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Fixing The Money Thing with Gary Keesee will educate and equip you to walk out your God-given purpose and provide insights and solutions on the topics of faith and finances.
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0:00 I'm Gary Kasim. For 9 years, I had debt I couldn't pay, which brought on panic attacks, antidepressants, until the kingdom of God drastically changed my life. Now I wanna help0:11 you fix the money thing. America's financial coach, Gary Kasim, wants to mentor you in the kingdom principles that will set you free. If you put God's principles0:23 in place, place, you will prosper. This is Gary Kaseem. Fixing the Money Thing. Now the bible, just to say, the bible talks about the0:35 circumcision of our heart in the new birth as we're born again. The Bible says the Holy Spirit cuts out that love for sin. And usually a Christian will sin and they they grieve over it. They don't really, they, it0:46 bothers them. They don't embrace it. And that's fine, you just turn back to Christ and repent from it and go on. But the point is, you know, you have to learn from that. You can't keep going back to it. You know, there's0:57 forgiveness for everything, but trust is different. You're going to heaven, God loves you, And you know, you're stumbling around and God, he loves you. There's no condemnation in Christ. But he does not put you1:09 in an assignment yet until you've mastered that thing where the enemy's been waiting over here for you. You follow me? I pastor this church. It's not my first day out. I've stumbled and1:21 tripped over all kind of stuff. That's alright. No 1 knew my name when that was happening, right? My wife did. Family did, know. But I'm trying to say, there's a process where you're gonna1:33 learn responsibility, you're gonna learn what God says, you're gonna follow instructions, and then you earn promotion, you're qualified to move on to the next level, and God gives you greater responsibility. Alright.1:45 Here's a major key to your life. What assignment can God trust you with? And listen, we all make mistakes. Don't don't misunderstand what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that you have your part to play and God has his1:56 part to play and we have to learn responsibility and hold to that. Now Paul was teaching Timothy, who's a pastor. Paul appointed Timothy as a pastor and was telling him how to pick leaders.2:09 This goes for, if you have a business, this would apply to anyone really. He said this in verse 4 of first Timothy chapter 3, he must manage his own family well and see that his children obey2:21 him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of respect. So if a child go clean your room. Hey honey, go clean your room. And the child stomps off and slams the door, they are2:33 cleaning their room, but there's no respect. See, you don't train a child's performance, you train their heart. Alright.2:45 If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church? He must not be a recent convert or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. He must also have a2:56 good reputation with outsiders so that he'll not fall into disgrace and into the devil's trap. So the key is be faithful where you're at. Be diligent where you're at. Do3:07 what you say. Follow the instructions of God. Ephesians chapter 5 verse 8 says, you were once in darkness, but now you're in light in the Lord. Live as children of light for the fruit of the light consist3:19 in all goodness, righteousness and truth and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. See, expose them.3:33 Meaning that they disgust you, they offend you. Expose them. Don't play with them. But find out what pleases the Lord. See,3:44 we're gonna We have to learn how to how to please the Lord. What what his instructions are. I mean, you come to Christ, you don't know anything. But you know, I had to learn Drenda's voice. I had to learn her. I I need3:56 to learn how to please her. Not you, not any other woman in the world. 1 person, 1 woman right there, Drenda. And so like that with God, you have to learn4:08 what would please him. So I had to, it doesn't matter what I like, what does she like, right? I need to learn her as a person. What does she like? And I was, you know,4:20 I probably really messed that up in the beginning. You know, I remember our first month of marriage, we were driving in Tulsa, we lived in Tulsa, driving down the the 4 lane road there in4:32 Tulsa. You know, grew up I'm a country boy. I grew up in the country. I hunt and fish and you know, all those things. So we're driving on the road and this squirrel runs out in front of the car in front of us. It runs4:43 under the car, not the tires, but it bumped the muffler under the car and just flipped over. Just nicked its head. I said, Drenda, this is awesome. I pull off the side of the I just pull4:55 over. I run out of the car. I grab this squirrel by the tail and I toss it in the back seat. I say, Drenda, I'm gonna cook you the best squirrel dinner you've ever had in your life.5:09 Yeah. Yeah. I had a lot to learn, right? Yeah. Really did. I look back on that and said, really, I really did that? You know, that is really, really, really bad.5:23 I think she was in shock. I think she was. She's, I mean, I first met her, when I first brought her to Ohio, I remember we were driving along and there's cows along the fence. She's, well, I've never been that close to a5:34 cow before, that's really I went fishing, caught some bluegill. She cried and I cleaned them. So you're not gonna hurt that fish, are you? Yeah, I'm gonna eat it. See how I threw the squirrel in the back seat of the car,5:44 know, it's like There is a God. I'm still married. There's a God. So I cooked this meal5:56 for her, know. And I can still see her face as I brought that squirrel casserole out to her, know. Was so proud of myself thinking that. I was thinking, she's thinking, this is awesome. I'm married to this guy. I'll6:07 never have to worry about being star starving ever. He can take care of me no matter where we're at. You know, it's like, he's a he provide he provide for me wherever we're at. And I can still see her face, she kinda is6:17 staring at this thing. She didn't do anything, know, no interest in eating it, she's staring at it. And she said, there's a hair right there. I said, sorry. It's been in the oven for you know, an hour or 2.6:29 It's sterile. It's alright. It's just it's okay. Now she did take a couple bites of squirrel. And in case you're wondering, squirrel is really very good. It really is good. But what would happen if6:40 I fed her a squirrel every night? Oh, I don't want these squirrels. That's too bad. I'm making you squirrel again. Because you know what, I like it. Well, I don't like squirrel. I really don't like the pick the hairs6:52 out. I don't really like the squirrel. I'd really, you know, I'd really it doesn't matter, Dren, this is what I like. What would happen to my marriage if that happened? Wouldn't go well, would it? No.7:04 So I need to learn how to please her and you need to learn how to What what is God What pleases God? You just found out what pleases God? Do what he says. Have his heart. That's what pleases7:16 God. He wants you to do it the right way. Raise your family the right way. Live your life the right way. Be concerned how you live your life. Is God pleased with this? Would would Jesus wanna go to that R rated movie7:27 with me? Hey Jesus, great great movie. Oh, there's 1 bad spot in it. You can close your eyes. Come on, let's go to this movie. It's really great. You think you take Jesus to an R rated movie where you're watching couples7:38 have adultery on the screen, no one's married? Do you think you'd do that? You think Jesus would wanna go with you to that? But yet you're the temple of the Holy Spirit and you are taking him to that.7:50 You see. So what I'm saying is, if you wanna please God, you're gonna have to evaluate what you're doing. Is this is this pleasing to God or not? I wanna please God. My heart is to please God. My heart8:02 is to find out what pleases him, and so I wanna know what pleases him so I can reject what doesn't. So I can be offended at what he calls offensive and I can embrace what he says is righteousness. Because he cares8:14 for me, he loves me, he wants the best for me and I know whatever he says is for my best. I wanna find out what it says. Right? So that's what we need to do.8:26 We basically just need to decide for me and my house, we're gonna serve the Lord. And how do we do that? We're gonna find out what he says. We're gonna find out how how do I live this thing? You know, how do I live life?8:38 God show me in your book. I mean, tell teach me what's right. You know, help me make decisions. Help me learn what you embrace. I think8:50 that'd help us. So again, what'd you learn today? That we have responsibility. We have responsibility to find out what pleases God. We have responsibility to follow his instructions. We have a choice. We don't have9:01 to. But if we don't follow his instructions, we're gonna stay where we're at until we learn, then we can move on once we learn. I assume you'd prefer to be promoted and9:13 have the benefits of that, the good things and God what he wants to get to you. And so if you do, we gotta pass the test. We gotta And there's no condemnation. So let me say this in9:24 closing. You know, like I said, if you ate 25000 Twinkies a day and you repented from that, God would heal your body. Or you know, you're on your fifth divorce9:36 and you were abusive and God will heal the marriage you're in. I mean he, from today forward, there's no condemnation. You can move forward in God and he'll help you where you're at, fix where you're at,9:48 so you can be accomplishing what he says for your life. There's no condemnation. But what I wanna see as your pastor, I wanna see you embrace, embrace his heart.10:01 I wanna see you love what he loves and hate what he hates. Because the world has embraced a bunch of stuff they call good and the Bible says it's perverse. And I want you to embrace what is right so10:13 you can have everything God has for you and it's amazing. The life He has for you is amazing and I don't want you to be harmed. I don't want the enemy to take you down a trail of disgust and10:24 discouragement and dysfunction. I want you to learn upfront what God says. Amen?
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