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Allen Jackson - Work and Money (Part 2)

August 15, 2025 | S25 E230 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Work and Money (Part 2)
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 - Work and Money (Part 2) | August 15, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i sat down recently with my father to do a
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  • Podcast for my "culture & christianity" podcast, and it
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  • Was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean, we--it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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  • As i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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  • Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encouraged my dad to put together a book about his
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  • Experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents's life, ultimately my
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  • Family's life.
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  • I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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  • I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing the
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  • Power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • Together, they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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  • Language around the holy spirit, but to have something to
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  • Actually do to invite him into your life on a regular basis to
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  • Give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face.
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  • The spirit of god within us to help us guide us and direct us,
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  • That's invaluable and these books will help you understand.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i don't know if we're gonna do this in the next
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  • Session or not, but jesus had a great deal to say with that.
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  • When god gives you gifts and abilities, the biblical phrase
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  • You probably know is, "to whom much is given, much
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  • Is required."
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  • And i--and we should all understand on both a historical
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  • And a global setting for this current generation, we have been
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  • Given crazy gifts, unbelievable gifts.
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  • If english is your first language, you've been given an
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  • Incredible gift.
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  • If you want to be a serious student of the bible in the
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  • World today, you have to learn english just because of the
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  • Amount of literature that's written in the english language.
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  • So that if english is your first language, you're given a head
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  • Start over almost anybody else.
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  • The abundance of our lives, the opportunities we have, that our
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  • Children have, that are, you know, i know we know people that
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  • Have more, we don't have everything we would like.
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  • But there is an accountability that comes.
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  • God--there will be an accounting.
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  • We will have to give an account.
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  • The number seven, learn to give god first priority with
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  • Your money.
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  • If you'll take those verses of scripture and those seven
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  • Statements and just invite the spirit of god into your life
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  • With them.
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  • "god, i wanna learn to honor you with my money."
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  • What does that mean?
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  • Well, a part of its generosity.
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  • It's not really the point of this lesson, but i'll take a
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  • Moment because it's true, and i've lived it since i was a boy.
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  • I believe the first tenth of our income is the lord's.
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  • I'm not a legalist.
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  • People say, "is it gross or net."
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  • You and the lord work it out.
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  • "what if it's a capital gain and i tied on the investment before
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  • I got the capital gain?"
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  • Stop.
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  • I agree we're not under the law, but the first portion of what we
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  • Have, i don't even think it's mine, it's the lord's.
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  • And it--truthfully, i'm happy to give it to the lord.
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  • And for most of us, you know, there are times and seasons in
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  • Our lives when a tenth is a tremendous sacrifice, but there
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  • Are times and seasons when it's far from that.
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  • And i've always wanted to be a part of the generosity of my
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  • Life, the giving of my life that reflected a sacrifice.
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  • So, i've never wanted to limit my life to that and it's
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  • Never--it's not that i've always had such tremendous affluence
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  • Or, but i can tell you god has always been faithful.
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  • I feel the same way with my time.
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  • I try to give my time on a regular basis in places where
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  • There's plenty of wise counsel that would say, you know,
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  • That's--there's the time management coaching would
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  • Probably say you shouldn't do that, but it isn't my time, it's
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  • The lord's.
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  • I serve his people at his pleasure and there's some
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  • Discretion in there.
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  • I hope there's places where you volunteer, where you serve.
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  • There are chunks of my week that i still do as a volunteer
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  • Because i intend to serve the lord with my life.
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  • Be generous, it will bring the good things of god into
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  • Your life.
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  • It's counterintuitive, the culture won't reinforce it, but
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  • It is biblical.
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  • I'm gonna take a minute or two.
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  • We can't do all of this, but i want to open it up because
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  • Again, i think it's so culturally relevant.
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  • There's the question, "is work a curse?"
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  • Our attitude towards work has shifted dramatically in recent
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  • Decades, and i'm not pointing at the younger generations.
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  • I don't think it has a great deal to do with them.
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  • I think it has a great deal to do with parents and grandparents
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  • Who worked hard and didn't want their children or
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  • Grandchildren to.
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  • And i think that's unfortunate because as i'm gonna submit to
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  • You that there's a biblical value in work.
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  • In fact, there's a dignity and an honor in work that god built
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  • Into us and into this earth, and i believe work is a part of what
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  • We're called to do.
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  • And to see it as a burden or an intrusion or an imposition or
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  • Something that's unfortunate, i don't believe we were designed
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  • To live to recreate.
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  • I believe recreation is good, and i think relaxation is
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  • Necessary, and i believe a rest is important, but i believe
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  • There's a biblical call and dignity in work.
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  • In colossians 3, and verse 23, it says, "whatever you do, work
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  • At it with all your heart, as working for the lord, not for
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  • Men, since you know that you'll receive an inheritance from the
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  • Lord as a reward.
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  • It's the lord christ you are serving."
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  • There's a couple of things in there that are worth
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  • Just tagging.
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  • There's an inheritance.
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  • There's a reward that comes from the lord.
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  • You know the parables of the stewards that are entrusted with
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  • Talents or money by a master who's going away.
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  • And when the master comes back, there's an accounting asked for.
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  • But there's a reward to those who were prudent or did a good
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  • Job with what they were entrusted with.
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  • Jesus told those parables.
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  • This is not some subtle, you know, this isn't about a
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  • Prosperity gospel.
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  • It doesn't mean that you don't have to work hard.
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  • It doesn't mean you won't have difficult times.
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  • It doesn't mean you're gonna be crazy rich, and it doesn't mean
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  • That the wealthy people are wrong or ungodly.
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  • We've just gotten this inverted in so many ways.
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  • But it means if you will honor god with your life, that
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  • Whatever you do, it's plain english, work at it with all
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  • Your heart as if you're working for the lord.
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  • No matter whose name is on your paycheck, i went to work in the
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  • Name of the lord.
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  • I serve this congregation, but truly, i do it to serve jesus
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  • Of nazareth.
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  • This just happens to be the station he gave me.
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  • I serve at the lord's pleasure.
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  • That changes everything about your orientation.
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  • Whatever the corporate name is on the check that you cash, we
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  • Serve the lord in that place.
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  • And we've drifted, we've lost this.
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  • I get this.
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  • It's countercultural at this point.
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  • According to the princeton management association, 82% of
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  • Americans say they hate their jobs, 82%.
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  • Most people see work as a necessary evil, something they
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  • Must endure until that blessed far off event called retirement.
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  • There's a book called "your work matters to god."
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  • And the authors had a great deal to say about what god's word
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  • Says about our jobs.
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  • I'll give you a couple of sentences.
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  • "every day, millions of workers go to work without seeing the
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  • Slightest connection between what they do all day and what
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  • They think god wants done in the world.
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  • For example, you may sell insurance, but you may have no
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  • Idea whether or not god wants insurance to be sold.
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  • The selling insurance matter to god or not?
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  • If not, you're wasting your life.
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  • We think your work matters deeply to god.
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  • It's not something we do apart from god as the secular world
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  • Would view it.
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  • It's not something beneath god's dignity and concerns as some
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  • Christians would view it.
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  • Work is a major part of human life that god takes
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  • Very seriously.
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  • It has intrinsic value.
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  • It's inherently worth doing.
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  • Through work we serve people.
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  • Through work we meet our own needs.
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  • Through work we meet our family's needs.
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  • Through work we earn money to give to others.
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  • And through work we love god."
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  • We don't go out into the secular marketplace all day and then
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  • Gather in church for a few minutes to serve god, we serve
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  • Him all day.
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  • So just some simple high level observations.
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  • Work is a blessing, not a curse.
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  • There's some really bad theology around this.
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  • We often think of work as god's punishment.
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  • We picture an angry god thundering at adam and eve,
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  • "you sinned?"
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  • And the only fitting punishment for your disobedience is you'll
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  • Have to work every day the rest of your lives.
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  • Work isn't a form of punishment.
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  • God is a worker.
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  • In the introductory chapters of the bible, for six days,
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  • God labored.
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  • He designed the universe, he developed the balance of nature,
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  • He fashioned the plant and animal kingdoms, and he formed
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  • Man from the dust of the earth.
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  • And when he finished the work of creation, he rested for a day
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  • And he went back to work.
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  • John 5:17, jesus said, "my father is always at his work to
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  • This very day, and i, too, am working."
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  • We forget that god gave adam and eve work to do long before
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  • They fell.
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  • Genesis 2:15, "the lord took the man and put him in the garden of
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  • Eden to work it and to take care of it."
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  • One of the words used there is the modern hebrew word for a
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  • Night watchman, for a guardian.
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  • A part of adam's assignment was to guard the garden.
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  • I'm a bit bemused at christians who say we shouldn't talk about
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  • Culture or what's happening in the world around us.
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  • We have an assignment to be watchmen on the walls.
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  • From the opening chapters of the bible through the concluding
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  • Chapters of revelation, we have an assignment to engage the
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  • World in which we live with the truth of almighty god.
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  • And a part of that is this value of work.
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  • The best workers in all of the culture should be
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  • Christ followers.
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  • Employers should want to know first, it should be the first
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  • Interview question, "are you a good christian?"
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  • That is a part of our heritage, but it's another story.
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  • Work was a part of their perfect existence in the garden.
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  • It wasn't work that came as a result of sin, but painful and
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  • Difficult work.
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  • Admittedly, work may be more difficult and painful because of
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  • Adam's curse, but god's original intention for work was for our
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  • Good, so that we would have a sense of self-worth, so our
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  • Relationships could be enhanced, our physical needs would be met.
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  • Work still meets those needs.
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  • Allen: hey, i sat down with my father recently did a podcast.
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  • He told the story of how he came to faith, how god transformed
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  • Our family.
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  • They started a home bible study all the way up to the beginning
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  • Of this church that i've served now for decades.
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  • As i listened, the heart of it was the work of the holy spirit
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  • In his life and through his life.
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  • I asked him to do a book around the topic, and we have it so
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  • That you can invite the spirit of god to be the dynamic
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  • Presence of the power of god to bring change and life and hope
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  • No matter what the circumstances.
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  • You'll enjoy the book.
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  • Allen: which brings me to that second point.
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  • I believe work is essential to your well-being.
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  • I've had a number of jobs.
  • 00:12:55.290 --> 00:12:56.624
  • I've served as a pastor for a long time, but even in that
  • 00:12:56.624 --> 00:12:58.660
  • Pastor assignment, my task varied widely.
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  • When i first started, i was the only employee, which means i
  • 00:13:03.064 --> 00:13:05.466
  • Mowed the grass and cleaned the bathrooms and did weddings and
  • 00:13:05.466 --> 00:13:07.836
  • Funerals and preached sermons.
  • 00:13:07.836 --> 00:13:11.940
  • But long before i got to that lofty assignment, i had
  • 00:13:11.940 --> 00:13:14.342
  • Other jobs.
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  • I worked in factories, i cleaned stalls.
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  • At the time it felt like an endless season in my life.
  • 00:13:20.715 --> 00:13:24.719
  • Truthfully, it was a few short summers.
  • 00:13:24.719 --> 00:13:27.989
  • Cleaning stalls, if you've never done that, it's not as romantic
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  • As it is on television.
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  • It's a hot, smelly, the work never stays done.
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  • No matter how beautifully you clean the stall and how clean
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  • And fresh the straw or the shavings you put into the stall,
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  • That horse will mess that thing up.
  • 00:13:45.773 --> 00:13:50.044
  • That i still remember to this day.
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  • The feeling i would have.
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  • You want to do it early in the morning.
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  • It's better early in the day.
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  • So, if i was on my mark and i hit my points, i'd be done
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  • Relatively early in the morning and i would spray for the flies
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  • In the barn when i was done, and i'd stop and i'd look back at
  • 00:14:08.296 --> 00:14:10.899
  • That and the stalls were clean and the hallway was well groomed
  • 00:14:10.899 --> 00:14:13.968
  • And the flies had been addressed.
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  • And there was a feeling, you know, you did a good job.
  • 00:14:16.704 --> 00:14:20.041
  • That wasn't gonna last 45 minutes.
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  • Those big old ugly horses would mess it up, but god created us
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  • With an emotional need that can only be met by an honest
  • 00:14:26.114 --> 00:14:28.616
  • Day's work.
  • 00:14:28.616 --> 00:14:32.420
  • There's a time for rest, but it's not the same.
  • 00:14:32.420 --> 00:14:35.423
  • It doesn't elicit the same response.
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  • There's even science behind it.
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  • Every person having been made in the image of the creator has a
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  • God-given desire to imitate him and to create.
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  • We long to accomplish a task to do something valuable.
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  • When we complete a difficult task, we feel satisfaction and a
  • 00:14:49.504 --> 00:14:52.373
  • Greater sense of self-respect.
  • 00:14:52.373 --> 00:14:55.143
  • Ecclesiastes 3, "everyone may eat and drink, and find
  • 00:14:55.143 --> 00:14:58.479
  • Satisfaction in all his toil, this is the gift of god."
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  • Work isn't to be avoided, it's to be taught.
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  • It has to be taught.
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  • It has to be learned.
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  • The old notion and it seems antiquated to us and quaint and
  • 00:15:11.993 --> 00:15:15.363
  • Certainly out of fashion, but--.
  • 00:15:15.363 --> 00:15:18.266
  • Or a grandfather or a father would pass down life skills to
  • 00:15:18.266 --> 00:15:21.536
  • Their son or their grandson, an apprenticeship program or a
  • 00:15:21.536 --> 00:15:24.205
  • Mentoring program.
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  • For generation upon generation upon generation, that's how
  • 00:15:26.207 --> 00:15:29.811
  • Skill sets were passed down.
  • 00:15:29.811 --> 00:15:32.447
  • We live in a time of such rapid change that seems archaic and
  • 00:15:32.447 --> 00:15:35.883
  • Kind of funny.
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  • But the value of work has to be handed from generation
  • 00:15:38.486 --> 00:15:41.322
  • To generation.
  • 00:15:41.322 --> 00:15:45.026
  • Third, work is a partnership with god.
  • 00:15:45.026 --> 00:15:48.196
  • John 5:16, "jesus was doing these things on the sabbath, and
  • 00:15:48.196 --> 00:15:51.799
  • The jews persecuted him."
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  • Imagine criticizing jesus for the way he served god.
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  • If there were large, loud, powerful voices that criticized
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  • Jesus in the pursuit of his faith, they were motivated by
  • 00:16:02.443 --> 00:16:06.047
  • The kingdom of darkness.
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  • What do you think the probability is that there could
  • 00:16:07.415 --> 00:16:08.916
  • Be voices that would criticize in the 21st century how we
  • 00:16:08.916 --> 00:16:12.286
  • Serve god?
  • 00:16:12.286 --> 00:16:15.323
  • Same adversary folks.
  • 00:16:15.323 --> 00:16:17.692
  • But watch the response, "they criticized jesus because of what
  • 00:16:17.692 --> 00:16:20.228
  • He was doing on the sabbath, and jesus said to them, "my father
  • 00:16:20.228 --> 00:16:22.764
  • Is always at his work and to this very day, i, too,
  • 00:16:22.764 --> 00:16:26.267
  • Am working.""
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  • Again, i can borrow my child life.
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  • When i was at home as a kid, a boy, my father practiced
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  • Veterinary medicine.
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  • And my brothers and i would from time to time have the privilege
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  • He would take one of us with him for when he would make calls.
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  • He was an equine practitioner.
  • 00:16:43.284 --> 00:16:44.619
  • He treated horses and the overwhelming majority of that
  • 00:16:44.619 --> 00:16:47.321
  • Meant he had to go where the horses were.
  • 00:16:47.321 --> 00:16:48.723
  • They didn't bring the horses to him.
  • 00:16:48.723 --> 00:16:51.459
  • So, if you're the one that got tagged to make calls with that,
  • 00:16:51.459 --> 00:16:53.795
  • That day, it was a treat, you're gonna get to go for a ride in
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  • The station wagon.
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  • And you might get fortunate enough that he'd buy you a soft
  • 00:17:00.735 --> 00:17:03.071
  • Drink or maybe even slow down long enough to feed his
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  • Lunch someplace.
  • 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:07.608
  • Which 100 years ago in middle tennessee meant that he'd stop
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  • At some country store out here at some crossroads before there
  • 00:17:09.811 --> 00:17:14.282
  • Were chic and city people were moving there.
  • 00:17:14.282 --> 00:17:18.052
  • Then he'd buy you a bologna and cheese sandwich and you'd had a
  • 00:17:18.052 --> 00:17:20.922
  • Big day.
  • 00:17:20.922 --> 00:17:23.624
  • But i--still, we all remember when we're together we talk
  • 00:17:23.624 --> 00:17:26.561
  • About those memories of joining our father.
  • 00:17:26.561 --> 00:17:29.330
  • Well, i've pulled that forward.
  • 00:17:29.330 --> 00:17:30.832
  • I'm certainly not a kid any longer and those little country
  • 00:17:30.832 --> 00:17:33.267
  • Crossroads aren't the same in middle tennessee anymore, but i
  • 00:17:33.267 --> 00:17:36.370
  • Get up and start my day every day thinking, "i'm gonna join my
  • 00:17:36.370 --> 00:17:39.273
  • Heavenly father in his assignment today."
  • 00:17:39.273 --> 00:17:42.710
  • I got a calendar.
  • 00:17:42.710 --> 00:17:44.045
  • I've got appointments and assignments, but that's not
  • 00:17:44.045 --> 00:17:46.447
  • Really the essence of it.
  • 00:17:46.447 --> 00:17:48.015
  • I'm going to represent a kingdom.
  • 00:17:48.015 --> 00:17:49.517
  • And yeah, i got things to do and i'm responsible and accountable
  • 00:17:49.517 --> 00:17:52.386
  • And decisions to be made and problems to be solved and
  • 00:17:52.386 --> 00:17:55.756
  • Budgets have to--all that stuff has to happen, but i'm going to
  • 00:17:55.756 --> 00:17:59.026
  • Serve my king.
  • 00:17:59.026 --> 00:18:01.229
  • When we work, we are business partners with god in meeting the
  • 00:18:05.433 --> 00:18:08.636
  • Needs of the world around us.
  • 00:18:08.636 --> 00:18:10.938
  • People need food and clothing and shelter and protection and
  • 00:18:10.938 --> 00:18:13.841
  • Education and love and encouragement as well as a
  • 00:18:13.841 --> 00:18:15.776
  • Saving knowledge of jesus.
  • 00:18:15.776 --> 00:18:17.845
  • God is depending on us to be expressions of fulfilling
  • 00:18:17.845 --> 00:18:20.615
  • Those needs.
  • 00:18:20.615 --> 00:18:23.417
  • I'll add another one to it.
  • 00:18:23.417 --> 00:18:24.785
  • God will judge our work.
  • 00:18:24.785 --> 00:18:26.654
  • That's awkward.
  • 00:18:26.654 --> 00:18:29.323
  • He's got an opinion.
  • 00:18:29.323 --> 00:18:30.658
  • He talked to some of the servants, he said, "well done.
  • 00:18:30.658 --> 00:18:33.060
  • Here's your reward."
  • 00:18:33.060 --> 00:18:34.395
  • To others, he said, "you wicked, lazy servant."
  • 00:18:34.395 --> 00:18:36.631
  • I don't wanna be in that line.
  • 00:18:36.631 --> 00:18:39.667
  • He gave them gifts, he gave them an opportunity, they didn't
  • 00:18:39.667 --> 00:18:42.837
  • Respond well, and he said, "remove them from my presence."
  • 00:18:42.837 --> 00:18:48.009
  • In fact, the phrase he uses--he said, "there'll be weeping and
  • 00:18:48.009 --> 00:18:52.313
  • Gnashing of teeth."
  • 00:18:52.313 --> 00:18:54.782
  • That's a phrase that is used repeatedly in scripture.
  • 00:18:54.782 --> 00:18:59.153
  • And my best understanding of it is it describes a group of
  • 00:18:59.153 --> 00:19:02.023
  • People who led significant portions of their life right at
  • 00:19:02.023 --> 00:19:05.526
  • The entry to the purposes of god, but refused to participate.
  • 00:19:05.526 --> 00:19:12.800
  • So that when the opportunity was finally closed off, their
  • 00:19:12.800 --> 00:19:16.103
  • Response was such tremendous remorse that there was weeping
  • 00:19:16.103 --> 00:19:19.707
  • And gnashing of teeth.
  • 00:19:19.707 --> 00:19:22.577
  • See, i think we leave too presumptively.
  • 00:19:22.577 --> 00:19:26.547
  • We imagine we can always have those choices.
  • 00:19:26.547 --> 00:19:28.583
  • God will judge our work.
  • 00:19:28.583 --> 00:19:29.951
  • Ephesians 4:28, "he who has been stealing must steal no longer,
  • 00:19:29.951 --> 00:19:32.954
  • But must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that
  • 00:19:32.954 --> 00:19:36.023
  • He may have something to share with those in need."
  • 00:19:36.023 --> 00:19:38.759
  • There's four criteria implied by which god evaluates our
  • 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:41.829
  • Work there.
  • 00:19:41.829 --> 00:19:43.164
  • Did you get it?
  • 00:19:43.164 --> 00:19:44.532
  • He'll judge our motives.
  • 00:19:44.532 --> 00:19:45.866
  • So, we'll have something to share with others.
  • 00:19:45.866 --> 00:19:47.235
  • He's going to judge our effort, he's gonna judge our integrity,
  • 00:19:47.235 --> 00:19:49.604
  • And he's gonna judge our usefulness.
  • 00:19:49.604 --> 00:19:54.175
  • God's gonna judge our motives.
  • 00:19:54.242 --> 00:19:55.576
  • Look at proverbs 21, "all of man's ways seem right to him,
  • 00:19:55.576 --> 00:19:58.312
  • But the lord weighs the heart."
  • 00:19:58.312 --> 00:20:00.681
  • We can justify anything, folks.
  • 00:20:00.681 --> 00:20:03.651
  • Don't you know that?
  • 00:20:03.651 --> 00:20:05.019
  • You may not understand it about yourself, but you understand it
  • 00:20:05.019 --> 00:20:07.221
  • About other people.
  • 00:20:07.221 --> 00:20:09.624
  • It's harder to see ourselves.
  • 00:20:09.624 --> 00:20:11.759
  • We've all seen other people justify ungodly things, but they
  • 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:14.695
  • Try to baptize it in something that has a higher motive
  • 00:20:14.695 --> 00:20:17.331
  • Or purpose.
  • 00:20:17.331 --> 00:20:19.033
  • I don't wanna do that, and i don't believe you do either.
  • 00:20:19.033 --> 00:20:21.769
  • Luke 16, jesus said, "you're the ones who justify yourselves in
  • 00:20:21.769 --> 00:20:24.905
  • The eyes of men, but god knows your hearts."
  • 00:20:24.905 --> 00:20:28.643
  • That's sobering to me.
  • 00:20:28.643 --> 00:20:29.977
  • God knows my heart.
  • 00:20:29.977 --> 00:20:31.345
  • You're not the--i'm not trying to convince you, hustle you,
  • 00:20:31.345 --> 00:20:33.781
  • Fool you.
  • 00:20:33.781 --> 00:20:37.318
  • God knows my heart.
  • 00:20:37.318 --> 00:20:40.588
  • That's not a threat.
  • 00:20:40.588 --> 00:20:42.356
  • Be honest with the lord.
  • 00:20:42.356 --> 00:20:43.724
  • Talk to him about your heart condition the best you know.
  • 00:20:43.724 --> 00:20:46.594
  • Tell him, "so you know what, i wanna do the right thing, but
  • 00:20:46.594 --> 00:20:50.898
  • Ungodly looks easier."
  • 00:20:50.898 --> 00:20:53.100
  • Talk to the lord, tell him the truth.
  • 00:20:56.937 --> 00:20:59.573
  • Practice cultivating integrity in your life.
  • 00:20:59.573 --> 00:21:03.177
  • God knows.
  • 00:21:03.177 --> 00:21:06.781
  • It's like talking to a two-year old and you walk in the kitchen
  • 00:21:06.781 --> 00:21:09.984
  • And they've got chocolate icing all over their face and you say,
  • 00:21:09.984 --> 00:21:12.353
  • You know, "did you eat that cupcake?"
  • 00:21:12.353 --> 00:21:17.124
  • About half the time, "no."
  • 00:21:17.124 --> 00:21:23.431
  • "well, how'd you get that icing on your face?"
  • 00:21:23.431 --> 00:21:29.970
  • That's how i feel when i'm trying to convince god about my
  • 00:21:29.970 --> 00:21:33.107
  • Heart condition that i know isn't right.
  • 00:21:33.107 --> 00:21:35.943
  • He knows.
  • 00:21:35.943 --> 00:21:37.912
  • I'm better off saying, "you know, it was a really good
  • 00:21:37.912 --> 00:21:39.447
  • Cupcake and i probably spoiled my dinner."
  • 00:21:39.447 --> 00:21:45.186
  • God is not nearly as concerned with how much money we make as
  • 00:21:49.423 --> 00:21:53.060
  • He is with our motives for making it and what we do with it
  • 00:21:53.060 --> 00:21:57.131
  • After we earn it.
  • 00:21:57.131 --> 00:21:58.799
  • See, i'm of the opinion that there's a tremendous need for
  • 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:01.702
  • Men and women with their hearts that are oriented towards the
  • 00:22:01.702 --> 00:22:04.772
  • Lord so that he could trust them with significant resources
  • 00:22:04.772 --> 00:22:07.274
  • Because they are needed in the earth.
  • 00:22:07.274 --> 00:22:11.379
  • I would much prefer for the list of the wealthiest people be very
  • 00:22:11.379 --> 00:22:15.082
  • Overt christians.
  • 00:22:15.082 --> 00:22:21.922
  • You know, we have some problems.
  • 00:22:21.922 --> 00:22:23.290
  • We want christian leaders, but when good christians run for
  • 00:22:23.290 --> 00:22:26.127
  • Office, we don't support them.
  • 00:22:26.127 --> 00:22:30.297
  • I know now i'm meddling.
  • 00:22:30.297 --> 00:22:32.666
  • You know, because we don't like the kind of christian they are
  • 00:22:32.666 --> 00:22:34.502
  • Or we find a weakness in their christianity, but they're out
  • 00:22:34.502 --> 00:22:37.104
  • Front clearly doing their best to lead christian lives.
  • 00:22:37.104 --> 00:22:40.207
  • Dr. ben carson, very godly man, runs for public office and
  • 00:22:40.207 --> 00:22:44.845
  • Doesn't get elected, and we'll say, "well, you know, he doesn't
  • 00:22:44.845 --> 00:22:47.014
  • Have the personality for it."
  • 00:22:47.014 --> 00:22:48.349
  • Nobody had the character for it.
  • 00:22:48.349 --> 00:22:56.257
  • We do the same thing with wealthy people.
  • 00:22:56.257 --> 00:22:57.858
  • We'd rather judge them and think they must have done something
  • 00:22:57.858 --> 00:22:59.927
  • Wrong than celebrate what god has done in their life.
  • 00:22:59.927 --> 00:23:05.232
  • And finally, god will judge our efforts.
  • 00:23:05.232 --> 00:23:07.535
  • That one is sobering.
  • 00:23:07.535 --> 00:23:09.603
  • Not just our character, he's gonna judge our efforts.
  • 00:23:09.603 --> 00:23:11.372
  • Did we make our best effort?
  • 00:23:11.372 --> 00:23:14.842
  • I wrote a great quote.
  • 00:23:14.842 --> 00:23:16.177
  • I liked it a lot.
  • 00:23:16.177 --> 00:23:17.545
  • It said, "i'm a missionary for jesus christ, but i'm cleverly
  • 00:23:17.545 --> 00:23:19.146
  • Disguised as checkout clerk at kroger."
  • 00:23:19.146 --> 00:23:24.952
  • I think we can all take that as an application.
  • 00:23:24.952 --> 00:23:27.188
  • Revelation 1 says, "to him who loves us and has freed us from
  • 00:23:27.188 --> 00:23:29.657
  • Our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and
  • 00:23:29.657 --> 00:23:32.493
  • Priest to serve his god and father, to him be glory and
  • 00:23:32.493 --> 00:23:35.229
  • Power forever and ever!
  • 00:23:35.229 --> 00:23:36.564
  • Amen."
  • 00:23:36.564 --> 00:23:38.032
  • Satan's immaculate deception is that we send some people into
  • 00:23:38.032 --> 00:23:41.902
  • Full-time ministry and others are spectator christians.
  • 00:23:41.902 --> 00:23:44.271
  • It's a lie from the pit.
  • 00:23:44.271 --> 00:23:46.807
  • Look, we're all full time servants of the king.
  • 00:23:46.807 --> 00:23:50.411
  • We are.
  • 00:23:50.411 --> 00:23:51.779
  • If you're a nurse, then you're a partner with god in helping to
  • 00:23:51.779 --> 00:23:53.747
  • Restore his people to health and to alleviate their discomfort.
  • 00:23:53.747 --> 00:23:57.284
  • If you're a teacher, then you're a partner with god in developing
  • 00:23:57.284 --> 00:23:59.820
  • His children so that they grow intellectually.
  • 00:23:59.820 --> 00:24:03.557
  • Whatever the assignment you're performing a task, not just to
  • 00:24:03.557 --> 00:24:06.093
  • Draw a paycheck or to please your employer, but to serve god
  • 00:24:06.093 --> 00:24:09.263
  • And your fellow man.
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  • There's a dignity in work.
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  • Let's decide to use the talent and the resources and the time
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  • That god gives to us for his glory.
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  • Let's decide to live in such a way that our lives can reflect
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  • The grace of god so that at all times and all things, we'll have
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  • All that we need for every good work.
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  • Let that be our legacy.
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  • Let that be what we teach our children and our grandchildren.
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  • If we will do that, it matters not what the dollar does or the
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  • Dow jones does or the federal reserve does.
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  • God will secure our futures and theirs, amen.
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  • I brought you a proclamation.
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  • I built it out of 2 corinthians 9:8.
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  • I just changed the pronouns to make it personal.
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  • If that offends you, you go back and use the plural pronoun.
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  • But i like a proclamation.
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  • I like to say what the scripture says about my life.
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  • And so, if you'll stand, we're gonna say it together.
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  • It's only one sentence, so you can't start too late or you'll
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  • Miss the whole thing, all right?
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  • It's not a bad proclamation is a part of your daily devotional
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  • For a season, okay?
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  • You ready?
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  • "god is able to make all grace abound to me, so that in all
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  • Things at all times, having all that i need, i may abound in
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  • Every good work, amen."
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  • That's good enough to say again.
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  • I know we gotta go.
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  • One more time.
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  • "god is able to make all grace abound to me, so that in all
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  • Things at all times, having all that i need, i may abound in
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  • Every good work, amen."
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: yeah, i got a question.
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  • What's the eternal breath of life?
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  • Well, the answer is a new book my dad just wrote, but i sat
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  • Down to do a podcast with him and i was listening to his story
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  • About how god had moved in his life and my family's life all
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  • The way up to the beginning of the church that i've served now
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  • For several decades.
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  • I was so reminded of the purpose and the power of the spirit of
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  • God in our lives.
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  • I asked him to put it in a book.
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  • That's what we're sharing with you.
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  • We all need god's help.
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  • We all face challenges.
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  • Life's not easy no matter who you are, but the spirit of god
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  • Is present within us to bring the power and purposes of god to
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  • Bear in our lives.
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  • I believe the book will be a blessing with--for you if you'll
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  • Pair it with "unleashing the power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's one of the most effective tools we have.
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  • It'll give you a pathway that i believe will bring god's best
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  • Into your family.
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  • You may not plan a church, but you have been given the
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  • Assignment as an ambassador for the kingdom of god, and we need
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  • The help of the holy spirit.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • ♪♪♪
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