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As we begin and look at the 
passages under consideration, we

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do need to do this and I 
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reteach what we've already 
taught, but I need a few minutes

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to lead into what we're going to
discuss because marks account 

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shows a tremendous distinction 
and comparison between the 

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scribes that Jesus just speaks 
to, and about, and this poor 

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Widow. 
Now, I know that there's a fine 

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line between review and bringing
everyone up. 

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Up to speed of where we are from
last time. 

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There's a fine line between that
and being redundant and teaching

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it again. 
I'm not going to do that. 

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You know, interestingly though, 
my dad used to tell me that a 

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person only only absorbs about a
third of what he's told. 

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I don't know if that's true or 
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told me everything three times. 
I'm not going to do that but I 

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do have to bring us up to speed.
The first thing I want to notice

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is is going back to verse 38. 
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that he said to them in his 
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the course of his teaching, he 
said, and what he says is, he 

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says, Beware of the scribes and 
then he's going to list six 

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things that really go a long 
with these people with regards 

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to their wicked Tendencies. 
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says, is they desire to go 
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And we talked about what all 
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from the Normal cloak that an 
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It was also different from the 
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which was shorter and also the 
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But these that went along in 
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is they would go up and down the
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would be in the Garb of these 
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kings dress and how pre-stressed
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History tells us up and down the
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were doing something that was It
was very official also they love

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greetings in the marketplaces. 
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Greetings here is translated in 
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salutations. 
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wordy or worldly or titles of 
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That picture this. 
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gets a PhD and demands that 
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Now I understand about being 
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In the professional world but 
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What if I had a PhD and I wanted
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Christ to call me doctor. 
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brother. 
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though? 
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salutation, is they one of the 
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were these number one, Rabbi a 
wrap. 

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I was a Jewish scholar, they 
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two, rabona, I, which meant 
Master teacher, they wanted that

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too. 
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the word Abba, which is an 
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about in the New Testament. 
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Also, though they wanted the 
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You remember last time we talked
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seats in the synagogues and the 
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the Jerusalem and of the 
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or a stage and standing on that 
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prayer leader or the scripture 
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You know what they wanted to do?
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up here, where dignitaries sat, 
we're honored guests at and they

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wanted to sit there facing the 
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speaker. 
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something important. 
Didn't Jesus says they want the 

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best seats in the synagogues and
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feasts. 
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about this very idea, He said 
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principle to demand or want the 
other seat. 

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great seat, and then given the 
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floor and James actually 
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the scribes were all about that.
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the feast or best couches now. 
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Jesus says, they devour widows 
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widows houses, please, as we go 
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know exactly what all was in 
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generosity of widows, I'm going 
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It takes a special person, I 
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And I say that very lightly. 
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negative way to take advantage 
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widows, they would pray, long 
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difference between somebody 
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they really have a lot to say, 
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heart and it's going to God or 
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cover what everyone would need 
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So they could say Amen to. 
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somebody that words along prayer
because of that and somebody 

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else that words along prayer 
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Heard for their much speaking. 
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In 19. 90, well actually would 
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I was at Cal Poly Some of you 
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illustration years ago, I did 
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Department that was my major 
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management. 
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building, there was all these 
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there. 
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I'm telling you Monday morning 
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really busy. 
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there and it's interesting. 
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morning so you don't they were 
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hold hands. 
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And everybody that drove by all.
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over there. 
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to be ashamed of praying to God.
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us, that's not the point. 
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something just to be seen of 
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reward. 
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The pat on the back. 
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here. 
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That's the point. 
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to do to gain influence so they 
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precious widows. 
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In fact, these two things go 
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making long prayers went 
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cover it up. 
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Prayers. 
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this last phrase in this verse 
verse 40. 

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These will receive greater 
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different sentences I don't 
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reward either. 
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what Peter said is true. 
I'm not going to barely squeak 

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in. 
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Streetsweeper in heaven. 
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I take it. 
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take it. 
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If I barely squeak in, I'll take
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entrance into the Everlasting 
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I don't know how else to put 
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gonna blow the doors off and we 
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So if I make Heaven, abundant 
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Kingdom and there won't be any 
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get that anybody else will get 
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punishment in hair and he'll 
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So that's not what he's talking 
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The greater condemnation is the 
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is Jesus will place on what they
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In other words, they're still 
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greater assessment and a greater
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horrible thing. 
Taking advantage of these 

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precious widows. 
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and that brings us to our 
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There's a clear distinction 
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the greed of the scribes and the
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God, by this unnamed Widow. 
Jesus shows by example to help 

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poor. 
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to be helped and praised when 
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exploited and abused. 
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the title of our sermon and 
maybe someday I'll preach it 

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talking about what a widow. 
Indeed really means in the King 

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James it talks about widows 
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new King James, I'll just say 
this in passing will not go any 

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further, the Bible even says 
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contribution or what we have at 
the collection that money is for

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widows to but not just any 
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and needy Saints and is talking 
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The gospel, the work of the 
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There's a difference between 
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spouse. 
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somebody that is indeed a widow 
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writing to Timothy gave the 
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I just give you a few. 
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to have no family. 
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take care of her. 
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And by the way, we exhaust our 
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in the family, before we ever go
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things that a widow falls into 
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criteria. 
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care of widows, we don't steal 
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We don't do what these people 
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sudden in verse 41. 
Jesus, sat opposite the 

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treasury. 
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right here in this area right 
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Jesus had just spent where the, 
where the number 12 is Jesus 

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has. 
Just spent all this time, this 

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is the court of the Gentiles. 
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those Royal porticos. 
It's just a picture of that in 

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that picture there. 
But Jesus had been out here in 

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the court of the Gentiles. 
That's the only place that the 

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Gentiles could go. 
But Now it was time is teaching 

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was done. 
His enemies had taken off and 

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that's over with, and it was 
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this barrier here, which by the 
way, is where the beautiful gate

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was or the gate. 
Beautiful. 

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And here, there was a short 
marble wall and Jesus crossed 

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and he went into the inner 
sanctum or the precinct the area

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where Jews Gentiles should be 
Gentiles could not go. 

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That's the word I was looking 
for. 

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He entered the precinct where 
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this area right here and it was 
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Now, all of a sudden as he 
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some sort of bench and he views 
the treasury. 

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The word treasury is a compound 
word that comes from these two 

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words. 
One is Gaza. 

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And it's Persian for Treasure 
and the other word means to 

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guard or Safeguard. 
So the word refers to a 

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receptacle into the treasures or
gifts, that could be dropped in 

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safely kept. 
Now according to the mishnah, 

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There were 13 trumpet shaped 
containers that were placed 

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around the wall in the court of 
women. 

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And, you know what they were for
all different reasons and they 

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were distinguished by a Hebrew 
letter. 

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For example, one perhaps would 
be for sacrifices for the 

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temple, one would be for oil. 
That would be purchased one for.

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Would that would be purchased 
one for this that or the other 

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incense I have read was for 
another purpose and what people 

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would do is they would come into
the of women around the wall and

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these trumpet shaped containers 
they would drop their money in 

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And you know what's interesting 
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Jesus is viewing or watching the
money that's going in the 

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contributions for the temple. 
And notice what it says, he saw 

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how people he saw how people put
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Now, do you remember when Jesus 
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giving In The Sermon on the 
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He was talking about giving. 
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interesting because I didn't 
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last week that they were trumpet
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I now know that. 
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sound your trumpet or don't Blow
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When you do your giving, do you 
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A lot of the rich people 
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This is amazing to me. 
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as we noticed here, put their 
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shaped containers. 
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often times a trumpet ear and 
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blast that trumpet. 
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what the rich guy put in. 
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Jesus says, don't sound your 
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not Blow Your Horn, don't do 
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And Jesus is sitting here, by 
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have been the treasury area 
where number 10 is right there 

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and he's sitting on a mar 
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know and he sees this and he saw
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treasury and you know, 
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In 2nd Corinthians chapter 9 
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Paul says but this I say he who 
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sparingly and he who sows 
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bountifully. 
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So let each one give as he 
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grudgingly or of necessity for 
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There is no creature hidden from
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naked and open to the eyes of 
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account. 
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that we just noticed about Jesus
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They're actually means copper or
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for all of money. 
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literally here because very few 
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would have given silver. 
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opposite the treasury watching 
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all of a sudden he notices some 
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that they put in much. 
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picture this. 
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Okay? 
It's Passover time. 

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Thousands of pilgrims would have
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Among the thousands that journey
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now, I'm going to tell you if 
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you get in return, the gift is 
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And if you only get or give 
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credited to you by way of 
getting, some sort of Praise or 

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credit than the gift is also 
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Jesus is sitting there and he 
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put in a whole lot. 
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But then there was one poor 
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And she came and marks accounted
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the rich possibly of whom were 
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devoured widows houses, or these
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house is devoured either by the 
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circumstances of life. 
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consider that Jesus? 
Always, he never missed 

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anything. 
You know, there are things that 

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sometimes if I was sitting 
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that. 
Maybe I would have been carried 

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away with all the hoopla, the 
rich people blowing the horns 

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and the trumpets and all that, 
all of a sudden Jesus sitting 

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there, he sees this poor Widow 
and she comes quietly and she's 

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all alone. 
She captures the Lord's, I in 

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the Mist, midst of all of this 
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two mites. 
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My whole life. 
I've talked about Mike's my 

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whole life. 
I've talked about a Widow's Mite

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for example, if she is a widow 
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to her as maybe someone who gave
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we heard the phrase? 
She gave all she had her songs 

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that we have sung that deal with
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How really little is the amount 
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Well, first of all, the Bible 
says, then one poor Widow came 

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and threw it to Mike's, which 
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James version, it says, a 
farthing in the word might hear 

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is the word lepka. 
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coin, and it's the smallest of 
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So we're starting there, right? 
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sudden two, might she puts in 
and marks account says she puts 

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into Mike's two, mites make up a
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quarter, a quarter of what 
quarter of a dollar, no one 

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quarter of a Roman, a serious A 
Roman is serious, is 1/16 of a 

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Denarius that we all know about 
a Denarius, right? 

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The Bible talks about a 
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equivalent to the average daily 
wage. 

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Somebody works all day and they 
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Jesus gave the parable of the 
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makes a deal as it were with 
people, that would come and 

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labor in the vineyard. 
And each one was promised at the

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End of the day regardless of how
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given one penny that word, penny
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So we know what that is might is
the smallest Greek coin. 

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Two mites are a quadrant, which 
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Roman, a serious 1/16 of a 
Denarius. 

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A Denarius is the average daily 
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And by the way, what if we were 
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try to lay it out and compare it
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What about weights and measures?
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How much would that have been? 
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Scholars and historians so I'm 
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that a Denarius today would be 
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Not very much. 
You see the point? 

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And a serious is 1/16 of a 
Denarius. 

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A Denarius, a 16 to 18 cents. 
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So what's that? 
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about one penny. 
Okay. 

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It's still less than that. 
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Because it's a quarter of that, 
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of a penny. 
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You think the amount matters? 
Here were these rich people 

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putting in a ton of money. 
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matter Jesus says, he looked and
saw this woman, and he's going 

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to teach a lesson to his 
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How much did she give? 
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penny in American money. 
That's all. 

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Notice. 
The next verse by the way, this 

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is what they would have looked 
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two mites would have looked 
like. 

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Not very, but not a very big 
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That's what she put in. 
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called his disciples to him. 
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were not with him. 
We're not standing there in that

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proximity, but it was teaching 
time for Jesus. 

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He calls his disciples to him. 
There was a very valuable lesson

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that needed to be learned 
desperately and he rivets their 

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attention on the wonderful 
example of generous or 

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generosity and self-sacrificing.
Love now, he says to them, I say

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Assuredly to you. 
Another words, what I'm about to

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tell you, is extremely important
and I need you to pay attention.

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That's what that means. 
Assuredly, I say to you. 

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What I'm going to tell you is a 
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So may I say this to what we're 
about to talk about is a lesson 

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that we all need to learn too. 
This poor woman. 

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This poor Widow has put in more 
than all these who have given to

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the treasury. 
She gave a quarter of a penny. 

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Why did Jesus say that? 
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that the meaning of this verse, 
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Widow has put in more than all 
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treasury. 
Gold says, the meaning is this, 

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that that this woman cast into 
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the others combined. 
In the eyes of Jesus, she gave 

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more than all the others that 
put in all these large sums 

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combined. 
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For they all put in out of their
abundance. 

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But she out of her poverty, put 
in all that she had her whole 

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livelihood. 
Now, what makes this widows 

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gift. 
So precious in the Lord's eyes, 

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the rich gay from their 
abundance, but she gave out of 

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her poverty. 
In fact, she sacrifices 

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everything, he illustrates Jesus
does the standard, by which all 

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men should measure their gifts 
to the Lord. 

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It is not the amount of the gift
that earns the Lord's approval. 

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But it's the spirit of the giver
and the sacrifice involved. 

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And I want to make a point folks
because I'm not just being 

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exclusive to the contribution 
and are giving. 

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That's not what I'm talking 
about. 

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I'm talking about a sacrificial 
life. 

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I'm talking about a sacrificial 
life. 

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If you had to sacrifice a great 
deal, would you still serve God?

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We're not just talking about 
passing the plate around for the

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contribution or the basket. 
We're not talking about that. 

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We're talking about something 
far more than that. 

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Jesus dealt with things far, 
more than that we're talking 

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about something that she gave 
all she had. 

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And by the way, that's what it's
going to take for you living, a 

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Godly life in a Christian Life, 
it's going to take. 

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All you've got That's not new. 
Any coach worth his salt? 

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Will tell his team, All I Want 
Is Everything you've got That is

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nothing new at all. 
I don't care. 

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You're the slowest guy in the 
team, so what whatever you are, 

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I want it all. 
Haven't you ever stopped to 

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consider when Jesus gave the 
parable of the talents? 

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That's exactly what he was 
talking about. 

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He was saying whatever you are. 
I want all of it. 

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If you're the one Talent man 
don't bury it. 

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I want it all. 
If you're the five Talent, man 

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don't bury it. 
I want it all produce 10. 

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And you see the point. 
It's not just sacrificing your 

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bank account, it's about 
sacrificing your life for God. 

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He looked at this poor woman you
know these guys were doing they 

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were putting in all the way they
came out of their abundance. 

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They had it leftover no big deal
when she gave what she had. 

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She heard a little bit hurt a 
lot. 

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And why is that significant? 
when you give of yourself, And 

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you put the Lord and his church 
first. 

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When you do that, even if even 
if Even if you lose your job. 

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Or you can't work for a 
particular company because they 

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tell you, you can't worship on 
Sunday morning. 

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When you put your faith and 
trust in God and you give of 

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yourself with everything, you 
have what you're saying is I am 

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willing to sacrifice whatever it
takes and I'm putting my life in

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the hands of God in both Time 
and Eternity. and when I do 

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that, I have given all that I 
have and I put it in God's 

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hands. 
You know what we do though the 

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table we do and we all do it, we
all do it at some point in time 

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in our life we start to think by
our actions and reactions, we 

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start to think that we have to 
make those decisions on our own.

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Because we know best, the point 
is we either trust God and serve

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him and submit to him with 
everything that we have or we 

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don't You can't have it both 
ways, folks. 

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This poor woman gave everything 
she had. 

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She wasn't worried. 
One bit about a meal. 

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That would come her way. 
She wasn't worried about 

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anything, she gave all that. 
She had JW McGarvey said this, 

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We are disposed to measure the 
value of actions quantitatively 

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rather than qualitatively. 
Moreover, we are better judges 

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of actions than motives and can 
see the outward conduct much 

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clearer than in word character, 
but God's word constantly 

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teaches that he looks inward in 
the case of the value of the 

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woman's gift. 
It was measured by quality and 

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not by quantity in quantity. 
She gave two mites. 

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In quality. 
It was the gift of all she had, 

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that's great. 
Now, here's the thing. 

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Folks I can't look inside 
neither can you? 

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I can look inside of me but I 
can't look inside of you. 

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God can so we look at things 
from the outward part and we can

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judge that we could see that we 
could judge righteous judgment. 

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We can look at things on the 
outside we can make judgments 

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and determinations we can do 
that. 

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But all the while God is looking
inside, and that's what he did 

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with. 
This woman McMillan said this, 

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it is more difficult for a rich 
man to enter Heaven. 

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Do you remember when Jesus said 
it is easier for the camel to go

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through the eye of a needle than
a rich man to get into heaven? 

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Incidentally, there's a whole 
theory of people out there in 

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the world that try to discredit 
what Jesus said there. 

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So you know what they say they 
said over in Jerusalem, there 

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was an area that you would come 
through into the Gates of 

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Jerusalem and which kind of 
shaped like an eye of a needle. 

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And he's talking about a camel 
actually going through that. 

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That's not what he meant. 
If you look up those words, he's

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talking about a literal camel. 
Going through the, a literal eye

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of a needle. 
What he's saying is this, it's 

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easier for a camel to go 
through. 

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Go through the eye of a needle 
than a rich man to get into 

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heaven. 
Here's why McMillan said, it's 

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more difficult for a rich man to
enter Heaven simply because of 

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the virtual impossibility of his
making any real sacrifice and 

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thereby coming to know the 
devotion of that kind of 

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discipleship large gifts out of 
abundant simply cannot be 

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compared with a total gift of 
one's poverty. 

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Give it everything you got. 
Okay, I don't want you to walk 

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out of here though. 
Misunderstand me. 

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And I don't want you to walk out
here and think, oh, the preacher

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said, we can't make any money. 
Preach said, we can't make good 

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Investments. 
We can't have any money. 

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I didn't say that. 
I didn't say that at all. 

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And nowhere in the Bible. 
Does it say that a rich man will

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go to hell and say that either? 
But it talks about all of The 

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Temptations that are rich person
would have That's what it talks 

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about. 
Why do you think that the gospel

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is flourishing in the 
Philippines? 

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When they have nothing? 
Because when the more we have 

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the greater we are at getting 
derailed from what's important 

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and we get things out of whack 
because we got all this stuff. 

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in the words of Uncle Everett, 
what we need is a good 

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old-fashioned depression and you
just watch the church Grove, 

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Well, Amen, brother. 
Yeah. 

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Yeah, amen. 
We get derailed the sidetracked.

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Here's the question. 
I'm done with this point. 

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If you had a million dollars, 
here's the point. 

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If you had a million dollars, 
How much would the Lord have? 

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That's it. 
How much would the Lord have? 

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How much have you would the Lord
have? 

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One final scholar and I'm done. 
Cranfield said this the gifts of

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the rich though, large were easy
gifts. 

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The winners gift though, tiny 
men are real surrender of 

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herself to God and trust in him 
and therefore it honoring of God

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as God as the one to whom we 
belong completely and who is 

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able to care for us. 
That's what it's about folks, 

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it's about surrendering, our 
self to God and putting God 

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totally in control. 
Now, if your red marks account, 

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yes, What happens? 
It's Tuesday, and it's over and 

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there's nothing else. 
So if we only red marks account,

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we would find that this ends 
right here. 

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And the next thing that Mark 
picks up is the upper room, 

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okay? 
But when we go to John's account

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and Matthews account, we find 
that there are several other 

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things that still happen on 
Tuesday and Wednesday is 

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Scholars. 
Say seem to be a down day. 

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Nothing. 
Specifically recorded on 

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Wednesday, I don't know if 
that's true or not. 

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But there's a lot of James and 
John and Matthew that are not in

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Mark, that still make it Tuesday
and will notice a few of those 

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things in a couple lessons going
forward, I'm through I told you,

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it wouldn't be that long. 
I preached for 32 minutes, 

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that's enough. 
And I hope something was said 

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that was edifying and 
encouraging to you a little bit.

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If there's one lesson to take, 
please take this, just take 

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this, whatever you have, 
whatever you are, and whatever 

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your circumstances are in your 
life. 

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The Lord wants every aspect of 
you, that's what he wants, 

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whatever that is in the 
capacity, in the role that God 

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has given us to have whatever 
that is men and women in their 

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role in capacity and within the 
town. 

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Talents that they've been given,
he wants everything. 

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