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November 27, 2024 · 42 min
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The Journey of Faith and Generosity 0:00 We haven't met yet, my name is Aaron. I'm your homie. I get an opportunity to be a pastor on staff here and just count it an honor to just serve as a part of this wonderful church. This church saved our0:11 family's life. It was Jesus, but it was through Patriot, a L F C back then, that put our family on trajectory. So we're just so grateful for this church. Hey. What is family business? What we're0:23 doing every year in November, we're just taking a month to just talk about vision, talk about legacy, talk about generosity, and how generosity is for the next generation. Remember how we opened it0:35 up and we had the 5 minutes of fire by those young preachers that preach the paint off the walls? You guys remember that at the top of the month? And I wanna thank all of you for being generosity giants because you're0:46 going to that Vision Sunday drop down. Thank you for giving to the many projects that Pastor Adam talked about. We're gonna conclude that today. So if you're new to this series, I would encourage you to go back0:58 to YouTube, and look at all the details that Pastor Adam listed as it relates to our vision and our projects. Also, you can see our impact report on 20 24 by1:10 going to our website, because we're a transparent church. If we're gonna talk about family business, we wanna lead by example by being transparent on our stewardship with our finances. Amen? Amen. Alright. Hey, we're1:22 gonna get right into it. So let's go ahead and stand to our feet. We're gonna go to Exodus chapter 13 verses 3 through 5, and we'll just use this as a diving1:34 board as a thought today. I wanna give you some context, because I figured since this is family business, I wanted to talk about God's chosen family, the children of Israel, and they're a collection1:46 of families, we're a collection of families, and we're gonna parallel kind of like what they went through and how God treated them, because He'll treat us the same way. For context, they've been in1:58 slavery for 4 30 years. God had declared to them that they're gonna be free, and he's saying in this part of scripture right now, today is their moment that2:10 they're finally gonna be free. It'll be on the screens or it'll be in your Bible. Then Moses said to the people, remember this day in which you came out from2:22 Egypt, out of the house of slavery, And for by a strong hand the Lord brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten today. Everybody say2:34 today. Today. In the month of Habib, you are going out. And when, everybody say when, the Lord brings you into the land of the2:45 Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you a land flowing with milk, say milk, Milk. And honey, you2:57 shall keep this service in this month. Let's pray. God, thank you that your word is true. Thank you that you opened our hearts earlier through worship,3:09 and I thank you for what you'll deposit in our hearts. Use your word to encourage us, to uplift us, to convict us, to empower us. In Jesus' name3:21 we pray, amen. You may be seated. I want to emphasize those words that we said out loud because I believe they have power. They'll be back on the screens.3:33 Notice how it was said, Today you are going out. And what that parallels for us today is the beginning of our faith journey. Do you remember the day3:45 you gave your life to Christ? Do you remember the day you felt free, you felt forgiven? I remember years ago, I gave my life to Christ. Today, I went out. That's what3:57 that paralleled. And if you haven't experienced that, we pray that today will be your day that you experience freedom. So what's clear many times on when we start4:08 our faith journey, because the start line of our faith journey is forgiveness, but notice how it was not as clear on when there was going into. So today you're going out, but it4:20 says when you go into. It didn't say in 2 years, 2 weeks, 2 months, it just said when. So what God did is He showed a vision, a promise of what he's4:32 gonna give. I'm gonna give you a lamp phone with milk and honey, but when you face the Amorites, the Jebusites, the Hivites, the Apathites, the4:44 Cellulites, all the ites, All the ites we gotta face before we get the promise. So I know today I've started.4:56 I'm trying to make progress on my faith journey. I don't know when I'll get the promise, so I'm not sure if I'm making progress. So what ends up happening a lot of times in my life, and5:08 maybe in your life, instead of progressing on the faith journey, we stay stuck in a sin cycle. And if we look at Exodus 14, 15, and 16,5:20 I've reduced it to 1 word, which will be our sermon points. Because this is what the children of Israel went through, time after time after time. And many times, this is what we go through. Let's5:32 put it on the screens here. Exodus 14, they got help. Generational bondage. God, do you hear me? Can you help? And if you know the story,5:44 you'd know that it was a miracle that happened. And in that miracle, Moses, he was using the rod, which represents Jesus, split the water they walked through and they got their miracle. They got their5:56 help. If you know Exodus 15, they were happy. Whole chapter dedicated to praise and worship. The tambourines. Miri6:15 what happened is they didn't change their appetite, so their health wanted to be on their terms. And there's a lot of times in my life, maybe in your life, I'm happy. But then I get hungry6:28 and God can you help me? Right? And since we're talking about hunger and since we're talking about the family business, I wanted to settle a family debate. We have a6:40 little bit of division in my family, and I want to settle it here so I can show my family that we know how to hear from God at Patriot and we can get on the same page. You guys agree? Okay. Let me be6:52 honest, I really don't know how to cook. And when somebody doesn't know how to cook, cereal becomes salvation to you.7:01 It's not like on your7:02 way home you don't feel like stopping to get something to eat. Oh shoot, I got that cereal in the pantry. Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put 4 fire cereals on the screen right now. Now don't say7:14 the best 1 yet, but I'm gonna put all 4. Look at the faithfulness of God. Now, 1 of them is the7:23 best. 1 of them is separated7:26 from the rest. All of them are fire. All of them get the job done. But there's 1. And on the count of 3,7:34 we're gonna see if we're in unity. On the count of 3, I need you to yell which cereal is the best. Come on, please don't let me down. Okay, 1, 2, 3.7:57 Hey. Hey. We're getting there. I mean, I I was hearing where we're at, but some of you I8:05 see your sin. You're yelling out the wrong choice. So what I wanna do is I wanna make this very easy for us and settle this debate.8:18 The best cereal of all time.8:38 This is God's cereal. This is holy. When you eat this, you8:43 hear better from God. It's a kitchen table, you get a bowl, oh my God. But, here's why this is the best cereal, it was biblical. See, y'all laughing. Y'all read your8:54 bibles. Go to Exodus chapter 16 verse 14. When they were hungry, God, what are we going to eat? Look what God did. He said in the face of the wilderness, a fine, flake like thing, fire9:06 this frost on the ground. Won't he do it? Won't he do it? God gave frosted flakes in the wilderness. He'll give frosted flakes to you today.9:25 Let's go ahead and preach a little bit then. Let me parallel, let9:32 me parallel our faith journey. Because their journey didn't start with manna, it started with bondage, right? And this is how our faith journey starts. It9:44 doesn't start with us receiving the blessings in favor of God, it starts like this. And this is our hearts, this is a bowl, and this is our hearts. And for 400 years,9:57 children of Israel are in bondage, which means anything that Pharaoh put in their bowl was good. Feeding from10:09 the enemy. How many times in our life have we been in bondage? We try some, we don't really like it, but the more that we try it, not only is it10:21 messing with our natural appetite, but our spiritual appetite. Pharaoh becomes the person who feeds us. And this is what we read in Exodus 13, Today10:33 you are going out, because the Father sent Jesus on our behalf to die on the cross for our sins, and He unlocks us from our bondage, and that starts our faith journey.10:46 Let me start my faith journey. So that's how they got help, and then they got happy. And as they're happy, that's Exodus 15. Praise God, I am free.10:58 And God gave them a seat at the table. Just like you and I. But a lot of times, it's like I'm happy, but I'm hungry. Because11:10 he freed me, but what are we going to eat? See a lot of times, I start here, we start here, and it's like, I want some food and I remember how11:22 Pharaoh treated me and God has completely freed us. We hold onto a little bit of bondage ourselves. Hold onto a little bit of familiarity. Because when I'm here, I got11:34 a vision from God I'd be free. Way over there is milk. I can't reach the milk. I don't know if I'm saved yet. So I'm in this tension of trying11:45 to move forward, but what are you gonna feed me, Pharaoh? What are you gonna feed me, Moses? Because they're used to being in bondage in their mindset. So if we go to Exodus chapter 16,11:57 verse 2, they went from singing praise and worship, Look at how they acted when they got hungry. Exodus sixteen:two. And the whole congregation of the people of Israel12:09 grumbled. Can you picture them? What are we gonna eat? Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Their stomach's growling, their heart is now growling. And Moses in the in the wilderness12:21 and the people said, what we have died by the hands of the Lord in Egypt when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill us with12:34 hunger. Notice how their appetite made them forget about their bondage. They only remembered the meat. So I'm12:45 hungry, so what happens is, like, I'm happy because God has freed me, but I want to go back to what's familiar. Right, right, I'm doing12:57 good in school, I'm not really doing good in my purity. I'm doing good in my business, I'm not really having results in my marriage. I'm happy,13:09 but I'm hungry. And what ends up happening is, for their grumble, God gave them grace. And God still said, I will give you manna even though you're complaining. That's13:21 the grace of God. But the tension of us, they've made progress because what happens is they start doing the manna. Right? So they get the manna and they're like, what is it? Because in13:33 Hebrew manna means what is it. Right? No, I'm serious. Like, you look it up. But what happens is now they're trying to eat this you remember the movie Friday?13:45 When ice cube had all that cereal,13:47 we didn't have no milk, then he wanted to throw it away, And the father's like, you better put some water on that. You see, that's what God does with us. Will you be content13:59 with how I help in this season? And there's this tension, because I have manna, I don't have milk. Since I have manna,14:11 I want to go back to what's familiar, and that's the tension of the faith journey. So let's talk about the first point, help. Everybody say help. Let's continue reading to see how14:23 God would help them, because we have to see if we're content with how God chooses to help. Look at this in Exodus 16, verse 4. Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I am about to make it14:34 rain bread from heaven for you. This is where little Wayne got it from. And the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day that I might test them whether they will walk in my14:46 law or not. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gathered daily. Whenever I read the Bible, I look for repetition,14:58 because if there's repetition in the Bible, then God is trying to get our attention. And I see the word day 4 times here. So let's talk about this for a moment. Many times,15:10 on our faith journey, we're saved, we've made progress, and this right here represents God's blessing. And this is what we pray for, a big family sized blessing,15:22 pressed down, shaken, to the full, in Jesus' name. But are we content with how God helps? Because God didn't give them this. You15:34 know15:34 what He did? He started them off with this.15:39 What do you do when you pray for God to give you a blessing this size and you end up You end up getting what you prayed for, but it's like, bro, what is this? How am I going to get results with this?15:51 God, I thought you were going to give me the promotion. I thought my the the guy that flirted with me was going to be over 6 feet. Like, why is he 5 4? Like, what god what's going on?16:04 Are you content with how God helps? See, here's what happens. They're in bondage for 400 years, right? This is what we pray for, many times this is what we get, right? This is the16:15 tension on the faith journey. But He's setting up a system to change our values. Because He said, Hey, if you come to me daily, so this is my blessing for you Monday, here's my blessing16:27 for you Tuesday, here's my blessing for you Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then on Saturday, I'm going to give you that double blessing, so you can rest and I'll still bless you. Now if you look at16:39 your life on the faith journey, you prayed for it on the front end, you stayed connected with Jesus, you end up getting it anyway, but your values change as well. That's why God is16:51 saying, Come to Me daily. The first perspective is, He's teaching the children of Israel, because they're coming out of bondage, gather in community daily.17:03 Here's why. If you look at Matthew chapter 6, verse 11, it says, Give us this day our daily bread. Many times we pray, Give me my17:15 bread. So if we're gathering in community, can you picture manna coming from heaven? Because God will wrang down resources for the entire community. And then you17:27 come out with your family, and if you're See what God is setting up? So I'm a give you enough for today and I'm a17:39 show you that I provide for everyone, not just you. That's Acts chapter 2. That's why the church would gather and everybody's getting what they're need and everybody's sharing with17:51 other people. Why? Because it's all coming from God, it's not coming from me, and I trust God for tomorrow. You know the second principle in18:03 this? God is teaching them to look to their father instead of Pharaoh. Can you imagine them in their faith journey? Because remember, they were holding onto some type of bondage,18:15 right? And then they would get from God, and they're like, Is this enough? I'm not used to this. And they're trying to But think about their mindset from the past, because God will do18:27 a miracle, you gotta manage your mindset so so you can sustain the miracle. So picture their past when every day they're getting from Pharaoh. And when they would look at18:39 Pharaoh, Pharaoh has gold. Look at Pharaoh's clean robe. Look at Pharaoh's palace. I'm out in the fields. Man, Pharaoh's wife is beautiful. I want to18:51 be like Pharaoh. You see, what happens is when you go from oppressed to blessed, it's hard for you to share with the community. Because that19:02 poverty mindset is like, now that I'm starting to eat, now you're going to take from me. So if you think about rappers today, I grew up in the hood, this is my story about and as soon as they make19:14 money, gold teeth, talking to their money, flexing, blah blah blah. And it's like, Wait a minute! Enough with the bling bling. The bling bling may be19:26 bondage in their mindset that I want to look like Pharaoh. But could you imagine if you go to your father every single day, Man, my father, he doesn't whip me.19:37 My father doesn't give me resources based upon what I do. He just gives it to me based upon his love for me. So he's gonna know what I need and he's given me an appetite that I could be surrendered to him and he's19:49 given me generosity to share with others. This is why I love Patreon. Because if you look at what we did yesterday, feeding over 3000 families, what it shows is that20:01 we're a multicultural, multi generational church. Because here's the thing. There are people in our church that on Thanksgiving were thinking about,20:13 Man, how are we going to afford a turkey? How are we going to go? And we love you. So what ends up happening is all you got to do is pull up and we'll serve you. And there are people20:26 that have turkeys in their freezer or refrigerator already, so they wanna be the hands and feet of Jesus and put it in your trunk. And there are people that are out of town on business watching things that are happening20:38 at Family to Family, but while they're out of town on business, they're donating financial resources to underwrite the whole thing. That's patriot coming together. Now, here's20:50 when the system doesn't work. Because there are seasons in my life when I didn't have a job. And what happens is, man, thank God that people can help.21:01 So I drive through the generosity center if somebody's putting something in my trunk. And then I get a job. So when I get a job, I need to keep it paying forward by now going21:13 to the generosity center and serving others. But there's been so many times in my life, and maybe in your life, where God has blessed us. And we're listening to sermons, and21:25 we're seeing things on Instagram, and we're eating our brushings. Can you put that generosity picture back on the screen? This is us on Instagram, man, that's cool.21:41 And as we're enjoying our blessings, you know how God be trying to get our attention? Yeah. Sometimes there'll be a toy inside the nope. And to expand.21:56 Vision Sunday, for this reason I bow my head. No, I don't got time for that. Thank you God for blessing me. See, why would God22:07 give you a family sized blessing if you don't contribute to the family? Many times, he starts us off with this to see if we'll be generous.22:20 Let's not say, Oh, I'll start tithing once he blesses me. No, you won't. You get a dollar, you give a dime. It's just a principle. So it's not about how much money you have, it's about the mindset.22:34 It all depends on what makes you happy. Let's go to our next point, which is happy. When I think about happy, I had to think about the happy meal, but before that I want to share a quote by Billy22:45 Graham. Billy Graham says this, God has given us 2 hands, 1 to receive with and the other to give with. Use both for him and find happiness. What that looks like is us receiving from God, giving out to the22:57 community. Receiving from God, giving out to the community. That's what that looks like, we're a vessel for God's glory. So it made me think about a Happy Meal because I had told myself23:10 I'm not eating at McDonald's, the more I'm going to be healthy. And then the other day, that's how testimonies sound, And the other day,23:24 Trinity comes home with a Happy Meal. Why'd you go to McDonald's, we don't do that, we're healthy. And then she was like, hey dad, look at the23:35 toy that's in the thing. So then I was like, oh, look at this baby croc. I was like, Erica, let's have another baby. I23:47 said, I wanna get the toy. And then I find out, oh, there's white ones, and red ones, and gold ones. Oh, we can get toys when we get And how many times do we compromise our23:59 health to be happy? I just want the toy. Guess how many Happy Meals are sold on a daily basis through McDonald's? Just guess, say it all out.24:11 Somebody said 2000000. Up to 3200000.0 Happy Meals daily. They crack the code. It has nothing to do with the food, it has everything to do with the toy. So as we become24:23 adults, we like our toys too. So sometimes, man, if I could just keep getting these Jordans, I want the shoe collection, then I get an additional property, then I get24:35 the RV, then I get the motorcycle, then okay, I get this cologne, this perfume, I get this gold chain, all these culture toys. And there's nothing wrong with getting culture toys. That's fine.24:54 Kingdom toy. Look at this kingdom toy right here. Look at that lucky climber. Look at our pickleball court that's happening. Look at the shade that we're enjoying right now. Look at the additional campuses. Just like how25:05 we have a desire to go out to new locations, so does the gospel. So thank God for our generous church that sends out orphanages and sends out of campuses to be able25:17 to do that, and you have an opportunity to partake in that. But it all depends on what makes you happy. Because if you think about the boy in John chapter 6,25:29 Pastor Diego talked about this last week, he gave up his happy meal so the entire community could be happy. So there's 2 perspectives that we can give. So I25:41 want to give 2 perspectives. Because this boy, this is what made him happy, he gave it to Jesus. Not only was he blessed, but everything around him was blessed. So the first perspective is,25:53 I'm happy God helped me. That's the first perspective. I'm happy God helped me. You know the second perspective? I'm happy God used me to help.26:06 That was Du Bois' perspective. I'm happy, but God used me to help. Does it make you happy to help the Kingdom of God go further? See, that's where our faith journey26:18 gets tested. Because God's providing for me, and Acts chapter 20 says, it's more blessed to give than to receive. You're blessed to receive, you're more blessed if you26:30 give. And if you're happy, it's dependent upon what you're hungry for. So as we conclude, let me find my iPad. If we go to hunger, Matthew chapter26:42 5 verse 6 says, Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. I want to share a story on a pastor26:54 and a generous leader in the community on how they collaborated together to make more kingdom impact. The generous leader, his name is Cornelius, the pastor, his name is Peter, is27:05 found in Acts chapter 10. I don't have the whole time to read through it, I just want to describe their seasons and what God would do with vision for more kingdom impact. You guys down? So Acts chapter27:17 10, verse 1 through 3, let's look at Cornelius. It describes him. It's at Caesarea, there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian cohort.27:30 A devout man. He feared God with all his household. He gave alms generously to the people and he prayed continually to God. In the ninth hour of the day he saw27:42 clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say, Cornelius. Now this is beautiful, let's keep this up for a moment. Look how this describes this man of God, and look how27:53 he got vision, his vision is connected to prayer and his character. So it described his character, it described his prayer life, then he got vision. But here's what's not talked about as28:05 much in church. You gotta read it yourself. I've heard so much, God's given me a vision for me and this is what he's gonna do for me. It's not what he did with Cornelius. He is a28:17 devout man, he's generous, he's not called yet, he doesn't have purpose in his life yet, so his vision is, hey go listen to Pastor Peter. How many times do we hear,28:29 God has given me a vision to go help Pastor Diego. I've heard God has given me a vision for what he's gonna do for me, But Cornelius is saying,28:41 I'm generous, I'm in my faith journey, I'm giving, and God has given me this vision, I need to hear from Pastor Peter. Now he's a gentile. Now if we go28:52 over to Peter, he used to be sinful Simon, now he's Pastor Peter, he's in a new season. And in this new season he follows the rules. And he29:04 has a strict diet. I don't eat like them Gentiles. No, this is how we eat, we're Jewish, we're Godly. So he's at the house and29:16 let's look at verse 9 and what happens with him. The next day, as they were on the journey approaching the city, 2 employees that were coming to get Peter to take him to Cornelius, Cornelius is a centurion, which means29:27 he has 100 employees, he's a military man, that's why he had the 2 employees go and get him. Peter went up on the house top at the sixth hour to pray And he became hungry. Everybody say hungry.29:39 Hungry. And he wanted something to eat. But while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance. This is like 1 of those naps you take on Thanksgiving.29:53 So I'm in a black family. I'm black, my wife is Mexican, and it's like, babe, why are we doing Thanksgiving so late? Black people, we do it a little earlier. And now I got a30:05 black son, we're kind of negotiating how we're going to talk to our Hispanic wives. Just trying to make it a little earlier. Because what happens is, I feel Peter's pain. He's hungry, he smells all this food,30:17 and then he goes to sleep with food in his mind. He's like, when I wake up I'm going to eat. But then he feels like he's having a nightmare. You got to read it, Acts chapter 10 yourself.30:29 He sleep and all of a sudden, barbecue ribs? Wait, Lucille? Biscuits? What the? Tamales?30:42 A bonges? Bosole? Chicken Alfredo with shrimp? Oh my God. Oh, 0 God, I repent. I don't even know if I I don't know who Lucille is. I30:54 repent God. And God is like, Hey stop calling common what I'm calling clean. And what God is trying to do is get rid of his religious pallet for31:05 more kingdom impact. Because what's going to happen is he's going to go to Cornelius' house, he don't want him to get triggered by the immaterial things. So he's on his way to31:17 Cornelius and God gives him the breakthrough. It's okay, Lucille's is fine after church. So he goes to Cornelius's house. Remember Cornelius, here's the vision. Here's the vision from31:29 Pastor Peter. Pastor Peter has to get his palate cleansed so he can have the openness to share the gospel for more people. And when they collaborate, Cornelius ends up being the first31:41 Gentile convert. I'm using my holy imagination to think about Acts chapter 1 verse 8. When Peter when Peter would hear, the gospel's gonna go to Samaria, Judea, and all the world. And31:52 this conversation is part of it, because now he has kingdom resources for more kingdom impact. We need more pastor Pauls and centurions coming together saying, I32:04 hear the vision of the pastor. I see what's going on, and I want to use my resources to make a difference. And when he pastors in the community saying, I don't care about your religion, your background, and so32:16 forth, here is the gospel for you. God has blessed you to be a means to get the gospel to go out further. You'll read it for yourself for the sake of32:28 time, but it's a beautiful example on how God will use the vision of the leader, and the collaboration of the generosity in the community for more kingdom32:39 impact. Pastor Adam has said it this way, it's the pastor that shares the vision. It's the community that gives the pace of the vision. And you've heard what's32:51 on our minds for family business this month. And we know that you have been praying. But the question is,33:11 new family member in our household. His name is Simba. He's a dog. And this morning I'm trying to hear from God, and I wake up, he throws up, he poops. I'm just like,33:24 babe, you're going to have to take care of this. But, I don't even know why I said that. It was just on my mind, I was mad. No, because we take care of33:36 this dog, right? Oh, for Simba, for Simba, oh you get Simba toys, Simba this, Simba Playstation 5, Simba everything, right? So we get so we go to this organic33:48 store for Simba. So Erica's like, he needs the best. Right? Why am I getting leftovers? Right? So so Simba's eating this duck bone or whatever,34:00 and I start walking over the Simba, Simba's like, Like what's going on? I get closer to remember I pet you? Remember I bought34:12 that bone? Remember I So then my wife said, don't scare him, I'm listening to podcasts and we're going to work this out.34:27 Look, I'm a father. I'm not going to have my daughter scared of a dog. So I looked online, this is called resource guarding. Where dogs, yeah, they like you taking care of34:39 them, but when they're eating, they guard their resources and they forget who gave it to them.34:46 So Erica34:50 goes away to the women's cruise. Now, me and Simba are having some quality time. Hey, all I did is send a picture and a text message to my wife.35:02 Simba's healed. He don't resource guard no more. He has to be reminded that the father put that there. Why are you trying to guard something that the35:13 father gave you? But as I'm trying to train Simba, God's getting at me. Aaron, why are you trying to guard so closely what I put in your hands?35:27 How many times have you done that, church? How many times have I done that? Thank you, God, for the blessing. And as soon as we get the blessing, hey God, could you bless them? Could you help them in Jesus'35:38 name? What God is saying, He wants to give you a family sized blessing, but he wants you to contribute to the35:50 family. And as you contribute to the family, I want to pray Psalm 30 seven:four over your life. Delight yourself in the Lord, he'll give you the desires of your36:02 heart. And delighting ourself in the Lord means, God, I want to bless what you're already blessing. And as I get on God's team and I bless what he's already blessing, you know what God's36:14 going to do? He's reading what I'm writing in my journal. He's reading the desires of my heart and he's saying, since you're on team Jesus, and since I can trust you with resources, you don't guard your resources, I'm a36:26 put more in your hands because when they're in your hands the Kingdom of God is blessed. Why would God just put something in our hands and just for us to be blessed?36:39 Father God, I feel like that's an appropriate time to just pray right there. And just let that settle in our souls.36:52 Forgive us for resource guarding. Forgive us for asking for you to put stuff in our hands, and having such a tight grip on it when you37:04 ask for us to be a blessing to others. Will you teach us how to be more like you? We don't want to look like pharaoh.37:16 The only way that pharaoh was blessed is because he had a system of slavery. And we don't want to withhold from others. So thank you that this word37:28 has challenged us, but it's also freed us. So God, let that settle for a moment. How are37:40 you challenging each and every 1 of us as we conclude this family business service series? How are we contributing to the family business? And I thank you for the37:52 generosity giants in our community right now, that you are speaking to them like you spoke to the centurion, like you spoke to pastor Peter. You're38:03 giving us amounts. Thank you for the sacrifice of giving, And thank you for us being obedient in what you're prompting us to38:15 do. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.38:28 Amen. Hey. Before we conclude, what's more important in family business is inviting you to the family. And this is not just marketing to try to fundraise. We38:40 care about your soul more than we care about you serving. My question to you is where are you in the faith journey? For some of you, you may still be right here. And that's38:51 okay. Because just like what the father did for the Israelites he wants to do for you, the Israelites did nothing to contribute to them being39:03 free. But they had to walk forward in what God already provided. God the father sent his son Jesus to live the perfect life we couldn't live and die the39:15 death we deserve. And what he's asking us to do like the children of Israel, remove your bondage, I've set you free. Walk forward. What was beautiful about theShow more In this video 0:00 The Journey of Faith and Generosity
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