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… it may be it may be something you really like and God said is that yours or is it mine the earth is the Lord's and the fullness there when you catch this it changes everything I want to pray for you right now hands lifted all over this place. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to not rob you, God, by us honoring you with the tithe and giving offering. We trust you today that all condemnation is gone. But Father, there would be a conviction that we would believe you and trust you like never before. I speak to all doubt and every lie and every fear of trusting you. And I declare by the power of God that this church would erupt in generosity. That, Father, we would honor you with the tithe, that we would give when you say, and, Father, when you call us to that special moment of extravagant offerings, that we would listen and obey. Have your way in Transformation Church, in Transformation Nation. …
… you think you made that investment and it was your money but all i have is god psalm 24 says it like this the earth is the lord's and the fullness thereof when you understand that everything i've got i'm just managing anyway Thank you. It doesn't matter if I got to give it away because the source has an endless supply. And so brother Scott here you can come get this back real quick and so because He he was faithful to be obedient It's very simple for me to trust him with more Hey Scott Matter of fact, I know I just gave it to you But uh, what's your name bro? Lucas come here, bro So Scott give it to Lucas now now thanks god bless you lucas god bless you sit down hey scott because you were faithful with the little i can always trust you with this is the concept you have to get god is not trying to keep anything from you He's trying to get more to you, but you got to be faithful of what he's already given to you. …
… that Charles gave me that is because I gave it to him and he remembers what Psalms 24 says. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. That means God does not have a lack of resources. if you trust him and he has your heart you can have as much resource as you need and remember i'm not just talking about money see that's what you're thinking like i just have stacks of money god will give you more time to give he will he will increase your gifts so you can give it he will increase your ability to think creatively so that you can give it god is not just concerned about you giving finances are concerned about you giving and many of our purposes stopped up because we've stopped giving. I'm challenging you and asking you right now, when's the last time you gave? Not expecting anything in return. Honestly, you know we can say those fake little things like, oh no, no, I don't want nothing back. …
… And yet from heaven's perspective, it is the Lord's. The Bible says that the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof and his plans and his purposes will not be altered. Now we might question his method and certainly we might question his timing, but there is nothing that falls out of his scope of authority no matter how big or small. In fact, Jesus said this, Matthew chapter 10, verses 29 through 31. He said, are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin and not one of them falls to the ground apart from your father's will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore. See the sovereignty and providence of God causes the believer to have no fear. You are more value than many sparrows. I'm here to tell you tonight that there is no such thing as fate as the world thinks of it. There's no luck. There's no chance. Nothing happens haphazardly or random. God is the one according to his scriptures that governs over times and seasons and events. …
… and then earth is rock, it is our shelter, refuge, permanence, the ground holds us up, the ground keeps us stable, the ground covers us, Psalms 24 declares that earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, and they that dwell therein, Deuteronomy 32 and 4 says he is the rock and his work is perfect. Psalms 18 and 2 says, the Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my strength in whom I will trust. Psalm 60 reminds us that when your heart is overwhelmed, there is a rock that sits higher than I. He is the rock. In Acts, Peter stands up in front of the Israel leaders and he says, the one that you rejected, the stone that you rejected has now become the chief cornerstone because Jesus is the rock. This rock is Jesus. We used to sing, yes, he's the one. This rock is Jesus, the only one. Be very sure. that your anchor holds and grips the solid rock. …
… This runs through the whole Bible, and real quick, I'm going to walk you through something. Over in Psalms 24, it says, the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. Not some of it, the fullness, the dirt, the diamonds under the dirt, even your wallet. In James chapter 1, every good and perfect gift comes down from who? The Father. And in Deuteronomy chapter 8, it says that my power, God's power, and the might of my hand got me this. You can't say that. Can't say that. one of the things I hate about this generation is that we say I'm a self-made millionaire. I built this business. I did this. But the scripture says, no, no, no, you can't say you did it. Because the Bible says it is he who gives you the power to get wealth. So let's put all this together. Psalm 24 says God owns it. James 1 says God gave it. James 1 says God gave it. Deuteronomy says God even gave you the ability to earn it. In Matthew 25, God says, I'm coming back to check it. …
… He's got you and me in his hands. The Bible says the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. The world and they that dwell therein, it all belongs to God. And so surrounded by this system. And that's why I want to hang out for just a moment because the system will distract you. And you will make statements rooted in ignorance about what happens and not understand systems. It happened last Sunday in a church here in Dallas and I won't call the name or the pastor. But they made a statement about what happened with Carmelo Anthony. And it broke my heart because I've been there. and when preachers who ain't been there got something to say about what happens there it bothers me when you baptize it in the name of Jesus I've been there I know Andrew Anthony I've had the privilege last year they came to us at the onset of this horrific heartbreaking tragedy I hurt for both families because one father today won't have a son to share with. …
Everything belongs to God. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. The world and they that dwell therein. Everything belongs to God. You don't own nothing. you don't own anything. The devil will make you think you own it. But you don't own it all. It all belongs to God. Amen. And the sooner you surrender it to God and give it to God, the sooner you can be free from the responsibility of managing. Amen. When I was a teenager, I had a car, my first car. And my family was about to go on vacation. and my little brother got in the front seat of my mother's car and stopped playing with the gears. and pulled it out of gear. Back in those days, I shouldn't say it like it's the Model T. It wasn't that far back. But there used to be a time where you could take the car out of gear without putting your foot on the brake. And even though the car hadn't been started, he moved it out of gear and the car started moving and went down and crashed into my car. …
… It is all from him. He is, the earth is the Lord's and everything. And he got the whole world. He got the whole world. Don't laugh at me because I'm off key. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. It is all to him. It is all through him. It is all for him. And it is all from him. It all belongs to God. Now, I don't know about you, but one of my favorite movie series ever is Toy Story. Any Toy Story lovers in the house. And I'm not a big Buzz Lightyear guy. I'm a super Woody guy. I love Woody, man. You got a friend in me. and on the on the bottom of every single toy was inscribed the name of the owner andy one time they came to jesus and they said jesus even you got to pay taxes and jesus goes okay go down to the river get a fish when you get the fish in the fish's mouth will be a coin i wish you could find my tax payment just like that and they bring the coin. They say, he said, whose inscription is on the coin? …
… The Bible says that God owns the cattle on a thousand hills. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. God is not short on supply, but God knows that your heart is attached to your money. God wants you, not your money. Amen to that. And so I want you to pray and ask God. Say, Lord, what would you want me to give? And then that's between you and the Lord. And obey that. Obey that. I'll never forget last year when our first Sunday, our first Sunday in this building, I heard the Lord speak to my wife and I. Bring an offering on the first Sunday. Bring an offering. I said, Lord, it's not even over and above. Why do you want an offering? I just built this thing. I'm tired. Listen, bring an offering. is the largest offering Julie and I have ever given as a family. And I've watched from that offering, I've watched God work in our home in ways I never imagined. …
… mortgage company god is gonna give you favor with the realtor the seller is gonna look past every other offer and land right on yours i can't hear nobody the earth is the lord's and the fullness there are God said I'm sick of you having housing instability but where I'm getting ready to place you next you gonna be able to rest in peace knowing that God gave me this Conventionally. You may be seated. Conventionally. for somebody that wasn't even revelation that was confirmation you've been feeling something in your spirit that it was time for you to make a move god said i got you i got you i got you i I got you. I don't care what the real estate market is. I don't care what the stock market says. I don't care what the banker says. God said if I made a promise to you, I am no shorter than my word. It's gotta take place for you. conventionally all of the spotlight usually goes to Mary because she got to Jesus' feet and began to worship and she is deservant of proper due because while worshiping is noble worshiping is admirable and worship is aspirational what I like about Mary is that she didn't just do it at church. …
… he made you The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. The world and those who dwell in it are the Lord's. He made us. He owns us. We're not our own. And if you're a Christian, you're doubly not your own because you've been bought by the blood of Jesus. next thing to think about is everybody in this room and on the planet is not only made but is profoundly sinful all of you deeply corrupt bent rebellious behold I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me Psalm 51 just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin and so death spread to all men because all sinned that's you you're dying because you inherited sin and you have sinned all are under sin, none is righteous no, not one we need to linger there for a minute because it has huge implications for providence. This sinfulness of our vaunted self-exaltation, self-sufficiency, self-determination is an infinite moral outrage in the universe because it exchanges the glory of the infinite God for images, pathetic, finite images, and worships the creature rather than the creator. …
… He is the, the earth is the Lord, Psalm 24 says, the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. The sooner you learn that it belongs to God, the sooner you can be free from the bondage of today. Ain't your house. I know that's not good English, but it's good preaching. Ain't your house. Ain't your car. Some of y'all worship your cars. Yeah, you worship your cars when it ain't your car in the first place. It's God's. I ain't been all out of shape because somebody scratched my car. Y'all see people park their car way out in the parking lot, way out there. They might as well bow down and worship their car. I'm sorry, my car, my God is not a car. Come on, holler back at it, brother. By the way, some of y'all's car payment is more than the money you get at God. Woo! It's tension, tension in the room, Anthony. It's tension in the room. …
… don't forget this The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. I feel something right here. The world and everything that dwells therein. That includes fish under the water and everything on top of the water. So be anxious. for nothing. Keep sitting there. I feel like preaching now. But in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will keep your heart in your mind. Every need You has got to bow. Fish don't even have knees and they still got to bow to what Jesus says. So I don't know how I'm going to catch him I don't know how it's going to work out But I know he's God I know he runs the whole universe And I refuse to live my life worried When all of it is in his hands He's omniscient He knows where the fish are He's omnipotent He can make the fish go to your net And somebody in this church with the three minutes I got left ought to really thank God he'll send the blessing to you he will fill your net with a blessing you couldn't catch on your own he'll redirect every fish redirect every opportunity and what you trying to catch he'll just put it right in your net can you give him any kind of praise and shake your neighbor's hand like you're going to shake it off and use hand sanitizer later and say neighbor …
… and it's yours. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. Just saying that out loud in this prayer to remind me that that's who you are. And you're a provider. We see you over and over miraculously supplying for nature, for rivers, for mountains, for humans, for animals. You're incredible. You are the great provider. And so we trust you. We take this little space in our life, which probably doesn't feel so little, the area of money. and we just put it in front of you. And we just want to learn. We want to grow. And oh God, we don't want to live our life anxious, worried and fearful around money. We want to live our life generous, open-handed, open-hearted and expectant of all the supernatural supply and blessing and favor that is going to be upon and around our life. Lord, I pray specifically now for anyone listening who is going through a financial crisis of any kind, of any scale, of any size and shape, be there with them now and show them that you are in fact, again, enough for this circumstance and this situation. In Jesus name. Amen. Amen. …
… you are not in control and when you disengage you literally go offline god never does and he never will the earth is the lord's and the fullness thereof guess what there is a buzz light year and his name is god yeah what's that verse it's a psalm i think hero israel your god never sleeps and he never slumbers and just that concept of that because he is still working on our behalf we can actually take a rest. We can actually take a vacation. And that's where you insert the understanding that when you rest, that is a really purified form of worship. That's where you acknowledge, I do not. He's got the whole world in his hands. You know, the favorite song of evangelicals in the Western world now is, I have the whole world in my hands. I got the whole world in my hands. No, it's not in your hands. It's in his hands. And of course we're exaggerating. We don't think we have the whole world in our hands, but we think we got our job in our hands and we think we have our future in our hands. And we think we have our kids in our hands. And I think there's also so much fear, fear of if I take a vacation away from my children, what's going to happen to them? Loss of control. Fear of if I actually disengage from my emails for two weeks, what am I going to miss out on? Am I going to lose …
… UH, GOD MADE IT. GOD CREATED IT. JESUS LOVED NATURE. HE SAID, CONSIDER THE LILIES, HOW THEY GROW. THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S AND THE FULLNESS THEREOF. UH, THE ROCKS, THE TREES, THE HILLS, THE RIVERS, ALL OF THIS IS THE HANDIWORK OF GOD. THANK GOD FOR IT. IF YOU LOVE NATURE, YOU LOVE WHAT JESUS LOVED. SO WHEN, WHEN THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF THE WORLD, IT'S NOT SPEAKING OF THE PLANET EARTH. AND WHEN THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF THE WORLD, IT'S NOT SPEAKING OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON PLANET EARTH. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH LOVING PEOPLE. IF YOU DON'T LOVE PEOPLE, THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU. THE BIBLE SAYS CONCERNING THE WORLD OF PEOPLE THAT GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON. NOW IF GOD LOVED THOSE PEOPLE, YOU CAN LOVE THEM. SAY AMEN. YOU OUGHT TO LOVE EVERYBODY. WHAT DOES THE BIBLE MEAN, THEREFORE, WHEN IT SPEAKS OF THE WORLD AND WORLINESS? THE WORD THAT IS TRANSLATED, UH, WORLD IS A GREEK WORD, KOSMOS. AND IT MEANS A SYSTEM. IT MEANS AN ORDER OF THINGS. IT MEANS A PHILOSOPHY. FOR EXAMPLE, WE SPEAK OF THE WORLD OF SPORTS, OR WE SPEAK OF THE WORLD OF BUSINESS, OR WE SPEAK OF THE WORLD OF FASHION. NOW PUT THIS VERSE IN YOUR MARGIN. FIRST JOHN TWO AND VERSE 15. FIRST JOHN TWO AND VERSE 15, LOVE NOT THE WORLD, NEITHER THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE WORLD. IF ANY MAN LOVE THE WORLD, THE LOVE OF THE FATHER IS NOT ANYONE. NOW THAT'S …
… at least three that are interested. God is interested. God is very, very much interested in your finances, not because God wants your money. God doesn't need your money. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. God said, if I were hungry, I wouldn't tell you. Don't get the idea now that somehow that God is broke or God is in financial difficulty. God is very solvent and yet God is interested in your finances. Over and over again God speaks to us about our possessions. So God is interested. Are you interested in opening the windows of heaven? May I give you four steps right here out of the Word of God. Step number one, and this is a painful step, but recognize your failure. Now, you're not going to get right until you recognize where you are wrong. Now, not everybody here is a failure, but many are. And we must recognize that. God says here that some people are cursed with a curse. Do you see that in verse 9? You are cursed with a curse. And we're going to find out what that curse is. It is financial bondage. …