AOC... is she nuts?

Garth Heckman

The David Alliance

TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com 

 

 

THERE IS AN AURORA AROUND PEOPLE WHO HAVE LEARNED TO LIVE IN BIG OBEDIENCE! 

BUT HOW DID THEY LEARN IT? 

How did they learn BIG obedience? 

Ok, seems simple enough but it is through little obedience… small steps of obedience, wether we are talking about witnessing on campus in front a few hundred students or giving up our boyfriend or even stepping away from our beloved career… how did the small steps lead up to that? 

 

 

Question?

Can you give .10 out of a dollar?

Lets say you walk into Church and the pastor challenges you… hey you got a dollar? You do! Great… can you give put .10 into the offering today from that dollar… is that a challenge? 

 

Nah!!! 

Can you give $100,000.00 out of a million? 

 

IM NOT TALKING ABOUT MONEY OR PROSPERITY!

 

Does God want you prosperous? -… I have a problem with that prosperity gospel. 

 

Ok, does God want you generous? 

How you gonna be generous with what you don’t have?

 

Generosity does not come from you having excess.. it comes from what you currently have. Remember the widows mite? The 2 pennies. That is all she had…not wealthy at all - But God called her incredibly generous. 

 

GOD WANTS YOU OBEDIENT

GOD WANTS YOU GENEROUS

GOD WANTS YOU! 

 

AOC Alexandria Ocasia Cortez the US representative for NY said recently - that the millennial generation is the first generation to not experience the American dream, the prosperity or wealth that their parents experienced…

WHUH? 

That is what entitlement will do to you. Actually the most recent statistics that have come out is that these last two generations have more wealth than their parents or their grandparents or their great grandparents had? They just don’t see it because they are spoiled… entitled. Its not their fault - it is the parents who raised them. And yes some of it is the society in which we live in.

So when God asks you to give 10% it seems like an astronomical undertaking to big to even believe. 

Now this podcast is not about giving, prosperity or even generosity… it is about taking small steps of obedience.
You know what makes 10% seem impossible to give? Selfishness. You might say oh yea, wow Garth news flash… we know that. But you miss the point. Its not selfishness from the stand point of not having enough… it is selfishness while standing in excess, the ruins of spoil… overflow upon overflow…and you are still selfish… that is why it seems to hard to understand - at least for me and maybe a few more who have some history under their belt. 

God is not asking us to obey in war, oppression, poverty, under persecution (at least not in the US - I know I have listeners all over the world…so I will be careful) God is asking most of us to be obedient in the best time of the world and in the smallest of ways… and yet we our so blind or Blond - we don’t get how easy it should be. But again - entitlement is poison.

Much like exposure to chlorine or formaldehyde are so strong and pungent but over time you get used to them and then at some point you can’t smell anything. They have destroyed your olfactory system. Entitlement is that smell… be wary of it. Act in obedience and let not the world poison your ability to see your blessings!