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Now for a few minutes we're going to have another one of those heart-to-heart talks,

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and I do pray that this little talk today shall mean everything in the world to you.

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I know full well before I begin it that there will be those who will, after I will have

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left your home, turn off the radio and you will have forgotten everything that I would

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have said, because before I begin you have your own mental attitude regarding the material

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things of life.

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But I pray that there will be those whose eyes will have been opened to the real sense

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of values and will learn better what to do with the material when it comes to this life

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here on earth.

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Again, I am well aware of the fact that people do exactly what they want to do.

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I can preach and preach and hammer and hammer on something and give you the light and yet

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in the final analysis you will do exactly what you want to do.

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It's only as the Spirit, the Living God, will open your understanding to the truth and in

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receiving the light, if you love Him enough you will be obedient to the truth.

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Now we are still in the sixth chapter of Matthew and I'm going to read to you three verses,

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the 19th, 20th and 21st verse, the sixth chapter of Matthew.

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It's in that great sermon, the greatest sermon that was ever preached.

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It was preached by the very Son of the Living God.

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Therefore the truths in this sermon come from the highest authority in heaven and earth.

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In this sermon now we come to the material plane of life.

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Oh sure, earlier in this sermon he talked about the material but he spoke of it in the

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sense of giving our alms to Him.

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Take heed that ye do not your alms before men to be seen of them, otherwise ye have

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no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

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Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites

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do in the synagogues and the streets, that they may have glory of men.

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Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.

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But as we come now to these three verses, beginning with the 19th verse, we come definitely

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to the material plane of life.

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I want you to see something.

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The value of money lies in its control by spiritual purpose.

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To desire it, to use it for its own sake is to destroy all human value.

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And it's just like that.

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This idea that money can make man happy is the most deceptive, it's the greatest deception

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in the whole world.

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No man will have any satisfaction from his money until he begins to do good with it,

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until he learns the real purpose in having money.

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God has so constructed human nature, God so has a control of the material things of life,

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He has so ordained, there is an unwritten law written by God Himself between the material

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and man, and He has so constructed man, and He has so made the material that it is impossible

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for the material things of life to make man really happy.

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And it's just like that.

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You understand what I'm trying to say?

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It seems complicated and yet it's the simplest thing in the world.

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I don't care how much you may accumulate materially, the material things cannot give you happiness.

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I'm talking about a deep security.

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I'm talking about joy.

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I'm talking about peace of mind and peace of soul.

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Oh my, you can hear a bunch of drunks going down the street.

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Somebody says, oh my, there goes a bunch of happy people.

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Oh no, they're just a bunch of loud mouth things.

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That's right, champagne at night and real pain in the morning, as somebody said, kind

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of like that.

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You know, we mistake a lot of noise, we mistake a lot of surface stuff for real abiding satisfaction,

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a feeling of security.

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The greatest thing that you can enjoy is peace of soul and peace of mind.

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And I can prove that man has been so constructive and that God governs man and the material

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things of life to the extent that the material cannot give man complete satisfaction and

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security because the richest man in the world never got to the place where he was absolutely

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contented and satisfied with what he had.

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If he had a million, he was striving to make another million.

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If he had five million, he was not content with the five that he had, he was trying to

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make five more.

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If he had 10, he wanted to make 50 million.

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Why?

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Because he still lacked the inner security that he was seeking.

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He was never satisfied.

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Why no sitting there?

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You're probably making a hundred dollars a week and you'd say, my, if I had the money

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and if I had the paycheck and if I was getting what Mr. So-and-so, I would be absolutely

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happy.

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I would, for the first time in my life, feel a sense of security.

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I wouldn't ask for anything more.

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Oh, yes, you would.

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Whatever you would, you would seek for something more just as much as you're seeking for something

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now.

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It's like that.

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It's exactly like that.

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You know, it's the strangest thing in the world when it comes to the material things

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of life.

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Let's just lay bare the facts.

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This is just a little homey, heart to heart talk because it affects all of us.

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Remember, I don't care how spiritual you are or whether you have any spirituality or not,

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God knows that we are still in an old material world.

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The light bill has got to be paid.

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The rent has got to be paid.

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If you're a homeowner, there are taxes that have to be paid in that property.

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There's got to be money to live.

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That's no secret to God.

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And He's a practical God.

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He's a reasonable God.

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He's interested in every detail of our lives.

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That's the reason when you read the word of God, you'll find that He not only speaks of

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the spiritual.

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He also made provision for the material because He knows how necessary the material is to

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man as He lives here on this planet, in this world.

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There's one thing we all have in common, every human being, and that is the fact that when

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we came into the world, not one of us came in with a stitch of clothes on our body.

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We came absolutely naked.

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That little baby of yours may have been the son, the daughter of very wealthy parents,

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and yet it came into the world naked, exactly the same way as the little baby came in who

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had no assurance of even the milk in the bottle that would be given it, and a worried mama

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and a distraught papa wondering how they were going to support the new baby.

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That baby came in just as naked as the son and the daughter of a Rockefeller.

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And you want to know something else?

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When we leave this world, we go out almost as naked and stripped as we were when we came.

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After all, just how much can one pay for a good suit of clothes?

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There's a limit to it.

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You can be the wealthiest man in the world, and yet, sir, there's a limit to what you

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pay for a suit of clothes.

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Now that's an awful good-looking tie, but there's a limit to just how much you pay for

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a tie.

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And in most instances, they don't even put shoes on the feet of a corpse.

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A pair of socks, and there's a limit to what you can pay for a pair of socks.

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And there you lie in the casket, almost as naked, as stripped of everything as you were

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when you came into the world.

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You leave every copper scent behind, every penny that you worked so hard to get.

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You sold your soul to get ahead materially.

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You got it piled up.

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You skimmed.

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You did everything you could to get it.

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You robbed widows.

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You lied.

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You did everything.

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And now, bud, what do you have?

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You've got to leave every copper scent behind.

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It's like that.

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It's exactly like that.

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Until you have a thorough understanding of God as the loving source of your boundless

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supply, you will not learn how to associate the spiritual with the material.

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You've got to understand how to live with the material, along with the spiritual.

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You have to know how to put the material things of life in its place, in association with

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the spiritual and with God.

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Until then, you do not know how to deal with the material with perfect wisdom.

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You want to know something?

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You cannot want for anything when once you truly realize that in the mind of God, obedience

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and faith are bound up in the same bundle.

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In other words, there is no way in which one can have security without spiritual understanding.

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I repeat it.

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If you forget everything else that I say in this little heart-to-heart talk today, remember

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this one thing.

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There is absolutely no way.

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It is impossible.

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It's one of God's unwritten laws.

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It is impossible for you to have a complete sense of security without spiritual understanding.

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That's right.

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I can prove it.

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You see, that is the reason that no matter how much a man makes without the spiritual

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understanding, he still is lacking in the sense of security because he knows that the

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safest banks can fail and they do.

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Oh, I don't care how much insurance they carry.

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I don't care what publicity they may give out, assuring you that they are perfectly

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safe.

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Yet, it is a proven fact and it has been proven to the sorrow of many, many, many men and

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women that the safest banks in the world can fail.

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They have, they do, they will again.

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Somebody comes up and says, real estate is a safe investment.

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Oh, you can hear that.

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And yet, many, a smart man has literally lost his shirt in real estate.

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There's nothing that's dead sure about investing in real estate.

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The value of real estate fluctuates.

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Then there comes the unexpected political upheavals that affect people, affects their

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job, their standing, their status in life.

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Somebody can be a big political mogul one day and then the next day he's stripped of

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everything.

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He's left walking the streets looking for a job.

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That's politics.

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Now, the Bible refers to these things as mo and rust and thieves.

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I read it to you now, beginning with the 19th verse.

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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and where

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thieves break through and steal.

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But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and

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where thieves do not break through nor steal.

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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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You know, let's go back to the statement that I made just a second ago about the fact that

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there's no way in which one can have security without spiritual understanding.

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And if you follow me in the interpretation of the Word of God, in the prayer that Jesus

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taught us to pray, and we come to that part, give us this day, our daily bread.

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And of course, he was talking about the material then, talking about the same thing that I'm

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talking about now.

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And he meant in those words that our real source of supply comes from the Father himself.

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You may be looking to your employer, you may be looking to US Steel or that department

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store where you work, or the man who is head of your office, the one who gives you your

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paycheck as being the source of your material living.

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Beloved, in reality, the place where you work, the one who gives you your paycheck is only

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the channel through which the supply comes for the material.

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The real source of supply comes from the giver of every good and perfect gift, God himself.

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He is the real, the actual source of your supply.

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And when you see that for the very first time, you'll feel secure when it comes to receiving

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the supply because his supply to you is exhaust.

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God will never go bankrupt.

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God is still God Almighty.

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The place where you work can go bankrupt, can fail, but the real source of your supply

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for the material comes from the giving hand of Almighty God.

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There's security in that because God cannot fail.