{"content":[{"text":"He’s talking about the destruction of Jerusalem. Jesus said that that generation would see Jerusalem \n destroyed - not one brick would be left on another. So they had a general timeline, but no speciﬁcs.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.076441,"width":0.810351,"height":0.03133200000000001}},{"text":"His second coming will be the same way: 2 Peter 3:10: But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then \n the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth \n and the works done on it will be exposed.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.122769,"width":0.88852,"height":0.046872999999999984}},{"text":"That’s his second coming. In both of those situations, the coming of Jesus is likened to how thieves operate. \n Thieves attack the vulnerable - those who can’t protect themselves. And it comes on those who are not ready.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.183764,"width":0.8812760000000001,"height":0.031332}},{"text":"Thieves prey on vulnerability. That’s part of what makes it so heinous. They do actions that no one in their right \n mind would do in broad daylight. They sneak around when no one can see them.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.229218,"width":0.885248,"height":0.03133299999999997}},{"text":"But you know who sees? God sees. And you know what else? God oﬀers grace to thieves. As such were \n some of you. There were former thieves in the Corinthian church. People who had stolen what was not theirs. \n People who had exploited others. But who had found mercy from God in Christ.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.275547,"width":0.8745170000000001,"height":0.046873}},{"text":"You know what I want with whoever stole my stuﬀ? At ﬁrst I wanted 2-3 years in prison for 1st degree felony \n theft. But what I think I really want is that one day they would come to their senses. That in heaven I’ll bump \n into some guy who’s giving me his testimony about how he used to steal stuﬀ at night and how the Lord \n transformed him. Because that’s what the Lord does. He transforms sinners into saints by his grace.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.336542,"width":0.865513,"height":0.061634999999999995}},{"text":"2) The grace of Jesus washes the greedy. Read 10 \n Let’s be honest, greedy is a hard sin to peg down. Greed does manifest itself in actions, but sometimes the \n actions of those who are greedy are the exact same actions of those who are wise stewards.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.413173,"width":0.8573339999999999,"height":0.046873}},{"text":"Two people invest in a stock, one because it’s a good value, the other because he wants it to go supernova \n and wants to be rich.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.474168,"width":0.859564,"height":0.03133200000000008}},{"text":"I knew a guy once who’s big dream in life was to go to Vegas and just blow $100k because he wanted to live \n the life of the ultra wealthy for just a night.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.519622,"width":0.870204,"height":0.031332999999999944}},{"text":"Well, let me tell you, most of the ultra wealthy are nowhere near Vegas. Vegas is surrounded by poor people, \n people enslaved to debt and corruption.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.565077,"width":0.866214,"height":0.031332999999999944}},{"text":"What is greed? BDAG: one who desires to have more than is due (πλεονέκτης). It’s the old joke that “All I want \n is an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.”","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.610532,"width":0.8825520000000001,"height":0.031332000000000026}},{"text":"It’s someone who thinks they are owed more than they are paid. That God or their employer or their parents or \n the cosmos owes them more than what they have.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.655986,"width":0.882588,"height":0.031333000000000055}},{"text":"It’s perpetual discontent. The paycheck is never big enough. And it comes down to a love of money.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.701441,"width":0.801041,"height":0.016181}},{"text":"Turn to 1 Tim. 6:6-10. Paul is warning his young pastoral Associate Timothy to not be greedy. But these \n principles apply to all of us. Read 6-10","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.732617,"width":0.8335910000000001,"height":0.032971000000000084}},{"text":"There’s a lot we could say here but the bottom line is that we don’t get to take anything with us. And a person \n who is pursuing stacking it up in this life is missing the eternal perspective.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.779724,"width":0.877951,"height":0.031332000000000026}},{"text":"And the warning in Vs 10, which we all know is not against money, but the love of money. What’s the problem \n with the love of money? It is at the very heart of a whole myriad of other sins.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.826052,"width":0.8772679999999999,"height":0.031721}},{"text":"People will lie to get money, steal to get money, become workaholics and forsake their families to get money. \n Once you go down that road, sin is everywhere.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.871895,"width":0.872541,"height":0.031333000000000055}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}