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Hey guys, hope you have that cup of Joe like I do because it's time for a coffee

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break in the Bible. Now let me ask you this, how can we be content in a world

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that says we can have it all and we can have it all right now? And to answer that

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we're going to take a brief look at 1st Timothy chapter 6 verses 6, 7, and 10.

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The Bible says, but godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought

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nothing into the world and we can take nothing out of it. Some people eager for

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money have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. So

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let's face it, today you know when people look at this scripture specifically

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they're looking at money but it's so much more than that. It's money but it's

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also things, it's stuff, those material items. You know these days you can't

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listen to the radio, look at the internet, watch TV, you can't even read like a

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magazine or a newspaper thing without something being advertised to you saying

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hey you need to have this. All the bells, the whistles, the glitz, the glam, the

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newest, the baddest thing on the planet, you know all this stuff that

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people get hung up on. And people get hung up on a lot and it's a trap. And let

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me remind you that this is the same temptation that Christ had in the

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wilderness when the devil tested him. He said you didn't have to die, you

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could have it all, you can have it all right now. It's the same trap that Satan

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is trying to pull on us. You see despite the overwhelming evidence people believe

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that having money and material things and wealth is going to bring them

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happiness. But the fact is it's not. They might be happy for a moment but then

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they're already looking on to that next greater thing. And it is a cycle that

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can lead to destruction. So what do we do? How do we avoid this trap? Well one just

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as the scripture tells us we need to realize that one day we're going to pass

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away and we don't get to take our stuff with us. It's all going to be left behind

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for our family to deal with. So we need to learn to be happy with what we have

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and when it no longer makes you happy well guess what? The Bible even tells us

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we should love people more than our stuff, more than money. You know it tells

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us to love our neighbors. So knowing that you know especially you have something

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clothes for instance that you haven't worn for a long time take them and give

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them away give them to goodwill. Maybe you know a thrift store or you know

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there's that down-and-out person you know that's just down on their luck that

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you know they can use a little love. You know what? That old t-shirt that

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you haven't worn in years might be just a thing that's going to make their day. So

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take the blessings that you have and pass them on to somebody else because

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that will bless them as well. It's just another way to show God's love. And

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remember we should love what God does in our lives more than the stuff because

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God's love and God's work in us is preparing us for the day that we go to

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join him and his kingdom in heaven. So take what you have make it work for you.

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Be happy with it. If it no longer brings you joy and it no longer works for you,

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pass it along to someone who it will. God bless.