1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,920 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:18,960 Now enjoy this message. OK, Jesus said this, and and let 4 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,200 me give you a little back story before we do it, because Jesus 5 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,520 talked about living in the Kingdom, and that our our 6 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:31,480 success is related to some keys. OK, And in verse 11 this is what 7 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:35,040 he said he said unto them, Because it is given you to know 8 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:38,120 the mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven, but unto them it is not. 9 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,360 Here's what the question was in the previous verse. 10 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,440 He said, Why do you tell everybody parables? 11 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:45,840 Why are you letting them know about parables? 12 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:48,440 And so Jesus goes on and he answers them. 13 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:50,920 In verse 11 he said, He answered and said unto them, because it 14 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,400 is given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of 15 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,280 heaven. Now here's the thing we need to 16 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:58,520 know. This word mysteries basically is 17 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,760 the word secrets, and it's translated sometimes in other 18 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,319 translation as the word secrets. So he's letting us know in 19 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:10,360 advance in the Kingdom that there are secrets or there are 20 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:15,720 mysteries that he wants us to know that will help us navigate 21 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,760 in in into the Kingdom. All right. 22 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:21,160 So we have we have that account. But here's here's the thing that 23 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:28,080 I want to get to also is jot down Matthew, chapter 16 and 24 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:32,200 verse 19. He's walking with the guys and 25 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:35,040 he asked him a question. He said, Who do men say that I, 26 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:37,800 the Son of Man, AM? And they started answering. 27 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,720 They said, well, something, you're Elias or Jeremias or one 28 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:42,480 of the prophets. And then he stopped and looked 29 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,200 at them and said, who do you say that I am? 30 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,840 Peter answered, 1st And he said, well, we believe you know. 31 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,440 He said, I believe that you're the Christ, the anointed one, or 32 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:56,240 the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered him and said, 33 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,400 you know, he said, you're blessed, Simon Barjona. 34 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:01,480 Why? Because flesh and blood did not 35 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,440 reveal this to you. But my Father, which is in 36 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,560 heaven, revealed it to you. And then in the next verse is he 37 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,240 says, He says this, He said, And I will give to you the keys of 38 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,800 the Kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever you bind on earth 39 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,960 shall be bound in heaven. And whatsoever you loose on 40 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:19,120 earth will be loosed in heaven. So he's telling them that they 41 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,880 are giving them keys. And here's the thing. 42 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,120 Who's I'm. I'm kind of curious. 43 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:24,920 Who did not have the most keys on them? 44 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,120 Who's my guy got how many keys you got? 45 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:29,120 I got. I got these keys. 46 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,000 And then I got another set of keys, but I don't have them. 47 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,560 You got a lot of keys. That's not a lot of keys. 48 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:34,400 All right. That's a lot of keys. 49 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,480 OK, That's not a lot of keys. OK, You got a few keys. 50 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:38,360 That's good. All right. 51 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,400 When we talk about keys, see, this is one thing that I, I, I 52 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:43,800 wanted to meditate on for so long. 53 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,080 I said what? Jesus, what are you talking 54 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:45,960 about? Keys? 55 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,400 I mean, it says that you have given us the keys to the Kingdom 56 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,080 of heaven, the Kingdom of God, and that that we can bind and we 57 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:57,800 can unloose. But really, what keys are in the 58 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,440 Kingdom of God are laws and principles in the Kingdom. 59 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,320 He has given it to us to unlock the truce or the mysteries that 60 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:09,200 we just talked about. All right, The secrets that we 61 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,400 just talked about. Because you know what makes it? 62 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,560 You know what makes my key secrets to you. 63 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,360 You have no idea where they go. I could give them to you and 64 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,440 they'd be useless. You give me yours. 65 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:22,040 Be useless. Why? 66 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:23,560 Because I don't know what they go to. 67 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:25,400 But they they're a secret. It's a secret. 68 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,680 There's a secret behind this key. 69 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,560 Now, it has a Chevy logo on it, so you could probably narrow it 70 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,720 down pretty good. OK, all right. 71 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,520 But when we look at we, we get an understanding. 72 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,760 Jesus said, I'm going to give you keys, if you'll remember 73 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,560 When he whipped the devil. He said, I have the keys, OK. 74 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,080 I have the authority. I have the the, the principles 75 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:47,880 and the laws. All right. 76 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,080 I oversee all of that now. Now I want us to. 77 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,320 I want us to take a look at because we're going to talk 78 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:56,520 about in the very beginning tonight, we're going to talk 79 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,960 about principles and laws of the Kingdom, all right. 80 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:00,400 And how important they are to you. 81 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,080 And I've got I've got a few things and they're numbered to 82 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:07,160 make it easier for you, OK. Because keys are basically are 83 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,200 are are just like a system or a law or a principle in the 84 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,960 Kingdom of God. Once we find them and begin to 85 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,360 activate them in our lives, we will begin to see what Jesus 86 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,120 said we could have, but most of the time we're not. 87 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,560 We're not clear in our thinking on what did Jesus, what was 88 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:26,680 Jesus all about when he was talking to people? 89 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,000 I mean was he just telling them good stories or was he giving 90 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,480 them the secrets that he tells us? 91 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:35,400 He's given us to be able to unlock and get the the things 92 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:37,600 and mostly in the arena of business and finance and 93 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,960 provision out of the Kingdom of God. 94 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:42,440 That's what we're all looking for. 95 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,080 We want it. We want to do it his way. 96 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,160 So let me give you a few, a few things that you need to know 97 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,320 about principles and laws. All right, one, principles and 98 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:53,440 laws #1, they're universal. All right, now let's take a 99 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,000 let's let's equate this to a product. 100 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,040 OK, let's say any product you want to think of. 101 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,720 All right, Have anybody noticed in their the any of the owner's 102 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,560 manuals or the operation manuals? 103 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,240 They're in multi languages. And how have you noticed that? 104 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,600 OK, so the basically you don't have to be here and and and and 105 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,640 and to get only instructions no matter where you go in these 106 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:21,520 universal and worldwide products. 107 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:23,560 They have the ability, They're universal. 108 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:26,000 OK. They're in a in in, in. 109 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,920 The thing is about those manuals is if you obey the rules or the 110 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,720 the, the laws of that product and not do something weird about 111 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:36,640 it, all right. It's kind of like you can't put 112 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,880 orange juice in the car and expect anything to go, 'cause 113 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:43,280 there's a universal law in automobiles, you know, internal 114 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:45,640 combustion engines. Anyway, it takes gas or some 115 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,240 type of flammable fuel in there to be able to go. 116 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,640 So you can't violate that law. All right, When the Kingdom of 117 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,120 God, there's laws in the Kingdom of God that we can't violate 118 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:56,240 either. All right. 119 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,600 And so let me give you the second one. 120 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:00,640 The second one is that principles, laws, they're 121 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,280 they're permanent. They don't change. 122 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:05,280 God said I change. Not so when God speaks his word 123 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,520 and he tells us this is a principle, this is a secret, 124 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,960 This is something that you're going to need to do all right 125 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,640 when he does. And he tells us that these these 126 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,360 are permanent things. I mean, you know, you might get 127 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:19,920 an upgrade on a product. You know, if they're adding 128 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,720 something to it or taken away or whatever the case may be. 129 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,880 But the main thing, most of those internal laws on how this 130 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,800 thing operates, they're permanent, all right? 131 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:34,360 I mean, I've never seen a car converted to orange juice, OK? 132 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,320 I mean, as far as you take a look, we bought one of those not 133 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:38,320 too long ago. Bought a. 134 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,040 Anybody know what an Opal is? It's an ice maker. 135 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,600 Little chunk, little chunk ice maker. 136 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:49,840 My wife's always wanted one. We finally got one right, And 137 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:51,400 it's got a manual. And you know what I decided to 138 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:55,200 do this time? Read the manual in advance, I 139 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,120 mean, before we start plugging stuff in. 140 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:00,720 And it has a way to clean it. And it says don't do this and 141 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:02,360 don't do that. Guess what, You better not do 142 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,240 whatever they say don't do if you wanted to keep working. 143 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:08,400 And so you know, following those. 144 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,760 So when we look at it, you know principles and laws, they're 145 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:12,960 permanent. Another thing that is is common 146 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,440 about principles and laws. OK, they work everywhere and 147 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,880 anywhere. I mean the laws in the Kingdom 148 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,120 of God especially. You don't have to change 149 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,920 nations. The same laws will work for us 150 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,480 here as it does over in Africa. The principles of God, the 151 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,440 Kingdom of God, they'll work anywhere, All right. 152 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,720 It said Laws and principles, they're not partial, OK? 153 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:38,760 They don't work for one race of people and then don't work for 154 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,000 another race of people. They're not partial. 155 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,000 God tells us he's not partial, all right? 156 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:47,320 That once he sets up a law or he sets up a principle in the 157 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,400 Kingdom of God, it is for everyone that will come to him. 158 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,320 That's that's the thing about principles and laws. 159 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,280 All right, the next one and think about this, that 160 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:00,800 principles of laws guarantee success in In other words, your 161 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,880 future is predictable if you'll stick with the laws and the 162 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:07,760 principles of God. He lets you know how it's going 163 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:09,960 to turn out. Just like the products that we 164 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,160 talked about. You know, as if I follow all the 165 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,920 rules, it's predictable. This thing's going to make ice 166 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,400 for me. It's predictable. 167 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:20,360 I mean, if I do everything they say to do, now, something goes 168 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:21,800 weird. All right? 169 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,240 I got a call the manufacturer and they're going to tell me 170 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:28,240 what I did in violation or they had a defective part or whatever 171 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:30,880 the case may be. But you know, the the main thing 172 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:33,880 is that when we take a look at the, the, the principles and the 173 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:38,480 laws of God, he gave them to us to guarantee our success. 174 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,280 All right, Let me give you the next one. 175 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:42,360 All right? He said principles or laws can 176 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:44,280 never be broken. You can't break a law. 177 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,600 Now you may think that you can break a law and and and get away 178 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,440 with it, but sooner or later that law is going to catch up 179 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,560 with you. OK, they said they and here's 180 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:57,240 the deal. Laws can't be broken, but they 181 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,160 can break you. Me and Melanie were sitting 312 182 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:02,800 and US1, right. We're sitting there. 183 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,480 It's we're next. I I don't know how fast them 184 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,440 lights go. I I can't even get over it. 185 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:10,520 But I'm sitting there and we're parked. 186 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:14,520 All of a sudden we see coming toward us the other direction a 187 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:19,200 a police officer lights going and flashing and sound. 188 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,640 We could hear him. Well, somebody didn't hear him 189 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,440 and hit him right in the side, right in front of us, knocked 190 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,040 him out of the way. They were swerving and coming 191 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,480 towards us and then all of a sudden they just kind of peeled 192 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,960 off and went off into the other lane. 193 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,280 Well, I got out of the car and started running over to the 194 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:38,840 police officer, you know, because I was going to make sure 195 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:40,600 if anybody's OK, he's going to be OK. 196 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,160 And he and the first question he asked me, he goes, hey, he said, 197 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:48,920 did you all hear me coming? And I said, yeah, man, we heard 198 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:50,760 you come and all of the rest of us stopped. 199 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:52,600 And we saw your lights. It's black. 200 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:54,360 It's pitch black, dark. It's in the night. 201 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:57,400 And he said, OK, you know, I'm just making sure. 202 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,720 Are you OK? Yeah, He said kind of hit my 203 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,480 elbow pretty good. But I'm, I'm, I'm OK, you know. 204 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,800 And so we waited until, and I tell you what it's like a a call 205 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,560 for help. I mean four or five cops showed 206 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:10,680 up. Pam, you did the deputies, you 207 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:14,200 know, showed up checking on him and and yanking him people out 208 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,720 of the car. And it was, it was quite thing. 209 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,560 But you know, you can you think you might get away with 210 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:21,720 something if you just continually do it. 211 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,800 But sooner or later it's going to break you because there's 212 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,080 certain laws and certain things that you can't be a violator of. 213 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:29,720 All right, Let me give you the next one. 214 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,800 All right. Principles and laws are 215 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,960 inherent, and the judgment is in there, OK? 216 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:38,840 The judgment is built inside, such as, how about the law of 217 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,920 gravity? See, you don't have to worry 218 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:42,560 about you jump off this building here. 219 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:45,000 You don't have to worry about God killing you. 220 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,720 The law is automatic. It'll do that for you. 221 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,800 Certain laws that you cannot violate or they will take your 222 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:54,760 life. And God doesn't have to do it. 223 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,480 It's just built into the law. Don't do that. 224 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:57,720 Don't be jumping off the building. 225 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:02,200 You know, I think about how cool that air, air travel is, You 226 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:04,920 know, just it blows my mind when I see that big hunk of metal. 227 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,600 And I think you got a little engine on this thing and 1:00 on 228 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,360 the other side powerful enough to lift this thing up and they 229 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,200 don't fly by sight. I mean, how you going to see 230 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,040 what does it look like at 35,000, you know, feet in the 231 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:18,320 air? It's all electronic and they, 232 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:19,880 you know, they know where they're going. 233 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,680 It's all based. A plane listens to what's going 234 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:26,320 on and it is amazing, absolutely amazing. 235 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,880 But you know there's that is a law that supersedes or can 236 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,200 supersede the law of gravity. But as sooner or later you got 237 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:37,040 to get the gravity back in this this the equation if you want to 238 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:39,760 land. And so there's certain laws, you 239 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,120 can't go around breaking certain laws because they have certain 240 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:45,040 things. Now what does pastor always 241 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,240 said? He said, Listen you God will let 242 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,480 you do whatever you want to do, but you will pay the 243 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,600 consequences. You that you're going to have 244 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:57,160 the consequences to pay. All right, let me give you the 245 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:59,040 last one. All right. 246 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,680 Principles and laws protect the product. 247 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:06,400 When you obey the laws down to you know that are laid down by 248 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,720 the manufacturer, you don't need to worry about protection. 249 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,520 They protect you, those type of laws. 250 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:14,600 I mean if you follow the rules and you've read and you've gone 251 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,600 through and you take a look at your car and and you're, you 252 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:19,400 know, changing the oil and you're doing the different 253 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,200 things on that. We were talking about the lifts, 254 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,560 you know, and just take care of the lifts, use them. 255 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:26,080 Why? Because they sit there, the 256 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,840 batteries will go dead in them. Can't resurrect it, you know, 257 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:30,240 you got all kind of money and batteries. 258 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,720 Batteries are the most expensive thing in the world, it seems 259 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,240 like. But you know, taking care of, 260 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:38,960 taking care of those things. And when we understand how laws 261 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:43,320 work, how rules, the rules and laws work, we have to understand 262 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:50,920 that, OK, Now when you know, I want to read a scripture and 263 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:52,960 then I'm going to. And then and this is just to get 264 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:56,680 us an idea of understanding how important it is for us to be 265 00:12:56,680 --> 00:12:59,360 people that search out. When God said seek first the 266 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,160 Kingdom of God, OK. It wasn't like we were going 267 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:03,880 somewhere to look for a new city. 268 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,440 OK, what he wants us to do because what is the word in the 269 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:12,120 word seek in the Greek language is the word to inquire, to ask 270 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,080 questions. So he said, I want you to seek 271 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,120 and ask questions about the Kingdom of God. 272 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:21,040 The questions we should be asking is, Father, what laws, 273 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:24,680 what precepts do we need to be able to navigate ourselves in 274 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:28,720 your Kingdom and receive from your hand the provision that you 275 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,800 said you could get us? All right, that's what we have 276 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,080 to find out. Now, I'm going to read a 277 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:38,760 particular scripture because this is what I found out, and I 278 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:43,440 want you to jot this down. The most important principle 279 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,480 Once you come into the Kingdom of God, one of the most 280 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,280 important. There's several most important, 281 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,040 OK. But one of the most important 282 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,840 Kingdom, law, or precept that we have to understand is in one 283 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,320 word. And this word is the word 284 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:02,600 management. OK? 285 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,640 Management has got to be the number one thing that we're 286 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,880 thinking if we want to navigate and we want to make sure that 287 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:11,680 we're doing everything the Lord tells us. 288 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:14,360 Listen to this verse. When I first got exposed to this 289 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,840 verse, blew my mind. This is we we all know Genesis 290 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:21,560 126, right? So let's go to Genesis, Chapter 291 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:23,520 2 and see what's in there, All right? 292 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:24,960 Because this is what this is in there. 293 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,520 Verse six he says. And every plant of the field 294 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,240 before it was in the earth and every herb in the field before 295 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,480 it grew. For the Lord had not caused it 296 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,920 to rain on the earth, but there was and there was not a man to 297 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,440 till the ground. Interesting. 298 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:46,200 So God created the systems. In chapter one he let us know 299 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,960 he's going to create man. He tells us in chapter 2 how he 300 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:51,280 did that. Chapter one he said he made man. 301 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,920 So to me, chapter one is basically like a a table of 302 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,760 contents. It just kind of lets us know day 303 00:14:57,760 --> 00:14:59,320 one, he did this. Day two he did this. 304 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:01,200 Day three he did this. Day four he did this. 305 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:03,680 You know, he gets to day six. And he said, you know, and he 306 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:05,400 said he made man male and female. 307 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,160 He told them what he said. Let us make man in our own image 308 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:11,120 and in our likeness and he said let them have dominion over the 309 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,640 earth, over the, you know, birds, fish and and all the 310 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:15,000 animals. All right. 311 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,280 Then in the next chapter he tells us how he did that. 312 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,400 But notice what he said when it came down to the the, the fruit 313 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,520 of the ground, the herb, the trees that said the Lord did not 314 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:30,320 allow anything to grow. And then he tells us why. 315 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,960 Because he didn't have a man to toil or till the ground. 316 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,840 And I got to think about that. You know, I mean simply the word 317 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:45,120 till basic just means, you know, to work, to serve, to labor over 318 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:46,800 the ground. But God says I'm not growing 319 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,000 nothing. I ain't letting nothing grow, 320 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:54,440 not getting anything started until I get a manager. 321 00:15:56,280 --> 00:16:00,680 He wanted a man to come, and he wasn't going to do anything 322 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:05,520 until he got that man to be able to take care of the things that 323 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,080 he was providing. All right. 324 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:11,920 Now here's a few things that I want you to jot down. 325 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,920 Well, you know, actually, I like the the fact that, you know, 326 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:16,800 what is God saying? I don't allow anything to grow 327 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:19,440 until I find a manager and he actually stops the growth where 328 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,440 there is no manager. I'm going to give you 3 things 329 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,680 about God's view of management. But I think it's interesting 330 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:28,240 that we need to find out that he. 331 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,880 That was probably one of the biggest motivators that we can 332 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:32,240 find. Why he wanted man. 333 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:33,880 Yes. Did he want a relationship with 334 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:34,280 us? Yes. 335 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:36,000 He wanted to create somebody that love him back. 336 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,120 Yes, but the motivation is found in verse six. 337 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:43,120 He needed somebody to take care of all these things. 338 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:47,880 He spent six days creating, so management was very important to 339 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:49,520 him. Now listen to this three things 340 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:50,920 that I want to show you about his thoughts. 341 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:55,160 One, God protects his resources from bad management. 342 00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:05,060 He'll protect his resources from bad management, bad managers 343 00:17:05,540 --> 00:17:10,140 #2HE withholds resources from bad management. 344 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,760 Now when I started hearing this and there's the last one, he 345 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:22,240 said God won't allow any growth where there is bad management. 346 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:28,800 And I immediately started thinking about myself, How am I 347 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:32,560 doing as a manager if I'm not seeing growth in things that I 348 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:34,760 need to? Am I managing? 349 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,600 Is he withholding from me because I'm not a good manager? 350 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:44,160 All right, I've come to the conclusion that the principle 351 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:49,080 and the key, that God's talking to us about management is one of 352 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,480 the most important, especially if you're wanting to be in 353 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:58,120 business or you're in business. OK, now everybody say the word 354 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:00,200 management after me. Say management. 355 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:01,280 Got it. Management. 356 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:02,720 Here's the thing you need to know about. 357 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,120 And I think religion and how many times have we talked about 358 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:07,720 a pastor has always given us comparison. 359 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,720 Religion really is a killer. OK. 360 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,280 I mean of all kinds of things. It it it's a it's a killer it 361 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:17,160 and and here's the thing about it it says it takes, it takes 362 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,520 away from us. The very thing we need the most 363 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,120 is management. Religion takes that away. 364 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,960 What does it do It it it sits and waits on God. 365 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:29,680 It sits and says well God's in control and he's not OK. 366 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:33,280 The fact that he and and here's one thought that I had and I 367 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:35,120 heard a man say it and boy it made sense. 368 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:40,800 He said that some people you know prefer miracles over 369 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,200 management. They wait until they get in a 370 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,320 big mess, you know. And then they're asking God here 371 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:49,920 help me, help me only to find out you know you could have been 372 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,240 probably managing your way through that. 373 00:18:54,600 --> 00:19:00,320 Now it's interesting because Jesus let us know what he 374 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:04,160 thought of people that are seeking miracles all the time. 375 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:06,640 OK. It's found in Matthew chapter 376 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:11,400 16, verses one through 4. Listen to what he says. 377 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,960 The Pharisees, also with the Sadducees came tempting desiring 378 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,280 that he would show them a sign from heaven. 379 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:26,360 The word sign there is the Greek word Semion SEMEIONSEMEION, and 380 00:19:26,360 --> 00:19:31,400 it basically is the sign for it is basically the sign for a 381 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:36,840 token or a miracle or a wonder. So this Pharisees and the 382 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,120 Sadducees came and what did they say? 383 00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:43,120 They said we want to we want you to show us a sign, we want you 384 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:45,000 to show us a miracle from heaven. 385 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,560 Notice Jesus response in verse four. 386 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,960 He said a wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a 387 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:54,680 miracle or a sign. And he said there will be no 388 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:58,560 sign given to it because this except for the sign of Jonas and 389 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:00,280 he said and he left them and departed. 390 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:05,160 So when you take a look at the fact of of miracles and are 391 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:06,840 miracles important? Yeah, they are. 392 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,520 But we shouldn't be putting our emphasis on miracles as 393 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,240 believers. How do I know that? 394 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:16,280 Well, Romans chapter one jot it down, Romans chapter one, verse 395 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:21,800 17. Paul tells us that the just 396 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,920 shall live by anybody know faith. 397 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,760 He didn't say by miracles. He didn't say, you know, by, you 398 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,920 know, listening to good stories or having a religious right or, 399 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:35,480 you know, praying three times a day. 400 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,560 He didn't say that. He said that just shall live by 401 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,800 faith. Now what does James say about 402 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:43,920 faith? Faith without works is dead, 403 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,400 being alone. So he's telling us, listen, he 404 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,080 said. He's expecting us. 405 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:53,880 He's expecting us here to be able to be somebody that can 406 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,800 manage even in the rough times, seeking the Lord in the rough 407 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:02,000 times, instead of always being people that need a miracle and 408 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,360 and he doesn't want us to do that. 409 00:21:03,360 --> 00:21:07,040 I believe that he wants us to manage what he has given us and 410 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,520 see Kim and the Kingdom. Ask questions. 411 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,280 Find out what principles am I needing to get into. 412 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:14,080 What principles do I need to find out? 413 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:16,680 But I'm going to give you a very lengthy those of you taking 414 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,960 notes, I'm going to go really slow. 415 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:25,240 OK, this is probably the best definition on management and I 416 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,360 got a comment to make after it. OK, but listen to this. 417 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:44,080 Management is the effective comma efficient, comma correct 418 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:58,840 and timely use of another person's property and not just 419 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,400 their property put and resources. 420 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:05,840 I'm not done yet. This is a long one. 421 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,960 I told you I I tried to get somebody to put it up on the 422 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,240 board for you and I couldn't find anybody to take on that 423 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,080 challenge. All right, all right, so let me 424 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:15,600 read it. It says management is the 425 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,760 effect, effective, efficient, correct and timely use of 426 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:20,920 another person's property and resources. 427 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:25,040 Here we go. Next part, for the purpose for 428 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:34,520 which they were delegated. For the purpose for which they 429 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:41,000 were delegated, listen to this with a view to producing with a 430 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:47,120 view of producing to producing. These next 4 words are 431 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:54,240 important, The expected added value back to the person that 432 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,560 owns it. I'll read it again. 433 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:02,320 Management is the effective, efficient, correct, and timely 434 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,040 use of another person's property and resources for the purpose 435 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:09,840 for they for which they were delegated with a view to 436 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,040 producing the expected added value back to the person who 437 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,240 owns it. Here's the biggest problem we 438 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:24,800 have, OK, is that in our United States of America mind, we have 439 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:30,080 been deceived into believing that we have ownership from 440 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:34,360 little bitty kids. I got grandkids. 441 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,320 Their favorite words is that's mine. 442 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:40,720 You can see it in children's church. 443 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:46,320 That's mine. And if they want what's theirs, 444 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:50,440 which usually isn't really theirs, they'll go get it. 445 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,480 But we have, we have believed. And if you've heard any 446 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:59,000 teachings on Lordship whatsoever, you have to come to 447 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:04,680 the understanding and renew mind that Jesus is the owner. 448 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,760 I don't care what you have, he's the owner. 449 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,400 He created everything. He gave man the wisdom to create 450 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,520 a lot of stuff, but in it, in in its originally at where it came 451 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:23,280 from, it's his. All the metal that it took, he 452 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,240 created. All the different things that we 453 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,320 find plastic out of oil he created. 454 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:34,440 So technically by right of creatorship, he has the right of 455 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,440 lordship. We don't have that right. 456 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,480 In other words, we are what we call in the Bible. 457 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,920 And I'll, I'll, I'll give you scriptures on here in a minute, 458 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,520 stewards, OK. That's the biblical word for 459 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,040 management and I'm going to define it out because it is 460 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,800 really good. OK All right. 461 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,520 So when we talk about ownership, you know, in the Kingdom, we 462 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,920 don't any own anything. We're really just stewards. 463 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:00,120 We're we're over God's resources. 464 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,680 This goes cross grain, all right, when we what we've been 465 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,240 taught all our life. Here's a question. 466 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:16,240 Do you really own your house? Let me ask you a question. 467 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,440 If what happens if you don't pay your taxes on your house? 468 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,040 Let's say you got your house paid off. 469 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:22,960 I know a few people got their house paid off. 470 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:25,600 What if you don't pay your taxes? 471 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,200 They they they'll put a lien on it, but eventually they'll take 472 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:31,200 it. OK. 473 00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:35,600 I even found out through the real estate industry that HO as 474 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:39,040 have the ability to go to your mortgage holder and tell them to 475 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:43,200 put a foreclosure on you because you won't obey the HOA rules. 476 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:50,480 Day gum you know I said are you kidding me And that's true. 477 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,440 I mean you know we we got that in a memo all right letting us 478 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,000 know because you know I follow the law pretty close on real 479 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,120 estate and every month you know we get magazines that have law 480 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:03,120 section in it. And I just want to see because 481 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:06,560 it's always somebody got a problem with the law and then 482 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,280 they ask an attorney an attorney gives them their you know 483 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,600 opinion saying and and one of them was HO as that they have 484 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,840 the ability to go and and file an an injunction to have you 485 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,400 sell your house same thing. I mean you think you own your 486 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,120 house. The house we built in Oklahoma 487 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,880 we put the key in the door after going to the bank and signing 488 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,880 and everything put the key in the door and get a phone call. 489 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,200 Hey Randy you need to come back to the bank. 490 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,800 We didn't check. And we found out you have 491 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,280 $50,000 worth of liens on your house. 492 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,920 Well, you know, I said I'll be back over there in a minute and, 493 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,200 you know, called my attorney and he said, Oh yeah, man, a lien. 494 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,520 They can make you sell your house to pay that lien off. 495 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,760 I said OK, so that just kind of ruins your thought of ownership, 496 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,560 you know what I mean? But when we look at it, I want 497 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,280 us to be people that actually, you know, the definition of 498 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,360 management. It implies that when you bring 499 00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:08,600 something back to the Lord and and you don't own it, and you 500 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,520 recognize I'm not an owner, I am a steward, Lord, I am your 501 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:12,920 steward. I am your steward. 502 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,680 And you, you put that into your brain on whatever it is that he 503 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,320 gives you, You know he's always wanting you. 504 00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:22,080 And when I heard that message for the first, this message for 505 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:27,240 the first time, I mean, my mind exploded with the parables that 506 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:33,600 Jesus taught about provision and how important management is. 507 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,320 All the parables that he told about provision, they were all 508 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,680 about managers, good managers. We're going to look at 1:00. 509 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,560 Tonight is the only one we're going to look at. 510 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,240 All right. But there there are principles 511 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,840 that there, you know that this principle of management teaches 512 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:50,880 some important things. Let me give you a couple of 513 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,560 them, one of them, and I want you to think about this. 514 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,400 God does not give you necessarily what you pray for, 515 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,160 but he gives you what you can manage. 516 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,280 You think you want. The next one is you think you 517 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:04,560 want. And you know you're praying and 518 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,800 asking God for $1000. And he says this. 519 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,920 I gave you 100 last week and you you can't even tithe on it. 520 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,160 That's a law, All right. You know, we have a lot of 521 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,640 people saying, Oh yeah, but we're delivered from the law. 522 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:24,160 I beg to differ. As far as you know, Jesus said I 523 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,960 came to fulfill the law. I didn't come to destroy it. 524 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,200 And he has given us the ability to find out what those laws and 525 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,920 principles are in the Kingdom of God so that we can keep them 526 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,440 too. But you know some people they 527 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,160 they they say I, you know I need $1000, you know, the the $100 528 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,640 they have and you know that they got yesterday they can't even 529 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,520 tithe. You know it says you might want 530 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,320 to be you know you might want a big house. 531 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,680 You know you're believing God all you can father, I thank you 532 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:50,880 for a big house, big house. But we go to your house and your 533 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:56,480 house is filthy. Bad management, you know, you 534 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,120 got, you got stuff laying around, you got dentists like 535 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:04,200 people, one of the things that I learned years ago in hiring 536 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,080 people, he said. When you walk them out of the 537 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:12,720 office, go go look in their car, take them to their car and look 538 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,560 in their car and you'll find out what kind of employee they'll 539 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,760 be. We got gum wrappers and we got, 540 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,800 you know, chip wrappers and we got all kind of stuff thrown in 541 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,720 the back seat and empty cups and you know, all kind of stuff. 542 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,680 He said bad management. You know, God's what he's 543 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,960 looking at us saying how are you taking care of the things that 544 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:36,240 I'm giving you and it. And if we can't, then what in 545 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,320 the world are we doing asking him for more? 546 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,440 I I can prove it to you in Scripture. 547 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,320 That's that's a violation. We'll look at it here in a 548 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:45,560 second. All right. 549 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,320 Now, one of the things you need to know and and I'm thankful 550 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,520 that, you know, we always have a mixed crowd. 551 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,480 We have some people that are in business for themselves, some 552 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,320 people that are working jobs for other people. 553 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,120 But here's the thing. God will never give you a 554 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,480 business first. He'll always give you a job 555 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,320 because he wants to see a few things. 556 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,560 One of them is how do you work? How do you work? 557 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,400 One phrase that I heard years ago, it might be worth jotting 558 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,960 down and says is is doing more than paid for. 559 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,960 OK You know, it's kind of like that old saying, he said walking 560 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,080 up to a wood stove and say give me some heat. 561 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:27,360 Wood soap says, well, you get me some wood, he said. 562 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,880 But I need the heat. Wood stove says I need the wood. 563 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,960 Well, you know, some people go up to their boss and say I need 564 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,040 a raise. The question you got to ask is 565 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,120 OK And I've had it done. I had a girl work for me one 566 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,360 time for three weeks and says when am I going to get a raise? 567 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,000 I said, well let's go back to our original meeting, OK? 568 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,880 Our interview, I said I had this position open and I told you 569 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,440 this is what it pays. And you said, OK, so you tell me 570 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,200 what you're going to do above that job that I just gave you. 571 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:04,280 What are you going to do above that wouldn't entice me to give 572 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:05,960 you a raise. She goes, I don't understand 573 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:11,120 what you're talking about. Of course you don't think about 574 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,440 it. You know, when when we we get 575 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,760 that job, we want to make sure that we're doing, you know, 576 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,720 something in that job and above and beyond what is expected 577 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:27,120 because that is, that is the law of sowing and reaping So many 578 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,360 people want to raise, but they ain't willing to sow nothing 579 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,960 else of their life into the job, that they're already trading 580 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,600 their life for money anyway, right? 581 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,720 So let me tell you a story. There was a company. 582 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:43,360 I was 18 years old and I had a little bit of sense, just a 583 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:47,680 little bit. And I had an opportunity I heard 584 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,400 and I was getting ready to go to college because all I ever 585 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,200 wanted to be when I was a kid and going through junior high 586 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,120 and all the way through high school I want to be a commercial 587 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,800 artist. So I was getting ready to go 588 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,680 college. Told you university and and I 589 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,840 wanted to get AI, wanted to major in commercial art. 590 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,520 And this is before computers, OK. 591 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:09,240 We had to use a pencil and a piece of paper and some paint 592 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:11,600 and magic markers. OK. 593 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,760 That's how we did commercial art back in those days. 594 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,760 There was no computer, All right. 595 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,480 And so anyway, I heard of a position open at a local 596 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,440 department store. The name of the store was 597 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,160 Luboils. OK Is before Walmart took off. 598 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,960 There was something before Walmart, believe it or not. 599 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,680 And I heard they had a position open for an art and school 600 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,600 supplies manager. So I go in, talk to the manager 601 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,960 and he said, yeah, he said we do have that position Sit down here 602 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,400 or you can take it with you or whatever you do. 603 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:43,720 I said, yeah, sit down. You got a break room? 604 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,480 Yeah. And I said OK, so I started 605 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,520 filling out the application the whole bit and he said OK. 606 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:52,280 He said, I don't think I see on here that you have any retail 607 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,280 experience. I said don't worry about that. 608 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,600 I told him don't worry about that, that's OK. 609 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:01,240 I got a plan And he goes, well, OK, He said you got to go take a 610 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,480 polygraph test though, because that's what we do. 611 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,600 All our employees, we they have to take a polygraph. 612 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,080 So I went, took a polygraph test, came back. 613 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,200 He said, man, I'm sorry. He said you flunked your 614 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:17,880 polygraph test. I'm thinking, what could I have 615 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,560 answered wrong? And I'm sitting there. 616 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,520 I said, well, have you ever met the guy giving it? 617 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,560 I said he was kind of grouchy. And I said not only was he 618 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,560 grouchy, but he kept asking questions like he was trying to 619 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:35,240 get me on something. And I said I was uncomfortable. 620 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,320 And he said, well, I'm sorry. He said, you know, if you don't 621 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:42,280 pass that polygraph test, we can't, we can't give you a job. 622 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,120 And I said so there's nothing we can do. 623 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:54,720 He goes just like that. He said you could take the test 624 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:58,080 again. And I thought, there you go, I 625 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:03,600 knew all the questions, no problem. 626 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,280 I'm going to get the answers right this time. 627 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,480 So I went down there and I took that polygraph test again, ran 628 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:19,880 back to the store, flunked it again, I said, so there's no way 629 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,920 you can give me this job. He said no, man, he said, I am 630 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,880 so sorry. He said, you know, and I'm 631 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,920 thinking I am a loser. I can't believe I couldn't pass 632 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,520 a polygraph test as a nice a kid as I was. 633 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:36,719 Well went home, my mom asked me. She said, well honey, how'd it 634 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,600 go? I said, well mom, I said, have 635 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,040 you ever heard of polygraph test? 636 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,639 I said I'd never heard of one before and I said I didn't even 637 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:48,520 have any idea what was getting ready to happen. 638 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,280 But they said that, you know, I had trouble answering, you know, 639 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,320 questions like, have you ever stole from cash register? 640 00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,280 I said, I don't recall ever getting to stand in front of a 641 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,400 cash register. I said I had a job before this 642 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:07,120 that had a mop and a bucket, all right. 643 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,400 And and I said it's interesting. She goes, you know what I'd do 644 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,320 if I were you? And I said, now what would you 645 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,200 do? She goes, I'd go talk to the 646 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,720 president of the company and I go, do you know him? 647 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,800 She said no, but they got to have an office somewhere. 648 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,520 You need to find out where that office was. 649 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,880 I found the office. It was on a high rise in 650 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,200 downtown Tulsa, which I wasn't real excited about because I 651 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:38,080 just had a phobia about one way streets that when I was going to 652 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,400 be arrested, hauled to jail 'cause I'm going accidentally on 653 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,760 the wrong way down the wrong on the wrong way street right. 654 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:50,320 So I finally find his place. I park, I go up to the office, 655 00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:56,400 nice office, man. Open the door, I walk in, 656 00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:00,920 there's a nice desk, a nice wall, nice logo and a door to 657 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:05,080 the left. And I said good afternoon, my 658 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,200 name's Randy Clay And I said, could I speak to Mr. Barbary for 659 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,240 a minute And she goes, well, do you have an appointment? 660 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:16,520 And I said, no ma'am, but I would be willing to sit over 661 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:24,600 here all day if I need to. And she goes, OK, hold on a 662 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,720 minute. And so she went in that door 663 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,480 behind the wall, and she comes out. 664 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:37,840 And now she's looking puzzled, like Mr. Barbry will see you 665 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:42,040 right now I go, All right, well, you know what I'm thinking? 666 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,560 It's pony show. This is it. 667 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:51,200 This is my last opportunity. I went in there across the desk 668 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,160 standing there sitting Mr. Barbie, my name is Randy Clay 669 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,680 and I have applied for a position at your store on 21st 670 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,120 and I said and all of a sudden both his hands went up like 671 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:12,040 this, said Randy. I've heard all about you. 672 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:17,160 Oh Lord. There's only two things he could 673 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,520 have heard and make a difference in my life. 674 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,280 Flunked it once, flunked it twice. 675 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:29,680 Why are you in my office? He goes, he looks at me, he 676 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,960 goes, I'm going to take a chance on you. 677 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:36,280 Say go back to the store manager, tell him you met with 678 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:37,880 me today and that you've got that job. 679 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,240 So I got that job now. Guess what? 680 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:50,000 I wasn't going to be just a normal, run-of-the-mill art and 681 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:55,480 school supply manager. I actually loved the art, 682 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,760 paints, brushes, canvases, all the different supply. 683 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,600 I loved it. So when this is what I did, went 684 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,920 to all the schools in the area I'm back in that day, they had a 685 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:10,000 print out, OK, where it lets you know that if they're 686 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,000 kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, they're all 687 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,760 different colors of paper and it has a list of all the supplies 688 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,600 that they're going to need to start the new school year. 689 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,880 So I'm going ahead and I am collecting these papers, and 690 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,400 when I got the papers back to the store, I ordered everything 691 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:25,920 on them papers. And, you know, they're all 692 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,240 duplicates. I mean, the only thing that I 693 00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:31,160 saw different was, you know, in elementary school, you going to 694 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,720 get blunt scissors. OK, round it. 695 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,360 But we hope by the time you get to junior high and high school, 696 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:37,880 we can trust you with pointed ones. 697 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,520 That's about the difference. OK, Big thick pencils called a 698 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,680 laddie. Remember the laddie pencil and 699 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,000 big Chief pads? OK, That's for the little people 700 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,360 who had no book paper and regular two number two pencils. 701 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,720 For everybody else. I ordered everything. 702 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,960 The the boxes came in, they were Gray boxes, I'll never forget, 703 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,840 light Gray with dark Gray lids. And you popped them open and it 704 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:03,720 had everything in there. Stacked them up in my area and 705 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:06,240 the boss comes, the manager of the store comes. 706 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:10,560 He says, what are you doing? I said I have a plan. 707 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,520 I told you that from the very first day I have a plan. 708 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,720 I said just hang on. So I took everything out of them 709 00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:25,960 boxes and I put them on the shelf in the order that they 710 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:32,680 were on your paper. So my store, my my part of the 711 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,240 store was right by the front door. 712 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:39,320 So I am looking out the front door seeing Mama's come in and 713 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:43,440 they had them papers and I stood right there and as they came, I 714 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,600 greeted them, said thanks for coming in today. 715 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:47,120 Can I help you with a few things? 716 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,160 Like, yeah, you know, school's starting in a few weeks. 717 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,120 I need to get a a few things on the list. 718 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,800 And I said, oh come with me, took them to the end of the 719 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,880 aisle. I said you will find everything 720 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:03,240 on that list in the order, on your list on the shelves. 721 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,880 And they would get to starting and picking stuff and just look 722 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,880 at me like they'd never heard of anything like that in their 723 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:14,240 lives. Well, the ones I really liked. 724 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:18,400 Were the Mamas that had the you know, four and five year old 725 00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,240 like dragging them to the ground, pulling on them and 726 00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:23,680 everything, trying to get them under control? 727 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:27,440 I'd say give me your list, Let's did you highlight or mark 728 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:28,960 anything that you were going to pick up today? 729 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,040 Let's let's do that real quick. And I said you can go around 730 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,920 shopping and and and carry on. I'll gather everything up. 731 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,040 I'll put it in a basket and it'll be waiting for you, for 732 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:43,160 you at the front counter. Well, here comes the boss, 733 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,480 right? Boss says. 734 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,600 You wouldn't believe the way that those women are talking 735 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:53,440 about you. I said that's thrilling. 736 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,560 But I don't want them to talk about me here. 737 00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:02,560 I want them to go tell all their girlfriends at coffee or 738 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:06,240 whatever that this is the only place in town to buy their 739 00:41:06,240 --> 00:41:07,840 school supplies. Get it? 740 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:10,880 That was my first experience in management. 741 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:17,720 OK, every job after that, I treated like I owned the place. 742 00:41:17,720 --> 00:41:20,760 And I'll never forget one of the greatest I had. 743 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:25,120 I I dropped out of college and ran for my life because they're 744 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,680 a bunch of weirdos, man. I'm telling the art people, 745 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:33,680 artsy people, They're weird. A lot of them. 746 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:38,000 OK, I got out of there. I went and got a job. 747 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,840 That was because I heard a voice that you need to get a job. 748 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,480 I thought it was the Lord bids my dad. 749 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:48,040 And so I went and got a job at a commercial screen printing firm. 750 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:52,400 Absolutely fell in love with it. Worked there, learned I I would. 751 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,480 I'd screen printed all through high school. 752 00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,640 Different things. But I didn't know that this type 753 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:57,760 of screen printing was available. 754 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:01,560 We print computer panels. We'd screen screen print decals, 755 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,280 signage, different things like that. 756 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,520 Screen print, giant banners for grocery stores, just all kinds 757 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,440 of stuff. Absolutely fell in love with it. 758 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,280 Well, got married two months after I started that job. 759 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,920 Melanie and I no, no, I had been working there and then Melanie 760 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:21,120 and I got married and and and I met a guy that her Co worker had 761 00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:25,440 a a guy that she was married to and he owned a a screen printing 762 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,040 shop. Well, we met at the Christmas 763 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,960 party and he said, hey, I hear you know how to screen print. 764 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,160 And I said, Oh yeah, I've been screen printing for a while. 765 00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,400 And he said, he said you need to make some extra money. 766 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,000 I said, yeah, I'm getting married pretty soon. 767 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,320 I said I'd like to have some money to take on a trip wherever 768 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:46,440 we decide we're going. And so he said, well, hey, I got 769 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,640 some work you could do at night. And so I got in there that first 770 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:53,000 night, and the next night he comes in there and he says, hey, 771 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:59,280 I was talking to my partner and he said that I told him how good 772 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,800 you really were. And you know, the way you, you 773 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,840 know, you know how to print and how to fix things, that ain't 774 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:05,720 going right in the whole bit. I mean, just amazing. 775 00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:08,520 He said, how much would you have to have to come here and work 776 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:12,360 full time? Well, I was making $4.11 an hour 777 00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:17,760 at the other place and I just said I probably couldn't leave 778 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,240 for less than six an hour, you know. 779 00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:23,560 And he goes, oh man, we ain't never paid nobody no 6 an hour. 780 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,720 I said, well, you ask, it's OK. And I got back after it. 781 00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:27,240 I'm just printing them shirts like crazy. 782 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:32,000 Next night I come in, he said. Well, I talked to my partner. 783 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,920 My partner said if you're that good, we'll pay you 6 bucks an 784 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:37,640 hour. But you got to give your notice 785 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:42,560 tomorrow. Oh man, I hadn't thought that 786 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,600 through. So I went in the next morning, 787 00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:50,200 talked to my boss, Mr. Sipert, asked him if I talked to him in 788 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,360 the lunchroom. He goes, well, what what's going 789 00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,840 on? Randy And I said, well Sir, I 790 00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:01,840 said I have another opportunity. Now believe it or not, you know, 791 00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:07,200 he asked me the question. He said, well aren't you going 792 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:11,960 to give me chance to counter? Yes, I am. 793 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:16,880 If you can pay me $6 and 1 penny, I'll stay and he goes, oh 794 00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,720 Randy, I can't pay you that. You know, he said it just, you 795 00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:22,000 know, our company and different. He said you can't pay anything. 796 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:23,840 He said, well I want to let you know something. 797 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:25,120 He said, how long can you give me? 798 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,160 And I said, I tell you what, I'm not, I don't want to start that 799 00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:28,680 until next month. I'll give you 3 weeks. 800 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,280 OK? Well, he didn't find anybody to 801 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,520 replace me till that last week. Like I'm supposed to train 802 00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:35,720 somebody in one week, you know, and do all that I do. 803 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,800 And he looked at me and he said, Randy, I'm going to tell you 804 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,040 something he said and I want you to listen to me. 805 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:46,080 He said I don't care where you go from here, you won't be there 806 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:51,640 very long. He said you'll one day on your 807 00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:55,600 own thing. And I said, thank you, but I 808 00:44:55,600 --> 00:45:00,000 have no desire whatsoever tone my own thing. 809 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:05,480 So I went to the next place. And I treated that place like it 810 00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,240 was mine because he hired me to manage it. 811 00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,520 And it was easy because his name was Randy. 812 00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,800 And across the window, Randy's silk screening. 813 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,680 It's my place. I was there first. 814 00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,400 I left last. All right. 815 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:28,200 Ian had one day his partner came in found out it is Daddy. 816 00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,360 Daddy says looks as his son says Randy. 817 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:36,440 Why don't you just leave and let Randy, Randy, handle this. 818 00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,520 He goes, what do you mean? He says you come in here and you 819 00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,720 mess up more stuff than he can fix in a day. 820 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:44,960 Boy, I didn't want him to ever leave. 821 00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,360 Dad, just stay here because I know what's going to happen when 822 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,320 you leave. And I work for him a year and a 823 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,560 half. And then I started my own 824 00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:59,440 company, still going today, celebrated 40 years last year. 825 00:46:00,240 --> 00:46:03,640 Still got people in there managing like I'd manage. 826 00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:05,760 Call me every now. And what do you think of this, 827 00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,800 you know, and I'm able to give it to him, but, you know, it 828 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,600 really reflected that that's what God's been looking for all 829 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,440 along. He's looking for good managers 830 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,200 over the things that he has. All right. 831 00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:21,080 So with that, you know, let's take a look at just a few more 832 00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:22,200 things. I want to, I want to go, what 833 00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:23,520 time is it? Somebody give me a time. 834 00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:28,360 OK, We're good. All right, One of the scriptures 835 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,000 that Jesus told a parable is in Luke chapter 16. 836 00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,440 OK, we're going to wrap it up with this. 837 00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:39,120 I've got a few points in here that I want to make, but I want 838 00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,920 you to listen to this parable. Because Jesus told this parable. 839 00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,200 And if we get the sense of what he's saying, you know, we can 840 00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,600 reflect in ourselves and make the decision that no matter 841 00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:54,400 where we are, what we're doing, that we're going to manage. 842 00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,960 And we're going to manage it well and want to seek the Lord 843 00:46:57,960 --> 00:46:59,560 and find out how do you want this done? 844 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,000 How am I supposed to conduct myself? 845 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,680 What am I supposed to be providing out of the gifts and 846 00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:08,000 talents that you gave me to see? Remember the definition? 847 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,840 It said that you're in charge. He's giving you a chance to 848 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:15,920 oversee his resources and his things, but he wants you to add 849 00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,080 value to it. OK, Now, they'll be in in the 850 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:20,600 months to come. I'm going to do some other 851 00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,840 teachings on parables, and one of them is the talents. 852 00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,160 OK, What was that story all about? 853 00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,760 Good management, but one bad manager. 854 00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,280 OK, that's what that was about. But in this one it says this. 855 00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,720 He said unto those disciples, there was a certain rich man who 856 00:47:36,720 --> 00:47:41,000 had a steward, and the same was accused him that he had wasted 857 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,240 his good. When you see the word stewards 858 00:47:43,240 --> 00:47:50,800 all through scripture, it is the Greek word Oikonamas OIKO N0M 0S 859 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:57,360 oikonamas K just like it sounds. It is from 2 Greek words. 860 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:03,840 One is oikos and the word oikos is the word house. 861 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:11,560 The word nomas is the word law. So when you talk about a 862 00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,760 steward, what is he in charge of really? 863 00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:19,960 He is the law of the house. He is the master of the house. 864 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:25,120 His owner has given him authority to be the ruler of the 865 00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,600 house. So when God gives us the 866 00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,480 opportunity to manage, basically he's doing the same thing he did 867 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,600 in the garden. I am giving you dominion to 868 00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:37,920 become ruler over the house, so knows what happens. 869 00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:39,600 OK? He said. 870 00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,600 He called unto him, and said, And how is this? 871 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:44,640 And I hear this of you give an account of your stewardship, for 872 00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,640 you may no longer be steward. Then the steward said within 873 00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:51,400 himself, What shall I do? For my Lord takes away from me 874 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,640 the stewardship, and I cannot dig and to beg. 875 00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,400 I'm ashamed. Verse four, listen to this. 876 00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,640 I am resolved. What to do that when I am put 877 00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,800 out of the stewardship they may receive me into their houses. 878 00:49:03,240 --> 00:49:07,240 OK, so the word resolve just simply means I have got an idea. 879 00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:11,280 I have an understanding of what I'm going to be doing now, he 880 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:13,960 said, So he goes in verse 5 and he said so. 881 00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:18,680 He called every one of his debtors, Lord's debtors, to him 882 00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:23,120 and said unto them, note this question, How much do you owe my 883 00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:27,080 Lord? First guy says 100 measures of 884 00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,920 oil. He said, sit down, take that 885 00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:35,640 bill, and quickly write 50 Verse seven said to another How much 886 00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,120 do you owe? And he said 100 measures of 887 00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,400 wheat. He said, well, sit down and take 888 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:46,000 your bill, your bill, and write 80 And he said the Lord 889 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:50,680 commended the unjust steward because he had done wisely. 890 00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:55,000 Another word for wisely is a word shrewdly for the And notice 891 00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,120 this phrase, This phrase bothers me. 892 00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,720 All right, he said, For the children of this world are in 893 00:49:59,720 --> 00:50:03,960 their generation wiser than the children of light. 894 00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,600 And then he goes on, and he says, in verse nine he said, You 895 00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:12,120 make to yourself, Jesus said, make yourself friends of mammon 896 00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:16,560 wealth of unrighteousness, that when you fail you may, they may 897 00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:18,640 receive you into the habitations. 898 00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:22,480 I had to figure out who is he talking to When he said, And I 899 00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:26,600 say unto you, is he continuing the dialogue between the master 900 00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:30,520 and the and the steward? Because that was the the deal. 901 00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,600 Let me give you a few points. Here's the first one, OK. 902 00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:38,320 The motive that the the unjust steward had was to gain favor 903 00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:42,640 with his master's customers in verse 4, when he knew he's going 904 00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:46,000 to be put out of the management. OK, when he knew he's going to 905 00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,760 be put out, he said. Here's my plan. 906 00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:53,040 I'm going to go make a relationship with my master's 907 00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,160 customers. That was his motive. 908 00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,320 That was the plan that he came up with. 909 00:50:57,760 --> 00:50:59,680 All right. The second one listened to this. 910 00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,840 He said he should have known exactly what the Masters 911 00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:07,800 customers owed. He went to each one and asked 912 00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:11,520 them. So that tells me real quick he 913 00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:15,240 wasn't a good bookkeeper. He didn't have any idea. 914 00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,440 I mean, when you got to ask somebody what they owe you, what 915 00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:24,200 in the world, I know too. The panic, what people owe me? 916 00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:30,600 And then he goes and he has them sit down and he and he starts at 917 00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:34,160 in the appearance it almost looks like that he's he's he's 918 00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,920 ripping his master off again in the final minutes. 919 00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:41,240 But what was his job if he was over the household? 920 00:51:41,240 --> 00:51:44,800 He was not only supposed to be loaning this stuff out and 921 00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,400 giving it to people but he's supposed to be collecting on it. 922 00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,280 And he wasn't doing either one really well. 923 00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,440 All right, he said the master. And. 924 00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:56,400 And here's a point that I had to think about. 925 00:51:56,400 --> 00:52:01,240 It said the IT says that the fact that he didn't, he didn't 926 00:52:01,240 --> 00:52:05,160 know what each of the customers owed means He probably gave at 927 00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,680 times an inaccurate picture to the boss. 928 00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:10,680 Now here's the problem with our boss. 929 00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:15,400 He knows and sees everything. He knows if you're doing right 930 00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:19,960 or not doing right. I wish I had that ability. 931 00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:24,200 All right. Another point I thought about is 932 00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,880 that the Master may not have known that he was discounting 933 00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,960 the account. We don't have an accurate we 934 00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,120 don't have an account that he knew what he was doing. 935 00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:35,640 But it did say it did say that he was clapping for him. 936 00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:37,840 That's what that word commending means. 937 00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,280 He was applauding him. So I had to ask a question. 938 00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:41,560 What were you applauding him about? 939 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,520 What were you applauding him about? 940 00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,720 Probably the same thing the Lord does for us when we're not doing 941 00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:54,680 what we're supposed to be doing. He's saying, I knew you could do 942 00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,680 it. You had it in you all the time 943 00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:01,080 to be a good steward, but you chose not to do it. 944 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,160 Because what's he doing now? He's bringing money to the boss. 945 00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:09,280 He's saying, look here, I, I, you know, I was able to collect, 946 00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:13,120 you know, 50% of that one, and I was able to collect 80% of that 947 00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,120 one. All right, But his motive was 948 00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,880 what? I'm not going to please my boss. 949 00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:21,360 I'm going to go make friends with those people that owe the 950 00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:22,080 money. Why? 951 00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,360 Because I'm going to be going to them looking for a job. 952 00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:28,000 Maybe one of them will hire me because I gave him the discount 953 00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,960 that was his motive. But they said the more the the 954 00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:35,120 master was I I believe the master was commending him for 955 00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:36,960 bringing the money in that he should have been doing in the 956 00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:40,200 1st place, but telling him that he was, he was able to. 957 00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:44,480 That he was able to do his job. So he was saying, man, there you 958 00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:46,080 are. I've, I've done that to people. 959 00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:47,840 I've done that to Josh a million times. 960 00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,320 You know, goof something up or whatever. 961 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,240 And then I said, hey, I need you to do this. 962 00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:54,040 And then he'll finally get it done. 963 00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:56,600 I'll just clap for him, man. Way to go. 964 00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:00,960 When he was smaller or younger or had hair, I knew that part. 965 00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:03,920 OK you know, I knew you could do it. 966 00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,160 I knew you could do it. But then he he goes on and he 967 00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:09,640 said make yourselves friends a man man, I I have to wonder if 968 00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,640 he's still talking to this guy because you going to need them 969 00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,720 friends because I'm putting you out. 970 00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:18,840 He said you're going to need those friends to be able to help 971 00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,520 you because he said you know when you fail he said they'll 972 00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:25,720 bring you in and and the the other party in verse 9 verse 8 973 00:54:25,720 --> 00:54:28,280 go back to verse 8 in there. I thought it was interesting 974 00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,480 because he he told him, he said you've done wisely. 975 00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,920 And he said, for the children of this world and their generation 976 00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,560 are are wiser than the children of light. 977 00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:40,960 Boy, that broke my heart. You know why all these people 978 00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,880 are wealthy? The world, he told us. 979 00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:46,400 Where's the wealth of the where? Where's the wealth at in the 980 00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,280 world? The wicked got it. 981 00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:50,760 How'd they get it? Probably because they're good 982 00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:54,520 managers here, he tells us. Right here they're wiser than we 983 00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,640 are most Christians. You know, you look at them, 984 00:54:57,640 --> 00:54:59,880 we're broke. Why? 985 00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:03,520 Because we're not good managers. I, I, I asked, I asked people 986 00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:05,520 all the time. I said, listen, here's the first 987 00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:07,560 thing that I want to know. If you'd be a good manager, do 988 00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:11,520 you balance your checkbook? If you don't balance your 989 00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:15,160 checkbook, you failed management step one. 990 00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:18,440 I figured that out a long time ago. 991 00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,760 You know, I ask, I ask adults all the time, you know, they're 992 00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,440 having financial trouble. You know, I said you bounce your 993 00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:24,920 checkbook. No. 994 00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:27,960 OK, then how in the world are you going to know what you got? 995 00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,480 I mean, every night before Melanie and I go to bed, we know 996 00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:35,360 exactly what we have in every account, 'cause we take a little 997 00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:38,280 time, you know, during the day, the end of the day, we get it 998 00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,920 all established, all right. As far as entering everything, 999 00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:45,840 we started using QuickBooks, you know, years ago. 1000 00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,760 We we'd fight like most couples. Well, you take it. 1001 00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:50,600 Here you have it. You take it now. 1002 00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:53,360 You take it now. OK, well, I'm frustrated. 1003 00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:56,080 So here you take it now, you take it now, you know, back and 1004 00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:58,120 forth, back and forth. I said and. 1005 00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:01,360 And so finally I was introduced to a bookkeeping system and I 1006 00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:04,280 just incorporated in our family and it's called Clay Family 1007 00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:07,800 Finance. And we do QuickBooks for our own 1008 00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,960 personal finance. And she's done them and she's 1009 00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:11,760 done them from years. No fights. 1010 00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:14,840 She can balance the checkbook in minutes. 1011 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,520 Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, 1012 00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,640 click, zero. Click another button. 1013 00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:22,240 We're done. All right. 1014 00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:28,160 But that's management 101 O 101-1101. 1015 00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:31,320 I mean, just little things that you've got to take a look at. 1016 00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:35,320 How can God trust us with more if we cannot take care or know 1017 00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:40,640 what we've got in our hands? He can't do it. 1018 00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:45,120 All right. So as we wrap it up and in the 1019 00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,440 last three verses listen to this, He that is faithful and 1020 00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:49,840 that which is least is also faithful and much this is the 1021 00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,520 next verse after that. He that isn't just in the least 1022 00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:55,880 is also unjust in much. If therefore you've not been 1023 00:56:55,880 --> 00:57:00,880 faithful with unrighteous mammon who will give you to your trust 1024 00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:03,960 the true riches, verse 12. And if you've not been faithful 1025 00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:06,960 in that which is another man's who will give you that which is 1026 00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:12,240 your own? That's a law that's a precept of 1027 00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:17,000 the Kingdom, that you have no right to ask for anything unless 1028 00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,680 you've proven yourself to take care of somebody else's. 1029 00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:24,960 All right, God owns everything. It's up to us to take care of 1030 00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:28,760 what he gives us, all right? To manage it well, to know what 1031 00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:32,520 we're doing all right. And then so if you quick review, 1032 00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,320 management should be the primary goal of mankind. 1033 00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:39,840 It should be especially those of us in the Kingdom. 1034 00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:45,600 OK. Another principle that I had was 1035 00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:47,400 whatever you fail to manage, you will lose. 1036 00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:54,400 I've done it. Been there said God's primary 1037 00:57:54,400 --> 00:58:10,020 measure of trust is management. Here's something interesting. 1038 00:58:10,900 --> 00:58:17,820 Somehow or another, management attracts resources, you know. 1039 00:58:17,820 --> 00:58:23,900 I know that because Jesus said take no thought for what you'll 1040 00:58:23,900 --> 00:58:27,500 eat, drink or wear. For your Heavenly Father knows 1041 00:58:27,500 --> 00:58:29,620 you have need of these things before you ask him. 1042 00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:33,640 Which takes you back to Deuteronomy chapter 28 when he 1043 00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:36,240 said, hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord your God that 1044 00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,720 you may observe to do according to all that is written therein. 1045 00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:42,120 And he said, and all these blessings will come on you and 1046 00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:45,840 overtake you. Remember, he said, don't be like 1047 00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:48,680 the heathen, go chasing after money. 1048 00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:52,600 Don't do it, said don't do it. All right, so then he goes on 1049 00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:54,040 here, I got a couple more and we're done. 1050 00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:56,840 Said, God will usually not give you what you ask for, only what 1051 00:58:56,840 --> 00:59:01,280 you can manage in the form of money, resources, people, 1052 00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:05,600 products, facilities, equipment, only what you can manage. 1053 00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:10,280 You remember the parable of talents he gave to each man 1054 00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:15,200 according to his ability. All right. 1055 00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:18,680 And here's the thing you got to understand. 1056 00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:21,320 Hard times will always reveal to us whether or not we're good 1057 00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:27,280 managers or bad managers. All right, everybody, get all 1058 00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:30,160 that. All right, we're done. 1059 00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:33,080 Hallelujah. Let's pray. 1060 00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:34,520 Father, we thank you and praise you. 1061 00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:40,280 We have a desire in all of our hearts to be good managers for 1062 00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,360 you. Just as you said that you didn't 1063 00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:45,200 allow growth, that you even stopped growth. 1064 00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:49,440 You wouldn't even let the rain come until you had created a man 1065 00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:51,400 that could take care of your business. 1066 00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:53,960 So, Father, we want to be your people, to take care of your 1067 00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:57,960 business. We want you to help us focus on 1068 00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:00,520 those things that we're weak in and the things that we need to 1069 01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:03,200 do and take a look at our lives and the things around the house 1070 01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:07,480 and our cars, our homes, our kids, those different things. 1071 01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:11,360 Are we managing well? Can we prove to you this year 1072 01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:14,920 that we're great managers and we're ready for those 1073 01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,440 promotions, Father? We want that. 1074 01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:20,640 We know that the the more opportunities that you give us 1075 01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:23,720 to show a good management that those resources that we desire 1076 01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:26,640 to see to come in to fulfill your Kingdom and the and the 1077 01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:29,080 mandate that you've given to our pastor and the vision that 1078 01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:30,800 you've given to our pastor father. 1079 01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:34,600 We know that if we'll just stay steady in the arena of 1080 01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:37,600 management that we'll be able to accomplish great things 1081 01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:39,440 together. So we thank you and praise you 1082 01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:40,920 for tonight. We thank you and praise you for 1083 01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:43,720 the word that gone forth, and we thank you that everyone else 1084 01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:46,320 have ears to hear and wills to obey. 1085 01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:48,440 And we thank you for it in Jesus name. 1086 01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:54,400 Amen. Thank you so much for listening 1087 01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:56,840 to this message. If you want more, subscribe to 1088 01:00:56,840 --> 01:01:00,240 our Message podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and 1089 01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:02,240 SoundCloud. Rating and leaving a comment 1090 01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:04,400 will go a long way with helping our messages get better 1091 01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:06,680 circulation. If you'd enjoy watching our 1092 01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:10,000 weekend messages, visit youtube.com/anchorfaith. 1093 01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:12,280 We'd love it. 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