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Robert Jeffress - Say Goodbye To Financial Regrets

August 29, 2025 | S25 E3506 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - Say Goodbye To Financial Regrets
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Say Goodbye To Financial Regrets | August 29, 2025
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with
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  • Dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Few things weigh more heavily on the hearts of
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  • Americans than money problems.
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  • When prices go up, we feel the pressure.
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  • And when the economy falters, we fear for our future.
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  • Well, the bible is full of wisdom about your resources, and
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  • Today i'm going to offer you some very practical
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  • Advice for managing your money in a way that provides for your
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  • Family's needs and for god's work.
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  • My message is titled, "say goodbye to financial regrets"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: god doesn't want you to carry around the weight of
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  • Sins he's already forgiven.
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  • In his bestselling book, "say goodbye to regret," dr. robert
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  • Jeffress helps you live beyond the would-haves, could-haves,
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  • And should-haves to embrace the future god has planned for you.
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  • You can't undo the past, but there's plenty you can do to
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  • Reshape tomorrow and eternity.
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  • Jeffress: even the most casual reader of the bible can't help
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  • But notice how many times the bible talks about the subject
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  • Of money.
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  • Sixteen of jesus thirty-eight parables deal with finances.
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  • You can't flip a page of the book of proverbs without reading
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  • A word about money.
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  • Somebody did a study one time of jesus teachings and said, "of
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  • All of his words in the four gospels, jesus spoke more about
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  • The subject of money than he did about heaven or hell combined."
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  • Why is that?
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  • Why is money such a prominent topic in the bible?
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  • Well, i think one reason is money has a way of touching our
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  • Lives every day, in every way.
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  • You know, paul said in 1 timothy, "if we have food and
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  • Covering," just the basics, "we ought to be content," but you
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  • Can't even get the basics without money.
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  • What are the regrets people have about how they handle their
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  • God-given money?
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  • Regret number one: i regret not saving more money.
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  • Before i begin the preparation on this series, i ask a friend
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  • Of mine, "do you have any regrets in life?"
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  • My friends always know when i'm preparing a new sermon series,
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  • Because i get a lot more philosophical in
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  • My conversations.
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  • So i asked my friend, "do you have any regrets?"
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  • He quickly answered, "no, i don't have any regrets."
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  • And then he thought for a moment, he said, "well, i've got
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  • One regret.
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  • I wish i had prepared better to send my kids to college."
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  • Now, my friend is highly intelligent.
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  • He knows that college is expensive, he knew he wanted his
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  • Two sons to attend, and he knew he didn't have the current
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  • Resources to pay for college.
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  • So why didn't he plan for it?
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  • You know, the fact is, all of us are gonna face some big ticket
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  • Expenditures in life we've gotta be prepared for.
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  • And in genesis 41, this is what joseph said to pharaoh, look at
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  • Verse 34.
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  • "let pharaoh take action to appoint overseers in charge of
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  • The land, and let him exact a fifth of the produce of the land
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  • Of egypt in the seven years of abundance."
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  • In other words, set aside a fifth, 20% of the harvest every
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  • Year for seven years.
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  • "then let them gather all the food of the good years that are
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  • Coming, and store up the grain for the food in the cities under
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  • Pharaoh's authority, and let them guard it."
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  • Let's save 20% every year for seven years to prepare for the
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  • Famine that is coming.
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  • That was god's way of providing.
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  • He didn't say to the egyptians, "oh, just enjoy your money while
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  • You have it, eat all the grain you want while you have, and
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  • Then we'll figure out what to do seven years after that."
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  • He said, "no, this is how i am going to provide for you.
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  • Set aside some of your current abundance for the future."
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  • And god says the same thing to us.
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  • That's god's plan, to take care of our future.
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  • Did you know all of us are gonna face a famine one
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  • Time financially?
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  • There is going to come a time in your life, in my life, where our
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  • Needs exceed the income we have coming in.
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  • It may be retirement that causes a financial famine when you no
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  • Longer have an income.
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  • It may be your kid's education.
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  • It may be the emergency or a health issue that you need to
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  • Take care of.
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  • How do you do it?
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  • By setting aside some of your current income to prepare for
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  • The future.
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  • That's what solomon talked about in proverbs 6, verses 6
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  • Through 8, he said, "go to the ant, o sluggard, observe her way
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  • And be wise.
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  • Which, having no chief, officer, or ruler, prepares her food in
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  • The summer and gathers provision in the harvest."
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  • Solomon was saying even an ant, with as tiny of a little brain
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  • As it has, is smart enough to know it ought to take some of
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  • Its food in the summer, and save for the future when there is
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  • No food.
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  • God says the same thing to us.
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  • And that leads to a second regret people have about their
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  • Finances, and that's related to spending: "i regret wasting so
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  • Much money."
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  • Have you ever come to the end of the month and wondered, "where
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  • Did all my money go this month?"
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  • We kind of feel like solomon who said in proverbs 23 verse 5,
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  • "wages sprout wings and they fly to heaven like an eagle."
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  • Money just flies out of your pocket or out of your debit card
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  • Into the sky and you never see it again.
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  • Where has all the money gone?
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  • Think about your lifetime.
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  • Think about a couple, for example, who's 40 years of age.
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  • They have a combined household income of $80,000, and they work
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  • For another 30 years till they're age 70.
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  • And those 30 years, even if they have no pay increase whatsoever.
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  • In those 30 years, they will have earned $2.5 million,
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  • Millionaires, except it just comes in and goes out.
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  • You know, somebody said, my" problem is not overspending,
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  • It's under depositing."
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  • But the truth is, most people don't under deposit, it's not
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  • The deposits, it's the expenditures that get us.
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  • I read a fascinating book years ago by two men named thomas
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  • Stanley and william danko, many of you may have read this best
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  • Seller as well.
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  • It's called "the millionaire next door."
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  • And these two researchers studied the lives of hundreds of
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  • Millionaires, present day millionaires in our country.
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  • And they found something very interesting, they found most
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  • People accumulated their money not through inheritance, not
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  • Through winning the lottery, or smart investing.
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  • The way they became millionaires was by controlling
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  • Their spending.
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  • And i thought this was fascinating in their study of
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  • Hundreds of millionaires, they found, for example, when it came
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  • To their homes, we think of most millionaires as having these
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  • Lavish mansions like "the beverly hillbillies."
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  • We think, you know, that's wealth, but did you know the
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  • Average millionaire today has a house that's worth $557,000 in
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  • Today's dollars?
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  • The average size of a millionaire's home is 2,600
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  • Square feet.
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  • They control their spending.
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  • Or when it comes to the issue of cars, these two researchers
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  • Discovered that the average car of a millionaire is at least two
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  • Years old.
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  • Nearly 37% of millionaires buy used cars rather than new cars,
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  • And they pay an average of $43,150 for their car.
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  • When it comes to their clothes, the average millionaire has
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  • Never paid more than $700 for a suit, more than $245 for a pair
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  • Of shoes, or not more than $400 for a wristwatch.
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  • You know, if there is one lesson we ought to pass on to our
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  • Children and our grandchildren, it's this verse from proverbs
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  • 21, verse 20.
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  • You'd be wise to have your children memorize that verse.
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  • It says, "there is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling
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  • Of the wise, but the foolish person swallows it all up."
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  • A foolish person is one who spends everything he earns, and
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  • Then some.
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  • But the wise person is one who learns how to spend less than he
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  • Earns over a long period of time, that's how you become
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  • Financially independent.
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  • Third, people say about their finances, "i regret not making
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  • Wiser investments."
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  • There are people who have learned this principle of
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  • Spending less than they earn, they save regularly, but then
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  • They end up losing it all through a bad investment or an
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  • Unwise investment.
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  • That's what solomon was talking about in ecclesiastes 5,
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  • Solomon said, "there's a grievous evil which i've seen
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  • Under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to
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  • His hurt.
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  • When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he
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  • Had fathered a son, then there was nothing left to support him.
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  • As he had come naked from his mother's womb, so will he return
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  • As he came.
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  • He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can
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  • Carry in his hand."
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  • Here is a man who worked all of his life, saved faithfully, had
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  • A big pile of money, and he lost it all through a bad investment.
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  • Now solomon is quick to say, "we come into this world and we
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  • Leave with nothing either."
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  • The fact is, all of us are going to lose all of our money one day
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  • When we die.
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  • When we die, we leave it all behind.
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  • But that's not the tragedy.
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  • The tragedy is to lose all your money before you die.
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  • To have a lot of life left, and no money to support yourself or
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  • Your family.
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  • He's talking about avoiding bad investing.
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  • What are the mistakes people make in investing that lead to
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  • This kind of situation?
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  • Let me mention several.
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  • Mistake number one: postponing investing.
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  • "oh, i know i need to do what the pastor said, what solomon
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  • Said, but right now is not a good time to do it.
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  • I'm gonna postpone investing."
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  • Let me give you a great illustration of the danger of
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  • Doing that.
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  • Let's say you have two people: sally and bill.
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  • And sally and bill begin working at the acme corporation on the
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  • Same day.
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  • And on their first day of work, the hr person comes in and tells
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  • Them that "we've got a plan here where you can have some of your
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  • Salary withheld and invested in a retirement plan."
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  • Sally thinks, "that sounds like a good idea."
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  • So she signs up to invest just $1,250 a year in a investing
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  • Program, a retirement program.
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  • She does that faithfully for eight years, but at the end of
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  • Eight years, she decides she wants to be a full-time mom, so
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  • She retires.
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  • And for the next 22 years, she doesn't invest anything in her
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  • Retirement plan.
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  • Now bill started working the same day, he heard the same
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  • Lecture, the opportunity to take some of his income and save for
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  • The future.
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  • But he said, "you know, i've got a new wife and a young child.
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  • I just don't have any extra income, so i'm not gonna do it
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  • Right now."
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  • But the ninth year, beginning of his ninth year there, he decides
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  • He better start preparing for the future.
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  • And he saves for the next 22 years, $1,250 a year, the same
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  • Amount as sally.
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  • Now, at the end of 30 years, who do you think is gonna have
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  • More money?
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  • Sally, who invested for eight years and then did nothing for
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  • The next 22 years, or bill, who did nothing for the first eight
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  • Years and invested faithfully for 22 years.
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  • You know the answer.
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  • At the end of those 30 years, sally, who only invested for
  • 00:12:58.801 --> 00:13:02.605
  • Eight years, will have more money than bill, who did for 22.
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  • Sally will have $75,000, bill will have $73,000.
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  • How can that be?
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  • It's because of the magic of compound interest.
  • 00:13:13.082 --> 00:13:17.219
  • Money invested early, a little bit, is much more powerful than
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  • A lot of money invested later.
  • 00:13:21.724 --> 00:13:24.326
  • John d. rockefeller called interest the eighth wonder of
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  • The world.
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  • My grandfather used to say to me, "interest is your best
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  • Friend when it's working for you and it's your worst enemy when
  • 00:13:34.670 --> 00:13:38.540
  • It's working against you, because either way, it's working
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  • 24 hours a day."
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  • By the way, can i say an aside to thank you for being generous
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  • And making it possible for us to pay off our debt as a church.
  • 00:13:49.018 --> 00:13:53.122
  • That's the smartest thing that we ever did here, and it's
  • 00:13:53.122 --> 00:13:56.358
  • Because of your generosity that we're not paying 8% interest
  • 00:13:56.358 --> 00:14:00.029
  • Right now on a church indebtedness.
  • 00:14:00.029 --> 00:14:02.865
  • A lot of people make the mistake of postponing their investing.
  • 00:14:02.865 --> 00:14:07.002
  • A second mistake they make is failing to diversify
  • 00:14:07.002 --> 00:14:10.306
  • Their assets.
  • 00:14:10.306 --> 00:14:11.707
  • Mark twain one time said, "put all your eggs in one basket, and
  • 00:14:11.707 --> 00:14:16.245
  • Then watch the basket."
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  • God's word says just the different thing.
  • 00:14:19.014 --> 00:14:22.985
  • In ecclesiastes 11, solomon said, "you need to diversify
  • 00:14:22.985 --> 00:14:28.023
  • Your savings, don't put it all in one place.
  • 00:14:28.023 --> 00:14:31.894
  • Have a diversity of investments."
  • 00:14:31.894 --> 00:14:34.763
  • And by the way, studies show the wisdom of that biblical wisdom.
  • 00:14:34.763 --> 00:14:39.568
  • Ibbotson and associates in chicago did a 60-year study of
  • 00:14:39.568 --> 00:14:43.906
  • The returns on various investments.
  • 00:14:43.906 --> 00:14:46.709
  • For example, if you wanted to play it safe and put all your
  • 00:14:46.709 --> 00:14:50.045
  • Money in a money market fund, over 60 years you would earn an
  • 00:14:50.045 --> 00:14:54.450
  • Average of 3.5% to 4% a year.
  • 00:14:54.450 --> 00:14:57.619
  • If you put it in bonds, all in bonds, a fixed rate investment,
  • 00:14:57.619 --> 00:15:02.091
  • You would have about 8% a year you would earn.
  • 00:15:02.091 --> 00:15:05.694
  • But a blend of investments between stocks and bonds, 60-40,
  • 00:15:05.694 --> 00:15:11.033
  • Would yield almost a 10% return over those 60 years.
  • 00:15:11.033 --> 00:15:16.305
  • And those, what seem like small percentage difference, add up to
  • 00:15:16.305 --> 00:15:20.442
  • Big dollars over the long haul.
  • 00:15:20.442 --> 00:15:23.345
  • Listen to solomon's wisdom in ecclesiastes 11:2, "divide your
  • 00:15:23.345 --> 00:15:28.083
  • Portion," divide your money, "to seven, or to eight, for you do
  • 00:15:28.083 --> 00:15:32.588
  • Not know what misfortune may occur on the earth."
  • 00:15:32.588 --> 00:15:36.258
  • We can't predict the future, that's why we need to have a
  • 00:15:36.258 --> 00:15:39.294
  • Balanced investment.
  • 00:15:39.294 --> 00:15:41.263
  • Mistake number three: waiting for the right time to invest.
  • 00:15:41.263 --> 00:15:45.934
  • "all right, i've got this money, i know i need to invest it, but
  • 00:15:45.934 --> 00:15:49.038
  • Pastor, the world is so unstable right now.
  • 00:15:49.038 --> 00:15:52.241
  • There's an election coming up, there's all this problems with
  • 00:15:52.241 --> 00:15:55.277
  • China and russia, and all the global problems and so forth, is
  • 00:15:55.277 --> 00:15:59.882
  • Now really a good time to invest?"
  • 00:15:59.882 --> 00:16:02.484
  • There's an old chinese proverb that says, "the best time to
  • 00:16:02.484 --> 00:16:06.055
  • Plant a tree was 20 years ago.
  • 00:16:06.055 --> 00:16:10.325
  • The next best time to plant a tree is today."
  • 00:16:10.325 --> 00:16:14.696
  • Do what you're going to do today.
  • 00:16:14.696 --> 00:16:17.266
  • And then finally, and i think this is what solomon really had
  • 00:16:17.266 --> 00:16:20.269
  • In mind in ecclesiastes 4, is avoid get-rich-quick schemes.
  • 00:16:20.269 --> 00:16:26.041
  • That's the poorest investment usually you will ever make, in a
  • 00:16:26.041 --> 00:16:29.978
  • Get-rich-quick scheme.
  • 00:16:29.978 --> 00:16:32.014
  • Some investment possibility that promises big returns.
  • 00:16:32.014 --> 00:16:36.485
  • I think that's what he meant in ecclesiastes 5:14 when solomon
  • 00:16:36.485 --> 00:16:39.621
  • Talked about riches lost through a bad investment.
  • 00:16:39.621 --> 00:16:44.226
  • Now you don't lose money in the stock market unless you sell for
  • 00:16:44.226 --> 00:16:48.397
  • Less than you bought, but it doesn't go down to zero.
  • 00:16:48.397 --> 00:16:51.467
  • But one way to lose all of your money is through a
  • 00:16:51.467 --> 00:16:54.169
  • Get-rich-quick scheme.
  • 00:16:54.169 --> 00:16:55.838
  • You know, i have to confess, in my younger years i made some big
  • 00:16:55.838 --> 00:17:00.142
  • Mistakes by investing in get-rich-quick schemes.
  • 00:17:00.142 --> 00:17:05.247
  • You know, all of my bad investments had three things in
  • 00:17:05.247 --> 00:17:08.417
  • Common, number one: they dealt with something i knew very
  • 00:17:08.417 --> 00:17:11.920
  • Little about.
  • 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:13.622
  • Real estate, silver futures, oil wells.
  • 00:17:13.622 --> 00:17:17.593
  • Secondly, they promised larger than normal returns.
  • 00:17:17.593 --> 00:17:21.063
  • And thirdly, they resulted in my losing all of my capital.
  • 00:17:21.063 --> 00:17:26.435
  • Don't make that mistake, solomon said in proverbs 28:19 to 20,
  • 00:17:26.435 --> 00:17:31.106
  • "he who tills his land will have plenty of food, but he who
  • 00:17:31.106 --> 00:17:35.777
  • Follows empty pursuits will have poverty and plenty.
  • 00:17:35.777 --> 00:17:40.883
  • A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who makes
  • 00:17:40.883 --> 00:17:44.720
  • Haste to be rich will not go unpunished."
  • 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:49.424
  • You know, somebody pointed out to me this week that many times
  • 00:17:49.424 --> 00:17:52.995
  • Senior adults are prone to these kind of schemes.
  • 00:17:52.995 --> 00:17:56.732
  • They're trying to make up for lost time, maybe mistakes they
  • 00:17:56.732 --> 00:17:59.535
  • Made in the past, and they can be vulnerable to
  • 00:17:59.535 --> 00:18:02.604
  • Get-rich-quick schemes.
  • 00:18:02.604 --> 00:18:04.373
  • Remember the old adage, if it sounds too good to be true, it
  • 00:18:04.373 --> 00:18:07.776
  • Probably is.
  • 00:18:07.776 --> 00:18:09.444
  • A fourth mistake, a fourth regret people have in their
  • 00:18:09.444 --> 00:18:13.882
  • Finances is this: i regret not investing more in god's work.
  • 00:18:13.882 --> 00:18:18.987
  • I regret not investing more in god's work.
  • 00:18:18.987 --> 00:18:22.457
  • I know what you're thinking.
  • 00:18:22.457 --> 00:18:25.227
  • "pastor, do people really regret that, or are you just trying to
  • 00:18:25.227 --> 00:18:28.630
  • Shoehorn a tithing sermon into this one?"
  • 00:18:28.630 --> 00:18:32.868
  • Do people right now say, "oh, i regret not investing more."
  • 00:18:32.868 --> 00:18:38.073
  • The average christian invests about 1.5% of his income into
  • 00:18:38.073 --> 00:18:42.277
  • God's work.
  • 00:18:42.277 --> 00:18:44.146
  • But do most people regret that?
  • 00:18:44.146 --> 00:18:46.081
  • I admit, no, they don't.
  • 00:18:46.081 --> 00:18:48.183
  • They don't have any regrets about that--yet.
  • 00:18:48.183 --> 00:18:53.021
  • But these are regrets that are postponed for the next life,
  • 00:18:53.021 --> 00:18:57.659
  • When they will have regrets of not being more faithful, "where
  • 00:18:57.659 --> 00:19:01.063
  • Do i get that?"
  • 00:19:01.063 --> 00:19:02.397
  • The passage we looked at last time, 1 corinthians 3, verses 13
  • 00:19:02.397 --> 00:19:06.168
  • To 15, that talk about the evaluation, the judgment, every
  • 00:19:06.168 --> 00:19:11.073
  • Christian will face of his life.
  • 00:19:11.073 --> 00:19:13.609
  • God is going to judge how we spend our time, our talents, and
  • 00:19:13.609 --> 00:19:17.879
  • Yes, our money.
  • 00:19:17.879 --> 00:19:19.481
  • That's what the judgment seat of christ is about.
  • 00:19:19.481 --> 00:19:23.185
  • Every one of us will experience the fire of god's judgment to
  • 00:19:23.185 --> 00:19:27.956
  • Determine whether our work is eternal, gold, silver, precious
  • 00:19:27.956 --> 00:19:33.795
  • Stones, or it's worthless, wood, hay, empty pursuits.
  • 00:19:33.795 --> 00:19:40.102
  • And those whose lives, the way they spent their time, talents,
  • 00:19:40.102 --> 00:19:43.772
  • And their money, those who have spent it on trivial pursuits
  • 00:19:43.772 --> 00:19:50.212
  • Will see their lives go up in flames.
  • 00:19:50.212 --> 00:19:53.015
  • Now, they'll be saved.
  • 00:19:53.015 --> 00:19:54.783
  • He makes it clear.
  • 00:19:54.783 --> 00:19:56.118
  • They'll be saved, but by the skin of their teeth, as by fire.
  • 00:19:56.118 --> 00:20:00.322
  • But those who invest in the eternal matters will receive a
  • 00:20:00.322 --> 00:20:04.693
  • Great reward.
  • 00:20:04.693 --> 00:20:06.028
  • In luke chapter 16, jesus told to me the most fascinating
  • 00:20:06.028 --> 00:20:10.632
  • Parable that he ever told.
  • 00:20:10.632 --> 00:20:12.734
  • You remember the story about the wealthy man who
  • 00:20:12.734 --> 00:20:15.137
  • Had a business manager who was in charge of his finances, and
  • 00:20:15.137 --> 00:20:18.573
  • One day he calls him in and said, "you're doing a lousy job,
  • 00:20:18.573 --> 00:20:21.643
  • So i'm gonna fire you.
  • 00:20:21.643 --> 00:20:23.512
  • You've got a week left, and then i want you out of here.
  • 00:20:23.512 --> 00:20:26.548
  • Just finish up your work and get out of here."
  • 00:20:26.548 --> 00:20:29.051
  • Well, the financial manager began to panic.
  • 00:20:29.051 --> 00:20:31.887
  • He thought, "i'm gonna lose my job.
  • 00:20:31.887 --> 00:20:33.855
  • I don't have any marketable skills.
  • 00:20:33.855 --> 00:20:35.691
  • I don't like hard work, and i don't want to have to beg
  • 00:20:35.691 --> 00:20:38.760
  • For money.
  • 00:20:38.760 --> 00:20:40.128
  • What am i going to do?"
  • 00:20:40.128 --> 00:20:41.463
  • He panicked, but then he came up with a plan.
  • 00:20:41.463 --> 00:20:44.599
  • He was going to use those last days of his employment to
  • 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:48.103
  • Prepare for the future.
  • 00:20:48.103 --> 00:20:49.938
  • And so as the financial manager, he had all of the accounts
  • 00:20:49.938 --> 00:20:53.075
  • Receivable that belonged to his master, all the bills owed
  • 00:20:53.075 --> 00:20:56.078
  • To him.
  • 00:20:56.078 --> 00:20:57.412
  • And so he started discounting them, if a guy owed his master
  • 00:20:57.412 --> 00:20:59.548
  • $100, he discounted the bill to $80 or $50 or $20.
  • 00:20:59.548 --> 00:21:05.153
  • Why did he do that?
  • 00:21:05.153 --> 00:21:06.855
  • His hope was once he joined the ranks of the unemployed, he was
  • 00:21:06.855 --> 00:21:10.792
  • Out there on the streets, these people he had done a favor to
  • 00:21:10.792 --> 00:21:14.830
  • Would become his friends and hire him and take care of him.
  • 00:21:14.830 --> 00:21:18.734
  • Now you would say, "that's blatantly dishonest."
  • 00:21:18.734 --> 00:21:21.837
  • Yes, but it is shrewd.
  • 00:21:21.837 --> 00:21:24.406
  • And when the boss found out what his financial manager had done,
  • 00:21:24.406 --> 00:21:27.943
  • Instead of being angry, he praised him.
  • 00:21:27.943 --> 00:21:31.513
  • He said, in effect, "you know, if you had shown this much
  • 00:21:31.513 --> 00:21:35.050
  • Initiative while you were my employee, you'd still have
  • 00:21:35.050 --> 00:21:37.519
  • A job.
  • 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:38.887
  • Hats off, congratulations for your wise thinking."
  • 00:21:38.887 --> 00:21:42.157
  • And then notice what jesus said, the application he made in
  • 00:21:42.157 --> 00:21:45.427
  • Luke 16:9.
  • 00:21:45.427 --> 00:21:46.928
  • "i say to you, make friends for yourselves by the means of the
  • 00:21:46.928 --> 00:21:52.033
  • Wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they will
  • 00:21:52.033 --> 00:21:57.439
  • Receive you into eternal dwellings."
  • 00:21:57.439 --> 00:22:00.609
  • Jesus said, "your money is going to fail you one day.
  • 00:22:00.609 --> 00:22:04.212
  • The day of your death, when you leave it all behind."
  • 00:22:04.212 --> 00:22:07.482
  • Proverbs 11:4 says, "riches do not profit a person in the day
  • 00:22:07.482 --> 00:22:11.520
  • Of judgment."
  • 00:22:11.520 --> 00:22:12.888
  • You're gonna leave it all behind, but what you can do is
  • 00:22:12.888 --> 00:22:16.158
  • Send some of it on ahead of you by investing in those ministries
  • 00:22:16.158 --> 00:22:21.363
  • That win people to christ so that when you leave this earth
  • 00:22:21.363 --> 00:22:24.800
  • And you leave everything behind, there'll be people who will
  • 00:22:24.800 --> 00:22:28.336
  • Welcome you into heaven, people you're responsible
  • 00:22:28.336 --> 00:22:31.740
  • For leading to christ.
  • 00:22:31.740 --> 00:22:34.342
  • To paraphrase the words of one philosopher, "the best use of
  • 00:22:34.342 --> 00:22:40.048
  • Money is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
  • 00:22:40.048 --> 00:22:45.787
  • That's the best way i know to say goodbye to
  • 00:22:45.787 --> 00:22:49.090
  • Financial regrets.
  • 00:22:49.090 --> 00:22:52.727
  • Jeffress: the day your life comes to an end, the only
  • 00:22:56.865 --> 00:22:59.401
  • Investment that will truly matter is the investment you
  • 00:22:59.401 --> 00:23:02.404
  • Made in eternal things.
  • 00:23:02.404 --> 00:23:05.407
  • Well, i want to this opportunity to reinforce the
  • 00:23:05.407 --> 00:23:08.043
  • Mission of "pathway to victory."
  • 00:23:08.043 --> 00:23:10.512
  • The darkness in our beloved country is great, but the hope
  • 00:23:10.512 --> 00:23:13.849
  • Of the gospel and the light of god's truth is even greater.
  • 00:23:13.849 --> 00:23:18.153
  • And that is why every day on "pathway to victory" we proclaim
  • 00:23:18.153 --> 00:23:21.723
  • The good news of god's word far and wide.
  • 00:23:21.723 --> 00:23:25.126
  • And through our efforts, the light of the gospel is piercing
  • 00:23:25.126 --> 00:23:28.296
  • Through the darkness and transforming lives.
  • 00:23:28.296 --> 00:23:31.933
  • Thanks to all of you who partner with "pathway to victory" in
  • 00:23:31.933 --> 00:23:35.337
  • This worthy endeavor.
  • 00:23:35.337 --> 00:23:37.272
  • This ministry wouldn't be possible without you.
  • 00:23:37.272 --> 00:23:41.042
  • Now, please stay right there, i'll be back with more "pathway
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  • To victory" in just a moment.
  • 00:23:44.513 --> 00:23:47.315
  • Announcer: what if your doctor were to say you had only six
  • 00:23:47.382 --> 00:23:50.118
  • Months left to live?
  • 00:23:50.118 --> 00:23:51.553
  • Would you have any regrets in your life?
  • 00:23:51.553 --> 00:23:53.622
  • In his best selling book, "say goodbye to regret," dr. robert
  • 00:23:53.622 --> 00:23:57.292
  • Jeffress shares biblical principles for dealing with
  • 00:23:57.292 --> 00:23:59.694
  • Regrets from your past and preventing regrets in
  • 00:23:59.694 --> 00:24:02.397
  • The future.
  • 00:24:02.397 --> 00:24:03.732
  • Jeffress: regret is one of life's most painful and
  • 00:24:03.732 --> 00:24:06.635
  • Unnecessary emotions, and in my best selling book, "say goodbye
  • 00:24:06.635 --> 00:24:10.705
  • To regret," i'll help you turn those if-onlys into successful
  • 00:24:10.705 --> 00:24:15.210
  • Lessons in living.
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  • Announcer: it's time to move forward, satisfied with the life
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  • You're living.
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  • Jeffress: one of the heaviest weights, other than sin,
  • 00:24:47.576 --> 00:24:50.912
  • Is regret.
  • 00:24:50.912 --> 00:24:52.247
  • Regrets are not the problem in and of themselves, they are an
  • 00:24:52.247 --> 00:24:55.550
  • Indicator of a problem that needs to be dealt with.
  • 00:24:55.550 --> 00:24:59.921
  • Announcer: thank you for helping "pathway to victory"
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  • Proclaim the redemptive power of jesus christ to a world in need.
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  • And forgiveness, biblical hope, and life transforming power
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  • Across the country and around the world.
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  • Jeffress: there's a good chance you resonated with at least one,
  • 00:25:17.806 --> 00:25:21.109
  • If not several, of these financial mistakes.
  • 00:25:21.109 --> 00:25:24.212
  • Well, you're not alone.
  • 00:25:24.212 --> 00:25:25.947
  • And no matter what your bank account or investment portfolio
  • 00:25:25.947 --> 00:25:29.050
  • Looks like, you can make changes and decisions today that will
  • 00:25:29.050 --> 00:25:33.121
  • Help you leave behind financial regrets.
  • 00:25:33.121 --> 00:25:36.658
  • Well, next time we're going to venture into the sensitive topic
  • 00:25:36.658 --> 00:25:40.228
  • Of sexual regrets.
  • 00:25:40.228 --> 00:25:42.230
  • In doing so, we'll discover god's plan to transform shame
  • 00:25:42.230 --> 00:25:46.401
  • Into forgiveness.
  • 00:25:46.401 --> 00:25:48.003
  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
  • 00:25:48.003 --> 00:25:50.405
  • Series, "say goodbye to regret."
  • 00:25:50.405 --> 00:25:54.743
  • Jeffress: you know, critics of christianity say, "you
  • 00:25:54.743 --> 00:25:56.911
  • Christians, you're just so hung up about sex.
  • 00:25:56.911 --> 00:25:59.614
  • Why do you make a big deal about sex?
  • 00:25:59.614 --> 00:26:02.283
  • I mean, sex is a physiological action.
  • 00:26:02.283 --> 00:26:05.320
  • It's no different than eating food or taking a drink of water
  • 00:26:05.320 --> 00:26:09.758
  • Or going to sleep.
  • 00:26:09.758 --> 00:26:11.126
  • It's just a function of the body, why make a big deal
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  • About sex?"
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