Kill’em With Kindness // Receipts: The Proof Is In The Fruit ( Part 8) // Michael Todd

#miketodd #transformationchurch #transformationworship

Many of us profess to be Christians, but truly walking in the fruit of the Spirit means reflecting Christ-like behavior in our actions. Pastor Mike explained the critical difference between being nice and being kind. Kindness, as a fruit of the Spirit, goes beyond surface-level niceness; it stems from a compassionate and selfless heart posture. We pray this message renews your understanding of kindness and inspires you to live out this new revelation in your daily life. Scripture References: Galatians 5:22-23 NLT Romans 12:17-20 NKJV 2 Timothy 3:1-5 NKJV Genesis 1:27 NIV Luke 10:30-32 NLT Luke 10:33-37 NLT Titus 3:3-5 NLT Join Transformation Church for our 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 & based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. GIVE To support this ministry & help us continue to reach people all around the world: https://transformchurch.us/give/ STAY CONNECTED

NEXT STEPS

#transformationchurch #transformationworship #liveworship #sermon #preaching #onlinechurch #miketodd #livesermon #bible #theology #michaeltodd #tcnation #sermon #church #onlineexperience

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

watching it means the world to us that

you would be a part no matter where

you’re watching from no matter who you

are I’m believing that this message is

going to encourage your faith and

hopefully transform your life if you

haven’t yet make sure you take a moment

subscribe to the YouTube channel not for

us but really for you we want to be a

resource to encourage your faith and be

with you on this journey of following

Jesus again thank you so much for

joining us enjoy the message today I

hope it blesses

you all

right

well um I’m going to tell you something

that has um in my many years of Walking

with God has um been an agitant of

change for me this is not at all how I

planned to come into this but the holy

spirit is doing his thing

today um one of the things that starts

working out of me what’s in me is when

God challenges me to

give and it has nothing to do with what

I get get out of

it and it’s going to get quiet in the

church and it’s

okay but many of us have had greed and

selfishness worked into our hearts at

such a

level that when God ask us for something

we act like it’s our untrusted unworthy

cousin y’all know them people like you

ain’t never driving my car like those

people many times that’s the attitude

and the Heart posture when God ask us

for

something like his grace and mercy

hasn’t been new every morning like he

hasn’t put us in positions and places we

know we didn’t qualify for but somehow

got and um I was thinking about like you

know as a church we step in every year

to this season of crazy faith and this

year we’re calling it crazy fruit and I

just wanted to take five minutes at the

top and tell you why this is

important I don’t want to convince

anybody of anything some people have

already decided in their heart that they

are giving or they’re not giving I I

believe it’s my duty as a pastor of this

church that God has been so good to to

allow you to at least get in on this

level of blessing and not gatekeep for

you there were too many people

gatekeeping the blessing of God off of

my life cuz they wouldn’t give me the

information and the real raw facts about

what God’s word said and how it worked

in their life all we saw a lot of time

was everybody in the church give and

then the pastor rolling around in a big

Cadillac and you never knew what

happened I want to tell you how God

changed my

life in the area of Finance Trust

generosity and

surrender I read scriptures for years of

people telling me that everything

belongs to God and then I started

working and I realized that it feel like

it belonged to me oh y’all going to be

faking here with me it feel like I

worked really hard for this and that’s

my name on that W2 line feels like this

is mine and God said as long as you feel

that way that’s what you’ll

have keep doing

it and I realized I loved god listen to

what I’m about to say but I did not

trust

him I loved God I did not trust him with

my

future I I did not trust him with my

finances and I want you to ask

yourself do you love God

and do you trust

him or do you love him excluding trust

and that sounds crazy right now but if I

got up here and said man I love my wife

now I mean she’s so beautiful and

gracious and kind I love her with all my

heart but I don’t trust her everybody be

like red

flag why that man just get up here and

tell us that he love his wife but don’t

trust her and in church we think it’s

synonymous we think loving God and

trusting him is the same thing and it’s

not so for decades of my life I this is

for all the people who be like give us

the real tell us the truth I’m telling

you right now for years of my life I

loved God did not trust him and I didn’t

even have no

money it be the wildest thing making

$22,000 a year that ain’t no money if

you making that we are praying for you

cuz I was there

making $22,000 that’s no money and I

still loved them but didn’t trust

them and what I learned is it wasn’t

because I didn’t want to trust them I

just didn’t have enough

understanding and I felt like anytime

anybody talked about money they was

trying to manipulate or con me into

something so I’m going give it to you

the the coldest most simplest way in 3

minutes and I’m going to use these

stairs

when we come into a relationship with

God everybody starts at this

place they start at the floor with their

ability to trust God in the area of

finance and then God says all right I

want to take you up levels somebody say

there’s levels to this to this and what

I found is there’s a trick to

trust and I want you to hear me say this

God says in this word I want everybody

no matter who you are I want you to

designate 10% of your increase to come

back to the house of God now there are

people who feel all type of different

ways in this all I want to say is in

March I’mma teach about finances I’m

going to give you the whole thing but

what I want to let you know is tithing

is Old Testament before the Covenant in

it and after it argue with your mama I

got scripture for all of it

but the truth of the matter is us

fighting about is it scriptural actually

comes down to a deeper heart

issue when people 10 why not 20% why not

30% you don’t give

that people that convince me and go back

and forth with me about like I give more

than 10 you’re a

liar because if you won’t give the bare

minimum it’s the floor not the

ceiling so what God has everybody to do

is watch this tithe what is tithe it’s

obedience I need to make this clear

distinction tithing giving 10% of your

resources back to God’s house is not

listen to me it’s not

generosity I’ve been generous no you

haven’t it’s

returning so if I give you my keys or my

credit card yeah and you give it back to

me you weren’t generous to

me you just return to me what I already

gave you yes sir yes sir and so this is

what I this is the cool thing about

tithing it’s the only place in the Bible

where God says try

it try it sir sir test me see if you

don’t trust me in this area consistently

see what I won’t do

and so many people make it like this

thing where God’s religiously he’s

trying to bless

you but this takes you being obedient

and so the first level is stepping from

here and saying I’m going to

tithe I want everybody to hear me say

this in this crazy fruit offering I

don’t want you to think about giving

some big

amount if you have never been consistent

in

tithing I would rather a long-term

transformation for your

life then then then some oh yeah I gave

God 500 I gave him five he said that’s

not that’s like going to the gym one

time a

year

sir and some of us go one it don’t

matter if you stay in there 24

hours and you lift all the weights

tomorrow you will

say tomorrow your body fat will be the

same and I just want to be real with the

I don’t want to gatekeep this that’s

good one of the greatest things you

could do for your life your family your

mind and your future is to make a

decision is did from from this point

on I am going to be

consistent in trusting God with the

tithe I’m going to everybody say this

word

tryy

try but there’s another level this is

where generosity is unlocked when you

give an offering now hear what I’m

saying cuz nobody in church ever told me

this tithing is required to God’s

house offering happens wherever God

says Hear Me pastors and churches have

made it to where like if you if you tied

here when God tells you to give

something else you give an offering here

that’s a lot

stop that may be

manipulation I’m supposed to once I’ve

settled what God has told me to settle

in the tithe then he knows that he has

trust that I can be a conduit wherever

I’m

at so I can be on the street I can be at

the basketball ball game I can be at

somebody’s Mastermind I can be at a

school and God says give them

$50 give them $100 yes sir hey go up to

that Lemonade Stand where those girls

are are selling lemonade to go to the

thing and ask them how much they need

for their whole

team to go on the trip they’re trying to

raise 200 but they need 2,000 go find

out what the need and those are

considered offerings

the reason we don’t get to this place is

because this place takes

trust see this down here to go from here

to here is just a

try but when you go from here to here

you got to try cuz sometimes it don’t

make sense that’s right hold on that

2000 was for my

kids to go on family

vacation and you just told me to give it

to them

kids who don’t look like they love you

Lord and then we start trying to qualify

where our offerings

go well they look like they got money

come on have you ever felt compelled to

do something and then you trying to add

and subtract on people like well that

hair is 300 and then my eyelash is 150

and y’all

[Music]

know easy and God said I I want you to

be a river not a

[Music]

reservoir because offering is about

watch this down here was

obedience it’s trying but right here

watch this it’s about future

abundance cuz offerings are called a

seed all I’m trying to do at this level

is plant for the future amen and there

are too many people that get to their

future and be

disappointed not because they’re not

good people it’s cuz when it was time to

plant they never put any seed in the

ground what I’m trying to encourage

every person in here the Bible tells it

I’m not going through a bunch of

scriptures today because this is

supposed to be my opener and I’m going

to have 22 minutes left to teach y’all

the message I got to teach you but I got

to keep going because somebody needs I

wish somebody would have told me at 19

when I was spending money on fake

[Music]

Jordans I’m pulling up at the gas

station dude’s popping his trunk taking

$80 for the Jordan and the Jordan ain’t

even all the way

like he’s not even flying all the way

he’s y’all know what don’t look down

don’t look down don’t look

down I had no no

clue that I was giving away my

seed I didn’t know that that mattered to

my kids

future nobody was telling me plant plant

plant plant one day you’re going to live

in the

forest of the seed you PL your kids will

find

shade in the seeds your kids will eat

from the seeds you planted but everybody

was making it like I was losing when I

obeyed

God I’m just trying not to gatekeep

right now we stand in lines for Black

Friday sales that a are really gray yeah

they’re not even black no more 20 20% is

not a good

sale next year it’s gonna be called

Grace great Friday cuz I got to do

something but literally we feel like

we’re getting a

bargain to get something that was

overpriced at a moment it’s cut down and

we go out of there feeling like we won

and we ain’t swn no

seed for future

abundance I would have rather you go out

there and look for who you was going to

bless

[Music]

some of y’all should have took that $500

and broke it into 20s and walked through

them stores Holy Spirit lead me show me

who’s out here that’s about to go into

debt and you giv me resources to give an

offering and just to say God loves you

and he told me to come I’m just

saying cuz you never know if one of

those people turn into your

child or

you y’all hear what I’m saying so down

here

right he says just obey me try it tith

you step up to a new

level but then he says go another level

give every time I tell you to

give be ready at any

occasion to get see even just that small

thing do you prepare to give I used to

be lazy and I would not have any cash on

me so that wouldn’t have any cash on

me I don’t I don’t oh man I don’t even

oh

man giving yourself a full body

massage but you didn’t

plan to be

generous the people who roll with me

know mo I’ll tell them hey bro go get

this out of the account put in my bag

you need it for something I just got to

be ready

and sometimes sit there for

months and sometimes

minutes no no no no I want you to hear

what I’m saying sometimes it’s there for

months and sometimes it’s there for

minutes cuz God said I got need of

it you said it was mine right here we go

so to he but

then there’s one more level yes sir and

I only found out about this level about

seven years ago go I thought it was

tithe offering and then you good then I

started reading in the Bible the Bible

is kind of one of them things that’s

crazy cuz the more you start reading it

and the more time you spend in it you

start seeing stuff that you done read

before but it didn’t talk to you like

that before and I was

reading how Solomon when they went to

build the

temple that the the customary

requirement was one bull

[Music]

sacrifice one

bull do you know what this man pulled up

on the scene

with

1,000 when the requirement

was now I just want you to come with me

on the journey to Wrangle up a thousand

Bulls this is what we call a sacrificial

offering this one is going to take

something from you that you may never

see back in the same

way we have no record of Solomon getting

a th1 bulls

back we have no record of 100f on

bulls cuz a lot of times when we give

sacrificially we’re like all right we

gave God a thousand

100,000 would be

nice but the sacrificial offering goes

past

denominators and

monetary it gets into the

supernatural it gets into the stuff

money can’t

buy it gets into the level and the lane

that allows things that even if you had

all the money in the

world that that could solve

and I stepped off into this about seven

years

ago in a way where I knew that this is

where God was calling me and this church

to live I don’t know if you know it but

the way that we give as a church is not

normal three weeks ago we gave $600,000

away to other

churches

now now

it’s so funny we live in such an alien

planet as Transformation Church we don’t

even know that that’s

crazy which is

good

also May desensitize

us to the level of house you’ve been

called

to I believe that the majority of this

church is supposed to live at the level

of sacrificial giving now now before cuz

some of y’all was like oh may need to go

to the church I I felt it but let me

tell you two things God never asked for

what he hasn’t already given

you there has not been one

time that God has asked me for something

that I didn’t have

it the question was was I going to give

it

so no matter how much the amount was no

matter what the number was he had

blessed me to the point where I could

consider

it cuz he’s not unjust or now sometimes

did it take me selling some stuff or

parting with some stuff or not yeah but

it was a

sacrifice and this is what I’m going to

say to

everybody when you get to this place

remember at the bottom it was trying at

at offering is trusting God at this

place this is God trusting

you you missed

it let me go

back at this I don’t even really know if

God going to do it so I’mma everybody

say try I’mma try to

tithe all right Lord you have been

faithful there’s always you’ve always

met my need like dang

where I was three years ago and how I’m

still here and what you did golly no it

ain’t as much as I really want but

wow so then he says trust me get what I

tell you

offering oh man I felt really good to

actually believe you see you do it and

then see the fruit of that in another

season this last one sacrificial

[Music]

oh

snap this is not me trusting

you this is you in trusting

me remember the story of the

talents it says the Kingdom of Heaven is

like a man that goes away and

usts his wealth to three different

servants what would it look like like

for everybody in this

church to not just trust God but to be

trusted by

God here what I’m saying to you it’s

wrapped up in how we view what God’s

already given us the ability to have so

what I’m asking everybody to do as a

church I want you to

pray and whatever level you’re

at

whatever I want you to take a step to

the next

level so this your first time coming to

church you 20s something or you 60

something and you ain’t never tithed

before you ain’t never heard of it you

look like you got enough money Pastor

Mike it look like the church is doing

fine look at that big old screen look it

look like this ain’t got nothing to do

with the

screen absolutely no I really want you

to hear me say this this has everything

to do with your heart

this ain’t about the church the church

going to be all right this is God’s

church but it’s your house not under the

blessing it needs to

be cuz you won’t take this step and

everybody say

try if you’re here all I’m asking you to

do and it’s one penny on every dime if

you made

$4 your tithe 40 cents

and God looks at that the same way he

looks at somebody giving

40,000 they don’t even get it how can I

prove it to you at the time when

everybody in the town was giv big bucks

Jesus calls attention to one woman to

all his disciples he says everybody look

at her I said what she giving two mites

that ain’t nothing

Jesus she gave

out of

her the reason this connects with me is

because there’s been many times where uh

I told Charles this story earlier when

Bishop was um about to pay off the

building

um we came to a space where people were

giv sacrificially and I remember I just

bought a

home and we were taking advantage of in

the home and it was our first winter we

just brought home

Bella and uh we went to turn on the heat

and the heat didn’t

work coldest winter um that Tulsa had

seen up until that point we are

literally in the house with 10 space

heaters which everybody knows that is a

hazard and a half but we were

cold and our newborn was in there and

God told us for the first time to move

into sacrificial

giving and me and

Natalie we’ve been doing this been doing

this he said step into

this and I said Lord it’s

cold and why does the exact

amount that it costs to put the heat in

is the exact amount

you asking me

for this is the

devil can I be honest with

you he said the devil never asked you to

give devil never ask you to do

that me and Natalie looked at each other

and we gave for the first time in our

life as young newly married never was

about to take over the church didn’t

know it like we’re out here trusting you

none of this was in a forecast we didn’t

have no crystal ball no prophetic y’all

be thinking like oh you knew we didn’t

know

nothing relationship goes wasn’t a thing

we didn’t have I didn’t have a car at

the time I’m now I’m I’m having a

flashback hold

up I didn’t have a car at the time Bri

was letting me use her

Sonata that’s a real

thing like

and God said Mike when you give this

it’s going to break something over your

life and I can tell you from that moment

to this

moment God has done something

supernaturally in my

life that proves that he trust

me and so whenever it comes time to give

to

him I can’t I mean what I’m about to say

today I’m challenging every person under

the sound of my voice this is going to

be prophetic for your future to whatever

step if you need to tithe tithe try God

if you need to step into give offerings

trust God and if God’s requiring you and

your husband or your wife or your

children or y’all coming together or you

bu yourself to step into sacrificial

giving listen to me one is not better

than the other so good

there is not a level that God then says

yay he says obedience to what I told you

to

do cuz I don’t know if I told y’all one

time I did too much and God was

unpleased y’all ain’t never heard no

preacher tell this story but God told me

to pay off half of somebody’s car and I

paid the whole thing cuz I had it and he

said you’re

disobedient and you stop the blessing I

said Lord I thought more was always

better he says

obedience is always better than your

sacrifice he said I meant for you to do

half and I had three other people that

were going to do you took away their

opportunity at the level that they were

at to walk in a

blessing you did it out of Pride and ego

cuz you had it and you disobeyed me

y’all this is not about anything except

obedience amen amen so um as we come

together next week families are going to

come together people are going to uh fly

in um there are going to be people that

give online um I believe this is going

to be a holy

thing some of us know ourselves we need

to go ahead and do it this week cuz you

know if it’s sitting in there it’s going

to burn a hole y’all already know it’s

it’s already that Amazon car is full of

Disobedience did y’all hear I mean come

on let’s be

honest all right this is what I’m G to

do today I I had an assignment and I

believe I just uh finished

it but I have to give you one piece of

the message that I was going to speak

and I believe God wants me to speak I’ve

tried to speak this three time twice

this this is the

yeah um I love God because when he when

he allows you to prepare then he can

just do what he wants to do I’m just I’m

I’m in his hands so let me say this um

everybody just listen to me I got 13

minutes this going to be the shortest

message I ever

preached

um I wanted to preach a message today

I’m going to preach a message today

called kill him with

kindness write it down

kill them with

kindness and we’re going to leave all of

this everything I just did is the sermon

so just keep it

all kill them with kindness

um the subtitle of this message is

behave like

Christians say it with me behave

like look at your neighbor and say it

like you a

mama look at them and say

behave like a

Christian okay pick your other neighbor

who I don’t know why you didn’t pick

them the first time but now you got to

pick on and tell them

behave like a

Christian now I didn’t pick this

subtitle this subtitle picked

me because it was the title in the Bible

when I looked at the scripture

in Romans 12:1

17 it literally the title said behave

like a

Christian in verse 17 it said repay no

one evil for

evil have a regard for good things in

the sight of all men if it is

possible as much as it depends on you

live

peaceably with all men beloved

do

not avenge my God

yourselves that’s a hard one to get

out do

not

avenge your but God they do

not avenge but don’t nobody talk about

my do

not avenge yourself but they got one

more time oh y’all

know do

not avenge yourselves

look

rather give place to

wrath now hold on wait

whoa don’t avenge

yourself but give place to wrath which

means wrath is not a human human

response wrath is something that we have

to leave space for so something Divine

can do

it the thing that needs to happen to the

people who are coming after your sanity

your peace your your your you in the

[Music]

way do not avenge it yourself but

rather give room give

place for God to do whatever he wants to

do for it is written vengeance is

mine I will repay says the Lord

therefore this is your job and this my

job this is what God saying my job is

wrath get out the way

your

job if your enemy’s hungry feed

them if your enemy’s thirsty looking a

little

parched give them something to

drink for in doing

so you will Heap hot coals of fire on

his head do not be overcome by evil but

overcome evil

with

good Christians aren’t leaving

space for God to be God and for you to

be

kind come after

me I’mma back up and ask you are you

thirsty you talk about my

family I’mma back up cuz I got to leave

space cuz what I want to

do is get real close to you and let you

know I ain’t no punk you

understand okay oh can we be honest with

real feelings I’m I’mma let you

know but I can’t even do that

the

V you need to back that

thing some of y’all knew where I was

going just in just

in y’all knew what I’m telling you right

now when evil starts to rise in your

heart you better back that

[Applause]

thing now I have a whole song in my head

head all I’m trying to say is too many

Believers now are going towards

it which is

Disobedience to what he said to do he

said don’t repay that evil with evil

don’t get on your don’t get your Twitter

finger don’t start making rebuttal

videos don’t start getting a new podcast

don’t do that you better back that thing

up he

said he he said if you don’t make space

both of y’all get the

[Applause]

Wrath if you don’t if you don’t make

space when I decide to

judge you’re in the

[Music]

line and too many Believers God’s

holding his hand get out of

there get out them

comments get out that

email get out that rabbit hole get out

stop cuz what you’re doing is you’re in

the line of

fire I’m just protecting my family name

you can’t do that

anyway there’s nothing you’ve ever said

that has made your family name go to the

top of the

list like just think about it

make

space and this is where I just need to

tell everybody kindness isn’t

conditional it’s a

command when we talk about receipts and

fruits of the spirit and some of us

think that it’s a personality trait oh

there just a kind person

no this is something that is produced by

the Holy Spirit and and and I just need

to say that as a point kind isn’t a

personality type it’s a principle of the

Kingdom

so if you profess to love God and you

are not kind you are a

fraud I’m going say it real well I just

want to be direct with people if God was

as direct with

you as you are with

people would he be considered a kind and

merciful god well they just need to know

hold on wait a

minute but there’s everything can be

done wrapped well they need to feel the

sting of this did you feel the sting of

sin I’m just trying to I’m just trying

to figure out are we playing with

different metrics

here what what I’m saying is if you’re a

Christian you are supposed to be

kind everybody say I’m kind even if

you’re not by

faith no no no no no no no I I I’m see

some of y’all ain’t even watch this some

of us haven’t even thought this was a

trait to be

admirable cuz all the kind people you

know get

played and so you don’t even think it’s

something to be admired to be kind yet

out of everything the Bible says that we

should possess as fruits of our

relationship with the Holy Spirit he

said you should be with me and when you

get with them they should consider you

you

kind oh my

God and the reason I had to bring this

out is because I think kind is kind of

confused it’s kind of confused cuz

people mistake nice and

kind and I’m about to teach you in the

four minutes I got left the difference

between nice and kind will you put it on

the screen remember kindness is a fruit

of the you can’t can’t be kind without

him I need you to keep this in the

Forefront of your mind you cannot be

kind without the Holy Spirit you can be

nice without the Holy Spirit you cannot

be kind without the Holy Spirit people

have jacked up definitions but God tells

us a fruit of the

spirit is

kindness so when somebody is nice put it

up there they can actually be polite

but to be kind is a heart

posture my heart posture has to be like

no matter what I’m about to walk into

and no matter how they about to treat me

and no matter what’s about to happen

thank you Holy Spirit for transforming

my life so much that I used to be like

them I used to look at people like that

God I thank you that you’re expanding my

heart for grace for people who don’t

even understand what I’m going through

and that I’m this close to the edge and

they don’t know me I used to be an MMA

boxer and I’d break their neck and

another season but God I thank you that

you have brought me a my God I thank you

that you brought me a mighty long way I

thank you that I don’t fight with my

fist no more I thank you that I

fight and what ends up happening is my

heart

posture so we meet a lot of nice

people but when you’re kind that’s

empowered by the spirit go to the second

one when you’re nice cuz I want to

unconfuse this for us nice people keep

it

surface how you doing oh look at that

yeah oh where’d you get that that’s nice

a you met people that you think are are

nice but you don’t know them enough to

give them an any different

definition so nice yeah my Barista

they’re so

nice yet to their

spouse they’re abusive yeah

it’s because you only know them on the

surface so nice is

surface but kind is a

sacrifice to be kind to some people some

to be kind to my wife to be kind to my

kids this my kids they look like

me you just you just you

you just spilled the last of the

juice it don’t be it don’t be hard

stuff it don’t I don’t know if there’s

any parents that’ll back me up in here

I’ve been waiting to eat for two

hours and I saved everything

specifically for this

moment and that’s my juice

I’m so sorry Daddy I didn’t mean to I

know you didn’t mean

to I know you didn’t mean

to I’m

talking but what does it look like to be

kind watch this when you’re in

Conflict that’s empowered by the

holy let me keep going some people are

nice and when you’re nice keep going put

it up there it’s an

acknowledgment like ah you did good oh

that was so nice for them to notice

me it’s oh man nobody nobody ever does

that like that you’re powerful that’s a

nice thing but when you get to kind it’s

active so so kind requires something of

Me Okay nobody’s ever done it like like

that so I’m going to call the three

people that I know that can take that to

the next level for you and I’m going to

set up a meeting for you and I know this

has nothing to do with me but I know the

people that can take what you just did

to the next level so I’m about to get

active I’m about to do something that is

a sacrifice that actually is not just

polite it’s my heart posture I’m walking

into the room looking how I can help how

I can give and I’m about to get active

and they didn’t answer my first phone

call let me text you back I did call

them but I know they’re out right now so

let me get back to you I’m about to

get and there are too many Believers

that are

nice but not

kind you have a couch that could furnish

somebody’s

apartment and you’re sick of the couch

and you’re going to throw it away

because you don’t want to take the time

to have to put it on a truck to get it

to somebody

I didn’t say it you said it she said

that’s lazy I didn’t say

it one thing it is not is not

kind okay let’s keep going we’re almost

there do y’all get y’all hear what I’m

saying nice is being

considerate no you can have the parking

face no no no no you no no no you know

what I’m saying you doing a little inch

forward and like no no no you no no no

no you no no no no no no like and then

finally y’all about to get in a car

accident cuz nobody goes like okay it’s

consider it kind is

compassionate it’s it’s it’s being in

the parking space wi in the parking

space and then

seeing uhuh uh uh uh uh

and you didn’t even notice that they had

a special needs sticker on the back of

their

car the reason they needed that parking

spot cuz if you would have saw the

special needs sticker you would have

been

nice but that conviction of the Holy

Spirit made you compassionate and you

didn’t even know why but it was

something that came on the inside of you

and and you saw that she oh than

cuz you don’t know what it is to lift up

that 80 lb boy into the wheelchair and

then have

to the church can’t just be

nice we have to be

kind and kindness is only empowered by

the Holy

Spirit and many of us let our

preferences and our opinions and our

beliefs and our Poli IAL parties and our

the color of people’s skin make us nice

to people and not

kind there are a lot of white people

that are nice to black

people I’ll even let you talk to me I’ll

come to your

church but I never been to your

house y’all saw her quiet it just

got because we can live in a world where

we’re nice to each

other but you could give me a

job and you could promote me too cuz you

see how I

work but you’ve been nice to me but the

Holy Spirit hasn’t allowed you to

be oh and black

people do not think for a second you

like the man no no no come

here you can be nice to to your

boss but make jokes about them behind

their back all the

time you can talk about uh oh my my

analogies just went very they went too

real so I’m going to I’m going to come

back

up what I’m saying is

racially

spiritually maybe we don’t just need to

be nice to each

other maybe we need to be

there’s no better story of this than the

Good

Samaritan where where this man gets beat

up and and and literally gets mugged

everything stolen from him and the

pastor walks by and prays for him on the

Move hope I hope God does something for

him then the worship leader walks by and

says late in the Midnight Hour

God’s going to turn it

around and then somebody that was a

different

ethnicity didn’t even

know what was happening the Bible

says they felt

compassion and their compassion made

them go to this person ah y’all just got

to see it this my last scripture okay I

want to go to Luke uh 10 1030 then the

despised Samaritan came along and when

he saw the man he felt compassion for

him going over to him the Samaritan

watch this soothed his wounds with olive

oil and wine and B bandaged him he had

to take something he already had and

give it to somebody he didn’t

know ol of that would have been his

resources he gave to somebody with no

guarantee of giving back to them then he

put the man on his donkey and took him

to an end where he took care of him the

next day he handed the inkeeper two

silver coins telling him take care of

this man if his bill runs higher than

this I’ll pay you the next time I’m here

think about this think about going to

the most expensive hotel in this city

putting somebody in the hotail knowing

they’re broke down and then saying they

don’t have a time limit

let them stay here as long as they need

to and if they run it up I’ll take care

of it when I come

back most of us would have been like hey

give them two

nights no come

on give them two nights and then give

them a Contin little breakfast on the

way out on the third what time y’all

start Charing to make sure they’re gone

at 1:30

but this man was

kind he said I don’t know how this is

going to impact me but I’m moved with

compassion look what it says this is

Jesus talking now which one of these

three people the pastor who prayed for

him on the move the worship leader who

sang to him but didn’t stop for him

which one of these would you say was a

neighbor to the man who was attacked by

aband Jesus asked the man replied the

one who showed him Mercy then Jesus said

yes now go and do the

same see being nice put that thing back

on here we’re about to close being

nice nice is

selective you can be nice to people in

your

group nice to people who believe like

you nice to people who go to your church

nice to people who your kids play soccer

with nice to the come on nice is

selective kind

selfless this is the fruit of the spirit

and many of us watch this to be kind

we’re going to have to face the culture

that has raised us

your the complex of how you view the

culture of your life is going to come in

conflict with being kind to

people cuz if somebody has on a make

America great hat there are people in

this room and listening to me that would

not help

them oh no

Christians oh I’m

please know I’m not talking to anybody

other than

Believers and please don’t act

shocked be because there are certain

people if they wore an Obama shirt or a

cam camela Harris

shirt you would

not even think

twice about inviting them to your church

and it’s so crazy that a

person can be dehumanized to the point

yes that what they wear or what they

believe

currently makes them no longer your

brother and sister in

[Music]

Christ the the claps are weak and

weary and it’s not me this the

Bible and the truth is most Christians

aren’t acting like Christians

I had a stat in my message that said in

the 50 78% of America went to some type

of religious experience yearly it’s less

than 30%

now do you know why the number one

reason of all the people pulled is

because they say Christians are

judgmental and

unkind how in the

world is the thing Jesus know for we

don’t look anything

like no I’m I’m for real y’all you’ve

been mean to people for years and won’t

apologize if they’re on the worship team

you’ll make it right so you can use

their

gift but the

person who has been has no consequence

on what happened on the platform but as

a child of

God where’s the

comp it’s time for us to not be

selective for us to be empowered by the

Holy Spirit to be selfless two more

being nice is being passively

agreeable yeah yeah yeah yeah I kind of

believe that yeah yeah come on yeah

that’s okay that that doesn’t offend me

so okay cool

being

kind means that you can completely

disagree with

me and I’m powerfully

[Music]

anchored I do not have to agree with

you to actually be kind with

you there are people that think things

about me in this

church that have nothing

but fabricated

ideas I’m being very kind with my

words straight up

lies

yet God tells me to give to some of

them now you want to do

lunch and I don’t want to

go okay

I I don’t want to go because the Lord’s

still

working but I’m going start by sending

you a

video I’m I’m okay I’m being too real

right

now I’m who to give to somebody put them

on the list ooh not them God said

exactly them

oh but Lord I have screens

shaved what they said about

me so somebody sent it to

me I didn’t even ask for

it but they told their whole

congregation in the same

city give to them Lord be kind Holy

Spirit

activate come on

y’all this will not be me

and God says this is you backing

up and making

space hey Doc just want to thank you

brother you don’t know what this means

to what God is doing

yeah hey bro just want to let you know

God’s thinking of

you and uh I was going to lie and say

I’m praying for you and so watch what

I’m telling y’all a real story and so I

feel naked up here

okay and in my mind I was like tell them

you praying for him and the Holy Spirit

said pray for him

now I get so weak in the knes I can

hardly I y’all it almost took me

out cuz I’m about to lie I was about to

do Christian lying hey I’ll be praying

for you do no I haven’t have not been

praying for

you can I be honest

y’all hey bro you’re on God’s mind

that’s right cuz you wasn’t on

mine and bro I just let me pray for you

father thank you for blessing this man

of God thank you for blessing their

Ministry thank you that their their

marriage would be strong father and just

thank you thank you Lord that and

somewhere in the the

middle of me

making that video a damn broken my

[Music]

heart and it was almost like it BEC it

became I saw

myself and I saw my friends and I saw I

don’t know what made him say that but

Lord and I just thank you that anything

that’s been a pressure on

him any lie that’s ever been spoken God

would you and I mean it just started

gushing out that wasn’t

me that wasn’t my

flesh that was me being

impowered by the Holy Spirit to be kind

standing all over this

building last one

nice nice is something that you make an

idea is good and it becomes

self-improved

Improvement I’m going to be

nicer I’m going to be nicer to

people but being

nice is self-improvement being kind

listen is Spirit

empowered don’t just make a decision to

be

nice every person in this room if you

are a believer in

Jesus you should

be kind I’m going to pray for every

person that you would allow the Holy

Spirit watch this everybody listen I

know you’re excited to leave but hear

what I’m

saying cuz this would be all for nothing

if you go out of here and act the same

way I want you to ask the Holy

Spirit what ideas you have to let go of

to actually be

kind one of the ideas let me give you an

example I am time to go all into it but

an example was I was weak

if I was

kind in the face of

adversity bring the thing real fast in

my closing can you bring that real quick

just get just bring it real fast you

don’t even got to bring it on the table

just bring yeah just bring it because

this is what tries to

happen is when people get in a hot

situation a pressure situation a tension

situation what ends up happening is it’s

trying to change your

character hear what I’m saying to you

you and what ends up happening is we are

not supposed to allow the situation to

turn us into something we’re not

supposed to be so this is burning hot

water and burning hot water when I put

an egg in it it becomes hard on the

inside and there are too many people

that when God puts you in a tension

situation or a boiling situation or a

pressure situation you do not look like

God you become hard yeah and there are

people under the sound of my

voice your

heart something that’s supposed to

flow is now very

stationary and today I Believe by the

power of the Holy Spirit there’s

something that’s going to change in your

heart and then there’s another group of

people that when they’re put under

pressure you just become soft and

mushy nothing in you will stand for

anything

when you’re put in pressure you lose

your convictions cuz you can be kind and

still have a

conviction and most people think that

letting anything happen is kind no no no

no no no you can’t talk to my kids any

type of way I’m telling you no no no no

no you can cuss to your kids but I’m

kindly letting you know that language is

not okay around

them and so so many people think that we

have to let anything that anybody does

go or we’re not being

kind the goal is not to get hard or to

get mushy the goal is that when there is

something that is hot and pressure is

put on us we would release an

aroma see if you were close to this

right now you would smell the raspberry

and the Jasmine and you would smell the

things because when I get put into hot

situations what comes up off of me it

smells like him y’all don’t hear what

I’m saying it’s in his kindness and his

mercy so you got all you want to say

about me all you about to smell is

something

[Music]

sweet

this is what the believer should

be not hard not soft

but let it be a

sweet

sweet

smell let it be a

sweet

sweet smell at your

job with your

family let it be

as with your

wife with your

husband it’s time for the church

Christians to

be

kind everybody that is under the sound

of my voice I’m charging

you that this next season is not just

about how much power you can produce in

your

life it’s actually getting a new

definition from people around

you let it be one of your goals that

people would say about you when you’re

not in the room that’s one of the

kindest people I

know now listen you may never hear

[Music]

it you may never hear these words but on

your vision board this year don’t put a

car put

kind I mean you can put the car too uh

but I’m just saying like what if what if

the fruits of the spirit was the vision

board what what if what if this

year

love

joy

peace

patience

gentleness

kind just want to be more like

him because Titus 3:3 says once we to

were foolish and disobedient we were

misled and became slave to many lust and

Pleasures that’s me our eyes were full

of evil and envy that’s me and we hated

each

other

but when God our

savior

revealed

his

kindness the reason we’re saved is

because God was

kind when he rece revealed his kindness

and love he saved us not because of the

right things that we had done but

because of his Mercy he washed away our

sins giving us a new birth and new life

through I love how the Bible brings

everything together the only way he did

it was through the Holy Spirit would you

lift your hands all

over father I thank

you that today we are all making a

decision to be more like you and allow

the Holy Spirit to develop

kindness not just in our

thoughts but in our

actions God will you help me be

kind come on I need you to just ask the

Holy Spirit right there help me to be

kind help me to be kind not just to

those who are far from me and don’t have

a close view of me help me be kind to my

wife and to my children and to my

roommate help me be kind to my boss and

my co-workers help me be kind to people

father that have told me they’ll

stay cuz many times we take advantage of

those who are committed to

us father would you allow us to be kind

to those who don’t believe like

us those who don’t just don’t believe

with it who actually hate what we

love father this is hard

Bible but I’m asking you Holy Spirit to

give me empowerment that is not

generating by me wanting to be

better Holy Spirit I need your

help Holy Spirit for every person making

comments and videos would you allow me

to be kind give me the opportunity to be

kind to

them Father I make space for you to be

God and for me to give them

drink for me to feed

them Father God will you help me

remember this

message oh y’all I’m praying real

prayers right now father I need you

whether it’s the lavender whether it’s

the flower father whether it’s the egg

or the carrot help

me remember this is your will this is

this what you want from me you want me

to be kind I’m not your soldier in a way

to make you look big and bad I’m your

soldier when I’m kind to

people that proves I’m in the army of

the

Lord help me be gentle and kind

and and still be in

[Music]

Joy thank you Father for doing a work on

the inside that shows up on the

outside we’ll give you all the glory

honor and praise for

it even in this moment I was thinking

like I was about when I said enjoy I was

about to like I was about to do my

jacket enjoy and I was like dang I

didn’t put it there today CU we decided

to live in joy uhoh it’s still on

me now it may take different

positions it may not be some of y’all

like what is he talking about we decided

we’re going to live

in I usually have it right

here but as long as it’s on

me don’t lose your

joy today

today I want to give people an

opportunity to receive Christ because it

it was his

kindness and I know there’s been people

that are here and you’ve heard like big

topics today like you heard us talk

about finances you heard me talk about

the church not being like and you like

dang I kind of like he going off on them

but what I’m saying is join us and

represent like like what I’m saying is

the reason we’re talking about it is cuz

we not going to live that way

way we’re trying to do something

different this week as you go I want you

to be kind to people but some people you

don’t have the power to be kind cuz you

have not accepted Jesus and you not

received the Holy Spirit so today if

you’re in this room on the count of

three I’m going to give you the

opportunity to give your life to Christ

or rededicate your life to Christ and

this is the thing that took me from

being a liar a manipulator addicted to

pornography somebody had very dark stuff

in their heart and it didn’t make me a

perfect man but it made me a progressing

man that transformed everything about me

today even as we’re here there are

people around you there are people that

are you that need to give Jesus your

life and I need the church to begin to

pray there are people that are watching

right now online you’ve been feeling

this tug it’s the Holy Spirit drawing

you with his kindness right now and on

account of three I just want you to lift

your hands if you want to accept Jesus

as your personal Lord and Savior one

you’re making the greatest decision of

your life two the holy spirit is about

to enter your life and transform you for

the better and it’s about to change

everything three shoot your hand up in

the air if you want to give your life to

Jesus I saw you right there I see you

right there I see you oh Transformation

Church I see you more than that God sees

you I see you my brother hey TC I see

you glory to God y’all don’t y’all y’all

don’t know what this is heaven is

turning up right

now Hey listen TC we’re family nobody

prays alone I want everybody to say this

prayer together say God thank you for in

your kindness you sent

[Music]

Jesus

today I give you my life I give you my

life change me renew me transform me I’m

yours

I Repent of my old

ways and I turn to you I’m all

[Music]

yours make me more like

you in Jesus name amen can we turn up

with everybody oh y’all can do better

than that can we thank God

[Music]

Hallelujah Hallelujah listen if you just

made that decision there I I I I want

you to text save to 8282 82 you are a

part of this family we want to walk with

you there’s exciting things that are

coming on your horizon come back for

Wednesday night bible study make it here

with us let’s learn how to pray together

come next week and I’m telling you as we

go and I want y’all to pray about giving

next week do not be

condemned hear what I’m saying to you I

know everybody got to leave but listen

do not be condemned on what you want to

do and what you have the ability to

do obey

God and walk away knowing you did ex

everything God told you to do amen until

next week I want you to go out and live

a transformed life hug on somebody we

love you so much God bless

you 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

you can go online when we partner

together God uses our generosity to make

a difference again if you haven’t take a

moment to subscribe to the YouTube

channel and more than watching on

YouTube join us on Sundays every single

Sunday we’re here 10:45 CST a.m. we

would love to see you and like we always

say go out and live a transformed life

[Music]