Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ.

We're so glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe God will transform your life through today's message.

It is a beautiful season here at Transformation Church. It's crazy faith offering Sunday!

And some of y'all are like, why are they cheering for an offering? We have found in this community that at the time of year, when most people are very concerned about what they're going to get for their kids and for their family and for their household, we have decided to be concerned about the heart posture that we can align ourselves with to see what we can give, to be more like Christ.

For Christ, for God so loved the world that He did what? He gave. That was the characteristic of Jesus that wasn't dependent on a paycheck, a time of year, or the economy.

He made a decision that my posture, the posture of the kingdom is generosity. And so today starts. Everybody say starts.

Our crazy faith offering, we understand like people like, I didn't know I want to do it today. Listen, listen, listen, there's no pressure or compulsion. We've been telling you for about eight weeks that this is what we're going to do if you're new to the community.

This is your first time. I didn't know that we're doing this. Where's the building fund? Where's the project? None of it. This is not in response to something we need to get.

Oh God. In church so many times, it's like, let me show you the nice shiny thing we're going to do. And there's nothing wrong with that. But I just found that my motive wasn't always doing it because God said so.

It was doing it because I know what we're going to get after we give. And there's a part of our Christian faith just like when you're parenting kids, it's because I said so.

Not because you know what's going to happen after you do it. It's just I ask you to do something. Generalosity is one of those things that works selfishness out of our heart and makes us more like God.

And right now if you're wrestling with this idea, do they know what time of the year it is? Do they know that the two days ago was not far.

Do they know that we know all of that. But the Bible says that God gives seed to those who have already purposed in their heart to so. So many times when people say they don't have anything to so it's because they never purposed in their heart to actually give a seed.

They're waiting for the harvest to be able to so and God never shows up with a harvest. He shows up with a bunch of seeds.

And so in this atmosphere, I want to build your faith today as we are in week 15 of a series we're calling cuff and season and y'all literally could go for another 15 weeks.

But God told me to stop it at the end of this year so we cuff until Christmas. Okay. We then we cuff till Christmas because God wants people to be un cuffed from every bondage barrier and chain that has kept them from reaching their full purpose.

How many people that are listening and watching in this room right now want to get a well done when they get to heaven. Like just just no just for real because some of us living like we don't want to.

No, let's just be honest like like you know like when you show up for school and there's a test and you was like I didn't know there was a test.

If I was known there was a test and it would count for 50% of my grade I would have studied. But now I'm a fail because I didn't study for the test. That's how most of us going to be when we get to heaven.

I didn't know that what I said matter. I just started with my birthday weekend. I thought that just got scrubbed off because you know.

Turn on. Turn on. I didn't know how I lived how I served. I didn't know that it wasn't just about protecting me and my family.

I didn't know God if you would have told me that I would have lived differently. I'm here to tell you right now.

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