[SPEAKER_00]: This is Dr. Darrell Hall, and I want to welcome you to the way community church podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for joining us today.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are bringing a conclusion to our finance series called Trusted Shoes, and I am so excited to welcome our guest today, Pastor Jeff Reed Johnson-Singer.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the legacy pastor of Eastern Star Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, and he is coming to us today to help us close this series on money.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you can follow along in the transcript of this podcast or join us on the Bible app, let's study guys work together with our guest preacher, Pastor Jeffrey Johnson Singer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen to what that night, verse of the third chapter of Book of Proverbs says, honor the Lord with your possessions and with the first fruits of all your injuries.
[SPEAKER_01]: So your barns will be filled with plenty and your vats will overflow with
[SPEAKER_01]: new one.
[SPEAKER_01]: A man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to preach about living in the overflow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe seated in the presence of God living in the overflow.
[SPEAKER_01]: I actually wanted to call this full barns and overflow in that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because that's the promise in verse 10 that you're going to have full barns,
[SPEAKER_01]: and that your vats will overflow with new wine.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Solomon who's writing this, and the people who would read this are actually agricultural people, these are farmers.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you start talking to them about full barns and overflowing vats.
[SPEAKER_01]: They know exactly what you're talking about.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I know you're not farmers, so let me see you back and explain what it means to have full farms.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know you've read Malachi chapter three.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's what the Word of God says that when you bring your time into the storehouse that God will open the windows of heaven and pour you out of blessing that you don't have room enough to receive it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And for farmers that when they get through with their hard work, clearing that field and power and planning to see that hard work the farmers do, God said, I'm going to open the windows of heaven and pour you out of blessing.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is a blessing to a farmer?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's rain.
[SPEAKER_01]: So God says when the rain from heaven touches your hard work on earth, you're going to have such a harvest you won't have room enough to receive it.
[SPEAKER_01]: When they receive their harvest, when they receive their crops, where would they keep them, where would they store them?
[SPEAKER_01]: They will put them in barns.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the promise in Proverbs 3 and 10, no matter how many barns you have, no matter how big your barns are, your barns are going to be fooled.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when it talks about batch, your batch will overflow with new wine.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's exactly what it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Actually, it's a press that, both words, should be a part of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a press that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It comes in two parts.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when they go and harvest their grapes and they bring the grapes in, they put them in the top part.
[SPEAKER_01]: They put it in the press.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because that's what they're going to do with the grapes.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to press them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to crush them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to stomp on them and step on them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then there is a conduit that leads to the bottom part, and the bottom part is called a back.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the container that catches the new wine.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what he's saying is, here's the promise.
[SPEAKER_01]: No matter how big your fat is, it's not going to level off.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to overflow with new wine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all, wine, it's not going to be a good wine.
[SPEAKER_01]: is, is that which is, is healing.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's some therapeutic powers to why.
[SPEAKER_01]: This way, the Apostle Paul told Tim, if they take a little wine for your stomach sick.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's some healing properties in wine.
[SPEAKER_01]: But wine also represents prosperity.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because you're going to have an overflow.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then wine also represents celebration and joy.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's said, you don't have to walk around here all
[SPEAKER_01]: and discontented and indespaired that God is going to give you a overflow of joy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the old preacher said, this joy I have, world didn't give it to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the world can't take it away.
[SPEAKER_01]: God is going to have us living in the overflow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Too many people live in the realm of just enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just enough for food, just enough for clothing, just enough to pay rent, just enough to pay your mortgage, just enough to pay your insurance, living in a realm of just enough, living from paycheck to paycheck.
[SPEAKER_01]: More than 60% of the people who live in the United States of America live from paycheck to paycheck.
[SPEAKER_01]: One out of every three people who make at least $250,000 a year, third, live from paycheck to paycheck.
[SPEAKER_01]: Justin, I came this a day on the job, because you got to get that chair.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't go make it if I don't get that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, some living the realm of Justin though, some living the realm of not enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: More than likely, I'm preaching to somebody right now that don't have enough to get your ends to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to let you know there's another realm.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the realm of more than enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're all the promises of God, or yes, and a man in price, which means this promise that God is making you in Proverbs chapter 3, verse 10, your bond's full, your vets overflowing, I already know your question, since that's the promise to me from God, then where are my
[SPEAKER_01]: Because if you and I are not careful, we'll try to skip the first nine verses of Proverbs 3 and jump in the verse 10.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you're not careful when you do that, when you just pull a verse out like that, you start taking it out of context.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a context that it's in.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when you start taking verses, just script your out of context.
[SPEAKER_01]: You'll try to stand on promises that don't belong to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if my bones are empty and my bats are dry,
[SPEAKER_01]: And all the promises of God are yesterday, man, I got to ask God what is going on with this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because some promises, you're unconditional.
[SPEAKER_01]: God will give you a promise that's unconditional.
[SPEAKER_01]: Says it, he allows the sun, the shine, on the chest as well as the sun, just.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're gonna do what you're being righteous.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're gonna do what you're being ashamed.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're gonna be a deal with the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can be hellish, and God's deal will let his sun shine on you.
[SPEAKER_01]: just and unjust because it's an unconditional promise.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then there are some promises of God that have a condition attached to them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jesus said, here's the condition.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you abide in me and my word abide in you, that's the condition, here's the promise.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can ask what you want, and it'll be done unto you.
[SPEAKER_01]: but you got to meet the condition.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what is the condition that I need to meet to make sure I'm living in the overflow?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's, and I'm gonna read this to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go to verse one, I didn't read that to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me read it, verse one out of proper three.
[SPEAKER_01]: My son do not forget my law, but let your heart keep my commands.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, in the days and long life, and peace, they will add to you, let not mercy and truth forsake you, bind them around your neck, right them on the tablet of your heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look at the condition.
[SPEAKER_01]: That says his law, his command, is talking about the Word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, don't forget God's Word.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to remember.
[SPEAKER_01]: So here's what you're going to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to make sure that you got God's Word in your head.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that you can remember and you won't forget it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can recall it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can replay it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can rehearse it so that now God's Word is in your head.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it talks about his Word being in your heart, write it on the tablet of your heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's not just in my head, but I got God's Word.
[SPEAKER_01]: in my heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now watch this, because if you're not careful, you'll try to get God's wealth in your hand in verse 10, but you won't get his word in your head and in your heart in the earlier verses.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's what man you got saying you said, you can take the dollar, put it in the devil's hand, he'll spend it wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: So God is saying, why would I take my wealth and put it in the hand of somebody that won't put my word in their heart?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because what's going on to happen is you go spend it wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I want to make sure, and when you get, when you start getting God's word and your head, you start getting God's word in your heart, it is such a blessed benefit to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is amazing what's going to happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: And one of the things that's going to happen is the benefit is emotional and psychological.
[SPEAKER_01]: I read it to you in verse two, it says, you're going to have peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: You will not be running around all emotionally distorted.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because God's Word is going to give you emotional and psychological peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it doesn't just give you peace, but it talks about inverse four.
[SPEAKER_01]: It blesses you spiritually.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because you're going to have the favor of God in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: It blesses you spiritually.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're this wide.
[SPEAKER_01]: You accept that Jesus as your personal savior, you believe Jesus down across, you believe God raised you from the dead, and Jesus has moved into your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now you have the favor of God, that's spiritual blessing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he didn't just say the favor of God, but it says, and humanity.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the word of God blesses you socially as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm blessed spiritually, I'm blessed socially, psychologically,
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm hadn't God's word and my head in my heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: And verse 8 said, it's going to bring health to your body.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it blesses you physically.
[SPEAKER_01]: Somebody has suggested that our minds and our bodies are so closely related that they catch each other's diseases.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when I get God's word, I'm blessed physically.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm blessed psychologically.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm blessed emotionally.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is holistic in what God begins to do in our lives.
[SPEAKER_01]: My mother was a, let me do it like this before I get to my mother.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's what Paul says, the Apostle Paul says about the Word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, the Word of God is like milk.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you need to sincere milk of the Word.
[SPEAKER_01]: Word of God is like meat that you need to make sure that you get the sustenance that comes to the meat of God's Word.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when you internalize the word of God, you've got to do your head at heart, it's like milk, it strengthens you, it's like meat, it sustains you, it's like medicine, it sues you, it heals you.
[SPEAKER_01]: But milk, meat and medicine don't do nothing until you internalize it.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you just keep your milk in a refrigerator, it ain't gonna help you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Keep your meat in the freezer, it won't do anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: keep your medicine in the cabinet, nothing happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when you internalize it, that's when it starts making a difference.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, my mom was a surgical nurse for more than 40 years.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's in glory now.
[SPEAKER_01]: My mom was a surgical nurse and even as a youngster, always wondered, how does the medicine know where to go when it gets in your body?
[SPEAKER_01]: I used to think I was an athlete, so whatever the season was, that the professionals were playing, if it's baseball season, we play baseball.
[SPEAKER_01]: If it's basketball season, we went to the park and played basketball.
[SPEAKER_01]: If it's football season, we did that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so sometimes I would come back and my arm gets hurt from playing basketball.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or I hurt my head from playing football.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hurt my leg.
[SPEAKER_01]: And no matter what, mother would give me the same aspirin.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I take to aspirin, and so one time it helps my arm.
[SPEAKER_01]: I take to aspirin the next time, it heals my leg.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take to aspirin the next time, it heals my head.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I ask my mother, how does the medicine know where to go?
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's what she told me.
[SPEAKER_01]: That when you internalize the medicine, it goes throughout your entire body.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the part of your body that is hurting is the part that gets to healing.
[SPEAKER_01]: When Pastor Hall stands up to preach the Word of God, the entire body of Christ is blessed by that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And whatever part of the body of Christ is diseased, y'all know what disease is.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is diseased.
[SPEAKER_01]: is when your body is not functioning the way God designed for the function.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when there's a part of the body of Christ, it's not doing what God wants it to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you internalize the, so it might be family for somebody over here.
[SPEAKER_01]: It might be friendship for somebody over here.
[SPEAKER_01]: It might be fitness for somebody over here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Somebody's heard to financially over here.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when you get that word in you, whatever part is hurting is the part that gets to help.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do I have any witnesses in there?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why we got to get in the Word of God and listen what it says in verse five and six.
[SPEAKER_01]: Trust in the Lord with all your heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lean out to the light and don't understanding.
[SPEAKER_01]: In all your ways, acknowledge Him and He'll make your past great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Watch what it says.
[SPEAKER_01]: That you have to acknowledge Him in all your ways.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Word, acknowledge is a compound word.
[SPEAKER_01]: Two words to make up one, acknowledge comes from act and knowledge.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because some of us, we hear God's Word, we love, we love, we love here and pastor.
[SPEAKER_01]: First, we love his preaching, we love his teaching.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we hear that's the knowledge of God, the problem is we don't act on the knowledge.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can't just hear it, you've got to act, you've got to acknowledge it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's when it starts making a difference in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you start taking the word of God seriously, I was invited to do a revival in the part of a revival in Dallas, Texas.
[SPEAKER_01]: Friendship with church, great church, past pretty aims.
[SPEAKER_01]: doing a wonderful job there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so he had three night revival and I was on for one of the nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I went a day early because I wanted to hear Pastor Maurice Watson preach.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great preachers.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I went day early.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pastor Maurice Jackson at Ohio was singing every night.
[SPEAKER_01]: What a wonderful gift he has.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I go, we go to hear Pastor Maurice Watson preach and Pastor Maurice Jackson saying, so after church was over, we had a wonderful experience.
[SPEAKER_01]: At the church was over, now we're going to eat.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ask the Marries Jackson.
[SPEAKER_01]: He rides with me, those when I go to Dallas, I always rent a Mustang convertible, so.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just like the way the wind feels blowing through my hair.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I rented this candy-red apple, Mustang convertible, black interior with a black drop top.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Jack jumps in the car with me.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get ready to go heat with Freddy Haines and Marries Washington, he rode another vehicle.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when we've got finish eating, we get back to the hotel, and I leave my Bible in the glove box, because I'm gonna get up early in the morning to go to Bachman Lake, so I can pray and try to memorize my message that I'm gonna preach.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I leave the Bible in the glove box.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next morning, I get up early in the morning, and I call downstairs to the ballet people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Please bring my car around.
[SPEAKER_01]: They say, yes, Mr. Johnson, I rush downstairs, because I wanna see that candy-read apple.
[SPEAKER_01]: Black drop top, black interior, I want to see when they bring that car around, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And they brought it around.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're a little good too.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they give it to me, I jump in and when I get in the car, I see some sunglasses in there which I don't wear sunglasses.
[SPEAKER_01]: I see a scarf in there, I didn't bring any scarves and I see a cell phone in the car.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that ain't my cell phone, and I think what maybe Pastor Jackson left his cell phone in here last night, I know that ain't the case.
[SPEAKER_01]: He would have called my room and came and got that phone last night.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm so I'm seeing things in here that shouldn't be in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a beautiful ride, but there's some stuff in here that ain't for me, it ain't mine.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so now, I mean, it looks just like mine, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So I remember I left my Bible in the glove box so I opened the glove box.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when I saw what in the word in it, I got out of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yo, I don't care how good something looks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Somebody ought to help me preach this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't care how good it looks.
[SPEAKER_01]: If they ain't no word in it, look at somebody tell them, get out of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I want to make sure I'm meeting the criteria.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got the word in my head.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got it in my heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm internalizing God's word.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you get down to the verse.
[SPEAKER_01]: I read to you to start this off.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's verse nine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because if my barns are empty, and my baths are dry, it may be because I didn't honor the Lord with my substance.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Lord there, that's Jehovah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Jehovah is the covenant making covenant keeping God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jehovah is the God that makes promises and keeps promises.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jehovah, that's when you can fest with your Mount that Jesus is Lord, you believe in your heart, God raised Jesus from the day at that very moment, you became a child of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jesus became your Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: And here's what it says, you and I ought to do is we ought to honor the Lord with our substance.
[SPEAKER_01]: That word, honor there, it literally means honorarium.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all, when you read when you possible wrote to Timothy, and here's what he told Timothy, he said, the man of God that labor is in the word and doctrine is worthy of a double honor.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is what it says.
[SPEAKER_01]: Men and women of God, who labor in the Word of God is worthy of a double honor.
[SPEAKER_01]: That means honorarium, and an honorarium is a pay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pastor Daryl Hall is worth a double pay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all do know he labor in the Word.
[SPEAKER_01]: and the doctrine, he's worthy of a double pay, a double honorarium.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why the old preacher, the old preacher when he talked about tithing, he would say, pay your tithe.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know why he says, pay your tithe?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because it belongs to God, and it is an honorarium.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you honor the, you pay the Lord with your King James Version, with your substance.
[SPEAKER_01]: New King James Version, honor the Lord with your possessions, new in the National Version, honor the Lord with your wealth, the contemporary English version says, honor the Lord by giving him money.
[SPEAKER_01]: The message translation says, honor the Lord out of everything you own.
[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all not getting this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because somebody said, well, all these different translations
[SPEAKER_01]: So somebody's thinking, that's why I'll read the Bible because all these different translations, and I'm not sure which one is right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which is right, is it substance, is it possession, is it wealth, is it money, is it what I own, which one is right, all of them right, all of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pascal teaches us that the Old Testament was written in Hebrew.
[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all, you and I don't read Hebrew.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't speak in Hebrew, so God had somebody to translate the Hebrew Scriptures into English so we can understand it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so these different English translations talk about substance, it talks about money, it talks about possession, well, it's all right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's something else you'll pass to tells us that when you're trying to interpret a scripture
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to make sure you're getting what the original writer intended.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why you can't just go grab a web-sustiction area.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need a Bible dictionary so you can get exactly what the original writer intended to write intended to say.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so when you look at this word substance out of the Hebrew, literally what it means is
[SPEAKER_01]: with a nut.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if my barns are empty and my bass are dry, I have to ask myself, Jeffrey Johnson, did you give a nut?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because if I give a nut, the promise is, that my barns are going to be full.
[SPEAKER_01]: My bats are going to overflow.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I give a nut, the promise is I'm moving into the ram of the overflow.
[SPEAKER_01]: None of this just barely making it.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm getting to the overflow.
[SPEAKER_01]: already know your question.
[SPEAKER_01]: How do I know if I'm given enough?
[SPEAKER_01]: Malachi Chapter three already quoted it for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Malachi Chapter three.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bring the tide.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're not bringing a tide, you ain't given enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, well you're getting quiet up in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: The tide, you give 10% of your increase.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what a tide is.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's 10%.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when I bring a tenth of my entries, when I bring a tide, then I'm saying to God, God, I recognize the whole thing is yours.
[SPEAKER_01]: The earth is the Lord, the fullness there, the world and the day that you are there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the whole thing is yours.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to demonstrate that I realize is all yours by bringing you 10% of my increase.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when you do that, God will open the windows of heaven.
[SPEAKER_01]: for you out of blessing, and you won't have room enough to receive it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pastor James Anthony Jackson pastors in India, and I, in my fact, we, our church helped plant that church, and Jack Burst came to town.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was on staff at our church as my preaching assistant.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he talks about how he went to this car wash.
[SPEAKER_01]: He pulls up at the car wash.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's one of those, where you get out the car goes through automatically, and then you go inside to have to pay, and then you pick your car up at the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, when he goes in to pay, there's a few vending machines there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's a man that's beating up one of the vending machines.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's punching it, he's crushing it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's cursing the Vending Machine.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's frustrated, he's mad, and Jack walks up to him and says, why are you beating up this Vending Machine?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one of those Vending Machine machines that had fruit juice, that you could see the fruit juice.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you could see the grape juice, the apple juice, or you could see the juice.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the man said, well, I put my money in this machine and I pushed the right button, but they're not
[SPEAKER_01]: I put my money in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I'm beating it and pushing on it because I know they have it because I can see it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I can't get to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Jack said he asked the man, well how much did you put in there?
[SPEAKER_01]: So the man told him how much he put in, Jack said, pass, I went in my pocket and I pulled out one dime.
[SPEAKER_01]: I took that one dime and put it in the vending machine and push the one button he'd been cutting out and beating on and the juice came out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I said, Jack, you mean to tell me this man was a dime short?
[SPEAKER_01]: You mean to tell me all this frustration and anger and fighting and fussing and fussing and fussing?
[SPEAKER_01]: He could have avoided all of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: If he had just gotten up off that dime,
[SPEAKER_01]: I think y'all know where I'm going with this.
[SPEAKER_01]: So somebody you all frustrated and mad and dusted and fussing because you see other people with certain blessings, but your bones are empty.
[SPEAKER_01]: It may be you a dime short.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know I got a witness in here somewhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you bring the tide, God will do what he said.
[SPEAKER_01]: He will do.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then it says this, I'm gonna honor the Lord with enough in this and first fruits.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what it says.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm on and on the Lord with another, and first fruits.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then after that, you move into the overflow, because that's where God wants His offering from.
[SPEAKER_01]: First fruits.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's what some people say.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pass with three years in chairhood in the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pass with 37 years in Indianapolis.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've heard every every story, every excuse on why somebody won't
[SPEAKER_01]: And they'll say things like, I pay my rent, I pay my mortgage, I pay my car payment, I pay my insurance, I have to buy the kids' food and clothes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't have anything left over.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good, those guys don't want your leftovers.
[SPEAKER_01]: God wants first fruits.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you all listening to this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Now let me explain what first fruit is because I've heard so many pasts and preaches talk about first fruit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they had all kind of ideas about first fruit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you what the original writers meant in the scripture.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we can understand first fruits because these are farmers, they're agricultural people.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they're not farmers like in the 20th century with advanced technology and planes flying over and fertilize in the land and all these tractor.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have all that.
[SPEAKER_01]: What they would do is they would because this hard work They would clear their field nothing got a plow the field and so they get behind this plow that has two donkeys or it has two oxen
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have both one donkey and one oxen, because you don't want to be unequally yoke together.
[SPEAKER_01]: I ain't got to have the books.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they're behind these oxen in his plow, and so they come out to the land, and they plow and plant here, then he gets dark.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they come back the next day, they plow and plant here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then he gets dark, next day they plow and plant.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next day, so forth and so on, they plow and plant.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now is time for the harvest.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now the crops come in, the fruit comes in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wits fruit, do you think, is going to come up first?
[SPEAKER_01]: the one that was planted first.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why they call it first fruits.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where God wants His offering from at a first fruits.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, need to understand something because when you talk about tithing and giving, it is about faith, not just finance.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is about finance, but you bring 10% of your inquiry.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's not just about finance.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's about faith, because some of us got trust issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: How do you know it's about faith?
[SPEAKER_01]: Cause when my burst fruit comes up, if I give God the time out of my burst fruit, what happens if a drought comes in?
[SPEAKER_01]: If a dry spell comes and the rest of the crops out planet don't come up cause we're experiencing a famine, a drought came in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's what God says, a drought ain't gonna come in.
[SPEAKER_01]: You won't have a dry season, because if you bring me the tide out of your first fruits,
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna open the went y'all and get none of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna open the windows of heaven and pour you out rain from heaven on your heartwork on earth and you won't have room enough to receive everything I'm gonna give you because your barns are going to be food.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a matter of faith.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a matter of trusting God in this area.
[SPEAKER_01]: My fact, y'all do know you can give your way out of debt.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't learn how to manage money until I was 27 years old.
[SPEAKER_01]: My wife and I, in May, it would be 40 years of us being married.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, when we got married, when we got married, it wasn't the pursuit of the same till death through you part.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said to death, do you part.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because my wife brought all this debt, credit card debt, and she brought school on debt and all that, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I brought the same thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we didn't marry with all this debt.
[SPEAKER_01]: Back then, the number one reason for divorce in the United States was money, and not always not having it, just not knowing what to do with what you have.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so it brought challenges into our relationship, into our merit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I heard a pass of 10 winners.
[SPEAKER_01]: And my wife and I, we both went to some Preja Conference, and he told a class for an hour and a half on Dead 3 Living.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the first time anybody had ever told me how to manage money.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was 27 on my second church.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now how am I going to do a church, a church budget?
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't eat, but is it my own money?
[SPEAKER_01]: And so it was all messed up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then we hear the principles that we learn.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's where we learn.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got to work.
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to get out of debt, you've got to work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, y'all are saying, I know you're trying to find it.
[SPEAKER_01]: That work like balance, you know how to look hard is in Genesis, is on page one and two.
[SPEAKER_01]: Genesis, page one and two.
[SPEAKER_01]: God worked six days, he rested the seventh day.
[SPEAKER_01]: He worked six days, rested one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did he create it us at his own image?
[SPEAKER_01]: Stop trying to work one day and rest six.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're in the image of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you have to work, you have to work.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you've got to learn how to pay yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every time you get an increase, every time you've got to pay yourself, you've got to get some kind of saving, some kind of reserve going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got a full 1K, a full 3B, a IRA, a Roth IRA.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't know what I'm talking about, sound like I'm speaking in tongues, then you need to take some classes and learn how to make it your trust issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're going to pay yourself, you're going to work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, your tax is on to cause the greatest collection agency in the world is the IRS.
[SPEAKER_01]: They gonna get their money.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll take your house, your car, going to show wages.
[SPEAKER_01]: They gonna get their money.
[SPEAKER_01]: So pay your taxes on time and it fool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then if you're going to become that free, stop trying to keep up with the Jones as live within your means.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't know how those people got what they got.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't know how they took that trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stop all that and stop using credit cards.
[SPEAKER_01]: One amen, one amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't get out of death if you keep incurring death.
[SPEAKER_01]: My wife and I, we did, but I just told you, we did that for four years.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was 27, we were not at death.
[SPEAKER_01]: By the time I was 31, we were death-free.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we've been dead-free for more than three decades now.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't want, oh, anybody anything except love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, here's the part I did tell you yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I talked about work, pay yourself, pay the government, they stuff, live within your means, stopping current debt.
[SPEAKER_01]: The other one is give.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you work the first person you give to is God, because y'all, you can give your way out of debt.
[SPEAKER_01]: God ain't gonna let you beat him, give it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The more you give to him, I know I got a witness in here somewhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: The more he gives to you,
[SPEAKER_01]: You can give your way out of debt.
[SPEAKER_01]: You bring you honor, God, with your substance, make sure it's enough and the first fruit and watch what God does.
[SPEAKER_01]: He'll move you to the overflow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Somebody, when I preach like this and teach like this, some people ask me, do I believe in prosperity gospel?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I don't believe in prosperity gospel.
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe the gospel is God's soul of the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: He gave us only begotten Son.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who served, believe in the hymn, should not perish, but have everlasting life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe the gospel is Christ's lives.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then he died for our sins.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was buried.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then three days later, he was raised from the dead according to the Scriptures.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I believe.
[SPEAKER_01]: The gospel is God demonstrated his love towards us and that while we were yet sinners Christ died.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the gospel.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, if you ask me, do I believe that God will prosper you?
[SPEAKER_01]: I will be a hypocrite to tell somebody God can't trust for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I was born and raised in deep poverty, but I ain't in poverty no more.
[SPEAKER_01]: God flipped that strip and moved me from poverty to a path of prosperity.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it wasn't me that did it.
[SPEAKER_01]: God did it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Matter of fact, everything I have God gave it to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything I know God taught me, everything I am, He made me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Where I came from, He brought me where I'm going.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the Lord that's going to lead me.
[SPEAKER_01]: God can and will prosper you.
[SPEAKER_01]: That won't make it prosperity gospel.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it does prove God will cross for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, y'all ain't saying any man it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna do it like this.
[SPEAKER_01]: You bring the tie.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think opens the one that's having poured you out of blessing.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have room enough to receive it.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you give God gives back to you, good measures, press down, shake it all, shake it all together.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't level all, they run over.
[SPEAKER_01]: He annoys my head with all, my cup doesn't level all.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wish I had a Bible reader.
[SPEAKER_01]: my cup runs over y'all.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how God operates.
[SPEAKER_01]: He moves you to the overflow.
[SPEAKER_01]: He will do exceedingly abundantly above.
[SPEAKER_01]: All you can ask think or imagine when you decide to do it, God's way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me rush this male gifts and when it was at 20-04, 2004.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mill Gibson did this movie called The Passion of Price.
[SPEAKER_01]: They still play it every year during the season where we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he portrayed the last few days of that last week.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jesus was on earth and he got persecuted.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he would die for our sins and be raised from the day at The Passion of Price.
[SPEAKER_01]: When he was promoting the movie,
[SPEAKER_01]: He got interviewed.
[SPEAKER_01]: At the interview, he talked about how he had accepted Jesus as his personal Savior and that the Lord told him to do this movie.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's putting together the passing of Christ, the movie, and he said he went to producers and tried to get somebody to invest in the passing of Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said not one producer would invest in the passing Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not one.
[SPEAKER_01]: All the influence he had in Hollywood, all the connection, not one, but he said the Lord told him to do the movie and saw what he did was he said he wouldn't got his light savings at the time it was $25 million.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he invested $25 million into the passionate price.
[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all that movie didn't just show in all the theaters in the United States, it showed in theaters around the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: and had a net return, not gross, a net return of more than a billion dollars.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not countin' DVDs and streaming.
[SPEAKER_01]: Twenty-twenty-five million all investment, billion dollars return.
[SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't help but think those producers that had a chance to invest in the past and the price.
[SPEAKER_01]: But past it up, what would they think and about what kind of return they would have gotten had they invested in the past of a cry?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know why they didn't invest in it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because they didn't think Jesus was able.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every week, Pastor Hall gets up and encourages you to invest in Christ and every week, somebody refuses to invest in Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: because they don't think Jesus is able.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I know I got a witness in here somewhere that knows that when you give, he gives back to you good message, press down, shaking together, running over.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got to close, I ain't through it, I'm just out of time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just out of time, I want you to know you can go from the realm of not enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: the realm of just enough to more than enough God is able to make it happen in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll stop with this LeBron James was talking about when he was 18 years old.
[SPEAKER_01]: He had graduated from high school.
[SPEAKER_01]: He had played in the McDonald's high school basketball all-star game.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he had yet to be drafted into the NBA.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he said, even before he got drafted into the NBA, 18 years old, all these companies were coming, trying to get him the enter into contract
[SPEAKER_01]: And the Bronx said he had never done anything like this before.
[SPEAKER_01]: He needed some help.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he went and got a representative.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the representative can line up the company so that he can talk with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And three of the first companies that got lined up was Reebok, Adidas, and Nike.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so he goes to meet with Reebok and their representatives, and LeBron has got his representative and his mother in their with him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said at a time that his mother, they lived in the projects, I'm quoting LeBron, they lived in the projects.
[SPEAKER_01]: His mother was unemployed and they ate all food stamps.
[SPEAKER_01]: but now they're meeting with the representatives of Reebok.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Reebok told him, the rep said, we want you to endorse our product.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we want you to go into a 10-year, $10 million contract with us.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then he said, they slid an envelope across the table, a check with his name on it, but $10 million.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said he looked at that check, but 10 million dollars with his name on his mother was all happy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was evident, he said he was happy too, but he didn't show it on the outside.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were excited about all of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the bronze said to the representatives of Reebok that I'm gonna need some time to think about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the representatives, they stepped out to the hallway, now the bronze, his rep, and his mom, they begin to talk.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's where the bronze representative said to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: said that is a great offer a hundred million dollars over 10 years, 10 million is already in your hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a great offer.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, but that is a preventive offer, a preemptive offer.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, because if you sign this contract today, then you can't meet with a deetus, and you can't meet with Nike, and you don't know what they're going off for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Reebok is trying to prevent you from having those kind of conversations.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so here comes the representatives rebuke back in the room and the brontels on this.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a great offer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's amazing, but I will be remiss if I didn't have conversations with Adidas and Nike.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he said he slid that 10 million dollar check back across the table and went back to the projects and food stamps with his unemployed mother.
[SPEAKER_01]: Somebody is in here thinking that that shows you how immature LeBron was at 18.
[SPEAKER_01]: That shows you how foolish he was at 18 years old to walk away from $100 million contract over 10-year period.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is not what that shows you.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is not show his immaturity, that is not show his foolishness.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because it wouldn't be long after that, that LeBron would meet with Nike.
[SPEAKER_01]: And LeBron would go into a lifetime contract with Nike, worth $1 billion would a beat.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't show his foolishness.
[SPEAKER_01]: It shows what you walk away from, always determines what you walk into.
[SPEAKER_01]: And some of us will never walk into what God has for us, because you won't even walk away from 10%.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I know I got to witness somewhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you give to God, he'll give it back to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good measures.
[SPEAKER_01]: Press down, shaking the given.
[SPEAKER_01]: He'll run it over.