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Jonathan Shuttlesworth
Replacing The Curse of Generational Poverty with The Blessing of Generational Wealth
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Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. To stay connected, go to RevivalToday.com and now, here is Evangelist Jonathan. The title, if you're taking notes, replacing the curse of generational poverty with the blessing of generational wealth. Today, that's going to take place today. The same way that lady didn't know where her runaway young adult drug addict daughter was. And she was found 20 minutes before the service ended. God created the whole world in six days. He doesn't need more than one day to break the chains of your past off you and bring you into the land that he said you belong. If you believe that, can you say amen? How are you going to do it? I'll tell you how you do it. By the word and by the understanding of the word. Galatians 3, 13, 14 and then verse 29. Galatians 3, 13%, 14, 29. Christ has redeemed us from all the curse of the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing, for it is written in the Scriptures. Cursed is everyone who's hung on a tree. Everybody say, all curses over my life are broken when I receive Christ. Then 14, it gets better. Not just is the curse broken. Good to see you. I like having you here, my Armenian friend. Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with sort of the same blessing, but not quite as much. Has blessed the Gentiles with what that he promised to who, so that we are believers, might receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith. Now if you, if you make blessing general, then Amen. I'm blessed. I'm blessed every time I feel the spring breeze blow through my hair as a gentle reminder as we see the trees bloom, that God's love for us never remains unbloomed or whatever they say. But it's not a general blessing. It's the blessing of Abraham. So this is what changed my life. This is what changed me and Adoles life. When I met Adoles, I had already just stumbled into this revelation. When she met me, I had nothing. I was living at my parents house. But you can ask her, she's sitting right there. You would never know. I didn't preach any different then than I do now. Because when I saw that I was the seed of Abraham, I was not a Shuttlesworth, I was not a white guy from Maine. I was not even a preacher's kid. Whatever. I was the seed of Abraham and heirs according to his promise. I didn't preach where I was at. I preached what the Bible said belongs to Me, I'm not surprised that we're where we're at right now. I'd have been surprised if we weren't there. Some of you were there. The day we had 31 people at our prayer meeting the second month this church was in existence. And the title of our series was on the Road to a Thousand because I knew this church was going to break a thousand. And now the average. Not that it just, it already broke it. Now the average attendance, first of all, if you add up all the campuses where it's about 1700 every weekend, but it'll be. It'll probably never again dip below 1200 starting April 5, 2026, and it'll probably go to 2000 extremely quickly. Because part of my covenant with God is as the seed of Abraham. He. He makes you fruitful. Can you say amen now? What am I going to do when I find out that the blessing of Abraham. Everything God promised Abraham. Let me see Galatians 3:29. Even clearer. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs. See, now everybody say I'm the seed of Abraham. Did Abraham have diabetes? Did Abraham have heart problems? Did Abraham have kidney failure? So they can't get me to confess any of that. Well, in our family, we have heart trouble. I'm not in your family. No. Yeah, you are. No, I used to be. But I've been transferred into the family of God. And Abraham is the father of all that believe. Not only did he not have health trouble, he was unusually strong. He was engaged in hand to hand combat in his 80s. He didn't send men out to war, he led men out to war. I'm going to tell you something not only this blessing replicates so exactly. Abraham was one man. In fact, the Bible says. Let me see Isaiah 51:1 3 off the top of my head. Isaiah 51:1 3 NLT all who seek deliverance. I think it starts. Listen to me, all you that hope for deliverance. So what do you do if you want deliverance, God? Go to a 40 day deliverance class? Have somebody wave banners over you? We come against the spirits. No. Listen to me, all you that hope for deliverance. All you that seek the Lord. Consider the rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were mined. Yes. Think about Abraham, your ancestor and Sarah that bare thee. Abraham was only one man when I called him. But. But when I blessed him, he became what? We're getting there right now. I won't have to wait for them to resume Air travel to Iran to go preach there. I can go there. I mean, if I wanted to risk it, I could go there right now, but I can go as soon. I got a call in to my friend at the CIA that as soon I said it doesn't have to be Tehran. As soon as it's stable. Ish, there's a new government in. We can fly and go preach. I'm not dependent on American airlines. We're set up with aircraft, we're set up with vehicles. Now think of this. Who cleared the roads and cleared so we could have church during the ice storm? Did Penndot help us or did we, with just the guys from our church, clear the road and clear everything so that we could have church? It's already shaping up that way. Four years in. Did you know I'm preaching in a certain state where there have been antifa protests outside of that church? Abraham had 318 trained men that were his security that he led out to battle. When kings went to war, they said, can you bring your guys? I never intended to do this, but I said to me, I said, well, we're not going to have the people assaulted at the revival meeting. And so just some of our ushers and stuff. We have guys there that now they're not going to do anything except stay in the church. But we, we are without going because I'm being recorded. Let me ask you, let me put it this way. Could what happened at that church in Minneapolis ever happen at this church? Now you heard pastors say after that happened, if they ever did that at our church, our people are armed. It could never happen here. You would not get. Do you think I have Jeff out there with a dog for fun. That dog doesn't play catch. That dog takes people's throats out. That's a church dog. We bought that dog. That's right. That's a church killing anointed dog. And so there's a guy that's going to help us. We have a tactical team that's going to be at that meeting and nobody knows it. We're not going to announce it, I'm telling you, but I'm not putting it on social media or anything. There's a guy that got his life changed in our meeting. He runs the top domestic tactical team in the country. So it won't have to go on my insurance or usher's insurance or the church insurance. It'll be on his. And if one antifa member picks up something to throw at our congress or a rock, they have what's called less lethal ammunition. And when he raises his arm, he'll be on the ground. Because what Abraham had, we have. We're not a bunch of sitting ducks hoping the devil doesn't bother us. The devil better hope we don't bother him because he's not over our head. He's under our feet. Can you say amen? So look how the bless. Where did all these big guys come from? They can handle themselves. Gym trainers and all these guys we have at the church that we have like we have like 50 of them. I don't know. Abraham, where did the 318 men that could fight that went out to war with Abraham see? The whole blessing replicates. Everybody say health, everybody say protection. Everybody say a mighty nation. Isaiah 51:3. Yes, sorry. 51:2. He was one man when I called him. But when I blessed him, he became a great nation. I was one man when God called me. Then God added Adalus. Then God added Magalis. Part time. Then Abel. Who knew the day would come? I guess I did. One day. By the Holy Ghost. What did you say? I told you that one time about building. What did I say? This is what he said. I said at our first board meeting, like 2012. He said, I don't have stuff for you to do right now, but one day will come while you'll be in charge of our building department. Yeah, I said, I. I said, abel, I know you're a builder and we have no building, so you're probably wondering why you're on the board. I said, there's nothing for you to do right now, but one day you'll be building buildings. Cuz that why? Cuz I saw that one man when I called him. But he became a mighty nation. My friend Doug's here. He runs a well digging company. They had one location in Massachusetts. Now his brother oversees the Massachusetts team. He's doing the Pennsylvania team. They used to outsource part of their work to another company. He's buying out that company to handle that too. Are you 40 yet? 30. What? 38. He's not even 40 yet. Now if he stays on the path, doesn't cheat on his wife, lives holy, stays doing everything he's doing. Do you think he's going to be in more states or less states by 45? What about by 55? Yeah. Because the path of the upright shines bright, man. I'm getting. Where you are now is not where you're staying. You're going from glory to glory, victory to victory and strength to strengthen. I need deliverance. Pastor. No, you don't. You need to consider where you came from. Well, in our family, we have heart problems. No, we don't. I'm cut from Abraham. And in our family, we start off as one man, but when we're finished, we're a mighty nation. This is going to be a church full of Abrahamic covenant, people that shake their generation for God. In Jesus mighty name, if you believe it, can you say Amen? So there. There's that. Now what is the specific blessing? There's one of them. Let's go to. Let's start at the beginning. Genesis 12:1 3. The Lord said to Abram, leave your native country, your relatives and your father's family. Before I read that, go do John 8:39. I want to point this out. John 8:39. Our Father is Abraham. They declared, okay, so you get this, okay? Abraham's my father. Jesus said to the Pharisees, no, he's not. For if you were really the children of Abraham, what's the proof that you understand you're the seed of Abraham? If you were really the children of Abraham. Let me see. King James, kjv. You would do what? So I not only want to see what the blessing is, I want to see how Abraham behaved. Then I'm going to do his works that he did by God's grace. Many of you came from churches where they taught that God's grace gives you the ability to not do any of the works. You don't have to have a job, you don't have to. You don't have to do anything. You don't have to tithe. You don't have to go to church. You don't have to pray because there's grace. Grace is not something God gave so that we can have anointed disobedience. Grace is power that God gives us to easily do. The terms of the covenant. Can you say amen now? I want to see how Abraham behaved. And in him behaving that way, how did God behave towards him? Because I know now if I behave that way, God is no respecter of persons. And what he did for Abraham, he'll do for me. Genesis 12:1. The Lord said to Abram, leave your native country, your relatives and your father's family, and go to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous. You will be a blessing to others. That's how I got on wtae. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you. Verse 4:12. 4 comes right after 3. So Abram departed as the Lord had instructed. He left the same day. Abraham instantly obeyed God. Every time God told him to do something, he did it that day. The only exception is when he told him to sacrifice Isaac. He waited till the next morning. He was a man of instant obedience. So you can't claim his blessings if you don't behave like he behaves. Let's see. 13, 1, 2. One chapter later, he goes from 75 years old, living in his father's home, owning nothing, to in one chapter. So Abram left Egypt, traveled north into the Negev along with his wife and all that they owned. And Abram was very rich. Not rich. Everybody say very rich. They preach at that church that God will make you rich. No, we don't. We preach he'll make you very rich. Then God knew that there would be people that would say, well, it means spiritually rich. So he said, how he was rich. Livestock. Then what's the next deal? And gold. So he increased them materially. 17:1 Genesis 17:1. When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, Am El Shaddai, God Almighty, serve me faithfully and live a blameless life. Actually, let me see. King James 17:1. Then we'll go back to NLTN2. Abram was 90 years old and nine. It's a fancy way of saying 99. The Lord appeared to Abram and said unto him, I'm the Almighty God. Walk before me and be thou perfect. Now, if I was the devil, and that's how God said to behave. Everybody say perfect. Well, no one can be perfect. Yeah, as long as you keep saying that. Understand this. Say this. Perfection is not a destination I arrive at. It's a path I choose to walk. Like right now, you're being perfect. Nobody's stabbing anybody. Nobody's practicing witchcraft. Nobody's cursing. And I would be pretty sure you're not going to do it in the next hour and a half or so. And a day is just some of those hours you're not even awake for. All 24. It's hard to send when you're sleeping, unless you're on Ambien. And then you do that six more times, that's a week. Do it 51 more times, that's a year. Do that 10 more times, that's a decade. Do that seven or eight more times, and you're up to be with Jesus. So you have the ability to walk in Perfection. How? Is there temptation? Yes. Will God ever allow you to be tempted more than what you can bear? Will he always show you a way out? If you. Yes. So as long as people telling you we all sin every day, then you will. But when you understand God's given me the capacity to walk in perfection, then not only will you do it if you sin, not when you sin. It says if you sin, you'll actually feel bad. People. The way that people preach grace in America. I don't know how anyone would ever repent. In fact, that's why they don't. Pastor has an affair. Many of you heard I cheated on my wife. You, you sin too. So don't be hypocritical. Yeah, there's no sorrow for sin. But when you realize I don't have to sin and you do, then you say, father, forgive me, it's my fault. Thank you for forgiving me and cleansing me. And I receive power to not do it again. Can you say amen? Keep the scripture up, please. Be perfect. Two back to nlt. And I'll make a covenant between me and thee and I will multiply thee. How much? See, we're multiplying one church to two. One plus one is two. Two plus two is four. That guy was with in Nigeria in January. He's got 8,500. You start and you grow. Magalis. Magalis is spending most of her time doing data entry for her finances. Comes Patrick, who was next? Jess. Jess. Because then Rahm Media, then Jess, and that's. What's that? Four. Now there's 82 full time employees, not counting volunteers. And I'm 45. The day will come where if we humbly, by the grace of God, not bragging, but everybody say, let it happen. See, you're not trying to make it happen. You're of Abraham. My dog doesn't try to bark. He barks. He doesn't take dog behavior classes. He's a dog. He didn't take lessons on how to lift his leg when he pees. He just does. I've never had to tell him, get off the toilet. That's for us. No, he doesn't use the toilet. He's a dog. He behaves like a dog because he's a dog. When you didn't know the Lord, you behaved like a sinful human because you were a sinful human. But when you got born again, you start to behave like God and multiply like God and, and have victory like God. Because God's nature and God's life is on the inside of you and it just comes out. You don't have to teach a rooster to cock a doodle do. And you don't have to teach a believer to multiply. Just let the thing run in Jesus name. That's what we're doing here. We're gonna let the blessing of God cook. We're gonna let it overflow. We're gon it multiply. All the lawsuits we were in in this church were based on. We think you're too big. You've multiplied too much because they have a place in life that they think you should be able to multiply to. If you want to make 70 now, again, I'm not. If you want to make 75,000 a year and stay there, nobody's going to bother you. No one's going to sue you. It's not worth the time. You. You start getting up into 400,000, people are going to start taking runs at you. You start getting into millions. People go after your assets. You start getting into 10 million and 100 million. Elon Musk has a team of attorneys. In fact, I was listening even to the guy that runs Jimmy John sandwiches. He retired. You know why he retired? He said, I like making sandwiches. And it got to the point where my whole day was just meeting with lawyers because of people trying to take a piece of my money. I burned myself in the sink in your bathroom. I fell in the toilet and drowned. Whatever he said, that was the whole thing. There are people that the only contribution they make in life is trying to stop the advancement of someone who has a dream. You know what? If all you have is a dream that you cooked up, people can stop it. But when your dream comes from God the same way they couldn't stop Abraham, God not only puts his blessing on you, he ensures that it carries it out. Can you say, am I see a big dream popping up in your spirit today? Men might not like it, but men can't stop it. You can't curse who God has blessed. And you are blessed in Jesus name. I'll multiply thee exceedingly. 3. At this, Abraham fell face down to the ground. God said to him, this is my covenant with you. I will make you the father of a multitude of nations. What's more, I'm changing your name. It will no longer be Abram. Instead you'll be called Abraham, for you will be the father of many nations. I will make you extremely fruitful. Everybody say extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become many nations and kings will be among them. I will confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you from generation to generation. This is what kind of covenant? Yes, God did that. But we have to remember that that was in the old covenant. No, it's an everlasting covenant. I will always ask everybody trying to take Israel's land whether it's whether the covenant ended or not. Good luck. This is an everlasting covenant. I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8. And I will give the entire land of Canaan where you now live as a foreigner. Why do you think the devil is so possessed with taking over that New Jersey sized piece of land in the Middle East? You already have all the land around it. Why can't you leave them alone? Because the devil doesn't like God. And God gave this to Abraham. So to get back at God, he wants to take it. And I will be their God. 9. Then God said to Abraham, your responsibility. Everybody say my responsibility. So most people won't like if you went to that guy that's sitting on the stool, it looks like he's in his second trimester. You wouldn't learn any of the blessing. He doesn't even believe in it. Then of the people who, then of the people who do teach the blessing, they teach that it's all on God. So it's God, what he wills. Some people he makes rich, some people he makes poor. We just accept our lot in life. But if you read the Bible, it says I play a part in the covenant working. You and your descendants will always have this responsibility. John 8. 39. If you're the seed of Abraham, the proof is that you do the works of that Abraham did. So if you're interested in that kind of like, like multiplication and what we were all just clapping about because it feels good to hear it, because it, it is good. Then what are the access points? What are the works Abraham did to get it? I went to lay down. You can ask my wife. And I got back out of bed. The Lord laid this message on my heart at about 3 in the morning. I finished writing it about quarter to six. And what are they? These are. So if you're going to look through the life of Abraham, what did he do that facilitated this blessing that then we're commanded to do? Basically the rest of the Bible is just codifying what Abraham's life was that God led him to do. Are you ready? You don't sound ready. Are you ready? Good. You sounded like the Canadian military the first time. Replacing the curse of generational poverty with the blessing of generational wealth number one. Why did God ask Abraham to leave his father's family and his house? Joshua 24. 2. Joshua 24. 2. Joshua said to the people, this is what the Lord God of Israel. Long ago, your ancestors, including Terah, the father of Abraham, lived beyond the Euphrates River. What did they do? They worshiped idols. Many old books that comment on the Bible and Jewish writings say that Noah. Sorry, Abraham's father, Terah, not only worshiped idols, he was an idol maker. And God said, I'm going to bless you, but it's not going to work staying in a home and family where they worship other gods. Get out of your father's house, leave your native country and go to the land that I'll show you. This is not a cult. Regardless of what you read on many Moon Township Facebook message boards, it is not a cult. And I don't want anything I'm about to say to sound cultish, but I want you to hear what I'm telling you. Many of you, the reason there's been resistance when you started going to this church is it's the beginning of you leaving your father's home and your native country, because in your family, they worship other gods. What was the verse I had you put up last time? Mark 7:13. Was it King James? If you would. Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition which you have delivered, and many such things do ye nlt this is Jesus talking. You make the word of God of no effect by the traditions that you pass down. You pass down traditions that nullify the power of God's word. So those are idols. When you mix stuff in, when you come up with your own version of Christianity. In eighth grade, this kid invited me over his house for a sleepover. This is like in olden days. It was actually in Glenburn, Maine, and we played Monopoly. And so as we're playing Monopoly, their family played weird. And so I was like, you don't put money in the middle when you pay stuff. That's not a thing. They're like, yes, it is. So back then, I was like, I was. Now I was like, no, it's not. Somebody get the rule book. And so a search ensued through the attic, and we found the rule book. And then as we read it, we realized that none of us knew how to play Monopoly. The Shuttlesworth family had added in rules, his family had added in rules. And when we read it, we found out we all had our take on how to do it, but it wasn't the way that the rule book Said that's how Christianity is. You can add in your little thing. I don't think you have to go to church every Sunday. Is that in the Bible? No, the Williams family came up with that. So you can have the Williams family blessing, but it's not the Abrahamic blessing. If you start jerking with it, it doesn't work. Do the whole thing. Take the whole thing as written. That's why it says in Revelation right at the end. If anyone adds anything to what's written here, I'll add to him the plagues that are written in this book. And if anyone removes anything from this book, I'll remove his name from the Book of Life. There's nothing in this church. We don't believe that. We don't believe that part. Like that guy. I don't believe in Noah's Ark. Buddy, you're gonna get your name taken out of the Lamb's Book of Life because no one's allowed to alter the word of God. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. Let me tell you something. I was born in 1980. I was a teenager in the 1990s. Like many Gen Xers that are here, we come from the generation that thought the Bible needed to be taken and made Americanized because then we could reach people. If we took out all the parts that are difficult, lose the gay stuff, lose all the legalistic stuff and let's make it. If people can see that it's something that's like what they're already doing, then they'll do it. And it produced some of the worst problems that this country's ever known. And now our country is exploring, experiencing revival because a new generation came up and said, we don't want an American Bible. We want the old rugged gospel word of God that pulls us up to heaven's level. Leave your house, number one. Leave the idols of your family. I'll let the Holy Spirit tell you which one is is for your family. Well, I don't believe in tithing, okay? Funny. You know, unless you're worth nine or ten figures, you should shut up. You're gonna go toe to toe with Solomon on what you think you should do. Abe, do you have a mighty nation? Do you have 318 trained men or does your retirement plan involve scratch off tickets? I don't think you need to go to that church every Sunday. Yeah, by opening up your mouth, you're telling everyone why things suck. For you. See, what's going to happen is the devil can't stop you. Doing what the word says. And he's not going to have some homeless guy in downtown Pittsburgh or downtown Dallas say, you should quit going to church. You would just know, that's a devil. I'm doing the right thing. So he'll try to use people close to you. We're disappointed in you. A whole family goes to the Rainbow Flag Church. You're not there. Grandma was really hurt. Mom's really sad you're not there. We were all getting together for the Steeler game. Mom was really sad that you weren't there on Sunday. It's her birthday month. And they put pressure on you. Everybody say manipulation. Everybody say guilt. That's how the devil works. Tries to guilt and manipulate you into going back into your father's house and worshiping the idols of your father and altering the Word the way your family's altered the word. But today God's putting power from that book into your spirit. As for me and my house, see, it was a breaking generational poverty. Part of breaking generational poverty is starting your own generation. I'm not carrying forward anything from my parents or grandparents. That's not in the word of God. It's not a devil that was making us poor or get arrested or on parole or all that stuff. It was from getting out of alignment with God's word. So I'm not saying I'm a shuttle's worth. And that's what we do in our family. We have a temper. You don't want to make us mad. That was true. My uncle Ted almost got kicked out of Bible college. He knocked his professor out in Bible college. Brother Hockhausen. He's dead now, probably from getting hit so hard. My Uncle Ted came to Bible College at about 178, 79 pounds. Went to like 210 in Bible school. And he was working in the kitchen doing cleanup. And brother Hawkow's an old Bible professor, Pentecostal guy can see where all that food's going and patted him on the stomach. And my Uncle Ted hit him in the chest and knocked him out. Knocked the wind and lungs out of him. I'm sorry, I don't have good church examples. My dad knocked somebody out. I can't remember who it was or why. He knocked them out. Knocked them down a flight of stairs. I can kill somebody. And so that's what we dealt with in our family. Our family wasn't drinkers. Our family settled problems non verbally. I mean, I just feel super loose today. It was only about 15 years ago. Two of my. Okay, there's my dad and three brothers. I won't say which one, but two of the three got in an argument about doctrine. I was there, and one brother threw the other brother, I don't mean asked to leave, I mean grabbed him by the shirt with the wife and cousins there and opened the door and threw him out of the house. So I'm not trying to relate to you by saying we battle anger. And then, you know, my wife, she ain't helping. I'm doing my best to keep my anger in subject. I got a wife. Stab him, punch him. Don't let him talk to you like that. Do you know the last time all the Shuttlesworth brothers had Thanksgiving together was 1987? Do you know why? I remember. I was seven. They played two on two basketball, got in a full out brawl, and we ate. A quiet Thanksgiving with their faces bleeding mouths, bleeding eyes, none of the wives were talking. And then we decided to never have Thanksgiving. My grandfather. I told you my grandfather is a pastor. He was sitting there. Everyone's dead quiet except for my grandfather. That's great, Tiff. That's great, Ted. That's great, Tim. Whole neighborhood watching four preachers committing assault. Great. You know, I'm not using that as an excuse. You don't want to make us mad. In our family, we've got no. We had a temper, but now I'm the seed of Abraham, and that temper is under subjection to the Holy Ghost. I want to tell you something. Why take. People are so crazy, you know, everyone's like, I don't believe in racism. Then when it comes to you, you take the worst stereotypical parts of whatever your background is and use that as an excuse for your behavior. I'm an Italian. You don't want to make me mad. I'm Jamaican. We drink. I'm Irish. We drink. I mean, literally everybody drinks. I'm French. We drink, I'm Japanese. Sake. So then people identify by what their human. Can you find me the scripture? The empty life you inherited from your ancestors? I think Peter said it. Where in the New Testament does it talk about the empty life you inherited from your ancestors? I think it's in the new living translation you're thinking of first Peter 1:18. In the new living translation, it says, for you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. Everybody say, the empty life I inherited from my ancestors. The only good thing that was passed down to me from my heritage was not my genetics or Irish way of living or English way of living. There's a lot of stuff I unlearned and you need to too. My grandfather told my dad he loved him for the first time when he was 81. And even that was the most half hearted. I love you I've ever heard in my life. Your mother told me that. I've never told you I love you so. I love you. Gee, thanks. And some of you come from house like that. The dad showed no emotion. He was stoic. Jesus wasn't like, quit acting like your family and start acting like Jesus. I know that. Want to go over. Well, tough luck. Quit acting like your family and act like Jesus. In our family, we don't show emotion like that. Jesus did. Jesus hugged people. Jesus embraced people. Jesus was warm. He was not a cold man. So that's how we learn. My grandfather's generation showed no emotion. They were stoic. Didn't tell the wife they loved her since the wedding day. Had sex to have children. My grandfather had five kids. He was five for five. Yeah, there's no love, no love at all on my mom's side. My grandfather did not love my. You know, they stayed married. There was no affection. She was walking home from work with two bags of groceries and he drove by her and honked and waved. That's what I come from. How many of you starting to feel better about yourself? Yeah, the ties just to fool you. My grandfather was running moonshine at 10 years old. So don't. Because I'm dressed up and have a jet. That's. That's why it should. It should be a testament of the miracle of God. To go from moonshining coal mining hillbillies to the blessing of God that makes rich and has no sorrow and commitment. All the stuff Adalus had to unlearn. Camila doesn't have to unlearn any of it. She didn't carry it forward. Camila has not seen anything in the home that she saw in the home. I didn't see anything in the home that my grandfather saw running moonshine. That stuff you hear me say, I mean it. It only takes one person in a family to say, enough is enough. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Go ahead in Texas and Pittsburgh. Give the Lord a great hand clap. Leave the idols of your family. Number two, Embrace a wholehearted commitment to God and the interests of his kingdom. Develop deep intimacy with God. Christianity is not joining a church. That's part of it. That's a branch that comes out of the root of being born again. I don't Know what the deal is? But last week when my aunt Linda was in the first service, my mom's oldest sister and said that they went. I knew they went to Catholic church. I thought they went sporadically. I didn't realize they went once every two weeks. And nobody in the family was born again. I mean, you know, I'm just going to let it fly today. It sucks that we're on live TV and all that. My mom's sister, not the one here, had a baby. She's got five. Had a baby to a guy in prison. I'm telling you where I'm coming from, it must be nice. But if you knew about me, want to know about me. And you know that baby that my mom's sister had from that guy in prison in New Jersey is a pastor today. That's right. Because God will redeem your bloodline. God will drive everything out of your family. That's part of the curse. And I don't mean over time. I mean he'll knock it out today before you go to lunch because he's a powerful God. He's a righteous God. He's a holy God. He's a turnaround God. Hallelujah. Develop deep intimacy with God. Embrace a wholehearted. You know why our churches don't close down for winter? It's not to be macho. It's wholehearted. If I'm a pastor, I'm going to be a pastor. Just like if I was in a life of crime. I wouldn't be ripping people off for like $1,100. I'd be ruining countries. Be hot or cold. Don't be lukewarm. Embrace a wholehearted. Abraham had a wholehearted commitment to God. God tells him, you need to circumcise yourself and every man in your household. That's over 300 men. Abraham didn't call me. Now, listen, I know it's going to be like difficult for some of us, so. No, hey, I'll go first. Pass the knife around. Everybody gets cut. Everybody's wee wee gets cut today. Talk about authority. And they all did it. If you're a first time visitor today, God bless you. But this isn't Scientology. We don't have an introduction for the new or Mormonism, where they have an introduction for the newcomers. Then you learn. When you get to level 31, we give you level 100 on day one. Because what God says to one, he says to all, you can have the whole thing today. You can have the whole thing today. Embrace a wholehearted commitment. My wife didn't Send Butch and the ushers, please make sure the road. She slept here and set an alarm for every 90 minutes and shoveled herself. And I was. When people heard about it, they came and helped too. Because people like following leaders like that. If I'm going to be a pastor, I'm going to be a pastor. I'm going to make the devil sorry he didn't let me keep my speech impediment. Now that I got a mouth that can speak, I'm going to cut you down. Not in Pittsburgh like the Lord told me. I was trying to always get everybody to come to Pittsburgh. Lord said the Great Commission is not tell everyone to come to Pittsburgh. It's go ye into all the world. Go to Texas, go to la, go to Arizona, and then whatever God will have us do from there. Because we're going to do what Abraham did and embrace a wholehearted Abraham. Take your son, your only son, Isaac. Go take him up on the altar and put a knife through his chest. And Abraham didn't obey because he was willing to kill his son. The Bible says Abraham reckoned that because God told him through Isaac these things would happen. That God, yea, was even able to to raise Isaac back from the dead. Next line. And in a sense, he did receive his son back from the dead. And in this he's a type of the father and a father of all that believe. Anything God told him, he did it right away. He never messed with anything. When the king of Sodom said, you can take my money for going out to hell, he said, no, I won't even take a shoelace from the king of Sodom. Let the king of Sodom say I made Abraham rich. He gave to Melchizedek and God blessed him. Them. That's what I got from Abraham. PNC Bank. Can't say we helped them build that church. Wells Fargo. Can't say it. Fifth, Third. Can't say it. No bank can take credit for what's happening here. Nobody can say we made them rich. God gives all the glory. Embrace a wholehearted commitment to God, the interests of his kingdom. Somebody tell me what interest of his kingdom. Tell me something God's interested in. Souls being what? What else he interested in? Does he like more churches or less churches? What is. Give me something else. Does he like people starving to death or does he like feeding the hungry? So do practical things as expression. A wholehearted commitment to God. Wholehearted. There's a guy that me and Doug, my well digging friend, play video games with. He's an adult. He's in his 30s. And one time I had enough. You know, the guy's whole life's falling apart. He's been in church his whole life, like me. And then he says this when we're playing. We were talking about what church we were all going to on the weekend. Then somebody said to him, where are you going to church? I'm not going tomorrow. I have to work at the diner. I said, are you kidding me? Your whole life's falling apart and you won't go? You don't get it. Yeah, but if. I know. But they only have two of us working as waiters and we both go to church. So then we rotate Sundays. Otherwise the diner will have to close. Your life's closing. Why is the diner. What the. It's not even your diner. If that diner closes, the earth will go on. I don't. I don't. I don't understand. Just when I thought I had victory over my temper. Do you. Do you hear the words that are coming out of your mouth? You have. You don't have a. It doesn't work. Lukewarm. The ten commandments aren't pick your favorite eight. They're not multiple choice. Either do it or don't do it. You know, if you do testosterone replacement therapy. I haven't done it yet, but if you do it, if you stop somebody tell me what happens. You not only lose the testosterone, your body won't make anymore. So if you're gonna do it, you better do it. You're gonna be sitting on a stool telling people you don't believe in Noah's Ark. Just. And I, like, suddenly I just love baking bread. I have a passion for the Lifetime Movie Network all of a sudden because your testosterone dried up. Cause you started it, but you didn't go in all the way. If you're going to do it, Barry Bonds it. Inject yourself like they did when baseball was the good old days. Man, I wish they'd bring that back. I wish they'd let guys shoot up in the on deck circle. I enjoyed those days in baseball. Ninety home runs in a month. It was awesome. Can you say amen? Not to the steroid injection, but the general point, Somebody say wholehearted. Do you know that's what the world doesn't know what to do with? I'm sure when we got the legal notice from Moon Township, we're ordering you to shut down. They expected. Okay, Not. No chance. See you in court. You'll run out of money before we run out of money. I didn't have more money than them. I just like running my mouth on behalf of God, like David did to Goliath. You think I started this church? Somebody tell me if ISIS and the CNJG cartel and the Matamoros cartel and the IRGC from Iran and the triads from Tokyo and whoever else all showed up outside and said, you can't preach. You can take my head off, but you are not stopping me from doing what God called me to do. You can burn me at the stake, do whatever you want. I have a whole. I'm not doing it part time. I'm not doing it when the weather's nice. I'm not doing it when we're allowed. I'm not doing it when there's no disease. I have decided. As for me and my house, Number three. Abraham believed God when he told him, you are blessed, and I will make you a blessing. Say this out loud. I am blessed. I am the blesser. You say God's the blesser. What did God say? God said, I'll make you the blesser. God's not floating people money out of heaven. He needs. He's looking for someone to be his hands and feet. And it's fun. Thursday night in South Carolina, there was a guy, a pastor, flew in from Romania. And I said, are you married? He said, yeah. I said, where's. Is your wife feeling okay and stuff? Does she have somebody to watch the kids? Yeah. I said, let me fly her out. I. I could. I just knew they barely could have. I just could feel my spirit. He. It was a miracle he could come. They have a church of 60, you know, Romania was under Ceausescu, Communist up until when, 89 or whatever. 92. And we watch you and it inspires us. Get your wife here. I'll fly her. So we flew her then. That's a lot to do. What did that cost, Pat? Roughly, you know, 2100nbd. Then I'm not done. I'm up there and I just put on chatgpt. How much? What's the average salary in Romania? 2,200. I said to the husband, I said, you're going home in the morning. Yeah. I'm going to send you 22,000amonth. Us. That's not for hungry kids or for church. That's for you and your wife so you don't have to worry about salary as you preach the word. You know why? Because I had. We had to do that. And I wish somebody would have cared. And I'm not. Instead of whining about it now, that I'm in a position where I can be the person. I'm gonna do for people what I wish people could have done for me rather than whining about what people didn't do for me. I am blessed, and I'm going to be a blessing. I thought the husband was insulted by how low I said I was going to send, but I found out later he had, like, gone into shock because he just went like this. Right then. Abraham went to the wife who hadn't heard me say it. She was talking to another lady and said, let me get your name and address because Jonathan's going to send you 2,000amonth for your personal salary. She fell down on her knees. I'm not lying, right? And I mean, it looked like a Precious Moments painting or like something in stained glass of the Catholic Church. Cry not to me, to God. Thank you. Why? Why? I said, why? Because I was you, and you're starting something for God and it's the same devil all over the world. I heard, I'm sure you had a bunch of schmucks come and tell you that you're not gonna make it and there's not gonna be any money and you're not gonna be able to provide for your kids. So basically, I'm doing it just because I feel that and I want to shut them up or don't give the middle finger as Christians, but that's my way of giving the middle finger is to all the people that told you you're making a mistake left to shut their mouth. And I said, you know why else I'm doing it? Because I believe one day you're gonna have the biggest church in Eastern Europe and thousands of people going to know Jesus Christ, I am blessed and God has made me a blessing. Say it out loud. I'm not looking for money. Money's out looking for me. Hallelujah. I had a businessman text me. I don't even think I told you this because I haven't really seen you yet. I'm believing for a million dollar deal to go through. It's a guy that has the capacity to pull off million dollar deals. He said, I was going to give you the tithe when it went through 100,000. And the Lord said, what do you mean if it goes through? If you believe it's going to go through, send him the tithe ahead of time and I'll make it go through. So he said, I'm sending 100,000. And then a pastor told me, pledged to give a million by the end of the year. So we give what you make happen for others. See, for me, that's a late thing. If it comes down to my last $2,000 in a month, we're finished anyway. But for them, it's life changing. So when I do something to change someone's life, who I can change their life, then God sends someone at the level that can change what we're doing here. When you give, these people teach that when you give, God gives you money back. That's because it says it word for word, genius. How many know? But God's not a slot machine. Listen, Gussie it up any way you want. God said when you give. Let me see. Second Corinthians, 9, 8, 11. Amplified classic. Man, I feel good today. Praise God. Hallelujah. You want to know what I told you how we have an anger problem in our family? I actually still have it. I've just laser beam focused it on the devil. I focus it on cancer, I focus it on addicts. I, I, Instead of slapping people, you slap the devil, make him take his hands off people. That's what, that's what wound up. I don't, we don't know where our daughter is. You know, I, I was, I was gonna say Lord. I literally was gonna say Lord by the end of the year. And then just something rose up in me. God's God think he needs at the end of the year. Like I was gonna say by the end of the service. Jonathan, there's a war going on right now. He's God. That's how he introduced himself. Hey, Abraham, I know your dad made little stone ugly looking schmucky gods. I'm the almighty God. On the earth there's nobody like me. And in heaven there's none beside me. And if you walk before me and do what I tell you to do, I'm going to increase you. I'm going to make you into a mighty nation. I'm going to bless you, bless you. And in blessing, I'll bless thee. And in multiplying, I'll multiply your seed. And I'll tell you what, I won't just do it for you. I'll do it for all your descendants after you. And when Christ comes, that's when he became the father of many nations. Can you say amen? And God is making all grace, every earthly favor and blessing come to you in abundance. What kind of favor? What kind of blessing? No, God is able to make all grace, every favor. And what kind of blessing earthly? I mean, it's heaven. Some here, some heaven you added that earthly blessing. Abraham didn't get rich in heaven, he got rich on the earth. Come to you in abundance so that you may always and under all circumstances. What do you think is going to happen, Iran? Doesn't matter. Because in all circumstances and whatever the need be, you'll be self sufficient, possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance. Hallelujah. For every good work and charitable donation. 9 as it is written, he, the benevolent person scatters abroad. He gives to the poor. His deeds of justice and goodness and kindness and benevolence will go on and endure forever. How much is your wedding. Roughly? I got it, the whole thing. Because I'm Abraham. I know they call you Abraham, but I'm Abraham. I also am Abraham. Multiply your resources for sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness, which manifests itself in active goodness, kindness and charity. 11. Thus you'll be enriched. In how many things? What does all mean? Correct. And in every way. What does every way mean? So that you can be what? And your generosity as it is administered by us will bring forth thanksgiving to God. That's what the word says. Say it again. I'm the seed of Abraham. I am blessed. I am the blesser. I'm not looking for somebody to bless me. I'm self sufficient, requiring no aid or support. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Always blessing. Never stop blessing. I went to the Sprouts farmer market in Scottsdale, Arizona yesterday to get one of those, what's that one kind of energy drink. It's like yellow and it. You're herba made or something? Yeah, they taste good. I like them. I've been drinking them for a while. So I got that and then I got the Tilla Mahook sharp cheddar cheese bag and then just had that as a meal. So I started eating it on my way to the cash register because I was hungry now and I had a suit on. So you can like do what you want. So I'm drinking and eating. Then I went there and I put the empty bag and empty can on the thing and paid. And when I went to wait in line, this guy, I said, are you in line? He had a shopping cart. He went, yeah. Oh, you only have those two things. He said, you can go ahead. I said, really? He said, yeah, go ahead. I said, thanks, man. So I went and paid. Then I put a hundred dollars on the counter because he had less than that. And I said, pay for his take. Use that to pay for his. Now he's not poor. 1 out of 17 people in Scottsdale is a millionaire. Every man looks like they are either going to a golf course or coming from a golf course. He had a backwards Malbourne hat on. Just, you know, looked like he was ready for the first tee and he didn't need it. But I'm just, I just, I can't pay $8. I can't go somewhere without dropping some cash and helping someone. I can't go up to a pastor's room and scan the room for somebody to pay their salary. I sent 60,000 to the senior pastor because he's working a job and the church is only five months old. I'm sending 5,000amonth so he can get going on the full time work of the ministry. That's what you do. That's what Abraham did. Abraham didn't see two new guys come into his camp and say, excuse me guys, do you have any bread? He said, excuse me, have you two had anything to eat? I won't let you go until my wife makes you some bread and you get something to eat. If you're the seed, what about Jesus? When they gave him five loaves and two fish, did he make two sandwiches, eat them and leave? He told the people to sit down and how many people got fed and everybody ate until. And there was plenty left over. Now no minister can get a revelation on that and charge $6 per teenager for a pizza party. He fed 15,000 people. You can't feed. You know, there's churches that have 12 kids in the youth group and charge everybody a fee to come. Somebody can't have faith for $72. I came to break that today. I came to break it permanently out of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. We're not trying to money. We have storehouses full of grain. Hallelujah. Somebody shout praise The Lord, number four, tithe and give generously to God and man. Genesis 14, 17, 20. After Abram returned from his victory and all his allies, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the valley of Shaveh. And skipping verses here do Genesis 14:17 on the screen. 18 and Melchizedek, the king of Salem and a priest of God Most High, brought Abram some bread and wine. Abram being a type of the ministry like me. What's the bread and wine that we bring? The bread represents and the wine represents the Holy Spirit. The minister brings the bread and wine. And 19 and Melchizedek blessed Abram with this blessing. Blessed be Abram, by God most High, Creator of heaven and Earth. Keep Going and blessed be God most High who has defeated your enemies for you. Then Abram gave Melchizedek a 10th tithe. That's where you get it from. 1 10th. Because CNN wrote an article. Though they teach on tithing, the Bible never makes it clear what it is because tithe literally means the tenth Stick to not doing the news good. Then Abram went, gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the goods he had recovered. Tithe and give generously to God and man. The tithe is 10% of everything. The tithe is 10% of everything that crosses into your account. Now let me ask you a question. When Abraham went out with 318 men, took the spoils of war, gave 10% off the top to Melchizedek, then the Bible says he paid his men. So was that a personal tithe or a corporate tithe? I'm listening. We're at about 21% corporate. He didn't just tithe personally, he tithed off of his corporate endeavor. And that's why there's a lot of financially frustrated Christians. Because first of all, some don't tithe at all. Some than of the ones that do, they tithe personally. But then their church doesn't tithe. It wouldn't matter how much God blessed me. It's not enough to sustain the $36 million 2026 budget of this church. So if this goes down, it will eat through my money in no time. But if we tithe, if you tithe personally, God will bless you personally. If you tithe from your business, God will bless your business. And if you don't believe that, you are a stupid person because you don't even have to believe the Bible. All you have to do is look at Chick Fil A. That follows what almost none no Christians will do. They still are closed on Sunday and they still tithe off what comes in. Take a guess what by far is the most profitable fast food franchise by far per franchise in the country, McDonald's is at 3 something million, they're at 5 something million. They're closed on Sunday and they have no 24 hour stores. They're the only fast food chain I've ever heard of. They got sued by a mayor of a city, San Antonio and Boston, that we won't allow them in here because they support hate, which hate is what they call Christian groups, hate groups. And so with governments trying to keep them out of cities, closed a day a week and not open 24 hours, which many Burger Kings and Taco Bells and McDonald's are they kick the tail financially of every group they're up against because they have the dumbness to honor the old word of God in the modern era. I don't want to know how many times that guy had to tell a board of directors. Mr. Cathy, if we were open Sunday, we have projections that we would make at least 28% more. Think how much more tithe would be. That's how they manipulate you. But he said, no, we started off closed on Sunday to honor the Lord and we gave 10% when we had one store. And that's what we're going to do till the end. If you will be a. If you don't think this works, you don't know American history. You should look about J.C. penney, who tithed, then stopped tithing when his business grew and went bankrupt, said, lord, give me a second chance and gave 20% once bitten, twice shy, and said, I'm going to make up for it. And J.C. penney still inexplicably is open. Even at the Washington Mall. It was the last door to close. By the blessing of God. Can you say amen? If you're too smart to tithe, then you're going to have to prosper your own way. But if you'll beat the dumb enough to honor what the Bible says now, at any point. Let me see the graph of our income from the ministry. At any point. Okay, I'll tithe. I'll tithe off 121,000. 12 grand, no problem. All right, you want 30 grand? Well, how about I should have been a normal ministry in 2016 and when we got to 3 million, I'm not giving 300,000 away. We need to build an office. We have a lot of needs. Do you know you having needs is why you should tithe. Because God said, if you'll give me the first 10%, you can't claim Abraham's blessing and not do what Abraham did. Now I've said so much that I didn't intend to say and that I shouldn't say on TV and I shouldn't say on YouTube that. I just feel like saying a ton of stuff I shouldn't say. I had a long talk with a minister whose ministry is about to go under. How you need to tithe from your ministry. That's why nothing's working out. And he, it came back to me that he talked to someone else I knew and said, I've looked at all the scholars. None of them believe that a minister has to tithe. Okay, how much money do those scholars Have? Are those scholars going to bail out your ministry? It's about to go bankrupt. Why don't you. I have proof. I have proof that what I do works. I have a real jet. I don't have a faith jet or an imaginary jet or a ghost jet. Somebody told me when I was in Africa, there's a witch here who flies on a broom. I said, tell her I fly on a three engine jet that's got Dr. Pepper and Doritos in it. Unlike her broom has. I have the proof of what I believe. Why would you argue with what you can see in Chick Fil, a Hobby Lobby, JCPenney, Colgate toothpaste. The men that built America. We're tithing businessmen. And a new generation of tithing businessmen are coming back to America. I have a friend in this room that has a business. And his main argument with the business owner was the business owner said, I don't believe in tithing from the business. And he said, we should do it. No, we're not doing it. Then he ended up buying the guy out and he decided to tithe off the business. The guy told him, you'll see, you can't even make it with 100%. You think you're going to make it 90%. This is what non tithers never get. 90% blessed beats 100% cursed. They don't get it. God said, all I want is the honor for you to remember that it's not you making the money, it's my blessing. And when you prove it with your tithe, see if I won't open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that's so great you'll never have room enough to take it all in. What was our income last year? Let me see it again. 35. 7. So what's the tithe on 35 million? Go on, you can say it. 3.5 million. What did we give last year, Pat? 5.3. Not because I'm dyslexic. We tithe 35 and we gave a couple million more as an offering. Because the seed that you multiply gives back. Did you know I'm telling the stories out of order? Because I never meant to tell half of them anyway. Give that couple a salary, give the pastor a salary. And then that businessman calls me out of the blue, I got 100 grand for you. I'm sending it today. Then the other guy calls, I'm pledging a million by the end of the year. Give and it shall come back to you. But it doesn't come. What you gave it comes back pressed down, shaken together, running over to make room for more. I'm enjoying. Listen now I'm saying this as a testimony. I'm enjoying the blessing of God. I can enjoy it with or without you. I could be like a normal pastor and have a revelation on this and not tell you because people don't like it. But I want there to be a room full of people that are taking over houses and land and properties. And your children don't have to grow up like you grew up. They're going to grow up in the blessing of Abraham because they got a father that became a modern day Abraham, a mother that became a modern day Sarah. You're taking that place today. The generational curses died at 10 o'. Clock. The generational blessings are springing to life anew. That business's record was $1.2 million in the history of its business multi decade. And when that man bought it out and him and his brother decided to tithe, they took in four something last year and they're projecting 7 to 10 million this year. And they've only had the company three years. Yeah, I'm going to tell you now, if you think I'm trying to get you to tithe, I'm not trying to get anybody. You can't even try to get people to stay married. You can't try to get people to pay child support. There's going to be a line out of the Allegheny courthouse a block long tomorrow of guys they had to track down that wouldn't pay $20 for their own kid. So I'm not stupid enough to think I can guilt you into tithing, force you into tithing. But I'm going to say it like God said it. If you want to try it, God will prove it to you and open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that's so great you'll get sued because there's not enough parking spots. You'll get sued because there's too many butts and not enough chairs. PNC will make you relocate from Oakdale to Robinson because they don't have the people to handle your account. God is not a man that he should lie. If you do what Abraham did, you get what Abraham got. Somebody shout Amen like thunder. Number five, Proverbs 14:23. Read the first line. Read it like you don't have an active bullet wound. So there you have the shape of the Charismatic Pentecostal Church. Work brings profit. I was preaching yesterday, this time in Arizona. I was preaching the night before that In South Carolina all week long. There's nobody in this church that works harder than me. You can work as hard, but you can't work harder because hard work is part of the covenant, not mere talk. I have a vision that I'm going to shake the nations. Keep yapping. I have a vision. The Lord spoke to me and I really feel like I'm going to blah, blah, blah. I feel like Chris Farley, blah, blah, blah, blah blah. I feel called to India. You know we're in Pennsylvania, right? So unless you feel called to India, Pennsylvania, then you need to get on a plane. Because mere talk leads to poverty. Christians love to yap about what they're called to. And we have more of a prophetic. We have a coffee shop, but it's prophetic in nature. And we don't sell a lot of coffee, but we pray for people. Okay, what do you. That's not a thing. What brings profit. The Bible calls it the work of the ministry. My wife hustles in the ministry. I hustle. I don't have a side project. I don't have a multi level marketing thing. If you get close to me and become my friend, I don't have have you help me sell blow dryers or something. You can be my left arm and then it'll kick up to you and then what I sell will kick down. Let me ask you a question. What could I do in multi level marketing on the side or a restaurant on the side or something on the side of the ministry that would get me a foul. Do you understand? That money that they show on that graph, that's just cash and gold and stuff. That doesn't count. The plane, that doesn't count. Land, that doesn't count. That's all just liquid assets. The things that God has done in the last four years is genuinely mind blowing. It can't be conceived of to the point that in the news they have to make. Let me tell you something. You don't get a jet for running drugs. You get a motorcycle, a gold plated Escalade. I got one of those too. Some necklaces. They don't give you a jet. You swallow 50 bags of cocaine and you fly southwest and you go poop it out in a Holiday Inn Express and they cut it out of you and you get an only God can judge me tattoo to cover it up and do it again. They don't give you a jet. The world like that lady that got healed, they must have run the tests on the wrong lab. God will do so much for you. That people won't be able to figure it out. But sooner or later. And they'll wait for your luck to run out. They'll wait for the sickness to come back. They'll wait for the thing to fail. But they'll be waiting till they're old and gray and in a coffin. And the blessing will never run out. You can cut out on the covenant, but the covenant will never cut out on you. The only substitute for hard work is a hard life. Abraham still worked hard after talking personally to God. What did Abraham do for work? Why is there only five people that know? Somebody said cattle rancher. Is that hard work or light work? Hard work. I saw God and God said he's going to bless me. I'm just waiting on his promise. Doug Wells acquired land. Give God something to bless. If you're not working, you're in violation of the covenant. Running errands is not working. Watching the kids is not working. Taking people to school is not working. Unless you're a bus driver. I'm not saying that you can't be a mom, but I'm saying if there's nobody else in the house and that's what you do, you can pray all you want, there's going to be no money. You have to do something that produces income. Man, that's way more amens than you get at any other church. Let me see the graph of people by religion and how much money they make. Okay, Household income in America. Number one, Jewish. Number two, Hindu. Number three, Episcopal. Number four, Presbyterian, then Atheist, then agnostic, then Orthodox, then United Church of Christ, then Evangelical Lutheran, then United Methodist, then Presbyterian, then Unitarian, then Lutheran, then Mormon, then Muslim, then average, then Catholic, then nothing in particular. Confused people, Then Church of Christ, then Southern Baptist, Seventh Day Adventist, Buddhists that take a vow of poverty, Assemblies of God, Church of God in Christ at the bottom, Jehovah's Witness. So when you see them come to your house on a bicycle, that's why. How are we this far at the bottom? Because most of you, this is the first time you've ever heard a sermon like this in your life. You don't talk about money because people don't like it. You know what I don't like? I don't like the people who are supposed to be carrying the blessing of God to be all the way there at the bottom. You don't want to know why I'm preaching like I am today. I'm going to dismiss you in a second. Show that guy from Scotland and this will tell you why I'M preaching like, I'm preaching the real estate guy. Buying a church. I want to buy churches like this that are shutting down across England. So if you know a church that's for sale and potentially closing down, let me know. I want to buy a church. I don't care if it's got planning commissions to return to flats we developed. I don't care. I want to buy it. I don't care how profitable the conversion will be. If it was built as a church, I believe. I want to meet this guy. I like this guy. I don't know that he's a Christian. I was looking at his social media. He's just a UK guy that's tired of seeing these churches turn into vape shops and mosques and said, you hear what he said? I don't care if I make a profit or not. I want to buy it and keep it a church. Now the problem is I'm going to just give it to some pastor. Well, there's a reason it's empty, my friend. If you give it to the wrong person, you're going to be in the same shape you are right now. Let me ask you a question. Why is a pastor selling it? And a non Christian businessman has more of a passion to keep it a church than the pastor does? I wrote him, I said, that's a God idea. There's a reason you were stirred when you walked by that should become a church. I'm not trying to sound like a hothead or ignorant or anything, but that's how I feel. That's 50% of what's fueled this little run we've gone on in four years. Getting called into the city council meeting. You don't have the permits. Does that adult bookstore down the street. You're telling me they're not running prostitutes to that cheap piece of crap hotel there? Nobody's checking on it. There's one business in this area that they've sent people into count heads to make sure they're in compliance with occupancy. In the last five years, just us, three times. Because they have to file a report when they do it, we're the only people they've checked on. So I'll get into compliance, but I'm not shutting down when you're having a special set of rules for me and nobody else. I'm not doing it. I'm sorry. We grew too fast. I'm not knocking. That's what they said at the city council meeting. Does it have to be that big? Did you ask Walmart that? Did you ask Giant Eagle that? Did you ask Sheets if they need one on the left side of the highway and the right side of the highway? Why is there one group that's supposed to be at the bottom, dead and empty? I never signed up for that. We are the seed of Abraham. We're not here to survive. We're here to take over. Take over. Number six. Multiply what's in your hand. Make positive faith filled moves. Don't consume it. Don't hoard it, multiply it. Esau killed animals and ate them. Jacob found animals, a mate and multiplied them. Our blessing is to multiply what we have, not consume what we have. Now you're going to consume some of it. And God's got no problem with you taking your wife on a nice vacation and doing something great for your children. But the bulk of everything should not be going to you. You should tithe and you should multiply what comes into your hand. Even my investments are just so the money I'm waiting to give grows. I cleaned my investment account out last year. 300,000. Got money that came back on it, have it invested, about to clean out again and give that other hundred thousand I pledged for the building, and then that'll come back. And then one day when I'm a multi, multi, multi, multi millionaire and they're doing Senate hearings on how much money a pastor should be able to have. Just remember where it came from. That's where I'm going. I could pull up video from 2016 of me saying the day will come where we'll own so much property that they'll have hearings in Pennsylvania about how much property a nonprofit can hold. I know from the Bible what my blessing produces, provided I live a holy life. I'm going to tell you a second time. Like I told you at the beginning, you could be the poorest person in Pittsburgh or Fort Worth, Dallas, but you will not stay there. It is impossible to have this word sown into you and then have it renew your mind and change what you speak and behave differently and make different decisions and you not start coming out rapidly. That's why God has me preaching it. Because there shouldn't be one guy walking around buying churches. There should be an army of Christians that says that building is not going to be a mosque, it's going to be a church. That building is not going to be a vape shop. It's going to be a church full of young people praising God and having an encounter with the Holy Ghost. If you're interested in making that happen, God is interested in you being his hands and feet. If you'll obey the terms of the covenant, God will do exceedingly, abundantly. Above all you can ask or think according to his power that works within you one last time in Texas and Pennsylvania, clap your hands unto the Lord. Number six. Multiply what's in your hand. Number seven. I close with this. Create a future for your children. Abraham dug wells. Isaac reopened the wells of his father. Jacob, redug the wells of his father. He left them land. He left them animals. A righteous man leaves an inheritance. To who? Clear number one. Clear all the enemies out of your land. When they took the Canaanites and the Philistines and drove them out of the land. We're not fighting physical people. But that speaks of whatever remains of sin, anger, alcoholism, weed, addiction, poverty, all the things that are of the curse. Make up your mind. Every battle I had to fight growing up. My child will never know those battles. I'm taking the heads off of every little fox that's trying to spoil my vine. My child will not know the battles I knew growing up. You may have come from a broken home, but a broken home isn't going to come from you. You're going to leave your father's house, go to your own country and build your own family. I said you're gonna build a family. Can you say amen? And sure. Every battle you had to fight, your children will never have to fight. And then leave them not only a physical inheritance. Me and Adonis lived in the dumpiest apartment you ever saw in your life when we got married. Camila will not. I'll see to it. If Jesus, Terry's and I have grandbabies, I'll find a way to do it by the wisdom of God, where they don't become a bunch of spoiled losers. But they will not struggle. They won't beg for bread. If they got on drugs, I got enough money now, I would send a tag team in to lay waste to the place they're doing drugs and extract them and bring them back. I want to pray, Take care of that one myself. I'm not having sin in my family. I'm not having destruction in my house. I'm having what Abraham had. He had Sarah till a ripe old age. He trained his children in the way they should go. And when they grew old, they didn't depart from it. And that's what God has for every person that's interested. It's not a matter of whether God can do it. One angel found that lady's daughter 20 minutes before the same service and she'd been lost a long time. God created the whole world in six days. He'll never need more than one afternoon to take care of an individual. The question isn't if God will do it. The question is, are you interested one last time? Genesis 17:9. Your responsibility. Everybody say my responsibility. Genesis 17:9. Your responsibility is to obey the terms of the covenant. Well, that's Abraham. You and all your descendants have this continual responsibility. Anybody know me before I pastored, Was I in church or not in church on Sunday? If I preached 50 straight days and came home on Saturday night, two in the morning, I've been in church. No, I keep the covenant and the covenant keeps me. Can you say Amen, Pastor? That lawsuit they're doing against Yemoon Township, that's won by the city 97% of the time within 10 minutes on a phone call. Well, I joined the other 3% because I've got a covenant. Can you say amen? What happens to others doesn't happen to me. There are businesses in this room and businesses in Texas that are going to go to a high level before the end of this year. God has already multiplied you and he's going to multiply even more. I want to give you three words. If those that are listening, that are poor, poverty is broken off of your life today, you'll never be broke another day in your life. In Jesus. Name to those that are already doing well, you're about to do better. You're going to go from middle class to rich. And I want you to settle today in church. What's going to happen when you get what happened when somebody gave me a million dollars? I heard One preacher testify, three years ago, we were given $2 million. I was able to buy a house, put money in a trust for my kids to go to college and buy a car. Oh, great. God gave you $2 million and nobody benefited outside of a 15 foot radius of you. It went to your house. There was a pastor, he said, how were you able to get a building so easy? I said, he had a hotel that he met in at the church. The church ballroom. Hotel ballroom. How are you able to get a church building like that? I want to know. I said, don't you have two homes? You have a rental home and a personal home? Yeah. I said, so when you needed millions for a place to live, you found it. But when it came time to get a place for God's people to meet, all of a sudden it's a problem. I said, I had an apartment And a church. Then the house came later. Put God first. Some of you. If God blessed you with a hundred thousand dollars, the only person that would be blessed is Nordstrom. A Louis Vuitton story. I ain't got a problem with any of that stuff. But if God, the focus and priority has to be God. I've seen charismatic people get blessed an inheritance. They show up the next Sunday looking like a NASCAR driver that's sponsored by Gucci. That's not the blessing. I said, that's not the blessing. When I got a million dollars, you know, I could have legally got a parsonage for 800,000, had the nicest house. In 2016, if you got a $800,000 house, you'd have the nicest house in Pittsburgh. One of them nope, stayed in an apartment. Tithe to the church that the offering came from. Another hundred thousand to my brother in law's church in Canada, 50,000 to my father, 50,000 to another evangelist. By the time I was said and done, I gave 520 away and kept 480. And I told the Lord one day when I was walking out praying in my neighborhood, I said, if you thought I was going to buy a house like that, let me see, let me see the graph again. 2016. See, if I'd got a house, now's my chance. I can have a house. I can have the car I want. Then it would have stayed right here. I could be bragging about how the Lord took us to a $2 million level. But if you'll keep going, it would say, keep going, it'll never run out. Can you say amen? So that's my third word. To those that are already rich in Texas and here in Pittsburgh. Did you know Solomon was already rich when God appeared to him? He was already the king. And God said, I know you know, you think you're rich, but I'm going to make you rich. And I'm going to make you so rich that rich people call you rich. I'm going to make you so rich that when the Queen of Sheba comes to your house, she's going to pass out because she thought they were lying about how much I blessed you. But when she sees it, the Bible says her spirit left her. That's what needs to happen. You can't have city council meetings and keep Islam out. There's freedom of religion here. You can't do it. There has to be a church that is not just empowered to talk in tongues, empowered to preach, but empowered to say that church is not going to be something from a foreign religion. It's not going to be a place they sell things that addict people. It's not going to be like in the Strip district altar bar. I'm going to buy it, and I'm going to see to it that the work of the Lord goes forward and not backward in my generation. And I'm looking at hundreds of people today that are going to be the hands and feet and pockets that Jesus uses to see Islam. Never set up shall shop in Pennsylvania. Never set up shop in Texas. But the churches shall grow, revival shall spread. Bible colleges will spring up. It's not going to happen. Somewhere out there you say, here I am. Use me and God will use you today. Every head bowed, every eye closed. If you're here and you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior, I want you to do that today. She said, Jonathan, I saw in the Word today that the covenant begins with receiving what Christ did on the cross. And I want to do that. I want to get rid of sin. You know, if anger goes unchecked, I'm one punch to someone away from losing everything. You can go to jail for assault, same as sexual assault, so you can live clean sexually. And if you got an uncontrolled temper, you lose everything. So when you don't have Jesus blood to wash your sin away, you're a ticking time bomb to lose what God gave you. But today the Lord is going to set you free from everything. Poverty, sin, sickness. Texas, Pennsylvania. Jonathan, Today I surrender my life to Jesus Christ. I have been living a lukewarm life without knowing it. I go to church when I can get work off and the weather's okay and I feel not sad and the Steelers aren't playing. But today I'm going to be a real child of Abraham. I'm going to really live on fire for God. I need his help. But I saw in the Word today he'll give me his help. If that's you, put your hand up high and I'm going to pray with you right now in Jesus name. I see your hand. I see your hand. I see your hands. Texas, we see you very quickly. Everyone that lifted a hand, and if you want to walk up his friends, it's fine with me. But come to this altar and we're going to pray right now in Jesus name, come. We're going to pray quickly. Have you go right back to your seats. Today's your day, Texas and in Pittsburgh. Lift your hands to the Lord. Pray this prayer from the depth of your heart. Heavenly Father, I've come forward today to give you my life. Forgive me of all my sins. Wash me in your blood. I believe in my heart. You raised Jesus from the dead. I confess with my mouth. Jesus is Lord, my Savior. Right now I receive forgiveness. By the blood of Jesus, I am saved. I'm forgiven. I'm clean. In Jesus name, amen. Thank you for sharing the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. 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