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Beyond Blessed | What Test? | September 30, 2019
- 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 into a tool
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- that helps you bring joy, freedom, and blessings
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- to other people that are around you?
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- I'm Pastor Robert Morris, 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 the
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- 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 entrusts 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 of
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- God's blessings in your own life.
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- Wherever you are today,
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- you can start living Beyond Blessed.
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- (upbeat music)
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- (audience applauds)
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- Thank you, thank you, thanks so much.
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- Thanks for being here and thanks for joining us.
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- You're watching Beyond Blessed,
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- and this is where I'm talking about
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- how God blesses us in such a beyond way
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- than what we could ever imagine
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- so that we can be a blessing.
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- So I wanna clarify just right at the top of the show here
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- that I'm not talking about materialism.
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- I'm not talking about Beyond Blessed
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- so that we can be materialistically oriented in our mind.
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- I'm talking about God beyond blessing us
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- so that we can beyond bless other people.
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- So that's what we're talking about.
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- And so today, I wanna talk to you about something specific,
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- and I'm going to give you the title of what I'll talk about.
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- I always have to have a title
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- 'cause it keeps me centered and it keeps us all thinking,
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- okay, what's he saying to us?
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- I've got some friends here that I'm sharing with today.
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- Actually, they're sinners that need to get saved,
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- so you need to pray for them, and so--
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- (audience laughing)
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- I'm joking.
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- Many of these are members of our church
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- or members of other really good churches
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- here in the area.
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- All right, so, here's how I came up
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- with the title for today's message.
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- It's something that I used to
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- say a lot when I was in school.
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- The title is, "What Test?"
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- (audience laughing)
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- (laughs) I don't know if this ever happened to you.
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- I need to have a little show of hands here.
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- But did you ever walk into class,
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- everybody had their books out,
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- and they were feverishly studying,
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- and they said to you, "Are you ready,
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- are you ready, are you ready for the test?"
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- And you said--
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- - [Audience] What test?
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- - Yeah.
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- I didn't do well in school.
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- But I'm proud of myself because
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- I graduated in the top 10% of the lower one-third
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- of our graduating class. (audience laughing)
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- So, did you know that there's a test in the Bible
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- that you take every time you get paid?
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- That's what we're gonna talk about.
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- Because if we're gonna live a life Beyond Blessed,
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- we're gonna have to understand
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- that there are financial tests
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- that God set up in the Bible,
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- and that's what we're gonna talk about.
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- So every time you get paid, I wanna say that again,
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- so here, we'll take a little poll.
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- Right, just right here.
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- How many of you get paid once a month?
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- Can I see your hand?
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- Not very many people anymore, but some do.
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- How many of you get paid, this is normal, twice a month?
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- So, all right, yeah, that's the majority.
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- How many once a week?
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- Okay, we have a few of those.
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- How many of you never get paid?
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- (audience laughs)
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- I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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- That's the same with my wife.
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- Nobody ever pays her.
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- But every time you get paid,
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- and many Christians don't know this,
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- you take a test.
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- And the test is whom are you going
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- to thank for your pay check?
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- And the way you pass that test is where the first 10% goes.
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- Where's it go?
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- Now, I understand they take things out of our check,
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- but that's not under our control.
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- It's when it comes into our account,
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- what do we do with the first 10%?
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- So, let me read you some scripture.
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- Malachi Chapter 3, I'm gonna start in Verse 6.
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- It says, "For I am the Lord, I do not change."
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- This is called the immutability of God, doctrinely.
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- But I want you to think about this
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- because He's about to talk about tithing,
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- but He begins with this statement
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- about Himself, about His character.
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- "I am the Lord, I do not change."
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- It's because here's what gets me.
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- So many times we say, well, this is in the Old Testament.
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- But we have God, right now, saying I don't change, though.
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- This is the principle with me.
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- I don't change.
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- I am the Lord, I do not change.
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- It's very important to always start at Verse 6
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- when you're talking about this, not just Verse 8.
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- Verse 8 is where we talk about tithing.
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- "I am the lord, I do not change."
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- Then I like this statement, it's a little humorous to me,
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- since He says, since I don't change, He says,
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- "therefore you are not consumed."
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- In other words, I'm good,
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- that's why I haven't killed you yet.
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- (audience laughing) 'Cause I don't change.
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- Then He says, "Yet from the days of your fathers,
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- "you've gone away from My ordinances."
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- And let me tell you what an ordinance is.
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- That exact definition.
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- An ordinance is a principle of ordinary behavior.
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- That's what an ordinance is.
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- In other words, we see city ordinances,
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- what they're saying is,
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- it would be ordinary for you to park here,
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- it would not be ordinary for you to park here.
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- It's an ordinance of that city.
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- So, when He says you've gone away
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- from My ordinary principles,
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- tithing is not an extraordinary, extra ordinary, principle.
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- tithing is not an extraordinary, extra ordinary, principle.
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- It's an ordinary principle.
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- Sometimes I get overwhelmed
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- with the burden of thinking of this.
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- This is God talking.
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- - [Audience Member] Amen.
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- - And this is a God who can't change.
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- I can't even believe that people argue about this.
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- This is a God who can't change saying,
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- "I am the Lord, I don't change."
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- And yet you're not doing what's ordinary
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- for My people to do.
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- It's ordinary for My people
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- to return the first 10% to Me.
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- That's just ordinary.
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- That's not extraordinary if you tithe.
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- This is ordinary, okay?
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- So, He says, "'Return to me, and I will return to you,'
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- "Says the Lord of hosts.
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- "'But you say, "In what way shall we return?'"
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- So the people asking, how do we return to You?
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- Watch what God says, Verse 8.
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- "Will a man rob God?
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- "Yet you have robbed Me!"
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- Now, this wasn't written by a preacher.
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- This is God talking.
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- He's talking about the tithe and He uses the word rob.
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- By the way, you ought to look at, sometimes,
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- what the difference is between
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- burglary, and theft, and robbing someone.
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- Robbing someone means you actually use a weapon.
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- And God uses this word, you're robbing Me.
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- You're being violent about
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- taking what doesn't belong to you.
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- "Yet you have robbed Me!"
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- "Yet you say, 'In what way have we robbed You?'"
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- Now watch God's offering, I mean His answer.
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- "In tithes and offerings."
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- Then He says, "You are cursed with a curse."
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- Now He's not saying I am cursing you with a curse.
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- He's saying you're under a curse.
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- I just want you to know,
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- when you don't obey My ordinary principles,
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- you're putting yourself under a curse.
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- I don't want you to be under a curse.
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- But you are.
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- "You're cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me,
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- "even this whole nation.
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- "Bring all the tithes into the storehouse."
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- We're gonna see in a moment,
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- the storehouse represents the church,
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- and watch this, "That there may be food in My house."
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- Remember when Jesus goes to the temple,
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- He says, "My house shall be called a house of prayer."
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- So he called the church, the temple,
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- where they went to worship, God called that My house,
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- and He says, bring the tithe into My house.
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- Bring it into My house that there may be food in My house.
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- And then he says this, "And try",
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- and this word means to prove or test,
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- "'Test me now in this,' Says the Lord,
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- "'And see if will not open for you the windows of heaven
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- "'and pour out such blessing, there will not
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- "'be room enough to receive it.
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- "'And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes,
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- "'so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,
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- "'nor shall the vine fail
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- "'to bear fruit for you in the field,'
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- "Says the Lord of hosts.
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- "'And all nations will call you blessed.'"
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- And we're talking about Beyond Blessed.
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- It all starts right here.
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- "For you will be a delightful land."
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- Now, I have to tell you that, as a pastor,
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- my desire is to help people.
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- And so I had a little argument
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- with the Lord about this passage.
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- Because I said to the Lord, "Lord, this is in Malachi 3,
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- "then there's Malachi 4, which is only six verses,
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- "and then there's Matthew 1.
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- "Couldn't you have just waited just a little bit
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- "to put this scripture in Matthew?"
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- Because the number one complaint I hear
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- is people say, "Well, that's in the Old Testament."
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- And it only missed by 15 or 16 verses.
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- So I'm like, couldn't You have waited
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- just a little, you know?
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- (audience laughing)
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- Here's what I feel like the Lord impressed on me.
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- He said, "I put it right where I wanted it."
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- I put it right where I wanted it.
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- He said, "Because tithing is a test."
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- God is testing your heart.
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- Think about this, the very fact,
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- this is so strong, and I'm not trying to be mean,
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- but listen, the very fact that you would argue with God,
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- who gave His Son for you, about giving him 10%.
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- He gave his Son and you wanna argue about 10%.
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- That ought to tell you where that motivation's coming from.
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- So, let me tell you a few things about tithing, all right?
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- Number one, tithing is a test.
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- The word actually means a tenth.
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- And the number 10 in the Bible represents testing.
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- So, I'm gonna give you some illustrations,
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- I'm gonna ask you to answer out loud,
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- and you're gonna catch on 'cause there's gonna be a pattern,
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- it'll be easy to answer these questions, okay?
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- So here we go.
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- Number one, how many plagues were there in Egypt?
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- - [Audience] 10.
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- - 10.
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- Now I could've said, how many times
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- did God test Pharaoh's heart?
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- See what I'm saying?
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- And it would have been 10.
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- But we're familiar with the ten plagues.
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- So I phrase that way.
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- But how many times did God test Pharaoh's heart?
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- 10, right, okay.
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- So answer this one out loud.
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- How many commandments are there?
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- - [Audience] 10. - 10.
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- God's testing our hearts.
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- Okay, now this one you might not know,
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- but there's a pattern.
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- (audience laughs)
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- Okay, all right, all right.
- 00:11:48.130 --> 00:11:49.240
- So, and this is in Numbers, you can read this,
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- God says, "I did this to you."
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- How many times did God test Israel
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- while they were in the wilderness?
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- - [Audience] 10.
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- - 10, that's right.
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- How many times were Jacob's wages changed?
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- - [Audience] 10.
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- - How many days was Daniel tested?
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- - [Audience] 10.
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- - How many virgins in Matthew 25,
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- now I'm gonna give you a hint,
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- there were five foolish,
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- (audience laughs)
- 00:12:14.150 --> 00:12:16.040
- and five wise,
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- (audience laughs)
- 00:12:17.170 --> 00:12:18.240
- so how many virgins were tested in Matthew 25?
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- - [Audience] 10.
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- - All right, how many days of testing
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- are mentioned in Revelation Chapter 2, Verse 10?
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- - [Audience] 10. - 10.
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- How many disciples were there?
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- - [Audience Member] 10. No, there were 12.
- 00:12:29.220 --> 00:12:30.260
- I was just testing.
- 00:12:30.260 --> 00:12:31.210
- (audience laughs)
- 00:12:31.210 --> 00:12:32.290
- I was just testing, just testing, okay.
- 00:12:32.290 --> 00:12:35.050
- But that's the point, that's what tithing is.
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- Tithing is a test, and I really do believe,
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- yes, it's in the Old Testament, I understand that.
- 00:12:43.040 --> 00:12:46.000
- But it's in the New Testament too.
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- But it is shocking to me that we use that argument
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- that, well, that's Old Testament,
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- because there are a lot of things
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- in the Old Testament that we still believe.
- 00:12:55.010 --> 00:12:56.290
- I mean, the Old Testament said don't commit adultery.
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- Are you telling me now because you're a Christian,
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- you can commit adultery?
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- It's just crazy.
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- The Old Testament said, okay, I'll give you an example,
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- I was just thinking about this.
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- Thomas, Thomas is a good friend, works with me.
- 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:14.290
- Give me your wallet.
- 00:13:14.290 --> 00:13:16.060
- Just, yeah, give me your wallet, okay.
- 00:13:16.060 --> 00:13:18.290
- I'm just gonna keep Thomas's wallet.
- 00:13:18.290 --> 00:13:20.230
- And the reason I'm gonna keep Thomas's wallet
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- is because thou shalt not steal
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- is part of the law, part of the Old Covenant,
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- part of it all, right?
- 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:30.150
- And I'm a Christian, I'm not under the law,
- 00:13:30.150 --> 00:13:32.080
- that means I can steal, right?
- 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:34.100
- - [Audience Member] No.
- 00:13:35.070 --> 00:13:36.020
- - It's crazy, isn't it?
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- Okay, so I'm not gonna keep your wallet.
- 00:13:37.180 --> 00:13:39.220
- (audience laughs)
- 00:13:39.220 --> 00:13:42.120
- There's not even any money in it, geeze. (laughs)
- 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:46.060
- I was gonna keep his wallet.
- 00:13:46.060 --> 00:13:48.250
- (audience laughs)
- 00:13:48.250 --> 00:13:50.130
- You took your money out?
- 00:13:50.130 --> 00:13:52.150
- (audience laughs)
- 00:13:52.150 --> 00:13:54.110
- Now that tells you something.
- 00:13:54.110 --> 00:13:56.060
- I've been working with the guy 20 years,
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- I say I wanna do an illustration so give me your wallet,
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- and he takes his money out.
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- Okay, all right.
- 00:14:02.220 --> 00:14:03.170
- But you can't say because it was under the law,
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- and it was bad under the law, that it's good now.
- 00:14:09.140 --> 00:14:13.200
- If it was wrong under the law, it's still wrong.
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- Everyone agree?
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- Stealing is still wrong. - [Audience] Yes.
- 00:14:19.070 --> 00:14:21.070
- - So if it was right under the law, it's still right.
- 00:14:21.070 --> 00:14:24.210
- We don't get saved by the law, but it's a principle.
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- It's an ordinary principle of God.
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- So that's number one.
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- Number two, tithing is biblical.
- 00:14:33.260 --> 00:14:36.270
- So many people don't know it's really biblical.
- 00:14:36.270 --> 00:14:39.140
- They actually know just maybe that scripture,
- 00:14:39.140 --> 00:14:42.090
- Malachi, will a man rob God?
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- But let me read you some scripture.
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- We're gonna have to go through a few,
- 00:14:48.050 --> 00:14:49.080
- so you can see it's biblical.
- 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:50.230
- Genesis 14 Verse 18.
- 00:14:50.230 --> 00:14:52.270
- "Then Melchizedek," which is either
- 00:14:52.270 --> 00:14:55.140
- a type of Jesus or Jesus Himself.
- 00:14:55.140 --> 00:14:57.200
- Most theologians believe it's Jesus Himself,
- 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:00.110
- because Hebrews tells us he has no mother or father,
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- he's without beginning and the end,
- 00:15:03.150 --> 00:15:05.080
- not beginning of life, not end of life,
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- and he's called the King of Satan the Peace
- 00:15:08.020 --> 00:15:10.130
- and the King of Righteousness.
- 00:15:10.130 --> 00:15:12.180
- So we know who that is, okay?
- 00:15:12.180 --> 00:15:14.260
- But watch this.
- 00:15:14.260 --> 00:15:16.030
- "Then Melchizedek, the king of Salem,"
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- Salem means Peace, Jerusalem means City of Peace, okay?
- 00:15:18.150 --> 00:15:22.160
- "Then the king of Salem brought out bread and wine."
- 00:15:22.160 --> 00:15:25.170
- Think about the last supper, even.
- 00:15:25.170 --> 00:15:28.010
- "He was the priest of God Most High.
- 00:15:28.010 --> 00:15:30.100
- "And he blessed him," that's Abraham, "and said,
- 00:15:30.100 --> 00:15:33.180
- "'Blessed be Abram of God Most High,
- 00:15:33.180 --> 00:15:35.240
- "'possessor of heaven and earth;
- 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:37.110
- "'and blessed be God Most High,
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- "'Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.
- 00:15:39.150 --> 00:15:41.240
- "'And he,'" that's Abraham,
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- "'Gave him,'" that's Melchizedek, who's Jesus,
- 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:47.190
- "'A tithe of all.'"
- 00:15:47.190 --> 00:15:50.230
- But here's what you need to know,
- 00:15:50.230 --> 00:15:51.220
- a lot of people don't know.
- 00:15:51.220 --> 00:15:53.070
- This is 500 years before the law.
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- And Abraham is our spiritual father.
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- That's what Galatians tells us.
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- When we become children of faith,
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- we're also children of Abraham.
- 00:16:06.230 --> 00:16:08.250
- We're grafted into the nation of Israel.
- 00:16:08.250 --> 00:16:11.140
- So our spiritual, earthly father, patriarch in the faith,
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- So our spiritual, earthly father, patriarch in the faith,
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- tithed 500 years before it was ever written in the law.
- 00:16:17.290 --> 00:16:22.160
- Okay, then you go to Jacob, who's his grandson,
- 00:16:23.270 --> 00:16:27.070
- in Genesis 28, and he's having an encounter with God,
- 00:16:27.070 --> 00:16:30.200
- and he says in Verse 22,
- 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:32.050
- "And this stone which I've set as a pillar
- 00:16:32.050 --> 00:16:34.230
- "shall be God's house."
- 00:16:34.230 --> 00:16:38.080
- Remember when we talked about
- 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:39.060
- the tithe going to God's house?
- 00:16:39.060 --> 00:16:41.000
- And listen to what he says.
- 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:42.210
- "And of all that You give me,
- 00:16:42.210 --> 00:16:44.160
- "I will surely give a tenth to You."
- 00:16:44.160 --> 00:16:47.290
- Same word for tithe, by the way, a tenth.
- 00:16:47.290 --> 00:16:50.190
- This is 400 years before the law.
- 00:16:50.190 --> 00:16:52.210
- He's already tithing as well.
- 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:55.140
- Before the law's ever written.
- 00:16:55.140 --> 00:16:56.280
- Why?
- 00:16:56.280 --> 00:16:57.260
- It's an ordinary principle.
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- It's just a principle.
- 00:16:59.180 --> 00:17:01.180
- Leviticus 27:30.
- 00:17:01.180 --> 00:17:03.020
- "And all the tithe of the land,
- 00:17:03.020 --> 00:17:05.280
- "whether of the seed of the land
- 00:17:05.280 --> 00:17:07.140
- "or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's."
- 00:17:07.140 --> 00:17:11.270
- It belongs to God.
- 00:17:11.270 --> 00:17:12.250
- It's set aside to the Lord.
- 00:17:12.250 --> 00:17:14.010
- This next phrase says, "It is holy,"
- 00:17:14.010 --> 00:17:16.050
- which means set aside to the Lord.
- 00:17:16.050 --> 00:17:18.290
- All through scripture.
- 00:17:18.290 --> 00:17:19.270
- Okay, so let me ask you this.
- 00:17:19.270 --> 00:17:21.230
- If Jesus Himself,
- 00:17:21.230 --> 00:17:24.190
- 'cause some of these we read some scripture, Old Testament,
- 00:17:26.140 --> 00:17:28.220
- we're about to go New Testament.
- 00:17:28.220 --> 00:17:30.160
- If Jesus Himself said you ought to tithe, would you tithe?
- 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:34.170
- If Jesus Himself said you ought to tithe, would you tithe?
- 00:17:34.170 --> 00:17:37.190
- (laughs)
- 00:17:37.190 --> 00:17:39.030
- Think about that.
- 00:17:39.030 --> 00:17:40.180
- If the one who saved you, and I was saved in a motel room,
- 00:17:40.180 --> 00:17:45.020
- out of a pretty bad lifestyle.
- 00:17:45.020 --> 00:17:46.170
- If Jesus Himself said, you ought to tithe,
- 00:17:47.230 --> 00:17:52.130
- and he said it in the New Testament,
- 00:17:52.130 --> 00:17:54.070
- then would you tithe?
- 00:17:55.140 --> 00:17:56.130
- Now here's the sad thing.
- 00:17:56.130 --> 00:17:58.140
- Many of us have to think about that.
- 00:17:58.140 --> 00:18:00.100
- And that's crazy.
- 00:18:01.260 --> 00:18:02.220
- Jesus Himself in the New Testament.
- 00:18:03.270 --> 00:18:06.060
- So let me read you the verse.
- 00:18:06.060 --> 00:18:07.260
- Matthew 23:23.
- 00:18:07.260 --> 00:18:09.250
- "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
- 00:18:09.250 --> 00:18:13.050
- "For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin."
- 00:18:13.050 --> 00:18:18.050
- Which are spices that they put on their food.
- 00:18:19.100 --> 00:18:22.170
- You even tithe on your salt and pepper
- 00:18:22.170 --> 00:18:24.080
- is what he's saying, okay?
- 00:18:24.080 --> 00:18:26.200
- You pay tithe on the spices you put on your food,
- 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:29.180
- and you've "neglected the weightier matters of the law:
- 00:18:29.180 --> 00:18:33.120
- "justice and mercy and faith."
- 00:18:33.120 --> 00:18:35.240
- Okay, so you tithe on everything,
- 00:18:36.280 --> 00:18:39.250
- but you neglect these three things.
- 00:18:39.250 --> 00:18:42.120
- But then let's what Jesus says.
- 00:18:42.120 --> 00:18:44.230
- "These you ought to have done,
- 00:18:44.230 --> 00:18:47.060
- "without leaving the others undone."
- 00:18:48.280 --> 00:18:51.100
- (laughs) So Jesus said you tithe,
- 00:18:52.260 --> 00:18:56.280
- but you neglect justice, mercy, and faith.
- 00:18:58.010 --> 00:19:00.200
- He didn't say, but now you don't need to do that anymore
- 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:03.100
- because it's now the New Testament,
- 00:19:03.100 --> 00:19:05.210
- now you need to do this.
- 00:19:05.210 --> 00:19:07.140
- He said, you still ought to do this.
- 00:19:07.140 --> 00:19:10.100
- Let me say that again 'cause
- 00:19:13.180 --> 00:19:15.160
- some of you ought to be crying right now.
- 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:17.100
- No, I'm kidding.
- 00:19:17.100 --> 00:19:18.080
- (audience laughs)
- 00:19:18.080 --> 00:19:19.160
- Let this impact you.
- 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:21.230
- This is Jesus.
- 00:19:21.230 --> 00:19:23.080
- These words are in red, this is in the New Testament.
- 00:19:23.080 --> 00:19:25.080
- Jesus said you ought to do that.
- 00:19:25.080 --> 00:19:27.180
- You ought to tithe.
- 00:19:27.180 --> 00:19:28.280
- But don't leave the other undone.
- 00:19:30.080 --> 00:19:32.050
- One time when I shared this,
- 00:19:32.050 --> 00:19:34.010
- a lady after the service came up and she was very sweet.
- 00:19:34.010 --> 00:19:36.240
- She said, "Pastor Robert, I think when He said,
- 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:39.080
- "'These you ought to have done,'
- 00:19:39.080 --> 00:19:41.210
- "He was referring to justice, mercy, and faith."
- 00:19:41.210 --> 00:19:44.150
- And I said, that's a great point.
- 00:19:44.150 --> 00:19:45.280
- And I actually looked at this,
- 00:19:45.280 --> 00:19:47.200
- I said, I don't mean this wrong,
- 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:49.200
- have you ever studied Greek?
- 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:51.120
- Because I had to take Greek, and it was very difficult,
- 00:19:51.120 --> 00:19:55.120
- but I've studied the Greek language,
- 00:19:55.120 --> 00:19:56.240
- and I've studied tenses,
- 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:58.070
- have you ever studied it any?
- 00:19:58.070 --> 00:19:59.200
- She said no.
- 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:01.050
- I said okay, in the Greek, it's not referring to that.
- 00:20:01.050 --> 00:20:04.100
- But I said, let's just say that I misinterpreted it,
- 00:20:04.100 --> 00:20:06.240
- and I don't understand,
- 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:08.140
- let's say that "These you ought to have done"
- 00:20:08.140 --> 00:20:10.140
- is referring to justice, mercy, and faith.
- 00:20:10.140 --> 00:20:12.180
- And I said to her, what does the rest of the verse say?
- 00:20:12.180 --> 00:20:15.100
- And she sat there for a moment,
- 00:20:16.230 --> 00:20:18.130
- and then she got this smile on her face,
- 00:20:18.130 --> 00:20:21.080
- and she said, "It says without leaving the other undone."
- 00:20:21.080 --> 00:20:24.060
- In other words, if these you ought to have done
- 00:20:26.050 --> 00:20:27.280
- refers to justice, mercy, and faith,
- 00:20:27.280 --> 00:20:29.230
- then He says, but don't leave tithing undone either.
- 00:20:29.230 --> 00:20:32.220
- So, let me say it kind of funny if you'll let me.
- 00:20:32.220 --> 00:20:36.120
- I got you either way.
- 00:20:36.120 --> 00:20:37.180
- (audience laughs)
- 00:20:37.180 --> 00:20:38.290
- Actually, Jesus has you either way.
- 00:20:38.290 --> 00:20:41.090
- Right?
- 00:20:41.090 --> 00:20:42.250
- Okay, one other verse about Jesus in the New Testament.
- 00:20:42.250 --> 00:20:45.010
- In Hebrews 7 it says, Verse 8,
- 00:20:45.010 --> 00:20:47.080
- "Here mortal men receive tithes,
- 00:20:47.080 --> 00:20:52.010
- "but there He," and when you look in your Bible,
- 00:20:53.120 --> 00:20:56.290
- it's a capital H, it's referring to Jesus.
- 00:20:56.290 --> 00:20:59.160
- The whole context, Jesus.
- 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:01.020
- "But there, He receives them,
- 00:21:01.020 --> 00:21:04.250
- "of whom it is witnessed that He lives."
- 00:21:04.250 --> 00:21:08.270
- That's enough for me, too.
- 00:21:11.110 --> 00:21:12.200
- That means yes, when I tithe, mortal men collect it,
- 00:21:14.050 --> 00:21:17.290
- they manage it, they steward it.
- 00:21:17.290 --> 00:21:19.290
- I wanna go to a church where
- 00:21:19.290 --> 00:21:21.040
- they're gonna steward it well, yes,
- 00:21:21.040 --> 00:21:23.000
- but Jesus is actually receiving my tithe.
- 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:26.140
- He's receiving it.
- 00:21:27.250 --> 00:21:29.140
- Okay, and here's point number three.
- 00:21:29.140 --> 00:21:31.080
- Tithing is a blessing.
- 00:21:31.080 --> 00:21:33.240
- Now we don't have time to read the scriptures
- 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:35.120
- in 2 Chronicles 31,
- 00:21:35.120 --> 00:21:37.170
- but what happens is the king is reading along
- 00:21:37.170 --> 00:21:41.120
- and it's Hezekiah, and he reads about tithing in scripture.
- 00:21:41.120 --> 00:21:46.120
- And they're in a drought, and they're in a time of famine,
- 00:21:47.250 --> 00:21:51.120
- and he realizes, we're putting ourselves under a curse.
- 00:21:51.120 --> 00:21:55.250
- So he sends out a decree for everyone to tithe.
- 00:21:55.250 --> 00:21:59.290
- And then he goes and checks with the priest,
- 00:21:59.290 --> 00:22:02.290
- and there are heaps, heaps of crops
- 00:22:02.290 --> 00:22:06.130
- that had been brought in.
- 00:22:06.130 --> 00:22:07.090
- There was an abundance.
- 00:22:07.090 --> 00:22:08.280
- And he does what any good leader would do.
- 00:22:08.280 --> 00:22:12.070
- He gets concerned about the people.
- 00:22:12.070 --> 00:22:14.100
- He said, "The people have given this much?"
- 00:22:14.100 --> 00:22:17.100
- So he says, "Are the people okay?
- 00:22:17.100 --> 00:22:20.270
- "Are they okay?"
- 00:22:20.270 --> 00:22:22.230
- And the priest said, "Oh, when they
- 00:22:22.230 --> 00:22:26.180
- "started to bring the tithe in, God began to bless."
- 00:22:26.180 --> 00:22:31.150
- And here's what the priest said.
- 00:22:32.110 --> 00:22:33.230
- "You're just looking at the 10%.
- 00:22:33.230 --> 00:22:36.000
- "You ought to see the 90%."
- 00:22:36.260 --> 00:22:38.200
- So it's a blessing.
- 00:22:40.060 --> 00:22:41.080
- And let me give you
- 00:22:41.080 --> 00:22:42.150
- one more illustration then we're finished.
- 00:22:42.150 --> 00:22:44.070
- So, you guys stand up, I met you before the show.
- 00:22:44.070 --> 00:22:49.070
- Michael, Donnie, Randy, right?
- 00:22:50.030 --> 00:22:51.160
- - [Donnie] Right.
- 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:52.290
- - Okay, so I'm gonna give you an illustration.
- 00:22:52.290 --> 00:22:54.140
- Let's say that I'm gonna go away for a while,
- 00:22:54.140 --> 00:22:59.140
- but I want to send some funds back to my wife.
- 00:23:00.210 --> 00:23:02.260
- Now I've taken care of the house and the utilities and all,
- 00:23:02.260 --> 00:23:05.130
- I just wanna send her some extra funds,
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- but I'm actually gonna channel those resources through you.
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- So, Michael, and Donnie, Randy,
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- I'm gonna give each of you $10.000 a month. (laughs)
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- This is only an example.
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- (audience laughs)
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- Randy got real excited.
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- Just like, wow, I just came to this taping and look at it.
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- Okay, this just example, okay?
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- All right, so I'm gonna give each of you 10.000 a month.
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- But you have to give my wife $1.000 of it.
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- That's all.
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- You can keep 90% and do anything you want with it.
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- Now, I want everyone to
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- get ahead of me on this illustration, okay?
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- So, I'm talking to my wife everyday, how's things going,
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- and then I start thinking about
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- the extra income I'm sending her,
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- so I say, "Hey, how's Michael doing?"
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- And she says, "Well, Michael sends $1.000 every month.
- 00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:59.210
- "Matter of fact, he gets here like
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- "January 1st, February 1st, March 1st,
- 00:24:01.160 --> 00:24:04.060
- "he's as faithful as clockwork.
- 00:24:04.060 --> 00:24:06.000
- "He sends $1.000 a month."
- 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:07.080
- I say that's great.
- 00:24:07.080 --> 00:24:08.130
- I say, "Well, how's Donnie doing?"
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- She says, "Well, Donnie's sending $2.000 a month."
- 00:24:09.280 --> 00:24:12.250
- I say, "Well, I don't even understand that.
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- "What do you mean 2.000 a month?
- 00:24:16.130 --> 00:24:17.240
- "I told him to send 1.000."
- 00:24:17.240 --> 00:24:19.060
- She said, "I know, but he sends 2.000 a month."
- 00:24:19.060 --> 00:24:21.090
- I say that's great.
- 00:24:21.090 --> 00:24:22.110
- I say, "Well, what about Randy?"
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- She says, "Well, we need to talk about Randy."
- 00:24:24.020 --> 00:24:25.240
- (audience laughs)
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- I'm sorry.
- 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:29.060
- There's always gotta be a punchline.
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- One person has to, okay.
- 00:24:30.250 --> 00:24:32.240
- I say, "Well, what do you mean?"
- 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:34.000
- "Well, the first month Randy sent 700,
- 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:37.000
- "the second month 400, and last month
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- "he didn't send anything."
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- Now okay, you guys can sit down.
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- Thank you very much for helping me.
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- But I want you to think about this, okay?
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- Please think.
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- Please, please, please just think about this.
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- This is my wife.
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- I'm giving them the money.
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- It's coming from me.
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- I told them they can keep 90% of it.
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- I just asked for 10% for my wife.
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- Is the church the bride of Christ?
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- - [Audience] Yes.
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- - Okay.
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- So I can tell you what I'm gonna do.
- 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:25.050
- I'm gonna take the money that I'm giving Randy,
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- and I'm not gonna give it to him anymore
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- 'cause I can't trust him.
- 00:25:29.070 --> 00:25:30.210
- And I'm gonna give some of it to Michael
- 00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:34.060
- and some of it to Donnie,
- 00:25:34.060 --> 00:25:35.130
- I'm probably gonna give more to Donnie
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- because for some reason, he really cares about my family.
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- I think tithing is more personal
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- to Jesus than what we think.
- 00:25:47.150 --> 00:25:49.130
- So can I just pray with you?
- 00:25:52.030 --> 00:25:54.050
- Lord, I pray that You would give all of us a revelation
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- that when we tithe, we are tithing to the bride of Christ.
- 00:25:58.190 --> 00:26:03.210
- And I pray every person would have a breakthrough today
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- and pass this test.
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- In Jesus name, Amen.
- 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:14.000
- I wanna say to every one of you,
- 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:15.180
- thanks so much for watching Beyond Blessed
- 00:26:15.180 --> 00:26:18.000
- and I'll see you next time.
- 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:19.100
- (audience applauds)
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