[Music] what's going on if you are joining us on YouTube right now I want to let you know you made the best decision because God wants to speak directly to you through this message today we are in week two of a series we are calling Wicked and yes it is um a popular movie that's out right now and no we are not singing any songs about actual witches or brooms or anything we're talking about the thing that God calls wicked the worship of wealth and the waste of wealth and today I believe that you tuned in because you want to walk in watch this word wisdom i'm telling you right now when you do things the way that God sets them up to be done when you follow the principles and the practices you walk in a level of wisdom that allows you to walk in a new way of kingdom wealth and I want that for you your family your children's and your children's children so today buckle up cuz this one's going to require you to take notes you need to be ready to change your thinking and that's how it's going to change your life week two don't fail this test it's happening right now let's go well get out your Bibles get out your smartphones get out your tablets today um we are in week two of a series we're calling Wicked and this series is about the worship of wealth and last week God really did challenge us to um view the categories of what God calls wicked he said in his word that the worship of wealth is wicked and some of y'all like obviously yeah like obviously like greedy people people who won't obey what God says to do and the people who are stingy like Yeah but the other thing that he explicitly calls wicked is people who waste their wealth and and I know there are a lot of people especially if you're in church a a lot of people won't necessarily claim being ones who are wicked because they're they're actually worshiping wealth no I worship God i worship God i only worship God but God thought it's so important that he put it in his word so plainly only one place in the Bible does he compare himself to anything cuz he just know he's him and he don't got to compare himself to nobody but there was only one place he said you cannot serve both God and money he said because I know you'll never call it this but you'll make it your idol or your God and so if you waste it or you worship it it's everybody say wicked and the word y'all ain't even say it say wicked yeah cuz the truth of of the matter is some of y'all have been living a wicked life when it comes to finances nobody's saying it but go through your budget and see how much you wasted last month come on let's Let's think about it some of y'all don't even return stuff that don't fit no more yes sir oh come on let's be honest you don't like the process of returning it so you buy three sizes oh I'm in somebody's business get the one that works and leave the other two in a dirty bag on the side and then one day you'll give it away to Goodwill or anything and God said you could even get your money back if you would just be intentional but you're wasteful yet you going to be praying God make a way just make a way god just make a way he said I did it's on your floor some of us are playing for subscriptions they got us with one TV show you ain't opened up Peacock in 9 months come on ain't opened it up in nine months but they taking $12 every month but you can't honor God they taking it from you not even asking you for it and you gave him permission i'm just saying that is wicked when it comes down to you standing before God and him tallying up all the resources he gave you hello John i'm so grateful that you made it here in your lifetime you had $7,672 17 of them went to the church 700 went to the church 17,000 in the 7 million 17,000 that's not even a comparison it's not even a tithe pastor Mike why are you telling me this is because for many years of my life I was in the dark or I was ignorant of what God's word said about wealth and if you don't know you don't even got to act like you know come on when you know better you do better some of y'all do cuz some of us know but you get to abdicate yourself you get to act dumb you get to not even try if you don't know so if you came to church today or you're watching online you in trouble cuz by the end of this sermon you'll know and then what you do with what you know that's on you watch this you can go to heaven and never give anything i want to be very clear because a lot of people think that when you talk about money or tithing or generosity they they they feel like it's a condemnation message if anybody has ever done that to you I want to apologize as a pastor on a platform your money is not sending you to hell let me be very clear about that once you put your faith in Jesus Christ he is now your Lord and Savior you will be in heaven i want you to know that but you do not become more like Jesus if you don't give so if the goal is not just to get a get out of hell free card but to actually be transformed into the image of our Lord and Savior if that's the actual goal to represent or represent him on earth we can never look more like Jesus if we never give anything amen and the crazy thing about it is giving shows up in everything yes sir when you're selfish with God you're selfish with your wife oh gosh when you're When you're selfish with God you're selfish with people you don't know do How many times did God tell you to do something or ask you to give an extra tip or ask you to do something you like they don't look like they need it you ain't never seen them before in your life but you just summing up the whole situation today I'm asking us not to be wicked because we worship wealth or be wicked because we waste it i want us to walk in say this word with me wisdom wisdom when you have wisdom with wealth you can look at Solomon as an example and see what God does when people ask for wisdom i want you to go read it later but I I just need to let you know the wisest man the Bible declares that ever lived when God gave him a choice he said "You can ask me for anything you want most of us would have been like could you please let me hit that lottery in Texas what is it 250?" Like he says "I don't want riches i don't want wealth i don't want my name." He said "Would you please watch this give me wisdom to govern your people." And God liked the answer so much that he said "You know what boy i don't know where you found that answer at but because you asked for what wisdom." He said "I'm going to give you all the money you could ask for because now watch this you have the mindset to handle more that's it and most of us that are sitting here today listening to me do not have the mindset for more if God gave you more it would destroy you if God gave you more you wouldn't come to church no more if God gave you more you wouldn't pray no more if God gave you more you would be at you you making it rain oh come on if God gave you more those substances you would spread them to other people cuz you wasn't greedy no more and so you would spread death to other people cuz you had more to give you would be generous with the wrong thing okay come on y'all and God said "I need to give you my heart and my mind about wealth resources and stewardship and generosity because if you get that I can trust you with everybody say more more that's all God wants to trust us all with yes more ain't that what every parent want for their kids i want to be able to trust you with more right now I can't trust you to not take the cookies out the cookie jar that's why I got to put them up okay can't put the Oreos or the chocolate chips where the kids can get them cuz they do not have the mindset or the heart to obey you to stay out of it as soon as you turn your but one day as a parent I would hope that my word would be able to keep them out of the cookie jar not the placement at some point I want to be able to leave something right there for them to get and they desire to obey my word so it doesn't take me putting a booby trap and a mouse trap and a camera i'm watching some of our parenting is not actually parenting it's surveillance okay let me stop all I'm All I'm saying is I'm ain't nothing wrong with camera we got cameras i'm I'm I'm just saying we scare them into knowing we're watching instead of giving them the ability to grow so we can trust them with everybody say more so today I'm going to try to give you a principle that has changed my life one of my friends came up to me on the sign and just said testify Mike you live this and so today I just want to testify of what happens when you focus on what Jesus says about money when you focus on what Jesus says somebody say "Focus." Hebrews 12:1 I'm reading it every week it says "Therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses let us throw off everything that hinders us especially the sin that so easily entangles us and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." I just want somebody to know that the race marked out for you is not supposed to be one that is just full with broke ideas struggling situations and needing and begging how do you know Pastor Mike god says it is in his will that you be the lender and not the borrower he said "I want to use you." So first off you just got to believe that how I was raised what I was grown up in or even all that I've measurable burden of how to handle it i need you to know there's another race marked out for us fixing our eyes on Jesus somebody say "Focus." The pioneer and perfector of our faith for the joy that was set before him he endured the cross scorning its shame and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God fixing your eyes on Jesus gives you the faith to focus so today I'm going to focus us on some scriptures that you're going to have to eat on beyond this meal if today was your only day of eating for the rest of the week y'all would show up here next week hangry malnourished dehydrated some of y'all wouldn't show up because you'd be in jail from the things that you did mentally because So I want you to feast on the word of God when it comes to us honoring God with what he gives us proverbs 3:9 this is one of the greatest scriptures of wisdom and wealth it says "Honor the Lord not your pastor not your church not your bishop honor the Lord with your what wealth with the first fruits of your crops so what I need everybody to do is understand that God has put a principle in place where he's saying "I'm going to bless you the only way that I know that you honor me is not by your lip service not by y'all shouting y'all dance." Some of y'all was like "I gave God 10% of my praise today come on some of us think that well I s He said "Honor me with your wealth." And then he's more specific with the first fruits i want the first of it cuz it doesn't take faith to give the last it takes faith to give the That's good and then it says watch this he makes a promise then your barns will be filled to overflowing ah and your vats will brim over with new wine what God's saying is if you ever try me at this principle he said I'm going to make your life an example of abundance and most people who fight with this it's their fear to believe that God is a man of his word and so today I want you to know that honoring God with our wealth is the way that we get overflow we sing the song overflow most of us have never experienced it especially in the area of finance god says "Do it my way and I will present overflow to you." So I was thinking of this time when I was 15 years old um and I think this is a good way to get right into this series into this message um me and my now wife but then girlfriend had this um wild idea to go get our driver's license together and um Natalie is a very safe and cautious person she's one that read the whole um driver's ed manual she actually went to a class me on the other hand um I got the gist of it and I you know what I'm saying i know the basics and I can drive though it doesn't really make sense to go through all of that work um so let's go get our driver's license her sister Naive took us to the North Side DMV and um we went to take our driving test and um they were like "Who wants to go first?" And I'm sitting there like "Ah shiverous ladies first." Natalie goes out and takes her driver's test she's out there for about 15 minutes she turns back in i'm watching from the window like there my girl look at that look at backing up you turn go girl and um comes back in and I'm like yo how was it like what was it scary was anything and she was like no that was simple that was easy and she got her um little passing certificate and so I got real confident and I was like if she got her license that easy Well I had this little thought in my head like "What if I fail this test?" Like how embarrassing would that be for me to fail this test with this woman that I'm her strong mighty strapping 15-year-old man um but I threw it to the back of my head the lady says "All right start the car start the car go out." She says "Turn um onto the street turn onto the street and then there was a car that was next to me that was acting like you know them people that don't know if they want to get in front of you or go behind and so I'm like uh I'm not playing with this so I just speed up a little bit just a little bit speed up i mean normal get in front so like do what you going to do if you going to have the issue with throw a temper tantrum I'm going to get right here that woman said "Okay." She said "Okay right here at the light why don't you turn left okay and then turn back into the parking lot." And it didn't even register to me that I was out for exactly 1 minute and 45 seconds and she asked me to turn the car off and heat rose from my feet all the way to my I instantly started sweating and I was like "What happened what happened?" She was like "Well that was not appropriate driving specifically for a driving test." And she said "I'm going to have to ask you to come back." And Nat standing at the window but she knew the time was too short and I am sad to say that I failed my first driving test natalie got her picture and her license and she had to drive me home that [Applause] day i failed the test now I thought about that as a good entry story because it was my pride that allowed me not to actually take seriously the opportunity I had and I failed the test because I I didn't actually do what was asked of me today I want to title this me message don't fail this test like like as a big brother as a pastor as a leader I'm just asking everybody in this room who has a paycheck gets paid some type of way how many people get paid um two times a month like two times a month okay how many people get paid once a month hands lifted some of y'all not even lifting your hand y'all don't get paid well maybe that's what we need to pray for increase for you cool uh-uh but the mindset becomes before the motion okay so so so so every time you get paid people don't know this god's giving you a test and today I came to tell everybody don't fail this test because the test that God gives is an openbook test he has in his word so many places where he says "Yo if I give you something I need you to watch this word return 10% of it so that I know that you know who all of this comes from." That's good and I'm telling you it's the fourth month or the third month of the year and some of y'all have failed this test six to eight times and today I'm just coming to you as your big brother and say "Don't fail this test cuz this test can actually change your life." Malachi 3 verse 6 and I'm about to bring some clarity to this that the church has messed up for years for I am the Lord who's talking the Lord i am the Lord i do not change tap in with me right here therefore you are not consumed oh sons of Jacob yet from the days of your fathers you have gone away from my ordinances or that means ordinary behavior this is ordinary behavior for people who call themselves Christians and you have not kept them return to me or come back to the way I meant for it to be and I will return to you says the Lord of hosts but you say "In what way shall we return to you God?" Will a man rob God yet you have robbed me think about how strong that language is if God is saying "You robbing me." No no no no no no talking about son or daughter but you keep robbing me think about it and you say "Hold on God in what way have I robbed you exactly?" He said "Let me be very specific you have robbed me in tithes and offerings a pastor didn't make this up a church didn't make this up this wasn't a board of directors that was like "Yo we need money somehow." This is God the Lord of Hosts and he keeps saying it he says "You've robbed me in tithes and offering and you are cursed with the curse for you have robbed me even this whole nation is robbing me so what do you want me to do God bring all the tithes into the storehouse." That's the house of God that there may be food in my house and try ah this my part and try me now in this test me says the Lord of hosts and see if I will not open for you the window who is he talking to open for you he's talking to us the windows of heaven and pour out for you i think people when they read this they think it's about the church or they think it's about a group of people god says everybody's not going to get this but for those who do Yes sir this ain't for everybody but this is for the ones who do he says "See if I won't open up the windows of heaven." How big could that be and pour you out such a blessing oh I love this that there will not be room enough to receive it and on top of that I'll rebuke the devourer for your sakes so that you so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground he's going to protect your stuff nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field says who the Lord of hosts and all nations will look at you and say they are blessed for you will be oh I like this a delightful land says the Lord of hope and many people jack this up because of two things they get hung up at the curse and they get hung up on how did I rob God so let me bring clarity to it right now pastor Mike how am I cursed how can I rob God watch this write this down if you give your life to Jesus Christ the curse is broken let me be very clear it is it is it this is an Old Testament passage that God saying because you didn't do it my way y'all remember all the laws he gave all the commandments he gave and people were having to sacrifice everything he said God said "This you know what this was not probably the best idea i'mma send Jesus now cuz they not gonna get it i made a whole bunch of rules whole bunch of regulations spelled out everything for them they not going to get this so I'mma take away the curse if they believe in Jesus." So I just need everybody to say cuz a lot of people get up here you're cursed when you don't tithe you're cur if you believe in Jesus yeah the curse that was on your life because you did not put your faith in Jesus it is broken somebody should shout right there okay this is good this is why the grace and mercy of God so I want to relieve you everybody take a deep breath in release it out relax you don't got to wake up tomorrow and be like "Oh God I'm cursed i'm cursed i'm" No if your faith is in Jesus the curse is what broken galatians 3:13 and so I can give you scripture to back this up christ has redeemed all of us from the curse of the law having become the curse for Come on I love the Bible for it is written cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree he said "I went to the tree and took every curse that would be put upon you and all you got to do is believe and receive me." So the curse is broken okay good does everybody get that so if anybody ever tries to play you with that if you don't give your curse tell them um I have um a scripture right here galatians 3:13 curse is broken this is why I want you to study to show yourself approved but watch this if you don't obey Jesus Christ consequences still continue so when you put your faith in Jesus the curse is broken but if you don't obey him the consequences continue oh God I just need you to hear me say this if you slap somebody and they punch your face no I just need you to hear me like at that point they can say "I'm sorry and there can be no charges pressed but your mouth nose and cranium are still under the consequence of being punched do you understand what I'm saying man i'm sorry bro that was a mistake i didn't mean to do it like that bro i thought you was going to scare me like oh bro bow you are still experiencing the consequences yes sir wow and some of us living paycheck to pay paycheck getting increased and still feeling broke knowing not knowing what to do with our resources fighting over finances husbands and wives oh we know there's a big wedge between a lot of people's bed husband on this side wife on this side money in the middle the problem is is that most people are still suffering under the consequences because they won't do it God's way let me tell you the difference the difference between a curse and your consequences is your choice deuteronomy 30:19 this day I call on heaven and earth witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death doing it my way doing it your way doing it how the Bible says doing it how culture says i'm setting it before you now you get to choose and I love the open book test god is so good he ask you a question and give you the answer i don't know if you had never had a class that you didn't study for the test and you come in and you scared and then the teacher says it's an open book test and you can share answers with a partner how do you fail that test somebody said "What school you go to?" What what I'm saying is the the the truth of the matter is when God gives you an openbook test I'm just saying to you don't fail this one don't fail this test of tithing of returning back to God he says choose life so that your children may live choose life if you can't do it for you do it for those who come after you if you don't feel that it's good enough for you to actually set this pattern and these principles in place do it for those kids you prayed for me to bring into this world and show them what it looks like to have a parent that honors God so Pastor Mike what's the big revelation on that Malachi scripture the Holy Spirit showed it to me this and I'm so proud of everybody cuz I feel you locked in right now and I'm telling you this principle is going to change everything if you just allow God to work it into your heart when I saw that the curse was a hold up we just solved that nobody's cursed but you can still get consequences when you put your faith in Jesus Christ the second thing is how do I rob God this is what the Holy Spirit told me he said Michael every time you don't do it my way by returning that tenth he says you rob me of an opportunity to bless you and today I'm telling you tithe give whatever he tells you because if you don't you're robbing our God who owns everything of the opportunity to bless you in the way that he wants pastor Mike he can bless me the way that he wants he just won't go against his word to do it i need everybody to hear me say this well God can bless me he He won't violate his own word to bless you and some of y'all are sitting here like "Oh it's not that." That that $100 is not worth you not having God's blessing that $1,200 is not worth you that $10,000 is not worth you not having God's blessing i promise you i am telling you I've sat where you've sat and I've reasoned and done the numbers and crunched and tried to make things make sense and and maybe God will accept this and it's 90% with God's blessing is better than 100% without it did you hear what I just said 90% is better with God's blessing than 100% without okay so watch this many things God asks us to do aren't easy but they are simple don't over complicate it tithing is not easy but it is definitely simple it's one penny out of every dime it's It's 10 cents out of every dollar it's $10 out of every hundred does anybody know what the tithe of a million is i like it a 100,000 i want you to know cuz some of y'all need to stop praying for money and you need to start praying for an amount to tithe you missed it y'all missed it i got to talk i need to do I need to do a different Some of y'all if you would start praying Lord let my tithe be $50,000 this year it would change the way I got goosebumps saying that lord I thank you that my tithe is $6,500 i I made that last year in my business but I thank you that my ti I thank you that my tithe of the month is $15,000 god I thank you that with glee with gratefulness God I will give you everything that but you won't if you're not faithful with 15 you will not get 15,000 if you are not faithful with $15 i'm trying to give you the principles that create crazy faith everybody want to write stuff down on a paper about a building i'm going to tell you what I wrote down on the paper i put the number I wanted to tithe oh god I'm sharing too much okay here we go bring me that real quick cuz some of them not going to get it cuz some of them are hungry cuz we had long worship today last week I roasted crispy cream donuts so I had to go support them this was $24 though who like donuts in here that's the loudest you've been all service that's ridiculous okay somebody Somebody like donuts anybody like donuts okay my right there in the Nike hoodie yeah right there you in the grade Nike you No yeah right there come here all right real quick real fast real quick um all I want you to do is know that this represent Come on sweetheart this represents a gift that I'm giving you this is an increase of calories and and sugar okay there are 10 donuts in here all I'm asking you for is one of them you can have this no matter what but as the one who gave it to you that paid for it that gave you the ability to take it out of my hand go on take it all I'm asking is for one are you going to give me one yeah that's easy to give me one you give me more than one but all I'm asking you for is Did you see the heart 30 seconds ago I had none and now all you're asking for is one she said "I'll give you more than one." But this is what I'm going to ask you to do i'm not greedy even even even though economy prices are going up and and and and the stock market and and and the value menu it's like $2.99 it used to be at 99 cent it's not even 99 cent no more everybody's going up in price but my principle is the same for every 10 all I want is one now if you walk over there to your friends and your family in your section and you feel compelled to give them one you could do that but I'm not going to require more than what I already told you enjoy those god bless you [Applause] now watch sweetheart sweetheart what's your name taran taran would you hand that to the sweet lady um with the with the hat on right there yeah blonde hair just hand it to her now now now you took your hands off of it i need you to come back to the father because you took your hands off of what I gave you and that person may not even know the principle we teaching but when I when you heard my voice you obeyed and gave it to where I told you to give it and all of that came because you obeyed and you gave me one could you bring out see see what you didn't understand is that in the back the whole time my plan wasn't to give you one come on give them to me first my plan wasn't to give you [Music] one my plan was to give you [Music] 10 now I don't know if you've ever carried this many donuts before i don't know if you've ever overflowed like this before [Applause] y'all got to hear what I'm saying but what God wanted to do for you is see if you would trust oh look there's sharing going on in the section over there now sweetheart how many donuts is left in there it's four what's your name in the hat ka one of those belong to God see see the problem is We we we we will get blessed and we will think the blessing had something to do with us and we'll forget to return so I'm going to keep blessing the one who's blessing right now you got 10 boxes now hold on if you got 10 boxes I almost can't see you now if that's 10 I bless you with Not one donut is mine one of them boxes is mine [Music] ka hey girlfriend eat your donut and return one to God i see she got tears in her eyes y'all something is happening right now god's revealing himself see what you didn't know bring him out please [Applause] what you didn't know is I had plenty of donuts ready what you didn't know is I got so Come here Ka come here she's like I don't even want this many go give them out be a conduit be a blessing thank you so much [Applause] i think this is what the scripture means well I'll pour you out a blessing that you don't have she It looked like she needs some help look somebody come and help her i need them and you Hold on i'll get some i'll get some but she need a friend does Kai got any friends now yeah go y'all got to help this baby's about to all they about to fall don't have room enough to receive don't have room enough to receive don't have room enough to receive don't have He said "I got room to receive." Don't have room enough to receive now watch now watch now watch now watch hold on wait wait wait no wait wait just wait now look what happens look what happens the whole room is standing up and calling her blessed because of one step of obedience he hear what I'm saying now everybody with a box everybody with a box everybody with a box i can't open my box she said "I can't even open my box i got too much to go." Everybody with a box now here what I'm This is an easy example thank all of y'all for for y'all y'all give it up for everybody that's down here okay don't stop stealing her stuff let her give it to you y'all go back to your seat go back to your seat you got yours god man he said "I'mma tithe i'm tithing off of this." She said "Let me get that donut i'm tithing let me Yeah come on let me get one." Come on here we go here we go here we go here we go no I just I want you to see this yeah y'all y'all stay right there i want y'all to see this thank y'all look at she's convincing people to give them a box take the box the girl giving you a box take the box for your station but don't leave without tithing give it for your section but where uh you you worried about them but you ain't worried about me [Applause] you know we got we all right here we go here we go here we go listen watch this watch this all right we do we good y'all good y'all go eat them donuts share with other people up there amen here here here what I'm saying hear what I'm saying there's still boxes in the back did y'all hear what I just said there's still boxes in the back i got my daughter up oh you done got something you said I got to get You got blessed by somebody and you got to come be oh Lord it's okay you don't got to pick it up you don't No no no no no no no no this is what God does he's got more than yos here this is what God if you get around God you can eat you can pick up the crumb [Applause] like Okay okay i'mma just leave these right here y'all nobody got to come get these donuts this was an example everybody calm down the truth of the matter is my daughter now has just seen a picture of Oh you had a donut you had to give me a piece come on god wanted that yeah I appreciate that okay listen i didn't ask none of these people to come up here i didn't have to beg them to return what was not theirs in the first place does everybody hear what I'm saying my daughter is watching her father practice a principle that has created provision for her that's right she may not understand fully what's going on but but but the principle the one thing she did understand this morning is I had a bunch of donuts and she took a whole box and she hid it [Applause] ava did you hide a box of donuts there is another box that's supposed to be out here and she did what that third person did in the story of the talents this my baby smart girl i love her but she hid what I entrusted her with and right now I'mma go to the back and I'mma find her donuts and she going to give her daddy one but what does it look like for us to have all of this resource this is all the 10% is of all the donuts I gave out that don't look like nothing compared to what just it was just this off of all of that maybe this is a picture that God wants you to see thank y'all you can give those donuts out to Huh you want to give it to people you feeling generous go on over there and give some give some to people all right here we go is this helping y'all no come on help me is this helping guys okay so watch this tithing is a test write it down tithing is a test tithing is a test don't fail this test a biblical principle this is tithing and practice established by God of returning see that i'm not saying giving we're returning it the first 10% of your increase back to God through the local church god chose this percentage and that's why we obey it okay um and and if you go through the Bible 10 is a term of testing anyway okay i want you to answer me um when I ask these questions okay some Bible trivia for you how many plagues were there in Egypt 10 somebody said seven we need to read the Bible again is 10 okay and and and and this is what I'm saying i could have asked it a different way i could have said "How many times did God test Pharaoh's heart?" He was telling him "Let my people go." And he gave him 10 opportunities okay there's a pattern here how many commandments are there how many times does God test Israel in the wilderness 10 again there is a pattern here everybody answer out loud okay how many times were Jacob's wages changed how many days was Daniel tested how many of days are mentioned in of testing in Revelation 10 how many disciples were there there were 12 disciples thank God for y'all cuz y'all that was a test somebody like 10 but the thing about tithing watch this it's a two-way test when you tithe you get to go big dog on God and say "Hey did what you said and you said I could test you at this." This is the confidence we have in our God bring the whole tithe not part of it not some of it not some now some later it takes faith he says "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse," which is whatever house that God's um um resides in what church you belong to so I want you to bring that into the storehouse that there may be food in my house test me in this it's like almost like God saying "I dare you to do it i dare you to every time you get increase." Well God is so tight he said "You want it to expand test me." Well God I don't know how it's going to play i'm going to lose test me he says "Test me and see if I won't open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing you don't have room enough to receive." Somebody's catching this revelation testing tithing is a test second thing tithing is biblical leviticus 27:30 old Testament and New Testament i'm going to give it to you cuz some people like that's the Old Testament i'm going give it to you in the New Testament and it's Jesus saying it okay here we go leviticus 27:30 and all the tithe how much of the tithe all how much okay all the tithe of the land he not just talking about the money he's saying the tithe of the land i want everybody to hear the language bring all the tithe of the land whether of the seed of the land this was their currency at the time or the fruit of the tree is the Lord's it is the holy set apart that's what holy means it's the holy portion to the Lord he's saying if your tree makes 10 lemons bring me one that's all he's saying he said it's holy and set apart and I know even as I'm sitting here I need you to hear me i am fighting the enemy's plan to keep you in bondage that's why some of you even as you're hearing me everything's starting to distract you now everything's trying to get your attention now you need to even pray and focus a little more because the enemy doesn't have to set a new trap if he's got you wound up in one already so for some of you your life can be going good and it's always a money problem always you can look back at the last decade of your life and every time it feels like you get momentum and you trust in God and you d's always something attached to money that comes to trip you up the enemy ain't had to mess with you in a decade and a half cuz he know there's going to come one moment or something that's going to mess you up and I'm trying to show you right here this principle is what Jesus wants us to do jesus talking and New Testament Matthew 23:23 woe to you scribes and Pharisees you hypocrites for you paid tithe on mint and annis and cumin which were spices and you have neglected the weightier matter of the law justice and mercy and faith these you ought to have done without leaving the others undone what is Jesus saying he was like you tithe on all your increase but you don't do the mercy justice and faith he said both of them you ought to do jesus said tithe and love people he's saying give of your increase and show people mercy that's Jesus talking and the crazy thing is right now if Jesus came to you and said you you should tithe some of you would still have to think about it last thing tithing is practical it's it's a test it's biblical and it's practical hebrews 7:8 cuz some of y'all like "Okay I'm tithing i'm giving 10% of my income i'm doing all of this how does God get it?" Watch this he confronts it here on this earth mortal men receive tithes the church the people that govern this the board they manage it but there he receives them he said "This whole thing is by faith." He's like "It's practical for there to be lights and tissue and uh uh the little soap in the soap dispenser salaries staff these tubs people getting free baptism shirt somebody got to give to it." And you know the crazy thing about it is less than 5% of all Christians tithe did you hear what I just said so all of the transformation that has happened because of the church from hospitals to people's homes being saved to people being rescued out of that has happened with five not even a tithe of Christians what would happen what could we do how could we change a city how could we change an industry we can't do nothing because we don't have resources because people are paying people who are wicked cuz somehow you trust a wicked man with your resources and not and I get it there have been some bootleg preachers no come on y'all building fund ain't never gotten done everything leaking but we done gave all to the building fund i get it but the fruit will speak and I don't know if you've ever been a part of church that's been more generous than transformation church hear me when I say this i'm not saying this to We made a decision that we were going to represent and represent what it meant to actually live generously and in the 10 years that we have been the senior pastors of this church because of the great foundation that Bishop and Pastor Debbie laid for us we've given away over $34 million y'all don't know when to clap and so the truth of the matter the truth of the matter is I get it you don't get it i get it and it's hard when you've never actually done the principle in your life for any business or company to set aside that much money to give to other churches and other people that would be insane to most people and it's the only reason we're blessed but it started at home it started with me it started with Natalie it started with us actually taking this test and yeah I failed my driver's test i did but since I understood this principle I've never failed this one cuz giving is a practical practice that proves my faith every 15 days don't tell me you trust God show me you trust him and some of y'all thankfully the Holy Spirit's not backdating you like the government does oh come on let's be honest some of y'all are in tax evasion right now you You're evading i see y'all i shouldn't have said that can I have 10 minutes y'all i'm going to share this last principle and it's going to change everything and then we going home okay um I started to think with some of my friends that are pastors at the church earlier it's like what really keeps people from giving because I've said all these scriptures before i live them in my own life i've seen God do crazy stuff i like but I want people to I want everybody else to get it like it's not cool for you to be the only few people who like get the principle and that everybody think you get it cuz you're the pastor some people like I bet you do get it it's like hold on wait when you give I don't get the money i don't touch the money like I don't like I get a paycheck just like everybody like it's not the same it's I got to trust God with everything that comes to my house the same way you got to trust them with everything that comes to your house i've been doing this since I made $29,000 a year i want to be very clear with you my whole tithe check for the year was $2,900 and I was faithful i have friends that know like yo I can't go to that because I gota I got some things to handle and only things to handle was keeping my word to God and it and it changed in me before it changed for me once it changed in me God was like "Thank you Lord now I can trust him." The the the amount of increase that God has done would would make most men turn into a different person i I I only can say this because I've lived through it i see how them celebrities go from broke to then like they get all this money doing all kind of wild stuff it's because money just exposes what's on the inside and brings it out and that's why I had to change in me first and so when I think about the things the progression of giving I want to give it to you like this it starts with your thinking if you think tithing is foolishness that's the first category that most people are in when they don't have an understanding and I want to say there may be some people watching online a part of this service or in this room that think everything that I'm saying right now is foolishness you may not say it out loud like that but that's how you actually think about it it's like that's foolish that don't make no sense that don't make no practical sense i don't believe in it i don't think this is going to happen and right now if you think it's foolishness I want to let you know what your responses will be if anybody the word me God Bible ever ask you to give you have one of two responses if you think it's foolishness right now you're either going to number one fight it you're going to fight it or you're going to fear it if these are your motivations right now you may not say it like this but you think this principle is foolishness don't take it up with me take it up with him if I say "Hey this next pay period you got paid this week you give it honor God give him 10% at the beginning." If there's a part of you right now that wants to fight it or there's a part of you that's saying "I don't know how this is going to work i can't do it this is not going to work i'm going to be suffering i'm going to God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power love and assump." He's saying "Test me don't fail this test and if you're here you're a good person." Yeah if you're here you're not mean or crazy or it doesn't make sense outside of God but in the kingdom it's a command are you fighting or are you fearing if you're past that and you've progressed to this next place this is where you're at this a fun one some of y'all are wrestling through this message in this series and there's friction and what's happening right now is this is rubbing up against your ideas about how you going to live your life and this is rubbing up against how you've lived up until this point and this is rubbing right this is rubbing you the wrong way why you got to talk so long about it though we get it okay okay ty todd todd we get it if you if you bothered by stuff like And ain't he going to be up there wearing pink pants with a flare with a flare like I'm just saying like watch watch the things that make you frustrated right now watch the thing and then and the service is going to run long and you Yeah a lot of times there's friction and I want to say that friction is a progression from going from thinking it's foolishness to actually like being rubbed the wrong way by it like I I should have came after Easter i should have wicked i thought it was different i thought this was a different message but if you get into this place of friction you get two of one responses and this is where everything either clicks or goes back many of you right now after you hear this very clear call to honor God with the tithe many of you are going to freeze and if you freeze what you do is you rob God of the opportunity to bless you at the same level you're willing to release is at the same level he's willing to release when that girl was willing to release I was willing to release if she would have held on to that one box she would have had she watch we would have never known the scariest thing to me is not doing the principle of God and not knowing what could have happened everybody got excited sister crying eating a donut have you ever cried eating a donut before cuz she was crying eating a donut god was working on her there was people coming from my man took enough for his family for the week there's all kinds of stuff that was happening but the only reason it happened is because somebody took a leap of faith but what would have happened if she freezed right here so everybody when when when I'm telling you you about to get tested when God increases you don't freeze what I'm going to tell you is do what every mama eagle tells they child to do fly i don't know if you've ever seen a bird um teach their kids how to fly is that they do it come back do it come back show them and then guess what they do cuz at some point we going to have to try it and that's why I'm just challenging you right now let this be the last time you hear a message about tithing and generosity and you're questioning what you do anytime I get in a message like this now and there's several of y'all in here like anytime you hear a message it's like "That's right preach got it pastor." Cuz you know when it comes to this thing I've already decided that I'm not going to fail this test there's a lot of stuff I can't control but this one thing I can control this and so if you think it's foolishness today I just want you to move from foolishness to at least friction and if once you get past friction this is where it gets fun you go from friction to now thinking when it comes to tithing this is fundamental this is what I'm supposed to do i don't get it i don't like it all the time oh can we be real this ain't always this ain't this I mean I really wish I could do something else with this money god's fine with that obedience with an attitude is still obedience he'll change the attitude no I'm tell Okay you never been a kid and you don't say it loud to your parents but they like take out the Any kids ever going to screamed in a pillow okay some of y'all not crazy like I was like "Okay what I'm saying is the parent will even excuse that because they know that you're maturing but they still want the obedience." And for many people that are in this room I'm proud of you because you've heard a message from can't wait till I get wait till I get my money right or ducks in the row or um paper chasers and you said "I'mma do it i'mma test God." Yeah and now when you get to fundamental watch this you know it's formation spiritually that's the first thing this is what God told me to do it's going to make me more like him and the other thing you know it's your faith in action i'm praying everybody listen to me i'm praying that after this series after this message that at least 90% of our church would be at this place i don't know a church in the world that has over 50% people who tithe not one in the world but we're called to represent what would happen what would happen if everybody watching online everybody in this room decided 10% of my income I'm returning back to God through the local church what if we started praying that God increase our tithe i'm giving y'all practical things right now what if you started praying "God show me where to make wealth." You give me the ability to produce it it's my job my job won't Do y'all know that there's a side hustle that God can give you to replace your job like I just want you to I just I don't want you to without getting out of your purpose cuz some of you are called to be a teacher and that salary ain't never It's sad but it ain't never but God can give you one idea one thing one system one course one he can do something that changes the trajectory but you so fixed on something that is not your father and so I'm praying that everybody gets tithing is fundamental but then you take the mental off of it you know what i'm about to go to Mama Chloe and it becomes fun if you don't ever get here in your life I'm sorry but I have crossed over into a place of giving where it's f I've been making plans years in advance no y'all don't hear what I'm saying i can't even tell you some of them right now because they about to happen it excites me to get to do things that God has just placed on my heart you see a need and be like "Oh don't even talk to the people about it." Go up to a waitress and you can tell she's struggling and it was bad service oh no oh if God blessed you according to your service okay uh-oh let me stop let me stop all I'm saying is we don't get what we deserve i'm talking about bad service and we about to bless they socks off you They don't deserve that neither did I it gets fun and watch this when it gets fun you realize you're favored by God not that anybody's not favored but there are some people who do what he say that you can be like "Oh I I already know i can get this away and God about to he about to reup me." No that's easy i'm favored i walk into every room knowing that there's favor on my life my wife be so annoyed because she's a rule follower when I tell you Natalie Diane Todd is a rule follower she's like "What seats did we pay for?" We paid for ZZ uh ZZ Todd only Thank you Carl for getting to We in Ros at the top okay but I walk in knowing I'mma see somebody somebody going to like my outfit y'all don't Y'all be getting dressed i be getting dress [Applause] no somebody going to know one of my brothers somebody going to have seen so I walk into I know I'm favored because I do what my father tells me to do i don't got I don't got to question it i don't got to try to make it happen i know that everywhere that I go he goes before me and some people like this is prosperity gospel this is no this is the principles of God and once you get favored by God you can give you can give stuff because you know it's always coming back i'm not stingy with nothing people that are around me people that know me I'm not stingy with nothing go ahead take it girl why cuz I've believed the principle and worked it too long and I've never watch this seen God fail this test you're missing the goal is for me not to fail the test cuz God never fails this test and so once you once it gets fun you figure out that you're favored and then watch this one you figure out that your faith is fixed right now for the rest of my life i will give and I will get hear me say this when I am not the pastor of this church I will give more than I have given as the pastor of this church i'm here i I I want everybody to look at me and see here look look at me bags under my eyes for spring break look at this that is not a break for all parents that's spring work but I I have I have prayed and I have swn to be able to give more when I'm no longer on this platform than I ever did while I was because I just want to prove that God's word is not a respector of person or platform that he's looking for his children to obey his word and this whole thing for me is fixed in my heart and do you know what this is such a universal principle i'm proud of y'all for sticking in here with me i'm so grateful for y'all we almost done this is such a universal principle that people that don't even believe in God practice these principles how much more God for his children who actually want to see his kingdom come and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven last part cuz I was going to stop at fun and then honestly if it was two years ago I couldn't even put this last one up here that's why I as your pastor um I I like to go and try everything like I'mma jump off the cliff and believe God and then yell back it's good like like like cuz I can't lead you to somewhere I've never been i want to be honest and I have not perfected everything and I promise you I'm going to be doing that today and I'll tell y'all I'll tell y'all the truth i don't know nothing about this yet but this is what the Bible says so I'm going tell you what it say but this last piece when you start understanding that when you tithe it makes you free guys it goes from foolishness to friction friction to fundamental fundamental to fun and it goes from fun free just to be clear for everybody that think your $5 went to paying for them donuts i paid for them personally I'm saying that cuz I didn't I didn't even think about when the example came to my mind and I told y'all them donuts was $24 last week my my mind didn't start doing what it would have done two years ago i can't do that example cuz if I do one then I got to do 10 and then you tent hold on wait a minute i was free to carry out what God showed me in my head in the back because I mean did y'all hear what I'm saying i got goosebumps saying it's because now there's certain things I don't even I don't even think about i don't even think about it like oh God what would happen if you never thought about your car payment some of our lives I remember a season where my life was hinged around my rent payment and my car payment that's it nothing else matters i may not eat like you know what I'm saying i got to make this payment i'm mad at people for the car I chose it's your birthday again like hold on it happens once a year pastor Mike why are you telling us this i just want you to know it's possible i only boast in what God has done but he did it cuz I chose his principles and somebody's going to try to clip this up and make it seem like I'm trying to get money from somebody i don't care at the end of the day we're not asking for anything next week we're going to give one of the largest offerings we've ever given and we're going to bless other people you can clap right now y'all it's huge but we're free to give and when you're free to give watch this you understand you're a funnel i'm just a pass through i'm just a manager i'm just the one God chose that he know that if he say them I'm not going to be like "Why them?" I them okay if God I can't tell you how many times I'm walking in the mall just trying to get something my wife sent me in there for and the Holy Spirit will tell me to ask somebody they shoe size and I'll just walk in what size shoe you wear bro everybody will tell you what size shoe they wear i promise you watch it like you don't have to worry about nothing but like yo what size shoe you wear 10 and a half and the Holy Spirit tell me buy him three pair of shoes god I came in here for some Bath and Body Works lotion but since I'm just a funnel since that young man came up here with no money but was just coming to dream I'mma bless him through you guys i'm giving you real examples cuz I want you to dream i can't wait till Okay I'm gonna go ahead and say it when we first started um giving I was like man I want to do what churches had never done we I want to give houses and cars and all that other stuff so we did it and then I found out that it's not the best thing to do when it comes to the IRS and you know all these other things and and we learned and so a lot of because I'm the guy I want to meet people's needs i wanna I wanna like I don't want it to be like given to such and such organization they will never see like I'm like Shannon we're buying you a house like that's my energy okay like that's the energy I want but we've had to do certain things differently and all that other stuff and then the Holy Spirit last year I got bummed because I wanted to do stuff like that like I Tammy know all the team know it's like I want to buy people cars i want to like I want to Oprah these mugs like you get a car you get a car take that devil like I just like that sorry and the Holy Spirit said "You do it and believe that you'll raise up a hundred other people in the church that you bleed." Cuz peerto-peer it don't mean nothing what would it take for us to buy somebody a $250,000 house and change their life i thought there would be more claps than that woo that was that was I hope you get it there's over 2,000 people in here there's tens of thousands of people watching online what would it take and the truth of the matter is one of y'all can do it what would it take if if there was a group of people in this church that was like "Yeah whenever God asked for it." Whenever pastor says "We about to bless somebody let's go." Who needs a car no no no yeah how much 35,000 y'all hold on on this one y'all don't got to do this one i got it what What What would it ever I got goosebumps saying this stuff what it what would it look what would it look like for instead of us taking all of our cars to CarMax to get $6,000 on the trade in y'all know what I'm talking about what What if it became a common practice that when we get a new car we're coming to the church and asking who needs a vehicle [Applause] i can't even get amens from the church that's crazy all right well it just be me and my few little people okay but where is the church that will embrace God's principles to the place where there's not room enough to receive Pastor Mike what are you saying when you get free you know you're a funnel but this is the second thing you start forgetting how much you give y'all this is the place I pray this church gets to not as a whole i'm talking about individually cuz when you're in that fundamental place you remember everything you give no I gave $13 there i gave $36 there they owe me $6 right like but there's a place that you get to where it's like did I Oh I did get it to them snap oh wow they gave it to somebody else wow is that my jacket that is my jacket i'm Dang that's a tight jacket is that Yeah no baby how do I Daddy how do you know this house we used to live there but we we God bless us to be able to bless them with that i forgot i forgot i'm sorry baby exodus 13:14 this is where we end in the days to come when your sons or daughters ask you "What does this mean?" Say to him "With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt out of the land of slavery." When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go the Lord killed the first bone born of both people and animals in Egypt the tithe this is why I sacrifice to the Lord the first male offspring of every womb and redeem each of the firstborn sons let me break it down what ends up happening is spent child comes to him and says "Dad why do you keep sacrificing the first of our cattle industry our our cattle because they're in a cattle industry." He says "God delivered me and so I freely give 10% the first of mine back to God." And the Bible's saying "One day your sons and daughters will come and ask you." And the crazy thing about it is I've been using her a lot but she's my road dog ava came last week and as I was writing a check from our family to this church she saw it and she said "Dad why are you giving that much money to the church?" And I remembered this Deuteronomy scripture where it said "One day your sons and daughters are going to ask you why would you honor God like that?" And I was able to tell her "Baby Daddy used to be addicted to some bad things had very selfish ways but with a mighty hand God rescued daddy god transformed daddy's life and God's blessed us with everything that we have so it's daddy's honor to obey God and give back to him many of you know that Ava started a business last week of selling bracelets ava last week made $210 that That's powerful let's give it up for a seven-year-old entrepreneur after she heard the message last week and I told her what mommy and daddy was doing she handed me this this morning $21 [Applause] this right [Applause] here means more to me cuz at 7 years old she's developing the principles that will change her life and it was so funny scott as my witness we're standing there she said "Take it now." She She said "Take it now i'mma lose it or forget." She made it a priority because she didn't want to forget and she didn't want to make it not a priority am I going to have to retach her in another season probably but the fact a seven-year-old didn't fail the test means that each of us don't have to fail this test will everybody stand all over this building um what I'm going to ask guys before you leave I got one thing i have a gift for you i have what we're calling a tithing commitment card you're not about to sign over your life or do anything i just felt like we were supposed to make a actual physical representation of a commitment that all of us need to make in our hearts and in our lives and if the if the ushers are available and have them right now I need everybody to get one of these please please do not leave without one if you're online right now there's a QR code that's coming up on the screen and um it it really just says on one side it says I won't fail this test somebody say I won't fail this test come on say it in faith i won't fail this test and on the back it says I and I want you to put your name choose to honor God with the first 10% of my increase as an act of faith and obedience to God's word and you can put your name and your email and your phone number down there and we're going to we're going to help encourage you ain't going to be no hassling cuz the Bible tells us to be cheerful givers that's why I want it to get fun for you cuz once it gets fun you can actually be a cheerful giver and I want you to take this i want you to put it somewhere everybody listen salvation has not happened yet i know you're ready to go but eternity is still calling we're about to leave but I want you to put this somewhere in your car in your mirror take a picture of it make it make Siri remind you hit the QR code we'll help you but I think God wants to do something special in all of us i'm asking for 90day commitment whether you go to this church or you're somewhere else make a 90-day commitment and see if God will not open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that you have room don't have room enough to receive i don't care how many millions you make give them 10% do you know I had to argue with a financial adviser about what I did with my money cuz everybody won't understand this and they don't have to cuz everything we have belongs to God would everybody just lift your hands all over this place i want to pray for you i want to pray that God moves you in the progression of giving and as we take this commitment God will do exceedingly abundantly above father I pray for the people that are under the sound of my voice god I thank you for transformation that has happened in our minds and our hearts today for those Father God who are listening live on rebroadcast for those who even try to ignore this message god I thank you that there has been such a unique spirit of love all over this that they'll hear your voice today I'm praying that you would increase my brothers and sisters you would increase this house increase my life increase our community father God let us be an example to the world of what it looks like when a small body of believers go allin i pray that Father we will never fail this test again that we will return to you everything that belongs to you God and you will do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask or think Father God for those who may be in fear or fighting it right now god I thank you that you will give them a new testimony i thank you by this time next year yeah there will be a total transformation in their life and today God I thank you thank you that your spirit is speaking father I pray for husbands and wives who have different views on this would you unify them Father where this has been a source of contention and argument God i thank you for unity bless their household in the name of Jesus i thank you Father that we will take the test and we will believe you and you are not a man that you should lie neither the son of man that has to repent god you don't care about amounts you care Father about obedience so if it's two might like the woman Father that was giving I thank you that you honor that because it's the obedience today increase our trust and our faith in you i trust you God there's a deep um burden in my heart for some people who are stuck in addictions my pornography addiction was broken with a seed and I say this to people like "What happened what made you stop?" Oh I'm getting emotional thinking about it because um I was a Christian i was believing i was saved i was serving i was doing all these things but God still didn't have a my whole heart we read last week that wherever your treasure is your heart will be also and when I got when I started giving God on my small little salary making little money producing for people and stuff like that and I started making it a priority every time I get $500 I give 50 every time I and I made it a priority i was consistent with it i was intentional with it it was the last piece of my heart that God needed to help change my habits cuz when God gets your heart he can help change your habits but I was holding back a piece of my heart cuz I wasn't giving him my treasure but where my treasure is there's my heart where my heart is my habits change or my habits change i get to live a blessed life and I just feel pressed to say to somebody maybe this is deeper than actually just giving the money how much would you give to be free from that thing that wakes you up at night and that actually steals your money and actually makes you create the environment you don't want to raise your kids i'm just saying how much and I'm telling you as sure as I'm standing here that when I made a decision the reason I don't miss tithing it's cuz I don't want to ever withhold a piece of my heart from him again cuz I just know it takes me withholding my heart that changes my habits back into what that words and then I destroy everything I say I love today I just felt like I'm not taking an offer i'm not doing nothing i'm I'm just putting it out here for you that maybe this is deeper than just money today god I thank you for those who need heart transformation and I thank you that it starts with us receiving you if you're in this room you've never received Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior i know service went long today but I think it was worth it y'all hear me hear me hear me hear me if you're under the sound of my voice today and you've never accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior today we talking about tithing and all this other stuff you like I just need to surrender i'm sick of carrying all this weight i'm sick of lying i'm sick of seek sick of secrets i just I need to get free today if you're under the sound of my voice the church is beginning to pray right now cuz life and death he's saying "Choose life if you're in this room and you want to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior today I want to pray for you on the count of three I just want you to lift your hands and all you're saying is "Pastor I want to be included in that prayer." One you're making the greatest decision of your life two I'm proud of you but your name is about to be written in the Lamb's Book of Life i see you my brother three would you just lift your hands if you want to i see you my brother right there i see you my brother yes sir i see a whole family right there i see you my sister i see you up there and more than that God sees you at home come on church i see you i see you my man at TC we're a family nobody prays alone let's pray this prayer together just lift your hands and say "God God thank you thank you for sending Jesus send just for me just for me today today I give you my life i give you my life i surrender everything i surrender everything use me use me i believe you lived i believe you lived you died you died and you rose again you rose again with all power all power so I may live so I live today today i make you my Lord and Savior in Jesus name in Jesus name amen can we celebrate oh come on church can we celebrate hallelujah hey listen if you just made that decision text save to 828282 but it reminds me we got these pools down here and um I know some of y'all saw the hundred and something people get baptized earlier and he was like "Man one day I want to do that." Well there's this story in the Bible where this man got saved and then he was so determined to get baptized that the Christian was trying to keep him away from it and the man looked out he said "Ain't that some water right there let's get baptized." So there are some people in this room that you're saying "You know what i'm not going to wait till next Sunday." I know people are leaving but this is your day right now you're saying "I want to make a new declaration and a new decision today I'm opening up the service." I'm going to have a praise team go back into praise what about my clothes what about my hair all of those things can be washed later today if you want to make a decision for Jesus I want you to come down right now come on from all And I need the church to begin to clap and praise God don't fight it there's already people that are coming right now y'all every week and I need a few thousand of y'all to stay around and celebrate with us if you want to come where do you need them to go i need you to go to the back to that prayer that sign that says prayer right there i want you to go there and y'all everybody who's here I need us to celebrate i need us to celebrate what God is doing if you want Oh y'all don't hear what I'm saying in here today these are people going down and coming to new life and some of y'all going to sit there and y'all going to clap and worship with us others of y'all are going to make a decision to get baptized if you're watching at home Transformation Nation I'm telling you this is the season where God's asking us to respond to him are y'all wanting to get baptized is y'all want to get baptized i see people looking what they want to do go right back there to the prayer do we got people go to the back to the prayer but make it quick y'all let's start this thing moving there's people right there Pastor Ro yes sir can you lead us in some worship real quick let's give God some praise right now man I hope that message impacted you even as I was preparing it it was impacting me all over again and I believe that some of you are going to make the commitment to tithe to honor God by returning 10% first off of all your increase and I'm telling you God's saying "Test him test him." And I'm saying as your brother don't fail this test i have seen what God does when people just like me and you step out in faith and do the things that God asked us to do i'm believing the next 90 days as you take this test God is going to prove himself over and over and for many of you it's not going to be a 90-day test it's going to be fixed this is how you're going to live the rest of your life and you're going to be free to be generous i'm proud of you i love you i'm praying for you and I believe that this is going to mark bondages of poverty and waste being broken over your life god is with you and for you listen I need you to do two things for me if this message has impacted your life in any way I need you to share it with somebody like literally there is somebody right now that is praying for an answer and it's in this message and you are the conduit to get it to them so send it to somebody and number two I need you to meet me right back here next week as we go into part three and I'm telling you you're not going to see this flip coming this is going to be a message that's going to change everything i love you until next week go out and live a transformed life [Music]