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The Good That Comes from Giving Great Sermon- Minister Max Lucado · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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  Speaker 1: So the campus ministers and I really would like to
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  Speaker 1: thank you for our haircuts. We entered the room with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of hair, we came out of the room
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  Speaker 1: with much less hair. Remember, in case you didn't know
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  Speaker 1: or didn't or visiting today, we did this deal with
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  Speaker 1: our end of the year offering and jazzed it up
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  Speaker 1: by I promised to give to get a buzz cut
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  Speaker 1: if we raised a million dollars. The campus ministers agreed
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  Speaker 1: to do the same if they if we raised one
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  Speaker 1: point five million. They really thought they were safe because
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  Speaker 1: we've never raised one point five million in our end
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  Speaker 1: of the year offering, and so they thought we were safe.
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  Speaker 1: What they didn't know is that you're a very generous people,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a It was a real surprise to them.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them had to be drug in to that room,
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  Speaker 1: and I think they're still in need of therapy, a
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  Speaker 1: few of them are, but they're they're getting over it again.
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  Speaker 1: That total is one million, five hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: We're very, very grateful for that. And this came in
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  Speaker 1: a year in which you're already giving over budget. Came
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  Speaker 1: in a year in which we're already a part of
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  Speaker 1: a capital campaign. And it also came in a year
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  Speaker 1: in which we decided to use all of our end
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  Speaker 1: of the year offering just to pay down the debt.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, all of us have heard the stories
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  Speaker 1: that debt dollars are the hardest dollars to raise, and
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  Speaker 1: fundraising consultants have been telling me that for years, but
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  Speaker 1: I bet they wouldn't bet a haircut on it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: It's also important for you to know that this wonderful
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  Speaker 1: outpouring was not a result of just a handful of benefactors,
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  Speaker 1: but it was really a great cross section, a very
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  Speaker 1: healthy cross section of all campuses, many many people doing
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  Speaker 1: their part, and so for that we're extremely grateful, and
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  Speaker 1: so our barber thanks you, and I think the campus
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  Speaker 1: minister's wives thank you. I'm very convinced that God will
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  Speaker 1: bless you. In a passage truly that we had already
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  Speaker 1: decided to study, but it fits so well as we
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  Speaker 1: think about God's generosity to us. This is the point
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  Speaker 1: that is made by the apostle Paul in the last
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  Speaker 1: chapter of the Book of Philippians. If you'd like to
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  Speaker 1: open your bibles, we're going to look at this text
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  Speaker 1: found out in Philippians, chapter four, If you'd like just
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  Speaker 1: to follow along as I read it on the screen.
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  Speaker 1: Philippians four, verses fourteen through twenty. The apostle says, it
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  Speaker 1: was good that you helped me when I needed it.
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  Speaker 1: You Philippians, remember when I first preached the good News there.
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  Speaker 1: When I left Macedonia. You were the only church that
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  Speaker 1: gave me help. Several times you sent me things I
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  Speaker 1: needed when I was in Thessalonaika. Really, it's not that
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  Speaker 1: I want to receive the gifts from you, but I
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  Speaker 1: want you to have the good that comes from giving.
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  Speaker 1: And now I have everything and more. I have all
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  Speaker 1: I need because of Paphroditis brought your gift to me.
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  Speaker 1: It is like a sweet smelling sacrifice offered to God,
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  Speaker 1: who accepts that sacrifice and is pleased with it. My
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  Speaker 1: God will use his wonderful riches in Christ Jesus to
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  Speaker 1: give you everything you need. Glory to our God and
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  Speaker 1: Father forever and ever. Under the theme the good that
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  Speaker 1: comes from giving, Let's see what the apostle Paul here
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  Speaker 1: has to say about the advantages of generosity. Let's pray
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  Speaker 1: to God, Thank you Lord for this opportunity to consider
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  Speaker 1: really a promise that it's contrary to our nature. We
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  Speaker 1: tend to be like Scrooge, we want to be stingy.
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  Speaker 1: But you're teaching us, father, that it's good to be generous. Now, Father,
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  Speaker 1: you are the source of generosity. You are the only
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  Speaker 1: true giver. We may give what you have first given
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  Speaker 1: to us, but only you give what is truly yours
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  Speaker 1: and yours alone. So we give you thanks. Father. We
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  Speaker 1: pray you'll forgive our speaker because his sins are many,
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  Speaker 1: and help us to see Christ, just Christ through Christ.
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  Speaker 1: We pray, and all the church said. So word reached
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  Speaker 1: the Philippians that the Apostle Paul was in trouble. Not
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  Speaker 1: only was he in jail, but he was in need.
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  Speaker 1: Now we don't know exactly what the need was. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know exactly how much money Paul needed. We don't
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  Speaker 1: know why Paul needed money, and we don't know how
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  Speaker 1: much was raised. But we i do know that the
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  Speaker 1: church took up a collection and sent it to the
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  Speaker 1: Apostle Paul. Someone did what is often done today. They
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  Speaker 1: stood up in a church gathering or a Bible study
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  Speaker 1: group and they said, well, Paul is in need of help,
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  Speaker 1: so we're going to pass the hat, and the hat
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  Speaker 1: was passed, the collection was taken, and hearts were revealed,
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  Speaker 1: and the Apostle Paul was blessed. If we were to
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  Speaker 1: make a list of the different things that happened in
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  Speaker 1: a worship assembly, I kind of doubt that anybody would
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  Speaker 1: rank the collection as the high point of the worship service.
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  Speaker 1: You may put when we sing those hymns or sing
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  Speaker 1: those songs, or when we have prayer time, or when
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  Speaker 1: we receive one of Max's wonderful, brilliant sermons. You'd probably
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  Speaker 1: put one of those at the top of the list.
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  Speaker 1: Not many people would rank the passing of the plate
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  Speaker 1: as the high point in the worship service. The Apostle Paul, however,
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  Speaker 1: might contend with us and urge us to reconsider. He
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  Speaker 1: helps us remember that giving is an act of worship.
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  Speaker 1: He even calls it a fragrance that appears too the
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  Speaker 1: presence of God. There's something special that happens when the
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  Speaker 1: plate is passed. I think there are three declarations we make.
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  Speaker 1: We won't spend a whole lot of time on these,
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  Speaker 1: but let's move through them somewhat quickly. If you'd like
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  Speaker 1: to fill in the blanks. First of all. When the
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  Speaker 1: plate is passed and we participate in an offering, we
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  Speaker 1: say I'm all in, I'm all in. We actually become
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  Speaker 1: what Paul calls partners at that point. You know, if
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  Speaker 1: I were to come to you and say, Hey, I'm
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  Speaker 1: starting a paper clip company, would you pray for my
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  Speaker 1: paper clip company, you'd probably say yeah. If I were
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  Speaker 1: to say a few weeks later, hey, we're making good progress,
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  Speaker 1: but you're a businessman or a business person, could you
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  Speaker 1: give me some advice, you might very well say yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But if I were then to come to you and
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  Speaker 1: say I'd like to give you an opportunity to end vest,
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  Speaker 1: to write a check to transfer funds into my paper
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  Speaker 1: clip company, well we crossed the line right at that point.
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  Speaker 1: You would, if you said yes, become a partner, a
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  Speaker 1: partner in that paper clip company. This is the point
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  Speaker 1: to the apostle Paul. The Philippians had proven that they
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  Speaker 1: were partners with Paul. This is his word. He says,
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  Speaker 1: only you Philippians became my partners in giving and receiving.
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  Speaker 1: And then he says it was good of you to
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  Speaker 1: share in my partnership, I mean in my hardships. And
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  Speaker 1: so there's something about the act of giving that causes
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  Speaker 1: those who do give to become partners. They're saying, I'm
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  Speaker 1: all in, I'm all in. God bless you because you
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  Speaker 1: are partners in the greatest venture in the history of
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  Speaker 1: the world, and that is the expansion of the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God God. And you're discovering that it is good
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  Speaker 1: to give because in doing so we actually become partners,
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  Speaker 1: partners in this great venture. We're really a blessed church.
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  Speaker 1: We really are. We have seven vibrant campuses, we have
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  Speaker 1: small groups that meet all over the city and the
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  Speaker 1: hill country, several hundred groups. We have so many wonderful
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  Speaker 1: things that we're involved in. Twelve very vibrant and healthy
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  Speaker 1: mission posts around the world. So we have so many
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  Speaker 1: things to be grateful for. We're blessed, and we realize
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  Speaker 1: that we're blessed by God in order to be a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: We're not blessed just to be a sponge and keep
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  Speaker 1: We're blessed so that God can squeeze the sponge and
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  Speaker 1: release the blessings of His goodness from us into others.
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  Speaker 1: And we are reminded through the act of giving that
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't need what we have, but we need to
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  Speaker 1: give it less we learn to love it. You remember
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  Speaker 1: a comedian by the name of Jack Benny. Well, you're
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  Speaker 1: older than I thought you were. He was a famous
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  Speaker 1: comedian of the last century, and he had this stick.
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  Speaker 1: He had this kind of theme to his comedy of
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  Speaker 1: being stingy. You recall that, and I remember seeing a
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  Speaker 1: routine in which he's walking down the street and this
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  Speaker 1: robber comes up and holds a gun up to him
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  Speaker 1: and says, give me your money or your life, and
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  Speaker 1: Benny doesn't do anything. The robber repeats money or your life.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Benny still doesn't do anything. Come on, money or
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  Speaker 1: your life, he says. I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I'm thinking. Well,
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  Speaker 1: God wants us to know that our money is not
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  Speaker 1: our life. It's not our life. You are not what
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  Speaker 1: you have. You are much more than the sum total
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. Jesus made this point real clearly. He said,
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  Speaker 1: is not life more than food and the body more
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  Speaker 1: than clothing? Or we might recast that question to read,
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  Speaker 1: is not life more than what you park in the garage,
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  Speaker 1: or deposit in the bank or hang in your closet. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how many of you know that we live in a
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  Speaker 1: world that tells us we're as good as what we own.
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  Speaker 1: Every day, people are telling you, you'll be happier if
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  Speaker 1: you own this, You'll be more important if you have this.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that on an average day, the average
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  Speaker 1: American here's sees or reads three thousand commercials a day.
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  Speaker 1: Three thousand times somebody is saying to you, you need
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  Speaker 1: what we got, and you need it right now. And
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  Speaker 1: these are some of the best, most creative minds in America,
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  Speaker 1: the advertising world, and all they're thinking is how can
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  Speaker 1: we get into lo cane pocket. They're putting their best
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and many dollars into one thought, and that is,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to convince him he needs it, and he
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  Speaker 1: needs it soon. Consequently, many of us suffer from what
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  Speaker 1: Dave Ramsey calls stuff it Titus, stuff it Titus. We
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  Speaker 1: think we need more stuff, and we equate our value
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  Speaker 1: with stuff, and it takes incredible, incredible decision on our
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  Speaker 1: part to say, no, I am more than the sum
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  Speaker 1: total of what I have, and stuff will not make
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  Speaker 1: me happy. Now psychologists are getting on board helping us
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  Speaker 1: understand that truly you can have a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: and not be happier than the person who has less stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Some time ago, a study was revealed of when psychologists
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  Speaker 1: interviewed two desperate, disparate groups of people. One was a
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  Speaker 1: group of people who had won the Illinois state powerball
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  Speaker 1: lottery and they had won anywhere between fifty thousand and
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  Speaker 1: one million dollars, and they interviewed them on their level
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  Speaker 1: of happiness. Then they turned to a completely different population group,
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  Speaker 1: and these were people who had recently experienced catastrophic accidents
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  Speaker 1: and they were either quadriplegic or paraplegic. Listen to this study.
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  Speaker 1: In interviews with the two groups, the people were asked
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  Speaker 1: to rate the amount of pleasure they got from everyday activities,
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  Speaker 1: small but enjoyable things like chatting with a friend or
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  Speaker 1: watching TV, or eating breakfast, or laughing at a joke
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  Speaker 1: or receiving a compliment. When researchers analyzed the results, they
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  Speaker 1: found that the accident victims reported a higher level of
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  Speaker 1: happiness from these every day pleasures than the lottery winners.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, more stuff doesn't guarantee more happiness. Another study,
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  Speaker 1: just to quote a conclusion from it, states that while
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  Speaker 1: US citizen's personal income has more than doubled in the
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  Speaker 1: last fifty years, our happiness levels have remained the same. Now,
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  Speaker 1: just to be clear, God is not anti stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: God is anti trusting stuff. He's anti the idea that
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  Speaker 1: says if you have more stuff you'll be more valuable.
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  Speaker 1: It's called materialism. And He wants our identity to depend
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  Speaker 1: upon Him, not upon what we wear, or drive or
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  Speaker 1: have in the bank. You're not better if you have
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  Speaker 1: a lot, you're not less if you have little. God
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  Speaker 1: and God alone can meet the deepest needs of the
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  Speaker 1: human heart, and our use of money really reveals how
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  Speaker 1: we depend upon Him to do so. Apostle Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: we are God's fellow workers. In other words, we're co
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  Speaker 1: workers with God, and we're invited to share in an
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  Speaker 1: enterprise far beyond that of paper clips. So here's the
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  Speaker 1: invitation God gets to you and me. He says, I'm
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  Speaker 1: building a new kingdom. Would you pray for it? Oh, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I'm building a new kingdom. Would you like to use
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  Speaker 1: your spiritual gifts to advance it? Absolutely, I'm building a
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  Speaker 1: new kingdom. Would you be willing to invest in it?
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  Speaker 1: When we say yes, there, that's when we become partners.
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  Speaker 1: In the gospel. We say I'm all in Not only
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  Speaker 1: that when the plate is passed, when we participate in
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  Speaker 1: this act of worship, we also make a second statement.
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  Speaker 1: We state I'm going home. I'm going home. You see,
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  Speaker 1: the Apostle Paul had an understanding that every time we
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  Speaker 1: invest in the Kingdom, that investment was being registered in
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  Speaker 1: our eternal home, and that everything here is passing away.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine that you were living in the South during the
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  Speaker 1: Civil War, and through a series of events, you became
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  Speaker 1: convinced that the South was going to lose, and you
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  Speaker 1: happened to be in possession of large amounts of Confederate currency.
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  Speaker 1: What would you do? If you were smart, what would
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  Speaker 1: you do with that Confederate money? If you had any sense,
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  Speaker 1: you'd get rid of your Southern sense. Or you're picky,
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  Speaker 1: I'll work on those sentences so hard. You would put
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  Speaker 1: every penny you could into the currency that is to come.
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  Speaker 1: You would put every penny you could into the currency
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  Speaker 1: that is to come, and prepare yourself for the end
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  Speaker 1: of the war. Now you and I need to be
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  Speaker 1: doing the same. The world economy is going down. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care how hell healthy it may appear, how unhealthy
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  Speaker 1: it may appear. There is coming a day when that
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  Speaker 1: money that's in your bank account is going to be
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  Speaker 1: absolutely worthless. Would you agree that day will come when
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  Speaker 1: you die, or if you don't die and Christ comes first,
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  Speaker 1: that money that's in the bank account will suddenly be
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  Speaker 1: worth it. So if you and I stalkpile only earthly
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  Speaker 1: treasures and not heavenly treasures, what does that say about
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  Speaker 1: our faith? I'd like to give you a financial tip.
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  Speaker 1: Invest in heaven. That's the only financial tip I've ever
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  Speaker 1: given in my whole life. But there it is, invest
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  Speaker 1: in heaven. I've got some insider information. This world is
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  Speaker 1: passing away, but the investments in the world to come
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  Speaker 1: are growing. This is why Paul applauded the generosity of
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  Speaker 1: the church in Philippi. And while I'm so happy to
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  Speaker 1: applaud your generosity. Look what Paul says, What I desire
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  Speaker 1: is that more be credited to your account. Same verse,
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  Speaker 1: different translation. What is valuable to me is the interest
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  Speaker 1: that is mounting up in your account. Another translation, All
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  Speaker 1: I care for you is the prophet accruing for you.
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  Speaker 1: Look at those words credited account interests mounting, prophet accruing.
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  Speaker 1: Paul sounds more like a I don't know if Hutton
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  Speaker 1: than the apostle Paul doesn't he it's like he knows something,
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  Speaker 1: he has a sense of something. He's been reading the
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  Speaker 1: stock report. Really, he's been reading God's report. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said. Jesus said, I tell you the truth. No
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  Speaker 1: one who has left home, or brothers or sisters, or
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  Speaker 1: mother or father, or children, or feels for me or
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  Speaker 1: the gospel will fail to receive one hundred times as
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  Speaker 1: much in this present age holmes, brothers, sisters, mother's children,
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  Speaker 1: feels and within persecutions and in the age to come
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  Speaker 1: eternal life. So God promises to take your investment, your donations,
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  Speaker 1: your offerings, and multiply them one hundred times. Is my
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  Speaker 1: math correct? I think that means a ten thousand percent
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  Speaker 1: in interest, ten thousand percent interest. If you've ever seen
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  Speaker 1: a financial institution offer ten thousand percent return on your investment.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm looking at people. I just sense right now
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  Speaker 1: in my heart, I'm just hearing somebody say, that's happened
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  Speaker 1: in my life. That's happened in my life. Can I
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  Speaker 1: get an amen from anybody who would say? Amen? Now,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that investment hasn't come in terms of dollars. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it has, or maybe it's come in terms of love
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  Speaker 1: or or community, or purpose in life or meaning in life,
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  Speaker 1: or family or restored relationships. You see from God's perspective.
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  Speaker 1: We tend to see prosperity as defined in dollars and cents, right,
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  Speaker 1: But from God's perspective, prosperity is defined in a million
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  Speaker 1: in one ways, everything from a song in the heart
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  Speaker 1: to a sunset in the sky. He blesses us, He
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  Speaker 1: makes us rich. He promises to increase what we give
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  Speaker 1: him financially, emotionally, and spiritually. He gives us promise. A
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  Speaker 1: generous man will prosper. Whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
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  Speaker 1: Has that proven true in your life? And this one
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  Speaker 1: give to others and God will give to you. The
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  Speaker 1: measure you use for others is the one that God
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  Speaker 1: will use for you. I met a happy, stingy person,
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  Speaker 1: have you? I haven't, But I've met people who are generous.
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  Speaker 1: They're just the happiest people. It might have to do
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  Speaker 1: with this, Jesus says. The measure you used to give
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  Speaker 1: to others, that's the measure God is gonna give to you.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine that I have up here. You know ten measuring cups,
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  Speaker 1: and one of them is really big, and one of
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  Speaker 1: them is very very tiny. And God says to you, now,
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  Speaker 1: the measuring cup you used to dispense kindness provisions blessings.
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  Speaker 1: The measuring cup that you use to give to somebody else,
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  Speaker 1: that's the very one I'm gonna use when I dispense
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  Speaker 1: blessings to you. What are you gonna do? Which one
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna pick? I'm gonna reach down here and
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  Speaker 1: grab the biggest one possible, right, God says, Okay, you
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  Speaker 1: get to pick. You get to pick the measuring cup
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  Speaker 1: I use when I dispensed blessings upon you. By the
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  Speaker 1: way you bless others, this is the good that comes
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  Speaker 1: from giving. No wonder generous people are so happy. No
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  Speaker 1: under stingy people. They're so unhappy because all they're getting
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  Speaker 1: is that tiny cup. One other thing happens at the
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  Speaker 1: time of offering. Not only do you say I'm all in,
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  Speaker 1: not only do you say I'm going home, but also
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  Speaker 1: you say I dedicate my heart. Some time ago, a
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  Speaker 1: lady slipped into a large church unnoticed. There were so
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  Speaker 1: many people coming and going that no one noticed her. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: she only occupied one seat. Was it that so long
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  Speaker 1: ago that her family took up an entire row at church.
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  Speaker 1: But then her husband passed away, and her children grew up,
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  Speaker 1: and well, now she's all alone. No one noticed the
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  Speaker 1: lady on the back row. Everyone noticed well coifed dressed
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  Speaker 1: man on the front row. However, with great fanfare, he
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  Speaker 1: was escorted into the building, and with loud applause, he
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  Speaker 1: was welcomed into the worship service. After all, this was
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  Speaker 1: the big day, This was the big day that the
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  Speaker 1: man was going to write a big check to pay
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  Speaker 1: off the church building. And so they sat him on
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  Speaker 1: the front row. She sat in the back. He came
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  Speaker 1: by limo, she came by city bus. He stood and waved,
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  Speaker 1: She sat and smiled. And when the plate came his way,
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  Speaker 1: he reached into his pocket and he removed the check,
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  Speaker 1: and he waved it up in the air so everybody
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  Speaker 1: could see it, and then he dropped it in the plate.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody noticed, Nobody noticed the lady in the back. She
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  Speaker 1: had no check to give, no paper to wave. She
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  Speaker 1: only had an envelope with a meager amount of cash,
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  Speaker 1: some money from her pension. Not much, not enough to
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  Speaker 1: save the budget or pay off the building, but enough
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  Speaker 1: to reveal her heart. And when the plate came her way,
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  Speaker 1: she said, Lord, it's not much, but it's all I have,
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  Speaker 1: and I just want you to know I love you,
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  Speaker 1: and she dropped the money into the plate. No one noticed,
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  Speaker 1: no one, that is except Jesus, because, according to the parable,
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  Speaker 1: he was watching. He saw her enter, he saw her
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  Speaker 1: take her seat, he saw her open her purse, he
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  Speaker 1: saw her open her heart. And when she dropped her
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  Speaker 1: offering into the plate, Jesus said, I tell you that
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  Speaker 1: this poor woman has put in more than all the others.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone else gave what they didn't need. She's very poor,
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  Speaker 1: and she gave everything she had in the parable of
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  Speaker 1: the poor widow. And Jesus is teaching us that really
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  Speaker 1: what matters most is not the amount of the gift,
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  Speaker 1: but the sincerity of the heart. What matters is not
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  Speaker 1: the amount of the gift, but the love, the tenderness,
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  Speaker 1: the openness in the heart. A reluctant gift is not
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  Speaker 1: received by God. He loves a cheerful giver, but it's
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  Speaker 1: a sincere gift that gets his attention. The apostle Paul said,
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  Speaker 1: the gifts are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice pleasing
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  Speaker 1: to God. You want to bring a fragrant offering up
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  Speaker 1: to God, well, do so with your singing. He loves
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  Speaker 1: our worship. Do so with your prayers. He loves our intercession.
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  Speaker 1: Do so in the times of communion as we think
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  Speaker 1: about the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Do so
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  Speaker 1: in the sermon as we open the scripture and consider
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  Speaker 1: his word. But do not underestimate what happens when the
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  Speaker 1: plate is past. It may seem mundone and routine to us,
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  Speaker 1: but it's important to God. It's a time in which
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  Speaker 1: a fragrant offering is offered up into heaven, and in response,
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  Speaker 1: he gives us this promise. My God will use his
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  Speaker 1: wonderful riches in Christ Jesus to give you everything you need.
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  Speaker 1: And all the church said, thank you, Father for this promise.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for teaching us to be generous.
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  Speaker 1: We want to be even more so we do. Father.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard because we tend to think that all of
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  Speaker 1: our stuff is us, and all of that stuff is
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  Speaker 1: our own identity. But Father, you're teaching us, and we
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Lord. As we look into the new year,
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  Speaker 1: we're grateful for the opportunity to see what You're doing,
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  Speaker 1: and we pray we can align ourselves with where you're
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  Speaker 1: leading us. Thank you for being such a faithful shepherd
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  Speaker 1: of your flock. We bless you now in Jesus's name. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: This world is endless, so wide, so long, but somehow
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  Speaker 2: I'm still lost in you.
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  Speaker 3: The streets are full of moving shadows, countless please as
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  Speaker 3: I could go, city shining, people passing, Yet I still feel.
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  Speaker 4: So every year old keeps leading nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: Every sky feels cold and blue.
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  Speaker 3: In this world so fast and open, I'm still lost
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  Speaker 3: in missing you.
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  Speaker 5: The world is wild so wide before me, but I keep.
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  Speaker 4: Blues in my way.
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  Speaker 2: Somewhere indeed.
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  Speaker 6: Less distance your memory makes mistake the world loser.
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  Speaker 5: Without us, but my home remains unshoe for no matter
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  Speaker 5: where these feet may.
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  Speaker 3: Wonder, I'm still lost in seeing you.
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  Speaker 7: I have tried to outgrown silence, try to leave your
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  Speaker 7: ghost behind, but your name still let cost softly through
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  Speaker 7: the corners.
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  Speaker 2: Of my mind.
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  Speaker 4: The world is wise, so may before me, but.
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  Speaker 5: I keep lose in my way somewhere less your memory
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  Speaker 5: makes me stand the world loves without us, but my
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  Speaker 5: heart remain untrue.
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  Speaker 4: Form.
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  Speaker 5: No matter where these bee may wonder, I'm still lost
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  Speaker 5: in this sing you. Maybe someday stop searching for your
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  Speaker 5: face in every crowd, but until that day is broken
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  Speaker 5: heart will keep calling your name out.
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  Speaker 4: The world is wise, so I before me, but I
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  Speaker 4: keep losing my way.
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  Speaker 5: Somewhere in f bless dis us your memory, thanks may stand.
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  Speaker 2: In the worlds.
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  Speaker 5: Without us, but my heart remains stue.
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  Speaker 1: Do no matter.
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  Speaker 4: These feet.
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  Speaker 2: May you wonder, I'm still lost in this sing you