Welcome everyone. We're
excited to share some country
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wisdom with you
King Solomon had a thing
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or two to say about the
path to wisdom in proverbs 4,
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he wrote let your
eyes look directly forward
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and your gaze be
straight before you
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keep straight the path of
your feet and all your ways
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will be sure join us
now for Country wisdom.
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If I love
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being here, if you
can imagine I'm gonna
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see grew up in a caboose which
really didn't grow up and it
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was in the backyard and
a good playhouse that was
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from Southern Pacific this
we're obviously in a completely
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different area of the
country, but who hasn't heard
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of the Chattanooga Choo. Yeah,
even if you've never heard of
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Glenn Miller
who made this famous
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After no, well, there's Glenn
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Miller who wrote at
1945 Chattanooga Choo
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Choo. How do you know all these
things? I don't know were there.
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Oh, no, I was not come on
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get to the topic what you
would love to have been in this
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station. Yeah in its Hay
Day just incredible. I mean
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today you've got some
tourists around we got
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a lot of rain, which is probably
why we don't have too many
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tourists to been
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here when this Depot was just
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running over
with people, you know,
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moving back and forth trying to
find the right track trying to
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find which train they
wanted to be on figuring out.
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You know, where do I go if I
want to get to Philadelphia and
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It occurred to me though,
you know as much as I would have
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loved to have been back at the
height of the rail travel in the
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We're all traveling somewhere.
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You might think especially
in this, you know last year
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with pandemic
craziness that nothing
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in our lives was
moving forward, but
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There really isn't, you know,
you're either going one way
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or another way. There's
there's no stopping in this
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life and
unfortunately here for you
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know, the end we're all
born with an incurable disease
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called Death
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That's where we all
end up in this life. And
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if you are not
actively trying to stay on
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track, you will just slowly or
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not. So slowly in
some cases drift off
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and all of a
sudden you're nowhere
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near you're you're preferred
destinations. No, I move
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your desire too. And if my
desire, I don't want to end up
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just with this life being it.
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I don't know.
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No, that would be
that's a horribly dark
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dystopian Vision. Yeah, if this
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was all there is seven
years. Maybe that's it.
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You know, nothing some may get
a little longer some certainly
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Less in the times in
which we live. But God
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has another plan for
us, you know always best.
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He's got the
ultimate destination in mind I
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You know, what's what's
going on? And I listen and
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I'm not pointing a finger at
any particularly creature, but
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there's a lot of creatures
out there that are seeing things
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that aren't really good. I mean
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you play back in the
early church. The apostles
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were warning about
false prophets false teachers.
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You have to be
able to pick them out.
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Let me read your text
what one to them to call evil
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good and good
evening that put dark history
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white and light for
darkness that put bitter
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for sweet and Sweet forbidden.
Does that sound like the
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times and which we live that
sounds like you're reading from
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the LA Yeah, it does
it. You know, it gets me
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so much you hear these
preachers today. You'll just get
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here and get here, you know,
it'll all be wonderful things
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and that really in
the case of it. No,
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no.
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Scientists tell us that
humans have four basic needs
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for survival food water air
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and shelter, but Beyond
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near survival. We also
need to know that someone
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cares about us.
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And there is someone
who cares someone who is
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always there.
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I love this
building and it's beautiful.
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Beautiful and imagine
it filled with people all
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looking for their destination.
They know where they want
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to go. So you're just looking
for the big sign that would say,
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you know Boston this
way Chicago that direction
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you I got to tell you
I think you're seeing and
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visualizing all the
ladies and you know,
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the late 1800
early 1900 Deep South.
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Yeah, I'd look better
with a course at that.
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But the advantage the reason
I mentioned those big signs
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if you were headed
for Chicago, you see
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the sign this way
to Chicago and wouldn't
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it be nice if in
real life you actually had
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signs, you know
popping up going this
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way to the direction
wherever it is you're wanting to
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go because I don't know about
you but I've made decisions
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in my life,
where at the time they
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seemed reasonable and
I didn't realize where
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that either LED
or could easily have
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lid. I don't even want
to talk about, you know,
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you've had a lot
more twist and turns
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out and and all those there were
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Guided by me and my choices
were all bad choices, you
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know earlier you were
mentioning though that there
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Pastors preachers
televangelists, whatever
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who aren't leading their flock
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in the right direction.
You wouldn't think that would
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exist. It's very interesting
because the Bible also talks
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about Shepherds that are
preaching to itching ears in
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other words to those they want
to hear certain things and they
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like and they glum on of
those things and today it really
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bothers me could
hear some of the great
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preachers I won't
say where but but they're
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talking about this tremendous
Prosperity. You give to God
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right now brother, you know,
I can feel it. I know that when
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you send in your 200 dollar
check God's Gonna bless, you
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know, and of course there
have been scandals with certain
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pastors who maybe
shouldn't have had as much
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as they had they were
taking a bit more from the till
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than they should have
and you really looking you
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talk about Prosperity.
They're the ones are really got
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the prosperity. But the
Prosperity Gospel is actually
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a thing. Yeah,
sometimes it's called
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the name and claim it. I haven't
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saw a place where
they refer to it. It's the
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blabbit and grab it gospel.
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But there are a lot
of people who really
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believe in that and I can
understand why because on the
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surface. It seems reasonable
doesn't God want us to be
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healthy and happy he does
Malachi talks about, you know,
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prove God, you know, you
give to God and he'll pour out a
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blessing so
there is truth to them.
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But you also look at
say somebody like job.
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Job was a absolute man.
After God's Own hearted like
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job did everything
that God won and God did
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bless that man in a
mighty way. I mean houses
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and children and the list went
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on and on probably the
richest man in the whole Realm.
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But then one day the
devil came up ain't the only
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reason he worshiped you is
because all the stuff you've
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given it. And God says
well, you know, go ahead
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see what you can
do. He's faithful to me.
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And so God knew the
heart of them man is
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why he knew he could
trust him with the stuff. Yeah,
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because he could
trust him even without the
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stuff. Yeah, and and
that proved out. We know
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that in the story in
Job that that the devil came
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in wiped out everything
took everything in his
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Except his wife which was
kind of interesting because
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she'd had so many
problems through all this too.
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And she said now why don't
you just curse God and die, you
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know, let's just get it
over with you know, I kind of
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like clearly depressed. Oh
totally depressed and and you
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know, I mean no I
can relate joke was
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pretty depressed too. He
called out to God in for 37
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chapters. God didn't say a word.
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Not a word, you know,
just letting go on here
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and see how he does
and his buddies came to
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him and said it's because you
did something against God that's
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well this troubles going on.
That was the prevailing feeling.
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Yeah that if you were
doing well clearly God
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loved you and if
you weren't doing
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Well, yeah, but it
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absolutely
there's no such thing in
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the Bible that talks
about, you know, you give this
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to God this money to
God or this thing that God
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and he won't reciprocate.
It just doesn't work like
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that. God wants to trust
you first with taking his
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life into you and then
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exit. Well now maybe I'll
bless you in a certain way.
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I saw something once that I
think it was probably a T-shirt
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and it said, you know dear Lord,
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please let me win the lottery so
I can prove to you that it won't
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change me.
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and we laughed at that but
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Obviously, I think for most
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people what
scripture actually teaches
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is that wealth won't
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necessarily get you
where you want to go. In
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fact it it can
lead you right off
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track. Look at Solomon.
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There's good example. I
mean Solomon tremendous if
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his relationship
with God just seen Rock
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Solid and
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guns us. What do you
want? I just want more of your
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spirit Lord. And so God
gives him more of the spirit
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and God says and because that's
what you asked for. I will
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just point out the rest you get
all the rest on top of it. Yeah
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wisdom and riches and
so you follow the rest of
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the man's life.
And what do you see?
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He got off track
totally off track. Yeah
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down and down and
down and down and you
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get to the final chapters when
he looks at all the stuff and I
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mean this man you talk about the
wealth and the gold mines and
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the Thousand concubines,
you know all these things, you
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know and and castles
and wealth and he gets to
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the end. It's Advantage
vanity all is not anything
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to him. None of the
minute thing. He almost
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lost his own way.
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Because of all the
riches right it took his
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Focus off of God.
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I think Christ
said something about
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a rich man having a
little difficulty maybe
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getting in the
Kingdom, you know in a
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camel going through eye of
a needle. Now the needle was
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up in the top above
the Gates Right Jerusalem
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when I was a kid, I thought oh,
it's like my grandmother sewing
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needles, you know, she made
all of my clothes, but that's
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actually not what the eye
of the needle referred and
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it's gonna be a little difficult
to get a camel up there in the
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first place. Even if you could
fit it through that I was on a
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diet, you It also says
that even the disciples
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had a little trouble
it was like yeah, well
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if I rich man can't
get in heaven how do any of
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us have a have a
hope because they were in
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that mindset that
wealth Prosperity equal
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God's love
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You were okay with God and it's
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so often the absolute opposite.
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Because truly if what's known
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as the Prosperity Gospel
not just good Christian people
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that have been blessed.
There is nothing wrong per
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se with owning a lot with having
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a lovely house.
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But if that really
were the measure of
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your Christianity then God
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has a lot of explaining to
do to his disciples. Yeah, I
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think here in the South
explaining it. Yeah. It's
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got a lot of spleen
and yeah, but whatever way
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it all totally
works, you know that.
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You know, I I think
back and I want to say that.
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The preachers that are doing the
Prosperity Gospel they they may
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totally believe what they're
saying, but I think we get
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hooked into especially
Ministries, you know, we have a
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Ministry. We we need funding. I
mean, it doesn't operate without
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funds but you you put
the cart before the horse you
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forget that the first thing
we're supposed to talk about the
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Gospel of Jesus Christ and how
your life can change with him in
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These guys kind of get off that
truck and they put the money out
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there first, and I think
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another thing that is a red flag
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is the thought
back to the the name
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and claim it
type of gospel because
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there's so many
people who buy into that if I
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pray right if I say
the right words if I
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believe hard enough God
has to give me what I've
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just cleaned and in a
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very subtle way or
sometimes even not so subtle.
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What you're doing
is saying God has to do
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what I want.
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It's like we have a contract
I've done this. So God will
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do this. And that sort
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of makes you bossing God around.
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For one thing. I don't
trust myself enough to know
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whether if the things I
want are actually good for me or
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not. Yeah, you know,
I'm often telling God God. I
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really need this. I really need
this thing. You've got to do
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this you've got and
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In the back of my brain, is that
little part going? Yeah, but
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thy will be done but that's
kind of through clinched teeth,
00:14:01.77\00:14:04.51
you know, circling
steel. Yeah. I know. It's
00:14:04.51\00:14:07.41
got to be your will
but never scary once in a
00:14:07.41\00:14:10.85
while, you know, you know, you
should pray this certain prayer
00:14:10.85\00:14:13.78
about God take my life do
whatever you want and it's scary
00:14:13.78\00:14:16.58
prick it is and then I
think why should that be
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What does that say about my
relationship with God that I'm
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afraid of what he might do?
Yeah. Yeah. I've got to find
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another texture for you. I
wanted to read I was thinking
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about it and you know,
they in Chapter 2 Verse
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3 last party
says and he will teach
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us his ways and
we will walk in his
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past or on the
right tracks, you know,
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he's and he's got apparently
more than one path. Why because
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there's more than one
personality, you know, your path
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is not necessarily my path or
Teresa rules or anybody else as
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we know in our team here. We've
all got different paths, but
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God wants to lead us he says and
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let us then
therefore walk in the light of
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the Lord.
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And remind me of course, what is
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the light to our path?
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The psalmist says
Thy word is a light. If
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you are really following this
you don't have to worry about
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getting off track and ending
up in a destination that you
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didn't want to go to.
Yeah. Yeah. No God wants
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to guide everyone of us any
looks in our hearts. He looks
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in our lives. He looks all the
way down the end of the track.
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Because there is as we
said, you know, there is an end
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And he will guide us
to the perfect ending in
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this life and the
journey along the way whether it
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looks like that was the track
we wanted or not. Yeah, exactly
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speaking of tracks. I'm going
to show you another area sure
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chance.
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Hey Janice, how are you doing?
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You wrote another
book. I did had a bird on my
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heart and God
help me get it done.
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So the plan of love
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What's it about? Well,
it's really about God in
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eternity. So everything that
was going to happen here and his
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amazing love. He says I'm going
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to take care of the problem. I'm
gonna take care of the situation
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by giving my own life.
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He did all that but we've
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been lied to so much. We
don't see what God has planned
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for us what God is doing for us.
00:16:15.10\00:16:15.60
Matter of fact the angel came
down to Mary and said You shall
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call his name Jesus for he
shall save his people from their
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sins notice it
wasn't in but from where
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can people get the
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Did you notice all the
lines all the trains? There
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are a lot of tracks which
reminds me of something you said
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inside about God taking all
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of us maybe on a slightly
different track. Yeah, but
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we're all going to
the same destination. And
00:17:01.18\00:17:03.92
because there isn't
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maybe I should back up a lot
of people even Christians think
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there are a lot of
ways and they're all
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leading to the same place, but
that's not true. Scripture tells
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us there's one
one track one path.
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And so whatever track
you're on it, it better
00:17:21.47\00:17:24.37
be headed for that
path. So maybe I was just
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kind of thinking, you know
tracks come from everywhere. I
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was on a track you were
all we're but then God grabs a
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hold of them said this is
the track I want you and it's
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leading to Jesus Christ. When
you get to this point, then I'm
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gonna take you in an amazing
journey and each Journey may be
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on a different track, but that's
in Jesus Christ. He's there in
00:17:42.69\00:17:45.39
any other way
just gonna have and it
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reminds me. I thought of Paul
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I used to have a real
love hate relationship
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with Paul. And in fact,
I still kind of do there's
00:17:54.70\00:17:57.57
some of the things he
says that when I meet him
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in heaven and you've worded
00:17:59.77\00:18:03.48
that a little
differently, yeah, but there
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There's one time in particular
especially in reference to
00:18:08.48\00:18:11.02
Prosperity Gospel. And is
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God going to just bless you with
00:18:14.96\00:18:17.53
big homes and
luxury items and the
00:18:17.53\00:18:20.33
vacation of your
dreams and that'll show
00:18:20.33\00:18:23.20
how much favor you have
with them because he said
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that he's been there. He's he's
00:18:26.33\00:18:29.80
been in a place of prosperity.
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He's been the opposite.
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He's been poor.
He's been, you know
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cold. He's been
burning hot. He's been
00:18:38.28\00:18:40.95
sick. He's been well and what he
00:18:40.95\00:18:44.39
says about it was in
all things keep learning
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to be content.
It wasn't his goal
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to be prosperous to be
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physically and
financially prosperous.
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But it's also
interesting that he said he
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had learned.
00:19:00.24\00:19:00.60
To be content and took him
on that daily Journey. You said
00:19:03.57\00:19:07.08
one thing else
flashing on it? But it's
00:19:07.08\00:19:09.61
interesting. Jesus said
the poor you always have
00:19:09.61\00:19:12.51
with you and I'm
thinking well if there
00:19:12.51\00:19:15.65
any those that follow
Jesus and the poor, you
00:19:15.65\00:19:18.85
know, certainly there
were they just I never
00:19:18.85\00:19:21.89
frosted them for
whatever reason because he's saw
00:19:21.89\00:19:24.13
the end from the beginning.
00:19:24.13\00:19:24.16
And your conditions
here on Earth aren't the most
00:19:26.39\00:19:29.06
important thing
and it certainly not a
00:19:29.06\00:19:33.00
judgment on whether or not
you're in favor with God at
00:19:33.00\00:19:34.97
I got to tell you you
remember the the story of
00:19:37.34\00:19:38.97
the the guy, you know, he
wants all of his gold buried
00:19:40.51\00:19:43.61
with him. So buried
all the gold gets to
00:19:43.61\00:19:45.81
heaven and Saint Peters.
00:19:45.81\00:19:50.52
What did you bring? All those
paving stones here before sit in
00:19:50.52\00:19:55.56
the right Chris
back? Yeah. It also
00:19:55.56\00:19:59.16
made me think of
The Price is Right.
00:19:59.16\00:19:59.63
The Price is
Right. Yeah, you've got
00:20:01.46\00:20:04.33
it, you know, the price is
right the game show I do. Okay.
00:20:04.33\00:20:07.87
What does that have to do
with our episode here? Well, my
00:20:07.87\00:20:10.84
mother always watched it.
I watched it growing up as a
00:20:10.84\00:20:12.37
Didn't watch it. I think
from the time of high school on
00:20:14.91\00:20:17.41
because you know, I
wasn't at home that much but I
00:20:17.41\00:20:20.35
knew of the show hadn't thought
00:20:20.35\00:20:23.25
of it in years and
my best friend Mary one
00:20:23.25\00:20:26.92
day comes in and she just
00:20:26.92\00:20:27.39
I want to go to The Price is
Right. I want to see how it's
00:20:29.89\00:20:32.79
filmed. I want to try to get
on it, you know, because I think
00:20:32.79\00:20:35.36
I'd be good at it. I've always
watched it and you know, Mary
00:20:35.36\00:20:38.53
Mary's, you know,
like a labrador poodle mix.
00:20:38.53\00:20:41.54
She's you know, any
she gets excited about
00:20:41.54\00:20:43.67
a dog and so
00:20:43.67\00:20:49.44
she goes you want to go with me.
00:20:49.44\00:20:49.71
And I knew what
the show was as I
00:20:51.45\00:20:54.72
said, it hadn't thought
about it in years, but I thought
00:20:54.72\00:20:57.52
yeah, I'll get out of town with
you and I'll be fun. We'll go
00:20:57.52\00:20:58.99
on a little road trip
Southern California and we had
00:21:00.56\00:21:03.53
the third friend with us
too all the way down. They're
00:21:03.53\00:21:07.13
talking about. Oh wouldn't it be
00:21:07.13\00:21:09.43
so cool if we got on stage
and Mary's ready? It's like
00:21:09.43\00:21:12.30
I hope we play
Plinko and I think
00:21:12.30\00:21:14.90
I don't know that wasn't game
00:21:14.90\00:21:18.44
that they showed
in my mother's era but
00:21:18.44\00:21:21.71
she was explaining what
Plainfield was you had the
00:21:21.71\00:21:24.58
highest chance of winning cash,
you know, like thousands of
00:21:24.58\00:21:27.12
dollars. And so she
was hoping that she'd
00:21:27.12\00:21:30.69
get on stage and she'd get
Plinko and I mean, she's already
00:21:30.69\00:21:33.56
planning what she's
gonna do with the money and I
00:21:33.56\00:21:36.99
tend to be more
pessimistic. I like
00:21:36.99\00:21:40.43
the viewed as
being realistic and
00:21:40.43\00:21:43.00
so all the way to
Southern California,
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I'm going look
guys. They're what three
00:21:45.17\00:21:48.34
400 people in the audience.
00:21:48.34\00:21:49.14
How many get called up during
the course of a game? What
00:21:51.37\00:21:54.78
are your odds?
Let's just enjoy watching
00:21:54.78\00:21:57.88
the show seeing how a Hollywood
00:21:57.88\00:22:00.38
you know show is filmed.
Well you get there really
00:22:00.38\00:22:03.65
early and you get to
know the people around you and
00:22:03.65\00:22:07.19
I have this young man
who's going. Yeah. I'm
00:22:07.19\00:22:09.52
hoping to win a car and I
remember telling him he said
00:22:09.52\00:22:12.53
what are you what do
you want to win? And I said,
00:22:12.53\00:22:14.13
Actually, I'm good.
God has been very good to
00:22:16.13\00:22:19.40
me. I can't think of
anything that I need. I'm just
00:22:19.40\00:22:21.80
here for fun.
00:22:21.80\00:22:22.04
I ended up winning the showcase
showdown at the end, but it
00:22:24.71\00:22:27.74
blessed our church
because the grand piano I
00:22:27.74\00:22:30.51
won is still there
at church the furniture.
00:22:30.51\00:22:33.35
I won went to our pastor who was
00:22:33.35\00:22:36.62
building his own
house and you know
00:22:36.62\00:22:39.59
was on a budget and pastures
in on your denomination don't
00:22:39.59\00:22:42.66
have much money. No, they're
not known for being wealthy and
00:22:42.66\00:22:45.83
I have to admit I kept
the world's Walt carpeting
00:22:45.83\00:22:48.20
but we did need
that but I have so
00:22:48.20\00:22:51.53
much fun giving away
the things that I'd won on
00:22:51.53\00:22:54.27
stage and in my
game and I just felt like
00:22:54.27\00:22:56.71
that was a bonus.
00:22:56.71\00:22:57.14
That at least for that moment.
I was content. I'm not always.
00:22:59.61\00:23:01.04
And because of that.
00:23:02.81\00:23:04.15
I got this extra
blessing praise the Lord.
00:23:06.25\00:23:07.98
This is God does want to
bless us. He does want to
00:23:09.48\00:23:12.75
pour our blessings upon usage
throughout scripture. He says
00:23:12.75\00:23:15.49
that and so here's the
interesting situation is he
00:23:15.49\00:23:18.99
said look I want to cause you to
ride on the highest mountains,
00:23:18.99\00:23:22.13
you know, that
is God's desire, but
00:23:22.13\00:23:24.03
he's got to
trust us but your goal
00:23:24.03\00:23:27.77
has to be doing right with
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In this
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world, we have so many tracks to
00:25:21.72\00:25:24.62
choose from I mean,
we've got tracks all
00:25:24.62\00:25:27.36
over that you the
choices are mind-boggling.
00:25:27.36\00:25:29.39
But they're not all headed the
same direction. They're not all
00:25:31.69\00:25:33.90
hidden. They're right direction.
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And it can be so hard
without these clear signs going.
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This one is leading the right
00:25:40.97\00:25:41.97
way. This one is not
00:25:42.80\00:25:43.14
how do you make sure that you
are on the right track? Well,
00:25:46.84\00:25:49.81
first of all, the thing is the
Bible talks about Jesus Christ
00:25:49.81\00:25:52.51
is the only way he's the
door. He's the light. He's
00:25:52.51\00:25:55.62
the way he's the truth. He
didn't say he'll lead us to
00:25:55.62\00:25:58.25
it. He says he is so
when we seek Jesus we have
00:25:58.25\00:26:01.16
it all and the key is
we've got to get in the
00:26:01.16\00:26:04.63
scripture. There's just moved
out about it Prosperity Gospel.
00:26:04.63\00:26:08.10
The Lord says in a pair
of kind of my paraphrase that
00:26:08.10\00:26:10.90
King James the whole world is
seeking after these things. He
00:26:10.90\00:26:13.87
said don't seek after those
things. Listen to what he says
00:26:13.87\00:26:15.67
in Matthew chapter 6
00:26:15.67\00:26:15.70
Verse 33, but see
key first the kingdom of
00:26:17.71\00:26:20.41
God and his righteousness
his righteousness his
00:26:20.41\00:26:23.55
life and all
these things will be
00:26:23.55\00:26:26.95
added to you. I'll give you
everything else. If you seek
00:26:26.95\00:26:29.52
me first, you know, then he says
listen to this take therefore.
00:26:29.52\00:26:32.19
No thought how much thought
00:26:32.19\00:26:32.55
Not a bit. No thought
for tomorrow for tomorrow.
00:26:34.59\00:26:37.43
She'll take thought
for the things of itself.
00:26:37.43\00:26:38.46
Sufficient then is
the evil for today. In
00:26:40.70\00:26:43.70
other words. We've got to
battle evil today and folks. I
00:26:43.70\00:26:46.70
want to ask you
you're basically who is an
00:26:46.70\00:26:50.04
engineer of your train.
Who's the engineer right
00:26:50.04\00:26:52.17
a lady wrote an
interesting ideas and
00:26:52.17\00:26:55.81
thought one time said she
saw the whole world speeding on
00:26:55.81\00:26:58.65
train. It was heading
toward destruction, and she she
00:26:58.65\00:27:01.98
asked she found the conductor
said, you know, what's going
00:27:01.98\00:27:04.22
on here. The
conductor was the devil.
00:27:04.22\00:27:06.45
And the devil kind of laughed
and said, you know, hey relax
00:27:08.92\00:27:12.59
here just take it easy
friends, which train are you on
00:27:12.59\00:27:15.46
who's leading the train
who's guiding the train are only
00:27:15.46\00:27:19.00
directions for which track
to get on what direction to
00:27:19.00\00:27:21.70
get on and who's the
engineer is the Bible. So
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I bid you choose
today Jesus Christ. It's
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that simple maybe you've never
accepted Jesus. It's really
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simple right now,
wherever you are simply reach
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up and say Lord help
me. I want to choose you
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today Lord, you guide my life.
And as you said Janice wonton,
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that can be a scary
thing. But God will get
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you I don't like giving up
control which is ridiculous
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because it's not like
all the things I've had
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control of always turned
out really perfect. In fact
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most of the time I'm you
know, cleaning to control and
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why
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Exactly folks Bible says
choose you this day whom you'll
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serve choose you this
day. Who's the engineer of
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Thank you for watching join
us again for another exciting
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country wisdom.
See you next time.
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