Embracing Generosity: A Call to Kingdom Building

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"It's so beautiful to be in the presence of the king this morning. And he's here. The beauty is, he's always here. We don't have to invite him here. He's here waiting on us. So we have to come into his presence this morning." [00:23:30] (14 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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"God has a way of providing. And that was the moment that opened the new level of blessing for the church. But I tell you all that because, as I said, there was a selfishness to me. And I think if we'd be honest, we all have a certain level of selfishness." [00:48:10] (13 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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"God wants to bless us beyond the tithe, but we have to give it that. So let me give you a quick example out of the scripture. Luke chapter 12 tells us of a guy that was absolutely loaded. And look at this story. Jesus is talking here. Here in Luke 12, 16, he says, then he told them a story. A rich man had a fertile farm that produced fine crops." [00:59:35] (18 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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"Admiral McRaven in the book he says the next morning after the mission was over with and the SEALs had been extracted and bin Laden's remains from the bottom of the ocean he said the world started to wake up to a jubilant America because we had seen justice but the book goes on to say when he was interviewed about the decision President Obama said this he said while the intel was 50 -50 I knew the SEALs the Hilo crews and the intelligence personnel I could count on were a hundred percent and I moved on that why am I telling you all this because as you sense the Lord stirring something inside you you're probably not gonna figure it all out you're not gonna be able to figure it all out you may think man I don't know where the money will come from what if this happens what if I don't I don't know what to do I know I want to be generous I want to be a part but how do what does this start to look like you may feel like President Obama where you feel like you've got 50 % of the intelligence but you have a hundred percent of Jesus you can count on I believe with all my heart if he can get it to you he'll get it or if he can get it through you he'll get it to you so when we give a gift like this we don't know what the gift can mean we don't we don't know what kind of impact a lot that real estate investor who gave me a thousand dollars back in 2004 Do you know that stirred something inside of me, that broke something, shifted something inside of me? And since 2005, through my ministry, both as a youth pastor here and as a lead pastor, we've raised more than $1 million for missions because of that." [01:08:33] (94 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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"We don't know when we give what kind of impact that will have, but the God of the universe does. So my question for you this morning is, can we move past the selfishness that we have? Can we move into a place of generosity because the girls of Embrace Grace need us?" [01:10:13] (16 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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"I just want to challenge you because I know when we give to missions, that is near and dear the heart of King Jesus. It is. Because we're making a difference and it's not anything having to do with us. It's literally for somebody else." [01:16:05] (15 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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