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Robert Jeffress - The Eighth Commandment: Respect the Property of Others (Part 1)

June 16, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - The Eighth Commandment: Respect the Property of Others (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Eighth Commandment: Respect the Property of Others (Part 1) | June 16, 2026
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  • From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas,
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  • Hi, i am robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • In recent years,
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  • We've seen an alarming rise in retail thefts,
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  • Thugs dressed in hoodies
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  • Rush into shopping malls and jewelry stores,
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  • Leaving with bags filled with stolen goods.
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  • It's just one of the many ways people are stealing
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  • From their neighbors.
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  • Well, today, i'm calling on all americans
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  • To heed the eighth commandment from god.
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  • My message is titled, "respect the property of others"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • None of the parents suspected sister mary margaret kreuper
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  • Of anything improper,
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  • But neither could they understand
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  • Why their church school was running a deficit every year.
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  • For 28 years, sister mary margaret, an 80-year-old nun,
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  • Had served as the principal
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  • Of the st. james catholic church in florence, california.
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  • But in 2021, when sister mary margaret was 80 years of age,
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  • A federal judge sentenced her
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  • To one year and one day in the penitentiary
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  • For embezzling the money and defrauding parents.
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  • She was forced to repay more than $800,000 she had stolen
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  • From these parents and students.
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  • Her response, she said, "i have sinned.
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  • I have broken the law.
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  • I have no excuses."
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  • She was right;
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  • In stealing that money,
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  • She had broken not only united states law,
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  • More importantly, she had broken god's law.
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  • In fact, she broke one of the most basic laws god has given
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  • To govern our lives and our society.
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  • It's found in exodus 20:15, "you shall not steal."
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  • If you have your bibles, turn to exodus 20,
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  • As we discover why we should respect the property of others.
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  • We're in a series i'm calling "the 10:
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  • How to live and love in a world that's lost its way,"
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  • And we're gaining a fresh look
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  • At god's most basic laws for living.
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  • We call them the ten commandments.
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  • Now, the eighth commandment we're looking at today,
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  • "you shall not steal,"
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  • Is much like the last two commandments.
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  • In the original hebrew text, it is only two words.
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  • Remember the sixth commandment was no murder;
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  • The seventh commandment, no adultery;
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  • Eighth commandment, no stealing.
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  • Moses later expanded on that in leviticus 19:11-13
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  • When he wrote, "do not steal.
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  • Do not defraud or rob your neighbor.
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  • Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker overnight."
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  • In just a minute, we're going to look at four ways
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  • We commonly break this eighth commandment,
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  • But i want to begin today by talking about the basis,
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  • The need for this commandment.
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  • Why does god talk about not stealing?
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  • There's a basic assumption here
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  • That frankly is under attack today in our country.
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  • And it's the assumption that people have a right.
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  • Not just a right,
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  • But a responsibility to acquire personal property.
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  • Today, there's some woke christians who are trying to teach
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  • That we shouldn't have personal property,
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  • That we shouldn't have differing levels of income,
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  • That the bible advocates a kind of christian marxism
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  • Or sanctified socialism
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  • Where everybody ought to have the same amount
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  • And earn the same amount of money.
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  • In fact, i actually heard the pastor of one woke church say,
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  • "the great commission for churches
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  • Is to end income disparity.
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  • That's the mission of the church,
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  • To make sure everybody has the same amount of money."
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  • Is that true?
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  • Well, some people actually misuse the bible
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  • To promote such an idea.
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  • They turn to acts 4:32,
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  • These words about the freshly-birthed church
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  • And the congregation of those
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  • Who believed were of one heart and soul,
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  • And not one of them claim
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  • That anything belonging to him was his own,
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  • But all things were common property to them.
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  • See, pastor? there it is.
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  • Everybody sold their goods, put it in the common pool,
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  • And everybody enjoyed the same level of income.
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  • But that's just a superficial reading of the text.
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  • When we looked at this in our study of acts,
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  • We pointed out this giving of your assets
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  • And pooling of assets was voluntary.
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  • It wasn't confiscatory.
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  • Nobody forced the church to do that.
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  • Individuals chose to do that.
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  • But in the same passage,
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  • The bible honors personal property.
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  • In acts 5:4, remember?
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  • Peter was chastising ananias
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  • For lying about the amount of money he had given.
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  • He had claimed to have sold a piece of property
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  • And given all the proceeds to the church,
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  • And he held back a portion.
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  • And peter said, "ananias, why did you lie?
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  • For while your property remained unsold,
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  • Didn't it remain under your control?"
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  • In other words,
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  • "it was yours to do with whatever you wanted to do."
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  • That's the idea of personal property.
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  • Another interesting passage in scripture
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  • Is found in philippians 4:11-12.
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  • I bet most of you know this passage by heart.
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  • Paul said, "i've learned to be content
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  • In whatever circumstances i'm in,
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  • I know how to get along in humble means,
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  • And i also know how to live in prosperity."
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  • In other words, he said,
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  • "i know how to live according to a budget.
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  • If i have a lack of resources, i cut back.
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  • If i have an abundance of resources, i enjoy it.
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  • I've learned to be content in both circumstances."
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  • Now, these words were written 25 years
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  • After the birth of the church in acts 2.
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  • If the goal of the church
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  • Had been to flatten income disparity
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  • And made it that everybody had the same amount of money,
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  • Then paul never would've learned to cut back;
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  • He wouldn't have needed to.
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  • He never would've learned how to experience abundance.
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  • He never had abundance, everybody had the same amount.
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  • My point is god's plan is not for sanctified socialism.
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  • And the reason i bring that up right now
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  • Is if the bible teaches
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  • That we have a right and responsibility
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  • To acquire personal property,
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  • Then we have the right and responsibility
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  • To protect that property,
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  • And that's what this eighth commandment is all about.
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  • If you don't protect personal property,
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  • A value in scripture,
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  • You're going to have anarchy in society.
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  • The whole assumption is personal property
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  • Is part of god's plan,
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  • And it's his plan for us to protect that property.
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  • Now, how do you acquire possessions?
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  • If it's god's will for us to accumulate money
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  • And accumulate possessions
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  • To care for ourselves and our family,
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  • How do you do it?
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  • Well, there are three and only three ways
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  • To acquire property,
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  • And all three are mentioned in ephesians 4:28.
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  • Paul wrote, "he who steals must steal no longer,
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  • But rather he must labor,
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  • Performing with his own hands what is good,
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  • So that he will have something to share
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  • With one who has need."
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  • The primary method god gives for acquiring property
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  • Is through our work.
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  • That is we must labor,
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  • Performing what is good according to our hands.
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  • In deuteronomy 8:18, god said,
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  • "you shall remember the lord your god,
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  • For it is he who is giving you the power to make wealth."
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  • God gives each one of us the power
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  • Not to become billionaires or millionaires,
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  • But to make the wealth,
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  • The money we need to take care of ourselves and to others.
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  • Have you ever heard the phrase,
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  • "he's a self-made man,"
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  • Or, "she's a self-made woman."
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  • There is no such thing, nobody is self-made.
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  • We are all god-made.
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  • And god gives us the gifts, the ability, even the energy,
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  • To work and to make a living.
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  • And that's god's plan.
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  • The way we take care of ourselves is through our work.
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  • In 2 thessalonians 3:10, paul said,
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  • "for even when we were with you,
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  • We used to give you this order."
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  • If anyone is not willing to work,
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  • Then he is not to eat either.
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  • Very simple, no work, no money, no food.
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  • That's god's plan.
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  • Now, don't write me an email.
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  • Yes, there are exceptions to that,
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  • And the bible gives them.
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  • If somebody is disabled and not able to work,
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  • We are to be generous, and compassionate,
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  • And help provide a safety net for those who can't work.
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  • But paul is saying those who can work should work
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  • And they shouldn't eat if they don't work.
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  • In genesis 1:28,
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  • It's very clear god created the first man and woman
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  • To be workers.
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  • Look at this, god bless them, that is adam and eve,
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  • And said to them, "be fruitful and multiply,
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  • And fill the earth and subdue it,
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  • And rule over the fish of the sea
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  • And over the birds of the sky,
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  • And over every other living thing that moves on the earth."
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  • We were created to be workers because god is a worker.
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  • We are created in his image.
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  • Look at genesis 2:15.
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  • "then the lord god took the man
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  • And put him into the garden of eden
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  • To cultivate it and to keep it."
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  • Now, you know what is significant about this verse?
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  • What is significant about genesis 2:15?
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  • It comes before genesis 3:1.
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  • Now, here's why that's significant.
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  • Do you remember what's recorded in genesis 3?
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  • It's how sin came into the world,
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  • The fall of man and the curse that resulted from that fall.
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  • But there are a lot of people
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  • Who mistakenly believe work itself is a curse.
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  • It's a curse from god.
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  • It's because of the fall of adam and eve
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  • That we have to work for a living.
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  • "if only adam and eve hadn't blown it in the garden,
  • 00:12:12.521 --> 00:12:15.491
  • I could be sitting on the french riviera eating bonbons."
  • 00:12:15.491 --> 00:12:18.794
  • I mean, that's what a lot of people think.
  • 00:12:18.794 --> 00:12:20.496
  • No.
  • 00:12:20.496 --> 00:12:21.530
  • Before the fall, god said,
  • 00:12:21.530 --> 00:12:23.566
  • "i'm creating you to be a worker,
  • 00:12:23.566 --> 00:12:26.569
  • Not just to make money,
  • 00:12:26.569 --> 00:12:28.270
  • But she finds your fulfillment in your work."
  • 00:12:28.270 --> 00:12:30.940
  • God meant for us to find fulfillment in our work.
  • 00:12:30.940 --> 00:12:35.311
  • One of the most important things you'll ever discover
  • 00:12:35.311 --> 00:12:37.880
  • Is what your life work should be.
  • 00:12:37.880 --> 00:12:41.083
  • My friend bob beal describes and defines life work as,
  • 00:12:41.083 --> 00:12:45.588
  • "that work which is the best use of the rest of your life."
  • 00:12:45.588 --> 00:12:51.260
  • Your life work is that work
  • 00:12:51.861 --> 00:12:53.529
  • Which is the best use of the rest of your life,
  • 00:12:53.529 --> 00:12:56.332
  • And your life work
  • 00:12:56.332 --> 00:12:57.967
  • Will always be the intersection of two things.
  • 00:12:57.967 --> 00:13:00.836
  • First of all, your passion.
  • 00:13:00.836 --> 00:13:02.805
  • What do you really care about?
  • 00:13:02.805 --> 00:13:04.540
  • What are you really interested in?
  • 00:13:04.540 --> 00:13:06.675
  • And secondly, your giftedness.
  • 00:13:06.675 --> 00:13:09.311
  • What is god uniquely gifted you to do?
  • 00:13:09.311 --> 00:13:13.549
  • And when you find that intersection
  • 00:13:13.549 --> 00:13:15.885
  • Between your passion and your giftedness,
  • 00:13:15.885 --> 00:13:19.288
  • You've discovered your life work.
  • 00:13:19.288 --> 00:13:21.056
  • Philippians 2:13 says,
  • 00:13:21.056 --> 00:13:22.892
  • "it is god at work within us giving us the desire,
  • 00:13:22.892 --> 00:13:26.595
  • The passion, and the power to do his will."
  • 00:13:26.595 --> 00:13:32.001
  • My friend bob also says,
  • 00:13:32.501 --> 00:13:34.503
  • "an activity is only work
  • 00:13:34.503 --> 00:13:37.773
  • If you'd rather be doing something else."
  • 00:13:37.773 --> 00:13:40.643
  • Hopefully, you find that life work.
  • 00:13:40.643 --> 00:13:42.845
  • That doesn't mean it's not tiring.
  • 00:13:42.845 --> 00:13:44.613
  • Work is exhausting.
  • 00:13:44.613 --> 00:13:46.248
  • It became more exhausting after the fall.
  • 00:13:46.248 --> 00:13:48.984
  • Genesis 3:17-19 said,
  • 00:13:48.984 --> 00:13:51.553
  • "your work is going to be harder because of sin,"
  • 00:13:51.553 --> 00:13:54.223
  • But that doesn't mean it can't be fulfilling.
  • 00:13:54.223 --> 00:13:57.359
  • And god's plan for you is to find that life work,
  • 00:13:57.359 --> 00:14:00.629
  • So that you can generate the income to acquire property
  • 00:14:00.629 --> 00:14:04.033
  • And take care of yourself and your family.
  • 00:14:04.033 --> 00:14:06.101
  • And there's something, in the best sense of word,
  • 00:14:06.101 --> 00:14:08.504
  • A pride of ownership when you earn money
  • 00:14:08.504 --> 00:14:12.274
  • And are able to buy those things
  • 00:14:12.274 --> 00:14:14.176
  • That you and your family needs.
  • 00:14:14.176 --> 00:14:16.612
  • I remember when i got my first car, it was in 1971,
  • 00:14:16.612 --> 00:14:20.683
  • My dad, as a hobby, rebuilt volkswagens,
  • 00:14:20.683 --> 00:14:24.553
  • And he gave me, as a gift, a volkswagen beetle.
  • 00:14:24.553 --> 00:14:28.490
  • Remember the volkswagen bugs?
  • 00:14:28.490 --> 00:14:29.992
  • I guess they're still running around here.
  • 00:14:29.992 --> 00:14:32.695
  • And i'd go down central expressway.
  • 00:14:32.695 --> 00:14:36.165
  • I remember i asked my dad one time,
  • 00:14:36.165 --> 00:14:37.833
  • "where's the air conditioner?"
  • 00:14:37.833 --> 00:14:40.135
  • He said, "oh, robert, this has a two 60 air conditioner."
  • 00:14:41.270 --> 00:14:44.873
  • I said, "two 60 air conditioner?"
  • 00:14:44.873 --> 00:14:46.542
  • He said, "yeah, roll down two windows
  • 00:14:46.542 --> 00:14:48.744
  • And go 60 miles an hour,
  • 00:14:48.744 --> 00:14:50.212
  • And you'll have all the air you need."
  • 00:14:50.212 --> 00:14:53.882
  • Now, i love that little car.
  • 00:14:54.483 --> 00:14:56.819
  • The only problem was one day,
  • 00:14:56.819 --> 00:14:58.487
  • The fuel line in the back, that's where the engine was,
  • 00:14:58.487 --> 00:15:01.557
  • Worked its way loose, sprayed the engine,
  • 00:15:01.557 --> 00:15:03.692
  • And the car blew up
  • 00:15:03.692 --> 00:15:05.127
  • While i was driving it down belt line road.
  • 00:15:05.127 --> 00:15:07.930
  • So, i had to get rid of that volkswagen.
  • 00:15:07.930 --> 00:15:10.499
  • But you know what car i enjoyed even more than that?
  • 00:15:11.533 --> 00:15:14.536
  • The first car i bought.
  • 00:15:14.536 --> 00:15:16.605
  • I'll never forget, it was a pontiac grand prix
  • 00:15:16.605 --> 00:15:21.477
  • With bucket seats
  • 00:15:21.477 --> 00:15:23.479
  • And red velure.
  • 00:15:23.846 --> 00:15:25.280
  • Oh, amy loved that red velure, those bucket seats,
  • 00:15:25.280 --> 00:15:28.417
  • And man, i took care of that car because i had purchased it.
  • 00:15:28.417 --> 00:15:32.087
  • I remember the payment,
  • 00:15:32.087 --> 00:15:33.355
  • $167 a month i'd send to the pontiac corporation,
  • 00:15:33.355 --> 00:15:37.393
  • But i'd check the oil every day,
  • 00:15:37.393 --> 00:15:39.128
  • I'd check the tires every day.
  • 00:15:39.128 --> 00:15:41.263
  • Saturdays, i'd spend waxing it
  • 00:15:41.263 --> 00:15:43.265
  • With the turtle wax, you know?
  • 00:15:43.265 --> 00:15:45.634
  • I took care of it because i had purchased it.
  • 00:15:45.634 --> 00:15:48.070
  • There's a fulfillment that comes when you earn money
  • 00:15:48.070 --> 00:15:51.373
  • And you purchase what you need,
  • 00:15:51.373 --> 00:15:53.175
  • And that's what god says
  • 00:15:53.175 --> 00:15:54.443
  • Is our basic way of acquiring property.
  • 00:15:54.443 --> 00:15:57.613
  • It is through our work,
  • 00:15:57.613 --> 00:15:58.947
  • Work that is fulfilling, not tedious.
  • 00:15:58.947 --> 00:16:03.218
  • The second way you can earn money and acquire possessions
  • 00:16:03.218 --> 00:16:06.855
  • Is through inheritance.
  • 00:16:06.855 --> 00:16:08.957
  • Again, that's in ephesians 4:28.
  • 00:16:08.957 --> 00:16:11.794
  • It's implied when he says,
  • 00:16:11.794 --> 00:16:13.495
  • "work so that you will have something to share
  • 00:16:13.495 --> 00:16:16.865
  • With those who have need."
  • 00:16:16.865 --> 00:16:19.368
  • If we can, we shouldn't consume everything we have
  • 00:16:19.368 --> 00:16:22.371
  • In a lifetime.
  • 00:16:22.371 --> 00:16:23.705
  • We ought to leave something for our children
  • 00:16:23.705 --> 00:16:25.741
  • And our children's children.
  • 00:16:25.741 --> 00:16:27.109
  • Proverbs 13:22 says,
  • 00:16:27.109 --> 00:16:29.211
  • "a good man leaves an inheritance
  • 00:16:29.211 --> 00:16:32.681
  • To his children's children,"
  • 00:16:32.681 --> 00:16:35.084
  • That is to his grandchildren.
  • 00:16:35.084 --> 00:16:37.853
  • I was reading in the new york times this week
  • 00:16:37.853 --> 00:16:40.255
  • That we are witnessing right now
  • 00:16:40.255 --> 00:16:42.257
  • The greatest transfer of wealth
  • 00:16:42.257 --> 00:16:44.827
  • In the history of our country.
  • 00:16:44.827 --> 00:16:47.129
  • Right now, baby boomers,
  • 00:16:47.629 --> 00:16:49.264
  • Those 60 to 80, are beginning to retire,
  • 00:16:49.264 --> 00:16:52.734
  • And they hold over $140 trillion of wealth
  • 00:16:52.734 --> 00:16:58.006
  • That, over these next years,
  • 00:16:58.607 --> 00:17:00.042
  • They're going to be transferring either to family,
  • 00:17:00.042 --> 00:17:03.345
  • Or churches, or other organizations.
  • 00:17:03.345 --> 00:17:07.416
  • Now, that's good news for those of you who are younger.
  • 00:17:07.416 --> 00:17:11.386
  • The bad news is you're probably not going to get much of it.
  • 00:17:11.386 --> 00:17:14.690
  • Statistically speaking,
  • 00:17:14.690 --> 00:17:16.191
  • There are a few who will receive billions of dollars.
  • 00:17:16.191 --> 00:17:19.595
  • There's a little larger group
  • 00:17:19.595 --> 00:17:20.829
  • That will receive millions of dollars,
  • 00:17:20.829 --> 00:17:22.931
  • But 90% of people will receive thousands of dollars,
  • 00:17:22.931 --> 00:17:27.336
  • Not millions or billions of dollars.
  • 00:17:27.336 --> 00:17:29.438
  • So, you know, if you don't have the right last name,
  • 00:17:29.438 --> 00:17:33.142
  • Chances are you're probably not going to inherit
  • 00:17:33.142 --> 00:17:36.245
  • A great deal of wealth.
  • 00:17:36.245 --> 00:17:38.614
  • We can work for money, we can inherit money.
  • 00:17:38.614 --> 00:17:42.885
  • Those are legitimate ways to acquire property.
  • 00:17:42.885 --> 00:17:45.988
  • But the bible says the illegitimate way is through theft,
  • 00:17:45.988 --> 00:17:50.159
  • Through stealing it.
  • 00:17:50.159 --> 00:17:51.827
  • Let him who steals steal no longer.
  • 00:17:51.827 --> 00:17:56.064
  • Why do people steal?
  • 00:17:56.064 --> 00:17:58.433
  • J. i. packer put it this way.
  • 00:17:58.433 --> 00:18:00.736
  • He said, "the temptation to steal property
  • 00:18:00.736 --> 00:18:04.239
  • To deprive a person of what he has
  • 00:18:04.239 --> 00:18:06.575
  • Arise because fallen man
  • 00:18:06.575 --> 00:18:08.744
  • Always wants more than he has at the present
  • 00:18:08.744 --> 00:18:12.414
  • And more than others have."
  • 00:18:12.414 --> 00:18:14.983
  • He's saying, "the basis,
  • 00:18:14.983 --> 00:18:16.885
  • The reason we steal is because of covetousness."
  • 00:18:16.885 --> 00:18:20.389
  • We're not satisfied with what we have,
  • 00:18:20.389 --> 00:18:22.991
  • And we think somebody else has too much,
  • 00:18:22.991 --> 00:18:25.494
  • And so we steal,
  • 00:18:25.494 --> 00:18:26.862
  • Breaking both the eighth and the ten commandments.
  • 00:18:26.862 --> 00:18:30.399
  • Now, i know you're going to think,
  • 00:18:30.399 --> 00:18:32.000
  • "well, this is one sin i'm not guilty of.
  • 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.369
  • I've never stolen anything."
  • 00:18:34.369 --> 00:18:37.105
  • But remember, there's more than one way to commit adultery,
  • 00:18:37.105 --> 00:18:39.675
  • More than one way to murder,
  • 00:18:39.675 --> 00:18:41.476
  • More than one way to lie.
  • 00:18:41.476 --> 00:18:42.711
  • As we'll see next time,
  • 00:18:42.711 --> 00:18:43.979
  • There's also more than one way to steal.
  • 00:18:43.979 --> 00:18:46.548
  • Let me mention four ways we violate this commandment.
  • 00:18:46.548 --> 00:18:50.352
  • The first way is by despoiling.
  • 00:18:50.352 --> 00:18:53.488
  • Despoiling.
  • 00:18:53.488 --> 00:18:55.757
  • I know.
  • 00:18:55.991 --> 00:18:57.259
  • I wasn't familiar with that word either.
  • 00:18:57.259 --> 00:18:58.627
  • I was looking up for a word
  • 00:18:58.627 --> 00:19:00.262
  • To help me in my sermon outline in my alliteration.
  • 00:19:00.262 --> 00:19:05.434
  • And came across this word, despoiling.
  • 00:19:06.268 --> 00:19:08.870
  • You know what despoil means?
  • 00:19:08.870 --> 00:19:10.939
  • One theologian says it's an act of violence.
  • 00:19:10.939 --> 00:19:13.775
  • When a man's goods are forcibly plundered and carried off,
  • 00:19:13.775 --> 00:19:17.879
  • It's armed robbery.
  • 00:19:17.879 --> 00:19:19.081
  • That's what the spoiling is,
  • 00:19:19.081 --> 00:19:20.949
  • Forcibly taking from somebody else
  • 00:19:20.949 --> 00:19:23.352
  • What doesn't belong to them.
  • 00:19:23.352 --> 00:19:25.287
  • How many of you have ever been the victim of a mugging
  • 00:19:25.287 --> 00:19:28.757
  • Or the break-in of a car or even your own home?
  • 00:19:28.757 --> 00:19:31.627
  • How many of you have had that?
  • 00:19:31.627 --> 00:19:33.629
  • Large number of people.
  • 00:19:34.129 --> 00:19:35.597
  • You know how violated you feel
  • 00:19:35.597 --> 00:19:37.499
  • When somebody invades your space?
  • 00:19:37.499 --> 00:19:41.203
  • But it's not just armed robbers who despoil people.
  • 00:19:41.203 --> 00:19:44.940
  • Students who cheat on an exam,
  • 00:19:44.940 --> 00:19:47.209
  • You're invading somebody else's space
  • 00:19:47.209 --> 00:19:49.244
  • To take what is not yours.
  • 00:19:49.244 --> 00:19:51.413
  • Employees who take home office supplies,
  • 00:19:51.413 --> 00:19:54.316
  • They're invading somebody else's space
  • 00:19:54.316 --> 00:19:57.052
  • To profit themselves.
  • 00:19:57.052 --> 00:19:59.087
  • Did you know it's even possible to steal ideas from people
  • 00:19:59.087 --> 00:20:03.925
  • Without giving them credit?
  • 00:20:03.925 --> 00:20:05.794
  • Claim for your own what really belongs to somebody else?
  • 00:20:05.794 --> 00:20:09.398
  • A few years ago,
  • 00:20:09.398 --> 00:20:10.666
  • I received an email from a woman in georgia.
  • 00:20:10.666 --> 00:20:14.770
  • She and her husband watched "pathway to victory"
  • 00:20:14.770 --> 00:20:16.838
  • On saturday nights on their local tv station.
  • 00:20:16.838 --> 00:20:21.076
  • She said in her email,
  • 00:20:21.076 --> 00:20:22.577
  • "imagine my surprise after listening to you saturday night
  • 00:20:22.577 --> 00:20:25.981
  • When i went into our church sunday
  • 00:20:25.981 --> 00:20:28.250
  • And heard our pastor preach your message
  • 00:20:28.250 --> 00:20:30.686
  • Basically word for word.
  • 00:20:30.686 --> 00:20:33.255
  • And not only that, he passed out an outline
  • 00:20:33.255 --> 00:20:36.024
  • That had come directly off your website."
  • 00:20:36.024 --> 00:20:39.027
  • Now, that doesn't bother me at all.
  • 00:20:39.027 --> 00:20:42.364
  • You know, everything's grist for the preacher's mill,
  • 00:20:42.364 --> 00:20:45.434
  • Dr. criswell used to say.
  • 00:20:45.434 --> 00:20:47.369
  • All originalism and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
  • 00:20:47.369 --> 00:20:53.508
  • But if you're going to quote extensively from somebody,
  • 00:20:54.609 --> 00:20:57.145
  • Whether in a paper at school
  • 00:20:57.145 --> 00:20:59.448
  • Or whether in a sermon or a speech,
  • 00:20:59.448 --> 00:21:01.316
  • If you're going to do it word for word, give credit.
  • 00:21:01.316 --> 00:21:03.919
  • Don't pretend it's yours if it's not yours.
  • 00:21:03.919 --> 00:21:07.522
  • That's how we despoil, by taking by force.
  • 00:21:07.522 --> 00:21:11.960
  • A second way that we steal is through dishonesty.
  • 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.030
  • This is a little more subtle,
  • 00:21:15.030 --> 00:21:16.665
  • But it's misrepresenting truth
  • 00:21:16.665 --> 00:21:18.834
  • In order to gain from other people.
  • 00:21:18.834 --> 00:21:21.837
  • Now, in biblical times,
  • 00:21:21.837 --> 00:21:23.138
  • The way you did that was to have dishonest scales
  • 00:21:23.138 --> 00:21:26.341
  • And balances.
  • 00:21:26.341 --> 00:21:27.709
  • In proverbs 11:1, solomon says,
  • 00:21:27.709 --> 00:21:30.245
  • "a false balance is an abomination to the lord,
  • 00:21:30.245 --> 00:21:34.349
  • But a just weight is his delight.
  • 00:21:34.349 --> 00:21:37.519
  • If you were buying a commodity from a merchant
  • 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.056
  • And he had a false weight or a false balance,
  • 00:21:41.056 --> 00:21:45.127
  • He might tell you he's giving you a quart of oil
  • 00:21:45.127 --> 00:21:47.596
  • When he's just giving you 3/4 of a quart of oil.
  • 00:21:47.596 --> 00:21:50.999
  • He might tell you you're getting a pound of wheat
  • 00:21:50.999 --> 00:21:54.369
  • When you're just getting 1/2 a pound of wheat.
  • 00:21:54.369 --> 00:21:57.038
  • Now, today, we're much more sophisticated
  • 00:21:57.038 --> 00:21:59.107
  • In how we misrepresent the truth.
  • 00:21:59.107 --> 00:22:01.476
  • How many of you have ever received
  • 00:22:01.476 --> 00:22:02.811
  • One of those phishing emails,
  • 00:22:02.811 --> 00:22:05.013
  • Trying to get you to surrender personal information?
  • 00:22:05.013 --> 00:22:09.017
  • Amazon tells you,
  • 00:22:09.451 --> 00:22:10.419
  • "oh, we've messed up your order
  • 00:22:10.419 --> 00:22:12.387
  • And we need your social security number."
  • 00:22:12.387 --> 00:22:15.424
  • Well, it's not amazon or your bank
  • 00:22:15.424 --> 00:22:17.559
  • Telling you that you've got deficient funds.
  • 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:19.728
  • It's somebody trying to get information from you.
  • 00:22:19.728 --> 00:22:23.432
  • In fact, just friday afternoon,
  • 00:22:23.432 --> 00:22:24.833
  • I was told there is a man in the country right now
  • 00:22:24.833 --> 00:22:27.602
  • Calling people on the phone pretending to be me
  • 00:22:27.602 --> 00:22:31.239
  • And saying that, "i need your credit card for $500.
  • 00:22:31.239 --> 00:22:36.578
  • Please give me your credit card number."
  • 00:22:37.446 --> 00:22:39.981
  • Now, i want to assure, every viewer of "pathway to victory,"
  • 00:22:39.981 --> 00:22:44.052
  • I am not going to be calling you
  • 00:22:44.052 --> 00:22:46.321
  • Asking you for your credit card number
  • 00:22:46.321 --> 00:22:49.424
  • Unless i really need it,
  • 00:22:49.424 --> 00:22:50.826
  • -(congregation laughing) -but no, no,
  • 00:22:50.826 --> 00:22:52.727
  • I won't do that under any circumstances,
  • 00:22:52.727 --> 00:22:54.930
  • So that's somebody misrepresenting the truth.
  • 00:22:54.930 --> 00:22:57.999
  • That is dishonesty.
  • 00:22:57.999 --> 00:23:00.936
  • There's another third way that we steal.
  • 00:23:00.936 --> 00:23:04.506
  • Despoiling, being dishonest.
  • 00:23:04.506 --> 00:23:07.108
  • Thirdly, defrauding somebody.
  • 00:23:07.108 --> 00:23:10.545
  • Defrauding means not paying somebody else what we owe them.
  • 00:23:10.545 --> 00:23:15.283
  • It might be failing to pay a debt,
  • 00:23:15.283 --> 00:23:17.652
  • A legitimate debt we have.
  • 00:23:17.652 --> 00:23:19.421
  • Proverbs 3:27-28 say,
  • 00:23:19.421 --> 00:23:22.190
  • "do not withhold good from those to whom it is due
  • 00:23:22.190 --> 00:23:25.427
  • When it's in your power to do it."
  • 00:23:25.427 --> 00:23:28.096
  • Don't say to your neighbor, "go and come back tomorrow
  • 00:23:28.096 --> 00:23:30.565
  • And i will give you what you're owed."
  • 00:23:30.565 --> 00:23:33.468
  • If you've got the ability to pay a debt, pay it.
  • 00:23:33.468 --> 00:23:36.538
  • One reason we have sky-high consumer interest rates
  • 00:23:36.538 --> 00:23:41.209
  • On credit cards
  • 00:23:41.209 --> 00:23:42.544
  • Is because people who don't pay their debts.
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  • Another, by the way, debt we owe people
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  • Is not just one another,
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  • But we owe the government a debt.
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  • When you refuse to pay your taxes,
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  • You are defrauding government of what belongs to them.
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  • There are several more ways
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  • In which we often break the eighth commandment
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  • Without committing outright theft.
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  • So, be sure to join me again next time
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  • For part 2 of my message.
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  • Well, as america celebrates its 250th anniversary
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  • As a nation,
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  • I believe we're standing at a crossroads.
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  • Will we wander further from god
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  • Or return to the christian principles
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  • That founded this nation?
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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  • In just a moment.
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  • Most of us grew up seeing the ten commandments
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  • Posted in our schools and courthouses.
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  • So, why don't we seem to follow
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  • Those ten commandments anymore?
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  • In "the 10,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffress shows us these ancient truths
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  • Were not given to us to take away our freedom.
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  • They were given to enhance our happiness
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  • And to invite us into a deeper love relationship with god.
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  • In a culture where moral confusion reigns
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  • For what's right is wrong and what's wrong is right,
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  • We desperately need to get back to the basics of morality,
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  • And that's exactly what the ten commandments help us do.
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  • "the 10" by dr. robert jeffress.
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  • You'll never make it to heaven
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  • By keeping the ten commandments,
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  • But you will have a much better life here on earth
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  • If you do.
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  • That is the promise that god is making.
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  • For 30 years,
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  • With the light of god's word.
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  • The bible doesn't look down on christians
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  • For acquiring property.
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  • In fact, god clearly encourages it,
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  • And he gives value to our possessions.
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  • And next time,
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  • We're going to dig deeper into the eighth commandment
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  • So that we expose some of the ways we break this law
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  • Without even knowing it.
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  • I'll also describe to clear your conscience
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  • If you find yourself guilty of theft.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview
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  • Of what's coming up next in our series, "the 10."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Yes, if you've stolen from somebody else,
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  • You can be forgiven.
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  • But with that forgiveness by god comes a responsibility,
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  • A responsibility to make restitution,
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  • To pay back what you've stolen, and to go and sin no more.
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  • Set your dvr and join us next time
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  • For part 2 of the message,
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  • "the eighth commandment: respect the property of others,"
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  • Here on "pathway to victory."
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