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this morning that changed the game up for me a little bit, but we are in, we are here, we are

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live, and I'm excited to be with you. Let me just sort out the tech as usual, just be a moment there,

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but as you are jumping on board, it'll be great to hear how you're doing. Now, whether you're

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jumping on live, whether you're jumping on for the replay, it would be wonderful to hear how

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you're doing, what is God doing in your heart, and what are you getting out of the series so far.

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All right, we are good to go, and this session is going to be wild. We are going to be

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blowing up, we're going to be blowing up poverty in this session. Now, I had a slight technical

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difficulty, slight technical issue, my camera crashed on me just before, so this is not my

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normal camera, so excuse my slightly different camera setting. We are going to have a blast, so

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we're going to look at the three-phase economic training program that Jesus had

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that teaches us to dream with Him, to partner with Him, to disciple nations, and to create

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multi-generational legacy. So, we're going to pray in just a second, and then we are going to

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jump right on into this. So, here we are.

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All right, beautiful. Okay, family, let's pray. Let's get ready for what God's going to do in

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this session, which I know is going to be powerful and beautiful and really touching hearts and lives.

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So, yeah, let's pray. Papa, Jesus, Holy Spirit, wow, we love you, and we want to stop right now and give

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you all the glory, and we want to give you all the honor for everything that you were doing in our

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lives, and I thank you so much for this time we've been able to share together. Jesus, I thank you

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that you have been awakening us to the divine dance. You have been calling us back to your

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original intention, to your original design for our lives. Jesus, I thank you so much that you have been

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lifting us up into our identity, lifting us up to dream with you. Oh, we love you. We wait on

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your presence right now.

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Oh, we wait on you. We adore you. We love you. We wait on you. We thank you for your presence.

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We thank you for your anointing, and Holy Spirit, we acknowledge we are dependent on your anointing.

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We're dependent on your reign of word. We're dependent on your revelation. We're dependent

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on every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. We love you. We love you. We love you,

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and Holy Spirit, I thank you that you are opening up doors of revelation, doors of truth. I thank

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you, Holy Spirit, that you're opening up doors of truth that are allowing people to step into

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a whole new dimension, a whole new existence, a whole new world of intimacy with you. I thank

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you, Holy Spirit, right now for wrapping us up in divine love, in your beautiful name.

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I thank you for filling our hearts, for flooding our hearts with the wonder of your divine love.

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So right now, we lift you up. We exalt you. We give you all the glory and all the honor,

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and we thank you right now for the spirit of wisdom and revelation going before us as we

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journey into this session today in your beautiful name. Amen. Wow, family.

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Hey, so let me know where you are. Let me know how you are doing. Let me know where in the world

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you are jumping on from. I'm really excited to go into this session today as we jump into the

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three-phase economic training program that Jesus had for us. Now, we've, so

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far, we've explored royal identity, we've explored the royal vision that God has for us, you know,

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we are marked by the royal doxor of the King of Heaven. And how beautiful is it, you know,

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like something about Jesus that we want to really have in the forefront of our mind is that He is

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the King of Heaven. And everything that Jesus teaches, He teaches from this perspective of

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being the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, the King of Heaven, everything He brings has

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a royal dynamic, a royal aspect to it. So when He speaks to us on any topic, like He's bringing

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a royal perspective onto that topic so that we can step into the royalty that we're called to

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live in as the royal family of the universe. Oh, love it. Hey, quick pop quiz for you. Okay,

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quick pop quiz for you to kind of warm you up as we jump into the session today.

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So in Matthew 28 verses 19 to 20, did Jesus commission us to A, make some disciples,

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B, try not to be contaminated by the world, C, make disciples of all nations and baptize them

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in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, or D, avoid disappointment and not get

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our hopes up. So that is again, A, did Jesus, in Matthew 28, 19 to 20, did Jesus commission us to

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A, make some disciples, B, try not to be contaminated by the world, C, make disciples of

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all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, or D,

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avoid disappointment and not get our hopes up. Okay. Well, family, as we jump into this,

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the first thing that we're going to look at is the nature of money. But I want to just kind of

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touch on, like touch on this with you, like what do you want as your legacy? What do you want your

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legacy to be? Do you want a legacy of poverty? Do you want to, listen, King Solomon, who as well

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as another king, who's another person who brings an amazing royal perspective to royal economics

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and the royal economy that we're called to live in, something that King Solomon said, and this is

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from, you know, the wisest king that ever lived, he said in Proverbs 13, 22, that a good man leaves an

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inheritance for his children's children. How amazing is that? So let me know what, this is what I would

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like to hear from you right now. Chuck this in the comments and get thinking about this, but what

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legacy do you want to leave? You know, when you're, when you're all is said and done, when you've run

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your race, what is the legacy that you want to leave? What is the impact that you want to have?

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What do you want your impact, your multi-generational impact to be? Great question. So Jesus had a lot

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to say about the nature and the power of money, and so right now we're going to start by just

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exploring some biblical dynamics around the nature and the power of money, and then we're going to

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get into Jesus' three-phase economic training program that he has for all his disciples that

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empower us to dream with him, empower us to get into this place of discipling nations. Oh wow,

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I just feel his presence here. Well, I just want to encourage you right now just to enjoy his presence,

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just to delight in him. Oh my gosh, Jesus, you are so good. Well, actually someone yesterday in the

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comments mentioned that they, they weren't sure if my joy was real. They thought, man, this smile's

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got to be fake, this joy has got to be fake, but they said as they went on with me, they realized,

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wow, this is authentic, this is the real deal, and my prayer for them and this is my prayer for you

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is that your smile would be on earth as it is in heaven, that the joy that you carry, that you're

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going to carry in heaven, that that will be the joy and the smile and the delight that you carry

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right now. So Papa, I just declare right now on earth as in heaven, in Jesus' name, right now I

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declare a joy on earth as in heaven, I declare revelation, I declare freedom right now, I declare

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your presence moving and I just declare your presence coming on people's lives. I thank you

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for the power and the weight of your glory and your presence touching people's lives right now.

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Lord, I thank you that what we're going to say right now is going to be just deeper than just

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words and ideas, but I thank you that what we're getting into right now is going to be spirit to

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spirit and that your glory is going to be on it. And Papa, that's all we want. We want what your,

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we want your heart, we want your glory, we want what you're doing. We don't want our own ideas,

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but we want your heart. And so Jesus, I just ask in this session that your very glory will come

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upon people. It'll be spirit to spirit and deeper than just minds and ideas, but spirit to spirit

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that you would communicate to us and you would break open freedom like never before to step into

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and royal economy in Jesus name. Amen. Beautiful. I just feel like some.

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Someone just really needed that.

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And so just, man, may the joy of the Lord be on you

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as we jump into the session.

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So we're gonna touch now on the nature

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and the power of money, okay?

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So money in itself is not good or evil.

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Money is neutral.

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So everyone gets caught up on 1 Timothy 16,

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the love of money is the root of all evil.

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So that's the love of money.

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And it's not the love of money there

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is specifically speaking about greed, okay?

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If you look into it in the Greek,

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it's not talking about stewarding money

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as the root of all evil.

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It's not talking about having money

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as the root of all evil.

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It's not talking about using money

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as the root of all evil.

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It's stockpiling, it's greed and stockpiling wealth

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for your own ambition, regardless of what God has for you.

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It's just, it's greed and stockpiling wealth

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for your own ambition that's disconnected

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from the call of God.

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It's just stockpiling it for your own ambition.

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So that is the root of evil.

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Just it's greed, right?

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Greed, not just, it's not about money.

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It's greed in any context.

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Greed is the root of all evil, okay?

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So money in itself is neutral,

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but money is a great revealer of hearts.

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In Matthew 6, 24, Jesus said,

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no one can serve two masters.

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Either you will hate the one and love the other,

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or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.

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You cannot serve both God and money.

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And listen, here's why Jesus did that.

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He said that because you are not called to serve God

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and you're not called to serve God and money.

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What you're called to, right?

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Here's what you're called to as a member

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of the royal family of the universe.

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You're called to serve God

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and you're called to rule over money, okay?

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You are not to be money slave.

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And Jesus has a three phase economic training program

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to help you break free from being money slave, okay?

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Listen, money is not your friend.

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Money is not your enemy.

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Money is neutral.

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But there's two ways that money can rule over you, okay?

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And Jesus taught us how to be free

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from both of the ways that money enslaves us.

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So right now I wanna make a declaration, okay?

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Join me in this declaration right now, okay?

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This is the declaration we're gonna make,

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is that I rule and reign over money, okay?

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You are not called to be money slave.

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Let me know, do you agree or disagree?

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Are you called to be money slave

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or are you called to rule over money?

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Okay, this session is for those who know

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that they're called to rule and reign over money.

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As royalty, as sons and daughters of the most high king.

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So here we go, let's make our declaration.

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I rule and reign over money in Jesus' name.

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I rule and reign over money in Jesus' name.

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I rule and reign over money in Jesus' name.

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Amen, yes you do.

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And let's look at how Jesus taught us to do that.

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So there's three phases in Jesus' economic training program.

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And most people don't see this.

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Most people don't teach this, okay?

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When we live in the church,

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when it's full of orphan mindsets and poverty mindsets,

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they really get lost in the heart

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of what Jesus was really trying to teach us to do.

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And Jesus is trying to speak to us as royalty.

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He's not speaking to us as orphans.

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He's not speaking to us as slaves.

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He's speaking to us as royalty.

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And he is the king of heaven giving us instruction

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on how to participate in the ways of the kingdom

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and how to participate in royal economics.

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So anytime Jesus speaks to us about something,

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you have to understand he's bringing the royal perspective.

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He is, and listen, people sometimes get hung up

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about this concept of royalty.

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Like, oh, as though when we talk about kingdom royalty,

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we're talking about royal ways of the earth.

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We're not.

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Jesus redefines royalty,

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and Jesus defines the type of royalty

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that we're talking about.

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So this is all about Jesus, his heart, his perspective.

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about how to participate in a royal economy

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that liberates us to step into,

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like to participate in his great commission

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of discipling all nations, okay?

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So here we go.

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Phase one in Jesus' training on kingdom economics

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is about economic alignment, okay?

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is about stepping into purity of heart and mind

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in our relationship to money.

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Because the first way to become a slave to money

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is allowing money to rule over our hearts

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and rule over our minds.

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And when money rules over our hearts and minds,

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it produces greed and pride and identity issues

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and idolatry and poverty.

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And money can begin to rule over our beliefs,

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our feelings and emotions and motivations and actions.

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Money can enslave us,

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but Jesus wants purity of heart and mind

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because only a pure heart and a pure mind

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can rule over money.

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Let me say that again. Only a pure heart and a pure mind can rule over money.

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Now when Jesus talks about money, the majority of the time the amount of money is irrelevant,

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okay? So don't get caught up on how much money you have and whether that makes, you know,

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this is not about the amount of money, okay? Jesus is not that concerned right now with the

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amount of money that you have, all right? What he's concerned about is your relationship with

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money. It's not about how much you have or how little you have, it's about your relationship

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to it and whether or not money is ruling over your heart and your mind. So let's go a little

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bit deeper. This first phase, okay, this first phase of economic training is about economic

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alignment. It's about dealing with our hearts around the topic of money. It's about dealing

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with our perspectives, our values, our motivations. And this is, you know, where Jesus brings all this

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teaching, okay? So there's so much teaching that Jesus has regarding to our heart and our relationship

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with money. So let me give you some quotes from Jesus. Let me just like rattle off a whole bunch

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of quotes that Jesus gave regarding money. And these quotes regarding money, people often misperceive

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them and they hate these quotes and they think, oh, Jesus is really endorsing poverty, but he's not.

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He's trying to talk about purity of heart. So, seek first his kingdom. Blessed are the poor. Do not

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store up for yourselves treasures. No one can serve two masters. Sell your possessions. Give to the

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needy. Life does not consist of the abundance of possessions. What does it profit man to gain

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the whole world and to forfeit his own soul? It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a

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needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. Be on your guard against all

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covetousness. Out of her poverty, she put in all she had to live in. If you would be perfect, go,

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sell what you possess and give to the poor. Okay, so what should we learn from all these things that

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Jesus spoke? And what shouldn't we? Okay, so four lessons that we should learn from this regarding

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Jesus' lessons on purity of heart about money is here's what we should learn. Okay, four lessons we

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should learn. One, put God first in everything. Don't allow money to become an idol by letting

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money have a higher value than following God in everything you do. Two, you can't take your money

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with you when you die. So, use it to create a legacy that blesses the poor, expands the kingdom

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of God and produces a heavenly return. Three, we should learn that God loves extreme generosity.

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And number four, we should always, we should think, we should remember that God is always

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thinking about the poor and how to help the poor break free from poverty. Okay, God is not about

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stewarding the poverty, but when he talks about economic alignment, he always wants to help people

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break free from poverty. He doesn't want to steward poverty multi-generationally. So,

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give me a second here, team. Let me just have a little, have a little sip.

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Remember, the whole point, the whole point of the phase one of his economic training

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is to help us step into purity of heart and mind so that money doesn't rule over us. Jesus does

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not want us to be the slaves of money. We're not caught, we can't serve two masters, right? We serve

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God and we rule over money, but we have to have purity of heart. It's the first thing we must

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master. If we want to rule over money, we must step into purity of heart. So, what happens when

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we don't realize that Jesus has a three-phase economic training program is that we take these

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scriptures that I've just shared, and because of a lack mindset, we develop a poverty mindset that

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gets preached from the pulpit. And one of the crazy issues is that we spiritualize poverty,

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and there's so many Christians that actually wear poverty as like this badge of spiritual maturity

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when biblically poverty is always a curse. And I just want to declare this, poverty is a curse

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right now, like poverty is a curse. And so, I just want to say this, I break poverty off your life in

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Jesus' name. I break poverty mindsets off your life in Jesus' name. I break agreements with

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poverty off your life in Jesus' name. So, this is a major issue in the church. So many

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people just celebrate poverty, but it's absolutely not something that the kingdom endorses.

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So, here's what Jesus was dealing with, three things Jesus was dealing with in his

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phase one economic training. One, eternity, like our priorities,

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are our priorities on point and focused on eternity?

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one of the first things that you've got to make sure if you want to rule and reign over money,

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if you want a pure heart, you want to ensure that we are in alignment with kingdom values,

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righteousness, and keep our focus on eternity. All right, that's Matthew 6.33,

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seek first his kingdom. This has to be our priority. The second thing that he was dealing

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with is pride, okay? We can take so much pride out of money. It's possible for people to take

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pride out of money, and this was a big deal that Jesus was dealing with. He's like, you know, like,

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this is a big problem with the rich is that they take so many, they take false identities, they

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take pride, and if we're not careful, if we have, if we steward money, if we have a whole bunch of

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money, or if you don't have a whole bunch of money, it's possible to take an identity from your money

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rather than from Jesus. So Jerusalem had a gate called the eye of the needle, okay? So

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when, so Jesus said, you know, it's easier for a rich man, it's easier for a camel to pass through

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the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God, right? So when he said that,

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what he was talking about is there's a gate in the Jerusalem, you know, in Jerusalem called the eye

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of the needle, and a camel, in order to get down through that gate, right, it had to actually get

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on its knees, take its load off, take everything off, get on its knees, and actually had to crawl

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through that gate, the eye of the needle. And, you know, when, what Jesus was talking about is

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we really have to humble ourselves when it comes to this area of pride and money. He's saying you

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can't get through, he's saying if you don't want to be ruled by money, right, you can't be taking

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your identity from it. Because if you take your identity from money, whether you've got a lot

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or a little, then money will actually rule over you, right? The third thing that Jesus was making

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sure is that money doesn't become an idol for us, okay? So money has the ability to become an idol

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in our hearts. And this is the thing for the rich young ruler, right? This was the problem that he

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was addressing with the rich young ruler, is that the rich young ruler comes up to him and says,

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hey, Jesus, I've done everything, you've asked, what should I do? And Jesus asked him to sell

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everything and give it all to the poor. Why? Because this particular young man, Jesus wanted

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to expose the idolatry in his heart. And this is where he uses money as a great revealer of hearts,

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okay? He uses money to expose our hearts and our minds. And what we see here is that this guy,

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he had money as an idol. And when it comes to following Jesus, following Jesus will cost us

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the one thing that we are not willing to give until we are willing to surrender everything.

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And the rich young ruler wasn't willing to surrender his money. So he was exposing the

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heart to bring us into this place of purity. So this is heart. Okay, sweet. We are gonna move on.

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So that's the first part, okay? First part is economic alignment. So say economic alignment.

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And the whole point of economic alignment for Jesus is to ensure that our hearts are a place

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of purity in our relationship with money. We're not being, money's not ruling over us, because

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if you don't have a pure heart and relationship to money, money will rule over you. So let's keep

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keep chugging along. Most of what Jesus taught about money was first to ensure money did not

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rule us by corrupting our hearts and mind, okay? So Jesus' first phase, right? We're gonna explore

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now the second phase, okay? So the first phase is economic alignment. And the second phase is economic

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assignment. But when he starts, you're gonna see a shift here. So watch this, you're gonna see a shift.

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After chapter 25 in Matthew, Jesus stops dealing with all the verses about economic alignment, okay?

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He stops talking about all the purity of heart ones, all those ones. He actually starts shifting

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to his second phase. So after in Matthew, in the book of Matthew, it's after chapter 25, he shifts

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into his second phase. And in the book of Luke, it's after Luke 19, he shifts and it's no longer

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dealing about the heart and having, it's now dealing about, it's now dealing about

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principles and systems, okay? Because the second way that money rules over you is if money controls

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your time and resources. If we don't have time and resources, money rules over us. So this is the

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second way that money rules over us, is through time and resources. You know, if we have to go to

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work or we're obligated to trade our time for money, then we have become a slave to money.

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That might be a big concept or a big shock to us, right?

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But these are the two ways that money rules over us.

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First, money tries to corrupt us.

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So the first way, the only way that,

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the first thing that we have to establish

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if we wanna rule over money is purity of heart and mind.

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The second thing that we have to master

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if we wanna rule over money is principles and systems.

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Now, this is a bit of a mindset shock

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and people aren't used to seeing this in Jesus' teaching,

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but hold with me here

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because we're gonna unlock how Jesus taught

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about principles and systems and stewardship.

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Because the second phase is about economic assignment.

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And what so many people haven't realized

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is that there is an economic assignment on our lives.

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Did you know that?

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Did you know that there is an economic assignment

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on your life?

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Yes, there is.

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And listen, it's a sacred economic assignment

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that's on your life.

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This is the second phase that Jesus taught about money.

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There is a sacred economic assignment on your life.

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And if you don't master the sacred economic assignment

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on your life, money will rule over you.

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Money will cripple your calling and your dream.

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So in order to become money's master, right?

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we're called to serve God and rule over money.

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and get free from money controlling us,

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we also have to get free from money

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controlling our time and our resources.

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We have to really lean in here

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to see what Jesus is teaching us here.

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But to break free from the control of money,

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we must master systems and principles

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and implementing systems and principles

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will empower us to rule and reign over money.

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So what we can actually get into here right now

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is actually some of the ancient biblical mindsets

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around money.

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Some of the ancient biblical secrets around money

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that actually produce time freedom,

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that actually enable us to rule and reign over money.

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Would you like to rule and reign over money

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in the area of time and resources?

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This is something that is so key

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in what Jesus is talking about.

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I mean, so here we go.

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Most people, let me just highlight this.

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Most people really have never been told

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that they have a sacred God-given economic assignment

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and responsibility on their lives.

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But the truth is that each one of us,

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we actually have a sacred God-given economic assignment

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and responsibility on our lives.

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And God is actually testing us in our finances.

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So I just want you to declare this.

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I want you to declare this.

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I have a sacred economic assignment on my life, all right?

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I have a sacred economic assignment on my life.

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Listen, God is testing us in the area of our finances.

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and who is a lazy steward.

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Oh my gosh, yeah, this is true.

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We're gonna see this as we jump into these parables.

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So we're gonna look at a couple of parables right now.

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We're Jesus teaching us about our economic assignment.

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We're just gonna say this one more time.

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You have a sacred economic assignment on your life.

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the parable of the talents.

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the parable of the minors.

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So are you ready?

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Are you ready to jump into your sacred economic assignment?

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So first of all, first part of this process,

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remember that Jesus taught us alignment,

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having purity of heart and minds,

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having purity in our relationship with money.

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That's the first way that we rule over money.

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Listen, the second way that we rule over money

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is through principles and systems.

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So Matthew 25, verses 14 to 18.

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Let me give you a little bit of context first.

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So a talent, the value of a talent

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was about 1 million New Zealand dollars, okay?

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It was 20 years worth of wages, okay?

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So that's a lot, 20 years wages

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is how much this one talent is, okay?

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20 years worth of wages.

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It was 18 kilograms of gold, okay?

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and he gives out five bags of gold, okay?

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You know, that was 100 years worth of wages.

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Matthew 25, verse 14 is where we're starting at.

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So again, it will be like a man going on a journey

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who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them.

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To one, he gave five bags of gold,

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100 kilograms of gold, you know what I mean?

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that's a hundred years wages that he just got given to another two bags to

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another one bag each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. The man

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who had received five bags of gold went once and put his money to work and again

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gained five bags more. So also the one with two bags of gold gained two more

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but the one who had received one bag went off dug a hole in the ground and

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hid his master's money. After a long time the master of those servants returned

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and settled accounts with him. The man who had received five bags of gold

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brought the other five. Master he said you entrusted me with five bags of gold

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see I have gained five more. His master replied well done good and faithful

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servant you have been faithful with a few things I will put you in charge of

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many things come and share your master's happiness. Okay so there's one of the

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first things that we can see about our economic assignment is what does it look

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like to to be winning in your economic assignment. So when you're winning in

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your economic assignment winning looks like this is a blueprint for what what

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winning looks like. Winning looks like multiplication okay. And here's another

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thing is that the like in the kingdom like a hundred years worth of wages was

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considered a few things. Wow that's wild. Okay so let's let's carry on. Verse 22

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the man with two bags of gold also came. Master he said you entrusted me with two

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bags of gold see I have gained two more. His master replied well done good and

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faithful servant you have been faithful with a few things I will put you in

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charge of many things come and share your master's happiness. So there's there

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are multi-faceted rewards for good financial stewardship in both this life

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and eternity okay. So you just want to note that down okay. So there's

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consequences and rewards when it comes to our financial stewardship. Verse 24

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then the man who had received one bag of gold came. Master he said I knew that you

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were a hard man harvesting where you have not sold and gathering where you

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have not scattered seed so I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the

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ground see here is what belongs to you. Okay what I want to touch on here right

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what I want to touch on for you here is that there is an investor mindset. Jesus

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is highlighting investors mindset okay so and the the servant here understands

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that the master has an investor mindset. He says you are harvesting where you

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have not scattered that's an investor's mindset. So Jesus is an investor and he is

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looking for a return. He's looking for an automated a residual return on his

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investment in your life. Jesus has planted good seed in you and he's

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looking for a return. So investors are used to having their investment make a

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return for them okay. So this is listen here's a real dynamic around royalty

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okay. This is a real real mindset shift around royalty and I want you to kind of

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like we have to kind of go through this carefully in a sense because I don't

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want to like blow your minds out too much but royalty right you understand

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this right you understand that royalty don't work a nine-to-five job right you

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know royalty don't work a nine-to-five for money. Now yes they do work and

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they're very very diligent and the focus of royalty is actually usually

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discipling nations not just doing a nine-to-five job. So but here's the thing

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and Jesus remember Jesus is speaking to us from the perspective of royalty as the

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king of heaven he's speaking to us and we can catch so much here about royal

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paradigms and royal perspectives about money. See royalty have other financial

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systems in place that create residual income for them so that they are free to

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pursue their dreams. Listen to me listen to me and hear me hear me with this.

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Royalty okay royalty aren't dependent on a nine-to-five for money and so what

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do they do with their time? Royalty first of all royalty have systems and

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principles in place that create wealth for them and as a result of having

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systems and principles in place that are creating money for them royalty then get

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to utilize their time for discipling nations. Now what could that look like

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for you if you had systems in place that made money for you automated systems that

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made money for you even while you're sleeping so that you can steward your

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time to disciple nations. Now this is so important and this is something that we

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want to make sure that we don't don't miss here. The money that's being made in

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the system the way that Jesus is teaching people to make money here is

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not through a nine-to-five.

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He's actually really highlighting the dynamic that royal mindsets are investor mindsets, okay?

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Royalty, so just note this down because remember there's two ways that money rules over us. The

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first way is through, you know, if it can corrupt our hearts and minds. But if you have purity

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in heart and mind, then you can, you're actually empowered to rule over money. But the second way

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that money will rule over you is if you don't have any, okay? It doesn't matter how pure your heart

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and mind is, if you don't have money, right? Money is going to dictate where you can go, what you

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can do. If you're in poverty, right, you don't have many options. If you're in poverty, then

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money is ruling over you. So let's carry on with this. Verse 26. This master replied, you wicked,

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lazy servant. So you knew that I harvest where I have not sold and gather where I have not

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scattered seed. He's like, that's the investor mindset, okay? I'm just making my money work

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for me. That's what the, that's the investor mindset. Well, then you should have put my money

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on deposit with the bankers so that when I returned, I would have received it back

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with interest, okay? So again, it's the investor mindset. It's like this money should be making

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money, all right? That's a royal mindset that your money makes money for you. Verse 28. So

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take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has 10 bags for whoever has will be given

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more and whoever does not have even what they have will be taken from them and throw that worthless

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servant outside into the darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Okay, so this is

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a crazy concept, right? That, you know, this servant was called a wicked and lazy servant.

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Those are pretty strong words, right? A wicked and lazy servant. So he's called a wicked and lazy

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servant. Do you agree? Was this servant a wicked and lazy servant? If so, why do you think he was

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a wicked and lazy servant? All right, so let me share a story about a pastor from the Ukraine

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called Pastor Sunday Adonijah. And a lot of people haven't heard of Pastor Sunday,

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but a lot of people have. So he was reading this parable here and God really was actually

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in a conversation with God. God really convicted him and said, hey, you're like the wicked lazy

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servant. Pastor Sunday Adonijah, the last thing you would say about him is that he was

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wicked or lazy, right? You know, because this guy, he's like full on devoted to the kingdom.

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He's extremely focused. He is working, you know, 12 plus hours a day to advance the kingdom.

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But God said to him, you're the wicked and lazy servant. And Pastor Sunday was like, what? How

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am I the wicked lazy servant? And God said, well, listen, in your understanding of money,

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you haven't learned the principles of kingdom economics. You haven't learned the systems and

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the principles of kingdom economics. So he really felt convicted. He's like, okay, God will teach me

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the principles of royal economics. Teach me these things. So what I'm talking to you about now are

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the things that Sunday Adonijah, he then went away and learned them. He went away and actually

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really studied what Jesus said about kingdom economics. And then he began to steward it and

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implement it. It's an amazing story. He made a goal to create a million dollars, a million US dollars.

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He made it his goal. He said, okay, God, if you're teaching me about kingdom economics, let me then

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put it into place. Let me see that it actually works. So he set a goal. He said, okay, God,

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then I want to make a million US dollars in my first year of business. And the crazy thing

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was that he actually, he implemented kingdom economics, right? These are the things that I'm

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sharing with you now. Purity of heart and mind and then mastering systems and principles. So he put

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these kingdom economics into place. And in less than a year, he had returned over a million US

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dollars, right? In his first year. And so he's like, wow, this really works. So he took it back

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into his church. And listen, his church, right? His church is people who would come off the streets,

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prostitutes, drug addicts, all sorts of chaos and trouble and out of prison and out of jail.

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And what he started to do is he started to teach them the royal economics that Jesus had been

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teaching him. And in less than three years, he had raised up over 200 millionaires in his church.

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Wow, that is wild, right? Let me know if you think that is wild. Now, is this him just being

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worldly? Is this him just teaching prosperity doctrine? Is this just him just going off the

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rails? No, it's not, my friends. It's actually what happens when someone understands that there's a

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royal economy that we can step into and that Jesus taught us how to rule and reign over money.

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See, we're going to see in the next phase, the third phase, how important this is and how this

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relates to our assignment. But the first phase is economic alignment. The second phase is economic

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assignment. And so the economic assignment on your life is to be in place.

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to be applying Kingdom principles that actually cause abundance, that produce multiplication.

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So let's carry on. Oh, this is a crazy concept, right? That they, Jesus said, take the bag away.

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Okay, so take the bag off that servant who hasn't been stewarding well. So what you see here is,

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you know, and the other servant gets the reward. So what you're going to see is that when you

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start implementing, when you start being faithful, implementing Kingdom economics in your life,

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what you're going to see is the momentum of heaven will come on you. Favor of God will come on you

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as you're stewarding well. Favor will come upon your life. And that's exactly what Jesus is

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highlighting here. Now, if you aren't stewarding money well, it is possible to, you know, like

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what Jesus has shown here, it's possible that you will lose favor. This is an interesting concept

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right here, that God really is testing us. And it's not the only way he's testing us, but it's

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important for us to understand that God takes our relationship with money seriously. God takes

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our stewardship of money seriously. And for those who will really steward, who will lean in and like

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Pastor Sunday at a night, you go, okay, God, I'm going to take this really seriously. He will breathe

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massive favor in this area. So remember, it's not about the amounts of money, okay? When God

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is stewarding us, and that's what we see as well, you know, with these servants here, it wasn't about

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the amount of money. God wasn't worried about that. You know, Jesus isn't concerned about that

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so much in the parable, but he did say, you know, according to their ability. So to those who'd

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actually shown that they were proficient and that shown that they had been good stewards, he was

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already like, okay, I know this guy's a good steward. I'm going to give the good steward way

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more. Those that don't have so much ability, I won't give them so much. But listen, what the key

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is here is it's not about the amount of money and you shouldn't feel good or bad, really about the

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amount of money. That's not what Jesus is really focused on. He's focused on your stewardship of

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that money. Okay, let's jump into Luke 19. Now, Luke 19 is the parable of the miners, and we're

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going to race through it. So a miner is different to a talent. A miner was about four months wages

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as opposed to 20 years wages. So here we go. Luke 19 verse 11. When they were listening to this,

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he went on to tell them a parable because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the

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kingdom of God was going to appear at once. He said, a man of noble worth went to a distant country

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to have himself appointed king and then to return. The point here to just be aware of is that this is

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a noble man. So he's actually kind of drawing this to us as a royal class. So you can expect

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royal mindsets, royal paradigms. So you want to pay attention to that because that's

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what you want to get out of this. It's important in this parable that the character is royalty

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because Jesus wants us to be thinking like royalty. He wants to paint a picture of how

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royalty steward their money. So first of all, royalty take risks with their money. They

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actually use it, they take risks. Secondly, they are always looking for ways to create multiple

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streams of income. These are some royal mindsets. You're not going to hear this from someone

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who's celebrating poverty, but when you're hanging around Jesus, he's going to celebrate royal

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mindsets and these are some of his royal mindsets. Royalty are looking for ways to create multiple

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streams of income and to create residual income. And royalty invest their money before they spend

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it so that it multiplies. That's a big point. So verse 13, so he called 10 of his servants

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and gave them 10 miners. Put this money to work, he said, until I come back. Now here's another

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massive concept for royalty. Royalty don't work for money. They make money work for them. Okay,

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I make money work for me in Jesus name, right? Royalty don't work for money. They make money

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work for them. Verse 14. But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to him to say,

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we don't want this man to be our king. He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent

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for his servants to whom he had given the money in order to find out what they had gained with it.

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The first one said, sir, your miner has earned 10 more. Like that's an amazing return, right? That's

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a tenfold. That's a crazy, crazy return. Turn one miner into 10. That is an epic return.

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Well done, my good servant, his master replied. Because you have been trustworthy in a very small

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matter, take charge of 10 cities. Now this is where it gets really, really powerful in terms of

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God. We see the bigger picture of why Jesus is testing us, okay? This is wild. Jesus is looking

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for people that he can entrust to rule and reign over cities. That is exciting, okay? So you might

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think, oh, why is it important? Why is God worried about my money?

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God's worried about your money because it's not really just about your money, it's about

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how you steward everything that he's placed in your hand. God wants to see you stewarding

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everything that he has placed in your hand like royalty. He wants to see you stewarding like

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royalty because he's looking for the great stewards to entrust with authority over cities.

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How wild is that? He's looking for people to entrust dominion to. He's looking for people

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to entrust authority to. He's looking for people to entrust power to. And he's wondering, he's

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looking and he's testing you and your finances to see, are you a good steward? Are you a faithful

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steward? Can he entrust authority over cities, authority over nations, dominion over regions?

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Can you be entrusted with that? He's going to check your bank balance, not your bank balance,

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but he's going to check your stewardship, how you steward the resources, not just money,

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the resources that he's placed in your hand. Are you a good steward? Can you be entrusted

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with authority over cities? The second came and said, sir, your miner has earned five more. At

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this point, the man has just gone into profit. So he gave out 10 miners when he went away and

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he now has 15 miners. So this is the second thing you can see is that this guy, he's already made

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a profit. That's just off the first two servants, he's already made a profit. So that's good. His

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master answered, you take charge of five cities. Then another servant came and said, sir, your

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miner, here is your miner. I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth. I was afraid of you

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because you were a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.

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So again, Jesus is highlighting the investor mindset here. It's a royal mindset of your money

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makes money for you. And we don't hear about the other seven, but either way, he's already in a

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profit. So he started with 10, he's now got 16. And regardless of what the other seven did,

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he's already made money. So the point is, one of the key things here is that royalty make money

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work for them. Royalty don't work for money, they make money work for them. So this is a question

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for you. Jesus is looking to see whether or not you have understood that you can make money

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for you. It's possible. And Jesus wants to, he's interested. He's not scared of your money. He's

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interested to know, hey, have you learned yet how to make your money make money for you? Or are you

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dependent on a nine to five? Because royalty make money work for us. That's just something Jesus is

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looking to see in our lives. This is one of the ways that Proverbs 13, 22 is fulfilled that a

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righteous man or a good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children. How? Because they,

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throughout their life, learn to make their money make money for them. So his master replied,

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I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant. You knew, did you, that I'm a hard man

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taking out what I did not put in and reaping what I did not sow. Why then did you put my money,

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why then didn't you put my money on deposit so that when I came back, I could have collected

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it with interest. Then he said to those standing by, take this money away from him and give it to

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the one who has 10 miners. Certainly, they said, he already has 10. But he replied, I tell you that

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everyone who has more will be given to them. But as for the one who has nothing, even what they have

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will be taken away. So even if you have a little, if you steward it well, you start creating momentum,

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you start creating favor, you start creating even financial momentum on your life. Beautiful.

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All right. Hey, I want to give you something practical right now and just share a story with

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you from a Jewish friend of mine. So I've got a Jewish friend and she was telling me before she

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met Yeshua, before she met Yeshua and became a follower of Jesus,

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her and her Jewish friends, they always used to just laugh at Christians, okay? She was like,

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this is, they just, they thought that Christians were a joke, to be honest. It was like, oh my gosh,

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here's all these Christians coming up to us and telling us that they've got the secrets of the

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Bible and that we've completely missed it. But the Jewish people thought that was so funny because

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it's the secrets of the Bible, right, that actually teach Jewish people how to be wealthy,

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how to steward their finances. And that's why Jewish people are disproportionately wealthy,

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nearly everywhere you go. And listen, it also doesn't really matter what context that you put

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Jewish people in, they find a way to thrive because they understand biblical principles around

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money. It was actually the Rothschilds are a Jewish family. And when the Rothschilds were

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actually in a ghetto situation, when the Rothschild story started, they were being

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persecuted and Jewish people in Germany weren't allowed to even own property. So they had to do

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other things. And so they actually created the world banking system, okay? Jewish people are

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disproportionately wealthy and they understand finances, but where does that understanding come

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from? It comes from the Bible. It comes from their understanding of the Old Testament and how

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Proverbs and Solomon taught them how to utilize and steward money. So let me quickly share with you

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five ways that Jewish people steward money.

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And this is what they teach their kids, okay?

635
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And I think this is just so amazing,

636
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you know, to see that they teach their kids

637
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how to steward finances right from the very beginning.

638
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Okay, so this is called the five jars.

639
00:50:16.080 --> 00:50:18.240
Okay, this is called the five jars principle.

640
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And I actually do this with my kids

641
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and it's how we've been able to help our kids

642
00:50:22.200 --> 00:50:23.900
start creating residual income for them.

643
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So our kids have residual income streams.

644
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:27.880
Even my little girl, when she was a baby,

645
00:50:28.240 --> 00:50:30.240
she already had residual income streams

646
00:50:30.240 --> 00:50:32.360
starting to happen for her in her life.

647
00:50:32.360 --> 00:50:35.360
And it comes through this principle of the five jars, okay?

648
00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:38.800
So the five jars, what you've got to imagine is that,

649
00:50:39.680 --> 00:50:41.120
well, you don't have to just imagine this,

650
00:50:41.120 --> 00:50:42.200
but this is what we do with our kids.

651
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When they get their money,

652
00:50:43.200 --> 00:50:46.600
and this is the Jewish principle of the five jars, okay?

653
00:50:46.600 --> 00:50:50.040
And one other quick story is that one Jewish kid, right?

654
00:50:50.040 --> 00:50:51.840
His dad taught him how to do this.

655
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And so by the time he left school,

656
00:50:54.680 --> 00:50:55.840
he'd been doing this so much

657
00:50:55.840 --> 00:50:59.080
that he was able to buy his own house with cash, okay?

658
00:50:59.080 --> 00:51:00.320
So let me know if you think that would be cool

659
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:04.040
to have your own kids buy their own house with cash

660
00:51:04.040 --> 00:51:05.720
when they leave school.

661
00:51:05.720 --> 00:51:08.960
So the principle of the five jars is that you take a jar,

662
00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:10.760
just imagine, look, this is my cup of tea.

663
00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:12.800
Just imagine this is your jar, jar number one,

664
00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.360
and you put 10% in there for your ties.

665
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:16.480
Then you take jar number two,

666
00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:18.600
you put 10% in there for your offering.

667
00:51:18.600 --> 00:51:20.280
You take 10% in the next one,

668
00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:22.400
and you put 10% in there for savings.

669
00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:24.400
You take your next jar, and this is for investing,

670
00:51:24.400 --> 00:51:26.720
and you put 20% in the investing jar,

671
00:51:26.720 --> 00:51:28.640
and you take the next one for 50%,

672
00:51:28.640 --> 00:51:32.640
you put that in there, and you live off 50%.

673
00:51:32.640 --> 00:51:33.800
And I heard about this.

674
00:51:33.800 --> 00:51:35.680
It was not possible to live off 50%.

675
00:51:35.680 --> 00:51:36.800
Could you live off 50%?

676
00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:37.640
Let me know.

677
00:51:37.640 --> 00:51:40.320
Let me know if you could live off 50% of your income.

678
00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:41.680
To me, that was a crazy concept.

679
00:51:41.680 --> 00:51:42.520
I'm like, what?

680
00:51:42.520 --> 00:51:43.760
I couldn't do this.

681
00:51:44.920 --> 00:51:47.080
But this is the principle.

682
00:51:47.080 --> 00:51:48.560
And actually, how amazing is this, right?

683
00:51:48.560 --> 00:51:49.760
So for the Jewish people,

684
00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:53.080
they would focus on putting 10% into tithing,

685
00:51:53.080 --> 00:51:56.240
10% into offerings, 10% into savings,

686
00:51:56.240 --> 00:51:59.960
20% into investments, and 50% into living off.

687
00:51:59.960 --> 00:52:04.000
Now, you can only live off 50% if you master the 20%, okay?

688
00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:05.000
So this is so critical.

689
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:07.160
This is one of the mindsets that Jesus was teaching.

690
00:52:07.160 --> 00:52:11.080
Royalty, have their money, make money for them.

691
00:52:11.080 --> 00:52:13.600
Now, if the church actually taught kingdom,

692
00:52:13.600 --> 00:52:16.560
like actually taught biblical wisdom around finances,

693
00:52:16.560 --> 00:52:19.280
we would teach more about investments

694
00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:20.920
than we do about tithing, okay?

695
00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:25.680
Because Jewish people, they invest 20% at least

696
00:52:25.680 --> 00:52:27.920
and tithe only 10%, okay?

697
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:29.960
So what that should show us is that

698
00:52:29.960 --> 00:52:32.600
if you actually want to step into like royal economics,

699
00:52:32.600 --> 00:52:35.880
kingdom economics, biblical wisdom around finances,

700
00:52:35.880 --> 00:52:37.520
and if the church was stepping into that,

701
00:52:37.520 --> 00:52:39.120
if we wanted to really break poverty,

702
00:52:39.120 --> 00:52:41.240
if we want to break that curse off people's lives,

703
00:52:41.240 --> 00:52:43.160
we would teach them about investing.

704
00:52:43.160 --> 00:52:46.240
So just say, investing is the missing ingredient.

705
00:52:46.240 --> 00:52:48.080
It's the missing key, okay?

706
00:52:48.080 --> 00:52:50.000
Investing is the missing key.

707
00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:55.000
But when I first heard about this concept of the five jars,

708
00:52:55.120 --> 00:52:58.200
you know, you tithe 10%, you give 10% in offerings,

709
00:52:58.200 --> 00:53:01.160
you save 10%, you put 20% into investments

710
00:53:01.160 --> 00:53:02.240
and you live off 50%.

711
00:53:02.240 --> 00:53:03.920
Well, that to me was like,

712
00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:06.080
well, that's a crazy, crazy concept.

713
00:53:06.080 --> 00:53:07.760
But when I looked at the fruit of it,

714
00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:10.240
you know, like kids being able to buy their own houses,

715
00:53:10.240 --> 00:53:11.720
freeholder, I'm starting to realize,

716
00:53:11.720 --> 00:53:13.400
oh my gosh, this is amazing.

717
00:53:13.400 --> 00:53:15.080
What an amazing system.

718
00:53:15.080 --> 00:53:17.120
And I started to chat to my Jewish friends and like,

719
00:53:17.120 --> 00:53:19.480
yeah, this is why we are wealthy

720
00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:20.880
and this is why we laugh at Christians

721
00:53:20.880 --> 00:53:23.120
because they tell us, they know the secrets of the Bible,

722
00:53:23.120 --> 00:53:24.480
but they're living in poverty.

723
00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:25.520
And to Jewish people,

724
00:53:25.520 --> 00:53:28.200
the concept that you're living in poverty,

725
00:53:28.200 --> 00:53:29.840
it's like, to them that's a curse,

726
00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:30.680
to them that's like,

727
00:53:30.680 --> 00:53:33.640
well, why aren't you applying the principles of the Bible?

728
00:53:33.640 --> 00:53:36.280
You know, like, why aren't you applying this wisdom?

729
00:53:36.280 --> 00:53:38.040
Because then it's like, you're living in a curse.

730
00:53:38.040 --> 00:53:42.080
So what we started to do is we just started to make,

731
00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:48.120
and say this, say, small, sustainable change, okay?

732
00:53:48.120 --> 00:53:53.120
And this will be my challenge to you in terms of finances,

733
00:53:57.160 --> 00:54:00.520
you know, as you're stepping into your financial journey,

734
00:54:00.520 --> 00:54:03.680
if you're gonna go on a journey of transformation,

735
00:54:03.680 --> 00:54:04.520
if you wanna actually step

736
00:54:04.520 --> 00:54:06.160
into the economic assignment on your life, right?

737
00:54:06.160 --> 00:54:09.840
Because the first part of Jesus' teaching

738
00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:11.120
is economic alignments,

739
00:54:11.120 --> 00:54:14.760
that's having purity of heart and mind

740
00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:18.400
so that money can't rule over your heart and mind.

741
00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:21.560
And then the second part is kingdom assignments.

742
00:54:21.560 --> 00:54:24.600
So this is what Jesus is trying to communicate,

743
00:54:24.600 --> 00:54:28.360
is that you have a sacred economic assignment on your life,

744
00:54:28.360 --> 00:54:30.680
and it's all about how you steward your money.

745
00:54:30.680 --> 00:54:33.600
And have you learned how to make money, make money for you?

746
00:54:33.600 --> 00:54:35.400
Because if you haven't learned how to make money,

747
00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:36.600
make money for you,

748
00:54:36.600 --> 00:54:38.920
then money will control your time,

749
00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:40.520
money will control your resources.

750
00:54:40.520 --> 00:54:43.160
Jesus actually wants us to step into a place of wisdom

751
00:54:43.200 --> 00:54:44.840
and principles and systems

752
00:54:44.840 --> 00:54:48.240
that actually breaks the power of money over us.

753
00:54:48.240 --> 00:54:49.640
And it's just like the Jewish people

754
00:54:49.640 --> 00:54:51.120
are walking in this already,

755
00:54:51.120 --> 00:54:53.000
and Jesus is like, okay, come on, Christians,

756
00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:55.280
I want you to catch the heart of this.

757
00:54:55.280 --> 00:54:58.640
But for us, when we wanted to start making change in this,

758
00:54:58.640 --> 00:55:00.440
you know, like when I started out,

759
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.480
out of my financial journey, we were having $20. I had $25

760
00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:08.200
support a fortnight, and $20 of that went to my sponsored kid in

761
00:55:08.240 --> 00:55:11.340
Africa, right. So I had like $5 a fortnight. And that's where I

762
00:55:11.340 --> 00:55:13.860
started my journey. And so for me, we kind of started right

763
00:55:13.860 --> 00:55:18.400
through a lot of poverty, and my wife had credit, credit card

764
00:55:18.400 --> 00:55:20.380
debt, and pressure on our marriage and all of these

765
00:55:20.380 --> 00:55:24.440
things. But change happened, and big things happened. And they

766
00:55:24.440 --> 00:55:26.480
even started happening financially for us, when we

767
00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:30.720
started making small sustainable changes. So, you know, could you

768
00:55:30.720 --> 00:55:32.720
make a one degree shift somewhere in your finances, you

769
00:55:32.720 --> 00:55:36.140
know, like, could you start saving, you know, 5% or a

770
00:55:36.140 --> 00:55:38.520
little bit just so that's what my challenge to you is, is there

771
00:55:38.520 --> 00:55:41.200
somewhere in your world regarding your finances that you

772
00:55:41.200 --> 00:55:46.080
could start making a small sustainable change? Right. So

773
00:55:46.080 --> 00:55:51.600
the third, the third part, right, the third phase of Jesus

774
00:55:51.600 --> 00:55:54.840
teaching on finances is reformation. Okay, say

775
00:55:54.840 --> 00:55:57.720
reformation. So we've got economic alignment, economic

776
00:55:57.720 --> 00:56:00.480
assignment, and economic reformation. So when you really

777
00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:04.400
master the economic alignment, you're in purity of heart, and

778
00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:07.240
you can help people step into purity of heart. When you master

779
00:56:07.240 --> 00:56:09.840
your economic assignment, you actually start breaking the

780
00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:13.260
curse of poverty off your life. And that's what Jesus is so

781
00:56:13.260 --> 00:56:16.120
passionate about seeing is breaking the curse of poverty

782
00:56:16.120 --> 00:56:18.760
off your life. And then you get to step into the third part,

783
00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:21.460
which is economic reformation, which is where Jesus really

784
00:56:21.460 --> 00:56:24.740
wants us to be in as a place of economic reformation, where

785
00:56:24.740 --> 00:56:28.220
we're breaking poverty off other people's lives. We're expanding

786
00:56:28.220 --> 00:56:31.420
the kingdom of God, we're growing the kingdom of God. And

787
00:56:31.420 --> 00:56:34.460
we're bringing heaven to earth through our finances. So guys,

788
00:56:34.460 --> 00:56:37.260
we're going to get into that next part of economic

789
00:56:37.260 --> 00:56:40.540
reformation issues and really exciting stories with you about,

790
00:56:40.620 --> 00:56:43.140
you know, how God is bringing economic reformation in the

791
00:56:43.140 --> 00:56:46.820
world, how you can be a part of just awesome stuff. So that's

792
00:56:46.820 --> 00:56:49.820
our next session is economic reformation and bringing heaven

793
00:56:49.820 --> 00:56:53.300
to it. So really, really excited about that, fam, and bless you.

794
00:56:53.300 --> 00:56:56.740
And I'm going to see you real soon in our next live. So bless

795
00:56:56.740 --> 00:56:59.260
you. We'll catch you soon. Love you. Bye bye.