Episode 30
More Than Enough: Living Under an Open Heaven | Ps. Jason Avanzini
So many believers are living for “just enough,” when God’s Word clearly calls us into a life of more than enough. In this powerful teaching, discover the biblical foundation of tithes and offerings—from Adam and Abel all the way to Abraham, Jacob, and even into the New Testament.
You’ll see that giving is not about losing—it’s about aligning with Heaven’s economy and stepping into a covenant of abundance. When we honor God first, He removes the ceiling and opens the windows of heaven over our lives.
This isn’t about pressure. It’s about partnership. God doesn’t just want you to survive—He’s called you to thrive, prosper, and overflow with blessing so you can impact nations for His glory.
Get ready to break free from the mindset of lack and embrace the supernatural lifestyle of Kingdom abundance.
Transcript
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:Now let's dive into today's episode.
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:Thank y'all so very much for the
opportunity to get to be here.
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:You have tremendous pastors, um,
pastor Glenn and Pastor Lynn.
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:Um, they love the word and they love you.
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:And it's their desire to see you fruitful
and see you blessed in every way.
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:Um, spirit, soul, and body.
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:Just like Third John two, it says,
beloved, I pray above all things
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:that you would prosper and be in good
health, even as your soul prospers.
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:So what happens in our spiritual
life is, is what's going to come out
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:and produce that healing 'cause it's
Jesus, it's boy we will, it's going
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:to be what produces that prosperity.
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:It's Jesus.
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:Amen.
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:Um, thank you so much for, for,
um, having an opportunity for
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:people to sow into our ministry.
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:You know, we need to be able to
have all of us more than enough.
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:Yes, enough is not enough
for a child of God.
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:If you are just praying for enough, you
are just one problem away from not having
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:seed in the ground from not giving.
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:Yes.
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:Um.
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:Really to be a faithful Christian,
to be what the word of God describes
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:as as a complete Christian, we
need to have more than enough.
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:I say complete Christian because
Jesus says there's some things
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:that Christians are supposed to do.
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:We're supposed to feed the hungry.
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:Yes.
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:That costs, uh, money more than enough.
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:We are supposed to clothe the naked.
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:Yes.
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:That also requires that we
would have some surplus.
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:The Bible says that a good man
leaves an inheritance for his
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:children and his children's children.
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:The Bible says that we are to go into the
world and make disciples of the nations.
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:Yes.
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:You know, I've been all over the world
with my wife, and let me just say this,
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:tomorrow is our seven year anniversary, so
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:seven years.
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:Awesome number of perfection,
and we believe there'll be.
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:8, 9, 10, 11, 20, even 70.
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:Amen.
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:Amen.
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:So we wanted to be here with you
during our, during our anniversary.
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:Well, all right, let me get into
what we're gonna get into now.
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:We need to have more than enough, and one
of the things that we have in scripture
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:is that we see that there's something
called the tithe and the offering.
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:Now take a look at this scripture, one
Corinthians chapter 14, verse eight,
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:one Corinthians chapter 14, verse eight.
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:And again, let me say this.
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:I'm gonna try and give
you two messages in one.
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:This is gonna be the, the
qualifier and the quantifier, the
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:qualifier, and the quantifier.
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:So I'm going to go through and show
us what the tithe looks like, and then
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:I'm gonna show us how we have, uh,
seed is anything above that tithe.
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:But I'm gonna spell this out in scripture.
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:We're gonna go fast, so please take notes.
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:And we are recording this so you
can go back over it, meditate on it.
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:Yeah, learn from it, and I believe
it will produce fruit in your life.
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:Now, one Corinthians 14, eight says,
if the trumpet makes an uncertain
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:sound, who will prepare for battle?
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:Now, when it comes to the body of Christ
today, around the world, a certain sound
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:has gone out regarding many things.
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:We have a certain sound that has gone
out as far as salvation is concerned.
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:If someone were to ask you, do you
believe that Jesus is the way, the
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:truth and the life, and that by no
other name can man be saved, we would
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:say, yes, of course, because a certain
sound has gone out from the pulpits all
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:around the world regarding salvation.
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:If we were to say, do you believe
in healing, do you believe that if
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:you can have it, he can heal it?
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:That if it, if it's broke, he can fix it.
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:Do you believe that God is our healer?
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:Amen.
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:We would say yes, that we see in
scripture that by his stripes were healed.
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:Yes.
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:That there has been a certain sound,
a sure sound, a clear sound that
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:has gone out regarding healing.
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:Yeah.
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:If we were to ask the church around
the world, do you believe that the
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:Holy Spirit is the power in us to be
a witness for the gospel in the earth?
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:We would say yes.
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:That is first and foremost the
purpose of the Holy Spirit.
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:A certain sound has gone out, a sure
sound, but if I were to ask you, do you
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:believe that God desires that we would
tithe, that God desires that we would give
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:offerings and that we would participate
in seed time and harvest principles?
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:Do we believe that now we have a
little bit of unsurety because an
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:unsure sound has gone out around the
world regarding finances, and because
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:of that we have many people that
are apprehensive at offering time.
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:They're insecure at offering time and
because there's no clarity about it,
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:we have a lot of the world that is a
lot of the Christian body of Christ
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:that is not prepared for the financial
battles that we might find ourself in.
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:Yes.
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:Please understand.
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:The word of God is, is God
is so in love with you.
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:It's such a good thing.
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:Yes.
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:A couple scriptures I'll give you,
just I gotta, these things bubble
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:over in Psalm 1 49, verse four.
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:It says that God delights, he
takes pleasure in his people.
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:Yes.
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:It doesn't say he takes
pleasure in the angels.
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:It doesn't say He's taking pleasure in
all the birds and all the squirrels.
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:And all the kangaroos, but he
takes pleasure in his people.
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:This means that God not only
loves you, but he likes you.
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:That's a nice thing.
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:We all have people that we
love, but we don't necessarily.
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:Like, I mean, we all have
extended family, don't we not?
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:We all have those people that when
they call, we think I'll pick that
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:up later, but we have a God who
not only loves us, but he likes us.
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:And when God likes you, that means he
cares about things that matter to you.
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:He cares about about you
having your needs met.
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:He cares about the
things that interest you.
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:Yes, God absolutely.
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:Loves you and he likes you.
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:And Psalm 1 38, verse eight, it says,
God will perfect that which concerns you.
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:If you don't learn anything else,
if you don't come away with anything
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:else that I've shared this weekend,
please understand that God has
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:a plan and a purpose for you.
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:It is to prosper you and not to harm
you, to give you hope and a future, and
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:that he will perfect what concerns you.
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:That means whenever your name is spoken
in the earth, all of heaven moves
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:that when your name is spoken, that
things are tending towards perfection.
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:You should have an expectation
for things to go right.
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:Amen.
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:You should have an expectation.
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:You should expect goodness and
mercy to follow you all the days of
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:your life because his word says it.
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:Yeah, you should expect favor to come
upon you because God has released it.
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:You should expect healing in your
body because he's purchased it and you
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:should expect not to walk around with
empty pockets, but you should expect
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:to walk around with an open heaven.
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:Amen.
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:Come on.
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:So what I wanna do is I wanna show us
in scripture where we have the tithe,
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:where it started, and actually we see
it in Genesis and we see it all the way
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:into the new heaven and the new Earth
as far as we can see into the future.
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:Now with tithing, many people
will say, Jason, hold on.
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:This is old covenant.
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:That's the argument many people have.
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:But what I want to show you
is that we have a principle.
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:Of sharing the increase with God that
is established all the way back in
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:Genesis, that tithing is before the law.
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:It's incorporated into the law.
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:And even after the law, we still see
people sharing the increase with God.
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:And even Jesus affirms the tithe.
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:All right.
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:Can I show you this pattern
all through scripture?
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:Yes.
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:Glory be to God.
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:Yes.
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:Amen.
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:All right, let's get right into it.
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:I'm going O Okay.
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:It's too early to say.
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:Oof.
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:All right, here we go.
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:All right.
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:Let me show you this
with, um, Adam and Eve.
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:Adam and Eve are in the garden.
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:It's amazing.
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:The first thing that God says to Adam
and Eve is be fruitful and multiply.
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:So get a picture of this.
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:Here they are.
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:They've been put into a garden.
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:They have everything that they
would ever possibly need, not just
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:for them, but for their children's,
children's, children's children.
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:Yeah.
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:God has made a planet and he has
made it so that it would sustain us.
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:He has made a place that we can be, and
we can see the kingdom of heaven come.
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:But what's amazing is that the first
thing that he says to Adam and Eve is you
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:can have more be fruitful and multiply.
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:Yeah, that's good.
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:So here we have God saying be fruitful
and multiply, but of everything that
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:they're working on, of everything that
they're doing, he says, I have one
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:portion that I want set aside for me.
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:So you're gonna work on all the plants,
work on all the trees, but of one you're
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:not gonna partake, which is the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil.
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:Yeah.
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:Um, take a look at this Genesis chapter
two, verse 15 through 17, the Lord
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:took the man and he put him in the
Garden of Eden to work it to keep it.
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:The Lord commanded the mans saying,
you may surely eat of every tree
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:of the garden, but of the tree
of knowledge of good and evil.
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:You shall not eat for in
the day you eat of it.
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:You'll surely die.
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:Now what's interesting is
that they do eat of it.
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:They do end up saying, you know what?
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:We can have, even the portion God said he
wanted just for him, we can have that too.
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:And whenever they ate of it,
they didn't fall over dead.
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:But something died.
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:I got a great definition
of the word death.
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:Someone said, uh, to die means
you are unresponsive to life.
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:That here you have someone who's
died and we've all been there.
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:You've seen someone at a funeral and
you think, man, they look like they're
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:alive, but they're unresponsive to life.
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:And whenever Adam and Eve partook
of this, they became unresponsive,
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:disconnected from the source of life.
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:Something was broken there.
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:Yes.
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:So they get kicked out of the garden.
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:The main thing I want you to catch
right away is that we're already
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:seeing a pattern of God saying you
can partake of everything, but there's
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:a portion that's set aside for me.
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:Yeah.
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:Okay.
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:Now with Cain and Abel, we have a
beautiful thing here and I'm actually, my
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:grandfather and I, we are writing a book
about the tithe and we've done a deep dive
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:on this Cane and Abel part, but I'm going
to give you kind of surface, all right?
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:I don't wanna go too deep in the teaching
with you 'cause we could be here all
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:night, but I do want you to catch
this and I will go as long as you can
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:handle, as long as you bottoms can sit,
I can teach you this 'cause I love it.
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:I'm passionate about
it with Cain and Abel.
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:Let's take a look at what happens here.
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:We know the story, right?
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:Yes.
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:They both bring their offerings.
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:God rejects Cain's offering,
but he accepts Abel's offering.
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:Yes.
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:Let's take a look at Genesis
chapter four, verse three and four.
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:Two points I wanna pull out of this.
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:It says, after some time, Kain
brought some of his harvest.
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:This is the good news Bible.
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:After some time, Kain brought
some of his harvest and gave
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:it as an offering to the Lord.
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:Then Abel brought the first lamb born
to one of his sheep, killed it, and gave
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:the best parts of it as an offering.
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:And the Lord was pleased.
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:The Lord was pleased with Abels
and he had disregard for cans.
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:Can you go back to verse three?
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:I want to show you something right
off the bat because I've heard
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:people argue about why would he
reject Cannes and accept ables?
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:And I've heard people say, and I've even
preached it, um, that it was because Abels
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:had blood and Cannes was just produce.
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:Now there's a truth there.
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:But why would God discipline Kane
for being in a different industry?
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:He, he, he's in a different industry,
but what we actually have here is hidden.
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:In the Hebrew and it
really comes to light.
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:I'm gonna show it to you this first
phrase right here in the course of
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:time, whenever we read this, we almost
have the idea of, and then once upon
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:a time, and then a little while later,
they ended up bringing offerings.
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:But that's really not what's being
expressed right there, that in the
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:course of time Cain brought his produce.
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:The word that's used there speaks
of at the fullness of time, which is
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:speaking about Cain bringing his produce
that had already been ripened, it had
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:already had its best day, and now he
was bringing God what was left over.
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:Basically it was what was about to spoil.
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:So in the course of time, speaks
of after the fullness of time,
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:he's bringing God his leftovers.
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:Abel, on the other hand,
is bringing God his best.
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:He kills his the first sheep and
he gives God the best thereof.
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:Yeah.
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:So here, this is really
what it's a picture of.
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:It's a picture of Abel putting God at
the top of his budget and Cain putting
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:God at the bottom of his budget.
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:Yeah.
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:Cain said, I'm gonna enjoy all my produce.
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:And then at the fullness of time
after this is already ripe and
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:it's beginning to spoil, now
I'm gonna give God my leftovers.
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:Wow.
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:And God says, I'm not happy with this.
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:But then he says, able,
you've done it right.
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:Now, whenever people teach this, we often
look at this as a free will offering.
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:Right.
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:But there's something more here,
because God has a requirement.
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:He's saying, Cain, I don't
just want any offering.
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:I want an offering that is set aside,
uh, that, that, that is of your best.
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:That's before everything else.
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:Yes.
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:Yes.
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:And not only that, but we get a
clue here, and I'm gonna really
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:make this clear by bringing up a,
uh, a different translation for us.
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:Let me just read this.
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:In the King James version,
it is so unclear why God is
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:not happy with this offering.
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:So let me go again from verse three.
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:In the process of time it came to pass
that Cain brought the fruit of the
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:ground, an offering under the Lord,
and Abel also brought the firstlings
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:of his flock and the fat thereof.
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:And the Lord had respect under Abel
in his offering, but under Cain and
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:his offering, he had not respect.
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:Watch this.
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:Now, Cain was upset.
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:He's, he's full of wrath
and his countenance fell.
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:And verse six and seven are very
confusing, but we're gonna clear it up.
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:Verse six says, and the Lord
said unto Cain, why are you Roth?
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:Why are you upset?
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:Why is your countenance fallen?
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:Verse seven, in the King
James, we're gonna hear why.
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:Ready?
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:If thou doist, well shout
thou not be accepted.
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:And if thou doist not well,
sin lies out the door.
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:And unto these shall be his desire
and thou shall rule over him.
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:Let's be honest here.
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:What in the world does that mean?
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:God literally is, I mean, the way it's
translated here in the King James, which
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:they're pulling from the Hebrew and
they're trying to do their best with
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:it, is they're saying, God has said,
why is your countenance fallen Cain?
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:And then he says, if you do
well, it will go well for you.
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:But if you don't do well,
sin lies at the door.
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:So as me and my grandpa we're
looking at this and we were looking
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:at where did the tithe originate?
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:And we looked at, most people
believe it started with Abraham.
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:'cause that's the first time we
see that word tithe ever used.
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:But actually, when we get all the way back
here and we look at the Sept version of
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:the Bible, which is the Bible, make a long
story short, it was the Greek translation
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:of the Bible that was in rotation
whenever Jesus was walking the earth.
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:Yeah, this was, the Greek language was
what the New Testament is written in.
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:The Greek language was what people
were evangelizing with, and it was
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:this Greek version of the Torah that
Jesus and the disciples were handling,
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:especially whenever they were witnessing
and sharing the gospel with others.
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:And in that Sept version, we get
some more clarity on verse seven.
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:Remember verse seven in the
King James, if thou do us well,
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:shall thou not be accepted.
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:If thou do us not well, sin lies at
the door and unto these shall be his
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:desire and thou shalt rule over him.
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:This is in the Sept, has thou not sinned?
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:If you have brought it rightly but not
rightly divided it, you catch this?
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:Let me say it again.
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:It says, has thou not sinned?
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:He said, Cain, have you not sinned?
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:If you have brought it rightly
but not rightly divided it.
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:Hmm.
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:See, anytime you divide
something, you fractionalize it.
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:So here he is saying, Cain, you not
only didn't bring me the quality, you
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:gave me your leftovers, but you didn't
bring me the right quantity either.
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:You gotta search this out.
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:I could be there all night, but take
a look at that in the SEP two agent,
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:when you get an opportunity, okay,
it says, if you brought it rightly,
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:but you did not rightly divide it.
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:So we're seeing that God has
a standard and catch this.
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:This is with Cain and Abel.
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:Cain is the first man born of a woman.
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:So as I explore this thing about the
tithe and where it originated, many
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:commentators will say that Abraham tied
to Melek and that that was something that
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:the Pagan nations were doing as well.
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:So he just took this Pagan custom
and he decided to do it with God.
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:And then Moses takes a Pagan custom
and incorporates it into the law.
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:We don't have a God who
needs to be taught by pagans.
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:We don't have a God who has
to borrow a pagan practice.
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:That doesn't make sense because they
mentioned tithing in all different places.
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:In Mesopotamia.
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:That was happening around
the time Abraham Tithed.
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:But when we take the tithe all the way
back to Cain, the first man born of a
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:woman, and we see that God has already set
a standard for quantity and quality, we
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:recognize that certainly there were other
people tithing in Mesopotamia because
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:it had already been established in the
earth with the first man born of a woman.
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:Are you catching this?
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:Yeah.
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:We haven't even gotten to Moses yet.
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:Cain and Abel.
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:Let me give you another person who tithes
or who shares the increase with God.
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:Yes, Noah.
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:Yes.
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:Now we know that Noah, he builds the arc.
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:Noah's righteous.
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:The Bible says he's a righteous man.
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:The Bible says that he puts two of
every kind of animal on the arc, right?
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:Yeah.
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:It also says that he put seven
of every kind of clean animal.
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:I'm reading this from the good news Bible.
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:Again, this is Genesis chapter seven,
verse one through three, and the
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:Lord said to Noah, go into the boat.
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:You with your whole family.
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:I have found that you are the only one
in the world who does what is right.
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:Glory be to God.
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:Don't you want that set about you?
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:Yes.
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:Amen.
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:Take with you seven pairs of each kind
of ritually clean animal, but only one
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:pair of each kind of unclean animal.
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:Take also seven pairs
of each kind of bird.
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:Do this so that every kind of
animal and bird will be kept alive
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:to reproduce again on the earth.
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:So here's Noah.
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:He's, he's in the ark.
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:He has all the animals.
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:He has seven of these clean animals.
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:He has two of every other kind of animal.
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:Then after the flood stops, after
the water subside, the ark rests.
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:And the first thing that Noah does
when he gets out of the ark, Noah, is
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:now the richest man on earth, right?
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:Yes.
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:He is the Elon Musk, the Bill
Gates, the Jeff Bezos combined.
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:He has the, the breed stock of every
animal that is in existence today.
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:And the first thing he does is
he gives God of his increase.
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:That's right.
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:He has gone from being a boat builder
to now the richest man on earth.
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:And the first thing he
does is he sows a seed.
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:Yes, he gives one seventh
of the Clean animals.
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:Genesis chapter eight.
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:Verse 20, Genesis chapter eight, verse 20.
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:Then Noah built an altar to the Lord
and he took some of every clean animal
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:and some of every clean bird, and he
offered burnt offerings on the altar.
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:The Lord smelled a pleasing aroma, and
the Lord said in his heart, I will never
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:again curse the ground because of man.
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:People say we shouldn't give and
expect anything back from God.
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:All the way back here with Noah, a
gift was made, uh, a, a sharing of the
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:increases presented and God responds by
establishing a truth, makes a promise in
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:the earth, makes a covenant with Noah.
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:Ooh, I'm getting excited.
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:I will never again curse the ground
because of man for the intentions
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:of man's heart is evil from his use.
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:Neither will I ever again strike down
every living creatures I've done while
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:the earth remains seed time and harvest.
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:Cold and heat, summer, winter, day
and night shall not cease notice.
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:2,500 years have passed since Adam and
Eve, and then we get to Noah and we still
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:see that people are sharing the increase.
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:Not everyone but people that
God is calling righteous are
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:sharing the increase with God.
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:Are you still here?
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:Yeah.
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:Then we have Abraham.
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:I know this is a teaching, but this
is something that we have to get.
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:We, we have to get down
to the brass tacks.
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:We say in a tack being like a thumbtack,
not a IRS kind of tack, but this
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:is where the rubber meets the road.
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:It's important that we have these
things established in us, so
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:we'll, we'll, we'll shout later,
but I want to get this in you.
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:Yeah.
427
:Notice that with Abraham, who we
are called children of, right?
428
:Yes.
429
:Yes.
430
:Abraham is the father of the faith.
431
:Mm-hmm.
432
:Abraham is the first time that
we ever see the word tithe used.
433
:And this is whenever he has gone
into battle, he has rescued a lot.
434
:He has rescued his nephew.
435
:He comes out Melek.
436
:Melek shows up, and Melek is
what we find out in Hebrews.
437
:It's a picture of Jesus.
438
:Yeah.
439
:And I want you to notice this,
that the tithe people say again.
440
:They'll say the tithe is about the
old covenant, but catch this when
441
:Melek shows up, he doesn't bring
the symbols of the old covenant.
442
:Right.
443
:He doesn't bring the symbols of Passover.
444
:He didn't bring a lamb and bitter herbs.
445
:What he brought was bread and wine.
446
:Those are the symbols of our
New Testament covenant with God.
447
:Are you see there's a transcendence here.
448
:So Melek shows up.
449
:Abraham with his 300 men
have just rescued a lot.
450
:They have, they have plundered the enemy.
451
:They come forward and the first thing
he does is he shares a 10th with Melek.
452
:Wow.
453
:Can I show it to you?
454
:Yes.
455
:Genesis chapter 14, verse 17
through 20, new living translation.
456
:Genesis 1417, after Abraham returned
from his victory over Almer and all
457
:his allies, the King of Sodom went out
to meet him in the Valley of Shava.
458
:That's the King's Valley and
Melek, the king of Salem.
459
:A priest of the most high God.
460
:Yes.
461
:Right.
462
:Brought Abraham some bread and wine
and Ek blessed Abraham with a blessing
463
:saying, blessed be Abraham by God,
most high creator of heaven and earth,
464
:and blessed be God most high, who
has defeated your enemies for you.
465
:Then Abraham, which is Abraham, gave Melek
a 10th of the goods that he had recovered.
466
:Jump over to Hebrews chapter seven because
Melek is a picture of Jesus Christ.
467
:Hebrews chapter seven, verse one.
468
:This Melek king of Salem, priest
of the most high God met Abraham
469
:returning from the slaughter of the
kings and blessed him and to him.
470
:Abraham apportioned a
10th part of everything.
471
:He is first by translation of
his name, king of righteousness.
472
:He is also king of Salem.
473
:That is king of peace.
474
:He is without father, without
mother, or genealogy, having neither
475
:beginning or days nor end of life.
476
:But resembling the son of God,
he continues as priest forever.
477
:Melek is a picture of Jesus.
478
:Jesus shows up whenever
the word tithe is used.
479
:Okay.
480
:Are you catching that, that Jesus
really rolls out the red carpet
481
:for the introduction of the tithe?
482
:Yeah.
483
:That's good.
484
:Are you catching this?
485
:Yeah.
486
:Now with this, can I go a
little bit more about Abraham?
487
:It'll speed up after this.
488
:Yeah.
489
:With Abraham, whenever we look at
Abraham, it's important to remember
490
:that the Bible was not broken up
into chapters and into verses that it
491
:was a long letter that was written.
492
:It was scrolls that were
written, and those chapter
493
:divisions were inserted later.
494
:Yes.
495
:So there's times where as we're reading
the Bible, but when we come to the end
496
:of a chapter in our mind we can say,
well, that's the end of the story.
497
:That's the end of the episode.
498
:Right, and then the credits
roll, and then we have the next
499
:episode with the next chapter.
500
:But these things are connected.
501
:Now remember the story of Abraham.
502
:Abraham in Genesis chapter 12.
503
:He gets the call of God.
504
:God says, Abraham, I want you to come
out from your hand or come out from
505
:your home, come out from your family,
come out from everything you know, and
506
:I'm going to make you a great nation.
507
:I'm going to give you a land.
508
:I'm gonna bless you.
509
:I'm gonna bless those that bless you.
510
:Curse those that curse you, and
in and through you where all the
511
:nations of the world be blessed.
512
:That's the call of God.
513
:Then we see Genesis 13, Genesis
14 is where Abraham presents this
514
:tithe to the high priest, Melek.
515
:Then at the end of this, we see
the beginning of Genesis 15.
516
:Abraham's upset.
517
:He says, God, I've got all this
stuff, but who am I gonna give it to?
518
:Who am I going to leave my inheritance to?
519
:Which is beautiful.
520
:Think about this.
521
:Our father in the faith, Abraham,
when it came to him having a lot
522
:of, uh, abundance, his first thought
was, who am I gonna share this with?
523
:Not, how can I get some more?
524
:The Bible says he was very
rich, and here he's concerned.
525
:He said, God, I've tithed, but
I still don't have an error.
526
:I still don't have someone
to give this inheritance to.
527
:And in Genesis 15, this is right after
14, Genesis 15, God puts him to sleep
528
:and God makes a covenant with him.
529
:This is where he puts him to sleep
and he walks in the figure eight,
530
:symbolizing an eternal covenant.
531
:Yes.
532
:Now catch this.
533
:He gets a call in Genesis 12.
534
:He tithes in Genesis 14.
535
:In Genesis 15, the
covenant is established.
536
:Yeah.
537
:The tithe is associated with covenant.
538
:Yes.
539
:It's not associated with the law.
540
:Are you seeing this?
541
:Ooh, we, and now watch this.
542
:We have that is the,
that is the qualifier.
543
:And then we have, beyond that, we have
the quantifier, which is our offering.
544
:Let me just say this.
545
:There's a difference between
tithes and offerings.
546
:Tithes are shown in scripture
as our 10% of our increase.
547
:If you have no increase,
you have no tithe.
548
:Right?
549
:But when we tithe off of our increase,
the Bible says in Malachi three
550
:10, the windows of heaven open.
551
:Now, if we think agriculturally,
that means that it's going to rain.
552
:Now, anything we give
above a tithe is seed.
553
:It's been given seed
time and harvest power.
554
:That's what an offering is.
555
:Whenever, whenever we go to, um,
second Corinthians where Paul.
556
:Speaks about your offering, having
seed time and harvest power.
557
:He was not speaking about
a tithe in that moment.
558
:He's speaking about offerings.
559
:So offering is seed.
560
:So some of us, we tithe regularly.
561
:We have an open heaven, but we don't
give anything over and above that.
562
:So we have no seed in the ground,
but we have rain on our soil.
563
:And then others, we will give
offerings sporadically, but
564
:we don't tithe consistently.
565
:So we have seed in the ground,
but we don't have an open heaven.
566
:We don't have any rain on that.
567
:These two things work together.
568
:Yeah, come on.
569
:It's two sides of a boat.
570
:The side of the tithe, then
the side of the offering.
571
:And if you will get in that boat,
you can go from where you are
572
:into the fullness God has for you.
573
:Yeah.
574
:Here's the thing.
575
:Many people been around the world,
maybe it's not here, but a lot of
576
:people don't want to get in the boat.
577
:Instead, they get to the end of the
month and they wanna walk on water.
578
:They pray, God, I need some miracle money.
579
:I've got more month than I have money.
580
:Lord, please give me a miracle.
581
:Yeah, and God will do it.
582
:He's often done it.
583
:But here's the thing.
584
:Jesus only walked on water
once the rest of the time.
585
:He got in the, you shouldn't be
walking on water month after month.
586
:Yes.
587
:Are you catching this?
588
:Yes.
589
:God has given us this process.
590
:You know, uh, Romans 8 28 it says.
591
:All things work together for the
good of those that love God and are
592
:called according to his purpose.
593
:Heaven's purposes happen
according to heaven's process.
594
:Heaven's purpose always will
happen according to heaven's
595
:process, seed, time and harvest is
a process that God has given us.
596
:Tithes and offerings work together.
597
:Not to get something from you,
but to get something to you.
598
:Okay?
599
:Story time.
600
:So I, um, in the season of my
life, I wanted to make more
601
:money, so I figured it out.
602
:I said, I know what I'll do.
603
:I'll work even more.
604
:I'll go beyond 38 and a half hours a week.
605
:So what I would do, it's a true story.
606
:What I'd do is I had a job at FedEx and
I would go in and I would work from nine
607
:o'clock at night to four in the morning.
608
:I would get out, I would go in the
parking lot, change clothes, put on my
609
:other uniform drive to my other job,
which started at five 30 in the morning.
610
:I would work from five 30
until one 30 in a warehouse.
611
:Then, because I'm so smart, I didn't
want to drive all the way home
612
:because my parents lived too far away.
613
:I thought that's gonna
cut in on my sleep time.
614
:So Monday through Friday, I slept in my
friend's walk-in closet in a sleeping bag.
615
:So I would sleep for a few
hours in the evening, and then
616
:I would pick up different jobs
here and there on the weekend.
617
:So you can imagine working that much.
618
:I must have been super rich, right?
619
:No, no.
620
:See, my mentality at that time was if
I work more, my boss will give me more.
621
:So I was letting my boss, my
employer, set the ceiling on my life.
622
:Wow.
623
:See, once I understood tithe and
offerings, the ceiling came off.
624
:And now I wasn't operating under the
world's economy, but under kingdom
625
:economy, see, whenever we tithe, most
people initially, they will say, wait
626
:a minute, Jason, I'm having trouble
with a hundred percent and now you're
627
:talking about me living off of 90%.
628
:And then on top of that,
I'm gonna give an offering.
629
:What are you nuts?
630
:Here's the thing.
631
:That tithe is not about
living off of less.
632
:It's about the ceiling coming off so that
you can live and have more than enough,
633
:have a favor upon your blessing upon your
finances, a blessing upon your finances.
634
:And Jessica and I have seen this,
another story, Jessica and I, we are,
635
:we were, we're looking for a house
right now, but we've had an apartment.
636
:It's worked for us 'cause
we've been traveling a lot.
637
:Makes sense.
638
:Well.
639
:With, I don't know if how it happens
here in Australia, but in America, every
640
:year you have to renew your lease and
you cannot wipe the grin, the smile
641
:off the apartment employee's face when
it's time to renew your lease because
642
:they know they get to raise the prices.
643
:Do they do that here?
644
:So here we are.
645
:I'm avoiding the office.
646
:We've already got the notice that
it's gonna be like a month or
647
:two and they're like, Hey, it's
about time to renew your lease.
648
:And I'm like, oh man, I know they're
gonna raise it and we're good.
649
:We're good neighbors.
650
:We take out our own trash.
651
:We don't stomp around.
652
:So I end up going to the office because
our garage door opener didn't work.
653
:So I went in there to have them fix it.
654
:Unrelated to getting
the The lease renewed.
655
:Yeah.
656
:When I walked in, the lady
lit up and she said, oh, are
657
:you here to renew your lease?
658
:And it just came outta my mouth.
659
:I said, well, we wanna negotiate right.
660
:Yeah.
661
:I mean, I was half joking, but I
should have known, 'cause I live
662
:under an open heaven, that there was
something gonna happen in this moment.
663
:She says, okay.
664
:She said, okay.
665
:Right.
666
:So I said, I'll come next
Thursday, because I didn't know
667
:she was even gonna say that.
668
:So next Thursday I am like,
Jess, we're gonna give them all
669
:the noise, like all the points.
670
:We travel a lot.
671
:We're not even using it.
672
:We're very, we're very nice.
673
:We take out our own trash.
674
:We're good neighbors.
675
:We walk in and the lady said that she
was gonna cut it in half the increase.
676
:She said, I'm going to cut
before I said anything.
677
:Is that true?
678
:Yes.
679
:Before I said anything, I just sat
down and she said, we're gonna cut
680
:this increase in half so you don't
have to pay the full increase.
681
:I mean, that, that is stuff that happens
when you're living under an open heaven.
682
:Yeah.
683
:Are you seeing this?
684
:It's not about you having
less and going without.
685
:It's about you acknowledging
God, your Lord of my finances,
686
:God, I trust you with this and I
trust that you'll provide for me.
687
:It doesn't make sense that we'd have
a rich father who would want all of
688
:his children to be poor in America.
689
:That's called child abuse, right?
690
:So here we have a rich father,
but he says, if you're not going
691
:to steward what I've given you,
then okay, have it your way.
692
:If you want to trust your employer, trust
your employer, but if you want to get
693
:in the boat, he said, I'll make a way.
694
:I'll open the windows of heaven.
695
:I'll pour out a blessing, which there
won't be room enough to receive it.
696
:You catching this?
697
:Amen.
698
:All right, let's go a
little bit further, Abraham.
699
:So here we have Adam sharing the
increase, Abel showing, sharing the
700
:increase, Noah sharing the increase.
701
:Abraham shares the increase.
702
:Jacob shares the increase.
703
:Jacob has a divine encounter
with God in Genesis 28 and.
704
:Coming.
705
:This is where he falls asleep.
706
:He's on the run from Esau, and
God gives him a vision of a
707
:ladder coming down from heaven.
708
:Angels going up and down.
709
:Jacob wakes up and says, I did
not know God was in this place.
710
:Then the first thing he says is,
I'm going to become a tither.
711
:Then what?
712
:I mean this is, so he says
he's going to become a tither.
713
:He goes, he ends up meeting
Laben, his employer?
714
:Yeah, this his employer and
father-in-law was not good to him.
715
:He did not make him wealthy.
716
:In fact, he changed his wages 10 times.
717
:But yet after this happens, we see
that Jacob leaves years later and he
718
:says to God, and I'm gonna pull it
up for you 'cause, 'cause I love you.
719
:He says to the Lord in Genesis,
I'm gonna guess it's 32.
720
:Where are you?
721
:All right, I'll take that as a hint.
722
:He says, God, whenever I left my my
father's house, I had nothing but a
723
:walking stick, he said, but now my,
my household fills two large camps.
724
:Jessica's gonna find it before I do.
725
:It's a race.
726
:Boom.
727
:Genesis chapter 32, verse
10, new living translation.
728
:I'm not worthy of your unfailing
love and faithfulness that you
729
:have shown to me, your servant.
730
:When I left home, I
crossed the Jordan River.
731
:I owned nothing except a walking stick.
732
:Now my household fills two large camps.
733
:How did it happen?
734
:Because he was a tither.
735
:He was now in covenant
with God in his finances.
736
:Yeah.
737
:Okay.
738
:Again, this is all before
we have Moses show up.
739
:Now, when Moses shows
up, God speaks to him.
740
:Remember that it was the finger of
God that wrote the commandments, and
741
:in that God makes this declaration,
he says, the first is mine.
742
:It is holy unto the Lord.
743
:Right?
744
:Yeah.
745
:Doesn't it say that?
746
:Yes.
747
:So here's the thing.
748
:Often people will say, well,
Jason, we've gone from the old
749
:covenant to the new covenant, so
we don't have to tithe anymore.
750
:But hold on.
751
:When did things stop becoming holy?
752
:He said right there.
753
:He said, whatever is first,
the first of your livestock.
754
:It is holy unto the Lord,
the first of your produce.
755
:It is holy unto the Lord.
756
:Amen.
757
:We all are generating something
holy every time we produce.
758
:The first of it is holy
and belongs to the Lord.
759
:Amen.
760
:Okay, so we're gonna,
I'm gonna go past Moses.
761
:I'm gonna go past Malachi three 10.
762
:We have Solomon, the
wisest man that ever lived.
763
:Proverbs chapter three, verse nine and 10.
764
:Here's what the wisest man
that ever lived had to say.
765
:He said, honor the Lord with
your wealth and with the first
766
:fruits of all your produce.
767
:Okay?
768
:Out of the goodness of your
heart, and then just be done.
769
:No, but look what he says.
770
:There's a blessing associated with it.
771
:Honor the Lord with your wealth and with
the first fruits of all your produce,
772
:then your barns will be filled with plenty
and your vats will be bursting with wine.
773
:He says, when you put God first,
he says, something will happen.
774
:There's something that is released
that there's more than enough.
775
:There's not less.
776
:There's more than enough.
777
:Okay, now let's move
into the New Testament.
778
:Jesus.
779
:Jesus comes on the scene
and Jesus was a tither.
780
:Say, how do you know that Jason?
781
:Well, for one thing, the Pharisees
followed him around everywhere.
782
:Yeah.
783
:Anything he did, they had a problem with,
they were asking him about paying tax.
784
:They said, Hey, do you think
we should give tax to Caesar?
785
:I mean, they're following him
pretty much into the bathroom.
786
:They're saying, you guys didn't
wash your hands before you came out.
787
:You guys are trying to
heal people on the Sabbath.
788
:You know, if Jesus wasn't tithing
that they would've been the first
789
:ones to say, why aren't you tithing?
790
:Right?
791
:True.
792
:True.
793
:Then when Jesus confronts the Pharisees
about the tithe in Matthew chapter
794
:23, verse 23, he affirms the tithe.
795
:He says this, woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites, for you, tithe
796
:the mint, the deal, all these spices.
797
:But you have neglected the
weightier matters of the law.
798
:Say weightier.
799
:The weightier matters of the law,
wia, justice, mercy, and faithfulness.
800
:These you ought to have done
without neglecting the others.
801
:Notice this.
802
:Jesus says it's good that
you're tithing, but you should
803
:have also done these things.
804
:Yes.
805
:And notice that in the eyes of Jesus,
tithing was not the weightier issue.
806
:Yeah, that was.
807
:That was a given.
808
:That was the easy thing.
809
:That was, but for many of us today,
we're like, we love everyone.
810
:We believe in justice and faithfulness,
but tithing, man, that's so heavy.
811
:That's a weighty issue.
812
:That's not the way that
Jesus looked at it.
813
:He said, this is not a weighty issue.
814
:You should have tithed do
that, but don't neglect this.
815
:Also because at the end
of the day, tithing.
816
:Offerings.
817
:It's a, it's a piece of our whole
life that has to do with stewardship.
818
:Yes.
819
:Yeah.
820
:It's a piece of it.
821
:We have, I I, I think it was five F's
that, that make up our whole life.
822
:It's, uh, family.
823
:We want to have a prosperity in our
family, good relationships, feelings.
824
:We want to have, um, a levelness
in our emotions, the way
825
:that we respond to things.
826
:Finances.
827
:Finances.
828
:Of course we're talking about friends.
829
:Yeah.
830
:And faith.
831
:And faith.
832
:All five of these we have
to steward correctly.
833
:And when we steward all of these
correctly, we can move into a place of
834
:more than enough real, true abundance.
835
:And remember this, John
chapter 10, verse 10.
836
:Jesus says, the thief comes to
still kill and destroy, but I have
837
:come that they would have life.
838
:And that they might say, might,
might, might have it more abundantly.
839
:See, he, he, he gives us this option.
840
:He said, I'm going to give you life.
841
:You've got eternal life when
you've got me, but are you
842
:gonna have life more abundantly?
843
:Well, that's gonna come down to you
stewarding what I've given you correctly.
844
:You catching this?
845
:Yes.
846
:Can we go a little bit further?
847
:Yes.
848
:You learning anything?
849
:Yes.
850
:We also see this in Hebrews chapter
seven, whenever we're hearing about
851
:the new covenant that we have with
Jesus and tithing is brought up.
852
:They don't take it back to Moses.
853
:They take it all the way back to Abraham.
854
:Who is that Father of our faith.
855
:Yes.
856
:Right?
857
:Yeah.
858
:Okay.
859
:Notice this too about Jesus.
860
:Jesus did not lower the
standard of anything in the law.
861
:In fact, he said, if you are
going to be perfect to enter
862
:the kingdom of heaven, yes.
863
:He said, your righteousness must
exceed that of the Pharisees.
864
:So he set at this impossible bar.
865
:Wow.
866
:Now listen to this too.
867
:Jesus said this, if you, you
say, not to murder, but I say,
868
:don't even hate in your heart.
869
:He's just raised the standard.
870
:Yes.
871
:He say, you say, don't commit
adultery, but I say, don't even
872
:lust after someone in your heart.
873
:He says, you say, don't swear by
the church, or make an oath by the
874
:like swearing to God by the church.
875
:He says, but I say, let your
yeses be yeses in your no no.
876
:But then we have this idea, you say that
we should give tithes and offerings, but
877
:I say, you don't have to do that anymore.
878
:Right?
879
:That's the mentality that people
approach this with, and just because
880
:something is in the law does not mean
that it is totally null and void.
881
:Before or after the cross.
882
:Keep this in mind.
883
:Cain killed Abel before there was
a law, but it was still wrong.
884
:Abraham about got in trouble with
adultery by telling ab Bialek that
885
:his wife was his sister, right?
886
:And that was wrong.
887
:Even a bialek knew it.
888
:He said, man, you might have caused, you
might have brought destruction on us.
889
:Why would you lie to us?
890
:See, there are, there are laws
in, um, included in the Covenant
891
:with Moses that are ceremonial
because I've had people say, Jason.
892
:If you want to affirm the law, then you're
saying that people need to trim their
893
:beards a certain way and this and that.
894
:No, there were ceremonial laws and there
are moral laws, and the law points us to
895
:righteousness, and it reveals our sin.
896
:Then Jesus comes, he fulfills
the law and in, and now we are in
897
:this place of righteousness, but
it's not separate from the law.
898
:Think how to say this.
899
:There were, before Christ came, people had
to obey everything that was in the law.
900
:The law was written down.
901
:They would read it and then
they would try and act it out.
902
:But we have a different thing in the
new covenant, the word of God says that
903
:the law has been written on our hearts.
904
:You are now a picture of that word.
905
:Yeah.
906
:That's good.
907
:Made flesh.
908
:Yes.
909
:Oh, we, let's go a little bit further.
910
:Let's Oh, thank you, Jesus.
911
:I love this.
912
:I'm not gonna get as far as I thought,
but I do want to pray with you guys.
913
:So I'm gonna go a little bit further
and then we'll, we'll do that.
914
:Are you all right?
915
:Yes.
916
:Unless you want to go longer, we can.
917
:They said we have this until 2:00
AM Is that when you say We had to?
918
:Okay.
919
:Part of our, part of the way that that
we learn is through imitation, right?
920
:And we are told to be imitators.
921
:The Bible says in, uh, one
Corinthians 11, one, Paul says,
922
:imitate me as I also imitate Christ.
923
:Ephesians five, one says,
be imitators of God.
924
:Dear children, Philippians three 17
brothers, join in imitating me and
925
:keep your eyes on those who walk
according to the example you have in us.
926
:Hebrews 13, seven.
927
:Remember your leaders, those who spoke to
you, the word of God, consider the outcome
928
:of their life and imitate their faith.
929
:Imitate, imitate, imitate.
930
:And I love this one.
931
:Hebrews chapter six, verse 12.
932
:Write this one.
933
:Now, Hebrews six 12.
934
:Do not become sluggish, but imitate
those who through faith and patience,
935
:inherit the promises of God.
936
:So here's my question.
937
:If we have Adam, who's
sharing the increase?
938
:Abel, who's sharing the increase?
939
:Noah, who's sharing the increase?
940
:Abraham, who's sharing the increase?
941
:Jacob, who's sharing the increase?
942
:Hezekiah, who's sharing the increase?
943
:Nehemiah, who's sharing the increase?
944
:Jesus, who's affirming
the share of the increase?
945
:Who are we imitating by not tithing.
946
:Come on,
947
:boy.
948
:We're called to be imitators of
those who inherited the promises.
949
:We, we do this through faith and patience.
950
:Yeah.
951
:Come on.
952
:So be so careful and think,
well, I'm just going to, I, I
953
:saw Jason, you don't understand.
954
:I was watching TikTok and I
saw a 32nd reel and this guy
955
:wrapped up the whole thing.
956
:We don't have to do anything anymore.
957
:Okay, well that's great,
958
:but I want to be one of those that is
imitating those that have gone before us.
959
:I will imitate those who with faith and
patience inherited the promises of God.
960
:Amen.
961
:Amen.
962
:Alright, and now let's look as far as
we can see into the future in the new
963
:Heaven and the new Earth, are people
still sharing the increase with God?
964
:Look at, um, and I'm gonna read
this from the Good News translation.
965
:Revelation Chapter 21,
verse one through three.
966
:This is gonna give us our
context of where we're at.
967
:He says, then I saw a new heaven and a
new earth, the first heaven, and the first
968
:earth disappeared and the sea vanished.
969
:And I saw the holy city, the new
Jerusalem coming down out of heaven
970
:from God prepared and ready like a
bride dressed to meet her husband.
971
:And I heard a loud voice
speaking from the throne.
972
:Now, God's home is with his
people and he will live with
973
:them, and they will be His people.
974
:God himself will be with them,
and he will be their God.
975
:This is as far as we
can see into the future.
976
:And now look at Revelation
21, verse 23 through 26.
977
:The city has no need of sun or moon to
shine on it because the glory of God
978
:shines on it and the lamb is its lamp.
979
:Notice this and the people of the earth.
980
:Oh, we went to 27 20.
981
:Let's go to 24.
982
:Hey, I know him.
983
:Jason Azine.
984
:Okay.
985
:And the Kings of the Earth.
986
:Here we get a little play on the words.
987
:Keep this in mind here.
988
:Whenever we have the translators
that we're translating this into King
989
:James, new King James, these kinds of
things, they, they could not fathom
990
:that everyone would have prosperity.
991
:That the, the majority of
humanity was living in poverty.
992
:And when they would see scriptures like
this, they would use different words.
993
:This word glory is used.
994
:It's also used glory and honor.
995
:But the word, the Greek word
that is used is the word teme.
996
:Yeah, and that is a word
that means money, wealth.
997
:Look at the next verse by a
light will bring kings and
998
:they will bring their glory.
999
:They will bring their wealth.
:
00:51:36,945 --> 00:51:38,085
Good news, translation.
:
00:51:38,085 --> 00:51:39,795
They will bring their wealth into it.
:
00:51:39,945 --> 00:51:42,765
The gates of the city
will stand open all day.
:
00:51:42,765 --> 00:51:46,515
They will never be closed because
there will be no night there.
:
00:51:46,545 --> 00:51:52,485
And the greatness and the wealth of the
nations will be brought into the city.
:
00:51:53,865 --> 00:51:58,155
I don't understand what kind of, what kind
of industry is going to be happening then,
:
00:51:58,425 --> 00:52:03,465
but we still see, as far as we can see
into the future that in the new heaven and
:
00:52:03,465 --> 00:52:08,475
the new Earth, that there are still those
that are sharing their increase with God.
:
00:52:09,585 --> 00:52:13,485
This is so much bigger than just, well,
the law says we don't have to do it.
:
00:52:14,355 --> 00:52:16,065
And I would rather get to heaven and hear.
:
00:52:16,065 --> 00:52:21,615
Jason, you gave entirely too much
than to hear, than to hear Jay.
:
00:52:21,615 --> 00:52:23,535
What was the hangup about?
:
00:52:23,685 --> 00:52:24,645
About money?
:
00:52:24,855 --> 00:52:25,605
Yeah.
:
00:52:26,175 --> 00:52:29,775
See, when we connect to
God, everything shifts.
:
00:52:29,925 --> 00:52:31,275
Everything changes.
:
00:52:31,275 --> 00:52:31,365
Good.
:
00:52:32,325 --> 00:52:32,625
All right.
:
00:52:32,625 --> 00:52:34,155
I'm gonna, I'm, I'm
gonna go ahead and close.
:
00:52:34,155 --> 00:52:36,405
I said I was gonna give you two
messages, but I'm just gonna give you
:
00:52:36,405 --> 00:52:43,395
one take a look at, I'm gonna give
you two more verses, maybe three, but
:
00:52:43,425 --> 00:52:44,805
we're, we're gonna get ready to land.
:
00:52:44,805 --> 00:52:45,165
All right?
:
00:52:45,165 --> 00:52:45,975
So be at peace.
:
00:52:47,115 --> 00:52:48,045
Take a look at,
:
00:52:50,295 --> 00:52:53,535
take a look at Colossians
chapter one, verse 17.
:
00:52:53,535 --> 00:52:54,855
Have you, are you learning anything?
:
00:52:54,945 --> 00:52:55,275
Yes.
:
00:52:55,695 --> 00:52:58,875
Look at Colossians chapter
one, verse 17 and 18.
:
00:52:58,875 --> 00:52:59,925
I have the ESV here.
:
00:53:00,645 --> 00:53:02,115
It's speaking about Jesus.
:
00:53:02,115 --> 00:53:08,235
It says He is before all things and
in him all things hold together.
:
00:53:09,075 --> 00:53:13,635
He is the head of the body, the
church, he is the beginning,
:
00:53:13,815 --> 00:53:15,855
the first born from the dead.
:
00:53:16,065 --> 00:53:21,015
That in everything except
money, he might be preeminent.
:
00:53:23,610 --> 00:53:24,840
That's good, right?
:
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:25,740
That's how we read it.
:
00:53:25,740 --> 00:53:26,910
That's how people read it.
:
00:53:27,540 --> 00:53:29,370
We can read it in the
New Living Translation.
:
00:53:29,700 --> 00:53:31,830
Christ is ahead of the
church, which is the body.
:
00:53:31,860 --> 00:53:36,000
He's the beginning supreme over
all who rise from the dead.
:
00:53:36,060 --> 00:53:42,540
So he is first in everything except
money are you beginning to see money.
:
00:53:42,540 --> 00:53:43,170
Money.
:
00:53:44,220 --> 00:53:46,950
It's just pieces of paper
with dead presidents on it
:
00:53:49,290 --> 00:53:54,090
and your money can only do so much
when you keep it in your hand.
:
00:53:54,630 --> 00:53:58,920
But God has said, I've given your
hands the power to get wealth.
:
00:53:59,580 --> 00:54:04,620
Deuteronomy eight 17 and 18, he says,
don't get to a place where you prosper
:
00:54:04,710 --> 00:54:08,730
and you say, it's by the power of my
hands that I've gotten this wealth.
:
00:54:09,300 --> 00:54:10,050
God says, no.
:
00:54:10,050 --> 00:54:14,580
It is the Lord's your God who has
given you the power to get wealth.
:
00:54:14,850 --> 00:54:14,940
Yes.
:
00:54:14,970 --> 00:54:17,850
See, whenever I would always read
that, I would think about my hands
:
00:54:17,940 --> 00:54:20,130
having the power to produce and get.
:
00:54:21,180 --> 00:54:26,490
The way that your hands produce wealth
is not by taking up, it's by handing out.
:
00:54:27,479 --> 00:54:32,700
It's by what comes out of your hand that
we see the power that produces wealth.
:
00:54:33,330 --> 00:54:35,310
Ephesians chapter three, verse 20.
:
00:54:35,580 --> 00:54:37,140
It says, God is ex.
:
00:54:37,169 --> 00:54:39,959
He is able to do exceedingly, abundantly.
:
00:54:39,959 --> 00:54:45,000
Above all we could ask or think
according to the power that is in heaven.
:
00:54:45,629 --> 00:54:52,410
No, he says, according to the
power that is at work in us, that
:
00:54:52,410 --> 00:54:54,419
is the power of Jesus Christ.
:
00:54:54,810 --> 00:54:58,560
That is the power of the
Holy Spirit and my friend.
:
00:54:58,770 --> 00:55:02,759
The kingdom power that is in you is
the power of seed, time and harvest.
:
00:55:03,540 --> 00:55:06,455
That he said if you desire
anything that you would give it.
:
00:55:07,290 --> 00:55:09,810
Because if you give, it
will be given back to you.
:
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:10,920
Amen.
:
00:55:11,009 --> 00:55:12,540
Are, are you, are you catching this?
:
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:13,710
Are you learning anything?
:
00:55:14,009 --> 00:55:14,100
Yes.
:
00:55:14,430 --> 00:55:17,490
Are you beginning to see that the
tithe has everything to do with
:
00:55:17,490 --> 00:55:19,500
a covenant relationship with God?
:
00:55:19,860 --> 00:55:22,590
It's not about something
that was just in the law.
:
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:26,759
This was something that existed
before the law and the foundation
:
00:55:26,759 --> 00:55:28,470
of it was relationship with God.
:
00:55:29,460 --> 00:55:34,680
We, I mean, this was, this was him saying,
look, I want to be first in every area
:
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:36,750
of your life, including your finances.
:
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:41,009
Whatever you put God first
in, he will bless you.
:
00:55:41,009 --> 00:55:42,630
Put him first in your marriage.
:
00:55:42,660 --> 00:55:43,860
He'll bless your marriage.
:
00:55:44,100 --> 00:55:47,400
If you have a business, put
him first in your business.
:
00:55:47,610 --> 00:55:48,060
Watch him.
:
00:55:48,060 --> 00:55:48,930
Bless your business.
:
00:55:48,930 --> 00:55:49,049
Amen.
:
00:55:49,980 --> 00:55:54,000
If you make him first in your day,
you wake up and say, God, I thank you.
:
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,250
You've put, you've put breath in my lungs.
:
00:55:56,610 --> 00:55:59,160
God, I thank you that I
represent the kingdom of heaven
:
00:55:59,550 --> 00:56:00,870
and that this day is blessed.
:
00:56:00,870 --> 00:56:04,620
I'm telling you, you put a blessing at
the beginning of your day by putting him
:
00:56:04,620 --> 00:56:10,020
first in your day, and when it comes to
your finances, when you put God first in
:
00:56:10,020 --> 00:56:13,290
your finances, he'll bless your finances.
:
00:56:13,860 --> 00:56:14,660
Why wouldn't he do it?
:
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:18,150
It's not about getting something from you.
:
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:20,280
It's about getting something to you.
:
00:56:21,450 --> 00:56:25,440
Nothing leaves heaven until
something leaves earth.
:
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,640
Nothing leaves heaven until
something leaves earth.
:
00:56:30,240 --> 00:56:34,860
Even when we think about the natural about
rain, you know where rain comes from,
:
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:37,260
right?
:
00:56:37,260 --> 00:56:41,250
Clouds, they go out over the ocean
and you can even see it sometimes.
:
00:56:41,250 --> 00:56:45,840
So you guys have an ocean view, but
water will literally, that water goes
:
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:52,320
up, precipitation happens, and the clouds
get full of water, and then they come.
:
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:53,910
They get so heavy that they dump out.
:
00:56:53,940 --> 00:56:54,000
Yeah.
:
00:56:55,020 --> 00:56:58,140
Nothing leaves heaven until
something leaves earth.
:
00:56:58,890 --> 00:56:59,640
Now wait a minute.
:
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:00,870
Let me read you one last one.
:
00:57:00,930 --> 00:57:02,940
Can we have the King
James version on this?
:
00:57:03,510 --> 00:57:05,910
Let's look at Malachi
chapter three, verse 10.
:
00:57:08,790 --> 00:57:09,690
I love you so much.
:
00:57:10,140 --> 00:57:13,710
I'm I, I'm so passionate about
this because I've seen it work
:
00:57:13,770 --> 00:57:17,190
over and over again in our lives,
and I want you to experience it.
:
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:18,810
All right?
:
00:57:18,810 --> 00:57:19,560
Take a look at this.
:
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:22,905
You know this verse, king James,
do you have it in King James?
:
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:23,190
Oh,
:
00:57:28,620 --> 00:57:30,210
and while he is going
there, I'll give you this.
:
00:57:30,900 --> 00:57:33,240
The Law of Divine portion
is over and over again.
:
00:57:35,010 --> 00:57:39,300
The Law of Divine portion says God has
something set aside in the Garden of Eden.
:
00:57:39,870 --> 00:57:42,750
Remember when God made
the tabernacle with Moses?
:
00:57:43,110 --> 00:57:45,300
He said, you guys have the outer court.
:
00:57:46,050 --> 00:57:49,185
You have the inner court, but
I have the Holy of Holies.
:
00:57:50,075 --> 00:57:52,470
He set apart a portion for himself.
:
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:56,609
Remember whenever he divides up
the 12 tribes and he says, we're
:
00:57:56,609 --> 00:57:58,229
going into the promised land.
:
00:57:58,649 --> 00:58:02,339
He says, you guys, as we go into the
Promised Land, the first place that
:
00:58:02,339 --> 00:58:05,250
they had victory was Jericho, right?
:
00:58:05,459 --> 00:58:07,229
And then what does God tell them?
:
00:58:07,259 --> 00:58:10,859
He says, all of the spoils of
this victory, I want you to
:
00:58:11,009 --> 00:58:12,660
give into the house of God.
:
00:58:12,930 --> 00:58:14,310
Bring it to the tabernacle.
:
00:58:14,609 --> 00:58:16,350
It was a picture of the tithe.
:
00:58:17,490 --> 00:58:21,779
And then with the Levites, everyone
got an area of land except the Levites.
:
00:58:22,169 --> 00:58:23,850
God said, no, they're my portion.
:
00:58:24,299 --> 00:58:25,319
Are you seeing this?
:
00:58:25,410 --> 00:58:25,649
Yes.
:
00:58:25,709 --> 00:58:32,189
The promised land Over and over again, we
see the God puts a portion for himself.
:
00:58:32,910 --> 00:58:33,359
Amen.
:
00:58:33,359 --> 00:58:33,450
Yes.
:
00:58:33,750 --> 00:58:35,279
Ooh, okay.
:
00:58:36,330 --> 00:58:37,020
We know this.
:
00:58:37,020 --> 00:58:38,100
Can we read it together?
:
00:58:38,339 --> 00:58:39,089
Wouldn't that be fun?
:
00:58:40,890 --> 00:58:41,399
Okay.
:
00:58:41,430 --> 00:58:41,790
Ready?
:
00:58:41,819 --> 00:58:43,169
1, 2, 3.
:
00:58:43,319 --> 00:58:47,640
Bring ye all the tithes into
the storehouse that there
:
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:49,890
may be meat in mine house.
:
00:58:49,950 --> 00:58:52,140
And prove me now here with.
:
00:58:52,515 --> 00:58:59,115
Say it, the Lord of hosts, if I will
not open you windows of heaven and
:
00:58:59,115 --> 00:59:05,145
pour you out a blessing that there
shall not be room enough to receive it.
:
00:59:05,505 --> 00:59:09,465
Now as we read it, everyone
fumbled at one part, right?
:
00:59:09,465 --> 00:59:12,975
Because we always add a word
here and it's right here.
:
00:59:13,424 --> 00:59:16,545
He says, prove me now
here with catch this.
:
00:59:16,935 --> 00:59:18,315
God says, test me.
:
00:59:18,495 --> 00:59:24,375
Put me to the test in this, and if
I had more time, I encourage you.
:
00:59:24,375 --> 00:59:30,945
Bible students go back and look at Malachi
chapter three as they're talking about the
:
00:59:30,945 --> 00:59:36,015
advent of the Lord, that about him coming
and go look and see, is this describing
:
00:59:36,015 --> 00:59:37,965
his first coming or his second coming.
:
00:59:38,865 --> 00:59:42,855
It's describing him coming in
judgment that he is a swift
:
00:59:42,855 --> 00:59:44,805
witness against the adulterers.
:
00:59:45,450 --> 00:59:47,430
That was not how he came the first time.
:
00:59:47,700 --> 00:59:47,910
That's right.
:
00:59:47,940 --> 00:59:49,680
He came bringing grace and mercy.
:
00:59:49,710 --> 00:59:52,740
He CROs right next to the
woman caught in adultery.
:
00:59:53,279 --> 00:59:53,370
Yes.
:
00:59:53,430 --> 00:59:55,230
He says, go and sin no more.
:
00:59:56,790 --> 01:00:02,190
Go back and read Malachi chapter three
and you'll see that they're describing the
:
01:00:02,190 --> 01:00:07,980
second coming, which puts this scripture
right in the middle of the church age.
:
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:09,390
Okay?
:
01:00:10,890 --> 01:00:16,440
If I will not open you, the windows
of heaven we always add, I'll open
:
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:19,529
for you, but that's not what it says.
:
01:00:21,029 --> 01:00:24,690
See, here's the truth, is that
you are the window of heaven.
:
01:00:25,710 --> 01:00:25,770
Wow.
:
01:00:25,890 --> 01:00:30,600
See, if someone wants to see heaven,
they can look at you and they can see
:
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:32,759
the righteousness, the goodness of God.
:
01:00:33,029 --> 01:00:36,390
So whenever you begin to give and
you bring a tithe, then an offering
:
01:00:36,390 --> 01:00:41,759
to the Lord, it's not just opening
up over you, it's God opening you.
:
01:00:42,645 --> 01:00:47,654
And pouring you out a blessing that
there won't be enough room to receive it.
:
01:00:48,314 --> 01:00:48,435
Amen.
:
01:00:48,495 --> 01:00:50,415
You are the window of heaven.
:
01:00:51,375 --> 01:00:51,464
Yes.
:
01:00:51,674 --> 01:00:54,375
If they've seen you, they've seen Jesus.
:
01:00:56,564 --> 01:00:59,174
If they've seen Jesus,
they've seen the Father.
:
01:00:59,685 --> 01:01:02,205
But if they've seen
you, they've seen Jesus.
:
01:01:02,294 --> 01:01:03,765
They can look through the window.
:
01:01:04,484 --> 01:01:08,685
And whenever you bring those tithes
and offerings, God will open you
:
01:01:08,745 --> 01:01:12,825
up in a greater dimension and he
will pour things in and through
:
01:01:12,825 --> 01:01:15,105
your life like never before.
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Are you seeing that it's
not one or the other?
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It's both.
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I love it.
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I love it.
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It's your Bible too.
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I should totally be done.
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Our, our tithes.
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I wanna encourage you, if you've never
made a commitment to be a tither, there's
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no better time to start than right now.
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You make a make.
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Promise to the Lord.
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I don't know.
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When we get our wages, if it's weekly
or monthly or, or bimonthly, but
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between you and the Lord, search
God on this and say, God, the can
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I put you to the test in this?
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Yeah.
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Come on.
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And, and I won't be here next week.
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So if you're really concerned
about about me getting an
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offering, wait till next week.
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But I want this to happen in your life.
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So make a decision and I pray that
the Lord, the Holy Spirit would bring
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this to your remembrance the next time
that you have increase in your life.
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'cause for some of us, I mean, just
look at the way we divide our increase.
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We get increase in the first thing we do.
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Nope.
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I'm gonna pay the electrical bill.
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I'm gonna share the increase
with McDonald's with Mackey's.
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I'm gonna share the increase
with, I'm gonna share the increase
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with the mortgage company.
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I'm gonna share the increase
with my car payment.
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I'm gonna share the increase
with the gasoline man.
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I'm gonna share the increase
with everyone in God.
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I'm gonna give you whatever's left over.
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Let's share our increase with God.
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Let's put him first.
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Make him preeminent in every way.
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Last thing, how do we decide, how does
God decide how valuable an offering is?
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Yeah, that's a good question.
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When it comes to the value of your
offering, how does God look at it?
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Now, God owns everything, right?
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Yeah.
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He owns everything.
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It all belongs to him.
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So when God looks at our
offering, how does he decide?
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Is this a good offering or not?
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Because remember, the woman
with two mites, he said, this
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woman's out given every woman.
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Yep.
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Here's the way that God decides what
you're offering, how valuable it is.
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It's based on how precious it is to you.
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If you are continually giving
God your leftovers, don't
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expect heaven to do back flips.
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Oh, look, they put a $5 bill in there.
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If you're just giving him
your pocket change, don't
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expect having to do backflips.
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But God looks through that
envelope and into your heart.
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And if you say, God, this is
precious to me, and I'm putting
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this forth, then God says, Hey,
he's doing something serious here.
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Yeah.
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I'm gonna move on this.
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Yeah, because God is moved.
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He is moved by seed.
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Yes.
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Amen.
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And please catch this.
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If you continually remember
seed time and harvest,
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if you continually sow what you
do not need, you will continually
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reap what you cannot use.
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Lemme say it again.
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If you continually sow what you do not
need, just sow in your leftovers, you
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will continually reap what you cannot
use the way that you can move into a life
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that's full of surprises, good surprises.
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The way that you can move into
a life of more than enough is by
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having an open heaven over your life.
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It's by tithing, having
the windows of heaven open.
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It's by sharing the increase with God,
and then it's by saying, God, I have
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a seed here and it's precious to me.
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I came here to do business with you.
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And then to be able to sow something in
that moment, and God will breathe on it.
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Yes, because his word is true.
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Yeah.
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So I wanna encourage you, I don't know,
whenever we get wages here, do you
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get, is it monthly or is it bimonthly?
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Everyone's different.
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Well, whenever it happens, that's
your opportunity to say, God, all
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right, I'm gonna move on this.
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And for some of you, even
tonight, whatever you want to do.
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Or this morning, maybe you wanted to wait
till later, wait till tonight, or on the
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way home you decide to give something.
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But say, God, I want to give
something that's valuable to me.
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It's not.
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It's not about the amount.
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It's about if it's precious to you or not.
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Okay.
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And then here's the thing.
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I want to come back in a few months
and I want to hear about the harvest
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that are coming in because we are
going to hear about the harvests.
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The word of God will not be denied.
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It will not return void.
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Yeah.
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One last thing about the tithe, and
then pastor, I really have to stop.
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Look, I'm handing over the stuff.
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Okay.
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Whenever we start tithing, some of you're
gonna say, Jason, this looks like chaos.
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Things are getting crazy
whenever the first time.
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The first time we ever see the phrase
the windows of heaven used in scripture
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is when the sky opened, the windows of
heaven opened and God flooded the earth.
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Whenever God flooded the earth, he
removed a lot of things that were
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unnecessary so he could start again
with what would bring Him glory.
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As you begin to tithe, there might
be a few weeks a month where you're
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sitting here going, man, this looks
like things are getting crazy.
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Let God work.
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Let him remove some things so that
he can start fresh with something
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that will bring him glory because he
doesn't want to share his glory with
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anyone else, and he doesn't want to.
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He doesn't want it at the end
of the day where you say, I got
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rich 'cause of the lottery, or I
got rich 'cause of this or that.
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No, he wants all the glory, so be
ready for him to remove some things
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so that he can establish that great
covenant with you of more than enough.
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Would you stand with me?
