It's All About the Heart
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Beyond Blessed | It's All About the Heart | September 23, 2019
- - You know, we've been taught
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- to avoid talking about money and finances
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- but that's exactly what we're gonna do today.
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- So many of us struggle to reach our financial goals
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- but what if you could pay off all of your debt,
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- save for the future, and turn your money
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- into a tool that helps you bring joy,
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- freedom, and blessings to other people that are around you.
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- I'm Pastor Robert Morris.
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- And over the last 30 years,
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- I've seen that God has a perfect plan
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- to overcome all financial stress.
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- I believe that generosity is
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- the key to living a blessed life.
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- But before we can be generous,
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- we have to learn to be wise and faithful stewards
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- of the resources that God entrust to us.
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- And the Bible is full of practical lessons
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- that show us how to do just that.
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- I wanna equip you to bless others
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- and to experience the fullness
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- of God's blessings in your own life.
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- Wherever you are today, you can start living Beyond Blessed.
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- (upbeat techno music)
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- (congregation applauding)
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- Well, thank you.
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- Thank you very much and thanks
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- for being here today and thank you for watching
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- today and we are talking about Beyond Blessed.
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- today and we are talking about Beyond Blessed.
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- That God blesses us beyond what we could
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- ever imagine so that we can be a blessing.
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- I just wanna remind you about that.
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- There's a lot of preaching out there
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- about being blessed but it seems to be materialistic.
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- It seems to be like God wants to bless us
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- so we can drive a bigger car or have some sort of a name,
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- brand, clothing, or something like that.
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- And let me say this about that,
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- it's okay to have a nice car, a dependable car.
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- It's okay to live on a nice neighborhood.
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- God doesn't care anything about that.
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- I like to say it this way.
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- God doesn't care if you have stuff.
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- God cares if the stuff has you.
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- - Amen. - So that's the big deal.
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- But again, God wants to bless us so we can be a blessing.
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- This goes all the way back to Abraham.
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- It's the very first thing he said to Abraham.
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- He said, you know, "Get out of your country,
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- "go to a place I'm gonna show you.
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- "I will bless you and you will be a blessing."
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- So today, we're gonna talk about it's all about the heart.
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- When we talk about being blessed or blessing someone else,
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- it's all about the heart.
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- And I want you to remember that and think about that.
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- So I wanna show you a very famous scripture on giving,
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- that it is on giving,
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- but I wanna clarify and show you
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- that it might not be exactly
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- the type of giving that you think it's talking about.
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- What I'm gonna do first is show you the
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- parallel passage which is in the Sermon on the Mount.
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- It's in Matthew 7.
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- Then we're gonna go to Luke 6.
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- So Matthew 7:1 and 2 say this,
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- So Matthew 7:1 and 2 say this,
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- "Judge not and you will not be judged.
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- "For with the judgment you judge, you will be judged;
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- "and with the measure you use,
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- "it would be measured back to you."
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- So don't judge or you'll be judged.
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- And with the measure you use...
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- And he's talking about giving judgment out.
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- It will be measured back to you.
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- In other words, you're gonna get judgment back, okay.
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- Now, let me just ask you a question.
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- I just read you those two scriptures.
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- Did you hear anything in those two scriptures about money?
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- - No. - No.
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- Doesn't say anything about money.
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- The subject is about judging, right?
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- So I'm gonna show you the parallel passage
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- every theologian I've ever talked to knows
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- where we're going in Luke 6 is
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- the parallel passage to Matthew 7.
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- It's the same sermon.
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- But there's a verse right in the middle
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- that we think is talking about money
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- and I don't think it is
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- because the context is judgment.
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- So let's commit to short term memory.
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- Two phrases from what we just read.
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- Matthew 7.
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- I'll say it and then you say it after me, okay.
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- "Judge not and you will not be judged."
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- - [Congregation] "Judge not and you will not be judged."
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- - "With the same measure you use,
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- "it will be measured back to you."
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- - [Congregation] "With the same measure you use,
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- "it will be measured back to you."
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- - Okay, y'all did great.
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- And we didn't ever rehearse that.
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- They just did great. (congregation laugh)
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- (mumbles) Okay, all right.
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- We go over to Luke 6, and the first
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- phrase of verse 37 says,
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- "Judge not and you will not be judged."
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- So I'm showing you this is the Matthew 7 passage.
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- The last phrase of verse 38 says,
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- "For with the same measure you use,
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- "it will be measured back to you."
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- So it's the same passage.
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- But Luke being a physician,
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- puts something in between that's not in Matthew
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- that I want you to notice it
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- and I want you to notice again
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- what context it's in, all right.
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- So here's Luke 6:37-38, all of it.
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- "Judge not, and you will not be judged.
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- "Condemn not, and you will not be condemned.
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- "Forgive, and you will be forgiven."
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- Now here's the part you've heard before
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- but think about the context.
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- "Give, and it will be given to you:
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- "good measure, pressed down, shaken together,
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- "and running over will be put into your bosom.
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- "For with the same measure you use,
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- "it will be measured back to you."
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- Okay now, most of the time when you hear
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- the first part of Luke 6:38,
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- "Give and it will be given back to you.
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- "Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over."
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- Most of the time when you hear a minister,
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- pastor use that scripture, what's he talking about?
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- (man mumbles) Money, right.
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- Okay.
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- But let me ask you again.
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- Was the word money anywhere on that verse?
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- - No. - No.
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- And it is not the context.
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- He's not talking about money anywhere in there.
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- He was actually talking about judging.
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- Now, I have a little pet peeve, okay.
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- So everybody has 'em.
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- So I got one too.
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- My pet peeve is not that we don't understand Greek.
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- That's not my pet peeve.
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- My pet peeve is that most people
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- don't understand English.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- Here's why I say that.
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- Give is the verb.
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- That's the action.
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- You is the implied subject.
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- Now what that means is you's not in there but it's implied.
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- That's the subject.
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- You give and it will be given back to you.
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- It is an objective pronoun.
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- What that means is that there's
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- no such thing as an it.
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- You have to actually put something
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- in that place of it to know what it is.
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- So what he's saying is, you give,
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- and whatever it is that you give,
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- is gonna be given back to you.
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- And if you put this in the context,
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- here's what he's saying.
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- If you give judgment,
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- judgment is gonna be given back to you.
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- And here's the part that many
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- people never talk about this way.
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- Good measure, pressed down,
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- Good measure, pressed down,
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- running over (laughs)
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- shaken together.
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- No one talks about that.
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- But that's what he's talking about.
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- That's what he's talking about.
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- Give condemnation and condemnation
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- is gonna be given back to you.
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- Give forgiveness, that's a good one.
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- Forgive and you'll be forgiven.
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- You see what I'm saying?
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- Okay.
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- Here's my point though.
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- This whole thing about giving is about the heart.
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- It's about the heart.
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- Jesus is trying to deal with the heart.
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- If you have a problem with giving money,
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- you actually have a problem with your heart.
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- By the way, maybe you've never even thought about this.
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- Think about the word forgive.
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- Forgive.
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- It contains the word give.
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- For, by the way, means that you're in favor of something.
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- You know.
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- I'm for it or I'm against it, okay.
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- So God is for giving.
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- So God is for giving.
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- So God is for giving.
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- (laughs)
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- Do y'all hear me?
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- - Yeah. - Yes.
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- - And he's also forgiving.
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- (everyone laughing)
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- He forgives because he's for giving grace to people.
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- He's in favor of it.
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- This is pretty good, by the way.
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- If y'all didn't know this is good,
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- this is good stuff, okay?
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- If you have a problem with giving,
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- you also probably have a problem with forgiving.
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- If you have a problem with forgiving,
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- you also probably have problem with giving.
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- This is where Jesus said,
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- "Freely you have received, so freely give."
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- You know the reason we have a problem with forgiving,
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- in other words, giving grace to someone
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- else or forgiveness to them,
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- is because we think we had to earn it from God.
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- So if we have to earn it,
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- we actually try to make other people earn it.
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- You have to earn my forgiveness
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- because we felt like we had to earn our forgiveness.
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- But we didn't.
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- It's completely free.
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- So this whole thing about giving, it's about the heart.
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- And again, giving is an action
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- and it involves so many things other than just money.
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- I was being interviewed for a magazine one time
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- and the guy asked me, "How often do you preach on giving?"
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- And I said, "Oh, every week."
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- And he said, "Really?
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- "You preach on giving every week?"
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- And I said, "Yeah."
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- And I said, "Now, let me explain something."
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- Again remember, I'm a grammarian so I hear your words.
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- And I know what you're saying
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- even though you don't think you're saying it.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- And I have to translate sometimes
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- what you think you're trying to say but I said to him,
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- "You asked me how often I preached on giving.
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- "What you meant to ask me was how often
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- "do you preach on giving money."
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- That's what you meant.
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- You didn't say giving money.
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- You just say giving.
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- So I can't preach on grace without preaching on giving.
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- - Amen. - For God so loved
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- the world that he,
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- - [Congregation] Gave.
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- - I can't preach on prayer by preaching...
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- I definitely can't preach on marriage
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- without preaching on giving.
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- (everyone laughing)
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- - Amen. - Because if you're gonna
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- be married, you're gonna have to give some forgiveness.
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- (congregation laughing) - Yeah, come on.
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- - Right? - Right.
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- - And you're gonna have to pause the game and take
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- the trash out when you're supposed to take the trash.
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- You're gonna have to give some time.
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- Okay.
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- So giving is more than giving money.
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- It's an attitude of the heart.
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- That's what I want you to hear.
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- So way back in Deuteronomy 15,
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- God sets up some principles about giving
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- God sets up some principles about giving
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- that have to do with the heart.
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- So let me read it to you, all right.
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- Deuteronomy 15:7, "If there is among you
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- "a poor man of your brethren,
- 00:11:45.030 --> 00:11:47.190
- "within any of the gates in your land
- 00:11:47.190 --> 00:11:50.100
- "which the Lord your God is giving you,"
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- I like that because he is reminding them,
- 00:11:53.150 --> 00:11:55.120
- you're not earning the promise land.
- 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:57.140
- You're fighting for it.
- 00:11:57.140 --> 00:11:59.130
- See, we're at a war but you're
- 00:11:59.130 --> 00:12:02.080
- still not earning it, I'm still giving it to you.
- 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:04.260
- Even though you're in a war, okay?
- 00:12:04.260 --> 00:12:06.180
- "If there's a poor man among you,
- 00:12:07.220 --> 00:12:09.290
- "you shall not harden your heart."
- 00:12:09.290 --> 00:12:13.120
- It's all about the heart.
- 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:14.270
- Then he says, "Nor shut your hand from your poor brother."
- 00:12:14.270 --> 00:12:19.040
- Let me just clarify.
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- If you shut your hand toward people,
- 00:12:20.100 --> 00:12:22.040
- it's because you've already shut your heart.
- 00:12:22.040 --> 00:12:24.100
- When you opened your hand toward people
- 00:12:26.160 --> 00:12:28.090
- like if there's a crisis, we do this all the time.
- 00:12:28.090 --> 00:12:30.240
- With the hurricane or tornado or something.
- 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:33.050
- All of us.
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- We send what we can.
- 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:35.020
- We do what we can.
- 00:12:35.020 --> 00:12:36.140
- It's because we've already opened our heart.
- 00:12:36.140 --> 00:12:37.270
- That's why we opened our hands.
- 00:12:37.270 --> 00:12:39.240
- He says, "If you don't harden your heart,
- 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:41.250
- "nor shut your hand from your poor brother,
- 00:12:41.250 --> 00:12:44.130
- "but you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly..."
- 00:12:44.130 --> 00:12:49.050
- So again, willingly, we're dealing with your heart.
- 00:12:49.050 --> 00:12:52.030
- "Lend to him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs."
- 00:12:52.030 --> 00:12:57.030
- So, how do we do this with our heart?
- 00:12:58.070 --> 00:12:59.180
- So four things, all right.
- 00:12:59.180 --> 00:13:00.220
- Here's number one.
- 00:13:00.220 --> 00:13:01.280
- We have to deal with a selfish heart.
- 00:13:01.280 --> 00:13:04.200
- We just have to deal with it because we're born selfish.
- 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:08.010
- Verse nine says, "Beware lest there be
- 00:13:08.010 --> 00:13:11.010
- "a wicked thought in your heart..."
- 00:13:11.010 --> 00:13:14.280
- And notice again, it's in the heart.
- 00:13:14.280 --> 00:13:16.200
- "Saying, 'The seventh year,
- 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:19.170
- the year of release, is at hand,'"
- 00:13:19.170 --> 00:13:21.070
- Now we're gonna talk about that.
- 00:13:21.070 --> 00:13:22.140
- Most of us know about the year of Jubilee.
- 00:13:22.140 --> 00:13:24.120
- "And your eye be evil against your poor
- 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:26.240
- "brother and you give him nothing,
- 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:28.250
- "and he cry out to the Lord against you,
- 00:13:28.250 --> 00:13:31.110
- "and it become sin among you."
- 00:13:31.110 --> 00:13:34.040
- So he says, don't let there be
- 00:13:34.040 --> 00:13:35.180
- a wicked thought in your heart.
- 00:13:35.180 --> 00:13:38.200
- First of all, let's clarify something.
- 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:40.150
- God calls selfishness, wickedness.
- 00:13:40.150 --> 00:13:43.080
- That's wicked to God, okay.
- 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:46.170
- And the thought would be,
- 00:13:46.170 --> 00:13:48.130
- you know it's almost the year of Jubilee.
- 00:13:48.130 --> 00:13:51.170
- The seventh year.
- 00:13:51.170 --> 00:13:52.140
- And okay, let me give you the example.
- 00:13:53.210 --> 00:13:55.250
- Let's say God comes to you and he says,
- 00:13:55.250 --> 00:13:57.170
- "Hey, Mike.
- 00:13:57.170 --> 00:13:59.010
- "We didn't have a lot of rain this year, you know that.
- 00:13:59.010 --> 00:14:01.030
- "And you have much bigger farm than I have.
- 00:14:01.030 --> 00:14:03.110
- "And I just didn't get many crops
- 00:14:03.110 --> 00:14:05.230
- "and I don't think we're gonna
- 00:14:05.230 --> 00:14:07.000
- "be able to make it through the winter
- 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:08.150
- "and I'm wondering if you could lend me some grain
- 00:14:08.150 --> 00:14:12.020
- "so that I'll be able to make it through the winter
- 00:14:12.020 --> 00:14:13.290
- "and plant, you know, in the spring.
- 00:14:13.290 --> 00:14:15.230
- "And then I will pay you back out
- 00:14:16.260 --> 00:14:17.240
- "in the next harvest, okay?"
- 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:19.150
- And he says, "Don't let this thought come to your heart
- 00:14:20.280 --> 00:14:22.130
- "because every seven years, all debts were canceled."
- 00:14:22.130 --> 00:14:26.210
- And by the way, God implemented that economic system.
- 00:14:28.020 --> 00:14:31.240
- God implemented for his people an
- 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:34.160
- economic system that every seven years,
- 00:14:34.160 --> 00:14:38.260
- all of your debt was canceled.
- 00:14:38.260 --> 00:14:41.160
- How many of you would like to re-implement
- 00:14:41.160 --> 00:14:44.050
- (congregation laughing) - Amen.
- 00:14:44.050 --> 00:14:45.000
- - Amen. - God's economic system.
- 00:14:46.150 --> 00:14:49.140
- It's pretty good system, isn't it?
- 00:14:49.140 --> 00:14:51.110
- Okay.
- 00:14:51.110 --> 00:14:52.050
- But here's what he says.
- 00:14:52.050 --> 00:14:53.120
- He says now, here's what might happen.
- 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:55.050
- Right when you say, "Oh sure, I'd love to."
- 00:14:55.050 --> 00:14:57.040
- You might have a thought in your heart.
- 00:14:57.040 --> 00:14:58.180
- Now we all have thoughts, okay.
- 00:14:58.180 --> 00:15:00.180
- The problem is what we do with them.
- 00:15:00.180 --> 00:15:02.020
- You might have a thought that says,
- 00:15:02.020 --> 00:15:03.120
- "Uh oh, wait.
- 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:05.040
- "This is the sixth year."
- 00:15:05.040 --> 00:15:06.180
- "Matter of fact, it's only six
- 00:15:07.210 --> 00:15:08.280
- "more months 'til the year of Jubilee.
- 00:15:08.280 --> 00:15:11.070
- "If he can't pay me back in that timeframe,
- 00:15:11.070 --> 00:15:14.160
- "I have to cancel his debt."
- 00:15:14.160 --> 00:15:15.290
- And here's what God is saying.
- 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:20.250
- You need to deal with that
- 00:15:20.250 --> 00:15:22.190
- because that's a heart issue.
- 00:15:22.190 --> 00:15:24.270
- So you gotta understand giving is a heart issue.
- 00:15:24.270 --> 00:15:29.270
- Here's the second thing.
- 00:15:30.190 --> 00:15:31.170
- Deal with a grieving heart.
- 00:15:31.170 --> 00:15:33.200
- A grieving heart.
- 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:36.130
- So first, a selfish heart.
- 00:15:36.130 --> 00:15:37.290
- Second, a grieving heart.
- 00:15:37.290 --> 00:15:39.140
- Deuteronomy 15:10.
- 00:15:39.140 --> 00:15:41.010
- I'm just walking you through Deuteronomy 15, okay?
- 00:15:41.010 --> 00:15:43.190
- "You shall surely give to him,"
- 00:15:43.190 --> 00:15:45.230
- Watch this.
- 00:15:45.230 --> 00:15:46.200
- "and your heart..."
- 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:48.070
- It's all about the heart.
- 00:15:48.070 --> 00:15:49.240
- "Should not be grieved or sad about it
- 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:50.290
- "Should not be grieved or sad about it
- 00:15:50.290 --> 00:15:53.230
- "when you give to him because for this thing,
- 00:15:53.230 --> 00:15:56.080
- "the Lord your God will bless you
- 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:58.090
- "in all your works and in all
- 00:15:58.090 --> 00:16:01.170
- "to which you put your hand."
- 00:16:01.170 --> 00:16:03.160
- Now that's a great promise right there.
- 00:16:03.160 --> 00:16:05.000
- - [Congregation] Amen.
- 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:06.050
- - God says, "You deal with your heart,
- 00:16:06.050 --> 00:16:07.110
- "I'll bless all the work you have."
- 00:16:07.110 --> 00:16:09.070
- But he says, "But now don't grieve."
- 00:16:09.070 --> 00:16:10.280
- Okay.
- 00:16:10.280 --> 00:16:11.260
- So, here's what we need to know.
- 00:16:11.260 --> 00:16:13.010
- Before we give, selfishness attacks us.
- 00:16:13.010 --> 00:16:15.260
- But after we give, grief attacks us.
- 00:16:17.020 --> 00:16:19.040
- Think about this.
- 00:16:20.040 --> 00:16:21.020
- Have you ever given an offering
- 00:16:21.020 --> 00:16:23.250
- and then the washing machine breaks
- 00:16:23.250 --> 00:16:25.220
- or the car or you get some sort
- 00:16:25.220 --> 00:16:27.180
- of unexpected repair bill and
- 00:16:27.180 --> 00:16:29.180
- it's like the enemy then comes.
- 00:16:29.180 --> 00:16:31.030
- What is he saying?
- 00:16:31.030 --> 00:16:31.280
- We've all heard it.
- 00:16:31.280 --> 00:16:32.260
- You shouldn't have don't that.
- 00:16:32.260 --> 00:16:34.180
- Now you're gonna be in trouble.
- 00:16:34.180 --> 00:16:36.050
- See.
- 00:16:36.050 --> 00:16:37.000
- So we grieve about it.
- 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:38.180
- He's saying, "Don't do that."
- 00:16:39.210 --> 00:16:41.200
- Now, I'm gonna tell you something that's just crazy.
- 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:44.220
- Sometimes when you're up, you're speaking,
- 00:16:45.270 --> 00:16:47.250
- thoughts will just go through your mind
- 00:16:47.250 --> 00:16:50.090
- and they're just random thoughts
- 00:16:50.090 --> 00:16:51.240
- and you just learned to push 'em out
- 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:54.080
- but I'm just gonna tell you what.
- 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:56.180
- I'm standing here talking about finances and all
- 00:16:56.180 --> 00:17:00.080
- and I just, here's a thought
- 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:01.160
- that just went through my mind.
- 00:17:01.160 --> 00:17:03.270
- When I leave here, I'm going to lunch
- 00:17:03.270 --> 00:17:06.130
- and I don't have any cash with me.
- 00:17:06.130 --> 00:17:08.020
- I just had that thought just go through my...
- 00:17:08.020 --> 00:17:10.270
- Look at that.
- 00:17:13.090 --> 00:17:14.040
- (congregation applauding)
- 00:17:15.230 --> 00:17:17.220
- Look at that.
- 00:17:17.220 --> 00:17:18.170
- $20.
- 00:17:18.170 --> 00:17:20.040
- That was nice, wasn't it?
- 00:17:20.040 --> 00:17:21.160
- All right, let's keep going, okay.
- 00:17:22.220 --> 00:17:24.000
- All right, so.
- 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:24.250
- (congregation laughing)
- 00:17:24.250 --> 00:17:26.260
- Okay.
- 00:17:26.260 --> 00:17:27.210
- (mumbles) keep going.
- 00:17:27.210 --> 00:17:28.280
- Let me talk about that for a minute, all right.
- 00:17:28.280 --> 00:17:30.180
- When I said I need $20, all right.
- 00:17:32.090 --> 00:17:34.040
- I need some money.
- 00:17:34.040 --> 00:17:35.260
- Mike's a friend of mine.
- 00:17:35.260 --> 00:17:37.110
- Why did Mike get up that quickly and give it to me?
- 00:17:37.110 --> 00:17:39.200
- Okay, let me tell you why.
- 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:41.020
- Because I gave him that $20 before the show.
- 00:17:41.020 --> 00:17:44.030
- (congregation laughing)
- 00:17:44.030 --> 00:17:47.130
- And I told him, "I want you to do this
- 00:17:48.180 --> 00:17:50.100
- "'cause I'm gonna use that as an illustration."
- 00:17:50.100 --> 00:17:52.050
- Okay, so I have a question for you.
- 00:17:52.050 --> 00:17:54.050
- This is my $20.
- 00:17:54.050 --> 00:17:55.130
- (congregation laughing)
- 00:17:55.130 --> 00:17:57.000
- I gave it to him before the show.
- 00:17:57.000 --> 00:17:58.160
- I said, "I want you to give it to me when I ask for it."
- 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:00.040
- So, is he grieving because he gave this to me?
- 00:18:00.040 --> 00:18:01.200
- So, is he grieving because he gave this to me?
- 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:05.200
- - No. - Yes.
- 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:07.040
- - Oh you are a little?
- 00:18:07.040 --> 00:18:08.030
- (everyone laughing)
- 00:18:08.030 --> 00:18:08.290
- Just a little?
- 00:18:08.290 --> 00:18:10.000
- Okay.
- 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:11.130
- He was thinking, I hope he forgets about this illustration.
- 00:18:11.130 --> 00:18:14.240
- No, he's not.
- 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:15.220
- He's just joking.
- 00:18:15.220 --> 00:18:16.200
- He's not grieving about it.
- 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:17.190
- Why is he not grieving about it?
- 00:18:17.190 --> 00:18:20.010
- - [Woman] It wasn't his.
- 00:18:20.010 --> 00:18:21.290
- - 'Cause it wasn't his money in the first place.
- 00:18:21.290 --> 00:18:24.110
- It's my money.
- 00:18:25.120 --> 00:18:26.130
- (man laughing)
- 00:18:26.130 --> 00:18:28.100
- It's my money.
- 00:18:28.100 --> 00:18:29.100
- Are y'all catching this?
- 00:18:31.050 --> 00:18:32.100
- - [Congregation] Yes.
- 00:18:32.100 --> 00:18:33.240
- - How many times does God say,
- 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:35.240
- "I want you to go help that person."
- 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:37.190
- And we should never grieve 'cause
- 00:18:39.150 --> 00:18:41.050
- it wasn't our money in the first place.
- 00:18:41.050 --> 00:18:42.240
- (congregation mumble)
- 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:43.200
- It was God's money.
- 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:44.270
- And you know what I think God might think.
- 00:18:44.270 --> 00:18:46.210
- God might think, you know what,
- 00:18:46.210 --> 00:18:48.020
- I need to find someone else to bless
- 00:18:48.020 --> 00:18:50.130
- that won't grieve about it.
- 00:18:51.130 --> 00:18:53.000
- 'Cause every time I ask that person to give,
- 00:18:54.070 --> 00:18:57.100
- she just argues with me and argues with me.
- 00:18:57.100 --> 00:19:00.200
- And I'm gonna find someone that says
- 00:19:01.260 --> 00:19:03.180
- when I ask that person to give,
- 00:19:03.180 --> 00:19:05.120
- when she says, "Thank you Lord
- 00:19:05.120 --> 00:19:08.120
- "for giving me an opportunity to be a blessing."
- 00:19:08.120 --> 00:19:11.080
- That's what Beyond Blessed is all about.
- 00:19:11.080 --> 00:19:14.100
- It's about being a blessing.
- 00:19:15.190 --> 00:19:17.080
- So, we have to deal with a selfish heart.
- 00:19:17.080 --> 00:19:19.200
- We have to deal with a grieving heart.
- 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:20.280
- Here's number three.
- 00:19:20.280 --> 00:19:22.100
- Develop a generous heart.
- 00:19:22.100 --> 00:19:24.100
- And it can be developed.
- 00:19:26.080 --> 00:19:28.070
- All of us have developed in our walk with the Lord.
- 00:19:28.070 --> 00:19:32.180
- So you can develop a generous heart.
- 00:19:32.180 --> 00:19:35.040
- Verse 14, "You shall supply him liberally from your flock,
- 00:19:35.040 --> 00:19:40.040
- "from your threshing floor, and from your winepress.
- 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:43.150
- "From what the Lord has blessed you with,
- 00:19:43.150 --> 00:19:47.140
- "you shall give to Him."
- 00:19:47.140 --> 00:19:50.020
- Think about that.
- 00:19:50.020 --> 00:19:51.050
- Here's what he's saying.
- 00:19:52.030 --> 00:19:52.280
- Just develop it.
- 00:19:52.280 --> 00:19:54.040
- Just take time and develop it.
- 00:19:54.040 --> 00:19:57.020
- Here's the best way to develop it.
- 00:19:57.020 --> 00:19:59.290
- When you get that little nudge
- 00:19:59.290 --> 00:20:02.000
- and you know it's a nudge from the Lord
- 00:20:03.060 --> 00:20:05.000
- and maybe you need to confirm it
- 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.160
- with your spouse if you're married.
- 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:09.160
- With a friend.
- 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:10.220
- Maybe you ask the Lord to confirm it to you.
- 00:20:11.290 --> 00:20:14.060
- But you get that little nudge.
- 00:20:14.060 --> 00:20:15.210
- There's nothing wrong with asking God to confirm.
- 00:20:15.210 --> 00:20:17.260
- People did it all through the Bible
- 00:20:17.260 --> 00:20:19.180
- and God never got mad at them.
- 00:20:19.180 --> 00:20:21.280
- Gideon asked God to confirm twice, right?
- 00:20:21.280 --> 00:20:24.260
- The fleece of Gideon.
- 00:20:24.260 --> 00:20:26.110
- God never got mad at him for asking it, okay.
- 00:20:26.110 --> 00:20:28.180
- So it's okay to ask God to confirm it.
- 00:20:28.180 --> 00:20:30.220
- But then, when you just just do the little things,
- 00:20:30.220 --> 00:20:35.020
- it's so because what happens is
- 00:20:35.020 --> 00:20:37.050
- the generosity has developed in you, all right.
- 00:20:37.050 --> 00:20:40.060
- I have nine grandchildren.
- 00:20:42.120 --> 00:20:44.240
- If you don't know, Debbie and I
- 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:45.290
- have married almost 39 years now.
- 00:20:45.290 --> 00:20:49.160
- - [Man] That's it!
- 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:50.260
- - And so we love our grandchildren and they're great
- 00:20:50.260 --> 00:20:52.190
- but we got all this grandchildren stories
- 00:20:52.190 --> 00:20:54.120
- like some of you that have grandchildren or children.
- 00:20:54.120 --> 00:20:56.200
- They get all these funny things I do.
- 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:58.140
- So our oldest daughter, daughter-in-law,
- 00:20:58.140 --> 00:21:02.150
- they get in the car from church
- 00:21:02.150 --> 00:21:04.140
- and they have a son and a daughter.
- 00:21:04.140 --> 00:21:06.210
- And their daughter is named Willow.
- 00:21:06.210 --> 00:21:08.210
- And Willow says, "Mommy, did you know
- 00:21:08.210 --> 00:21:11.140
- "there was a girl in the Bible that gave
- 00:21:11.140 --> 00:21:15.070
- "two pennies to the Lord and that was all she had."
- 00:21:15.070 --> 00:21:18.290
- And Hannah, our daughter-in-law, said,
- 00:21:20.030 --> 00:21:22.140
- I did know that.
- 00:21:22.140 --> 00:21:23.090
- I have heard that.
- 00:21:23.090 --> 00:21:24.030
- She said, "Mommy, I'd like to give something to the Lord."
- 00:21:25.170 --> 00:21:28.150
- And so Hannah said, "Well, why don't you just pray
- 00:21:29.290 --> 00:21:32.020
- "and ask the Lord what he would want you to give."
- 00:21:32.020 --> 00:21:35.010
- So she actually kind of adjusted the mirror
- 00:21:36.060 --> 00:21:39.200
- where she could see, you know.
- 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:41.110
- And she saw little Willow just put
- 00:21:41.110 --> 00:21:43.210
- her head down like this and she started praying.
- 00:21:43.210 --> 00:21:46.080
- And then all of a sudden this is what she said.
- 00:21:46.080 --> 00:21:47.100
- She went, "What?"
- 00:21:47.100 --> 00:21:49.070
- (congregation laughing)
- 00:21:49.070 --> 00:21:52.280
- "What?"
- 00:21:52.280 --> 00:21:53.230
- And then she said, "Little baby?
- 00:21:55.060 --> 00:21:58.130
- "You want little baby?"
- 00:21:58.130 --> 00:21:59.240
- And then she said, "Oh, oh, Betty baby.
- 00:22:01.010 --> 00:22:04.010
- "Oh yeah, you can have Betty baby.
- 00:22:04.010 --> 00:22:05.210
- "I don't like her."
- 00:22:05.210 --> 00:22:06.210
- (congregation laughing)
- 00:22:06.210 --> 00:22:10.200
- Here's my point.
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- She's just little.
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- She's just learning.
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- That's cute.
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- But if she were 40.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- And she was still grappling about
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- giving little baby away...
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- Are y'all hearing me?
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- - Yes. - Yes.
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- - There are a whole lot of Christians
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- that have never matured in this area.
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- Here's the last one.
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- Develop a grateful heart.
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- Develop a grateful heart.
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- Here's how you develop a grateful heart.
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- "You shall remember that you were
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- "a slave in the land of Egypt,
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- "and that the Lord your God redeemed you;
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- "therefore I command you this thing today."
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- What's he commanding them?
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- He's commanding them to have a generous heart.
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- He says now, "Here's how you do it.
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- "You remember you used to not have anything.
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- "And everything you have, I gave you."
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- Awhile back, we had a pastor and his wife
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- come in for a conference and we had them stay in our home
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- and we were just talkin' and sharin'
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- and for some reason,
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- and for some reason,
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- my wife and the pastor's wife
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- were in the kitchen talking.
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- The guy and I, we were like in the living room talking.
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- Well he got up to go get him something to drink,
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- some iced tea or something.
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- And he overheard my wife and his wife
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- talking about me giving because
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- there been times when I've, you know, said,
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- "I wanna give cars."
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- Even the time when Debbie and I gave our first house away.
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- And she was just asking this and this pastor got interested
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- but I'm hearing it in the living room.
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- And she sat down and said to...
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- The pastor sat down and said to my wife,
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- "Can I ask you something?"
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- And Debbie said, "Sure."
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- And he said, "Why do you think Robert gives so much?"
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- And he said, "Why do you think Robert gives so much?"
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- He said, "I've tried to figure this out for years.
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- "I've read his books.
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- "I hear all the stories.
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- "I mean this guy has given..."
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- I've given my retirement away many times.
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- When God tells me to give, I just give.
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- Now remember this says, you need to remember
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- when you're asked to give that
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- you used to not have anything.
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- So he said to my wife, "Why do you think
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- "Robert just gives so much away?"
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- And this is what I heard my wife say from the kitchen,
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- "Because he's never gotten over getting saved."
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- I've never forgotten that I was lost
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- I've never forgotten that I was lost
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- even though I grew up in church, good parents.
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- Great family.
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- I didn't know Jesus.
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- And I got involved in drugs.
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- It was a horrible life.
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- And God delivered me just like that.
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- And I've never gotten over that.
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- It's easy to be generous when you're grateful.
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- - Amen. - Amen.
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- - I want you to just close your eyes for a moment.
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- Maybe they're at home.
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- Just take a moment and just
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- ask the Holy Spirit, what are you saying to me today?
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- What are you saying to me through this?
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- Here's the point.
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- We all have to deal with selfishness.
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- But just be honest.
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- Let's just say, "Lord, will you help me?
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- "Will you help me in this area?
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- "Will you help me to deal with a selfish heart?
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- "Will you help me to deal with a grieving heart?
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- "Will you help me develop a generous and a grateful heart?
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- "And will you bless me so that I can be a blessing?
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- "And I agree with this prayer in Jesus' name.
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- "Amen."
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- I wanna say thanks so much for watching
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- and I'll see you next time.
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