Bobby Chandler - Power of Generosity (Part 1)

March 10, 2026 | 26:54

Pastor Bobby Chandler has found hope in Jesus and wants as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.

#Generosity #Giving #Stewardship #Blessing #Obedience #TrustGod

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She. how many use it for your kingdom?
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Because everything good comes from where it comes from above.
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Even though you go to a 9 to 5,
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Or you work even more than that,
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Even though you put in the effort.
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Everything that you have today is because god
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Has given it to you.
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And you may say, well, that's that's by me.
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That's by my talents and my abilities.
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Who put the talent in you?
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Who gave you the abilities to do this?
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He could give it to you today and take it away tomorrow.
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But let me remind you of what we learned last week.
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And so here's a phrase i do not want you to forget.
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And it's a phrase that i'd like to say
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Every single week of this series.
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But here's the phrase in order to step into a promise of god,
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You must what you must believe it exists.
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You must believe that the promise exists.
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You must believe that god spoke it over you,
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Because the moment you believe in his word, guess what?
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You're ready to move by faith.
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But if you do not believe it exists for you,
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You will never move.
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An example of that.
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You cannot believe that your marriage will be restored.
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If you've already decided in your mind that it's over, okay.
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You can't believe that god is going to change your life.
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If you think that this is as good as it will ever get,
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You have to hold on to the word of god.
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God has something more for you,
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Abundantly and exceedingly, more than anything you can
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Fathom or even dream of.
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Because that's the god we serve.
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He is a creative god
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Who blesses his children that walk in obedience.
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And so we talked about abraham last week,
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And abraham's entire life was changed. why?
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Because he believed in the word of god
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And he moved by faith.
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Romans chapter four, verse 20 and 21 states like this
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Abraham never wavered in believing god's promise.
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Now, if you know the story, you know
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That abraham wasn't perfect, though, okay?
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But he never wavered in believing god's promise.
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In fact, his faith grew stronger.
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And in this he brought glory to god.
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Here's my favorite part of this passage.
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For he was fully convinced that god was able
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To do whatever he promises.
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Do you believe that today?
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What about in
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Every area of your life?
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For a lot of us.
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We kind of pick and choose.
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Let's be honest.
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God out. trust you in this.
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I'll give you that.
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God, i'll go here for you.
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But maybe there's an area you're still holding on to.
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As i was diving into this message,
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I started thinking about my past.
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And there is, something i didn't like about my faith
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Many years ago.
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So when it came to my faith, i felt like i was down
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For whatever.
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If god told me to move.
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Okay, god, let's let's risk it all.
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If god told me to pray over somebody.
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All right, i'm ready to pray. if god told me to.
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To change everything. to follow him.
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Okay. god, i am the lord's servant.
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Let's go.
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But then when god told
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Me to give generously.
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No, i can't do that.
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I don't have enough.
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And there's no way that i can do something like that.
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And to be honest with you, the idea of just giving
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Or generosity itself was a foreign concept to me.
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So in my mind, over and over again,
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I would tell myself, i'll give one day,
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Or i'll give or when i have more to give.
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Here's the thing. that's a lie.
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It is a lie.
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Because if you don't understand the discipline
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Now of what it means to give and to be a cheerful giver,
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To love what god loves, then guess what?
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When you have more, you're not going to give it
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Then either, because it only becomes more.
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And since you never learned that discipline before,
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Just because you have more doesn't make it easier.
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Sometimes it actually makes it harder
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And so i struggle with this, and i just
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Want to be honest with you, because i feel like sometimes.
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And it's not a bad thing.
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Like, i feel like we've heard a lot of pastors say, you know,
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I grew up on tithing and i tithe on my life,
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And god is so good in that.
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And and to be honest with you, i did it.
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I didn't grow up in that. and
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I didn't do that it in practice that and struggled with it.
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There were times that we we lived in poverty pretty bad.
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And so i remember being coming a pastor
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And that was one thing i really, really struggled with.
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That was a pastor on staff at this church in louisiana.
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And for many years i didn't died.
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And so there was one there was one scripture
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That really convicted me, and i didn't like it.
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It's in luke chapter 16.
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In luke chapter 16, jesus is talking to his disciples,
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And he knows that his pharisees are listening in.
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So the pharisees are listening in to this conversation.
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But listen to this word.
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Luke chapter 16, verse ten and 11.
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Jesus stated, if you are faithful in the little things,
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You will be faithful in the large ones.
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But listen to this.
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If you're dishonest with the little things,
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Then you won't
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Be honest with greater responsibilities.
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You have to prove that you can steward things
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Well even when it's small.
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Because you know what the temptation is,
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Is to say it's insignificant and won't make a difference.
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But walking in obedience to god always makes a difference.
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And could it be the very thing you're complaining about?
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Because it's small.
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It's a thing
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That god is giving you right now to see what you do with it.
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To see how you stupid your life get kids.
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If you're dishonest with little things,
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You won't be honest with greater responsibility.
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So listen to this.
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If you are untrustworthy
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With worldly well, this is the part i did not like.
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Who will trust you with the true riches of heaven?
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If you can't steward well now what god has given you,
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How will you be able
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To steward it well in the kingdom of heaven?
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Now listen to verse 13.
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But you cannot serve two masters.
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You will hate one, you will love the other.
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You'll be devoted to one you will despise the other.
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And so you cannot serve god.
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I like how this translation is stated and be enslaved to money.
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I believe it's in the king james.
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It calls it the spirit of mammon.
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It is a demonic spirit. okay.
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And what it means is not that money is sinful,
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But the love of money and money becoming your master.
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That's when it becomes sinful.
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Because a lot of us here's where we struggle.
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We trust our money more than we trust god.
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And so that's where i struggle in my life.
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It's like, all right, god, i'll pray.
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I'll move.
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I'll do all these things, but don't ask what's in my wallet
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Because i'm embarrassed. okay?
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But i struggle with that.
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And so i remember
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I remember this one night, like, i just i just had enough.
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And i was tired of it.
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And i remember being in my bedroom
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And i was wrestling with god for, like, jacob just, just
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Just wrestling with the lord and trusting him.
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And i was i was going to give $200.
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Just to put it in perspective.
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That's what i was going to give.
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But it was $200 that i felt i needed
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That i could not afford to lose.
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But i got on the computer and i decided
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That night to be obedient and give to the lord.
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Here's the crazy thing.
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So when i wasn't listening
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To god on giving it, the burden was always heavy.
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You would think
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If i really needed it, okay,
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Once i give it, then that burden is going to get heavier.
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It was the opposite effect.
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As soon as i gave it over to the lord, i felt freedom.
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I felt this peace.
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It's like finally i did it.
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I felt like i did the right thing, like i've been
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I've been doing this for years, that
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Trusting the lord in this area of my life.
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And i'm tired of it gripping me, being my master.
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So, god, i'm just going to give it to you.
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And i kid you not.
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The next day i go to church and again, i'm a pastor.
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I'm a youth pastor.
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This time i'm walking in the lobby
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And this older man comes up to me
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And he says, hey, come here real quick.
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And we barely have spoken before, barely, barely knew me.
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And he looked at me and he said, in private,
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He said, hey, god told me to give you this,
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And he hands me $100.
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And you know, and i'm looking at him like,
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You have no idea
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What i just struggled with last night.
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And so i go into the service i was i was the second service.
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I go in there and i sit down by a friend.
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I didn't tell anybody. i'm like, i cannot believe that.
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God just gave me $100 back.
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And i kid you not, my friend looks at me
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And he says, this is going to be weird.
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And i'm like, what are you going to say?
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Like, what do you say?
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And he says, i feel like i need to give you this.
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It was $100.
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God is god.
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Place $200 back in my hands the very next day.
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Here's what gets me every time i tell that story.
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God didn't have to do that like this, right?
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Like i didn't deserve that.
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I did the wrong thing for many years.
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I didn't trust god in that area of my life.
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He didn't have to do that to prove that he's good. he.
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Are you proof that he's good upon the cross,
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But because he is a loving father who wants to prove to me
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That he can do what my money never could,
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And he's proving to me that he is in control of my situation.
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When i felt broken, gave what i had,
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And i mean it was a lot to us at the time.
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God provided it right back.
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Yes, and i'm not saying he has to do that every single time.
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But that day i will
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Never forget what the lord taught me.
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And that's what i want to show you.
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Like i said, the idea of just giving the idea of generosity
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As a whole, which is foreign to me,
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And so let's make sense of it in the bible, okay?
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Not just things that i'm going to say,
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But actually from biblical scripture.
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And so the title of
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Today's message is this the power of generosity.
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There is actually power,
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Holy spirit power that comes out
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To impact the kingdom of god through generosity.
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Point number one is says god loves a cheerful giver.
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And i want to be clear on this, okay?
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I am not just giving you a motivational quote right here.
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This also is not manipulation to convince you to start giving.
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This is a biblical concept.
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Second corinthians chapter nine.
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If you have your bibles, you can turn there.
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Second corinthians chapter nine
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Paul is writing to the church in corinth
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About an offering that they promised
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To the suffering christians in jerusalem.
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Let me just answer that really quickly.
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Why are the christians in jerusalem suffering?
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Well, there's a famine in the land at this time,
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But also
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There's an extreme persecution against the new christians.
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Okay. so within jerusalem, rome.
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The romans think that they're just weird.
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They don't understand the concept of christianity.
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And so they're coming after them.
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And then within judaism, their families are learning,
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Hey, you've accepted jesus christ as your messiah.
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Were you kicked out of the family?
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And so you no longer have family support
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And it just feels like everybody is against you
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Kind of see a little,
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Inside of that.
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And hebrews chapter ten,
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Hebrews chapter ten, verse 34, he is speaking encouragement
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To the christians who lost everything.
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He sometimes you are exposed to public ridicule,
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Sometimes you were beaten.
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Now listen to this.
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And sometimes you helped others
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Who was suffering with the same thing.
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You went through it.
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But when you saw other people go through it,
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You were there for them.
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You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail.
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And when all you owned was taken from you,
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You accepted it with joy.
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Are you there right now
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In your walk with god?
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Think about it.
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If everything was taken from you today,
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Would you still have joy in the lord?
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Everything was taken away. yep.
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You accepted it with joy.
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You knew there were better things waiting for you.
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There were ones that will last forever.
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See their eyes and their heart was on.
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What is eternal.
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Not is not, is not what is temporary around us
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Instead of the physical. it was the spiritual.
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So now, knowing all this, this is what paul says
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To the corinthian church about generosity.
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Second corinthians chapter nine, verse one and two.
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He stated, i really don't need to write you
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About this ministry of giving for the believers in jerusalem.
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Now listen to this, for i know that you are eager to help.
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You're ready to help.
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And i have been boasting to the churches in macedonia
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That you in greece, were ready to send an offering a year ago.
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You have been ready to give.
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You have been ready
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To bring an offering to help your fellow believers
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In jerusalem.
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In fact, it was your enthusiasm that stirred up
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So many of the macedonian believers to begin giving.
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I want you to see this right here.
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This is the power of generosity.
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They stirred up a revival of giving
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Because they were eager to give.
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It wasn't a burden
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Because they were ready to dive in
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And to help their fellow believers.
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They started to inspire other people to give and to help.
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There is something supernatural that takes place
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When you move by faith, but also when you give by faith.
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But listen to this verse six and seven.
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Paul gives us a picture of what god does.
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When you give
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With a generous heart, you're going to see this
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Theme, this common theme, over and over again
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Throughout the bible. six and seven.
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Remember this a farmer
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Who plants only a few seeds will get away.
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A small crop,
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Okay, but the one who plants generously
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Will get a generous crop.
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If you believe god for it, shouldn't you give towards it?
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But if you're holding back, we're going to go over this too.
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If you're holding back a little bit, god knows.
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And yes, it does represent your faith
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How much you trust god.
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Again, do you trust your money or do you trust god?
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So there's a biblical principle here. okay.
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What you sow determines what you see. yes.
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What you sow determines what you see.
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What you put into it is what you get out of it.
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Right.
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Let's look into other areas of your life. it's the same way.
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All right.
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If you give your marriage leftovers,
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Leftovers is what you'll get in return, right?
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If you give god crumbs,
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Then crumbs is what you get in return.
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If you put a little effort into your children,
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Don't be surprised when they put little
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Effort into you later on.
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Right?
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So what you put into it, what you sow
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To, determines what you see, what comes out of it.
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All right.
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So paul continues, so now he's talking about an offering here.
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We're going to talk about tithing.
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I'm going to talk about offerings.
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But paul says you must decide in your heart
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How much to give towards this offering.
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Now listen to this.
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No, but don't give reluctantly or in response to pressure.
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I love that right there.
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Don't be pressured
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Into giving like it should be between you and god.
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Like only listening to,
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God's voice should be the reason you give.
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Not so because somebody made you feel bad or told you.
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If you give this, you know the seed.
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I'll give you some snake oil later on today
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And you can be blessed with an anointing water.
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Now, don't be pressured into giving an offering.
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Let it be between you and the lord god.
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What are you telling me?
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How can i help?
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How can i make an impact?
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And the reason why is because god
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Is not impressed by the amount that's in your hand,
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And he never will be, no matter how large it is.
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He is moved by the motive in which you give, right?
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He cares about the reason you give.
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He cares if it's a burden at all on your heart, on your mind,
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On your soul to impact his kingdom or to help
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Fellow believers that are going through suffering and trials.
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Listen to this, verse seven and eight.
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Let's continue.
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Here it is.
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Here's the biblical principle right here for god loves
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A person who gives cheerfully.
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And for somebody like me,
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When it came to giving and it being kind of a foreign concept,
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Let me say that doesn't happen overnight.
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And that's okay.
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And so i needed the discipline of tithing.
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Okay, 10%, lord, i'm going to give to you
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And i'm gonna give you my first and my best.
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I needed that in the beginning days just to teach me to give
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With generosity.
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And i had to train myself.
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I'm going to be honest.
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I had to train my mind to enjoy giving to the lord.
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I told you a while back because god has changed my heart
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So much on it now when i give, i have taken my my 13 year old
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And i've showed it to him and i said, push the button.
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We're going to give together.
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The reason we give is because god freed us from so much.
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I don't want to look at it like it's a burden.
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I want to be a cheerful giver,
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And god is going to change our heart in that.
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But god loves a person who gives cheerfully, and god
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Will generously provide all you need to listen to that.
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Then you will always have everything you need
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And plenty left over to share with others.
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There is a biblical concept.
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Okay, this is not the prosperity gospel.
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It doesn't mean you're going to get everything you want,
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But there is a biblical, concept out of the bible
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Where god blesses the giver to give more.
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God will bless the giver to give more.
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When you pour the oil, it multiplies.
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When you break the bread, it multiplies.
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It feeds the people.
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If you're a good steward
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Of what you have, god will multiply it, because
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Now you're making an impact for the kingdom.
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And the bible tells many stories
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Of people who gave to please god.
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But here's a shocker. okay,
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They were both rich and poor.
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Again, i always thought in my head, i'm going to give one day
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When i have more.
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But if you look at the bible, that's not a biblical concept.
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No, there were those that had a lot that gave,
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But there were also those that had nothing.
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Because guess what?
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The spirit of greed does not discriminate
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Against social status.
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You can be rich and greedy.
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You can be poor and greedy, right? why?
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Because it's not about what is in your wallet.
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It is all about what is in your heart.
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And jesus made it very clear in matthew chapter six verse 21
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He said, wherever your treasure is, there
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The desires of your heart will also be.
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Every time you spend money, you invest into something.
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Do you understand that?
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You invest into a company.
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You invest into your likes
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And to the things that you want in your life?
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Okay, are you investing it all into the kingdom of god?
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Again, let me show you just two examples.
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Okay, a few examples actually.
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All right.
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First solomon, richest man that ever lived.
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And he became famous for his wisdom, right?
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Because god showed up in a dream.
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But before he became famous,
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Before he was so wise, did you know the very
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First thing he did was give to the lord?
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Let's look at it together.
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The first decision he made was to give to god first.
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Kings three, three and four.
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Solomon loved the lord,
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And he followed the decrees of his father david.
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Except that solomon two offered sacrifices and burnt
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Incense and the local places of worship.
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Now listen to this next line.
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The most important of these places of worship was a gibbon.
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So the king went there, and he sacrifice
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1000 burnt offerings.
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This is the very first thing that he did.
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Now what's extraordinary about this text
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Is that other kings didn't do that.
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I think sometimes we read the bible
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And we're like, okay, that must be a custom.
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That must be a tradition. everybody did that. no, no, no.
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Majority of kings before him only gave a handful,
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Just a handful of offerings over to the lord.
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As soon as solomon is starting into his kingship,
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He gives a thousand over to the lord.
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Just for fun, let's break this down.
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If he sacrificed sheep again, this would have been equivalent
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Of giving anywhere from 60,000 to $250,000.
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If he's sacrificing and offering sheep.
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The thing is, if he is offering bulls,
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Okay, if he sacrificed bulls, he could have given
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God anywhere from 1.5 million to 2.5 million.
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Nobody did that before him.
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I'm making it very clear here.
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Like nobody did that.
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He he didn't just follow a tradition.
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It was in his heart.
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He loved the lord.
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He wanted to get close to god.
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He knew that he was about to take this leadership position.
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So we asked god, lead me in and out.
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Help me to lead the people.
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But the very first thing i'm going to do
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Is give you everything of me.
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He gives an offering over to the lord.
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And then in the very next
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Verse, verse five,
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That's the night the lord appeared to him,
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Solomon in his dream.
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And god said, what do you want?
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Ask, and i will give it to you.
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And the reason the lord blessed him
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Is because he asked for wisdom.
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See, god saw immediately that he was willing to sacrifice
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And ask for the right things.
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So god said, i'll give you more.
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I'll make you famous.
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I'll give you wisdom, i'll give you for
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I'll give you riches.
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You don't even ask for him
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Because he's a loving father
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Who cares for his children.
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All right, guys, that's all the time we have for today.
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But i pray that today's message bless your life.
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There is a reason you heard this word today.
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It's not by mistake.
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You're here for a reason and god has a plan for you.
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And listen, if you love this church
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And thinking about giving to this church, all you have to do
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Is visit our website at bobbie chandler ministries.com.
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And it's very easy to give.
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And once you give, listen, you're helping change lives
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Because of your faithful giving, we're able to reach
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Not only the nation, but the world.
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We're bringing the gospel of jesus christ
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Into everyone's home as much as we can,
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So that they know the love of god.
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And listen.
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If you want to hear more sermons as well, don't forget
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You can join us live every sunday, 815, 10:00, and 1145.
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So thank you for watching today
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And i can't wait to see you again very soon.
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All right, before you go, i got one more announcement to make.
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And this one's a big one.
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Okay.
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This year
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We held our very
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First awaking conference in hickory, north carolina
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For authentic church.
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And we saw
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People come out from everywhere, from all over the nation
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And even outside of the country
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To experience what god is doing here.
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So we're doing it again in 2026, from june 4th to june 7th.
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We would love for you to plan and be here with us.
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And if you want to look into more details
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Over the conference,
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All you have to do is click the link below.
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In fact, here's a recap video to show you what all god did.
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For me.
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And the
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Reason i even bring it up tonight
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Is because when it comes to you knowing jesus
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The man, the gospel message is all about
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Your understanding of the message about the man
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Who will inform your methods of getting to know the man.
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We need.
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We need.
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This.
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This job doesn't work out for me.
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What if i move my life by faith and it all just
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Crumbles to the ground? what if it works?
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What if god shows up and changes your life forever?
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But i would rather move by faith
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And even fail and fail and fail and know that i follow god.
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And i ended up exactly where i needed to be.
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You know what today is
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Pentecost.
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Sunday,
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Pentecost sunday.
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Woo! you better not ask
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A holy ghost preacher to preach on pentecost sunday.
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I came here to remind you
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You need the holy spirit.
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Bobby Chandler - Power of Generosity (Part 1)

March 10, 2026 | 26:54

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