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The Blessed Life

March 25, 2020

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Discover God’s ultimate purpose for you to live a successful and blessed life.

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- He wants you tolive the blessed life.
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- [Narrator] Robert Morris,a gifted communicator
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with more than 20 yearsof Biblical teaching,
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Morris reaches believersin the end church
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with his passionate,
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practical
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and often humorous presentation.
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(laughs)
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As Founding Senior Pastor
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of Gateway Churchin Dallas, Texas,
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Morris has seenexponential growth
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since the inception ofhis multi-campus church
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from its humblebeginnings in 2000.
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The church has grown to morethan 39.000 active members.
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Morris is featured on thedaily television program,
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"The Blessed Life",
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seen in 90 millionhomes in the U.S.
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He's about to share amessage you don't wanna miss.
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Robert Morris, here on "Praise."
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(rock music)
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Tonight on Praisefrom Southlake, Texas.
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Chancellor of theKing's University
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and senior pastorof Gateway Church,
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Robert Morris andhis wife Debbie.
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(upbeat music)
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And now Matt and Laurie Crouch.
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- We welcome you tothe stage right here
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at beautiful Gateway Church
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and that pastor Robert Morris
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just kinda set up
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for those that don'tknow your life message.
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- Well my life messagereally is giving
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and I wanna clarifythat it is not getting.
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Unfortunately, alot of people say
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that they bring, theypreach on giving.
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They're actuallypreaching on getting,
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- Wow.
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- You know, the Bible says
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"Give and it shallbe given to you.
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"Good measure, pressed down,
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"Shaken together, running over."
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We all know the scripture,
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but most of the timeI think we preach it
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from the wrong motivation.
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- Okay.
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- In other words, when God says,
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"Give and it shallbe given to you"
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if you back upjust a little bit,
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Luke six there, he says,
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"Give to everyonewho asks of you
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"And if he, if youneed your coat,
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"Give him your shirt too,
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"And if you loan him the money,
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"Don't even ask himto pay you back."
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He's talking about anattitude of the heart
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and when we givewith a right heart,
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God does reward us.
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But really whenyou think about it,
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well why did God inventgiving in the first place?
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It's not becausehe needs the money.
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It's not even to supportthe work of the Kingdom.
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It's really not.
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Because God coulddo it another way.
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He could send Ravens,
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he can send manna, you know,
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he can support his work.
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It's to do a work in my heart.
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It's to get greed andselfishness out of my heart.
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And when God does that,
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then he can actually trustme with more resources.
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And so I think what God didin me very early on was,
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he puts something in my heart
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that I wanted everyone to know
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this Jesus son metin a motel room
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and I began to give.
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When I began to give,
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he began to give me more,
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but I didn't thenstart thinking,
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"Oh, I'm going to give to get."
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I just thought I have, nowhave more resources to give.
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And I really believe
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it's because God says"Hey i can trust you.
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"I can give you resources."
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And he does rewardus for giving,
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but he rewards givingfrom a right heart.
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- Okay.
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There was a dramatic day
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where you lookedat your lovely wife
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and said,(laughs)
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"Oh, by the way"
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Pick the story up from there
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and then we need to hear,- Yes
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- Her side of the story(mumbles)
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(laughs)
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- Yeah, there was a daywhen the Lord asked us
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to give him everything,
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All of our fund, all savings,
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all retirement,
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cars
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and our home.
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And so, people askDebbie all the time,
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"How'd you feel whenyour husband said
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let's give our house away?"
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So how, how'd you feel?
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(laughs)
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- I was actually excited.
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We had been on a Godjourney of giving.
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So, and I knew he had atrack record of hearing God,
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but I had greatconfidence in our God.
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You know, 'cause we hadjust seen so much happen
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that was truly amazing.
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We couldn't explain it on paper
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how the finances hadworked prior to that.
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So we, we just hada great confidence
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that God would somehow,it would work out.
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- Yeah.- So.
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- Before we had, wecame to that moment
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where we gave everything,
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we were actually giving70% of our income
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at that time to away.
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And so as she said,
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we had a track record
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that if we heard God and obeyed,
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then he would takecare of the rest.
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Just give everything God says
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and the same blessing comeson every person when we obey,
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no matter what the amount is,
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the blessing is the obedience.
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It's almost like me saying,
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you know, we werecrossing a desert,
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there was an army chasing us.
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We came to an ocean
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and the ocean parted
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and we walked across andthen the army drowned.
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- Yeah.
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And you think, are you sure?
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Well, you know,that's what it's like
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and our God stilldoes miracles today.
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- Yes he does.
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- Our God still does.
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And that's what our story is.
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We did what he said
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and the ocean parted.
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- Wow.
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- And so even evenas I share today,
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that's what I want you to get.
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If you, as youwatch this message
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is God really doeswant to bless you,
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but he wants to bless youso you can be a blessing.
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- [Narrator] Wehope you're enjoying
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today's specialedition of "Praise"
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as Matt and Laurie visit GatewayChurch near Dallas, Texas
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to talk with pastorRobert and Debbie Morris.
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They're exploring what havinga blessed life really means
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as revealed in pastorRobert's bestselling book,
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"The Blessed Life."
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His practical, yetspiritually powerful book,
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offers you a roadmapfor living a life
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that is blessed inevery dimension.
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Blessed in health,
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emotions,
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relationships,
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and yes, blessed financially.
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So to thank you for yourgift of support to TBN,
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Matt and Laurie want tosend you your own copy
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This extensive set ofeight messages on audio CD,
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will equip and empower you
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to experience alife of blessing,
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not just in your finances,
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but in literally everyarea of your life.
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(upbeat music)
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- This is such animportant message
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that we have to catch it.
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It's called The Principlesof Multiplication.
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Would it be all right with you
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if God multipliedyour resources?
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Would that be allright with you?
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Okay.(crowd applauding)
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We've seen othermathematical terms.
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You know, we've seen addition,
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praise the Lord.
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We've seen subtraction,
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we've seen division sometimes,
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but what about multiplication?
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So Luke 9 andverse 12 all right,
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Luke nine verse 12 it says,
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"When the daybegan to wear away,
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"The 12,
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there's the number
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"Came and said to him,
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"Send the multitude away
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"that they may go into thesurrounding towns and country
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"And lodge and get provisions;
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"For we in adeserted place here.
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"But he said to them,
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"You give themsomething to eat."
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"And they said,
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"Well, we have nomore than five loaves
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"And two fish unlesswe go and buy food
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"For all these people.
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"For there were about 5.000 men
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"And he said to his disciples,
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"Make them sit downin groups of 50.
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There's another number.
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"And they did so and theymade them all sit down.
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"And then he tookthe five loaves
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"And the two fish andlooking up to heaven,
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"He blessed and broke them
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"And gave them to the disciplesto set before the multitude.
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Now again,
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I think probably Peterprobably probably said,
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"Hey, give me one ofthe rolls here, here,
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"Lord here, prayover mine first here,
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"Pray for mine, pray for mine,
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"Here, pray for mine.
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So watch, watch, watch.
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"Pray for mind Lord."
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(crowd laughs)
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And Jesus takes thispiece of bread from Peter,
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lifts it up and says,"Father bless it."
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Breaks it and handshalf of it back to Peter
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(crowd laughs)
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It grows,
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in Peter's hands
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and he says, "Youcan have some more."
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(laughs)(crowd laughs)
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Listen, the miracle did nothappen in the master's hands.
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It happened in thedisciples hands.
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- [Crowd] Amen.
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- This is very important.
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So from this story,
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there are two principlesof multiplication.
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If you're taking notes,
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I want you to write these down.
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If you're not taking notes,
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write these down.
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All right.(crowd laughs)
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Here's number one.
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It has to be blessedbefore it can multiply.
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It has to be blessedbefore it can multiply.
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Think about this.
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What if the discipleshad given the fish
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and the loaves outwithout Jesus blessing it.
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It never would've multiplied.
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It was the blessing of Jesus
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that gave it thepotential to multiply.
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There are many, many peoplewho give a little here
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and give a little there,
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but they never see theirfinances multiplied
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and the reason is they'renot blessed by Jesus,
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and the Bible tellsus very, very clearly
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that the way Jesusblesses our finances
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is we give the first10% to the house of God.
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And when we give the first10% to the house of God,
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the rest is blessed.
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So number one, it has to beblessed before it can multiply.
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Number two, it has to be givenaway before it can multiply.
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It has to be given awaybefore it can multiply.
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Again, think about this story.
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I got saved at 19 inJake's motel, room 12
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and I startedsharing my testimony
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and then I just wentto Bible College
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and then I startedpreaching Youth Revivals
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and things like this.
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And in a few yearsthe Lord said to me,
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listen, this statement'svery important.
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You might even wannawrite this down.
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He said, "I want you toget your finances in order
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"So I can bless them."
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Yeah, you need tounderstand something.
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God cannot,
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it would be against his nature.
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God cannot bless somethingthat's not in order.
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So he said,
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"I want you to getyour finances in order
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"So I can bless them."
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So I said, "Well, Lord oncewhat do you want me to do?"
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He said three things
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and then I want you,
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you could writethese down as well.
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I put them on thescreen for you.
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Number one, he said,"Get out of debt."
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Now, every time Godspeaks something us,
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God will clarify what he means.
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For us,
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the first thing thathad to go was our car.
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We had a car withthis big payment.
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It was actually too big for us.
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We knew it was.
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So we sold that car
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and we bought a carfor cash for $750.
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That was all we could afford.
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But we loved that car.
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We prayed over it.
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We anointed with oilabout a quarter a week.
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(crowd laughs)
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And we drove that car.
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The second thingGod said to me was,
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"Don't manipulate."
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Now by this time again,
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I'm in ministryand I'm traveling
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and speaking in churches.
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He said, "Don't manipulate."
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I said, "Lord, what do youmean don't manipulate?"
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He said, "I wantyou to know that I,
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"I am your source."
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So he said, "From now on,
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"When a pastorasked you, you know,
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"What are your financialrequirements for coming?
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"You say, I have no financialrequirements for coming."
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So the Lord said,"Get out of debt.
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"Don't manipulate.
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Number three he said, "Give."
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And I said, "WellLord, I do give a give.
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"I tithe."
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Now listen to what he said.
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He said, "Son, giving,
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"Tithing is not giving.
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"Tithing is returning.
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He said, "The tithebelongs to me.
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He said, "You only have twochoices with the tithes.
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"You bring it tothe house of God
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"Or you steal it."
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It's only your only choice.
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According to scripture,
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there's no otherchoice in scripture.
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And so he's, I said, "Well Lord,
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hear this, aren'tthese good questions?
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I said, "Well Lord,
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"How will I know when the give?
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"How will I know what to give?
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"How will I know where to give?"
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Listen to what hesaid. So simple.
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Listen, he said, "I'll tell ya.
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"I'll tell ya."
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"See my sheep, hear my voice."
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So the very nextmeeting I go to,
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now, this is all of, this is it.
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This is all I do now is I,
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at that time I traveledand spoke at churches.
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I said, I have nofinancial requirements.
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And I went, I had onemeeting for the whole month,
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for the whole month.
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And it was a Sundayevening meeting,
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not a whole week,
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and it was about 60 people.
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And so I go and I speak
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and at the end thepastor gets up and said,
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"This guy told me something
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"no minister's eversaid to me ever.
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"He said he had no financialrequirements to come here.
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He said, "I want us togive an offering to him."
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And so they gave an offering
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and he came up to me atthe end of the service
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and he said, "Look atthis, look at this."
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He was excited, we'dnever done this.
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And he said, "Look howmuch this offering is.
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"I'm so excited."
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And I looked down and it wasenough for the whole month.
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And at this time I had a staff
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and I had an officeand I had expenses.
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So it was enough, not justfor my personal income,
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but for the ministry'sincome for the whole month.
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And I thought, God,you are so good.
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That's amazing.
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I'm standing theretalking to the pastor
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and I glance over his shoulder
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and at the back of the room
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is a missionary that spokeright before I spoke.
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And this voice said to me,"Give him the offering."
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And the Lord said, "Itold you, I'd tell ya.
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"I told you, I'd tellyou where to give,
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"When to give andhow much to give.
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"And I'm telling you togive him the offering."
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So I went up to the missionarywhen no one else was looking.
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I made sure no one saw me
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and I endorsed the cheque
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and I folded in half
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and I said, "I'm gon' give yousomething on two conditions.
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"Number one, you don't lookat it until after you leave,
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"Because it was a very,very large cheque.
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"Number two, I said,
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"You'll never ever tell anyoneI gave this to you. Never."
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And I gave him the cheque
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and we walked out to our car,
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Debbie and I,
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and there were some peoplestanding there talking
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and they said,
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"Hey, would y'all liketo go get some pizza?"
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And we said, "Yeah"
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You know, 'cause we were broke.
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And so we said,
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"yeah, we'd, yeah,(crowd laughs)
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sure we'd love to."
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And so we went to pizza
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and there werefive other couples,
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six couples total,
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Debbie and I andfive other couples.
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And the six ladies saton one end of the table,
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and the six guys sat onone end of the table.
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And I was on this end,
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Debbie was downon the other end.
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And all of a sudden thesefour guys got to talking
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and this guy across the tablefrom me leaned over like that.
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And so, you know, Ikinda leaned over,
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I don't know what he'sabout to say, you know.
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(crowd laughs)
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And all of a suddenhe just said to me,
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"How much was thelove offering?"
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And so I told him,
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and it was an offering,
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not an honorarium.
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The difference is an honorariumis around amount with zeros,
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like $500 or $1.000or something.
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This was an offering soit had dollars and cents.
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And so I told him every number,
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I told him theexact amount of it
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and he shook his head like this.
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And then he said,"Where's the cheque?
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"You gave it away, didn't you?"
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And I said, "How did you,
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"How do you know that?"
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He said, "Because God told me."
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And he reached in his pocket
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and he pulled out a cheque
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that he had written beforethe service that night.
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And he opened it up
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and it was made outto our ministry.
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And remember our,
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the check I gave awayhad dollars and cents.
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He opened up
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and it was exactly 10 times
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the amount of the chequeI'd just given away.
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(crowd applauding)
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Exactly, exactly.
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(crowd applauding)
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You he said, "Here, take this."
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And he's holding the top of it.
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And I reached out and Itook the bottom of it,
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but he wouldn't let it go.
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(crowd laughs)
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And I realized he wantedto say something to me.
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I know now therewas an impartation
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from a person who hadthe gift of giving.
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But he's holding the top,
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I'm holding the bottom.
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And I looked right acrossthe top of that cheque
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right in his eyes.
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And he said, "God's aboutto teach you about giving
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"So you can teachthe body of Christ."
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and he let the check go.- [Crowd] Wow.
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And when he did,
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this revelation
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came on me.
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This is God's money.
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And every penny Iget is God's money.
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And so I said to Debbie,"This is God's money.
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"We need to ask Godwhat he wants us to do."
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Listen to me.
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Every believer needsthat revelation
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about every cheque we get.
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This is God's money.
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"God, what do you wantme to do with it?"
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And so we said, "Lord, what doyou want us to do with this?"
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He said, "Buy a carfor single mom."
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We still had the $750 car.
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We didn't go ourselves,buy ourselves a new car.
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We bought a car for single mom.
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Then the Lord's seat said,
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"See that go over therewho's out of the work,
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"You pay his salary untilhe gets another job."
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That was thousandsof dollars a month.
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We started givingso extravagantly
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and God just began toprovide from all over.
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And then one day theLord spoke to me.
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I was having my quiet time.
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And Lord said to me,
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"Would you give me everything?
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"Would you give me everything?
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And I knew immediately,
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he meant everything inour checking account,
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everything in oursavings account,
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everything in theministry checking account,
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everything in theministry savings account,
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our retirement,
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both our vehicles
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and our house.
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So please hear me.
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When I say that,
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when I tell yousomething like that,
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I am not asking youto give everything.
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Listen, I am asking you togive everything God says.
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I'm asking you to do that.
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Okay?
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Just what God tells you to do.
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So anyway, we sat down,
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Debbie and I,
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and we talked about whereto give everything and all,
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and we, you know, Debbie like,
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it took us several monthsto do this by the way,
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to distribute everything.
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And the next day I'mhaving my quiet time
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and I was addingit up in my mind
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and the phone rang.
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And I picked up the phone
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and this guy on the otherend of the phone said,
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"Robert, God told me to helpyou with your transportation."
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Here's what I thought.
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"He's going to give us a car."
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And, and that's good'cause you know,
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we don't have a car
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and you know,
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but Lord, even ifhe gives us a car,
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I just gave awayeverything I own
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and two cars.
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And at that time we'dgiven nine cars away.
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Nine.
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So I thought, even ifhe gives us his car,
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thank you but I still got you.
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And I said, "What didthe Lord tell you to do?"
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He said, "He told meto buy you an airplane
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(crowd laughs)
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and I'm gonna pay for the gas.
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I'm gonna pay for the hanger,
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the insurance,
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the maintenance,
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and I've hired a pilot
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and I'm gonna pay his salary.
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Here's his name and number.
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You just call him and tellhim where you wanna go
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and when you wanna go.
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And the Lord said, "Gotcha.
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(crowd laughs)
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"Gotcha."
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Now and listen to me,
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this is not a message,
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give and you get an airplane.
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Okay? Listen.
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(crowd laughs)
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I want you to livethe blessed life
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I want every memberof Gateway Church
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and every person watchingto live this happy life.
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And I wanna know, "What isGod saying to you today?"
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Some of you has struggledfor years to tithe,
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to give the whole titheto the house of God.
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The first 10% of yourgross income undesignated.
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I'm pleading with you,
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step out in faith.
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You may have to sell somethinglike Debbie and I had to.
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You may have to loweryour standard of living,
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but you will neverever regret it.
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- [Narrator] Wehope you're enjoying
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- This is not a messagethat you've heard.
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This is a life that was lived.
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This is being willing to diefor something you believe in.
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This is not, this iswhen you reach over,
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if I ran over there andgave him a big bear hug,
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this is what comesout of Robert Morris,
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is this life message.
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And I know it's an impartation.
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How did what, whathappened in your opinion
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that started getting thisgiving message kind of,
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out of balance?
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What do you think happened?
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- Well, I think whathappens really is that,
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what Jesus called mammon,a spirit of mammon.
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Mammon is an Aramaic word,
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but it comes from theSyrian God of riches.
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And I think what happens is,
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when we're youngand starting out,
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we just give everything to God.
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But our everythingisn't that much.
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And so we give everything to God
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and then God blesses us
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and we continue to give.
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But then the blessing,
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somehow our heartbegins to shift
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from the blesserto the blessing.
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And just even asRomans one says,
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"We begin to worshipand serve the creation
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"Rather than the creator."
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And we've had to deal with that
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because God has givenus more to steward now,
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we've had to deal with,are we still willing?
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Are we still willing to giveeverything God asks us to give?
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And I think that's theway it happens sometimes.
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Is that the enemy comes in
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and begins to putour focus on things.
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And a very famousscripture, you know,
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Matthew six, Jesus said,
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"Seek first the Kingdom
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"And all these thingsthey'll be added."
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But he said the gentiles,
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I think he wasreferring to them,
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the people thatdidn't know his ways.
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"They seek these things,
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"But you don't needto seek those things.
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"You seek me and I'll takecare of those things."
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And I think giving is anopportunity every week,
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every two weeks, every month,
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every time we get paid.
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It's a way to put Godin first place again.
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At that first 10% that tithegoes to our local church.
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And then we give over and above
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to ministries like TBN
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and missionaries and things.
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But we give that first toGod every time we get paid.
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And what we're doing
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is we're kinda keepinghim in first place
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so that we don'tget out of balance.
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- This, life message bypastor Robert Morris.
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it's his two years
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and just wanna giveyou an opportunity
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just for the final word,
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just to our audience.
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- I'd like to ask you totake a step right now.
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You know, if I werepreaching on salvation,
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receiving Jesus,
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I'd lead you in thesinner's prayer right now.
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And if you needto come to Christ,
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I do want you to calland accept Christ.
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If I were preaching onreceiving the Holy Spirit,
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I'd lead you to help you receivethe Holy Spirit right now.
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But today I preached on giving.
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So what I wanna do
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is lead you in a response.
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Ask God what hewants you to give.
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That's all I'm saying.
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That's all Matt's saying.
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That's all Laurie's saying,
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it's all Debbie saying.
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We're not trying to getyou to give by compulsion.
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As a matter of fact,
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the Bible says,
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"God doesn't want usto give by compulsion,
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"But he wants us to givegenerously and cheerfully."
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So you can take a stepof faith right now.
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Just ask the Holy spirit.
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It's real simple.
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"What do you wantme to give today."
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"Lord, what do youwant me to give?"
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And God will put anamount on your heart.
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Now let me just say,
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it could be anextravagant amount.
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There are a lot of extravagantgifts in the Bible.
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Abraham giving his sonobviously an extravagant gift,
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being willing to do that.
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David's gift to the temple.
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Here's an extravagant gift
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that a lot of peopledon't think about
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the widow's two mites.
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For her, that was extravagant.
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So what's the Holyspirit saying to you?
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And I wanna ask you
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and I wanna encourage you,
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call today,
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call right now
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and do what God'stelling you to give.
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Step out in faith andwatch what God does.
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That's one of thegreatest parts of giving
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is to hear God and obey.
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That's fantastic.
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So let me just pray foryou just for a moment
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and then I wanna encourage you
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to do what God'stelling you to do today.
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All right.
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Lord, thank you.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Lord I'm overwhelmed withyour goodness in my life,
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but Lord, in so manypeople's lives that I know
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that have stepped out
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in this area ofgiving and generosity,
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and they've told me my lifewill never be the same.
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Lord, I pray right now forevery person watching this,
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that right now you'llspeak an amount.
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They'll step out in faith
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and they'll do what you'reputting on their hearts do,
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and Lord, then I trust you
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that you will rebuke thedevour for our sakes.
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You'll open thewindows of heaven
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and pour out such blessing
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here will not be roomenough to receive it.
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In other words, Lord,
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we'll be able to givemore to the Kingdom,
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or I pray that you will bless us
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so that we can be ablessing in Jesus name.
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Amen.
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