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March 11, 2025 • 39 mins
Hustle culture (the secular Protestant work ethic) tells us that our job is our calling. Some modern church movements encourage the same, claiming believers should put their spiritual gifts and abilities into the marketplace for profit. As we look around churches full of burnt out, tired people, is it true that our job is our calling? Join Apostle Lee Ann Marino for a look into Biblical insights about the job/calling debate - and what God offers us in terms of personal identity. (Intro and Conclusion Track "Ready to Rock" by Yvgeniy Sorokin, https://pixabay.com/users/eugenemyers-40510887/. Righteous Pen Publications Track "Inspirational Background" by AudioCoffee, https://pixabay.com/music/corporate-inspirational-background-112290/.)
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Is your job your calling?
Of recent, I've been busy in a few ways.
For one, my secular job operates about two and a half to three weeks per month.

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And I was fortunate for this recent period to be offered almost three weeks, the way it
worked out.
It's not quite exactly that, but it's close enough.
And while I want to work, and I want to get paid because that's actually taking a lot
of other pressures off of me, I also want to be able to keep up with ministry projects as
well, which is why the current secular job I have is perfect for that.

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It allows me the time I need to focus on ministry, and that might sound contradictory to
some, but when I'm worried about covering expenses, that means I'm not able to focus on ministry
like I should.
So having some work part time is actually enabling me to do that more.
But beyond this, there are a few things that have come up that have made me question some

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of the direction we're heading, with the idea of calling and purpose, and where exactly
our calling is meant to take us in this life.
This is our purpose in this life to become a consumer.
Is it to do nothing more than make money so we can spend money, and perhaps somewhere
along the way, procreate and have a kid or two as well, and then give them some money?

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Or are we created for something deeper, something more, something that connects us to the creator,
to one another, and ultimately brings us to a better understanding of ourselves?
And should we tolerate the overlap we often see today?
That two comfortable makes a faith in consumerism and hustle culture, which I define as the

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secular version of the Protestant work ethic, as spiritual, or should we be aiming for something
different?
I think these are fair questions, especially in a world that seems to invade more and more
of our personal space.
Our mentality in our lives with this incessent need to make money, to produce something

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that's often said will be a legacy for posterity, but is often more about having power, prestige,
and the ability to buy additional things.
We're being sold excessive, constant messages about ourselves, and anticipated performance,
and we are starting to see the results of such a culture, imposing upon our lives, our

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health, our well-being.
So does God offer us something different?
And how do we discover it?
So to understand how this message came to be, it started because I recently led a seminary
class on the book of Revelation.
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So through the study on Revelation, which is interesting and uses a combination of books
in order to convey the essence of Revelation, including one of mine.
It's not the only text we use, but it is one of them.
And that is all that is seen and unseen, a journey through the book of Revelation.

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We started to see a few key things present in Revelation symbolism.
For one, Revelation is in its very essence, both anti-government and anti-what we would
classify as economic society.
The reason for this is if you study the symbolism and the history of the book, especially

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what was going on among Christians at that point in history, and this is somewhere around
the end of the first century.
Both are intimately tied to idolatry and representatives of idolatry systems.
In contrast to what the church was supposed to be about, everything in ancient pagan

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society related to religion, there was no such thing as a sacred secular divide.
So everything the ancients did was tied to their religion, from offering to certain gods
as part of trade guilds, or engaging in various merchant services with the intent to

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sell for the production of gods, or offerings to gods, everything was intertwined with the
ancient view of spirituality.
Then we had the whole issue of the government of the day, specifically the Roman government.
That seemed larger than life, and as far as they were all concerned, it would literally

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take an act of God to bring it down.
And in the end, God was in it, as we can find the prophecy and revelation of the Visigoths
to come.
But it certainly didn't happen in the fashion that most thought it would.
But all this considered, revelation points us to a few key things about ourselves as believers,

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and our place in this world that if we are open to sincerely seeing it, and seeing ourselves,
we can't deny it.
Most of us would probably never expect revelation of all books to be a source of inspiration
for self-identity.
But because of the contrast it creates between believers and the greater world at large,

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it actually gives us a lot to think about when it comes to identity.
First, there's the reality that we aren't going to quite fit in with the world in the
way we might like too much of the time.
And this is important.
First century church was literally about creating alternative society.

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New communities, groups that people could rely on, because now that they were believers,
they couldn't rely on the worldly systems in the same way that they used to.
Those who converted from Judaism, face persecution from their families, and from the leaders
who felt Christianity was causing too much upheaval.

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And those who converted from paganism also faced familial oppression, in addition to the
oppression of a society that just wasn't designed for Christians.
So early Christians were on their own, they had to create alternative kingdom to match
the spiritual kingdom they now embraced.
Well, what does this mean for us?

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With their conversion to Christianity, their entire lives, those of the first century,
and their life-focused, changed.
They weren't just the product of their family lives, or their family structures, or their
societies.
Their lives weren't subject to be the way they were scheduled to be, because God came in and

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literally interrupted everything.
So life for them, literally, was now more than just getting married, it was more than just
having kids, it was more than just setting up house and making money and pursuing your family's
trade throughout your life.
Suddenly, societies assignments didn't fit Christians, and that meant they had to find

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their way in a new society, and in order to do that, they needed one another.
In paralleling this in all these revelations, I received a request from someone on a podcasting
site requesting to be a guest on our podcast.
Now let me say I don't mind requests for such, so if you think you might make an interesting

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guest, feel free to reach out, don't let this be a discouragement.
But I'm going to give a lot of consideration as to whether or not a guest is suitable
for the program.
And this particular individual had never listened to our program, he didn't know anything
about it other than the summary that was up on the mutual podcast matching site we

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were on, and he was totally not a match for our program.
There's absolutely no shade for what he does or his interests, but they weren't a match
to us and he wasn't taking my attempts at a gentle no for an answer.
Basically, he was a life coach of sorts who makes faith in business and tried to get people

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to find their calling best through their jobs.
But just coming off a study of revelation is that what our jobs are for, is that where
we find our calling and is the marketplace the most suitable place for our spiritual
gifts.
There are some who would say yes to that question, an entire movement in fact who would say

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our spiritual gifts and our spiritual calling should be most effectively used to profit in
the marketplace, with the end goal of that being both social and financial domination.
In case you wonder why evangelism is often so arrived these days, this movement is in
part to thank.

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There are those part of the new apostolic reformation and beyond by now who are part
of the Dominionist movement.
They believe Christians should be at the forefront of everything and that the spiritual gifts
they have, including leadership gifts, should be used in the "marketplace" rather than
in church or just in church depending on who you ask.

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And yes, the context of this is the idea of making money that we should use whatever abilities
we have for profit and that this is how the wealth of the wicked people are given to the
righteous by a hustle, by the eventual infiltration of every system to make such godly.
So this is the problem with this theory.

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I could systematically dismantle it and yeah that would fit but the bottom line of it is
that it's not a biblical narrative.
All this movement has done is draw more attention to the church as a whole, but it's not
in a positive way.
It's cast a very negative light on it due to its materialistic nature.

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Because now everyone thinks all Christians do the same thing and that church then such
should be taxed and that everyone has such a covert and yet obvious capitalistic agenda
and that that's what marks Christianity when that's not necessarily the case.
If you read the book of Revelation in particular, which is your remember, I've been studying

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a lot lately, this coup of sorts is not going to be successful.
It's not going to happen the way they encourage.
In fact, nothing in the New Testament says things will go down according to their plan.
It will happen is exactly what has happened.
Those who engage in such are corrupted by, like Haggai teaches, filth rubs off but holiness

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doesn't.
Nobody can become Christian by proxy by watching a movie or having some sort of cultural connection
to Christianity.
If that was the case, then Israel would have been saved by rubbing up against the law,
which it did do from time to time.
And Christians being so worldly isn't making the world Christian.

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It's making the Christians like the world.
With the obvious question, who is minding the church?
If all these leaders are now off running businesses and mentoring business owners and being
life coaches and offering money, making workshops and participating in multi-level marketing
organizations, who is leading the church?

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Where is the spirituality of our faith?
And who is leading us into it?
It's one of the reasons I believe there are so many weird and spooky seeming doctrines
running rampant in Christianity these days.
Because people want something spiritual, but because there's no real spirituality offered,
everything is kind of a sanitized version of spiritual stuff for a capitalist society.

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They're looking for it in other weird ways and it's leading to a lot of issues.
Because the result that becomes our reality is an absolute mess.
It's full of Christians who love the things of this world more than the things of God.
But want what they do to pass is acceptable and in a world that's too worldly for its own
good.

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And no, let me say a here, I'm not suggesting that Christians can't own businesses or
make films or make money.
That wouldn't be reasonable either, especially given the fact that yes, Christians do have
to live in this world as long as we must, until we die or Jesus returns.
We still have to be able to survive within society.

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It also doesn't mean we can't have interest or entertainment.
I find it interesting that we always brand these things as worldly while ignoring the finer
ways that much of the Christian world is cozying up to the world, namely through politics,
commerce and business.

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But this doesn't mean we embrace the finer points of everything about the world.
It does mean we figure out where our lines are and our limits.
And I think a good study into this is the reality that what we do for a living, unless it's
ministry, isn't your calling
And I even say within limits that ministry work is always a calling.

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Sometimes we just do things to do them without much meaning, and that can happen in ministry
as much as anywhere else.
But that's a separate issue.
Overall, however, we do understand ministers to have answered a higher spiritual calling.
So let's dive into this issue a little bit deeper.
Let's start in John chapter 17.

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I'm reading from the new international version.
I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world.
They were yours.
You gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.
Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you.
For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them.

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They knew with certainty that I came from you and they believed that you sent me.
I pray for them.
I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me for they are yours.
All I have is yours and all you have is mine.
And glory has come to me through them.
I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world and I am coming to

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you.
Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me so that they
may be one as we are one.
Well, I was with them.
I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me.
None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.

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I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world so that they
may have the full measure of my joy within them.
I have given them your word and the world has hated them for they are not of the world
any more than I am of the world.
My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the

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evil one.
They are not of the world even as I am not of it.
Sanctify them by the truth, your word is truth.
As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.
If we are Christians and I mean really Christians, transform by God, turn around and set up for

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heavenly things, then our first identity in this life is not our job.
It is not our relationships to other people so it is not husband or wife, man or woman,
mom or dad.
Our first identity is child of God.
And once we take that identity, everything else in our lives change.

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And we can see that in this prayer that Jesus makes it really, really clear that we are
here.
We are not of the greater world, we are here to have an impact in to make a change in this
world and that while we are here, we are supposed to be representing Him.
We are supposed to be doing things that look like Christ.
Let's go to 1 John chapter 3.

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And we are going to start in verse 1, and I.V. again.
See what great love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of
God.
And that is what we are.
The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

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Dear friends, now we are children of God and what we will be has not yet been made known.
But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He
is.
All who have this hope in Him purified themselves just to see is pure.
Everyone who sins breaks the law, in fact sin is lawlessness.

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But you know that He appeared so that He might take away our sins.
And in Him is no sin.
No one who lives in Him keeps on sinning.
No one who continues to sin has either seen Him or known Him.
Other children do not let anyone lead you astray.
The one who does what is right is righteous, just as He is righteous.

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The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the
beginning.
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.
No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in them.
They cannot go on sinning because they have been born of God.
This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are.

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Anyone who does not do what is right is not God's child, nor is anyone who does not love
their brother and sister.
Being a child of God should change the way we are in our family lives, among our spouses
with our employers, with our friends, with general society, with everyone because it's
that big of a deal, it's who we are.

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This fundamentally, foundationally, until we accept ourselves as children of God, nothing
in our lives really changes.
And this is why it's that radical of a shift.
Being children of God means we belong to God, not this world and all the things that identify
us no longer have the power over us that they once did.

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I'm not saying through a revolt and throw over your family members and no longer be a rational
human being or fit in with society and stop telling people to think of you as whatever you
are to them.
That's not what I'm saying.
But it does mean that the posture we accept is part of our family dysfunctions and the
abuses we take in this world and other things that don't matter in light of eternity suddenly

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seem different.
Whoever we were, whatever we were has to take second place to being a child of God.
So our identity changes when we are a Christian.
It's not just a matter of changing what we do on a Sunday morning.
And in keeping with that, our purpose changes.

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We aren't just here to procreate and die.
And in our modern understanding, we're not just here to work and make money and produce
and buy and die.
We have a bigger purpose.
Even in the garden, God talks about us having a fruitful life and multiply.
And that's not just about sex.
It's about productivity.
It's about doing something the most with what we have and turning it into something greater.

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And if we go far enough back into the garden, we recognize the first relationship Adam
had was with God.
And in Christ, such is true for us now too, our first relationship in this life is now with
God.
So in this life, our first purpose is before anything else that is God's child.

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We come to know God, love Him and serve Him in whatever way we are appointed to do so.
Now we all like the idea of skipping to that last part, but there's a first part in there
that we often overlook.
Our purpose before we do anything is to know and love God for ourselves.
We talk so much about having a relationship with God.

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It's become cliche.
Our purpose in this life is knowing and loving God.
It's not how if you love Jesus or like in share this post if you're really a child of God,
it's sincerely taking that time to know and develop a love for God that's unlike anything
else.
And just like love changes our lives and our dynamics in earth realms, loving God changes

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things in any bigger sense in one that changes everything.
So yeah, maybe that job you have becomes just a job.
Maybe that work you do is just something that keeps food on your table and a roof over
your head and the ability to sow into God's kingdom, but maybe you start to find your identity

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in a different form in a different way.
Maybe like some of us you discover that the world is we understand it isn't for you,
and instead you're calling it's now in the kingdom and you're appointed to do something
for God.
Maybe like others of us you still have to have a secular job while pursuing your calling,
but you recognize your job isn't what you're called to do anymore.

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Maybe in a bigger sense however you've learned that in whatever situation you find yourself,
your calling isn't defined by exterior things anymore.
It's no longer about how much money you make or how prestigious your title is or how
engaged you are in your job.
It's about knowing and loving God and figuring out in the long run what that's going to look

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like for you.
We also therefore have a changed relationship with the world.
The book of Revelation basically points out that the world is corrupt and there's no real
way to change it.
It must be overthrown by God in God's timing.
It's part of the aspect of this none of us likes.

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We like the idea of God over throwing, but not that he does it when he's ready to do it
and none of us really know when that point will be.
The point of much of what we do is that we should be so in love with God and with knowing
him that when he sits it's time to overthrow this world doesn't matter because we already

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have the answers due to our relationship with him.
One of us is already in the future even though we live now and that's often where things
get challenging and complicated alike as we explore the concept of eternity.
But as Christians we likely don't feel the same way about things as we once did.
Maybe the greed of this world called to us and now we know God has called us to live more

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simply within means, to accept what we have and be grateful rather than chasing after
the brass ring as they say.
We are aspirations were worldly.
We wanted to be in government, but God caused us to kingdom governments instead to transform
this world by being Christ like, by drawing others to God's kingdom, not by trying to dominate

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the world by using the world's own methods.
Maybe we wanted to do ministry for all the wrong reasons because we wanted to be famous
or we wanted everybody to know who we were or we wanted a lot of money, but now God
caused us to settle ourselves and handle a small congregation while raising our family.
So we are confronted with the reality that our personal value and where we get it changes

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radically after we become believers.
And anyone who is still seeking their identity in places and things other than God are missing
the point and need to reevaluate their faith, learning to change their minds again and
orient themselves toward God and further away from the world.

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When the Bible talks about forsaking the world and not loving the world, it's not saying
we can't be human beings or have friends or do things besides eat and go to church.
It's not a statement against education, learning about things or seeing the world for yourself.
It's about seeing the world differently and I've met plenty of worldly Christians who

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never went anywhere or did anything and were just as arrogant and worldly and greedy as
those who were more in touch with general society.
The statement isn't about what you do, it's why you do it and how you do it and the
intention behind it.
So somewhere in here we are called to lay down our pursuits in favor of discovering where

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God would have us to be and what God would have us to do.
And that's a difficult task which is why many out there pursue the option to say they
want God to use them or lead them but have their own preconceived notions as to what that
looks like and pursue that rather than God.

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Let's look at a couple of examples.
Let's go over to Matthew chapter 19.
Now this passage is actually very well known and I think we take it off and out of context.
And it's basically one about priorities and I think that it's interesting that it kind
of attacks at to what we could call sacred cows within our world and one as wealth and

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one as family.
And I recognize the passage is used in different ways but the reason we keep trying to talk
ourselves out of its contents is because it convicts us and if we aren't paying careful
attention we miss just what the conviction specifically for each of us is because in some
ways each time it's going to be different.

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Starting in Matthew verse 16, "Just that a man came up to Jesus and asked, 'Teacher, what
good thing must I do to get eternal life?'
Why do you ask me about what is good Jesus replied?
There is only one who is good.
If you want to enter life, keep the commandments."

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Jesus replied, "You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal,
you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother and love your neighbor
as yourself."
All these I have kept the young man said, "What do I still lack?"
Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go sell your possessions and give to the poor

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and you will have treasure in heaven, then come follow me."
When the young man heard this he went away sad because he had great wealth.
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich
to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone

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who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
When the disciples heard this they were greatly astonished and asked who then can be saved.
Jesus looked at them and said with man this is impossible but with God, all things are possible.
Peter answered him, "We have left everything to follow you.
What then will there be for us?"

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Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you at the renewal of all things.
When the son of man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on
12 thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel and everyone who has left houses or brothers
or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive

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a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
But many who are first will be last and many who are last will be first."
So the first man wants to turn a life and he thought he was doing pretty good.
He wasn't murdering anyone, wasn't hating anyone, wasn't stealing, wasn't dishonoring his

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parents, sounds like he was pretty much keeping to himself and untouched by greater society
because he had the wealth to do so.
But Jesus doesn't say, "Hey buddy, you're doing great."
He tells him to go and sell all his possessions and give the money to the poor so he could find
treasure in heaven.
And the Bible reveals his heart.

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He was sad and he went away knowing fully well he wasn't going to do what Jesus said because
he had great wealth and he was comfortable with it.
So Jesus hit on his personal idol that was keeping him from God.
Now maybe you don't feel this way about your money or about having things but I'd venture
a lot of us do.

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And maybe God isn't asking you to give up every single dime you have and go give it to the
poor.
But do we consider what God might ask us to give of our finances so we can grow closer
to Him?
Maybe God doesn't say get rid of it all but maybe He is asking you to give more of your
income for the good of others.

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I've seen people who outright refuse to give to churches they attend because they had
a bad experience somewhere else.
That's like saying you're never going to go to the store again because you had a fight
with someone in the parking lot at another branch.
The thing I think is most shocking is we tolerate that.
We tolerate it because we feel that people were hurt and we don't know how to tell them

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no or to grow up or that their logic is wrong.
We're afraid of people's hurt so much that we don't help them heal.
But yeah what if God is asking you to do something with your money that you just don't want
to do?
Do I think Jesus says to leave your family?

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No although I will say the initial disciples did do that and there are also many in the
first century and in the subsequent centuries who've done so as well.
But I think it's once again a matter of priorities.
If you can't ever serve God because you're always preoccupied with your family then your

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family is your idol and I know we aren't supposed to say that but it's a fact.
I'm not saying ignore responsibilities but I am saying that everything needs to be kept
in perspective and Jesus comes for our most intimate relationships here as much as he
comes for our money and for anything else that might be hampering us in our lives.

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Many specifically mentions fields which is once again about money and family, farms and
legacies and prophets and sometimes we need to listen to what God is saying to us about
those specific things.
We love to hear Jesus talk about other stuff about increase or blessing or this or that
but it's funny that we always go tone deaf when it's time to talk about and address our

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specific personal idols.
And idols can be very personal just as the ancients had household gods today we have our household
gods.
Our idols are all the things that identify us and keep us from him.
So I think it's time for a change.
There's so much that's out there right now that I'll be honest is not of God and it scares

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me that so much of it is often made to look like it's of God even though it's not.
God might sound like a great idea to make church and secular ideas but to be honest makes
him various systems is what got the Israelites in trouble.
Let's just make this compromise to make this work for us and it led them beyond distress.

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Taking authority and leading the world means leading it to Christ not leading it for our
own prophet in Christ's name.
And I believe Christ is coming for a lot of those sacred cows we have that we think he
shouldn't touch.
Why?
Because it's time for us to look at ourselves rather than looking at everyone else.

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I thank you for listening to this edition of the podcast today and I think that there
are some resources out there that would be a really big blessing to you.
First I recommend my book which I mentioned earlier in the episode about the book of
Revelation.
It's called all that is seen and unseen a journey through the book of Revelation.
Another book I think is really, really insightful is my book Man Up Servant Hood for Men.

(35:58):
That's Man Up Servant Hood for Men and its companion book for women most blessed among all women.
That's most blessed among all women.
All three of these books can be found on amazon.com or wherever books are sold.
Look me up Dr. Lee Ann B. Marino today and all of my titles will come up.
There's definitely something for everyone so check that out today.
Also I encourage you to check out my patheos blog which is called leadership on fire and

(36:25):
that's at patheos.com/blogs/leadershiponfire.
That's patheos.com/blogs/leadershiponfire.
Leadership on fire is literally a blog about leadership and so it's about everything that pertains
to leadership.
So if you are a leader, if you're interested in leadership, if you think you're called to leadership,
if you just want to learn more about it, that is definitely the column for you.

(36:49):
Go check that out as well today.
Also follow me on social media @kingdompowernow.
That's @kingdompowernow.
I am on Facebook, I am on Blue Sky, I am on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and beyond.
Everywhere you can find a social media set, I'm probably there @kingdompowernow.
Reach out, let's have a conversation, let's find out what you love,

(37:13):
what you don't love about the program, what you want to hear more of.
Reach out and let's connect and let's start that conversation today.
If you'd like to learn more about the world of counter-cultural Christianity, feel free to visit my website at www.kingdompowernow.org.
That's www.kingdompowernow.org.
If you are looking for seminary education that's entirely affordable, can be done from anywhere in the world
and you will use everything that you learn.

(37:36):
We are affordable, we are donation based, and most textbooks are covered with your tuition.
Check out Apostolic Covenant Theological Seminary that's ACTS for Short at acts176.org.
That's acts176.org.
And if you're in the Charlotte, North Carolina area and you're looking for your community,
check out the work of Sanctuary International Fellowship Tabernacle, better known as Sanctuary.

(38:00):
We are definitely here from you because you are welcome in this place, at welcomeinthisplace.org.
That's welcomeinthisplace.org.
And if you have a question that's not answered on site, feel free to reach out.
We'll be happy to get back with you.
And this is Apostle Dr. Lee Ann Marino reminding you in closing.
That the church is not here to be of the world.

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It's here to change it.
Until next time, be blessed.
Thank you for joining us on the Kingdom Now podcast today.
I pray it is proven to be a blessing in your life.
To learn more about this work, ask a question, submit feedback, advertise with us, be a guest,

(38:48):
or donate to support this work.
As our podcast is sponsored by listeners like you, visit my website which contains essential information,
projects and works for other points of contact around the web at www.kingdompowernow.org.
Also, if you are in our area and would like to visit sanctuary international Fellowship Tabernacle,

(39:12):
visit
welcomeinthisplace.org.
Until next time, this is Apostle Dr. Lee Ann Marino reminding you that the Kingdom of God is within you.
And that means the Kingdom is now.
(music fades)
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