November 15, 2024 • 21 mins
Imagine standing at the crossroads of life, where earthly possessions and spiritual wealth pull at your heartstrings. Today, we unravel the mystery of finding inner treasures that transcend the material world, inspired by the profound teachings of the late Dr. Myles Monroe. Are we missing out on tapping into our fullest potential? By redirecting our focus from the temporary to what is eternal, we can uncover hidden gems within us that hold the power to transform not only our lives but also the world around us. This episode promises to challenge your perspective and encourage you to manage your time and resources wisely, acknowledging the transient nature of life.
Our conversation strides into the realm of spiritual wealth, drawing insights from biblical scriptures to highlight the peace that comes with valuing what truly matters. We discuss the formidable authority we hold as individuals and the significance of accepting our roles and responsibilities. Through a personal anecdote involving a memorable musical collaboration with a renowned female artist, we illustrate the impact of embracing our gifts and callings. This episode is a call to action—urging you not to let fear bury your talents but to let them shine brightly. Join us as we explore the vast potential within and inspire you to focus on the treasures that enrich your life eternally.
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Thank you, welcome back to the All Purpose Pod for
an all-purpose life.
Wherever you are and howeveryou're listening to.
They Call Me Mr U the podcast.
Thanks once again for making usa part of your morning, your
day and your week.
We're your weekly marriage hitbefore you change the world.
You can find us on all of thesocial medias, at theycallmemryu
, m-i-s-t-a-y-u or M-R-Y-U Ifyou're looking for us on Twitter
(00:53):
or X, that's where you can findus and, of course, all of our
audio podcasts available.
Wherever you enjoy yourpodcasts Apple Podcasts, spotify
, pandora, iheartradio, podcast,spotify, pandora, iheart radio,
etc.
We're there, of course, ouraudio and video on our youtube
full episodes on our youtubechannel at they call me, mr you.
Thank you for your support.
Please like, share andsubscribe there.
We definitely appreciate thesupport.
(01:15):
I want to chat with you guysreal quick.
Uh, this has been my heart fora little bit.
I want to kind of uh, get intoit a little bit while we had
time together.
And, by the way, miss guys,it's been quite a while since I
got on like this.
It's been.
I mean, we have episodesflowing and we got videos
flowing all over our YouTubechannel and social media, but I
haven't gotten a chance to sitdown and do some of the teaching
(01:39):
and chatting with you guys inseveral weeks, so it's been
really good to get back with youguys.
So thanks for guys in severalweeks, so it's been really good
to get back with you guys.
So thanks for indulging me inthis time and let's go ahead and
jump into it.
There's one thing that's kind ofbeen on my heart.
I've been noticing a lot ofemphasis from people who are so
(02:00):
inclined believers, if you will,that they have an emphasis on
things that are perishable.
You know, that's really adangerous place to be for a lot
of reasons, but because theBible teaches us that the things
that we see don't matter asmuch as the things that we don't
(02:22):
see, the visible isn't, orshouldn't be, a priority over
the invisible.
A lot of us and you know whatit's not even just about people
who are religious in nature orfaith-filled, but just people in
general we seem to be focusedon some of the wrong things.
This isn't a commentary on thatper se.
(02:45):
I'm not here to try to changethe world in that aspect but it
seems to be that we're focusedon the wrong things.
We're fighting battles that weshouldn't be fighting, we're
throwing dots at things thatshouldn't be a target for us.
We're pressing our way intoplaces that we shouldn't even be
, and it's sad to see it becauseit's a waste of time, it's a
(03:07):
waste of energy and what it doesis it redirects you to a degree
that is really hard to comeback from and then you have to
try to fight back through whereyou shouldn't be to get to the
place where you should be.
I mean, conflict is going tohappen in life, but it's really
unwise to use your time wisely,especially when you're not in
(03:30):
charge of that time measurement.
You don't get to determine howmuch you have and how much you
can use and how much isportioned out to you, and I
think that's part of the frailtyof life.
We're here a moment and thenwe're gone the next.
We don't know when our quoteunquote time is going to be, and
anybody that thinks on thatrealm.
(03:52):
You definitely want to try tomanage your time wisely and do
the very best you can with theresources and time and outlets
that you have, because there's atime going to come when you
can't do that anymore.
You won't have the capabilityor the bandwidth to do some of
the things you may be able to doright now freely.
And time and chance happens toeveryone.
The Bible teaches us that.
(04:13):
But you know, I've beenthinking a lot about where we
put our time and our investmentand what we use that we've been
given or what we don't use thatwe've been given.
And what comes to mind is anawesome quote from our former
mentor, who's a dearly departed.
He's gone on to be with theLord by the name of Dr Miles
Monroe.
I've used this quote on manytimes, on many episodes on this
(04:35):
podcast, but I want to go aheadand run it by you guys again so
you can hear it.
I want it to be fresh in yourminds as we get into what we're
going to talk about today.
But it says the wealthiest placein the world is not the gold
mines of South America or theoil fields of Iraq or Iran.
They are not the diamond minesof South Africa or the banks of
the world.
The wealthiest place on theplanet is just down the road.
(04:58):
It is the cemetery.
Check that out now.
It's the cemetery.
There lie buried companies thatwere never started, inventions
that were never made,best-selling books that were
never written and masterpiecesthat were never painted.
I'm going to read that partagain to you.
The wealthiest place on theplanet is just down the road.
(05:18):
It is the cemetery.
There lie buried companies thatwere never started, inventions
that were never made,best-selling books that were
never written and masterpiecesthat were never painted.
In the cemetery is buried thegreatest treasure of untapped
potential.
When I was growing up, the wordpotential I thought it was a
good thing, but when I read this, I understand that potential is
(05:42):
something that you could havedone that you didn't do.
You had an opportunity tofulfill it, but you didn't and
it went when you went, andpotential is no longer a good
word to me Now.
It's a dirty word.
Those that are so inclined andfaith-filled, or people who just
(06:07):
have a desire to make the worlda better place than what it was
when they were growing up orwhen their parents were growing
up, make things better forpeople.
I think that the word potentialis something that we don't want
to be left with, saying that wedid all we could but we didn't
do enough, or we didn't doenough of what we could have
done, that we had the abilityand capability to do.
So potential for me is a dirtyword.
I don't want anything to beleft on the table.
(06:27):
I want to live my life empty,having poured out everything
that was inside of me.
That could just be me, but Iwanted to share that with you
guys.
But one of the things that cameto mind also was those old
movies.
I mean, they're really popularfor a reason and people don't
really understand why they're sopopular.
Like movies about Vikings andTV series about Vikings are
(06:50):
rabidly popular.
Old gangster movies on thescale on the Hollywood scale of,
I guess, box office moneythat's come in those old
gangster movies are really highthey've come.
And movies like goodfella andscarface they have raked in the
dollars.
(07:11):
Uh, old movies about, or old tvshows about, the wild west,
with outlaws and trying to getburied treasure and pirates and
things of that nature, likepirates of the caribbean, for
example, these things rake inthe dollars and they always have
thousands upon thousands ofmillions upon millions of eyes
on their products.
Why is that important?
(07:32):
Why do you care about that?
It's because there's somethingin these movies that is central
to who we are as human beings.
It's not just entertainment.
There's something in it thatspeaks to who we are as people.
Most of these movies that areso wildly popular in this vein.
(07:52):
Even look at the ones withrecent treasure movies with
Nicolas Cage, they were rapidlypopular.
Because, no, there isn't anybodythat doesn't want to find the
treasure.
Because, no, there isn'tanybody that doesn't want to
find the treasure.
We get on this chase and thisquest and this journey whether
it be Indiana Jones, the listgoes on and on Because inside of
us we all want to find thattreasure.
(08:14):
No-transcript for two hours orhowever long the movie or TV
show is.
Because we all want to find thetreasure For us.
I think it's important to findthe treasure within, as opposed
(08:37):
to the very treasure, whether itbe gold, silver or whatever.
It is that the outlaws or thepirates or the gangsters or the
Vikings are looking for Usuallyand we see it played out also in
the world of cinema and artwhen those kind of treasures are
found, those earthly treasuresare found.
What actually changes about theperson?
(08:57):
Usually it's a negative change.
They become more boisterous,they think of themselves a lot
more higher than they should,they look down on other people,
they think of themselves asprivileged and everybody else is
like dirt, or they are unableto handle the pressures of
having the treasure like thatPeople wanting it from them,
(09:19):
people wanting a piece of theirpie, people who are related to
them that want to get a piece,think they earned it or they
think it's owed to them in someway because you have it.
They think they have earned apiece somehow just because
they're connected with you orrelated to you.
Some people just don't know howto handle it and they lose it
all in record time because theydon't have the management skills
(09:39):
or the prudence or the abilityto steward what they've been
given.
So most times, those kind oftreasures and finding those come
with a negative result.
I'm talking about a differentkind of treasure, though.
I'm talking about a differentkind of treasure, though I'm
talking about a different kindof treasure, the kind of
treasure that matters, the kindof treasure that lasts beyond
where we are right now and howwe're living right now in our,
(10:02):
in this human realm.
Now we've got scriptures thatteach us about these kinds of
treasures.
Matthew 6 and 19 says do notlay up for yourselves treasures
on earth where moth and rustdestroy and where thieves break
in and steal.
It's a crazy way to live.
Imagine that in your home youhave one of the greatest
treasures known to man, and youknow that everybody in the world
(10:24):
wants it.
They knew that you had it inyour house.
They would do all they can toget it or try to find some way
to pry it away from you fortheir own monetary gain.
Think about the stress you'dhave because you know you've got
something so valuable thateverybody else wants, and if
they can get it from you, theywould Imagine the pressure and
the strain of having to livewith that all your years on
(10:46):
earth.
Well, the good news is that youdon't have to deal with that.
Most of us don't have that kindof treasure in our home.
The good news even better newsis that we have a treasure that
really matters.
2 Corinthians 4 and 7 says butwe have this treasure in jars of
clay to show that thesurpassing power belongs to God
and not to us.
The power that we're talkingabout, that jars of clay, is us
(11:08):
as a human body.
We have a treasure inside of us, a power and authority that's
inside of us, that has theability to change the world.
That's where the mantra forthis show came from to go change
the world.
Because we have the abilityinside of us already.
We have the power and theauthority inside of us already
to actually change the worldthat we live in and change it
(11:30):
for the better.
We have that kind of mountain,moving, groundbreaking authority
and power inside of us and it'sbetter than gold.
It's better than silver andplatinum and precious pearls and
precious jewels.
It's the power of God thatchanges everything.
It can have the ability tochange anything.
(11:53):
When you hear terms like mantle,what do you hear?
A mantle is an important roleor responsibility that passes
from one person to another, aspiritual covering to do an
assignment on earth.
It's what you do with the graceof God.
Grace is something that is noteternal.
It lasts for a period of timeand then it's gone.
(12:22):
We're here under grace.
That's why we can't expect tolive 500 years on this earth.
We have a certain amount oftime that we have and then it's
over.
Some people's time is a lotshorter because of how they live
and what they put into theirbodies, et cetera, but we
understand that.
But we have a certain amount oftime to live.
We have a responsibility that'sbeen passed over to us.
There are people in our familyeven in my own family that have
had big roles andresponsibilities and they passed
(12:44):
away without completing them.
Perhaps you have somebody inyour family that had done the
same thing, had a role andresponsibility, a calling, if
you will that it didn't complete, it didn't finish, and it says
a lot About us when weUnderstand that we don't pick up
the responsibility, we don'twant the weight or the burden To
(13:04):
do what has been leftUnfinished.
I tell you what man.
We got a lot of unfinished workaround us.
If you look around, you can seeit.
You don't see it in your house,maybe you can see it in your
ministry, maybe you can see itin your family life, maybe you
can see it in your workplace.
There's a lot of unfinishedwork around us and it's not a
good situation.
(13:26):
Have you guys been familiar withthe parable of the talents in
Matthew 25?
One of the reasons why one ofthe servants was condemned the
way he was because he violatedthe faith and the trust of his
leadership.
He willfully hid a talent inthe ground rather than put it to
work, steward it, gain interestfrom it and build upon it the
(13:47):
way he was instructed.
He buried it out of fear.
What does it mean to bury?
It means to cover it, toconceal from sight, to put it
out of your mind, to cause it tobe insignificant by assigning
it to an unimportant location.
What does that mean?
What that basically means isthat where you put it tells the
world what you think about it.
(14:08):
Where you put thatresponsibility, that obligation,
tells the world what you thinkabout it.
We do that all the time.
We do that with people, we doit with relationships.
We put them in places where wethink they should be.
It could be an unimportantlocation, a place of less
significance, but we put themthere because we think they're
(14:29):
insignificant or we treat themas such, and that's just wrong.
We do that with money.
We do it with family in a lotof places.
We do it with the callingthat's on our life.
We put it in an insignificantplace.
We put it into a nightstandrather than put it to work.
We put it into a closet ratherthan put it to work Because we
don't see it as significant andmeaningful.
(14:49):
We try to bury it.
Several years back, when I wasdoing well I was out of the R&B
and hip hop game by this time Iwas doing gospel and leading
worship and traveling with aninternational ministry, just
(15:10):
doing worship and leading peoplein song and writing songs in
the whole nine yards.
And we did a song, or, as amatter of fact, we did a series
of songs with a very popularfemale artist.
I shared her name on the show,but today I'm not going to do
that.
So if you go back and you hearthose episodes, you'll know who
I'm talking about.
Or if you talk to me personally, you know who I was talking
about.
But we did a concert with this,a female artist, like I said,
(15:33):
insanely popular, one of thebest female artists of all time,
has a voice.
That was incredible and stilldoes.
Uh, we did a performance withher at a religious organization.
Uh, it wasn't christian by anystretch of the imagination.
It was another religion, whichI won't go into that detail
either, not what I believewhatsoever, but we did go ahead
(15:55):
and take that gig and we didthat there, and the funny part
about it was that we were soexcited about singing with her
because she's a legend.
She was a legend even then,years ago.
She's a legend now and we wereso excited as a choir to be
singing with her, as a praiseteam, to be singing with her and
to be able to, I guess, putthat on our resume and say we
(16:17):
sung with the great and we wereso excited and we were getting
ready.
We were kind of nervous because, man, we're going to sing with
so-and-so.
And then we got word from oneof her representatives that we
are going to sing with her, butshe'll be on the platform, on
the stage, in front of all thepeople in the building, in the
audience.
(16:37):
We're going to be behind ablack curtain, to the distance
away from where she's going tobe at.
We didn't understand that atfirst, but we realized that we
were being buried, to put itmildly, being concealed from
sight.
This famous artist clearlydidn't want us to be at the
(16:59):
forefront of her performance.
We would back her up from asound quality standpoint, as a
vocal standpoint, but she didn'twant us to be seen.
She only wanted us heard.
We were being buried.
It was pretty painful to beburied when we know we had
something to offer, we hadsomething of value, we were good
(17:20):
at what we were doing, we weretraveling up and down the coast
and we knew what we were doingand we were being buried and
it's like that's exactly how theLord feels when he's giving you
a resource.
He's giving you a faith, atrust, and we put it in the
background and hid it from sightas if we were ashamed of it, as
(17:40):
if it didn't matter to us thatwe had it.
So think about that kind ofstuff.
I mean, it was almost an act ofdefiance.
Isn't it amazing that somebodycan be so defiant, saying I
would not do this, so I wouldnot do that?
When a child does that, thefirst thing we want to do is
whip them into shape.
You want to whip them intoshape and quickly create the
behavior with emphatic action.
(18:01):
But when we do that, when we'redefiant, when we're defiant
against God and say you knowwhat, I don't want to do that,
that's not how I'm feeling rightnow.
I don't think that's for me.
We fancy God to be okay withour defiance because he knows
our heart.
It's utter nonsense.
(18:23):
But that's what we do.
It's an act of defiance to burywhat resources you've been given
, what resources and abilityyou've been given.
I don't know who I'm talking to.
I don't know if this meansanything to you at all, but if
this is resonating with you atall, I ask you today, please,
but if this is resonating withyou at all.
I ask you today please don'tbury the talent that you've been
(18:44):
given.
Don't take people andrelationships that are meant to
be valuable to you to beimportant to you, not because of
what it does for you, whatlevel it puts you on, how it
elevates you, but because youhave somebody in your life that
is a sounding board, that is ablessing to you, that is a
shoulder for you to cry on.
That means something for themto be in your life.
(19:04):
Don't bury them out of sightand put them out of your mind.
Cherish that they're treasuresin your life.
There's another example of atreasure that we're talking
about right now.
They are treasure in your life.
So treat people well.
Treat opportunities well.
Treat chances to be in aspotlight on a platform that you
(19:27):
didn't earn.
Treat them well.
Treat the opportunity right.
You never know when you'regoing to have it again, but for
all intents and purposes, you'vebeen given a treasure and
potential is untapped.
But now it's time to tap intoit.
Don't let it go to the graveand nothing comes of it.
(19:48):
Take advantage of theopportunity.
Unbury the buried treasure.
Live out loud.
Unbury the buried treasure.
Don't violate the trust and thefaith that's been put in you
and the confidence that's beenput in you to live out loud and
walk in the resources and theability and the talent that you
(20:08):
have.
Don't put it behind a blackcurtain.
Don't dig it into the groundand cover it up.
Let it shine, let it flow andbe who you're supposed to be, be
who you're designed and made tobe.
I hope that made sense to you.
I really hope you enjoy themusic as we close out.
Have a great day, thank you.
Thank you, welcome back to the All Purpose Pod for
an all-purpose life.
Wherever you are and howeveryou're listening to.
They Call Me Mr U the podcast.
Thanks once again for making usa part of your morning, your
day and your week.
We're your weekly marriage hitbefore you change the world.
You can find us on all of thesocial medias, at theycallmemryu
, m-i-s-t-a-y-u or M-R-Y-U Ifyou're looking for us on Twitter
(00:53):
or X, that's where you can findus and, of course, all of our
audio podcasts available.
Wherever you enjoy yourpodcasts Apple Podcasts, spotify
, pandora, iheartradio, podcast,spotify, pandora, iheart radio,
etc.
We're there, of course, ouraudio and video on our youtube
full episodes on our youtubechannel at they call me, mr you.
Thank you for your support.
Please like, share andsubscribe there.
We definitely appreciate thesupport.
(01:15):
I want to chat with you guysreal quick.
Uh, this has been my heart fora little bit.
I want to kind of uh, get intoit a little bit while we had
time together.
And, by the way, miss guys,it's been quite a while since I
got on like this.
It's been.
I mean, we have episodesflowing and we got videos
flowing all over our YouTubechannel and social media, but I
haven't gotten a chance to sitdown and do some of the teaching
(01:39):
and chatting with you guys inseveral weeks, so it's been
really good to get back with youguys.
So thanks for guys in severalweeks, so it's been really good
to get back with you guys.
So thanks for indulging me inthis time and let's go ahead and
jump into it.
There's one thing that's kind ofbeen on my heart.
I've been noticing a lot ofemphasis from people who are so
(02:00):
inclined believers, if you will,that they have an emphasis on
things that are perishable.
You know, that's really adangerous place to be for a lot
of reasons, but because theBible teaches us that the things
that we see don't matter asmuch as the things that we don't
(02:22):
see, the visible isn't, orshouldn't be, a priority over
the invisible.
A lot of us and you know whatit's not even just about people
who are religious in nature orfaith-filled, but just people in
general we seem to be focusedon some of the wrong things.
This isn't a commentary on thatper se.
(02:45):
I'm not here to try to changethe world in that aspect but it
seems to be that we're focusedon the wrong things.
We're fighting battles that weshouldn't be fighting, we're
throwing dots at things thatshouldn't be a target for us.
We're pressing our way intoplaces that we shouldn't even be
, and it's sad to see it becauseit's a waste of time, it's a
(03:07):
waste of energy and what it doesis it redirects you to a degree
that is really hard to comeback from and then you have to
try to fight back through whereyou shouldn't be to get to the
place where you should be.
I mean, conflict is going tohappen in life, but it's really
unwise to use your time wisely,especially when you're not in
(03:30):
charge of that time measurement.
You don't get to determine howmuch you have and how much you
can use and how much isportioned out to you, and I
think that's part of the frailtyof life.
We're here a moment and thenwe're gone the next.
We don't know when our quoteunquote time is going to be, and
anybody that thinks on thatrealm.
(03:52):
You definitely want to try tomanage your time wisely and do
the very best you can with theresources and time and outlets
that you have, because there's atime going to come when you
can't do that anymore.
You won't have the capabilityor the bandwidth to do some of
the things you may be able to doright now freely.
And time and chance happens toeveryone.
The Bible teaches us that.
(04:13):
But you know, I've beenthinking a lot about where we
put our time and our investmentand what we use that we've been
given or what we don't use thatwe've been given.
And what comes to mind is anawesome quote from our former
mentor, who's a dearly departed.
He's gone on to be with theLord by the name of Dr Miles
Monroe.
I've used this quote on manytimes, on many episodes on this
(04:35):
podcast, but I want to go aheadand run it by you guys again so
you can hear it.
I want it to be fresh in yourminds as we get into what we're
going to talk about today.
But it says the wealthiest placein the world is not the gold
mines of South America or theoil fields of Iraq or Iran.
They are not the diamond minesof South Africa or the banks of
the world.
The wealthiest place on theplanet is just down the road.
(04:58):
It is the cemetery.
Check that out now.
It's the cemetery.
There lie buried companies thatwere never started, inventions
that were never made,best-selling books that were
never written and masterpiecesthat were never painted.
I'm going to read that partagain to you.
The wealthiest place on theplanet is just down the road.
(05:18):
It is the cemetery.
There lie buried companies thatwere never started, inventions
that were never made,best-selling books that were
never written and masterpiecesthat were never painted.
In the cemetery is buried thegreatest treasure of untapped
potential.
When I was growing up, the wordpotential I thought it was a
good thing, but when I read this, I understand that potential is
(05:42):
something that you could havedone that you didn't do.
You had an opportunity tofulfill it, but you didn't and
it went when you went, andpotential is no longer a good
word to me Now.
It's a dirty word.
Those that are so inclined andfaith-filled, or people who just
(06:07):
have a desire to make the worlda better place than what it was
when they were growing up orwhen their parents were growing
up, make things better forpeople.
I think that the word potentialis something that we don't want
to be left with, saying that wedid all we could but we didn't
do enough, or we didn't doenough of what we could have
done, that we had the abilityand capability to do.
So potential for me is a dirtyword.
I don't want anything to beleft on the table.
(06:27):
I want to live my life empty,having poured out everything
that was inside of me.
That could just be me, but Iwanted to share that with you
guys.
But one of the things that cameto mind also was those old
movies.
I mean, they're really popularfor a reason and people don't
really understand why they're sopopular.
Like movies about Vikings andTV series about Vikings are
(06:50):
rabidly popular.
Old gangster movies on thescale on the Hollywood scale of,
I guess, box office moneythat's come in those old
gangster movies are really highthey've come.
And movies like goodfella andscarface they have raked in the
dollars.
(07:11):
Uh, old movies about, or old tvshows about, the wild west,
with outlaws and trying to getburied treasure and pirates and
things of that nature, likepirates of the caribbean, for
example, these things rake inthe dollars and they always have
thousands upon thousands ofmillions upon millions of eyes
on their products.
Why is that important?
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Why do you care about that?
It's because there's somethingin these movies that is central
to who we are as human beings.
It's not just entertainment.
There's something in it thatspeaks to who we are as people.
Most of these movies that areso wildly popular in this vein.
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Even look at the ones withrecent treasure movies with
Nicolas Cage, they were rapidlypopular.
Because, no, there isn't anybodythat doesn't want to find the
treasure.
Because, no, there isn'tanybody that doesn't want to
find the treasure.
We get on this chase and thisquest and this journey whether
it be Indiana Jones, the listgoes on and on Because inside of
us we all want to find thattreasure.
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No-transcript for two hours orhowever long the movie or TV
show is.
Because we all want to find thetreasure For us.
I think it's important to findthe treasure within, as opposed
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to the very treasure, whether itbe gold, silver or whatever.
It is that the outlaws or thepirates or the gangsters or the
Vikings are looking for Usuallyand we see it played out also in
the world of cinema and artwhen those kind of treasures are
found, those earthly treasuresare found.
What actually changes about theperson?
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Usually it's a negative change.
They become more boisterous,they think of themselves a lot
more higher than they should,they look down on other people,
they think of themselves asprivileged and everybody else is
like dirt, or they are unableto handle the pressures of
having the treasure like thatPeople wanting it from them,
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people wanting a piece of theirpie, people who are related to
them that want to get a piece,think they earned it or they
think it's owed to them in someway because you have it.
They think they have earned apiece somehow just because
they're connected with you orrelated to you.
Some people just don't know howto handle it and they lose it
all in record time because theydon't have the management skills
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or the prudence or the abilityto steward what they've been
given.
So most times, those kind oftreasures and finding those come
with a negative result.
I'm talking about a differentkind of treasure, though.
I'm talking about a differentkind of treasure, though I'm
talking about a different kindof treasure, the kind of
treasure that matters, the kindof treasure that lasts beyond
where we are right now and howwe're living right now in our,
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in this human realm.
Now we've got scriptures thatteach us about these kinds of
treasures.
Matthew 6 and 19 says do notlay up for yourselves treasures
on earth where moth and rustdestroy and where thieves break
in and steal.
It's a crazy way to live.
Imagine that in your home youhave one of the greatest
treasures known to man, and youknow that everybody in the world
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wants it.
They knew that you had it inyour house.
They would do all they can toget it or try to find some way
to pry it away from you fortheir own monetary gain.
Think about the stress you'dhave because you know you've got
something so valuable thateverybody else wants, and if
they can get it from you, theywould Imagine the pressure and
the strain of having to livewith that all your years on
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earth.
Well, the good news is that youdon't have to deal with that.
Most of us don't have that kindof treasure in our home.
The good news even better newsis that we have a treasure that
really matters.
2 Corinthians 4 and 7 says butwe have this treasure in jars of
clay to show that thesurpassing power belongs to God
and not to us.
The power that we're talkingabout, that jars of clay, is us
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as a human body.
We have a treasure inside of us, a power and authority that's
inside of us, that has theability to change the world.
That's where the mantra forthis show came from to go change
the world.
Because we have the abilityinside of us already.
We have the power and theauthority inside of us already
to actually change the worldthat we live in and change it
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for the better.
We have that kind of mountain,moving, groundbreaking authority
and power inside of us and it'sbetter than gold.
It's better than silver andplatinum and precious pearls and
precious jewels.
It's the power of God thatchanges everything.
It can have the ability tochange anything.
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When you hear terms like mantle,what do you hear?
A mantle is an important roleor responsibility that passes
from one person to another, aspiritual covering to do an
assignment on earth.
It's what you do with the graceof God.
Grace is something that is noteternal.
It lasts for a period of timeand then it's gone.
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We're here under grace.
That's why we can't expect tolive 500 years on this earth.
We have a certain amount oftime that we have and then it's
over.
Some people's time is a lotshorter because of how they live
and what they put into theirbodies, et cetera, but we
understand that.
But we have a certain amount oftime to live.
We have a responsibility that'sbeen passed over to us.
There are people in our familyeven in my own family that have
had big roles andresponsibilities and they passed
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away without completing them.
Perhaps you have somebody inyour family that had done the
same thing, had a role andresponsibility, a calling, if
you will that it didn't complete, it didn't finish, and it says
a lot About us when weUnderstand that we don't pick up
the responsibility, we don'twant the weight or the burden To
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do what has been leftUnfinished.
I tell you what man.
We got a lot of unfinished workaround us.
If you look around, you can seeit.
You don't see it in your house,maybe you can see it in your
ministry, maybe you can see itin your family life, maybe you
can see it in your workplace.
There's a lot of unfinishedwork around us and it's not a
good situation.
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Have you guys been familiar withthe parable of the talents in
Matthew 25?
One of the reasons why one ofthe servants was condemned the
way he was because he violatedthe faith and the trust of his
leadership.
He willfully hid a talent inthe ground rather than put it to
work, steward it, gain interestfrom it and build upon it the
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way he was instructed.
He buried it out of fear.
What does it mean to bury?
It means to cover it, toconceal from sight, to put it
out of your mind, to cause it tobe insignificant by assigning
it to an unimportant location.
What does that mean?
What that basically means isthat where you put it tells the
world what you think about it.
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Where you put thatresponsibility, that obligation,
tells the world what you thinkabout it.
We do that all the time.
We do that with people, we doit with relationships.
We put them in places where wethink they should be.
It could be an unimportantlocation, a place of less
significance, but we put themthere because we think they're
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insignificant or we treat themas such, and that's just wrong.
We do that with money.
We do it with family in a lotof places.
We do it with the callingthat's on our life.
We put it in an insignificantplace.
We put it into a nightstandrather than put it to work.
We put it into a closet ratherthan put it to work Because we
don't see it as significant andmeaningful.
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We try to bury it.
Several years back, when I wasdoing well I was out of the R&B
and hip hop game by this time Iwas doing gospel and leading
worship and traveling with aninternational ministry, just
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doing worship and leading peoplein song and writing songs in
the whole nine yards.
And we did a song, or, as amatter of fact, we did a series
of songs with a very popularfemale artist.
I shared her name on the show,but today I'm not going to do
that.
So if you go back and you hearthose episodes, you'll know who
I'm talking about.
Or if you talk to me personally, you know who I was talking
about.
But we did a concert with this,a female artist, like I said,
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insanely popular, one of thebest female artists of all time,
has a voice.
That was incredible and stilldoes.
Uh, we did a performance withher at a religious organization.
Uh, it wasn't christian by anystretch of the imagination.
It was another religion, whichI won't go into that detail
either, not what I believewhatsoever, but we did go ahead
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and take that gig and we didthat there, and the funny part
about it was that we were soexcited about singing with her
because she's a legend.
She was a legend even then,years ago.
She's a legend now and we wereso excited as a choir to be
singing with her, as a praiseteam, to be singing with her and
to be able to, I guess, putthat on our resume and say we
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sung with the great and we wereso excited and we were getting
ready.
We were kind of nervous because, man, we're going to sing with
so-and-so.
And then we got word from oneof her representatives that we
are going to sing with her, butshe'll be on the platform, on
the stage, in front of all thepeople in the building, in the
audience.
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We're going to be behind ablack curtain, to the distance
away from where she's going tobe at.
We didn't understand that atfirst, but we realized that we
were being buried, to put itmildly, being concealed from
sight.
This famous artist clearlydidn't want us to be at the
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forefront of her performance.
We would back her up from asound quality standpoint, as a
vocal standpoint, but she didn'twant us to be seen.
She only wanted us heard.
We were being buried.
It was pretty painful to beburied when we know we had
something to offer, we hadsomething of value, we were good
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at what we were doing, we weretraveling up and down the coast
and we knew what we were doingand we were being buried and
it's like that's exactly how theLord feels when he's giving you
a resource.
He's giving you a faith, atrust, and we put it in the
background and hid it from sightas if we were ashamed of it, as
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if it didn't matter to us thatwe had it.
So think about that kind ofstuff.
I mean, it was almost an act ofdefiance.
Isn't it amazing that somebodycan be so defiant, saying I
would not do this, so I wouldnot do that?
When a child does that, thefirst thing we want to do is
whip them into shape.
You want to whip them intoshape and quickly create the
behavior with emphatic action.
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But when we do that, when we'redefiant, when we're defiant
against God and say you knowwhat, I don't want to do that,
that's not how I'm feeling rightnow.
I don't think that's for me.
We fancy God to be okay withour defiance because he knows
our heart.
It's utter nonsense.
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But that's what we do.
It's an act of defiance to burywhat resources you've been given
, what resources and abilityyou've been given.
I don't know who I'm talking to.
I don't know if this meansanything to you at all, but if
this is resonating with you atall, I ask you today, please,
but if this is resonating withyou at all.
I ask you today please don'tbury the talent that you've been
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given.
Don't take people andrelationships that are meant to
be valuable to you to beimportant to you, not because of
what it does for you, whatlevel it puts you on, how it
elevates you, but because youhave somebody in your life that
is a sounding board, that is ablessing to you, that is a
shoulder for you to cry on.
That means something for themto be in your life.
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Don't bury them out of sightand put them out of your mind.
Cherish that they're treasuresin your life.
There's another example of atreasure that we're talking
about right now.
They are treasure in your life.
So treat people well.
Treat opportunities well.
Treat chances to be in aspotlight on a platform that you
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didn't earn.
Treat them well.
Treat the opportunity right.
You never know when you'regoing to have it again, but for
all intents and purposes, you'vebeen given a treasure and
potential is untapped.
But now it's time to tap intoit.
Don't let it go to the graveand nothing comes of it.
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Take advantage of theopportunity.
Unbury the buried treasure.
Live out loud.
Unbury the buried treasure.
Don't violate the trust and thefaith that's been put in you
and the confidence that's beenput in you to live out loud and
walk in the resources and theability and the talent that you
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have.
Don't put it behind a blackcurtain.
Don't dig it into the groundand cover it up.
Let it shine, let it flow andbe who you're supposed to be, be
who you're designed and made tobe.
I hope that made sense to you.
I really hope you enjoy themusic as we close out.
Have a great day, thank you.
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