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Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk About Your Money

October 17, 2025 | 29:0

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk About Your Money | October 17, 2025

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From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i am robert jeffress
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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Can you remember the thrill
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Of receiving your first paycheck?
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Remember the exciting realization
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That you could buy almost anything,
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That is until the bills came?
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Well, today we're going to see what jesus says about money.
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Yes, we need cash to make ends meet
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And everyone splurges occasionally.
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But if we don't heed his warning, jesus said,
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Our sinful desires will eventually lead us down a dark path.
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My message is titled straight talk about your money
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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Jesus, the master teacher, delivered very short sermons.
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Did you realize his renowned sermon on the mount
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Was only 18 minutes long?
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Yes, his sermons were short but they were revolutionary.
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In "18 minutes with jesus,"
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Dr. robert jeffress breaks down the radical teachings
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That jesus packed into just 18 minutes
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About happiness, faith, relationships,
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Chances are you probably have never heard
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About elizabeth johnson williams.
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She was a very wealthy woman
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Who accumulated her fortune in cattle and in real estate.
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And before she married her husband,
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She had to bail him out of a $50,000 debt.
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Once she did that, she made him sign a prenuptial agreement,
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Which was a rarity in the 1880s when she lived.
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After her husband died, lizzie became a recluse
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Living in a building she owned in downtown austin.
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One day, a grand nephew came to visit lizzie.
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He was afraid she might not have enough to eat,
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And when he expressed the concern,
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She said she had plenty to eat
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And pointed to a plate with a cover on it.
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He went over, took the cover off,
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And there was a piece of cheese and some crackers.
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The cover was to protect the cheese
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From the rats that had infested her building.
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She was tight-fisted that in the depth of the winter,
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She would only burn one piece of wood at a time
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To keep her warm.
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When she died in 1924,
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She left an estate of $280,000,
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Which in today's dollars would be more than $3 million.
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Her problem was not that she didn't have enough money.
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Her problem was she could never enjoy her money
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Because she never felt like she had quite enough of it.
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And that's the paradox about money.
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Worry and money go hand in hand with one another.
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Those who have a lot of wealth
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Are worried that they're going to lose that wealth.
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Those who don't have a lot of wealth
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Are worried that they won't get the money that they need.
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And it's that relationship between anxiety and money
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That jesus explores in the passage
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From the sermon on the mount
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We're going to look at today.
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If you have your bibles,
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Turn to matthew chapter 6
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As we look at some straight talk about our money,
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Matthew chapter 6.
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Now, it's interesting to notice
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That money was not a peripheral issue with jesus.
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In fact, did you know jesus talked about money
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Five times more than he did any other topic?
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Money was very important to jesus and there's a reason.
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Jesus understood that our attitude about money
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Reflects our attitude about god.
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And interestingly, our attitude about money
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Shapes our attitude about god as well.
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That's why there's such a relationship
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Between money and anxiety that we're going to see today.
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Now, let's be clear.
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The bible doesn't say money is an evil.
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Money is neither good nor evil.
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It depends upon our attitude toward money.
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God uses money for some very important purposes,
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And i jotted down on your outline
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Four basic teachings in the bible about wealth.
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First of all, god's the one who gives us the ability
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And the opportunity to earn money.
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Deuteronomy 8:18 says it is god
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Who gives you the strength to make wealth.
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Secondly, god expects us to use money
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To provide for ourselves and our families.
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2 thessalonians 3:10,
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"if a person doesn't work, he doesn't eat."
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1 timothy 5:8,
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"if you don't provide for your household, your family,
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You're worse than an unbeliever."
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Thirdly, the bible says the wise person works hard
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To save and invest for lean years
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And to generously meet the needs of others.
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We shouldn't spend everything we have.
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We ought to set aside some for the future,
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Some to invest in others,
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Some to invest in god's work.
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Proverbs 6 says, consider the ant,
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Who having no ruler still knows enough
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To take some of the food in the summer
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And store it away for the winter when there is no food.
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And finally, if we've earned our living honestly,
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We have every right to enjoy what god provides.
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Now, some of you're going to guess wrongly
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That the bottom line of my sermon
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Is give all your money to the church.
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No, even the bible doesn't teach that.
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The bible says some of the money that we earn
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Ought to be used to pay for the necessities of life,
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For ourselves and our family.
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Some of it ought to be safe for the future.
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Some of it ought to be invested in god's work
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And some of it ought to be just enjoyed.
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There's nothing wrong with enjoying
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What your money has earned.
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1 timothy 6:17, it tells us that god is the one
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Who gives us richly all things to enjoy.
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Ecclesiastes 2 says, there's nothing better
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Than for a person to eat and drink
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And tell himself that his labor is good.
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This is a gift from god.
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What i'm saying to you is jesus never says money is evil,
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But what the bible does condemn is the love of money.
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1 timothy 6:10, "for the love of money
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Is the root of all sorts of evil,
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And some by longing for it
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Have wandered away from their faith
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And pierced themself with many pains."
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It's that obsession with accumulating money
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Or the possessions money buys
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That jesus is going to condemn.
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And i want you to notice the outline
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For this section in chapter 6.
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In verses 19 through 24,
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Jesus talks about avoiding the love of money.
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And then in verses 25 to 34,
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He talks about avoiding worry over money.
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First of all, let's see what he says
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About avoiding the love of money.
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He gives us three stark contrast
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To show us why we should avoid the love of money.
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First of all, the contrast
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Between two different depositories,
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Treasuries where we can store up our wealth,
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Heaven or earth.
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Look at verse 19.
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He talks about, first of all, the dangers
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Of accumulating things on earth.
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"do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth."
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Verse 19 says, why?
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"it's where moth and rust destroy,
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And where thieves break in and steal."
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Jesus is talking about the dangers
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Of making earthly possessions your focus.
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All kind of bad things can happen
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To the possessions or the money
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That you store up here on earth.
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Other people are saying, "okay,
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I'm not going to put my money in anything risky.
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I'm just going to deposit it in the bank.
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Surely, it's safe there."
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Well, it may be safe,
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But it's still going to be taken from you.
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You know, when it's taken from you,
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It's taken from every one of us at our death.
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Death is when our material possessions
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Are separated from us.
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That's what the word death, thanatos, in greek means.
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It means a separation.
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Death is the separation of your body from your spirit.
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It's the separation of you from all your material goods.
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Solomon talked about that in ecclesiastes 5:15.
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I found this in the new living translation.
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Solomon said, "we all come to the end of our lives
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As naked and as empty-handed as on the day we were born.
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We can't take our riches with us."
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The truth is we're going to leave it all behind.
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You can't take it with you.
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That's what the word of god is saying.
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That's the limitation of an earthly treasury.
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It's going to be separated from you at some point,
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Either the money or the possessions money has purchased.
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But then notice in verses 20 and 21,
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Jesus talks about the advantage of a heavenly treasury.
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He says in verse 20,
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"but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
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Where neither moth nor rust destroys
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And where thieves do not break in and steal."
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Did you know not $1 invested in god's work
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Has ever been lost?
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Not one single dollar.
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It's impossible to lose it.
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And here's why.
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When you invest in god's work,
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You are insuring rewards for yourself in heaven
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As more and more people come to know christ as savior
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Because of your investment.
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Now, notice what else he says in verse 21.
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He adds this word,
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"for where your treasure is,
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There your heart will be also."
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Why invest in the treasury of heaven
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Rather than the treasury of the earth?
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For where your treasure is,
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There your heart will be also.
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Your heart follows your treasures.
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In my previous church,
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When we were building a new sanctuary,
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A affluent man in our church made a very generous gift
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Toward our new sanctuary.
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And after a few months of making that commitment
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And making that gift, he said to me, he laughed.
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He said, "you know, it used to be every morning i'd get up,
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Drink a cup of coffee,
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And look at the stock page in the newspaper
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Because that's where my money was.
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But after i made this gift, i get up every morning,
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Drink a cup of coffee, drive down to the church,
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And watch the bulldozers working in that big hole
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Because that's where my money is now."
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And he added, "and i love every minute of it."
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You know, if you want to be interested in eternal things,
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If you want your heart to be centered
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Around the things of god,
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Invest in the things of god.
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"where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
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So jesus says,
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Think about where you're going to deposit your wealth.
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Is it earth or is it in heaven?
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Then, he gives us another contrast,
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Verses 22 to 23,
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Two different perspectives, two different eyes,
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Clear or cloudy.
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Verse 22, "the eye is the lamp of the body.
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So then if your eye is clear,
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Your whole body will be full of light.
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But if your eye is bad,
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Your whole body will be full of darkness."
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We don't have time to explore that.
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He's simply saying,
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How you view things determines the direction of your life.
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If you have a clear view of money,
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You see it for what it really is
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And understand its limitations.
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If you have a clear view of what money is,
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Then your actions will follow.
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You'll live in a wise way.
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If you have a cloudy view of money,
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If you have a distorted fuzzy vision about money,
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It's going to distort the rest of your life as well.
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And then finally, he gives us a choice of two masters.
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Verse 24, "no one can serve two masters.
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For either he will hate the one and love the other,
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Or he will be devoted to one and despise the other.
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You cannot serve god and wealth."
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Interestingly, jesus never said you can't serve god and sex.
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He never said you can't serve god and pleasure.
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He never said you can't serve god and work.
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Why? can't those things become idols?
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You bet they can.
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But he did say you can't serve god and money.
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He is saying there is something
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Uniquely seductive about money
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That draws our heart away from god.
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You can't serve both god and money.
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It's one or the other.
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Now, in verses 19 and 24,
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He has just told us three reasons not to love money.
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And now when we get to verse 25,
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He's going to talk about why we shouldn't worry about money.
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What's the connection between money and worry?
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He begins verse 25.
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"for this reason, i say to you,
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Don't be worried about your life."
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Of all the things we worry about,
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Usually money is at the top of the list.
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We're afraid we won't have enough to take care of our needs
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Or the ones that we're responsible for.
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And so we developed this fear, this anxiety,
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When we think about money.
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I remember growing up,
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My parents, especially my dad,
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Used to talk about the poor house.
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He would say things like, "if we don't start turning off
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The lights around here, we're going to go to the poor house."
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"if we keep wasting food and you don't eat everything
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That you have put in front of you,
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We're going to go to the poor house."
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It was always going to the poor house,
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Going to the poor house.
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Now, never once in my life did i ever see a poor house.
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I don't know where the poor house is.
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I don't know anybody that's been to the poor house.
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But i knew for sure i never wanted to go to the poor house
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Because it was the worst place apparently
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In the world to end up.
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You didn't want to go to the poor house.
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Now, in jesus' day, there probably was a poor house.
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There were debtors prisons,
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And there were certain things that if you ignored,
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You would end up in the poor house.
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For example, you may not go to the poor house today,
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But you can suffer poverty.
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You can suffer a lack
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Of the financial resources you need
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If you disobey god's commands.
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For example, god's command said we need to work hard.
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If we want to meet our needs, we need to work hard.
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We need to save a portion of our income.
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We need to avoid debt.
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We need to make sure we invest in god's work.
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All of those things, the bible says,
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Will help keep you out of the poor house.
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But once you've obeyed those basic commands of jesus,
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Jesus said, "quit worrying about not having enough."
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And he gives us beginning in verse 25,
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Three reasons why we shouldn't be infected with worry
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About our needs.
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First of all, he says worry is unnecessary.
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Look at verse 25.
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"for this reason, i say to you,
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Don't be worried about your life
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As to what you will eat or what you will drink,
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Nor for your body as to what you will put on.
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Is not your life more than food
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And the body more than clothing?"
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He said, "look at the birds of the air.
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They don't sow or reap or gather into barns,
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And yet your heavenly father feeds them.
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It's not birds don't work,
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But they're not involved in planting and harvesting food.
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They search for food and eat it,
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But they're not overly anxious.
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God takes care of them.
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Are you not worth much more than they?"
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And then he says in verse 27,
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To show how unnecessary worry is about money.
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"who of you being worried
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Can add a single hour to his life?"
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Now this verse is confusing to some.
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Because some translations say,
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"who can add a cubit to his life?"
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A cubit was a measurement.
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It was 18 inches in jesus' day.
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So it seemed to be what jesus was saying.
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You can't worry yourself from being 6'1" to being 6'4".
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Worry does not add a single inch to your stature.
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And same way with worry about your lifespan.
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Worrying about dying is not going to add
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One minute to your lifespan.
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That may take one minute away from your lifespan,
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Worry can have destructive effects,
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But you can't add to your lifespan by worry.
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And what he's saying here is,
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And you can't add to your wealth by your worry.
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Worry does not result in worth.
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In verse 28,
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"and why are you worried about your clothing?
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Observe how the lilies of the field grow.
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They don't toil.
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They don't spin.
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Yet i say to you,
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Not even solomon in all his glory
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Clothed himself like one of these."
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Worry is unnecessary.
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Secondly, he says, worry is ungodly.
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It's ungodly, look at verse 31.
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"don't worry then, saying, 'what we will eat?
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Or 'what will we drink?
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Or 'what will we wear?'
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For the gentiles, unbelievers,
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They eagerly seek all these things,
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For their heavenly father knows
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You have need of all these things."
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It's only unbelievers
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Who go about worrying about their basic provisions.
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They don't believe in a god
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Who can take care of their needs.
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But you should be different.
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You know, i was studying that this week
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And i was reminded of that poem, do you remember it?
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"said the robin to the sparrow,
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'friend, i'd surely like to know
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Why those anxious human beings rush about and worry so.'
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Said the sparrow to the robin,
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'friend, i think it must be
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They have no heavenly father
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Such as cares for you and me.'"
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We do have a heavenly father,
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And that's why it's ungodly.
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It doesn't bring glory to god
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When his own children are rushing
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About worrying about their basic provisions.
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Finally, worry is unfruitful, it's unfruitful.
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Somebody said worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrows.
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Worry empties today of its strength.
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And that's why jesus said in verse 34,
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"don't worry about tomorrow.
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For tomorrow will take care of itself.
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Each day has enough trouble of its own."
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Do i hear an amen on that?
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There's enough to worry about today
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Without worrying about tomorrow.
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What's the cure for worrying about wealth?
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"it's easy to say you can't worry your way to wealth.
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But pastor, how do i keep myself from doing that?"
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Well, notice the two commands from jesus
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In verses 33 and 34.
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First he says, "put first things first.
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If you want to quit obsessing
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About your needs and your finances,
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Put first things first."
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Verse 33, "seek first god's kingdom
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And his righteousness
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And all these things will be added to you."
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How do you do that?
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How do you put god's kingdom first?
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Well, he just told us
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In the model prayer we looked at last time in matthew 6.
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First of all, to put god first
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Means to seek to glorify god in all of your life.
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Isn't that what jesus taught us to pray?
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"our father who is in heaven, holy be your name."
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Dedicate your life to proving to the world
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That god is different than anyone or anything else.
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Make your life purpose to reflect his glory.
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Secondly, seek god's governance over your life.
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When we pray "your kingdom come,
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Your will be done on earth
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And in my life as it is in heaven."
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Let god have the final say about your life.
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And finally, seek god's protection for your life.
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Lord, keep us from difficult times,
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But if those times come,
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Keep me from disbelieving,
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Keep me from evil.
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Put god's kingdoms first.
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Secondly, live in the present.
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Put first things first,
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But secondly, if you want to avoid worry,
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Especially worry about money,
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Live in the present.
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Don't live your life in the past.
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The past is unchangeable.
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Don't live your life in the future.
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The future is unknowable.
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Live your life in the present.
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That's why he says in verse 34,
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"don't worry about tomorrow,
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For tomorrow will take care of itself.
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Each day has enough trouble for its own."
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You know what the root cause of all worry is?
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It's calculating without god.
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It's playing out these scenarios.
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What if? what if? what if?
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What if this happens?
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What if? what if i lose my job?
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What if my child rebels against god?
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What if the economy
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Doesn't recover before i retire? what if?
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Don't calculate without god.
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Remember to put god in the equation.
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What if my child does rebel against god
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But god turns his or her heart back to himself?
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What if the economy doesn't recover,
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But god still provides for me
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As he has always done?
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Above all, don't forget.
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Don't forget that you have a god who loves you,
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Who set his son to die for you.
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A god who loves you so much
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That he wants to spend eternity with you.
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That very same god promises
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To take care of your most basic needs
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Far beyond anything you can possibly think of or imagine.
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That's why we don't need to worry about money.
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♪ music ♪
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The freedom that comes from trusting god with our finances
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Extends far beyond our bank accounts.
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When we place our security in him,
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We discover a peace that no earthly circumstance can shake.
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Now, before we wrap up today's program,
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When jesus spoke,
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He wasted no time in getting straight
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To the heart of what matters most.
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At this very moment,
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You may be facing enormous financial pressure
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And you're worried about it.
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Friends, jesus truly understands your situation.
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Remember what the bible says?
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Your heavenly father knows
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That you need all of these things,
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But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness
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And all these things will be provided to you.
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Well, if you grew up listening to the rolling stones,
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You know that while you can't always get what you want,
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You can get what you need.
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And next time, we're going to discover the difference
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Between our wants and our needs
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And four key areas of life.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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In our series 18 minutes with jesus.
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Not everything we want is what we really need,
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And not everything we need is something that we want.
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Yet, when we become a christian,
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The holy spirit does a work in our life
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To begin to transform our wants, our desires,
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Into god's desires for our life.
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Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk About Your Money

October 17, 2025 | 29:0

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