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Unknown

Good morning, Deep Waters. How are we? A man? Praise the Lord. I heard some very interesting things about our church last night. And so before I get started Paul and Betsy are you’ll cool, I heard the Alamo thing was a pretty. Just. I want to make sure marriages.

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Unknown

All right, Shawn, Tonya, y'all are good, then. You know, it was about to become a whole another party last night. After a few stories, I said, you know what, David Monson at the Sunday six service at Liberty Church. He used to open up the service every day. He was the care pastor the co-pastor he would say welcome to Sunday six where no what would he say?

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Unknown

No. Perfect people are allowed. Welcome to the Deep Waters Community Church. Well, apparently no perfect people are allowed. So I. And there we go. There we go. Here we go. Here we go. I mean, you know, people don’t realize, when I make jokes about our church and, you know, how laid back and very unusually normal we are, you know, come to a party.

00:01:32:22 - 00:01:52:19

Unknown

Yeah. You'll realize what I'm talking about and realize what you're missing and hopefully come back. So I really hated that. I missed it, you know? And I started feeling that Sunday at the ahh.. i’ll kick this in the couple of days it was not going away and at night it would get worse. And Brandy would call each morning and I'll answer the phone.

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Unknown

Hello? She like, Oh, okay, you don't sound well, you know. And I had three goals. My first goal was, I don't want to be sick when Brandy comes back home from Columbus. My second one is, I don't want to be sick because I want to go to the party. And my third one was Lord, At least, you know, what am I going to do about Sunday?

00:02:11:19 - 00:02:30:00

Unknown

Well, Brandy came home Friday and told me I had cooties and she was not sleeping with me. I said, okay, I have what you got cooties? And then she said, On the other side, we got two couches. I sit here, she says. She sat all the way on the other side of the couch. I'm like, well that ain’t gonna make me feel better.

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Unknown

You'll be okay. And then I was. And then I woke up, cooked everything for the baked beans. I'm sitting on the couch and she comes downstairs and I look at it. She said, You still right? And then no. So I'm not going to be able to make it to the party. I said, But I should be able to get it together to do Sunday.

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Unknown

And so today is going to be pretty short, but you know, it's going to be good. So Lord, we just thank you for deep waters humility church Father, we thank you for the word that you have for us today. We lift you up in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. All right. Let's start with Matthew seven, starting at verse seven, and it says this ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock in the door will be open to you for everyone who asks, receives the one who seeks finds and the one who knocks the door will be open to him.

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Unknown

Now let's go back to verse seven. If you hold that there for me. All right. So we have three actions right here. We have asking, seeking and knocking. Asking involves what? Speaking. That's. That's you talking. That's your voice. That's your word. The second thing is seeking. That's looking or finding. Or as we've come into the understanding, imagining. So you're asking.

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Unknown

You're thinking, you're imagining. Knocking is taking action. So you're asking. You're seeking and you're taking action on everything that you're that you're desiring for. Everyone who ask verse eight is going to receive and the one who seeks will find and the one who takes action will receive what the taking action not know this as much as I've put this in the positive.

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Unknown

This works in the positive and the negative. That was one thing Christine said last week. She pointed out. She said, well, you know, that works both ways. And so because, you know, we we told our kids when they have been in trouble, what you're asking for it know you're asking for it now. They're really not asking for it.

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Unknown

But their conduct, their action means they're asking for and sometimes their words they're asking for. And also we say all the time, if you are looking for trouble, what you will find in the case. So whatever you're asking for, seeker for, looking for it works in both ways. Which is, which is perfect. Well what we talk about and being a believer in in faith is because all of these things are neutral and so you're going to get from God what you are desiring to get from God, which, which is important to what we talked about, the depth, the profound this and that's that's so profound because how profound you see a thing is going to

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Unknown

determine how much value you get from it. And so how valuable we see church, how valuable we see God, how valuable we see a relationship with God. And that's we're going to focus today on how valuable you see giving is, is going to determine how much you get from it. Now, Pastor Brandi says some last week she says she really appreciates that.

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Unknown

When I talk about giving I just don't focus on finances because most giving sermons are always focused on giving financially and it's always focused on, you know, your giving to the church, your tithe is your offering. And the reason I don't centrally focus on that is because giving can be in many forms, in many ways. And if we understand giving, when you have to give patience, when you have to give endurance, when you have to give counsel, when you have to hold your tongue, when you have to give up something you love.

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Unknown

If we understand again all those pieces, then giving financially becomes very small. It just becomes a normal part of giving because we're supposed to be givers. That is our nature. And often times the church is very good at giving financially, but we're really horrible at forgiveness and that interesting, you know, we could build huge churches all over the world, but when it talks about forgiveness, we still struggle with forgiveness, even though when we forgive, who are we actually forgiving ourselves?

00:06:51:17 - 00:07:12:08

Unknown

Because the scripture says forgive and you shall be forgiving, do not condemn. And so those are all pieces that we still need to understand. That's part of the giving nature of who we're supposed to be. We're supposed to be unlimited givers. Or, as it says in the New Testament, God loves a cheerful giver, but cheerful is actually the word hilarious.

00:07:13:25 - 00:07:33:29

Unknown

So God wants us to give her hilariously and makes you understand what the what turn the other cheek means. If they ask for your shirt, give them their clothes. If they want you to go one mile, go to how they even ask Jesus, how often should I forgive my brother? He said, seven times. And what did Jesus say?

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Unknown

Seven times? 70, 490 times. I got to forgive them for hurt. I'll be forgiving them for ever. That's the point. If you just think I have unlimited ability to forgive, I have an unlimited ability to. I forgive so much that that before the action is given, I've already forgiven. I can forgive so much that before I'm wronged, forgiveness is already there in place.

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Unknown

I don't I don't have to wait to forgive because I have already forgiven. So I don't I don't have to wait to forgive. Now, I'm not saying that's me. I'm saying that's the way we need to be. Okay. So I'm not saying that's me. I'm still working on that. Okay. But that's where the gap means a gap. A means a love before there is a reason to love.

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Unknown

It's it's it's already there. It's it's like time in the spiritual realm. It's unlimited. It's. But ever I love for ever I give for ever before. I have to forgive. I forgive before I have to love I love Why? Because God set the standard be while we were yet sinners he sent his son while we were still in wrong and shame.

00:09:28:18 - 00:09:58:08

Unknown

Forgiveness was already there. See? So. So that's how we're supposed to live our life of forgiveness. Okay, now let's see. Now, the key to what we talked about already. Now, the kingdom standard, as we talked about last week, is based upon what? Sacrifice the kingdom standards based upon sacrifice. And the standard was set by God, it was set by God and John 316 For God's love, the word that He was gave, he gave his only son.

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Unknown

Now, this was first promised in Genesis. And if we go to Genesis 315, this is the first time that the promise of the son was there in Genesis 315 says, And I will put enmity between you and the woman. Enmity means hostility between you and the woman, between your offspring or hers. He's talking to the serpent, by the way, and he will crush your head and you will strike his heel.

00:10:25:04 - 00:10:55:18

Unknown

Not in this scripture most of the time. When I first heard that word, enmity between you and the woman was between the serpent and the woman. And it was like and I don't understand why I even accept this back then. There's like but that's why, you know, women are afraid of snakes. That's doubtful. And listen in here, I'm certain I'm telling you, straight faced and and so I was looking at a few commentaries.

00:10:56:27 - 00:11:34:07

Unknown

One of the commentaries said and women are more pensively, afraid of snakes to this day. And I said, that is the most crazy. Yes. Nonsense that people believe that. Right. But that was part of the the I don't know, misunderstanding of what the scripture was saying. And so when first off, when God was speaking to the serpent, then to Eve, then to Adam under that under the the Old Testament, thinking God calls good and God caused evil.

00:11:35:01 - 00:12:01:04

Unknown

God did both of them good and evil under a redemptive nature. We understand the absence of God produces bad things. And so it wasn't that God was cursing them as a result of your sin. This is what's going to happen as a result of your failure. This is what's going to happen as a result of disobedience. This is what's going to happen.

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Unknown

And there is going to be hostility between you and the woman, between your offspring and hers in the Scripture actually says, between the hurt, you're hurt your seed. And hers now was really focusing more on the offspring and not necessarily just her. It was really pointing to the seed that it was really trying to define. If we go Galatians 316, an example of this is when Paul says the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his what seed scripture does not say, and to seeds meaning many people, but and to your seed meaning one person who is Christ.

00:12:49:23 - 00:13:18:12

Unknown

So whenever you start, whenever we see that that word seed, it was always referring to one person. Then let's go back to Genesis. So that one person, that he was referring to was Jesus. So there is going to be a hostility between the serpent and or what the serpent represents, which is disobedience, which is failure, which is sin, which is coming this which is all those things.

00:13:18:17 - 00:13:47:12

Unknown

And her seed, which is Jesus the Christ. And we saw this when Jesus went after He was baptized, He went out to be tempted by the devil. And the words the devil used was, If you be the Son of God, then he used the same challenge. Did not really say, Did God really say that? This is all pointing to the same thing in Christ.

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Unknown

All right. Now this was the precedent that he was talking about when he was focused on the coming messiah is the sacrifice. Now, if we go to Luke 638 Okay, let's start bringing this together. Luke 638 It says give and it would be giving you a good measure. Pressed down, shaking together and running over will be pointing to your lap full with the measure or the amount of sacrifice that you use, it will be measured back to you.

00:14:20:07 - 00:14:54:29

Unknown

So the standard is sacrifice. How valuable the sacrifice is up to you now. It's not about everybody else, but it's really how much that sacrifice is to you. Okay? Some people go, well, if you go right, you're going to have to cut out sugar. That sacrifice may be harder for some people than it is for other people. I've told that story when Brandi started working on cutting out caffeine on vacation.

00:14:56:11 - 00:15:21:21

Unknown

I don't know if the sacrifice was us or her. We definitely were in the line of fire, but it was. But it was a huge sacrifice. Okay. When you have to cut out sweets, it's a sacrifice. When you get a doctor's report and they tell you, you know, you need to start exercise, you need to be changing your diet, those sacrifices.

00:15:21:21 - 00:15:38:08

Unknown

Now, some people, it's nothing. It could be nothing. I'll use Professor Brain. There's another example. She would go on these different course. You learn different lifestyle evenings and she'll just decide to do it and just do it, you know, the next day just decide to do it. She's like, I can cut this telling me like this and she'll just do it.

00:15:38:08 - 00:15:58:10

Unknown

You know, other people got to think about it. You know, they got to process it for a minute. They got to walk their way into it. They got to stair stepping into it. And so sometimes some things are easier for some folks, some some are not easier for others. You know, I'm about to start going back to the gym, but at the gym for about three weeks, going back to the gym is not a sacrifice for me.

00:15:59:03 - 00:16:23:16

Unknown

I like going to the gym. I like lifting weights, I like working out. The pain of working out does not bother me. It's just a part of the process that doesn't bother me. Other people that may be an issue for them. They may not like going to the gym. They may not like going through the process. So some sacrifices for some people may be a bigger sacrifice to others.

00:16:23:16 - 00:16:46:29

Unknown

I mean, I'm around this down a little bit more. Some people, one of the biggest sacrifices is holding your mouth, coating your tongue. Okay. And pass the brandy is really good. I like it. First off, I use y'all as examples because I love y'all and y'all are funny. I know everybody and my kids and everybody. My whole family knows this, that everything is a story.

00:16:46:29 - 00:17:11:08

Unknown

Everything's going to end up in the sermon somehow, someway. Okay. And so, you know, so I use pass the brandy a lot of my sermons because she's funny, she does funny things. And so and I use Paul and Betsy because they're the funniest people in the and I top has to bring this the other day I said the Lord could not have blessed us with with any any other associate pastor so wonderful the past the Paula past the Betsy.

00:17:12:10 - 00:17:38:20

Unknown

They are fun. They are pleasant. They are easy to be with. And they are the complete opposite of who we are. You want to talk about Brandy and Betsy? There's you know, they say they grew up on the opposite sides of the street, in the opposite sides of the track. No. They grew up in two different continents completely.

00:17:38:27 - 00:18:04:27

Unknown

But they both have a passion for healing. And that's kind of where the unity came from, from healing. And so, you know, I, I like to use y'all as examples because you all are just fun people. And Tommy Reese is hilarious to pick on all the time. So, so I mean, that's just a free one any time. But anyway, talking about sacrifice, talk about the stuff, it's it's all about a sacrifice.

00:18:05:04 - 00:18:40:29

Unknown

And so but but in that some sacrifices are harder than others, some things may be easier for others. One of the biggest arguments me pass the Brady have when we first got married was making up the bed. It was a big when I get out the bed, I get in the shower, I immediately get in the shower, I come back, I make up the bed right away, pass the brandy, wakes up.

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Unknown

She's thinking about whether she's getting out the bed or not. This happened after some extensive discussion. She will coerce us to get up. She may go sit on the couch and pray for a minute. She'll journal in her book for a little while. She would decide what's next for her day, but hour later, I may hit a water run.

00:19:13:15 - 00:19:40:18

Unknown

She'll come out, she'll contemplate what she's going to wear, and then she would walk out the room. Now, what step was missed? What I just said, the obvious one is the bed. So we were and I couldn't understand how hard it could be to just I mean, it's about 2 minutes out of the end of the whole process.

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Unknown

Just make up the bed. She her thoughts were we getting back into it? Nobody's coming in our bedroom anyway. It's our room. The doors closed, the kids. And if the kids come in, they go climb in the bed anyway. So why make it up if I'm coming back to it? It's like having a plate of food at Thanksgiving.

00:20:04:22 - 00:20:26:14

Unknown

Don't throw my plate away. What I done with it. So she treats the bed the same way I'm about to get back in it. Me I'm fussing. Just make the bed up. If you just make it up because I like to come into the room. When I come into the room, the bed is there. It's presenting itself. It's all made up.

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Unknown

It's all done. Everything is. But you're going to waste time taking all the pillows back off. We you kind of left them all off anyway and just got in the bed. And I'm telling you, for five years this was a serious discussion. So then she made the sacrifice and would make up the bed. And then it turned into another argument because I would walk in and not notice her sacrifice.

00:21:00:00 - 00:21:31:18

Unknown

So I would walk in, go straight to do things. We'll be downstairs. And she is upset now, of course, when your wife is upset, Armin, understand? She's mad at me. If I'm upset, she figures you're mad at somebody. But I already know she's mad at me. So what did I do? Okay, so we start the negotiations. Are you okay?

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Unknown

I'm fine. You don't seem fine. I'm fine. So what's wrong? Nothing. All right. Something has to be bothering you. So we're going to talk about this or not? No. Well, your response tells me that something's wrong. So are you going to tell me what's wrong? Did you not even notice? Now you don't want to say. See, Paul, you messed up, see?

00:22:16:07 - 00:22:44:15

Unknown

And Becks is like, Yep, yeah. You don't say I this what? You don't say that, guys, you do not say notice what so. So when you get asked that question, did you not even notice you even got to come clean right away or you have to ask a question. So I ask the question, what did I not notice the bed?

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Unknown

The follow up is not what about it so quickly? I go through the room and I realize the bed. It's me. You made the bed? Yeah, I made the bed up for you. That up? I didn't even notice. I'm sorry I made the. But thank you very much for making the better room. Which does not mean you're forgiven.

00:23:13:22 - 00:23:37:18

Unknown

Go thy way. Your sense of clean. It just means next time That's what that means. Next time. So next time I come in the room, it's not me. Now, here's the thing. You can't talk about the bed not being made after she's made the bed. She's so pretty much my argument is ceased because she did it once and I didn't notice.

00:23:37:26 - 00:23:57:08

Unknown

So now it's upon me to keep my. Now I got to make a sacrifice. You see, watching this is great. This great story is great. So I got to make a sacrifice. So now when she does make up the bed, I say, great job making of the bed. Thank you for making up the bed. Great job thinking of the bed.

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Unknown

They make a little bit. It was hit and miss. It was hit and miss was hit miss and it had to be ten years, ten years before. If I got up I would make the bed. If she wasn't there or sometimes this would be funny, she would be in the bed and I'll make up my side of the bed.

00:24:14:26 - 00:24:29:11

Unknown

I'm like, you know, you can stay in the bed if she likes you. You going to make up the bed with me in it? I'm like, You can stay on your side of the bed, but I'll put the pillows up on my side of the bed. I got my side bed order and when you get out, you can make up yours.

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Unknown

You can leave your side. We got separate things. You can leave your sink during this. I got my seat. You. We did that. And so then she just started making up the balance sheet out and she would just do it and she would just do it as she was just do it and and she would just make up the bed and she would no longer wait for me to say, baby, do you know, thank you for making up the bed.

00:24:52:21 - 00:25:19:11

Unknown

She just now here's the thing that we came to after after 20 years. This is what we came to. We just if she made it or not, it didn't bother me if she when she made the bed or not. I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything. And if she made up the bed, she wasn't expecting me to come in and say good job or anything anymore.

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Unknown

The the once you get into the place where the sacrifice is habitual and it's just, it's just nothing, it produces something that we all want. It's called freedom. It's just it's just freedom. So. So if she if I come in the business made it doesn't bother me. I'll just make it up. If I come in and the bed is made, it doesn't bother her if I say something or not.

00:25:49:20 - 00:26:18:11

Unknown

Because we found freedom. The sacrifice that we've made in the short term, produced long term freedom, the sacrifice we make in the short term. Now, in the beginning, it's hard. In the beginning it was difficult. In the beginning we told you the whole story we had. That was 20 years, y'all. We've been together 30 years. We've been married 27 the last seven years.

00:26:19:18 - 00:26:53:23

Unknown

We found freedom. Last seven years we found freely my you. We've been pastoring for five years, right? Just to let you know, the bad situation was resolved before we took office. But listen, but but that sacrifice over time produced freedom. Now, you can take that. It's a funny example, but it was it was very serious. Okay. And you could take that you get expanded out throughout your life.

00:26:53:23 - 00:27:21:03

Unknown

Sometimes you have coworkers, sometimes you have kids, sometimes you have friends that you have to make a sacrifice for. Sometimes the sacrifices tolerating them, sometimes the sacrifices even keeping the relationship. Sometimes the sacrifice is walking away from a relationship. Sometimes the sacrifice can be negotiating, compromising. Sometimes the sacrifice can be not compromising at all. Sometimes the sacrifice is changing your expectations.

00:27:21:12 - 00:27:43:25

Unknown

Other the times the sacrifice can be upholding your expectations and your standards and see and whatever that is, is the value of what that is. It's going to determine what you get from the kingdom. Now to you, let me let me use this one story real quick. There was a story in the Bible with the woman with the two minds.

00:27:44:13 - 00:28:12:28

Unknown

You know the story. She had two pennies and Jesus was watching them come bring their offering. And he watched this woman bring the two pennies. And what did he say? She gave more than everybody else because she came, but because what she gave out, she gave from her loss in her back. So now others will look at that and go, Well, that's nothing.

00:28:12:28 - 00:28:42:19

Unknown

That's nothing. That's all that is. It's just the just two pennies. That's all that is. She she's not giving what I'm giving. No, it's equal in the kingdom because it's based upon the value. So so they're both they're both equal. Another one we talked about was the woman with the oil. She called the oil what? Nothing. That oil ended up becoming everything.

00:28:42:19 - 00:29:08:10

Unknown

But she looked at it as all I got is this oil, which to me is nothing but the profits it that's valuable. That's valuable. You got to sacrifice that oil. You know what? You're going to go out. You're going to talk to your friends again. You're going to get these these bases to put them in these jars. You're going to pour that oil into all these jars and the oil run out to the fill up all the jars.

00:29:08:10 - 00:29:40:19

Unknown

Now go sell it and live on the rest. Pay all your debts and live on the rest. See, that's always going to be pays the based upon the value. Now this is cool. This is cool. This is really, really cool. God was the first to call. Giving is sacrifice. That's what the core of it is. Then we have now the ability to look at what we're giving and we call it what it is.

00:29:41:17 - 00:30:10:10

Unknown

So once community church, we give off, we we bring gifts. We don't call the times and offerings anymore because based upon what the scriptures say, but we give financial gifts. You have the ability to determine the value of that gift, how valuable it is now, I'm not talking about buy, but some of it can be by amount. Some of it can be from your your from where you're giving from.

00:30:10:24 - 00:30:30:11

Unknown

Some of it can be, I declare, see each week when I when I make a declaration that the anointing that is on the wall, this community church is on you and that the anointing that is in this message is on you is because I'm naming that offering that gift that you're giving. I'm naming it I'm calling it something.

00:30:30:28 - 00:30:55:13

Unknown

I'm calling that gift and a connection to the anointing that is on deep waters community church and these messages I'm stepping out so so as you as you give I'm calling it something here, Lord, that gift that they give is a transaction of the anointing that is that you have placed on this church is transferred into their light.

00:30:55:18 - 00:31:22:00

Unknown

So they get words of wisdom, words and all. It's covering healing, ability, prophecies, insight, wisdom, because that's all that is. On what is community church now transferring into their life where they need it the most. So if they need a word of knowledge at work, if we need the word of wisdom, if they need a prophetic insight somewhere, if they need a dream or a vision, Lord give it to them.

00:31:22:05 - 00:31:50:16

Unknown

Because that's what you put on this church, and that is what we walk in. So because we walk in it, let them walk in it because we have it on us. Let them let it be on them to see let let them have the same anoint thing that is on us, on them. Let them walk in that same ability and let it show up where they need it the most.

00:31:50:16 - 00:32:13:13

Unknown

Just not where I'm going to tell them they got they got to have it where they need it the most. Now, where I'm going to say they need to have it, where they need it the most. And let that ability grow inside of them. That that's that's what I call it. Now you your interaction, you need to name it and call it what you believe it is.

00:32:14:16 - 00:32:50:27

Unknown

I call it that when you guys give it, what are you calling it? What are you calling? You're giving are you calling it? Are you calling your sacrifice normal? Are you calling your sacrifice? Just what I have to do. Are you calling your sacrifice? It just is what it is. Are you calling your sacrifice? Toilsome? And not just talking about the financial one, but I'm talking about your sacrifice that you have to do during the week when God requires more of you than you want to give out.

00:32:50:27 - 00:33:12:09

Unknown

When God requires you to go the extra mile and you don't want to, what are you calling your sacrifice? What are you naming you? What are you saying it is? What are you declaring it to be? Are you are you just declaring are or are you just calling it nothing because if you call it nothing, then guess what?

00:33:12:09 - 00:33:38:22

Unknown

It'll be nothing. But, but, but if you name it something, you have the ability to name it. This is what it is. You can go to the store, you can see a bag of apples, and a person can look at that and call it an apple. Or if you're hero Christian, he calls off fruit. Apple, even a banana, he calls it the apple bananas.

00:33:39:03 - 00:33:55:17

Unknown

If you hear him say apple, he wants a banana. So he just calls it all the same thing. But here's the cool thing about that. He calls a banana apple. And we give him the banana and we say, here you go. So to him, he said, Apple. He got an apple. That's what he called it. That's what he got.

00:33:55:26 - 00:34:12:08

Unknown

You have the ability to walk stone. Now you can walk into the store and you can see a bus, a bag of apples, and you just call them apples. I'ma take them home and eat them. Somebody else could come in and call apple pie. I see this as apple pie. I see this as an apple cobbler. I see this as an apple cake.

00:34:13:17 - 00:34:30:10

Unknown

What are you going to call your gift? What are you going to call your giving? You know, the whole thing. We're talking about making up the bed and coming to a place of freedom. It brought us to a place of freedom. A place of oneness. We did wrestle that for 20 years, but what did I just call it?

00:34:30:18 - 00:35:01:13

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Freedom and oneness. I call it freedom and oneness. Now we come to another place in our marriage. What are you going to call your sacrifice? What are you going to call your giving? And whatever you call it is what it's going to be. And that's what you are going to get from the Kingdom of Heaven. It changes two things for us, and I'm a wrap up.

00:35:01:14 - 00:35:37:22

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It changes two things for us. It changes the changes. One, that we're not just subject to whenever I really, truly believe that as believers we have to become more conscious and a lot more are focused on our spiritual declaration. So it changes that to changes that too. Okay then what my sacrifice it I can name this but the also the other thing it changes is God sees it so you're not sacrificing on your own.

00:35:38:18 - 00:36:08:22

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God sees your sacrifice. He sees what you're going through. He, He and to the point where he identifies because because he has given up more than all he identifies with your sacrifice. He identifies with what you're doing. We have to be better at identifying what the sacrifice is. Now, next week, we're going to go to we're not going to go to Psalms today.

00:36:09:08 - 00:36:40:06

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Next week, we're going to do some 73. I taught on that and I had to be about ten, almost 15 years ago. And it's a wonderful dialog of comparison because oftentimes what we'll do is we're going to look at the rewards of our sacrifice and compare them to the and if they don't match the world, then we question our sacrifice.

00:36:40:19 - 00:37:11:27

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And Psalm 73 teaches us why we should never do that. And so we'll do that next week. Hey, man. All right, let's pray. Lord, I thank you so much, Father, that you see our giving on all forms you see, are giving are physically, emotionally, mentally in all aspects of our life. Lord and Father, I thank you so much.

00:37:11:27 - 00:37:42:28

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Giving us the strength and the ability to give. Lord, I glorify your name in this place. I lift you up, Father. I thank you that your purposes are alive in us here. Deep Waters Community Church Lord, I thank you that we have so much fun together, Father, I thank you that we can go deep in the world, we can laugh, we can fellowship with each other, Lord, that we just enjoy spending time with each other.

00:37:42:28 - 00:38:10:13

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Lord and I thank you for the gift that Deep Waters Community Church has been to me and past the brain life and father and how much these members mean to us. Lord so far I just pray a continue blessing upon them and their homes. Lord continue to increase them in every way. Lord Father, continue to show them your love in your in your insights, your wisdom and your grace, your empowerment to prosper.

00:38:10:13 - 00:38:38:10

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Lord Father, let that anointing go from them, these members, down to their children, their families, Lord Father, that they are examples of your righteousness peace and grace. Lord and I thank you so, so very, very much, Father. Let us pay attention to our giving, Father that, as we give, we make a declaration on what this is. Well, let's just be conscious, Father.

00:38:38:10 - 00:39:06:26

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Even as I always close with every gift that's given, Father, that you will return it unto each member where they need it the most. Father that the anointing that is on the wall, this community church is on them. It's the Lord. I thank you that each gift is transaction, Father. It's a connection to who you are. And we see it as valuable, just like you do.

00:39:06:26 - 00:39:36:13

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So I praise and thank you for the gifts. I thank you for the giving. I thank you for the sacrifice. I thank you for the support. Lord, I thank you for this message. I thank you for the sermon, Father. Thank you for the Christmas party. Father, we are just great. Full and gracious. Lord, we appreciate who you are to be glorified in our lives.

00:39:38:08 - 00:40:06:01

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Father, if there's anyone watching who does not know who you are but seeks to have a relationship with you, Lord Father, we just ask that you pour out your love to them. Father, we thank you that you will open up heaven above them, Lord, and our blessings. They cannot contain Lord, that they can see you, and that they will reach out to us that deep, while as that C.S. force last prayer so that we may pray for them.

00:40:07:05 - 00:40:31:03

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We love praying for people that we love, pray, supports. So they will reach out to us. Lord, Lord, continue to increase us. Lord, thank you for all our members who are here today and those who are who will be coming. We thank you for the new ones that will be coming. We thank you for our regular members that may be traveling and not here today, but they will be coming.

00:40:31:29 - 00:41:03:19

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We look forward we look forward to these doors being wide open and this is being filled. Bless you and praise you in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. We're going to continue on this course like I said, we're going to do some 73 next week. And there's a couple of other things we're going to do. We're not going to be here Christmas and then we're going to kick off the New Year with some very interesting and insightful messages that we've got coming up.

00:41:03:24 - 00:41:30:05

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It's going to be really, really good on that. Y'all have a blessed and wonderful week, an awesome day today, the Falcons are playing the Pittsburgh Steelers. They're for seven. We're five and six just saying and they're playing here. And so, you know, it's going to be they decided to wear their Pittsburgh shirts today to try and antagonize me.

00:41:30:05 - 00:41:56:22

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You know, I'm not feeling good. And this is how they decide to pray for their pastor and lift his spirits. This this is what my congregation does and support, you know. So, yeah, no sacrifice here. Making a sacrifice at all. I'm up there playing and Sean comes up. What's that on your shirt? What you guys are saying? It's a badge of honor, so it's a badge of honor.

00:41:57:11 - 00:42:25:06

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So it's going to be a fun afternoon. See you guys. Have a blessed, wonderful day. I love you, ga. And as always, let's go D Be blessed with you.