Serving God Over Wealth: Lessons from Zacchaeus
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"Now my guess is that most Christians in the world would think of the two masters as God and the devil but that's Jesus never spoke about the devil as a possible master, here it says the two monsters are God and wealth verse 13. no servant can serve two masters, either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other, and he's speaking about God and money." [00:46:34]
"To love God I gotta hate money, now what does that mean we got to think about it carefully, two chapters earlier Jesus also said we've got to hate our father and mother and wife and children in Luke 14 26. so obviously because there are other passages in the Bible which say we got to love our wife and our parents so hate does not mean that we reject and have nothing to do with them." [01:06:58]
"Zacchaeus Was A very rich man but he made his riches in a wrong way, he had cheated, probably told a lot of lies, and got his money in the wrong way, and when he encountered Jesus and Jesus came to his house it's an amazing word here, Jesus said I'm going to come to your house today I'm going to stay there Luke 19 5." [04:05:39]
"Zacchaeus stopped, he didn't allow the Lord to enter his house, just stop, he says Lord I got to set something right, this house is built with a lot of money that I stole from others, so before you enter this house, I want to tell you something, I'm going to set it all right, I'm going to give back verse 8. four times what I cheated people about of I mean that means he calculated the interest for how many years he had cheated them." [04:38:59]
"People borrow a thousand dollars and they'll return a thousand dollars six months later or a year later, it's unrighteous totally unrighteous, Zacchaeus is not going to be unrighteous, he says that man lost interest during that period where I took his money I'm going to return it with interest and just to be on the safe side, you give a lot more he gave four times back because I would have inconvenienced him in so many ways by cheating him and so I must return four times." [05:40:44]
"Today salvation has come to this man from the Love of Money, have you ever thought of being saved from the Love of Money, saved from hell yes Save from sin, here he's not talking about save from Hell or save from sin his beings, when Zacchaeus said those words he was so upright Jesus said this guy's being saved from money from the Love of Money." [08:00:60]
"Every human being loves money, it's not only the rich, I've never seen a homeless man who doesn't love money have you seen a homeless man who doesn't love money, millionaires Love Money homeless people love money everybody all the way from talk to bottom they all love money, there's one thing Universal about the human race, every one of them love money, including Christians." [08:28:19]
"Faithfulness in little things, Jesus said you'll also be faithful in much, there's so much I have seen Christians have completely missed out in their Christian life because they are not careful in the little little things, I've always been careful to the best of my knowledge never never to borrow in 83 years I never borrowed one dollar or one rupee from anyone I don't want to be in debt." [17:12:12]
"I'd rather die as a poor man than die with even one cent debt to anybody, the wicked borrows and does not return, these are little little things you know I've discovered through the years you don't have to do fantastic things for God for God to bless you you've just got to be faithful in the very very very little things, learn to be faithful in the little." [17:41:64]
"If you seek the kingdom of God first and his righteousness, you will always have all that you need and I guarantee your children will always have all that you need you will never be, even if you lose your job you'll provide for you in some way or the other, you will never lack, I can say that from my experience." [22:44:52]
"Abraham knew nothing about calvary or the gift of the Holy Spirit we claim to know so much more, he said lot, you choose first and lot shows all that wealthy part of the land, and Abraham was left with a poor part of what we call Israel today, and lot went and took and Abraham settled down and says in verse 12 but you know there was somebody watching this whole thing." [28:09:48]
"God said Abraham, I saw what you were doing, I saw your gracious attitude, you had every right to that but you gave up your right, and if you do that my brother sister, God will say the same to you, he who has years to hear Let Him hear, maybe you're facing something like that today, the Lord said to Abraham verse 14 and I want to paraphrase God's words to Abraham." [28:47:02]
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"To love God I gotta hate money, now what does that mean we got to think about it carefully, two chapters earlier Jesus also said we've got to hate our father and mother and wife and children in Luke 14 26. so obviously because there are other passages in the Bible which say we got to love our wife and our parents so hate does not mean that we reject and have nothing to do with them." [01:06:58]
"Zacchaeus Was A very rich man but he made his riches in a wrong way, he had cheated, probably told a lot of lies, and got his money in the wrong way, and when he encountered Jesus and Jesus came to his house it's an amazing word here, Jesus said I'm going to come to your house today I'm going to stay there Luke 19 5." [04:05:39]
"Zacchaeus stopped, he didn't allow the Lord to enter his house, just stop, he says Lord I got to set something right, this house is built with a lot of money that I stole from others, so before you enter this house, I want to tell you something, I'm going to set it all right, I'm going to give back verse 8. four times what I cheated people about of I mean that means he calculated the interest for how many years he had cheated them." [04:38:59]
"People borrow a thousand dollars and they'll return a thousand dollars six months later or a year later, it's unrighteous totally unrighteous, Zacchaeus is not going to be unrighteous, he says that man lost interest during that period where I took his money I'm going to return it with interest and just to be on the safe side, you give a lot more he gave four times back because I would have inconvenienced him in so many ways by cheating him and so I must return four times." [05:40:44]
"Today salvation has come to this man from the Love of Money, have you ever thought of being saved from the Love of Money, saved from hell yes Save from sin, here he's not talking about save from Hell or save from sin his beings, when Zacchaeus said those words he was so upright Jesus said this guy's being saved from money from the Love of Money." [08:00:60]
"Every human being loves money, it's not only the rich, I've never seen a homeless man who doesn't love money have you seen a homeless man who doesn't love money, millionaires Love Money homeless people love money everybody all the way from talk to bottom they all love money, there's one thing Universal about the human race, every one of them love money, including Christians." [08:28:19]
"Faithfulness in little things, Jesus said you'll also be faithful in much, there's so much I have seen Christians have completely missed out in their Christian life because they are not careful in the little little things, I've always been careful to the best of my knowledge never never to borrow in 83 years I never borrowed one dollar or one rupee from anyone I don't want to be in debt." [17:12:12]
"I'd rather die as a poor man than die with even one cent debt to anybody, the wicked borrows and does not return, these are little little things you know I've discovered through the years you don't have to do fantastic things for God for God to bless you you've just got to be faithful in the very very very little things, learn to be faithful in the little." [17:41:64]
"If you seek the kingdom of God first and his righteousness, you will always have all that you need and I guarantee your children will always have all that you need you will never be, even if you lose your job you'll provide for you in some way or the other, you will never lack, I can say that from my experience." [22:44:52]
"Abraham knew nothing about calvary or the gift of the Holy Spirit we claim to know so much more, he said lot, you choose first and lot shows all that wealthy part of the land, and Abraham was left with a poor part of what we call Israel today, and lot went and took and Abraham settled down and says in verse 12 but you know there was somebody watching this whole thing." [28:09:48]
"God said Abraham, I saw what you were doing, I saw your gracious attitude, you had every right to that but you gave up your right, and if you do that my brother sister, God will say the same to you, he who has years to hear Let Him hear, maybe you're facing something like that today, the Lord said to Abraham verse 14 and I want to paraphrase God's words to Abraham." [28:47:02]
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