(MUSIC)
00:00:01.03\00:00:11.06
(MUSIC)
00:00:11.06\00:00:34.63
>>HELLO FRIENDS, I
WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO
00:00:34.63\00:00:36.10
AMAZING FACTS
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
00:00:36.10\00:00:38.70
AND THIS IS GOING TO BE A UNIQUE
PRESENTATION. WE'LL BE STUDYING
00:00:38.70\00:00:42.00
OUR REGULAR LESSON BUT
WE'RE ON THE ROAD RIGHT NOW.
00:00:42.00\00:00:45.30
THE AMAZING FACTS TEAM IS
IN ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO AND
00:00:45.30\00:00:48.20
WE'RE RECORDING A SPECIAL
EVANGELISTIC SERIES CALLED
00:00:48.20\00:00:50.80
'LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY' BUT
WE DIDN'T WANT TO FALL BEHIND IN
00:00:50.80\00:00:53.30
STUDYING OUR LESSON WITH
YOU FOLKS SO DURING ONE OF OUR
00:00:53.30\00:00:56.26
MORNING SESSIONS, WE SORT OF
GATHERED OUR AFCOE STUDENTS AND
00:00:56.26\00:00:59.96
SOME VISITORS AND WE'RE GOING TO
GO AHEAD AND DO OUR STUDY AS WE
00:00:59.96\00:01:03.33
ALWAYS DO. WE HAVE A FREE
OFFER WITH OUR LESSON TODAY.
00:01:03.33\00:01:07.23
OUR LESSON IS LESSON #10 IN OUR
STUDY ON THE BOOK OF JAMES AND
00:01:07.23\00:01:11.26
IT'S DEALING WITH 'WEEP AND
HOWL, YOU RICH MEN.' AND SO WE
00:01:11.26\00:01:14.40
THOUGHT IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE
TO GIVE AWAY THE BOOK BY DENNIS
00:01:14.40\00:01:16.50
CREWS CALLED 'THE RICH MAN AND
LAZARUS.' IF YOU'D LIKE A FREE
00:01:16.50\00:01:20.26
COPY OF THIS, JUST CALL
THE NUMBER: 866-788-3966 - THAT
00:01:20.26\00:01:26.93
TRANSLATES INTO 866-STUDY-MORE -
AND WE'LL SEND YOU A FREE COPY.
00:01:26.93\00:01:32.33
AND NOT ONLY WILL WE SEND THIS
TO YOU; YOU'VE GOT TO READ IT
00:01:32.33\00:01:34.80
AND THEN SHARE IT
WITH SOMEBODY ELSE.
00:01:34.80\00:01:36.63
IF YOU WANT TO GET IT SOONER,
YOU CAN SIMPLY GO TO THE AMAZING
00:01:36.63\00:01:39.36
FACTS WEBSITE - IT'S JUST
'AMAZINGFACTS.ORG' - AND UNDER
00:01:39.36\00:01:43.63
OUR FREE LIBRARY YOU CAN
DOWNLOAD IT, READ IT, AND THEN
00:01:43.63\00:01:46.93
SEND THE LINK TO SOMEONE. IT
REALLY IS A GOOD BOOK ABOUT A
00:01:46.93\00:01:49.30
CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE
THAT'S OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD.
00:01:49.30\00:01:52.30
NOW TODAY, WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN
IN LESSON #10, STUDYING THE BOOK
00:01:52.30\00:01:57.00
OF JAMES. WE'VE
BEEN GOING SEQUENTIALLY
00:01:57.00\00:01:58.93
THROUGH THE CHAPTERS OF JAMES.
I REALLY LIKE THE WAY THIS
00:01:58.93\00:02:01.33
LESSON WAS WRITTEN BECAUSE YOU -
BY THE TIME YOU'RE DONE, YOU'VE
00:02:01.33\00:02:04.40
READ EVERY VERSE IN THE BOOK
OF JAMES AND BROKEN IT DOWN.
00:02:04.40\00:02:08.40
THIS IS JUST A GREAT BIBLE
STUDY. WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE
00:02:08.40\00:02:11.33
AND I INVITE THE CLASS
HERE TO SAY IT OUT LOUD WITH ME.
00:02:11.33\00:02:13.80
THAT VERSE IS MATTHEW 6, VERSE
21 - MATTHEW 6:21 - IF YOU HAVE
00:02:13.80\00:02:18.96
A QUARTERLY, OF COURSE, IT'S
RIGHT THERE IN THE LESSON WITH
00:02:18.96\00:02:21.30
YOU - AND A VERY IMPORTANT
CENTRAL POINT ON TREASURE.
00:02:21.30\00:02:27.30
ARE YOU READY? SAY IT TOGETHER.
00:02:27.30\00:02:29.60
"FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS,
THERE WILL YOUR HEART BE ALSO."
00:02:29.60\00:02:35.23
NOW THIS LESSON IS,
SPECIFICALLY, DEALING WITH WHERE
00:02:35.23\00:02:39.40
IS OUR TREASURE? AND
IT SAYS 'WEEP AND HOWL'
00:02:39.40\00:02:43.53
BECAUSE IN THE BOOK OF JAMES
HE MAKES SOME VERY POWERFUL
00:02:43.53\00:02:47.63
STATEMENTS SPEAKING TO THE RICH
AND HOW THAT'S OFTEN ABUSED.
00:02:47.63\00:02:51.50
THIS LESSON IS DEALING,
PRINCIPALLY WITH THE RICH WHO
00:02:51.50\00:02:54.70
ABUSE THEIR
AUTHORITY, POWER AND MONEY.
00:02:54.70\00:02:57.73
NOW, YOU KNOW WHAT I
THOUGHT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA?
00:02:57.73\00:02:59.53
IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES, AND
I KNOW YOU DO, GO TO THE BOOK OF
00:02:59.53\00:03:02.00
JAMES AND LET'S JUST
READ THE VERSES THAT WE'RE
00:03:02.00\00:03:05.00
GOING TO CONSIDER
TODAY IN OUR STUDY.
00:03:05.00\00:03:08.13
I'M GOING TO START WITH JAMES
CHAPTER 5 AND WE'LL PROBABLY
00:03:08.13\00:03:11.90
READ RIGHT UP
THROUGH VERSE 7 HERE.
00:03:11.90\00:03:15.50
JAMES CHAPTER 5:1 THROUGH 7,
"COME NOW, YOU RICH, WEEP AND
00:03:15.50\00:03:22.10
HOWL FOR YOUR MISERIES
THAT ARE COMING UPON YOU!
00:03:22.10\00:03:25.36
YOUR RICHES ARE CORRUPTED, AND
YOUR GARMENTS ARE MOTH-EATEN.
00:03:25.36\00:03:28.43
YOUR GOLD AND SILVER ARE
CORRODED, AND THEIR CORROSION
00:03:28.43\00:03:31.43
WILL BE A WITNESS AGAINST
YOU AND WILL EAT YOUR FLESH LIKE
00:03:31.43\00:03:33.90
FIRE. YOU HAVE HEAPED UP
TREASURE IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:03:33.90\00:03:37.70
INDEED THE WAGES OF THE LABORERS
WHO MOWED YOUR FIELDS, WHICH YOU
00:03:37.70\00:03:42.43
KEPT BACK BY FRAUD, CRY OUT; AND
THE CRIES OF THE REAPERS HAVE
00:03:42.43\00:03:46.40
REACHED THE EARS OF
THE LORD OF SABAOTH.
00:03:46.40\00:03:49.30
YOU HAVE LIVED ON THE EARTH
IN PLEASURE AND LUXURY; YOU HAVE
00:03:49.30\00:03:52.60
FATTENED YOUR HEARTS
AS IN A DAY OF SLAUGHTER.
00:03:52.60\00:03:54.83
YOU HAVE CONDEMNED, YOU HAVE
MURDERED THE JUST; HE DOES NOT
00:03:54.83\00:03:58.00
RESIST YOU.
THEREFORE BE PATIENT, BRETHREN,
00:03:58.00\00:04:01.60
UNTIL THE COMING OF THE LORD.
SEE HOW THE FARMER WAITS FOR THE
00:04:01.60\00:04:05.06
PRECIOUS FRUIT OF THE EARTH,
WAITING PATIENTLY FOR IT UNTIL
00:04:05.06\00:04:08.63
IT RECEIVES THE
EARLY AND LATTER RAIN."
00:04:08.63\00:04:11.36
SO I ADDED THAT VERSE IN BECAUSE
IT TALKS ABOUT THE ABUSE THAT
00:04:11.36\00:04:16.36
COMES OFTEN FROM THOSE IN
POSITIONS OF WEALTH AND POWER,
00:04:16.36\00:04:19.66
BUT IT ENDS WITH A
WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT.
00:04:19.66\00:04:21.50
IF YOU SUFFER THESE THINGS
IT'S NOT GOING TO LAST FOREVER.
00:04:21.50\00:04:24.66
WHAT COMES AS A JUDGMENT ON THE
PEOPLE OF POWER THAT ABUSE THE
00:04:24.66\00:04:29.23
POWER, WILL ALSO COME AS A
REFRESHING AND RELIEF ON THE
00:04:29.23\00:04:33.00
OTHERS. SO WE'RE
GOING TO GO AHEAD AND
00:04:33.00\00:04:34.63
TAKE THIS LESSON
APART PIECE BY PIECE.
00:04:34.63\00:04:38.20
WE'RE GOING TO FIND OURSELVES
BOUNCING AROUND IN THE BIBLE A
00:04:38.20\00:04:40.36
LITTLE BIT AND, JUST TO SET
THE STAGE, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE
00:04:40.36\00:04:44.03
INTERESTING TO REMIND YOU OF
SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED NOT TOO
00:04:44.03\00:04:48.06
LONG AGO. DO WE ALL
KNOW WHO BERNIE MADOFF IS?
00:04:48.06\00:04:53.60
HAVE YOU HEARD THAT NAME?
PEOPLE OFTEN TEASE AND THEY SAY,
00:04:53.60\00:04:57.56
'MADOFF, MADE OFF WITH A LOT OF
PEOPLE'S MONEY.' BERNIE MADOFF
00:04:57.56\00:05:03.43
IS NOW A CONVICTED FRAUD, FORMER
STOCK BROKER, INVESTMENT ADVISOR
00:05:03.43\00:05:08.06
AND FINANCIER. HE HAD
CONFESSED TO OPERATING
00:05:08.06\00:05:12.10
A PONZI SCHEME
THAT IS CONSIDERED
00:05:12.10\00:05:13.96
TO BE THE LARGEST
FINANCIAL FRAUD IN U.S. HISTORY.
00:05:13.96\00:05:17.50
THE COURT-APPOINTED TRUSTEE
ESTIMATE ACTUALLY SAYS, 'LOSSES
00:05:17.50\00:05:21.30
TO INVESTORS ARE APPROXIMATELY
18 BILLION DOLLARS.' THAT HE
00:05:21.30\00:05:26.43
TOOK - HE'S
SENTENCED TO 150 YEARS.
00:05:26.43\00:05:29.63
I HEARD HE HAD A HEART ATTACK
THIS WEEK AND HE'S SUFFERING
00:05:29.63\00:05:31.83
FROM KIDNEY FAILURE BUT
HE DOESN'T WANT DIALYSIS.
00:05:31.83\00:05:34.63
PROBABLY JUST WOULD
ASSUME - CHECK OUT, AS THEY SAY.
00:05:34.63\00:05:38.26
HE'S IN A PRISON IN NORTH
CAROLINA THE LAST I HEARD.
00:05:38.26\00:05:40.43
THAT WAS ABUSING YOUR POWER.
00:05:40.43\00:05:45.16
AND HE DIDN'T CARE
HOW MANY PEOPLE HE HURT.
00:05:45.16\00:05:48.16
SOME OF THE INVESTMENTS
AND THE MONEY THAT HE TOOK WERE
00:05:48.16\00:05:51.33
CHARITIES THAT WERE SUPPOSED
TO HELP A LOT OF PEOPLE.
00:05:51.33\00:05:54.56
AND HE TOOK THE MONEY AND
HE BOUGHT BOATS AND HE BOUGHT
00:05:54.56\00:05:56.66
MANSIONS AND HE TRAVELED AND
BOUGHT FANCY CARS AND HOUSES AND
00:05:56.66\00:06:00.23
LANDS AND LIVED THE HIGH LIFE
AND GAVE GIFTS TO HIS FRIENDS
00:06:00.23\00:06:03.13
WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY
THAT WAS FOR POOR AND SUFFERING
00:06:03.13\00:06:07.16
PEOPLE FOR THEIR CHARITIES.
HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE INVESTING
00:06:07.16\00:06:09.23
THESE FUNDS AND HE SQUANDERED.
HOW'D YOU LIKE TO FACE THE
00:06:09.23\00:06:14.06
JUDGMENT FOR SOMETHING
LIKE THAT OVER YOUR HEAD?
00:06:14.06\00:06:17.33
BUT MAYBE ON A SMALLER SCALE,
SOME PEOPLE STILL DO THE SAME
00:06:17.33\00:06:21.76
THINGS. YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T
HAVE TO BE A MILLIONAIRE TO BE
00:06:21.76\00:06:24.66
GREEDY. AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE
RICH TO ALSO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
00:06:24.66\00:06:29.60
OTHERS. AND THAT'S WHAT THIS
LESSON IS REALLY DEALING WITH.
00:06:29.60\00:06:32.86
ALRIGHT, JAMES 5:1 - WE'RE GOING
TO BREAK IT DOWN VERSE BY VERSE.
00:06:32.86\00:06:35.83
"COME NOW" - HERE'S THE VERSE
- THE LESSON IS BASED ON THIS -
00:06:35.83\00:06:40.26
"COME NOW YOU RICH, WEEP AND
HOWL FOR YOUR MISERIES THAT ARE
00:06:40.26\00:06:44.30
COMING UPON YOU!" NOW
THE GREEK WORD TRANSLATED AS
00:06:44.30\00:06:47.66
'MISERIES' IN JAMES 5:1, COMES
FROM THE SAME ROOT WORD USED TO
00:06:47.66\00:06:52.23
DESCRIBE LAODICEA AS
WRETCHED IN REVELATION 3:17.
00:06:52.23\00:06:57.26
IT SAYS, "BECAUSE YOU SAY I AM
RICH AND I HAVE BECOME WEALTHY
00:06:57.26\00:07:02.46
AND I HAVE NEED OF NOTHING,
AND YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT YOU ARE
00:07:02.46\00:07:05.66
WRETCHED, POOR,
MISERABLE, BLIND, AND NAKED."
00:07:05.66\00:07:10.00
CAN A PERSON THINK THAT THEY ARE
RICH AND INCREASED WITH GOODS
00:07:10.00\00:07:12.73
AND NOT REALLY HAVE
VERY MUCH? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
00:07:12.73\00:07:17.33
MATTER OF FACT, THAT REALLY
DESCRIBES THE CONDITION OF THE
00:07:17.33\00:07:21.63
CHURCH OF LAODICEA. IN
FACT, I'M GOING TO HAVE
00:07:21.63\00:07:24.70
SOMEBODY READ FOR ME
LUKE 17:27. WHO HAS THAT?
00:07:24.70\00:07:29.16
ALRIGHT - AND LET ME READ
ANOTHER VERSE AND WE'RE GOING TO
00:07:29.16\00:07:31.80
HAVE YOU DO THAT.
THIS IS FROM JAMES 1:9.
00:07:31.80\00:07:34.86
NOW WE'RE GOING BACK
IN THE BOOK OF JAMES.
00:07:34.86\00:07:36.50
WE STARTED WITH CHAPTER 5.
00:07:36.50\00:07:38.66
IN JAMES 1, VERSES 9 AND 10
IT SAYS, "LET THE LOWLY BROTHER
00:07:38.66\00:07:43.86
GLORY IN HIS EXALTATION, BUT THE
RICH IN HIS HUMILIATION, BECAUSE
00:07:43.86\00:07:49.96
AS A FLOWER OF THE
FIELD HE WILL PASS AWAY."
00:07:49.96\00:07:53.36
NOW WITH WHAT JAMES SAYS IN
THIS BOOK ABOUT THE RICH, IS HE
00:07:53.36\00:07:58.73
TALKING TO JUST THOSE THAT ARE
OPPRESSING THE CHURCH MEMBERS
00:07:58.73\00:08:02.03
OR ARE SOME OF THEM IN THE
CHURCH? IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE
00:08:02.03\00:08:08.76
EARLY CHURCH HAD
SOME RICH PEOPLE IN IT?
00:08:08.76\00:08:11.46
PAUL TALKS ABOUT THOSE THAT
ARE RICH, MAKE SURE AND SHARE
00:08:11.46\00:08:16.03
GENEROUSLY WITH
WHAT THE NEEDS MIGHT BE.
00:08:16.03\00:08:20.13
SOME OF THOSE WHO WERE RICH WHEN
THEY STARTED OUT AS CHRISTIANS,
00:08:20.13\00:08:22.96
BASICALLY LIQUIDATED IN THE
INTEREST OF SHARING THE MESSAGE.
00:08:22.96\00:08:27.93
I KNOW IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST MOVEMENT,
00:08:27.93\00:08:30.63
ONE OF THE FOUNDERS - PROBABLY
ONE OF THE REAL FIGUREHEADS THAT
00:08:30.63\00:08:34.76
FOUNDED THE CHURCH WAS A
SEA CAPTAIN NAMED JOSEPH BATES.
00:08:34.76\00:08:38.53
AND HE HAD MADE SO MUCH MONEY HE
ACTUALLY RETIRED, BUT HE LOVED
00:08:38.53\00:08:42.80
THE MESSAGE SO MUCH THAT WHEN
HE DIED, HE HAD VERY LITTLE LEFT
00:08:42.80\00:08:45.50
BECAUSE HE INVESTED ALL THAT
HE HAD - HE COULD HAVE EASILY
00:08:45.50\00:08:47.80
LIVED OFF HIS RETIREMENT THE
REST OF HIS LIFE - HE INVESTED
00:08:47.80\00:08:50.90
ALL THAT HE HAD IN PUBLISHING
AND SPREADING AND UNDERWRITING
00:08:50.90\00:08:56.03
THE SPREADING OF THE MESSAGE.
NICODEMUS WAS VERY WEALTHY.
00:08:56.03\00:09:00.43
FROM THE TIME OF THE DEATH
OF CHRIST HE BEGAN INVESTING IN
00:09:00.43\00:09:02.86
HELPING TO SUSTAIN AND SUPPORT
THE CHURCH. BARNABAS HAD SOME
00:09:02.86\00:09:08.30
LANDS AND HE SOLD THEM - LAID
THE MONEY AT THE APOSTLES' FEET.
00:09:08.30\00:09:12.26
I MEAN, THEY WERE REALLY
MAKING SACRIFICIAL GIFTS.
00:09:12.26\00:09:15.30
SO, IS IT A SIN FOR
YOU TO HAVE ANY PROPERTY?
00:09:15.30\00:09:22.13
YOU KNOW, THERE'S - IT
TAKES DIVINE WISDOM AND THE HOLY
00:09:22.13\00:09:24.06
SPIRIT TO GUIDE EACH PERSON -
THAT MAY BE A LITTLE DIFFERENT
00:09:24.06\00:09:26.50
TOO. HOW MUCH SHOULD YOU GIVE?
00:09:26.50\00:09:30.90
HOW MUCH SHOULD YOU
KEEP? HOW MUCH SHOULD YOU EARN?
00:09:30.90\00:09:33.90
I THINK IT WAS JOHN WESLEY THAT
SAID THE SECRET FOR CHRISTIAN
00:09:33.90\00:09:39.10
AND FINANCES IS 'EARN ALL
YOU CAN. SAVE ALL YOU CAN.
00:09:39.10\00:09:42.36
GIVE ALL YOU CAN.' HE DOESN'T
SPECIFY WHAT THAT IS, BUT
00:09:42.36\00:09:46.23
CHRISTIANS OUGHT
TO BE INDUSTRIOUS.
00:09:46.23\00:09:47.83
WE OUGHT TO BE GOOD STEWARDS.
HOW MANY PARABLES DOES JESUS
00:09:47.83\00:09:50.26
TELL ABOUT HE GIVES US TALENTS,
HE WANTS US TO INVEST THEM AND
00:09:50.26\00:09:54.36
INCREASE THEM, RIGHT? THE
BIBLE SAYS A LOT ABOUT THAT.
00:09:54.36\00:09:58.43
PROVERBS - A NUMBER OF THINGS
TELLS ABOUT GOD BLESSING AND
00:09:58.43\00:10:00.56
INCREASING. GOD
BLESSED AND INCREASED
00:10:00.56\00:10:02.90
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB -
BUT THEY WERE ALSO GENEROUS.
00:10:02.90\00:10:08.73
AND THEN JESUS GIVES US THOSE
WARNINGS THAT FLY IN THE FACE OF
00:10:08.73\00:10:14.00
PROSPERITY PREACHING, WHICH IS
'IT'S HARDER FOR A RICH MAN TO
00:10:14.00\00:10:17.96
GET INTO THE KINGDOM OF
HEAVEN THAN IT IS FOR A CAMEL
00:10:17.96\00:10:20.16
TO GO THROUGH
THE EYE OF A NEEDLE.
00:10:20.16\00:10:22.50
AND THE IDEA FOR A CHRISTIAN,
WHEN IT COMES TO RICHES - IF YOU
00:10:22.50\00:10:27.40
COULD KNOW EXACTLY WHEN THE
LORD'S COMING, YOU'D WANT TO
00:10:27.40\00:10:31.40
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE NOTHING
LEFT WHEN HE COMES, RIGHT?
00:10:31.40\00:10:34.46
THE IDEA IS THAT BEFORE THE LORD
COMES YOU WANT TO INVEST YOUR
00:10:34.46\00:10:38.83
LAST DOLLAR BEFORE PROBATION
CLOSES, ACTUALLY, IN SPREADING
00:10:38.83\00:10:42.46
THE GOSPEL. DID NOAH
HAVE ANY REGRETS THAT
00:10:42.46\00:10:47.26
HE INVESTED ALL THAT HE
HAD IN BUILDING THE ARK?
00:10:47.26\00:10:50.46
WELL HE MIGHT HAVE,
WHILE HE WAS BUILDING IT.
00:10:50.46\00:10:53.53
HE HAD NO REGRETS WHEN THE DOOR
WAS SHUT AND THE THING BEGAN TO
00:10:53.53\00:10:56.56
FLOAT, RIGHT? BECAUSE HE HAD PUT
EVERYTHING HE HAD INTO STAYING
00:10:56.56\00:11:02.63
ALIVE AND SAVING HIS FAMILY.
NO REGRETS AT THAT POINT.
00:11:02.63\00:11:06.90
WHAT PROFIT IS IT IF YOU GAIN
THE WHOLE WORLD AND LOSE YOUR
00:11:06.90\00:11:09.86
SOUL? ALRIGHT,
I'VE GOT YOU QUEUED UP.
00:11:09.86\00:11:12.40
NOW YOU'RE GOING TO READ, I
THINK, REVELATION 17:27, PLEASE.
00:11:12.40\00:11:19.03
I'M SORRY, LUKE, THANK YOU.
YOU'RE GOING TO READ LUKE 17:27.
00:11:19.03\00:11:22.93
>>"THEY DID EAT, THEY DRANK,
THEY MARRIED WIVES, THEY WERE
00:11:22.93\00:11:26.40
GIVEN IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY
THAT NOAH ENTERED INTO THE ARK,
00:11:26.40\00:11:30.03
AND THE FLOOD CAME,
AND DESTROYED THEM ALL."
00:11:30.03\00:11:33.03
>>YEAH, SPEAKING OF THE TIME
JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK,
00:11:33.03\00:11:37.26
I THINK A LOT OF CHRISTIANS
BELIEVE THAT THE SECOND COMING
00:11:37.26\00:11:41.53
OF JESUS IS PRECEDED BY
WORLD-WIDE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE.
00:11:41.53\00:11:46.60
THE BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT.
00:11:46.60\00:11:48.76
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'IN SUCH AN HOUR
AS YOU THINK NOT THE SON OF MAN
00:11:48.76\00:11:51.63
COMES.' UP UNTIL THE END THEY
MARRY, THEY PLANT, THEY BUILD,
00:11:51.63\00:11:58.43
THEY EAT, THEY DRINK, AND
IT COMES AS AN OVERWHELMING
00:11:58.43\00:12:02.76
SURPRISE. AND SO
THE WORLD'S STILL GOING.
00:12:02.76\00:12:06.23
YES, THERE'S GOING TO BE TRIALS
AND THERE'LL BE SPOTS IN THE
00:12:06.23\00:12:08.46
WORLD WHERE THERE'S GOING TO
BE GREAT DISASTERS, BUT LIFE IS
00:12:08.46\00:12:11.90
GOING TO CONTINUE TO GO ON JUST
LIKE IT DID BEFORE SODOM WAS
00:12:11.90\00:12:14.96
DESTROYED, JUST LIKE IT
DID BEFORE THE TIME OF NOAH.
00:12:14.96\00:12:18.83
THE SUN WAS SHINING THE DAY
BEFORE THE RAIN CAME AND PEOPLE
00:12:18.83\00:12:23.13
WERE INVOLVED IN BUSINESS
AND PLANNING THEIR WEDDINGS AND
00:12:23.13\00:12:25.53
THEIR FUTURES AND 'I'M GOING TO
GO TO THIS TOWN AND BUY AND SELL
00:12:25.53\00:12:30.23
AND GET GAIN AND I'M GOING TO
BUILD BIGGER BARNS AND PUT ALL
00:12:30.23\00:12:33.63
MY PROCEEDS IN THOSE BARNS.'
I MEAN, THEY WERE MOVING ON WITH
00:12:33.63\00:12:36.83
THEIR PLANS. SO
THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO BE
00:12:36.83\00:12:40.00
REALLY IN TUNE WITH THE HOLY
SPIRIT, BECAUSE GOD DOES NOT
00:12:40.00\00:12:42.76
WANT THAT DAY TO OVERTAKE US
AS A THIEF. ALRIGHT, STILL UNDER
00:12:42.76\00:12:47.26
THE SECTION 'JUSTICE WILL BE
DONE,' 2 TIMOTHY 3:1 THROUGH 5 -
00:12:47.26\00:12:52.30
TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
WHAT PAUL SAYS REGARDING MONEY.
00:12:52.30\00:12:55.36
"BUT KNOW THIS, IN THE LAST DAYS
PERILOUS TIMES WILL COME: FOR
00:12:55.36\00:13:00.10
MEN WILL BE LOVERS OF
THEMSELVES, LOVERS OF MONEY,
00:13:00.10\00:13:04.23
BOASTERS, PROUD, BLASPHEMERS,
DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS,
00:13:04.23\00:13:09.66
UNTHANKFUL, UNHOLY, UNLOVING,"
- A LOT OF 'UNS' THERE -
00:13:09.66\00:13:13.73
"UNTHANKFUL, UNHOLY, UNLOVING,
UNFORGIVING, SLANDERERS, WITHOUT
00:13:13.73\00:13:18.46
SELF-CONTROL, BRUTAL, DESPISERS
OF GOOD, TRAITORS, HEADSTRONG,
00:13:18.46\00:13:23.50
HAUGHTY, LOVERS OF PLEASURE
RATHER THAN LOVERS OF GOD," -
00:13:23.50\00:13:27.20
AND YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES THIS
WHOLE VERSE ESPECIALLY SCARY?
00:13:27.20\00:13:30.66
- "HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS
BUT DENYING ITS POWER."
00:13:30.66\00:13:35.90
- THESE PEOPLE WILL HAVE AN
OUTWARD RELIGION BUT THEY DON'T
00:13:35.90\00:13:39.66
HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT. CAN
THAT BE PEOPLE LIKE THE ONES
00:13:39.66\00:13:43.50
DESCRIBED IN REVELATION, WHO
ARE OUTWARDLY RICH AND INCREASED
00:13:43.50\00:13:47.73
WITH GOODS AND THINK THEY NEED
NOTHING, BUT INWARDLY THEY ARE
00:13:47.73\00:13:52.23
POOR AND WRETCHED AND
MISERABLE AND BLIND AND NAKED?
00:13:52.23\00:13:56.00
AND SO THIS IS A CONDITION OF
NOT JUST THE WORLD BEFORE JESUS
00:13:56.00\00:14:00.10
COMES, BUT MANY WHO ARE
PROFESSING TO BE THE CHURCH.
00:14:00.10\00:14:04.20
SO WHAT JAMES SAYS WHEN HE TALKS
ABOUT WEEPING AND HOWLING IS NOT
00:14:04.20\00:14:08.20
JUST MEANT FOR THE
WICKED OUT IN THE WORLD.
00:14:08.20\00:14:10.30
HE'S WARNING THOSE IN THE CHURCH
WHO ARE BECOMING DISTRACTED WITH
00:14:10.30\00:14:14.06
- OR AT LEAST THEY'RE PROFESSING
TO BE CHRISTIANS, BUT THEY'RE
00:14:14.06\00:14:17.83
DISTRACTED WITH THE
BLESSINGS OF GOD INSTEAD OF GOD.
00:14:17.83\00:14:23.46
THEY'RE DISTRACTED WITH WORLDLY
TREASURE INSTEAD OF HEAVENLY
00:14:23.46\00:14:26.86
WEALTH. ALRIGHT,
WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON
00:14:26.86\00:14:28.80
TO THE SECTION 'WHEN WEALTH
BECOMES WORTHLESS.' AND OUR
00:14:28.80\00:14:33.66
VERSES WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER
HERE - JAMES CHAPTER 5, VERSES 2
00:14:33.66\00:14:37.36
AND 3. IT SAYS, "YOUR RICHES ARE
CORRUPTED, AND YOUR GARMENTS ARE
00:14:37.36\00:14:42.80
MOTH-EATEN. YOUR
GOLD AND SILVER ARE
00:14:42.80\00:14:46.13
CORRODED, AND" - DOES GOLD
EVER CORRODE? NOT NORMALLY.
00:14:46.13\00:14:52.53
SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD
ME SHARE THAT AMAZING FACT -
00:14:52.53\00:14:55.80
HAPPENED IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
LAST YEAR. A COUPLE WALKING IN
00:14:55.80\00:15:01.13
EL DORADO COUNTY ON THEIR
PROPERTY - THEY HAD SOME LAND
00:15:01.13\00:15:02.93
UP THERE - WALKING A TRAIL
THEY WALKED MANY TIMES BEFORE.
00:15:02.93\00:15:05.53
UNDER AN OAK TREE, THE HUSBAND
SAW WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS A GLINT
00:15:05.53\00:15:08.96
- HE SAW THE EDGE OF A CAN
AND HE THOUGHT, 'WHAT IS THAT?'
00:15:08.96\00:15:11.23
AND HIS WIFE AND HIM LEANED OVER
AND THEY TOOK A STICK AND THEY
00:15:11.23\00:15:13.30
DUG AROUND A LITTLE BIT AND THIS
CAN WAS THERE AND IT WAS FULL OF
00:15:13.30\00:15:16.30
GOLD COINS. AND
THEY FOUND EIGHT CANS.
00:15:16.30\00:15:20.56
THEY GOT A METAL DETECTOR
THERE AND THEY FOUND EIGHT CANS.
00:15:20.56\00:15:24.06
AS FAR AS THEY KNOW IT
WAS BLACK BART'S TREASURE.
00:15:24.06\00:15:26.53
THEY WERE UNMINTED GOLD COINS.
I FORGET, THEY JUST SOLD IT FOR
00:15:26.53\00:15:31.46
LIKE 25 MILLION
DOLLARS AT AN AUCTION.
00:15:31.46\00:15:33.60
THEIR VALUE OF THE COINS WAS
WORTH MORE THAN THE VALUE OF THE
00:15:33.60\00:15:36.90
GOLD BECAUSE THEY WERE PERFECTLY
PRESERVED - NO CORROSION ON
00:15:36.90\00:15:41.50
THEM. GOLD DOESN'T CORRODE.
00:15:41.50\00:15:43.26
SO WHEN HE'S TALKING ABOUT
YOUR GOLD CORRODING, THAT'S GOLD
00:15:43.26\00:15:47.43
BASICALLY BEING TURNED BACK INTO
THE ELEMENTS OF THE EARTH AND
00:15:47.43\00:15:49.76
MIXED WITH OTHER THINGS BECAUSE
OF HEAT. SO GOD IS SAYING THAT,
00:15:49.76\00:15:54.40
YOU KNOW, THE ELEMENTS MELT WITH
FERVENT HEAT, YOUR GOLD THEN,
00:15:54.40\00:15:56.63
AT THAT POINT, IS NOT WORTH
ANYTHING, RIGHT? IT SAYS IT
00:15:56.63\00:16:00.76
"...WILL BE A WITNESS AGAINST
YOU AND WILL EAT YOUR FLESH
00:16:00.76\00:16:03.60
LIKE FIRE. YOU HAVE HEAPED
UP TREASURE IN THE LAST DAYS."
00:16:03.60\00:16:07.63
THESE THINGS CAN
STAND AS A JUDGMENT.
00:16:07.63\00:16:10.46
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A STATEMENT
HERE THAT'S IN THE LESSON FROM
00:16:10.46\00:16:13.10
'THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY.' THIS
IS FROM 'TESTIMONIES VOLUME 2,
00:16:13.10\00:16:16.53
PAGE 682, "RICHES BRING
WITH THEM GREAT RESPONSIBILITY.
00:16:16.53\00:16:23.03
TO OBTAIN WEALTH BY UNJUST
DEALING, BY OVERREACHING IN
00:16:23.03\00:16:27.10
TRADE, BY OPPRESSING THE
WIDOW AND THE FATHERLESS, OR BY
00:16:27.10\00:16:30.36
HOARDING UP RICHES AND
NEGLECTING THE WANTS OF THE
00:16:30.36\00:16:32.66
NEEDY, WILL EVENTUALLY BRING
THE RETRIBUTION DESCRIBED BY THE
00:16:32.66\00:16:36.40
INSPIRED APOSTLE" - VERSES
WE JUST READ - "GO NOW YOU RICH
00:16:36.40\00:16:40.16
MEN, WEEP AND HOWL, FOR YOUR
MISERY SHALL COME UPON YOU."
00:16:40.16\00:16:45.10
AND SO, YOU KNOW, WITH INFLUENCE
COMES RESPONSIBILITY AND
00:16:45.10\00:16:50.86
ACCOUNTABILITY. MONEY
GIVES YOU INFLUENCE AND POWER.
00:16:50.86\00:16:55.63
AND AS A CHRISTIAN, WHEN HE
GIVES YOU THAT, YOU WANT TO USE
00:16:55.63\00:16:58.03
YOUR MONEY AND THAT INFLUENCE
AND THAT POWER, TO TELL FOR
00:16:58.03\00:17:01.30
GOOD. IF IT'S JUST FOR SELFISH
00:17:01.30\00:17:03.36
PLEASURE, INSTEAD OF
HELPING YOU, IT CAN HURT YOU.
00:17:03.36\00:17:07.20
I THINK IT WAS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
THAT SAID, 'MORE PEOPLE ARE
00:17:07.20\00:17:11.63
DESTROYED BY
ABUNDANCE THAN WANT."
00:17:11.63\00:17:14.73
MORE PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED - I
KNOW IT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE, BUT
00:17:14.73\00:17:18.96
IT'S WORTH REMEMBERING -
MORE PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED BY
00:17:18.96\00:17:22.16
ABUNDANCE THAN WANT. A
LOT OF PEOPLE THINK, 'AW MAN,
00:17:22.16\00:17:24.13
IF I COULD JUST WIN
THE LOTTERY, YOU KNOW?
00:17:24.13\00:17:26.63
I WOULDN'T HAVE ALL
THESE WORRIES AND STRESS.
00:17:26.63\00:17:28.16
I CAN PAY OFF MY BILLS AND I'D -
I'D GO AROUND AND JUST DO GOOD.
00:17:28.16\00:17:31.86
I'D JUST HELP PEOPLE. I'D
GIVE TO CHARITIES.' PEOPLE
00:17:31.86\00:17:36.36
THINK THAT - AND THEY MAY HAVE
GOOD HEARTS WHEN THEY SAY THAT,
00:17:36.36\00:17:38.20
BUT YOU KNOW
WHAT THE RECORD SHOWS?
00:17:38.20\00:17:40.53
THE TYPICAL PERSON THAT WINS
THE LOTTERY, WITHIN A FEW YEARS
00:17:40.53\00:17:44.36
THEY'VE MADE BAD
INVESTMENTS. THEY'VE LOST IT.
00:17:44.36\00:17:46.46
AND IN SOME CASES THEY ARE MORE
IN DEBT THAN BEFORE THEY WON.
00:17:46.46\00:17:50.33
IN SOME CASES THEY GET INVOLVED
IN COURT DISPUTES AND BATTLES
00:17:50.33\00:17:54.03
WITH THEIR FAMILY.
SOME HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY
00:17:54.03\00:17:56.86
FAMILY MEMBERS WHO WON THE
LOTTERY BECAUSE THEIR SPOUSES
00:17:56.86\00:18:00.43
WANTED THE MONEY. I
MEAN, SOMEONE WENT AND DID
00:18:00.43\00:18:03.33
RESEARCH OF PEOPLE THAT WON THE
LOTTERY AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF
00:18:03.33\00:18:07.20
THEM, THEIR LIVES
JUST SPIRALED INTO MISERY.
00:18:07.20\00:18:11.76
VERY FEW OF THEM
KNEW HOW TO HANDLE IT.
00:18:11.76\00:18:15.90
I REMEMBER ONE
FELLOW THAT HE DID OKAY.
00:18:15.90\00:18:17.83
HE WON THE LOTTERY - 25 MILLION
DOLLARS - THEY DON'T GIVE IT TO
00:18:17.83\00:18:20.36
YOU ALL AT ONCE, IT'S LIKE, YOU
KNOW, $10,000 A MONTH FOR THE
00:18:20.36\00:18:23.43
REST OF YOUR LIFE OR SOMETHING
LIKE THAT, BUT HE DROVE A TRUCK
00:18:23.43\00:18:26.46
AND THEY SAID, 'WELL,
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?'
00:18:26.46\00:18:27.66
HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO GO
TO WORK TOMORROW.' 'AREN'T YOU
00:18:27.66\00:18:30.40
GOING TO QUIT?'
'NO, I LIKE MY JOB.
00:18:30.40\00:18:32.33
I DON'T WANT TO DO NOTHING.' HE
SAID, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING
00:18:32.33\00:18:35.53
TO PROBABLY GET A BETTER HOUSE
AND THEN GOING TO SHARE SOME
00:18:35.53\00:18:37.23
WITH MY FAMILY AND SHARE SOME
WITH MY CHURCH.' AND HE SAID,
00:18:37.23\00:18:40.43
'IT'S BEEN A BLESSING AND I'M
GOING TO JUST TRY AND IMPROVE MY
00:18:40.43\00:18:43.36
QUALITY OF LIFE.' BUT
HE KEPT RIGHT ON WORKING.
00:18:43.36\00:18:45.63
NOW THAT KIND OF PERSON,
THEY KNOW HOW TO HANDLE IT.
00:18:45.63\00:18:48.56
BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE
ARE DESTROYED BY ABUNDANCE.
00:18:48.56\00:18:52.43
THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'HARDLY
SHALL A RICH MAN ENTER THE
00:18:52.43\00:18:55.43
KINGDOM.' BECAUSE WE GET WHERE
WE START TRUSTING THE MONEY FOR
00:18:55.43\00:18:59.10
OUR PEACE AND HAPPINESS
INSTEAD OF TRUSTING GOD.
00:18:59.10\00:19:02.23
SO, HERE'S AN EXAMPLE, IN LUKE
12:16, IT TALKS - THE HEADING
00:19:02.23\00:19:09.63
HERE IS 'WHEN WEALTH BECOMES
WORTHLESS.' LUKE 12:16, "THEN HE
00:19:09.63\00:19:15.03
SPOKE A PARABLE TO THEM, SAYING:
'THE GROUND OF A CERTAIN RICH
00:19:15.03\00:19:18.36
MAN YIELDED PLENTIFULLY.
AND HE THOUGHT WITHIN HIMSELF,
00:19:18.36\00:19:22.33
SAYING, 'WHAT SHALL I DO,
BECAUSE I HAVE NO ROOM WHERE TO
00:19:22.33\00:19:25.10
BESTOW MY FRUITS?''" -
IT NEVER CROSSES HIS MIND,
00:19:25.10\00:19:28.10
'WELL, MAYBE YOU SHOULD SHARE
SOME.' - "AND HE SAID, 'THIS
00:19:28.10\00:19:31.46
WILL I DO: I WILL PULL DOWN
MY BARNS, AND BUILD GREATER; AND
00:19:31.46\00:19:36.03
THERE WILL I BESTOW
ALL MY FRUITS AND MY GOODS.
00:19:36.03\00:19:38.46
AND I WILL SAY TO MY SOUL,
'SOUL, THOU HAST MUCH GOODS LAID
00:19:38.46\00:19:42.03
UP FOR MANY YEARS; TAKE THINE
EASE, EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY.'
00:19:42.03\00:19:47.43
BUT GOD SAID UNTO HIM, 'THOU
FOOL, THIS NIGHT THY SOUL SHALL
00:19:47.43\00:19:51.50
BE REQUIRED OF THEE: THEN WHOSE
SHALL THOSE THINGS BE, WHICH
00:19:51.50\00:19:55.00
THOU HAST PROVIDED?' SO
IS HE THAT LAYETH UP TREASURE
00:19:55.00\00:19:58.20
FOR HIMSELF, AND IS NOT RICH
TOWARD GOD.'" THERE'S A WARNING
00:19:58.20\00:20:01.73
THERE. JESUS IS
GIVING THIS TO THE
00:20:01.73\00:20:03.60
CHURCH - TO THE DISCIPLES.
WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL.
00:20:03.60\00:20:06.53
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE DOESN'T
SAY A LOT ABOUT RETIREMENT.
00:20:06.53\00:20:09.76
I'M NOT SAYING
IT'S WRONG TO RETIRE.
00:20:09.76\00:20:12.30
IT ACTUALLY SOUNDS VERY
ATTRACTIVE TO ME SOME DAYS, BUT
00:20:12.30\00:20:15.50
GOD WANTS - THE REASON IS, I
THINK, GOD WANTS HIS PEOPLE TO
00:20:15.50\00:20:18.46
REMAIN USEFUL. EVEN IF
THEY SHOULD RETIRE FROM
00:20:18.46\00:20:22.23
THEIR REGULAR WORK, I THINK AS
LONG AS GOD GIVES US HEALTH AND
00:20:22.23\00:20:25.43
STRENGTH, CHRISTIANS
SHOULD BE PRODUCTIVE.
00:20:25.43\00:20:28.43
IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU MIGHT NOT
RETIRE FROM YOUR JOB, BUT I KNOW
00:20:28.43\00:20:30.93
A LOT OF VERY HAPPY RETIREES,
THEY RETIRE, THEY GET THEIR
00:20:30.93\00:20:34.53
PENSION OR THEIR INCOME, THEN
THEY GO ON MARANATHA CHURCH-
00:20:34.53\00:20:37.70
BUILDING TRIPS OR THEY GO ON
AMAZING FACTS MISSION TRIPS OR
00:20:37.70\00:20:40.83
WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE.
00:20:40.83\00:20:42.10
BECAUSE THEY SAY, 'I WANT TO
CONTINUE TO BE USEFUL FOR GOD.
00:20:42.10\00:20:45.00
I REMEMBER AN OLD PREACHER
THAT SAID, 'MAKE SURE YOU STAY
00:20:45.00\00:20:48.96
USEFUL IN THE KINGDOM BECAUSE
GOD HAS SHOWN, HISTORICALLY, HE
00:20:48.96\00:20:52.46
TENDS TO KEEP PEOPLE AROUND
IF THEY MAKE THEMSELVES USEFUL.'
00:20:52.46\00:20:58.26
HAVE YOU EVER KNOWN AN OLD
COUPLE, MARRIED FOR MANY YEARS,
00:20:58.26\00:21:03.23
AND THEN ONE OF THE SPOUSES
DIES, AS USUALLY IS THE CASE,
00:21:03.23\00:21:08.46
AND IT JUST SEEMS LIKE WITHIN
A FEW MONTHS THE OTHER DIES.
00:21:08.46\00:21:12.63
IT'S LIKE THEIR LIVES WERE
INVOLVED IN HELPING TAKE CARE OF
00:21:12.63\00:21:14.93
EACH OTHER AND WHEN THEIR
PURPOSE WAS GONE, THEIR MEANING
00:21:14.93\00:21:17.70
FOR LIFE WAS GONE. YOU
NEED TO HAVE A PURPOSE AND
00:21:17.70\00:21:21.93
YOU NEED TO BE
INVOLVED IN SERVING GOD.
00:21:21.93\00:21:23.86
AND HE'S INCLINED TO KEEP
YOU AROUND WHEN THAT HAPPENS.
00:21:23.86\00:21:31.10
ALRIGHT, HERE, I'M GOING TO DO
ANOTHER STORY AND THIS IS FROM
00:21:31.10\00:21:33.63
THE BOOK OF 1 SAMUEL 25,
VERSE 2. ANYONE KNOW WHAT THAT'S
00:21:33.63\00:21:38.20
ABOUT? YOU HEARD OF
SOMEONE NAMED NABAL?
00:21:38.20\00:21:42.63
WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT
WHEN WEALTH BECOMES WORTHLESS -
00:21:42.63\00:21:45.30
NABAL. LET ME
GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND
00:21:45.30\00:21:46.90
FOR THIS
ILLUSTRATION IN THE BIBLE.
00:21:46.90\00:21:48.80
IT ILLUSTRATES EXACTLY
WHAT JAMES WAS TALKING ABOUT.
00:21:48.80\00:21:51.73
NABAL WAS A VERY WEALTHY
LANDOWNER THAT LIVED UP IN THE
00:21:51.73\00:21:55.86
AREA OF CARMEL - NOT CARMEL,
CALIFORNIA, CARMEL IN ISRAEL -
00:21:55.86\00:22:00.26
AND HE HAD A BEAUTIFUL WIFE
NAMED ABIGAIL. AND DAVID HAD
00:22:00.26\00:22:07.10
BEEN RUNNING FROM SAUL AND HE
WAS LIVING IN THE NORTHERN PART
00:22:07.10\00:22:09.90
OF THE KINGDOM AT THIS TIME
- LIVING OUT IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:22:09.90\00:22:12.96
HIS - THE WOODS - THE HILLS
WHERE DAVID AND HIS SOLDIERS
00:22:12.96\00:22:16.86
WERE HIDING WERE RIGHT
NEXT TO THE PROPERTY OF NABAL.
00:22:16.86\00:22:20.56
AND NABAL'S SHEPHERDS AND HIS
COWBOYS WERE ALL OUT THERE AND
00:22:20.56\00:22:24.73
THEY BECAME FRIENDS WITH DAVID'S
SOLDIERS AND DAVID PROTECTED
00:22:24.73\00:22:27.23
THEM AGAINST THE ASSYRIANS
AND THE RAIDING ARMIES FROM THE
00:22:27.23\00:22:30.66
NORTH AND SO, DAVID, FINALLY,
WHEN THE TIME CAME FOR SHEEP
00:22:30.66\00:22:35.13
SHEARING, HE SAID TO SOME OF HIS
SOLDIERS, 'GO DOWN' - TYPICALLY
00:22:35.13\00:22:39.13
THIS IS A TIME OF
GIVING GIFTS AND GENEROSITY.
00:22:39.13\00:22:42.00
WHEN THEY REJOICED IN THE
SHEEP SHEARING THEY ALSO USUALLY
00:22:42.00\00:22:44.90
SLAUGHTERED SOME ANIMALS AND
THERE WAS ABUNDANCE AND THERE
00:22:44.90\00:22:48.10
WERE SOME THINGS THAT WERE BEING
HARVESTED DURING THIS TIME.
00:22:48.10\00:22:51.80
HE SAID, 'GO DOWN AND SAY,
'WE'RE YOUR SERVANTS WITH DAVID.
00:22:51.80\00:22:55.53
IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE
TO SHARE WITH US DURING THIS
00:22:55.53\00:22:57.33
TIME, WE'D APPRECIATE IT.
00:22:57.33\00:22:58.60
WE'VE BEEN KIND OF GUARDING
YOUR FLOCKS AND EVERYTHING.' AND
00:22:58.60\00:23:02.20
NABAL, THE BIBLE SAYS, WAS - HE
WAS JUST SUCH A CHURLISH MAN -
00:23:02.20\00:23:07.30
SELFISH, GREEDY - AND WHEN THE
SOLDIERS CAME WITH THIS MESSAGE
00:23:07.30\00:23:11.66
FROM DAVID HE SAID, 'OH, THERE'S
A LOT OF SERVANTS RUNNING AWAY
00:23:11.66\00:23:14.50
FROM THEIR MASTERS THESE DAYS'
- HE'S CALLING DAVID A RUNAWAY
00:23:14.50\00:23:17.36
SLAVE BECAUSE HE WAS RUNNING
FROM SAUL. HE SAID, 'WHY AM I
00:23:17.36\00:23:21.06
SUPPOSED TO TAKE THE FOOD I'M
SUPPOSED TO GIVE MY SLAVES AND
00:23:21.06\00:23:23.30
GIVE IT TO A RUNAWAY
SLAVE?' AND HE WAS VERY RUDE.
00:23:23.30\00:23:28.46
WELL, DAVID HAD 600 SOLDIERS
WITH HIM AT THAT TIME, LATER
00:23:28.46\00:23:31.83
KNOWN AS 'THE MIGHTY
MEN.' AND THIS FELLOW
00:23:31.83\00:23:33.90
HAD JUST TERRIBLY INSULTED THEM.
00:23:33.90\00:23:36.63
AND SO WHEN ABIGAIL HEARD WHAT
HER HUSBAND HAD SAID TO DAVID'S
00:23:36.63\00:23:40.60
MESSENGERS, SHE SAID, 'OH, THAT
WAS NOT GOOD.' AND THE SHEPHERDS
00:23:40.60\00:23:45.50
SAID, 'DAVID'S SOLDIERS
HAVE BEEN A WALL FOR US.
00:23:45.50\00:23:48.40
DAY AND NIGHT, PROTECTING OUR
FLOCKS - THEY HAVE NOT MOLESTED
00:23:48.40\00:23:50.60
US, THEY'VE BEEN FRIENDS WITH
US, THEY'VE TAKEN CARE OF US.
00:23:50.60\00:23:53.23
WE SHOULD HAVE HELPED THEM.'
AND SO SHE GOT THESE PROVISIONS
00:23:53.23\00:23:56.40
TOGETHER AND MET - DAVID WAS ON
HIS WAY TO ATTACK NABAL FOR HIS
00:23:56.40\00:23:59.60
INSULT - AND SHE MET THEM ON THE
WAY AND SAID, 'PLEASE FORGIVE
00:23:59.60\00:24:02.73
YOUR SERVANT. JUST LIKE HIS NAME
HE IS FOOLISH.' THAT'S WHAT THE
00:24:02.73\00:24:07.56
NAME MEANT AND SHE GAVE
HIM SOMETHING. HE SAID OKAY.
00:24:07.56\00:24:10.70
WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT?
NABAL HAD A STROKE THAT DAY.
00:24:10.70\00:24:15.26
WHEN ABIGAIL TOLD HIM THE NEXT
MORNING THAT HE HAD NEARLY BEEN
00:24:15.26\00:24:17.80
KILLED AND EVERYTHING HE HAD
TAKEN BY DAVID, HE ALMOST HAD A
00:24:17.80\00:24:21.43
STROKE THAT DAY AND - OR HE DID
HAVE A STROKE THAT NEXT MORNING
00:24:21.43\00:24:25.33
AND HE DIED TEN DAYS LATER.
KIND OF - THIS IS WHAT JESUS IS
00:24:25.33\00:24:28.83
REFERRING TO IN THE PARABLE OF
THE FOOLISH MAN THAT SAID, 'I'M
00:24:28.83\00:24:32.06
GOING TO KEEP IT
ALL.' HE LOST IT ALL.
00:24:32.06\00:24:34.73
HE WOULDN'T SHARE A
LITTLE BIT AND HE LOST IT ALL.
00:24:34.73\00:24:37.63
NOT ONLY DID HE LOSE HIS HOUSES
AND HIS LANDS, GUESS WHO ENDED
00:24:37.63\00:24:40.73
UP MARRYING HIS WIFE? DAVID.
SO IT DOESN'T PAY TO BE STINGY.
00:24:40.73\00:24:49.96
ALRIGHT, YOU KNOW THERE'S - I'M
LOOKING AT THE CLOCK AND TRYING
00:24:49.96\00:24:53.56
TO PACE MYSELF
HERE. WHAT ABOUT HEZEKIAH?
00:24:53.56\00:24:58.43
YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE MESSENGERS
WERE SENT - YOU FIND THIS IN
00:24:58.43\00:25:01.13
2 KINGS 20, VERSE 12, "AT THAT
TIME BERODACHBALADAN, THE SON OF
00:25:01.13\00:25:05.50
BALADAN, KING OF BABYLON,
SENT LETTERS AND A PRESENT UNTO
00:25:05.50\00:25:08.26
HEZEKIAH: FOR HE HAD HEARD
THAT HEZEKIAH HAD BEEN SICK."
00:25:08.26\00:25:11.76
AND THEY JUST
WANTED TO HEAR ABOUT GOD.
00:25:11.76\00:25:14.76
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT
HEZEKIAH SHOWED THEM?
00:25:14.76\00:25:17.13
HEZEKIAH SAID, 'WOW,
BABYLON. THAT'S THE CENTER OF
00:25:17.13\00:25:19.56
SOPHISTICATION IN
THIS PART OF THE WORLD.
00:25:19.56\00:25:22.53
THEY'VE COME TO ME. WOW.'
HE FELT A LITTLE INSECURE.
00:25:22.53\00:25:26.53
HE SAID, 'I'D BETTER IMPRESS
THEM WITH WHAT I HAVE.' AND SO
00:25:26.53\00:25:29.50
HEZEKIAH SAID, 'HERE, LET ME
SHOW YOU MY HOUSE.' AND HE TOOK
00:25:29.50\00:25:33.00
THEM ON A TOUR OF
THE RICH AND FAMOUS.
00:25:33.00\00:25:35.33
HE SAID, 'HERE'S MY ARMORY.
00:25:35.33\00:25:36.86
LOOK AT ALL THE GOLD THAT
I'VE GOT. HERE'S MY TREASURY.
00:25:36.86\00:25:39.86
HERE'S ALL MY JEWELS AND LOOK AT
ALL THE WEAPONS THAT WE HAVE AND
00:25:39.86\00:25:43.66
LOOK AT ALL THE MARBLE.'
AND THEY WANTED TO FIND OUT
00:25:43.66\00:25:46.66
ABOUT THE GOD THAT
MADE THE SUN GO BACKWARDS.
00:25:46.66\00:25:49.80
HE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT
GOD - JUST SHOWED THEM ALL HIS
00:25:49.80\00:25:52.46
STUFF, AND THEN THEY LEFT.
AND ISAIAH CAME TO HEZEKIAH AND
00:25:52.46\00:25:57.46
HE SAID, 'THESE MEN CAME TO
YOU, WHERE'D THEY COME FROM?
00:25:57.46\00:26:00.80
WHAT DID THEY
SEE IN YOUR HOUSE?'
00:26:00.80\00:26:02.70
HE SAID, 'OH, THEY CAME FROM
BABYLON.' 'AND WHAT'D THEY SEE?'
00:26:02.70\00:26:06.76
'OH, I SHOWED THEM
EVERYTHING IN MY HOUSE.
00:26:06.76\00:26:08.26
THERE WAS NOTHING AMONG MY
THINGS I DIDN'T SHOW THEM.' AND
00:26:08.26\00:26:11.60
ISAIAH SAID, 'HEAR
THE WORD OF THE LORD.
00:26:11.60\00:26:13.36
THESE PEOPLE FROM BABYLON
ARE GOING TO GO BACK AND THEY'RE
00:26:13.36\00:26:16.16
GOING TO TELL THEIR LEADERS
ABOUT ALL THE TREASURES AND
00:26:16.16\00:26:18.06
THEY'RE GOING TO COME AND
THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE IT ALL AND
00:26:18.06\00:26:20.23
THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE ALL OF
YOUR TREASURE AND THEY'RE GOING
00:26:20.23\00:26:22.43
TO TAKE YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND
THEY ARE GOING TO BE EUNUCHS IN
00:26:22.43\00:26:25.90
THE PALACE OF BABYLON
BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T EXALT GOD.
00:26:25.90\00:26:28.53
YOU SHOWED THEM YOUR TREASURE
AND THEY'RE GOING TO WANT YOUR
00:26:28.53\00:26:32.03
TREASURE. YOUR TREASURE WAS
YOUR STUFF AND NOT YOUR GOD.
00:26:32.03\00:26:35.70
JESUS SAID, 'LAY NOT UP FOR
YOURSELF TREASURE ON EARTH WHERE
00:26:35.70\00:26:39.83
MOTH AND RUST CORRUPT
AND THIEVES BREAK THROUGH AND
00:26:39.83\00:26:43.60
STEAL.' LAST 24 HOURS I HAD TWO
FRIENDS TOLD ME SOMEONE BROKE
00:26:43.60\00:26:47.96
INTO THEIR HOUSE.
ACTUALLY, KAREN TOLD ME ONE OF
00:26:47.96\00:26:50.23
OUR NEIGHBORS BROKE
INTO A FRIEND'S HOUSE.
00:26:50.23\00:26:53.46
AND IT'S JUST ALWAYS
- IT'S HAPPENED TO US.
00:26:53.46\00:26:57.16
YOU ALWAYS FEEL KIND OF
VIOLATED WHEN THAT HAPPENS.
00:26:57.16\00:27:00.86
NOTHING IN THIS
WORLD IS GOING TO LAST.
00:27:00.86\00:27:03.80
THE ONLY THING THAT'S GOING
TO GET OUT OF THIS WORLD THAT'S
00:27:03.80\00:27:06.36
WORTH ANYTHING IS PEOPLE
WHO HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED BY THE
00:27:06.36\00:27:09.10
POWER OF GOD.
HEZEKIAH - EVERYTHING WAS TAKEN
00:27:09.10\00:27:12.56
BY KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR A
LITTLE WHILE LATER AND DANIEL,
00:27:12.56\00:27:15.20
SHADRACH, MESHACH AND ABEDNEGO
- SOME OF THE ROYAL LINE - THEY
00:27:15.20\00:27:19.23
WERE MADE EUNUCHS IN
THE PALACE OF BABYLON.
00:27:19.23\00:27:21.00
THE EXACT SAME THING
THAT ISAIAH SAID WOULD HAPPEN.
00:27:21.00\00:27:24.76
BUT THEN YOU GET TO THE APOSTLES
- AND THIS IS ACTS CHAPTER 3 -
00:27:24.76\00:27:28.90
AND THEIR ATTITUDE IS A
LITTLE DIFFERENT AT THAT POINT.
00:27:28.90\00:27:32.46
YOU REMEMBER THE STORY
ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE?
00:27:32.46\00:27:35.10
AND I THINK ONE OF YOU IS GOING
TO BE READING FOR ME, IN JUST A
00:27:35.10\00:27:38.30
MOMENT, PROVERBS 3:27 AND 28
- WHO HAS - YOU'LL BE DOING THAT
00:27:38.30\00:27:41.93
IN JUST A MOMENT, OKAY?
YOU REMEMBER WHEN PETER AND
00:27:41.93\00:27:45.60
JOHN, THEY GO INTO THE TEMPLE
- PEOPLE ARE THERE BEGGING.
00:27:45.60\00:27:49.80
THERE'S A MAN CRIPPLED - BEGGING
AT THE TEMPLE GATE AND HE'S
00:27:49.80\00:27:54.26
WANTING SOME MONEY
- WANTING A HAND OUT.
00:27:54.26\00:27:57.33
PETER STOPS AND LOOKS AT
HIM BECAUSE HIS HEART, YOU KNOW,
00:27:57.33\00:28:00.93
GOES OUT TO THE MAN.
WHEN YOU'VE GOT THE HEART OF
00:28:00.93\00:28:03.16
JESUS, YOU CARE ABOUT SUFFERING.
AND HE SEES THIS MAN WHO'S
00:28:03.16\00:28:06.43
SUFFERING, NOT ONLY BECAUSE HE'S
POOR, BUT THE REASON HE'S POOR
00:28:06.43\00:28:09.23
IS BECAUSE HE'S CRIPPLED.
SO WHAT'S THE BEST THING TO DO?
00:28:09.23\00:28:13.20
IF YOU CAN HELP A PERSON WHO'S
POOR BECAUSE THEY'RE CRIPPLED,
00:28:13.20\00:28:17.93
AND YOU CAN SAVE THEM FROM BEING
CRIPPLED, WHAT WOULD THEY RATHER
00:28:17.93\00:28:20.23
HAVE? A HAND OUT
FOR ONE MORE SANDWICH
00:28:20.23\00:28:23.03
OR WOULD THEY RATHER HAVE
LEGS SO THEY COULD WORK AND FEED
00:28:23.03\00:28:25.76
THEMSELVES? SO HE
STOPS AND HE LOOKS AT HIM
00:28:25.76\00:28:30.10
AND THE MAN SAYS, 'OH
GOOD, I'VE GOT A LIVE ONE HERE.
00:28:30.10\00:28:32.66
HE'S GOING TO GIVE ME
SOMETHING.' AND PETER SAID,
00:28:32.66\00:28:37.06
'LEST YOU MISUNDERSTAND,
SILVER AND GOLD I DO NOT HAVE.
00:28:37.06\00:28:41.90
BUT SUCH THAT I HAVE I'M GOING
TO GIVE YOU.' I'M GOING TO GIVE
00:28:41.90\00:28:45.43
YOU SOMETHING, BUT
IT'S NOT SILVER OR GOLD.
00:28:45.43\00:28:48.13
SOMETIMES I'VE STOPPED WHERE,
YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE PEOPLE AT THE
00:28:48.13\00:28:50.33
INTERSECTIONS AND THEY'RE
HOLDING OUT THE SIGN AND THEY'RE
00:28:50.33\00:28:52.30
ASKING FOR HANDOUTS AND I PAUSE
AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES, IF
00:28:52.30\00:28:55.66
THEY LOOK LIKE THEY'RE NOT GOING
TO USE IT THE WRONG WAY - AND
00:28:55.66\00:28:59.73
IT'S HARD TO TELL -
I USED TO PANHANDLE.
00:28:59.73\00:29:03.70
I DID IT QUITE A BIT.
AND SO I KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES
00:29:03.70\00:29:08.26
WHEN I'VE PANHANDLED,
SOMETIMES I BOUGHT FOOD.
00:29:08.26\00:29:10.66
SOMETIMES I BOUGHT BEER.
AND SO, YOU DON'T WANT TO HELP A
00:29:10.66\00:29:15.20
PERSON GET DRUNK
AND HURT THEMSELVES.
00:29:15.20\00:29:19.06
THAT JUST KIND OF
ENABLES THEIR PRODIGAL LIVING.
00:29:19.06\00:29:21.80
BUT I'LL PAUSE AND I'LL HAVE
LIKE A MAGAZINE OR A BOOK OR
00:29:21.80\00:29:25.90
SOMETHING LIKE THAT - IT
HAPPENED LAST WEEK HERE IN TOWN
00:29:25.90\00:29:28.63
- AND YOU GIVE THEM SOMETHING -
IT'S LIKE THEY GO, 'OH, THANKS.'
00:29:28.63\00:29:33.06
AND SO YOU SAY TO THEM, 'WELL,
SILVER AND GOLD I DON'T HAVE,
00:29:33.06\00:29:35.70
BUT I'VE GOT THIS TRACT.'
'OH, THANKS A LOT.' RIGHT?
00:29:35.70\00:29:40.03
AND SO WHEN HE SAYS TO THIS MAN
- PETER SAYS, 'SILVER AND GOLD I
00:29:40.03\00:29:43.50
DON'T HAVE.' HE SAID, 'OH,
WHAT'S HE GOING TO PREACH TO
00:29:43.50\00:29:45.80
ME?' 'BUT I'VE
GOT SOMETHING BETTER.'
00:29:45.80\00:29:51.13
NOW THAT MAN HAD COME - WE READ
SOME OF THE BACKGROUND MATERIAL
00:29:51.13\00:29:55.40
- THAT MAN HAD COME TO JERUSALEM
BECAUSE HE HAD HEARD ABOUT
00:29:55.40\00:29:57.33
JESUS. HE HAD
COME A LONG WAY BECAUSE
00:29:57.33\00:29:59.30
HE HAD WANTED TO BE HEALED.
HE GOT THERE AND FOUND OUT THAT
00:29:59.30\00:30:02.40
ABOUT 50 DAYS EARLIER
JESUS HAD BEEN CRUCIFIED.
00:30:02.40\00:30:05.43
CAN YOU IMAGINE
HOW DEVASTATED HE WAS?
00:30:05.43\00:30:07.30
BECAUSE CHRIST HEALED JUST ABOUT
EVERYBODY AROUND THE TEMPLE.
00:30:07.30\00:30:10.50
AND SO THIS MAN WAS SOMEONE
NEW AND HE SAID, 'IN THE NAME OF
00:30:10.50\00:30:14.43
JESUS, STAND UP AND WALK.' AND
PETER TOOK HIM BY THE HAND AND
00:30:14.43\00:30:18.43
GAVE HIM THE ABILITY TO WALK.
WHAT WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE?
00:30:18.43\00:30:21.50
WHAT KIND OF
RICHES SHOULD WE DESIRE?
00:30:21.50\00:30:23.93
IF GOD SAYS, 'I'M GOING TO GIVE
YOU SILVER AND GOLD OR I'M GOING
00:30:23.93\00:30:27.33
TO GIVE YOU THE ABILITY
TO WALK THE CHRISTIAN WALK.'
00:30:27.33\00:30:31.00
WHAT WOULD BE WORTH MORE?
YOU KNOW THAT SONG - IT'S KIND
00:30:31.00\00:30:36.40
OF AN INTERESTING STORY.
HAVE YOU ALL HEARD OF GEORGE
00:30:36.40\00:30:39.56
BEVERLY SHAY? HE
WAS A FAMOUS SINGING
00:30:39.56\00:30:43.03
EVANGELIST WITH
BILLY GRAHAM FOR 60 YEARS.
00:30:43.03\00:30:46.90
KAREN AND I SAW HIM ONCE WHEN
BILLY GRAHAM CAME TO NORTHERN
00:30:46.90\00:30:50.00
CALIFORNIA - OH, 25 YEARS AGO OR
20 YEARS AGO, ANYWAY AND, WELL,
00:30:50.00\00:30:56.16
WHEN GEORGE BEVERLY SHAY WAS
IN HIS LATE 20S - MAY HAVE BEEN
00:30:56.16\00:30:59.26
EARLY 30S, HE WAS
AN INSURANCE SALESMAN.
00:30:59.26\00:31:01.70
LOVED TO SING - SANG IN CHURCH.
FATHER WAS A METHODIST MINISTER
00:31:01.70\00:31:04.80
AND HIS SINGING WAS
BECOMING MORE RECOGNIZED.
00:31:04.80\00:31:07.86
HE'D SING ON THE RADIO - USUALLY
HYMNS. HE'D DO THIS PROGRAM
00:31:07.86\00:31:10.70
CALLED 'SONGS IN THE NIGHT' OR
SOMETHING. HE'D SING - BEAUTIFUL
00:31:10.70\00:31:14.00
BASS BARITONE VOICE - AND
HE WAS A GOOD MUSICIAN TOO.
00:31:14.00\00:31:17.96
HE COULD PLAY PIANO. HE
WAS OFFERED THE OPPORTUNITY,
00:31:17.96\00:31:21.33
WITH A BIG CONTRACT, TO SING
ON NBC ON THIS RADIO PROGRAM
00:31:21.33\00:31:26.26
BUT IT WOULD INVOLVE
HIM SINGING SECULAR SONGS.
00:31:26.26\00:31:29.93
AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I JUST -
I REALLY BELIEVE THAT GOD WANTS
00:31:29.93\00:31:33.50
ME TO SING FOR HIM AND I DON'T
THINK THIS IS WHAT HE WANTS ME
00:31:33.50\00:31:36.80
TO DO.' AND PEOPLE SAID, 'OH,
MAN, THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY -
00:31:36.80\00:31:38.53
YOU'VE ALWAYS
WANTED TO SING FULL TIME.
00:31:38.53\00:31:40.30
THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO SING
FULL TIME.' HE SAID, 'YEAH, BUT
00:31:40.30\00:31:42.36
I'M NOT COMFORTABLE
SINGING WORLDLY MUSIC.
00:31:42.36\00:31:45.50
I WANT TO SING FOR
GOD.' SO HE TURNED IT DOWN.
00:31:45.50\00:31:48.93
AND IT WASN'T LONG - AND THEY
SAID, 'YOU'RE GOING TO MISS IT.
00:31:48.93\00:31:51.13
NO ONE WILL EVER HEAR FROM YOU
AGAIN.' HIS FRIENDS TOLD HIM.
00:31:51.13\00:31:53.86
'THIS IS YOUR CHANCE AT FAME.'
THEY SAID, 'NO ONE WILL EVER
00:31:53.86\00:31:56.63
HEAR FROM YOU.' AND THEN,
A YOUNG EVANGELIST CALLED AND
00:31:56.63\00:32:01.23
SAID, 'I'D LIKE YOU TO' - HE'D
HEARD HIM SING AND HE SAID, 'I
00:32:01.23\00:32:04.13
WANT YOU TO SING FOR SOME
MEETINGS I'M DOING.' THAT WAS
00:32:04.13\00:32:06.10
BILLY GRAHAM. AND SO HE WENT AND
BEGAN TO SING FOR BILLY GRAHAM.
00:32:06.10\00:32:09.56
WELL, YOU KNOW, SINCE THEN -
HE LIVED TO 104 - HE DIED LAST
00:32:09.56\00:32:13.90
YEAR. THEY ESTIMATE THAT GEORGE
BEVERLY SHAY SANG - HIS VOICE
00:32:13.90\00:32:18.90
WAS HEARD LIVE BY MORE PEOPLE
THAN ANY OTHER VOICE IN HISTORY.
00:32:18.90\00:32:23.30
BECAUSE HE SANG FOR THESE BILLY
GRAHAM CRUSADES LIVE THAT WERE
00:32:23.30\00:32:27.00
BROADCAST AROUND THE WORLD.
AND SO WHEN YOU GIVE YOUR GIFTS
00:32:27.00\00:32:31.13
TO GOD, HE WILL MULTIPLY
THEM AND HE'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU.
00:32:31.13\00:32:34.93
ANYWAYS, SO WHAT
WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE?
00:32:34.93\00:32:38.20
EARTHLY SILVER AND GOLD?
YOU KNOW, GEORGE BEVERLY SHAY
00:32:38.20\00:32:40.20
SANG THE SONG - THAT'S WHAT MADE
ME THINK OF THE WHOLE STORY -
00:32:40.20\00:32:42.70
'I'D RATHER HAVE JESUS
THAN SILVER AND GOLD.' RIGHT?
00:32:42.70\00:32:48.00
AND THAT WORKED
OUT THAT WAY FOR HIM.
00:32:48.00\00:32:50.76
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO DOWN - 'CRIES
OF THE POOR.' AND READ FOR US,
00:32:50.76\00:32:56.56
PLEASE, PROVERBS
3, VERSES 27 AND 28.
00:32:56.56\00:33:02.53
>>"WITHHOLD NOT GOOD FROM THEM
TO WHOM IT IS DUE, WHEN IT IS IN
00:33:02.53\00:33:06.66
THE POWER OF
THINE HAND TO DO IT.
00:33:06.66\00:33:08.76
SAY NOT UNTO THY NEIGHBOR, GO,
AND COME AGAIN, AND TOMORROW I
00:33:08.76\00:33:12.16
WILL GIVE; WHEN
THOU HAST IT BY THEE."
00:33:12.16\00:33:17.06
>>IF YOU HAVE SOMEONE WORKING
FOR YOU OR THEY DO A JOB FOR YOU
00:33:17.06\00:33:20.10
AND YOU'RE ABLE TO PAY
THEM, DON'T SAY TO THEM,
00:33:20.10\00:33:22.50
'OH YEAH, CHECK'S IN THE
MAIL. I'LL GET BACK TO YOU.
00:33:22.50\00:33:25.60
YEAH, I DON'T HAVE IT RIGHT NOW.
00:33:25.60\00:33:27.16
IT'S NOT WITH ME RIGHT NOW,'
WHEN SOMEONE HAS DONE WORK FOR
00:33:27.16\00:33:30.53
YOU - NOW, I KNOW, IF YOU WORK
FOR A COMPANY AND YOU GET YOUR
00:33:30.53\00:33:32.60
PAYCHECK EVERY TWO WEEKS, YOU
SHOULDN'T ASK FOR IT EVERY DAY.
00:33:32.60\00:33:35.66
THEY DIDN'T HAVE THOSE KIND
OF PAY SYSTEMS IN THE BIBLE.
00:33:35.66\00:33:39.80
YOU HAD TO TRUST
THE PERSON TO PAY YOU.
00:33:39.80\00:33:42.13
YOU KNOW THE PARABLE JESUS
TELLS ABOUT THE WORKERS IN THE
00:33:42.13\00:33:43.66
VINEYARD? IT SAYS
AT THE END OF THE DAY
00:33:43.66\00:33:46.50
THE STEWARD BROUGHT EVERYONE
THERE - PAID THEM RIGHT THEN.
00:33:46.50\00:33:49.70
BECAUSE THEY MIGHT NEED
THAT THAT DAY TO BE FED.
00:33:49.70\00:33:53.86
AND SO A GOOD MAN DID THAT BACK
THEN. THEY WANTED TO MAKE SURE
00:33:53.86\00:33:56.76
THAT PEOPLE WERE FED AND THEY
DIDN'T HAVE TO WAIT A LONG TIME
00:33:56.76\00:33:59.30
TO GET THEIR PAYCHECK.
AND SO THIS IS A PRINCIPLE.
00:33:59.30\00:34:02.16
JAMES TALKS ABOUT THIS IN
CHAPTER 5, VERSE 4, "BEHOLD, THE
00:34:02.16\00:34:06.30
HIRE OF THE LABORERS WHO HAVE
REAPED DOWN YOUR FIELDS, WHICH
00:34:06.30\00:34:09.50
IS OF YOU KEPT BACK BY FRAUD,
CRIETH: AND THE CRIES OF THEM
00:34:09.50\00:34:13.23
WHICH HAVE REAPED ARE ENTERED
INTO THE EARS OF THE LORD OF
00:34:13.23\00:34:15.73
SABAOTH." NOW THAT
WORD SABAOTH, FIRST
00:34:15.73\00:34:18.26
TIME I READ THAT I THOUGHT THAT
MEANT 'LORD OF SABBATH.' NO,
00:34:18.26\00:34:20.76
SABAOTH MEANS HOSTS
OR THE LORD OF ARMIES.
00:34:20.76\00:34:23.50
IT'S A DIFFERENT WORD AND IT
MEANS THE LORD OF THE ARMIES OF
00:34:23.50\00:34:26.66
THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN HE SEES
WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND THERE'LL
00:34:26.66\00:34:29.76
BE JUDGMENT FOR THAT. SO
WHEN YOU OWE SOMEBODY AND
00:34:29.76\00:34:33.53
YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN,
YOU SHOULD PAY THEM.
00:34:33.53\00:34:36.63
I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST STARTED
READING THE BIBLE, BUT I WASN'T
00:34:36.63\00:34:41.06
REALLY CONVERTED
YET, I USED TO STEAL.
00:34:41.06\00:34:45.53
AND I STARTED SAYING, 'WELL, I'M
NOT GOING TO STEAL FROM PEOPLE
00:34:45.53\00:34:48.00
ANYMORE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW,
IT HURTS FOLKS, BUT I HAVE NO
00:34:48.00\00:34:52.16
PROBLEM SHOPLIFTING BECAUSE
THEY'RE RICH COMPANIES AND THEY
00:34:52.16\00:34:54.10
CHARGE TOO MUCH
ANYWAY.' AND I WOULD JUSTIFY IT.
00:34:54.10\00:34:58.13
NEVER DID OCCUR TO ME THE REASON
THEY CHARGE SO MUCH IS BECAUSE -
00:34:58.13\00:35:01.53
THERE'S SO MUCH SHOPLIFTING THAT
THE PRICES GO UP FOR EVERYBODY
00:35:01.53\00:35:04.83
ELSE. YOU KNOW WHY
INSURANCE IS SO HIGH?
00:35:04.83\00:35:09.26
BECAUSE OF INSURANCE FRAUD.
YOU KNOW ONE REASON MEDICAL
00:35:09.26\00:35:13.13
EXPENSES ARE SO HIGH?
BECAUSE PEOPLE OFTEN ABUSE THE
00:35:13.13\00:35:17.26
SYSTEM. AND SO WHEN PEOPLE
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE THINGS,
00:35:17.26\00:35:20.43
THEY END UP DRIVING UP
THE COST FOR EVERYBODY ELSE.
00:35:20.43\00:35:23.10
LEVITICUS 19:13 - THAT SAME
PRINCIPLE YOU WERE JUST READING
00:35:23.10\00:35:27.03
HERE, 'YOU SHALL NOT CHEAT YOUR
00:35:27.03\00:35:30.40
NEIGHBOR, NOR ROB HIM.
THE WAGES OF HIM WHO IS HIRED
00:35:30.40\00:35:34.30
SHALL NOT REMAIN WITH
YOU ALL NIGHT UNTIL MORNING."
00:35:34.30\00:35:38.23
THAT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT YOU'RE
TO PAY PEOPLE RIGHT ON TIME.
00:35:38.23\00:35:42.10
AND BACK THEN IT WAS AT THE END
OF THE DAY. AS I SAID, YOU KNOW,
00:35:42.10\00:35:44.93
IF YOU'RE IN A TYPICAL SYSTEM
WHERE IT'S A COMPUTERIZED -
00:35:44.93\00:35:48.00
USUALLY BIWEEKLY -
THERE ARE SOME COMPANIES THAT
00:35:48.00\00:35:51.40
STILL DO IT MONTHLY, BUT USUALLY
BI-WEEKLY PEOPLE GET THEIR
00:35:51.40\00:35:53.80
PAYCHECK BECAUSE IT ALL HAS
TO BE PROCESSED WITH TAXES AND
00:35:53.80\00:35:57.16
THINGS LIKE THAT.
00:35:57.16\00:35:58.83
BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT
OF PLACES IN THE WORLD STILL -
00:35:58.83\00:36:01.76
SOMEONE DOES SOME WORK FOR
YOU, YOU PAY THEM RIGHT THEN.
00:36:01.76\00:36:05.93
AND WHENEVER YOU'RE ABLE TO, YOU
NEED TO DO THAT BECAUSE IT'S A
00:36:05.93\00:36:08.56
PRINCIPLE: YOU HAVE SOMETHING
THAT BELONGS TO SOMEBODY ELSE.
00:36:08.56\00:36:12.70
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT
WHENEVER I HAVE TO BORROW AND I
00:36:12.70\00:36:15.33
OWE SOMEBODY, I AM UNCOMFORTABLE
UNTIL I PAY THEM BACK.
00:36:15.33\00:36:19.76
I DON'T LIKE
OWING ANYBODY ANYTHING.
00:36:19.76\00:36:22.93
I LIKE TO BE - BECAUSE I FEEL
LIKE I'VE GOT SOMETHING THAT
00:36:22.93\00:36:25.53
BELONGS TO SOMEONE
ELSE. I FEEL LIKE IT'S ALMOST
00:36:25.53\00:36:28.16
TEMPORARY THEFT OR SOMETHING AND
I WANT TO GET IT BACK TO THEM.
00:36:28.16\00:36:33.03
AND THEN AS SOON AS
YOU BORROW IT, IT BREAKS.
00:36:33.03\00:36:36.70
YOU EVER HAD - NOTICE THAT?
00:36:36.70\00:36:39.73
THE PASTOR WHO BAPTIZED ME, I
BORROWED HIS ROTOTILLER AND HE
00:36:39.73\00:36:44.33
SAID, 'OH, NO PROBLEM, I'VE HAD
THIS MERRY TILLER FOR 20 YEARS.
00:36:44.33\00:36:47.46
IT STARTS FULL TIME AND FIRST
TIME YOU CRANK IT AND IT JUST
00:36:47.46\00:36:50.33
GOES AND GOES.' WELL, THE FIRST
TIME I USED IT - I PROBABLY
00:36:50.33\00:36:53.53
DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I
WAS DOING, BUT I BROKE IT.
00:36:53.53\00:36:55.46
AND I FELT SO BAD. I
NEVER COULD GET THAT THING
00:36:55.46\00:36:57.70
RUNNING AGAIN. I FELT SO
BAD. AND SO I THINK WE ENDED UP
00:36:57.70\00:37:01.90
GETTING HIM ANOTHER
ROTOTILLER OR SOMETHING.
00:37:01.90\00:37:05.20
JAMES 5:5 - STILL ON THAT
SECTION - "YOU HAVE LIVED ON THE
00:37:05.20\00:37:10.36
EARTH IN PLEASURE AND LUXURY;
YOU HAVE FATTENED YOUR HEARTS AS
00:37:10.36\00:37:14.63
IN A DAY OF SLAUGHTER."
THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THE CRIES
00:37:14.63\00:37:18.13
OF THE POOR, BUT IT REALLY
FITS UNDER THE SECTION 'FAT AND
00:37:18.13\00:37:21.00
HAPPY' BECAUSE IT SAYS, 'YOU
HAVE FATTENED YOUR HEARTS FOR
00:37:21.00\00:37:24.06
THE DAY OF SLAUGHTER.' NOW, YOU
KNOW, JUST BEFORE THANKSGIVING
00:37:24.06\00:37:28.76
THE TURKEY GETS COOPED UP AND
HE'S JUST FED THE VERY BEST AND
00:37:28.76\00:37:32.00
HE THINKS, 'WOW, I'M IN
PARADISE.' BUT WHAT'S HAPPENING?
00:37:32.00\00:37:35.23
HE'S BEING FATTENED
FOR THE SLAUGHTER, RIGHT?
00:37:35.23\00:37:38.03
AND A CALF MIGHT GET PENNED
UP AND THE OTHER COWS ARE JUST
00:37:38.03\00:37:40.43
GETTING HAY. HE'S GETTING GRAIN.
HE THINKS, 'WOW, LOOK AT ME, YOU
00:37:40.43\00:37:44.23
GUYS, YOU'RE JUST GETTING THE
STRAW, I'M GETTING GRAIN.' BUT
00:37:44.23\00:37:47.60
HE DOESN'T REALIZE HE'S BEING
FATTENED UP FOR THE SLAUGHTER.
00:37:47.60\00:37:51.23
AND HERE JAMES IS USING THAT
TERMINOLOGY AND HE'S SAYING, 'DO
00:37:51.23\00:37:55.26
NOT THINK BECAUSE YOU'RE LIVING
IN LUXURY IN THIS LIFE THAT IS
00:37:55.26\00:38:00.10
GOING TO TRANSLATE TO THE FAVOR
OF GOD IN THE NEXT LIFE.' HOW
00:38:00.10\00:38:04.50
MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE PARABLE
OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS?
00:38:04.50\00:38:08.66
YOU'VE GOT THE POOR MAN - AND
THIS IS IN LUKE CHAPTER 16 - IT
00:38:08.66\00:38:11.86
STARTS WITH VERSE 19 - YOU'VE
GOT THE POOR MAN - BY THE WAY,
00:38:11.86\00:38:15.83
THAT'S OUR BOOK - THE FREE OFFER
THAT WE'VE GOT FOR THIS PROGRAM.
00:38:15.83\00:38:21.00
THE POOR MAN IS STRUGGLING.
HE'S DESIRING THE CRUMBS THAT
00:38:21.00\00:38:23.83
FALL FROM THE RICH MAN'S
TABLE. THE RICH MAN IS FEASTING.
00:38:23.83\00:38:27.16
HE'S IN A PALACE. THE
POOR MAN'S AT HIS GATES.
00:38:27.16\00:38:30.06
THAT MEANS THAT HE'S
GOT A HOUSE WITH GATES.
00:38:30.06\00:38:31.56
HE'S CLOTHED WITH PURPLE, YOU
KNOW, THE PICTURE IS THAT HE'S
00:38:31.56\00:38:35.33
GOT GREAT ABUNDANCE AND LUXURY
AND HE'S PROBABLY THINKING TO
00:38:35.33\00:38:38.23
HIMSELF, OBVIOUSLY GOD LOVES
ME MORE THAN POOR LAZARUS AT MY
00:38:38.23\00:38:42.90
GATE BECAUSE LOOK AT HOW
I'M BLESSED AND LOOK AT HOW HE
00:38:42.90\00:38:46.10
SUFFERS.' THAT IS NOT BIBLICALLY
TRUE - THAT BECAUSE A PERSON IS
00:38:46.10\00:38:51.60
PROSPERING DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN
THEY'RE PROSPERING SPIRITUALLY.
00:38:51.60\00:38:55.56
I THINK WE ALL KNOW PEOPLE
THAT MAY BE RICH AND THEY'RE
00:38:55.56\00:38:58.76
VERY COLD TO OTHERS AND THEY'RE
ABUSIVE AND THEY'RE UNCARING.
00:38:58.76\00:39:03.26
WHO WAS IT? LEONA HELMSLEY.
00:39:03.26\00:39:07.20
THEY CALLED HER
THE - WHAT WAS IT?
00:39:07.20\00:39:08.70
THE WITCH OF WALL STREET - OWNED
THESE HOTELS AND LEFT LIKE ONE
00:39:08.70\00:39:13.60
DOLLAR TO HER
CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.
00:39:13.60\00:39:16.23
LEFT MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS TO HER MALTESE DOG.
00:39:16.23\00:39:19.06
I MEAN, JUST NOT EVERYBODY THAT
HAS MONEY REALLY LOVES THEIR
00:39:19.06\00:39:24.06
NEIGHBOR. AND WHAT HAPPENED?
00:39:24.06\00:39:26.70
IN THE JUDGMENT, THE RICH MAN,
HE GOES TO TORMENT AND THE POOR
00:39:26.70\00:39:31.03
MAN, HE GOES TO GLORY
AND HE'S IN ABRAHAM'S BOSOM.
00:39:31.03\00:39:34.46
AND SO JAMES IS SAYING, 'DO
NOT THINK, BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN
00:39:34.46\00:39:38.16
ABUNDANCE IN THIS LIFE, THAT
SOMEHOW GOD LOVES YOU MORE THAN
00:39:38.16\00:39:40.56
OTHERS. KEEP IN
MIND, GOD AND THE DEVIL
00:39:40.56\00:39:45.33
CAN SEND PROSPERITY.
JESUS SAID, 'GOD IS LOVE.
00:39:45.33\00:39:50.63
HE WILL SEND RAIN AND SUNSHINE
ON THE GOOD AND ON THE EVIL.'
00:39:50.63\00:39:55.06
AND THERE ARE CERTAIN
LAWS OF LIFE THAT GOD RESPECTS.
00:39:55.06\00:39:57.56
THERE ARE SOME
PEOPLE WHO WORK VERY HARD.
00:39:57.56\00:39:59.23
THEY USE THE WISDOM THAT GOD'S
GIVEN THEM TO GET VERY RICH AND
00:39:59.23\00:40:03.26
THEY LIVE VERY SELFISH LIVES.
HE WON'T STOP THEM FROM EVER
00:40:03.26\00:40:07.33
MAKING MONEY OR BEING RICH, BUT
THEY MIGHT BE GETTING FAT FOR
00:40:07.33\00:40:11.60
THE DAY OF SLAUGHTER. ALRIGHT,
SOMEONE, I THINK, HAS JEREMIAH
00:40:11.60\00:40:16.70
22:13 - IS THAT YOU?
ALRIGHT, I THINK WE'RE READY FOR
00:40:16.70\00:40:21.06
THAT IF THEY'RE READY FOR YOU.
>>JEREMIAH 22:13, "WOE TO HIM
00:40:21.06\00:40:27.33
WHO BUILDS HIS HOUSE BY
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS AND HIS CHAMBERS
00:40:27.33\00:40:31.00
BY INJUSTICE, WHO USES HIS
NEIGHBOR'S SERVICE WITHOUT WAGES
00:40:31.00\00:40:36.13
AND GIVES HIM
NOTHING FOR HIS WORK."
00:40:36.13\00:40:39.70
>>HERE ARE JUST A FEW MORE
VERSES THAT TALK ABOUT THAT
00:40:39.70\00:40:42.00
PRINCIPLE THAT
WE NEED TO BE FAIR.
00:40:42.00\00:40:43.76
I WAS TRAVELING WITH A FRIEND
WHO WAS A CHRISTIAN - A VERY
00:40:43.76\00:40:48.30
SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN AND
WE WERE IN A HOTEL ROOM TOGETHER
00:40:48.30\00:40:52.46
AND - IN INDIA - SOMEBODY
BROUGHT HIS BAG TO HIS ROOM AND
00:40:52.46\00:41:00.80
HE TOOK OUT AND HANDED THE
FELLOW A TWENTY-DOLLAR TIP.
00:41:00.80\00:41:04.06
AND FIRST THE YOUNG MAN, HE TOOK
THE MONEY, HE PUT IT IN HIS HAND
00:41:04.06\00:41:07.53
AND HE WALKED OUT, THEN WHEN HE
GOT IN THE HALL, EVIDENTLY, HE
00:41:07.53\00:41:09.93
OPENED IT UP
AND SAW WHAT IT WAS.
00:41:09.93\00:41:11.40
WELL, YOU KNOW, IN INDIA, A
TWENTY AMERICAN-DOLLAR TIP IS
00:41:11.40\00:41:16.23
LIKE GIVING A HUNDRED
DOLLAR TIP IN THE STATES.
00:41:16.23\00:41:19.20
HE ACTUALLY WALKED BACK IN THE
ROOM AND SAID, 'SIR, I THINK YOU
00:41:19.20\00:41:21.63
MAY HAVE MISTAKENLY GIVEN ME THE
WRONG BILL.' AND MY FRIEND SAID,
00:41:21.63\00:41:25.76
'NO, THAT'S FOR YOU.' AND HE
WENT OUT AND I THOUGHT, 'WOW,
00:41:25.76\00:41:31.46
THAT'S REALLY GENEROUS.' INSTEAD
OF GIVING, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT
00:41:31.46\00:41:35.66
TIP A PERSON FOR BRINGING YOUR
BAG TO THE ROOM BUT, INSTEAD OF
00:41:35.66\00:41:39.70
GIVING MAYBE WHAT
WOULD HAVE BEEN NORMAL,
00:41:39.70\00:41:41.76
HE SAID, 'I
WANT TO MAKE HIS DAY.
00:41:41.76\00:41:44.56
I'M GOING TO BLESS HIM ABOVE
WHAT'S NORMAL.' AND WOW, IT'S -
00:41:44.56\00:41:50.26
I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, 'HE JUST
WANTS TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND
00:41:50.26\00:41:53.60
WITH EVERYBODY.' I HAD SOMEONE
TELL ME, 'DOUG, DO YOU REALIZE
00:41:53.60\00:41:56.76
YOU PAID THAT
PERSON TOO MUCH FOR THAT?'
00:41:56.76\00:41:59.63
I SAID, 'I KNOW,' BUT I
SAID, 'MAYBE THEY NEED IT TOO.'
00:41:59.63\00:42:03.00
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
WE ALWAYS TRY AND, WHEN WE DEAL
00:42:03.00\00:42:05.80
AND NEGOTIATE WITH
PEOPLE, GET THE VERY BEST PRICE.
00:42:05.80\00:42:09.53
CHRISTIANS SHOULDN'T ALWAYS
NECESSARILY BE STINGY THAT WAY.
00:42:09.53\00:42:13.30
I THINK WE SHOULD BE ECONOMICAL,
BUT SOMETIMES YOU MIGHT EVEN PAY
00:42:13.30\00:42:16.03
A PERSON A LITTLE MORE THAN YOU
KNOW IT'S WORTH BECAUSE YOU'RE
00:42:16.03\00:42:19.30
WANTING TO BE GENEROUS.
YOU EVER THINK OF IT THAT WAY?
00:42:19.30\00:42:23.33
ALRIGHT, LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER
EXAMPLE. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT -
00:42:23.33\00:42:26.33
UNDER THE SECTION 'FAT AND
HAPPY' - NOW, BUT IT DOESN'T
00:42:26.33\00:42:30.56
STAY THAT WAY. JAMES
5:5, "YOU HAVE LIVED ON
00:42:30.56\00:42:35.26
THE EARTH IN PLEASURE AND
LUXURY; YOU HAVE FATTENED YOUR
00:42:35.26\00:42:37.93
HEARTS AS IN A DAY OF
SLAUGHTER." NOW WE READ THAT
00:42:37.93\00:42:40.50
ALREADY, BUT HOW MANY
REMEMBER THE STORY OF GEHAZI?
00:42:40.50\00:42:44.50
WHEN YOU THINK OF THE WORD
'GEHAZI,' YOU COULD ACTUALLY
00:42:44.50\00:42:47.63
THINK OF THE WORD 'GREED.'
ELISHA THE PROPHET - HE WAS THE
00:42:47.63\00:42:55.33
ATTENDANT OF ELISHA THE PROPHET
- GEHAZI. JUST LIKE ELISHA WAS
00:42:55.33\00:42:59.56
THE PERSONAL ATTENDANT OF
ELIJAH. ELIJAH DIDN'T WANT
00:42:59.56\00:43:03.03
AN EARTHLY INHERITANCE.
WHEN GOD SAID TO ELISHA -
00:43:03.03\00:43:06.53
ELISHA, RATHER, DIDN'T
WANT AN EARTHLY INHERITANCE.
00:43:06.53\00:43:08.46
WHEN ELIJAH SAID TO HIM,
'WHAT DO YOU WANT BEFORE I GO TO
00:43:08.46\00:43:10.90
HEAVEN?' HE DIDN'T
SAY, 'I WANT A MILLION
00:43:10.90\00:43:12.50
DOLLARS.' LIKE, YOU
KNOW, A GENIE OR SOMETHING.
00:43:12.50\00:43:14.90
HE SAID, 'LET ME HAVE A DOUBLE
PORTION OF YOUR SPIRIT.' WELL,
00:43:14.90\00:43:19.00
ELIJAH GOES TO
HEAVEN IN A FIERY CHARIOT.
00:43:19.00\00:43:20.86
ELISHA GETS A DOUBLE
PORTION OF ELIJAH'S SPIRIT.
00:43:20.86\00:43:22.86
NOW ELISHA IS TRAINING
HIS APPRENTICE, WHO COULD BE
00:43:22.86\00:43:25.46
THE NEXT PROPHET
OF ISRAEL - GEHAZI.
00:43:25.46\00:43:27.86
BUT GEHAZI DIDN'T WANT THE
SPIRIT, HE WANTED THE STUFF.
00:43:27.86\00:43:32.56
AND GEHAZI SORT OF RESENTED THAT
WHEN NAAMAN THE PROPHET CAME TO
00:43:32.56\00:43:37.06
BE CLEANSED OF HIS LEPROSY -
NAAMAN THE LEPER, RATHER, CAME
00:43:37.06\00:43:41.03
TO BE CLEANSED - HE WAS ASSYRIAN
- FROM HIS LEPROSY, HE BROUGHT
00:43:41.03\00:43:45.76
ALL THIS MONEY WITH HIM.
YOU KNOW, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY
00:43:45.76\00:43:49.66
TODAY'S STANDARD - TO PAY FOR
HIS HEALING. AND HE TRIED TO PAY
00:43:49.66\00:43:54.63
WHEN HE WAS CLEANSED FROM
LEPROSY AND ELISHA THE PROPHET
00:43:54.63\00:43:57.23
SAID, 'I WON'T TAKE ANYTHING.
NOT A - NOTHING, BECAUSE YOUR
00:43:57.23\00:44:01.20
HEALING IS A SYMBOL FOR
SALVATION AND IT'S FREE.
00:44:01.20\00:44:04.13
GOD WANTS YOU TO KNOW IT'S
A GIFT.' AND HE FLATLY REFUSED
00:44:04.13\00:44:07.23
EVEN THOUGH NAAMAN
URGED HIM TO TAKE SOMETHING.
00:44:07.23\00:44:10.20
BUT GEHAZI WAS WATCHING. HE
WAS THINKING, 'ARE YOU CRAZY?
00:44:10.20\00:44:13.10
MAN, LOOK AT THE HOUSE WE'RE
LIVING IN. LOOK AT THE PEWS IN
00:44:13.10\00:44:16.60
THE CHURCH. WE COULD USE A
LITTLE BIT. HE DOESN'T NEED IT,
00:44:16.60\00:44:19.30
WE NEED IT.' BUT THERE
WAS A PRINCIPLE INVOLVED.
00:44:19.30\00:44:22.60
IT REPRESENTED SALVATION AND HE
WASN'T GOING TO TAKE ANYTHING.
00:44:22.60\00:44:24.83
SO AFTER NAAMAN LEAVES
AND ELISHA SETTLES DOWN IN THE
00:44:24.83\00:44:29.26
HOUSE, GEHAZI SAID, 'I'M NOT
LETTING THE GUY GET AWAY WITH
00:44:29.26\00:44:31.70
ALL THAT MONEY. HE'S ASSYRIAN.
THEY DON'T DESERVE IT, WE
00:44:31.70\00:44:35.83
DESERVE IT.' WHO KNOWS WHAT
HE SAID? RAN AFTER HIM. CHASED
00:44:35.83\00:44:40.26
HIM DOWN AND PRETTY SOON
HE CAUGHT UP WITH THE CHARIOT.
00:44:40.26\00:44:42.83
HE'S HUFFING AND PUFFING
AND NAAMAN STOPPED AND SAID,
00:44:42.83\00:44:45.30
'WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU?
00:44:45.30\00:44:46.56
IS SOMETHING WRONG?' HE
SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, ELISHA SAID
00:44:46.56\00:44:48.60
WE DON'T NEED ANYTHING, BUT
RIGHT AFTER YOU LEFT WE HAVE TWO
00:44:48.60\00:44:52.10
POOR SONS OF THE PROPHETS THAT
CAME FROM ANOTHER PLACE AND THEY
00:44:52.10\00:44:54.70
COULD REALLY USE SOME HELP.'
AND HE SAID, 'HAPPY TO HELP.'
00:44:54.70\00:44:58.46
I MEAN, NAAMAN'S SO HAPPY. HE'S
JUST BEEN HEALED OF LEPROSY.
00:44:58.46\00:45:00.93
HE'S GOT LIFE. HE'D GIVE
IT ALL. HE DIDN'T CARE, RIGHT?
00:45:00.93\00:45:03.86
BECAUSE, FOR HIM, LIFE
WAS WORTH MORE THAN THE MEANS.
00:45:03.86\00:45:06.73
HE SAID, 'WELL, IF WE COULD HAVE
SOME SILVER...' HE SAID, 'TAKE
00:45:06.73\00:45:09.66
TWO!' AND HE LOADS HIM
DOWN WITH ALL THIS SILVER.
00:45:09.66\00:45:13.66
ELISHA - I'M SORRY, GEHAZI TRIES
TO SNEAK BACK TO ELISHA'S HOUSE
00:45:13.66\00:45:17.90
WITHOUT HIM KNOWING AND HE COMES
IN TO CHECK ON HIS MASTER AND
00:45:17.90\00:45:21.36
ELISHA SAID, 'SO,
WHERE WERE YOU GEHAZI?
00:45:21.36\00:45:25.13
YOU DISAPPEARED FOR A LITTLE
WHILE.' 'I DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE.'
00:45:25.13\00:45:29.00
AND ELISHA SAID, 'DID NOT
MY HEART GO WITH YOU WHEN YOU
00:45:29.00\00:45:32.03
TURNED BACK AFTER THE MAN?'
HE SAID, 'IS THIS A TIME TO GET
00:45:32.03\00:45:36.23
HOUSES AND VINEYARDS,
OLIVE YARDS, MALE AND FEMALE
00:45:36.23\00:45:39.83
SERVANTS?' HE SAID,
'BECAUSE YOU'VE DONE
00:45:39.83\00:45:42.16
THIS THING, THE LEPROSY OF
NAAMAN IS GOING TO CLING TO YOU
00:45:42.16\00:45:47.03
AND YOUR DESCENDANTS FOREVER.'
AND IT SAYS HE WENT OUT OF THE
00:45:47.03\00:45:50.86
PRESENCE OF ELISHA 'A LEPER
WHITE AS SNOW.' SO HE, BECAUSE
00:45:50.86\00:45:56.33
OF HIS GREED - WAS HE HAPPY
THEN? WHEN HE GOT THOSE EARTHLY
00:45:56.33\00:46:01.46
RICHES? CAN YOU THINK OF
SOMEBODY ELSE IN THE BIBLE THAT
00:46:01.46\00:46:04.93
WAS PREOCCUPIED WITH EARTHLY
RICHES AND IT BACKFIRED ON THEM?
00:46:04.93\00:46:08.73
WHAT ABOUT JUDAS?
00:46:08.73\00:46:11.30
HE WAS WILLING TO
SELL THE SAVIOR FOR SILVER.
00:46:11.30\00:46:15.73
AND YOU THINK, 'WHAT IN
THE WORLD CAME OVER HIM?
00:46:15.73\00:46:18.63
HERE HE'S GOT A FRIEND WHO'S
OFFERING HIM ETERNAL LIFE -
00:46:18.63\00:46:21.10
GOLDEN STREETS - AND ALL JUDAS
COULD THINK ABOUT WAS THIRTY
00:46:21.10\00:46:24.73
PIECES OF SILVER RIGHT
NOW. THE PRICE OF A SLAVE.
00:46:24.73\00:46:29.20
AND, BY THE WAY, THE BIBLE
FORETOLD - ISN'T THAT AN AMAZING
00:46:29.20\00:46:32.60
PROPHECY? THE
BIBLE FORETOLD HOW MUCH
00:46:32.60\00:46:35.83
JESUS WOULD BE BETRAYED FOR -
THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER - THAT
00:46:35.83\00:46:39.40
IT WOULD BE CAST TO THE
POTTER IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.
00:46:39.40\00:46:43.06
JUDAS CAME WITH THAT
THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER.
00:46:43.06\00:46:45.63
HE WAS OVERWHELMED WITH GUILT
WHEN HE REALIZED JESUS WAS GOING
00:46:45.63\00:46:48.46
TO BE EXECUTED. HE
THREW DOWN THE MONEY.
00:46:48.46\00:46:51.50
HE SAID, 'I BETRAYED INNOCENT
BLOOD.' HE THREW IT DOWN IN THE
00:46:51.50\00:46:53.73
HOUSE OF THE LORD THEY DIDN'T
KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THE MONEY
00:46:53.73\00:46:56.63
BECAUSE IT WAS BLOOD MONEY AND
SO THEY SAID, 'LET'S USE IT TO
00:46:56.63\00:46:59.73
BUY THE POTTER'S FIELD - THE
FIELD THAT A POTTER HAD, NOTHING
00:46:59.73\00:47:02.90
WOULD GROW THERE - THE POTTER
GOT HIS CLAY OUT OF THIS FIELD
00:47:02.90\00:47:05.30
BECAUSE IT WAS A CLAY
FIELD - TO BURY PEOPLE IN.
00:47:05.30\00:47:08.66
SO THE MONEY THAT WAS USED TO
BETRAY JESUS ENDED UP BECOMING
00:47:08.66\00:47:11.93
GRAVEYARD MONEY TO BUY UP
A WORTHLESS FIELD FOR BURYING
00:47:11.93\00:47:16.46
CRIMINALS AND STRANGERS
IN. I MEAN, HOW PERFECTLY THAT
00:47:16.46\00:47:20.80
PROPHECY WAS
FULFILLED. HOW HAPPY WAS JUDAS?
00:47:20.80\00:47:23.93
DID THAT MONEY MAKE HIM HAPPY?
WHAT PROFIT IS IT IF YOU GAIN
00:47:23.93\00:47:29.33
THE WHOLE WORLD
AND YOU LOSE YOUR SOUL?
00:47:29.33\00:47:31.80
AND THIS IS WHAT JAMES IS
SAYING IN THIS WHOLE SECTION.
00:47:31.80\00:47:34.50
HE'S TALKING ABOUT THIS KIND OF
INCREASE DOESN'T BRING LASTING
00:47:34.50\00:47:39.23
JOY. ALRIGHT, LET'S
TALK ABOUT ANOTHER CHARACTER.
00:47:39.23\00:47:42.36
WHO HAS THE BOOK
OF JUDE, VERSE 11?
00:47:42.36\00:47:45.86
OKAY, YOU'RE
GOING TO READ THAT NEXT.
00:47:45.86\00:47:47.70
BUT BEFORE YOU DO, I'M GOING
TO READ GENESIS 14, VERSES 22
00:47:47.70\00:47:53.10
THROUGH 23. SOME
OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN
00:47:53.10\00:47:58.83
ABRAHAM RESCUED LOT.
LOT HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY.
00:47:58.83\00:48:02.36
THERE WAS A BATTLE WHERE THESE
FIVE KINGS OF THE NORTH, LED BY
00:48:02.36\00:48:05.76
A MAN NAMED CHEDORLAOMER FROM UP
BY DAMASCUS, THEY CAME DOWN AND
00:48:05.76\00:48:10.03
THEY ATTACKED THE FOUR KINGS
OF SODOM, GOMORRAH, ZOAR AND
00:48:10.03\00:48:13.60
ANOTHER CITY. AND
SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND THOSE
00:48:13.60\00:48:17.33
CITIES OF THE PLAIN
FELL. THEY WERE CAPTURED.
00:48:17.33\00:48:20.13
THEY WERE BEING
CARRIED OFF TO THE NORTH.
00:48:20.13\00:48:22.70
ABRAHAM, WITH MAMRE AND HESHCOL
- ESHCOL - THEY GOT TOGETHER AND
00:48:22.70\00:48:28.26
THEY FORMED AN ALLIANCE AND THEY
WENT AND ATTACKED THE INVADING
00:48:28.26\00:48:33.90
ARMY AND RESCUED EVERY ONE THAT
HAD BEEN CAPTURED INCLUDING LOT.
00:48:33.90\00:48:38.06
WELL, BY RIGHTS, ABRAHAM HAD THE
RIGHTS OF ALL OF THE BOUNTY OF
00:48:38.06\00:48:43.46
THE WAR BECAUSE THEY WERE
ALL LOST. THEY WERE ALL DYING.
00:48:43.46\00:48:45.96
THEY SAID, 'YOU KEEP - YOU CAN
KEEP IT ALL, JUST GIVE US OUR
00:48:45.96\00:48:47.93
LIVES.' AND YOU
KNOW WHAT ABRAHAM SAID?
00:48:47.93\00:48:52.00
'I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE ANY OF
IT.' ABRAHAM SAID TO THE KING OF
00:48:52.00\00:48:54.06
SODOM, 'I HAVE LIFTED UP MY HAND
TO THE LORD, THE MOST HIGH GOD,
00:48:54.06\00:48:57.56
THE POSSESSOR OF HEAVEN AND
EARTH' - HE OWNS EVERYTHING -
00:48:57.56\00:49:00.80
'THAT I WILL NOT TAKE A THREAD,
EVEN A SHOELACE, FROM THE THINGS
00:49:00.80\00:49:07.76
THAT WERE TAKEN FROM THIS WAR,
LEST THOU SHOULD SAY 'I HAVE
00:49:07.76\00:49:13.16
MADE ABRAHAM RICH.' HE SAID, 'IF
I AM BLESSED, IT'S GOING TO BE
00:49:13.16\00:49:16.80
GOD THAT MAKES ME RICH.
I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE ANYTHING
00:49:16.80\00:49:19.10
FROM SODOM.' NOW THERE'S A
PRINCIPLE THERE THAT I THINK WE
00:49:19.10\00:49:22.40
ALL UNDERSTAND. SODOM,
EVEN BACK THEN, WAS KNOWN
00:49:22.40\00:49:25.60
AS A WICKED PLACE. IT
SAYS IT BEFORE THIS STORY.
00:49:25.60\00:49:28.26
HE SAID, 'I'M NOT
TAKING ANYTHING FROM SODOM.
00:49:28.26\00:49:30.20
I DON'T WANT YOU FOLKS SAYING,
'YEAH, ABRAHAM'S RICH BECAUSE HE
00:49:30.20\00:49:31.93
TOOK EVERYTHING FROM US.'' SO
GOD WANTS HIS PEOPLE - WHEN THE
00:49:31.93\00:49:35.80
BLESSINGS COME,
LET IT BE BY INTEGRITY.
00:49:35.80\00:49:38.13
ALRIGHT, READ FOR
US JUDE, VERSE 11.
00:49:38.13\00:49:40.93
>>WOE TO THEM FOR THEY HAVE GONE
IN THE WAY OF CAIN, HAVE RUN
00:49:40.93\00:49:44.83
GREEDILY IN THE ERROR OF BALAAM
FOR PROFIT, AND PERISHED IN THE
00:49:44.83\00:49:48.26
REBELLION OF KORAH."
>>ALRIGHT, SO HE TALKS ABOUT
00:49:48.26\00:49:51.56
CAIN AND HE TALKS ABOUT KORAH,
BUT THE MAIN ONE THERE IN THE
00:49:51.56\00:49:54.16
MIDDLE, HE USES THE EXAMPLE OF
GREEDILY RUNNING AFTER GAIN LIKE
00:49:54.16\00:49:58.63
WHO? BALAAM. WHAT
WAS BALAAM'S OCCUPATION?
00:49:58.63\00:50:02.96
HE WAS A PROPHET OF
GOD. BUT WHAT WENT WRONG?
00:50:02.96\00:50:08.70
HE WAS BEING OFFERED A
SUBSTANTIAL RAISE AND A LOT OF
00:50:08.70\00:50:12.86
BENEFITS IN ORDER TO
COMPROMISE HIS GIFTS.
00:50:12.86\00:50:17.00
AND I REMEMBER HEARING A STORY
ABOUT A MAN WHO WAS A MISSIONARY
00:50:17.00\00:50:21.26
IN INDONESIA YEARS
AGO, AT AN OIL COMPANY.
00:50:21.26\00:50:24.80
I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS CHEVRON
OR EXXON - ONE OF THESE OIL
00:50:24.80\00:50:27.20
COMPANIES WAS DOING WORK THERE
AND THEY SAID, 'WE NEED SOMEBODY
00:50:27.20\00:50:31.10
WHO KNOWS THE CULTURE, KNOWS
THE PEOPLE, THAT CAN SPEAK THE
00:50:31.10\00:50:34.00
LANGUAGE, THAT CAN BE A
LIAISON AMONG THESE TRIBES WHERE
00:50:34.00\00:50:39.13
WE'RE GOING TO BE
DOING SOME DRILLING.
00:50:39.13\00:50:40.26
AND THEY SAID, 'THE BEST
PERSON IS THIS MISSIONARY.
00:50:40.26\00:50:42.00
HE'S BEEN THERE FOR
YEARS. HE'S VERY BRIGHT.
00:50:42.00\00:50:43.96
HE KNOWS THE PEOPLE.
HE KNOWS THE CUSTOMS.
00:50:43.96\00:50:46.10
THEY WENT AND OFFERED HIM
A JOB. AND HE TURNED IT DOWN.
00:50:46.10\00:50:50.63
AND THEY SENT ANOTHER GROUP BACK
TO HIM AND THEY SAID, 'WE'LL
00:50:50.63\00:50:53.13
GIVE YOU MORE.'
AND HE TURNED IT DOWN.
00:50:53.13\00:50:55.73
AND THEY WENT BACK TO HIM THE
THIRD TIME AND THEY SAID, 'YOU
00:50:55.73\00:50:57.76
NAME YOUR PRICE.' AND HE SAID,
'IT'S NOT THAT THE PRICE ISN'T
00:50:57.76\00:51:02.10
ENOUGH, THE PRICE IS MORE THAN
HIGH ENOUGH.' HE SAID, 'THE JOB
00:51:02.10\00:51:04.93
ISN'T BIG ENOUGH.' HE
SAYS, 'I'M WORKING FOR GOD.
00:51:04.93\00:51:07.80
YOU'RE ASKING ME TO WORK FOR AN
OIL COMPANY.' HE SAID, 'THAT'S
00:51:07.80\00:51:10.56
NOT A BIG ENOUGH JOB FOR ME.'
AND SO BALAAM, THOUGH, HE WANTED
00:51:10.56\00:51:15.43
THE HONORS AND HE DID EVERYTHING
HE COULD TO TAKE HIS GIFT THAT
00:51:15.43\00:51:19.00
GOD HAVE GIVEN HIM - OF PROPHECY
- AND HE TRIED TO USE IT TO
00:51:19.00\00:51:22.16
CURSE GOD'S PEOPLE. AND
HE KNEW THAT WAS WRONG, BUT
00:51:22.16\00:51:24.60
HE WANTED THE MONEY.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED?
00:51:24.60\00:51:27.90
BALAAM ENDED UP LOSING HIS LIFE.
HE MAY HAVE GOTTEN SOME OF THE
00:51:27.90\00:51:31.10
REWARDS OF BALAK,
BUT IT DIDN'T LAST.
00:51:31.10\00:51:33.70
IT DIDN'T BRING
HIM ANY HAPPINESS.
00:51:33.70\00:51:36.76
SO MOVING ON, THEN YOU'VE
GOT THE SECTION CALLED, 'FAT AND
00:51:36.76\00:51:42.26
HAPPY FOR NOW.' AMOS 4:1, "HEAR
THIS WORD, YOU COWS OF BASHAN,
00:51:42.26\00:51:50.26
WHO ARE ON THE MOUNTAIN OF
SAMARIA, WHO OPPRESS THE POOR,
00:51:50.26\00:51:54.30
WHO CRUSH THE NEEDY, WHO SAY
TO YOUR HUSBANDS, 'BRING WINE,
00:51:54.30\00:51:58.36
LET US DRINK!'" NOW
THE FACT THAT THEY'RE
00:51:58.36\00:52:02.20
SAYING TO THEIR HUSBANDS MEANS
- ARE THESE MEN OR WOMEN? WOMEN.
00:52:02.20\00:52:10.96
BOY, YOU JUST GET IN A LOT
OF TROUBLE IF YOU'RE TEACHING A
00:52:10.96\00:52:13.03
CLASS AND YOU
TALK ABOUT FAT WOMEN.
00:52:13.03\00:52:16.23
BUT WHAT DOES A WOMAN
REPRESENT IN PROPHECY?
00:52:16.23\00:52:18.36
>>A CHURCH. >>A CHURCH.
00:52:18.36\00:52:20.06
THIS IS SPIRITUAL LANGUAGE THAT
IS TALKING ABOUT THE RELIGIONS
00:52:20.06\00:52:23.36
OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE DRUNK
- DOES REVELATION TALK ABOUT A
00:52:23.36\00:52:29.16
WOMAN WHO IS DRUNK? DOES
IT SAY SHE'S RICH, WEARING
00:52:29.16\00:52:33.76
PEARLS AND GOLD, PERSECUTING
THE PROPHETS AND THE POOR?
00:52:33.76\00:52:41.60
ARE THERE RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
THAT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE POOR?
00:52:41.60\00:52:46.36
MATTER OF FACT, ONE
OF THE WORST THINGS -
00:52:46.36\00:52:50.83
FALSE REPRESENTATIONS
THAT HAPPENS TO THE CHRISTIAN
00:52:50.83\00:52:54.16
CHURCH IS WHEN PEOPLE, IN THE
NAME OF GOD, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
00:52:54.16\00:52:58.40
OTHERS AND THEY ROB
THE POOR AND THE WIDOWS.
00:52:58.40\00:53:01.96
I MEAN, WE'VE ALL HEARD STORIES
ABOUT UNSCRUPULOUS PREACHERS
00:53:01.96\00:53:06.50
THAT SAY, YOU KNOW, 'JUST SEND
YOUR LAST CHECK TO ME AND GOD IS
00:53:06.50\00:53:10.66
GOING TO CONSIDER IT A SEED OF
FAITH AND HE'LL OPEN THE WINDOWS
00:53:10.66\00:53:13.66
OF HEAVEN FOR YOU.' AND PEOPLE
ARE DESTITUTE BECAUSE THEY'RE
00:53:13.66\00:53:18.00
BEING LED TO GIVE AND TO GIVE.
JESUS SAID TO THE PHARISEES,
00:53:18.00\00:53:21.73
'YOU ROB WIDOW'S HOUSES AND
FOR A PRETENSE YOU MAKE LONG
00:53:21.73\00:53:26.16
PRAYERS.' SO EVEN
IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD
00:53:26.16\00:53:30.00
THAT JAMES IS TALKING ABOUT,
THERE WERE SOME WHO WERE VERY
00:53:30.00\00:53:31.86
RICH. WAS NICODEMUS RELIGIOUS?
AND WAS NICODEMUS RICH?
00:53:31.86\00:53:38.46
YOU KNOW, SO EVEN IN THE EARLY
CHURCH BACK THEN, MANY OF THE
00:53:38.46\00:53:41.80
PRIESTS CONVERTED AND MANY OF
THEM HAD A LOT OF RESOURCES AND
00:53:41.80\00:53:45.20
THEY WERE TAKING
ADVANTAGE OF OTHERS.
00:53:45.20\00:53:48.36
UNDER THE LAST SECTION HERE IT
SAYS, 'BLAME THE VICTIM.' JAMES
00:53:48.36\00:53:51.66
5, VERSE 6, "YOU HAVE CONDEMNED,
YOU HAVE MURDERED THE JUST;
00:53:51.66\00:53:56.86
HE DOES NOT RESIST YOU."
IT'S TALKING, HERE, ABOUT TAKING
00:53:56.86\00:54:00.93
ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE BECAUSE
OF THE POSITION OF POWER.
00:54:00.93\00:54:03.36
HAVE WE SEEN, IN HISTORY, THAT
SOMETIMES PEOPLE WITH MONEY AND
00:54:03.36\00:54:09.20
INFLUENCE, THEY'RE NOT
HELD TO THE SAME STANDARD?
00:54:09.20\00:54:13.30
THEY CAN HIRE BETTER LAWYERS.
00:54:13.30\00:54:14.93
IT SEEMS LIKE THEIR JAIL TERM
IS NOT AS LONG AS OTHERS MAYBE.
00:54:14.93\00:54:18.83
AND WHEN POLITICIANS ARE CAUGHT
IN CORRUPTION, HAVE YOU EVER
00:54:18.83\00:54:23.90
NOTICED THAT THEY KIND OF GET
PUT IN THESE JAILS THAT ARE LIKE
00:54:23.90\00:54:26.43
A COUNTRY CLUB? NOT
ALWAYS, BUT SEVERAL TIMES.
00:54:26.43\00:54:30.73
IF YOUR AVERAGE PERSON DID SOME
OF THE EXTORTION AND CORRUPTION
00:54:30.73\00:54:35.73
THAT THEY DO, THEY'D BE
LOCKED UP IN A COMMON JAIL.
00:54:35.73\00:54:40.46
BUT BECAUSE OF THEIR MONEY AND
THEIR INFLUENCE, IT SEEMS LIKE
00:54:40.46\00:54:43.10
THEY GET SPECIAL FAVORS AND
THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE.
00:54:43.10\00:54:46.86
WHO HAS JAMES 2, VERSE 5? OKAY,
YOU GOT THE MICROPHONE? I THINK
00:54:46.86\00:54:51.36
I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND
HAVE YOU READ THAT FOR US NOW.
00:54:51.36\00:54:54.36
>>JAMES 2, VERSE 5, "LISTEN
MY BELOVED BRETHREN: HAS GOD NOT
00:54:54.36\00:54:58.53
CHOSEN THE POOR OF THIS WORLD
TO BE RICH IN FAITH AND HEIRS OF
00:54:58.53\00:55:01.73
THE KINGDOM WHICH HE
PROMISED TO THOSE WHO LOVE HIM?"
00:55:01.73\00:55:06.43
>>NOW GOD WANTS US TO BE RICH.
IN HEAVEN WE'LL BE THE RICHEST
00:55:06.43\00:55:10.23
OF ALL BECAUSE WE WILL LIVE
IN THE GREATEST MOST GLORIOUS
00:55:10.23\00:55:12.80
KINGDOM, WALKING ON GOLDEN
STREETS, WEARING CROWNS, BUT HE
00:55:12.80\00:55:17.66
WANTS US TO FIRST - BEFORE WE
CAN ENJOY AND HANDLE RICHES LIKE
00:55:17.66\00:55:20.26
THAT, WE MUST BE RICH IN FAITH.
AND THAT'S WHY HE SAYS - JESUS
00:55:20.26\00:55:25.50
SAYS - MATTHEW 5:3, "BLESSED ARE
THE POOR" - IS GOD SAYING THAT
00:55:25.50\00:55:32.03
THERE'S SOME
VIRTUE IN BEING POOR?
00:55:32.03\00:55:34.86
HE SAYS, "BLESSED ARE THE
POOR IN SPIRIT" - THAT MEANS THE
00:55:34.86\00:55:38.23
HUMBLE - "FOR THEIRS
IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN."
00:55:38.23\00:55:41.93
NOW WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL NOT
TO TRUST IN UNCERTAIN RICHES.
00:55:41.93\00:55:45.56
THE BIBLE'S VERY
CLEAR ABOUT THAT.
00:55:45.56\00:55:47.13
WHAT JESUS SAID TO THE RICH
YOUNG RULER HE DIDN'T SAY TO
00:55:47.13\00:55:49.26
EVERYBODY - 'GO
SELL ALL THAT YOU HAVE.
00:55:49.26\00:55:51.76
GIVE IT TO THE POOR - YOU'LL
HAVE TREASURE IN HEAVEN.' I
00:55:51.76\00:55:54.46
THINK THAT EVERYBODY, WHEN THEY
BECOME A CHRISTIAN, IN THEIR
00:55:54.46\00:55:56.83
HEART, NEEDS TO
MAKE THAT DECISION.
00:55:56.83\00:55:59.23
'LORD, EVERYTHING I HAVE BELONGS
TO YOU AND I WILL USE IT THE WAY
00:55:59.23\00:56:03.13
YOU DIRECT.' AND BE WILLING, AS
GOD PRESENTS NEEDS AND HIS WILL,
00:56:03.13\00:56:08.16
TO FREELY DISTRIBUTE.
AND, AT THE SAME TIME,
00:56:08.16\00:56:11.36
CHRISTIANS NEED TO KNOW HOW
TO WORK. THEY KNOW HOW TO SAVE.
00:56:11.36\00:56:15.36
THEY NEED TO BE OPEN TO THE HOLY
SPIRIT AND KNOW HOW TO GIVE AND
00:56:15.36\00:56:18.36
WITNESS FOR JESUS. I
KNOW ONE WEALTHY FELLOW.
00:56:18.36\00:56:23.20
HE WANTED TO
WITNESS FOR THE LORD.
00:56:23.20\00:56:24.76
HE HAD MONEY, BUT HE WAS ALWAYS
VERY SHY TALKING TO PEOPLE.
00:56:24.76\00:56:27.66
AND SO WHAT HE DID IS HE TOOK A
CAB TO THIS EVANGELISTIC MEETING
00:56:27.66\00:56:30.73
IN THE CITY AND HE SAID TO THE
CAB DRIVER - THE GUY HAD LOTS OF
00:56:30.73\00:56:34.53
MONEY - HE SAID, 'I'M
GOING TO GO TO THIS MEETING.
00:56:34.53\00:56:36.20
IT'S REALLY GOOD AND I DON'T
WANT TO LOOK FOR A CAB WHEN I
00:56:36.20\00:56:38.20
GET OUT.' HE SAYS, 'YOU
LEAVE THE METER RUNNING.
00:56:38.20\00:56:39.86
YOU COME IN WITH ME.' AND SO HE
PAID FOR THE CAB DRIVER TO LEAVE
00:56:39.86\00:56:43.83
HIS METER RUNNING AND COME IN
AND SIT AND LISTEN AND HEAR THE
00:56:43.83\00:56:46.33
GOSPEL. AND I UNDERSTAND THE
GUY WAS ULTIMATELY CONVERTED.
00:56:46.33\00:56:49.20
I MEAN, HE JUST FELT - THAT'S
SOMETHING NOT ALL OF US COULD
00:56:49.20\00:56:52.90
AFFORD, BUT HE COULD AND
THAT WAS HIS WAY OF WITNESSING.
00:56:52.90\00:56:56.60
AND SO ALL OF US CAN DO
SOMETHING TO SHARE OUR FAITH AND
00:56:56.60\00:56:59.66
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
DON'T BECOME DISTRACTED WITH -
00:56:59.66\00:57:04.00
'A MAN'S LIFE DOES NOT CONSIST
IN THE ABUNDANCE OF THINGS THAT
00:57:04.00\00:57:08.43
HE POSSESSES.' IMPORTANT FOR US
TO REMEMBER BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A
00:57:08.43\00:57:11.23
GENERATION WHERE WE HAVE MORE
THINGS THAT WE CAN BUY NOW THAN
00:57:11.23\00:57:15.56
ANY OTHER TIME IN
THE HISTORY OF MAN.
00:57:15.56\00:57:19.26
IT'S EASY FOR US TO BE
DISTRACTED WITH THINGS AND
00:57:19.26\00:57:23.70
FORGET ABOUT WHAT REALLY
MATTERS, WHICH IS ETERNAL LIFE.
00:57:23.70\00:57:26.16
AMEN? I WANT TO
REMIND OUR FRIENDS
00:57:26.16\00:57:27.60
THAT ARE WATCHING WITH US, WE'RE
COMING TO YOU FROM ALBUQUERQUE
00:57:27.60\00:57:29.90
RIGHT NOW, BUT WE
DO HAVE A FREE OFFER.
00:57:29.90\00:57:31.70
IT'S CALLED 'THE RICH MAN
AND LAZARUS' BY DENNIS CREWS.
00:57:31.70\00:57:34.53
OFFER #118 WHEN
YOU CALL 866-788-3966 -
00:57:34.53\00:57:40.76
THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE.
GOD BLESS YOU UNTIL WE GET TO
00:57:40.76\00:57:44.73
STUDY GOD'S WORD
TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:57:44.73\00:57:48.26
>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
00:57:48.26\00:57:51.06
OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:57:51.06\00:57:55.23
PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
00:57:55.23\00:57:58.60
FROM THE CREATION OF THE
WORLD TO THE LAST DAY EVENTS OF
00:57:58.60\00:58:01.20
REVELATION, 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'
IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN
00:58:01.20\00:58:05.43
EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE
EVENTS AND CHARACTERS.
00:58:05.43\00:58:08.90
ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF
THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO
00:58:08.90\00:58:11.53
GOD'S WORD. GO DEEPER.
VISIT 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'.
00:58:11.53\00:58:12.53