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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Investing For Maximum Returns | February 4, 2026
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- ♪♪♪
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- Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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- This is "pathway to victory" with doctor robert jeffress.
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- Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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- And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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- There's no shortage of financial analysts who will tell you how
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- To invest your money on wall street.
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- They'll tell you when to buy and when to sell to get the biggest
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- Bang for your buck.
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- But none of these advisors will tell you how
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- To invest for eternity.
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- Today we're going to discover some practical investment tips
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- From jesus.
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- My message is titled "investing for maximum returns"
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- On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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- ♪ i could live life alone. ♪
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- ♪ and never fill the longings of my heart. ♪
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- ♪ the healing warmth of someone's arms ♪
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- ♪ and i could live without dreams. ♪
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- ♪ and never know the thrill of what could be. ♪
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- ♪ with every star so far and out of reach. ♪
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- ♪ i could live without many things. ♪
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- ♪ and i could carry on. ♪
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- ♪ and i, see, i travel the world. ♪
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- ♪ see all the wonders they're beautiful and new. ♪
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- ♪ but they'll only make me think of you. ♪
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- ♪ and i could have all this life offers. ♪
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- ♪ riches that were far beyond compare. ♪
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- ♪ they could grant my every wish without a care. ♪
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- ♪ oh, i could do anything. ♪
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- ♪ but lord if you weren't in it all. ♪
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- ♪ i couldn't face my life tomorrow. ♪
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- ♪ without your hope in my heart i know. ♪
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- ♪ i can't live a day without you. ♪
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- ♪ lord, there's no night, and there's no morning. ♪
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- ♪ without your loving arms to hold me. ♪
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- ♪ you are the heartbeat of all i do. ♪
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- ♪ i can't live a day without you. ♪
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- ♪ oh, jesus, ♪
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- ♪ i live because you live. ♪
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- ♪ you're like the air i breathe. ♪
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- ♪ oh, jesus, ♪
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- ♪ i have because you give, ♪
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- ♪ yes i do. ♪
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- ♪ you're everything to me. ♪
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- ♪ oh, i couldn't face my life tomorrow. ♪
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- ♪ without your hope in my heart i know. ♪
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- ♪ i can't live a day without you. ♪
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- ♪ lord, there's no night, and there's no morning. ♪
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- ♪ without your loving arms to hold me. ♪
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- ♪ you are the heartbeat of all i do. ♪
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- ♪ i can't live a day without you. ♪♪
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Announcer: we all want to live a life of meaning and
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- Significance, but we often dream too small.
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- Jeffress: my friends david green, founder and ceo of hobby
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- Lobby, and bill high, ceo of legacy stone, have written a
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- Brand new book called "the legacy life."
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- Jeffress: you've said it in this book several times.
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- Legacy is not what you leave behind, it's what you set in
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- Motion for the future.
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- Jeffress: this book will challenge you to point your life
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- Heavenward and set in motion a legacy of eternal significance.
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- David green: bill, i've found that it's much easier to run a
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- Business, but having a family, a wife, children that serve the
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- Lord is much, much more difficult.
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- We're about mission, vision, and values, and it's all based on
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- God's word, and that's what we're excited about.
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- Bill high: no matter what stage of life you're in, "the legacy
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- Life" will help you understand how to apply god's word and set
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- In motion a great legacy.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Jeffress: you know, some people decide what--
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- They give this way.
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- They say, "okay, i add up all my income,
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- I subtract all my expenses and if anything is left over,
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- I'll give."
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- Haven't you found it interesting?
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- There's hardly anything ever left over,
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- If you go by it that way.
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- Other people say, "well, you know,
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- I'll just give as little as possible on that commitment card
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- Without feeling guilty.
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- Whatever it takes to keep me from feeling guilty,
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- I'll give that amount and i'll give as little as possible."
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- Other people say, "no, you know, the bible says the tithe belongs
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- To the lord, and so i'm going to give 10% of my income to god's
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- Work and then keep the other 90% for me to do whatever i want."
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- Well, jesus has a different perspective on giving
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- That i'd like to look at today.
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- It may completely revolutionize the way you think
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- About giving to god's word.
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- And that perspective is found in matthew chapter 6.
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- If you have your bibles, turn to matthew chapter 6,
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- Beginning with verse 19.
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- Jesus said, "do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
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- Where moth and rust destroys, and where thieves break in
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- And steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
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- Where neither moth nor rust destroys,
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- And where thieves do not break in or steal;
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- For where your treasure is there your heart will be also."
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- You know, jesus's words can be best summarized
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- By this sentence.
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- You can't take it with you, but you can send it on ahead of you.
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- Randy alcorn, in his book "the treasure principle,"
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- Summarized it this way.
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- He said everything we invest here on earth will one day be
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- Lost, but anything we invest in heaven will never be lost.
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- That is the treasure principle.
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- And you know, today i want us to consider four implications of
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- That treasure principle.
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- Would you write them down on your outlines?
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- Principle number one is this, i am a manager,
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- Not an owner of everything i have.
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- I am a manager, not an owner.
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- God said in job 41, verse 11, "who has given to me
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- That i should repay him?
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- Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine."
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- God says everything belongs to him;
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- We own nothing.
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- Everything i have belongs to god.
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- So, what's the implication of that?
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- I want you to imagine for a moment that you're the president
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- Of a company called jesus incorporated,
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- And the purpose of your company is to spread the news of jesus
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- To as many people as possible.
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- You're the president, but god is the ceo.
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- Now, the assets of your company, jesus incorporated,
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- Consist of everything you own, your house,
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- Your car, your savings account, your retirement account.
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- They are under your management as the president,
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- And you've got a great deal of latitude with what you do
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- With your possessions.
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- If you wanna blow $1,000 or $10,000 on a luxury,
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- Nobody's going to call that into question,
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- You're the president.
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- The only thing is, one day you're gonna give an account
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- To the ceo of how you're running his company.
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- Are you furthering his interest or your own interest?
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- God has said, "i've left you here on earth for one reason,
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- And that is to spread the news of my son to everyone."
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- We all are president of our own little corporation
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- Called jesus incorporated.
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- And so, the question is, how are we investing the assets,
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- Not that we own, but that we manage for the ceo's benefit?
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- And that leads to a second truth in this principle.
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- Not only am i not an owner, i'm a manager.
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- Secondly, i should avoid unwise investments.
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- I should avoid unwise investments.
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- Look at verse 19.
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- "jesus said, 'do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
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- Where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in
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- And steal.'"
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- In the greek language you could actually translate that,
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- Instead of do not, jesus actually said stop,
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- Cease, desist from wasting your money
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- On things that are either going to be lost
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- Or going to be destroyed.
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- Jesus is saying stop, cease, desist,
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- Quit being consumed by consumerism.
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- We live in an age that is consumed by consumerism.
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- I read a study that said that the average american spends
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- 6 hours a week shopping and spends 40 minutes a week
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- With his children.
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- We have this idea that if we have any margin in our income,
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- Well, we need to spend that.
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- I mean, if we live in a 4,000-square-foot home
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- And have the ability to move to a 6,000-square-foot home,
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- We ought to do it.
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- If we own four pair of shoes and we need a fifth pair,
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- We just like it, not that we need it,
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- We can buy that fifth pair of shoes.
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- If we have an automobile that drives fine,
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- But there's a newer automobile available,
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- We ought to purchase it.
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- That is the age in which we live.
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- Now the fact is, there's nothing wrong about a bigger home.
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- There's nothing wrong about more shoes
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- Or even a finer automobile.
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- What jesus said is these are unwise investments because
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- Of what happens to them; they depreciate over time,
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- They lose their value.
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- They can either be destroyed by moth or rust,
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- Or they can be lost or stolen.
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- By the way, if you ever wanna see this principle in action
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- About how what we invest in deteriorates over time,
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- Just hold a garage sale.
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- How many of you have ever had a garage sale before?
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- You know what you do, you haul all your junk into the driveway
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- And just hope you can, you know, unload your junk
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- On somebody else.
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- That's what a garage sale is, and you know it can be very,
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- Very disturbing when you do it, because,
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- I mean, here are toys you bought for your children for $30,
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- $40, and $50, and you know, they're on sale for a quarter
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- Or a half a dollar.
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- Or you have clothes that you spent hundreds of dollars on
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- And you're trying to get rid of 'em for $5 or $10.
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- I remember a garage sale we had,
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- And i hauled out the very first computer i ever bought.
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- It was a macintosh computer in 1985.
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- It cost $3,500 in 1985, put it in the garage sale,
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- Put a price tag on it of $20,
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- And i couldn't unload it for $20.
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- Finally, i had to give it away, and you know,
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- I decided to do a little study and i took that $3,500 figure
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- And i said, you know what, what if i had taken that $3,500
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- And invested it in a normal rate of return?
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- You know what i discovered?
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- In that same period of time that $3,500 would
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- Have turned into $12,000.
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- Now, there's nothing wrong with buying computers.
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- There's nothing wrong with buying toys for your children
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- Or buying other things, god wants us to do more
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- Than endure life, he wants us to enjoy it.
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- But what jesus is simply saying here is when you understand that
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- Everything you purchase here on earth is going to lose its value
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- One day, the idea is to spend as little as possible on those
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- Things so you don't lose your investment.
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- And instead that leads us to the third principle,
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- I should seek safe and profitable investments.
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- Remember, we're managers, not owners,
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- We've got a certain amount of money.
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- One day we're gonna give an account to god for how we've
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- Invested that money and if we wanna be rewarded by the ceo
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- One day, we're going to seek safe and profitable investments.
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- Look at what he says in verse 20.
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- "instead of laying up for yourselves treasures on earth,
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- Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
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- Where neither moth nor rust destroys,
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- And where thieves do not break in or steal."
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- Now notice jesus is not against laying up
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- Treasures for yourself.
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- He doesn't say, "quit thinking about yourself and don't try
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- To lay up any treasures."
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- He doesn't say that.
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- He says, "just don't lay up your treasures on earth,
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- Where they're going to be lost or lose their value.
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- Instead, lay up your treasures in a secure place
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- Where you can yield eternal dividends."
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- That's heaven.
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- And notice what he says about investing in heaven.
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- The reason heaven and god's kingdom is a wiser investment
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- Is because of two words.
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- The first word is safety.
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- Heaven, god's work, is a safer investment.
- 00:14:20.015 --> 00:14:25.487
- You might think, well, you know, these are just such uncertain
- 00:14:25.487 --> 00:14:28.524
- Times, and this election is coming up, and i don't know
- 00:14:28.524 --> 00:14:30.993
- What the fallout's gonna be from that,
- 00:14:30.993 --> 00:14:33.262
- Maybe i shouldn't give my money right now.
- 00:14:33.262 --> 00:14:36.031
- I wanna keep it safe, so i'm gonna put my money in the bank.
- 00:14:36.031 --> 00:14:40.769
- I'm going to keep it safe in the bank.
- 00:14:40.769 --> 00:14:42.204
- Let me ask you, has anybody ever lost money in a bank before?
- 00:14:42.204 --> 00:14:46.709
- Think the great depression?
- 00:14:46.709 --> 00:14:48.811
- Of course, people lost lots of money in the bank.
- 00:14:48.811 --> 00:14:50.946
- "well, pastor, but that could never happen today because
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- Of fdic and blah- blah-blah-blah.
- 00:14:52.982 --> 00:14:54.950
- Nobody will ever lose money in a bank again."
- 00:14:54.950 --> 00:14:57.386
- Are you sure of that?
- 00:14:57.386 --> 00:14:59.421
- With what's coming, the national debt,
- 00:14:59.421 --> 00:15:02.391
- The deficit, can you say that with absolute certainty?
- 00:15:02.391 --> 00:15:05.761
- Other people say, "well, i won't put it in a bank.
- 00:15:05.761 --> 00:15:07.763
- A safer investment for me is the stock market,
- 00:15:07.763 --> 00:15:10.566
- That's what's safe."
- 00:15:10.566 --> 00:15:12.267
- Anybody ever lost any money in the stock market before?
- 00:15:12.267 --> 00:15:16.271
- I mean, it wasn't that many years ago people lost 30%,
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- 40%, 50% of their investment.
- 00:15:18.741 --> 00:15:22.811
- But you know what?
- 00:15:22.811 --> 00:15:24.380
- Not one dollar invested in god's work has ever been lost.
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- Not one single dollar invested in god's work
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- Has ever been lost.
- 00:15:32.221 --> 00:15:34.990
- The reason we invest in god's kingdom work is,
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- First of all because of safety, but secondly
- 00:15:37.359 --> 00:15:39.294
- Because of profitability.
- 00:15:39.294 --> 00:15:41.330
- It's actually a more profitable investment.
- 00:15:41.330 --> 00:15:45.134
- You know, financial planners sometimes are what
- 00:15:45.134 --> 00:15:50.272
- We call market timers.
- 00:15:50.272 --> 00:15:52.608
- That is, they look out over the horizon to try to predict what's
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- Going to happen to the economy, and they make investment
- 00:15:55.677 --> 00:15:58.480
- Decisions based on that.
- 00:15:58.480 --> 00:15:59.948
- For example, if they think things look kind of bleak and
- 00:15:59.948 --> 00:16:04.153
- Dangerous, they'll say, "you oughtta take money
- 00:16:04.153 --> 00:16:06.722
- Out of the stock market and invest it in bonds and cash."
- 00:16:06.722 --> 00:16:09.992
- However, if they look out over the long term and say,
- 00:16:09.992 --> 00:16:12.361
- "you know what, things may be bad now,
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- But they're going to get better, maybe we oughtta move your money
- 00:16:13.829 --> 00:16:16.598
- From a safe investment to a more risky investment,
- 00:16:16.598 --> 00:16:19.501
- Like the stock market."
- 00:16:19.501 --> 00:16:21.070
- That's what a market timer is.
- 00:16:21.070 --> 00:16:23.372
- As one writer said, "jesus was the ultimate market timer.
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- He was able to look out beyond eternity."
- 00:16:29.244 --> 00:16:32.347
- And you know what his forecast is for this world?
- 00:16:32.347 --> 00:16:35.784
- He says, "short term, the outlook is very bleak,
- 00:16:35.784 --> 00:16:39.688
- It's very dangerous, but long term,
- 00:16:39.688 --> 00:16:43.092
- I'm bullish on the future," jesus says.
- 00:16:43.092 --> 00:16:45.928
- He looks long-term and says, "eventually everything's going
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- To turn out great," which is why if you wanna have a profitable
- 00:16:49.031 --> 00:16:52.634
- Investment that will last throughout eternity,
- 00:16:52.634 --> 00:16:55.404
- It means investing in god's kingdom's work.
- 00:16:55.404 --> 00:16:59.074
- You know, i used this illustration a few years ago,
- 00:16:59.074 --> 00:17:01.143
- But it bears repeating.
- 00:17:01.143 --> 00:17:03.245
- Just imagine you happen to be alive on the day jesus was born,
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- Christmas day, ad zero.
- 00:17:09.084 --> 00:17:12.121
- We don't think it was zero, but let's just say it was
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- A ad zero christmas day.
- 00:17:13.989 --> 00:17:15.924
- The day jesus was born.
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- You heard the news about his arrival,
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- You heard about the magi, and you said,
- 00:17:18.894 --> 00:17:20.896
- "you know what?
- 00:17:20.896 --> 00:17:22.231
- I think this jesus guy is going someplace.
- 00:17:22.231 --> 00:17:25.667
- I'd like to be a part of his ministry," so you invest $1 in
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- Jesus incorporated, the life and ministry of jesus christ,
- 00:17:31.173 --> 00:17:35.511
- Christmas day ad zero.
- 00:17:35.511 --> 00:17:38.046
- And let's just say that's all the money you ever invest in
- 00:17:38.046 --> 00:17:40.516
- Jesus incorporated, $1, and let's say it earns
- 00:17:40.516 --> 00:17:43.719
- 6% interest every year.
- 00:17:43.719 --> 00:17:47.289
- You know how much that dollar investment
- 00:17:47.289 --> 00:17:49.158
- Would have turned into?
- 00:17:49.158 --> 00:17:50.859
- By today it would be worth $720 quadrillion,
- 00:17:50.859 --> 00:17:57.065
- A $1 investment compounded at 6% for over 2,000 years.
- 00:17:57.065 --> 00:18:02.538
- Somebody challenged me on that one time.
- 00:18:02.538 --> 00:18:04.473
- I said, now go back and do the math and compound it.
- 00:18:04.473 --> 00:18:07.943
- And they said, "pastor, you're right,
- 00:18:07.943 --> 00:18:09.945
- $720 quadrillion."
- 00:18:09.945 --> 00:18:12.114
- Now you may be saying, "well, that's interesting,
- 00:18:12.114 --> 00:18:13.815
- But i wasn't alive 2,000 years ago when jesus was born."
- 00:18:13.815 --> 00:18:17.553
- That's right, but you're alive right now,
- 00:18:17.553 --> 00:18:20.789
- And you're gonna be alive forever and ever and ever,
- 00:18:20.789 --> 00:18:24.259
- Not just for 2,000 years,
- 00:18:24.259 --> 00:18:25.861
- But for 2 billion trillion quadrillion years and more,
- 00:18:25.861 --> 00:18:29.164
- You'll be alive, and every dollar you invest in
- 00:18:29.164 --> 00:18:32.834
- Jesus incorporated god's work, every dollar you invest will
- 00:18:32.834 --> 00:18:37.306
- Compound and compound and compound and yield
- 00:18:37.306 --> 00:18:41.009
- You eternal rewards.
- 00:18:41.009 --> 00:18:43.845
- That's why investing in god's work makes sense.
- 00:18:43.845 --> 00:18:46.815
- It is eternally and immensely profitable.
- 00:18:46.815 --> 00:18:50.552
- And that leads to a fourth and final application,
- 00:18:50.552 --> 00:18:53.989
- And that is my heart follows my investments.
- 00:18:53.989 --> 00:18:58.193
- You know, in verse 21 jesus adds this phrase
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- That many people misunderstand.
- 00:19:00.963 --> 00:19:03.765
- He said, "by the way, where your treasure is,
- 00:19:03.765 --> 00:19:08.670
- There your heart will be also."
- 00:19:08.670 --> 00:19:13.308
- Now, if i had been jesus-- aren't you glad i'm not?
- 00:19:13.308 --> 00:19:17.312
- But had i been jesus, i wouldn't have said it that way.
- 00:19:17.312 --> 00:19:22.217
- I would have said where your heart is, there you--
- 00:19:22.217 --> 00:19:26.688
- Your treasure will also be.
- 00:19:26.688 --> 00:19:29.591
- Do you really love me?
- 00:19:29.591 --> 00:19:31.927
- Then prove it by your giving, for where your heart is, there
- 00:19:31.927 --> 00:19:35.631
- Your treasure will be.
- 00:19:35.631 --> 00:19:37.833
- You know, my dad used to drive a volkswagen,
- 00:19:37.833 --> 00:19:39.801
- He had a bumper sticker on it.
- 00:19:39.801 --> 00:19:41.270
- It said, "tithe if you love jesus,
- 00:19:41.270 --> 00:19:42.871
- Any idiot can honk," you know?
- 00:19:42.871 --> 00:19:46.375
- [congregation laughing]
- 00:19:46.375 --> 00:19:50.479
- He had a great sense of humor.
- 00:19:50.479 --> 00:19:52.714
- You know, that's true.
- 00:19:52.714 --> 00:19:54.149
- I mean, one way we demonstrate how much we love the lord
- 00:19:54.149 --> 00:19:56.818
- Is how much we invest in his work.
- 00:19:56.818 --> 00:19:58.487
- But interestingly, that's not what jesus said.
- 00:19:58.487 --> 00:20:01.223
- That's kind of a no-brainer,
- 00:20:01.223 --> 00:20:02.557
- "where your heart is there your treasure will be."
- 00:20:02.557 --> 00:20:04.526
- Instead, jesus said, "where your treasure is,
- 00:20:04.526 --> 00:20:07.296
- There your heart will be."
- 00:20:07.296 --> 00:20:08.730
- That is, your heart follows your investments.
- 00:20:08.730 --> 00:20:13.402
- For example, if your treasure is in the stock market,
- 00:20:13.402 --> 00:20:16.505
- Guess what you're gonna be doing all the time?
- 00:20:16.505 --> 00:20:18.140
- You're gonna be checking the ups and downs
- 00:20:18.140 --> 00:20:19.841
- Of the dow jones industrial average.
- 00:20:19.841 --> 00:20:23.278
- If your treasure is in your house or in your cars
- 00:20:23.278 --> 00:20:25.380
- Or in your clothes, that's where your affection
- 00:20:25.380 --> 00:20:27.549
- Is going to be as well.
- 00:20:27.549 --> 00:20:30.886
- "where your treasure is there your heart will be also."
- 00:20:30.886 --> 00:20:35.624
- Maybe i'm speaking to some of you here today,
- 00:20:35.624 --> 00:20:37.426
- And you would say, "you know, pastor, honestly,
- 00:20:37.426 --> 00:20:42.831
- I wish i loved god more than i do.
- 00:20:42.831 --> 00:20:46.001
- But honestly, i can go days, weeks without even thinking
- 00:20:46.001 --> 00:20:50.205
- About him much.
- 00:20:50.205 --> 00:20:53.141
- I wish i cared about spiritual things more than i do,
- 00:20:53.141 --> 00:20:55.977
- But i'm so caught up in my work and my career
- 00:20:55.977 --> 00:20:58.280
- And what i'm trying to achieve, i'm just not that interested
- 00:20:58.280 --> 00:21:01.083
- In spiritual things."
- 00:21:01.083 --> 00:21:02.517
- You know what?
- 00:21:02.517 --> 00:21:03.952
- Jesus says very compassionately to you,
- 00:21:03.952 --> 00:21:05.854
- "i've got a remedy for that.
- 00:21:05.854 --> 00:21:07.823
- You wanna be interested in spiritual things?
- 00:21:07.823 --> 00:21:09.925
- Put your treasure there, because where your treasure is,
- 00:21:09.925 --> 00:21:13.028
- There your heart will be."
- 00:21:13.028 --> 00:21:15.197
- In my last church, we were building a new worship center
- 00:21:15.197 --> 00:21:18.967
- And made the request for funds.
- 00:21:18.967 --> 00:21:21.536
- There was a guy in our church who invested a rather largeable
- 00:21:21.536 --> 00:21:24.773
- Size of his estate in our new worship center.
- 00:21:24.773 --> 00:21:27.776
- And i thought it was interesting because this guy didn't come to
- 00:21:27.776 --> 00:21:30.579
- Church that often.
- 00:21:30.579 --> 00:21:31.913
- He really wasn't involved in the church and i was really
- 00:21:31.913 --> 00:21:33.815
- Surprised when i saw his pledge card.
- 00:21:33.815 --> 00:21:36.718
- I was talking to him about it after he made the commitment
- 00:21:36.718 --> 00:21:39.388
- And made the gift.
- 00:21:39.388 --> 00:21:41.123
- And this is what he said.
- 00:21:41.123 --> 00:21:42.491
- He said, "you know, it used to be the first thing i did every
- 00:21:42.491 --> 00:21:44.926
- Morning when i got up was to open the newspaper and check out
- 00:21:44.926 --> 00:21:47.763
- The stock market because that's where my treasure is."
- 00:21:47.763 --> 00:21:51.767
- Now he says, "the first thing i do every morning when i get up
- 00:21:51.767 --> 00:21:54.403
- Is i get in my car, drive down to the church,
- 00:21:54.403 --> 00:21:56.972
- And watch the bulldozers at work and the steel beams being
- 00:21:56.972 --> 00:22:00.976
- Erected because that's where my treasure is now."
- 00:22:00.976 --> 00:22:04.780
- That's what jesus was saying.
- 00:22:04.780 --> 00:22:06.448
- For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- 00:22:06.448 --> 00:22:11.553
- You can't take it with you, but you can send it on ahead of you.
- 00:22:11.553 --> 00:22:17.159
- Greg lafferty tells a story about being on an overseas trip,
- 00:22:17.159 --> 00:22:21.730
- And he had a free day, so he said,
- 00:22:21.730 --> 00:22:23.698
- "i've always wanted to go to zurich, switzerland,"
- 00:22:23.698 --> 00:22:25.834
- So he said, "i planned to spend
- 00:22:25.834 --> 00:22:27.769
- One day in zurich."
- 00:22:27.769 --> 00:22:30.071
- So, he thought to himself, okay, how many swiss francs
- 00:22:30.071 --> 00:22:33.408
- Do i need for one day in zurich?
- 00:22:33.408 --> 00:22:35.977
- And so, he took some dollars and $80 specifically
- 00:22:35.977 --> 00:22:40.415
- And converted them to swiss francs.
- 00:22:40.415 --> 00:22:42.150
- His idea was i want to convert as little as possible,
- 00:22:42.150 --> 00:22:45.487
- So i don't have a bunch of francs left over and have
- 00:22:45.487 --> 00:22:47.989
- To change them back.
- 00:22:47.989 --> 00:22:50.158
- Now, greg says he had many more dollars in his bank account he
- 00:22:50.158 --> 00:22:53.295
- Could have exchanged, but he wanted to exchange
- 00:22:53.295 --> 00:22:56.164
- As few as possible.
- 00:22:56.164 --> 00:22:58.667
- And then he made this application,
- 00:22:58.667 --> 00:23:00.101
- He said, "you know, most of us are going to be here on this
- 00:23:00.101 --> 00:23:03.805
- Earth for 80, 90 years, maybe, but we're going to be in heaven
- 00:23:03.805 --> 00:23:08.410
- For 80 quadrillion billion years and more.
- 00:23:08.410 --> 00:23:12.747
- It seems kind of a waste to be here on earth for only a short
- 00:23:12.747 --> 00:23:16.918
- Time and to leave behind a huge stack of dollar bills that we'll
- 00:23:16.918 --> 00:23:22.390
- Never be able to use again.
- 00:23:22.390 --> 00:23:25.093
- What makes more sense is to go ahead and start transferring
- 00:23:25.093 --> 00:23:28.296
- Our money right now to heavenly currency,
- 00:23:28.296 --> 00:23:31.266
- So it's there to await us and reward us for all eternity."
- 00:23:31.266 --> 00:23:38.406
- You can't take it with you, but you can send it on ahead of you.
- 00:23:38.406 --> 00:23:43.512
- Everything invested in earth will one day be lost.
- 00:23:43.512 --> 00:23:47.916
- Anything invested in heaven will never be lost.
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- ♪♪♪
- 00:23:53.355 --> 00:23:58.693
- Jeffress: you can't take it with you,
- 00:23:58.693 --> 00:24:00.028
- But you can send it on ahead of you.
- 00:24:00.028 --> 00:24:03.465
- That's the ultimate investment tip from jesus for yielding
- 00:24:03.465 --> 00:24:07.702
- Maximum returns.
- 00:24:07.702 --> 00:24:09.804
- Now in closing today, i want to share a letter
- 00:24:09.804 --> 00:24:11.907
- I received from mona.
- 00:24:11.907 --> 00:24:13.875
- She wrote, "pastor jeffress, i've been struggling with a bad
- 00:24:13.875 --> 00:24:16.845
- Decision that has held me back for so many years,
- 00:24:16.845 --> 00:24:20.682
- But when i heard you say there is hope and that god has always
- 00:24:20.682 --> 00:24:24.553
- Giving us a second chance, it was just what i needed to hear.
- 00:24:24.553 --> 00:24:28.523
- Please never quit sharing god's love for all of us."
- 00:24:28.523 --> 00:24:33.328
- Well, mona, i promise to keep sharing the truth about god's
- 00:24:33.328 --> 00:24:36.431
- Love and mercy, and it's our faithful viewing and listening
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- Families who allow me to do so without restraint.
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- As we pierce the darkness with the light of god's word.
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- In the next life.
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- It's a sacred pause to reconnect with the lord.
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- Announcer: to reserve your cabin on the 2026 pathway to victory
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- Cruise to alaska, call ... or visit ptv.org.
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