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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Get ready, going up, live in your

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life, how do we do both? How do we juggle? That Christ is coming, but at the same

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time I need to be ready to provide for my family and for my family's family.

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We're going to find out next.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled

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life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us,

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that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs.

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Hey, everybody. Welcome to this podcast right now and we are going to drop this in in the midst

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of the ongoing conversation, the ongoing really podcasting sermons, media from all around

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the world. Everybody, of course, pastor, Christian context, Israel, Russia, Iran, all of this

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stuff. How about this? How about in the middle of all this, we drop in to you before you,

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with us, the reality of you've got to keep living while all this stuff's going on.

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So for example, if you're a young person today and you're saying, oh my gosh, I've been watching

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the news and I've been watching this guy's podcast, this girl's podcast, this news thing,

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this site, this the other, it seems like, listen, it seems like the world's coming to an end

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today and you just think thoughts like, I'm not going to go to college. Well, you probably

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shouldn't go to college. That's a huge waste of money. There's another way to be educated

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without giving them your money. Gosh, I was going to ask this girl to marry me. Now I'm not

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going to ask because it's the end of the world. We wanted to start a family, but now we're not

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because it's the end of the world. Listen, no, no, no, no, no. Listen, Christian, get married to a

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Christian. Have a family, work hard, show up on time, occupy till he comes. That's what we've

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been commanded to do. Live your Christian life out right now. You've got to do this. I have to do

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this. I mean, think about it. All of us could swallow this lie and that is, I'm not going to study

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for another sermon because Jesus could come back tomorrow. I'm not even going to go grocery shopping

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today because Jesus could come back, right? Think about it. That's ridiculous. He could come back

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in the next two minutes. That doesn't change the fact that we've been commanded to occupy. That

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means live your life in this world until he comes. So listen, young people, I want to speak to you

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right now. Love Jesus with all of your heart. Get wisdom from the book of Proverbs

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preferably every day if you can. I try to read at least one Proverb a day. Try to emulate that

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and live your life. I was thinking about this dream that's always been on my heart. Take dreams

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and nightmares to the Lord and then go live it. Whatever it is, don't stop, don't give up,

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don't quit because right now there are so many who are overwhelmed because they don't know the

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stability and the comfort that Bible prophecy brings to you brings to us that they're overwhelmed

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and they feel like quitting. They've got no tenacity to persevere yet. We've been commanded

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to persevere. They've got no desire to plod. We don't say that word much anymore, but it's a great

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old English word. Plodders. A plod. Not a plod. A plodder. One who plods. What does that mean? One

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foot in front of the other. Ever so slowly, almost like the turtle, you know, in the turtle and

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the hair story, just keep going forward. As a believer in this world, I am paying my bills.

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I'm also planning for the future and for my children and grandchildren. According to the book of

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Proverbs, I'm supposed to be laying up my wealth for my children and grandchildren. Did you know that?

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Listen, a lot of people that didn't think right or maybe they came to the Lord

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late and they couldn't do anything about it, but there's a lot of older people like me who are

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expecting their children to take care of them. The Bible says the exact opposite. Every generation

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of patriarch or matriarch is to store up for the next generation and for the next generation.

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The Scriptures are very clear. It says that we are to be saving up for the financial

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stability of our children and our children's children. That's pretty cool. Our grandkids.

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Listen to this verse. I encourage you to read it in New Living Translations, Crystal Clear,

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ESV, NIV, New King James. King James, it doesn't matter, but the New Living Translation puts it

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very, very good. That is basically this. If you obtain wealth by get rich schemes that promise

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you get rich schemes, I'm going to take ten dollars and I'm going to take ten dollars that belongs

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to God because I'm only talking to the Christian right now. The money that you have belongs to God.

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God gave it to you to see how you're going to manage it. So this is how you do not want to

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manage it. You're going to go down and you're going to take ten bucks and you're going to go buy

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a lottery ticket. That is not managing the resources of God. Lottery gambling is not from God.

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That's stupid. It's not right. And in fact, the Bible, Jesus Himself admonishes us to be very

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wise and frugal about how we invest our money at the very least. At the very least, he should we

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should be generating some form of interest. But when you go to gamble, that's a fool's delight.

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That is a vice that will destroy you. God will not bless that.

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But God does tell you to be wise and to invest, but be very wise about who and how you do this

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because even today where we're looking at a world that is nigh unto fire, right? We've got

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China doing crazy stuff with North Korea in the east or the deep west. I should say it's called

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the Orient in the east, but for us in California, it's west. And then in the east, we've got the

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Russia and Iran and Israel and down south from us. We've got very nefarious activities with Chinese

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operators in South America and even Mexico going on. You say, oh, yeah, I can't live

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yes, you can. And yes, you are because you're a believer. You're going to continue to obey the

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word of God. There is no opt out from obeying the word of God because we're living in the last days.

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So when the Bible warns, watch out for get rich schemes. Avoid them. That verse goes on to say

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Proverbs 13 11 that verse goes on to say, but work hard and wealth will come to you slowly.

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That's a very good thing because 74% in the state of California, 74% of people who win the lottery

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with in 10 years, why they wind up being divorced, hooked on drugs and broke.

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Because it was handed to them. They weren't disciplined in managing it to earn it

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because when you earn it, then now you're careful about it, knowing that I'm going to give an

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answer to God for the resources I have had in my fingertips all of my 66 years.

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I'm going to answer to God on, Jack, what did you do with what I gave you?

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So will you? So avoid get rich schemes because they're schemes. Work hard at what you do.

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Build a family. Oh, that's a whole another thing. You can go to PragerU.com, PragerU.com and look

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at their five minute videos and look under the video that it's something titled like this.

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Men need to be married or men need to raise a family or something. Something about men getting

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married. Did you know that men who are married live longer? Did you know that men who are married

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make more money than men who are single? Did you know that men who are married live longer and

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make more money and they have less psychological disorders? Did you know that? Did you know that men

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who are married tend to be promoted at work versus those that are single? You should watch that

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video that some psychologist does at PragerU. It's pretty amazing. What am I saying? Responsibility

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is good for you. And if you push off responsibility, you're actually damaging yourself. It kind of

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goes like this. You have in front of you a cake and you have in front of you a steak. Which one should

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you eat? If you have to think about that for a moment, that's not good. Because which one should

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you eat? It's the steak. Because you need to build iron in your blood. You need to bolster your

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immune system. You need to increase the energy levels. You need protein and you need to build

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bone structure and density. But I want the cake. If you push the steak away and eat cake,

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you're going to feel really good for 20 minutes and then you're going to feel really crummy for

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the rest of the day. And if you do that day after day, you're going to wake up dead.

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But if you take care of yourself, then you have invested in your body so that it can be used

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better to God's glory. Now you might say, well, post your joke. I thought all of our days are numbered.

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They are numbered. But it's up to you to live out those days healthy, wise, and usable so that,

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I mean, I want to be so healthy, wise, and usable that I live out all my days and then drop dead

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or get hit by a truck or fall out of the airplane or my parachute doesn't open on that day that

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God has ordained. I don't want to be plugged into a diagnosis machine because I couldn't avoid

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eating a half a pound of crispy cream every morning. Are you hearing me?

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Listen, if you're having Cheetos and Pepsi for breakfast, you're in trouble. You need to get away

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from that. Why? Because God wants to use your body. Well, if you have a wallet with 500 bucks,

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what are you going to do with it? I don't know. You tell me, Pastor, but it's burning a hole in my

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pocket. What do I do with it? Stop. You're going for the cake. Stop it. Make it the steak.

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If you have to spend something of that $500, ask yourself this question. What is it that you need?

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I'm not asking you what you want because we're really dumb. What do you need? You have 500 bucks

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right now. What do you need? Well, I need some t-shirts. Great. Let's be extravagant. Take $100

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out of the 500 and dedicate it to your t-shirts or your underwear. What do you want to get?

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The other 400 goes to the bank. By the way, you can do that. You can set that up on all these

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apps that you guys have these days. Capitals, one of them. What are some of the others?

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Anybody out there behind the cameras? Acorn. There's tons of them. You can set how much goes

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wear and what? Man, at least then I do that in all kinds of ways. Start doing that. You mean only

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have $100 of your t-shirts? Yep. Make it work. By the way, $100 of t-shirts, you're going to be up to

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your neck and t-shirts. No pun intended. Up to your neck and t-shirts. Manage, manage, manage your

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food. Manage your time. Manage your money and know this. Don't rely on get-rich schemes

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to make up for your neglect. Simply learn right now. Stop neglecting and get disciplined.

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And discipline is pigeonhole. I'll call it pigeonhole. Pigeonhole money all the time. Meaning,

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I'm a big fan of this and I practice what I'm telling you right now.

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Since before I met Lisa, I have had envelopes. I have envelopes. I have envelopes like a squirrel's

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got nuts stored away. I've got envelopes in my office. I have envelopes at my home. I have an

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envelope in my truck. I have envelopes in my secretary's office and I put each of those envelopes

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for a certain reason. And when I have spare change or something, not to mention the envelopes

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online that I just mentioned to you a moment ago, a capital with a Q capital and acorn. I pigeonhole

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stuff all over the place and you know what? It gets to be fun, okay? And then all of a sudden,

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you're busy about life. Three months later, you wind up. What? I've got this much. Listen,

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that's discipline. You didn't waste it on cake. You invested in steak. And so what happens is

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that by plotting along, little put a little bit here, little bit there, little bit there,

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by plotting along, you'll be surprised what happens because now you have the ability to help others

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as the Lord has commanded us that come into our lives. When you become aware that someone's in need,

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you can help them. I just screened a movie that's going to be released soon. I can't disclose

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anything too much about it, but please go see it. The movie is called Unsung Hero. It's about

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the small bone family from Australia that moved to America here. It's a great true story,

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great true movie. You got to see it. Really good example about what I'm talking about is in that

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movie, you're going to see how a family that has nothing, nothing, starts to pigeonhole stuff and

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they wind up pulling together as a family and they have a little bucket. They have a little

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transparent like a can, you know, bucket, I mean plastic. And even if they found a penny on the

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street, they would put it in there. And it's very, very cute discipline. You need to know their

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family. You should have a community or family bucket in your house. Nobody can take anything out

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of it with permission from the others, but everybody gets to put stuff into it. What's what happens?

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You had to set a little goal. Make it wherever you live. Maybe it's some amusement park or maybe

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it's some family place or maybe it's something where it'd be fun for you guys to do it. It's just a

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little bit out of reach for you right now, but you guys determine, wow, we'd really like to do this.

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We'd like to go visit that town or do that thing. Then label the bucket, you know, for those of

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you, for example, I'm thinking how cool the arc experience and Kentucky is amazing.

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Label it. The Ark Encounter. Start throwing money in there. You know, by doing that, you're actually

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occupying till the Lord returns. You see, but Jack, there could be war in the Middle East tomorrow.

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That's right. So make sure you get a big clear plastic bucket and put the Ark Encounter on it

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and start putting money in because there could be a war tomorrow in the Middle East. There could

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be a World War today. You don't know. I don't know, but I'm ready to meet the World War. I'm ready

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to meet the next issue. I'm ready to meet the opportunity for the next vacation or my neighbor

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might have a need that I can help them with. Are you hearing what I'm saying? It's very, very

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end times practical living, you see? See, because we believe in Bible prophecy as God gave his

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word to us. It doesn't mean that we unplug our brains or our hearts from what's going on in life.

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We actually wind up using what God has given us as good resources. The Bible tells us a really great

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thing. And in 1 Timothy, chapter 6, the Bible tells us that godliness with contentment is great

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wealth. Timothy also tells us that it's the love of money that it is the root of all evil.

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Money is not evil. Did you know that money is amoral?

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A moral means if I have a hundred dollar bill here right now, it has no moral leaning.

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It's not bias. It's literally neutral. Thus it's amoral. Not immoral or moral.

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A moral means let's put it this way. It means yet to be determined. Can you look at it that way?

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If you have a hundred dollars as a believer, that money is amoral.

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What I do with it makes it either immoral or moral because money is neutral.

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It's the intent and the will behind the use of the money that is either building up my witness

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before the Lord in the day of judgment or my loss before the Lord in the day of judgment.

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Okay? Very important. I want you to start looking at your time in light of these days,

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your money in light of these days. And when I say your money, I don't care if you have five

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hundred million dollars and I don't care if you have five dollars. The answer is exactly the same

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for both. That your money that God has given you to govern over is managed by you wisely in the fear

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of the Lord. Why? Because he will multiply it. Why? Because you have found you've proven yourself

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to be faithful. And what he'll do is he'll give you more and then he'll give you more and then more

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and then more. Why? Because every time he gives you more, a little bit more goes out from you to

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help other people. Your church, your community, be careful by the way who you give to.

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There's certain organizations that always pop up during disasters. And man, some of them are the last

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people you should be giving to those organizations no way. But there are some that are great.

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My point is this, be wise, be being prayer, but always be ready. And the Bible throughout the

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Scripture, this ought to flip some of you out. Did you know the Bible teaches capitalism in the

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Scripture? You think I might teach socialism because Karl Marx used the sermon on the mount

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and the book of Acts to promote socialism. That's a Satan used the Bible also to promote his plan.

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The Bible is all about independent ownership and independent responsibility based upon your

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stewardship of what you want. Did you know that? The Bible is also very big on you making

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enough profit to be able to help those that are hurting. So the church that I pastor, we

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happen to live in a pretty affluent area of America, of California. And what's amazing to me is

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that there are church never, in 35 years, we've never lacked having at least one poor person at

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our church. And now being a big church, we have more poor people who are Christians who love the

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Lord, but they just can't, they barely make it. Why does God do that? To keep our hearts right.

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To keep us helping them because that's how a healthy church works. Do you have money and resources?

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Is there, do you have time and energy? How are you spending it? You spend it all, if, you know,

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all day on the golf course, spending your energy or on the tennis court. Do you spend it all day

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on what you want to do? Or have you ever thought about the energy level that you have that God has

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given that to you so that you might go about doing good? For others, it's not wrong to golf. It's not

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wrong to play tennis, of course not. But if you spend all of your resources of time in doing that,

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all of your money is, look, I'm going to tell you right now straight up. God took me to the woodshed

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a long time ago. Wow, I don't know, 46 years ago. I'm guessing. I was a brand new believer,

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because before I was a believer, all I did was I made money. And the more money I made, the more I

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put in the bank, the more I watched zeros. You know, zeros, the most important number in the world.

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Did you know that? Zero. Yep. You can have all the ones you want, but it's the zeros behind the one

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that make things happen. Zero is the most powerful number. The more zeros I got behind the number,

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guess what I did. I was not a Christian. The more frugal I lived to the point where I would buy

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everything that I would wear, everything that I would do, I'd get from thrift shops. And

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I mean, I became Ebenezer Scrooge. Because before I was a Christian, I would just look at my account

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and add do it like a, I mean, I literally would get so excited in those days. You had to go make a

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deposit in those days in person. There was no none of the stuff we have today. And I would watch

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it grow. And I got so fixated on it. It was an idol. I was just obsessed. And then I,

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listen, when that happens, you get to be so cheap. You're so stingy. You're so self-centered.

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And then I got saved. And man, the Lord began to rip me up. And it was a process. But God

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began to just change my entire world view on what we have as an individual to do with what he

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wants done. So are we on the brink of a world war? Is China going to cyber attack the United States

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in Canada? Is I don't know? Could be. Looks like it maybe who knows? I don't need to worry about it.

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Okay? Because I need to occupy till he comes. I need to register to vote. I need to find out what

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the candidates are all about. I need to vote in a way that honors God. I must never sit out of

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vote. That's called a coward. And you can read about cowards in the book of Revelation chapter 22.

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I think it's 22 or 21. I want to, you want to plan a flower in your pot in your yard? Do it.

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Well, it's the end of the world. Should I water my lawn? Please, your neighbors want you to water

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your lawn. Okay? It's the end of the world. Should I go on vacation? Do you need a vacation?

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Ask your wife. She might need a vacation. Do it. So listen, I hope this is clear. The Christian should

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be wise. Read the book of Proverbs. Know what God would have you to do at the same time. You want to,

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my hands are so fingers are so dry. I can help it turn these pages.

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It's Revelation chapter 22. I believe that it's those, those that are the first group that winds up,

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winds up going into hell is the cowards. Maybe it's chapter 21.

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So Revelation 21 7 and he will overcome shall inherit all things. And I will be his God and he shall be

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my son. But the cowards, the unbelieving, the abominable murders, sexually immoral sorcerers,

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interesting word. It's not only sorcery, but it's pharma KIs, the word hallucinogenic drug users,

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is what it means. Idolatures and all liars shall have their parts in the lake that burns forever

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with fire and brimstone. This is the second death. Top of the list cowards. Don't be a coward.

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Live your life bold for Jesus, plan for the next 100 years, and be ready to go up today.

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Right? Hey, listen, if this makes any sense, if you want to share those other people,

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like us, subscribe, give us a rating, and tell others that they can join in with us,

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let them know. And so as always, as usual, it's time. This is what we believe anyway. This is our

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little jingle. It's kind of cute. We like it. It's time for us to live out, right? What we believe in?

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It's time for real life. And that's our theme and that's our title. Until next time, God bless you,

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guys. Keep looking up. Stand strong.