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0:00 You're listening to Waters Church podcast, where faith meets real life. Where 1 church, many locations, and 1 mission, to see lives changed by Jesus. No matter where you're listening from, you0:12 are a part of Waters Church family. Now, let's dive into today's message from our pastor.0:20 We're gonna talk about these people that show up in Luke's, gospel on a regular basis. In fact, they show up in all the gospels, but they particularly show up in the gospel of Luke. And when they show up in the gospel of0:31 Luke, they're doing something on a regular basis that you will see often. And this is all gonna drive home a point, and I wanna talk to you on the subject called don't be a Pharisee.0:43 Don't be a Pharisee. So Luke 15, we'll get back to it, but we also have this new feature where I get to write. How many feel like they're in sixth grade right0:55 now? Come on, somebody. What would you use to describe a Pharisee? Yeah. There you go. And I'm sure that was the first 1. I was almost starting to write it1:07 before that was said. A hypocrite. How about legalistic? Legalistic. What does that mean? That you're more tied to men's laws and traditions than you are to the heart and the and the heart of God1:19 and the spirit of the law. How many knows the letter of the law, there's the spirit of the law. And and we must follow the spirit of the law, not the letter of the law. That's where legalism comes from, letter of the1:29 law. Anything else comes to mind? Self. Oh, I like that. Self righteous. Yep. That's a good 1. How about1:40 outwardly, what? Focused. Very good. Thank you for answering. Okay. I'll answer my own words if I need to. And and if you were to put all of1:52 those down, you would be right. I'm gonna finish this message off with 1 more quali 1 more descriptor the bible gives us about pharisees that I bet many of you2:04 have never heard of. So just keep those in mind. Let's go to Luke 15 because Luke 15 comes before Luke 16. 16. Very good. You knew that 1.2:15 Verse 1 of Luke 15. Now the tax collectors and and who? Sinners were all drawing near to hear him. The him here is Jesus, and and there they are. And the pharisees2:28 and the scribes, the scribes were the real like, the the lawyers of the ancient law. The pharisees were this very traditional legalistic sect within within Judaism. They2:40 were all about, you know, outward appearance, you know, personal appearance, all that kind of stuff. And it says that the Pharisees and the scribes, what did they do? They2:51 grumbled. When you see Pharisees show up in the New Testament, when they watch Jesus minister, a lot of times, that's all they're doing. They're just grumbling. So we could actually add something, and this3:03 is not the final thought, but I would put unhappy. They're just miserable people.3:15 Have you ever met a miserable person with a frown on their face and the bible in their hand? That's a3:27 pharisee. And they were grumbling, but why were they grumbling? They were grumbling because tax collectors3:39 and sinners were drawing near to Jesus. Write this down, how to be a Pharisee. Number 1, grumble when Jesus connects with sinners.3:51 Get upset when God connects people who you don't feel are worthy to himself. This is4:03 so common with churches and church people. I would love to say that it's not common here. I I I think I think and I'm not saying this to brag, but4:15 I think that the work of the Holy Spirit has been so gracious to our church that I don't think that that's our spirit. I think we get excited when Jesus connects with4:27 sinners. I already had a good amen, and I was gonna ask for a better 1, but I don't know I don't know if I need to. We we love seeing Jesus save4:39 sinners. So these people don't. Pharisees are upset because Jesus connects. Hey. Who4:51 did Jesus come for? Sinners. I know when I when we ask you to share your baptism testimony, so many people, you're just so hesitant to just put it out there.5:03 I mean, you wanna talk about your feelings. You wanna talk about your emotions. You wanna talk about the music. You wanna talk about I don't know. Whatever. But at the end of the day, you're getting baptized not because5:13 you wanna do mom proud, not because you wanna, you know, live in the moment of the spiritual kind of awakening. You're getting baptized because you know that you are5:26 a sinner and that Jesus came for sinners. That's the only requirement to get saved, to acknowledge that5:37 you are a sinner. And when this starts to happen in churches, people sometimes churchy people, but they like the Pharisees, they get mad. So Jesus decides this5:49 is an opportunity because they're complaining, this man receives sinners and he eats. He fellowships with them. So he decides to tell them a parable. And he doesn't tell 16:01 parable. He tells 3 parables. The first 1 has to do with losing stuff. Somebody say stuff. And he says, what man of you having 100 sheep? A6:12 sheep is stuff. And if he loses 1 of his stuff, does he not leave the 99 unlost things or stuffs in the open6:24 country and go after the 1 that is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, what? Rejoicing. Rejoicing. And when he comes home,6:36 he calls together his friends and his neighbors saying to them, rejoice with me. Let the rejoicing happen because I have found6:48 my sheep that was lost. And then Jesus tells us, and this we love to quote this line. Just so I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over 1, what, sinner who7:00 repents than over 99 righteous persons who need no repentance. Now make no mistake. Everyone needs to repent. Everyone needs to repent. These 99 righteous persons, we can assume is Jesus talking about people who've7:11 already repented or they're in the process of convert they're in the process of of being changed because they've already come to Christ. Everyone needs to repent. Amen? But some people don't realize that.7:22 And that's what Jesus means here is that there are people who think they don't need repentance, but Jesus, the heaven above rejoices when 1 person comes to faith.7:34 Amen. Amen. This is the heart of our God. If you feel like an unholy, unworthy sinner and you're sitting in our church today, congratulations. You're almost to7:46 the place of salvation. Amen. Amen. What keeps many people from not being saved is thinking that they don't sin. They aren't bad people. And and that's a problem. So good news for the7:58 guilty, God loves you. Then he tells them another story in verse 8. Or what woman having 10 silver coins so first illustration,8:09 stuff. Second illustration, money. Losing a sheep, losing a coin. What per woman having 10 silver coins if she8:21 loses 1 coin does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she finds it? And when she has found it, again, the repetition, she calls together her8:33 friends and neighbors saying, what? Rejoice. Rejoice with me for I have found the coin, the money that I had lost. And again, the refrain, Jesus says, just8:44 so I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over 1 sinner who repents. Have you ever lost something of8:56 value? Have you ever lost money? How did it make you feel? Years ago, when my children were young, we went9:08 to an amusement park, and at the time, only my daughter enjoyed roller coasters. So I and and only me, my wife does not enjoy roller coasters, but9:20 I was responsible for going on the roller coasters with my daughter. And it was early in the day, and we got on the roller coaster. It was 1 of these suspension roller coasters and the loop de loops and all that kind of9:32 stuff. You were upside down more than you were right side up. And it was an enjoyable ride, and we got off, and my daughter loved it, and it was a wonderful daddy daughter moment. And then we walked a little further,9:41 went to a couple more rides, and then we and then we were walking through the park, and then I went to reach for my phone, and I realized it was gone. And my heart sank. And then I started to retrace my steps, and I9:52 said, where is my phone? Have you ever lost your phone? There you go. That was an interesting contrast in responses.10:04 Earlier, said if you ever lost stuff, were like silent. I say you lose your phone, you're like, oh, yeah. Yeah. That's how we feel. This thing is our lifeline now. And so I'm retracing our this is years ago10:16 now. Retracing our steps, looking at where is it? I'm asking people, strangers, I'm talking to complete strangers, have you seen my phone? Did somebody steal my phone? Who has my phone? And I realized that it was at that10:26 time that Apple had just released the find my feature. So I said, Cheryl, give me your phone. And I said and I logged on to my Apple account to find my phone.10:38 And wouldn't you know that the little blinking dot led me right back to the loop de loop roller coaster? And I looked where the dot for my phone was, and it was under the loop10:50 of the roller coaster in the enclosure of the ride. And I said, there's my phone. So I went up to the ride attendant and I said, lost my phone on the ride. And11:02 she said, okay, sir. Thank you. We will look for it. I said, no. That's not good enough. I said, I know where it is. She said, I'm sure you do. When the when the ride closes down, at the end of the11:14 day, you are welcome to come back and get your phone. We will send a worker out to get the phone, look for it, and it'll be here at the end of the day. I said, I'm not staying here all day just waiting for my I11:26 know where my phone is. And then I took the screen of my my phone, and I said, my phone is right there. It's right over there. Right in that loop. Right over there. I said, just give me a minute. I don't even think they11:38 shut the ride down. I will jump the fence. I will avoid the trains, and I will get my phone. You know why I was like, because when you lose something that you love, you will do anything to get it back.11:49 She says, I'm sorry, sir. That is impossible. There's a safety issue, insurance. No. We cannot let you into the ride included. I said, so you're just gonna have to shut the ride down12:01 then because I'm not leaving until I get my phone back. And I kid you not, I I will be 5 seconds. I will run out, I will get the phone, and I'll bring and and she's she's like, let me just ask my manager. She12:13 calls her manager, manager comes in and says, fine. I will not give up. Hey, young people. Lesson for life. Don't give up. Don't give up. There's a yes after about 17 no's. Trust me.12:26 The manager's like, he can see it on my face. He's like, alright. Just fine. Just shut the ride down. They shut the ride down in the middle of the day. And I kid you not, this is a fact, I jumped12:38 the fence of the enclosure in front of all these strangers, run out to the fourth loop, I find my phone, and I'm running back. And the line, by the way, by this time, has really added12:49 a lot of people to the line. But I'm just so happy to get my phone back. And it was fine too. It survived the fall. Wonderful engineering. And I'm walking out and I see all these people just looking at me like,13:02 we're waiting for this doofus to get his phone. And I was this close to saying, rejoice with me for I have found my lost phone.13:21 Even so, there is more joy in heaven over 1 sinner who repents than over 99 who don't need to repent.13:33 How do you feel when people get saved? You should be excited. You should be full of joy because that's the heart of God. But what you find is that the Pharisees often weren't joining13:44 the party. There's another passage in Luke's gospel that we can go to. It's actually in Luke 7. I believe it's in Luke 7. We'll see if it's Luke 7.13:56 And, yeah, here it is. Luke 7 36, 1 of the Pharisees asked him to eat with them, and he went into the Pharisees' house, reclined a table, and behold, a woman of the city, who was14:07 a sinner. When she she learned that he was reclining a table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. This would have been her dowry. This would have been a very expensive perfume, possibly worth a14:17 year's wage. Your parents would have handed this down to you as a, you know, investment for your family, for your home. But she takes that flask of oil, she stands behind Jesus, she weeps, she began to wet his feet with14:28 her tears, wiped him with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. She poured out her dowry on Jesus' feet. Now when the Pharisee who invited him saw this, remember Pharisees14:40 are what? Pharisees are grumpy. When he saw this, he said to himself, if this man were a prophet, he would have known what sort of woman this is and who is14:51 touching him for she is a? And Jesus answering said, Simon, I have something to say to you. He said, okay. Sure. So go ahead, teacher. Shoot. Now Jesus again talks about money.15:03 And he says, a certain money lender had 2 debtors, 1 owed 501 owed 500 denarii, the other 50. Denarii is a day's wage. So 1 owed about a year and a half worth of wages,15:15 the other owed about a month and a half worth of wages. When they could not pay, he canceled the debt of both. By the way, sin is a debt that we owe to God. Now which of them will love him more?15:27 And Simon does the math. He's not stupid. He says, suppose suppose the 1 who canceled the for whom he canceled the large are dead. And Jesus said to him, you have judged rightly. Then turning toward the woman, he said to15:36 Simon, you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water from my feet. And this is, by the way, a common practice of welcoming somebody into your like taking coats from somebody in the modern world when they15:46 come over. You gave me no water from imagine inviting Jesus over, and you don't even offer to take his coat. He says, but she has wet my feet with my with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss.15:57 Imagine inviting Jesus over and just saying, just make yourself comfortable wherever. And he doesn't do that. But from the time I came in, she has not ceased to kiss my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil. Again,16:08 all common practices of welcoming somebody into your home, showing hospitality. You showed me no hospitality, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore, I tell you her sins, which are many, are16:19 forgiven. And here is the line, for she loved much, but he who is forgiven little loves little. The Pharisee didn't understand something16:31 that day in his house. All he could do was look at this dirty, sinful woman of the street and make a judgment about her. And Jesus turns the tables and16:43 says, actually, her love for me is a judgment against you because you don't realize something. And here's how you be a Pharisee. Here's how to be a Pharisee. Write number 2 down. Forget that I am16:55 a sinner. Grumble when Jesus accepts sinners and forget that I myself am a sinner. I need grace.17:07 Some of you might be here today and you think and you think, I could never be like that guy on stage. He's a holy man. And I just wanna let you know that I am a sinful man17:19 that needs God's grace every day. Every single day. I blow it every day. I need God every day.17:31 Amen. Amen. The same grace that saves you saves me. I am, by grace, your pastor. And it will never change.17:44 Oh, how I wish I could be holier than I am. I hate the things that I do, as Paul the apostle says in Romans 7. I hate the things that I do, and I keep doing the things that I hate. Oh,17:56 wretched man that I am, who will save me from this body of death, Paul says. And in the very next chapter, he says, thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ18:07 Jesus. His grace covers my sins. Is anybody else happy that God's grace covers your sins? Pharisees don't get that.18:19 Pharisees are too busy judging others to pay attention to the fact that they themselves are sinners. Amen. How does it feel to lose stuff? How does it feel to lose money? Okay. Here's the next 1. How does it18:31 feel to lose a son? Because now Jesus gets serious. Verse 11, back to Luke 15. And there was a18:43 man who had 2 sons, and the younger of them said to his father, father, give me my share of the property of this company. This is a demand, basically, for his father to be dead. You didn't get the inheritance until18:55 dad was dead. This younger son says, I'd just rather you be dead now. Give me what's coming to me. And the father divided the property between him. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all that he had, took a19:06 long journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property with reckless living. And when he had spent, notice again, money. When he had spent everything, a19:17 severe famine arose in that country and he began to be in need. So he went and he hired himself out to 1 of the citizens of the country who sent him to feed pigs. And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs19:28 ate. And this is a very scandalous story because Jews don't eat pork, because pigs are unclean. This man has fallen so19:40 far, he wants to eat what unclean animals eat. And no 1 gave him anything. But when he came to himself, he said, how many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger. I will19:52 arise and I will go to my father, and I'll say to him, father, I have, what? Against heaven and before you, and I am no longer Look at this line. This is his phrase that he wants to say. It starts with father, and I am20:04 no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as 1 of your hired servants. That's his phrase. That's his planned statement when he comes back to dad.20:16 And he rose and he came back to his father, but while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion. Every sinner in the house needs to know something. If you're here for the very first time, I got20:26 good news for you. God does not stand a judgment over you. God feels compassion toward you. Amen. He is so excited that you made the step to come to church today. And he20:38 ran and embraced him. By the way, there's a whole textual insight here on on running. Old men in ancient Israel did not run. In fact, old20:50 men in the modern world do not run. Running is a young man's game. But you don't run because you would be wearing these garments that would expose your legs. And so, you know,21:02 they didn't have pants, so they were it was very embarrassing to run. He runs. He shames himself to embrace and kiss his son. Hey.21:13 Jesus shamed was shamed on the cross so that you could feel the kiss of God. And the son said to him, here's the planned canned21:25 speech. Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. And notice that it ends there. What was the rest of the line supposed to be? Treat me as a hired servant, but no,21:37 the father cuts him off. I'm not going to change your status just because you've sinned. Whoo. Praise God. Aren't you glad he doesn't take you21:49 back as a slave? He takes you back as a child. And this is what happens with this father. The father said to his servants, quickly bring the best robe and put it on. Put a ring that would be the22:00 symbol of the father's authority. Give it back to him. Put shoes on his feet, and then let's kill the fattened cap and and let's celebrate. That's how God22:12 feels about sinners when they come home to him. He's excited. He rejoices. But guess what? The story of22:24 his son being dead and alive again, lost and found, and the celebration happening, that is not who the story is for.22:39 Because at the beginning of the chapter, at the beginning of these 3 stories, it was because the grumpy Pharisees were mad22:50 that Jesus ate with sinners. That's the reason for the story. Because the story ends like this.23:02 His older son was in the field, verse 25, and came and drew near to the house, and he heard music and dancing, and he called 1 of the servants and asked what these things meant. Hey, what kind of a sourpuss do you have23:14 to be to not know what music and dancing mean?23:21 I can think of a23:22 few church people I grew up with, they didn't know what that meant. And he said to him, your brother has come home and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received them back safe and sound, but he was23:32 angry. Oh, there it is. Grumpy. And he refused to go in. Isn't it amazing? The boy that stayed home, at the end of the story, is outside the23:44 house. His father came out and entreated him. But he answered the father, look, all these years I have served you, and I never disobeyed23:56 your command. I doubt that's true. Yet you never gave me a young goat that I might celebrate with my friends, but when this son of24:08 yours oh, notice the pronouns. Not my brother. This son of yours who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you kill the fattened24:19 calf for him. This is not in your notes? Oh, yes. Actually, is. Side note about pharisees. Write this down. Pharisees obsess over what God gives others and ignore24:31 what God gives them. I noticed, and please don't take offense to this because we're in this week 3 of a several part series on money.24:43 Week 3, that means you've survived 2 weeks of your pastor talking about money and you've come back. Congratulations. But not everybody has, and I understand that.24:55 Something deep within us suddenly gets a little bit riled, and I I'm always humored at how many people become church accountants when the pastor starts talking about money. They suddenly worry about where the church is25:05 spending what, on who, when, and where, and how. There was no problem with it until we started talking about money. Now they suddenly have a problem with it. This is interesting. What is lacking in your life that25:18 you have to obsess over what God is putting in somebody else's life?25:31 Just let that hover.25:35 Don't be a pharisee. The father appeals, son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. But this is fitting.25:47 Your brother was dead and is alive. He was lost and is found. And listen to me. In your Bibles, after this verse, verse25:59 32 of Luke 15, there is in big, bold, larger font letters, the word Luke followed by 16. But26:10 understand that those chapter divisions were added to the Bible in the 13 hundreds. So you're26:22 supposed to at the end of Luke 15, you're supposed to keep reading Because they26:34 go together. Because even so even in the text it says, he also said to the disciple. So this is not stop and pray and ask26:45 God to, you know, help you love the prodigal. No. No. No. That's that's part of the message of these 2 but it's not the end of the message of the they go together these26:57 2 chapters. Luke 15 goes with Luke 16. Luke 16 goes with Luke 15. And so Jesus is still in the moment with the sinners in the text all cares around him and the pharisees on the outside27:09 grumbling. And he tells the people who follow him, the people who follow him. There was a man, a rich man, again, another27:21 money illustration, who had a manager and the charges were bought that this man was wasting his master's money. And verse 2, it says, he called him. He says, what is this I hear about you? Turn the account of your27:31 management for you can be manager no longer. Okay. Quick question. Quick question. Who would be the rich man in this parable? Can you put it together? The Pharisees. The Lord. God. Who would be the27:42 manager in this illustration? Us, people, everyone. Because what Jesus is gonna do, he's gonna talk about money. On the heels of talking about sinners27:54 coming home, he's gonna talk about money and how we use it. And the first lesson that he's gonna tell us is this, 3 quick points about money. Number 1, write this down. All that I own is actually on loan.28:05 It's not your money, it's his. It's not your house, it's his. It's not your car, it's his. It's not your boat,28:17 it's his. And and this is the story that follows a huge emotional gripping parable about a lost son who was at28:28 death's door coming home. And it's like Jesus, that's God's heart for lost sinners. Where's your heart for lost sinners?28:41 Put your money to work for what God cares about. So everything that we own is on loan because this28:53 manager is going to take away the management from his employee. And he he says, well, now what do I do? I'm not strong enough to dig. I'm29:05 not I'm ashamed to beg, and and doesn't take long for him to think. He says, know what I'll do. I'll start cutting deals with my master's clients that'll set me29:17 up for great things after my employment is over. Now this sounds very conspicuous. He summons his first master's debtor. He says, how much do you29:29 owe? Hey, 50 percent off. And some people, commentators really struggle with this because they say, well, what what's he doing here that Jesus would say Jesus would talk about this as being a good thing. This is a29:40 dishonest guy. And so some commentators will say, oh, what he's doing is he's slashing his commission. I don't know any salesman that gets 50 percent commission. I mean, I just don't know.29:52 Because, I mean, 50 percent for this guy, and then a little bit later he says, hey, take your bill and make it 80 instead of 100. In verse 8, you would think that Jesus would pronounce judgment. No. The master commended30:04 the audit dishonest manager because of his shrewdness. Here's what the master sees in the manager. This manager knew30:16 that he could not keep what he presently had, but he could use it to set30:28 himself up for where he was going. Are you starting to put some things together in your own heads right now about what Jesus is talking about here?30:40 In case you're not, after Jesus talks about how sometimes worldly people are more shrewd in dealing with worldly things than people in the church are, verse 8. Verse 9, he says, and30:51 I tell you. This is Jesus' words to his disciples. Are you a disciple? Don't answer out loud. Are you a disciple?31:03 Then this this word is for you. If you're serious about following Jesus, this is for you. Make friends for yourselves31:15 by means of unrighteous wealth. Now unrighteous wealth is in the Greek mammon. You cannot serve both God and mammon.31:27 Mammon was an ancient god of prosperity. And some people have unrighteous wealth. If you have a different translation, it just says worldly wealth. So make friends for yourselves31:39 by means of money so that when it everybody Fails. Fails. How many31:51 know that money always fails? And you say, well, I got a lot of money. It's still going to fail. When you die,32:02 money can't succeed in bringing you into the next life. It fails. So you make these friends so that when the money fails, they, that is the friends that you32:14 made, will receive you into eternal dwellings. Now what's another name for eternal dwellings? Heaven. Okay. Here here's what Jesus is saying about money. Ready?32:26 Write this down. Use money to love people. Don't use people to love money. That our world teaches32:38 us that it's all about us. And they don't come out and say it, but the implication is there. Do whatever it takes to succeed. Do whatever it takes to get32:49 ahead. Do whatever it takes to step on people, take advantage of people. It's all about you. You got to take care of yourself. Come on. Be a good go getter. Pull yourself up by the bootstraps. You do it. Build your life.33:00 Just whatever it takes. That's the world's message. Here's God's message. No. You're not going to love money. You're going to love what? If33:14 you love money, you will use people. If you love people, you will use money. Money is not33:25 immoral. Money is not evil. Some of you think, isn't money the root of all evil? No. The love of money is the root of many forms of evil. Not33:37 even all evil, just many forms of evil. Not many. Not all. Many. So the money that you think is so evil is actually not evil. Here's what it is. It's a33:49 tool. Who are you write this down. Who am I loving by using God's money. Because, again, we34:00 we started at the beginning of this message, just a little while ago, and and and and and this and the lesson was, it's not your money. It's God's money. So you're a manager. You're a34:12 steward. Everything that you own is on loan. And 1 day, your management is coming to an end. Listen to me. Every person who thinks I've retired, I've earned this, this34:24 is my time, I'm ready to just enjoy life on my terms. Oh, how deceived you are. It is not34:36 your time. It is not your money. It is not your life. It all belongs to God. And he will absolutely call34:47 every 1 of us to account for how we handled his money. Jesus35:00 said, use it to send people to heaven. Third point I want you to write down about money is the best way to love35:11 people is to use what God gives you to bring people to Jesus. Tell me I'm wrong from the text and I'll agree with you.35:24 But this is from the mouth of Jesus, and this is what Jesus commands his disciples to do. And then he gives us a couple of principles35:36 about money, which we've already talked about in this series. If you're faithful with a little, you're faithful with much. If you're dishonest with a little, you're dishonest with much. We talked about that last week,35:43 that money doesn't make you who you are. Money just exposes who you are. If then you have not been faithful in the worldly possessions35:55 that God has given you momentarily, who will entrust to you true riches? Quick question. Now let's see36:07 if you guys are following me every location in order to speak to the screen. The location pastors will tell me if you answered correctly after this service. We know unrighteous36:19 wealth is money. What is true riches? I heard it over here.36:30 People people are the true riches. Have you got people in your life? I36:41 mean, look, the holidays are coming. I know you got some people that might come over that you don't treasure. But most of the36:53 time, when people are dying in their beds facing the end of their life, they are not surrounded by their37:05 awards and trophies or by their automobiles and homes.37:13 Usually, they are surrounded by Woah. People. And here's a little bit of bad news for everybody.37:25 The mortality rate for human beings is hovering around 100 percent. You're going to die.37:39 You're going to die. And when you're dying here, I hope, I pray that you're surrounded by37:51 people. But when you close your eyes to this world and38:02 open your eyes to the next, I hope and I pray that you are once again38:14 surrounded by people who are not saying goodbye but are saying welcome home.38:29 That's what this parable is about. Use your money to get people to heaven so that when you noShow more
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