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Discover the divine perspective on wealth, as Jesus taught, for a life free from the burden of money.
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The Spiritual Dangers of Money 0:01 What topic did Jesus talk about more than any other? Not heaven, not hell, not sin, and not love. It was money. That's right. Jesus had more to say about money than anything else. Not because0:13 god needs our money, but because he knows that money could tear us away from the father. You can have a Bible in your hand and money on your mind and weighing on your heart. The results are stress, anxiety, comparing0:24 yourself to others, and that dreaded FOMO. In this video, we take on the subject that Jesus wouldn't stop bringing up and why your spiritual life depends on how you handle what's in your wallet. This is Kingdom Come,0:36 episode 13.1:02 Welcome in, everybody, back to the bible study through the gospel of Matthew, holding out our journal getting out our journals hopefully. Kingdom come, we are in section 13 of this content. And for reference quickly,1:15 in your book, page 28, I am thrilled that you have joined us. Click the like button, the subscribe button, the notification bell, get notified every time we present new content. Hello to the pray dot com audience as1:26 well. By the way, if you do not have the journal, you can check it out very quickly at tim ash live dot com slash journal, or send us an email, and we will arrange to get it into your hands much faster than1:38 that service that is online. We are talking about the Sermon on the Mount again. Matthew chapter 6 verse 19 to 34 on the subject treasures that last. Our possessions are1:50 spiritual issues. They often decide what our lives are gonna look like and what our emotions are gonna feel like and many of the decisions that we make. Too often, in2:01 fact, these things that we hold on to, whether it be actual possessions or money, have the capacity to control our lives. They master our ambitions,2:13 our thought life, and they direct us without even realizing it. When Jesus sees the truth behind money, he understands how very quickly money can rival2:25 our, God in the attention of our hearts. So we're gonna talk about money. And let's just be honest about this. The Bible does not spare any amount of content for talking about money. Over2:37 2300 verses speak about money, wealth, possessions, and stewardship in the Bible. That's twice as many verses about money as there are about faith and prayer combined. 16 out of 32:49 38 parables that Jesus told were directly about money or possessions. 1 out of every 10 verses in the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, deals with money and stewardship. Jesus talked about money more3:00 than heaven and hell combined because he knew that money could direct your hearts 1 way or the other. Now the most startling stat that I have to share with you is this. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus3:12 devotes 25 percent of his teaching to money related issues. And there are 3 reactions that we all have when it comes to money. Number 1, we gather it and store it. Jesus is going to address that3:24 in the very first verse we get to. And then if we gather and store it, believe it or not, we're going to serve it. Even while we gather and store it, we're still serving it, but then it becomes a master in our minds. And3:34 then after it becomes master, guess what else it offers us? This is the beautiful treatment that money gives you. Stress. So we store it, we serve it, and we stress over it. We store it, we serve it, and we3:46 stress over it. And listen. Understand that Jesus has your best interest in mind. He wants your life freed from the love of money. Money can control everything about you, where you3:58 work, where you go to school. Some people will pick the wrong study and the wrong, discipline in life simply because that industry or that that4:09 role in society pays really well. And then they get that job or they get that degree or that education, and they're miserable. They're not doing what they should do or what they are passionate about doing. They're just4:21 doing it for the money. That's another small way that money can control us. Money can control religious people. This was the Pharisees problem. In fact, Luke chapter 16 verse 42 verse 14 says that the Pharisees were4:32 lovers of money. So when you think about the Pharisees, you think about their legalism and their devotion to the chapters and verses of the bible, but really they were actually most devoted to money. They4:44 wanted to gain use religion to gain wealth. In our modern day of, prosperity preachers and guys who will always talk about raising money for their churches because they really are4:56 consumed with money, nothing's different. Now, the reality about your savior is this. He doesn't want anything in this world to control you. He doesn't want anything in this world weighing you down and holding you back.5:08 Jesus promises at the end of this passage that God is going to add to your life all the things that you need, listen, when your priorities are his kingdom and his righteousness.5:21 That very famous passage, we will get to it, Matthew 6 33, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added into your life. But before we get there, we need to see how Jesus5:32 diagnoses this problem and then helps us find our way out of an obsession with financial stress or FOMO. Verse 19, let's get to it right away, Matthew chapter5:44 6. Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys and5:56 where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Couple of verses that we a couple of words we wanna pay attention to. Lay up is thesarizo. It means to hoard6:08 and stockpile. And then the word treasure is thesauros, which we get the English word thesaurus from. So there's a little play on words here, thesauroso, thesauros. Don't thesaurozo6:20 thesauros. In other words, money becomes this redundant seeking quest to say I need it, and I gotta have it, and no matter how much I have, I still need more.6:32 Now I've seen television store, shows about hoarders and people who have so many things. They literally trap themselves. They get stuck into a house so much that they have to have the fire department come in6:44 and literally jaws have laid them from their living room. But that's a picture. It's an extreme picture, but it's a picture of how money can become consuming. It can become trapping. It can become a jail, a6:55 self imposed cage around our spirits. Too many Christians, they're caged to the love of money, and they don't even realize it. It's amazing how you can get held7:07 on to something so temporal, so, so unreliable in your life. Jesus says this, moths can eat it. Now he points to moths because moths are very small little creatures,7:19 but they can destroy fine fabric. And the moth doesn't look at the fabric and say, oh, that's Gucci. You know, that's Versace. I won't touch that. No. Moths can destroy even the most expensive fabric like that. Rust is a7:31 picture of deterioration. And here's the fact about all your stuff. Are you ready for it? Everything you own is deteriorating, including your body. There's no stopping it. It will deteriorate. It will give up the ghost.7:42 It will finally be tossed under the ash heap of the history of your life. But then he also talks about thieves, and this is just the dangers of the reality of life. So you have 3 enemies of your possessions, moths,7:54 who don't give a rip about what's the brand name, they will still eat it, rust, which is applied to everything, everything deteriorates, and thieves, which are the dangers of this world. Everything we have is destined to8:06 deterioration, destruction, and danger. Everything we have. If you trust it, if you serve it, if you seek it, this leads to anxiety, stress, worry, and fear. Now8:18 don't leave here without verse 20 here. He says you have the potential to what? Lay up for yourselves, treasures in heaven. And I love this line. For yourselves,8:29 you can make an investment. This is about heaven and this earth. The reality is about the reality about your attitude about money is8:41 revealing just how seriously you take eternity. Eternity is real in your heart to the extent that you are using money to fund the8:53 kingdom principles to, of course, care for your family and provide for those who are under your care, but to make eternal investments in what brings people to Jesus. That's what Jesus is saying here. If you9:05 believe heaven is real, well, lay up for yourself treasures that are going there as you invest in people's hearts being changed by the gospel. Then notice this line in verse9:17 21. There's a fabulous preacher that talks about the treasure principle, and he says, it's all based on verse 21. Where your treasure is, present tense, is where your heart will9:28 be, future tense. Here's the treasure principle, Randy Alcorn says it. Your heart follows your money. And this is so true. As9:40 soon as you buy the expensive item that you have been waiting to buy for forever in your life, you immediately have your heart attached to that item. Everything that goes wrong with it. If it smells funny, if it looks9:51 funny, if there's a dent, if there's a crack, suddenly your heart sinks. Why? Because you sunk your money into that thing, and that thing is destined to deterioration and to destruction and to dangers. You buy a stock10:03 in a company that you didn't give a rip about, but now that your money is there, suddenly that stock becomes the most most consuming topic of discussion in your mind. Because wherever your money is10:15 going now, wherever you are depositing your cash now, that's where your your heart is going to go. So big idea here. Let me get to this real quick. If you want a heart for the kingdom of god, put10:26 your money there. If you want a heart for your local church, put your money there. If you want a heart for things that matter, that is people coming to Christ, Put your money, put your treasure, put your10:38 efforts into that, and you will care about it because your financial stewardship has been placed there. Now, Jesus interjects here in verse 22,10:50 a topic about 1 of our body parts. Here's what he says in verse 22. The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full11:01 of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness? Let's talk about the eye from a scientific perspective. Some of you have never heard this, but the truth is is that your eye is not connected11:13 to your brain only. Your eye actually is your brain. Scientists will tell us that the eye is the only exposed portion of our brains in our bodies.11:24 The here's here's the facts. The retina, the light sensitive layer in the back of your eye is actually neural tissue. It's developed from the same embryonic tissue as the brain. The fact is that your eye is11:36 informing your mind because it's part of your mind. And isn't it amazing how 2000 years ago, before all this scientific discovery, Jesus says that your eye is the lamp of your body. So whatever you're setting your eyes11:48 on is gonna go right into your brain, is going to become part of your meditative process, and that is going to start to take root as that 18 that 18 inch journey down into your heart. You start to12:00 feel certain ways about things that you are meditating on and thinking about because you've allowed it into your eye. Now, the symbolism from the ancient world here is that there was such a thing called the evil eye. We12:12 even say this still today. An evil eye is an envious eye. You look at things that belong to another and you covet them. Let me talk about this passage here, verse 23, if your eye is12:24 bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. But before he says that, if your eye is healthy, now the word here in the King James version says, if therefore thine eye be single, that is12:36 a euphemism for singleness of purpose or undivided loyalty. So when Jesus says, if your eye is healthy, he's talking about that your mind, that your thoughts,12:47 your your ambitions, your meditations are unified around a single ambition, a single loyalty. So your eye, what you12:59 set before your eyes, has the capacity to lead your thoughts in 1 way or another. How many of you have ever, I don't know, watched television, you didn't care about a certain product, somebody advertised it on a13:10 commercial, and suddenly you're thinking about that product, and you need that product. And if you don't have that product, you won't be able to sleep well, eat well, live well, whatever. And that is just how it works.13:17 Whatever you set before somebody's eyes, they start thinking about it. This is the meaning this is the reason behind billboards. This is the reason by ads on YouTube and on the Internet. This is the reason behind13:30 Facebook advertisements and all manner of get it in their eyes marketing. Jesus says, here's the deal. Focus on keeping your eye13:42 singularly on god's kingdom. Undivided loyalty because the devil wants to get you cross eyed, wants to get you looking sideways and byways to keep your eyes off of13:54 Jesus. Here's the fact. I want you to write this down. Your eyes are your soul's GPS. What you fix your eyes on is going to navigate the direction of your existence.14:06 If you take your eyes off the kingdom, you're going to lose touch with god's kingdom. If you if you put your eyes on the wrong person, that person can lead you with thoughts and emotions right out of the hands14:18 of god. Friends, I'm trying to I'm trying to simplify the spiritual fight that you're in. It all starts here. What you set your eyes on is gonna determine what's going on up in your mind and then14:30 eventually lead your heart. And it can either lead your heart toward god or away from god. And the devil comes to first divide you so that he can conquer you. Keep your focus on14:41 Jesus, on his purposes, on his plan. Now, I cannot stop here with the subject of the eye. We gotta talk about this little device, the smartphone, which consumes our14:53 eyes. According to research, American teens between ages 12 to 13 or 15 spend on average 3 hours a day on social media platforms,15:04 TikTok, Instagram, and the like. These have overwhelming negative health mental health outcomes, including depression and anxiety. In 2023, they discovered a 215:16 week experiment where they had students limit their social media use to just 30 minutes a day. In other words, they didn't cut it out completely, but they just limited it to 30 minutes a day. It basically eliminated all15:28 anxiety and depressive symptoms in that subject, case study. Seems the tipping point also, by the way, according to all the research that I've seen is, if you just keep your eyes limited to 30 minutes on this device15:40 for social media purposes, 30 minutes to an hour, it will not fill your life with anxiety. But if you are unhinged, if you do not keep your eyes guarded and protected from unfettered15:51 access to what everybody else is doing, saying, and thinking, you're going to feel all the anxiety and stress symptoms that Jesus discusses here in verse 24. Let's get there.16:03 Matthew chapter 5 sorry, verse 25. He says, therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious. Now let's back up. He talked about keep your eye healthy. Keep your eyes single. You'll be focused on god. Because if it's unhealthy,16:15 your whole life is gonna be filled with darkness. If you're divided, you're gonna go towards darkness. So then he says, therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life. What you will eat or drink or about your16:24 body, what you will put on is not life more than food and the body more than clothing. Look at the birds of the year. They they they don't sow, they don't reap, they don't gather into barns, and your heavenly father16:34 feeds them. Are you not more valuable than they? Amazingly enough here, Jesus takes on anxiety. Anxiety is not a new phenomenon. People in the ancient world, even without smartphones and televisions and16:46 screens and advertisements, were struggling with anxiety. But back it up and consider what Jesus is was nesting this command of not being anxious in. Your16:57 anxiety is found in the content of how much you you focus your eyes and your vision on what you have or listen, what you should have or what you17:09 want to have. Much of our anxiety is based on the thoughts that we don't have enough, or listen to me young person, we aren't17:21 enough. I'm stressed out because I don't think I'm gonna have the right career. I don't think I'm ever gonna get married. I don't think I have the right friends. I don't have the right, you know, income. And that stress17:33 will morph over the course of your life, and it will just put your anxiety and worry on what you don't have on a different thing. But then there's that second part that I just mentioned. Much of our anxiety is rooted to17:44 that we are not enough. We ourselves are not able. I am weak. I am I am too sinful. I'm too bad for god. I god can't love me. Look at my life compared to theirs. I'm just not that good of a17:55 person. I'm not smart enough. All those things. These are the stressors, the anxious thoughts that we can put and deposit into our minds as we don't guard our eyes. For that, Jesus, our Jesus directs our18:07 attention to a value system worth adapting. What does he say? He says, life is more than food. That means that you are valuable. Secondly, he says the18:19 body is more than clothing. That means that your body matters to god. And then he asks us, look at the birds. They are not stressing out about what they don't have.18:31 They they are not chasing the next greatest thing. They're out there singing songs and enjoying the outdoors. By the way, that would be a great idea. If you're stressed out, get outside and walk for 3018:43 minutes. You'll be amazed at how quickly your emotions will change. But he's looking at activity outdoors, birds who just literally live in harmony with nature and18:55 enjoy it, and god clothes them and god feeds them. And you, dear human being, are far more valuable than a bird.19:07 See, what Jesus is saying, and this is fundamental to what I'm saying, anxiety is not just a emotional disorder. It's a spiritual indicator that our trust is misplaced.19:20 If I trust that God is for me, if I know that God is for me, anxiety has no space in my life. But if I, with unhinged looks and stares and focuses19:32 on all these other things that I think I need or I think I should be, I am going to fill my life with all manner of emotional stress. And Jesus is beckoning us back19:44 to the fatherhood of God. At the end of the day, God is good even to the birds. God is good even to the animals and some of which you have never even seen or19:55 discovered. And yet god takes care of them. He will take care of you. Verse 27, Jesus continues to ask some important questions. He says, which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his lifespan?20:08 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field. So he's gone from birds now to flowers. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you, even Solomon20:19 in all his glory was not arrayed like 1 of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, oh you20:31 of little faith? So a couple more things that Jesus compares us to. He compares us to the lilies of the field, he compares us to the grass of the field, and he says, check those things out. And this is20:43 still true today, 2000 years later. Flowers can brighten up an office space. They can brighten up a hospital. Think about it. When somebody's in the hospital, we take flowers into that room. Why? They're a symbol of20:53 life. They're a symbol of beauty. They're a symbol of god. They bring peace. They bring joy. They bring light to the eyes. They're beautiful. And and and god did that. God created them and they are they are21:05 more beautiful than Solomon in all of his glory. And Solomon was the richest man in all of the history of the bible. God all for all of his riches, he could not outdress the lilies of the field, Jesus says. And21:16 god is clothing him those things. And so how much more will he clothe you? At the end of the day, anxiety says that God doesn't care about me. But peace and contentment is21:28 rooted in the fundamental fact that God does care about me. God wonderfully thinks about me. The scriptures say in the Psalms that god has so many thoughts about us, they21:40 outnumber the grains of sand. How marvelous are his thoughts towards us. Do you ever think of how that god thinks about you and that he thinks about you21:52 with innumerable thoughts? And you're going to let the fact that you don't have, I don't know, 50 more dollars or a thousand more dollars cause you to stress? Perhaps god's thoughts towards22:04 you right now could be the very currency that leads to peace deep inside of who you are. Notice that Jesus again continues to bring up22:16 creation elements. Lilies of the field, the birds of the air, and the grass of the field. Lilies are beautiful, grass is green, birds are delightful, but they all trust in God.22:27 And the point is is is key here. All of creation trusts God. All of natural creation trusts God. The only part of creation that22:39 abandons trust in God with regularity is us, human beings. And Jesus is pointing this out. The number 1 agent22:52 of getting our trust and our thoughts away from God is money and possessions. And it is such a fool's errand because money fails. It faces danger, destruction, and deterioration, and it23:03 will always do so. But Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. God is unchanging. He is the alpha and the omega. He is the God of all creation. He is the first and the last, and he23:15 is the creator and sustainer of all things. Put your eyes on him. Put your eyes on the scriptures and read about how god faithfully cares for his own.23:28 I'd also like to suggest something else for the people that are out there with anxious worry filling their hearts. You might be rooted in a need to control things that you're not called to control. In fact, I believe23:39 that anxiety, the essence of it, is the desire to control that which you cannot control. You want to make sure that your kids turn out a certain way. Well, you can't control that. You wanna make23:51 sure that you retire at a certain age. Well, you can't control that either. You wanna make sure that the housing market stays a certain way or that your car stays, I don't know, functional. You can't control any of that.24:02 And sometimes we have to just realize that ultimately, we're not in control. Control is an illusion for every human being. You don't know the day of your death. You don't know what health scare might be down the24:14 road for you. You don't know what somebody else is going to do on the road. Nothing is in your control. And so much of our anxiety is rooted in this false idea, this illusion that maybe maybe our cell phones or something24:25 else in our world has given us this this this overconfidence that we can control our lives. We can't. But God is in control, and he wants to shield your life with24:37 his protective care, putting you in the palm of his hand and promising that no 1 will pluck you out. So let's go back to verse 31, the last few verses of this chapter. He24:49 says, therefore, do not be anxious. Again, the same command as earlier in the text. Saying, what shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear? For the Gentiles seek after all these25:01 things, and your heavenly father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow for tomorrow25:10 be anxious for yourself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Here's what Jesus is saying, and this is gonna hurt, but it's going to be important for you to get. To worry about material things is to live25:22 like an unbeliever. To worry about how much you have, how much that other person has compared to how much you have, or what that what you have now that could go wrong is to25:34 live as if God didn't care about you. This is why he mean this is what he means, why he says the Gentiles seek all these things. They're stressed about external appearances. They're stressed about25:46 financial bank accounts. We must keep our eyes on the father who knows that we need what we need. And then verse 33, this is a key text.25:58 Seek first his kingdom. Back to the lord's prayer. Your kingdom come, your will be done. Remember that acronym, p r a y e r? When praise our father in heaven, resign, that's the r,26:10 means I set aside my kingdom. I'm putting aside what I want out of life, and I'm saying, god, you have your way with my life. If I have to lose money, if I have to lose possessions, if26:22 my bank account goes down, let it be for your kingdom's purposes. Because friend, listen to me, you're made for God. When Jesus is the point of your life and not money and not things and26:34 not reputation, everything suddenly becomes calm. He's got you. He is the he is the lord of all creation and knows what's best for you. But notice also, we don't26:46 just seek the kingdom of god. I always point to this little pronoun before the word righteousness, his righteousness. You seek his righteousness. That means that you26:58 don't put your trust in your own righteousness. As it says in Romans chapter 1, when Paul says, verse 16, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, where is the power of god on to salvation for the Jew first27:10 and then also for the Gentile. Verse 17, he says, for in the gospel, the righteousness of god is revealed from faith for faith, not the righteousness of27:21 us, not the righteousness of man. The righteousness of man is as filthy rags, Isaiah says. The righteousness of God comes to us by faith. This is why Paul will say later in Romans 10 that Christ is the end of the law for27:33 righteousness to everyone who believes. That we seek his righteousness. Well, how do I get a hold of Jesus' righteousness? Very simple. Repent of your own righteousness. Stop thinking that you're27:44 good, stop thinking that you've earned it, stop thinking that you're worthy, and start realizing that you're a sinner, that you're worthy of punishment, that you need a savior, and that Christ is that savior who comes to27:56 save sinners. He loves sinners. He hung out with sinners. He chose to hang and celebrate and do life with sinful people, so much so that they called him a drunkard, and they called him a28:08 friend of sinners. And the moment that we come to the end of our own self righteousness, we meet Jesus and we notice that he offers us the clothing of God's righteousness. So in fact,28:20 what Jesus means by seeking his righteousness first is to lay aside our self serving, I deserve it attitude. Well, God, aren't I good enough? Didn't I do enough?28:32 Shouldn't I have no. Father, I live with humble humble understanding that I am your creation, that you are the father, that you are right, that I28:44 need you. And if I've got you, I've got everything that I need in life. That is seeking the righteousness of God. And then he says, once that happens, all the things that you that the unbelievers chase,28:56 they're going to be added into your life. So don't worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow, be anxious for yourself. What does he mean by that? It means just stay in this moment. Oh, man. How many29:08 of you, that is your biggest struggle? You're stressed about a week from now. You're stressed about a month from now. You're stressed about a meeting later on this week, and it's going to add nothing to your life.29:20 Worry doesn't add. Worry takes away. And Jesus wants to take the worry out of your life by resting in the fatherhood of God. Don't live29:32 like an unbeliever. Live like a beloved son or daughter in the hand of god. Summing up this talk, Jesus isn't just telling us not to worry. He's giving us permission to29:44 let go and trust our king, to trust that the father knows what we need as he clothes the lily, as he as he feeds the birds, he will do so for29:56 you. And living by that, you enter into a life that is freed from the constraints and the stresses of material possessions. Jesus is gonna have30:08 a lot more to say about this as we continue on in this study. But for now, we are going to end this content with some actionable steps for us when it comes to money. So30:20 number 1, I think you should take a look at your checking account. Do some examination. Where does most of my money go? If most of my money is going to things other than god's kingdom, other than30:31 generous ways in which to bless others, then my heart is probably overwhelmed with it. I'm probably stressed out because I've allowed money to30:43 very, subconsciously, okay, direct the course of my heart. Number 2, take a step towards tithing, giving, and generosity30:55 today. Buy somebody else lunch. Offer someone else, a hand in some way, shape, or form. And Christians, listen to me.31:07 Tithing. The the first step towards handling money god's way is to support your local church with your tithe, 10 percent. And I believe that this is a old testament principle31:19 that comes through the cross of the new testament where it's not about the legalistic 10 percent, it's about a heart that is loving what god is doing in your local church and you, of course, support it. And I do believe31:30 10 percent is the floor, not the ceiling of your giving. I call tithing the training wheels of giving. That's where you start to learn to let go. You start to realize that money is not as important. And31:42 I have been doing this my entire professional life. And I can tell you, it has helped me so much. It has shown me so many ways that God has shown up and protected and guided my life. But31:54 these are the ways that God challenges us. You know, he told the Israelites in the Old Testament to tithe. He tells us and commends us to tithe in Matthew 23 23. And and then Paul would challenge the church to go above32:04 and beyond the tithe to support of the churches in his letters. And remember this, in Revelation, the dictator beast that takes over the world will take over the world through the economic system by imposing a mark on32:16 people's hands or forehead by which they are able to buy and sell. In other words, the economy of the world will be hijacked by the demonic antichrist system. And if our hearts are tied to it, we are going to be sitting32:27 ducks for the spiritual enemy that is going to overtake the world. And this is not about God needing what you have. He already has what you32:39 have. This is about learning to train your heart that your stuff is actually god's and he, not that thing, is what you truly need. And then thirdly,32:51 take your worry and stress to god, surrendering what you have to what he wants. This is that r in the prayer acronym, resign, your kingdom come. And I think about this,33:03 whenever a stress or worry or fear comes into my life, you've gotta train your brain to react with prayer. React with prayer, not with rumination. React with prayer. Father, right now, in the name of33:14 Jesus, you see me worrying about, and then you list it. You, Father, are good, and you will take care of this, and I believe you will give me the strength to handle this.33:26 So I offer you my stress. I offer you my care, believing what first Peter 5 7 says, that you care for me, and so I give it to you. I believe, friends, if you start doing these things,33:39 money is going to lose its grip on your heart, and then the anxiety is going to lose its grip on your soul. And you're gonna live in the peace of God that surpasses all understanding. Amen. I think it's worth it.33:51 Let's get started doing it. That was episode 13 of Kingdom Come. Again, the journal available at tim hatch live dot com. If you want to be a dependables member and support this content,34:03 check us out at patreon dot com slash tim hatch live. And when you support us, we support Project Rescue and the American Bible Society. Other than that, may god bless you and keep you34:15 and keep your heart free for the love of money.In this video 0:00 The Spiritual Dangers of Money
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