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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - A Better Question (Part 3) | January 11, 2025
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- Andy stanley: hi, everybody, welcome to "your move,"
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- Where we help you make better decisions
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- And live with fewer regrets.
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- I'm andy stanley, and i'll be your guide.
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- Did you know it is possible to be good without doing any good,
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- Without doing anybody any good?
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- And that's not good, because then, you'll be good for
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- Nothing, and you'll be good for nobody, and you want to be
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- Better than that.
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- Today, i'll tell you how right here on "your move."
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- ♪♪♪
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- Andy: today is actually the third part of a three-part
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- Better question."
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- And if you've been tracking along with us, what we've said
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- In this series is, we're in the month of january, and the month
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- Of january is generally a month when we hopefully look in the
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- Mirror and think, "hey, what can i do to make myself better?"
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- We essentially focus on this question: what should i do
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- About me?
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- What should i do about me?
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- How can i make myself slimmer and smarter, stronger,
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- Healthier, wealthier?
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- And as i've said, you should address all of those things.
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- You need to be healthier.
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- You need to have good financial habits.
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- If you're, you know, get that degree, break that habit, get
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- Out of debt, get out of that relationship, you know, whatever
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- You need to do.
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- Those are all important things.
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- But in this series, i've suggested that there's actually
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- A better question than "what should i do about me?"
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- And this question, as you've seen, if you focus, if you've
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- Tracked along with us, this question shifts our focus from
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- "what should i do about me" to "what needs to be done
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- Around me?"
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- It shifts the focus from "what do i need to do about me" to
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- "what needs to be done around me?"
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- What needs to be done in the world?
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- What needs to be done in my community?
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- What needs to be done in someone else's world?
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- And our better question is this question: what breaks
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- Your heart?
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- What breaks your heart?
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- You're like me, you're bothered by a lot of things, you're
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- Irritated by a lot of things, maybe locally, culturally,
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- Nationally, maybe even internationally.
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- There's some things in the world, and you look at them, and
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- You say, "that shouldn't be.
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- I wish there wasn't that in the world."
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- But the question we're asking in this series is there are a lot
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- Of things that irritate us and get on our nerves, but is there,
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- Is there one thing, is there one thing that bothers you more than
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- Other things?
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- Is there something that kind of moves you beyond irritating and
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- Concerning to, hey, something needs to be done about that?
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- And if that's the case, you should pay attention to that.
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- And i wanna reiterate something i've said both times we've
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- Talked about this.
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- Even if the thing that breaks your heart is beyond your
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- Control, it's beyond your ability to change or beyond your
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- Ability to solve, you should pay attention to that.
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- And as we're gonna see today, you should look for a way to
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- Give a piece of your life away to that issue.
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- You should look for a way to give a piece of your resources
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- Or a piece of your time away to that issue, not because you can
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- Solve it.
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- It's probably too big for you to solve.
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- But there's something so valuable about allowing a broken
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- Heart to lead us to the place where we give a portion of our
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- Lives away.
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- But if nothing, if nothing bothers you, be honest, if
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- Nothing bothers you that doesn't benefit you, and here's what i
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- Mean by that, if the only things that bother you are things that
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- Would benefit you if they were solved, if the only thing that
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- Bothers you is how inflation impacts you, if the only thing
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- That bothers you is your high electric bill, if you think
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- About the things that bother you, if all the things that
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- Bother you rattle you, you know, grab your emotions, if they are
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- All things that come back to you, in other words, if those
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- Things were solved, you would be better off but not necessarily
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- Anybody else, i mean, maybe in some sort of secondary sense,
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- But the reason these things bother you is because of how
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- They impact you, if nothing bothers you that doesn't benefit
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- You, that should bother you.
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- And here's why.
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- Because you're in a danger zone, and you probably don't know it.
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- You--you're actually on the verge, and here's what we're
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- Gonna unpack today, you're actually on the verge of falling
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- For an insidious lie, a lie that you will eventually see for what
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- It is, because over time and with age, we eventually, this
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- All comes clear.
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- But if you don't see it in time and if you don't catch this in
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- Time, you have the potential to waste your most valuable asset,
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- Something that's running out, even as i talk.
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- You have the potential of wasting a large portion of your
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- Life, because this lie that we're gonna talk about, and
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- Jesus is gonna go right at it in just a minute, this lie that
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- We're talking about has the potential to reduce you.
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- But here's, here's the reason you should take this seriously
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- And should pay attention, whether you're a religious
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- Person or not, a christian person or not, this goes outside
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- The bounds of all of this.
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- This is just kind of a life thing.
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- This lie has the potential to cheat you out of your brief
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- Opportunity to live a meaning-filled life.
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- It has the potential to cheat you out of your brief
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- Opportunity to live a meaning-filled,
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- Purpose-filled life.
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- So this is so important.
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- Jesus thought it was.
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- Here's what happened.
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- Luke brings this narrative to us.
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- And if you are new to the bible study, or new to christianity,
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- Or just examining it here, here's something to note.
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- Luke was a first-century doctor who sort of became a historian,
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- Super smart guy, who was a jesus follower and decided that
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- Somebody needed to put together an orderly account of the life
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- And teaching of jesus, so he interviewed everybody he could
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- Find who had anything to do with jesus, he wasn't one of jesus's
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- Disciples, and he interviewed them.
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- He knew peter, and he knew john.
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- He knew james, the brother of jesus.
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- And he puts together this orderly account, and in that
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- Orderly account, we find this very unique interchange between
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- Jesus and a crowd.
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- But i want you to pay close attention to the opening
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- Statement of this story, because this is not how you
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- Picture jesus.
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- Ready?
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- Here's what luke says happened: "a crowd of many thousands had
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- Gathered, so that they were trampling on one another."
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- That's not what you picture, is it.
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- When we picture jesus, we picture jesus, he's
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- Kinda isolated.
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- He's got a long white robe.
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- He's got this, you know, peaceful look on his face,
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- Piercing blue eyes.
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- He's walking along with a couple of people with some
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- People following.
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- He does a little healing there and a little healing.
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- Not the picture.
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- Everywhere jesus went, read it for yourself in the gospels,
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- Crowds upon crowds, and the crowds were crazy.
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- They were trampling one another, why?
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- Trying to get to jesus.
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- Imagine strangers constantly touching you!
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- Imagine everywhere you went there are strangers who just,
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- They just want a piece of you.
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- They just wanna touch you.
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- Welcome to the daily life of jesus.
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- So here's these, all these crowds.
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- They're trampling.
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- They're looking to be healed.
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- They're bringing their sick.
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- They want a miracle.
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- They wanna be close.
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- They wanna see him.
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- And he can't move any faster than the crowd because,
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- Again, everybody's walking.
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- And then in the midst of this chaos, luke tells us that
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- Someone in the crowd--we never get the person's name, and i
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- Don't even know that jesus was able to make eye contact with
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- This person.
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- There were so many people.
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- "someone in the crowd shouts out, 'teacher,'" just out of the
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- Blue, "'tell my brother to divide the inheritance
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- With me.'"
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- I mean, that's like, "what?"
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- I mean, why are we, why are we talking about that?
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- Because i mean, this guy couldn't get this resolved and,
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- "hey, maybe this guy can help!
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- Teacher!"
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- You know, "tell my brother divide the inheritance with me,"
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- A reasonable request, but this was not jesus's agenda.
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- And jesus paused, stopped, and yelled back and replied to the
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- Man, "hey, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you,
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- Between the two of you?"
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- In other words, "hey, who said i'm the mediator?
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- I'm not gonna get involved in your family issue.
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- I mean, why are you choosing me?"
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- And then jesus does what jesus does.
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- Jesus sees an opening, an opportunity, a teachable moment,
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- And he takes hold of something woven into this question and he
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- Turns the corner and changes the subject to address something he
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- Wanted to talk about that fit his agenda.
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- So apparently, he stops, has everybody sit down, and he
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- Begins to teach.
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- Here's what he said.
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- This is so great.
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- "then he said to them, 'watch out!
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- Be on your guard against all kinds of greed.'"
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- Of course, the guy who asked the question is like, "greed?
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- Why are we talking about greed?
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- I just want what's fair.
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- I just want what's coming to me."
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- Jesus smiles, "watch out!
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- Be on your guard against all kinds of greed."
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- Now, i love this greek term.
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- The greek term for greed is "pleonexia."
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- Pleonexia, pleonexia, pleonexia sounds like a disease,
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- Doesn't it?
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- "ma'am, i don't know how to tell you this,
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- But you have pleonexia."
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- "oh no, my mom had that, and her mom had that.
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- Oh, can you see it?"
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- "yes, yes, you have pleonexia.
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- We got something for that, but some, you know."
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- It's a disea--it's actually a disease.
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- That's why i like this greek word.
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- It's the disease of insatiableness.
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- It's the d--it's the disease of, it's the disease of "never
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- Enoughness for me-ness," "never enoughness for me-ness."
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- It's the disease of "since they have one, i should have
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- One too."
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- It's the disease of "mine looks older than theirs, and i think i
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- Should get a new one to match theirs."
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- It's the disease of discontentment.
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- It's the disease of always looking around and everything
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- That you have, it just see--doesn't seem to be what it
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- Used to be, and there can't--there just isn't ever
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- Enough to come your way to fill that insatiable bucket of
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- Getting whatever need that is met.
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- It's a disease.
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- And jesus says, jesus says, "you gotta watch out for it."
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- And he asked them, he says, "you gotta watch out.
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- Be on your guard."
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- So i'm gonna ask you the question.
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- The answer is no.
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- So, don't pretend like you're better than you are.
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- The answer is no, but i'm gonna ask it anyway.
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- Then i'm gonna tell you why.
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- Are you on your guard against pleonexia?
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- Are you on the lookout for pleonexia?
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- Are you watching out daily for greed and pleonexia?
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- And the answer is no.
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- And here's why the answer is no.
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- Because we aren't on our guard against things that we don't
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- Perceive as a threat.
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- We don't live our lives on guard against things that we don't
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- Perceive as a threat.
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- You wear sunscreen during the week.
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- You don't walk around with bear spray, right?
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- Unless you're on a trail and there's a sign that says "there
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- Are bears," and it's like, "honey, we need to get some
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- Bear spray."
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- As soon as you're aware of a threat, we go on our guard, but
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- We don't live our lives looking out for our, you know, being on
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- Guard, on guard against things that we don't perceive as an
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- Actual threat.
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- And jesus says that i should be and that you should be on guard
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- Against "never enoughness," pleonexia, greed, to which we're
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- All, you were all thinking the same thing, "wait, greed?
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- I mean, i have issues, but i--" here's his point.
- 00:10:38.255 --> 00:10:41.125
- He says, "because pleonexia is sinister and it's subtle."
- 00:10:41.125 --> 00:10:46.630
- It wears multiple disguises.
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- It disguises itself as a virtue: "i'm responsible.
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- I'm careful, i manage my things well.
- 00:10:55.106 --> 00:10:57.842
- I have nice things, i'm just trying to take care.
- 00:10:57.842 --> 00:10:59.844
- No, no, don't touch my nice things."
- 00:10:59.844 --> 00:11:01.178
- So i have plexiglass all over all my stuff, you know?
- 00:11:01.178 --> 00:11:03.013
- You can look, but you can't touch.
- 00:11:03.013 --> 00:11:04.582
- It's, "i'm just careful, i'm responsible.
- 00:11:04.582 --> 00:11:06.484
- I'm a good steward, i'm taking care of my family."
- 00:11:06.484 --> 00:11:08.853
- It disguises itself as a virtue.
- 00:11:08.853 --> 00:11:10.287
- It hides behind things like this: "i work hard.
- 00:11:10.287 --> 00:11:13.657
- I earned this.
- 00:11:13.657 --> 00:11:14.992
- I'm entitled."
- 00:11:14.992 --> 00:11:16.393
- "hey, jesus, tell my brother to split the thing up fairly.
- 00:11:16.393 --> 00:11:20.531
- I need to get what's coming to me."
- 00:11:20.531 --> 00:11:23.734
- And you can't see it in the mirror, so we don't see it as
- 00:11:23.734 --> 00:11:29.507
- A threat.
- 00:11:29.507 --> 00:11:30.875
- Besides, i'm gonna push back on jesus for just a minute,
- 00:11:30.875 --> 00:11:32.777
- Besides jesus.
- 00:11:32.777 --> 00:11:34.512
- "okay, greed, pleonexia, whatever, that's interesting,
- 00:11:34.512 --> 00:11:36.947
- But what's the threat?
- 00:11:36.947 --> 00:11:38.315
- Why do i need to be on guard against that?
- 00:11:38.315 --> 00:11:39.784
- So i'm greedy, so what?
- 00:11:39.784 --> 00:11:41.152
- I got my stuff.
- 00:11:41.152 --> 00:11:42.486
- I don't really care what people think.
- 00:11:42.486 --> 00:11:43.854
- So why is the--why should i fear pleonexia?
- 00:11:43.854 --> 00:11:45.389
- Why should i fear greed?
- 00:11:45.389 --> 00:11:46.757
- Why should i be on guard against it?
- 00:11:46.757 --> 00:11:48.793
- You know, you gotta give me some more information,
- 00:11:48.793 --> 00:11:50.394
- Jesus, what's at stake?"
- 00:11:50.394 --> 00:11:52.997
- And jesus is about to say, "let me tell you what's at stake.
- 00:11:52.997 --> 00:11:56.000
- Your life is at stake."
- 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.335
- What makes life really life is at stake.
- 00:11:58.335 --> 00:12:00.538
- What li--makes life really worth living is at stake, and you
- 00:12:00.538 --> 00:12:03.240
- Don't realize it.
- 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:04.575
- But that's what is at stake, because greed in all of its
- 00:12:04.575 --> 00:12:07.545
- Subtle forms has the potential to rob your life of meaning.
- 00:12:07.545 --> 00:12:12.983
- "wait a minute.
- 00:12:12.983 --> 00:12:14.318
- How in the world can greed rob my life of meaning?"
- 00:12:14.318 --> 00:12:18.455
- You ready for this?
- 00:12:18.455 --> 00:12:19.824
- If you have to leave early, here's the bottom line.
- 00:12:19.824 --> 00:12:21.926
- Because pleonexia, or greed, ensures we are always an end and
- 00:12:21.926 --> 00:12:29.133
- Never a means.
- 00:12:29.133 --> 00:12:32.102
- If you're never a means, you'll never experience meaning.
- 00:12:32.102 --> 00:12:38.275
- Greed, "it's all coming to me for me.
- 00:12:38.275 --> 00:12:41.078
- It's my stuff.
- 00:12:41.078 --> 00:12:42.413
- I don't care what you think."
- 00:12:42.413 --> 00:12:43.781
- Greed, greed ensures we are always an end, never a means,
- 00:12:43.781 --> 00:12:50.588
- And you can't experience meaningful until you are willing
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- To be a means.
- 00:12:55.626 --> 00:12:58.295
- Then jesus continues with his teaching, and he gives them a
- 00:12:58.295 --> 00:13:00.764
- Maxim, or a truism, or a principle, or a saying.
- 00:13:00.764 --> 00:13:03.734
- Here's what he says: "come on, life, life does not consist in
- 00:13:03.734 --> 00:13:09.506
- An abundance of possessions."
- 00:13:09.506 --> 00:13:12.142
- In other words, at no point do you
- 00:13:12.142 --> 00:13:15.045
- Equate the value of your life with what you own.
- 00:13:15.045 --> 00:13:18.682
- To which you would say and i would say,
- 00:13:18.682 --> 00:13:20.217
- "well, of course, we don't."
- 00:13:20.217 --> 00:13:21.552
- And jesus is like, "yeah, but watch the way you
- 00:13:21.552 --> 00:13:23.854
- Live, and watch the way you respond, and look at how you
- 00:13:23.854 --> 00:13:27.124
- Guard your time, and guard your assets,
- 00:13:27.124 --> 00:13:28.893
- And guard and guard and guard."
- 00:13:28.893 --> 00:13:30.561
- You're watching out, you're guarding all the wrong
- 00:13:30.561 --> 00:13:32.396
- Things for all the wrong reasons, because at the end of
- 00:13:32.396 --> 00:13:34.598
- The day, what you own doesn't equal the value of your life,
- 00:13:34.598 --> 00:13:39.370
- Regardless of the amount, right?
- 00:13:39.370 --> 00:13:41.639
- Life and stuff, they're two completely different categories.
- 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:46.543
- Pleonexia, all the subtle forms of greed, fools us into thinking
- 00:13:46.543 --> 00:13:52.383
- The opposite is true.
- 00:13:52.383 --> 00:13:54.485
- So we live our actual lives, even though we know what jesus
- 00:13:54.485 --> 00:13:57.488
- Said is true, we live our actual lives as if life does consist in
- 00:13:57.488 --> 00:14:02.059
- An abundance of possessions.
- 00:14:02.059 --> 00:14:04.762
- But i'm gonna push back one more time.
- 00:14:04.762 --> 00:14:06.363
- "okay, good point, jesus, got you.
- 00:14:06.363 --> 00:14:09.099
- But so what?
- 00:14:09.099 --> 00:14:10.734
- So what?
- 00:14:10.734 --> 00:14:12.069
- What is so dangerous about that?
- 00:14:12.069 --> 00:14:13.904
- You, you haven't convinced me that this is something i need to
- 00:14:13.904 --> 00:14:16.273
- Be on the lookout for.
- 00:14:16.273 --> 00:14:17.708
- I'm just not feeling the tension."
- 00:14:17.708 --> 00:14:20.844
- And jesus would read our minds
- 00:14:20.844 --> 00:14:22.346
- And would read the minds of his audience.
- 00:14:22.346 --> 00:14:24.682
- Good question.
- 00:14:24.682 --> 00:14:26.583
- And so, do you know what jesus does?
- 00:14:26.583 --> 00:14:28.419
- Jesus launches into one of his famous stories.
- 00:14:28.419 --> 00:14:30.955
- He launches into a parable.
- 00:14:30.955 --> 00:14:32.323
- Let me tell you what this illustrates first.
- 00:14:32.323 --> 00:14:33.857
- The point of the parable, to make sure you stay on track to
- 00:14:33.857 --> 00:14:36.293
- This, 'cause he kinda goes all over the place.
- 00:14:36.293 --> 00:14:37.962
- The point is to illustrate the meaning-depleting--this is
- 00:14:37.962 --> 00:14:42.066
- Very important.
- 00:14:42.066 --> 00:14:43.434
- He's about to illustrate through this parable the
- 00:14:43.434 --> 00:14:45.836
- Meaning-depleting power of pleonexia.
- 00:14:45.836 --> 00:14:49.239
- In other words, put it this way, it's the power of greed, the
- 00:14:49.239 --> 00:14:53.377
- Power of greed, to rob you while it enriches you.
- 00:14:53.377 --> 00:14:57.715
- This is why it's so subtle.
- 00:14:57.715 --> 00:14:59.216
- He's about to warn us against the power of greed that actually
- 00:14:59.216 --> 00:15:02.286
- Robs us while it enriches us.
- 00:15:02.286 --> 00:15:06.757
- So, here's the story.
- 00:15:06.757 --> 00:15:08.459
- He says, "the ground of a rich man yielded an abundant
- 00:15:08.459 --> 00:15:12.896
- Harvest," so the rich get richer even in the first century.
- 00:15:12.896 --> 00:15:16.500
- That's exactly what this means.
- 00:15:16.500 --> 00:15:17.835
- Somebody who already had extra just got extra extra.
- 00:15:17.835 --> 00:15:23.340
- And this man thought to himself, "my goodness, look at this
- 00:15:23.340 --> 00:15:25.976
- Abundant crop.
- 00:15:25.976 --> 00:15:27.311
- I'm already rich.
- 00:15:27.311 --> 00:15:28.645
- I already have more than i need, but now i've got extra extra."
- 00:15:28.645 --> 00:15:30.914
- And he thought to himself, "what am i gonna do?"
- 00:15:30.914 --> 00:15:33.984
- It wasn't apparent to him what he should do.
- 00:15:33.984 --> 00:15:37.154
- "what should i do with all my extra?"
- 00:15:37.154 --> 00:15:41.358
- He saw this as a problem he had to solve.
- 00:15:41.358 --> 00:15:44.428
- It was actually an opportunity, and he missed it.
- 00:15:44.428 --> 00:15:46.830
- He didn't see it that way, and the reason he didn't see it as
- 00:15:46.830 --> 00:15:48.932
- An opportunity, pleonexia, greed.
- 00:15:48.932 --> 00:15:53.203
- But he didn't know.
- 00:15:53.203 --> 00:15:54.538
- He just thought he had a problem, "i've got extra extra.
- 00:15:54.538 --> 00:15:56.373
- What do i do with my extra extra?
- 00:15:56.373 --> 00:15:57.875
- I don't have any place, oh my goodness.
- 00:15:57.875 --> 00:15:59.743
- I have no place to store my crops!"
- 00:15:59.743 --> 00:16:02.546
- Now, i was tempted at this point in the sermon to talk about our
- 00:16:02.546 --> 00:16:04.948
- Closets, and our attics, and our basements, but i'm not
- 00:16:04.948 --> 00:16:07.251
- Gonna--and your special storage unit, and you had to b--i'm not
- 00:16:07.251 --> 00:16:09.720
- Gonna do that, okay?
- 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:11.055
- That's way too personal.
- 00:16:11.055 --> 00:16:12.423
- Anyway, all right.
- 00:16:12.423 --> 00:16:13.757
- "what should i do?
- 00:16:13.757 --> 00:16:15.125
- I have no place to store my crops."
- 00:16:15.125 --> 00:16:16.460
- And here's the assumption.
- 00:16:16.460 --> 00:16:17.828
- This is important.
- 00:16:17.828 --> 00:16:19.163
- The assumption was, "since it came to me, it's for me."
- 00:16:19.163 --> 00:16:22.633
- We call this around here the consumption assumption.
- 00:16:22.633 --> 00:16:26.270
- The consumption assumption is "if it comes my way, it's
- 00:16:26.270 --> 00:16:29.873
- Obviously for my consumption."
- 00:16:29.873 --> 00:16:31.809
- And then he said, "ah, i got it.
- 00:16:31.809 --> 00:16:33.343
- I know what i'll do.
- 00:16:33.343 --> 00:16:35.045
- I'm gonna tear down my barns, my perfectly good barns, and i'm
- 00:16:35.045 --> 00:16:39.149
- Gonna build bigger ones, and there i will store my
- 00:16:39.149 --> 00:16:42.953
- Surplus grain.
- 00:16:42.953 --> 00:16:45.656
- I'm gonna save it now to consume it later, because if it comes to
- 00:16:45.656 --> 00:16:50.327
- Me, obviously, it's for me."
- 00:16:50.327 --> 00:16:53.497
- And there it is, a really bad case of pleonexia.
- 00:16:53.497 --> 00:16:58.869
- He was an end, not a means to an end.
- 00:16:58.869 --> 00:17:03.006
- He was the end, not a means to an end.
- 00:17:03.006 --> 00:17:06.243
- If it came to him, it was for him.
- 00:17:06.243 --> 00:17:09.313
- And then he says, 'cause he's, he can't see this in the mirror.
- 00:17:09.313 --> 00:17:11.682
- None of us can.
- 00:17:11.682 --> 00:17:13.016
- He said, "and then i'll say to myself, 'self, you have plenty
- 00:17:13.016 --> 00:17:16.587
- Of grain,'" here it is.
- 00:17:16.587 --> 00:17:17.921
- Here's the other trap, right here in the parable.
- 00:17:17.921 --> 00:17:19.656
- Jesus is brilliant, "you have plenty of grain
- 00:17:19.656 --> 00:17:22.359
- Laid up for many years."
- 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:24.661
- There's the lie.
- 00:17:24.661 --> 00:17:26.096
- "since i have a lot of grain, i've got a lot of life.
- 00:17:26.096 --> 00:17:30.434
- Since i have so much provision, i must have enough time to use
- 00:17:30.434 --> 00:17:34.404
- Up the provision."
- 00:17:34.404 --> 00:17:35.873
- Stuff equals life and stuff equals time.
- 00:17:35.873 --> 00:17:38.342
- "i've got all the time in the world 'cause i've got all the
- 00:17:38.342 --> 00:17:40.077
- Stuff in the world."
- 00:17:40.077 --> 00:17:42.179
- And then i'll say to myself, "take life easy.
- 00:17:42.179 --> 00:17:45.482
- Just take life easy; eat, drink and be merry."
- 00:17:45.482 --> 00:17:49.987
- And jesus's audience had one thing in common with us,
- 00:17:49.987 --> 00:17:55.058
- They were envious.
- 00:17:55.058 --> 00:17:57.694
- I mean, wouldn't that be great to just get up every day with no
- 00:17:57.694 --> 00:18:00.898
- Responsibility, every day with no pressure, every day with
- 00:18:00.898 --> 00:18:04.001
- Enough food to eat, every day with enough?
- 00:18:04.001 --> 00:18:05.569
- You can just do whatever you wanna do.
- 00:18:05.569 --> 00:18:06.937
- In fact, you don't even have to get up.
- 00:18:06.937 --> 00:18:08.505
- You can just lay there all day long, just get up whenever you
- 00:18:08.505 --> 00:18:10.974
- Want to do whatever you want to.
- 00:18:10.974 --> 00:18:15.112
- But this is a parable, which means jesus has a point to make,
- 00:18:15.112 --> 00:18:21.485
- And the point he's about to make goes right to the heart of the
- 00:18:21.485 --> 00:18:26.223
- Meaning-depleting deception of greed.
- 00:18:26.223 --> 00:18:28.592
- Greed will fill our schedule, it will fill our ego, it will fill
- 00:18:28.592 --> 00:18:34.464
- Up our relationship buckets, might even fill up our
- 00:18:34.464 --> 00:18:37.301
- Bank accounts.
- 00:18:37.301 --> 00:18:38.635
- And while it's filling all of those things up, it can rob us
- 00:18:38.635 --> 00:18:42.239
- All at the same time, and jesus is illustrating this through
- 00:18:42.239 --> 00:18:46.777
- The parable.
- 00:18:46.777 --> 00:18:48.145
- Here's a guy who felt full, but he was empty because he missed
- 00:18:48.145 --> 00:18:51.515
- The opportunity of a lifetime.
- 00:18:51.515 --> 00:18:53.884
- And jesus says at this point in the story, because remember,
- 00:18:53.884 --> 00:18:56.553
- It's a made up story, jesus introduces god into the story,
- 00:18:56.553 --> 00:19:00.891
- And he says, "as happy as this guy was about his future and as
- 00:19:00.891 --> 00:19:03.961
- Secure as he felt about his future," he said, "but god said
- 00:19:03.961 --> 00:19:07.364
- To him," because in a parable, anything can happen, right?
- 00:19:07.364 --> 00:19:10.100
- God said to the rich man, "you fool!"
- 00:19:10.100 --> 00:19:14.438
- And everybody in jesus's audience is like, "fool?
- 00:19:14.438 --> 00:19:17.608
- I would love to be that fool!
- 00:19:17.608 --> 00:19:19.543
- What do you mean, he's a fool?
- 00:19:19.543 --> 00:19:21.111
- And i mean, how could he be a fool?
- 00:19:21.111 --> 00:19:22.746
- He was actually wise.
- 00:19:22.746 --> 00:19:24.114
- He was responsible.
- 00:19:24.114 --> 00:19:25.449
- He was smart enough to be wealthy.
- 00:19:25.449 --> 00:19:26.783
- Now he got wealthier.
- 00:19:26.783 --> 00:19:28.151
- How can you be a fool?
- 00:19:28.151 --> 00:19:29.486
- I mean, he was wise, not a fool."
- 00:19:29.486 --> 00:19:30.854
- And jesus says, "no."
- 00:19:30.854 --> 00:19:32.189
- And here's why jesus says no.
- 00:19:32.189 --> 00:19:34.458
- And this is for you and this is for me.
- 00:19:34.458 --> 00:19:36.693
- Because the man in the parable made the mistake of presuming on
- 00:19:36.693 --> 00:19:41.665
- The future.
- 00:19:41.665 --> 00:19:43.033
- You know what that means?
- 00:19:43.033 --> 00:19:44.368
- It means, "i've got so much stuff, i must have so
- 00:19:44.368 --> 00:19:46.737
- Much time."
- 00:19:46.737 --> 00:19:48.105
- To presume on the future is to assume time that you don't know
- 00:19:48.105 --> 00:19:52.042
- You have.
- 00:19:52.042 --> 00:19:53.377
- To presume on the future is to assume opportunity that you may
- 00:19:53.377 --> 00:19:56.847
- Never get.
- 00:19:56.847 --> 00:19:58.215
- It's to assume opportunities to do good things later.
- 00:19:58.215 --> 00:20:01.551
- "you know, once i'm an adult, once i get to my 30s, once i'm
- 00:20:01.551 --> 00:20:04.488
- 40, once we get the kids out of the house, once we get everybody
- 00:20:04.488 --> 00:20:06.757
- Graduated, once we pay off our debt, once we, once we, once we.
- 00:20:06.757 --> 00:20:09.826
- Then i'm gonna take care of that opportunity
- 00:20:09.826 --> 00:20:12.229
- To do something beyond myself."
- 00:20:12.229 --> 00:20:13.630
- And jesus says, "you fool!
- 00:20:13.630 --> 00:20:16.166
- You don't know what the future holds.
- 00:20:16.166 --> 00:20:18.368
- You don't have any guarantees.
- 00:20:18.368 --> 00:20:20.070
- You don't even know what this day holds."
- 00:20:20.070 --> 00:20:22.706
- He was a fool, not because of what he owned.
- 00:20:22.706 --> 00:20:25.942
- He was a fool because he was owned by what he owned, and he
- 00:20:25.942 --> 00:20:31.948
- Wasn't on guard against the subtle realities, the subtleness
- 00:20:31.948 --> 00:20:37.854
- Of pleonexia.
- 00:20:37.854 --> 00:20:40.157
- But god said to him, "you fool!
- 00:20:40.157 --> 00:20:43.093
- This very night your life will be demanded from you."
- 00:20:43.093 --> 00:20:47.931
- "wait, wait, that's not possible!
- 00:20:47.931 --> 00:20:49.833
- Have you seen how much grain i have?
- 00:20:49.833 --> 00:20:52.336
- Have you not seen how much i have yet to consume?
- 00:20:52.336 --> 00:20:55.038
- I have so much stuff.
- 00:20:55.038 --> 00:20:56.406
- Doesn't more stuff equal more life?"
- 00:20:56.406 --> 00:20:58.875
- No, of course it doesn't.
- 00:20:58.875 --> 00:21:01.645
- You fool.
- 00:21:01.645 --> 00:21:04.948
- God said to him, "you fool!
- 00:21:03.613 --> 00:21:06.283
- This very night your life will be demanded from you."
- 00:21:06.283 --> 00:21:09.152
- And then, jesus presses in with this amazing question: "then
- 00:21:09.152 --> 00:21:15.859
- Who, then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?
- 00:21:15.859 --> 00:21:26.169
- Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?"
- 00:21:26.236 --> 00:21:31.575
- And it's like, oh, i know the answer to that, someone else.
- 00:21:31.575 --> 00:21:41.485
- But not because he was generous.
- 00:21:41.485 --> 00:21:45.489
- Because he was dead.
- 00:21:45.489 --> 00:21:48.558
- And then the punch line, or the punch in the gut line for me and
- 00:21:51.728 --> 00:21:54.965
- The punch in the gut line for us, jesus gives us the
- 00:21:54.965 --> 00:21:57.033
- Punch line.
- 00:21:57.033 --> 00:21:58.368
- This is the wake up call.
- 00:21:58.368 --> 00:21:59.736
- This is why, this is why you've got to discover something
- 00:21:59.736 --> 00:22:01.571
- Outside of you that breaks your heart.
- 00:22:01.571 --> 00:22:02.973
- This is why you can't be consumed with you.
- 00:22:02.973 --> 00:22:04.908
- This why we cannot--we can't get locked into the consumption
- 00:22:04.908 --> 00:22:07.744
- Assumption, and it's so easy for us because of where we live and
- 00:22:07.744 --> 00:22:10.514
- What we have in the, the era of human history that we live in.
- 00:22:10.514 --> 00:22:14.117
- This is, this is why you, you've got to find a way to devote at
- 00:22:14.117 --> 00:22:18.155
- Least a piece of yourself to something beyond you.
- 00:22:18.155 --> 00:22:23.593
- Otherwise, we fall into this trap.
- 00:22:23.593 --> 00:22:25.762
- And then jesus leaves the parable.
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- This is important, 'cause that's the end of the parable.
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- He pulls out of the parable, and now, he addresses us directly,
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- And he addresses his audience directly, and here's what
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- He says.
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- This is so convicting and inspiring if we take it the
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- Right way.
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- He says, "this, this is how it will be," to which we're like,
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- "wait, wait, wait, what is this?"
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- "oh, oh, let me find that for you," jesus would say.
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- This is total loss.
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- Total loss is how it will be.
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- He lost his life, he lost his stuff, and he lost
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- His opportunity.
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- He lost everything.
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- It was a--there's nothing, there's nothing to show for him
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- Because it was all about him.
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- There was nothing to show for him because it was all about
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- Him, because he wasn't on guard against pleonexia.
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- He lost everything.
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- "this is, this is how it will be," this is where we come in,
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- "for whoever," i'm a whoever, you're a whoever, "this is how
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- It will be for whoever stores up things for themselves," to be
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- Consumed on themselves, that plan to consume everything that
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- Comes their way.
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- This is how it will be for people who are tricked.
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- "this is, this is how it will be for whoever stores up things for
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- Themselves," and then he gives the other opportunity, "but is
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- Not rich toward god." now, this phrase "rich toward god" shows
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- Up in other places in the gospels, and when you put 'em
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- All together, it's very evident what jesus is talking about when
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- He uses the phrase "rich toward god."
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- To be rich toward god isn't about giving things to god.
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- God doesn't need your things.
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- God doesn't need our stuff.
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- God doesn't need anything.
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- God is immaterial.
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- "god is spirit," jesus said.
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- So this isn't about giving gifts to god.
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- You know what this means?
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- To be rich towards god is to do for others what god has done for
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- You, to do for others what god has done for you, specifically,
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- To do for others what god through christ has done for you,
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- That when you had a need, he met it.
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- When you needed forgiveness, he gave it.
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- When you needed peace with god, he provided it.
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- He says, "now i don't need you to give me anything back.
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- I want you to, i want you to essentially pay it forward.
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- I want you to do for others in whatever way you can as a
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- Reflection of your gratitude for what i've done for you." jesus
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- Says, "this is how you be rich toward god.
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- But if you're not careful, greed will rob you of that
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- Opportunity, 'cause greed is a thief."
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- Here's why: greed promises more but always leaves you with less
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- In the end, less of what matters.
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- So, circling all the way back around, here is the code, here's
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- The password.
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- We're gonna crack the code.
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- We're gonna unpack what it means to have a meaningful life, and
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- It's very, very simple.
- 00:25:04.988 --> 00:25:06.356
- I've said it several times.
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- It's "become a means to an end that doesn't end with you."
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- That's it.
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- It's "become a means to an end that doesn't end with you."
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- That's, that's what makes something meaningful.
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- If you think about a pen that you write with, when it runs out
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- Of ink, it can't do what it was meant to do.
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- It becomes meaningless.
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- You are the same way, and i am the same way.
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- And jesus, because he loves you, is warning us not to allow that
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- To happen and inviting us into a meaningful, purposeful life.
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- He said, "but in order to do that, you have to be
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- Intentional, and you have to find a way, even if it's a small
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- Way, to be a means to an end that doesn't end with you."
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- That's what meaning means.
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- That's how something becomes meaningful.
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- That's where purpose is found.
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- That's where happiness is found.
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- That's where joy is found.
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- And that's the invitation to all of us.
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- That's what makes something meaningful.
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- So, again, to go back to jesus's words, be on your guard
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- Against pleonexia!
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- It is subtle.
- 00:26:16.092 --> 00:26:17.694
- It is taking root in all of our lives in some form we're not
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- Even aware of, and we don't know it because it's so difficult
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- To find.
- 00:26:23.700 --> 00:26:25.068
- And jesus, through this parable and through this teaching, says,
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- "i've told you what to do.
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- You've got to find a way to be a means to an end
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- That doesn't end with you."
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- Don't be greedy with your life.
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- Don't be greedy with your time.
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- Don't be greedy with the influence you have.
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- Don't be greedy with the connections you've made.
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- Don't be greedy with your education.
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- Don't be greedy with your experience.
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- Choose something that doesn't benefit you
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- And commit some of you to it.
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- So, one last time, what breaks your heart?
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- What breaks your heart?
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- What needs to change?
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- Carve off a piece of you and invest it in that.
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- And if nothing breaks your heart, just choose
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- Something quick!
- 00:27:05.842 --> 00:27:07.210
- Your time's running out, no matter how old you are, because
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- In the end, as i tell you all the time, in the end, do you
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- Know what makes your life worth celebrating and what makes my
- 00:27:11.848 --> 00:27:13.650
- Life we're celebrating?
- 00:27:13.650 --> 00:27:15.051
- In the end, the value of your life, the value of my life will
- 00:27:15.051 --> 00:27:18.588
- Be determined and celebrated by how much of it was actually
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- Given away.
- 00:27:22.659 --> 00:27:23.993
- It's in the end that we understand the power of becoming
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- A means to an end that doesn't point back to us.
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- So, what breaks your heart?
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- And if nothing breaks your heart, find something, invest in
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- It, and don't succumb to pleonexia.
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- Andy: hey, everybody, thank you so much for tuning in.
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