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how could you love

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to clean? Darling Czech

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said to me one

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day, don't you just

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love to cook in your

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time off? I said, no.

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What, you don't love to

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cook? I said, no. I

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don't love to cook. I

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love to have somebody

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cook and I'll eat it.

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All right. Now

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the man who received five bags

1:26

of gold went at once. There

1:28

you go. He's not the procrastinator

1:31

we talked about this morning.

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He went at once and put

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his money to work and he gained

1:37

five more bags. So also the

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one who had two bags of gold

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gained two more. But the man who

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had received one bag went off,

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dug a hole in the ground

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and hid his master's money. God

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entrusts us with talents,

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abilities, wealth, his reputation.

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And unbelievers and skeptics look

2:02

at us to see if

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the claims about Jesus are real.

2:06

He gives each according to his

2:08

ability. And I'll tell you what

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people want more than anything in

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this world, they want peace and

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they want joy. And that's the

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main thing that they should see

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consistent in any believer's life is

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peace, even in the midst of

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a storm, and joy that doesn't

2:26

make any sense. We

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don't have to have a lot

2:34

of something to be happy. Money

2:36

doesn't make you happy. Sometimes

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it can make you very

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unhappy. Do you know that

2:43

everything you own is something else

2:45

you've got to take care of? Yeah,

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well. God won't give us more

2:49

than we can handle and we

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should never be jealous of somebody

2:54

else who has more. We think

2:56

they have more than what we do.

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Whatever God has given

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you, whether it's a blessing

3:05

or a challenge or

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a responsibility, God has

3:09

given you the ability to

3:12

handle it. God always

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gives you grace for your

3:16

place. If you have a

3:18

special needs child, I'm sure

3:20

that challenges your life,

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but God will give you

3:25

grace for that place. If

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you're in a marriage, it's not

3:29

yet what what you want it to

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be and it's hard and

3:33

challenging and you're married to

3:36

an unbeliever or somebody that

3:38

was a believer and fell away

3:40

from God but you believe that is

3:42

what God has assigned you. What if

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Dave wouldn't have married me?

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I wouldn't be here doing what I'm

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doing because I didn't need somebody

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to preach to me. I needed

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somebody to live Jesus in front

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of me and that's what he

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did and eventually it changed me.

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So God will give you the

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grace for your place. So it's

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pretty obvious to see why

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he gave the first man five

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bags of gold and the last

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man only one, because

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the guy that got the

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most did the most with

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it, and God already knew that

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he would be like that. So

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do the most you can of

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what God has given you and

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stop being jealous of people that

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you think have more than you

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do Because really you both just

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have what you can handle and

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that's the thing that's important

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That man could handle

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less and so he got less I'm

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so glad to know I don't have

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to compare and compete with other

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people The last man receive

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less than anybody else and

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it's obvious why. He did

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nothing with the little bit that

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he had. Therefore, he would have

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done nothing with a lot if

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he would have had a lot. See,

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we think, oh, I mean, I have people

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tell me this choice. If I had

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a million dollars, I'd give it to

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you. No, you wouldn't. If that was

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true, I'd get a lot more million

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dollar offerings, because I've had

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a lot of people say

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that to me. If

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you won't give the $10 you've got,

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you won't give a million if you

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had a million. And God

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tests our faithfulness. He starts by

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giving us something small, and if

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we're faithful to use that properly,

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then he'll promote us. And then

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we'll stay there for a while

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and we'll be tested on that

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level. I can look at my

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ministry. The first two and a

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half years I taught a home

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Bible study. 25 people

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in my living room floor

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every Tuesday night. Two

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and a half years. I

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quit a full-time job to

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study every month

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we had the... a miracle just

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to pay our bills. I

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remember buying my kid's shoes

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at garage sales and we

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had some very tough lean

6:10

years. And then after a

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while somebody asked me to

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teach another Bible study

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in their home and

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so for two and a half

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years I taught two Bible

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studies. So first five

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years of my ministry was just

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teaching these home Bible studies.

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And I would study six,

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seven hours for each message

6:33

that I got back then

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because I didn't know anything.

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I just knew that I was a mess

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and Jesus loved me and I was

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learning and just trying it out

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on everybody else to see if it

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would work for them like it was me.

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It's a good thing that, you know, and

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to be honest, I could preach

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back then pretty much like I

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can now. And I didn't understand

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why God kept me confined to

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that small amount of people.

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But I can remember

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watching other preachers on television

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thinking, I don't know why you're

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on TV, I could preach

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circles around you. Okay, that's why

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I was still in my living

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room floor. It wasn't because

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of what I could do,

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it was because of a

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wrong attitude that needed to

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be worked out of me.

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And so instead of being

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jealous of what other people

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have, maybe we should

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do an attitude check.

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Come on. Maybe you're a

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goat and not a sheep.

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We're going to talk about

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them in a few

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minutes. Goats are more

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intelligent than sheep. But

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sheep are sweeter. I

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wish sometimes that I could accurately sit

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somebody down and make them understand

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what the early days were like. Dave

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and I talk all the time

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about driving to places to speak

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and Not even having money

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to stay in a hotel at night

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having to pull over and

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sleep in a McDonald's parking

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lot till he could wake up

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and drive a little bit more

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That's why it's so dumb to

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be jealous of what somebody's

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got especially if you don't

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want to do what they did to

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get it So

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after a long time

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the master returned and

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settled accounts. I love

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that He's coming back to

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settle accounts The man

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who'd received five bags

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of gold Bags brought the

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master the other five and

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he said you entrusted me

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with five bags of gold

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here. I've gained five more

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and in Matthew 2521 And

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his master replied, well

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done, good and faithful

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servant, you've been faithful

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with a few things, I

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will put you in charge

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of many things. But here's

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the exciting part, come and

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share your master's happiness.

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See, that's much more

9:23

important than the fact that

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he got natural rewards,

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share in your master's happiness.

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Man with the two bags

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of gold, the exact same

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thing. Well done, now good

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and faithful servant. You

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handled a little bit well.

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I'll give you more. Come

9:43

and enter into your master's

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happiness. You know what? Really what

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we want is to be happy.

9:50

Everybody's out shopping

9:52

today just trying to buy

9:55

a little happiness. Truly. And

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we're only going to be

9:59

happy. if we're doing the part

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that God has given us to

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do to the best of our

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ability and not being

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concerned about everybody else.

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Amen? Come on, some of

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you single girls wish you

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were married. Some of you

10:17

married women wish you

10:19

were single. You know, being

10:22

married has its benefits, but

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being single has its

10:26

benefits. You

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know, if you're single and

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you want to go out

10:32

to that resource table and

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buy everything on it, you

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don't have to call home

10:39

and get somebody's permission to

10:41

do it. You can do what

10:44

you want to, so maybe you

10:46

don't have it as bad as you

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think you do. Come on. After

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a long time, the master returned.

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And our job is to

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just keep doing what's right,

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keep doing what's right, keep

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doing what's right until he

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finally shows up. The man who

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took his bag of gold

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and buried it, he

11:09

immediately was afraid and

11:11

he took it and he hid

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it. But when the master

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came back in Matthew 2526,

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his master replied, you wicked,

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idle servant. Wicked!

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Called him wicked because

11:26

he hadn't done anything

11:29

with what he had. You know

11:31

what? I don't want to

11:33

make anybody mad, but

11:35

I'm leaving. I won't be

11:38

back for six months so

11:40

I have to take a

11:42

chance. If all you're doing

11:44

is coming and sitting in

11:47

church a couple times a

11:49

month... And

11:52

you're not really doing anything with your gifts

11:54

and talents, you're not doing anything to make

11:57

anybody else's life better, you never have time

11:59

for anybody. else, you don't encourage

12:01

other people, you don't help,

12:04

you're not the one to

12:06

help when somebody needs to

12:08

move. You know, if you're

12:10

not doing anything for anybody

12:12

else, then... Should I say

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to you what Jesus said

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to that man? You wicked,

12:19

lazy! And you know what?

12:21

You won't be happy. A

12:24

lot of people wonder why

12:26

they're not happy. Sometimes I

12:28

wonder how so many Christians

12:30

can be so unhappy. But

12:33

I know because God had

12:35

to teach it to me.

12:37

He said you are unhappy

12:39

because you are selfish. What

12:41

you care about is Joyce

12:44

Meyer and until you get

12:46

Joyce Meyer off your mind

12:48

and you start paying attention

12:50

to what you can do

12:53

for other people to make

12:55

them happy. See

12:57

the only way you're going to

12:59

be happy is to try to

13:02

make other people happy He says

13:04

well then See he had a

13:07

wrong idea about God. He said

13:09

I was afraid of you. I

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thought you were a hard master

13:14

If you know God you know

13:16

that you don't have to be

13:18

afraid you can step out and

13:21

Try and if you fail you're

13:23

normal That was our

13:25

message last night. Anybody here last

13:27

night? Did you come last night?

13:30

See, some of you are just

13:32

being little piggies this weekend. You're

13:34

getting everything you can get. That's

13:36

good. There's so many people that

13:38

are hurting and so many people

13:40

that need help. And I'll tell

13:42

you what, the best kind of

13:44

spiritual warfare to do is the

13:46

warfare of love. Two

13:53

of the most important things the Bible

13:55

says is faith and love. Continue strong

13:57

in faith and walk in love. And

13:59

in Psalm 37, it's talking about evil

14:01

people, and you don't need to fret

14:04

about all the evil in the world.

14:06

In verse 3, it says, trust in

14:08

the Lord and do good. And if

14:10

you just concentrate on that, you're going

14:12

to have a good life. You don't

14:15

have to get up every day and

14:17

worry about everything that's going on in

14:19

the world. You don't have to be

14:21

jealous of what other people have. You

14:25

don't have to be all

14:27

brought up about whether you're

14:29

married or you're not married

14:32

or you have this or

14:34

you don't have that You

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just need to get up

14:38

every day trust God and

14:41

do good Come on now.

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This is Christianity 101 made

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easy Joyce what's wrong with

14:47

my life no matter what

14:50

I seem to be unhappy?

14:52

What's wrong? Why can't I

14:54

be content? Well Get your

14:56

mind off yourself and start

14:59

seeing what you can do

15:01

for other people. Sheep and

15:03

goats. By the way, the

15:05

guy who buried his talent,

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the master took it away

15:10

from him and gave it

15:12

to the guy who had

15:14

the most. So the message

15:17

is, use it or lose

15:19

it. All

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right, the sheep and the goats,

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to me this is, this has

15:26

a deep, deep meaning that is

15:28

so beautiful if we can just

15:30

grasp this. When the son of

15:33

man comes in his glory and

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all the angels are with him,

15:37

he will sit on his throne

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and all the nations will be

15:42

gathered before him and he will

15:44

separate the people one from another

15:46

as a shepherd's. separates the sheep

15:48

from the goats. And he will

15:50

put the sheep on his right

15:53

and the goats on his left.

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In the Bible, the right hand

15:57

is always the side of power.

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Jesus is seated at the right

16:03

hand of God in heavenly places.

16:05

Then the king will say to

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those on the right, come you

16:10

who are blessed by my father,

16:12

take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared

16:14

for you since the creation of

16:17

the world. For I was hungry

16:19

and you gave me something to

16:21

eat, I was thirsty and you

16:24

gave me something to drink, I

16:26

was a stranger, you invited me

16:28

in. I needed clothes and you

16:31

closed me. I was sick and

16:33

you looked after me. I was

16:36

in prison and you came to

16:38

visit me. Then the righteous will

16:40

answer, Lord, when did we see

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you hungry and feed you or

16:45

thirsty and give you something to

16:47

drink? When did we see you

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a stranger and invite you in

16:52

or needing clothes and clothes you?

16:54

When did we see you sick

16:57

or in prison and go visit

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you? And the king will reply.

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Truly, I say unto unto you.

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Whatever you did for one of

17:06

the least of these, my brothers

17:08

and sisters, you did it for

17:11

me. Oh my God. People say,

17:13

I'd love to see God. Well,

17:15

look in the eyes of the

17:18

person next to you. God's in

17:20

people. And please get what I'm

17:22

going to say. picky about how

17:25

we treat people. And I can

17:27

tell you that I believe from

17:29

my own personal experience that nothing

17:32

grieves God more than when we

17:34

as Christians mistreat other people. Be

17:36

little them or rude to them,

17:39

have no time for them. You

17:41

want a ministry? Most of you

17:43

is not going to be a

17:46

platform ministry. But you can have

17:48

a ministry that's even more important

17:50

than what I'm doing up here

17:53

right now. My daughter, thankfully we've

17:55

taught our kids this and we

17:58

see them doing it. My

18:00

daughter said the other day, she

18:02

said, I don't know what it

18:05

is with me lately, but she

18:07

said, I seem to be, God

18:09

seems to have assigned me to

18:11

talk to all the elderly. And

18:13

she told me how she was

18:15

coming out of the grocery store

18:17

and this older gentleman was coming

18:19

out and he just started talking

18:21

to her and talking to her

18:23

and telling her all about his

18:26

cat and this and this and

18:28

this and this and this and

18:30

something else. She said, you know,

18:32

I really wanted to get my

18:34

groceries in the car and get

18:36

home, but she said, I knew

18:38

God wanted me to just stand

18:40

there and listen to that man.

18:42

Now you want to put a

18:44

smile on God's face? That's the

18:46

way to do it. I remember

18:49

a long time ago, I was

18:51

in ministry, had my bumper sticker,

18:53

had my rhinestone Jesus pen. I

18:56

was on the staff at

18:58

the church, had my own

19:00

parking place with my name

19:03

on it, had a seat

19:05

in the church with my

19:07

name on it. I want

19:09

you to understand, I was

19:11

important. I knew the right

19:14

people. I was on the

19:16

staff. One day I was

19:18

in the doctor's office and...

19:24

An old man was trying

19:26

to talk to me about

19:28

his leg and why he

19:31

was there. And he kept

19:33

going on and on and

19:35

on about this leg and

19:37

the snow and on and

19:39

on. I had my Bible

19:41

and I had my plan.

19:43

And I actually said, Lord,

19:46

will you please shut him

19:48

up? So I can pray

19:50

and read my Bible. I

20:01

wanted to sit there and

20:03

be religious. Oh, how religious

20:05

I would have looked in

20:07

the doctor's office reading my

20:09

Bible and being spiritual. And

20:11

I tell you, the Lord

20:13

got me, he said, let

20:15

me ask you a question.

20:17

If that was Billy Graham,

20:19

would you take time to

20:21

listen to him? Ooh. Yes.

20:23

He could have maybe done

20:25

something for me. This old

20:27

man couldn't do anything for

20:29

me, so I had no

20:31

interest in him. Come on

20:33

now. This is how I've

20:35

learned stuff. The hard way.

20:37

I don't give you anything

20:40

to eat that I haven't

20:42

had to eat myself. Are

20:44

you understanding this? Oh, you

20:46

have a ministry? Every one

20:48

of you has a ministry.

20:50

There's not a person in

20:52

here that doesn't have a

20:54

ministry, but maybe you're so

20:56

intent on having a ministry

20:58

where you can be noticed

21:00

and seen and have a

21:02

title and be well thought

21:04

of, that you're totally missing

21:06

the joy of the Lord.

21:08

You're missing the happiness of

21:10

the Lord because you won't

21:12

just give yourself to those

21:14

little things in secret that

21:16

God would have you do

21:19

and maybe never tell anybody.

21:23

Come on. Oh, I believe

21:26

those things that we do

21:28

are some of the most

21:30

important. You know, then he

21:32

turns this around and I

21:34

don't have time to sit

21:36

here and read it all,

21:39

but he says, and if

21:41

you have not done it,

21:43

till least of these, my

21:45

brother, and then you have

21:47

not done it unto me.

21:50

So it seems to me that

21:53

God takes it very personally how

21:55

we treat people and I can

21:57

tell you if you just go

22:00

out of here today and spend

22:02

rest of your life, trust in

22:04

God and doing good. Not to

22:07

earn salvation, we don't do good

22:09

to earn anything from God, we

22:12

want to do good because of

22:14

what he has done for us.

22:16

If you want to put a

22:19

smile on God's face, put a

22:21

smile on somebody else's face. How

22:26

about if we make a decision today

22:28

that we're going to give ourselves to

22:30

just doing more good works? Not to

22:32

get something from God. He's already given

22:34

us everything he can give us. We

22:36

don't need him. I don't do what

22:38

I do for God to give me

22:40

something I want to give something back.

22:43

And the thing he's asked me to

22:45

do is treat other people good, especially

22:47

the ones that are hurting. Amen. Father,

22:49

I pray for everybody here, including myself,

22:51

that we would walk in love in

22:53

a greater way, and that we would

22:55

really care about things that most of

22:57

the world don't care about, listening to

23:00

somebody that maybe doesn't interest us at

23:02

all, interest us at all, taking time

23:04

to do something for somebody that we

23:06

really don't want to take the time

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to do. Father, I pray that we

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would follow your guidance and your leadership

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instead of our own will. I ask

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it in Jesus' name. Coming up, we

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have a story you don't want to

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miss. None of us get through life

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without facing challenges. Problems are unavoidable. But

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do we navigate the difficulties life throws

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in our path? It took me many

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years of my life, trying many different

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things. I had a dysfunctional life due

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to abuse I experienced, but it didn't

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define me. God has healed me. He's

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but I didn't use his word

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but okay, stay there. Joyce insists

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in meditating the world, not only

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reading it and studying the world,

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because it's a benefit for our

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life to apply every day, in

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a daily basis. and that's what

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I do. I didn't do that

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before. Meditate on it means to

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roll it over and over in

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your mind that helps get it

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down the inside of you. And

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if you know how to worry,

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you know how to meditate. Now

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I meditating the word and the

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word has worked for me. He

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has changed my character and

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very easy going now. I've been

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I feel like I'm working with

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doing what God has told her

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that and I'm proud of that.

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