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Tim Timberlake - The Price of Pretending (Part 1)

November 21, 2025 | 28:30

Tim Timberlake - The Price of Pretending (Part 1)
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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - The Price of Pretending (Part 1) | November 21, 2025
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  • Hey, family.
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  • It's pastor tim
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  • Timberlake, and today we have an incredible message.
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  • I want us to jump into it because it's going to be
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  • A two part series in the series of walking
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  • Through the book of acts.
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  • Today's message is entitled the price of pretending,
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  • And i pray it challenges you.
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  • I pray it brings to the surface things in your life
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  • That you need to resubmit and surrender
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  • Back into the hands of jesus.
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  • And i pray
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  • That as we look at the lives of ananias and sapphira,
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  • We see how we can change and make the necessary changes
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  • In our life and in our heart.
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  • Let's go into the word of god as it has already begun.
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  • The price of pretending.
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  • This moment in time unfolds after.
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  • The life
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  • That is demonstrated and modeled in front of them.
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  • Of generosity through barnabas has been displayed.
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  • And the disciples aren't asking for an amount,
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  • But they are looking at motive.
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  • And this moment unfolds
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  • Right after barnabas practices and displays
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  • Supernatural generosity in acts chapter four, verse 36 to 37,
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  • It says that he sold his field,
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  • Brought all the proceeds to the apostles feet,
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  • And his name meant son of encouragement.
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  • This act symbolized authentic,
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  • Spirit led generosity.
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  • It was not given out of pressure.
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  • It was not given out of manipulation.
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  • Come on somebody.
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  • It was given out of spirit led generosity.
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  • There was no promise
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  • That he would receive a prophecy if he gave it.
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  • It's real quiet up in here.
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  • There were no
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  • 77 hotline dollars.
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  • You give. this will give you a prophecy.
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  • There was no holy water from israel.
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  • If he gave,
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  • There were no anointed handkerchiefs
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  • For a love offering.
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  • It was just spirit led
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  • Obedience that led to generosity.
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  • Why was it spirit led?
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  • Because barnabas got a revelation of what jesus
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  • Had already done for him.
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  • And when you get a revelation of what
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  • Jesus has already done for you, you want to make room for jesus
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  • To reveal himself to other people in the same way.
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  • Amen. has jesus saved your life?
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  • How many of you have ever been
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  • Physically healed by the power of jesus christ?
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  • How many of you have ever experienced
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  • Something supernatural that your natural mind
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  • Can't rationalize or fathom, but your spirit man has received?
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  • This took place
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  • In the life of barnabas, and so he wanted to make sure
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  • That other people experienced this jesus
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  • That he now believed in.
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  • And so when he sold his property,
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  • It says that he brought the proceeds of that
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  • Sale, laid it at the feet of the apostles.
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  • It's a sign of total surrender.
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  • In chapter five, in contrast to that, we see
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  • What happens when disobedience takes effect.
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  • And aeneas and sapphira saw barnabas,
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  • And they saw the way that he honored,
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  • What god had instructed for him to do.
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  • He had a reputation of surrender.
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  • And here they are trying to fake surrender.
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  • There's two words here that i
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  • Want you to highlight and underline in verse two.
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  • Kept back.
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  • Kept back.
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  • The greek word
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  • For kept back means to embezzle
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  • Or secretly misappropriate.
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  • It's the same term used
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  • In the greek old testament
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  • For acon sin in joshua chapter seven,
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  • Where he kept back what belonged to god
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  • And brought destruction to the entire camp.
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  • This wasn't just a financial lull
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  • And a financial lie.
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  • It was spiritual fraud.
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  • They betrayed the spirit in the same manner.
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  • Judas betrayed jesus.
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  • As a matter of fact, the only two times
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  • We see in scripture in the new testament
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  • Were satan enters into the heart of someone
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  • Is in this case acts chapter five.
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  • And in the life of judas.
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  • So, matter of fact, i want us to turn our attention
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  • To luke chapter 22, verse three.
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  • Scripture says,
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  • Then satan entered into judas,
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  • Called iscariot.
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  • In john chapter 13, verse two, it says, the devil had already
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  • Put into the heart of judas iscariot to betray him.
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  • In john chapter 13, verse 27, it says, then after he had taken
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  • The morsel, satan entered into him,
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  • The only two instances we see in the new testament
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  • Where satan enters into the heart of men
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  • And women is in acts chapter five,
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  • And in the case of judas, through the gospels,
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  • And both of them were about money.
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  • Now, the last time i checked,
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  • Satan is not omnipresent.
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  • So he can be multiple
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  • Places at the same time.
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  • Which means that if scripture says
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  • That he entered into the heart of someone,
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  • He is only in that place
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  • For that
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  • Specific assignment and for that specific moment.
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  • Which means the enemy takes great notice
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  • At how you steward obedience
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  • In your finances.
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  • If the only two instances in the new testament
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  • Where he fills the heart of men and women
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  • Have to do with finances, then we need to be very intentional
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  • With how we steward them.
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  • What does this teach us?
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  • That our souls can't be neutral?
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  • Our soul is fathering, following either god
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  • Or the devil.
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  • Scripture
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  • Continues to unpack this,
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  • And it allows us to know
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  • That in the new testament,
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  • The only instance we see satan directly entering into a person
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  • Is through the open door
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  • Of disobedience as it pertains to finances.
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  • This is crucial because judas
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  • Spent years in the presence of jesus,
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  • But he still gave the
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  • The doorway and access to satan.
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  • So what is the point i'm making?
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  • You can be around jesus
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  • And you can be close to jesus and jesus
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  • Still not have complete and total control of your heart.
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  • And some of us, we think because we go to church
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  • And we can check that off the box,
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  • And because we prayed a couple of prayers this week
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  • And we can check that off the box,
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  • That we are completely and totally surrendered to god,
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  • When in fact,
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  • You can pray and you can quote scripture
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  • And the enemy still have a hold of your heart.
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  • Satan knew scripture.
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  • So you're quoting scripture doesn't impress god,
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  • And it doesn't scare the enemy because he knows scripture.
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  • What scares the
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  • Enemy is your obedience to scripture.
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  • Your transformation as you apply scripture.
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  • You walking out with the word of god says.
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  • And so as we look at this text, i want us to look at it
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  • From the perspective
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  • Of these two instances in acts chapter five
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  • And in the gospels, the life of judas
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  • And what they have in common.
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  • The same author, luke.
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  • Same greek imagery.
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  • Satan entering into the hearts
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  • Of aeneas and his wife sapphira in judas
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  • Is intentional and placed here
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  • For us to pay close attention to.
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  • And both stories we see that
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  • Money is the instrument of betrayal.
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  • Deception is the method.
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  • Satan is the influence
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  • And loss of life follows disobedience.
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  • Now thank god for his grace and his mercy where he gives us
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  • Opportunity after opportunity
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  • After opportunity to get it right in this area.
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  • But i'm telling you, there is going to come a time
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  • Where you are going to have to give an itemized receipt
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  • Of your obedience
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  • To the father in heaven at the seat of judgment,
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  • And he's not going to look at the amount,
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  • But he is going to look at the motive of your heart.
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  • And so as we
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  • Write notes today, i want us to write this down.
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  • Point number one.
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  • Greed
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  • Is not just the love of money.
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  • It's the fear of not being enough.
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  • Without it.
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  • It's a pertains to your heart.
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  • Satan doesn't need a seat in the crowd
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  • When he can whisper to the ones at the table.
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  • If you entertain satan,
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  • If you allow him to linger,
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  • If you allow the thoughts to stay
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  • And make residence in your mind,
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  • And may not change your mind.
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  • But if the enemy can get you to question the obedience
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  • That god desires for you to walk out.
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  • You've already given him a foothold.
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  • And aeneas and sapphire's
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  • Lie wasn't about money.
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  • It was about the lust of integrity
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  • And the cost that that integrity had on their lives.
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  • So whenever you exchange obedience
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  • For currency, currency that comes your god.
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  • And if currency becomes your god,
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  • I pray
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  • It is built to heaven, safe enough
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  • To keep you there.
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  • They rob themselves
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  • Of the one thing money could not buy them.
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  • Authenticity before god.
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  • You can give god your money
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  • And still never give him yourself.
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  • And some of you are impressed
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  • By the amount you've given god.
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  • But the amount that comes out of the account you steward
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  • Does not impress god.
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  • Your heart does.
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  • Every time we fake surrender,
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  • We teach our soul to worship the spotlight instead
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  • Of the savior.
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  • And every time we make
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  • Obedience about that amount more than we do our heart,
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  • Then we worship money more than we worship god.
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  • So that's why we focus on
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  • What we're giving rather than who we're giving to.
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  • Because we've made this obedience
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  • About what we get back in return.
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  • And we've been taught that when we sow and when we return
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  • And when we give, then we get things back in return.
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  • And that is the truth.
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  • But that is not why god is asking us to be generous.
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  • He asks us to be generous
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  • Because he's already been generous with us.
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  • So when your giving is a performance,
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  • Your soul becomes the audience and not god.
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  • And here's the reality for some of us.
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  • You are the audience to your generosity,
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  • And you
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  • Give because it makes you feel good.
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  • I did this for such and such and i had to let them
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  • Borrow some money again.
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  • Y'all.
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  • They still owe me
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  • From the last time.
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  • How many of you get mad?
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  • You lend somebody money and you see them
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  • On instagram on vacation.
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  • Be honest. it's okay.
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  • So you see them at a nice restaurant.
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  • You like what in the world?
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  • I just
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  • Loaned them $100.
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  • No, no.
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  • If you lended them
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  • The money, you've done what you're supposed to do.
  • 00:13:45.697 --> 00:13:50.268
  • Now use wisdom.
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  • Next time they ask you for money.
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  • Tell them no.
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  • Why? because they didn't steward it well the last time.
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  • Amen.
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  • And hear me. family.
  • 00:14:07.418 --> 00:14:09.087
  • If currency is seed, then you have to be intentional
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  • About the soul. you sow it into.
  • 00:14:13.758 --> 00:14:20.565
  • And so we are
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  • Stewards of the things god has placed in our hands.
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  • We're not owners.
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  • We are stewards.
  • 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:31.075
  • And here's the reality.
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  • They did not steal from the church.
  • 00:14:33.244 --> 00:14:36.948
  • So if they did not steal from the church,
  • 00:14:37.815 --> 00:14:40.018
  • Who did they steal from?
  • 00:14:40.018 --> 00:14:41.886
  • They stole from their own souls.
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  • They didn't steal from god.
  • 00:14:45.189 --> 00:14:46.190
  • They stole from their own souls.
  • 00:14:46.190 --> 00:14:49.928
  • They stole from their own souls.
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  • Their disobedience cost them more than they had to pay.
  • 00:14:53.097 --> 00:14:58.636
  • So the property in the proceeds that they kept,
  • 00:14:59.570 --> 00:15:02.740
  • How can they be used if they're dead?
  • 00:15:02.740 --> 00:15:09.414
  • Here's my question.
  • 00:15:09.881 --> 00:15:12.917
  • Do you have everything that you want?
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  • But on the inside, so unfulfilled.
  • 00:15:16.387 --> 00:15:21.125
  • Do you have the land?
  • 00:15:21.626 --> 00:15:22.827
  • Do you have the property? do you have the proceeds?
  • 00:15:22.827 --> 00:15:24.896
  • Do you have the resources? but on the inside, you're dead.
  • 00:15:24.896 --> 00:15:32.270
  • The reason some of us feel that way
  • 00:15:33.037 --> 00:15:35.473
  • Is because we are not operating in obedience to the things
  • 00:15:35.473 --> 00:15:39.310
  • God desires for us.
  • 00:15:39.310 --> 00:15:41.012
  • And so you can have all the possessions
  • 00:15:41.012 --> 00:15:43.481
  • And still not have purpose.
  • 00:15:43.481 --> 00:15:48.920
  • Hey, family, as we take a break.
  • 00:15:49.554 --> 00:15:51.155
  • My prayer is that this broadcast is blessing you.
  • 00:15:51.155 --> 00:15:54.525
  • I pray this message, as we journey
  • 00:15:54.525 --> 00:15:56.194
  • Through the book of acts,
  • 00:15:56.194 --> 00:15:57.462
  • Unlocks destiny
  • 00:15:57.462 --> 00:15:58.830
  • On the inside of you, removes the scales from your eyes,
  • 00:15:58.830 --> 00:16:01.733
  • And it removes whatever earmuffs you may have on your ears
  • 00:16:01.733 --> 00:16:04.769
  • That are blocking you from hearing god.
  • 00:16:04.769 --> 00:16:06.938
  • I want to provide to your resource today
  • 00:16:06.938 --> 00:16:09.440
  • The bumpy road to better.
  • 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:10.875
  • This is my brand new book that was released, september
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  • The 2nd that i believe is going to bless your life.
  • 00:16:13.911 --> 00:16:17.482
  • In this book, i talk about how we can unlock the power
  • 00:16:17.482 --> 00:16:21.085
  • And hard things that we may be navigating in this life.
  • 00:16:21.085 --> 00:16:24.522
  • And i believe that as we go on this journey of going towards
  • 00:16:24.522 --> 00:16:28.459
  • Better, there's some bumps that we have
  • 00:16:28.459 --> 00:16:30.161
  • To navigate, some mountains that we have to scale,
  • 00:16:30.161 --> 00:16:32.497
  • And some giants that we have to defeat.
  • 00:16:32.497 --> 00:16:34.766
  • When encourage you do whatever you can to purchase
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  • This book, the bumpy road
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  • To better at thebumpyroadtobetter.com.
  • 00:16:38.036 --> 00:16:40.805
  • Let's go back into today's message as we continue to learn
  • 00:16:40.805 --> 00:16:43.808
  • The word of god.
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  • What is it that you've kept back
  • 00:16:47.245 --> 00:16:50.548
  • That god is asking you
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  • To push for it?
  • 00:16:52.917 --> 00:16:58.122
  • For some of you, it's your time.
  • 00:16:58.756 --> 00:17:00.091
  • You've made time in idol.
  • 00:17:00.091 --> 00:17:03.928
  • And when things don't happen in your time.
  • 00:17:04.796 --> 00:17:11.002
  • You press eject from
  • 00:17:11.469 --> 00:17:12.970
  • Your relationship with jesus.
  • 00:17:12.970 --> 00:17:17.508
  • What is it that you've kept
  • 00:17:18.109 --> 00:17:20.645
  • Back?
  • 00:17:20.645 --> 00:17:24.882
  • For some of us,
  • 00:17:25.249 --> 00:17:25.950
  • It is this area of finances.
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  • We have idolize it.
  • 00:17:29.087 --> 00:17:30.388
  • We have made it. god.
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  • We have thought to ourselves, this is mine.
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  • I work hard for this.
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  • I will do with it whatever i want.
  • 00:17:36.327 --> 00:17:39.497
  • And we've kept it back.
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  • When god is asking us to push it forward.
  • 00:17:41.532 --> 00:17:46.003
  • And i'm not saying when you operate
  • 00:17:46.771 --> 00:17:48.239
  • In physical disobedience, you will physically die.
  • 00:17:48.239 --> 00:17:52.009
  • I'm not saying that, but what i am saying
  • 00:17:52.009 --> 00:17:54.679
  • Is that you block your eyes and your ears from hearing
  • 00:17:54.679 --> 00:17:57.715
  • And seeing god the way he desires for you to see him.
  • 00:17:57.715 --> 00:18:01.652
  • And it disconnects you from the spirit of god
  • 00:18:02.520 --> 00:18:06.457
  • And anything disconnected from the spirit of god
  • 00:18:06.457 --> 00:18:10.661
  • Is spiritually on its way to death.
  • 00:18:11.395 --> 00:18:14.532
  • Scripture teaches us that the end result of sin is what i.
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  • I can't hear you.
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  • The end result of sin is what death
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  • Is it just talking about physical death? no.
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  • Anything disconnected from
  • 00:18:29.213 --> 00:18:30.915
  • Life leads to death.
  • 00:18:30.915 --> 00:18:34.051
  • God is the giver of life.
  • 00:18:34.051 --> 00:18:36.287
  • If i am disconnected from god gets what's happening to me.
  • 00:18:36.287 --> 00:18:40.725
  • I am dying, and some of you are dying
  • 00:18:40.725 --> 00:18:44.462
  • And don't even realize it yet.
  • 00:18:44.462 --> 00:18:48.733
  • Because you think money is giving you life.
  • 00:18:49.667 --> 00:18:52.103
  • Money is bringing you happiness.
  • 00:18:52.103 --> 00:18:53.738
  • And the reality is, is that money has become your god.
  • 00:18:53.738 --> 00:18:57.608
  • And it is not until you push it in front of the feet of jesus
  • 00:18:57.608 --> 00:19:00.711
  • And he takes that what you are stewarding and multiplies.
  • 00:19:00.711 --> 00:19:04.282
  • And it says, now you have seed so you can sew and you sew it,
  • 00:19:04.282 --> 00:19:08.119
  • And he gives you more seed so you can sew.
  • 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:10.321
  • And you saw that he gives you more seed.
  • 00:19:10.321 --> 00:19:12.123
  • So you can sew, that you operate
  • 00:19:12.123 --> 00:19:14.025
  • In complete and total obedience and understand the significance
  • 00:19:14.025 --> 00:19:17.862
  • And the joy of living, not just life.
  • 00:19:17.862 --> 00:19:23.367
  • Scripture teaches us
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  • That he comes to give us life
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  • And life more abundantly.
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  • There is no life without jesus
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  • Just existing.
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  • And the harsh reality for some of us is that you are here
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  • Today because you are existing and not living.
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  • What you have in your hand and not put air in your lungs,
  • 00:19:48.292 --> 00:19:51.762
  • But you have in your wallet, did not wake you up this morning.
  • 00:19:51.762 --> 00:19:55.199
  • What you have in your purse and in your account
  • 00:19:55.199 --> 00:19:57.768
  • Did not put food on your table.
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  • I know you think it did.
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  • It did not.
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  • God did.
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  • We operate in complete and total obedience.
  • 00:20:07.144 --> 00:20:09.213
  • Guess what he does?
  • 00:20:09.213 --> 00:20:10.514
  • He breathes fresh life into the areas of our lives
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  • That we thought he could never breathe.
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  • Life into.
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  • This is where we pause for today.
  • 00:20:22.026 --> 00:20:26.797
  • Satan didn't make them stingy.
  • 00:20:27.398 --> 00:20:32.036
  • He made them strategic.
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  • It was a strategy
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  • That held back what god desired.
  • 00:20:39.277 --> 00:20:42.480
  • They thought that they could outsmart god.
  • 00:20:43.381 --> 00:20:47.918
  • They thought, surely if i give him a portion
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  • Of the proceeds, he'll be okay with it.
  • 00:20:51.956 --> 00:20:57.795
  • And i want to remind us.
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  • Of the first murder in the bible.
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  • And what it had to do with it.
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  • Had to do with an offering that was more pleasing to god.
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  • Then the brother.
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  • Because greed filled the heart
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  • Of those who are separated from god.
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  • And guess what? greed, us.
  • 00:21:29.860 --> 00:21:31.295
  • Greed blinds us.
  • 00:21:31.295 --> 00:21:33.497
  • It invites anger in, anger invites murder in, and murder
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  • Takes us further than we could ever think we would ever go.
  • 00:21:38.336 --> 00:21:41.706
  • And it all starts with greed in our own hearts.
  • 00:21:41.706 --> 00:21:48.479
  • So, satan, he didn't just make them stingy.
  • 00:21:49.347 --> 00:21:52.083
  • He made them strategic.
  • 00:21:52.083 --> 00:21:53.417
  • He brought them to the place both ananias and sapphira
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  • Would they question, would god see our disobedience?
  • 00:21:56.721 --> 00:22:01.859
  • And again, it wasn't in the amount,
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  • It was in the motive.
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  • Scripture says a portion.
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  • We don't know what that portion was.
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  • It could have been a great amount,
  • 00:22:09.433 --> 00:22:11.168
  • But the motive in their heart was wrong.
  • 00:22:11.168 --> 00:22:13.204
  • They desired to hide what god had asked of them
  • 00:22:13.204 --> 00:22:16.407
  • In their hearts, away from his head.
  • 00:22:17.174 --> 00:22:20.678
  • And scripture says
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  • That ananias drop dead.
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  • His wife came in three hours later.
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  • Peter asked her,
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  • Was this the amount that you gave?
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  • She lied to peter and she to die.
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  • If we take nothing away
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  • From today's text, let us take this away.
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  • Don't lie to the holy spirit.
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  • You won't get away with it.
  • 00:22:50.107 --> 00:22:54.779
  • Push it into the light.
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  • Amen.
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  • Reveal it.
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  • Reveal the things in your heart that have become god.
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  • Reveal the things in your heart that have become idols.
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  • Reveal the things in your heart that you have kept back.
  • 00:23:05.222 --> 00:23:07.892
  • Reveal in.
  • 00:23:07.892 --> 00:23:09.160
  • In your heart the things that god desires to work out of you
  • 00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:12.496
  • So that you won't be a walking dead man
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  • Or woman.
  • 00:23:15.566 --> 00:23:18.836
  • Because there's a price to pretending.
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  • And the price is too costly for you to pay.
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  • So instead of pretending,
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  • Surrender.
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  • Surrender a portion, not surrender most.
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  • Surrender all.
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  • I'm not just talking about finances.
  • 00:23:36.954 --> 00:23:38.856
  • I'm talking about your heart, your mind, your body, your soul.
  • 00:23:38.856 --> 00:23:42.860
  • Let us not think so minimally that we think that this
  • 00:23:42.860 --> 00:23:46.464
  • Is just about money.
  • 00:23:46.464 --> 00:23:48.899
  • This is about everything.
  • 00:23:49.467 --> 00:23:50.901
  • About every facet of your life.
  • 00:23:50.901 --> 00:23:52.870
  • Does god have your money but not your soul?
  • 00:23:52.870 --> 00:23:57.241
  • Does god have your soul
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  • But not the finances that he's placed in your hands?
  • 00:23:59.310 --> 00:24:03.981
  • That's god have most, but not all.
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  • I've never heard the song sung.
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  • I surrender most.
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  • I surrender most.
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  • I surrender most,
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  • Most to thee, thy precious savior.
  • 00:24:26.670 --> 00:24:32.276
  • I surrender most.
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  • Never say that.
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  • I surrender.
  • 00:24:39.617 --> 00:24:41.385
  • Oh, what's after all?
  • 00:24:41.385 --> 00:24:44.655
  • Nothing.
  • 00:24:44.655 --> 00:24:47.658
  • So, are you presenting
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  • A false all
  • 00:24:50.928 --> 00:24:53.397
  • While holding on to most.
  • 00:24:53.397 --> 00:25:00.070
  • Satan's aren't afraid of you
  • 00:25:00.671 --> 00:25:01.839
  • Lifting your hands in worship.
  • 00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:04.942
  • He's afraid of you surrendering all.
  • 00:25:04.942 --> 00:25:09.313
  • Is not afraid of your tears.
  • 00:25:09.914 --> 00:25:12.082
  • He's afraid of you surrendering all.
  • 00:25:12.082 --> 00:25:15.920
  • He's not afraid of your hallelujahs and your amens.
  • 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:18.856
  • And it is so in jesus name.
  • 00:25:18.856 --> 00:25:23.260
  • Is afraid of you surrendering all.
  • 00:25:23.994 --> 00:25:27.131
  • Today
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  • Some of you need to surrender all.
  • 00:25:28.532 --> 00:25:31.168
  • There's still so much more to cover.
  • 00:25:31.168 --> 00:25:34.338
  • And so i hope you would continue to go on this journey with us
  • 00:25:34.338 --> 00:25:37.641
  • As we continue with part two of the price of pretending.
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  • I do pray that you were encouraged and challenged
  • 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:45.316
  • And your spirit man was enriched today.
  • 00:25:45.316 --> 00:25:47.851
  • If that be the case, would you partner with us?
  • 00:25:47.851 --> 00:25:51.055
  • Help us continue to spread this gospel.
  • 00:25:51.055 --> 00:25:53.357
  • Help us get this message in front of as many people
  • 00:25:53.357 --> 00:25:56.961
  • As possible.
  • 00:25:57.261 --> 00:25:58.629
  • I ran into someone that watches the broadcasts, and
  • 00:25:58.629 --> 00:26:01.999
  • They started off by apologizing
  • 00:26:01.999 --> 00:26:03.767
  • Because they could not
  • 00:26:03.767 --> 00:26:05.469
  • Contribute that much,
  • 00:26:05.469 --> 00:26:06.537
  • And i stopped them right in the middle.
  • 00:26:06.537 --> 00:26:08.138
  • And i reminded them that all contributions,
  • 00:26:08.138 --> 00:26:10.507
  • All partnership levels, all generosity levels
  • 00:26:10.507 --> 00:26:14.311
  • Are needed in the advancement of the gospel of jesus christ.
  • 00:26:14.311 --> 00:26:18.382
  • And so i don't care what it is that you give.
  • 00:26:18.382 --> 00:26:20.684
  • It's the heart behind why you give it.
  • 00:26:20.684 --> 00:26:22.886
  • My prayer
  • 00:26:22.886 --> 00:26:24.021
  • Is that you would partner with us and help us continue
  • 00:26:24.021 --> 00:26:26.657
  • This mission and mandate that jesus has put on our heart.
  • 00:26:26.657 --> 00:26:30.694
  • I want to pray for you before we close, set myself
  • 00:26:30.694 --> 00:26:33.464
  • In agreement for what you made me believe in god for.
  • 00:26:33.464 --> 00:26:36.033
  • And so right now, in jesus name, i thank you for my brothers
  • 00:26:36.033 --> 00:26:38.602
  • And sisters that are watching and leaning into this moment.
  • 00:26:38.602 --> 00:26:41.772
  • I ask god that you would take your hand
  • 00:26:41.772 --> 00:26:44.308
  • And guide them and lead them into all perfect truth
  • 00:26:44.308 --> 00:26:47.778
  • Right now, in jesus name.
  • 00:26:47.778 --> 00:26:49.013
  • I ask that you would be with them
  • 00:26:49.013 --> 00:26:50.948
  • And that your presence would be undeniable in
  • 00:26:50.948 --> 00:26:53.283
  • And through their lives.
  • 00:26:53.283 --> 00:26:54.618
  • In jesus name i pray. amen.
  • 00:26:54.618 --> 00:26:57.621
  • Family, i want you to know god loves you.
  • 00:26:57.621 --> 00:26:59.957
  • I love you.
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  • If you're ever in the jacksonville area,
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  • Stop by on a sunday, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.
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  • Visit us.
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  • If not, i'll see you right back here next week.
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  • Until then, be blessed in jesus name.
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  • ♪♪
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  • ♪♪
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