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 Happy Father's Day, guys. How you doing? Welcome to Watermark.

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 And if this is your first time or your millionth time,

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 we are glad that you're here to worship the Lord with us. And we have a very special day.

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 So I thought, I need some help. I need some helpers. And so if you're a kid,

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 can you come up here and help me for one second, please? Just come right here. All the kiddos,

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 come on. You don't have to cling to me, but just sit right there, okay?

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 All the kids, come on, guys.

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 Oh. Hey. Okay, guys, I need your help, okay? So can someone tell me what today is besides Sunday?

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 Father's Day. Father's Day. And what does Father's Day mean?

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 Father's Day. To do what now?

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 Father's Day means give a present to your daddy. That is so good. So how many of you guys are going

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 to take your dad out to lunch today and be nice to him? How many of you guys are going to give

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 your dad a brand new watch today? Wow. What great kids. Hey, so what I want to do is I need your help.

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 We have these special gifts made for our dads. And so I'm going to have all the dads and all the men in the church,

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 all the men in the church stand up. Okay, so all the men in the church stand up now.

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 Kids, push your, come on, Albert. You're a man. Stand up. Okay. All the men stand up. Okay, guys.

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 Hey, guys, listen to me. Look at me. I need your help. Can you help me pray for the dads? Okay?

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 So I'm going to pray, and you just pray right after me, okay? Okay? Let's pray.

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 Dear God, thank you for our dads. Guard their heart. Help them to love you. Help us to obey them.

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 Help us to obey them. We love you. Amen. Okay, guys, this is what I need to do. I need all the kids

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 to take these cards. Men, stand up still. Take these cards, and I want you to hand them out to any man

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 standing up and say, Happy Father's Day. Thank you so much. Okay? Thank you. So hand it to your daddy

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 and hand it to people. Here you go. Here you go. Just go hand them out. Just hand them out to your dads.

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 Wow, crazy chaos. Okay. Everybody got them? There you go. Here you go, Willow. Good job, guys.

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 And after the dads get their card, you can sit down. Okay. Pass them out. Okay. Here you go.

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 Take them. Take them. Okay. Good. There you go. Okay. Go give them to your dads.

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 And after that, kids, you are dismissed. Watermark kids. So every daddy standing up,

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 make sure you give them a card. Okay. After that, Watermark kids are dismissed,

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 and youth are dismissed with Eric.

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 The scripture reading today comes from the Gospel of Luke, chapter 12. Please follow along in your

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 bulletin.

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 Someone in the crowd said to him,

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 Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.

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 But he said to him, Man, who appointed me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?

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 Then he said to them, Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed.

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 For not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions.

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 And he told them a parable, saying,

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 The land of a rich man was very productive.

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 And he began reasoning to himself, saying,

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 What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?

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 Then he said,

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 This is what I will do.

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 I will tear down my barns and build larger ones.

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 And there I will store all my grain and my goods.

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 And I will say to my soul,

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 Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come.

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 Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

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 But God said to him,

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 You fool, this very night your soul is required of you.

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 And now who will own what you have prepared?

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 So is the man who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.

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 This is the reading of God's word.

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 I got stuff.

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 Good stuff.

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 Happy stuff.

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 Successful, sensational, recreational, relaxational stuff.

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 Mac stuff.

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 PC stuff.

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 I stuff.

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 Cool fashion.

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 Cool fashion.

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 Fast cash.

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 Fast action.

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 Rocket chips and chocolate chips.

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 Stuff with crosses.

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 Christian fishes.

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 Stuff beyond my wildest wishes.

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 And you can't take my stuff.

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 My stuff is a needle that drops to the vinyl to start the party and spin the spiral.

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 My stuff impressively, incessantly, illuminates my import.

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 And my stuff is loud.

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 It demands respect.

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 And you can't neglect when my stuff says,

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 I have arrived and this is what I'm all about.

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 My stuff demands respect.

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 It identifies me.

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 And I identify with my stuff.

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 My stuff is the needle that tattoos my skin, signifying the significance of who I am.

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 You can't handle my stuff.

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 I got stuff.

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 I got stuff.

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 Stuff.

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 Stuff from my past.

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 That follows me around like some run-down evangelist carnival caravan that keeps coming to town.

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 In the amusement park dark.

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 Saints from the shadows shout my shattered story.

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 Selling success souvenirs.

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 And soulful sideshows.

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 Their slanted slogans solicit me.

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 Slander me.

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 Compel me.

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 Tell me.

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 Tell me fortunes that I regret.

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 I can't forget.

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 And surrendering or seeking grace.

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 I surrender to the stuff spell.

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 But it conjures no confession.

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 No communion.

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 Just a constant carousel of clamor.

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 That casts out the quiet and the question so I don't have to hear my heart beat.

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 My stuff is a ferris wheel that takes me to the top.

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 Then brings me right back down again.

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 I spin and I turn and I want off.

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 But the ride never stops.

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 I got stuff.

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 I got stuff.

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 My stuff is the elevator to the penthouse floor.

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 Sometimes no matter what button I push.

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 I can't seem to open the door.

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 You can't handle my stuff.

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 You can't handle my stuff.

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 My stuff is the needle that injects my vein.

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 And it's warm like a fever.

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 And it spreads like a stain.

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 And it itches.

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 And I scratch until it burns like a blaze.

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 But all I have is this nothing.

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 And I can't stop the flame.

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 I can't stop the flame.

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 I can't stop the flame.

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 I can't stop the flame.

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 I can't.

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 I can't.

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 I can't.

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 I got stuff.

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 I can't handle my stuff.

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 You can't take my stuff.

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 You can't take my stuff.

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 Can you?

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 Can you?

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 Take my stuff?

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 I kind of feel like I just need to say amen after that.

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 Finish our time.

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 We're talking about stuff.

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 We're talking about life.

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 If you've been with us for any amount of time, you've heard us talk about stories that we're

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 all writing out and living out our story right now.

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 If you've been here for any amount of time, you hear us talking about journeys.

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 We're all on a journey.

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 And the interesting thing about this journey is that we're all following someone or something

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 or stuff.

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 Some of us are following Ben Bernanke.

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 Some of us are following Jamie Dimon.

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 Some of us are following Li Kai-shing.

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 Some of us are following Warren Buffett.

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 Some of us are trying to follow Christ.

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 But the stuff crowds out our life.

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 And we don't know how to handle it.

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 We're continuing the story of stuff and the journey.

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 Last week we talked about being in a minefield.

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 We talked about that we walk into a minefield.

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 And in this field there are things that can disable us and hurt us and cause us to be enslaved.

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 Jesus talked last week about that thing as the leaven of the Pharisees, hypocrisy.

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 We talked about wearing a mask, being different in different places and acting different ways

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 because people expect you to act certain ways.

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 And we said in the midst of all of that, we lose the gospel.

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 We de-gospelize ourself.

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 We're clinging to Christ and we're on this journey.

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 And all of a sudden we break free and we cling on to position and power and material things.

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 And we lose the power of the Holy Spirit.

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 We lose the power of the gospel.

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 As I was praying through this sermon today, I was reminded of a story.

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 And it begins as all good stories begin.

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 And the interesting thing about this story is I think that if we're honest,

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 we see it lived out every day in our life.

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 We see it lived out every day in people's lives all around us.

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 And this story begins like every story should begin.

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 Come on.

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 How does every story begin?

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 Once upon a time.

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 Once upon a time in Hong Kong, there lived a very important man or woman.

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 I'm just going to say a man.

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 He routinely logged in 12 to 14 hours of work a day.

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 And sometimes on weekends, he went to Stanford and Thunderbird and then the Harvard School of Management.

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 He got top honors.

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 He qualified in his chosen field and decided to broaden his horizons by joining every professional institute he could.

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 Indeed, he joined a number of boards and he was on the directors.

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 He read books on Genghis Khan and management and how to swim with the sharks.

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 And even when he wasn't working, his mind wandered back to his job,

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 which not was his occupation but became his preoccupation.

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 He found a 40-hour work week such a good idea that he often did it twice.

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 His wife tried to slow him down to remind him that he had a family.

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 He knew they were not as close as they had once been.

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 He had not intended for them to drift away.

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 It just seemed that she wanted time from him.

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 And that was just something that he didn't have to give because he gave it all at the office.

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 He was vaguely aware of his kids that they were growing up and they were missing him.

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 From time to time, his kids would complain about the books that he wasn't reading to them

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 and the games he wasn't going to them and all of these things.

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 And he would get angry and he says, I'm doing it all for you.

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 Just wait.

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 Soon it's all going to get better and our future will be assured.

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 One day his chief operations officer came to him and he said,

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 you're not going to believe this but business is booming.

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 I mean it's out of control.

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 We can't keep up with it.

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 It's a miracle.

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 But with the present technology that we have, we can't keep in the market.

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 We can't make a killing.

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 So he put the company through a technological revolution.

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 The buzzword was 24-7 connectivity.

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 There was phones everywhere in the bathrooms and in the conference rooms

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 and everybody was connected by Wi-Fi, BlackBerrys, iPhones.

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 As he sat at his computer that night rearranging the company,

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 he had overlooked one microscopic detail.

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 He had overlooked an artery that had once been so supple,

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 as supple as a blade of grass,

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 but now was dry and brittle like cement.

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 For more than a century,

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 his heart had been pumping 70 milliliters of blood with every contraction,

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 14,000 pints each day, 100,000 beats in 24 hours,

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 all of this happening without him ever having to send a memo

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 or giving a reminder or a performance review.

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 Now it skipped a beat,

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 and it skipped another beat,

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 and a third, and he grasped his chest,

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 and he breathed for air,

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 and for a moment he was given the gift of blinding clarity.

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 Even though he sat on the top of hundreds of organizational charts,

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 it turned out that he wasn't in control of his own pulse.

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 Funny thing, he was thinking as he was dying,

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 hundreds of people on multiple continents would listen and heed every word,

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 but now a few ounces of hardened muscle in his heart wouldn't obey him.

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 His wife woke up at 3 a.m.,

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 and she was still looking next to herself,

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 and she saw that he wasn't in bed,

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 and she went downstairs to drag him up out of bed,

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 and she saw that he was laying in front of the computer,

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 head on the desk,

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 and she just yelled to herself,

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 this is ridiculous.

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 It's like I'm being married to a child.

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 He would rather fall asleep in front of the screen than come to bed.

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 She touched him on the shoulder to wake him up,

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 and he didn't respond,

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 and his skin was eerily cold.

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 She quickly dialed 999,

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 and when the paramedics got there,

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 it was too late,

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 and they told her that he had died of a massive heart attack.

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 His death was a major story in the financial community.

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 The obituary appeared in the South China Morning Post,

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 and then the tattler.

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 It was too bad that he was dead,

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 because he would have loved to hear what people were saying about him.

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 They came to the funeral because of his prominence in the community.

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 People filed past his open casket,

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 and they commented on how peaceful he looked.

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 Death has a way of doing that,

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 of making us look peaceful.

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 Death is nature's way of saying you're working too hard.

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 You need to slow down.

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 And as they followed past,

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 they asked the same question that everybody always asks

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 when someone rich dies,

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 how much money did he leave?

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 He left it all.

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 We always leave it all.

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 People got up to eulogize him.

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 Mostly they talked about his accomplishments,

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 because everyone knew about him,

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 but no one really knew him.

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 He was one of the leading entrepreneurs of the day.

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 He was an innovator in technology.

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 He was a man of principles.

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 He never cheated on his taxes.

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 He never cheated on his expense sheet.

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 He never cheated on his wife.

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 He was a pillar of the community.

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 Everybody knew that.

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 Everybody saw how great he was.

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 He was an amazing networker.

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 This guy could network everything.

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 He never cheated on his side.

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 He never cheated on his side.

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 They commissioned a large marble monolith

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 by his grave,

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 and on it they wrote visionary,

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 innovator, leader, entrepreneur.

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 And at the top of the monolith,

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 they wrote this huge word, success.

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 But when it was dark and no one was around,

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 the angel of God was sent to the cemetery.

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 Unseen and unheard,

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 the angel made its way past all of the monuments,

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 until it came to his wonderful monument.

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 And in the quiet,

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 the angel traced with his finger

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 on the monolith

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 the words that God had used to describe him.

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 F-O-O-L.

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 Fool.

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 You fool.

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 This night,

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 your soul will be required of you.

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 As I think of this story,

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 I just think maybe there's a parallel going on

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 with this parable

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 of what's happening in Europe,

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 in the States,

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 in Asia.

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 We're so busy

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 accumulating stuff

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 for ourselves

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 that we haven't taken time off

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 to think about God

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 and to thank him

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 for where we are.

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 I guess a challenge this morning for me

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 and for all of us

00:19:00.340 --> 00:19:01.560
 as we think about this parable

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 is

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 am I,

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 are we

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 making efforts

00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:10.040
 to be richer towards God

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 or are we just interested

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 in getting more

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 stuff?

00:19:21.360 --> 00:19:22.340
 Chapter 12,

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 Jesus is talking to his disciples

00:19:24.140 --> 00:19:27.100
 in this very interesting passage

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 because as he's giving this amazing sermon,

00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:31.240
 this young man stands up

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 and he yells out a question

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 which has nothing to do

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 with the sermon.

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 Meaning,

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 you wonder what people are thinking.

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 Here,

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 he's the greatest communicator

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 of all time

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 and even the people

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 in the congregation

00:19:42.220 --> 00:19:44.000
 aren't clued in

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 to his words.

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 It kind of gives me comfort

00:19:45.700 --> 00:19:46.339
 as a pastor

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 because I wonder sometimes

00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:49.539
 what you're thinking

00:19:49.539 --> 00:19:50.180
 out there.

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 Does all he own

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 is blue shirts?

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 Well,

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 at least his belt

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 and his shoes

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 are matched today.

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 But the guy comes

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 and he asks Jesus

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 this incredible question

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 and I want to take

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 these couple minutes

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 just to look at it

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 because I think

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 there's so much more

00:20:08.900 --> 00:20:09.740
 we need to learn

00:20:09.740 --> 00:20:10.519
 from this passage

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 and it's found

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 in verse 13

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 through 21

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 of Luke 12.

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 It's interesting

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 when he asks

00:20:18.840 --> 00:20:19.740
 this question,

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 Jesus never answers

00:20:21.420 --> 00:20:21.980
 the question

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 that people ask.

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 He always answers

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 the problem

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 that's in their heart.

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 in our heart.

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 And so this guy

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 asked this question

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 if you look at it

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 in your bulletin

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 this is,

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 I'm going to look

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 through this really quickly

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 and we're going to make,

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 we're going to go through this.

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 I want to run through this

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 and we'll make some points

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 about the text

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 and see what we have

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 to learn here.

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 I want to share with you

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 some things

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 that I've been learning

00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:47.480
 these last couple weeks

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 and then I want to do

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 a quick exercise

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 and then you're dismissed

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 for Father's Day.

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 So in verse 13

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 someone in a crowd

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 yelled out to him,

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 teacher,

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 tell my brother

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 to divide the family

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 inheritance with me.

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 Someone,

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 we don't know who it is,

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 he yells out,

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 rabbi,

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 respected person,

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 tell my brother

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 to divide the inheritance

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 with me.

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 Those listening

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 would have known

00:21:14.540 --> 00:21:15.720
 exactly what had happened.

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 The father had died

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 and the boy yelling out

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 was the younger son

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 and the older son

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 who got two-thirds

00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:24.680
 of the inheritance

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 would always divide up

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 the inheritance

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 when it was his time

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 but he hadn't done it yet

00:21:28.819 --> 00:21:29.860
 and the younger son

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 was frustrated

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 because he wanted his stuff.

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 It's interesting

00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:34.660
 in this passage,

00:21:34.980 --> 00:21:35.960
 he doesn't ask God

00:21:35.960 --> 00:21:37.460
 to fix the relationship

00:21:37.460 --> 00:21:38.039
 between him

00:21:38.039 --> 00:21:38.700
 and the older brother.

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 He doesn't say,

00:21:40.819 --> 00:21:41.079
 God,

00:21:41.460 --> 00:21:42.740
 our relationship is broken.

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 We're arguing

00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:45.460
 with each other.

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 I know that we've never

00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:48.759
 seen this happen

00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:49.380
 in Hong Kong

00:21:49.380 --> 00:21:50.140
 and you've never seen

00:21:50.140 --> 00:21:51.059
 this happen in your life

00:21:51.059 --> 00:21:51.879
 when someone dies

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 and then everybody

00:21:52.339 --> 00:21:52.960
 starts arguing

00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:53.799
 over the stuff

00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:56.059
 but it happened

00:21:56.059 --> 00:21:56.819
 in Jesus' day

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 and the guy

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 doesn't ask Jesus

00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:00.500
 to fix the relationship.

00:22:00.639 --> 00:22:01.099
 He doesn't ask

00:22:01.099 --> 00:22:01.879
 to mend hearts.

00:22:02.179 --> 00:22:02.659
 He doesn't say,

00:22:02.980 --> 00:22:03.519
 hey, check me

00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:04.379
 because maybe my motives

00:22:04.379 --> 00:22:04.819
 are wrong.

00:22:05.139 --> 00:22:05.700
 Maybe something's

00:22:05.700 --> 00:22:06.299
 going on here.

00:22:06.579 --> 00:22:07.059
 Can you bring me

00:22:07.059 --> 00:22:07.779
 back to my brother?

00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:08.940
 All he asks Jesus

00:22:08.940 --> 00:22:09.960
 is I want my stuff.

00:22:11.819 --> 00:22:12.819
 Give me my stuff.

00:22:14.819 --> 00:22:15.740
 In verse 14,

00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:16.519
 Jesus says,

00:22:17.099 --> 00:22:17.399
 man,

00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:19.099
 who appointed me

00:22:19.099 --> 00:22:19.579
 a judge

00:22:19.579 --> 00:22:20.440
 or arbitrated over you?

00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:21.740
 It's a very strong word.

00:22:21.820 --> 00:22:22.279
 In the Middle Eastern,

00:22:22.420 --> 00:22:23.100
 everybody listening

00:22:23.100 --> 00:22:24.039
 would have been freaking out

00:22:24.039 --> 00:22:24.920
 because it was like

00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:25.940
 Jesus was disgusted

00:22:25.940 --> 00:22:26.580
 with this guy.

00:22:28.080 --> 00:22:28.620
 And so he doesn't even

00:22:28.620 --> 00:22:29.440
 call him by name

00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:30.039
 even though he would have

00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:30.640
 known his name

00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:32.059
 because he knows everything

00:22:32.059 --> 00:22:32.980
 but he addresses him

00:22:32.980 --> 00:22:33.880
 just as a man.

00:22:35.180 --> 00:22:35.960
 And then he shares

00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:36.799
 in verse 15,

00:22:37.460 --> 00:22:38.000
 beware,

00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:39.940
 pay attention,

00:22:40.500 --> 00:22:40.900
 understand,

00:22:41.580 --> 00:22:42.200
 learned about,

00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:43.259
 stay away from,

00:22:43.559 --> 00:22:44.440
 be on your guard,

00:22:44.820 --> 00:22:45.720
 always be constant,

00:22:45.940 --> 00:22:46.299
 active,

00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:46.740
 diligent,

00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:47.580
 look around

00:22:47.579 --> 00:22:49.139
 of every form.

00:22:49.139 --> 00:22:50.539
 There's more than one form.

00:22:50.859 --> 00:22:51.720
 There's position,

00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:52.639
 there's power,

00:22:52.819 --> 00:22:53.399
 there's possession

00:22:53.399 --> 00:22:54.460
 of greed,

00:22:54.980 --> 00:22:55.419
 coveting,

00:22:55.779 --> 00:22:56.919
 wanting things that aren't yours,

00:22:57.259 --> 00:22:58.339
 wanting more than you need,

00:22:58.679 --> 00:22:59.399
 wanting a surplus

00:22:59.399 --> 00:23:00.079
 that's not healthy.

00:23:00.399 --> 00:23:02.019
 Beware of these things

00:23:02.019 --> 00:23:04.500
 because not even

00:23:04.500 --> 00:23:05.220
 when one of you

00:23:05.220 --> 00:23:06.220
 has an abundance

00:23:06.220 --> 00:23:08.299
 does his life

00:23:08.299 --> 00:23:09.319
 consist

00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:10.859
 of these things.

00:23:10.859 --> 00:23:13.159
 Jesus looks

00:23:13.159 --> 00:23:14.199
 at the guy's heart.

00:23:16.679 --> 00:23:17.599
 He looks

00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:18.799
 at our heart

00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:21.439
 and he says,

00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:21.679
 you know,

00:23:21.859 --> 00:23:23.899
 you have a problem

00:23:23.899 --> 00:23:25.740
 and your problem

00:23:25.740 --> 00:23:26.299
 is greed.

00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:31.459
 You have a problem

00:23:31.459 --> 00:23:32.000
 and your problem

00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:33.319
 is coveting.

00:23:35.619 --> 00:23:36.339
 And it's interesting

00:23:36.339 --> 00:23:37.299
 because greed

00:23:37.299 --> 00:23:37.939
 and coveting

00:23:37.939 --> 00:23:39.259
 is so subtle,

00:23:39.259 --> 00:23:40.920
 it's so behind the scenes.

00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:41.960
 No one has ever

00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:42.559
 come to me

00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:43.339
 and confessed,

00:23:43.460 --> 00:23:43.640
 you know,

00:23:43.700 --> 00:23:44.400
 I have a problem

00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:44.879
 with greed.

00:23:44.980 --> 00:23:45.640
 Can you pray for me?

00:23:47.619 --> 00:23:48.319
 I've had people say,

00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:48.879
 I've had a problem

00:23:48.879 --> 00:23:49.440
 with my wife,

00:23:49.500 --> 00:23:49.839
 I have a problem

00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:50.379
 with my anger,

00:23:50.500 --> 00:23:50.900
 I have a problem

00:23:50.900 --> 00:23:51.660
 with materialism,

00:23:51.980 --> 00:23:52.640
 kind of,

00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:54.819
 but I have a problem

00:23:54.819 --> 00:23:55.660
 with these other things,

00:23:55.900 --> 00:23:56.619
 but never I have

00:23:56.619 --> 00:23:57.420
 a problem with greed.

00:23:59.299 --> 00:24:00.240
 But the scripture

00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:01.460
 talks about it

00:24:01.460 --> 00:24:02.519
 over and over

00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:03.220
 and I think the thing

00:24:03.220 --> 00:24:03.859
 that's scary

00:24:03.859 --> 00:24:04.720
 about greed

00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:05.500
 and hypocrisy

00:24:05.500 --> 00:24:07.839
 is if we walk

00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:09.079
 into that minefield,

00:24:09.259 --> 00:24:11.420
 if we go down

00:24:11.420 --> 00:24:12.039
 that road,

00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:14.859
 we start living out

00:24:14.859 --> 00:24:16.259
 a life that's hypocritical.

00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:18.920
 And so Jesus

00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:20.720
 is so concerned

00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:21.660
 about this

00:24:21.660 --> 00:24:23.079
 and he says,

00:24:23.259 --> 00:24:24.039
 be careful of this,

00:24:24.299 --> 00:24:24.980
 beware of this,

00:24:25.180 --> 00:24:26.160
 it's going to destroy you.

00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:27.359
 It's the tenth commandment,

00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:29.259
 thou shall not covet.

00:24:31.240 --> 00:24:32.460
 It's the loving of stuff,

00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:33.539
 it's the hoarding of stuff.

00:24:35.400 --> 00:24:36.779
 If I were to pick

00:24:36.779 --> 00:24:37.940
 one sin

00:24:37.940 --> 00:24:38.519
 that I would say

00:24:38.519 --> 00:24:38.940
 is probably

00:24:38.940 --> 00:24:39.779
 the chief sin,

00:24:40.019 --> 00:24:40.639
 I would probably

00:24:40.639 --> 00:24:41.460
 say it's greed

00:24:41.460 --> 00:24:44.339
 and coveting.

00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:46.720
 I mean,

00:24:46.779 --> 00:24:47.519
 think about it.

00:24:48.099 --> 00:24:48.879
 It's the sin

00:24:48.879 --> 00:24:49.879
 that got the angels

00:24:49.879 --> 00:24:50.779
 kicked out of heaven.

00:24:52.460 --> 00:24:53.899
 They wanted to be like God,

00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:54.819
 they wanted the things

00:24:54.819 --> 00:24:55.220
 of God,

00:24:55.379 --> 00:24:56.279
 they wanted to know

00:24:56.279 --> 00:24:57.299
 and act like God

00:24:57.299 --> 00:24:58.279
 and they got kicked out of the,

00:24:58.339 --> 00:24:59.079
 it was a sin

00:24:59.079 --> 00:24:59.980
 that got Adam and Eve

00:24:59.980 --> 00:25:00.839
 kicked out of the garden.

00:25:01.420 --> 00:25:02.480
 They wanted to be like God,

00:25:02.539 --> 00:25:03.099
 they wanted to have

00:25:03.099 --> 00:25:03.700
 the things of God,

00:25:03.740 --> 00:25:04.139
 they wanted to have

00:25:04.139 --> 00:25:04.779
 the knowledge of God

00:25:04.779 --> 00:25:05.700
 and it seems like

00:25:05.700 --> 00:25:07.039
 from that time on

00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:07.639
 it's been the sin

00:25:07.639 --> 00:25:08.799
 that causes quarrels,

00:25:09.539 --> 00:25:10.039
 wars,

00:25:10.899 --> 00:25:11.420
 strife,

00:25:12.299 --> 00:25:12.740
 division,

00:25:13.819 --> 00:25:14.099
 envy,

00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:15.639
 disputes,

00:25:16.639 --> 00:25:17.000
 jealousy,

00:25:18.139 --> 00:25:18.420
 hatred.

00:25:21.220 --> 00:25:22.819
 We can covet a lot of things,

00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:23.519
 we can be greedy

00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:24.279
 about a lot of things,

00:25:24.359 --> 00:25:25.299
 the passage says that,

00:25:25.660 --> 00:25:27.399
 many things be careful of.

00:25:28.420 --> 00:25:29.240
 We can be coveted

00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:29.960
 about possessions,

00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:30.819
 about stuff.

00:25:30.819 --> 00:25:33.419
 We can be greedy

00:25:33.419 --> 00:25:34.619
 about positions,

00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:36.059
 titles and jobs

00:25:36.059 --> 00:25:36.700
 and offices,

00:25:36.819 --> 00:25:37.779
 I want those things.

00:25:39.159 --> 00:25:40.059
 We can be greedy

00:25:40.059 --> 00:25:41.419
 about power.

00:25:44.439 --> 00:25:45.579
 In the book of Romans,

00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:46.679
 when Paul looked

00:25:46.679 --> 00:25:47.379
 at his life,

00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:49.099
 he looked at his life

00:25:49.099 --> 00:25:49.839
 outwardly

00:25:49.839 --> 00:25:51.659
 and he said,

00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:52.200
 look at me,

00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:54.200
 I'm perfect.

00:25:55.659 --> 00:25:56.919
 I'm a Jew of Jews,

00:25:57.419 --> 00:25:58.879
 I've kept all the requirements,

00:25:59.179 --> 00:26:00.220
 I keep all the laws,

00:26:00.220 --> 00:26:00.980
 I've done everything.

00:26:02.180 --> 00:26:03.319
 But in Romans 7,

00:26:03.420 --> 00:26:04.360
 he looks at his heart.

00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:07.559
 He doesn't look outwardly

00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:08.559
 but he looks inwardly

00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:09.720
 like God calls us to.

00:26:11.360 --> 00:26:12.539
 And he looks at his heart

00:26:12.539 --> 00:26:13.000
 and he goes,

00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:15.420
 I have a problem.

00:26:19.299 --> 00:26:20.380
 And this problem is

00:26:20.380 --> 00:26:20.960
 that I covet.

00:26:23.319 --> 00:26:24.360
 I see things

00:26:24.360 --> 00:26:25.220
 that other people have

00:26:25.220 --> 00:26:26.200
 and I want those things

00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:27.640
 and all of these things

00:26:27.640 --> 00:26:28.779
 are coming into my world

00:26:28.779 --> 00:26:30.119
 and Paul realizes

00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:32.619
 that sin has invaded his life

00:26:32.619 --> 00:26:34.079
 and has changed him.

00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:34.539
 Ultimately,

00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:36.319
 greed and coveting

00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:37.940
 is an attempt

00:26:37.940 --> 00:26:40.259
 to find satisfaction

00:26:40.259 --> 00:26:41.920
 and happiness

00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:43.680
 and ultimate meaning

00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:45.879
 in things that are temporary

00:26:45.879 --> 00:26:49.879
 instead of God.

00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:55.220
 it seems like

00:26:55.220 --> 00:26:56.140
 when we do that,

00:26:56.800 --> 00:26:59.180
 we're walking along

00:26:59.180 --> 00:26:59.760
 as Christians

00:26:59.760 --> 00:27:00.600
 and we're attached

00:27:00.600 --> 00:27:01.260
 to the gospel

00:27:01.260 --> 00:27:01.840
 and the power

00:27:01.840 --> 00:27:02.580
 of the Holy Spirit

00:27:02.580 --> 00:27:03.640
 and all of a sudden

00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:04.280
 we just kind of

00:27:04.280 --> 00:27:05.180
 de-gospelize

00:27:05.180 --> 00:27:06.040
 or we decouple

00:27:06.040 --> 00:27:06.980
 and we say,

00:27:07.300 --> 00:27:07.380
 no,

00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:08.300
 I'm not going to trust

00:27:08.300 --> 00:27:09.000
 in that anymore,

00:27:09.080 --> 00:27:09.640
 I'm going to trust

00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:10.220
 in my money.

00:27:12.820 --> 00:27:13.300
 Or no,

00:27:13.340 --> 00:27:14.020
 I'm not going to trust

00:27:14.020 --> 00:27:14.480
 in that anymore,

00:27:14.580 --> 00:27:15.140
 I'm going to trust

00:27:15.140 --> 00:27:15.840
 in my position.

00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:18.659
 And as we head down

00:27:18.659 --> 00:27:19.419
 that path,

00:27:20.579 --> 00:27:21.359
 the scripture says

00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:23.720
 that we become slaves

00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:26.279
 to the things

00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:27.139
 that we really want

00:27:27.139 --> 00:27:29.419
 and we desire.

00:27:31.919 --> 00:27:33.119
 Does anybody have a problem

00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:33.759
 with coveting

00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:34.419
 and greed in here?

00:27:36.419 --> 00:27:37.899
 Let me ask a couple questions.

00:27:39.480 --> 00:27:40.559
 Are you content

00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:41.339
 where you're at?

00:27:42.579 --> 00:27:43.019
 Financially,

00:27:43.399 --> 00:27:43.919
 location,

00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:45.300
 your job.

00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:45.960
 I mean,

00:27:46.019 --> 00:27:47.000
 as you look at your life

00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:47.620
 right now,

00:27:48.120 --> 00:27:48.680
 do you think

00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:50.200
 that this present condition

00:27:50.200 --> 00:27:51.279
 is the best condition

00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:51.940
 you could be in?

00:27:54.220 --> 00:27:55.019
 Are you content

00:27:55.019 --> 00:27:56.180
 with where God has you?

00:27:56.940 --> 00:27:57.140
 I mean,

00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:58.080
 could you say to God

00:27:58.080 --> 00:27:58.620
 right now,

00:27:58.980 --> 00:27:59.279
 God,

00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:00.500
 you have me

00:28:00.500 --> 00:28:02.100
 in the best place possible.

00:28:03.120 --> 00:28:03.360
 I mean,

00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:04.259
 I cannot imagine

00:28:04.259 --> 00:28:05.300
 any other better thing,

00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:05.560
 God,

00:28:05.620 --> 00:28:06.080
 you've had me

00:28:06.080 --> 00:28:07.600
 in exactly the best place.

00:28:08.700 --> 00:28:09.600
 With my family,

00:28:09.779 --> 00:28:10.500
 with my finances,

00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:11.259
 with my job,

00:28:11.340 --> 00:28:12.039
 with my location,

00:28:12.180 --> 00:28:12.759
 with my house,

00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:13.640
 with my car.

00:28:13.900 --> 00:28:14.100
 God,

00:28:14.140 --> 00:28:14.480
 you have me

00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:15.720
 exactly where I need to be.

00:28:17.700 --> 00:28:18.640
 Or would you say,

00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:19.280
 like me,

00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:20.340
 man,

00:28:20.380 --> 00:28:21.259
 if I were God,

00:28:21.320 --> 00:28:23.700
 I would do things

00:28:23.700 --> 00:28:24.200
 a little differently.

00:28:25.540 --> 00:28:26.180
 I'd probably get

00:28:26.180 --> 00:28:27.720
 a 20% more raise

00:28:27.720 --> 00:28:29.880
 and drive a little nicer car

00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:31.140
 and I don't know

00:28:31.140 --> 00:28:31.700
 about this house,

00:28:31.780 --> 00:28:32.500
 maybe I should own it

00:28:32.500 --> 00:28:33.180
 instead of renting it

00:28:33.180 --> 00:28:33.580
 because I'm just

00:28:33.580 --> 00:28:34.560
 wasting all this money.

00:28:36.560 --> 00:28:37.259
 That's just me.

00:28:39.320 --> 00:28:40.460
 Do you rejoice

00:28:40.460 --> 00:28:41.340
 when your friend

00:28:41.340 --> 00:28:42.040
 and your neighbor

00:28:42.039 --> 00:28:43.180
 prospers?

00:28:45.940 --> 00:28:46.740
 When your friend

00:28:46.740 --> 00:28:47.359
 gets something

00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:48.519
 that you don't have

00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:49.319
 but you want,

00:28:49.779 --> 00:28:50.460
 can you say,

00:28:50.599 --> 00:28:50.740
 man,

00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:51.700
 I'm so excited

00:28:51.700 --> 00:28:52.159
 for them.

00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:54.019
 I'm so excited

00:28:54.019 --> 00:28:54.599
 that their family

00:28:54.599 --> 00:28:55.599
 has got it together.

00:28:57.220 --> 00:28:58.119
 I'm so excited

00:28:58.119 --> 00:28:58.759
 that that husband

00:28:58.759 --> 00:29:00.039
 loves his wife

00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:00.700
 and spends time

00:29:00.700 --> 00:29:01.079
 with them.

00:29:02.099 --> 00:29:02.940
 I'm so excited

00:29:02.940 --> 00:29:03.519
 that that wife

00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:04.339
 respects her husband.

00:29:05.220 --> 00:29:05.940
 I'm so excited

00:29:05.940 --> 00:29:06.559
 that those kids,

00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:07.399
 they got into Harvard

00:29:07.399 --> 00:29:08.339
 finally and that's,

00:29:08.420 --> 00:29:09.319
 that's just amazing.

00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:11.240
 I'm so excited

00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:11.639
 for them.

00:29:11.779 --> 00:29:12.079
 I mean,

00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:13.119
 I want those things

00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:13.759
 but I'm just,

00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:15.019
 I'm just really glad

00:29:15.019 --> 00:29:16.039
 they got that new iPad

00:29:16.039 --> 00:29:18.200
 and that new Mac

00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:18.659
 PowerBook

00:29:18.659 --> 00:29:19.319
 that you can bend

00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:19.919
 like that.

00:29:20.639 --> 00:29:21.720
 That's really cool

00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:23.659
 but I'm really excited

00:29:23.659 --> 00:29:24.379
 they got it.

00:29:25.859 --> 00:29:26.899
 Can you say that?

00:29:26.900 --> 00:29:30.220
 Or do you say,

00:29:30.500 --> 00:29:31.380
 I need to go buy

00:29:31.380 --> 00:29:31.980
 that really cool

00:29:31.980 --> 00:29:32.600
 Mac PowerBook

00:29:32.600 --> 00:29:33.320
 before they see

00:29:33.320 --> 00:29:34.140
 that I don't have it

00:29:34.140 --> 00:29:35.400
 so they just assume

00:29:35.400 --> 00:29:36.300
 that I already have it too

00:29:36.300 --> 00:29:37.160
 and then we're both cool.

00:29:41.500 --> 00:29:42.540
 Do you want

00:29:42.540 --> 00:29:43.600
 what you have?

00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:44.519
 Now be very careful

00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:45.000
 this is gonna,

00:29:45.080 --> 00:29:45.600
 this is gonna take

00:29:45.600 --> 00:29:46.280
 some brain cells,

00:29:46.380 --> 00:29:46.600
 okay?

00:29:47.300 --> 00:29:48.320
 Do you want

00:29:48.320 --> 00:29:49.500
 what you have

00:29:49.500 --> 00:29:52.360
 is not having

00:29:52.360 --> 00:29:53.080
 what you want.

00:29:54.080 --> 00:29:54.800
 I know that sounds

00:29:54.800 --> 00:29:55.960
 like a country western song.

00:29:55.960 --> 00:29:57.740
 I want what I have,

00:29:57.840 --> 00:29:59.440
 I want what I don't have

00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:00.539
 but do you want

00:30:00.539 --> 00:30:01.860
 what you have

00:30:01.860 --> 00:30:02.860
 right now?

00:30:06.220 --> 00:30:07.480
 Or do you wanna have

00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:08.740
 what you want

00:30:08.740 --> 00:30:09.420
 for the future?

00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:11.860
 Are you generous

00:30:11.860 --> 00:30:12.980
 with what you have?

00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:13.819
 As you get more money,

00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:14.559
 if you get a pays,

00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:15.799
 if you get a bonus,

00:30:16.120 --> 00:30:16.579
 do you think,

00:30:16.660 --> 00:30:17.460
 oh how can I give this

00:30:17.460 --> 00:30:18.019
 away to people?

00:30:20.120 --> 00:30:21.079
 How can this go

00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:21.720
 towards the church?

00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:22.519
 How can this build up

00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:23.160
 treasures in heaven?

00:30:23.420 --> 00:30:24.259
 How can I help people

00:30:24.259 --> 00:30:24.720
 with this money?

00:30:24.980 --> 00:30:25.720
 Or do you think,

00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:26.460
 well this is my

00:30:26.460 --> 00:30:27.000
 great opportunity

00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:27.460
 to finally get

00:30:27.460 --> 00:30:28.200
 my car upgraded?

00:30:29.819 --> 00:30:30.660
 Or this is a great

00:30:30.660 --> 00:30:31.340
 opportunity for me

00:30:31.340 --> 00:30:32.380
 to change my lifestyle

00:30:32.380 --> 00:30:33.860
 because I deserve

00:30:33.860 --> 00:30:34.500
 a better lifestyle

00:30:34.500 --> 00:30:35.019
 because I've worked

00:30:35.019 --> 00:30:35.720
 so hard for it.

00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:37.680
 Are we generous

00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:38.799
 with what God gives us?

00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:42.779
 All these questions

00:30:42.779 --> 00:30:44.900
 I ask myself

00:30:44.900 --> 00:30:45.779
 all the time.

00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:50.660
 And Jesus wants us

00:30:50.660 --> 00:30:51.720
 to ask these things

00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:52.340
 of us

00:30:52.340 --> 00:30:53.680
 because he's worried

00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:54.620
 that we're gonna walk

00:30:54.619 --> 00:30:55.699
 down this road.

00:30:57.419 --> 00:30:58.519
 That we're gonna walk

00:30:58.519 --> 00:30:59.459
 into this minefield

00:30:59.459 --> 00:31:00.439
 and this minefield

00:31:00.439 --> 00:31:01.539
 is gonna enslave us

00:31:01.539 --> 00:31:02.319
 and destroy us

00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:03.359
 and change us

00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:04.159
 and the mine

00:31:04.159 --> 00:31:04.819
 that we're worried

00:31:04.819 --> 00:31:05.739
 about stepping on today

00:31:05.739 --> 00:31:06.439
 is greed

00:31:06.439 --> 00:31:07.579
 and coveting.

00:31:09.959 --> 00:31:10.839
 Are you following me?

00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:14.139
 The rest of the passage,

00:31:14.339 --> 00:31:15.339
 Jesus basically just says,

00:31:15.699 --> 00:31:16.779
 here are some things

00:31:16.779 --> 00:31:18.159
 you need to be aware of.

00:31:19.159 --> 00:31:20.759
 If you walk down this path,

00:31:20.959 --> 00:31:22.139
 you're gonna step on a mine.

00:31:22.140 --> 00:31:23.600
 And we're gonna run through them.

00:31:23.620 --> 00:31:24.240
 I wanna run through them

00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:24.800
 with you right now.

00:31:25.280 --> 00:31:26.520
 The first thing Jesus says

00:31:26.520 --> 00:31:27.240
 in verse 16

00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:28.200
 as you look at your bulletin,

00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:29.420
 Jesus warns

00:31:29.420 --> 00:31:30.180
 that we're heading

00:31:30.180 --> 00:31:31.160
 into the minefield,

00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:32.380
 that we're gonna become greedy,

00:31:32.740 --> 00:31:33.420
 that we're gonna worry

00:31:33.420 --> 00:31:34.160
 about coveting

00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:35.460
 if we just focus

00:31:35.460 --> 00:31:36.500
 on ourselves

00:31:36.500 --> 00:31:38.700
 and not on God.

00:31:39.860 --> 00:31:40.680
 Look at the passage.

00:31:42.259 --> 00:31:43.180
 He told them a parable

00:31:43.180 --> 00:31:43.860
 saying,

00:31:44.540 --> 00:31:45.720
 the land of the rich man

00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:46.740
 was very productive.

00:31:47.840 --> 00:31:48.280
 Now remember,

00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:49.420
 parables are stories.

00:31:49.420 --> 00:31:50.820
 The word actually means

00:31:50.820 --> 00:31:51.480
 to lay beside.

00:31:52.259 --> 00:31:53.180
 So Jesus is talking

00:31:53.180 --> 00:31:53.620
 to everybody

00:31:53.620 --> 00:31:55.340
 and he lays out this story

00:31:55.340 --> 00:31:56.140
 right in front of them

00:31:56.140 --> 00:31:56.640
 and he says,

00:31:56.759 --> 00:31:57.740
 okay, now take your life

00:31:57.740 --> 00:31:58.920
 and lay your life down

00:31:58.920 --> 00:31:59.620
 beside the story

00:31:59.620 --> 00:32:00.460
 and compare

00:32:00.460 --> 00:32:01.460
 and see how you're doing.

00:32:02.980 --> 00:32:03.880
 And so he shares

00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:04.700
 this first thing,

00:32:05.140 --> 00:32:06.340
 this first warning sign

00:32:06.340 --> 00:32:06.900
 as you walk

00:32:06.900 --> 00:32:07.779
 into this minefield

00:32:07.779 --> 00:32:08.460
 and he says,

00:32:08.740 --> 00:32:10.720
 the guy of a rich man,

00:32:11.019 --> 00:32:12.340
 his land was very,

00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:13.380
 very productive

00:32:13.380 --> 00:32:14.960
 and Jesus warns us,

00:32:14.980 --> 00:32:15.279
 he says,

00:32:15.460 --> 00:32:16.240
 you're gonna walk

00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:17.120
 into the minefield

00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:19.179
 when you forget

00:32:19.179 --> 00:32:19.899
 to give credit

00:32:19.899 --> 00:32:20.539
 for God

00:32:20.539 --> 00:32:22.579
 for what's going on

00:32:22.579 --> 00:32:23.119
 in your life.

00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:25.819
 You read in the passage,

00:32:26.019 --> 00:32:27.799
 the guy only thinks

00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:28.779
 of himself

00:32:28.779 --> 00:32:29.559
 and he thinks,

00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:30.459
 I did this,

00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:31.519
 I made this happen.

00:32:31.919 --> 00:32:33.199
 He looks at the harvest

00:32:33.199 --> 00:32:34.139
 and he says,

00:32:34.259 --> 00:32:35.179
 all of this was because

00:32:35.179 --> 00:32:36.219
 I was a great planter.

00:32:37.639 --> 00:32:39.239
 But every farmer knows

00:32:39.239 --> 00:32:40.419
 in farming

00:32:40.419 --> 00:32:41.699
 that there's rain,

00:32:42.139 --> 00:32:42.839
 there's hail,

00:32:43.219 --> 00:32:43.899
 there's sun,

00:32:44.299 --> 00:32:45.199
 there's locusts,

00:32:45.399 --> 00:32:46.019
 there's timing,

00:32:46.019 --> 00:32:48.119
 there's bacteria

00:32:48.119 --> 00:32:49.039
 that get into the dirt.

00:32:49.379 --> 00:32:50.379
 All of these things

00:32:50.379 --> 00:32:52.420
 can change the crop.

00:32:53.940 --> 00:32:55.200
 But the rich man says,

00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:56.039
 I did this,

00:32:56.099 --> 00:32:56.559
 it's me.

00:32:58.079 --> 00:32:59.200
 I made it happen.

00:33:01.639 --> 00:33:02.160
 Now I've gotten

00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:03.579
 some really serious arguments

00:33:03.579 --> 00:33:04.259
 sometimes with people

00:33:04.259 --> 00:33:05.119
 as I talked about this

00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:05.879
 and sometimes people

00:33:05.879 --> 00:33:06.700
 get really offended.

00:33:07.819 --> 00:33:08.039
 They go,

00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:09.879
 I worked hard.

00:33:12.139 --> 00:33:13.339
 I studied hard.

00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:15.339
 I got into Harvard

00:33:15.339 --> 00:33:17.679
 and I'm in

00:33:17.679 --> 00:33:18.579
 where I am

00:33:18.579 --> 00:33:20.220
 because of my work.

00:33:20.439 --> 00:33:21.259
 I've done everything

00:33:21.259 --> 00:33:22.000
 and that is what

00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:22.959
 has brought me here.

00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:27.419
 And I listen to them.

00:33:27.539 --> 00:33:27.699
 I go,

00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:28.220
 you're right.

00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:31.059
 I worked hard too

00:33:31.059 --> 00:33:33.679
 and I studied hard.

00:33:34.939 --> 00:33:35.379
 But you know,

00:33:35.419 --> 00:33:36.480
 that has nothing to do

00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:38.339
 with what country

00:33:38.339 --> 00:33:39.099
 I was born in.

00:33:39.099 --> 00:33:42.619
 And that has nothing

00:33:42.619 --> 00:33:43.699
 to do with what time

00:33:43.699 --> 00:33:44.419
 I was born.

00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:47.259
 Statistics tell us

00:33:47.259 --> 00:33:48.039
 that if we were born

00:33:48.039 --> 00:33:48.839
 one year later

00:33:48.839 --> 00:33:49.699
 or one year earlier

00:33:49.699 --> 00:33:50.779
 or five years later

00:33:50.779 --> 00:33:51.579
 or five years earlier

00:33:51.579 --> 00:33:52.039
 for sure,

00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:53.279
 we would not be

00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:54.619
 where we are right now.

00:33:58.000 --> 00:33:58.759
 We didn't choose

00:33:58.759 --> 00:33:59.279
 our parents.

00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:04.439
 We didn't choose

00:34:04.439 --> 00:34:05.179
 what we would look like.

00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:07.579
 We didn't choose

00:34:07.579 --> 00:34:08.500
 that we would have eyes.

00:34:10.219 --> 00:34:11.819
 And all of these things

00:34:11.819 --> 00:34:13.159
 that God has given us,

00:34:13.420 --> 00:34:14.099
 our mind,

00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:14.739
 our body,

00:34:15.059 --> 00:34:15.719
 where we're at,

00:34:15.860 --> 00:34:16.799
 all of these things

00:34:16.799 --> 00:34:17.519
 have brought us

00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:19.119
 where we are right now.

00:34:21.619 --> 00:34:22.340
 But the farmer

00:34:22.340 --> 00:34:22.860
 looks at that

00:34:22.860 --> 00:34:23.179
 and he goes,

00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:23.679
 no, it's me.

00:34:23.739 --> 00:34:24.119
 I did it.

00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:25.420
 I made it all happen.

00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:30.440
 I took a group

00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:30.920
 of students

00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:31.739
 when I was living

00:34:31.739 --> 00:34:32.159
 in China

00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:32.940
 to an orphanage.

00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:35.699
 And it was interesting

00:34:35.699 --> 00:34:36.940
 to see their reaction

00:34:36.940 --> 00:34:37.440
 when we walked

00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:38.260
 into the orphanage.

00:34:39.460 --> 00:34:40.200
 And we were playing

00:34:40.200 --> 00:34:40.720
 with the kids

00:34:40.720 --> 00:34:41.940
 and several of the kids

00:34:41.940 --> 00:34:42.780
 had nothing wrong

00:34:42.780 --> 00:34:43.079
 with them

00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:43.619
 except for like

00:34:43.619 --> 00:34:44.320
 a little spot

00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:44.980
 on their cheek,

00:34:45.780 --> 00:34:46.639
 a little birthmark.

00:34:48.280 --> 00:34:49.019
 And one of the guys

00:34:49.019 --> 00:34:49.860
 looked at this orphan

00:34:49.860 --> 00:34:51.099
 with that little birthmark,

00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:53.019
 that little physical scar

00:34:53.019 --> 00:34:53.519
 on him

00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:55.300
 and he started to cry

00:34:55.300 --> 00:34:56.240
 and he ran out

00:34:56.240 --> 00:34:56.679
 of the room.

00:34:58.980 --> 00:34:59.860
 And I caught up

00:34:59.860 --> 00:35:00.079
 with him

00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:00.300
 and I said,

00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:01.700
 what's going on?

00:35:03.220 --> 00:35:03.840
 And he goes,

00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:04.539
 I realize

00:35:04.539 --> 00:35:08.019
 that the only reason

00:35:08.019 --> 00:35:08.720
 I'm here

00:35:08.720 --> 00:35:09.680
 right now

00:35:09.680 --> 00:35:10.160
 studying

00:35:10.160 --> 00:35:11.260
 in this university

00:35:11.260 --> 00:35:13.780
 is because

00:35:13.780 --> 00:35:14.440
 I wasn't born

00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:15.000
 with a mark

00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:15.680
 on my face.

00:35:17.640 --> 00:35:18.400
 Because if I had

00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:19.480
 any imperfection,

00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:22.000
 my parents

00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:22.720
 would have sent me

00:35:22.720 --> 00:35:24.780
 to the orphanage.

00:35:27.900 --> 00:35:28.840
 I have a good friend,

00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:29.880
 he shares his testimony

00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:31.380
 and he talks about

00:35:31.380 --> 00:35:32.200
 how when his parents,

00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:33.899
 he was in his mother's stomach

00:35:33.899 --> 00:35:35.819
 and one of the tests

00:35:35.819 --> 00:35:36.480
 came back

00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:37.939
 later in stage of life

00:35:37.939 --> 00:35:38.739
 and it said

00:35:38.739 --> 00:35:39.939
 there was a 50% chance

00:35:39.939 --> 00:35:40.839
 that he was going to have

00:35:40.839 --> 00:35:42.219
 an abnormality,

00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:43.039
 genetic,

00:35:44.739 --> 00:35:45.399
 and that he would never

00:35:45.399 --> 00:35:46.219
 be able to survive

00:35:46.219 --> 00:35:46.980
 in the real world.

00:35:48.359 --> 00:35:48.960
 And the doctors

00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:49.579
 encouraged

00:35:49.579 --> 00:35:50.199
 and encouraged

00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:50.779
 and encouraged

00:35:50.779 --> 00:35:51.219
 his parents

00:35:51.219 --> 00:35:51.919
 to abort him.

00:35:53.739 --> 00:35:54.359
 And his parents,

00:35:54.659 --> 00:35:55.299
 which is amazing,

00:35:55.439 --> 00:35:56.460
 they weren't Christ followers

00:35:56.460 --> 00:35:57.000
 but they said,

00:35:57.399 --> 00:35:58.179
 we believe that

00:35:58.179 --> 00:35:59.219
 for some reason

00:35:59.219 --> 00:36:00.139
 we have this child

00:36:00.139 --> 00:36:00.599
 and we're going to

00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:01.259
 keep this child

00:36:01.260 --> 00:36:02.420
 and they kept him

00:36:02.420 --> 00:36:05.040
 and he was born

00:36:05.040 --> 00:36:05.840
 perfectly normal.

00:36:10.180 --> 00:36:11.020
 For some of us,

00:36:11.060 --> 00:36:11.460
 the only reason

00:36:11.460 --> 00:36:12.460
 we're here right now

00:36:12.460 --> 00:36:14.680
 is because the doctors

00:36:14.680 --> 00:36:15.720
 read our medical charts

00:36:15.720 --> 00:36:16.040
 right,

00:36:17.620 --> 00:36:18.720
 no abnormality

00:36:18.720 --> 00:36:19.320
 came back

00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:20.080
 in the blood work

00:36:20.080 --> 00:36:23.400
 and our parents

00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:24.480
 decided to keep us

00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:26.960
 instead of abort us.

00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:30.740
 But the farmer

00:36:30.740 --> 00:36:31.500
 doesn't know that.

00:36:31.579 --> 00:36:32.139
 The farmer thinks

00:36:32.139 --> 00:36:32.880
 it's all about him.

00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:33.699
 He did it all

00:36:33.699 --> 00:36:34.559
 and what Jesus

00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:35.400
 is trying to tell us

00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:36.320
 is if you run down

00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:36.840
 that road,

00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:37.579
 you're going to get

00:36:37.579 --> 00:36:38.019
 in trouble

00:36:38.019 --> 00:36:39.960
 because you're going

00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:40.539
 to become greedy

00:36:40.539 --> 00:36:40.860
 and you're going

00:36:40.860 --> 00:36:41.539
 to become lost.

00:36:42.860 --> 00:36:43.460
 He warns us

00:36:43.460 --> 00:36:44.320
 in verse 17,

00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:44.780
 again,

00:36:45.099 --> 00:36:45.659
 be careful.

00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:46.720
 The man began

00:36:46.720 --> 00:36:47.599
 reasoning to himself.

00:36:47.699 --> 00:36:48.579
 He's all by himself.

00:36:48.720 --> 00:36:49.340
 Everyone listening

00:36:49.340 --> 00:36:49.740
 would have been

00:36:49.740 --> 00:36:50.280
 freaking out

00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:51.039
 because he's all

00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:51.500
 by himself

00:36:51.500 --> 00:36:52.300
 and everyone in that

00:36:52.300 --> 00:36:53.099
 culture was communal.

00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:54.220
 He said to himself,

00:36:54.219 --> 00:36:55.339
 I shall do this

00:36:55.339 --> 00:36:56.199
 and I will do that

00:36:56.199 --> 00:36:56.679
 and no place

00:36:56.679 --> 00:36:57.619
 to store my crops

00:36:57.619 --> 00:36:58.459
 and then he said

00:36:58.459 --> 00:36:59.399
 this is what I will do.

00:36:59.459 --> 00:37:00.480
 I will tear down my barns

00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:01.239
 and I'll build larger ones

00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:02.039
 and they'll store

00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:02.619
 all my grains

00:37:02.619 --> 00:37:03.239
 and my goods

00:37:03.239 --> 00:37:04.939
 and Jesus warns us again.

00:37:05.019 --> 00:37:05.759
 He says be careful

00:37:05.759 --> 00:37:07.639
 when you separate yourself

00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:08.439
 from other people.

00:37:10.139 --> 00:37:10.759
 Be careful

00:37:10.759 --> 00:37:11.679
 when you separate yourself

00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:12.480
 from God

00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:13.759
 because when you start

00:37:13.759 --> 00:37:15.099
 thinking that ownership

00:37:15.099 --> 00:37:15.859
 is yours

00:37:15.859 --> 00:37:17.000
 and you're not a steward,

00:37:17.959 --> 00:37:20.219
 you're in trouble

00:37:20.219 --> 00:37:22.739
 and you're going

00:37:22.739 --> 00:37:23.500
 to become greedy

00:37:23.500 --> 00:37:26.000
 Jesus is warning us

00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:26.579
 and he's warning

00:37:26.579 --> 00:37:27.519
 the audience

00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:28.699
 that he's teaching to

00:37:28.699 --> 00:37:30.420
 that it's not our stuff,

00:37:30.500 --> 00:37:31.400
 it's not our crop,

00:37:31.500 --> 00:37:32.300
 it's not our barn,

00:37:32.380 --> 00:37:33.099
 it's not our house,

00:37:33.139 --> 00:37:33.840
 it's not our car,

00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:34.980
 it's not our bank account.

00:37:35.139 --> 00:37:36.320
 At least five more times

00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:37.019
 in the Gospel of Luke

00:37:37.019 --> 00:37:37.519
 he's going to talk

00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:39.059
 about these exact same things

00:37:39.059 --> 00:37:42.000
 and he's going to say

00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:42.639
 the only reason

00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:44.000
 you have what you have

00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:48.000
 is because God gave it to you.

00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:53.280
 I read this passage

00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:53.980
 and I thought wow

00:37:53.980 --> 00:37:55.000
 this is kind of like

00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:56.580
 the typical Hong Kong lifestyle,

00:37:56.740 --> 00:37:57.100
 isn't it?

00:37:58.180 --> 00:37:59.100
 I mean you think about it,

00:37:59.100 --> 00:37:59.920
 many of us in Hong Kong

00:37:59.920 --> 00:38:00.580
 we want to improve

00:38:00.580 --> 00:38:01.180
 our lifestyle.

00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:03.700
 We want to increase

00:38:03.700 --> 00:38:04.140
 our wealth,

00:38:04.240 --> 00:38:05.080
 we find more ways

00:38:05.080 --> 00:38:06.800
 to improve our lifestyle,

00:38:06.980 --> 00:38:07.800
 we find more ways

00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:08.780
 to enjoy ourselves,

00:38:09.120 --> 00:38:10.160
 we want to store up wealth,

00:38:10.240 --> 00:38:11.180
 we want to store up stuff

00:38:11.180 --> 00:38:12.280
 so that we can enjoy them

00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:12.900
 when we're old.

00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:14.280
 We're always planning

00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:14.880
 for the future,

00:38:14.980 --> 00:38:15.860
 we're making good investments

00:38:15.860 --> 00:38:16.440
 in stocks

00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:17.040
 and insurance

00:38:17.040 --> 00:38:17.760
 and wine

00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:18.380
 and property.

00:38:19.600 --> 00:38:20.340
 You notice this guy,

00:38:20.340 --> 00:38:21.900
 he's not yelled at

00:38:21.900 --> 00:38:23.120
 or criticized

00:38:23.120 --> 00:38:24.940
 for being a good planner

00:38:24.940 --> 00:38:28.160
 because the Bible wants us

00:38:28.160 --> 00:38:29.240
 to plan for our future

00:38:29.240 --> 00:38:32.019
 but what the guy

00:38:32.019 --> 00:38:32.920
 is criticized for

00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:34.000
 is that he leaves God

00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:35.620
 out of the plans.

00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:38.280
 He says,

00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:38.940
 I'm going to do it,

00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:40.600
 I can do it.

00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:43.120
 In verse 19,

00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:44.180
 Jesus goes on

00:38:44.180 --> 00:38:45.240
 and he tells his audience

00:38:45.240 --> 00:38:46.120
 and he tells us,

00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:49.279
 I will say to my soul,

00:38:49.380 --> 00:38:50.139
 in Greek and Hebrew,

00:38:50.259 --> 00:38:51.500
 he's actually saying myself,

00:38:52.179 --> 00:38:52.659
 self,

00:38:53.659 --> 00:38:54.759
 you have many goods

00:38:55.339 --> 00:38:56.319
 laid up for many years

00:38:56.319 --> 00:38:56.719
 to come.

00:38:58.000 --> 00:38:58.819
 Take your ease,

00:38:59.940 --> 00:39:00.179
 eat,

00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:01.139
 drink,

00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:02.699
 and be merry.

00:39:03.739 --> 00:39:03.980
 I mean,

00:39:04.139 --> 00:39:05.139
 he's so busy

00:39:05.139 --> 00:39:05.859
 thinking about

00:39:05.859 --> 00:39:07.119
 his physical body.

00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:10.519
 We're so busy

00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:12.299
 thinking about

00:39:12.299 --> 00:39:13.420
 our physical body.

00:39:13.420 --> 00:39:16.720
 that we forget

00:39:16.720 --> 00:39:17.260
 our soul.

00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:22.680
 And Jesus warns him

00:39:22.680 --> 00:39:23.420
 and he warns us,

00:39:23.820 --> 00:39:24.380
 be careful,

00:39:25.340 --> 00:39:25.960
 be careful,

00:39:26.720 --> 00:39:27.940
 be careful

00:39:27.940 --> 00:39:31.079
 because your future

00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:32.240
 isn't in your control.

00:39:34.220 --> 00:39:35.539
 It's in God's control.

00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:38.320
 Finally,

00:39:38.539 --> 00:39:39.340
 in verse 20,

00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:40.500
 verse 21,

00:39:41.099 --> 00:39:42.240
 Jesus shares with us

00:39:42.240 --> 00:39:42.860
 and he shares

00:39:42.860 --> 00:39:44.740
 with his congregation.

00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:47.019
 But God said to him,

00:39:47.099 --> 00:39:47.700
 you fool,

00:39:48.860 --> 00:39:49.720
 this very night

00:39:49.720 --> 00:39:50.380
 your soul

00:39:50.380 --> 00:39:51.720
 is required of you

00:39:51.720 --> 00:39:53.940
 and now

00:39:53.940 --> 00:39:54.880
 who will own

00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:55.920
 what you have been prepared?

00:39:57.320 --> 00:39:58.160
 So is the man

00:39:58.160 --> 00:39:58.940
 who stores up treasure

00:39:58.940 --> 00:39:59.599
 for himself

00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:00.340
 and is not rich

00:40:00.340 --> 00:40:01.220
 towards God.

00:40:02.740 --> 00:40:04.059
 All up until this point,

00:40:04.140 --> 00:40:04.519
 it's just been

00:40:04.519 --> 00:40:05.300
 the guy speaking.

00:40:05.860 --> 00:40:06.720
 I will do this,

00:40:06.860 --> 00:40:07.680
 I will do that,

00:40:07.780 --> 00:40:08.620
 I will do these things.

00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:09.500
 And all of a sudden,

00:40:09.640 --> 00:40:10.320
 God speaks

00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:11.200
 and he speaks

00:40:11.200 --> 00:40:12.559
 in a very powerful way

00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:13.559
 and he calls him

00:40:13.559 --> 00:40:14.099
 a fool.

00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:17.239
 In scripture,

00:40:17.579 --> 00:40:18.139
 in the Bible,

00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:19.619
 a fool is anyone

00:40:19.619 --> 00:40:20.940
 who disbelieves God

00:40:20.940 --> 00:40:23.639
 or disregards

00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:24.440
 God's teaching.

00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:26.179
 And if you look

00:40:26.179 --> 00:40:26.699
 at this parable,

00:40:26.799 --> 00:40:27.299
 you realize,

00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:27.799
 finally,

00:40:28.279 --> 00:40:29.420
 after all of his time,

00:40:29.739 --> 00:40:30.219
 the rich,

00:40:30.799 --> 00:40:31.799
 famous farmer

00:40:31.799 --> 00:40:33.400
 realizes that everything

00:40:33.400 --> 00:40:34.159
 isn't his.

00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:38.199
 his life's not his.

00:40:39.659 --> 00:40:41.039
 His stuff's not his.

00:40:41.899 --> 00:40:42.879
 His self's not his.

00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:43.579
 And actually,

00:40:43.679 --> 00:40:44.219
 the words

00:40:44.219 --> 00:40:45.039
 is required

00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:46.440
 is a banking term.

00:40:47.500 --> 00:40:48.559
 What Jesus is saying

00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:49.079
 is everything

00:40:49.079 --> 00:40:50.239
 that's on loan to you,

00:40:51.619 --> 00:40:52.239
 margin call,

00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:53.099
 everything's back.

00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:56.299
 Everything that I've given you,

00:40:57.239 --> 00:40:58.420
 I need it back.

00:40:58.420 --> 00:41:01.440
 And in this moment,

00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:02.519
 the guy realizes

00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:04.019
 as he walks through life,

00:41:04.200 --> 00:41:05.000
 all those things

00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:05.920
 he was clinging on

00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:06.900
 for significance

00:41:06.900 --> 00:41:07.659
 and who he was

00:41:07.659 --> 00:41:08.380
 and to bring power

00:41:08.380 --> 00:41:09.680
 and people recognize him,

00:41:09.800 --> 00:41:10.579
 all of these things

00:41:10.579 --> 00:41:11.619
 that weren't really his,

00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:12.980
 he has to give them back.

00:41:16.860 --> 00:41:18.180
 And he's left with nothing.

00:41:20.139 --> 00:41:20.460
 I mean,

00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:21.960
 these are harsh words.

00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:22.720
 I understand it.

00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:23.200
 I mean,

00:41:23.480 --> 00:41:24.519
 because the world would say

00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:25.639
 this guy was successful

00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:26.480
 and he was good

00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:27.199
 and he was famous,

00:41:27.460 --> 00:41:28.559
 but when we look at Scripture,

00:41:28.980 --> 00:41:30.319
 Jesus looks at this man

00:41:30.319 --> 00:41:31.359
 in verse 21

00:41:31.359 --> 00:41:32.159
 and he turns back

00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:33.159
 to the man who yells out

00:41:33.159 --> 00:41:33.819
 at the very beginning

00:41:33.819 --> 00:41:35.039
 and he says these words,

00:41:35.420 --> 00:41:36.059
 so is the man

00:41:36.059 --> 00:41:36.759
 who stores up treasure

00:41:36.759 --> 00:41:37.319
 for himself.

00:41:37.900 --> 00:41:40.139
 He is not rich towards God.

00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:41.879
 He's living like a fool.

00:41:49.819 --> 00:41:51.339
 Are we living like a fool today?

00:41:55.639 --> 00:41:58.719
 Where are we storing up

00:41:58.719 --> 00:41:59.119
 our riches?

00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:03.559
 What are we thinking about

00:42:03.559 --> 00:42:04.559
 as we walk through life?

00:42:04.619 --> 00:42:05.079
 Are we thinking

00:42:05.079 --> 00:42:06.000
 that it's me, me, me

00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:06.539
 who's did it?

00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:09.980
 Or do we think

00:42:09.980 --> 00:42:10.619
 God has brought me

00:42:10.619 --> 00:42:11.039
 to this place,

00:42:11.139 --> 00:42:12.000
 God has given me sight,

00:42:12.119 --> 00:42:13.059
 God has allowed me to hear,

00:42:13.420 --> 00:42:14.339
 God has given me the health

00:42:14.339 --> 00:42:15.480
 and he has allowed me

00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:15.960
 to be here?

00:42:19.139 --> 00:42:19.879
 Here's some thoughts

00:42:19.879 --> 00:42:20.579
 I want to run through

00:42:20.579 --> 00:42:21.199
 really quickly.

00:42:22.460 --> 00:42:23.159
 These are things

00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:24.400
 that I've been struggling with

00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:26.639
 in the last couple weeks.

00:42:26.680 --> 00:42:27.639
 I know I say it every time.

00:42:28.780 --> 00:42:29.700
 But yeah.

00:42:32.200 --> 00:42:33.400
 My first thought is this.

00:42:33.539 --> 00:42:34.820
 Life is a gift on loan.

00:42:36.160 --> 00:42:37.280
 Each day is a gift

00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:38.780
 and everything we have

00:42:38.780 --> 00:42:39.720
 belongs to God.

00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:42.599
 It's a gift to be used,

00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:43.860
 enjoyed,

00:42:44.420 --> 00:42:45.280
 and returned.

00:42:48.539 --> 00:42:49.619
 And when we start thinking

00:42:49.619 --> 00:42:50.400
 that we own it,

00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:53.300
 we're in trouble.

00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:56.960
 Number two,

00:42:57.940 --> 00:42:59.460
 every moment we have a choice,

00:43:00.460 --> 00:43:01.500
 are we going to live our life

00:43:01.500 --> 00:43:02.280
 for ourself

00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:04.800
 or towards God?

00:43:05.900 --> 00:43:07.360
 There's only two choices

00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:07.920
 in the Bible.

00:43:09.019 --> 00:43:09.880
 And I know this might run

00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:10.660
 some of you away

00:43:10.660 --> 00:43:11.260
 because we hear

00:43:11.260 --> 00:43:12.420
 different gospels sometimes,

00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:13.639
 but in the Bible it says

00:43:13.639 --> 00:43:14.760
 we only have two choices.

00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:17.000
 Are we going to live our lives

00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:17.940
 towards God

00:43:17.940 --> 00:43:19.639
 or towards ourself?

00:43:19.820 --> 00:43:20.559
 Are we going to store up

00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:21.720
 treasures for ourselves

00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:22.899
 or are we going to store up

00:43:22.899 --> 00:43:24.000
 treasures in heaven?

00:43:25.179 --> 00:43:26.339
 Both of these storings

00:43:26.339 --> 00:43:27.419
 involve trust.

00:43:29.019 --> 00:43:30.179
 Whenever you give something

00:43:30.179 --> 00:43:30.659
 to somebody

00:43:30.659 --> 00:43:31.419
 and they store it,

00:43:31.619 --> 00:43:32.679
 you have to trust them.

00:43:32.859 --> 00:43:33.739
 You're trusting the bank,

00:43:33.819 --> 00:43:34.759
 you're trusting the institution,

00:43:34.939 --> 00:43:35.759
 you're trusting your banker,

00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:37.459
 you're trusting your investment guy,

00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:38.899
 or you're trusting God.

00:43:39.019 --> 00:43:40.239
 But there's a huge element

00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:41.079
 of trust in there.

00:43:41.359 --> 00:43:42.359
 And what this guy realizes

00:43:42.359 --> 00:43:43.719
 is that storing up things

00:43:43.719 --> 00:43:44.819
 here on earth

00:43:44.819 --> 00:43:46.799
 ultimately failed him.

00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:48.900
 because the abundance

00:43:48.900 --> 00:43:50.160
 of our life

00:43:50.160 --> 00:43:52.780
 doesn't guarantee

00:43:52.780 --> 00:43:53.960
 our eternity.

00:43:58.460 --> 00:43:59.300
 Here's the question

00:43:59.300 --> 00:44:00.019
 I want to ask.

00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:02.940
 I've been very hesitant

00:44:02.940 --> 00:44:03.600
 to ask this.

00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:08.820
 If God were

00:44:08.820 --> 00:44:09.740
 an investment banker

00:44:09.740 --> 00:44:15.140
 and he looks at your life

00:44:15.139 --> 00:44:19.420
 and he realizes

00:44:19.420 --> 00:44:20.119
 everything

00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:21.019
 that he's put

00:44:21.019 --> 00:44:21.960
 into your life,

00:44:23.179 --> 00:44:23.579
 money,

00:44:25.299 --> 00:44:25.759
 talents,

00:44:26.900 --> 00:44:27.400
 connections,

00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:29.299
 family,

00:44:30.339 --> 00:44:30.960
 health,

00:44:32.119 --> 00:44:32.619
 eyesight,

00:44:33.559 --> 00:44:34.799
 stopping that drunk car

00:44:34.799 --> 00:44:35.639
 from hitting you

00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:36.719
 when you should have

00:44:36.719 --> 00:44:37.539
 been wiped out.

00:44:38.539 --> 00:44:39.139
 God,

00:44:39.339 --> 00:44:40.239
 as an investment banker,

00:44:40.539 --> 00:44:41.480
 and the only return

00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:42.179
 God wants

00:44:42.179 --> 00:44:42.920
 in your life

00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:44.379
 is treasures in heaven.

00:44:45.139 --> 00:44:46.179
 Because that's

00:44:46.179 --> 00:44:46.980
 what the Bible says.

00:44:48.359 --> 00:44:49.239
 So God is

00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:49.980
 an investment banker.

00:44:50.299 --> 00:44:50.779
 He's invested

00:44:50.779 --> 00:44:51.799
 all these things

00:44:51.799 --> 00:44:53.199
 in your life.

00:44:58.639 --> 00:44:59.440
 Have we been

00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:00.019
 a good investment

00:45:00.019 --> 00:45:00.440
 for him?

00:45:08.799 --> 00:45:09.379
 I mean,

00:45:09.460 --> 00:45:10.599
 have we brought

00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:11.379
 the return

00:45:11.379 --> 00:45:14.420
 that an investment banker

00:45:14.420 --> 00:45:15.139
 would have expected?

00:45:17.200 --> 00:45:18.139
 Now this has nothing

00:45:18.139 --> 00:45:19.119
 to do with our salvation,

00:45:19.260 --> 00:45:19.440
 right?

00:45:19.579 --> 00:45:20.940
 The gospel saves us.

00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:21.639
 We're not working

00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:22.619
 to earn our salvation.

00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:24.000
 We're already a child

00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:24.320
 of God.

00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:25.099
 We're walking with him.

00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:25.920
 That's the power

00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:26.480
 of the gospel.

00:45:28.460 --> 00:45:29.360
 But after that,

00:45:29.420 --> 00:45:30.139
 God continues

00:45:30.139 --> 00:45:30.980
 to build into us

00:45:30.980 --> 00:45:31.519
 and he continues

00:45:31.519 --> 00:45:32.360
 to invest into us

00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:32.760
 and he continues

00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:33.440
 to give to us.

00:45:33.639 --> 00:45:34.260
 And the question

00:45:34.260 --> 00:45:35.880
 we have to ask ourselves

00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:36.460
 is,

00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:39.119
 are we a good investment?

00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:44.779
 if the only thing

00:45:44.779 --> 00:45:45.460
 he expects

00:45:45.460 --> 00:45:46.319
 is treasures

00:45:46.319 --> 00:45:48.380
 stored in heaven?

00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:53.119
 Have we been

00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:54.179
 dealing with God's word?

00:45:55.119 --> 00:45:55.599
 Have we been

00:45:55.599 --> 00:45:56.099
 in community?

00:45:57.059 --> 00:45:57.519
 Have we been

00:45:57.519 --> 00:45:58.359
 giving and tithing

00:45:58.359 --> 00:45:59.019
 and helping people

00:45:59.019 --> 00:45:59.579
 less fortunate

00:45:59.579 --> 00:46:00.159
 than ourselves?

00:46:01.960 --> 00:46:02.539
 When we look

00:46:02.539 --> 00:46:03.059
 at our neighbors,

00:46:03.599 --> 00:46:04.440
 the two great commandments,

00:46:04.579 --> 00:46:05.139
 love the Lord your God

00:46:05.139 --> 00:46:05.579
 with all your heart,

00:46:05.659 --> 00:46:06.079
 mind, and soul.

00:46:06.319 --> 00:46:07.059
 Look at your neighbor,

00:46:07.179 --> 00:46:07.579
 love your neighbor

00:46:07.579 --> 00:46:08.039
 as yourself.

00:46:08.299 --> 00:46:08.759
 The guy asked,

00:46:08.819 --> 00:46:09.319
 who is my neighbor?

00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:09.599
 He said,

00:46:09.619 --> 00:46:09.920
 your neighbor,

00:46:09.980 --> 00:46:10.699
 is anybody in need?

00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:11.500
 Take care of them.

00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:13.799
 Heavenly investments.

00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:17.139
 Have we been

00:46:17.139 --> 00:46:17.900
 a good return

00:46:17.900 --> 00:46:19.559
 on those things?

00:46:25.259 --> 00:46:26.159
 The Bible says

00:46:26.159 --> 00:46:27.199
 that Jesus was rich

00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:30.079
 but for our sakes

00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:30.880
 he became poor.

00:46:34.299 --> 00:46:35.900
 He paid the debt

00:46:35.900 --> 00:46:36.960
 that we owed God.

00:46:37.579 --> 00:46:39.319
 the debt

00:46:39.319 --> 00:46:40.139
 that we owed God

00:46:40.139 --> 00:46:41.199
 was hell.

00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:44.099
 That's a bad debt.

00:46:46.259 --> 00:46:46.940
 And Jesus

00:46:46.940 --> 00:46:49.039
 paid that debt

00:46:49.039 --> 00:46:50.480
 on the cross

00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:51.880
 not by tithing

00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:52.319
 his blood.

00:46:52.420 --> 00:46:52.779
 Okay, I'll give

00:46:52.779 --> 00:46:53.779
 20% now

00:46:53.779 --> 00:46:54.860
 and maybe 30% later.

00:46:55.139 --> 00:46:56.179
 He paid that debt

00:46:56.179 --> 00:46:57.360
 because he gave

00:46:57.360 --> 00:46:57.900
 everything.

00:46:58.259 --> 00:46:58.840
 He poured out

00:46:58.840 --> 00:46:59.900
 everything on the cross.

00:46:59.900 --> 00:47:06.639
 Jesus is incredibly rich

00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:09.420
 and generous

00:47:09.420 --> 00:47:11.480
 towards everyone

00:47:11.480 --> 00:47:12.079
 in this room.

00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:17.519
 And because he is

00:47:17.519 --> 00:47:21.079
 we can be also.

00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:26.139
 because he is

00:47:26.139 --> 00:47:28.920
 we have the freedom

00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:30.480
 to be also.

00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:33.960
 As I look at this passage

00:47:33.960 --> 00:47:34.940
 and I think of greed

00:47:34.940 --> 00:47:35.579
 and coveting

00:47:35.579 --> 00:47:36.739
 I've been praying for us

00:47:36.739 --> 00:47:37.779
 every day as a church.

00:47:38.380 --> 00:47:39.779
 I'm praying that who we are

00:47:39.779 --> 00:47:41.159
 our identity

00:47:41.159 --> 00:47:43.279
 is not defined

00:47:43.279 --> 00:47:44.059
 by where we live

00:47:44.059 --> 00:47:44.799
 or where we meet.

00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.680
 I'm praying that our identity

00:47:47.680 --> 00:47:48.220
 isn't defined

00:47:48.220 --> 00:47:49.200
 by the clothes we wear

00:47:49.200 --> 00:47:50.180
 the barns or wealth

00:47:50.180 --> 00:47:50.920
 that we accumulate

00:47:50.920 --> 00:47:53.100
 where our kiddos

00:47:53.100 --> 00:47:54.000
 go to school

00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:55.340
 who we know

00:47:55.340 --> 00:47:56.000
 the group of people

00:47:56.000 --> 00:47:56.640
 we hang around

00:47:56.640 --> 00:47:57.400
 our business card

00:47:57.400 --> 00:47:57.960
 our family

00:47:57.960 --> 00:47:59.280
 how big our business is

00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:00.280
 how big our church is.

00:48:00.740 --> 00:48:01.700
 I'm praying that our identity

00:48:01.700 --> 00:48:02.480
 isn't determined

00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:03.260
 by those things

00:48:03.260 --> 00:48:04.240
 because it is

00:48:04.240 --> 00:48:04.780
 we're walking

00:48:04.780 --> 00:48:05.620
 in this minefield

00:48:05.620 --> 00:48:06.780
 and we're just as lost

00:48:06.780 --> 00:48:08.920
 as the rich farmer.

00:48:08.920 --> 00:48:13.039
 I'm praying as a church

00:48:13.039 --> 00:48:13.680
 and as individuals

00:48:13.680 --> 00:48:14.740
 that our identity

00:48:14.740 --> 00:48:16.539
 is rooted firmly

00:48:16.539 --> 00:48:17.500
 in God

00:48:17.500 --> 00:48:21.280
 the gospel of Jesus Christ

00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:23.480
 the grace of God

00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:24.460
 that is poured out

00:48:24.460 --> 00:48:26.119
 on the cross.

00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:29.240
 I want to do an exercise

00:48:29.240 --> 00:48:30.240
 very quickly.

00:48:31.039 --> 00:48:32.300
 At the very beginning

00:48:32.300 --> 00:48:33.579
 I handed out money

00:48:33.579 --> 00:48:35.059
 to about 20 people

00:48:35.059 --> 00:48:36.240
 in this congregation.

00:48:36.659 --> 00:48:37.800
 Would you please stand up

00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:38.659
 and pass it out

00:48:38.659 --> 00:48:39.059
 to everybody?

00:48:42.219 --> 00:48:43.299
 I know who you are

00:48:43.299 --> 00:48:44.079
 so you can't run off

00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:44.599
 with it okay?

00:48:51.659 --> 00:48:52.480
 Every adult

00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:53.879
 should get a one dollar bill.

00:48:54.179 --> 00:48:54.859
 Every adult.

00:48:55.099 --> 00:48:56.219
 Everybody take one.

00:48:56.599 --> 00:48:57.579
 Don't be a cutie.

00:48:58.059 --> 00:48:59.039
 Everybody take one.

00:49:03.899 --> 00:49:05.500
 I did a one dollar bill

00:49:05.500 --> 00:49:06.899
 because I'm an American

00:49:06.899 --> 00:49:07.839
 yeah you can give me

00:49:07.839 --> 00:49:08.420
 a hard time.

00:49:08.659 --> 00:49:10.299
 But also I felt like

00:49:10.299 --> 00:49:11.219
 I won't get arrested

00:49:11.219 --> 00:49:12.079
 if I were an American

00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:12.519
 and I did this

00:49:12.519 --> 00:49:13.019
 I'd get arrested

00:49:13.019 --> 00:49:13.460
 because I wrote

00:49:13.460 --> 00:49:14.440
 on American money right?

00:49:14.500 --> 00:49:15.139
 So that's bad.

00:49:16.299 --> 00:49:18.579
 So on the dollar bill

00:49:18.579 --> 00:49:19.359
 just do as quick

00:49:19.359 --> 00:49:19.879
 as you can buddy.

00:49:20.559 --> 00:49:20.940
 That's good.

00:49:21.279 --> 00:49:21.839
 On the back

00:49:21.839 --> 00:49:22.460
 of the dollar bill

00:49:22.460 --> 00:49:23.199
 I want you to hold it up.

00:49:23.259 --> 00:49:23.920
 Everybody have one?

00:49:24.179 --> 00:49:24.879
 If you don't have one

00:49:24.879 --> 00:49:25.899
 raise your hand.

00:49:29.019 --> 00:49:29.899
 Dave you got some more?

00:49:29.900 --> 00:49:38.480
 I want to give this to you.

00:49:38.599 --> 00:49:39.680
 Christina and I

00:49:39.680 --> 00:49:41.340
 want to give this to you

00:49:41.340 --> 00:49:41.820
 as a gift.

00:49:43.539 --> 00:49:44.940
 Our hope is

00:49:44.940 --> 00:49:46.700
 that you would put it

00:49:46.700 --> 00:49:47.599
 we have more money

00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:48.440
 any more money?

00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:51.280
 We have any more?

00:49:51.539 --> 00:49:51.800
 Any more?

00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:52.800
 Okay.

00:49:57.800 --> 00:49:58.400
 Charles you want to

00:49:58.400 --> 00:49:58.780
 hand it up?

00:49:59.500 --> 00:50:00.080
 Raise your hand.

00:50:08.260 --> 00:50:08.980
 Hold it up.

00:50:11.980 --> 00:50:12.900
 It's very interesting

00:50:12.900 --> 00:50:13.280
 isn't it?

00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:13.860
 Because on the back

00:50:13.860 --> 00:50:14.519
 it says in God

00:50:14.519 --> 00:50:15.100
 we trust.

00:50:15.099 --> 00:50:17.699
 But what we wrote

00:50:17.699 --> 00:50:18.259
 on there

00:50:18.259 --> 00:50:19.519
 was a Bible verse

00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:22.119
 Luke 12 21

00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:24.639
 So is the man

00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:25.339
 who stores up

00:50:25.339 --> 00:50:26.400
 treasure for himself

00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:28.659
 and is not rich

00:50:28.659 --> 00:50:29.460
 towards God.

00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:32.259
 You can stick this

00:50:32.259 --> 00:50:32.860
 in your Bible

00:50:32.860 --> 00:50:33.980
 please don't put it

00:50:33.980 --> 00:50:35.039
 in the offering box

00:50:35.039 --> 00:50:38.980
 to convert it

00:50:38.980 --> 00:50:39.920
 just to moff on.

00:50:40.279 --> 00:50:40.500
 Okay.

00:50:40.799 --> 00:50:41.900
 So don't do that.

00:50:42.759 --> 00:50:43.420
 But the reason

00:50:43.420 --> 00:50:44.199
 I gave it to you

00:50:44.199 --> 00:50:44.900
 is I want it

00:50:44.900 --> 00:50:46.380
 you to take this

00:50:46.380 --> 00:50:47.940
 and think about it

00:50:47.940 --> 00:50:48.740
 as you go through

00:50:48.740 --> 00:50:49.280
 this day

00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:49.940
 and this week.

00:50:51.300 --> 00:50:52.119
 I mean this passage

00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:53.139
 tells us

00:50:53.139 --> 00:50:54.840
 that God

00:50:54.840 --> 00:50:56.840
 listen to me guys

00:50:56.840 --> 00:50:59.840
 this passage

00:50:59.840 --> 00:51:00.820
 tells us

00:51:00.820 --> 00:51:02.480
 that God

00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:03.340
 wants us

00:51:03.340 --> 00:51:04.340
 to enjoy life

00:51:04.340 --> 00:51:07.579
 but he doesn't

00:51:07.579 --> 00:51:08.340
 want us to do it

00:51:08.340 --> 00:51:09.220
 a part of

00:51:09.220 --> 00:51:09.800
 a relationship

00:51:09.800 --> 00:51:10.400
 with him

00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:12.139
 and other people

00:51:12.139 --> 00:51:12.820
 around us.

00:51:14.900 --> 00:51:16.099
 this passage

00:51:16.099 --> 00:51:17.119
 tells us

00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:18.220
 that God

00:51:18.220 --> 00:51:19.380
 wants us

00:51:19.380 --> 00:51:20.340
 to have stuff

00:51:20.340 --> 00:51:23.220
 but he doesn't

00:51:23.220 --> 00:51:23.660
 want us

00:51:23.660 --> 00:51:24.480
 to worship it.

00:51:26.119 --> 00:51:27.180
 He doesn't want

00:51:27.180 --> 00:51:27.820
 it to become

00:51:27.820 --> 00:51:28.599
 our gods

00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:29.660
 he doesn't want us

00:51:29.660 --> 00:51:30.119
 to forget

00:51:30.119 --> 00:51:31.139
 that we're not owners

00:51:31.139 --> 00:51:31.940
 but we're stewards

00:51:31.940 --> 00:51:32.920
 and one day

00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:33.500
 there's going to be

00:51:33.500 --> 00:51:34.340
 a bell that rings

00:51:34.340 --> 00:51:35.160
 inside your head

00:51:35.160 --> 00:51:36.099
 your eyes are going

00:51:36.099 --> 00:51:36.539
 to close

00:51:36.539 --> 00:51:37.559
 and the next thing

00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:37.900
 you do

00:51:37.900 --> 00:51:38.639
 when you open up

00:51:38.639 --> 00:51:39.059
 your eyes

00:51:39.059 --> 00:51:39.400
 hopefully

00:51:39.400 --> 00:51:39.780
 is you're going

00:51:39.780 --> 00:51:40.780
 to see Jesus Christ

00:51:40.780 --> 00:51:45.019
 and you're going

00:51:45.019 --> 00:51:45.640
 to look around

00:51:45.640 --> 00:51:46.180
 and you're not

00:51:46.180 --> 00:51:46.460
 going to have

00:51:46.460 --> 00:51:47.220
 any of the stuff

00:51:47.220 --> 00:51:47.660
 that you had

00:51:47.660 --> 00:51:48.040
 on earth

00:51:48.040 --> 00:51:48.600
 with you.

00:51:50.200 --> 00:51:51.060
 The only thing

00:51:51.060 --> 00:51:51.320
 you're going

00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:51.700
 to have

00:51:51.700 --> 00:51:52.460
 in your new home

00:51:52.460 --> 00:51:53.320
 is the heavenly

00:51:53.320 --> 00:51:53.780
 treasures

00:51:53.780 --> 00:51:54.340
 that you sent

00:51:54.340 --> 00:51:54.740
 ahead.

00:51:56.360 --> 00:51:56.980
 That's it.

00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:00.100
 And this passage

00:52:00.100 --> 00:52:00.680
 tells us

00:52:00.680 --> 00:52:00.980
 that God

00:52:00.980 --> 00:52:01.500
 wants us

00:52:01.500 --> 00:52:02.080
 to have stuff

00:52:02.080 --> 00:52:02.900
 he wants us

00:52:02.900 --> 00:52:03.700
 to enjoy things

00:52:03.700 --> 00:52:04.560
 but he wants us

00:52:04.560 --> 00:52:04.980
 to remember

00:52:04.980 --> 00:52:05.900
 that it's not

00:52:05.900 --> 00:52:06.460
 ours

00:52:06.460 --> 00:52:08.340
 that ownership

00:52:08.340 --> 00:52:09.100
 is a myth

00:52:09.099 --> 00:52:12.579
 ownership

00:52:12.579 --> 00:52:13.480
 is a myth

00:52:13.480 --> 00:52:14.299
 even with our

00:52:14.299 --> 00:52:14.719
 kids

00:52:14.719 --> 00:52:17.339
 even with our

00:52:17.339 --> 00:52:17.719
 life

00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:19.920
 God gives it

00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:20.139
 to us

00:52:20.139 --> 00:52:20.440
 for a little

00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:21.179
 while to enjoy

00:52:21.179 --> 00:52:21.679
 and then one day

00:52:21.679 --> 00:52:22.079
 he's going to ask

00:52:22.079 --> 00:52:22.599
 for it back

00:52:22.599 --> 00:52:24.460
 and hopefully

00:52:24.460 --> 00:52:25.119
 we'll be with him

00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:25.900
 enjoying eternity.

00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:29.239
 This passage

00:52:29.239 --> 00:52:30.059
 tells us

00:52:30.059 --> 00:52:30.559
 that God

00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:31.599
 wants us

00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:32.679
 to plan

00:52:32.679 --> 00:52:33.559
 for our futures

00:52:33.559 --> 00:52:36.799
 but he wants

00:52:36.799 --> 00:52:37.380
 us to remember

00:52:37.380 --> 00:52:38.299
 that our future

00:52:38.300 --> 00:52:39.980
 isn't here

00:52:39.980 --> 00:52:42.840
 that our future

00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:43.420
 is in heaven

00:52:43.420 --> 00:52:46.760
 and that's

00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:47.260
 where he wants

00:52:47.260 --> 00:52:47.760
 us to store

00:52:47.760 --> 00:52:48.320
 our treasures

00:52:48.320 --> 00:52:51.080
 not here

00:52:51.080 --> 00:52:53.440
 but in heaven

00:52:53.440 --> 00:52:55.920
 mine too

00:52:55.920 --> 00:52:58.260
 Jesus says

00:52:58.260 --> 00:52:58.640
 be careful

00:52:58.640 --> 00:52:59.060
 you walking

00:52:59.060 --> 00:52:59.760
 down that road

00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:02.100
 everybody has

00:53:02.100 --> 00:53:02.680
 that problem

00:53:02.680 --> 00:53:04.640
 everybody has

00:53:04.640 --> 00:53:05.160
 that problem

00:53:05.159 --> 00:53:06.299
 is probably

00:53:06.299 --> 00:53:06.739
 the greatest

00:53:06.739 --> 00:53:07.139
 sin

00:53:07.139 --> 00:53:08.480
 no one wants

00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:08.779
 to talk

00:53:08.779 --> 00:53:09.119
 about it

00:53:09.119 --> 00:53:09.480
 because no one

00:53:09.480 --> 00:53:09.799
 wants to say

00:53:09.799 --> 00:53:10.279
 I'm greedy

00:53:10.279 --> 00:53:12.039
 they'd rather say

00:53:12.039 --> 00:53:13.059
 I look at pornography

00:53:13.059 --> 00:53:13.940
 or I'm a drunk

00:53:13.940 --> 00:53:14.379
 but they don't want

00:53:14.379 --> 00:53:14.899
 to say I'm greedy

00:53:14.899 --> 00:53:16.480
 but Jesus says

00:53:16.480 --> 00:53:17.259
 we all struggle

00:53:17.259 --> 00:53:17.679
 with it

00:53:17.679 --> 00:53:19.460
 and we need

00:53:19.460 --> 00:53:20.019
 to be careful

00:53:20.019 --> 00:53:23.119
 we need

00:53:23.119 --> 00:53:23.579
 to be careful

00:53:23.579 --> 00:53:26.480
 Father we just

00:53:26.480 --> 00:53:27.119
 thank you for this

00:53:27.119 --> 00:53:27.420
 day

00:53:27.420 --> 00:53:28.320
 I thank you

00:53:28.320 --> 00:53:28.960
 for your mercy

00:53:28.960 --> 00:53:29.619
 and your grace

00:53:29.619 --> 00:53:30.320
 in our life

00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:31.300
 we thank you

00:53:31.300 --> 00:53:32.059
 for your goodness

00:53:32.059 --> 00:53:33.900
 and Father we thank you

00:53:33.900 --> 00:53:34.519
 for your word

00:53:34.519 --> 00:53:35.179
 that is living

00:53:35.179 --> 00:53:35.900
 and active

00:53:35.900 --> 00:53:37.639
 and never changes

00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:39.699
 and as we look

00:53:39.699 --> 00:53:40.480
 at this parable

00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:42.099
 of the rich farmer

00:53:42.099 --> 00:53:44.099
 we realize

00:53:44.099 --> 00:53:44.639
 that

00:53:44.639 --> 00:53:46.380
 that's us

00:53:46.380 --> 00:53:47.500
 if we're honest

00:53:47.500 --> 00:53:49.579
 we realize

00:53:49.579 --> 00:53:50.380
 that there's times

00:53:50.380 --> 00:53:51.119
 that we've forgotten

00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:51.500
 you

00:53:51.500 --> 00:53:53.360
 we realize

00:53:53.360 --> 00:53:54.380
 that there's times

00:53:54.380 --> 00:53:55.559
 that we've forgotten

00:53:55.559 --> 00:53:56.760
 community and fellowship

00:53:56.760 --> 00:53:57.380
 we realize

00:53:57.380 --> 00:53:58.159
 that there's times

00:53:58.159 --> 00:53:59.000
 we think this stuff

00:53:59.000 --> 00:53:59.559
 is ours

00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:00.539
 we realize

00:54:00.539 --> 00:54:01.400
 that there's times

00:54:01.400 --> 00:54:02.780
 that we think

00:54:02.780 --> 00:54:03.340
 that this is where

00:54:03.340 --> 00:54:04.420
 we store our treasures

00:54:04.420 --> 00:54:06.480
 and Father we just

00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:07.039
 come before you

00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:07.840
 and we just confess

00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:08.840
 and we repent

00:54:08.840 --> 00:54:10.800
 and we ask

00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:11.320
 your forgiveness

00:54:11.320 --> 00:54:14.780
 I know there are

00:54:14.780 --> 00:54:15.280
 people in here

00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:15.760
 even now

00:54:15.760 --> 00:54:16.320
 who haven't even

00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:17.179
 started the journey

00:54:17.179 --> 00:54:18.000
 with Christ

00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:20.239
 in our hope

00:54:20.239 --> 00:54:21.659
 what you heard

00:54:21.659 --> 00:54:22.339
 from this message

00:54:22.339 --> 00:54:23.079
 is that God

00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:23.719
 loves you

00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:25.839
 and he so desires

00:54:25.839 --> 00:54:26.559
 to have a relationship

00:54:26.559 --> 00:54:27.179
 with you

00:54:27.179 --> 00:54:31.059
 and our prayer

00:54:31.059 --> 00:54:31.500
 is that you would

00:54:31.500 --> 00:54:32.039
 stop having

00:54:32.039 --> 00:54:32.579
 relationships

00:54:32.579 --> 00:54:34.019
 with stuff

00:54:34.019 --> 00:54:36.339
 things that will

00:54:36.339 --> 00:54:37.119
 pass away

00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:37.799
 one day

00:54:37.799 --> 00:54:39.759
 and that you will

00:54:39.759 --> 00:54:40.219
 have it with

00:54:40.219 --> 00:54:41.099
 the eternal God

00:54:41.099 --> 00:54:43.079
 who you can enjoy

00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:43.679
 forever

00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:47.079
 and for the rest

00:54:47.079 --> 00:54:47.379
 of us

00:54:47.379 --> 00:54:47.879
 I just pray

00:54:47.879 --> 00:54:48.159
 Lord

00:54:48.159 --> 00:54:48.719
 as we walk

00:54:48.719 --> 00:54:49.279
 on this journey

00:54:49.279 --> 00:54:49.899
 and we walk

00:54:49.899 --> 00:54:50.759
 into these fields

00:54:50.759 --> 00:54:51.759
 and these struggles

00:54:51.759 --> 00:54:53.279
 that we would have

00:54:53.279 --> 00:54:54.079
 brothers and sisters

00:54:54.079 --> 00:54:54.659
 around us

00:54:54.659 --> 00:54:55.279
 who care enough

00:54:55.279 --> 00:54:55.739
 about us

00:54:55.739 --> 00:54:56.779
 to ask us questions

00:54:56.779 --> 00:54:58.859
 that we'd have

00:54:58.859 --> 00:54:59.419
 brothers and sisters

00:54:59.419 --> 00:54:59.919
 around us

00:54:59.919 --> 00:55:00.519
 who care enough

00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:01.179
 to pick us up

00:55:01.179 --> 00:55:01.859
 when we fall

00:55:01.859 --> 00:55:02.859
 and to point us

00:55:02.859 --> 00:55:03.839
 into the right direction

00:55:03.839 --> 00:55:04.980
 the direction of mercy

00:55:04.980 --> 00:55:06.179
 and direction of grace

00:55:06.179 --> 00:55:08.559
 and so Lord

00:55:08.559 --> 00:55:09.659
 we just come before you

00:55:09.659 --> 00:55:10.399
 as your people

00:55:10.399 --> 00:55:12.739
 and we continue

00:55:12.739 --> 00:55:13.359
 to think

00:55:13.359 --> 00:55:16.559
 that your son

00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:17.519
 was so rich

00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:21.000
 and yet for us

00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:21.859
 he became poor

00:55:21.859 --> 00:55:24.879
 he paid the debt

00:55:24.879 --> 00:55:25.899
 that we could never pay

00:55:25.899 --> 00:55:27.980
 so that we might

00:55:27.980 --> 00:55:28.699
 become rich

00:55:28.699 --> 00:55:30.940
 as members

00:55:30.940 --> 00:55:31.619
 of your family

00:55:31.619 --> 00:55:34.379
 help this gospel

00:55:34.379 --> 00:55:35.000
 message

00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:36.159
 permeate all

00:55:36.159 --> 00:55:36.840
 that we do

00:55:36.840 --> 00:55:38.960
 may we be generous

00:55:38.960 --> 00:55:40.159
 and gracious

00:55:40.159 --> 00:55:41.860
 because we serve

00:55:41.860 --> 00:55:42.619
 a God who is

00:55:42.619 --> 00:55:44.400
 we love you

00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:45.019
 amen