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are you ready for the word alright let’s

go ahead we are ending our series that

we have been in called ducks in a row

how many people have been getting some

of your ducks in a row come on like

right now there’s some things you’ve

been challenged I had somebody came come

up to me before service and said I’ve

been procrastinating on starting this

business that God told me to start and

I’ve been got my ducks in a row I put my

two weeks in I’ve already started in in

the business that I’m wanting to and

already have seven clients that have

signed up already listen listen this is

the thing that I believe God is trying

to do to let you know that this whole

thing about generosity and stewardship

and and and and it’s really I need you

to hear this

it’s from a godly biblical perspective

like the reason I’m talking about this

is because most people don’t have a

biblical godly perspective on generosity

and stewardship you have a a worldly or

a bank top or a family member taught or

a we don’t been broke all of our life so

we’re just gonna be broke taught idea

about generosity and stewardship and I

had the same thing I want you to realize

that it doesn’t matter where you come

from if you don’t know something you

function in the ability of understanding

that you have and so this is not talking

about good or bad this is just talking

about understanding and when you get

understanding you get understanding from

knowledge but when knowledge becomes its

full power it turns into wisdom and

wisdom is applied knowledge so that’s

the crazy thing like people will be like

I already heard this why you still doing

a sermon on tithing are you that are you

doing it because the problem is we know

a lot of stuff but the problem with many

of us is we don’t apply what we know how

many people know you need to get in

shape oh let me just let me look people

ain’t even raising their hands she mad

over there I am like this is all I’m

telling you we everybody know we need to

get insane everybody know we need to eat

better the question is

how many of us are applying the

knowledge that we know and so my burden

as a pastor and a leader is not to teach

you stuff that makes you be like Pastor

Mike was killing that’s done I want to

teach you stuff that makes you go back

to God and say how do I need to change

this cannot be transformation Church if

you’re pacified in your dysfunction they

don’t want me to come back Charles they

didn’t want me to come back listen if

we’re pacifying ya keep doing what

you’re doing in and keep being a liar

sometimes in keep keep not honoring God

which yeah you can talk to your wife any

kind of way and yet but if what why are

we even here if this is a thing that you

do to feel better about yourself but

never transform and so the only reason

we’ve spent five weeks on this and if

you’re already doing this all this

should be every week is like thank you

Lord for changing my life thank you Lord

for allowing me to see what generosity

can do in your life thank you that’s it

all that’s all this should be but for

everybody else this should be not a

something that brings condemnation this

should be something that brings

conviction and the Holy Spirit the Bible

tells us the one who convinced Pastor

Mike is not checking people’s tithe and

records at the door nobody’s coming in

to judge anybody I just would hate for

there to be a truth that could change my

life and nobody told me and so today I

just want to I want to kind of just take

it to the next level and finish this

series um in a way that I believe will

give a clearer picture to everybody what

God wants for every single one of us

everybody said God wants this for me say

it like you mean it God wants this for

me

he wants you to get the concept of

giving so that there will be nothing he

has to hold back for you I must say it

again he wants you to get the concept of

giving so when he thinks about what am I

about to bless with too much he won’t

look past us because it would start with

us he wants you to be so blessed that

you then become the blessing and I need

some of you you some of us are so broke

and and and some of us and not even in

finances you got resources but it’s

broke here like your perspective is

broke and and what what I’m trying to

tell you I don’t care if you’re in high

school middle school I don’t care if

you’re a senior citizen I’m telling you

this is what God wants you to get

because giving is the backbone of the

entire body I can prove it to you with

probably the most famous scripture in

the Bible John 3:16 for God so loved the

world he did what he didn’t pray he gave

he didn’t prophesy he gave he didn’t

sing a worship song he did what it’s

because when you get the the muscle of

giving work in your life it becomes the

thing that is automatic and it is all

changing to your heart everybody say my

heart and this is what you got to get if

you haven’t got it giving is all about

the heart I’m telling it to you over and

over and over and we see it in Matthew

and when it talks to us about our

treasure and our heart it says to us and

we’ve said it almost in every message

but wherever your treasure is your heart

follows that thing and I started to

think about this in my own life because

people ask me I there’s no secrets of my

testimony I’ll tell it all the time cuz

I just believe in if you put it all out

there you can overcome by the blood of

the Lamb in the words of your testimony

so everybody knows I was addicted to

pornography I was a manipulator I was a

liar all of those different things and

some

he came up to me about two years ago and

asked me Pastor Mike man how did you

overcome like how did you like how did

you really like not not just like okay

I’m done with that and then you go back

to it but how was it like this is over

and I really begin to think about it

because I knew I was saved like I knew I

had been given salvation I knew that I

was accepted into the family but I

didn’t know how that thing that had been

so planted in my heart for over a decade

was going to be able to be removed from

that and then the Holy Spirit showed me

and I want to give you this roadmap it’s

kind of called an equation of treasure

and I want I want you to just see this

real quick um God told me he said when

you give your treasure when you give

your treasure it gives me access to your

heart because the your treasure and your

heart are connected

whatever your treasure is not will be

not want it to be where it is he said

there your heart is also so if you want

your treasure or your heart in the

kingdom of God your treasure needs to be

there and I said he said whatever your

treasure is then you give me access to

your heart and then when I have access

to your heart then I can transform your

habits when I transform your habits then

you live a whole life and I can honestly

say when I made a decisions to start

tithing and giving offering consistently

is when my heart gave God access to

remove the seeds of lust perversion and

all that crap out of my heart it didn’t

seem connected I thought I was gonna say

a prayer of purity pure like that’s what

I thought was gonna take it out but he

said I don’t have access to your heart

you’re saying God changed me but you

won’t even let me into your heart

because your treasure is still in other

things he said but where your treasure

is

I get access to your heart and when I

get access to your heart then I can

change everything in there and when I

can change everything in there then your

life becomes transform

some of y’all that’s what you came for

today you’ve been trying to figure out

how to get rid of anger in your heart

you’ve been trying to figure out how to

get rid of range I’m giving you the

secret when you put your treasure in a

place where God has full access I’m not

talking to your salvation but do you

know that most believers live bound and

saved like your eternity is secure but

your life is hell and what I would I

come to challenge you with is maybe

giving is a principle that could

actually change your attitude maybe

giving is the principle that can

actually take the seeds of abuse that

were in there and now it’s starting to

come out with your children and it’s not

physical yet but it’s verbal right now

and all maybe that’s the thing that

could be able to access it I’m telling

you as sure as I’m standing here that’s

when it changed for me when I made that

decision that I will always honor God it

was a byproduct that God begin to change

my heart and I desire that for every

single one of you so today I just need

to let you know I was in a time of

preparing for this message and I was

looking at scriptures that I could talk

about and I’ve studied this stuff and

probably about a year ago I went to the

probably most famous scripture about

tithing and offering and I read it and I

read it through the lens that I’d always

been reading it through and and then God

told me the title of the message that

I’m gonna give to you today but he said

it to me okay

I read this scripture in Malachi 3 we’re

going to go there in a second but but

this is what he said he said you got me

all messed up

excuse me Lord and this is how me and

God talk – he said no no no no y’all got

me all messed up and I said what do you

mean I got you all messed up he said

there are too many people that have been

using the scripture to get their agenda

done and they lost my heart and I said

okay well let me go back and read this

and how many people have heard Malachi 3

maybe you don’t know the whole thing but

have heard the scripture 10 a man Rob

God has anybody ever heard that

scripture can a man Rob God and usually

the inference of this scripture is

basically when you don’t give your tithe

and offering your robbing god of money

and so usually you hear that at offering

time is like will a man Rob God and

tithe an offering so everybody stand up

and give $100 and and put it in the pack

and God said you got me all messed up

and this time it felt offended like he

was offended and I said what do you mean

he said you’ve lost my heart and why I

want people to give and when I saw this

revelation it changed everything in my

life and I can’t wait cuz you’re going

to get this today I gotta give you the

revelation first and then we’re gonna go

back and read the scripture and see if

we do not have light bulbs go on

everywhere okay

this is what God said to me he said

Michael he said I’m not talking about

robbing me of money

he said cuz I’ve never needed your money

he said that I need your money to create

the heaven in the earth then I did I

need that I need your money to create

humans out of dirt like this was never

about me needing money he said so what I

need you to see right here when I said

don’t rob me he’s it this is what it

says and write this down don’t rob god

of an opportunity to bless you don’t rob

God of an opportunity to bless you see

when I saw that it makes the whole verse

makes sense it’s like God saying I want

to bless you man and I want to open the

windows of heaven and part a blessing

you don’t have long enough to see I

really

like to rebuke the Devourer for your

sake but because you won’t do it my way

you’re robbing me of the opportunity to

bless you so I want us to go back and I

want us to read this scripture Malachi 3

again but I’m gonna add that on the back

of it for understanding and let’s see if

we can’t get a fresh revelation of this

scripture okay

Malachi chapter 3 verse 8 it says will a

man Rob God of an opportunity to bless

him yet you have robbed me of many

opportunities to bless you but you say

wait have we robbed you of an

opportunity to bless us in tithes and

offerings what I’m trying to get you to

understand is when we don’t honor God by

returning that 10% and when we don’t

obey God whenever he says to give an

offering or bless somebody in the

parking lot or put a little extra in the

plate or do when we do that it’s like

you’re tying God’s hands behind his back

he’s like no I got all of this that I’m

ready to bless you with but ah

the first came and you played me he’s

not mad just still his child you’re not

a bad person you’re not throwing a hell

because of it but he got robbed of the

opportunity to bless you see this spins

the whole thing where everybody’s

talking about God I need my money that’s

all Testament and DA

yeah blessing is Old Testament – but

it’s New Testament – when we were

talking about the windows of heaven

being poured out God’s like yo don’t tie

my hands cuz I got sucked in that you

don’t just want but you mean but every

time you don’t do it my way

you robbed me of the opportunity to

bless you I’m gonna help you understand

it because you need to hear me say this

again

God don’t need your money cuz a lot of

people think yeah that’s the way the

church gets provided for and no excuse

me wait one second if God wants to

provide for something he’ll make ways

out of no way

ask Elijah who was in the desert with no

food

he sent Ravens every day to be the first

Eber eat do you hear what I’m saying

they dropped our food every day free Oh

y’all don’t hear me ask the children of

Israel two million of them they didn’t

have nothing to eat in the wilderness

but every morning like Dew manna food

would fall from heaven they was like

what is it and he was like what you

about to eat Eddie

he brought water from a rock if God

wants to provide for his work he don’t

need our money but what he created it

for is for every person that believes in

him that at any moment they could have

an opportunity for God to bless them

abundantly and that spins this whole

thing on his head where people are like

the church just want my money now God

wants an opportunity to bless you and

this is why look at the rest of this

this scripture right here he said when

you do it my way

good things happen but because y’all

listening to all these people who think

and I just want something from you and I

don’t want something for you and because

there have been pastors and leaders who

have manipulated for money where they at

though they don’t never last

he said because I’m over promotion and

when I see people damaging my children I

dry up their resource Oh y’all check the

records check the records did you get

somebody who does something wrong it

doesn’t repent they won’t be there for

long and on behalf of every person who’s

been in church or been manipulated for

money I want to say I am sorry because

what they did was try to rob you of a

truth that would leave your life blessed

more than the money they took from you

they took the principle from you

and if you could ever get this principle

redeemed back to you it would change the

way you see homeless people it would

change the way you see people that you

think doing good and God tells you to go

give them a hundred like they look

better than me God said this is a not

about what you think they need this is

about obedience this is about my word

being fulfilled this is about what I

want to do in your life and when we give

we give God an opportunity to bless you

but because you won’t do it my way

your curse would occurs verse 9 for

you’ve robbed me of the opportunity to

bless you even this whole nation could

we stop and talk about that that our

nation is trillions of dollars in debt

the government has been shut down two

times in the past eight months like like

our whole nation I really do believe has

gone down this path because we walked

away from the ordinary things that God

set up for everything to flourish verse

10 it says bring all the tithes into the

storehouse that is the local church it

says that there may be food in my house

and try me do you all know the only

reason we were able to give 250,000

dollars away in four weeks was because

there were people here that decided to

do it God’s Way and when they did it

God’s Way when people were in need we

didn’t have to raise an offering when

people were in need we don’t have to say

when everybody please empty your savings

account no always said is what’s the

need what can we do and we were able to

do it because of the faith of a few now

let me tell you the sad truth about this

in all churches around the world less

than seven percent of people who call

themselves Christians tithe I love you

dog you’re amazing

less out of a thousand people less than

a hundred so so what do you think when

God looks down and say man I’m always

trying to teach my kids like I keep

showing them favor when they don’t

deserve it and I and I keep blessing

them beyond measure but they did

they act like I didn’t I I’m not the one

and now our whole nation sitting up here

not being blessed look at it verse 10 it

says so all I’m asking you to do

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nation try me try me at it another

translation says let me prove it to you

the MLT version the Michal Living

Translation says I dare you matter fat i

double-dog dare and y’all know what

happens with the double dog but you know

I’m saying when when they double dog

dare you you gotta do it he’s saying I

double dog dare you to do it my way says

the Lord of Hosts see if I will not open

up the windows of heaven and pour you

out a blessing you don’t have room

enough to receive there will not be room

enough to receive it why would God give

you so much that you wouldn’t have room

enough to receive it so you could give

it away like that’s what like God wants

to bless you to the point where it’s

obnoxious to keep it and then you get to

understand what it means to be blessed

to be a blessing then he says he says

and I’ll rebuke the Devourer for who

sake it ain’t for his sake it ain’t for

the kingdom say the streets of gold did

not run out of gold like that there’s

none he said I’m doing this for your

sake he says so that that he will not

destroy the fruit of your grandma nor

shall divine failed to bear fruit for

you in the field that’s your business

your job your investment he said I want

everything you do to be bearing fruit he

says verse 12 and all the nations I love

this every nation they can’t even speak

in language but they gonna stand up and

say he is blessed

ain’t that what I say and all the

nations will stand up and call you what

bless for you will be a delightful land

says the Lord because you gave God the

opportunity to bless you we could go

home right there all I’m telling you

right now is when you don’t honor God by

returning the tithe and you don’t give

God and offering

he’s not sitting up in heaven look how I

can destroy them now it’s time to curse

them he’s like nah y’all take it back

take it back they’re not ready here

mm-hmm I thought I thought all the

things that I showed him all the crumbs

that I left them this week I thought I

thought that extra little boost that I

gave him they got it they got a bonus

they didn’t even know why they got it

like that was me trying to give them the

opportunity to allow me to bless them

they got they tax return but they gonna

go buy a big-screen okay Coco Coco Coco

and I keep coming day after day hoping

that you would realize this is not about

amounts it’s about the heart so what I

found out is that there’s levels to this

thing and what I’m encouraged to tell

you today is that whatever level you’re

on I want you to believe this all I’m

asking you to do we’re not taking no

offerings we’re not doing nothing I’m

asking you to believe that in the next

12 months

some of you it’ll start today that

you’ll be able to go to a whole nother

level in the area of generosity

everybody say another level say it like

you want to go to another level say

another level so the first level of this

thing with generosity is tithe just

write that down like like like it’s

tithe so so right here if I was I’m

saved on this level but when I really

give my life to God

I’m saying you know what I’m gonna go up

a level and I believe there’s many of

you that are gonna do this you’re gonna

say you know what tomorrow the 15th

dang why did he teach this message on

the 23rd lower but I’m gonna make good

decision then I’m gonna go to this level

of tithing

I must say I’m a step up it’s gonna be

uncomfortable do you know what I could

do with temperance it do you know how

this could but this is the thing you got

to realize that 90% with God’s blessing

is better than a hundred percent without

it and this is where I need everybody to

understand

that’s why Leviticus 27:30 says and all

the time of the land whether the seed of

the land or the fruit of the tree is the

Lord’s it’s holy to the Lord

it doesn’t take faith to give the last

10% when everything’s done with you to

paid everything it don’t take no faith

to do that’s like Oh a little bit left

over here you go guy but we learned last

week that God is only concerned about

one place in his life and that’s first

okay so so it takes faith to give the

first 10% and when you do that it is the

greatest thing that you could do cuz it

tells God hey you gotta figure this out

now

you told me to do this prove it like

this is the only time you can be ignant

with God like there’s been months where

I paid my time and I returned that thing

and I was like alright you can add right

this ain’t gonna work

oh come on let’s be honest this right

here is not gonna work so I’m gonna

prove it and I’m standing here the

scripture says it like this I was young

but now I’m old and I have never seen

the righteous forsaken

I’m telling you I God had whether it was

decrease in a bill payment or somebody

just slid me a hundred or or I

miscalculated and some I’m telling you

every month I’ve ever done this I’ve

never gone without let me clarify cuz

some of y’all don’t trip I’ve never gone

without what I needed

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do you need 300 channels cuz this is

gonna take some of y’all changing your

lifestyle to honor God do you need all

the premium channels you need the NFL

Network and the NBA like do you need

three parts you need to take a vacation

see now I’m off on your toes right now

and it’s okay it’s okay cuz we’ve all

done it

but you need your hair done every other

week oh you won’t paint your own nails

but you need $50 clothes oh hey listen I

gotta say it anyway your eyebrows has to

be Starbucks every morning some of us

are more faithful to Starbucks than

prayer oh oh let me just I should go to

the neck I should go to the next point

they think you speaking in tongues I

would like a cycle of a seat Ayala ba

latte

okay

this whole middle section mad at me I’m

sorry uh arm saying arm saying to us as

we waste the tithes anyway in a month if

we really calculate it we wasted on food

we didn’t eat we wasted on clothes we

can’t wear baby you’re a size 12 why did

you buy that for a dress I bought it in

faith get your money blessed like let’s

be honest we waste it on our own

birthday parties and cupcakes that we

didn’t need because we thought more

people are gonna come but our child

really is not that popular at the school

so we brought

[Applause]

laughs I don’t know maybe I’ll be better

next service but I just thought I would

be real this service but but come on

let’s be honest we waste the 10% anyway

what if we made a decision that god I’m

gonna honor you and when you do that

guess what you do you go up a level you

level up and this is the beautiful thing

you gotta know if you ever get to the

level of tithing the other two levels

are gonna come cuz this is the level of

the heart and some are like well I can’t

give it on from there in our if you just

stay faithful on this level you will

level up and this is the one thing that

I realized I’m about levels like there’s

levels to everything and again the

reason I’m telling you this is I’m

hoping to expose you when I was 19 years

old um we went on a trip with one of our

friends who went to college here but but

she lives somewhere else with her

parents and she was like I should come

to my house for spring break and and I

was like cool let’s go in so a few of us

went and um the funny thing was one of

the people that were going on the trip

with me was like yo they got a big old

house and I was like yeah right and the

reason I had that attitude because my

parents had five boys okay and one of

the things that I realized is that my

parents would make up economically

friendly games for us to play that would

take up a lot of hours like the game

they called that’s my house and we loved

that game called that’s my house let me

explain it to you what they would do is

put us all in a conversion van and drive

through wealthy neighborhoods with the

windows down and they would tell us to

yell that’s my house

I realize now as an adult they were just

trying to save money but but we used to

do that so we had gone through very

wealthy neighborhoods huge gated

neighborhoods and we’ll be yelling

that’s my house that’s not so I thought

I had seen the levels of homes like

thought there was levels I thought I’d

been exposed and so we get down and we

go we drive to this house and we pull up

to this compound that’s the only way I

can describe it the driveway was four

and a half miles long when we pulled up

in front of the house was a limousine

covered that means they don’t drive it

we pulled around to the side of the

house there was a nine car garage with

chandeliers in the garage and wallpaper

[Laughter]

we looked over and there was a two-car

garage off the two-story master bedroom

suite this the master bedroom suite was

10,000 square feet I need everybody to

just hear what I just said so I’m

looking at this house I said what in the

world

I mean look physically like I was just

like you know when it just takes over

you and so I asked I said where are we

staying she said y’all staying out back

I said uh-uh slavery is over

we ain’t staying in the house man I’m

going out she said she said no no she

said no when my parents built this house

they built for 1,800 square foot homes

in the backyard from when guests came

it’s right past the Olympic sized pool

[Laughter]

they had a ballroom that seats five

hundred people on the west wing of the

house the west wing why are you telling

us this person might cuz I learned from

this moment that if you see a new level

it can shatter everything that was there

previously what I’m playing for you

today it’s that as you get the faith to

step up to a new level that it would

shatter every inch of poverty every inch

of lack every inch of greed every inch

of selfishness that we would be a church

that would be blessed to be a blessing I

get somebody to give God a shout of

praise in this play

yes you’re going to another level okay

okay

so once we go to the first level a tithe

and then you go to the next level oh

this next level level two is giving

offerings see if you start at this level

and you start tithing then God will say

hey put an extra ten dollars in there

Lauren what is that bout to do it’s

about to multiply see because God is not

a God of addition he’s the God of

multiplication he don’t want to just add

to you

he wants to multiply you I can

paraphrase it for you best if you look

in Luke chapter 9 verses 10 through 17

but long story short um this was

probably theologians believe the largest

crowd Jesus ever spoke to and um it’s

it’s chronicled in the Bible as the

miracle of 5,000 the fish in the rose

but what ended up happening at this

moment is that Jesus is preaching um

start at 9 o’clock ten o’clock twelve

o’clock one o’clock four o’clock five

o’clock six o’clock seven o’clock and

he’s still preaching literally the

disciples was like y’all when is bro

about to stop preaching I’ll prove it to

you right now look what it says in verse

12 it says when the day begin to wear

away let me tell you what that means in

Hebrew when the day begin to wear away

the twelve came to him and said hey

Jesus yo we probably need to send the

multitudes away there’s a lot of people

so they can go into the town and get

some chick-fil-a and get some Church’s

Chicken because you know ain’t no

lodging and provision here there there’s

no provision in this desert place that’s

what a lot of us complain about not at

this job and this place I’ll never be

able to get my need met but look what

Jesus says he said cuz we’re in a desert

place is what the disciples said verse

13 um okay cool

well then you give them something to eat

they see you crazy brah I just said that

we need to let them go because we’re in

a desert place I don’t have enough and

we need to let them go find food he said

no no in this desert place I want to

make you the blessing okay let me go

talk to the other disciples and see what

we can get going guys we have a problem

what’s going on Bren was gonna um Jesus

um he said he said that we need to feed

all these people

what well we we don’t have anything and

doesn’t that sound like us God why would

you ask me to give anymore I don’t have

nothing to give I’m in this desert job

I’m in this desert season of my life I’m

in this thing where we’re barely making

it ourselves we’re hungry

the real reason we want you to stop

talking so we can go get something to

eat let alone feed somebody else hey

said okay and I think like my holy

imagination I see this thing in movies

I feel like Peter was it’s like if y’all

ain’t gonna eat fine me imma eat and he

sees a little boy walking with the Long

John Silver snack pack to fish and five

hush puppies and he’s like Pomerleau boy

on the set I’ll bet you better not say

nut

disciple anyway I don’t know but he

steals his Long John snack pack takes a

bite of it and it was like man this is

all we have and somebody said that’s it

go tell Jesus we tried we tried to do it

his way but this is all we have that’ll

work

he goes and tells them oh Jesus we have

no more look at it in verse 13 we have

no more than five well four and a half

hush puppies you know Peter had two fish

and then they get sarcastic unless you

want to stick unless you want us to go

buy food for these people for there were

about 5,000 men there most theologians

believe it was about twenty five

thousand people because they only

counted the min but their wives were

there too plus about three to four

children per capita okay look so about

25 thousand people are we gonna fit and

doesn’t doesn’t literally that make

sense if there’s twenty five thousand

people to fish four and a half hush

puppies that doesn’t make sense

tithing doesn’t make sense like like

offering doesn’t make sense okay but

watch what happens look what Jesus says

obviously we would think Jesus would say

okay great send everybody home then he

said to his disciples great make them

all sit down in groups of 50 basically

what he was saying is all you have is

all you need at the job you’re at you

can’t I then give off me on the

disability your own all you have is all

you need and he made them sit the people

down in groups of 50 so they did that

and made them sit down let me give you

just a point that’s not here they had to

organize what what they had even though

they didn’t have enough and so many of

us when it comes to our finances we

don’t even we’ve been in debt so long or

been so frustrated with stuff we don’t

even organize what we have and God made

them put these 25 thousand people in

groups of 50 because he was about to do

a mirror

and I’m just encouraging you some of you

need to find out the numbers you need

you need to find out what it would take

for you to actually pay your car off you

need to figure out what you need to

allow them student loans to go bye-bye

I know you’re not supposed to pay it off

until the year 2050 eight I know that

but I need you to find out and I need

you to figure because if we could get

organized with what we have I believe

that God can do a miracle do I have

anybody in the place that has faith to

believe it so I got a speed through this

because I need you to hear this and the

reason I’m giving you so much passion

with this is because when I figured it

out it changed me look what Jesus did

then he took the five loaves and the two

fish and he looked up to heaven he

blessed it that’s the time he broke it

and then he gave it back to them for the

disciples to set it before the people or

to give it away

now can you get a picture of this

think about your paycheck that’s the

loaves in the fish you say here you go

God I’m returning my 10% he breaks it

and doesn’t give you the whole thing

back he gives you a portion of it back

90% but it’s blessed and then he says

now go give some of it away offering now

God you already took yours he said none

of them again you gave me back what what

what happened what was mine but now I

need you to be my hands and feet and I

need you to go bless somebody or

something else I want you to see the key

to this miracle that I missed for the

entire time until a year ago I always

thought the miracle of multiplication

happened in Jesus’s hand like I thought

it started multiplying in Jesus’s

hanging because that’s how everybody

tells it but the miracle happened in the

disciples hands as they gave it away now

I want you to see this

I bet Peter went up with the first

appears it’s like take just a little

take just a little

I said take just a little yo greedy but

and he gets down to one last crumb the

thing that’s not gonna be enough

and he says tape go ahead and at the

moment he gave it away it grew in his

hands how did I get that promotion how

did how did they send me money back

at this how did take song take song and

as the miracle kept happening I think he

got confident ha ha yo a red bread on

tap why it was because the same guy who

made it go from a little bit and

multiplying it it’s the same God that

would continue to multiply it but what

would have happened what would have

happened if they would have ate the

bread what God blessed it and then they

just ate it all it would have never

multiplied why are you saying level up

pass somebody because if you start

tithing when you give offering you give

everything you give a chance to multiply

ok pass the mic so what’s the last if

it’s time is offering this last level

that I’m putting in that everybody gets

to is sacrificial offerings these are

the offerings that hurt these are the

offerings that you don’t that you don’t

think oh that was nice this is the

offering that you might be like oh oh

god did I just do that when you look at

any significant great man or woman in

the Bible they got to level 3 when we

think about David David gave the

equivalent of 20 will 21 billion dollars

to the tabernacle he would never see

built his son Solomon who was gonna see

it built when it was customary to

sacrifice one bull when you became King

Solomon sacrificed the 1,000 extravagant

gift there was a woman who anointed

Jesus his feet with the years worth of

oil it was an extravagant gift even some

of the disciples like why don’t we just

take that and give it to the poor and

Jesus say y’all better shut up cuz this

is the only anointing I will have before

I’m crucified there was another woman

that the most sacrificial gift the

extravagant it’s not about our mounts it

was two mites and all these people were

coming into what they called the

synagogue at the time and they were they

were giving money and people were in

there making it rain dropping the

hundreds of thousands and company with a

Gucci coats and everything like this and

this woman came in with two lights ding

ding and Jesus said hey pray disciples

come here did y’all see did y’all see

that

that woman right there just gave more

than everybody here because she didn’t

give out of her abundance

she gave from her heart and gave out of

her need what this woman did right here

will be spoken of forever see what I

know it seems cute for us to just be a

church that all together we gave two

hundred and fifty thousand dollars but

what happens when God challenges you to

do something

last year God challenged me he told me

straight up he said Michael you want to

live the blessed life and you want your

church to live the blessed life I said

yes sir he said you’re gonna have to go

first

I said what’d that mean he said wait on

me I’ll tell you that’s scary right

before I got it to speak he told me to

give $1,200 to a lady that’s in the

audience right now after she had given

$10 an offering for an entire year and I

saved every one of those envelopes and I

gave it back to her and I gave her $100

for every ten she gave broke down crying

snot and weave about the fall off it was

great and I was like god I did it he

said you did it once you ready to do it

again I don’t know commotion we’d be

real I do not know he said I want you to

give your land rover away my what you

mean the black-on-black Land Rover with

the rims and I just finished paying off

three months cook Oh Lord

he said yeah he said you bought that car

when you shouldn’t have and my grace

allows you to be able to pay for

something that you got out of season

Oh y’all want to talk real and he said

and you’ve been flossing and fly he said

that’s my car it’s not yours or it can

be yours and you hold back what I’m

about to do oh well when you put it like

that I’m supposed to say I called a

young man that’s me was serving here and

riding the bus to work called him up I

was like hey bro here’s your new car he

started crying I started crying

I wouldn’t happy for him I was hurt and

what that did is another person in our

church found out what I was doing

because I was trying to keep it secret

and there was like me and my wife we’ve

been thinking we need to give our car

away too and so then another young man

in that same service got a car given to

him by somebody and it was like cuz

generosity is contagious oh you didn’t

know that like when we start doing stuff

it’s contagious and so the crazy thing

is I gotta tell you part two of the

story okay

I’m gonna ask y’all please leave right

after the service cuz I’m so over on

time but I haven’t preached until we

just get out of here and come back next

week okay I just got to get this out so

what ended up happening was for seven

months I didn’t have a vehicle somebody

came up to me and was like passing life

what you bout to give I said this Honda

honesty that we already have is about to

be our only vehicle I didn’t do this as

a stunt I did it cuz God was challenging

me seven months no vehicle we we got out

of that Odyssey on date night like wha

look at my wife she bad sliding doors

like it was killing August comes around

and I was like lord I need to kind of

get an A and B car cuz my kids going to

school and I’ve been walking to church

to the office and I had no problem with

it but now it’s getting a little nippy

and HUS like Lord can I you know just

get a little a and B so I put it out

there like yo I’m gonna get this a

little three four thousand dollar

beautiful this is pastor Michael taught

the pastor of your church this is

thousands of people like God don’t care

about none and a he cares about your

heart so I’m walking to work I’m getting

rides from people and literally God said

he said about the bless you okay cool

whatever you gonna do AG I heard about

it and it was like yo bro oh I heard you

looking for a car I got a used car lot

why don’t you come down and I’ll hook

you up I was like for real he’s like

yeah and I was like uh could you come

get me

no yeah I am I can’t make this stuff up

come get me he pulled up to the house in

this killing Mercedes like it was nasty

a black Mercedes Mercedes now he’s like

ha man it’s not mine I was like who let

you drive their Mercedes that is yours

and threw me the keys to this Mercedes

like messed up I was like are you

serious

he said yeah took me down to the car

dealership wrote a big zero on it put a

slash in the middle and say here you go

now

now nobody can convince me cuz that’s

never happened to me before nobody can

convince me that those two things

weren’t directly connected

because I went from tithing to offering

too extravagant offer and God said you

can never beat me kid but do you know

the crazy thing about the whole story as

soon as that man handed me the keys to

the car God said and you’ll give this

one away too

and earlier this weekend I did the same

thing now listen now listen I just

handed it to somebody because God says

I’ll always give seed to the sower we

back to the Honda Odyssey again it’s oh

good cuz I’ve seen God do it and he’s

gonna do it y’all better somebody

somebody needs to help me right now we

serve a God of multiplication we serve a

God who wants us to be blessed so we can

be a blessing staying it all over this

place the only reason I’m sharing this I

didn’t bring the person up or make a

spectacle out of it because that’s

supposed to be done in private I’m just

trying to tell you I’m not talking to

you about something I’m trying to lead

you into something this church will be

blessed your life will be blessed your

businesses will be blessed your families

will have legacy you will leave more

than just good words for your children’s

guilty

but it starts with us realizing that

there’s levels to this three weeks ago I

preached I told this story at another

church in Tennessee

pastor Taverner Smith that’s my brother

I just told the story same passion same

conviction the pastor came up at the end

of the story

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and you know you could tell when people

don’t normally cry of this extra ugly

he’s extra ugly crying and he said he

said I didn’t know what you were gonna

preach phone cuz usually guest speakers

they can literally preach on whatever

they want but God told me to preach on

levels and go into another level

financially he said God told me earlier

this week I was supposed to give my

truck away it’s the first time he ever

told me I’m supposed to give my car away

and then you get up on my platform and

talk about giving a car way and God

literally said to me are you gonna

ignore me during the service he had some

guys clean his truck out and a single

mother in their church he brought her up

at the end of service and handed her the

keys to a cold-blooded black-on-black

Tahoe and said god bless you that woman

broke down crying he broke down crying

the church erupted because generosity is

contagious what I’m what I’m hoping

starts in our church is an eruption of

generosity what I’m hoping happens to

your family

it’s an eruption of generosity oh but it

gets better I leave town he texts me not

even 24 hours later and said OMG he said

somebody pulled up to the church in a

brand-new white Tahoe left the keys and

said thank you for leading us faster now

cut off her top it gets better

five people that week gave away cars

from their church cuz generosity isten

can we give God some praise right now

they are

you we’re going up levels we’re going up

levels if you believe it why don’t you

give God a shout of praise in this place

hey listen you’re responsible for what

you heard it may not be a car maybe a

watch it may be it may be something you

really like and God said is that yours

or is it mine the earth is the Lord’s

and the fullness there when you catch

this it changes everything I want to

pray for you right now hands lifted all

over this place thank you for giving us

the opportunity to not rob you God

by us honoring you with the tithe and

giving offering we trust you today that

all condemnation is gone but father

there would be a conviction that we

would believe you and trust you like

never before I speak to all doubt and

every lie and every fear of trusting you

and I declare by the power of God that

this church would erupt in generosity

that father we would honor you at the

time that we would give when you say and

father when you call us to that special

moment of extravagant offerings that we

would listen and obey have your way in

transformation Church in transformation

nation this is your church and we will

live our blessed life in Jesus name if

you believe it give God the biggest

shadow friend

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