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This program is made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners of Renner Ministries.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner. My friend,
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I've been sitting right
here waiting for you
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and thank you for spending
this time with me.
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Today we're gonna continue our
brand new series called How
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to Open the Windows of
Heaven Over Your Life,
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What the Bible really says about Giving.
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On Monday, we saw that
God is generous with those
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that are generous.
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On Tuesday, we saw how God responds to sacrificial giving.
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And yesterday we specifically
saw how to open the window
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of heaven over your life.
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We studied Malachi 3:10,
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about the window of heaven.
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In every place, the window
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of heaven shows up in the Old Testament,
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something miraculous
comes pouring through it.
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And that is why in Malachi 3:10, God says,
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I will open the windows of heaven
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and pour you out a blessing
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so big you will not
have room to receive it.
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Which means we need to upgrade our faith
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to realize God wants
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to do more than just
merely meet our needs,
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he wants to flood us with
his goodness in response
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to our giving.
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That is amazing.
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But this 5-part series comes in multiple formats
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and it comes with a study guide so
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that you can read it while you
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and even those are close to growing cold?
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If you're on fire for
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and he really will.
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But let us know how to pray for you.
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I'll be back in just a moment.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Reach for your Bible, and I want you
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to open your Bible today to Luke 21
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and today we're gonna see what Jesus had
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to say about generosity and the giving.
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But I want us to begin
with our anchor verse,
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which is in Matthew 6:21,
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where Jesus remarkably said, For
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where your treasure is there will your heart be
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also. That verse may seem very simplistic,
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but I've learned through
life this verse is
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really the truth.
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What you do with your money
reveals where your heart is,
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and that's what Jesus
said in this verse - for
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where your treasure is. The word,
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where, in Greek means exactly
there in the very place
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where your treasure is. The word, treasure, is a form
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of the Greek word thesaurus,
which describes a treasure
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or it depicts money, riches,
resources, or investments.
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It really means where you put your cash,
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where you put your resources,
where you put your money,
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where you put your treasure,
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there will your heart be also.
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And the word there in
Greek is the word ekei.
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It means there exactly there.
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And it's really true in life that
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where people put their
money really demonstrates
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what they love because
people put their money into
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what they love.
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If you love your children, you're going
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to invest in your children.
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If you love your spouse, you're going
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to invest in your spouse.
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If you love your house,
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you're gonna put your
treasure in your house.
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If you love your education, you're going
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to invest in your education.
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If you love yourself, you're
going to invest in yourself.
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This is a principle clearly taught
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by Jesus in Matthew 6:21:
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Where your treasure is there will your heart be.
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Also for this very reason, for years
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and years when somebody said they wanted
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to be a leader in our church,
it was important for me
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to ask them, do you give?
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Because whether or not they give reveals whether their heart
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is really in the church.
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If they don't give, then their
heart is not in the church.
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You say, Rick, that seems rather strict.
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Well, that's what Jesus said,
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where your treasure is there
will your heart be also.
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But Jesus said a lot himself about
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generosity and giving.
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Somebody may argue, but you
know this week all the verses
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you've used, they've all
been from the Old Testament.
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Well, today we're gonna go to Luke 21,
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and we're going to see an example
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that we find when Jesus was in
the temple standing near the
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treasury, watching how people gave,
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and he was watching what people gave.
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And remember that Hebrew 13:8 says,
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Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today
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and forever - which means if he did it he's still doing it.
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He's the same yesterday,
today and forever.
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And it is unthinkable what he was doing.
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Jesus was standing near the place
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where people were putting
their contributions into the
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contribution box, into the treasury,
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and he was watching how they gave
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and he was watching what they gave.
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He was standing so close by,
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he could see the amount
they were putting into the
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contribution box.
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Just imagine if the offering plate was being passed down the
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aisles in your church and
your pastor followed the plate
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and he stood in front
of every single person
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and looked into their face
to see how they were giving,
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and then looked at what
was leaving their hand
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and what they were putting
into the plate to see
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what they were giving.
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That is exactly what
Jesus was doing that day.
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He was looking to see how
reverently they were giving.
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Were they giving with faith
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or were they just casually giving?
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What were they giving?
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Were they really obeying
God with their money?
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Jesus was watching
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and the Bible tells us in Luke 21:1,
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And he looked up and saw the rich men casting their gifts
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into the treasury.
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The word, saw, is a form of the Greek word horao,
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which describes a scrutinizing look
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or to look with the intent to examine.
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So Jesus was really examining
what they were giving.
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And remember, he's the same yesterday, today and forever.
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He's still examining us when we give
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to see if we're giving correctly
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and if we're giving
with the right attitude.
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That's what he was looking at.
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And the Bible says he specifically saw the rich men; he drew
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near to examine what they were giving.
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The word rich is a form of the Greek word, plousios.
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It describes those that
are fabulously wealthy.
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And when Jesus watched them,
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he saw they were casting
their gifts into the treasury.
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The word casting that is used
here depicts their attitude.
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It means to toss something
or throw an object.
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They were not reverently
putting it into the treasury,
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but they were just throwing
it in as they walked by.
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It was very casual. It
required no reverence.
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It required no faith.
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They were just casting of their excess into the treasury.
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And the word treasury that is
used here also is important
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because it is the Greek
word which depicts the place
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where the contributions were kept.
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These were not really offerings for them.
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This wasn't something sacrificial and reverential,
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they were just making a contribution and Jesus was watching.
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He observed it. He was looking
with a scrutinizing gaze
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to see how they were giving
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and to see exactly what they were giving.
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And my friends, they were
not giving correctly,
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and we can be pretty sure they were
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giving something like this.
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This is a silver coin
from the first century,
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which is pretty valuable.
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But these men were, plousios;
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they had a lot of funds
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and they were not giving what
they should have been giving
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and they were not giving
with the right attitude.
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And the Bible goes on to say in verse 2;
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And Jesus saw also
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a certain poor widow casting in thither 2 mites.
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The word saw is the same word
we saw in verse one, a form
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of the Greek word horao, which describes a scrutinizing look
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or to look with the intention to examine.
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Jesus drew near when
he saw this poor widow
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and Jesus really began to
take a scrutinizing look.
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He's examining how she's giving, what kind
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of attitude she demonstrates as she gives.
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He's watching what she gives
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and the verse says; Jesus saw also.
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And in Greek, the word, also, is a translation
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of the word de, which here is used like an
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exclamation marker -
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this really got Jesus attention.
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So he's standing there
watching one rich man
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after another rich man come
by just tossing their money in
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with no reverence, with no faith,
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and not even giving the amount
they should have been giving.
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And then - de - wow! emphatically amazingly.
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Then he saw - what did he see - a certain poor widow.
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The word, poor, is a translation of the Greek
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word, penichros.
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Now there's several words for
poor in the Greek language.
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This particular word depicts
a person living in abject
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poverty: one so poor that he
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or she often lived by begging.
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So this was not just a poor person.
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This was a person living in abject poverty
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who possibly made her living by begging.
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And Jesus saw her, the Greek word de,
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remarkably, emphatically, it's like an exclamation mark.
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It really got his attention: casting in thither 2 mites.
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And here the word in, is a translate to the Greek word ekei,
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which means putting there.
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She had a completely
different attitude in the
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way that she gave.
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The rich man just walked by
and tossed in their gifts.
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But this little woman came
along and placed it there.
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This was a great, great sacrifice for this little woman.
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And the Bible says - she placed there 2 mites.
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Well, what was a mite? A
mite was a small coin made
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of brass, and it was
worth very, very little.
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It was the smallest
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and the most least valuable coin in the
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currency of that day.
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And to the natural eye, it looked like
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that woman gave very, very little.
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And I brought a might.
This is what a might is.
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It's very small. It
wasn't worth very much.
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But Jesus was so impressed
with what this woman gave
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and the way that she gave
the enormity of her faith
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and the reverence
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with which she placed
it into the treasury,
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that he stopped everything
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and said, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
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I need to make a statement.
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He said, look at this little woman.
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He had been watching the way she gave
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and he'd been watching what she gave.
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And Jesus said in verse 3; Of a truth,
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I say unto you that this poor widow
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has cast in more than they all.
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because the rich men were
casting in silver coins
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and the little poor widow
had just cast in two mites
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that were not worth very much.
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which means truly, certainly, surely
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or better translated - in reality.
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In reality, I say unto you - that. The word
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that, in Greek is the word hoti -
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which means - now Jesus is gonna really point
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to something very important
that this poor widow,
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and here Jesus uses another word for poor,
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the Greek word ptochos, which means one that is deeply,
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deeply destitute: one
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that is completely lacking in resources.
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who crouches in embarrassment
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because of their poverty.
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She was embarrassed
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because she was so poor,
she was embarrassingly poor.
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where the contributions were made.
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with faith and reverence her 2-mites into the place
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where the contributions were kept.
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And Jesus said, I say to
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He uses a Greek word, hoti.
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Now he's going to point to
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This poor woman have cast in more than
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they all.
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Wow. And the phrase more
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adjective, meaning greater
in quantity, numerically more
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something of a much greater
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But wait. In fact,
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she only put two small
mites into the treasury.
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The rich men were casting silver coins,
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but Jesus literally meant
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what this poor widow has just
put into the treasury is more
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than they all.
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it means if you add up
all the giving of all
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of the rich people and
combine it all together,
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what this poor widow just
put in is worth more than all
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of their gifts combined.
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two mights were worth a lot less than all
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those combined gifts.
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So what did Jesus mean? Well,
let's look at verse 4.
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For all of these have
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of their abundance cast in
unto the offerings of God,
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but she of her penury hath cast in all the living
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that she had.
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When Jesus says, for these
have of their abundance,
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the Greek literally means, of their excess.
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It could be translated - out
of their overflowing excess.
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They've just randomly,
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casually just cast into
the offerings of God.
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but again, is the Greek word de,
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which is an exclamation marker.
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It's like Jesus says, wow,
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it is amazing; this little woman emphatically of her penury.
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What does that mean? The word penury,
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is a translation of a form
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of the Greek word, husterous.
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And here a better translation would be: out of her lack, out
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of her deficit, out of her insufficiency:
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this was a woman who had great lack in her life
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and out of her lack, Jesus
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The word all is a translation of the Greek word panta.
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The word pan, is all encompassing.
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You put it all together, everything; it is all inclusive.
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All the living that she had. The word living, the Greek word
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bion, which is a form of the Greek word bias.
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The word bias is the word for life.
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When it becomes the word beyond, it means everything she had
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that was required for a living.
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This woman gave reverentially
and she gave sacrificially.
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the living that she had,
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the word had it form the
Greek word echo, which means
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to have to hold or to possess: everything she had,
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she put into that offering.
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And Jesus said, because of the faith and
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because of the level of
sacrifice for her to give,
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what she gave is worth
more than all the gifts
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of the rich people combined.
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Even though numerically it
was smaller, Jesus said it
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to greater faith, hers
was a greater sacrifice.
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And Jesus said, this little poor woman has put more than all
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of them combined together.
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That's amazing. Although she
barely had enough to survive,
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she gave all,
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when she placed those two
mites into the offering.
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That is just remarkable to me.
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And it brings to my mind,
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my grandmother, Bagley. When I was young,
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I had a grandmother that was very poor.
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She lived in a bad part of Tulsa.
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She lived right next
to the railroad tracks.
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You would not call it a
very nice neighborhood.
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She literally lived on the
other side of the tracks.
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She was a very uneducated woman.
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She'd had a lot of hardship in life.
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But oh, I loved my grandmother Bagley.
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And often I would sit next
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to my grandmother Bagley in church.
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But one day I was at her
house and we were eating,
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and I remember asking her for
seconds. She had made fried
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pork and oh, it was just so delicious.
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I just wanted more.
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And I remember her saying to me, Ricky,
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your grandmother Bagley doesn't have a lot of money
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and today you're gonna have to be happy with
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what you've had because I don't have enough
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to give you seconds.
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And I remember that day thinking, wow,
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my grandmother Bagley
really does not have much.
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And the same day I saw her do something
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that impressed me then,
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and it stayed with me all of my life.
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And it reminds me of the
little woman in this story.
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She took an envelope
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and she wrote the name, Oral Roberts, on the
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front of the envelope.
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She was so uneducated she
couldn't write very well,
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but she scribbled the
name Oral Roberts on the
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front of the envelope.
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And then I saw my grandmother
Bagley take a single dollar
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bill and she placed it into
the envelope; she licked at
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and she sealed it and she
held it next to her heart
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and she prayed.
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And then she carried out
and put it near the post box
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for the mailman to pick up.
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And I remember watching the way
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that my grandmother Bagley gave,
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and I will tell you friend,
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that has affected me all of my life.
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I realize some people who
give smaller gifts, give
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with greater sacrifice than those who give very large gifts.
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They don't have as much to give.
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And for my grandmother, Bagley, that $1 was a great,
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great sacrifice and that has
impressed me all my life.
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And I want you to know
that if you're a partner
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with our ministry, it doesn't
matter what amount you give.
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This is a ministry where
we really thank God for you
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and we value every single gift
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that is given into this ministry.
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But that's the kind of
woman that this was.
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This was a woman who did not
have very many resources,
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and their Jesus was standing next
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to the treasury watching the rich men.
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And thank God for rich people.
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I have a lot of friends that are rich
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and they are very generous givers.
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Amen. But sometimes people
don't have a lot to give.
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And it may look like their
gift is small in comparison,
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but it takes a greater level
of faith for them to give
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because they don't have as much to give.
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Just like my grandmother Bagley, that's
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what this little widow was like.
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And Jesus was so impressed,
he said - stop, stop, stop,
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stop, stop, stop. I have a statement to make.
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And Jesus then preached the
example of this little woman
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who gave with great sacrifice
and gave with great reverence.
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And remember he was watching how they gave
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and he was watching what they gave.
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He's the same yesterday,
today and forever.
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He's still watching how
we give, with what kind
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of reverence, what kind of
faith do we put with it?
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He's looking to see what we give
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because the amount
really is very important.
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But hey, let's go back to Matthew 6:1,
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our anchor verse where Jesus says; For
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where your treasure is there will your heart be also.
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Mm. When Jesus says,
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where, the Greek means exactly there.
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The word, treasure: form of the Greek word thesauros,
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which describes your treasure,
your money, your cash,
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your resources, your investments: where you put your cash,
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where you put your offerings, there,
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your heart will be also.
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And on that day, Jesus observed the rich men were just
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dutifully giving.
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I said to you at the
beginning of the program
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you can give without loving,
that was the rich men.
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They were just giving because
it was their duty to give.
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But that little woman who
didn't have much to give,
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it took great faith for her to give.
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And when she put those 2-mites into the contribution box,
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it was so impressive to Jesus
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he stopped the whole event to draw attention to it
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and said, this little
woman has put everything
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that she had into the offerings
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and she demonstrated her heart was in the
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kingdom of God.
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Now, the Bible doesn't
tell us what happened to
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that little woman, but we know,
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we know that God is generous with the generous.
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We know that God especially
blesses sacrificial giving.
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We know that, we saw that; my friends,
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God responds when we bring
what we have into his house,
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he opens the windows of heaven.
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And just based on - we know about how God responds
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to generosity, we can be sure that God was generous
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with this little woman.
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And it may be that she was
giving by faith, believing
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for that window of heaven
to open over her life.
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And that's what happens
when we give correctly
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with a right attitude.
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And when we give the amount
that God has asked us to give.
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This is what Jesus had to say
about generosity and giving.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I want to pray for you.
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What does the Bible really mean when it says God will open
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the windows of heaven over the lives
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of those who are givers?
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And how do you know if the
windows of God are closed
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or open over your life?
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how vital it was that I sowed
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And as a result, Denise and
I lived sad financial lives,
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but a day came and the Holy
Spirit showed me the powerful
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results that take place when
you become a regular giver.
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Call or go online now.
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Hey friends, this is Rick
Renner, and look where I am.
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I'm just outside the Tulsa
headquarters building that is
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so wonderful
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and inside this building,
ministry is happening nonstop
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as people are calling
and we're calling people
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and they're responding to
teaching they can trust,
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that is our prayer
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and God has been so good to enable us
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to move into this building.
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And guess what? The Ministry Expansion Program is now
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70% complete.
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Say amen. That is such a victory.
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And this has happened in a
very short period of time,
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but we still have 30% that we need
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to retire the debt on on this facility.
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And if you're a part of our giving team,
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I wanna say thank you for everything you have already done
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and please, together, let's keep it up
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because we need to retire
the debt on this building
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so we can release all those
finances to take teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the Earth.
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And if you're not already a part
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of the ministry giving team,
would you please become a part
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of the team to help us
retire the remaining 30%
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of the debt on this building?
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Wow, what a victory that will
be. We'll shout, hallelujah.
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And you'll say, hallelujah with us
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and people around the
world will be benefited
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because finally, funds will
be released, redirected so
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that we can take teaching
people can trust to the ends
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of the earth.
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And that my friend is what
it's all about with us.
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We want to reach people that are crying out for the teaching
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of God's Word.
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But thank you for becoming
a part of the Giving team.
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I wanna say thank you for joining me today
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as we've been looking at this subject
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of generosity and giving
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according to Jesus.
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We've been studying Luke 21 about the little woman
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who brought her two mites
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and put them into the
treasury in the temple.
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And it was so impressive to Jesus,
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he stopped everything and said - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
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This is an example of the way you should give;
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but my friend, you need to order the whole series,
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which we're offering you right now, which is called, How
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to Open the Window of Heaven Over Your Life,
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what the Bible really says about giving.
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If you want to be financially
blessed, then you need
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to hear this series
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and really get this teaching
down deep in your heart.
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And that's why I want you to
get the study guide which has
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all the points and all the
principles in the series
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so you can read it while you
hear it or while you see it.
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And right now, we're also
offering you my book,
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which is called A Life Ablaze: 10 Simple Keys
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to Living on Fire for God.
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And my Friend, when you become a partner with our ministry,
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we're going to send you 2 books as our way
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of saying "Welcome to the Family."
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We're going to send you my book,
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which is called Life in the Combat Zone, which is dedicated
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to our partners and Denise's
book called, The Gift
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of Forgiveness: because we really want our partners
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to read these two particular books.
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And this is the way we welcome
you into our partner family.
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And please let us know
how to prayer for you
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by calling us right now or
by sending us your email.
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And Father, I thank you in
the name of Jesus, Lord,
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that you are the same
yesterday, today, and forever.
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If you were looking,
then you're watching now.
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And Lord, we pray that
when you see how we give,
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that you are thrilled with how we give
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and with what we give.
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And Father, we pray as
a result of our giving
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that you will open the window
of heaven over our lives
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and pour out a blessing so big
that we'll have to figure out
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how to accommodate it.
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We thank you for this in the powerful,
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wonderful name of Jesus.
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Amen. Hey, I'll see you tomorrow,
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but remember Ecclesiastes 8:4, "Where the word
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of a king is there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now; Lord.
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I repent of my sin and
receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen. - If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation.
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We would love to connect with you.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information
about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.