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We're talking about tithing. It's the fourth in a series. That is very important.

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It are giving effects all of our life. So I don't want to dwell on that too much

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because it's repetitive, but I want to keep repeating it because what we repeat, we remember.

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One of the things that many Christians don't understand, and this is some review from last week,

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is God uses money or worldly wealth as a test of our heart. Many Christians think,

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well it's just my choice if I should or I shouldn't do or don't or whatever.

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No, actually God is watching to see those two items. He's testing our heart.

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Now, something happened last Sunday that, again, we got a couple of hiccups

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and I don't know if we need to turn our computer into a football and just boot it to the wind

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and get a new one or what, but we dropped audio for about five minutes.

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So if any of you watch the service or the live stream, you folks watching the live stream especially,

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there was like five and a half minutes. There was no audio. There was picture, but there was no audio.

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So I want to go back and just recover a couple of things I said because people have been asking,

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well what did you say during that time? So it's like, okay, so let me go back and I'll hit it more briefly.

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But I had just finished the story of the guy who had confronted me about owning ATVs

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and yet he smoked two packs of cigarettes a day and his wife about one.

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And I was comparing costs there and how that over their lifetime from age 20 to retirement 65

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and that wasn't their whole lifetime, but I just took those years.

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How much they had been spending on smoking, but yet they didn't think it was right for me

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who does not smoke to be able to afford an ATV.

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So we had just talked about that and then we lost sound and we missed the next application

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which I want to point this out because many times we don't understand it's the small things

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that over time accumulate and we're not paying attention to the accumulation.

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Life is an accumulation process, either for good or bad. It can go either way.

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But something, you know, when I was growing up the big thing was smoking.

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Now the big thing is not smoking. The big thing now on a daily basis is coffee, coffee.

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So I took one while I was talking and there was no sound.

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I took the smoking principle and I applied it to coffee every day.

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So now just think about this. I want you to understand because there's...

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It is, I will admit this according to statistics, it's more difficult for the generation coming into adulthood now

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to be financially solvent than it was for mine.

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And it was more difficult for us than it was for my parents

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because of the way the government likes to keep us slaves. Let me just say it that way.

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However, there are some decisions that can be made to help remedy some of that.

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Like for instance, if you spend $5 a day on coffee, if you Starbucks, Caribou, whatever

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and you usually can't get in there and out for $5, but if you do it one time a day

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and some people do it two times, I've had people say, well, you know, like I said last Sunday

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I don't want to go to work so I got to grab my coffee to get going.

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And at the end of the day I feel so good I'm done with work, I got to grab a coffee

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as a reward on the way home. It's like, okay, so now you're up to two.

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But let's just go with one. If you do it and your wife does it, that's $10 a day.

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It doesn't sound like much. Over 45 years, you have any idea what you're going to spend on coffee?

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$3,650 a year if both are drinking $1, $5 coffee a day.

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You're spending $3,600 a year. In 10 years, that's $36,500.

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In 40 years, that's $146,000. If you start at 20 and end at when you're 65,

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it's $164,000 you gave to Caribou or Starbucks.

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See, it might seem small, but it's that repetitive.

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The first church I was at, I had told you this before, the guy who invented the barn cleaner

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and so he would talk to me about his business and so I'd ask him things,

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well, how much are you making off of an item and how does it work and et cetera?

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Because I was young, I didn't understand business, so he'd explain it all.

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And he said, I'd much rather be in the grocery business. I said, really?

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He said, yeah, the whole key to business is you make a little bit off each item

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and the key is to sell a lot of items. He said, I sell a few things

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and he was very well to do. He said, but become paired to a grocery store

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that might make ten cents off of an item, but sell thousands of them.

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He said it accumulates way faster.

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Well, that works on the positive, but it also works on the negative.

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Affordability is tied to what we spend our money on.

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You can have all the money in the world and find a way to waste it.

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It's what we spend it on and you can be a tither and God can be blessing you

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and you're still broke.

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Not because you don't have the income, but because you're not watching the outgoal.

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Where it's going to.

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So you've got 164,000 being spent on coffee.

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There's something else that's new that just, I know it's part of our world now,

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it's part of our culture, but just grinds on me.

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It's subscriptions. Subscriptions.

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What a stink and waste of money.

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Every month.

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And if you're not careful, it'll be hundreds of dollars a month

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going out on subscriptions.

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How in the world is this worth a thousand bucks every few years?

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We had one hanging on the wall that is still hanging on the wall in my parents' house.

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They got it when I was in grade school.

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It still works fine.

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And we're so much more technological and we can't figure out how to make these last.

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That's a game.

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They're made to break.

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They're made to break.

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So in the whole process of, well, God wants to bless me.

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He does.

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But there is another side of the coin.

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God also wants you to watch how you spend your money.

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There is another side to it.

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And this I touched last Sunday during that part.

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Just a reminder, if God would ask you for some of your money,

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would you give it to him?

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See, it's a trick question.

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If God would ask you for some of your money, would you give it to him?

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It's not our money.

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And I went through the list.

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I won't do it this morning because I got other things I want to cover.

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But I went through the list of everything that God considers his.

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It's not ours. Money's not ours.

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Our home is not ours.

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Our clothes are not ours.

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Everything is God's.

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And He's given it to us to use, and we need to steward it.

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So when He asks for something, He's asking for what is already His.

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And He names a number of things.

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Scripture, the tithe, the world and everything in it,

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silver and gold, the heavens, the secret things, the mountain peaks.

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I mean, there's some things that are just specifically named.

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But when He said the world and everything in it is mine,

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well, that kind of covers everything else.

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It's not ours.

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So it's like when God asks you for it, in covenant,

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we don't have a right to say no,

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because it's actually His and we're exchanging with Him.

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So I hit this, I believe, while the quiet part was

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and then it came on after this.

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So how do we view money?

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How do we view wealth?

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Here's three questions to help us answer that.

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Coming from the concept of we're stewards, it all belongs to God.

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And He's asking us to take care of it and oversee it

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and work with it in that whole process.

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How do we view it?

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Well, when you buy something, especially something a little larger,

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do you get God's permission to spend the money on that?

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Did you ask God, should I buy this?

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Because you're not spending your money, you're spending His.

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But see, that helps us understand how we're looking at it.

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Is this mine or is this His?

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When we break something that He did say,

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yeah, go ahead and go ahead and buy that car.

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And then we get careless, sloppy, whatever.

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And we pile it into the ditch and we ruin it.

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Do we ever apologize to Him and say,

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sorry, God, I messed up.

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Sorry, I broke your car.

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See, I just asked these questions to point out

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the average American does not look at money as being

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or finances or buildings or property or anything as being God's.

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We actually look at it as being ours.

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And that's unscriptural.

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But it's our society.

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We make a bad decision with money. Do we apologize?

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We're playing stock market or whatever.

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We're trying to earn some money there.

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We make some bad decisions. We lose money.

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Do we ever say, God, sorry, I missed that one.

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Or when we make money, God, thank you for helping me make that good decision.

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See, these are all whose money is this?

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Whose finances is this? Whose house really is it?

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If our attitude is right, and that's what we're going to talk about this morning,

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is the attitude of how we're supposed to view this.

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But if our attitude is right, our whole approach is, this is not mine.

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This is God's. And someday I will answer for how I took care of it.

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If he can't trust me with worldly wealth, isn't that what he said?

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Why would he trust me with worldly wealth? Because it's his.

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Not ours. If we can't be trusted with worldly wealth, how can he trust us with true riches?

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So it's, it's, I know we're, we're in a series where the Americans come from the perspective of

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show us how God just wants to give us more, more, more, more.

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Well, there is a part to this whole thing in Scripture where God wants our attitude right.

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So I thought, well, before we're totally done with this, we need to talk about this.

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So I think that was the end of, of where it, where it came, when the sound came back

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and then from there you got it. So that filled that in.

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I want to have, and you can get the video clips ready.

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The, the, we've got two video clips, a short one, they're going to show that first.

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And then there's one like two and a half minutes.

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And I want to show something here because I've had so many people come to me and say,

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Andrew Womack does not believe in tithing.

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Andrew Womack says we don't have to tithe.

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Andrew Womack, Andrew Womack.

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Okay. Now, number one, last I checked, Andrew Womack's not God.

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Do you know that he could actually be wrong?

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Number two. Oh, okay. So, but he has such a large ministry.

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If you're going to go by large ministry for the confirmation that they're right,

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we really need to quit Christianity and get on the Muslim side.

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Because they're doing a lot better.

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When they set up mosques, they put hundreds of millions into them.

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So, if bigger is better, we're on the wrong side.

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Now, let me just point this out.

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To God, bigger is never better in Scripture.

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How many spies went into the Promised Land?

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The bigger number was the wrong number.

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How many troops were going to go with Gideon to take down the Philistines?

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Anybody remember?

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Around 30,000.

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And God didn't like that.

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Bigger's not better.

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We got to get this down to 300.

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But for whatever reason, again, I don't know if it's a worldwide thing or an American thing,

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we think bigger proves it's better.

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Okay? That doesn't mean nothing to God.

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Nothing.

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And number two, for those of you that say,

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well, Andrew Womack doesn't believe in tithing,

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it's amazing to me how people hear what they want to hear.

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That is not true.

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And I thought, well, I'm going to lay this thing to rest,

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because apparently there's Andrew Womack followers in Minnesota.

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And they're not liking what I'm saying.

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So let's play these two short videos.

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Pay attention to what the man actually has to say.

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I'll let him speak for himself.

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The tithe was not just Old Testament.

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The tithe was in place before the Old Testament law, Genesis chapter 14.

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But the law placed a curse on you,

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punishment on you if you didn't tithe.

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But in the New Covenant, we are redeemed from the curse.

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Galatians chapter three, let me turn over here and read this.

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Galatians chapter three, and in verse 13,

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Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,

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being made a curse for us for it is written,

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cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree,

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that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ

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that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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We are redeemed from the curse.

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There's all kinds of curses that were given

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under the Old Testament law, but Malachi chapter three,

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verse eight is a curse of the Old Testament law.

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You're redeemed from that.

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You are not cursed if you don't tithe or give offerings.

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Christ redeemed us from the curse.

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Does this mean that we no longer tithe and give offerings?

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Wait, you aren't cursed anymore if you don't do it.

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You're just stupid.

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You're just stupid if you don't tithe and give offerings.

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But you aren't cursed, stupid.

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God's not mad at you.

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You're free to not do it, but God gives us all of these things.

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Everything that we have comes from God,

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and it's just like if somebody gave you all of this seed

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and you can plant this seed and you could get a harvest

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and then go sell it and become a millionaire off of it.

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But if you eat all of that seed and never plant any of it,

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you're going to be hungry in the future.

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You need to use enough discipline

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to take a portion of what you get and plant it

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and prepare for your future.

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God gives us all of these resources

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and you still should be tithing

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and you still should be giving,

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even though you aren't cursed,

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even though the motivation has changed.

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Okay, so while they prepare the second one,

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let me say this. I agree with everything you said.

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I've said it over and over.

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We're not under a curse if we don't tithe.

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However, tithing brings the blessing.

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Amen.

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So if you don't...

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It's like...

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I won't go side-track.

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If you don't tithe,

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you're just losing out on the blessing.

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So when you don't have enough money, quit whining

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because you made that choice.

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You chose not to

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get in on the blessing.

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But I agree with everything he said.

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Now the next video clip, he's going to say

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what I've said about the exchange

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and the tithe is the exchange

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for the covenant with Abraham

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that was set up and so forth.

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He's going to come from a little bit different direction

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but he's saying the exact same thing.

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Go ahead with that one.

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You don't give to get,

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but when you give, you need to believe

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that you are going to get it back

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so that you can continue to give

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and even give more.

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So there is a balance here

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and even though I have spent four and a half weeks

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or so just emphasizing

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the proper motivation

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in trying to discredit

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or not discredit but

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devalue

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the personal benefit that giving does to you

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you also need to know

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that it will bless you and benefit you.

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Let me use some scriptures here

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in Proverbs chapter 3

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and I want to

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get down to verse 9 and 10

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but let me start in verse 5.

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This is a verse that we often use

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and totally disconnected

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from finances but in context

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it's also applying to

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finances. It says in Proverbs 3

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5, trust in the Lord with all

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thine heart and lean not

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unto thine own understanding in all

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thy ways acknowledge him and he

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shall direct thy paths.

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And see we use those verses and talk about

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finding the will of God, going into what

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vocation, what mate you're going to get

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your just daily decisions

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you just trust in the Lord.

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But if you continue reading in verse 7

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it says be not wise in thine own eyes

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fear the Lord and depart from evil

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so shall it be health to thy navel

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and moral to thy bones. And then in verse

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9 he says honor the Lord with all

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thy substance and with

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the first fruits of all thine

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increase so shall thy barns be filled

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with plenty and thy presses

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shall burst out with new wine.

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Did you know that that's

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in the same context as trust in the

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Lord with all the heart and lean not

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unto your own understanding?

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You know I'm saying this in love

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but there's people watching this program

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that you say you love God

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and I'm not saying that you don't

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but I'm saying your love

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isn't complete it hasn't

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reached the depth or the dimension

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that it should

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if you aren't giving

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and honoring the Lord. It says

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that it's honoring to the Lord

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when you give.

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I believe by extension you could say

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it's dishonoring the Lord

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when you don't give. And I know there's

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people watching this program that says

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well no I'm not dishonoring him I just don't

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have anything to give. No you have

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something to give. Everybody

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if you're watching this you're watching

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it on television. They don't

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just give away televisions.

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You know it costs money. Most of you

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that are watching this are watching it on

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satellite or something where you had to

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pay for that feed to come in.

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You've got money. It's just

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an allocation of how you use it.

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And you

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need to honor the Lord

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with your first fruits.

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Look at this. Honor the Lord with

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thy substance and with the first

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fruits of all that increase.

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Not the leftover fruits. Not

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if I have something to spare

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fruits. The first

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fruits. The very first thing you need

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to do you need to give. And if you aren't

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doing that you aren't honoring

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the Lord. I know

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that there's many of you that aren't

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giving like this and you haven't ever thought

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well I'm not dishonoring the Lord. I just

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don't have it. No, the Lord has promised

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you and I'll be getting to some of these

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other scriptures but Luke 6 38. Give

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and it shall be given unto you. Good

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measure. Press down. Shaking together and

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running over shall man give into your

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bosom. And so the Lord says

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when you give it's going to be

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given back unto you. And when you

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don't do that it's because

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you don't honor

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what the Lord said. If you really

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honored it you would give.

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So

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can we lay that to rest

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now? Andrew

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Ohmack actually believes

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in tithing. You

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don't have to

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but you're not overly intelligent

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if you don't.

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That's what he believes.

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See tithing

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to us is a bill.

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It's not an option. It's a bill.

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It's like the house payment.

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And it's the first

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bill that gets paid.

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Not the last. It's the first bill.

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And if you will honor what

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God asked for it that way

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your bills will always be paid.

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If you make it first

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first fruits first

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and first fruits goes a

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different direction but that was

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his point. Make it first.

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Now the one thing I want

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to point out is I 100% agree with

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them. We have been redeemed from

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the curse of the law.

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However, that comes by

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faith.

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Everything we receive from God

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comes by faith. Do you know

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that sickness and disease

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are part of the curse?

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Then why are we struggling with

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it if we've been redeemed from it?

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You know I had someone

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tell me, well

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the demonic thing in Christians

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that's part of the curse in the Old Testament.

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Yes, but everything

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comes by faith.

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Just because God

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bought something for us

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and is offering it

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doesn't mean it's automatic

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in our life. We have to

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apply it and make it operate

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by faith.

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So

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if being free from

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sickness and disease

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is not automatic

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it's a part of the curse.

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Then you can look at the rest

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of the curses.

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They're not automatic either. Are we

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bought back from them? Absolutely.

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But we have to go after

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them by faith.

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Before Jesus' sacrifice

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we weren't redeemed from them.

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They would rule in our life, there's

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nothing we could do about it. Since Jesus

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now he said, hey I

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took care of that for you.

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Appropriate it by faith and go after it.

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So I just wanted to point that out.

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So now let's jump into what we want

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to talk about this morning.

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Let's see if I can get to

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there.

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What do we need to watch out for?

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Today we're going to look at the passage

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that I was playing with last Sunday on

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the love of money. We're going to go to

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1 Timothy 6 and we're going to actually

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look at it and walk our way through it

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because it's dealing with attitudes.

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We have to recognize

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whether we're serving money,

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loving money, because Paul

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specifically by the Holy Spirit warned

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against that 1 Timothy 6

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10. Are we serving

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and loving it or is it serving

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us? There is

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a huge difference.

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And he gives us some clues

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to that and we're going to look at

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them today. One is what we talked about

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last Sunday. The insatiable

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desire for more.

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That's what the word love means.

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So let's look at some things

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we need to watch out for.

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If anyone teaches false

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doctrines and does not agree with the

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sound instruction of our Lord Jesus

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Christ and the godly teaching,

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he is conceited and understands

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nothing.

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You know,

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it's... and I'm not Paul.

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But if a minister would get up and say

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that today.

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In other words, if you don't agree

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with what I'm saying, you're conceited

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and know nothing.

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That would be interesting. Let's

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see. I'm messing here

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and I messed it up.

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He has an unhealthy interest

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in controversies and quarrels about

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words that result in envy, strife,

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malicious talk, evil suspicions.

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Okay.

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So he's laying the groundwork.

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I'm going to deal with some attitudes now.

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And that's what he does in first

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time of these six. He deals with

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attitudes. So I want you, I'm going

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to say what I'm going to... I'm going to

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state where I'm going this morning

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and that way, if I run out of time

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and I've got to cut it off, at least

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you know what I'm trying to say here.

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Money is not

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the problem.

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It's our attitude towards it.

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It's the love of it.

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That is the road of all evil.

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We'll see that scripture here in a bit as we

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go through this.

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God wants us to

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have wealth

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but not for the reason that

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we think in America.

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And much of the time, most of the

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people, I'm getting

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far enough down the road and I've been

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able to watch this for a few years.

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Most of the people in America

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we do the opposite

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in our attitude towards money than

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God wants us to do.

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We're opposite. We're actually

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upside down.

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And our spiritual health is more

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important to him than us having wealth.

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So he's going to hit some attitudes.

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Do you know that

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according to what Jesus said, the thing we

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many times worry about the most, we're

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not even... King James says take no thought.

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NIV says don't worry.

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Matthew 6.

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Don't worry about your food,

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your clothes, or your basic needs

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in other words.

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Don't even take a thought for him.

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You know what the average person worries the most about?

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House payment.

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Food. How am I going to buy

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clothes for the kids?

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So already our

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attitude is off.

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Why would Jesus say that?

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So we don't seek

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money.

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Your father knows what you have

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need of before you even ask him.

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Don't start seeking it.

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And see that's what

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the Holy Spirit is pressing on in

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1 Timothy 6 here.

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He wants us

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financially wealthy

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but how we pursue

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what he wants for us

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makes all the difference.

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And he's going to lay out the

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attitude of

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and I'll just say what it is.

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Until we

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learn to be content

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with where we're at.

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This is, I'm fine.

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If I'd stay like this the rest of my life

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I'm fine with this.

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That is the correct

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attitude.

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That's the foundation

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that everything else gets built on.

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Because if you take

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that foundation out of the way

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and lay the foundation of

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we've got to get ahead. We've got to

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get more. We've got to

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now you're

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chasing the wrong God.

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You say, well doesn't he want us to have wealth?

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Absolutely.

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Do you know why?

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And I'll show you the scriptures.

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Do you know why he wants you rich?

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The scripture

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specifically says

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God wants us rich.

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Why?

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1 Corinthians 9.

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I believe it is.

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We'll find

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the exact reference. God wants

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you rich so you can give.

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God wants you rich so you can give.

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And the only guy that I

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know of who did this right

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was Laternal.

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Remember Laternal? He's the guy who

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invented the earth mover.

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Made

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boohoo

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millions of dollars.

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Kept 10%

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for himself

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and gave 90% away.

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That is God.

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That's God's attitude.

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And he'll make you rich

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to do that.

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If we don't do that

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even if we get wealth

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and according to the rest of the world

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we are all wealthy here.

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Even if we get wealth

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if we're not doing it God's way

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we are totally mishandling

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his property.

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I'm going to show that to you this morning.

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So he wants to lay the foundation

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of don't

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chase money.

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Chase God.

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And in chasing God

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and putting

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him first he will give

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you money.

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Figure out how much

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you need.

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So you can give the rest away.

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Let me show it to you.

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So I mean you can pick your jaws up

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off the floor.

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Let me show it to you.

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Can you bring...

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Lord gave me some scriptures this morning.

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Can you bring James 4 up for me in the

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NIV?

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He gave me some scriptures and I didn't get them in the

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PowerPoint obviously. So I want

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you to see this.

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Here is the American family.

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Here is the American person.

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James chapter 4 start

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at verse 1.

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NIV.

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I'll wait for you because this is important.

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What causes fights and quarrels

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among you? Do you know the biggest cause

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for divorce in America is

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money, finances.

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Don't they come from your desires

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that battle within you? Yeah, you got

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turmoil inside. You want something

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but don't get it.

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How come we can't have?

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You kill, you

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kill, Jesus said

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our words are

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can equal killing. You kill and covet

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but you cannot have what you want.

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You quarrel

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and fight. Welcome to the

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American home.

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You do not have because you do not

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ask God. Verse 3

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Attitude check.

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When you ask, you do not receive.

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Why have I asked God? Well, you're not getting it.

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Why? Because you ask

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with the wrong motives

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you want to spend your

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money on your own

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pleasures.

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We want more money because

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we need all the things

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you want. Verse 4

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look what he compares

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that to.

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You adulterous, this is spiritual

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adultery. People

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don't you know that friendship with the world

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is hatred towards God. Anyone

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who chooses to be a friend of the world

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becomes an enemy of God. Not only

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is it spiritual adultery, it's

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friendship with the world to think that way

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and it puts you an enemy status

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with God. I want more money

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so I can spend on myself.

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I want

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I want I want. Have you ever

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asked what he wants?

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And a lot of times

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we don't because we don't trust

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him.

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And Paul hits that

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in 1st Timothy 6.

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But we don't trust

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them. So

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we become spiritually adulterous.

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We become known

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as friends of the world rather than

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friends of God.

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And it puts us an enemy

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status with God.

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Typical American attitude.

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Take me back to the PowerPoint if you would

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please. 1st Timothy 6

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verse number 5. We'll jump in there.

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You can find that. Excellent.

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Constant friction between men

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of corrupt mind who have robbed the truth

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and who think godliness is a

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means to financial gain.

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Okay, so don't mix this up

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with financial giving.

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Don't turn your financial

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giving into a business.

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Godliness

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is a means to financial gain.

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So God told me to give. So I'm

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going to give so I can get more

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for myself.

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It's God's

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property.

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Ask Him

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what He wants you to give.

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This is not about

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us working the system.

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This is about us pleasing

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God.

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He says

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this causes corruption.

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This comes from corrupt minds, causes friction.

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You're robbed of the truth

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when you think that godliness

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actually will make you rich.

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That's your motive.

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But yet I can go to

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a different scripture that Paul

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also wrote that says

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godliness will make you rich.

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Was the man confused?

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No, he's hitting attitudes

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here in 1 Timothy 6.

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You can't view

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God as

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I'm going to play the system

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and get rich.

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You learn to be content

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right where you're at, not chasing

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money, serving God

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give Him what He asked for

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and He will make you rich.

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It's God who gives us the power

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to get wealth.

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We're not supposed to take

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that on ourselves.

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So read on.

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This is how the Amplified says it.

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People who imagine godliness

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or righteousness is a source of

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profit, a money making

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business, a means of

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livelihood. He says back away

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from those kind of people.

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Let me throw an American twist

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into that because I've had

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people use

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that scripture to say

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this.

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I know I'm doing well

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spiritually because I'm

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prospering.

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Look at all the things

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that God has given me. I know I'm doing well

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spiritually.

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Right in there with the drug

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pushers in the cartel, are you?

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They're doing well financially.

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A whole lot better than anybody

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sitting here.

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Does that mean they're godly?

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No.

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Don't twist the scripture

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to make it say something it doesn't

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say.

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Well, I had one guy tell

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me this.

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He was playing with sin

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in and out, in and out, in and out.

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Playing with sin.

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And I wasn't asking

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the questions, but I was there

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when somebody was.

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And they said, aren't you concerned

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for your spiritual well-being?

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Because you're playing a game here. This isn't

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honesty.

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That's what he said.

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He said, as long as I can speak

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in tongues, I know I'm still saved.

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Really?

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As long as I can speak

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in tongues, I know I'm still saved.

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And the person

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was wise enough to give a good answer.

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Because this is the first thought that went

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through my mind too. They said it.

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I thought, good, you said it, I don't have to.

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They said, do you realize

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that godly tongues

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under disobedience can turn into

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demonic tongues?

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The imitation.

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Just because you're speaking in tongues

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don't mean it's god.

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By looking

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some of your faces, that's news

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to you.

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Casey and I got to give you an answer

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for that. That's what always takes me time

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is because I get this feedback and then

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it's like, okay, I better address that.

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The guy who taught me in deliverance

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went to one service

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or seance

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with Anton Lebes.

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Everybody know who Anton Lebes was?

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He was the first high priest

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of the satanic church. He wrote

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the satanic bible, blah, blah, blah.

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He was in LA

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and he went to one service with him

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and he told me this. He came

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from a Baptist background.

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He said, you know,

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I know that

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speaking in tongues is correct

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and is of god

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even though he says I was taught

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otherwise. He said

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I know it is of god for this reason.

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When I went

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to that service or that

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seance with Anton Lebes

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they had a whole section

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of their service

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let's call it a service, where they

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all spoke in tongues.

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I said, really?

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He said, yep.

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He says, and this is the thing

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you have to remember about Satan.

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He does not

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come up with anything new.

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He is a copy cat.

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He is an imitator.

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He says, just

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the very fact

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they were speaking

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in demonic tongues

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shows

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there is a genuine

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because

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they are trying to mock

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the genuine with the demonic.

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He said, so I am a full believer

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he said I never used to be

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but after that service it is like

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yep, evidently it is of god

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or they wouldn't waste their time

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messing with it. But they are trying to mock

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him.

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So they did that.

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So yes, there is such a thing

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as demonic tongues.

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So don't measure how

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spiritual you are, whether you can still

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speak in tongues or not. It is not a test.

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You know what the test of how well

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you are doing?

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Obedience.

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It is not prophesying

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over people, it is not getting words.

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All that can be corrupted

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and go demonic. It is

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obedience.

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If you love me,

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you will obey me.

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So let's go on.

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You got me sidetracked there for a second.

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We don't live for god

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because it is a way to get rich

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and make money.

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It says, seek ye first the kingdom of god.

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It didn't say seek ye first money

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and riches.

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Seek ye first the kingdom

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of god. Then all these things

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will be added unto you.

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But,

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so let's go back

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to verse 5.

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Don't

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make getting money

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a business.

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I'll get godly enough that

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God will prosper me.

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That's the wrong motive in.

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Godliness with

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contentment

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is great gain.

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We brought nothing into the world.

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We can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing,

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which is an indication in Scripture

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when it says food and clothing, it's talking about our needs.

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God knows what we need.

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Jesus referred to food and clothing

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in Matthew 6. And then at the end

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he said, the father knows what you need.

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So when they state food and clothing,

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it doesn't mean you have to live outside

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in the winter. It doesn't mean you can't own a car.

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It doesn't mean it means needs.

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The father knows what you need.

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He says, if we're content

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with our needs

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being met,

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we should be content with that.

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People who want to get rich.

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People who make

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the goal to get rich.

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It's the wrong motive

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for a Christian.

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You said, but I thought God wants me there.

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Yes, but he does not want

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you motivated

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to find a way for you

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to get there.

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That's the American church.

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That's not God.

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People who want to get rich

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fall into temptation

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and a trap into many foolish

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and harmful desires

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that plunge men into ruin

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and destruction.

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So if we're chasing

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after riches,

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we're wrong.

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We chase

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after God.

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And as he learns to trust

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us, he gives us riches.

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But he has to

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learn to trust us

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that when he gives us riches

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we give it away.

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He learns

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to trust us

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over here when we don't have much

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and we're faithful

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to honor God financially

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like Andrew O. Maxa.

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Problem is a lot of people don't do

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this, but they want that

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so rather than chasing God

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they end up chasing

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money.

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Best paying job, best paying

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career.

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Why are you doing it? Good money.

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Wrong reason.

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You'll get before God

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and your reward will burn up

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like woodhands stubble.

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There was no substance to it

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whatsoever.

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It was all about me, me, me.

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So we must

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learn to be content with our needs

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being met. Contentment.

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Here's the definition. Self-satisfaction.

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Contentedness.

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Sufficiency.

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In other words, feel good

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about what you have and where

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you're at, not driven

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to get more.

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Back up to the Scripture.

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Godliness with contentment

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is great gain. Brought nothing

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in, blah, blah, blah. People who

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want to get rich. So we have to

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learn to be content.

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The New King James says that.

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So let me

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content.

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Here's the definition for that.

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To avail,

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be satisfied

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or satisfactory. Be content.

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Be enough.

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Be sufficient.

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Godliness with contentment.

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Let me go back to verse 6

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here.

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Godliness with contentment

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is great gain. Verse 7

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or verse 8. But if we have

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food and clothing, our needs met,

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we need to learn to be

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satisfied with that.

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See, you'll never get ahead

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if you do that.

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Well, that's the American

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twist to it.

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You mean I should be satisfied

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with my needs being met?

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Yes. God's watching

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to see if you are.

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Do you know why

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Leterno could give 90% away

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and keep 10% and he probably still had millions?

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But do you know why he could do that?

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Because over here when he was chasing God

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he learned to be satisfied

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with his needs being met.

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He didn't have to have

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all the money to be satisfied.

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That's the attitude check.

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That's the attitude check.

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Do you know who gave?

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It makes no sense

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in the human mind when you look at it.

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The big earth movers.

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They got two wheels in the front with the engine hanging out

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and then they got this big hook thing

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back to the big box

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where they dragged the dirt with two wheels in the back.

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Do you know who gave

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him that invention?

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God did.

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Showed him in a night vision

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how to build it.

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He drew it all out

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took it to engineers and they said

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you're nuts. It'll never

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work.

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You can't put that much stress

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on that center pivot point.

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It's going to break continually.

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He said I believe God showed me this.

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You're nuts.

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Guess who was right?

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They've used it

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for decades.

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It's still the big earth mover.

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Who gave that to him?

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God, when he was over here

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learning to be content

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and God said you know what?

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This guy's actually content with where he's at.

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So once we make him

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billionaire over there

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he will live

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within his contented means

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and give the rest away.

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So God gave him the invention.

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That's God's

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way.

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That's the attitude check

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that God's trying to bring across through Paul

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here in

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1 Timothy 6.

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We must learn to be content.

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Learn to

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this is good.

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I'm good with where I'm at.

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With my needs being met.

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Verse number 8

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Learn

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to be content with that.

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You say was that where God's going to keep me?

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Well what if he does?

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Because see if you say well I'll be content for a while

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but then a better change. You're not content.

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You're trying to play the system.

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Learn, we have to learn

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to be content with that.

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But most of us in America

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have it so ingrained in us

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that

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the next things

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that Paul says here

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which we touched last Sunday

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I want to make sure I don't lose you.

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So let me give you a forewarning coming in.

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There's a process

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that Paul's going to lay out now

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for

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how to build the foundation

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so that God

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can bless you in it.

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Let me not

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lose you in the process

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because the American culture

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teaches the opposite

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of what Paul is about to say.

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What God is about to say.

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Okay, ready?

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Here's last Sunday Scripture.

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For the love of money

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is the root of all kinds of evil.

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Some people eager for money.

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The two words you have to look at

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we looked at love. Last Sunday we're going to look

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at eager a little more this Sunday.

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Love is the word you have to look at

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and eager is the word you have to look at.

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So

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I want you to notice something.

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Love

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and I'll give you the definition here in a bit

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means an excessive

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or insatiable desire

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for wealth or profit.

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In other words, insatiable means

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you never have

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enough.

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That is

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the root of all evils.

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That's why the foundation

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has to be you got to learn to be content

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be insatiable towards

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God. I never have enough of

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God.

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Don't be insatiable towards money.

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You can't serve two masters.

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If you're insatiable for money

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you're not insatiable for God. You're serving it.

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Got to get it back. Right attitude.

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The question that we ask there

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well what is excessive?

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What's insatiable? And that's going to vary

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by person.

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But the question is, when do we

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have enough

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for us?

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How much do I need

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until I have enough?

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Have you ever

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set

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that goal, that limit?

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Because the American

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mindset is you never have enough.

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That is exactly

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what God says

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don't do that.

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For the love

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the insatiable desire

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for more

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of money.

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Americans say

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well I'll just keep going

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after it.

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Well how much do you need?

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Well it doesn't make any difference. If there's more available

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I'm going to get more.

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That is the insatiable desire

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for money.

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And it will bring every kind of

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evil into your life.

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Didn't expect to hear

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that in a tithing series did you?

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We got to get

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the balance of what

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Scripture is trying to tell us.

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When do we have enough?

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What is enough?

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Because the American culture says

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you never have enough.

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If there's more on the table, grab it.

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Heard someone say this

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everything in the world

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then they listed three things

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lots of the eyes

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lots of the flesh, pride of life.

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Everything in the world

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is not of my father.

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What is big in the American world

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European world

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Australian world

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Russian world

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just countries that I

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watched.

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When do we have enough?

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You never have enough. You never quit.

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More

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more more more more

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That is the love

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of money.

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The insatiable desire

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in other words I'm never full

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I'm always hungry for more.

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That is totally

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ungodly.

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Don't shout me down.

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So let's go back to the next

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word. Eager

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for money. Some people

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eager for money have wandered from the faith

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caused all kinds of trouble

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in their life. Eager

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it's when we

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stretch ourselves to reach out

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after or long for something

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with covetousness

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or huge desire

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could go either way.

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To stretch for

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reach out after

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long for

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more.

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I'm not going to take the time

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to make applications for stretching

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but stretching

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to long for

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to go after

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is that word

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eager.

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Work to no limit

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why? Because I want

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more. I'm

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stretching for it.

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That is an ungodly attitude.

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That's the American

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attitude.

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Isn't this good?

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I got to get you to say

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something because you're all sitting there blinkin' like

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really?

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That's what I've been doing all my life.

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I know.

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Love of money.

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The excessive or insatiable

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desire for wealth or profit.

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That's the Greek definition to the word

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love there for money.

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The excessive or the insatiable

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desire

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for wealth or money.

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And then Paul

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he's going to describe it. He already

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hit a couple of pieces on it.

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So what does that mean?

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We're never content.

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Lack of contentment financially. We're never content.

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We always have

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to have more.

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How much

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more? And you can apply it to houses, you can

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apply it to cars, you can apply it to land,

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you can apply it to your bank account, you can

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apply it to anything, your clothes. How much

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more do you have to have before it's

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like, there, now I'm good.

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Well, if I got the money,

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I'm going to just upgrade it.

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See, that's the love of money.

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The insatiable

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desire.

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I'm just never satisfied.

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Never content.

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Or...

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The tithe was not just Old Testament.

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The tithe was inflated before

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the Old Testament law.

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But the law

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placed a curse on...

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I'll leave my finger off that part.

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It's down a little ways

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if you can find it. Otherwise I got

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to scroll through them. Love of money.

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Lack of contentment.

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Verse number six.

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There we go.

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And

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wanting or desiring

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to get rich.

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Ha!

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You said, did he actually

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say that?

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He did.

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If I can get back there, I want

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to read it to you again.

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It's way back.

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Did I pass it?

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Did I pass it? I must have.

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Thank you.

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People who want

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to get rich.

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People who want to get rich.

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Now let's go back to that other slide.

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Wanting or desiring

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to get rich. Verse nine.

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Shows we have

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the love of money.

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As believers, what should we

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want the most?

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Relationship with God.

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Relationship with God.

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Paul said I consider everything

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else garbage, but that I

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might know him.

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A more

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and more and more

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intimate relationship with God

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should be our insatiable desire.

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Not money.

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That's why Jesus said

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in Matthew six.

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Just learn to be content

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with your needs being met.

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The father knows what you need.

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Just learn that first.

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Because that is the foundation

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that God can bless you out of.

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That's the warning of first Timothy

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six. So let's go on.

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Eager for money. We can't have

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these qualities and love

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and serve God. Verse number ten.

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We can't have the qualities

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of where we want more

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of God. We want the best of God.

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We can't serve God. Luke

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16 verse 13.

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You're either going to serve money

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or you're going to serve God. You can't serve

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them both.

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One of the greatest things to watch

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for is the blessing

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doesn't become the love

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of money.

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Oh, God's blessed us.

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We want more of that blessing.

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Well, that's okay, but make sure

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you're not chasing the money aspect

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of it, but you're chasing God.

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Because God is watching.

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You say, why do you repeat

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everything that's right on the screen?

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Because the percentage

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of us retaining

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verbal and sight combined

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almost doubles.

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If you

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read it and hear me say it, you'll remember

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it much better.

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So the big question is, does money or wealth

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have you? Or do we have it?

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Which one is really

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in control of our motives,

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of our thinking, of what we want to do?

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Who is really in charge here?

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Now watch the process that Paul

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is going to take us through here.

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But you, O man of God,

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flee these things and pursue righteousness.

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Flee what things?

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The love of money. Pursuing money.

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Wanting to get rich.

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Flee that. Run from that.

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Pursue righteousness. Godliness. Faith. Love.

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Patience. Gentleness.

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Fight the good fight of faith.

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Lay hold to eternal life, to which

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you were called and have confessed the good

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confession in the presence of many witnesses.

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I urge you in the sight of God who gives

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life to all things and before Christ Jesus

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who witnessed

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who witnessed the good confession before

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Pontius Pilate, that you

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keep this commandment. What commandment?

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Flee

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these things and pursue

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the right things.

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That's the commandment.

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Keep

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this commandment without

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spot blameless unto the Lord

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Jesus Christ appearing

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which he will manifest in his own time

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and who is blessed and goes

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on talking about him.

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Command those who are rich

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in this present age not to be haughty

01:00:00.250 --> 01:00:01.430
nor to trust

01:00:01.430 --> 01:00:03.250
in uncertain riches or wealth

01:00:03.930 --> 01:00:05.130
but in the living

01:00:05.130 --> 01:00:07.210
God who gives

01:00:07.210 --> 01:00:09.230
us richly

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copiously

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abundantly

01:00:14.770 --> 01:00:15.730
all things

01:00:16.530 --> 01:00:17.490
to enjoy.

01:00:19.870 --> 01:00:21.530
You say I thought God didn't want

01:00:21.530 --> 01:00:23.270
us having more than we need. I never said

01:00:23.270 --> 01:00:23.550
that.

01:00:25.210 --> 01:00:27.250
God wants us to have way more

01:00:27.250 --> 01:00:27.890
than we need.

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And I'll tell you why. I'll show you

01:00:31.150 --> 01:00:33.250
in a bit. So we can

01:00:33.250 --> 01:00:35.430
give what we don't need.

01:00:37.330 --> 01:00:38.350
That's the Scripture

01:00:38.350 --> 01:00:38.750
way.

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He wants us

01:00:43.230 --> 01:00:44.210
to have

01:00:44.210 --> 01:00:45.370
things to enjoy.

01:00:47.630 --> 01:00:49.450
And see this is where the guy who

01:00:49.450 --> 01:00:51.550
was after me for the ATVs years ago

01:00:51.550 --> 01:00:52.610
he missed that part.

01:00:53.650 --> 01:00:55.430
Well you don't need ATVs

01:00:58.170 --> 01:00:58.770
probably.

01:01:01.800 --> 01:01:03.600
But if I set the foundation

01:01:03.600 --> 01:01:04.160
right

01:01:05.100 --> 01:01:06.380
and I'm content

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and I'll live in contentment

01:01:08.100 --> 01:01:09.880
and I'll seek him and seek him first

01:01:09.880 --> 01:01:12.040
obey him, honor him

01:01:12.040 --> 01:01:13.820
with my wealth, honor him

01:01:13.820 --> 01:01:14.980
with what he gives me

01:01:14.980 --> 01:01:17.640
he wants to reward me

01:01:17.640 --> 01:01:19.520
and give me what I enjoy.

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But don't

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seek what you enjoy

01:01:25.680 --> 01:01:27.460
first and then God

01:01:27.460 --> 01:01:28.420
gets the leftovers.

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That's friendship with this world

01:01:31.400 --> 01:01:33.280
that makes you an enemy status with God

01:01:33.280 --> 01:01:34.980
and puts you into spiritual adultery

01:01:34.980 --> 01:01:36.960
which is the church of America.

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We are upside down

01:01:42.710 --> 01:01:43.570
from Scripture.

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God wants you to copiously

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abundantly

01:01:48.450 --> 01:01:50.490
have things that you can enjoy.

01:01:50.810 --> 01:01:52.090
But the attitude

01:01:52.370 --> 01:01:54.770
needs to stay in the right order.

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That's his whole point.

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Let them do good.

01:02:01.150 --> 01:02:01.250
God

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that they be rich

01:02:05.010 --> 01:02:06.790
the word Greek in there

01:02:06.790 --> 01:02:07.670
is actually wealthy

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that they be rich

01:02:10.790 --> 01:02:13.050
in good works, ready to give

01:02:13.050 --> 01:02:15.390
willing to share, storing up for themselves

01:02:15.390 --> 01:02:17.410
a good foundation for the time to come

01:02:17.410 --> 01:02:19.230
that they may lay hold

01:02:19.230 --> 01:02:20.450
on eternal life.

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So in other words, once you're rich

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be ready

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to give.

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Lay up for yourselves.

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What did Jesus say?

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Lay up for yourself

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treasures in heaven where

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moth and rust cannot corrupt

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and thieves can't break in a seal.

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How do you do that? He just told us.

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Be ready to give

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storing up for themselves.

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Our giving

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is what lays it up in heaven

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for us.

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As for the rich, the wealthy

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actually means wealthy

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in the Greek.

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As for the rich in this world

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charge them not to be proud

01:03:03.590 --> 01:03:05.150
and arrogant, contemptuous of others

01:03:05.150 --> 01:03:06.770
nor to set their hopes on uncertain riches

01:03:06.770 --> 01:03:07.450
but on God

01:03:07.450 --> 01:03:10.190
who richly, copiously, abundantly

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gives us everything we want

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for our enjoyment.

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Charge them, the rich in this world

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to do good works, to be rich.

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This is

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reading on to be liberal

01:03:20.850 --> 01:03:22.290
and generous of heart

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ready to share with others.

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God wants us wealthy

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He wants us to have more than

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we need.

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Why?

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He tells us in His word

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He tells us

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why.

01:03:44.070 --> 01:03:45.690
You will be

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made rich in

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every way

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so that you can be generous

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on every occasion.

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In other words, so that you can give.

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And through your giving

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Thanksgiving

01:03:58.070 --> 01:03:59.490
will be made to God.

01:04:01.410 --> 01:04:03.230
Here is God's perspective

01:04:03.230 --> 01:04:04.490
of why we work.

01:04:05.370 --> 01:04:06.310
Let Him who stole

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steal no longer but rather let Him

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labor working in His hands

01:04:09.490 --> 01:04:10.670
what is good

01:04:10.670 --> 01:04:13.410
that He may have something to give

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Him who has need.

01:04:17.830 --> 01:04:19.090
You know why we work?

01:04:19.450 --> 01:04:20.650
Well, I got to pay the bills.

01:04:20.790 --> 01:04:22.090
See, you already violated

01:04:22.090 --> 01:04:23.730
Matthew 6 where Jesus said

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don't worry about your bills, your needs.

01:04:26.490 --> 01:04:28.050
You just do what I tell you to do.

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We'll make sure your needs are met.

01:04:31.690 --> 01:04:33.070
Most Americans labor

01:04:33.070 --> 01:04:34.110
why are you going to work?

01:04:34.230 --> 01:04:35.950
Well, somebody got to pay the bills.

01:04:36.170 --> 01:04:37.230
How many times have I heard that?

01:04:38.510 --> 01:04:39.810
See, we're upside down.

01:04:42.130 --> 01:04:43.450
You know why I'm going to work?

01:04:44.210 --> 01:04:45.950
Because God told me

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to.

01:04:47.290 --> 01:04:49.530
He who doesn't provide for His family

01:04:49.530 --> 01:04:50.950
is worse than an

01:04:51.750 --> 01:04:52.350
infidel.

01:04:52.850 --> 01:04:54.290
A non-believer. A pagan.

01:04:56.070 --> 01:04:57.570
God says go to work

01:04:57.570 --> 01:04:58.810
earn some money

01:04:59.210 --> 01:05:01.010
but the attitude is

01:05:01.010 --> 01:05:02.870
the Father knows what I have need of

01:05:02.870 --> 01:05:05.270
before I ask Him so I'm not going to worry

01:05:05.270 --> 01:05:06.150
about this.

01:05:07.450 --> 01:05:08.870
Well then why are you going to work?

01:05:09.270 --> 01:05:11.590
So I can end up in a position

01:05:11.590 --> 01:05:14.270
where I have more than enough

01:05:14.270 --> 01:05:15.490
El Shaddai

01:05:15.490 --> 01:05:17.570
God of more than enough

01:05:17.570 --> 01:05:19.770
so I can give it

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not live the American dream

01:05:24.270 --> 01:05:25.550
when is enough

01:05:25.550 --> 01:05:26.090
enough?

01:05:32.850 --> 01:05:34.090
I think it's

01:05:34.360 --> 01:05:35.050
good thinking.

01:05:38.660 --> 01:05:40.080
Say how do we get it?

01:05:40.800 --> 01:05:42.240
Scripturally you plant seed

01:05:42.240 --> 01:05:44.360
you follow His Spirit

01:05:44.360 --> 01:05:46.440
you work. He wants to see you faithful

01:05:46.440 --> 01:05:47.520
to what He asks you to do.

01:05:48.160 --> 01:05:49.980
However our goal is not to be rich

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seek wealth.

01:05:52.140 --> 01:05:54.360
When do we have enough for our uses?

01:05:58.500 --> 01:06:00.040
So Mary said this

01:06:00.040 --> 01:06:01.720
I said well I'm saying the same thing you did

01:06:01.720 --> 01:06:03.640
I just haven't gotten to this spot yet

01:06:04.520 --> 01:06:05.600
she said well I

01:06:06.240 --> 01:06:08.200
I'd want as much as I could get

01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:10.160
I said why?

01:06:11.060 --> 01:06:12.420
She said you know how much good

01:06:12.420 --> 01:06:13.680
I could do around the world?

01:06:14.400 --> 01:06:16.160
Ah see now that's

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God's heart.

01:06:17.880 --> 01:06:19.800
And He will just give it in more and more

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and more if He sees someone who's willing

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to give it away

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that's God's heart.

01:06:31.820 --> 01:06:33.460
Would you move to a bigger house?

01:06:33.820 --> 01:06:34.880
No I don't want a bigger house

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too much to clean.

01:06:39.350 --> 01:06:40.730
Well we could hire a maid

01:06:40.730 --> 01:06:42.590
I don't want him digging around in my drawers.

01:06:47.330 --> 01:06:48.490
See so having

01:06:49.590 --> 01:06:50.950
more more more more

01:06:50.950 --> 01:06:53.050
to give give give give

01:06:53.050 --> 01:06:54.690
that is God

01:06:55.930 --> 01:06:56.990
having more

01:06:56.990 --> 01:06:58.710
more more more so I can do

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nothing nothing nothing nothing

01:07:00.130 --> 01:07:02.870
and have a yacht and go vacationing

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half of the year and have my winter home

01:07:04.590 --> 01:07:06.690
and my summer home and it's all about me

01:07:06.690 --> 01:07:08.170
thank you God for blessing me

01:07:08.170 --> 01:07:11.030
that's the American version of God

01:07:11.030 --> 01:07:12.730
and God despises it because

01:07:12.730 --> 01:07:14.690
that is the insatiable desire

01:07:14.690 --> 01:07:15.950
for money.

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And it does

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vary by person

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you know

01:07:31.530 --> 01:07:33.510
the part that God wants you to have

01:07:34.210 --> 01:07:35.770
the American culture says

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the exact opposite. Here's Jesus

01:07:38.130 --> 01:07:39.710
do not lay up for yourselves

01:07:39.710 --> 01:07:40.610
treasures on earth

01:07:41.450 --> 01:07:43.370
for where your treasure is there your heart

01:07:43.370 --> 01:07:45.450
will be also. See God wants

01:07:45.450 --> 01:07:46.630
our heart

01:07:47.690 --> 01:07:49.490
we should be insatiable

01:07:49.490 --> 01:07:51.590
about God I can never get enough

01:07:52.650 --> 01:07:53.590
but if

01:07:53.590 --> 01:07:55.570
we turn our heart

01:07:55.570 --> 01:07:57.850
after money he gets

01:07:57.850 --> 01:07:59.650
leftovers at best

01:07:59.650 --> 01:08:01.750
and we're insatiable

01:08:01.750 --> 01:08:02.870
about making money

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and that to him we already read the scriptures

01:08:05.710 --> 01:08:07.870
in James. That's spiritual

01:08:07.870 --> 01:08:08.330
adultery.

01:08:09.130 --> 01:08:11.110
You're sleeping with someone else

01:08:11.110 --> 01:08:12.270
in God's mind

01:08:14.230 --> 01:08:15.650
and he's going to set you

01:08:15.650 --> 01:08:16.310
up as his enemy

01:08:20.260 --> 01:08:21.540
we read the scripture

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our determining question is

01:08:27.040 --> 01:08:27.820
when is

01:08:27.820 --> 01:08:28.900
enough for my uses

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who's getting the most you your children

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or God

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this is another big

01:08:35.560 --> 01:08:36.740
thing in the American culture

01:08:37.620 --> 01:08:39.580
the more I can give to my

01:08:39.580 --> 01:08:41.580
children the better person I am

01:08:43.240 --> 01:08:44.120
that's American

01:08:44.120 --> 01:08:44.560
thinking

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God said

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a good man

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stores up or lays up

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offers an inheritance to his children

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One. When is enough? How much do they need? Well, the more the better. See, that's that insatiable

01:09:06.270 --> 01:09:20.320
desire for money. And God despises that. How much do they need? Give them too much, you

01:09:20.320 --> 01:09:30.200
can actually ruin them. How much have you ever contemplated? I'm not going to try to give

01:09:30.200 --> 01:09:37.880
you an answer for that. You got to figure it out. But how much do they need? Maybe you

01:09:37.880 --> 01:09:41.600
haven't gotten there yet and you're still waiting on God to get you to that point. Well, stay

01:09:41.600 --> 01:09:44.920
faithful to your tithing. Stay faithful to your giving. When he says you need to give something,

01:09:45.140 --> 01:09:48.640
you need to give it. Because he's still testing you whether he can get you over here and

01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:53.840
pile it on. So stay faithful to what you're doing. Then again, he might be looking at

01:09:53.840 --> 01:10:01.180
your children and your grandchildren and saying, I can't give them much because if I give them

01:10:01.180 --> 01:10:06.840
much through mom and dad, they're going to turn their back on me. Their heart's going to

01:10:06.840 --> 01:10:13.420
go a different direction and they're worth way more to me than their physical wealth.

01:10:16.280 --> 01:10:24.820
He knows. But there's like this unwritten rule in America that says the bigger inheritance

01:10:24.820 --> 01:10:32.940
you give to your kids, the better Christian you were. That is not scriptural. It is not

01:10:32.940 --> 01:10:42.810
scriptural. And if you've got questions about it, talk to me. So let's bring this

01:10:42.810 --> 01:10:51.670
to a close. This is the fourth series that we did, Prosperity, Spirit of Incre, Seed,

01:10:51.690 --> 01:10:59.940
Time and Harvest. And this is the last one. Once this message posts, not in the

01:10:59.940 --> 01:11:04.680
live stream, posts to the message online, this PowerPoint is there. You can

01:11:04.680 --> 01:11:09.660
download it. And I've got all kinds of questions, all kinds of points underneath

01:11:09.660 --> 01:11:13.700
this that I won't read to you. You can read them and it'll make sense to you.

01:11:13.700 --> 01:11:18.400
Like for instance, do you believe God wants his people to struggle and ultimately

01:11:18.400 --> 01:11:24.660
fail at most everything in life? Or does he want us to have success, grow,

01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:32.520
accomplish things and move forward in life? Which one? Well, it'll go through

01:11:32.520 --> 01:11:35.020
four or five questions and then it's going to give the answer to these four

01:11:35.020 --> 01:11:41.200
or five. Because for whatever reason, especially the next generation, they

01:11:41.200 --> 01:11:46.380
watch these 30-second, two-minute reels or shorts and they come up with

01:11:46.380 --> 01:11:58.100
theological doctrinal positions. And many of the 20s absolutely do not

01:11:58.100 --> 01:12:05.920
believe in prosperity. Prosperity and Kenneth Copeland are co-equal in

01:12:05.920 --> 01:12:12.100
their mind. And he's a swindler, he's all this stuff, so therefore prosperity

01:12:12.100 --> 01:12:20.560
has got to be wrong. You need to get your head out of the sand and actually

01:12:20.560 --> 01:12:27.460
do some research other than your 30-second reels. Does God want you as

01:12:27.460 --> 01:12:34.220
a Christian to struggle and ultimately fail at most everything in life? No,

01:12:34.220 --> 01:12:39.540
that is not in Scripture at all. He wants us to have success, grow,

01:12:39.740 --> 01:12:43.680
accomplish things, move forward in life. You know what? If you believe that,

01:12:43.920 --> 01:12:54.510
you're a prosperity person. It's that easy to figure out. So there's a lot of

01:12:54.510 --> 01:12:58.310
questions, there's a lot of things. You go through the PowerPoint, it'll help

01:12:58.310 --> 01:13:02.730
you. There's a review questions and stuff. My whole point this morning

01:13:02.730 --> 01:13:08.770
is God's checking our attitudes. Checking our attitudes of what we serve first,

01:13:08.890 --> 01:13:16.190
what are we insatiably after? We just can't get enough. Now, I'm not talking

01:13:16.190 --> 01:13:20.190
the physical side, I'm talking the attitude, because there's only one

01:13:20.190 --> 01:13:26.110
thing we should be insatiably after, and that's him. Everything else we

01:13:26.110 --> 01:13:30.890
consider loss and rubbish. But the problem is when we're insatiably

01:13:30.890 --> 01:13:36.670
after him, he's going to give us a bunch of the other stuff, because he wants

01:13:36.670 --> 01:13:42.690
us to handle it a certain way. Once we determine what's enough, we're supposed

01:13:42.690 --> 01:13:51.350
to give the rest away. He said, he makes us rich so we can give. You say,

01:13:51.390 --> 01:13:57.130
I'm going to give it to my kids. Yeah, that's still you. That's still you.

01:13:57.710 --> 01:14:02.010
Well, how can that be? That's my kids. Give it to my kids. No, I'm giving it to

01:14:02.010 --> 01:14:09.260
your kids. That's right, because it's still all about you. Give it to

01:14:09.260 --> 01:14:13.520
somebody else's kids. Oh, no, it's going to be for my kids. Yeah, because it's

01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:26.190
still all about you. I have done this. I don't know who that was for. That

01:14:26.190 --> 01:14:31.430
was for somebody. Let's pray. Lord, thank you for the attitude, correction,

01:14:31.430 --> 01:14:39.310
and check. And we're living in the middle of a culture that has told us the

01:14:39.310 --> 01:14:45.670
opposite of what your word says. The opposite. Thank you for the attitude,

01:14:45.890 --> 01:14:52.510
check. Now help us integrate it into our lives and into our thinking in

01:14:52.510 --> 01:14:54.210
Jesus' name. Amen?