WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:03.799 Now, the Bible is full of money management advice. I 2 00:00:03.799 --> 00:00:05.599 don't know if you know this or not, but there 3 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:07.719 are two books of the Bible, particularly once called the 4 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:10.519 Book of Proverbs and the others called the Book of Ecclesiastes, 5 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:17.239 which are filled with the laws of money, the principles 6 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:22.960 of prosperity, the rules for wealth. There are many, many 7 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:27.920 laws of financial freedom in both Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. 8 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:30.199 Now, the first law. 9 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:35.240 Of financial freedom is which I call the law of contentment. 10 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:40.320 Now this is very important because as long as your 11 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:45.200 yearnings exceed your earnings, you're going to be in deep trouble. 12 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.679 You're going to have debt, and your entire life, you're 13 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:52.640 going to be frustrated with your finances because your yearnings 14 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:57.079 are always going to exceed your yearnings. And until you 15 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:01.200 learn this principle of contentment, you're always going to be 16 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:04.640 frustrated by your money and you're never, never going to 17 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:08.400 have enough, no matter how much you make. Now, here's 18 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:12.640 what the Bible says in Proverbs fourteen thirty, it's healthy 19 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:18.159 to be content, but envy will eat you up. 20 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:19.400 It'll eat you up. 21 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:22.439 He's saying, it's not only financially good for you to 22 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:26.680 be content. It's actually physically good for you to live 23 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:30.560 a contented life. The Bible says, a heart at peace 24 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:32.640 gives life to the body. 25 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:34.000 It is invigorating. 26 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:36.519 It is good for your health to be at peace, 27 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:38.840 to not always be under tension, and not always be 28 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:43.200 stressed out and always be worried. Now another verse in Ecclesiastes, 29 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:46.519 also written by Solomon. These two books were written by 30 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:50.280 a man named Solomon. Solomon was the wisest man who 31 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:52.760 ever lived. The Bible says, God says he was the 32 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:54.799 wisest man ever lived, so he's got some good advice 33 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:57.319 for us. He was also the wealthiest man in the 34 00:01:57.359 --> 00:01:59.959 world when he wrote these two books, with the print 35 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:04.959 of money management in them. Ecclesiastes six' nine says, this 36 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:10.159 it's better to be satisfied with what you have than 37 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:14.759 to always be wanting something. Else that's the, principle that's 38 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:19.000 the law of. Contentment it's better to be satisfied with 39 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:23.759 what you have than to always be wanting something. Else, 40 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:29.039 now we are not by nature contented. People by, NATURE 41 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:31.960 i am. Discontented i'm always wanting to change. Things you're 42 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:35.080 always wanting to change. Things i'm not. Satisfied you're not. 43 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:39.560 Satisfied it is not natural to be. Contented you must 44 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:44.960 learn the secret of being. Content how do you do 45 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:48.599 that because it's not. Automatic, well The bible tells us 46 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:52.840 that there are four, steps four, keys four principles to 47 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:54.120 the law of. 48 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:55.840 Contentment here they are number. 49 00:02:55.879 --> 00:03:03.479 One, first stop comparing myself health to. Others that's the first. Step, 50 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:06.800 Now god made you. Unique you're not one in a, 51 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:09.360 million you're one in. Billions nobody is ever like. You 52 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:12.479 god doesn't make. Clones he never raised. Copies even identical 53 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:17.280 twins are. Different and for, Second corinthians ten twelve says, this. 54 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:18.280 We do not. 55 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:21.560 Dare he, says how dare you do? This it's a 56 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.319 rejection Of. God how dare you do? This we don't 57 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:30.159 dare classify or compare. Ourselves it is not, wise he, 58 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:33.719 said it's, foolish it's, dumb it's, stupid it's it's. Immature, 59 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:38.240 now the problem, is we naturally do, it and we 60 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:38.840 do it all the. 61 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:42.759 Time. Comparing we love to. Compare. Iton you walk. 62 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:45.960 Into somebody's house and the first thing you do is 63 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:46.639 you start making. 64 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:48.039 Comparisons, OOH i. 65 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:52.000 Like their, Floor, ooh that's Got, ooh look at that drape. 66 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:53.560 REPLACEMENT i look at A. 67 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:55.680 Tv whoa, wow what a. 68 00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:01.280 Television and you're making comparisons all the. Time you walk 69 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:02.800 up to somebody, That, WOW i like the way she 70 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:09.560 did her. Hair my looks sucky, today you. Know and you, Know, 71 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:13.159 WOW i WISH i had his. WIFE i WISH i 72 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:20.120 had her. HUSBAND i why. 73 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:20.480 Are my kids like? That you? 74 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:23.759 Know AND i WISH i had that? Job and look 75 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:27.199 at that, CAR i WISH i had that. Job you 76 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:30.759 are constantly, comparing and you do it all the, time 77 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:33.240 and that's what keeps you. Frustrated you got to stop. 78 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:35.759 It if you're gonna learn, contentment you've got to stop 79 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:40.839 comparing everything around. YOU i must learn to admire without 80 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:44.920 having to. Acquire you need to learn to rejoice in 81 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:49.120 other people's prosperity without you getting jealous and envious and 82 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:51.079 feeling like you have to have it, too and then 83 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:53.519 being bitter or mad because they've got something you don't. 84 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:57.240 Have you must learn to, Admire, wow that's a nice 85 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:00.399 you know painting You, God, wow that that's a nice 86 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:04.800 backyard you've got without having to. Acquire, now this is 87 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:07.800 one of the great principles That americans don't. UNDERSTAND i 88 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:11.680 don't have to own it to enjoy. IT i, mean you, say, 89 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:14.560 WELL i like to go camp out in the. Mountains, 90 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:16.560 well why do you have to go buy a mountain 91 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:19.160 cabin when you just rent it the one. 92 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:20.120 Time of year you're gonna go to the. 93 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:24.800 Mountains, OKAY i don't have to own it in order 94 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:25.639 to enjoy. 95 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:27.600 IT i learned this long time. Ago i'm not to downing. 96 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:31.199 IT i just use your. Stuff, which by the, way 97 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:31.399 if you. 98 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:33.120 Got a good mountain, cabin let me Know i'll be 99 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:34.000 glad to use it for. 100 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:36.759 You you, know get the cobwebs out for. You i'll 101 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:39.079 be glad to do. That and so you. 102 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:41.720 Don't have to own. Something and you may have a 103 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:43.800 friend in the. Church you have something you, need we'll 104 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.839 just borrow. It you don't feel like you got to 105 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:49.839 go out and buy everything. Yourself you don't because once 106 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:51.439 you own, it you got to repair, it you got 107 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:54.480 to maintain, it you got to store, it and all 108 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:57.959 these other. THINGS i can learn to admire without having to. 109 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:00.959 Acquire here's what you do next time you walk into 110 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:03.839 somebody's house and they got something nice that you don't. 111 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:07.199 Have instead of starting to get discontent and. Envious you 112 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:10.399 just pray a little prayer that says, this thank You 113 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:14.240 god THAT i don't have their payments. 114 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:18.120 Because they're paying for. That they're paying for. 115 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:21.079 That the money you put on the wall isn't helping. 116 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:23.279 You the money you put in the bank and saving 117 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:27.879 is making you. Money while you're, sleeping it's making you. 118 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:29.800 Money so. 119 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:31.759 This is so. 120 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:35.240 Important and When i'm talking to you about stop comparing. 121 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:37.600 Yourself this is not just a good idea to make you. 122 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:41.800 Happy comparing yourself to other people is a. Sin in, 123 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:45.600 fact it is such a serious sin That god put 124 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:46.800 it in The Big. 125 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:49.000 Ten, yeah The Ten. 126 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:52.920 Commandments it's in there right along with don't murder what 127 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:56.519 you'd never, do don't commit, adultery don't rip somebody off in. 128 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:59.279 Steel you know what the ten commandment. Is don't compare 129 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:04.240 yourself to anybodybody. Else it's there on your. Outlane it's right. 130 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:11.600 There exodus twenty. Seventeen you shall not covet anything that 131 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:15.120 belongs to your. Neighbor don't look at it and, go, 132 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.680 MAN i WISH i had, That and you start comparing and. 133 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:19.839 Coveting, now what is? Coveting it is a. Word we 134 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:21.920 don't use a whole lot. Today so let me define 135 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:27.199 it for. You coveting means the uncontrolled desire to. Acquire 136 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:28.240 that's what it. 137 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:35.480 Means to, covet the uncontrolled desire to. Acquire and when 138 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:38.160 EVERYTHING i see And i've got to get it because 139 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:41.639 somebody else has got, it that's called. Coveting and it's 140 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:44.399 such a. Sin it's right up there with don't. Murder 141 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:48.240 it's that important To. God he, SAYS i don't want 142 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:51.920 you coveting. Now the word covet In hebrew in The 143 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:53.439 Old testament literally. 144 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:58.240 Means to pant AFTER i got to have. It it's 145 00:07:58.240 --> 00:07:58.759 to pant. 146 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:03.319 After the word In greek means to grab or to 147 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:06.360 grasp so tightly that your hands are tight you can't 148 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:06.839 even let it. 149 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:09.680 Go If god ever gives. 150 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:11.480 You something and he tells you to give it, away 151 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:14.360 and you can't give it, away you don't own. It 152 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:18.160 it owns. You and you are possessed by your. Possessions 153 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:18.600 you don't own. 154 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:23.079 Them they own. You, now he, says don't covet, now 155 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:25.160 you should not. Covet ain't. Now let me make this really. 156 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:28.079 Clear god is not saying you should never have any 157 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:32.639 desire for. Anything, no, no, No every great city is 158 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:35.879 built because somebody desired to build great. City every great 159 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:38.360 nation is built because somebody desired to build a great. 160 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:42.240 Nation every great business is built because somebody desired to 161 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:46.919 build a great. Business everybody gets married because they desire 162 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:51.080 to get. Married everybody has kids because they desire to have. 163 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:56.000 Kids everybody makes money because they desire to make. Money 164 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:59.320 desires are not. Wrong in, fact your desires come From. 165 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:05.879 God we're not talking about desire being. Evil it's the uncontrolled. 166 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:09.360 Desire when a desire is, uncontrolled it becomes a. Lust 167 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:13.360 and when a desire is, uncontrolled it becomes a. Coveting 168 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:17.200 and when you desire something that is not righteously, yours 169 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:22.360 LIKE i want your, wife that's. Evil but desire is 170 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:26.840 not a negative. Thing and nothing can be accomplished unless 171 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:28.120 you desire to do. 172 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:29.600 It you. 173 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:32.960 Can't you can't become more Like christ without desiring to 174 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.440 become more Like. Christ you can't desire to be a 175 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:38.000 good be a good person without desiring to be a good. 176 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:42.279 Person so he's not saying desire is. Bad he is 177 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:45.519 saying coveting is, bad which Is i've got. 178 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.200 To have, more, more, more more. 179 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.600 And more of what you've got instead of What i've, 180 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.519 Got so never. Compare this is the first key to 181 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:59.240 learning the secret of a contented. Life, wise SHOULD i 182 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:04.720 never compare because comparing always leads to. Coveting number, two 183 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:08.600 the second secret key to the secret of contentment is 184 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:15.399 enjoy WHAT i. Have too often we're so busy going 185 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.840 after what else we want that we don't stop and 186 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:19.480 enjoy what we've already. 187 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:21.159 Got how many. 188 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:24.399 People do you know who go out and go over 189 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:28.039 extend to buy a beautiful, house and then they are 190 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:33.639 never at home because they're busy paying for. It they 191 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:36.120 don't enjoy what they've got because they're. 192 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:37.759 Busy making money to get. 193 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:42.399 More and beautiful backyards sit, empty and swimming pool sat 194 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:45.320 on swimmed, in and all these people don't enjoy what 195 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:47.600 they've already got because they're always going after. 196 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:48.960 More you got to enjoy what you. 197 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:53.000 Have did you know That god wants you to enjoy, 198 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:59.000 life not to just endure, it but enjoy. It life 199 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:02.360 was meant to be, enjoyed not merely. Endured a lot 200 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:04.519 of people Think god is some cosmic kill, joy That 201 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:06.879 god wants you to frown through life and never be 202 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:08.879 happy and never laugh and never have any fun and 203 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:10.320 never enjoy absolutely. 204 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:13.279 Not god created it all for your. Enjoyment. 205 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:20.000 Okay god created taste buds and then gave us. Sinnabon 206 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:27.799 god created ear drums and then gave us. Music there 207 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:33.919 is no single purpose for music except. Enjoyment if you 208 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.399 believe in, evolution you had to have no explanation for 209 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:40.039 music because music is not essential to. Survival the only 210 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:42.639 reason is created is purely for. Enjoyment it has no 211 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:47.399 survival capabilities to. It it is Simply god's way of expressing. 212 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:50.879 Emotion and every emotion can be created through. Music And 213 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:53.360 god gave it to us Because god is an Emotional. 214 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:58.279 God And god gave us skin that can feel touch 215 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:02.840 and can ex experienced. Pleasure And god gave us, eyes 216 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:04.159 and he created a world with. 217 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:06.320 Color he could have made it all black and. White 218 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:09.240 it is all for our. 219 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:14.000 Enjoyment sunrises and sunsets and beauty is for our. 220 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:16.799 Enjoyment god did this for our. 221 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:23.159 Benefit, now the fact Is god enjoys watching you enjoy 222 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:24.120 What he's given. 223 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:29.240 You, now any parent understands. THIS i enjoy giving. 224 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:32.799 Gifts to my, kids and THEN i enjoy watching my 225 00:12:32.919 --> 00:12:34.279 kids enjoy WHAT i gave. 226 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:36.039 Them that's kind of. 227 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:40.519 Obvious god enjoys giving stuff to you because he's a Generous, 228 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:41.279 god and. 229 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:45.000 Then watching you enjoy what he's given. You So god. 230 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:47.639 Says in, fact The bible says To, timothy everything on 231 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:50.919 earth was given for our. Enjoyment that's the kind Of 232 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:53.159 god we have that we. Serve it's for our. 233 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:54.480 Enjoyment but here's the. 234 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:57.240 Problem we're so busy getting, more we don't enjoy what we've. 235 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:04.919 Got the second, principle the secret of contentment is to 236 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:07.960 learn to enjoy What god has given. You here's what 237 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:11.879 it says Ecclese ases five. Nineteen If god gives a man, 238 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:17.440 wealth If god gives a man wealth and, property he should. 239 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:22.200 Be grateful and enjoy what he. Has it is a 240 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:23.360 gift From. 241 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:25.720 God that is a. Command you are commended to enjoy 242 00:13:25.799 --> 00:13:28.039 What god gives. You you need to pay more attention 243 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:30.399 to what you do. Have you need to open your. 244 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:35.480 Eyes you need to appreciate What god has already given. 245 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:37.440 You you need to be grateful for. It you need 246 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:39.519 to enjoy what you've, got. 247 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.840 And it doesn't have to be a. Lot just enjoy 248 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.519 what you've. Got you, know. 249 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:49.720 One of my, things favorite things to do IS i 250 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:54.080 put this raty old chair deck chair on our. Slope 251 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:57.080 we'd had this jec CHAIR i don't know ten fifteen, 252 00:13:57.120 --> 00:13:59.360 years maybe twenty, years and it's sat in the sun 253 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:02.039 and it's kind of couple of the slats are broken. 254 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:03.759 On, it AND i put it over on the. 255 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:05.960 Slope and WHAT i like to do is climb over 256 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:09.720 my fence and sit in that ratty chair and watch 257 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:10.360 the sun come. 258 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:14.240 Up this gives me great pleasure. 259 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:16.960 WHEN i do, this to watch the sun come and 260 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:19.120 just sit there in that ratty. Chair now WOULD i 261 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:23.039 have any more joy if it were a diamond encrusted 262 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:24.360 bark a lounger. 263 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:27.080 Instead of a ratty target. 264 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:31.279 Chair, no, no it. Would it would not increase my 265 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:33.960 joy one. Day in, fact there's an advantage to not 266 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:38.039 having a diamond encrusted bark. Line it's better to have 267 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:43.399 a ratty chair on a. Slope why nobody steals? IT i, 268 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:46.679 mean if it were something, fancy you, know people pick it, 269 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:50.519 up but you know who wants that, thing you, know 270 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:54.080 so they just they just leave it. There What i'm 271 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:57.000 saying is you need to ask, yourself what DO i 272 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:58.000 enjoy THAT. 273 00:14:58.039 --> 00:14:59.000 I never think about? 274 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:01.279 It AND i should take take advantage of, it AND 275 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:05.639 i should be grateful for What i've. Got, now one 276 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:08.759 of the benefits of having sent about fifteen thousand of 277 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:12.000 you overseas on peace trips is you got to see 278 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:15.240 how the rest of the world, lives and that makes 279 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:17.639 you a whole lot more grateful because when you've been 280 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:20.120 to the places Where i've, been into the favelas Of 281 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:24.960 brazil and the slums Of, africa and the barrios and 282 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:27.679 the ghettos in the major cities of the, world you 283 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:31.320 see real, poverty and it makes me grateful for stuff 284 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:34.559 that we take for. Granted you, Know i'm you know, 285 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:37.240 What i'm grateful for WHAT i WHAT i. ENJOY i 286 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:40.159 enjoy hot. 287 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:47.080 Water hot. WATER i, mean for, me a shower is 288 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:47.799 a spiritual. 289 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:53.440 Experience i'm in there, singing AND i JUST i love hot. 290 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:56.960 Water BUT i got a friend IN rwandu told me 291 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:59.039 that during the war he went nine months without a. 292 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:05.320 Shower you know WHAT i. Appreciate What i'm grateful for ice. 293 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:08.440 Because if you've traveled anywhere in the, world you know 294 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:10.399 most of the world doesn't have, ice and they serve 295 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:14.960 you drinks at room. TEMPERATURE i like my drinks. COLD 296 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:19.240 i don't want to drink a room temperature coke or 297 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:20.080 a room temperature. 298 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:20.960 WATER i like. 299 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:26.879 Ice i'm grateful for. Ice you know WHAT i Enjoy internet. 300 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:31.200 Access you, know WHEN i, TRAVELED i don't need a fancy. 301 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:33.120 HOTEL i mean even put me up in the hotel 302 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:34.480 motel for ALL i. 303 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:37.039 Care doesn't really matter WHAT i but you better have 304 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:39.639 internet access because that's my. 305 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:43.399 Connection you think about these things and you start being, 306 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:45.720 grateful and you start enjoying the stuff you take for. 307 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:51.559 Granted you know What i'm grateful for toilet. Paper you 308 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:56.200 don't know what you've got till it's. Gone AND i 309 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:58.320 have been a few places in the world where it 310 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:02.039 was gone and it made me really grateful to have 311 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:06.960 it WHEN i got back. Home you need to ask yourself. 312 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:09.759 What AM i not enjoying right? 313 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:11.960 Now you, see most of us get into this WHAT 314 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:16.079 i call when and then thinking when and then when this. 315 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:19.759 Happens Then i'll be happy WHEN i get a. Boyfriend 316 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:23.039 Then i'll be happy WHEN i get. Married Then i'll 317 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:27.039 be happy WHEN i have. Kids Then i'll be happy 318 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:30.319 when my kids go off to. School Then i'll be 319 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:34.359 happy WHEN i get married. Again Then i'll be, happy 320 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:37.759 and on and, on and it's. 321 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:38.319 The when and then. 322 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:41.119 Thinking, listen you are as happy as you choose to. 323 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:48.079 Be happiness is a, choice and if you're not happy, 324 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:49.200 now you're not going to be happy. 325 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:51.519 Later you are as happy as you choose to. 326 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:53.599 BE i could take you to some of the worst 327 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:56.160 places in the world and show you two people living 328 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:58.160 right next door to each, other and one is miserable 329 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:01.720 and one's. Happy why hap has nothing to do with your. 330 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:06.039 Circumstances it has everything to do with your. Attitude you 331 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:09.240 were as happy as you choose to. Be and if 332 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:11.680 you're not happy living on what you're living on right, 333 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:13.759 NOW i can guarantee you you're not going to be 334 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:16.799 happy with anymore because you're. 335 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:19.200 Always going to want a little bit. More happiness is a. 336 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:24.240 Choice happiness is something you choose to, do and it 337 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:30.880 doesn't cost anything to be. Happy friday was Grandparents day 338 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:37.480 and two of my, Grandkids kaylee In cassidy in kindergarten second. 339 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:41.079 Grade So kay AND i went To Grandparents' day and you, 340 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:42.799 know you go, in you sit down at these little 341 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:45.359 tables with these little chairs where you got one cheek 342 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:49.400 on the, chair you, know and your color and you 343 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:51.240 play and we had a lot of. Fun and then 344 00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:54.119 we came to my favorite part of, school which was, 345 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:58.799 recess and So kaylee And cassidy AND i went out 346 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:02.960 onto the field and we started playing you, know red, 347 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:05.680 light green, light where you know there's a fence which is, 348 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:09.640 safe and you turn around and you, say you, know green, 349 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:11.799 light green, light green, light and you're walking and as 350 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:13.480 you further get, right they're coming to see how close 351 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:15.880 you can. Get and then you say red light and 352 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:17.519 you turn around and they've got to get back to 353 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:20.200 the fence before you could tag. Them So i'm playing 354 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:24.359 this with my, granddaughters and after about three, TIMES i 355 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:27.519 got fifty one hundred kids out there playing red light 356 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:30.799 green light With Pastor. Rick and So i'm walking across 357 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:33.319 the fielding green, light green, light green, light red, light 358 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:36.319 and one hundred kids are screaming running back And i'm 359 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:39.440 chasing them back and we're having a good. Time we're doing, 360 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:41.720 this and THEN i turn them into conga line and 361 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:42.759 we got one hundred kids in. 362 00:19:42.759 --> 00:19:45.200 Congo like dunk dun, dun dunt dunk dum dunk dun 363 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:45.960 dun dun dunk. 364 00:19:46.039 --> 00:19:48.440 Dum you, know the red light and they'll go running 365 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:50.279 back and everybody's having. 366 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:51.480 Fun i'm having. 367 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.799 Fun my granddaughters are having, fun the kids are having, 368 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:56.319 fun all of. 369 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:57.079 The parents are having. 370 00:19:57.119 --> 00:19:59.000 Fun videotaping Pastor rick looks like an. 371 00:19:59.039 --> 00:19:59.759 Idiot you. 372 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:03.640 Know the teachers are having fun because they're you, know 373 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:05.640 the kids are having great time that you know how 374 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:10.640 much that costs me Zero AND i didn't need a video, 375 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:14.640 GAME i didn't need to take them To disneyland and 376 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:18.240 just having fun with. Him kaylee turns around to all the. 377 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:26.400 Classmates that's Wherever papa. Goes he starts a. Party just 378 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:30.039 being grateful in the situation you're enjoying the day you've. 379 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:34.039 GOT i, mean, really with doubling your, income double your, 380 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:40.880 joy absolutely. NOT i probably know a dozen, billionaires maybe, 381 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:43.559 more maybe. TWENTY i can bring anyone of them in, 382 00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:46.119 here and they tell you. This money is a. Tool 383 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:50.920 money can make your life, easier but money will ultimately 384 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:54.319 not satisfy your life because no matter how much you've, 385 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:57.400 got when you can finally afford to buy everything you, 386 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:00.839 want that still won't make you happy because happiness is not. 387 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:05.359 Found it's not life liberty and the purchase of. Happiness 388 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:13.960 happiness cannot be. Bought it's. Internal happiness is a. Choice, 389 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:16.799 now we always THINK i don't have. 390 00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:18.279 ENOUGH i don't have. ENOUGH i don't have. 391 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:22.559 Enough there's two ways to have. Enough one's hard and one's. 392 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:26.960 Easy here's how you have. Enough work more or want. 393 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:32.799 Less that's your. Choice you could work more or you 394 00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:33.240 can want. 395 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:36.640 Less that's how you're going to have. Enough, WELL i 396 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:37.000 don't have. 397 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:40.480 Enough, well here you got two, choices work more or want. 398 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:47.559 Less now One timothy six says this verse, seventeen command 399 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:50.480 those who are rich in this present. World, now let 400 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:53.240 me just stop right. There that's. You let me put 401 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:56.519