Nephilim Death Squad - Uncertain Riches： Abraham Refused the King of Sodom ｜ Sermon on the Mount Pt 26 ｜ Straight Bible

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00:00:48.980 Welcome back to another episode of Straight Bible, Sermon on the Mount, episode 26.

00:00:54.100 We're still in Matthew 6, 22 through 24.

00:00:57.080 We're going to pull that up real quick just so we can all be on the same page with that.

00:01:01.460 And then we're going to unpack some of these passages, some of these cross-references through the scripture that tie into this concept of not serving God and mammon.

00:01:10.140 You got passages?

00:01:11.220 Yeah, I got passages.

00:01:12.220 Say hi to Top Lobster, everybody.

00:01:14.140 What's up, guys?

00:01:15.000 We just had a really cool show with the dude James from Dark Waters.

00:01:18.180 Yeah, man.

00:01:18.940 I'm excited for that one to air.

00:01:20.620 That was very cool.

00:01:21.380 Yeah, yeah.

00:01:22.200 Every time we talk to James, it's a new revelation in a way of things you've been thinking about

00:01:30.120 or things that you didn't quite understand.

00:01:32.660 Love that guy.

00:01:33.760 He's on it.

00:01:34.780 He's on it.

00:01:35.380 He's got his finger on the pulse, if you will.

00:01:37.220 Yeah.

00:01:38.800 Okay.

00:01:39.520 So we're in Matthew 6, 22 through 24.

00:01:43.220 We're just going to pull these up, run through it real quick.

00:01:48.940 What translation are you in?

00:01:50.460 oh this is the nlt that's all right all right here we go your eye is like a lamp that provides

00:01:56.680 light for your body when your eye is healthy your whole body is filled with light

00:02:00.600 wow we're going slow today but when your eye is unhealthy your whole body is filled with darkness

00:02:07.780 and if the light you think you have is actually darkness how deep that darkness is we've i know

00:02:13.100 we've referenced this like three or four weeks in a row now like there's a big difference between

00:02:17.200 the single I and the evil I, right? And so by reference, the single I is good. The evil I is

00:02:24.800 plural. It's an I on something more than just one, more than just the singular, more than just God,

00:02:29.960 right? We talk about that a lot when we get into something that's like Jesus plus, right? Don't

00:02:34.480 need it. We're going hard after God alone. No one can serve two masters for you will hate one and

00:02:39.920 love the other. You will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be

00:02:45.560 enslaved to money that goes hard so now we're just going to go through some passages real quick we're

00:02:49.700 going to look at genesis 14 some of these uh what it looks like for a man of god to be a real one

00:02:54.920 um and to be able to actually forsake money in the name of the kingdom of god i'm actually in

00:03:01.280 i am in the nlt on the uh genesis 14 oh you are okay just because it gets it's hard to track in

00:03:07.060 the king james i mean it's even hard to track in the nlt but all right we're in genesis 14 this is

00:03:14.500 the story of when Abram rescues Lot, right? Like he's, he's before, uh, this is before he's even

00:03:20.760 called Abraham. He's just called Abram. Genesis 14. About this time, war broke out in the region.

00:03:27.200 King Amraphel of Babylonia, King Ariok of Elessar, King Kedorlamer of Elam, and King Tidal of Goim.

00:03:34.480 Goim? Stop it. It's Goi, dude. It's the nations. Fought against King Bira of Sodom, King Bersha 0.73

00:03:40.780 of Gomorrah, King Sheenab of Adma, King Shemaber of Zeboim, and the King of Bila, also called

00:03:46.500 Zoar.

00:03:47.060 You see, imagine how hard this is attracting the King James.

00:03:49.360 I got the NLT pulled up for us.

00:03:50.980 Okay, it's five kings versus four, though.

00:03:54.240 This second group of kings joined forces in Siddam Valley.

00:03:57.220 That is the Valley of the Dead Sea.

00:03:59.400 For 12 years, they had been subject to King Keter-Lammer, but in the 13th year, they rebelled

00:04:04.240 against him.

00:04:05.120 One year later, Keter-Lammer and his ally, I'm just doing the best to pronounce that 0.99

00:04:09.140 to, and his allies arrived and defeated the Rephaites at Ashtaroth Karnaim, the Zuzites 0.77

00:04:15.040 at Ham, the Emites at Shabbath Kiriath Jadim, and the Horites at Mount Zaire, as far as

00:04:20.620 El Paran, at the edge of the wilderness. 0.97

00:04:23.520 Then they turned back and came to En Mishpat, now called Kadesh, and conquered all the territory 0.97

00:04:29.800 of the Amalekites and also the Amorites living in Hazan Tamar. 0.91

00:04:34.500 Then the rebel kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Adma, Zeboim, and Bila, also called Zoar, prepared for battle in the Valley of the Dead Sea.

00:04:43.620 We're going to catch up here in a minute.

00:04:46.000 They fought against King Keterolamar of Elam, King Tidal of Goyim, King Avraphel of Babylonia, and King Ariok of Elessar, four kings against five.

00:04:54.960 As it happened, the Valley of the Dead Sea was filled with tar pits, and as the army of the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into the tar pits.

00:05:02.620 while the rest escaped into the mountains the victorious invaders then plundered sodom and

00:05:07.880 gomorrah and headed for home taking with them all the spoils of war and the food supplies

00:05:13.060 they also captured lot abram's nephew who lived in sodom and carried off everything he owned so

00:05:18.960 i know that was long-winded but you got to have like the backdrop of what's happening it's these

00:05:22.500 four kings went to war against five kings so it's it's completely you know you got nine nations

00:05:28.440 involved at this point uh and lot gets carried away so watch the dude abraham watch this but

00:05:35.640 one of lots men escaped and reported everything to abram the hebrew who was living near the oak

00:05:40.760 grove belonging to mammer the amorite mammer and his relatives eskel and aner were abram's allies

00:05:47.560 so these are just his buddies right this is all that's saying when abram heard that his nephew

00:05:52.280 lot had been captured he mobilized the 318 trained men who had been born in his household

00:05:58.440 so abraham's just got 318 trained servants in his household like ready to go to war that's a

00:06:06.320 that's a large militia bro ready to go to war with four or five nations is that wild he's got

00:06:13.300 318 like clearly trained on another level warriors but that's what we were talking about

00:06:18.800 with james just before where you were saying like we're like talking about the power of the church

00:06:23.640 was that okay you were talking about the power of the church like that true church right well

00:06:32.240 the truth i mean just the power of christians in general this dude's swinging around 318

00:06:36.180 18 soldiers just just for no reason dude just he's just ready he had it yeah he's just ready so

00:06:42.060 so these kings come against him take away lot who's basically like his son he treats him like

00:06:46.440 a son it's his nephew but he treats him like his own child and so he he takes his 318 trained men

00:06:52.460 who had been born into his household.

00:06:55.400 That's crazy.

00:06:56.240 Bro, so I don't know how many moms and dads there are,

00:06:59.080 but there's 318 trained men who were born in his household.

00:07:02.820 Are we talking about,

00:07:03.700 I think Owen would call this builder buddies.

00:07:07.060 I don't know.

00:07:08.080 I'm not familiar with that phrase, but I like it. 0.96

00:07:12.000 Then he pursued Keter Lamer's army 0.89

00:07:14.420 until he caught up with them at Dan.

00:07:16.720 There he divided his men and attacked during the night.

00:07:20.140 Keter Lamer's army fled,

00:07:21.520 But Abram chased them as far as Hobath, north of Damascus.

00:07:24.560 Abram recovered all the goods that had been taken.

00:07:27.380 And he brought back his nephew Lot with his possessions and all the women and other captives. 0.92

00:07:32.080 So this dude's just a savage.

00:07:33.560 He goes and rescues everybody that just got tooken and wins everything back.

00:07:39.680 Now he's got a decision to make, right?

00:07:41.860 Like now he's got to, you're going to see these two characters emerge. 0.93

00:07:44.960 This is Melchizedek and the king of Sodom. 0.96

00:07:47.000 which some would say like anytime like you're doing good you're cooking like things are going 0.99

00:07:51.940 right in life like you're going to have some decisions to make you're going to have to you're

00:07:55.040 going to be at a fork in the road and you got to decide where to go once the success happens

00:07:58.620 and who knows what abraham's story would look like depending on what he chose in this situation

00:08:03.400 it's about to happen yeah after abram returned from his victory over keralamer and all his

00:08:09.180 allies the king of sodom went out to meet him in the valley of shabba that is the king's valley

00:08:14.700 and Melchizedek, the king of Salem, and a priest of God most high, brought Abram some bread and

00:08:21.420 wine. Melchizedek blessed Abraham with this blessing. Blessed be Abram by God most high,

00:08:27.300 creator of heaven and earth, and blessed be God most high, who has defeated your enemies for you.

00:08:33.420 Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the goods he had recovered. The king of Sodom said

00:08:39.240 to abram give back my people who were captured but you may keep for yourself all the goods you 0.99

00:08:45.080 have recovered right he's saying that belongs to sodom like you like you just went and captured

00:08:49.480 all this stuff uh he says you may keep for yourself all the goods you have recovered

00:08:54.980 right this is what we're getting into when we unpack this concept of like you can't serve god

00:08:59.380 and mammon there's going to be some sacrifice there's going to be some sacrifice there's going

00:09:02.860 to be some things you go yeah i mean that money is kind of mine like those goods kind of are mine

00:09:07.320 And I'm the one who went and won all this back.

00:09:10.700 Abram replied to the king of Sodom,

00:09:12.600 I solemnly swear to the Lord God, most high creator of heaven and earth,

00:09:16.300 that I will not take so much as a single thread or a sandal thong from what belongs to you. 0.71

00:09:22.560 Otherwise, you might say, I am the one who made Abram rich.

00:09:26.480 I will accept only what my young warriors have already eaten.

00:09:29.800 And I request that you give a fair share of the goods to my allies, Aner, Eskel, and Mamre.

00:09:34.600 so i'm just saying this is this is a there's a lot to unpack in this right like this right view

00:09:39.640 of god this single eye gives you a right view of man right like you must serve god with all your

00:09:45.160 heart mind soul and strength and you must love your neighbor as yourself right do you have that

00:09:50.200 going for you this gives him a right view of like how much he loves lot for one it gives him this

00:09:54.720 right view of man when you have the right view of god it it really plays out in your life to where

00:10:00.180 he recognizes the value of lot and he loves him and he's willing to sacrifice and go get him back

00:10:05.040 but then in that victory he recognizes melchizedek he says this refreshing this refreshing from heaven

00:10:11.980 he's got this choice to make right between the goods of heaven and the goods of earth is really

00:10:16.140 what this is coming down to because he's giving uh worldly goods to melchizedek he's giving him 0.95

00:10:23.060 a 10 10 right right whereas like why is he giving anything if he's the one who just went out and won

00:10:28.500 this battle because he's valuing heaven more than he's valuing earth, right? So he's valuing what

00:10:33.860 Melchizedek has to offer and he's willing to pour into that, right? The king of Sodom shows them 1.00

00:10:39.140 more or less like, hey man, I can make you wealthy. Like if you keep all this stuff, man,

00:10:43.440 you can be doing good. He says, no, no, I won't take that because I don't want the world to think

00:10:48.320 that like you made me. That's his position, man. Can you imagine if the church today said like,

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00:13:17.240 because of what that'll look like and so that like our enemies will be able to look at us and say

00:13:21.720 oh that's not god doing that like that's the world has poured into them and made them that

00:13:26.840 you see how there's just such a stark difference yeah um it's something that uh as we've as we've

00:13:34.680 come up well me and david have like gotten a little bit more success in the space it's like

00:13:38.680 be careful of who you who you take favor from right because they're going to call back in for

00:13:43.740 that favor right that's a good point too man who knows what this would have tied abram to and it's

00:13:49.180 very intriguing because right after this it goes into uh genesis 15 and it's the covenant with

00:13:55.280 abraham yeah yeah so he's he's forsaken one covenant for one that's more powerful but he

00:14:00.700 had the knowledge to uh understand right on its face what it was yeah who knows exactly what uh

00:14:07.020 how long the time period was in between but i'm just saying biblically speaking it goes right

00:14:10.580 from chapter 14, that story we just read, right into 15, where God makes the covenant with them.

00:14:15.320 Almost as if to say like, yo, if you can be trusted with money and to like push it away

00:14:19.660 and to value heaven more than you value earth, if you value heaven and eternal things more than

00:14:24.820 you value the temporary realm and the dollars, the mammon, if you will, now you can be trusted.

00:14:30.340 And you just wonder how many people have gotten to that place with God where God says, okay,

00:14:34.260 now you can be trusted. Let me ask you a question. If you know that principle,

00:14:39.200 do you think it means less if you consistently uh adhere to it what do you mean like i i just i

00:14:48.020 don't know i i understand that principle like very well but i also understand there's like yeah

00:14:53.840 if i don't if i don't do that then i got something way better coming and it it feels a bit like

00:15:00.440 uh what do you mean to like sacrifice and do what's right just knowing that like hey man i'm

00:15:06.080 to do what's right because i know the good things coming because yeah when people go they go well

00:15:09.800 i don't know they'll they'll say you're a fake uh grifter christian whatever it doesn't matter

00:15:13.740 um i go why wouldn't you be like you don't you know that if you do the thing for god then you

00:15:20.880 just get better it's it's almost selfish in a way because i know i do know these things and i'm like

00:15:27.100 well if if i know god knows that i know and then god knows that i'm doing this because i know that

00:15:31.580 it's like yeah everything great comes from this so right right yeah but in the natural realm

00:15:36.040 it doesn't necessarily man some do suffer loss in the monetary realm i think even talking to

00:15:40.780 james about it he's saying like god make sure he has him on a short leash monetarily you know what

00:15:46.000 i mean it's like yeah maybe there is some shady stuff you could do or in this case it's not even

00:15:49.920 shady but it's just taking the chance that like that a man would say oh i made abraham who he is

00:15:56.180 and abraham's like no no no god made me who i am that that's the most critical thing here

00:16:01.680 is who god made me everybody needs to know that whatever i am whoever i am however i am god made

00:16:08.600 me not it wasn't this guy it wasn't by like him giving me anything giving me all the goods of his

00:16:13.820 nation i don't need it i don't need it the glory of god is much more important to me spliffy spliffy

00:16:18.920 brought up in the chat here he said top is is describing of when lust loses its luster and

00:16:24.220 yeah that's exactly it yeah i guess the problem is is that i've re so if the gold is it's not

00:16:29.700 monetary gold if the gold is like the blessings that i can get whether it be like my family or

00:16:35.860 what whatever it is yeah like i've recognized that yeah that's way better these things coming

00:16:41.060 but now i'm kind of like i get but we're supposed to store up our treasures in heaven we're supposed

00:16:45.540 to go after those type of things right so that's okay yeah that's the whole context man is don't

00:16:50.180 store up treasure on earth do store up treasure in heaven sometimes you get it here too man and

00:16:54.980 it's like well you really do but it's almost like heavenly gifts in the in the natural realm in the

00:16:59.780 earthly realm it's really like that when you're talking about like families generational blessing

00:17:04.100 generational relationship like yeah some of these things man it's like it's heavenly blessings in

00:17:10.020 the earthly realm yeah and we do count that as more valuable than just dollars we were talking

00:17:16.020 about uh the first time we had james on sorry to interrupt with your sermon here but like

00:17:22.020 one of the things we were talking about is like how do we get those generational blessings from

00:17:25.700 god because like those are the things that that's what i'm after like we could leave our kids behind

00:17:30.580 property and and some sort of wealth but like how do you leave behind this idea of your kids

00:17:37.060 spiritual inheritance yeah that spiritual inheritance the thing that matters like

00:17:40.420 that's what i want i and and i'm gonna i want to chase after that like if that is like a like money

00:17:46.340 like dollars like that's the thing that i yes that's what i'm saying he he doesn't say don't

00:17:50.420 store up treasure on earth and just hang out and like twiddle your thumbs and wait for the rapture

00:17:54.660 he's not saying that he's saying don't store up treasure on earth but do go hard for the things

00:17:59.140 of heaven that's what he's saying do store up treasure in heaven so in the same way that we

00:18:02.900 hustled and grinded for money and for whatever else we did in our life he's saying yeah do that

00:18:08.340 but do it in things that will matter for eternity right that's the whole context of all of this

00:18:13.060 right and it's and there's a sacrifice in the things the earthly temporary things for those

00:18:18.100 eternal heavenly things. There is a sacrifice in that. All right, now we're in 2 Kings 5-1. We're

00:18:23.240 going to tell another story about a guy who didn't need the money of the world. We're in the KJV.

00:18:27.620 Give me a second. Go ahead. Okay, now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria,

00:18:32.680 this is a very interesting story, was a great man with his master and honorable because by him,

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00:20:56.780 to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. So here's God. This is 2 Kings 5.1.

00:21:03.160 he's operating through a captain in the army of syria and god is giving deliverance into syria

00:21:11.960 through this captain think how wild this is right and some of this is against israel i know a lot

00:21:19.040 of people aren't ready for this but this is god operating through a uh worldly captain dare i say

00:21:25.700 a goyim right through the goy he's operating through them and some of his purposes are against

00:21:33.060 israel watch this lord had given deliverance into syria he was also a mighty man in valor 0.97

00:21:39.060 but he was a leper so it's very interesting like god used him but he didn't heal him

00:21:44.420 yet yet he's a leper and the syrians had gone out by companies and had brought away captive

00:21:51.700 out of the land of israel a little maid and she waited on naaman's wife 0.97

00:21:57.460 so god's operating to this captain in the syrian army and they're actually capturing israelites

00:22:03.060 that wild yeah and had brought away captive out of the land of israel a little maid and she waited

00:22:08.020 on naaman's wife and she said unto her mistress would god my lord were with the prophet that is 0.90

00:22:13.460 in samaria for he would recover him of his leprosy and one went in and told his lord saying thus and

00:22:19.140 thus said the maid that is of the land of israel so the so the maid that's been caught captive

00:22:24.580 says man you know naaman he could be healed he could be healed of his leprosy if he could just

00:22:30.020 get after uh the prophet that's in samaria who's elisha and the king of syria said go go to

00:22:40.820 this is weird it says go to go the king of syria said go to go and i will send a letter

00:22:46.660 out to the king of israel and he departed and took with him 10 talents of silver and 6 000

00:22:51.860 pieces of gold and 10 changes of raiment so he's expecting this is going to cost money right that's

00:22:57.540 That's a lot of money looking for healing.

00:22:59.060 And he's expecting that there's going to have to be some money exchanged in this transaction for his health.

00:23:05.320 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel saying, now, when this letter has come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman, my servant to thee, that you may recover him of his leprosy.

00:23:17.220 This is intriguing.

00:23:18.120 and it came to pass when the king of Israel had read the letter that he ripped his clothes and

00:23:22.580 said am I a god to kill and to make alive that this man does send unto me to recover a man of

00:23:26.940 his leprosy wherefore consider I pray you and see how he seeks a quarrel against me to me this is

00:23:33.260 just intriguing it's like these kings have just completely lost their way in God they just

00:23:38.080 completely it's not even crossing his mind that like oh the nations are coming to me as the

00:23:44.640 representative of this kingdom of god for healing saying oh he must be picking a fight

00:23:50.780 like it's not even crossing his mind that like oh yeah i represent the true god of the universe

00:23:56.960 and healing can happen through him they've completely lost sight of that and so the maid

00:24:02.180 hasn't though look at the difference between the king and the maid the maid is like yeah man if he

00:24:08.080 could get to the prophet he could get healed the king is like oh this must be a setup

00:24:12.120 and it was so when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had ripped his

00:24:21.540 clothes that he sent to the king saying wherefore has thou ripped thy clothes let him come now to

00:24:26.780 me and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel so Naaman so Elisha steps in says hey man

00:24:33.060 I'll take care of this so Naaman came with his horses this is back to what we were talking about

00:24:37.400 with James right they're like the man of God has the authority in the realm not the politician

00:24:41.440 so Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot and stood at the door of the house of

00:24:46.780 Elisha so this is big dog moves right like he looks like a big shot he shows up with his whole

00:24:51.800 envoy his whole entourage he's got gold and silver with him you know changes of clothes which was like

00:24:58.000 valuable in that day that's crazy you got to have at least I don't know what like

00:25:02.020 four horses to carry that much gold and silver or something like that it might have been a lot

00:25:06.860 bigger yeah and then people guarding it it's yeah it's the whole thing my servants with them

00:25:13.340 and elisha sent a messenger unto him saying go and wash in jordan seven times and thy flesh shall

00:25:19.340 come again to thee and thou shall be clean this is like he sent his secretary out to him just

00:25:26.060 because people are like oh i can't believe it's like hold on let's unpack this whole thing

00:25:29.660 but naaman was wroth and went away and said behold i thought he will surely come out to me

00:25:35.660 and stand and call on the name of the lord his god and strike his hand over the place and recover the

00:25:42.840 leper isn't god like so different from the way we think he should do things or the way he would do

00:25:50.880 things yeah yeah like like naaman is so offended but imagine this the setup right now like right

00:25:56.840 he's wroth he's angry but it's i don't know i wonder if like he brought all this money he brought

00:26:02.060 all this gold and silver and he's expecting there's a little bit of snake oil salesmanship

00:26:06.200 going to happen here right and so not only did he come with all this gold and silver he's prepared

00:26:10.940 to like bless this guy for his healing but then the guy sends his secretary out to tell him go

00:26:16.340 dunk in the jordan river not only is it free but uh this isn't even really that big of a deal yeah

00:26:21.400 he's like no no i thought the man of god was going to come out and do this big thing because

00:26:24.800 i'm a big dog and i and i expect big dog status when i show up and then this is what he says he

00:26:30.720 He says, are not Abna and Farfar rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel?

00:26:37.540 May I not wash in them and be clean?

00:26:39.800 So he turned and went away in a rage.

00:26:42.260 I mean, it's like a reasonable thought in the natural realm.

00:26:44.400 He thought he's getting took by some false prophet.

00:26:46.340 He's not really sure what to expect, but there's probably all kind of shenanigans going on with the so-called prophets.

00:26:51.820 And so he's just kind of in turmoil now.

00:26:55.360 Thank goodness for one of his servants, though.

00:26:56.900 And his servants came near and spoke unto him and said, my father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, would you not have done it?

00:27:04.940 How much rather than when he say it to thee, wash and be clean.

00:27:09.040 Right?

00:27:09.560 Like if he asked you to do some great thing, like give me a lot of money, wouldn't you have did it?

00:27:15.500 Like you were ready to do that.

00:27:17.200 Like all he's saying is go wash in the river.

00:27:19.320 Let's give it a shot.

00:27:20.320 then went he down and dipped himself seven times in jordan according to the saying of the man of

00:27:26.680 god and his flesh came again like under the flesh of a little child and he was clean and he returned

00:27:33.280 to the man of god he and all his company and that's a that's obedience even with a bad attitude

00:27:40.040 yeah like yeah you had a bad attitude about it but you still did it and he returned to the man

00:27:46.680 of God, he and all his company and came and stood before him. And he said, behold, now I know that

00:27:51.060 there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now, therefore I pray thee, take a blessing of

00:27:56.040 thy servant. But he said, this is Elisha speaking, as the Lord lives before whom I stand, I will

00:28:02.020 receive none. And he urged him to take it, but he refused. You see how different this is from

00:28:07.880 the thinking today? The thinking today is like, get the money for, it doesn't matter how we get

00:28:12.960 get the money because the most important thing is to like keep this thing moving like keep this

00:28:17.920 thing cooking so we so we got to get the money whereas the man of god is like no no no i don't

00:28:22.860 need it i don't need it keep it for yourself and naaman said shall there not then i pray thee be

00:28:28.320 given to thy servant two mules burden of earth for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt

00:28:33.500 offering nor sacrifice unto other gods but unto the lord uh what's his name does it break down

00:28:38.740 on this um hyzer was saying that like um he's saying give me this dirt the burden of earth

00:28:45.460 he's saying send me home with some dirt like in my carriage that i can take back because of

00:28:52.000 territory right because they're gods of territory and he's saying your god is the true god so let

00:28:56.940 me take the dirt from this territory and put it back in my place of worship where i live watch

00:29:02.160 what he says in this thing the lord pardon thy servant that when my master goes into the house

00:29:07.300 of Ramon to worship there. And he leans on my hand and I bow myself in the house of Ramon.

00:29:13.180 When I bow down myself in the house of Ramon, the Lord pardon my servant in this thing.

00:29:20.420 So go ahead and paraphrase that. He's saying, hey, give me this dirt from here, from this

00:29:26.720 territory, because I'm saying your God is the true God. Heiser breaks this down. I don't really

00:29:31.100 claim to fully comprehend all this, but Heiser breaks it down really good, that the idea is

00:29:35.000 he takes that dirt from the territory of the true god puts it in the house of ramon which is a false

00:29:40.760 god that they're worshiping in syria okay and he says okay when i do this i want it to be that i'm

00:29:45.960 worshiping the true god i know i'm in the house of ramon mike like i can't just tell the king no

00:29:50.680 i'm not going to do this he'll cut my head off so i have to be in there but when i'm in there

00:29:54.440 i want to be clear i'm worshiping the true god i'm not worshiping ramon what do you think about

00:29:59.320 that it's kind of i think it's like when i'm in a catholic church today man it's like uh if i'm

00:30:03.320 If I'm in a Catholic wedding or I'm in a Catholic funeral, I find myself in Catholic churches from time to time.

00:30:09.160 And sometimes I do the kneel down, stand up, kneel down, stand up, sit, do all the stuff.

00:30:14.980 But I'm like, in my heart, I'm like, God, I'm worshiping you.

00:30:17.620 I don't know what this whole system is here.

00:30:19.440 This is a little bit of an interesting system.

00:30:21.680 There's like a lot of statues.

00:30:23.180 There's a lot of imagery.

00:30:24.400 There's a lot of gold.

00:30:25.580 There's a lot of what appears to be idolatry.

00:30:27.820 I don't have anything to do with any of that, Lord.

00:30:30.040 I'm worshiping you.

00:30:30.880 and I've had Christians like be mad at me for that too like I was at a Catholic wedding and I was

00:30:37.060 doing the kneeling down thing I was like you guys don't do the kneeling like no we're Christians

00:30:40.420 you know what I mean I don't fault them for that like I like I get it but that but that's my

00:30:45.600 position when I'm there is like I don't know maybe a Catholic person is going to talk to me

00:30:50.160 at some point while I'm there and we can get into it and start cooking with the gospel you know what

00:30:54.100 I mean this is what I was asking Jamie Walden about I don't know if you saw that episode of

00:30:58.520 nds uh still on patreon by the way no um i was asking about the the nature of these songs because

00:31:04.520 we were he was kind of detailing uh the new apostolic reformation uh that these guys follow

00:31:09.960 and some some of them even dabbling in things like witchcraft within the church uh grave sucking

00:31:15.640 weird stuff like that yeah i did hear that yeah and uh and i was like is it okay to sing these

00:31:20.120 songs like in your opinion obviously i'm not gonna just like whatever he says yes but i was like what

00:31:23.960 do you think or who did i talk to about grave sucking recently uh they came up with sean from

00:31:27.880 kingdom and that's right as well um but yeah he was uh i think uh jamie was detailing other kind

00:31:33.800 of rituals that these guys are doing it's like it's pretty much witchcraft what they're dealing

00:31:38.440 in and so you can find yourself in a place of worship but you want to make sure you're saying

00:31:42.920 god i'm worshiping you yeah but i mean it's a song written by again i don't want to like attribute

00:31:48.120 bad things to a guy like stephen furtick he's the guy that is the the head of elevation church

00:31:53.320 super talented dude musician oh that's a nice bottle that's a new bottle he's crushed look at

00:31:58.520 that one that was wider these are like the cough syrup bottles dude these go hard get the little

00:32:03.160 palm yeah we have a discount code in the description yeah we do but uh yeah so this guy

00:32:10.440 doing some weird stuff with that church their doctrine is a little strange the music in my

00:32:15.400 opinion is fantastic but i'm like could this be laced with poison should we be singing this should

00:32:19.160 Should we be looking at this?

00:32:20.080 What are you thinking?

00:32:20.820 And what's his name?

00:32:24.720 Jamie Walden was like, hey, man, listen, if you're approaching God through this with like a pure heart, with your intention aimed at God, they could have done whatever they wanted.

00:32:35.280 Amen. Yeah.

00:32:36.140 But what you're using it for is something different.

00:32:38.280 And that's, I guess, that's scriptural here.

00:32:39.640 That's what I'm saying, like in the Catholic system is like, hey, there's some shenanigans going on in here.

00:32:43.780 But God, I'm worshiping you.

00:32:45.020 When I'm kneeling down, I'm worshiping you.

00:32:46.680 You know that, Lord.

00:32:47.520 I know that.

00:32:48.160 so that's what it sounds like that's what jamie's saying too is like yes maybe you find yourself in

00:32:51.980 some worship music that's getting a little sketch of source wrecked it's like if your

00:32:56.240 heart's pure and going after god because you can go crazy with it and this was the this was the

00:33:00.220 problem with the conspiracy community conspiracies conspiracists in general this is what i had issue

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00:33:16.360 anywhere you're just sitting there spinning your wheels true and and i guess the fact is that

00:33:20.460 everything is fallen dog yeah what do you want me to should we do this show i don't know shore was

00:33:24.640 engineered by uh germans and that that came upon by the nazi party should we not talk into this

00:33:30.360 microphone right it's great technology i don't know what to tell you dude right no you're right

00:33:34.620 that all these things like you can you can go through pick it all apart go i can't touch this

00:33:39.520 can't touch that but at some point you have to say hey man the whole realm has fallen the whole

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00:36:10.960 All right, so he says, in this thing, the Lord pardon thy servant that when my master

00:36:16.020 goes into the house of Ramon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself

00:36:19.740 in the house of Ramon, when I bow down myself in the house of Ramon, the Lord pardon thy

00:36:23.640 servant in this thing, and he said unto him, go in peace.

00:36:26.620 So he departed from him a little way, a little way, but that's a big but.

00:36:34.220 but Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God said behold my master has spared name in this

00:36:41.280 Syrian in not receiving at his hands that which he brought but as the Lord lives I'll run after

00:36:48.300 him and take somewhat of him so now Elisha has said I don't need your money man keep it 0.97

00:36:54.140 like that's not what we're doing here I appreciate it but I don't need it but Gehazi says hey man

00:36:59.580 we're missing an opportunity to capitalize on this guy.

00:37:02.460 He already brought all the gold and silver and all the clothes.

00:37:04.980 Like he's,

00:37:05.380 he's already got it.

00:37:06.200 I'll run after him. 1.00

00:37:07.400 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. 0.76

00:37:09.400 And when Naaman saw him running after him,

00:37:11.700 he lighted down from the chariot to meet him and said,

00:37:14.100 is all well?

00:37:15.720 It's a good question.

00:37:16.720 We should be asking ourselves,

00:37:17.900 man.

00:37:18.460 Like right when he said is all well, 0.51

00:37:19.840 Gehazi should have said, 0.75

00:37:20.900 yeah,

00:37:21.120 wait a minute.

00:37:22.040 Is it?

00:37:22.760 Is all well?

00:37:24.140 That's your last warning.

00:37:26.040 Yeah,

00:37:26.360 it really is,

00:37:27.220 man.

00:37:28.160 And he said,

00:37:28.860 all is well my master had sent me so now he's lying about elisha saying behold even now there

00:37:35.960 become to me from mount ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets give them i pray the

00:37:41.940 italian of silver and two changes of garments so he's saying like it's a it's for a good thing we

00:37:46.160 got two new guys coming into the camp and they're going to need some stuff it's for a good thing we

00:37:50.540 need the money for a good thing it's not even that much money huh i bet it is i mean i mean

00:37:56.000 what the guy brought though how many talents of silver and how much gold did he bring this guy's

00:38:00.500 like well watch this yeah i know and naaman said be content take two talents and he urged him and

00:38:07.020 bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of garments and laid them upon two of his

00:38:12.440 servants and they bear them before him i don't know i read them like no wonder god likes this

00:38:17.680 guy naaman like he's like look at him he's like oh no no man i'll give you more than what you're

00:38:22.180 asking for and i'll send my servants to carry it but either way it's so much money that servants

00:38:26.460 have to carry it isn't that funny that's uh that's part of is that the sermon on the mount where

00:38:31.600 you know turn the other cheek and he's like if somebody tells you to uh walk a mile walk two

00:38:36.940 with them yeah two if they want this much you give them yeah that's yeah that comes straight

00:38:41.040 from here yeah here's name and doing that yeah man that's right bible yeah he knows what's up

00:38:46.940 but i mean gold silver carry their uh purchasing power throughout history right so like if you had

00:38:53.860 enough if you had to have two servants carry gold and silver that's a ton of money yeah that's a ton

00:38:59.540 of money and when he came to the tower he took them from their hand and bestowed them in the house

00:39:05.460 and he let the men go and they departed but he went in and stood before his master and elisha

00:39:11.840 said unto him whence comest thou gehazy it's another hard-hitting question where where'd you

00:39:17.360 come from bro you know what i'm saying like like we should live in a place where like we're never

00:39:21.780 ashamed if god says where are you coming from it's this this reminds me of like in the in the

00:39:26.920 garden when god's like where are you adam yeah it's the same thing he knows already dude

00:39:31.340 elisha said unto him whence comest thou gehazy and he said thy servant went nowhere and he said

00:39:36.760 unto him huh went not my heart with thee when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee

00:39:41.800 is it a time to receive money and to receive garments and olive yards and vineyards and

00:39:47.480 sheep and oxen and men's servants and maid servants? It's almost like he's saying it's

00:39:50.920 never enough, Gehazi. Like if you start to take money, it's never enough. It's never going to be

00:39:56.760 enough. Is it a time to receive money? Because then it goes to garments, olive yards, vineyards,

00:40:01.480 sheep, oxen, men's servants, maid servants. The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee 0.96

00:40:08.180 and unto thy seed forever and he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow 0.96

00:40:12.260 isn't that wild just saying dude the man of god is like he's like hey i don't need the money

00:40:18.620 and then and then the one who runs after and says oh no no no we need the money

00:40:23.120 he just brings a curse on him and his bloodline from then on

00:40:26.360 i'm just saying the whole context of what we're doing is you cannot serve god and mammon and i'm

00:40:31.960 just saying it's the there's some trickery when it comes to money man it's like jess says all the

00:40:37.000 time that was like it's not like drugs or alcohol you could just quit gambling hookers whatever it

00:40:42.280 is you just quit like the money we have to balance we had to find a balance so you had to operate

00:40:47.000 with it somehow but you cannot serve god and mammon and uh i think it's been said before

00:40:52.600 how do you know which one is your master what they both call who do you respond to

00:40:58.200 right money or god like in this case god was clearly calling this way money was calling this

00:41:03.560 way and gehazi answered to money that's how you know who your master is all right now we're in

00:41:09.800 one kings 18 17. this isn't going to be a super long study today we're starting to one kings 18

00:41:19.720 chapter 18 verse 17. this is your boy elijah we're going back in time a little bit that story was

00:41:26.360 elisha because i know sometimes people get mixed up a little bit that was elisha this is elijah

00:41:33.560 All right, here we go.

00:41:36.940 And it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah that Ahab said unto him,

00:41:40.800 Are you he that troubles Israel?

00:41:42.320 And he said, I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house,

00:41:45.780 and that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, 0.81

00:41:48.300 and thou hast followed Balaam, which is Baal. 0.98

00:41:52.020 Now therefore send. 0.98

00:41:53.700 That's not Balaam, right? 1.00

00:41:55.480 Different. 0.79

00:41:56.100 Okay.

00:41:56.960 No, it's like a different spelling.

00:41:59.180 Okay. 0.92

00:41:59.300 now therefore send and gather to me all israel all the covenant people he's not like a lot of

00:42:07.000 people get this passage mixed up that like oh elijah called like the world there no no no he

00:42:12.160 called the covenant people of that day there the church would you say like the church yeah the

00:42:17.280 house of god i call it the house of god because i it's in hebrews where um the writer in the

00:42:22.660 hebrew letter says that moses was a faithful servant in the house of god whereas jesus is a

00:42:27.380 son in the house of god so like to me this is just my take is like there's the covenant people

00:42:31.700 before the law like like like there's this entire covenant abraham isaac jacob enoch like there's

00:42:37.780 all these people like noah before the law there's people during the law and then there's people now

00:42:43.620 right so it's like we call it the church today but to me i'd say the church always existed

00:42:48.660 it's the house of god if you will it's the house of god like we're all part of the household of god

00:42:52.980 So this is the proclaiming household of God, right?

00:42:56.700 This is what's supposed to be the covenant people, 0.99

00:42:59.280 the one people on earth that are supposed to be like this pipe

00:43:04.540 that the glory of God flows through to all of the other nations.

00:43:09.260 Now, therefore, send and gather to me all Israel unto Mount Carmel

00:43:12.580 and the prophets of Baal 450 and the prophets of the groves 400, 0.97

00:43:17.240 which eat at Jezebel's table. 0.93

00:43:19.280 So these are all in the covenant church,

00:43:21.480 the covenant people of that day. You have the prophets of Baal, 400, and the prophets of the

00:43:27.280 groves, 400. Sorry, 450 of Baal and 400 of the grove. And they eat at Jezebel's table. It's all 0.97

00:43:34.260 in the church of that day. So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel and gathered the prophets

00:43:39.700 together unto Mount Carmel. And Elijah came unto all the people and said, how long halt you between

00:43:44.680 two opinions? This is touching everything that we talk about, right? It's like, you cannot serve

00:43:49.340 God and mammon. Store up for yourself treasure in heaven. Don't store up treasure on earth.

00:43:56.180 Your eye must be single. It cannot be evil. This is all wrapped up in this. How long halt you

00:44:01.900 between two opinions? The single eye is good. The plural eye that's looking at something

00:44:06.200 other than just the single eye, it's looking at something else, is bad. How long halt you 1.00

00:44:11.740 between two opinions? I know you're part of the covenant people, but you're divided. You don't

00:44:17.100 have a single eye you're not you're not focused singly on god if the lord is god follow him but

00:44:23.080 if bail then follow him that's his word to the church and what they say you guys can worship

00:44:30.980 god or you can worship bail but you can't worship both isn't that wild he doesn't even say you can't

00:44:36.460 worship bail he just says you can't worship both time to pick and the people answered him not a

00:44:43.040 word. That might be worse. Yeah, they got caught. They were like, oh, crap. Wait a minute. What are

00:44:50.800 we doing? You know, sometimes it just takes a guy to say it clear like that. Then said Elijah unto

00:44:55.880 the people, I even I only remain a prophet unto the Lord, but Baal's prophets are 450 men. Let 0.91

00:45:01.980 them therefore give us two bulls and let them choose one bull for themselves and cut it in

00:45:05.600 pieces and lay it on wood and put no fire under. And I will dress the other bull and lay it on

00:45:11.000 wood and put no fire under and call ye on the name of your gods. And I will call on the name

00:45:16.180 of the Lord. I like that. And the God that answers by fire, let him be God. And all the people

00:45:22.360 answered and said, it is well spoken. And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, choose you one

00:45:27.180 bowl for yourselves and dress it first for you are many and call on the name of your gods,

00:45:32.840 but put no fire under. And they took the bowl, which was given them and they dressed it and

00:45:39.100 called in the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, Oh, Baal, hear us. But there was

00:45:42.680 no voice nor any that answered. And they leapt upon the altar, which was made. And it came to

00:45:47.000 pass at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he's talking or

00:45:51.980 he's pursuing or he's in a journey or peradventure he sleeps and must be awakened. And they cried

00:45:57.400 aloud and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets till the blood gushed out upon

00:46:01.820 them. So I guess this that used to work for them, cutting themselves and bloodletting was was

00:46:06.720 working dude i told did i tell you about my uh my cruise um i think i might have told david about

00:46:12.380 on the cruise no no you didn't go on the cruise with me you should have went on the i'm saying 0.78

00:46:15.940 bloodletting on the cruise they were there was a woman in front of me woman woman one there was

00:46:20.320 just one lady and uh i was she like stood out for some reason we were on somewhat of an excursion 0.99

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00:48:47.500 And I noticed, like, she's weird, standing weird. 0.97

00:48:50.720 yeah she is and i noticed the tattoos on her arms the tattoos were like the maiden the the witch and

00:48:56.240 the crone the sun i mean it's like the moon full moon and the other crescent moon and i was like

00:49:00.980 okay dealing with the witch and now i'm like now i'm just looking at her observing her and then i

00:49:05.740 noticed all down her leg and all down her arm are like fine lines of scars like just oh cutting

00:49:13.520 bloodletting yeah and then i start to study the person she's with and i was like okay

00:49:18.300 fiance or boyfriend and i'm looking at the guy and like you could i could just read this dude

00:49:23.160 i'm like this dude is just like a giants fan he's like worried about football season you know like

00:49:27.900 that type cool dude wait so he was like surface level material level and she was just what appears

00:49:34.020 to be i could be i could be wrong this guy could be a warlock but like the way he carried himself

00:49:37.900 was like i was like oh no this guy is just like espn watcher and his girlfriend or whoever this

00:49:45.580 is to him like they're clearly together she's to the level of of like the prophets of of baal

00:49:51.580 bloodletting at mount carmal and he doesn't know i don't it doesn't seem like the guy knows weird

00:49:57.100 dude it's like popular unfortunately with like junior high kids and high school kids like cutting

00:50:01.820 and then you just realize like oh yeah this is nothing new like this this isn't some new thing

00:50:06.700 that people are dealing with today like this has always been a thing yeah it's it's interesting how

00:50:11.420 that phenomenon gets to that like because it is a it's a blood sacrifice of some type and they're

00:50:15.800 they're doing it here they're doing it all over the place all right we're back to verse uh where

00:50:20.120 we at 29 28 did we get that far yeah okay we said in 24 was in call on the name of your gods

00:50:28.720 and i'll call on the name of the lord and the god that answers by fire let him be god

00:50:33.140 okay now we're back in uh 28 and they cried aloud and cut themselves after their manner with knives

00:50:40.420 and lances till the blood gushed out upon them and it came to pass when midday was passed and

00:50:44.600 they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice that there was neither voice

00:50:48.980 nor any to answer nor any that regarded and elijah said unto all the people come near unto me

00:50:54.680 and all the people came near unto him and he repaired the altar of the lord that was broken

00:50:59.480 down you could say that's what prophets do and elijah took 12 stones according to the number

00:51:05.220 of the tribes of the sons of jacob unto whom the word of the lord came saying israel shall be thy

00:51:09.480 name. And with the stones, he built an altar in the name of the Lord. And he made a trench about

00:51:14.100 the altar as great as would contain two measures of seed. And he put the wood in order and cut the

00:51:19.420 bowl in pieces and laid them on the wood and said, fill four barrels with water and pour it on the

00:51:24.100 burnt sacrifice and on the wood. And he said, do it the second time. And they did it the second

00:51:28.420 time. And he said, do it the third time. And they did it the third time, just dumping water on the

00:51:32.420 sacrifice. They're in a drought as well. Yes. And the water ran round about the altar and he filled

00:51:38.180 the trench also with water. And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice

00:51:42.600 that Elijah the prophet came near and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known

00:51:47.660 this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these

00:51:52.540 things at thy word. So if there's anything we're wondering about in that whole process, we know

00:51:56.800 that God told Elijah to do that. He said, I did all this at thy word. Let me tell you something,

00:52:00.800 the design that I made for you and all the detail that you were like, no, no, it's got to have this,

00:52:04.780 got to have that like the at thy word the 850 the bloodletting it's like the water yeah the water

00:52:10.500 it's they yeah the prop the false prophets in a rage with blood on the arms and yeah

00:52:16.500 yeah that was a great that's a great t-shirt dude that's a legendary t

00:52:20.620 hear me oh lord hear me that this people may know that thou art the lord god and that thou

00:52:26.320 has turned their heart back again that's so wild man hear me oh lord hear me that this people may

00:52:34.060 know that thou art the Lord God and that thou has turned their heart back again through this process

00:52:39.460 through what just took place through what's taking place that's God turning their hearts back to him

00:52:45.440 that's like is that like a revival it's like he's allowed this for a while and he says okay this has

00:52:50.140 gone too far I'm going to turn your heart back to me yeah could say it's a revival then the fire of

00:52:57.160 the Lord fell he's just saying like so when the fire of the Lord falls I want you guys to know

00:53:00.940 what this is about. It's God turning your heart back to him. Then the fire of the Lord fell and

00:53:06.580 consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust and licked up the water

00:53:10.400 that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and they said,

00:53:14.580 the Lord, he is the God. The Lord, he is the God. And Elijah said unto them, take the prophets of

00:53:21.140 Baal, let not one of them escape. And they took them and Elijah brought them down to the brook 0.73

00:53:26.020 of Kishon and slew them there. All right. So what are we saying? We're saying that Elijah says,

00:53:30.940 you cannot serve God in Baal, right? 0.88

00:53:34.380 Jesus says you cannot serve God in Mammon. 0.63

00:53:37.020 There's this interesting connection 0.70

00:53:38.640 between Old Testament Baal and New Testament Mammon.

00:53:41.720 It's very intriguing.

00:53:42.880 I don't know how it goes down in other nations,

00:53:44.660 but in America, it feels like that makes perfect sense.

00:53:47.720 I don't know if it goes down like that 0.87

00:53:49.000 in third world nations

00:53:49.840 because maybe they don't have so much access to Mammon.

00:53:52.320 But like in this nation,

00:53:53.380 that makes perfect sense to me, man, 0.91

00:53:54.980 that the same way Israel could not serve God in Baal

00:53:59.220 in that exact same way the church cannot serve god and mammon like in the exact same way and

00:54:04.800 it does beg this question this is a question i think about man is like could this system that's

00:54:09.180 in place today could it run on god with no money that's one question you know it's you know this

00:54:16.620 remind me i know it's kind of crazy the story outside of here like uh duncan america runs on

00:54:22.040 duncan and it's just it kind of like america runs on mammon well what about the church though is my

00:54:28.380 concern right yeah could the church could the current 501c3 system that runs today could it

00:54:33.240 run with god and no money that's one question and the next question is could it run with money

00:54:38.840 but no god yeah yes well there we are man yeah i guess to both right well i don't think this

00:54:48.160 current structure could run on god and no money it requires so much money now the church the true

00:54:53.420 church that meets in homes and there's nothing wrong with meeting in big buildings either i'm

00:54:57.120 I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that if you have a big group.

00:55:00.600 But, like, you look at the structure today and everything that it requires, it could run with money, whether God's in it or not.

00:55:09.360 The way it's run now, could it run with God but no money?

00:55:13.260 Not the way that it's set up today, no.

00:55:17.080 But the church can always operate with God without money.

00:55:21.580 Doesn't mean money's bad, right?

00:55:23.460 It just means you cannot serve God and mammon. 0.95

00:55:26.140 You got to pick.

00:55:27.120 This is like the parable of the man that can't enter heaven.

00:55:31.300 I mean, what did he say?

00:55:31.920 It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven sort of idea.

00:55:38.200 Right, right.

00:55:38.500 It's loaded, man.

00:55:39.680 And it also brings up this question that Elijah was bringing up.

00:55:43.420 Like he referenced your gods and then the God.

00:55:47.680 And like that's still an issue in the church today, man.

00:55:51.340 These are all still issues today.

00:55:53.820 All right, you say, yeah, but this is all Old Testament.

00:55:56.460 There's no relevance to this in the New Testament.

00:55:58.500 Okay, let's go to Acts chapter 8. 1.00

00:56:01.720 This is wild because this is what the homie James referenced earlier, 1.00

00:56:05.800 this exact story. 1.00

00:56:07.700 We're going to be in Acts chapter 8, verses 1 through 24,

00:56:10.920 and then we're almost done.

00:56:12.500 Okay, maybe not almost done, but we don't have a long one today.

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00:58:33.300 to talk to yourself for an hour you might as well publish it and soul was cons was consenting unto

00:58:40.140 his death that stephen's death okay and at the time there was great persecution against the church

00:58:45.640 which was at Jerusalem and they were all scattered abroad throughout the

00:58:49.160 regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

00:58:52.980 So that church that was told to go to Jerusalem, Samaria, Judea,

00:58:58.460 the uttermost parts of the earth, they didn't leave. They didn't leave,

00:59:01.900 but then there was persecution and then that scattered them abroad.

00:59:05.860 So they at least went to Judea and Samaria by that time,

00:59:09.360 but they were scattered abroad. But the, but the apostles stayed in Jerusalem,

00:59:14.100 him, which is just wild. This is a bigger story to unpack. It's like they weren't really supposed

00:59:18.720 to stay there. They were told to go. And devout men carried Stephen to his burial and made great

00:59:25.020 lamentation over him. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house and

00:59:29.860 inhaling men and women committed them to prison. Therefore, they that were scattered abroad went

00:59:35.940 everywhere preaching the word. Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ

00:59:41.060 unto them. He didn't preach like doctrine or theories or concepts or whatever. He just preached

00:59:48.520 Christ. There's a thought. Right. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which

00:59:55.560 Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. This is very much what James is

01:00:00.820 keying in on. For unclean spirits crying with loud voice came out of many that were possessed with

01:00:06.320 them and many taken with palsies and that were lame were healed and there was great joy in that

01:00:12.580 city but there was a certain man called simon which before time in the same city used sorcery

01:00:18.200 and bewitched the people of samaria giving out that himself was some great one you know what

01:00:24.100 this wasn't even recorded this conversation with james this was after okay it's crazy right so

01:00:31.400 what the the people that watch the watch these shows don't know how much is said before and

01:00:36.300 after show sometimes it's like man i wish that was recorded but after the show was crazy way

01:00:41.540 crazier than the show anyway go ahead continue to whom they all gave heed from the least to the

01:00:48.440 greatest saying this man is the great power of god so that sorcery word uh isn't like i think

01:00:53.700 sorcery is sometimes pharmakia is that i don't know i'm gonna mix up but this one's not it's

01:00:57.780 like magio which i think is like a magic so he's like uh he's like tricking people through magic

01:01:03.380 he's got him bewitched which is like astonished um it's not the same bewitched from the galatian

01:01:09.240 letter that's a different greek word the the magic term when you're talking about pharmakie

01:01:14.920 you're talking about like chemical substance that could fundamentally change your your brain

01:01:19.020 chemistry when you're talking about magic this is also what we're talking about with james we're

01:01:22.320 talking about like uh slight of slight of hand yeah a card trick kind of astonishing people with

01:01:27.060 it he's doing that tricks just yeah parlor tricks yeah to whom they all gave heed from the least of 0.99

01:01:32.540 the greatest saying this man is the great power of god he had them all duped all the black people

01:01:36.740 ran away and to him they had regard because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries 0.92

01:01:42.480 but when they believed philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of god in the name of jesus

01:01:48.740 christ they were baptized both men and women then simon himself believed also the scripture says

01:01:55.940 Simon believed also. And when he was baptized, he continued with Philip and wondered, beholding the

01:02:03.160 miracles and signs which were done. So he's drawn to the supernatural, right? Like he's drawn to it,

01:02:09.140 but curiosity isn't enough. Now, when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had

01:02:17.660 received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John. This is intriguing and sparks

01:02:22.100 debates within the church so so they so they've already believed they've received the word of god

01:02:27.300 they've been baptized in jesus name heard that samaria received the word of god they sent unto

01:02:35.060 them peter and john who when they were come down prayed for them that they might receive the holy

01:02:39.700 ghost so there's a process there's like levels to this levels you could say yeah they're baptized

01:02:46.820 but what this is saying is they had not received the holy ghost so in this case not in every case

01:02:53.620 uh peter and john are sent that they may receive the holy ghost for as yet he was fallen upon none

01:03:01.220 of them only they were baptized in the name of the lord jesus why do you think that is why do

01:03:06.180 you think that the holy ghost has not fallen upon these people that have discovered the church and

01:03:10.500 and the gospel of jesus christ like does this does the holy ghost have to be delivered like

01:03:17.940 or explained to the people like they don't even have a concept of this idea or

01:03:21.780 why is that i don't think it's that and i and i think like in this case it says

01:03:25.860 like in this next verse it says then laid they their hands on them and they received the holy

01:03:30.020 ghost but like if you look at peter when he preaches in cornelia's house he doesn't lay

01:03:34.180 hands on him he's just preaching and the holy ghost falls on them and they say

01:03:37.540 which is another intriguing thing here they're baptized in water and then through the laying

01:03:43.420 on of hands they receive the holy ghost in cornelia's house peter's just preaching and

01:03:48.860 they receive the holy ghost then they're baptized in water like it's two different things man and so

01:03:54.680 it does seem like there's a there's a reception of the holy spirit in the salvation process i'm

01:04:02.400 not saying like when you go in the water that that happens i'm not saying that i'm saying that

01:04:06.500 Like all these things are connected, but there's a point where like you do receive the Holy Spirit.

01:04:10.960 And to my view, through stories like this, it looks like there's something more to the fullness of the Holy Spirit than just receiving the Holy Spirit initially.

01:04:19.680 And I think the language of the Bible and talks about being filled with the Spirit or baptized with the Spirit, it's talking about overflow of the Holy Spirit.

01:04:27.580 It's not just talking about like receiving a measure of the Spirit, but actually receiving a measure so much that you're overflowing, that there's a fullness of the Holy Ghost.

01:04:36.500 which i know this gets into like crazy and then people like oh he's in that camp or he must be in

01:04:40.340 this camp like i i don't know i'm just saying study the scripture like they were baptized

01:04:44.900 they had the joy of the lord that that's like a fruit of the spirit so it looks like you know

01:04:48.820 they had joy they believed all this language is of people who have already received salvation

01:04:53.540 and they still say we had to send peter and john so that they'll receive the holy ghost

01:04:59.620 so take that however you want but then laid they their hands on them and they received the holy

01:05:04.740 ghost and when simon saw that through laying on of the apostles hands the holy ghost was given

01:05:10.900 he offered them money though this is a physical tangible act that you can

01:05:16.200 same idea with uh i mean it is a physical tangible act they're laying hands and people

01:05:21.960 are receiving the holy ghost yeah but it's not one that's transactionary like you can't sell me that

01:05:27.020 right it's it's not from you do you think anybody in church history has said oh you can

01:05:32.380 and let me get my jacket and smack you with it real quick you see what i'm saying i mean like

01:05:36.840 we have all these examples man yeah and when simon saw that through laying on of the apostles

01:05:41.540 hands the holy ghost was given he offered them money saying give me also this power that on

01:05:46.400 whomsoever i lay hands he may receive the holy ghost so he didn't just want it that like he would

01:05:52.360 receive it but that he could distribute it uh-huh give me also this power that on whomsoever i lay

01:05:58.920 hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said unto him, thy money perish with thee because

01:06:04.580 you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. Dude, do people still

01:06:10.200 think this is like a relevant statement? Peter said unto him, thy money perish with thee because

01:06:17.320 you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. So the gift of God is

01:06:22.520 not purchasable with money did he condemn him to hell basically is that what that means i don't

01:06:29.540 think so because if you're i mean you don't you're not going to perish if you have everlasting life

01:06:34.040 but if your your money's going to perish no matter i mean it's a fair question i don't i don't think

01:06:38.660 so but i see how you could take it that way like your money die with you that's what it sounds like

01:06:42.580 a curse in a way but it might not be i don't know well it's strong language no matter what he didn't

01:06:47.460 say oh that's okay brother just come watch the show with me on sunday everything will be okay

01:06:51.640 he definitely gave him strong language because he loved him right peter said unto him thy money

01:06:57.080 perish with thee because you thought that the gift of god may be purchased with money that gives him

01:07:01.240 some counsel you have neither part nor a lot in this matter because your heart is not right in

01:07:05.880 the sight of god so this is a dude who believed and is baptized but his heart is not right in the

01:07:11.400 sight of god i i don't know that's a curious thing dude would we would we say that today

01:07:17.320 They always say, yeah, yeah, I'll take the money.

01:07:20.980 Repent, therefore.

01:07:22.000 So he tells them, hey, man, this is the way back.

01:07:25.240 Repent, therefore, of this, thy wickedness,

01:07:27.260 and pray, God, if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

01:07:30.920 For I perceive that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.

01:07:34.860 Then answered Simon and said, pray to the Lord for me

01:07:37.540 that none of these things which you have spoken come upon me.

01:07:41.720 It's an interesting passage, dude.

01:07:44.140 Now we're talking about intercessory prayer as well.

01:07:47.320 right he says well he tells him yeah you pray says will you pray for me and i know people are

01:07:51.400 like ragging him for that but i i don't know the man's heart like maybe he was desperate

01:07:55.320 and thought to himself yeah i'm gonna go pray but please before i go you pray for me too man i i

01:07:59.480 don't know i screwed this up all i know is the way we conduct ourselves in the world and like i just

01:08:04.520 thought like this was the highest honor was i could give you money i don't know it's kind of

01:08:08.120 interesting though he like this dude that's this dude just previously asked for uh he's like yeah

01:08:14.200 yeah, yeah, let me get that gift too. I'll give you some money. And then that way I could do.

01:08:17.340 And then right after that, he asked for something else, which I'm not so sure about either. It's

01:08:21.220 like, how about you pray for yourself, dude? He saw the value in it. You know what I mean?

01:08:25.600 Like he was shady, but he saw the value in what they had.

01:08:28.560 But is this, is this possible that like, this is like another misplaced thing where,

01:08:32.300 and I'm not saying we shouldn't pray for other people, but I'm like, I don't know if this guy,

01:08:35.880 the first thing you ask is something that is completely offensive and insulting to Peter,

01:08:40.460 where he tells you, you're probably going to perish for this. And then the second thing you

01:08:44.100 asked is like, can you approach the Lord for me? I was like, yo, I don't know. Like, that's a fair

01:08:47.280 point. Yeah. And I think a lot of people do look at it like that. And that could be totally right

01:08:50.680 too, man. I don't know. When somebody tells me like, oh, pray for me. Like there, there's two

01:08:55.340 different types of, of that. Like pray for me. He's like, yeah, man, I, I will. And I hope that

01:08:59.420 that like helps you. But then someone that approaches you and you goes, they go, they go,

01:09:03.300 I'm going to pray for you because you're the, and I'm just like, I don't know, no, don't do that.

01:09:08.820 keep it. Yeah, keep that. Keep that. That's something else. Yeah, I don't know. I don't

01:09:15.600 feel comfortable with any of that kind of stuff, but whatever. Okay, so now we're in Acts chapter

01:09:20.840 five. We're just going to roll through some of these passages that have to do with money.

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01:11:44.400 Acts chapter five, starting in verse one.

01:11:46.500 We've unpacked this passage before, and you do have to start back in four and finish off

01:11:50.900 four because it's talking about how people were bringing, selling land, coming and bringing

01:11:56.400 the money and giving it to the apostles. So that's the context that people were selling their land

01:12:00.340 and giving the full amount to the apostles, telling them this is the full amount and giving it to

01:12:04.340 them. But a certain man named Ananias with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession and kept

01:12:09.480 back part of the price. His wife also being privy to it and brought a certain part and laid it at

01:12:15.120 the apostles' feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy

01:12:20.100 ghost and to keep back part of the price of the land. So this is a money issue, man. A lot of

01:12:26.400 people miss this stuff, dude. These are money issues. A lot of people miss this too. Do you

01:12:30.220 know why Judas was a traitor to Jesus? For 30 pieces of silver. Ultimately, that's what that

01:12:37.700 was about. I think a lot of us, we think about, we're like, oh, well, he didn't understand that

01:12:41.920 there was going to be two comings. He didn't understand that he was going to come as the

01:12:45.520 suffering servant first. And so he was in expectation of him coming in and wiping out Rome, 0.60

01:12:49.920 you know, at his first coming. And so that's, it's like, okay, but he sold them out for money.

01:12:55.120 He like, like ultimately the deal was 30 pieces of silver, right? Like these are money issues,

01:13:00.520 man. People, I don't think people understand like the danger in money. And again, it's a thing we

01:13:05.000 have to deal with. So we have to find a balance with it, but it's dangerous. You cannot serve God

01:13:10.080 and mammon. Peter says, while it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in 0.55

01:13:16.100 your own power? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied unto men, but

01:13:21.560 unto God. Again, dealing with money. And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and gave up the

01:13:28.780 ghost. And great fear came on all them that heard these things. And the young man arose, wound him

01:13:33.700 up and carried him out and buried him. And it was about the space of three hours after when his wife,

01:13:38.160 not knowing what was done came in and peter answered unto her tell me whether you sold the

01:13:42.720 land for so much and she said yeah for so much then peter said unto her how is it that you have

01:13:47.380 agreed together to tempt the spirit of the lord will hold the feet of them which have buried your

01:13:51.720 husband are at the door and shall carry you out can you imagine prophesying death in the church

01:13:56.020 today he's prophesying death then fell she down straightway at his feet and yielded up the ghost

01:14:05.040 and the young men came in and found her dead and carrying her forth buried her by her husband and

01:14:11.360 great fear came upon all the church and upon as many as as heard these things these are wild

01:14:18.560 passages dude but they're money passages man they just get kind of brushed over a lot they're money

01:14:23.640 passages you cannot serve god and man so we're wrapping up this whole thing with the with the uh

01:14:29.280 don't store up treasure on earth do store up treasure on heaven your eye must be single

01:14:33.720 Don't let your eye be evil.

01:14:35.240 You cannot serve God and mammon. 0.95

01:14:36.660 Like, we're wrapping it up, and we're going to roll into to not be anxious over money, right?

01:14:41.860 This whole section is different, but we're cooking now.

01:14:45.300 Let's look at Luke 16 real quick, and then we'll be close to the end.

01:14:47.740 I don't think we're going to do all those psalms.

01:14:50.560 You don't have those anyway.

01:14:52.720 I have them in the NLC, but we can look them up.

01:14:55.140 It's up to you.

01:14:57.480 All right, Luke 16.

01:14:58.720 Yeah, we'll go Luke 16.

01:15:00.240 We're going to look at verses 1 through 13.

01:15:05.380 And he said unto his disciples, there was a certain rich man which had a steward,

01:15:10.820 and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

01:15:15.920 And he called him and said unto him,

01:15:17.480 How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship,

01:15:21.040 for you may no longer be steward.

01:15:23.860 Then the steward said within himself,

01:15:25.540 What shall I do? For my Lord takes away from me the stewardship.

01:15:28.880 I cannot dig to beg.

01:15:30.620 I am ashamed.

01:15:31.640 I am resolved what to do that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me

01:15:36.120 into their houses.

01:15:38.380 So he's not just trying to like save his job.

01:15:40.520 He's trying to make some friends out of like, he's getting thrown out.

01:15:44.220 What can he do now?

01:15:46.640 So he called every one of his Lord's debtors unto him and said unto the first, how much

01:15:52.120 do you owe my Lord?

01:15:53.160 And he said, a hundred measure of oil.

01:15:54.940 He said, take that bill and sit down quickly and write 50.

01:15:58.440 then said he to another how much do you owe and he said a hundred measures of wheat he said unto

01:16:05.080 him take thy bill and write four score that's 80 and the lord commended the unjust steward because

01:16:12.880 he had done wisely now you hear different interpretations of this like this guy was

01:16:17.260 paid on commission and he was simply saying like don't pay me the commission just pay this full

01:16:22.860 thing to my master and then that way you guys will be my buddy when because i'm about to lose

01:16:28.240 my job yeah yeah there's several different views on this i'm not even getting into that this looks

01:16:32.180 like some accounting errors yeah yeah that's not the main point i'm getting at here but the lord

01:16:36.780 commended the unjust steward because he had done wisely for the children of this world are in their

01:16:41.120 generation wiser than the children of light it's a staggering statement man it's just like people

01:16:46.320 that go hard for mammon they're much more serious another thing james is talking about man that like

01:16:52.240 people who are going hard for the kingdom of god need to go hard for the kingdom of god like the

01:16:57.240 People that are of the world and going hard for mammon and all of the other things, they

01:17:01.860 go hard for those things.

01:17:04.320 That's what he's saying here, because he had done wisely.

01:17:06.780 For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

01:17:10.620 And I say unto you, here's what he says to do with mammon.

01:17:14.080 Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when you fail, they 0.68

01:17:18.340 may receive you into everlasting habitations.

01:17:22.260 He's saying like, yeah, you come across money, man, use it in the natural realm.

01:17:26.240 make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness that when you fail they may

01:17:30.760 receive you into everlasting habitations use it in such a way that in eternity it's going to matter

01:17:36.080 that those people when you see them in eternity they're like my man that was cool down there that

01:17:41.220 was cool we were doing down there don't use it just for selfish gain don't use it because you

01:17:45.360 serve it and you're trying to store it up use it for friendship use it for good use it to further

01:17:51.060 Sure. The kingdom of God. Yeah. He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much.

01:18:00.560 That's a big statement, man. Right. He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much like the Bible talks about like money, monetary gain, mammon in the earth as being least like a very low thing.

01:18:13.880 he that is faithful now which is least is faithful also in much and he that is unjust in the least

01:18:19.540 is unjust also in much like whatever you are you are that you know the people who are like oh if i

01:18:25.600 had all this money i would do this this this and this you say okay well let me see your life right

01:18:29.140 now like what are you what are you doing with your money that you have right now okay well don't assume

01:18:33.060 if you had way more you would be doing this that and the other right whatever you have whatever

01:18:37.580 you do when you have little that's what you'll do with more it's just the way it works if therefore

01:18:43.420 you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon who will commit to your trust the true

01:18:48.220 riches that's a wild statement and if you have not been faithful in that which is another man's

01:18:55.900 who shall give you that which is your own talking about eternal stuff man like if i can't trust you

01:19:02.380 with this stuff on the earth that doesn't last forever how can i trust you with riches that

01:19:07.020 last forever what are the promise of the saints that they're they're going to like

01:19:10.140 like, help rule over New Jerusalem, like, you're going to get that, but you can't be responsible

01:19:15.800 for $20? You're going to judge angels? Like, yeah, yeah. You think I can trust you to judge

01:19:19.120 angels? Like, in the Corinthian letter, it says that they're taking each other to court.

01:19:23.440 It says, you guys are going to a worldly court, like, suing each other, and you're in the church?

01:19:28.080 And I think that's the context where he says, do you not know you'll judge angels? Like,

01:19:31.640 if I can't trust you with, like, dealings amongst yourselves, how are you going to be

01:19:35.880 trusted in eternal things. This is always the lesson in all of this. It's like, hey,

01:19:40.800 manage your life in such a way that honors eternity, that you could be trusted in eternity.

01:19:47.120 Think bigger. Yeah. If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon,

01:19:52.380 who will commit to your trust to true riches? Because mammon's not true riches.

01:19:56.820 And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which

01:20:00.540 is your own? No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other,

01:20:05.420 or else he will hold to the one and despise the other you cannot serve god and mammon

01:20:12.140 all right maybe we wrap this up with a blue letter bible search on the word uh covetous can we do

01:20:17.100 that yeah and then we'll just pull it up in the in the new testament whatever that greek word

01:20:22.620 greek word is and see what it says and the reason i want to do that at the end here is just that um

01:20:26.860 the word covet covetous c-o-v-e-t-o-u-s covetous because on this section to me the way i see this

01:20:37.880 like this matthew 6 um what is it 19 through 24 we've been unpacking uh has to do with being

01:20:47.280 covetous over money we're going to go into the next section next week which is actually shouldn't

01:20:51.980 take as long as this section uh but it goes matthew 6 25 through 34 when we get into that

01:20:57.820 it's going to talk about not being anxious for money this section i feel like is saying like

01:21:01.200 don't be covetous for money and then the next section is saying like don't be anxious for money

01:21:05.880 so we'll unpack that next week but this is what it looks like if you look at the word

01:21:10.000 covetous which is which is what all this kind of revolves around

01:21:13.640 if we can go full screen uh so the transliteration is bossa botswa the pronunciation

01:21:25.440 all right and look at look at these definite look at how it's translated right here

01:21:29.720 uh it's translated as gained given greedy covetous covetous cut finish fulfilled

01:21:37.980 get performed and wounded these are all the different ways that that word

01:21:42.000 um wait hold on can you did you put in covetous c-o-v-e-t-o-u-s yeah that's all the different

01:21:50.200 ways it popped up and what was the what was the um did it give you a word that you were able to

01:21:55.700 click on that brought all that up hold on yeah the covetous right h 12 14 okay basa this is right

01:22:05.580 Yeah.

01:22:07.220 All right, let's go down.

01:22:08.440 So we keep scrolling.

01:22:10.500 So it's to cut off, break off, gain by unrighteous violence, get finished, be covetous, be greedy.

01:22:20.320 Hold on, let me look at this real quick.

01:22:25.660 I don't know, maybe I did pull up a different...

01:22:28.520 Let's go back to Luke 16, 14.

01:22:30.840 Sorry about that.

01:22:31.440 Maybe we'll pull up that.

01:22:32.300 That may be a different Greek word.

01:22:33.640 I think that it doesn't pull it out the same.

01:22:36.080 Sorry, that's my bad.

01:22:36.980 It's all right.

01:22:37.800 Oh, that's right.

01:22:38.400 I pulled it up in the Hebrew.

01:22:41.900 So it's probably giving us a slightly different word.

01:22:46.520 Okay, here we go.

01:22:48.160 Yeah, yeah.

01:22:48.700 Sorry, I finished in 13.

01:22:50.120 I should have finished in 14.

01:22:50.820 It says, and the Pharisees also who were covetous heard all these things and they derided him.

01:22:55.580 So after Jesus is explaining all this stuff about faithfulness with mammon, the Pharisees are listening to it and they're pissed.

01:23:02.620 So if we pull up that word covetous in Luke 16, 14, I think that's going to give us a more fuller understanding of like what Jesus is talking about.

01:23:12.180 Yeah.

01:23:12.360 So that is the Greek word philagoros.

01:23:15.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:23:16.320 Sorry.

01:23:16.660 That's the word I was looking for.

01:23:17.860 Gotcha.

01:23:18.600 All right.

01:23:18.980 So this one, loving money is really what this one comes down to.

01:23:25.820 Does it tell you all the different ways that it translates it?

01:23:29.980 No.

01:23:30.560 Can we go bigger than that?

01:23:31.540 that's like way too hard for me to read sorry yeah i don't know if we can't let me see there

01:23:37.520 we go that's kind of interesting all right loving money strong okay now we're scrolling down

01:23:43.940 yeah i don't know if we look at all yeah even if we just scroll down to all the different places

01:23:53.840 where it's used but it's covetous it's loving money if we keep scrolling it'll show us all

01:23:59.480 yeah right here the pharisees also who were covetous

01:24:02.620 heard all these uh for men shall be loved and then in 2 timothy 3 2 it says for men shall be 0.57

01:24:11.060 lovers of their own selves covetous boasters brow blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful and

01:24:16.380 unholy so this is just this is just these passages that are explaining like what happens when you

01:24:21.180 have the love of mammon it's your covetous like that's ultimately what it is you're trying to

01:24:25.780 store up on earth what you shouldn't be doing. You should be storing up treasure in heaven,

01:24:31.040 but because of covetousness, because of the love of money, you want to store up mammon and you

01:24:35.680 cannot serve God and mammon. And this has to be a warning to all of us from people at the very tip

01:24:39.920 top of the church system to just like, you know, brand new Christians. You just have to know right 1.00

01:24:45.240 away. You have to be very careful with covetousness and the love of mammon. We're going to wrap this

01:24:50.240 up right now with, um, with this whole warning against covetousness and not serving God and

01:24:55.180 mammon. And then we're going to roll into it next week. We're talking about not being anxious

01:24:59.520 about money, which is actually just as important. So that's it until next time.

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