Understanding Kingdom Commonwealth - Dr. Myles Munroe - Crowning Ignorant Kings

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You're listening to Crowning Ignorant Kings, a podcast for citizens
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Now let's adjust our crowns.
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I want to speak today on this session, write it down,
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understanding Kingdom Commonwealth.
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Let's begin.
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Understanding Kingdom Commonwealth. Most of us don't understand what the
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word or the concept of Commonwealth means. So we want
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to rediscover the original concept of Kingdom prosperity. Commonwealth has
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to do with prosperity, but the prosperity is common. There's
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no rich people and poor people in God's kingdom. As
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a matter of fact, no kingdom is supposed to have
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rich and poor people.
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Only earthly kingdoms have that. And I'm going to show
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you how that works today. So please try your best.
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To listen quickly because we don't have much time. We
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want to be out in a reasonable time for all
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the things we covered today. I hope that you will
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give me just a few extra minutes to finish this
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off today. Now, I want you to write this down, please,
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because this is what's happening. I was listening to BBC
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yesterday and they had a debate on, and right now,
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you know, this past week they had one of the
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most important meetings in the world. It's called the World
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Economic Forum. The World Economic Forum.
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And it's where all.
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The heads of state have been meeting in Europe discussing
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what's happening in the world. And they cannot conclude the
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meeting with solutions. And I listened to the debate yesterday
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and I thought that they were in our service two
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weeks ago. They repeated everything I told you on the
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debate yesterday on the British Broadcasting Network.
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And these are the top.
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People in the world meeting together to try and solve
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the economic crisis that's going on.
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And they cannot solve it.
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They are still predicting that Europe is going to get
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worse before better. Greece is about to be completely bankrupt
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and they cannot agree on how to save the country.
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And they say that if Greece collapses, then the dominoes begin.
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And that will affect America and of course, we will
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be affected immediately. And so there is something going on
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in the world that man cannot solve. Which means that
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we now have to assume that somebody else is orchestrating this.
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That means that.
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Our faith must be placed in God and no longer
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in our governments.
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So we can stop worrying.
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Because the principal problem on earth is failed governments.
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They don't know how to solve the problems.
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And God's divine solution to earth's problem is also government.
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But it's not our government.
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This government I'm talking about was promised in the book
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of Isaiah. And the promise of God to all fallen
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mankind is you need an alternative government. And the government
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that God promised us is not a democracy, a dictatorship,
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or a communist government, or a socialist government. The Bible
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introduces a government that is a kingdom.
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Now that's important.
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If I had a choice between living in a democracy
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or living in a true kingdom, I would choose.
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The kingdom right away. And I'm going to tell you
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why during this process this morning.
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All the politicians and the social scientists and the economic
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programs of the world have been falling apart and the
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only system that is yet.
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To be tested on earth is the kingdom of heaven. Why?
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Because heaven has never been yet accepted by the United Nations.
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They keep believing that the solutions to earth are on earth.
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And the problem is we as humans.
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Are not honest. We created the problems that we're trying
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to solve.
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And I believe one of the smartest men that ever
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lived in our lifetime was a man called Albert Einstein.
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He was a Jew.
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Albert Einstein, as you know, is famous for his studies
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in energy. But he made a statement that I still
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believe is a very important statement. He says, you cannot
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solve a problem at the same level it was created.
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Write that down.
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You cannot solve a problem at the same level it
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was created. In other words, if you produce the problem,
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to solve it, you have to actually go to another
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realm or another level to solve it. Our problem on
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earth is that all of our problems we created. And
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then we hire people, call them politicians, and tell them
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to solve it.
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But the politician is us.
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They went to the same schools, they learned the same education,
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so what makes them smarter?
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And this is.
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Why they can't fix your country, any better than you can.
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And I believe we have been very, very dishonest.
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With ourselves because we demand from them what we know
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we ourselves don't have. And if they came from us,
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how can they have something we don't have? So we
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complain to them when they can solve the problem, when
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in fact we educated them with our educational system, which
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can't solve our problems either. And so we have this
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cyclic frustration going on, and that's why the world governments
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don't know what to do. I listened to all those
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people on that debate yesterday. I was engrossed in it
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because they were talking about my talk. They were talking economy.
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The kingdom of God has not been tested on earth
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yet and Jesus said it will be tested let.
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Me quote where he said it.
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Matthew chapter 24 write it down verse 14 he said these.
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Words and this good news of the kingdom.
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Of heaven shall be preached into the whole world not
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heaven into the world as a testimony it shall be
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tested to all the nations And then the end will come.
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Christ doesn't say that the kingdom will be tested after
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the end comes. He said, when it's being tested, when
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man understands that his system can't work, when we finally
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get to the point where we throw our hands up
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and say.
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God, I don't know what to do with this.
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We need help from another place. Then God says, I'm
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going to let you have a glimpse of my system
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and when all the nations admit that his system is.
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Better then he says I'll come back to earth.
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So the kingdom of God must be tested in our
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lifetime now the kingdom of God is a country and
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all countries have economies and that's why this series is
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so important God is telling us if I have a
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country I have an economy I have an economic system
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And it's called the Commonwealth of heaven. And so, as
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we look at this, then we got to talk about Jesus.
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What was his ideas about life? I call this the
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theology of Jesus very quickly. Let me give you Jesus's ideas.
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Number one, he came to restore what mankind lost. Number two,
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he came to bring us a kingdom, not a religion.
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Number three.
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Jesus never joined a religion. Number four, his greatest opposition
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was religious people. Number five, his message was not a religion.
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So Christianity cannot solve our problems. Nor can Buddhism, Hinduism, Socialism, Animism, Scientology, Mormonism, Baha'i.
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None of them can solve Earth's problem because Jesus never
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bought a religion.
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He bought a kingdom and he claimed to be a king,
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not a prophet. And he claimed to have a kingdom,
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not a religion. He claimed to also invite all men
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to come back to that kingdom, which means that he
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invited us back into citizenship. Let's see if that's true.
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Jesus Christ is a king. Kings never come to territories
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without being announced by a herald. So the Herald that
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brought Jesus to earth was John the Baptist. No King
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come to a territory without being pre announced by a Herald.
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So let's read the coming of Jesus to earth, the
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King of Kings. It begins with John the Baptist, who
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is the Herald. And it says in the book of
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Matthew three, verse one, in those days, John the Baptist
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came preaching in the desert of Judea and saying, repent
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for the kingdom of heaven is here. He was talking
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about his cousin, Jesus Christ. Now what did Jesus say
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a few verses later? He says, and from that time on.
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Jesus began to preach, repent. for the kingdom of heaven,
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that's the country, has arrived.
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In Matthew 4, 23, he continues, he went through all
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Galilee teaching in their.
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Synagogues, preaching the good news of what? The kingdom. And
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then he healed the sick.
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And diseased among the people.
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Look at Matthew chapter 5 verse 3. He says, Matthew
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6 verse 33.
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But seek ye first, not the government of your country,
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but the kingdom of God and his kingdom. Righteousness and
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all the things you need to live shall be added
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to you Luke chapter 4 verse 43 But he said
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unto them I must preach what the good news of
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the kingdom of God to other towns also because that
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is the purpose I was sent Matthew 6 26 9
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He said when you pray pray like this our Father
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who is in the home country heaven holy is your
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name thy Kingdom come thy will be done where on
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earth just like it is in heaven He says in
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the book of Matthew 6, but seek ye first the
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kingdom and righteousness and all these things that you need
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will be.
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Given to you.
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Now watch the next verse. Therefore do not worry about
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Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday for
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tomorrow will take care of itself. Your country have you
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covered every day of the week. Hallelujah. Matthew 10 verse 7,
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as you go, he says, preach what?
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This message. Which one? The kingdom of heaven is here.
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Matthew 9, 35.
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And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching
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in the synagogues, preaching the.
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Gospel of what? The kingdom. And healed every sick and
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diseased among the people. So what is a kingdom?
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A kingdom is a governing authority, influence of a king
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over a territory. impacting it with his will, his purpose,
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his intent, his values, his morals, his lifestyle, producing a
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community of citizens who reflect that king's culture and the
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king's nature. In other words, a kingdom is a country
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or a nation governed by a king.
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It's not a religion.
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And that means every kingdom has some components. I want
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you to write them down very fast. Number one, every
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kingdom has a king. Number two, it has a lord.
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Number three, it has land. Four, it has language. Five,
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it has a body of laws. Six, it has a constitution. Seven,
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all kingdoms have an army.
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Eight, moral codes. Nine, shared values. 10, customs. 11, a culture.
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And number 12, the big one, all countries have an economy.
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So every kingdom has what every nation has, except they
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function differently.
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So that is what Christ brought to earth.
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He brought back to earth all the things that the
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kingdom of heaven has in heaven.
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He brought it back to earth.
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And therefore, he believed that he came to earth to restore,
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first of all, the kingdom, the government, the laws, the values,
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the colony, the society of heaven, and the culture of
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heaven on earth. And he came to restore, praise God,
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thank you Jesus, the commonwealth of heaven. I'm so glad
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he brought the commonwealth back. Because our economy ain't working.
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And he brought that back because he knew we would
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need to live on earth. As a matter of fact,
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Christ doesn't want you to come to heaven to live
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a good life. I'm going to say it again. Because
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religion teaches you, wait until you get to heaven to
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live a good, debt-free.
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Healthy life. Christ did not teach that. I'm gonna prove
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that in this series. He believed.
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That the kingdom of God could be established in your
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lifetime on earth and even though it's coming to be
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culminated when he arrives, he wants it to start right
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now in your lifetime. You ain't supposed to live here
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suffering until you go to heaven to take a break.
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Can I hear an amen anywhere? I brought my own
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amen in my pocket, I say that, amen.
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Jesus' assessment of the world is very important.
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Now, I want you to get this point right here, please.
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And I want to talk to you in your face.
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Don't forget what I'm going to say right now, because this.
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Is what set me free. The kingdoms of this world
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are driven by what? Read it.
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Money, materialism, and greed. And that's exactly what caused the
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economic crisis. And when they were talking on BBC yesterday,
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top economists, the Secretary of the Treasury of the United
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States was on that board. And they were talking about
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the fact that capitalism.
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Cannot really work. I couldn't believe what they were saying.
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They said because capitalism automatically produces poverty. Because somebody got
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to be the consumer and somebody got to be the
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producer and what's happening in the world right now is
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we got 3 percent producers and 97 percent consumers which
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means 4 percent of the world population got most of
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the money and the rest of us 86 percent or
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96 percent ain't got no hope getting any that's capitalism
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you capitalize on the weak to make the rich.
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That's the world. Now I want you to read this
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next statement. Jesus' assessment of the world is summarized in
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two statements.
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Jesus Christ reviewed the entire world system.
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He studied its economies. He studied its politics. Listen carefully.
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He studied everything about the world system and he reduced
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it to two things.
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And he is right.
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When I discovered it over 30 years ago, I was
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completely free from the world system in my mind. And
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I want you to get it at least in this meeting.
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Two things he said the world system has been reduced to.
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Let's read it. He says, no servant can serve what?
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Two masters. Everybody say two masters. Write that down somewhere
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right now. Two masters.
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He calls these two things masters.
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Masters.
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Master means something that controls you. It tells you what
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to do. It tells you what to do and when
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to do. This thing runs your life. It possesses you.
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He said, there are only two masters on earth.
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And either you will hate.
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The one and love the other, or you will be
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devoted to the one and despise the other.
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He said, you can't serve both of them at the
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same time. And he names the masters. He said, no
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matter what they.
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Say about their ideology, their politics, their philosophy, he said,
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don't believe them.
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They are motivated by one of two things. That's all.
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All men are either serving one of these or the other.
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If they call themselves Democrats, Republicans, PLPs.
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FNMs, whatever, BDBs, DNA, he said, don't believe nothing what
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they tell you. He said, they only are reduced to
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two things. He simplified life. You are either controlled or
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motivated by God.
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What's the next one?
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Money.
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He said, that's it.
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So when someone is talking to you, and they're talking fast,
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and they promise you all kinds of stuff they're going
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to do for you, he said, just don't get excited.
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Ask them, is it God or money? Which one are
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you talking for? If you were to study.
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All of the systems in your society, you would reduce
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them to the same thing. Don't let all the ideological
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statements fool you.
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Now, listen carefully.
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We've been taught in religion, religious people, that the devil
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is dangerous.
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We've been taught in religion that the devil is the enemy.
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We've been taught in religion that the devil is the
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one who wants.
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To master you. Jesus disagrees.
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He said there are only two masters on earth that
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controls man and he never mentions the devil. There's something
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more dangerous than the devil, he says.
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And it's money. A beautiful young Bahamian girl wakes up
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at 7 p.m. Wakes up at 7. Goes in the mirror.
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Beautiful daughter of a fine family.
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Puts on her makeup. Puts on her earrings and her jewelry.
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Fine young girl. And she puts on her dress. And
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she walks out in her spiked shoes at 7 p.m.
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And goes to work. and she walks downtown to the
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red light district and she sells her vagina that is
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not the devil.
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And if you ask her why she does it, she
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will tell you, I have to live.
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She hates it.
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Doesn't want to do it. She feels nasty after it's finished.
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But it's not the devil. It's that master.
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What makes a man get up in the morning at
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6 a.m., put on his clothes and go to a job,
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leaves the job at 4 p.m., and doesn't go home
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to his wife and his children?
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He goes directly to another.
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Job at 5 p.m., works until 3 a.m., and comes
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home at 3 a.m., Wives sleep, children sleep, never saw
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him and he does it for four years and the
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marriage is destroyed, the kids don't know him and that's
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not the devil that woke him up.
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That's the world.
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What makes a person who got a good job and
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they got a degree.
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From college sitting in the office and they are responsible
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for inventory of a big company.
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And a buyer comes to sell his wares to them
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for the company and says to this graduate who got
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a master's degree from a top college.
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If you give me the bid.
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I'll give you an extra $ 40, 000. And he takes his
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hard-earned integrity, the future of his new marriage, and the
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prospect of good children, and he takes the bribe.
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That's not the devil. It's money.
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Jesus said money is more powerful than the devil. The
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economy of the world, he said it runs on money
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or God.
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Hallelujah. What wakes you up in the morning? God or
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the job? Are you so.
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Busy to get to work you never pray in the morning?
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Ain't got time for God, gotta catch the jitney. Ain't
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got time for God, I gotta catch the traffic.
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God or money?
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Do you know that God never says that Satan.
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Is the root of all evil? The devil is a
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joke compared to money. Economics. The love of money. Not money.
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The love of it. Two jobs. Sell your body. The
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love of money is the root. Everybody say root. He
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didn't say the fruit. You see people that see fruit.
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You can't see root. People come and say, you know,
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I got this idea. Just wait a minute. Listen very
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carefully what they got to say. Do you find out
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whether it's God that's talking?
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Or they come to jive you, use you, and make
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money off you. People come to.
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Me for the last 33 years of this ministry and
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they say, Pastor Myles, I can make plenty of money
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for your members. And you'll get 10% on everything that
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they sell. And they lay out the plan right in
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my office. He says, if you get all the people
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to buy this certain product, we'll give 10% back to
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the church. You'll get 10%. And the people will get
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the product. It's a good product. And they give me
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this big picture.
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And I look at them. And I said, now, when
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you are finished, collect your bike. Stand up on your
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two feet. And when I open my eyes, be gone.
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Why?
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You are evil.
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You came to me because I have the trust of
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a lot of people. And you want me to sell
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their trust for 10%.
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You are evil. You love money. I promise you, I
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will never sell your trust. There are pastors in jail
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right now. I know two of them who did that.
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Used their members to make money deals.
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I wonder if you're any different from that person. What
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motivates you? Is it God or money? You can't do both,
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he says. Either love the one or hate the other.
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So according to Jesus, let me give his conclusion. You
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can write him down, number one. His conclusion was that
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every action of all mankind is motivated by either the
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pursuit of money or service to God.
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That's it.
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Now let me just say very quickly, God is not
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against money. But God is against you serving money. If
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you forget about money, I'm telling you a secret, it'll
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chase you. I wish I could convince you of that.
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If you forget about money and focus on serving God,
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money will chase you. But if you chase money, money
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will always outrun you. You will never catch it. We
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read a verse two weeks ago, and I think you
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would remember it. In Ecclesiastes 5, it says, he who
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searches after money and pursues it never has money enough.
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The raise you got, remember? No, you can't remember because
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you don't know where it went. It's never enough. You
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got promoted, you're still broke.
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Because the Bible says those who accumulate money, those who
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consume it grow faster. So Jesus said there's only two
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motivations in our economic world. It's the God of money.
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So kingdom citizens are admonished not to worry, he says,
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about material things. Not to be mastered by money, but
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to seek first what? The secrets of.
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The kingdom of heaven. Why?
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Because we need to seek a unique, abundant lifestyle under
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an alternative economy that is not motivated by materialism.
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The kingdom of God on earth.
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And that's why Jesus wants us to relearn the secrets
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of economics in God. I want you to read this
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again for me. For unto us, Isaiah 9, 6 says,
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a child is born and a son is what?
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Given. And what's he coming with? The government shall be
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upon his shoulders. And he'll be.
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Called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. And.
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of the increase of his government and peace, there will
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be no end.
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And he's coming to reign on the throne of David
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and over his kingdom, establishing it with what? Righteousness and justice.
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I'll explain that later in the series, but that's very important.
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Two pillars of Jesus's economy. justice, righteousness. Justice means what
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is rightfully yours you get and righteousness means you stay
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lined up with the government's authority. Two things, you do
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that he says everything is going to take be taken
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care of.
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So he brought a government to earth.
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Now we got some governments that we're trying to handle and.
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I listened to the BBC yesterday again.
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And I'm listening to the Secretary of the Treasury talk,
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and she said, democracy is being tested. And the politician
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from England says, yes, democracy is shaking. All over the world,
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people are disillusioned at democracy. And everybody having elections, and
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everybody don't know what to do. But quickly, let me
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give you the difference between democracy and the kingdom. Number one,
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democracy focuses on people, people power. The kingdom focuses on what?
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Kingdom power. Democracy focuses on what? People, that's the constitution.
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That's why the.
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Constitution always says, we the people. But in a kingdom,
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the king writes the constitution with his words. It's I,
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the king. In democracy, People make the laws. That's why
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people can change them. In a kingdom, the king makes
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the laws and the people can't change them. In democracy,
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private ownership is the major pillow. In a kingdom, there
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is no private ownership. The king's lordship reigns. In democracy,
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you pursue private wealth In a kingdom, it's commonwealth. In democracy,
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people compete for resources. In a kingdom, you prefer one another.
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All through the Bible, it says prefer one another. One
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of the verses of the Bible I don't like, but
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I still have to obey it, is this one. I
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quote Jesus, quote, give to him who asketh you, end quote. Now,
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he wasn't talking to no Bahamian. But Jesus said it
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without even qualifying. He didn't say, give to those you like,
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give to those who qualify, give to those who you
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done checked up. He said, give to him who asketh you.
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Let me tell you why I finally figured out why.
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The reason why there's poverty in this room right now
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is because someone is keeping.
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What you should have received.
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Poverty is impossible in God's country. And that's why you
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don't have what you have right now. Because somebody stopped it.
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God hates hoarding. Hoarding is when you build a dam
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in the system of God.
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You build a dam. You say, I'm going to stop
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it right here. This is my money. This is my house.
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This is my clothes. This is my car. My, my.
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You lock it up. And God says, wait a minute.
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It's supposed to pass through you.
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So there's somebody's room right now who are suffering because you.
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Didn't release what you should have released. Let me give
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an example of what I mean by that. Stand up, Anne.
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Stand up, brother. Brother Faki. Stand up, brother Faki. Okay.
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Sister Anne has a need, okay? She needs my Bible.
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But I'm not supposed to give it to her directly.
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Watch this. Because I don't know her. But I know him.
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So the Holy Spirit says, give him the Bible. I
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give it to him. I said, the Lord, the Lord,
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the Lord, the owner told me to give you the Bible. Okay.
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Now I don't know her, but she needs a Bible.
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Now here's the problem. I got rid of it. So
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I am in the economy of God. I released it.
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I'm okay in the economy, but he decides I like this.
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I keep in this.
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So now we got two things wrong. One, he got
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a Bible that don't belong to him. And two, she
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ain't got no Bible.
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So he just stopped. Shut up the economic flow. But
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let's say he hears God's voice too. Give it to Ann.
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He gives it to Ann. Now, watch this. I still
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don't know Ann. But it went through someone I knew.
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The Lord may tell you today to give someone a
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hundred bucks.
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And it ain't for them. Later today, they're going to
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meet somebody who needs it and they're going to say, here.
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And you never knew that person.
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But because you were so open to the economic flow
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of God, that person got it.
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Thank you very much. Do you understand? So when you
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block the flow, you shut up the kingdom.
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This economy is amazing. That's why I'm telling you, get
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rid of that stuff in your house. Somebody who's supposed
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to receive it 10 years ago are still waiting for it.
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And the person who.
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Picks up something from this altar on Commonwealth Day may
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not be the one to keep it, you know.
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So don't say to them, they take too much. You
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don't know anything about what they're doing. They may pass
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it on to someone else who needed more than them.
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So democracy is full of competition. But in the kingdom,
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we prefer one another.
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Preferring one another also means that if you're on a
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line in a bank.
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You tell the person, come, stand in front of me.
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Oh Lord, oh Jesus, oh Lord. I know that ain't
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your spirit, I know, but that's kingdom thinking. I prefer
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to give you the car Because I got two and
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I don't need to drive two cars. I prefer to
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give it to you. I prefer you get served first.
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Go on the line. You know, we have a love
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feast and I'm on the line. I'm hungry. But that's okay.
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You can go in the front.
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That's preferring one another. See, in the world, there's competition.
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I was here first. You should have come out a
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long time. You should have come out.
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See, that's demonic. That's the world system. The kingdom says,
539
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that's okay.
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I'm hungry.
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All of us are hungry. But you go ahead. You know,
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go ahead. You go in front of me. That's preferring
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one another. I prefer that you have the advantage.
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In democracy, there's individualism. The word I and my are
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number one in democracy. It's my job, my house, my business,
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my position. This is my things, my, my, my. And
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I am going to succeed and I am going to
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make sure I have advantage and I am going to
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do this.
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That's democracy. That's normal.
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Matter of fact, do you know that the American dream
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states this? That I have the right to pursue happiness
553
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and wealth. I. And forget you. I might do it
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at your expense. I might use you to get it.
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I don't care if you ain't got nothing. I am
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going to pursue my success. Matter of fact, the number
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one argument in the American... election right now is this
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problem of democracy. They're saying that, the richest say in America,
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don't touch our taxes system.
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We ain't paying no more than 15%.
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Now the guy who makes $ 300 a week pays 35%.
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The guy who.
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Makes 30 million a week, he pays 15%. So that's
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what they're arguing right now. They're saying, look, something wrong
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with this system.
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So Mr. Obama, poor guy, He's trying to tell.
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These rich people that they must pay more than 15%.
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And they're telling him, are you crazy? Let me tell
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you something.
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He might be assassinated. I'm telling you, that's how serious
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the world system is. He's touching money. You don't touch
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money because the love of it will kill you. They
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will assassinate you. Hope you're listening to me. That's not
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a prophecy. That's a reality. They would assassinate him physically.
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Don't touch a man's money who doesn't know God.
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Because that's his God.
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It's a problem. Individualism. But in the kingdom, the community
578
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is more important. Oh, I'm getting ready to go now.
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The community is more important than the kingdom of God.
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In other words, it's not I, it's always us.
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It's not me, it's we in the kingdom of God.
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Do you know what God says, Brother John?
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God says, look, when you go to pray, don't pray
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for yourself. Why do we pray for ourselves? We are
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so individualistic, even in the body of Christ. We brought
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the kingdom of the world into the body of Christ.
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And we say, Lord, I need some money and I
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want you to bless me and I want you to
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heal me and I want you to fix my children
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and I want you to pay my children tuition. I
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want you to pay my rent and I want you
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to bless me with.
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I food and I, I. Now, Christ says, when you pray,
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pray like this. Our Father. Bring everybody with you. If
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one of us don't have, all of us should be concerned.
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Everybody say commonwealth. Let me quote Paul.
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Paul says, look not on the things of yourself, but
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on the things of others. Poverty is a result of
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individual pursuit. In the body of Christ, in the community
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of God kingdom, in God's country, the community is more
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important than the individual.
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Write that down. In the kingdom of God, the community
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is more important than the individual.
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In democracy, the individual is more important than the community.
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So I can succeed, I don't care if you fail.
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democracy I'm pursuing happiness matter of fact the first thing
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that people who are successful would say if you ask
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them to share their wealth will be this.
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I work hard for this you work for yourself.
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What amazes me is if you are a business person
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and you sell pizza who buying your pizza the people
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You know, I'm looking at you right now, doc.
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You're a dentist, well known. But if none of us
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come to bring our teeth to you, you can't pay
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for the house.
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So you can't say, you know, you all go get
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your own.
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You got to make sure we share in that.
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So when he writes his tithe and give it back
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to the church, and then we open the building and
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turn the lights on and pay B.E.C. and you come
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to get blessed with the word, he's giving back to
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you after you've given.
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His money for your team.
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But if you decide, I ain't paying no tithes, I
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ain't giving no offering, God says, I can shut this
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fella down.
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Because you don't understand, he's living off you in this building.
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Individual success is impossible in the kingdom of God. Every
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program I do in this church, even though some failed,
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It's not for me.
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Commonwealth Day ain't for me. I'm thinking about you in
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the back there. Oh, no one knows. Suffering here this morning. Why?
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This community is more important than the individual.
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That's Commonwealth. And our city and our countries don't have that.
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They don't have it anymore. You know, Pastor Henry spoke
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to me this morning. I called him.
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I said, man, I heard someone came into your house.
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He said, yeah, they took some TVs.
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I want you to know that. Because some of you
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all had the same problem. So your passes got hit.
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And I said to him, you didn't lose anything. Because
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you only lose if you owned.
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Oh, boy.
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It's tough to handle that. But that is the truth.
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If you're the kingdom of God, you don't own it.
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Now here's why that's so important.
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If you come in his house, steal his flat screen,
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I go into my bed. See, if you steal from me,
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I gotta find you. And I gotta punish you. But
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if you steal from God, I go into my bed.
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Let me quote something that you never understood before until
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right now. God says, vengeance is mine. In other words, don't.
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Worry about that. I got you covered. You go to bed.
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I'm going to kapunkle this fellow up so badly, that
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can be the worst screen he ever stole. Give God
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a hand for not owning things.
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Oh!
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Hallelujah!
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Rejoice! That's a test, you see. It's a test. to
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see if you believe he owns it or you.
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You cannot lose what you never had.
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Community.
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Ladies and gentlemen, here's an example of community more important
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than individual. Joshua went to fight. And he kept getting whooped.
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They went out to fight, they got whooped. Went out
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to fight, they got whooped. I mean, the enemy was
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beating their tail.
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They keep going on. And Joshua began to say, something's wrong.
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Because we're supposed.
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To be losing as a nation. So he went before God.
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He said, Lord, why are we losing? God says, there's
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someone in.
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The camp. Who's messing up the whole community?
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In other words, if the kingdom of God was individually oriented,
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then God would simply let the nation win and kill
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the guy.
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God says, no, he's causing the whole nation to lose.
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So God says, you go and search the camp, find
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out who it is that's doing evil. And Joshua settled
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the searching party and they went to every tent and
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they found in one of the tents some silver and
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gold and jewelry that wasn't supposed to be there from
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the other war.
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And the guy's name was Achan. And Joshua said, arrest him.
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Brought him before the people and burned him to the stake.
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Then he burned his wife and children too because they
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were enjoying the spoils.
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That he stole.
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As a warning to those of you who are buying
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them TVs. They all were burned right in the front
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of the people.
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Now let's be honest. If that happened to Akin, everybody
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line right up. Yes sir. I ain't taking nothing brother.
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That's why you're punished publicly. That's why we got so
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much crime in the country.
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Instead of punishing publicly, we spend three years in the
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courtroom and the fellow get off on some technicality. We
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don't send no message. Matter of fact, you send the
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wrong message right by the hand. The message is, you
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can get away with it. That's why God told people,
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stone them right in front of the people. You know,
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Because he was supposed to send a message. The Bible
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says after that they won every battle. Achan thought he
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was more important than the community. So he got his
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own private wealth. And it destroyed the whole country. Individualism
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is a curse. And I want you to leave here today.
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Stop thinking about yourself please. That's not the kingdom economy.
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Follow this please. A kingdom.
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Is a territory ruled by a benevolent king. Right the
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way benevolent down. The reason why we hate kingdoms on
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earth is because the kings that ruled.
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Them were not benevolent.
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That is why many countries who were under kingdoms declared
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independence because those kingdoms didn't have kings of benevolent.
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Let me explain benevolence. Benevolent means to love, to have
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compassion for.
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The kings that you read about in history, including the
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one who ruled us for 259 years, yes, the British.
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Boy, listen to me. They were kings, we were under
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a kingdom, but they sure didn't love us. They didn't
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give us any education.
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We didn't get good education until 1973 came along, or
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1967 came along.
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Or 62 when we got majority rule.
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This is amazing that we had to wait until we
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got rid of the kingdom.
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But the king was supposed to be benevolent. Let me
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explain to you. A true king doesn't just rule his people.
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He loves his people.
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Jesus Christ is the first politician I've ever met on
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earth who made speeches and said to the citizens, I
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love you. No politician in this country I dare them
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to tell me I'm not telling the truth. None of them.
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I heard their speeches last night on TV. They never say,
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I love you.
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They say, I can fix your roads. I can get
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you this. I can get you jobs. You know, I
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can beat the opposition.
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But they don't say they love you. They don't love you.
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Have you ever noticed that? They don't love you.
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When they come to your house next week, I want
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you to give them a test from this sermon. See, look,
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I don't want no promises from you. I want to
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ask you just one question. Do you love us in
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this house?
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See? Look how you're laughing. See?
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Yeah.
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Listen to your king.
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Love one another as I i have loved you i
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love you as my father loved me and because i
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love you i lay my life down for you i
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am the good leader the shepherd i give.
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My life for i don't feed off That's a benevolent king.
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A benevolent king exists for the people. His wealth is
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to make the people wealthy. Power, money, influence, control. These
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motivate politicians and the kings of the day. But the
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kingdom of heaven has a king who loves you and
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loves you so much he laid his life down so
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yours could exist. This is why we admire, when we
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see glimpses of benevolent leaders, we admire people like Nelson
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Mandela or Martin Luther King Jr. You know why we
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like them? There's some element of love for the people somewhere.
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They weren't trying to get power. They weren't trying to
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get a position in government. They weren't trying to get,
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you know, authority. They were weeping for 25 years in
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prison over the people.
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To prove he wasn't interested in power, he only had
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one term. Nelson Mandela. One term. Show me a politician
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in the Bahamas who only want one term. Some of
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them need to go right now. But they love what? Power.
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What motivates you? Money or God?
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And so friends, we're going to go home dancing.
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Because the kingdom is built on lordship. Everybody say lordship. Lordship.
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Write it down, lordship. Thank you for the extra time. Lordship.
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Let's deep in lordship for a second before we close.
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This is the heart of commonwealth. The key to all
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kingdoms is the king.
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The key to all kings is their territory because the
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territory is where they get their glory from.
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But the power of kings is their personal ownership of
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their property. They own the country.
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So what distinguishes a king from a president or a
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prime minister is he is Lord.
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The word Lord is the Hebrew word Adon which means owner.
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And that's why every king is automatically called Lord because
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all true kings are automatically Lord because they what?
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Own the country personally. Now look at the words I
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have up there.
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The power of kings is their personal ownership of the country.
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The Bahamas used to be under a kingdom.
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And none of this country was ours. We lived here,
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but we couldn't own anything. The land was called Crown Land.
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The forest was called Royal Forest. The birds were called
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Royal Birds. When I was growing up, we had to
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call the birds Royal Birds. The police was called the
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Royal Bahamas Police Force. The defense force called the Royal
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Boundary Defense Force. The hospital was called the Royal Princess
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Margaret Hospital. The prison was called the Her Majesty. In
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other words, any of your prison is hers. In a kingdom,
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the king owns everything.
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I want you to follow me. That is why you
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call the king Lord. What's the word Lord? Owner.
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Now, this is the good news. I get excited when
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I talk about this. So all true kings are automatically Lord.
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That's why Jesus refused to call himself president. Because he
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owns the whole universe. He owns the earth. The earth
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is the? And the fullness thereof. So in true kingdom,
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there is no private ownership. So the stove in your
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house really isn't yours. Yes.
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The dress in your closet is not yours. The one
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you got on now is not yours.
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God could speak to you right now and say, when
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you get home, take it off, fold it up, clean it,
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and give.
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It to that lady in the third row. He got
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the right to tell you that. Why?
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Because your time of wearing it is up. If he
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owns it, if he's your.
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Lord, if God tells you, to write a check this.
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Morning from your company for $ 5, 000 and put it in
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the ministry to finish, pave that road over there, or
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to maybe put a canopy over there. God said, look,
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that's my money. He said, God is my, no, no, no.
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Let me test, see if you own that in your company.
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God may tell you, go home and bake some cake
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for someone. Take it to them tomorrow morning. And tell
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them the Lord told me just bake you a couple
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of cakes. You got four kids and I see you
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got some problems. Here's some cake. God can tell you
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that today. Use the flour that is in your kitchen
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and the water in the tap that he pays for.
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Make a cake.
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Take it to the.
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Lady tomorrow morning. God can do that if he owns you.
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Disobedience is ownership. In the economy of God, there's no ownership. So,
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commonwealth then.
838
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Is common. Write it down. This is the theme for
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the year.
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Kingdoms are different from democracies because in a kingdom, the
841
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kingdom wealth is common.
842
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He owns everything. So the principle of commonwealth is what?
843
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Access everybody have access to the same wealth that's why
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in the kingdom of God I've never seen the righteous
845
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forsaken nor any of his seed bag bread because everybody
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owns everything with their king that means the wealth in
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a kingdom is not for it's not for the king
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it's for every.
849
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Citizen so the kingdom wealth.
850
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Is for the welfare of the citizens and that's why
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in 2012 you are gonna make it let's read.
852
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Exodus 19, read. Verse 5, read. Although the whole world
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is mine, says the.
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Lord, you will be for me a kingdom of priests
855
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and a holy nation. These are the words you must
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speak to the children of Israel, Moses.
857
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Look at the first line. He said, he started by saying.
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I own the whole world, but I choose this group.
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I own everybody now.
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Don't get carried away. I own Pharaoh. I own the Babylonians.
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I own the Chaldeans. I own everybody, but I choose
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this group. Watch this now. He said, what I'm gonna
863
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do is I'm gonna make you all rich in one night.
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I'm gonna take all the money from this group, Egypt,
865
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and give it to you in one night and the
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donkeys are gonna stagger with gold and silver.
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Why? Because I own Egypt and you. God gonna do
868
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that to you this year. He gonna shift. He owns.
869
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Do you get the point? Are you getting the message?
870
00:57:16.090 --> 00:57:17.630
You see, if he owns everything, look at Psalm 24.
871
00:57:17.610 --> 00:57:20.690
Read it again, read it. The earth is the Lord's,
872
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that's the whole planet, and the fullness thereof, that's everything,
873
00:57:23.889 --> 00:57:26.610
all the resources in it, and the world, that's the systems,
874
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and they, that's the people that dwell therein. For he
875
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founded it. God said, look, that bank is mine. I'll
876
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shut it down when I'm ready. If they don't treat
877
00:57:35.909 --> 00:57:39.389
you right, I'll fire them, the manager. You know what
878
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the Bible says? The heart of the king is in
879
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the hands.
880
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Of the Lord. So when the king smells himself.
881
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God will fire him. God fired Saul before he left
882
00:57:48.630 --> 00:57:50.650
the job. God, I've done it to some people already,
883
00:57:50.789 --> 00:57:53.429
who've been harassing you in them banks. God already fired them.
884
00:57:55.130 --> 00:57:56.610
You can go there one Monday, they're gone. Where are
885
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they going? I don't know. They're gone. Why? Because they
886
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harassed God's citizen. He owns everything. You didn't lose nothing.
887
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He knows just where it is.
888
00:58:13.530 --> 00:58:16.530
But one thing with God's country, I go in my
889
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One thing God can't do. God said, if they thief
890
00:58:19.159 --> 00:58:20.900
one TV from you, he said, I can never.
891
00:58:20.719 --> 00:58:25.969
Give you a TV back. To embarrass them, I'm going
892
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to give you seven.
893
00:58:27.730 --> 00:58:32.849
Y'all better shout right there. Oh, come on, get the
894
00:58:32.889 --> 00:58:33.769
message there.
895
00:58:33.829 --> 00:58:36.639
He said, look, that's only one they took from me.
896
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I got millions. And just to make them embarrassed, I'm
897
00:58:40.119 --> 00:58:41.079
going to give you seven.
898
00:58:43.760 --> 00:58:46.960
So when Job lost everything and them folks were laughing
899
00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:48.280
at him and they were cheering him.
900
00:58:48.300 --> 00:58:50.659
God said, that's okay, Mo. That's okay, Job. Don't worry
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00:58:50.679 --> 00:58:52.760
about a thing. Just stay faithful to me. Stay faithful.
902
00:58:52.820 --> 00:58:54.969
Stay faithful. And the Bible said, the end of his
903
00:58:55.070 --> 00:58:58.650
days were greater than the beginning. I prophesy it shall
904
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be so with you. Come on, shout amen.
905
00:59:04.590 --> 00:59:06.730
Happy Commonwealth economy.
906
00:59:08.210 --> 00:59:11.079
That's where we're going. In the name of Jesus.
907
00:59:13.059 --> 00:59:15.780
Now listen, close your Bibles. It's time to give the offering.
908
00:59:17.909 --> 00:59:19.010
I want you to give him his offering.
909
00:59:21.630 --> 00:59:23.550
I wrote mine this morning before I even left home.
910
00:59:23.570 --> 00:59:27.210
I said, God, I'm going to give you a big
911
00:59:27.250 --> 00:59:28.949
one to prove it that I don't own it. If
912
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you think you own it, keep it.
913
00:59:35.210 --> 00:59:38.230
I want you business people to do something to embarrass
914
00:59:38.250 --> 00:59:43.550
the devil. I want you to make an act of faith.
915
00:59:43.670 --> 00:59:48.389
Those of you who have your own practice. Dentists, lawyers, doctors,
916
00:59:49.739 --> 00:59:50.659
real estate people.
917
00:59:51.699 --> 00:59:53.820
Those of you who work for a company. And God
918
00:59:53.880 --> 00:59:54.800
bless you with promotion.
919
00:59:55.800 --> 01:00:01.400
Do not hold back this morning. I want you to
920
01:00:01.480 --> 01:00:05.230
embarrass the devil. There's an envelope in front of you.
921
01:00:06.409 --> 01:00:10.010
I want us to give God a clear response. I
922
01:00:10.050 --> 01:00:15.820
heard you. I don't own what I have. Let's prepare
923
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:23.940
our hearts to give. Hallelujah. I'm going to give you
924
01:00:23.980 --> 01:00:26.159
some time to do this. Don't rush it. I want
925
01:00:26.199 --> 01:00:27.280
you to pray over what you're going to do.
926
01:00:30.630 --> 01:00:32.489
If I can get just 50 people this morning in
927
01:00:32.530 --> 01:00:34.500
business here Say, God, I'm going to give you a
928
01:00:34.519 --> 01:00:38.500
thousand dollars today. Why? I don't own what I have.
929
01:00:38.519 --> 01:00:41.900
I want to make some room for more. I'm going
930
01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:43.760
to get it out of my hands. I discovered the
931
01:00:43.780 --> 01:00:45.590
way the kingdom works. It really works this way.
932
01:00:46.409 --> 01:00:47.409
When you get.
933
01:00:47.329 --> 01:00:55.030
Rid of something, it activates the economic system. But when
934
01:00:55.050 --> 01:00:58.369
you hold on to it, it shuts down the economic system.
935
01:01:02.579 --> 01:01:07.150
You know, If you got $ 10 in your hand, but
936
01:01:07.170 --> 01:01:12.309
you really got $ 200 in your purse, the $ 10, you.
937
01:01:11.969 --> 01:01:14.460
Don't feel it.
938
01:01:17.559 --> 01:01:20.440
It's easy to give it because you got 190 left.
939
01:01:22.019 --> 01:01:24.159
So far as God is concerned, you're giving me spare change.
940
01:01:26.579 --> 01:01:29.360
You hold on to what you own. Ownership is felt
941
01:01:29.840 --> 01:01:36.010
when what you're giving, you're afraid. In other words, trusting
942
01:01:36.050 --> 01:01:38.269
in giving is not giving until.
943
01:01:37.769 --> 01:01:43.050
You've got to trust him to get it back. So
944
01:01:43.070 --> 01:01:45.630
if I give what I can spare, it doesn't affect
945
01:01:45.670 --> 01:01:46.030
my life.
946
01:01:47.769 --> 01:01:49.630
But if I go above and say, Lord, I ain't
947
01:01:49.690 --> 01:01:52.389
never done this before, but I heard your word today.
948
01:01:53.010 --> 01:01:58.269
I'm going to put all my trust in you. Then
949
01:01:58.289 --> 01:02:01.590
you give it to the level where it makes you nervous.
950
01:02:02.429 --> 01:02:04.210
And you're telling God, because I don't own.
951
01:02:04.150 --> 01:02:09.050
It, I'm going to trust you. That's how you put
952
01:02:09.070 --> 01:02:12.789
it into the kingdom. Let's do that right now. God
953
01:02:12.829 --> 01:02:14.530
may tell you to tear up the one you have
954
01:02:14.550 --> 01:02:16.519
and start over. The Lord did that to me many times.
955
01:02:16.579 --> 01:02:17.920
He said, that's not what I want you to give.
956
01:02:17.940 --> 01:02:21.539
I had to tear the check up, start over. God
957
01:02:21.559 --> 01:02:27.000
will do that just to test whether you own it
958
01:02:28.059 --> 01:02:28.800
or whether he does.
959
01:02:29.860 --> 01:02:32.960
Let us pray. Lord, thank you that.
960
01:02:32.880 --> 01:02:35.889
This year is going to be a good year. Because
961
01:02:35.949 --> 01:02:40.110
you have a plan for our lives already. We know
962
01:02:40.150 --> 01:02:44.650
that your plan is good. A plan to prosper us.
963
01:02:44.730 --> 01:02:51.969
A plan to give us good ends. A plan.
964
01:02:53.860 --> 01:02:57.719
To give us success. So you don't want us to
965
01:02:57.760 --> 01:03:00.780
be poor. You don't want us to be broke. You
966
01:03:00.800 --> 01:03:06.380
just want us to have access. I thank you that
967
01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:07.639
this year we're going to learn this.
968
01:03:07.659 --> 01:03:08.800
We're going to get this right.
969
01:03:09.070 --> 01:03:12.469
We're going to enter your economy and never be stressed again.
970
01:03:13.710 --> 01:03:16.269
So we give this offering today and our tithes that
971
01:03:16.289 --> 01:03:20.289
belong to you already. But we give an offering above, beyond,
972
01:03:20.329 --> 01:03:21.769
because we want just to make.
973
01:03:21.670 --> 01:03:24.329
A response to you and say, Lord, we don't own this.
974
01:03:26.320 --> 01:03:29.300
We want you to do it right now. I thank you, Lord.
975
01:03:30.780 --> 01:03:37.099
I thank you, Lord. I give you praise. Let your
976
01:03:37.119 --> 01:03:41.289
will be done. Let your kingdom come. Thank you, Lord.
977
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Thank you, Lord.
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