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You're listening to The Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Here we are. We

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are here absolutely as opposed to there. In today's Friday, Yes, which

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is your favorite day. It is
my favorite. It's your favorite day because

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you get to complain about the things
you're mad about. And so today you're

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going to be mad about the fact
that we're not asking you what. What's

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Chris mad about? What? I
know what you mean? We're I know,

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I know, she well does right. Oh, she put it in

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here that we are pivoting a little
bit. Okay, so it's fun to

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see where our listeners are from.
That's that's that only means it's going to

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be next Friday. It just makes
you madd I'm so angry. Well,

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you might be angry about this this
place. No, yes, see,

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these people might make you mad.
They're so mean, these people, the

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people, that's right. So,
uh, let's let's state a few fun

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about this location. There's four of
them, and we'll see if our listeners

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can figure out what we're talking about. First, All right, you go

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first, Okay, So here it
is number one. It is considered to

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be one of the most multi cultural
cities in the world. I didn't know

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that with more than one hundred and
eighty languages that are spoken in the city.

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One hundred and eighty languages, that
is incredible. That's actually extremely interesting.

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Yeah, you didn't know that one. And if they're listening from this

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area, these people they already they
already know, that's right, although if

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they're speaking in one hundred and seventy
nine other languages other than English, they

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might not know what we're talking about. They have to be able to understand

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as to listen. Okay, here
we go. Number two. It has

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the largest underground pedestrian system in North
America, spanning more than thirty kilometers worth

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of restaurants, shopping, services,
and entertainment. Yes, there's a whole

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ton of I've experienced this myself.
Yeah, it's pretty amazing, isn't it.

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It is very, very amazing.
But there are several giveaways in that

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last clue. Oh that's so funny. Yeah, here you go, all

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right. Number four or number three. Movie stars that include that from the

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city include Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, and Eugene Levy. Oh wow,

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there you go. I knew I
knew the first two. Yeah, I

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didn't know Eugene knew. I knew
Eugene was from this place, but I

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didn't know he's from this city specific. Oh I see, I see okay.

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And then number four, it is
home to North America's only true castle.

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Interesting, and what place is this? Toronto? Okay? Wow?

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Yes, so you know those Canadians. The reason why you're mad is because

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Canadians are just angry people. Yeah, they're so mean all the time.

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Actually, Canadians are like the politest
people. Yeah, so the most polite.

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They always sorry sorry, yes,
sorry, sorry a sorry. So

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have you ever heard remember the game
Angry Birds? Yes? So that was

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invented by a kid from Finland Okay, Yeah, he's want to put together,

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worked out the thing and it marketed
and it did really well all over

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the world Angry Birds, excepting Canada, and they had to change the name

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to Sorry. I was so crossbirds
because Canadians wouldn't play Angry Birds. Sorry.

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I was so close. That's so
funny. One of my best friends

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in high school lived in London,
Ontario, and I used to go and

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spend big chunks this summer with them
every year, ride the train as well,

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hey, so when we got married, my wife and I July thirty

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first, nineteen ninety two, by
the way, Wow, we ended up

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getting married, and you know how
they do. We had five hundred and

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ninety one people at our wedding,
by the way, yeah, wow,

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so big Italian wedding, and everybody
gave them money. We had thousands and

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thousands of dollars we collected. We
counted them the next day, and we

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knew that we were able to go
pretty much anywhere on our honeymoon, like

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anywhere, for the amount of money
we got. We might not be able

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to stay long, yeah, but
you could go. But we could have

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probably literally gone anywhere in the world. Yeah. And so I was an

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easy person up until that point.
I had never been to Disney World other

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than when I was ten, and
I was twenty one when I got married.

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So I said, hey, I'd
like to just settle for going to

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Disney World. And my wife says, no, We're not going to Disney

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World. She said, I'm going
to go to Toronto, Ontario, this

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place, right, yeah, And
I said, there is no way out

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of all the places in the world, if we're going to leave the country,

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we're not going to go to Toronto, right, So what we ended

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up doing is we compromised and we
went to Toronto. Oh yeah for you

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yeah yeah, wow, that's where
I stayed. Yeah. So the idea

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that it said it has the largest
underground pedestrian system in North America, and

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the clues were the kilometers, yes, in North America and North America.

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Yeah, So it ended up turning. It turns out that we actually said,

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oh, let's go, let's go, uh walk the underground. So

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we went underground. We end up
walking like hours and then it turns out

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that it's such a maze. We
didn't know where we were. So we

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thought the number one, we're not
walking back because we don't have it in

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us to walk hours back. So
we ended up just walking up out of

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like a manhole, you know,
like you know, popping up in the

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middle of the street somewhere, and
then catching a cab and saying, take

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us back to a hotel. All
right, So we walked that way underground

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and then we came back the other
way. That's a good idea. Cool.

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Well, thank you for watching Toronto
fans, yes and listeners. That's

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amazing And I wonder how many people
watch from Toronto. Yeah, yeah,

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I don't know. She didn't say
that. No, probably most most probably

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most of the people Toronto languages.
So I love Toronto except during hockey season

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because the maple leafs are arch enemies. I see the red wings. Yep.

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So there you go. Anyways,
we are glad that you are listening.

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Thank you, thank you, thank
you. And our neighbors to the

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north. Did you ever see the
John Candy movie Canadian Bacon. No,

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you've never seen that movie. I've
never had. You have to go home

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watch that movie. Oh wow.
So he's a sheriff in Niagara Falls and

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the president at the time of the
United States, his numbers were plumbting,

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and so his advisors come and said, well, you need a war.

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That's what you need. Every every
president has a war. It's good.

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So they couldn't find the whole world
was peaceful. So they decided they decided

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to fake a problem. And they
said, why is it that fifty percent

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of the population lives within ten miles
of the US border? Right, all

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this stuff, and they start faking
this like Canada is our enemy. And

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John Candy is kind of a little
bit of a crazy sheriff living across the

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border, so he decides he's gonna
invade and protect us from from Canada.

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It's very funny. You never seen
that movie? No, oh, you

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guys see it Canadian Macon. Yeah, so that's that was my That's when

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I learned to love the Canadians.
Is from from John can Well. I'm

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a John Candy fan, so I'll
watch it. Okay, Well, I

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can't believe I saw a movie you've
never seen. I know. I feel

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like, let's just close the whole
podcast down. Today I achieved what I

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meant to achieve today. Jesus healed
the blind the lepers, and Jeff saw

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movie. Christen, I saw a
movie, a movie, yes, okay.

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So today we are reading in Matthew
chapter twenty five, and this is

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all about how Jesus tells this parable
of the loaned money. It's really maybe

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you've heard the parable of the talents, right, talents? Yep? Yeah,

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So here's what it says again.
The King of Heaven can be illustrated

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by the story of a man going
on a long trip. He called together

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his servants and intrusted his money to
them while he was gone. He gave

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five bags of silver to one two
bags of silver to another, and one

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bag of silver to the last,
dividing it in proportion to their abilities.

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He then left on his trip.
The servant who received the five bags of

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silver began to invest the money and
earned five more. The servant of two

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bags of silver also went to work
and earned two more. But the servant

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who received one bag of silver dug
a hole in the ground and the hid

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the master's money. After a long
time, their master returned from his trip

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called them to give an account of
how they had used his money. The

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servant to whom he had entrusted the
five bags of silver, came forward with

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five more. Said, Master,
you gave me five bags, I've earned

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five more. The master was full
of praise. Well done, my good

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and faithful servant. You've been faithful
in handling the small amount, so now

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I will give you many more responsibilities. Let's celebrate together. The servant who

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received two bags of silver came forward
and said, Master, you gave me

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two bags of silver to invest,
and I've earned two more. The master

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said, well done, my good
and faithful servant. You've been faithful in

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handling the small amount, so now
I'll give you many more responsibilities. Let's

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celebrate together. Then the servant with
the one bag of silver came and said,

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Master, I knew you were a
harsh man, harvesting crops where you

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didn't plant, and gathering crops you
didn't cultivate, and I was afraid I

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would lose your money, so I
hid it in the earth. Look,

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here's your money back. But the
master replied, you wicked and lazy servant.

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If you knew I harvested crops I
didn't plant, and gathered crops I

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don't cultivate, why didn't you deposit
up my money in the bank. At

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least I could have gotten some interest
on it. Then he ordered the money,

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or ordered take the money from the
servant and give it to the one

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with the ten bags of silver.
To those who use well what they are

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given, even more or will be
given, and they will have an abundance.

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But from those who do nothing,
even what little they have will be

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taken away. Now throw this youthless
servant into outer darkness, where they will

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be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Ah, there you go. Wow,

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turns out our king is an investor. Yes, and there's a reason why

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he gives us wisdom and knowledge.
And so he gave us a life to

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invest. Just the other day,
I was with my team, you know,

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the arts team at our church,
and we were talking about strategy and

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talking about church growth and things like
that, and then I felt the need

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to Whenever you talk about like the
business side of any type of organization,

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like a church, you never want
to make it seem like, you know,

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it's it's about money, right,
right, You never want to seem

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like it's about numbers. Right.
But at the same time we all know

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that, Like, I apologetically celebrate
numbers because every number is a soul,

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you know, and Jesus very much
cared about numbers, and God cares about

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numbers, right. So it's one
of these things where you sort of sway

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back and forth and people, you
know, you assume that people know the

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heart of God. So you talk
about numbers, you talk about money,

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and you do it in the right
way, and people have the right perspective

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of God, then they understand that
God has you know, he's a strategist,

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he's an investor, right, and
he wants us to be wise with

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that which He's given to us.
Right. But instead I have to apologize

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and I have to say, hey, I know in this next few minutes,

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I'm going to be talking about money
and budget. But I don't want

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you to get the wrong idea.
It's not like I look at this as

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a money thing, but money is
involved, right, So anyway, I

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just I just did that the other
day. But anyway, all that to

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say, this is a reminder once
again that God gives us wisdom and knowledge

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and wants us to be investors.
He wants us to be wise is what

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he's interested us with. By the
way, couldn't this be misconstrued that God

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is a bad servant or a bad
master because he said, oh, a

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Master, I know you're a harsh
man, right, because that's supposed to

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be God, right, it's the
Master. And he says, because you

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you harvest crops that you didn't plant, and you gather crops that you didn't

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cultivate, I was afraid and so
therefore I hit your money. Well,

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first of all, I'm thinking,
wait a minute, this guy doesn't know

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God. This guy doesn't know the
Master, because look how generous this man

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is. And then he says to
the servant, let's celebrate together. What

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Master is going to celebrate with his
servant? Nobody? Right? Right?

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So obviously the third servant did not
understand or know the Master. Well have

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you have you ever had an employee
that just thought you were like the devil

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incarnate? Yes? Right, So
you've got all these other employees that think,

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hey, I like working for this
guy. He's pretty great. Yeah,

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and then you get somebody who's just
guessing. They're guessing what you must

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be like. Well, hardly.
It's because they're wicked. He says that

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you're wicked and you're lazy. Right, So my boss is a jerk because

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he expects me to produce something,
right, and so I knew that you're

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what you want is you want me
to produce for you. You didn't produce

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it, you just take it,
That's what he's saying. But the Master's

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saying, wait a minute, I
gave you all that to invest to produce

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it, right, And so so
it's the it's not on the Master,

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right, it's on the perception of
the servant, right, and choosing to

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be if the Master is bad and
and and he's thinking that because because the

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Master admits he says, if you
knew, which means he is admitting it.

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If you knew that our harvest crops
I didn't plant and gather crops I

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didn't cultivate. Then then that didn't
make any sense, is what you're saying

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to the man. Then you should
have at least depositive because that earns interest.

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But the thing about the Master is
he doesn't explain why he's harvesting crops

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they didn't plant and why he's gathering
crops he didn't cultivate, which means that

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God has his own reasons, and
you can almost guarantee that they're not wicked

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reasons. Well, God's not affirming
that what that guy said is true.

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He's only saying if you knew that
that was true, or if you believed

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that. Oh, so he's saying, then why didn't you do this?

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Then why didn't you do it?
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that's what he's saying, even your
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yeah, yeah, okay, okay, right now, No, no,

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lie, he did take what he
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gets ten back. He didn't produce
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guy, say, you're taking advantage
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because, like you pointed out already, what do you mean that the Master

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goes in parties with them because they
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them? Yes, and who do
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ceremony because they're giving all the money
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a little bit, I'm going to
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everybody's having fun on that's right,
this is all great, this is

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great, right, But this this
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the gaps. He's decided he doesn't
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you know, I was in a
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guy was saying, well, I'm
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wow, I almost have never actually
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is no God? Is that right? Right? And then he's like,

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oh, maybe I'm just you.
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well, what's your influence for being
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you know, Christopher Hitchens and a
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he quotes a couple of quotes by
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God, mad at God. God's
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I was like, wow, is
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yeah, look at I look at
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see it too. He said,
Man, I just wish you knew what

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I knew. I wish you knew
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goes, what do you mean?
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got most of that argument from a
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you about. And I'm telling you, while I have a book the Bible,

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my personal experience with Jesus is totally
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thing. So is interesting this atheist
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and he's just ascribing all these bad
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that's just not my experience, right, right, And I think that's what

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you got. You got two guys
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and God blesses them even more.
You got one that's going on. I

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hate him. I hate everything about
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thief and a robbery. He's taking
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afraid of him. I'm just gonna
go hide it. Well, you know

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when you said that the master wasn't
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crops, or he harves the crop, same plant, even if he had.

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because oftentimes he's just you know,

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remember when he hired workers in the
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and unfair in everybody's favor, and
then he just said, hey, what's

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my business? Is my business?
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doing what he's doing is always good, and it may appear unfair to people

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who are again in this case,
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to be like, hey, that's
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it was a wrong perception. But
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you just backed yourself in the corner. You should have done something right,

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because he's what he's doing here is
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is true. What he's affirming is
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Right, that's what he's affirming.
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and you're afraid of me and you
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have done something, you did nothing. And so when I look at that,

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I think of it. You know, God's given us every resource we

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have, So it's not just about
my it's about everything. And he's given

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us our time, he's given us
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He's allowed you to be alive at
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you to have the family that you
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He's allowed everything. He's given you
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he gave everybody else. He's all
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it says that he gave it to
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what it says? Right? He
gave five, one, he gave two

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and one, he gave one according
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up in proportion to their abilities,
which means none of them got more they

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could handle, right, none of
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could handle. And then so The
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The measurement is how well do you
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So nobody's going to measure God is
not going to measure any of our listeners

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by what Jeff and Chris produced.
God's not going to measure Jeff by what

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Chris produced. Right. God's only
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you do with what I gave you? That's it. And by the way,

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he didn't give you too much,
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so I tell people all the time, you currently have everything you need to

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honor God today. Everything you need
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faith a little bit. I'm going
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right, And so it's so good
when you've been faithful. So sometimes

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you find yourself in a little role
or a little job, or a little

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thing, and you get frustrated with
it because you think, man, if

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I had a bigger job, if
I had a bigger role, if I

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had a bigger thing, I would
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be great at the little thing,
because that's how God works, that says,

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let me test you on the little
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hey, he's spent being faithful with
this little thing. It's time to let's

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elevate him and bring him up a
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understand the importance of faithfulness, sticking it

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out, doing the right thing,
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us, then we can trust it
he'll give us more. Yeah. And

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that's been my experience me too.
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about every person who well, I
shouldn't say every person, I'm just gonna

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say it feels like to me,
every person that I admire and every person

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that I know, you know personally
and have you know, know the stories

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there are great men and women of
God. It feels like when they have

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a lot of responsibility, a lot
of influence, they've earned, you know,

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top positions and and all these all
these kind of opportunities, they all

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seem to have a story where they
pay their dues right, and it's it's

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like, yeah, it's like I
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they were just faithful, and they
were faithful, and they were faithful,

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and they started just like everybody else
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happening is is God rewards them and
gives them more influence, more opportunities,

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more blessing, and it just it
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the more talented and gifted they are,

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it seems like God just gives more
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amazing. The first church I served in

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on Staff, well, the first
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years. I was the everything else
pastor sure sure. I literally mow the

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lawn, join the club, change
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Right, I was the janitor.
I was the everything else guy. And

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it just seemed like it would never
end, right. It felt like I

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think I'm going to be And then
I was poor my whole life. It

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felt like everything it was just so
hard, like it would never end.

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if I didn't keep my heart in check

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being a little resentful both of the
call God had on my life making me

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do this, and on the fact
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But I would say, now I
look back, thank God. So many

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times my wife would keep me heading
in the right direction. Hey, be

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faithful, be faithful, and God
will bless us. And other times it

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was me encouraging my wife. Hey, we just have to be faithful.

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So we need to encourage each other. And I think it's neat that there's

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three of them here and two of
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them didn't. I think we need
to be on this journey with others and

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understanding that we're all in this together. It's not just one of us and

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it's just me. Right, This
isn't a story of independence. It's a

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story of individual responsibility. But two
guys decided they could make it and they

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were going to go forward. It
was just the one who gave up and

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quit and decided, I'm not even
gonna get started. He never started,

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right, right, that that's the
failure was he never started, Yeah,

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and not like that, but he
buried it. And it says the master

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return after a long time, Yeah, which means like this guy had nothing

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could have you know, a long
time means, yeah, he should have

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at least gotten interest, well interest
over a long time, right, It's

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just it's not. Yeah. So
I think sometimes our biggest mistake when we

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don't know what we should do to
give God a good return, our biggest

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mistake is to do nothing, just
bury it, right, right, So

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do something and get some kind of
return. And that's the that's the I

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think the central message here of this
this parable So it's great man. I

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love that one. And that's our
time and it's a great place to end.

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So hopefully we will see you next
time on the Bible guys. Mhm h