In this meeting, and I praise the Lord for it. I don't want to sound like a pessimist. I'm not a pessimist. I refuse, by the grace of God, to join that complaining crowd. I learned a long time ago, preacher, if I think negative, I become negative, I preach negative, and my fruit's negative. I'm not talking about forgetting sin, I'm not talking about that at all, but I'm talking about if I preach with victory, think with victory, I live with victory, I preach with victory, and I help others have victory along the way. I'm not down, but you ask these missionaries and you'll find out real quickly, not every meeting they get in is like this, not every meeting I get in is like this. I go to a lot of meetings out, there's absolutely nothing done in preparation. I mean, I'm not saying somebody didn't pray, but no preparation, nothing in the building changes, no. And it's just, you know, we come in, go to meet, and let's hurry up and get over and get out of here so we can go back. But you're just going all out this weekend. I praise the Lord for it. I appreciate Brother Sexton, his family, and all of you family. I just almost feel like family myself. I don't know if somebody stuck me a message up here on one of these little things or not. some one of you missionaries ever probably left your little stick up here. I don't know, but I'm going to, I'm going to lay it over here. I'll knock it off somewhere. All right, let's stand together. If you would please our Bible open first Corinthians chapter number 16, first Corinthians chapter number 16. I read verses one, two, three, and four. I probably read this for 10 years here. Now you say, why are you still reading? Some of you not got it. I heard about a fellow, Brother Sexton, who had taken a church, and he preached a few Sundays, and then he preached on 1 John 2, 15, love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. Come back next Sunday and said, turn your Bible to 1 John 2, 15. He preached it a second time. Come back the next Sunday, said, turn your Bible to 1 John 2, 15, preached it a third time. So the deacons kind of met with him at the church and said, when are you going to preach something else? And he said, when you all start practicing what I'm preaching now. Amen. 1 Corinthians chapter 16, verse 1, 2, 3, and 4. The Bible said, now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him in store, as God had prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. And when I come, whomsoever you shall approve of your letters, then will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. And if it be me that I go also, they shall go with me. Keep your Bible open. Let's bow our heads and hearts for a moment of prayer and then the message for this morning from God's eternal word. Heavenly Father, thank you again for the joys of the Lord that has been so abundant to my own heart during these days. Lord, I never get tired of thanking you. You let me be born in America. As I looked at these slides, I realized, dear Lord, I could have been born anywhere, lived and died, and never heard your name, never had a Bible, never had a church, never met a Christian, born in darkness, live in darkness, die in darkness, and live eternally in a Christless hell. But in your mercy, somehow, dear Lord, you let me be born. in America. You let me hear the gospel. You save me by your grace. You call me to preach. You put me in the ministry. You've kept me there all these years. And what I say with a songwriter, I owe it all to you. Thank you, Father, for this good church, this dear people. And I pray to the Lord that you help us to continue to remember, without you, we're nothing. All that we ever, ever hope to be, we owe it all to you. Father, I pray now you will speak to our hearts from your word today. Give us ears to listen, a heart to understand, and a readiness of mind and will to do that, oh God, that you want us to do in the service today. Save the lost, bless your people. We'll praise you for all that you do. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen, and amen. Thank you may be seated do keep your bible open, please for the message for today from the word of god in first corinthians chapter number 16 i'll come there in just a few moments and deal with that, but I want to I have learned I'm, not minimizing bible terminology. Please don't think that but i've learned a lot of times that Practical illustrations and practical statements are a great way to put on people's mind things that remember and help them to understand as well as remember. Now, I want you to hear me please and don't cut me off till I get through. The church is the Lord's church. That's a good place to say amen. Can I say it again? I don't think we're caught. The church is the Lord's church. I want to say it one more time. The church is the Lord's church. You know what that means? It's not mine. It's not yours. I don't mind you calling this my church. I use that expression, but we know what we're talking about there. You say, what are you saying, preacher? Well, since it's the Lord's church, financing it is the Lord's bill. Pity the person who's got such a poor old God that he has to depend upon us to pay his bill. Are you with me? So God set up a method, his own method, his own plan to pay the bills, to operate his church. Can I get an amen? And it's not yard sales. It's tithes and offerings. And can I say this? Abraham practiced it over 4,000 years ago and it still works. Where God's people will give tithes and offerings to the local church treasury, God through them will pay the bills to finance the church. The tithe is the Lord's, it doesn't belong to us. Amen? And so God literally says, I'm entrusting you with this money to put in the church to pay the bills. And this money don't belong to you, it belongs to God. Can I make another statement? The Great Commission is the Lord's. Now, Brother Sexton, you and I preach it, but it's not our orders, it's God's orders. It's God's commission. Do you know what that means? It's God's bill. Well, missions is not my bill. Can I get an amen? It's God's bill. Can I say it? Listen to me. I didn't tell you to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. God did. Now, what kind of God would it be that would give an order and not pay for it? Brother Wayne, I want to use Andy as your son, am I right? I could use your daughter, but I use Andy. We make the boys out of this thing, but I don't know. I'm making up a story. People can identify with where it's a true fact about your situation, but I want to use you and Andy. I could use me and my son. But I don't know a thing about young days in your life, but let's just, let me make my story. Here's where the Sexton's live, out in the country. Down the road, just a little piece, is a little country store. You got it in your mind? Back in them days, you couldn't send your children to the store. So Andy's 12 years old, and preacher says to him, Andy, we need a loaf of bread. Run down to the store and get a loaf of bread. What's Andy gonna do? He give the order. It's his bill. Are you with me? Now, when he puts that money in Andy's hand, Andy better guard it and do with it what daddy told him to. Now he may say to your daddy, can I get me a bar of candy, and you give permission to that, but then the rest of it is brought back to daddy. Now there is no rest of it in what I'm talking about, but God give us a commission. And God did it expecting to pay the bill. God's not, can I say, poor old God if he's counting on me. to pay his bill. But the principle is, daddy gave it to son because daddy gives son an order, a commandment. Now Brother Sexton, let me change it again. This time, and I know this is a little bit out of, but you can follow me anyway. Son, your mama's got a list. It looked like this may be $20. If you're going to give him a loaf of bread, in them days you could give him a dime. I'm going to give him a dollar. I remember when you got a loaf of bread for a dime. But if you give a list, you don't just give a dollar. You know about what it's going to cost to do what you told him to do. You're not going to hand him a dollar bill and say, Andy, see if you can buy all this with this. Can somebody say amen? Are you reading what I'm saying? What I'm saying is, whatever God orders you to do, He will put in your hand according to pay the bill. If God orders $5 a week, God's planning on paying it. If God orders $25, He's planning on paying it. If God orders a hundred, he's planning on paying it. Come on, it's his bill. Not mine, it's his. God owns it all. Now, I'm just kind of rambling, but I hope I'm not rambling. But I want to do another thing. I think I done this last year. There is a God in heaven. Can I get an amen there? There's a world going to hell. That God loved that world enough, he gave his son to die for it. That same God said, can I put it in today's language, all the money's mine. All the silver and all the gold, God said, I want it all. Now what kind of God would it be that would give his son to die for a world and withhold the money that's gonna take for somebody to go tell him? I want to make a statement, I make it fearfully, but it's true. God the Father would betray his son if he sent him to die for a cause that he wouldn't win under finance. That's a big statement, preacher, but it's a true truth from the Word of God. God the Father sent his son to die. Can I get an amen? God the Father would betray that son that died for the world if he would not finance a program for the world to know. The world can't be saved if they don't know. So what I'm saying to you this morning, and I've jumped ahead to do this, but what I'm saying to you this morning is don't worry about what God orders. Because God's going to give you sufficiency to cover what He sends you to do. Well, the dangers of faith promise is we get accustomed to it. And it can become two or three things. Number one, you know, well, it's faith promise again. I need to raise mine a couple of dollars so I can really feel good and say I'm giving more than I gave last year. Number two, there can be some question rise up and say, well, I don't know if I can raise it or not. I'm just going to maintain it. And that may be the will of God for somebody, preacher. Stay where they're at. But there's also a tendency to look at it and say, well, I've done this. And you know, what excuse you want to put? Things are tight. Things don't look good. And retreat. There may be some cases where it's the will of God that you don't give what you've given before, especially if you've changed from, you know, a good income to living on limited income. But I want to tell you this, God's not in the fixed income business. Did you ever try to put fixed income in the Bible? Now the just shall live by fixed income. Whatever's not a fixed income is sin. Without fixed income, it's impossible to please God. I'm not making fun of people who live unlimited. I'm not doing that at all. But I'm saying to you, God is not changed. God's neither in a depression or recession or obsession or concession. He's still God. And it's very important that we look at today's faith promise in the light of the judgment seat of Christ for us. and eternity for the unsaved that we're going after. I want to emphasize again, Brother Sexton, I'm using you because you're the pastor, but you would not say to Andy as a 12-year-old boy, son, go get mama some groceries without you gave him some money. God's not going to tell you to do something He's not going to provide. Matter of fact, I like this, and I had no idea rambling this way when I started, but going this direction, maybe I should say. Faith promise. Preacher, it's really not us promising God first. It's God promising us. Because God's not going to tell you to give what He's not going to provide. So it's literally God saying to you, if you'll believe me, confess it, I'll provide it. Am I wrong? Are you following me? I'm not wrong. It's God promising me. God said if you'll obey me and trust me, I will put in your possession money to put in my work. Faith is saying, Lord, I'll take it and I'll put it in. I'll do it. It's not according to what I can see. but according to what I can do. Brother Bill, you probably know Brother Josh Harjo, the Indian Choctaw Indian. Brother Harjo's the one that taught me faith promise. When I was, the first one I ever had, he preached the first seven rank conferences that we had there at Bethel. And Brother Harjo used to make this statement, he'd say, if God lays it on your heart to do it, God's already gonna provide it. But he said, now, if you can see it, it's not a faith. If you can figure it out, it's not a faith. And if you didn't ask God what God wanted you to do, and Him tell you, it's not a faith. Faith's not you just doing something good. Amen? Faith is simply, and no offense to the military men, but faith is just simply a yes to the authority that's issued you an order. God said, Noah, build an ark. Preacher, you've got to read all the way to Hebrews 11 before you find this statement. By faith, Noah moved with fear and built an ark. God said, Abraham, come out! Genesis 11. You've got to come all the way to Hebrews 11 to find out. By faith, Abraham Faith is no more than a simple obedience, trust in God, wherever God guides. I used to say God will provide, but then I learned it's God's already provided. God said to Elijah, I have commanded the ravens. He talked to the ravens before he talked to Elijah. God said to Elijah, I have commanded the widow woman. He talked to the widow woman before he talked to Elijah. Whatever God tells you to do, the resources, can I use a carnal word that we understand? The resources are already in God's account. He's got the money. And He'll dish it out as He sees the need in our life. God will give to us what He will not give to us. Now, that's a summary of the burden that's on my heart. And more and more in these days, don't let it lose its zeal. Don't lose your joy. Don't lose your excitement over giving the faith promise. I'll tell you what happens and what causes that. It's when you quit letting it be by faith and you just do it by figuring. Oh, I can give another dollar, too. I can give this, and you leave God out of it, and it loses its joy. Boy, when it's by faith. God will put some excitement in it. I don't think I've told this story to your preacher. I was preaching a meeting down in Florida, and just two rows of pews, aisle right down the middle. Sitting right here to my left, on this left-hand side, about the second pew, could have been the third pew, was a couple in there, 35, 37-year-old, and you know what I'm talking about. You didn't have to look twice to know they had been out there in the sand. I mean, they just had the, the countenance of sin, the effect of sin on their life. And boy, he sat there and ate up what I was preaching. And he said, a preacher said to him out of church, he said, you see that guy said yes, and that couple I said yes. And he said, man, they got saved about two or three months ago. They're eating up everything. And he told me, he said, you won't preach many times, so he'll come up to you out of church and make comment on what you're preaching. So I preached on tithing one night, you know, and he come here and he said, I'm doing that. And the pastor said, he is, but I don't know how they do it. And then I preached on faith promise giving. And he come up to me and he said, can we do that? Well, I want to tell you, I've never told anybody no. Because I believe everybody can. And I said, sure. Ask God what he wants you to do. Start doing it and watch God bless you. And he walked away, and honestly, the preacher, I don't know if he meant to be as exaggerated as it was, but I mean, he gave me that big old eye roll, you know. And he said, preacher, if you just knew the condition they're in financially. I said, if God tells them to give, they'll obey and God will bless them for it. Well, we took St. Thomas on Sunday morning. I always tell people not to tell me what to give. But boy, he's back there, come up behind the back of her thing, he comes up, I done it! Preacher rolled his eyes again, I said, what'd you do? And he said, I asked the Lord what he wanted me to give and said, God told me to give $30 a month. I don't know how we gonna do it. That's what God told me to do and I'm gonna see if he'll do what you said he'd do. I said, if you done what he told you to do, he'll do it. He walked away and that preacher gave me them eye rolls again, you know. This guy goes to church on Monday morning, I work on Monday morning, and of course the people he work with, you know, I've just seen him get saved three months ago and such a drastic change in his life, and that's all I want to talk about church now. And he come in, he told me at break time, he said, man, I got in on something else yesterday. I said, what is it? He said, well, he said, you know, people everywhere need the Lord. And he said, that preacher come down there last week and we had a mission, something, I don't remember what they called it, but a mission meeting. And he said, that preacher said God wanted everybody to hear the gospel so much that if you would let him, he'd give something through you. So somebody could hear the gospel and then God would turn around and reward you for it at the judgment seat of Christ. And he is so excited, he said, I don't know how I'm gonna do it. God told me to give $30, I don't know how I'm gonna do it, but I'm just waiting to see what God's gonna, and he was so excited, standing around the coke machine, the break room area there, telling that, while he's telling it, a lost man reaches for his wallet and hands him $30 and said, here's the first payment. And I guess it was six, eight months later, I was back in that area, and that lost man had come up to him every month. It's about time that I'm missing money again, ain't it? You see, I wouldn't take money from a sinner. 179 Promise Land Drive, Resaca, Georgia, 30735. I'll take all you can send me. You see, what I'm saying is, we get used to it. And we don't really go faith in our faith promised giving. So it gets to the point it loses its excitement. But it ought not do that. And it won't do that if we'll take the step of faith that God wants us to take. I'm not appealing, I'm not appealing to your emotions. I'm just simply saying to you, you've got both a privilege and a responsibility to get involved in doing something that's beyond yourself. And something that has eternal consequences for somebody, an eternal reward for you as you obey God. russex and i intended to get up here and go to the scripture that's been more of a testimonial ex illustration but that's what it's about i'd challenge you don't just let it be another feeling out of the car you ought to pray a seriously about this one as you did the first what do you want me to do what do you want me to do what do you want me to do I bring up Andy again in this illustration I used a while ago. Andy goes down there to the store, and Brother Sexton, there's one thing he's got on mine. I can't forget what Daddy told me to do. I've got to remember what Daddy told me to get. Amen? I mean, if Mama sends him after a loaf of bread, a pound of butter is not enough, you know. We must get our orders from God. As we carry them out, God will honor them. Now quickly let me go through this. What time we normally get out of Sunday school? 10th or 11th. The Bible teaches tithing. That's God's method of paying the bills of His church. The tithe is the first 10% of our income. It does not belong to us. It belongs to God. Can I make this statement? You'll never get ahead financially getting behind with your tithes. You can't out-give God, but you can't out-rob Him either. His spoon is bigger than your shovel if it's dishing out to you or taken from you. The tithe doesn't belong to me, it belongs to God. It's not mine. So what do we do? God said when there's an increase, number one, he said separate his from ours. When you pull out that paycheck and look at it, the first thing you ought to think is that check says $500, 50 of this belongs to God. I don't start planning with 500, I start planning with 450. Are you following my figures? It's not mine. So God said separate. Then God said bring it, take it, And go, those three words are used. Bring it, take it, go. In different passages. Thou shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose the place in the mouth. Here's, God said, Brother Sexton said, Andy, this worked pretty good, I've never done this. Brother Sexton said, Andy, go to the store. Get a loaf of bread. Now I'm just throwing out, that don't mean, you know, that don't mean go down to the movie house. That don't mean, Andy, do whatever you want with this money. I'm giving you money, go to the store, get some bread. God said, you separate my tithe from your 90% and you go to a particular place. He didn't say, do what you want to with it. He said, now, sir, go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there, and there's not but one institution on planet earth in this dispensation of the church that God chose to place his name, and that is the church. This Bible gives no one liberty or license to do anything with God's tithe, but bring it to church. Don't send it to me. Don't send it to any radio ministry, any children's home, any missionary. By the way, missionaries, I will say to you, I am strong in what I'm fixing to say. I made the commitment a long time ago. Pastor, if I were to receive a check in the mail for Harvest Time Broadcast that said Tithe, I would return it. Missionary, don't you take a check that says tithe on it. Sometimes it's ignorance on the giver's part and you correct it with them and they'll go ahead and give it as an offering, but don't you get involved in their... You don't have... You can't give it to a widow woman. Don't put missionary... You know, give it to a missionary. Don't put gas in your tank so you can go do... No, no, no. God said separate it and bring it to church. Tithe goes to the church. And I want to make this statement. You better watch any so-called preacher, and there are some good preachers in a lot of areas that would make this statement, that encourage you to send part of the tithe to them. You know why they do that? If you will check, they have a ministry of their own that's apart from the local church. Any man of God that is worried that his connection is right with the church will tell you the time goes to the church. If he tells you something else, mark him off. Mark him off. Mark him off. God said, separate it, bring it to church. And then God said, when you arrive, you're to set it before the Lord. That set it before the Lord, Leonard, is a picture of dedication. Watch me. You brought it in, and there were certain places, Brother Sexton, around the altar where they set down a particular offering. You realize most of them didn't bring money and put it in an offering plate. So they brought it in, and they set it down. Watch me. They brought it in, they set it down, and did this. They took their hands off. It lost their identity. and it lost their control you know i'm not responsible for what my church does with my time now i do have a a situation if my church was wrong in doing that i don't know if i ought to put up much argument about them being wrong about tyler probably ought to just get out and get in one that's right if i couldn't trust my pastor i ought to leave and get where i couldn't trust my pastor if i couldn't trust the leadership of my church i ought to go somewhere else and i'm not trying to run anybody off But my responsibility is to bring it, and if they're wrong, two wrongs don't make a right. God said, bring it, separate it, dedicate it, take your hands off. It becomes the church's money, it's the Lord's tithe. And then God said, we're to give it in a spirit of worship, and in a spirit of rejoicing. Worship is internal, rejoicing is external. God said, and if you want, sometimes study Deuteronomy chapter number 26, that first great, the great chapter on worship. But it starts out, Brother Sexton, with tithing. Now all that worship is built around tithing. God said, when you're gonna worship, here's where you gotta start. You gotta remember where you're at down in Egypt. Where I found you. Then think how I brought you out with a strong arm. I brought you in. And you are now dwelling in the land of blessings that I promised you. Here's what I like to say. Worship begins by thinking. Start thinking on the goodness of God. And you can't think long on the goodness of God until thinking changes into thanking. I know we're rednecks and I are thinking and thanking. You know we sang in the choir, we swang on the front porch and I've been thanking, but think and thank, y'all. It's hard for me to say I'm different, but I've just sat all the time, I've been thinking. Well, I'm just thinking. Think on the goodness of God. You can't, hey, you can't sit there and think long on the goodness of God until it just starts. But Ed Blu said worship was thinking on the goodness of God until it started losing out your eyeballs. God said every time you start to worship, stop a moment and think, where have I found you? What have I brought you out at? What have I brought you into? What have I done for you? I think about this for a second. I probably haven't said this before as much as a preacher, but I wonder sometimes, I'm not suggesting this now, but I wonder sometimes what would happen If you were to get up, you know, and just plan the first Sunday in the month, oh, well, you can even plan next Sunday. Next Sunday, I don't want anybody writing a tie check before you get to church. Just bring your checkbook. We'll sit here and write them together. If you give cash, you're gonna put an envelope. Don't stuff the envelope. You just don't give in an envelope or check either one. You just reach in your wallet and pull it out. Don't even pull it out. Leave it alone in your pocket. and get up here and say, well it's offering time and remember what Brother Blue said, we're supposed to stop a minute and think on the goodness of God to me before I tithe. Now knowing Sister Sharon like I do, she probably couldn't be quiet for a minute thinking on the goodness of God. There may be others interrupt. Here's what I think, preacher. I think there'd probably be some checks that never did get signed. There'd be some that are so jerky, them trembling, you couldn't read them. There'd probably be some that they got happy and jerked them out and ripped them half in two. And it'd probably be like some of these other nights, they'd probably have a couple of laps around this building waving a towel at you. That's the internal becoming the external. That's the worship becoming rejoicing in praise. God said, I'm going to bless you with a job. I'm going to bless you with some income. I'm not going to charge you like the federal government does. 20-something, 30-something, 40-something percent. I'm going to let you live on my earth, drink my water, breathe my air, eat my food, and have a job. help physical and emotional, mental, and be able to make money and all I'm going to charge you is 10%. That's the charge. The offering is a gift. God said you separate it and bring it to church and this is my means of paying my bills to finance my church. I don't think I can overemphasize what I'm fixing to say. I've already said it. But you'll never get ahead financially getting behind with the Lord's tithes. Somebody said, well, if you don't give it, God will give it anyway. I challenge that. I don't believe that. If you don't give it, you won't get to enjoy it. But I tell you a lot of times, no offense to anybody here, no offense to anybody. The doctor may get it. The automobile mechanic may get it. And whatever category may get it. They may not bring it to church, preacher. They may take it to the liquor store. They may take it to buy drugs. There's a lot of people driving automobiles that they bought with God's tithe. They live in houses they make payments on with God's tithe. They wear clothes. They go on vacation that they pay with God's tithe. I'm telling you, you don't get ahead financially getting behind with God's tithe. As a young man, I knew that from the Word of God, but I had to learn it in a personal experience. And I'm glad I learned it. God said that tithe, first 10% belongs to me. Separate it, bring it to church, put it in an orphan plate, dedicate it to God. Do it in a spirit of worship, remembering what I've done for you, and a spirit of rejoicing. Look how good God is to me. Now if people are not saved, they cannot tithe and get by with it maybe. But if they're saved, you cannot rob God and get by with it long. God don't balance his books the first of every month, but he will balance them. So God chose to finance his church. I went to church. You're to be commended. I just learned last night you bought the preacher that truck. I'm envious y'all do it for the event. No, no, no, no, no, no. i'm praying god you don't have no no no no no no seriously church that is to be committed they just bought him a new that is to be committed church would be and and and you take care the time picture of the church pay the bills picture of the man of god pay his bills take care of him finance the local work that's god's money the section i know you'd say there's not a mission is so but the proper way to say is The Lord supplied the truck through the church. Don't rob God of the glory and don't rob the church. And I'm not, I'm just simply, I'm really saying this to people to understand that. God said, it's my man. It's my church. I'll take care of, taking care of them through the tithes and the offerings. And can I say it? Everybody in here, remember this church has been around long. You ought to rejoice in the Lord. God has proven himself faithful by providing for this church through these years. One man said to me, I thought about going on that faith promise missions. What I told him, I told him when we started faith promise at Bethel, 1974, however many years ago that's been. I said, I noticed, he said that it affected the other offerings. I said, yeah, about $100 a week. Our faith promises $104, $5 a week, the first one we took in 74. And I got to know some brother Bud, and it affected our church offering. He said, that preacher said, I thought it would. Said, I figured they'd just borrow from Peter and paper. I said, no, no, no, you got it wrong. I said, the tithing offering went up $100 a week too. I've never seen a church that would honor God in missions. Fact is, if you do it right, tithing is first. I'm talking about on the list. That's because that doesn't belong to you. That's God's. Don't touch that. That's first. That's first. Then the freewill offering follows, and then the mission offering is in the way. I think freewill offering, I think mission offering ought to come second. You know, if you're going to make a list of priorities. But God said, I'm going to build my church. put his name on it. He claimed it. I would not expect you to come to my house and pay my bills. I'd like it. But I don't expect it. I'd be surprised, Brother Rick or somebody knocked on my door next week and said, Brother Blue, can I have your light bill? Can I have your water bill? Can I have your, thank God there is no car payment, no house payment anymore. Can I make your payment? Brother, I just wanted to buy your groceries this week. I'd take it. Thank God, but I'm not expecting it. It's my bill. I'm supposed to pay them all. Financing the church is God's bill, and God will pay it. And any time, listen, and I'm through, any time, any church, I don't care who it is, where it is, large or small in number, any church that will obey God, get its membership to obey God in tithes and offerings, are you listening to me? will be provided the money by the lord to do what ever god wants and by the way, churches are different. God don't want every church to have a bible college. God don't want every church to have a children's home. God don't want every church to have a camp. You know, these things that we have. But whatever God orders, God will provide to take care of the normal operation of that church by tithing. and offerings. You don't get ahead financially getting behind on God's tithes. Father, honor your word. Take these scattered remarks and use them to your glory. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Preacher, I'm through.