Everybody, today we're starting a brand new series called Multiply, and I've invited one

of my good friends, Pastor Robert Morris, to be our guest speaker.

Pastor Robert is the pastor of Gateway Church, one of the fastest growing churches in

the country, a 13-year-old church ministering to over 20,000 people every week.

He's the author of the Blessed Life.

This is the book that impacted my life more than any others, inspiring me to trust in the

God who multiplies what we give.

Would you please join me in giving a warm welcome to Pastor Robert Morris?

Thank you, thank you, I'm really, really glad to be here, thank you, thank you very

much.

Thank you, and I just want to also greet all of the campuses and all of the network churches,

and just tell you how much we love life church, and we love Craig and Amy, and I respect

Craig Groschell probably as much as any pastor that I know in America, or even for that

matter all around the world, and I travel to a lot of churches, and you probably know this,

but let me just say, if someone who has been in a lot of churches, you need to thank God

for Craig Groschell, because you have a great, great pastor, a wonderful pastor, and so I'm

excited to be here in this series called Multiply, I want you to turn in your Bibles

to Exodus Chapter 13, or turn on your iPhones to Exodus 13, I didn't mean to turn them

on like no texting during the message, all right, but just, you know, however you get

to your Bible, get to Exodus Chapter 13, and I want to share a message with you called

God must be first. God must be first. Look at Exodus Chapter 13, verse 1, now this is kind

of Old Testament-y, let me just say that, okay, but don't tune me out, all right, we'll bring

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