says then
he order to take the money from this
nasty piece of servant I just like
taking it piece of serving and give it
not to himself but God wasn’t trying to
get more so that he could just be
rolling in the dough he said and give it
to the one with the ten bags of silver I
need to give more to the person who
steward over any problem that’s the
heart of God he’s not trying to take
from anybody
he just wants what he gives us to be
used properly in many of us right now as
our bank accounts have other priorities
in them as our families have other
priorities God saying hey yo could you
stop securing the bag and steward over
it so I can secure you and the thing
that I found out about this servant with
ten bags he didn’t know he was getting
another bag the master saw how he used
what he had given him
and he put his grace on it he put his
abundance on it
he put the best life on it and that’s
why I want you to know while you’re
trying to secure a back God is trying to
supply you with it bags some of you are
so uptight about securing this one thing
and I said I’m trying to give you more
if you would Stuart oh I’m gonna pray
for everybody into the sound of my voice
right now come on
all over this room stand up all over
this room and I want you to lift your
hands and I’m gonna pray that if there’s
an area of your life that you have been
securing ah and you know you need to
give it over to God right now it may be
your finances it may be your family
it may be your talents and your gifts
but if there’s an area that you have
been secure in the bag and now you want
to give it over to God and you want to
steward it with the right heart so he
can direct your path can’t slip it all
over this place watching online right
now watching the rebroadcast lift it up
Father in the name of Jesus come on I
believe father God that today you gave
us revelation that father that you don’t
just want us to live an okay life but
you want us to live a blessed life and
today that starts with trusting you with
what’s valuable and vulnerable God and
I’m asking you right now in the presence
of all your people that you would touch
the hearts of people who trust have been
stolen and they would get a supernatural
infusion of safety in this building to
believe you again God I’m asking you to
give us the faith of the one with five
bags in two bags not to try to get as
much as we can but just do it well over
what you put in our hands today Holy
Spirit I’m asking that you start our
surgery only inside of our heart that
will allow us to come from poverty to
live in a blessing that Cup brings us
from living our greedy life to live in a
blessed life that keeps us from living a
reserved life to live in a blessed life
I command the floodgates of generosity
are open in this church in our lives and
in our families
today card we surrender everything we’ve
been trying to secure and today we put
our trust back in you have your way in
our lives come and I thank you that we
don’t have to secure a bag because we’re
securing you in Jesus somebody thank you
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