In the kingdom of God, tithing is the foundation of our finances. Jesus redeemed us from the curse of not tithing, but when we don’t tithe, we rob God of the opportunity to bless you. We don’t want there to be a cap on what God wants to do in our lives! We pray this message is a reminder of how we can put Jesus first in our finances. Scripture References: Proverbs 11:24 MSG Matthew 6:19-21 NLT 1 Corinthians 3:10-11 NLT Malachi 3:6-10 NKJV Galatians 3:13a NIV Luke 11:42 NKJV Hebrews 7:8 NKJV 16:22 – Proverbs chapter 11 verse 24 MSG 18:44 – In the kingdom of God, tithing is the foundation of our finances 27:24 – Matthew chapter 6 verses 19 through 21 NLT 27:49 – Your finances expose your heart, and your heart exposes your foundation 42:47 – Jesus is the only firm foundation 43:02 – 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verses 10 & 11 NLT 44:22 – Malachi chapter 3 verses 6 through 10 NKJV 48:17 – When you don’t tithe, you rob God of the opportunity to bless you 51:19 – Galatians chapter 3 verse 13a NIV 52:07 – If you don’t tithe and you believe in Jesus, you’re not cursed. However, some blessings have terms and conditions 53:11 – Luke chapter 11 verse 42 NKJV 55:59 – Malachi 3 is not a weapon. It’s wisdom. 01:02:00 – Tithing is a two-way test 01:03:35 – Malachi chapter 3 verses 10 NKJV 01:07:58 – Hebrews chapter 7 verse 8 NKJV Join Transformation Church for our live Sunday experience. Plug into community, engage in live worship with Transformation Worship, & hear a powerful word from God. ABOUT US We Exist to REPRESENT God to the lost & found for Transformation in Christ. This is the vision of Transformation Church, led by Pastor Michael Todd and based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. NEXT STEPS Have you made the decision to follow Jesus? Fill out the form below so we can help you on your journey toward Transformation in Christ: http://transformchurch.us/saved
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hi my name is Charles and I serve here
at Transformation Church as one of the
executive pastors and I want to take a
moment before we jump into the message
just to say thank you first of all for
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joining us enjoy the message today I
hope it blesses
you welcome to week
six of a series we’re calling somebody
shouted me fresh fruit fresh fruit say
it with faith fresh fruit fresh fruit
how many people that’s your desire this
year you you want fresh fruit I don’t
want nothing stale nothing old in my
marriage in my life I want fresh fruit
and we’ve been talking about being
connected to the True Vine what’s his
name Jesus okay staying connected and
and making sure that the gardener can
come in and give us a fresh
cut and if he wants to prune us we’re
not going to run from it we’re going to
know that he is the one that is giving
us a future because he’s cutting the
things off that would hinder our growth
in the future and So for anybody I just
want a little caveat for anybody that’s
feeling like loss means that you’re
losing that’s a
lie when God is cutting on you you lost
actually means that you’re about to
level up you missed it he said there’s
more fruit coming I know it feels bare
right now but whatever you think you
lost check back with me in a different
season and I will have somebody say
leveled up and last week I felt a burden
um to begin to talk to our church about
something that is just a part of the
culture around here it’s just a regular
thing and I don’t know what church
everybody came from and how people
talked about um this certain topic but
when it comes to Transformation Church
is regular we talk about generosity
stewardship and finances and usually if
you’re in this church this year I
usually do a six week series on um
generosity and giving and um how to
properly Steward finances because the
top three things we counsel about is
relationships
money and
anger
like the results of all those things and
so people need to know about it but
don’t nobody want to talk about
it come on let’s be honest when it comes
to money everybody’s booty get tight
everybody’s lips get chapped everybody
start thinking about what they don’t
have and I’m telling everybody relax I’m
not teaching you something from a place
of needing
something and I want to I want to say
that to you because in a lot of churches
it’s like y we going to talk about money
today lock the doors
like this building has been getting
built for 59 years and today we
finishing it like it’s not we’re not
doing that because many times if there’s
pressure or compulsion or
emotionalism you don’t give with the
right watch this
heart and giving is all about the
heart and some of your biggest problems
and all the things you’re managing is
not because you’re doing everything
wrong you’re just doing this one thing
wrong you’re not doing everything wrong
you’re doing this one thing wrong you’re
not putting God first in your
finances a lot of my issues was I was
just not putting God first in my
finances I thought it could be a part of
the
list not the priority of my list and
some of you have convinced yourself well
nobody know my financial situation me
and God got a dealing and an arrangement
and we going to do our thing he know my
heart he does that’s why he told me to
speak this
message cuz you’re
delusional and you want God to bless you
with more of what he can’t trust you
with
now cuz everybody going to be generous
when they hit the
lottery oh when this job come through
when I got more and God said that’s not
even how the principle works if you’re
not
faithful with little he cannot make you
a ruler over much and today can I be can
I be completely hot humble open and
transparent can I
be I said can I be completely hot humble
open
okay when when
many Ministers of the Gospel who look
like me preach about
money there’s
some ulterior motive behind
it and I want to apologize for anybody
that’s been in those Environ ments and
it’s not just black people it’s people
whose heart has been toward turned
towards
manipulation and and my team will tell
you like I’ve been intentional about
this since the day that I became the
lead pastor of the church cuz it turned
so many people off from finding out
about Jesus because they all was like
Jesus the church just want my money the
church just want my money and I was like
man if we could ever become a church
that was like the church just don’t want
my money the church be given a bunch of
money the church actually changes the
community the church is actually going
into downtown Tulsa and finding
blackowned shoe stores and buying the
whole store for people and then taking
it to the boys home for young men that
don’t have parents and giving them sneak
like oh we’re going into it says take
care of the widows and the orphans so
we’re going into actual homes where
these young ladies have aged out of
programs and we’re buying houses for
them and actually hold on there are
people with wheelchairs and special
needs and we’re buying kitted out like
Vans and
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like and for n
years we’ve been doing that abely I can
stand here today and the reason I’m just
trying this ain’t for everybody most of
y’all know but there’s like 3% of people
that watching this like I’m not
listening to anything you’re saying
because you’re just going to use this to
take my money no no no no I’m trying to
let you know that we’re going to be
generous as a church no matter what you
do what I want you to do is know that
you may be missing out come on on the
very thing that adds
abundance to your life we partnered with
the Pando app yeah and went into the
jails and gave them Transformation
Church do you know we get hundreds of
letters every single week from people in
prison all across America because
Transformation Church has literally
helped them become men and women that
they would have never been without the
word of God y’all can give it up for
that y’all this is
huge in the last n years we’ve given
away over $12 million come
on man I can’t mess with
y’all I’m going find the exact number
and tell you tomorrow it’s been way over
over that but I was being Tammy looking
at me she said it’s been way over that
I’m I’m trying to be conservative cuz we
always error on the side of being
conservative so you don’t think that
this is a hyp
train the reason I’m saying all of this
cuz I’m trying to ease somebody’s
tension to think that this is a place
that wants to take anything from
you I really want to give you this
principle cuz it changed my life from
being a poverty minded World in this
head that’s and it brought me into a
vast place of abundance and as your
pastor I want that for every person
under the sound of my voice I’m not
talking about everybody making the sound
the same amount of money I’m talking
about everybody living in
abundance there are people with millions
of dollars who still have poverty
mindsets and there are people who work
at a fast food restaurant making minimum
wage that live in abundance this is not
about a dollar amount it is about a
heart position and today church I want
to give you a principle that has
transformed my
life it’s changed me last week we talked
about having fresh
seed and I know some of y’all been
sewing seeds everywhere y’all been like
where I’m going everywhere to sew seeds
and and and there was something funny
that happened this week my daughters
like popcorn a lot and so I went to make
my daughter some popcorn and I don’t
really be thinking what popcorn is I I
mean I I literally like get the Little
Brown Sack I don’t even think about
what’s in here and then I just put it in
the microwave but for some reason I was
talking and I was doing like this and I
was talking and I felt something moving
in there and for the first time in my
life it connect I was today years
old when I realized what was in these
packages it’s a bunch of what
SE y’all got a whole ation at the
microwave I took these
seats and I laid it out in the
microwave and I put it hold on let me
yeah let me put this in here right I put
it in the microwave and then I hit the
little double pump
button and I was sitting here and you
know me uh they tell you don’t stand too
close to the
microwave but I always been a little
rebellious so I’m looking in there and
I’m watching this and the Holy Spirit
begin to speak to me he said Michael
when you take seeds and you put them in
a process that allows them to be
uncomfortable for a
season I said holy spirit don’t do me
like this on a Tuesday in front of this
microwave he said my people don’t see
the expanded version of their
seed cuz they won’t get uncomfortable
for a short season they won’t change
their budget for for a short season they
won’t stop buying the S shoot they don’t
stop visiting Bath and Body Works you
know that is a setup they always going
to have a sale and you keep walking past
that same thing and you got all of this
stored in cabinets but nothing
expanding he said Michael if you would
take the seeds I’ve given you and just
for a moment put them in an
uncomfortable position
he said you’ll start to
hear the
change of what’s on the
inside beginning to
expand and make a little noise so I was
literally sitting here watching this
popcorn
expand y’all hear
that y’all hear a little bit she said no
check your
ears if you were closer you would hear
individual
seeds
expanding it caused a reaction that then
caused another seed to say well maybe I
need to expand
too it’s not just one seed doing the
expanding it is the conglomerate of all
of these seeds being uncomfortable for a
short season that makes everything
around it everybody sh shout at me
expand and I read this script
ooh hold on even when it came out if you
could feel
this it’s
still
popping dang this is
hot and after I did this little
experiment making some popcorn for one
of my kids the holy spirit said Michael
I I want transformation to sew some seed
and I said said okay what you want me to
do he saidou believing
God off the vision I gave you 37 days
into being a pastor this whole thing
that the the spirit Bank Event Center
would be Transformation Church he said
go back to that and look at all the
stuff I said and one of the things he
said is said this Arena will be filled
three times over every
weekend and I said what I don’t even
know if I want that
Lord he said this is not about what you
want it’s about what I want God
and he said remember when it comes to
seeds some
plant some water but God adds the what
he said I want Transformation Church to
sew with that model and I’m like what
you mean he said find a church that’s
about to plant wow and SE some seed and
I literally saw a church it’s Life Point
Church
Phoenix
TJ and um your beautiful wife who just
moved to Phoenix Transformation Church
is sewing some seed right now and we’re
sending you a check for
$100,000 before you have your first
interest meeting Transformation Church
can we give
God hold on can we give
God like Church Phoenix we got some
popcorn on the way for
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you
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yeah I didn’t have to pray about
that I didn’t have to fast about
that why because when God spoke
it the resources of this house are not
mine come on God so if he wants to do
something it’s very easy to obey him
because it was his in the first place
that’s my question is is that the same
for your
house cuz the same exact thing we just
did there that happens to me and Natalie
to the tune of whatever he
says I’m talking about before church I
wrote a check it doesn’t matter about
the amount Mo am I telling the truth I
wrote a check before church cuz he said
to can we talk about something else
Lord can we no y’all every time I start
talking about finan it cost
me I’m not y’all not I’m not I’m being
for real for real this is not about the
church I want the principle to be so in
you that God can tap on your shoulder at
any moment and he say that extra
McDouble see y’all thought it had to be
a lot that extra McDouble go give it to
that man well Lord you know I eat two
McDoubles and two chicken
sandwiches that’s the pattern of
Prosperity
like but the only reason you grieve is
because you thought it was
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yours the only reason you get frustrated
because you thought it was I got some
more popcorn here y’all think we should
pop some more
popcorn let me just put the some more
seed off in
here I wonder who that’s for uh
let’s when when it expands when my seed
expands it makes everything around me
get bigger that bag was flat when it
went
in but because it was put in the right
environment it didn’t just expand the
seed it expanded the bag too you want
your world to get
bigger you might want to plant some more
seeds Proverbs 11:24 the world of the
generous gets larger and larg larger and
the world of the stingy gets what
smaller today I want to talk to you
about a foundational principle that made
my world get
larger and more than my world my heart
be more turned towards the idea of God
and I’m going to be straight out with
you this this one thing exposed my heart
it helped me solidify my priorities and
it honestly helped me defeat
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pornography I I I know I know some of
y’all want to stay in the same Cycles
but this was a this was a game Cher for
me and the principle is
tithing I’m not going to sugarcoat it
I’m not going taking 10% of all of my
increase and before I pay everything
else before I make the house the shoes
the outfit my kids sporting events
before I make that a priority I said
God I want you to be the foundation of
my
life so I’m going to trust first things
first and I’m going to take this holy
portion of this resource that you gave
me and I’m going to put it into the
house of God you’ve called me to and I
want everybody to hear me if your house
of God that God’s called you to is not
Transformation Church take your tithe to
the place that God has assigned you in
this season if you’re watching this as
supplemental content and we’re
encouraging you do not send your tithe
here go to First Baptist yippity doah
that you go to I’m just trying to be
very clear for you and you’re supposed
to sew right there if if everybody does
what they’re supposed to do in the
garden they’re planted
in the entire Kingdom grows and y’all
see this is how you know this is not
about me I could be trying to manipulate
and use our influence to get more people
you should talk to the place who’s
feeding you you should tied to the place
where God’s called
you okay I let me quit let me
quit in the kingdom of God tithing is
the foundation of our
finances great so it’s always tripped me
out that people try to give
offerings when they haven’t tithed
the offering is
illegal without the
tithe I can’t even mess with
you is it
beeping I feel like one of those uh like
uh the people from uh Blues Clues what
was his name uh
Steve is it
B let’s
see some plant on Life Point Church in
Phoenix is about to plant I think their
interest meeting is this week
some that means that would be a church
that’s already going and they just need
a little water on Top This is Hot wow um
somebody text um uh a couple that is in
Seattle um One Church Seattle there’s a
check for
$100,000 coming to you right
now we just wanted to water a little bit
the seeds of God that you are spreading
in
[Applause]
Seattle y’ y’all don’t y’all done stop
it’s so crazy I’m this is exposing some
people’s heart cuz some of y’all don’t
know the scripture that says you rejoice
with those who Rejoice how would you act
if somebody just text you that your
business organization or nonprofit got
$100,000 unexpectedly
brother Phil more God sees what you’re
doing sees what you and your wife for
doing send them this bag of
popcorn should we pop some more no no
y’all not going to be focused y’all just
going to be looking at this the whole
time so hold
on in the kingdom of
God
it’s so crazy that that when generosity
starts you don’t know whose name is on
the next
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
bag pop
it in the kingdom of God tithing is the
foundation of our finances I I I want to
tell something to everybody that that
really helped me understand if you don’t
do what’s
required what you
do that seems like excess is
denied do y’all hear what I’m saying
okay um if you if you don’t do what’s
it’s like it’s like um qualifying for a
track
meet it’s like we’re going a
state but to run out State you got to
actually hit this time in the regional
meat and people be showing up to State
stretching this what we do in church and
it’s like what are you doing I’m about
to smoke these
fools I’m about to run this race and I’m
going win it’s like the truth of the
matter is you could run this race and
win but because you didn’t
qualify
because you put the energy and effort
into the extra thing the exciting thing
the thing that everybody
sees and you didn’t do what was required
your ability great great gets trapped in
your
neglect the ability that you could be
the fastest person
there gets trapped because you neglected
to do the ordinary thing
that’s what I think so many times when
it comes to our tithe and offering we do
as a church we think we’re tipping
God the church was good today let me
throw a 20 in
there good
job but you are 14 years backed up on
the
requirement
wow you bought car after car house after
house put the mat out that says
blessed and then you come to church
judge don’t serve talk about it and then
when you feel really good you tip
him I just want you to see honestly how
we
approach and God said like yo Mike I
just need you to tell people that they
can have a watch this is the title of my
message a fresh frh
Foundation a fresh
Foundation this is all about tithing and
honoring God
first and and and let me help somebody
cuz some of y’all the 14e back log you
just got depressed right there you was
like I can never I will never be able to
go back and like stop his grace and
mercy is new every morning okay so so
somebody oh my Hey Oh Glory like I saw
what I’m saying today though is great
could today be the day that it be said
that you Chang your family’s
generational
future cuz as a single woman or a single
man or a a couple with with not a lot of
finances or you balling out of control
and your financial advisers doesn’t
think that this is
wise oh I’m talking about real stuff see
you start talking to people who have
money they’ll try to convince you that
you should honor God in a different way
at a different time of year because at
this time the taxes will be able to I
had to tell my financial people shut
up the only reason you have a
job y’all don’t y’all don’t hear me I
know it would be better for me fiscally
but it won’t be better for my faith so
what I need you to do is 10% of
everything that increases in my
household send it to Transformation
Church well Pastor um M Mr to I
completely understand the heart behind
no you
don’t because you weren’t there when me
and Natalie lived in Bishop’s rent
house being in 700 Square ft using
borrowed couches y’all know them couches
that are like
pleather y’all know the brown ones why
are they all brown they’re all brown
they only make them in brown if you’re
hot you get stuck to them and like y’all
know what I’m talking about some of
y’all know if you still have that couch
I’m praying that you get a fresh
Foundation hear what I’m saying to you
you weren’t there when we were believing
God to change our financial situation
and God said I’m not going to give you
more I’m going to give you more wisdom
to manage what you
have and today as a church I don’t care
if the world gets this this is not a
principle for the world this is a
principle for people who call themselves
Sons and Daughters of
Christ tithing is an ordinary principle
of children of
God and if you don’t watch this you’re
not going to
hell see this is what we try to do we
try to scare people into actually doing
what’s
right your salvation can be completely
intact and you still not get the full
benefit of the full life Christ had for
you on
Earth I know I know I know this message
with you it’s like am I a bad person
you’re not a bad person yeah you’re not
you just have not taken advantage of the
full
benefit of living a life with Jesus
Christ as your watch this everybody say
Lord Lord okay so that’s why Matthew 619
says don’t store up for yourself
Treasures here on Earth where moths eat
them and rust destroys them and where
thieves break in and steal store your
Treasures in Heaven where Moss rust
cannot destroy them and thieves do not
break in and steal watch this wherever
your treasure
is there the desires of your heart will
be also write it down in a point your
finances expose your
heart and your heart EXP exposes your
foundation people come up to me all the
time when I do serieses series on
finances and stuff like that and they
were like Jesus is first in my life
Pastor oh I love Jesus oh there’s
something about the
na and and and you know I’m I’m trying
to be very relationally intelligent and
think about them and and all that other
stuff but inside I just want to say
prove
it you can say anything
but prove it and the thing that I found
out is the proof is in the
fruit when it comes to Jesus being your
foundation show me your checkin
account show me your your Chase bank
statement Show Jesus I’ll do anything
for Jesus show me your last year money
statement cuz I can tell without you
seeing in any no no shut up
mm- and what people start doing is
explaining
why other well I mean the house you know
what I’m saying we got in the Bad season
and then the interest rate was and like
but then I mean it was my daughter’s 16
birthday so we had to buy her car
because I told her she was going to buy
her car and then oh that that was a trip
to Miami and me and the guys we had a
good time in Miami so it was my 40th
birthday and I had and
N but he’s my Foundation
wherever your treasure not will
be where your treasure currently is it
exposes where your heart is many of us
our heart is in our
house some of us our heart is in makeup
and
fashion some of us come on I want you to
think about it where is your TR locate
your treasure right now I don’t care how
much treasure you have where is it some
of Y y’all Tre treasure is sitting on
24s you always wanted a truck riding on
them things and so now you sitting up
high but is that some of your treasure
is in your kids
sports some of your treasure is in
stocks
bonds I I Bitcoin
Jesus it’s it I mean some of your
Treasures are in nfts and Technology
some of your like where’s your my
question is is any of your treasure
designated
first for God’s
house and if it’s not today I’m not
coming to beat you up I’m coming to
offer you a fresh
Foundation see because this is what
happens with a
foundation most of us build our
foundation on things that can’t really
hold us
up
I’m
225
lbs that’s a miracle in
itself but if I want to build my life on
this I don’t know if a
career can hold the weight of my
life and many of us let’s be honest this
is why you go to college this is why you
take that program this is why you do
this cuz you about to build your life
uhoh that don’t even feel a one leg
don’t even feel y’all see how that’s
bended
in somebody say don’t do it but you do
it every
year and you’re encouraging your kids to
do it nuh you going to college hold on
wait right right hold on why why are you
telling me cuz you got to get a good
career to
build oo yeah that
doesn’t and so many of us we build it on
the career and then we be like yeah once
I get a good
career then I can actually take and put
my relationships that’s the only way she
don’t want to go to Cheesecake
Factory so I got to get that
money so then I can find a dime piece
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[Applause]
oh no no why is it Ral
concerned cuz it’s what not stable it’s
not stable yet we build our families on
this
God this is how how in the how in the
world do I put the children that God
trusted me
with like I’m building this on something
that can’t hold me
up and then I’mma put H if I’m just
building on a career ain’t no other room
for nobody even on this
box yeah I’mma get me a I’mma get Shorty
we going to be doing vacations
and and we going
to I’m just
practicing I’m just trying to I’m just
trying
to and we going around trying to
convince people if they get a good job
and they have a decent relationship good
they got a strong
foundation and then what they do is they
be like yo matter of
fact now I got a little money I got to
turn it into something I got to become a
podcaster I got to be an
entrepreneur
whoa it feels like she say
cinate okay what do I need to go this
way is this way a little more back over
to the left it’s so crazy that you’ll
have people from the
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outside telling
you how to actually
that’s position what still can’t hold
you
up you can tell me me to move it forward
move it backwards move it over 10x my
company move it to this take a offshore
account you can tell me to do all of
that but if I needed to stand on this
it’s still going to
fall and do you know how many people
instead of walking in a blessing are
balancing that’s so good spend their
whole
life winds start blowing economy start
doing is a shoot we about to
die cuz they built their life on the
wrong what kind of dad would I be to
tell Ava or Bella or Gia to come up here
and stand on
this this is what we’re doing
generationally hey look at
me our people came here we were
slaves and I worked hard so that you
could have a better future so you go to
college and you get this that and the
third the fourth and if you turn that
into a good relationship and then you
better get a boss too don’t marry no
little housewife little little you
better get you a boss real estate
marketing
taxes no I’m telling you real
conversations that happen with
people so then y’all
can all that sacrifice I did is so that
y’all but praise
God we love
Jesus we give him the glory on
Sundays but Monday through
Saturday it’s about this career and and
in relationship you don’t even have to
have a good marriage it’s a business
relationship y’all know how many people
are together just because they say it
like this it’s cheaper to
keeper y’all
don’t all we work for then she going to
take half and then n no no
no and your kid sitting there watching
generational dysfunction form right in
front of
them but what
if what
if what if we built our life on
something that was a solid sure right
here
Foundation I I mean what if I built my
life what’s his name
on what happens is now I get to
rearrange all the areas in my
life if Jesus is my Foundation if if I
if I commit submit and make him a
priority what he says how he does it a
priority then I can be like okay what
can I build oh yeah I can
build yeah my finances on
Jesus and then I can build my
relationship on
Jesus and then I can bu my why nobody
screaming
now cuz I’m standing on something
[Applause]
sure nobody’s scared from
me cuz I built my life on something that
had the capacity to hold me
up now listen now
listen I’ll still be standing if the
career
Falls and if the relationship
Fades and if the finances go I’m still
solid on the rock of Christ the solid
rock I stand all of the ground is
sinking say I build my faith on
Jesus
and this is the reason why so many
people get
hurt and run away yes sir cuz they think
Jesus forsook
them and he said no you just built your
life on something that couldn’t hold
you today I’m I’m offering you a
fresh
Foundation hey AA come here come here
real quick real quick real quick real
quick okay um the beautiful thing about
this moment right here is it’s very
simple and this is why I want you to get
this principle of giving cuz it’s very
simple for me to teach my children to
trust something I’ve already stood
on come here o
jump it’s it’s it’s I want you to see
all she’s going to know is a family that
builds their life
on bring Gigi Gigi come
here come here just bring my baby look
we can we can actually sit down on this
come on let’s sit down come on
oo yeah we don’t got a lot of finances
and all of our relationships won’t be
great but uh I want come here but as
long as we have Jesus come here GG baby
yep it feels like
um it feels like this is what men of God
should
do hear me hear me hear me hear me hear
me is lead their family first I’m not
saying none of these other things aren’t
important I’m just saying could we build
the
foundation cuz cuz one day I’ll be
gone y’all stay right there
one day I’ll be out of the
picture yeah keep them on the screen and
right now they’re not
scared because the foundation that their
life was built
on was strong enough to hold them even
when Daddy was gone oh my
God I want I want you to see that if we
don’t teach our
children to build their life Mom and
Daddy why are we moving cuz we got to we
got to we got to take care of our money
a little better are we poor no we’re not
poor we’re
pruning I’m I’m I’m telling you we’re
going to get together as a family we’re
going to play Uno no no no we don’t need
all the technology right now we’re going
to we’re going to draw in together right
now and we’re going to be we’re going to
be close because one day we’re going to
look back on these moments and it’ll be
the best time of our lives and and and
what what I’m trying to teach you is to
build your life on Jesus when Jesus
asked you to give up relationships
finances career ideas things I want you
to know that it’s worth it cuz he can
actually hold it my whole family can fit
on this solid
foundation and and I don’t want to
exacerbate this analogy but I just want
to let you know like we’re not leaving a
good playbook for our children to follow
right
now like when I look at how people are
frantic around their resources we’re
teaching them you say I didn’t I didn’t
teach them yes you did because some
things are taught other things are
caught they’re catching the spirit of
fear around
finances they’re catching the spirit of
poor
stewardship they’re catch I thought you
said we was cutting back and then y’all
at Olive Garden buying extra drinks and
desserts y’all know you rich when you
get desserts like y’all know y’all know
when appetizers and desserts are
happening it’s like somebody got
paid
ah they’re catching the
spirits and and could it be said that
maybe there should be some new ideas and
identity thank y’all can y’all give it
up for my babies they did a great job
they didn’t know I was going to call
them
up maybe there can be some some ways she
got it she all right take this
one um maybe maybe we need to build our
foundation on say his name one more time
Jesus okay all right so let’s go Jesus
is the only Firm
Foundation 1 Corinthians 3:10 because of
God’s grace to me somebody say his grace
to
me I have laid the foundation like an
expert Builder now others are building
on it but whoever is building on this
Foundation must be very careful for no
one can lay any foundation Foundation
other than the one we all already have
laid Jesus Christ you want to know who
the foundation of anybody who believes
is it’s right here what’s his name Jesus
Christ so so today I just hope to give
you um an
undoing of probably one of the the most
manipulated scriptures
in the world about tithing it’s Malachi
3 and I want to give you a revelation
that transformed my life I’m going to
give it to you and then we’re going to
go home okay
I forgot I got one more uh somebody said
the
popcorn do y’all see how fun it
is do y’all see how fun it is to
actually Steward over your resources in
one season so you can be a blessing to
other people in a different season like
you not getting blessed but you
happy all right here we go Malachi 3:6
for I am the
Lord I do not
change that is very important for you to
understand who’s talking the Lord and
what does he say I don’t change okay
therefore you are not consumed verse 7
yet from the days of your fathers you
have gone away from my ordinances that
word ordinance means ordinary
teaching the OG’s used to do this it was
ordinary and now you new school people
have G gone away from the ordinary
things that we
did and have not kept them return to me
and I will return to you says the Lord
of hosts who’s talking he he keeps
telling you who’s talking just so you
know a preacher didn’t make this up this
is not a minister this not a preacher
this is not a minor Prophet or a major
prophet this he says the Lord of hosts
is saying this to you he says but you
say in what way shall we return I
thought we was with you God I thought we
was in the Tabernacles all the time I
thought we go to church I thought we
sing Yahweh I thought we was with you
and he says will a man rob
God yet you’ve robed me Lord that is not
even funny you know I wouldn’t rob you
how could
I this what it says but you say in what
way have we robbed
you his response in tithes and
offerings he said you are cursed with a
curse for you have robbed me even this
whole nation think about our
nation prayer out of
school coming against churches ability
to have nonprofits it’s like our nation
has turned their by on the money it says
In God We Trust that’s words it’s not in
our
hearts even this whole nation he said
bring all the tithe into the storehouse
and the storehouse represents the church
or the places that God chooses to dwell
and it says that there may be food in my
house and try me now in this says the
Lord of hosts who’s
talking he keeps telling you this
me this is not Pastor Mike this is not
Pastor whoever you think the Lord of
host is saying this he says try me at
this see if I won’t open the windows of
heaven and pour you out a blessing that
there will not be room enough to
receive watch this now most people when
they get right here they get stuck cuz
there’s two things in this scripture
that Jack everybody
up how am I robbing God and I’m
cursed how me little old me I make
$222,000 a year I’m robbing God and I’m
cursed people like ah I can’t I can’t I
can’t deal with that this is the
Revelation that God show me he said
Michael people read these words and
don’t feel my spirit in it says how does
a man rob God he said I don’t need your
money he said this is just the
requirement to bring you into another
level of
blessing so a good dad wants to bless
his kids but He blesses them based on
their
obedience so if I tell you to make your
bed but you take out the trash and
didn’t make your bed I can’t bless you
the way I want to not cuz you didn’t do
something you didn’t do what I asked you
to
do all I need you to do is obey me
somebody say
obey and so all of this is and God say
you keep robbing me watch this this is
the Revelation that God gave me about 5
years ago it changed everything when you
don’t tithe you rob god of the
opportunity to bless you
great he’s like oh I’m about to God you
didn’t do
uhoh
popcorn it feels like it’s
done some
plant some
water but God adds the we heard about
this church in Atlanta that God has been
expanding it’s called spirit and Truth
Atlanta on pastor work more there’s a
check for
$100,000 oh how you going to Rejoice
there’s a check for
$100,000 to take what you’re doing to
the next level and increase you somebody
give God some praise W that’s
hot send them some
popcorn y’all know the only reason we’re
able to do
that is because when it’s time
great for my check to come in and your
check to come in on the 1st and the
15th come on I don’t even think about it
no
more it’s gone when I look at my stuff
it’s after God got
his this is worth adjusting your life
for because when you don’t tithe you rob
god of the opportunity to bless you you
got to hear what y’all I’m a living when
I went from poverty mindset hiding
dollars in my
mattress keeping money stashed just in
case I run
out yes sir and God said boy if you
don’t give up that Egypt
[Music]
mentality if you don’t stop acting like
a slave I own the cattle on a thousand
heels I’m Jehovah Gyra your provider I
will make you the lender and not the
borrower
I but I had to break
it by honoring God watch this by
faith it’s not going to make sense it’s
going to make a
miracle you have to start tithing
by how do you get
saved how you going to get saved by
faith worship of God by by faith that
you’ve never seen but then when it comes
to money it needs the math need to be
math
in what I’m saying is it’s
by okay I’m and everybody’s not going to
get it but I believe there’s at least a
thousand of y’all that’s about to change
the
foundation of your life watch this when
you don’t tith you rob god of the
opportunity to bless you okay so that’s
how you rob them everybody I’m cursed
let me help you you’re not cursed
Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from
the curse of the law by becoming a curse
for us so so so so when he was telling
this this was in the Old Testament Jesus
hadn’t come yet right so he said you
curse what it curse right now enters
Jesus yeah yeah yeah when Jesus enters
in he says you are no longer cursed if
you don’t tithe that means you can be
saved you can be delivered you can work
in healings and miracles but when it
comes to your finding es you’re not
cursed you put a
[Music]
cap somebody say I’m not cursed I just
got a
cap I I wrote it out cuz I want
everybody to hear this and see this very
clearly okay if you don’t tithe and you
believe in Jesus you’re not
cursed however some blessings have terms
and conditions wow
good no I’mma Be I’mma Be wealthy I’mma
do this I’mma do that and God was like
yeah until you follow my terms and
conditions I cannot trust you with that
level of
resource cuz all money actually does is
magnify who you really
are you a cheater without money you
become a really really good cheater with
money true you a liar without money you
become do y’all hear what I’m saying
right now he’s saying all I want you to
do right now is honor the terms and
conditions and somebody’s saying well
Pastor Mike that’s Old Testament I’m
going show you Jesus saying you should
tithe in the New Testament in red Luke
11:42 but woe to you Pharisees for you
tithe on mint and ruin herbs and neglect
Justice and love of God these you have
ought to have done without neglecting
the others yeah he’s saying you should
give love Mercy justice peace you should
do that and you should tithe on all your
increase
yeah the way Jesus even put this
bothered me at the beginning cuz I was
like you should have just said
it just say tithe my people tithe and
then it could have just been over but he
said Michael the reason that I coded the
language cuz it’s a test
he said they got to trust me and this is
a test tithing is
a I said but God you could have just
made it really really really really
clear he said I
did he said you tithe on stuff that
don’t matter
yeah and you won’t tithe on the stuff
that is really my heart the reason he
said it he said this is
ordinary we just tied
10% is set aside for
God what does that mean for my finances
that he’s going to have to take care of
them what does it mean for my vacation
that I might not take one this year what
does that mean for my wardrobe wear it
again no no no I’m I’m telling
you this doesn’t become something that
you do if you do not adjust your
life and most people want the blessing
without adjusting their life I didn’t
lose weight by eating the same thing
that I ate to get there to get smaller I
didn’t go sit down and watch movies to
get the transformation I had to change
what I was doing and too many people
when it comes to finances generosity we
won’t change what we’re doing and so the
Holy Spirit said Michael I just want you
to offer the people a fresh foundation
and this is what I found 90% with God’s
blessing is better than 100% without
it and for anybody that’s struggling
with Malachi 3 I did a whole message on
it in a different series I want you to
go but God told me not to go super deep
into this financial thing he said
because my people don’t need a
revelation he said they’ve matured
enough they just need a
reminder some of y’all just need a
reminder you got off holidays was crazy
some different things happened you got
hit with some stuff and God said today
we’re going to give you a fresh
Foundation Malachi 3 is not a weapon
it’s
wisdom he’s saying honor me honor me
honor me God what I got for you you
ain’t even ready for think about the
language God say he’s done some pretty
wild things splitting Seas like letting
Ravens be the first Uber Eats he’s like
done all kinds of really good things and
he says test me
see if I won’t open up the windows of
Heaven what does a window of heaven look
like like think about like think of that
like like think of your windows like
think of your he said I’ll open the
windows of heaven and then gets gangster
and says and I’ll pour you out a
blessing you don’t have room enough to
receive when you don’t have enough room
to keep it all it means you have
to he said you tithe I’mma bless you so
much that you got to
[Applause]
so you got to
[Applause]
so
y’all if I could just if I could just
transfer the level of assurance I have
in you and have in God into you when it
comes to this I’m a living witness not
cuz I’m a pastor it’s cuz I got the
principle
and I want this for every person that at
least calls Transformation Church your
spiritual home we are supposed to change
the world not just through
prayer god dog oh Lord I’m going need a
whole series Lord tell me when I can do
it some stuff I shouldn’t have to pray
about I should just be able to meet the
need but if you’re always in
need you can never meet
then I don’t pray God provide for me
anymore I pray God show me who to
provide
[Applause]
for I’m not oh God and see you up there
in a purple suit what is that velvet you
over here and you talking and you saying
and I I know what I know what the enemy
is telling you he’s taking your money
he’s stealing God blessed me outside of
here God told me me to write a book and
I obeyed him and when I wrote that book
it changed my life they just told me
that the relationship goes just got put
in French I can’t speak one word but I’m
going to Paris with the
book y’all Mo you already know I’m going
to
Paris I yeah yeah he said you got it
Mike they just called me this week and
told me they starting filming on
relationship go the movie in
June y’all missed it I I can’t play with
y’all I I’m talking about Amazon is
making the movie right
now he said you don’t have to know how
I’m about to bless you but if you honor
me as your foundation I’ll call it from
the north the South the East and the
I’ll allow you to find
income from places you didn’t even know
were available to
[Applause]
you the reason they called me is they
said cuz I told him at the beginning I
said number one I want to make a movie
movie come on okay come on I’m trying to
prepare my church right now for for the
for the backlash okay we’re making a
real
movie not the Christian like I’m going
after the
lost I want them to be watching romcom
and F relationship goals and I want it
to be real to them where they’re at it’s
baited
okay you can’t clean a fish you ain’t
caught so I’m not making this movie for
church people I let me bring the camera
I’m not making relationship goals the
movie for
[Applause]
you I want to cast it into the
sea where people never come to this
church
but one of the stipulations is that we
would be a part of the movie like it
wouldn’t be based on the book and then
so they going to come here and shoot
scenes at Transformation Church with all
the people now I’m telling you all that
so y’all don’t act
wild I’m telling you now months in
advance cuz they’re going to be PE like
real actors like if I start naming them
you’ll be like oh my God yes it’s a real
it’s a movie
movie she said Denzel not Denzel you’re
married ma’am sit
[Applause]
out not Denzel Denzel was out of the
budget maybe on the next maybe but if
anybody know Denzel you know what I’m
saying the internet is a powerful thing
if anybody know Denzel relationship goes
the
[Laughter]
[Applause]
movie it’s only
crazy y’all know
how anyway but currently to the budget
he is
not what the point I’m making is when I
decided to tithe there were already
blessings God had that he couldn’t
reveal to
me because if he would have revealed
them that would have been the
motivation and remember giving is all
about
the he says you can’t know what I have
up here because if you knew that you
everybody would do that yeah that don’t
take that would take somebody who don’t
believe in God would yes that makes
sense tithing is a two-way
test and I love this because you grow up
like don’t question God don’t don’t
first off he can handle all your
questions he is big enough to handle all
the stuff that people can’t answer and
he’s not obligated to tell you until you
get to heaven but he is big enough to
handle it
but this is one of the only places it
deliberately says test
me and and many people don’t know this
that are believers that every time you
get paid you take a
test whom will you honor with your
finances every time that check comes
direct deposit and the first thing that
goes out is who you
honorow and most most of us honored the
mortgage
company honored the car the the car
company for that car that really was a
self-esteem
boost cuz of the insecurity we actually
had on the inside of us and we thought
if we drove that name brand it would
make us feel better but we found out it
gets dirty and dusty like every other
car and now this payment is crushing me
but it is
not that bad that I would swallow my
problem
and turn that sign into a
Honda I’m talking about real stuff y’all
some of the stuff we don’t need to pray
about we just need to make a decision to
honor God with
it Malachi 3:10 try me test me he say
see if I won’t do so much more but you
got to make me your
foundation hey uh Charles will Scott
come here real quick last analogy we
going home um let’s say I’m going on a
trip and um I’m going to be gone for an
extended period of time y’all come right
here I’mma come be gone for an extended
period of time and um I want to provide
for Natalie my wife and um I’m taking
care of her but I want to provide some
extra finances just in case she gets in
a spot um and I’m going to give each one
of y’all
$10,000
every hold on it’s just an example okay
just an example Scott calm
down I’m going to provide $110,000 extra
for her through all of you and all I
want you to do is give her $1,000 each
time I send you the $10,000 the other
nine you can keep you can do whatever
you want to do with it but I just want
to give you um that money okay and what
if I talk to my wife every night what’s
up baby how you doing oh I miss you cing
y’all remember cing okay
cool
so I’m I’m talking to her and I’m like
hey you remember those finances that um
I was going to have Charles and uh will
and Scott give to you how’s it been
going and she’s like yeah so um Charles
sends
$1,000 every first and 15th like
clockwork it’s like $1,000 $1,000 like
it just keeps coming I’m like okay that
bet I said what about will will for some
reason since
2000 nice guy I was like what I was like
I just told him to send a th000 I know
but every first and 15th he sends 2,000
and it’s just been consistent all over
and I was like okay so what about the
thief I mean what about
[Laughter]
Scott and he said well let’s let’s talk
about Scott for a second God she said
the
first time he sent
700 the second time he sent five and
this last month he didn’t send
anything and I say
what Scott didn’t send nothing this last
one she said nothing I said but I gave
him the
$10,000 what the other the other nine is
his yeah but why would oh he spend it on
them shoes them shoes is
shine shoes is shining no this is just
an example yes sir okay listen listen to
what I’m
saying who would I stop sending
resources
to not watch this not cuz he’s a bad
person yeah yeah it’s cuz he didn’t do
what I asked to be done with the
resources and if you don’t believe
that’s real go study the parable of the
talents yeah where God literally took
from the one who did not do what he
asked him to do and he gave it to the
ones who W now listen listen to me this
is an example of me trying to provide
for my
bride but
Jesus Calls the
church his
bride and he set up a system that his
wife would always have wealth and
resources to be able to bless
people and when we don’t do with our
resources what but he’s given us the
ability to do it is he that gives us the
ability to produce wealth you’re working
that job but he’s the one that’s giving
you the activity of your limbs the
breath in your life the ability have
your right mind it’s
him and he’s saying you won’t even take
care of my
wife I can’t send no more seed to the
one who won’t
so could it be said that tithing may be
more personal to Jesus us than we
think would everybody
stand Hebrews
7 it says here mortal men receive
tithes but there it’s talking about in
heaven he Jesus receives
them of whom it is witness that he
lives hear what I’m saying at whatever
Church you go to if you’re watching this
online and transformation Nation
wherever you’re at if you give
here I I I need everybody to hear me and
everybody don’t stop moving yet it’s
like I got it Pastor I’m tithing I’m no
calm down hey wait a minute I’m going to
restore hope into you I I want you to
hear what I’m saying however you give by
passing buckets or plates or you send it
online or all that other stuff all I’m
asking everybody to do is make God the
foundation of your life not just in
words but in action how do I do that the
tithe if you work at McDonald’s and your
check is
$578 how much is the
Tie
$578 not you don’t got to round it
up it’s blessed at the
mark of the 10% and I think the reason
he did that is cuz it’s fair to
everybody if you make 300,000 or you
make
300 it’s one penny on every
on church I want to unlock
us and I believe today is going to be a
fresh foundation for so many people
under the sound of my voice I cannot
wait to hear the
testimonies of the fruit somebody
shouted me
fruit of making God your fresh
foundation and this is I have to say
this I hear you Holy Spirit some of you
are saying I make a lot of money do you
know how much money my tithe is
this is not everybody but I’m talking to
a small group of people cuz you if you
started actually tithing it’d be enough
to buy some cars and some
houses and some land and some
Investments and God says I can change
this if you want me to sir I can change
the dynamic of you having so much that
your tithe looks like somebody’s
income it reminds me a story in the
Bible where the man of God realized that
the people weren’t tithing I think it
was Hezekiah and he realized that he was
reading scriptures and found out that
tithing was before the law it was during
the law and it was after the law and he
realized that his his land the people he
was leading was under a curse because
they didn’t tithe and so he made a
decree that all of all of the people
should bring 10% to the house of God
whether that was a fruit or grain
whatever they had the increase of their
house they were to bring 10% he went
away and came back and he looked and it
was so much there as the 10% he said are
the people
okay this is so much and the people
reported back to him and this is what I
believe is going to happen for
transformation Nation he said oh this
just a
10% if you think this is a lot go see
the 90 that the people are living
in somebody should just clap right there
by faith there’s going to be a
turnaround in your finances in your
mindset in a fresh Foundation we’re not
looking to our job or career we’re
looking to Jehovah
Gyra our provider if you want a fresh
foundation in the area of finances and
make a fresh commitment to tithing to
whatever House of God that he’s called
you to would you just lift your hands
now listen before you lift your hands
this is not nobody taking a
screenshot to hold you
accountable nobody I’m just talking
about the
desire I don’t know how it’s going to
happen right now I got to go back and
crunch a bunch of I got the captain and
crunch these numbers I don’t know how
this is going to work I don’t but if you
have the
desire I want you to lift your hands in
this place come on father I’m
praying and the authority that you’ve
given
me and I thank you Father God that just
as you broke the spirit of poverty lack
and low thinking over my life I thank
you for the people that you’ve called to
this house and those father who have the
faith to connect with this word I thank
you that you would start a
transformation on the inside of every
person under the sound of my voice that
would change
generational relationships with Finance
forever God I thank you that they would
see you as the source of their
life that the job is a
resource that the entrepreneur Endeavor
is a resource that the that the thing
that everybody’s getting into right
that’s just a resource but you are our
Source
God and we decide to build our
life on a sure
Foundation God I thank you for wisdom
right now for every person under the
sound of my voice that you’re going to
show them the areas that need they need
to be intentional to make a
transformation in this one area of
tithing and God I thank you for
longevity commitment and I thank you for
the blessing open up the windows of
Heaven and pour them out a blessing they
don’t have room enough to receive thank
you that our minds are changed because
we have a fresh Foundation by honoring
you where our treasure is our heart
would be and father we are telling you
our treasure will always be found in
your heart in your house we give you
glory we give you honor and we give you
praise in Jesus name right there in this
same moment before we go there’s some
people that they need a heart
transfusion yeah you can’t believe God
for your finances cuz you’ve never given
him your
life and right now if you’re in this
room and you’ve never given Jesus your
life today I want to offer you the most
amazing
opportunity it will redeem you from the
curse from Every curse the curse of your
families the curses of people you got to
get under the wisdom the life of Jesus
today it changed me I can stand as a
testimony from a liar manipulator
addicted to pornography had all kinds of
crazy things in my heart and it changed
me not to a perfect man but a
progressing man a man who is standing
firm on the foundation of Jesus today I
want to offer you that if you’re sick of
running you’re tired you’re weary come
to Jesus today is the day of salvation I
need the church to begin to pray cuz
somebody soul is in the balance right
now tomorrow is not promised but we got
this moment right here and I believe
that God’s been drawing you all week
even if you’re watching online somebody
brought you I’m telling you this is your
moment right now to receive Jesus I
don’t care what you will lose you will
gain way
more you want fruit in your life make
Jesus the foundation of your faith on
the count of three if that’s you you
want to make Jesus your personal Lord
and Savior I don’t care how old you are
I want you to lift your hand one you’re
making the greatest decision you’ve ever
made two I’m proud of you but your name
is going to be written in the Lamb’s
Book of Life three shoot it up strong
proud I see you my brother I see a whole
row I see you glory to God oh
Transformation Church I see you glory to
God husband and wife thank you Lord
online just just go ahead and put your
hand up in the chat glory to God hey at
TC we’re a family we all going to lift
our hands and pray this somebody say God
God thank you thank you for sending
Jesus sending Jes just for me today I
give you my life give you and make you
my fresh Foundation
thank you thank you for living for Liv
the life I couldn’t live the life I
couldn’t live and changing my life renew
me and transform me I’m yours in Jesus
name Inus amen all over this place can
we give God a shout of Praise oh come on
can we celebrate people who just gave
their life to Jesus hey I want to take a
moment again before we jump off and say
thank you our church is not built on one
individual but on the sacrifice of so
many and you being a part it means the
world so thanks for watching the message
I also want to say thank you to the
thousands of people around the world who
are generous it means the world and we
are able to represent we’re able to be
generous to meet the needs of people
because of your giving if you haven’t
taken the step to give trust me there is
no pressure at all but if you feel led
you can text the word give to 82 8282 or
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and live a transform
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