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today we are starting part 4 of a series
that we are calling recalculating
everybody say recalculating and if this
is your first time joining us in this
series we’ve been kind of having a
revision series like gods done so much
in our church in the past 10 months that
usually we do vision at the beginning of
the year but there’s too much for us to
wait we still got 64 days left in 2018
and I believe that God wants to do
something so strategic and so amazing in
all of our lives but we have to see what
God is doing and so we started this this
series using the analogy of a GPS system
and how will you make a wrong turn
there’s something that comes on in and
says recalculating and it takes into
consideration all your mistakes and all
your mess ups and it still gets you to
your intended location can anybody thank
God that His grace has recalculated you
yeah you know who you are in college you
know who you are yesterday excuse me you
know who you woke up with this morning
but if not for the grace of God and the
reason I say that because a lot of
people think that church is for people
who are perfect but but we don’t serve a
God who looks for perfection we serve a
God that we invite into our our mess and
he allows us to progress everybody say
progress and I want to say this very
clearly because many churches won’t say
this to you but if your visitor here or
whatever you’re going through we’re glad
you’re here you can belong here before
you behave now I know I know that they
don’t want you to say that but what
hospital do you walk into healed before
you go this is the hospital for Humanity
and so we’re so glad that you’re here
and the reason God is recalculating us
or taking in consideration all of our
faults and our loss in our brokenness is
because he wants to be with us and so as
I started studying for today as I do I
always try to find a relevant example to
be able to bring to us so that we can
learn from God’s Word and as
was studying GPS systems global um what
is it
GPS Global Positioning System as I was
studying it I found the evolution of GPS
and I thought this was interesting and I
want to show it to you in 1977 the
military were the first people to get on
this type of GPS it was an exclusive
technology that only certain people
could have and look at 1980 look how
portable it says military portable and
like it’s a backpack okay that was the
GPS system back then and then most of us
remember it in 2001 where if you or your
grandma or your uncle had one of those
you thought they was balling like you’re
saying like today and I don’t know how
y’all used to find places before GPS is
Maps the real maps and some of y’all are
gifted that’s like I can’t even
interpret that at all
that’s the millennial generation and
most of us remember in 2008 when it
first showed up on cell phones and for
the past 10 years most people have been
getting navigation from your cellular
devices and and as I was begin to look
at this doc gave me a word and he said
he began to show me he said Michael
there’s something better than a GPS and
for me as directionally challenged as I
am I couldn’t really think of anything
better than typing in get me here and it
telling me all the directions he said no
no there’s something better than a GPS
system y’all want to know what it is
it’s a person who’s sitting with you who
knows where you are and knows where
you’re going that’s better than a GPS
system because a GPS system can only
tell you location but a person who’s
sitting with you who knows where you are
and where you going can give you
explanation see when I go on on tours
and me and my wife sometimes travel
they’ll give us a personal tour guide
because the personal tour guide doesn’t
just know how to get us there
it knows how he knows how she knows how
to to tell us why we’re here
give
it’s not just explanation but can give
us interpretation if we don’t know the
language of the place that we’re at they
can translate for us why things are
happening where they’re happening and so
many people are so excited about getting
to a location but you have no
interpretation you know how you have no
explanation and you’re sitting in places
that you’re gonna repeat because you
don’t know why you’re there and many
people are going through cycles after
cycles after cycles it’s a new boyfriend
but it’s the same person after cycle
it’s a new job but it’s the same
problems after cycle because we are not
getting explanation we’re not getting
interpretation we’re not getting there
and so what I wanted to tell you is that
we serve a god that doesn’t want his
navigation system for our life to be
exclusive he doesn’t want it to be like
the military’s the only person that has
it he wants to be the god that comes and
sits in all of our situations see see
this is the thing that I need you to
understand that when we talk about God
when we talk about how good our Father
is he doesn’t just want to be a Global
Positioning System I changed it he wants
to be the god positioning spirit the GPS
he wants to be able to sit with you and
your dysfunction he wants to be able to
sit with you and your loneliness he
wants to be able to sit with you through
the divorce he wants to be able to sit
with you while you’re addicted to what
you’re addicted to the religious people
don’t like this cuz all you get it right
first and then you come to God no no no
my Bible says if I make my bed in heaven
he’ll be there but if I make my bed in
hell he’s there too he’s the God that
doesn’t want to give us instructions
from afar he’s the God who wants to come
and sit in our situation and I am
thankful for a God who doesn’t want to
bark orders but wants to help me in it
and the reason I’m so passionate about
this is because part of our mission here
is to represent we’re not going to be a
church that barks orders to tell people
what they should have done what they
were to do what they should do what they
would do if they had this
and you keeping all your secrets in your
closet because you don’t have any
accountability and your own life we will
be a church that sits with people that
gets down in their situation and as I
looked at this the word a word for God
or one of his name’s is Emmanuel do you
know what that means God with us
love God you don’t love God what’s wrong
with you
like and I know so many people think
that God is exclusive that that’s that’s
what the world even tries to portray
like like he’s only for good people
God’s only for pastors like the pastor
get a word god but that’s the way I get
people out time passes will you throw up
a prayer for me cuz I know you’re pretty
I need you to pray for me cuz the Bible
I read says where two or three are
gathered in his name be up here all you
got to do is everybody shout at me
believe so if you’re a plumber you can
have as much authority as the pastor if
you if you work at a daycare you can be
able to speak to mountains and they will
move i’ma have to do a series later on
in a year who’s the minister because
y’all think I’m the minister but my
Bible says that the only reason you come
here is to be equipped for the work of
ministry your ministering at QuikTrip
when you leave here you’re ministering
at your job with the people you don’t
like why you got to change your attitude
is cuz you’re their minister the reason
why your life has to be above reproach
is because you’re not just somebody I
back here gonna do your thing and I know
you are their minister you need to get
off the sidelines of life why am I so
high all I know all I know is that the
same way God wants to come and sit with
us he wants to be he wants us to be a
church that
it’s with people and so I started
looking at this as God is recalculating
us I went and looked up the first time
that God said you know what i’ma sit
with people see in it’s in Exodus
chapter 8 chapter 25 verse 8 and I want
you to look at it because up until this
point the children of Israel have been
brought out from slavery that God saved
them from Egypt but now they’re in a
wilderness and we learned a few weeks
ago that the detour was designed like
God took them this way on purpose to get
some things out of them before they went
into the Promised Land and and and so we
find these people in this in-between
time like like many of us are in today
like we’re out of what we used to be
into but we’re not quite into the
promise yet like like anybody ever find
yourself they’re like like you don’t
cuss everybody out but if they if they
take you fast y’all just like me pastor
me that was me yesterday and I want to
still look at this and see if we can
find some things that we need to do
because I believe God’s calling us to a
higher vision everybody say vision
remember vision is not sight sight is
what you see with your eyes open vision
is what you see with your eyes closed
like what do you see when your eyes
closed what’s the business what’s the
book what’s your family look like but
your eyes closed what has God shown you
where do you live with your eyes closed
and I need you to see this because God’s
trying to take us as a church beyond
where we are right now look at Exodus
chapter 25 verse 8 this is God talking
to Moses he says I want you to have the
people of Israel build me a holy
sanctuary look at the reason why so I
can live among them or let me say it a
different way so I can sit in their
situation I need you to see this very
clearly up in to this point
god only talked to Moses like up until
here he only talked to Moses when he
made attempt on the top of the mountain
and Moses would get instructions and
then he would go down and tell the pea
but God says I don’t want my people to
have to reach me through anybody no more
I want to be able to talk to them for
myself and this is the first type and
shadow of what Jesus would go on to do
for us being the great mediator when he
went to the cross it was to tear the
veil so we would no longer need a priest
or anybody to go forth we wouldn’t have
to be sacrificing to me we was gonna eat
we wouldn’t have to do any of that stuff
he said he’ll be the eternal sacrifice
so you can talk to me freely like so so
this is the first time we see this but
why God’s not just trying to do this so
that he can do something new he said my
people need me and I want to come sit
with them so tell them I need a
sanctuary and look what it says it says
you must build this and I want you to
circle this word Tabernacle everybody
say Tabernacle you must build this
tabernacle and the furnishing exactly to
the pattern I will show you and this
word Tabernacle all it means is a place
where more people can meet God like it’s
a place where people can meet God’s God
said I want to sit with you but I need a
seat so I need you to build the place
where I can sit there and people can
come meet with me my point number one
God does not want to just save people he
wants to sit with people everybody just
wants to get into heaven then what like
like then what didn’t you live hell on
earth until you get to heaven no no he
said I want to do more than just save
you I want to come sit with you and be
your personal GPS me and the Holy Spirit
we’re gonna walk with you and guide you
and teach you and give you wisdom and
show you don’t date her until you do
take that job until you move there until
you don’t move there until you don’t
spend your money now and tell you spend
your money now I want to guide your
steps
but I can’t guide it if you don’t let me
sit with you and so he tells Moses hey
tell the people I no longer want to do
this distance long distance relationship
I know you like it that way
most of us some of us like long distance
relationship because nobody can see the
details you can paint the picture you
want people to see when it’s long
distance but when I see you every day I
see the crusting GOI
you hear me you got a little bit you got
a little crusty right there you you can
you can tell if somebody breaths think
when you’re close to somebody you can
tell if they’re talking pride and God
said I want to get close enough to you
so that I can know you and you can know
me so he said I want you to build the
tabernacle
everybody say tabernacle okay so the
second point I want to point out to you
though as we look at at this and I want
to give you the point first and then I’m
gonna read the scripture before there is
a seat there is a sacrifice but he asked
him to build the tabernacle to make a
place where he could sit and meet his
people but before the seat there’s a
tavern that there was a sacrifice let me
help you understand that we just read
Exodus 25 verse 8 but I want us to go up
so before this verse was said I want you
to see what God first said to Moses in
Exodus 25 verse 2 okay he said the Lord
said to Moses tell the people of Israel
to bring me their sacred offering accept
the contributions from all whose hearts
are moved to offer them now now this is
interesting because this told me
something God wanted to do something big
but I found out something very strategic
God’s big plans always include us God
never wants to do anything amazing on
the earth without his people as Noah God
could have built the art without him and
I don’t know about you but when I
can do stuff for myself I like to do it
without anybody I don’t need you I don’t
need shoot I’ll need you I’ll need like
depending on other people trying to make
sure our schedules coincide so we can
get this done
get off me like anybody else like if you
can do it you just go ahead and do okay
thank you but the god of the universe
decides I want to do big things on earth
but I will not do it without my people
he wants to build the tabernacle but he
says I want you to bring an offering
I want to partner with you to do things
that will change people’s life forever
so let me give you the third point
because transformation church is in a
brand new season God has changed the
pace that we’re in a bamboo season like
like literally we made a decision last
week that we’re gonna follow the cloud
and we’re gonna have the faith to follow
whatever God calls us to do can I get
one big Amen so that means something the
sacrifice precedes the plan now then I
want everybody to hear me because I’m
saying a lot right now but I want you to
hear this God asked for in verse 2 for
them to give an offering and in verse 8
he tells them that I’m going to build a
tabernacle and I’m going to tell you the
plans after you give the sacrifice what
that don’t make sense to my Western
culture mind like I don’t understand you
better show me two plans for I give you
any money I mean come on let’s be honest
show me the plans
let me test-drive it let me see it let
me see myself in it take a picture let
me see give me a full plan before you
ask me for anything but it’s so crazy
how the kingdom of God is upside down
like it says stuff like this in the
Bible it says give and it shall be given
to you it says if you want to gain your
life you’re gonna have to it says the
way up is
melody like and so God is asking for an
offering from people before they build
the tabernacle and before he gives them
the plan and then God showed me this he
said Michael
everybody wants a forest but the forest
you will see tomorrow starts with the
seed you plant today and there are many
of us that want the full plan of God and
God says but I need a seed and literally
that’s how God has been dealing with me
as the pastor of this church
the reason I’m preaching this message is
because I’m coming out of my secret time
with God and I’m telling the people what
God is telling me I said God I don’t
know how to do this last year this time
we had two services and we was good with
that and you were blessing us and now we
have five services every Sunday father I
don’t want to die look you got to give
me a plan look Lord we didn’t have this
many people in one service we don’t have
parking for all the people father
we don’t have seating for all that
you’re doing right now I said God gave
me a plan he said give me a seat he said
the seed that you plant today is going
to produce the forest that you will be
able to build with tomorrow and many of
us have not seen the forest because
we’re waiting to plant the seed until
we’re convinced that God will do it and
God told me to tell you that you’re
gonna have to have the faith to follow
that he’s not gonna release the plan
until you plant a seed and I know you
could be mad at me right now and I need
everybody to relax everybody just do
this for me breathe deep in and let it
go and everybody say relax we not taking
off in a day because I know people
started if you got $40 if you got $400
stand up if you have $300 just kind of
squat if you have $200 just this year
we’re not those are things that people
have manipulated to use and make people
not experience Jesus God takes care of
this house we’re not worried about that
the thing that I’m telling you is God’s
trying to expand us beyond where we’ve
been and he’s standing and waiting on us
to make the next move
when I was in prayer God said the balls
in your court so is he
I’ll give you the plan this is the exact
same thing he told the children of
Israel sow a seed and I’m gonna give you
the plans for this tabernacle a place
where more people can meet God and as I
look around this place is not big enough
for what I see when my eyes are closed
this place there is not enough room on
this property for what I see when my
eyes y’all this has all happened in ten
months what is ten years from now look
like but somebody’s gonna have to plant
a seed today that we’ll be able to
produce a forest for somebody else and
so I just wanted to bring before you
today what we’re going to do eight weeks
from now December 16 we’re going to take
as a church and bring as a church what
we are calling a tabernacle offering and
we do this every year
not necessarily called a tabernacle
offering but we bring the offering that
is for the expansion of the vision into
the next year and and the reason I’m
telling you right now is cuz there’s no
pressure for you to do anything today
right now or anything like this but I
need to explain to you the heart and the
message is not over I got more for you
it’s like all lower please just go tell
us about giving if you don’t partner
with what God’s doing you died in the
wilderness because these people did not
heed what God was saying they died in
the place that God wanted them to only
pass through and I just want to let you
know transformation Church you are an
amazingly generous Church and and
honestly when it comes to vision we
don’t really have to do anything else we
are in a very comfortable place right
now and I have to be honest because it’s
your generosity but I feel like the
cloud is moving I feel like God’s taking
us into deeper waters that feel
uncomfortable and we have to wait in
these waters and like God you’re asking
us to invite more people you’re asking
us to get a different building you’re
asking us to do God this is
uncomfortable he said I ask people to
step out on faith so I can take their
natural
and put it with my super and it becomes
super natural and can I just tell you a
few things that you have done as a
generous church cuz people got to
understand like when we give when we
show when we believe when we partner
with God it accomplishes the vision and
our vision here is to represent God to
the lost-and-found for transformation in
Christ let me just tell you a few ways
that you have done this already through
your generosity the first way is that
this year alone 2018 we have given away
in missions money over a hundred and
seventy thousand dollars Oh y’all can
give God praise for that now watch let
me tell you what you’re giving to we’ve
given money to the to build global
churches in other countries as well as
right here in the US through an
organization called Ark a church
planning organization we have given
thousands of dollars you have given
thousands of dollars to help abolish
some sex slave trade here in America and
all around the world through a 21 you
with your giving and your your
faithfulness to the house of God have
been able to send money to all of the
hurricane reliefs that have been
happening we were able and let me tell
you the beautiful thing about it I think
that we never took an offering when the
need came because of your generosity we
already had it to be able to do it and
probably one of the most special thing
is right here in this community we’ve
been able to partner with schools that
are right up the street and meet
people’s personal financial needs
benevolent benevolently right here and
we’re just getting started can you give
God some praise for that
that’s just one of the things let me
tell you another one when I became the
pastor of this church I asked God I said
God please don’t ever let us fight with
money like I don’t ever want to use this
platform as a way to keep the lights on
and so God said ok I promise you if you
do things my way if you listen and obey
you’ll never fight with money I am so as
I oh I said I and so excited oh I am so
excited to let you know that for the
past 3 years we have been on a
financially a very strict plan to knock
out every debt that this church had and
as of two weeks ago transformation
church we don’t owe nobody nothing we
are dead Oh y’all can be excited with me
no no y’all don’t understand when it
rolls around every month
okay look now two reasons you need to be
excited about that cuz what God does for
this house he wants to do for your house
okay and then the second thing you have
to realize it’s that means that none of
our money is going to pay for banks and
interest on loans we’re not paying for
anybody’s vacations no more we’re not
paying for we get to use a hundred
percent of what you give in this place
to go towards expanding the vision of
transformation in Christ can we give God
y’all a shout of praise in this building
that is awesome but I hope you heard me
clearly we’re no longer in debt but we
don’t have enough money to do the vision
let me give you a secret you always have
to have more vision than you have money
you always have to because provision
only comes when there is vision
and some of y’all are wondering why I
got enough money because you don’t got
an a vision you need to see beyond where
you are right now so God can give you
the provision for the vision so right
now guys we could we’re doing great we
could not do anything else but let me
tell you how God’s expanded our
influence in seeing people’s lives
transformed this time last year 2017
this very week last year live in the
building butts in seats all services
included grasshoppers children dogs
everybody we counted everybody last year
there were 702 people that came to
transformation Church this time exactly
12 months ago can I tell you how many
people came to this building last week
two thousand two hundred and fourteen
people no that’s three hundred percent
growth in 12 months
ask any business what kind of numbers
those are it’s not something we’ve done
it’s something that God’s done everybody
say through us no say like you mean it
say through us let me tell you another
fun number last year this time online
not YouTube not after words like wow
we’re having service people are tuning
on in on transform Church to transform
Church to us online
there were 387 people watching online
this time last year and we were
rejoicing and high-fiving okay can I
tell you how many people was watching
last week 20 1953 unique devices no no
you don’t even understand that that’s
not even people that’s just devices we
don’t know how many people I know
there’s a group in LA that meets 20 to
30 people at a time around one device 20
1953 last week y’all everybody look at
your neighborhood say we good
like like like we we don’t have to do
anything else let me tell you one more
let last time last year this time
YouTube subscribers people who watch
during the week we had less than 2,000
people this date last year that said hey
whenever you put up the little sad
message a pastor might preach could you
just could you email me and let me know
and we were pumped to let them know as
of 8 o 8 a.m. this morning there was
four hundred and twenty-two thousand
people in 10 months God took us from
less than two thousand people wanting to
hear what we had to say to almost a half
a million people now no stop stop let me
give you perspective how many skittles
would 422,000 skittles be these are not
inanimate objects these are people these
are destinies these are lives in
families and God somehow is trusting us
to be able to speak to them I think my
most exciting number is the one that
causes eternity to change how many
people accepted Jesus Christ as their
personal Lord and Savior
just this year get ready to shout 6839
if you ain’t shouted about nothing else
we are seeing transformation in Christ
that is a big deal now listen almost
7,000 eternity change cuz a bunch of
people in north Tulsa
some of y’all driving twenty and thirty
miles to get here they told me white
people wouldn’t come to the north side
look around they here
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it doesn’t matter what man says when god
says something it doesn’t matter what
people say when God says something so we
good look like we don’t have to do we
can keep doing what we’re doing and be
okay but I feel like the clouds moving I
feel like God don’t want us to stay here
I feel like he’s asking us do we have
faith to follow
will we be ones that would have willing
hearts to partner with what God is doing
and actually sacrificed to see his
tabernacle deal and I’m trying to tell
you is I don’t want to stay here if
God’s moving I don’t want to be here I
don’t want to stay in this comfortable
zone of just doing my thing and being a
consumer of transformation Church if
God’s asking me to partner with him and
I’m putting that challenge out to every
person under the sound of my voice right
now I don’t care if you’re watching this
from transformation nation and another
service or sitting here in the building
God is requiring more of us and I want
you to see very quickly what happened
when God tried to give the children of
Israel an opportunity to partner with
him they fumbled the ball and I just
want us to learn that we don’t have to
do this that you can have two ways of
learning you can either go through it or
watch somebody else go through it and I
want us to look at this because what
ended up happening is God was trying to
recalculate them and say hey I don’t
want to just speak to Moses I want to
speak to y’all be with me at a
dramatical so I can come sit with you
but you gotta sow a seed so that I can
build this thing and they was like okay
we’ll do it God we trust you we love you
glory glory glory to God like many times
how we use our lips but our hearts are
far from him and so what ends up
happening is Moses like okay y’all get
y’all seed ready i’ma go back and talk
to God so I can get clear plans for the
vision that God wants to build in his
tabernacle so Moses goes back up to talk
to God and I’m gonna give you six
chapters in just one minute what ends up
happening in Exodus 26 verse 30 he goes
up to get the plan and God gives the
most D
tailed elaborate plan he gives details
of what clothes they’re supposed to wear
what tables supposed to look like what
the lamp is supposed to look like he I
mean straight up tells them everything
and so he gives a detailed plan and then
in Exodus 31 he hires these two dudes
that I’m calling bears and oh because
their names are very hard to say and you
can go and figure it out if you want to
and he hires them because they’re Master
Craftsmen
and they’re gonna be the ones to build
the tabernacle and then in Exodus 32 the
people build an idol like God had given
them instructions but they didn’t have a
clear plan so they started building
their own thing look what happens Exodus
32 verse 1 it says when the people saw
how long it was taking Moses God why
don’t he frickin hurry up to come back
down the mountain they gathered around
Aaron come on make us some gods who can
lead us make us some gods who can lead
us we don’t know what happened to this
fellow Moses who brought us here from
the land of Egypt so look at dumb Aaron
well take the gold rings from your ears
and your wives and your sons and your
daughters daughters and bring them to me
catch this Aaron was a leader who had a
plan but he wasn’t in God’s presence and
a plan outside of his presence is a
problem I need you to hear me so this is
what I want you to do transformation
church follow the leader
that’s led by the Lord I need you to
write that down you need to follow the
leader that’s led by the Lord wives
women that’s why you don’t date a man
who does not have a relationship with
God he cannot lead you if he is not led
I need to be let in I know all the men
gonna be hating on me but I don’t know
what to do with my wife as a pastor I
have to go to the presence of God or you
will make a plan without his presence
and it will be a problem that’s free
relationship advice
somebody’s like dang I’m sitting next to
him dang
anyway um see one leader was appointed
by God and the other leader was
appointed by men and look at verse 3 it
says all the people took their gold
rings from their ears and gave them to
Aaron the Aaron took the gold melted it
down and mold it into the shape of a
calf when the people saw it they
exclaimed oh my God look at Israel these
are the gods who brought us out of the
land of Egypt Aaron saw how excited the
people were that’s why if you’re a
leader you can never go off the emotions
of people cuz it will get you messed up
and you will do things to get claps and
likes and you will be out of the will of
God okay here we go
so he built an altar in front of the
calf then he announced tomorrow will be
the festival to the Lord he’s in
delusion now like he knows God but
because of people’s clocks it drowns out
the voice of the Lord when you’re
listening to this you might not be able
to hear the steel small and some of us
are addicted to applause we’re addicted
to people telling us we’re doing good
and we stopped listening to the voice
who got us there in the first place
it said verse 6 so the people got up
early the next morning to sacrifice
burnt offerings and peace offerings
after this they celebrated and a feast
and drinking they turned up and they was
partying all night
look at this don’t let your frustration
build a construction that leads to
destruction i’ma say it again don’t let
your frustration of how long it’s taken
God didn’t do it how I thought oh we do
I thought he was gonna do this and he
didn’t do that
don’t let that build the construction
that leads to your destruction my
question to you today is what are you
building with are you building your life
out of faith are you building it out of
frustration because some people are had
jobs because it didn’t work there and
you got frustrated with how it was and
you just started a new plan and you
never went to God and asked him is this
what I’m supposed to do are you winning
about this new car I need a new car I
need a new car God wanted three more
months on that clunker and you were
supposed to anoint it with oil every day
about three quarts and because he was
gone
you into a new season that could sustain
it but right now your life is on the
wire stressed out about money because
you say well I’m just gonna get a new
car and you made a plan without his
presence I’m talking real life
situations you driving around saying
it’s a blessing but it’s your curse why
I’m on one today Charles I’m on one
today this this is my next point I want
you to write this down
while you’re waiting on the plant remind
yourself for the promise see these
people knew he was going to listen to
God but they weren’t reminding
themselves like God has a plan for us
God wants to do something big with us
God wants to do they were complaining
because it was taken too long instead of
reminding themselves of what God said my
question to you yes what did God say to
you like what did he tell you what has
he given you that you’re supposed to
hold on even though you’re in the
wilderness season the business will
succeed because God said I would be
blessed to be a blessing even though I’m
broke as a joke and I am reminding
myself of the promise and too many of us
rehearse the curse we rehearse the thing
that we don’t want and we don’t say what
God has said and let me just tell you
this didn’t end well for the children of
Israel because they started elevating
other things other than God when the
whole thing started hey I want to be
your partner
fifty-fifty like I’m gonna do something
great and I’m gonna just let you put
your name on it
if you saw a little seed like you’ll be
able to say I was a part of this
movement that touched the whole globe
called transformation church and I sold
like a little like I don’t even know how
much it was I’m just sowed it in and see
that’s the thing it’s not about amounts
it’s not about mine compared to somebody
else do you know one of the most
extravagant gifts in the Word of God was
given by a widow woman with two lights
and there were people dropping hundreds
of thousand making it rain
everywhere and God Jesus was in there
and he said hey stop stop stop
did you see what just happened it was
like what what glory to God and he said
no no this woman right here she she
didn’t give out of her abundance she
gave out of her deficiency and what she
just gave was a sacrifice you gave all
that and you didn’t even feel it what
she gave was a sacrifice and because of
this woman’s faith she’s gonna be talked
about for the rest of eternity I’m
trying to tell you what you have is what
God needs he’s not looking for something
more than what he’s already giving you
these people they started partying and
God literally interrupted the his his
his movement with Moses and God was like
Moses stop praising me go down there the
people going crazy and he’s saying what
and he said they’re making other gods
besides me and he said matter of fact
God got so frustrated in the middle of
the conversation he was like nevermind
I’m just gonna kill them I’m gonna kill
them all
i’ma kill em Oh and just imagine God
being like I’m gonna kill them all like
that’s like devastating and final like
but Moses their leader started
bargaining with God said please God
don’t kill him just give him another
chance and this is the grace and mercy
of God that he will when we mess up he
will give us another chance of God’s fi
Mia go deal with
Moses comes down the mountain he sees
him and he says what have y’all done
there my god kill him
like and and he has Aaron what what what
in the world happened
and Aaron’s is being dumb again you’re
like I even know what happened Moses the
people just start taking off their gold
and I threw it in the fire and then a
calf came out read the Bible that’s what
it says
and literally Moses he said there’s
consequences for these actions and right
then 3,000 people died that day but he
spared the entire children of Israel he
said because I want to give you a chance
to still partner with me he goes into
this season he goes back up the mountain
cuz he didn’t want to see him no more
you know when your parents get so mad at
you they’re like I don’t even want to
see you don’t even so he goes back up
the mountain and the Bible says that he
meets with God and he sees the glory of
God and he comes back down the mountain
and then this is what he says to him
Exodus 35 verse 4 he said then Moses
said to the whole community of Israel
this is what the Lord has commanded take
a sacred offering for the Lord let those
with generous hearts everybody say
generous hearts present the following
gifts to the Lord gold silver bronze
blue purple and scarlet thread fine
linen goat hair and cloth tan Rams skin
fine goat skin leather tastier wood
olive oil for the lamp spices for the
anointing oil and the fragrant incense
onyx stones and other gemstones to be
set in the ephod and the priest Chester
peace and I begin to think about this
why would God ask them for all this
stuff in the wilderness because he gave
it to them as they were exiting their
slavery in Egypt God was not asking them
for anything he hadn’t already given
them like he was asking them to sow a
seed of what they didn’t have as slaves
and what he gave them as sons
and this convicted me this convicted me
so hard because God challenged me every
time he asked me to give I come up with
excuses of why I can and what’s going to
happen and Lord that number like Lord he
said you have enough to build idols you
had enough to build idols to drive idols
to live in idols but then when I ask you
for it you act like you don’t got
nothing he said it was never about what
was in your hand and this is my last
point and I want you to hear this
building God’s house is never a hand
issue it’s a heart issue I believe God
wants us to join with him to build this
tabernacle on December 16th we’re gonna
all bring an offering and listen we’re
not bringing pledges and we’re not
bringing uhm commitment cards because I
don’t want people like I owed him a
hundred dollars I can’t go on these are
no these are things that keep people out
of the house of God something happening
to my tires buzzing I had to pay for my
daughter no this is a free will offering
and all I’m asking you it’s not for
amount I’m asking every person in this
room who feels like maybe there’s a
single mother who needs a community to
find transformation in and this might be
that house that we can make room for her
maybe there’s a businessman who has all
the money in the world but no peace in
his life and we could possibly make room
for them maybe there’s a gangster who
wants to get out of the lifestyle but
has no safe place to be in so that God
can transform his heart maybe we could
build room in the tabernacle for people
to meet God and it might be your friend
your neighbor your grandson your
daughter your wife your husband and God
saying will you partner with me so that
we can build a tabernacle a place where
people can meet God and this is the
beautiful thing look what happens in in
in in the next scripture in Exodus 35 20
it said so the whole community of Israel
left Moses
and return to their tents the reason why
this is so powerful is because Moses
when he told him he didn’t ask them for
anything that day he asked them to go
ask God and again that’s what I’m asking
you to do go ask God because the Bible
tells us in 2nd Corinthians 9:7 it says
you must each decide in your how much to
give and don’t give reluctantly or in
response to pressure he said for God
loves a cheerful Giver
and look what Exodus 3521 I love the
scripture it says so all those who
hearts were stirred and whose spirits
were moved that’s all I wanted to do
today I wanted to stir your heart I
wanted you to know that God has done a
lot to us but there’s so much more that
he wants to do with us if we were
partner with him if we would not
complain and hold back that we would
give to him freely he would stir our
hearts and he would give seed to the
sower
he said whose hearts were stirred and
whose spirits were moved came and
brought their sacred offerings to the
Lord that’s what we’re gonna do on the
16th they brought all the materials
needed for the tabernacle for the
performance of the rituals and the
sacred garments both men and women came
all whose hearts were willing the thing
you got to know is God’s house is built
on willing hearts how are we gonna see a
facility that kids can come to and get
transformed and interns can be in and we
can facilitate more people without
worrying about rain when it when when
people gonna have to trek through mud to
get to church in and be able to have
enough parking space and enough children
facilities and all this stuff we’re
gonna build God’s house with willing
hearts and all I’m asking you is some of
you have never been a part of anything
bigger than you here is an opportunity
on December 16th to do something that
may change somebody’s eternity yeah my
whole picture right now is to plant a
seed right now that if any of my kids
ever go away from God
which my family is not exempt
from trial and tribulations as a matter
of fact we got a bigger target on our
back most of the time but if my if my
family if my daughter Isabella was to
ever go away from God
I’m gonna sow a seed in this offering
that one day maybe 10 15 years from now
will become a forest in somebody who was
affected by transformation church could
be a person while she’s wild and out or
doing whatever she’s doing that could be
a loving arm and say hey there’s a place
that no matter if you’re a PK and people
know who your family is and all this
other stuff that you can come and get
transformed and I want to sow a seed
that may outlive me and people can be
transformed for so many more years to
come I want this church to have the
faith to follow me as we build God’s
house a tabernacle where people can meet
him not with money but with willing
hearts I want to pray for every person
because I believe that God is about to
stir on us and he’s gonna give seed to
the sower hands lift it right where you
are all over this building come on if
you’re watching right now I want you to
lift your hands father I’m thanking you
that right now that this group of people
will have the heart for the house God
that we won’t build something as unto us
but we want to build something that is
for you so you can come sit with your
people forgive us for building idols
father God and trying to put your name
on it God today change us from the
inside of God speak to us clearly let us
not be pressured into anything father
God I thank you that we will not hear a
stranger’s voice but we will hear your
voice and whatever you say even if it
means we have to do less for Christmas
or we gotta sell something or we got a
hold back father we will obey I thank
you Father that transformation church
will be marked not like the children of
Israel who turned an eleven-day journey
into a 40 year death we will get to the
promised land
because we will obey you and I thank you
Father that you’ll build this house with
our willing heart
in Jesus name Amen
listen listen listen listen do you know
the greatest thing about this story is
that in a couple verses later bands and
oh the two craftsmen who I can’t say
they named they had to tell Moses hey
the people gave at such a level yeah we
don’t even need all of this could you
please tell them to stop giving because
we have too much to manage and actually
build what God’s called us to build I’m
believing that the faith of
transformation Church and transformation
nation is gonna rise to the place where
God’s gonna have to tell us a enough is
enough because you did exceedingly above
abundantly all that I could ask or think
what happens when God tells you enough
that means you have to be blessed that
way so that you can bless that way and
I’m believing that for your businesses
for your homes for your lives because we
have eternal work to do Amen let’s give
God praise because we will build God’s
house with willing hearts