hi my name is Charles and I serve here at Transformation Church as one of the executive pastors and I want to take a moment before we jump into the message just to say thank you first of all for watching it means the world to us that you would be a part no matter where you're watching from no matter who you are I'm believing that this message is going to encourage your faith and hopefully transform your life if you haven't yet make sure you take a moment subscribe to the YouTube channel not for us but really
for you we want to be a resource to encourage your faith and be with you on this journey of following Jesus again thank you so much for joining us enjoy the message today I hope it blesses you all right well um I'm going to tell you something that has um in my many years of Walking with God has um been an agitant of change for me this is not at all how I planned to come into this but the holy spirit is doing his thing today um one of the things that starts working out of
me what's in me is when God challenges me to give and it has nothing to do with what I get get out of it and it's going to get quiet in the church and it's okay but many of us have had greed and selfishness worked into our hearts at such a level that when God ask us for something we act like it's our untrusted unworthy cousin y'all know them people like you ain't never driving my car like those people many times that's the attitude and the Heart posture when God ask us for something like his
grace and mercy hasn't been new every morning like he hasn't put us in positions and places we know we didn't qualify for but somehow got and um I was thinking about like you know as a church we step in every year to this season of crazy faith and this year we're calling it crazy fruit and I just wanted to take five minutes at the top and tell you why this is important I don't want to convince anybody of anything some people have already decided in their heart that they are giving or they're not giving I
I believe it's my duty as a pastor of this church that God has been so good to to allow you to at least get in on this level of blessing and not gatekeep for you there were too many people gatekeeping the blessing of God off of my life cuz they wouldn't give me the information and the real raw facts about what God's word said and how it worked in their life all we saw a lot of time was everybody in the church give and then the pastor rolling around in a big Cadillac and you never
knew what happened I want to tell you how God changed my life in the area of Finance Trust generosity and surrender I read scriptures for years of people telling me that everything belongs to God and then I started working and I realized that it feel like it belonged to me oh y'all going to be faking here with me it feel like I worked really hard for this and that's my name on that W2 line feels like this is mine and God said as long as you feel that way that's what you'll have keep doing it
and I realized I loved god listen to what I'm about to say but I did not trust him I loved God I did not trust him with my future I I did not trust him with my finances and I want you to ask yourself do you love God and do you trust him or do you love him excluding trust and that sounds crazy right now but if I got up here and said man I love my wife now I mean she's so beautiful and gracious and kind I love her with all my heart but I
don't trust her everybody be like red flag why that man just get up here and tell us that he love his wife but don't trust her and in church we think it's synonymous we think loving God and trusting him is the same thing and it's not so for decades of my life I this is for all the people who be like give us the real tell us the truth I'm telling you right now for years of my life I loved God did not trust him and I didn't even have no money it be the wildest
thing making $22,000 a year that ain't no money if you making that we are praying for you cuz I was there making $22,000 that's no money and I still loved them but didn't trust them and what I learned is it wasn't because I didn't want to trust them I just didn't have enough understanding and I felt like anytime anybody talked about money they was trying to manipulate or con me into something so I'm going give it to you the the coldest most simplest way in 3 minutes and I'm going to use these stairs when we
come into a relationship with God everybody starts at this place they start at the floor with their ability to trust God in the area of finance and then God says all right I want to take you up levels somebody say there's levels to this to this and what I found is there's a trick to trust and I want you to hear me say this God says in this word I want everybody no matter who you are I want you to designate 10% of your increase to come back to the house of God now there are
people who feel all type of different ways in this all I want to say is in March I'mma teach about finances I'm going to give you the whole thing but what I want to let you know is tithing is Old Testament before the Covenant in it and after it argue with your mama I got scripture for all of it but the truth of the matter is us fighting about is it scriptural actually comes down to a deeper heart issue when people 10 why not 20% why not 30% you don't give that people that convince me
and go back and forth with me about like I give more than 10 you're a liar because if you won't give the bare minimum it's the floor not the ceiling so what God has everybody to do is watch this tithe what is tithe it's obedience I need to make this clear distinction tithing giving 10% of your resources back to God's house is not listen to me it's not generosity I've been generous no you haven't it's returning so if I give you my keys or my credit card yeah and you give it back to me you
weren't generous to me you just return to me what I already gave you yes sir yes sir and so this is what I this is the cool thing about tithing it's the only place in the Bible where God says try it try it sir sir test me see if you don't trust me in this area consistently see what I won't do and so many people make it like this thing where God's religiously he's trying to bless you but this takes you being obedient and so the first level is stepping from here and saying I'm going
to tithe I want everybody to hear me say this in this crazy fruit offering I don't want you to think about giving some big amount if you have never been consistent in tithing I would rather a long-term transformation for your life then then then some oh yeah I gave God 500 I gave him five he said that's not that's like going to the gym one time a year sir and some of us go one it don't matter if you stay in there 24 hours and you lift all the weights tomorrow you will say tomorrow your
body fat will be the same and I just want to be real with the I don't want to gatekeep this that's good one of the greatest things you could do for your life your family your mind and your future is to make a decision is did from from this point on I am going to be consistent in trusting God with the tithe I'm going to everybody say this word tryy try but there's another level this is where generosity is unlocked when you give an offering now hear what I'm saying cuz nobody in church ever told
me this tithing is required to God's house offering happens wherever God says Hear Me pastors and churches have made it to where like if you if you tied here when God tells you to give something else you give an offering here that's a lot stop that may be manipulation I'm supposed to once I've settled what God has told me to settle in the tithe then he knows that he has trust that I can be a conduit wherever I'm at so I can be on the street I can be at the basketball ball game I can
be at somebody's Mastermind I can be at a school and God says give them $50 give them $100 yes sir hey go up to that Lemonade Stand where those girls are are selling lemonade to go to the thing and ask them how much they need for their whole team to go on the trip they're trying to raise 200 but they need 2,000 go find out what the need and those are considered offerings the reason we don't get to this place is because this place takes trust see this down here to go from here to here
is just a try but when you go from here to here you got to try cuz sometimes it don't make sense that's right hold on that 2000 was for my kids to go on family vacation and you just told me to give it to them kids who don't look like they love you Lord and then we start trying to qualify where our offerings go well they look like they got money come on have you ever felt compelled to do something and then you trying to add and subtract on people like well that hair is 300
and then my eyelash is 150 and y'all [Music] know easy and God said I I want you to be a river not a [Music] reservoir because offering is about watch this down here was obedience it's trying but right here watch this it's about future abundance cuz offerings are called a seed all I'm trying to do at this level is plant for the future amen and there are too many people that get to their future and be disappointed not because they're not good people it's cuz when it was time to plant they never put any seed
in the ground what I'm trying to encourage every person in here the Bible tells it I'm not going through a bunch of scriptures today because this is supposed to be my opener and I'm going to have 22 minutes left to teach y'all the message I got to teach you but I got to keep going because somebody needs I wish somebody would have told me at 19 when I was spending money on fake [Music] Jordans I'm pulling up at the gas station dude's popping his trunk taking $80 for the Jordan and the Jordan ain't even all
the way like he's not even flying all the way he's y'all know what don't look down don't look down don't look down I had no no clue that I was giving away my seed I didn't know that that mattered to my kids future nobody was telling me plant plant plant plant one day you're going to live in the forest of the seed you PL your kids will find shade in the seeds your kids will eat from the seeds you planted but everybody was making it like I was losing when I obeyed God I'm just trying
not to gatekeep right now we stand in lines for Black Friday sales that a are really gray yeah they're not even black no more 20 20% is not a good sale next year it's gonna be called Grace great Friday cuz I got to do something but literally we feel like we're getting a bargain to get something that was overpriced at a moment it's cut down and we go out of there feeling like we won and we ain't swn no seed for future abundance I would have rather you go out there and look for who you
was going to bless [Music] some of y'all should have took that $500 and broke it into 20s and walked through them stores Holy Spirit lead me show me who's out here that's about to go into debt and you giv me resources to give an offering and just to say God loves you and he told me to come I'm just saying cuz you never know if one of those people turn into your child or you y'all hear what I'm saying so down here right he says just obey me try it tith you step up to a
new level but then he says go another level give every time I tell you to give be ready at any occasion to get see even just that small thing do you prepare to give I used to be lazy and I would not have any cash on me so that wouldn't have any cash on me I don't I don't oh man I don't even oh man giving yourself a full body massage but you didn't plan to be generous the people who roll with me know mo I'll tell them hey bro go get this out of the
account put in my bag you need it for something I just got to be ready and sometimes sit there for months and sometimes minutes no no no no I want you to hear what I'm saying sometimes it's there for months and sometimes it's there for minutes cuz God said I got need of it you said it was mine right here we go so to he but then there's one more level yes sir and I only found out about this level about seven years ago go I thought it was tithe offering and then you good then
I started reading in the Bible the Bible is kind of one of them things that's crazy cuz the more you start reading it and the more time you spend in it you start seeing stuff that you done read before but it didn't talk to you like that before and I was reading how Solomon when they went to build the temple that the the customary requirement was one bull [Music] sacrifice one bull do you know what this man pulled up on the scene with 1,000 when the requirement was now I just want you to come with
me on the journey to Wrangle up a thousand Bulls this is what we call a sacrificial offering this one is going to take something from you that you may never see back in the same way we have no record of Solomon getting a th1 bulls back we have no record of 100f on bulls cuz a lot of times when we give sacrificially we're like all right we gave God a thousand 100,000 would be nice but the sacrificial offering goes past denominators and monetary it gets into the supernatural it gets into the stuff money can't buy
it gets into the level and the lane that allows things that even if you had all the money in the world that that could solve and I stepped off into this about seven years ago in a way where I knew that this is where God was calling me and this church to live I don't know if you know it but the way that we give as a church is not normal three weeks ago we gave $600,000 away to other churches now now it's so funny we live in such an alien planet as Transformation Church we
don't even know that that's crazy which is good also May desensitize us to the level of house you've been called to I believe that the majority of this church is supposed to live at the level of sacrificial giving now now before cuz some of y'all was like oh may need to go to the church I I felt it but let me tell you two things God never asked for what he hasn't already given you there has not been one time that God has asked me for something that I didn't have it the question was was
I going to give it so no matter how much the amount was no matter what the number was he had blessed me to the point where I could consider it cuz he's not unjust or now sometimes did it take me selling some stuff or parting with some stuff or not yeah but it was a sacrifice and this is what I'm going to say to everybody when you get to this place remember at the bottom it was trying at at offering is trusting God at this place this is God trusting you you missed it let me
go back at this I don't even really know if God going to do it so I'mma everybody say try I'mma try to tithe all right Lord you have been faithful there's always you've always met my need like dang where I was three years ago and how I'm still here and what you did golly no it ain't as much as I really want but wow so then he says trust me get what I tell you offering oh man I felt really good to actually believe you see you do it and then see the fruit of that
in another season this last one sacrificial [Music] oh snap this is not me trusting you this is you in trusting me remember the story of the talents it says the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man that goes away and usts his wealth to three different servants what would it look like like for everybody in this church to not just trust God but to be trusted by God here what I'm saying to you it's wrapped up in how we view what God's already given us the ability to have so what I'm asking everybody to do
as a church I want you to pray and whatever level you're at whatever I want you to take a step to the next level so this your first time coming to church you 20s something or you 60 something and you ain't never tithed before you ain't never heard of it you look like you got enough money Pastor Mike it look like the church is doing fine look at that big old screen look it look like this ain't got nothing to do with the screen absolutely no I really want you to hear me say this this
has everything to do with your heart this ain't about the church the church going to be all right this is God's church but it's your house not under the blessing it needs to be cuz you won't take this step and everybody say try if you're here all I'm asking you to do and it's one penny on every dime if you made $4 your tithe 40 cents and God looks at that the same way he looks at somebody giving 40,000 they don't even get it how can I prove it to you at the time when everybody
in the town was giv big bucks Jesus calls attention to one woman to all his disciples he says everybody look at her I said what she giving two mites that ain't nothing Jesus she gave out of her the reason this connects with me is because there's been many times where uh I told Charles this story earlier when Bishop was um about to pay off the building um we came to a space where people were giv sacrificially and I remember I just bought a home and we were taking advantage of in the home and it was
our first winter we just brought home Bella and uh we went to turn on the heat and the heat didn't work coldest winter um that Tulsa had seen up until that point we are literally in the house with 10 space heaters which everybody knows that is a hazard and a half but we were cold and our newborn was in there and God told us for the first time to move into sacrificial giving and me and Natalie we've been doing this been doing this he said step into this and I said Lord it's cold and why
does the exact amount that it costs to put the heat in is the exact amount you asking me for this is the devil can I be honest with you he said the devil never asked you to give devil never ask you to do that me and Natalie looked at each other and we gave for the first time in our life as young newly married never was about to take over the church didn't know it like we're out here trusting you none of this was in a forecast we didn't have no crystal ball no prophetic y'all
be thinking like oh you knew we didn't know nothing relationship goes wasn't a thing we didn't have I didn't have a car at the time I'm now I'm I'm having a flashback hold up I didn't have a car at the time Bri was letting me use her Sonata that's a real thing like and God said Mike when you give this it's going to break something over your life and I can tell you from that moment to this moment God has done something supernaturally in my life that proves that he trust me and so whenever it
comes time to give to him I can't I mean what I'm about to say today I'm challenging every person under the sound of my voice this is going to be prophetic for your future to whatever step if you need to tithe tithe try God if you need to step into give offerings trust God and if God's requiring you and your husband or your wife or your children or y'all coming together or you bu yourself to step into sacrificial giving listen to me one is not better than the other so good there is not a level
that God then says yay he says obedience to what I told you to do cuz I don't know if I told y'all one time I did too much and God was unpleased y'all ain't never heard no preacher tell this story but God told me to pay off half of somebody's car and I paid the whole thing cuz I had it and he said you're disobedient and you stop the blessing I said Lord I thought more was always better he says obedience is always better than your sacrifice he said I meant for you to do half
and I had three other people that were going to do you took away their opportunity at the level that they were at to walk in a blessing you did it out of Pride and ego cuz you had it and you disobeyed me y'all this is not about anything except obedience amen amen so um as we come together next week families are going to come together people are going to uh fly in um there are going to be people that give online um I believe this is going to be a holy thing some of us know
ourselves we need to go ahead and do it this week cuz you know if it's sitting in there it's going to burn a hole y'all already know it's it's already that Amazon car is full of Disobedience did y'all hear I mean come on let's be honest all right this is what I'm G to do today I I had an assignment and I believe I just uh finished it but I have to give you one piece of the message that I was going to speak and I believe God wants me to speak I've tried to speak
this three time twice this this is the yeah um I love God because when he when he allows you to prepare then he can just do what he wants to do I'm just I'm I'm in his hands so let me say this um everybody just listen to me I got 13 minutes this going to be the shortest message I ever preached um I wanted to preach a message today I'm going to preach a message today called kill him with kindness write it down kill them with kindness and we're going to leave all of this everything
I just did is the sermon so just keep it all kill them with kindness um the subtitle of this message is behave like Christians say it with me behave like look at your neighbor and say it like you a mama look at them and say behave like a Christian okay pick your other neighbor who I don't know why you didn't pick them the first time but now you got to pick on and tell them behave like a Christian now I didn't pick this subtitle this subtitle picked me because it was the title in the Bible
when I looked at the scripture in Romans 12:1 17 it literally the title said behave like a Christian in verse 17 it said repay no one evil for evil have a regard for good things in the sight of all men if it is possible as much as it depends on you live peaceably with all men beloved do not avenge my God yourselves that's a hard one to get out do not avenge your but God they do not avenge but don't nobody talk about my do not avenge yourself but they got one more time oh y'all
know do not avenge yourselves look rather give place to wrath now hold on wait whoa don't avenge yourself but give place to wrath which means wrath is not a human human response wrath is something that we have to leave space for so something Divine can do it the thing that needs to happen to the people who are coming after your sanity your peace your your your you in the [Music] way do not avenge it yourself but rather give room give place for God to do whatever he wants to do for it is written vengeance is
mine I will repay says the Lord therefore this is your job and this my job this is what God saying my job is wrath get out the way your job if your enemy's hungry feed them if your enemy's thirsty looking a little parched give them something to drink for in doing so you will Heap hot coals of fire on his head do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good Christians aren't leaving space for God to be God and for you to be kind come after me I'mma back up and ask you are
you thirsty you talk about my family I'mma back up cuz I got to leave space cuz what I want to do is get real close to you and let you know I ain't no punk you understand okay oh can we be honest with real feelings I'm I'mma let you know but I can't even do that the V you need to back that thing some of y'all knew where I was going just in just in y'all knew what I'm telling you right now when evil starts to rise in your heart you better back that [Applause] thing
now I have a whole song in my head head all I'm trying to say is too many Believers now are going towards it which is Disobedience to what he said to do he said don't repay that evil with evil don't get on your don't get your Twitter finger don't start making rebuttal videos don't start getting a new podcast don't do that you better back that thing up he said he he said if you don't make space both of y'all get the [Applause] Wrath if you don't if you don't make space when I decide to judge
you're in the [Music] line and too many Believers God's holding his hand get out of there get out them comments get out that email get out that rabbit hole get out stop cuz what you're doing is you're in the line of fire I'm just protecting my family name you can't do that anyway there's nothing you've ever said that has made your family name go to the top of the list like just think about it make space and this is where I just need to tell everybody kindness isn't conditional it's a command when we talk about
receipts and fruits of the spirit and some of us think that it's a personality trait oh there just a kind person no this is something that is produced by the Holy Spirit and and and I just need to say that as a point kind isn't a personality type it's a principle of the Kingdom so if you profess to love God and you are not kind you are a fraud I'm going say it real well I just want to be direct with people if God was as direct with you as you are with people would he
be considered a kind and merciful god well they just need to know hold on wait a minute but there's everything can be done wrapped well they need to feel the sting of this did you feel the sting of sin I'm just trying to I'm just trying to figure out are we playing with different metrics here what what I'm saying is if you're a Christian you are supposed to be kind everybody say I'm kind even if you're not by faith no no no no no no no I I I'm see some of y'all ain't even watch
this some of us haven't even thought this was a trait to be admirable cuz all the kind people you know get played and so you don't even think it's something to be admired to be kind yet out of everything the Bible says that we should possess as fruits of our relationship with the Holy Spirit he said you should be with me and when you get with them they should consider you you kind oh my God and the reason I had to bring this out is because I think kind is kind of confused it's kind of
confused cuz people mistake nice and kind and I'm about to teach you in the four minutes I got left the difference between nice and kind will you put it on the screen remember kindness is a fruit of the you can't can't be kind without him I need you to keep this in the Forefront of your mind you cannot be kind without the Holy Spirit you can be nice without the Holy Spirit you cannot be kind without the Holy Spirit people have jacked up definitions but God tells us a fruit of the spirit is kindness so
when somebody is nice put it up there they can actually be polite but to be kind is a heart posture my heart posture has to be like no matter what I'm about to walk into and no matter how they about to treat me and no matter what's about to happen thank you Holy Spirit for transforming my life so much that I used to be like them I used to look at people like that God I thank you that you're expanding my heart for grace for people who don't even understand what I'm going through and that
I'm this close to the edge and they don't know me I used to be an MMA boxer and I'd break their neck and another season but God I thank you that you have brought me a my God I thank you that you brought me a mighty long way I thank you that I don't fight with my fist no more I thank you that I fight and what ends up happening is my heart posture so we meet a lot of nice people but when you're kind that's empowered by the spirit go to the second one when
you're nice cuz I want to unconfuse this for us nice people keep it surface how you doing oh look at that yeah oh where'd you get that that's nice a you met people that you think are are nice but you don't know them enough to give them an any different definition so nice yeah my Barista they're so nice yet to their spouse they're abusive yeah it's because you only know them on the surface so nice is surface but kind is a sacrifice to be kind to some people some to be kind to my wife to
be kind to my kids this my kids they look like me you just you just you you just spilled the last of the juice it don't be it don't be hard stuff it don't I don't know if there's any parents that'll back me up in here I've been waiting to eat for two hours and I saved everything specifically for this moment and that's my juice I'm so sorry Daddy I didn't mean to I know you didn't mean to I know you didn't mean to I'm talking but what does it look like to be kind watch
this when you're in Conflict that's empowered by the holy let me keep going some people are nice and when you're nice keep going put it up there it's an acknowledgment like ah you did good oh that was so nice for them to notice me it's oh man nobody nobody ever does that like that you're powerful that's a nice thing but when you get to kind it's active so so kind requires something of Me Okay nobody's ever done it like like that so I'm going to call the three people that I know that can take that
to the next level for you and I'm going to set up a meeting for you and I know this has nothing to do with me but I know the people that can take what you just did to the next level so I'm about to get active I'm about to do something that is a sacrifice that actually is not just polite it's my heart posture I'm walking into the room looking how I can help how I can give and I'm about to get active and they didn't answer my first phone call let me text you back
I did call them but I know they're out right now so let me get back to you I'm about to get and there are too many Believers that are nice but not kind you have a couch that could furnish somebody's apartment and you're sick of the couch and you're going to throw it away because you don't want to take the time to have to put it on a truck to get it to somebody I didn't say it you said it she said that's lazy I didn't say it one thing it is not is not kind
okay let's keep going we're almost there do y'all get y'all hear what I'm saying nice is being considerate no you can have the parking face no no no no you no no no you know what I'm saying you doing a little inch forward and like no no no you no no no no you no no no no no no like and then finally y'all about to get in a car accident cuz nobody goes like okay it's consider it kind is compassionate it's it's it's being in the parking space wi in the parking space and then
seeing uhuh uh uh uh uh and you didn't even notice that they had a special needs sticker on the back of their car the reason they needed that parking spot cuz if you would have saw the special needs sticker you would have been nice but that conviction of the Holy Spirit made you compassionate and you didn't even know why but it was something that came on the inside of you and and you saw that she oh than cuz you don't know what it is to lift up that 80 lb boy into the wheelchair and then
have to the church can't just be nice we have to be kind and kindness is only empowered by the Holy Spirit and many of us let our preferences and our opinions and our beliefs and our Poli IAL parties and our the color of people's skin make us nice to people and not kind there are a lot of white people that are nice to black people I'll even let you talk to me I'll come to your church but I never been to your house y'all saw her quiet it just got because we can live in a
world where we're nice to each other but you could give me a job and you could promote me too cuz you see how I work but you've been nice to me but the Holy Spirit hasn't allowed you to be oh and black people do not think for a second you like the man no no no come here you can be nice to to your boss but make jokes about them behind their back all the time you can talk about uh oh my my analogies just went very they went too real so I'm going to I'm
going to come back up what I'm saying is racially spiritually maybe we don't just need to be nice to each other maybe we need to be there's no better story of this than the Good Samaritan where where this man gets beat up and and and literally gets mugged everything stolen from him and the pastor walks by and prays for him on the Move hope I hope God does something for him then the worship leader walks by and says late in the Midnight Hour God's going to turn it around and then somebody that was a different
ethnicity didn't even know what was happening the Bible says they felt compassion and their compassion made them go to this person ah y'all just got to see it this my last scripture okay I want to go to Luke uh 10 1030 then the despised Samaritan came along and when he saw the man he felt compassion for him going over to him the Samaritan watch this soothed his wounds with olive oil and wine and B bandaged him he had to take something he already had and give it to somebody he didn't know ol of that would
have been his resources he gave to somebody with no guarantee of giving back to them then he put the man on his donkey and took him to an end where he took care of him the next day he handed the inkeeper two silver coins telling him take care of this man if his bill runs higher than this I'll pay you the next time I'm here think about this think about going to the most expensive hotel in this city putting somebody in the hotail knowing they're broke down and then saying they don't have a time limit
let them stay here as long as they need to and if they run it up I'll take care of it when I come back most of us would have been like hey give them two nights no come on give them two nights and then give them a Contin little breakfast on the way out on the third what time y'all start Charing to make sure they're gone at 1:30 but this man was kind he said I don't know how this is going to impact me but I'm moved with compassion look what it says this is Jesus
talking now which one of these three people the pastor who prayed for him on the move the worship leader who sang to him but didn't stop for him which one of these would you say was a neighbor to the man who was attacked by aband Jesus asked the man replied the one who showed him Mercy then Jesus said yes now go and do the same see being nice put that thing back on here we're about to close being nice nice is selective you can be nice to people in your group nice to people who believe
like you nice to people who go to your church nice to people who your kids play soccer with nice to the come on nice is selective kind selfless this is the fruit of the spirit and many of us watch this to be kind we're going to have to face the culture that has raised us your the complex of how you view the culture of your life is going to come in conflict with being kind to people cuz if somebody has on a make America great hat there are people in this room and listening to me
that would not help them oh no Christians oh I'm please know I'm not talking to anybody other than Believers and please don't act shocked be because there are certain people if they wore an Obama shirt or a cam camela Harris shirt you would not even think twice about inviting them to your church and it's so crazy that a person can be dehumanized to the point yes that what they wear or what they believe currently makes them no longer your brother and sister in [Music] Christ the the claps are weak and weary and it's not me
this the Bible and the truth is most Christians aren't acting like Christians I had a stat in my message that said in the 50 78% of America went to some type of religious experience yearly it's less than 30% now do you know why the number one reason of all the people pulled is because they say Christians are judgmental and unkind how in the world is the thing Jesus know for we don't look anything like no I'm I'm for real y'all you've been mean to people for years and won't apologize if they're on the worship team
you'll make it right so you can use their gift but the person who has been has no consequence on what happened on the platform but as a child of God where's the comp it's time for us to not be selective for us to be empowered by the Holy Spirit to be selfless two more being nice is being passively agreeable yeah yeah yeah yeah I kind of believe that yeah yeah come on yeah that's okay that that doesn't offend me so okay cool being kind means that you can completely disagree with me and I'm powerfully [Music]
anchored I do not have to agree with you to actually be kind with you there are people that think things about me in this church that have nothing but fabricated ideas I'm being very kind with my words straight up lies yet God tells me to give to some of them now you want to do lunch and I don't want to go okay I I don't want to go because the Lord's still working but I'm going start by sending you a video I'm I'm okay I'm being too real right now I'm who to give to somebody
put them on the list ooh not them God said exactly them oh but Lord I have screens shaved what they said about me so somebody sent it to me I didn't even ask for it but they told their whole congregation in the same city give to them Lord be kind Holy Spirit activate come on y'all this will not be me and God says this is you backing up and making space hey Doc just want to thank you brother you don't know what this means to what God is doing yeah hey bro just want to let
you know God's thinking of you and uh I was going to lie and say I'm praying for you and so watch what I'm telling y'all a real story and so I feel naked up here okay and in my mind I was like tell them you praying for him and the Holy Spirit said pray for him now I get so weak in the knes I can hardly I y'all it almost took me out cuz I'm about to lie I was about to do Christian lying hey I'll be praying for you do no I haven't have not
been praying for you can I be honest y'all hey bro you're on God's mind that's right cuz you wasn't on mine and bro I just let me pray for you father thank you for blessing this man of God thank you for blessing their Ministry thank you that their their marriage would be strong father and just thank you thank you Lord that and somewhere in the the middle of me making that video a damn broken my [Music] heart and it was almost like it BEC it became I saw myself and I saw my friends and I
saw I don't know what made him say that but Lord and I just thank you that anything that's been a pressure on him any lie that's ever been spoken God would you and I mean it just started gushing out that wasn't me that wasn't my flesh that was me being impowered by the Holy Spirit to be kind standing all over this building last one nice nice is something that you make an idea is good and it becomes self-improved Improvement I'm going to be nicer I'm going to be nicer to people but being nice is self-improvement
being kind listen is Spirit empowered don't just make a decision to be nice every person in this room if you are a believer in Jesus you should be kind I'm going to pray for every person that you would allow the Holy Spirit watch this everybody listen I know you're excited to leave but hear what I'm saying cuz this would be all for nothing if you go out of here and act the same way I want you to ask the Holy Spirit what ideas you have to let go of to actually be kind one of the
ideas let me give you an example I am time to go all into it but an example was I was weak if I was kind in the face of adversity bring the thing real fast in my closing can you bring that real quick just get just bring it real fast you don't even got to bring it on the table just bring yeah just bring it because this is what tries to happen is when people get in a hot situation a pressure situation a tension situation what ends up happening is it's trying to change your character
hear what I'm saying to you you and what ends up happening is we are not supposed to allow the situation to turn us into something we're not supposed to be so this is burning hot water and burning hot water when I put an egg in it it becomes hard on the inside and there are too many people that when God puts you in a tension situation or a boiling situation or a pressure situation you do not look like God you become hard yeah and there are people under the sound of my voice your heart something
that's supposed to flow is now very stationary and today I Believe by the power of the Holy Spirit there's something that's going to change in your heart and then there's another group of people that when they're put under pressure you just become soft and mushy nothing in you will stand for anything when you're put in pressure you lose your convictions cuz you can be kind and still have a conviction and most people think that letting anything happen is kind no no no no no no you can't talk to my kids any type of way I'm
telling you no no no no no you can cuss to your kids but I'm kindly letting you know that language is not okay around them and so so many people think that we have to let anything that anybody does go or we're not being kind the goal is not to get hard or to get mushy the goal is that when there is something that is hot and pressure is put on us we would release an aroma see if you were close to this right now you would smell the raspberry and the Jasmine and you would
smell the things because when I get put into hot situations what comes up off of me it smells like him y'all don't hear what I'm saying it's in his kindness and his mercy so you got all you want to say about me all you about to smell is something [Music] sweet this is what the believer should be not hard not soft but let it be a sweet sweet smell let it be a sweet sweet smell at your job with your family let it be as with your wife with your husband it's time for the church
Christians to be kind everybody that is under the sound of my voice I'm charging you that this next season is not just about how much power you can produce in your life it's actually getting a new definition from people around you let it be one of your goals that people would say about you when you're not in the room that's one of the kindest people I know now listen you may never hear [Music] it you may never hear these words but on your vision board this year don't put a car put kind I mean you
can put the car too uh but I'm just saying like what if what if the fruits of the spirit was the vision board what what if what if this year love joy peace patience gentleness kind just want to be more like him because Titus 3:3 says once we to were foolish and disobedient we were misled and became slave to many lust and Pleasures that's me our eyes were full of evil and envy that's me and we hated each other but when God our savior revealed his kindness the reason we're saved is because God was kind
when he rece revealed his kindness and love he saved us not because of the right things that we had done but because of his Mercy he washed away our sins giving us a new birth and new life through I love how the Bible brings everything together the only way he did it was through the Holy Spirit would you lift your hands all over father I thank you that today we are all making a decision to be more like you and allow the Holy Spirit to develop kindness not just in our thoughts but in our actions
God will you help me be kind come on I need you to just ask the Holy Spirit right there help me to be kind help me to be kind not just to those who are far from me and don't have a close view of me help me be kind to my wife and to my children and to my roommate help me be kind to my boss and my co-workers help me be kind to people father that have told me they'll stay cuz many times we take advantage of those who are committed to us father would
you allow us to be kind to those who don't believe like us those who don't just don't believe with it who actually hate what we love father this is hard Bible but I'm asking you Holy Spirit to give me empowerment that is not generating by me wanting to be better Holy Spirit I need your help Holy Spirit for every person making comments and videos would you allow me to be kind give me the opportunity to be kind to them Father I make space for you to be God and for me to give them drink for
me to feed them Father God will you help me remember this message oh y'all I'm praying real prayers right now father I need you whether it's the lavender whether it's the flower father whether it's the egg or the carrot help me remember this is your will this is this what you want from me you want me to be kind I'm not your soldier in a way to make you look big and bad I'm your soldier when I'm kind to people that proves I'm in the army of the Lord help me be gentle and kind and
and still be in [Music] Joy thank you Father for doing a work on the inside that shows up on the outside we'll give you all the glory honor and praise for it even in this moment I was thinking like I was about when I said enjoy I was about to like I was about to do my jacket enjoy and I was like dang I didn't put it there today CU we decided to live in joy uhoh it's still on me now it may take different positions it may not be some of y'all like what is
he talking about we decided we're going to live in I usually have it right here but as long as it's on me don't lose your joy today today I want to give people an opportunity to receive Christ because it it was his kindness and I know there's been people that are here and you've heard like big topics today like you heard us talk about finances you heard me talk about the church not being like and you like dang I kind of like he going off on them but what I'm saying is join us and represent
like like what I'm saying is the reason we're talking about it is cuz we not going to live that way way we're trying to do something different this week as you go I want you to be kind to people but some people you don't have the power to be kind cuz you have not accepted Jesus and you not received the Holy Spirit so today if you're in this room on the count of three I'm going to give you the opportunity to give your life to Christ or rededicate your life to Christ and this is the
thing that took me from being a liar a manipulator addicted to pornography somebody had very dark stuff in their heart and it didn't make me a perfect man but it made me a progressing man that transformed everything about me today even as we're here there are people around you there are people that are you that need to give Jesus your life and I need the church to begin to pray there are people that are watching right now online you've been feeling this tug it's the Holy Spirit drawing you with his kindness right now and on
account of three I just want you to lift your hands if you want to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior one you're making the greatest decision of your life two the holy spirit is about to enter your life and transform you for the better and it's about to change everything three shoot your hand up in the air if you want to give your life to Jesus I saw you right there I see you right there I see you oh Transformation Church I see you more than that God sees you I see you my
brother hey TC I see you glory to God y'all don't y'all y'all don't know what this is heaven is turning up right now Hey listen TC we're family nobody prays alone I want everybody to say this prayer together say God thank you for in your kindness you sent [Music] Jesus today I give you my life I give you my life change me renew me transform me I'm yours I Repent of my old ways and I turn to you I'm all [Music] yours make me more like you in Jesus name amen can we turn up with
everybody oh y'all can do better than that can we thank God [Music] Hallelujah Hallelujah listen if you just made that decision there I I I I want you to text save to 8282 82 you are a part of this family we want to walk with you there's exciting things that are coming on your horizon come back for Wednesday night bible study make it here with us let's learn how to pray together come next week and I'm telling you as we go and I want y'all to pray about giving next week do not be condemned hear
what I'm saying to you I know everybody got to leave but listen do not be condemned on what you want to do and what you have the ability to do obey God and walk away knowing you did ex everything God told you to do amen until next week I want you to go out and live a transformed life hug on somebody we love you so much God bless you hey I want to take a moment again before we jump off and say thank you our church is not built on one individual but on the sacrifice
of so many and you being a part it means the world so thanks for watching the message I also want to say thank you to the thousands of people around the world who are generous it means the world and we are able to represent we're able to be generous to meet the needs of people because of your giving if you haven't taken the step to give trust me there is no pressure at all but if you feel led you can text the word give to 82 8282 or you can go online when we partner together
God uses our generosity to make a difference again if you haven't take a moment to subscribe to the YouTube channel and more than watching on YouTube join us on Sundays every single Sunday we're here 10:45 CST a.m. we would love to see you and like we always say go out and live a transformed life [Music]
