Money Talks, but What Does It Say?
Rex Yancey
Luke 21:1-4
There was a hippie who attended a church service back in the sixties. When he came by the preacher, he said, ''That was a groovy sermon. I really digged it.''The pastor said, ''Why don't you folks talk in a language the rest of us can understand?'' The hippie said, ''Your sermon was so out of sight that I put a hundred smackers in the offering plate.'' The preacher said, ''Go cat, go!'' Money talks.
There was a wealthy merchant who made the statement that money could buy anything. He offered to pay five thousand dollars to any person who could suggest four things that money could not buy. A man stepped up from the crowd with his pencil and notepad and quoted the following: ''Money cannot but a baby's smile, it cannot buy youth after it is gone, it cannot buy the love of a good woman, and it cannot buy entrance into heaven.'' The merchant took his pen and checkbook and wrote the man a check for five thousand dollars.
Money cannot buy everything, but it can talk. When money talks, people listen.
In the Court of the Women in the Temple there were thirteen collection boxes known as Trumpets. They were shaped like trumpets with the narrow part at the top and the wider part at the foot. Each were assigned to offering that had a different purpose. Jesus was seated near these trumpets.
After the strenuous debates with the emissaries of the Sanhedrin and the Sadducees he was tired and his head drooped between his hands. He looked up and saw many people flinging their offerings into these trumpets; and then came a poor widow. She dropped in the smallest of all coins. She gave the minimum offering. If a person had dropped just one of these coins in the trumpet they would have to get special permission.
Money talks, but what does it say?
1. MONEY SAYS SOMETHING TO GOD
Jesus saw these rich people flinging their money into these trumpets. I would imagine they would want the coins to make all the ...
Rex Yancey
Luke 21:1-4
There was a hippie who attended a church service back in the sixties. When he came by the preacher, he said, ''That was a groovy sermon. I really digged it.''The pastor said, ''Why don't you folks talk in a language the rest of us can understand?'' The hippie said, ''Your sermon was so out of sight that I put a hundred smackers in the offering plate.'' The preacher said, ''Go cat, go!'' Money talks.
There was a wealthy merchant who made the statement that money could buy anything. He offered to pay five thousand dollars to any person who could suggest four things that money could not buy. A man stepped up from the crowd with his pencil and notepad and quoted the following: ''Money cannot but a baby's smile, it cannot buy youth after it is gone, it cannot buy the love of a good woman, and it cannot buy entrance into heaven.'' The merchant took his pen and checkbook and wrote the man a check for five thousand dollars.
Money cannot buy everything, but it can talk. When money talks, people listen.
In the Court of the Women in the Temple there were thirteen collection boxes known as Trumpets. They were shaped like trumpets with the narrow part at the top and the wider part at the foot. Each were assigned to offering that had a different purpose. Jesus was seated near these trumpets.
After the strenuous debates with the emissaries of the Sanhedrin and the Sadducees he was tired and his head drooped between his hands. He looked up and saw many people flinging their offerings into these trumpets; and then came a poor widow. She dropped in the smallest of all coins. She gave the minimum offering. If a person had dropped just one of these coins in the trumpet they would have to get special permission.
Money talks, but what does it say?
1. MONEY SAYS SOMETHING TO GOD
Jesus saw these rich people flinging their money into these trumpets. I would imagine they would want the coins to make all the ...
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