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00:23Hi friends
00:25This is brother Mike
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02:13Today I want to talk to you a little bit about
02:16Giving which is a kind of an odd subject
02:24Not the kind of giving they talk on talk about on TV preachers, that's all
02:31Financial whoredom where they're doing everything you can to get you to donate to them so they can then spend the money on
02:39things like
02:40limousines and jets and mansions and so on that's that's all
02:46Spiritual whoredom, and that's not something you should ever be involved in
02:51Not even for a second
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03:10calm
03:12If you take a look at the mark chapter 12
03:16Fascinating chapter there's a lot of really great stuff in there particularly this section here
03:21which is
03:23which is on the poor widow and
03:28it says Jesus sat over against the Treasury and
03:34Beheld how the people cast money into the
03:41The Treasury and many people came that were rich
03:49Cast in much
03:52Right so in this particular case
03:57Calcuss is the Greek word used for money here, which is interesting
04:02and
04:04it was usually used to describe brass coins and
04:09Brass coins were the cheapest least expensive coins
04:15They weren't not they didn't have near the value of coins that were made out of silver or gold for example
04:23then in verse 42 he says there came a certain poor widow and
04:30She threw in two mites
04:33Now a mite the Greek word is leptis
04:38We can't relate to that because in our economy a penny is
04:43the least valuable coin a penny
04:48right and nowadays
04:50pennies are almost worthless just about
04:55Nobody wants some retailers don't like them
04:58They have very little value well a mite a leptis
05:02was much
05:05More useless than a penny
05:08and it says she gave two mites two of these tiny little brass coins and
05:14It made a farthing
05:16right a farthing Oh
05:19Codontrus was a
05:22coin
05:23that added up to a farthing two mites which was less than a penny a
05:29Farthing was less than a penny a mite was less than a farthing
05:34So you're you're what you're staring here is at here is is a woman without a husband and
05:41in in that society
05:452,000 years ago obviously males did the work and most of the work 90% of it was was a labor work
05:55Construction
05:56masonry
05:57Carpentry whatever and women took care of the home and back in the day
06:03Families had lots of kids so they needed a homemaker to manage the family
06:11while the husband
06:14Spent all his time working to support the family
06:17It's not that way anymore in our society, but 2,000 years ago
06:22that was that was a standard procedure of a family unit in a community a town a city of whatever and
06:30This woman husband had died
06:33Probably in an industrial accident killed at work or something
06:37so now she
06:39Having no trade skills and no abilities is broke and probably lives off of
06:46Contributions or generosity from family or friends trying to survive
06:51And I mean she had she had nothing
06:55She was homeless type person
06:59no money and
07:02She comes into the Treasury now the Treasury remember was attached to the side of the
07:09temple
07:11Because women weren't allowed in the temple
07:14So the women would come into the Treasury and they had
07:22Little bowls
07:25Hanging in the
07:27Treasury they looked like
07:32Trumpets with
07:34They they were smaller at the top and then they had this
07:37They were big at the bottom and there were 13 of them lined up and you would put your money in
07:43each one of these
07:45What they called trumpets those were those were where the donations went in
07:50so the women would come in to the
07:53Portion of the Treasury that was not in the temple. They would put these money in these trumpets and
08:03That's how they made their donations
08:07And
08:08It says she gave a farthing which is not virtually nothing
08:14but it says
08:16verse 43
08:19Jesus said woman uses as a teaching moment and
08:23He did that constantly
08:25During his life on earth
08:27He was constantly
08:29Using everyday situations as a teaching moment
08:34And he says to the disciples this poor widow
08:39Has cast into these trumpets
08:41she put her little farthing into this one trumpet Jesus saw her do it and
08:48He says to them leaving them absolutely flabbergasted this poor widow
08:56Put in more than all
09:01The other people that put huge sums of money into these other trumpets
09:10All the people that came in rich people have said
09:17All of them together
09:20Can you believe that well?
09:22what kind of revelation are we looking at here number one God sees everything he's omniscient and
09:29No matter how little or much you give
09:32God saw it and counted it counted it up. This is how much you gave
09:38Same thing is true with your prayer life your time your energy everything is
09:45Analyzed based on percentages God works off percentages
09:53Right. So if you have a lot of time on your hands and you give God an hour in prayer and Bible study
10:01that is
10:04less valuable than someone who
10:08Has very little time on their hands, but gives an hour
10:14So to that person their hour is far more valuable to God
10:20Than the hour the other person gave who has all kinds of time on their hands
10:26And he's saying here the same thing is true with money it's a percent issue to God
10:31For example in the Old Testament. It was always 10% tithe
10:38The tithe was 10% so if you were a multimillionaire
10:41You gave this much money but to God it was had the same value as
10:47if you had this much money and you tithes off of
10:52nothing
10:5310%
10:56Of what you had was the way God evaluated what you gave
11:03and
11:04Jesus says this poor widow has cast in more than all the others and
11:09Verse 44 he reveals the per the issue the percentage
11:15for all
11:16these other ones
11:19Donated money in these trumpets because of their abundance
11:24The Greek word is parasol it's what you have over and above
11:30Your needs and necessities
11:34All these other people he said gave out of their
11:39parasol
11:41But this woman he said
11:44Put in all of her living
11:48Be us Greek word be us what you need to survive on
11:55Absolutely remarkable so you see the percent here God works off of percentages
12:02Doesn't he
12:05Yeah, he works on percent
12:09What percent of your energy your time your money
12:15Your knowledge your mind do you give to God
12:19Now, let's say you've got a your genius IQ. Okay, you're like Einstein. You're a
12:24160
12:26Yeah, and you donate
12:3030 minutes of your mind to God
12:33Well, let's say somebody else has got an IQ of at what's average statistically average 100
12:42Well the value of the time
12:44Somebody with an IQ of a hundred gave for 30 minutes was far more valuable than the time
12:51Someone gave who had an IQ of 160
12:56The money that she gave a farthing to God
13:00To God had far more value than somebody who gave a hundred denarii
13:1150 cents to God is worth more than $10,000
13:19Because it depends on what percent you have to give
13:25It's your percentage of giving that matters to God
13:34Not what you give
13:40It's the percent that seems strange doesn't it? Well, it shouldn't because
13:47The entire Old Testament was based on tithing which was 10%
13:51Nobody gave the exact same amount because it was 10% of your income
13:57And in 1st Corinthians 13 3
14:00Paul spells it out. He said though I bestow all my goods
14:07To feed the poor and if I give my body
14:12To be burned alive
14:14to help others
14:16If I sacrifice everything I have including my own life if I sacrifice at all
14:26But I do not have a gap a
14:30Unconditional love
14:33It profits me nothing
14:36It profits me nothing
14:40Wow, that's crazy
14:42In Mark chapter 9 Jesus illustrated it again. He said if you just give something
14:48Like a cup of cold water to someone because they belong to Christ
14:54You will not you will not lose your reward
15:00What's the point the point is that God sees
15:03Everything you're doing. I mean literally everything
15:09He notices it all
15:13Nothing goes unobserved
15:18And if you have nothing and you give
15:24The higher percentage of giving that matters to God
15:29And you give
15:32The higher percentage of the nothing you have
15:36You gave more than Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to God
15:44The value you give to God of your time when you have very little of it of your energy
15:51when you've got little very little of that and
15:54Your money when you've got very little of that
16:00When you donate it to God compared to others compared to others it's worth
16:10Enormous value to God
16:14You got this thing and so it's not how much you give
16:20It's the percent you give
16:27Loves the same way a
16:31Person only has so much love and they give some of it to a spouse
16:36And they give some of it to children
16:41And give it some of it to friends
16:44They give some of it to God
16:47They give some of it to God
16:55What value is your love to God well now it depends on the percent you gave
17:01Jesus said he that loveth son or daughter mother father
17:05more than me is
17:07Not worthy of me Greek word phileo. It means to be fond of or to like
17:13Jesus said whoever likes or is fond of their mother or their father their son or their daughter
17:19their husband or their wife
17:21more than me is
17:24Not worthy of me Greek word Axios doesn't deserve me
17:32God works on a percentage, so if you love God
17:36What percent more than that do you love God more than you do your kids for example as an example?
17:43you
17:45Wow
17:47So if you love God this much
17:50You've only got one kid and this person loves God the same amount, but they've got ten kids
17:56Which one is more valuable to God?
17:59Boom it's the one who has ten kids
18:08Giving is based on percent
18:12It's based on sacrifices
18:15Sacrificial giving is a far more value to God
18:20than giving out of your abundance or giving something that
18:24Doesn't cost you anything
18:27Isn't that what King David said?
18:30Yeah, I'll take this from you the land
18:35But I'm not going to take something that doesn't cost me something
18:39Because
18:41King David as a celebrity could have had anything you wanted people just giving that you know how that works celebrity ism. That's a plague
18:54So what's the point I'm trying to make here listen if you don't have a lot of money
18:58You don't have a lot of time. You don't have a lot of energy. You don't have much love left over
19:04Hey
19:06Every little thing you give is recorded and noticed by God
19:13Sacrificial giving is a far more value
19:18Than giving
19:22This poor widow put in
19:25All she had so what was the percent? Well. It was a hundred percent on her part
19:32How much was it on the rich people?
19:341%
19:375% 2%
19:42So Jesus was saying look their money total is higher, but their percent is lower
19:49Her money total is lower her percent was a hundred
19:56She gave a hundred percent
19:58to God
20:01The other moral the story is God noticed how much everyone gave and what percent of
20:10their assets was turned over and
20:14Your assets of time and energy and love and money whatever it is doesn't matter
20:19God looks at the percent of it and if it's
20:24sacrificial giving
20:26So if you don't have a lot of energy energy left, and you put in a half an hour on your devotions
20:32That half hour is far more valuable than somebody who has plenty of time
20:37Plenty of energy and just puts in a half an hour
20:44It's all graded on a percent
20:48What percent are you giving?
20:51She gave a
20:54Hundred percent
20:59And God noticed every
21:01might and farthing
21:04He notices every tiny little thing Friday night. I taught on the judgment seat of Christ and
21:12How you and I as born-again Christians?
21:16We will we will be there someday
21:21And
21:24Mentioned in the teaching the Bama
21:27the steps to the throne of Christ
21:30apparently the Lord Jesus sits on the throne of heaven and there's steps that go up the throne and
21:37You and I at a judgment seat of Christ after we're dead
21:41stand on the steps the Bama of
21:44the throne room of God
21:47and
21:48We have to give an account of ourselves
21:50What we did with our bodies
21:53What do we use our bodies for my hand my mind?
21:58My physical body, what did I use that thing for?
22:02Was it to serve God was it fornication was it adultery was it lust was a greed?
22:08Was it love was it praise was it? What would you use your body for?
22:14Paul said whether it be good or whether it be bad
22:18and
22:19Then Paul went on to explain
22:21These people will suffer loss through fire
22:24These people will have their works burned
22:27By fire, but they stay remain
22:31That's why Paul said you need to be a silver and gold vessel
22:36Not wood hay and stuple
22:39Because those are going to get burned up
22:43Catherine Coleman had an interesting statement
22:48That I thought was
22:51Productive she said God is not looking for golden or silver vessels. He's looking for yielded vessels
23:01What she didn't tell you was that's how you become a gold and silver vessel is
23:06Because you yielded yourself over the poor widow with two mites
23:11Yielded over everything she had which was a hundred percent of her
23:17assets
23:18The rich people that were coming in were giving small percentages of their assets because they only gave money that was
23:27That would not cost them anything as King David would say
23:31They gave out of their abundance
23:33So there was nothing to it to them
23:36but to her
23:38God's microscope
23:42He looks at percent of giving
23:45What percent of your love in your time your energy your assets your money, what percent do you give to God and
23:56As you know simple mathematics percents differ from one person to the other
24:07Your percent
24:09Determines your giving
24:11and
24:12God loves a cheerful giver
24:15Does that mean?
24:18The more sacrificial giving you give
24:21the more joy unspeakable and full of glory you end up with
24:26What's the best way to beat depression give?
24:30To God serve
24:35Others
24:38Depression gone
24:41Fear and anxiety, what's the best thing to do?
24:44Serve
24:47Even though you're afraid give even though you're anxious
24:53And you'll overcome it
24:56You can't lose
24:59This poor widow widow gave all she had
25:02which was a percent of her assets, which was a hundred percent and
25:08Jesus said she gave more
25:10Than all the others that came in that day putting
25:16bags of stuff coins
25:20Silver and gold coins putting into the trumpets
25:25She gave more than all of them added up together
25:29what a remarkable story and
25:32The disciples of course their jaws hit the floor. They couldn't believe what they'd heard
25:38And
25:39When the rich young ruler came to Jesus I said Lord, what do I got to do to get into heaven? What's up?
25:45Well, Jesus said what's the law say?
25:48You're a believer in the law of Moses, aren't you? Well, sure. Well, it says this a b c d e. Oh
25:56No problem Lord, I've done all those things from the time I was young to today
26:03I'm good and
26:05Jesus using discernment obviously at the highest level
26:10Said son listen, there's one little thing you might have overlooked
26:15But it's actually a big thing
26:18greed
26:23Pretend you're the poor widow. Okay sell off all you have
26:30Which again is percent the percent of giving and
26:37then come and follow me percent of
26:41Your assets your money and your time come follow me
26:49And it says the rich young ruler went away sad and it said Jesus loved him
26:57a
26:58Poor guy went away sad
27:00because he had
27:02great possessions
27:04he had a
27:07large estate
27:09he was
27:12Gripped in a hooked into material things
27:16and
27:17It cost him
27:19Cost him his soul. He turned around and left a
27:24A lot of people
27:28Pray and say Lord, I think I just see you
27:32Off I could just see Jesus. I'll be so I'm my whole life would change. No one
27:39If you literally were standing there looking at him
27:46No good
27:49The disciples had not changed when Jesus was with them they saw him every day
27:56They never changed on the day of Pentecost
28:01They couldn't see Jesus anymore, but they changed in here
28:07The Holy Ghost changed them on the inside
28:10When they were with Jesus and saw him
28:14None of them were changed
28:15Because they were only changing on the outside they weren't changing on the inside
28:22The widow with two mites was a special person
28:27Out of her heartache and her sorrow out of her poverty
28:34She gave Jehovah the Hebrew God all she had and he noticed
28:39What she gave and how much she gave because Jesus specifically said this is how much she gave she gave two mites
28:48Which equals a farthing and two mites was literally?
28:52About a fifth of a penny in our money
28:58Yeah a fifth or a sixth of a penny I
29:01Mean that's how poor this woman was
29:04She was so poor
29:07The two mites
29:09Couldn't sustain her for anything and so she said these are my last two mites. That's all I've got now
29:16I'm down to two mites
29:18You know what I want to make a sacrificial gift to God
29:22Boom, I'm gonna give that
29:25Which is more than all the other people
29:30Gave so when you see somebody the devil is going to tempt you to compare yourself with somebody loves to do that
29:36He's always comparing. Well my voice isn't like theirs
29:41My my ability to give is it like there's I?
29:46Can't speak as well as them
29:51No
29:52He's always trying to get you to compare yourself with somebody well guess what?
29:56God does the same thing he compares you on a percentage of sacrificial giving
30:03and this year
30:07For the rest of this year you're going to change you're going to start realizing that
30:12It's the percent of what you give not what you actually give that's important to God
30:18Which means that you have nothing are very little you could out give
30:23Everyone and anyone who has all kinds of stuff to give
30:31You gave more than they did and
30:34You had so much less
30:40And that's how the Lord took care of you
30:45You cannot out give God friend you just can't do it I
30:51Saw that yesterday at the baptismal service over at the Carter's house it was phenomenal
30:56I didn't know they were baptizing people that day
30:59He just Mike Carter walk up to me and say you want to help with these baptisms, I didn't know they're having a baptism
31:07Well when I saw that I thought well the Holy Spirit wants to do the baptizing today
31:13Not us and so that's what we did we allowed him to do it
31:18Well I think we had seven or eight baptisms almost all of them got delivered almost all of them got rid of soul wounds
31:24it was remarkable I
31:27Made sure that when you get baptized you have to you have to be sure that the people are
31:32Ready to be baptized you can't just baptize anybody if you were baptized as a Mormon or a Jehovah Witness or Roman Catholic
31:40You got to get re-baptized
31:41If you were baptized as a kid that doesn't count you got to get re-baptized as an adult
31:47Because you have to have your free will involved and so I made sure
31:52Everybody had their free will involved in it and
31:56We're willing to repent of their sins before they were baptized
32:00because baptism is extremely important to symbol of the resurrection of Christ from the dead and
32:06The baptism point marks the turning point in the rest of your life
32:12Nowadays people get baptized there's not much ramifications to it, but back in the day 2,000 years ago when you got baptized
32:18that was a public event and
32:21everybody knew about it and
32:24And that was a major sacrifice to get baptized because
32:30Everybody knew you were baptized and the social stigma was enormous nowadays. It's not everybody just kind of routinely gets baptized
32:39But if I'm involved in the baptism I have to make absolutely sure that the person is dedicated has repented
32:46and
32:48Wants to be healed wants to be delivered and sure enough that just was amazing the Holy Ghost just blew that baptism service out
32:56Yesterday it was fantastic. I
32:58Want you to remember?
33:01It's not how much you give it's a percent you give
33:05So if you have nothing to give and you give up give all of it you have given more
33:11than everybody else who has
33:14Lots to give and gives a smaller percent of what they have
33:26Yes as Jesus said the first will be last and the last shall be first I
33:37Love you, and I'll see you next time
33:43You