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| Sheila Walsh: The Heart of God | 5 Minutes With Jesus | May 20, 2026
- Jesus
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- Talked about the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.
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- I don't pretend to understand them all.
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- What i do know for sure
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- Is whatever god has placed in your life,
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- Whether it's talents, giftedness, or faith
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- Or the good news of the gospel, to share what we do with what
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- We've been given really matters to heaven.
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- I remember a conversation that i had
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- With a man who was sitting beside me on a flight.
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- He saw me reading my bible
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- And asked me if i was into reading fiction.
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- Well, as you can imagine, we had quite a conversation
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- On that trip.
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- His comment came from a place of looking at the world, looking
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- At the suffering all around us and deciding there is no god.
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- He'd been a soldier in afghanistan and told me that
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- If i had seen what he had seen, i would feel the same way.
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- Honestly, i had great empathy for his position.
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- It's hard to reconcile what we see on the news
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- Or in his case, face to face and in turn
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- Hold on to our belief in a good, just and loving god.
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- I think that's why
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- We're called to live by faith and not by sight.
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- I remember being very intimidated
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- By one of my professors in seminary.
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- He had a reputation for being very harsh
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- In the way he graded papers.
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- Well, my very first paper for him was on mark's gospel,
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- And he lived up to his reputation.
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- His mark felt really harsh to me.
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- So i stayed behind the class because i wanted to talk to him
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- And tell him what i thought of him.
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- I learned a great lesson that day.
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- He was kind enough to invite me into his study,
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- And as i listened to his comments,
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- Which he shared with tears running down his cheeks,
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- I stopped seeing what i'd heard, and i saw his heart
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- As he talked about the wonder of mark's gospel.
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- It became crystal clear to me that he wasn't being harsh.
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- He was calling me up higher.
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- The more i got to know him over that year, the more
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- His passion and commitment to god's word shaped me.
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- Now, that's a very imperfect example.
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- What i tried to share with my travel companion that day.
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- If you don't know god, if you don't understand
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- His heart, it's easy to walk away.
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- I think that's part
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- Of what jesus was teaching in the parable of the talents.
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- If you don't understand the master, you'll bury the gift.
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- Let's look at his story from matthew chapter 25.
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- Then the servant with the one bag of silver came
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- And said, master, i know you were a harsh man.
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- Harvesting crops you didn't plant
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- And gathering crops you didn't cultivate.
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- I was afraid i would lose your money,
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- So i hid it in the earth.
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- Look, here's your money back.
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- Notice a couple of things here.
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- Number one, he didn't even try to do
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- Anything with what he'd been given.
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- He could have put it in the bank.
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- And at least it would have accrued a little interest.
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- He did nothing.
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- In the same chapter we read.
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- But the master replied.
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- You wicked and lazy servant.
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- If you knew i harvested crops i didn't plant and
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- Gathered crops i didn't cultivate.
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- Why didn't you deposit my money in the bank?
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- At least i could have gotten some interest on it.
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- Money lending was common in those days,
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- And it was often done
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- Through the temple where money was considered safe.
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- But those who had money to invest could often get 5
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- Or 10 times as much in return as interest built up.
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- Number two,
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- The other thing that seems clear to me
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- Is that he didn't know his master.
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- There was no relationship there.
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- He judged him from a distance or on hearsay.
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- Jesus talked about the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.
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- I don't pretend to understand them all.
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- What i do know for sure
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- Is whatever god has placed in your life,
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- Whether it's talents, giftedness, or faith
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- Or the good news of the gospel, to share what we do
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- With what we've been given really matters to heaven.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, i want to thank you
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- That having a relationship with you changes everything.
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- It's so easy
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- To feel judged by the world we live in, by our performance.
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- You never do that, lord.
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- Simply look at our hearts.
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- And when we in return, look at who you are.
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- Even when life is difficult, we are able to say you are good.
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- You are kind, you are loving and you are just.
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- And you gave us jesus and we thank you in his name.
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- Amen.
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