Praise the Lord.
You may be seated.
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Is our God awesome this Sabbath?
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I got to raise in
mercy and raise in truth
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and teaches us in compassion.
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We sing the song
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that's became a
favorite this semester.
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It says mighty to
save, from the uttermost,
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our God reaches out,
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saves us and
delivers us from our sins
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and brings us into
right relationship with Him.
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So we declare that today.
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It's really
focus on these words,
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every one needs
compassion, together.
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Everyone needs compassion,
love that's never failing
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Let mercy
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Let mercy fall on me
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Everyone needs forgiveness
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The kindness of a Savior
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The hope of nations
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Savior
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Savior, He can
move the mountains
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My God is mighty to save
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He is mighty to save
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Forever Author of salvation
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He rose and conquered the grave
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Jesus conquered the grave
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So take me.
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So take me, as You find me
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All my fears
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All my fears and failures
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Fill my life again.
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Fill my life again
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I give my life.
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I give my life to follow
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Everything I believe in
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Now I surrender
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I surrender
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Savior
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Savior, He can
move the mountains
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My God is mighty to save
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He is mighty to save
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Forever Author of salvation
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He rose and conquered the grave
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Jesus conquered the grave
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Shine your light
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And let the whole world see
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We're singing for the glory
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Of the risen King
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Jesus, shine you light
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And let the whole world see
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We're singing for the glory
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We're singing for the glory
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Of the risen King
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Savior
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Savior, He can
move the mountains
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My God is mighty to save
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He is mighty to save
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Forever, Author of salvation
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He rose and conquered the grave
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Jesus conquered the grave
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Savior, He can
move the mountains
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My God is mighty to save
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He is mighty to save.
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Forever, Author of salvation
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He rose and conquered the grave
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Jesus conquered the grave
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Shine your light, and
let the whole world see
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We're singing for the glory
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Of the risen King Jesus
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Shine you light, and
let the whole world see
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We're singing for the glory
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Of the risen King
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Savior, He can
move the mountains
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My God is mighty to save
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He is mighty to save
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Forever, Author of salvation
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He rose and conquered the grave
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Jesus conquered the grave
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I am seekin' for
a city, Hallelujah
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I am seekin' for a city!
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Hallelujah
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For a city into de Hebben
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Hallelujah
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For a city into de Hebben
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Hallelujah
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Lord I don't feel
no-ways tired Childaren
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Oh, glory Hallelujah!
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For I hope to shout glory
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when dis worl'
is on fire Childaren
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Oh, glory Hallelujah!
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Dere's a better day
a -comin', Hallelujah
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Dere's a better day a-comin'
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Hallelujah
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When I leave
dis worl' ob sorrow,
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Hallelujah
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For to jine de holy number
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Hallelujah
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Lord I don't feel
no-ways tired Childaren
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Oh, glory Hallelujah
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For I hope to shout glory
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when dis worl'
is on fire Childaren
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Oh, glory Hallelujah!
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Amen.
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Holy Father, they sing,
hallelujah we join with them.
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You've been a good
God, You've gotten us
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to this point in the
journey, don't abandon us now.
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Given the times, is there a word
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You would yet share with us.
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Jesus name we wait on You.
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Amen.
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Once upon a time
there was a rich man
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whose investments
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were going very well.
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Not the kind of word,
you and I need to hear,
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we who are very
envious of that thought given
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the not very well
times of which you're living.
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Although, I need to say this,
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it is not a sin, it
is not a sin to be rich.
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Nor it is a sin to have
a skill to invest wisely.
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Although truth be known,
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there is research
now that indicates,
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there is very little correlation
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between having money or
not having it and happiness.
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Forbes magazine carried a piece,
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describing that research.
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A piece entitled,
"Money doesn't buy happiness."
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So let me read this to
you, just a line or two from it.
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It's official,
money can't buy happiness.
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We're all
muttering under our breath,
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yeah, but try me,
please just try me, try me.
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"It's official,
money can't buy happiness.
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Sure, if a
person is handed $10,"
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listen to this, "the pleasure
centers of his brain light up,
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as if he were
given, food, sex or drugs."
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Ain't that something?
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Can you believe
it? Let's find out.
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Let's just find out that
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if pleasure
center really lights up.
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I have, here in my wallet.
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I'm gonna double
the $10, by the way.
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I got a $20, right here.
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All right!
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First person that
comes to get this $20,
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actually I have two more,
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because the people of
First Church felt bad for me
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and gave me a bunch.
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I got two more. I
can take two more.
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But I want to pull
the camera in on the brain
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and look at the pleasure center.
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All right, this was
not staged okay, guys.
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Do you have the
camera on their brain?
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All right, watch it.
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All right, $20
think what happens
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to your pleasure
center when you, when you--
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please, you can keep it fella,
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you can, you're the guy
getting married in June,
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you're gonna need it trust me.
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You are really gonna need it.
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Another $20.
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Now you just lug it at,
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the people in the
First Church had mercy on me.
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They said, all right Pastor,
just in case you do this again
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and I got some
extras, all right.
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So-- save the hugs, till later.
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Save the hugs till later.
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Thank you guys, give
me a high-five, though.
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Come on. All right.
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The whole point is,
ladies and gentlemen, when--
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nice job, guys.
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When you receive money,
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the pleasure
center of your brain
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that registers food,
sex or drugs lights up.
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But I have some
bad news for you.
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Hold on, now.
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"That initial
rush does not translate
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into long term
pleasure for most people."
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All right?
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Surveys have found,
this is fascinating,
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"Surveys have found virtually
the same level of happiness
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between the
very rich individuals
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on the Forbes 400 list."
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And by the way, we talked about
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Warren Buffett last
week, you remember that?
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He's on the Forbes 400,
the richest man on earth,
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$62 billion dollars worth.
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But surveys--
now research shows,
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that the "level of happiness
between the richest people
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and the Maasai
herdsmen of East Africa"
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and Karen and I
were in the Maasai Mara,
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the last year, is negligible.
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They're just as
happy as Warren Buffett.
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So take that to the bank.
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Lottery winners, watch
this, "Lottery winner's
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return to their
previous level of happiness
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after about five years."
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You get millions,
back after five years.
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"Peter Ubel,
professor in Medicine,
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University of
Michigan, just up the road,
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the relation
between money and happiness
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is pretty, pretty, small."
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One more.
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"George
Loewenstein, an economist
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at Carnegie Mellon
University, why doesn't wealth
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bring us a
constant sense of joy?"
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Listen up.
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"Part of the reason,
that people are very good
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at figuring out what
to do with the money.
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People, generally over-estimate
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the amount of
long-term pleasure,
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they'll get
from a given object."
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Once up on a time,
there was a rich man,
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whose investments
went, very, very well.
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And Jesus told us this story
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so that even when
we're not doing very well,
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we will do, very well, indeed.
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Now this for your story
hour, we'll call this story,
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the parable of the rich fool.
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I see you listen to
this story hour, too.
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Good.
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It's target
audience, university students.
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Open your Bible with me please,
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a very short parable
with a very sharp point.
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You got to read it.
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You got to read it.
Pull out your pew Bible.
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If you didn't bring a
Bible, grab the pew Bible.
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It's the gospel of
St. Luke Chapter 12.
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Luke Chapter 12, I'm gonna be
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in the today's New
International Version.
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If you don't have a Bible,
please grab the pew Bible.
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Those of you watching on
television, grab your Bible.
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This is one unforgettable story.
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Luke Chapter 12, let's see
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what the page number in
the pew Bible, page 701.
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Secret number four,
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how to turn your
surviving into thriving
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in the midst of
this economic meltdown.
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Let's find out.
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Secret number four, the
final of the four secrets.
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Luke Chapter 12, I
got to turn this in here,
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talking and not finding it.
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Luke Chapter 12:16,
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"And he" Jesus
"told them this parable,
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'The ground of
a certain rich man
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yielded an abundant harvest."
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Ladies and
gentlemen, the word is bumper.
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Bumper, bumper crop.
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I mean, there was his,
big, green, shiny John-Deer,
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just clawing up that grain
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as fast as that
combine could move.
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I don't know,
how this thing works,
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but the grain goes inside
that iron belly of that combine
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and then it comes
up a shoot, a snout.
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And these trucks
drive right under that shoot
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and yellow gold,
yellow grain piling up.
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And as soon as
that truck's down,
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here comes another truck.
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And another, and
another, and that night,
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after
harvesting his entire land,
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there were so many heaping
rented trucks in his farm yard.
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There would've
been room for one more.
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And so this farmer sits
down at his tiny little desk,
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and he pulls out his
trusty adding machine.
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He cannot, he
cannot believe his eyes.
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He recalculates,
and recalculates.
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He's discovered, he
has more yellow grain
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than he has silo space.
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He's thinking to
himself, hallelujah.
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Like that's what Jesus
has him saying right here.
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Verse 17, "He
thought to himself," mercy
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"'What shall I do?
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I have no place
to store my crops.'
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Then he said,
'This is what I'll do.
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I will tear down my
barns and build bigger ones,
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and there I will
store my surplus grain.'
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" And unbeknown to you and me,
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Jesus has been carefully
inserting into that parable,
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the first person singular
possessive pronoun, my, my, my.
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What was it here?
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My crops, my
barns, my surplus grain,
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and verse 19, myself.
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Hey, wait a minute, rich man.
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Who sent the rain?
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Who gave you that sunshine?
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Who had that
cycle of light and dark?
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Who gave you the wisdom?
Who gave you the heartbeat?
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Who gave you the lung to
breathe, all that energy?
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Come on, Mr. Rich man.
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Can't you just--
Would it kill you?
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Would it kill you to
say thank you to God?
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It'll kill you, not to.
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And by the way, did u see that?
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My, surplus grain.
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Let me tell you something,
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you'll never have a
problem with room for surplus,
00:17:03.04\00:17:06.11
if you give your surplus away.
00:17:06.14\00:17:08.93
There's no
problem, give it away.
00:17:08.96\00:17:11.46
Quit hanging on to that excess.
00:17:11.49\00:17:13.51
You don't need it, do you?
00:17:13.54\00:17:18.97
It never occurs
to that rich man,
00:17:19.00\00:17:20.97
but they're poor people.
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It doesn't occur to him that
00:17:23.12\00:17:24.19
he wouldn't have
a storage problem,
00:17:24.22\00:17:26.21
were he not
having a selfish problem.
00:17:26.24\00:17:28.85
Now, would he?
00:17:28.88\00:17:30.18
And so he says to
himself this little,
00:17:30.21\00:17:31.97
he goes on verse 19,
"And I'll say to myself" self,
00:17:32.00\00:17:36.26
here we go, "'You have plenty
00:17:36.29\00:17:39.52
of grain laid up for many years.
00:17:39.55\00:17:42.82
Take life easy;
eat, drink and be merry."
00:17:42.85\00:17:47.19
Time out, time out,
hey, is it a sin to eat?
00:17:47.22\00:17:50.38
Of course, it's not.
Is it a sin to drink?
00:17:50.41\00:17:52.09
It is not,
depending on what you drink.
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Is it a sin to be merry?
00:17:54.99\00:17:56.51
It's not a sin to be merry.
00:17:56.54\00:17:57.57
The Bible says, a merry heart,
does good, like a medicine.
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The big difference is,
you eat and drink to live,
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not live to eat and drink.
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And that's the
difference, your focus.
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Late that
night, late that night,
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for the umpteenth time
he has rerun the numbers.
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Oh, my!
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The rich man crawls into
bed beside his slumbering wife,
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it doesn't get
any better than this,
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he's muttering to
himself and he begins to hum.
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If I were a rich man
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and he drifts off,
drifts off to a glorious sleep.
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A sliver of moon
light falls through that
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open window across
that contented continence.
00:18:51.76\00:18:57.85
The curtains hang
motion less, and limp,
00:18:57.88\00:19:00.98
beside the open window
when all of a sudden, stiffen.
00:19:01.01\00:19:06.06
And then begins to
mysteriously tremble,
00:19:06.09\00:19:08.32
as the midnight wind
sweeps into the darkness,
00:19:08.35\00:19:11.25
and as if riding on that
wind, an unseen presence.
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The towers over that bent
and a voice in the dark speaks,
00:19:15.82\00:19:21.80
you fool, that's exactly
00:19:21.83\00:19:26.06
what Jesus has the
voice saying, you fool.
00:19:26.09\00:19:30.15
Look at verse 20,
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"This very night your
life will be demanded from you.
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Then who will get what you
have prepared for yourself?"
00:19:35.25\00:19:38.52
And with that pronouncement,
00:19:46.58\00:19:48.98
the man jerks up,
clutches his chest,
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and before he can
awaken her, he's dead.
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The end!
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What a great way to
wrap up the school, isn't it?
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What is his point?
00:20:03.96\00:20:05.00
Let's let this master
story teller make his point.
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Look at this.
00:20:06.49\00:20:07.54
Where's that point,
verse 21, Jesus says,
00:20:07.57\00:20:08.92
you want to know the point,
00:20:08.95\00:20:09.98
"This is how it will be
with those who store up things
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for themselves but
are not rich toward God."
00:20:13.71\00:20:18.47
Listen ladies and gentlemen,
we may not be able to exigent
00:20:18.50\00:20:20.57
every fine little
detail of this parable
00:20:20.60\00:20:22.96
but it is not rocket science,
00:20:22.99\00:20:24.40
to suddenly conclude
with only one reading that
00:20:24.43\00:20:26.92
whatever that this
being rich toward God is,
00:20:26.95\00:20:29.35
it is utterly
essential for life.
00:20:29.38\00:20:33.56
That point is so critical,
we need to write it down
00:20:33.59\00:20:35.36
for the final study
guide in this four secrets
00:20:35.39\00:20:38.28
to surviving the
coming economic earthquake.
00:20:38.31\00:20:40.98
Secret number four, grab
your study guide, please.
00:20:41.01\00:20:42.95
Ushers, let's get study
guide in the overflow and here
00:20:42.98\00:20:45.82
and in the balcony.
00:20:45.85\00:20:46.90
Make sure everybody
today gets a study guide.
00:20:46.93\00:20:49.10
You're gonna want this
study guide, raise your hand.
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It's secret number four.
00:20:50.87\00:20:52.96
And those who are
watching right now,
00:20:52.99\00:20:55.01
we're delighted that you are.
00:20:55.04\00:20:56.62
You can have the
same study guide,
00:20:56.65\00:20:58.17
I'm gonna put it on
the screen right now.
00:20:58.20\00:20:59.70
You go to our
website, there it is.
00:20:59.73\00:21:01.94
You see it at the
bottom of that panel,
00:21:01.97\00:21:03.32
www.pmchurch.tv
00:21:03.35\00:21:08.03
You're looking for this series,
"Four Secrets to Surviving
00:21:08.06\00:21:10.81
the Coming Economic Earthquake."
00:21:10.84\00:21:12.38
This is secret number four,
00:21:12.41\00:21:14.10
"Turn Your
Surviving into Thriving."
00:21:14.13\00:21:18.58
And when you see that,
00:21:18.61\00:21:19.71
you see right
underneath that a study guide,
00:21:19.74\00:21:21.43
you click there and
you'll have the same study guide
00:21:21.46\00:21:23.79
and you can go through with us.
00:21:23.82\00:21:25.19
And by the, if you didn't
get the first three secrets,
00:21:25.22\00:21:27.17
they're all sitting,
right there in that website.
00:21:27.20\00:21:29.13
You can download
them, to your iPod,
00:21:29.16\00:21:31.26
you want to watch
them in your laptop
00:21:31.29\00:21:33.12
there they're for you
in your leisure to pander,
00:21:33.15\00:21:35.23
four secrets for survival.
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These are great secrets.
00:21:37.01\00:21:38.07
By the way, speaking of
survival, I wish you were--
00:21:38.10\00:21:40.79
this church is
full, right to the back.
00:21:40.82\00:21:44.23
Thursday night, David
Ramsey, Coast to Coast live.
00:21:44.26\00:21:47.88
We had my friend
Dave on both screens
00:21:47.91\00:21:50.05
coming from Tulsa, Oklahoma
00:21:50.08\00:21:52.56
and all my, he
spent an hour and a half
00:21:52.59\00:21:54.90
talking about the
economic meltdown we're in
00:21:54.93\00:21:58.10
and where do we go from here.
00:21:58.13\00:21:59.76
I am very grateful.
00:21:59.79\00:22:00.92
Karen and I were sitting there,
00:22:00.95\00:22:02.19
you know, I'm so
grateful he spoke a word of hope
00:22:02.22\00:22:04.47
in the midst of
this very uncertain time.
00:22:04.50\00:22:07.99
But I need to tell
you that as a follower
00:22:08.02\00:22:09.56
because he didn't deal
with a lot of specifics,
00:22:09.59\00:22:11.49
he was dealing
with generalities.
00:22:11.52\00:22:13.50
But as a
follower-- Monday night,
00:22:13.53\00:22:15.41
and then next Monday
night, two Monday nights
00:22:15.44\00:22:17.41
we're gonna have a
seminar, right here,
00:22:17.44\00:22:20.50
you got two financial young,
00:22:20.53\00:22:22.41
skilled young
adults, by the way.
00:22:22.44\00:22:24.46
Bryan von
Dorpowski, Scott Schalk
00:22:24.49\00:22:25.93
and they will read
out some specifics,
00:22:25.96\00:22:28.32
how to get out of
debt and stay out,
00:22:28.35\00:22:30.77
just this two nights.
00:22:30.80\00:22:31.94
Then this fall, we're gonna give
00:22:31.97\00:22:33.11
the financial peace
university with the, right here,
00:22:33.14\00:22:37.25
we'll give you
the dates, this fall.
00:22:37.28\00:22:39.29
By the way, let me
also point out to you that,
00:22:39.32\00:22:40.91
in today's bulletin,
there is a brand new,
00:22:40.94\00:22:43.14
did you see this little
insert faith and finance.
00:22:43.17\00:22:45.95
There is a brand new...
00:22:45.98\00:22:50.34
how to seminar, to get
us through these times.
00:22:50.37\00:22:53.52
And we're gonna be
offering that seminar as well.
00:22:53.55\00:22:55.10
I see one of the
seminar authors here, Ed Reed.
00:22:55.13\00:22:57.92
And works out it about Ed,
00:22:57.95\00:22:59.21
we're gonna have
that this fall as well.
00:22:59.24\00:23:02.06
All right, but right
now, there's stuff we can do.
00:23:02.09\00:23:04.31
We're not gonna have
to wait for this fall.
00:23:04.34\00:23:05.54
Secret number four,
but jot down the point that
00:23:05.57\00:23:07.47
we didn't want to
forget, would you?
00:23:07.50\00:23:09.12
Whatever it
means, jot this down,
00:23:09.15\00:23:10.98
"Whatever it means this
idea of being rich toward God"
00:23:11.01\00:23:15.37
make sure you put the
quotation marks around it
00:23:15.40\00:23:17.93
because those are Jesus words.
00:23:17.96\00:23:19.98
"Whatever it means this
idea of being rich toward God
00:23:20.01\00:23:22.85
must be utterly
essential to life!"
00:23:22.88\00:23:28.14
Keep your pen, moving.
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"Because if you're
not," rich toward God,
00:23:29.23\00:23:32.83
"all that you have and all
that you are will die with you."
00:23:32.86\00:23:35.69
That's the point.
00:23:35.72\00:23:37.21
Short little
parable sharp, big, truth.
00:23:37.24\00:23:43.11
Which by the way,
is Jesus advance point
00:23:43.14\00:23:44.69
that He slips
into, the introduction.
00:23:44.72\00:23:47.11
We skipped the introduction.
00:23:47.14\00:23:48.18
But I want you to
read that introduction.
00:23:48.21\00:23:49.47
Go back to verse
13, same chapter,
00:23:49.50\00:23:53.09
pretty little for the parable.
00:23:53.12\00:23:54.30
"Someone in the crowd," so
He's teaching in this crowd.
00:23:54.33\00:23:56.46
"Someone in the crowd
said to him, 'hey, teacher,
00:23:56.49\00:23:59.89
tell my brother to divide
the inheritance with me.'"
00:23:59.92\00:24:02.34
Will you?
00:24:02.37\00:24:04.45
You know what,
there's nothing more pathetic
00:24:04.48\00:24:07.24
than a family that dissolves
00:24:07.27\00:24:08.90
into a food
fight over inheritance.
00:24:08.93\00:24:13.16
Bring in the lawyers,
let's go to probate court,
00:24:13.19\00:24:15.49
let's settle
this once and for all.
00:24:15.52\00:24:17.35
Are you crazy?
00:24:17.38\00:24:19.39
There isn't
enough there to make it
00:24:19.42\00:24:20.92
worth destroying your family.
00:24:20.95\00:24:24.44
Give it up.
00:24:24.47\00:24:27.11
You'll be fine.
00:24:27.14\00:24:29.81
And Jesus by the way,
He's making that point.
00:24:29.84\00:24:31.68
He shoots back to this man,
00:24:31.71\00:24:32.97
not a great
complementary word here.
00:24:33.00\00:24:34.49
Hey, man.
00:24:34.52\00:24:37.12
You "Who appointed me a judge
or an arbiter between you?'"
00:24:37.15\00:24:40.60
That's verse 14,
now comes verse 15.
00:24:40.63\00:24:42.27
Then Jesus turns to
the crowd and he says,
00:24:42.30\00:24:44.15
"'Watch out!
00:24:44.18\00:24:45.45
Be on your guard
against all kinds of greed,
00:24:45.48\00:24:48.24
life does not consist in
an abundance of possessions.'"
00:24:48.27\00:24:53.32
By the way, once upon a
time, there was a rich man
00:24:53.35\00:24:55.81
and boom he
shoots in to the parable.
00:24:55.84\00:24:57.55
But I want to make sure
that you get the kind of pre,
00:24:57.58\00:24:59.42
the kind of the sub-punch
line that he gives before.
00:24:59.45\00:25:03.25
Jot it down please.
How did he put it here?
00:25:03.28\00:25:06.11
"For a life does not consist
00:25:06.14\00:25:08.03
in an abundance of possessions."
00:25:08.06\00:25:12.15
Boy, how true?
00:25:12.18\00:25:13.68
In fact, I wrote
the sermon yesterday,
00:25:13.71\00:25:15.27
pew research
came out with a study.
00:25:15.30\00:25:18.76
National survey,
cell phone and telephones,
00:25:18.79\00:25:21.68
finding out, how Americans
are surviving this meltdown.
00:25:21.71\00:25:24.57
They are finding
out that Americans
00:25:24.60\00:25:26.06
are settling now for less.
00:25:26.09\00:25:27.92
Stuff we have to have before,
we don't have to have now.
00:25:27.95\00:25:34.77
We're not, we're not
that-- we're pretty bright.
00:25:34.80\00:25:39.93
And that's what Jesus point.
00:25:39.96\00:25:40.99
Look, life does not consist
00:25:41.02\00:25:42.36
in the
abundance and possessions.
00:25:42.39\00:25:43.99
There's something exponentially
00:25:44.02\00:25:46.28
more important than possessions.
00:25:46.31\00:25:49.11
And in fact, if we
hadn't just parachuted
00:25:49.14\00:25:51.13
in to the middle
of Luke's gospel,
00:25:51.16\00:25:52.51
we'd already know.
00:25:52.54\00:25:53.59
The readers already know.
00:25:53.62\00:25:55.06
But we just come diving
into the middle of the gospel
00:25:55.09\00:25:57.76
and so we missed what
Luke has already inserted.
00:25:57.79\00:26:01.16
And what is he inserted?
00:26:01.19\00:26:02.22
A single line in
the Sermon on the Mount.
00:26:02.25\00:26:04.53
Mathew left it out completely.
00:26:04.56\00:26:06.65
Thank you, Dr.
Luke, for remembering it.
00:26:06.68\00:26:09.77
He inserts it.
00:26:09.80\00:26:11.28
I want you to go back
just a few pages to chapter 6,
00:26:11.31\00:26:13.70
Luke Chapter 6.
00:26:13.73\00:26:15.15
Luke's rendition of
the Sermon on the Mount.
00:26:15.18\00:26:19.10
Luke's rendition of
the Sermon on the Mount.
00:26:19.13\00:26:21.14
Verse 38.
00:26:21.17\00:26:23.94
All right,
Mathew-- I mean Luke 6:38.
00:26:23.97\00:26:29.96
All right, Jesus speaking.
00:26:29.99\00:26:31.04
If you have a red letter Bible
00:26:31.07\00:26:32.12
they are to be just as
red as that parable was red.
00:26:32.15\00:26:34.58
"Give Jesus says, and
it will be given to you.
00:26:34.61\00:26:39.98
A good measure, pressed down,
00:26:40.01\00:26:41.93
shaken together
and running over,
00:26:41.96\00:26:43.27
will be poured into your lap.
00:26:43.30\00:26:45.95
For with the measure you use,
it will be measured to you."
00:26:45.98\00:26:52.29
Now, I've to remind you,
00:26:52.32\00:26:53.39
incase you forgot
that the ancients,
00:26:53.42\00:26:55.16
they'd wear this outer garment,
00:26:55.19\00:26:56.32
long outer garment that
00:26:56.35\00:26:57.38
would go all the
way down to the feet.
00:26:57.41\00:26:59.11
The outer garment
became their grocery bag,
00:26:59.14\00:27:01.71
or their suitcase.
00:27:01.74\00:27:03.52
Whenever they
travel or went shopping,
00:27:03.55\00:27:04.72
because they're
gonna reach down,
00:27:04.75\00:27:06.00
all the way down, grab the end
00:27:06.03\00:27:07.36
and pull it up like this
00:27:07.39\00:27:08.72
and now they
have the grocery bag.
00:27:08.75\00:27:09.94
And when they're in
that little village bazaar,
00:27:09.97\00:27:11.88
would you like some grain?
00:27:11.91\00:27:12.98
I sure would.
They're holding the pocket.
00:27:13.01\00:27:15.49
The Greek word is
for a bosom pocket.
00:27:15.52\00:27:17.29
They're holding the
pocket and that merchant,
00:27:17.32\00:27:18.91
he's just poring that
grain in and you could see it,
00:27:18.94\00:27:20.73
wow, wow, pressed down,
00:27:20.76\00:27:22.65
shaking together,
wow, spilling over.
00:27:22.68\00:27:25.31
That's what Jesus is describing.
00:27:25.34\00:27:27.47
When you give, it'll
come back to you the same way,
00:27:27.50\00:27:31.43
pressed down,
pressing it way into down,
00:27:31.46\00:27:33.69
pressing
together and poring over.
00:27:33.72\00:27:39.33
Give, He says, give
and it'll be given to you.
00:27:39.36\00:27:44.21
By the way, I love
the way Eugene Peterson--
00:27:44.24\00:27:45.75
let's put this on the screen.
00:27:45.78\00:27:47.19
Eugene Peterson's,
rendition in the message Bible.
00:27:47.22\00:27:51.22
Look how he
translates this verse.
00:27:51.25\00:27:53.06
You'll have to fill it in.
00:27:53.09\00:27:54.25
Give-- Jesus speaking,
00:27:54.28\00:27:55.62
"Give away your life,
you'll find life given back,"
00:27:55.65\00:27:59.81
but not merely given back
00:27:59.84\00:28:01.62
"given back with
bonus and blessing."
00:28:01.65\00:28:05.89
Giving, not getting,
write that word in getting.
00:28:05.92\00:28:09.78
Giving, not getting, is the way,
00:28:09.81\00:28:12.50
generosity begets generosity.
00:28:12.53\00:28:17.75
I love that.
00:28:17.78\00:28:18.82
Generosity begets generosity.
00:28:18.85\00:28:20.59
Give and it'll be given to you.
00:28:20.62\00:28:24.05
I got to tell you, one
of my favorite stories,
00:28:24.08\00:28:25.61
when I was a boy
was the story of Elijah.
00:28:25.64\00:28:27.87
I grew up with Elijah my hero.
00:28:27.90\00:28:28.95
I mean, could there be
00:28:28.98\00:28:30.04
anybody greater
than that prophet Elijah?
00:28:30.07\00:28:32.25
And you remember how
his life story begins.
00:28:32.28\00:28:35.10
I mean, You think
what it would be like.
00:28:35.13\00:28:36.99
You, going straight through,
00:28:37.02\00:28:38.55
right past the secret service,
straight into the White House,
00:28:38.58\00:28:42.05
down the
corridors, until you find
00:28:42.08\00:28:44.08
yourselves
standing in the oval office
00:28:44.11\00:28:46.65
in front of president Obama.
00:28:46.68\00:28:49.84
And you look at the president
and you say, mister president,
00:28:49.87\00:28:52.93
I'm here to tell you
00:28:52.96\00:28:54.02
that there will not
be a drop of rain or dew,
00:28:54.05\00:28:56.66
until you hear from me again.
00:28:56.69\00:28:58.14
And you pivot on your heel
00:28:58.17\00:28:59.65
and you leave that building
and you wisely go into hiding.
00:28:59.68\00:29:05.88
That is
precisely, what Elijah did.
00:29:05.91\00:29:08.63
He goes into hiding.
00:29:08.66\00:29:10.98
God says, hey, little brook,
little brook called Cherith.
00:29:11.01\00:29:16.08
Go to Cherith. I
will take care of you.
00:29:16.11\00:29:20.52
Trust me.
00:29:20.55\00:29:22.52
So Elijah hides down by
the waters that will diminish,
00:29:22.55\00:29:27.10
but he's down by the
waters at the brook of Cherith
00:29:27.13\00:29:28.78
and you're not
gonna believe this,
00:29:28.81\00:29:30.17
but I am telling
you the gospel truth.
00:29:30.20\00:29:31.74
The next
morning, when he awakens
00:29:31.77\00:29:33.83
and he looks up to
that brassy blue heaven,
00:29:33.86\00:29:37.26
he sees, circling in a
descending flight pattern,
00:29:37.29\00:29:42.13
a flock of raven,
and inside their beaks,
00:29:42.16\00:29:45.57
they're all clutching food.
00:29:45.60\00:29:48.83
And he eats, and he drinks.
00:29:48.86\00:29:51.86
Apparently, it's true.
00:29:51.89\00:29:52.92
God will take care of
you until the water runs out,
00:29:52.95\00:29:57.36
because Jesus says, the
sun shines on the righteous
00:29:57.39\00:29:59.38
and the wicked.
00:29:59.41\00:30:00.50
You're not getting a pass.
00:30:00.53\00:30:01.57
If we're having
a national drought,
00:30:01.60\00:30:02.97
if the economy is
down, you get down, too.
00:30:03.00\00:30:05.80
God's people don't just
say, well, I'm a believer,
00:30:05.83\00:30:08.72
so the economy
doesn't affect me.
00:30:08.75\00:30:10.02
No, no, no, if it's raining,
00:30:10.05\00:30:12.28
it's raining everywhere
buddy, and you're down, too.
00:30:12.31\00:30:16.63
And so God says, hey
Elijah, you're out of water.
00:30:16.66\00:30:19.50
I suggest you go up
to Jezebel, the queen,
00:30:19.53\00:30:21.68
go up to Jezebel's homeland.
00:30:21.71\00:30:23.03
She'll never think of
looking for you there.
00:30:23.06\00:30:24.65
And provisional
will be made for you.
00:30:24.68\00:30:26.02
You go, boy.
00:30:26.05\00:30:27.24
And Elijah goes and sure enough
00:30:27.27\00:30:28.74
as he gets to this
village of Zarephath.
00:30:28.77\00:30:32.48
As he's coming
up to the village,
00:30:32.51\00:30:33.73
he sees a little
woman, turns out she's a widow
00:30:33.76\00:30:36.49
and she's picking up sticks.
00:30:36.52\00:30:39.02
She's looking for kindling.
00:30:39.05\00:30:40.36
Because, this is it,
00:30:40.39\00:30:41.47
this is going to
be the last meal.
00:30:41.50\00:30:44.26
With that fire,
little oil and flour
00:30:44.29\00:30:47.53
she and her son then will die.
00:30:47.56\00:30:49.82
Elijah spots her
and says, yo mother,
00:30:49.85\00:30:54.12
you know what--
and she turns around
00:30:54.15\00:30:55.98
she can tell by the
garb, he's a holy man.
00:30:56.01\00:30:58.79
You know what, I'm so thirsty,
do you have any water for me?
00:30:58.82\00:31:04.64
Lord, she turns,
precious commodity,
00:31:04.67\00:31:07.47
precious commodity.
00:31:07.50\00:31:08.90
Yo mother, I'm not only thirsty,
00:31:08.93\00:31:12.33
I'm so hungry, could
you make some bread for me?
00:31:12.36\00:31:15.98
She looks back at him
00:31:16.01\00:31:17.10
and this is just his long stare.
00:31:17.13\00:31:19.85
And she says, no, sir.
00:31:19.88\00:31:22.96
I'm just getting some
wood for our last meal.
00:31:22.99\00:31:26.02
My boy and I are now
gonna starve to death.
00:31:26.05\00:31:29.58
Elijah looks into the
face of that desperate woman
00:31:29.61\00:31:33.05
and he raises his
index finger to heaven
00:31:33.08\00:31:35.42
and he says, as surely,
as the Lord God of Israel is,
00:31:35.45\00:31:39.24
if You will give me some bread,
00:31:39.27\00:31:41.69
I promise You
that little jug of oil,
00:31:41.72\00:31:44.96
and that jar of
flour, will never run out,
00:31:44.99\00:31:47.49
until there's rain again.
00:31:47.52\00:31:51.37
And then I love
this line, look at this,
00:31:51.40\00:31:52.91
I love the way the story ends.
00:31:52.94\00:31:54.77
1 Kings 17 and so "She went away
00:31:54.80\00:31:58.33
and did as Elijah had told her.
00:31:58.36\00:32:00.41
So there was food
every day for Elijah
00:32:00.44\00:32:03.27
and for the
woman and her family.
00:32:03.30\00:32:05.59
For the jar of
flour was not used up
00:32:05.62\00:32:08.18
and the jug of
oil did not run dry,
00:32:08.21\00:32:10.89
in keeping with the word
of the Lord spoken by Elijah."
00:32:10.92\00:32:16.42
Hallelujah.
00:32:16.45\00:32:18.24
Apparently, it's true.
00:32:18.27\00:32:19.88
God will take care of us.
00:32:19.91\00:32:23.50
Give and it
will be given to you.
00:32:27.20\00:32:30.91
That's what the widow did.
00:32:30.94\00:32:33.05
"A good measure,
pressed down, shaken together
00:32:33.08\00:32:34.91
and running over, will
be poured into your lap.
00:32:34.94\00:32:37.03
For with the measure you use,
it will be measured to you."
00:32:37.06\00:32:40.95
That is precisely
what the widow did.
00:32:40.98\00:32:42.27
She gave the all that she had,
00:32:42.30\00:32:43.91
and God gave it all back to her,
00:32:43.94\00:32:45.02
poured it in to her lap
00:32:45.05\00:32:46.12
until she could
even hold it all.
00:32:46.15\00:32:49.13
Apparently--
would you jot this down?
00:32:49.16\00:32:53.18
"If you make God
first, He will make it last."
00:32:53.21\00:33:01.03
`If you make God
first, He will make it last.
00:33:02.13\00:33:08.95
I don't know how it works,
00:33:08.98\00:33:10.18
I mean, it's so
counter-intuitive.
00:33:10.21\00:33:11.83
This little woman
has just this left
00:33:11.86\00:33:13.34
and she gives it up,
but she gets way more.
00:33:13.37\00:33:15.33
I don't know how it works.
00:33:15.36\00:33:17.21
I only know that Jesus
promised it would work.
00:33:17.24\00:33:21.44
Let me read it to
you from Peterson again.
00:33:21.47\00:33:23.10
"Give away your life
00:33:23.13\00:33:24.94
and you'll find life given back,
00:33:24.97\00:33:26.54
not merely given back,
00:33:26.57\00:33:28.10
but given back
with bonus and blessing.
00:33:28.13\00:33:30.12
Giving, not getting, is the way,
00:33:30.15\00:33:32.49
generosity begets generosity."
00:33:32.52\00:33:35.92
You want to know
the secret for turning
00:33:35.95\00:33:37.36
your economic surviving
into economic thriving,
00:33:37.39\00:33:40.45
write it down right
now, secret number four.
00:33:40.48\00:33:43.47
"When living becomes giving,
surviving becomes thriving."
00:33:43.50\00:33:49.11
That's it.
00:33:49.14\00:33:50.18
Write it down,
secret number four.
00:33:50.21\00:33:52.22
"When living becomes giving,
surviving becomes thriving."
00:33:52.25\00:33:57.60
Keep writing.
00:33:57.63\00:33:58.66
"The happiest people on earth
(rich or poor) are all givers."
00:33:58.69\00:34:04.48
Write it down.
00:34:04.51\00:34:05.56
And by the way,
keep your pen moving.
00:34:05.59\00:34:06.89
"They're also the
healthiest people on earth.
00:34:06.92\00:34:12.12
My friend, Larry Ulery,
00:34:12.15\00:34:13.48
who teaches here
at the university.
00:34:13.51\00:34:16.71
Larry sent this to me and
I want to pass it onto you.
00:34:16.74\00:34:18.26
You have it in your study guide.
00:34:18.29\00:34:19.32
This is good.
00:34:19.35\00:34:20.96
This is from what,
Michigan Literacy Inc.
00:34:20.99\00:34:23.56
You'll have to
fill in a line or two.
00:34:23.59\00:34:24.81
I'm quoting now.
00:34:24.84\00:34:25.93
"According to
researchers at the Institute
00:34:25.96\00:34:27.92
for the Advancement of Health,
doing regular volunteer work"
00:34:27.95\00:34:31.76
all right, giving up
yourself, giving up yourself
00:34:31.79\00:34:34.31
"doing regular volunteer
work increases life expectancy."
00:34:34.34\00:34:38.27
Write that one down.
00:34:38.30\00:34:39.45
It increases life expectancy.
00:34:39.48\00:34:42.23
"The research suggests
that the feeling of 'warmth'"
00:34:42.26\00:34:45.91
those endorphins,
"the feeling of 'warmth'
00:34:45.94\00:34:48.70
that results from helping others
00:34:48.73\00:34:50.10
can be attributed to the release
00:34:50.13\00:34:52.07
of endorphins in the brain.
00:34:52.10\00:34:53.67
Since nerve cells
involved are connected
00:34:53.70\00:34:55.92
to parts of the body
that fight infection,"
00:34:55.95\00:34:57.57
jot this down, "doing good
can help your immune system."
00:34:57.60\00:35:01.74
I'm still quoting.
00:35:01.77\00:35:02.80
Write it in, your immune system.
00:35:02.83\00:35:04.89
"Another study conducted at
the University of California
00:35:04.92\00:35:07.37
Medical School in San Francisco,
00:35:07.40\00:35:08.49
found that volunteering
'seems to increase self esteem,
00:35:08.52\00:35:12.13
foster a sense of competence,
00:35:12.16\00:35:13.75
and fight off
stress and depression.'"
00:35:13.78\00:35:16.77
Ladies and
gentlemen, talk about thriving,
00:35:16.80\00:35:20.38
thriving instead of surviving.
00:35:20.41\00:35:22.18
You got it.
00:35:22.21\00:35:23.92
And it all comes,
isn't this amazing?
00:35:23.95\00:35:26.57
It all comes to the one
who's willing to give himself.
00:35:26.60\00:35:31.30
It all comes to the one
00:35:31.33\00:35:33.51
who's willing to
give herself, to others.
00:35:33.54\00:35:39.71
Give and it will
be given, unto you.
00:35:39.74\00:35:43.97
For generosity
begets generosity.
00:35:44.00\00:35:51.26
That's why I was so
proud of you yesterday.
00:35:52.31\00:35:55.48
Not yesterday, actually
Thursday, to be in chapel
00:35:55.51\00:35:59.05
and to watch as
our president invited,
00:35:59.08\00:36:01.15
46 young adults
from Andrews University.
00:36:01.18\00:36:04.73
Come about at the
pew, come to the front.
00:36:04.76\00:36:08.86
What's so special about them?
00:36:08.89\00:36:10.01
They're volunteering. Get this.
00:36:10.04\00:36:11.50
They're
volunteering, to give a year
00:36:11.53\00:36:13.54
of their life in
some foreign land
00:36:13.57\00:36:16.18
in the service of
Christ Jesus himself.
00:36:16.21\00:36:19.52
They're gonna
put a pause button,
00:36:19.55\00:36:21.31
hold everything, I'm
gonna take this year away
00:36:21.34\00:36:25.74
and give of myself,
for the sake of others.
00:36:25.77\00:36:29.56
I was so proud when I
watch them come forward.
00:36:29.59\00:36:31.80
I want to tell you something,
00:36:31.83\00:36:32.94
you young adults
who made that decision,
00:36:32.97\00:36:35.03
I want to tell
you can trust Jesus.
00:36:35.06\00:36:36.97
He will make it up to you.
00:36:37.00\00:36:38.53
He will take that willingness
00:36:38.56\00:36:39.89
and I don't know
how He's gonna do it,
00:36:39.92\00:36:41.40
but He will make it up to you.
00:36:41.43\00:36:46.19
Give and it will
be given unto you.
00:36:46.22\00:36:52.66
Now, I haven't
planned to do this,
00:36:52.69\00:36:55.71
because, we had that extra money
00:36:55.74\00:37:01.16
that was given to
me between services.
00:37:01.19\00:37:04.36
I want the three people,
who received money from me,
00:37:04.39\00:37:07.30
to answer this question.
00:37:07.33\00:37:08.39
Do you want to be healthy
and do you want to live longer?
00:37:08.42\00:37:13.57
Do you want to be happy
and do you want to be healthy?
00:37:15.33\00:37:18.47
Come back to me, come,
come, come, come, come.
00:37:18.50\00:37:20.06
The three of you,
come on, come, come.
00:37:20.09\00:37:27.47
All right.
00:37:27.50\00:37:29.37
All right.
00:37:29.40\00:37:32.66
You know what guys,
Jesus is making a point.
00:37:32.69\00:37:36.00
No, no, no, we're
gonna do it differently.
00:37:40.27\00:37:41.98
We're gonna do it differently.
00:37:42.01\00:37:43.10
Jesus is making a point.
00:37:43.13\00:37:44.54
When you give,
00:37:44.57\00:37:46.32
that's when those
endorphins kick in,
00:37:46.35\00:37:48.39
that's when the
immune system boosts,
00:37:48.42\00:37:50.16
that's when your
heart finds happiness.
00:37:50.19\00:37:52.40
And I can tell
by your three faces,
00:37:52.43\00:37:53.67
you want that more than
anything else in the world.
00:37:53.70\00:37:56.14
And so I want three others,
three others to come here,
00:37:56.17\00:38:00.65
and they're gonna give to you.
00:38:00.68\00:38:01.91
The first three that come here,
00:38:01.94\00:38:04.13
I want three others to
come, only three, only three.
00:38:04.16\00:38:09.19
Okay, give, give, and give.
00:38:09.22\00:38:12.94
All right, you
guys that got, go.
00:38:12.97\00:38:16.86
No, you stay here, stay
here, stay, hey, hey, hey, you.
00:38:16.89\00:38:21.38
You guys go.
00:38:21.41\00:38:24.23
No, I want you to stay.
00:38:24.26\00:38:26.57
You feel healthier?
00:38:26.60\00:38:27.72
No.
00:38:27.75\00:38:30.24
You're supposed to
say, but of course pastor,
00:38:30.27\00:38:32.87
I feel great.
00:38:32.90\00:38:34.16
I want to tell you
something guys, I'm proud of you
00:38:34.19\00:38:35.54
because
something happened inside,
00:38:35.57\00:38:36.80
you don't feel it
right now but it happened.
00:38:36.83\00:38:41.07
And just because,
just because it did happen,
00:38:41.10\00:38:45.19
you know, they
gave me so much money,
00:38:45.22\00:38:47.09
in First Church that I
got three more $20 bills
00:38:47.12\00:38:49.99
where those came from.
00:38:50.02\00:38:51.77
Now, I want you to take these.
00:38:51.80\00:38:53.76
I'm feeling healthy now.
00:38:53.79\00:38:54.82
Yeah, yeah.
00:38:54.85\00:38:56.10
You really feel
healthy now, I know.
00:38:56.13\00:38:57.16
Thank you.
00:38:57.19\00:38:58.51
All right, thanks
guys. God bless you guys.
00:38:58.54\00:39:03.66
There it is,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:39:08.73\00:39:09.95
secret number four,
"When living becomes giving,
00:39:09.98\00:39:13.18
surviving turns to thriving."
00:39:13.21\00:39:17.97
You got to
give, you got to give.
00:39:18.00\00:39:22.27
Unless you
think, that that giving
00:39:22.30\00:39:24.72
does not include
the local church,
00:39:24.75\00:39:26.32
let this little
pastor rise up his tiny voice
00:39:26.35\00:39:28.78
in an earnest appeal for
you to support your local church
00:39:28.81\00:39:33.45
wherever it is,
you're worshipping
00:39:33.48\00:39:35.75
right now it
doesn't matter to me.
00:39:35.78\00:39:37.97
In fact, would you
jot this down please?
00:39:38.00\00:39:39.34
"The only reason
there is a local church
00:39:39.37\00:39:42.16
is because local
Christians are local givers."
00:39:42.19\00:39:45.98
That's why.
00:39:46.01\00:39:47.15
If nobody at Pioneer gave,
00:39:47.18\00:39:48.92
there'd be no
church on this campus.
00:39:48.95\00:39:50.34
Adios.
00:39:50.37\00:39:53.02
But because
people give, we're here.
00:39:53.05\00:39:57.41
I want to tell you something,
I bow before God Almighty
00:39:57.44\00:40:03.11
when I realize
the kind of giving
00:40:03.14\00:40:06.04
that takes place in
this university congregation,
00:40:06.07\00:40:09.69
this is not a
wealthy congregation.
00:40:09.72\00:40:12.45
When I see men,
when I see women,
00:40:12.48\00:40:14.13
when I see young
adults, when I see teenagers,
00:40:14.16\00:40:15.98
when I see little children,
00:40:16.01\00:40:17.71
who are giving as an act of
worship and devotion to God.
00:40:17.74\00:40:21.09
Not just return of tithe,
00:40:21.12\00:40:22.16
they're giving beyond the tithe.
00:40:22.19\00:40:23.70
When I see that,
I bow down to God
00:40:23.73\00:40:25.62
and I say, God, it doesn't
get any better than this.
00:40:25.65\00:40:28.47
It doesn't get
any better than this.
00:40:28.50\00:40:31.12
In fact, the treasurer,
the other day, our accountant,
00:40:31.15\00:40:34.33
shoved a tithe
envelope in to my hands
00:40:34.36\00:40:36.52
and he said Dwight, I
think you need to open this one?
00:40:36.55\00:40:37.82
And boy, it's kind of crunchy
and full and I am thinking,
00:40:37.85\00:40:40.03
this is a gas, what is it?
00:40:40.06\00:40:42.02
So I got my letter opener
00:40:42.05\00:40:43.13
and slicked that
tithe envelope, open
00:40:43.16\00:40:45.34
and I dumped out on to my desk,
00:40:45.37\00:40:47.74
a few beads, a couple of
trinkets and four pennies
00:40:47.77\00:40:51.23
and then on the
cover of the tithe envelope
00:40:51.26\00:40:53.04
in a childish
scroll, for Jesus, for Jesus.
00:40:53.07\00:40:59.24
I want to tell you
something, if you're young,
00:40:59.27\00:41:03.89
if you're young,
00:41:03.92\00:41:06.44
this is the perfect
time, to start giving.
00:41:06.47\00:41:11.50
'Cause listen, you're young now,
00:41:11.53\00:41:14.06
but if you give,
00:41:14.09\00:41:15.65
you'll become a
very old giver one day.
00:41:15.68\00:41:22.08
Give and it'll be
given back to you.
00:41:22.11\00:41:24.76
But you have to start this.
00:41:24.79\00:41:26.04
You got to break the
cycle of selfishness.
00:41:26.07\00:41:28.04
You got to say, I got to give.
00:41:28.07\00:41:30.33
I don't care how poor you are
00:41:30.36\00:41:31.44
or how rich you
are you got to give.
00:41:31.47\00:41:34.16
Give and it will
be given back to you.
00:41:34.19\00:41:36.21
Press down, it can't
even keep it in that pocket.
00:41:36.24\00:41:40.12
I don't know how God is
gonna make it up to you.
00:41:40.15\00:41:43.70
I just know
that Jesus said, give
00:41:43.73\00:41:47.53
and it will be
given back to you.
00:41:47.56\00:41:51.02
So you're here at Pioneer
or wherever else you worship
00:41:51.05\00:41:54.27
I want you to
experience the endorphin joy
00:41:54.30\00:41:58.23
that Jesus is describing, give.
00:41:58.26\00:42:01.12
You never have
given before, who cares?
00:42:01.15\00:42:03.74
Start now.
00:42:03.77\00:42:05.47
It's about
surviving and thriving
00:42:05.50\00:42:08.16
in the midst of
this economic meltdown.
00:42:08.19\00:42:10.00
Start giving now.
00:42:10.03\00:42:11.24
Grab a fist full
of tithe envelopes,
00:42:11.27\00:42:12.73
when you leave this place
00:42:12.76\00:42:13.84
and start putting money in it
00:42:13.87\00:42:15.24
and bring it back
and bring it back.
00:42:15.27\00:42:17.79
Wherever you
worship, bring it back
00:42:17.82\00:42:20.98
and God will make it up to
you because as far as I know,
00:42:21.01\00:42:25.60
he's the biggest
giver in the universe.
00:42:25.63\00:42:30.89
Come on say it out
loud with me, John 3:16,
00:42:30.92\00:42:32.88
from the Old King James,
"For God so loved the world,
00:42:32.91\00:42:38.30
that he gave his
only begotten Son,
00:42:38.33\00:42:41.60
that whosoever believeth
in him shall not perish,
00:42:41.63\00:42:46.47
but have everlasting life."
00:42:46.50\00:42:49.75
A century ago,
these words were written.
00:42:49.78\00:42:52.24
I'll put it on
the screen for you,
00:42:52.27\00:42:53.59
you have it in your study guide.
00:42:53.62\00:42:55.66
"Let us surrender
ourselves a living sacrifice,
00:42:55.69\00:42:59.46
and give our all to Jesus.
00:42:59.49\00:43:03.88
It is His, we are
His purchased possession.
00:43:03.91\00:43:07.28
Those who are
recipients of His grace,
00:43:07.31\00:43:09.53
who contemplate
the cross of Calvary,
00:43:09.56\00:43:11.99
will not question concerning
the proportion to be given,"
00:43:12.02\00:43:14.23
well, I don't want to
give too much, you know.
00:43:14.26\00:43:16.01
No.
00:43:16.04\00:43:17.16
"But they will feel
that the richest offering
00:43:17.19\00:43:18.92
is all too meager,"
00:43:18.95\00:43:20.58
no matter what I
give it's all too meager,
00:43:20.61\00:43:23.16
"all disproportionate
to the great gift
00:43:23.19\00:43:26.05
of the only begotten
Son of the infinite God."
00:43:26.08\00:43:30.07
Final sentence.
00:43:30.10\00:43:31.25
"Through
self-denial, the poorest"
00:43:31.28\00:43:34.00
hit the pause
button right there.
00:43:34.03\00:43:37.10
Because you know,
how you and I think?
00:43:37.13\00:43:38.67
We think, giving is for
those who really have it.
00:43:38.70\00:43:42.24
If I don't have it,
I don't have to give.
00:43:42.27\00:43:44.86
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
00:43:44.89\00:43:46.89
Don't you want to
live? Don't you want to live?
00:43:46.92\00:43:51.44
The poorest, the poorest woman
00:43:51.47\00:43:54.90
or man on this planet
can give back to the one
00:43:54.93\00:43:59.56
who's already giving all to you.
00:43:59.59\00:44:01.49
Don't just say,
I'm taking a pass
00:44:01.52\00:44:02.80
'cause I'm a student here
and I just don't have much.
00:44:02.83\00:44:05.84
You got to see my school bill.
00:44:05.87\00:44:07.31
Who cares about
your school bill?
00:44:07.34\00:44:08.94
What do you have in your pocket?
00:44:08.97\00:44:11.75
What do you have in your pocket?
00:44:11.78\00:44:14.18
I can take care of you, boy.
I can take care of you, girl.
00:44:14.21\00:44:16.83
You know, that school
bill, I already have a plan.
00:44:16.86\00:44:20.85
I just want to know, do
you have a heart like Mine?
00:44:20.88\00:44:26.58
Would you be
willing too become a giver?
00:44:26.61\00:44:29.64
Because if you are a giver,
I'll bring it back to you.
00:44:29.67\00:44:34.45
I will take care of you.
00:44:34.48\00:44:37.88
Just ask the widow, the
pagan widow of Zarephath.
00:44:37.91\00:44:43.00
I'll take it, I'll
take care of you, lady.
00:44:43.03\00:44:48.16
Read that sentence
again, "Through self-denial,
00:44:48.19\00:44:50.09
the poorest will find ways
00:44:50.12\00:44:53.57
of obtaining
something to give back to God."
00:44:53.60\00:44:59.35
Ain't that some?
00:44:59.38\00:45:01.13
Wow.
00:45:01.16\00:45:02.42
How did that Forbes
magazine headline read?
00:45:02.45\00:45:05.04
Money can't buy happiness,
00:45:05.07\00:45:06.91
but giving certainly will
for there's no happier giver,
00:45:06.94\00:45:10.87
in the universe,
than God himself.
00:45:10.90\00:45:13.99
Let me end with
this, Madeline Johnston,
00:45:14.02\00:45:16.48
one of our church members,
00:45:16.51\00:45:18.18
she was telling the
other day about their daughter,
00:45:18.21\00:45:20.25
Elizabeth, now lives out in LA.
00:45:20.28\00:45:22.40
But she was a little girl
about three or four years old,
00:45:22.43\00:45:25.48
and she was
given a memory verse.
00:45:25.51\00:45:26.55
Back when we were
little you remember,
00:45:26.58\00:45:27.63
you had to learn
these memory verses?
00:45:27.66\00:45:29.48
So she was given a
memory verse, 2 Corinthians 9.
00:45:29.51\00:45:31.99
"God loveth a cheerful giver."
00:45:32.02\00:45:35.24
Yet to learn that one too, huh?
00:45:35.27\00:45:36.80
"God loveth a cheerful giver."
00:45:36.83\00:45:38.88
But you know how it is,
with these children minds
00:45:38.91\00:45:41.58
they get the words
turned around a bit
00:45:41.61\00:45:43.53
which is why all that week,
00:45:43.56\00:45:45.10
as Beth was rehearsing
her memory verse, to herself,
00:45:45.13\00:45:49.19
and reciting it to her dollies,
she kept repeating the words,
00:45:49.22\00:45:54.04
God is a lovely giver.
00:45:54.07\00:45:59.10
You know what that
little girl got it wrong,
00:45:59.13\00:46:01.94
but she got it right.
00:46:01.97\00:46:03.56
God is a lovely, lovely giver.
00:46:03.59\00:46:11.42
Want to be like Him?
00:46:11.45\00:46:13.45
You'll be a lovely giver too.
00:46:13.48\00:46:15.63
The little you
have, the little you've,
00:46:15.66\00:46:20.08
become a lovely cheerful giver.
00:46:20.11\00:46:24.13
"God is lovely cheerful giver."
00:46:24.16\00:46:27.66
And you know
what, you'll be the same
00:46:27.69\00:46:30.28
and your surviving
will turn to thriving,
00:46:30.31\00:46:32.59
because you know that
you belong to somebody
00:46:32.62\00:46:35.27
in this universe
who-- guess what?
00:46:35.30\00:46:37.67
Will take care of you.
00:46:37.70\00:46:41.31
Can we trust
Him? Can we trust Him?
00:46:41.34\00:46:44.54
Yes, we can.
00:46:44.57\00:46:48.01
Can we trust Him?
00:46:48.04\00:46:49.15
Say it again
with me, yes, we can.
00:46:49.18\00:46:52.86
Oh, yes, we can. And
so we come now, is it?
00:46:52.89\00:46:57.64
The year is over.
00:46:57.67\00:46:59.86
The fourth part mini
series has just ended.
00:46:59.89\00:47:02.53
But I can't walk
away, I can't walk away
00:47:02.56\00:47:04.17
from this place without
putting my heart on the record.
00:47:04.20\00:47:08.77
I mean, come on, this is the God
00:47:08.80\00:47:09.85
who gave everything for me.
00:47:09.88\00:47:11.97
I can't think of a more
fitting time for me and you
00:47:12.00\00:47:15.79
to say back to
Him, you know what
00:47:15.82\00:47:18.15
I'm gonna give
it all back to You.
00:47:18.18\00:47:19.85
All that I am, all that I
have, I give it back to You.
00:47:19.88\00:47:24.74
My treasure, my
talents, my time,
00:47:24.77\00:47:28.32
I give it all back to You.
00:47:28.35\00:47:29.44
I want to be all Yours, Jesus.
00:47:29.47\00:47:31.37
I want to advance
Your kingdom on earth
00:47:31.40\00:47:33.12
by being all Yours.
00:47:33.15\00:47:36.12
Don't you want to be
all His? Hey, don't you?
00:47:36.15\00:47:41.11
I think we ought to respond.
00:47:41.14\00:47:45.65
Anyways I'd like to
invite you to respond.
00:47:45.68\00:47:49.97
I want to start first with
those 46 student missionaries,
00:47:50.00\00:47:52.78
if somewhere in this service.
00:47:52.81\00:47:57.91
How about saying on
the eve of your going,
00:47:57.94\00:48:00.23
I'm giving it all
back to You, Jesus.
00:48:00.26\00:48:02.16
Just take it away.
00:48:02.19\00:48:03.68
Would you get up out of the pew,
00:48:03.71\00:48:05.96
wherever you're sitting
and just come to the front?
00:48:05.99\00:48:09.00
And I want to
say to young adults,
00:48:09.03\00:48:11.40
who're are here and
some of you are saying,
00:48:11.43\00:48:13.05
you know, I don't know that
00:48:13.08\00:48:14.49
I gonna even have
a job this summer.
00:48:14.52\00:48:16.26
I was just talking
with chaplain Japheth,
00:48:16.29\00:48:18.65
just before the service
begin and he said Dwight,
00:48:18.68\00:48:20.79
you know what, if
anybody wants to go
00:48:20.82\00:48:22.54
as a student missionary
right now, we got space.
00:48:22.57\00:48:27.37
We got the means.
00:48:27.40\00:48:28.96
You can go.
00:48:28.99\00:48:31.07
I mean, I want to say to seniors
00:48:31.10\00:48:33.82
who're moving out of this place,
00:48:33.85\00:48:35.50
we've been so blessed
00:48:35.53\00:48:36.90
and lucky to have
you God to go with you.
00:48:36.93\00:48:39.30
But I know, the
graduations next week,
00:48:39.33\00:48:40.85
I can't think of better time
00:48:40.88\00:48:42.26
and putting
yourselves on the line today.
00:48:42.29\00:48:44.54
I give my all back to Jesus.
00:48:44.57\00:48:47.18
I want to say to any
young adult who is here,
00:48:47.21\00:48:49.43
would you like to,
right now, say to Christ,
00:48:49.46\00:48:52.58
I give my all back to You?
00:48:52.61\00:48:56.20
If you're young adult and
you would like to say that
00:48:56.23\00:48:57.90
in any of these categories
or ones I didn't even think of,
00:48:57.93\00:49:00.26
would you stand on your feet
00:49:00.29\00:49:01.39
and just come
right here to the front?
00:49:01.42\00:49:02.55
We're gonna end, to
sing that two stanzas of that
00:49:02.58\00:49:05.16
beautiful hymn, "God
Will Take Care of You."
00:49:05.19\00:49:07.19
Come on, come on.
00:49:07.22\00:49:08.33
You're in a seminary, come on.
00:49:08.36\00:49:10.50
You're young
adult, come forward,
00:49:10.53\00:49:11.73
just step on everybody's toes
00:49:11.76\00:49:13.27
as you're
moving down that aisle,
00:49:13.30\00:49:15.89
that pew come on up here.
00:49:15.92\00:49:18.32
I don't know which
category you're in,
00:49:18.35\00:49:19.49
it doesn't matter to me.
00:49:19.52\00:49:21.51
But if you're a young
adult and you'd like to say oh,
00:49:21.54\00:49:23.38
Jesus, I want to
give it all to You.
00:49:23.41\00:49:25.51
I don't know
what that even means,
00:49:25.54\00:49:26.74
but I want to be a
giver, just like You are.
00:49:26.77\00:49:29.27
You're up in the balcony,
00:49:29.30\00:49:30.34
you're in the
overflow right now.
00:49:30.37\00:49:31.78
Come on out of that
overflow, come on in here.
00:49:31.81\00:49:34.11
Come down from the balcony.
00:49:34.14\00:49:35.69
Let's just take this
moment, we began the New Year,
00:49:35.72\00:49:37.37
the school year
with an elder call.
00:49:37.40\00:49:39.32
Let's just end it with
this call of commitment.
00:49:39.35\00:49:41.71
If you're a young adult,
00:49:41.74\00:49:43.60
and you know you're
a young adult, come on.
00:49:43.63\00:49:45.49
Are you in a choir? Come on.
00:49:45.52\00:49:48.05
Give your all, give your all.
00:49:48.08\00:49:50.24
Say Jesus, I give it all to You.
00:49:50.27\00:49:52.87
God bless you. God bless you.
00:49:52.90\00:49:56.21
You're not doing
this for the church,
00:49:56.24\00:49:57.32
you're not doing
this for the preacher,
00:49:57.35\00:49:59.14
you're just doing it, to Jesus.
00:49:59.17\00:50:03.79
Any others?
00:50:03.82\00:50:05.00
Give your all to
Jesus, you take it.
00:50:05.03\00:50:08.95
Now, if you're an young
adult just came forward saying,
00:50:08.98\00:50:10.93
I didn't thought about this idea
00:50:10.96\00:50:12.04
of being a
student missionary before,
00:50:12.07\00:50:13.20
but now that you
mentioned it Dwight,
00:50:13.23\00:50:14.58
I'm kind of curious about that.
00:50:14.61\00:50:16.07
I'd like to talk
with, Chaplain J, about it,
00:50:16.10\00:50:19.17
Chaplain J is right there
and he'd be waiting for you.
00:50:19.20\00:50:21.21
You just go right over to
him and make a beeline to him
00:50:21.24\00:50:23.55
and he'll pull you
aside and tell you what's up.
00:50:23.58\00:50:25.96
Any other young
adults, God bless you,
00:50:25.99\00:50:27.26
coming down from the balcony?
00:50:27.29\00:50:28.35
God bless you.
00:50:28.38\00:50:30.84
You're a young adult, you
know what a young adult is?
00:50:30.87\00:50:32.81
That's you.
00:50:32.84\00:50:35.04
You say Dwight, but
what about everybody else,
00:50:35.07\00:50:37.02
everybody else is
included in this appeal.
00:50:37.05\00:50:40.62
Come on, how
about the rest of us.
00:50:40.65\00:50:43.78
Baby boomers?
00:50:43.81\00:50:45.94
Been accumulating
stuff for a few years now.
00:50:45.97\00:50:50.39
How about letting go
of some of that stuff?
00:50:50.42\00:50:52.73
Nobody is going out and
having a garage sale tomorrow,
00:50:52.76\00:50:54.43
though we'd all benefit by one.
00:50:54.46\00:50:57.21
But just let it go,
in your minds saying
00:50:57.24\00:50:59.27
I want to give
it all back to God.
00:50:59.30\00:51:01.02
You've had a
good career, have you?
00:51:01.05\00:51:02.43
God's given you
some land may be,
00:51:02.46\00:51:04.35
God's given you
some possessions at home,
00:51:04.38\00:51:05.97
lot of trinkets, lot of toys.
00:51:06.00\00:51:08.62
I'm gonna ask you to stand,
I'm gonna ask you to stand
00:51:08.65\00:51:11.11
and say, I want to
join these young adults
00:51:11.14\00:51:12.44
and give everything
I have back to Jesus.
00:51:12.47\00:51:14.10
I don't know what that means,
00:51:14.13\00:51:15.30
but I'm gonna become
a giver just like Jesus
00:51:15.33\00:51:17.10
and I'm gonna stand on my feet
00:51:17.13\00:51:18.50
and I'm saying
Jesus, take this little me.
00:51:18.53\00:51:21.63
Just take this
little me all that I have
00:51:21.66\00:51:23.72
and all that I am.
00:51:23.75\00:51:26.50
All that I have, all that
I am I give it back to you.
00:51:26.53\00:51:31.16
You may not even
be a baby boomer,
00:51:31.19\00:51:32.22
you may be a
retiree, and you're looking
00:51:32.25\00:51:33.88
at fixed income and
you're saying Dwight,
00:51:33.91\00:51:35.63
don't talk to me about
giving on a fixed income.
00:51:35.66\00:51:37.86
No, I'm talking
about fixed income.
00:51:37.89\00:51:40.26
You're unemployed right now
00:51:40.29\00:51:41.36
and you're
watching on television.
00:51:41.39\00:51:42.42
The highest
unemployment rate in the nation
00:51:42.45\00:51:44.43
is right here in Michigan, 18%.
00:51:44.46\00:51:46.40
You don't have a job
you are saying Dwight,
00:51:46.43\00:51:48.12
how can I give, how can I give?
00:51:48.15\00:51:49.75
My friend, you
make the commitment.
00:51:49.78\00:51:51.01
Give, Jesus said. You just give.
00:51:51.04\00:51:53.28
From what you have, you give
and I'll give it back to you.
00:51:53.31\00:51:56.22
I don't know how He
will give it back to you,
00:51:56.25\00:51:58.21
but He will take care of you.
00:51:58.24\00:52:00.74
Fixed income? No income?
00:52:00.77\00:52:02.61
He will take care of you.
00:52:02.64\00:52:06.18
That's the great news.
00:52:06.21\00:52:07.51
That's why we can survive this.
00:52:07.54\00:52:08.68
I've no idea where it's going.
00:52:08.71\00:52:09.80
Dave Ramsey, the
other night, Thursday night,
00:52:09.83\00:52:11.34
Dave Ramsey said, I've no clue,
00:52:11.37\00:52:13.95
I've no idea
where this is going.
00:52:13.98\00:52:16.46
But this much I
know, ladies and gentlemen,
00:52:16.49\00:52:17.88
wherever this thing
goes God is going with us.
00:52:17.91\00:52:20.56
What do you say to that?
00:52:20.59\00:52:22.46
Hallelujah and amen.
00:52:22.49\00:52:25.20
Oh, we respond to God.
00:52:25.23\00:52:27.04
We respond to God.
00:52:27.07\00:52:28.37
And now I want you
to hear somebody singing
00:52:28.40\00:52:29.73
these words to you.
00:52:29.76\00:52:32.59
God will take care of
you, through every day,
00:52:32.62\00:52:36.23
or all the way, He
will take care of you.
00:52:36.26\00:52:40.30
God, will take care of you.
00:52:40.33\00:52:42.58
Somebody standing
beside she is gonna read
00:52:42.61\00:52:44.16
those words right
off of the screen.
00:52:44.19\00:52:45.35
Only two stanzas to this,
00:52:45.38\00:52:46.84
and you're
gonna hear those words
00:52:46.87\00:52:47.91
as God himself
saying, you boy, girl,
00:52:47.94\00:52:49.90
I'm telling you,
I'll take care of you.
00:52:49.93\00:52:51.90
I will take care of you.
00:52:51.93\00:52:54.77
So proud of you,
you just stay with Him.
00:52:54.80\00:52:57.84
Let's sing that
together, shall we sing that
00:52:57.87\00:52:59.46
to the person beside
you, who's singing it to you
00:52:59.49\00:53:01.89
and let's all go
home with the good news,
00:53:01.92\00:53:03.72
He will take care of us.
00:53:03.75\00:53:07.04
Be not dismayed whate'er betide
00:53:19.01\00:53:25.57
God will take care of you
00:53:25.60\00:53:32.31
Beneath His wings of love abide
00:53:32.34\00:53:38.99
God will take care of you
00:53:39.02\00:53:45.81
God will take care of you
00:53:45.84\00:53:52.66
Through every
day, o'er all the way
00:53:52.69\00:53:59.25
He will take care of you
00:53:59.28\00:54:07.14
God will take care of you
00:54:07.17\00:54:13.52
All you may need He will provide
00:54:17.23\00:54:24.79
God will take care of you
00:54:24.82\00:54:32.57
Nothing you ask will be denied
00:54:32.60\00:54:40.13
God will take care of you
00:54:40.16\00:54:47.82
God will take care of you
00:54:47.85\00:54:55.69
Through every
day, o'er all the way
00:54:55.72\00:55:03.58
He will take care of you
00:55:03.61\00:55:11.38
God will take care of you
00:55:13.06\00:55:19.05
Oh, God, we receive those
words as they were being--
00:55:23.39\00:55:26.04
as if they were
being sung directly to us.
00:55:26.07\00:55:29.95
Don't worry, don't be anxious,
00:55:29.98\00:55:33.72
I'm gonna take care of you.
00:55:33.75\00:55:35.69
I promise you.
00:55:35.72\00:55:38.70
I will take care of you.
00:55:38.73\00:55:42.52
And so Holy Father,
for these who believe in
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Your word have come forward.
00:55:45.50\00:55:48.13
Honor these decisions, seal it.
00:55:48.16\00:55:52.63
But then go forth to
give and give and give
00:55:52.66\00:55:55.77
and give it back to them
again and again and again.
00:55:55.80\00:55:59.71
We didn't stand
because we want it back,
00:55:59.74\00:56:03.25
we stood because we
want to give it back.
00:56:03.28\00:56:06.87
Take it Jesus, take it please.
00:56:06.90\00:56:11.93
And now to Him,
who is able to do
00:56:11.96\00:56:13.89
immeasurable more
than all we ask or imagine.
00:56:13.92\00:56:17.95
According to His power
that it is work within us
00:56:17.98\00:56:20.54
to Him be glory in the church
00:56:20.57\00:56:22.75
at in Christ Jesus
throughout all generations,
00:56:22.78\00:56:26.72
forever and ever,
let all the people say,
00:56:26.75\00:56:30.60
amen and amen.
00:56:30.63\00:56:34.85
It's been a pleasure to be
able to worship with you today.
00:56:34.88\00:56:37.55
I hope that the Spirit of
Jesus has blessed your time
00:56:37.58\00:56:40.35
with us right here in
the Pioneer Memorial Church
00:56:40.38\00:56:42.21
on the campus of
Andrews University.
00:56:42.24\00:56:44.53
Do you know that around
the world people join us
00:56:44.56\00:56:46.07
every week for
this hour of worship?
00:56:46.10\00:56:47.92
We're always
looking as a consequence
00:56:47.95\00:56:49.78
for new ways to bridge somehow
to connect with these people
00:56:49.81\00:56:53.15
who come here to
worship via the telecast.
00:56:53.18\00:56:55.74
One of the areas
00:56:55.77\00:56:56.92
that is quickly
growing for us is our website.
00:56:56.95\00:56:59.40
We had more than a
140,000 visitors last year.
00:56:59.43\00:57:03.36
It's an incredible opportunity
00:57:03.39\00:57:04.92
that God has given us
to expand His kingdom.
00:57:04.95\00:57:07.98
If you'd like to
help partner with us
00:57:08.01\00:57:10.11
as we seek to spread
the everlasting gospel
00:57:10.14\00:57:12.72
I would love to have you
call our toll free number.
00:57:12.75\00:57:15.42
We've got very
friendly operator standing
00:57:15.45\00:57:17.74
by here is the
number 877-His-Will, 877
00:57:17.77\00:57:21.86
and then the two words His-Will,
00:57:21.89\00:57:23.20
one of the operators
00:57:23.23\00:57:25.11
will be happy to
give you the details
00:57:25.14\00:57:26.54
of how you can partner
with this global ministry.
00:57:26.57\00:57:29.53
If you prefer listen,
you could do it all online
00:57:29.56\00:57:31.47
go to our website
please www.pmchurch.tv
00:57:31.50\00:57:36.15
I'd be honored to
have the privilege
00:57:36.18\00:57:37.63
of partnering with
you as we seek to spread
00:57:37.66\00:57:39.60
the truth about God
for this generation.
00:57:39.63\00:57:41.91
We are living in urgent times,
00:57:41.94\00:57:45.26
now more than ever
we've got to go to the world
00:57:45.29\00:57:48.61
with the good
news entrusted to us.
00:57:48.64\00:57:50.21
So once again here
is that toll free number
00:57:50.24\00:57:52.19
877-His-Will.
00:57:52.22\00:57:54.76
Thank you in
advance for your generosity
00:57:54.79\00:57:57.18
that blesses me and
you grow this ministry.
00:57:57.21\00:58:00.41
I pray that the Spirit of
Christ will abide with you
00:58:00.44\00:58:02.73
every step of the way
and I hope you'll come back
00:58:02.76\00:58:05.34
again next time right here
00:58:05.37\00:58:07.44
as we continue our
worship journey together.
00:58:07.47\00:58:10.41