Lawson Perdue - Stepping Into Divine Opportunities

May 23, 2025 | S25:E2106

Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ

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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Stepping Into Divine Opportunities | May 23, 2025

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- praise the lord, friends, and welcome to the broadcast.
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I'm so glad that you've tuned in.
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Today, we're going into a live service where my son aaron,
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Is teaching a tremendous message
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On stepping into divine opportunity
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And god is a good god.
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He has good plans for everyone.
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There is opportunity for everyone,
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But you've got to believe it to receive it
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And step in to what god has for you.
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Blessings.
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- so if you have your bible turned to matthew 25,
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We're gonna be going through the parable of the talents
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But i wanna start off with the conclusion verse in verse 29.
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Jesus said, for to everyone who has more will be given.
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Say more. - more.
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- god has something more for us.
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He wants to give us more.
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And it says he will have abundance again,
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That word abundance,
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But it says from him who does not have even what he has,
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It'll be taken away.
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And i said this to the youth,
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I said, god is not a communist.
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- amen. - god is not a marxist,
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God is not a socialist.
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And this parable really demonstrates that.
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And you know, those systems of government,
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Those systems that people,
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Those philosophies that people have tried to come up with,
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They don't work.
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There might be parts of it that are attractive
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To certain people, attractive in different places
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At different times, but they don't work
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Because they go against god's system.
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God's system is that people receive something
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And it's up to you to do something with it,
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And he wants you to grow.
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But if you don't do anything with what he's given you,
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It's gonna be taken away.
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And it sounds kind of harsh,
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But that's the reality of it.
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And that, you know, god is not a communist,
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He's not a marxist.
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Those systems really anti-god.
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They're anti-bible, they're anti-christ.
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And i'm very thankful that i live in a country
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Where those systems are not where...
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They're diminishing right now, which is really amazing.
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Amen. - amen.
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- so let's, and that statement, it's really struck me
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Because it actually relates to the parable of the sower,
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Which is if not the most important parable,
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The most important parable.
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And it specifically relates to matthew's account.
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You know, in matthew, jesus speaks the parable
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Of the sower about the sower going out to sow the seed
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And is different types of soil.
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He speaks the parable,
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And then his disciples kind of ask him, what is this about?
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So this is in matthew 13:9-12.
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He says, "he who has ears to hear, let him hear."
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He's saying some people that they're hearing it,
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But they're not really getting it.
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They might be seeing it, but they're not really getting it.
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I think that's like stepping into divine opportunity.
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Sometimes god has a great opportunity,
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You're right smack dab in the middle of it.
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You're right where god wants you to be.
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You're married to who god wants you to be married to.
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You're doing the job he wants you to do.
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You're gonna church where he wants you to go.
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You're living where he wants you to be
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But some people don't see it as an opportunity,
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Even though it's straight from god.
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They're not really hearing, they're not really seeing,
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They're not really believing.
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They don't really have a heart to understand.
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In verse 10, he told the disciples,
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They asked him, why do you speak to them in parables?
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He answered and said, because it has been given to you
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To know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.
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There are mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.
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Paul talked about the mystery of the gospel,
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The mystery that's been hidden, but now revealed,
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Which is christ in you, the hope of glory.
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God wants us to receive and understand these mysteries.
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It says, "to them, it has not been given."
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And he says this same statement that he quotes
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That he also says, in the parable of talents,
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For whoever has, this is matthew 13:12.
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"whoever has to him more will be given
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And he will have abundance.
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But whoever does not have even what he has,
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It will be taken away from him."
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So we're gonna talk about the parable of the talents,
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How really god wants us to grow.
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He wants us to increase, to receive more,
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To walk in abundance.
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And i believe with all my heart, that god has opportunities
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For each and every person here today.
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Everyone watching this message online.
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And it's up to us to keep trusting him,
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To keep believing, to keep being in faith,
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To keep being prepared to receive those opportunities
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And to step in into them.
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And i've seen a lot of people that,
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Like they might have received one of the greatest gifts,
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One of the greatest opportunities,
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And they sometimes become bitter towards it.
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And as i was just really meditating
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And thinking about this parable of the talents,
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We'll get into it in detail,
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But there are three servants who each receive
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Different talents, different abilities
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And the last one didn't do anything
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With what they had been given.
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They just dug a hole, put it in the ground, did nothing.
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And as i was thinking about it,
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God's showing that this person had a victim mentality.
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A victim mentality, what will hinder you,
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It will cripple you from growing,
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From going into more for going into abundance.
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And god spoke to me and said,
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Relating it to the parable of the sower,
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That it's like salty soil.
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In the parable of sower, there's thorny soil,
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There's the wayside, there's rocky soil,
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But there's the good soil but god spoke to me,
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It's like salty soil.
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Several years ago i was able to go to israel
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And i went to one of the saltiest place
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On the face of the earth.
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I went to the dead sea.
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It's incredibly buoyant.
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It's so buoyant, you can almost walk on the water there.
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You know, jesus didn't walk on the dead sea.
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He woke on the sea of galilee, which is fresh water.
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But the dead sea is actually four times saltier
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Than the ocean.
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And there's nothing that can live in the dead sea.
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There's not any life whatsoever or even around it.
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Wherever it has dipped down, the soil is still salty.
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There is nothing that can live there,
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Nothing that can grow there.
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And when i told the youth about this,
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I brought up something that's happened historically,
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That there have been certain wars over time
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Where conquering people will soil...
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They'll sow salt in soil of the people they defeat
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Because they want that place to be uninhabitable.
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And if you can't grow things, if you can't harvest things,
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You can't live there.
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And it even happened in the bible in judges 9,
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Abimelech sowed salt in the area of shechem
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Because he wanted to curse that place
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To make it uninhabitable because they revolted against him.
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And that salty soil, that victim mentality,
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Doesn't matter what seed is planted,
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What words are spoken, what opportunities happen.
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It just, nothing can happen.
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And that's what a victim mentality does.
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And when people try to push a victim mentality,
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Try to proclaim a victim mentality over people,
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Over groups of people, it's a terrible, terrible thing.
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I remember when i was at school,
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Going to rice university to get my master's in doctorate,
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I tried to connect with other believers on campus
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As much as i could
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And i went to a bible study there for graduate students.
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I was probably the only spirit-filled believer there.
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But i remember i was talking to this one student
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Who grew up, her parents were ministers
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In a inner city area.
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And she was telling me about a person
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That her parents ministered to who just,
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She just said, "he's completely stuck.
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Nothing can happen in his life because of his race,
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Because of his background,
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Because of his history, because of his record.
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He can't do anything to be successful."
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Period.
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And around the same time,
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I'd started a business buying and selling
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High-end watches online.
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And i said, "hey, maybe he could do something like this."
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I sell watches on ebay.
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I buy watches for a hundred dollars,
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Fix 'em up, sell 'em for 200.
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No one knows if i'm white, if i'm brown, if i'm yellow,
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If i'm green, no one knows my name.
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No one knows how old i am.
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No one knows if i committed crimes in the past.
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It is completely anonymous.
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And i've been doing this for a couple years now,
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And i make $10,000 a month profit.
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And when i told her this,
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She just seethed at me because i stripped away this victim,
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This socialist, this marxist type mentality she had.
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And said, there is some level of opportunity out there.
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And she tried to make excuse after excuse after excuse
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Why this wouldn't even work for this person.
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Like he might not even be able to get internet
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To access ebay.
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And i had just spent home just a few weeks
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Before over the summer,
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During the waldo canyon fire.
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I was staying with my parents
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And we had to evacuate their house.
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I didn't have access to internet.
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I didn't have a smartphone, for two weeks,
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I went to the public library and ran my business
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From free internet.
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And i could print my shipping labels.
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You could print at the time the pikes peak public library.
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You could print 10 things a day there.
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And as long as i didn't sell more than 10 items,
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Which i didn't, i could run my business
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And it didn't anyways.
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That mentality is terrible.
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And if you've subscribed to that,
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If you believe that you need to throw it in the garbage
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Because it is not from god.
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God has great opportunity for each and every person.
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I don't care how old you are, how young you are,
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How rich you are, how poor you are,
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I don't care where on the face of the earth you are.
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The bible is true.
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The gospel is true.
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God has more for you.
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He has a great life in store for you.
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And you need to believe it and be ready for it.
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- friend, we've been sharing on the prayers of paul.
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And when you get a revelation of what happened
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Through the death barrel resurrection of jesus christ
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And the sending of the holy spirit,
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It will revolutionize your life.
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We have these teachings on the prayers of paul
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Downloadable audio, downloadable video on our website,
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Free of charge, so check it out.
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Blessings.
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- you can have nothing better than the word of god.
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Your ways are not better than his ways.
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Your thoughts are not better than his thoughts.
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Your morals are not better than his morals.
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Your righteousness is not better than his righteousness.
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I don't care how many people vote a certain way
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Or think a certain way about a certain issue.
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If god says it, that settles it.
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You don't get a vote on truth.
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(bright music)
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Matthew 25:14, the kingdom of heaven is like a man
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Traveling to a far country.
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Matthew 25:14, "who called his own servants
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And delivered his goods to them,
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To one he gave five talents,
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To another two and to another one.
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To each according to his own ability,
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And immediately went on a journey."
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You know, why did one guy get five,
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One guy get two, one guy get one.
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It's not fair.
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I don't know.
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Life's not fair.
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We're all different.
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Say different. - different.
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- it's okay to be different.
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We all have different talents, different abilities,
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Different opportunities but we all get something.
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You know, in scripture, and a talent is actually
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A very large amount of finance.
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A talent, one talent was the equivalent
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Of 20 years of labor.
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So if you were to work 20 years making $50,000 a year,
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It would be $1 million.
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So one guy basically got $5 million.
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One guy was given 2 million,
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And one guy was given 1 million.
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How many would be okay with just getting $1 million
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Given to you today?
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Not too bad, so we shouldn't feel bad
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For the guy with the 1 million.
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Maybe it wasn't the same as the five or the two,
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But we shouldn't feel bad for him.
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And it says in verse 16,
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"he would receive the five talents or $5 million.
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He went and traded with them and made another five talents."
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He made another 5 million.
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"and likewise, he who had received two,
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Gained two more also.
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But he who had received the one went and dug in the ground
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And hid his lord's money."
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That's not how sowing and reaping works.
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If god put on your heart to give, if you, you know,
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Later go you know, i'm not gonna put it in those buckets.
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I'm gonna go dig a hole outside the church and put it there.
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I don't think you're gonna reap a harvest off
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Of that type of action.
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And i thank god that we go to a very generous church.
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It actually really inspires me.
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My dad was out of town a couple months ago
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And i was writing some thank's on is behalf
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For different people who'd, you know,
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Just really given very generously.
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And i was just really touched by all these people,
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These dozens of people i was able to write thank yous to,
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You know, people from all walks of life.
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Not just business owners very well,
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But just normal people, people with kids,
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People who are retired, people who are single.
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Just all types of people.
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We had such a generous place here
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And it just really touched my heart.
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So i just wanna say thank you so much for everyone
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Who just believes in what we're doing here as a church,
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As a ministry.
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God is so good.
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So this one, he just dug a hole in the ground,
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Put it in there and left it there.
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And it says in verse 19,
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"after a long time, the lord of those servants came
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And settled accounts with them."
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So they had to be held accountable.
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Verse 20, it says "he would receive the five talents,
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Came and brought five other talents,
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Saying, 'lord, you delivered to me five talents.
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Look, i have gained five more talents besides them.'
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And his lord said to him, 'well done.
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Good and faithful servant.'"
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Say, good and faithful. - good and faithful.
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- now, this is one of those,
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I did some more digging here and realized something
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Really important.
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Whenever i've heard this scripture preached before,
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I've always heard the emphasis on faithfulness.
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You know, and faithfulness is very important.
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It's something that's emphasized in the church.
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It's very important because it's very rare.
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The bible says in proverbs, "a faithful man who can find,
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If it's hard to find something,
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It usually makes it more rare, more valuable."
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But it's not just being valuable, being faithful.
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You also have to be good at what you do.
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You know, i just loved praise and worship this morning.
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Thank you to the team, thank you to michelle,
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Our leader here.
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We're very blessed to have a really rocking worship team
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Here at charis christians center.
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We have two great leaders.
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We don't just have one, we have two.
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Aaron scaggs who plays guitar,
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Michelle, who's up here singing.
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And i thank god that they're both very faithful people.
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You know, michelle is a wonderful person,
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Extremely faithful.
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From the day god led her and her family from massachusetts.
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If you talk to her and franco,
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You hear a little "go pak da ca" you know,
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Like you hear a little bit in their voice.
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And it comes out on occasion when she's singing
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But we won't hold that against her.
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But there she's very faithful.
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But if she wasn't good at singing, you know,
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She might show up here all the time,
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Be here whenever we need her, you know,
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Pour her heart, practice away.
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But if she wasn't good and just sang a half step off
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The entire time, it'd be very painful.
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And i wouldn't say well done,
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I'd say, "well that was something."
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So god, you need to be faithful,
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But you also need to be good.
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You need to do what he's called you to do.
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You know, do where he's given you ability,
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Where he's given you talent where it's also needed.
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You know, usefulness also relates to need.
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Amen.
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That's a good word there.
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Something might be very valuable,
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But if it's not good, you need to be useful too.
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You know, i'm very, i'm wearing a very valuable watch
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Right now, and like i told you,
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I still buy and sell some watches just for fun
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As a hobby to make money.
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It offends some people.
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There's a whole, you know, social media account
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Dedicated to trashing preachers that wear nice watches.
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You know, last week at the super bowl,
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Tom brady wore a $750,000 watch.
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This guy didn't trash tom brady.
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But if a preacher wears a nice watch
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And i go to that account because it gives me ideas
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Of what i should look for and buy
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'cause if kenneth copeland's were in it,
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Then i, you know, pastor aaron, this lowly, you know,
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Youth pastor, but i got a really nice
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Iwc solid gold watch on right now.
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It's very valuable, very nice.
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I got it for a great deal
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'cause it runs in my blood, thanks to pastor lawson.
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I'm gonna sell it for more money, make money,
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Invest it into the gospel, take care of my wife and my kids.
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Amen.
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But if it didn't work, it wouldn't be of any use.
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Like what if this watch, even though it's valuable,
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If it didn't work, if it wasn't good,
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If it wasn't keeping time, you guys might be here.
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Oh, sorry.
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You know, my watch says it's still 10 o'clock,
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You know, even though it might be five o'clock.
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It needs to be good.
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It needs to work, it needs to be useful.
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Amen.
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So we need to look at, "hey, what does god call us to do?"
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And be good at it.
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Do it the spirit of excellence.
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It doesn't have to be perfect,
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But good, at least good enough.
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Amen.
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Good and faithful.
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Say good and faithful. - good and faithful.
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And he says, "if you are faithful over a few things.
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I will make you ruler over many things."
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That's just how god's system works.
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That's how his kingdom works.
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You have to be faithful in that which is least.
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Jesus even talked about money,
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How this is a least type of thing.
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You gotta be faithful, you gotta be giver.
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You gotta, you can't let money be your lord.
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You can't let it control you.
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One way you can be lord over your money
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Is by giving, by being led.
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And when you can prove yourself faithful in that,
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That's how you can step into true riches, jesus said.
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I'll make you ruler over many things.
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And he says, enter into the joy of your lord.
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I love that.
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We sang about just rejoicing today.
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Again, i say rejoice.
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Part of stepping into that joy is being good and faithful.
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Amen.
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By realizing what he's given us
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And stepping into those things.
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It says in verse 22,
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"he who received two talents,
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Came and said, 'lord, you've delivered to me two talents.
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So he took 2 million and turned it into four.
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His lord said to him in verse 23,
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"well done again, good and faithful servant.
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You've been faithful over a few things.
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I'll make you ruler over many things.
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Enter into the joy of your lord."
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And verse 24 here, this last servant here again,
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God spoke to me about where he was at, in his heart,
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It was like having salty soil.
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And it, you know, the common term for describing that
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Is having a victim mentality.
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And here in his statement,
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I actually see three trademark things,
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Three trademarks of having a victim mentality.
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So we will read through this
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And talk about those three trademarks that are really traps.
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It says in verse 24, it said "he who'd receive
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The one talent came and said,
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'lord, i knew you to be a hard man.'"
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And he's speaking to the master,
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Speaking to really god, our heavenly father.
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"i knew you to be a hard man,
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Reaping where you have not sewn,
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Gathering where you have not scattered seed.
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And i was afraid i went and hid your talent in the ground.
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Look, there you have what is yours?
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But his lord answered and said to him,
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You wicked and lazy servant."
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That's kind of harsh.
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And it says, you knew that i reap where i've not sewn
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And gathered where i've not scattered seed.
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So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers.
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And at my coming, i would have received back my own
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With interest.
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Therefore, take the talent from him
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And give it to him who has 10 talents.
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This is pretty direct here.
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For everyone who has more will be given
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And he will have abundance
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But from him who does not have even what he has,
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He'll be taken away and cast the unprofitable servant
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Into outer darkness.
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There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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So on the deepest most spiritual level here,
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Jesus saying, you know, if you, the greatest thing
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Any human being, any servant, any child of god,
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Any person can receive is the gospel,
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Is the good news of jesus christ, is the revelation
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That jesus is lord that declaration,
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That message that jesus came to save.
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And if you reject that, you will be deported.
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God has a very strict immigration system.
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There is only one gate you can go through.
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There is only one way and it is jesus.
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And if you reject that, there is no other way
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To crawl over the fence, to go under it, to do whatever.
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I'm sorry pope francis.
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If america wanting to have immigration laws offends you.
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I've been to the vatican,
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They don't let you just walk wherever there.
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The vatican, they have billions upon billions
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Of dollars worth of priceless art there.
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So take your religious pipe and smoke it somewhere else.
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I'm glad that we don't bow the knee to rome.
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I'm glad we don't bow the knee to london.
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I'm glad this is the united states of america.
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I'm glad that our forefathers,
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You know, took godly principles, godly ideas, godly systems,
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And instilled them in our nation.
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And that's why we have grown, why we have prospered.
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Amen.
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That's a good word there.
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Again, for all those who are crying tears.
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Well just drink those.
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So let's look at these three trademarks
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Of a victim mentality.
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First of all, he said, i knew you to be a hard man.
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The first one is blaming others.
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Blaming others.
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And really he was blaming the master, blaming god,
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I knew that you were a hardhearted man.
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That's the the worst person you can blame is god.
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A wrong image of god causes lots of problems.
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God is not the author of evil.
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Again, i start with john 10:10, he's not out to kill,
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Not to destroy, not to steal.
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He's only giving you life.
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He's only wanting you to grow
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And to receive more of it, to receive abundance,
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To give you opportunity.
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He is not the author of evil.
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He's not destroying anyone.
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He wants you to be victorious.
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Amen, he wants you to be successful.
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He wants you to be more than a conqueror.
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He wants you to have an abundant life.
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And that constant blaming type mentality,
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Man, it is a crippling mentality.
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It's actually very tragic as i kind of thought about this,
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To think that there are people and various levels
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Of thinking in this, that you can't control your own life.
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The trajectory, the direction of your life
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Is completely out of your control.
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It's just controlled by my parents.
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It's controlled by my spouse.
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It's only controlled by my boss,
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By whoever is in political power right now.
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What a tragic place to be in.
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Some people think that god just controls everything,
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That whatever happens to life, it's because god controls it.
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Everything is out of your control.
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That is a lie straight from the pit of hell.
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Because god is not the author of evil.
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He's not the author of death,
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He's not the author of sickness,
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He's not the author of...
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Amen.
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He can turn things around.
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He can show you how to take steps of faith
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And turn things around.
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But he's not the author of those things.
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And if you need to stop playing the blame game
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That has been going back since the garden of eden,
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Blaming others, the original sin in the garden of eden,
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God the master shows up.
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"adam, what's up?
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You're gonna be held accountable here."
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And what did adam say?
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Genesis 3:12.
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He actually played a double blame card.
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Man, this was quite skillful of him.
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He said, "it's the woman you gave me."
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So in one breath he blamed, you know,
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God's greatest gift to him and he also blamed god himself.
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"it's the woman that you gave me,
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She gave me of the tree and i ate it.
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It's your fault, god.
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It's because you gave this woman to me.
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If you hadn't given me eve, life would be perfect.
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Life would be paradise."
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No, my god.
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You know, adam, i gave you something.
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I gave you something incredible.
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I gave you talent, i gave you opportunity,
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I gave you knowledge, understanding, wisdom.
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I gave you a relationship with me.
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I gave you access into my presence.
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I gave you favor.
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I created you in my image.
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I gave you a good thing.
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He who finds a wife finds a good thing.
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When he walked up on eve, just seeing her laying there,
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He found a good thing.
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And i, you know, husbands,
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Your wife who's sitting next to you today,
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Your wife who's at home, she is a good thing.
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Say good thing. - good thing.
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- god is not your problem, he's your answer.
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He's not hardhearted, he is tenderhearted,
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He's compassionate.
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He cares about you.
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- friend, thank you so much for being a part
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Of the broadcast today.
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We have a lot more to teach on this subject
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And a lot to say about it on our website
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At charischristiancenter.com.
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Check us out on youtube, facebook,
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Or on our website at charischristiancenter.com.
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For the whole family.
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Lawson Perdue - Stepping Into Divine Opportunities

May 23, 2025 | S25:E2106

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