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Empowering multimedia ministry for bold Christian living: Weekend Messages, Deep End Podcast, Deep Dive Bible Study. Tim Hatch, Lead Pastor, Waters Church, 26 years of pastoral ministry, book author.
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0:00 You are listening to Waters Church podcast. Waters Church is a multisite, multigeneration community of faith on the East Coast of America. Now for a message from our pastor.0:31 The title of the message, it's not about the money, it's about my heart. Somebody say it's about my heart.0:36 It's about my heart.0:37 And so I wanna ask you a question. You don't have to repeat this, and you don't have to answer it out loud. How is your heart? Write this out in your notes so I know you're getting where we're going today. My heart is0:46 more important than what I have. My heart is more important than what I have. We live in a country where where suicide ideation is at an all time high since it's been0:58 recorded. We have, just a soul brokenness. I just sense a soul brokenness over the heart of man. We have had so many people in our churches, every location coming to Christ, getting baptized, and1:10 and I say, what are we doing that's better? Well, we're praying and fasting, which I believe God honors. But I also believe that people are hurting more spiritually than ever before in my life in this country,1:22 in the world. It's it's grievous to me as a pastor to see the the things that our our leaders are doing to each other and to us,1:35 and what our cultural leaders are doing to our kids, and it's grievous. My heart is heavy, but this is why I do what I do. When Jesus comes, I'm out of a job. Amen.1:47 But I I feel so someone's gonna have to hire me. But but I feel like my job is more important than ever before because people are hurting more than ever before. And1:59 I said in week 1 of this series, if you wanna make money, be be somebody who helps people. Not not for the money, but for people, really. They need help. People need help. Turn to your neighbor and say, you need help. I2:13 saw some wives were very happy about that moment. Alright. Alright. Alright. Focus. Here we go. The bible says in Proverbs 12 25, anxiety in a man's heart, look at these2:25 next 3 words. What? Weighs him down. But a good word makes him glad. How many are in the mood for a good word? The bible says in Proverbs 4 23, guard your heart, and notice the2:36 qualifier, above all else, for it determines the course of your life. How is your heart?2:47 Anxiety, depression, loneliness, purposelessness, just a void, a hole, just a gaping2:59 sound feel. And and and and Chris did a great job talking about don't follow your heart last week. And I I loved it, and it's true. And and the scripture is very clear why we don't3:11 follow our heart because our hearts are deceitful. Jeremiah 17 9, desperately wicked. No 1 can understand the heart. Young people, I'm just gonna3:23 follow my heart. Don't be stupid. Don't do it. Here's another reason, though. The Lord showed me this this week. I never saw it. Here's another reason why you don't follow your heart. Because your heart you never thought3:34 about this. I've never thought about it until today. Your heart is a follower. Do you know what your heart is following? We're gonna talk about that today. And the3:46 condition of your heart is because it has been follow it is there, is that condition because it's been following other people, other things that are also3:58 deceitful and desperately wicked.4:01 You you see, Ephesians chapter 2, this is not4:04 on the screen, but Paul says about our former if before we come to Christ, and some of you are are here now in our churches, you're not in Christ yet. And here's how Paul describes that4:16 lifestyle.4:16 He says, and you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you once walked following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is4:28 now at work. The spirit,4:29 he says, that is now at work in4:31 the sons of disobedience. And you were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind. Before Christ, you were a follower of this world, and a follower of the4:43 spirit at work in this world. It's a spiritual issue. You know it's a spiritual issue because we do this all the time as humans, we4:54 constantly make irrational choices based on who we are around, based on the context in which we find ourselves. Raise your hand if5:06 you've ever done something stupid at the moment you knew it was stupid.5:12 You are amongst friends. I hesitate to tell you this, but when I was a senior in high school, I got into a car with a drunk driver. I I don't know what was possessing me5:24 to do it, the spirit of this world. God saved me and protected me. The reason why I did it is because my heart is a follower. And I've got5:36 great news for you today. Jesus gives us the the the tools of the trade to lead our hearts to a place of5:48 peace. And and and to do it, we we've gotta talk about a passage in in Matthew chapter 6 that that I just read that you think5:59 says the exact opposite of what Jesus actually says. We do this with the bible all the time. We actually do a 1 80 with many texts in the bible. We conflate. We can we we we completely6:11 flip the script. But this 1 is probably the worst 1 we do it with. Now I'm6:15 not gonna put it on6:16 the screen yet, but Matthew 6 21. We think that Jesus is saying, wherever your heart is, there your treasure will go. So you have a6:27 heart for your kids, and6:28 so you'll put money into your kids' lives. Or you have a heart for this particular sport, so you'll put your money there. Or you'll have, you know, you have a heart for missions, so then you'll put money in. That's not6:38 what Jesus6:40 says. Friend, he says the exact opposite. And Randy Alcorn, who wrote a book6:48 about this, and I highly recommend it, called The Treasure Principle, he he he unpacks this. This is not my stuff. I'm just giving you his stuff. And and and what he says is it's the exact opposite. No. Your your6:59 your treasure your heart will follow your treasure. Let's look at Matthew 6 21. For where your treasure, what's the word?7:09 There your heart, next 2 words.7:13 Will be.7:13 Will be also. Where your treasure Is. Is. Present tense. There your heart, what? Will be7:25 future tense. Your heart is presently wherever you formally put your treasure. Are you getting7:37 this? Your heart is in the state it's in because you put your treasure in places that aren't secure, that aren't7:49 certain, that aren't rooted in your father, that aren't protected, that aren't spirit led, and you are right now dealing with the emotional fallout of a bad8:00 investment financially. And God is is is is speaking to all of us through this text, through our Lord, to say you've got a choice in where your heart will8:11 be in the future. It might not be where you want it to be, but there is a pathway to peace that you can take if you choose to accept it, and it starts with8:23 your treasure.8:26 This is the image that I had to share with you today. This is a heart. It's on a leash, and the thing controlling the leash is money.8:39 Thank you to executive pastor Shane Parsons for handing me a lot of money today. And, your treasure, whatever that is, could be money, could be money, or wherever you're willing to spend8:51 money, let's put it that way, is leading your heart around through whatever mess you have decided9:03 is so important that you're gonna foolishly spend money on it.9:09 And then you wonder why your heart's a mess.9:13 You wonder see, God's God warned Israel about their kings in Deuteronomy 17 17. He says, your king your king must not acquire many wives for himself. This is what ancient kings did,9:25 all kinds of wives. And then he says, and he must not acquire silver and gold. Excessive silver and excessive. That's the most important 1. Excessive he can't do it. What God was speaking prophetically.9:37 600 years later, the king of Israel's named Solomon. He's David's son. He had all the opportunity in the world to bring peace to the entire earth. And he was blessed, successful, and God gave him all kinds of riches9:49 and splendor and glory. But he was never satisfied, and he started to do the exact thing Deuteronomy 17 17 said. Look what it says in first Kings chapter 11 verse 3. It says, Solomon, he had 700 wives.10:01 How on earth did he get anything done? Lord, have mercy. And he had he had 300 concubines. That's basically sex slaves. And look at this last10:13 line. And his wives, what? Turned away his heart. He put treasure. He treasured foreign women. This is some of you10:25 relationally, by10:26 the way.10:26 This is what you're doing right now. You're chasing people who don't love the Lord. That's your treasure. And they don't love the Lord. They don't go10:32 to church. I know I know they don't go10:34 to church, but they're handsome. Oh, they're so gorgeous. I love and he loves me, and he makes me10:40 feel like a princess. Yeah. But this is your future if you don't wake up. That that guy's gonna ruin your kids. That guy that guy's gonna cause so much10:52 that girl let me be equally offending to the to the men. That girl that doesn't love the Lord, she's gonna lead you away from10:59 God. And you say, I know, but she's so hot. Yeah, so was hell.11:10 It's hotter. Watch out. Where is your treasure?11:17 Alright. So to illustrate this, I have to get personal. And I'm begging you, please don't judge me.11:28 Promise? Some of you will not promise, and you will write a Google review and put 1 star, and I understand. Let me go there. I am the former11:40 owner of 2 boats. Okay. Judge. The reason why I say that is because11:46 how dare he talk about money? Keyboard warriors now. How dare he talk about money when he owns boats? I'm not giving to that church.11:55 I've already written the Google review for you. Go ahead and post it. Okay. So a couple of years ago, Cheryl and I came into a boatload of money. Pun intended. And I mean a12:07 boatload. Not from this job, not from the church, just a very wise investment. I had no clue it was gonna happen, but it did. Well,12:19 the first thing we do is tithe. 10 percent came to this house. Okay. Now let's just shelve that for a moment. And the second thing12:29 I thought was, this is a boatload of money.12:32 And, some people in the Apollo Beach location took us out on their boat, and it was a beautiful day. He said, oh, we ate watermelons and mangoes and we swam with the dolphins and I was in heaven.12:44 And I said, I need a boat. Said, Cheryl, I gotta buy a boat, I want that lifestyle.12:51 And so I started to search on Facebook marketplace for used boats, and I realized, I don't12:55 want somebody else's leftover. So I went to the dealership and I bought a brand new, really expensive boat. I'm telling you, if you knew how much13:07 money I spent on this boat, more of you would write the Google review. I'm telling you.13:12 I loved it, I was And I remember I left that dealership having And I paid cash, and I was so excited, and I got on13:19 the phone on the way13:20 home with Cheryl. I said, Cheryl, welcome to the good life, baby. Fire up the caviar and champagne.13:27 We are gonna enjoy this. Got the boat delivered 2 days later. I walk onto the boat,13:33 and I don't know if13:34 anybody's ever done this. When you buy something expensive, I walk onto the boat and I'm like, that's not right. This doesn't work. Take the boat out. Few13:46 things many several things don't work. I got problems. I see there's cockeyed, you know, doors that should be opening and closing. They don't open and close. I'm like, this is supposed to be13:54 a brand new boat. Do you know13:55 what they say about boats? There's 2 sentences they say about boats. Number 1, they say the happiest day of boat owner the 2 happiest days of boat ownership are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. They also say14:06 the word boat, b o a t, is an acronym for break out another thousand. The problem was nobody told me about that before I bought the boat. Another thing they say is this boat was14:18 manufactured on a Friday. The workers were on weekend mindset, and they just mailed it in, and they got the boat through production. This boat was made on a Friday. And I so I had to send14:30 it right back to the dealer. I had that boat in my possession. It was titled in my name for 5 months. It was in my possession for 5 weeks of those 5 months. Back and forth, back and forth,14:42 back and forth. And I remember it was perfect timing. I was fed up. I said, I want my money back. This is a lemon. This is disgusting. I don't want this boat anymore. They said, no, sir. All sales are final. I called14:50 that place every single day. I was like the widow in Luke 18, and I just railed on that judge's house until he heard me. And I said, wanna talk to your boss. And I said, I wanna talk to your boss. And he gave15:00 me the, I wanna talk15:00 to your boss. I went all15:01 the way up to the general manager of15:02 the store. And I remember, this15:03 is perfect time. This is why you need15:05 a church. Amen, somebody. This why you need15:06 a church. A church that fasts15:07 and prayed. Because we were in the middle of a fast and prayer 2 years ago, and I was so holy spirit filled up.15:12 You know? And I got on the phone with the general manager, and I said, listen to me. You sold me a terrible boat and I know you sold me, and15:18 you know you sold me a terrible15:20 and this boat's thing and I want this boat returned and I want all my money back, and I if you don't do it, I pastor a big church with several locations along the East Coast, and I'm gonna tell everybody in my church15:28 about your business, and nobody in my church will ever buy a boat from you.15:34 You know, you gotta do what you can. I didn't say that last part. That's a joke. But I was tempted. Well, guess what? They called me back. They said, alright, mister15:46 Hatch, we're gonna give you your money back, and we'll take the boat. And they gave me all my money back. Can I tell you I felt born again? It was like a holy spirit revival right there in my house. I was like,15:55 hallelujah. Praise the lord. Alright. Now so16:01 I don't know if anybody's like me, but I don't learn16:10 from my own mistakes.16:13 Couple of weeks ago Jim said, it's great to learn from other people's mistakes. I'm like, Jim, I can't even learn from my own. So there's an over and under on my life. How many times do16:25 I have to make the same stupid mistake? And I've added it up. And on average, I need to make the same mistake 1923 times before I learn to not do16:34 it again. Anybody with me on that? Anybody? You know16:37 what I'm talking about. So 2 months go by, and I'm like, I need a boat. So I said, well I went and got a brand new boat the first time, so at this time I'm gonna go the other end of16:49 the spectrum and I'm gonna get a used boat. And I search on Facebook Marketplace and I got this guy and I see this boat and he's asking a certain amount. And I really lowball him. I mean, I really lowball him. And he17:00 sends me a message right back, and he says, if you can pick it up tomorrow, it's yours for that. And he gave me the boat for that money with title, tax, and insure and registration all included. I'm like, this is this17:11 must be God. Okay. Let me just say, God's never involved in your boat buying decisions. It's not to say that it's evil. It's just God's up there saying, nah, wouldn't do it honestly. I just17:23 wouldn't do it. Alright. So anyway, I get the boat home. I put it in the water. It almost sinks right off the bat. Funny story. User error. The the engine's making a17:35 funny story. It doesn't go as fast. It's really rough on the water. It's not the greatest boat. And I take my son out on it, and he's like, I don't like it, dad. And it's just a terrible and the engine starts to make a17:45 noise when it goes too fast, and and and so I bring17:47 it out 5 times. This boat's in17:48 my possession for maybe 2 months. I bring it out 5 times. The engine almost dies on me. Finally, I have Tony Collaggio. He is an elder in our church. His wife teaches financial peace for us. You know18:00 that class that tells you not to buy stuff? So he's on the boat with me, and we are in the water, and we're flying, and we're going well, as fast as the boat can go.18:09 And we're going, you know, through And the engine starts to18:11 make noise and it starts And I'm like, uh-oh,18:14 shut off the engine. And I put the engine18:15 in the water and right there, engine dead. Dead dead. Like dead not coming back to life again, dead. The technical term for boat owners is the engine lost compression. If you know18:27 about that, that means that the engine's completely gone. It will never see the light of day again. Alright?18:36 So get it. I had to get it seat towed back to my house. It was so hideous.18:40 I was like, this is so embarrassing.18:43 And Tony, whose wife teaches financial peace, is just dying to say, this is why you don't buy things. You know,18:49 but he doesn't. Thank God, Tony is so gracious. I'm like, don't know what I'm gonna do. So I go online before I know about boats that much, and I I I decide to search for a boat mechanic on Craigslist.19:03 I told you not to judge. It gets worse. The guy comes. His name is the boat doctor. He comes. He brings this rusty19:14 toolbox and a friend.19:17 He shows up, and he19:18 just basically ting ting ting with a couple of things, and he's like, yeah. Okay. He goes, alright. I'm gonna redo this whole engine. I'm gonna put this whole console together. You're gonna love the and he's like, I need19:27 800 dollars. Can you cash out me? That's half down. I give him the 800 dollars. Now yeah. You wouldn't you know. You know. If19:39 we if we could add amendments to the bible, I would ask for do not find boat mechanics on Craigslist. Thou shalt19:51 not hire thine self boat mechanics. Right? So anyway, I'm a scam. I I go on Craigslist, don't hear from him for 2 weeks. I I'm like, what's going on? I'm20:03 texting him. He's like, yeah, I just come He he texts me back. He says, guess what? It's a little bit more expensive.20:07 I'm gonna need20:07 another 1200 dollars. So now I'm really sus even I, mister 1923 mistakes guy, figure out this guy is scamming. So I go on Craigslist. This is the worst moment of my boat ownership. This20:19 is rock bottom, friend. I search on Craigslist services, the boat doctor, end quotes. The very first ad, the very first posting that comes up20:32 You can't make stuff like this up. Do not trust, quote, the boat doctor, end quote. Read the posting. It says, he comes to your house. He fiddles20:44 with your boat for an hour, and then he asks you to cash up him a bunch of money. I lost 2400 dollars. Never heard from him again. My heart is gone.21:00 This is me. And I'm coming up here and preaching,21:02 I'm like, I don't know if I can go on with life. I don't know. And so I That's it. That's what I did. That's what I did to my heart. A stupid boat and 121:14 Craigslist ad, and my heart was just dragged21:21 through hell. And some of you are there because you've done something stupid with money, or you've put treasure in places21:33 where it will not last, and Jesus has a solution. 3 points and then we're done. Number 1, when I invest in21:45 heaven, my heart becomes healthy. That's what Jesus says. Now what does that mean to invest in heaven? It means that you give your21:56 money, your treasure to heavenly causes. What's going to heaven from Earth? What's making it to heaven from Earth? There's only22:08 1 thing. Are you ready for it? People. The only thing you can bring to heaven with you is people. The old preacher joke is the guy who brought a bunch of gold bars with him to heaven got to the pearly gates22:20 and Peter said, oh, you brought pavement. Hey, it still works. Alright. Thought it was corny, but thank you. So you22:32 you need to invest your money in getting people to heaven. That's how you store up treasure in22:44 heaven. Jesus says, do not lay up. Verse 19. Do not lay up. The word lay up means to store up excess. Store up excess here on earth. Because why? It doesn't it doesn't last. Moth and rust22:56 destroy it, thieves break in and steal it. It doesn't last. Somebody say, it doesn't last. Doesn't last. Whatever you got your mind on, whatever is on your Amazon wish list right now does not23:08 last. All that stuff in Walmart doesn't last. That appliance that you bought on a whim that's sitting on your counter or in your cupboard right now23:19 that you used once, doesn't last. America has a storage problem. It's a 38000000000 dollar industry. We spend 38000000000 dollars a year as Americans on23:31 storage. In Florida, it's always so funny because we see like them breaking ground for construction for a new building, and we're like, what is it? Storage.23:42 Can't somebody put a Chick fil A23:44 in that place? I mean, seriously? Really? We spend the average home spends 100 dollars 110 dollars a month on storage facilities.23:55 This number really shocked me. Storage facilities in America the square footage of storage facilities in America is 3 times the square footage of Walmart and24:07 Sam's Club combined. We have more storage space for the garbage that they're selling us at those stores. It's like, we just can't get enough. The average24:19 American throws away 63 pounds of clothing per year. In 19 80, the average home was 1600 square feet, and24:31 the average family was bigger than it is today. Fast forward 40 years, and the average home is 2400 square feet, and the family is much smaller than it was 40 years.24:42 We're having less kids. In fact, Elon Musk says it. Everybody hates him for it. He's absolutely right. We have a population problem. We are not producing enough kids to sustain the infrastructure of this country right24:54 now. That's the real problem. And so what we've done over the last 40 years is we have traded listen to this. We have traded smaller25:06 homes and bigger families for bigger homes and smaller families, and all we got in return was depression, anxiety, and suicide ideations.25:20 This is a problem. This is the diagnosis that Jesus is making to the human condition. Do not store up.25:32 Don't put your money in Earth. How do I put my money into heaven? That's what he says. He says, put put your money. Lay up. Verse 20. Lay up your treasures in heaven.25:43 How do I do that? Okay. Well, I25:44 always say the tithe is the starting point. We been talking about tithe, and I'm so glad our our location pastors, all all of them did such a great job last week telling their story about I told them, guys, tell your25:53 story about tithing because they've heard it from me enough. You need to know it works no matter who you are. So 10 percent to the house of God so that we can preach the gospel and people can get saved. And by the way,26:04 people are getting saved left, right, and center. And if you tithe to this house or any of our locations, you are part of the solution to the problem in this country right now. You are. But beyond the tithe. That26:16 tithe is a floor. It's not a ceiling. It's not a goal. It's a starting point. You give beyond the tithe. My wife and I give to Compassion International. We sponsor 7 children.26:28 38 dollars a month that we give to a very reputable Christian organization that preaches the gospel, starts schools and churches all over the world. It is a joy to give that money. We26:40 know we are investing where? In heaven. In heaven. You gotta also check who you give to because not every organization is26:51 reputable anymore. A lot of them have been co opted and and abdicated by very, very wrong non biblical philosophies. You've gotta check. Are they preaching the gospel? Are they leading people to Jesus? You invest27:03 in heaven when you are generous with friends, family, people, strangers, even people who cannot pay you back. Jesus talks about that. Don't give to people who can pay you back, then you're just doing it for yourself.27:13 Give to people who can't pay you back. So so so we we are storing up treasure. Now let me just27:20 if if What God is saying is I want you to be27:23 a savvy investor, and I want you to consider the prospectus of the 2 companies that you can invest in. There's 2 companies. There's many. There's 2. There's Earthco, and there's Heavenco. Or27:34 Earth Inc and Heaven Inc. Let me give you the perspectives of both of those companies.27:40 Are you ready? Here's Earth. On Earth, you27:43 can receive occasional joys and moments of happiness, bright lights, fancy cars, and lots of salesman. It also has some great sunsets and landscapes,27:55 mountains, rivers, and oceans. If you're lucky, you will have a few close friends, and some of your family will love you by the end of your days. That's Earth's prospectus. But here's the small28:07 print. Here's the little rapid fire sentence at the end of the commercial for the drug you think you need. May cause. May cause. Okay? Much suffering and constant bad news from 17 different28:18 24 hour news networks. Terrible aches and pains, which gets worse the longer you live, deterioration, destruction, crummy health insurance. And if you're lucky, a mildly painful death surrounded by a few friends and28:28 family, if you're lucky. You wanna invest in that? That stock's going down, friend. I know it looks like the chart looks so positive. It's there's a crash28:39 coming. There's a crash coming. And the moment Jesus comes back, all the stuff that you think is so valuable is gonna be worthless. This is why Paul says to Timothy in first Timothy 6 9, those who desire28:51 to be rich fall into a temptation, into a snare, and many senseless and harmful boat disasters. I'm sorry. Desires. Still in here. ThatShow more
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