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This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson, I'm director of the Southside Life Station and pastor of

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the United Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo and you're receiving this message because

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Thinking today of Proverbs 28-11 where it says, the rich man is wise in his own eyes

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but the poor who had understanding he's through him.

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The fact is it's really easy for people to think they've got it all together, they'll

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think everything is okay, even they may judge themselves or think that they're bad or wicked

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or that their life is not going the way that it should go and basically they're taking

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the place of God because of their wealth, because of their success, they think that

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they have the ability to make those determinations and they're frankly wrong.

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Those of us who are poor in spirit, we're going to inherit much but the bottom line

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is being poor sometimes opens your mind to realize that you don't have everything and

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you don't need everything.

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You have what you need and that's the wisdom of life.

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Trying to be wealthy, trying to make $900 an hour by some kind of side job or trying

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to collect millions or lots of property in this lifetime, these things are not necessary.

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What we do with this lifetime is about serving others.

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Jesus said, the greatest amongst us shall be your servant and so we have the opportunity

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to serve others and make a difference in this world and that's what we really ought to

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be about and sometimes you find folks who aren't rich who have figured that out and

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I think that's what this verse is about.

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So let's live as if we've figured out what this life is really about, not collecting

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wealth, but living, valuing what Jesus has done for us and what we might do for others.

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God bless you today.

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