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334 | Throwback - There’s a Payday Someday - Understanding Eternal Rewards · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the
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  well in John chapter four.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org,
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  we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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  about God and to strengthen and your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living life for Christ, she's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  Rest assured, there is a payday someday.
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  When we are judged for our works done after we are saved, it will be a day of reckoning for many.
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  God has seen and knows every work that we have done. He knows our motives and
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  the intents of our heart.
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  Join us in this program. There's a Payday Someday as Kim Miller of Woman at
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  the Well Ministries takes us through Romans 2, 6, which says,
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  who will render to every man according to his deeds.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  And the thought of there's a payday someday can bring much joy to our hearts.
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  We know that the best is yet to come and that eye hath not seen and ear hath
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  not heard what lies in store for them that love the Lord.
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  We also know that we have been been appointed on this earth a certain number of days.
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  And that the Lord has purposed in our hearts, every one of us,
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  that we are to do his work and to do his will.
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  And those of us who are Christians, that's our job.
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  And we have a lot of other vocations in our lives, each one of us making a life
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  for ourself and our family through what God has given us and our skills and our talents.
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  And we work hard at that. And often that is a primary focus.
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  But we sometimes forget that that earthly payday, which for most of us is difficult
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  to make it stretch as far as we would like it to,
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  is a very small payday, regardless of what your income is.
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  Relative to the payday that we receive for our works in the Lord.
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  Now, let's be very clear that we can't gain our salvation by works because it's a gift of God.
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  The Bible says in Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, For by grace are you saved through faith
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  and that not of yourselves.
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  It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
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  But James tells us that because of our faith in Christ, we are going to want to have works.
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  For the Lord. We're going to
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  want to serve him. We're going to want to show him how much we love him.
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  And we're going to want to be involved in his activity and involved in the things that he's doing.
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  And that's not real hard for us to understand because the people that we love,
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  we want to be involved in their activities.
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  We want to be involved in the things that they're doing. We want to be around
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  them and we want to be associated with the things that are important to them
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  and the things that are always surrounding them.
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  So as a Christian, we are to be Christ-like, and our love and our affection is for Christ.
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  So we want to be around where he is, and he is always around, and he's in our hearts.
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  But there are things that he is doing in people's lives and in churches and
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  in events that we want to be around.
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  And we want to see the blessings of God fall all around us and all upon us.
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  And so in doing so, we need to be about our Father's business.
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  If you recall Christ, whom is our model example, not another Christian,
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  don't set your eyes on another Christian and say, this is how I'm going to be,
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  and this is what I'm going to be like, and let that be your goals and objectives.
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  No, it says not to be a man pleaser or not to set our eyes upon man,
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  but we are to set our eyes upon God, and we are to look at the example that Christ
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  lived in front of all of us as we read his scriptures and allow them to come alive in our lives.
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  And we need to model our footsteps after those of Christ.
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  He said to take up your cross and follow me.
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  And he said to take up your cross daily.
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  I don't believe that meant that he felt we needed to be saved every day.
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  My interpretation of the scriptures is clear that
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  he died once for all and that when
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  I truly repent and I truly give my heart to.
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  Him that behold old things are passed away and
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  all things are become new and I have an assurance
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  of a home not made with hands eternal into the
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  heavens now I believe that when he said
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  to take up your cross daily he was
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  explaining to us that the life of a Christian
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  is one that is not the road
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  most taken and that
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  the path may be be hard at times and that
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  the world wouldn't understand us because many
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  places he explains that and he
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  tells us in the scriptures perhaps that
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  in not any more clear way than he tells us when he says to be a peculiar person
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  zealous of good works he tells us that in the account of the The scriptures
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  where he explains to us that the world didn't like him and the world won't like you.
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  He explains that to us to let us know, hey, it's okay. This world's not your home.
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  Just as in the Old Testament, we read that they were looking for a city whose
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  builder and maker was God.
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  And they were pilgrims and strangers here.
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  That's who we are as Christians. And you might say, it's just so hard.
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  But he is with you. And he's not just with you. He goes before you.
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  And just like any trail that you might be on that hasn't been walked before,
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  when someone goes in front of you, they cut the path for you. They clear the way.
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  They make it easier for you to go. And that's what Christ is in each of our lives.
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  And so has he is purposed in your heart a work for you to do for him,
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  spreading his word, being his hands extended, being his feet extended.
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  You don't have to worry about how you're going to get it done because he will supply your every need.
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  He will strengthen you to do that, which he's called you to do.
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  He will equip you with what you need. He has specifically chosen whatever it
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  is he's placed on your heart to do for you to do,
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  and he is fully aware of what you need to get it done, and he has promised to
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  supply it, but he's looked in you, and he has given you the skills and abilities
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  that is needed to get the job done.
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  That doesn't mean it's going to be something that isn't a little bit uncomfortable
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  for you. It just means you've got no worries.
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  He will get you through it.
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  He will make a way. But perhaps you need to see that there's a payday someday.
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  The Bible says in Romans chapter 14, 12, so then every one of us shall give
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  account of himself to God.
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  For some of you, that may cause fear and trembling.
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  But for those of us who understand the mighty works of God and realize that
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  it is a privilege to be one of his chosen, And that doesn't mean that I'm chosen,
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  you're not chosen, and he sifted through like that. Chosen was everybody.
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  But only some of us in this world have received that free gift that he has chosen for each of us.
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  Only some of us have unwrapped it.
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  But for those of us who have placed our faith in Jesus Christ,
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  we realize that he says in Proverbs 17.3, that the firing pot is for silver
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  and the furnace for gold, but the Lord trieth the hearts.
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  The Lord knows your thoughts. He knows your intents.
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  And if perhaps even you are unable to get done to your satisfaction,
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  that which he's called you to do, he understands your intent.
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  And just like the potter doesn't throw the clay away, way, he will continue
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  to mold you and make you and allow you an opportunity to do it better even the next time.
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  But through him and by him, you can accomplish great and mighty things for his kingdom.
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  And someday, those of us will stand before him and we will be judged.
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  Our works will be judged. Our salvation will be complete, but our works will be judged.
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  And in 1 Corinthians 3, verses 12 and 13, I believe that he gives us a little picture into this.
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  He says now if any man build upon
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  this foundation and the verse just in front
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  of that was talking about the foundation which is laid
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  which is jesus christ so if anyone build for for if anyone build upon this foundation
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  of jesus christ gold silver precious stones wood hay or stubble every man's 1 Peter chapter 1,
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  verses 1 through 10.
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  So that account that we
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  see right there takes the works which we
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  do in this world and if the works that are
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  done for the flesh works that are done selfishly works
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  that are done for the world and if we've spent our talent our energy our money
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  our faults our passion upon the things of the world when they go through the
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  fire they're going to go through like hay and stubble they're going to burn
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  up and all that time and all that that energy will be wasted because there'll
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  be nothing left to show for it.
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  But if we have spent our time and our energy and our patience and our passion
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  and our efforts towards the works of Christ,
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  then they'll go through the fire like silver and gold and precious stones and
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  silver and gold are only refined,
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  purified.
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  When you put that through the fiery furnace, the impurities found in gold will
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  just melt away, but gold will be left.
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  And that's what he gives us in this account in 1 Corinthians,
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  is that, yeah, maybe some things that you were doing for Christ didn't turn
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  out the way you wanted them to, or maybe you gave them your effort,
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  but somehow or another you left just a little bit out.
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  But the impurities that were within that work will be burned,
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  and the pureness of the intent of your heart and the pureness of the work that
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  you've done in the name of the Lord will last.
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  And on that day that we stand before him, will be able to cast him at his feet
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  in recognition of all that he's done for us.
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  You see, there's a truth that you need to realize as you're beginning to wonder
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  about how it is you're going to do what God has called you to do.
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  And the truth is that you can never out give God.
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  He will take what you give him and he will multiply it many, many times over.
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  And as you give effort, he will supply your strength.
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  As you give of sustenance he will continue to bless
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  you with sustenance as you reach
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  out in the name of jesus and you give the
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  love that's within you that you have because he first loved
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  you and you begin to love others the way that god has loved you you will never
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  find yourself without love people will adore you and love you you will still
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  have enemies you will still have problems but he will make sure that you have
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  the love that you need to bathe you you can't out give of God.
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  And there is a payday someday.
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  And the money that we make on earth here, we use for things that most of the
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  time don't even really matter.
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  But that payday, you'll be using that to be able to hand back to Jesus in recognition
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  of all that he has done for you.
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