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Your Move with Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley - You'll Be Glad You Did (Part 5)

July 5, 2025 | 30:10

Andy Stanley - You'll Be Glad You Did (Part 5)
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - You'll Be Glad You Did (Part 5) | July 5, 2025
  • ...
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  • Andy stanley: hi, everybody, welcome to "your move," where we
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  • Help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.
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  • I'm andy stanley and i'll be your guide, and today we're
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  • Talking about money, but i'm not asking for it, instead i'm gonna
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  • Give you some advice to help ensure that you live a very rich
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  • Life, stick around.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Andy: let's use our imaginations for a moment.
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  • I want you to imagine that you wake up, that you woke up this
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  • Morning, or we'll say tomorrow morning, you wake up tomorrow
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  • Morning and you find you have a checking account, and in
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  • That checking account is all the money you've wasted so far
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  • In your life.
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  • Yes, a lot of money.
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  • Now, let me be specific about wasting.
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  • I mean the money you bad habited away.
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  • In fact, you bad habited a lot of money away now you're trying
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  • To break the bad habit and you're still spending money,
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  • You're trying to get all the money you bad habited away.
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  • Imagine, you know, if suddenly you woke up with a checking
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  • Account and you had cash for all the stuff you'd wasted money on
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  • Your whole life.
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  • But here's the trick, here's the catch, but the only thing you
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  • Could do with that money is give it away.
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  • You could give it away immediately or you could give it
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  • Away over time.
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  • But wouldn't it be fun to have a checking account with all that
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  • Money you've wasted and you have to give it away, either
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  • Immediately or over time?
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  • You know what?
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  • That would just be fun.
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  • So, hang on to that thought, we'll come back to it in just
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  • A minute.
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  • Today, if you're just joining us, we are in part five of a
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  • Six-part series entitled, "you'll be glad you did,
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  • Timeless advice for troubled times."
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  • So, this is a series just about advice, and the reason we're
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  • Doing this series is that we've all lived long enough to have
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  • Made some decisions we're glad we made, we've all lived long
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  • Enough to have developed some good habits that we're glad we
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  • Developed, we've all lived long enough to have some regrets and
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  • Face the consequences of some bad decisions and some
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  • Bad habits.
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  • In other words, and this is where the title came from, we
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  • All have stories, we all have stories that end with either
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  • I'm so glad i did, or i certainly wish i had, or i'm
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  • So glad i didn't, or i wish i hadn't.
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  • So, what we're doing in this series, this is a series of
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  • Unoriginal you'll-be-glad-you-did advice.
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  • It's just an advice series.
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  • These are not moral or ethical imperatives, these are not rules
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  • You have to keep, but if you'll take this advice, this advice
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  • Will keep you from breaking the rules that have the potential to
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  • Break you, to break your heart, or as you're gonna see today,
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  • Keep you from going broke.
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  • This advice, like the advice you give, because we all give people
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  • Advice whether they want it or not, we've all given advice.
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  • This advice sits between the rules.
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  • So, this is not moral versus immoral, legal versus illegal,
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  • This is not right versus wrong, this is just what we're
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  • Calling wisdom.
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  • Wisdom sits between the rules.
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  • Wisdom are the insights that are informed by the fact or the
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  • Knowledge that life is connected.
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  • Insights are informed by the knowledge that life is
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  • Connected, that today leads to tomorrow, that what you're
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  • Facing and dealing with today is the results of decisions you
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  • Made yesterday, that one thing leads to another.
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  • So in this series so far, we've given you three pieces
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  • Of advice.
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  • Number one, first piece of advice was listen, then we
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  • Talked about forgive, and the last time we were together,
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  • We talked about defer.
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  • If you are married, or engaged, or wanna be engaged, or trying
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  • To make a relationship go the distance and you missed last
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  • Time we were together, you really need to go back and
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  • Listen to or watch defer.
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  • But my unoriginal, in some ways learn-the-hard-way advice for
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  • Today is not one word today, it's two words, and the two
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  • Words are live generous, live generous.
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  • All of us know how to be in the moment generous, generous in the
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  • Moment, but what we're talking about today is different than be
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  • Generous in the moment.
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  • This type of giving, the kind of giving we're gonna talk about is
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  • In fact life giving.
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  • If you will take the advice i'm gonna give you today, you're
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  • Gonna save more money, you're gonna give more money, you're
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  • Gonna consume less, and maybe the best outcome of all is you
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  • Will be less consumed by what you have, by what you don't
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  • Have, what you want, and what you ultimately hope to
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  • Have someday.
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  • Because we don't just live in a consumer culture, we are
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  • Consumed by oftentimes our consumption, because we know
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  • What everybody else has, and not only do we know what everybody
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  • Else has, we know what we could potentially have and it's
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  • So easy to get.
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  • I mean, it's just crazy.
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  • I don't need to spend a lot of time there, but goodness
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  • Gracious, you almost think about it and it shows up an hour
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  • Later, or two hours later.
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  • They bring it to your door in a little white bag and hand it to
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  • You, it's just amazing.
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  • So, consequently, it is easy for us to be consumed by our
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  • Consumption, which just ultimately consumes us and it
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  • Ultimately makes us, and if you're a person of faith or
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  • A christian, this is so important.
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  • Ultimately, even if we can afford it, it causes us to
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  • Become more and more self-centered, which is the
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  • Antithesis of what it means to be a follower of jesus.
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  • So today, for the next few minutes, i'm going to attempt to
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  • Teach you how to live generous and to motivate you to
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  • Live generous.
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  • Not how to give, you already know how to give, everybody
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  • Knows how to give.
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  • In fact, part of the problem is that americans easily confuse
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  • Generosity with what we'll just call random acts of giving.
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  • But random acts of giving is not generosity, random acts of
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  • Giving is random acts of giving.
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  • And the way to understand the difference is similar to how we
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  • All consider ourselves good people.
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  • I mean, you're a good person, right?
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  • If i were saying, "are you a good person?"
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  • I'm a good person.
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  • And if i were to say to you, "you know what?
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  • I don't think you are a good person," here's what
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  • You would do.
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  • You would immediately tell me about something you did good.
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  • Because i did that, i'm a good person, right?
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  • Well, we do the same thing with giving.
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  • So, i'm gonna press you a little bit today, okay, and to try to
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  • Convince you that you're not really generous, even though you
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  • Do random acts of giving, and when i begin to press you, in
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  • Your mind you're gonna be like, "oh, i'm generous," and you're
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  • Gonna think of something you gave or a time that you, you
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  • Know, said yes when somebody asked.
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  • That's not what we're talking about.
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  • That's random acts of giving.
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  • Most americans participate in some way of random acts giving.
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  • This is just not that, and our confusion regarding generosity
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  • I think in some ways is fueled by four generosity myths that
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  • Permeate our culture.
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  • We don't know when we begin thinking this way, but these are
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  • Complete, complete myths.
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  • So, this is gonna help you differentiate, so i'll hit these
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  • Real fast.
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  • Myth number one we've already talked about, the generous
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  • Is spontaneous.
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  • Generosity is not spontaneous.
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  • Spontaneity is spontaneous, right?
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  • Giving spontaneously just means you're spontaneous,
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  • Not necessarily generous, because greedy people will give
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  • Spontaneously if they think it will help them or they feel
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  • Pressure or people are watching, right?
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  • Spontaneous giving, and i know this because of what i do,
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  • Spontaneous giving is often emotion based, and giving based
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  • On emotion and spontaneity, i mean, that's not a bad thing,
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  • I just want you to understand that has nothing to do with
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  • Being generous.
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  • That is not what we're talking about, that's not generosity.
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  • Myth number two is this, that generosity is regulated
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  • Primarily by cash flow.
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  • This is a myth as well.
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  • You know, saying yes spontaneously because somebody
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  • Asked, again, that's not generosity.
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  • So, maybe you've had a situation where somebody was asking you
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  • For money to give to something, and what you do immediately is
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  • You think about how much money is in your wallet, how much
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  • Money is in your checking account, how much money you have
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  • Access to immediately.
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  • And so, when you don't have access to it, you say, "you
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  • Know, i'm really sorry, i can't help right now."
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  • You said this, "i can't help right now," which meant your
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  • Context for giving was what you had right there in the moment or
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  • What you had in your checking account or you're weighing your
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  • Checking account against bills coming in or other things going
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  • On, and you really couldn't help right then.
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  • You wanted to help, i mean your heart was right, but you just
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  • Weren't in a position to give.
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  • What you had in the moment determined what you could give
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  • In the moment.
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  • But people who live generous, this is why this is so
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  • Important, people who live generous, they avoid that
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  • Predicament, they're ready.
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  • We'll talk about why in a minute.
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  • Myth number three is this, the amount is what counts.
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  • This is totally false, okay?
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  • You can't understand dollars without a context.
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  • Somebody says i gave $1,000, that might have been
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  • Sacrificial giving.
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  • That might have been the equivalent of what they were
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  • Gonna spend the next night on dinner with friends.
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  • You just don't know.
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  • So, the amount doesn't determine generosity.
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  • And of course without context, we don't know what's a lot and
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  • We don't know what's a little.
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  • We know what's a lot and a little to us, but we don't know
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  • What's a lot and a little to somebody else.
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  • In fact, interestingly enough, on this point jesus actually
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  • Addressed this one directly.
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  • He is with his disciples, they're visiting the temple, and
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  • He pulls his guys off to the side, he says, i just wanna
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  • Watch for a moment.
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  • So, they're watching people come in and out of the temple, and
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  • The text says that as jesus looked up, he saw the rich.
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  • Now, how did he know they were rich?
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  • Well, the way they were dressed and who they were
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  • Traveling with.
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  • He saw the rich putting their gifts or their money into the
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  • Temple treasury, and this was something you did publicly.
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  • He also saw a poor widow.
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  • Again, he could tell by the way she was dressed, he could tell
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  • By the fact that she was alone, or maybe he even knew her story.
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  • We don't know.
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  • He saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins.
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  • These coins, we refer to them as the widow's mite.
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  • These coins are so small, if i held one up here, you would
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  • Barely even be able to see it.
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  • I mean, they're just little pieces, almost shards of copper.
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  • They were round like a coin, but they were so small.
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  • It was the smallest amount of money.
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  • And she drops in two of these very small copper coins, and
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  • Then jesus looks at his guys, you remember this part?
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  • He says, "'truly i tell you,' he said, 'this poor widow has put
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  • In more than all the others.'"
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  • Implication, than all the others combined, to which we say, and
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  • His disciples were thinking, "okay, what kind of math
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  • Is that?"
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  • And jesus would have said that's kingdom math.
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  • That's kingdom of god math.
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  • God is not impressed by amounts, god is moved by percentages.
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  • He went on to say all these people, all these people gave
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  • Their gifts out of their wealth.
  • 00:10:40.547 --> 00:10:42.348
  • In other words, they had a lot left over.
  • 00:10:42.348 --> 00:10:43.783
  • They gave, you know, some percentage, but she, out of her
  • 00:10:43.783 --> 00:10:47.387
  • Poverty, put in all she had to live on, so she gave more than
  • 00:10:47.387 --> 00:10:51.424
  • Everybody else.
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  • She gave more than everybody else perhaps combined.
  • 00:10:52.792 --> 00:10:55.095
  • She was the most, this is important, she was the most
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  • Generous person at the temple that day, because the amount is
  • 00:10:58.598 --> 00:11:02.802
  • Not what counts.
  • 00:11:02.802 --> 00:11:05.238
  • When it comes to generosity, it's not about the amount, it's
  • 00:11:05.238 --> 00:11:08.408
  • The percentage that counts.
  • 00:11:08.408 --> 00:11:10.410
  • We'll come back to that.
  • 00:11:10.410 --> 00:11:11.778
  • Generosity myth number four, this is the last one,
  • 00:11:11.778 --> 00:11:13.113
  • This is kind of for fun.
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  • Rich people are generous.
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  • No, they're not, they're not.
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  • Let me explain this.
  • 00:11:17.751 --> 00:11:19.786
  • Rich people are rich, generous people are generous, and the two
  • 00:11:19.786 --> 00:11:26.593
  • Aren't necessarily the same.
  • 00:11:26.593 --> 00:11:28.461
  • In fact, there's no necessary correlation.
  • 00:11:28.461 --> 00:11:31.131
  • In fact, the truth is, and some of you can attest to this
  • 00:11:31.131 --> 00:11:33.366
  • Because of the way you grew up, or maybe the circumstances
  • 00:11:33.366 --> 00:11:35.735
  • You're facing now, poor people, and jesus just illustrated this
  • 00:11:35.735 --> 00:11:40.273
  • In this little snippet of narrative we looked at, poor
  • 00:11:40.273 --> 00:11:43.176
  • People are generally far more generous than wealthy people,
  • 00:11:43.176 --> 00:11:46.479
  • And here's one of the reasons why.
  • 00:11:46.479 --> 00:11:48.181
  • Because poor people, truly poor people, they are not trying to
  • 00:11:48.181 --> 00:11:51.751
  • Save their way out of their poverty, they're trying to
  • 00:11:51.751 --> 00:11:55.889
  • Survive, so consequently they are very dialed in to people who
  • 00:11:55.889 --> 00:12:00.160
  • Are living on the edge, because they themselves are living right
  • 00:12:00.160 --> 00:12:03.096
  • On the edge of financial catastrophe.
  • 00:12:03.096 --> 00:12:05.365
  • So, because there's proximity, because there's overlap in terms
  • 00:12:05.365 --> 00:12:09.435
  • Of life experience, they are quick to come to somebody else's
  • 00:12:09.435 --> 00:12:12.839
  • Aid because they've been there and then know that if i help
  • 00:12:12.839 --> 00:12:16.075
  • Them, then when my moment comes, my day comes, perhaps they
  • 00:12:16.075 --> 00:12:19.546
  • Will help me.
  • 00:12:19.546 --> 00:12:20.880
  • So, real quick i'm gonna give you a definition of generous
  • 00:12:20.880 --> 00:12:23.683
  • Living or how to live generously.
  • 00:12:23.683 --> 00:12:25.685
  • It's very clunky, i made it up, you don't have to memorize it,
  • 00:12:25.685 --> 00:12:29.823
  • Because i'm gonna walk you through it.
  • 00:12:29.823 --> 00:12:31.357
  • So, here it is, generous living, here's what we're gonna learn
  • 00:12:31.357 --> 00:12:33.560
  • To do.
  • 00:12:33.560 --> 00:12:34.894
  • The premeditated, calculated, designated emancipation
  • 00:12:34.894 --> 00:12:38.698
  • Of financial assets.
  • 00:12:38.698 --> 00:12:40.266
  • Hold your applause, that's right.
  • 00:12:40.266 --> 00:12:41.935
  • The premeditated, we're gonna talk about that, calculated,
  • 00:12:41.935 --> 00:12:45.371
  • Designated emancipation, that is the liberation of
  • 00:12:45.371 --> 00:12:48.808
  • Our financial assets.
  • 00:12:48.808 --> 00:12:50.410
  • So, the first word is "premeditated."
  • 00:12:50.410 --> 00:12:53.012
  • In order to live generously, in order to live generous, you have
  • 00:12:53.012 --> 00:12:58.518
  • To have a plan.
  • 00:12:58.518 --> 00:13:00.720
  • Look up here.
  • 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:02.055
  • I don't care how much money you have, how much money, how little
  • 00:13:02.055 --> 00:13:04.057
  • Money you have, if you don't have a plan, you will not and
  • 00:13:04.057 --> 00:13:09.095
  • You cannot be generous.
  • 00:13:09.095 --> 00:13:12.265
  • If you don't have a plan, it is impossible for you to be
  • 00:13:12.265 --> 00:13:17.003
  • A generous person.
  • 00:13:17.003 --> 00:13:18.371
  • You will confuse random acts of generosity with generosity,
  • 00:13:18.371 --> 00:13:21.708
  • But you're not necessarily a generous person, because without
  • 00:13:21.708 --> 00:13:24.244
  • A plan you don't know.
  • 00:13:24.244 --> 00:13:27.380
  • You have to have a plan.
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  • You will be a consumer and you will be what i call a triple s
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  • Giver, because you're gonna give.
  • 00:13:32.986 --> 00:13:34.354
  • We all give.
  • 00:13:34.354 --> 00:13:35.722
  • The triple s giver, spontaneous, you know, we talked about that
  • 00:13:35.722 --> 00:13:38.324
  • In the moment, sporadic, just kind of here or there when
  • 00:13:38.324 --> 00:13:40.960
  • People ask me for it.
  • 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:42.328
  • In fact, you're gonna wait to be asked, and sparing, listen, you
  • 00:13:42.328 --> 00:13:46.833
  • Will never give as much as you can actually give without
  • 00:13:46.833 --> 00:13:50.169
  • A plan.
  • 00:13:50.169 --> 00:13:51.504
  • You will feel the strain of what you give, but you will never
  • 00:13:51.504 --> 00:13:55.275
  • Maximize your potential to give without a plan.
  • 00:13:55.275 --> 00:13:58.845
  • It is impossible.
  • 00:13:58.845 --> 00:14:00.446
  • You've got to have a plan.
  • 00:14:00.446 --> 00:14:03.182
  • Now, years and years ago, one of the things that helped me with
  • 00:14:03.182 --> 00:14:05.818
  • This, i read a book by ron blue, ronald blue, he's written a
  • 00:14:05.818 --> 00:14:08.554
  • Bunch of books on financial, and investing, and heritage, and
  • 00:14:08.554 --> 00:14:12.692
  • In the book he made this point.
  • 00:14:12.692 --> 00:14:14.327
  • He says there's basically only five things you can do
  • 00:14:14.327 --> 00:14:17.330
  • With money.
  • 00:14:17.330 --> 00:14:18.698
  • Here's ron's list.
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  • You can spend it, repay debt, pay your taxes, save it,
  • 00:14:20.033 --> 00:14:23.503
  • And give it.
  • 00:14:23.503 --> 00:14:24.837
  • And when i saw this list and when i read this list,
  • 00:14:24.837 --> 00:14:27.540
  • I remember thinking that's actually the order that we live
  • 00:14:27.540 --> 00:14:31.744
  • In, and it's actually the order most people give in, which
  • 00:14:31.744 --> 00:14:36.349
  • Amounts to this, me first, creditors second, government
  • 00:14:36.349 --> 00:14:41.988
  • Third, me fourth, others last.
  • 00:14:41.988 --> 00:14:45.224
  • Now, this is actually me second, because the things i borrowed
  • 00:14:45.224 --> 00:14:48.528
  • Money on are for me, so it's me, me, government, me, others last.
  • 00:14:48.528 --> 00:14:52.865
  • Now, look carefully, this is important.
  • 00:14:52.865 --> 00:14:54.701
  • Look up here.
  • 00:14:54.701 --> 00:14:56.035
  • If you're not a person of faith, okay, you should think
  • 00:14:56.035 --> 00:14:58.905
  • About this.
  • 00:14:58.905 --> 00:15:00.239
  • I mean, this is a little bit incriminating, especially if you
  • 00:15:00.239 --> 00:15:03.076
  • Think, "oh, i'm a generous person."
  • 00:15:03.076 --> 00:15:04.477
  • Now, if giving is last, you're not a generous person.
  • 00:15:04.477 --> 00:15:07.780
  • You've put yourself ahead of pretty much everybody
  • 00:15:07.780 --> 00:15:10.116
  • Else, okay?
  • 00:15:10.116 --> 00:15:11.484
  • But hey, if you're not a person of faith, that's up to you what
  • 00:15:11.484 --> 00:15:13.619
  • You do with it.
  • 00:15:13.619 --> 00:15:15.321
  • If you call yourself a christian, if you're trying to
  • 00:15:15.321 --> 00:15:20.259
  • Be a jesus follower, you can't live like this, you can't.
  • 00:15:20.259 --> 00:15:29.635
  • If this is a reflection of your money, you are not
  • 00:15:29.702 --> 00:15:34.807
  • Following jesus.
  • 00:15:34.807 --> 00:15:37.677
  • You may pray, you may believe, you may be offended that i'd say
  • 00:15:37.677 --> 00:15:40.980
  • That, how dare you say that to me?
  • 00:15:40.980 --> 00:15:42.782
  • Just read the gospels.
  • 00:15:42.782 --> 00:15:44.117
  • If you think i'm being hard on you, just read
  • 00:15:44.117 --> 00:15:46.519
  • The gospels, okay?
  • 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:47.854
  • You can't follow jesus if other people are last in any capacity,
  • 00:15:47.854 --> 00:15:53.459
  • Because the whole idea of following jesus is following
  • 00:15:53.459 --> 00:15:56.562
  • Jesus puts others first because he put you first.
  • 00:15:56.562 --> 00:16:01.134
  • This is why jesus said so much about money, because money is
  • 00:16:01.134 --> 00:16:05.238
  • Oftentimes the key, and food, but money is the key to our
  • 00:16:05.238 --> 00:16:08.775
  • Heart, right?
  • 00:16:08.775 --> 00:16:10.109
  • And it's the thing that determines where our heart is.
  • 00:16:10.109 --> 00:16:11.477
  • Where your treasure is, your heart is, where your heart goes,
  • 00:16:11.477 --> 00:16:13.112
  • Your treasure goes.
  • 00:16:13.112 --> 00:16:14.447
  • And here's the other thing, you live this way long enough as
  • 00:16:14.447 --> 00:16:17.450
  • A christian, you will be a hypocrite.
  • 00:16:17.450 --> 00:16:19.585
  • Let me predict your future for you, okay?
  • 00:16:19.585 --> 00:16:21.554
  • Some of you have already been there.
  • 00:16:21.554 --> 00:16:22.989
  • Here's what i mean by you'll be a hypocrite.
  • 00:16:22.989 --> 00:16:24.924
  • Live this way, and eventually when you hit a financial bump,
  • 00:16:24.924 --> 00:16:28.694
  • You know, you lose your job, or do you go through a divorce, or
  • 00:16:28.694 --> 00:16:31.597
  • You know, there's some other financial thing, you take a hit,
  • 00:16:31.597 --> 00:16:34.500
  • Do you know what christians do when they have problems?
  • 00:16:34.500 --> 00:16:38.337
  • They pray, that's what we do.
  • 00:16:38.337 --> 00:16:40.073
  • In fact, you may not have prayed in a long time, it's like,
  • 00:16:40.073 --> 00:16:41.874
  • "oh, god, help me," and when you have a financial bump, or take
  • 00:16:41.874 --> 00:16:45.812
  • A financial hit, and you pray, you're a hypocrite because
  • 00:16:45.812 --> 00:16:48.314
  • Here's what you're doing.
  • 00:16:48.314 --> 00:16:49.682
  • You're saying, god, i wanna invite you in to my finances.
  • 00:16:49.682 --> 00:16:55.121
  • God's like, well, it's been a long time.
  • 00:16:55.121 --> 00:16:58.791
  • This is a first, i mean, usually, it's like, oh, no, no,
  • 00:16:58.791 --> 00:17:01.894
  • No, no, you know, it's like, oh, now you want me to get involved
  • 00:17:01.894 --> 00:17:05.765
  • In your finances?
  • 00:17:05.765 --> 00:17:07.400
  • I mean, how hypocritical is that?
  • 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:09.869
  • So, you need to reverse that order now as a jesus follower,
  • 00:17:09.869 --> 00:17:15.875
  • And it's not that you shouldn't pray when you hit a financial
  • 00:17:15.875 --> 00:17:17.944
  • Bump, of course you should pray.
  • 00:17:17.944 --> 00:17:19.312
  • In fact, many people come to their senses financially when
  • 00:17:19.312 --> 00:17:24.083
  • They hit a bump and they finally reverse that order and invite
  • 00:17:24.083 --> 00:17:27.753
  • God into their finances, not in the moment of crisis,
  • 00:17:27.753 --> 00:17:30.957
  • But habitually as a way of life.
  • 00:17:30.957 --> 00:17:32.758
  • And that's what i'm inviting those of you who consider
  • 00:17:32.758 --> 00:17:35.128
  • Yourself christians to do, to not do this.
  • 00:17:35.128 --> 00:17:40.032
  • You are treating your savior as a helper, not a king.
  • 00:17:40.032 --> 00:17:44.804
  • I mean, what does that say about your appreciation and your
  • 00:17:44.804 --> 00:17:47.707
  • Confidence in god?
  • 00:17:47.707 --> 00:17:49.809
  • So, that has to change, right?
  • 00:17:49.809 --> 00:17:53.012
  • Otherwise, you know what?
  • 00:17:53.012 --> 00:17:54.380
  • We're consumers, but we're not followers, that brings us to
  • 00:17:54.380 --> 00:17:58.351
  • Calculated, aren't you glad we're moving on?
  • 00:17:58.351 --> 00:17:59.952
  • The premeditated, calculated, okay, here's the thing.
  • 00:17:59.952 --> 00:18:03.656
  • Here's what generous people, here's how generous
  • 00:18:03.656 --> 00:18:05.057
  • People think.
  • 00:18:05.057 --> 00:18:06.392
  • Generous people pre-decide, that's what calculated means.
  • 00:18:06.392 --> 00:18:10.696
  • Generous people pre-decide, they don't wait to be asked, they
  • 00:18:10.696 --> 00:18:14.033
  • Don't wait to be asked to see what's in their purse, or in
  • 00:18:14.033 --> 00:18:15.868
  • Their wallet and their checking account, or i gotta think about
  • 00:18:15.868 --> 00:18:18.004
  • It, let me kinda get home.
  • 00:18:18.004 --> 00:18:19.338
  • No, no, they have pre-decided.
  • 00:18:19.338 --> 00:18:21.707
  • They've pre-decided an amount or a percentage, and percentage is
  • 00:18:21.707 --> 00:18:25.778
  • Better because percentage rises and falls with income.
  • 00:18:25.778 --> 00:18:29.882
  • They pick a percentage and they set it aside, and that money is
  • 00:18:29.882 --> 00:18:34.187
  • As good as given.
  • 00:18:34.187 --> 00:18:36.455
  • This is so fun.
  • 00:18:36.455 --> 00:18:37.823
  • It's just waiting for an opportunity.
  • 00:18:37.823 --> 00:18:41.427
  • To have a plan, and to have picked a percentage, and to
  • 00:18:41.427 --> 00:18:44.497
  • Choose where that percentage goes, i'm telling you, it puts
  • 00:18:44.497 --> 00:18:47.099
  • The fun in funding.
  • 00:18:47.099 --> 00:18:48.434
  • It brings the joy to giving.
  • 00:18:48.434 --> 00:18:49.802
  • It brings the joy to life, and it is a keystone habit.
  • 00:18:49.802 --> 00:18:52.772
  • Giving first is a keystone habit.
  • 00:18:52.772 --> 00:18:54.307
  • It will impact everything else you do financially, because when
  • 00:18:54.307 --> 00:18:58.277
  • You flip that script, when you flip that list, i'm telling you,
  • 00:18:58.277 --> 00:19:01.347
  • It impacts everything.
  • 00:19:01.347 --> 00:19:03.249
  • Besides that, we never miss money that we give away.
  • 00:19:03.249 --> 00:19:06.485
  • So, back to our definition, premeditated, calculated, next
  • 00:19:06.485 --> 00:19:10.189
  • Up, designated, that means, this is so fun, generous people have
  • 00:19:10.189 --> 00:19:15.595
  • Already decided ahead of time where they're going to give or
  • 00:19:15.595 --> 00:19:20.199
  • Allocate their giving money.
  • 00:19:20.199 --> 00:19:22.401
  • Generous people don't have to be asked.
  • 00:19:22.401 --> 00:19:25.671
  • Generous people don't wait to be asked.
  • 00:19:25.671 --> 00:19:29.208
  • Generous people are proactive.
  • 00:19:29.208 --> 00:19:31.110
  • They've discovered here are the things that are important to me,
  • 00:19:31.110 --> 00:19:34.013
  • Here are the things that are making a difference in
  • 00:19:34.013 --> 00:19:35.348
  • The world, i'm gonna let them know i'm gonna be proactive
  • 00:19:35.348 --> 00:19:38.451
  • In my giving.
  • 00:19:38.451 --> 00:19:39.819
  • I'm gonna go ahead and designate this.
  • 00:19:39.819 --> 00:19:41.287
  • This doesn't mean you don't give sporadically, this doesn't mean
  • 00:19:41.287 --> 00:19:43.789
  • You don't give spontaneously, but that's the add-on giving.
  • 00:19:43.789 --> 00:19:47.093
  • Generous people have already decided.
  • 00:19:47.093 --> 00:19:49.862
  • And i'm gonna give you a tip in terms of how to decide.
  • 00:19:49.862 --> 00:19:53.366
  • Give, always give from a grateful heart and a broken
  • 00:19:53.366 --> 00:19:57.303
  • Heart, a grateful heart and a broken heart.
  • 00:19:57.303 --> 00:20:00.873
  • You need to ask personally, or maybe as a couple if you're
  • 00:20:00.873 --> 00:20:03.976
  • Married, or as a family, in fact, if you've got kids who are
  • 00:20:03.976 --> 00:20:06.946
  • Old enough to participate in this conversation,
  • 00:20:06.946 --> 00:20:08.881
  • It's so much fun.
  • 00:20:08.881 --> 00:20:10.249
  • We did this with our kids.
  • 00:20:10.249 --> 00:20:11.584
  • But you decide, you ask these questions, what are we grateful
  • 00:20:11.584 --> 00:20:14.353
  • For and what breaks our heart?
  • 00:20:14.353 --> 00:20:16.555
  • Talk about this one first.
  • 00:20:16.555 --> 00:20:17.923
  • What am i grateful for?
  • 00:20:17.923 --> 00:20:19.258
  • And this question has to do with the things that benefit you.
  • 00:20:19.258 --> 00:20:22.695
  • What are the things that are coming your way and you're so
  • 00:20:22.695 --> 00:20:25.231
  • Grateful for that, that you wanna donate to whatever
  • 00:20:25.231 --> 00:20:28.367
  • Organization is that has benefited you, or your kids,
  • 00:20:28.367 --> 00:20:31.671
  • Or your family?
  • 00:20:31.671 --> 00:20:33.439
  • This is why if you are grateful for your local church, you
  • 00:20:33.439 --> 00:20:39.545
  • Should have a plan for giving to your local church.
  • 00:20:39.545 --> 00:20:43.416
  • So, show your gratitude with your money.
  • 00:20:43.416 --> 00:20:45.384
  • And if you have a plan, and if you've already designated it,
  • 00:20:45.384 --> 00:20:49.188
  • It's painless because you've pre-decided, and now you're
  • 00:20:49.188 --> 00:20:52.858
  • Proactive and you don't have to wait to be asked, right?
  • 00:20:52.858 --> 00:20:57.763
  • And then beyond that, you wanna ask the question, okay, what
  • 00:20:57.763 --> 00:21:02.001
  • Breaks my heart?
  • 00:21:02.001 --> 00:21:03.369
  • What stirs or what breaks my heart?
  • 00:21:03.369 --> 00:21:05.638
  • Now, this is that thing that there's something that, you
  • 00:21:05.638 --> 00:21:09.709
  • Know, when you hear about those kids, or you hear about people
  • 00:21:09.709 --> 00:21:12.144
  • Being trained to be able to do jobs, or people who are
  • 00:21:12.144 --> 00:21:16.615
  • Homeless, or foster care, whatever it might be, every once
  • 00:21:16.615 --> 00:21:19.719
  • In a while, there's just something that kind of stirs
  • 00:21:19.719 --> 00:21:21.520
  • Your heart or breaks your heart, you need to find an organization
  • 00:21:21.520 --> 00:21:24.590
  • That's operating in that space, and you need to designate some
  • 00:21:24.590 --> 00:21:27.893
  • Of your giving money, and you need to write 'em a letter and
  • 00:21:27.893 --> 00:21:29.695
  • Say i'm gonna send you this every month.
  • 00:21:29.695 --> 00:21:31.263
  • Don't ask me, you don't have to do a gala, you don't have
  • 00:21:31.263 --> 00:21:34.500
  • To invite me to a fundraiser, no, see, i'm not one of
  • 00:21:34.500 --> 00:21:37.436
  • Those people.
  • 00:21:37.436 --> 00:21:39.138
  • I'm a generous person.
  • 00:21:39.138 --> 00:21:40.539
  • I don't have to be asked.
  • 00:21:40.539 --> 00:21:41.874
  • I believe in what you're doing because what you're doing
  • 00:21:41.874 --> 00:21:44.243
  • Impacts me, because the cause that you're addressing
  • 00:21:44.243 --> 00:21:47.747
  • Stirs my heart.
  • 00:21:47.747 --> 00:21:49.115
  • Any time you can marry your giving, your passion, and your
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  • Time together, that is a win for you.
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  • So, what breaks your heart?
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  • What stirs your heart?
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  • What problem in society or maybe in the world would you love to
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  • See solved?
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  • Find somebody in that space who's doing a great job, and
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  • Then just decide every month or every time i get paid or every
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  • Year we're, boom, sending 'em a check.
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  • Don't have to ask because i'm generous.
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  • I'm not the average american giver, i got a plan, i've picked
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  • A percentage, and i'm designating it based on what i'm
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  • Grateful for and what stirs or breaks my heart.
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  • This is what connects your heart.
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  • This is what connects your heart to your giving.
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  • Now, another way of saying all this is this, saving prepares
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  • You to say yes to you, and you should save money.
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  • Living generous, this is what's so powerful, living generous
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  • Prepares you to say yes to what's important to you.
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  • And look up here, if you don't have a plan, you won't be ready.
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  • If you don't have a plan, you will be inconsistent.
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  • If you don't have a plan, you'll be thinking how much is in my
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  • Checking account?
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  • That's how everybody else does it.
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  • Don't be like everybody else, because if you do, you put
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  • Others last, you put the kingdom of god last, you put the church
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  • Last, and you just can't consider yourself a jesus
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  • Follower if that's the case.
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  • If you do this, i'm telling you, you will make more thoughtful,
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  • Intentional, passion-filled, less emotional giving decisions,
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  • And you'll feel better about it.
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  • This is kind of a bonus.
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  • You'll feel better about saying no to every ask that comes
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  • Along, here's why.
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  • Because generous people, generous people don't feel
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  • Guilty saying no, because they've already said yes.
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  • Generous people don't feel, you know, thank you for asking, but
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  • No, i don't feel guilty.
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  • No, no, no, i don't feel guilty, because you see, i'm not an
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  • Emotional giver.
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  • I don't give based on the plea and the pictures, i mean, you
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  • Can give money to anything you want to, i'm not telling you to
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  • Say no, i'm just telling you when you say no, it's because
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  • You've already said yes.
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  • This is why i say the simplest way to organize your financial
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  • Life is this.
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  • You give first, save second, live on the rest.
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  • You give first, you save second, you live on the rest.
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  • If you give first, you will probably save more, and you will
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  • Live more responsibly, i guarantee it.
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  • This is a keystone financial habit that impacts everything
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  • Else, and the result is more joy, more peace, because you're
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  • Preparing for your own future, and more freedom to live
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  • Responsibly in this world that we live in that just constantly
  • 00:24:23.502 --> 00:24:27.540
  • Reminds us of what we don't have, what we think we need, or
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  • How to upgrade something that we already have.
  • 00:24:30.776 --> 00:24:33.679
  • Now, wrapping up, imagine if you've been doing this
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  • All along.
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  • Imagine if this had been your lifestyle since you got your
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  • First job.
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  • Imagine if your whole life, you just picked a percentage, boom,
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  • You know, it's $10 a week, or $100 a week, imagine how much
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  • Money you would have given away responsibly to things you
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  • Believed in and were passionate about.
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  • So, i'm challenging you to begin living generous.
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  • Again, back to where we started, imagine if you had that checking
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  • Account, all the good you would do and all the good you could
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  • Do, and you know what?
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  • You're generous in your heart, i bet almost every one of you
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  • Are generous.
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  • I wish i could do more.
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  • Hey, do you really wish you could do more?
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  • Well, i did before you preached this sermon, now i'm kind of
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  • Afraid to answer that question.
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  • Because if you would, come on, if you wish you could do more,
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  • You could do more.
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  • I'm telling you, you have no idea what your giving capacity
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  • Is until you have a plan.
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  • And if this scares you, it shouldn't.
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  • What should scare you is living another season of your life
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  • Without doing this.
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  • That's what should scare you, because generous people are the
  • 00:25:44.617 --> 00:25:49.288
  • Happiest people.
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  • Jesus said it this way, here's what he said, "it is more
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  • Blessed to give than to receive."
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  • He was not kidding.
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  • Blessed means happy.
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  • Jesus says you wanna be happy?
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  • I wanna be happy.
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  • Well, then you can't, listen, you can't consume your way
  • 00:26:06.505 --> 00:26:10.442
  • To happiness, you've already tried.
  • 00:26:10.442 --> 00:26:14.179
  • It's impossible, because you are made in the image of creator
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  • God, and he says you wanna be happy?
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  • Then you flip the script on how you manage your money and you'll
  • 00:26:22.721 --> 00:26:26.225
  • Save more, you'll consume less, you'll give more, and you
  • 00:26:26.225 --> 00:26:31.030
  • Will be happier.
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  • You won't be blessed, i wanna be clear, you won't be blessed in
  • 00:26:32.398 --> 00:26:34.500
  • The sense of you gave god a dollar, he gave you ten.
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  • I don't believe that.
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  • You live in the united states of america, good grief, we've
  • 00:26:38.504 --> 00:26:41.240
  • Already won the lottery for most of us when you think about
  • 00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:44.043
  • What's going on in the world.
  • 00:26:44.043 --> 00:26:45.377
  • So, this isn't about give to get, this is about give because
  • 00:26:45.377 --> 00:26:48.380
  • You've been given to, and that's the power of a plan, and that's
  • 00:26:48.380 --> 00:26:52.284
  • The power of percentage, and this is what it means to follow
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  • Jesus with our finances.
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  • I don't want you to live another ten years or get another ten
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  • Years down the road and have missed out on the joy that could
  • 00:27:01.994 --> 00:27:05.297
  • Be yours by doing this.
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  • So decide, i just want you to decide.
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  • I want you to plan to live generous, which means you make
  • 00:27:08.767 --> 00:27:13.238
  • A plan, you pick a percentage, and then you go for it.
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  • You designate it, you get busy, you share it with your family,
  • 00:27:17.242 --> 00:27:20.446
  • You make this a way of life, and you watch and see what happens.
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  • You watch and see what happens to you on the inside and in your
  • 00:27:24.016 --> 00:27:27.019
  • Heart, and watch and see what happens in your finances.
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  • It is a keystone habit.
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  • It has the potential to change everything.
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  • So, give generously, more important, live generous,
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  • You will be glad that you did.
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