The Purpose of Profit: A Critical Analysis of Transactional Faith

• Lordship and Mammon 00:04:01 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor argues that the core issue is not a lack of money but a 'lordship problem,' where money (mammon) competes for worship by promising security, status, and control.
• Tithing as a Trust Test 00:08:29 ▶️ 📄
  > Tithing is defined not as God needing resources, but as a mechanism to dethrone mammon and declare God as the true source of provision.
• Fear vs. Faith in Finances 00:12:08 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor contrasts hoarding money out of fear with releasing it through faith, asserting that faith trains the nervous system to trust God over economic headlines.
• Personal Financial Testimony 00:05:41 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a personal narrative of losing a six-figure income, moving in with parents, and learning to tithe from a 'good heart' rather than obligation.
• Obedience and Financial Provision 00:17:18 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor asserts that delayed obedience is disobedience and that God will not share His throne with mammon, promising that obedience leads to quadrupled blessings.
• Fear of Lack vs. Security in God 00:18:12 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor contrasts leading from fear (which causes anxiety and compromised integrity) with leading from God as the source (which allows walking away from wrong deals).
• Overcoming Limiting Mindsets 00:19:07 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor encourages the congregation to reject societal beliefs about aging and wasted life, asserting that God opens windows of heaven regardless of age.
• Wealth and Integrity 00:21:23 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor argues that money reveals character rather than corrupting it, urging believers to know who they are before increase comes to avoid losing their soul.
• Kingdom Wealth and Property Ownership 00:23:03 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor encourages property ownership as a means to build the kingdom, citing personal examples of family members buying homes and securing financial stability.
• Spiritual Surrender and Salvation 00:26:01 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor issues an altar call for those running from God to surrender their lives, repent, and ask Jesus to be Lord and Savior.

• Sermon Illustration 00:05:41 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor recounts losing her successful interior design business and six-figure income, moving in with her parents, and receiving advice from her preacher father to tithe from a 'good heart' to stop the 'devour' on her finances.
• Sermon Illustration 00:09:37 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor describes her childhood habit of collecting free suckers at Shoney's to sell, and her mother's reaction to her tithing from those earnings, which created a negative association with tithing that she had to overcome.
• Sermon Illustration 00:14:18 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a story of a man at dinner bragging about buying fancy shoes on 'after pay,' which she used to illustrate the emptiness of debt-fueled status seeking compared to her own principle of paying in cash.
• Sermon Illustration 00:15:42 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor describes paying off $78,000 in church debt during the pandemic by giving $17,000 of her own money, after God instructed her to do so, demonstrating that God provides the power to give.
• Sermon Illustration 00:15:32 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor recounts her experience becoming pastor during the pandemic, inheriting $78,000 in debt, and being commanded by God to pay it off despite 41 canceled events. She describes giving a $17,000 check and receiving a tithe on it, followed by her bank account quadrupling within three months.
• Sermon Illustration 00:22:02 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about signing a $380,000 book deal with Harper Collins, which marked the beginning of God opening windows of heaven over her life, contrasting her humble beginnings in a special ed class with her current success.
• Sermon Illustration 00:23:17 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor tells the story of her friend Valerie, who was waiting for a husband to buy a house, but was encouraged to buy one herself, resulting in a three-bedroom home with payments $200-$300 cheaper than her apartment.

• Pastoral Charge 00:00:11 ▶️ 📄
  > Share the sermon and subscribe to the channel.
• Pastoral Charge 00:07:24 ▶️ 📄
  > Write down the statement that money reveals who you trust.
• Pastoral Charge 00:08:29 ▶️ 📄
  > Verbally affirm 'dethroning mammon' and write down the definition of tithing as a lordship test.
• Pastoral Charge 00:09:12 ▶️ 📄
  > Recite Deuteronomy 8:18 with the pastor.
• Pastoral Charge 00:12:08 ▶️ 📄
  > Recite the phrase 'Fear hoards, faith releases' with the pastor.
• Pastoral Charge 00:19:56 ▶️ 📄
  > The congregation is commanded to verbally pray a specific prayer of surrender and repentance for playing small.
• Pastoral Charge 00:21:23 ▶️ 📄
  > The congregation is commanded to stand up and verbally affirm their commitment to working smarter.
• Pastoral Charge 00:22:37 ▶️ 📄
  > The congregation is commanded to verbally declare their year as their greatest.
• Pastoral Charge 00:24:26 ▶️ 📄
  > The congregation is commanded to pray for specific financial goals for kingdom building.
• Pastoral Charge 00:24:52 ▶️ 📄
  > The congregation is commanded to pray for the removal of limiting mindsets.
• Pastoral Charge 00:26:01 ▶️ 📄
  > The congregation is commanded to lift their hands, repent, and ask Jesus to be their Lord and Savior.

[00:00:11] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:00:11] People, Real Talk Kim here. I am so excited that you have chosen today to pivot with me. I'm asking you to please share this. Please subscribe to this channel. I promise you, if you give me 30 days, you're going to see your whole entire life changed. I love you. I believe in you, and I'm praying for you. Man, Father, we thank you. Father, we thank you. I believed in the pandemic. The enemy did us a real injustice, instilled a lot of fear in us that we don't even realize.
[00:00:54] some of you build for years and everything was gone within months and you didn't really know how to pivot. You were so proud of yourself. You were doing things in your family. Nobody else had ever done. And then bam. And now you feel stuck. Maybe it was given all your time
[00:01:20] to a church or a business and they just erased you like you were never even there right for you.
[00:01:30] they didn't show you any grace and I hear the Lord saying it's your season but baby you got to get your brain wrapped around it because God is not a genie in a bottle a miracle is easy to
[00:01:46] get but it's hard to keep if you don't think you're worthy of it and if you let a season in your life be defined by counterfeits you'll never be able to grasp what God's doing in your life
[00:01:59] because then you'll hold so tight that the blessings can't come because you're so and so i pray this month is a month where you can just release no anxiety no fear y'all ready to get into it i want to title this i want to title this money is a lord choose yours the purpose of
[00:02:30] the prophet is our new series this month and my scripture today is matthew 6 24 say matthew 6 24 and the reason I'm teaching you this is because I was raised in a very religious home
[00:02:45] very controlling the the religion I was raised in was very controlling and I ran from anything church anything that made me feel man that's just what the church people do and God said you need
[00:03:05] to teach kingdom millionaire no one in my family had ever been a millionaire until I became one before I ever pastored, I was a millionaire. Therefore, when I became pastor at this church, I don't need a salary because I'm very blessed because I learned what I'm teaching you this
[00:03:26] entire month. And I struggled with it my whole life until I got about 45 years old.
[00:03:34] So this scripture says, no one can serve two masters. Say no one can serve two masters for you will hate one and love the other. You will be devoted to one and despise the other.
[00:03:47] You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money. So it is he who gives you power to get wealth.
[00:04:01] And some of y'all don't have a money problem. You have a lordship problem.
[00:04:04] It's not a money problem. It's a lordship problem because money is not just currency.
[00:04:11] jesus personified it and called it mammon why why did jesus call it mammon because money competes for worship money promise you security money promise you status money promises you control money promises you options money promise you escape and jesus said it plainly you cannot serve
[00:04:42] both. You can't serve two. Not it's hard, not try your best. He says you can not serve both.
[00:04:56] So the question today is really simple. Who's your Lord when pressures hit? Your Lord when pressures hit. The biggest divorce statistic comes from financial problems. He keeps marriages from being great marriages because the wife makes more than the husbands and then she
[00:05:26] demasculates him and make sure he knows everything's his hers or vice versa then we don't give our 10 because we're afraid i can't i can't afford to tithe it's 10 cent on a dollar i was
[00:05:41] there i did it i remember i had a hardest time i'd move back in with my mom and dad i lost everything lost my six-figure income because i owned a very successful interior design company before i ever
[00:05:51] got saved, saved. Never paid tithe. Didn't even go to church. Money was my God. Every new car I bought, every new truck I bought, been able to buy my kids, the finest of everything was gone in 24
[00:06:08] hours because my life was in that and in the process of me building, building, building to prove, prove, prove. I was trying to prove to a whole bunch of people that I could do it. And I
[00:06:22] remember I moved in with my mom and daddy and I wasn't tithing him. I had a car and the car kept breaking down. I'd get tickets for move over law. Didn't even know that was a thing. $565 for that
[00:06:33] dumb ticket. And then my car would break down all the time. And my daddy never was a type that would, he was a preacher, but he never put me in a glass house. And I remember he sat me down one
[00:06:43] day and he said, baby, I know you don't want to hear this, but if you start tithing, it takes a devour off your money, but you got to do it in a good heart. So don't do it unless you're doing it
[00:06:53] in a good heart because that ain't going to help. You're going to just be given. And so I thought I would try it. I went on the website, church website, and I put my money in because I knew
[00:07:02] what I was getting every week at Bloomingdale's. And all of a sudden that doggone car, I gave it away the next week. I should have kept it. I gave it away. Do you know that man is still driving
[00:07:12] that car and he had no problems out of it? I started giving it and it blessed him. And so has showed me what my father was saying. So I want you to, I want you to write this down. Money
[00:07:24] reveals who you trust. Matthew 6, 21 says where your treasure is there, your heart will be also.
[00:07:33] So really your bank statement preaches louder than your mouth. DoorDash, get your lazy tail up and go to the grocery store because you may need to meet somebody in that grocery store.
[00:07:49] That's why some of y'all still single.
[00:07:57] DoorDash is your curse.
[00:08:02] Amazon Prime.
[00:08:04] Get cute and go to the mall.
[00:08:07] So we say God is my provider, but panic when the numbers drop.
[00:08:12] So we say I trust him, but cling tight when he asks us to release.
[00:08:17] So whatever you refuse to release will eventually rule you.
[00:08:22] Tithing is not about God needing 10%.
[00:08:25] It's about dethroning mammon.
[00:08:29] Say dethroning mammon.
[00:08:33] Write this down. Tithing is a lordship test. Tithing is a lordship test. It's a trust test.
[00:08:45] So when you tithe, you're basically declaring my job is not my source. My business is not my source.
[00:08:53] The economy is not my source. God is my source. It is he who gives you power to get wealth. Listen to Deuteronomy 8.18. Read this with me. Say, remember the Lord your God, he is the one
[00:09:12] who gives you the power to be successful in order to fulfill the covenant he confirmed to your ancestors with an oath. So even the ability to earn came from him. I was selling suckers in fifth grade. I was going into Shoney's because that's where church people do. We eat
[00:09:37] Back then, that's all we did.
[00:09:39] I couldn't cut my hair, couldn't wear makeup, but we ate.
[00:09:45] Listen, rinds, piccadilly, golden corral, shonies.
[00:09:55] And every Sunday night, we would go.
[00:09:57] That's when we had Sunday night services, and we would go, and I'd take my little silk purse, and I'd fill it up with the free suckers.
[00:10:04] They knew I was coming.
[00:10:05] They'd put extra in there.
[00:10:07] I'd go to school, and I'd sell them suckers.
[00:10:10] 25 cent i was making like 10 a week my mama was like girl where you getting your money i said they helping me at shoney's with my business she said you're stealing the suckers i said no ma'am they're free free every time i go in they got me some they put in and i always
[00:10:31] prayed that same hostess was there because she had to hook up and i remember me saying girl you know that a dollar of that money goes to Jesus. I said, girl, they were free. She goes, no, no,
[00:10:46] no, no, no. You got to learn to tithe. So they were teaching me. I think that's why I had such a hard time tithing when I got older, because my parents were so on me about tithing young
[00:10:56] and I was too young to see the fruit. So I was like, this is a waste. I said, I ain't never telling you again. When I started business, I'm going to hide my money. And I showed it.
[00:11:10] Even when I started making tons of money, when I got about 30 years old, I started raking in the money.
[00:11:15] I was designing.
[00:11:16] I was telling people I knew how to design, and I was going and paying people to do it.
[00:11:21] And I remember I had a little safe about this size.
[00:11:24] And every single time I'd get money, I'd put it in there and hoard it.
[00:11:27] So there was like something that got on me in the spirit back when I was a young age.
[00:11:33] And so I was keeping my money hidden so God couldn't expand.
[00:11:39] My belief was in that safe.
[00:11:41] instead of in God. So even the ability to earn came from him. So when you tithe first, you are not losing money. You are acknowledging the source. So if God can't get his first, then he's not your first. This is the Bible. Write this down. Fear hoards, faith releases.
[00:12:08] Say it with me. Fear hoards, faith releases. Mammon speaks in fear. What if you need it later?
[00:12:15] What if something happens? What if you run out? But faith says he provided before he will provide again. So tithing confronts fear at the root because it trains your nervous system to trust heaven over headlines. It trains your nervous system to trust heaven over headlines. Write
[00:12:56] this down. Money makes a terrible savior because money pays bills. Money can buy comfort. Money can create options, but it cannot say it cannot give peace. It cannot heal your marriage. It cannot save your soul. It cannot guarantee tomorrow. So if money could save you, rich people
[00:13:25] wouldn't be anxious. You ever seen those people that had these big old houses, gorgeous houses and strung out on drugs in the bathroom, snorting because you have a million dollar house and have no friends because you ain't got no peace. So if money could save you, rich people wouldn't
[00:13:51] be anxious. If money could satisfy you, wealthy celebrities wouldn't self-destruct.
[00:13:56] mammon is a false god overspending laying awake at night trying to pay your bills doing sheen hauls on after pay i remember opening up with a dude one time sitting at dinner he was bragging about
[00:14:18] his fancy shoes he had on and he was bragging that he got them on after pay i looked at him and thought we are not the same and we will never go out again because why are you going on after
[00:14:32] paid to buy something to look sharp, you can go to Goodwill. Y'all, I ain't even kidding.
[00:14:39] We went on a date last night. Everybody's like, oh, I need that outfit. I started laughing. Them pants were $6.95 from Goodwill. Because it ain't what you wear, it's how you wear it.
[00:14:50] I don't believe in debt. I don't have debt. I ain't going to get debt. I pay everything off every month. If I can't afford it with cash, I don't buy it. I ain't laying away. That's why
[00:15:02] that building that we about to put up over there. I'm storing up our money because I ain't going to lay awake at night because guess who that church is going to be connected to? The great I am and
[00:15:17] me. I ain't laying in bed every night with a $20,000, $40,000, $50,000 payment and y'all decide y'all want to stay home and chill. Ain't happening up in here. I'm going to pay everything off dead.
[00:15:32] That's what y'all going to see at this church. Y'all listen to me. When I became pastor at this church during the pandemic, I had no clue how to pastor, but I am a business woman. First thing I
[00:15:42] did when I walked in was how much do we owe? They said $78,000. I said, we're going to pay it off this year. They said, how? We ain't even having church. I said, we paying it off this year.
[00:15:51] I ain't going to lay in bed every night thinking I got to have certain amount of money coming from y'all within eight months on New Year's Eve. That's when everybody was bringing their legacy offering. I was like, man, I can't wait to see who's going to pay this church off. And I heard
[00:16:08] the Lord say you? I said, no, no, no, no. 41 events canceled this year. 41 of my biggest events canceled this year. I made $10,000 to go preach out one minute, 45 minutes. And you're telling me
[00:16:23] I'm paying the church home? He said, turn around and go get you a check. I said, oh man. He said, you're going to need to give $17,000. What? I'm not even giving the salary. I went all that,
[00:16:41] all the stuff we do. I went home, got that check, gave it to me, and he goes, baby girl, I'm going to tithe on your $17,000. I said, well, what won't he do? Bless your heart.
[00:16:58] Y'all listen to me. I was walking through one of the biggest trials of my life then.
[00:17:03] Within three months, every single dime had quadrupled in my bank account. Why? Because I was obedient. Delayed obedience is still disobedience. And God will not share his throne.
[00:17:18] If mammon is a false God, God will not share his throne. We paid that church off and we're going to build. So y'all ain't sitting on top of each other. Cause I know y'all can't stand sitting
[00:17:27] on top. He's like, boy, I love it. Every time y'all come and park in the grass and sit on top of each other. And there's some that just like to sit at home in their bed, but there's something
[00:17:37] about being in the presence of God. So we're going to make you a nice place. Hopefully in the next six months, we'll break ground. I know I've been saying that, but I promise you it's going to
[00:17:45] happen. So if you lead from fear of lack, you underpay yourself. You overwork yourself. You compromise your integrity and you chase opportunities God did not send. So what you got to lose your integrity over, you got to keep losing your integrity to keep. But when God is your
[00:18:12] source. You walk away from the wrong deals, even if it looks good. You know what I've learned? I don't care how many zeros is on it. If I feel anxious at all, PK, that was a good deal, but
[00:18:33] they wear me out. I'll give somebody back their tithe and their check before I let myself feel like something is, something ain't right. That's why the enemy gets you when you go to school for
[00:18:48] a degree and you're stuck in that degree because you got still student loans. You think I'm entitled. I have to stay in that degree that I went for. And you miss that on all these other
[00:19:01] doors that God could be opening for you because of the mentality that we were raised in.
[00:19:07] We serve a God. And our scripture here at Limitless is Amos 9.13. That says it won't be long now. God's decree is that things are about to happen so fast that your head will spin.
[00:19:22] Blessing upon blessing, you won't be able to keep up. And then the Bible also says, do not get weary in well doing for in due season, you shall reap if you faint not. So if Amos and
[00:19:38] says that right now our heads is about to spin and God says in due season, why can't now be due season? This is the due season for your head to spin. So God has given you boldness. He's building
[00:19:56] you with peace in this season because you're not building for survival. You're building from security. Say, God, I know you got my back and God, I'm sorry for playing small. I'm sorry to think that sometimes society has us believing that when we get a certain age, we've wasted our
[00:20:33] life. But baby, I know how God rolls. It don't matter if you're 50 or 60, he will open the windows of heaven over your life, but it's our job to walk through the doors. So can you build
[00:20:51] without losing your soul? Money doesn't corrupt people. It reveals what's already there. Wealth, visibility, power don't change you. It exposes you. That's why you have to know who you are before increase comes. Say, this is my season. As you stand up on your feet, say, this is my season
[00:21:23] where I'm about to work harder, smarter, not harder this season. How many feel like you struggle with the spirit of amendment? How many feel like you struggle with fear of money?
[00:21:47] You know, I remember when God really started blessing my life and I signed a book deal for $380,000 with Harper college. And that's when God began to open the windows of heaven over my life,
[00:22:02] because I was just a little girl from a special ed class, but God knew he could trust me. And so when I began to doubt myself, he said, this ain't you. He said, you're dealing from a place of pride
[00:22:20] because when you think that you can mess something up, that's when you don't trust yourself, that's a spirit of pride. So you're playing small so that you don't get hurt. But the thing I love
[00:22:37] about hearts is they're no bones. So hearts are built to break and build. So everybody in this room, just lift your hand up like this. Say, Father, this year is about to be my greatest year.
[00:23:03] How many of y'all rent? How many of y'all want to own? Lift it high. Lift it high. Yo, I don't want you. I don't want you renting. I want you to own properties. Do you hear me? I finally got Valerie
[00:23:17] to, we kept saying, girl, buy a house, buy a house, buy a house. She's waiting on a husband.
[00:23:24] I said, no, baby, that Proverbs 31, she built houses. You got to get it built. She bought her house this year. Do you know that she has a three bedroom house and the payments are $200, $300
[00:23:38] cheaper than what her apartment was? Y'all, we can get you houses. I got people connected.
[00:23:48] This is why we're doing business as usual, March 6th and 7th. Even if you don't have a business, get in this room and let it rub off on you so that you're going to have multiple streams of
[00:23:57] income. So say, Lord, I'm believing this year for properties so I can be a kingdom millionaire so that I can build the kingdom. People say money don't bring happiness, but it sure does bring something called peace. So Lord, I thank you that my limited mindset is limitless.
[00:24:26] And all of you that own one house, you're going to buy more properties.
[00:24:29] you ain't gonna be driving a little car that's put putting everywhere you're gonna be proud to burp in LA you're gonna leave wealth for your kids you're gonna have insurance policies so you don't leave your loved ones stranded when you die we're gonna teach you all of that so say Lord
[00:24:52] break it off of me break that mindset off of me now Lord I pray over this house that you would expand their territory that lord sometimes you got to expose us to expand us and lord we know
[00:25:07] that 10 goes to you it goes to the storehouse to the place you grow and god we know limitless is good dirt so father i thank you that every person that sows into this house lord they're going to
[00:25:21] see major miracles this month and we are going to brag on you we're not going to be afraid to hide our we're not going to be afraid to talk about the miracles that you're bringing in our lives
[00:25:31] because the only reason we hide our miracles is because we don't think we really deserve them.
[00:25:37] But this is a house where you told us we are limitless.
[00:25:41] So Father, this week, already in March, you are going to open the windows of heaven over our lives.
[00:25:46] Not only are you going to secure money, but you're going to secure relationships.
[00:25:49] You're going to secure health and strength.
[00:25:52] Good sleep.
[00:25:55] We're going to have insomnia.
[00:25:58] And Lord, I pray insecurity off this house.
[00:26:01] If you're in this room and you say, Pastor Kim, I've been running from God, But I want to surrender my life over to God right now.
[00:26:06] Lift up your hands.
[00:26:07] If you say, I've been running from him.
[00:26:10] You don't wait to come to know Jesus when you get it right.
[00:26:12] You got to get to know Jesus so he'll help you get it right.
[00:26:14] Okay?
[00:26:15] If that's you, lift up your hands.
[00:26:18] Say, Lord, I repent of my sins.
[00:26:21] And I ask you to be my Lord and Savior.
[00:26:24] I ask you to live in my heart.
[00:26:26] Lord, do a heart check in me.
[00:26:29] Heal me from the inside out.
[00:26:31] Don't let me bleed on people that didn't cut me.
[00:26:33] Don't let me play small because of rejection And Lord Help me do right If you come back tonight I'm going to heaven And I'm taking everyone I know With me Because I'm going to be an example
[00:26:48] I'm not going to be up one day and down one day

[00:26:51] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:26:51] I'm going to be bold and strong In Jesus name Amen And amen In Jesus name Everybody give it up for God right now give it up. Say, Lord, thank you.