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Boots on, we're going to ask 
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here so it comes on earlier on a
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I'm so sorry you're feeling a 
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We've been talking about money 
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Even as believers, we still have
to sort out and wrestle with how

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it pulls us, right? 
We know that there's four basic 

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things that we can do with 
money. 

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You can pop that forward. 
Thanks. 

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There we are. 
You can earn it. 

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Hopefully you will. 
Hopefully you might actually be.

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I know, you know, there's a lot 
of students who actually have a 

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job while they're in school, and
it really changes their life and

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work experience with school 
during that time. 

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And then you can spend it. 
How many of you like to spend 

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it? 
Yeah, like to spend it. 

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And then you can save it. 
How many of you are like, when 

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it comes push comes to shove, 
I'm a saver, A few savers here. 

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That's good. 
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saving to spending is that you 
get in debt. 

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And so we've invited you to come
to a workshop on debt and the 

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skills that it takes, the 
mindset that it takes, It's 

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actually if you've never been in
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that hole, and there's a set of 
skills that you maybe you 

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haven't learned. 
And so we want to invite you to 

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come learn those skills, start 
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And these are proven mindsets 
and ways to find your way out of

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debt. 
It's really, really important. 

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In fact, if you're in debt, the 
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OK. 
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condition and we want to address
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you're carrying debt as you 
graduate, there might be some 

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things that God wants you to say
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But you, you see the debt 
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like, well, I'll just, I need to
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So you wait on the yes to God. 
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his plan, But if you don't 
tackle it like a gazelle and get

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out of that situation as quick 
as you can, you're going to wait

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10 years to actually see that 
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So if you graduate with $30,000 
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close across Canada, student 
loan debt is usually around 28 

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to $29,000. 
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that off, you will actually have
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It's called interest. 
OK, so we want to help you 

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address this. 
Another thing you can do is give

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her. 
You can be a give a giver. 

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How many of you like to give a 
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Yes, you like to be a giver, but
you know there's something else 

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you can do with money besides 
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You can worry about it. 
You can worry about it. 

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Hey, This is Money. 
Get ready to worry about it for 

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the rest of your life. 
Wow, that's sad, right? 

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But that is much of our 
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of us in our culture and our 
experiences, we find ourselves 

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worrying. 
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Notice what Jesus says. 
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I tell you, do not worry about 
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drink, or about your body. 
What you will wear. 

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Is not life more than food and 
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Look at the birds of the air. 
They do not sow or reap or store

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away in barns, and yet your 
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Are you not much more valuable 
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Can anyone of you by worrying? 
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and why do you worry about 
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See how the flowers of the field
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They do not labor or spin. 
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Solomon and all his splendor was
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If that is how God clothes the 
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today, and tomorrow is thrown 
into the fire, will He not much 

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more clothes you, you of little 
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So do not worry, saying, What 
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drink, or what shall we wear? 
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these things, and your heavenly 
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But seek first His Kingdom and 
His righteousness, and all these

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things will be given to you as 
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Therefore, do not worry about 
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worry about itself. 
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its own. 
Jesus trying to help his 

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disciples form an alternative 
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wants them to form an 
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On the issue of more, how many 
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more money? 
I just want to earn my way out 

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of this debt. 
I'm going to earn more money. 

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I need more. 
Give me more, more, more. 

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I mean, this, this can be a 
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It can be a delightful prayer. 
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was a sunset and my daughter 
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More. 
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sunset that she begins to sign 
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We had started teaching her sign
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within us to want more, better, 
higher. 

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We wished Canada had scored more
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More. 
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alternative view of more he 
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Is not life more than food and 
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The more factor he applies to 
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body and that you are worth 
more, he says I tell you, do not

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worry about your life, what you 
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body what you will wear. 
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the body more than clothes more 
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could be more accurately 
concerned as or shown as focused

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concern In English. 
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inside here where it's it 
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anxiousness. 
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say don't be anxious about your 
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Don't be hyper concerned such 
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vision when you're worried about
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You can't think creatively. 
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for anxious. 
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throat? 
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Angst means to be a sort of 
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and hyper focus that you you 
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You have angst about what others
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can't breathe. 
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hyper focus that influences us, 
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say, you know what life is more 
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eat, which are all associated 
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You know, you can, you can set 
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Some of you love to go thrifting
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because you're like, I can, I 
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I don't have to keep up with 
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It doesn't apply just to that. 
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thereof. 
I mean, how many of you have a 

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really fancy compass card? 
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card, You know, to make it the 
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to was mostly poor. 
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day-to-day sustenance workers. 
They were laborers where what 

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they ate at the end of the day 
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the day. 
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had it a little easier, but they
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He also encourages them to think
of themselves as more You are 

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worth more than you imagine. 
You are incredibly valuable to 

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God. 
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he value you? 
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more valuable. 
You are more valuable you, you 

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are enough in the eyes of God 
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him. 
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always find an alternative view 
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its roots in our alternative 
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They do not sow or reap or store
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heavenly Father feeds them. 
Are you not much more valuable 

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than they your heavenly Father? 
Jesus is speaking to this large 

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crowd and the Sermon on the 
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your heavenly Father feeds them.
Your heavenly Father cares for 

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you. 
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we need to see that God feeds 
God clothes, and God knows 

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because God cares for you. 
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foundational, confident, humble 
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yourselves. 
My heavenly Father cares for me 

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on the tough day. 
My heavenly Father cares for me 

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on the good day. 
My heavenly Father cares for me 

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on the day you fail your math 
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My heavenly Father cares for me.
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This is the alternative punk 
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we hold up in our lives every 
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This is the alternative view 
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My Heavenly Father cares for me,
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actually generates a kind of 
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It generates the ability to look
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divine imagination about what 
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It actually helps me value the 
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The more that God has given me 
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God has given me in terms of 
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There is so much more in those 
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and enjoy and find great purpose
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And when I'm worried and when 
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concerned with the small things,
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I neglect people. 
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stop caring for myself as God 
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the alternative view of His 
Kingdom, that this world's kings

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and kings will pass away, but 
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forever. 
Say this verse with me, but seek

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first his Kingdom and his 
righteousness, and all these 

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things will be given to you as 
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Matthew 633. 
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Let's say it one more time, but 
seek first his Kingdom and his 

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righteousness, and all these 
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well. 
Do you know, it's possible that 

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we hold to this idea of Kingdom 
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it's some great ideal that's far
off from us that we can't 

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actually attain. 
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was a reality. 
It was a real body life 

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experience that he was living 
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In fact he announced it. 
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of God is at hand and he began 
going around and telling the 

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good news of the Kingdom. 
It was such good news that he 

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could give it to the poor, and 
it was rooted in a very old and 

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ancient idea about God's view of
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in God's Kingdom. 
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Egypt, he announced to them, I 
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Kingdom of priests. 
You may have come from a place 

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that had a king, that had a 
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your king and you will be my 
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Priest administer the life and 
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They administer the mercy of the
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They administer the grace of the
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They carry out the will of the 
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provoke change in others. 
The priests were seen almost as 

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a mediator, but as we'll see, 
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so we are just actually 
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Again, God's view, His Kingdom 
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to be a Kingdom of priests. 
He says You yourselves have seen

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what I did to Egypt, how I 
carried you on eagle's wings and

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brought you to myself. 
Now if you obey me fully and 

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keep my covenant, then out of 
all nations you will be my 

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treasured possession. 
Although the whole earth is 

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mine, you will be for me a 
Kingdom of priests and a holy 

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nation. 
This is God's view of his 

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people. 
Now we know that they actually 

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began to want to have a king. 
The people were like, we need to

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be like the other nations and 
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They went through a period of 
judges and they went through a 

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period where Samuel was being 
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And they came to Samuel and 
said, give us a king. 

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We want to be like the other 
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And Samuel goes in on them and 
says, look, having a king is not

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going to go well. 
The king will take and he uses 

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this word over and over and 
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The king will take. 
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He will take a tenth of your 
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become his slaves. 
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cry out for relief from the king
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In fact, he says, the king will 
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take your daughters, the king 
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king will take your lands. 
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The king will take everything 
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No way. 
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over us. 
Then we'll be like all the other

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nations, talk about FOMO. 
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nations with a king to lead us 
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fight our battles. 
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They wanted someone else to be 
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their lives. 
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battles. 3 kings later, they're 
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David. 
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David Solomon. 
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time of peace, an incredible 
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time of learning, an incredible 
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We can see it in the Scripture 
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sort of golden age, but at the 
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he did all the things that the 
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The kings were told do not have 
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He multiplied horses so much 
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in order to build strategic 
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He took on wealth, exorbitant 
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He began to take people. 
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as laborers and assigned people 
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anyone? 
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That impulse and power to 
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to take for yourself? 
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of kingdoms. 
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gave to Israel began to remind 
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them. 
The people are like, hey, we're 

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fasting. 
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where we're we're trying to get 
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passage. 
Is this not the kind of fasting 

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I've chosen to loose the chains 
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of the yoke and to set the 
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yoke? 
Is it not to share your food 

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with the hungry? 
To provide the poor wanderer 

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with shelter? 
This is God's vision of his 

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Kingdom, that where his rule and
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happen. 
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heart of a person who's his 
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to do these very things. 
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who does this kind of stuff. 
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hungry, they provide the poor 
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the naked and clothe them, and 
they don't turn away from their 

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own flesh and blood. 
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like a light, and your healing 
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Your righteousness, your your 
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you like a reputation, and the 
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up behind you. 
You will call and the Lord will 

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answer. 
Look at the prayer life of these

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people. 
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say, here I am and I am. 
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with that yoke of oppression. 
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judging finger. 
Spend yourselves on behalf of 

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the hungry, satisfy the needs of
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rise, it will shine and the Lord
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What a great picture. 
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And then get this. 
You will be like a well watered 

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garden, like a spring whose 
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Do you hear these echoes that 
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how his people would thrive? 
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the ancient ruins, you will 
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foundations, you will be called 
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restorers of streets with 
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You're going to be rebuilders 
that where things have been 

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destroyed and demolished, you 
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Where the healthcare system 
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it. 
Where education systems decline,

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you rebuild them because you're 
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healing. 
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away, you rebuild it. 
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People actually have a 
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earth. 
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relationship with money. 
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relationship with knowledge. 
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relationship with the skills 
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mobilize people and be a steward
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He has this vision, and Jesus 
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Kingdom. 
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Kingdom of heaven is near. 
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teaching in their synagogues and
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Kingdom and healing every 
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people. 
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he went up the mountainside and 
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We call this the Sermon on the 
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saying, blessed are the poor in 
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Kingdom of heaven. 
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sermon to describe his people, 
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light. 
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Going to be some salty people 
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active ingredients. 
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A town built on a hill cannot be
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He's going to build a town. 
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It seems that he does this where
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Fathers and Mothers in Lectio 
365 this week? 

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Welcome to Lent 3. 
Lectio 365 will take you on a 

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great journey. 
Go to Lectio 365 on YouTube and 

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watch the videos, the history 
lessons about the great fathers 

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and mothers. 
This is the Kingdom that Jesus 

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envisions. 
It's not an ideal, it's the 

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reality. 
It's a reality that we are able 

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to live in and measure. 
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Unless you're born again, unless
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of the soul, you can't see it 
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Unless you were born again, the 
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realignment of your affections 
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Born again, where the Spirit 
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to God and to him. 
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surrender to Him. 
He envisions this, the apostle 

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Peter said. 
It's for real, he says, you 

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writing to the people. 
You are a chosen people, a royal

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priesthood, a holy nation, God's
special possession, that you may

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declare the praises of him who 
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wonderful light. 
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Next slide, just say it with me 
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yet, but seek first His Kingdom 
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these things will be given to 
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This is the way to more peace 
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just with finances, but with the
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And all of you've got some stuff
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earth, got clothes, stuff of 
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It's knowledge all about the 
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It's things you're learning. 
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this as a great purpose in your 
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of his Kingdom work in these 
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You know, just a caution to the 
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mothers that we've been hearing 
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that move. 
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Dallas Willard said about that. 
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general practice cannot solve 
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So this is just a little caution
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and others who just give up 
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Even the rich young ruler who 
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and give it to the poor, that 
was actually going to take a 

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while. 
Jesus was inviting him into a 

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stewardship way of life. 
I mean, he, he just couldn't get

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rid of all his wealth. 
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property and stuff. 
He was going to have to go sell 

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it and then he was going to have
to be a steward of it, giving to

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the poor. 
And that vision is what he 

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didn't really like. 
Jesus was calling him into a new

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relationships with his wealth, 
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Because we find even the desert 
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abandon the stuff of earth, they
actually had to become different

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kinds of stewards of it. 
So freedom from possessions is 

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not an outward thing as much as 
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It is something that can come 
from the inward vision of faith 

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alone. 
The Kingdom of God starts within

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you. 
This is the point of 

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Bonhoeffer's remark. 
To be without desire is a mark 

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of poverty, but to abandon the 
goods of this world to the 

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enemies of God is to fail the 
responsibilities we are given at

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creation. 
To have dominion to rule over 

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all life forms above the plants.
So he says this possession and 

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right rule over material worth 
is a spiritual service of the 

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highest order, and our response 
must be to develop a ministry 

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that prepares people for that 
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Jesus went about preparing his 
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service. 
The apostles all tried to 

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prepare the church for this kind
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This is why Jesus talked about 
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Heaven is that you are being 
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That's why next week we're going
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we are not owners, but we are 
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But it comes to us with this 
alternative view. 

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When's the last time you saw a 
LinkedIn account that said 

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Steward? 
It's an alternative view to say 

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it's God's and I'm a steward. 
My Heavenly Father cares for me 

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so I could give it away. 
My Heavenly Father cares for me,

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so I must take responsibility of
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I must see what is in my hand 
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Do it well, do it beautifully. 4
things If you want to live into 

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this life, here's what's going 
to happen for you. 

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You're going to be grateful. 
You're going to be grateful 

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about the Moors of life, and 
you're going to have to see them

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and develop them and make them 
part of your values. 

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You're going to have to rest in 
the gracious provision of your 

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heavenly Father who loves you. 
That's why Psalm 58 ends with 

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the Sabbath. 
Wasn't that weird? 

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Take a day off, rest, take a 
Sabbath where you recognize God 

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is in control and I am not. 
I can rest. 

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And when you rest you can be 
more creative, more thoughtful, 

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more resourceful. 
You begin to see new 

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relationships. 
God gives you divine imagination

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when you rest, when you live 
purposely by sharing the beauty 

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and abundance and Kingdom of 
His, the goodness of His 

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Kingdom. 
This is going to come in your 

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life. 
If you take this alternative 

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view, you're going to live 
purposely and then you're going 

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to live confidently through the 
troubles and shortness of life. 

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Didn't you like it twice in 
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Jesus says, who by worrying? 
Who by having a hyper concern on

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all these things can make their 
life longer. 

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He's like, you can't do it, 
you're not in charge of that. 

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Who have you by worrying can 
change the troubles, he says. 

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There's enough trouble in today,
but you can live confidently in 

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the troubles of today and the 
shortness of life. 

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You weren't meant to live in 
fear of death and loss. 

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You're meant to live in 
confidence of God's gifts and 

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God's Kingdom in life. 
And This is why Jesus came to 

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set us free from such fear of 
death. 

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We're going to come to the table
in just a moment, and we're 

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going to consider Jesus body and
his blood. 

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We're going to invite the 
worship team to come now, and 

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we're going to remind ourselves 
again of him who gave himself 

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for us. 
That Jesus opens the way that we

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might be born again and see the 
Kingdom and enter the Kingdom. 

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That Jesus is the one who gives 
us the forgiveness of sin and he

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conquers death so that we might 
live. 

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I'm going to invite you all to 
stand. 

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Heavenly Father, I pray that now
as we consider the gift of Jesus

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and his body and his life to us,
that we would let your spirit 

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create an alternative life in 
us, that we would truly say, 

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yeah, Lord, your love is better 
than life. 

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I want more that we would say, I
want to know you more. 

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Oh God, who loves and cares so 
deeply for me, I want to 

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actually participate in your 
Kingdom work, Lord Jesus. 

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And so as I come to your body, I
see that sometimes a Kingdom 

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work means laying my life down, 
and I pray that You would give 

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me the wherewithal to do that. 
Forgive me, Lord, when I've 

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complained about not having 
enough, where I've doubted Your 

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goodness and where I've run from
the life of Your Kingdom and 

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generosity. 
We pray Father, that You would 

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reset our souls in this very 
moment and we ask this in Jesus 

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name, Amen.