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Allen Jackson - Money and Power

December 6, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Money and Power
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Money and Power | December 6, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: god is moving in the earth.
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  • We established allen jackson ministries to strengthen
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  • The church.
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  • Jesus said he would build his church and hell wouldn't
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  • Stop it.
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  • We intend to be a part of that in this nation and beyond.
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  • With your help, we have done a lot of things in the media with
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  • Television and radio.
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  • We have created small group curriculum, we've hosted a
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  • Culture and christianity conference.
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  • We have crisscrossed this nation in more than two dozen cities
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  • Doing pastors's conferences with pastors and church leaders.
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  • Now we have strategic partners in israel and the ukraine asking
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  • For that same kind of help and resources as we look at the
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  • Year ahead.
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  • I want to ask you to prayerfully consider making an investment in
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  • This ministry as we look towards this new year.
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  • We intend to strengthen the church in this nation and beyond
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  • As never before.
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  • God is moving. we want to be a part of that.
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  • I thank you for your partnership, for your
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  • Generosity, and for your faithfulness in standing
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  • With us.
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  • Together, we'll make a difference for the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • Allen: well, i brought you the financial ten commandments.
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  • These are not in deuteronomy or leviticus.
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  • Well, they're probably there but they're not arranged in the way
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  • I have done them.
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  • I took "thou shalt" and "thou shalt not" out of them, so you
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  • Wouldn't be confused, but i do think of them as biblically
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  • Sound fundamentals for dealing with our resources and
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  • Our lives.
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  • I didn't arrange them in order of significance, but we'll walk
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  • Through these really quickly.
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  • We can't afford to get bogged down too much.
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  • The first one is, "thou shalt work hard," or if you prefer,
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  • "thou shalt engage in hard work."
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  • Both ways i believe are legitimate and accurate.
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  • Proverbs 6, i chose this from the message because it seemed
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  • Pretty emotive to me.
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  • "so how long are you going to laze around doing nothing?
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  • How long before you get out of bed?
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  • A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit
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  • Back, take it easy--do you know what comes next?
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  • You can look forward to a dirt-poor life, poverty your
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  • Permanent houseguest!"
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  • Plain enough.
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  • Some prefer the new testament.
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  • I'll cooperate.
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  • Paul wrote to the church of colossae, and he said, "whatever
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  • You do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the lord,
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  • Not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance
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  • From the lord as a reward.
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  • It's the lord christ you are serving."
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  • "whatever you do," don't turn the page.
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  • I'm not done with that verse yet.
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  • It will not make me hurry if you turn that page over, i promise.
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  • "whatever you do, work at it with all your heart."
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  • Not halfway, not distracted, not reluctantly, not embittered.
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  • You know how the bible often refers to money?
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  • The bible calls it the fruit of our labor.
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  • I think we forget that god gave adam and eve work to do before
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  • They ever sinned.
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  • The curse that he brought was about difficult and painful
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  • Work, but work was a part of their perfect existence.
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  • Adam was called to be a caretaker literally in the
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  • Hebrew, a watchman over the garden.
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  • It's the word they use in modern hebrew for a security guard.
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  • You see, we've created a false imagination of work.
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  • We've idealized the idea of work.
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  • It's often said that work should bring meaning to our lives,
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  • Fulfillment to us.
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  • We should bound out of bed each morning delighted at the
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  • Privilege of another day of emotional fulfillment from
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  • Our jobs.
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  • Folks, your kids can't fulfill that.
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  • And they bring a remarkable joy to your lives.
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  • We've put a burden on work that's impossible and it's been
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  • Given to us to make us dissatisfied and unhappy.
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  • And it's evil.
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  • There's a second commandment we have, and that's that you need
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  • To establish a plan.
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  • In matthew 6:25, jesus again, this is his sermon on the mount.
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  • "don't worry about your life, what you'll eat or drink.
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  • Life is more important than food, and the body more
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  • Important than clothes."
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  • Most of you, i hope, showered this morning.
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  • I pray many of you actually had the dishes done in your
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  • Home today.
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  • Maybe even washed some clothes.
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  • Well, if you accomplished those, now that we have indoor plumbing
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  • In tennessee, it's an amazing thing, isn't it?
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  • When your house was built, there was a plumbing plan so you could
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  • Have water to the kitchen sink and to the bathrooms and all
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  • Those places where you need-- it's not random or accidental.
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  • It's very intentional.
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  • And when it comes to your material possessions and your
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  • Financial resources, the most significant step is establishing
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  • A plan.
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  • Do it on purpose.
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  • Dave ramsey's done really well with this general concept.
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  • It's not random.
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  • You don't have to choose my plan or his plan, but you need a
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  • Plan, do it on purpose.
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  • It'd be like having a garden, but you didn't really till the
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  • Ground or you didn't arrange where you planted anything, you
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  • Just got some bags of seed and walked through the yard and kind
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  • Of randomly scattered seed.
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  • It's highly improbable you'd have a garden that would provide
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  • Much sustenance.
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  • And if you're not intentional with your time and energy and
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  • Your resources, it's highly improbable that you'll be
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  • Effective as a steward of what god's given you.
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  • For years i've suggested the same beginning point.
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  • Many of you are far more sophisticated, i'm sure, but
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  • It's not a bad beginning.
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  • It's the 10, 10, 80 plan.
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  • That the first 10th is the lord's, that's a biblical idea.
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  • It does belong to god.
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  • The biblical word for that is a tithe.
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  • Where do you pay your tithe?
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  • I believe it belongs to the place you go for spiritual care,
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  • Wherever that may be.
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  • God promises to honor you when you honor him.
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  • Some will say, "isn't tithing an old testament concept?"
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  • Yes, and so is adultery.
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  • I tell you, when it comes to money, we get weird.
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  • Don't get weird.
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  • And then 10% goes to savings and investment.
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  • That'll require a little self-discipline.
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  • The remaining 80% is for your living expenses and the needs
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  • That you have.
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  • Get a plan.
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  • If you don't like that one, choose another, but have a plan.
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  • Be intentional with your resources.
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  • The third commandment is avoid debt like the plague.
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  • How do we find ourselves $35 trillion in debt?
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  • Because we don't consider debt that big of a deal.
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  • I'll spare you the statistics on our personal debt.
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  • They're overwhelming.
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  • But proverbs 22:7 says, "the rich rule over the poor, and the
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  • Borrower is servant to the lender."
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  • As miraculous as compound interest is, if you ever get on
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  • The negative side of compound interest, you're looking at a
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  • Modern-day nightmare.
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  • I'll give you one example.
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  • A $7,500 balance on a credit card at 18% interest.
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  • It's a minimum payment of $150.
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  • How long do you think it'll take?
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  • Thirty years and two months.
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  • Total payment is over $23,000, unless the government comes in
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  • And decides to forgive your loan.
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  • And then you have to rearrange your idols because they become
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  • Prominent for you all of a sudden.
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  • And since the government doesn't have any money, they're just
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  • Taking somebody else's money to pay down a debt that you chose
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  • For yourself.
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  • That should not make any of us happy.
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  • In the plainest of language, jesus purchased our freedom with
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  • His own blood.
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  • Don't allow yourself to be enslaved to indebtedness.
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  • Fight to stay out of debt.
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  • We should be fighting as a nation.
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  • I don't mean physically, but we should be fighting as a nation
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  • To stay out of debt.
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  • We have lost our minds.
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  • Number four, distinguish between wants and needs.
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  • The matthew passage where jesus said not to worry about all
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  • These things we worry about.
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  • We have a very limited number of true needs.
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  • We need air to breathe, we need food to eat, we need a
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  • Little water.
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  • Beyond that, most things fall into the wants category.
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  • Now our vocabulary on this one is pretty broken.
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  • We talk often about what we need.
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  • I'm guilty myself.
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  • You know, shopping, i-- covid was a gift to me.
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  • It was an excuse to not go back to the mall.
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  • That was not one of my great temptations.
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  • I could walk through the mall without get emotionally
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  • Wrung out.
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  • But now amazon has stepped into the breach.
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  • I think it could be one of the expressions of the devil,
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  • Because they will show it to you and deliver it to your
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  • Home today.
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  • And they will--it's digitally attached to you in some way and
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  • You don't feel the pain of that transaction.
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  • It's just amazing.
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  • It's like having an m&m dispenser that just keeps
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  • Refilling right in front of your hand all day long.
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  • It's fundamentally wrong.
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  • One of the things in my life that helped me get a little bit
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  • Of a handle on this idea, philip and i studied, my brother and i
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  • Studied at hebrew university.
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  • And this was a while ago.
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  • We were allowed to bring two duffel bags and that contained
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  • Everything we needed for that year of school: our linens, our
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  • Towels, our clothes, our books, our cooking utensils, whatever
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  • We needed for that run at the university had to go into those
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  • Two duffel bags.
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  • And that's through the changes of season, that's the whole bit.
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  • It reshaped how i understood what was essential.
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  • It reshaped a lot of things in my life and i'm not sure all
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  • Those lessons held, but you've got to distinguish between your
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  • Wants and your needs.
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  • Ask the holy spirit to help you.
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  • Some of you are angry, resentful, embittered, filled
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  • With all sorts of destructive emotions because things you want
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  • Have not arrived on the timetable that you wanted them
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  • To arrive and you have withdrawn from serving god.
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  • Do you understand there are multi-trillion dollar industries
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  • Whose primary goal is to make you dissatisfied,
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  • To convince you that the label in your clothing or the label on
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  • Your car or the label on something your children have is
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  • What defines your value and your self worth.
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  • They're constantly showing you something that's new and better
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  • And more improved and technologically advanced.
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  • Obsolescence is built in to most of the things that we purchase.
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  • And so often it makes us terribly dissatisfied.
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  • And it pushes us further and further away.
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  • The bible says that godliness with contentment is great gain.
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  • This whole arena, this whole topic of discussion, and it may
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  • Be we will explore it in some other ways, but i think we have
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  • Walked so far away from a biblical perspective on our
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  • Possessions and the role they have in our lives.
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  • Wants and needs.
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  • Number five, determine when enough is enough.
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  • Jesus tells a parable about a wealthy man, very successful
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  • Man, very clever man, very smart man, very diligent man, checks a
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  • Lot of boxes.
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  • Until the night that his life is demanded of him, and he's been
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  • Completely unaware of eternity, he didn't lay up any treasure in
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  • Heaven, he wasn't concerned about those things.
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  • He was concerned with accumulating and becoming.
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  • There was gonna be some day in the future when he would change
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  • His focus.
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  • It's in luke 12:19, he said, "i'll say to myself, 'you have
  • 00:12:14.415 --> 00:12:16.985
  • Plenty of good things stored up for many years.
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  • Take life easy: eat, drink and be merry.'"
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  • That was his goal.
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  • It's hedonism.
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  • "and god said to him, 'you're a fool!
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  • This very night your life will be demanded from you.
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  • Then who will get what you prepared for yourself?'"
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  • This guy had bumper crop after bumper crop.
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  • Every year he exceeded the projections.
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  • Every year he exceeded the threshold.
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  • He made his bonus and some.
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  • He never missed.
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  • But he was never satisfied.
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  • See, i believe beyond some point we have to say that our life
  • 00:12:48.149 --> 00:12:50.819
  • Goal is advancing god's cause.
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  • I believe we have to have some sort of a shift from just
  • 00:12:55.056 --> 00:12:58.126
  • Establishing material success to real significance in our lives.
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  • Not easy.
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  • It's not easily done.
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  • I pray no one around our community of faith is ever
  • 00:13:07.435 --> 00:13:09.737
  • Labeled in the halls of heaven "a rich fool."
  • 00:13:09.737 --> 00:13:13.474
  • That would be a tragic evaluation to have attached to
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  • Your journey under the sun.
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  • Allen: god is moving in the earth.
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  • A few years ago we understood god inviting us beyond
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  • Just the local congregation that i serve, and we began
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  • Allen: number six: thou shalt not compete with the jones, and
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  • If your name is jones, i apologize.
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  • This is a national pastime, but we don't declare it as such.
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  • But we know it's true.
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  • In deuteronomy 5 and verse 21, it says, "you shall not covet
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  • Your neighbor's wife.
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  • You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land,
  • 00:14:49.070 --> 00:14:51.906
  • His servant, his maidservant, his ox, his donkey, or anything
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  • That belongs to your neighbor."
  • 00:14:55.543 --> 00:14:57.145
  • We read that and go, "thank god, i have--i don't ever remember
  • 00:14:57.145 --> 00:14:59.914
  • Coveting my neighbor's donkey."
  • 00:14:59.914 --> 00:15:01.683
  • But let me help with a definition or two.
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  • Coveting is looking at your neighbor's stuff and instead of
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  • Just appreciating it or being happy for them, your answer is,
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  • "i gotta get one of those.
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  • I need one of those.
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  • How'd that clown get that before i did?
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  • I'd be happier with that."
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  • We learn it really early in life.
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  • You go to school and somebody having lunch to you has got a
  • 00:15:25.940 --> 00:15:28.810
  • Better lunch box than you do.
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  • We later--learn it later about our clothes and then it's about
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  • Cars and then it's jobs and then it's vacations in the
  • 00:15:36.117 --> 00:15:39.554
  • Right place.
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  • The social media has not helped us with this.
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  • Now we vacation competitively.
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  • Oh, we don't put it in those terms.
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  • "will you look where i am?"
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  • If i'm working, i don't care.
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  • I mean, i love you, but it's all right.
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  • Help yourself.
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  • Then it's our vacation homes.
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  • The list goes on and on.
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  • Well, i brought you a way out of the madness.
  • 00:16:06.381 --> 00:16:09.150
  • I've suggested it before.
  • 00:16:09.150 --> 00:16:10.485
  • It's not new, but we have a hard time holding this one.
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  • Let's decide tonight as a part of this service we're gonna
  • 00:16:13.021 --> 00:16:16.157
  • Declare our neighbor the winner.
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  • They win.
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  • And i know this is a real thing, you may need to go knock on
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  • Their door.
  • 00:16:24.532 --> 00:16:26.868
  • You may need an honest moment with them.
  • 00:16:26.868 --> 00:16:28.536
  • You may have been--you may have been gardening competitively.
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  • My flower bed's better than yours.
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  • My yard is better than yours.
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  • You sneak over at night and sow weeds in their front yard.
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  • So here's the idea.
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  • In your heart, if not to your neighbor or your friend, tell
  • 00:16:48.189 --> 00:16:51.526
  • Them, "take your victory lap.
  • 00:16:51.526 --> 00:16:52.894
  • You win, you win the house game, the car game, the landscape
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  • Game, you win the christmas light contest.
  • 00:16:56.230 --> 00:17:00.735
  • I concede you've got the biggest snow blower.
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  • Your television can be seen from outer space.
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  • I'm proud of you.
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  • Your computer is so large, the memory is so great and the
  • 00:17:14.348 --> 00:17:17.652
  • Speed's so fast, they call you cloud two, you win."
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  • Just make them the winner.
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  • Opt out.
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  • That's not my goal.
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  • What do you get for being the winner?
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  • A heart full of stress and a truckload of debt?
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  • It's not a real victory.
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  • The next one--i gotta hurry.
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  • Don't make major financial decisions without getting wise
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  • Counsel first.
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  • Proverbs 11, "for lack of guidance a nation falls, but
  • 00:17:43.945 --> 00:17:48.316
  • Many advisors make victory sure."
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  • Be humble enough to allow someone else to review the way
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  • You manage your money.
  • 00:17:52.487 --> 00:17:54.889
  • You know, through the years we've walked with lots of
  • 00:17:54.889 --> 00:17:56.891
  • Individuals and families when they go through difficult places
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  • And set them up with some sort of accountability and that's a
  • 00:17:59.293 --> 00:18:02.597
  • Very difficult thing to do,
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  • To allow somebody else to talk to you about how you're handling
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  • Your resources.
  • 00:18:08.035 --> 00:18:11.405
  • You know, we get some weird notions around giving.
  • 00:18:11.405 --> 00:18:14.775
  • You know, it's all private.
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  • That's really not what the bible says.
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  • The bible says when you help those less fortunate than
  • 00:18:19.647 --> 00:18:21.582
  • Yourselves, don't rob them of their dignity by announcing it.
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  • But the majority of the giving that's done in the bible is done
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  • In the open.
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  • You should know that how you handle your money is a very open
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  • Point of conversation in the heavenlies.
  • 00:18:33.394 --> 00:18:35.696
  • Awkward.
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  • Get wise counsel.
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  • Have the humility to take the input.
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  • The next one is don't corrupt your kids with money.
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  • Not easy.
  • 00:18:50.545 --> 00:18:52.180
  • Proverbs 22:6, "train a child in the way he should go, and when
  • 00:18:52.180 --> 00:18:55.049
  • He's old he won't turn from it."
  • 00:18:55.049 --> 00:18:57.318
  • Have sit-down conversations with your kids regarding money, hard
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  • Work, the connection between the two.
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  • Dad, you have a responsibility to protect your kids.
  • 00:19:05.493 --> 00:19:09.630
  • You do.
  • 00:19:09.630 --> 00:19:11.699
  • And i know our culture tells us these days that protecting our
  • 00:19:11.699 --> 00:19:14.402
  • Kids means we buckle them in a car seat until they're old
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  • Enough to drive the car.
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  • And that they can't ride a bicycle unless they've got a
  • 00:19:19.407 --> 00:19:21.475
  • Helmet on.
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  • And that you wouldn't dream of letting your kids go outside
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  • Without the appropriate spf on.
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  • And if you've got your kids in a car seat and they got a bike
  • 00:19:28.449 --> 00:19:30.885
  • Helmet and you've got plenty of sunscreen, you protected
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  • Your kids.
  • 00:19:32.987 --> 00:19:34.889
  • It's an inadequate presentation.
  • 00:19:34.889 --> 00:19:38.159
  • You gotta prepare 'em to deal with this world.
  • 00:19:38.159 --> 00:19:41.862
  • And you need to have honest conversations with them about
  • 00:19:41.862 --> 00:19:44.498
  • Resources and the effort it takes and the value that's
  • 00:19:44.498 --> 00:19:47.134
  • Attached to them.
  • 00:19:47.134 --> 00:19:48.669
  • Don't just bail them out.
  • 00:19:48.669 --> 00:19:50.771
  • We've modeled too much poor behavior to our kids.
  • 00:19:50.771 --> 00:19:54.842
  • We've taught them that spending is a way to overcome emotional
  • 00:19:54.842 --> 00:19:57.979
  • Low points, all sorts of messaging that are not helpful.
  • 00:19:57.979 --> 00:20:02.483
  • John grisham wrote a bestselling novel about it in
  • 00:20:02.483 --> 00:20:04.652
  • "the testament."
  • 00:20:04.652 --> 00:20:06.020
  • It's about a family.
  • 00:20:06.020 --> 00:20:07.355
  • It was destroyed by the bestowal of resources that they
  • 00:20:07.355 --> 00:20:09.123
  • Didn't earn.
  • 00:20:09.123 --> 00:20:11.292
  • It's not always a gift.
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  • The next is learn how to honor god with your resources.
  • 00:20:15.630 --> 00:20:18.099
  • Proverbs 3, "honor the lord with your wealth, with the
  • 00:20:18.099 --> 00:20:20.835
  • Firstfruits of all your crops."
  • 00:20:20.835 --> 00:20:24.171
  • Honor the lord with your wealth.
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  • Tithes and offerings are the word the bible uses.
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  • The tithe is the first tenth, the offering are beyond that.
  • 00:20:28.509 --> 00:20:31.979
  • There are times and seasons in your life where a tenth is a
  • 00:20:31.979 --> 00:20:34.081
  • Real sacrifice.
  • 00:20:34.081 --> 00:20:36.384
  • I mean, it's a marginal call.
  • 00:20:36.384 --> 00:20:39.954
  • There are times in our lives where that doesn't represent a
  • 00:20:39.954 --> 00:20:42.056
  • Sacrifice at all.
  • 00:20:42.056 --> 00:20:44.659
  • We just become more indulgent.
  • 00:20:44.659 --> 00:20:47.061
  • Honor god with the resources that he entrusts you.
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  • It's the best way to secure your future.
  • 00:20:49.397 --> 00:20:53.034
  • Again, those are not messages you hear very many places any
  • 00:20:53.034 --> 00:20:55.403
  • Longer in our culture.
  • 00:20:55.403 --> 00:20:58.139
  • And then the last one, i'm about done, there's hope.
  • 00:20:58.139 --> 00:21:02.543
  • "don't steal."
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  • We need to visit with this one for a while longer than i've got
  • 00:21:05.713 --> 00:21:08.482
  • In this session.
  • 00:21:08.482 --> 00:21:10.284
  • Stealing is both a transitive and an intransitive verb.
  • 00:21:10.284 --> 00:21:12.653
  • I'll give you the definition.
  • 00:21:12.653 --> 00:21:14.021
  • It's to take something that belongs to somebody else without
  • 00:21:14.021 --> 00:21:16.390
  • The owner's permission.
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  • To take something that belongs to someone else without the
  • 00:21:19.360 --> 00:21:22.129
  • Owner's permission.
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  • I would submit to you that our government is in the business
  • 00:21:24.832 --> 00:21:27.168
  • Of stealing.
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  • But the only reason they can get away with it, with such largesse
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  • And in such a widespread way, is we've become a nation
  • 00:21:34.942 --> 00:21:37.478
  • Of thieves.
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  • We've lost the notion of a fair day's work for a fair day's pay.
  • 00:21:39.513 --> 00:21:43.484
  • We've lost the notion of what a fair profit would be.
  • 00:21:43.484 --> 00:21:47.955
  • We have lost our balance.
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  • We have stepped away from biblical principles.
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  • The bible talks a lot about this.
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  • It talks about unjust weights and measures.
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  • It talks about taking advantage of those who are less fortunate.
  • 00:21:56.931 --> 00:22:00.735
  • It talks about using your power and your strength to take
  • 00:22:00.735 --> 00:22:04.305
  • Advantage of those who are weaker.
  • 00:22:04.305 --> 00:22:07.441
  • We have lost our biblical balance.
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  • Ephesians 4, if you prefer the new testament, "he who's been
  • 00:22:10.177 --> 00:22:12.613
  • Stealing must steal no longer."
  • 00:22:12.613 --> 00:22:14.815
  • This is not a new thing.
  • 00:22:14.815 --> 00:22:16.150
  • They were stealing in the ephesian church.
  • 00:22:16.150 --> 00:22:19.854
  • I'd long suspected it, you know how those ephesians are.
  • 00:22:19.854 --> 00:22:22.590
  • How would you like to make the book?
  • 00:22:25.593 --> 00:22:28.896
  • The book.
  • 00:22:28.896 --> 00:22:30.264
  • Imagine if that was murfreesboro and paul said, "look, those of
  • 00:22:30.264 --> 00:22:32.500
  • You in murfreesboro, stop stealing."
  • 00:22:32.500 --> 00:22:37.138
  • It's a little bit of a cringe moment.
  • 00:22:37.138 --> 00:22:39.173
  • I mean, this is the ephesian church.
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  • With having done everything to stand stand therefore, put on
  • 00:22:40.775 --> 00:22:43.778
  • Your armor of god.
  • 00:22:43.778 --> 00:22:46.514
  • But don't steal and hide other people's money inside the armor.
  • 00:22:46.514 --> 00:22:50.885
  • "but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that
  • 00:22:50.885 --> 00:22:53.954
  • He may have something to share with those in need."
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  • Folks, the bible has a great deal to say about how we handle
  • 00:22:58.759 --> 00:23:02.763
  • The physical possessions that god gives to us.
  • 00:23:02.763 --> 00:23:06.467
  • They're an expression of what we've done with the time that
  • 00:23:06.467 --> 00:23:08.636
  • Has been given to us.
  • 00:23:08.636 --> 00:23:10.604
  • And our willingness to take that counsel is not about
  • 00:23:10.604 --> 00:23:14.341
  • Getting rich.
  • 00:23:14.341 --> 00:23:15.776
  • The--our willingness to take that counsel is the best way to
  • 00:23:15.776 --> 00:23:19.280
  • Secure our future in the midst of turbulence and turmoil.
  • 00:23:19.280 --> 00:23:24.752
  • And i think we've had so much, and we've imagined that we'll
  • 00:23:24.752 --> 00:23:28.689
  • Figure it out.
  • 00:23:28.689 --> 00:23:31.292
  • That we've just never had to treat this as if it was
  • 00:23:31.292 --> 00:23:33.494
  • Particularly serious.
  • 00:23:33.494 --> 00:23:35.996
  • You know, and i understand to a great degree i'm preaching to
  • 00:23:35.996 --> 00:23:38.165
  • The choir because we've done life together for a long time
  • 00:23:38.165 --> 00:23:41.435
  • And the generosity of the people who worshiped here have made
  • 00:23:41.435 --> 00:23:43.871
  • Possible the proclamation of the gospel across middle tennessee
  • 00:23:43.871 --> 00:23:47.241
  • And throughout the earth.
  • 00:23:47.241 --> 00:23:48.609
  • But i know there are many people that stand on the outside of
  • 00:23:51.645 --> 00:23:53.848
  • That and haven't participated.
  • 00:23:53.848 --> 00:23:57.918
  • And i don't say that because of any particular need that
  • 00:23:57.918 --> 00:24:00.154
  • We're holding.
  • 00:24:00.154 --> 00:24:01.489
  • I'm telling you that because it will have a bearing on your life
  • 00:24:01.489 --> 00:24:03.991
  • In time and for eternity.
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  • And if i'll talk to you about the other biblical principles,
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  • I'm afraid of my boss if i don't tell you the truth about these
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  • As well.
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  • Begin to ask the holy spirit, give him permission.
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  • "where are my decisions about my time, my talent, my attention,
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  • And my resources, where are they being influenced by the spirit
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  • Of this present age?
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  • And how might i bring greater alignment to what you have asked
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  • Me to do in your word?"
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  • If you'll pray that prayer, i trust the holy spirit to
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  • Help you.
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  • And i believe it's the best way you can prepare for
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  • What's ahead.
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  • As much as i'm thankful that we have elections and we can choose
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  • Leaders, elections won't fix us.
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  • They may give us some temporary relief depending on you how you
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  • Feel about positions, but they will not fix us.
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  • In the last two national election cycles, somebody from
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  • Either party has occupied the highest space in the land.
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  • And we're still in this mess.
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  • I brought you a prayer.
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  • Why don't you stand with me?
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  • We'll read it together.
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  • Let's pray this prayer, "heavenly father, thank you for
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  • Your abundant provision for my life.
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  • You have provided everything i need for life and godliness.
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  • Holy spirit, help me to live in such a way that i may be rich
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  • Toward god.
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  • Forgive me for withholding those things which belong to you.
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  • Today i choose to respond in obedience regarding
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  • My possessions.
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  • I repent of trusting in anything other than god for my security.
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  • I turn away from any greed or covetousness.
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  • I will give to the lord with joy my tithes and offerings.
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  • Thank you for your abundant provision for my life.
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  • In jesus's name, amen."
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  • Allen: as a young man, i understood the lord inviting me
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  • To serve his church.
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  • I had no imagination what god would do with the congregation
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  • That he invited me to serve.
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  • It's been a remarkable journey together.
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  • That verse in matthew where jesus said, "i'll build my
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  • Church and hell won't stop it" has become a life verse for me.
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  • And then jesus added to that where he said, "those that are
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  • Gathering with me, join me, or else your scattering."
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  • Well, i wanna be gathering with the lord.
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  • That's the reason we began allen jackson ministries
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  • Several years ago.
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  • I understood god inviting us to build the church beyond this
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  • Local community, not buildings or denominations across the
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  • Nation, but to strengthen the people of god.
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  • We've created curriculum, we've criss-crossed this nation,
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  • Meeting with church leaders and pastors, we began broadcasting
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  • With television and radio.
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  • Your partnership has made all of that possible.
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  • Well, now god has opened doors internationally with strategic
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  • Partners in israel and ukraine to strengthen the wartorn
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  • Church in those nations.
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  • I thank you for your partnership, for your
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  • Generosity, for your faithfulness in prayer.
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  • Together, we are gathering the people of god
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  • And strengthening his church.
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  • ♪♪♪
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