If you have your Bible let's go together with me to Matthew 25:29.
"For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not
have, even what he has will be taken away." This same exact verse was mentioned in Matthew 13 after
Jesus explained the parable of the sower, the seed and the soil. And He explained the parable,
came to His disciples and said, "You guys, knew me or know me as the Lord and the Messiah.
Now I'm giving you the secrets of the kingdom." And disciples were like, "Well Jesus we already
know your God. Go to the people and explain them the secrets. And Jesus says this, "He who has more
will be given and he will have abundance. He who doesn't have, even what he thinks to have
or he has physically will be taken away. Now this, Bernie Sanders will not like this verse.
Just for once in a politics. This is brutal.
Talk about helping the needy.
Jesus says, "You don't have it. I'll take what you think to have away." You're like wow. And He says,
"If you have it more will be given to you, oh and on the top of that you'll get abundance."
I accept in Jesus name.
We read the verse. We read the parable. I want to explain to you today about principle of faith from
this verse. It's a very painful principle but it works all the time. The king gives a five talents
to one guy. He gives less talents to another guy and he gave one talent to the last guy. Talent is
a measure of weight. It's a weight. Talent is not like a gift to sing or to perform. Talent here is
a weight. It's like we use ounces or pounds. It's a weight. So probably a certain amount of gold,
or silver or precious stones. But he gave them a certain weight of things, to the one guy,
second guy and the third guy. And each two guys went in and invested things. One guy came
in and he buried it and they all came back. He rewarded them. He says, "Great job." And the guy
who came with one thing, he didn't do anything with it. The king takes away that one talent
and he does something very offensive. He gives it to the guy who has the most talents.
And you're like, you only gave him one talent. That's already an insult
because you don't give everyone equally. And now he didn't do anything with it you're taking that
one thing away from him and you're giving to the guy with 10 talents. He already has enough.
And the king said this. He said, "To him who has,
more will be given and he will have abundance. To him who doesn't have,"
in here. Inside. He said, "What he has in there on the outside will be taken away."
And he will be completely bankrupt on the outside because he's already been bankrupt on the inside.
The big idea of this message this morning is this, the state of your mind is more important than the
condition of your life. The state of your mind is more important than the condition in your body.
The state of your mind, your inner world is more important than the digits in your bank account,
then the degrees on your wall ,then the family you're coming from. Your inner world is a magnet.
If you have nothing here, you attract more of nothing until you get abundance of nothing.
If you have something here. An attitude of faith, an attitude a positive outlook in the middle of
negative situations. What happens is that you begin to have more given to you of that and then
you have even more abundance. So the secret is not to change my circumstances. The secret is to
connect with God's Word and God's Spirit to change the attitude and the atmosphere in my inner world.
In my mind. Can somebody shout amen. Bible says, "Our life is transformed by the renewing of our
mind." Means our life is a result of the state of our mind, as Apostle Paul says Romans 12:2
It's not the other way around. The Bible doesn't say your mind is changed
when your life is changed. It says your life is changed when your mind is changed. Your
mind gets changed by the Holy Spirit and the holy scriptures. Can somebody say, "Amen."
I didn't hear you. Can somebody shout, "Amen!" But for many of us what's been changing our mind
is our circumstances. When it's our mind that's supposed to be changing the circumstances
and our minds supposed to be under influence of a greater reality called the holy spirit and the
holy scriptures. Can somebody shout, "Amen." You know there was this interesting story,
I saw a clip once of this comedian Jim Carrey. Where in 1987 he was homeless. He had nothing
going for him and he took a blank check. A blank check. He had no money in his account.
On a blank check he wrote a check to himself for 10 million dollars and he dated 1995.
He wrote a check for 10 million dollars. Signed it and put his name there that he's giving a check
to himself. He will get in 1995 a check for 10 million dollars. Homeless. Has nowhere to live.
Has no money whatsoever. Somehow he gets auditioned for this movie that many of
you have re-watched and quoted like the holy written scriptures. Dumb and dumber. Number one.
And his personality fits into that movie perfectly and it's interesting that out of
that movie he receives a royalty check in 1994. So a year before his faith check was written,
for exactly 10 million dollars.
So what you have here, you begin to attract more of that, and then you get abundance of it.
And when you don't have it here, the Bible says even what you have in there
gets taken away. If your mind is sick and your body gets healed. The healing cannot
last to the test of time because the mind that is sick cannot contain the body that is not sick.
The greatest problem is not with the sickness in the body. It's not even with the sickness in
the bones. It's when sickness creeps in and begins to be sick in your mind. That even when you don't
have a sickness you're looking for one. Have you ever done it? You're like something must be wrong.
You woke up, you just didn't sleep on the right side. "It's my neck. That's it, I need to go see a
chiropractor." You just need to turn it back and forth three times and everything will be fine.
But when you are sick in your mind you're expecting, you're worried that you're not sick.
Because you have to be sick that's your destiny to be sick, it's your calling to be sick.
When you are poor here, you're constantly waiting for somebody to give you something.
Taxes season is the Jehovah Jireh in your life because there is only one way God can bless me and
that is if I get a 150 refund. It's the poverty here. And somebody gives you a thousand dollars
and you see within two weeks it's gone. Where?. It's gone. Why? Because a poor person here,
will always be a poor person here and there. And have abundance of what is here.