WEBVTT 00:00.622 --> 00:07.373 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to start out with the Luke text, and we are going to look at a lot of verses today, okay? 00:07.854 --> 00:08.915 [SPEAKER_00]: Lots and lots of verses. 00:09.376 --> 00:11.640 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to see concepts today. 00:11.680 --> 00:24.621 [SPEAKER_00]: The message we're going to start today is on the subject of contentment, but if you were to find a word that is opposite, it will be the word covet. 00:24.601 --> 00:27.769 [SPEAKER_00]: So, covet versus contentment. 00:27.829 --> 00:35.708 [SPEAKER_00]: I could have a debt put that as the title, but I want to try to zero-winle on, especially next week, the subject of contentment. 00:36.129 --> 00:40.078 [SPEAKER_00]: Now as I go through this lesson, these lessons. 00:40.058 --> 00:59.839 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to be going back and forth, okay, so if I seem like I'm bouncing between contentment and coveting I am, but it is in order for us to see if you will, as God shows the contrast between these two words and how they truly oppose each other. 01:01.372 --> 01:30.720 [SPEAKER_00]: the subject in chapter 12 of Luke is an individual comes to Jesus and there's a problem because the brother and we don't know much detail outside of it is my brother whether the brother was older you would have you would suppose that that he received because he would have been the oldest son that he would have been there you know the parents have passed away and it's time for the division and the brothers like you know what I think I'll keep it 01:31.645 --> 02:00.994 [SPEAKER_00]: and the younger brother or this brother is saying well that's not fair and you and I will probably say in and that's not fair but Jesus instead of having any sympathy for his situation turns around to the crowd after he says I'm sorry who made me a judge over this kind of stuff then he turns the crowd and says this guy is a cup of turn 02:01.312 --> 02:01.873 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm saying? 02:02.334 --> 02:12.592 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't, but the Lord knew this man, and you almost want to go, how, shh, for this guy, because it's like, that had to pierce him. 02:13.534 --> 02:18.443 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead of Jesus showing the concern, and you know, like, where's the love here? 02:18.944 --> 02:20.787 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus looks at crowns, is this guy's a governor? 02:21.228 --> 02:24.113 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to learn from this man what not to do. 02:26.422 --> 02:33.749 [SPEAKER_00]: the illustrations like this that we see in the Scripture shows us in the life of Christ, the balance that we all strive for. 02:35.351 --> 02:41.176 [SPEAKER_00]: Because then you see Jesus with other people and having probably a little more compassion and mercy than maybe we would have. 02:42.197 --> 02:55.230 [SPEAKER_00]: This seemed to be pretty cut and dry, but yet the Lord knew something that was going on in this man's heart and that 02:55.818 --> 03:02.652 [SPEAKER_00]: By way of definition now, we are going to look at two words again, coveting and contentment. 03:03.313 --> 03:10.347 [SPEAKER_00]: These opposites basically coveting is to be greedy that you are never satisfied. 03:11.028 --> 03:15.497 [SPEAKER_00]: As we see here, it seems to be a love of possessions, love of money. 03:16.270 --> 03:20.440 [SPEAKER_00]: and that enough is just never enough. 03:21.303 --> 03:23.007 [SPEAKER_00]: It's never filled. 03:23.929 --> 03:25.072 [SPEAKER_00]: That's this mindset. 03:25.754 --> 03:28.761 [SPEAKER_00]: Where contentment is saying, it's enough. 03:30.277 --> 03:32.480 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm satisfied, it's sufficient. 03:33.261 --> 03:34.122 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't need any more. 03:35.143 --> 03:49.281 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's not what we're seeing in our culture in this American dream that we are all surrounded with, constantly, through media, through movies, through everything, it's out there, the commercials. 03:49.641 --> 03:52.605 [SPEAKER_00]: This is like, well, if you don't have this, you're a loser. 03:52.653 --> 04:19.352 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, if you don't go in debt to buy my product, then you're in nobody and nobody's going to respect you because you don't have my product and this guilt and this throwing in, you have to have, you have to have, you have to have, is thrown in our faces so bad. 04:20.902 --> 04:23.586 [SPEAKER_00]: So Christ is going to teach us. 04:23.846 --> 04:25.348 [SPEAKER_00]: God's going to teach us in His Word. 04:26.069 --> 04:33.720 [SPEAKER_00]: What I feel is probably one of the most important subjects of our day for Christians in America. 04:35.242 --> 04:38.166 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure it's around the world, but it's here. 04:38.206 --> 04:39.788 [SPEAKER_00]: This is our home. 04:40.848 --> 04:58.298 [SPEAKER_00]: And it seems as though we are adapting to and holding on to those very uh, uh, uh, grades, the, um, humidity is the, is the, is the word, the operas of, of, of the greed of riches and the hoarding of wealth and we're eager. 04:58.678 --> 05:05.590 [SPEAKER_00]: But what we're eager for in America has become a thing where it's become an idle to us. 05:06.937 --> 05:12.105 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you were, if I were to ask you one or one and say, hey, do you think you're involved with idolatry? 05:13.306 --> 05:16.371 [SPEAKER_00]: You and I would probably say, really quick, well, of course not. 05:17.032 --> 05:19.936 [SPEAKER_00]: I have no things that I fall down before. 05:20.457 --> 05:25.645 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I have no rocks and trees and I don't worship those physical things. 05:26.306 --> 05:31.273 [SPEAKER_00]: And yet, apparently, it goes beyond just the physical 05:31.473 --> 05:35.380 [SPEAKER_00]: It can go inside of the heart and we'll talk about that in a couple of minutes. 05:36.142 --> 05:45.059 [SPEAKER_00]: Now also, so you understand that this word as we use the word covet can be used in a positive way. 05:46.040 --> 05:52.392 [SPEAKER_00]: Matter of fact, several times in the King James, it is translated in a very positive way. 05:52.412 --> 05:53.835 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm reading one for you. 05:54.710 --> 06:07.603 [SPEAKER_00]: This is 1 Corinthians 1231, but covet earnestly the best gifts and yet show I unto you the more excellent way and then he gets into the love chapter talking about the spiritual gifts. 06:07.623 --> 06:13.528 [SPEAKER_00]: The most important thing is that matter of having God like love, the agape type love that we're supposed to have. 06:13.769 --> 06:24.379 [SPEAKER_00]: So there and also 1 Corinthians 1439, he uses the word covet in a positive way and we're going to conclude with that today. 06:25.709 --> 06:32.683 [SPEAKER_00]: It can be a negative, and it can be a positive, but in the scriptures, most times it is in the negative. 06:32.704 --> 06:36.431 [SPEAKER_00]: Now the work contentment, it is enough, is throughout the scriptures also. 06:36.992 --> 06:45.731 [SPEAKER_00]: And this week and Lord Will and next week, we're gonna be looking at some some scriptures, some illustrations to try to help you and I to see this. 06:45.971 --> 06:46.452 [SPEAKER_00]: So. 06:47.123 --> 06:59.757 [SPEAKER_00]: The first time, the first text we have here today is about a man that isn't satisfied with what his brother had given him, if he gave him anything at all, and God says, you're beginning to covet, and you're looking in your mind, and you're saying it's not enough. 07:00.217 --> 07:01.559 [SPEAKER_00]: You say, that stuff never happens. 07:01.919 --> 07:02.420 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, really? 07:02.480 --> 07:05.984 [SPEAKER_00]: I do way too many funerals, okay? 07:06.705 --> 07:08.587 [SPEAKER_00]: Funerals reveal things. 07:09.868 --> 07:14.413 [SPEAKER_00]: Funerals show really what's going on inside of people. 07:15.203 --> 07:17.851 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I have been at funerals. 07:18.151 --> 07:27.157 [SPEAKER_00]: I had one in particular and my affect the directors say, listen, they've been fussing since they've been in my office and probably they're going to fuss as soon as you say amen. 07:27.177 --> 07:30.647 [SPEAKER_00]: So just get ready for it and I'm like, okay, whatever. 07:30.627 --> 07:35.012 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah, whatever, I thought it was going to be a fist fight right beside the grave. 07:35.712 --> 07:49.827 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, as soon as I say it said Amen, they at least had the kindness to walk about 30 yards from the grave itself and are nose to nose screaming at each other. 07:49.888 --> 07:52.731 [SPEAKER_00]: And what do you think they're talking about? 07:53.431 --> 07:57.816 [SPEAKER_00]: The flowers? 07:58.758 --> 08:00.682 [SPEAKER_00]: They weren't talking about feelings hurt. 08:00.842 --> 08:16.874 [SPEAKER_00]: It was all about who's getting what and who got the keys to the house So they can go in and get everything that they want before the other siblings or other people get to go in and get what they thought they'd rightfully deserve And it was about it is about we've had them in the hospital. 08:17.194 --> 08:19.078 [SPEAKER_00]: They're not even dead yet 08:19.666 --> 08:31.509 [SPEAKER_00]: And the people are in the hall yelling at each other about what they're going to get and who's going to get into the house and literally one case, the nurse, we were around, you know, we're just, wow. 08:32.130 --> 08:35.036 [SPEAKER_00]: And the nurse came out and said, have you, have you no respect? 08:36.318 --> 08:41.488 [SPEAKER_00]: This person, your dad isn't even dead yet and you're fussing over money. 08:41.688 --> 08:43.070 [SPEAKER_00]: And he hasn't even gone yet. 08:43.471 --> 08:45.594 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think maybe he can hear? 08:45.614 --> 08:53.727 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is the last words that he hears from his kids is them fighting over junk, over stuff. 08:54.908 --> 08:56.110 [SPEAKER_00]: This is America. 08:57.052 --> 08:57.633 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know what? 08:58.033 --> 08:59.916 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't even care. 09:01.904 --> 09:02.425 [SPEAKER_00]: You follow me? 09:02.785 --> 09:14.402 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't care that their daddy is upset and dying, it's beyond that, but it's funny as the switch is, because out there yelling, thinking, oh, Daddy, we're just praying for you. 09:14.442 --> 09:23.355 [SPEAKER_00]: We love you so much, Daddy, you know, and it's just like the hypocrisy is so vivid, and so 09:23.521 --> 09:25.023 [SPEAKER_00]: Money, stuff, greed. 09:25.343 --> 09:28.126 [SPEAKER_00]: That's this coveting versus the contentment. 09:28.807 --> 09:46.086 [SPEAKER_00]: And if there is an area, the people will fuss and fight, it's over, over stuff, as I see a lot of this whole thing of money in the scriptures, in inheritance, off times what the parents would do is give the inheritance to the kids before they kick the bucket. 09:47.618 --> 09:50.343 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, you can't fight now because he's getting this. 09:50.424 --> 09:52.668 [SPEAKER_00]: You understand everybody got, everybody in a room understand. 09:52.708 --> 09:53.710 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what he is getting. 09:53.931 --> 09:55.173 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is what he is getting. 09:55.434 --> 09:57.518 [SPEAKER_00]: And there could be no squabbling at all. 09:57.538 --> 10:00.023 [SPEAKER_00]: And nobody could hoard it up for themselves either. 10:00.484 --> 10:02.568 [SPEAKER_00]: And to prime the others of it. 10:03.129 --> 10:03.610 [SPEAKER_00]: Pretty smart. 10:03.750 --> 10:06.015 [SPEAKER_00]: Now we have wills, right? 10:05.995 --> 10:17.477 [SPEAKER_00]: And, and a problem is, hopefully, don't get dementia, you don't know what's going on, then some one of the kids gets takes over and then they get to say who gets what, oh, it's so complicated. 10:17.517 --> 10:21.285 [SPEAKER_00]: It's all over greed. 10:23.269 --> 10:23.970 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you greedy? 10:26.600 --> 10:35.290 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody can answer that question, but you, now others may see greed in you, but I'm not asking others to say about you, I'm talking about you yourself. 10:35.310 --> 10:39.375 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you be perceived as you are all about money? 10:42.079 --> 10:54.193 [SPEAKER_00]: But I've had some missionaries, some pastors from other countries, and I'll admit I get a little disappointed because it isn't long till the whole conversation is about money. 10:54.764 --> 10:57.688 [SPEAKER_00]: As I weigh in it, okay, let's let's talk about the word. 10:57.968 --> 11:09.862 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's get digging is let's talk about this have fellowship here instead of it being about all about money and buying and money and buying and buying and he dis, I need this, I need this. 11:09.882 --> 11:20.075 [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, we know when a missionary comes to visit our church and they get up in the pulpit and they share about their ministry and they show us their slideshow's and everything. 11:20.295 --> 11:22.037 [SPEAKER_00]: Does anybody not know they're here for money? 11:24.548 --> 11:30.996 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, let's just be honest, does anybody not know that they're here because they're raising money so that they can get to the field? 11:31.477 --> 11:32.818 [SPEAKER_00]: Da, we know that one. 11:33.379 --> 11:36.824 [SPEAKER_00]: So what I want to know is how you handle the word. 11:37.585 --> 11:39.607 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I tell the guys, I want you to preach. 11:39.627 --> 11:40.789 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's some guys coming off field. 11:40.809 --> 11:47.717 [SPEAKER_00]: Oftentimes, it's just an hour of slideshows and you know, and I don't really get to know them. 11:47.757 --> 11:53.745 [SPEAKER_00]: And what they're doing, just because they say here is so 11:54.468 --> 11:55.189 [SPEAKER_00]: Show me the word. 11:55.409 --> 11:56.470 [SPEAKER_00]: Show me how you handle the word. 11:56.811 --> 11:57.652 [SPEAKER_00]: Give me your testimony. 11:57.872 --> 12:00.375 [SPEAKER_00]: Talk to me about when you came to, you know, crisis heavier. 12:00.655 --> 12:01.616 [SPEAKER_00]: Give me this. 12:02.017 --> 12:03.018 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I want to know. 12:03.038 --> 12:08.524 [SPEAKER_00]: I know the money gets you there. 12:08.544 --> 12:10.667 [SPEAKER_00]: I know I've been corrected. 12:10.847 --> 12:11.928 [SPEAKER_00]: Money does keep them there. 12:12.729 --> 12:21.319 [SPEAKER_00]: But I think there's a heart that has to be there. 12:22.632 --> 12:24.435 [SPEAKER_00]: It can affect preachers. 12:24.915 --> 12:36.872 [SPEAKER_00]: It can affect those who will be trustees, those who will be deacons, who handle money within, that we don't, you know, there's a couple of things that are easy to do. 12:36.992 --> 12:39.276 [SPEAKER_00]: Number one, easy thing to do is spend other people's money. 12:40.057 --> 12:40.758 [SPEAKER_00]: Ask our government. 12:42.079 --> 12:45.004 [SPEAKER_00]: Zero problem, spending your money, okay? 12:45.024 --> 12:46.846 [SPEAKER_00]: Zero problem, we're putting you in more debt. 12:46.886 --> 12:48.469 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't care because they have theirs. 12:49.530 --> 12:50.952 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the mindset. 12:51.708 --> 12:58.615 [SPEAKER_00]: And so this whole thing of stuff has affected our very being folks is in America. 12:59.476 --> 13:05.362 [SPEAKER_00]: And God has to warn us, we're going to get studying in the last days. 13:07.544 --> 13:20.517 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, if you haven't studied this out in the last days, the economy has much to do with what the anti-Christ is going to be trying to do and how he is going to be 13:20.885 --> 13:29.013 [SPEAKER_00]: The one-world currency, the mark of the beast, all of these things pull together has to do with the indebtedness of people. 13:31.115 --> 13:33.077 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot going on right now, folks. 13:37.281 --> 13:46.791 [SPEAKER_00]: And the thing is, we as Christians have slipped into it, there were not even satisfied anymore. 13:48.037 --> 13:49.619 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I do this for a living. 13:49.639 --> 13:51.261 [SPEAKER_00]: I talk to people, is what I do. 13:51.321 --> 13:52.183 [SPEAKER_00]: I talk to a lot of people. 13:52.243 --> 14:07.283 [SPEAKER_00]: I talk to a lot of people all over here, they're around, and sometimes it's hard to find people that are actually smiling when you mention the word work or finances or stuff. 14:07.783 --> 14:09.445 [SPEAKER_00]: It's really hard to find. 14:09.465 --> 14:11.668 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you happy? 14:13.391 --> 14:13.491 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 14:13.511 --> 14:14.432 [SPEAKER_00]: Well. 14:15.593 --> 14:20.820 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, let me ask you when I question his Christians, what is so bad? 14:24.725 --> 14:26.427 [SPEAKER_00]: What is really so bad? 14:26.467 --> 14:27.929 [SPEAKER_00]: You say in my health as problems? 14:27.949 --> 14:30.472 [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, some day if Lord doesn't return, we're gonna die. 14:30.913 --> 14:32.395 [SPEAKER_00]: Anybody not get that memo yet? 14:33.777 --> 14:36.420 [SPEAKER_00]: 10 out of 10 of us are going to die. 14:37.447 --> 14:52.753 [SPEAKER_00]: 100% I know there's e-knock and a few other guys, you know, I get that, I know that, but outside of Rapture, you know, I'll be up here, you know, laid out in a casket in, it's going to be closed. 14:52.894 --> 14:54.617 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like open ones, that's just my preference. 14:55.077 --> 14:56.259 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember me alive, not dead. 14:57.221 --> 15:00.687 [SPEAKER_00]: And any negative thing is probably Nathan will do my service. 15:06.573 --> 15:09.258 [SPEAKER_00]: With technology, the way it is, I might record my own message. 15:17.875 --> 15:20.541 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, things aren't going forward, you know? 15:20.561 --> 15:22.925 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going, they're spiraling down. 15:23.025 --> 15:25.230 [SPEAKER_00]: And we understand that about ourselves. 15:25.811 --> 15:27.855 [SPEAKER_00]: And we're still not. 15:28.021 --> 15:55.817 [SPEAKER_00]: content to think I'm almost having I'm almost there isn't this awesome Paul was there he's a I'm so ready to go I am torn between staying here and going there that's the thought whatever state and that's where we're heading to next week on the next week's message but wherever we're at in our life we are supposed to be what all right let's get into the 15:59.341 --> 16:03.795 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know I'm under the lights up here and maybe I'm excited about the message, but is it getting warm in here is it me? 16:05.721 --> 16:06.222 [SPEAKER_00]: Ray! 16:06.242 --> 16:07.907 [SPEAKER_00]: I need some air conditioning going. 16:07.928 --> 16:09.573 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to put them to sleep before long. 16:09.994 --> 16:12.642 [SPEAKER_00]: If you can kick some air conditioning on that will be awesome. 16:13.921 --> 16:31.356 [SPEAKER_00]: Mark chapter number seven in this text in verses 22 and 23 is what we're going to read Jesus is going to explain something about where coveting comes from along with these other immoralities for from within and that's the key within man 16:31.336 --> 16:51.207 [SPEAKER_00]: out of the heart of men, so in others within us, it comes out in form of its fruit or its works, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, deformed occasions, the murders, the thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. 16:51.267 --> 16:57.377 [SPEAKER_00]: So all of these things 16:57.357 --> 16:58.581 [SPEAKER_00]: coveting is part of that. 16:58.842 --> 17:02.715 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, notice verse 23, all these things come from within. 17:02.775 --> 17:05.745 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, notice this, and end up defiling a man. 17:06.428 --> 17:09.257 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, do you want to be defiled? 17:09.372 --> 17:10.695 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to deteriorate? 17:11.076 --> 17:14.604 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you want your life to be in chaos and disorder? 17:14.985 --> 17:22.061 [SPEAKER_00]: And nobody wants to be around you, and you're never happy, and you are self-destructing, imploding, you're just, you're just about gone. 17:22.422 --> 17:25.269 [SPEAKER_00]: God says, that's what happens with these type of things. 17:25.590 --> 17:27.955 [SPEAKER_00]: Is man shoots himself in the foot? 17:29.082 --> 17:38.314 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what B.M.R.L.T.s, you know, the four occasions of where anything was going to be just great, you know, we can do this, but the longer on, life is chaos as a result of that. 17:38.374 --> 17:43.280 [SPEAKER_00]: God designed man, woman, children, family, order, not the rest of what's going on in America. 17:47.546 --> 17:48.227 [SPEAKER_00]: Where comes from? 17:48.847 --> 17:49.328 [SPEAKER_00]: Is within. 17:49.749 --> 17:50.590 [SPEAKER_00]: And what is within? 17:51.651 --> 17:53.554 [SPEAKER_00]: But the sinful nature, right? 17:56.077 --> 17:56.237 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 17:57.888 --> 18:03.997 [SPEAKER_00]: You got it, and I got it, and when we got say that it wasn't eradicated, we still have a sinful nature. 18:04.597 --> 18:14.491 [SPEAKER_00]: So not only is it possible for, of course, the loss to have in live with this and love it, but we as Christians can be affected by the exact same things. 18:14.531 --> 18:18.938 [SPEAKER_00]: The Christian is capable of doing anything that the loss world does, because we still have a sinful nature. 18:19.959 --> 18:24.085 [SPEAKER_00]: And so what we've got to do is we've got to say, I'm not going to allow myself to be contaminated by it. 18:24.105 --> 18:25.667 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at Colossians chapter three. 18:31.098 --> 18:32.200 [SPEAKER_00]: Blossom is chapter three. 18:35.847 --> 18:45.606 [SPEAKER_00]: So my favorite verses and closhings are the first three, four verses, and you almost have to read these with it, because this, it's a building. 18:46.247 --> 18:48.612 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you're gonna be a risen with Christ, what do we supposed to do? 18:48.632 --> 18:52.279 [SPEAKER_00]: Seek those things which are above. 18:52.799 --> 19:01.513 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, so we're to have our mind focused on him, and this is where Christ said it at the right hand of the Father, what a beautiful view of heaven right there. 19:02.575 --> 19:06.140 [SPEAKER_00]: And so set your affections on things above and not on things of the earth. 19:06.641 --> 19:13.031 [SPEAKER_00]: So in other words, our affections, our zeals, the things that we live for, are supposed to be eternal things, Christians. 19:14.253 --> 19:15.395 [SPEAKER_00]: Not the things of this earth. 19:15.816 --> 19:16.837 [SPEAKER_00]: Now let's stop right there. 19:17.178 --> 19:20.443 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you have things, are you wrong then? 19:20.896 --> 19:23.440 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I love the way we usually say it. 19:23.940 --> 19:28.006 [SPEAKER_00]: We have things we have money, but they don't have us. 19:29.308 --> 19:33.234 [SPEAKER_00]: If it comes and goes, okay, it doesn't matter. 19:34.356 --> 19:40.385 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter, because we can take it, we can leave it, if it's there, yeah, it doesn't matter. 19:44.170 --> 19:46.093 [SPEAKER_00]: You and I, we pray for things. 19:46.613 --> 20:05.432 [SPEAKER_00]: It might be your cars about ready to lose its life and you're saying Lord boy do I need another car You guys went through that Dave Malone through that had a had a break down this week I heard and you know, I'm sure they're like Lord fix it You know, you almost want a bit charismatic and just heal it You know, because I'm a long way from home 20:05.902 --> 20:10.607 [SPEAKER_00]: But it didn't work, but we pray for things. 20:10.667 --> 20:11.548 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there anything wrong with that? 20:11.688 --> 20:15.512 [SPEAKER_00]: No, there's nothing wrong with praying for things, but it's not all about things. 20:15.792 --> 20:18.155 [SPEAKER_00]: You have not because you ask not. 20:18.215 --> 20:19.917 [SPEAKER_00]: So there's nothing wrong with asking. 20:19.937 --> 20:35.453 [SPEAKER_00]: But then he says, and you ask, indeed, don't receive it because you ask out of your own wrong desires, the lusts of the heart, just like Lord, I really believe 20:37.120 --> 20:40.286 [SPEAKER_00]: Because, look how fast I could get around on visitation. 20:42.110 --> 20:43.212 [SPEAKER_00]: I could not get their faster. 20:43.232 --> 20:45.416 [SPEAKER_00]: I could get their classic. 20:45.436 --> 20:45.837 [SPEAKER_00]: You know? 20:46.418 --> 20:49.745 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is like, and it can happen, Carl. 20:49.925 --> 20:52.089 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't even, you think you're free. 20:52.109 --> 20:53.011 [SPEAKER_00]: You're free that this week. 20:54.434 --> 20:54.815 [SPEAKER_00]: You're right. 20:54.935 --> 20:55.376 [SPEAKER_00]: I did not. 20:56.979 --> 20:57.981 [SPEAKER_00]: Because it will be. 20:59.260 --> 21:02.410 [SPEAKER_00]: And probably the next pair of whatever it was guy would say, I'm gonna get you for that one. 21:02.430 --> 21:03.354 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't ask for that stuff. 21:03.414 --> 21:05.601 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a wrong guy to my heart for you, okay? 21:06.143 --> 21:07.768 [SPEAKER_00]: So where am I at? 21:07.951 --> 21:09.393 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse 3, you are dead. 21:09.433 --> 21:11.256 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a position in Christ that we have. 21:11.296 --> 21:14.621 [SPEAKER_00]: We are all ready dead in Christ so that we can have life. 21:14.842 --> 21:19.549 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't understand that and your life is hit with Christ in God. 21:19.769 --> 21:20.671 [SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that awesome? 21:20.691 --> 21:21.872 [SPEAKER_00]: But security right there. 21:22.153 --> 21:30.786 [SPEAKER_00]: God has you inside of Him help self with Christ and it's as though we are surrounded by the Father and the Son sealed by the Spirit of God and Ephesians 1. 21:31.103 --> 21:37.238 [SPEAKER_00]: When Christ then who is our life shall appear, then shall we also appear with Him in glory? 21:37.458 --> 21:42.210 [SPEAKER_00]: And what's really nice about that verse is there's another rapture verse and we're gonna be talking about that tonight. 21:42.612 --> 21:52.586 [SPEAKER_00]: First five, mortify, kill then, therefore, as a result of this new life in Christ, knowing we're going to be in heaven someday, the Lord's going to be coming and snatching us away. 21:52.646 --> 22:08.788 [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, remember, therefore, your members were to kill them, which are upon the earth, the form of occasion, and cleanness, and you would normally affections, the evil concubescence, that's just rotten to the core, and covetousness, now notice this, which is idolatry. 22:11.148 --> 22:21.224 [SPEAKER_00]: When we are not satisfied, that is what we have, we become then consumed with that which we want. 22:22.486 --> 22:29.157 [SPEAKER_00]: And then it becomes a number one thing in our hearts, taking over and putting God. 22:30.335 --> 22:31.176 [SPEAKER_00]: to another place. 22:32.177 --> 22:54.925 [SPEAKER_00]: It becomes the center of our focus, and our hearts, and our minds, and we're forgetting and neglecting the Lord so the Lord says, if or something you're coveting, that has become your idol, that thing, whatever it be, has become your God, and He says, put it away, die to it, and that's what we're actually called to do Christians. 22:55.765 --> 23:05.282 [SPEAKER_00]: is we have to come to a point that this doesn't mean we're coming amongst we're going to go up in some tower and hide ourselves away from the world, not have things as not we're talking about. 23:05.923 --> 23:09.229 [SPEAKER_00]: Matter of fact, Solomon was probably in a great sin, wasn't he? 23:10.131 --> 23:19.528 [SPEAKER_00]: With the stuff that he owned, Jesus had women, you'll see this in the book of Luke that went around with him, providing the knees that Jesus Christ had so they had money. 23:19.508 --> 23:25.941 [SPEAKER_00]: They had jobs, they had vocations, they could supply needs, the Jesus had, there's nothing wrong with having stuff. 23:27.244 --> 23:34.658 [SPEAKER_00]: But this thought is, but we have to die to that, which it will become our whole life. 23:36.823 --> 23:41.432 [SPEAKER_00]: Money, things can't become our life, it will ruin you. 23:42.543 --> 23:43.524 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what God's saying. 23:43.704 --> 23:45.126 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the message today. 23:46.067 --> 23:49.771 [SPEAKER_00]: Is this whole thing of coveting versus contentment? 23:50.131 --> 23:53.295 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that coveting is going to be a slow cancer? 23:53.575 --> 23:55.838 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to eat you alive. 23:59.862 --> 24:02.005 [SPEAKER_00]: First, Timothy six puts it this way. 24:05.088 --> 24:06.269 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is the familiar one. 24:07.230 --> 24:07.871 [SPEAKER_00]: You doing okay? 24:08.572 --> 24:09.613 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, everybody doing okay? 24:14.572 --> 24:27.211 [SPEAKER_00]: First, in the sixth 10, we usually stop with the first phrase or love of money is the root of all evil. 24:27.752 --> 24:28.973 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's usually where we stop. 24:29.254 --> 24:36.124 [SPEAKER_00]: And we usually get that correction and we understand money is not the root of all evil. 24:37.184 --> 25:03.023 [SPEAKER_00]: but what is the love of it that's that I got to have I can't live without that's the coveting that's the greed part of it all and so money is not the bad guy you know those who are in the national rifle association would say guns are not the evil but the people 25:04.336 --> 25:11.743 [SPEAKER_00]: But the love of the drive of it, the love of money and the hate of people can be that, which deteriorates the heart of a man. 25:12.724 --> 25:14.026 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, we have to read the rest of it though. 25:14.426 --> 25:18.170 [SPEAKER_00]: Which while some here it is, coveted after. 25:18.190 --> 25:30.462 [SPEAKER_00]: Now is it, we have to focus on this because it's like, we can walk away from here saying, okay, money's evil, money's evil, I can't have things, I can't have a new car, I can't have this, as not what he's saying. 25:31.370 --> 25:41.543 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you, the here's the problem with America is that we are coveting, we are coveting stuff that we can't afford. 25:43.065 --> 25:49.494 [SPEAKER_00]: What I like to buy a new car, I mean, my cars getting a little order, you know, 145, 146,000 miles is doing okay. 25:49.514 --> 25:52.197 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, the grill fell off this week, you know? 25:54.421 --> 26:00.729 [SPEAKER_00]: has a little, you know, I need to get some stress on the front and, you know, it's kind of bumping a little bit, and it's just like, you know what? 26:01.671 --> 26:04.414 [SPEAKER_00]: And don't think, oh, we better take it off for a car, we'll get another car. 26:04.454 --> 26:05.756 [SPEAKER_00]: No, that's how I am saying this. 26:06.157 --> 26:12.285 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm saying what I like to have, but you know what, I don't want to go in debt for another car right now. 26:12.906 --> 26:18.353 [SPEAKER_00]: I just don't want to do that because I want to be able to do some other things and have the money freed up for doing some other things. 26:19.109 --> 26:21.913 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, it was so funny. 26:22.193 --> 26:27.020 [SPEAKER_00]: Lori, number of years ago, this was before, oh, eight, they were really pushing all this stuff. 26:27.040 --> 26:31.307 [SPEAKER_00]: They called Lori and said, you are pre-qualified for $100,000 for us. 26:32.929 --> 26:34.391 [SPEAKER_00]: And she's like, really? 26:35.433 --> 26:38.437 [SPEAKER_00]: And they said, yes, so can we sign you up? 26:38.497 --> 26:41.261 [SPEAKER_00]: And we would be glad to give you this $100,000 because we had good credit. 26:42.142 --> 26:44.686 [SPEAKER_00]: And my wife said, well, there's only one problem with this. 26:45.487 --> 26:47.530 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't personally work outside of the home. 26:48.438 --> 26:50.201 [SPEAKER_00]: And you're qualifying me for $100,000. 26:50.221 --> 26:52.766 [SPEAKER_00]: And it lays it, yes. 26:53.267 --> 26:54.249 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's not a problem. 26:58.177 --> 26:58.237 [SPEAKER_00]: OK? 27:01.584 --> 27:04.429 [SPEAKER_00]: A few brick, you know, French fries shy of a happy meals. 27:04.629 --> 27:05.451 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean? 27:06.443 --> 27:08.926 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, but she's saying, but you don't understand. 27:09.187 --> 27:10.548 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't work outside of the home. 27:10.628 --> 27:13.072 [SPEAKER_00]: I have no income coming in. 27:13.112 --> 27:18.338 [SPEAKER_00]: So how am I going to make the premiums, the payments, the interest and everything like that? 27:18.659 --> 27:21.663 [SPEAKER_00]: She said, don't worry about honestly. 27:21.683 --> 27:26.228 [SPEAKER_00]: She's fighting with her to give her all this money because she's going to get a kick back on it, right? 27:26.989 --> 27:28.091 [SPEAKER_00]: She could care less. 27:28.111 --> 27:32.957 [SPEAKER_00]: She's putting a person into debt for money that they can't pay back. 27:34.473 --> 27:36.556 [SPEAKER_00]: Right now, we could go get a lot of money. 27:36.776 --> 27:37.617 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I get them in the mail. 27:37.697 --> 27:40.401 [SPEAKER_00]: You qualify for almost $300,000 on your house. 27:40.421 --> 27:41.942 [SPEAKER_00]: You can borrow against your house right now. 27:42.283 --> 27:53.417 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to do that because if I go in debt so far up to my eyeballs, then when it comes time to give for a missionary, give for a need of so far in debt that I can't even help out somebody. 27:54.438 --> 27:55.940 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that what we want to do? 27:56.000 --> 28:03.670 [SPEAKER_00]: That things become our God, that it becomes our drive, that we can't even be wise with our money to give to those that are in need. 28:04.544 --> 28:14.479 [SPEAKER_00]: Or, the church, we could be as individuals in debt so far that we could put ourselves on guilt trips because then when there is a need, we can't even help. 28:17.083 --> 28:18.585 [SPEAKER_00]: So all of a sudden you go through the guilt. 28:19.967 --> 28:22.151 [SPEAKER_00]: And you say, what's Dave Ramsey say? 28:23.733 --> 28:24.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Never try to get out of debt. 28:24.975 --> 28:25.956 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for one of yours, Larry. 28:26.437 --> 28:27.739 [SPEAKER_00]: Got all those things they can care of. 28:28.941 --> 28:29.742 [SPEAKER_00]: A circle. 28:33.856 --> 28:38.201 [SPEAKER_00]: Ecclesiastes, chapter five, tells it this way. 28:41.765 --> 28:42.626 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, it might be three weeks. 28:47.752 --> 28:50.815 [SPEAKER_00]: While you're turning there to Ecclesiastes, you'll take a minute, maybe to find that. 28:52.617 --> 28:55.881 [SPEAKER_00]: Soms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, give you an idea. 28:56.080 --> 29:02.612 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, there is a, uh, a pastor and I knew him very intelligent man, uh, historian above his stories. 29:02.632 --> 29:05.798 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, his guy is just a guru with everything wealth of knowledge. 29:05.838 --> 29:10.967 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, just packed every building that he came into and, uh, we had him in our church. 29:11.538 --> 29:23.839 [SPEAKER_00]: And he was coming in and he was going through some church history stuff, you know, tying together the end times with the, you know, the seven churches of Revelation 2 and 3 and tying together different church ages and just just a master of all that. 29:23.999 --> 29:31.171 [SPEAKER_00]: I still have all that stuff figured out, mastered, but anyways, so he's teaching all this and he stayed at some family's house, the re-tiles. 29:31.191 --> 29:33.695 [SPEAKER_00]: And we went over and had a meal with him, and I had chance to talk to him a little bit. 29:33.755 --> 29:34.457 [SPEAKER_00]: Very arrogant, man. 29:34.997 --> 29:35.318 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll admit. 29:35.703 --> 29:36.985 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, very, very arrogant man. 29:37.425 --> 29:45.255 [SPEAKER_00]: But anyways, at the end of about two weeks after the conference was over, John, preacher got a call. 29:46.076 --> 29:48.278 [SPEAKER_00]: And they said, hey, so-and-so was at your church free, right? 29:48.378 --> 29:49.279 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, yeah. 29:49.299 --> 29:50.701 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, can we ask you a question? 29:51.662 --> 29:52.804 [SPEAKER_00]: What hotel did he stay in? 29:53.384 --> 29:55.367 [SPEAKER_00]: And they said, well, he stayed at the retail. 29:55.927 --> 29:57.289 [SPEAKER_00]: And he said, that's what we thought. 29:57.927 --> 30:00.415 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I said, hey, to say this, but we're doing some investigation. 30:00.515 --> 30:08.983 [SPEAKER_00]: So what he was doing is handing in these receipts of bills that he said he paid for staying in hotels. 30:09.149 --> 30:32.541 [SPEAKER_00]: when he was on all these trips and the running of cars and all these other things expenditures and handing them in and in me time he's staying at people's houses and they figured he stopped somewhere out $100,000 over a course of years that he had taken from the church in reimbursements and so forth they're fraughting and our hearts sunk. 30:33.365 --> 30:53.584 [SPEAKER_00]: really did we just had a minute we're like one of the last places you know the guy came through and it was just like horrible and the thing is he's in a church as one of the associates of thousands of people and he's a big church and I don't know if in his mind he was thinking but you don't pay me enough 30:55.690 --> 30:57.132 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if that's what was going through. 30:57.192 --> 31:02.918 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe his kids were crying to him saying, Daddy, Daddy, we need something big, you know, by me a new car, okay? 31:02.938 --> 31:08.264 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, let me take some money from the church and pop it on over because I deserve it because I've got the doctors to greet. 31:08.844 --> 31:13.089 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what the mindset was, but I know one thing he was coveting. 31:13.109 --> 31:15.091 [SPEAKER_00]: And he was desiring something that was not his. 31:16.112 --> 31:16.733 [SPEAKER_00]: And he took it. 31:17.434 --> 31:18.355 [SPEAKER_00]: He became a thief. 31:19.596 --> 31:21.458 [SPEAKER_00]: His result of that, okay? 31:22.219 --> 31:25.663 [SPEAKER_00]: You say it could never happen to me. 31:26.723 --> 31:34.034 [SPEAKER_00]: and beware of coveting for a man's life consists of not in the abundance of the things which he possesses. 31:34.755 --> 31:36.017 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the teachings of Christ. 31:36.378 --> 31:37.559 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to take heed. 31:38.100 --> 31:45.592 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to watch out that we are not part of this whole god-a-half and I deserve it. 31:46.433 --> 31:47.354 [SPEAKER_00]: Me, me, me, right? 31:47.554 --> 31:47.915 [SPEAKER_00]: Minds it. 31:48.115 --> 31:50.779 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about that on Sunday night, too. 31:50.799 --> 31:52.322 [SPEAKER_00]: Look with me here at Cleese, the S.S.S. 31:52.342 --> 31:53.203 [SPEAKER_00]: 5.10. 31:53.690 --> 31:59.039 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, He that loveeth silver shall not be satisfied with silver. 31:59.300 --> 32:01.644 [SPEAKER_00]: He that loveeth abundance, with increase. 32:01.965 --> 32:04.649 [SPEAKER_00]: This also is vanity or emptiness. 32:06.493 --> 32:11.802 [SPEAKER_00]: Enough is never enough for a person that covets and is greedy. 32:12.583 --> 32:17.993 [SPEAKER_00]: A person that has this type of eagerness about it will never be enough. 32:18.344 --> 32:21.595 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter who they hurt as long as they receive. 32:22.377 --> 32:23.922 [SPEAKER_00]: And God says, that's wrong. 32:25.387 --> 32:31.527 [SPEAKER_00]: God says, in first Timothy, go back to the New Testament with me in chapter three, first Timothy three, verse three. 32:33.413 --> 32:37.016 [SPEAKER_00]: Here, the pastor is told, not to be this. 32:37.096 --> 32:49.487 [SPEAKER_00]: Just as I mentioned of this pastor, first Timothy 33 says, not given to wine, not no striker, not greedy, a filthy, lukeur, or money, but patient, not a brawler, and not covetous. 32:50.028 --> 32:52.670 [SPEAKER_00]: So we've got to be careful that it's not all about money. 32:52.851 --> 33:00.838 [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody called me about, I don't know, way back, about 10 years ago, there was this huge safe, because I think somebody took a safe before, they got this huge safe. 33:00.898 --> 33:03.420 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I'd be how they got it in there. 33:03.400 --> 33:14.654 [SPEAKER_00]: But there's, you know, a lot of paperwork and so forth in this safe, and somebody said, hey, I need to get something, I don't know if it was a title, or what it was for vehicle, or what it was. 33:14.694 --> 33:16.476 [SPEAKER_00]: They said, can you open this safe for me? 33:16.877 --> 33:20.601 [SPEAKER_00]: And I said, I know I can't, and I said, well, why not? 33:20.902 --> 33:25.427 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, because I don't know the combination, and I don't want to know the combination, because that's where they keep the money. 33:27.069 --> 33:27.670 [SPEAKER_00]: If all of me. 33:28.949 --> 33:35.057 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to take heat, we have to keep our mindset above being tempted even in these areas. 33:35.718 --> 33:37.020 [SPEAKER_00]: Anybody has to. 33:37.521 --> 33:43.989 [SPEAKER_00]: And I have to be careful that I am not guilty of picking your pockets. 33:46.453 --> 33:53.202 [SPEAKER_00]: A preacher, I have to be careful that what I am teaching and preaching is not for increase. 33:54.059 --> 33:55.521 [SPEAKER_00]: personal increase. 33:56.322 --> 33:57.924 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why I told the deacons years ago. 33:57.944 --> 34:08.519 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, no matter what happens in this ministry, whether it grows or whether it goes down, the message is will stay the same. 34:09.060 --> 34:19.054 [SPEAKER_00]: Because I am to preach the word in season out of season, reproove that's what we're doing today, rebuking a little bit of that, and we're doing this to help you. 34:20.620 --> 34:23.464 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to help you, because I don't want you miserable. 34:24.606 --> 34:35.562 [SPEAKER_00]: Young people, I wish I would have heard a message like this earlier, because my ambitions was to be an electrician, get in the union, no offense to the electricians and unions. 34:36.664 --> 34:43.174 [SPEAKER_00]: But I did it because I knew I was going to make some good money, and I wanted to be an electrician, and that was my aspiration. 34:43.194 --> 34:50.104 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what I wanted to do in life, and guys like, I'm going to change your winter. 34:52.970 --> 34:59.098 [SPEAKER_00]: But if my goal was to make money, this would not have been the quickest way to that position. 35:00.640 --> 35:01.261 [SPEAKER_00]: You follow me? 35:03.284 --> 35:09.772 [SPEAKER_00]: So you gotta do, we'll God want you to do what you love to do, what's in your heart to do for God? 35:10.233 --> 35:16.581 [SPEAKER_00]: Let him work inside of you because the stuff will come if you're smart with your money. 35:17.236 --> 35:25.936 [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, the more we think everything we learn is the older we get, the more you make, the more you, I didn't have to say it, we do. 35:26.778 --> 35:30.908 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine making what you make when you were 20 years old? 35:31.833 --> 35:50.337 [SPEAKER_00]: Knowing that you were going to make the money that you are right now, how much income you would say, man, I'm rich, man, I'm going to be able to save all this money, I'm going to be able to pay for that first house cash, you know, you had, man, I got money all kinds of money and here you are, you're making the money, I guess what, we don't have it left. 35:50.878 --> 36:00.490 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we got Lord give us this dear daily bread, yeah, okay. 36:01.685 --> 36:03.126 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll wind down here in a moment. 36:03.427 --> 36:07.150 [SPEAKER_00]: Feagions five, verse number three. 36:12.454 --> 36:28.108 [SPEAKER_00]: Before an occasion, that is all kinds of immoral sexuality, adultery, pre-marital sex, all those kind of things, and all uncleaness, and just saying, you know, God designed man, woman, to be together, intimacy is a wonderful thing. 36:28.408 --> 36:30.510 [SPEAKER_00]: Or else, there will be kids born probably. 36:32.363 --> 36:37.010 [SPEAKER_00]: you'll get that one later on, you'll read listen to that part on the tape and you'll get it then, okay? 36:37.451 --> 36:45.924 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, intimacy is a wonderful thing, but, you know, Satan, you know, flesh always make something that God made good makes it bad, you know? 36:45.944 --> 36:51.613 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, all the bad stuff that happens in America, and then it says all the uncleaness and coveting. 36:51.813 --> 36:54.878 [SPEAKER_00]: Now notice this, let it not be once. 36:54.858 --> 37:01.605 [SPEAKER_00]: Named among you as become a Saints, the set of part ones, the holy ones, is the thought of Saints. 37:01.846 --> 37:04.068 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you didn't know this, you're a saint if you're a Christian. 37:05.430 --> 37:07.031 [SPEAKER_00]: You can say, I am a saint Carl. 37:09.294 --> 37:09.834 [SPEAKER_00]: You're a saint. 37:10.055 --> 37:11.176 [SPEAKER_00]: You can put your name in there. 37:11.717 --> 37:14.299 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the person that's separated for the purpose of God. 37:14.860 --> 37:18.124 [SPEAKER_00]: And as you are separated, God says, let's not be this way. 37:18.424 --> 37:23.970 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's not even let it named one time that we will be individuals that covet. 37:24.507 --> 37:47.494 [SPEAKER_00]: or that we have the immoralities that were unclean were defrautors were taking and we're stealing that is not what we're supposed to be about instead we're supposed to be about contentment i'm going to stop right there i want to give you the end here though we're going to talk more about these verses i got several more points i'm getting old i'm not in a hurry anymore 37:50.579 --> 37:54.605 [SPEAKER_00]: But remember, coveting is also a positive, at times. 37:54.625 --> 37:58.390 [SPEAKER_00]: Cove it more earnestly, the best gifts, the good things. 38:00.012 --> 38:01.875 [SPEAKER_00]: What is burning inside of your heart? 38:04.298 --> 38:15.915 [SPEAKER_00]: Just impair a little to a person that is trying to go up the corporate ladder and he wants to power, he wants to prestige, he wants to money, he wants to mansion, he wants all these things because that's what's going to make him happy. 38:16.336 --> 38:18.038 [SPEAKER_00]: And once he's there, then he kills himself. 38:18.946 --> 38:25.633 [SPEAKER_00]: So going up this corporate ladder, not all do, but you know what I'm saying, it's not all that's cracked up to be. 38:27.075 --> 38:37.045 [SPEAKER_00]: And so instead of having that mindset that we have that desire, what is inside of you that you say this is honestly what I desire. 38:39.427 --> 38:46.675 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's Christians that comes back to the simplicity of life. 38:47.498 --> 38:55.850 [SPEAKER_00]: Lee's college kids coming back with mums and dads, and they're like, this is so nice to have a boy or my daughter home, we've missed them. 38:56.571 --> 39:06.045 [SPEAKER_00]: Coming home from the military, man, they just can't be with them enough, and they just long can't wait to spend the time with family. 39:09.830 --> 39:10.791 [SPEAKER_00]: That's precious to me. 39:11.933 --> 39:14.637 [SPEAKER_00]: My time with my wife is a very precious thing. 39:15.629 --> 39:17.451 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm with you, but I'm thinking of her. 39:19.253 --> 39:19.473 [SPEAKER_00]: I do. 39:22.416 --> 39:29.683 [SPEAKER_00]: When I'm on top of things, I'll even call and say, hey, is there anything you need before I come home, honey, because, you know, I want a nice big kiss when I come home. 39:31.945 --> 39:33.827 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to make sure she's happy. 39:36.189 --> 39:36.910 [SPEAKER_00]: I love my kids. 39:37.951 --> 39:38.872 [SPEAKER_00]: I love my grandkids. 39:39.372 --> 39:45.518 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray for them daily for growth. 39:45.717 --> 39:47.781 [SPEAKER_00]: should be coveting family. 39:49.604 --> 39:55.295 [SPEAKER_00]: God puts so much emphasis on it that he started with it in his creation, the home. 40:00.184 --> 40:01.346 [SPEAKER_00]: Time with our church family. 40:03.670 --> 40:04.772 [SPEAKER_00]: I long for that. 40:05.512 --> 40:06.213 [SPEAKER_00]: I get nervous. 40:06.814 --> 40:08.296 [SPEAKER_00]: Tonight's message, I'm scared death preaching. 40:08.656 --> 40:10.559 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm really nervous about this new series. 40:10.699 --> 40:11.961 [SPEAKER_00]: We're getting ready to do in last days. 40:12.321 --> 40:12.902 [SPEAKER_00]: I really am. 40:12.922 --> 40:17.308 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm nervous because I'm afraid that your expectation of what's going to be this long this year. 40:17.769 --> 40:20.773 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you know, because sometimes we think, oh, he's going to be like, Dr. So-and-so. 40:20.833 --> 40:24.618 [SPEAKER_00]: There's somebody called, say, how much is it cost to go through these sessions on the last days? 40:25.459 --> 40:28.343 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this is how people are looking at this. 40:28.563 --> 40:31.367 [SPEAKER_00]: This is like the hot ticket right now. 40:33.389 --> 40:37.675 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not going to have a visa mastercard swipe as you come in the doors in other words. 40:38.296 --> 40:40.079 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no, there's, it's, I'm free. 40:40.479 --> 40:40.840 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 40:42.222 --> 40:49.813 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I can't wait to come and greet and see you. 40:50.474 --> 40:52.417 [SPEAKER_00]: And sit back and watch you greet each other. 40:54.140 --> 40:55.802 [SPEAKER_00]: Family, the church, family. 40:56.626 --> 41:03.336 [SPEAKER_00]: And when this has been weird to last two, three weeks, hasn't it not having the Sunday school or New Year's or maybe you're not together as much, it's just like really weird. 41:03.356 --> 41:04.698 [SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't wait for this week to come. 41:05.159 --> 41:07.883 [SPEAKER_00]: We get this whole thing back together again. 41:09.706 --> 41:10.407 [SPEAKER_00]: Time with God. 41:12.731 --> 41:15.495 [SPEAKER_00]: Time with God is something precious for us as Christians. 41:16.724 --> 41:35.666 [SPEAKER_00]: Whether it's in your car go on the work and you're all by yourself and you're turning a radio on and you're putting your favorite CD and you're listening to some wonderful gospel music and you're singing and you're praising him and you're talking to him and calling on him and talking to him about your family or whatever it is, your time and your word. 41:39.331 --> 41:43.035 [SPEAKER_00]: We should cover our strongly desire what God strongly desires. 41:44.618 --> 41:47.443 [SPEAKER_00]: We should desire the unity that we prayed for earlier. 41:48.144 --> 41:52.832 [SPEAKER_00]: We should be praying for the great commission to be fulfilled because that's our God heartbeat. 41:53.673 --> 42:01.406 [SPEAKER_00]: Is this soul to be saved and Christians of be growing and we see all these new faces coming in and you're wondering, what are who they are? 42:01.506 --> 42:05.573 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, go up and ask them, talk to them, get to know each other. 42:08.839 --> 42:10.221 [SPEAKER_00]: The only lady we, 42:10.673 --> 42:16.722 [SPEAKER_00]: baptize it just got saved not long ago when we've had chance to lead to the Lord she'd been coming so faithful. 42:18.004 --> 42:30.523 [SPEAKER_00]: And my wife even has said she said, Carl, how that has encouraged revitalized inside of us because it's something something that God wants us to do. 42:30.563 --> 42:35.550 [SPEAKER_00]: You can be part of that either by prayer, 42:35.969 --> 42:44.339 [SPEAKER_00]: Sharing a gospel track, sharing a faith, and bite them to church, whatever it's going to be, but you can be part of fulfilling, and it should be something that's longing in our hearts. 42:45.220 --> 42:49.785 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we, when we lose our compassion for souls, as a church, we're in trouble. 42:50.947 --> 42:59.316 [SPEAKER_00]: It will be one generation from destruction. 42:59.336 --> 43:00.538 [SPEAKER_00]: Our God is an awesome God. 43:03.041 --> 43:04.963 [SPEAKER_00]: He only wants what's best for us. 43:06.766 --> 43:16.057 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's why we have to have messages like this, getting our minds focused on him, on him, what does he want? 43:16.677 --> 43:20.822 [SPEAKER_00]: Allowing him to be our Lord and our Master, do we need money? 43:20.962 --> 43:24.006 [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, even the Lord had to pay taxes, right? 43:26.949 --> 43:27.470 [SPEAKER_00]: We need it. 43:27.610 --> 43:28.931 [SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing wrong with things. 43:29.832 --> 43:33.837 [SPEAKER_00]: But let's guard our hearts that that's not our drive. 43:34.762 --> 43:35.543 [SPEAKER_00]: Father, we love you. 43:36.324 --> 43:37.565 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray you bless this time. 43:39.507 --> 43:42.370 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, there may be somebody here that's never put you first in her life. 43:42.770 --> 43:44.953 [SPEAKER_00]: They've never called on you, and this is new. 43:45.013 --> 43:47.876 [SPEAKER_00]: And I pray that you're working on hearts. 43:48.116 --> 43:51.480 [SPEAKER_00]: Your word, Lord, I pray for us as Christians. 43:51.560 --> 44:03.132 [SPEAKER_00]: We need reminded of how we can so quickly fall in love with things that it can take away our real purpose and vision and priorities in life. 44:05.575 --> 44:07.799 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, may we learn contentment with where we're at? 44:10.243 --> 44:25.569 [SPEAKER_00]: May we search within our own hearts to see why we're anxious, why we're preencing, why it's never enough, Lord, forgive us, where we fail in this area. 44:28.114 --> 44:31.279 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I pray you'll bless this brief invitation, it is yours. 44:32.508 --> 44:34.811 [SPEAKER_00]: And I pray that you'll use it for your glory and purpose. 44:35.014 --> 44:36.004 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus name, we pray. 44:36.024 --> 44:37.438 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen, the stand together.