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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The gospel reading is from Luke, chapter sixteen, verses ten
through thirteen. Jesus said, whoever is faithful in a very
little is faithful also in much. And whoever is dishonest
in a very little is dishonest also in much. If
(00:26):
then you have not been faithful with the dishonest wealth,
who will entrust to you the true riches? And if
you have not been faithful with what belongs to another,
who will give you what is your own. No slave
can serve two masters. For a slave will either hate
(00:47):
the one and love the other, or be devoted to
the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God
and wealth.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
John paced back and forth, staring at his phone. He
felt antsy, anticipating the text that would come through. There
was no limit to this need. The more he got,
the more he pushed his limits further. So what that
(01:27):
his desires had impacted so many people in his life? Negatively,
they should be more concerned with their own life. You
love it more than you love me, his second partner said,
when she walked out the door for good. His children
complained they never spent enough time with him, but they
(01:48):
didn't see this was more important for they benefited too.
They just couldn't see it. Sure John had changed over
the years, but everyone changes, don't we His life was
dominated by this need, but anybody else who had tasted
it would be the same. The media encouraged it. People
(02:12):
idolized him, just like Pop's song said. His life was
glamorous and covetable, and everyone else was just envious. Finally,
the text on the phone came through. Investment acquisition went through.
You just got fifty million dollars richer. It was a risk,
(02:34):
it was always a risk, but the high he got
from climbing ever closer to being the richest man in
Canada in this instance, was worth every fumble. He began
to think about his next hit of money, and Ashley crouched.
As she continues her article where she tells the story,
(02:57):
she finally says wealth is addictive. Now, sometimes these are
hard sermons to preach. Sometimes in some suburbs it's even
harder to preach. It almost becomes, as one author has says,
preaching the dangerous sermon. Now, most of us don't think
(03:25):
of ourselves as thugs. Eli and the reading from the
Hebrew Scripture. Today, a priest remember Eli and the young
boy Samuel. But today we're talking about Eli's sons priest too,
for they were of the priestly line, but they were
(03:47):
considered thugs because, as we heard, they liked the best.
Now the story around this story says even more. They
like the high life. They liked the parties that were
some times of almost debaucherous images. They liked the best stuff,
(04:11):
and being so close to the temple and their father,
they had it all, they believed, and they liked fine food. Now,
we often think about the sacrifices that Israel would offer,
even as we continue into Jesus times, as something that
(04:34):
was holy. But on some level it was the fat,
sometimes the marbling that we liked so much, that was
offered to God. And then the meat is boiled and
probably since it was probably not seasoned, a bit bland.
The word for raw that God translated as raw is
(04:58):
really the word living, the living meat or the meat
that was still living. Imagine the meat that still is bloody.
But they wanted the best. Who cares about sacrifice? God
will be happy with what God gets. God will be happy.
(05:22):
But shouldn't we, as God's servants, not just use a fork,
but demand that you give me the most marble piece
of red meat. And by the way, I don't eat
red meat, but there are foods I like, and they
did so, and they would take it by force. Perhaps
(05:47):
you noticed an article if you read the New York
Times or at least online, that this week they had
an article about musk melons, a musk melons sometimes costing
more than lobster salad. We're talking to hamptons, of course,
But before we get to the musk melon, the story
is told that a man goes to this boutique grocery store,
(06:12):
one few in the area and buys less than eight items,
and the clerk at the counter says the owner actually says,
will this be on your tab? Yes, those items cost
nearly eighteen hundred dollars. Gourmet lobster salad, gourmet caviare, and
(06:41):
a musk melon. Now, what makes a muskmelon more expensive
than lobster salad is that it has been singled out
for the best sweetness and taste that one can imagine. Usually,
musk melons, water melons, cantalopes, etc. Many grow on a vine,
(07:02):
and as it's in the process, there are many flowers
on the vine. But to enhance its sweetness. Early on,
you pick up, pick off all the flowering blooms but one,
hedging all your bets that this one bloom will produce
the best musk melon ever and that it would be
(07:26):
worth more than one hundred dollars sometimes up to five
hundred and seventy five dollars for a musk melon. So
risky enterprise. Actually, you have all these musk melon possibilities,
but you risk it one bloom, so all the energy
(07:48):
and sweetness and the sun can make this most amazing
tasting melon. Now, I'm not going to argue that we
should all go out and give up all our money
and all our things, but sometimes it's more about what
(08:12):
we do with what we have. I'd been here at
Mountain Rise for four weeks. I was still staying at
an AIRB and B. I hadn't quite settled into my
apartment because it wasn't ready. And on my last night
to B and B that Saturday evening I got there,
it was snowing, it was cold. I jumped out, carried
(08:35):
in what I needed, and the next morning I come
out to my car and noticed that the glove compartment
was open and stuff was in the floor and I'm like,
I just scratched my head a little. What did I do?
But then I looked around and the stuff in the
back that was patent just so, including things from my apartment.
(08:58):
I finally realized some of the things were missing, not
a lot, actually, for I can only imagine remember only
two things I replaced. One was my winter Nike boots.
I were about four years old. But I love those
(09:20):
boots and my tape measure. Now, a tape measure doesn't
cost that much. But what I had done is I'm
in and out of so many different places, and I
had to get these creative urges sometimes that I would
want to put something together or make sure it fits
through a door. So I've learned to have a tape
(09:41):
measure in my car for when I can't find it
at home in Syracuse or my apartment, I'll go to
my car, and I'm most dutiful with it now. Of course,
there were some coins missing and a few other things,
but in the scheme of things, I was fine, And
I was also reminded later that Sunday, well, perhaps someone
(10:06):
else or using those boots who really need them. Now.
I still wasn't happy for a while because those particular
boots were out of stock, and I prayed for no snow.
I prayed for no inclement weather. I prayed that my
feet would stay dry. I finally found a pair of
(10:30):
boots since we were moving into spring that would do.
But I have replaced those other boots with something very similar,
and we've had so little snow I still have yet
to wear them. One thing I've discovered in the process
(10:51):
of moving, and I haven't moved that many times, is
that we have a lot of contune to do in
our lives. There are things that I have packed from
when I was in East Lansing in two thousand and
four that went to a loft for our first year
(11:12):
that we rented, and then to our home that I
have never ever opened. Can you say, katundu, I don't
even know what are in those boxes. But then there
are other things that I'm like, Well, hopefully my nephew
and nieces when George and I passed, will really like
(11:35):
these items, and I've been wondering about and I still
don't know how I acquired them. But during the nineteen
eighty four Olympics, yes in Los Angeles, which we're returning
too soon, the network of choice for the Olympics was ABC.
That tells you how long it's been. But ABC produced
(11:59):
for that olympicies of posters for the Olympics that had
the ABC logo, and I own them. I don't remember
paying anything for them, but I think, well, they're valuable
enough that perhaps they will like these. But then I
wonder or will they just throw them away? I think
(12:26):
in our lives sometimes we hear the text of whoever
is faithful and little is also faithful and much, and
we understand it, and then we get worried when it
says you cannot serve God and wealth. Now, if you
(12:52):
have riches and wealth, the point of the story is,
does that wealth enslave you? For as Jesus would say,
no slave can serve two masters, for a slave will
either hate the one and love the other. When we
(13:13):
think of terms of enslavement, we wish Jesus would have
said something abolishing it. But perhaps in our twenty first
century notions, perhaps even those who owned slaves, perhaps they
(13:33):
too were enslaved by the form of slavery itself, which
is bad, for they wanted more if they had more workers,
which didn't cost them anything that could produce more. We
live in such a society today. Not necessarily folks are enslaved,
but sometimes we create systems where the wealthy get more.
(13:58):
We create bills and congress that promise to be big
and beautiful, but when we look deeper into it, the poor.
Healthcare is at risk, which may, as a Congressional Budget
Office now says, will probably make the poor poor because
they will pay even more for what is needed, while
(14:21):
those of us who have elite insurance plans are relatively
good insurance plans will continue life as normal. So the
thing is how do we give up katun do? Sometimes
I realize katun do is just some things that we
(14:43):
hold dear, not necessarily material things, but those aspirations of
wanting more. I first learned the word katune do at
summer camp with a group of youth. It was that time.
They were using it in a retelling of the farmer
(15:04):
who built many barns in the Gospels. And this farmer
really liked katoon do because he kept building more barns
to put more corn, and then it went useless. Do
you remember what happened? The farmer died and there was
all that corn. This is when I wish scripture sometimes
had to PostScript and say it went to all who
(15:25):
was in need, but it didn't. So, my friends, what
are those things in life that enslaves us? Is it
fine food? Is it just the consumption of money, hoping
our investments knew better than ever? Or is what's most
(15:48):
valuable is being content? As the author of First Timothy
writes that religion is good for those who are content.
Now we suspect that the author is talking about our faith.
(16:12):
Our Christianity is good when we are content with what
we have, and not just content that we have it all,
but we're content what we really need and that we
will share so that none of us be enslaved to
what we have, and no one is enslaved to produce more,
(16:33):
just so more can have even more. Amen
The gospel reading is from Luke, chapter sixteen, verses ten
through thirteen. Jesus said, whoever is faithful in a very
little is faithful also in much. And whoever is dishonest
in a very little is dishonest also in much. If
(00:26):
then you have not been faithful with the dishonest wealth,
who will entrust to you the true riches? And if
you have not been faithful with what belongs to another,
who will give you what is your own. No slave
can serve two masters. For a slave will either hate
(00:47):
the one and love the other, or be devoted to
the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God
and wealth.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
John paced back and forth, staring at his phone. He
felt antsy, anticipating the text that would come through. There
was no limit to this need. The more he got,
the more he pushed his limits further. So what that
(01:27):
his desires had impacted so many people in his life? Negatively,
they should be more concerned with their own life. You
love it more than you love me, his second partner said,
when she walked out the door for good. His children
complained they never spent enough time with him, but they
(01:48):
didn't see this was more important for they benefited too.
They just couldn't see it. Sure John had changed over
the years, but everyone changes, don't we His life was
dominated by this need, but anybody else who had tasted
it would be the same. The media encouraged it. People
(02:12):
idolized him, just like Pop's song said. His life was
glamorous and covetable, and everyone else was just envious. Finally,
the text on the phone came through. Investment acquisition went through.
You just got fifty million dollars richer. It was a risk,
(02:34):
it was always a risk, but the high he got
from climbing ever closer to being the richest man in
Canada in this instance, was worth every fumble. He began
to think about his next hit of money, and Ashley crouched.
As she continues her article where she tells the story,
(02:57):
she finally says wealth is addictive. Now, sometimes these are
hard sermons to preach. Sometimes in some suburbs it's even
harder to preach. It almost becomes, as one author has says,
preaching the dangerous sermon. Now, most of us don't think
(03:25):
of ourselves as thugs. Eli and the reading from the
Hebrew Scripture. Today, a priest remember Eli and the young
boy Samuel. But today we're talking about Eli's sons priest too,
for they were of the priestly line, but they were
(03:47):
considered thugs because, as we heard, they liked the best.
Now the story around this story says even more. They
like the high life. They liked the parties that were
some times of almost debaucherous images. They liked the best stuff,
(04:11):
and being so close to the temple and their father,
they had it all, they believed, and they liked fine food. Now,
we often think about the sacrifices that Israel would offer,
even as we continue into Jesus times, as something that
(04:34):
was holy. But on some level it was the fat,
sometimes the marbling that we liked so much, that was
offered to God. And then the meat is boiled and
probably since it was probably not seasoned, a bit bland.
The word for raw that God translated as raw is
(04:58):
really the word living, the living meat or the meat
that was still living. Imagine the meat that still is bloody.
But they wanted the best. Who cares about sacrifice? God
will be happy with what God gets. God will be happy.
(05:22):
But shouldn't we, as God's servants, not just use a fork,
but demand that you give me the most marble piece
of red meat. And by the way, I don't eat
red meat, but there are foods I like, and they
did so, and they would take it by force. Perhaps
(05:47):
you noticed an article if you read the New York
Times or at least online, that this week they had
an article about musk melons, a musk melons sometimes costing
more than lobster salad. We're talking to hamptons, of course,
But before we get to the musk melon, the story
is told that a man goes to this boutique grocery store,
(06:12):
one few in the area and buys less than eight items,
and the clerk at the counter says the owner actually says,
will this be on your tab? Yes, those items cost
nearly eighteen hundred dollars. Gourmet lobster salad, gourmet caviare, and
(06:41):
a musk melon. Now, what makes a muskmelon more expensive
than lobster salad is that it has been singled out
for the best sweetness and taste that one can imagine. Usually,
musk melons, water melons, cantalopes, etc. Many grow on a vine,
(07:02):
and as it's in the process, there are many flowers
on the vine. But to enhance its sweetness. Early on,
you pick up, pick off all the flowering blooms but one,
hedging all your bets that this one bloom will produce
the best musk melon ever and that it would be
(07:26):
worth more than one hundred dollars sometimes up to five
hundred and seventy five dollars for a musk melon. So
risky enterprise. Actually, you have all these musk melon possibilities,
but you risk it one bloom, so all the energy
(07:48):
and sweetness and the sun can make this most amazing
tasting melon. Now, I'm not going to argue that we
should all go out and give up all our money
and all our things, but sometimes it's more about what
(08:12):
we do with what we have. I'd been here at
Mountain Rise for four weeks. I was still staying at
an AIRB and B. I hadn't quite settled into my
apartment because it wasn't ready. And on my last night
to B and B that Saturday evening I got there,
it was snowing, it was cold. I jumped out, carried
(08:35):
in what I needed, and the next morning I come
out to my car and noticed that the glove compartment
was open and stuff was in the floor and I'm like,
I just scratched my head a little. What did I do?
But then I looked around and the stuff in the
back that was patent just so, including things from my apartment.
(08:58):
I finally realized some of the things were missing, not
a lot, actually, for I can only imagine remember only
two things I replaced. One was my winter Nike boots.
I were about four years old. But I love those
(09:20):
boots and my tape measure. Now, a tape measure doesn't
cost that much. But what I had done is I'm
in and out of so many different places, and I
had to get these creative urges sometimes that I would
want to put something together or make sure it fits
through a door. So I've learned to have a tape
(09:41):
measure in my car for when I can't find it
at home in Syracuse or my apartment, I'll go to
my car, and I'm most dutiful with it now. Of course,
there were some coins missing and a few other things,
but in the scheme of things, I was fine, And
I was also reminded later that Sunday, well, perhaps someone
(10:06):
else or using those boots who really need them. Now.
I still wasn't happy for a while because those particular
boots were out of stock, and I prayed for no snow.
I prayed for no inclement weather. I prayed that my
feet would stay dry. I finally found a pair of
(10:30):
boots since we were moving into spring that would do.
But I have replaced those other boots with something very similar,
and we've had so little snow I still have yet
to wear them. One thing I've discovered in the process
(10:51):
of moving, and I haven't moved that many times, is
that we have a lot of contune to do in
our lives. There are things that I have packed from
when I was in East Lansing in two thousand and
four that went to a loft for our first year
(11:12):
that we rented, and then to our home that I
have never ever opened. Can you say, katundu, I don't
even know what are in those boxes. But then there
are other things that I'm like, Well, hopefully my nephew
and nieces when George and I passed, will really like
(11:35):
these items, and I've been wondering about and I still
don't know how I acquired them. But during the nineteen
eighty four Olympics, yes in Los Angeles, which we're returning
too soon, the network of choice for the Olympics was ABC.
That tells you how long it's been. But ABC produced
(11:59):
for that olympicies of posters for the Olympics that had
the ABC logo, and I own them. I don't remember
paying anything for them, but I think, well, they're valuable
enough that perhaps they will like these. But then I
wonder or will they just throw them away? I think
(12:26):
in our lives sometimes we hear the text of whoever
is faithful and little is also faithful and much, and
we understand it, and then we get worried when it
says you cannot serve God and wealth. Now, if you
(12:52):
have riches and wealth, the point of the story is,
does that wealth enslave you? For as Jesus would say,
no slave can serve two masters, for a slave will
either hate the one and love the other. When we
(13:13):
think of terms of enslavement, we wish Jesus would have
said something abolishing it. But perhaps in our twenty first
century notions, perhaps even those who owned slaves, perhaps they
(13:33):
too were enslaved by the form of slavery itself, which
is bad, for they wanted more if they had more workers,
which didn't cost them anything that could produce more. We
live in such a society today. Not necessarily folks are enslaved,
but sometimes we create systems where the wealthy get more.
(13:58):
We create bills and congress that promise to be big
and beautiful, but when we look deeper into it, the poor.
Healthcare is at risk, which may, as a Congressional Budget
Office now says, will probably make the poor poor because
they will pay even more for what is needed, while
(14:21):
those of us who have elite insurance plans are relatively
good insurance plans will continue life as normal. So the
thing is how do we give up katun do? Sometimes
I realize katun do is just some things that we
(14:43):
hold dear, not necessarily material things, but those aspirations of
wanting more. I first learned the word katune do at
summer camp with a group of youth. It was that time.
They were using it in a retelling of the farmer
(15:04):
who built many barns in the Gospels. And this farmer
really liked katoon do because he kept building more barns
to put more corn, and then it went useless. Do
you remember what happened? The farmer died and there was
all that corn. This is when I wish scripture sometimes
had to PostScript and say it went to all who
(15:25):
was in need, but it didn't. So, my friends, what
are those things in life that enslaves us? Is it
fine food? Is it just the consumption of money, hoping
our investments knew better than ever? Or is what's most
(15:48):
valuable is being content? As the author of First Timothy
writes that religion is good for those who are content.
Now we suspect that the author is talking about our faith.
(16:12):
Our Christianity is good when we are content with what
we have, and not just content that we have it all,
but we're content what we really need and that we
will share so that none of us be enslaved to
what we have, and no one is enslaved to produce more,
(16:33):
just so more can have even more. Amen
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