No More Lies — Heretic — Rich Wilkerson Jr

All right, today we are in part three of a collection of talks entitled Heretic. The lies we love to believe, but the truth, come on somebody, but the truth that sets us free. And we've been talking about a whole lot of things, and we've really been basing this collection off of a quote by Charles Spurgeon, and he said it this way. He said, discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong, but discernment is knowing the difference between right and almost right. And so we've been looking at some lies that we're dealing with in culture today, heresies that even show up in the church that oftentimes feel liberating, they feel good, they look nice, they're almost right, but almost right is enough to kill you. And so we're going to God's word to find freedom. And so today I want to look to the words of Jesus. This is Luke chapter 12, starting in verse 15. If you're joining us online right now in the chat, tell us where you are tuning in from. One of the great joys of my life is getting to see how this ministry is touching so many people from around the world. This is verse 15. Then he said to them, watch out, look at your neighbor and say, neighbor, watch out. That's important. So Jesus is saying, hey, I'm warning you, wake up, because there's a trap being set. There's something alarming around the corner. There is a danger. So watch out, be on your guard against all kinds of greed. Life does not consist in an abundance of possessions. And he told them this parable. The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, what shall I do? I have no place to store my crops. Then he said, this is what I'll do. I'll tear down my barns and build bigger ones.

And there I will store my surplus grain. And I'll say to myself, you have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Make life easy, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said to him, you fool, don't call your neighbor a fool, but just look at him in the eyes one time. The silence is deadly. 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 with whoever stores up things for themselves, but is not rich toward God. I want to talk today, part three of our collection of talks, Heretic. Today I've titled today's message, No More Lies. No more lies. Would you pray to me, God, we thank you for your word. God, we thank you that it's alive, that it's active. Today God, as we read it, we're believing it's reading us. Lord, we pause, we stop in your presence, and we invite the Holy Spirit to renovate, to redeem, to convict, to restrict, to release. Speak to us, Lord. We've all walked in here one way, but it's our prayer that we would leave different through the preaching of your word. We love you and we thank you in advance. And all of God's people sit. All of God's people sit. If you love Jesus from Miami Gardens all the way down to South Miami, make as much noise as you possibly can today. So a few weeks ago, if you don't remember, it was Easter. And Easter at Vood Church this past year was historic. It was record breaking. It was powerful.

But the day before Easter, as a church, for the many years now, we do an outreach and it's called the Easter Egg Drop. If you've never been before, I encourage you to make plans even for next year because thousands of people turn up. But then what gets really fun is that we take a helicopter and we drop 50,000 Easter eggs from the sky. Now, I'm not going to lie to you. Every year we get finished with it, I just sigh relief. Nobody died. But this year, the team, they dropped these golden eggs. They kind of sporadically put golden eggs out there. And the idea was that if a child found a golden egg, they would get the golden egg and then they could bring it back to church on Easter Sunday to win a prize. I was like, this is a pretty good incentive right here. I'm proud of the kids team coming up with some ideas. Until I heard the story of families showing up to church on Easter Sunday with a golden egg saying, we're not staying for service, but we are here for the prize. And at first I kind of laughed, but then quickly my laughter almost turned to tears of sorrow. Hey, we're not here to give anything, to participate in anything. We're not here to hear anything, to learn anything. We just showed up for what we can get. How many of y'all know this is where a lot of people, even in America today, they live. So often what takes place is that we turn our faith into. through a transactional kind of faith. We turn God into a vending machine. We turn God into a pinata. We think prayer is a stick. We think we can put some money in. We think we can put some time in. Hit a button and then somehow believe magically

I get my miracle. Friends, that's just consumerism with a cross on it. And today, the lie that I want to dismantle and what I wanna talk about, that is a modern day heresy that looks nice, feels nice, but many of us we fall victim to is this lie. The lie is called consumerism. Now, if you've never heard this word before, consumerism is the belief that if I get more, I'll be happier, I'll be more satisfied, I'll be more secure. It's not about what I can give, it's about what I can get. Now, often when this word gets talked about, we usually think about economies or we think about money and there's no doubt there is a massive connection to that, but the correlation is far deeper because consumerism shows up in lots of different facets of our life. Consumerism shows up today in our relationships. That people, we sort of treat people, you ever hear like relationship talks, like you ever notice this, like oftentimes people will talk about people, they'll be like, you're an asset. I hear what you mean, but if you're not careful, you will turn people into commodities. And so what happens to a lot of folks is a lot of folks are looking for the least cost they have to put up. They're looking for the highest return on an investment

and as soon as they don't get that return on investment, what do they do? They go to the next relationship. I don't wanna get in too much of your business, but that's why some people in this room are on your third marriage. Because you keep going from relationship to relationship and your entire paradigm is about what you can get, but if you would understand the gospel, you would understand you're never gonna have a healthy relationship seeking to get, you're only gonna have a healthy relationship when you seek to give. Someone say preach, pastor. But it's not just relationships, it's our career life. We're not just satisfied with the job we've got, we want a bigger job, a better job, we want a bigger office, the corner office, we want more status, we want a better title. It's not just our careers, it happens in our faith. I mean, so many people in America particularly have turned their faith into completely a consumerism experience. I've been seeing these like church reviews online. What a fascinating thing. The church of Jesus Christ is the bride of Christ. I do not know how you can possibly go in and look at the bride of Christ and then begin to rate the bride of Christ. Three stars for the worship.

Four stars for the kids ministry. They didn't have good air conditioning. Are you crazy? What are we doing? We are turning the church of Jesus Christ into a mall food court. I love the food court. In my teenage years when I had no money, I would go to the food court and try to get full. Get a little of that bourbon chicken, hello. Go back again, let me get another bourbon chicken, hello. How many of y'all know the food court is full of samples? But if you don't pick a restaurant, all you're ever gonna do is get a taste, but you will never ever get nourished. I came to preach somebody today that you gotta get planted, you gotta get plugged in, you gotta seek to give, not just try to get. How about our prayer life? A lot of us are struggling right now because we don't understand, once again, we're going to God with a consumerism mentality. We have let the American dream override the kingdom mandate. And so we treat God, once again, like he's a genie. We treat God like it's a scoreboard. This is what we would call religion. God, I've done bad this week. Therefore, God, I've gotta make it up to you. Some of you might even be in church today because you made a mistake this past week

and you're here to pay penance. That's not the gospel. Because as quick as you do that, you turn it around the other way. As soon as you do good, you start looking at God and you say, God, you owe me. God, you owe me right now, right here. I've been serving for you. I've been giving for you. I've been attending for you. Friend, Jesus Christ did not come to this earth to merely establish a religion. He came to establish a relationship with you. One that is about give and take. One that's about mutual submission. One that's about giving. and receiving. Come on somebody, make a little bit of noise in this house. Today, we're gonna dismantle the lie of consumerism because it feels almost right. If I could get more, I'd be happier. Really? We live in funny times. You can go to the grocery store today and as you walk the aisles to make a sandwich, there are dozens of brands of bread, hundreds of brands of cheeses. In fact, I did some research. There are 3,000 different brands of mustard. You can have a different mustard every day of the week

for the next eight years. You can make a sandwich that a king 100 years ago could have never had, but yet you're still miserable. You're still not happy. We are arguably, not even arguably, we are by every standard, by every measurement, the most blessed, privileged people in human history. I'm serious, we are drowning in stuff. If you go back 200 years ago to 1800, there's 900 million people on the planet. Did you know that eight out of 10 people at that time were living in extreme poverty? 80% of the population just 200 years ago was living in extreme poverty. In 2026, there's something like seven billion people on the planet and now poverty has actually diminished. It's just 10% of the population that's living in extreme poverty. We are the wealthiest, most blessed people ever, yet do any kind of data research and you will discover we're the most anxious, we're the most depressed. Suicide is on the rise year after year. Why is it? It's because over and over again, we believe the lie of consumerism. If I get more, I'll be satisfied. If I get more, I'll be happy. If I get more, I'll be fulfilled. But I came into God's house today to open up the word of God

because you will know the truth. Come on, somebody. I believe freedom is in the house today. Gotta ask yourself a question. How much more does God have to bless you before you can actually be happy? Good, say it again. Good. Because here's what I believe. More doesn't fix the problem. More might be the problem. More could be your problem because more is lying to you. So here's Jesus in Luke chapter 12. Let's actually get to the Bible now. That's enough of my words. Laughing too hard. This is Jesus. He starts telling a parable. If you're new to church, Jesus often would teach in story. Jesus would take stories and liken them to our lives and then we would try to discover in that story what the meaning is. The most important thing that when you're reading a parable is discovering who you are in the parable. Like if you're reading the story of the prodigal son, you're not the father. And this parable is titled The Rich Fool. And what Jesus is doing is he's pointing a finger

and he's trying to expose what's in our heart. I wanna just break it down for a moment because here's what's happening in Luke chapter 12. This man in Luke chapter 12 is not evil. He's not bad. We don't even know of him to be immoral. He's not a criminal. In fact, he's a good guy. He's a hard worker. Did you read the text? I mean, he worked so hard that his crops grew and grew and grew that he had surplus grain. But Jesus still tells his story. Why does he tell his story? Well, because this man gets so much grain. He gets so much stuff. And then notice what the man says. This is Luke chapter 12 verse 17. Listen to this now. This is the man. He's like, he starts talking to himself. What shall I do? I have no room to store my crops. Then he said, this is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones. And there I will store my surplus grain. And I'll say to myself, you have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy, eat, drink, and be merry. I think I heard one philosopher say,

get rich or die trying. Notice how many personal pronouns are in that. This man starts talking to himself and everything he is saying is about me, my, myself. He's talking to himself about himself. or himself. Never once is God mentioned, never once is another person mentioned. No, he's got all this stuff. In fact, he has everything, but all more convinces him of is that he needs a bigger barn. More says you need more, because that's what more does. More lies to you. And we've been there before, right? You ever get an apartment, you're like, oh, this is a cool apartment. You're like, now I need a house. You finally get a house, you're like, now I need a bigger house. You finally get a car, now I need a better car. You finally got the job, now you need a better career. You finally got some followers, but now you need more followers. Why is it? It's because consumerism is a treadmill dressed up as a destination. It just says more, and more, and more, and more. And watch, because here comes God,

and God shows up and what does he say? He says, you fool, don't look at your neighbor, and don't say that. You fool, this very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself? This is powerful to me, because God shows up, once again, doesn't call him evil, doesn't call him bad, calls him a fool. What is a fool? A fool is not somebody who doesn't know anything. A fool is somebody who knows enough, but still chooses to build on the wrong foundation. A wise man built his house on the rock, and the foolish man built his house on the sand. This man has more than enough stuff, but all he can come to terms with is, let me get more, and more, and more. Let me build, let me get this stuff. Let me make sure that I have security. Let me make sure that I can just eat, drink, and be merry. But here comes God, God says, you are a fool. This very night, not tomorrow night, not in three more years, this very night, your life will be demanded from you. I always seek to encourage you as you come to church, but just hear me loud and clear, we're all going to die. Every one of us, every breath that we take, we are one step closer to our demise.

I'm not seeking to be morbid, I'm trying to sober you up, to recognize that all of us, we have to live in the dash between two dates. The day you are born and the day you will die, the question is, what are you gonna do with the dash in between? Because this very night, your life will be demanded out of you. Then, who's gonna live in your big barn? Then, who's gonna have all your crops? Listen to me, we all come in the same way and we all go the same way. Job said, naked I came and naked I will leave, but I will bless the name of the Lord. Come on, anybody feel like blessing the name of God? This very night, your life will be demanded from you. Hey, Mr. Rich fool, the barn is burning even before you move into it, but you are trapped by this lie that the more you get, will produce this type of security that only God himself can provide. It's interesting because I don't believe Jesus is just telling a parable. I think he is showing us a pattern, a pattern of the human heart. It's interesting because Jesus, he diagnosed it, but then there's this guy who shows up in the 1920s or he was born in the 1920s. His name is Edward Bernays and Jesus diagnosed it, but Edward Bernays monetized it

because Edward Bernays is known as the father of public relations, the father of marketing. And this is what Edward Bernays, who was the nephew, watch this, of Sigmund Freud. He started using psychology when it came to products. And this is what he said. He said, don't sell the product, sell the feeling. So he wanted you to identify with the thing that you're looking at. He wanted you to see whatever it is that your eye wanted and he wanted you to feel something. One of his most famous campaigns is that he was selling cigarettes to women and he titled the campaign Torches of Freedom. I'm free. No, you dyin'. I'm liberated. You are bound. No, I just believe I can do whatever I want. You can do whatever you want, but every time you do whatever you want, you are just more shackled to that addiction time and time again. It's a lie, it's not freedom, it's not freedom at all. And what Edward Bernays created was the foundation of all marketing. Consumerism is the idea that if I can buy something, I can actually now have fulfillment and satisfaction. But you ought to know that all marketing, really because of Edward Bernays,

is founded on two principles, desire or fear. Now, just think about that as a framework, because listen, start going through your algorithm. It is tempting you with the flesh of the eyes, I want that, I need that, I desire that, or it's trying to put fear in you. Think about modern news today. All of news is just selling you a fear cycle. That's why the people of God should gather one day a week and we ought to come into God's house and we ought to look at each other, hey, my God is still on the throne. Come on, anybody believe that he's still working, he's still powerful, he's still moving? It's fear or desire. Let's talk about just desire for a moment, because I think all of us, as we mature in the Lord, as we grow, if we wanna combat the lie of more, then we're gonna have to get really good at distinguishing between a need versus a want. Now, I have four children, and my kids are learning this lesson, because my kids, they don't want anything, they need everything. We walk into an ice cream shop, Dad, I need it! I had to cast out a demon the other day, his name was Baskin and Robbins, you know? Walk into Target, they have that $3 aisle, you know? My son grabs a foam finger, you know?

Dad, I need it! I'm like, bro, there is nothing you have ever needed less in your entire life than that foam finger. And so the rule that I have with my children, but the rule that you ought to have with yourself and myself is that if you misidentify a want, you cannot reward yourself. If you misidentify it as a need, when it's actually just a want, every time you reward yourself with that, you're buying into the lie and the heresy of consumerism. I think step one is just being able to distinguish, no, I don't need that, but I want it. But as you go to your wants, you better be careful, because listen to me, as a believer, desire is not a compass. I want to preach this if I can for a moment. We live in a time, live your truth, if it feels good, do it. Whatever your heart desires, you should have it. Trust your gut. I always joke, it's like, trust my gut? That thing can't even handle milk. Desire, listen to me, is not a compass. Let me read you one of the most, I think one of the most frightening passages in the New Testament, it's Romans chapter one. We should do a whole study on Romans one just in itself, because if you look at culture today, it's crazy. This is what it says.

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. I just want you to see this. God gave them over in the sinful desires. Meaning, one of the worst things that God can ever do in your life is to give you what you want. I'm serious about this, because we desire things, and if we're not careful, we will take on the world's lies, and we'll think that my desire is my compass. But Jeremiah said, the heart is deceitful above all things. I need to have it regenerated. I need to have it repurged. I need to have it ringed out over and over and over again. I need to have it renovated and centered on Him. And so one of the worst things that can ever happen to you is God goes, fine, I'll give you what you want. You wanted it, you asked for it, here it is. I'm gonna give it to you. Meaning, oftentimes when God gives you what you want, it's not a reward, it's a consequence. Unchecked desire isn't freedom, it's judgment. I love my kids. That's why when we walk into Baskin and Robbins, and they say, I need Rocky Road. I say, no, bro, I love you so much that I'm not going to give you Rocky Road, because if I do, your belly is gonna explode. gonna ache for days.

How many of you know, if I just gave them everything their little heart desired, it would not be a reward or freedom, it would be judgment. That's why I think, once again, as we come into God's house week in and week out, not with a consumerism mentality, but with a mentality to say, God, I wanna give praise back to you. You start growing and you don't just thank God for the good things in your life, but you begin to thank God even for what you perceived as trials, as setbacks, as failures, as loss. I serve a good God, what a God. He's never failed anybody, he's not gonna start with me. Thank you, God, for not answering every one of my prayer requests. Be honest. Some of y'all are really happy. God didn't answer all your prayer requests. Lord, he's just the best. He's my Prince Charming, I know he's my husband. Then you found out he was cheating on you. Aren't you so grateful he didn't propose and you didn't get into that whole thing? The only thing worse than trying to convince somebody to marry you is trying to convince somebody not to divorce you. I'm trying to preach to someone today that you oughta learn to thank God. Thank you I didn't get that job. Thank you I didn't move to that city.

Thank you you took that thing out of my life. Thank you, God, you didn't give me every desire. Come on, from the back to the front, can we go ahead and give God some praise in this place? Come on, every location, give glory to God. Your Heavenly Father knows what you need. He don't always give you what you want, he always gives you what you need. Desire is not a compass. Desire, listen to me, is actually a pointer. I think people oftentimes, they make desire the destination. Desire is not a destination, it's a pointer. Listen to me, hunger points to food. Thirst points to water. And if there's something inside of you that continues to desire, continues to long, maybe that ache is pointing you to God. I want you to write this down, because this is important. Desire was designed to point you to God. Consumerism convinces you to stop at the store. Let me buy, buy, buy, let me get, get, get, get. But C.S. Lewis said it the best. He said, if I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. Your desire is a pointer, it's not a destination. But it's not just that desire is not a compass, number two, write this down, is that fear is not a foundation.

So modern marketing, Edward Bernays says, oh, desire or fear. But listen to us, a lot of us, what's going on in our life right now is that we are succumbing to fear. It's not even desire that has you living those things out, it's fear, fear of not being enough, fear of trying to keep up, fear of what other people will see you as or how you're perceived. Some of us, the clothes that we buy, the things that we try to go ahead and get, it's because fear is inside of us. And so many of us, what happens is that it's not desire, it's fear that's ruining our life. And fear is not a foundation to build anything on. It's not a firm foundation, it's a faulty one. I love it because my son, Wild, who I tell you a lot of stories about, he's six years of age and he's the best. And he is our one child that we're dealing with greed with, for sure. It's okay, he's being sanctified. We're helping him. But he really wanted some football cleats. He's playing football with his older brother. By the way, I bring a good report yesterday, another victory, not a big deal. It's not a big deal. But good leaders create good leaders.

And so, I'm the coach. It's not about me, it's about these boys and God. But we are having a winning record and I just, so dumb. But Wild really wanted these football cleats. Like just, mom, mom, mom, mom. And his birthday came around, we didn't get them. Christmas came around, nah, you're just waiting. And for Easter, his mom got him the football cleats. And it was so beautiful, because he opened it up and he threw his cleats on. And he cat over to Don Cherie and Don Cherie said, man, I love giving you those football cleats. But she said, Wild, do you feel any different? And he was like, no. She was. Like exactly because I like to give you stuff, but this stuff doesn't define you Wild you are my son with or without the cleats. I Love you rest in my love. My love is enough for you Look at what first John says because oftentimes we think the opposite of fear is faith But I actually think the opposite of fear is love That there is no fear in love But perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment The one who fears is not made in perfect love Friends, I want to encourage you that fear is not a good foundation What you're actually craving for in life is that you're not trying to just get more stuff You're looking for peace this man in Luke chapter 12. It's not he's not trying to store grain He's trying to store peace He's trying to be secure But I want to remind you that nothing will make you more secure than the presence of God his perfect love

drives out all Fear you are enough in him What's amazing is that this idea of consumerism Well Edward Bernays didn't create it and it what didn't even start in Luke chapter 12 You see it all throughout human history acts chapter 8 is a Fascinating moment because I was telling you that every week we're in this collection I want to tell you about old church heretics or old church heresy and there is a heresy in the church The heresy is called simonee And simonee is based upon a story in Acts chapter 8 Acts chapter 8 is a man by the name of Simon the Sorcerer And Simon the Sorcerer as the disciples were coming to town He saw what they were doing as they laid their hands on the sick many were made Well, he saw the power of God flowing through them and look what happens in Acts chapter 8 verse 18 When Simon saw the Spirit was given at the laying on of the Apostles hands. He offered them here it is money and Said give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit Peter answered may your money perish with you Because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money The heresy of simonee became that anytime you would try to use money or possessions to make a Transaction with God you would be accused of simonee and you go. That's not that big of a deal Oh, it was a very big deal in the medieval times all of a sudden the church got so bad They had turned the church into a marketplace and whenever the church becomes a marketplace the gospel becomes a product And if you know anything about church history there became a moment when they were trying to actually build new structures that they started selling These things called indulgences and indulgence was a piece of paper That was a get out of hell card that if you had a loved one who passed who didn't know God Because your heart was so stricken with pain and grief you would go to the church and you would give them money and they would give you a piece of paper saying now they're out of hell and One day a man by the name of Martin Luther in the 1500s got so sick of it because he was reading the Word of God and he read it's by grace through faith that he wrote out

Statement points and he nailed it to a church wall and one of those points was simply this is that you cannot buy What Christ has already? purchased Come on somebody I'm trying to tell you about the gospel That you can't buy your way to heaven you can't buy a blessing All you can do is receive the goodness and the grace of God's mercy anybody thankful for a God who's full of grace full of mercy This is the good news of the gospel That consumerism is a heresy that if I get more I'll be satisfied but friend you can't buy a piece You can't buy real security. Oh, I know you can put a security system at the house. I'm not against that. We got one Don't try to come to my house at night I'm talking about real security this very night. Your life will be demanded from you. I Love Jesus because he doesn't just like criticize us. He gives us the antidote. Here's Luke chapter 12 verse 21 He gives us this parable and he says this is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves, but is not rich toward God Rich toward God Do not reduce this down to Simply offerings of finances. It's so much deeper than that rich towards God is God first in your life Is He the priority of your life? Is He the source of your life? Is He the aim of your life? It's not a problem to have stuff. It's a problem when the stuff has is you. It's not a problem to have a big barn. It's a problem when you think the barn is going to protect you, but there's only one. His name is God, and He's the one who protects you. And so what does He say? He says in verse 22, Then Jesus said to His disciples, this is right here in the same passage, Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. It's going to be okay, Wild. You're going to get lots of football cleats. Don't worry about it. For life is more than food. You've got 3,000 mustards to choose from, Boo Church. And the body more than clothes? Consider the ravens. They do not sow or reap. They have no storeroom or barn. Yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds.

This is powerful. I've got to make note of this. I think it's interesting that Jesus doesn't say consider the eagles. Consider the hawks. Consider the mockingbird. Consider the blue jay or the cardinal. No. He says consider the ravens. Why is that important? It's because if you know anything about Judaism, you would know that ravens are considered unclean animals. And here comes Jesus saying, If I take care of unclean birds, If I let it rain on the just and the unjust, Come on, I came to preach to somebody who knows you're a king's kid. You know you're a child of God. You know you've been bought with the blood of Jesus. Come on, if he takes care of ravens, something tells me he's going to take care of you. Someone say, What a God. Do not worry. Do not worry. This is what I love so much about what Jesus is doing. Because Jesus, as he answers the lie of consumerism, What he says is, he doesn't say, You know what the answer is? Poverty. He doesn't say, You know what the answer is? Minimalism. You know what the answer is? Better budget spreadsheets. That's not his antidote. The antidote is one word. The word is trust. Trust in God. Trust in him. If God blesses you, look back and say, God, What would you have me do with your blessings? I want to be rich towards you, because if you keep going, Jesus makes his most famous words in Luke 12, verse 31. But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6 says, Seek first the kingdom. Some of y'all have been coming to church here for a while, and you remember we started the beginning of the year with first fruits. Rich, are you preaching the same sermon? You better believe it. Every week I plagiarize the Bible. And every year I re-preach the same sermons, because you don't need something new.

You got to be reminded of something old. That if you'll seek God first, if you'll put God first, He'll take care of every addition. He'll take care of every worry. He'll take care of every fear. He's a good God. Put your trust in him. This is the antidote. Trust. Trust. I know who my source is. I know where my help comes from. Amazon is not my source. My salary is not my source. My savings account, my 401k, my apartment, my job, my status, my influence. No, no, no, friend. My God, Jehovah Jireh, He is my provider. He is the one that I put my trust in. I look up, and when I look up, that's where my help comes from. Somebody give Him praise in this place. We're closing, I promise. We're closing. South Miami. Sit down, Miami Garden. We're closing. They broke my microphone. I got excited. I apologize. I put this on to talk. When I get this, I just yell at people. More is lying to you. When you put your trust in more, you need more. I need more. I need more. It's called a more lie.

came with one sermon, no more lies. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No more lies. Because every psychologist will tell you happiness doesn't come from consuming. It comes from producing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you need psychology to know that, Jesus already told me that. Science, psychology, all this stuff just catches up with Jesus' words. You want to be wise? Just get Jesus' words and take them at face value, cause he said it's more bless to give than it is to receive.

Maybe you've been coming to VU for a while and you have been participating in the blessing, but don't just come back every week with a golden egg saying I'm here to get something. Maybe actually walk outta here today and go to the growth track. Be a part of a team. It's not beneath you, come on. If it's beneath you, leadership's beyond you. Maybe actually consider giving in the offering. Maybe actually consider today getting baptized and I'm gonna go public with my faith. Because every time you serve, and every time you give, and every time you worship, what you are doing is you are waging war on the spirit of consumerism. You're fighting back. Say let me tell you who my source is. I put my trust in God. I wanna give you something. Because I found this prayer a couple of weeks ago and I think it's a great prayer for us in America, for us here at VU Church as we wanna combat the lie of consumerism. It's from Proverbs chapter 30 and it's called Aguirre's Prayer. Aguirre wrote all of Proverbs chapter 30. His name actually means to collect or to gather,

which is so cool. Because listen to this prayer, because I think this is the handle for all of us this week as we step into it to say, I don't wanna fall victim to this lie of more. I wanna trust that God, you are my source. Look at what he says, Proverbs chapter 30 verse eight. Keep, here it is, falsehood and what's the word? And lies. Far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you. And say, who is the Lord? Or I may become poor and steal and so dishonor the name of my God. I love this prayer because I think this is a practical handle that you can carry. Here's my prayer. God, don't give me too much that I forget you. And God, don't give me too little that I have to succumb to some type of value system that's outside of you. So what is he praying? Is he praying for more? No, he's not praying for more. He's praying for enough. And I don't know what enough looks like for you, but I wake up every day saying,

God, give me enough grace for this day. God, give me enough grace to lead my wife and my four babies. God, give me enough today to walk in my calling. Give me enough today to walk in my purpose. God, give me enough today to fulfill everything that you've told me to do. It's not more. It's God, give me enough. Give me enough. His word is enough. His word is true. I'm not seeking to be rich and I'm not seeking to be poor. I'm seeking to put my trust in the God of more than enough. More than enough.