Truth Moments: Episode 23

- What the business is? - Yes, sir. - Back at it. - Stay with it. - Stay with it. - Check out this cup. - Smiley. - Looks like the Walmart. - I was a-- - Dallin' back, son. - It does, actually. It probably is a Walmart cup. - It probably is a Walmart cup. - I was pouring this coffee, this instant coffee, and got a little sick and queasy in my stomach, just by smelling it, like knowing what's coming. Like, I already took the morning, but there's another coming after that, just because it'll, you haven't gone this morning, you probably need to clear it out. - No, that right there, it hurt me. (laughing) - Hey man, it's gonna be back, you know, just tapping in with you guys and jumping into another week of just reviewing, you know, and we're behind on posting these, so it'll be, you have to go back and watch the message before. And so this one is graced like a river. So I would go back and watch that

and then jump back in this, get you a group of fellows and come back and hang out and discuss. - Good sermon. - It was a good message. - Yeah. - Yeah, that was, I was actually pretty impressed. - Well, I think it's interesting because it's like you can almost feel in the room, just. - Don't receive it. - When, it's just, it's, I love the emphasis and the significance of what you put on it. - Right. - Because that's what it is. But it's the number one thing that makes people so uncomfortable. Because it's the number one thing that they're not doing. You know what I mean? And it's not even, it's far past the tithe. There, a lot aren't doing that, unfortunately, either, but they just, the giving and generosity, you know, one thing will jump into it, but, you know, one thing that just spoke to me that you said, is, you know, and this is, this is everyone can quote this one. You look up in Google, what's the most known Bible verse, right? John 3 16, right? God so loved the world that he gave. - Yeah.

- Gave, right? And it's just like, man, Christ-like, walk more like Jesus, what? And then the number one verse, and that everyone knows in the world is that God gave. But are they paying attention to that word? Gave, you know what I'm saying? Like, he gave up his only son. Like that, that, that. - Yeah, and then Christ gave his life, you know, and yeah, I had something in their, you know, that, trying to remember what it was, but there was something that kind of went in line with that. But nonetheless. - And, and, and, and this guy, I'll tell you, but Christ gave his life. And have you, have you, there's a, there's this guy, and I don't remember exactly who it is, but I heard it last night, but it was someone was asking him, hey, well, why did Christ have to give his life, right? Why did he have to die on the cross? What, if God is such a, a God, you know, why didn't he just- - I've seen that, but I didn't watch it. - Forgive. - Yeah. - You didn't watch it? - The Josh Hardson writer, huh?

- Man, dude, the, the, the story that he said, right? And so he says, he says the story, he says, there's a king, there's a kingdom, right? And there's a, there's a, there's just, you know, there's, you have to put yourself back in, in king and, and lordship times. And there's a king, and someone is stealing from the king. And he, there, he issues out of decree. And he says, find out who's stealing from me? They're going to receive 10 lashes, right? And then it goes on for a period of time. And they're still stealing that happens. And then he issues out another decree. And he says, find who's stealing from me? And time goes on, and this happens again in 30 lashes, right? And then it comes to a point where he issues out the final degree, which is 40 lashes. And in this time, people knew that you're not surviving 40 lashes. 40 lashes was a death sentence, right? And so he enters the decree because the decree is just, right? That's what is justified for the sin, for the action. Come to find out the entire time it's his daughter. That's stealing, right? And so he understands what the decree was. He understands the just. So he ushers his daughter up to the executor. And she removes her shirt, and he issues the executor to start to fulfill the decree, right? But before, as he's about to do it once,

the king goes, walks up, and covers his daughter, and exposes his back, and issues the decree to be made, right? And that's because the justifier-- he is the justifier that the decree was justice. He had to do it, but he's such a good God. And he loves so much that he took it upon himself even. You know what I'm saying? There had to be death. There had to be it, and it wasn't going to escape that. But he so just he did it upon himself. And so it was just like, man, when I heard that one, I was like, man, that's good. And then it's like, what does that do, man? That's just like, you hear stories like that. And it's not really a story. But you draw conclusions like that. You put things into perspective like that. And you start to do what, man? You start to just fall more in love with God, man. That kind of stuff, like, it's like, oh, man, Lord, you are. Regardless of whatever's going on around, man, because it's hard to not get involved in what's going around. It's like, how often are we looking into the past of what's already been done before your grandfather was born, before my grandfather was born? Like, while things were going on in life, like, dude, it's been good, dude. He was good before we were born, you know? - Yeah, no, I mean, well, that's one of the things that we talked about was generosity

gives the gospel credibility, you know? And one of the things that I said was we preach about a savior who gave himself. But the credibility of the message is actually weakened when his church refuses to give anything and be generous people, you know? I mean, we preach a Jesus that left heaven, that humbled himself, that took on a form of a servant, but then we can become so protective of our comfort and things that we will inconvenience ourselves, or we won't even inconvenience ourselves for another person, and, you know, it's just, you know, what better way, I mean, we are never more like Jesus than we are when we are willing to give for the good of somebody else's sake, you know? I mean, it's like he willingly gave. And so it's like, you know, a couple of weeks ago, you know, during our giving, I mentioned, you know, God laid it on my heart to start giving when I was incarcerated, you know? I mean, there's ain't a pinch for everybody watching this to give, but, you know, I mean, it was just a discipline that God put in my life. - You know, one thing that you said, it kind of punched me in my chest, because I know you on a deeper level than a lot of people that are listening, but, you know, you're giving a story about being out to eat and it dang, this kind of rocked me a little bit. But, you know, you said that you had missed,

you know, giving so generously, because like, you know, you were very successful, right in your business and everything you did. And when I met you years ago, you know, that was one thing that stood out to me about you. Here's this, though. It stood out to me about you. I love Christ enough that it stood out to me about you, that it showed that you are generous and that you love God, that was apparent, right? To others that don't love Christ, it could stand out to be ways of, I'm so but let me let me steer it back though. One thing that you would do all the time is You're a gift giver, right? That's your love language. You just you give gifts You like to listen to what people are talking about and then you'd like to do that and and and you had More funds to do that with and you do now, right? And so it was always it was always it was always that and then it Kind of like bam when you said it because now it's like I Thought about that because you're you're going to the he said you got to watch sermon But you're going to the car and you're getting a ten dollar bill But that ten dollar bill is still the equivalent of your hundred dollar bill Right, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, and it's like it's like you you you're grieving in a way But you're still your heart is still getting like you can't change the heart of it So like what I'm saying is like the funds changed. Yeah, but the heart didn't yeah, right? And so like the 10 that you gave the waitress. I still felt good about being generous Right, she may have looked at like But at pizza right, right? I mean, I was at least thankful to be able to give a ten dollar tip, you know, and and it's what's funny is like You know here's here's here's just, you know I've had some conversations here recently with people one family in particular

They're just going through some some family stuff and and you know, I was just talking about how Taking a stance to live the gospel and sometimes that means cutting out family members Sometimes that means cutting out these other people so that you can you can get rid of what is polluting your mind for a moment of sanctification basically and So that you can impress upon your kids what what what it really truly means to walk this out and you know, whenever I Addie is just a generous little girl, too, and She had this squishy and you know what these things frickin mean today. Yeah, I mean, she's been willing to take from people to go But you know, but But she had this this one and there was this this is a two-part story. There was this little girl There was this family with two little girls sitting beside us and apparently this little girl had watched Addie play with this squishy at the table, you know, and and We got up to leave I had just went out to get that that money for the tip and and I came back and We had got up to leave and as we got up there was seven of us I mean it was a whole freakin thing, you know, and then Addie walked over to this little girl Probably a couple years younger than than she was so this girl was probably seven or so and The little girl didn't ask or anything and she just said this this got me better down on The table and said here you can have this and walked off and like the little girl like lit up and the mom was like Oh my gosh. She didn't have to do that. You know, like Thank you so much or whatever and you know, well then I Had said that $10 to build down on the table right there and Addie was Addie grabbed it and she wanted to go give it to the lady, you know, and like, you know, she talks to him She she's like seriously finding that trying to find this woman, you know, and I thought it was really cool because then whenever we got out to the car You know, I just got to have a conversation with You know that feeling that she felt was the Holy Spirit Seeing upon her that's good to be generous, you know, and it's like if you don't respond to Yeah, I asked Addie. I said how long did you sit there and contemplate? Mm-hmm giving that away. Yeah, you know, and she was like the whole time we were eating Yeah, and I was like that feeling that you felt that was the Holy Spirit and pressing You have on you to be generous and if you didn't respond, you would have felt so guilty The rest of the night, you know, it's like how many times does the Lord press that on us to be

Generous or to pray for people or to whatever and we don't respond in those moments and then you walk away and you're like dang man I'm missing my chance, you know, and so yeah, you walk away and you say dang. I miss my chance the first time Yeah, but each time it gets easier to Snifle it away. It's the point where that's what I always say like the Holy Spirit, man He's he's a sensitive dude, man. You know what I'm saying? Like he gonna go he going and then He's like he wants some he wants some relationship like he's not about he's not about just getting ignored like you Can't leave the Holy Spirit on red And keep and keep letting it go and and and that that's one more heart, man? Like, what, what do they, like, what is all this about? Like, what it's not even the fact like you come up off your pocket. But in this time, the money is a representation of a lot. You know what I'm saying? And it's like, when you do come, I mean, we, anybody that's, that's taken, you know, we've seen people, you know, I mean, you, you take up a job at the church. Guess what? You're showing that you give because no matter where you came from, you ain't doing it. You didn't do it for the money. As much as you got before. You know, and so, yeah, I just, I got this email from LinkedIn. I created this LinkedIn account. I don't even know what to do with LinkedIn, but apparently it's like a Facebook for professionals, kind of, you know, yeah, I've heard of this. I'm not professional enough to have me neither. But I can't remember for whatever reason I, anyways, I clicked on something one day that needed it was on there and I needed to create a profile. So I created one and then here I am. I've never used it. But anyways, now I get these emails. And I got this email last night. We were at Chick-fil-A and it said 80, no, 55, 55 job openings for lead pastor positions for 80,000 plus a year across the United States. So I got to look at through some of them. There's this one that was 95 to $105,000 a year. And I looked down and I told Katherine, I said, babe, I feel called. I feel called right now. I feel the spirit. Yeah. Right now. It's a Minnesota. Straight up. I was like, baby, I feel called this. Like we need to be somewhere in Minnesota. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I was like, Oh, God, you'd be miserable earning that. I'm gonna say this. Wherever that was, you know, offer of money shouldn't even be on like that shouldn't even be in the conversation when it comes to a ministry, not the original conversation. Yeah, like, but we'll talk about that later. Like let's talk about the call. Let's talk about, let's see what's going on. And then we'll

discuss it and see how much you really want it. Yeah. It's like, it's like, it's sadly like, we're giving out 95 grand. You want to go back to this church, baby? Yeah, you got to just somebody just you know, it's like, you know, it's like a laugh, but I got left to keep them crying. Yeah. That's the reality. It's the reality. It's pretty funny. But, you know, this, yeah, it was kind of crazy. I was like, man, this is crazy, man. They're out here really eating. I mean, I gotta understand if you're building the thing, you know, but it's, but anyways, I mean, there are, there are ministry positions that shouldn't be getting paid $300,000 a year. But, you know, it's a, that's all another conversation. But, yeah, you know, really, I mean, people are listening. This is one of the reasons why I think generosity is so big, because you can tell when there's generosity and when there isn't. And when there is generosity, it speaks to the heart of the gospel. You know, we have a business guy that I alluded to this in my sermon, but I didn't give too many details, but we have a business guy that has, you know, quite a few employees. And those employees will be commissioned to go work some detail at our, at our new church building, sometimes, you know, and they see the extravagance of what their boss has asked them to do, you know, and then I get conversation with those employees without their boss around, you know, and then their, those employees are saying, man, it's crazy how boss man, that's what they call him, boss man. It's crazy how boss man just, just has us do all this stuff. He's still paying them. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's still, they're still just getting their check. Yeah. I mean, they're just doing free work. And I asked, I asked boss man one time. I said, what would it have cost to have your guys do what they just did these last couple weeks? And he said, probably about 15 grand. Yeah. You know, it was just like, yeah, that was a $15,000 donation that went under the radar that nobody will ever see, nobody will ever notice, but them two employees that was there doing at work, you know what I mean? - Right, but they're getting saved. - Yeah, but when they see-- - They're gonna get saved. - But that's the thing, is when they see their boss, be that extravagant in generosity, it ministers to their soul, bro, and they admit it. They're like, "This don't make sense."

And they're like, "Yeah, don't." Incredible generosity don't make sense. Jesus giving his life for us, don't make sense. That's the most incredible, generous act of the world. It just don't make sense. So literally generosity embodies the gospel. Literally, I mean, it is just that way. I mean, literally the gospel gains credibility when our generosity matches our message. Like when we're preaching all of this, and that don't mean that everybody can just hit us up to pay their books off. But like, you also have to, I talked about stewardship, you know, and I didn't even dig into that, but stewardship is being wise, you know, as well with what God has entrusted us with. And so it's like, the dude didn't bodies it. I mean, it's sometimes the strongest evidence that Jesus changes lives is a people willing to invest in the lives that everybody else has written off, that it's people that are willing to just be generous and be open-handed sometimes. And just, you know, it's- - 'Cause it's like, I think about the building project of the church, you know, and it's like the church needs, the church needs more generous men. - Oh yeah, dude. - That's what the church needs. The church needs more generous men, men that are good in their field, where they work, that make an end and kill men earn,

and they give generously. - It's too often, and seamlessly, you know, too often, it's this massive extreme from one to the other. It's like an unsaved sinner that gives nothing to now I'm saved and now I need to start a ministry. And it's like, hold on a minute, where are the fielders at? Where are the harvesters? Where are the workers, dude? Where are the ones that are gonna wake up, read a chapter in their Bible, pray to God, as God to change them, get up, go to work, honor God with everything they do at their job, even if it's changing tires, even whatever corners they could cut, they don't cut, why? To honor God, God is witnessing them, they do that, they receive their check, they receive it with gladness, and then they give it with an open hand, what? Not just like, just, not just to the time, but to their time, to their resources, to the, you know what I mean, like, who's building our church? You know who's building our church? Tradesmen are building our church, guys showing up that just have some skill, and they're building the church. That's what the church needs more of, it demands more men that are gonna serve God, and serve the community, and serve. Like, I just, it just blows my mind like the extremes that they try to, we try to make, you know? It's like, you were just unsaved a year ago. You know what I'm saying?

And now like all of a sudden, you've got out, and got some sort of-- - A vision that you see-- - Popping, yeah, like everything, you know, and that, you know, over the years, that's what we see, that's the demise of men. Like, you skip that servanthood, like, this net, like, even you, there was a point of time, years of your life, where you were a working man, serving God, serving God, and working, working, and serving, right? You can have purpose, you can have vision, but you have to be, you have to put that time in along the way, dude. - I mean, realistically, like, dude, I am thankful for the ones that work, like, like, realistically, some people's call is to fund the kingdom. - Yeah, yeah, that's a gift. - Yeah, that's it. - You have to be generosity, you know, and give. Like, we have, I mean, it just, I think, you know, we have about 500 people that attend regularly. If that 500 people gave regularly. - Yeah. - And then, that's not even including all of the people that watch us from out of stay, watch us online, watch us on here, watch us all of these other places. If 500 people, I look at, if 500 people gave 20 bucks, bro. - 20 bucks? - 20 bucks a piece.

That's 10 grand a week. - I walked in quick trip, starving. - I didn't even-- - I spent 26 bucks. - I didn't want, I didn't want a breakfast sandwich. So I said, man, let me try this wrap out. It was just a wrap. It was literally this big, dude. It was, it was this big. It was some cold-cut wrap, dude. I said, let me get a wrap. I said, oh, dang, I forgot my water jug, right? I'm gonna get a water of water. $16.35, dude. I literally got to the counter and was like, oh. And I was like, I might just take it back. Like I was offended by the price, dude. You know what I mean? But it's like, dude, I know for a fact-- Still grabbed it and walked out though, you know. Exactly. Everybody else that's going on the gas station, let me get a zinc nicotine pouch and cigarettes. Let me get-- dude, it's like 12 bucks. And it's like, dude, whoa, where's our heart? You know, like, it's not even about-- it's just not about just the tie that's just about, dude. Like, what if we've seen more men? Because here's the thing. Men, you're-- there ain't no way my wife's going to tell me how to spend money.

Period. That's just not how it's going to be. She's going to get extra-- she's going to get what she wants, right? That's part of my call. Like, she gets exactly what she wants. I get what I need. My wife and kids, they get what they want. You know what I mean? That's what happens. But I decide what happens in-- and you know what I mean? Like, with the funds. Like, I'm-- you know, it's like, when I give-- some press on my heart, I don't say my wife, oh, hey, I gave an extra couple hundred bucks this week. I don't say that. I'm just mean, man. That's me, man. We earned that. We earned that. But we're going to be extravagant. Yeah, so the men step up and do that, man. And the family falls in line with that, man. And we should be working hard so that our wives and our, you know, soon-to-be wives or whatever it is, the relationship can feel comfortable enough to, you know? Their heart's like, here, you know? It honestly ministers to your family, you know, whenever they see that.

My family has always seen that. And my wife, you know, she don't say much. But, you know, I'll hear her sometimes talk about, you know, the things she's witnessed me do. And it's like, huh, yeah, that's kind of cool. That's her perspective, you know? So I said this last week and I'll go. But in Philippians in chapter two, he's-- Paul does a great letter of exhortation. And he's just encouraging. And, but when he says in there, you know, do everything without arguing or complaining, you know? So why, and all these things, why, he's telling us. So no one can criticize you. And it's like that criticizing, I think we've got to the place where we're like, oh, yeah, only God can judge me and don't matter. People think, who cares what people say. - That should scare you. - It does matter what people think to a degree, right? Because at the end of the day, people are people watching. - Yeah, not in the sense of validation. - Right, no. - You should not find your identity in that. - But you've put on a representation of Christ. - Yeah. - So it matters what people think about you and your representation of Christ. In that regard, that opinion matters. And so it's like, people are always critiquing you.

Like you said, like critiquing isn't a bad word. It's just being critical of, right? So even your wife is watching you. She's being critiquing of you. She's watching how you're giving. Your kids are watching how you're giving. I mean, I remember distinctly one time I was in the grocery store and it was in Dollar General. My kids love to go to Dollar General and they get four items every Friday during school season. Okay, and they look forward to these four items. Anyways, I look back, man. And there's a guy, and he's kind of pacing back and forth in the aisle. But he's, where, what aisle is he in? He's in the canned goods, dude. Okay, and he's picking up a canned good. And he looked at one and he kind of checked it out and he put one down and he's, what is he doing? - Trying to figure out which ones he can get 'cause he can work. - Which one he can get, dude. You know what I'm saying? And it's like, oh, no. And the Holy Spirit just laid it on me right then. They're like, no, no, no. Make sure that that is not going on. And so he ended up coming behind me, you know? And I rang up and, you know, and I looked at him. I put the cash on the table and I said, here, man, that's yours in this, and he, no, no, no, right?

He didn't know. And I said, dude, please do not block this blessing. Like this did not, hey. And I said, dude, this did not come for me, bro. I said, God had given this to me, to give to you, bro. And you know what I mean? And that's where the acknowledgement should always go to back to it's like, it's like, you know, so he-- - Use it to give God glory. - Man, he's, what did he do? Like, and I remember just going back to the truck. And I just was moved because it's like, when God does something like that, right? That's, in those moments, that's when I'm like, really feeling him guiding me, dude. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm feeling the, it's not during worship. It's not during, you know, presence of God be sensitive to the Holy Spirit through giving like and I wasn't washed when I sat down and my kids saw me and I was crying they're like "Dad why are you crying?" and I'm like dude I felt God right there dude you know what I'm saying it like I felt God leading me and I felt him loving me and I felt him guiding me and he used me to bless somebody else like that's that you want to get in relationship with you people were like well I haven't felt God forever and it's like dude you haven't felt God forever because you haven't been listening to anything he's been telling you to do you start following that it's it's more than fighting temptation it's more than it's more than standing firm and it's suffering through all this stuff like yeah those are aspects of this faith but there is a also a portion of walking with God that is lovely full of joy full of warmth and when you when you give of your heart like you feel it and you're like dude that wasn't me that was God there's and and we as humans we need some confirmation sometimes bro we need that and he doesn't give it like every single moment that you pray he's not answering down every time

that you're trying to get a prophetic word for someone he's delivering it to that's not happening 85 to 95 percent of the time but there's a 5 percent time that he drops a little bam on you dude and you got to sit and bask in it man you know i mean like dude no it is it's true literally one of the greatest dangers i think that faces the church is the distance between what we proclaim and what we practice i mean we we we proclaim we preach sacrifice but we protect our our levels of comfort you know we we we preach that we believe in in these different things but we refuse to ever sacrificially allow the lord to just ask us to do these kind of things and just believe in in a vision and just believe in whatever i mean it's like no matter where you're at in life dude i don't if i was dude if i was serving life dude i would still have to give somehow somehow yeah yeah of myself i mean like yeah i mean when i was dude when i was down like i was i was the guy that i would i would always identify like the the some of the poorest maybe weakest dudes in the pod bro and if we ever ate ate a big meal like i take them a ball down bro with a whole freaking thing right here man they're like what what and i was like it's cool just wash the ball and bring it back yeah you know what i mean yeah like and they they don't eat nothing bro you know and i'm like here man eat eat good you know and i'll find another one the next time and just you know like i just want to be generous you know and if i got the means like there's something about just not that i do it for accolades but there's just something about being able to say man i was a part of that yeah you know i i was i was a part of helping do that and and so you know it's just um you know and then and and i guess we can we can close up with this but you know the holy spirit is the the he's the the radar for that for that giving you know what i mean like yeah i thought about what you're saying for a second it is a a fleshly thought part of my body like about buddy hustle in prison yeah you know i mean because it's like that that gives that that puts some people in reserve like that it's like you know i try to get buddy hustled because you got some buddies that comes oh yeah and we'll we'll hustle you up well that's the certain it's like that that's what i mean like that's a certain man like yeah you got to be letting them just certain that yeah yeah be led by the holy spirit and you know what that dude may be a buddy hustler right and the and the lord may still press on you to give it to him yeah because he wants to work through some of those things you may have so much resentment towards these guys that are that are zooming around the pond you know hey you got a soup over here we got a soup over there here i'm got a shot of coffee over here you know then guys that pull up at your cell with the cup

already yeah right buddy he already smelt a bruin yeah i mean yeah he turned down a man that already has his cup dude he knows what time he he's a member he knows what time you pour up he knows you got your hot pot over here's the reality even if it's a buddy hustler here's the reality what would our generosity right what would our generosity tell those around us about the jesus that we preach yeah even if they try to even if you know what's a hustle knows i'm hustling right and he's still willing right gives right up every time and it just it don't makes it there's a there's a you know the story about this you know you go you go to a restaurant and you got terrible service right yeah just worst service you could ever get right and it's like you this guy was telling a story about it and he's like you know i got the worst service like i just did i didn't get you know food was cold everything you could intentionally to me because he knew she knew that I love Jesus right and he said I blessed her extravagantly and he said he walked out and she ran out after him saying why did you do this you know I was she in in a minute wanted to admit it or get like I treated you this way because he's like he's like and you deserve love man you know I mean it was like bam so it's like a hospital they preached in action and without no words spoken dude you know I mean so yeah I hope that uh that's where it's at I hope that encourages you guys I hope that uh that they lift you up I hope that uh that that this is brought into the ears and then it and then it seeps down into the heart and there's a saturation of of his word that goes into a read uh read acts for read those chapters 32 through 37 get into that word let that word resonate into your hearts and and uh get around some men um get around some men and uh and have some holy conversations man have some fellowship with guys uh start talking about generosity you know and start planning uh how to be generous start being in tension the last time what what was it plot plot and scheming and bottom scheming bottom scheming and sitting around and plot and scheming start start start talking politics and on generosity seriously you know you're just start tiling you know tiling to a church you know it'd be our church start tiling to a church give to a ministry like write a green check or whatever it's 75 cents 75 cents right a check man you know send it to whoever wherever your family's connected or whatever the case may be you know what I mean but uh they'll be blessed by it I know it blesses my heart whenever I see checks come through man I just that's that's big faith yeah yeah it is so well God we thank you

Lord we thank you we lift you up we give you praise and glory and honor we acknowledge who you are God and we're thankful for your your presence and we're thankful for your spirit that guides us and that leads us Lord and thank you for a heart that's transformed and changed in Lord thank you for the generosity that you give through us God it's not our own generosity we didn't come upon it uh upon ourselves Lord but you have pressed upon us Lord because by nature we are selfish human beings God but it is a true reflection of what you're doing inside of our hearts when um when that generosity is shown so I pray that over these men and women that the gospel of Jesus Christ would be demonstrated through that generosity God it'd be in all institutions it'd be all in fellowship circles it'd be all in conversations on the yard it'd be in conversations in the day room God that you'd be lifted up and exalted God in the ones that are walking out of those chapels God that that are holding their Bibles and represent you well Lord and that um the unbeliever would come to know you and uh in Jesus my name amen you you [MUSIC PLAYING]