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Living Covenant Conscious Financially Part 4 | Made For It | Bishop Rosie S. O’ne · Koinonia Christian Center

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[Applause]
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Yeah, let's go. Let's go. Let's go and
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get started on that. All right. We're
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going to Deuteronomy chapter 8. We're
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going back into our series on being co
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covenant conscious financially.
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Okay. No, don't let them drop off. Amen.
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So, we also thank God for uh Dr. Jazz
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and Victory Grace Center who join us in
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this Bible in this study. Amen. So,
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yeah. Oh, no. They've been pulling
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together and bringing us bringing the
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lesson in. Amen. Amen. Deuteronomy
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8:18. Let's get kicking on this thing.
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But thou shalt remember the Lord thy
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God. Yeah. For it is he that giveth thee
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power to get wealth. God gives
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power to get what? Say the word wealth.
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Say it again. Wealth. Get used to the
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word wealth.
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Get used to the word. All right. It's
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God that gives us power to get wealth.
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Why? That he may establish his covenant.
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He's serious about it. Come on. Which he
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swear unto thy fathers as it is this
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day. We've been in a series entitled
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covenant conscious financially. Today's
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subject is made for it.
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Go on and prophesy right quick. Say I'm
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made for it. I'm made for it. Push your
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neighbor and let them know you're made
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for it. You didn't push them, church.
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Push them back.
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That's right. I'm made for it. You're
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made for I don't care if you've been
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broke the last 40 years. It's getting
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returned for you.
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Okay? Because God has a plan for it.
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Okay? So, we're in this series on
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covenant conscience. We understand that
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a covenant is a binding oath or
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agreement between at least two parties
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that's cut by sacrifice. Usually blood,
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but always something precious. Y'all
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with me? It has promises and privileges,
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rights, and responsibilities within that
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covenant. Oh, we got a good series
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coming up after this one.
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within the covenant. God said, "Teach
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them to be willing to die for each
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other."
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That what he told me.
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I was on my knees and my little prayer
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thing real made little thing get on my
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knees, lean over
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my
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clos, started crying and said, "We'll
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get back to this another time."
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cuz he told me said you don't have to
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tell people not to talk about folk if
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they're already at the point to die for
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them.
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You ain't got to spend all day long
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talking about forgiveness. If I'm
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willing to die for you, certainly I can
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cut you some slack cuz you say I look
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bad in my outfit.
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We're not talking that today, though.
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A covenant is designed to produce some
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things in us. confidence.
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No, that's what I I You got to get that
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one. A bold assurance. Okay. I'm in a
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covenant. Okay. I just just We just got
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a piece of property for my parents. So,
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we I had to sign all them papers, that
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contract. I got the keys.
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Even I got the keys, but I wasn't even
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standing in the place.
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But I already knew it was mine cuz I had
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a contract and a key. Y'all ain't having
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a church with me. See, you you He wants
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the covenant to produce confidence.
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All right. It should also produce
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clarity and it should create carefulness
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both in how I live because I'm in a
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covenant and also in what I look for.
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Right now, go to John chapter 8:36 real
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fast. This is our review. And one of the
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things that we found out in the sermon,
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it's been about a month because y'all
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laid in the glory of God for a whole
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day.
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I had left the sermon for Pastor T. He
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was ready to preach. Then y'all decide
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just lay roll across the floor and God
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had his way, didn't he? Wasn't that all
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right? See, always got to let God do
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what it needs to do.
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Cuz some stuff your mind won't fix it.
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You need a free. You need to be freed in
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your spirit. Okay, move it up. So, so we
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found out and we're going to read John
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8:36 in just a moment. We found out that
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one of the things the enemy wants to do
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is either limit your, you know, he can't
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keep you from being saved. So then he
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said, okay, this was Pharaoh. So Pharaoh
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told the people, he said, well, go on
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and worship, but don't go far. Uh-huh.
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He says, "So, okay. I just don't want
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your life to change." You can talk about
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eternity, but still live in hell.
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Turn turns the devil is a liar. No, I'm
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coming all the way out. When I tell you
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I'm coming all the way out, I'm coming
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out of everything that remind me of the
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old life. I'm coming out of depression
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and lying and foolishness. I'm coming
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out of debt. You see, all are coming out
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of all of it.
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Okay. So then the next thing the enemy
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tried to play said, "Well, okay. Well,
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do this. You go on and let the guys go
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worship and and leave the children and
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the wives." Yeah. What you What are you
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talking about? Pharaoh said, "Yeah, you
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know, go and do what you got to do, but
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leave that." So, in other words, you go
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on, you have a relationship with God and
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become so cold that you don't care that
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the rest of your family is messed up.
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No. The devil is a lie. No deal. No
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deal. No deal. No deal. No deal. I want
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everything attached to me in the
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kingdom.
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You got to get you got to get militant
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about that. I all my children. I want
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the dog. Let me tell y'all something. TJ
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and Talaysia, they were have they were
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sitting up there. Why? Sent me a picture
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and I was preaching. The dog was sitting
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that I'm telling y'all, Zena was locked
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in. That dog barks in tongues. Don't
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play with me.
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[Applause]
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You understand? No, I do. I want my
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children saved. I want my friends saved.
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I want my neighbors saved. I want my
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cousin saved. I want
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everybody attached to
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me to have a joyful relationship with
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God. I want them to live better and die
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better. We were here for Mr. Jesse's
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home going. He honest to God laying in
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box grinning.
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I told him, "Go out there and take a
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picture of that. I need a picture on my
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phone." He laid up at my
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live better and die better through a
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knowledge of Christ, his word, and his
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love. So John chapter 8, the final thing
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before I tell I give you time to get to
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these verses, the last thing Pharaoh
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tried when he was trying to keep the the
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people of God in bondage was well y'all
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go on but leave your herds, right? Leave
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your money.
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Leave my money. He must He was cussing.
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Leave my
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money. And this was the thing that blew
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me away. The reason, the answer was we
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can't do that. We got to take all of our
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people and we got to have all our money
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cuz we don't know what God might want us
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to worship him with.
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I told you sometime sometimes my worship
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is seen in the way I hit the floor.
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I'm praising God. You understand?
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Sometime my worship is seen in the way I
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serve. I noticed we were sitting there.
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There was some stuff on the ground.
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Darling stopped. She put the tambourine
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down for a second. Gave my ears a
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ministry moment and I'm joking. I just
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miss and went and picked it up. That was
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how worship was seen.
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Last week, wasn't Easter last week. When
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was it? Last week our worship was seen
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in above our tithes and offerings.
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$812,000 given.
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So what Moses said, "No, we can't go out
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broke cuz God may want us to do
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something.
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I can't I can't go out broke like that.
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How do I know?" Come here, baby. What's
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your name in that pretty blue shirt? I
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saw you this morning. Start with a C.
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Come here right
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here.
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Hurry. She's a She greeting and whatnot.
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See, here's the thing.
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God
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God wants sometime you don't know what
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the Lord want to do.
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Sometime sometime God wants you to
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worship in a way that touches somebody
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else's life. You don't even have to
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understand. See sometime I could go hey
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thank you. Ain't nothing wrong with
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that. That's worship. But if the Lord
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speak to my heart like he did on the way
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in the church to use her and put a
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little seed in her hand, that's worship,
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too.
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I like you.
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Yeah. Now watch. If I didn't have that,
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if I had let the devil keep all my
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money,
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don't look up here at my knot. Don't
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play.
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But you understand if I if I was in so
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much debt Yes.
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Then when God want me to do something or
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if I see somebody at the grocery store I
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saw or at the gas station and they were
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look like they was struggling a little
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bit. I said, "Oh, no, no, no, no. That's
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mine. I'm paying for this." But if I all
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my bills are tied up trying to impress
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you on Facebook,
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God, oh Lord have mercy. Let me tell you
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something. The Lord done shut my prayer
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time down twice here this past three or
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four days. The other one was be ye holy
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as I am holy.
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And what it because remember we learned
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we got a new concept for holiness is
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that God is perfect. He's sacred. He's
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righteous. He's this. But the reality is
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all that he is, he is through and
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through. Yeah. And what I realized was
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this this world is trying to make you
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and I have a persona
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which mean put a front on us.
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This is what we show folk. It ain't who
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we are. It's not our true person. It's a
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persona.
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[Applause]
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See on Facebook you're this but at home
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you're this. That's a persona.
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[Applause]
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And God said, "I want you to be holy
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as I'm holy." He said, "I want you to be
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pure and everything that you are, but
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Rosie, I want you to be it through and
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through."
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That's why I just shut the Bible.
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I said, "I'll come back to it, Lord."
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See, we got to change the way we view
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things. Now, are you at John 8? I gave
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you 10 minutes to get to John 8:36.
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All right, read. If the Son therefore
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shall make you free, come on. Ye shall
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be free indeed. Free,
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free in my spirit, free in my mind.
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Y'all are not here. Are you writing
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notes? Free in my emotions. Free in my
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money. Free in deed and in do.
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Free.
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Okay, that's still more work to do. I
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get it. Okay. So, we start talking about
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some things that you needed to do. So,
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write down this word attitude. Then
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write down alignment and write down
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awareness. Now, did you get your hand
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outs?
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Okay. You know what's the rule? If I see
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one, if I see one left in these
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chairs, you better you better throw your
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body on top of it cuz if I see it,
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there'll be no more handouts for you.
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All right. All right. First thing is the
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attitude you and I have to have is that
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there is no way in the world I'm going
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to live in bondage financially. I have a
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covenant with God.
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Okay. I didn't get it. Okay.
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I have a covenant with God, y'all.
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You have a covenant with God.
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And there is not supposed to be
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financial bondage
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y'all. Okay. Okay. Yeah. God God says
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it's the Lord that gives me the power to
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get well.
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Well, you say, "Well, you trying to say
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everybody gonna be a millionaire." Well,
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no, maybe not. But all of us ought to
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have our sight set on abundance.
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God, I wish I could come walk through
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every pew and just grab hold of you and
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stare in your face and say, "Do you
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understand what I'm saying? God wants
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you to have more than enough."
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Again, I know you can't hardly clap
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because you got to separate. See, stop
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letting the world tell you how the
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church ought to be. The world don't know
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how we're supposed to operate. They're
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not they're not us.
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[Applause]
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God wants all of us to have abundance.
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Whether that's millionaire, billionaire,
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whatever it is, it may be that at the
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end of your check after you pay all your
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bills and get your nice allowance, you
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have an extra thousand pass. You done
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done your savings. You remembered your
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pastor. You tithe everything, you got
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extra thou. Maybe that's what it is.
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But what I'm telling you is you are
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coming out of not enough and you coming
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out of just enough.
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I'm talking about if you serious, if you
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want to take the journey with me,
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we got to adjust our attitude
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about it. There's a shouldness to our
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blessing. It's a covenant, right? That's
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right. Give me Give me Romans 13:8.
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Remember, we are
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adopting what Jesus said. I'm going to
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live by the word.
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By the what? Word. That's right. Romans
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13:8. Are you there? Owe no man anything
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but to love one another. Okay. Okay.
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Stop. See, now don't nobody holl off
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that one. That's such a powerful verse.
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Okay. So, I'm gonna give a chance to
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read again. And the reason we don't
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because it seems far-fetched still.
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Remember, you got to change not just
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your behavior, but you got to dig out
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the faulty belief.
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Remember, I'm not just stopping the
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habit. I got to get the heart right.
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Mother Lillian,
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you know, our oldest and finest member.
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Now, I'mma ask her to stand and I'm
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going on and tell y'all I've had to
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check her license before cuz I don't
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believe it. M Lillian, stand up with
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your gorgeous self. Go on, stand. I know
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it. You ain't going to believe it,
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y'all. Just watch this. Look at this
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woman right here. Turn around and grin
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at her. M Lily, Lord, how old are you,
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Millian? How old?
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You see what I'm saying? She She ain't
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but 60. She been telling that lie so she
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could get more birthday
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money. You know she has here. Mother
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Luc when mother Lillian come in, she at
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least got to have $100 or something. I
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declare that she and and look and mess
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with her. She got herself together.
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She'll drive herself. I said,
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just feel free to let her just lay her
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just just touch it. Just
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I love you. Now watch the same grace.
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That's why I sold into
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it. I'm looking at all these wrinkles.
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Derel holding stuff trying to put makeup
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on and then let's move on. But no, no,
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no. You have to change your attitude. So
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remember now, we're going to do some
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certain actions. We're going to begin to
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study certain things that will help you
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get ahead. But now you need to get your
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head right. Because remember, if you
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change the practice, but not your
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perspective, you're just postponing the
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behavior.
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So you got to start getting in your
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mind, I'm supposed to have abundance.
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I wasn't even made for debt.
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I got to understand that. Read it again.
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Owe no man anything but to love one
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another. So I want to obey the word.
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Come on. For he that loveth another hath
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fulfilled the law. That's right. So now
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here's what you have to understand. You
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got to get it in your head. You got a
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covenant with God. And you are not going
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to live in
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lack. Amen.
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[Applause]
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Okay, let's let's let's let's let's All
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right, now did you write down alignment?
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Okay, now let's go and fight while we
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fighting. You got to get your life in
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alignment. Amen. See how they drop off.
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You see that's why I have a
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musician cuz I'm not going to let y'all
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make me feel bad when I'm up here
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preaching, sweating, and
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spitting. I'mma say it again because I
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want you to get a hold of this. You got
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to get your life in alignment. You can't
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rob God and then ask God to help you.
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How you gonna take my stuff?
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Bishop, who is this? See, I that's why I
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I just I just Come on. Get your life in
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alignment because when you're not in
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alignment, you don't have confidence
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when your life Come on. All of us, we
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know when you Okay, if you ever been
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real trifling, go put your hand up.
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I'mma put both mine because I have been
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very trifling before. Okay, so when you
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are
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trifling, how hard is it to pray with
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confidence?
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It's a mess, ain't it? Cuz you know,
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Lord, that's when you That's when you
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start praying and just start crying. You
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don't even say nothing else.
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Father, thank you.
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Right. We got to get in alignment. When
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you are out of alignment, you can't hold
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weight. When you're out of alignment,
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you lose your confidence. When you're
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out of alignment, see, we're in a
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covenant and there are rights and
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responsibilities.
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I'm not going to let God's house go
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down. I'm going to bring myself in
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alignment. I'm not going to spend money.
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I'm supposed to be paying a bill out
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frolicking somewhere.
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Cuz I promised them folk I was going to
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pay them. Amen.
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You talking about you can't get blood
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out of a tournament. What are you
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talking about? Pay your bills.
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Amen.
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You're not a ventriloquist. Stop
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throwing your voice and pretending to be
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somebody else. Hello. Uh-uh. No. No. You
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home. Answer the phone.
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You got the card. You spent the money.
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Answer the phone because you are
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becoming less than every time you lie.
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Can I tell you? Have I We're not
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teaching on lying. And I guess in case
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you want, you can go to Malachi. Let me
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tell you something. I lied so much
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growing up. It was it was actually kind
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of part for the course. When people have
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identity issues, lying just becomes
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another way to make the go through the
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day because you're not sure of what is.
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So everything is up for
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you know, yeah. It's like perspective,
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whatever. Okay. But every time when you
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get grown and you lie,
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It starts diminishing who you are.
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You You punk yourself out. I know y'all
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don't know why I'm teaching this, but
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there's a lot of folk need to hear what
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I'm saying. Every time you lie, you
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punking yourself and you're diminishing.
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You're losing your sense of self.
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You can't stand up for what you do and
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what you say.
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Wow. Okay, Lord. Let's just get on it.
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What verse I tell you to go to? Malachi.
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You need to get in alignment. Read
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Malachi 3:8-10. Will a man rob God. Yet
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ye have robbed me. But you say, "Wherein
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have we robbed thee?" Yeah. In tithes
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and offering. Ye are cursed with a
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curse. For ye have robbed me, even this
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whole nation bring. What he's saying is
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you've come out from up under what I
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intended for you.
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Okay? You came out from what? See, I
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understand. And remember in the in the
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garden how when they messed up, he said
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now thorns and thistles Yeah. are going
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to come to you. He didn't necessarily
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put a curse on them. He said, but what's
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going to happen is the ground that
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should be responding to your voice is
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not going to
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come on. Bring me your mind.
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He said, Adam, y'all take care of the
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whole garden. But when they decided to
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sin and do it their own way, now how you
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going to take care of a whole garden of
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Eden? We're not talking about the thing
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in your backyard. We talking about the
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whole land. You ain't out there with a
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hole working on that. Is that how you
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supposed to do the whole thing? The last
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time y'all had so much to say. I'm not
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from the country, but I'm just saying
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something about some chopping down and
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whatever. But you understand what I'm
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saying. You ain't out there doing that.
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You ain't You ain't cutting through all
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of that. At some point, I believe they
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were speaking to it. Amen.
21:34
He said, "But now that you've gotten
21:36
into sin, it ain't going to respond to
21:37
you right now. But now I when I come
21:41
into covenant with God, I get my voice
21:44
back." Oh my God. You missed that. Only
21:46
a few of y'all got that. You get your
21:48
voice back.
21:50
He said, "But when you start stealing
21:52
from me,
21:54
you're bringing yourself right back out
21:57
to a time where the word this thing
21:59
won't respond." Read it. Bring bring me
22:02
all the tithes into the storehouse. That
22:04
there may be meat in mine household me
22:06
now herewith, sayeth the Lord of hosts,
22:08
if I will not open you the windows of
22:10
heaven and pour you out a blessing that
22:12
there shall not be room enough to
22:13
receive it. Thank you, Lord. He said,
22:16
get in alignment with me. Get in
22:18
alignment. Bring yourself together.
22:21
Okay. Can I share something else with
22:22
you? When you and I are not in
22:25
alignment, it not only takes our voice,
22:28
but it makes it God get a little slower
22:30
than the way you talk. I've noticed it.
22:32
Or maybe maybe we just don't hear well.
22:36
Genesis 13:14. Y'all remember we were
22:39
looking at But go on and flip. Go on and
22:40
flip over there, y'all. Okay? I need us
22:43
to get this because we're we're in an
22:46
environment for miracles.
22:49
But as I've shared with you many times,
22:51
miracles, although when they come at the
22:53
right, it's the best thing ever, are not
22:55
God's best.
22:58
Who who doesn't remember me talking
23:00
about that? Who wants me to explain it?
23:03
Okay. Miracles are not God's
23:06
best. God's best is to live in a way
23:09
where you don't have to have one.
23:14
The church gets addicted to these big
23:17
things. I don't want to get towed up and
23:20
then every time I turn around, I need
23:22
another miracle. Now, there are some
23:24
things I can't control. And for those, I
23:26
need God to do it supernaturally. But
23:29
stuff I can control. I need to walk with
23:32
wisdom.
23:35
All right, y'all still here? Genesis
23:37
13:14 said, "And the Lord said to Abram,
23:39
after Lot was separated from him,
23:44
God started talking again after Lot was
23:47
separated." After the thing you ain't
23:49
supposed to be holding on to, you once
23:51
you let it go, God said, "Now we can
23:53
talk about this thing better."
23:56
Okay, Mother Kathy hand, one other hand,
23:59
Fu. after
24:02
I got to get in alignment because God
24:05
wants you and I to walk in increase and
24:07
abundance. So now let's talk today.
24:10
We're going to our third word. And this
24:12
is where we're going to kind of sit for
24:13
a second. Awareness.
24:17
Now God gives us the power to get what?
24:21
Wealth. God gives us the power to get
24:23
what? We're not supposed to be broke.
24:25
Amen.
24:27
Now, you have to understand the world
24:30
has a plan. You know, I wanted to play
24:32
that little clip I love so much from the
24:34
devil wears Prada. I done played it for
24:37
y'all before, but you know, she she
24:40
said, "The folk out here thinking they
24:41
make she told the little girl, uh, she
24:43
said, "Well, they're the same blue. It's
24:45
the same thing." And that woman looked
24:47
at her and if looks could kill, her body
24:49
would have decayed on the spot. She
24:52
said, "Look at basically, let me oalize
24:54
it." She said, "You look a
24:56
mess." She said, "But what's funnier is
24:59
that you think you chose that
25:01
sweater." She said, "The people in this
25:03
room chose that sweater for you. It
25:05
filtered down through our elite fashion
25:09
shows." And she said, "By the time you
25:11
fished it out of a bin at where she she
25:13
said some kind of Target, where she say
25:16
at a TJ Maxx." She said, "You think you
25:19
chose it, but we chose it for you." And
25:21
in the same way that there are people in
25:24
high places that make decisions that
25:27
filter down into our cultural choices.
25:33
Okay. Why y'all?
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[Music]
25:40
You do know that there was a time when
25:42
tennis shoes were $10.
25:47
Now, okay. Well, I got on the Bishop
25:49
O'Neal's today.
25:52
Now, I ain't mad at nobody. I like shoes
25:54
a little bit, right? And so, I mean, I
25:57
got some shoes. We got some shoes. But I
25:59
need us to understand, you know, they
26:02
playing that as a way
26:06
to all of a sudden make these tennis
26:09
shoes such a highlevel thing. I mean,
26:12
back in the day, even the best shoes
26:15
were $45.
26:19
Now we got $400 tennis shoes that I
26:23
found out they don't even walk in
26:25
normally cuz they don't want to bend
26:27
them.
26:29
Where the guys at? Don't play me cuz the
26:31
band told me it was true.
26:34
So they strategically decided
26:37
to put these tennis shoes on stars and
26:41
athletes,
26:43
make them seem elite.
26:46
So then folk with no
26:48
money would start scraping what they
26:51
could get and putting them in the shoes.
26:57
That was a plan.
27:01
How far do you want to go? I feel the
27:03
guys sweat me. So I I'mma ease up off my
27:06
gentleman. You understand? Watch how I
27:08
transition.
27:10
I ain't getting ready to go to him.
27:15
We got pocket books.
27:19
[Applause]
27:23
Now again, if you don't if listen. Oh
27:26
god. I'm trying not to get too church,
27:28
but I feel I just felt oil just flat.
27:29
Just
27:32
the same way the devil has a plan to
27:36
bankrupt the church,
27:38
God had a plan. It's been in place.
27:43
to make sure that whatever changes in
27:46
the culture didn't affect us, but we
27:48
have not studied the scripture.
27:52
The devil has a plan to get us
27:54
enthralled. Come on, let's stay on the
27:55
ladies. So, we got back. I ain't mad at
27:57
you. Carry your bag. Get you a Louis
27:59
Vuitton. Get you a Gucci. Get whatever
28:00
you want to get as long as you can put
28:03
more money in it than it cost. I I'm not
28:07
mad at anybody. Go and buy you whatever
28:09
you want. Buy the car you want. Don't be
28:12
bound, I bet you, a good ground as long
28:15
as you got more money in your retirement
28:19
than you do on them tires.
28:22
[Applause]
28:23
But understand, it was a decision.
28:28
It became an elite thing. And then it
28:31
filters down. It found this.
28:39
So then it became highlighted. They
28:41
started intentionally
28:43
putting ads on BET.
28:47
They started doing things in magazines
28:50
that were frequented by or purchased by
28:52
people who did not have resources
28:54
generally on that level. It starts
28:58
putting it out like this is the way to
29:00
be. This is what you have. This is what
29:03
makes you great. Even though Jesus said
29:06
our life does not consist in the
29:10
abundance of things which we have. You
29:12
say well I don't see what you're saying.
29:14
If I accept this
29:17
that my life doesn't consist of that
29:19
then I can approach whether I want to
29:22
purchase it with a sincere calm sensible
29:26
mind. But if I've not accepted what
29:29
Jesus taught and I think I need this so
29:33
that I can look important persona so I
29:36
can look successful.
29:43
No, I ain't got
29:44
one. I ain't mad though. I don't want
29:47
one.
29:52
Here's a good rule of thumb.
29:55
You can't afford it if you can't pay for
29:57
it twice.
30:00
Thank you for
30:02
coming. God bless
30:03
[Applause]
30:06
you. See, the enemy had a plan. Oh, I
30:11
got to hurry. I'm behind. Enemy had a
30:13
plan. So, every now and then, so he
30:15
said, "Try to get them on this." Only
30:17
two left. They put that mess up. You be
30:19
trying to shop something on Amazon.
30:20
Talking about only three left
30:23
now. How stupid do you think I
30:27
am? You
30:30
You sending stuff all over the world,
30:32
but ain't a three left in the whole un
30:34
Somebody
30:35
lying. It's a trick because they know
30:39
that if you think you going to lose out.
30:41
See, again, if you don't change the way
30:43
you think, then you're always scared
30:45
you're going to lose out. I better hurry
30:47
up, honey. I better hurry up. Look, they
30:49
This is why these scammers are doing so
30:51
well.
30:53
I had a call the other day. This is so
30:55
and so from the sheriff's department. We
30:57
need so- and so to call you. I said,
30:59
well, wait a minute now. Somebody lying.
31:02
Said, first of all, I haven't done
31:04
anything. Second of all, the sheriff got
31:06
my number.
31:08
So if I'm in trouble, she going to call
31:10
me.
31:12
I ain't calling you cuz I know this. And
31:14
one time when it happened before, I
31:15
didn't know. I called the sheriff. She
31:17
said, "It's a scam, Bishop.
31:21
These people call you say if you do it
31:24
today the people so crazy out in these
31:26
streets they they'll find anybody over
31:29
60 and send an email say your grandchild
31:31
I grandma I'm in prison and I I I got
31:35
How many got those things? First of all,
31:38
if I don't know the number, I set my
31:39
phone. It don't even ring.
31:43
I don't If I don't know you,
31:45
I'm delete. I'm not opening it. But the
31:48
enemy has a plan and that's to try to
31:52
get us in these hurry up and buys.
31:55
Listen to me. Anybody trying to make you
31:58
hurry up and do it today, automatically
32:01
say no.
32:05
If it's only good for the day, then it
32:07
ain't for me. Cuz I in God we trust.
32:10
Everybody else got to be checked out
32:11
thoroughly.
32:13
And if it's God, he'll bring it around
32:15
again.
32:17
And people will do it, too. They were
32:19
doing we get ready to build this
32:20
building. We went, did you go with us? I
32:23
know, darling, you were there. Remember,
32:24
we went in to meet with different
32:25
contractors and one of them started
32:27
talking. They said, "We want to help
32:30
you.
32:32
God was dealing with us and I let them
32:34
talk a while and you know I what is the
32:37
attention deficit stuff be some of the
32:39
stuff I struggle with. So, um, they got
32:43
to going. They were just so spirit. I
32:44
said, "Hold. You know what? Thank
32:47
you." I said, "Here's the thing. You I'm
32:51
already saved.
32:53
You don't need to try to super get me
32:55
saved. I'm already saved. All this
32:57
spiritual talk, I appreciate it." I
32:59
said, "But that ain't why I'm here." I
33:01
said, "I either you can build it or you
33:02
can't." I don't care nothing about he I
33:04
don't care about about that. Is the Is
33:06
it lined up
33:08
straight? No. I don't even trust you.
33:10
You coming at me wrong. No, you trying
33:12
to come at me through faith. I'm trying
33:14
to build a building.
33:16
You say, "Well, this ain't Bible class."
33:21
No. Some of y'all get tricked with that
33:22
stuff that Come on. The spirit of God,
33:24
you know what? I saw your face in a
33:26
dream.
33:27
Well, he didn't show me
33:29
yours. Move
33:32
on. This whole proceed. The Bible said,
33:35
"The thoughts of the diligent tend to
33:38
only plenteousness." This is Proverbs
33:41
2:15. But hasty, folks, only to lack.
33:46
You had to do stuff right now, they
33:48
trying to get you. Don't do it. Somebody
33:50
shout, "Say no." Say no. Then these
33:52
emotional pills you crying. See, that's
33:55
why I like Steve Hartman. But thank God
33:57
he ain't a crook. Come on. Cuz if he was
33:59
a crook, he say, "If you would just send
34:01
something right now."
34:04
They even do that on Facebook. They make
34:06
fake p fake pages for me. Yeah. All this
34:09
fake stuff. Y'all know I ain't coming up
34:10
to ask you for nothing, but I'm going to
34:11
ask you for something I asked you in
34:12
here. That's right. That's right. But
34:16
that's the kind of stuff these are. I'm
34:18
trying to show you the plan that the
34:19
devil has
34:22
to get you in this perceived I got to
34:24
have it right now or to get you off an
34:26
emotional
34:33
thing. Here it is. or get you to buy now
34:37
and pay
34:40
later. Look on down your row. I feel
34:43
some I feel some What's that thing John
34:45
told me? You can do shopping and playing
34:47
the payments in four. Uh-huh. Look that.
34:49
What is it? After
34:53
pay Uh-huh. Look at each other. Look at
34:55
them.
34:56
[Applause]
34:58
The devil. Come on here. Luke 14. No.
35:01
Let No. You here now? Listen. God wants
35:04
you to have abundance. These things have
35:08
been designed
35:10
to get you and I entrapped
35:13
so we don't have anything.
35:17
But I'm going to show you today. Yes,
35:18
sir. God designed us
35:22
to have increase. I'm going to show it
35:24
to you. Hurry up. Luke 14, what is it?
35:26
28. 28. Read it. For which of you
35:29
intending to build a tower, come on,
35:31
sitth not down first and countth the
35:33
cost. I got whether he has sufficient to
35:36
finish it. That's right. There ain't no
35:37
sense of me starting out. Well, no. See,
35:39
cuz I I if I get me about four months.
35:42
So, what I can do is I used to do this.
35:44
Y'all can't play me. I know this. See, I
35:48
used to do this, doc. I would be I okay
35:50
what I'm gonna do is so I because then I
35:53
got anniversary and I can the first two
35:55
months and sometime even they give you
35:57
great you can't afford whatever that was
36:00
you got to do all that
36:08
listen to me. You need to count the
36:09
cost. Do I have it? Is it for me? But
36:13
I'm getting ready to show you something.
36:14
God help me to get this out.
36:17
God showed me
36:20
that at the same time the enemy has
36:22
always had a plan. We saw it with
36:23
Pharaoh. Amen. You see it with this got
36:27
to have it. Take your time. Oh, don't
36:29
worry about it. Don't worry about it.
36:31
Y'all see he said, "Honey, we'll put it
36:32
in now. You don't have to pay till
36:34
2028."
36:37
And you say, "Oo, that's good. That's a
36:39
good honey ain't got to pay. Cuz by that
36:41
time, see, but they know if you wouldn't
36:45
save up and you saw the mess tan up,
36:48
if you wouldn't save up for it, then you
36:51
ain't going to start saving after you
36:52
get it. That don't even make sense.
36:56
Oh, you done got mad, man. See how they
36:58
do me? You see,
37:02
God showed me that we are uniquely able
37:08
to walk in delayed gratification
37:12
because
37:13
that is the basis of our faith.
37:19
That's right. The basis of our faith
37:24
is being able to make choices that are
37:26
hard now.
37:29
so we can rejoice later.
37:32
I didn't even I'm trying to tell you. He
37:34
just showed it to me. I've been
37:35
preaching forever.
37:37
He says if in Colossians 2:6,
37:42
you didn't have that, Doc. You didn't
37:44
have that one. That came off the throne.
37:47
That's a joke thrown. Y'all know I'm
37:49
messing. Watch this. I'm so excited
37:51
about it. I I can hardly get myself
37:52
together. Watch this. As you have
37:55
therefore received As you have received
37:57
what? Christ Jesus the Lord. How I
37:59
receive him. Hold on. Let's talk about
38:00
how did I receive Christ Jesus the Lord.
38:03
Just how how I receive him. I received
38:05
him because I heard about him. I
38:08
believed in him. I confessed him and
38:12
that's how I live. So I now I heard
38:16
something. I believed it and I changed
38:19
my behavior now in hopes of what will
38:23
be.
38:25
God knows if I could just pick my shoe
38:27
and just throw I just I just want to
38:29
throw something. Elder Mary, I just
38:32
That's how I got saved. I believed in G.
38:36
I Who's who who I know some of y'all so
38:39
deep y'all y'all visit heaven
38:41
periodically just to keep your faith.
38:43
Theo, you know these folk deep in these
38:45
houses. They're deep, bro. They're deep.
38:47
How have you se I never seen him.
38:51
I'm not seeing them like I don't have a
38:53
bunch of visions and stuff. I don't have
38:56
I have a get get vision but I've not
38:58
like I don't be just I don't like to see
39:01
a lot of stuff like that. I have had one
39:03
or two. Okay. But that's it. I've been
39:06
saved 40ome
39:08
years. But I believe something and then
39:12
now I do like to check witnesses. So I
39:15
believed. So the Bible was here before I
39:17
got here. It'll be here when I'm gone.
39:19
and and I noticed a whole bunch of folks
39:21
that had also blessed. Okay, I got that.
39:24
Then he put a ump on the inside of me
39:27
let me know, oh no, this is straight up
39:29
real. And because of that, I used to
39:32
cuss. I used to do a steal. I used to do
39:34
all kind of stuff. But now I changed
39:38
that because I believe something and the
39:41
promises associated. So I changed in my
39:44
now so I could rejoice in my later.
39:48
If anybody could come out of debt, it's
39:51
us.
39:53
Oh, I do. I don't even know what to do
39:56
with myself. I want to go back to one of
39:58
the road cross the front Sundays. You
40:01
were let me tell you are you were
40:04
perfectly made to come out of whatever
40:06
you in.
40:08
I don't No. Uh-uh. You going to get
40:11
this. You were per God set this thing
40:14
up. He said, "The same way you receive
40:17
Christ Jesus," finish the verse. So,
40:19
walking in, that's how you walk.
40:25
You were made to be able to do it. Cuz
40:27
you know what it is to walk away from
40:30
something you want now because of
40:32
something you believe. Well, I can walk
40:34
away from debt then because I believe
40:36
I'm supposed to have abundance. I can
40:38
say no to that purchase cuz it ain't
40:40
wise right now. cuz I'm believing for
40:43
better. Y'all
40:44
ain't Lord. Can somebody near the middle
40:47
of the back holler for me? Cuz I can't I
40:48
can't get to y'all.
40:51
[Applause]
40:52
[Music]
40:54
Do you get it though? That's what who
40:56
who said Just say it one more time. Do
40:58
you have it one more time? So the whole
41:01
of the way we operate in our faith
41:05
is to believe what has been said, see it
41:09
cuz see there are other folk with plenty
41:10
of money.
41:13
Ain't no shortage. Ain't no shortage of
41:15
money.
41:18
They went to space for 11 minutes. Ain't
41:19
no shortage of money.
41:23
You know, I hadn't even been keeping up
41:24
with it. So I didn't know how long they
41:26
were going to be gone. I said, "Stay
41:27
crazy. They ain't no real astronauts.
41:30
They are out of their mind. And the last
41:31
people who were real astronauts were
41:33
stuck. And you up there were all women.
41:37
Oh, heck
41:39
no. My mind was like, I didn't even know
41:42
the thing was before 11 minutes. Then my
41:44
mind said, wonder how much that cost.
41:46
Ain't no shortage of money. My faith. He
41:49
said, I'mma get your head right. Your
41:52
life doesn't consist in the abundance of
41:53
things you have. So that way you ain't
41:55
going to be desperate. I'm going to
41:56
remind you stuff like people who are
41:58
diligent, who check stuff out, they
42:00
going to only have plenty. But the folk
42:02
who real hasty, they going to be broke.
42:04
He said, "Then folk who sleep too much,
42:06
they going to be broke." He said, "So
42:07
I'mma teach
42:10
I'mma teach you truth. You already have
42:13
it in you.
42:16
Your whole life is about delaying or
42:19
making decisions to get you to the place
42:22
where you and God want you. You already
42:25
do that every day. You just haven't
42:28
turned your faith to your finances.
42:31
Oh, play something. Play something. Play
42:34
something. Now, so today, let me look.
42:38
Right. Okay. Got my take seven minutes.
42:40
I'm'll be done. Let's see. Here's the
42:42
thing. Today, we're talking about
42:43
awareness. First, you got to be aware
42:46
that you were made. You are perfectly
42:49
designed to attack any problem in your
42:53
life. And this one is probably one of
42:55
the best areas. You were perfectly
42:58
designed to come out of debt and live in
43:00
abundance. Cuz if anybody know how to
43:02
say no to something, it's us.
43:05
You say, "Well, pastor, I don't always
43:06
do well, but you do better than most."
43:10
Celebrate. Celebrate what you have done.
43:13
Anybody used to smoke real bad. Yeah.
43:17
Right now, I don't know. You may still
43:18
smoke. I ain't I ain't ask you that. But
43:20
can you see that you've done a way way
43:22
better?
43:25
Right. Anybody used to get high? Come
43:27
on. I know the police out there. He
43:28
ain't going to bother y'all.
43:31
Right. Okay. So, can can you see that
43:34
you you separated from you are a dog on
43:37
sign and a wonder. You are an God. Oh, I
43:42
wish I could get it out like I feel it.
43:44
You're amazing. Don't tell me you can't
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come out of debt. If you can put that
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down, if you can put that down, if you
43:51
can stop all the other stuff you've been
43:52
doing so that you can be right with God,
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then surely you can change this and come
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in the overflow.
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[Applause]
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You see that? Yes, sir. Made for it.
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Made for it. Okay, I'm about done. So,
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look at this. There are three things.
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Three things. Write it down today. I
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want this spending plan. Go to Proverbs
44:18
27. We're almost done. If you give me
44:20
seven minutes, I'm going I got I got to
44:22
go to the little girl's room anyway.
44:23
Give me seven minutes. Y'all know that's
44:24
why I be running out after church. And I
44:27
ain't trying to make no cute exit. I
44:28
done got to that
44:30
age. Praise the Lord. I'm still young.
44:32
Don't Uh-uh. Uh-uh. And I want you to
44:35
change the age of the senior ministry.
44:39
Uh-uh. Don't come for me.
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Okay, then you don't change it. I'mma
44:44
change it. That's right. I'mma change.
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It's going to at least be what? 60 or
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65.
44:52
Okay. If you've already been functioning
44:55
in, you in. But if not, change that
44:58
thing to 65. I'm tired of feeling
45:01
funny. That's a bishop privilege right
45:04
there. They mad now. They mad. Well, we
45:06
already got your offering. So
45:08
what? I'm just playing. Come on. Let's
45:11
look at this. Proverbs 27. So here's the
45:13
thing. You have to be aware that you are
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made for this.
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You just didn't know you were made for
45:21
it. You don't even know how God so
45:24
incredible sometime. Now we can be
45:25
trifling. Don't get me wrong, but most
45:27
of it's so you're doing so much better.
45:30
You can't see it,
45:33
but you were made to come out of it and
45:36
made for abundance. But now watch this.
45:38
You're going to have to do three things
45:39
today. And this is my little simple
45:41
outline. So, you know, you got to look
45:42
at it, you got to look from it, and you
45:45
got to look up to him.
45:48
If you Let me get that out of these six
45:50
minutes, I'm good. You got to look at
45:52
it. So, the reason you got the spinning
45:54
plan is cuz you need to go home and get
45:57
quiet somewhere.
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Now, go and put on your favorite music
46:02
because it can be stressful.
46:06
Okay. Now, Proverbs 27:23. Proverbs 27
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verse 23. Be watch this victory grace.
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Turn to it. Come on. Be thou diligent to
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know the state of thy flocks. You need
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to know the state of your flocks. And
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what? And look well to thy herds. Look,
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that's what this this this you need to
46:25
know the situation you're in.
46:28
You need to know how much coming in that
46:31
house.
46:35
You got Listen, this is spiritual. Amen.
46:37
The Bible says that Jesus made unto us
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wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
46:41
and redemption. Today, we looking at him
46:43
as wisdom. You need to know what's
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coming in that house.
46:48
And watch this. And you need to know
46:50
what's going out. Let us take a moment.
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Income. Mom and
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them. When you go to work, grandma
46:59
always send you $20. Put that down. Now,
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you can't fill it out today, but I'm
47:04
trying to get you to see your check. If
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you get um any kind of severance or if
47:10
you get whatever kind of payments, if
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it's a check, I got some today.
47:14
$1959 came back from uh insurance.
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Hallelujah. That's $20.
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Yeah, we're going to sign it and deposit
47:24
it just soon as this service is over.
47:27
That's income.
47:29
That's income. Tell me your name again.
47:32
Pretty. Casha, she got what? You get
47:35
about
47:36
$300. She ain't even counting. She don't
47:38
need money. Somebody get some money from
47:40
her. She She I was getting ready to say
47:43
she not black, but you can't say stuff
47:44
like that on TV. I'm just playing. I was
47:46
just
47:48
playing. But you can tell she don't need
47:50
nothing. She ain't even counting. I go
47:52
somewhere I go preach. I done pour my
47:54
soul out. Whatever the Lord give me, I'm
47:56
just going to accept it. Right. But I
47:57
open that tickle.
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So whatever your income is, that's
48:02
that's part of your income. Now, it
48:04
doesn't come in every month, but you
48:05
need to have a little extra asterk
48:07
somewhere. Extra money coming in. We'll
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talk to you in another Sunday. We
48:11
probably made Sunday or two on what to
48:13
do with surprise blessings.
48:16
You got to have a plan for that stuff,
48:19
right? So, you write your income. Now,
48:20
watch this. When you finish your total
48:22
monthly income, then what's a tithe of
48:24
that?
48:26
Right? Okay. And then whatever offering
48:28
you can give. Now you may have right now
48:31
your tithe may be $400. That offering
48:34
might be 12. I've been there.
48:37
But be faithful.
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Okay. But now watch grocery restaurant,
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Starbucks,
48:48
Bojangles, Chick-fil-A,
48:51
and look here. If you got a good amount
48:53
of
48:54
debt, delete you Uber Eat delete. You
48:56
don't have enough money for Uber
48:58
Eats cuz you don't have enough money to
49:01
pay somebody $12 to bring you a sandwich
49:03
when you got a car payment and you can
49:05
go get it yourself. Preach,
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Bishop. I told somebody every time I
49:12
turn around they door dash oop eating
49:13
and everything else. And then when I say
49:15
I'm getting ready to go on a trip,
49:16
remember me if you can. I ain't
49:19
remembering you. Your trip money. They
49:21
got your trip money. I'm trying to get
49:24
out of here. Take your time and write
49:26
all of this down. You got to know. And
49:28
listen, you look at it with faith
49:30
because can I tell you,
49:32
I filled the paper out this many times.
49:35
And that thing was so bad by the time I
49:37
got to my part, by the time I looked
49:39
down to see income. And when I got
49:42
through writing down
49:44
insurance, weave money.
49:47
You say, "I don't get braids every
49:48
month." Divide it up how long they last.
49:51
If it's $200 to get them, you get them
49:53
every three months, then you pay about
49:55
$65, $70 a month. Put it down.
49:59
Huh, honey? I looked up there. I had so
50:02
much money going out, it didn't even
50:03
look like the income was for this that
50:05
same household.
50:07
But that's why you look at it in faith.
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Look at it in what? Look at your
50:15
situation in what?
50:17
Second thing, you got to look from it.
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look from. And this is where you'll
50:23
develop a spending plan. That's next
50:26
week we set up. And I hope y'all think
50:29
is this okay cuz I'm trying to preach
50:30
what God given us.
50:33
You need a spending plan. Cuz if you
50:36
don't tell your money where to go, you
50:38
going to wonder where it went.
50:40
And if you don't start saving now for
50:42
the old you,
50:46
where are my seniors that wish you had
50:47
this kind of teaching back in the day?
50:49
Look at all these hands. Mama cat stood
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up.
50:55
See what I'm saying?
50:57
Everybody, you you you you you won't you
50:59
don't know to appreciate your church
51:00
yet. That's right. You don't know yet,
51:04
but you will.
51:06
Cuz you're not going to come here and
51:08
shout and run
51:10
and not learn how to get into a life of
51:12
victory.
51:15
Some of you have had some things that
51:16
hit you really hard. It didn't work out
51:18
like you wanted to. God still going to
51:20
bring your dream to pass. He just going
51:21
to put you on another path.
51:26
Sometime God got to block one door to
51:28
push you through another cuz somebody
51:30
you going to meet at the other door is
51:32
going to propel you further in your
51:34
future.
51:37
I thought my doctor was calling to tell
51:39
me that she thanked me for the basket I
51:41
sent. She was calling to tell me I had
51:42
cancer.
51:44
So I ended up on a path I didn't plan.
51:47
But when I got through with that path,
51:50
oh my God, whole bunch of money done
51:53
come into my life as a result. A whole
51:55
amount of ministry.
51:58
You look from that place. Genesis 13:14,
52:03
he told him, "Look out from where you
52:05
are. You look from in faith and then you
52:09
start looking from." So from here now,
52:11
God, what are my next steps?
52:14
That's what we're going to work on next
52:15
week. You going to be okay with it? I'm
52:17
tell you, we're going to be on the board
52:18
next week cuz we got to figure out which
52:21
bill to pay when, what to do. See,
52:23
because remember, you are anointed and
52:26
designed to come out. Now, everybody in
52:29
here is not in debt.
52:32
Ain't no way in the world not we gave
52:33
$812,000.
52:36
Everybody not in debt. But everybody can
52:38
benefit because whereas some people may
52:40
be hearing this about debt, somebody
52:42
else may be hearing about their
52:44
marriage.
52:45
Look at where it is right now.
52:50
But now let's look from it. What can be
52:55
I done gone over my time. The final
52:56
thing I I'll let them pick it up. I will
52:59
pick it up Wednesday. Y'all work on it
53:01
Wednesday. And that is Luke two. Here's
53:04
the thing you have to understand. I will
53:06
lift up mine eyes to the heels from
53:10
whence cometh my help. My help.
53:13
I wish I had a church. My help comes
53:17
from the Lord, which made heaven and
53:20
earth, didn't it? So, here's my thing.
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I'm facing this, but I ain't facing it
53:24
alone.
53:26
Oh, I'm looking at where I am, but I'm
53:28
looking at it in faith. I'm looking from
53:30
where I am. I can see a better day. And
53:33
it's because I'm looking up to the one
53:35
that's my everyday help. You have
53:38
somebody. Listen, God is not only in
53:41
covenant with you, but he's in proximity
53:44
with you. He's there with you to bring
53:47
you out.
53:49
And you need to understand Jesus cares
53:51
about all of your life.
53:53
About what?
53:58
Let's pray. Come on up here. Get them
54:01
situated. Y'all get anything today?
54:04
All right. We'll pick it up on
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Wednesday.
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Amen.