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Robert Jeffress - The ABCs To Be Financially Free (Part 2)

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Dr. robert jeffress: i've read the book of acts my entire life,
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Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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Financial pressure is driving a wedge between husbands
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And wives across the country.
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With bills filling up the mailbox every day,
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Many couples end up spending far more money than they earn.
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It's no wonder that financial problems have become
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One of the leading causes for divorce.
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Well, there is a way to break the cycle of spending and debt,
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And today, i'm going to share with you the bible's road map
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To financial freedom.
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My message is titled "the abc's to be financially free,"
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As we continue our series "the solomon secrets,"
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ lord, i will lift ♪
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♪ my eyes to the hills ♪
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♪ knowing my help ♪
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♪ is coming from you ♪
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♪ your peace you give me ♪
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♪ in times ♪
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♪ of the storm ♪
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♪ you are the source of my strength ♪
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♪ you are the strength of my life ♪
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♪ i lift my hands ♪
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♪ in total praise to you ♪
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♪ you are the source of my strength ♪
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♪ you are the strength of my life ♪
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♪ i lift my hands ♪
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♪ in total praise to you ♪
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♪ amen, amen, ♪
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♪ amen, amen ♪
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♪ amen, amen, ♪
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♪ amen, ♪
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♪ amen, amen. ♪
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Announcer: god wants you to experience his best in every
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Area of life, and the wisdom to get there is found in his word.
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In "the solomon's secrets," dr. robert jeffress draws on the
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Life of the wisest and most successful man who ever lived to
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Bring you ten life-changing principles from proverbs.
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Jeffress: how do you create financial margin in your life?
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Remember, all of this is coming straight from god's word.
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Consistently save part of your income.
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The c stands for consistently save part of your income.
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Remember proverbs chapter 6, verses 6 through 8?
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Solomon said, "go to the ant, o sluggard.
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Observe her ways and be wise, which having no chief, officer,
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Or ruler prepares her food in summer and then gathers her
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Provision in the harvest."
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Even an ant understands that the harvested and joys in the
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Summertime, the bountiful food won't last forever.
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So it sets aside some of the food in the summer and in the
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Fall to prepare for the wintertime where there is no
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Food, and the same thing is true for us.
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If we're wise, we're going to set aside some of our income
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For future needs.
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How much income should we set aside?
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Some financial planners say that we ought to set aside at least
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10 to 15% of our income for our retirement needs, and then more
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Than that to set aside for emergencies, college educations,
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And other big-ticket items.
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How much money you set aside really isn't our call to make,
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But i wanna give you three words that will help you
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In your saving and three words that will help you understand
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The benefits of saving.
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Number one, "immediacy." immediacy.
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The best time to begin saving money is now because, as we're
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Gonna see in a moment, smaller amounts of money saved early in
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Life are much more valuable than large amounts of money saved
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Later in life all because of the magic of compound interest.
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Let me illustrate that for you.
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Let's say, there are two people, dick and jane.
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Remember dick and jane from the first grade?
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Yeah, we're bringing 'em back.
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Dick and jane, they've grown up now, and they both go to work
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For the acme corporation on the very same day, dick and jane.
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Jane goes in to see the hr person on her first day of the
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Job, and the hr person says, "now, jane, we have
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A 401(k) plan here, and if you'll invest some
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Of your money, it'll help prepare for the future."
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And so jane says, "well, that sounds like a good idea to me,"
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And so she signs up to put $1,250 a year into her
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401(k) plan, $1,250 a year.
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She does that every year for eight years.
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After eight years of working for the acme corporation, she
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Decides to retire and become a full-time homemaker, but she
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Also decides to leave the money she has accumulated over those
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Eight years into that 401(k) plan, and for the next 22 years,
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She doesn't touch it.
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She doesn't add anything to it.
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That's jane.
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Now, dick goes to work on the same day as jane
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Did, and the hr person tells him about the 401(k) plan,
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But dick says, "you know, i know i need to do that.
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I should do that, but i've got so many family responsibilities
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And expenses right now.
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I just can't afford to do that right now."
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So, for the first eight years of his life and working life at
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Acme, he doesn't contribute a penny to his 401(k) plan, but
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After the first eight years, he hears a message just like this.
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He gets convicted.
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He says, "you know, i really ought to do this.
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I need to take advantage of this."
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And so he starts contributing to his 401(k) plan,
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And he does so for the next 22 years.
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Okay, at the end of the 30 years,
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Who's gonna end up with more money?
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Is it gonna be jane, who invested $1,250 a year
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For eight years--that's a total of $10,000--
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And then never added a penny to it?
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Or is it going to be dick, who invested $1,250 a year
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For 22 years?
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That's 27,000-some hundred dollars.
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Who's gonna have the most money at the end of 30 years?
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At 8% interest, do you realize jane
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Is gonna have more money than dick?
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She will have accumulated $74,000.
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Dick will have accumulated $71,000.
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You say, "how is that possible?"
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One person only saves for eight years.
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One person saves for 22 years.
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It's what john d. rockefeller
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Called the "eighth wonder of the world," compound interest.
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Money is more efficient saved early in life,
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Even if for a shorter amount of time than a large amount
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Of money saved later in life.
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Immediacy. today's the best time.
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Immediacy.
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Secondly, the word "consistency."
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Now, this is the key word, "consistency."
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Again, a small amount of money regularly saved
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Over a long period of time can do wondrous things.
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You know, most people don't wanna think about saving
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Because they don't wanna deprive themself.
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They think if they save money, they're depriving themselves
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Of current enjoyment of life, but listen, you don't have
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To be an ebenezer scrooge to have financial margin in life.
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Let me give this illustration, and, again,
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I hope you young adults will especially listen to this;
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And parents and grandparents, tell your kids and grandkids.
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Let's imagine, someone has just graduated from school.
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They're just beginning their work life.
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They are 22 years old, 22-year-old young adult.
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And, let's imagine, this young adult
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Starts investing $100 a month in a mutual fund.
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That's what he can afford, $100 a month,
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And he invests $100 a month, never increases it at all.
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A hundred dollars a month, he invested in a mutual fund,
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And, let's say, the mutual fund earns 12% a year.
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Did you know, by age 72, do you know how much money
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He will have accumulated?
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A hundred dollars a month, never increases it, by age 72, that
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Person will have accumulated $3.9 million, $3.9 million,
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And if he puts it in a roth ira, he can have that money tax-free.
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In other words, for the price of a starbucks every day,
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This person can retire a multimillionaire.
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Now, my daughter dorothy is sittin' right on the front row.
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She's gon' be 22 in december.
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Dorothy, that would be a great plan for you to take care of
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Your parents in their old age.
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That would be our financial measure of success
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There is havin' you do that.
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Now, i know, some of you, you're gon' write me, some of you
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Financial people, "oh, 12%, that's too high.
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That's too high. nobody's earning 12%."
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Well, people did in the '90s.
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It's true, today, they're not earning 12%.
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Okay, make it 10% or 9%.
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You can still have multiple millions of dollars by saving
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A small amount of money over a long period of time.
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That's what we're talkin' about here, the word "consistency."
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Thirdly, the word "diversity."
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The third key in saving money is to diversify your savings.
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Mark twain said, "put all of your eggs in one basket,
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And watch the basket."
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But solomon says, "no, that is a prescription
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For financial disaster."
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Instead, listen to what he says in ecclesiastes 11, verse 2:
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"divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not
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Know what misfortune may occur on the earth."
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Don't put all of your money in stocks.
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Don't put all of your money in bonds.
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Don't put it all in real estate.
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Diversify because you really don't know
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What the future holds.
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Have a balanced investment so that you can take advantage of
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Some things that are up while other things are down.
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Diversity.
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How do you create financial margin in your life?
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Adjust your spending below your income; "b," be careful of debt;
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"c," consistently save a portion of your income; "d,"
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The final and an important principle, devote a portion
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Of your income to god.
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Devote a portion of your income to god.
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Solomon offered another piece of financial counsel that is
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Overlooked by so many people and so many christians and explains
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Why so many christians have trouble with their finances.
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Listen to proverbs 3, verses 9 to 10: "honor the lord from your
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Wealth and from the first of all of your produce so that your
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Barns will be filled with plenty and your vats
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Will be overcome with new wine."
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Now, hear me this morning.
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These verses are not a blanket promise that, if you give
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To god, you will automatically be financially wealthy.
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If that were the case, if giving to god ensured and promised
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That you would always 100% of the time be financially
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Succesful, then giving would not be a matter of making an
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Offering, it would be making a wise investment, wouldn't it?
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Nevertheless, as you look through the whole council
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Of god on this subject of giving, you find that,
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More often than not,
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God promises to bless those who give and to judge those
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Who withhold from him.
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In fact, not to give what belongs to god,
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God calls "robbery."
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To not give what god--what belongs to him is tantamount
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To robbing god.
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Turn over to malachi chapter 3, for a moment.
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Malachi chapter 3, or some people call it "ma-la-chee."
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Malachi chapter 3.
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Remember the situation here?
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The israelites were not giving god what belonged to him.
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They had all kind of reasons.
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They said, "god, we just can't afford to give.
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We're these impoverished agricultural people.
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We don't have the money to give.
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I mean, after all, after we subtract our mortgage payment
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And our tv cable bill and our chariot monthly payments,
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We just don't have any margin left."
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So what were they doing?
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They were using what belonged to god to pay
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For their monthly expenses.
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They said, "god, we cannot afford to give."
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And god said, "you can't afford not to give."
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Look at what he said in malachi 3, beginning with verse 8:
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"will a man rob god?"
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Literally, will a man stick a revolver in the face of god
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And say, "stick 'em up"?
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Would you say that to god?
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Would you ever think of doing that to god, sticking a gun in
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The face of god and saying, "give me everything you have"?
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Notice what he says.
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God said, "but you're robbing me.
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But you say, 'well, how have we robbed you, god?'"
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God answers, "in tithes and offerings.
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For you are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me,
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The whole nation of you."
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What's the answer to make sure you're not robbing god?
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"'bring the whole title into the storehouse, so that
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There may be food in my house, and test me now in this,'
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Says the lord of hosts."
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It's one of the few times we're ever told to test god
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In the bible, but god says, "you can test me in this.
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If you'll bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, test me
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And see if i will not open for you the windows of heaven
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And pour out for you a blessing until it overflows."
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That's the positive promise, but notice there's a negative
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Promise here too in verse 11: "'then i will rebuke
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The devourer for you, so that it may not destroy the fruits of
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The ground, nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes,'
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Says the lord of hosts."
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The positive promise is this: god said, "israelites, if you
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Will give 10% of what you have to me, i will bless the 90%
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Above anything you can imagine, but if you rob me of the 10%
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That belongs to me, i will allow the devourer to consume 90%
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And more of what you have."
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I've heard so many christians through the years
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Give a testimony like this.
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They've said, "you know, for years, we were disobedient
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To god in this area of tithing.
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We did not give what belonged to god.
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We felt like the way we could have some padding, some margin
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In our finances was not to give," and, yet they said,
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"whatever margin we had through not giving to god, it was
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Amazing every month how it got eaten up by unexpected car
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Repair bills or medical emergencies or other things that
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We had not planned for, but when we started obeying god
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In this area, god blessed us beyond anything
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We could have imagined."
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Many of you have that testimony as well.
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That's what the word of god is saying here.
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Remember, we're talking about how to have margin
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In your finances.
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Nothing will eat up that buffer zone, shrink it and eliminate it
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Anything more than robbing god.
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Robbing god will eliminate margin in your life.
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So what is the answer here?
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Well, again, he tells us.
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Look at verse 10: "bring the whole tithe--" where?
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"into the storehouse."
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Now, when malachi said that to the israelites,
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They didn't say "storehouse."
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What's the storehouse?
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They all knew what the storehouse was.
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The storehouse was the temple.
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The tithe belonged in the temple of god.
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"bring the whole tithe into the storehouse."
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Now, the question is "where's the storehouse today?"
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We don't have a temple. where is the storehouse today?
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Let me give you a hint: the storehouse is not the red cross.
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It's not habitat for humanity.
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It's not campus crusade for christ.
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Those are all wonderful organizations, and they're
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Certainly worthy of support, but the tithe doesn't belong to them
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Or any organization like them.
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You see, it's the local church that has been uniquely created
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By god, and it's the local church that has been uniquely
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Commissioned by god to fulfill the great commission.
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Every other organization in the world--i don't care how
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Wonderful it is--it's a man-made organization, every one of them.
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Every christian organization is a man-made organization
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Except the local church.
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God designed the church.
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God commissioned the church to be his agent
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For spreading the word of god throughout the world.
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I'm not saying you don't give to those other things,
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But what i'm saying is the primary focus of our giving
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Is to be the storehouse.
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And, in the new testament, that storehouse is the local church.
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"'bring the whole tithe into the storehouse,'
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Says the lord of hosts."
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The way we create financial margin is by obeying god
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In every area of our finances.
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Truly, solomon was right when he said in proverbs 10, verse 15,
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"the rich man's wealth is his fortress.
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The ruin of the poor is their poverty."
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Financial margin in your life does give you
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The freedom to do what's right.
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It gives you the security of preparing for your future needs.
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It gives you the joy of supporting god's work, however,
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The benefits of margin are limited to this life
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And this life alone.
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You see, there's one contingency margin
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Cannot protect you against: your death.
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You realize that?
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Doesn't matter how much you accumulate.
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It all ends at your death.
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Solomon understood that.
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In ecclesiastes 5, verses 15 and 16, he said, "people who live
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Only for wealth come to the end of their lives as naked
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And empty-handed as on the day they were born."
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You're gonna be as naked the day you die
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As the day you were born.
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Isn't that a sobering thought?
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You know what he's saying?
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He said, "just as you came into this world with nothing,
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You leave with nothing."
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He goes on to say, in verse 16, "and this, too,
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Is a very serious problem.
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As people come into the world, so they depart.
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All their hard work is for nothing.
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They have been working for the wind, and everything
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Will be swept away."
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Jesus told a great story to illustrate that truth
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In luke 12.
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We read it this morning.
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Remember, it was a story about a very wealthy man.
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He had spent his life accumulating margin,
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A buffer zone in his finances, and he had succeeded
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Beyond his wildest imagination.
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He had so much extra, he didn't know what to do with it.
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His barns were overflowing with grain.
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His kids' education was fully funded.
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His 401(k) plan was maxed out, and he still didn't know what to
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Do with all of his money.
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In fact, one day, he lay--one night, he lay awake, just
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Saying, "what in the world am i gonna do with all this excess?"
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And he started makin' his plans: "i'll do this.
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I think i'll do this. i'll do this."
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And then god came to him and said, "you fool, tonight
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Your soul is required of you."
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That phrase in greek literally means "your loan is due.
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Tonight your soul is required of you.
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Tonight you're going to die, and who now is going to own
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What you've spent your life accumulating?"
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And then jesus added this application in luke 12:21,
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"so is the man who lays up treasure for
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Himself, and is not rich toward god."
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Listen to me, ladies and gentlemen,
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The value of margin ceases at the cemetery.
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From that moment throughout eternity, only your relationship
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With jesus christ matters because, the truth is,
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Only jesus christ can provide you lasting freedom,
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Lasting security, and lasting joy.
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♪♪♪
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Jeffress: all our saving for financial freedom and liberation
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From the relentless pressure that money can bring, well,
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It all ends at the cemetery, and there's nothing more important
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Than settling our account with god while there's still time.
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Recently, we heard from a caller who said,
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"i was brought up with a lot of different beliefs,
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And now i can receive the truth."
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She concluded by saying, "thank you."
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Now, please, stay right there.
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I'll be back with more in just a moment.
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Announcer: all around us, people are struggling in their
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Finances, their marriages, and their careers,
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Not because they don't want to live well, but because no one
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Has given them the wisdom to do it.
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That wisdom is found in god's word, and it's exactly what
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Dr. robert jeffress unpacks in his best selling book,
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"the solomon secrets."
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In this practical biblical guide, you'll discover
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Ten principles from the book of proverbs for success in every
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Area of your life.
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Jeffress: solomon had more wealth and opportunity than
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Anyone of his era.
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And he discovered that real success only comes when you
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Build your life on the wisdom god provides.
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In my book, "the solomon secrets," i'll show you how to
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Apply that wisdom to your marriage, your parenting,
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Your career, your finances, and so much more.
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Jeffress: god wants you and me to be prosperous, successful.
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The key is defining what god means when he uses the word
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Prosperous and success.
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With the light of god's word.
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Jeffress: yes, it's important to establish financial margin,
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But at the same time, we need to hold our material wealth
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In a proper perspective.
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No amount of planning or saving can extend our treasures
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Beyond this life.
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Well, there's much more wisdom to glean from solomon's
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Book of proverbs, and next time, we'll move forward
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To secret number five, "graze in your own pasture."
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I hope you'll join us next week as we seek solomon's counsel
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On how to protect our marriages
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From any semblance of moral compromise.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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On "pathway to victory."
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Jeffress: if we are going to master the art of living well,
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Which is what proverbs and this series is all about,
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We have to pay attention to the stop sign.
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God's word says, "no sex outside of marriage."
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Robert Jeffress - The ABCs To Be Financially Free (Part 2)

July 17, 2026 | 27:30

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