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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS, AND
WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
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HOUR HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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I'D LIKE TO WELCOME THOSE
WHO ARE JOINING US, ACROSS THE
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COUNTRY AND AROUND THE
WORLD, FOR OUR STUDY TIME TODAY.
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ALSO, OF COURSE, THE MEMBERS AND
THE VISITORS OF THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH. ALWAYS
GOOD TO SEE YOU WEEK
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AFTER WEEK, COMING EARLY
TO STUDY THE WORD TOGETHER.
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IT'S AN EXCITING DAY TODAY,
BECAUSE WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO
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START A BRAND-NEW SERIES OF
BIBLE STUDIES - OUR NEW LESSON
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QUARTERLY - AND IT'S ENTITLED
STEWARDSHIP: MOTIVES OF THE
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HEART . YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING
'WHAT CAN WE STUDY FOR THIRTEEN
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WEEKS ABOUT STEWARDSHIP?'
I KIND OF LOOKED THROUGH THE
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LESSON QUARTERLY AND SAW SOME OF
THE THINGS THAT ARE COMING UP -
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VERY IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES THAT
WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT
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THROUGH OUR STUDY
THIS NEXT THIRTEEN WEEKS.
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TODAY WE BEGIN WITH LESSON #1,
WHICH IS ENTITLED THE INFLUENCE
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OF MATERIALISM - SO
THAT'LL BE OUR STUDY FOR TODAY.
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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE JOINING
US, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF
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THE STUDY GUIDE SERIES ENTITLED
STEWARDSHIP: MOTIVES OF THE
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HEART , YOU CAN GO TO THE
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LESSON #1 - AND THAT'S WHAT
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WE'RE STUDYING TODAY - AND YOU
CAN STUDY ALONG WITH US OR YOU
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CAN VISIT A SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH IN YOUR AREA
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AND YOU CAN ASK THEM FOR
THE LESSON QUARTERLY AND YOU CAN
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TAKE THAT HOME AND STUDY WITH US
HERE AND THEN, DURING THE WEEK,
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YOU CAN DO YOUR LESSON AS WELL.
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
THIS MORNING, WE WANT TO BEGIN
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BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG.
I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG
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LEADERS TO COME
ONSTAGE. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>AS WE WERE
PRACTICING TODAY, I WAS
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THINKING, 'WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT
IS FOR US TO BE ABLE TO GATHER
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TOGETHER UNDER ONE ROOF OR
ACROSS THE PLANET AND AROUND THE
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WORLD TO SING TOGETHER AND TO
STUDY TOGETHER GOD'S WORD AND TO
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BE LIKE-MINDED. THE
BIBLE ENCOURAGES US TO BE
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LIKE-MINDED AND
TO WORSHIP TOGETHER.
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WE'RE GOING TO SING ABOUT
THAT TODAY - HYMN #8 WE GATHER
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TOGETHER - WE'RE GOING TO SING
ALL THREE VERSES SO I INVITE YOU
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- THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE HOME
- PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS AND SING
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ALONG. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>YOU KNOW, THIS WORLD
IS A MESS AND, AS WE WERE
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SINGING THAT, I WAS ALSO
THINKING WHAT ASSURANCE THAT WE
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HAVE: NO MATTER WHAT WE'RE GOING
THROUGH, NO MATTER HOW DIM AND
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HOW DARK LIFE SEEMS, WE HAVE
A DEFENDER IN OUR CORNER THAT IS
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ABOUT TO COME AND RESCUE
US. AND I'M SO GRATEFUL FOR THAT
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THIS MORNING. LET ALL THE WORLD
IN EVERY CORNER SING . AND I
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KNOW THAT ALL AROUND THE
WORLD WE ARE SINGING TOGETHER
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HYMN #9 - RIGHT - THE NEXT PAGE
- LET ALL THE WORLD IN EVERY
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CORNER SING - SO
LET'S SING. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>VERY SOON WE ARE GOING TO LOOK
UP AND SAY, 'LORD, THERE IS MY
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KING I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR.'
AMEN? I PRAY THAT THAT'S WHAT IS
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IN YOUR HEART EVERY
MOMENT OF EVERY DAY.
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AT THIS TIME, PASTOR
ROSS WILL HAVE OPENING PRAYER.
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>>LET'S BOW OUR
HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN,
THANK YOU, ONCE AGAIN, FOR THE
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OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER TOGETHER
AND OPEN UP YOUR WORD TO STUDY
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THIS IMPORTANT LESSON, FOR WHERE
OUR TREASURE IS, THAT'S WHERE
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OUR HEART WILL BE ALSO.
AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE
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OUR HEARTS ARE IN HEAVEN.
SO BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER AS
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WE LOOK AT THESE IMPORTANT
PRINCIPLES, WE PRAY, FATHER, AS
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WE STUDY, WE WILL
SENSE YOUR PRESENCE AND YOUR
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LEADING IN OUR LIVES.
IN JESUS' NAME WE PRAY.
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AMEN. >>AMEN.
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>>OUR LESSON TODAY IS GOING TO
BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>WHERE IS PASTOR
DOUG? (LAUGHS) JUST AS HE WAS
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INVITING ME UP I THOUGHT,
'OH, MICROPHONE, TURN IT ON.
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SOMETIMES I GET UP HERE
AND I FORGET MY BATTERY.
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MORNING. >>MORNING.
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>>HAPPY SABBATH. WELCOME
EVERYBODY. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE
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TIMES IN THE YEAR WHERE WE - WE
LIVE IN A PARADOX - WE'RE LIVING
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IN THE FUTURE - BECAUSE AT THE
TIME THIS IS BROADCASTING FOR
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MOST OF THE PEOPLE
WATCHING US - SOME ARE WATCHING
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LIVE ONLINE RIGHT NOW - BUT, FOR
MOST PEOPLE THAT ARE WATCHING
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THIS, THIS IS BROADCASTING IN
2018. AND WE'RE BEGINNING A NEW
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QUARTERLY I'M VERY EXCITED
ABOUT, BUT PEOPLE SEE - WE STILL
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HAVE OUR WINTER DECORATIONS
BEHIND US AND SO WE'RE KIND OF
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LIVING IN THE FUTURE
A LITTLE BIT RIGHT NOW.
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BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT IT
TAKES TIME FOR US TO EDIT THESE
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PROGRAMS FOR THE SATELLITES AND
THE STATIONS THAT CARRY IT - NOT
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ONLY DO THEY EDIT IT, WE TYPE
IN CLOSED CAPTIONING, WE SEND IT
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OFF - IT TAKES LIKE TWO -
THREE WEEKS - SO WE ALWAYS ARE
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STUDYING THE LESSON ABOUT THREE
WEEKS IN ADVANCE OF THE REST OF
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THE COUNTRY AND SO
THAT'S THE REASON FOR THAT.
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BUT WE ARE BEGINNING IN A
BRAND-NEW LESSON DEALING WITH
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STEWARDSHIP AND SO I'M
VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
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SOME OF YOU HEARD PASTOR ROSS
ANNOUNCE THAT WE'RE GOING TO
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START BEING A
LITTLE MORE INTERACTIVE.
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WE'LL TAKE SOME SCRIPTURES FROM
THE AUDIENCE HERE, BUT WE'RE
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ALSO GOING TO BE TAKING SOME
QUESTIONS THAT PEOPLE MAY SEND
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IN AND YOU CAN DO THAT - WELL,
YOU CAN GO TO THE DOUG BATCHELOR
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FACEBOOK PAGE AND JUST TYPE
IN QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ABOUT THE
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LESSON - NOT JUST GENERAL,
ACROSS THE BOARD BIBLE QUESTIONS
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- AND YOU CAN FIND THE LESSONS
ONLINE. TODAY'S LESSON IS LESSON
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#1 IN OUR NEW QUARTERLY
DEALING WITH STEWARDSHIP.
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I'M ACTUALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS
BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE TALKING
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ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S
TWO THINGS YOU REALLY GIVE AN
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ACCOUNT OF IN THE JUDGMENT,
ONE IS, 'WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE
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TIME THAT GOD GAVE YOU?' -
YOUR LIFE - AND THE OTHER IS
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'WHAT DO YOU DO WITH
THE STUFF GOD GAVE YOU?'
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AND SO WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING
ABOUT THE STUFF FOR THE NEXT
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THIRTEEN WEEKS AND OUR
FAITHFULNESS IN WHAT WE DO
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WITH THE THINGS
THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US.
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STEWARDSHIP: MOTIVES OF
THE HEART - AND TODAY WE'RE ON
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LESSON #1 - THE INFLUENCE
OF MATERIALISM - AND WE HAVE A
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MEMORY VERSE. THE MEMORY VERSE
IS ROMANS CHAPTER 12, VERSE 2,
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AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO SAY
THAT WITH ME, THAT'D BE GREAT.
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ARE YOU READY? ROMANS
12, VERSE 2 AND THIS IS
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FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION
IN YOUR LESSON, "AND DO NOT BE
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CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE
TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF
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YOUR MIND, THAT YOU MAY PROVE
WHAT IS THAT GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE
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AND PERFECT WILL OF
GOD." THE LORD IS CALLING ON
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US ALL TO BE TRANSFORMED.
NOW, HOW MUCH STUFF IS TOO MUCH?
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I REMEMBER I WAS DRIVING UP
HIGHWAY 101 YEARS AGO AND I SAW
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A MAN HITCHHIKING,
AND I PERIODICALLY PICK UP
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HITCHHIKERS, AND THE MAN WAS
WEARING A - A KIND OF A FADED
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WHITE ROBE - HAD LONG HAIR AND
A BEARD - AND HE WAS BAREFOOT.
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AND I KNEW RIGHT AWAY - I
SAID, 'THIS IS GOING TO BE
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INTERESTING.' SO I PULLED
OVER AND I PICKED HIM UP AND HE
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CLIMBED IN AND WE DROVE ALONG A
LITTLE BIT AND I DON'T REMEMBER
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HOW, BUT HE FOUND OUT I WAS A
CHRISTIAN - MAYBE HE ASKED WHAT
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I DID OR I SOMETIMES HAVE A
BIBLE, BUT HE SAID, 'SO YOU'RE A
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CHRISTIAN?' I
SAID, 'YEAH.' AND THEN HE
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SAID, 'WELL, WHY ARE YOU WEARING
THAT DEAD COW ON YOUR FEET?'
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HE WAS TALKING ABOUT MY LEATHER
SHOES - AND I SAID, 'WELL, I
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DON'T KNOW, I GUESS I BOUGHT
THEM AND I PUT THEM ON MY FEET.'
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I DON'T KNOW WHAT I SAID - AND
HE SAID, 'ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN?'
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I SAID, 'I'M A CHRISTIAN, YEAH.'
I SAID, 'ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN?'
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'I'M A CHRISTIAN, YEAH.'
HE SAYS, 'BUT I DON'T TOUCH
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ANYTHING DEAD. WE
DON'T WEAR ANYTHING LEATHER
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- I DON'T EVEN WEAR A LEATHER
BELT.' HE SAYS, 'WE DON'T WANT
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TO KILL ANYTHING.' WELL, HE
REEKED OF MARIJUANA (LAUGHTER)
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AND - DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW
THAT, BUT I - I - I KNOW WHAT IT
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SMELLS LIKE - AND I SAID, 'WELL,
YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN?' - HE SAID,
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'YEAH.' I SAID, 'AM I MISTAKEN
OR HAVE YOU BEEN SMOKING?'
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HE SAID, 'YEAH, IT'S THE HERBS
- ALL THESE HERBS THAT GOD GAVE
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US.' (LAUGHTER) AND IT WAS JUST
REALLY INTERESTING TO ME, BUT
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HE, YOU KNOW, HE SAID, 'OH,
WE'VE FORSAKEN EVERYTHING.' AND
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THEN HE ASKED ME FOR A DONATION
BECAUSE HE SAID, 'I LIVE BY
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FAITH.' AND I DIDN'T FEEL
IMPRESSED TO GIVE HIM A DONATION
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BECAUSE HE WAS GOING TO USE
MY DONATION TO GO BUY POT SO HE
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COULD HAVE DREAMS AND VISIONS
(LAUGHTER) AND - BUT, YOU KNOW,
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I HAD TO ADMIRE HIM, HE WAS JUST
KIND OF LIVING WITH NOTHING.
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YOU KNOW, JESUS SENT OUT -
AND HE QUOTED THAT VERSE IN THE
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BIBLE WHERE JESUS SAID TO THE
DISCIPLES, 'DON'T TAKE A STAFF
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IN YOUR HAND; DON'T TAKE A PURSE
WITH YOU, BUT JUST GO IN FAITH
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AND GO OUT AND PREACH AND, YOU
KNOW, WHATEVER HOUSE YOU ENTER
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THEY'LL - EAT WHAT THINGS
ARE SET BEFORE YOU' - AND THEY
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REALLY LIVED BY FAITH ON
THOSE MISSIONARY ENDEAVORS.
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NOW, YOU READ, LATER IN THE
BIBLE, THAT THE APOSTLES DID
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TAKE SOME RESOURCES
WITH THEM WHEN THEY WENT.
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IT WASN'T A UNIVERSAL STATEMENT.
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HE WAS HELPING THEM DEVELOP
FAITH WHEN HE FIRST SENT OUT THE
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TWELVE, AND HE LATER SENT OUT
THE SEVENTY; HE SAID, 'WATCH HOW
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GOD PROVIDES FOR YOU.
DON'T TAKE ANYTHING WITH YOU.
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YOU TRUST ME.' BUT LATER YOU SEE
WHEN THE APOSTLES WENT OUT ON
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THEIR MISSIONARY ENDEAVORS,
THAT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THEM
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WORKED ALONG THE ROAD AND
PROBABLY PETER DID SOME FISHING
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ALONG THE WAY AND PAUL DID SOME
TENT MAKING, BUT HOW MUCH STUFF
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IS TOO MUCH? ARE
WE LIVING IN A VERY
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MATERIALISTIC
WORLD TODAY? >>YES.
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>>AND SO, OUR FIRST LESSON
IS TALKING ABOUT THE GOD OF THIS
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WORLD AND, ACCORDING TO THE
BOOK AFFLUENZA - THIS IS A BOOK
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WRITTEN ABOUT THE AFFLUENCE IN
AMERICA - AMERICANS SPEND MORE,
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ANNUALLY, ON SHOES, JEWELRY,
AND WATCHES THAN WE DO ON HIGHER
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EDUCATION. EVEN THE
PHRASE 'THE AMERICAN
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DREAM' ALLUDES TO OWNING
A HOUSE, A CAR, VACATION,
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RETIREMENT - IT DOESN'T TALK
SO MUCH ABOUT FREEDOM ANYMORE.
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SO WHAT IS THE GOD OF THIS WORLD
- WHO IS THE GOD OF THIS WORLD?
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HOW DID HE GET TO BE
THE GOD OF THIS WORLD?
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REMEMBER THE DEVIL SAID TO
JESUS, 'FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP
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ME; ALL THIS IS MINE.
YOU DIED TO SAVE THE WORLD?
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO DIE TO SAVE
IT, I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU - IT'S
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MINE.' AND JESUS SAID, 'THE
PRINCE OF THIS WORLD COMES AND
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HE HAS NOTHING IN ME.' AND SO,
EVEN JESUS RECOGNIZED THAT THE
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DEVIL, SORT OF, KIDNAPPED
OR HIJACKED THIS WORLD.
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GOD MADE THE WORLD, HE GAVE
IT TO ADAM; ADAM WAS TO BE THE
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STEWARD OF THIS PLANET THE BIBLE
SAYS WHOEVER YOU OBEY, THAT'S
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WHOSE SERVANT YOU ARE.
WHEN ADAM AND EVE CHOSE TO OBEY
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THE WORD OF THE DEVIL WHEN
HE SAID EAT THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT,
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INSTEAD OF THE WORD OF GOD,
THEY SURRENDERED THE DOMINION OF
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THIS WORLD TO AN ENEMY, AND
THE PLANET FROM THAT TIME UNTIL
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THE CROSS, WAS HIJACKED BY
THE DEVIL. PEOPLE KNOW THAT THIS
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LIFE IS SHORT. IF YOU
DON'T HAVE CHRIST, YOU
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DON'T HAVE ETERNAL LIFE - THAT
MEANS THIS IS THE ONLY LIFE.
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AND SO, THE ATTITUDE OF PEOPLE
WHO THINK THEY'RE LIVING A
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TEMPORARY LIFE IS GET ALL
THE GUSTO YOU CAN, NOW - HAVE AS
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MUCH PLEASURE - IT'S
VERY HEDONISTIC - HAVE AS MUCH
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PLEASURE AS YOU CAN NOW BECAUSE
THIS IS IT. ACQUIRE AS MANY
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THINGS AS YOU HAVE - IT'S NOT
ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU SERVE,
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IT'S HOW MANY PEOPLE SERVE
YOU. IT'S NOT ABOUT STORING YOUR
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TREASURE IN HEAVEN, IT'S
STORING YOUR TREASURE HERE.
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AN THIS IS THE PHILOSOPHY
OF THE GOD OF THIS WORLD.
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AND - BUT HOW DOES A
CHRISTIAN BALANCE THAT?
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IS GOD ASKING US TO DO LIKE THAT
FELLOW I PICKED UP HITCHHIKING?
00:15:26.09\00:15:30.76
JUST GET A WHITE ROBE - HE
DIDN'T EVEN HAVE SANDALS, HE WAS
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BAREFOOT - AND JUST GO AROUND,
DEPEND ON THE GENEROSITY OF
00:15:33.86\00:15:38.77
EVERYBODY ELSE -
DON'T OWN ANYTHING?
00:15:38.80\00:15:41.17
OR - YOU KNOW WHAT
PROSPERITY PREACHING IS?
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IT'S A - IT'S A THEME OF
THEOLOGY THAT A NUMBER OF
00:15:46.17\00:15:51.78
PASTORS AND MINISTRIES HAVE
CLAIMED, IT'S BASICALLY, YOU
00:15:51.81\00:15:54.55
KNOW, YOU SPEAK GOD'S BLESSING
AND THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO -
00:15:54.58\00:15:58.69
GOD SHOWS THAT YOU HAVE FAITH
BY, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE BLESSED
00:15:58.72\00:16:03.89
AND YOU HAVE LOTS OF POSSESSIONS
- AND THEY POINT TO JOB AND THEY
00:16:03.93\00:16:05.96
POINT TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC,
AND JACOB WHO WERE WEALTHY AND
00:16:05.99\00:16:08.30
SOLOMON - AND THEY SAY, 'THEY
HAD FAITH AND GOD BLESSED THEM
00:16:08.33\00:16:10.87
AND IF YOU HAVE MORE FAITH,
YOU'LL HAVE MORE BLESSINGS' -
00:16:10.90\00:16:12.53
AND IT'S ALL ABOUT - IT'S REALLY
A VERY SELFISH FORM OF THEOLOGY,
00:16:12.57\00:16:15.90
YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH STUFF CAN YOU
- YOU'VE HEARD OF 'NAME IT AND
00:16:15.94\00:16:19.37
CLAIM IT'? OR THEY
CALL IT 'BLAB IT AND
00:16:19.41\00:16:22.41
GRAB IT' - YOU JUST SAY IT AND
IT'S YOURS - YOU JUST HAVE FAITH
00:16:22.44\00:16:25.95
AND - THAT'S THE OTHER EXTREME
- SO YOU GET CHRISTIANS THAT GO
00:16:25.98\00:16:29.28
AROUND IN WHITE ROBES THAT
HAVE NOTHING - I MET A CHRISTIAN
00:16:29.32\00:16:33.86
FAMILY AND HE
REALLY DID LIVE FROM FAITH.
00:16:33.89\00:16:35.82
HE WAS A LITTLE MORE NORMAL - HE
HAD A BUS - HIM AND HIS FAMILY -
00:16:35.86\00:16:39.33
HOME-SCHOOLED THE CHILDREN.
HE DROVE AROUND, HE PREACHED AND
00:16:39.36\00:16:41.33
HE'D MEET PEOPLE THAT
WOULD JUST GIVE HIM OFFERINGS
00:16:41.36\00:16:43.20
TO KEEP PREACHING. IT
WAS A LITTLE MORE STABLE
00:16:43.23\00:16:45.57
THEOLOGY - AND I STUDIED WITH
HIM FOR DAYS - HE ACTUALLY HUNG
00:16:45.60\00:16:48.77
AROUND WITH US FOR A FEW DAYS
AND THERE WERE SOME THINGS WE
00:16:48.80\00:16:52.47
COULDN'T AGREE ON,
BUT HOW FAR DOES IT GO?
00:16:52.51\00:16:54.74
HOW MUCH SHOULD YOU HAVE?
HOW MUCH STUFF IS TOO MUCH?
00:16:54.78\00:16:58.05
WHAT'S THE
ATTITUDE OF THIS WORLD?
00:16:58.08\00:17:00.15
SHOULD WE LOVE MONEY? I'M
ASKING A LOT OF RHETORICAL
00:17:00.18\00:17:03.32
QUESTIONS JUST
TO GET YOU TO THINK.
00:17:03.35\00:17:06.65
AND, BY THE WAY, IF YOU THINK
OF ANY QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH
00:17:06.69\00:17:09.16
THIS LESSON, SEND
THEM TO MY FACEBOOK PAGE.
00:17:09.19\00:17:11.63
WE'VE GOT PEOPLE IN THE BACK
THAT ARE LOOKING AT THEM LIVE.
00:17:11.66\00:17:13.73
THE LAST TEN MINUTES WE'LL
TAKE SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS.
00:17:13.76\00:17:16.13
ECCLESIASTES 5, VERSE 10,
"HE WHO LOVES SILVER WILL NOT BE
00:17:16.16\00:17:20.64
SATISFIED WITH SILVER; NOR
HE WHO LOVES ABUNDANCE, WITH
00:17:20.67\00:17:24.57
INCREASE. THIS IS ALSO VANITY."
00:17:24.61\00:17:27.48
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD PEOPLE
SAY, 'I'VE GOT JUST ENOUGH MONEY
00:17:27.51\00:17:30.15
NOW'? NOT TOO MANY.
00:17:30.18\00:17:33.48
A LOT OF PEOPLE, WHEN
THEY GET - SOMEONE ASKED NELSON
00:17:33.52\00:17:35.75
ROCKEFELLER - HE WAS VERY
WEALTHY - YOU'VE HEARD OF THE
00:17:35.78\00:17:38.12
ROCKEFELLERS? AND
THEY SAID, 'HOW MUCH MONEY
00:17:38.15\00:17:42.82
DOES IT TAKE FOR A
PERSON TO BE HAPPY?
00:17:42.86\00:17:46.70
AND HIS ANSWER WAS 'A LITTLE
MORE.' (LAUGHTER) IT'S ALWAYS A
00:17:46.73\00:17:50.77
LITTLE MORE. DO YOU
EVER FIND BILLIONAIRES
00:17:50.80\00:17:54.14
SAY, 'OKAY, I'VE GOT ENOUGH.'
HAS BILL GATES STOPPED WORKING?
00:17:54.17\00:17:58.94
HAS - WHAT IT IS, JEFF BEZOS,
WHO OWNS AMAZON, I HEARD HE
00:17:58.97\00:18:01.24
PASSED UP BILL GATES -
HAS HE STOPPED WORKING?
00:18:01.28\00:18:05.11
YOU'D THINK AFTER 50 BILLION
YOU'D SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I THINK
00:18:05.15\00:18:07.98
I'LL DO SOMETHING ELSE NOW.
00:18:08.02\00:18:09.25
I'LL BECOME A PHILANTHROPIST AND
JUST GIVE IT ALL AWAY.' BUT NO,
00:18:09.28\00:18:13.42
THERE'S JUST - THERE'S A DRIVE
THERE TO GET MORE AND MORE.
00:18:13.46\00:18:17.33
THEN YOU'VE GOT THAT VERSE 1
JOHN 2:16 AND 17, "FOR ALL THAT
00:18:17.36\00:18:21.26
IS IN THE WORLD - THE LUST
OF THE FLESH, THE LUST OF THE
00:18:21.30\00:18:24.30
EYES," - THIS IS TALKING ABOUT
POSSESSIONS - "AND THE PRIDE OF
00:18:24.33\00:18:27.90
LIFE - IS NOT OF THE
FATHER BUT IS OF THE WORLD.
00:18:27.94\00:18:31.21
AND THE WORLD IS PASSING AWAY,
AND THE LUST OF IT;" - AND ALL
00:18:31.24\00:18:33.78
THE THINGS OF IT - "BUT HE
WHO DOES THE WILL OF GOD ABIDES
00:18:33.81\00:18:37.45
FOREVER." WHAT
HAPPENS TO OUR STUFF?
00:18:37.48\00:18:41.12
JESUS SAID, 'THIEVES BREAK
THROUGH AND STEAL, MOTH AND RUST
00:18:41.15\00:18:47.02
DOES CORRUPT' - MOTHS USED TO BE
A BIGGER PROBLEM THAN THEY ARE
00:18:47.06\00:18:51.89
TODAY, BUT I WAS VERY SAD TO
FIND - I LOOKED IN MY CLOSET AND
00:18:51.93\00:18:56.60
I OPENED THE CLOSET AND I WAS
VERY SUSPICIOUS WHEN I SAW SOME
00:18:56.63\00:19:00.10
LITTLE BITTY MOTHS FLY OUT.
00:19:00.14\00:19:02.67
AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE
WOOL SUITS - MOTHS DON'T LIKE
00:19:02.70\00:19:05.57
POLYESTER - AND I HAD MY
FAVORITE SUIT IN THERE AND I
00:19:05.61\00:19:10.78
PULLED IT OUT AND THERE WAS A
HOLE IN THE BACK - IT WAS EATEN
00:19:10.81\00:19:13.52
- IT LOOKED LIKE A LITTLE
CIGARETTE BURN - JUST EATEN A
00:19:13.55\00:19:15.58
LITTLE HOLE OUT OF
IT AND I THOUGHT 'AGH!'
00:19:15.62\00:19:18.12
I WENT TO THE TAILOR AND
HE TRIED TO PATCH IT AND IT
00:19:18.15\00:19:20.59
PROBABLY HID IT FOR MOST PEOPLE,
BUT I ALWAYS KNEW IT WAS NOW A
00:19:20.62\00:19:23.59
HOLE-Y SUIT. MOTHS DO CORRUPT.
SO YOU'VE GOT THE PRIDE OF LIFE,
00:19:23.63\00:19:30.50
THE LUST OF THE EYES - IT'S NOT
JUST TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW,
00:19:30.53\00:19:35.97
PHYSICAL LUST, IT'S
TALKING ABOUT CRAVING THINGS
00:19:36.00\00:19:38.54
- COVETING
THINGS. I'VE GOT A COUPON.
00:19:38.57\00:19:42.61
SOME OF YOU KNOW THERE'S A
NEW SPORTING GOODS STORE THAT'S
00:19:42.64\00:19:44.81
OPENED UP WHERE
'SPORTS AUTHORITY' USED TO BE.
00:19:44.85\00:19:47.98
IT'S CALLED 'DICK'S
SPORTING GOODS' AND I'M IN THE
00:19:48.02\00:19:51.25
NEIGHBORHOOD SO
THEY SENT ME A COUPON.
00:19:51.29\00:19:53.59
SO I WENT AND I WAS WALKING
THROUGH THE STORE AND A GAL WHO
00:19:53.62\00:19:57.86
WORKS THERE STOPPED ME AND
SHE SAID, 'CAN I HELP YOU FIND
00:19:57.89\00:19:59.73
SOMETHING?' I SAID,
'I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M
00:19:59.76\00:20:01.60
LOOKING FOR,' I SAID, 'BUT I
KNOW IF I SPEND FIFTY DOLLARS
00:20:01.63\00:20:04.80
I GET TEN OFF AND I'M SURE
YOU HAVE SOMETHING HERE THAT IS
00:20:04.83\00:20:08.27
GOING TO BRING ME
LASTING HAPPINESS.' AND SHE
00:20:08.30\00:20:11.01
STARTED LAUGHING. SO SHE
SAID, 'YEAH' - SHE SAID -
00:20:11.04\00:20:15.81
I SAID, 'WHERE'S YOUR
RACQUETBALL DEPARTMENT?'
00:20:15.84\00:20:17.31
I SAID, 'THERE MUST BE SOMETHING
THAT'S GOING TO BRING ME TRUE
00:20:17.35\00:20:19.71
HAPPINESS HERE BECAUSE I'VE GOT
A COUPON.' SO I DID END UP - I
00:20:19.75\00:20:24.25
HAD TO SPEND FORTY TO SAVE TEN.
BUT DO YOU THINK THAT'S GOING
00:20:24.29\00:20:29.32
TO BRING US LASTING HAPPINESS?
IS IT STUFF? MATERIALISM.
00:20:29.36\00:20:34.56
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME,
IN A MOMENT, MARK 8:36 - OKAY,
00:20:34.60\00:20:38.13
WE'LL START AT THIS END.
I'M GOING TO READ LUKE - PARABLE
00:20:38.17\00:20:41.57
- LUKE 14:26 - IT'S
ACTUALLY NOT A PARABLE.
00:20:41.60\00:20:46.41
JESUS SAID, "IF ANYONE COMES TO
ME AND DOES NOT HATE HIS FATHER
00:20:46.44\00:20:50.18
AND MOTHER, WIFE AND CHILDREN,
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, YES, AND
00:20:50.21\00:20:54.22
HIS OWN LIFE ALSO, HE
CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE."
00:20:54.25\00:20:57.05
NOW, THE WORD 'HATE'
THERE DOESN'T MEAN YOU'VE GOT -
00:20:57.09\00:20:59.89
'ALRIGHT, LORD, I'M GOING
TO START HATING EVERYBODY IN MY
00:20:59.92\00:21:02.36
FAMILY AND THEN I CAN FOLLOW
YOU.' WHAT HE MEANT WAS, 'I'M
00:21:02.39\00:21:04.83
GOING TO VALUE LESS THAN HIM.'
- "AND WHOEVER DOES NOT BEAR HIS
00:21:04.86\00:21:09.53
CROSS AND COME AFTER
ME CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE.
00:21:09.56\00:21:12.67
FOR WHICH OF YOU, INTENDING TO
BUILD A TOWER, DOES NOT SIT DOWN
00:21:12.70\00:21:15.87
FIRST AND COUNT THE COST,
WHETHER HE HAS ENOUGH TO FINISH
00:21:15.90\00:21:19.57
IT" - NOW WE WE'RE INVOLVED
IN A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT BUILDING
00:21:19.61\00:21:23.18
PROGRAM HERE AT GRANITE BAY -
PARTNERING WITH AMAZING FACTS -
00:21:23.21\00:21:26.11
THIS 'WORD' CENTER AND WE
SPENT A COUPLE OF YEARS DOING A
00:21:26.15\00:21:30.12
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN AND LOOKING
AT THE FINANCING AND EVERYTHING
00:21:30.15\00:21:33.36
BEFORE WE LAUNCHED, BECAUSE THIS
VERSE HAUNTED ME - THAT WE MIGHT
00:21:33.39\00:21:36.32
TAKE OFF AND BUILD
AND NOT BE ABLE TO FINISH.
00:21:36.36\00:21:39.56
AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE A MIXTURE
OF FAITH AND ALSO YOU NEED TO BE
00:21:39.59\00:21:43.90
PRUDENT TOO - OTHERWISE PEOPLE
BEGIN TO MOCK, "SAYING, 'THIS
00:21:43.93\00:21:48.04
MAN BEGAN TO BUILD AND
WAS NOT ABLE TO FINISH'?
00:21:48.07\00:21:50.64
OR WHAT KING, GOING TO MAKE WAR
AGAINST ANOTHER KING, DOES NOT
00:21:50.67\00:21:53.74
SIT DOWN FIRST AND CONSIDER
WHETHER HE IS ABLE WITH TEN
00:21:53.78\00:21:56.61
THOUSAND TO MEET HIM WHO
COMES AGAINST HIM WITH TWENTY
00:21:56.64\00:21:59.58
THOUSAND? OR
ELSE, WHILE THE OTHER IS
00:21:59.61\00:22:01.68
STILL A GREAT WAY OFF, HE
SENDS A DELEGATION AND ASKS
00:22:01.72\00:22:03.55
CONDITIONS OF PEACE." HE
SAID, 'LOOK, WE CAN'T WIN
00:22:03.59\00:22:05.59
THIS WAR.' HE DOES
AN ACCOUNTING FIRST.
00:22:05.62\00:22:08.99
SO YOU NEED TO DO SOME
ACCOUNTING IN LIFE, RIGHT?
00:22:09.02\00:22:11.96
SO YOU BETTER MAKE PEACE
BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GOING TO WIN.
00:22:11.99\00:22:15.03
- "SO LIKEWISE, WHOEVER OF
YOU DOES NOT FORSAKE ALL THAT HE
00:22:15.06\00:22:19.23
HAS CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE."
WHOEVER DOESN'T FORSAKE
00:22:19.27\00:22:22.80
ALL CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE.
GO AHEAD, MANJEET, I'M GOING TO
00:22:22.84\00:22:26.17
HAVE YOU READ YOUR VERSE
AND THEN I'LL COMMENT ON THAT.
00:22:26.21\00:22:28.74
>>"FOR WHAT WILL IT PROFIT A MAN
IF HE GAINS THE WHOLE WORLD AND
00:22:28.78\00:22:33.72
LOSES HIS OWN SOUL?"
>>YES, AND WHAT WILL A MAN
00:22:33.75\00:22:38.39
GIVE IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS
SOUL? AT LEAST ONE OF THE
00:22:38.42\00:22:41.69
APOSTLES WAS AN ACCOUNTANT.
SOME PEOPLE LIKE WORKING
00:22:41.72\00:22:46.90
WITH NUMBERS AND SOME DON'T.
I'M ONE OF THOSE - I DON'T.
00:22:46.93\00:22:53.70
YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY BEFORE
- I DON'T TEASE, I REALLY AM
00:22:53.74\00:22:57.31
DYSLEXIC. I
MEAN, IT WAS A STRUGGLE
00:22:57.34\00:22:59.07
THROUGH SCHOOL AND, IF I DIAL A
PHONE NUMBER, I HAVE TO LOOK AT
00:22:59.11\00:23:04.11
A SEVEN-DIGIT NUMBER
THREE TIMES WHEN I DIAL IT.
00:23:04.15\00:23:07.38
I CAN GET THE FIRST TWO NUMBERS
I DIAL, THEN I'LL GET THREE MORE
00:23:07.42\00:23:10.02
NUMBERS, THEN I'LL DO, LIKE, THE
LAST THREE NUMBERS - AND IT'S
00:23:10.05\00:23:13.82
JUST - NUMBERS
ARE A STRUGGLE FOR ME.
00:23:13.86\00:23:16.42
AN ADDRESS - JUST
REMEMBERING NUMBERS.
00:23:16.46\00:23:19.63
IF YOU START A BIBLE VERSE - YOU
START TELLING ME THE WORDS IN A
00:23:19.66\00:23:22.90
BIBLE VERSE, I CAN OFTEN FINISH
IT - SO I KNOW MY BIBLE, BUT
00:23:22.93\00:23:27.20
THE CHAPTER AND VERSE I
SOMETIMES STRUGGLE WITH.
00:23:27.24\00:23:30.44
AND SO, NUMBERS ARE A STRUGGLE.
KAREN - SHE LOVES NUMBERS.
00:23:30.47\00:23:34.14
SHE DOES ACCOUNTING AND
SHE LIKES - DID SHE COMMENT?
00:23:34.18\00:23:37.21
YEAH, THERE SHE IS -
YEAH, SHE LIKES NUMBERS.
00:23:37.25\00:23:39.35
SHE PLAYS THAT SUDOSODUKU GAME
WHEN, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT ALL
00:23:39.38\00:23:42.08
THESE NUMBERS AND THEY
ADD UP AND I'M JUST LIKE -
00:23:42.12\00:23:43.55
THAT, TO ME, WOULD BE TORTURE.
00:23:43.59\00:23:45.75
AND SHE LIKES GAMES LIKE
DOMINOES, WHERE THEY ADD UP, YOU
00:23:45.79\00:23:49.39
KNOW, ALL THE
NUMBERS HAVE TO ADD UP.
00:23:49.42\00:23:51.16
BUT JESUS HAD ONE ACCOUNTANT -
MATTHEW, AT LEAST - HE MAY HAVE
00:23:51.19\00:23:56.23
HAD OTHERS - JUDAS
LIKED TO COUNT TOO.
00:23:56.26\00:23:58.43
'ONE FOR YOU, TWO FOR
ME.' THAT'S HOW JUDAS COUNTED.
00:23:58.47\00:24:03.17
BUT A GOOD SHEPHERD COUNTS HIS
SHEEP AND IT IS APPROPRIATE FOR
00:24:03.20\00:24:08.58
CHRISTIANS TO TAKE ACCOUNT.
AND, IF YOU'RE GOING TO LAUNCH
00:24:08.61\00:24:12.75
OFF ON AN EXPEDITION OF BEING A
CHRISTIAN, JESUS SAYS 'COUNT THE
00:24:12.78\00:24:15.72
COST.' YOU NEED TO BE
WILLING TO LET GO OF EVERYTHING.
00:24:15.75\00:24:21.66
WHEN YOU BEGIN THE JOURNEY,
YOU REALLY NEED TO LET GO OF
00:24:21.69\00:24:24.26
EVERYTHING AND
PUT IT IN GOD'S HANDS.
00:24:24.29\00:24:25.86
NOW, HE MAY GIVE BACK TO
YOU AS YOU NEED IT, AND YOU JUST
00:24:25.89\00:24:28.83
REALIZE YOU'RE A STEWARD.
REMEMBER, A MAN SAID, 'LORD,
00:24:28.86\00:24:31.77
WHAT MUST I DO TO HAVE ETERNAL
LIFE?' HE SAID, 'GOOD MASTER,
00:24:31.80\00:24:35.17
WHAT MUST I DO?' HE
SAID, 'WHY DO YOU CALL ME GOOD?
00:24:35.20\00:24:37.27
NONE IS GOOD BUT
ONE AND THAT IS GOD.
00:24:37.31\00:24:39.21
BUT IF YOU WOULD ENTER INTO
LIFE, KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.' HE
00:24:39.24\00:24:41.08
SAID, 'WHICH ONES?' THOU
SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,
00:24:41.11\00:24:42.84
THOU SHALT NOT KILL, HONOR YOUR
FATHER AND MOTHER, DON'T COVET -
00:24:42.88\00:24:46.98
HE DIDN'T MENTION THAT
ONE, BUT THAT WAS HIS PROBLEM.
00:24:47.02\00:24:49.15
HE SAID, 'OH, ALL THESE I'VE
KEPT FROM MY YOUTH UP.' JESUS
00:24:49.18\00:24:51.49
SAID, 'ONE THING YOU LACK, GO
SELL EVERYTHING YOU HAVE, GIVE
00:24:51.52\00:24:54.69
IT TO THE POOR; YOU'LL
HAVE TREASURE IN HEAVEN.
00:24:54.72\00:24:56.76
TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW
ME.' NOW, IS THE LORD ASKING
00:24:56.79\00:25:01.63
EVERY BELIEVER TO LIQUIDATE?
PROBABLY NOT, BUT WHY WOULD PAUL
00:25:01.66\00:25:06.27
LATER SAY, 'THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE
RICH, DON'T FORGET TO MINISTER
00:25:06.30\00:25:09.64
TO THE NEEDS OF THE CHURCH.'
WELL, IF YOU DO IT ALL AT ONCE,
00:25:09.67\00:25:12.84
YOU CAN NEVER
MINISTER ANYMORE, RIGHT?
00:25:12.87\00:25:16.54
AND SO THE BIBLE
TALKS ABOUT USING WISDOM.
00:25:16.58\00:25:19.48
BUT EVERY BELIEVER REALLY PUTS
EVERYTHING ON THE ALTAR WHEN YOU
00:25:19.51\00:25:23.75
FIRST COME TO THE
LORD. IT'S A HUNDRED PERCENT
00:25:23.79\00:25:27.56
COMMITMENT TO BE A CHRISTIAN
IS WHAT JESUS IS SAYING.
00:25:27.59\00:25:30.09
IT'S YOUR TIME - IT'S
YOUR LIFE - ALL BELONGS TO HIM.
00:25:30.13\00:25:33.53
SO YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL
AND GUARD AGAINST MATERIALISM.
00:25:33.56\00:25:37.00
A LOT OF PEOPLE
FALL INTO THAT TRAP.
00:25:37.03\00:25:40.80
PHILIPPIANS 3, VERSES 7 AND 8,
PAUL SAID, "BUT WHAT THINGS WERE
00:25:40.84\00:25:45.74
GAIN TO ME, THESE I
HAVE COUNTED LOSS FOR CHRIST.
00:25:45.77\00:25:48.78
YET INDEED I COUNTED ALL THINGS
LOSS" - EVERYTHING IS A WASTE -
00:25:48.81\00:25:52.11
"FOR THE EXCELLENCE OF THE
KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS MY
00:25:52.15\00:25:55.82
LORD, FOR WHOM I HAVE SUFFERED
THE LOSS OF ALL THINGS, AND
00:25:55.85\00:25:59.59
COUNT THEM AS RUBBISH,
THAT I MAY GAIN" - WHAT?
00:25:59.62\00:26:03.43
>>CHRIST. >>CHRIST.
00:26:03.46\00:26:05.26
FOR PAUL, THINGS WERE NOT
WHERE IT'S AT. IT WAS CHRIST.
00:26:05.29\00:26:09.86
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A GOOD QUOTE
IN YOUR LESSON FROM THE BOOK
00:26:09.90\00:26:12.13
EDUCATION , "WHEN CHRIST CAME TO
THE EARTH, HUMANITY SEEMED TO BE
00:26:12.17\00:26:16.91
FAST REACHING ITS LOWEST
POINT. THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF
00:26:16.94\00:26:20.04
SOCIETY WERE UNDERMINED.
LIFE HAD BECOME FALSE
00:26:20.08\00:26:23.04
AND ARTIFICIAL." -
SOUNDS LIKE TODAY -
00:26:23.08\00:26:25.71
"THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, ALL THE
SYSTEMS OF RELIGION WERE LOSING
00:26:25.75\00:26:28.15
THEIR HOLD ON THE
MIND AND THE SOUL.
00:26:28.18\00:26:30.15
DISGUSTED WITH FABLE AND
FALSEHOOD, SEEKING TO DROWN
00:26:30.19\00:26:32.92
THOUGHT, MEN TURNED TO
INFIDELITY AND MATERIALISM.
00:26:32.95\00:26:37.19
LEAVING ETERNITY OUT OF THEIR
RECKONING, THEY LIVED FOR THE
00:26:37.23\00:26:39.96
PRESENT." AND
THE ROMANS AND THEIR
00:26:40.00\00:26:42.60
HEDONISM AND THEIR ORGIES - AND
THAT ALL HAD TO DO WITH JUST TRY
00:26:42.63\00:26:46.17
TO GRAB ALL OF THE PLEASURE YOU
CAN NOW AND ALL THE MATERIALISM
00:26:46.20\00:26:50.21
AND THE LOVE OF MONEY.
SO, DO YOU OWN SOME STUFF?
00:26:50.24\00:26:56.71
DOES YOUR STUFF OWN YOU?
ARE YOU AFRAID TO GO ANYWHERE
00:26:56.75\00:27:01.68
BECAUSE SOMEONE
MIGHT BREAK IN AND STEAL?
00:27:01.72\00:27:04.42
SOME PEOPLE CAN'T GO ON A
MISSION TRIP BECAUSE OF THEIR
00:27:04.45\00:27:06.45
STUFF. AND, IN AMERICA, MANY
PEOPLE CAN'T GO ON A MISSION
00:27:06.49\00:27:09.69
TRIP BECAUSE OF
THEIR PETS. IT'S TRUE.
00:27:09.72\00:27:14.83
THEY SAY, 'I CAN'T GO ANYWHERE.
I'VE GOT TO STAY HOME AND TAKE
00:27:14.86\00:27:18.33
CARE OF MY LITTLE SCHNAUZER.'
I - WE'VE GOT DOGS AND WE'VE GOT
00:27:18.37\00:27:24.27
CATS - I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT
AGAINST THAT, BUT YOU'VE GOT TO
00:27:24.31\00:27:28.48
REALLY SAY, IS GOD'S
KINGDOM FIRST FOR YOU?
00:27:28.51\00:27:32.98
FILLING YOUR BARNS -
THAT'S THE NEXT SECTION.
00:27:33.01\00:27:36.05
WHEN IT COMES TO MATERIALISM,
IS THERE ANY NATION THAT HAS
00:27:36.08\00:27:38.82
SURPASSED WHAT WE'RE SEEING
IN THE UNITED STATES RIGHT NOW?
00:27:38.85\00:27:41.96
WE DEFINE OUR LIVES BY HOW MUCH
STUFF WE HAVE - SOCIAL STATUS BY
00:27:41.99\00:27:45.56
HOW MUCH MONEY WE MAKE - WHAT WE
OWN, WHAT WE WEAR, WHERE WE LIVE
00:27:45.59\00:27:51.00
- DOES HAPPINESS COME FROM
THE ABUNDANCE OF THINGS A MAN
00:27:51.03\00:27:53.67
POSSESSES? WHAT DOES JESUS SAY?
00:27:53.70\00:27:55.60
A MAN'S LIFE DOES NOT CONSIST IN
THE ABUNDANCE OF THINGS THAT HE
00:27:55.64\00:28:00.41
POSSESSES. IT'S
REALLY WHAT POSSESSES YOU.
00:28:00.44\00:28:04.48
DOES THE LORD
POSSESS YOUR HEART?
00:28:04.51\00:28:07.35
THAT'S WHERE
HAPPINESS COMES FROM.
00:28:07.38\00:28:10.05
SO, I PREACHED A SERMONETTE
AND I DIDN'T EVEN GET INTO THE
00:28:10.09\00:28:12.39
POINTS ON THAT STUDY.
LUKE 12:15 - HERE'S THE POINT
00:28:12.42\00:28:16.83
IN THIS SECTION: "TAKE HEED"
- JESUS SAID - "AND BEWARE OF
00:28:16.86\00:28:20.96
COVETOUSNESS, FOR ONE'S
LIFE DOES NOT CONSIST IN THE
00:28:21.00\00:28:24.40
ABUNDANCE OF THE
THINGS HE POSSESSES."
00:28:24.43\00:28:26.13
AND HE SHARES A
PARABLE: "THE GROUND OF A
00:28:26.17\00:28:28.10
CERTAIN RICH MAN
YIELDED PLENTIFULLY.
00:28:28.14\00:28:30.44
AND HE THOUGHT WITHIN HIMSELF,
SAYING, 'WHAT SHALL I DO, SINCE
00:28:30.47\00:28:33.17
I HAVE NO ROOM
TO STORE MY CROPS?'
00:28:33.21\00:28:35.24
SO HE SAID, 'I WILL DO THIS:
I WILL PULL DOWN MY BARNS AND
00:28:35.28\00:28:39.25
BUILD GREATER, AND THERE I WILL
STORE ALL MY CROPS AND MY GOODS.
00:28:39.28\00:28:44.19
AND I WILL SAY TO MY SOUL,
'SOUL, YOU HAVE MANY GOODS LAID
00:28:44.22\00:28:47.22
UP FOR MANY YEARS; TAKE
YOUR EASE; EAT, DRINK, AND BE
00:28:47.26\00:28:50.43
MERRY.''" - BE HAPPY - DO IT
ALL RIGHT NOW - "BUT GOD SAID TO
00:28:50.46\00:28:53.70
HIM, 'FOOL!'" - HE ADDRESSES
HIM WITH ONE WORD - "'FOOL!
00:28:53.73\00:28:58.33
THIS NIGHT YOUR SOUL WILL BE
REQUIRED OF YOU; THEN WHOSE WILL
00:28:58.37\00:29:02.80
THOSE THINGS BE
WHICH YOU HAVE PROVIDED?'
00:29:02.84\00:29:05.77
SO IS HE WHO LAYS UP TREASURE
FOR HIMSELF, AND IS NOT RICH
00:29:05.81\00:29:08.48
TOWARD GOD.'" NOW, WHETHER THE
LORD TELLS YOU THAT VERY DAY YOU
00:29:08.51\00:29:13.31
MAKE THAT DECISION, OR A WEEK
LATER, WHAT PROFIT IS IT IF YOU
00:29:13.35\00:29:16.25
GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD
AND YOU LOSE YOUR SOUL?
00:29:16.28\00:29:19.42
AND INSTEAD, THE LORD BLESSED
HIM WITH ABUNDANCE AND, INSTEAD
00:29:19.45\00:29:21.86
OF THINKING 'GOD HAS GIVEN ME
THIS WINDFALL THAT I MIGHT BLESS
00:29:21.89\00:29:24.39
OTHERS,' HE SAID, 'OH GOOD,
I'LL KEEP IT ALL FOR MYSELF.
00:29:24.43\00:29:27.00
BUT I DON'T
HAVE ROOM FOR IT ALL.
00:29:27.03\00:29:28.23
I'LL BUILD BIGGER BARNS TO KEEP
IT ALL FOR ME.' AND GOD SAID,
00:29:28.26\00:29:32.17
'LOOK, I HAVE BLESSED YOU WITH
AN ABUNDANCE THAT YOU MIGHT BE A
00:29:32.20\00:29:35.47
CHANNEL OF BLESSING FOR OTHERS.
SEE, WHEN GOD BLESSES YOU WITH
00:29:35.50\00:29:38.87
MATERIAL THINGS, GOD WANTS US
TO BE A BLESSING AND ALLOW THOSE
00:29:38.91\00:29:42.11
THINGS TO FLOW
OUT TO OTHERS, AMEN?
00:29:42.14\00:29:44.11
>>AMEN. >>DO WE
NEED TO GUARD - EVEN
00:29:44.15\00:29:47.55
CHRISTIANS - AGAINST THE DANGER
OF BECOMING POSSESSED BY THINGS?
00:29:47.58\00:29:53.09
GOD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL, WHEN HE BROUGHT THEM
00:29:53.12\00:29:54.76
INTO THE PROMISED LAND -
DEUTERONOMY 8:10, 'WHEN YOU
00:29:54.79\00:29:58.73
ENTER IN AND YOU GET THESE
HOUSES YOU DIDN'T BUILD, AND
00:29:58.76\00:30:01.93
WHEN YOU GET VINEYARDS YOU
DIDN'T PLANT, AND WHEN YOU GET
00:30:01.96\00:30:04.33
TO EAT FROM - DRINK FROM WELLS
YOU DID NOT DIG, - "WHEN YOU
00:30:04.37\00:30:08.54
HAVE EATEN AND ARE FULL, THEN
YOU SHALL BLESS THE LORD YOUR
00:30:08.57\00:30:11.64
GOD FOR THE GOOD LAND
WHICH HE HAS GIVEN YOU.
00:30:11.67\00:30:14.11
BEWARE THAT YOU DO NOT FORGET
THE LORD YOUR GOD BY NOT KEEPING
00:30:14.14\00:30:18.48
HIS COMMANDMENTS, HIS JUDGMENTS,
AND HIS STATUTES WHICH I COMMAND
00:30:18.51\00:30:21.28
YOU TODAY, LEST - WHEN YOU HAVE
EATEN AND ARE FULL, AND HAVE
00:30:21.32\00:30:24.22
BUILT BEAUTIFUL HOUSES AND DWELL
IN THEM; AND WHEN YOUR HERDS AND
00:30:24.25\00:30:27.56
YOUR FLOCKS MULTIPLY, AND
YOUR SILVER AND YOUR GOLD ARE
00:30:27.59\00:30:30.26
MULTIPLIED, AND ALL THAT YOU
HAVE IS MULTIPLIED; WHEN YOUR
00:30:30.29\00:30:33.46
HEART IS LIFTED UP, AND YOU
FORGET THE LORD YOUR GOD WHO
00:30:33.50\00:30:35.86
BROUGHT YOU OUT OF THE
LAND OF EGYPT, FROM THE HOUSE OF
00:30:35.90\00:30:37.80
BONDAGE;'" - WE
FORGET THAT WE'VE BEEN SAVED.
00:30:37.83\00:30:41.74
I READ ONCE WHERE, IN THE
SPIRIT OF PROPHECY IT SAYS THAT
00:30:41.77\00:30:46.54
SOMETIMES THE DEVIL WILL CAST
ABUNDANCE IN A PERSON'S PATH TO
00:30:46.57\00:30:51.15
DESTROY THEM. AND
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SAID
00:30:51.18\00:30:54.72
MORE PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED
BY ABUNDANCE THAN WANT.
00:30:54.75\00:31:00.29
POOR PEOPLE KNOW THEIR NEED OF
GOD, BUT MORE PEOPLE, FRANKLIN
00:31:00.32\00:31:04.86
SAID, ARE DESTROYED
BY ABUNDANCE THAN WANT.
00:31:04.89\00:31:08.80
AND SO, HERE WE ARE LIVING IN
THE MOST ABUNDANT COUNTRY IN THE
00:31:08.83\00:31:10.77
WORLD - ISN'T THAT A TROUBLING
THOUGHT - THAT WE MIGHT GET TO
00:31:10.80\00:31:15.97
THE PLACE WHERE WE THINK WE
DON'T NEED GOD - WE'VE GOT THE
00:31:16.00\00:31:18.57
AMERICAN DREAM. WE'VE
GOT - YOU KNOW, EVEN THOSE
00:31:18.61\00:31:22.31
ON WELFARE IN OUR COUNTRY,
THEY'VE GOT CELL PHONES, RIGHT?
00:31:22.34\00:31:28.25
MOST OF THEM HAVE CARS - I
MEAN, WE FIGURE WHAT USED TO BE
00:31:28.28\00:31:31.22
LUXURIES, WE FIGURE
THOSE ARE THE NECESSITIES NOW.
00:31:31.25\00:31:34.92
AND SO, JUST THE STANDARD
OF LIVING HAS REALLY CHANGED.
00:31:34.96\00:31:40.00
LUKE 16:19, "THERE WAS A CERTAIN
RICH MAN WHO WAS CLOTHED IN
00:31:40.03\00:31:43.73
PURPLE AND...çFARED]
SUMPTUOUSLY EVERY DAY."
00:31:43.77\00:31:47.44
- YOU KNOW THAT PARABLE
OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS?
00:31:47.47\00:31:49.60
I DON'T HAVE TO
READ IT ALL TO YOU.
00:31:49.64\00:31:51.14
YOU'VE GOT THIS PARADOX - YOU'VE
GOT THIS RICH MAN, HE'S GOT
00:31:51.17\00:31:54.38
EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD, LIVES
IN A PALACE, BEST CLOTHES, BEST
00:31:54.41\00:31:59.05
FOOD - POOR BEGGAR LAYS AT HIS
GATE, DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING - HE
00:31:59.08\00:32:03.42
WANTS THE CRUMBS THAT
FALL FROM THE RICH MAN'S TABLE.
00:32:03.45\00:32:05.29
THEY BOTH DIE. WHERE
DOES THE RICH MAN END UP?
00:32:05.32\00:32:08.86
HADES, THE GREEK
PLACE OF TORMENT.
00:32:08.89\00:32:12.53
WHERE DOES THE POOR MAN END UP?
00:32:12.56\00:32:15.80
HE'S IN ABRAHAM'S BOSOM -
THE JEWISH PLACE OF REWARD.
00:32:15.83\00:32:19.37
AND JESUS IS SAYING THERE'S
A BIG REVERSAL OF FORTUNE HERE.
00:32:19.40\00:32:23.44
SO, BEING BLESSED WITH AN
ABUNDANCE AND MATERIALISM IN
00:32:23.47\00:32:27.08
THIS LIFE IS NOT A SURE SIGN
THAT YOU WILL BE BLESSED IN THE
00:32:27.11\00:32:30.71
NEXT LIFE. MATTER
OF FACT, ISN'T IT JAMES
00:32:30.75\00:32:32.88
THAT SAYS, 'WOE RICH MAN, HOWL
AND WEEP FOR YOUR RICHES THAT'LL
00:32:32.91\00:32:36.75
STAND IN JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU
BECAUSE YOU WERE SURROUNDED WITH
00:32:36.79\00:32:39.65
SO MANY POOR YOU DIDN'T CARE
ABOUT.' I'M PARAPHRASING HERE.
00:32:39.69\00:32:43.43
SO WE NEED TO BE - WE
NEED TO BE SENSITIVE TO THAT.
00:32:43.46\00:32:46.26
ALRIGHT, THE ALLURE OF
MATERIALISM - NOW, IT'S NOT YOUR
00:32:46.29\00:32:51.17
FAULT. WE ARE VICTIMS, RIGHT?
00:32:51.20\00:32:55.30
I MEAN, AREN'T WE
BOMBARDED WITH ADVERTISING?
00:32:55.34\00:32:57.04
WE CAN'T HELP IT. HOW
MUCH MONEY IS SPENT BY
00:32:57.07\00:33:00.04
MADISON AVENUE
TO ADVERTISE STUFF?
00:33:00.08\00:33:04.21
BILLIONS AND BILLIONS, SO IT'S
NOT OUR FAULT, WE'RE VICTIMS.
00:33:04.25\00:33:10.75
THE ADVERTISING
WORLD IS POWERFUL.
00:33:10.79\00:33:12.82
COMPANIES - I'M SAYING
THAT TONGUE IN CHEEK, SORRY -
00:33:12.85\00:33:15.22
COMPANIES SPEND BILLIONS OF
DOLLARS PUTTING THEIR IMAGES OF
00:33:15.26\00:33:18.23
PRODUCTS BEFORE US, TELLING US
'YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO BE HAPPY
00:33:18.26\00:33:20.53
UNLESS YOU REALLY
HAVE THIS PRODUCT.
00:33:20.56\00:33:23.23
AND REAL SATISFACTION IS GOING
TO COME FROM THIS THING OR THIS
00:33:23.26\00:33:25.87
CREAM, OR WHATEVER IT IS THAT
THEY'RE SELLING, AND WE FEEL
00:33:25.90\00:33:29.14
DISSATISFIED - SEE, THE
ADVERTISING IS DESIGNED TO MAKE
00:33:29.17\00:33:32.31
YOU FEEL DISSATISFIED UNLESS YOU
HAVE THIS - DISSATISFIED WITH
00:33:32.34\00:33:37.85
THE WAY YOU LOOK, DISSATISFIED
WITH THE FOOD YOU EAT,
00:33:37.88\00:33:41.12
DISSATISFIED WITH THE CLOTHES
YOU WEAR UNTIL YOU HAVE THEIR
00:33:41.15\00:33:42.95
CLOTHES. SO THAT'S
WHAT THE ADVERTISING'S
00:33:42.98\00:33:45.72
ALL ABOUT, AND WHAT IT DOES
IS IT - IT BREEDS A CULTURE OF
00:33:45.75\00:33:51.23
MATERIALISTIC PEOPLE
THAT THINK THAT HAVING - WHAT
00:33:51.26\00:33:54.60
IS MATERIALISM?
MAYBE WE SHOULD LOOK
00:33:54.63\00:33:56.23
AT A DEFINITION. A
PREOCCUPATION WITH POSSESSIONS
00:33:56.26\00:34:00.64
AND BELIEVING THAT
OWNING PRODUCTS BRINGS
00:34:00.67\00:34:03.47
HAPPINESS AND
SUCCESS. IS THAT TRUE?
00:34:03.51\00:34:07.54
IT DOESN'T BRING HAPPINESS.
JESUS SAID, 'IF YOUR EYE IS
00:34:07.58\00:34:10.81
SINGLE' - MATTHEW 6:24 -
'YOUR WHOLE BODY WILL BE FULL OF
00:34:10.85\00:34:14.28
LIGHT; BUT IF YOUR EYE IS BAD,
YOUR WHOLE BODY WILL BE FULL OF
00:34:14.32\00:34:17.59
DARKNESS.' WHAT
ARE YOU FOCUSING ON?
00:34:17.62\00:34:20.12
AND THAT'S WHY HE GOES ON TO
SAY, 'YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND
00:34:20.16\00:34:22.49
MONEY.' WHAT IS YOUR FOCUS?
00:34:22.52\00:34:23.96
IS IT ON THINGS, IS IT
DOWN HERE, OR IS IT UP THERE?
00:34:23.99\00:34:27.03
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR
ME AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO TAKE
00:34:27.03\00:34:29.13
SOME QUESTIONS
FROM OUR LISTENERS.
00:34:29.16\00:34:31.60
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ DANIEL
4, VERSE 30 - IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:34:31.63\00:34:35.27
REMEMBER WHAT KING
NEBUCHADNEZZAR DID?
00:34:35.30\00:34:37.51
HE WAS ON TOP OF THE WORLD
AND HE THOUGHT HE HAD EVERYTHING
00:34:37.54\00:34:41.34
THAT WOULD BRING LASTING
HAPPINESS - GO AHEAD, READ THAT
00:34:41.38\00:34:44.35
FOR US - DANIEL 4:30.
>>"THE KING SPOKE, SAYING, 'IS
00:34:44.38\00:34:47.98
NOT THIS GREAT BABYLON, THAT I
HAVE BUILT FOR A ROYAL DWELLING
00:34:48.02\00:34:52.29
BY MY MIGHTY POWER AND
FOR THE HONOR OF MY MAJESTY?'"
00:34:52.32\00:34:56.99
HE HAD EVERYTHING - PALACES AND
TREASURES, AND POSSESSIONS, AND
00:34:57.03\00:35:01.50
LAND, AND CLOTHES, AND FOOD.
00:35:01.53\00:35:03.97
HE HAD IT ALL AND, AS THE SUN
WENT DOWN, HE LOOKED FROM HIS
00:35:04.00\00:35:07.20
BALCONY ON THIS GLITTERING
EMPIRE AND SAID, 'AH, IT'S MINE.
00:35:07.24\00:35:11.41
I'M KING OF THE
WORLD!' AND WHAT HAPPENED?
00:35:11.44\00:35:15.34
GOD SPOKE TO HIM IN A MOMENT
AND HE BECAME A RAVING BEAST AND
00:35:15.38\00:35:19.45
THEY HAD TO SEND HIM OUT IN A
MUDDY FIELD WHERE HE ATE GRASS
00:35:19.48\00:35:21.88
LIKE AN OX. HE LOST IT ALL.
00:35:21.92\00:35:24.09
LIKE THAT RICH MAN WITH
THE BARNS, YOU CAN LOSE IT LIKE
00:35:24.12\00:35:26.52
THAT. DID JOB
LOSE IT ALL AT ONCE?
00:35:26.55\00:35:29.66
YEAH, SO WE'VE GOT TO
GUARD AGAINST MATERIALISM.
00:35:29.69\00:35:32.06
SOME PEOPLE WILL
LOSE IT ALL THROUGH DEATH.
00:35:32.09\00:35:35.16
NEBUCHADNEZZAR GOT A SECOND
CHANCE. JOB GOT A SECOND CHANCE.
00:35:35.20\00:35:38.17
WE DON'T WANT TO WAIT TO SAY,
'LORD, ARE MY THINGS POSSESSING
00:35:38.20\00:35:42.84
ME OR DO I POSSESS
THEM?' WE WANT TO KNOW.
00:35:42.87\00:35:45.44
SO, PASTOR ROSS? THERE HE IS.
00:35:45.47\00:35:47.71
OH, WE'VE GOT SOME QUESTIONS
THAT CAME IN, MAYBE SOME FROM
00:35:47.74\00:35:50.28
THOSE WHO ARE VIEWING THIS
LIVE STREAM PROGRAM OR FROM OUR
00:35:50.31\00:35:54.08
FACEBOOK PAGE.
>>WE DID, PASTOR DOUG.
00:35:54.12\00:35:56.92
THIS IS KIND OF FUN. WE
GET TO INTERACT WITH THOSE
00:35:56.95\00:35:58.85
WHO ARE VIEWING AND I THINK,
LATER ON - MAYBE NOT AT THIS
00:35:58.89\00:36:01.62
PROGRAM, BUT MAYBE IN SOME
FUTURE STUDIES, WE CAN TAKE SOME
00:36:01.66\00:36:04.53
QUESTIONS RIGHT HERE FROM THOSE
OF YOU IN OUR CHURCH SANCTUARY.
00:36:04.56\00:36:08.06
YOU KNOW, PASTOR DOUG, I THINK
WE'VE GOT THE QUESTIONS TYPED
00:36:08.10\00:36:10.53
UP, SO WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND
PUT THEM ON THE SCREEN SO WE CAN
00:36:10.57\00:36:13.20
READ THROUGH THOSE QUESTIONS.
IF THEY'RE NOT QUITE READY WITH
00:36:13.23\00:36:16.04
THE QUESTIONS, I HAVE THEM HERE
IN MY HAND, SO WE CAN STILL GO
00:36:16.07\00:36:18.74
AHEAD - THERE WE GO -
THAT'S OUR FIRST QUESTION.
00:36:18.77\00:36:21.71
THE QUESTION IS: 'SHOULD WE BUY
THINGS WE DON'T NEED WHEN THERE
00:36:21.74\00:36:24.58
IS SO MUCH NEED IN THE
WORLD?' >>GOOD QUESTION.
00:36:24.61\00:36:29.65
LET'S FACE IT, WE BUY SOME
THINGS WE DON'T - THEY'RE NOT
00:36:29.68\00:36:33.72
NEEDS, THEY'RE REALLY WANTS.
SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE NEEDS THAT
00:36:33.76\00:36:38.73
ARE NOT MET, SHOULD YOU
FEEL GUILTY EVERY TIME YOU BUY
00:36:38.76\00:36:42.26
SOMETHING, THAT IT'S JUST
REALLY A DESIRE OF YOUR HEART?
00:36:42.30\00:36:45.70
MY ANSWER WOULD BE THAT A
CHRISTIAN NEEDS A BALANCE.
00:36:45.73\00:36:48.40
I THINK IT WAS WESLEY WHO SAID,
'YOU SHOULD EARN ALL YOU CAN,
00:36:48.44\00:36:52.31
SAVE ALL YOU CAN, AND GIVE
ALL YOU CAN.' THIS WEEK I GOT A
00:36:52.34\00:36:57.58
CHECK I DID NOT EXPECT. MY
FIRST REACTION IS, 'OH GOOD,
00:36:57.61\00:37:01.62
I CAN GO OUT AND BUY THAT GUITAR
I WANTED.' IT WASN'T ENOUGH FOR
00:37:01.65\00:37:05.45
THE GUITAR, BUT IT
WOULD GO TOWARDS IT.
00:37:05.49\00:37:06.89
THEN THE HOLY SPIRIT SAID,
'DOUG, THAT'S PRETTY SELFISH.
00:37:06.92\00:37:08.96
AS SOON AS YOU GET SOME EXTRA
MONEY, INSTEAD OF THINKING ABOUT
00:37:08.99\00:37:11.43
PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE
ANY, YOU THINK ABOUT YOU.'
00:37:11.46\00:37:14.83
WELL, YOU'RE THAT WAY TOO.
00:37:14.86\00:37:16.03
WE'RE ALL NATURALLY KIND OF
SELFISH, BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT GOT
00:37:16.06\00:37:18.17
AHOLD OF ME AND IT SAID, 'MAYBE
YOU SHOULD PRAY AND SAY, 'GOD,
00:37:18.20\00:37:20.70
HOW CAN I AT LEAST GIVE
HALF OF THIS TO SOMEONE ELSE?''
00:37:20.74\00:37:26.21
AND SO, I'M NOT -
I'M NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:37:26.24\00:37:29.64
THE LORD MAY
IMPRESS YOU DIFFERENTLY.
00:37:29.68\00:37:30.81
BUT WHEN I GET A WINDFALL
LIKE THAT I THINK, 'YOU KNOW, I
00:37:30.85\00:37:32.91
SHOULDN'T KEEP
IT ALL FOR MYSELF.'
00:37:32.95\00:37:34.75
JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE.
SOMETIMES, THIS TIME OF YEAR,
00:37:34.78\00:37:39.02
PEOPLE SEND NICE
GIFTS TO AMAZING FACTS.
00:37:39.05\00:37:41.69
BUSINESSES WE WORK WITH,
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THEY SEND A
00:37:41.72\00:37:43.83
LITTLE CHRISTMAS BASKET
OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND,
00:37:43.86\00:37:46.70
TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
THEY'LL GIVE IT TO ME - IT'LL
00:37:46.73\00:37:49.66
SAY 'TO PASTOR DOUG' - I TAKE IT
TO THE OFFICE AND I SAY, 'HERE,
00:37:49.70\00:37:54.60
CINNAMON ROLLS' - WHATEVER IT
WAS THAT THEY SENT US, YOU KNOW?
00:37:54.64\00:37:58.54
AND OTHER TIMES WE TAKE IT HOME
- KAREN, THIS WEEK, WE RE-GIFTED
00:37:58.57\00:38:03.14
THINGS THAT I DIDN'T FEEL IT
WAS RIGHT THAT I SHOULD KEEP IT.
00:38:03.18\00:38:05.88
AND SO, WE WENT AROUND TO OUR
NEIGHBORS, WE SAID, 'HERE.' AND
00:38:05.91\00:38:09.08
WE GAVE THEM SOME OF THE TREATS
AND THINGS THAT PEOPLE HAD SENT
00:38:09.12\00:38:12.32
THE OFFICE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW,
I THINK THAT YOU OUGHT TO ALWAYS
00:38:12.35\00:38:15.72
BE THINKING, 'HOW
CAN I GIVE IT AWAY?'
00:38:15.76\00:38:18.13
WHEN GOD BLESSES.
SO THERE'S A BALANCE.
00:38:18.16\00:38:20.43
BUT I'M STILL HOPING TO
GET A GUITAR. (LAUGHTER).
00:38:20.46\00:38:25.27
>>ALRIGHT, THE NEXT
QUESTION THAT WE HAVE -
00:38:25.30\00:38:26.50
>>NO, LET ME GIVE YOU A
SCRIPTURE - PSALM 37, "HE
00:38:26.53\00:38:28.77
SHALL GIVE YOU THE
DESIRES OF YOUR HEART."
00:38:28.80\00:38:30.44
IT'S NOT WRONG TO HAVE A
DESIRE AND GET SOMETHING NICE.
00:38:30.47\00:38:33.07
>>OKAY, THE NEXT QUESTION
THAT WE HAVE IS, 'WHY DO WE CALL
00:38:33.11\00:38:36.81
OFFERING FOR MISSION A WORK -
A SACRIFICIAL GIFT WHEN WE DON'T
00:38:36.85\00:38:41.68
SEE MANY PEOPLE
ACTUALLY SACRIFICING TO GIVE?'
00:38:41.72\00:38:44.79
>>GOOD QUESTION.
00:38:44.82\00:38:46.02
MOST OF THE GIVING - NOT ALL
- MOST OF THE GIVING THAT'S DONE
00:38:46.05\00:38:48.96
IN CHURCHES IN NORTH AMERICA
DOES NOT REQUIRE A SACRIFICE.
00:38:48.99\00:38:52.79
HOW WOULD YOU
DEFINE A SACRIFICIAL GIFT?
00:38:52.83\00:38:56.13
WHEN YOU GIVE - AND, BECAUSE OF
YOUR GIFT, YOU HAVE TO BE DENIED
00:38:56.16\00:39:01.90
OF SOMETHING
YOURSELF, THAT'S A SACRIFICE.
00:39:01.94\00:39:05.31
MOST PEOPLE, WHEN THEY GIVE,
THEY WILL DRIVE THE SAME CAR,
00:39:05.34\00:39:07.91
EAT THE SAME FOOD, SLEEP IN THE
SAME BED - THEY'LL WEAR THE SAME
00:39:07.94\00:39:10.65
CLOTHES - THEY DON'T
REALLY EXPERIENCE ANY LOSS.
00:39:10.68\00:39:14.38
THERE MIGHT BE A DIFFERENT DIGIT
IN THEIR BANK ACCOUNT - IT MIGHT
00:39:14.42\00:39:17.39
BE A LITTLE LOWER, BUT
THERE'S REALLY NO SACRIFICE.
00:39:17.42\00:39:20.42
AND SO, A SACRIFICIAL GIFT MEANS
YOU GIVE SO THAT IT HURTS YOU A
00:39:20.46\00:39:23.26
LITTLE BIT IN SOME WAY - THERE'S
SOME SELF-DENIAL INVOLVED.
00:39:23.29\00:39:26.33
THAT'S A REAL SACRIFICE.
MOST PEOPLE DON'T GIVE THAT WAY.
00:39:26.36\00:39:29.43
DO YOU KNOW, POOR PEOPLE,
STATISTICALLY, GIVE A GREATER
00:39:29.46\00:39:31.47
PERCENTAGE OF WHAT
THEY HAVE THAN RICH PEOPLE?
00:39:31.50\00:39:35.50
>>OKAY, THE NEXT QUESTION
THAT WE HAVE IS 'WHAT IS LIVING
00:39:35.54\00:39:38.64
SACRIFICE - WHAT IS A LIVING
SACRIFICE AND WHAT DOES THAT
00:39:38.67\00:39:42.91
LOOK LIKE, PRACTICALLY?'
>>OKAY, WE'RE TO PRESENT
00:39:42.94\00:39:46.01
OURSELVES A LIVING SACRIFICE
- AND THIS IS IN THE LESSON
00:39:46.05\00:39:49.02
- ROMANS CHAPTER 12.
WELL, FIRST OF ALL, IT'S LIKE
00:39:49.05\00:39:53.09
WHEN PAUL SAID, 'IT'S NOT I THAT
LIVE BUT CHRIST THAT LIVES IN ME
00:39:53.12\00:39:59.76
AND THE LIFE THAT I NOW LIVE, I
LIVE BY THE FAITH OF THE SON OF
00:39:59.79\00:40:02.20
GOD WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME.
I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST.' IT
00:40:02.23\00:40:05.37
MEANS THAT EVERY DAY
YOU SAY, 'I DIE DAILY.
00:40:05.40\00:40:09.00
I'M NOT GOING
TO LIVE FOR MYSELF.
00:40:09.04\00:40:10.14
LORD, WHAT WOULD
YOU HAVE ME TO DO?'
00:40:10.17\00:40:11.84
IN HOW YOU SPEND YOUR TIME, IN
HOW YOU SPEND YOUR MEANS, IN THE
00:40:11.87\00:40:16.31
WORDS THAT YOU SPEAK, YOU
SAY, 'I WANT MY LIFE TO BE A
00:40:16.34\00:40:19.48
SWEET-SMELLING SAVOR TO GOD.'
A SACRIFICE, THEY WOULD ACTUALLY
00:40:19.51\00:40:23.35
BURN IT ON THE ALTAR AND
GOD CALLED IT A SWEET-SMELLING
00:40:23.39\00:40:26.62
SAVOR. YOU EVER
SMELL A BARBECUE?
00:40:26.65\00:40:30.06
IT STILL SMELLS GOOD TO ME - I
DON'T EAT IT, BUT (LAUGHS) - SO,
00:40:30.09\00:40:34.46
YOU KNOW, IT MEANS OUR LIVES ARE
TO - BY THE LIVES WE LIVE - THE
00:40:34.50\00:40:37.97
OBEDIENCE, THE DECISIONS WE MAKE
- ARE GOING TO BRING GLORY TO
00:40:38.00\00:40:42.24
GOD. >>THE NEXT
QUESTION WE HAVE IS A
00:40:42.27\00:40:45.27
PRACTICAL ONE; I THINK A
LOT OF PEOPLE ASK THIS QUESTION.
00:40:45.31\00:40:47.94
IT SAYS, 'I'M ON A LIMITED
BUDGET, SHOULD I PAY TITHES AND
00:40:47.98\00:40:51.61
OFFERINGS BEFORE I
PAY MY OTHER BILLS?
00:40:51.65\00:40:54.92
>>GOOD QUESTION. YOU
KNOW, OFTEN CHRISTIANS ARE
00:40:54.95\00:40:59.22
CRITICIZED BY SECULAR PEOPLE;
THEY SAY, 'YOU TELL THESE POOR
00:40:59.25\00:41:02.92
PEOPLE THEY'VE GOT TO GIVE
A TENTH AND THEY BARELY HAVE
00:41:02.96\00:41:05.69
ENOUGH FOR THEMSELVES.
YOU GREEDY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE.'
00:41:05.73\00:41:10.70
YOU KNOW, JESUS SAW A WOMAN
COME INTO THE TEMPLE - RICH
00:41:10.73\00:41:16.20
PEOPLE MADE A BIG SPECTACLE -
THEY'D BLOW THE TRUMPET AND PUT
00:41:16.24\00:41:18.57
A GIFT IN AND
EVERYONE WOULD APPLAUD.
00:41:18.61\00:41:20.71
AND THIS ONE WIDOW CAME UP AND
SHE PUT IN TWO MITES AND THEN
00:41:20.74\00:41:24.65
SHE TRIED TO SNEAK AWAY AND
JESUS SAID TO THE DISCIPLES,
00:41:24.68\00:41:27.18
'YOU SEE THAT WIDOW, SHE JUST
PUT IN MORE THAN EVERYBODY ELSE
00:41:27.22\00:41:30.75
BECAUSE SHE PUT IN EVERYTHING
SHE HAD.' NOW, DID JESUS RUN UP
00:41:30.79\00:41:35.22
TO HER AND SAY, 'DON'T DO THAT,
THAT'S THE DUMBEST THING IN THE
00:41:35.26\00:41:37.39
WORLD YOU COULD DO. YOU
SHOULD AT LEAST KEEP FIFTY
00:41:37.43\00:41:39.16
PERCENT - PUT IN ONE MITE.'
OR DID HE BLESS HER AND COMMEND
00:41:39.19\00:41:43.50
HER FOR HER SACRIFICE?
SO THE QUESTION IS ASKING,
00:41:43.53\00:41:47.54
'SHOULD WE STILL PAY
OUR TITHE - ONE TENTH - WHEN
00:41:47.57\00:41:49.77
WE ARE STRUGGLING? GOD
SAYS, 'PROVE ME AND SEE IF I
00:41:49.80\00:41:53.81
DON'T OPEN FOR YOU THE WINDOWS
OF HEAVEN.' HE DOESN'T SAY
00:41:53.84\00:41:56.48
'PROVE ME IF YOU'VE GOT
EVERYTHING ELSE COVERED.'
00:41:56.51\00:41:59.05
PROVE ME WHEN IT
REALLY IS A SACRIFICE.
00:41:59.08\00:42:02.45
AND I REMEMBER, YEARS AGO, WHEN
I WAS IN THE FIREWOOD BUSINESS
00:42:02.48\00:42:05.32
AND I WOULD WORK ALL DAY AND
GET SIXTY DOLLARS FOR A CORD OF
00:42:05.35\00:42:08.09
WOOD, THEN I HAD TO BUY
GAS FOR MY TRUCK AND MY SAW AND
00:42:08.12\00:42:11.53
GROCERIES AND THERE WASN'T A LOT
LEFT AND I'D SAY, 'SIX DOLLARS
00:42:11.56\00:42:16.60
IS TITHE.' BUT I WOULD
PAY IT. AND, YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:42:16.63\00:42:21.14
HE KEPT
BLESSING. >>THAT'S RIGHT.
00:42:21.17\00:42:23.17
>>AND NOW I'VE GOT THE PROBLEM
WHERE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH
00:42:23.20\00:42:25.17
STORAGE FOR ALL THE
STUFF THAT WE'VE GOT.
00:42:25.21\00:42:27.98
SOME OF YOU HAVE THAT PROBLEM.
>>OKAY, THE NEXT QUESTION THAT
00:42:28.01\00:42:31.85
WE HAVE: 'DOES WANTING TO BE
SUCCESSFUL FINANCIALLY CONFLICT
00:42:31.88\00:42:36.18
WITH THE IDEA OF
NOT LOVING THE WORLD?
00:42:36.22\00:42:40.42
>>WELL, WHAT'S THE OPPOSITE
OF WANTING TO BE SUCCESSFUL
00:42:40.46\00:42:43.66
FINANCIALLY? WANTING
TO BE A FINANCIAL FAILURE?
00:42:43.69\00:42:47.86
IS THERE VIRTUE IN A CHRISTIAN
SAYING, 'I'M A CHRISTIAN.
00:42:47.86\00:42:51.00
I MUST FAIL FINANCIALLY.' SO, IF
YOU'RE GOING TO DECIDE HOW YOU
00:42:51.03\00:42:56.74
WANT YOUR FINANCES TO BE, DO
YOU WANT TO BE A SUCCESS OR A
00:42:56.77\00:43:01.34
FAILURE? NOW,
LOVING MONEY'S A DIFFERENT
00:43:01.38\00:43:03.35
THING, BUT CHRISTIANS
SHOULD - DOESN'T THE BIBLE
00:43:03.38\00:43:05.98
TALK ABOUT INVESTING?
DOESN'T JESUS COMMEND THE
00:43:06.01\00:43:09.35
STEWARDS THAT INVESTED WISELY?
DOESN'T HE CONDEMN THE STEWARD
00:43:09.38\00:43:13.69
THAT DID NOT, AT LEAST, PUT
IT IN THE BANK AND GET INTEREST?
00:43:13.72\00:43:16.99
SO CHRISTIANS
OUGHT TO BE PROSPEROUS.
00:43:17.03\00:43:20.23
I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE LORD
REALLY BLESSED AMERICA BECAUSE
00:43:20.26\00:43:23.77
THE AMERICANS STARTED OUT WITH
A PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC OF BEING
00:43:23.80\00:43:27.77
FRUGAL, SAVING, AND
MAKING WISE INVESTMENTS.
00:43:27.80\00:43:30.71
AND THE COUNTRY, UNDER
THAT ETHIC, WAS BOOMING.
00:43:30.74\00:43:33.84
THE LORD BLESSED THE
JEWISH PEOPLE IN MANY WAYS.
00:43:33.88\00:43:37.08
IN MANY COUNTRIES, WHEREVER
THEY GO - SOME OF THESE BIBLICAL
00:43:37.11\00:43:39.25
PRINCIPLES OF BEING INDUSTRIOUS
AND BEING FRUGAL, THEY PROSPER.
00:43:39.28\00:43:45.49
AND SO, THERE'S NOTHING
WRONG WITH WANTING TO MAKE GOOD
00:43:45.52\00:43:48.19
INVESTMENTS, JUST DON'T
BE STINGY AND HOARD IT ALL.
00:43:48.22\00:43:51.23
YOU SHOULD BE WILLING TO SHARE.
NOT ONLY TITHES AND OFFERINGS,
00:43:51.26\00:43:54.50
BUT WITH THE POOR - BE GENEROUS.
>>THE NEXT QUESTION THAT WE
00:43:54.56\00:43:58.40
HAVE, 'HOW DO I CALCULATE MY
TITHE? IS IT ON MY GROSS OR ON
00:43:58.43\00:44:01.97
MY NET INCOME?
>>DO YOU PAY TITHE ON
00:44:02.00\00:44:05.24
THE NET OR ON THE
GROSS? IT DEPENDS.
00:44:05.27\00:44:07.78
NOW, WHEN YOU GET YOUR PAYCHECK,
DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU WORK,
00:44:07.81\00:44:10.71
THERE ARE DEDUCTIONS THAT
ARE MADE BEFORE YOU EVER GET IT.
00:44:10.75\00:44:13.18
AND THEY MAY
DEDUCT SOCIAL SECURITY.
00:44:13.21\00:44:16.89
YOU CAN CHOOSE FOR YOURSELF.
IF YOU'RE GOING TO LIVE LONG
00:44:16.92\00:44:19.82
ENOUGH TO GET YOUR SOCIAL
SECURITY - IF YOU PAY TITHE ON
00:44:19.85\00:44:22.66
YOUR GROSS WHEN YOU FIRST GET
YOUR CHECK, THEN YOU DON'T HAVE
00:44:22.69\00:44:27.76
TO PAY TITHE ON THE SOCIAL
SECURITY LATER, BECAUSE THEY'RE
00:44:27.76\00:44:30.27
JUST PAYING YOU BACK WHAT
YOU'VE ALREADY PAID TITHE ON.
00:44:30.30\00:44:32.87
DO YOU UNDERSTAND? BUT
WHEN THEY TAKE OUT YOUR
00:44:32.90\00:44:35.17
TAXES, ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO SAY,
'WELL, I'M ONLY SUPPOSED TO PAY
00:44:35.20\00:44:37.34
TITHE ON WHAT I NETTED
AFTER THEY TOOK AWAY MY TAXES.
00:44:37.37\00:44:40.91
TAXES ARE A BILL OF LIFE.
IF YOU SAID, 'I ONLY PAY TITHE
00:44:40.94\00:44:45.35
AFTER I BUY MY GROCERIES'
- WELL, GROCERIES ARE A BILL.
00:44:45.38\00:44:48.55
IF YOU SAY, 'I ONLY PAY TITHE
AFTER I BUY EVERYTHING I WANT.'
00:44:48.58\00:44:51.15
WELL, THERE'S NO TITHE
LEFT. AND SO, YOU SHOULD PAY
00:44:51.19\00:44:55.39
TITHE ON YOUR INCREASE.
YOUR TAXES ARE A BILL THAT EVERY
00:44:55.42\00:44:58.76
CITIZEN PAYS FOR THE ROADS AND
ALL THE WONDERFUL POLITICIANS
00:44:58.79\00:45:03.77
YOU GET AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO, I THINK TAXES IS PART OF
00:45:03.80\00:45:08.24
YOUR INCREASE AND
IT'S A BILL WE ALL PAY.
00:45:08.27\00:45:11.04
>>ALRIGHT, WE'VE GOT
TWO MORE QUESTIONS TO GO.
00:45:11.07\00:45:12.54
>>BY THE WAY, IF YOU'RE
WONDERING, 'DO I NET, GROSS,
00:45:12.57\00:45:15.24
NET' - DO AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AND
YOU'LL FIND YOU CAN'T OUT GIVE
00:45:15.28\00:45:19.25
GOD. DON'T SAY
'HOW LITTLE CAN I DO?'
00:45:19.28\00:45:23.99
DO AS MUCH AS YOU CAN
AND SEE IF GOD BLESSES YOU.
00:45:24.02\00:45:26.49
>>OKAY, NEXT QUESTION - OUR
SECOND TO THE LAST - 'HOW DOES A
00:45:26.52\00:45:29.06
HOTEL OWNER KEEP THE SABBATH?'
>>THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
00:45:29.09\00:45:33.76
AMAZING FACTS ACTUALLY
HAD TO GRAPPLE WITH THAT.
00:45:33.80\00:45:37.53
SOMEBODY, IN THEIR WILL, LEFT
US A THIRD OWNERSHIP IN A HOTEL.
00:45:37.57\00:45:43.00
AND WE SAT DOWN AND WE THOUGHT,
'WELL, THEY'RE OPEN SABBATH -
00:45:43.04\00:45:46.11
THEY'RE MAKING MONEY ON SABBATH.
WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THAT?'
00:45:46.14\00:45:48.21
WE PONDERED THAT AND WE TALKED
TO SOME THEOLOGIANS AND THEY
00:45:48.24\00:45:50.28
SAID, 'DO YOU OWN
CONTROLLING INTEREST?'
00:45:50.31\00:45:52.01
WE SAID, 'NO.' THEY SAID, 'WELL,
THEN YOU'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE.
00:45:52.05\00:45:55.48
THE SABBATH COMMAND SAYS, 'THE
STRANGER WITHIN YOUR GATES' - IN
00:45:55.52\00:45:59.12
OTHER WORDS, IF YOU OWN
THE GATES THEN YOU CONTROL WHAT
00:45:59.15\00:46:01.72
HAPPENS ON SABBATH. FOR
INSTANCE, IF YOU OWN - IF
00:46:01.76\00:46:04.59
YOU HAVE MONEY IN A BANK, DO
YOU KNOW THE BANKS MAY INVEST IN
00:46:04.63\00:46:07.46
HOTELS THAT ARE OPEN ON SABBATH,
BUT YOU DON'T HAVE CONTROLLING
00:46:07.50\00:46:10.27
INTEREST IN THAT -
YOU CAN'T CONTROL THAT.
00:46:10.30\00:46:12.47
AND SO, I DON'T RECOMMEND
THAT SABBATH KEEPERS GO INTO THE
00:46:12.50\00:46:16.30
HOTEL BUSINESS IF YOU'RE
WANTING TO KEEP THE SABBATH.
00:46:16.34\00:46:19.14
THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THERE
AREN'T SABBATH KEEPERS IN THAT
00:46:19.17\00:46:22.08
BUSINESS BUT, YOU KNOW,
YOU MIGHT STRUGGLE WITH THAT.
00:46:22.11\00:46:27.22
OBVIOUSLY, THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT
MIGHT NEED HOTELS ON SABBATH IF
00:46:27.25\00:46:29.82
THEY'RE TRAVELING.
AND SO, THAT IS KIND OF
00:46:29.85\00:46:32.42
AN INTERESTING
QUESTION. I DIDN'T GIVE A VERY
00:46:32.45\00:46:33.76
GOOD ANSWER, DID I?
WELL, I WOULD TRY TO STAY AWAY
00:46:33.79\00:46:37.89
FROM A BUSINESS THAT YOU HAVE
EVERYBODY WORKING ON SABBATH IF
00:46:37.93\00:46:40.66
YOU DON'T HAVE TO
BE IN THAT BUSINESS.
00:46:40.70\00:46:42.63
IF YOU OWN PART INTEREST - A
FRAGMENT OF A HOTEL COMPANY, IT
00:46:42.66\00:46:45.77
DOESN'T MEAN IT'S A SIN OF YOU
DON'T CONTROL WHAT'S - THEY'RE
00:46:45.80\00:46:47.74
DOING. NOTHING UNETHICAL ABOUT
A HOTEL, RIGHT? HOW MANY OF YOU
00:46:47.77\00:46:51.94
STAYED IN HOTELS?
(LAUGHTER) OKAY, HOW MANY OF
00:46:51.97\00:46:55.01
YOU HAVE STAYED IN
A HOTEL ON A SABBATH?
00:46:55.04\00:46:59.18
>>OKAY, OUR FINAL QUESTION
THEN, 'WITH SO MANY NEEDS IN THE
00:46:59.21\00:47:02.98
WORLD, DOES MY GIFT
REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
00:47:03.02\00:47:06.79
>>YES. THINK
ABOUT THAT WIDOW WE JUST
00:47:06.82\00:47:09.72
TALKED ABOUT, WHO
GAVE HER TWO MITES.
00:47:09.76\00:47:12.26
HOW MUCH MONEY HAS COME INTO THE
TREASURY OF GOD, BECAUSE OF HER
00:47:12.29\00:47:17.53
EXAMPLE, OVER THE
LASTS TWO THOUSAND YEARS?
00:47:17.57\00:47:20.77
BILLIONS - I'LL BE YOU - EASILY
BILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
00:47:20.80\00:47:25.61
INSPIRED BY THE FAITHFULNESS
OF THAT UNNAMED WIDOW - WE DON'T
00:47:25.64\00:47:29.48
EVEN KNOW HER NAME - WHO SAID,
'YOU KNOW, I LOVE GOD AND I WANT
00:47:29.51\00:47:33.28
TO GIVE EVERYTHING.' AND,
BECAUSE OF WHAT SHE DID, SO MANY
00:47:33.31\00:47:38.09
- A RIVER OF FUNDS HAVE
FLOWED INTO THE TREASURY.
00:47:38.12\00:47:41.86
SO, HE THAT IS FAITHFUL IN THAT
WHICH IS LEAST IS FAITHFUL ALSO
00:47:41.89\00:47:44.99
IN MUCH. YOU BE
FAITHFUL WITH THE LITTLE
00:47:45.03\00:47:46.36
YOU HAVE AND GOD
WILL BLESS THE REST, AMEN?
00:47:46.39\00:47:48.66
>>AMEN. >>ALRIGHT,
PASTOR ROSS, I THINK
00:47:48.70\00:47:50.43
- DO I HAVE TIME TO
FINISH A COUPLE POINTS?
00:47:50.47\00:47:51.43
>>YOU'VE GOT, YEP,
FIVE MINUTES TO FINISH UP.
00:47:51.47\00:47:52.67
>>I WANT TO SEE IF I CAN COVER A
COUPLE MORE POINTS IN OUR LESSON
00:47:52.70\00:47:55.80
HERE THAT WE WERE
JUST TALKING ABOUT.
00:47:55.84\00:47:57.81
SO WE TALKED ABOUT LOVE FOR SELF
AND WHERE DOES SELFISHNESS OR
00:47:57.84\00:48:02.34
SELF-LOVE ORIGINATE? >>SATAN.
00:48:02.38\00:48:05.25
>>THE DEVIL. HE SAID, 'I
WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.'
00:48:05.28\00:48:09.68
'YOUR HEART WAS LIFTED
UP BECAUSE OF YOUR BEAUTY.
00:48:09.72\00:48:12.59
YOU CORRUPTED YOUR WISDOM
BY REASON OF YOUR SPLENDOR.' IT
00:48:12.62\00:48:16.09
SAYS, 'EVERY PRECIOUS
STONE WAS YOUR COVERING.'
00:48:16.12\00:48:17.96
HE WAS REALLY INTO THE CHRISTIAN
JEWELRY BACK THEN - LUCIFER -
00:48:17.99\00:48:23.13
THE ULTIMATE
FUTILITY OF MATERIALISM.
00:48:23.16\00:48:26.70
JOSHUA 7:21 - YOU REMEMBER
WHEN ACHAN - HE COVETED.
00:48:26.74\00:48:31.87
HE SAW, AMONG THE SPOILS OF
JERICHO, A BABYLONIAN GARMENT
00:48:31.91\00:48:35.51
AND 200 SHEKELS OF SILVER AND
A WEDGE OF GOLD WEIGHING FIFTY
00:48:35.54\00:48:38.35
SHEKELS - IT SAYS, "I
COVETED THEM AND TOOK THEM.
00:48:38.38\00:48:41.52
AND THERE THEY ARE, HIDDEN
IN THE EARTH IN THE MIDST OF MY
00:48:41.55\00:48:43.79
TENT, WITH THE SILVER..."
- WHAT HAPPENED TO ACHAN?
00:48:43.82\00:48:46.35
DID HE BENEFIT FROM THAT
COVETOUSNESS OR DID IT END UP
00:48:46.39\00:48:49.69
BEING - IT DESTROYED
HIM. HE HAD TO HAVE IT.
00:48:49.72\00:48:53.96
YOU EVER FEEL 'I'VE GOT TO
HAVE IT'? AND EVEN THOUGH HE WAS
00:48:54.00\00:48:56.60
COMMANDED NOT TO TOUCH IT -
PEOPLE WHO SAY, 'I'M GETTING
00:48:56.63\00:48:59.37
AHEAD BY KEEPING THE
TITHE' - DO THEY GET AHEAD?
00:48:59.40\00:49:02.70
OR DOES GOD SAY, IN MALACHI, 'IF
WE ROB GOD, GOD WITHDRAWS HIS
00:49:02.74\00:49:08.34
BLESSING AND THE LOCUSTS DEVOUR
WHAT YOU HAVE AND THIEVES BREAK
00:49:08.38\00:49:13.35
THROUGH AND STEAL' - AND
THERE'S ALL KINDS OF PLAGUES.
00:49:13.38\00:49:16.79
WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE
FAITHFUL, DID THEIR SHOES LAST
00:49:16.82\00:49:19.15
LONGER? >>YES.
00:49:19.19\00:49:20.76
>>DID THEIR
CLOTHES LAST LONGER? >>YES.
00:49:20.79\00:49:23.73
>>I WAS JUST TALKING TO A
BROTHER THIS WEEK AND I SAID,
00:49:23.76\00:49:27.60
'YOU KNOW, I'VE JUST FOUND, OVER
TIME, THAT THE LORD SEEMS TO
00:49:27.66\00:49:30.67
BLESS.' KAREN AND I HAD A
REFRIGERATOR THAT WE BOUGHT WITH
00:49:30.70\00:49:35.80
OUR HOUSE, AND IT LASTED - WE
DON'T KNOW, IT MAY HAVE BEEN IN
00:49:35.84\00:49:39.97
THE HOUSE 20 YEARS BEFORE WE
BOUGHT IT AND IT LASTED THE 20
00:49:40.01\00:49:42.11
YEARS WE HAD THE HOUSE.
AND, YOU KNOW, GOD SOMETIMES
00:49:42.14\00:49:45.41
JUST MAKES YOUR THINGS LAST.
MATTER OF FACT, OUR REFRIG UP
00:49:45.45\00:49:48.25
IN COVELO, IT'S 30 YEARS OLD.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, GOD SOMETIMES
00:49:48.28\00:49:52.75
JUST BLESSES YOUR STUFF.
HE SAYS, 'I'LL REBUKE THE
00:49:52.79\00:49:56.56
DEVOURER FOR YOUR SAKES.'
MAKING THINGS LAST LONGER.
00:49:56.59\00:50:00.76
HAVE WE LEARNED YOU CAN
LOSE EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE?
00:50:00.80\00:50:04.07
DID THAT HAPPEN TO JOB?
WHAT WAS JOB'S RESPONSE?
00:50:04.10\00:50:07.60
GO TO JOB 1, VERSE 20, "THEN
JOB AROSE AND TORE HIS ROBE, AND
00:50:07.64\00:50:11.71
SHAVED HIS HEAD;" - AFTER HE
LOST EVERYTHING - "AND HE FELL
00:50:11.74\00:50:14.24
TO THE GROUND AND WORSHIPPED,
AND HE SAID: 'NAKED I CAME FROM
00:50:14.28\00:50:17.55
MY MOTHER'S WOMB, AND
NAKED SHALL I RETURN THERE.
00:50:17.58\00:50:20.85
THE LORD GAVE, AND THE LORD HAS
TAKEN AWAY; BLESSED BE THE NAME
00:50:20.88\00:50:25.02
OF THE LORD.'" YOU COULD LOSE
EVERYTHING AND STILL BLESS GOD.
00:50:25.05\00:50:28.76
SOLOMON SAYS THE SAME THING.
NOW SOLOMON KNEW ABOUT STUFF.
00:50:28.79\00:50:32.33
HE SAID, IN ECCLESIASTES 5:14,
"BUT THOSE RICHES PERISH THROUGH
00:50:32.36\00:50:38.30
MISFORTUNE; WHEN HE BEGETS
A SON, THERE IS NOTHING IN HIS
00:50:38.33\00:50:41.40
HAND. AS HE CAME
FROM HIS MOTHER'S
00:50:41.44\00:50:43.30
WOMB, NAKED SHALL HE RETURN, TO
GO AS HE CAME; AND HE SHALL TAKE
00:50:43.34\00:50:48.11
NOTHING FROM HIS LABOR"
- YOU NEVER SEE A HEARSE
00:50:48.14\00:50:53.05
PULLING A U-HAUL,
DO YOU? NOT VERY OFTEN.
00:50:53.08\00:50:56.99
YOU CANNOT TAKE IT WITH YOU.
JOB 31, VERSE 24, HE ALSO SAYS
00:50:57.02\00:51:02.12
THERE - NOW SOMEONE'S GOING
TO READ, FOR ME, IN A MOMENT 1
00:51:02.16\00:51:04.79
PETER 2:9 - IN JOB 31:24 HE
SAYS, "IF I HAVE MADE GOLD MY
00:51:04.83\00:51:11.23
HOPE, OR SAID TO FINE GOLD, 'YOU
ARE MY CONFIDENCE'; IF I HAVE
00:51:11.27\00:51:15.00
REJOICED BECAUSE MY WEALTH WAS
GREAT, AND BECAUSE MY HAND HAD
00:51:15.04\00:51:18.74
GAINED MUCH...THIS ALSO WOULD
BE AN INIQUITY DESERVING OF
00:51:18.77\00:51:22.38
JUDGMENT, FOR I WOULD
HAVE DENIED GOD WHO IS ABOVE."
00:51:22.41\00:51:25.38
NOW JOB WAS VERY RICH, BUT
HE SAID, 'GOLD IS NOT MY HOPE.
00:51:25.41\00:51:29.52
I'VE NOT REJOICED BECAUSE MY
WEALTH WAS GREAT.' HIS HAPPINESS
00:51:29.55\00:51:33.99
DID NOT COME BECAUSE OF
THE ABUNDANCE OF THINGS.
00:51:34.02\00:51:37.53
GO AHEAD, READ, FOR
US, 1 PETER 2:9, PLEASE.
00:51:37.56\00:51:41.00
>>"BUT YOU ARE A CHOSEN
GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD,
00:51:41.03\00:51:44.57
A HOLY NATION, HIS OWN SPECIAL
PEOPLE, THAT YOU MAY PROCLAIM
00:51:44.60\00:51:48.64
THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO CALLED
YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS
00:51:48.67\00:51:52.04
MARVELOUS LIGHT;"
>>AMEN. YOU KNOW THE PRIESTS
00:51:52.07\00:51:55.18
BACK IN BIBLE
TIMES, THEY WERE TO LIVE
00:51:55.21\00:51:57.91
OF THE OFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE.
THEY DID NOT GET A POSSESSION
00:51:57.95\00:52:01.05
IN THE PROMISED
LAND. DID YOU KNOW THAT?
00:52:01.08\00:52:03.62
THE OTHER TWELVE TRIBES - THE
PRIESTS WERE REALLY A THIRTEENTH
00:52:03.65\00:52:08.12
TRIBE, YOU MIGHT SAY -
THE LEVITES - THE OTHER TWELVE
00:52:08.16\00:52:10.79
TRIBES, THEY ALL
GOT A CERTAIN TERRITORY.
00:52:10.83\00:52:12.73
THE PRIESTS, THEY WERE GIVEN
SOME SUBURBS TO LIVE IN, BUT
00:52:12.76\00:52:15.13
THEY DID NOT GET AN INHERITANCE
BECAUSE THEY WERE TO CONSIDER
00:52:15.16\00:52:17.87
THEMSELVES PILGRIMS AMONG THE
TRIBES TO GO AND TO MINISTER -
00:52:17.90\00:52:21.44
TO SCATTER LIKE SALT AMONG
THE OTHER TRIBES AND SERVE THEM.
00:52:21.47\00:52:25.34
PETER, QUOTING MOSES IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT, LET ME TELL YOU WHAT
00:52:25.37\00:52:29.14
PETER'S QUOTING: DEUTERONOMY
7, VERSE 6, "FOR YOU ARE A HOLY
00:52:29.18\00:52:33.38
PEOPLE TO THE LORD YOUR GOD; THE
LORD YOUR GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU TO
00:52:33.42\00:52:36.25
BE A PEOPLE FOR HIMSELF, A
SPECIAL TREASURE ABOVE ALL THE
00:52:36.28\00:52:38.02
PEOPLES" - HE SAYS WE'RE TO BE
A NATION OF KINGS AND PRIESTS.
00:52:38.05\00:52:41.66
AND SO THE IDEA IS THAT WE
ARE PILGRIMS AND STRANGERS.
00:52:41.69\00:52:45.99
WE DO NEED THINGS - AND
THE PRIESTS DID GET GIFTS AND
00:52:46.03\00:52:48.60
SACRIFICES FROM THE TEMPLE
- FOR THE PURPOSE OF MINISTRY.
00:52:48.63\00:52:52.87
AND, WHENEVER THE PEOPLE STOPPED
PAYING TITHE, THE PRIESTS WOULD
00:52:52.90\00:52:55.74
GO BACK TO THEIR FIELDS AND
THE MINISTRY STOPPED HAPPENING.
00:52:55.77\00:52:59.21
DURING TIMES OF GREAT PROSPERITY
AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE, THE KINGS
00:52:59.24\00:53:02.74
WOULD MAKE SURE THAT THE PRIESTS
WERE OUT SERVING AS - THEY WERE
00:53:02.78\00:53:05.78
THE DOCTORS, THEY WERE THE
JUDGES, THEY WERE THE TEACHERS -
00:53:05.81\00:53:11.35
THE PRIESTS WOULD TEACH THE
CHILDREN TO READ, AND THEY WERE
00:53:11.39\00:53:14.86
THE MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL.
AND SO, REAL HAPPINESS IS GOING
00:53:14.89\00:53:22.20
TO COME FROM, OF COURSE,
A CONNECTION WITH CHRIST.
00:53:22.23\00:53:24.13
I WANT TO READ A BOOK - A QUOTE,
RATHER, FROM THE BOOK DESIRE OF
00:53:24.17\00:53:26.43
AGES P. 668, "ALL TRUE
OBEDIENCE COMES FROM THE HEART.
00:53:26.47\00:53:32.17
IT WAS THE HEART WORK WITH
CHRIST AND IF WE CONSENT, HE
00:53:32.21\00:53:36.51
WILL IDENTIFY HIMSELF WITH
OUR THOUGHTS AND OUR AIMS AND SO
00:53:36.54\00:53:39.15
BLEND OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS
INTO CONFORMITY TO HIS WILL
00:53:39.18\00:53:42.98
THAT, WHEN OBEYING HIM, WE'LL
BE BUT CARRYING OUT OUR OWN
00:53:43.02\00:53:46.59
IMPULSES."
WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO BE SO
00:53:46.62\00:53:48.19
CONVERTED THAT WHEN YOU OBEY
CHRIST YOU'RE REALLY CARRYING
00:53:48.22\00:53:50.76
OUT THE IMPULSES IN YOUR HEART
BECAUSE HE'S CHANGED YOUR HEART?
00:53:50.79\00:53:53.76
SO OUR HEARTS ARE NOT FILLED
WITH SELFISHNESS, THEY'RE FILLED
00:53:53.80\00:53:56.20
WITH GOD AND HIS WORK.
WELL, FRIENDS, WE ARE OUT
00:53:56.23\00:53:59.30
OF TIME FOR TODAY'S LESSON.
I ENJOYED KIND OF INTERACTING
00:53:59.33\00:54:02.47
WITH THE PEOPLE
WHO ARE WATCHING.
00:54:02.50\00:54:04.11
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THOUSANDS
WATCHING EACH WEEK AND WE LIKE
00:54:04.14\00:54:06.47
TO INVOLVE THEM.
WE HAVE A FREE OFFER.
00:54:06.51\00:54:08.54
I WANT TO REMIND YOU,
IT'S CALLED CULTURE AND THE
00:54:08.58\00:54:10.35
CHRISTIAN AND, IF YOU SIMPLY
CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN -
00:54:10.38\00:54:13.31
ASK FOR OFFER
#143 - THAT NUMBER:
00:54:13.35\00:54:16.22
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TO YOU FOR FREE AND PRAY THAT
00:54:16.25\00:54:22.59
YOU READ IT AND THEN
SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND.
00:54:22.62\00:54:24.36
GOD BLESS YOU. WE LOOK
FORWARD TO STUDYING HIS
00:54:24.39\00:54:27.03
WORD TOGETHER WITH
YOU NEXT WEEK. (MUSIC)
00:54:27.03\00:54:41.48
>>EVERY NOW AND THEN, IN
THE PANORAMA OF HISTORY, WE HEAR
00:54:41.51\00:54:43.75
ABOUT INDIVIDUALS THAT GO FROM
THE LOWEST DEPTHS TO THE HIGHEST
00:54:43.78\00:54:47.22
PINNACLES. THEY
EMERGE FROM THE SHACKLES
00:54:47.25\00:54:49.42
OF PRISON TO LEAD
AND INSPIRE A NATION.
00:54:49.45\00:54:53.99
TAKE JOSEPH, FOR INSTANCE: HE'S
SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS AS A SLAVE,
00:54:54.02\00:54:57.63
THEN FALSELY ACCUSED
AND THRUST INTO PRISON.
00:54:57.66\00:55:00.63
YET, THROUGH A SERIES OF DIVINE
CIRCUMSTANCES, HE MIRACULOUSLY
00:55:00.66\00:55:03.73
GOES FROM THE PRISON TO THE
PALACE, RULING THE ONES WHO ONCE
00:55:03.77\00:55:07.24
IMPRISONED HIM.
SOUND FAR-FETCHED?
00:55:07.27\00:55:09.94
IT'S HAPPENED IN
HISTORY MORE THAN YOU THINK.
00:55:09.97\00:55:12.67
SOUTH AFRICA IS THE
HOME OF JUST SUCH A LEADER.
00:55:12.71\00:55:15.94
NELSON MANDELA WORKED TIRELESSLY
TO ESTABLISH PEACE AND FREEDOM
00:55:15.98\00:55:19.68
IN HIS COUNTRY AND HIS INFLUENCE
WAS FELT AROUND THE WORLD.
00:55:19.71\00:55:24.55
BEFORE FREEDOM,
THERE MUST BE FORGIVENESS.
00:55:24.59\00:55:26.99
LIKE JOSEPH, WHO WAS UNJUSTLY
ACCUSED OF A CRIME HE DID NOT
00:55:27.02\00:55:29.92
COMMIT, NELSON MANDELA
WAS ACCUSED OF TERRORISM AND
00:55:29.96\00:55:33.16
SENTENCED TO LIFE IN
PRISON ON ROBIN ISLAND.
00:55:33.19\00:55:36.16
HE WAS OFTEN EXPOSED TO
CRUEL PUNISHMENT AND ABUSE.
00:55:36.20\00:55:39.10
BUT EVEN IN THE MIDST
OF APPARENT FAILURE AND
00:55:39.13\00:55:41.00
DISCOURAGEMENT, HE NEVER
LOST HEART AND HE NEVER GAVE UP.
00:55:41.04\00:55:44.24
AFTER YEARS IN PRISON, A GROWING
NUMBER OF SUPPORTERS RALLIED FOR
00:55:44.27\00:55:48.01
HIS RELEASE AND
EVENTUALLY IT TOOK PLACE.
00:55:48.04\00:55:50.88
AND GOD USED HIM SO THAT HE
WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING TO
00:55:50.91\00:55:53.45
ABOLISH RACIAL SEGREGATION
IN THE COUNTRY OF SOUTH AFRICA.
00:55:53.48\00:55:57.42
INCREDIBLY, HE NOW WAS,
VIRTUALLY, THE ABSOLUTE LEADER
00:55:57.45\00:56:00.99
IN THE COUNTRY
THAT HAD IMPRISONED HIM.
00:56:01.02\00:56:03.16
HE HAD ALL THE TOOLS AND
THE POWER AT HIS DISPOSAL TO GET
00:56:03.19\00:56:05.96
EVEN WITH THE PRISON GUARDS AND
OTHERS THAT HAD MISTREATED HIM.
00:56:05.99\00:56:09.36
INSTEAD, MANDELA
CHOSE FORGIVENESS.
00:56:09.40\00:56:12.23
IT REMINDS ME OF THAT VERSE IN
THE BIBLE IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER
00:56:12.27\00:56:14.94
4, VERSE 32, "LET ALL
BITTERNESS, WRATH, ANGER,
00:56:14.97\00:56:18.87
CLAMOR, AND EVIL SPEAKING BE PUT
AWAY FROM YOU, WITH ALL MALICE.
00:56:18.91\00:56:22.91
AND BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER,
TENDERHEARTED, FORGIVING ONE
00:56:22.94\00:56:26.82
ANOTHER, EVEN AS GOD
IN CHRIST FORGAVE YOU."
00:56:26.85\00:56:31.25
I'M SO THANKFUL THAT NELSON
MANDELA, LIKE JOSEPH, CHOSE TO
00:56:31.29\00:56:34.62
FORGIVE THOSE WHO WERE ONCE HIS
ENEMIES, AND TO SERVE HIS NATION
00:56:34.66\00:56:37.73
WITH LOVE AND COURAGE.
YOU CAN FIND A NUMBER OF
00:56:37.76\00:56:40.40
EXAMPLES OF THIS
HAPPENING IN THE BIBLE.
00:56:40.43\00:56:42.76
YOU HAVE DANIEL, WHO WAS A
CAPTIVE FROM THE LAND OF JUDAH,
00:56:42.80\00:56:45.70
AND YET GOD ARRANGED THINGS
WHERE HE BECOMES THE PRIME
00:56:45.73\00:56:47.80
MINISTER IN THE
KINGDOM OF BABYLON.
00:56:47.84\00:56:49.94
YOU HAVE ESTHER, WHO WAS A POOR
ORPHAN GIRL IN PERSIA, AND YET
00:56:49.97\00:56:53.74
GOD WORKED THINGS OUT WHERE
SHE BECOMES THE QUEEN OF THAT
00:56:53.78\00:56:55.91
COUNTRY. THE BOOK
OF JEREMIAH ENDS WITH
00:56:55.94\00:56:58.55
AN INCREDIBLE STORY OF A YOUNG
KING NAMED JEHOIACHIN, WHO WAS
00:56:58.58\00:57:02.45
IN A BABYLONIAN DUNGEON
FOR 37 YEARS AND THEN KING
00:57:02.48\00:57:05.82
EVIL-MEREDOCH HAS MERCY ON HIM
AND HE HAD A NEW STATUS, GOING
00:57:05.85\00:57:09.39
FROM THE PRISON TO THE PALACE.
THIS IS WHAT THE LORD WANTS TO
00:57:09.42\00:57:12.39
DO FOR YOU AND ME, FRIENDS.
HE GIVES YOU THE BREAD OF LIFE.
00:57:12.43\00:57:15.06
HE GIVES YOU THE ROBE
OF JESUS' RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:57:15.10\00:57:17.30
HE GIVES YOU A
SEAT AT HIS TABLE.
00:57:17.33\00:57:19.10
IF YOU ACCEPT HIS FORGIVENESS
AND YOU'RE WILLING TO PASS IT
00:57:19.13\00:57:21.74
ON, YOU AND I CAN
LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST.
00:57:21.77\00:57:24.64
WOULDN'T YOU LIKE
THAT EXPERIENCE? (MUSIC)
00:57:24.67\00:57:34.32
>>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S
NOT ALWAYS EASY TO UNDERSTAND
00:57:34.35\00:57:36.89
EVERYTHING YOU
READ IN THE BIBLE.
00:57:36.92\00:57:38.99
WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS
CONTAINED IN 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE
00:57:39.02\00:57:43.16
CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
TO GET BIBLICAL STRAIGHTFORWARD
00:57:43.19\00:57:46.70
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00:57:50.37\00:57:53.70
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