The Sermon Banking Your Assets by David McGee
Sep 18, 2011
Banking Your Assets (48:28)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 6:19-21
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Matthew 6:19-21
19) "Don‘t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
20) but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don‘t break through and steal;
21) for where your treasure is, your heart will be there also.
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By Matthew chapter six verses nineteen to twenty one, banking your assets banking your assets. No whining all over the Senate banking your acids. Matthew chapter six. Beginning in verse nineteen, reading through verse twenty one. Get us to reach out yourselves treasures on earth, where Bob and Ross destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Now I is the slope, joking that I heard years ago, goes along this, there is this guy robbed the bank and and there is always running down the street and a preacher their efficiency and wallet Shannon a while initiated by a shoot them in the wallet. They are fault-tolerant in flight. What was our bodies is why where your treasure is there we are hard. We also saw at bad joke by now, so let's open it up to get what you treasure is where where your thoughts and interest out. It really, really want know where your treasure is, look at your bank will we look at our bank will we find where we spend most of our money in and also it's important that we member that in the kingdom of God engulfed by percentages. This is based on quantities or numbers is based on percentages, and that when Jesus spoke about the individual who gave most. It was speaking about the widow who gave her last night, which was the fraction of a penny, and that she was given more than those who were dumping them bags of coins into the treasury sought in cases was satiated more than they are selling the kingdom of God. Islam is not about about how much we gab as in quantitative things. It's about how much we given percentages is* years ago I used in one of our tithing letters that we go out in the year in amounts amounts of money that people in Italy to give for the year and there was this one individual who was a the contractor and his business was doing very, very poorly and so he went to the pastor and they prayed about it then and they made it only made it contract with it. The pastor that you a lot. I'm going to tie them going to give up my business to the Lord and ten percent. I'm going to get, and they do they prayed about it and ask God to honor his gifts in honor his contract with the Lord and and from that point on, for this individual is his business just blew out walls and was so exhausted he was millions and millions of dollars to the point he was giving extreme amounts of money. When you consider the extreme amounts of money to the church and he went back to the pastor is a pastor. He says I can afford to give to honor my contract anymore because I'm giving so many hundreds of thousands of dollars to the church and any successor. I've got to be able to get out of his contract that I made with you and God, and the pastor says what we will pray that God will shrink your income back to where you can afford to get a hit her while I do now, so you understand that, and in banking are assets. It's that we we often think in terms of finances and we often think in terms of being able to put dollars and cents to one are banking on what our assets are, but do you know that the bank your assets dropped the first make a deposit what you have now for most of us. We don't consider what we have as sufficient. We don't consider what we have as sufficient. Now if you live you look at the idea of a farmer selling his products, you must first take your see and planted in the ground while let's see you want it in Austin. I remember it always the firemen living on the farm we went, we would look at what how many acres do we need to plan to fill the silo to take care of the take care of the animals, so we would always look at the amount of crops that we needed to take care of and feed the animals are you here so you would look at you have over a hundred had a child. The cattle that are melting and you have a hundred head of cattle. How many acres do you need to plan in order to be& amount of cattle, and then how much stage you need to plant those acres. The Mary is a very little way of looking at it. So when we got been in the same process to look at. You got to look at what we want as a harvest the backup to what we want to play and how must we want to sell to the kingdom of God installed in our lives and in this in this idea of beating our needs, while deposits we know are to place things in in in in in in cross your placing them in a safe place, whereas the same place, replacing them in the ground is not a safe place well videos of your seat saved Dennis Captain and got some flowers that I dug up a few years ago, the balls listed. They never made never blow because they are still in a box in my basement. They never multiplied, they never blossomed. Their skeletal box in my basement. While what they need. They need to be planted in a safe place. They need we planted in the ground, while also we look at. We are the bank are assets while one is Jesus telling us about our life is telling us that our lives have a lot of assets. There are assets to our life and we don't consider sometimes to be assets in our considers some things that we possess as being of value. That's what we make our first big mistake is that everything that we possess every thing that we possess ever take a deep breath. You have life or you could rate that's an asset for some is not very good asset but not the destitute, but we recognize that you are alive, you are breathing, you are an asset. Hopefully you have an assets eleven assays of the asset of life. What eager to do with how you look at how you going to invest it on a nephew of that he graduated from IUP and banking business work for one of the local banks. He then went to Carnegie Mellon got his Masters degree in banking, investment, whatever. I don't not look quite sure but he now works try to have firm in Pittsburgh and he now holds most of that firm and he travels all over the country and his his firm selects monies from states no large institutions. I simply take my money and put it in for you to make money on thesis. Sorry. Can we need a least ten million to begin with, like what you maybe I honor myself putting your stop, you know any of them. Now I need about it. I think millions and millions of dollars in place and investments, and he has done strangely well is done extremely well to the point that he has no holds most of the company start with nothing now. I started with going to school and his own school loan. Now he had to borrow everything to go to school. He had to borrow money to go to Carnegie Mellon. He had to borrow all these things in and what he has done his he is taken his knowledge and he has invested in an visibility and his abilities then have paid off in financial and financial okay, but we look at our life that we look at what we are as individuals. And we need to see the abilities that we have an investor who we are and what we as a very pivotal principle God invested in you he has invested in us. He has invested himself in us. He died for our sins, he died for the very things that would destroy a Jesus Christ died for the everything that would destroy us all. It could be removed from our life so that we would no longer be entangled with sand. What is since it is missing the mark set is a bad investment. It will end up stealing, killing and destroying that the result of sin and we see people wanting to propagate their sin, and only in an Augustana Bible says Satan is missing the mark, and all the things that miss the mark that is not never going to steal, kill and destroy who we are as a person and destroy our asset to guys on our game you're banking on annual financial pointer if someone says to you, I want you to invest everything you have in the what I want to lose it. I nearly did not return on it. How many of you are gone, and that's now they got nothing and invest. If you do, the Bible would say your full because you're taking what you've gone and you're going to invest in something that will give you no return and is to take away everything that is the wages of sin. The wages of sin is death against them. God is eternal life the gift of God is an investment guide investment in our life so our life and our actions, our life and our actions whenever we have Christ as our Savior now have value. So every Christian holiday. Here are Christian you given your life to Jesus Christ. I you have value, you have eternal value and the aspects of your life are God 's investment in you and God takes his word and he invested into our life, and whenever he invests his word into our life, we are able to grow into mature rate will have wisdom and guidance of our decisions were able to have faith in troubled times were able to have peace in difficult times were able to have help when things are hopeless that we have assets that we are able to change and we get a hold of worrying, we have assets that were tangibly able to see everyone of you have these assets, but sometimes we look at them and say while you look into marrying. As they want to the not much of an asset, no. But that's not true. How does God six cc we make deposits into the lives of others. So will a physical presence deposit again physical presence deposit ready for a physical presence deposit in an essay with a physical presence deposit. Will everybody get a big grin on your face and look at somebody that while I'm not much of a deposit money gave a frown will will will will you just made a withdrawal, but you see you have the ability in fact, somebody around you. Why not, what was the sample was a very simple process that when people. How do you know someone doesn't need your smile. How do you know someone doesn't need your friendship. You see, some people 's friendship. There are some friends. We should not call friends. They are routes. The name is an austerity for those of you will have little kids are that young people who are constantly withdrawing from you young people. There are people who want a deposit anger, bitterness resentment, hatred, you look at your friend 's, what are they depositing in your life if they are righteous if they are angry that they are bitter if they as they are constantly pushing people down and and tearing people apart want you to do things that are I guess what you know the Spirit of God want you to do those individuals are not making deposits in your life. They are making withdrawals from the gift from the giver of life and the end of those things. This is still the killer to destroy, they will destroy you an aspiring you want to talk to me. How point out individual that have made all those decisions an ally, and some individuals I know I've been inside here in our church, and this is now going back about twenty five years ago individuals who sat here in this church and then made a conscious decision that said, you know what I want try this religion thing, and it doesn't work and their life is a sham. Why because they chose that spin one. We all know people have chosen that steal, kill and destroy, anger, bitterness, hatred, in these strife those things destroy us are not deposits or withdrawals withdrawals of life if you don't have the ability to choose what is right for you. You are going to choose wrongly and we cannot. You cannot you are here because of the choices you've made it will be where you're going to be tomorrow because of the choices you make today, and if you chose wisely. You're going to die in a. You die spiritually. I mostly immensely when life is over. You have nothing left is where I would go with the sermon, but not having his was the truth and a die. I don't want to don't want that for your life God doesn't one for your God does not want you to die spiritually. He wants you to live it to you live again once you have hope want to have peace want to the happenings of the things of God deposited in our life to his word and deposit goodness of God. We deposit the love of God, a deposit. The peace of God, he deposits the great things of God. He deposited our life as a company to Rachel, my daughter she doesn't know the end users, but sorry to hear you got got something coming, but when she she she got married and she went to Oklahoma and she got in a bad relationship she did it. I don't know. She got in a bad relationship and it was so bad that there were threats upon her life. Winslow is my little girl. There were threats upon her life, she grew up here and the individual that she was married to threaten the killer threatened poorer and awake out there that would do whatever Finder and however she got in that place was by choices she made when she separated from this individual. She went to a no counselor to help her deal with these issues and the counselor said this person Rachel, you don't know you grew up in a very, very safe environment, and whenever you marry, you married out of that environment files a place that many people live in its place of fear, it's a place of destruction and if you don't change it will destroy and he told hard you grew up in a very safe environment. You were her family that want to add it out. Sometimes we take for granted people who love us the most. Very sneaky that we have around us and you hotly have choices to make in the choices we make our choices of life, and they are choices of death will save them is that we display them is everyday life. But whenever we start making choices that end up stealing, killing, destroying, taking away for taking away our joy taking away our security that we have in Christ. The security do we have in our relationship with Jesus Christ and security. We haven't one another and our fellowship when we make those choices. We are destroying ourselves and were taking a seat of God is given to us for eating it. July happens whenever people need to see what happens when you leave the CPU should be planting start later in the yelling some of the in in some of the countries that were meant people were sending them aid and trying to get the plant crops of that they can take care of themselves. They are set in such dire need. They need to see because we can't wait until harvest, we will die. And so what they're trying to do is to get them to understand this is a seed for you. Eating this is the this is what we provide a future heat. This is what we provided for you to plan. If you plant your garden to plant your scrubs. You will be able to live. El Salvador where no one but one of the projects that Damon and they were doing El Salvador is gardening or you are in a tropical place and I don't have the other was totally surprised when I went there and I I look around for Damon the plan I have garden because no one ever taught them how to grow a garden. If you don't grow it. You don't be in that part of the country. There are no stores as a laborer would story to go buy milk and cheese and butter. Nevertheless, that if you outgrow generally believe me, some of these people elected, then you can tell they have any, and so the idea is to teach people how I'm in the group. The Damon as they send out someone every week for six months mason agronomists out to help them understand what gardening is what they need to plan how they need to take care of the plan. What they should be looking for how to keep the wrong bugs off of it and how to keep it growing without killing themselves so solo far less than the positive spin. When we get a smile to someone you get a handshake to someone. What are we going, we are. We are putting where making a deposit how much they cost you has to smile several proud cost you a smile instead of a firm word of encouragement versus the unity of a pretty ugly today when you looking at well when you're looking at determines how you see things in what you say so I should when it won you I I don't have a device plugged into the state when they may be gone to different churches in the gone different places in the units. A call was placed. They've ever been. If somebody's cold years ago. They keep a jacket on it with her hands in her pocket because they want them to be worn. We want them to feel water beliefs and accept that some feel that God is a part of their life because God is part of arts we want to show that the following is what's going to come next. The following comes from a book by Diane Brewer and is called creating personal presence and I decided to have the excerpts from its. I don't have the book, so it's been creating personal presence and it's about looking talking, thinking an act acting like a leader and an inmate. It was apt to do with church will get there in just a minute. The bug so you deposit what you value. He will deposit what you value. You will deposit what you value. If you value love will give what if you value friendship. You will get French to see some people don't know how to love. They value hatred. They value bitterness. They value tearing people apart. They value tearing people down. And what they do they try to deposit that in your life and you have a choice. See if the garbage truck. It's coming around from your house every week, which are however very threatened by your house right now. When the garbage truck is by your house if a back into your year-long and less the back of the truck and they start dumping all that garbage in your yard. I even say thanks now as you think of me debug. Print. We cannot actually not energized a problem on a computer, not too bright to be the you do that, why because they want to talk to other people 's garbage dump in your yard while maybe, of Albany aligned to the garbage. A lot of people are dumping in your life is full of the garbage of your all people that consider you a dumping ground .com that HR lie flat. Now don't they keep your garbage because of the hangout if you know what I was trying to keep their garbage that had a dog when you and what happens after a while what happens after a few weeks of dumping garbage in your yard. It starts the state and you know what your attitude in our attitude in my attitude. Most think whenever I allow people to dump their garbage in my life, ill, and as a counselor I heard lots of garbage in a hard lots of garbage. I heard things that I never wanted to hear, but you know what I'd like to make sure that I didn't keep because it's not my life is not my garbage people needed to get rid of their garbage in, but I needed to send them take them to Jesus for Jesus, the one who forgives our sins and get stuck garbage out of our life but your presence. You deposit what you value creating personal presence, your presence is not faith in your presence is not fall. See, this is the idea that Waveland went. We however with cheating and deception. We let with true and it's hard for us to realize whenever we went the Malacca live the life of truth. We live in a presence of family that are truthful. We live in a presence when it has lobbed forgiveness and all these things are present. This is what were growing towards an online and so sometimes we don't have a hard time picking up on the fate in the fall. Everything that shines is not gold and oil. Everything is in silver that people says it is, we have to examine the truth examine what people say your presence is not an all or nothing commodity is a very important. Your presence is not an all or nothing. Everyone has found time and on and had downtimes. Amid those you didn't know rear end. I was given opportunity. Everybody had downtimes. Now I been down that road. Sometimes I get out more often. I want when I went outside. We just want everyone that I find funny about times examining the downtimes, shaking her head up because we've all had out the downside at that point back at some South Lincoln Center are alive, aligning and on this line of life. We've had our downswing that are often complicate consider that live in your daily life on funny times we have our daily life. Our daily life has ups and downs on sometimes our tablets about the project and probably what class you going through the upper downright so we can center also our daily life. When law presence and low-impact Manheim presence in high impact. There sometimes when I walk into people 's lives and into the homes I have a you again while in fact hello now we're going here. I dine somebody send for your mind. I know I'm just on the magic pill that on times and high-impact and high high while in some vitamin K name in prayer. We needed this win. Either that, and I'm so glad you're here. We can even help. So we have low presence, low-impact high presence that happens in our life. It's their family. One everyone about an inch closer to that high-impact, I present how do you develop that personal presence. You are bistate meet the rising me again me again thank you as always on our life. They may. I how are the are you and I going to develop high impact, high awareness. How are we going to develop personal presence. We develop personal presence by what we deposit in people 's lives. Do you enjoy being with people because you see, this is where we have problem. Sometimes we allowed negative people into our life, because we just need a friend, and we take all their garbage because we like to have a friend. Believe me, it's better to not have a friend than to have a garbage collector dumping their garbage in your life I think that's what it is where relating a guy that I is always good to have somebody doing this our new house on the island like reading about positive again, but the idea is that we had. We have to you have. You do not leave garbage people dumping garbage in your life. Yet, whenever those individuals to write and grouchy people to bring our people are always taking from you and never giving back there always want something from you, but in and wanting to get in return you get the garbage can, whenever they are not depositing things in your life. You don't will be around so we look at ways so if you want to develop a personal presence personal presence personal presence is that when somebody sees you, and they bring you bring a smile to the face personal presence. What happens. You made a deposit in their life they like you to come because you give them something good you can do something good. Don't I what I will live. I want people to come to church. Why, because I wanted to deposit good things into their life. I wanted I want to leave here with when I was a high deposit in their life. Something life-changing something something tangible that you go home with a believe that you know what this is my life. This can be better because I was in church today. My life is that of the better because I do. I was closer to God today we wait. We came to church and Brad Landis found within the old darling mother. They sang in an ill family and carry an button off and I are all part of my life. They're all part of my life. Why, because we were singing and I felt uplifted one thousand deposit writing a positive personal present this event is the way that you affect others, and we can increase we can increase our ability to connect with others and communicate with credibility. What we say has something credible to household has friendship attached is a if you are friendship attachment to someone else is you are giving and they are dumping the thought of friendship are. Presence involves mental, physical and emotional aspects of who we are and how you are okay. Our presidents involved in mental, physical and emotional aspects of who we are and how we are your personal presence involves how you look, because he always dressed in one gigantic under me as I was around addressing me. Okay, now and realize how let's talk about what I should put it all out. Even the color matches the gray with red and got the black in their LeBlanc shoes inoculate all out. If I found with me dressed my way plan and plan in a geeky but the idea is that we are currently luck luck is part of your personal present present your body language, your parents, your little but you address your surroundings. That's all part of the water when making deposits. The Scripture say to software South- one earthworm often must I with these break in and steal the store for yourselves treasures in heaven, or mop and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. You are a child of God, you represent God to represent God, and how you look. Represent God, and how you talk the words you choose the physical qualities of your life, how you use your voice. How you use your emotions, your personal process involves how you think how you communicate your thoughts. How you organize your thoughts are. You organize your ideas and information. What you decide to pass on or what you decide not to pass on gossip or encouragement. How you frame your issues or you framing people see all that just little things, but yet they get a whole different twist your person. Your personal presence involves how you act your attitude. The idea need an attitude adjustment. You have values in any of your competency. Your actor. Your client, and your actions are revealed through how you speak and how you do things that you see you are very much involved in making deposits into the lives of others and people are making deposits into you here today where making involved in making deposits spirit of God in the word of God are to be deposited in your life being deposited in you as a person and those deposits are therefore any time Loretta, because human eyes. We serve God when we smile is not just about getting personal, portable, it's about conveying you what God loves you, and I'm here to help in this relationship we have with God, and in our life and where we were part of this together are the family of God. We are part of women eternal benefit plan and someone nice is what you do for a living, as I sell. I sell eternal benefits. What is the faster I highlight you know what eternal benefits come from. I don't sell them. I give my looking Albano, who gives them away. So as you increase your personal presence will strengthen your credibility and expand your influence. This is talking about. This is Diane Miller talking about her book with the memorable title to minute ago and it's about these and these are things that came from her excerpt from her book. I got an e-mail this week and is creating personal presence. Look thought they can act like a leader like top left talk, think, act like a Christian will happen. You will increase your personal awareness you will strengthen your credibility. You will expand your influence. You will have a stronger impact you will increase your chances of achieving personal goals. We will we will make a difference in our life for eternity. We will make a difference in our life, animal lives around us for eternity. We are not here just for today I care for the long haul. We are here for a neutrality and we want to make a difference today. We want to make a difference tomorrow away, but I can difference in people 's lives for eternity making a positive people 's lives that they know all that there was someone, somewhere will pray for them so, how much of the treasures that you possess favored by saying the hallmarks of me is a treasure. How much of you is a treasure. The ideas all, all of me is a treasure. Why, because Jesus died for all of you that is part but just your spirit, but just your mind, or what you will do the dive for all of you all of you is a treasure. Now, if all of you is a treasure. How much of you do you handle is a treasure. How much do you think of yourself as a treasure part of being well maybe my spirit. Maybe, maybe this may be that now all of you is a treasure. See most of the time you buy. I'm a big one for this. I know I'm preaching to myself that you will don't think of ourselves as a complete treasure it. I think of while sometimes when I'm preaching that's my best. This is this is me at my best and I'll talk to my wife. It was to be in my worst I have those periods. Sometimes I'm long periods I wrote. I wrote her a happy I think you said this morning. She said you must've written this while you were in your preaching mode. She said that because it was really good and very nothing said that because what I may live writing mode in writing these things. It's like I feel like it's all electronic and for this distinctness as landlord material, some of it is hers. But if our material in any. I feel God has inspired to turn around and look at it a different way and that we can see that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also where your treasure. I treasure the missing about the threat of using that you are a treasure within Islam that we say you are a treasure sanitizer, setting, and I am a treasure all of me. I have a treasurer, all of me to the Hope diamond. What is the hope on nine oh. Defendant is in Washington DC is the largest diamond in the world enormous file it was found on an individual 's mantle. The geologist was going looking at. I believe this is the story goes with it. If I'm wrong clothes. But a half stepping on the string pulling might also may help. I was a distraction, part of diamond where is all diamond geologist with this. This guy does donor and and and and asked him for permission to look for diamonds because according to geological findings. He felt like this was an area where diamonds would be an asset geologist is talking with his farmer. This landowner about looking for diamonds on his property. He notices this rock on his on his mantle, Kate Larocque on the mantle. The farmer found laying in his field and number of people asked where they can have anyone given way to e-file them into something unique about Mel wasn't its polished self was a rock but to the trained eye was a diamond. The largest diamond in the world was in the rock farmer didn't know is that it was a rocking screen unique the fountains field headed on his mantle to see to you and I lot of times where that rock on a mantle you and I are that rock fundamental and we look at that rocket we say and you know it's pretty nice, but this is the rock found in the field, it's just me that's not all there is inside that rock in the hands of the right person. It is the most valuable diamond of the world you cannot on that walk on the mantle and as we place our hands, our life in God 's hands. He has a way of shaping us, helping us holding us bringing out the diamond in the urgency. You've got to believe because just think if that farmer had taken that rock thrown it out back out in the field. One effect farmer had given it away. You think the person he gave it away to whatever ever discovered, it has the Hope diamond, probably not. Why, because the farmer would have given it away for a few bucks, they would have TV shows people going to people 's houses looking for treasures that people have in their attics, you are done. I haven't done in the hands of God, we will become the treasure you are a treasure something talking to closer to God. I would swim the ocean floor. I would in a walk thousands of miles. Christ is a treasure that is, we give ourselves to Christ. He developed the treasurer and where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. If you don't see the value in you as a person, you will throw it away. You will allow the garbage people of life to dump their garbage in your life and you will think this is marvelous and run along not true. You have a kingdom, the kingdom of God Jesus died for you and I and the treasure of life he has put inside of you and we are constantly constantly, constantly say constantly being shined up and polished up and talk to an end and what away like I was. So what is going on here. God is bringing out most beautiful of his creation. You are trash that Jesus was willing to die for, because he saw the potential. Do not allow the garbage of life in the garbage collectors of life to dump in your life. Give them the love and the hope of Jesus Christ. If they don't want it to keep going on because do not allow the treasure of who you are as a person to be destroyed and dismantle by people who don't know what they're doing. Jesus is our greatest treasure, so as to everybody. Say it's finished at Fraser is not& but it is faith. What is it being Jesus Christ as finished the work on the cross, and his work upon the cross has a lasting effect upon our hearts and lives. You are the treasure and if people tried to rob a treasure from you by their drowsiness and there does destructive tendencies by their stealing and killing destroy all happen. Amen. There are likely will destroy you. The NFL. You are that diamond in Iraq. Everyone of us. God created us for a purpose. God created me for a purpose and God created me for purpose underlying purpose do not allow anyone or anything distillate delimiters while that's your choice. Choose life. Choose it wisely choose Christ how you think how you walk how you talk how you act, you have a great impact on your life and the lives of others. Amen. Amen. God bless you, shake somebody's hand smile at him. Deposit. The deposit in someone's lifeBy Matthew chapter six verses nineteen to twenty one, banking your assets banking your assets. No whining all over the Senate banking your acids. Matthew chapter six. Beginning in verse nineteen, reading through verse twenty one. Get us to reach out yourselves treasures on earth, where Bob and Ross destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Now I is the slope, joking that I heard years ago, goes along this, there is this guy robbed the bank and and there is always running down the street and a preacher their efficiency and wallet Shannon a while initiated by a shoot them in the wallet. They are fault-tolerant in flight. What was our bodies is why where your treasure is there we are hard. We also saw at bad joke by now, so let's open it up to get what you treasure is where where your thoughts and interest out. It really, really want know where your treasure is, look at your bank will we look at our bank will we find where we spend most of our money in and also it's important that we member that in the kingdom of God engulfed by percentages. This is based on quantities or numbers is based on percentages, and that when Jesus spoke about the individual who gave most. It was speaking about the widow who gave her last night, which was the fraction of a penny, and that she was given more than those who were dumping them bags of coins into the treasury sought in cases was satiated more than they are selling the kingdom of God. Islam is not about about how much we gab as in quantitative things. It's about how much we given percentages is* years ago I used in one of our tithing letters that we go out in the year in amounts amounts of money that people in Italy to give for the year and there was this one individual who was a the contractor and his business was doing very, very poorly and so he went to the pastor and they prayed about it then and they made it only made it contract with it. The pastor that you a lot. I'm going to tie them going to give up my business to the Lord and ten percent. I'm going to get, and they do they prayed about it and ask God to honor his gifts in honor his contract with the Lord and and from that point on, for this individual is his business just blew out walls and was so exhausted he was millions and millions of dollars to the point he was giving extreme amounts of money. When you consider the extreme amounts of money to the church and he went back to the pastor is a pastor. He says I can afford to give to honor my contract anymore because I'm giving so many hundreds of thousands of dollars to the church and any successor. I've got to be able to get out of his contract that I made with you and God, and the pastor says what we will pray that God will shrink your income back to where you can afford to get a hit her while I do now, so you understand that, and in banking are assets. It's that we we often think in terms of finances and we often think in terms of being able to put dollars and cents to one are banking on what our assets are, but do you know that the bank your assets dropped the first make a deposit what you have now for most of us. We don't consider what we have as sufficient. We don't consider what we have as sufficient. Now if you live you look at the idea of a farmer selling his products, you must first take your see and planted in the ground while let's see you want it in Austin. I remember it always the firemen living on the farm we went, we would look at what how many acres do we need to plan to fill the silo to take care of the take care of the animals, so we would always look at the amount of crops that we needed to take care of and feed the animals are you here so you would look at you have over a hundred had a child. The cattle that are melting and you have a hundred head of cattle. How many acres do you need to plan in order to be& amount of cattle, and then how much stage you need to plant those acres. The Mary is a very little way of looking at it. So when we got been in the same process to look at. You got to look at what we want as a harvest the backup to what we want to play and how must we want to sell to the kingdom of God installed in our lives and in this in this idea of beating our needs, while deposits we know are to place things in in in in in in cross your placing them in a safe place, whereas the same place, replacing them in the ground is not a safe place well videos of your seat saved Dennis Captain and got some flowers that I dug up a few years ago, the balls listed. They never made never blow because they are still in a box in my basement. They never multiplied, they never blossomed. Their skeletal box in my basement. While what they need. They need to be planted in a safe place. They need we planted in the ground, while also we look at. We are the bank are assets while one is Jesus telling us about our life is telling us that our lives have a lot of assets. There are assets to our life and we don't consider sometimes to be assets in our considers some things that we possess as being of value. That's what we make our first big mistake is that everything that we possess every thing that we possess ever take a deep breath. You have life or you could rate that's an asset for some is not very good asset but not the destitute, but we recognize that you are alive, you are breathing, you are an asset. Hopefully you have an assets eleven assays of the asset of life. What eager to do with how you look at how you going to invest it on a nephew of that he graduated from IUP and banking business work for one of the local banks. He then went to Carnegie Mellon got his Masters degree in banking, investment, whatever. I don't not look quite sure but he now works try to have firm in Pittsburgh and he now holds most of that firm and he travels all over the country and his his firm selects monies from states no large institutions. I simply take my money and put it in for you to make money on thesis. Sorry. Can we need a least ten million to begin with, like what you maybe I honor myself putting your stop, you know any of them. Now I need about it. I think millions and millions of dollars in place and investments, and he has done strangely well is done extremely well to the point that he has no holds most of the company start with nothing now. I started with going to school and his own school loan. Now he had to borrow everything to go to school. He had to borrow money to go to Carnegie Mellon. He had to borrow all these things in and what he has done his he is taken his knowledge and he has invested in an visibility and his abilities then have paid off in financial and financial okay, but we look at our life that we look at what we are as individuals. And we need to see the abilities that we have an investor who we are and what we as a very pivotal principle God invested in you he has invested in us. He has invested himself in us. He died for our sins, he died for the very things that would destroy a Jesus Christ died for the everything that would destroy us all. It could be removed from our life so that we would no longer be entangled with sand. What is since it is missing the mark set is a bad investment. It will end up stealing, killing and destroying that the result of sin and we see people wanting to propagate their sin, and only in an Augustana Bible says Satan is missing the mark, and all the things that miss the mark that is not never going to steal, kill and destroy who we are as a person and destroy our asset to guys on our game you're banking on annual financial pointer if someone says to you, I want you to invest everything you have in the what I want to lose it. I nearly did not return on it. How many of you are gone, and that's now they got nothing and invest. If you do, the Bible would say your full because you're taking what you've gone and you're going to invest in something that will give you no return and is to take away everything that is the wages of sin. The wages of sin is death against them. God is eternal life the gift of God is an investment guide investment in our life so our life and our actions, our life and our actions whenever we have Christ as our Savior now have value. So every Christian holiday. Here are Christian you given your life to Jesus Christ. I you have value, you have eternal value and the aspects of your life are God 's investment in you and God takes his word and he invested into our life, and whenever he invests his word into our life, we are able to grow into mature rate will have wisdom and guidance of our decisions were able to have faith in troubled times were able to have peace in difficult times were able to have help when things are hopeless that we have assets that we are able to change and we get a hold of worrying, we have assets that were tangibly able to see everyone of you have these assets, but sometimes we look at them and say while you look into marrying. As they want to the not much of an asset, no. But that's not true. How does God six cc we make deposits into the lives of others. So will a physical presence deposit again physical presence deposit ready for a physical presence deposit in an essay with a physical presence deposit. Will everybody get a big grin on your face and look at somebody that while I'm not much of a deposit money gave a frown will will will will you just made a withdrawal, but you see you have the ability in fact, somebody around you. Why not, what was the sample was a very simple process that when people. How do you know someone doesn't need your smile. How do you know someone doesn't need your friendship. You see, some people 's friendship. There are some friends. We should not call friends. They are routes. The name is an austerity for those of you will have little kids are that young people who are constantly withdrawing from you young people. There are people who want a deposit anger, bitterness resentment, hatred, you look at your friend 's, what are they depositing in your life if they are righteous if they are angry that they are bitter if they as they are constantly pushing people down and and tearing people apart want you to do things that are I guess what you know the Spirit of God want you to do those individuals are not making deposits in your life. They are making withdrawals from the gift from the giver of life and the end of those things. This is still the killer to destroy, they will destroy you an aspiring you want to talk to me. How point out individual that have made all those decisions an ally, and some individuals I know I've been inside here in our church, and this is now going back about twenty five years ago individuals who sat here in this church and then made a conscious decision that said, you know what I want try this religion thing, and it doesn't work and their life is a sham. Why because they chose that spin one. We all know people have chosen that steal, kill and destroy, anger, bitterness, hatred, in these strife those things destroy us are not deposits or withdrawals withdrawals of life if you don't have the ability to choose what is right for you. You are going to choose wrongly and we cannot. You cannot you are here because of the choices you've made it will be where you're going to be tomorrow because of the choices you make today, and if you chose wisely. You're going to die in a. You die spiritually. I mostly immensely when life is over. You have nothing left is where I would go with the sermon, but not having his was the truth and a die. I don't want to don't want that for your life God doesn't one for your God does not want you to die spiritually. He wants you to live it to you live again once you have hope want to have peace want to the happenings of the things of God deposited in our life to his word and deposit goodness of God. We deposit the love of God, a deposit. The peace of God, he deposits the great things of God. He deposited our life as a company to Rachel, my daughter she doesn't know the end users, but sorry to hear you got got something coming, but when she she she got married and she went to Oklahoma and she got in a bad relationship she did it. I don't know. She got in a bad relationship and it was so bad that there were threats upon her life. Winslow is my little girl. There were threats upon her life, she grew up here and the individual that she was married to threaten the killer threatened poorer and awake out there that would do whatever Finder and however she got in that place was by choices she made when she separated from this individual. She went to a no counselor to help her deal with these issues and the counselor said this person Rachel, you don't know you grew up in a very, very safe environment, and whenever you marry, you married out of that environment files a place that many people live in its place of fear, it's a place of destruction and if you don't change it will destroy and he told hard you grew up in a very safe environment. You were her family that want to add it out. Sometimes we take for granted people who love us the most. Very sneaky that we have around us and you hotly have choices to make in the choices we make our choices of life, and they are choices of death will save them is that we display them is everyday life. But whenever we start making choices that end up stealing, killing, destroying, taking away for taking away our joy taking away our security that we have in Christ. The security do we have in our relationship with Jesus Christ and security. We haven't one another and our fellowship when we make those choices. We are destroying ourselves and were taking a seat of God is given to us for eating it. July happens whenever people need to see what happens when you leave the CPU should be planting start later in the yelling some of the in in some of the countries that were meant people were sending them aid and trying to get the plant crops of that they can take care of themselves. They are set in such dire need. They need to see because we can't wait until harvest, we will die. And so what they're trying to do is to get them to understand this is a seed for you. Eating this is the this is what we provide a future heat. This is what we provided for you to plan. If you plant your garden to plant your scrubs. You will be able to live. El Salvador where no one but one of the projects that Damon and they were doing El Salvador is gardening or you are in a tropical place and I don't have the other was totally surprised when I went there and I I look around for Damon the plan I have garden because no one ever taught them how to grow a garden. If you don't grow it. You don't be in that part of the country. There are no stores as a laborer would story to go buy milk and cheese and butter. Nevertheless, that if you outgrow generally believe me, some of these people elected, then you can tell they have any, and so the idea is to teach people how I'm in the group. The Damon as they send out someone every week for six months mason agronomists out to help them understand what gardening is what they need to plan how they need to take care of the plan. What they should be looking for how to keep the wrong bugs off of it and how to keep it growing without killing themselves so solo far less than the positive spin. When we get a smile to someone you get a handshake to someone. What are we going, we are. We are putting where making a deposit how much they cost you has to smile several proud cost you a smile instead of a firm word of encouragement versus the unity of a pretty ugly today when you looking at well when you're looking at determines how you see things in what you say so I should when it won you I I don't have a device plugged into the state when they may be gone to different churches in the gone different places in the units. A call was placed. They've ever been. If somebody's cold years ago. They keep a jacket on it with her hands in her pocket because they want them to be worn. We want them to feel water beliefs and accept that some feel that God is a part of their life because God is part of arts we want to show that the following is what's going to come next. The following comes from a book by Diane Brewer and is called creating personal presence and I decided to have the excerpts from its. I don't have the book, so it's been creating personal presence and it's about looking talking, thinking an act acting like a leader and an inmate. It was apt to do with church will get there in just a minute. The bug so you deposit what you value. He will deposit what you value. You will deposit what you value. If you value love will give what if you value friendship. You will get French to see some people don't know how to love. They value hatred. They value bitterness. They value tearing people apart. They value tearing people down. And what they do they try to deposit that in your life and you have a choice. See if the garbage truck. It's coming around from your house every week, which are however very threatened by your house right now. When the garbage truck is by your house if a back into your year-long and less the back of the truck and they start dumping all that garbage in your yard. I even say thanks now as you think of me debug. Print. We cannot actually not energized a problem on a computer, not too bright to be the you do that, why because they want to talk to other people 's garbage dump in your yard while maybe, of Albany aligned to the garbage. A lot of people are dumping in your life is full of the garbage of your all people that consider you a dumping ground .com that HR lie flat. Now don't they keep your garbage because of the hangout if you know what I was trying to keep their garbage that had a dog when you and what happens after a while what happens after a few weeks of dumping garbage in your yard. It starts the state and you know what your attitude in our attitude in my attitude. Most think whenever I allow people to dump their garbage in my life, ill, and as a counselor I heard lots of garbage in a hard lots of garbage. I heard things that I never wanted to hear, but you know what I'd like to make sure that I didn't keep because it's not my life is not my garbage people needed to get rid of their garbage in, but I needed to send them take them to Jesus for Jesus, the one who forgives our sins and get stuck garbage out of our life but your presence. You deposit what you value creating personal presence, your presence is not faith in your presence is not fall. See, this is the idea that Waveland went. We however with cheating and deception. We let with true and it's hard for us to realize whenever we went the Malacca live the life of truth. We live in a presence of family that are truthful. We live in a presence when it has lobbed forgiveness and all these things are present. This is what were growing towards an online and so sometimes we don't have a hard time picking up on the fate in the fall. Everything that shines is not gold and oil. Everything is in silver that people says it is, we have to examine the truth examine what people say your presence is not an all or nothing commodity is a very important. Your presence is not an all or nothing. Everyone has found time and on and had downtimes. Amid those you didn't know rear end. I was given opportunity. Everybody had downtimes. Now I been down that road. Sometimes I get out more often. I want when I went outside. We just want everyone that I find funny about times examining the downtimes, shaking her head up because we've all had out the downside at that point back at some South Lincoln Center are alive, aligning and on this line of life. We've had our downswing that are often complicate consider that live in your daily life on funny times we have our daily life. Our daily life has ups and downs on sometimes our tablets about the project and probably what class you going through the upper downright so we can center also our daily life. When law presence and low-impact Manheim presence in high impact. There sometimes when I walk into people 's lives and into the homes I have a you again while in fact hello now we're going here. I dine somebody send for your mind. I know I'm just on the magic pill that on times and high-impact and high high while in some vitamin K name in prayer. We needed this win. Either that, and I'm so glad you're here. We can even help. So we have low presence, low-impact high presence that happens in our life. It's their family. One everyone about an inch closer to that high-impact, I present how do you develop that personal presence. You are bistate meet the rising me again me again thank you as always on our life. They may. I how are the are you and I going to develop high impact, high awareness. How are we going to develop personal presence. We develop personal presence by what we deposit in people 's lives. Do you enjoy being with people because you see, this is where we have problem. Sometimes we allowed negative people into our life, because we just need a friend, and we take all their garbage because we like to have a friend. Believe me, it's better to not have a friend than to have a garbage collector dumping their garbage in your life I think that's what it is where relating a guy that I is always good to have somebody doing this our new house on the island like reading about positive again, but the idea is that we had. We have to you have. You do not leave garbage people dumping garbage in your life. Yet, whenever those individuals to write and grouchy people to bring our people are always taking from you and never giving back there always want something from you, but in and wanting to get in return you get the garbage can, whenever they are not depositing things in your life. You don't will be around so we look at ways so if you want to develop a personal presence personal presence personal presence is that when somebody sees you, and they bring you bring a smile to the face personal presence. What happens. You made a deposit in their life they like you to come because you give them something good you can do something good. Don't I what I will live. I want people to come to church. Why, because I wanted to deposit good things into their life. I wanted I want to leave here with when I was a high deposit in their life. Something life-changing something something tangible that you go home with a believe that you know what this is my life. This can be better because I was in church today. My life is that of the better because I do. I was closer to God today we wait. We came to church and Brad Landis found within the old darling mother. They sang in an ill family and carry an button off and I are all part of my life. They're all part of my life. Why, because we were singing and I felt uplifted one thousand deposit writing a positive personal present this event is the way that you affect others, and we can increase we can increase our ability to connect with others and communicate with credibility. What we say has something credible to household has friendship attached is a if you are friendship attachment to someone else is you are giving and they are dumping the thought of friendship are. Presence involves mental, physical and emotional aspects of who we are and how you are okay. Our presidents involved in mental, physical and emotional aspects of who we are and how we are your personal presence involves how you look, because he always dressed in one gigantic under me as I was around addressing me. Okay, now and realize how let's talk about what I should put it all out. Even the color matches the gray with red and got the black in their LeBlanc shoes inoculate all out. If I found with me dressed my way plan and plan in a geeky but the idea is that we are currently luck luck is part of your personal present present your body language, your parents, your little but you address your surroundings. That's all part of the water when making deposits. The Scripture say to software South- one earthworm often must I with these break in and steal the store for yourselves treasures in heaven, or mop and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. You are a child of God, you represent God to represent God, and how you look. Represent God, and how you talk the words you choose the physical qualities of your life, how you use your voice. How you use your emotions, your personal process involves how you think how you communicate your thoughts. How you organize your thoughts are. You organize your ideas and information. What you decide to pass on or what you decide not to pass on gossip or encouragement. How you frame your issues or you framing people see all that just little things, but yet they get a whole different twist your person. Your personal presence involves how you act your attitude. The idea need an attitude adjustment. You have values in any of your competency. Your actor. Your client, and your actions are revealed through how you speak and how you do things that you see you are very much involved in making deposits into the lives of others and people are making deposits into you here today where making involved in making deposits spirit of God in the word of God are to be deposited in your life being deposited in you as a person and those deposits are therefore any time Loretta, because human eyes. We serve God when we smile is not just about getting personal, portable, it's about conveying you what God loves you, and I'm here to help in this relationship we have with God, and in our life and where we were part of this together are the family of God. We are part of women eternal benefit plan and someone nice is what you do for a living, as I sell. I sell eternal benefits. What is the faster I highlight you know what eternal benefits come from. I don't sell them. I give my looking Albano, who gives them away. So as you increase your personal presence will strengthen your credibility and expand your influence. This is talking about. This is Diane Miller talking about her book with the memorable title to minute ago and it's about these and these are things that came from her excerpt from her book. I got an e-mail this week and is creating personal presence. Look thought they can act like a leader like top left talk, think, act like a Christian will happen. You will increase your personal awareness you will strengthen your credibility. You will expand your influence. You will have a stronger impact you will increase your chances of achieving personal goals. We will we will make a difference in our life for eternity. We will make a difference in our life, animal lives around us for eternity. We are not here just for today I care for the long haul. We are here for a neutrality and we want to make a difference today. We want to make a difference tomorrow away, but I can difference in people 's lives for eternity making a positive people 's lives that they know all that there was someone, somewhere will pray for them so, how much of the treasures that you possess favored by saying the hallmarks of me is a treasure. How much of you is a treasure. The ideas all, all of me is a treasure. Why, because Jesus died for all of you that is part but just your spirit, but just your mind, or what you will do the dive for all of you all of you is a treasure. Now, if all of you is a treasure. How much of you do you handle is a treasure. How much do you think of yourself as a treasure part of being well maybe my spirit. Maybe, maybe this may be that now all of you is a treasure. See most of the time you buy. I'm a big one for this. I know I'm preaching to myself that you will don't think of ourselves as a complete treasure it. I think of while sometimes when I'm preaching that's my best. This is this is me at my best and I'll talk to my wife. It was to be in my worst I have those periods. Sometimes I'm long periods I wrote. I wrote her a happy I think you said this morning. She said you must've written this while you were in your preaching mode. She said that because it was really good and very nothing said that because what I may live writing mode in writing these things. It's like I feel like it's all electronic and for this distinctness as landlord material, some of it is hers. But if our material in any. I feel God has inspired to turn around and look at it a different way and that we can see that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also where your treasure. I treasure the missing about the threat of using that you are a treasure within Islam that we say you are a treasure sanitizer, setting, and I am a treasure all of me. I have a treasurer, all of me to the Hope diamond. What is the hope on nine oh. Defendant is in Washington DC is the largest diamond in the world enormous file it was found on an individual 's mantle. The geologist was going looking at. I believe this is the story goes with it. If I'm wrong clothes. But a half stepping on the string pulling might also may help. I was a distraction, part of diamond where is all diamond geologist with this. This guy does donor and and and and asked him for permission to look for diamonds because according to geological findings. He felt like this was an area where diamonds would be an asset geologist is talking with his farmer. This landowner about looking for diamonds on his property. He notices this rock on his on his mantle, Kate Larocque on the mantle. The farmer found laying in his field and number of people asked where they can have anyone given way to e-file them into something unique about Mel wasn't its polished self was a rock but to the trained eye was a diamond. The largest diamond in the world was in the rock farmer didn't know is that it was a rocking screen unique the fountains field headed on his mantle to see to you and I lot of times where that rock on a mantle you and I are that rock fundamental and we look at that rocket we say and you know it's pretty nice, but this is the rock found in the field, it's just me that's not all there is inside that rock in the hands of the right person. It is the most valuable diamond of the world you cannot on that walk on the mantle and as we place our hands, our life in God 's hands. He has a way of shaping us, helping us holding us bringing out the diamond in the urgency. You've got to believe because just think if that farmer had taken that rock thrown it out back out in the field. One effect farmer had given it away. You think the person he gave it away to whatever ever discovered, it has the Hope diamond, probably not. Why, because the farmer would have given it away for a few bucks, they would have TV shows people going to people 's houses looking for treasures that people have in their attics, you are done. I haven't done in the hands of God, we will become the treasure you are a treasure something talking to closer to God. I would swim the ocean floor. I would in a walk thousands of miles. Christ is a treasure that is, we give ourselves to Christ. He developed the treasurer and where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. If you don't see the value in you as a person, you will throw it away. You will allow the garbage people of life to dump their garbage in your life and you will think this is marvelous and run along not true. You have a kingdom, the kingdom of God Jesus died for you and I and the treasure of life he has put inside of you and we are constantly constantly, constantly say constantly being shined up and polished up and talk to an end and what away like I was. So what is going on here. God is bringing out most beautiful of his creation. You are trash that Jesus was willing to die for, because he saw the potential. Do not allow the garbage of life in the garbage collectors of life to dump in your life. Give them the love and the hope of Jesus Christ. If they don't want it to keep going on because do not allow the treasure of who you are as a person to be destroyed and dismantle by people who don't know what they're doing. Jesus is our greatest treasure, so as to everybody. Say it's finished at Fraser is not& but it is faith. What is it being Jesus Christ as finished the work on the cross, and his work upon the cross has a lasting effect upon our hearts and lives. You are the treasure and if people tried to rob a treasure from you by their drowsiness and there does destructive tendencies by their stealing and killing destroy all happen. Amen. There are likely will destroy you. The NFL. You are that diamond in Iraq. Everyone of us. God created us for a purpose. God created me for a purpose and God created me for purpose underlying purpose do not allow anyone or anything distillate delimiters while that's your choice. Choose life. Choose it wisely choose Christ how you think how you walk how you talk how you act, you have a great impact on your life and the lives of others. Amen. Amen. God bless you, shake somebody's hand smile at him. Deposit. The deposit in someone's life