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332. Does God Want You To Be Rich? - The Truth About Money · The Impossible Life

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  Speaker 2: your co host, Nick Surface, and I'm looking across the
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  Speaker 2: demand so detached for money. He's never had a bank
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  Speaker 2: account in his life.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, friends. The FORMODAVC.
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  Speaker 2: Garret unkleback a man whose currency is faith and wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: Nice house you got there. I thought you I thought
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  Speaker 1: you were going to say something else?
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  Speaker 2: What did you think I was gonna say?
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  Speaker 1: I won't say.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm very curious now, but yeah, it's nice
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so maybe something a little more bloody. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know that've been obvious.
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  Speaker 2: Why did I give that inturgy Because today we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about a question that I feel like circulates just regularly.
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  Speaker 2: It's like as regular as springtime. You can count on
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  Speaker 2: it just coming back around for generations of general, which is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, does God want me to be wealthy?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: Or does God want me to be poor? Would be
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  Speaker 2: the counter at that fact. And this is one that
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  Speaker 2: people I've heard debates all across. We're going to get
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  Speaker 2: into this today. We're going to show you the common
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  Speaker 2: thought processes. We're going to show you what God actually
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  Speaker 2: says and give you some very clear uh grounding so
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  Speaker 2: that you can go with confidence in what you do,
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  Speaker 2: because I think this is one that can trip people
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  Speaker 2: up on both sides, Like you can go either way.
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  Speaker 2: So look, there's let let's just get straight in. There's
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  Speaker 2: the things that people know, you know, prosperity Gospel has
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  Speaker 2: now become almost like a black label, Like if you
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  Speaker 2: get labeled with the prosperity Gospel, people are just going
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  Speaker 2: to write you off straight away. And so we have
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  Speaker 2: that extreme that's been out there that came a lot
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  Speaker 2: from the Faith and Rama movement and Tolsa that I
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  Speaker 2: grew up in that in that gospel and honesty where
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  Speaker 2: it was like you know, name it and claim it,
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  Speaker 2: and it was just a huge, huge thing. Now I
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  Speaker 2: was a kid, So I'm not going to sit here
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  Speaker 2: and this is not the Past Judgment podcast, but that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people got this idea that it was
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  Speaker 2: just like God when you're when you follow God, it's
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  Speaker 2: just like open up the easy tap, money flies into
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  Speaker 2: you and like like sacks of cash show up on
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  Speaker 2: your doorstep right now. Finnily enough, when we had Nate Burkhalter,
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  Speaker 2: he literally did have an envelope full of cash on
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  Speaker 2: his doorstep if you remember his story. But so people
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  Speaker 2: will people will point to that and be like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you're a prosperity Gospel person. It's very bad. And then
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  Speaker 2: there's like, well, was Jesus rich because you know that
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  Speaker 2: seamless rope he wore was worth like thousands.
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  Speaker 1: And then like to what did the wise men bring
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus? Right, yeah, exactly. Jesus got a nice endowment
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  Speaker 1: of gold when he was born.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well exactly. Well so was that bad or
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  Speaker 2: what happened? Then they went to go to Egypt? How
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  Speaker 2: much did they have? How do they live in Egypt?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they use the money? And these are the things,
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  Speaker 2: these are the questions that trip people up. Then mark too,
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  Speaker 2: Like Jesus returned home and those guys dug through the roof.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people say that was jesus house and
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  Speaker 2: it was packed full of people, which means it must
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  Speaker 2: have been a good size. So you know, these are
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  Speaker 2: the kind of like people that arguments that people get into.
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  Speaker 2: And I, personally, I've just always felt like that question
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  Speaker 2: missed the mark, because like, here's the question that your
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  Speaker 2: mentor Phil asked us once whenever we were planning. We
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  Speaker 2: were doing a planning day for the Impossible Life and
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  Speaker 2: Phil was guiding us. And some people say Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: a carpenter, some people say he was a stonemason. Let's regardless.
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  Speaker 2: Phil said it like this, He said, if Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: a carpenter. What were his tables? Like, I remember when
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  Speaker 2: he said that. I just sat back and I was like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 2: the creator of the universe, who is down to precise
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  Speaker 2: detail in living form, you think you're going to show
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  Speaker 2: up like, hey, sorry, we didn't have the materials for
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  Speaker 2: your table, and it's four weeks late, and I screwed
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  Speaker 2: up on this corner.
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  Speaker 1: But you know you could just.
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  Speaker 2: Take it, dude, his tables would have been immaculate.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever is premium luxury brand for you, and I mean
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  Speaker 1: in quality, not in let's trickle charge for the name.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you think is the nicest quality brand. That's I
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  Speaker 1: think what Jesus's tables were like.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent. And we're a big believer in principles.
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  Speaker 2: To me, go, I look at it, I'm like, God's
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  Speaker 2: not poor, right, we know that he's all powerful. And
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  Speaker 2: even that saying of God's not poor as kind of
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  Speaker 2: a misunderstanding of the fact that we invented currency like
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  Speaker 2: a leila, for there was times in our life in
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  Speaker 2: the human history where there was no currency. So anyways,
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  Speaker 2: I just think that whole thing, if you understand how
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  Speaker 2: principles work, if you do the right things and you
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  Speaker 2: live in a just society where you know people aren't
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  Speaker 2: just getting robbed ak, it's not socialism, and you have
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  Speaker 2: to give all your profits away. Why wouldn't you think
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  Speaker 2: that that would be that you'd be successful if you
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  Speaker 2: follow God's ways and you're orderly, it's natural that you
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  Speaker 2: were going to reap benefits because you're bringing so much
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  Speaker 2: value to people. So I've always thought that question is
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  Speaker 2: a little bit crazy. But let's get into the camps gee,
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  Speaker 2: because there's basically two camps of when you look at this,
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  Speaker 2: and this is what we all have to wrestle with.
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  Speaker 2: We've heard this one. Money's the root of all evil, right,
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  Speaker 2: and like people will quote that all the time. It's
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  Speaker 2: in movie, it's in culture. And so you should be
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  Speaker 2: poor because like clearly money is the problem. And that's
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  Speaker 2: from one Corinthians six' ten where he says for the
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  Speaker 2: love of money is a root of all kinds of.
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  Speaker 2: Evil but if you look at the entire passage First,
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  Speaker 2: timent the six nine through, ten here's what he actually.
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  Speaker 2: Says but those who desire to be rich fall into,
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  Speaker 2: temptation into a, snare into many senseless and harmful desires
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  Speaker 2: that plunge people into ruin and. Destruction sounds like our
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  Speaker 2: manipulation podcast that we. Recorded starts with a desire right
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  Speaker 2: for the love of money is a root of all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of. Evils very. Clear he does not SAY thee
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  Speaker 2: BECAUSE thee would mean that it's the root of all,
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  Speaker 2: evil like people often miss.
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  Speaker 1: Money and even more, so the problem is the love of.
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  Speaker 1: Money it's what do you chase? After Because jesus, said,
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  Speaker 1: hey not even it's not even about money versus. Me
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  Speaker 1: Remember jesus, said if you don't hate your father and
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  Speaker 1: brother and sister a, mother you can't follow. Me what
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  Speaker 1: was he, saying if you don't love me Most jesus
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  Speaker 1: was clear to divide everything in this category of if
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  Speaker 1: you don't love me more than, that you're doing it. Wrong,
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  Speaker 1: Right and so this scripture and One timothy is saying
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  Speaker 1: the same. Thing if you love, money you're going down
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  Speaker 1: the wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Path, now why don't we Have, gee that's such a great,
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  Speaker 2: point because why don't we have? That Does jews want
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  Speaker 2: me to have a family argument in?
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  Speaker 1: Society?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right BECAUSE i mean that's a that's a bold. Scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah well, yeah Because jesus, SAID i hate your father
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  Speaker 1: and no that's not what he. Said what he's saying
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  Speaker 1: is you have to love me most.
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  Speaker 2: RIGHT i think it's because money is probably a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more self serving than. Family anybody who's had kids
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  Speaker 2: knows that the only person more selfish than you in
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  Speaker 2: the world is.
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  Speaker 1: Kids, well, people people set, Up people set up arguments
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  Speaker 1: to defend their viewpoint or what makes them feel comfortable
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  Speaker 1: in their current. Place in both of these two camps
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to talk, about WHAT i WHAT i
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  Speaker 1: See oftentimes WHEN i hear individuals with THIS i would,
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  Speaker 1: say as baked, Viewpoint i'll see someone who's unwilling to
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  Speaker 1: do the. Work AND i don't mean just physical, labor
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  Speaker 1: but they're unwilling to grow and transform and understand what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have to go, through the difficulty you're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to go through to become Who god's
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  Speaker 1: called you to. Be and oftentimes to see people sitting
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  Speaker 1: while we're talking about this first, viewpoint this first camp, Here,
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  Speaker 1: hey money is the root of all. EVIL a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people look at, that or WHAT i have seen
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  Speaker 1: is people who quote that with this you, know, Hey
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  Speaker 1: i'm all against. Money these are also people WHO i
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  Speaker 1: believe or have seen are looking for license to, well,
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  Speaker 1: hey money's always been hard for. ME i don't know
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  Speaker 1: how to make a lot of. It i've always made
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  Speaker 1: poor financial. Decisions i'm just meant to be.
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  Speaker 2: Poor, YEAH i mean there's not many people that are
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  Speaker 2: that have lots of, money that are that are throwing that.
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  Speaker 2: Around which is you know and the PEOPLE i think
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  Speaker 2: when people heard you say, that they'd be, like, well
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  Speaker 2: that's not me BECAUSE i work. Hard but like you're
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  Speaker 2: using a very logical viewpoint with a high level of
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  Speaker 2: awareness where you'd go hang, on you're leaving a lot
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  Speaker 2: to meet on the bone because you've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of bad habits in a lot of places of self
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  Speaker 2: indulgence that you wouldn't call it, laziness or you wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: call IT i don't, know but realistically that's what it, is.
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  Speaker 1: Becaucause even outside of even outside of faith and, religion
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  Speaker 1: there's a big secular argument around wealth right, now right
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  Speaker 1: this is the this is the No kings, Argument this
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  Speaker 1: is the you know tax the, rich tax the, billionaires
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  Speaker 1: and this is there is there's a thought process there
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  Speaker 1: of when you go onto college campuses and ask, kids,
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  Speaker 1: hey do you think that you know we should take
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  Speaker 1: from the. Rich you, know should we should we tax the?
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  Speaker 1: Billionaires they love that. Idea, Okay, now go to the
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  Speaker 1: same college kids and, say, hey you, know not everyone
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  Speaker 1: is as smart as you. ARE i think we should
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  Speaker 1: take some of YOUR gpa and spread it, around, right,
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  Speaker 1: like let's give, Everybody and they, go hold, ON i
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  Speaker 1: don't know IF i like that, idea, right because you're
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  Speaker 1: talking to people who don't make, money and so they're
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  Speaker 1: all about spread the money. Around but what they do
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  Speaker 1: aren't is A. Gpa as you start talking to them
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  Speaker 1: about spreading THEIR gpa, around they're, like, WELL i worked
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  Speaker 1: really hard for. THIS i spend all this time at study.
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  Speaker 1: Hall and the people who don't have a GOOD, gpa
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  Speaker 1: that's because they don't spend time to study. Hall SO
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  Speaker 1: i bring up that point to, say this is a
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  Speaker 1: this is a human argument more than just a religious
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  Speaker 1: argument Around, hey you know who should have money who
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  Speaker 1: should not have?
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  Speaker 2: Money, yeah not to mention those same college students are
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  Speaker 2: attending large campuses with billions of dollars in, endowments but,
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  Speaker 2: hey you, know school should be. Free. Anyways the next
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  Speaker 2: the next thing that people say money And jesus don't go,
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  Speaker 2: together and this is, why because Like jesus even said
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  Speaker 2: it In matthew six twenty four he, said no one
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  Speaker 2: can serve two, masters for either he will hate the
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  Speaker 2: one and love the, other or who will be devoted
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  Speaker 2: to the one and despise the. Other you cannot Serve
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  Speaker 2: god and. Money people will say. That then there they'll
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  Speaker 2: point to rich people don't go to. Heaven because remember
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  Speaker 2: the rich young ruler came To jesus and he said
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  Speaker 2: he'd done all these, things And jesus, said sell everything
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  Speaker 2: you have and give to the poor and the. Rich
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  Speaker 2: the man went away like, sad And jesus said to his,
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  Speaker 2: disciples this Is matthew nineteen twenty three eight through twenty. Six,
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  Speaker 2: TRULY i say to, you only with difficulty will a
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  Speaker 2: rich person enter The kingdom Of. Heaven, AGAIN i tell
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  Speaker 2: you it is easier for a camel to go through
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  Speaker 2: the eye of a needle than for a rich person
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  Speaker 2: to enter The kingdom Of. God when the disciples heard,
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  Speaker 2: this they were greatly, astonished, saying who then can be?
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  Speaker 2: Saved but she just looked at them and, said with
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  Speaker 2: man this is, impossible but With god all things are.
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  Speaker 2: POSSIBLE i think that scripture right. There ge is so
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  Speaker 2: interesting because we're using The English standard, version, which by the,
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  Speaker 2: way we use that in these translations because it is
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  Speaker 2: a word for word. Translation sometimes if you use like
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  Speaker 2: AN niv or AN, nlt where those are phrase for phrase,
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  Speaker 2: translations it'll say it's impossible for a rich person to
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  Speaker 2: enter a kingdom of. Heaven and it's really important that
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  Speaker 2: you go back and look at the word for word
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  Speaker 2: and dive into The. Greek but that's just a little
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  Speaker 2: bonus for anybody that wants to learn how to study
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  Speaker 2: The word Of. God WHAT i think is so interesting
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  Speaker 2: is the disciples were astonished when he said this because
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  Speaker 2: think about what they heard In deuteronomy twenty eight And
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  Speaker 2: blessings And. Cursings you, know if you obey the words
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  Speaker 2: of this, command you'll be blessed in the, city you'll
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  Speaker 2: be blessed when you're, coming blessed when you're going the
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  Speaker 2: The In, israel they had taken wealth as a sign
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  Speaker 2: That god was clearly you were Pleasing god because of
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  Speaker 2: what he said in The blessings And. Cursings, now if
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  Speaker 2: you know the history Of, israel they in The Northern
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  Speaker 2: kingdom Of israel when it's split Into israel And. Judah
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  Speaker 2: they are literally heading towards destruction if The Northern kingdom fell.
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  Speaker 2: First and while they're being prophesied to by all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of different prophets telling, them, hey wrath is, coming like
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be taken into. Captivity these they're they're
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  Speaker 2: prophit siding this to people who have wealth because the
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  Speaker 2: prophets are saying to, Them god doesn't want your. Sacrifices
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  Speaker 2: what does that. Mean it means that they were they
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  Speaker 2: were trying to serve other gods And god at the same,
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  Speaker 2: time which means they had, wealth they had plenty going,
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  Speaker 2: on and at the same time they're being, told, no
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  Speaker 2: you've missed it. Completely so that that response from the
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  Speaker 2: disciples is a reflection of that thought process of like
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  Speaker 2: money means that you're.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed so just a summarize, here there's talking about two
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  Speaker 1: camps and the first camp is and LIKE i, said
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  Speaker 1: both of these camps are half. Baked and Then nick
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  Speaker 1: AND i are going to do the best we can
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  Speaker 1: to guide you towards what does The bible really say about? Money?
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  Speaker 1: Right the first half baked camp is money, Bad, Right
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  Speaker 1: that's really what it. Is you're not going you can't
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  Speaker 1: go to heaven with. Money money And jesus don't go.
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  Speaker 1: Together money is the root of all. Evil this is
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  Speaker 1: a half baked, camp, right but it, says, hey money.
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  Speaker 1: Bad what's the other?
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  Speaker 2: Camp the other camp, is, man imagine what we could
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  Speaker 2: do if we had a bunch Of christian, billionaires like
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  Speaker 2: if we could Get bezos And Elon. Musk and you,
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  Speaker 2: know this is like a thought process that is seemingly,
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  Speaker 2: logical and you know, WHAT i would love to see
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  Speaker 2: literally every person in the, world you, know Declared Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Lord So, Bezos Elon musk all. That So i'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying that there's anything wrong with thinking it would be
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  Speaker 2: great if they Were. Christians but people are saying that because,
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  Speaker 2: like if we had a bunch Of christian, billionaires imagine
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  Speaker 2: what we could do for the. Kingdom and to, ME
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  Speaker 2: i understand that thought, process BUT i think it's a completely,
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  Speaker 2: Wrong like it's so errant because this is what happened
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  Speaker 2: in numbers eleven twenty. Three So god has just kind
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  Speaker 2: of gotten mad at The israelites because they've complained about
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  Speaker 2: What god had given, them which was, manna and So god,
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  Speaker 2: Goes i'm gonna give you so much. Meat it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be loathsome to. You you're gonna have meat coming out
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  Speaker 2: of your. Nostrils And moses literally says To, GOD i
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  Speaker 2: love how real this. Is he, goes there's six hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand people with. Me he's, like what are you going
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  Speaker 2: to bring all the fish in the sea or slaughter
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  Speaker 2: a whole herd of?
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  Speaker 1: Cattle, like how is this?
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  Speaker 2: Possible And god just goes and The lord said To,
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  Speaker 2: moses is The lord's hands. Shortened now you shall see
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  Speaker 2: whether my word will come true for you or. Not, like,
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  Speaker 2: dude do you really THINK i CAN'T i can't bring
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  Speaker 2: WHATEVER i? Want I'm, god and this is to me
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  Speaker 2: is the fallacy of that thought?
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  Speaker 1: Process, sure and, yeah let's talk about what that thought
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  Speaker 1: process is for a. Second, right you're given the fallacy to.
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  Speaker 1: It but at the same, time where people have this,
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  Speaker 1: viewpoint they're, saying, man what if we had a bunch
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  Speaker 1: Of christian? Billionaires and it really is a great. Thought
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  Speaker 1: it's a great thought because think about how many people
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  Speaker 1: we could, Help think about how many people we could.
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  Speaker 1: Bless generosity is so. GREAT i would, say, yes the
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  Speaker 1: scripture you gave for, Sure god doesn't need our. Money,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: right it would be excellent if we had a bunch
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Of christian. Billionaires, However god doesn't need our. Money but
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: WHERE i would say not so. Much just to try
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: and disprove this thought, process let me tell you where
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: this thought process is half. Baked where Where christians, say
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: what if we had a bunch Of christian, BILLIONAIRES i
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: would like to be one of, those. Right But i'll
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: tell you how you get down that road where this
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: thought process is half. Baked IS i see people they
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: take this and they, SAY i want to be A christian,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: billionaire and they use this like that's their license to
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: go make their entire life all about pursuing. Money, Right
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Because i'm going to talk about some of the scriptures
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: here in a second of what does The bible actually
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: say about? Money and people take this scripture and Say
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: i'm going to go make my entire life about pursuing,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Money and that is also. Wrong it is half. Baked
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: you misunderstand what The gospel really teaches about. Money so with,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: that let's kind of dive into. It you, know scripture
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: does not give you the view of money good or money,
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  Speaker 1: bad the same way that scripture doesn't say gun's good
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: or gun's, bad or in that, time sword's good or sword's.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Bad it doesn't say sex good or sex. Bad it
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: matters so much what you do with, it and it
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: matters who you. Are it matters why you have, it
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: what you're using it, for more than it is just
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: to call an object. Good you know what is. Good
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  Speaker 1: god is. Good god is, righteousness and If god's not in,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: it then it's. Bad and that's that's me oversimplifying it for.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: You but what does scripture Say proverbs chapter, fifteen verse,
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  Speaker 1: Six and the house of the righteous is much, Treasure
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: but in the revenues of the wicked is. Trouble, Okay
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: so money is in both of these, things, Right money's
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: in the house of the of the. Righteous money is
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: also in the revenues of the. Wicked so how could
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: how could money be good or bad if it exists
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  Speaker 1: in the house of the wealthy and the HOUSE i,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: mean the house of the righteous and the house of the. Wicked, yeah,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: right in the house of The and not only does
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: it saying that they're, there but in the house of
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: the righteous is much. Treasure, Right so if you're if
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: you're a righteous, person much. Treasure proverbs eight verse twenty.
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  Speaker 1: One then this is NOT. Esv BUT i may cause
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  Speaker 1: those that love me to inherit, substance AND i will
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  Speaker 1: fill their. Treasure, interesting those who love me who follow after,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: me you're going to inherit. Substance not just the things
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: not of this world Like jesus talks, about and we'll
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: come back to that in a, second but those that
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: love me will inherit, substance AND i will fill their.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Treasures you know what that. Means it Means god's going
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: to take care of. You. Right proverbs chapter, ten verse twenty.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Two this one's pretty on the. Nose the blessing of
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: The lord brings wealth without painful toil for. It and
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: this word, wealth, right can people you start giving these
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: scriptures and if you're in one of these, camps you're
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: going to start trying to be, like, well it doesn't
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: mean that it means, this. Right the word wealth here
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: is The hebrew, asharh which is to make rich in
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the context of AM i poor or AM i? Rich
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: people who have money people who don't have? Money that
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: is the word wealth. Here where it says the blessings
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: of The lord bring. Wealth you could say that as
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the blessings of The lord puts you in the have
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: and not the have not category without painful toil for.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: It so some of these scriptures start to get really
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: hard to reconcile either one of the previous. Camps genesis thirteen,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: two who Is? Abraham abraham is the one Who god
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: chose to start his family With genesis thirteen. Two And
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: abram was very rich in, cattle in silver and in. Gold,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Right and the word rich there is heavy. End, right
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: it was burdened somehow much cattle he. HAD i got
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: so much silver and. GOLD i don't know what to
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: do with all this. STUFF i can barely carry. It
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: And deuteronomy chapter, eight verse. Eighteen but thou shalt remember The,
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  Speaker 1: lord Thy, god for it is he that giveth the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: power to get, wealth, right he that giveth the power
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: to get. Wealth so, like what is all this? Saying,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: right it's not saying money is good or? Bad and
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: it's also, saying remember where does money come? From it
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: comes From, god and he's the one who gives you
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the power to possess. It SO i would tell, you
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: with both of these scriptures THAT i just gave, you
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: you can't say money good or money. Bad, Right so
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: really we've got we've got to create a more informed
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: view of what money actually. Is what does The bible
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: say about? Money, yeah that's so.
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  Speaker 2: Good, yeah and you'll, notice, guys this is PROBABLY i
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: don't know that we've ever had an episode where we
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: literally the entire preparation was just, Scripture like we always
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: have scripture in our.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Preparation and that's and that's because this is such a
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: this is such a hot button shoe for people that
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: we've got to talk. About we've got to put the
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: scripture down and help god people to it toward. It
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: because you AND i can talk about leadership or family
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: and we'll give one or two verses and people will
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: follow us. There but this is one that people really
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: have a hard time. Following, yeah it's so. True it's
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: because it's so, Emotional, like there's not an there is
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: not a topic that's more emotional for people than. Money
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: people who have it they guard it with, passion and
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: people who don't have, it they're passionate about why they.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Don't they're passionate against the people who. Do, yeah all, right,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: man keep.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Going so we've we've established that that wealth is not
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: inherently good or.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Bad so and understand that. Wealth wealth is a, tool,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: right and wealth is also this is a. Principle do
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: you if you're a longtime listener of the, podcast you
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: understand we talk about principles all the, time, Right and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: if you are a person of, excellence you're going to have.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Money that's why it also talks about in The house
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: of The righteous as much. Treasure why when you live
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the Way god, lives you're going to do very well for.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Yourself he's the one who created the entire. Universe if
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: you live the way that he, lived you're not going
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to be starving all the. Time. Right so wealth is
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: a way of. Being it's more than just the material
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: item of. Currency wealth is a way of being One,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Timothy chapter, six verse seventeen through. Nineteen for the rich
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  Speaker 1: in this present, age charge, them and this is getting
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: us going in the right direction of the things we
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: need to talk. About for the rich in this present,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: age charge them not to be, haughty nor to set
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: their hopes on the uncertainty of, riches but On, god
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: who richly provides us with everything to. Enjoy they are
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to do, good to be rich in good, works to be,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: generous and ready to, share thus storing up treasure for
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: themselves as a good foundation for the, future so that
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: they may take hold of that which is truly. Life,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Right so it doesn't say for the rich should give
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: up all their. Money doesn't say that says for the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: rich they should not focus on the uncertainty of, riches
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: but On, god who provides for. Everyone and with that,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: money do, good be rich in good, works be generous
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: and ready to share what you, have thus starring up
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: treasure for. Themselves you know what this is. Saying it's
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: not saying money is. Bad it's saying there's something that's
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: way better than. Money, yes very. GOOD i just use
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: your money to go in the direction of here's What
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: god has for, you and here's the tray you like,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: treasure let me show you. Treasure that's What paul's saying
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: To timothy.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Here, Right and what's so interesting that is literally a
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: couple verses after the money is the root of money
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: is a root of all kinds of evil scripture that
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: people so often. Support because you're, Right if it was
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: the root of all, evil it's, like, well then just
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: get rid of, it because that would say money itself is.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Evil what he's saying is, like, no if you got,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: money here's how you use, it just like he. Says
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: and if you don't have, money like you, know he gives.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: ADVICE i think it's so interesting That paul never says, like,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: hey don't be a slave or don't have slaves or
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: if he just, goes, look whatever condition you're, in Glorify,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: god put your trust in, him like keep in mind
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: what's the most important.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Thing and this is also that that scripture goes well
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: with The matthew nineteen twenty verse twenty three through twenty
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: six we covered, earlier which is a scripture people you,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: know use of rich people don't go To heaven where
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: it talks about the rich. Man the rich man is
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: someone who loves, money who's that money is Their? God? Right,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: yeah and what and What paul is talking about here
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: in First timothy says for the rich in this, age,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: hey here's what you should. Do don't focus on that
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: what matters most to. You who do you? Love that's
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: what this is all. About don't love and chase after.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Riches don't let riches be your. Focus, Right it's like the,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: saying if you if you want, to if you want to,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: be if you want. To if you try to be,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: happy you're going to be. Miserable, right make your life
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: all about being, Happy you're going to be. Miserable make
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: your life all about making. Money you're going to be.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Poor maybe you'll actually make some, currency but you're going
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: to be poor in. Spirit and for those who have,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: wealth it's, saying make your life about Following god and
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: do these right things with. It so let me go
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: on to really what Is god's view of? Wealth And
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: i'll tell you here's What god's view, is, right because
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you can also take what we're talking about, today not
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: just Does god want you to be? Rich you can
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: say Does god want me to be? Successful because Does
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: god want me to be? Healthy Does god want me
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: to be? Happy all of those, way all of those
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: things THAT i just, mentioned it's a state of. Being
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: it's things that you can. Have and let me tell you,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Something god cares way more about why you have what you,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: have why you do what you, do than what it
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: is that you are and what it is that you.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Have god cares about. Why, Right so you can because
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: let me let me use this example THAT i like
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: to use all the. Time tell people realize things aren't
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: just what they seem. Like on the, surface giving money
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: to charity could seem like such a generous, thing, like,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: oh what a wonderful. Person BUT i think we can
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: also understand that you could be someone who gives millions
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of dollars to. Charity but it's for a vain, reason,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: right you have insecurity of. Pride and it's, like, well
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: IF i do, this people will like, me people will
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: think well of. Me i'll show people how good of
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: a PERSON i. Am and if that's what's in your
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: heart when you, give it's not, righteous, Right so it's
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: not what you, do it's why you do. It So,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Matthew chapter, six verse one and, two be careful not
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Them if you, do you will have no reward from
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Your father in. Heaven, okay so what are we. Doing
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: we're talking about righteous acts. Here be careful not to
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Them talking about the same THING i was just talking about,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: them people who give for the sake of being seen by.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: It be careful not to perform your righteous acts before
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: men to be seen by. Them if you, do you
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: will have no reward from your father in. Heaven verse,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Two so when you give to the, needy do not
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: sound a trumpet before, you as the hypocrites do in
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the synagogues and on the, streets to be honored by. Men,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: TRULY i tell you they already have their full. Reward
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: but when you give to the, knee do not let
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: your left hand know what your right hand is, doing
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: so that your giving maybe in, secret and your, father
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: who sees what is done in, secret will reward. You.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Okay verse one is talking about righteous. Acts what is it?
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Doing verse two it talks about. Giving right to give
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: is a righteous? Act and what are you? Giving you're
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: giving some form of whether it's money or something that you.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Earn you've got something of value that you're, giving and
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: to give is a righteous. Act but it's so much
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: about how you do it and why you're doing, it
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: not just, HEY i gave. Money i'm a good. Person
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: know why you give and how you, Give that's what.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Matters having money doesn't make you. Good not having money
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: doesn't make you. Good having money doesn't make you. Bad
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: not having money doesn't make you. Bad it's about how
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: you do it and why you do. It, yeah that's so.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Good, YEAH i think about The jesus also say whenever
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: you saw that the poor woman give the two, mites,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: right and he says she gave more than everybody else in,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: here because they all gave from their, abundance but she
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: gave all she. Had it's exactly what you're, Saying, like
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: it's not Like jesus was, going, well now they can
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: up keep the temple because those rich guys. Gave he
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: was just like he was never worried about. It WHENEVER
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: i think there's so many references where exactly to your
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: point about why more than, what and That god does
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: not need your money and that he's not short on.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Resource When peter shot his mouth off and was, like,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: yeah we paid the temple tax and they didn't, Have
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: jesus just, goes, hey go catch a.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Fish like.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: That for me was such an unlocked scripture BECAUSE i
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: was a guy who had a lot of issues with
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: money BECAUSE i was you, KNOW i didn't have, it
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: AND i felt a lot of anxiety about. Finance WHEN
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: i finally put my trust In god and not in
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: how much MONEY i. Had that scripture about Like peter
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: going down and just catching a coin in the mouth
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: just unlocked me so much because it was like a
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: freedom of, like, Look god has no issues with providing
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: whatever you, need but seek him, first, Right and that's
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: that scripture as, well is just seek him first and
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: all these. Things it really is about where you put your.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Trust so so it is so much about. Heart, Matthew chapter,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: six verse nineteen through twenty. One this is a huge.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Scripture do not store up for yourselves treasures on, earth
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Steal but store up for yourself treasures in, heaven where
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: moth and rust do not, destroy and where the thieves
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: do not break in and. Steal for where your treasure is,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: there your heart will. Be, also it's about where you're
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: this whole episode today and really the issue of, money
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: it's about where your heart is on. Money it's about
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: what you focus, On, okay because The bible said, it
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: if you Follow, god if you're the house of a righteous,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: man money and treasure is going to be.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: There. Right but if you want to be someone who
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: wants to have, money here's let me tell you how
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: to not be to how to not be, rich and
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: how to have a miserable. Life try to be A.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Christian but then Set god aside and truly make money
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Your god and hide that in your. Heart you will
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: be poor in spirit and you will be poor in.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Life what you've got to decide, is, HEY i want
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: What god wants for my. Life i'm going to follow After,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: god AND i know that WHEN i live by his,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: principles THAT i live By his. Word When i'm a
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: person of, excellence money will follow me WHEREVER i. Go
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: And i'm going to be someone who uses that money
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: to be. GENEROUS i can tell you for me, Personally
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: i'm someone WHO i would like to make lots of.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: MONEY i feel Like i'm very Capable luke twelve forty.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Eight to who much is, given much is. Required god
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: gave me a. Lot i've got to do something with.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: THAT i feel like IF i don't, earn IF i
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: don't build something on the earth with everything That god gave,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: ME i misused all of the talents That god's given.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Me but here's what matters most to me right my
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: heart in that is to Please. God and what matters
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: most to me is THAT i would Please. God and
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: AS i walk down the road of growing a, business
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: AS i walk down the road of making. Money WHAT
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: i have to make sure is That god is always
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: on the throne and THAT i never let anything get
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: in front of my desire to live a life that Pleases.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: God and what that ultimately allows me to do is
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: in my relationship with, money THAT i always have peace about. It.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Right i've never int a place where it's, Like, Man
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: i'm going to lose money, Here, god what are you?
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Doing it's, like, No, God my life is to please.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: You you've given me these great. Abilities you've given me
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: a heart that wants to love and serve, you And
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: i'm going to do that to the best of my.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Ability money will follow, me But i'm not going to
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: follow after. Money i'm going to follow After.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: God thank you very much for. Listening, guys remember to,
• 30:23
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