Speaker 1: Now, the Bible is full of money management advice. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know this or not, but there
Speaker 1: are two books of the Bible, particularly once called the
Speaker 1: Book of Proverbs and the others called the Book of Ecclesiastes,
Speaker 1: which are filled with the laws of money, the principles
Speaker 1: of prosperity, the rules for wealth. There are many, many
Speaker 1: laws of financial freedom in both Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.
Speaker 2: Now, the first law.
Speaker 1: Of financial freedom is which I call the law of contentment.
Speaker 1: Now this is very important because as long as your
Speaker 1: yearnings exceed your earnings, you're going to be in deep trouble.
Speaker 1: You're going to have debt, and your entire life, you're
Speaker 1: going to be frustrated with your finances because your yearnings
Speaker 1: are always going to exceed your yearnings. And until you
Speaker 1: learn this principle of contentment, you're always going to be
Speaker 1: frustrated by your money and you're never, never going to
Speaker 1: have enough, no matter how much you make. Now, here's
Speaker 1: what the Bible says in Proverbs fourteen thirty, it's healthy
Speaker 1: to be content, but envy will eat you up.
Speaker 2: It'll eat you up.
Speaker 1: He's saying, it's not only financially good for you to
Speaker 1: be content. It's actually physically good for you to live
Speaker 1: a contented life. The Bible says, a heart at peace
Speaker 1: gives life to the body.
Speaker 2: It is invigorating.
Speaker 1: It is good for your health to be at peace,
Speaker 1: to not always be under tension, and not always be
Speaker 1: stressed out and always be worried. Now another verse in Ecclesiastes,
Speaker 1: also written by Solomon. These two books were written by
Speaker 1: a man named Solomon. Solomon was the wisest man who
Speaker 1: ever lived. The Bible says, God says he was the
Speaker 1: wisest man ever lived, so he's got some good advice
Speaker 1: for us. He was also the wealthiest man in the
Speaker 1: world when he wrote these two books, with the print
Speaker 1: of money management in them. Ecclesiastes six' nine says, this
Speaker 1: it's better to be satisfied with what you have than
Speaker 1: to always be wanting something. Else that's the, principle that's
Speaker 1: the law of. Contentment it's better to be satisfied with
Speaker 1: what you have than to always be wanting something. Else,
Speaker 1: now we are not by nature contented. People by, NATURE
Speaker 1: i am. Discontented i'm always wanting to change. Things you're
Speaker 1: always wanting to change. Things i'm not. Satisfied you're not.
Speaker 1: Satisfied it is not natural to be. Contented you must
Speaker 1: learn the secret of being. Content how do you do
Speaker 1: that because it's not. Automatic, well The bible tells us
Speaker 1: that there are four, steps four, keys four principles to
Speaker 1: the law of.
Speaker 2: Contentment here they are number.
Speaker 1: One, first stop comparing myself health to. Others that's the first. Step,
Speaker 1: Now god made you. Unique you're not one in a,
Speaker 1: million you're one in. Billions nobody is ever like. You
Speaker 1: god doesn't make. Clones he never raised. Copies even identical
Speaker 1: twins are. Different and for, Second corinthians ten twelve says, this.
Speaker 2: We do not.
Speaker 1: Dare he, says how dare you do? This it's a
Speaker 1: rejection Of. God how dare you do? This we don't
Speaker 1: dare classify or compare. Ourselves it is not, wise he,
Speaker 1: said it's, foolish it's, dumb it's, stupid it's it's. Immature,
Speaker 1: now the problem, is we naturally do, it and we
Speaker 1: do it all the.
Speaker 2: Time. Comparing we love to. Compare. Iton you walk.
Speaker 1: Into somebody's house and the first thing you do is
Speaker 1: you start making.
Speaker 2: Comparisons, OOH i.
Speaker 1: Like their, Floor, ooh that's Got, ooh look at that drape.
Speaker 1: REPLACEMENT i look at A.
Speaker 2: Tv whoa, wow what a.
Speaker 1: Television and you're making comparisons all the. Time you walk
Speaker 1: up to somebody, That, WOW i like the way she
Speaker 1: did her. Hair my looks sucky, today you. Know and you, Know,
Speaker 1: WOW i WISH i had his. WIFE i WISH i
Speaker 1: had her. HUSBAND i why.
Speaker 2: Are my kids like? That you?
Speaker 1: Know AND i WISH i had that? Job and look
Speaker 1: at that, CAR i WISH i had that. Job you
Speaker 1: are constantly, comparing and you do it all the, time
Speaker 1: and that's what keeps you. Frustrated you got to stop.
Speaker 1: It if you're gonna learn, contentment you've got to stop
Speaker 1: comparing everything around. YOU i must learn to admire without
Speaker 1: having to. Acquire you need to learn to rejoice in
Speaker 1: other people's prosperity without you getting jealous and envious and
Speaker 1: feeling like you have to have it, too and then
Speaker 1: being bitter or mad because they've got something you don't.
Speaker 1: Have you must learn to, Admire, wow that's a nice
Speaker 1: you know painting You, God, wow that that's a nice
Speaker 1: backyard you've got without having to. Acquire, now this is
Speaker 1: one of the great principles That americans don't. UNDERSTAND i
Speaker 1: don't have to own it to enjoy. IT i, mean you, say,
Speaker 1: WELL i like to go camp out in the. Mountains,
Speaker 1: well why do you have to go buy a mountain
Speaker 1: cabin when you just rent it the one.
Speaker 2: Time of year you're gonna go to the.
Speaker 1: Mountains, OKAY i don't have to own it in order
Speaker 1: to enjoy.
Speaker 2: IT i learned this long time. Ago i'm not to downing.
Speaker 2: IT i just use your. Stuff, which by the, way
Speaker 2: if you.
Speaker 1: Got a good mountain, cabin let me Know i'll be
Speaker 1: glad to use it for.
Speaker 2: You you, know get the cobwebs out for. You i'll
Speaker 2: be glad to do. That and so you.
Speaker 1: Don't have to own. Something and you may have a
Speaker 1: friend in the. Church you have something you, need we'll
Speaker 1: just borrow. It you don't feel like you got to
Speaker 1: go out and buy everything. Yourself you don't because once
Speaker 1: you own, it you got to repair, it you got
Speaker 1: to maintain, it you got to store, it and all
Speaker 1: these other. THINGS i can learn to admire without having to.
Speaker 1: Acquire here's what you do next time you walk into
Speaker 1: somebody's house and they got something nice that you don't.
Speaker 1: Have instead of starting to get discontent and. Envious you
Speaker 1: just pray a little prayer that says, this thank You
Speaker 1: god THAT i don't have their payments.
Speaker 2: Because they're paying for. That they're paying for.
Speaker 1: That the money you put on the wall isn't helping.
Speaker 1: You the money you put in the bank and saving
Speaker 1: is making you. Money while you're, sleeping it's making you.
Speaker 1: Money so.
Speaker 2: This is so.
Speaker 1: Important and When i'm talking to you about stop comparing.
Speaker 1: Yourself this is not just a good idea to make you.
Speaker 1: Happy comparing yourself to other people is a. Sin in,
Speaker 1: fact it is such a serious sin That god put
Speaker 1: it in The Big.
Speaker 2: Ten, yeah The Ten.
Speaker 1: Commandments it's in there right along with don't murder what
Speaker 1: you'd never, do don't commit, adultery don't rip somebody off in.
Speaker 1: Steel you know what the ten commandment. Is don't compare
Speaker 1: yourself to anybodybody. Else it's there on your. Outlane it's right.
Speaker 1: There exodus twenty. Seventeen you shall not covet anything that
Speaker 1: belongs to your. Neighbor don't look at it and, go,
Speaker 1: MAN i WISH i had, That and you start comparing and.
Speaker 2: Coveting, now what is? Coveting it is a. Word we
Speaker 2: don't use a whole lot. Today so let me define
Speaker 2: it for. You coveting means the uncontrolled desire to. Acquire
Speaker 2: that's what it.
Speaker 1: Means to, covet the uncontrolled desire to. Acquire and when
Speaker 1: EVERYTHING i see And i've got to get it because
Speaker 1: somebody else has got, it that's called. Coveting and it's
Speaker 1: such a. Sin it's right up there with don't. Murder
Speaker 1: it's that important To. God he, SAYS i don't want
Speaker 1: you coveting. Now the word covet In hebrew in The
Speaker 1: Old testament literally.
Speaker 2: Means to pant AFTER i got to have. It it's
Speaker 2: to pant.
Speaker 1: After the word In greek means to grab or to
Speaker 1: grasp so tightly that your hands are tight you can't
Speaker 1: even let it.
Speaker 2: Go If god ever gives.
Speaker 1: You something and he tells you to give it, away
Speaker 1: and you can't give it, away you don't own. It
Speaker 1: it owns. You and you are possessed by your. Possessions
Speaker 1: you don't own.
Speaker 2: Them they own. You, now he, says don't covet, now
Speaker 2: you should not. Covet ain't. Now let me make this really.
Speaker 1: Clear god is not saying you should never have any
Speaker 1: desire for. Anything, no, no, No every great city is
Speaker 1: built because somebody desired to build great. City every great
Speaker 1: nation is built because somebody desired to build a great.
Speaker 1: Nation every great business is built because somebody desired to
Speaker 1: build a great. Business everybody gets married because they desire
Speaker 1: to get. Married everybody has kids because they desire to have.
Speaker 1: Kids everybody makes money because they desire to make. Money
Speaker 1: desires are not. Wrong in, fact your desires come From.
Speaker 1: God we're not talking about desire being. Evil it's the uncontrolled.
Speaker 1: Desire when a desire is, uncontrolled it becomes a. Lust
Speaker 1: and when a desire is, uncontrolled it becomes a. Coveting
Speaker 1: and when you desire something that is not righteously, yours
Speaker 1: LIKE i want your, wife that's. Evil but desire is
Speaker 1: not a negative. Thing and nothing can be accomplished unless
Speaker 1: you desire to do.
Speaker 2: It you.
Speaker 1: Can't you can't become more Like christ without desiring to
Speaker 1: become more Like. Christ you can't desire to be a
Speaker 1: good be a good person without desiring to be a good.
Speaker 1: Person so he's not saying desire is. Bad he is
Speaker 1: saying coveting is, bad which Is i've got.
Speaker 2: To have, more, more, more more.
Speaker 1: And more of what you've got instead of What i've,
Speaker 1: Got so never. Compare this is the first key to
Speaker 1: learning the secret of a contented. Life, wise SHOULD i
Speaker 1: never compare because comparing always leads to. Coveting number, two
Speaker 1: the second secret key to the secret of contentment is
Speaker 1: enjoy WHAT i. Have too often we're so busy going
Speaker 1: after what else we want that we don't stop and
Speaker 1: enjoy what we've already.
Speaker 2: Got how many.
Speaker 1: People do you know who go out and go over
Speaker 1: extend to buy a beautiful, house and then they are
Speaker 1: never at home because they're busy paying for. It they
Speaker 1: don't enjoy what they've got because they're.
Speaker 2: Busy making money to get.
Speaker 1: More and beautiful backyards sit, empty and swimming pool sat
Speaker 1: on swimmed, in and all these people don't enjoy what
Speaker 1: they've already got because they're always going after.
Speaker 2: More you got to enjoy what you.
Speaker 1: Have did you know That god wants you to enjoy,
Speaker 1: life not to just endure, it but enjoy. It life
Speaker 1: was meant to be, enjoyed not merely. Endured a lot
Speaker 1: of people Think god is some cosmic kill, joy That
Speaker 1: god wants you to frown through life and never be
Speaker 1: happy and never laugh and never have any fun and
Speaker 1: never enjoy absolutely.
Speaker 2: Not god created it all for your. Enjoyment.
Speaker 1: Okay god created taste buds and then gave us. Sinnabon
Speaker 1: god created ear drums and then gave us. Music there
Speaker 1: is no single purpose for music except. Enjoyment if you
Speaker 1: believe in, evolution you had to have no explanation for
Speaker 1: music because music is not essential to. Survival the only
Speaker 1: reason is created is purely for. Enjoyment it has no
Speaker 1: survival capabilities to. It it is Simply god's way of expressing.
Speaker 1: Emotion and every emotion can be created through. Music And
Speaker 1: god gave it to us Because god is an Emotional.
Speaker 1: God And god gave us skin that can feel touch
Speaker 1: and can ex experienced. Pleasure And god gave us, eyes
Speaker 1: and he created a world with.
Speaker 2: Color he could have made it all black and. White
Speaker 2: it is all for our.
Speaker 1: Enjoyment sunrises and sunsets and beauty is for our.
Speaker 2: Enjoyment god did this for our.
Speaker 1: Benefit, now the fact Is god enjoys watching you enjoy
Speaker 1: What he's given.
Speaker 2: You, now any parent understands. THIS i enjoy giving.
Speaker 1: Gifts to my, kids and THEN i enjoy watching my
Speaker 1: kids enjoy WHAT i gave.
Speaker 2: Them that's kind of.
Speaker 1: Obvious god enjoys giving stuff to you because he's a Generous,
Speaker 1: god and.
Speaker 2: Then watching you enjoy what he's given. You So god.
Speaker 1: Says in, fact The bible says To, timothy everything on
Speaker 1: earth was given for our. Enjoyment that's the kind Of
Speaker 1: god we have that we. Serve it's for our.
Speaker 2: Enjoyment but here's the.
Speaker 1: Problem we're so busy getting, more we don't enjoy what we've.
Speaker 1: Got the second, principle the secret of contentment is to
Speaker 1: learn to enjoy What god has given. You here's what
Speaker 1: it says Ecclese ases five. Nineteen If god gives a man,
Speaker 1: wealth If god gives a man wealth and, property he should.
Speaker 2: Be grateful and enjoy what he. Has it is a
Speaker 2: gift From.
Speaker 1: God that is a. Command you are commended to enjoy
Speaker 1: What god gives. You you need to pay more attention
Speaker 1: to what you do. Have you need to open your.
Speaker 1: Eyes you need to appreciate What god has already given.
Speaker 1: You you need to be grateful for. It you need
Speaker 1: to enjoy what you've, got.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't have to be a. Lot just enjoy
Speaker 2: what you've. Got you, know.
Speaker 1: One of my, things favorite things to do IS i
Speaker 1: put this raty old chair deck chair on our. Slope
Speaker 1: we'd had this jec CHAIR i don't know ten fifteen,
Speaker 1: years maybe twenty, years and it's sat in the sun
Speaker 1: and it's kind of couple of the slats are broken.
Speaker 2: On, it AND i put it over on the.
Speaker 1: Slope and WHAT i like to do is climb over
Speaker 1: my fence and sit in that ratty chair and watch
Speaker 1: the sun come.
Speaker 2: Up this gives me great pleasure.
Speaker 1: WHEN i do, this to watch the sun come and
Speaker 1: just sit there in that ratty. Chair now WOULD i
Speaker 1: have any more joy if it were a diamond encrusted
Speaker 1: bark a lounger.
Speaker 2: Instead of a ratty target.
Speaker 1: Chair, no, no it. Would it would not increase my
Speaker 1: joy one. Day in, fact there's an advantage to not
Speaker 1: having a diamond encrusted bark. Line it's better to have
Speaker 1: a ratty chair on a. Slope why nobody steals? IT i,
Speaker 1: mean if it were something, fancy you, know people pick it,
Speaker 1: up but you know who wants that, thing you, know
Speaker 1: so they just they just leave it. There What i'm
Speaker 1: saying is you need to ask, yourself what DO i
Speaker 1: enjoy THAT.
Speaker 2: I never think about?
Speaker 1: It AND i should take take advantage of, it AND
Speaker 1: i should be grateful for What i've. Got, now one
Speaker 1: of the benefits of having sent about fifteen thousand of
Speaker 1: you overseas on peace trips is you got to see
Speaker 1: how the rest of the world, lives and that makes
Speaker 1: you a whole lot more grateful because when you've been
Speaker 1: to the places Where i've, been into the favelas Of
Speaker 1: brazil and the slums Of, africa and the barrios and
Speaker 1: the ghettos in the major cities of the, world you
Speaker 1: see real, poverty and it makes me grateful for stuff
Speaker 1: that we take for. Granted you, Know i'm you know,
Speaker 1: What i'm grateful for WHAT i WHAT i. ENJOY i
Speaker 1: enjoy hot.
Speaker 2: Water hot. WATER i, mean for, me a shower is
Speaker 2: a spiritual.
Speaker 1: Experience i'm in there, singing AND i JUST i love hot.
Speaker 1: Water BUT i got a friend IN rwandu told me
Speaker 1: that during the war he went nine months without a.
Speaker 2: Shower you know WHAT i. Appreciate What i'm grateful for ice.
Speaker 1: Because if you've traveled anywhere in the, world you know
Speaker 1: most of the world doesn't have, ice and they serve
Speaker 1: you drinks at room. TEMPERATURE i like my drinks. COLD
Speaker 1: i don't want to drink a room temperature coke or
Speaker 1: a room temperature.
Speaker 2: WATER i like.
Speaker 1: Ice i'm grateful for. Ice you know WHAT i Enjoy internet.
Speaker 1: Access you, know WHEN i, TRAVELED i don't need a fancy.
Speaker 1: HOTEL i mean even put me up in the hotel
Speaker 1: motel for ALL i.
Speaker 2: Care doesn't really matter WHAT i but you better have
Speaker 2: internet access because that's my.
Speaker 1: Connection you think about these things and you start being,
Speaker 1: grateful and you start enjoying the stuff you take for.
Speaker 1: Granted you know What i'm grateful for toilet. Paper you
Speaker 1: don't know what you've got till it's. Gone AND i
Speaker 1: have been a few places in the world where it
Speaker 1: was gone and it made me really grateful to have
Speaker 1: it WHEN i got back. Home you need to ask yourself.
Speaker 2: What AM i not enjoying right?
Speaker 1: Now you, see most of us get into this WHAT
Speaker 1: i call when and then thinking when and then when this.
Speaker 1: Happens Then i'll be happy WHEN i get a. Boyfriend
Speaker 1: Then i'll be happy WHEN i get. Married Then i'll
Speaker 1: be happy WHEN i have. Kids Then i'll be happy
Speaker 1: when my kids go off to. School Then i'll be
Speaker 1: happy WHEN i get married. Again Then i'll be, happy
Speaker 1: and on and, on and it's.
Speaker 2: The when and then.
Speaker 1: Thinking, listen you are as happy as you choose to.
Speaker 1: Be happiness is a, choice and if you're not happy,
Speaker 1: now you're not going to be happy.
Speaker 2: Later you are as happy as you choose to.
Speaker 1: BE i could take you to some of the worst
Speaker 1: places in the world and show you two people living
Speaker 1: right next door to each, other and one is miserable
Speaker 1: and one's. Happy why hap has nothing to do with your.
Speaker 1: Circumstances it has everything to do with your. Attitude you
Speaker 1: were as happy as you choose to. Be and if
Speaker 1: you're not happy living on what you're living on right,
Speaker 1: NOW i can guarantee you you're not going to be
Speaker 1: happy with anymore because you're.
Speaker 2: Always going to want a little bit. More happiness is a.
Speaker 1: Choice happiness is something you choose to, do and it
Speaker 1: doesn't cost anything to be. Happy friday was Grandparents day
Speaker 1: and two of my, Grandkids kaylee In cassidy in kindergarten second.
Speaker 1: Grade So kay AND i went To Grandparents' day and you,
Speaker 1: know you go, in you sit down at these little
Speaker 1: tables with these little chairs where you got one cheek
Speaker 1: on the, chair you, know and your color and you
Speaker 1: play and we had a lot of. Fun and then
Speaker 1: we came to my favorite part of, school which was,
Speaker 1: recess and So kaylee And cassidy AND i went out
Speaker 1: onto the field and we started playing you, know red,
Speaker 1: light green, light where you know there's a fence which is,
Speaker 1: safe and you turn around and you, say you, know green,
Speaker 1: light green, light green, light and you're walking and as
Speaker 1: you further get, right they're coming to see how close
Speaker 1: you can. Get and then you say red light and
Speaker 1: you turn around and they've got to get back to
Speaker 1: the fence before you could tag. Them So i'm playing
Speaker 1: this with my, granddaughters and after about three, TIMES i
Speaker 1: got fifty one hundred kids out there playing red light
Speaker 1: green light With Pastor. Rick and So i'm walking across
Speaker 1: the fielding green, light green, light green, light red, light
Speaker 1: and one hundred kids are screaming running back And i'm
Speaker 1: chasing them back and we're having a good. Time we're doing,
Speaker 1: this and THEN i turn them into conga line and
Speaker 1: we got one hundred kids in.
Speaker 2: Congo like dunk dun, dun dunt dunk dum dunk dun
Speaker 2: dun dun dunk.
Speaker 1: Dum you, know the red light and they'll go running
Speaker 1: back and everybody's having.
Speaker 2: Fun i'm having.
Speaker 1: Fun my granddaughters are having, fun the kids are having,
Speaker 1: fun all of.
Speaker 2: The parents are having.
Speaker 1: Fun videotaping Pastor rick looks like an.
Speaker 2: Idiot you.
Speaker 1: Know the teachers are having fun because they're you, know
Speaker 1: the kids are having great time that you know how
Speaker 1: much that costs me Zero AND i didn't need a video,
Speaker 1: GAME i didn't need to take them To disneyland and
Speaker 1: just having fun with. Him kaylee turns around to all the.
Speaker 1: Classmates that's Wherever papa. Goes he starts a. Party just
Speaker 1: being grateful in the situation you're enjoying the day you've.
Speaker 1: GOT i, mean, really with doubling your, income double your,
Speaker 1: joy absolutely. NOT i probably know a dozen, billionaires maybe,
Speaker 1: more maybe. TWENTY i can bring anyone of them in,
Speaker 1: here and they tell you. This money is a. Tool
Speaker 1: money can make your life, easier but money will ultimately
Speaker 1: not satisfy your life because no matter how much you've,
Speaker 1: got when you can finally afford to buy everything you,
Speaker 1: want that still won't make you happy because happiness is not.
Speaker 1: Found it's not life liberty and the purchase of. Happiness
Speaker 1: happiness cannot be. Bought it's. Internal happiness is a. Choice,
Speaker 1: now we always THINK i don't have.
Speaker 2: ENOUGH i don't have. ENOUGH i don't have.
Speaker 1: Enough there's two ways to have. Enough one's hard and one's.
Speaker 1: Easy here's how you have. Enough work more or want.
Speaker 1: Less that's your. Choice you could work more or you
Speaker 1: can want.
Speaker 2: Less that's how you're going to have. Enough, WELL i
Speaker 2: don't have.
Speaker 1: Enough, well here you got two, choices work more or want.
Speaker 1: Less now One timothy six says this verse, seventeen command
Speaker 1: those who are rich in this present. World, now let
Speaker 1: me just stop right. There that's. You let me put
Speaker 1: this in. Perspective if you have any coins in your,
Speaker 1: pocket any if you and, pennies, nickels any coins in
Speaker 1: your pocket or your. Purse if you have any coins
Speaker 1: in a little tray in your, car if you have
Speaker 1: any coins in a saucer at, home you're already wealthier
Speaker 1: than about seventy eight percent of the. World if you
Speaker 1: have a, refrigerator you're like in the top five.
Speaker 2: Percent you're. Wealthy so get over. It you're. Wealthy you're.
Speaker 1: Rich, Now he says this command those who are rich
Speaker 1: in this present world to not be arrogant nor to
Speaker 1: put their hope in, wealth which is so, uncertain but
Speaker 1: to put their hope In, god who richly provides us
Speaker 1: with everything for our notice. Enjoyment the next, verse verse,
Speaker 1: eighteen says this tell them to use their money to do.
Speaker 2: Good he's talking about to rich.
Speaker 1: People they should be rich in good works and should
Speaker 1: give generously to those in, need always being ready to
Speaker 1: share with others Whatever god has given. Them, question is
Speaker 1: it possible to be wealthy and not? Materialistic, yes yes it.
Speaker 1: Is it is possible to be wealthy and not, materialistic
Speaker 1: as long.
Speaker 2: As you meet these four.
Speaker 1: Preconditions in Two, timothy excuse me One timothy sixth seventeen and,
Speaker 1: eighteen he, says as long as you don't become proud
Speaker 1: of your, wealth you don't flaut. It you, know you
Speaker 1: don't think you're better than anybody. Else and we always
Speaker 1: laugh about HOW i wear this watch THAT i paid
Speaker 1: seventeen bucks for it At. Walmart you know, What it
Speaker 1: ticks just as fast as Your. ROLEX i buy watches
Speaker 1: to tell. Time don't show, off don't become proud of your,
Speaker 1: wealth don't think you're better than. Somebody don't put your
Speaker 1: hope in, money because you can lose, it, says use
Speaker 1: your money to do, good and then he says share
Speaker 1: it with. Others giving is the antidote to. Materialism he,
Speaker 1: Said i'm not. Materialistic, well how generous are? You you?
Speaker 1: Know one of the signs of. Materialism it's not the only,
Speaker 1: sign but one of the signs That i'm. MATERIALISTIC i
Speaker 1: get irritated anybody somebody starts talking about. Tithing that's a
Speaker 1: Sign i'm. Materialistic because the REASON i don't tie is
Speaker 1: there's just Things i'm.
Speaker 2: Not willing to do. Without there's a word for, that.
Speaker 1: Materialism i'm not willing to do without these.
Speaker 2: Things in, Fact god doesn't need my.
Speaker 1: Money the reason he asked me to tie is to
Speaker 1: teach me to break the grip of materialism in my.
Speaker 1: Life god doesn't need my. Money he does it for
Speaker 1: me to break the grip of. Materialism and number three
Speaker 1: third way to learn the secret of. Contentment, remember life
Speaker 1: is not about. Thinks life is not about. THINGS i
Speaker 1: got to maintain the right perspective about possessions Or i'll
Speaker 1: be possessed by by. POSSESSIONS i gotta realize none of
Speaker 1: it's going to. Last Otherwise i'm going to be dissatisfied and.
Speaker 1: Discontent jesus says It luke twelve verse, fifteen watch out
Speaker 1: and guard yourselves from every kind of, greed because your
Speaker 1: true life is not made up of the things you,
Speaker 1: own no matter how rich you may. Be i've said
Speaker 1: this so many. Times never judge yourself worth by your net.
Speaker 1: Worth never think your value is related to your. Valuables
Speaker 1: realize that the greatest things in life aren't things. Said
Speaker 1: life is not about the acquisition of. THINGS i didn't
Speaker 1: bring anything into the. World i'm not taking anything out
Speaker 1: of the, world and the stupidest use of my life
Speaker 1: is to spend it building a. Pile that's dumb to.
Speaker 1: Acquire life is not about. Acquisition life is not about.
Speaker 1: Achievement life is about. Relationship it's learning how to, love
Speaker 1: learning how to Love, god learning how to love other.
Speaker 1: People everybody knows the Prayer Jabez god enlarge my, borders
Speaker 1: but the prayer Of agur is just as. Important ag you,
Speaker 1: are that's his. Name prayer Of Agar proverb's thirty says,
Speaker 1: This Oh, GOD i ask you for two, things two
Speaker 1: things from.
Speaker 2: You BEFORE i. Die, first help me to never tell a.
Speaker 1: Lie, second give me neither poverty nor riches give me
Speaker 1: just enough to satisfy my. Needs for IF i grow,
Speaker 1: RICH i might deny you and, say you, know who
Speaker 1: needs The?
Speaker 2: Lord who's The?
Speaker 1: Lord and If i'm too, POOR i may steal and
Speaker 1: thus Insult god's holy. Name this is WHAT i call,
Speaker 1: healthy balanced perspective on. Wealth most people are willing to
Speaker 1: pray the first half of this, Prayer, god don't make
Speaker 1: me too, poor and We'll i'll pray that. One, god
Speaker 1: don't make me too. Poor are you willing to pray
Speaker 1: the other? Half, god don't make me too? Rich because
Speaker 1: either extreme can cause you to Forget. God wealth can
Speaker 1: make you, prideful so who Needs? God and poverty can
Speaker 1: make you. BITTER i need to to remember that my
Speaker 1: life is not about. Things, finally number, FOUR i focus
Speaker 1: on what will last. FOREVER i give my attention to permanent.
Speaker 1: VALUES i build my life on eternal. PRIORITIES i focus
Speaker 1: on what will last. Forever and nothing you see is
Speaker 1: going to last. Forever it's going to rust out whereout.
Speaker 1: Decay every possession is, Temporary so don't build your life
Speaker 1: on possessing. Possessions this building will one day, decay rust
Speaker 1: and fall. Over the trees out here will one day
Speaker 1: die and. Shrivel everything is going to. Vanish in, fact
Speaker 1: The bible, says one day there'll be a new heaven
Speaker 1: and new. Earth it's all going. Away there are only
Speaker 1: two things are going to last, forever The word Of
Speaker 1: god and. People The word Of god is going to last.
Speaker 1: Forever The bible, says heaven and earth will pass, away
Speaker 1: but my.
Speaker 2: Word will never pass.
Speaker 1: Away The bible, says the grass, withers the flower, phase
Speaker 1: but The word Of god abides. Forever this is why
Speaker 1: you need to read this. Book because if it's, true
Speaker 1: it was a true one thousand years, ago and to
Speaker 1: be true a millionaeres from. Today truth does not change.
Speaker 1: Now IF i asked how many do believe everything you
Speaker 1: read in the, newspaper nobody to raise your, hand or
Speaker 1: watch ON tv or the internet or in a. Magazine
Speaker 1: but IF i ask how many believe what's in The,
Speaker 1: bibles do you'd raise your. Hand why do we spend
Speaker 1: more time reading what we don't believe than what we.
Speaker 1: Do you need to fill your mind with this. Book
Speaker 1: oh and there's one other thing that's going to last. Forever,
Speaker 1: people one of two, places heaven Or. Hell you, Say,
Speaker 1: rick you believe in heaven and, now of COURSE i.
Speaker 1: Do why Because jesus said it's, real And jesus is
Speaker 1: not a, liar and he knows more about it than
Speaker 1: you or. Me and if there is no heaven or,
Speaker 1: hell Then jesus coming and died on the cross so
Speaker 1: you could go there as a total. Waste there is
Speaker 1: a real, heaven there is a real, hell and we
Speaker 1: are to invest our lives in people and building relationships and.
Speaker 2: Building love with. Them look at this.
Speaker 1: Verse second thing is for we fix our attention circle
Speaker 1: that that means focus focus on what's going to last.
Speaker 1: Forever we fix our attention not on the things that are,
Speaker 1: seen but the things that are, unseen because what can
Speaker 1: be seen only lasts for a little while, time but
Speaker 1: what can't be seen will last.
Speaker 2: Forever so you.
Speaker 1: Got to, decide AM i going to build my life
Speaker 1: on acquisition of things or relationships with? People AM i
Speaker 1: going to focus on? People or AM i going to
Speaker 1: focus on? Possessions AM i going to focus on? Riches
Speaker 1: or AM i going to focus on? Relationships so you've
Speaker 1: got a choice to, make and that is where are
Speaker 1: you're going to get your? Lifestyle because the world is
Speaker 1: telling you the exact opposite of.
Speaker 2: Everything i've taught you.
Speaker 1: Today everything in the, world in, fact the entire advertising
Speaker 1: industry is built on the idea of you got to get,
Speaker 1: more to be more, happy more, successful and more, important more,
Speaker 1: valuable more. Secure so you got to, decide AM i
Speaker 1: going to listen To Madison avenue or AM i going
Speaker 1: to listen to The?
Speaker 2: Master AM i.
Speaker 1: Going to listen to? Culture or AM i going to
Speaker 1: listen to? Christ AM i.
Speaker 2: Going to listen to the?
Speaker 1: World or AM i going to listen to the? Word
Speaker 1: one will make you dissatisfied the rest of your?
Speaker 2: Life one will make you?
Speaker 1: Happy and you have to ask, yourself what is the
Speaker 1: primary purpose of my? Life to just get? More you've
Speaker 1: got to be kidding. Me i'm leaving it all here.
Speaker 1: Anyway what DO i think? About talk? About give my most?
Speaker 1: Too what AM i living my life for just to get?
Speaker 1: More you may have a lot to live, on do
Speaker 1: you have anything to live? For do you have a
Speaker 1: relationship With? God you, SEE i invite you to get
Speaker 1: off the treadmill today and Adopt god's value. System you
Speaker 1: see the myth of the world as you can have at.
Speaker 1: All the truth, is you can't have it, all and more,
Speaker 1: important you don't need it all to be.
Speaker 2: Happy you.
Speaker 1: Don't you're as happy as you choose to. Be and
Speaker 1: the secret of. Contentment if you don't get anything, else get.
Speaker 1: This the secret of contentment is finding my security and
Speaker 1: myself and my satisfaction not in WHAT i, have but
Speaker 1: in WHOSE i, am WHO i belong. To you find
Speaker 1: it In.
Speaker 2: Christ