The Myth of More | Culture Clash | Brian Aulick

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♪ Heaven is singing when we come home ♪ ♪ The Father's waiting is the one home ♪ ♪ We lift our hands and say yes to Lord ♪ ♪ Can you hear him say the word we'll call you home ♪ ♪ Heaven is singing when we come home ♪ ♪ The Father's waiting is the one home ♪ ♪ We lift our hands and say yes to Lord ♪ ♪ Can you hear him say the word we'll call you home ♪ ♪ Do I say the word we'll call you home ♪ ♪ Please let me see you better wake up ♪ ♪ Father, we want to hear you stop it ♪ ♪ You're always singing when we come home ♪ ♪ The King is here, lift your heads ♪ ♪ Come and receive your Savior ♪ ♪ With open hearts in His hand ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound, lift your head ♪ ♪ Clap your head, move your feet ♪ ♪ This is a celebration ♪ ♪ The angels dance as we sing ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound, lift your head ♪ ♪ Clap your head, come and receive your Savior ♪ ♪ With open hearts, we declare ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound, lift your head ♪ ♪ Clap your head, move your feet ♪ ♪ This is a celebration ♪ ♪ The angels dance as we sing ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound, lift your head ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound, lift your head ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound, lift your head ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound, lift your head ♪

♪ Father's wing is the one ball ♪ ♪ We lift our hands in Him ♪ ♪ Yes, Lord, can you hear Him say, "Well, come on." ♪ ♪ And then He's singing when we come on." ♪ ♪ The Father's wing is the one ball ♪ ♪ We lift our hands in Him say, "Yes, Lord." ♪ ♪ Can you hear Him say, "Well, come on." ♪ ♪ And Jesus is our sound, lift your head ♪ ♪ Come on, the Bible says in Jesus ♪ ♪ Just by Christ they do and I have been saved ♪ ♪ It's not a thing they're like a boast about ♪ ♪ But it's a gift from the Lord ♪ ♪ Are you thankful for the gift of salvation ♪ ♪ And Jesus is giving us ♪ ♪ See the count of your faithful ♪ ♪ Can you hear what Jesus is? ♪ ♪ Come on, this is all we pray ♪ ♪ This is all we get ready ♪ ♪ Of our Sunday morning ♪ ♪ It's not for show ♪ ♪ It's not right ♪ ♪ This is all the praise ♪ ♪ That Jesus is ♪ ♪ So say, oh say ♪ ♪ So clap your head ♪ ♪ And through your feet ♪ ♪ Is a feather in my heart ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound of victory ♪ ♪ So grab your hand, move your feet ♪ ♪ This is a sound of victory ♪

♪ Angels dance, hands be sweet ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound of victory ♪ ♪ So grab your hand, move your feet ♪ ♪ This is a sound of victory ♪ ♪ Just dance, hands be sweet ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound of victory ♪ ♪ So grab your hand, move your feet ♪ ♪ This is a sound of victory ♪ ♪ Angels dance, hands be sweet ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound of victory ♪ ♪ So Jesus is our sound of victory ♪ ♪ So Jesus is our sound of victory ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound of victory ♪ ♪ The wind, the wind, the wind ♪ ♪ The wind, the wind, the wind ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound of victory ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound of victory ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound of victory ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound of victory ♪ ♪ Jesus is our sound of victory ♪ ♪ The wind, the wind ♪ - Come on, it's so hard not to move a little. Lift your hands and worship the Lord after hearing testimonies like that. What the Lord is doing, God we thank you. Every Sunday we thank you. Our hearts are filled with gratitude, Jesus. You didn't have to come and die for us, but you did because you love us. And for all of our days, we lift and bless the name of the Lord the most high of Jesus Christ.

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♪ Anytime ♪ ♪ You've been just that good ♪ ♪ You're good to me ♪ ♪ You've been just that good ♪ ♪ So good to me ♪ ♪ Lord without your love ♪ ♪ Where won't I be ♪ ♪ Oh my God, you're short and good ♪ ♪ Come on, if you've got a test ♪ ♪ I'm only at the goodness of God ♪ ♪ Can you just lift up and pray today ♪ ♪ Jesus, we thank You ♪ ♪ We thank You all right ♪ ♪ Lord, I can tell you how to take us in ♪ ♪ That You did what I wanted to get at heart ♪ ♪ That you don't have to call me through ♪ ♪ That You did what I wanted to get ♪ ♪ And I'm praising You, Lord ♪ ♪ You didn't leave me like I would ♪ ♪ You didn't have to save my soul ♪ ♪ But You did and I won't forget it ♪ ♪ You didn't have to take my shit ♪ ♪ But You did and I won't forget it ♪ ♪ You didn't have to call me through ♪ ♪ But You did and I won't forget it ♪ ♪ And I'm praising You because ♪ ♪ You didn't leave me like I would ♪ ♪ You didn't have to save my soul ♪ ♪ But You did and I won't forget it ♪ ♪ You didn't have to call me ♪

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but you're at the 11. And I'm expecting big things. I need to let you know because the nine o'clock crowd, the extra hour of sleep was transformative. All right, it was insane in here. And if that's what it was like at nine, I don't know, y'all at 11. You ready to go, right? You ready to go? All right, that extra hour is some magic right now. Now, you know, one idea might be, I'm just thinking about this right now to file away. You could also start going to bed earlier on Saturday nights in the future and then you'd be coming in the same way. So I'm glad you're here though. Hey, I want to welcome our Grand Rapids location. I want to say hey to everybody joining us online. And we must give an absolute special welcome to those who are joining us from jails and prisons around the country. We honor you today and we're grateful that you're part of a family here to Getty. Couple of things cooking and I do want to mention like was already shared is we got baptism coming up this weekend, Fanta or next weekend rather. And just an amazing day. Acts chapter two says, "Believe and then be baptized." In other words, put your trust in Jesus Christ and then declare it for your whole faith family through the act of baptism. And so if you haven't taken that step yet, man, please go to the website, sign up. It's going to be a great old big party in here next weekend. It's going to be amazing. So baptism's coming up. And then the other thing that I wanted to mention to you, I'm guessing a lot of you know this already, we've got an election coming up on Tuesday. You're aware of that, right?

My phone is blowing up, all right? My whole family's like cell plan is on one thing. And so apparently all the like people trying to get the vote out think that I am Brian, Christina, Jared, Kalen and Evan, I get so many political texts. Thank you, Lord. The selection cycle is almost done, all right? But let me say this, let me say this real quick. Jeremiah 29 says that as people who follow Jesus, we're supposed to seek the peace and the prosperity of our city. And then Matthew chapter five, Jesus says that Christians are the light of the world. Let me say light. And he also says we are the salt of the world. Let me say salt. Now, let me ask you a question. How good is salt if it is still in the salt shaker? What good is it doing, right? In order for salt to have its intended effect and impact, it has to be released. Can I tell you, I think God wants to release some Christians on the polls this Tuesday, all right? Every single election, there are crucial things at stake. And it is important, friends, we go in there and vote according to a biblical worldview. And there's all kinds between relationships and sexuality and finance and all these things are at stake in every election. And I just want to say, Christians, you are the salt of the world. So Tuesday, let's go out and vote, amen? I wasn't good enough. So you're like, I don't know. I'm going to see that day. Amen. Can we go on vote church?

All right. Let's go. Let's go be salt and light. That's our jobs. Now, today, what I want to do is continue a series we started just a few weeks ago. And it is called culture clash. And every week what we're doing is we're looking at like some common ways that are our culture approaches life, and we're contrasting those with how Jesus approaches life. And what I hope you're going to find every single week is Jesus' way is so much better and more joyful and more life-giving. And nowhere. Come on, somebody. Right? And by the way, nowhere is that more true than the subject we're going to talk about today, which is money and possessions. Man, our culture has got a whole narrative about money and possessions. And I know you don't walk out of the day to go today, and you're going to walk out and go, "Man, Jesus' way is so much better when it comes to the stuff we own and the resources that we steward." I want to remind you, we got a Bible reading plan for this series. If you're not on a Bible reading plan already, then please jump on the Engetty app or the Engetty website and get on a Bible reading plan, and we just want to get you on the word of God every day. I'm so proud of you. You're at church. But I need to read your Bible every single day of the week because God's got something to say to you. Okay? It's a Sunday thing. I'm going to pray for us right now, and let's pray with some faith and ask God to speak

to our hearts today. And so Father, I just want to say thank you. that are gathered at every one of our locations right now. I just look out at them, I'm just so grateful to be able to have church with our amazing church. We just wanna come into this moment of studying your word and say would you speak to us today? We don't wanna go through motions, we don't wanna play games, we just wanna hear from God today and we know God you wanna speak. And so I just pray for soft hearts, receptive ears. I pray for the person who's here today that does not yet have a relationship with you. I haven't asked you to forgive their sins, they're not really a child of God yet. I pray this would be the day they would come home so that their life now and their eternity tomorrow would be changed forever. We pray it by faith and we ask it in Jesus, strong name. And everybody said amen, amen. Do me a favor and turn to Luke chapter two if you got a Bible, Luke chapter, it's not two, Luke chapter 12, excuse me. I wanna set this up before we get to the text. So in Luke chapter 12, Jesus is teaching. He's in Judea and the text says there are thousands of people gathered to hear what Jesus had to say. The people that spent time with Jesus knew,

the moment words left his mouth. They're like, man, there is something on this word. And so they gather by the thousands to hear him speak. And Jesus is in the middle of teaching these thousands. And it says in Luke chapter 12 beginning in verse 13, watch this, someone in the crowd shouts out to him. And here it is, it says teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me. That sounds like a younger sibling, doesn't it? It's not fair. Jesus, come on, get in here, right? And so this is this guy, thousands of people around Jesus are being there. And listen to Jesus' response that says in verse 14, Jesus replied, man, I like to think he's like, man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between the two of you? But verse 15, then he says to them, watch out. Everybody say, watch out. He said, be on your guard against all kinds of greed, life, and I, man, I need you to shout out life. That was okay, but I can tell you in the back, you guys were cheating, all right? So everybody say, shout out life. There we go, I knew there was some more there. Okay, so that's a very important word. Life does not consist in an abundance of possessions. Let me make two observations on these opening verses. Number one, Jesus' focus for you, Jesus' primary concern here is life.

Jesus' focus, watch this, we're gonna deal with a passage that's gonna talk a lot about your money, all right? But I want you to be very, very, very clear. Everybody listening, right? Jesus' focus is not on getting your money, it is about giving you life. John chapter 10 and verse 10, Jesus said, I have come that they may have life and life to the what? To the full, man, this is what God's heart for you is. Like, I'm gonna tell you some stuff about money today, and the only way any of it makes sense is you actually believe God's for you, that Jesus wants you to experience abundant life. It's the only way. And again, can I just say, like if you doubt that for a second, can we just acknowledge that the same Jesus who would go to a cross for your sins is truly and has proven he's committed to your good life, all right? He's committed to helping you step into abundant life. And so the whole headline of this is Jesus once you and made experience life. Now watch this, he also says in that same set of verses, be on your guard against all kinds of greed. Sometimes I think that we read that phrase, all kinds of greed, and we're like, oh, now Jesus is talking to the people who just like, they're always like, I need some more money if I'm gonna be happy. And some of you real spiritual people, you're like,

oh, I'm so above that. Like I am not all about the money, all right? I'm so above, but he says greed of all kinds. You realize greed comes in all shapes, sizes, and flavors. Don't you church? Like, yeah, you can be greedy for money, but you can also say, if I just had a little more attention and admiration, then I'd be happy. If I just had a little more status at my job, if I just had a better position title, then I'd be happy. If I just had a little nicer lifestyle and could be just a little bit more comfortable, then I'd be happy. If I was just a little bit more attractive and my body looked a certain way or I had nicer clothes, then I'd be happy. All I'm trying to tell you is greed comes in all shapes and sizes. Greed is the attitude that says, if I just have a little bit more, then I'll be happy. Now, can I just have a mass confession? Would anybody say they occasionally wrestle with greed in the room? Anybody like that, if you're hand up? All right, so we got a bunch of truthful people and a few liars, that's all right, that's good. I'm just gonna say, man, I put both hands up on that one. That'll be happy. And so that's what we're seeing in the text. Now, Jesus starts to get into it a little bit.

He says, I'm gonna tell you a story, verse 16. He says, I'm gonna tell you a little parable here. The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. And he thinks to himself, what am I gonna do? I've got no place to store all these extra crops. And so the situation here is that this real wealthy guy got a great year in bonus. And he's like, man, I didn't expect this check to come in, but now I figure I'll wear on my park this thing. I might go buy it, investments. What am I gonna do with all this extra resource? And here's what I've noticed. I've taught this passage many times over the years. Here's what's funny about church people. None of us ever thinks we're the rich man in the story. This is actually proven by research. Researchers have gone to people of every single economic bracket and asked, who do you consider to be wealthy? And everybody says the people who have just a little bit more than me. Like, no, none of us are ever rich, right? I'm not, I know, none of us are ever rich in this room 'cause it's just the people that have a little bit more than me, those are the wealthy people, right? Can I just bring you a little bit of reality today? If you have $60,000 in household income a year, you are in the richest two or 3% of households on planet Earth.

So listen, when like Jesus is talking about like this certain rich man, man, I think honestly he's talking to most of us in America. Now let me keep going here. This guy's like, I got extra bonus. I don't know what to do with it. So he comes up with a plan. Here's his plan, this is genius. He said, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna tear down my barns and then I'm gonna build some bigger barns and then I'm gonna put all the extra surplus grain and I'll park it in those barns. And then I'm gonna say to myself, you have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy, eat, drink, and be what church? Be merry, right? Sounds like Christmas, let's be merry, right? Listen, these two verses, if I had to pick two verses out to sum up our culture's entire approach to money and possessions, it would be these two verses. My man in the text, he's like, listen, if I just have a little bit more on hand, if I just have a little bit more in reserve, then I can be happy. If I just get a little extra, then I can go out to the restaurants that I wanna go out to when I wanna go out to them. If I just have a little extra, then I can take the vacations that I see

on everybody else's Instagram, all right? Then I'm gonna be happy. If I just have a little extra on hand, then I can actually enjoy my life. And man, I just wanna say, friends, this is what I, this whole way of thinking, this is what I call the myth of more. The myth of more says, if I just have a little bit more, a little bit more in the bank, a little bit nicer style, then I'm gonna be happy. And the reason why I call it the myth of more is because despite what it promises, how many of you know it never delivers? The myth of more never delivers. Some of us, like, you're on the front end of your career, you're like, no, I'm pretty sure when I get to that level. And then others, even you're wise enough, you've been working 30 years for the thing, you're like, actually, it doesn't deliver. I was thinking about the myth of more, I was thinking about the image that came to my mind. I think this is from the Holy Spirit, was like seeing dog races on the internet. You ever seen where they race? Is that what they're called, dog races? I don't even know what they're called, all right? And they dangle that little thing in front of the dogs that's supposed to look like a rabbit. And you see these gray houses, like getting after it.

But how many of you know they never actually catch the rabbit, right? It's always right in front of them. And they're always like, if I just run a little faster, like I might get that rabbit. And what's funny is, if you see that kind of thing on the internet and you're watching these dogs that never kind of see, they get to the rabbit, you're like, man, that dog is so stupid. Like it thinks it's gonna get that, but it's never gonna arrive, I know that. And then we're like, all right, off to work, so I can buy more stuff I don't need. I'm so much smarter than that dog. It's the myth of more. The myth of more is driven by two primary motions. One is pleasure, our feelings. One is pleasure, the other's fear. For the rich guy in the story, it was pleasure. For the rich guy in the story, he's like, if I just have a little bit more money, then I can do things that will make me feel good. And that's where some of you are at right now. It's like, if I just have a little bit more, then I can like spoil myself with the things that I really want that I think will make me happy. That's pleasure. But watch this, for some of us, what drives our pursuit of more is not pleasure, but fear. For some of us were always worried that we

We might not have enough to retire on. We might not have enough to look cool enough in front of other people. And so we're always driving for the next thing because we're afraid. These are the two feelings that drive the myth of more, pleasure and fear. And so Jesus just names this approach to culture. We're seeing it in this rich man's life. He's fully buying in, fully sold out to the myth of more. And he's gonna respond, Jesus is gonna respond to that system and it's really the system that exists in our culture today, verse 20. God says to him, you fool. Did you know Jesus can say you fool sometimes? Turn your neighbor, say you fool. Now I'm just kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I didn't want you. I had that idea for a service and I was like, nah it's no good but I gotta bring it out again. The God says to him, you fool. This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who's gonna get what you've prepared for yourself? This is how it will be, listen up right now, this is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God. Jesus is basically saying here, you can have all kinds of money in the bank. You can live at an incredible lifestyle. But if you are not rich toward God,

then someday you are gonna meet Jesus face-to-face on judgment day and you are gonna find out you are actually dead broke. Now I want you to understand something that's very important. Jesus is not against money and resources, you realize that? Sometimes people yeah, it's not right to have resources, it's not right to have a lot of money in the bank account. Jesus is not anti-money, Jesus is worried that the person has resources, but they're now rich toward God. That's the problem that he's getting at. And what I wanna say to somebody today is listen, you may be at church today and you may know all the words to all the songs and you may even give to the offering every now and again, but listen friends no matter what you give or how religious you look, if you are not fully living your life for Jesus Christ, then Jesus says you might look good on the outside, but you're actually spiritually broke. All right, you're actually spiritually in a place of incredible need. Man, I just need you to look inward right now. Some of us are so busy trying to climb the ladder and listen to me, you're putting your ladder up against the wrong house. Some of you are so busy, you got your ladder against the job promotions, you got the ladder if I've got a family that just, I got a ladder of I gotta have this much money in the bank and you're all about climbing that ladder up, your ladder's against the wrong house,

you gotta put your ladder against the kingdom of God. All right, this is what Jesus is warning us of. Where you putting your ladder? And so naturally that sets up a question. He's got on criticizing dismantling this whole myth of more and no doubt somebody in the crowd's like, okay, well, I was like how everybody does it. I mean, you got something better for me? 'Cause I mean, getting more is sorta what I grew up with, Jesus, and he lays out a different vision beginning in verse 22. Says, then Jesus said to his disciples, therefore I tell you, don't worry about your life. What you're gonna eat or about your body, what you will wear. For life, everybody say life? - Life. - For life? Again, this is emphasis, right? We're gonna talk about money and possessions, but the emphasis here is on life. He said life is more than food and the body's more than the clothes. Consider the ravens. They don't sow or reap. They've got no storeroom or barn and yet what? God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds. Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? And since you can't do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest? Verse 27, consider how the flowers grow.

They don't labor or spin, yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all of his Gucci. That's in the Greek right there, all right? And all, he's all in Gucci, not even one. You wanna dress like one of those flowers. If that's how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, gone tomorrow, how much more will he clothe you a little faith? - Amen. - Jesus is like, hey, everybody, can I just remind you right now? We are surrounded by this whole natural world out there. And there's not like one animal in nature. I wonder what's in my 401k today, right? Like when you drove to church and you left your house and you saw the bird in the tree and you looked at the bird, I can tell you, you might have been thinking about the bird. What the bird was not thinking about is like, man, I wonder how my investments are doing. Mark has been rough lately. Like I may have to jump online before the bird. Jesus is like, no, listen, the whole nature is out there and the flowers and the animals and all that they're doing all right because God's got their back. And then he goes on, man, these are the keywords I want you to listen up real close right here, verse 29. He says, "And do not set your heart on what you will eat or your drink. Do not worry about it. For the pagan world, the non-Christian world, the culture," we'll call it, "the culture runs after those things. What's next? How could I get more?" And your father knows that you need them, but seek his kingdom. Somebody say seek his kingdom. In Matthew 6, Jesus says, seek his kingdom first and these things will be given to you as well. Those last couple verses are the essence of Jesus' teaching when it comes to money and possessions. Jesus says, if you and I want to have abundant life, then watch this. We need to align our lives with God's purposes first. And when you do that, everything you need will be where you need it when you need it. Did you hear a church? This is the essence. I just, oh, I need you to hear this. Please, please, please listen up. What does abundant life look like? That's the focus, abundant life. Jesus says you want to actually come fully alive. He says, "Then live fully for

the purposes of God in your life." And when you do that, God will provide for all your needs, not all your greed, all your needs, and you will have what you need when you need it. Anybody got a testimony to that in the house today? Anybody seen God show up and provide for you exactly when you needed it? Years back, there was a guy named Bill Bright. He founded the organization called Campus Crusade for Christ or Crew. Anybody familiar with that? You guys? The largest campus ministry in the entire world. And they have hundreds upon hundreds of staff workers all over our country working in colleges and universities of all sizes. All of their workers have to raise their own support to do ministry. So it's not like, oh, I just go to work and then the employer sends a check every couple of weeks. Not like that, all right? If they're going to pay their bills, it's because somebody chose to share resources with them. One time Bill Bright is up and he's got all the workers from all over the nation's gathered. Hundreds and hundreds of workers filling a great big room. And he's preaching on God's provision. And he says to all of these campus workers who are dependent on outside giving to even survive, he said, you know, I'm just going to stop right now. Let me ask you all a question. How many of you or raise your hand if any of you have missed a meal at some point or another while you have been working for Campus Crusade for Christ or crew? He pauses and he looks out over hundreds of workers and not one single person raises their hand. And Bill Bright says, I guess it's still true that when you seek the kingdom of God with all your heart, God sees you and he provides for your needs. Amen. Now, it's important that when we use language, like seek the purposes of God, that you don't interpret that to mean that doesn't mean you need to kind of ignore your finances. What I don't want you to do is leave church and say, yeah, Pastor just told me if I like, pray a lot and worship a lot, I ask you to pay all my bills right there. Done, all right? I don't want you to take it like that because here's what we know. In the Bible, and I'm thinking specifically of the book of Proverbs, Sam, which right about in the middle of the Bible, we have all kinds of wisdom from God on managing our money. God says that we ought to be people who work hard to earn money. God says we ought to avoid debt. God says we ought to save money and put it aside for a rainy day. God says we ought to have a financial plan with our money. So there's all kinds of practical instructions in the Bible on how you and I manage our money. And I want you to know we take that very seriously here in Getty. In fact, this Thursday night at our Holland location at seven o'clock, we've got a seminar called Money Made Simple. And listen,

no matter how much money you do or do not make, no matter how much experience you have with financial I would encourage you, sign up for money made simple. You can do the seat back thing in front of you or you can go online and join us Thursday night. Man, it's going to be a great seminar. We're going to get better at this, right church? We're going to manage our money in a great way. But watch this. Jesus is not saying ignore your finances. What he is saying is the key to abundant life is not hitting a certain financial goal. The key to abundant life is not hitting a certain lifestyle goal. That's all the myth of more. The key to abundant life-- listen to me, church-- is living fully for the purposes of God. The key to abundant life is in every area of your life. You say, I want to live for Jesus at my school. I want to live for Jesus at my job. I want to live for Jesus with my sexuality. I want to live for Jesus in my finances. I want to live for Jesus when I go to-- hang out with my friends. I want to live for Jesus in my hobbies. That's the key, Jesus says, to abundant life. I want to live first for the kingdom, for the purposes of God. This is the thing. That's his best wisdom for you. Man, here's the question that you really

got to ask, honestly, on a sermon like this. Do you believe Jesus knows what he's talking about? I'm giving you Jesus' best wisdom when it comes to money and possessions. And the problem that someone will get into is we're like, yeah, thanks, Jesus. But I think I know better. I'm just going to say right now, none of what I'm going to say is worth anything. None of what Jesus is going to say is worth anything if you don't believe he knows better than you. But if you do believe he is the God for all of eternity, if you do believe he created you, if you do believe he went to a cross for you, then friends, I believe he's got something to say to you about abundant life, would you agree? So let's believe him when he says, here's how it works. And if you're in that place where you're like, yes, Jesus, I believe that you understand what abundant life looks like. You say, well, how do I do this? How do I know that I'm living for his kingdom first? I don't know. And he said, he answers that question, verse 32. He starts out by saying, do not be afraid, little flock. 'Cause right away when it comes to trusting God with our money, all of a sudden the anxiety creeps in. Like, can I really trust him? Is he really good? Don't be afraid for your father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.

He says, sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will never wear out. A treasure in heaven that will never fail where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. Listen to me now, verse 34. This is Jesus for where your treasure is. There your heart will be also. I'm gonna say something, and again, Jesus' heart for you is life, but it's still gonna challenge you. The primary way that you and I ensure we are living for God's purposes is by practicing radical generosity towards God's purposes. Can I say it again, Church? The primary way, but this is not the pastor talk and it's not just Brian's opinion. Where your treasure is, Jesus says, there your heart is. The primary way you know, if in fact you are living for God's kingdom first, is you are radically generous towards the purposes of God. Some of you are looking at me like, I still don't believe you, Brian. I don't believe you. Okay, let me give you some proof on this. All right, watch this. I'm on Instagram this week and this video pops up of a dude who bought a Rolex watch, okay? He's probably in his like low 30s and we'll just say, I don't know which Rolex he bought, but like a good mid-level Rolex is about $10,000, all right? So he's got this $10,000 watch.

And I like it because the dude was just so honest. He goes, yeah, here's the thing. I bought this Rolex because I just thought I would look cooler with a Rolex. Would that be great if we were all that honest? Like I bought this shirt just 'cause I thought, man, my wife's gonna think I'm looking good in this, all right, I don't know what, right? But he's like, I bought this Rolex and then, but he said, here's what's happened. I get this Rolex, I put all this money into it. And he's like, all of a sudden I find myself worrying about my Rolex all the time. Dude's like, I got this Rolex, but every time I put my hand in my work bag to pull my computer out, I get worried that the hardware on my bag is gonna scratch the face of my Rolex. So I was like, all the time, he was worried about that. And then he said, then he's like, and every time I travel, he's like, I'm always worried like my watch is gonna get stolen. And so he's like, I'm always kinda like keeping an eye on it and just worried about it. And he's like, in a hotel room, the moment I take my Rolex off, I always put it right in the hotel safe. But then he noticed, whenever it's in the hotel safe, he starts getting worried about that because he's worried he's gonna forget his Rolex in a safe. (audience laughing) And so, bros like, I finally realized like,

like why did I pay all this money only to have myself worrying more than before I bought the Rolex? He gets rid of the Rolex, he buys a Timex, he shows it off in the video, he goes, I'm happier than I've ever been, right? (audience laughing) Now, the video itself made me laugh, but I don't know why, I thought, I'm gonna get on the comments here, and comments on social media, that's a dangerous place, all right? That's a dangerous place. But I'm like, I'm gonna see what people say about this. And just so you know, I'm not anti-Rolaxes, all right, just so, but it's a good sermon illustration. So, like, I get on the comments and, (audience laughing) one dude is like, yo, I do not get nervous about my Rolex. He said, actually, I don't get nervous about any of my five Rolexes, all right? He's like, I wear it everywhere. He said, I wear my Rolex when I'm working in the garden. I wear, he's like, I wear my Rolex whenever I go to the beach. He's like, well, I just feel good about myself when I got my Rolex on. I was like, all right, all right. And then the comment that made me laugh the most is this lady typed up, she's like, hey, 'cause apparently his video really made the Rolex people mad, okay, there's a whole contingent of people,

they're like, yo, we gotta set this guy straight. And so, this lady writes in, I want you to know, my husband does not get nervous about his Rolex at all. In fact, sometimes I will walk into our bedroom and I will find my husband just staring at his Rolex in the closet on the shelf it sits on. And I will ask my husband, hey, what are you thinking about right now? And he will say, every time I look at my Rolex, I just think about how far I've come in life. Now, here's the thing that's interesting to me about this. Track with me right now. For some people, their Rolex is bringing them great anxiety. For other people, the Rolex is bringing them great pleasure, but can I tell you, for everybody, the Rolex had a piece of their heart. For everybody, like they were feeling some things around that watch, why were they feeling some things? 'Cause listen to this, where your treasure is, guess what? They're your heart's gonna be also. And that's all that Jesus is saying. Jesus isn't, he's not trying to just get your money, he wants to give you abundant life. But what he's saying is, you put big resources towards the kingdom of God, guess what, church? You're gonna be passionate about the kingdom of God. You put considerable generosity towards God's purposes. Guess what your heart's gonna get excited about? God's purpose is, that's how it works.

And I know the question, like, you hear me talk about all that, and I know the question, some of you are cooking on this thing right now. You're asking, like, well, if that's true, like how much money do I have to put on God's purposes? Centers, right? And how much, how much is it gonna cost me, Pastor? And to be honest, it's a good question, it's a solid question, and I can't answer this like one size fits all, to be honest. Here's what I believe. I believe the teaching of the Bible is very, very clear. Beginning in Genesis 14, before any of the law is given to Moses or anything, we see this practice in the Bible called tithing. Tithing is the first 10% of your income being returned to God. God says the first 10% belongs to him, and even though we entrusted to us, our job is to give it back to him for his kingdom. Now listen, here's what I believe about tithing. I don't think tithing came up because God was like, you know what, how can I make their lives miserable? I know, I'll come up with tithing, that's a great idea. I think God gave us tithing because he knew it takes at least us and trusting at least 10% of our resources back to him to break the hold of the myth of more in our lives, and to actually say, God, your kingdom is first in my life. And so if you're here today to say, I really do wanna put God's kingdom first,

I really do wanna be radically generous towards the purposes of God. I would say the place to start is tithing. Now, if I can be real straight with y'all, and that's what you got me up here to do, is to be honest, in my opinion, when you are living in the richest country in all of the world, in all of history. For many of us, tithing is actually not gonna be enough to ensure that our hearts are set primarily on the kingdom of God. This is no judgment for you, this is what I've experienced. We got to a place of and we could go through all of the different practices of being a Christian. And we could still have a hard wander off of being primarily focused on the kingdom of God. And so we started praying about this and God just really prompted us to say, what does it mean to practice graduated giving? And so starting all the way back then, we started saying every year God, we're gonna give away another 1% of our gross income every year, year after year after year. Why? Not because we're trying to get brownie points from God, church, not because I'm trying to impress you with anything because Christina and I are like, we want to live first for the kingdom and the purposes of God. We just want to be about his work and we recognize the only way that we can stay locked in

on the kingdom of God is if we are radically generous towards his purposes. Tithing is amazing. Tithing helps fuel all of the ministries in this church. And in fact, we take 10% of your tithes and we give them to missions. We allocate them towards missions. But the reason why I love kingdom builders is because kingdom builders helps us move beyond the tithe. Kingdom help that builders helps us actually start practicing radical, faith-based generosity. Kingdom builders is what's helping us plant churches. Kingdom builders is what's helping us gift thousands of pounds of food away. Kingdom builders is helping us minister in prisons and jails. Kingdom builders is what's helping us plant churches. And so as we head into this next few weeks of saying, God, how would you lead me when it comes to the impact offering for kingdom builders? Here's my coaching for you. Man, don't pray about like, oh God, what can we afford to give to kingdom builders? That's a terrible question. I mean, it was maybe not terrible, but not the best. How about that? Here's the thing to pray. God, how much generosity do I need to live to ensure that your kingdom is first in my life and in my heart? That's a better question.

And that's the one I want to encourage you to pray over these next couple of weeks. Now, like what's room in our budget for generosity towards your kingdom? No, I want you to pray about God, what kind of generosity do we have to live? In order to know that we know that we know that your kingdom is first in our hearts, that your purpose is rained over everything else. And whatever the Holy Spirit says to you, guess what? That's what you do. And here's what's cool. Once you move into this life, where you are radically generous towards the purposes of God, Jesus says this is what's gonna happen, verse 33. He says you are going to provide purses for yourselves that never wear out. You're gonna have a treasure in heaven that will never fail. No thief is gonna come near to it and no moth is going to destroy it. Jesus is describing abundant life right here, church. And you say, is he describing things that are gonna happen in heaven? Absolutely, the scripture is very clear. Whoever invests generously in the kingdom right now is gonna be exceedingly blessed in heaven. But can I just tell you,

I think Jesus is also talking about abundant life right now. When he says, man, you're gonna have treasure in this dimension that we call heaven. Listen, I run to think about preaching this message today about don't worry about what you're gonna wear as I'm wearing a brand new pair of sneakers today, at church, all right? It's a little bit, it's a little bit weird. And I'm really excited about these sneakers. In fact, I wanted to show them to you. And so I'm gonna come over here and give you a personal demonstration of my sneakers. All right, can we get these in this camera? Let's see if we can do, oh yes, that is. So come on right there. Just wanna be led to a time of worship and prayer right there. Okay, but watch this, watch this. So here's what I love, I'm gonna give you a tour of my shoes. I like first, I'm really doing this, this happening, all right? Gum souls right here, all right? Check out the tread action on these guys, all right? Your boy is never gonna fall off the stage again, all right? I also like about these, if you notice the leather, it's got a real nice textured look to it. Yeah, nice and clear, oh yeah, not the smooth leather, it's like a textured, almost like reptilian, I'll call it, reptilian leather, I like that. If you look real close right here, Doc Martin style stitching, come on somebody,

anybody know Doc Martin's, right? I like Nike's rippin' some stuff off here, I'm all right with that, all right? You got some Doc, some of you are like googling, Doc Martin's right now, what's he talking about? It's a foreign language. So we got Doc Martin's. Doc Martin's is a healthcare company, you can get your checkups there, okay? Anyway, that's a joke. Where else am I gonna go with this? Oh yeah, yeah, here we go, let's see if I can do this, right? Right here, see what this guy is. Embroidered Nike swoosh in gold. Come on, this isn't stamped on. We're not cheap here, all right? Sucker's sown into my shoes. And then one of my favorite parts of the shoe. Okay, I'll see if I can do this, right? Tighten these things up. Okay. I wanna get a double for you here. What, end of the shoelaces? Come on, golden shoelace tips, let's go! They aren't cheaping out with like those little plastic things. No, man, this is some metal material up in here when I tie my shoes, all right? Now I'm gonna, done with that. You're like, thanks, that's all I ever need to know about shoes. Some of you who are like sneaker heads,

you're like, that's the best thing ever in church. Others you like, that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in church. Here's why, I don't know if I'm ever, I got them a week ago, I don't think I've taken them off any day, I'm gonna be buried in these shoes. But let me tell you, let me tell you something. It's very important. As much as I dig these shoes, they are not gonna do one thing to help make sure I actually lived a meaningful life. I dig these shoes. Listen, you don't need to tell me they look good after church, I know they look good. (congregation laughing) But can I just tell you, as much as I dig these shoes, and as good as I think they look, they are gonna do absolutely nothing to ensure that I actually lived a life that matters. They're just shoes. You know what's gonna help me know that I lived a life that matters? As Christina and I have been praying about our impact offering this year, I am so blessed to be able to say, we are gonna be able to give our largest ever in our lives gift to kingdom builders this year, this November, and I know right now, I know right now that gift is gonna create new churches, and that gift is gonna send missionaries to people who don't know about Jesus,

and that gift is gonna help get the Bible translated into languages that his not has been in, and that gift is gonna put food on people's tables, and friends when I give a gift like that, I know I'm living a meaningful life, 'cause I'm putting my treasure on the kingdom of God, do you hear me church? Can I tell you one more thing, can I tell you one more thing real quick? Listen, hey brother, we're gonna give you some help here in a second, but let me tell you one more thing, it's so cool. Some of you, I know, I'm gonna make you wait. Some of you follow me on social media, and you know I'm dropping a book in June, all right, and it's called "Five Habits of Stronger Faith." And I'm so excited about a great message, but watch this, here's why I'm so excited about it also, because I've been praying about this for a long time, I was like, God, how could I be even more generous to the kingdom, how could Christine and I, and so we just felt like God said, we need to sell as many copies of this book as we can, because every single dollar that we profit from that book is all going straight to kingdom builders for the name of Jesus and for the advancement of his kingdom. I'm dreaming about that for next year, man, I'm so excited. (audience applauding) That's abundant life, abundant life is not great shoes,

that's fun, abundant life is waking up in the morning and saying, thank you, Lord, you're living, you're using me to make a difference. Thank you, Lord, I got joy to see that my life counts. And so all I can say is when we're looking at Jesus' wisdom on money and possessions, just gonna remind you one more time. Jesus' focus is not about getting your money. Jesus' focus is about giving you abundant life. And so Father, we just wanna say thank you right now, that you speak to every area of life, including our finances. Thank you, God, that you give us a good word that is perfectly designed to help us step fully into the life you have made us for, abundant life, life to the full. If there's somebody here who today who has not yet given your life to Jesus Christ, I want you to know God wants a personal relationship with you and that is only possible. When you say Jesus, I'm a sinner who needs forgiveness and I wanna start following you. If you're hearing you wanna take that step, I'm gonna count to three and when I say three, I'm gonna just ask you to raise your hand as a way of saying before God, today's the day I'm giving my life to Jesus Christ. Number one, God loves you so much that he gave his son Jesus on the cross to die for your sins. Number two, the same Jesus who died on your sins

was raised to life three days later in victory so that you can step into victory. And three, if today is the day you wanna begin a personal relationship with God, could you just put your hand in the air wherever you are right now, wherever you are. Even if you're watching online, if you're in a prison cell right now, if today is the day you wanna give your life to Jesus, this is your way of declaring God, today is the day I'm putting my trust in you. You can put your hands down, I'm gonna pray, and if you wanna take that step, agree with me in your own heart on this prayer, God, thank you today. You've sought me out, I'm here for a reason. I put my trust in Jesus, that his death would be for my forgiveness, beginning right now. Jesus, I choose to follow you. [MUSIC PLAYING] I pray, Father, that as we go into this time of asking what does it mean to live abundant life, Father, would you help us to seek your kingdom first? We don't want to be living divided where we got our family first and our kids first and our job first and all of it comes before you. I pray, Father, that as we would put your kingdom first, you would help us to do that through radical generosity towards your kingdom. And as we contemplate what our impact offering is going to be this year, we don't want to be like, what can I afford? How much extra do I have? We want to be like, God, what do you call me to do to ensure that you are first in every

area of our lives? And as we would do that, Father, as we follow through on whatever you had prompt, we know, your name will be lifted up, Jesus, and your kingdom advance. We pray in Jesus' name and all God's people said, amen. Can we celebrate some new life from the house today? Stand to our feet, let's stand to our feet. Hey, if you made a decision for Jesus, our ushers are going to walk back, wave to him, they'll give you a Bible and a book to help you get started. Let's end this day by giving God the worship that he deserves. Come home, the Father's waiting is the one and the one. Lift our hands and say, "Yes, in love, can you hear what you can say?" Let's go home, standing here singing when we go home. The Father's waiting is the one more, with our hands and say, "Yes, in love, can you hear what you can say in love? Oh, I know that the King is here, the King is here, who lives in your hands. Come and receive a Savior, with open hearts, we declare Jesus, He's our Son, to clean your head and grab your head and move your feet. This is a celebration, the King is here, who lives in your hands. Come and receive a Savior, with open hearts, we declare Jesus, He's our Son, to clean your head, so grab your head and move your feet. This is a celebration, the King is here, that we sing. Jesus is our Son, Jesus is our Son, Jesus is our Son, Jesus is our Son, Jesus is our Son, Jesus is our Son, Jesus is our Son, Jesus is our Son, Jesus is our Son, Jesus. I want to do a few things to give a shot of praise. Hallelujah!