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Dudley Rutherford - Can You (Part 2)

June 30, 2026 | 27:29

Dudley Rutherford - Can You (Part 2)
Pastor Dudley Rutherford seeks to "lift up the name of Jesus across the country and the world through uncompromising biblical teaching."
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| Dudley Rutherford - Can You (Part 2) | June 30, 2026
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: today, we're asking three simple
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  • But powerful questions.
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  • Can you trust god?
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  • Can you thank god?
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  • Can you test god?
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  • In a world where integrity is rare, god stands alone
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  • As completely trustworthy.
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  • In pastor dudley's new series, "can you?"
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  • He asks the tough questions and reveals real answers.
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  • The real question isn't if god is trustworthy,
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  • It's whether you trust him.
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  • Join us next on "lift up jesus" for the series, "can you?"
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  • Pastor dudley rutherford: in all the deeds that we do,
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  • We say, "god, with everything i do,
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  • Help what i do to bring glory to you and with my life,
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  • The life that you give me, god, i hope that i can serve you.
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  • And i pray that all of my prayers that i pray,
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  • God, i pray as though i'm dependent upon you.
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  • And in my prayers, i'm expressing my gratitude
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  • To you.
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  • And with the offering that i bring,
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  • It's a reflection of my gratitude for you."
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  • It all goes together.
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  • It's all a part of your worship,
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  • All of it.
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  • [applause]
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Cc by aberdeen captioning 1-800-688-6621 www.aberdeen.io
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  • Pastor dudley: i wanna welcome each of you
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  • To the "lift up jesus" television broadcast.
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  • I am pastor dudley rutherford,
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  • And i'm so glad you've joined me here today.
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  • Do you know what really takes your christian life
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  • To the next level?
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  • It's not just reading the bible
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  • Or listening to christian teaching,
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  • It's doing it on a regular basis.
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  • That's why being here each and every week
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  • And hearing this message is so important.
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  • My sermon today will give you new insight
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  • Into god's word.
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  • So make sure you have your bible, a pen,
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  • And your notes handy, and let's begin.
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  • Pastor dudley: and we're gonna have it outside,
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  • We're gonna socially distance people.
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  • So we call his office and we ask him this question:
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  • "can we meet, if we're outside,
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  • It's 110 degrees here in the valley in the summer,
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  • And we're gonna socially distance--
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  • And if we have masks on, socially distanced,
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  • Can we sing and can we say the lord's prayer?"
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  • We asked them.
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  • And you can hear him talking on the phone, [mumbling],
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  • They're talking.
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  • Guy comes back, picks up the phone
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  • And says, "we're sorry.
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  • Even if you're outdoors,
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  • Even if you're socially distanced,
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  • Even if you're wearing a mask, and even--
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  • Socially distanced," he said, "you cannot sing
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  • And you cannot say the lord's prayer."
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  • We got that response the same week i got
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  • This letter from this lady about her daughter,
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  • And i said to the staff, "we're opening up the church.
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  • Nobody--"
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  • [applause]
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  • "nobody has to come.
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  • But if you want to come--"
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  • Of course, i'd come here every day.
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  • Starbucks would be full, grocery store full,
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  • Nordstrom's rack is full over there.
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  • All that stuff's essential.
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  • But the church, i would be here
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  • And not one single car in this parking lot--
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  • And we're only open, like, really, one day a week,
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  • And that was every day, i'd see that parking lot
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  • Full of cars.
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  • And i said, "you know what?
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  • People are out and about doing what they want.
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  • I'm gonna open up the doors.
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  • I don't care who comes."
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  • And the church, we went from 10,000 to 3000.
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  • Seven thousand people disappeared like that...
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  • Just gone, stopped coming.
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  • So what we did is we opened up all the doors.
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  • We had what's called a no-touch service.
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  • We opened up the doors, we opened up the bathroom doors,
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  • And we have not passed an offering plate since 2020.
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  • I don't even know how we're open.
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  • The only way we are open, and just so you know,
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  • There is not a tree out back that grows money on it.
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  • Some of you think that.
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  • How does the church remain open?
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  • How do we do all the things we do?
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  • Well, people give online.
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  • People don't really bring cash, carry cash with them
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  • Much anymore today,
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  • And so we've always made it possible,
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  • Not even in service, really,
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  • I think that they might have just done that.
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  • But that's how we've survived the last six, seven years.
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  • And here's the problem.
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  • Your offering should be a part of your worship.
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  • That was the purpose of it.
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  • When i picked those 250 bagworms,
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  • My mom would teach me how to get--
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  • "a quarter of that belongs to god, dudley,"
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  • And she would put it in a little envelope,
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  • And i would literally carry that to church with me.
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  • And we've lost that part of our giving,
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  • Because there should be a sense of thankfulness
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  • For your life.
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  • I'm thankful, god, for my family.
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  • I'm thankful for the church.
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  • I'm thankful for the bible.
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  • I'm thankful for the holy spirit.
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  • Thank you for your provision.
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  • I thank you, god, that you fed me,
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  • That you clothed me.
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  • I was asleep last night.
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  • You didn't have to wake me up today, god,
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  • But you woke me up today.
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  • You gave me another day of life.
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  • And you keep me, and you love me.
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  • And you're faithful to never leave me.
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  • You're faithful to never forsake me.
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  • And most importantly, you sent your son, jesus,
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  • To die for me.
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  • And so what we give, in a sense--
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  • And i want you to think about this:
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  • When you walk in here,
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  • Everything about you is a sense of gratitude.
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  • Your hands, michael talked about,
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  • You raise your hands and you're saying,
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  • "god, thank you," and "god, i belong to you."
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  • And with your voice, the voice that god gave you,
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  • You praise, you offer up praise,
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  • You sing songs of praise,
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  • You offer up words of thanksgiving to god.
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  • In all the deeds that we do, we say,
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  • "god, with everything i do, help what i do to bring glory
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  • To you.
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  • And with my life, the life that you give me, god,
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  • I hope that i can serve you.
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  • And i pray that all of my prayers that i pray, god,
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  • I pray as though i'm dependent upon you.
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  • And in my prayers, i'm expressing my gratitude
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  • To you.
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  • And with the offering that i bring,
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  • It's a reflection of my gratitude for you."
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  • It all goes together.
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  • It's all a part of your worship, all of it.
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  • [applause]
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  • Jesus said in matthew 6:19, "do not store up for yourselves
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  • Treasures on earth."
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  • That's what we all do.
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  • Jesus said, "don't store up for yourselves
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  • Treasures on earth,
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  • Where rust and moth will destroy,
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  • Where thieves break in and steal."
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  • Instead, verse 20, "store up for yourselves treasures
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  • Up there in heaven,
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  • Where moth and rust do not destroy,
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  • Where thieves do not break in and steal."
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  • Yes, it's a part of worship. write that down.
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  • Secondly, you are storing up treasures in heaven.
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  • And honestly, i don't even know what that means.
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  • I know what treasures on earth are.
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  • I mean, we do that.
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  • We do that every day.
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  • But somehow, what we give, we're storing up.
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  • There is something up there that he's going to return to us.
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  • It's a treasure in heaven.
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  • But number three, the third bullet there,
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  • Write this down.
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  • This is what i want you to get: is that you are sowing,
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  • You are supporting the local church.
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  • We literally have hundreds of ministries
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  • Where we serve this community.
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  • I can't even tell you how many different organizations
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  • We're involved in
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  • That are feeding the hungry and the poor and the homeless.
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  • We have an event here called--
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  • It's the largest event in america
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  • For foster care children.
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  • There's, like, 26 different organizations,
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  • We bring them all together, we take care of everything.
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  • Now, i want to ask you a question.
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  • Do you think that we charge--
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  • Do you think we should charge the foster care kids
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  • To show up here?
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  • Like, "we're going to charge you $20 each to come here.
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  • We got a big thing planned, but we want to charge $20 each
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  • For each of you to come"?
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  • No.
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  • We do this year after year after year.
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  • You should be here.
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  • This campus is covered with kids all over this city
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  • That think that nobody cares about them.
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  • And we host that evening and give them gifts and food
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  • And games and bouncers out there.
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  • They leave here thinking
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  • It's the greatest day of their life.
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  • It's just one of a hundred different ministries
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  • That we have here at our church.
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  • We also have helped start-- this year,
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  • We've helped start churches in kansas city.
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  • We've helped a church in moore park get started.
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  • We've helped freedom church.
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  • They're trying to get into a new facility.
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  • There's a church out in ventura called
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  • Mission church that wouldn't even be there
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  • Had we not supported them from the beginning.
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  • There's a brand-new church in burbank
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  • Called antioch church.
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  • There was a guy that was in prison,
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  • Life in prison.
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  • His name's casey diaz.
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  • Somehow he got out, started coming to this church.
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  • God put it on his heart to start a brand-new church in burbank
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  • Called antioch church,
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  • And we were, like, the first church to get in
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  • On supporting his new work there in burbank.
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  • There's a church down in san diego called
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  • New vintage church that we helped get started.
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  • There's a church in florida called restoration church.
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  • There's a church in hawaii that we're helping.
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  • There's a group in orange county,
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  • A young kid that i know named tyler oakson
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  • Who's got all these--
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  • Got hundreds of young people meeting on friday nights
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  • And worshiping.
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  • We're a part of that.
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  • I was with a guy last week, we were helping start
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  • A brand-new church called riverland church
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  • In brisbane, australia.
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  • A young guy named john cameron,
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  • Who's already agreed to come and preach for our revival,
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  • So you can meet him.
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  • You won't understand a word he says either,
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  • But john is one of the most dynamic,
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  • Gifted speakers on the entire globe.
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  • He's going to start a church.
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  • You trust me: in ten years from now,
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  • It will be one of the largest churches
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  • On the planet earth.
  • 00:10:19.805 --> 00:10:21.307
  • And we support churches like this all over the country.
  • 00:10:21.307 --> 00:10:25.745
  • We also helped raise a million dollars
  • 00:10:25.745 --> 00:10:28.614
  • During the fires, the altadena fires
  • 00:10:28.614 --> 00:10:30.850
  • And the brentwood fires.
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  • One million dollars, our church helped raise.
  • 00:10:32.218 --> 00:10:35.454
  • We also gave $130,000 to people who translate the bible
  • 00:10:35.454 --> 00:10:39.692
  • Into languages all over the world
  • 00:10:39.692 --> 00:10:41.560
  • To people who don't have a bible in their own language.
  • 00:10:41.560 --> 00:10:44.597
  • We gave $50,000 to north korea defectors.
  • 00:10:44.597 --> 00:10:48.234
  • We gave $50,000 to an organization in asia
  • 00:10:48.234 --> 00:10:51.937
  • That help 1000 families who live with disabilities
  • 00:10:51.937 --> 00:10:55.841
  • So that they can get by.
  • 00:10:55.841 --> 00:10:57.243
  • There's a ministry in india that we support
  • 00:10:57.243 --> 00:10:59.278
  • That, last year, they had 98,000 conversions.
  • 00:10:59.278 --> 00:11:02.448
  • They started 652 churches in india.
  • 00:11:02.448 --> 00:11:06.952
  • They have an online service that reaches 3.8 million viewers
  • 00:11:06.952 --> 00:11:11.524
  • Every single week.
  • 00:11:11.524 --> 00:11:12.892
  • There's another ministry that we're a big supporter of
  • 00:11:12.892 --> 00:11:14.994
  • Called convoy of hope.
  • 00:11:14.994 --> 00:11:16.529
  • Convoy of hope is in 88 different countries.
  • 00:11:16.529 --> 00:11:19.265
  • They feed 1 million people every single day
  • 00:11:19.265 --> 00:11:23.235
  • In 33 third world countries around the globe.
  • 00:11:23.235 --> 00:11:27.440
  • We also gave a million dollars away
  • 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:31.077
  • To international missions in china, in jordan,
  • 00:11:31.077 --> 00:11:34.680
  • Saudi arabia, indonesia, the philippines, vietnam,
  • 00:11:34.680 --> 00:11:38.417
  • South sudan, jericho, france, turkey, japan,
  • 00:11:38.417 --> 00:11:42.188
  • Uganda, iran, iraq, spain, and many other countries,
  • 00:11:42.188 --> 00:11:45.758
  • Is where our missionary money goes.
  • 00:11:45.758 --> 00:11:48.527
  • Last week, last week, i was preaching in australia,
  • 00:11:48.527 --> 00:11:52.898
  • And i was preaching
  • 00:11:52.898 --> 00:11:54.233
  • How every person should have a passport,
  • 00:11:54.233 --> 00:11:58.704
  • Because god is calling, god is moving
  • 00:11:58.704 --> 00:12:00.806
  • All around the world.
  • 00:12:00.806 --> 00:12:02.174
  • And just like god called abraham,
  • 00:12:02.174 --> 00:12:03.576
  • God might call you to go somewhere.
  • 00:12:03.576 --> 00:12:06.278
  • You should have a passport right now.
  • 00:12:06.278 --> 00:12:08.380
  • You say, "i don't travel."
  • 00:12:08.380 --> 00:12:09.715
  • You should have a passport, in case god calls you
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  • To go someplace, you're ready to go.
  • 00:12:11.784 --> 00:12:14.553
  • Right after service, this tall, beautiful woman
  • 00:12:14.553 --> 00:12:17.590
  • Came up to me with this strong, strong african accent.
  • 00:12:17.590 --> 00:12:21.927
  • She said, "pastor, my family is from sudan,
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  • But i have never been there.
  • 00:12:25.731 --> 00:12:27.733
  • And god has been working in my life,
  • 00:12:27.733 --> 00:12:31.937
  • Telling me that i need to go to my home country
  • 00:12:31.937 --> 00:12:35.941
  • And be the light of jesus."
  • 00:12:35.941 --> 00:12:38.277
  • And she says, "i've been fighting this calling,
  • 00:12:38.277 --> 00:12:42.181
  • And you said everybody needs to get a passport
  • 00:12:42.181 --> 00:12:44.416
  • So that when god calls you--"
  • 00:12:44.416 --> 00:12:46.152
  • And she goes, "i just want you to know
  • 00:12:46.152 --> 00:12:47.887
  • That your message has motivated me
  • 00:12:47.887 --> 00:12:49.555
  • To get my passport."
  • 00:12:49.555 --> 00:12:51.290
  • And she said, "will you pray for me?
  • 00:12:51.290 --> 00:12:53.626
  • Will you pray for me that i can raise the funds
  • 00:12:53.626 --> 00:12:57.029
  • To get this passport?"
  • 00:12:57.029 --> 00:12:58.364
  • And i said, "no."
  • 00:12:58.364 --> 00:13:01.467
  • And she was like, "what?"
  • 00:13:01.467 --> 00:13:03.135
  • I said, "no, i will not pray for that."
  • 00:13:03.135 --> 00:13:07.473
  • I said, "my church will give you the money
  • 00:13:07.473 --> 00:13:10.810
  • To get your passport."
  • 00:13:10.810 --> 00:13:12.978
  • She was like, "what?
  • 00:13:12.978 --> 00:13:14.313
  • What?
  • 00:13:14.313 --> 00:13:16.982
  • How's that going to happen?"
  • 00:13:16.982 --> 00:13:18.350
  • I said, "just leave me a message.
  • 00:13:18.350 --> 00:13:20.119
  • Somehow get me your contact information.
  • 00:13:20.119 --> 00:13:22.855
  • Send me the receipt for what that passport costs.
  • 00:13:22.855 --> 00:13:25.324
  • There's no reason for you not to have a passport.
  • 00:13:25.324 --> 00:13:27.226
  • We have a missions committee, and i'll just get--
  • 00:13:27.226 --> 00:13:29.628
  • It's like, $400 or $500.
  • 00:13:29.628 --> 00:13:31.397
  • I'll get it from them, and i'll just send it to you."
  • 00:13:31.397 --> 00:13:34.033
  • "well, how are you going to do it?"
  • 00:13:34.033 --> 00:13:35.367
  • I said, "don't you worry about it.
  • 00:13:35.367 --> 00:13:36.735
  • I will get it to you.
  • 00:13:36.735 --> 00:13:38.070
  • You just get me the receipt."
  • 00:13:38.070 --> 00:13:39.505
  • She sent me the receipt in those last seven days.
  • 00:13:39.505 --> 00:13:41.674
  • I got the receipt.
  • 00:13:41.674 --> 00:13:43.042
  • I've already got the money, five $100 bills.
  • 00:13:43.042 --> 00:13:45.711
  • It's already in an envelope, it just needs to be mailed,
  • 00:13:45.711 --> 00:13:48.013
  • Which will be mailed monday.
  • 00:13:48.013 --> 00:13:49.348
  • It's going to be fedex'd down to melbourne,
  • 00:13:49.348 --> 00:13:52.351
  • To a youth pastor of the church where i was just served.
  • 00:13:52.351 --> 00:13:55.287
  • He knows the young lady.
  • 00:13:55.287 --> 00:13:56.655
  • He'll get the money to her.
  • 00:13:56.655 --> 00:13:57.990
  • I want to ask you a question.
  • 00:13:57.990 --> 00:13:59.358
  • When that young lady gets that passport,
  • 00:13:59.358 --> 00:14:01.060
  • She goes to sudan,
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  • She lifts up the name of jesus in that country,
  • 00:14:02.394 --> 00:14:04.964
  • Do you think that god is going to bless us
  • 00:14:04.964 --> 00:14:08.200
  • Because we've helped provide for her the means to go
  • 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:12.271
  • To that country?
  • 00:14:12.271 --> 00:14:13.639
  • Yes or no?
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  • [applause]
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  • This is the no-brainer.
  • 00:14:18.143 --> 00:14:19.745
  • So that when you give, you're saying thank you,
  • 00:14:19.745 --> 00:14:21.747
  • And you're a part of our missions,
  • 00:14:21.747 --> 00:14:23.582
  • You're a part of our ministries.
  • 00:14:23.582 --> 00:14:25.384
  • You're a part of everything we do
  • 00:14:25.384 --> 00:14:26.919
  • In every ministry around this entire planet
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  • When you give, amen?
  • 00:14:30.522 --> 00:14:32.291
  • It's a part of your worship.
  • 00:14:32.291 --> 00:14:33.626
  • Number three, can you test god?
  • 00:14:33.626 --> 00:14:34.994
  • Turn to your neighbor and say, "can you test god?"
  • 00:14:34.994 --> 00:14:37.730
  • I want you to look at malachi 1. this is old testament.
  • 00:14:37.730 --> 00:14:40.633
  • Everybody say, "old testament." there's a principle here.
  • 00:14:40.633 --> 00:14:44.803
  • God told the people in that day,
  • 00:14:44.803 --> 00:14:47.873
  • "when you bring blind animals for sacrifice,
  • 00:14:47.873 --> 00:14:50.142
  • Is that not wrong?
  • 00:14:50.142 --> 00:14:52.344
  • When you sacrifice crippled or diseased animals,
  • 00:14:52.344 --> 00:14:54.580
  • Is that not wrong?"
  • 00:14:54.580 --> 00:14:56.215
  • And then he said, "try offering them
  • 00:14:56.215 --> 00:14:57.783
  • To your governor."
  • 00:14:57.783 --> 00:14:59.351
  • I thought, "i have a governor."
  • 00:14:59.351 --> 00:15:02.187
  • I thought that.
  • 00:15:02.187 --> 00:15:04.590
  • And what's he saying here?
  • 00:15:04.590 --> 00:15:06.759
  • Well, every nation has people in leadership positions.
  • 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:13.065
  • And he's saying, "would you give a crippled or diseased animal
  • 00:15:13.065 --> 00:15:20.139
  • To your governor?
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  • Would he be pleased with you?
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  • Would he accept you?" says the lord almighty.
  • 00:15:24.944 --> 00:15:26.478
  • I want you to write this down. god expects our best.
  • 00:15:26.478 --> 00:15:32.918
  • They were supposed to go out into the flock
  • 00:15:32.918 --> 00:15:34.820
  • And find the very best lamb.
  • 00:15:34.820 --> 00:15:38.090
  • Instead, they'd go out and they would go,
  • 00:15:38.090 --> 00:15:39.658
  • "well, there's one who's blind,"
  • 00:15:39.658 --> 00:15:41.026
  • Or "there's one who's crippled."
  • 00:15:41.026 --> 00:15:42.361
  • "oh, that one's full of-- that's diseased.
  • 00:15:42.361 --> 00:15:43.762
  • I can't even sell that one.
  • 00:15:43.762 --> 00:15:45.664
  • You know what? i'll give that one to god."
  • 00:15:45.664 --> 00:15:50.869
  • And god says, "what are you doing?"
  • 00:15:50.869 --> 00:15:54.373
  • Look what he says in verse 11.
  • 00:15:54.373 --> 00:15:57.443
  • He says, "my name," and i've never thought
  • 00:15:57.443 --> 00:15:59.411
  • About this until--i've read this a thousand times.
  • 00:15:59.411 --> 00:16:02.481
  • This has never made sense to me until this--
  • 00:16:02.481 --> 00:16:04.383
  • Till i was working on this message.
  • 00:16:04.383 --> 00:16:07.486
  • He said, "my name will be great among the nations,"
  • 00:16:07.486 --> 00:16:10.422
  • Not just in israel--
  • 00:16:10.422 --> 00:16:15.594
  • That somehow god's people, when you do your best,
  • 00:16:15.594 --> 00:16:19.765
  • He said, "my name will be great among the nations,
  • 00:16:19.765 --> 00:16:22.634
  • From the rising to the setting of the sun.
  • 00:16:22.634 --> 00:16:26.005
  • In every place, incense and pure offerings
  • 00:16:26.005 --> 00:16:29.074
  • Will be brought to my name, because my name will be great
  • 00:16:29.074 --> 00:16:32.444
  • Among the nations," says the lord almighty.
  • 00:16:32.444 --> 00:16:34.646
  • It never made sense to me until i just worked on that list
  • 00:16:34.646 --> 00:16:38.050
  • To show what our church does,
  • 00:16:38.050 --> 00:16:40.486
  • That somehow, by what we do here,
  • 00:16:40.486 --> 00:16:42.488
  • That god's name is glorified among the nations.
  • 00:16:42.488 --> 00:16:47.159
  • Amen? go up to verse 13.
  • 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:52.464
  • He says, "'when you bring injured, crippled,
  • 00:16:52.464 --> 00:16:57.269
  • Or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifice,
  • 00:16:57.269 --> 00:16:59.138
  • Should i accept them?' says the lord.
  • 00:16:59.138 --> 00:17:00.739
  • 'cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male flock
  • 00:17:00.739 --> 00:17:02.908
  • And vows to give it,
  • 00:17:02.908 --> 00:17:04.243
  • But then sacrifices a blemished animal to the lord.
  • 00:17:04.243 --> 00:17:06.178
  • For i'm a great king,' says the lord almighty,
  • 00:17:06.178 --> 00:17:09.114
  • 'and my name is to be feared among the nations.'"
  • 00:17:09.114 --> 00:17:12.284
  • Go over to chapter 3, verse 8, real quick.
  • 00:17:12.284 --> 00:17:14.953
  • He said, "will a man rob god,
  • 00:17:14.953 --> 00:17:16.288
  • Yet you rob me, but you ask, 'how do we rob you?'
  • 00:17:16.288 --> 00:17:18.991
  • In tithes and in offerings."
  • 00:17:18.991 --> 00:17:21.226
  • Verse 9, "you're under a curse, the whole nation of you,
  • 00:17:21.226 --> 00:17:23.629
  • Because you're robbing from me."
  • 00:17:23.629 --> 00:17:25.731
  • I don't know if you think our nation's under a curse,
  • 00:17:25.731 --> 00:17:27.599
  • But i think we are.
  • 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:30.169
  • We're $37-38 trillion in debt.
  • 00:17:30.169 --> 00:17:33.505
  • If you don't understand that that's a curse,
  • 00:17:33.505 --> 00:17:36.408
  • I don't know what to say to you.
  • 00:17:36.408 --> 00:17:38.010
  • But then god says this in verse 10.
  • 00:17:38.010 --> 00:17:39.678
  • This is old testament. everybody say, "old testament."
  • 00:17:39.678 --> 00:17:42.981
  • "bring the whole tithe into the storehouse
  • 00:17:42.981 --> 00:17:47.186
  • That there may be food in my house."
  • 00:17:47.186 --> 00:17:49.955
  • And then god says what?
  • 00:17:49.955 --> 00:17:52.124
  • "test me in this."
  • 00:17:52.124 --> 00:17:55.694
  • This is old testament.
  • 00:17:55.694 --> 00:17:57.062
  • Everybody say, "old testament."
  • 00:17:57.062 --> 00:17:58.397
  • It's old testament.
  • 00:17:58.397 --> 00:17:59.765
  • But he said, "test me and see if i will not throw open
  • 00:17:59.765 --> 00:18:04.269
  • The floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing
  • 00:18:04.269 --> 00:18:09.041
  • That you won't even have enough room for it."
  • 00:18:09.041 --> 00:18:10.943
  • Now, if i asked you if you wanted that,
  • 00:18:10.943 --> 00:18:12.311
  • You would say, "i want that,"
  • 00:18:12.311 --> 00:18:13.645
  • But i would say, "oh, no, no, no, that's old testament."
  • 00:18:13.645 --> 00:18:16.415
  • [laughter]
  • 00:18:16.415 --> 00:18:20.319
  • So you use the old testament as an excuse
  • 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:23.755
  • On the first half of that verse,
  • 00:18:23.755 --> 00:18:25.224
  • But you want the second half of that verse.
  • 00:18:25.224 --> 00:18:28.627
  • Four hundred years before the law, abraham tithed.
  • 00:18:28.627 --> 00:18:31.930
  • There was no law. abraham was tithing.
  • 00:18:31.930 --> 00:18:34.766
  • Three hundred years before the law, jacob tithed.
  • 00:18:34.766 --> 00:18:38.437
  • Now, go back to where people are filling in blanks,
  • 00:18:38.437 --> 00:18:40.405
  • If you can go to that last slide
  • 00:18:40.405 --> 00:18:41.740
  • With all three.
  • 00:18:41.740 --> 00:18:43.709
  • Should be our best, god says, "test me,"
  • 00:18:43.709 --> 00:18:45.878
  • And they did what's called a scroll of remembrance.
  • 00:18:45.878 --> 00:18:47.546
  • Now, stay with me on this.
  • 00:18:47.546 --> 00:18:49.982
  • When i was a kid, my parents taught me how to tithe.
  • 00:18:49.982 --> 00:18:53.986
  • So, for 60 years, every dollar i've ever made,
  • 00:18:53.986 --> 00:19:03.095
  • I've given, myself, 10% to the church.
  • 00:19:03.095 --> 00:19:07.266
  • Every dollar i make, i give 10% to shepherd.
  • 00:19:07.266 --> 00:19:10.769
  • The next 10%, i've saved.
  • 00:19:10.769 --> 00:19:17.376
  • What if you saved 10% of every dollar you ever made?
  • 00:19:17.376 --> 00:19:21.313
  • I gave 10%, i saved 10%, and i've lived off the 80%.
  • 00:19:21.313 --> 00:19:26.785
  • And i'm a living testimony, as i look back over my life,
  • 00:19:26.785 --> 00:19:30.622
  • That whatever shovel i've used to give to god,
  • 00:19:30.622 --> 00:19:33.625
  • That god uses that same shovel to give back to me.
  • 00:19:33.625 --> 00:19:40.299
  • The old testament-- just so you know,
  • 00:19:40.299 --> 00:19:41.900
  • The old testament, it was a law.
  • 00:19:41.900 --> 00:19:45.204
  • But it wasn't just 10%.
  • 00:19:45.204 --> 00:19:46.738
  • They had several other laws.
  • 00:19:46.738 --> 00:19:48.073
  • They had to give as much as 30%.
  • 00:19:48.073 --> 00:19:53.545
  • So people are always dismissing this whole thing,
  • 00:19:53.545 --> 00:19:55.681
  • But that first tenth, which is the first tenth,
  • 00:19:55.681 --> 00:20:01.520
  • Was holy.
  • 00:20:01.520 --> 00:20:02.888
  • It was sacred, the bible says, and it belonged to god.
  • 00:20:02.888 --> 00:20:06.725
  • So what do we do today?
  • 00:20:06.725 --> 00:20:08.093
  • Well, there is nothing that we have to give
  • 00:20:08.093 --> 00:20:13.565
  • According to a law.
  • 00:20:13.565 --> 00:20:15.500
  • We are free to do whatever we want.
  • 00:20:15.500 --> 00:20:17.703
  • You walk in here week after week, never give a thing.
  • 00:20:17.703 --> 00:20:21.039
  • But there are many people here that do come in here,
  • 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:23.675
  • And they have an offering that they give that represents
  • 00:20:23.675 --> 00:20:25.644
  • Their gratitude and their thanksgiving.
  • 00:20:25.644 --> 00:20:27.980
  • They start with something, they make a commitment,
  • 00:20:27.980 --> 00:20:31.149
  • And they watch god, they put god to the test.
  • 00:20:31.149 --> 00:20:33.819
  • Here's the deal.
  • 00:20:33.819 --> 00:20:35.153
  • Throughout all the bible, there are many verses that say--
  • 00:20:35.153 --> 00:20:38.056
  • I don't have time to show it--
  • 00:20:38.056 --> 00:20:39.391
  • Where god says, where it says, "do not test the lord your god.
  • 00:20:39.391 --> 00:20:42.861
  • Do not test the lord your god."
  • 00:20:42.861 --> 00:20:45.397
  • You do not test.
  • 00:20:45.397 --> 00:20:47.366
  • We're just mere humans.
  • 00:20:47.366 --> 00:20:49.534
  • He's almighty god.
  • 00:20:49.534 --> 00:20:50.869
  • We don't test god.
  • 00:20:50.869 --> 00:20:52.237
  • But there's only one place in all the bible
  • 00:20:52.237 --> 00:20:54.606
  • Where god says, "you know what?
  • 00:20:54.606 --> 00:20:55.974
  • In this case, you test me.
  • 00:20:55.974 --> 00:20:58.210
  • And you bring me your very best,"
  • 00:20:58.210 --> 00:21:00.479
  • Is the principle, "and see if i don't throw open
  • 00:21:00.479 --> 00:21:03.548
  • Those floodgates and bless you
  • 00:21:03.548 --> 00:21:05.984
  • Beyond your ability to even contain it."
  • 00:21:05.984 --> 00:21:08.820
  • Pastor dudley: oh, i hope you were blessed
  • 00:21:12.758 --> 00:21:14.259
  • By today's message.
  • 00:21:14.259 --> 00:21:16.161
  • As i told you earlier, it's listening to
  • 00:21:16.161 --> 00:21:18.697
  • The teaching and preaching from god's word
  • 00:21:18.697 --> 00:21:21.033
  • On a regular basis
  • 00:21:21.033 --> 00:21:23.168
  • That makes such a powerful difference
  • 00:21:23.168 --> 00:21:24.770
  • In our lives.
  • 00:21:24.770 --> 00:21:26.138
  • So let's plan on being here again next week,
  • 00:21:26.138 --> 00:21:28.173
  • Same place, same time.
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  • What do you think about that?
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  • And if you're ever in the southern california area,
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  • We would love to meet you on a saturday night
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  • Or a sunday morning here at shepherd church.
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  • It's an amazing community that will have
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  • A powerful and positive impact on your life.
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  • You can find all the service times
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  • And locations on our website at liftupjesus.com.
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  • And in the meantime, i want to encourage you:
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  • That whatever you're doing and wherever you're going,
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  • Don't forget to always-- come on, do it with me--
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  • Lift up jesus...
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  • Ervin hurd: i'm ervin hurd, and this is my wife, chip hurd.
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  • And we've been members here at shepherd
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  • For going on 13 years now.
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  • Chip hurd: giving is an uncomfortable conversation
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  • For most people,
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  • And i guess i didn't have a problem with that,
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  • Because when you grow up poor, you don't have anything anyway.
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  • So everything god gave me, it just seemed right
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  • To give back.
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  • So when i learned about malachi
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  • And the fact that we were supposed to give back
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  • A tenth from the top, not after we do
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  • Everything else and then whatever's left--
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  • And that just seemed to make sense;
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  • It was fair, it was loving-- to a loving god.
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  • Ervin: we work in a seasonal business
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  • And between productions and--
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  • Chip: hiatus.
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  • Ervin: productions--yeah, production shutting down,
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  • I didn't have a job.
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  • But somehow, all the bills got paid,
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  • And god always provided.
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  • And he also gave me a peace during that period,
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  • Because i knew he would provide.
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  • We're always having to monitor and learn about stewardship
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  • And find ways to make sure
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  • That we are doing what god called us to do.
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  • And there are periods where it just doesn't look like
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  • It's gonna work out.
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  • There are periods where it looks like
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  • Things are just upside down,
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  • Topsy-turvy, how is this going to work itself out?
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  • But somehow, god finds a way to get us through it.
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  • And he also gives us the ability to have peace in the process.
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  • I have times where i'm looking at the checkbook
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  • And looking at what we have committed ourselves to--
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  • Not what god has committed us to
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  • But what we've committed ourselves to--
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  • And having to realign priorities.
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  • Chip: i think it eventually works itself out.
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  • He starts giving you wisdom about which thing to do
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  • So that you may have a rough this-month
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  • And a rough next-month,
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  • Maybe an even rougher next-month,
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  • But somewhere in there, if the heart is to do
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  • The thing he asked you to do, he will work it out for you,
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  • And that's the part we don't wanna see
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  • What's gonna happen.
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  • Ervin: we don't tithe with the thought
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  • That we are tithing to get from god.
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  • We're tithing because we have gotten from god.
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  • God has already given to us,
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  • And all he asks us is to give back that 10%.
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  • And so he gave first, and we give second.
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  • Pastor dudley: hey, it's pastor dudley
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  • From shepherd church and "lift up jesus."
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