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The Call of Jesus
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Welcome to this lesson called
"Carry No Money".
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We are in Luke 10, looking at
the call Jesus has given us.
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As you will see, Jesus is
very, very, very specific in the call.
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He is very specific in instructions
He has given to His disciples
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and given to you and me.
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I know it's a little funny title
"Carry No Money",
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but it's, actually, very, very important
what Jesus is saying to us.
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So, let's start with reading from my book.
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"The next thing Jesus says in Luke 10
is very important for us to understand,
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especially those of us who are living
in the materialistic Western world
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where mammon (money)
is the biggest god of them all.
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We read in Luke 10:4,
'Do not take a purse or bag or sandals;
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and do not greet anyone on the road."
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We are going to look at this now.
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Do not take a purse, or carry no money.
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We heard this, but many people
never stopped to actually think about it,
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what it is Jesus is saying.
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But, you have to understand,
what Jesus is saying,
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He did not just said it without thinking.
He said it with a very specific purpose.
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He said it for us to listen, to understand
and to obey.
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Jesus sent His disciples out
without anything.
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He sent them out without anything.
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Why? Because He wanted to teach them
something.
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He also said that they should not
greet anyone on the road.
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That is something we are going to
look more the next time.
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But, we read here that Jesus said:
Do not take purse or bag or sandals.
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Why? Why did Jesus do that?
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Why did He send people out
without... or not allowing them
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to take a bag, or purse, or sandals?
Why?
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Because He wanted them to teach them
something.
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He wanted to teach you and me something.
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He wanted us to learn to be dependent
on Him
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and not on our money and what we have.
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If we look at the church today,
that is a big problem.
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It's a big problem in the church today
because almost everything in the church today
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comes down to money.
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In the churches we are so controlled
by money.
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Controlled of what we have.
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But we should not be controlled
on what we have.
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We should be led by the Holy Spirit,
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not led by money.
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Let me read a longer part from my book
"The Call of Jesus".
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"Almost everything in our lives today
and in our churches in the Western world
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is centered around money.
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We are controlled by what we have
or what we lack.
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It is also money that, for many,
is the main factor
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when it comes to missions,
church life, etc.
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If the money is there, we will do it,
and if not, then we will not do it.
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But, in the Kingdom of God,
money is not the problem,
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and money should never control
what we can do or cannot do.
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It is really important for us to learn
to be dependent on God
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instead of our money or lack of money.
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We often think we should really see
a breakthrough
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if we have a lot of money and that we
then could do so many things for God,
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as if our growth or our obedience
stands or falls with money.
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We think that if we have money,
we can do many things for God,
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but if we do not have money,
there is not much we can do.
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This is not how it should be.
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We should not be dependent or controlled
by money or what we have.
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Instead, we should learn to understand that
God has all the silver and gold in the world.
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Everything belongs to Him,
and with Him, we lack nothing.
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What is clear in the Bible is that
the lack of money is not the problem.
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The lack of workers is the problem."
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What I'm saying here is not so often
what I've heard people talk about it.
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But, if you think of it,
so many things in our churches
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is controlled by money.
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I met many people who say:
If I just had that money
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and do this and this,
I would go out and do this and this,
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like money is the problem.
Money is not the problem.
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Why? Because if you step out,
when you step out,
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when you serve God...
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He will take care of your needs.
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And I've seen that so many times.
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I remember when I started our journey
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we had many, many times, as a family,
had nothing,
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but we decided to go out
on the Word of God.
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And when we stepped out
on the Word of God
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we saw that He took care of us.
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He provided our needs.
