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I Tested Banned Church Doctrines (The Prosperity Gospel) · Off The Kirb Ministries

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  thank you Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
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  Oh Lord, I need 100,000 the air by next week.
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  Honestly believe this that the reason why Jesus hadn't come is
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  because people are not giving the way God told him to give.
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  Hey, thank you Jesus, your God. Thank Jesus.
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  I am going to get some hate for saying this, but some of you
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  will not be here in 10 years time.
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  Some of you will walk away from the faith because you, like
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  millions of other Christians, have been deceived by these
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  three lies. Line number one, God is my
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  Butler. The Bible says that in the last
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  days people will become lovers of self.
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  In the last days people will become unthankful.
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  Millions have become disillusioned with Christianity
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  because somewhere down the line they heard a televangelist.
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  They heard a social media influencer.
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  Tell them if you come to Christ you will know what it is to have
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  a material, abundant life. If you put your trust in the
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  Lord Jesus Christ, you will experience an overflow of God's
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  favour. You won't have any problems
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  anymore. In fact, things will get a lot
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  better. Your break through his coming,
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  just be patient and God will blow your mind with what he's
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  going to do in your life. Now guys, you don't need me to
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  tell you the kinds of people who would be vulnerable to these
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  kinds of lies. We all know people who every
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  single day look at themselves in the mirror and say, I did not
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  think that this would be the way that my life would turn out.
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  I did not imagine that when I was 15 or 16 years old when I
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  had a pocket full of dreams. I never thought that I would
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  find myself in this kind of lifestyle in such a difficult
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  situation. So when this message of
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  prosperity of child arm of deceit, when it comes along,
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  they quickly swallow this pill and say, well, if your Jesus can
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  give me money, if your Jesus can give me a promotion, if your
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  Jesus can help me meet the man or woman of my dreams, if that's
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  the Jesus who will give me a sports car, well, I'll take your
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  Christianity, I'll take your Butler Jesus.
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  But when things don't quite turn out as the prosperity preacher
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  promised them, they quickly abandoned ship, disillusioned
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  and hurt because they did not really want the authentic God of
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  the Bible. They just wanted this false
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  image of God that doesn't really exist.
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  Now I can hear what some of you are thinking.
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  You're saying, Joe, I could never believe in that kind of
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  Butler type of Jesus. I know that the Bible says that
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  I need to deny myself and take up my cross, but can I just say
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  this? Are you sure about that?
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  Are you really sure that there is no hint of this in your life?
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  I mean, am I the only one who, when things go wrong, when the
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  rubber hits the road, when things get tough, I sometimes
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  get angry at God and I become bitter in my heart.
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  Why is it I'm the one who works so hard at my company and yet my
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  work colleagues, they were playing games, games in the
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  background and yet I'm the one who got laid off?
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  Why is it after all these years I've obeyed you, I've served you
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  and now I've ended up in a wheelchair and yet my atheist
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  neighbor down the road, he's got so much money, he's got no
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  problems and he doesn't give a thought to you?
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  Why is it God that there are godless parents everywhere on
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  every single St. and they have multiple children, whilst those
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  who seek to raise their children in the love of the Lord, they're
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  the ones who have a miscarriage. Who are you God?
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  Are you really that? Do you really love us?
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  How can you allow me, a child of God, to go through all of this
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  and yet everyone around me seems to be doing OK and they don't
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  think about you at all. You see, we all get mad at God
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  when things go wrong, don't we? We all get angry when the pan
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  boils over and life becomes difficult.
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  Why? Because in some way, we've all
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  been contaminated with this wrong view of God, this Disney
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  view of God, if you like, that everything will end happily ever
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  after, that we are not called to suffer, and that we are somehow
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  immune from life's troubles if we are in the Lord's hands.
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  Well, that leads me to line number 2.
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  Christians never suffer, or at least when they do suffer, we
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  are very surprised. We are shocked and we are quick
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  to shake our fist at God and say why God?
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  But what does the Bible say? The Bible says we must go
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  through many tribulations to enter the Kingdom of God.
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  There's one thing I'm more certain than the sun will rise
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  tomorrow and it's this. If you are born again, if you
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  are a Christian, you will go through many tribulations before
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  you reach the Lord Jesus Christ in heaven.
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  You will suffer. And guys, it doesn't make God
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  look glorious when we drive a sports car or we have a Ferrari.
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  Do you know what makes God look immensely glorious when we live
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  like this man Richard Wormbrand in 1948 this Romanian pastor
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  Richard Wormbrand was kidnapped and put in solitary confinement
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  for three years. But listen to this is all he had
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  to do to escape this punishment which by the way he did not
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  deserve is all he had to do was just renounce the Lord just say
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  I no longer believe in Jesus and he'd be let out.
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  But what did Richard do? He refused.
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  He then and spent another eleven years in prison.
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  Every time he was caught on his knees praying.
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  Do you know what the guards did to him.
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  They would beat him. He was beaten so badly on his
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  feet that he would never walk normally again after his
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  release. But he never stopped praying.
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  He knew what it was to love his enemies and he knew what it was
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  to pray for those who persecuted him and you want to hear
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  something beautiful because he was so persistent in praying for
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  those guards. Some of them were even one for
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  the Lord Jesus Christ. OK, so when we look at the life
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  of Richard, when we read the story of the apostle Paul, who
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  was beaten, who suffered hunger, who was imprisoned, who was
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  shipwrecked, who spent his whole life on the road when he could
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  have easily lived comfortably. We cannot then say that Jesus
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  promises us success, abundance, comfort and ease.
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  Nor rather we should preach that when we suffer we should count
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  it all joy, because although these pains hurt, and they do,
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  they are temporary, those of us who are Christians must never
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  forget we have an eternal Christ and there are pleasures and joys
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  in him that will go on forever. OK line #3 abundance equals
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  happiness. Jesus said take heed and beware
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  of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the
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  abundance of the things He possesses.
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  To guys, please, I beg you. I don't want anyone to
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  misunderstand me. There is nothing wrong with
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  being rich. We need more wealthy Christians
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  who can give sacrificially to ministries, who can support the
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  work of the gospel, who can feed the port.
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  There is nothing wrong with having dreams, aspirations and
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  goals for the future. God has given us life to enjoy
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  it and to enjoy it to the full. But it does become sinful when
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  we become preoccupied with these things, when we turn these
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  things into idols, and when we fall into what I call moving
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  target syndrome. What is moving target syndrome?
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  It's where you say I just need a little bit more of this and then
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  I'll be happy. I just need 1000 followers and
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  then I'll be happy. You get 1000 followers.
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  Well, now I need 10,000 followers, then I'll be happy.
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  No, now I need 100,000 a million.
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  Oh, if I get a wife, if I get that, then my life will be
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  complete. You get the wife, you get the
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  money, you get all of the followers, you get that bigger
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  income, you get the house, you get the car, you get it all, and
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  yet you're still dissatisfied. And constantly when we do that,
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  when we live that kind of lifestyle, we are breaking the
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  10th commandment, We are coveting, we are being greedy
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  and we are being unthankful, for the Lord has already given to us
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  in our lives. Do you remember the Lord said be
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  content with your wages? Can I ask you, are you content
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  with your wages right now? A poor farmer quickly understood
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  the pain and misery that comes from being competitive and
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  greedy. There was a sort of genie like
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  figure and he visited this poor farmer and said whatever you
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  want you can have under one condition.
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  The farmer next door to you will receive double of what you have.
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  So the farmer agreed. He said OK I want 1000 acres of
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  land, that's fine came the reply.
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  But the farmer next door will receive 2000 acres.
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  The next day he said do you know what I want 500 cows.
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  So he got 500 cows but what happened to his neighbor?
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  Well he got 1000. OK, I want a BMW, said the
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  farmer. He got a BMW, but the neighbor
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  got a Lamborghini. Eventually this farmer became so
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  consumed with envy and jealousy and competitiveness that he
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  said, do you know what? I want you to remove one of my
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  eyes just so the neighbor would. Well, you can imagine what
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  happened to him. My dear friend, I truly do
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  believe that if we stop comparing ourselves to others,
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  if we stopped stalking other people on social media or
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  wherever it might be, and constantly looking at what God
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  has done in their lives, we would be so much happier.
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  We'd begin to notice the individual blessings He has
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  given to us. You see, the most content person
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  in the room is not the person who has the most, it's the one
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  who can be happiest with the least.
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  But I know exactly what some of you are doing right now.
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  Some of you are smiling from ear to ear because you're thinking
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  they can keep their Lamborghinis, they can keep
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  their mansions, they can keep their money, they can keep their
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  fame, they can keep their clout. Just give me Jesus Christ.
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  He's all I need. If I have Christ, I am the most
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  blessed person in the room, the most blessed person in the
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  world. But I wonder if there's anyone
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  listening who would struggle to say that.
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  Can you truly say what Jeremiah said?
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  The Lord is my portion, saves my soul, therefore I will hope in
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  him. Whenever I go out to a
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  restaurant, I often get food envy, whether it's of my wife or
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  it's of my dad. I often envy the order on the
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  plate that they've got, and I wish I had their food instead of
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  my own. We can do that with people's
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  lives, can't we? We can get jealous of what
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  they're eating, what's on their plate, what's on the menu of
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  their life, what God has served for them.
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  So can I ask you, when you look down at your plate, do you
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  realize that you only have one thing?
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  You have the bread of life. You have the Lord Jesus Christ
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  and you cry out. That is enough for me.
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  The bread of life satisfies my soul.
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  Christ is all I need. I wonder how many Johnny Cash
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  fans there are watching this video right now.
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  Do you know what the last song he ever sang was called?
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  It was called Hurts. It was actually written by a guy
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  called Trent Reznor. And in it the lyrics there are
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  some very powerful words. It says you can have it all.
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  My empire of dirt, if I I could start again 1,000,000 miles
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  away, I would keep myself. What is Johnny saying here?
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  He's saying after decades of fame, after all the records I've
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  sold, after all the women I've dated, after all that I've had
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  in my life, I look at all of that piled together and is all I
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  see is a big pile of dirt. That's what I've lived for,
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  dirt. And if you know Johnny's story,
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  you know that he became a born again Christian.
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  He changed and he came to know and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  He repented of his sins and he put his trust in him.
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  And I think what Johnny is really saying is this, If I
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  could live my 70 years again, I wouldn't live for abundance.
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  I wouldn't live for worthless dirt.
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  I would live for the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who will never
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  let you down, who will never leave or forsake you.
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  I am telling you about a man who can take the most precious
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  thing. You own your soul, your eternal
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  soul. And if you'll let him, he'll
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  wrap it in his hands, and he'll keep it safe for all of eternity
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  in heaven, where you will spend it with Him.
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  And turn from this greed, turn from the idols in your heart,
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  turn from this covetousness, turn from this constant desire
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  for more and more and more. And turn to the Lord Jesus
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  Christ. He does not offer you rubies and
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  gold, but He offers you the forgiveness of sins.
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  Turn to the one who on the cross bled and died so that you might
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  be forgiven. And not only that, he offers you
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  another precious gift, the righteousness of God, which can
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  be accredited into your account right now.
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  So that when God looks at you, he does not see you and your sin
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  and your failures. He sees the righteousness, the
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  perfection, the goodness of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Come to the one who conquered the grave and says anyone who
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  will trust in me, I will conquer their grave and I will give them
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  eternal life. Because I can assure you of one
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  thing. I don't have a clue where you
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  should invest your money. I don't know what the best asset
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  is. I don't know where you should
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  put your money into where you're going to get the best return.
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  But I do know this, if you invest your life in the Lord
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  Jesus Christ, you will never regret it.
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  It is the best decision you could ever make.
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  So can I ask you, will you do it?
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  If you haven't already, what is stopping you?
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  Why haven't you ran into his arms, The one who'll who save
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  you, who forgive you and give you eternal life.
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  Some people get very confused by all of the different Christian
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  denominations. For example, what is the Word of
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  Faith movement? What is the prosperity gospel
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  that we've been hinting at in this video?
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  Some people often ask me as well, Joe, what Christian
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  denomination are you? Well, if you'd like answers to
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  all of these questions, I've made an entire video here
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  exploring everything you need to know about Christian
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  denominations. Click it now because I genuinely
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  think you'll find it very fascinating.