Understanding Financial Prosperity

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Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. To stay connected, go to revivaltoday.com. And now here is Evangelist Jonathan.

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I want you if you have your Bible, open it with with me to Proverbs 8, 17 to 21. Proverbs 8, 17 to 21. This is the Bible. I told our church in Texas, and I'll say it here in Arizona, if this ever is Jonathan said, God wants us blessed, then you're not going to be that blessed. Jonathan said, God wants us to be healed, and I believe him. Don't believe me. I mean, you got you kind of have to believe me. Because I'm I'm saying it, but it's not, you're never gonna have me come here and say, I had a dream last night, and this is what the Lord, and we're not gonna really crack the Bible today. I just want to tell you what the Lord spoke to me. This is the Bible that I'm just yelling at you. But it's it's the word of God. When you see that it's the word of God, then nobody can back you off of that this thing belongs to me. Can you say amen? You know, our our governor in Pennsylvania, he wrote a thing that was, I guess he doesn't like the president, and so he was writing that unlike other people in Washington, D.C., we follow the law in our administration. It was all I could do not to write to him, and I still may, I just was busy. I I I was gonna write, you look kind of like the guy I had to file a legal injunction against in April of 2020 to have a live Easter service. You weren't following the law. You said because COVID was out, we had to shut our ministries down, and I won it, and I got a lawyer, and I beat your tail in court. Because what gave me the strength to do that? I knew what's in the Constitution. I knew no governor has the right through a live stream to override the First and Second Amendment. So I didn't care that I was just me and 180 some pounds back then. And since I got back from Las Vegas, probably closer to 203. Need to eat less tacos. I didn't care about any of that. I knew what belonged to me. I knew as an American I have a right to peaceably assemble and to preach the gospel. And the same way I can't barge into a uh public school and start preaching. The public can't barge into my church and tell me to shut it down. And when I stood on that, he, you know, the attorney general is a top lawyer, Josh Shapiro. He backed right down. I backed them down in Pittsburgh. Same way I know when I had the meeting with the city council, I said, you need to be careful what you're about to do to our church because we're not a Denny's. So we're not somebody you can just shut down. Churches have stronger protections in Pennsylvania than they do in the U.S. Constitution. And they they backed off. We're still meeting in that building that they've been trying to shut down for three and a half years and about to go into one of the ten largest churches in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Because everybody say this: when you're challenged, you have to stand. I'm glad you did it without your voice cracking. When you're challenged, you have to stand. What gives you power to stand? Knowing what the law is. You if you see the Bible as like um a collection of encouraging thoughts, a collection of uh encouragement to get you through difficult times, you're not gonna be that strong. When you see it as a covenant book that God has declared, if you do this, I will do this. And God never spoke to anybody about something for them to do without telling them the blessing that was attached to it. Nothing. Even today. Honor one day of the week and and be in my house and worship me. And when you do, those that appear before God at Zion, they go from strength to strength. Speaking of COVID, most of the people I've started following in 2020 that were doctors or lawyers, just anybody that was on the side of freedom, I don't see them tweet much anymore. They're like all gone. People without God don't last. Name me a musician that was popular 20 years ago that's still popular now, let alone 40 years ago. Because there's a consistency with God, there's a foundation that gets built. You go from strength. One of the values of making church your number one thing is you consecrate that week to God. And the Bible talks about in Romans if the first is holy, then the lump is holy. So when you give these first hours to God going to church, he blesses the rest of the week. It this is not a message on tithing, but it's what non-tithers can't understand. That tithers understand. If you give God the first 10%, he then blesses the other 90%, and a blessed 90% crushes a non-blessed 100%. If you can testify to that, can you say amen? Proverbs, Proverbs 8, 17. I love them that love me. And I gotta be careful, I want to cover a lot of ground today, so I'm not, and I'm not gonna keep you here all day. Um I got uh and I'll share why at the end. I love them that love me. This kind of blanket, God loves us all, God loves everybody. Even Jesus said, Those that love me will obey my commandments, and when they do, I will love them and manifest myself to them. God said, I love those that love me. He he stands at the door and knocks, but there's not an equal showering of love. Because you read through the Bible, there's people God couldn't stand. There's people God drowned, the Egyptian army. I know that kind of sucked the air out of the room, but it's in there. Everybody say, I love them that love me. And that's another thing you understand about covenant. If you think the Bible's a book of promises, I know God promised to heal me, why aren't I healed? I know God promised to bless me, why aren't I blessed? Covenant is not God a one-way street, it's a well-defined agreement between two parties. And that's why the Bible is always, if you'll do, then I'll do. So instead of searching the Bible for what God said he would do, I always look, what am I supposed to do? And if I take care of my part, God's hand is automatically extended to do his part. I love them that love me. Love has expression. If you're a pastor and you do marriage counseling, that's where marriages are broken down. You know? No, I love her. What have you done to express it? I I took her, I took her to Hawaii. Honey, that was on our honeymoon in 1983. And the guy doesn't realize that like 37, 41 years have gone by, and he's done nothing that's an expression of his love for his wife. Unexpressed love is not real love. Love, God so loved the world that he sang. No. God so loved the world that he danced. No. God so loved the world that he gave and gave what? Not an angel. He didn't take something he had a hundred million of and say, you can have Gary the angel. We'll be down a man. God so loved the world that he gave what? His only begotten son. So when you I'm saying this because you in church today, probably a hundred percent of you, whether you know it or not, it's an expression of your love for God. We could go out on the street Sunday, and everybody that's not in church in Arizona, most of them, if you look at the demographics of Arizona, do you think people should be in church? Yes. Do you think church is good? Yes, but they're not in church. So they believe in God, they believe in church, but love has action that proves it. I love them that love me, and those that seek me early shall find me. Riches and honor are with me. Riches are with who? God. Who's talking here? If you get with me, he's the one that. I mean, God was always bragging about how much he had. He made hip-hop artists seem timid. I own all the silver and I own all the gold. I own the cattle on a thousand hills. Rich is an honor with me. Well, I was taught growing up in Pentecostal church, you either pick provision by serving the devil, or you choose poverty, but you have God and you get to go to heaven. But that, if that's true, then this book of Proverbs, among many other scriptures, but the entire book of Proverbs basically needs to be ripped out of the Bible. Because God's telling you there's a curse for not serving me. But if you'll serve me, riches and honor are with me. Yea, durable riches. Again, not picking on musicians, but of the musicians that were popular 20 years ago, what 20 years ago would be? 20 uh 2006. See how good I am at subtraction? Thank you. 2006. Take the people from then. You know, they're all on E True Hollywood story. They had riches, they're gone. The average NFL player, this was on HBO Sports. The average NFL player is not one of these three things. They're all of these three things within two years of retirement. Divorced, bankrupt, and homeless. All three. There's riches, but there's durable riches. Abraham increased, Isaac increased, Jacob increased, and when people went out of their way to decrease them, God found a way to increase them more. And that's the covenant that's on you. Riches and honor with me. Yea, durable riches and righteousness. So you can be righteous and rich. I mean, you know, there's a lot of people who have money, but I'd rather go to heaven than have all that money. Well, if you can't have money and go to heaven, Abraham's in hell. Isaac's in hell, Jacob's in hell, David's in hell. Lots of people, Elijah's in hell, Elisha's in hell, but the Bible doesn't say you have to choose that way. My fruit is better than gold. Yea, than fine gold. 19. My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold, and my revenue than choice silver. I lead in the way of righteousness in the midst of the paths of judgment. Look, keep that there. I lead in the way of righteousness in the midst of the path of judgment. That's why when you hear people make dire predictions out of Bible prophecy that, you know, I'm telling you, the Lord showed me some troubling things about 2026. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of judgment in 2026. There's a bunch of ministries that have gone down, and we're only in the middle of February. Huge ministries. But I'm not on that path. God said, In the midst of judgment, I'll give you a path of righteousness, and the darkness of this world will never overwhelm the brightness of the path that you're on. They would say, I walk a different path. I lead in the way of righteousness in the midst of the paths of judgment, that I may cause those that love me to inherit what? Not ethereal, good feel good feels and goose, and I don't have any food, but I just feel God's presence. No. That presence will produce something. That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance and I will fill their treasures. NLT. I think it says I'll fill their treasuries if you have it in NLT. New Living Translation. Proverbs 8.21. Those who love me will inherit wealth. So the substance in the Hebrew is talking about material wealth. I will fill their treasuries. That's Proverbs 8, 17 to 21. Now, New Testament, 2 Corinthians 9, 8 to 11. Was this done away with in the New Testament? No, God was rich in the Old Testament. He liked blessing people then. But then in the New Testament, he made some bad investments and he doesn't really want to help you. Say something with me. Say, I am the Lord God, and I change not. So here's what the New Testament says the Apostle Paul. And God will generously provide all you need. But not just that. Then you will always have. I mean, this is a great scripture. I like watching CNBC. If you follow me on social media, I think a savings account's the dumbest thing you can have. You let other people invest your money while they give you 0.1% or whatever, 0.2%. So I like investment accounts. And I like, I want to know where what's going on in the but I'll tell you, I don't receive the negative stuff. You know, this this could be a very tough winter for a lot of people. Not me, brother. Because the Bible says, everybody say the Bible says God will generously provide all you need, then you will always have, always. I mean, no, there's seasons of lack. I'll tell you something, even guys that I like teach that I don't believe. You know, you have to remember there's the principle of Joseph with seven years of plenty and seven years of famine. That was in the Egyptian kingdom, Egyptian Empire. They didn't serve God. They were against God. So I'm not gonna have the experience that Pharaoh had. The Bible says you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others. Can you say amen? Verse 9. As the scriptures, well, you guys are really great. As the scriptures say, they share freely and give generously to the poor. Their good deeds will be remembered forever. For God is the one who provides seed to the sower. Let me see King James. God's the one who provides seed, because I don't think we have a lot of farmers here. He that ministereth seed to the sower, both minister bread for your food and multiplies your seed sown. Keep that up there. And increase the fruit of your righteousness. These people teach that when you give, God will multiply it back to you. Do you not have scriptural? Is that like something that was made up in Tulsa, Oklahoma? This American gospel. Was Paul from Indiana? Was Abraham from Washington, D.C.? Was Isaac from uh Tucson? No. It started in the Middle East. It's right here. Now he that ministereth seed to the sower. Both ministers bread for your food and multiplies your seed sown. He gives seed to the sower, that one translation says, and bread to the eater. So what does that mean? That God has things he gives you that are to be given, seed, and then he has things that he gives you that are for you to eat. And all your job is as a Christian is by the Holy Spirit to always discern which is which. I've had people give me nice things, and the second they gave it to me. In fact, I can recognize it pretty quick now because it's like somebody will give me something that's very nice, but I wouldn't wear it. You know, I've been telling people, like if I go shopping in a store, they're like, Do you see anything you like? I'd say I'd wear anything in your store. That's not the issue. The issue is I'm not going to spend uh$1.3 million today on clothes. I see plenty of stuff I like. But it it looks nice on that mannequin, it doesn't look nice on me. If you go to Las Vegas, you see a lot of guys made that don't understand that principle. I'm sure that outfit looked great in the store. You're 50, brother. Now, he that ministers, yeah, she said skinny jeans. Guys, my age preacher, they look like an egg with legs. He that ministereth seed to the sower, both ministers bread for your food and multiplies the seed. So I'll have somebody give me something, and I'll think, man, that is really nice. But I would not wear that. And so I bet instead of saying no or take it back, I just wait until I see somebody like that's for him. That my dad would wear that watch. This preacher I like, he likes those shoes. I'll send them to him. So you get you, you and then money will be like that. How many of you remember in December? I didn't I didn't show pictures of it because the Bible says that's where the Bible says, don't let your right hand know what your left hand's doing. When you give to the poor, you protect their dignity. I went to take a Dallas and Camila here. You remember? We were here two Sundays in a row, and in between we went to Las Vegas. And so I was gonna spend a boatload of money on my wife and my daughter. That's a godly thing to do, especially at Christmas time. It's Jesus' birthday party. But before I did that, not out of guilt, I thought if I'm gonna do that for my family, I'm gonna fulfill all the parts of the Bible. I'm gonna be a blessing to my daughter, I'm gonna be a blessing to my wife and my family, and then I'm also going to give out not from church money, my money,$20,000 of toys in a very rundown part of Pittsburgh, Section 8 housing. And then God gave me an idea. I want you to see how all this connects. How there's not like the prosperity gospel, the health gospel. It's all just in the word. Abraham was healthy, Abraham was increased in goods, Abraham had a wife that couldn't have babies, that God supernaturally opened her womb. It's the same God that's El Shaddai and causes you to increase in every area. And if you'll follow the voice of the Holy Spirit, he'll lead you radically forward in ways that that'll baffle your mind. So I think I'm just gonna do a giveaway for the poor, right? And the Lord speaks to me. Don't go through the city. Find out who the top gang members are and have them organize it. So there's a guy that goes to our church in Pittsburgh that came from that area and hasn't been like saved that long. I said, Do you still have connections there? He said, I do. I said, find out who's in charge and tell them that your pastor wants to take 20 grand and make sure every kid there has toys for Christmas. But he doesn't trust the city officials to do it. But I trust them that they'll hook it up and make sure the people are blessed. And so he said they were blown away when they heard that. And so it's amazing. I'm actually gonna use that plan for our crusades from now on. I'm unless the Lord speaks to me otherwise, I'm not gonna go through the city, I'm gonna go through uh organized crime because it's just different organized crime. And it was actually one of the easiest things I ever did. You know, we never had to get a permit. I asked about the permit. I said, Did you get a permit for us to use this building? They said, No, we secured it. I like that. That's like pirate talk. We just took the building, we surrounded the building, and now it's ours. And then we went and um those guys promoted it on their Facebook page. So they were vouching for me. There's a pastor that's coming with his money, he's gonna give everybody toys. There was a line down the block. Abraham was there. So I honestly didn't really want to tell him or witness to him because I didn't want it to be like there were strings attached. Like, I'm giving you toys, but I want you to come to my church. I wasn't gonna mention anything. I just thanked him. I came and thanked them. I oversaw. You know, it's fun to give. I like to watch the kids all walk away with toys. And then those guys wanted to talk to me with their matching red hats. I have a blue coat from Philson, and it was the wrong color to wear. God kept me alive. So they're talking to me. So so your church didn't, I said, no, the church didn't do this. I said, there's that's why there's no cameras or anything. This is just for me. Why? I said, because the Bible, the Bible talks about taking care of orphans, and you can be an orphan in a home with parents. Both your parents are on fentanyl or heroin. You might have parents in the house, but you're on your own. You're not getting any Christmas. I said, so I wanted to do something, and I said, I want to thank you for doing it because I um I wouldn't have been able to do this. Well, they're tired, they're they're intrigued. And then I didn't invite them, they invited themselves. Where's your church? We're gonna come. I said, Great. I'll have seats for you on the front row, and you'll be my guest. That blows people away. I don't care. You know, to me, dealing with a gangster or a U.S. senator is basically the same thing. It's different crime, it's different kickbacks and stuff like that. I'm sure I'm making a lot of friends right now on my live stream. I feel my invitations to the White House drying up, but I don't care. So, sure enough, three Sundays later, in matching red hats, the head three guys are on the front row. And the leader that played Division I football, and if he didn't get injured, would have gone to the NFL, is crying hard, and he doesn't look like a crier. And I gave him a word. I said, I know this might be strange to you, but if you'd stand up, sir, I said, the reason men follow you is because God gave you a gift to lead men, and you've been using it one way, but God is gonna now use it another way where you'll turn many people to righteousness. Laid hands on them. All three came forward to receive Jesus Christ with the yes. I mean, I'm 6'1, so that guy was a big dude. I'm glad he's on our side now. And then you think, now think that little seed of 20,000 that resulted, this guy, that's the leader, and this guy was crying and hugged me, hugged me a ton of times. Thank you so much. Now, look, now what I didn't know is our new church building, because I've only been to see it one time back a year ago, and I'm not good with directions, I'm a 31% Polish, so I still need ways to drive home in my own neighborhood. Not a joke. Neither thing is a joke. So now these guys are the guys in the neighborhood where our new church is. Would you and you know what they you know it's funny? Because I was talking to them like preachers, they started thinking like preachers. So they go, this was great that we did this in this room this time. What if we got the stadium at the high school, the football stadium? I know the guy, and we could do it big there, and I know a lot of people would come. See, all things work together for good. If you follow the voice of the Holy Spirit. So I told you I went around the political system. I guess these guys are connected to some of the politicians. The head, the mayor came halfway through the Christmas distribution. Hey, uh uh, the guys texted me. I felt like I was on um mayor of Kingstown, everything was connected. So the mayor comes in, you know, in like a sweatsuit. He's like, uh, hey, these guys told me you're giving away toys from your, it's not from the church, it's from you. Can I give you my cell phone number? And then, and then, so then look how easy the building of the church has gone. Because God has a different way through the wilderness. God is gonna show you a different way by the Holy Ghost to do in one year what people couldn't do in 25 years. That's what today's about in Jesus' name. If you receive that, go ahead and give the Lord a mighty hand clap on this Saturday morning. Hallelujah. Let me see the scripture again. By the way, that white guy's not in the game. Uh now, he that ministereth seed to the sower, both minister bread for your food. So say this with me God has an interest both in what I give and in what I eat. Yeah, because I was taught the opposite. I mean, anything God gives us, it's for the kingdom. Not true. The same way God delighted in me spending 20 grand to make those kids Christmas. He likes me taking Camila to her favorite store. He likes, you know, everything's not about the poor and people on the outside. Paul actually said, we in the book of uh, is it Ephesians? It sounds Ephesian-ish. We should do good to everyone, particularly those that are in the household of faith. Can you say amen? So, one of the things that you have to get through your block-headed religious mind, if you have a block-headed religious mind, is that God loves you. God didn't get you saved to get another worker in the Great Commission. God got you saved because he loves you. And then because you love God, you decide to be a blessing to humanity because you're his hands and feet. Can I tell you something? I see you being a great blessing to your generation in the name of Jesus Christ. You're gonna do great things for God this year. Those that know their God shall become strong and do exploits. Oh, it's Galatians. I know where something ends. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto those who are in the household of faith. Ephesians uh back where I was? Uh uh 2 Corinthians, sorry. Let me see. Yeah, be now he that ministers seed to the sower, ministers bread for your food, multiplies your seed sown, and increases the fruits of your righteousness. Well, because you people don't seem like an obstinate crowd, I'll share the rest of it. I gave that 20,000 of my own money, like the Lord told me. You know, I had people give me personally$200,000 in the next 14 days that didn't know anything about it because they didn't publicize it. Hey, this is gonna sound weird. We already, I know you're building the church, and I know you, but I the Lord specifically told me to give this to you. Yeah. You almost start realizing, like, God's just asking you to do it for him, and then he won't pay you back. He'll pay you back above and beyond what you did. He that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for your food and multiplies your seed sow. So if somebody tells you that you don't have great, you know, it's wrong to tell people that when they give, it'll multiply back. The Bible gives you specific scripture to expect when you sow seed it to multiply and increase the fruit of your righteousness. Eleven. Being enriched in everything. Being enriched in how many things? To all bountifulness which causes through us thanksgiving to God. Let me see that in the NLT. Yes, you will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous. And when we take your gifts to those who need them, they will thank God. And so then the blessing continues. I've told you the story before that there was a uh a lady who her husband died, her husband preached with my grandfather for many years, and then she's a widow now, and the Bible talks about taking care of widows and orphans. So I didn't have much money back then. I was preaching in a church in Pennsylvania, she was in the back, I saw God touching her, she's in her 80s, and I felt to go pray for her. So I said I prayed for her to be healed, and then she went out under the power, and then I said to her while she was under the power, I said, Open your eyes if you would. I said, The Lord spoke to me to give you a thousand dollars, which he did. She she smiled, and I felt on the inside of me, keep going. I said that I'm gonna send you a thousand dollars every month till you go join your husband in heaven, and she called me. See that last part of the verse? And when we take your gifts to those who need them, they will thank God. Well, what does that cause to happen? What happened with her? She called me, she got my number from somebody two years later. I had totally forgotten I did it. She said, Jonathan, I got your number from so-and-so. I wanted to say thank you for sending me that money all these months. I've totally forgot about it. And she said, Um, I was gonna lose our home because I couldn't afford the payments on Social Security. And when you sent that every month, I've been able to keep me and Dave's home. And it's been a blessing. I want you to know I take one hour every morning and ask God to bless you wherever you are. Let me tell you something. That's worth a thousand dollars a month to have some tightly permed, no makeup wearing, long skirt, Pentecostal woman walking around nagging God to bless you. When I listen to that voice message, I thought to myself, these last two years make a lot of sense now. It doesn't hurt to have somebody walk in their house saying, Father, wherever Jonathan is now, I pray that you'd bless him where he's at. As he's been a blessing and God answers their prayer. There's a cycle with blessing. When you step into that cycle of blessing, it erases the pain that the devil tried to bring into your life. There is a curse, but the blessing is greater than the curse. And today, God's blessing is gonna overwhelm all the pain and trouble and heartache that Satan tried to bring into your life. If you believe it, can you say amen? Now, I'm not playing this. I don't even know who this guy is, but this popped up in my Instagram feed, and it is representative, and it was said publicly, so I'm gonna address it publicly. Uh, this is what people just spout off about prosperity. And I want you to understand financial prosperity. Because you've seen two guys on at 1.30 in the morning telling you they'll send you a piece of their pajamas if you send a thousand dollars or whatever, and you think that's what prosperity preachers are. There's bad cooks, but you still go to restaurants. There's bad lawyers, but you still have to use them. There's bad preachers, but it should never allow you to turn your head from the true gospel of Jesus Christ. Can you say amen? So watch this and then I'm gonna address it.

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Come on, Pastor Marquise, talk to me. Talk to me on the North Side campus. If I can't preach this message in Africa, if I can't preach this message in Central America, if I can't preach this message in South America, if this message about blessing and materialism is just for America, then this gospel is a false gospel. It's a false gospel. Listen, there are false gospels being preached by preachers all over this world. That if you love Jesus, he's gonna hook you up with some stuff.

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Pause. You saw the the volume go out of the sanctuary. Because when you say stuff that's wrong, did you know they did a poll across all denominations and Catholics? 71% of believers believe that when you give, God will bless you back materially. So the people that preach against it have already lost the battle. Now, to say, I'm playing this because this is what you hear people kick back at you. And I never want anybody that goes to this church to have to think to themselves like Jonathan's overboard on blessing, but I like him and I choose to believe him. I know that might not be in the Bible. No. To say that it's a false gospel. Furthermore, I have a rate to us. If you're gonna say I'm I'm traveling the world preaching a false gospel, I can defend myself. If you love Jesus, he's gonna hook you up with some stuff. So you want to take the position theologically that Jesus never hooked anybody up with material possessions? Who filled Peter's nets with fish? Who filled, by the way, twice. Once before he was called, and once, remember, after he died, and Peter didn't know he was risen from the dead, and he went back to fishing? And he has, I mean, when you read Peter, he had a lot of nerve in Mark chapter 10 telling Jesus, we left everything to follow you. If I was Jesus, I'm gonna say, Yeah, how many fish were you catching again when I met you? Sorry to take you away from your bankrupt fishing company. He didn't catch any in Luke 5, and he's not catching anything in the book of John. And they they saw a figure on the shore. Brothers, have you caught any fish? They said no. And he told them where to cast their nets, and when they did, it hauled in, and Peter thought, I've seen this movie before. Now think of the reverence he had for Jesus. He had taken off his shirt to fish, he put his clothes back on, then jumped in the water and swam to shore. Now, check this out. Jesus told him to bring the fish they caught, but when he went to see Jesus, Jesus was already cooking fish at the fire. He didn't need their fish. And when that happened, Peter said, It's the Lord. Fish. Who provided the wine when they were running out of wine at the wedding? Jesus. When they needed to pay taxes, who got the gold coin in the fish's mouth? Who fed? What did Jesus tell the 5,000 men, not counting the women and children, when they hadn't eaten? Tough luck? No, that's right. That's what you're gonna do around here. If you follow me, you're gonna starve. So get used to it. Three days? We're gonna do 21 days. He took a little boy's five loaves and two fish, broke it and blessed it, and fed, and everybody ate until full. And there was plenty left over. And Christians can eat. There's a few instances of material possession just from the life of Christ. How can you say something like that? To tell people that if you serve Jesus, he's gonna hook you up with some stuff. Also, I would like to point out that you're saying this in a multi-million dollar, several thousand-seat church. Who gave you that church? Who gave you those shoes? You know, if you're gonna preach like that, you should be in a loincloth like Gandhi. It would at least be consistent. If you want to tell people that God won't give you anything, then you should be living in a state park in a sleeping bag. But the hypocrisy to wear shoes and jeans and clothes, clothes that people can't afford in other countries, even if they're mid-range clothes. Your average person in the world can't afford a Lululemon hoodie and Lululemon pants. They don't have that. There's people in the world that make$600 a year, not$600 for an outfit. So to have that and that guitar and that 8K video wall and that sound system and those cameras and say Jesus won't hook you. Who built that church? The devil. Who gave you your cameras? Who gave you your clothes? That's why I will not argue with people about prosperity. Because it actually has nothing to do with prosperity. It has to do that you are an unthankful person. You don't realize that everything you have, your eyesight, your lungs, your legs, a thankful person understands that God has blessed me. He's given me health, he's given me food to eat, water to drink. Everywhere I look, I see prosperity. I preach, I could put pictures up of me preaching on the beach or in a field. This is nice. A roof. I don't have to pray against the rain. Of course, you don't have to do that much here anyway. I've had to do crusades outside and stuff. It's nice to not have to check the weather forecast and pray in tongues for 40 minutes to rebuke a cloud. Just concentrate on the message. This is prosperity. The speakers are prosperity, the cameras are prosperity, the computers are prosperity. God given us the money to knock out this wall to expand the sanctuary. The devil didn't do that, God did it. Now I want to ask you a question. If God did all those things, my grandfather used to sing a song during offering time. It's the simplest song, and it makes more sense to me every year I get older. I've got shoes on my feet, I've got plenty to eat, and a home in heaven, by and by. And the chorus was I am blessed. I am blessed. Every day that I live, I am blessed. From when I wake up in the morning till I lay my head to rest, I am blessed. I am blessed. That is prosperity. I don't have prosperity because I have a plane to use. By the way, who gave me that plane? If the devil gave it to me, he must be ticked off. Because I've used it to start two more churches. If you give me wealth, the world's going to become a better place. I'm not going to get greedy. I'm going to bless people. You know what I told those gangsters? Because I was just getting fired up, thinking about the blessing of God. Thinking about how in a few years I went from having to use my faith to buy her a Christmas gift and Ados a Christmas gift, and I didn't have enough money for that. To being able to tell a neighborhood, bring all your kids. Big neighborhood. Line was down the block and around the corner. And we had too many toys. The last people, the kids were walking out like this. I told those guys, I said, this is nothing. I said, this is the smallest giveaway I'll ever do. I said, the day will come, we're all gonna start buying houses for people here. And cars. We bought cars for people. There's people here. I'm not and I'm don't raise your hand or anything. But I'm I I I fell at the altar to pay your mortgage for the year, get you a place to live. I'm just getting started. I'm gonna do what my father Abraham did. I'm not I'm not waiting on the Democrat Party and the Republican Party to get their act together. I'm gonna access the covenant of God and be a force for God on this earth. Hallelujah! And I mean it, man. I've been blessed under every administration. If the government wants to cooperate, they can cooperate with me. If they want to oppose me, they can get run over like every government that's ever tried to stop the church. But I don't need the right people in office. If the Republicans lose every seat in the midterms, it won't affect one thing I'm doing. Because my blessing does not come from below. My blessing comes from above. I know Jehovah Jirah, I know El Shaddai, the God. That's more than enough. If you know him, can you say amen? Continue.

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Now listen, I want to be hooked up. I do. But listen to me. But the reward of following Jesus cannot be the stuff of this world because if it's Jesus plus something else, pause it. It's a false gospel.

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Pause it. If if it is it a false gospel if God told you that he's a rewarder of those that diligently seek him and then spelled out the reward? I've used the scripture probably the last three times I was here. 1 Timothy 4:8. Godliness is profitable unto all things, holding promise in the life that now is and in the life that is to come. Abraham didn't sleep in the sand, and then he was told he'd get a mansion in heaven. He blessed him here. Abraham was blessed here. Isaac was blessed here. Cattle, flocks of herds. The Lord has increased my master in silver and gold and flocks of herd. When they went to get a wife for Isaac, they sent camels down, loaded with goods, put a gold ring in her nose, put a gold bracelet on her on her wrist, and took her back to the home. And you know what? That story in Genesis, ask any Baptist. They'll tell you, it is a type, Abraham, a type of the father, getting a bride for his son, Isaac, a type of Christ. The bride being a type of the church, the unnamed servant that went to go get her, being a type of the Holy Spirit, who speaks only of the Father and not of himself. And he went down with camels bearing gifts. And when he found the bride in a pagan land, he decked her out with wealth, brought her on the camels packed with gifts, and brought her back to Isaac and Abraham in their homeland. He sent camels bearing gifts for his bride. While the world's going down, God's got camels loaded with gifts for you. And no amount of effeminate arm gestures can change that. Continue. Understanding financial prosperity. Let me tell you another thing while my blood pressure is up. Put my tweet up from yesterday. Where's my tweet? I had one above above what that guy said. Alright, just put that one up there. Priceless for Rosalind's Blessed God Summit. Now, all these guys, I'm not saying I don't like them, but they're all people that would say somebody like me is a heretic. They believe like that guy. So if you want to go hear these people preach, how it's not God's will to prosper you, it's$750 a person. Now I'm gonna tell you something. If you pay$750 to someone so they can tell you how God doesn't want you rich, you're what's called a moron. And then$450 extra if you want to meet them, and the children's price is$422. Remember this the next time you hear these guys speak against the prosperity gospel. How much was it to get in today? How much was it to go to Las Vegas? How much was it to get toys in Houston? How much is Kenneth, you know, the Kenneth Copeland's of the devil? He don't charge any money. Then you know what they'll say for their defense? Well, we had to run an auditorium. Join the club, Bucco. But some of us have made up our mind. I don't care what the costs are. I'm gonna honor Christ's command. Freely you've received, freely give. Children's VIP ticket,$422. VIP access,$765. So if you got a family that's$1,500 for you and your husband, and if you have a kid, an extra$500. But you get to meet you get to meet them. Oh, general access, you can still do$300. So I don't want to hear how you where does the money go, my friend? You want me to tell you something? I was studying this on the on the flate down here. Do you know where this theology came from? Because it certainly didn't come from the Bible. It came in the Middle Ages where the preacher was licensed by the king, and he told you it's good for you to have less while the kings and the bishops lived in royalty. Then they could increase taxes, they could increase tariffs on the people, they could do whatever they want, and all they told you was money's the root of all evil, poverty is spirituality, and it allowed the kings, and you couldn't preach anything other than that because you had to be licensed by the king to preach. Then a guy named Martin Luther said, This is bull crap. And he actually taught that people should work. It's good to be married. Do you know why Catholics? I'm not picking on Catholics. If you stick around, I'll pick on everybody. I think I've done Republicans, Democrats. Let's just get everybody. Do you know why Catholics didn't allow the priest to marry? Financial. Because the Catholic Church got to own the homes they lived in, all the property, not pay them, give them food, and and just have them live there. And then because they didn't have a wife or a child, no money ever left because there was no inheritance. Everything was financial. And notice how it bit them in the butt. You told people they can't get married to be in the ministry. How'd that work out? One of the greatest sex scandals of all time, up until recently. I made up my mind. I don't care what the assemblies of God says, I don't care what the Baptists teach, I don't care what I don't care what I was raised with. What does the Bible say? And if it says it, I not only believe it, I'm gonna speak it without apology. I got something I want to say. If you're gonna take the bad parts literally, and I do, in this church, we believe in a literal hell. We believe in literal sin. I have not gone woke or compromised for LGBTQIA plus. And by the way, our preaching is this revival's hit? Disney canceled gay days this year for the first time since the 90s because no corporation will give them any money. We are not backing down. We're not here to preach a Christianity that's accepted by the world. We're here to preach something that blows the devil's back in out of the USA. I take the bad parts literally. I take the don't commit adultery part literally. All that stuff. I take the curse part literally. But I'm not gonna preach the bad like the Pentecostals I grew up with. If you drink, you'll go to hell. If you didn't, yeah, true, I agree. If you get drunk, you'll go to hell. Bible says so. But if you're gonna tell me the bad parts, don't skip the good parts. Because the Bible says it's the goodness of God that draws men to repentance. And God didn't just fill it with curses for sin. There are curses for disobedience. But brother, there are blessings for obedience. And I mean blessings. He said, In blessing, I will bless you and multiply your seed and make your name great and increase your silver and gold. The blessing is greater than the curse. And it only takes one person in a family to say, I'm gonna obey God, I'm gonna believe his word, I'm gonna speak his word, and God will use you to shatter every chain and every bondage that's in that family. Can you say amen? Continuing with this morning's message. So we see now that prosperity was established in the old covenant. Deuteronomy 28 1 to 14, you've heard me read it a zillion times. I was having a little discussion with Chant GPT on the flight. She said, where the problem is, isn't re-established in the new covenant. I said, if it's been established in the old covenant, it doesn't need to be reestablished in the new covenant. It needs to be done away with explicitly in the new covenant. Let me give you an example if God does away with something, what it looks like. Let me see Acts chapter 10. Acts 10. 12-ish. NLT. Go 10. Peter was hungry, but while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. Eleven. And he saw the sky open, and something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners. In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles and birds. Then a voice said to him, Get up, Peter, kill and eat them. No, Lord, Peter declared. See, this is what you get. If you preach against sin, then they'll say, Do you also not eat shrimp? Well, here's why you can have some shrimp. 15. But the voice spoke again. Don't call something unclean if God has made it clean. The same vision was repeated three times. Peter was thick headed. Had to show him the exact same thing three different times. Then the sheet was suddenly pulled up to heaven. So that is a specific God showing the foods that were banned under ceremonial old covenant and then saying, don't call them unclean anymore, because I've not only cleansed Gentiles, I've cleansed the food. And then also used that revelation. For when um Cornelius came to the house, I mean, Peter, it was nothing but the grace of God that made his ministry work. As this is the same for all of us. But I mean, can you imagine an Italian guy asking you to come to his house and his whole family's there? And your opening line is as you know, as a Jew, it's not right for me to come into an unclean person's home. But I I saw a vision today and decided to make an exception for you. Oh, gee, thanks. Should be lucky it wasn't Tony Soprano's house. That would have been his last message. So that's what it looks like if God undoes something from the old covenant. It's specifically done. You can see it in the Bible. You will never read a passage like that about tongues. You will never, you'll never see, and Paul was caught into a vision, and God spoke to him and said, Stop telling people to speak in tongues. For now that the Bible's about to be finished, I'm doing away with it. It's not in there. There's nothing in there about doing away with miracles. There's nothing in there about being done away with healing. So if it's not, if it's established in the old covenant, it has to be undone in the new covenant because we didn't lose anything that was in the old covenant. The Bible says, let me see Hebrews 8.6. We now have a better covenant built on better promises. NLT? Hebrews 8.6. But now Jesus, our high priest, has been given a ministry, not that's superior, that is far superior to the old priesthood, for he is the one who mediates for us a far better covenant with God based on better promises. So wasn't God a huge blesser in the old covenant than after Christ, he chilled out? Actually, they were not. When you read about Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, all those guys, they didn't have what we have. They didn't have a Bible, they didn't have Christ indwelling in them. You know, that's why a lot of songs we don't sing at this church. We don't sing songs about crying out to God. We don't cry out to God. We come boldly before the throne because the veil's been rent by the finished work of Christ. They must say, I have a better covenant based on better promises. I'm gonna finish at noon whether I want to or not. So I'm giving you light at the end of the tunnel. Is prosperity established in the old covenant? Yes. No one argues that Abraham wasn't rich, Isaac wasn't rich, Jacob wasn't rich, how David, how were they rich? By the blessing of God. Was it canceled out in the new covenant? Not only was it not canceled out, it was re-established in the new covenant. Galatians 3, 13 and 14. Oh, by the way, before we do Galatians 3, 13 and 14, let me finish that thought out of the Bible. Do Matthew 11, 11. It's easy to remember because it's double 11s. Jesus speaking. I tell you the truth. Of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John the Baptist. So Jesus, according to Jesus, pick your favorite person in the Old Testament. They're all equal to or lesser than John the Baptist. Yet even the least person in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is. Every Old Testament person is equal to or less than John the Baptist. But anyone by redemption, the lowest member of the body of Christ, is now greater than he was. These are the days of Elijah. No, they're not. Let me ask you a question. Did Elijah ever cast out a devil? Uh-uh. Nobody cast out an evil spirit in the Old Testament. They couldn't, they didn't have dominion. Why do you think that's why you don't listen to people that you're gonna go excitingly tell somebody what you heard today in church? What about Job? Job wasn't only before Christ, he was before Abraham. Job is a book to let you appreciate the let me ask you a question. Can Satan come and touch a child of God like he touched Job? Oh, they got nine no's. I want a hundred percent no's. No, he can't. He can't touch you. Why? Job was not redeemed. Job was still using bulls and goats. I've told you before. If somebody spilled blue ink on this body, you wouldn't see it anymore. But it was still there. Covered your sin. Job couldn't tell the devil, get out of here in Jesus' name. There was no Jesus' name.

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And three different times minimum. Job said, Oh, that I had an advocate to take my case before God. He couldn't. In the old covenant, they had the crown and hope he had mercy have mercy. Anything he did was mercy. What God does for us is not mercy. The mercy was shown when he sent Jesus on the cross. And the blood has opened up a new and better way. And brother, that new and better way includes joy. It includes peace. It includes a whole marriage. It includes children that serve the Lord. It includes health. It includes long life. It includes protection. And it certainly includes money. Galatians 3, 13 and 14. I don't know what I'm going to do. That's what I'm thinking. I don't mean past noon. So you don't have to alter your open table reservations. I mean, I can't teach introduction to financial prosperity and then leave you for three weeks. Oh, yeah, I love it here. Problem is if I base my ministry out of Arizona, my travel schedule would decrease. You'd just see me with a long beard living up in the hills watching sunsets with a yeti full of iced coffee. What I mean is I need to come back on the Saturdays because or or or rotate with Adallus. But I gotta finish this because people, I can't have, I can't have other people come briefly. They don't. This is something God gave me. This took me from somebody that qualified for government assistance, government medicine. I'm not old. I'm not talking 50 years ago. 50 years ago I was minus five. I'm talking about when me and a dollas were married, they mailed us back our income tax and told us to please avail ourselves to their financial services and all that. And let me tell you something, I didn't love God any less than I was I was preaching just as much, I mean, pretty much. I can't preach as much as I do now. But I was on the road probably 42 weeks a year out of 52, preaching every night. There was no, we'll have double come in this week in our ministry, what would come in all year back then. And you know what changed? Revelation of God's word. The stuff I grew up around, you know, as obviously as a preacher, you're never gonna have much money. What you agree with, you get. But say, wait a minute, there's no caveats in here. Unless you're a single mother, unless you're an evangelist, unless you you're a convicted felon. God doesn't give two hoots what your past is, including right up until now. The moment you decide to if you could ever get a revelation on how turned on to faith God gets. Look at the thief on the cross. I believe that's all he said. He didn't unnail himself from the cross and start doing good works. Hey, I know that other guy's mocking you. Let me tell you something. I believe you're the son of God. Today, when you go to your father's home, will you remember me? What did you say? A little late now. No, as soon as he said it, truly this day, you'll be with me in paradise. When you begin to believe God, the heavens open over your life. What became a struggle is not a struggle anymore. Can you say amen? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Galatians 3 13. Christ not will redeem us, not is redeeming us. Christ hath redeemed us from all the curse of the law. Two things. Everybody say, I'm redeemed from the curse. How many know as long as we live in this world, there's certain places we go where we have demons and things that we that we pick up in the atmosphere that we don't even know we're picking up. I'm sorry for whatever weak faith you joined. I don't pick up evil spirits, I cast out evil spirits. Hallelujah! Say it out loud. I'm not under the curse. I'm under the blessing. Christ saith, Redeemed us from all the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree. That's why I went to the cross. That's why I didn't die by firing squad or beheading or drawn and quartered or hung until dead or stoned to death. Because the Old Testament says, curse is anyone that's hung on a tree. Crucifixion was supposed to take four days to die. Jesus took about four to six hours because he carried our curse, our sickness, and our disease. He became a curse for us. So unless you can go back in time and get Jesus off the cross, you can't curse me. You can't curse what God has blessed. I'm getting some blank stairs. So put Numbers 23, 19 up. Numbers 23, 19. I'm glad you're I'm glad. I'm glad I'm teaching you something new. This will change your life. This divorced me from ever saying I'll never have much in the ministry. Ministry's hard. No. I started to expect God to help me. And God, you know, to give me a plane where I can spend two days extra with all my preaching, two days extra a week with her and my wife is a blessing. That God didn't tell me to go hit the road. You might lose your marriage. You might break. No, no, no. God will never use you. If you read the Bible, He doesn't use people, He blesses them. The more you the harder you follow after God, the harder his blessings follow after you. Get ready for a radically different 2026. God is not a man that he should lie, nor the son of man that he should repent. You can do NLT. God is not a man, so he doesn't lie. He's not a human, so he doesn't change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through? Continue. I'm gonna go all the way to 23. Listen, I received a command to bless. God has blessed. Now what's happening here? A king that hated God's people hired a prophet, a wicked guy, like a magician type person, and told him to curse the people of God. And when he got ready to do it, God told him, Don't curse them. Bless them. And the king got mad and said, What are you doing? I paid you money to curse them, and you're blessing them. And so he's saying, I received the command to bless. God has blessed, and I can't reverse it. Somebody said, God has blessed me. I can't reverse it. I don't care if everybody from Epstein's Island, every elite satanic bastard from hell, becomes president, vice president, senate, house, mayor, governor. I'll be like you want to know what Abraham did? He wasn't one of a hundred million believers in the country. He was the only one that believed God in Philistia and Canaan, places that did human sacrifice. You know what the Bible's a record of? You can live in the most wicked, perverse place anywhere in the world. And their wickedness and perversion can't overwhelm you. Anywhere the sole of your foot shall tread, you'll be on land that I've given to you. Hey! God has blessed. But I don't feel blessed. Quit going by how you feel. We walk by faith and not by sight. Well, my alarm went off in Las Vegas today at 5 45. I didn't feel blessed. I didn't feel saved. I felt sleepy. But I'm saved anyway. I'm blessed anyway. I'm blessed in the city. I'm blessed in the field. I'm blessed when I come in. I'm blessed when I go out. I was blessed under Bush. I was blessed under Clinton. I was blessed under Bush too. I was blessed under Obama. I was our ministry exploded under Trump. Exploded more under Biden, and it's exploding more now. And if they put Donald Duck, Goofy, or Mickey Mouse in the White House, they can't do anything to stop me. You can sue me, you can do whatever you want, but you can't, you're gonna find out. You can't curse who God has blessed. And I tell you a revival today, Arizona. You are blessed by the most high God who made the heavens and the earth. Say what the Bible says. Say, God has blessed me. And nobody can reverse it. Now I'll put a caveat on there that I could prove from scripture. You can reverse it. But no one else can reverse it. Jonathan, there's witches that live in my neighborhood. Who cares? If you got witch problems, I feel bad for you, son. I've had 99 problems, but a witch ain't one. After today, there's gonna be witches having a meeting saying, there's a Christian that lives in our neighborhood. Anybody ever seen Pastor Kofi in Arizona? I mean in uh LA? Him and I were doing a meeting in Alabama, 2014, 2016 maybe. And three women came in the back and sat in the corner and they looked out of place. So Kofi was just curious and went back and talked to him. How'd you hear about the meeting who invited you? We're a witches. Okay. Why did you come? We left you space to park your brooms. First time broom parking. Why did you come to the meeting today? We were doing what we normally do in the forest, and we couldn't get anything to work. And we traced the disturbance to this building. That's right. I wasn't trying to preach and lay hands on people and couldn't get it to work, and had to find three ladies out in a forest and ask them to please stop whatever the heck they do. Stirring squirrel blood or whatever. You all can do whatever you want. You have no power. Let me tell you something. If an I had an ant, not my mom's sister, A-N-T, six legs, crawl across my table where my um gaming console is with the screen. I saw it and it was it was irritating me because it kept getting in my vision and distracting me. Before I killed it, I didn't think. Now what if the other ants find out? What if they then launch a counteroffensive and decide to all gang up against me? Me and that ant, is the ant real? Yes. Does the ant have strength in his insect kingdom? They say they have amazing strength. They can pick up a crumb. Congratulations. Me and that ant aren't on the same level. I killed it. Without worry of retaliation. If they all want to make a problem for me, I can call one phone number and have them sprayed to kingdom come. Won't have to do a thing about it. Does the devil have power in his kingdom? Yeah, but I'm not in his kingdom. I'm not in the insect kingdom. I've been seated with Christ in heavenly places. Somebody say with me, I'm seated with Christ in heavenly places. Now it says far above, far above what? All principalities, all powers. What does it mean to be seated with Christ in heavenly places? Satan, after he was thrown out of heaven, went to make war in heaven, but prevailed not. He didn't make it to the throne and God landed a lucky left hook and sent him back down to earth. He went to make war in heaven and never got up there. Say this out loud. I'm seated where Satan has no ability to prevail. So I don't walk around worried about curses. I don't walk around, you know. I think um, I think that person that's in uh uh in charge of the banks in the United States, I think they're a Satanist. Congratulations. Congratulations for serving someone named Beelzebub, named Lord of the Flies. Wow, what an accomplishment! I'm Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies. Wow, congratulations. Enjoy reigning over flies, enjoy collecting fly tax. You're a nothing. You Jesus stripped you of all your power. I'm gonna tell you something. If you'll read the Bible with fresh eyes, like God wrote it to you because he did, and you get all the religion out of your head and what people have told you or explained away, you're gonna have a couple things happen. Three things. Number one, you're gonna start to get an extreme disrespect for the devil. What do I mean by disrespect for the devil? I mean like I'm gonna go to Houston, I'm gonna go to Santa Ana, I'm gonna go wherever, and I'm gonna preach and take his captives, like Jesus said, to bind the strong man and loot his house. Whoever can do it must be stronger than he. When I read in the Bible, A, he had his strength taken from him, B, I've been raised up with Christ. You start to get a value and a dignity for yourself. I'm not just some Arizonan, I'm not just some man, I'm not a single mom recovering abuse victim. No, I am a child of the Most High God. I am blessed, I am empowered by God to do great things. You can write this in your Bible, but at least say it out loud. Say, I am blessed, I'm highly favored. Say the devil might not like it, but he can't do anything to stop it. Now lift your hands and begin to thank God that right now everything of the curse is broken. Things aren't gonna, 2026 will not be a repeat of 2025. Can you say amen? You'll get a disrespect for the devil. Not that you don't believe he exists. Where is he? Is the devil over your head? Is he eye to eye? Why do I say is the eye to eye? Because then you have people they don't think he's over their head. But I mean, we're gonna have a real fight. Where I'm going in Africa, there's a lot of occultism. Tell the occultists to worry. I'm not fighting. The fight's been won. And when you understand that and preach from that perspective, the devil start clearing out of people for free. Before you get a chance to cast them out, they're like, uh oh, he knows. He knows, he he has no respect for us. If I say I'm Ishtar, I'm a thousand years old, he doesn't care. Somebody breaks into my house, I don't care who they are, I don't care how many degrees they have. He has a master's from Fordham University. Great. You stepped on the wrong property. Can you say amen? Hallelujah. He's not eye to eye. We're gonna we have a real fight on our hand. I don't have a fight on my hand. Jesus won. He's not winning. He won the battle 2,000 years ago, and we are more than conquerors. What's more than a conquer? When Floyd Mayweather wins a fight, he's a conquer. When he hands the$50 million check to his wife to go shopping, she's more than a conquer. She didn't have to fight anybody. She just got the benefits of the victory because she's the bride of a champion. And I came to tell you whatever your last name is, whatever the color of your skin, I don't give two poos. It doesn't matter about that. It matters who you're hooked up with. And today, you're hooked up with Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. He's not a crying, frowning, hanging on a cross, defeated Savior. He is alive and he lives forevermore. King of kings and Lord of Lords. Listen, I received the command to bless. God has blessed, and I am incapable of reversing it. Keep going. No misfortune is in his plan for Jacob. No trouble is in store for Israel. For the Lord their God is with them. He's been proclaimed their king. God brought them out of Egypt. For them, he's as strong as a wild ox. No curse can touch Jacob. Me and you aren't going to get along. Not only do I not have curse, I'm uncursable. If every witch and wizard in Africa and India all flew in together to curse me, none of it would stick. I wouldn't even pray about it. I go eat, go to the hotel and eat and go to sleep. Bishop David Oyadepo, that has the largest church on planet earth, they were doing a meeting where the gospel had never been preached in the bush in Africa. Blood, human sacrifice to idols. They come back to the hotel room, him and his crew, and he said there were, and he's not spooky. There was a black, shadowy figure like smoke, that was in the room, and you could feel the presence of the devil. And he said, I said, Gut out in Jesus' name. And it vanished. And then he said, The men that were with me all knelt down and began to pray in tongues, and I grabbed them all by the armpit and stood them out and said, Stand up. The devil doesn't determine when we pray. That's right. I like that. Too small to be prayed about. I did my fasting and prayer January 5th to the 25th. I'm not doing it in reaction. The devil's gonna spend the rest of the year reacting to the power that we're walking in here. Get ready for the best year you've ever had. No curse. Everybody say no curse. Can touch me. I never finish Galatians 3. When it says Jacob, that's us. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And then the Gentiles have been graphed in through Christ. So those are types, lesser types, of what we have now. Because they didn't have Christ. They weren't baptized in the Holy Ghost. If they walked into the Holy of Holies, they would drop dead. You can walk into the Holy of Holies anytime you want. So that we who are believers, amen. I like that kid. So that we who are believers might receive. Let me read the rest. 23-23. Genesis 23, 23. No curse can touch Jacob. No magic has any power against Israel. For now it will be said of Jacob, what wonders God has done for Israel. These people, that's us. These people rise up like a lioness. Like a majestic lion rousing itself. They refuse to rest until they feasted on prey, drinking the blood of the slaughtered. Get that one tattooed on your arm. There's enough Philippians 4.13 out there. That one's stronger. Can you say amen? I feel like you're actually considering it. They feasted on prey drinking the blood of the slaughtered. So what have they taught us? They've taught us that we're to be weak. That the sign of Christianity might as well say the weak will inherit the earth. But it's not the weak, it's the meek, and meek means teachability. And you don't want to know another thing? I am super calm and gentle. I've never hit anybody. Trying to think, I don't think I have, and if I have, I'm not going to admit to it on camera. But I'm pretty sure I haven't hit anybody. Camille doesn't hit anybody. Camila's gentle and kind. We're like that. Literally like Abraham. Abraham's a Christian. He's smiling full of joy. But let me tell you something. When I tell him to come pick me up at a hotel, which is his job, I'm not like ordering him around. And he pulls up in that SUV and the valet people tell him to move, there's another side to him. No. In a West African accent. And it weirds him out because he's in a suit and tie. And he's in a black SUV. And I'm after I'm here to pick someone up and I'm not moving. And I'm telling you, everywhere, including the wind casino that enforces it strictly. Okay, just in over there. He's got authority. Jesus was super kind to people. But then if there was a devil or a religious person, somebody trying to stone a woman caught to adultery, there's another side. I can't remember where I preached this. I think Texas. At the church there. There's two sides to yourself as a Christian, and the world only wants you to know the one side. There's a lamb side. That's how I am with Adolis. That's how I am with Camila. That's how I am with you. Gentle. The Bible says that a spiritual leader should be gentle. I don't think I've yelled at anybody here ever or rebuked or called you in or called you. I don't do that. But then there's another side, the lion side. And the lion side cannot be used. You can't use the lamb side when you're supposed to be using the lion side. Let me tell you something. When those people busted in to that church in Minnesota and you had men holding their wife and kids, they'll leave soon. That's the wrong reaction. For your church to even be set up where they can come in, I guess people can understand now that it's not like us just being macho to have people stationed at the back. It's because we understand what Jesus said. Be as harmless as doves, but as wise as what? So you even had pastors say, if they ever did that at my church, if it could happen at your church, you already have like three problems. That's why when you come to Revival today, Arizona, the outside looks like the closing scene of Sicario. There's greeters for you, and there's also a second set of greeters for not use that would want to uh disrupt worship. What a fool you are to have 30 people break into a church mid-service and assume nobody's armed in 2026, no one's gonna shoot. Just wait. Then one guy, it actually got a ton of views on social media. I was just messing around. I was like ready to fall asleep. He wrote, is it right for Christians to have armed guards in church? I wrote back, no, they should just let the guy shoot till he runs out of bullets and call the police. And everyone saw how stupid it was. Why are we expected? You say, what does this have to do with prosperity? There's a met there's a prevailing mentality that the devil wants the church to have. That if he succeeds in it, it explains everything. How can you have 400,000 churches in the United States? And you would think they're less than the LGBTQ community, that's 2.5% of the population. Why? Because one's vocal, one has no problem being bold, one believes in their agenda and pushes. And someone told you to be quiet. Religion has its place. Where is it? Now we can't even have it in church. I got a sister that pastors in Canada. I have friends that pastor in Europe. One of the reasons I'm different than like that guy played on the screen is because I do travel to Africa and stuff. I know how far it can go if you let the devil go unchecked. The day can come where you're put on a list, like they were getting ready to do on the last administration of people that go to church. You're a danger at school board. These people won't mask up. They won't, they're the problem. And if you let them go, they will run the church into the ground like they're doing in China. But if the church rises up, like the church of the book of Acts and says, Sirs, we would please God rather than man, we will never stop speaking. Never stop speaking of the wonderful things we have seen and heard. Hey, um, Tessa, can you grab that uh the last tweet I did her, second to last? I think it's the one of that that lady from China being interviewed that her dad's a pastor in China and just disappeared. You're gonna have a couple minutes, obviously. Just just give me a big wave when you have it ready. Understanding financial prosperity. There's no power to enforce the gospel without money. Why should mosques be able to throw up uh Muslims throw up mosques anytime they want? Spend 26 billion on a casino. Has anybody been to the Las Vegas strip? I know this is a weird question to ask in church. Has anybody been to the Las Vegas Strip in the last few months? Dang. I'm gonna start a gambling recovery group here. Do you see that big guitar they're building? That's the Hard Rock Casino Hotel out of Seminole, Florida. And they're building a guitar that's gonna be the tallest thing with a neck with laser lights of strings. Okay, I'm a capitalist. If you earned your money legally, spend it however you want. But don't tell me I'm supposed to be ashamed of building a thousand-seat church for people to worship God and you spend money like that for people to gamble. I never signed up for that. I made up my mind. If Abraham was exceedingly rich, Isaac was exceedingly rich, Jacob was exceedingly rich, I don't feel bad. I don't feel bad landing my Falcon 900 and there being Tony Robbins and the owner of the cults and whoever, they have a right to their jet and their thing. But nobody's doing anything more important today than preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and teaching people the word of God and building churches. And let me tell you something. If John Wesley on a horse could start 800 churches, if he had a jet, I guarantee he'd be doing what I'm doing today and tomorrow. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel. Now let me tell you another thing since I just skipped all my notes anyway. Budweiser's not paying for it. Coca-Cola's not paying for it. Sands Casino group's not paying for it. The groups with the money are actually actively opposed, usually, to the church. I've had pastors walk in for loans before, and the bank say, I could say what bank it is. We don't loan money for building churches. The pastor I knew he's a cool guy. He went, Can I have that in writing? Because you know it'd be the they'd have to pay him a multi-million dollar lawsuit. It's discrimination. He just laughed, no, obviously not. They don't want churches built. Churches go against the mammon money system. Anytime, see, like if we bought, what's the name of the arena where the suns play? I guess you guys gamble on stuff other than basketball. What's the arena where the suns play? Say it again? The financial center in Phoenix. If we went to buy the financial center in Phoenix, if we went to buy the financial center in Phoenix where the suns play, what would happen? How would the city view that? Would they say, nah, this is any city, I'm not picking on Phoenix. Hey, great! Churches are growing so big they need a big, this is wonderful. No, what has happened all through US history? That's our second largest asset besides Chase Field, or where do the diamondbacks play? Is it still Chase? Other than Chase Field, that's our second largest asset. And so if they take that, they're tax exempt, and we'll lose our uh revenue, so we're not gonna let them have it. And that's how it goes. Joel Osteen's father, you know that building that Joel Osteen's in? That was the Houston Rockets building. His dad went to buy it, and one guy on the Houston City Council, head of the city council, said, Reverend, as long as I'm on this city council, you will never get that building. Well, guess who died first? And then after he died, guess who got super agreeable? The other eight people. Because people forget, and nobody forgets it more than Christians and preachers, that this is not a nonprofit. This is not a charity. We are the salt of the earth. God's answer to fentanyl overdose, heroin overdose, broken homes, abuse can never be solved by throwing money and increasing budgets for public welfare. The church is not the salt of the church. The church is the salt of the world. They beat back the rotting of the world. Ye are the light of the not the light of the church, the light of the world. So the devil knows they shut churches down in March, by and large. I think like nine stayed open. And within 90 days, by the end of May, churches shut down, end of middle of March. By the end of May, the whole streets everywhere. I was here during it in May. I was going to the uh uh Fashion Square mall and they said, You can't come in. Why not? We got tipped off that there's riders coming and we're shutting them all down earlier. Here in freaking Scottsdale. One out of every 17 people in Scottsdale is a millionaire, and it wasn't left out. If the church goes dark, I wish people could travel where I've been. I wish people would read world history of how a nation is, how America was before people preached. Lady was selling me my socks and my necktie yesterday in Las Vegas, and she's from uh Belarus. She's a cool lady. She was uh an Olympian in the in the 80s, early 90s. And we were talking. She goes, um, my kids, we were just talking, she goes, my my sons loved drinking beer when they were kids in Belarus, but they weren't let them in America. They said, American kids don't drink. I said, they did. America was a mess. All these preachers, like, we need to get back to the way. 17% of Americans went to church during the Revolutionary War. It's at 42% now. I know my from my people, abuse. It was drunk farmers mine, the Old West, towns around here. There were towns in the Old West that had a population of under 6,000 with more than 500 saloons. Think of it. All people did was mine and drink and gamble and opium den. And what changed it? Men came. And women came, like Amy Simple McPherson, John Wesley, Peter Cartwright, and said, We're not gonna let this nation fall into the hands of the devil. We're gonna preach. We're gonna see fathers get saved. We're gonna see mothers that know God. We're gonna see teenagers that serve God and it changed. It changed. It's why we're not Europe, it's why we're not Canada, it's why Islam has been able to overrun Europe, overrun Canada, but they can't find a foothold in the United States because the church is too strong. And I got news. If you think the church is strong now, wait till the end of this year. It's gonna get hotter and stronger. God is sending a revival right now. It's blowing fresh wind across this nation. You're gonna be a part of it. You're not gonna hear about it. You're gonna hear God's instruction of what he has for you to do. And God is gonna use you to bless your generation. If you believe it, can you say amen? Clap your hands into the Lord, everybody. You're on the winning side. Say, I'm on the winning side. Let me see that that my tweet first, and then the lady. So I saw this interview and I wrote, the Chinese Communist Party now sees even personal faith in Jesus. This is what she's gonna say. Before you couldn't go to church, couldn't convert. Now, if they find out you believe in Jesus privately, they're going after you. Her dad was a pastor in China, he disappeared last week. Personal faith in Jesus Christ is a threat, and rightly so. Because no one can believe the Bible and remain a communist. Communism, the state is your healer. The state's your provider. I never gave two hoots what Dr. Fauci had to say. He's not my healer. And it turned out everything he said was wrong. The pastor's dropping like flies dead, and they they can't connect the dots. You're proudly encouraging everybody to get the vaccine, killed you. Everybody said, God is my healer. Everybody said God is my provider. I'm gonna tell you something. If PNC Bank contacted me this afternoon by text and said, we made a decision that we're gonna freeze all your assets because we are not gonna do business. Cash app's already done it. We're not gonna do business with churches. We don't like what you're doing. Now now they're all kind of chilling because you have an administration and that's friendly to the church. Under Biden, we've got the paperwork ready to start our own bank because everybody was getting deeped. If they took all my assets and they used the military to surround my building, was anybody in Phoenix for breakthrough and ministry? Did anybody hear what uh Bishop Dag Haywood Mills? Did you know he built a church that's bigger than the one I'm building and went there on Monday to go do work and it was rubble with a bulldozer and excavator? And he said, Who did this? And they said the order came from the top, meaning the prime minister ordered your church to be bulldozed. See, those are the guys I hang around. Talk about if you can't preach this in Africa. I've never seen you in Africa, my friend. I go there all the time. I've never seen you one time. And you don't look like you've ever been. Especially since you still call it Africa, like it's one country. Like Algeria is the same as Congo. I go to Africa and preach it there. How many of you saw that church with a hundred thousand people that I preached at in January? Did you know? Did you say it doesn't work in Africa? Go tell them it doesn't work in Africa. It's the only time I've seen Abraham irritated. He said, What a racist. To say like we're all poor, he said. You want to talk about a work in Africa if I pass the mic to Abraham. He used to cut his pastor's grass with what? A machete as a service. They didn't have a lawnmower. The pastor didn't ask him to. He just wanted to do something for the pastor. Wash the pastor's car. You how did you grow up in American standards? Rich or middle class or lower? Yeah. So then when you hear me preach this, does it make you mad because it doesn't work in Africa?

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No, it works there. There's a denomination, actually. There's a denomination in uh Ghana that at some point the government wanted to uh to get loan from that denomination. It's obvious that it's the only thing that's basically keeping the country. Most people travel into Africa because of the church today.

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Like when I go to Nigeria, they just ask you. I mean, the guy's name is Mohammed Muhammad. And he says, What church are you going to? Nobody's going to Nigeria. There's nobody holding their conference this year in Lagos instead of Las Vegas. The only conferences that are drawing tourists in or anything, the thing that put pumps money into Africa is the church. So for that guy to talk like that, if it doesn't work in South America, name three South American countries. You don't even know what you're talking about. You're trying to appease a suburban. If you don't preach prosperity, then you have to try to make people feel guilty for having money. And I want to ask you something. What's your salary? I guarantee you he makes a mid-six-figure salary. I guarantee he lives in a great house. So why are you telling people that Jesus doesn't do that for them? I don't hide my blessings, and I'm telling you, God doesn't do it for me because I'm a preacher. He does it for me because I love him and he loves me. And the same God that does it for me will do it for anybody who believes. Go ahead.

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Again, I think that Zion Church, like many of the underground or independent churches, where we are not political, even if they detained us, we're not out there protesting on the You hear?

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We made a point to not be political. We complied to the Chinese government. We won't evangelize in the streets. Even if you arrested us, none of our people protested. Do you know? Sooner or later, people have to wake up. Anything you don't confront, you'll never conquer. I've preached Bible sexuality from the time I was in the ministry and the four years we've had the church. I've had many transgender people come in and get saved and reverse their thing. My brother-in-law in Canada had a man come in who had fully transitioned to a woman and got saved and transitioned back by confronting it. All the churches that have laid down to it and put a rainbow flag out, how many people do they have in their church? They're empty. There's eight people. Ten. Six are there by accident. You don't could one thing the Bible's clear about that I'm sure she realizes now. You're not wrestling against Democrats. You're not wrestling against Epstein or the World Economic Forum. You are behind every evil power is the devil. And you can you beat him by confrontation. How do you confront him? With guns? No. With a sword. What is the sword? The sword of the spirit. So you preach, what did they tell him to do in the book of Acts? We order you to preach and teach no more. Because if a preacher won't stop showing the word, the incorruptible seed of the word, like enriched uranium, will blow out every demonic stronghold from that city, from that state. We're building a strong church in Phoenix, a strong church in California, a strong church. Did anybody hear that news story of that of that mosque they were gonna build in Texas? It's called Epic City. Huge mosque surrounded by that. I was preaching like a nice message and it just rose up in my spirit. I said, that mosque will never be built. That was on Sunday, on Friday. The governor found out about the plans and yanked all permits. And then they did a second round, and now they're doing uh to permanently block it. Because I'm different. I don't do, I'm not here for patty cake church. I'm not here to give you a nice little message and then go out and get cupcakes or whatever in the lobby. We are here to raise up people that are full of the word, full of God, that have the same strength that overthrew the Roman Empire. Can I tell you something? I'm happy to report that this is not something that's going to happen. Fentanyl deaths are down 23% year over year. The amount of people identifying it as transgender universities has fallen off a cliff. Everything we stood against, uh uh, what else? I mean, I could I I think I did a program where I did 52 things that have happened in the last year. Abortion. Planned Parenthood just closed down. The first Planned Parenthood that was closed down in Pennsylvania was the one two miles from our church. You know why? Because light and darkness can't inhabit the same space. So what happens if you get light? The first thing that the devil wants to do is what Jesus said is foolish to do. Who takes light and puts it under a bushel? He wants your light busheled. You know, don't don't do that. This isn't the place for that. Nowhere's the place for it. If you keep letting the devil tell you where's the place for it, then you end up like that, where there's no place. You can't even look at Daniel. He didn't get arrested for praying in the street. He got arrested for praying where? In his home. If you let the devil dictate what's acceptable, Christianity, you'll be dead or in prison before it's all said and done. That's why I kept our ministry open. That's why, you know, I sued that attorney general. I didn't even have a church to sue him for. Just on principle. I'm also part Irish. Is this a private fight, or can anyone join? Camila was how old in 2020? Seven. I just thought to myself when they ordered churches closed. Am I gonna tell my daughter one day? You're probably too little to remember, but there used to be a day where we could all gather together, hundreds of us, and sing as loud as we want and play instruments. What happened? Well, I thought it was gonna be 14 days slow spread, and then they said, and then I didn't want to cause problems. And I'm gonna tell you another thing, while my blood pressure is super high. Feels good. You know who I took the most backlash from? Wasn't liberals or anybody, it was other weak, castrated, spiritual Christian leaders. You're gonna cause a problem for us. You're gonna you're making quite a noise, don't you think? One of the leaders that contacted me was a lady who taught me in Sunday school. And she said, You're being kind of radical, aren't you? I said, You radicalized me. What did you think I was gonna turn out like when I was six, and you were telling me about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? Anything you see in me you don't like, blame you. Because don't read me about David and Goliath. Don't read me about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Don't read me about Daniel and the lion's den. And expect me not to turn out as somebody that has a fiery love for God, that I refuse to bow my knee to any of the bales of this world. What does this have to do with prosperity? When you decide not to bow to the bales of this world and to live for God, you'll go through the fire. But Jesus was right there with them. Then they were ordered out of the fire. They weren't just saved from the destruction. Then Nebuchadnezzar ordered them to be promoted to even higher positions. Anytime you go God's way, it carries a reward because he's a rewarder. He's not a punisher of sinners only, he's a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. God has a reward with your name on it today. God has a reward for your family today. God has a reward for your business today. You're not gonna live like everybody else. You're already not living like everybody else. And God's gonna set you on high above all the nations of the world. If you receive it, one last time, take 15 seconds. Clap your hands, all ye people. Shout unto God with a voice of triumph. Come on, make some noise in here. The devil is defeated. Galatians 3 13 and 14. Thanks for giving me a couple bonus minutes. Amen. Galatians 3 13 and 14. Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the gent. Let me see, 13. But Christ has redeemed us from all the curse of the law. Everybody say I'm redeemed from the curse? When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing, for it is written in the scriptures, curses everyone who's hung on a tree. Everybody say I'm redeemed from the curse. That's one part. Here's the second part. 14. Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with what kind of blessing? 10% of what Abraham got? The same blessing he promised to Abraham so that we who are believers might receive the promise of the Holy Spirit through faith. Theologically, the main blessing is the Holy Spirit, not the riches or anything, clearly. But what does the Bible say in Psalm 23, 5? Thou anointest my head with oil. Oil was a type of what? Holy Spirit. And when your head gets anointed with oil, what happens to your cup? I've paid zero dollars to mistresses to keep their mouths shut. I've paid zero dollars to DUI attorneys. I've paid zero all the things that drain people's wealth. Good luck finding any security camera footage of me playing the slots or whatever. I don't have any leaky holes that take money. So I keep what other people lose. And then God, by the anointing, multiplies as you steward what he has. And he gives you divine ideas. Did anybody watch any of my broadcasts this week? I don't care if you didn't. I'm just gonna make a point. Had you ever heard me say in your life that I'm going to um I said, anyone that gives a seed today, I'm gonna send you my new book when it comes out before it's available for sale. Taking your place at the top 52 uh secrets of uncommon achievers. Then I I've said that before about books. Then I said, anyone that gives 10,000 or more, I'm gonna sign it. I've said that before. As a thank you. You know, just he's selling his signature. No, just to be nice, I'm gonna write something in it for you. Then I threw a third thing in. What was it? If what? That came out of my spirit. I said, anybody, you know, we're building the church right now. No loans, because the Bible says I'll make you to lend and never borrow. And I took him at his word. We have 900,000 that's due. We're gonna be in there April in less than a year. This is a three and a half year building project, easy. And we'll be in there in less than a year. Resurrection Sunday, April 5th, 2026. It'll eventually be a 3,001 seater because the largest church in um the mid-Atlantic has 3,000 seats, and I'm what they call petty. So we're gonna have 3,000 and one seats, and I have nine extra chairs in case they want to like like keep pushing it. It'll be one of the ten largest churches. It might be one of the five largest, and it might be the largest. Full gospel church in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast with no loans, no debt. So then it pops out of my spirit. Anyone that gives, I'm gonna send you the book. Anyone that gives 10,000 or more is a special thank you. I'll take time and sign it and write it out for you to say thanks. And anyone that does a million or more, I'll fly it to your house and hand it to you. And everybody laughed. Then Patrick sent me a text with in all caps yesterday afternoon. Call me, it's important. He said, somebody called from another state and said they got a million dollars for you. And we said, um, okay, but we'll have Jonathan bring the book when you send it. He said, No, I don't want him to send me the book. I want him to come pick it up. They said, when will it be ready? They said, Saturday afternoon. So when I leave preaching here, I'm getting on my plane and flying to go pick up a check for a million dollars. And that whole phase one will be paid for, and we'll be into phase two, and we'll be in there debt-free April 5th. And I found it interesting that I took that time to rebuke that. Any doctrine you stand for, God let you take the blessing of it. I made up my mind a long time ago. You can mock the blessing if you want, but I'm not mocking it. I'm not ashamed of it. If my father gives me a coat of many colors, I'm not keeping it hung in the closet because my brothers don't like it. I'm gonna break that puppy out and wear it. And I'm telling you, if you'll stand on the word of God, wherever you stand on the word of God, that word will work for you. It'll work in your body, it'll work in your mind, it'll open doors for you. God is a blesser in the old covenant, he's a blesser in the new covenant, and he's a blesser in Arizona today. And wherever you're watching, can you say amen? I'll tell you another thing, and I'm not greedy. I feel there's gonna be four more people like that before Easter. I believe that whole church is gonna be paid with all the money that was paid to build it, recouped, just from those seeds, let alone what everybody else gives. And I want to encourage you today, when we receive the offering, to try it. Try God at His Word. It's the only place He said to try me. He never said try me about salvation. But when it came to the tithe and offering, he said, try it. Put me to the test. See if I won't open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that's so great, you won't have enough room to take it all in. We're building a church in Pittsburgh. Pop the video up real quick, so in case anybody doesn't know. This is an old warehouse. This was shot three days ago. It's gonna be ready for Resurrection Sunday. So we'll have a thousand plus seats to start, and then this is will be the three thousand seats. They gotta carve the floor out that's gonna be a balcony. It's two floors, fifty-three thousand square feet, and we don't need any for offices because we already have an office building. By the blessing of God. Look at that place. 900 parking spaces. Church is four years old. We'll be at 1,400 people by summer at the latest, and probably up over 2,000 by the end of the year. Amen. And so that's the church year part. That's Revival Today Church Pittsburgh. That's the original. This one's less than a year old, we're gonna have our one year. I think I won't come here next Saturday unless it's absolutely impossible. I preach in Kentucky this week, and then I'm gonna fly. No, no, South Carolina, and then I'm gonna fly here. Because I got this is my notes. That's Galatians. Galatians Abraham Connection. That's the title. I didn't even get to point one. Sorry. What are you clapping for? Poor use of time. You're gonna see me again. Let me say a couple more things, just quick. I I I have hesitated too much to teach on this kind of stuff because most of you come from churches where the only time they're talking about money is if there's a capital campaign. I don't even believe in that. We're not believing for a million-dollar seeds because we're behind. We've never been behind. We've never had a financial deficit and we never will. But I I want to, you know, when people teach on this in most churches, it's come on, you know, you need to give, we can't do it. I want you to understand that God did not institute the tithe and the offering as a tax to help keep his church going. The church has been going for 2,000 years before any of us ever got here. He wants to see his people blessed. He wants you to be able to pull your kid wherever you want to pull him. I don't want to send my kid to that school, but you know, private schools,$17,000 a year. I can't afford that. God doesn't want there ever to be another time in your life where it's I can't afford it. You want to homeschool, you can homeschool. You want a private school, you can private school. You want a public school, you can public school. You can do what you want. Money frees you up to do what you want. Money frees you up to challenge things. I guarantee you. When I took Camila in with my wife at two months old to get 14 vaccines, and I said, How many? 14. She's 11 pounds. 14 pounds or whatever. A shot per pound? Sounds like a lot. It's a lot of anything to inject in this one. She only eats a couple spoonfuls of food. Well, you know, you need I must insist, he said. Now, I I said, dressed like this. I said, Does the child have the hospital's last name or my last name? I don't care what you insist, you'll do what I say. Which from that point on, he always asked my wife, is your husband with you today? When she said, No, he'd exhale. Now he had to listen to me. But let me ask you a question. If I was a mother from Section 8 housing on government assistance and I wouldn't let him do it, does the conversation turn out that way? Or do they start threatening you with taking away benefits? That's right. Mummy, if you don't get it from God, you'll be manipulated by it your whole life. But when you learn how to get it by your covenant, you never have to bow your knee. When I kept our church up, see, you guys are. Not only do I feel like coming back next week, I'm starting to feel like not leaving. But I'll leave. I promise you I'm gonna quit. Do you know why every preacher I send here to preach preaches too long? It's your fault. You you you bring it out. It's like being a chef and cooking for a big Italian guy. It's just fun because he keeps eating. When you can't get manipulated by money, you're free. Even when we went to keep our church or our ministry open and announced we were gonna have a huge Easter service, and then the governor got upset and all that, and then we were in the news. You know the first call I got, besides the death threats from angry Facebook people, was from AFLEC. We heard that you're gonna be having service during the pandemic and you're having over a thousand people. If you do that, we're gonna have to drop you as an insurance provider. I said, then drop me. I said, let me tell you something, my friend, on speakerphone with Patrick and whoever else in the office. The only reason I need insurance is because of the blessing of God. There was a day where there was nothing to insure. So if you want to drop me, drop me. But it'll be a cold day in hell when I take orders from the AfLAC duck. To which a long silence followed. And then, well, we won't drive. Yeah, I didn't think so. People don't know what to do. They're used to everybody bowing for money, everybody bending for money. But when you only bow to God, you never have to bow to anything that's in this world. Hallelujah. I see a new generation of shadrachs, mishaks, abendagos, who will not bow and can never burn. Hallelujah! Say something with me. Say never again. Never again will I say they said I have to. Never. The only thing I have to do is obey that book. I thank God for that redhead guy that comes down here, Tiff Shuttlesworth. From seven years old. He didn't do it for me. Go tell your baseball coach you won't be there any Wednesday nights or any Sundays. With a speech impediment. Coach, I can't come get any of the games on Wednesday or Sundays. Why not? Because I'm a Christian. And I stood for the church back then. God took my speech impediment away. God healed my body. God bless my dad. God bless her. I'm telling you, I was around. Well, that red-haired guy, as nice as he looks in that suit and everything. He's got plenty of money. Doesn't want anyone to know it, but he does. I was with him when we couldn't afford an apartment. Just lived on the road. Went back with his parents, my grandparents when he didn't have meetings and live in their house. I watch this thing. First the blade, then the ear, then the full corner on the ear. The world will increase you overnight. 21 years old sign a record contract, and then they don't have a foundation, it kills them. But God increases you and builds you. As you fight the lion first, then the bear, then the giant. Then you keep, then Saul's arm, and you keep without realizing it, you're getting stronger. You're getting stronger. The word's making you stronger today. There was a day, some of you have got, if you had been blessed financially 10 years ago, you'd be dead. The only reason you didn't die from your drug addiction is you didn't have enough money. But now when the money comes into your hand, it ain't gonna make heroin dealers rich. It's not gonna make cocaine dealers rich. It's gonna be a blessing. Your children are gonna talk about their father that made this for like I'm talking about my dad right now. Your grandchildren are gonna talk, we well, how how come you don't have to work at school? How come you can just study? My grandfather, if you want to know, he gave his life to the Lord and started to live by this book. And it took our family from a place of poverty to a place of wealth. Where's uh is it what's a good one to close with? What's Psalm 66, 12? That has brought me into a wealthy place. By the way, put my tweet back up while you're looking for the scripture. Did anybody get anything out of today? The Chinese Communist Party now sees even personal faith in Jesus Christ as a threat, and rightly so. Because no one can believe the Bible and remain a communist. It's the first book they always get rid of, and the first people they always imprison or execute. And this is behind what's happening in Canada as well. I'm not only praying for you, I'm preaching up there. And let me tell you something, it's turning around. I didn't write that as a shot at Canadians. My sister, my family lives in Canada. But that's why, why has there been this turn from the 80s and 90s against the church in Canada where Quebec has legislation to outlaw public prayer? Because Canada's in bed with the CCP. And if you're gonna have communism, you have to get people to believe that the state is their source, the state is their healer. What are you gonna do for our health care? That's what everybody did during COVID that didn't have any faith. Governor, what are you gonna do about the virus? Governors can't fight viruses, they're people in khaki pants. What are you gonna do? How are you gonna keep us healthy? What are you doing to stop the virus? How are you gonna provide for us? The government has to be your source of all things in communism. And the Bible ruins it because you realize God is my healer, God is my provider, God is my protector. I thank God for a government to help build roads and keep some order, but I don't need the help of any man. I have a Father in heaven who knows my name and he's pouring out a blessing that's on me that's so great, I won't have room enough to take it all in. Can you say amen? With every head bowed and every eye closed, I gotta stop sometime. You know, I don't feel like it. If you're here and you've never received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, I want to ask you the same question and give you the same opportunity I gave my gangster friends in Pittsburgh. None of this works till you get right with God. You can use the principles of it, generosity has a reward, whether you're saved or not saved. But if you're under the curse, the devil can come in and steal the blessing at any time because you live in his kingdom. But if you come out of his kingdom, what did we read in Galatians 3 13 and 14? That the blessings of Abraham would come upon all who believe. Have you ever done what that thief on the cross did and placed your faith in Jesus Christ?

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Paul.

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Publicly? Today's the day that I make Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. The guy said, pray first, brother. What part of Canada are you from? Admitted, all you. Where?

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Pastor Brad's church.

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Oh, Pastor Brad's church. Well, you don't need prayer. That guy's fighting the whole thing himself successfully. Yeah, Canada's blessed. God's going to shake that place. I don't even believe all that stuff's going to be able to sit in in the UK and England. The devil will not write the final chapter of this dispensation. The church of the Lord Jesus Christ is going to do it, and then we're going to go up and get our reward. Can you say amen? In fact, that's why Iran's falling, the regime. That's why Venezuela falls. Any country that's prohibiting the gospel to come in is under a divine curse. It's a year of throwdown. Can you say amen?

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