Home Work Pt. 7

you guys enjoy it. Remember to like, subscribe, and comment. Yeah, and share and listen to her. She knows what she's talking about. Check it out. We're going into the service and he knows what he's saying. Ah, thank you. Your inheritance is secure. Yeah. [Music] All right, please stand with me if you physically can without harm or injury to yourself. Tell somebody I'm glad you made it to church today. Thank you for being kind to the person near you. We're in part seven of our series, the Homework series, and I want to welcome everybody joining us on the Pando app right now. We welcome you to our service. We're going to continue our discussion around generational wealth today. And for our scriptural focus, let's go to Psalm 112 verses one through three. Now before I go into this, I really, this, okay, let's do it this way. If you're at Woodbridge or full Washington or land over, you're online, you're here in Greenbelt. Say, God, make my heart open to receive. I want you to be ready to receive today. Receive truth. Receive truth because I believe this truth can not only transform your life, but this truth can make a difference in your posterity and your descendants. It can change the trajectory of your family forever. Amen. All right, let's go to Psalm 112 beginning in verse one. It says, "Praise the Lord. Those who honor the Lord who adore God's commandments are truly happy. Their descendants will be strong throughout the land. The offspring of those who do right will be blessed." Now watch notice, notice, and then this is everything that happens in verse one, feeds what happens in verses two and three. So let me go back and reverse one again. It says, "Those who honor the Lord who adore God's commandments, the first thing is they are truly happy." The next thing that happens is, is for their children. Verse two, "Their descendants will be strong throughout the land." We're going to talk about that. "The offspring of those who do right will be blessed." That's the Hebrew word barak. "They'll be blessed and then wealth and riches will be in their houses." In whose houses? The houses of the descendants and the offspring of those who honor the Lord. That means your children will not be tenants. Yeah, they will have houses, not property, real estate. And their righteousness stands forever. I don't want to preach it before you, while you're still standing, so you may be seated. Here's my subject today. Teach them right. Teach them right. Generational wealth is a mentality and a spiritual discipline and benefit from God. It requires both devotion from God and instruction from those of us who are adults.

We must teach our children and their children the right things about finances. The right things about managing money, earning money, protecting money, growing money, not wasting money. All of that is a part of our responsibility. And even if you do not have biological children of your own, if you have young people in your life you are responsible for. If you have nieces, nephews, younger siblings, little cousins in them, you have somebody in your life who's behind you. Amen. And those are people you give instruction to. I told y'all last week in part six that it was Mary Louise Schuller who taught me about generational wealth by modeling it for us. She demonstrated it was my in-laws Thomas by modeling it for us. They were responsible for giving me a foundation financially and catapulting my life financially. So it won't always be your parents who teach you the right things about money. But that's ideal, but it won't always be that way. But it really doesn't matter where you get it from as long as you get it. And you make sure you're distributing it. And you make sure you're modeling it. Because what's this, teaching them right has two components to it, the right messaging and the right modeling. The right messaging and the right modeling. What's this? You have to show and tell. You have to be able to truly say, do as I say, no. Listen, do as I say, and as I do. There needs to be a consistency in the message and the motto, are you all listening to me? So because it is our responsibility to instruct those. Because watch this, bad financial habits and good financial habits come out of two places.

Education and examples, right? If you had bad examples, people, you had bad education, you're gonna probably have bad financial habits, right? If you got good education and good examples, you're more likely to have good financial habits. Now with that in mind, let's walk through this passage. Are y'all ready? Now, verse one of Psalm 112 says this. It says, praise the Lord, those who honor the Lord, who adore God's commands. The way your attitude about God's laws, his teachings, his principles, is having a positive attitude is very important because it will determine whether or not you obey it. If you don't have reverence for God's word, you will always see it as interrupting your agenda. Oh, it says, one of my friends calls it compliance. That's one of, we see it as like, like God's trying to control us or restrict us. But actually, when you look at it the right way, it is something you should embrace in your life. Like, listen to what the Psalm writer said about the law of God. The Psalm writer said this, your laws, please me. Why? They give me wise advice. God's words should not have a negative feeling to us. You'd be like, oh, here come the Lord. God desires to protect you and bless you and guides you and direct you.

And if you're a believer, if you have a personal relationship with God, I'm gonna promise you this. You will never be able to be truly happy in your life if you don't honor, if you don't adore his word because in order to be truly happy, you got to adore his word. And when you don't adore his word, you are more than likely to disobey it. So there's like this internal civil war going on because once you have a relationship with God and he takes up residence in you, what makes it an internal civil war is that the Holy Spirit is saying one thing to you and your flesh is saying another thing so you're always conflicted. But in order to disobey God, you got to dismiss yourself from him. And whenever you dismiss yourself from God to do what your flesh wants to do, instead of what the Spirit wants you to do, you'll feel ashamed, you feel convicted, you feel guilty, and that's not what God has for your life, but those are the consequences of grieving the Holy Spirit. I follow me. So your attitude about the word is very important and we must have the right one. Now, how does that flow out into our lives? Honoring God and adoring his word doesn't just make us happy, it blesses our descendants.

And the first thing verse two says that bless me, he says your descendants will be strong throughout the land. That's where strong right there is a Hebrew word Gabor, G-I-B-B-O-R. And it is an interesting word because it means strength, but in this context, it means financial strength. And I'll show you why. The context is talking about wealth. And I'll give you another example. If you go to the same word Gabor is in the book of Ruth chapter two, verse one, where it says this about Boaz. It says there was a wealthy and influential man in Bethlehem named Boaz. Well, these two words wealthy and influential is still one word in Hebrew, it's the word Gabor. So this verse is literally saying there was a Gabor in Bethlehem named Boaz. What does it mean when it says he was a Gabor? He was wealthy and influential. That's the same word that's back here. And Psalm 102 that says your children be strong. It's talking about economic financial strength. I'll show you another example. First Samuel chapter nine, it talks about a man named Kish. And it called him a Gabor. He says there was a Gabor from the tribe of Benjamin It was wealthy and influential. What am I trying to say? What does this all mean? What it means is, let me go back here.

What it all means is, is that God is saying, we have the capacity to raise gabors. Those who honor the Lord and adore His commandments, we have the capacity to raise wealthy, influential children. I need you to get it, I need you to get it with this. I need you to get it with this. We don't have to raise poverty, stricken, scarcity minded, broke mentality, barely making it, getting it out the mud, children. We can raise people, we can break generational cycles of poverty by raising up gabors, amen. I'm expecting all my children to be gabors. I'm expecting them to be wealthy and influential 'cause that's what He said will happen. If I honor the Lord, see, this is how this goes. This right here is the root of the tree. The root of the tree is verse one. The fruit of the tree is verses two and three. If the root is right, if the parent is honoring the Lord and adores His commandments, then out of that, the fruit of that will be gabors, strong, financial, wealthy, strong, and watch this, the offspring will be blessed, but rock, but will have children will be blessed, wealth and riches will be in their houses. I like that. I speak houses into the future of my children. And not only would they have prosperity right here, they'll also have purity. That's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about raising prosperous and pure children

'cause it's not just about money. Are you listening to me? I said, it's more than just about money. It's more than just money. It includes what kind of people they are. For example, the rest of this text actually describes these kids, did I go too far? There it is, you go through the rest of Psalm 112, look at verses four to nine. It says they not only got wealth and riches in their house, they're not only gabors who are blessed by God, they are generous, compassionate, and righteous. Does anybody want children like that? They lend money generously, watch this, and conduct their business fairly. Watch this, they're not overcome by evil. They confidently trust the Lord to care for them. They can face their foes triumphantly. They got to deal with haters. All successful people have haters. This is what gives me about people. You want to go up but you don't want people to hate you. You can't go up without haters. They will handle haters and watch this. They share freely, give generously to those in need. Do good deeds to be remembered forever. Does anybody want those kind of children in their life? Will it starts with us honoring God? And adoring his word. That's the fruit of it.

Are y'all listening to me? Now let's go back here. Let's go back here. I'm all over the place here right now. Where we at? Yeah, I'm in the right place. Praise the Lord. Let's go here. Let's go here, let's go back to verse two. This is what we strong, and then it says, "In their offspring will be blessed." This is God talking. He's saying, "This is what I'll do for you." You know what he's saying? "I'll bless your seed." (congregation chattering) Whew, that may not have hit anybody, but it sure hit me when I saw that. "I'll bless your seed." (congregation chattering) "I'll block your seed." "I'll kneel down and bless your seed." "I won't just make you truly happy." "I'll bless your seed." Okay, you don't get that yet. Let me do this here. If you were a farmer, you would really appreciate that. Because when a farmer so seeds, he is doing it with hope. He's hoping that that seed

will be in the right environment, that that seed will get enough water, that that seed will get enough sunlight, that that seed will be in the right surroundings, that that seed will be in the kind of soil that perhaps, maybe it will develop fruit and will be blessed by God. And God says, "You ain't got to wonder that." You ain't got to wonder that. I will, I promise you, if you honor me and you love my word, I will bless your seed. I don't know who I'm talking to right here. Somebody ought to thank God right now for blessing my seed, God. "Blessing my seed," even though they don't do right all the time. If the blessing of the Lord is chasing them down. Because the Lord's blessing, the blessing of the Lord making rich, and he has no sorrow with it. I'll speak that over your lives in the name. Bless my seed, God. If you don't do another thing for me, bless my children. your seed. Amen. Amen. And he says, he says, and I'll give them, let me see right here. He says, I'll give them wealth and riches. And they'll be righteous. Prosperity and purity. Now, this is all talking about the inheritor side of wealth, what they will get out of it, when we do our part. Amen. And a part of it is, you have to teach them right. Let's talk about that part. What kind of instruction needs to be a part of wealth

transfer? The Bible says, good people leaving inheritance to their grandchildren. But the sinner's wealth passes to the godly. I didn't talk about this last week. Let's talk about this part first. The sinner's wealth passes to the godly. What that verse is saying is, is that when you're an ungodly person, when you're a sinful person, you can't really control where your wealth goes. God will see to it that it gets to somebody responsible. And it also suggests there's, there's a good way and a wrong way to get wealth. All roads of wealth ain't good. Let me give you a couple of them that I see in our community. It is what problems 13 and 11 calls get rich quick schemes. When you get wealth from get risk, it's hard to say get rich quick schemes. It quickly disappears. But wealth from hard work grows over time. One of the things we have to teach generations is to not want to get what it took us 50 years to get and they're trying to get it at 20. Some things take time to build and develop. And they live in it in a time where everything comes fast. But get rich quick schemes are not stable. And you can't build wealth that way. You build wealth on hard work. And I love the living Bible because it actually names and identifies a get rich quick schemes. It says wealth from gambling quickly disappears while wealth from hard work grows gambling. Let's talk about that for a minute. Gambling is a human attempt to accelerate something that hard work will get you to the long way. It's an attempt to get fast. It's an attempt to shortcut your way to something that you can only get to the right way by hard work. And it's a trap because you'll always lose more than you win. But the devil will make sure you win enough to keep you coming back. I did a study just recently and I looked up in just in the

DMV area. Maryland in particular right here where I'm talking from right now in the state of Maryland. This ain't even a big state. But it's a highly populated state of people of color, particularly in the county where I live in Prince George County. Two point five billion dollars spent on gambling in 2025 in the state of Maryland on sports betting on casino gambling and on lottery tickets. People coming to church and pastor said Psalm 112 one through three. Let me play that number and box it. You came in. You wrote every scripture that I'm playing now. It's an addiction. You've been sending your kids to play your numbers for 40 years. Add that up. Two point five billion dollar. You know how much wealth that is? Waste it. Waste it. Trying to accelerate something. And you might think it's funny and cute. I'm saying it's a trick of the devil. He comes to kill the steel and destroy. I'm telling you gambling is a way to the devil takes wealth out of families, makes the person who gambles addicted to it. So they don't show up home with their checks sometimes and they put everything on the line. It's a trap. It's a trap. The devil is a lie. You got to pray and say, God, help me to get rid of that trap in my life and build wealth the right way. It's a trap. And it robs us of what God's trying to build. If you just calculated all the money you spent at crap tables and then slot machines and lottery tickets and added all that up, you could have put that in the index fund stock and still have every dollar you put You, that's the best gamble right there. Invest in hard-earned money in something that's legitimate and not feeding this addiction. And I'm against it, I'm against it. I'm against all the stuff.

They bring in something else in this county to get more people sucked into that stuff so they can get tax dollars off of it. The devil, it doesn't matter what the end game is, it's trapping a lot of us. See, if you're gonna think financially, you have to think, you have to be wise when it comes to money. You have to be smart when it comes to money. Amen. And not blow it on stuff. So let's go back to the verse. Let's go with an eight-point point of verse. It says, "Good people leave an inheritance "to their grandchildren." Good people. You have to be a good person to think generational wealth 'cause generational wealth looks past yourself. It looks past yourself to some people that ain't even here yet. And you gotta be a good person to look beyond yourself to those who are coming behind you. That's why it doesn't say, risk people leaving inheritance to their grandchildren 'cause you can be a risk person and not be a good person and consume it all on yourself. So first of all, you have to be a good person. Now, if you're gonna leave an inheritance to your grandchildren, let me tell you a warning. Let me get a warning right here.

When you have worked really hard to get what you have, and a lot of people I'm preaching to have put the work in, some of you right now, you have worked hard. You still feel the pain of your work and your body. You work so hard to get where you are in life. So watch this, watch this, here's the warning. When you do that, you can end up being subconsciously jealous of your children who didn't have to do much to get what they have. And sometimes it's not even just straight jealousy, sometimes it's fear that they don't have the work ethic that you want them to have to build their own lives. And I wanna talk to you about that because I want you to let go of that disappointment. I know it's gonna be hard, I want you to let that disappointment go because instead of being disappointed that your children have it easy, realize that they have it easy 'cause you did your job. I said 'cause you did your job. They don't have to get it up to mud, that was your job. You got it up to mud, now they're getting it off of marble tables. Now they're able to break glass ceiling, somebody talked to me in here. That's because you set them up right. So stop being mad that you did your job. They shouldn't have to my floors like you. They shouldn't have to clean offices like you did. They shouldn't have to dig ditches like you did.

Yeah, yeah, you did all that so they wouldn't have to. So celebrate yourself that you positioned them to operate to take off from another level. Amen, he gonna be amazing. You see, he told me, yeah, yeah. So this is the thing, this is the thing. Instead of being upset with them, you say they would be stronger if they had to work hard. No, they'll be stronger with education. Teach them about money, acknowledge his power. If you explain, maybe what they need is not to my floors, what they need is you to set them down and break down how money works to them. That's empowering. Let me give you a quick lesson on how to do that. You can go to your child 'cause you're gonna be quick money to them. You have a right to talk to them about how it works. Every time you're choosing companies, a dad, a mom. When you say, just give me, I'm gonna give you that but sit down for a second. I'm gonna show you something. Write down this word first, the word, I won't change that. So this is the first word you write down. Write down this word, earn 'cause it's good to earn money and then spend. Now, the reason why I just put those two numbers up 'cause this is a lot of people's total financial system. That's all they do, earn and spend. Earn and spend, earn and spend.

Well, you show them this because you wanna say, listen, my nephew, my niece, my daughter, my son. It's important that you put some space between earning and spending. And that every time you earn something, you shouldn't spend it. Because if that's your financial system, you will never build wealth. No matter how much you earn, 'cause no matter how much you earn, if you spend it all, you won't have wealth. See, some people are high broke and some people are low broke. But what they both are... [CROWD CHEERING] Because wealth is built in the middle. Between earning and spending. So you say, this is what you gotta do, my descendant, my offspring. When you earn something, the first thing you need to do is make sure you give. That's putting God in your money. You pay God first. Then the second thing you do is save. That's paying yourself. And then the third thing you do is invest. That's giving yourself a raise. Because saving is just a basic savings account. Investing means you put it in something that will grow faster than a savings account.

And then you spend. So right here, you earn the money, you pay God, you pay yourself, give yourself a raise, then you pay your bills. And here is the wealth zone. In fact, numbers two and three, if you hit numbers two and three right, this is when your money will earn money. (congregation mumbling) What you're gonna tell your child is, you can earn money to Carlos. And if you do right in between spending it, your money can earn money to Carlos. This is what we have to teach them. Because if all you do to Carlos, and I don't know if anybody in there, is earn it spent, earn it spent, earn it spent, what you will create is a poverty cycle. But in order to get in the wealth game, you got to do something in the middle. Does that make sense? (congregation mumbling) Now you don't have to use this, you can create your own. I'm just saying, but we're gonna have to educate them. So stop being mad that they had it easier. They're supposed to have it easier. I said they're supposed to have it easier. Don't be jealous of them. They were blessed to have a hardworking parent like you. They were blessed to be at catapulted

to where they are like you. Get over that, now teach them how to build on it. Here's the second one and I wanna give you. The second one and I wanna give you is, and this is particularly for those of us who have first generational wealth. Which most of the people I know, just came in the money in their family. Because most of the people that came before you struggled and now you're doing well. When that is your story, you have a temptation to be selfish. Are y'all with me, Zillow? What I mean by that is, God wants you to enjoy what He's blessed you with, but not consume it. Oh, y'all, I lost y'all. Let me talk, let me, what do I mean by that? When God blesses you with things, because He's giving you all things richly to enjoy. He said, I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly. It's not like He didn't want you to enjoy it. He just didn't want you to consume it all. Because if you consume it all, you're missing out on your other responsibility. It's not just to enjoy my life, but I am a progenitor of generational wealth. So some things that come to me are supposed to go through me.

It wasn't just for you. Okay, I don't have dogs. I don't have a pet. I'm actually, I ain't gonna speak fear, but I don't like them. Let's just say that I'm not into dogs like that, but if you got a dog, I'm happy for you. So I don't really know dog them like this. I'm just gonna throw this out there. But if you eat a steak, it's a T-bone steak, and you eat the meat off the steak, I'm telling you down on that, but you got all you can get. I'm not sure about this, but I think if you throw that bone to a dog, that's okay. I know some people who depict society, people gonna come out to me. I think it's okay to throw a dog a bone. Is that still okay? It's gotta be okay, 'cause I need to make this point. (audience laughs) Somebody say it's okay to throw a dog a bone. Your children are not dogs. (audience cheers) Generational wealth doesn't eat up everything and throw bones. Where does a bone, Pastor? You got a car in your yard, four flat ties, no tags, dead tags.

You say, "I'ma get us a little Ricky." (audience laughs) That's a bone, Slim. It's gonna take a little Ricky, $5,000 to get that car running. Talk to me in here. We throw bones to our children. You don't hate all everything. All the thing in the zone is, "I'ma lead us with you." (audience laughs) Stop leaving problems. Stop leaving problems. Leave something we can build. One of the things I just, we just did, Vicki and I had a family business meeting. I got so convicted on last week's message, I took the percentage of money that I save every week and increase it by 100%. That means I doubled everything I'm saying. From now I'm saving more. You know why? 'Cause we have to have the mindset that regardless of how much we can leave to our children, we have to make sure that our lifestyle is taking care of by us, not by them. We ain't gonna put nothing on them. And I don't plan on putting nothing on this church. There are a lot of pastors that put a lot of pressure on the church that they passed it

after they can no longer pass it anymore. Once I'm out of here, I'm out of here, amen. Y'all took care of me while I was passing this church. I should take the money you were paying me to pass it as church and take care of myself when I'm gone. I shouldn't be around here saying y'all, got anything for me around here. If I can't do my job, I shouldn't get paid y'all. Ain't trying to talk to me here. I get it. It is our responsibility to throw something ahead in our future so that we have something down the line. And when it comes to our children, don't throw them a bone throw them something they can build on. If you got a house or houses, don't let the thing fall apart. Roof leaking, what's that black stuff? Do mold stuff off all about, keep the house up, paint it. Get stuff fixed, renovate it. Get a new kitchen in there. Fix the bathroom, amen. Vacuum that, John, do something. So they're being handed over and make sure the paperwork is right. Make sure somebody knows where the title is. So these are children won't be confused down at the courthouse. Talking about what big mama said, it was mine. You gotta have all that stuff. You should be talking to in a state planner

to some kind of court, some kind of, all y'all ain't ready for this. You need to be setting that thing up so that there's no confusion about it. So that it passes. (audience applauds) I know they don't preach about this in churches, but that going that we need to hear about it. And so I speak this over this church right now, in the name of somebody listening to me right now is about to change the game in your family. Generations about to be changed as you're about to make some moves right now. I see it in the spirit. Some of y'all about to change your nieces and nephews and children and their children, 'cause you're about to make some moves right now that's gonna change the game. Somebody give God a praise. Thank you Lord, I receive it. I receive it. I receive my responsibility to take care of those who are coming. Amen. (audience applauds) Thank you for the work that's done. Amen. Give me something I can build on. (audience murmurs) Sometimes you gotta ask a question before you buy stuff.

I was in the Wednesday night Bible study. We do Wednesday night thing where it's a sermon discussion group. And one of the ladies said, "Pastor, I came into some money." And she said, "I was about to go buy me a Range Rover." And you said on Sunday, "Don't buy the Range Rover." And I promise you, I never, that never came out. My mouth don't buy the Range Rover. But what it reminded me of is that when you're listening to spiritual preaching, God will say stuff to you that I didn't even say. 'Cause he knows what you need to hear. I ain't say nothing about a Range Rover, but he told you that. He said, "I'm so glad I didn't." 'Cause I don't know what Range Rover's cost 'cause I ain't in the new car business. Me and my wife's cost 10 years old and fine. We just had $7,000, $6, $7,000 worth of work done on her car. I don't know what she be doing in her car. And she said, "Here's what it cost to get this fixed." It wasn't even no question for me. We're gonna pay this $6,700, get it back on the road, or we're gonna pay $65,000 to get another one. That was an easy man for me. Why would I put that into a depreciating asset? As soon as we leave the parking lot, it's worth less than I, but you know, we're not spending that on that.

To show what, who? I don't keep battle in a hoopty. I'm the same person, I ain't gotta drive nothing to impress you, trust me. Same gasoline, same ballast, same direction. Gas pedal brick, gas pedal brick, gas pedal brick. That's all it is. You can blow all your money on that stuff if you want. It has no value. It's image. Okay, so this is what I told. I said, let me say, let's say you're going to buy a Range Rover. God bless you. I ain't even mad at you. Let's ask three questions about the Range Rover. Number one, will this purchase benefit you? And God doesn't even have problems with you enjoying stuff. But I got two more questions. So let's say you get to enjoy it because you get a range over. You drive different. You pull up different. You just pull up. You don't need to speak to people the same way. You be like, I know you like it. I know you like it. So how long are you going to do it maybe five years? You can do that to the to the new because they're going to have a 27 in a two thousand thirty version. But you you pulled up. Maybe ten years.

You ride it. Let me ask you the second question. How will it benefit your children to spend a hundred thousand dollars on a range road? Because when they're old enough, first of all you ain't going to let them drive it because it's a range road. They ain't even taking this to the prom. So when you run it to the ground and let them have it, what they have is a high level lemon. And you know what they need? Lemonade. Yeah, that was a good one. Lemonade. Let me ask you a third question. Buying a hundred thousand dollar range Rover, benefit your grandchildren. No way. Even if they live long enough and you keep it long enough, by the time they get access to it, it's worth a fraction of what you pay for it. But now let's take another thing. Let's take that hundred thousand dollars and put it into an investment property. Or put that hundred thousand dollars into an index fund stock. Let me ask you this. Let me just say, because it's a hundred thousand dollars, it's gone in the car. But if it goes into something that's growing and it's an asset that grows in value, does that benefit you? Absolutely. Does it benefit your children? Absolutely. Does it benefit your grandchildren? Absolutely.

In fact, the longer your lineage goes, the more blessed by that investment. Go ahead, pop, pop. So do you really have to have the latest whip? No. See, you got to decide. I'm not trying to tell you what to buy. I want to say this to all the cowboy friends. I saw my man dressed to the tee. Cowboy fans, commander fans, y'all just die hard to tailgate the whole thing. And some of y'all go down to Texas to that stadium every year and watch the Cowboys and commanders play. That's probably a couple of thousand dollars. I don't know. Round trip, hotels, you know, drinking the parties. I'm just saying, if you're spending $2,000 a year to go watch a football team play against another football team, what if you instead put that $2,000, say, you know what? I'm going to start watching that game at home on a TV that's already paid for. And instead of flying down there, I'm going to put that $2,000 in a fund for my children and watch that grow because I've been blowing money every year. Watch this because the Dallas Cowboys ain't going to do one thing for your children. And the Washington commanders ain't going to do one thing for your children. And they are depending on you. And I know you, listen, if you got season tickets, it's cool. You can do what you want. I'm just saying, we should start asking these questions. Well, how does this help my legacy? See, I want my name. I want the name battle to be connected to wealth. I want it to mean something. Now, maybe you don't care about that.

Maybe you want your name to be recognized by fashion or by hairstyles or by complexion or by butt size or whatever you have that you met or by muscles. I want my name to be associated with righteousness and riches. That's what I want. Now, you don't have to want it. I want what the word says I can have. And I want my name. And you cannot do that accidentally. You do not transfer wealth on accident. It is an intentional, generous decision to bless somebody. It's almost done. Instead of letting stuff run down and be tore up, you don't have to worry about it. Here's what I'm writing. Treat your assets as treasures to be transferred to your tribe. It's a great sense. Treat your assets as treasures to be transferred to your tribe. I have thoughts to do stuff with the house that I live in. So the people that live in it won't have a fixer upper. Come on, y'all. Come on, y'all. I got one more thing, I'm done. In that same Wednesday group, there was somebody that said, "Passive, what do you do? Should you leave an inheritance? If you got a child that's totally irresponsible with money and you know they're going to blow it, and I'm answering that question in here because I know you got kids too who will fit that category." Now, let me say it like this. I want to answer it and I want to go to the Word of God to answer it. In Galatians 4, let me say some context. The Apostle Paul is writing to the believers in Galatia and it's interesting because he

does this in 2nd Corinthians 2. He's actually dealing with a theological issue. He's trying to teach them that we have been freed as slaves to the law. We are no longer bound by the law. We have been set free by the blood of Jesus Christ and now we are heirs of God. That's what he's teaching. Don't try to go back and fulfill the law, you've been freed from the law. But what he does is he illustrates it in a way that I now have access to some data that I can use in ancillary application. I am not out of context. I'm taking an ancillary application because of the analogy he gives. Watch what he says. He says think of it this way. If a father dies and leaves an inheritance for his young children, those children are not much better off than slaves until they grow up. That's important. Even though they actually owned everything the father had, they have to obey their guardians until they reach whatever age their father set. Watch this. Stay right here. What I want you to understand is when you set up an inheritance for your children, you need to put guardrails in place so that that money is distributed to them at ages and stages where they're mature enough to receive it and handle it. Those distributions should be done prudently. You can tell your attorney, he says they must be 30 and this is how much they get. You can say they can only use it for a real estate. You can set those parameters in place to protect you against foolishness like that, right? That's part of the system by having the right staff around you to help you do it. Now, go to verse 7 and he says, "Now you are no longer a slave, but God's own child. And since you are his child, God has made you his heir."

Everybody say heir. Since you are God's child, he made you his heir. Guess what? Because we're God's children, we're also his heirs. Every one of your children are your heirs. The irresponsible one and heir, the responsible one and heir, the one who's sexual orientation you don't agree with and heir. The one that's on drugs and heir. The one that gets 4.0 in school and heir. The one that's on academic probation and heir. How many more you got? They're all heirs. You got to stop looking at your children based on conditions, they're your children based on their position. These are your children and they're all heirs. And every heir should get a part of the inheritance, it's not based on performance. Because he doesn't do that to us. And some of you have written off your children, you wrote them out your will, you disconnected from them because they didn't do what you wanted them to do. You better run that by the Scriptures because God has made you his heir and he didn't make it, I just, he didn't make it conditional. It's undeserved and he preserved it. And we've been foolish, we've been reckless, we've been sinful, but we're still going to the same heaven, God, we've got one heaven. People who are mature spiritually going to that heaven. People who are immature spiritually going to that same heaven. People who walk with God closely going to heaven. People who walk with God loosely going to heaven. The airship is still intact. How dare you take the airship that you have when churches, by the way, by the way, if

God withdrew his airship from us, it would be far more costly than us being petty with our children. By the way, the prodigal son's father, that boy was bucked wild and that father still gave him his inheritance. Then when the boy came back broke, he threw a party and said let's start over. (cheers and applause) park right there. Let's stand. This is a mindset. God shift our thinking from a consumer mindset to a contributor of generations to come. We will give themselves. I'm throwing more than a bone to you. I'm gonna get you something to build on. Who receives that today? Stop being mad because they got it easy. They're supposed to have it easier. You mad because you had it so hard. Let me get over that, get over that, build, build, build, build, build. Ah, Psalm 112 verse 1 says those who honor the Lord. That's interesting. You know it's impossible to honor the Lord but I'll submit your life to them. I'm not talking about knowing the Lord. I'm talking about honoring Him. I believe I knew the Lord when I was in the sixth grade as I remember talking to Him and praying to Him but knowing Him and honoring Him are different. And I believe some of you are ready to come to a point in your life where you say I'm ready to honor God. From this place right here I'm ready to honor God. Sometimes you reach an intersection of your life was time to take a spiritual step and say I'm moving closer to God. For you that spiritual step could be I need to acknowledge my sins and accept Jesus Christ as my personal Savior. For you it might be I need to make a personal commitment to join the church and be faithful and committed to the local church. It might make me, it might be you saying I need to take an equipped class so I can become better and to grow. Well I need to start serving in my church. Well I need to start maybe I need to get baptized. Maybe I need to join a small group for accountability. There's so many steps you can take. The God wants to order. He says the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. A good man, a good woman will let Him order your steps. I believe there are people that need to make steps today. You need to step towards Jesus. Wherever you are right now if you're at

Zillow you're at Fort Washington here with Bridge we give you this opportunity. This is your time in the service to step towards Jesus. Don't let anything keep you from coming forward today. I'm going to ask our altar counselors and pastors and ministers to come first and there are people here to pray with you. Maybe it's something you need prayer for that I didn't even mention. Come on, come on, take a step. And don't watch this. Sometimes you slip out of church. Don't just slip back in. Be decisive about it. Because the way you return has a lot to do with how strong you stand. Let somebody know I need prayer for me. Open those doors so people can come. Father you're saying to Jesus I come to you today. Come on, Leah. ♪ Come to Jesus ♪ ♪ Come to Jesus ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Come to Jesus ♪ ♪ Just now ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Come to Jesus ♪ ♪ Yes, Lord ♪ ♪ Come to Jesus ♪ ♪ Just now ♪ Whatever your need is don't stay where you are. Don't be stuck. Come on. ♪ Come to Jesus ♪ ♪ Come to Jesus ♪ ♪ Come to Jesus ♪ ♪ Just now ♪ ♪ We don't have much time ♪ This ain't revival, this Sunday service. So I can't wait on your own day. In the day you hear his voice, move. Come on. Come on! We will save, we will save you, we will save you, just now, we will save you. And let me say this, in light of economics, in light of generational wealth, I got one more verse, this ain't in this song, but I wanted to sing this part because if you really go and break strongholds generationally, husbands and wives have got to be together. Amen. So the next verse, I want you to sing, come together. Come together. Yes. Husbands and wives. Come together. If we get together, we can change the generation. Right now. Some husband and wife may want to come to the war together. Say we're going to do this together. We're going to do this together. Right now. Come together. Come together.

Father, we thank you for your word. It's a lamp to our feet. It's a light to our path. Bless us now as we go forward in this service. We thank you for what your word is doing in our lives. May it bear fruit in Jesus name. Amen. And amen. Pastor David Swan, I turn the service over to you. Pastor John Smalls. Turn the service over to you. Minister Dumasani, so wazzy services in your hand. Amen. Come on, Pastor Joy, let's close up. Hey, listen, I asked you at the beginning of this meeting to open up your heart. At the beginning of the message to open up your heart and be open to what God would say to you. And I'm going to ask you to keep your heart open because he really wants to do great things in your family with generations financially. But it's on you now. You got the word. Walk in it. And we'll see you right back here next time at Zion Church. [MUSIC PLAYING]