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October 12, 2023 · 1 hr 5 min
Taken from Ignite '23, this episode of Ignite Kingdom Talk features the senior leaders of Lord of Hosts Church, Ps. Hank & Brenda Kunneman. May you be blessed as you listen and ever after!
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0:01 Welcome. This is Ignite Kingdom Talk. Make the marketplace the miracle place. This episode is a session from Ignite 23 featuring the senior0:13 leaders of Lord of Hosts Church and the founders of 1 Voice Ministries, pastors Hank and Brenda Kunerman. Dive into more of the revelation God has given them to Steward by heading to hank and brenda dot0:25 org. For more resources on spirit led business leadership, head to ignite dash c b dot com. May your faith and hope be ignited, afresh and anew, right now in0:36 Jesus' name.0:39 I I I just I wanna introduce and I'm I'm gonna go real real quick because these guys mean so much to me. And and and and the and the the0:51 2 pastors, the 2 the 2 teams of pastors that are here today, that you're gonna hear today have meant so much to me. Because of pastor Hank and pastor Brenda, because of pastor1:03 Kent and Candy Christmas, this is happening today because of them, because of the influence that they've had in my life to step up. But guys, can you1:15 pastor Hank and and pastor Brenda, and and and they've got their boy with them. Could you guys give it up for pastor Hank Kuneman and pastor Brenda?1:31 Praise God. Amen. Good morning. Let's give it up for Craig and Desiree. How many of you appreciate businessmen that are1:43 standing up? Alright. Well, listen. You could go ahead and do this. Why don't you I you're you're already ready to be seated. Was gonna say, why don't you see if you could touch your toes? And if you can't, bring your1:53 toes up to you. No. You can go ahead and be seated, everyone. It's so great to see you. And, how many of our Lord of Host Church family is here? Wow. That is wonderful.
2:05 How many of you Lord of Host Church family online? Maybe you're around the country and well, I know you're all from Dennis and Stephanie from Atlanta. Bless you guys. How many of you you came from a different state? No.
2:16 Not the state of confusion, but you came from a different state somewhere. Alright. Anybody come from the East Coast? Oh my goodness. I guess we got it. Where at? Where'd you
2:27 Massachusetts. Mass Boston. Are you a Celtic fan? Nah. I like Celtics. Anyway, anybody else that you came from Florida anywhere from there? All the way from Florida. Anybody
2:39 from Texas, way down South Texas? Oh, did you come from Florida? Whereabouts in Florida? Oh, great. That's wonderful. And, anybody from the Midwest?
2:51 Who's here from the Midwest? Okay. Anybody else? Where'd you come from? Real fast. I just like to know where people came from. Anybody from out of yes. I I was across the street. We
3:03 always say that. But anyway, it's great to have you. So well, listen. You know, I wanna do this. I've got something to share with you today. And, I have my family here. And if you ever notice scripture, scripture is
3:15 about family business. And you know when Jesus was in the temple, here he was about 12 years of age, and you talk about family business. He gets up to speak and he said, well, didn't you know when he
3:27 was talking to his parents that I'd be about my what? My father's business. And this is what people don't realize that even in ministry, it is it is a business. There's a business side. And, my wife
3:38 here, pastor Brenda, she's gonna speak to you in just a moment. Then my I guess according to Craig, my boy I mean, Craig is gonna be 30 years of age here next month. So so, anyway, we're we're so proud of him. I
3:50 have another son as well, who's an MMA fighter, and, he's lives, out, from us here, but he's training with the number 1 fighter in the world. So we're very impressed with our son, John. How many
4:02 ever heard of Johnny Bone Jones? You ever heard of him? Number 1 fighter. Yeah. He's actually being mentor he's mentoring our son, John, so we're very proud of him. But I want you to know this. Talking about family
4:11 business, my wife, Brenda, I'm gonna let her speak. And then, of course, Matthew, do you wanna greet them real quick before we bring mama up? Yeah. Is there anything you wanna say?
4:19 Yeah. Well, honestly, thank you so much to Craig for the awesome introduction. But, the boys, this is this is a good opportunity for so many people in here, not just,
4:31 in business in the body of Christ, but to take maybe what's in your heart, which is Jesus, and have that even if you're working a secular job. Amen? I think the important thing is to have a plan
4:43 and not just have a plan, but make sure your plan lines up with god's plan. And when that happens, then plan for the unexpected. Sometimes we're so focused on our plan too that we forget the unexpected. And
4:55 then we plan for unexpected, like bad things. But guess what? God can bring unexpected good things. And so as business owners, as business people, make sure you plan for the unexpected because God's gonna move
5:07 in your life when you submit your will, your business, your plans to him and get in align with the kingdom. Amen?
5:13 And I just I wanna do this. I wanna introduce pastor Brenda to you, but I just wanna say this for some of you that maybe will watch this later. I don't know if we have a main camera or somewhere over here. But I also
5:23 wanna mention it to those of you that you might be looking up here going, wow. Who are these people? Again, we pastor Lord of Host Church here in Omaha, Nebraska. We started our church 25 years ago, and really, we
5:33 started with nothing. Nobody. God's exploded the ministry around the world. And, even on Sundays. And the reason I tell you this is not to give you my resume, but to let you know that if you will
5:45 keep God at the forefront of everything that you do and you will keep your heart right, the bible says blessed are the pure in heart. So there's a blessing that comes when you keep your motives right, your
5:57 business right, your ministry right. You will see God. And so we've seen God in our ministry. He's exploded it all over the world. Our Sunday services alone, every time that we meet, there
6:09 are 50 to 75000 just live connections around the world of people that are coming and and listening. And we've seen the archives from the church services go to 1000000 people within 1
6:20 week. So, again, it's it's connecting, and that's what I'm gonna talk about in just a moment. It's connecting your business, your talents to God. And when you do that, you will be successful. I've watched a lot of
6:32 people fail both in ministry, and I've watched them fail in their business because they try to do everything without God. So we're gonna talk about that today. But I want the CEO, actually, she's co pastor of Lord of
6:43 Host Church. Brenda, you, actually manage a multi, multi million dollar corporation. So why don't you talk about that for a minute? Let's give her a hand clap. I love her. She's my
6:55 princess of 34 years. So there you go.
6:58 Thank you. Go ahead.
6:59 Well, I'll be very brief. I'll just say this. Yes, I'm the CFO of Lord of Host Church, 1 Voice Ministries and manage really over 30000000 dollars in assets that,
7:11 you know, God to his grace, my start was in the banking world and my background was in accounting and then of course went on to non profit and church accounting and I have a great team around
7:23 me, great people and you know, when pastor Hank says, God gave me a dream, God gave me a vision, God told me something, the rest of us go, well, let's get on board with that and obey god. And I
7:35 think just to undergird pastor Hank's point of and I hearing this resonated when we walked in, Desiree was talking about, you know, connecting to god. And I always and I
7:47 guess in 26 years of pastoring Lord of Host Church, we were itinerant ministers prior to that time. You see a lot of successes, you see a lot of failures, you see some of your
7:59 own failures, you see your own successes. You also see those in other people and and you kinda start to learn and grow and make mental notes of how you can do better,
8:11 how you can you know make better decisions, wiser decisions. But you know, I've kind of summarized. I did a recent teaching at the church called the 7 biblical guidelines for financial
8:22 prosperity. And, I'll just summarize those. And it really does kinda go along with what Desiree was saying because you touched on so many of those. But if I could really summarize why I've seen in
8:34 30 years people succeed in business or ministry or they fail, it really comes down to the umbrella of these 7 and I heard someone say, think it was Desiree, first of all,
8:47 part of the reason people succeed or fail has to do with first of all their giving. Your tithe, giving to your church and being faithful with your 10 percent is so important. And then
8:59 beyond that, obviously, she mentioned pregnancy centers and other kingdom related endeavors, is so necessary. So get your giving straight. Be committed to God in
9:11 your giving and God will be committed to you. Number 2, have faith to prosper. If you don't have faith and believe that God wants you blessed, the bible says, Psalm 112 says, wealth and riches shall be
9:23 in the house of the righteous. And we need to believe that God wants us to prosper. Don't live on some crazy teaching that, you know, somehow being poor or doing without is, you know,
9:34 synonymous with humility. No. God wants to bless you and get that down. Believe god. Speak right over your business. Don't say things like, well, what are we gonna do? How are we gonna get through this? No. Don't do
9:46 that. Stand and say, god wants this business blessed. It's gonna grow in the name of Jesus. God has a plan and a purpose. Hallelujah. And then the third 1 is is put God first. I keep
9:58 hearing that resonated again. Have God's God's purpose for your life in front of your own ambitions, and that's not a decision you make once and for all. It is absolutely a decision you get up and make
10:09 every single day that, God, what is your plan? What do you desire? You know, that's what we ask. Every morning over coffee, we look for what is God saying about today that we are gonna be obedient to
10:21 him, and we've had to make tough choices to do that. There are times you're gonna look at your life and go, I'm gonna have to put my purposes, my desires on the back burner. And then, of course, the fourth 1 after that
10:33 is making sure that you live free from a bitter heart. Desiree, you talked about forgiveness. Bitterness will make you do crazy things and make bad choices in your business. So if there's somebody you've got
10:45 up with, you have a hang up, you're still struggling over that divorce, you wanna get back at somebody, I'm telling you, get free from that. Ask God to help you because bitterness will cause you to make
10:57 poor choices. So important. So important. The next 1 is is stay out of sin. Live right. Come on. Have financial integrity. Have integrity in your business. Don't sell people things you
11:09 can't deliver. Do right by people. Always to your own hurt, do right by people. It's the most necessary thing. And then, of course, if we get on into the sixth and the seventh 1, they're pretty
11:20 standard. But make sure your diligence. Decide if you're gonna launch a business, you're in it for the long haul because you will see lean times, and you will see prosperous times. You will see times that you
11:32 feel like you're not gonna go there, and yet there are times maybe you're tugging along after 20 years and nothing's changed. Maybe God is saying the cloud has moved, and that's something to pray through, but there are
11:43 gonna be times you're gonna have to work something when the fruit and the results don't seem prevalent to you. And then the very last 1 is stewardship. 1 of the biggest things I saw in my world of banking,
11:55 I've seen it in churches. I've seen it with Christian. I've seen churches. Fact, it's sad to me that sometimes the most poorly managed financial entities are churches and ministries, but I believe
12:07 god is changing that. And so the last 1 and very, very important is good stewardship. People go into business. They have poor financial practices, they don't know how to keep their money straight. And
12:19 listen, it's not hard to do. The bible has a lot to say about all these things, but it is you can go online. There's teachings. There's things you can do on how to manage not only your business, but your
12:30 personal finances. And I'm I'll just sum it with this. If you will keep those 7, hallelujah, if you will hold on to those and you will put those to practice, I promise you, God will get
12:42 behind you. God will bless you. God will partner alongside you to make you a blessing. Come on. Somebody, we are blessed to be a blessing. We are blessed to help somebody else.
12:54 We're here to make leave a mark on this planet and upon this earth, and I believe God wants every person under the sound of my voice today in this room, and those that'll watch this later to be a blessing to somebody
13:06 else and grow you because when God can trust you, he can grow you. He can increase you. That's all I've got to share.
13:13 So thank Well, let's give it up. Isn't she pretty? Alright.
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14:28 Alright. By the way, it is gonna be the fourth of July. How many of you got big plans? And, let me just give you, you know, kind of a I'm on this keto thing. How many you ever heard of keto? It's called keep
14:40 eating the obvious. So if you're looking at ice cream and it's obviously taste good, that's keto, you know. And I just wanna give you a warning. The whole world got screwed up over a woman who chose,
14:52 an apple over meat. So just so you know. That was a joke. I could tell that I'm among Lord of Hosts people because you hear all of these and you never laugh. The only ones that laughed
15:04 are the people like, never heard this guy before, and they don't realize that these jokes are like really weird. So alright. How many of you have your Bibles or you have your phone out where you could get to a Bible app?
15:14 Listen, I'm a preacher, but I'm also a man who God has given ministry to that I have to have business smarts. And I wanna talk to you about something that a lot of people don't really
15:26 understand, the power that you have as a believer. And I wanna draw your attention to Revelation chapter 1, and it's in verse 6. And I want you to hear this very closely
15:37 because this is an important principle not only for you individually, but it's an important principle for your business. And it's this. It says, God has made us, watch this, kings
15:49 and hey, there's my buddy, pastor Kent. How are you? Would you just give him a a wonderful greeting? So I'm preaching his notes. I was hoping he wasn't gonna be here to hear me preach his notes.
16:01 So if it's not a good message, you could tell him afterwards. I did the best I could to preach his notes, but it's so great to have you here in Omaha. But I really wanna talk to you about this principle. Watch this. God
16:12 has made us kings and priests on unto God and his father. To him be glory, watch this, and dominion. If you wanna have dominion, in other words, you
16:24 wanna really begin to make an impact in your community. You know, 1 of the things people say to me all the time, my membership of my church is nearing 1500 people. I never thought that my church would be
16:35 1200 to 1500 people membership. I remember struggling with 20 people and wondering how in the world is my local church going to grow when God had me preaching in stadiums and arenas and things.
16:47 And I'd come back to my local church, and I would see so many empty chairs. Well, I started taking the same authority that I was using over the nation and the nations and saying, no. God, you called me here in Omaha,
16:59 Nebraska, and I take authority over anything that is trying to oppose your plan. And you have to do the same thing. Of all the places that God could have planted you, your business, he planted you
17:11 wherever it is that you're located. So you have a certain authority that you need to be like John Wayne. You need to some of you need to put a patch over your eye, not because you need it,
17:23 but because you've got an attitude. You need to walk with a big stick like John Wayne and begin to own your community. Yes. Yes. Let your business not be the struggling 1 on the corner, but let it be the 1 that
17:35 thrives, that multiplies. Come on. God has made you a king and a priest unto him for the purpose of dominion, taking over. You know what we're taking over?
17:46 We're taking over. Listen, we were just pulling in here, and we saw a woke coffee company out here. How many know what I'm talking about? Starbucks. But you know, my son said something. He said, dad, when are the
17:58 Christians gonna rise and begin to create our own Christian coffee company? Why do we always you you know what? Listen, the church is trying because most churches in America, their
18:10 drawing card is sad as it is, is their drawing card rather than God is their coffee. Well, I wanna challenge them. I wanna challenge some of these pastors. It's great to have a coffee center.
18:22 It's great to have on your sign as cars are going by that you got a coffee place. But you know what you ought to really do is go outside of the 4 walls and become an entrepreneur as a king and priest. Take authority and
18:33 go open it up on a corner somewhere and let God prosper you. So you're a king and a priest. You say, what is a king and a priest? You have to understand individually, is your responsibility. It's why I'm here. It's why
18:45 I partner with Craig and Desiree because I understand the importance of the kingdom of God connection to the business world. Jesus, do you know his first disciples? And I'll I'll say this to you. This is very
18:57 interesting, but his first disciples that he chose were all businessmen. And and you have to understand, Andrew, Peter, James, John, they were all fishermen. They had their own business. Matthew was a
19:09 tax collector. Jesus was a businessman. Or why would you need a treasurer? And by the way, Jesus was a very prosperous man. You know how you know? First of all, nobody
19:21 knew that Judas was stealing from the money bag if all he had was 2 coins. You also have to go back, and we're gonna look at Matthew chapter 2 where the Magi it wasn't just 3 guys named Gold,
19:32 Frank, and Myrrh that showed up and and opened up their treasure, and it was just a little piece of gold and a little bit of frankincense snow. These were a great host of magi. These were very wealthy kings
19:44 that came and opened their treasures. Historically, this isn't some televangelist because you know I'm on TV, so people think, well, it's just a televangelist. Well, let me tell you something. It's historical
19:56 that there was so much gold, so much frankincense, so much myrrh that it literally financed Jesus' ministry and business in the earth. That's why he could have a
20:08 staff of 12. At 1 point, he had 70 other disciples, 82 people on his staff. And you can't tell me Peter who was married, the bible said, his wife is gonna accept
20:20 some guy with long hair, a robe, who who's poor, has the worst of clothing, which he didn't have the worst of clothing, or the soldiers would have never gambled for his clothing. He had a
20:31 seamless robe that was worth a lot of money. Jesus was a very prosperous, smart minister, but businessman. That's why he chose businessman. Because Jesus himself
20:43 operated as a king and a priest in the earth. He was a priest because he ministered unto God, but then he had a divine ability by God to minister to people. Do you know that's your
20:55 job as a business person? You are a priest individually. Your job is to is to strengthen your connection to God, where you seek him daily. You seek
21:06 first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, then all things will be added. We as business people sometimes want all things to be added to us. We want a prosperous business, but we're
21:17 negating seeking first God and his kingdom. So your job as a priest, how do I minister to God? How do I touch his heart? And then when I touch his heart, watch this, he then will
21:29 touch the other area of my life as a king in the earth. Someone who has been given authority and dominion to watch this, not have the struggling church in town, not have the
21:41 struggling business in the city, but to have the best church. Come on. If you're another pastor here, hey, you have the best church too. We just happen to have the best church together. But here's the point. The point is
21:52 you have to have the best. You are a king. You are called to rule and reign, not suck and close. Right? Alright. I only got 5 people over here in this
22:04 section. Right? God didn't call you to be a king that sucks. God called you to be a king that rules and reigns. Now here's what's important.
22:16 Jesus in Luke chapter 8 had women who were business women that supported his ministry. He was very successful. He had people that were constantly funding what he did.
22:28 The reason that when Craig asked Brenda and I, pastor Brenda and I to do this years ago, I said absolutely because there's a connection that we have to create a mindset in people that, you
22:40 know, you cannot have a vision. Doesn't matter if it's a business vision or a church vision without provision. It's amazing to me that people don't mind that
22:52 Target is after your kids, but they're after yours your money. And if you're as woke as they want you to be, you'll go in there and buy their products. But they they're after your money. But
23:04 then a preacher gets up and says, hey, we have this vision to do such and such. People always say to that pastor, to that ministry, well, you're just after money. Of course, I am. I'm after your money.
23:16 Uh-oh. I'm really lost people right here. Because I realize that I can't do anything. The gospel is free. That's what the Bible says, the free gift of God. But it costs
23:28 something to preach it. Yes. Are are you here? It does. I I can't just show up on a Sunday. You know, I've been out, you know, pumping gas all week, and I'm tired, and my fingernails are filled with
23:40 the grease of being a mechanic all week, and they come and try to tell you what God is saying and have the the strength and the anointing to to talk to you and minister to you. No. It takes money
23:52 from the people to support what I do so that I can be about the kingdom of God. Same way, there's a connection that you have to have as a king and priest. You have to minister to God, that's the priest, and then
24:04 minister to others. But you have to start looking at yourself that you are not a failure. You know how many times I heard in my life, including when I started our church, I remember people
24:15 coming into our church at Lord of Hosts Church, and it was an ugly plaza. How many of have heard of the Millard Plaza? We own that plaza. The church owns that whole pizza machine, that whole parking
24:27 lot. We own another building. We're owning a 30 some thousand brick building for offices. They took money to do that. Because I have an attitude as a pastor, somebody stopped me the other day. They said, so what are you
24:38 doing? Trying to buy up Millard? And you know what I said to him? Sure. I'd rather I own it than some dipstick pervert that's trying to be
24:47 a
24:47 transgender going after your children, stealing your freedom, exploiting your children sexually. I'd rather be the boss in town, not them.
24:59 And so you gotta have a kingly attitude, just like your business. I'm here to take over. If you don't take over, the strip clubs will. You don't take over, the
25:11 bars will. So you better have the best business in town, and you better have a priestly mentality like, hey, man. I gotta strengthen my relationship with God so I can better have the blessing of God on me to
25:23 do what I have in my talents and my giftings. But also, I have an attitude of a king. Now if you're gonna be a king, don't you come to work acting and dressing like a pauper.
25:35 No. You walk into your business and it don't look like no palace. You walk into Lord of Host Church, I double dog and I actually quadruple dog dare you to go to our campus on 130 ninth in queue
25:47 and look at what the Lord has done. And you're you're gonna see that there is the king of kings that reigns there, but you're also gonna see there's a king and there's a queen there that God has appointed that has an
25:58 attitude that we're taking over. And it's done in excellence. Well, what are you trying to take over? I'm trying to take over the devil's kingdom.
26:07 I'm tired of the perversion. I'm tired of the immorality. I'm tired of the changing of pronouns and people dictating to me. Bye.
26:19 I'm taking over. I'm a king. I don't know if you all are ready for this or not, but now now watch this. I had people tell me, man, as a pastor, they'd come to our church.
26:31 Oh, yeah. Just give it up. You know, they knew it. We were in the most ugliest strip mall that you could find in Omaha. Our church looked horrible. But I
26:43 kept preaching, I kept believing God, I kept standing with what he said. People would come in and say, you know, look at this place. But you know what? They didn't realize that 1 of the greatest kings well, the the
26:54 greatest king in all of history was born in a stinky manger. But if you have a mindset of a pauper and you you don't
27:06 carry an excellent spirit about you, you'll never come into the reigning side of what God has for you and your gift. If you don't do things right, if you're constantly always late, you know, or you're listening
27:18 to the voice of the critic, you know, I stopped listening to the voice of the critic. I'd go out and shake hands with people and people would try to tell me how to run my church and I'd run them out. Because I'm the king
27:29 here, not you. Are you are you listening? And so sometimes you're listening to bad advice from people that don't even know how to do it themselves. I had teachers telling me, oh,
27:41 don't speak in front of people. You're no good. I had teachers telling me, don't write. And I've written 20, what is it, 8 28 books that have been published. And I stand before
27:52 crowds. That's that's it's not my resume. I'm just simply telling you I overcame with an attitude. No. I'm here to rule and reign. I'm not here to let you, you know, suppress me and dictate
28:04 to me who I'm supposed to be. That's the attitude you gotta have. You gotta look at why did God give you your talents, and why do you do what you do, and why is your business located where it's at?
28:16 Because God wants you to be raised up as a king and priest with dominion. Here's what it says in Revelation 5 10. You let them become kings and serve God as priests. And watch this, then they
28:28 will rule the earth. The reason that you you go to what is it? The is it the which which which hotels are owned by the Mormons? Yeah. You know, it's
28:39 because they they literally pretty much forced their people to tithe. And they recognize the need that there's nothing that they can't do if they've got a a money source. Look at the Catholic church, how much they've
28:51 built. But yet you get around evangelicals and charismatics, and they all, you know, don't like any message about God prospering you. And we don't, for the most part, do anything. And our churches don't
29:02 represent a kingly authority in the earth. A lot of them are embarrassments. So God wants you to have this attitude. Now watch this. Jesus was a priest because he ministered unto
29:14 God, but he was the king of kings and lord of lords. Listen to this. He's the chief designer and planner as he designed the universe. He's the chief surveyor as he surveyed the heavens and earth. He's the chief creative
29:25 director as he created the universe. He's the chief architect. He built heaven and earth. He is the chief landscaper. Look at what he's created. He's a chief space commander, created the sun,
29:37 moon, and the stars in the universe. He's a chief zoologist. He created animals, except donkeys and rhinos. He he he created he's a chief of
29:48 oceanography. Come on. The sea, the creatures except the deep state. He's a chief of cattle and land. He created lambs, cows, and goats. He's a chief gardener. He created trees and plants.
30:00 He's a chief quality controller. He monitors the very stages of creation. And watch this, he's a chief real estate agent because the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
30:12 So why are you struggling in your business? Why is your business not thriving? Because I guarantee you, you're probably not strengthening
30:24 your priestly duty before God. People often ask me, well, pastor Hank, what's the secret of your success? I had a guy try to tell me the other day, and I hope this comes out right. He
30:36 he looked at me and he goes, Hank, do you realize how famous your ministry is? And he's like, you don't see I I'm like, I don't care. My job is to strengthen my honor to God and let
30:48 God build it. He said promotion does not come from the east or to the west or from the south. Watch. He left out the north because it comes from God. God lives up in the north.
31:00 You can try to promote yourself, business, but if you don't strengthen your connection as a priest to God, you will struggle. You'll struggle in ministry, you'll struggle in your life, and you'll struggle in your home,
31:10 your marriage. But the more I connect to God, the better husband I am, the better father I am, the better pastor I am, the better businessman I am, the better human being I am. That's why this pastor, you
31:22 come to my church, and you're gonna hear me talk about transgender. You're gonna hear me talk about BLM. You're gonna hear me talk about homosexuality and the gays and their
31:34 Oh, am in the wrong crowd? I thought this was some Lord of Host Church people here. But but I want you to see this. Matthew chapter 2, I want you to see this combination of kings and priests,
31:46 and it's found in the wise men. You know, we often think this is just a nice little Christmas story, but the problem is this was 2 years or so after Jesus, you know, was born. Okay? The shepherds came
31:59 to the the manger scene. But, you know, in our manger scenes today, we've got the wise men there, and you can do it that way. That's how I decorate mine every year. But historically and true biblically, the shepherd
32:09 showed up at the the the manger, but the wise men came to his house, and the bible calls Jesus the young boy. Didn't say the baby lying and swaddling clothes in the manger. So there
32:21 was a little bit of time that that had passed, and they these wise men came, and I wanna teach you principles. So let me read it to you. Matthew 2. I wanna read verses 2, and I believe it's, yeah, verse 1 and
32:33 2, and then verses 11 and 12. Listen to this, and then we're gonna break it down. Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold there came, watch this, wise
32:44 men from the east to Jerusalem or they were kings. Saying where is he born king of the Jews for we have seen his star in the east and we are coming to worship him. Now
32:56 let's go down to verse 11 and 12. Watch this. And when they were coming to the house, they saw the young child with Mary's mother. They fell down. They worshiped him. Watch this kings and priests. They opened their
33:08 treasures and presented unto him gifts. Watch the 3 gifts. These aren't their names. Gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And then watch what happens after they open their
33:20 gifts. Here's what I'm trying to say to you. If you will identify yourself as a priest unto God, your job is to minister to him and minister to others. Do you know what happens? And you bring your
33:31 finances to God. Some of you that are in this room and your businessmen, if you don't connect to a local church and you can't tell me who your pastor is, you are missing out on the principle that I'm saying to you.
33:43 Because all through scripture, there is a connection between the house of God and business. The house of God and and and the minute and and and the
33:54 ministers you you with with the community. I can show you examples after examples after examples. And so you've gotta strengthen your commitment to God. If you are giving to all kinds of charities
34:06 and you're ignoring tithing, you are you're gonna lose potentially what you have. I know businessmen. I walked into a a a businessman's meeting 1 time and I was around some of
34:18 their top businessmen. They said, Hank, pastor Hank, would you minister to these people? And I said, I won't minister to any of you. And they looked at me and said, why? We're millionaires. I said, I could care less and
34:27 God doesn't care either. Yeah. But we're Christian millionaires. I said, I don't care. I'm not praying for you. And the guy was offended. He said, why won't you pray for him? I said, God tells me every 1 of you, you
34:38 don't tithe. Hallelujah. Well, we're millionaires. Yeah. And 1 guy was so bold, he goes, well, I got to be a millionaire without tithing. I said, yeah, and you are a candidate to lose it all.
34:50 Alright. And he looked at me and he pointed his stupid finger in front of me because he doesn't know who I am. I don't go for that kind of garbage. Because he was out of line biblically. And I said, excuse me. I said,
35:00 you you you're putting your finger up at me. Let me let me put you in your place. Jesus said, if you don't store your treasures, your money in heaven, you are subject to thieves,
35:12 moths, and rust. Do you know what happened? A year later, a guy comes up to me in a meeting, and he's tugging on my jacket as I'm trying to walk out. And and I turn around, and I'm
35:24 trying to get out of the meeting, and the guy goes, do you remember me? And he's crying. I said, no. He said, I am the man. I lost everything this last year.
35:36 I went from 1000000 and some dollar investment, and I lost it all in a year. You were right. I said, well, I can't help you now except to tell you this.
35:48 If you will take the same gift principles that you have, that got you where you're at, and connect it to the tithe and offering, and find a good local church listen, if you can't find them in your
36:00 community, I know in most communities, a lot of the churches stink because their pastors are a bunch of wusses. Their congregations are a bunch of not sheep, but they're absolute
36:12 wuss sheep because their pastor never tells them the truth when they're getting beat up by force mandates, vaccinations. Come on. Shutting your churches down and not opening it
36:23 up. Letting our culture and our country go to hell, and the pastor says nothing, and the sheep come for the coffee. So you gotta find a good church, and you can find them.
36:35 Nashville, Kent Christmas is a great church. Amen? Our church is a great church. You're gonna hear the truth. But that man, it was it's it was proof of what I'm telling you. Now watch this. These
36:47 3 wise men, I'm gonna close with this because I think I only have till what time do I have? Oh, no. Don't do it to me because I'll take 5 hours. No, I won't. I I got another meeting, so but but watch this.
36:59 The principle of the wise men are the kings and priests. Connection. Okay? Individually, notice what they did. They honored God. They worshiped him. What did they do
37:11 as kings? They opened their treasures. They helped finance the kingdom of God. That's our responsibility. Because see, I know guys that will support charities, and that's fine if you've got a charity,
37:23 but ignore their church. I know people that'll support the guy talking to him through the television screen that they have no connection with, and they won't even support their local church is falling apart. You
37:36 have to understand what your role is. What I love about Craig and Desiree, they do this, but they are very much connected in their heart and their
37:48 treasure to this ministry, as well as many other businessmen that are here. They understand the connection, and it's why God's prospering them. Alright. Let's go on. I wanna teachShow more
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