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Well, sir, we are continuing with our heart-to-heart talk regarding the place of material things

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in the life of an individual.

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And what I shall be speaking about today concerns every human being.

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Remember that God has made provision in His Word for every person.

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That's the reason I can say to you that He's interested in every detail of your life.

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And if you think that as God, as the mighty Creator, as the perfect Heavenly Father, that

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He's only interested in the spiritual things of your life, if you feel that He is only

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concerned, that He has only made provision for the spiritual part of your life, you have

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a mistaken idea of God Almighty.

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That's the reason in praying you can bring every need and any need of that life before

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the Father's throne, whether it's spiritual, whether it's physical, whether it's material.

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The Bible is the most practical book in the whole world.

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And there's a promise in the Word of God to meet every need in your life as an individual.

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All right?

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First of all, just to refresh your memory, I shall read the three verses of Scripture

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that is the basis for our heart-to-heart talk.

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And this is the second in the series.

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It's found in the sixth chapter of Matthew.

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I should begin 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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things break through in steel.

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

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and where things do not break through nor steal.

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

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Now these words were spoken by Jesus in the greatest sermon ever preached.

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I want that we'll pause for just one minute.

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Consider something that no man can deny.

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The value of money, and when I use the word money, you know full well of the subject that

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I'm speaking on.

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Money, the buck, dollars and cents, coal, cash.

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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 this idea that men and women have that money will make them happy, that the material

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things, that wealth, that getting unhappy will make them happy, will bring them complete

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satisfaction and absolute security is the greatest deception 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 how to use it.

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And there is an unwritten law that the only happiness that money can give to an individual

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is as it is given and used for others.

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We are allowed to possess it, to attain it, but the right use of it is when we use it

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unselfishly and give it to others.

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Give and it shall be given unto you.

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How?

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In heaven's measure.

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Press down, shaken together and running over.

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If you want real satisfaction, if you want to know the only real happiness that one can

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receive in having, in possessing, in getting, you'll find it in the life of the one who

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has learned how to use it and to use it rightfully, you must use it in giving.

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Oh, that's marvelous.

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And you've heard me say over and over again, you cannot out give God.

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And in the final analysis, he is the giver of every good and perfect gift.

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He is the real source of giving.

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When I left you in our last little heart to heart talk, you'll remember that I made a

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very different statement and then gave an illustration.

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This was a statement that I made that until you have a thorough understanding of God as

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the loving source of your bond of supply, you will not learn how to associate the spiritual

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with the material.

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Then I gave an illustration, the part of the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray referring

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to the material when he said, give us this day our daily bread.

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He was referring to the meeting of our daily needs, even to our bread and butter.

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A man, for instance, thinks of his employment as the source of his income.

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And then for some reason he loses it.

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His employer goes out of business or cuts down on the staff or something happens.

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Now, because he believes that his position is the source of his income, the loss of the

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position naturally means the loss of the income.

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And so he has to start looking about for another job and perhaps has to look a long time, meantime,

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finding himself without a parent's supply, worried, irritable, feeling as though the

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bottom has dropped out of everything, unwanted.

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Oh, you know what it's like, rolling and tossing night after night.

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If such a man had realized that God was his supply and his job only the particular channel

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through which it came, then upon the closing of that channel, he would look up and say,

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all right, dear Lord, I'm looking for another channel through which you will supply the

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material need for my life.

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Then it takes out all the worry.

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You can go to bed at night and sleep.

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You'll get a good night's rest.

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In the morning, you're refreshed.

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You eat a good breakfast and say, all right, Lord, now I'm in tip top shape.

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I'm all ready to go out now and look for that channel through which you are going to supply

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your life.

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Without sleep, you go out looking for the channel with a mental attitude of defeat.

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You're in no condition physically.

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You're not at your best.

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All this thing, you know, if only we could learn how to live and learn these deep truths

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when we're young.

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Wouldn't it be wonderful?

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It's like that.

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If a man's belief is in God as his supply, and since God cannot change and God cannot

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fail, that man will never be defeated.

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That's right.

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That's the reason I repeat again, until you have a thorough understanding of God as the

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source, the source of your bond of supply, you'll not learn how to associate the spiritual

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with the material and you cannot disassociate the spiritual from the material or the material

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from the spiritual.

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I'm going to say something that upon hearing it, you might be almost startled, but it's

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the truth when you analyze it.

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

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provision has been made for you, body, soul, and spirit, and he is the giver of every good

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and perfect gift.

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There is no want, the psalm says, to the man or the woman whose confidence, whose trust

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is in his God.

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

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That's right.

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Oh, that's so thrilling to my own heart.

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That's so wonderful.

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You get the spiritual straight and all these things shall be added unto you, every need

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of your life.

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I can prove that from this ministry.

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I'll give you a very homey practical illustration because I only know as I have learned and

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I have always had to learn everything the hard way.

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There have been ministers, I'm told, who have actually come to Pittsburgh and tried

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to study my way, my method of raising finances to support the ministry.

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My dear, I have but one method.

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I have but one way.

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And it's just knowing that I have a heavenly father.

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And as long as I keep the spiritual part of my life intact, and we keep the spiritual

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part of the ministry intact, all these other things will be added unto us.

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My God has promised to supply the need and he's never failed once.

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You know, sometimes I think the inconsistency of ministers, evangelists, Christians is absolutely

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appalling.

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Sometimes I think those inconsistent people in the world are ministers.

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For they will stand and tell you that God is still God Almighty.

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There is no limit to his power.

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His promises are real.

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He'll meet your every need.

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And then in the next breath, they'll say, now folks, I'll tell you, unless you send

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in your contributions, we're going to have to go all for the air next month.

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But, my dear, there is a place where spiritually you put God first as a minister of the gospel.

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And I'll take the lid off of my heart and tell you exactly why I can talk to you the

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way I do on this subject of material things and can promise you that what I'm telling

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you works.

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I can stake my life on the fact that this great plan of God works.

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I can promise you that there is security in him, but no security without first understanding

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the spiritual and putting the spiritual first.

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As a servant of God, he has called me to preach the gospel.

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You can argue all you want to regarding women preachers.

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I know who's called me.

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I know from whom I have gotten my anointing.

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That is something between my Lord and myself.

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And if I remain true to my call and as a minister of the gospel, I am called to preach the word.

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No minister was ever called to raise money.

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My call is to preach the word.

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In preaching the word, I am to feed the flock.

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As long as I'm true to my call and I feed the flock, that real purpose, I singled to

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the one purpose, my call to preach the word and preach the word.

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And if I preach it in sincerity and give it to you over the air and give it to my precious

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folk from that platform, day after day, and their souls are fed with the true word of

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God, the bread, the meat, and they grow and they become spiritual.

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I don't have to worry about how the needs will be met.

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The Holy Spirit will speak to their hearts.

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And as they see the light, they'll become obedient to the Lord.

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They'll hear his voice.

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They'll become sensitive to the Spirit.

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I won't have to worry how the ministry is taken care of financially.

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No.

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I won't have to go around with a little tin cup as though God had gone bankrupt and begged

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for a few nickels and quarters and dimes and dollars.

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No.

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God is bigger than that.

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God is still God Almighty.

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And when we live according to his laws, when we live according to his blueprint, if we

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live according to his word, all these things shall be added unto us.

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The ministry will be supported and is being supported.

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And no man can say that any pressure is put on any individual when it comes to finances.

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Why?

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Because, beloved, my job is to preach the word, to give the word.

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He is the source of the supply.

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The same holds true in your life.

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Do you want to know why you and your family have never gotten ahead?

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We have no more today than we had five years ago.

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You won't have any more ten years from now than you have today.

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It's because you're putting the wrong things first.

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Put the spiritual first.

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Put God first.

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And the material will be added unto you and your family and you will be blessed.

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God bless you.