How You Treat Your Treasure

Is anybody thankful for a brand-new day and brand-new mercy, another chance to bless the Lord together? If you're thankful for it, can you give him a great hallelujah praise right here? Hallelujah. Come on, we're going to sing about that today, how he's given us a fresh start, a new life in him, another opportunity to praise him. Why don't you clap your hands like this? You, the first glimpse of you You, left me feeling the way that I couldn't shake, so I'm sticking with you You, now I'm feeling brand new All the things from my old self are gone, so I took the weight off feeling new So I'm cutting all ties to lead back to previous days Yeah, as I'm running straight for you, I'm locked in, I'm finished, no way This is what we thank the Lord for today, we say, fresh start, new heart Fresh start, I'm leaving you now, new heart, it's all for you now Fresh start, new heart Fresh start, I'm leaving you now, new heart, it's all for you now You, everything I know Didn't answer the questions I had, so I left all the past, all I know True, you're in the night patrol, so I'm building my life on you Because you are the way and the truth, yes you are Jesus, we say, fresh start, new heart Fresh start, I'm leaving you now, new heart, it's all for you now Fresh start, new heart Fresh start, I'm leaving you now, new heart, it's all for you now So I'm cutting all ties to lead back to previous days As I'm running straight for you, I'm locked in, I'm finished, no way Because you've given us a fresh start, new heart Fresh start, I'm leaving you now, new heart, it's all for you now Fresh start, new heart Fresh start, I'm leaving you now, new heart, it's all for you now Oh Jesus, it's all for you now Hey, Lord we praise you Say, there's a light that shines with hope and grace

Fills the sky with new mercy each day We're alive, let your favor pour out Jesus, and there's a joy that overwhelms our souls Cause we know our God is in control, overflow Let your favor pour out, Jesus We say, this is the day that the Lord has made We will rejoice and be glad in it This is the day that the Lord has made We'll rejoice, we'll rejoice and be glad in it We'll rejoice, we'll rejoice and be glad in it And there's a joy that overwhelms our souls Cause we know our God is in control, overflow And let your favor pour out, Jesus It's Jesus We say that this is the day that the Lord has made And we will rejoice and be glad in it ♪ This is the day that the Lord has made ♪ ♪ So we'll rejoice, we'll rejoice and be glad in it ♪ ♪ We'll rejoice, we'll rejoice and be glad in it ♪ Lord, we decide this morning that we're gonna leave behind the past and look to you as we say, ♪ Leave behind what happened yesterday ♪ ♪ Cause today, come on, you know it happened then ♪ ♪ So leave behind what happened yesterday ♪ ♪ Cause today, something happens where we command our soul to ♪ ♪ Leave behind what happened yesterday ♪ ♪ Cause today, there's a new thing happening ♪ ♪ Only behind what happened yesterday ♪ ♪ Cause today there's a good thing happening ♪

♪ Leave behind what happened yesterday ♪ ♪ Cause today, there's something new, something new ♪ ♪ So leave behind what happened yesterday ♪ ♪ Cause today, there's a good thing happening ♪ ♪ And this is the day that the Lord has made ♪ ♪ We will rejoice and be glad in it ♪ ♪ This is the day that the Lord has made ♪ ♪ We'll rejoice, we'll lift it up, we say ♪ ♪ And this is the day that the Lord has made ♪ ♪ We will rejoice and be glad in it ♪ ♪ This is the day that the Lord has made ♪ ♪ We'll rejoice, we'll rejoice and be glad in it ♪ ♪ We'll rejoice, we'll rejoice and be glad in it ♪ ♪ We'll rejoice, we'll rejoice and be glad in it ♪ Hallelujah! Amen, amen. Well, we're so happy that you're here at church this morning. The morning that the Lord has made. We're gonna put a timer on the screen. You can go ahead, turn around, greet somebody new, share a smile, share a hug, and we'll see you guys real soon. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Amen, amen. It feels good in the room this morning.

How we doing, Faith Church Orlando? So good to see y'all. Man, it's gonna be an absolutely incredible, incredible day. So excited, but we always like to take some time to acknowledge some special people. If this is your first time here, maybe the first time in a long time, you wanna just slip your hand up and just wave at me. Just wanna acknowledge you. Glad that you're here. Amen, God bless you. Welcome, welcome. Our ushers are gonna head to you, hand you a booklet, a welcome booklet, information. If you didn't get a chance to encounter someone from our guest experience team, go ahead and tap. There's like a little circle in front of your chair. Tap that with your phone or visit faithassembly.org first time, and we would love to answer any questions you have. After service, we have a connections hub. In the atrium, you can head on out. We would love to get to meet you, answer any questions you have. We say here the first time, you're a guest. After that, you are family. So we're so glad that you're here. Everyone say amen. Awesome, awesome. Well, if you guys turn your attention to our screens,

check out our announcements. Welcome to Faith Church Orlando. Here's a look at upcoming events. Something super is coming on February 8th. With the Super Bowl around the corner, we're using the biggest game of the year to reach as many people as possible. But church, we need your help. This service is the perfect opportunity to bring a friend, a family member, or a coworker. Join us during our regular service times as we gather to hear a strong evangelistic message designed to help people encounter Jesus. Also, every first time guest gets entered to win giveaways. This is going to be one powerful Sunday. Who are you bringing? Season two of The Faith Cast is out now, and it's called The Seeker. My kids, we always sell stuff on Facebook Marketplace or give stuff away because we just, they have too much stuff. So then they will ask us like, what are we selling this for? And I was like, are we okay? Do we need money? And I'm like, no, you guys need less stuff. That's what you need. So they always be like, where's my car? Did you sell it? Subconsciously we think we're in control of this prayer time and then we're gonna

do this and then this is gonna happen but I think giving up control is something where we have to say okay well Lord your will be done and you lead me and my answer is yes. So much of what God does in our lives is through the body and so for us as people we have to be open and ready to bless people but then on the flip side you've got to put yourself out there yeah and you got to say here's what I'm struggling with, here's what we're dealing with and allow people then to, because that's the beauty of God's family. It's like a bunch of people lifting each other up and blessing each other and so it's twofold. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or the Faith app. Listen or watch today. Exciting things are happening at Faith. Here's a look ahead. We encourage you to connect, grow, serve and reach here at Faith. So stay connected through the Faith app or our website. Have a blessed week. Amen, amen. God is good. Has he been good to you? Amen and we're gonna continue worshiping as we collect God's tithes and our kingdom builders offering. That's where we get excited and if you're joining us online we're so glad that you're joining us. Hey do not miss out on this opportunity. Join in with what God is doing in this house. Choose to give today. Well we're super excited. There are two steps of giving here. That first step is giving our tithes which is 10% of our income that belongs to the Lord. We give that first and foremost and God blesses it and then the second step which we're always so excited about is the kingdom builders where we give. It's the step of generosity. It's the above tithe giving where we choose to partner with what God is doing not only in this church but across this city, across the country, across this world and it's amazing. So thank you again Faith Church for deciding to be generous givers and participating in this time of worship. We're gonna go to Lord in prayer and then we'll give you an opportunity to give. Bow your heads with me. Jesus we thank you. We love you. We give you all the glory. Thank you God that we give because you have given to us first. God so I pray that we would give with generous hearts, with praise and worship in our hearts. God we pray that you would bless this offering that it would go forward to build your

kingdom. God we pray for every single person in this room, every family that's represented. We pray your hand over their lives. You are the provider so we pray God that you would move in those situations where we need you. God we thank you. It's in your name that we pray. Amen and amen. Well God bless you. If you have a physical offering ushers will pass by. If you have a digital offering you can scan that tap code or follow any other instructions on this screen. God bless you as you give. And for all the married folks throw your hands in the air. My married people at? Okay okay. Or my engaged people at? You know I'm saying you about to you excited? Yeah in the back let's get it. Hey turn your attention to screens. Check this out. Strong marriages aren't built by accident. They're built when couples choose to slow down, reconnect and reinvest in the relationship. They require intentional effort and the support of our faith community along the way. We've designed an evening just for that. To encourage, strengthen and renew your marriage as we grow together. Join us Sunday February 15th at our Curry Ford campus as we gather together for the Better Marriage Conference. Whether you're married or engaged this evening was designed for you. Featuring a powerful word from guest speaker Dan Leanne. Even though you're smiling and holding hands half of the people in this room are going through a storm. May this be the booming soundtrack of your marriage as you walk through a storm. He is still in your boat. Come on squeeze your spouse's hand and say we're gonna get to the other side. And what you're actually going through right now in your marriage is actually you're set up to experience Jesus in the most full, rich and beautiful 4D, ultra. You know what I'm saying? Don't miss it. Doors open at 5 p.m. with childcare and dinner provided for kids 10 and under. So take this simple, intentional step towards a godly and better marriage. Amen and amen. I'm looking forward to that. Come on somebody give God praise in this place today. I'm so thankful to be a part of a church that believes in healthy marriages. Come on and you know not to be cheesy but the Bible does call us the bride of Christ and just for a moment we are going to celebrate what

the groom, what Christ has done for us and we believe in open community here. So if you didn't receive the elements when you came in at any of the doors and you're a believer in Jesus please partake with us today. You can raise your hand and our ushers are coming down the aisle right now. Receive any of the elements and kind of as we're preparing to to join this communion table Together. I want to say this. I want to remind us of what communion really is. Uh, it's not a ritual It's not a religious box. We have to check. We're not just doing this because it's on the service order Uh communion is about remembering it's about remembrance, but but even so much more than that. It's about re-centering We take a moment just to pause And think about what jesus has actually done for all of us It's about us leaning into the power of the cross his mercy and his forgiveness You know, we start thinking about communion It's really interesting how it pulls us back to jesus gently life is crazy uh, there's a lot of noise a lot of priorities expectations it's pulling us in all these different directions and when we Think about communion it brings us right back to jesus and jesus is so kind It says that his body was broken for us and the bread represents that his the fact that he was broken We could be made whole jesus didn't take any shortcuts He didn't uh, try to take the easy way out and because of his broken body all of us can be made completely whole It also tells us about the blood the blood of christ in the blood of christ is forgiveness For many sins because of the blood of jesus, come on, we are forgiven. We are redeemed. We are set free Come on, thank god that we have purpose because of the blood of jesus and here's the beautiful thing the blood of jesus Was not poured out for us because we deserve it The blood of jesus was not poured out for us because we earned it No, the blood of jesus was poured out because god is gracious and he's merciful and he cares about us deeply And so the bible invites us as we consider communion to Examine our lives not to beat ourselves up or look down on ourselves But to come to god honestly and say god whatever you want to do. You can do it in my life So if you're tired today the communion table is for you

If you're frustrated today this moment is for you if you're struggling today This moment is for you. And if you're strong today, guess what this moment is for you Jesus said it like this. He took the bread and I want to invite you uh to to approach the bread with me and said when Uh, jesus took the bread. He said this is my body That was broken for you. I want to pray over the bread today And then we're going to take it together father. We thank you, uh that your body was broken jesus for uh for for our sins Uh because you were broken and gave up your body we could be made whole not just whole physically But mentally and emotionally lord, we thank you for laying down your life for us Lord, we pray for anybody who needs a touch of god in their body in their mind in their heart Wherever it is a fracture today. God touched them today In jesus mighty name, would you partake of the bread with me? today It says in that same manner Jesus took a cup And he said this cup is part of my new covenant for you in my blood For the forgiveness of many sins. I just want to testify today that because of jesus shedding his blood Come on, all sins are forgiven. Come on because jesus said his blood all mistakes are wiped away Come on, because jesus said his blood we have a hope and a future. Thank god for the blood of jesus I just want to pray over this cup of juice today that represents the blood of jesus before we partake it jesus Thank you for your blood that Washes us as white as snow because of your blood lord All of our sins are forgiven and we can be made completely right with god Lord because of your blood our faith is not a faith of effort, but one of grace Jesus we honor you today and we bless the name that is above every other name the name of jesus christ as we partake today Amen, and amen, you can drink the juice with me today Amen And church if you wouldn't mind standing today, come on, can we just begin to thank god for just a moment? Listen, I I don't know what you come into this room carrying today, but I know our god deserves praise

Come on, can you just lift up your voice for a second today? Come on, faith church orlando. Can you give god a shout of praise? Oh, he's so good I'll say it like this today We believe that because of what god has done for us that there is power in prayer We know that our god hears us So we're going to invite our prayer team to come down right now And if you need a touch in any way in your body today If you need a touch in your family today, if you're just saying man, I need god to move in my life Really you need prayer for absolutely anything you can join us as the worship team is about to lead us In a song of surrender and celebration man. I invite you to come to these altars and encounter jesus with us today. God bless you Morning Anybody out there believing in the victory that Jesus Christ won for us through the finished work of the cross? Come on, if you believe the enemy is defeated today, can we join together with our faith as we praise the Lord, that the cross has the final word? Even as folks come to these altars, we declare, the cross has the final word. We believe that the cross has the final word. Sorrow may come, sorrow may come in the darkest night, but the cross has the final word. Our Jesus is victorious, and we declare, the cross, the cross has the final word. The cross has the final word. Evil may put up a fight today, evil may put it's strongest fight, but the cross has the final word. I believe that's reason for celebration today, that the enemy is defeated, that Jesus is victorious, and we're victorious in Him. If that's your testimony, why don't you lift your hands high and sing out loud, the cross. The cross has the final word. Yes. The cross has the final word. The Savior has come. The Savior has come with the morning light.

The cross has the final word. For the cross. The cross has the final word. Thank you, Lord. The cross has the final word. He traded death. He traded death for eternal life. The cross has the final word. Oh, and we're so thankful, Jesus. Oh, Lord Jesus, we're thankful for salvation today by the finished work of your cross. We're so thankful for victory over the plans of the enemy that His word is no longer void and no longer valid in our lives. Oh, but that your word stands forever over us, that we are your sons and your daughters. And because of that, we lift your name high as we declare this today with confidence that there's nothing stronger and nothing higher and nothing greater than the name of Jesus All the honor and all the power and all the glory is to the name of Jesus There's nothing stronger or nothing higher There's nothing greater than the name of Jesus All the honor and all the power and all the glory is to the name of Jesus There's nothing stronger or nothing higher There's nothing greater than the name of Jesus All the honor and all the power and all the glory is yours, Lord To the name of Jesus For the cross has the final word Yes, it does The cross has the final word The Savior has come with the morning light The cross has the final word One more time, we say The cross has the final word

Thank you, Jesus The cross has the final word He traded death for eternal life The cross has the final word Somebody that's found freedom in the cross, can you give Him praise? Somebody that's found new life in the cross, can you give Him praise? Somebody who's thankful for the victory of Jesus, can you give Him praise today? Worthy, worthy Worthy, worthy are You, Lord. We praise You, we praise You. In the darkness we were waiting Without hope and without light Till from heaven You came running There was mercy in Your eyes To fulfill the law and prophets To a virgin came the Word From a throne of endless glory To a cradle in the dirt Is anybody grateful? He's so worthy. So we praise the Father, praise the Son Praise the Spirit, three in one God of glory, majesty Praise forever to the King of kings Yes, we praise You, Lord To reveal the kingdom coming And to reconcile the lost To redeem the whole creation You did not despise the cross For even in Your suffering You saw to the other side Knowing this was our salvation Jesus, for our sake You died He did it freely, so we praise In response we say Praise the Father, we praise the Son Praise the Spirit, You're three in one He's God of glory, majesty We praise forever to the King of kings Yes, we praise You

In the morning that You rose All of heaven held its breath Till that stone was moved for good For the Lamb had conquered death And the dead rose from their tombs And the angels stood in awe For the souls of all who'd come To the Father are restored And the Church of Christ was born Then the Spirit lit the flame Now this gospel truth of old Shall not kneel, it shall not fail By His blood and in His name In His freedom I am free For the love of Jesus Christ Who has resurrected me We praise You, Jesus We praise the Father, we praise the Son Praise the Spirit, You're three in one You're God of glory, majesty Praise forever to the King of kings We praise the Father, we praise the Son Praise the Spirit, You're three in one You're God of glory, majesty Praise forever to the King of kings We praise forever to the King of kings Hallelujah, man, I've sensed God in this place I know you've sensed God where you're at Would you give God just one more time, let's take 10 more seconds, and let's give God, amen. He deserves it. He's worthy. He's good. Amen. God bless you. You can be seated. I am so glad to see you today. Y'all are my favorite people. All right. And I mean this at every location, I'm glad to see you as well. I just want to welcome our campuses right now, Red Bug Lake Campus, our Michigan Street Campus, our Narcoossee Road Campus. Today's service streamed at the Central Florida Reception Center. Come on, let's give God thanks for what he's doing at every single location and more to come in Jesus' name. And so yes, I am so glad you're here and can't wait to get into the Word today. Today's going to be a little bit unique, but man, you are here because God knew what he was doing. And so I'm glad that you're here. If you're watching on the screen somewhere else, we're glad that you are and lean in and be a part

of this in every way. And then we also look forward to the time, the next time you're here with us in person, because it's even better in person. All the in-person people said amen at every location. Come on. When you get with God's people, it's just, there's just something that kind of multiplies what God's doing. And so at every location, we're so glad that you're here. If you got your Bibles, you can go to Matthew chapter six. We've been in Matthew chapter six, of course, since the last Sunday of last year and all through so far this year. And so we're going to stay there today as well. But before I jump into the Word, let me just mention something that's happening in three weeks. In three weeks, it's Super Sunday. Somebody say Super Sunday is coming up. And this is a special Super Sunday because it almost didn't happen. We almost didn't have a Super Sunday here at Faith this year because God's favorite football team is not in the playoffs this year. Yeah, the Kansas City Chiefs. And so I had to pray and say, Lord, can we still do it? He's like, you can still do it, but I'm not, you know, it won't be the same. I said, that's true. It won't be the same. But we're going to do it and it's going to be incredible. And there are tickets at every location. And listen to me. I love, I love when people bring people to church. People bring people to church every single week and that is powerful. But there are a couple Sundays of the year that we say, hey, y'all got to bring somebody with you when you come. And so for the next three weeks, I want you to be thinking about that, praying about that, who you bringing on Super Sunday. It's a Sunday that everybody knows because you can say Super Sunday. They know the date already. And we're going to preach a very clear gospel message and we're going to see, we're going to see so many people saved. And so let's, let some of the people that get saved be your friends that you invite and your coworkers and your neighbors. Somebody say, amen. And so that's, that's coming up in three weeks. All right, let me read this text. And as we have been saying, kind of our theme, this would be our theme text for the year, because this year for the whole year, we're thinking about what it looks like for us to be seekers. Seekers after God's will for our lives. Seekers after God's presence and seekers after God using us and using us to help seek and save that which is lost. And so obviously a lot of verses talk about seeking, but we said if there was one verse that kind of summed all that up for us this year, so I guess sort of our verse for the year, if you want to say it that way, it would be Matthew chapter six, verse 33. But seek first his kingdom. Some of y'all got it memorized already now because we've been reading this, but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all

these things will be given to you as well. Today I'm going to preach and talk about how you treat your treasure, how you treat your treasure. And when I say your treasure, maybe I should say how you treat God's treasure, because part of seeking first the kingdom, you know what, a true kingdom, a true monarchy, the king owns it all. So did you know you don't own anything that you have anyway? Everything you have belongs to God. So we're going to pray about what it looks like, how we treat the treasure that God has entrusted to us. And so let's pray and ask God to speak to us today. Father, we ask you to speak to us. I ask you to anoint this word with a fresh anointing. I pray God that you would stir up passion for you. Lord, as we have gathered here, give us a greater passion just for you and for what you are doing in our lives, what you are doing through our lives. We bless you and we love you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. When I was like 15 or 16, 17, around that age range, I got this brilliant idea. I took all the money I had which at the time was, you can imagine, massive amounts of money. It was probably like about about six dollars or something like that. But I started doing this thing. I would take my dollars, and back then it was dollars, it was physical money, and I would take it and I would write on the physical money with a good ink pen, I would say, property of Johnny Wilson. And I said, if found, please return to, and I put my address on there. And I was doing that for a minute on all my dollar bills. Somebody say, Pastor, that's illegal. I know, I was like that. Okay, Jesus saved me from a life of marking up dollar bills with a pen. And so I would write that. Can you imagine my shock one day when my mom comes and says, hey, you got a letter in the mail,

and I open up the letter, and outside I pull out of that envelope is one of my dollar bills. And it was a little note from somebody. The person in the note said, hey, Johnny, I accidentally got one of your dollar bills when I got changed at the store, and I see that this belongs to you, and so you might need it, so here you go. And signed their name, and put a little smiley face, and I was like, man, that's incredible. Showed that that's probably a generous person who's willing to do something like that, and kind of play along. But it also kind of sparked something. I mean, I'm thinking, I may never have to work again. A day in my life, are you kidding me? I'll just start writing down. And so it gave me an idea for Kingdom Builders this year. Before I get to that idea, I gotta tell you what Kingdom Builders is, and then we're gonna tell you about the idea that we have that was inspired by my idea when I was 16 years old. But today's gonna be a little bit unique because it's a bit of a, probably stakeholders, and we wanna make sure and explain to you what Kingdom Builders is, and there's a magazine that you can grab today in all the lobbies of all the locations

that kind of help explain Kingdom Builders. We'll have those out this week and next week. And so you can grab one of those. But let me talk a little bit about what Kingdom Builders is because I want you to know, you attend a church that does not just believe that we are called to impact our city. You attend a church that believes that we are called to impact the world. Now, there are some churches that spend the most of their energy on impacting their city, and I'm not even saying that's wrong, but God has stirred something up in us that yes, we're gonna change the city of Orlando, but we're also gonna change the world. And when we come together, we just believe that we can change the world. Does anybody just sense that in this room and where you're at, that we can change the world? And so, yeah, you attend that kind of church, and so Kingdom Builders is really our way of doing that. And I'm sure there's a lot that are new and you hear us talk about Kingdom Builders, but you don't know exactly maybe what it is. And so I wanna kind of go through just what Kingdom Builders is. Kingdom Builders is kind of a mutual fund of missions and ministry all over the world. And so there would be times in the past where maybe we would have somebody come in

from a certain ministry and we would receive an offering for that ministry. Then the next week, we might receive an offering for a different ministry and that kind of thing. Well, what Kingdom Builders does is Kingdom Builders takes these multiple partners and missionary organizations and ministry partners all over the world, and it starts to just kind of combine them into one fund called Kingdom Builders. And so it's stuff that you would give to anyway. Like Live Dead, for instance, is an organization that has decided to send missionaries to the places of the world that are unreached. There are places in the world, about over 40% of the world is still unreached by the gospel. There are places in the world where less than 1% are Christian. Which, what's that mean? It means somebody could ask all the friends they know. They could ask all the friends they know and still not find a Christian. Well, Live Dead sends missionaries. Now, you'd wanna be a part of that. You know what Convoy of Hope is doing. I know you'd wanna be a part of. Fiat and Project Rescue are both working together to rescue people and young ladies from sexual slavery and sexual trafficking.

And Fiat is in the country of Spain, which is like the second most activity of sexual trafficking in the world. So if we had somebody come from that, you would wanna give towards that. That's why they're here. Jerusalem School of Bethlehem is one of our new partners this year. You're gonna hear more about that in February. But they're in Bethlehem, not too far from the Gaza Strip. There are Christian kids and Muslim kids, Jewish kids and Palestinian kids in this school finding Christ in there together. Come on, only Jesus can do that, right? And we would wanna be a part of something like that. And they're maxed out. They have like 800 students. They need a building. You'd wanna be a part of that. So they're part of what we're doing. God Behind Bars, which is how we are able to be in our Central Florida reception. is God behind bars, but I'm gonna read you a text that we got a couple weeks ago from a family friend who used to be very involved here at the church and that's years and years and years ago. And this is what she wrote to my wife. She said, good morning, a long time, my friend, in connecting, but, and then she said her son's name,

I'll leave that out, just, I don't wanna mention that, but she said, you know, his name, we know him. She said, my son is in jail. She said he's in, she listed the city, it's up in the far Pacific Northwest, about as far from us as it could be, so he's in jail. And she said, but he was able to watch your service from last week with Pastor Johnny preaching on his tablet that the jail provided for him. Faith Assembly is on his tablet, she said. She said, I'm assuming that this is God behind bars, which it is, and she said, but not sure. Nonetheless, he was really stoked about it, so I wanted to tell, to let you and PJ know, that's me, let you and PJ know that you are making a difference and impacting the world for the Lord. It's probably the first sermon he has heard in over two years. Come on, and so we talk about, amen. We talk about God behind bars, and we talk about Central Florida Reception Center, but through our investment in them, our ministries, we don't even know the impact it's making across the whole country. Africa's Hope Ministry and missions, efforts in the continent of Africa. Choices Women's Clinic, which is giving, right here in our city, but it's a ministry that provides opportunities and other options

for young ladies and women that are considering abortion. Student missions trips. We actually help with our Faith Christian Academy, our school here, we actually help send seniors right after they graduate from high school. We help, through Kingdom Builders, we help send them on a missions trip, and we offset the cost, almost half of the cost of the trip, we offset that through Kingdom Builders. You go, why do you do that? Why do you do that? Because kids are coming back from those trips feeling a call to missions. God wrecks them and does something in their life, and they feel a call to missions. We've committed as a church, we're gonna raise up 100 missionaries and have 100 missionaries on the field. Well, Kingdom Builders helps us do that. Somebody say amen. Come on, Narcoossee Road Campus, and they're cheering, and I'll hold this up, I know. But they're meeting at Narcoossee Elementary School right now, but we have 20 acres on Narcoossee Road. We're gonna build a building that's gonna start, construction will start this year on it, and Kingdom Builders, come on, Kingdom Builders helps do that. Builders International, which is a ministry that builds churches all over the world. And listen, I know, I just mentioned, right,

we're building a church here. And we could take all of our funds and just go, hey, we're building a church. That's not the heart of God. Like, I just felt God, really, in the last couple of weeks, I wanna double our efforts of investing in building new churches and church plants all over the world. I wanna double that this year than what we did, even though we're building a church, I wanna help other people build churches. Come on, somebody say amen. And, oh, look at this one. Over 1,200 missionaries we support through Kingdom Builders. Now, let me tell you a story. I was at a meeting recently with some of the pastors from the top missions-giving churches in our movement, okay? And so there was a guy who was speaking in a session, and he's the director of World Missions for the Assemblies of God, okay? That's the network we're a part of. So he's doing this session, he's talking, we're all listening, all these pastors. And he kinda stops in the session for a second. He said, Pastor Johnny, he said, do you know how many missionaries you guys support? Put me on the spot in front of everybody. And I was like, well, I don't know the exact number. I said, I think it's between 1,200 and 1,300.

He goes, I know the exact number. And he said, it's 1,250 something. I still don't know the exact number, even though he told me, here we go. He said, I know what it is. He said, did you know that you support more missionaries than any other church in the whole nation? You support more missionaries than any church in our movement. And I didn't know that. And I wanna say thank you for your generosity. And trust me, these missionaries say thank you. Funny, I had pastors come up to me after that session, and they were saying, how do you find the missionaries? I said, oh, we don't have to find them. Trust me, they find us. When word gets out that we are just a quick yes, when you say yes to God, they find us. And so Fire Bible training pastors all over the world with study Bibles, team challenge, life-controlling issues. So you would give if we took offerings each week and extra offerings for all these different things. Man, most of you would give to all of those because you believe in what God is doing through them. And so what Kingdom Builders does is say, when you give to Kingdom Builders, you are changing the world. Come on, that's why, that's we just wanted to make it. and put it all together and say that's what a Kingdom Builder is. And so Kingdom Builders is not a partner, Kingdom Builders is not another organization.

You are Kingdom Builders and we are Kingdom Builders. And by way of celebration, I want to announce what our Kingdom Builder total was for 2025. And so I said by way of celebration, so we're getting ready to celebrate. But last year you gave towards Kingdom Builders in 2025 $2,200,935.67. Oh, come on. Thank God for that impact. Given towards ministries that are changing the world and you're a part of that. And in case maybe somebody here is kind of wondering, well, how does that happen and how do we get to that number? Which by the way, our goal for 2026 is $3,000,000. Now when we announce a goal like that, sometimes I make a statement like this. I say, and I think we can do it. Well, I do think we can do it. Sometimes I say, I know we can do it. And I do know we can do it. But church, I want you to hear me very clearly. I'm not saying that I think we can and I'm not saying that I know we can. What I'm saying today is that we need to. We need to do this. We need to come together because the impact is too great and the need is too real. And so we need to do this. And so what I want us to think about is what it looks like for us to accomplish that. I want to show you again. I said today's a little bit different and so hang with us. But I want to show you kind of how we got to that 2.2 million this year. So I'm going to put up a chart here that shows kind of how Kingdom Builders is funded by you. And so we have at the top of the chart, we have 1,400 plus people who gave between zero, well, I guess they gave between $1 or one penny or whatever to $100. And you go, well, that's a small amount. They should do more than that. Yeah, but look what that small amount of up to $100, 1,400 of them, look what that amounted to, $58,000. The next level down you see, or next level up I guess you could say, but between $100 and $500.

We had, that's the largest group. Almost 1,000 people gave between $100 and $500 last year to Kingdom Builders. Well, look what that totaled, $253,000. The next one, 300 plus gave between $500 and $1,000 totaling $229. So you can go on down and see that on the list, 386 gave between $1,000 and $5,000 through the year towards Kingdom Builders. That totaled our largest dollar number, almost $800,000 from those that gave $1,000 to $5,000. We have $5,000 to $10,000. 40 people gave in that window of giving to Kingdom Builders and it equaled 271. We had 15 people that gave from $10,000 to $25,000 totaling $215. We had three people give between $25,000 and $50,000 to Kingdom Builders. And then we had four people give between $50,000 and $100,000 to Kingdom Builders. Right now, if you see last year, you see a zero on the $100,000 plus. And I'm just telling you now that we are already on pace that I can with all certainty say that will be populated next year, that $100,000 plus. It is going to be populated. I'm not speaking by faith. It's already kind of there. We're doing it. And so I show that graph and I take the time to do this for two reasons. One, I do it because I want you to understand because sometimes the devil will lie to you. And when you hear numbers like 2.2 million, you go, well, my little that I'm giving towards Kingdom Builders, that's not making a difference. That's not what that chart says. No, that chart says that there are people who are given between $500,000 and $1,000 and it's equaling when we pull it together. It's making a massive impact. So this Kingdom Builders is not driven by a small few. No, it's driven by all of us saying yes, saying I'll be a part of this. I want to make a difference with what God has resourced me with, with what God has trusted me with. I want to figure out what I need to do in my life to be a part of this and how I need to live differently or budget differently because it is making a difference. And so wherever you're at, and let's do this, as best you can, try to figure out where you're at on that chart. So maybe some of you aren't on the chart yet. And well, then this year's the year to get on the chart.

Okay, great. But if you are on the chart, and I'm not even going to factor in. for a second, those that are gonna start giving to Kingdom Builders this year. We will have new people that become Kingdom Builders this year above Tithe Giving to make a difference around the world. We'll have more people do that, new people do that. I'm not even counting that yet, but watch. If all of us figured out what tier that we are on, and we decided to go up a level. We decided, let's do this. What if we just asked God and said, God, what would it take for me to jump to a different level? What kind of change in my life? What kind of change in my behavior? What kind of, how would I have to manage my life or my money differently? What would it take for me to jump to a next level? And the reason why I ask you to consider that today, and I want you to be considering that over the next seven days, just what would it look like for our family to jump to the next level? The reason why I present that is because if all of us that are represented on that from last year just jumped to the minimum of the next level, if all of us did that, and I know not all of us can, but if all of us did, our giving, without counting anybody new coming in,

our giving would go from 2.2 million to 4.2 million next year. Come on, if we just would jump a level. And so I just want you to be thinking about, praying about how it looks and how you might be able to jump a level. And before you think that I'm doing this because I want something from you, that's not how this is. I'm doing this because I want something for you. I want your life to be blessed. I want your business to be blessed. I want your professional life to be blessed. I want your family to be blessed. I want your home to be blessed, your kids and your grandkids to be blessed, and your great-grandkids to be blessed. And so, man, generosity will unlock that. What if kind of figuring out a better pace on my path to generosity, what if that is what brings an absolute new blessing on my life? And I believe that it will. So I have an idea. Back to my idea with Kingdom Builders for next year. Here's what I want you to do. I want you to go out and just buy a bunch of stuff all through the year. I mean, stack it up, store it up, buy new things, buy new clothes, buy more jewelry, go to restaurants, but go to more expensive restaurants.

Now, here's the catch. When you go, you can't pay with your credit card. You've got to pay with cash. I want you to start carrying big old wads of cash, and everywhere you go, pay with cash. And what I want you to do on those $100 bills when you're out there spending like crazy, and you're just buying all this stuff, you get where I'm going, right? Grab those $100 bills and get your marker out and be like, if found, property of Faith Church Orlando. Kingdom Builders. Please return to, and then we're gonna put the address on there for your campus, and then we're gonna see, we're gonna sit back, and it's gonna be awesome, because you're just gonna get more and more and more stuff, but man, Kingdom Builders is gonna be funny, because we're gonna sit back and watch these envelopes full of money just pour into the church. Some of you don't believe me. I don't believe me either. It's illegal, for one, so we can't do that. It's not how we're supposed to treat money. And it's kind of the opposite of what Jesus said, isn't it? In Matthew chapter six, that same chapter we're in, in verse 19, Jesus, to say it's not what he said, it's actually the opposite of what he said. And this verse, verse 19, I don't know, earlier, a few months back, I read this verse, and the first part of it jumped out to me,

where Jesus said, don't, do not. It's like a, it's a command. We better understand this command from Jesus. He says in verse 19, do not store up for yourselves treasure on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But, verse 20, store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Jesus is talking about our treasure. We gotta ask ourselves, are we generous people? Because that's what Jesus is calling us to hear. Are we generous people? And some of us go, I want to be generous, and I will be generous as soon as I make such and such amount. Can I tell you, I saw a study in 2020, 2023, the average American gave 1.9% of their total income to charity. So not exactly like, you know, jaw-dropping generosity there. 1.9% given to charity for the average American. Here's the kind of interesting news. And maybe the bad news to this, it gets a little worse. They said, according to this 2023 study, that if income was higher, we go, oh, generosity's gonna go up. No, if income was higher, if you made over 100,000, the average percentage that you gave

was actually lower than those people who made less. So it kind of breaks that fallacy of going, well, if I had more, then I would be generous. Well, the stats don't say that. So I guess generosity is not based on my amount of money. Generosity is based on my attitude about money. Okay, it's not about the amount I have, it's my attitude about money. So when it comes to our treasure, let's just quickly break down what Jesus said about how we treat our treasure. Number one, he said, don't treat it as temporal. That's basically what he was saying in verse 19. He said, don't store up for yourself treasures on Earth where moths and vermin destroy and where thieves break in and steal. Don't store it up for you here. I heard about this one young man, he just drove off the new car lot with this BMW M8, and I mean, it was shiny, it was beautiful, and he got in a bad wreck right on his way home from the car dealership. And I mean, the car's mangled, and he's kind of a mess, too, and the police show up, and there he is standing right by his car that he just got, and he's going, oh, no, my BMW. Oh, no, not my M8. And the police officer goes, are you crazy? He said, look at your arm.

And his arm was just so injured and mangled and bone coming out and bloodied, and he looked down towards his arm, and he said, oh, no, not my Rolex, not my Rolex. That's the kind of attitude that Jesus is talking about here when he said, don't, don't store up for yourself treasures on earth. That's not what our treasure, our treasure's meant to be more than just temporal. And the original language on that store up, there's a Greek word that's interesting that is the Greek word thesaurizo, and I'm probably butchering that, but thesaurizo, and it's from the same Greek word that we get our word thesaurus. So you think about a thesaurus, what's a thesaurus do? Man, a thesaurus stocks up words. It's just like word after word after word after word. So this is the mentality that Jesus is talking about. Don't store up, don't stock up treasures and things, and sometimes that becomes our pursuit, and it can happen so quickly. This passage is not prohibiting savings. It's not prohibiting a 401k or retirement. That's not what it is. I think what this passage is prohibiting is making our plans and our work the center of our life and pretending like there is no kingdom of God, pretending like there is nowhere else to put our resource. And so this kind of speaks to the inclination

of our human nature is to store up and to hoard up, and in Luke chapter 12, Jesus tells a different parable about a guy who was wealthy and he was rich, and his ground yielded an incredible harvest. So much, he didn't have room for it all. And so what did he do? He's like, I gotta build more barns. I gotta store more stuff. I gotta get more storage units, because I have so much stuff. And look what Jesus said to him in Luke 12, in verse 20. God said to him, you fool. This very night, your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself? This is how it will be for whoever stores up things for themselves, but is not rich towards God. I wanna be rich towards God. Jesus in this passage is not prohibiting us to have money, but with every blessing that comes our way, we are called to, blessed to be a blessing. That's what generosity is. That speaks to the second part of what Jesus said, how to treat our money. We don't treat it as temporal, but we treat it as eternal. Jesus said, store up for yourselves treasures in heaven. Y'all believe in heaven? That was weak. I said, do y'all believe in heaven? I thought so. You can go there someday?

Okay, so Jesus is saying, well, when you get there, you can already start storing up for yourself treasure in heaven. How do you do that? You do that by giving and by generosity. How do we exchange the currency on this earth to heavenly, like I've been, I led missions trips, you know, a bunch of times, and especially before credit cards were so accessible and so useful. Usable all over the world, but there are times we would go on mission ships and I would have a big bundle of cash US currency and I mean the moment we landed I'd have to I'd have to start to exchange some of that Because if you're in a country that doesn't take US currency Like I could have I could have briefcase briefcases of a couple million dollars But I mean if they don't take US currency, I might as well be penniless. It means nothing Well, how do we convert? US currency into the bank of heaven We do it through generosity and through giving Can I just break down kind of three levels of? Giving that I think most of you will find yourself on the first level would be spontaneous giving and So spontaneous giving works like this. It's like You you hear about something you see something you weren't planning on it But you give towards it and so maybe it would be one of these, you know on a on a Sunday Maybe our feature one is Network 2-1-1 and you go. Oh, that's it That's a important thing and I'll give a little bit to Kingdom Builders so that I can help Network 2-1-1 You didn't plan on it You heard about it you saw need you see somebody in need and you weren't you gonna give them some money because you because you're Moved by that and there's nothing wrong with

Spontaneous giving it's a great place to start It's not the best finish line And the reason why it's not the best finish line is because if you only give when you feel something then you won't give when you Don't feel something But it's a good place to start but that but the second kind of level of giving and generosity would be strategic giving Strategic giving looks like me planning it and figuring out what what I need to do to do this regularly So last week we talked about the tithe and and I think that's one of the ways God helps us to grow in our Strategic giving because we're sitting down and we're going to I make this and the first thing I do when I make this I'm gonna Give 10% of that to God and it takes a strategy and we we plan on that And that's a great next step for giving and there are people that you saw on that Kingdom Builders chart that are Strategic about their Kingdom Builder giving and they give regularly monthly They know they went in and they said this is what I'm gonna be able to do And so they gave kind of monthly or every other week and that's strategic Giving and this is a step up from spontaneous giving. Let me talk about the third Level of giving that I want my life to get to in a in a greater way. I want you to to dream about getting there too, and it's sacrificial giving So I forgive sacrificial giving is a tougher one to talk about because Sacrificial is giving when it costs you something Sacrificial giving is something that I I Didn't feel something to give no sacrificial. I felt it in my life because I gave it it changed my lifestyle It changed my my routine And it cost me something. Why would we talk about giving? sacrificially well Because God gave sacrificially to us and we love God God is the ultimate Giver so there are there are seasons and And like like when we ended the year with the drive on Kingdom Builders

There were people that gave sacrificially and they felt it, but they did it because God Called him to do it. Can I tell you I We don't we don't shy away from doing this for a couple of reasons number one because we believe in the need When you give to Kingdom Builders, you're very much giving not to our church. You're giving through our church We believe in what these ministries and these organizations are doing and what these projects are going to accomplish So that's one of the reasons why we don't shy away from giving you the opportunity to be a part of something That's bigger than you. But the other reason is because I believe the Word of God I believe verses like 2nd Corinthians chapter 9. Let me just read it to you Therefore remember this whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly and whoever sows generously will also reap generously Each of you should give what you've decided in your heart strategic giving not reluctantly or under compulsion for God loves a cheerful Giver and God is able to bless you abundantly Let us believe that God is able to bless you abundantly so that in all things at all times having all you need you will abound In every good work. That's a good life right there Verse 9 as it is written. They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor their righteousness endures Forever now he who supplies watch this Let's look let's zone in on verses 10 and 11 he who supplies seed to the sower. Whose is it? Anyway, it's God Your job your boss didn't supply your seed. No God did God supplies seed you're the sower So he is providing seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase. Oh Come on, that's a good word Increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteous This is the Bible. Verse 11, you will be enriched in every way so that you can... And someone's filling all kinds of stuff on that. I'll be enriched in every way so that I can eat in nicer places. I'll be enriched in every way so that I can have more stuff. I'll be enriched in every way so that I can impress people that I don't even like anyway, but I'm going to post it along social media and impress them. I'll be enriched in every way so that I can get bigger and better toys and go to more exotic locations around the world.

That's not what Paul said. No, Paul said, you'll be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion. New Testament giving, generous every occasion that I have the chance. I was at a funeral this week. Beautiful man by the name of Tom Ori who attended our church for a bunch of years. And I sat at that funeral and watched person after person get up and talk about his generosity. Different pastors getting up and saying, man, every time he would think about or hear about a need, he would come up to one of us and say, we're going to take care of that, make sure that happens. From missions needs to youth ministry, he'd hear about kids needing to go on a retreat to encounter Jesus. I want to make sure, yeah, they'll get to go. I'll make sure of it. Playgrounds that were needed on church campuses and church signs. There was a need for a church sign. I'll make sure we take care of that. Just a generous, here he is being remembered for his generosity. Maybe think of a question. I want you to think about this question for your own life. Five minutes after you die, what will you wish you had given away? Five minutes after I die, what will I wish I had given? And I guess here's the goal, here's the challenge. Let's start. Let's start now. Let's make 2026, let's answer that question together. I want to pray, and next week we'll have a moment where we kind of pray about it. I want you to do it this week and have conversations with your family of what it looks like, maybe to jump to a different level. Next week we will have a time of planning and vision and dreaming. So plan is kind of that strategic level, what can I do?

We'll have a moment of vision where what if God got involved, and we'll write a number down for that. And we'll get to a place of dreaming. God, what would be the dream amount I could ever give in a year? And we'll write that number down. Before we do that, I want you to know the reason why we even consider this is because of the absolute, I heard one pastor say it this way, we're never more like God than when we give. And if that's true, it's because God is so generous. He's generous with his grace, he's generous with his mercy, he's generous with his love, he was generous with his one and only son. So why don't we do this? Why don't we, bow our heads, let me pray for you. Father in Jesus' name, I pray, God, that your word would not just come in our ears, but I pray, God, it would take root in our life. We are grateful for the blessing that we live under. We are a rich people in a lot of ways. And I just pray, God, you'd help us to be rich towards you in a different level. Jesus' name. With nobody looking around, but nobody talking, moving, if you're here today, listen, Jesus was a gift from God the Father. He died in your place so that you could have relationship and reconciliation with God. Pastor, you talked about, you know, generosity and giving today, I know, but yet God is still stirring something up in your heart because you're not right with God and you need to get right with God today. You need to believe what Jesus did is enough. Some of you have been running from God. You know what it's like to serve God and you've been running from God. And yet some of you maybe have never said yes to Jesus in your life yet. Today is the day.

So with nobody looking around, I just want to, I want to include you in a closing prayer. But before we do that, if you're here today and you need to say yes to Jesus, you need to make him the Lord of your life. You need to say no to yourself and your selfish pursuits. That's we're going to, we're going to say yes to Jesus. And can I tell you, God is way more interested in your heart and your life than he is in your money. God wants your heart. So if you're here today, you need to accept Christ. You need to come. Back to Christ, here, I want you to do, nobody's looking around, me, between me, you, and God. If that's you, come on, hold your hand up high, let me see it, I need Christ today, Pastor, let me see it. I need Christ, yeah, I need to find forgiveness, thank you, thank you, thank you. I need Christ today, yes. In the risers, I need Christ today. Awesome, anybody else? Thank you, in the back, I need Christ, thank you. Awesome, this is gonna be a massive day for so many people. Some of you were afraid to raise your hand, but man, your heart is pounding out of your chest because you know God's calling you to more. So why don't we do this? Why don't we stand to our feet, everybody's standing. I just wanna lead this entire room in a prayer of commitment to God. I want you to pray with me to encourage those who are praying this for the first time

or the first time in a long time. And so, come on, why don't you pray this with me? Say, Jesus, I believe you, I believe your word, and I need you to be my savior. Forgive me, cleanse me of my sin, make all things new, renew my mind, be my Lord, be my savior. I am yours for the rest of my life and for the rest of eternity. In Jesus' name, amen, amen. Come on, can we celebrate what just happened in so many lives, amen. Pastor Joel's coming, he's gonna give some instruction on what to do with this journey of living for Jesus and bring some thoughts for this. So God bless you, we love you. Amen, amen. While these altars are open, we would love to pray with you. Our prayer team is coming down. If you accepted Jesus for the first time, come and pray with someone, celebrate with someone, or if you have any other need in your life right now, we would love to pray with you and connect with you. That's what the church is for. As you make your way out, make sure you grab one of these Kingdom Builders magazines and grab a Super Sunday ticket to invite people. It's coming up in just a few weeks. Hey, we love you so much, Faith Church Orlando.

Hug someone, tell them you love them. We pray that you have an amazing, amazing, blessed week. We'll see you next week. God bless you, Faith Church Orlando.