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I want you to go with me to the Book of Exodus, chapter number three. [Music] Amen. Verse 19. This is not a sermon. This is not a sermon. I have some sermons, but I didn't bring none. I had some sermons I think are pretty good, but nobody wants to hear him because this is not a generation that's interested in canned messages. We're interested in a right now word from God. And God said something for me that's still developing in my spirit. And, uh, as He's talking to me, I'm just going to let you eavesdrop and hear, uh, what the Holy Spirit is saying because I believe it's for you. It's coming through me, but it's for you. I can't tell you what a release it was for me, uh, when I preached at Manpower to begin to release some of the things that I know that God has taught me about economic empowerment and to share it with His people. With the release to me, because everybody can't receive the word of God. Amen. And then to share it with you on Wednesday night in Bible class and see you grab a hold to it and get blessed by it. It excites me because I'm not guessing and I'm not responding to something I read in somebody's book. I'm telling you what I know God will do if we walk with Him and trust Him. He will move supernaturally in our lives. Amen. Do you believe that? I believe that. I believe that. I believe. In fact, just turn around, look at somebody and tell them, "God's going to bless me." It's kind of hard for Christians to say that because we've been taught to say, "God's going to bless you." And I believe He's going to bless you. I really do. But I know God is going to bless me. And sometimes I need to hear myself say that to remind myself that God is not so busy blessing other people. Some of you spent all of your life blessing other people and being there for other people that you forgot you. But I can't tell God's going to bless you. Amen. I'm through preaching. The sermon's over. You may go sit down. That's it. That's all I'm going to tell you today. I'm I'm going to say it 10 different ways, but that's all I'm going to tell you. That that is the sermon: God is going to bless you. Look at somebody, say, "God's going to bless me." God bless me. All right, you you'll get it later. You're not used to it. It'll hit you. You'll be going down the road on your way home, hitting 35 years. Yes, Lord. It'll hit you. They'll think you hit the lottery. It it just means bless. Catch you later.
In the 19th verse, the third chapter of the Book of Exodus. The Book of Exodus is for people who are getting ready to make an exit. Yeah, Exodus, exit. It means I'm getting ready to go. Where we get exit? I'm getting ready to go. Is it shows you how to go? Somebody say, "Go." Go. We're going to tell you how to go. Beginning verse 19. "And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. And I will stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof, and after that he will let you go." God says He's not going to let you go at first. I don't want Him to let you go because I'm going to use his stubborn, rebellious, hateful attitude toward you to show you how awesome and incredible I am. And He said, "When I get through smiting him and attacking him and working wonders on him, he is going to let you go like a hot potato." In fact, that don't mean for him to like you. I don't want him to like you because if he liked you and you got delivered, you would walk away talking about how nice he was. But I'm going to make him dislike you and fight everything you set out to do. And I'm going to make him shut the door so I can knock it off the hinges so that when you come out, you will know that it's not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord." And God said, "When I get through working wonders in the midst of you, He said He is going to let you go." Somebody say, "Go." Go. Then He says, "And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians." Good God. He said, "I'm going to turn around and make the people who hated you like you." [Applause] You. And it shall come to pass that when you go, ye shall Oh God. And it shall come to pass that when ye go, ye shall... Oh, I got to read that again. And it shall come to pass that when ye [Music] go. Yeah. But every woman shall borrow of her neighbor and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment, and ye shall put them upon your sons and upon your daughters, and ye shall spoil the Egyptians. You're going to break them. You're going to leave them broke. You're going to take everything. You ain't going to leave them nothing. And remember, ye shall not go empty. Look at your neighbor. Look them right in the face. Look at them with a prophetic anointing and a fierceness in your spirit. Command them as if you were commanding a child in your house and say, "Neighbor, neighbor, ye shall not, ye shall not go empty." Empty. Now, for those of you, I know there are some of you that don't understand King James English and you don't understand what we mean. So we're going to translate. Say, "Neighbor, neighbor, that remains that means that means that means that God said that God said, 'I refuse, I refuse to let you, let you come out of this, out of broke.'" Broke. [Music]
Father, I thank You for Your rich word. I thank You for Your mighty power. I thank You because You're sovereign and You're absolutely rule. I thank You because nobody elected You and Your term of office is throughout eternity. And I thank You because You're God all by Yourself and can't nobody pull You down. I thank You because You run Heaven, Earth, and Hell. I thank You because You're an absolute in a confused world. I thank You for being the answer to every question, the solution to every dilemma, the way of escape to every tragedy. And I thank You because You're God over every condition. I thank You because You're drew in here who You wanted to be here and You made somebody else stay at home. And I'm glad to be one in the number today. Oh God, have Your way in this place in the mighty name of Jesus. Somebody shout, Amen. [Music] Amen. Ah, yes. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. I'm feeling a little bit [Music] churchy. I get like that in the morning. I'm a morning person. That's right. When we begin to talk about this subject, and this subject again gives give stronger credence if you've been developed through Wednesday night to know where we are. But even so, I believe you're going to be able to catch on what we're saying. When you, when there are two things that when Christians start talking about it, it takes some, uh, faith and some courage to be able to deal with it. One of them is sex, and the other one is money. They are taboo subjects, and people don't talk about them in church, and Christians act like they're not interested in it either one of them. On, and the reality is, we are quite interested in both of them. But we have this, this, this form of godliness that suggested that if we're really, really spiritual, then then we shouldn't discuss either of them. They are taboo. You'd be surprised how many Christians, uh, become uncomfortable immediately if you reference sex, even within its proper context of matrimony and marriage. And and and and and how holy and sacred. You'd be surprised how many Christian couples feel like sex is the one dirty thing God lets us do, and He really doesn't approve of it. He really doesn't like it, but He just kind of turns His head and says, "Alright, go ahead. Hurry up and get it over with." And then He says, "Alright, go back to being spiritual." And and and that unhealthy thinking eats at our relationships like cancer because it causes us to have a conflict between two realities. We are spirit and we need to be spiritual, but we are still in a body, and we cannot deny the fact that we are natural. And the conflict, because we define spirituality as denial of being human, causes our marriages to decompose. As we seek to become closer to God, we think that that means we must become further from those that God gave us. And it is the death of relationship, and it hides up under the disguise of spirituality. And Christians don't talk about sex, though they want some. [Music] Praise the Lord. I won't talk about that this morning. And in the same sense, moving from the metaphor, in the same sense, we don't talk about money, though we want some. Even if, like sex, we don't know what to do with it, we still want something. Even if we abuse it, even if we misappropriate it, we are still quite interested in it. But we are obligated to act like we are not. So when you start talking about things like that in church, people go because they're waiting on heaven, and you're supposed to talk about heaven with, and all the wonderful things you're going to get after a while. But but while you're waiting on the bus to go to heaven, you're going to need a ham sandwich. Because whether you realize it or not, you've been waiting a little while, and the bus had come yet, and you had to make a few car payments and a few house notes, and your kids are growing up, and and they might want to go to college, and and and there are some issues while you're waiting on heaven that we need to be able to discuss at some time or other. And we think that God somehow in His sovereignty doesn't want to deal with these issues. But the reality is, God is quite interested in the time you spend waiting on the bus. "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount upon wings like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint." He does care about how you wait. Extremely interested in it. If you read First John, you begin to understand, "I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper." It means that God puts a level, a level of a carpenter's tool, He puts a level on your life based on your spirituality. Your spirituality being the primary thing that as it begins to go up, He puts a level on your life to make sure that as you go up spiritually, you have a right to go up economically, and you have a right to grow up physically. Your health. God wants you to prosper and be in good health as your soul does prosper until you are balanced in every area of your life. I'm not talking about excess. I'm not talking about extremes. I'm not I'm talking about being Rockefeller. I'm talking about being balanced. The Bible said, "Let your moderation be made known unto all men. The Lord is at hand." To be temperate, to be moderate, to be balanced, to have your life up under control. Not so spiritual that you deny your humanity, and not so human that you deny your spirituality. The what you are really seeking to do is to be balanced in every area of your life. And in order to achieve that, God needs to be able to talk to you about every facet of your life: your sex life, your financial life, how you raise your children, how you see yourself, how you deal with your business, how you dress your body. Everything. He talks about everything because He's God. And as the CEO, He has the distinct privilege of being able to send memos to you at will. And if you don't read the memo, you failed to carry out the task effectively because you have not received the memo from above. And so there is a memo before us from the Chief Executive Officer of Heaven. And when He begins to speak, He uses this, uh, particular issue in Egypt to cause us to understand some things. He, He wants to bring equilibrium and balance in our lives. I told them Wednesday night, as we go into the 21st century, there are three things that the Lord has convinced me that we need to focus on, and they are economic empowerment, spiritual empowerment, and relational empowerment. Economic, spiritual, and relational empowerment. To be empowered, lifted up in all of these areas. And lifting up begins with your mind, and it begins with teaching, and it begins with understanding who you are economically, spiritually, and relationally. We've done a good job with spirituality. We've not done as good with economic issues, and we've not done as good with relational issues. And the enemy festers in the areas we ignore. So you've got people having wonderful church and praising God and dancing out their shoes and divorcing, shouting and dancing all over the church and over their heads in debt. I told them Wednesday, it doesn't matter how much money you make. You can make $2 million a year and still be poor. It doesn't matter how much you make if you spend more than you make, you are still poor. If you made $2.5 million last year and you spent 3.8, you are poor. So the the absolute is not to seek how much you can get, but to find out how to manage what you have been given so that you can find a comfortable way of receiving what God has given you. Do you hear what I'm saying?
In our text, the the Lord begins to talk to them. He says, "And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. And I will stretch out my hand and smite Egypt, and with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof, and after that he will let you go." He says, "I'm going to use situations for my own divine purpose." First of all, I'm going to cause him, Pharaoh, to dislike you. A bunch of slaves. Things are going to get worse before they get better. Understand when God's getting ready to take you to the next level, expect things to get worse. The Pharaoh that ultimately was end up going to end up being a blessing to them made things hard for them. Took away the straw, it became difficult to make bricks for them. Sometimes when God starts talking to you about how much better things are going to get, they get worse. Are you hearing what I'm saying? And the problem with most people is we allow the fluctuations of circumstances and the opinions of people to determine how we see ourselves. But God said, "I'm going to make him dislike you." I need him to dislike you because I need you to see how awesome I am. And I can't show you how awesome I am while you look at how awesome he is. So I'm going to cause him to dislike you and to fight you and to shut up his resources from you and make your life miserable so that when you start stepping into blessings, you will know that it was not him that blessed you, but Me that blessed you. And He said, "I am going to do wonders in the midst of you." And then He turns right around, and the same Pharaoh who just made life hell for them, He said, "I'm going to turn around and give you favor." And if you are a person who has a fixation on other people, you are going to be skip isoprenic all of your life because people are going to say, "Crucify him!" one day, and "Hosanna!" the next day. They're going to say you're a great person today. The same person who thinks you're great today is going to think you're terrible tomorrow. Somebody's going to think you're the best thing since sliced bread on Monday, and they're going to hate you by Friday. And if you allow yourself to be leveled by the opinions of people, you're going to be schizophrenic and nervous and intimidated all of your life. But you have to understand that God will manipulate the attitudes of people for His own divine purpose so that you will come to a point of stability. And the only way to be stable is to build your hope on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness and dare not trust the sweetest frame, but to holy lean on Jesus' name. He said, "I'm going to make him dislike you at one moment, and then when I get ready to turn it around, I am going to give you tremendous favor." I'm going to give you favor. I'm going to give you incredible favor. Now, He's talking to a bunch of slaves. But God is not intimidated with where you began because there is nothing in your beginning that can nullify your ending. There is nothing in your beginning that can cancel out your ending. I don't care where you started. I don't care who you are. I don't care what color you are. I don't care what school you matriculated from. Fail, flunk out, dropped out, dropped out sucking your thumb, smoking a cigarette. I don't care where you came from. Nothing in your past has anything to do with where you're going. There are people who were worse off than you, and they made it. And if they made it, so can you. Now, if you're just a person hooked on being depressed and don't want to get up, please go now because I'm getting ready to frustrate you so bad that you're going to have a miserable Sunday morning. If you are just hooked on feeling sorry for yourself and you've already baked the cake and got the candle and you are right in the middle of a pity party, and you don't want any interruptions, get up, put up your little finger, whatever that means, and tip out of here as quick as you can because this is going to be bad news to you. But to the rest of us, this is wonderful news. Touch your neighbor, say, "God is going to bless me." I know that cuts against your Christian grain to say any that you want anything that you need anything. You don't need water, you don't need oxygen, you don't need money, you don't need sex. All you need to do is speak in tongues. But just for the rest of us who are practical, realistic people, let's just be real for a minute and tell you, God is going to bless me. Look at somebody, tell them, "I ain't mad about it either." He says, "I am going to give you favor with the Egyptians, and I am going to bless you. I am going to bring you out, and I'm going to give you favor." You see, God had already set up exactly what He was going to do. God is not confused. He's not trying to figure out what He's going to do from moment to moment. God has a strategy for your life. For every challenge, for every struggle in your life, there is a divine strategy. For every struggle in your life, there is absolutely a divine strategy. You will never find that strategy in the bottom of a bottle or at the end of a cigarette butt. You will only find that strategy when you come in God's face and say, "Lord, what is Your will for me? What is Your purpose for me? What do You want to do in my life? And how would You have me to do it?" These questions become even more valuable as you get older. They're meaningful in your 20s, but they are they they are an emergency in your 40s and 50s. They become a reflection in your 70s. But it becomes very crucial that you cut to the chase as you lose hair and teeth, you begin to recognize, "I am running out of time." And whatever I'm going to do, I better bust a move now. So God begins to tell them, "I'm going to bring you out." It was never a struggle to bring them out. He always knew that He could bring them out. In fact, God was just playing with the whole situation. He made Pharaoh get tougher. It was so easy for God to bring them out. He said, "I'm going to harden Pharaoh's heart and make him tougher so it'll look like a bigger challenge, because I could bring you out whenever I wanted to." And no matter how tough he is, I can still bring you out. No matter how in debt you are, I can still bring you out. No matter how depressed you are, I can. No matter how long you've been a junkie, I can still will bring you out. And and I'm going to bring you [Music] out. But I just want to show you some principles on your way out. I'mma keep you while he hates you. I'mma keep you when your life is hard. I'm going sustain you through hard times because I need you to understand that times don't have to be good for me to be [Music] God. Then I'm going to switch everything around and give you great favor and cause you to begin to understand that the house you were cleaning and the silver you were shining and the copper you was buffing off and the gold you've been cleaning was yours all the time. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying? Whoever's supposed to get this message, God has been saving up a blessing for you. I mean, things that you don't even understand that were yours. They were yours all the time. Your next level of blessing. God has already put it in somebody else's house. You don't even recognize that it's yours, but God is getting ready to do a transfer. See, the first thing you have after you've had struggles, you begin to have favor. And when you have favor, you begin to enjoy things that are not yours. Favor enables you to have access. Access. Favor gives you access to stuff that wasn't even yours when you got favor. You're driving my car and you ain't making the payments. You just driving it because I like you. That gives you favor. All of a sudden, you're in an arena that you never been in just because somebody likes you. And when God gives you favor, you have to take care of favor. Favor gives you access to blessings you didn't learn, you didn't earn, you didn't see coming, just because God gives you favor. He set you in an environment. All of a sudden, you're surrounded by people that you know ain't no way in the world, slick Willie, you ought to be sitting up where you sitting right now. But God just gave you favor and put you in environments. Some of you, God's giving you favor. You don't even know how to dress yet. You don't even know who to bow to. You're in the palace like David, and you don't even know what to do in the palace because you've been so used to sheep. You have never been around palaces before. But God has given you favor. And when He gives you favor, come fix this. Say, "Fix it, because the devil is a liar and I don't have time for it." And God has given, thank you, and God has given you favor because He's getting you ready for something. You don't, you don't even understand it, but God has given you favor. Let me, let me put a footnote, a pen right here, and say, when God has given you favor, don't let the enemy trick you into losing that [Music] favor. Some of you, you are in trouble right now because God gave you favor and you didn't take care of the favor. God gave you. The first thing the enemy does when God gives you favor is try to make you lose it. "Sir, they don't appreciate you, sir. All that stuff you doing, they just using you. They just using you. You're a flunky, and the person talking to you wants your job. They just waiting on you to get frustrated and quit so they can be talking about, 'I can't believe he did you like that after all you did to help him.' Let me tell you, you need somebody you can really [Music] trust." And you will give up your favor. Never give up your favor. When God gives you favor, it is through the umbilical cord of favor that the transfer is going to be made. And so you cannot afford to lose your favor fooling with people who don't have it. That's why Joseph wouldn't sleep with Potiphar's wife. It wasn't that she wasn't a bomb. It wasn't that she didn't have it going on. It wasn't that she wasn't all of that. It was that when he looked at her, and he looked at the favor that he had, he said, "Hey." He said, "You bad, but you ain't worth it." There's something. Tell somebody, say, "Keep your favor." Keep your favor. Oh, that's how God's going to make the transfer. That's how God's going to release the blessing. It's through your favor. People, you'll be surprised how people bless people just because they like them. I don't do business with people I don't like. You can have a product I want, and if I don't like how you present it, I will walk out and not buy and find somebody I like better because I'm funny about where I spend my money. I want to feel good when I give it up. [Applause] If this is your first time in this church, fasten your seatbelts. It's probably going to get worse before it gets better. And so you protect your favor because it is through the umbilical cord of that favor that the transfer is going to be made. And God was getting ready to make a transfer. All the wealth, the national wealth of Egypt, was about to be released into the hands of a bunch of praying slaves. See, this becomes more meaningful if you read what God said to Abraham before it all started. He told Abraham, He said, "Your people are going to sojourn and they're going to be held in captivity as slaves for 400 years." Then He says, "And afterwards, they're going to come out with great substance." He said, "They're going to have a great struggle, and then they're going to have great substance." He said, "When I get through, the greater the struggle, the greater the [Music] stuff." I'm going to say that again. The greater the struggle, the greater the stuff. In fact, if you want to know how much God's going to give you, look back over your shoulder and see how much you've been through. You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you. God meant for you to be here this morning. Some of y'all just had to be here in this service. This service. You had to be here at this service because God has a word for you. I won't be preaching this at 11:45. You had to be here at 9:30 because, hey baby, this one's for [Music] you. Hey, bless His wonderful name. Bless His wonderful name. He's getting ready to make a transfer. He's getting ready to release glory in your life. Getting ready to take you to another level. And all you have to do is understand that the greater the struggle, the greater the stuff. God's going to give you. He's going to release it into your life, and the devil can't do anything about it. You see, God didn't just give them what He gave them because He's a nice God. They had been through 400 years of abuse, working for crumbs, taking all kinds of foolishness, living beneath their privilege, being mistreated and ostracized. And the one thing you got to understand about your God and my God, our God is just. He is just. He is too just to let you get away with whooping [Applause] me. You might whoop me down for a while, but before it's over, some way or other, God is going to recompense, reward unto me for everything I put up with, for every night I cried, for the things I did without, for the times I argued, for the times I suffered. You're not just going to tell me to just die and go to heaven. No. Before I leave this world, Mark 10 said, "No man who gives up houses or land or mothers or fathers in this this world for my sake, will he not receive it again a hundredfold in this life and in the world to come, eternal life." There are some things you did without on this side. You ain't got to wait for the bus to come. While you waiting on the bus to come, God's going to send you a caterer, and He's going to give you a filet mignon. You all at the bus stop, baby. I know this stuff is hard to preach, and it sounds ridiculous, and it sounds crazy that God would return, that God would turn the national wealth of the entire nation of Egypt over into the hands of a bunch of slaves. But He did it. I know it sounds stupid and ridiculous, but it doesn't sound any more stupid than it would have sounded 20 years ago when you walked in that storefront on 408 Lee Street with my seven members and no heat in the building and told me that there was going to be a day coming that God was going to give me international global ministry and 24,000 members of 18 different nationalities. I would have laughed you up under the table. If you saw, if you saw some of the stuff that God was about to do in your life, you would laugh up under the table. But I declare unto you, people laughing don't stop from blessing [Music] you. I don't blame the devil. He ought to try everything he can because God's getting ready to open up the windows of heaven and pull you out a blessing you won't have room enough to receive. I told them, sit down. I told them, uh, the the TV people said to me, "Let's go to West Virginia and get some footage of the old churches and the old places that you used to go and used to live and used to, uh, teach and all of that." They said, "Because people today wouldn't believe where you started from." And and I laughed and I thought, "Yes, that's that's the whole issue." In fact, in my new book, "Maximize a Moment," I begin to talk about one of the struggles when God makes a transfer and radically changes your life is that people who knew you when don't believe where you are now, and people who know you now don't believe where you were back then. See, God can do something in your life so crazy that the people who related to you yesterday can't believe that Tommy Jake is where he is today. And the people who know you now can't believe that you started what you did. But that is what you call a wonder. When God does that, it'll make you wonder how He did it. God is about to give somebody a wonder in this place today. Give Him a praise right now. I said, give Him a praise right now. I said, give Him a praise right [Music] now. You see, dear heart, the people who know you when God blesses you can't believe where you came from. And the people who knew you from where you came from still can't believe that you are where you are. But neither the unbelief of the people of your past, nor the unbelief of the people of your present, can stop God from doing what He's getting ready to do in your life. He's going to do it anyway. The only thing that will hinder God from being able to do what He wants to do in your life is not the unbelief of the people around you, but the unbelief of you. That's why you got to touch your neighbor and say, "God is going to bless [Music] me." You don't have to believe it. You can laugh at it. You can think I'm crazy. You can think I'm out of my mind. You can think I've gone completely bunkers. But God is going to bless me. May not look like it. I may not dress like it. I may not feel like it. I may not smell like it. But God is going to [Music] bless. Let me hurry.
When God delivered Egypt, when God delivered Israel out of Egypt, He performed miracles. He delivered them. He set them free on every hand. When they were thirsty, by the miracle-working power of the Holy Spirit, He brought water out of the rock. When they were hungry, He caused manna to rain down from heaven. When they said, "We're sick of bread, we want some meat," He clapped His hands and served pheasant under glass. When they said, "We're hot," He was a cloud above them by day. When they said they were cold, He turned into a furnace and warmed them all night. Whatever they needed, He provided it. When they came to bitter waters, He threw a tree in it and turned the bitter waters sweet. When they got sick, He turned into a brazen serpent and healed them from all manner of disease. He said, "I am that I am. I'm a blank check. I'm whatever you need me to be. I'll turn into what I'll be your daddy and your mama. I'll be your doctor and your lawyer. I'll be your provider. I'll be your marriage counselor. I'll be your mind regulator. I'm bad. Whatever you need, I can be that without notice. Don't limit me to being what I was yesterday, 'cause I'll be what you need today. And whatever happens to to you tomorrow, when you get there, God said, 'I'll be that [Music] too.'" He did everything in the wilderness for them except create gold. The God who made loaves of bread, hamburger buns theoretically fall down out of the heavens and made water come out of a rock, the God who turned into a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, did not create one 50-cent piece in 40 years. Not one. Because in order for them to have wealth, there was something that they had to do before they crossed over. Now, you are getting ready to cross over into the 21st century, and and and a lot of people who thought they were going to cross didn't cross, and perhaps even some sitting here may not cross. We don't know. But what we are reading is the final preparations before they crossed over to the other side and moved into the miracle-working power of God. God did not ask them to bring lunch. He had that covered. He didn't ask him to pack gallons of water. He had that covered. He didn't ask him to bring extra suits. He had that covered. He didn't ask him to pack extra shoes. He had all of that covered. But He said, "Before you leave, while you got favor, He said, 'I want you to go over to the folks who's in control and get their [Music] money.'" That's terrible English, but it's wonderful faith. See, God understood that the wealth of the unjust is laid up for the just. But it's not enough for it to be laid up if you don't tap into what's been laid up. We've been shouting for years over what's been laid up, but we've been living beneath our privilege. But in this final hour, there's getting ready to be a transfer. Touch your neighbor and say, "There's going to be a transfer." I know they're not interested in it. I know they don't need it. I know they don't want anything, and they're going to get a cabin in the corner of glory. But while you're waiting on your cabin in the corner of glory, may I tell you what the word said? There is going to be a supernatural economical transfer, and God's getting ready to make a shift in economy. Some of the people that you never thought would ever get up are going to be up, and some of the people that you never thought would go down are going to go down because God is making a transfer. And He said to them, "I want you to go and borrow all the gold, gold and silver, and the national economy of Egypt." They gave it to him. When the Egyptians left, the Bible says, "You're going to come out with great substance." They were bent over. They had so much gold and bracelets and earrings, and they had stuff all around the ankles and all on the wrist and hanging off the ears and packed up on the back, camel opera on the back, and silver and all kinds of bracelets and stuff, stuff in the nose, and holding stuff in the hand. They were bent over. The camels were laid down like this. They would just go out, just loaded out with all kind of stuff. That's why that's why when Pharaoh woke up and realized that God had made a transfer, he said, "I got to get them jokers back." He said, "I didn't mind them going, but they have bankrupted us. They have left us completely broke. They have taken the national economy has gone with them." Touch somebody, say, "And the money, and the money goes to you." Goes to [Music] you. And He says, "I'm going to get them." Now here he is, coming after them, and they can't even run. Wonder why, whoever I'm preaching to, God said, "When He gets through blessing you, your back is going to be bent over. You're going to be coming out with so much stuff, you're going to be coming out so blessed." Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Touch somebody and tell them, "Ye shall not go out empty." Let me preach this thing because I'm feeling it down in my soul. God said, "I'm going to bend you over." It's what you've been talking about all the time. God said, "I saw what you went through. I saw your faithfulness. I saw how you suffered." He said, "I'm going to give it back to you, pressed down, shaken together, and running over." You're going to have so much, you're going to have to pass it on to your children and to your children's children. Say, "Up, Lord." The scripture said, "Give it to your sons and give it to your daughters." God said, "You ain't going to be able to carry all of it. I'm going to bless you for four generations." I wish somebody would shout. In fact, I thought to myself that when they got to the Red Sea and they were getting ready to cross over, and the Bible said they sent an East wind, and it blew the water back all night long, and it blew it for miles. I thought it was just blowing it for the people to get through, but no. They were carrying so much stuff that God had to make a highway in the middle of the sea to bring them across. When God brings you out, God said, "Ye shall not go out empty." God said, "When you come out, I'm going to blow back the water for miles." When I get, in fact, whoever I'm preaching to, God said, "Enlarge your courts and strengthen your stakes. Get ready for abundance. Things that you thought you were never going to get." And the devil said, "Serving God wasn't going to pay off." But the devil is a liar, 'cause God said, "After this, He's going to bend your back over, pressed down, shaken together, and running over." Shall men, men, I'm going to make men. I'm not going to rain it from heaven. I am going to make men give you double for [Music] your. May I tell you, some of you wanted to get out sooner? God wouldn't let you out sooner because if you to come out sooner, you have come out broke. And the Bible said, "You should not go out empty." But God delayed your blessing because God has a principle. I taught you Wednesday night that God is a businessman, and He never does put back money without interest and dividends. And God said He'll make your enemy pay you seven times for everything he stole from him. I just want to talk to people who've been stolen from. Stop asking God to give it back. That's not enough. But tell God, "When You give it back, I want seven times." Tell the devil, "Everything you stole from me, I'm going to get it back. You've been robbing my people for hundreds of years, and it's time to pay to the piper." The stone that the builders rejected. Good God. Can I preach this thing? God's about to break curses. Curses that have been over your finances, over your families, over your culture. Years of curses. Folk who died before you broke, they died serving God, having not received the promise. They embraced it afar off. But God saved you for such a time as this. This is our time. Cross over. Get that neighbor, your head, and look him right in the face and say, "Neighbor, neighbor, you remember what I told you? Ye, ye shall not, shall not go out, go out broke." Broke. Not broke in your spirit, not broke in your praise, not broke in your finances, not broke in your body. He said, "I am the Lord that healeth thee." I'm going to heal you. Said, "I'm going to heal [Music] you." And I refuse to let you go out empty. You're not coming out of this empty. You're not going to live and die empty. You're not just going to drag your tired self out after 400 years of being mistreated and just hop on out and say, "Well, at least I got out." He said, "No, not just you coming out. Your stuff is coming out. Your finances are coming out. Your budget is coming out. Your kids are coming coming out. Your marriage is coming out. Your body is coming out." God said, "When I bring you out, I'm going to bring everything out with you. You're coming out with all your stuff." Get your kids in your hand. Bring your family out. Bring your auntie. Bring your cousin. Bring Mama them. Bring for Richard and Daddy George. Bring all of them. Bring them. Bring them. God said, "Those Israelites left with so much Egyptian money, they still ain't spent it [Music] all. They still got [Music] money today." Before they even got to the promised land, while they were still wandering, they had so much money that the prophet had to stop them from giving money, money, 'cause they had so much gold. Moses had to stop them. I mean, before they got to their house, before they got the donkeys and the mules and the camels, uh, before they started eating grapes and locusts and honey, before they got to the promised land, they were already blessed. And whoever I'm preaching to, God said, "He's going to bless you while you're on your way to heaven. Before you ever even get there, God is going to restore what you lost." [Music] Listen. "Ye shall not." You are forbidden to go empty. When you've been really dogged, you think, "Well, if I could just go, it don't make no difference. I just want to go. I've been through so much. I just want out." God said, "No, no, no, no, no, no. You're not going out just any kind of [Music] way. You shall not go empty." Let me show you something. Now, I'm going to move. The Bible says, "The children of this world are wiser in their way than the children of light." If I was on one of them game shows, "Thank You, Lord," and I said, "Sally Jennings, come on down!" Sally ain't even wore nothing, and she just, and I just told you, "Ye shall not go out." That's what I'm talking about. [Applause] Slap somebody on the back. Slap them on the back. Say, "You going to go out bent over. You going to go out bent over. You going to go out weighted back. It's going to be all over you. It's going to be more than enough for you. You got to have some for your children. You got to get them through college. You got to get your sons raised. You got to get your daughters raised." [Music] Yeah. Woo. I know you got to. I'm out of time. But the the best part about this whole scripture is that God did all of this for His people in the Old Testament with the blood of bullocks and goats. If God could take the blood of an animal and give them so much money that He broke the entire nation, and they're still spending it, how much more with the blood of Jesus? What not the church be the head and not the tail?