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Okay, thank you so much for 
sharing together and connecting.

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It's so good to see you and to 
hear the laughter and the 

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connection that's happening 
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That's a good sign of Health 
among us when we're able to 

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laugh together when we share, 
I'm going to invite us into a 

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text this morning. 
It's in Matthew chapter 6. 

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Matthew chapter 6, beginning in 
verse 9, 19. 

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And I want you to imagine the, 
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most often, when Jesus was 
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Weider, note, given a note that 
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that perhaps he had gathered his
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before this text, it's actually 
part of a larger sermon, we call

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it the Sermon on the Mount and 
in The Sermon on the Mount, just

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before his And it talks about 
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Jesus. 
Can you imagine being in a crowd

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that was full of people who 
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every disease and sickness? 
So it's a crowd that should have

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been on the way to the hospital.
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There might have been people 
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There might have been kids with 
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Running around the crowd, 
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complacent as you all are, you 
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listen, it was probably a fairly
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around. 
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children's ministry, the kids 
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thing and moms were nursing and 
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Full of life in that moment as 
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In fact, it says that there were
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various diseases, suffering, 
pain, demon possession, having 

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seizures and the paralyzed, and 
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So it was a space in which the 
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evident when Jesus was teaching.
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in the synagogue, unless he was 
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with someone who needed healing.
We Jesus was teaching the, the 

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poor were very much present. 
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mission. 
The spirit of the Lord is upon 

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me because he has anointed me to
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Good news to the Poor. 
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acknowledgement of the poor who 
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He says, blessed are the poor in
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of God. 
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often centered in announcing the
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But also So showing, so what? 
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Because the king is here, 
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here, this sermon moves through 
a series of parts that all seem 

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to address the major threat to 
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The major threat to the kingdom 
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realized, in the lives of those 
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self-righteousness. 
Self adulation. 

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Self-determination. 
Those are the very things we are

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all conditioned to pursue. and 
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designed to address them one 
after another, And when it comes

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to the aspects of 
self-determination, Jesus very 

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quickly and rapidly gives 
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Treasures to focuses and to 
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That's where we're going to pick
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Matthew chapter 6, beginning in 
verse 19, Jesus says, do not 

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store up for yourselves, 
Treasures on Earth, where moths 

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and Vermin, destroy, and where 
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But store up for yourselves. 
Treasures, in Heaven, where 

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moths and Vermin. 
Do not destroy and where thieves

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do not break in and steal for 
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Is there, your heart will be, 
also, the eye is the lamp of the

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body. 
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whole body will be full of 
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But if your eyes are unhealthy, 
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Darkness. 
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Darkness, how great is that 
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No one can serve two masters. 
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love the other or you will be 
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the other. 
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money. 
Let's pray together. 

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Heavenly Father, we take this 
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crowd. 
And we pray that you would 

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deliver it again to this crowd 
and to each of us may you 

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radically reformed and rearrange
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By helping us draw attention 
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heart. 
My treasures and focuses. 

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And who is Lord. 
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We ask this in the name of 
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Amen. 
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this, he's getting along really 
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we have two Treasures before us.
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Is this that some Treasures Last
Heavenly Treasures will last but

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there's another kind of treasure
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Don't last, so some Treasures 
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mean, you've all probably 
experienced this where you had a

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favorite sweater and this 
winter, when winter came, you 

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went to pull it out and maybe 
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And you're like brats. 
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It wasn't rats. 
It was moths a mod 8 my sweater 

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and put a hole in it. 
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Or maybe you've had the 
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that was really important to 
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Like your favorite mug, it was a
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It broke. 
Are you lost it? 

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I know you all. 
Love your born for more mugs and

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you lost it. 
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That can be lost. 
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Treasure of Jesus says that can 
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forever. 
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He speaking of that speak to 
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of friendship or character of 
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relationship with God. 
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And then there's a second 
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that is that the heart 
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The heart is pulled in by the 
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Jesus is speaking here against 
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says, I am The Master and 
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And he says, no your Treasures 
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On your heart Jesus was familiar
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throughout the Old Testament. 
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for from your heart flows, 
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picture and metaphor for the 
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And he says the heart. 
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Did any of you all see that 
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Onion. 
I'm not Flex. 

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Did you see it? 
I mean, did you feel sick at the

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end? 
Did you feel sick about the kind

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of relationships that were being
expressed among one who has 

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billions of dollars? 
In the picture millionaire miles

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Braun gathers his closest 
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turns into a true murder mystery
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Fascinating thing watching that 
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world, the therapists to the 
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the film and were like it rings.
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Kyle Cockrell is a clay 
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therapists and and this is what 
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He says you watch the film and 
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But trust me, I will never buy a
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Because I don't want that kind 
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What goes with it. 
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issues for the very rich are 
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He says everything is about 
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Go bigger. 
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satisfaction. 
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not being able to enjoy it. 
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shows that all relationships are
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created by great wealth. 
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tainted by great wealth. 
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every interaction becomes 
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A fear that someone's going to 
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And then finally, he says, they 
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wealth, corrupts people because 
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Friendship. 
How many of you want to be rich?

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Okay. 
There's a few of you are honest.

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We do, we want a little bit more
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that that's the gravitational 
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Of wealth. 
And what we set is our 

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Treasures. 
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way what this sermon series or 
this sermon itself to somehow 

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be. 
Something that's against the 

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rich. 
Most of us in University are 

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already in some realm of being 
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You are in the 1% of the world, 
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It might not feel that way 
University is hopefully just a 

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season of transitional poverty. 
That's how they write about it 

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transitional poverty. 
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the money came in, and the money
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I got a bill, it was called 
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I had never seen so much money 
in my account and then it went 

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out. 
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the setting of the work, we do, 
even in the setting of the 

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desire to actually build wealth,
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And which he wants us to know. 
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It doesn't last. so do you have 
a true treasure that last The 

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true treasure. 
That last is actually pursued by

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what you focus on. 
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about the eyes next. 
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the lamp of the body, if the 
eyes are healthy, your whole 

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body will be full of light, but 
if your eyes are unhealthy, your

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whole body will be full of 
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If then The Light Within You, is
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Darkness? 
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It's Jesus said this, he almost 
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With a sense of Of grief. 
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When Jesus saw the true 
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filled. 
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guts with compassion for people 
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the darkness of someone whose 
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And what he's talking about? 
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if your focus is on that which 
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whole body will be full of Of 
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if your eyes are focused on what
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life and love and goodness than 
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be filled with that as well. 
Two principles to realities. 

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We will focus on something. 
Everyone worships. 

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Something. 
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watch you focus on can have a 
dramatic impact on the condition

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of your heart? 
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Can have a dramatic impact? 
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I had a fellow friend and 
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he had been listening to music. 
In another language that his 

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first language and it was a 
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And he's like, you know, after a
lot of listening to that, I felt

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sort of low heavy-hearted, 
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What we focus on has a dramatic 
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heart. 
And if the pursuit of wealth is 

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simply for the pursuit of 
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and create Darkness as what 
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It is good to be good at 
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I'm thankful for accountants I'm
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thankful for people who do their
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Well, The Proverbs are full of 
Direction on Building Wealth 

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slowly. 
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build the wealth slowly, you 
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required to Bear the weight of 
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accompanies it. you'll find that
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your focus Is simply on the 
wealth, it will hollow out your 

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life, it will create Darkness 
inside and Jesus actually treats

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it more serious than that. 
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In US. 
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that are the Earthly wisdom that
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That Earthly wisdom that is full
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And there he says, you will find
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every kind of disorder. 
In the Hebrew tradition to look 

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with an evil eye. 
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envious. 
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I cannot rejoice in others 
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An envious I says, well, I 
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I'm entitled to that. 
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An envious eye moves quickly, to
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do to eliminate the competition?
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He eliminated him. 
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favor of God. 
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And then he speaks of to 
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Two Treasures to focus has to 
Lourdes. 

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Notice what he says, no one can 
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you will hate the one and love 
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to one and despise the other. 
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money. 
To Lourdes but you can only 

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serve one. 
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love the other, you'll be 
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the other two realities of 
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The first reality of lordship is
this You can't serve two 

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masters. 
Now, this is difficult to us 

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because we're used to having two
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And we're like, I have two or 
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Some of you have one job in your
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I've got three bosses. 
It's a terrible way to live. 

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But Jesus is trying to say here 
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Master. 
It's actually the word Lord 

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lordship. 
You can only have one Lord in 

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your life. 
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is this in a world where money 
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madman in a world where Mammon 
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Jesus offers another way. 
Mammon money will always seek to

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rule your life whether by giving
you plenty or by keeping you 

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from having a locked, how many 
of times have you said, well, I 

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can't do that because I don't 
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Oh, money is your master. 
You can't do something because 

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you don't have money. 
We default to that so quickly 

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under the guise of, just being 
realistic, credit cards really 

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mess with the realities debit 
cards due to apps on your phone 

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to, as well, because we don't 
experience the pain of actually 

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pulling out that 20 and seeing 
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Disappear. 
So quickly. 

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From our hands to there's and 
then we eat the meal and were 

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like, where did it go? 
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lordship money. 
Seeks to be lured, the stuff of 

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Earth seeks to be Lord in our 
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Now, this is strange because God
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relationships. 
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self with people and with the 
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Earth competes for our 
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And not only that most of the 
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of Earth have now been 
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So often they operate in the 
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simple, transactions and money. 
For some of you money provided a

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lift for your family, out of the
poverty created, by not being in

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the right, family group or the 
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tribe. 
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actually provided a way out for 
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And that now you weren't caught 
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Money provided a lift. 
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that money seeks to become Lord 
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By ruling us telling us what we 
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actually centering our life with
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How often have you said? 
I can't be generous because I 

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don't have a lot of Money. 
Oh, all the the questions and 

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thoughts about how I operate my 
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In regards to money. 
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my life because I don't have a 
lot someday when I win the 

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lottery, I will Help out. 
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Are you helping today? 
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probably won't. 
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character and life, that's ruled
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Jesus Christ is Lord. 
You're letting money be your 

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lord. 
But the good news of lordship is

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that in a world where money 
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another way. 
He's the Lord. 

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If the Lord Jesus Christ sets 
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drawn to Heavenly treasures. 
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With light and love and 
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But if Your lord is money. 
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heart will be drawn to Earthly 
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with darkness and Evil. 
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greed. 
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good news to the poor, and the 
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It's good news for the poor 
because there are Heavenly 

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Treasures. 
That money can't buy and some of

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them are available now. 
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There are Heavenly Treasures 
that are available now and money

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can't buy them. 
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So what are you to do? 
How can you actually move 

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forward in examining the 
condition of your heart and your

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relationship with money. 
Going to give you three quick 

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Solutions. 
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But the first one is this you 
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An HSA a Heavenly savings 
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You need to open it. 
You need to start a life with 

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Christ Jesus and let him bring 
the healing and he's opening 

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that account and HSA in your 
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Grace and then your life of 
response to Grace means that 

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your behavior and life begins to
change your values, begin to 

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change once I wanted a Jaguar 
but now I'm very happy with a 

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defit. 
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It's really true. 
So let God open an HSA and your 

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name and fill it. 
One of the ways you can see if 

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you're living into your HSA, is 
if you track your spending, I 

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know all of you, thought I was 
going to say, start a budget but

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the beginning to actually 
budgeting is to track your 

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spending. 
And there's an app for that more

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than one track, your spending 
and see what you're spending 

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says about your values and about
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Second thing to do, it's Jesus 
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going to take some time to do 
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So take us up. 
Take a Sabbath break. 

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Throughout the scripture, got 
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the Sabbath as a day of rest of 
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Take a Sabbath day where you 
quit living like a slave, who 

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has to work seven days a week. 
Take a Sabbath as one of his 

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children. 
Take a Sabbath. 

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So you can break from the 
slavish. 

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Nice. 
That our bosses and minor Lords 

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in this world seek to give us 
and then, finally, Jesus really 

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is available to liberate us. 
From the domination of Mammon of

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money. 
So surrender. 

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Surrender. 
It's surrendering to him. 

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He gets to fill your life. 
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there were some of them who had 
plenty, they had jobs and when 

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confronted with the 
impossibility of being perfect 

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before Christ and And feeling 
like Jesus. 

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Haven't we done enough? 
Yet? 

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They said we've left everything 
to follow you. 

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And Jesus promised them. that 
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this world and in eternity, So 
surrender. 

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The surrender says it's 100% 
yours. 

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Surrender says, I'm 100% yours. 
This is what breaks the ties of 

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mammoth. 
We have to do it every day. 

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There's bills to be paid. 
There's a sense of expectation 

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that some of you carry with your
own family about the 

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expectations of your future, 
They're very closely tied to 

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money and Mammon. 
Jesus offers you a freedom from 

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that. 
Jesus offers you a movement into

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genuine life so that not just 
your life as redeemed, but so is

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theirs. 
For they're brought into the 

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reality of the Kingdom. 
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is one of abundance, not just 
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This is the grace that we need. 
Heavenly Father, we set our 

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lives before you and we set our 
hearts. 

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We pray that you would help us 
to do life with you to do 

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business with you to move into 
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Of rest. 
And of Grace that comes only 

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through surrender to you. 
Lord you know that our ties to 

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money are very emotional. 
That questions and issues of 

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spending and saving and what 
we've done with it and 

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extravagance. 
Generosity. 

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Or just getting by, all of these
are emotional triggers and our 

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life. 
Where we need your healing, we 

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need your grace. 
We need your wisdom. 

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So come Lord, Jesus.