WEBVTT 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:04.240 Thanks for listening to the His Hands Church podcast. 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:12.800 If you're using the His Hands Church mobile app, please turn off the auto lock on your phone's general settings so that you can listen to the message uninterrupted. 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:16.239 And thank you for being part of what God is doing at His Hands. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:18.719 Good morning. 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:24.320 I'm still in the dark, sorry. 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:25.679 Good morning. 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:30.160 Well, happy Fourth of July weekend. 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:35.520 I know that you oh, I know exactly what you guys mean. 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:39.679 Uh so Fourth of July weekend is usually a big deal here. 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:42.880 Usually the city of Woodstock shoots off their fireworks on the 4th of July. 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:47.600 We get this whole parking lot full of people, have the building open, and it's it's a lot of fun. 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:48.640 It's a lot of fun. 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:52.000 Our Memorial Day weekend recently was picturesque. 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:57.439 When you picture what Memorial Day weekend would look like, it would look exactly like what our Memorial Day weekend looked like. 00:00:57.759 --> 00:00:59.600 Fourth of July, not so much. 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:03.520 However, it gives us a great opportunity. 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:09.359 About six years ago, we didn't have fireworks on the 4th of July either, but it was for the opposite reason. 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:12.959 It wasn't because it was raining, it was because it hadn't rained in several months. 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:16.959 And so the city of Woodstock canceled fireworks because of the drought. 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:18.799 It was like a fire hazard, all this kind of stuff. 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:24.879 And so we we did something here that hasn't been done since, and we thought we'd do it again, and it's indoor fireworks. 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:25.760 Okay? 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:28.560 So it's really, really simple. 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:35.200 Right now, you should be or or you should about to be given a glow stick, a glow necklace, actually. 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:36.799 This is jewelry, okay? 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:40.640 I will say as a safety precaution, be mindful of the length. 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:48.159 And so if you're if you're waving it around, one of those gets you in the face, that's not a good day. 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:49.840 Um so be careful. 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:54.400 But what we're gonna do here in just a second, even though fireworks were canceled, we're gonna do our own. 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:56.159 We're gonna bring the lights down in just a minute. 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:03.120 We're gonna play some patriotic music, we're gonna have some fireworks on the screen, and we are just going to have fun for a minute. 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:03.760 For a minute. 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:05.599 You get to keep the glow necklaces. 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:08.879 It's our gift to you this morning. 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:15.120 Um I will ask, as just a favor, one of the guys in the sound booth, you might want to get a phone out and document this. 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:18.719 You know, this is something that needs it needs posted online. 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:19.840 All right, everyone good? 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:20.400 We looking good? 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:23.439 I I see a lot of the I think we're we're getting close. 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:26.080 Has anyone yet to receive a glowing? 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:28.000 Okay, we got a we got a cluster. 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:31.439 We got a cluster of no glowing right here. 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:32.240 There it is. 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:33.599 All right, we're about to get you guys. 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:34.080 Okay. 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:38.159 As soon as I I see that, you guys have I see it coming. 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:38.960 Jimmy, you're good. 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:39.599 I see it coming. 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:40.560 That's right, they're right there. 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:41.439 Raise your hands again. 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:42.560 The the cluster that's yet. 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:43.520 There you go. 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:44.159 See? 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:45.120 Right there. 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:46.479 Alright, so here's what we're gonna do. 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:50.400 We're gonna bring the the lights down nice and slow. 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:51.680 Nice and slow. 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:55.199 You guys, Brad, whoever, there's some people right up there that need to get some. 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:56.159 We're almost there. 00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:58.159 They're just ignoring you guys. 00:02:58.479 --> 00:02:59.360 Flat out. 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:00.000 I don't know. 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.000 So we'll bring bring the lights down nice and slow. 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:03.439 I'm starting to see the glow happen. 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:04.080 This is gonna be fun. 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:05.439 All of them are red, white, and blue. 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.400 So this is at least red and blue. 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:10.159 Patriotic colors. 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:12.879 The lower the lights get, the more fun it is. 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:15.199 Go ahead and break those up. 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:16.240 This is gonna be a blast. 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:19.520 Again, be mindful of the link. 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:20.479 I love it. 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:22.240 Oh yeah. 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:28.400 All right, so let's just do this on a on the count of three. 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:30.240 We're gonna say happy fourth of July. 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:31.280 Music's gonna play. 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:33.360 It's gonna be a good time for about a minute and a half. 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:34.159 So here we go. 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:38.400 One, two, three, happy fourth of July. 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:37.759 There we go. 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:38.399 Yeah. 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:43.199 Alright, we can bring the lights back up. 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:46.879 I don't know why we don't do that every week. 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:48.480 That's worth it. 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:50.399 I just had this thought as I was watching that. 00:04:50.480 --> 00:05:00.879 That was a lot of fun to watch, by the way, but if someone walked in for the very first time ever, that would, depending on the person, that would either be the worst time or the best time to walk into a church. 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:03.519 Well, hey, um, if it is your first time, welcome to his hands. 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:05.120 We're really glad you're here. 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:09.120 Um we're just, we're all about being able to be who we are and know that we're loved by God. 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:12.240 Grow with him from the inside out, let him do his thing. 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:17.199 If you want more information about us as a church, there's these uh little booklets that are on the back four columns. 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:22.079 You can also get them at the info desk, and they'll answer any questions you might have or point you in the right direction. 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:23.680 So feel free to grab one of those. 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:27.519 I did have a really great update last week in case some of us weren't here last week. 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:29.120 It's just exciting stuff to share. 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:35.439 For the last year, we've been giving 15% of everything that we receive as a church in giving back to the community. 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:46.879 We've got three local charities and ministries there's Papa's Pantry, the Hope Center, and Cherokee Family Violence Center, and every single month we just divide up 5% of what we've given to each one of those, so 15% total. 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.040 And last week I got to share kind of an update of where we are. 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:59.920 It's a little bit past mid-year, but so far, this year we've been able to give, and this doesn't count last week, but so far we've been able to give right about$50,000 in total, which is really exciting. 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:06.639 And that's, you know, it's just it's actually a little over 16,000 apiece. 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:14.879 So I know I shared this last week, but that just gets me excited because it makes me realize that when my wife and I give here, giving here alone is worth it because God is doing great things. 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.360 But we're we're being able to help the community in some cool ways. 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:19.040 So we appreciate that very, very much. 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:20.399 It's just a fun thing to know. 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:23.040 Um, last week we had a ton of announcements. 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:24.959 This week we don't have much, just the fireworks and that. 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:28.480 So let's pray and then let's go ahead and jump into what we're gonna talk about. 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:29.839 God, thank you so much. 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:32.800 Thank you so much for loving us like you do. 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:39.040 Thank you so much for blessing us, giving us an awesome place and group of people that we can we can just meet you at. 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:41.519 And I pray that you would fill us with your spirit this morning. 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:44.319 Teach us, just speak whatever you need to speak to us. 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:48.079 Help us leave this place more excited about the life you've given us than we were when we came in. 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:49.759 We pray all this in your name, Jesus. 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:50.560 Amen. 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:52.079 Okay, I lied. 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:54.879 I did have one announcement, I just forgot it, but I remembered it. 00:06:55.040 --> 00:07:01.199 Um the whole Fourth of July thing, if you haven't heard, they have moved the fireworks, the whole celebration to Labor Day. 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:06.399 And so we will be all together on Labor Day, fireworks will happen, and we'll find more glow sticks. 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:07.600 It'll be a blast. 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:15.759 Well, the last, well, really the whole last summer, we've been we've been talking about Jesus, and specifically we've been looking at stories that Jesus told. 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:18.879 Jesus was a storyteller, and he told these stories. 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:22.480 His exclusive method of teaching, nearly, was through storytelling. 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:35.120 He would tell these things called parables, and they're just these very simple, short stories that are designed to help make the complicated stuff about God, the things that sometimes intimidate us, things we don't understand, very easy to understand. 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:36.000 That was God's heart. 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:37.279 Religion tends to do the opposite. 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.680 Religion takes really simple things and makes it really complicated. 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:49.439 And so if you've ever felt like you can't get God because you just don't know enough, you don't know the Bible well enough, you don't know Greek or Hebrew or whatever, I don't know it either. 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:55.519 And the good thing is, Jesus spent his time making God's truth really accessible to everyone. 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:56.480 That's God's heart. 00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:59.439 He wants normal, everyday people like you and me to just get him. 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:01.839 And that's how Jesus did it through telling stories. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:03.759 We've gone through a lot of these stories so far. 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:09.120 We did uh the parable of the annoying neighbor, the wine in the wineskins, the prodigal son. 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:11.519 Steve talked about the pearl of great price. 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:21.279 Last week we looked at the prodigal of the shrewd manager, or the prodigal, the parable, rather, of the shrewd manager, or the dishonest rascal, depending on which translation you look at. 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:26.879 And this morning I actually want to stay on the same parable that we were on last week, but look at it from a little bit of a different angle. 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:30.480 If you weren't here last week, it's in Luke 16, verses 1 through 8. 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:36.960 It says, Jesus told his disciples, There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:40.320 So he called him in and asked him, What is this I hear about you? 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:43.840 Give me an account of your management because you cannot be manager any longer. 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:45.279 So he's getting fired. 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:48.080 The manager said to himself, What shall I do now? 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:49.840 My master is taking away my job. 00:08:49.919 --> 00:08:52.559 I'm not strong enough to dig, and I'm ashamed to beg. 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:54.320 I know what I'll do. 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:57.759 And when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses. 00:08:57.919 --> 00:08:59.679 So he called in each of his master's debtors. 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:01.919 He asked the first, How much do you owe my master? 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:04.320 900 gallons of olive oil, he replied. 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:08.000 The manager told him, Take your bill, sit down quickly, make it 450. 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.480 And then he asked the second, and how much do you owe? 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:12.240 A thousand bushels of wheat, he replied. 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:15.279 He told him, Take your bill and make it 800. 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:17.200 And this is when the master finds out about it. 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:17.840 Very interesting. 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:23.919 The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted so shrewdly. 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:26.399 And that's the surprise, that's the twist. 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:36.240 We see this man be dishonest and waste his master's money, so he gets fired, and his response to that is to make as many friends as possible by wasting more of his master's money. 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:41.600 And he uses the resources that he's been trusted with to help other people out. 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:45.679 It might have been for selfish motive, but he helped a lot of other people out, and it benefited him. 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:49.279 And when his master saw that, instead of being upset with him, it says he commended him. 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:53.919 Another translation says that he admired him for being so shrewd. 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:55.759 Now, we talked about this last week. 00:09:55.919 --> 00:10:02.799 Jesus is not encouraging dishonesty, but it's kind of confusing when you first look at this to understand what the application is. 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:05.360 And thankfully, Jesus kind of clarified for us in verse 9. 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:07.039 He said, here's the lesson. 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:11.600 Use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:16.399 Then when your eternal when your earthly possessions are gone, they will welcome you to an eternal home. 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:23.279 So use what you have now, use your resources, the things God has given you now, to bless other people. 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:28.879 And the result of that is you'll make a lot of friends, and they'll be friends not just for this lifetime, but for eternity. 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:38.720 This theme of being trusted with someone else's resources. 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:44.960 There's another parable, we mentioned it briefly last week, next week we're going to go into it in detail, but it's the parable of the talents. 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:46.080 And a very similar story. 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:54.559 There's a master that leaves town, he entrusts a certain portion of his money with three different servants and asks them to be wise with it and to grow it while he's gone. 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:59.440 The same concept of a master giving his resources to someone to manage. 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:02.879 And in these stories, we're the managers. 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:04.799 We are the manager. 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:08.559 We're the ones that have entrusted with God's resources. 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:13.360 Last week we talked about money, how God has trusted us with money. 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:17.360 Whatever we have, we have because it's what God has trusted us with. 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:21.919 And it's actually something really, really good to pray whenever we feel like we need more. 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:26.159 And it's totally okay to pray and ask God for more financial help. 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:33.120 But instead of just praying, God, give me more money, a great thing for us to pray is, God, make me more trustable. 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:34.320 Trust me with more money. 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:37.120 Grow me so that I can handle more money. 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:39.200 Because this is a common theme. 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:44.480 And really, us being managers of God's resources, that's been our role since we've been created. 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:49.200 Genesis 1, 27 and 28 says, So God created human beings in his own image. 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:50.639 In the image of God, he created them. 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:52.720 Male and female, he created them. 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:57.679 And then God blessed them and said, Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and govern it. 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:02.639 Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground. 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:06.559 So God creates the world and he creates everything in it, and then he gives it to us. 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:08.399 And he says, Manage it. 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:11.679 I've created this, you manage it. 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:17.440 From the very beginning of our existence, we have been the managers of God's resources. 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:22.320 And just like that story of the shrewd manager, we may not have managed it well all the time. 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:29.039 But even when we discover that we haven't, or when we're reminded that we haven't, we still have access to those resources. 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:31.679 We still have the ability to use them. 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:36.639 Now, obviously, money is not the only resource that we have. 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:41.039 That's what Jesus focused on in his application of this teaching. 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:48.559 He talks about us being honest, being 100% truthful with our money, being generous and giving. 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:51.519 And the more giving and honest we are, the more he trusts us with. 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:53.360 But money is not the only resource we have. 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:58.879 In fact, in the story of the shrewd manager, it's not even the main resource that this manager is concerned with. 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:01.759 We find out what that resource is in verse 3. 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:06.480 It said, The manager said to himself, What shall I do now? 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:10.080 Key word in that phrase is now. 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:14.960 The resource that this man is worried about is time. 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:18.159 He understood that his time was short. 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:23.200 He did not have a lot of time to act if he was going to secure a future for himself after losing his job. 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:26.240 And so he acted quickly and he took drastic action. 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:28.399 And we assume that it worked out well for him. 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:30.639 We don't know, the story kind of ended there. 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:40.080 But of every resource that's available to us, everything God has trusted us with, time is the easiest one to neglect. 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.279 It's the easiest one to forget about. 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:46.080 It's the easiest one to waste. 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:50.480 It's easy for us to see money as a limited resource. 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:52.480 That's pretty simple. 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:56.159 It can be harder for us to see time that way. 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:02.000 So what if what if for this morning we looked at time the same way we look at money? 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:03.600 Would that be helpful? 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:04.799 I think it would. 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.759 And if someone has a healthy view of money, they did they do two things with it. 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:14.320 Really, they value it, they don't worship it, they don't make it an idol, they're not obsessed with it, but they value it because money is valuable. 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:16.559 And they spend it wisely. 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:23.279 So if we are gonna manage the time that God has given us, we have to do the same two things. 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.159 We have to value our time and we have to spend it wisely. 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:27.360 So what does that look like? 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:32.000 When I think about valuing my time, there's this one specific thing that happened in my life. 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:34.080 Nothing grand or great that pops into my mind. 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:35.919 It's just a memory of me going to Moe's. 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:37.279 I love Moe's. 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:41.759 And I know that a lot of you do too, because when I go to Moe's here in Woodstock, I see a lot of you guys. 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:45.120 Every single- I don't think I've ever been to the Moes in Woodstock without seeing someone from his hands. 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:45.840 I don't know what it is. 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:47.440 That place is just special to us, I guess. 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:48.000 It's good. 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:49.200 We have that to share. 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:53.360 Um and if you go to the Moe's, anyone go to the Moes in Woodstock every once in a while? 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:54.720 Okay, this is my opinion. 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:55.759 You may share it, you may not. 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:58.960 I think it's the worst designed parking lot in the history of the world. 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:00.159 Is anyone okay? 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:01.840 Yes, I'm not alone. 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:08.559 In fact, my wife always teases me because as soon as we pull into that parking lot, every single time, she's like, I know, I know it's not a good parking lot. 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:14.639 But it's tough because it's the the entrance sometimes, it's the quick trip, slash Dunkin' Donuts, slash, it's just strange. 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:16.080 And everyone, it's like a free-for-all. 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:17.519 Everyone just figure it out. 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:19.600 That was their that was the strategy. 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:21.679 People will figure it out. 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:30.559 A few years ago, there was this promotion at Mo's where they were doing burritos for$2, and I got very excited, and apparently so did the rest of Woodstock. 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:38.399 So I pull into Moe's, and the normally crazy parking lot is like a zoo, and the line is longer than I'd ever seen it before. 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:42.879 The line there can get pretty long, and they move it along pretty quickly, but Moe's it's not like McDonald's. 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:44.000 It takes some time. 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:45.919 You have a lot of choices to make. 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:53.519 And so the line that day was it was wrapped around its normal place, all the way into the restaurant, all the way back to the restrooms, and all the way out the door. 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:56.399 And it was about an hour and a half wait. 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:59.440 And I know that because I waited an hour and a half. 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:01.279 Really simple. 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:06.399 And I did, I waited in line for about 20 minutes, and I got to the point where I was like, okay, am I gonna stay in this line? 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:13.600 And you know when you get to that point in line waiting, and in reality in America, we're just moving fast to get into another line somewhere. 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:16.639 After about 20 minutes, you're like, should I get out? 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:17.759 But I've been here 20 minutes. 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:21.120 This will be wasted time if I leave, so I just I guess I just have to stay. 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:22.399 And I did, I stayed the whole time. 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:28.960 I got my burrito, paid my$2 and whatever change, and I sat down and I was at first excited. 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:30.399 I save five bucks. 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:32.639 And I started calculating in my head. 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:34.799 What do I value my time at? 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:36.720 An hour and a half, five dollars. 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:39.679 I value my time at 3.30 an hour. 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:45.279 And I wanted to stand up and tell everyone in Moes, we've all made a terrible mistake. 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:51.200 Surely our time is worth more than 330 an hour. 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:54.399 If someone said, hey, I have a job for you, I'll pay you 330 an hour, we'd be like, thanks, but no. 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:58.480 Unless we, you know, unless we really needed it, maybe, but that's what we'd say we value it more than that. 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:07.359 But it's amazing, it's just an example of how we tend to value money more than time because we will spend exuberant amounts of time to save a little bit of money. 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:09.519 We'll do that a lot. 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:12.799 It's because we tend to value money more than time. 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:17.839 But the truth is, time is a much more valuable resource. 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:24.400 There's a man named Randy Pauch, and he he once said that time is the only resource we have. 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:28.720 Because we can acquire more money, but you cannot buy time. 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:32.000 You can't just get more time. 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:35.519 Now, if you've never heard of Randy Pauch, he's a very interesting man. 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:39.200 He was a professor at a university called Carnegie Mellon University. 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:44.559 It's one of the most prestigious universities in the country, really known for its research, its technology. 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:49.200 And he was one of the most cutting-edge virtual reality scientists in the country. 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:51.680 That sounds like a really fun job, by the way. 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:54.000 I'm a virtual reality scientist. 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:56.079 And that's what he taught at Carnegie Mellon. 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:03.200 And Carnegie Mellon at the time had this year, this yearly tradition of a lecture that one of their professors would give, and they called it the last lecture. 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:18.240 And they called it that because the thought was: these professors who were incredibly accomplished men and women, people that know their stuff better than most, or if any, people you would want to hear speak, if they had one lecture left to give, what would they want to talk about? 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:24.720 And they had free reign to talk about whatever they wanted as long as it was what they would talk about if it was their last lecture. 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:32.240 Well, the thing that made this one so special is that for Randy, it was his last lecture. 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:35.119 He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer the year before. 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:38.640 It had fought, but it had gotten to the point where it was beyond treatment. 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:41.839 He had over 12 liver or 12 tumors, I think, in his liver. 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.440 The doctor said, look, you've got three to six months of good life left. 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:48.640 And it was with those circumstances that he gave this lecture. 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:49.759 And you can look it up on YouTube. 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:52.000 If you type in the last lecture, you'll find it. 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:55.119 It blew up, it's got over 15 million views. 00:18:55.519 --> 00:19:01.839 And he spoke, and he spoke about childhood dreams and doing the things that we dreamed about when we were younger. 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:03.519 And it's incredibly inspiring. 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:07.279 He opens by just telling the whole audience exactly what's going on. 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:08.559 Most of them already knew about it. 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:12.160 He showed scans, said, Hey, I've got three to six months left to live. 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:14.160 So this is my last lecture. 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:19.279 And if you ever get a chance to watch it, I would make time to watch it because it's incredibly inspiring. 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:21.119 He's full of life. 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:22.640 He's he's excited. 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:25.279 It's not this sad, solemn talk. 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:29.680 It's him reflecting on his life and his favorite experiences and the things he hopes for. 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:31.039 And it's awesome. 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:35.359 And what's really ironic is that that ended up not being his last lecture. 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:37.920 He got to speak a few more times before he passed away. 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:43.839 He actually got to go on Oprah and all kinds of other huge national TV shows because this thing just blew up like it did. 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:47.759 But three months after that lecture, he gave another one at the University of Virginia. 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:50.240 And ironically, it was on time management. 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:58.880 And he's a really funny guy, so he began it by saying, hey, you may have seen me on TV, you may have seen me on the internet and all this kind of stuff, and so I've got three months or so left to live. 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:03.599 I think I'm a little bit of an authority on how to manage the limited time you have left. 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:05.200 He would joke like that. 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:13.359 And it was in that time management seminar speech that he gave that he said something I will never forget, something that'll stay with me forever. 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:19.119 He said, Time is all you have, and you may find one day that you have less than you think. 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:29.680 Now, I don't know if he had a personal relationship with Jesus or knew the Bible, but if he was trying to paraphrase God, he did a pretty good job because the Bible constantly echoes that statement. 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:31.440 Psalm 39, 4 through 5. 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:35.279 It says, Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:39.200 Remind me that my days are numbered, how fleeting my life is. 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:42.240 You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:44.160 My entire lifetime is just a moment to you. 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:46.480 At best, each of us is but a breath. 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:51.920 Psalm 90, 12, teach us to realize the brevity of life so that we may grow in wisdom. 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:53.759 James 4, 13 through 14. 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:59.680 Look here, you who say, today or tomorrow, we're going to go to a certain town, we'll stay there for a year, we will do business and make a profit. 00:20:59.920 --> 00:21:01.920 How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:03.519 Your life is like the morning fog. 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:05.440 It's here for a little while and then it's gone. 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:13.759 Ephesians 5.16, be very careful then how you live, not as unwise, but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:17.440 God reminds us all throughout the Bible that our time on this earth is limited. 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:19.519 Here's a really cool perspective of that. 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:26.480 In Revelation 12, 12, talking about Satan, the Bible says he is filled with fury because he knows that his time is short. 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:35.680 Now, if Satan feels rushed, if he's aware that his time is short, how much more should we be aware that our time is limited? 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:38.720 Now, at first this can seem like really sad news. 00:21:39.519 --> 00:21:42.079 And it's not fatalistic, and it's actually not sad. 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:49.119 Like I said, if you watch that video of Randy Pauch, if if you watch that, you don't leave it sad and worried about the brevity of life. 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:51.519 You leave it excited about every day you have. 00:21:53.599 --> 00:22:05.599 Because one of the great things about discovering that something is limited is That it's immediately more valuable when you realize how limited it is. 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:11.279 Something that is limited is by definition more valuable than something that is not. 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:19.039 A few years ago in 2010, there was this unseasonably cold weather in Florida that wiped out about 70% of our nation's tomato crop. 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:25.680 Most of us don't pay attention to those kinds of things until you go to a restaurant and they ask you to pay for salsa, and you're like, excuse me? 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:26.960 I am an American. 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:28.240 We don't pay for salsa. 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:29.680 What are you talking about? 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:31.680 But that's what happened. 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:33.599 That's what happened. 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:40.799 The tomato tomato crop was so rare that a box of tomatoes that normally cost at wholesale$7 went up to$30. 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:44.720 A lot of restaurants just stopped having tomatoes, and Mexican restaurants started charging for salsa. 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:45.839 They were opportunistic. 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:46.799 They were smart. 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:50.319 Those are the glory days for those who are like, oh, you remember back when we could charge for salsa? 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:51.759 Wow, that was great. 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:55.920 And people did, but it was valuable because it was limited. 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:01.119 2008, I think it was, Hurricane Gustav caused a huge gas shortage here in Atlanta. 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:02.000 Most of us remember that. 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:04.000 Gas became impossible to find. 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:08.559 Gas stations everywhere didn't have any gas, and we're all driving around looking for gas. 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:11.200 And when we found it, we paid whatever. 00:23:11.599 --> 00:23:12.400 Whatever. 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:14.960 And we didn't even really complain about it because you couldn't. 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:18.319 They were charging over$4 a gallon, and we paid it because it was limited. 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:20.640 When something is limited, it has value. 00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:26.480 So when we realize that our time on this earth is limited, we're blessed because our life after this life is unlimited. 00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:32.000 I always love that about Jesus, that he promised life after death and then he lived after he died, so he backed it up. 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:33.200 We can trust them with that. 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:36.960 But our time on this earth is limited. 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:38.720 That's reality. 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:43.200 But the fact that it's limited only makes it more valuable. 00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:52.640 Another way to put it is this would we rather have a ton of time that wasn't worth much, or less time that was extremely valuable. 00:23:54.160 --> 00:24:01.119 There's a man who was a pretty well-known missionary and martyr, someone that was killed as he was on the mission field in South America. 00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:03.279 His name's Jim Elliott. 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:06.160 He has a great quote that I heard when I was in college and I never forgot it. 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:10.880 It says, I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus. 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:22.160 Tommy Newberry, who was here a few months ago doing his 40 Days to a Joy-Filled Life book, he had a quote in his book that said, The only way to appreciate life is to see it for what it is, a temporary gift. 00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:30.720 So if we're going to get the most out of the time we have, we have to value it. 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:35.920 We have to see it as this incredibly valuable resource that is extremely limited. 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:39.599 And it's only when we see it like that that we can make the most out of it. 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:42.880 Now, the great thing about something that's valuable is you get to spend it. 00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:45.839 The more valuable something is, the more fun it is to spend. 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:46.319 Right? 00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:48.319 I mean, is it more fun to spend a dollar or a hundred? 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:50.960 Depends on if you're a teenager or a parent. 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:58.000 But something that's more valuable is more fun to spend because you can buy better stuff with it. 00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:06.640 And if we want to experience this life the way God intended it to, not only do we have to value life, but we have to learn how to spend our time. 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:11.680 We have to value our time, but we have to spend it and spend it wisely. 00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:18.319 I have a son that's three years old, and as a father, my role is to teach him about life and help him be a healthy person. 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:24.079 One of the greatest moments in life that all of us who have kids have experienced is when God uses your child to teach you. 00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:26.160 That happens a lot. 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:30.160 And what's interesting is that my son is three, he has a lot more life ahead of him than me. 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:35.039