In the third week of our series Paper Chasers, we had the amazing opportunity to hear from Pastor Robert Morris of Gateway Church in Dallas/For t Worth, Texas. He brought such a practical example of the importance of Tithing. Today we learned that Tithing is a test, it is biblical and it is personal! If you have struggled with understanding tithing and the importance of it, this message is for you.
all right so i’m happy to be
here i’m happy to be a part of paper
chasers
uh i love uh pastor mike he is a son
of mine in the ministry he’s submissive
he’s humble
he’s got great character he loves god he
teaches the bible
eloquently he’s a theologian uh
he just it’s just a great package to put
the word of god in
and so i i just love him as a person as
he said he’ll be in my home
uh in less than two weeks i’m gathering
what i believe the 15
uh uh greatest nation influencers in the
body of christ
of the next generation i they’re coming
to my home and
in less than two weeks and we’re gonna
talk
about some things
boy are we gonna talk so um so i’m very
very honored and i have the utmost
respect
for pastor mike and natalie and so all
right
so today here’s what i want to talk
about
um the title of the message came from
something that used to happen to me a
lot in school
so the title of the message is i used to
say this a lot in school
the title of the message is
what test
can anyone relate to that i’d walk in a
room classroom
everybody have their books out and
they’d say
are you ready and i’d say for what
they say the test and i’d say
what test i didn’t do well in school
um i’m proud of myself though i
graduated in the top ten percent of the
lower one-third of my graduating class
so you just have to work the math out
how you say it you know and so
um all right so that’s my so here’s the
reason i’m sharing this is this the
title and this is the theme
because a lot of christians don’t know
that you take a test every time you get
paid
every time you get paid every time you
get paid you take a test
so let me just take a poll and i want
you to do it even at home
living room be careful of in your car
okay but you should be able to do this
right
so those of you sitting right here and
every everyone everyone
how many of you get paid once a month
can i see your hands some people still
get paid once a month not many okay
i saw one there okay how many get paid
twice
a month okay that’s most people how many
would get paid
every week once a week okay let’s see
one okay how many
never get paid okay i’m sorry hey guys
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i’m sorry i’m sorry okay
but every time you get paid you take a
test
the test is and some of you don’t
realize this the test is
whom are you going to worship
whom are you going to thank
for your resources and the first person
you pay
is whom you worship
do you worship visa
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do you worship a mortgage company
do you worship bass pro
or nordstroms i just thought i get the
men and the women
um so whom do you worship
who gets the first portion of your
income
that’s whom you’re thinking
so i want to show you this test in
scripture so we’re going to start in
malachi 3
verse 6. it says for i am the lord
i do not change now this is
important because god can’t change if he
could change he could get better and he
can’t get better because he’s best
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so he can’t change i am lord i do not
change let me tell you something else
about god that does not
change because we’re talking about in
this series his principles
his principles cannot change i am the
lord i do not change now this is kind of
funny to me he says
therefore you are not consumed oh sons
of jacob in other words i haven’t killed
you yet
because i’m nice and i’ll stay nice yet
from the days of your fathers you have
gone away from my
ordinances now i need to say define this
word because we don’t use it a lot
we talk about you might think about a
city ordinance or something
an ordinance is a principle of ordinary
behavior
that’s what an ordinance is in other
words if your hoa has
ordinances it’s ordinary it’s ordinary
it’s a principle of ordinary behavior to
mow your yard
that’s what they’re trying to tell you
it’s a principle of ordinary behavior to
not have a refrigerator in your front
yard that’s a that’s an
or that’s ordinary behavior so we’re
going to talk about tithing here
it is here’s what god’s saying this is a
principle
of ordinary behavior for my children
but you’ve gone an a away from ordinary
behavior from my children so you’ve gone
away from my
ordinances and have not kept them return
to me
now watch this and i will return to you
you in other words you walked away from
me i didn’t walk away from you you
walked away from me
now why i’m underlining this and all the
parts here
says the lord of hosts the reason i
understand this is not a preacher
that’s not malachi this is god talking
says the lord of hosts but you said
in what way shall we return
now you’re asking god this right the
children is dressing up
here’s god’s answer verse 8 will a man
rob god
yet you have robbed me
but you say in what way have we robbed
you
this is god’s answer no pastor made this
up
in tithes and offerings
you are cursed with a curse
for your robbed me even this whole
nation in other words all of you now let
me just stop again for a moment
um he says he’s not saying i’m cursing
you
he says you’re bringing yourself under a
curse
you’re living in a cursed world the
world’s cursed because of sin
and i’d like to bring all my people out
from under that curse so they don’t have
to live
under a curse they can live under
blessing but you won’t do it because you
won’t give me the first portion
so i just need to inform you you’re
under a curse and by the way
you know when he says you’ve robbed me
you you know what he’s really saying
so many people miss this passage here’s
what he said you are robbing me
of the blessing of the ability to be
able to bless you
you’re not robbing god in the sense he
owns everything
even if you keep it in your pocket it’s
his oh he owns everything he’s not
saying you’re taking my property
he’s saying you’re robbing me of the of
the ability to be able to bless you
that’s what the whole passage says he
says if you’ll tithe
i’m going to tell you what’ll happen so
you’re robbing me
of an opportunity it’s like if you said
to your your kids if you’ll just do your
chores
i’ll give you ten dollars a week and
then they won’t do it
they’re not robbing you of the ten
dollars you’re saying you’re robbing me
of an opportunity to reward you
okay so you’re robbing me
even this whole nation verse 10. here’s
how you stop robbing god
bring all the tithes
into transformation church
that’s if you go to transformation
that’s where he wants you to come into
the storehouse
and the reason you do it is because the
church stores it up
so they can give it like you just saw
pastor mike tell you about
the church is the storehouse to be able
to meet the needs the government is not
the storehouse
the church is the storehouse
the church should be taking care of the
community but when because god’s people
aren’t tithing
we don’t have the resources we should
we’re the storehouse that’s what god
says
this is good preaching by the way if you
did okay all right
bring all the tithes in the storehouse
now watch this that there may be
food in my house okay i gotta stop
you eat great food at transformation
church
you eat great food here
i mean it is fantastic food
somebody’s paying for it
somebody contributes to all the cameras
and the building and all the staff
and all the things that go on some of
you though
come or tune in every week
eat a great meal and skip the check
the reason that there’s great teaching
in
great churches god
says is because my people bring the
tithe into the storehouse
that there may be food in my house
you think about it the churches that
they don’t really get fed
they also don’t tithe in those churches
the tide does so much more than what we
think it
it causes there to be spiritual food so
that when pastor mike sends him and
opens the word
you think to yourself now i’ve read that
a hundred times i’ve never seen that
but you get fed i ain’t even got through
my first passage yet
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that there may be food in my house and
try
now the old king james says prove and
the esv
says test god’s saying test me now in
this
says the lord of hosts just want
everybody know that’s not
malachi talking that’s not pastor mike
it’s not pastor robert
this is god talking do not argue with
god
and test me now in this says the lord of
hosts
now here’s the test if you’ll test me
watch
and see if i will not open for you
the windows of heaven
and pour out for you such blessing
that there will not be room enough to
receive it you’ll have to take out
another savings account
there’s not room enough and
and this is like if you call right now
it’s a good deal
and i will rebuke
the devourer for your sakes
so that he will not cause your washing
machine to break down
so he will not destroy the fruit of your
ground
can you imagine instead of standing in a
room yelling at the devil
if you just tithe let god rebuke him for
you
nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit
for you in the field
says who who
the lord of hosts and
all nations will call you
blessed for you will be the delightful
land says
say it this is god talking
so this in malachi 3
12. uh about 15 more verses you’ve got a
few more verses in malachi 3 and you’ve
got malachi
4 only has six verses the number one
argument against tithing these people
say it’s not new testament
first of all i even had a guy write me
one time and say you know the word
todd’s not even in the new testament i
thought which new testament are you
reading
42 times i mean it takes a very simple
99
bible program to figure that out come on
so
he said it’s not it is it’s in the new
judgment but then people say well it’s
not the new testament
so i i’m tell the lord one time i said
god
this only missed the new testament my
like 15 verses
couldn’t you have just waited a little
while
to say this couldn’t you say this to
matthew rather than malachi
you know here’s what the lord said to me
son i put it right where i wanted it
because i want people with stubborn
hearts to argue with me about it
because i have to break stubbornness and
selfishness
to be able to bless them i have to i put
it right where i want it
and this is the reason tithing is a test
it’s a two-way test by the way here’s
the great thing god tests you
but it’s the only place in the bible
where he says
test me
test me i dare you
as we say in texas oklahoma i double dog
dare you
you imagine god saying test me
yeah and yet you won’t test him
you won’t prove him this word test is
actually the word proof
it’s used for gold and it’s the way they
test gold to prove
that it’s pure gold you don’t want to
you want to test god you will prove god
is pure
tithe you’ll see how pure he is
so so i got three points for you here’s
number one
tithing is a test now the word
tithe uh masara in the hebrew
is tiff in other words ten percent
that’s how we know it’s 10 no one made
this up
maybe you’ve never heard the word tithe
legit all it means is
10 i don’t know why god chose 10
but i think i know why he chose an exact
percentage and that is it’s the same for
everyone
it doesn’t matter if you make 30 000 or
300 000
it’s one penny on every dime
it’s fair for everyone in the bible
everyone in on earth right
okay so so the the but i think i know
why he chose the
ten because the number 10 represents
testing in the bible
so i want to i want to be able to look
at the camera now is this camera on me
right now is that one wait wait wait
which one told me right now tell me
that one so that’s that’s red
oh i got red and green mixed up
i was thinking green meant go red meant
stop and i’d look at that camera turn
that note i’d look at that camera see
and then and it was green
and then it would turn off me it turned
to red so i’d go to another camera okay
stay
okay the other problem is i’m color
blind
so so you don’t want to be coming up in
a red light with me coming though
okay i think i they’re red you’re right
there right there
i’m talking to you all right because i
want to be able to talk directly to you
some okay
good gosh it’s getting hot in here can i
take off represent represent represent
come on
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see if you can do that when you’re 60.
yeah all right all right
i’m not quite 60 by the way but it’s not
far all right so the number 10
represents testing in the bible
and i will give you some instances i’m
going to give you some examples and i’m
going to ask you to answer me
out loud okay so say real especially
because we’re in the studio we hadn’t
been able to come back together man you
guys won’t get back together pretty soon
and let me tell you what you missed the
most about not being able to come
together two things
number one is the presence of god in
corporate worship number two is the
fellowship of the brethren
you miss that i know you do so when we
open back up you guys
get here okay so i’m asking a question
you you give me the answer
here’s number one and loudly okay how
many plagues were there
in egypt that wasn’t loud enough
how many plagues were there in egypt
okay great okay
and another way to say that is how many
times did god test pharaoh’s heart
because he said i’m gonna test pharaoh’s
heart
but i might i better say that you might
not know it was 10 but you know how many
plagues
all right how many commandments are
there
how many times did god you might not
know this but there’s a pattern
how many times did god test israel in
the wilderness
how many times were jacob’s wages
changed
how many days was daniel tested how many
virgins were tested in matthew 25
how many days of testing are mentioned
in revelation chapter 2
how many disciples were there no there
were 12.
i just uh i was just tested
i jus i just tested you so there were
there were 12. okay
so god tests us now
number two thing i hear about tithing
the argument number one is it’s an ill
test so number two
is that was under the law and we’re not
under the law
well we are under grace but does that
mean
that you can live any way you want and
god will still bless you
let me tell you some other things that
were under the law thou shalt not kill
murder under the law thou shalt not
commit adultery that’s under the law
are you telling me as a christian it’s
okay to commit adultery now
see in other words if it was bad under
the law is it good now or is it still
bad
it’s still bad if it was good under the
law because tithing was under the law
by the way it was 2500 years before the
law
500 years specifically mentioned with
abraham 430 years with jacob before the
law
before the law ever showed up so but
because it was under the law are you
saying you shouldn’t do it now because
you’re a christian
that’s okay okay so pastor mike would
you give me your wallet
i’m gonna do an illustration here all
right thank you are you safe no you
mistake
so i’m going to keep this okay because
thou shalt not steals under the law
and i know i’m not under the law okay
is that foolish so you can’t i’m going
to give it back to you but it’s not even
any money
look look i tell you before the
service i’m going to do an illustration
i want your wallet and you took your
cash out
i just knew you were living a blessed
life
[Applause]
all right i’m keeping it too because he
he shouldn’t have done that all right so
number one tithing is a test
oh that’s nice that’s good all right
that’s a blessing all right here’s
number two
tithing is biblical
another reason i hear people don’t tithe
well it’s not in the bible oh my
goodness
it’s all over the bible but let me show
you a few passages
genesis 14 500 years before the law
verse 18
then melchizedek who represents jesus
christ or is jesus christ
king of salem that means peace jesus is
the king of peace
hebrew says melchizedek is also the king
of righteousness
brought out bread and wine by the way
it’s first mention
of communion in the bible genesis 14
bread and wine he was the priest of god
most high
and he blessed him that’s abram or
abraham
and said bless be abram of god most high
possessor of heaven and earth
and blessed be god most high who has
delivered your enemies into your hand
and he abraham gave him melchizedek a
tithe
of all genesis 14
genesis 14 genesis 28 and this stone
which i’ve said as a pillar
shall be god’s house this shall be the
church
start of the church right here and of
all that you give me
i will surely give a tenth to you
this way before the law leviticus 27 30
and all the tithe of the lamb
whether of the seed of the land or the
fruit of the tree
is the lord’s it is
holy or set apart set aside to the lord
deuteronomy 26 verse 1 and it shall be
when you come into the land which the
lord your god is giving you as
inheritance
and you possess it and dwell in it that
you shall take some
of the first of all the produce of the
ground which you shall bring from the
land that the lord your god has given
you
and put it in a basket and go to the
place where the lord your god
chooses to make his name abide that’s
church
and then down in verse 13 same chapter
then you shall say before the lord your
god
i have removed the holy tie the set
apart 10
from my house and i’ve also given them
to the levite just like what you guys
did today
the stranger the fatherless and the
widow
according to all your command which you
which you have commanded me i have not
transgressed
transgressed your commandments nor have
i forgotten
uh them watch i have not eaten any of it
when in mourning in other words i didn’t
use it in a difficult time in my
life i didn’t use the tide to pay for
that
nor have i removed any of it for any
unclean use
think about this some people even use
the tithe
to sin
it’s a whole nother series right there
okay
um nor given any of it for the dead i
have obeyed the voice of the lord my god
and have done according all that you
have commanded me
look down from your holy habitation from
heaven and
bless your people you can’t pray verse
15
until you do the previous verses you
can’t ask god to bless you until you
remove the holy tithe from your house
now i got a question for you if jesus
himself
said you ought to tithe
would you do it okay thanks patreon i’m
gonna go ask these people because they
they they’re thinking about it
i’m just joking if jesus himself you
only got to answer me now
some of you don’t want to commit just
you just move your mouth like you think
that but no verbal can come out if
you’re thinking about still if jesus no
i know all you all tithe
if jesus himself if jesus
if jesus himself
said you ought to tithe
would you tithe
matthew new testament
in red y’all know what red means because
everybody reads online now everybody
reads on their phone
you know but all right jesus said it
matthew 23
23 woe to you scribes and pharisees
hypocrites for you pay tithe 10
of mint and anise and cumin these are
spices that you put on your food
and the reason i’m telling you that’s
because i didn’t know either and have
neglected the weightier
matters of the law justice and mercy and
faith
these you ought to have done
without leaving the others undone
so jesus said you do this you tithe
but you neglect justice mercy and faith
you pay tithe on all the little things
but you neglect just the emergency faith
then jesus says this you ought to have
done
you ought to tithe
but don’t leave the others undone one
time i shared that from the pulpit and a
guy came up he was very sweet nice guy
he said pastor robert i think these you
ought to have done
um refer to justice mercy and faith
and i said well okay i’ll go with that
for a minute but let me just tell you
grammatically it doesn’t and in the
greek it doesn’t because i’ve studied
the greek tenses
my greek final was to conjugate the verb
luo
which there are 123 conjugations
the verb mean it means i loose
and it’s like the word be for us and you
you may not remember and you might have
blocked it out because it’s a painful
memory
we all conjugated the verb be and of
course some of you are thinking pastor
robert my wife and i waited till if we
were married to conjugate okay but
that’s not that’s not that’s totally
totally different subject okay all right
i just could not i wouldn’t do that in
anyone else’s pulpit
okay no you you did this in school i
am you are he is we are you are they are
okay okay i am you will be i will be he
will be they will be
i have you have he has been oh okay all
right so that’s how you conjugate the
verb
be so it feels so i had to conjugate
that made a hundred on it
so i know the tense in greek
but i so i said to him very nicely it
was a great conversation i said well
that’s actually not
in the greek that’s not what it’s
referring to but let’s pretend it is
if he said these you ought to have done
and that refers to justice mercy and
faith
what’s the rest of the verse say
without leaving the other undone
i got you either way actually i don’t
have you
he has you either way however you read
that verse jesus said you ought to do it
but don’t leave justice mercy and faith
done
undone or he’s saying you ought to do
justice versus faith but you also ought
to tithe
come on that was good go ahead just just
say yeah i was good pastor
okay all right
one other new testament verse hebrews 7
verse 8 here
mortal men receive
tithes this is new testament but
there he capital h receives them
of whom it is witness that he
lives here’s what’s great when i tithe
here on earth
mortal men take care of it they put it
around they do they give it to people
they decide all this thing
but every time i tithe jesus himself
receives my tithe that’s what the new
testament just said
all right so it’s a witness to the
resurrection all right here’s the
um and by the way i was thinking about i
just thought i don’t know if i told you
all this so
i had one daughter two sons one daughter
still have all of them i just meant had
one daughter growing up
and uh that’s tough given giving her
away you know
but met this young man a great young man
they’re married they planted a church in
houston
and so we’re they’re standing around
talking one day
uh about tithing and one of the guys
said you know your dad
is so strict on tithing talking to
elaine and ethan’s sitting there
your dad is so strict on tithing i bet
he checks the tithing records
of the guys that date you and elaine
said
he does and ethan went
uh-oh and she said to him i thought you
told me you died
he said i do but he said i don’t have
internet because he’s a good steward at
that time he said he was
he was just out of college so it’s so
expensive so i go to starbucks
to have internet and so every time i get
paid i go to starbucks and i tied the
day i get paid
but there was one day that i was one day
late
and one of the guys in the group said oh
pastor robert won’t notice that and lane
said
he will so i checked his tithing record
i checked all them to try to date my
daughter why would i give my daughter to
a thief
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why would i give my daughter to a man
that can’t even handle money he
definitely can’t handle lane because
she’s a handful
so so i so i checked his tithing record
before he they ever had a date you know
and so elaine comes home she’s talking
about this conversation no don’t she
said to me dad
uh did you check ethan’s tithing record
i said i did
and i want to talk to him about it
because there’s one day he was one day
late
so i i not only do i check the tithing
record
you need to know the father checks the
titan record
and his daughter his the father’s
daughter is the church
and his jesus is bright he’s more
protective of his daughter than i am of
mine
all right here’s number three tithing is
personal
tithing is personal so
and i’m going to pull this around to why
i’m saying that but
here’s the thing um
we i have i’ve been in ministry now 40
years
and february 16 1981 so and is when i
started ministry
and so 40 years now i’ve heard two
testimonies over and over again from
thousands of people probably people who
tithe
all say the same testament all have the
same testimony people who don’t tithe
all have the same testimony
people who tithe say this i am so
blessed
i am so blessed pastor i am so blessed
we are so blessed
we started tithing we’re so blessed they
all say that
people who don’t tie all say the same
thing also
i can’t afford the tithe
now i’m not i’m not putting you down at
all okay there are really good people
that love god that don’t tie so i’m not
saying
but hear me please you will never be
able to afford to tithe
until you type
because tithing is what breaks the curse
tithing is what rebukes the devourer
that every time you start to tie let me
just get right to you okay
every time you start to tie something
else will break
because tithing is what breaks the curse
removes the devourer
and recovers the blessing
okay so
here we go i’m going to give you an
illustration i hope you never forget
so charles and brentum and pastor mike
would you guys come up here
and just line up right there
so um so let’s say that i say to you
guys
i’m going to go away i’ve got to go away
for like six months
i’ve already provided for debbie but i
want to provide some extra
funds for her and but i want to channel
those funds through you guys
so i’m going to give each of you ten
thousand dollars a month
that’s just the illustration okay all
right
so all i want you to do is give her a
thousand
ten percent that’s it you can do
anything you want with other ninety
percent
just give my why ten percent so
i’m talking debbie every day i love you
i miss you and after a few months
i think i wonder how these extra
resources come in
so i say how’s charleston and she’s oh
charles great
on the first day of the month every
month it shows up thousand dollars just
like clockwork just like clockwork
that’s great how’s brentham doing uh
brenham
she’s i don’t know why he sends two
thousand a month
you know your mama told me you were the
favorite son by the way
so all right so so he sends two thousand
i say two thousand i only ask for a
thousand why is he sending two thousand
i don’t know
but he sends two thousand a month so i
said well how’s pastor mike doing she
said we need to talk about pastor mike
the first month he sent 700
the second month 400 he hadn’t seen
anything this month
so what do you think i’m going to do
wow i love my wife
i’m giving them the 10 000.
they can keep 9 000 of it i’m only
asking for a thousand ten percent
for my wife all right thanks guys you
say think about this
that my point here is tithing is
personal
would you like to know who takes it
personally
jesus here’s what he said it’s just
basically what i just said
i’m going away for a while
do you say that i’m coming back but
while i’m gone
i want you to do one thing for me i want
you to take care of my bride
all i need is 10 from you you realize
he can give you a raise he gives
faithful stewards raise
faithful stewards raises and promotions
see what am i going to do
i got charles and brentham here taking
doing it but pastor mike wasn’t doing it
what am i going to do i’m going to take
the 10
000 i’m giving from him i’m giving to
him and i’m gonna give it to charles and
brenton
because they’re gonna resort they’re
gonna send more to my wife
and you say well jesus would never do
that read matthew 25 the
parable of the talents
he took it from the once here’s what
people say see the rich get richer the
poor get poor had nothing to do with
that
the good stewards get more and the poor
stewards get less
so i’ll tell you one more uh testimony
about ethan elaine my
son-in-law and daughter um
so my daughter had about two years where
she walked away from the lord
and that mean i didn’t know it she lived
a double life
and um she she
repented then she i believe she really
gave her life to lord that’s what she
believed she walked down the aisle when
she was like eight
but this was at 19 and by the way a lot
of a lot of young people do this
i’m not saying they’re not saved as kids
they walk down now when they get you
know somewhere between 16 and 25
they’ll make a decision whether they’re
going to follow god or not
so she she radically gets saved she’s
now she and her husband pastor gateway
church houston
this week she’ll tape again programs
with uh
better together it’s a tbn show lori
crouch victoria osteen
lisa turkis all these great women of god
priscilla shire you know she
so here she is 30 years old and she’s
already
preaching to the world you know so so
i’m very proud of her when she after she
comes back to the lord she’s in church
and i use this illustration
i tell the church there’s a man in our
church who gives away 100
bills now let me let you know something
um i’m the man i demand
in other words years ago i started
carrying 100 bills and giving them when
people and i just say
listen i was on drugs uh i was in and
out of jail
a guy told me it’s not enough to just
believe in jesus you got to give him
control of your life
and when i gave him control of my life
my life changed god wanted me to give
you this to remind you he loves you
and will change your life if you’ll give
him control so it takes about 30 seconds
to witness someone
and they listen because you’re holding a
hundred dollar bill in front of their
face see
so so i tell the church though i didn’t
want to say it was me
so i told the church there’s a a guy in
our church gives 100
bills and there’s a lady in our church a
single mom
that wrote me and gave me this testimony
she decided to
tithe start tithing when i was preaching
on tithing
she made a thousand dollars that week so
she was going to sit down to write the
check for 100
and the lord said make it for 120.
just like that she said well lord this
is a stretch he said well
she said i’m giving a hundred dollars he
said no you’re returning
a hundred dollars but i’d like to help
you
give more so you’re going to give 20 but
you’re returning 100.
so she writes a check for 120. uh we had
offering boxes the back sanctuary she
put it on in the box
she’s walking out in the parking lot and
i said this guy in our church that gives
100
bills away sees this lady and the lord
says to him go give her
a hundred dollar bill so when he reached
in his wallet
beside the hundred was a 20. and the
lord said
give her 120. and the guy said
um lord lord i don’t give a 120 i give a
hundred
you know and the lord said no you obey
that’s what you do you do what i tell
you to
so this guy gives her 120. now she just
wrote a check for 100 the guy
120 the guy gives 100 bills all the way
now again it’s me but i just didn’t want
to say
me when i shared with the church and
here’s a i didn’t i didn’t lie i told
the truth
i am a man in our church and i give 100
bills okay
so i say this guy gives 120. and here’s
what i told the church you’ll never
convince me that that wasn’t god
because he wanted to show her i can take
care of you
the guy that gives a hundred instead
gives 120 she writes check for 120.
so i tell this story in church
that that then we go we have lunch over
at our house
and elaine’s there
and she’s just come back to the lord
and she says daddy can i talk to you and
i said yes
we went my office and she said to me
you’re the man aren’t you
you’re the man that gives 100 bills away
aren’t you
and i said why are you asking me this
she said because when you said that i
had all these flash books
flashbacks from childhood come up
i remembered how you would go over to
the side to our server at the restaurant
and you’d talk to her for a minute and
then you’d hand her something
and i thought it was just a tip and she
said the lord highlighted it to me today
and i could see a 100 bill
she said i remember how there was a a
guy on the side of the road that had a
sign that said we’ll work for food
and i remember how you’d roll your
window down and you’d tell him about
jesus and she said i didn’t listen then
but i remember you giving some money i
thought it’s five or ten dollars and
said the lord highlight it to me today
and i could see it was a hundred dollar
bill
she said i had hundreds of memories dad
when i was just a little girl
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and you gave hundreds of dollars away to
people hundreds of
hundred dollar bills and she said you’re
the man
aren’t you that gives 100 bills
i said yes sugar i’m the man and my
daughter who’d been away from god said
to me
i want to be like you daddy
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i want to be like you
i’m telling you that there’s a blessing
that comes on your life when you tithe
that goes way beyond getting a raise or
a promotion
it’s a blessed life not just a blessed
checkbook it’s a life
i want to ask you just bow your heads
and close your eyes just for a moment
before i turn it back to pastor mike and
i’m going to allow him to close the
service but i just want to ask you
something
and that is what is the holy spirit
saying to you today
just just just ask the holy spirit
holy spirit what are you saying to me
through this message and let me tell you
what he’s saying to many of you and that
is put me first
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in your finances jesus said where your
treasure is there your heart will be
so when you put him first in your
treasure your finances you’re putting
him first in your heart
so many of us he’s saying to tithe many
of you who tithe he’s telling you well
done good and faithful servants
but there are some of you that here’s
what you need to do
you need to not just give your finances
to god
you need to give to him what he wants
most and that’s your heart
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i’m going to let pastor mike come and
share with you for a moment
but would you just give your heart to
jesus i believe pastor mike
will have a way to to minister to you so
would you just keep your heads bowed
and your eyes closed and please give
your life to jesus today
this moment right now is not an accident
this moment right now is purpose for you
and with your with your heart open but
you’re
just focusing in on god right now i want
to give you the opportunity to accept
jesus as your personal lord and savior
as pastor robert
shared with us that this is not about
just a blessed wallet it’s about a
blessed life
and the only way that your life is
blessed is when you give your life
completely to jesus today i want to
offer you salvation
yes in the middle of this series if you
want to not be
just a paper chaser but a purpose chaser
you need
jesus in your life it’s the thing that
took me from a liar
a manipulator somebody who was addicted
to pornography i had all kinds
of wrong ideas and thoughts and
perversions in my heart
and god when i gave him my life he
transformed me
i’m not a perfect man but i’m a
progressing man and today
through the message that has just come
forth i believe that even as we talked
about it
it was all just trying to open up your
heart because today god said
more than anything i want from you i
want your heart and i’ll help you change
your habits
and i’ll bring you into a new way of
living if you’re watching this and
you’re listening i believe
that people are about to get saved all
over this world because
you have made a decision that you are
bankrupt on the inside
and it doesn’t matter how much money you
have until you have the one who created
you today is your day of salvation
and right now i want to pray with you if
that’s you and you want to invite
jesus into your life and you want him to
be your personal lord and savior on the
count of three i want you to lift your
hands
now this is not for your neighbor this
is not for everybody who’s with you or
watching with you
this is for you i had to make a decision
that one day i was going to stand before
jesus by myself
not with my clique and my instagram
friends and my facebook family
i it was going to be me and jesus and i
decided to make
christ my lord and savior and today you
have that opportunity
because over 2000 years ago he went to
the cross and he saw
everything in you that was not good
and he said they need a savior so i’m
going to die for them
they can’t pay for the bill that they
racked up so i’ma take care of it
all they have to do is receive it
and today christ is saying would you
please receive the free gift
of salvation one you’re about to make
the greatest decision of your life
two i’m proud of you but more than that
your name
will be written in the lamb’s book of
life three if that’s you and you want to
invite jesus in
shoot your hand up all over the world
right now come on shoot your hands up
there are hundreds
of hands going up right now there are
hundreds of people
two weeks ago over 700 people gave their
life to christ
last week over 500 people gave their
life to christ
today hundreds more oh i’m telling you
heaven is getting excited at this moment
because of what is about to happen so
for transformation church
we pray together we’re a family so today
i want you to pray this prayer
with all of us all around the world
whether you’re watching this live on
rebroadcast the holy spirit
is right there with you in that moment
and we’re going to pray this all
together will you say will you say it
together say god
thank you for sending jesus
just for me today
i need a savior and i choose you
because you chose me i believe you lived
you died and you rose again
just for me and today
i surrender my life change me
renew me transform me
i’m yours in jesus name
amen if you just prayed that prayer
your eternity is secure and now god is
gonna begin to transform
you can we rejoice with heaven right now
oh come on can we rejoice with heaven
the bible tells us that if one person
made that decision
that heaven turns up so we’re going to
turn up here on earth and we want to
help you
we want to walk with you if you just
made that decision for jesus
let us know so we can help you can you
text save to the number on the screen
because what you’re going to do now is
start a journey of faith
we walk by faith and not by sight it’s
going to look the same
in a lot of areas tomorrow but you’re
standing with the god of the universe
backing you on everything
we are going to walk this thing out with
with you and transformation church is
here to help you
we want to send you literature i have a
special message from me and pastor
natalie
we want to give you steps go back and
watch the series that we’ve done
watch damaged goods watch relationship
goals watch
marked get a word from god for your life
if you need to forgive somebody go back
and watch
fu forgiveness university get your
spirit filled with things that are going
to help you walk this life out and we’re
going to be here every
week helping you and i just want to say
to our church
today god gave
us the bible to pastor robert morris
and we are forever changed can we thank
god
for pastor robert we love you thank you
i cannot wait to hear the testimonies
that are about to come from your step of
faith
listen i’ve made a promise to you a long
time ago
that i would never give you what you
want i’ll give you what you need
and today god came through pastor robert
and he gave us what we need mark my
words
for all of those that are gonna take
this step to start tithing and honoring
god
through the tenth and giving offering
and obeying what he’s saying
watch where you are a year from now i am
not
i’m not even playing with you a year
from now market okay
god said test you test me i dare you to
test him
when i made that decision it didn’t just
change my finances
it changed my family it changed my
future
and it changed my family forever i’m
believing that same thing for your life
we’re so proud of you we honor you
pastor robert we thank god for what god
is doing
and that word you spoke to me before i i
receive it
and i believe it and we’re gonna see god
take these messages to the
entire world transformation church thank
you for being a generous church
thank you for trusting our leadership
and thank you
for transforming your world in
representing where god has for you can i
pray for you hands lifted everywhere
father i declare and i thank you that
this will be the best week we’ve ever
had
that as we go and actually live the
blessed life by obeying your principles
and your ordinances your ordinary
behavior and tithing
i thank you father god that there is a
breakthrough that is happening in our
lives
and i thank you that you are breaking
the back of generational cycles of
selfishness
and generational cycles of poverty
father i thank you that this week as we
maneuver
we know that you have changed us from
the inside out
thank you that we’re blessed going in
and blessed coming out that we
live the blessed life father god and we
won’t be paper chasers
but we will be purpose chasers everybody
who needs healing in their body
thank you for divine healing thank you
for family reconciliation
and more than anything thank you for
jesus god thank you
for everything you’re doing in our lives
and through this church we give you
glory
we give you honor and we give you praise
in jesus name we agree somebody shout
amen
this week go out and live a transformed
life i love you