Speaker 1: You know, finances can be a tough subject. But today
Speaker 1: on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we're going to begin a
Speaker 1: powerful series called financial Fitness. In this series, Rick's going
Speaker 1: to open up the word and tackle the tough stuff,
Speaker 1: show you how to manage what you've been given with wisdom,
Speaker 1: faith and purpose. And I'm sure, like me, as you
Speaker 1: apply these biblical principles, you'll start to experience real financial
Speaker 1: freedom and more peace. So let's get right into it.
Speaker 1: This is part one of a message called the Foundation
Speaker 1: of Financial Health.
Speaker 2: First, we're going to study two of my favorite books
Speaker 2: of the Bible, the Book of Proverbs and the Book
Speaker 2: of Ecclesiastes. They're in the Old Testament, written by Solomon,
Speaker 2: the wisest man who ever lived, and I love these
Speaker 2: books and they are literally filled chock filled with advice
Speaker 2: on how to get out of debt, how to stay
Speaker 2: out of debt, how to prosper, how to have financial stability,
Speaker 2: how to say spend, invest, not waste your money, make
Speaker 2: the most of it, how to have money work for
Speaker 2: you and not you work for money, and a lot
Speaker 2: of principles. We're going to be looking at the laws,
Speaker 2: the financial laws that are in the Bible in God's Word,
Speaker 2: and they're twenty thirty of these we're going to look
Speaker 2: at during this series. Now, before we look at Proverbs
Speaker 2: and Ecclesiastes, we start looking at these laws of financial freedom,
Speaker 2: laws of financial fitness, laws of financial blessing in your life.
Speaker 2: I want us to look at first of what Jesus
Speaker 2: said about it. You see, Jesus talked more about money
Speaker 2: than he did heaven or hell. Did you know that
Speaker 2: he talked more about money than heaven or Hell? Why?
Speaker 2: Because we spend more time thinking about money than heaven
Speaker 2: or hell. We spend much of our time thinking about
Speaker 2: how to get it, how to make it, how to
Speaker 2: save it, how to spend it, how to invest it,
Speaker 2: how to protect it, how to know, you know, ensure it,
Speaker 2: and all the other things. And it dominates much of
Speaker 2: our lives. And so Jesus had a lot to say
Speaker 2: about money management. He also told us that money management
Speaker 2: is a spiritual discipline, that God is actually watching how
Speaker 2: I handle my wealth to see what He can trust
Speaker 2: me with with true spiritual riches in heaven. Jesus when
Speaker 2: he told the parables, you know the stories, the famous
Speaker 2: stories of Jesus, over half of the parables Jesus told
Speaker 2: deal with material possessions. So there's a lot of material
Speaker 2: in the Bible on how to get out of debt,
Speaker 2: how to stay out of debt, how to control money
Speaker 2: instead of having it control you. Now this weekend, before
Speaker 2: we begin Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, I want us to look
Speaker 2: at Matthew chapter twenty five. If you have a Bible,
Speaker 2: you might want to open to Matthew chapter twenty five.
Speaker 2: We're just going to look at the story that Jesus
Speaker 2: told there. If you don't pull out your message notes
Speaker 2: and all of the verses we're going to look at
Speaker 2: are there. This is called the Parable of the Talents. Now,
Speaker 2: many people misunderstand this parable because it has the word
Speaker 2: talent in it. And when we hear the word talent,
Speaker 2: we think of gifts, abilities. You know, your shape, your personality,
Speaker 2: your spiritual gifts, your heart, the things you love to do,
Speaker 2: what you're naturally good at. The word the English word
Speaker 2: talent actually comes from this chapter in the Bible. Before
Speaker 2: there was this Jesus told this story, that word talent
Speaker 2: didn't exist. But a talent is actually a measurement of money.
Speaker 2: And while this does have application to your talents, your gifts,
Speaker 2: your abilities. This is actually a parable a story about
Speaker 2: money management. A talent was a specific weight of gold,
Speaker 2: and there was a Babylonian talent, there was a Greek talent,
Speaker 2: and there was a Roman talent, which was a specific
Speaker 2: amount of money. So we're going to look at it now.
Speaker 2: In this chapter. We're going to start in verse fourteen.
Speaker 2: We have the story of a rich businessman, and Jesus
Speaker 2: tells the story of a guy who's very, very wealthy.
Speaker 2: We can know that by what he gives his servants
Speaker 2: to take care of. And he says, I'm going to
Speaker 2: go away on a trip and I'm going to be
Speaker 2: gone for a long time, so I'm going to put
Speaker 2: you in charge of my property. And he divides up
Speaker 2: his wealth. You know, in those days, there weren't any banks,
Speaker 2: and so you didn't keep your money in a bank.
Speaker 2: So he's got all of his wealth at home, and
Speaker 2: he divides his wealth up among his three servants, and
Speaker 2: he says, I expect you guys to make the most
Speaker 2: of this, and when I come back, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: And so he's gone for a long time, and later
Speaker 2: the businessman comes back home and he says, Okay, give
Speaker 2: me an account. What did you guys do with my money?
Speaker 2: And they tell the story, and two of the guys
Speaker 2: have a good report, and one of the guys has
Speaker 2: a bad report. And then Jesus draws some spiritual truths
Speaker 2: out of this. Out of this story, we learn seven
Speaker 2: foundations for financial fitness. You ever needed to take notes,
Speaker 2: you need to take notes this weekend, because these are
Speaker 2: foundations that base the stability of your life on in
Speaker 2: order to become all God wants you to be. Now,
Speaker 2: let's look at it together. There on your outline. In
Speaker 2: Matthew twenty five, verse fourteen, we see the beginning of
Speaker 2: the story and it says this the kingdom of Heaven,
Speaker 2: Jesus said, will be like a man going on a journey,
Speaker 2: this businessman. And he called his three servants together, and
Speaker 2: he entrusted his property to them. Now, if you're taking notes,
Speaker 2: I want you to circle the word his there on
Speaker 2: that verse. It says he called his three servants together
Speaker 2: and entrusted his property to them. So when we're talking
Speaker 2: about money here, whose money are we talking about? The
Speaker 2: money owned by the master or the money owned by
Speaker 2: the servants? Yeah, the Master Okay, it's not the servant's money.
Speaker 2: It's the master's money. But he's giving it to them
Speaker 2: to take care of this, by the way, is called stewardship.
Speaker 2: You've heard this word before. A steward or a stewardship.
Speaker 2: That's the old English word for manager. Any of you
Speaker 2: who are managers or involved in management in a business
Speaker 2: are actually starts. A steward is a manager, and stewardship
Speaker 2: simply means management. We are called to be stewards of
Speaker 2: our time, manager time. We are called to be stewards
Speaker 2: of our influence. We are called to be stewards of
Speaker 2: our health, of our minds, of our relationships, of our opportunities.
Speaker 2: Everything you have, you are to be a steward or
Speaker 2: a manager of. Now, he says, here he entrusted his
Speaker 2: property to his servants. Now, this is the first law
Speaker 2: of financial freedom. And it is this. The law possession
Speaker 2: is this. You might write this down. Everything I have
Speaker 2: belongs to God. I need to just settle that one
Speaker 2: right up front. It's not my money. It all belongs
Speaker 2: to God. He said. Wait a minute, but I worked
Speaker 2: for this. Where do you think you got your body
Speaker 2: to work for it? Where do you think you got
Speaker 2: your mind to work for it. Where do you think
Speaker 2: you got your energy to work for it? Where do
Speaker 2: you think you got your intelligence work? Everything you have
Speaker 2: is a gift from God. So you don't really own
Speaker 2: anything in life. It's all on loan. Someday I'm going
Speaker 2: to write a book and the first sentence of the
Speaker 2: book will be what you think you own is really
Speaker 2: on loan. You see, I didn't own anything before I
Speaker 2: was born. I didn't bring anything into the world. I've
Speaker 2: been there at the birth of all my babies and
Speaker 2: grand babies. None of them came in carrying a satchel
Speaker 2: full of money. Okay, you didn't bring anything into the world.
Speaker 2: And I've been there at the other end to you,
Speaker 2: at the funerals. Nobody takes it out with them. You
Speaker 2: never see a hearse driving a you know, a U
Speaker 2: haul with it, okay, So you only get to use
Speaker 2: it while you're here. It's God's money. God loaned it
Speaker 2: to somebody before you. He's loaned it to you for
Speaker 2: eighty years, and he's going to loan it to somebody
Speaker 2: else after you die. You don't own it. It's all
Speaker 2: under management. The master owns it all. God is the owner.
Speaker 2: Now the risk is really important because we tend to
Speaker 2: forget it. We forget and when we forget it, you
Speaker 2: know what is the sign that you've forgotten that it's
Speaker 2: God's and not yours. When you think it's yours, you
Speaker 2: worry about it. Worry is the sign that you think
Speaker 2: it's all yours. Now. Let's say you had a beach
Speaker 2: house and you said, Rick, I'm going to Spain for
Speaker 2: a year and we're gonna let you and Kay use
Speaker 2: our beach house for a year. So we use your
Speaker 2: beach house for year, and then you call up a
Speaker 2: year later, go, you know what, we think we're gonna stay.
Speaker 2: We're having a good time, so we're going to stay
Speaker 2: another year in Spain. Use our beach house for another year.
Speaker 2: And so then on the third year you call up
Speaker 2: again say hey, go ahead and use it for a
Speaker 2: third year. By this time, I'm starting to think this
Speaker 2: is mine. You come home about you years and you
Speaker 2: say I'm ready to move back in. I said, what
Speaker 2: do you mean, You're not moving This is my house,
Speaker 2: you know, possessions nine tenths of the law. It's mine now.
Speaker 2: And we tend to think because God has loaned it
Speaker 2: to us for an extended period of time that it's ours.
Speaker 2: It's not. If you would remind yourself of this first
Speaker 2: truth every day, you'd worry a whole lot less. Now,
Speaker 2: in the next verse, verse fifteen, it says this master
Speaker 2: he loans his money out, and he says to one
Speaker 2: servant he gave five talents of money, and to another
Speaker 2: he gave two talents of money. And to another it
Speaker 2: says he gave one talent of money. Okay, now, what's
Speaker 2: he talking about here, Well, a talent, literally, a Roman talent,
Speaker 2: is seventy one pounds of gold. I think about that
Speaker 2: now today yesterday gold was sixteen hundred dollars an ounce. Okay,
Speaker 2: So that means if you got a talent of gold,
Speaker 2: you got one point eight million dollars. This is not
Speaker 2: a small investment. Okay. If you got two talents, which
Speaker 2: he gave to one guy, he's just given you three
Speaker 2: point six million dollars to take care of while he's gone.
Speaker 2: If he's given you five talents, he's just given you
Speaker 2: nine million dollars to take care of. This is not
Speaker 2: a small amount. He's really trusting and God has made
Speaker 2: a huge investment in you. We'll talk about that later.
Speaker 2: But the first law, the law God possesses everything, it
Speaker 2: all belongs to him. And then this is the second law,
Speaker 2: and it says he gives one five talents to one,
Speaker 2: two talents to another, and a one talent of goal
Speaker 2: to another guy, each according to his ability. Then he
Speaker 2: left on his journey. This is the law of allocation,
Speaker 2: and it is this God has loaned me money. I
Speaker 2: just talked about that. You don't really own it. He's
Speaker 2: loaning it to you for thirty forty, fifty, sixty, eighty
Speaker 2: ninety at the most one hundred years. Now you notice
Speaker 2: in this story that Jesus tells everybody gets a different amount.
Speaker 2: That's obvious. We're not all equally wealthy. We're not all
Speaker 2: equally you know, have the same economic status. It says,
Speaker 2: some guy get one talent, some guy gets two talents,
Speaker 2: some guy gets five talents of gold. But the point
Speaker 2: is this, everybody gets something. Now, there are no no
Speaker 2: talent people in the world. If you're breathing, that is
Speaker 2: a blessing. If you are alive, that in itself is
Speaker 2: a blessing. Now everybody gets something, and they all begin
Speaker 2: to go out. Now, notice the next verse verse sixteen
Speaker 2: there in your outline. The man who had received the
Speaker 2: five talents went at once and put his money to work.
Speaker 2: Circle that phrase, put his money to work and gained
Speaker 2: five more talents of gold. And so the one with
Speaker 2: the two talents also doubled his money. But the man
Speaker 2: who had received the one talent went off, dug a
Speaker 2: hole in the ground and just hid his master's money. Now,
Speaker 2: there's a couple of things I want to point out here,
Speaker 2: and the first is this money is a tool to
Speaker 2: be used. You put it to work. You use money,
Speaker 2: and you love people. Now, if you get that reversed,
Speaker 2: you're going to be in trouble because if you start
Speaker 2: loving money, you will use people. No, people are to
Speaker 2: be loved. Money is to be used. You are to
Speaker 2: never love money. You are to use it. It is
Speaker 2: a tool to be used. You say, well, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: isn't money the root of all evil? Then not what
Speaker 2: the Bible says. No, that's not what the Bible says.
Speaker 2: The Bible does not say money is the root of
Speaker 2: all evil. It says the love of money is the
Speaker 2: root of all evil. Money is totally neutral. It can
Speaker 2: be used for good or bad. It can be used
Speaker 2: by Hitler to bomb Europe, or it could be used
Speaker 2: by churches to spread good news and feed the hungry.
Speaker 2: You can use it on very selfish centered purposes, or
Speaker 2: you can use it for very unselfish purposes. You can
Speaker 2: use it to create businesses and products that bless the
Speaker 2: entire world. Money is a neutral thing. It's neither good
Speaker 2: nor bad. It's what you do with it. But he says,
Speaker 2: put your money to work. One of the things we're
Speaker 2: going to learn in the next several weeks together is
Speaker 2: how to put your money to work. The reason why
Speaker 2: most people are in debt, and the reason why most
Speaker 2: people never get out of debt is because they are
Speaker 2: always working for their money instead of having their money
Speaker 2: work for them. You got to reverse this. This is
Speaker 2: a whole different way of thinking about money. You've got
Speaker 2: to learn how to put your money to work for
Speaker 2: you instead of you working for money. If you work
Speaker 2: for money, you will always be needing more, you will
Speaker 2: always be in debt. But if you learn how to
Speaker 2: make money work for you, then money becomes your servant.
Speaker 2: Money is a wonderful servant. It is a terrible master.
Speaker 2: It is a terrible master, and you know it's a master.
Speaker 2: When it's causing stress in your life, then it's mastering you.
Speaker 2: It's controlling you. Now, he says, he gives the money
Speaker 2: out to these three servants. One goes out and invests it,
Speaker 2: puts it work, goes out and puts it to work.
Speaker 2: The third guy goes and hides it in the ground.
Speaker 2: Here's the point. You get to choose what you do
Speaker 2: with what God gives you. You don't get to choose
Speaker 2: what you're given. Some people are given one talent, some
Speaker 2: people are given five talents. Some people are given ten talents.
Speaker 2: Some people are given two talents. It's just different amounts.
Speaker 2: But you do get to choose what you do with it,
Speaker 2: and what you do with it is what God is watching. Now.
Speaker 2: When you get to heaven one day, God is not
Speaker 2: going to say, why weren't you more like your brother?
Speaker 2: Why wan't you more like your dad? Why wan't you
Speaker 2: more like your mother? Why weren't you more No, you
Speaker 2: are only responsible for the talents you've been given. And
Speaker 2: I'm talking about not just money, but your time and
Speaker 2: your abilities and all these other different things. When you
Speaker 2: get to heaven, God is never going to compare you
Speaker 2: to anybody else, And you can't say, well, look, you
Speaker 2: only gave me one talent. You gave you that guy
Speaker 2: five talents. God isn't going to say, who are you
Speaker 2: talking about. God wants to know what did you do
Speaker 2: with what you were given? What did you do with
Speaker 2: what you were giving? Not what I gave somebody else,
Speaker 2: but what I gave you. So God says, you get
Speaker 2: to choose what you do with the money I give you. Now,
Speaker 2: what can you do with that money? You can waste it,
Speaker 2: and there are plenty of ways to waste it. You
Speaker 2: can spend it, you can use it, you can invest it.
Speaker 2: You know, they're all different kind You could hoard it.
Speaker 2: There are lots of ways. Of God lets you choose
Speaker 2: which way you want to do it. But you will
Speaker 2: have to give an account one day for the reasons
Speaker 2: you chose to do what you did with the money
Speaker 2: He loaned to you while you were alive. This is
Speaker 2: a test. One day you're going to have to explain it.
Speaker 2: And that's why. In verse nineteen, it says, after a
Speaker 2: long time, the master of the three servants returned to
Speaker 2: settle his accounts. Circle the word accounts. He said he
Speaker 2: returned to settle his accounts. This is the next law,
Speaker 2: the third law, and the third law is the law
Speaker 2: of accountability. And the law of accountability is this. One
Speaker 2: day God will audit me. One day God is going
Speaker 2: to audit me. He's going to come and settle accounts.
Speaker 2: There's going to be a final exam on the life
Speaker 2: God gave you. It will be a life audit, not
Speaker 2: by the irs, but by the good. Difference with between
Speaker 2: the irs and the God is God has all the records.
Speaker 2: You don't have to bring any to that audit. He's
Speaker 2: already got it. He's seen everything you've ever done with
Speaker 2: your time, with your words, with your money, with your life,
Speaker 2: the times you used it for good and the times
Speaker 2: you just flat out blew it. But you will give
Speaker 2: an account one day. And it is foolish to go
Speaker 2: through life thinking that I'm not going to have an
Speaker 2: audit at the end of life. You think God would
Speaker 2: create you, put you on this planet, and then at
Speaker 2: the end say now what'd you do with your life?
Speaker 2: I put you, I created you, and I made you
Speaker 2: for reason. And so there's going to be this this audit.
Speaker 2: God has made an investment in you. He has given
Speaker 2: you certain gifts, certain abilities, certain opportunities. He's given you
Speaker 2: certain resources, he's given you a certain heritage, he's given
Speaker 2: you certain freedoms. He's given you a certain amount of
Speaker 2: intellect and intelligence and energy. And God's going to what'd
Speaker 2: you do with all that stuff? Well, I made a
Speaker 2: lot of money, retired and die A wrong answer. You
Speaker 2: think I put you on earth to live for yourself?
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, I mean really, come on. You
Speaker 2: think I put you on earth to live simply for
Speaker 2: yourself and to stockpile a bunch of things that you're
Speaker 2: not going to take with you anyway when you die.
Speaker 2: Life is not the in the acquisition of things. You've
Speaker 2: seen that bumper sticker, he who dies with the most
Speaker 2: toys wins. No, the sticker should say, he who dies
Speaker 2: with the most toys still dies, and he wasted his life,
Speaker 2: because life is not about the acquisition of things, because
Speaker 2: you're not taking any of it with you. It all
Speaker 2: belongs to God that God has loaned it to me.
Speaker 2: He's watching what I do with it, and one day
Speaker 2: I'm going to give an account of how well I
Speaker 2: used the money, the resources, the time, the energy, all
Speaker 2: things that God gave me. The Bible says this here
Speaker 2: on the screen Romans fourteen to well, each of us
Speaker 2: will give an account of himself to God. Now, you know,
Speaker 2: it's fun to be irresponsible, but you can't be responsible
Speaker 2: irresponsible your entire life. My guess is that when you
Speaker 2: got out of high school, you either a went off
Speaker 2: and tried to get a job or you went off
Speaker 2: to college. And either way, whether you went to college
Speaker 2: or went to work, there's probably a few years in
Speaker 2: there you were just slacking around. You think I'm out
Speaker 2: of the house. I'm going to have some fun, and
Speaker 2: you're kind of, you know, irresponsible. You sleep in you
Speaker 2: don't really try to get a job. You're watching cartoons,
Speaker 2: eating cocoa puffs. You know, I'm playing video games and
Speaker 2: things like that. But at some point you have to
Speaker 2: wake up and go, excuse me, I got to get
Speaker 2: a life. I cannot be irresponsible my entire life. It
Speaker 2: might work for a year or two, but the Master's
Speaker 2: going to come back and I'm going to give an account.
Speaker 2: And irresponsibility never lasts. It always catches you in the end.
Speaker 2: And that's what happens to people when they get in debt.
Speaker 2: We are financially irresponsible, and it eventually catches up with
Speaker 2: us and the chickens come home to roost. Right now,
Speaker 2: America is reeling in the results of decades of overspending.
Speaker 2: And how the most blessed and most prosperous and the
Speaker 2: most wealthy nation in the world can be on the
Speaker 2: verge of bankruptcy isn't amazing, but it can happen. All
Speaker 2: you have to do is just spend trillions and trillions
Speaker 2: and trillions of dollars and keep spending it. You cannot
Speaker 2: be irresponsible forever. At some point you have to kind
Speaker 2: of man up. Now, the law of accountability says that
Speaker 2: one day God's going to say, what'd you do with
Speaker 2: what I gave you? Now, notice these three guys have
Speaker 2: three different responses. The first guy, he's got a good report,
Speaker 2: he's got a good ROI return on in his investment.
Speaker 2: And in verse twenty one, twenty twenty one, it says
Speaker 2: the man who had received five talents okay, brought the
Speaker 2: others I remember this nine million bucks brought the other
Speaker 2: five he had made. And master, he said, you entrusted
Speaker 2: me with five talents. See I've gained five more. His
Speaker 2: master replied, well done, good and faithful servant. Well I guess.
Speaker 2: So he's got one hundred percent return. I'd be happy
Speaker 2: for a tenth of that today, wouldn't you. I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean one hundred percent return. He doubled his investment.
Speaker 2: I mean this guy bought Google. Okay, he clearly he
Speaker 2: got in on the front end of Amazon or something,
Speaker 2: and his stock has really soared. He doubles investment on
Speaker 2: hundred percent return. Same thing with the second guy. Second
Speaker 2: guy has another good return and a good report to share.
Speaker 2: Verse twenty two, that servant who was given two talents
Speaker 2: of money also came and said, Master, you entrusted me
Speaker 2: with two talents. Now see I have gained two more.
Speaker 2: He's doubled his and his master replies to him, well done,
Speaker 2: good and faithful servant. One hundred percent return on invent.
Speaker 2: Now the third guy does not have a good story
Speaker 2: to tell because he has not used what God gave
Speaker 2: him wisely, and he doesn't have a good report. In
Speaker 2: verse twenty four, then the man who had received the
Speaker 2: one talent came and said, Master, I knew that you
Speaker 2: are a hard man. I notice he's turning the tables.
Speaker 2: He's trying to put the blame on his boss. Master,
Speaker 2: I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where
Speaker 2: you have not sown and gathering where you haven't scattered seed.
Speaker 2: So I was afraid, you know, I was afraid to
Speaker 2: lose your money. And I went out and I hid
Speaker 2: your talent in the ground. I buried it. He just
Speaker 2: buried it. Now here it is. Here's what belongs to you.
Speaker 2: Nothing ventured, nothing gain. And what is the master's reply
Speaker 2: to the servant, You wicked lazy servant. Now let's just
Speaker 2: tear this apartmentute, because this story in the Bible for
Speaker 2: a reason. This guy buries what God has given him,
Speaker 2: He does nothing with it, he doesn't use his talent,
Speaker 2: and then he blames his master for his own mismanagement
Speaker 2: and for his failure. He says, I'm a victim. We've
Speaker 2: got people doing this today. They mess up their lives,
Speaker 2: and you know, they mess up their lives and they
Speaker 2: don't know what to do. So they blame the government,
Speaker 2: or they blame the boss, or they blame their parents,
Speaker 2: and they blame everybody else. God didn't cause you to
Speaker 2: put all that money on all those expenses on your
Speaker 2: credit card. God didn't tell you to go buy a
Speaker 2: brand new car when you couldn't afford it. God didn't
Speaker 2: tell you to go buy a house that you couldn't afford.
Speaker 2: The Bible says this here on the screen Proverbs nineteen three.
Speaker 2: People ruin themselves by their own stupid actions, and then
Speaker 2: blame the Lord. You've heard me say this before. Anytime
Speaker 2: I blame you, spell blame, be blame. Every time I
Speaker 2: blame you for my problems, lame. Now notice the Master's
Speaker 2: response to this guy's whining. He says verse twenty seven,
Speaker 2: he said, you know, you should have at least put
Speaker 2: my money in the bank so I could make some interest.
Speaker 2: I mean, just put it in a past book account.
Speaker 2: It's not making anything, but that's better than digging a
Speaker 2: hole on the ground and just burying it. You could
Speaker 2: have at least made some money on it. Now, this
Speaker 2: leads us to the fourth law of financial freedom, and
Speaker 2: it is the law of utilization. And the law of
Speaker 2: utilization is this, I must wisely use God's money.
Speaker 1: We really appreciate you joining us today on Pastor Rick's
Speaker 1: Daily Hope. And Rick felt like he wanted to end
Speaker 1: today's show by sharing a word of encouragement.
Speaker 2: Jesus said, Heaven and Earth will pass away but my
Speaker 2: words will never pass away. Did you hear that the
Speaker 2: Bible is going to I'll last the earth and the universe. Why.
Speaker 2: Because God's word is eternal. Because truth never changes. If
Speaker 2: it was true five thousand years ago, it was true
Speaker 2: a thousand years ago, it's true today, and it's gonna
Speaker 2: be true a million years from today. This is why
Speaker 2: it's more important to know God's word than anything else.
Speaker 2: Opinions change, but truth never changes. It's why we focus
Speaker 2: on studying it here on our Daily Hope broadcast. Thanks
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