what you've heard about money, but I want to look at the scriptures and see God's heart on giving. And so when it comes to giving, I want to look at a few verses. Wh Why are we talking about giving, Josh? Why are you why are we

relate the things that are happening in his life uh with Bible and the scriptures and then I realized I I knew he was very good at uh uh scriptures but I got a chance to see or the period he went through a lot of Trials recently um

everything you give me to use, it's really yours. I keep it with an open palm." We talked about grabbing in the same sense. And we looked at some examples of scripture when it when it came to money, we see people grabbing

to follow Jesus. And yet you see this in their heart and you go, "Lord, is there any of this in me? Cleanse it. I hate it. I don't want it. I agree with what the scripture says. I agree with what you're pointing out. I I accept the rebukes.

when they came to shore it's amazing what God will do to honor a person's fate she had faith that there were angels around her and nobody could touch her she was just quoting scripture Jesus quoted scripture to the devil and

spiritual father to guide me many of you guys are so fortunate that you have godly people to guide you i never had one i had to find things myself in scripture and i thank god little by little through many years of failure finally god

Emmaus with two disciples have you read if you read scripture carefully can you tell me how long that walk was you've heard me before on this subject you know

and see what it what does it say in the scripture about it and the only thing i found in there was that he replaced judas that's it and he was a backup he was a replacement for uh the a disciple that uh was the son of

someone right so when we Minister we're actually attending to somebody's needs and then you know there are verses throughout the word the words used out throughout scripture and you know there's even verses that speak of ministering to God

you. Thank you in Jesus' name. Amen. Okay. So the scripture portion for today um is from Ephesians chapter 4. Uh so we'll be spending uh most of our time in Ephesians. Occasionally we'll go

the Bible John chapter 7 verse 38 and 39 he who believes in me John 7:38 as the scripture said from his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water but

in the first lesson I said that the best really definition of money comes from the scriptures and it's like a barn and more specifically it's like The Silo part of the barn you know we can't you know when we Harvest our crop we can't eat it all

the scriptures if you don't mind so turn in your Bible and I'll read it but I want to start at uh chapter 12 verse 12. and I want to go for about 16 verses and most of you are familiar with it but I want you to ask the Lord to

The surviving remnant, they tremble at God's word. They don't take it lightly. God's word is supremely important. They come under the authority of the scripture. They value the scripture. There's no big commandment and the small

preach the message it's wonderful where you don't make other people feel uncomfortable because you feel they should have done something for you which they didn't do that's Christ's likeness I learned it from the scripture

experience I don't have physical Jesus now to uh go and se but we have scriptures we have scriptures which give us insight about how how Jesus lived the Holy Spirit reveals the glory of the Lord and there is a verse in 2

the question that was asked to me a few months ago that kind of got me thinking and more importantly got me searching the scriptures or going to my Bible the question was this is it wrong for a man to cry and I've been thinking about this I

the world the law of gravity holds things down there's a law int scripture which says according to your faith be it unto you so if you

appointed Elders in every city Acts chapter 14 but many people haven't understood that most people don't even bother about whether this is old Covenant Church or a New Covenant Church because they haven't studied the scriptures and I say if you don't study

they don't know it unless they they see it in scripture and they see it in christ and so i anchored it with these two verses and you're familiar with them and we'll talk more about them in a little bit but james 4 6 and 1st peter 5 5. so when i say that

kind of gave away what I was planning to talk about this morning. Um there's so much in scripture about this and there's so much in life about this and so the Lord um you know seems to use this to reveal things um of of his wisdom and

These are the two different things, not confidence in myself versus with the surrendered life. In the scripture portions what we read this morning, Matthew chapter 20, 25 and 26, the rulers of the Gentiles

What he writes in Romans 7 is one of the most honest and raw confessions in the scriptures. Verse 15. What I am doing I do not understand.

as I wake up in the morning before I get out of bed and say Lord I want to talk to you I want to listen to you and because I know the scripture so well I can even without reading the Bible I can bring some scripture to my mind but in