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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 Last time on fixing the money thing.0:03 So we're talking about our series called other side of faith. What does that mean? Right? The other side of faith. Well, it's talking about your responsibility. You and God doing things0:15 together.0:16 And today on the other side of faith.0:19 There's a process where you're gonna learn responsibility. You're gonna learn what God says. You're gonna follow instructions and then you earn promotion. You qualify to move on to the next level and God gives you0:28 greater responsibility. What I'm saying is that you have your part to play and God has his part to play and we have to learn responsibility and hold to that.0:39 You and God together on the other side of faith. Now on fixing the money thing.0:47 So many Christians don't get that part. They trust God, so to speak. They're looking for God to do things, but they don't know their responsibility sure it works together.0:57 This is the principle of Newton's law. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. We have1:02 to know how this thing works to enjoy the benefits of the kingdom.1:06 The pressure and speed of the hot gases1:08 provide the force needed to turn the turbines and the1:10 You gotta be involved in this process. God wants you to have every promise, but there's a part you play in it. Do something. So1:22 the other side of faith is we have responsibility over our lives. Now God's with us. He's helping us. There's no condemnation. He's given us his word. But we are responsible to apply the word. We're1:34 responsible to dig into the word. The Bible says seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Means learn how his kingdom operates. Righteousness means learn what he says is right. Learn what he says, how life1:45 should be lived. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added to you. But you're responsible to understand, to seek and to find out how it operates. 1 hour on Sunday1:57 morning friends, not gonna not gonna do it. You've gotta dig into the word of God. First Samuel chapter 15, look at a very famous character, King Saul of Israel. So let's find out what Saul2:09 did. So he went on this mission. Right? And we find that Let me find out what verse I wanna start at here. Verse number 7.2:21 He went on a mission. He attacked the Amalekites. Verse number 8, he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive. And all the people he totally destroyed but Saul and2:33 the army spared the king and the best of the sheep and cattle and all the livestock, everything that was good. These were, they were unwilling to destroy things that were good,2:45 they completely destroyed animals and things that were weak and not worth a lot. Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel. I am grieved that I have made Saul king2:57 because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions. I want you to underline that. He has not what? Carried out my instructions. Write the word disqualified next to that.3:09 Saul is now disqualified. Why is he disqualified? He did not carry out the Lord's instructions. Samuel was troubled and he cried out to the Lord all that night. Early3:21 in the morning Samuel got up and went to meet Saul, but was told King Saul has gone to Carmel. There he has set up a monument in his own honor and has turned and gone on down to Gilgal. We have a problem,3:32 possibly. He's now set up a statue in his own honor. When Samuel, the prophet, reached King Saul, Saul says, the Lord bless you. I have carried out the Lord's3:44 instructions. But Samuel said, what then is this bleeding of sheep in my ears? What is this lowing of cattle that I hear? Saul said, the soldiers brought them from the Amalekites. They spared the best of the sheep and3:55 cattle to sacrifice to the Lord your God, but we totally destroyed the rest. Stop, stop, stop, Samuel said. Stop. Let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night. Well tell me, Saul says.4:07 Samuel said, although you were once small in your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel and he sent you on a mission saying, go and completely destroy those4:18 wicked people, the Amalekites. Make war on them until you have wiped them out. Why did you not obey the Lord? Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the Lord? But I did obey the Lord, he said.4:30 Saul said, I went on the mission the Lord assigned me to. I completely destroyed the Amalekites and brought back the king alive. The soldiers took the sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best that was devoted to God,4:41 in order to sacrifice them to the Lord your God at Gilgal. But Samuel said, does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord? To4:52 obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. For rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft or divination, and arrogance like the evil of5:04 idolatry. Because you rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king. Now, the Bible says that rebellion is like witchcraft because if you already know what God says, if you5:16 already know what he says is right, what he wants you to do and you don't do it, then you're turning for another answer. You're turning for someone else to give you an excuse or you're looking somewhere else5:28 to find someone to agree with your direction. Does that make sense? You're rebelling, so it's the same as witchcraft because you're essentially turning away from God and turning to Satan and his kingdom5:40 to find an excuse not to obey. Because you already know what to do. Are you with me? Okay. Very good. So he says, to obey is better than sacrifice.5:53 To heed is better than the fat of rams. Rebellion is like the sin of divination. And arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Arrogance or pride is the same as idolatry. You've exalted yourself above God, and you're now6:03 choosing what to do. That went over well, right? It's just that's just how it's that's what the Bible says. Okay. So Saul is disqualified. Who can tell me who took his place?6:15 All you scholars, who was it? David. King David. Now who's King David? He's a nobody. He's a shepherd. Shepherds were a dime a dozen. Everyone's shepherds back in that day. But David has a heart after6:27 God. He's faithful to protect his sheep. You know he takes on the lion of the bear. He's faithful and loyal. But in Acts the thirteenth chapter, they are going through the6:39 history of Israel and they mentioned King David. Listen to what they said. After removing King Saul, God made David their king. God testified concerning David,6:50 quote, I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. Can you put that on the screen for me? This is what God's speaking. I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my own heart.7:02 What does it mean to be after God's heart? A man after God's own heart. What does it say? He will do everything I want him to do. So you come to church.7:15 We we love God. Love I love church. I love God. I even love you pastor. I I love church. I love God. Fantastic. Do you do what God says? Do you do7:27 what God says? If you don't, you don't have God's heart. You see, listen, let's let's talk about this for a minute. Jesus said if you love me, you obey my commandments. Right?7:36 Yes.7:36 Alright. Drinda, when I first married her, you know, I said I love you, I love you, you know, I love you. I thought that was, you know, I thought that's what I was supposed to do. I love her. You know, I loved7:48 her. And 1 day she said, you don't love me. I said, well, boy, I say every day I love you. She says, you don't take the trash out for me. You don't change the light bulbs. You don't care about what I care about. What8:00 God was saying was that David cared about what God cared about. Saul cared about himself. He built a statue to himself, remember? So when David met Goliath, remember that story? David8:11 met Goliath. Let me pull a scripture just to point that out. In verse chapter 17 of first Samuel, we find this in verse number 10. You know you know who Goliath is, right? The Philistine8:23 that was really big and he's ranting and raving to the nation of Israel. Goliath said this, this day I defy the armies of Israel. Give me a man and let us fight8:35 each other. On hearing the Philistines words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified. Okay. Now David's a shepherd. He's bringing supplies to his brothers. He's not in8:47 the army. He brings supplies to his brother and he happens to hear Goliath ranting and raving and saying that. And here's what it says. So David goes to King Saul and says, well, I'll take him on then. He says, your8:59 servant this is verse 34. Your servant has been keeping my father's sheep. When a lion or bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it, and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned9:09 on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it, and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine will be like 1 of them because he has defied the9:21 armies of the living God. The Lord he rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine. Okay, here's the difference. Saul and the army were quaking9:33 in fear. David was not in fear, he was offended. In other words, he was angry. He was angry this Philistine could defy God because9:45 David had God's heart. See what bothered God bothered David. You see what I'm saying? God said David is a man after my own heart. It doesn't mean he comes to church every Sunday or he he worships more than9:57 anyone else or he has the gifts of the spirit operating more in his life. It means he gets upset at evil. It bothers him. He doesn't see how close he can walk to the edge of it. He is totally disgusted and10:08 angry at it because it makes God angry and it disgusts God. He is offended at evil. He's not afraid, he's upset. Now, write the10:20 word promotion down. Saul was disqualified. David was qualified. He had the heart of God. He did what God said and he had the heart of God. See, God can't promote you10:32 someplace that you're not disgusted at if there's situations there. In other words, we're in enemy held camp. We're we're in the enemy held territory. We live in it. Right? But God can't send you on a a dangerous10:44 mission if you get out there and your life, you're not disgusted at sin. You're not bothered by it, so the enemy has you playing his game. You go out there and he knows how to set you up for you to get out there.10:56 He's gonna set a trap for you and pull you off that assignment by you falling into sin or making a mistake. So God can't risk that for you. So he's gonna keep you back here where you're still learning how to be loyal and11:07 faithful in a small spot. You know, let's say that you're a man, you have trouble with pornography. Now you know, men we gotta we have to deal with that, we have to overcome that, but you know what, if if God can't11:19 trust me on an assignment, then I can't be trusted. You see what I'm saying? I mean, you have He has to trust you. And you have to get angry at pornography. You can't go, well, know, I'll just kinda11:31 play around or you know, whatever. You you can't play with sin and win. Right. Right. Now you have to trust the Holy Spirit to set you free from sin. But I'm saying that you least have to be angry at it to start with. If11:42 you're trying to play with it, then the enemy's got you before you start.
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