I Can't Afford It: Message to the Middle Class

then he came down all the way down through the garden entering through the golden gate or the eastern gate or the mercedes we're so glad to be with one another [Music] [Music] [Music] god in the name of god we invite jesus in by the power of the holy spirit holy spirit have your way today spirit of the living god we ask you to fall fresh the spirit of god of the living god would you do something new spirit of the living god transform us in your presence spirit of the living god would you cleanse us and wash us and sacrifice [Music] lord god [Music] today we ask that your glory would go into the four corners of the earth [Music] miraculous for somebody who's been begging you for a miracle [Music] let this be the day that everything turns around and we declare that you upgraded greatly to me praise that your word is true and god we declare today that your word will go forth like a hammer and bring up all those stony places in our hearts oh god let your word go forth today and every thoughty place in the name of jesus we pray today that the glory of the lord would be upon pastor jamal harris and brian we pray that the power of the most high [Music] in the name of [Music] in jesus name of jesus and the glory of the lord [Music] cdc and dr fausti brought their advice to wash our hands to stop calling 19. to the conscious pilot to wash his hands of the whole matter of fact because he didn't want to all of us ought to have the dirt of what it is that god saves and claims us from still on our hands where will we that he was be real this was just something but here we go make sure that you keep your hands dirty come on in this church before we go live our new birth family and friends to this sunday morning worship experience i don't care where you happen to be in this church watching us on the internet on one of the social media platforms around the world wherever you are the presence of the lord is already here i want you to do me a favor today i want you to lift your hands up and his presence yes god is already in this place so i want you to pull and make a demand on the presence of the lord that today i'm going to get everything i've been expecting from the lord now let me just see am i talking to anybody in worship who needs something from the lord well if you do i want you to put your hands together and i want you to praise him and bless him and magnify him come on you got more than that come on you got more than that how we bless your name god come on let's welcome him great father we come to you today on this first sunday in august expecting that everything we've been praying for for the last eight months that this is going to be the month and today is going to be the day when we receive the answers to our prayers i believe in the name of jesus all across the world that bodies are being healed finances are being adjusted miracles are taking place and signs and wonders are showing themselves in our midst now if you believe that god is able to answer your prayers i want you one last time to lift up your hands and open up your mouth and give him the kind of praise god we bless your name god we bless your name i want you to like i want you to share i want you to comment wherever you're watching from share this social media experience the presence of the lord is going to bless you today we're going to begin this worship and an incredible way i want to introduce you to deacon gary and deaconess ladon howard who are going to talk to you about the blessing that comes when we tithe and give they are long time leaders in our church and tithers in the kingdom of god family help me receive the howards as they come hallelujah glory to god i am ladon howard this is my wonderful husband gary howard and what a wonderful wonderful god we serve right now our companies are eye connection optical dominion obstacle and a bite to eat food truck a stroke of his love radio show gary baby will you take the time to tell the world how good our god has been because of our tithing oh yeah oh yeah i want to tell you something one of our businesses the bite to eat was birth right here at new birth right on the sidewalk outside every sunday and i want you to know something we come through a time called pandemic and i remember sitting in one of our eyeglass shops and my wife looked at me and said are you okay i said not really because i don't know what's going on she says gary listen she said you've been faithful she said you've been a tither she said you've taken care of the bride of god she said why would you worry at a time like this you've been faithful so i want somebody to know the reason why you tithe is so that god himself will send the rebuke and not allow nothing that you have worked for tithe on be rebuked i'm telling you it's rebuked so i want somebody to know today that the importance of tithing is so that god will protect you even in the midst of a pandemic god bless you all today come on church family help me thank god for the howard family and all over the world today is going to be the day you were going to have the opportunity to sow your seed in tithing but before we get to that moment how many people know that when praises go up that's when blessings come down and i'm wondering and watching this worship on the social media wherever you are if you've got one praise great and mighty is our god and i want you to just praise him like he's great like he's wonderful and like he's worthy [Music] can you shout the victory in this room hey yes lord he's a great god come on come on come on put your hands together like this everybody come on put some clapping emojis on the screen come on let me see you let me show you he's a great guy and we give him everything this morning hallelujah it's a simple song of praise and it just says this is he great and much he is he clothing glory all right and splenda great and mighty is he everybody come on let me hear you sing it type it on the screen now raven splendor great and mighty let's do it again great and mightiest i see your family come on green and mighty is he and he's clothed in glory a raven slender [Music] [Music] come on let's say it real good let us lift his name on high and we're celebrating his grace for he has redeemed our lives and he rings on high pursuit again [Applause] and celebrate his grace for he has redeemed [Applause] and he raised on high got your hands real good everybody [Music] and he's clothed in glory a raven splendor great and mighty come on real big shout it out [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm so glad about can you celebrate jesus right here come on somebody had to praise him because you know how great he is he's been great all of our lives so that's reason enough to praise him let's do it again greater money is he come on sing it wherever you are you want to walk around your kitchen right now and sing that is real [Music] great let's do it again everybody come on let us lift his name on him and we're celebrating his grace for he has redeemed our lives he saved us yes and he reigns let us leave his name on him celebrate his grace [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you jesus we're grateful that you're great anymore [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] on the screen [Music] [Music] that's the god that we make [Music] [Applause] now [Music] is [Music] is show glory if you know his greater body give him glory give him the honor he's a great almighty god [Applause] [Music] he woke you up this morning he woke you up this morning [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] one more [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh i know it's a little close in the room and for those of you that are watching type it on the screen not somebody say god is great and he is mining i need you to say it out loud somebody say god is great and he is mining now can we lift up our praise i know we have all masters all right we're not gonna muzzle our worship today somebody just begin to lift up your worship wherever you are lift up your worship we give our god our worship this morning come on everybody don't get quiet in the room just fill the room with where [Music] somebody fills the room with words let's sing it together great and mighty is our god come on here great and almighty is our god desires god come on say it [Music] everybody say ruler saying that's it say a church that's it hey jesus [Music] is now everybody i need you to lift up your hands let's say hi and live in the gravesite [Music] hey everybody [Music] now let's give him high praise everybody say hallelujah come on ranger pray [Music] let's give him high praise [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] blue [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] one more time [Music] everybody [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] yes [Applause] oh type hallelujah right there it is the highest praise and god is deserving of it you have made it to the eighth month of the year eight is the number of new beginnings old things have passed away we behold that all things are new if you're glad that you got a new beginning would you give god glory and praise for it there's only one word that they're going to sing around the throne room one is glory the other is hallelujah i want you to be a designated worshiper would you just type hallelujah right on the screen everybody in this sanctuary just shout hallelujah bless his name it's a simple song that all of us know is just one word and that word is ha lay luyah as we center ourselves for the sacred sacrament of communion i want to infiltrate the atmosphere of your home with that one word hallelujah i give him glory today i give him praise today i give him honor today right in this sanctuary come on let's make it sacred space lift up that hand and lift up your voice would you just give him the sound of your worship come on i dare you to praise him right where you are [Music] come on i need to hear you declare it out loud come on hallelujah hallelujah come on cry it out loud come on speak it out loud hallelujah in your living room sit up in that bed hallelujah put that fork down hallelujah pull the car to the side of the road hallelujah come on let me hear you [Applause] come on lift your voice [Music] [Music] i need you to get to your kitchen i need you to find a piece of bread i need you to pour yourself some juice of water we're going to celebrate communion together i spoke to our leaders this morning by a zoom and said to them that the first communion didn't happen in the synagogue or the temple it happened in the room of a home you don't even realize you are closer to of that actual communion than you've ever been in your life the bible shared with the children of israel none of these diseases are gonna befall your dwelling i believe that for you i read on yesterday hospitals are at full capacity in tampa in jacksonville florida and i am believing that god is going to keep you out of that hospital i don't care what the variant is i don't care with the disease i don't care what the pain is but i'm grateful that he was wounded for our transgressions bruise for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace is upon his shoulders and by his stripes you are going to be healed from every strand of covet 19. i'm thankful for that i want you to please get that piece of bread i want us to celebrate it together i want you to lift it above your head make sure everybody in your household has it put it in the hand of your children of your grandchildren wake them people up they need this they need this encounter anybody know that the blood still works that there's still power in his body i want you ladies and gentlemen to please please make sure that you have it this week i was in israel and i was amazed as i went to the tomb of our loving lord and savior people were there from all over the world they were bringing sheets hear this from loved ones who were sick and wiping it on the tune because they wanted the residue they were sitting there crying just to be close to be in proximity you didn't hear what i just said there were those who had thrown down their chairs who believed by faith if he got up from the grave that they can get up from anything i need you please to have of that bread to have that pancake to have that potato chip whatever it is that you have i want you to have it in your hand and i want you to break it in your hand the first wave of covet did not kill you 675 000 people didn't survive and yet god hand-picked you why are you scared of what's taking place now i'm believing that god is going to cover you cdc doesn't have all the answers white house doesn't have all the answers but i'm telling you the answer is in your hand because of his body that was broken for sinners like jamal harris and brian i'm believing it was broken for you as well would you please take a knee [Music] my heart is heavy on this morning because the derelict of responsibility from our u.s senate and u.s congress has allowed the moratorium on the freeze of evictions to elapse last night at midnight today there are people who are sitting on the side of their bed stressed out as a matter of fact 11 million people are facing eviction tomorrow did you hear what i just said 11 million people are facing eviction tomorrow while the u.s senate is on vacation while members of congress are floating in resorts and on islands they are families who are putting their belongings in boxes that's a lot of stress this week we saw as i own a super bad superhero simone bios pulled out of the olympics because she said she felt the weight of the world was on her shoulders do you know how many people are stressed out how many people are overwhelmed with anxiety but i'm thankful under god when you feel life's pressures you don't have to go to the cut-rate liquor store when you feel life's pressures you don't have to find yourself inhaling a line or cocaine when you feel life's pressures you don't have to get under somebody to get over something when you feel life's pressures you ain't got to blow your brains out when you feel life's pressures i'm telling you the blood is going to handle all of it for the blood that was shared for you and i would you please take a drink i want to pray for you friends i want you to lift up that hand i want to pray a hedge fence of protection around your family and around your life i'm thankful for the communion i'm thankful for his sacrifice i'm thankful for his love but i want you to hear me and i still want you to get the vaccine i know his power in the blood i know that his body was broken for me but god has also given us reasonable health and strength i want you to get the vaccine and i want you to do it this week lift up that hand right where it is that you are all day all night i assign the angels to watch over you all day all night that god is not going to let anybody contaminate your spirit or your life all day all night that you're not gonna breathe in toxins that are detrimental to your breathing all day all night no corrupt racist officer is gonna be able to accost you or your children all day all night god is gonna keep karen's out of your business all day and all night goodness and mercy are gonna follow you and i believe it to be so in jesus name those of you who are thankful for his grace for his love and for his covering would you give god praise and thanksgiving even now god loves a cheerful giver at the end of this month we're going to be doing demonstration sunday together all of us are going to be tithing i want to thank the howards for being transparent and yielding their testimony uh to us today i don't care how old you are it's never too late never too young to start tithing i want to share with you a testimony of a young man who really just convicted me that no matter what stage of life you're in god is still faithful and we are still fruitful watch and see what god is doing even in the life of another generation my name is michael fletcher i'm from columbus ohio and about four years ago i was a junior at oral roberts university i got a call from my mom right before two weeks right before school started letting me know that she would no longer be able to supply me with all the money that i need for oral roberts university which left me with ten thousand dollars in need i was just completely broken completely torn because i wasn't sure how god was going to provide the finances and you know i'm thinking i'm going to be homeless god at that moment in time spoke so clear to me said michael it's going to be okay it's going to be fine just rise up and what do you have you know what do you have in your hands and so i looked at my bank account and i had a thousand dollars and he said to give that all away to the church and i was like uh okay and now school is in session and i'm trying to figure out how in the world am i going to stay at oral roberts university do i continue to go to classes do i continue to take the test and god told me to act as if you already have the money and so that's what i did i acted as if i already had the money three days before the absolute final deadline before i had to turn in all the money before i got kicked out of orleans university i got a call from my grandma she asked me a question she said michael how much money do you need and i told her ten thousand dollars and she didn't say nothing for a couple seconds and it was just a little awkward pause and she was like okay it's like it's done i'll provide the money that you need not only will i provide the money that you need but i will also provide a thousand dollars to cover books to cover school supplies cover whatever else you need it was just such a big relief to me that all the money was supplied i have to worry about nothing ever since then you know i've always tired i always continue to tithe i learn faithfulness faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen and to not see in the natural but see in the supernatural see what god is doing act as if you already have that blessing that you are praying for bless the lord you can't beat god's giving no matter how hard you try i wonder if there's anybody in this room who saw god pay it hear this at the last minute come on how many of you all know he's an on-time god the amazing marvelous thing about that testimony is not just that he got the money for tuition but i want you to hear what he said at the end he said i'm gonna pay all of that and then i'm gonna give you a thousand dollars don't forget that's what god initially asked him for is that if you give unto me i'm telling you not only am i going to give that but i'm going to give 10 times that and that is the heartbeat of god that god loves a cheerful giver but every time you give to god can you imagine god feels threatened i better say that again whenever you give to god god feels challenged says you've given that you think i'm not going to outdo you i got to show you that i am god i can't tell you just within the last five days how many outpouring of emails and phone calls that i've received from students who are saying i'm not sure how it is that i'm gonna go back can't tell you how it is that we're preparing ourselves in prayer and directed resources for of those in our community who are facing evictions this week but the thing that i know that in this pandemic we have still prospered in this pandemic my testimony is unwavering that i've never seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging for bread i want you to go in your bibles to genesis chapter one i want you to go in your bibles to genesis chapter one and i want to show you something that is a marvel to me genesis chapter 1 is just one verse verse 26 i believe is where it's encased genesis chapter 1 and in that text he says something amazing i had never paid attention to before this week he says the lord does to adam i am giving you seeds for the trees i'm giving you seeds here it is for the bushels giving you seeds for the crops all this time because i just walked through the text i didn't pay attention to the fact that god in fact put the stars in the sky he put creeping things crawling things flying things hear this but he was waiting for adam to plant the seed so that the garden could look like what it was supposed to have and he says to adam based off of your seed is how you're going to eat did you all just miss what i just said to you based on your seed is how you are going to eat as a believer don't you ever say i don't know how i'm going to make it or if i'm going to make it your seed is going to provide the resource for every single one of you you have no idea what pink slip may be waiting for you tomorrow you have no idea what notification could be coming from the irish tomorrow you have no idea what moratorium will be elapsed on tomorrow but what i do know is what you do today is going to set up your crop for tomorrow we are tithing together as a family as a community non-tithers backslidden tithers of those who are uh behind the end tithing we're gonna get on track this month because i don't want the harvest to just hit my house i want the harvest to hit the house of every person connected to me do me a favor be silent unless you are a tither if you are a tither i want you to make no come on you only shouting cause you see your harvest coming you only making noise because you believe better days are ahead you only given him glory because you know i am not going to struggle this month he is going to supply all of my needs i want you to partner with us all of our giving prompts are available to you on the lower part of our screen whether you're giving it by zell whether you're giving through giveaway or text to give whether you're mailing it to the church i don't want you to pause i don't want you to deliberate in the midst of a pandemic in the midst of a financial crisis we're still doing the work of ministry uh did you all hear what i just said we're still doing up the work of ministry of this week while it is that 11 million people are facing foreclosure guess what y'all the king's table is still going to be open at new birth y'all ain't celebrating good they don't have to be members of our church if they pull up on our campus we're gonna load their car with food pastor turner told me this week we've got 1 000. i need y'all to hear this y'all better tear this studio up we've got 1 000 tablets for students in atlanta who don't have access to computers or y'all ought to be shouting about it one i didn't say 100 i didn't say one 1 000 for those whose families are financially challenged and otherwise wouldn't have access to it uh in just two saturdays from now we're gonna be blessing young people not just with back to school supplies but with tablets so that they might be able to compete on a global stage i'm telling you if you don't go to new birth something is wrong with you uh the glory of god shines high and bright in this place and i am excited about it i i'm starting a new series today called i can't afford it i can't afford it that god is getting ready to unleash two believers a capital credit and contracts you just missed the prophecy over your life god is releasing to believers better credit am i talking to anybody better credit i got the wrong people here better credit some of y'all ought to shout the biggest contract of your life is coming to you this month i need you to do me a favor every person who you know who is industrious every person who is striving every person who's trying to make some moves every person you know who's feeling restless in their prison economic condition i need them to hear this word is going to reshape their life and reshape their thinking the music ministry is going to prepare our hearts our spirits and our minds i need you when they have concluded to have a bible open and a notebook available because there are some principles that i want to share with you that i think are going to bless your life and are going to blow your mind get ready for the word of god for those of you that are watching for those of you in the room the spirit of god is very heavy in this house and i'm sure it's heavy in your houses can you just begin to lift up your hand everybody your hands wherever you are you don't even have to type on the screen in this moment because i want you to just begin to worship open your mouth wherever you are and just create an atmosphere of worship in your home in your car wherever you are come on everybody let's just create an atmosphere of worship as we receive a download from heaven [Music] come on all the worshipers just raise your voice [Music] come on that's it that's it come on that's it that's it raise your voice to smoke [Music] [Applause] that's it come on [Music] [Music] hi [Music] come [Music] you all deserve my praise [Applause] [Music] come on [Music] that's where you take it off [Music] let's declare the name of god in this [Music] [Applause] that's it come on let it break off with you today come on [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] jesus [Music] jesus [Music] demons [Music] healing happens [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] jesus [Music] jesus christ that's it everybody come on let's worship [Music] jesus [Music] extend your hands as high as you can as how you can live [Music] [Music] the weight of your glory [Music] [Music] [Music] build this place [Music] would you get your bibles and join me in matthew 27. matthew 27. i want to illumine verses 58 through 60. matthew 27 verses 58 through 60. i had a life-changing encounter while in israel this week and i'm grateful uh for the opportunity and for uh the experience while there i had the privilege to meet the mayor of bethlehem and uh share with him about the work that um we are doing here in atlanta the uh conclusion of that meeting he uh invited me uh to be the nativity day uh preacher for uh the holy land next christmas 2022 it'll be broadcast all over uh the middle eastern region and uh he said i don't want you to just come but i want the choir to come and i want new birth to come so new birth we going to israel in 2022 it's going to be an amazing time we're going to give you more information as we move forward i'm grateful unto god i saw so many things from jericho to jerusalem that this coming tuesday i'm beginning a new series for six weeks entitled all the places we'll go you remember that story from dr seuss when you were in kindergarten uh we're gonna go through biblical significant places uh for the next six weeks and i want you to be a part of it with me this coming tuesday night and uh subsequent uh the next five thereafter on thursday uh members of new birth are partners of our ministry those who are in covenant with this house this coming thursday at 7 30 i'm going to be giving a state of the church address uh where is new birth in light of a covid in light of this crisis and what is our responsibility to the community all of those of you who are part of the family of new birth i need you on whatever platform uh you're on right now to be locked in this coming thursday at 7 30 pm eastern time matthew 27 verse 58 through 60. going to pilate he asked for jesus body and pilate ordered that it be given to him joseph took the body wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock he rolled the big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and then went away you may be seated i want to preach today uh using as a subject a message to the middle class a message to the middle class while the world's watching the olympics in tokyo the gladiators of past games have been celebrated on the silver screen people are remembering with fond recollection muhammad ali lighting the torch it's been underscored that michael jordan is one of the greatest athletes of all times the price of mary lou written on the wheaties box has gone up on ebay the athlete known formally as bruce jenner is even raising funds to run for governor of california however there's a name that you probably are not familiar with who's associated with the olympics and her name is shirley babisoff shirley babisoff she made her acclaim as a swimmer in the 1976 olympic games that was held in montreal canada her father being a swimming coach made it easy to believe her stride and her discipline well you probably don't know is that shirley babisoff lives in anonymity because she holds the record of the most silver medals shelley babbles off more than anybody else in olympic history has won the most silver medals with six in her collection while that is noble and commendable we live in a culture where second place is never celebrated today she lives in orange county california as a letter carrier not in any way to suggest that that's menial but in contrast to those who won gold all of them are firmly in millionaire status dr benjamin elijah mays posed a critical question why run a race just to come in second place and i want to say to you no matter where it is that you're watching i've got to ask you a critical question do you really believe you were destined to be second do you believe you are ordained just to get the silver do you think that god hewned you into the earth to be a runner up however in the olympics of economics our community seems to be focused on not being first this is the largest class of black middle class in our history in the social hierarchy the terminology asserts one's income education occupation or social status being middle class is a badge and a boast of pride for those who are living above the poverty line but beneath the aristocratic circle we are african americans 12 percent of the u.s population but only 13 of those who are actually in the middle class the average net worth j for white families is 171 000 but for black people it's 17 000. i better give that to you again i think i went too fast the average net worth for people in our community is a hundred and seventy one thousand but for uh those in our community is just seventeen thousand so even those who are making money even those of you who make good money you are not middle class because you don't save it you don't invest it the problem is you are not middle class but you are living a middle class lifestyle without a middle class reality you dress like it you eat out like it you drive like it you vacation like it but you ain't got it so for the sake of the mirage you have cultivated in the desert of your subconscious today i'm going to give you honorary status if it makes you feel better that you were middle class i don't know how you've reconciled it that you're middle class and paying rent middle class and you're driving on a lease middle class and you got a charge on a restricted debit card but you think you're middle class so let's stick with that hang on to it as long as you can before i go on i've got to ask you a question that i am afraid nobody the gall to ask you what i've got to ask you is what made you satisfied at second do you think your grace is for the middle do you think you are anointed for average in case you lost it tyler perry kanye west and lebron james became billionaires in the pandemic i think i've lost you i better give it to you again tyler perry kanye west and lebron james became billionaires in the middle of a global pandemic before you chi are too loud i need you to know there are only 5 000 jobs in sports they're only 5 000 jobs in entertainment but they are 48 million negroes so if you can't sing if you can't act if you cannot play an instrument if you cannot rap is there still room for you to get wealth something is wrong when you think that the glory of god on your life is just to survive poverty getting out of poverty is not enough i need you to lay hands on yourself because i regret because we came out of generational brokenness you never knew how to speak it over your life i need you to lay hands on yourself and declare out loud there's a millionaire trapped inside of me now so some of y'all can't pronounce it because you're intimidated at the possibility of wealth and i'm not talking about you getting over i'm not talking about your ponzi scheme i'm not talking about the pyramid i'm talking about by the sweat of your brow and the grace on your back i need you to lay hands on yourself and declare to the universe there's a millionaire trapped inside of me only five of y'all in this room are getting it i hope 5 000 of y'all are getting this online would you shout it until the banking institutions hear you until the reality heals you y'all ain't saying nothing until your credit company hears you would you shout out loud to your unborn grandchildren wake up in your bosom and declare out loud there's a millionaire trapped inside of me you cannot get satisfied with silver can't get satisfied with silver this week while i was in israel i had the opportunity to spend some time with two billionaires i want to give you three bullets that i got from two billionaires three bullets that i got from two billionaires i want you to write these down i want your family to discuss them i need you to meditate and reflect on them throughout the course of this week of course of this month of course of your life number one here it is don't look the part when you can't play the role i want you to write that down please don't look the part when you can't play the role we were raised since eighth grade graduation to believe you got a dress to impress and so we learned how to put on louboutins and louis vuitton but nobody ever taught you how to put on the whole arm of god i want to say this to you do not have more shoes than you have books i didn't expect y'all to shout over that i better say it again do not have more shoes than you have books i'm challenging you today is august 1st to put yourself on a shopping fast food ain't your problem sometimes you work so hard you don't even remember whether you ate or not i want you to put yourself on a 40-day shopping fast you don't got quiet there's tomatoes coming at me in every direction i was with two billionaires this week hear me i'm with two billionaires this week and uh had they walked in the room you would have no clue no indication of how much money they have shoes didn't look like nothing shirts didn't look like nothing devon the only expensive thing they had on was watches why because they knew the value of investing in time and many of you are dressed with the wrong thing because you don't know how to maximize your time i heard a philosopher say many years ago to me that poverty is not the mismanagement of money poverty is the mismanagement of time number one don't look the part when you can't play the role second bullet i need you to get it is be a goal digger not a money chaser [Music] b-a-g-o-a be a goal digger not a money chaser this is the best thing that i give you today i want you to write this down in all caps uh because when god gave it to me i needed you to have it and it's going to blow your mind hear this wealthy people don't live on a budget they live by discipline y'all don't like that when you are wealthy you don't have a budget you have discipline it's an african proverb that says don't eat your dinner for breakfast being a gold digger you got to ask yourself what are my goals putting kids through college retiring comfortably leaving an inheritance what is your goal many people who chase money never have a goal to chase so they keep looking for fast money and end up with a slow stop when you have goals you don't bow to gold when you have goals you do not bow to gold i wish i could bring in for you today them three hebrew boys shadrach meshach and abednego when king nebuchadnezzar erected a monument to himself and because he knew the mind of poor people who think less he said let me make this monument to gold be out of gold because goldless people always are impressed by gold and everybody started bowing down except shadrach meshach and abednego who said our goal is to serve god i wish there were those of you who understand there's more to your life than a mercedes in the garage there's more to your life than a 10 000 square foot home there's more to your life than having a membership at the country club do you have a goal i have decided to follow jesus no turning back first bullet don't look the part when you can't play the role second don't be a gold digger and not a money chaser number three give until it helps give until it helps last week i was absolutely utterly amazed when jeff bezos returned back from his first outer space mission and when he landed he decided to give van jones a hundred million dollars he gave van jones a hundred million dollars with the caveat he can spend it how he likes god i i want to know um i want to know can god trust you with being a millionaire so he gave he gave it to van jones because he knew what van jones was doing for those who were trying to re-enter from being flushed in the prison pipeline he knew that van jones's mind wasn't on a maybach or bentley but it was about empowering and equipping people can god trust you with the money that it won't just be for you but that you're gonna make a difference in the community and in the world that it ain't just gonna be for those who live under your roof but it's going to be a blessing to people who you never met before that will say there is a blessed person that understand that the blessings of the lord maketh rich and add no sorrow to it and all this week on social media people been cheering and ranting about jeff bezos giving van jones a hundred million i was impressed until i read what jeff bezos wife gave jeff bezos gave 100 million uh but bezos's wife gave 2 billion she gave 2 billion and she says i'm not giving it to individuals i'm giving it to institutions i'm giving it y'all not saying nothing to me to black colleges because i understand that when god blesses me it's got to be something bigger than me and some of y'all will never get blessed because you want to be the only one blessed but i want to know if there's anybody that says god why you blessing me bless my church while you're blessing me bless the ministry while you're blessing me bless the school i graduated from why you're blessing me bless those who are trying to do something for other people stop being selfish god can't trust you but can god trust you to be a blessing to be a blessing to be a blessing to be a blessing to be a blessing to be a blessing to be a blessing i'm blessed to be a blessing i'm blessed in the city i'm blessed in the field of blessing by going in i'm blasting my coming out [Music] i was with two billionaires in israel but there was a third one who i wish i had met but because my time was limited i didn't have the opportunity but i want to introduce you to him today i met him in matthew 27 and in matthew 27 i uh profiled a businessman who has more heft than juan buffett or elon musk his name is joseph of air matteo and he's described in luke 27 and i need you to hear this he's described in luke 27 not for what he does isn't it amazing that the bible tells us that uh luke is a physician that the bible shares with us that zacchaeus was a tax collector but when they described joseph of air matteo it never gives us his job description all it says is joseph is wealthy i'm getting ready to bless somebody please don't knock over who's sitting next to you today he says joseph is wealthy see a lot of people treat you based off of what you tell them you do so when they meet you they want to know what your occupation is but in luke chapter 27 we never find out what joseph of amateur's job is it is just a description of what he has that he is wealthy in other words luke says to us that joseph makes money i need you to look at the person beside you and just ask them what do you do what do you do come on look at him ask him what do you do and i want you to answer them i make money come on i need you to speak with authority my money makes money i'm making money while i'm sleep i can't hear nobody i got mailbox money i got money coming in for a job i don't even work no more money is attracted to me money is trying to find me right now money is getting ready to be my friend god is getting ready to bless me with uncanny wealth he's making money on top of money god help me i need somebody to just declare out loud for the rest of this year come on say it out loud for the rest of this year my money is going to be making money i got the wrong crowd y'all sound like y'all good just being middle class but those of y'all that believe you gonna crack this glass ceiling i need you to shout out my money it's gonna flip into more money this y'all ain't saying nothing to me my money is gonna be pressed down shaken together it's gonna be running over my old investments are gonna yield a high return my money is coming there's gonna be equity back in my house my money is coming all of my savings is gonna go through the roof my money is making money [Music] all it says all it says about joe is not his job simply that he is wealthy and at the time of the text joe shows up and when he shows up he goes to the governor and says i want the body of jesus because he's just been crucified i need y'all to see what happened a wealthy man shows up and says to the governor i want the body of jesus no applications [Music] no permit some of y'all are just missing it see what i am praying for you as your pastor is i don't want you to just have income i want you to have influence god i can't hear nobody that when i walk in the room whatever it is i'm asking for they gonna give it to me because my integrity means something my character means something my accountability means something i want everybody in this room i want everybody in this room to repeat after me i don't want just in an income i want influence come on i need you to say it out loud i want influence if one of my nieces or nephews about to be put out to school i'ma call up there tell them it's me on the fall i need to have influence i'm in uh i'm in the holy land and they said something to me that messed me up here's what they said to me they said pastor brian i'm afraid that you have looked at this narrative wrong about joseph giving over this tomb because um for the jewish community for the israelites hear this having a tomb is more important than having a home i think i've lost you having a tomb is more important than having a home so people spend more money on the tomb than they do on their homes say pastor brian you've got to uh uh disconnect yourself from westernized thought uh because the tomb is not for an individual you're buying the tomb hear this so the whole family can be buried in it so when joseph shows up and asks for the body of our lord and savior he is saying i am ready i am prepared to forego the greatest investment of my life i paid more for this than i did for my house i think i'm losing you right through here he said but i got so much confidence in what he said because he said that the dead in christ shall be lifted up so i need you to hear this i'm giving it to him i'm loaning it to him because i believe in a few short days i think y'all are losing it everything i gave to him it's coming back to me and the return is just gonna be in three days some of y'all are not be shouting but every tither you ought to be excited that everything i gave to god in the next three days is coming back to me how is it coming back pressed down shaken together and run it over proverbs you see that my time is up proverbs 12 and 17. hallelujah proverbs 12 and 17 kindness to the poor is a loan to the lord and he will repay the lender i think i lost you how you treat poor people is how you treat god and god said because you look out for me i'm getting ready to hook you up but can i shout you real quick he said joseph the blessing ain't just for you it's for everybody in your family they didn't even make the sacrifice but because they're connected to you everything you got is falling into their life i don't need you to shout just for you but god said if you praise me i'm breaking the generational curse of poverty he said if you lift me up your children will not be middle class if you glorify me your children ain't gonna fake it till they make it if you worship me now your crying children are gonna pay their tuition with one paycheck let the redeemed of the lord say so pastor what are you doing i know the olympics are almost over i know they're coming out of tokyo but i'm going for the gold i'm going for the gold i'm going for the gold if anybody asks you what's the matter with me tell them i'm saved i'm sanctified and i'm running i'm running [Applause] [Music] hey you want to shout for generational wealth i said shout for generational wealth [Music] lift up that hand i want to pray for you your family cannot be satisfied with a fake middle-class existence it's more for your life more for your bloodline more for your children and it all swings on what you do for god how much you lift up that hand i want to pray for you be not weary and well doing for in due season hallelujah be not weary and well doing for in due season this is my season [Music] for grace and for favor i speak of every lifted hand that god will give you the grace to make shrewd financial decisions they got to give you the discipline to walk away from faking the phone i pray that god will let the oil flow so you will be the last generation of your family in the middle but your family will be known for great wealth and that when god gives you that wealth he'll trust you to be a blessing to the community to the city and to the church and those of you that believe it would you give god glory for it right now i want to show you something [Music] how you gonna be satisfied at the silver [Music] when god wants you to go for the gold in case you forgot the greatest dreamer before dr king was joseph and in case your memory has lapsed his brother sold him into slavery for 20 pieces of silver maybe you forgot that judas was waiting for the right time to sell jesus out and he did it for 30 pieces of silver many of you don't even know that settling for middle class is selling god out being average is offensive to your holy ghost it's got to be more that god wants for your life and i'm believing that it's going to happen i'm going to challenge those of you who are not tithers you stop tithing you didn't believe in tithing you didn't subscribe to it contain check yourself before you wreck yourself you got to pull yourself together there's some generational wealth that god wants to release for those of you here it is you've already tithed but you want to give an expression of an offering of thanksgiving and expectation they sold jesus out for 30 pieces of silver i'm going to ask every single one of you to give an overflow generational wealth expectation seed i want to give a seed of 40 on this day i want you to give a seed of 40 right now why am i giving 40 40 is the number of generations every 40 years another generation comes i need you sowing that seed right now for 40 because i am making an investment into the next generation of my family i'm making a seed of expectation for what it is that i'm believing that god can do amazingly friends hear this your money cannot save you because whether you are a millionaire or we're on welfare hear this whether you are millionaire or on welfare guess what your grave is the same size or welfare you still going six feet under your money does not make you but what are you gonna make out of your money i'm believing that god's getting ready to bless you if you're here in this room if you're here watching me live online you don't have a church home you don't have a ministry that's stretching you that's pushing you that's developing you that's cultivating you i'm telling if you come here i'm never gonna let you settle at being second i don't want you comfortable being in the middle i'm not gonna stop until you get to the top of your division top of your field top of your area our prayer warriors are standing by because we want to walk you in we want to welcome you to be a part of our family to be a part of our ministry and i'm believing that god is going to do great things in your life and that he's got great things in store if you believe that god's going to do it would you clap your hands and give him glory now come on you can do better than that we got great things in store our emerging generations pastor is coming to close us out she wants to share some of the things that are taking place in our ministry give god some praise for pastor turner amen declare over this room i will not settle oh come on in here i felt that thing in my spirit i will not settle say it out loud one more time so that the enemy can hear you i will not settle were you blessed by the word of the lord this morning hallelujah the bible says that men shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god can i tell you he says

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