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0:00 Today on fixing the money thing, we continue discussing generosity.0:06 If you understand this process, you don't have to look any further for the opportunity of a lifetime because you have it right now.0:19 Gary lays out a new way of thinking about the kingdom and the power of generosity today on fixing the money thing. From the Your Financial Revolution0:30 series, the power of generosity.0:36 Being generous is acting like God does.0:44 This is Gary Kazeem.0:58 1 night I had a dream, we were in the old warehouse back in this day, and money was tight, you know, and we were just learning how the kingdom operated and applying it, you know, we learned it in our family life, now the1:10 bills are bigger, know, money's tight in the warehouse days. I had a dream, in this dream, we were having a Christmas event at the warehouse. And so we had some shrubbery outside the the door there, and I was1:22 outside spray painting the shrubbery with that fake snow, you know, you put on the window, those, you know, I had a spray can, and I spray in the the bushes out there. I wanted to make this I wanted to make the party1:33 special, right? So I'm praying the I mean, spraying the bushes, right? This man who I knew came up behind me in the dream and said, what are you doing? I said,1:45 well, I got a party going on. I'm it's a Christmas party and I'm I'm spraying the trees white. I wanna make it look like snow's on them. And he goes, no, we gotta -you gotta do it1:56 right. I'll pay for it. And he had multiple dump trucks of real snow brought in and dumped at the front door around the2:08 trees. As I was standing there, as the snow was being piled up, these trucks dumped the snow there, and I was standing there with him, all of a sudden up in the clouds I saw it looked like tornado2:20 forming, but it wasn't black, it was white. And it was spitting and I pointed to it, out of the tornado, this man owned businesses, out of the tornado I saw his2:32 business come out of the tornado and it was huge. And it came down to the earth beside him. After, of course, I met2:44 this guy. This is the dream. I actually met him in by coincidence by coincidence several weeks later, and we talked about what we were doing. He said, I'll pay for that.2:56 When he said, I'll pay for that, I felt I could tell him the dream. And today his business is 1 of the largest in the United States in in the areas that he works in. His business grew just3:08 like that dream. Why? Because he was concerned about God's business, and he paid for it. In my book, I talk about 1 word that3:20 you should remember. In fact, I I say, if you don't get anything out of my book, I want you to write this word down. And we've talked about it many times here at Faith Life Church, but again, want to put it in context3:29 what we're saying today is the word sent. In Luke chapter 4, he says, Jesus coming out of the baptism at the river Jordan goes into his hometown3:41 of Nazareth, goes into the synagogue there, grabs the scroll of Isaiah and reads there. They're all amazed, but then he says to them in verse 24, truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted3:53 in his hometown. Why? Because too familiar, it's familiarity. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time when the sky was shut for 3 and half years and there was a severe famine throughout the4:05 land, yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to to a widow in Zarephath. Zarephath was a Canaanite town.4:17 It was not even part of Israel. What is Jesus doing? He is basically condemning their heart for God. They because in the4:29 story he was basically saying there's no 1 in Israel that would have done what this widow does. In first King chapter 17, we find the story. You know the story of4:41 Elijah. There's a there's a famine, there's a drought. The Holy Spirit says in verse 9 to go to Zarephath, stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.4:52 So he goes, when he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink? As she was going to get it, he called, and5:03 please bring me a piece of bread. She says, as surely as the Lord your God lives, she says, I don't have any bread. Only a handful of flour in a jar, a little oil in a jug. I'm gathering a few sticks to take home, make5:15 a meal for myself and my son. That's it, we're out. And Elijah said to her, what? Don't be afraid. But he's going to give her the answer, but5:27 he's heading it up by don't be afraid, go home and do as you've said, but first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me first. Then5:39 make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the Lord -the God of Israel says, the jar of flour will not be used up, and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land. She5:50 went away and did as Elijah had told her, there was food every day for Elijah and the woman and her family. Now, I think all of us who've been taught here know what happened. Why would the prophet ask her first6:02 to give him bread? Because you know spiritually when she voluntarily gave her her last meal, it changed jurisdiction. Her6:14 meal pot now came under the grace of God, the jurisdiction of the kingdom of heaven. And as that happened then, how much did it cost her to6:26 give that meal away? 0. Because as we read, God gives seed to the sower and bread for the eating. You'll find this throughout the entire6:38 Bible that there was food for God's assignment, his purpose, and for that family throughout the entire famine. But it's interesting6:50 that Elijah, the prophet, you know a prophet carries the word of God. The prophet was sent. The Holy Spirit looked across the country, across the land to find someone who would believe7:02 him enough to fund God's assignments. I am sure there were people that died of hunger in that time that could have had that blessing.7:14 Could have had, but yet they would not receive it. You know, we always look for and hope for, a lot of people look for that multimillion dollar idea.7:26 Oh, if I could have just bought this stock at this price back in history. If I would have known would I you know, if I could have known then, you know, if I could just have that friend, you have it. It's right here. God7:37 has more ideas than you can ever use up. Joining his team is an amazing opportunity. You know, God has assignments here in the earth realm he wants to accomplish. It's all about7:49 people. Every assignment needs people. He calls people to his assignments, and he calls money to his assignments. God is looking over the earth to find people who'd carry his assignments and fund his assignments, and8:01 there's reward with that. You know, 1 of my favorite scriptures, and again another parable, is the Good Samaritan. And it's interesting, these parables are named names8:13 that are not accurately portraying what God is trying to tell people in these parables. You know, I grew up with a religious mindset and grew up in religious teaching, and8:24 no 1 ever explained the parables to me spiritually. They would just be nice stories that you read about someone doing a good good a good deed or something. Right? But in Luke chapter 10, we find the story of of8:36 this good Samaritan. And again, I've taught this many times, but it fits into the context of what I believe the Lord is doing this weekend as along with the same message8:48 God has told us to send out King Advance, send the ships out, these small groups across the nations to bring in God's harvest and teach the kingdom. I believe this time period, right now God's heart is to9:00 bring his kingdom into the earth in a new way and to touch people's lives, but he needs people to do it. Luke chapter 10 and verse numbers, verse number9:12 25. On 1 occasion, an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. Teacher, he said, what must I do to inherit eternal life?9:24 What's written in the law? Jesus said. How do you read it? He said, love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. You have9:35 answered correctly, Jesus said. Do this and you'll live. But he wanted to justify himself. Now who's my neighbor? So Jesus tells us this story. A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when9:47 he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him, went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road when he saw the man he9:59 passed by on the other side. So to a Levite, when he came to the place, saw him pass by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was, and when he saw10:11 him, he took pity on him. He sent, He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on it. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn, took care of him. The10:23 next day he took out 2 silver coins, gave them to the innkeeper. Look after him, he said, and when I return I'll reimburse you for any extra expense you may have. Now, as I've said many10:34 times, I've heard this story for years and years and years about being a good neighbor, you know, being good neighbor. But in reality, there's much more to this story than that. And as we talk10:46 about this story, you know, the religious folks bypassed this guy, because, well, Samaritans were unclean to the Jews, and they wanted to make sure they stayed right with God.10:59 Follow what I'm saying. They want to stay right with God and not help this person. Jesus, of course, is correcting their their fallacy, their wrong theology. And you'd have to agree that Jesus would do what this11:10 Samaritan does. He would care for the person, which the story says. But the interesting fact is Jesus goes to him, bandages his wounds with oil and wine, which is a prophetic11:22 look at what he would eventually do anyway through the blood covenant and the life of the Holy Spirit. But then he takes him to an inn and pulls out silver and says, take care of11:33 this guy, and whatever it costs, I'll pay for it. Now, I want you to understand that and grab this sentence. Whatever it costs, I'll pay for it. Whatever it costs, I'll pay11:45 for it. And that's God speaking. This is what God would do. Whatever it costs, I'll pay for it. How valuable are people to God? He loved the world so much that he sent Jesus to die for for us,11:57 humanity. Everything, whatever it cost. Now, I always like to teach it this way. You know, religiously,12:08 duty, you owe it to God to take care of this guy. Hey, this guy needs help. Right? But I don't wanna teach Sunday school this week. I don't wanna go to the kids12:20 ministry. You know, but oh, I signed up to be a greeter this week. Oh, I I guess I have to go. I guess it's my duty to go. Well, appreciate that.12:34 You are sadly missing the entire point. So when someone's born again, they're damaged. The world, we all are damaged in the12:46 world. We apply the oil, the Holy Spirit, life, you know, the the new life of God, but we're still carrying the wounds and still carrying the wrong12:58 perception of life. We need a place to heal and to learn what the kingdom's really like. God sets people in the local church under a pastor. Now Jesus is a chief13:09 pastor, which means shepherd. But Jesus, according to Ephesians chapter 4, appoints shepherds to watch over his people and to help them on their journey.13:21 So God assigns these people that in the world, when they come to Christ, he assigns them under a shepherd, under a pastor, or in this story, we could say, to an inn. He13:33 brings them to an inn, they're still damaged. This is why he says, you know, no matter what it costs, he has to heal. He can't travel yet. He's gotta become whole again. But Jesus places him13:45 under the care of an innkeeper. Now religion would say, hey, you owe it to God to give. It's a sacrificial offering. You ever heard that?13:58 It's a sacrificial offering. You owe it to God for what he's done to you. Right? And so by duty, or whatever, we could willingly,14:10 kind of, follow-up on our commitment. But we miss the whole point of the silver coins.14:22 God pays. And the innkeeper knew something that we need to understand. The innkeeper's in business to make money. So when14:34 he charges that daily rate, he's built in the cost of the maidservant, the meals. But he's also added on top of that what? Prophets.14:46 You actually said that. Prophets are nasty word to say in church and prophets. What? You're gonna charge us for books pastor Gary? The gospel's free. Well, the book wasn't.15:03 So this innkeeper, now think about what I'm saying. This innkeeper does not look upon that as a distraction or an obligation of duty that he regrets being involved with, does15:15 he? He thinks it is the best, the greatest news of his day. Because not only did the guy get him 2 silver coins, he said,15:26 whatever it cost. What is the innkeeper gonna do? He's gonna tell this guy, because the guy's leaving down the street. If you see some more15:38 guys like this down the street, bring them to me. And if I don't have room, I'll add on. I'll buy more land. I'll build more buildings. Just keep them15:50 coming. Because he understands profit. It's crazy. Christians have been taught that God doesn't think that way.16:02 They think only in terms of duty, that God is not a rewarder. And you have to understand that when you get involved with God's projects, and you get involved with funding God's heart for16:14 people, everything changes. Now this grace of God, God who make God himself is now hooked up with you to help you prosper and fund16:25 his kingdom objective to rescue his people. To bring his people into the kingdom out of Satan's dominion. You know, it's interesting that I guess16:37 it's maybe going on a year and a half, 2 years ago that we were looking for campus property. You've heard the story. We just couldn't find any property or buildings in the area we felt God leading16:49 us to launch a campus available. We had several opportunities to pull the, you know, lever on a couple and sign the documents, but it just had a check, it just wasn't right. So we went to17:01 this meeting where they were launching this TV network and we had an opportunity. Say opportunity. Opportunity. We had an opportunity to sow into 1 of God's projects.17:13 Our choice. And as I sat there, God spoke to me and said, again, God doesn't demand. He always gives you17:25 direction. Basically, you know, this is what I would suggest, but to sow 100000 dollars into that television network.17:37 And when you do so, he said, I want you to take this to your church and tell them what you're doing. I want you to believe God for that property to show up, and I want you to tell Satan to take his hands off your17:47 business. So we did that in every service. We told Satan, get your hands off God's business. We we can't we're We feel led to open a campus. We know17:59 we wouldn't feel led to put a campus over there if there wasn't something available over there. Satan's interfering. We we command that to stop and we're gonna believe God you're gonna show us, we're sowing this in18:09 faith. That was on a Thursday. That weekend, we took that hundred thousand dollar check each service, each service of all 4 services, we prayed over that, laid our hands18:21 on it and released it on Monday. On Tuesday, we had a dinner set up with 1 of our partners that we'd had set 4 or 5 times throughout the year, but each time we had to move it.18:34 But this time it held. So we sat down with our partner and you know, was great to talk to them again and began to talk about church and they asked how's the building project, and I said, we have18:46 some issues with that. Cities change rules, just issues popped up, changes in zoning, different things happened that around us that it's not gonna happen18:58 soon. And he said, you know, you need to be looking for a campus. I said, we are, we are. We've been trying, we've been looking for 6 months or more, we've been looking but there's just nothing there.19:10 But that day in the morning, I think it was our daughter or someone, I think Amy may have emailed us or text us and said, hey, we saw this school that was for sale.19:23 Thought it was pretty awesome, but you know, it's pretty expensive. And she said, you know, you gotta look at it. So we came home on Tuesday morning before we had dinner with this19:34 partner, we agreed to go see this piece of property. And it was amazing. I mean, it was a high it was a whole high end high school campus complex, Not just a building. Know,19:46 it had a 3 story high school, you know, arts building, buildings, all kinds of Had a house with it. I mean, all kinds of, you know, 4 tennis courts, running tracks. I mean, of a high school, weight room. I mean,19:58 just it was perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Because our heart's for kids. We wanna reach kids and educate kids and reach that community. So it was perfect except as you know what? It it was perfect except what?20:10 Money. Millions. So we had dinner with that partner. Well, we did see something today that looked20:22 great. I mean, it's, you know, yeah, we we did finally find a property in that area that is perfect, you know. But God, it's it's millions. We're sitting there and he turns to Drenda and said, well, what if20:34 it was free? Drenda didn't act like she didn't hear him. I heard him, but I was like, did I hear that? He said to Drenda, Drenda, what if it was free?20:46 She, what do you mean? He said, what if it was free? He said, what if we just wrote the check out? We could handle that.21:00 And they did. Now the story I'm telling obviously, I think most of us know that, but you don't know what happened to them. You need to21:12 know what happened to them. So during this time period, the same time period, they were in the process of negotiating, purchasing another business. The franchise21:24 owner of that other business declined their offer and said they've already had someone else that was purchasing it. But this partner said he21:36 didn't feel released in his spirit. He felt, that's not right. I just believe that's my my I believe that's my franchise. And after they sowed that money, it21:47 may have been not long, maybe a week or 2 or after they they they did, you know, they did that. They got a call from the franchise owners and said that the first deal had21:59 fallen through. Would they like the franchise? Absolutely. Amazingly, I think, I don't have the dates down exactly, but maybe 2 weeks before22:11 closing, they had a supernatural, unusual, sudden profit transaction come into their business that produced the millions of22:22 dollars necessary to buy the franchise in 1 transaction. In other words, they had some deals happen that in that 1 week produced the millions of dollars necessary to22:34 close on that transaction. They bought it, they had it appraised, it was appraised for twice22:46 the millions that they paid for it. Yeah. Friend, God gives seed to the sower,22:59 bread for eating, and the Bible says, he'll increase your store of seed. Why does he want you to have more seed? Because he is in the people business. You're his23:10 ambassador. He wants you to act like he does. He wants you to be generous on every occasion because it opens people's hearts. They can see God's heart. It says they will thank God for23:22 your grace. The amazing supernatural grace. God's empowering you to prosper. Paul says this, thank God for this23:32 indescribable gift. What was the gift? I asked you first. It's the grace of God to prosper. Thank God for this gift, this power of God that23:44 comes alongside you to cause you and help you to prosper. And I tell you what, it's changed a lot of lives in this room, it's changed our life completely, but if you understand this23:56 process, you don't have to look any further for the opportunity of a lifetime because you have it right now. God,24:09 God who made all things is offering you the opportunity to work with him in the earth realm to create wealth for his people business. It's your choice.
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