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- All right, open your Bibles to Luke 12 31 We won't be here long
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- He has just finished talking about the birds The lilies nature and Says if you then are not able to do that Thing which is least
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- Why take you thought about the rest? Consider the lilies how they grow, they toil not, they spend not.
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- Here at I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these
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- Nature itself is a parable. I want you this week
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- Brian Only you I don't want the others to do this. I want you to find a teaching example in nature
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- Will you do that? Andrea you check on him.
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- Be sure he does But I challenge you to find something in nature that teaches the doctrine of Christ And report back next week
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- He says if then God so clothed the grass Which is today in the field and tomorrow is cast into the oven
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- How much more will he clothe you O ye of little faith? So we see that Man hasn't changed much
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- We still worry about things things Seek not ye what you shall eat or what you shall drink
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- Neither be ye of doubtful mind Let your mind not be continually perplexed
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- For all of these things Do the nations of the world seek after and your father knoweth that you have need of these things
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- Our father made the need he will surely make the supply Now we come to verse 31 but and that little word but is a tremendous but But rather seek ye the kingdom of God Seek ye the kingdom of God joy
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- Are you seeking the kingdom of God? Do you seek the kingdom?
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- We're not talking about salvation seeking salvation But seek ye the kingdom of God Bill what all does kingdom involve or include?
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- It sure is But rather seek ye the rulership of God the kingdom of God And all of these things shall be added unto you
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- Clarence, what does these things mean? Do any of you today have a lack in your life?
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- Are you lacking something that you want? Know that you want
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- Not that you Yes We Do oh
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- If I just could get this if I could get ten more dollars I could do this Well, he says all these things shall be added unto you
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- Verge Is he going to add to to our life everything
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- That's right everything you have was a gift In verse 31 seek is at ends a to To inquire for to seek for search for to seek diligently 32
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- Fear not little flock For it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom
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- Fear not little flock Russell are you back there?
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- What does he mean little flock? Are we a little flock?
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- It is your father's good pleasure. It pleases the Heavenly Father To see that you have everything that you need in the kingdom
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- Sell what you have and give alms Provide yourself bags, which wax not old a treasure in the heavens that faileth not
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- Where no thief approaches neither moth corrupteth For where your treasure is there will your heart be
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- Also Bill I dare say that you can
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- Meet someone that you've never met before Carry on a conversation with him and Listen to him talk
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- And within five minutes, you'll know pretty much what he thinks.
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- Is that right? That's right
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- So what you are is what you think about Now, what do you think about?
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- Russell and I sat here on the front pew on a goat discussing different things of God We come to the conclusion that we cannot even discuss it fully
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- We cannot understand fully Lazarus when he was called back
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- Jesus knew that he was going to have to call him back That's why he wept
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- Not because he died or because of the grave or because of other people but he knew the poor
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- Lazarus was going to have to come back and He did it because it was the father's will
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- But he'd have to come back and die again That caused anybody to weep
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- But we cannot explain Christianity we cannot We say we understand
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- Joy, do we really understand? Or are we just As they say flapping our gums
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- Yes It's all unfathomable to me The more
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- I learned the more I learned I do not know But what
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- I know is all I'm supposed to know And you also So where your treasure is there will your heart be also
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- Each man will come one day To the awful presence of the heavenly father stripped of all of these things things that we worry about Now, I don't mean we're not supposed to have things
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- But we have things to use The things that occupy your life here on earth when it comes to that moment of death
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- There's nothing you can take with you He will have no treasure up there
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- If he spent all his life thinking of things Concentrating on things how much more money to get
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- But He lived without god here he'll die without god
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- But he'll come into the presence of god So I'll leave you with this thought
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- Where your heart is Is where your treasure is? If you do not like your treasure
