All right, second Corinthians chapter 8 the key verse
I want to focus on is verse 9 that says for you know, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
There though he was rich yet for your sakes. He became poor that ye through his poverty
Might be rich clearly Christ is the Lord of Lords the king of kings. He came from heaven
He left his riches. He came here to earth to be poor to have poverty
That is why he came here and the title of my sermon is simply this
poverty the good the bad and the ugly
Turn to Psalms 84 11, please go to Psalms 84 11 kids
If you have your Bible Psalms 84 11 no
Some you guys have it very important verse is one of the first verses
I learned when I got saved it helped change my life and I still remember it today
It's one of the most important verses in my life something
I like to remind myself of over and over again
So I'll give you time to turn to Psalms 84 11 while you're turning the sauce 84
Let not talk about verse 9 where it says that God was made poor, you know born and suffered poverty for us
And we saw that in the very beginning of his birth
You know you're in Psalms 84 11 by Marie a read from Luke 2 7 that says and she talking about
married the mother of Jesus Christ and she brought forth her firstborn son and
Wrapped him in the swan and clothes and laid him in a manger a manger simply a container that feeds animals
You know why because there was no room for them in the end and Christ could have chosen to be born anywhere in a palace
Anywhere in the end anywhere, but he made it happen to here
He was born and he was laid in a manger and it never really hit me
Just how humbling that is until me and brother Tyler is he here?
When they stole our tub, we have to go get a new one you remember
And we have to go to the pet club. And is that really a trough?
So we baptized people and basically something that feeds animals and a manger exactly, right
So being brother Tyler we go to the pet club and sure enough the employers like oh right this way
And he takes us there and sure enough. He brings it out and then it's dirty
Yes, spider webs and it has something inside of it
I thought it was feet but brother Tyler thinks it was poop. Remember that and sure enough
He got this this trough right there and we're looking at it and it's kind of small brother Tyler's like man
I don't know you think it's big enough. Well, there's only one way to find out someone has to get in it
And it wasn't brother Tyler
So I'm like well nothing to about to do it the employees right there anything so crazy
So I'm getting in there and I'm just chilling and I'm just like this. I'm like brother Tyler. We're good
All right, girl, let's roll
And that thing was filthy wasn't it? That guy didn't even want to carry it
It wasn't even that heavy, but he didn't want to carry it to the bed
He actually got a forklift to take it to the van
And I'm thinking maybe could have picked it up and wasn't he a muscle head remember yeah big old muscles and I'm like, dude
I'm not your best person. I don't want to brag
425 whoa
Didn't you say that 425 pounds and that can lift this thing every Sunday and put it outside all by myself
But this guy didn't want to touch because he was filthy
But I'm gonna tell you right now you think that trough that Christ was born in you think was ready for him nice and clean
No way. No way
That thing was probably 30 you probably have feet in it
If I have to dump the feet out of it to be able to put the baby in it and sure enough
I'm the one that cleaned it and it didn't take five minutes to clean it either
It took me a couple hours me and another guy, you know, we basically put water everything we scrubbed it
It wasn't easy to clean, you know
But I'm pretty sure when they related him in there that thing was 30, but Christ could have been born any other way
But this is what he chose to do to show his humility
He gave up his riches became poor for our sakes and he lived a life of poverty
And when I mean by poverty is simply this, you know, he didn't have a lot, you know, he just didn't have a lot
So the first point I want to make is that poverty can be a good thing. It can be a good thing
Why because it says right there in 89, you know that God he made himself poor for us
And we know that God did no sin the Bible say he had no sin in him every decision
He made he always did those things that placed the father so decided to be born poor
Hey that just clearly shows us that he did what was right he did what was good
So, you know
my first point is simply this that poverty can be a good thing and this is why I like camping trips because you know what
It reminds us that we don't need much to be happy. I mean, are you happy to be here today?
You know, I know the kids are happy
I mean the cabin that we're in is smaller than the house back home
But trust me if we were to stay in that house forever there would be happy you guys like where you're staying
You know, they want to stay upstairs all day
They like playing in those beds and I'm happy
I enjoy it, you know just to prove that you don't need much to be happy. My mom is here
She does not like camping. Let me just tell you that right now. That's the she went camping
She's Thomas with my older brother Jose and she was out there camping Jose and they went hardcore style
No bathrooms a tent all of it was there. She even said the raccoons try to eat their food at night
She could not sleep. She said the next day she woke up and she's like, I'm out of here
My brother's like, where are you going? I'm going home, you know back to her concrete jungle in East Palo Alto, California
So she left so here I'm like mom. How you loving it? Oh, I love this
This is great, you know, so she's happy with us see she's smiling right now, you know
But see camping especially being in this environment shows us that we don't need much
You know the reason I want to preach about poverty because they're reminding me that you know
Well, you really don't need much and some of us are gonna go through hard times
We know we're gonna be tested especially if you're righteous and you're gonna suffer trials and tribulations
So this mission is kind of like to prep you for it that look you may be going through some poverty
You may not have enough or you may have a lot and next thing you know, you don't have much at all
But hey, that could be a good thing
I'm gonna cover it and I want to remind you that poverty is not always a bad thing
Poverty could be a good thing because if it was wickedness to be in poverty
Christ would have never chose to be poor and live in poverty
You're in Psalms 84 11 this what the Bible says for the Lord God is a son and shield
The Lord will give grace and glory
No good thing
Would he withhold from them that walk uprightly and if there was ever definition of a man that walked uprightly
You have to say that it was Jesus Christ. Would you agree?
And yet he was born poor
He chose to be poor and it says right here that guess what God didn't withhold anything from him
And since he was poor we can assume very easily through Psalms 84 11
that this was a good thing for him to go through and if you're
You're gonna experience poverty at some point in your life. It could just be a good thing
Just realize that you know before you get upset you start losing reality the reality of things that sometimes people have to go
You know through poverty suffer a little bit of poverty and a perfect example if you're not convinced is Joe
Amanda walked up rightly as well and this man didn't just hate evil
I mean he avoided it as well and see sometimes we hate even a harsh
But we have a hard time avoiding it
We kind of put ourselves in front of evil
But job is a perfect example of somebody who the Bible says was perfect
There was none like him and all the earth and yet God took his riches away and he was back in poverty
And people were confused. They're wondering why are you wicked? What's going on?
Why did you lose that all your friends your family your animals everything? Why what's going on?
He didn't know that he was being tested
So sometimes we have to go to pop through poverty because God wants to test us
He wants to show us what we're really made of
And see that's one thing I want to point out really quickly through Christ's example and Joe's example
Is that poverty it's a good thing sometimes but poverty can also be a bad thing as well
So if you got your Bible go to Proverbs 37 where you're going to Proverbs 37
I'm gonna read from Genesis 45 4 and it's the story of Joseph once he took power
Once he revealed himself to his brother the Bible says in Genesis 45 4 and Joseph said up to his brethren
Come near to me
I pray you and it came near and he said I am Joseph your brother whom he sold it to Egypt now
Therefore be not grieved nor angry with yourself that you sold me hither for God
This sent me before you to preserve life for these two years had the famine been in the land
And yet there are five years in which there shall neither be
Earing nor harvest and God sent me before you to preserve your prosperity in the earth and to save your lives by great deliverance
Verse 8 so now it was not you that sent me hither by God
And he hath made me a father to Pharaoh and Lord of all his house and the ruler throughout all the land of Egypt
Hasten go up to my father say unto him thus say it thy son Joseph
God has made me Lord of all Egypt come down unto me tarry not and that shall dwell in the land of Goshen
and that shall be near unto me thou and thy children and thy children's children and thy flocks and thy herds and all the
House and there will I nourish you forget there are five years of famine
Let's doubt and I household and know that thou has come to poverty
So every see that Joseph says look I want to take care of you. I don't want you to suffer poverty yet
He says I want to keep you from poverty because sometimes poverty can hurt us during Proverbs 30
This is what the Bible says Proverbs 37
Two things have I required of thee
Deny me them not before I die
Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty
Here's the man that doesn't want poverty nor riches, but he's a smart man
Cuz he's not asking for riches either less
I'd be full and then 90 and say who is the Lord unless I'd be poor and
Still and take the name of my God in vain the word of agar
That's who's speaking here and he's saying look. I don't want to have poverty
I don't want to have riches because both can have issues if you're rich you can be
You know popped up and forget who is the Lord?
But if you're suffering extreme poverty you get tempted with stealing and taking the name of the Lord God in vain
And see I didn't grow up rich at all
My mom can testify to that, you know
But we grew up what they would consider in poverty at the time and I remember being tempted a lot with
Covetousness just seeing my friends seeing other people especially in school with the nicer clothes with everything good
And I just remember just coveting and I can really I could relate to this where he says look
I don't want to be so poor
Then I end up stealing and taking the name of my God in vain and we know somebody steals to feed themselves
You know
We don't really despise them as much
But sometimes when you don't have things that you don't even need you still attempted if you're poor if you're in poverty to steal
those things and I remember this one situation in fact this reminds me of
When I applied for the church to work for the church that paths given application and there were some questions out of there
We're kind of funny one was have you ever stolen anything, you know ever stolen anything on there?
But a funnier question before that have you ever told a lie? I'm like, is this a trick question?
And I'm like, of course, you know right away the next one was have you ever stolen anything?
I'm like, yes, but I didn't I didn't know what to do. I'm like, yes, you know
But you know, I did return it that's what I put on the application
You know and when I was a kid, I'm just gonna confess some things nothing too graphic
You know, I was really into music, but I was into really bad music
I was into rap music and I wanted to be a rapper. I want to be a dr
Dre I snooped off, you know, believe it or not. My mom can tell you
Yeah, he listen to a lot of crap
My mom hated my music and sure enough one time this teacher button a recorder and it was a recorder
It was kind of fancy and whatever you put in there whatever cassette player and it was like a set player you put in it
If you hit record, you can add more stuff in it. So I'm thinking man that would work great
You know by me creating my rap album
So then my teacher looks like she looks right I grab it
I stick it on my backpack and I take it home and now look left. I look right I go to my room
I stick myself in my closet and I put in dr. Dre and I hit record not just in there rapping with dr
Dre and everybody else, you know, just adding extra words to it, you know snoop dogs
Whatever, you know, whatever his latest songs were. I'm just adding more stuff in there
And you know and the next day I believe or I love the time after that my mom finds it
So if you don't believe my story talk to her, I don't know if you remember this mom, but she finds her recorder
She's like so what is this?
Where did you get this and of course to get out of trouble start lying. Oh, the teacher gave me that for homework
She's like what I'm gonna return to mom. I'm gonna return it
So they should like okay, whatever, you know, she didn't really believe me because mom's are pretty smart
But she obviously had no real evidence against me
So she let it be so I figure you know what I gotta get rid of this thing and I did feel bad
So the next day I just took it back to the class
I look left I look right and I just put it back where we're supposed to be
I don't know what happened, but I forgot to take the cassette out
Imagine the teacher hidden playing that thing and here's the Snoop Dogg, you know
Whatever song he has and then I'm pretty sure you figure out who which kid it was
You know, she knew her class very well
But she probably wanted like what did he take it record it and they just put it back
I don't know, you know, so there's a teacher on YouTube with my demo. I want it back
You know, so
You know
We got to realize that poverty can be a good thing and help purify you
Make you strong and make you better keep you from being arrogant
But it can also be a bad thing in a way
Which is why sometimes we need to just stop and say look Lord
I know if it needs to come needs to come but kind of keep me away from it because I'm really weak and
Unconsciousness or whatever and I don't want to steal and take your name in vain, you know
So we got to realize that so that's the point
I want to make is that it can be a good thing to be a bad thing, you know
Turn to Psalms 37 25, please Psalms 37 25. I
Have one more point Psalms 37
25
So my first point is that poverty can be a good thing second point poverty can be a bad thing
Last point is poverty can be an ugly thing. Let me just define what I mean by ugly
destructive terrible horrific and see God often uses
Poverty to punish your wickedness and to destroy you and your children. Have you guys figured out yet by reading the Bible?
You know people suffer and they lose everything my decisions that they make have you figured that out and it sometimes uses poverty
IE Joe, you know, he wasn't being punished, but he used it to teach a lesson other people
Maybe a lot lost it all to teach him a lesson, you know
But that last point I want to make is that you know poverty, you know can be an ugly thing
And this is what I mean
You know while you're in Proverbs, I'm sorry Psalms 37 25
I want to read from Proverbs 10 15 before you lose that idea about what I mean by ugly meaning destructive
You know the Bible clearly says the rich man's wealth is a strong city
The destruction of the poor is their poverty. Let me quickly get into what I mean, you know
That has to be me, of course
How did I get a call having a reception my whole life here?
That's why I didn't even turn it off. I have not a reception the entire time. Somebody got through
Sorry, they went through the wrong time, you know, but why is there poverty in the world?
Well from reading the Bible what I see is that God uses it to purify us
Give it some things that obviously are hindering us from either getting saved or serving him a perfect example is when pastor talks about his
Grandpa who had a lot of money but had to lose a lot in order to get down to his knees and pray
And get saved you guys understand the other thing is to keep your perfect job
What's a perfect man?
God used it to show him and test them and keep him perfect in my opinion and sometimes that's why
Poverty comes into our lives
The other reason poverty comes into our lives is because God uses it to punish and I give an example
Psalms 37 25 through 28 says this I have been young and now I'm old
Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken nor a seed-baking bread
He is ever merciful and landed and his seed is blessed
Depart from evil and do good and dwell evermore
For the Lord love his judgment and forsake United Saints. They are preserved forever, but the seed that's the children
But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off and what we can see in verse 25
He says look the righteous we may be in poverty, but God will not forsake us
You know the righteous we may be in poverty, but we'll never famish
The righteous we may be in poverty, but see here's the thing our children will never be begging bread
Will never be begging bread
But the wicked this children will be begging bread
That's just how it works with God and what I want to show you very clearly is that yes. God is merciful
Yes, God blesses, but verse 27 God wants us to depart from evil and do good
And not only that the Bible also warns us that a the wicked don't worry about them
They would get theirs and unfortunately their children. They'll see will also be punished
So when you're obviously in need when you're suffering in poverty
You know that usually relates to you having to be begging, you know begging because you don't have enough, you know
You don't have enough. You're in poverty
You don't have enough that you have to go beg for bread and poverty right here
You can see that the reason why they're begging for bread is because they're not righteous. It's because they're living in wickedness
Turn to Proverbs 5
3
Proverbs chapter 5 verse 3
That's kind of quickly wanna read from revelations 18 8 it says therefore her plagues
Come in one day death and mourning and famine and she shall be utterly burned with fire
You know for strong is the Lord God who judges talk about the horror revelation, you know talk about Babylon
Of course, you know the USA God says right here clearly death mourning famine, but he calls them plague
Sometimes they God will plague you with famine and if you're in famine, you know
You're pretty much in poverty may not be riches
But you'll definitely be in need of food if you're going through a famine
So if you're in Proverbs chapter 5 verse 3 through 11, you know
One of the things that I kind of ask myself is what can I cause or what can I do?
To cause God to plague me or punish me with poverty, you know
Like what can I besides knowing that a I just got to stay away from wickedness, you know
I want to give you kids ten things really clearly, you know
They can cause God to bring poverty in your life
And it's not gonna be a good life if he does it in a punishing way
The first thing that I noticed that I've seen just from reading Proverbs that could cause God to lose your will
One of the clearest things is fornication
fornication
Proverbs 5 3 through 11 says this for the lips of a strange woman drop us a honeycomb and her mouth is smoother than
Oil, but her end is bitter as wormwood sharp
It's a two-edged sword her feet go down to death her steps take hold on hell
This is a very wicked woman
Let's now show this ponder the path of life her ways of movable the doubts cannot know them
Hear me now therefore ye children
Depart not from the words of my mouth
Remove that way far from her and come not near the door of her house
Lest I'll give thy honors unto others and thy years unto the cruel less strangers be filled with thy
Well with thy will and thy labors be in the house of a stranger
How in the world can fornication constant go to poverty? Have you ever heard of the baby mama?
Children have you heard of the baby mama not a mama with a baby, but a baby mama
If you never heard of it, let me tell you what that is
You do not want to be a baby mama little girls. You do not want to be known as a baby mama
Let me tell you what a baby mama is as best. I can explain it a baby mama is
A woman who has a baby with a man that does not love her
Does not love her right? So here's what happens a lot of times guys are talking and so guide me to say
Oh, it's my baby mama. That wasn't my baby mama. I don't know who that was, right?
my baby mama
What he's saying is oh this girl that have a baby with it's bugging me for child support
That's how you end up in poverty by committing fornication
And that's what you see all the time especially with stars in Hollywood
They've gone around fornicating get a bunch of ladies pregnant and they don't even want to pay the bill
One of the most important people one of the the most famous cases that I know of it's a rapper doesn't all about rappers a
Rapper named DMX 21 plus million album sold. He got a dollar for every album that he sold
He made over 20 to 30 million dollars in his entire life. Hey, guess what? He is flat broke
And he went to jail. Does anybody know the last time he went to jail what he went to jail for
It could have been but here's what here's what I find out lack of child support not pay child support a
Guy that made over 20 million dollars in his life 21 million plus album sold
He blew all this money on drugs women fornication
You name it and he went to jail because they couldn't afford to play child support all those babies
Mama's were trying to hit him up over
$400,000 of back pain child support
You want to be poor you want to live in poverty kids get into fornication
You'll be broke real quick when you get a bunch of girls pregnant and you can't afford to pay for them
That will happen real quick
And I don't know about any other cases a case where I did cable for a guy who just got out of jail
You know
He was on probation and he was getting an argument with his baby mama and they hung up the phone
It's like this woman is crazy. You know, she wants her money
I don't have her money and I'll turn it the way and he says well
You know what? Don't talk to me like that. Don't disrespect me. I'll call your probation officer
You know, I'll get you battling in jail and the guy flipped out
He's like, you know what go ahead and call my probation officer telling that I beat you. Why don't you?
Yeah, I'll go back to jail
I lose my job and then what's gonna pay your child support is gonna pay for your TV is gonna pay for your cable
Who's gonna pay for those diapers? No one?
No one. Yes, baby mama problems. And is that what you guys want?
Why don't you save yourselves get married do it guys way and pronounce me
He will bless you and if you're gonna be a poverty at least I'll be for good reasons
For an occasion, I'll tell you what don't be a baby mama kids
Another reason that God will bring poverty in your life is because of this
Cuz you're not obeying the voice of your teachers. Let me explain that go to Proverbs 5 12 kids go to 5 5 12
Warm in here
Proverbs 5 12 says this how I
or how have I
hated instruction and
my heart
despised reproof
And I'm not obeyed the voice of my teachers
Nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me
I was almost in all evil in a congregation in assembly
Did you know the one verse that was it was verse 12 what we did we just read earlier
It was 5 through 11 wasn't it? So the same guy that went to the strange woman the last hole as well
He's telling us right here why it happened because he hated instruction. He hated the preaching
He hated the teaching that he was receiving. He was a total fool and it seems to me like this guy
He was basically evil in the congregation when I see congregation assembly
I'm thinking of church
Something is there a guy to hurt preaching and hurt instruction from the pulpit and yet the guy didn't know bad
Not only did it not obey it. Look what it says right here. He despised it
He despised it and this is what the Bible says that poverty and shame shall be the hand that
Refuseth instruction, but he that regarded reproof shall be honored. We've all been guilty of being
Rebellious I totally get it
You know you guys disobey your parents
But you know what blows my mind is when the pastor clearly teaches something from the Word of God
He proves that very clearly from the Word of God and sure enough that same day
You know people are just not harking down to it at all
You know perfect example recently is just as a pastor was preaching on suffering
I'm suffering is a good thing and not to be a spoil your brand not to waste food not to waste anything
You know some people probably took heart to that
I know I did that same night. My kids are like, oh, I'm not hungry. I can't eat this on whatever my wife
You didn't think twice about it. She's okay. We'll put it in the fridge and you'll eat it the next day
I'm thinking great. That's a great lesson. What pastor taught us. I'm gonna take that I'm gonna teach it to my kids
I think that's a great idea to do who agrees with that
You know if your kid doesn't want to finish the food it makes sense to me to put in the fridge give them
The next day doesn't that make perfect sense?
You know, I tell the kids don't waste your food. Don't waste anything. It costs money, right?
And it's right now I'm cleaning the building and this is what I find
You know what I'm saying, you know brothers and girls did you really say those on Sunday night?
Hey, yeah, I'm not about to give up the perfect opportunity for a perfect illustration and teach the kids something
Cuz the Bible says if you teach these kids to break one of the least commandments you'll be least in the kingdom of heaven
But if you teach them to obey one of the least commandments
You'll be the greatest and I'm about to be one of the greatest in heaven
Even if your parents don't
Okay
And that could feel sorry for pastor because he was trying to eat this cold happy eating burger
You know, I could feel sorry for him. I'm like man three hours. I feel bad for you. That's horrible
You know trying to finish that burger that's dry now, you know, it doesn't taste that good. So when it's fresh out of McDonald's
You know, but come on, this is vitamin water again. All right
Let's have vitamin water and Gatorade
You know this stuff is expensive the church by said yes, but it doesn't give you the right to throw it away
Who agrees with that?
Amen, I mean I'll finish their job for him right now
I'll finish this
What in the world
What in the world? I can't believe you did that. I can't believe God cause people to get circumcised
You know, I can't believe God cause people to eat tongue
I can't believe that God punishes people so bad they have to eat their own children. Who knows what I'm talking about
Who read that in the Bible? I hope this is the least I have to do
I'm just getting ready for worse. All right
I'll do both, darn it
And these were separate parts of the church, all right
So these are two separate people, two separate individuals
Why did they do that? Cuz I don't want to listen to the pastor
These were my kids, didn't pick up after your kids, you know, I
Know I'm the janitor, but that's not really why man
No, no, I can tell you I love everybody from faith forward back at the church
But even Moses love his people and he kept on from swiping them all out and making the nation out of him alone
You know, but when he got back inside the corner gap, he wasn't happy, was he?
I bet you he loved those people
So the first thing that'll cause you kids to be in the poor house
Then I want to bring up is fornication
Second thing is being disobedient, not obeying the voice of your teachers and of course your pastor
Let's go to number three
This one an easy one. You don't have to go there by that time being wicked
You're like he just told us that let me remind you then
Proverbs 10 3 the Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famine just reminding you of that great promise
Famine means to suffer severely from hunger or starve to death
If you're saved if you're going to church baptize someone or you're probably not gonna end your life starving to death
Okay, but look at this
But he casted away the substance of the wicked of the wicked you want to lose your substance
Forget about serving God just focus on wickedness your substance will disappear in a heartbeat number four
Beat it being idle and sleeping way too much will cause you to have poverty as a punishment
Proverbs 6 9 3 11, how long without sleep? Oh sluggard when without rise out of that sleep
Yet a little sleep a little slumber to fall in the hands
To sleep so shall thy poverty
Come this one to travel it then I want as an armed man famous verse. I'm sure you already hundreds of times
Number five being lazy the other ones oversleeping. This was being lazy very quickly
I'll cover it Proverbs 13 the soul of the sluggard the lazy the siren has nothing
You want to have nothing really quickly get slugger become a slogan and you'll have nothing very very quickly children
Listen up. This one is for you. Okay point number six. There you go
Don't be stingy
Don't be stingy. Okay, so I wonder where to stand you let me tell you not generous not generous
Okay, poverty 11 24 to 25
There is that scatter it and get increases and there is that was we told it more than it's me, but it tended to
Poverty poverty be a generous person the Lord love it a cheerful giver
You understand kids don't be stingy. Don't always hug everything you have you have extra give some away you understand
But the Lord loves it and if you give more look tonight
You're not gonna end up tending to poverty and the liberal soul shall be made fat and hit the water
It shall be water awesome. So number seven rip ripping people off
You want to be in the poorhouse real quick rip people off the Bible says there's a barber's 13 through 18
Well gotten by vanity show diminish your wealth. Whatever you gain through this honest gain
It's gonna disappear and the Bible says by he they gather by labor shall increase and here's the thing
I've seen this a lot in the workplace. I used to sell computers salesman a big surprise. They're shady
I refused to do business their way. I was the one that they were making fun of customer comes into the store
Hey, I want the best computer
I would think to the best computer even if it didn't pay Commission a lot of times the best computers at my company
They didn't pay Commission
But it got to the point where it's hard to put all the good ones on sale
And then sure enough people are coming in and these would just disappear
Well sure enough something that's left is a demo model and this guy comes in he has his heart set on the certain computer
We tell him sorry, but we're sold out. It is a great deal
You know, we can hold one for you what everybody wanted it a day, you know, hey kid
This is why you shouldn't be impatient. This is why you should be patient. Wait on God
So sure enough he ran into the wrong salesman
The guy comes up to me help. He's like I heard you're sold out his computers
He's like, yep, I'm interested in a demo model. He's like do you sell demos?
We sure do and right away trying to get get it out of there and get some commission through through the warranty
And he says yep, and we'll give you a discount as well
Well the next person that comes up how long has it been, you know on the floor. How long has it been a demo?
Oh, we just demo that last night is what this guy says
Last night. I was in charge of the demos. I demo that thing six months ago
Six months earlier, it's been on 24-7. We never shut him down
They're running 24-7 with demo content. This guy knew it. He was working there for over five years
He knew he didn't put that thing up last night
He flat out lied to this customer to his face that he demoed it the night before and I had them
But it almost six months earlier
But what did he do? Oh, he gained wealth, of course, but he gained it through lies
And this guy was always having problems with his baby mama, too
you
Big surprise, right? Don't rip people off kids be honest do business the right way. God will take care of you
number eight
refusing to help the poor
I'm gonna give you kind of clear on this one who so stuff in his ears at the cry the poor
He also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard
But let me say this we are commanded to help help the needy not the greedy. Okay
Don't be crazy and help the lazy
That should be enough to tell you what I mean you guys understand what I'm talking about
You know when you got some guy
That's my height my build my weight my everything on the corner with a piece of paper that says hey help anyone
It's like no skip that guy go to the bed missing a leg. You know, that's what I go to
Sorry vets
Number nine
Oppressing the poor it's different from refusing to help the poor
This is what I mean hurting them mistreating them stealing from them
Proverbs 22 16 says this he that oppressed at the poor to increase his riches and he they give it to the rich shall
surely come to want
Surely come to want what was that guy that went to jail because he was running this Ponzi scheme where people were investing and it
turned up
Exactly. That's who I think of I mean, I don't like to retain his name in my knowledge because he's so wicked
You know, but you guys know that this is referring to man like him stealing from people old folks whoever
Taking it from them giving it to his rich buddies. Does he have all these billions now?
Is he living in wealth now? Does he have his five million dollar apartment in New York now?
No, it took time
But the Bible says you were surely come to want if you steal from the poor if you oppress the poor and that's what he
Did maybe some rich people invested as well
But the majority of the people were just trying to live off retirement because they're going to get too old
To be able to work and he didn't care about those people
He took their money robbed them, but is he enjoying it now? No, he surely came to want and number 10
I'm almost done guys
Loving pleasure that should just be a common-sense one
Proverbs 21 17 says this hey the love and pleasure shall be a poor man a poor man
He the love of wine and oil shall not be rich Proverbs 23 21 for the drunkard and the glutton
shall come to
Poverty
Poverty, I'm not trying to offend anyone
But I want to make sure the kids understand what I mean by drunkard so when it drinks a lot kids
Someone that drinks a lot call him a drunkard
You understand maybe one beer a month or whatever
But if it's every single day you call him a drunkard you tell him the truth. You're hoping to get right you understand
People but the glutton if someone this is too much kids
Understand they eat too much
Pastors that are 300 pounds eat too much. They're Clinton's
Hate to say it but it's true and sometimes you see the theme of the Bible that the fat guy seems to be
The bad guy Eli and England who knows who those people are
Hey were they good people in the end
I'm just saying you don't have to be on a source to nigger miss America or whatever
But you guys understand what I'm saying
and if you don't come to me and I get more specific, but
In conclusion
Four things that I just want you guys to remember kids. Remember this poverty. You know what if your family has a lot great
Five years from now that barely have anything great long as you're serving God
It's okay kids my kids especially my kids. I don't care if you're serving God you're going to church
You're so in it and you don't have much. I still love you and I'm happy. Okay, you understand
I don't care about the big houses being like a car. No poverty Lord. No riches Lord. Keep me middle-class Lord
I don't want to steal Lord. I don't want to be rich and forget you Lord
I just want to be in the middle of Serbia till I die. You understand kids
I don't care for vans breaking down the pace chipping off. I don't care. I still think you're cool
But you still keep my soul in and knock indoors I think you're cool I want you around me
And also a lot of the people people were about the church
I ain't know what anybody over any movie star any person a politician
I don't care what they are, you know, they do what they're supposed to do. Hey, they're my people and I love them
So poverty good. Yes poverty can be bad. Yes. Can it get ugly?
Absolutely, but it's usually a form of punishment and just remember just at least ten things that can cause you to be played with
Poverty baby mama. All right, I'm baby mama
Just remember that okay
Some of you're like man, I didn't wake up to hear this
So you better hope brother Martinez doesn't get sick tomorrow. Guess who's that bad if he doesn't show up
All right
I'm just getting you ready for the Reihan preaching conference right pastor. All right, I'm just auditioning right now for next year
All right
I'll get better. I promise I'll get better. It's my first sermon. All right first sermon in America full English full 45 minutes
52 minutes
Just getting warmed up in man, and I'm just the janitor. I'm thankful about the church. Let's pray