all right now if you would open your Bible of Numbers chapter 27 and we're going to study some this morning on the honor of God on the honor of God understanding the honor of God being a recipient of the honor of God and number 7 27 is where we'll start I mean it's a lot of great great scriptures on I'm sure we can't cover all of them but we want to start right here in numbers chapter 27 and verse 16 number 27 verse 16 and it says let a man I'm sorry number 27 16 let the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh set a man over the congregation now you might want to underline that right there because God basically deals with a set man God set a man notice I didn't say he set a committee someone says for God so loved the world he did not send a committee so that's a whole nother teaching all right so God set a man you notice that's God's pattern setting a man a mission and so and it says an honor here so he says the Lord God's involved in this and setting this person of this man in position over the congregation look at verse 17 and they said which may go out before them and which may go in before them and which may lead them out and which may bring them in and the congregation of the Lord be not a sheep which have no Shepherd so really what he says this set man will know how to go in and how to go out and this set man is going to have tremendous influence over the congregation not because of who that man is individually but because God set person in that place God set him there and he said in he's going to have influence and leading people in to their inheritance of their blessing leadership and leading them out of bondage and leading them out of limitations all right so he said this is a pretty important person in it they meant he's the ones gonna lead you in or leave you out you better figure out who he is amen pay attention to him right verse 8 verse 18 he says and the Lord said unto Moses take the Joshua now he's telling them who the man is he says Lord said to Moses take me Joshua in other words he didn't tell all the congregation to vote based on whose cute and whose handsome who was saying in his talented the Lord told Moses take Joshua the son of nun a man in whom is the spirit and lay thine hand upon him notice that so he says you take Joshua and he said the Spirit of God is upon him and lay your hand upon him lay your hand upon you now we know that the doctrine of the laying on of hands is a doctrine is the doctrine in other words it's not just a practice it is a doctrine and so to understand that doctrine would be a key to your not receiving God's best blessings understand the doctrine of the land on the hands Kenneth E Hagin her dad Hagin came to our church and preached many times in Louisiana and the first time he came to preach you know was all faith crusade and so so men I won't need to teach on faith and the subjects that I've heard him teach on the most and the first night he taught on the doctrine of laying on the hands I was really disappointed I was like what does that have to do with anything that just went through my mind not long you just kind of went through there I mean ever had stuff go through your mind that probably didn't need to stay there but it was right through my mind I just let it go right on but after he finished teaching on the doctor in the laying on the hands it changed my understanding of the importance of Linens what happens when hands are laid upon you and how to maximize that experience because you can minimize it or you can maximize that experience so I believe that Moses knew what he was doing I believe Joshua knew what was happening so he says lay your hand upon him and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation and give him a charge in their sight or you know divine instructions and in verse 20 he said in thou shalt put some of thine honor upon him that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be what obedience so he said when you lay hands upon him Moses when you lay hands upon Joshua what are you gonna do for him place what some now why did he say some well because it's how you receive it that determines how much of that song you got Amen because you can actually receive it and take it to another level and I said you can receive it a new take it to another level Amen as Elijah did right so he said it's gonna play some of your honor upon him and then he said before all the congregation that they may be what obedience obedience is an interesting issue and well we better not get into that right now but obedience so he says the congregation if they would be obedient to the leadership that comes from anointed by God then they're gonna receive I like to say when water rises in the bay all the boats rise and others in a greater knowing comes upon your leader or your pastor or the minister then it's gonna come upon you if you'll receive it appropriate so he said they may be obedient now also I want you to see another point here is that when that honor came upon Joshua I believe it greatly affected his leadership it affected his leadership now how would it affect his leadership well there's probably several ways it affected his leadership because you know leadership has simply influenced or the exercise of influence so when that honor came from Joshua and then it must have affected his voice it must have affected his horse it must have affected his understanding of his purpose and the plan of God for his life amen so I must have affected his voice in other words there was an ingredient in his voice that was not there before so that you're not just repeating stuff but now there's something else going on that's not from your natural talents it's something that came upon you from the hand of the Lord well if that honor is upon you he got some of it from Moses so you know number number two he's definitely free from the fear of man in other words he always say you can be a people person without being a people pleaser the people person means you love people because God loves people and you have compassion upon people you want to bless people but that also means that you cannot be manipulated by you know people with deep pockets and short arms alright y'all doing all right so far so he said play some of your on apartment so look at this here verse 21 we'll keep reading says that he should stand before Eleazar the priest who should last counsel for him from the judgments of the yeren before the Lord and his words shall they go out at his word shall they come in he and all the children of Israel with him and even all the congregation so he says when he speaks is gonna affect the way people come in when they go out amen and when Moses did as the LORD commanded him and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation verse 23 and he laid his hands upon him and gave him a charge or an instruction our command as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses so this is really a supernatural happening commanded by the Lord laid his hands upon Joshua and then he commands him so now he placed some of his honor upon him now probably some of the greatest events in my life have happened through the laying on of hands through the placing of honor once I heard the way dad Hagin taught on the importance of lent on hand then it totally changed the way I receive the laying on the hands they are my honor for that doctrine a little here so this this literally happened to me and I would like to say that some of thine honor means that you could receive in a measure the blessing of the Lord through the landowner hands but in this case in my case I'd been following Kenneth E Hagin or dad Hagin for many many years since I was 17 years old many times he had laid hands upon me bless me I'd receive the anointing many many times but in st. Louis he actually said on Friday night been there two weeks I'd been there for two weeks and on Friday night he said I'm gonna I was actually gonna leave on Friday because I would get home for my church you know in Louisiana so I was gonna leave it out on Friday and so he said well if I was you I wouldn't leave tonight well I said well if he said I shouldn't leave it I'm just not leaving so I said one how much it's gonna cost what difference to make how much you know cause it'll make no difference what else I got scared you like I'm fixing to change my schedule so just change the schedule stayed over Friday night he got up Friday night he read numbers chapter 27 he said now the Lord instructed me to lay my hands upon you and place some of my honor upon you you that are first of all the pastors and the ministers to lay my hand upon you and place some of my honor upon you now when he does that come on any any minister of ministry that does that then then you actually become a part of the call of God that's upon that ministry in other words you'll carry the same purpose and you'll carry the same anointing in a measure and you'll carry the same Authority in a measure you'll carry the same revelation in a measure amen now notice again no doubt great things happen through the land on the hands people receive healing but in this area that when he laid hands on Joshua it was not just like laying hands on anybody because Joshua literally served under Moses so listen listen close so you don't get that anointing by studying it alone Joshua served and he was so faithful in serving that many people say Joshua really did not even transition into leadership until he was maybe 70 or 80 years old in other words he was not ambitious for like well I'm already 40 I've been serving here 40 I'm already 40 I'm 50 now and then other people say when you ever gonna be the man well he never he never was tempted by any of that he just function in his place just to serve so you don't get that kind of honor just by studying it I mean so Elijah got a double portion because he served Elijah now still in there serve now there's many ways you can serve someone that God sets you in relationship with there's more than just one way to serve that means you don't always have to be on that person's staff you know you don't always have to be there you know and you can serve in there because you may be serving some other place but once you recognize the significance of that relationship you find a way that you can supply something that's going to help that person do what they're called to do because as you help them do what they're called to do and God's will make sure you get to do what your coming I'll still in there amen in my case that Hagin years ago I felt like the Lord was talking to me you know about getting a getting a jet you know for our ministry well so uh you know we got one I'm kind of playing and we got a citation one kept it for a few years then recently got a citation three which is very nice fast yeah so when I got that jet well but when I was starting out to get a jet I started putting some money aside in the savings and you know got a few hundred thousand dollars set aside and savings preparing you know to get a jet and right in the middle of that they took up an offering for dad Hagin to have a jet so that said the Lord said to me you think you should have a jet and come on your major supplier someone that's over here in the Lord they don't have a jet so they were seamen off for him so I just took my jet money and just gave it to him so once I did that come on what am i doing I'm serving I said I'm serving I didn't work for him I'm serving his assignment and I'm trusting God to help me fulfill my assignment so once I sold then the devil said to me you ever had a conversation with the devil and we talked to you my devil said well now that's stupid you gave him all your jet money so now you're not ever going to have a jet well it kind of looked that way I mean like I gave all my money like tell you now because gonna take a while right so then I realized the devil's tactics and I said no no no no that don't mean I'm not gonna have a jet that just means I'm gonna have a better jet than I ever could have afforded naturally all right well anyway it wasn't long boom jet one boom jet three fast yet almost seven hundred miles an hour so I mean that's Mach one so I take it six hundred and sixty miles an hour from the San Francisco all the way to Louisiana non-stop maybe Donald Trump's not the only one that should have a jet so how many things Jesus ought to have it yet alright so if that bothers you I'm probably not finished yet I'll probably get a bigger one so but I didn't get it by being stingy Oh y'all see when he got it by serving y'all still here a place or someone who had given me the word of faith come on someone has given me the anointing so I'm going to make sure he was put a head of me right so then my accountant came into my office and he said my accountant you know he searched my finally says he said you'd give away too much money and he specifically mentioned Kenneth Hagin my accountant he said you give Kenneth Hagin too much money he said he already asked more money than you I said yes sir and I'm going to keep it that way you see how the devil trying to work the job was trying to tell me because he has more money than me I should not so into him when really that has nothing to do with honor has nothing to do come on with a king who has nothing to do with my son right so the counter said you give away too much money you give too much and I said that's the reason I have too much because he's trying to figure out how I've got so much money because I didn't get it by saving I got it by sowing y'all still here now here's the way the Lord said to me he said God's kingdom sewing system will always outperform man's saving system now that didn't mean that you can't save money God said he'll bless your basket and bless your storehouse so God's not opposed to you saving money as long as he has access to that I see somebody almost nodded they might be right so anyway so God's not opposed you saving money right but he said his sewing system will outperform your slave eases hmm don't look at me suspicious all right now so let's look at this subject of honor because you can respect with words but you have to honor with substance in other words people are real good with words oh I'm telling you I'm going to respect you but there's a difference between respect and honor you respect with words and that's nice you learn how to talk to people respectfully but honor it literally takes you to another level beyond respect so you have to honor a substance so you can said this way honor will always cost you something but we'll always pay a lot more than it costs you alright let's try this out of it's an honor is always gonna cost you something it's gonna cost you time there ain't no cheap honor you can't get a discount on it it's gonna cost you time and it's gonna cost you money now and I'm explaining it to you real quickly here because I believe that there's certain qualifications to enjoy the honor of God actually in 2nd Timothy he said that you can actually be a vessel of Honor but you will have to purge yourself of certain things so you'll be sanctified or set apart to receive that honor notice he said you purge yourself if a man will purge himself he'll be a vest on in other words that's pretty good because he tells you you have the ability to purge yourself John he's giving you the blood he's giving you the word give me a Holy Ghost in other words that means there may be certain things in your life that that that you would struggle with but you have the power through the blood of Jesus through the Holy Spirit to remove that element so you will be a vessel of Honor all right now let's keep going here now let's get a working definition honor real quickly here y'all all right here's a working definition honor to treat with great consideration to treat with great consideration next to respect greatly so it's beyond just respect it's just another level to regard highly to treat with deference defer to that person what's best for them treat with deference and courtesy tree with deference and courtesy are to treat as valuable to treat as valuable our esteem of the highest degree esteem of the highest degree to treat with dignity our to treat as precious all right now let's see exactly in this area on the subject of honor now I'm going to show you why it's important here and I'm gonna have to cover these scriptures kind of quickly here but in mark chapter 6 you all know mark chapter 6 it says and there Jesus could do no mighty works and there he could do what no mighty works that he laid hands on a few 6 new people some got a few minor ailments healed there he could do doesn't say he didn't want to just said he was limited he could do no mighty work right and he marvel at there what he marvel at their unbelief so what did he do after that well it says he went around teaching all right so there is a cure for unbelief and if unbelief is curable there's nothing incurable I said if unbelief is curable they just ain't nothing that's incurable because if you can believe all things are possible so Jesus there went around teaching and so in this case though it says there he could do no mighty work he marveled at unbelief but notice her unbelief was connected to their familiarity of Jesus so the verses ahead of that it says they said about Jesus we know his family live right down the street who does he think he is he's nothing special come on why is he acting like he's something special and Jesus said and a prophet is not without honor except among his own families own country in other words that said this way you don't have to dishonor just refuse to and that is dishonor all right let's try this so a lot of times what I didn't do nothing to dishonor well let's just see what the definition of dishonor would be because if you know what the definition of honor is and you ain't doing that that is this honor thank you for your enthusiasm so so you don't have to dishonor just either don't understand or refuse to honor right and then then you're actually in a position of dishonor so why is that important because Jesus anointing was limited by their dishonor and it was tragic for people who needed a miracle but could not get a miracle because people became so familiar imagine being around Jesus a lot and he said well I know him live down the street you know work that down there making that furniture down we know his family come on yeah he's a good old guy he's a good old guy but refuse to honor come on bet he is come on the one the Spirit of the Lord is upon me for he as unknown to me you know would you say I accept he's a good man but I won't take it that far so you stopped a step before honor which is a step before you got here so y'all still with me so you you have to be close enough to be familiar but strong enough to be faithful so if you want serve in the ministry you will have to get close enough to a ministry our ministry gift but you may become familiar with certain characteristics you don't like about them but when the anointing of the Holy Ghost is upon them that's a whole different person right there so why because my dad was a pastor and I could be very familiar but when the anointing on him I was like y'all still with me so the importance of honor literally yeah unbelief and dishonor are connected hmm praise the Lord so there people could receive now the example I use a lot it's cause of a good pastor friend of mine in the United States called Bruce black pastors in the Atlanta area and a good friend of mine and he worked for Kenneth Hagin ministries well if you work for Kenneth Hagin ministries you've worked for many years traveled with the team and so then pastor Hagin you know mainly pastored in in Tulsa right and then dad Hagin were going the road then they'd come back to Tulsa but really their boss was pastor Hagin right so among the guys who worked there they became very familiar with pastor date so they knew his strengths his weaknesses they probably seen him when he's frustrated because he's running you know that big business and so then they would you know all began to mimic him the way he talked or different things like that so they just have him fun and maybe fun for a little while but you're gonna have to figure out where the funds supposed to stop so they're kind of having fun with it all right well dad Hagin went on to heaven went on to be with the Lord and so he's there with the ministry and many other people had started out of that in the Tulsa area starting to churches some of his dad Hagen's you know guys who come out of there started churches in the area and so he was wanting to go to one of them and yet pastor Hagin still had to church there right so he's asking me he says now this one over here seems to be more exciting and there's no here seen me I said listen here's the way dad Hagin said it you can't run with ever dog it hunts you got to figure out what dog you supposed to run with and quit changing dogs every few months so I said if it's a spy came from dad Hagin didn't you say he's your spiritual father well this is his son and I am a father I have a son you get more trouble and dishonor my son than dishonor and me so if you have a son you know how much your father loves the son and so if you love the father then how can you say you love the father and you don't love the zone so if you're raised under that ministry and now the son come on is serving in that ministry come on you better just stay put I didn't say the others weren't good ministries I just said in your case you better stay put right okay all right well I'm gonna stay there well so you got to overcome you know certain conflicts and stay there where he was planted all right so he got to stay there and I didn't make him I just said I'm just going to tell you it's an act of honor for you to stay there and it may not be to your advantage right now I said but that is your pastor he said you're right so he stayed there serving you know wasn't there all the time didn't work anymore because he's all pastoring now so I said you stay in your company right well he stayed there but he got sick and was in intensive care several days and he had struggled in some area of his health and he got real sick just about to die and so he's he's going down doctors he may not last the day and so his wife called pastor Hagin and said Bruce is in intensive care right now they don't expect him to live and pastor Hagin said what does he call me she said well he calls you pastor he said what if I'm his pastor put the phone to his ear he's laying there unconscious they put the phones here and pass their Hagan says I am your pastor and the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I command you to live and not die and to be raised up and to be healed from that moment is helped her to come on came out of intensive care what happened because of the honor he had a place of authority come on some people change churches so much nobody has a place of authority in other words there's something about honor that releases the anointing alright let me give you another example mark chapter 14 mark chapter 14 the woman with the alabaster box don't you love that story who owned the alabaster box right yeah what'd she do she broke the box poured it on Jesus when she poured it on Jesus the fragrance filled the room now the disciples the disciples are struggling with this extra extravagant honor on Jesus now you notice if they're struggling on Jesus they should have trouble with you evident so that mad because she broke that alabaster box which most commentaries say was so valuable it would be like your whole year's income and she busted the whole thing and poured it on Jesus now we use that for worship and it is worship but you can worship without singing there's no record she sang one song no records she sang anything everybody's like oh if you're gonna worship you have to sing now sometimes we need you to be generous and shut up so that means you can worship without seen because people that do 30 minutes or an hour of singing in five minutes on the offering you think oh I'm really worshiping well we better study that subject a little bit more matter of fact your next spiritual breakthrough may have as much to do with your given as it does to your praying anything because honor requires generosity honor requires generosity and the great thing about generosity is anybody can do it let's try that again I said the great thing about generosity is anybody can do it I said anybody can do it generosity is just the opposite of ungenerous our stingy I'll still here so anybody can be generous and most people think they are generous until they meet somebody's generous and some people are generous according to 1950 now let's keep going on generous now so when it comes to generous this woman's giving literally her worship was extravagantly generous even wasteful so extravagant and so the disciple said why would you waste that we could have taken that and giving it to the poor oh now that sounds spiritual don't we would all like to see isn't it wrong that's why you don't vote come on the kingdom of God Jesus they were let's vote on this who thinks that too much no they said we could have given that to the poor what did Jesus say the poor you have with you he said but the gift of God you may not have with you always in other words she recognized an opportunity to extravagantly bless Jesus the Son of God come on when you get to heaven you'll probably see this woman walking around because he's it everywhere you preach the gospel you don't have to talk about this one you don't see your mother when you said now how come she's so special say mmm extravagant generosity at the right time all right we're gonna keep moving here it goes so generous when she poured that on Jesus the fragrance filled the room Jesus says she has done what she could in other words she did the best she could right and Jesus said she prepared me for my burial think about that she's really doing something that's way beyond her personal understanding in other words her extravagant generosity putting the perfume on Jesus that while he's on the way to the cross while people are cursing him and spitting upon him dishonouring him he could smell the aroma of someone who honored him she actually threw honor propelled Jesus to his destiny imagine the honor that you and I could could bestow upon someone to help them finish their course and fulfill the call of God upon their life and they may be going through a tremendous time of adversity but that honor was translated come on out into something that cost her generosity y'all see with me so the fragrance of that honor so you can see the the honor that she put upon him literally now Jesus took it and put it right back on earth all right now let's look at this real quickly here in John chapter 12 and verse I think is verse 15 jesus said if a man will serve me him will my father honor in other words jesus said if any person will serve me God will arrange their honor what does that mean well that means when you treat God come on with extreme honor God said I will arrange your honor so once you are serving Jesus said I don't even seek my own honor he said God seeks it and God will arrange it so you can relax amen that doesn't mean that you don't have to teach honor because it must be talked I said it must be taught right even in your home and your family it's not an automatic it says that children should honor their father and their mother and he said if they will honor listen now their father and their mother then it will be what well with them they'll live long on the earth so he's not talking about just tell him don't dishonor he says make sure you honor your father and your mother first commandment of promise so you have to teach honor to your children not for your sake but for their sake and you have to teach honor in the church not for your sake but for their sake all right let's try that again I said come on it has to be taught and you're not teaching it for your sake you're teaching on the principle that will bring God's best blessings into their life right so an attitude of familiarity come on our treating people if you're supposed to hear if I want to requires you to treat people with great consideration with deference and treat this valuable that means you don't even qualify for honor if you just treat people as common right so when it comes to this subject own own honor he said it must be in the home and you have to teach your children how to honor now let's take it another level he says and a husband in 1st Peter chapter 3 a husband must give honor unto his wife come on the weaker vessel dwell with your wife according to knowledge he's not talking about general knowledge he's talking about the Covenant knowledge that God has such as a husband must give honor unto his wife he said and if a husband does not honor his wife then his prayers will be cut off he said because the husband and the wife are heirs together of the grace of life in other words the husband and the wife together inherit the blessings of the Lord so so God said the way you treat your wife is going to determine your blessing in other words your level of ministry may be connected to the way you treat your wife even so I'm studying church growth you might want to study how to honor your wife I may say how do you know I know from experience come on cuz I knew I'm called to preach I'm called preach the gospel when I'm young well then I come along meet Trent at Bible College and then we fall in love and we decide to get married and she's also a preacher and a teacher right but we get married we're at home come on and she's doing a few things at the house I didn't really appreciate you know the way she was doing them so I kind of let her know you know the United States they call it henpecked you know henpecked means that your wife rules you so I let her know right off you ain't ruling me do you understand that now I'm gonna listen to you but you ain't running me you understand but I also got a little too mean and harsh about it come on cuz I thought I was right in what I was saying and the Lord said you can be right and still be wrong so after I told her what I thought about it I went to my study and I began to pray come on studying and praying and the Lord said I don't want to talk to you right now I said Lord now that must be the devil talking to me because I know me and the Lord are closed and the Lord said no it's ain't the devil this is me yeah I don't want to talk to you right now and he said you need to go and apologize to your wife and then I'll talk to you look that is unreasonable I mean that is out of the question he said well I'm not talking to you til you go apologize to you what he said because your wife happens to be my daughter I [Applause] have just married God's daughter and I have a daughter I know I feel about my daughter but I marry God's daughter y'all still here in other words there was no honor in the way I was acting I wasn't treating her as valuable and precious the Lord said you go apologize I won't talk to you till you do huh so I had to get up from my place of prayer going to kitchen she was in the kitchen I said oh this is killing me so though I said but I'm right towards are you wrong you don't matter if you think you're right if God said you're wrong so I just went in apologize as soon as I did I went back and prayed and the Lord said now I can bless you in that interesting because he said treating with honor means treat is valuable and precious right so that means you don't have to dishonor just refuse to honor I'll sit with me all right now that's the husband dealing with a lot first Peter then Anna fees in chapter 5 it says the wife should reverence her husband other amplified is actually the best on that verse right there just now worth it was that Ephesians 5:33 in it I ought to have it memorized 32 33 right there last verse around her feeding fire talking about the husband and the wife right there and he says and the wife see that she reverence her husband [Laughter] so the amplified for reference what Sam fights a trial you can't remember right now all right so the amplifier women love the amplified till you get to that verse they're like I like the King James that's enough right there season five light 33 now you can read it yeah it'll renew your mind [Applause] it says it says however oh I've seen that she don't get the wrong verse Oh season 5 33 32 without exception love his wife hmm as being in a sense his very own self and let the wife see that she respects and reverence her husband oh then she notices him but go slower don't go to bed don't go to path you know it is notice oh my god honours ons my turn go ahead I'm sorry no you're doing good it's better for you honors honors have a greater impact honours young prefers him venerates that's a powerful manner right that's like rub your feet stuff like that [Applause] we're gonna break that word down penetrate loves and Mars and she does all that well you know nine out of ten maybe Annika anyway so she does all that but imagine the kind of children that you would raise in an atmosphere of Honor magic now what good is it that you raise all the children in the church come on and you don't raise your own or trained your own in other words in that atmosphere of honor so now he's talking about honor in the home right then he's talked about honor in society the way you honor someone in authority not because you agree with them y'all still with me you don't have to agree with everybody to be honorable amen amen praise the Lord can you say hallelujah can you say thank you Jesus all right now general world war ii world war ii America United States Great Britain England tremendous things in as allies stopping the Nazis are all of us be speaking German I'm under communism if it were not for somebody's blood so we all like her in freedom of speech but we forget who bled so we can talk so in America World War two other battles other Wars but in America a Winston Churchill right don't you love winston churchill you sit in to quote he's kind of a rough guy but junior in a war you need so much kind of rough right i love quotes but listen search of them so one of my favorite quotes are here's you know as a is a woman that was mad at wednesday churchill and she said i despise you she told him i despise you winston churchill if you were my husband I would give you poison he said if you were my wife I would drink it [Applause] all right well let's keep moving here so [Laughter] so whoo let me try to finish up here now so in in battles that determine the destiny of Nations great leaders and in America one of the great leaders in America during World War 2 was General Douglas MacArthur one of the greatest generals and there's others that you could mention in Great Britain here as well as in in the United States great leader Douglas MacArthur and he spoke to the graduates of West Point and when he spoke to them he said to them these are guys who will put themselves in harm's way or lay down their lives for what we cherish as freedoms for a nation so he told the delegates and all those graduating from West Point he said there's two things worse than death two things worse than death two things worse than death in other words these two things will set you free from being afraid of death because these two things are worse than death number one is to lose your freedom you would rather be dead than to lose your freedom so you're fighting for freedom number two is dishonor in other words it's worse than being dead to have to live with dishonor are to live with shame are to live with regret come on our dishonor because you were not created for that in other words God originally crown man with glory and honor so if the devil can bring you into a place of shame or dishonor you will never enjoy life so you can see the blood of Jesus has the power not only to remove sin but to remove the shame and the stain of sin go to him so when it comes to dishonor or when it comes to shame I got this writing from a Christian psychologist Maynooth mind our to burn and here's what they said they said shame is the issue that drives almost every compulsive self-defeating behavior known to the human race all right let's try that again come on we're going to study human behavior all right I'm going to show you the importance of honor in human behavior shame is the issue that drives almost every compulsive self-defeating behavior known to the human race are Smith Wigglesworth said Satan will bring railing accusations against the believer to try to bring them into a position of shame and defeat he said but the holy spirit never brings condemnation he is the lifting power he always reveals the blood of Christ thank God for the blood of Jesus liquid love our liquid honor liquid righteousness the blood of Jesus right because first thing God does when you make Jesus your Lord is he lifts you to the highest place of honor seated with Christ who restores the honor praise the Lord thank God for the blood somebody finish this you see something about about the route Seamus issue that drives almost every compulsive self-defeating behavior known to the human race now if you were to call it self-defeating behavior what would that mean self-defeating behavior listen you got enough trouble with the devil why do you want to book yourself yes sir are you considered this way if the devil could kill you anytime he wanted you'd be dead already apparently he can't do it he's got to get you to cooperate with him so Satan is the accuser he's gonna tell you every place that you don't measure up that you're disqualified he's the accuser but the Holy Spirit is your advocate and the Holy Spirit has never lost the case if he can get his client to listen to him so the Holy Spirit is constantly showing you how to bring you out of the accusation of the enemy amen to change your life so he said self-defeating behavior he said shame is at the root of all self-defeating behavior now here's what he says so he says changed at the root of all addictions he said it may be hidden or disguised but it is there it is real and it drives human behavior all right let's try this out of it you know the word shame will cause you to think that you're not qualified for God's best blessings so the devil is the accuser come on and a sense of shame our inferiority our rejection that you don't measure it so he says that shame literally as is the root of all addictions in other words if you can't if you can't stop the control of that with shame because the root of it is shame let's try that again I said you can you can't stop it with shame but tell anybody how bad they ought to be ashamed right so now you got to get to the root of it and only the blood of Jesus has the power through the Holy Spirit to get to the root come on of shame so he says it may be hidden or disguised but it is there it's real it drives human behavior sometimes the addiction surfaces first sometimes the shame where you find one you will always find the other shame and compulsive behavior always go together in other words to terror man's deepest problem then the blood has to reach into your conscience and remove the stain and the shame and the guilt all right in other words the Old Testament blood covered and forgave sin the New Testament blood of Jesus actually removes sin consciousness that means the honor he gives you puts you in a position where you don't feel inferior when you honor someone else all right come on I told you they can't think them better than me no no no no that that honor coming out of you actually will beget honor it will produce that oh man you guys ought to just say hallelujah praise the Lord amen amen now so to finish up on this subject honor go to first Timothy chapter what is the chapter five and it says the elders that real well are counted worthy what's the first Timothy 5:17 or eighteen round there verse 25 17 elders in real well are counted worthy of double honor that it that's right verse now you are having trouble a single honor all right come on just single honor for your wife your husband y'all still with me just single honors you're like but now when it comes to the ministry he says the elders that rule well and he's talking about ministry gifts here Amen minister gifts you could just put the word in here the pastors pastors that rule well well he's probably talking to a group of pastors a bunch of pastors he's not necessarily talking about you know the pastors just in one location because you could have pastors and you'd have assistant pastors and you could have pastors come from another city come to hear the Apostle Paul I don't know about you but I would so the elders who rule well may be counted worthy of what double honor especially those who labor in the word and doctrine amen so we told my pastors ministers come on leaders come on a possible problem five-oh ministry that labor in the word and doctrine he said they are worthy I know we're talking about what the government says come on what what people say I come on or what communism socialism our democracy says we're in a different Kingdom here so in the body of Christ he says worthy of double honor so whatever you thought was honor God said it ought to be double it extravagant you laughs of it extravagant what because for that person to qualify for that ministry gift come on they've had to lay down lay aside get down humble yourself change your attitude be willing to work for nothing ain't looking for nothing serving Jesus he said now I'm gonna arrange their honor and you can participate in it alright praise the Lord I said come on God said I'm arranging that honor God said I'm arranging that honor I'm gonna give you a chance to participate in it and when you participate in it I'm gonna put something on you because you participated in that arm alright especially those are in the word doctor so what's he talking about there well he's not talking about sending you a card you know a thank you card the next verse says what's the next verse he's specifically talking about money I said he's specifically talking about money they'll get somebody talk about the money now each time I come in he time in a minute he's talking about the money he is talking amount of the money can you believe it he's talking about the money he says for you shall not muzzle an ox that treads out the grain for the laborer is worthy of his wages uh-huh in other words he says when someone is a laboring come on in leadership he said don't muzzle no muzzling aloud remove the muzzle what's a muzzle that means you're gonna make sure they only get a few pieces of corn to the hose you think are necessary and God says take the muzzle off y'all still in here aha now when it comes to this area of Honor then this is an area that literally is expressed with your substance financially y'all still with me because here's the way the Lord said to me he said you can steal information but you can never steal revelation in other words you come to church anybody come to church and you can get the information and think bla I got that sermon huh and you know I didn't get there in time for the offering and I slipped out before it's over oh but I got some stuff well you probably didn't get as much as you think you got because you can steal information but you can't steal revelation our in collation six six he says those who are taught in the word contribute all good things to your teacher that means he said that you're so in here I like to said this way the moment you reciprocate financially in generosity are in honor the impact of that word go to a whole nother level the moment you reciprocate let me say it this way when dad Hagin said I'm gonna lay hands upon you and place some of my honor upon you I realized that he's talking to Joshua Joshua already served so I immediately knew I'm qualified to receive it because I've been a monthly partner for 40 years that means I have served that ministry and you gonna have started and take 50 dollars then I bring a hundred dollars 40 years we got my 40 years now and I said Lord I'd sure like to bring 500 dollars ruff I don't know that's a food Lord I'd sure love to bring $1,000 then come on I was able to bring a thousand by thought gave thousand dollars now sauce other people I thought I'd sure like to give two thousand cuz you know the Bible says God will give seed to the soul the beginning of being a sower is just wanting to alright let's try that I said the beginning of being a solar is just wanting to even if you don't have all that much money come on you just wanting to in whatever you can so I I said Lord like the other top so then I finally have to say Lord I'd sure like to give two thousand got my forty years long I should like to give ten thousand I said y'all still here that's it Louis you'd like to give 25,000 come on okay 25,000 it was something boy I was like oh there better be a god so I so 25,000 right the Lord spoke to me years later he said do you remember when you gave 25 thousand I said I will never forget it because generosity makes an impact upon you always like if you're giving don't affect you much your harvest won't affect you much either he said remember when you get 25 set alone and then he said I want you to count it up in the last few years you've had 25 million come in the one I gave the twenty-five thousand I thought that's all there was in the history of the world but in the years after I gave the twenty-five thousand it turned into 25 million he said you thought you needed the twenty-five thousand but really you needed the 25 million now don't get mad at me I'm telling you I started to $50 I'm telling now to start in $50 I just decided to go beyond my comfort zone and step into the area of Honor which would take me beyond come on where I could be more generous than I thought I could be come on so my steps out there 25 then I said well I'd sure like to get $50 so I don't get fifty thousand after a 50 mm dad Hagin I said whatever you don't give just double it so then I gave one hundred thousand the count it up and tell you how many million has come out but I do submit to you that the million would have never come out all right let's try this because because he says when you sow you can sow sparingly or you can sew generously so I asked the Lord how will I know when I'm generous he said you know I said how will I know when I'm jealous because Yunus is different amounts of different people so how am I gonna know what I'm generous because anybody can be generous anybody can get God's attention when it comes to generosity anybody rich are poor let's try that I said rich are poor come on Jesus stood by the offering watch people here commented on it never does it say you commented on the scene no where does it say that use me now that was some beautiful singing I loved all that band limb lights I like them lights and I really like it if they got the big screens and stuff like it Jesus only watched the given and commented on the way people gate and he bragged on the one who actually gave the least but actually was the most generous come on there's something about generosity right that here's the way dad Hagin said again a pastor friend man talking to dad Hagin and he said if you were looking for a leader what would be the number one characteristic you would look for in a leader someone who's close to you and your ministry quality the number one characteristic he said dad hey you didn't even blink an eye and he said generous he said I thought that was interesting that here a prophet of God picks the number one characteristic for somebody to be generous he said because if someone is not generous they were shut down the move of the Spirit of God well because you can't get a stingy at Holy Spirit matter of fact your spirituality may be connected to your generosity y'all still with me because where your treasure is that's where your heart is don't tell me how well you pray don't tell me how that you know there's less than 500 scriptures on prayer did you know is less than 500 scriptures on faith did you know there's 2,200 scriptures on giving and on money and we don't even talk about in church people say oh I'm afraid there all right well let's go now go to first Timothy chapter 6 verse 17 and 18 19 put that up there real quickly first Timothy chapter 6 first Timothy chapter 6 verse 17 was this a first Timothy 6 charge was it's in your Bible command there buddy sick a man okay I'm scared to talk to him listen he said charge those that are rich in this world that are rich in this world charge those that are rich in this world who's Paul talking to he's talking to Timothy who happens to be a pastor so if Timothy's a pastor then he said talk to your church people and charge those that are rich in this world well listen that must mean there's supposed to be some rich people in church or with him tell him to talk to him he wouldn't say talk to all the poor people that are in your church service and tell them to give the best they can no he said talk especially to the rich people well if they're supposed to be rich people in church once I found out about that I volunteered for the program God's not opposed to being rich he's opposed to being stingy in other words you cannot have Mercedes living and skateboard giving some and that's a don't mention don't talk to the rich people God said talk to the rich people I know let's get a definition of rich real quickly because you said why that Bill Gates I know we better talk to him a little better talk to Donald Trump talk to the rich people but did you know when it comes to rich that if you make $40,000 a year you make more than ninety six percent of the people in the world so you're in the top four percent of the richest people the world if you make $40,000 years that's four thousand dollars which is how many pounds thirty if you make thirty thousand pounds a year you're richer than ninety six percent of the people in the world so instead of me talking to Donald Trump apparently I must be talking to you because if you don't think you're rich I can take you to India or Vietnam y'all still with me all right and he says and you find out we are the richest people in the world now what am I supposed to tell the rich people he says you tell them don't be high-minded don't trust in uncertain riches but in the Living God who gives us what richly all things to enjoy y'all so let me go the next verse that they do good be rich in good works ready to give willing to share rich in good works anybody want to know what it says in the message Bible he says that they be extravagantly generous extravagantly generous come on God said I don't mind you being rich just be extravagantly generous ready to give and they do good rich in helping others extravagantly jitters then go to verse 19 and he says verse 19 that they store up for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life whoo what he's saying is even after your funeral your generosity is affecting your eternity your generosity is affecting your eternity y'all still here come on even when it comes to heathens God loved carnies his generosity and he's not even a Christian his generosity literally got heaven to move come on angels are on assignment and here comes Peter and the couple that get his whole family filled with the holy girl just because of his hunger for God and his generosity if you could ever get the prayers given all right let's sound this out of it all right let's try this over here come people go prepare it was not just his prayers it was his generosity that got God's attention but you didn't want to have a offering during the prayer meeting that would not be spiritual really all right now when it comes that your next breakthrough maybe it's connected to your giving as it is to your prayer generosity extravagant generosity can you say Amen generous amen nobody cares how holy you are or how talented you are if you're stingy you do not want that on your tombstone here lies stingy and many people say they're conservative but really they're stingy oh they'll say they're frugal hi it's okay to be frugal at the mall but not at church go ahead and smile now in this area of generosity praise the Lord extravagant generosity a lifestyle of generosity I said a lifestyle of generosity in in my case I can give very personal I can only use myself because I know my experience you can use yourself and your experience but in my experience with generosity goes back to before I was born then my grandfather was a preacher in East Texas and he pioneered our started churches at East Texas back in those days people were very poor so they didn't really give much money but they gave corn and stuff from their crops you know they brought their tithes and offering that way actually they had a house in the back that was for people's tithes and offerings because not many people had money so he did just a little bit of money well my my dad told me that my grandpa preaching the gospel starting churches didn't have much money he had quit his job so he could go out and start preaching and starting churches well he had his car had broken down and was not working so he had to save up a little bit of money to try to buy a better car one that works so he saved up some money and he's gonna get a better car they have no transportation and so back in those that you couldn't get alone she had to pay cash so he had some money saved up sure now my dad my grandpa loved World Missions and he loved Africa my grandpa my grandpa loved missions and but he never preached outside of Texas but he loved missions so he saved up his money for a car an African missionary comes he gave all of his money he saved up for his car to the missionary so my dad said the rest of the family was a bit unhappy about this because now they had no transportation right he gave the money he had saved so they said everyone gave him the silent treatment for a few days and then my dad said and someone came and gave my grandpa a better car than he ever could about so everybody was happy again and that proved that generosity works but there's another part to the story is my grandpa was a generous giver woo come on but he never preached outside of Texas but he loved missions he gave to missions I'm his grandson and I preached all over the world you say what are you trying to say I'm trying to say your generosity will affect your children and your grandchildren even after you have gone on to be with the Lord come on now that generosity because the Bible says God is not unrighteous to forget he don't ever forget here's what it says in Proverbs 11 24 and 25 I can't put that up there real quickly I'm just about finished here but we don't have an afternoon session so think about that proverbs 11 24 and 25 here's what it says can you find that use the KJV if you can if you use another with no problem but you know don't mess up the Queen's Bible have a little respect so you're using NKJV proverbs 11 24 and 25 it'll work whatever you can come up with alright here's what it says god bless the Queen right there is that scattereth and yet increases there is it withholdeth more than his meat but it tends to poverty look at the buck next very for 25 the liberal and that's the word for generous the generous so shall be made fat and he that watereth others shall be watered himself aha now listen to I think it's the message Bible says it this way it says the livers will be made fat was there water till the message Bible says the world of the generous gets larger and larger and the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller in other words if you want to enlarge your world he said there's something about generosity that God loved so he said there is that scatters and yet increases there is that with holes more than is appropriate which it doesn't mean that they didn't do anything they just were stingy they with hell more than was appropriate and it tends to what poverty I know here's the way the Lord said to me I said no law can explain it to me because you'd think if you're giving away money you'd have less money if you hold on to your money you'd have more money but the Lord said no if you hold on to your money you have less money he said if you're generous you like to have more money he said if you're stingy it would tend to poverty or the last so here's what he said to me he said lack does not come from money you don't have it comes from money you do have that you shouldn't have now that's a different way of thinking in this because you would think if you held on to your money tighter you'd have more money and God says if you hold on to your money too tight you're gonna have less money he said cuz there is as scatters and actually increases in other one translation says one gives away in gets richer another keeps what he should give and his poorer oh man lay hands on your head and say god help me so in other words and you're thinking something about generosity in your sewing and your giving that literally produces generosity our buns that set this way he says you're actually not gonna give yourself in the lack you'll give yourself an increase ha ha now here's what the Lord said to me soin is not throwing God gives seed to the sower he there's so so he said so I said well teach me about this because I'm a preacher right so a lot of times people say well this works for you because you're a preacher and I always say well come up here and let me ordain you and see how it works for you no it doesn't work for preachers there's plenty of poor preachers God gives seed to the sower not to the preachers he gives seed to the sower not to the singer that means you could be a great preacher and a great singer and still be broke but God will give seed to the sower so I gotta understand how am I gonna fit in this category I'll be in the store what is the sower but they said a sore is one who takes their given seriously and knows that they're given is a source and so and it's not throw in other words the farmer don't just go down the highway and throw see that both winners oh I'm just so on I'm just sewing up a sower is someone who sews into strategic soil and that salt is prepared to receive that seeds and a sow or someone who expects a harvest you say well how come you had to figure out because last year we preached in 12 different countries in 12 months and the way we do it Vietnam Nepal Papua New Guinea usually I will ship over 40 or 50 thousand dollars worth of books and CDs to give to all the delegates so we're having a Leadership Conference in Papua New Guinea Leadership Conference poppin the poorest countries in the world leadership conference in Vietnam and in Nepal so I ship it over there then in Vietnam and and Nepal we get our books translated into their language and also audio books for those who can't read and so we give them the spirit of faith and we give them the power of the blood in their language right and so they've gotten they passed it two or three churches all up in the Hill area so all the delegates come in I spent three or four days with them have a wonderful time right but it could easily cost me a hundred thousand dollars because they ain't giving me no offering come on they may give me somebody ain't gonna run nothing I got so I'm gonna have to make God my source so I got to pay for that meeting so I'm gonna have to learn how to believe God for money I'm gonna have to tell them I can't afford to come over now which is the greatest coward cuz I can't afford don't preach the gospel let me try that again I said how big of a coward are you when a country a nation and your generation needs the gospel then you can't afford to take it - I'm like I better learn about this stuff cuz I left home my daddy said there is a God and I'm not him you know what that means he ain't sending me no money so I'm had to learn to believe God that God can see he hadn't gone blind and he can count he's got a book called numbers so we know it can count so if he's gonna multiply my seed song so after you under 12 different countries I got home and when I got home my secretary said well glad to see you home now you're a hundred and fifty thousand dollars behind in your bills okay come on you've been traveling preaching sweating and you $150,000 behind so I just said Jesus you got mail so yes I said Lord you got some bills here so ain't my bill your bill ain't interested in going nowhere I stay at home this yeah well right when I came up she said so how am I gonna pay these bills I said just wait this way don't worry then Kenneth Copeland ministry called me and they said we want you to come to brother Copeland 80th birthday party and want you to be the MC master ceremony so I got to introduce all the guests talk about brother Copeland 80 years old well I've been a partner with him for who knows how many years every month I'm talking about don't miss a month for 30 40 years brother Hagin brother Copeland I like to call it new you're sowing where you're going all right well I'm planning on going got the same word amen so so I said well let's write out a honor 80 years old I might have to do something special so I'm not to give him a generous offering because it's gonna have to fit the category of Honor so I said write out a big check so I told her how much to write out and she went she's right out of senior so so I took it emcee after I after I did the emcee part then I hand a check praise the Lord to me it was extravagantly generous so I left praise the Lord went to Bogota Colombia to preach since I got there my secretary called you and said brother Copeland wants to call you I said sure brother cup of coffee says Aymara yes sir I'm sitting on my back porch right now winds been blowing through here and feeling good senator late he said I'm actually I told some jokes you know as an emcee which I didn't know if he liked them or not like I thought boy could give me a bad prophecy or something so so so they told me to tell some jokes you know so I told one of my jokes you know did you hear about the butcher the butcher you know took his wife to a party for the first time so he was introducing her around and he said meat patty she was a large woman that'd be a double meat patty but anyway some meat patty so so I told a few other jokes you know you hear about the guy that was addicted to drinking brake fluid he said he could stop at any time so so I just told a bunch of different jokes like that so I didn't know if he liked him or not but what soon as he called me said mark he said every day about that meat patty don't come up praise the Lord and then he said and I got this offering you gave he said that is a whopper of a scene you gonna get a whopper of the harvest we talked a few more minutes we hung up I was in bogota colombia so i jumped all over the roof I said I'm expecting a whopper of a harvest come on because the devil tell you what you gonna do if that don't work and I say devil what you gonna do when it does work so ask me what don't work because God's words got to work I'm jumping around thanking God because you participate in the harvest as much as you participate in the soul in other words how would you act if you already had the harvest barman is praising the Lord thank you Lord that you multiply the see I'm telling you I got home from Bogota Colombia it wasn't just a few days now did not come from brother Copeland though he's a generous giver but my expectations on God if you ever get your expectation off of God you're not really so come on if you like I gave all that money to the church that's why you don't have no harvest you got to keep your expectation on God and don't try to manipulate the church because of how much you give come on man when they turn I'll turn this in my hand said Jesus received it whoa and he's gonna multiply hey but I got home was just in a few days somebody sent me I'm talking about I think it was over $300,000 in one day just like that I went now that's a whopper of a heart Oh y'all still here in other words there's something about honor when you can't afford to do it and you can't afford not to do it all right that's right I said that's something about us and generosity when you're saying I can't afford to do this but I really can't afford not to do it yeah because I've received the word come on I've received the anointing so I would like to position myself in the generous department and whatever that is I'd like to take it a step beyond it and call it extravagantly generous go ahead and laugh for me say Amen honor honor praise the Lord your flesh will sell you out for a hamburger but your spirit lacks honor your spirit knows about on your flesh only knows about I'm hungry right now I'm power come on let your flesh dominate you you just get corruption but if you'll say now my spirit come on I'm a vessel of honor when I'm a vessel of honor I'm washed in the blood of Jesus hallelujah amen I'm learning to grow in honor I'd like to move on up to double honor and praise the Lord amen in the situation with 1st chronicles 29 where David danced before the Lord that whole chapter is about honor whole chapter think about God putting such a chapter in the Bible he not opposed you've been rich I studied in Bible College theology for years and you got people that hate the prosperity message and people that liked it and people fighting back and forth I noticed the people that don't like it much don't have much money anyway but the people fighting over the prosperity message right and while they fighting over it well actually I did the study and there's 50 percent of the scriptures are warnings about money and 50 percent are promises but you cannot build faith on warnings you build faith on promises but yet the warnings are there for a purpose that's the Lord how come you have so many warnings he said because I want to bless you so much it is dangerous come on the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof we are heirs of God and joint-heirs don't let religion talk you out of supernatural blessing and increase in the air of your finances matter of fact I brought a preacher to my house years ago and he saw my house and he saw the kind of car I had a truck at that time a very nice truck I always had new cars ever since I got out of Bible College just a deal I made between me and the Lord and said Lord Jesus rather donkey nobody every road I'll have a car Brandon I've been having for years I didn't get yours there's still some available so I brought him preacher of my house he saw my trucking you know what he said it made him mad he said why don't you have a truck like that I said because that's kind of like he said well you shouldn't have a truck like that he said that's too expensive I said really I said I can't afford it he said well you should have given that money to missions I said really actually I don't give the mission and that's how I got that truck what I'm wondering is why you don't have one maybe you don't give the Miss you know so come on anybody can give to your own projects I see this song when it's out of your control come on I see this song when it's out of your control long as it's in your control that's not really as easy that's why come on that's why as a pastor I'm sowing into someone else's ministry not just into my ministry y'all still here come on I got plenty of projects myself but if I'm gonna show where I've received spiritual things that's gonna be beyond my projects praise the Lord so in first chronicles 29 David's generosity he gave how much one half billion dollars turn to his mighty men said what are y'all gonna give they gave two and a half billion dollars you can look up commentaries usually it's more than that actually and it says and they rejoiced with great joy I said Lord how come people got so happy in the Bible during offerings and people don't get happy and in the church giving off he said well for one reason most people just give enough to irritate themselves there I hope that helps you with your budget now listen but a cheerful giver is someone who understands the purpose and the cause and generosity opens your heart a cheerful Giver is someone who gives God conscious that God Himself is the biggest gift actually your generosity is a reflection of your revelation of God's generosity whether God as generous as our Father amen and when David gave a man after God's own heart oh man he busted it and he danced with all of his money think about that when David gays turned to his mighty men here's the way I like to say we have a song that you can sing like David saying and we have a song you can dance like David dance but we don't have no song that says you could give like David gay but everybody loves the song to sing like he's saying I said everybody loves the song when they want to dance like he did no one comes and take off their light now they want to give like Judas gay listen if you call dancer David come on if you're gonna sing with David listen now and anybody can be generous so we're not talking about the larger amount I started where I was and just begin to work it up generosity connected to honor amen and that kind of generosity David said Lord everything came from you he said thank you for giving me the ability to bless your work come on let me believe a heart like that God would just pour resources into you you say God thank you for giving me the ability come on I'm a tither come on I'm a giver I don't limit it to ten percent I would like to get in that generous department Lord come on gotta finance your habit if you get addicted to given Amen you'll be generous with the work of God come on you can be generous with your family come on I said you be generous with your children be generous with your wives come on be generous with your parents come on I went home to my dad and I said dad God has blessed me so much what do you want I want to get you so I wouldn't got him a Rolex watch diamonds all over this is it my dad went home to be with the Lord my mama gave it to me I said go pick you out a Rolex my dad pastored 50 years he never had a Rolex Timex what he had time is $100 watch I said you were gonna relax he praise the Lord different he was like [Applause] and nobody could accuse him would you get that money he said my son bought it for me then I told my dad so go get you a new car what kind of car you want I'll get you the kind you want y'all still think about how generosity will produce generosity your generosity opens up God's generosity to you you might start little but just keep stretching a little bit I said just stretch a little bit out of your comfort zone come on you might start little but if you can be so generous that God goes did you see that I mean like for God and turn off Gigi's ago did you see that oh that was generous here's the way the Lord said to me he said if you'll be a generous giver I'll do things for you that money could never do go ahead and laugh about that I said I said if you'll be a jockey oh gosh that I do stuff for you that money could never ha ha ha go ahead and laugh a few minutes eh Oh glory think about the power of the blood of Jesus think about Jesus generosity and laying his life down for us think about that blood cleansing you from Austin's units producing in you just a heart of Lord I want to serve my generation come on I don't know how much I can afford but I'm gonna lay down my life I'm not just gonna be a tither I'm gonna be generous with the work of God hallelujah where I've received spiritual things I believe literally it'll change your voice when you are generous you'll change your voice amen the rewards of generosity and in one church Paul had to apologize to the Corinthians he said forgive me because I did not teach you about giving I will have to come back did you know that dad Hagin the Lord made him go back and pastor one church twice he said why one of the reasons the Lord said because you were afraid to teach them on tithing and giving because you were afraid they would accuse you of being after their money he said that you robbed them of a blessing you go back and teach them he had to go back and Pastor it again hmm hey man one preacher the Lord spoke to dad Hagin said I want you to give your whole week's income this when he first starting out he said lord I can't afford to do that he said that preacher kept preaching and he argued with him the whole time he preached I have no idea what he preached on I took I can't do that Lord said he said finally by the end the Lord won he said and I gave my whole week's income right he said we made it through somehow he's a but later on someone paralyzed sick in the bed paralyzed and the Lord said don't pray for him don't touch him speak to him telling his tenant walk in the name of Jesus they stood right up and walk miracle everybody knows and he said the Lord spoke to him said I could not have used you in that miracle if you had not obeyed me and you find it interesting in yeah think about that honor the law with yourself come on go ahead and turn loose of it in other words and let that seed go right to the law praise God lift your hands up father God right now because of the blood of Jesus well you play some of your honor upon earth your Holy Spirit the precious blood of Jesus that will be vessels of Honor prepared for every good work to serve our generation we look to you Lord you're the source of our supply you're the biggest giver the most generous giver the earth is the Lord and the phone is there we'll never talk back we boldly declare the Lord is our ship we shall not want that we do not lack for ability we do not lack for opportunity we never lack for money we never lack for money we are tithers and we are generous givers we are so errs we so generously and we reap generously and we reap generously there is a whopper of a harvest that is coming in there's an abundant harvest of blessing coming in every family every household ever ministry a whopper of a harvest we expect it we declare it we rejoice over haha that as we so generously not just today but every day every week every month we think generous we talk generously we plan generous we so generous we have a generous God thank you Father thank you lord ah thank you Jesus that we have experienced your generosity your extravagant generosity we open our hearts thank you Lord in this area there will be extravagantly generous in our finances to be a blessing to the gospel of Christ to be a blessing to the Word of God the gospel can multiply to our church into the ministries that are preaching the gospel our church is blessed and ministries are blessed and we are blessed so we can be a blessing that will give more than we've ever given but we'll still have more than we've ever had you multiply the increase come on just receive that increase right now the increase of God the increase of God our expectation is upon God your faithfulness God they increase the abundant provision that you take care of us in grand style in grand style we're abundantly provided for we're well able to be a blessing to our generation we're well able to be a blessing so the gospel can be free a blessing to our church a blessing to the ministry give a blessing to those who give a spiritual thing we are well able to be a blessing we boldly declare that the money will come that Satan we command you to take your hands off our money and go ministering spirits go angels and cause the money to come that the money will come that the money comes into our hands the land the property the buildings that we need that the money will come the land will come our transportation ha ha our transportation our cars our vehicles blessed abundantly provided for that we drive the best we wear the best we eat the best we give the best thank you Lord for an abundant harvest a bless that marriages are blessed husbands and wives are blessed marriages are blessed children are blessed our grandchildren are blessed the blessing of the law it makes us rich and adds no sorrow with it all that we're rich and happy we're rich and happy that the Lord is the source of our supply it is God that gives us richly all things to enjoy God gives us richly all things to enjoy we'll be extravagantly Jim go ahead and laugh our feelings ha ha come on how would you act you believe that they lord I thank you I'm the extravagantly generous haha glory glory glory glory glory glory to God now if the devil says what you're gonna do if that don't work you laugh and say devil what you gonna do when it does work God is multiplying my seed so he makes all grace abound we have all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work ha ha ha go ahead and laugh a few moments eh ha ha everybody say the money will come all the money will come you can be seated ha ha ha now
