Jenny Jackson-Adams - "Show Me the Money" (May 25, 1997)

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Speaker	Would you stand for the gospel lesson today?	0:09
	This lesson comes from the Gospel	0:16
	according to St. Matthew, 21, verses 28 through 32.	0:17
	The Parable of the Two Sons.	0:24
	Now what do you think?	0:27
	There was once a man who had two sons,	0:30
	he went to the older one and said,	0:32
	"Son, go and work in the vineyard today."	0:34
	"I don't want to," he answered,	0:38
	but later, he changed his mind and went.	0:40
	Then the father went to the other son	0:44
	and said the same thing.	0:46
	"Yes, sir," he answered.	0:48
	But he did not go.	0:50
	"Which one of the two did	0:53
	what his father wanted," Jesus asked?	0:54
	"The older one," they answered.	0:58
	And so Jesus said to them,	1:01
	"I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes	1:03
	are going in to the Kingdom of God ahead of you,	1:07
	for John the Baptist came to you showing you	1:10
	the right path to take,	1:12
	and you would not believe him,	1:14
	but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him.	1:15
	Even when you saw this,	1:19
	you did not later change your minds and believe him."	1:21
	The grass withers, and the flower falls,	1:26
	but the word of the Lord abides forever.	1:29
	This is the word of the Lord.	1:31
Congregation	Praise be to God.	1:34
Speaker	You may be seated.	1:35
	You know what they say,	1:55
	it's hard for a two-faced person	1:58
	to put his best foot forward.	2:00
	Franklin was a case.	2:04
	If there was something Franklin was supposed to be doing,	2:07
	he just said no.	2:10
	And it was that way from the get-go,	2:13
	I mean, at four to five years of age,	2:14
	Franklin had already entered the spitting stage	2:17
	in terms of tobacco,	2:20
	and he'd taken up target practice	2:21
	against two of his friends, Johnny and Tommy Frist,	2:24
	who were both older than Franklin was,	2:27
	and taller than he was, but he spit on both of them.	2:30
	And at one point, Johnny Frist picked Franklin up,	2:34
	and shoved him in the wood bin and latched the door.	2:39
	And it didn't even phase Franklin,	2:42
	he was in there playing with spiders,	2:44
	and having a great time.	2:45
	Of course I'm talking about Franklin Graham,	2:47
	the son of Billy and Ruth Graham.	2:50
	And apparently Ruth was ahead of her day too,	2:53
	because no one, no one really thought	2:55
	it was all that fashionable	2:58
	to have a log cabin house in the 1950s,	2:59
	but that's what Ruth wanted,	3:02
	and the workmen would be out there,	3:03
	and they'd be throwing cigarette butts down on the ground,	3:05
	and Franklin would be out there	3:09
	picking them up and smoking them.	3:11
	And so he entered the smoking stage.	3:13
	Franklin says that his mother was determined	3:15
	to break him of this,	3:18
	and so as he recalls,	3:19
	she sat him down in the kitchen,	3:20
	this was across from the fireplace,	3:22
	and got out a fresh pack of cigarettes,	3:25
	and she opened it up, and she handed one to him,	3:28
	and she said, "Now Franklin, light this,	3:31
	and smoke it, and inhale Franklin!"	3:35
	You know, none of this Bill Clinton,	3:39
	inhale to the chief stuff.	3:42
	Really smoke this thing.	3:44
	And he said, "I knew what she was trying to do,	3:46
	she was trying to get me sick."	3:47
	And she did.	3:50
	He said, "I inhaled deeply,	3:51
	and got sick four or five times,	3:53
	made four or five trips to the bathroom."	3:56
	But the main thing is, Franklin said,	3:57
	"I finished all 20 of those cigarettes,	4:00
	and I still remember the deep satisfaction that it gave me,	4:03
	not to give in to her."	4:09
	Then after this he entered the lying stage,	4:10
	and the rambunctious stage.	4:13
	One day, they were going to a fast food restaurant,	4:16
	Ruth was taking them,	4:19
	it was just Franklin and his sisters,	4:20
	and he was pestering them something terrible.	4:22
	And she said, "Franklin, if you don't stop,	4:24
	you're gonna get it."	4:26
	And he just kept on, loving to hear his sisters squeal.	4:27
	And so she said, "Franklin, if you don't stop,	4:31
	I'm gonna pull the car over and put you in the trunk."	4:33
	Well he said, "I knew she wouldn't do that."	4:36
	But she did! (laughs)	4:39
	She pulls the car over,	4:41
	he said she came across that seat with both hands,	4:43
	and pulled me outta there,	4:46
	and took me around to the back of the car,	4:47
	opens the lid, shoves me in there, and pulled it down.	4:50
	Now before she walked back up and got behind the wheel,	4:54
	she said, "Franklin can you breathe?"	4:57
	And he said I was laughing so hard I could hardly answer.	4:59
	I said "Yes mama."	5:01
	But I'd found a carjack and a tire,	5:02
	and I was having a good time in there.	5:04
	Then we got to the restaurant.	5:08
	He said that his mother pulled in,	5:09
	he said, "I truly thought she'd let me out now, to eat."	5:12
	She came around to the back of the drive-in,	5:14
	that drive-in part,	5:17
	and opened the trunk up and said,	5:18
	"Franklin, what do you want to eat?"	5:20
	He said, "I want a cheeseburger with no meat,	5:21
	french fries and a coke."	5:24
	And she slammed the lid down and went on through,	5:26
	even the restaurant officials	5:29
	felt that she would probably open it up,	5:30
	but he said, "She just shoved the food in there,	5:33
	and I thought, "Wow! I've got a private dining car!"	5:34
	(chuckles)	5:37
	And nothing impacted Franklin, at all.	5:38
	After that it was the fighting stage,	5:42
	and the drinking stage, and the cynical stage.	5:45
	These are all interesting ways to say no,	5:50
	but with his pedal-to-the-metal lifestyle,	5:54
	finally things got kind of complicated for Franklin.	5:56
	And it's my personal experience,	6:01
	I can tell you this this morning.	6:03
	It's part of my story that saying no to God	6:04
	about what God is asking you to do	6:08
	is just really not quite as much fun	6:10
	as it's cracked up to be.	6:13
	It's kinda like Jim Hightower from Texas used to say,	6:15
	they promise you a seven course meal,	6:20
	but what you wind up with is a possum and a six-pack.	6:21
	And Franklin's life began to fall apart.	6:25
	It was very complicated.	6:28
	It's like the fella that was run over by a parade,	6:30
	somebody asked him, interviewed him afterwards,	6:32
	and said, "What happened?"	6:35
	He said, "It was a combination of things."	6:35
	Well, anyway, this parable,	6:38
	Jesus's little sermon,	6:42
	found only in Matthew, not the prodigal son,	6:45
	but the parable of the two sons,	6:48
	is such a wonderful little power-packed sermon	6:50
	by the Lord Jesus.	6:55
	And if you rewind the tape and look at this,	6:57
	what have you got?	6:59
	You got a father who has two boys,	7:02
	he says to one of them, go out and work in the vineyard,	7:05
	and the fella responds, "Nope, not me, no thanks."	7:08
	Pretty much like Franklin, impudent and determined.	7:13
	But then, the father, on the other hand,	7:17
	he looks up about two hours later	7:20
	and the guy's done an abrupt 180.	7:21
	And the scripture says he deeply regretted saying no.	7:26
	In any case, he's out there diligently working in the field.	7:29
	Then you got the other one,	7:34
	the father asked him to do the same thing,	7:35
	go out and work in the vineyard,	7:37
	the fella responds, "Oh father,	7:38
	there's nothing that I'd rather do more	7:41
	than to go out and work for you."	7:44
	This guy's in to impression management.	7:46
	And what else could you want?	7:50
	He's cheerful, obedient.	7:51
	He's everything you could want in a son.	7:53
	But then, the father looks up from what he's doing	7:55
	a little while later,	7:58
	and this fella's still lying on the couch watching MTV,	7:59
	you know, waiting for Vanna to turn the next letter.	8:02
	He's thoroughly in to impression.	8:04
	I think that was Kato's problem,	8:07
	the more I think about this.	8:09
	Because Kato wanted to make a good impression on everybody,	8:11
	didn't he, especially in the first trial.	8:14
	And some people thought he had actually done those murders	8:16
	until they realized he would'a had to	8:19
	get off the couch to do it.	8:21
	(laughs)	8:22
	In any case, he never intended to be	8:23
	what he pretended, did he?	8:27
	Yesterday as I came in to Durham,	8:30
	they did not serve any food on the flight that I was on,	8:33
	but I have a friend who was served food on an airline,	8:35
	and it was a bug in it.	8:38
	And he wrote them, and told them	8:40
	that he was irate about it, and very angry.	8:43
	But they wrote him back immediately, and they said,	8:46
	"Dear Sir, your letter was a source of great concern to us.	8:48
	We have never before received a complaint of this kind,	8:51
	and we'll do everything possible to guarantee	8:53
	that such an incident never happens again."	8:55
	Which satisfied my friend,	8:58
	he was not in to suing or anything,	8:59
	until this little slip of paper fell out of the envelope	9:01
	that said, "Send this guy the bug letter."	9:05
	(laughs)	9:08
	We're in to this.	9:09
	And our whole society is in to this, isn't it.	9:12
	And see, obviously Jesus is saying	9:15
	what's being described here	9:17
	are two sets of responses to the gospel.	9:19
	One is no, I'm not going to do it,	9:21
	and then changing your mind.	9:24
	The other is yes, yes, yes, yes, and then nothing happens.	9:26
	And by this time Jesus is winding up his little sermon,	9:29
	which almost seems like a semi-comic routine,	9:32
	and he's saying, "Now think hard, this is an IQ test.	9:35
	Which one do you think pleased the father more?"	9:43
	Who is of course God in the story,	9:45
	Do you ever feel sorry for God?	9:51
	You know, it seems to me that the older I get,	9:55
	and the further I go on the journey,	9:58
	that Jesus just strains so hard to tell us	10:00
	what God is like and what he's looking for,	10:03
	that he's looking for living evidence	10:05
	of who you and I are.	10:08
	And that's not all that unusual,	10:10
	aren't you the same way?	10:11
	How do you decide who loves you?	10:13
	How do you decide who to trust?	10:16
	Don't you wait and watch what people do?	10:20
	And not just listen to what they say?	10:23
	I've been looking at some material from Len Sweet	10:26
	that got my attention the other day,	10:29
	where he, Len Sweet, says that Jesus is a Baby Buster.	10:31
	And I started thinking about that,	10:36
	Becase he says that Baby Busters want your words	10:37
	and your actions to go together,	10:41
	and they really put a premium on this, and gratefully,	10:43
	I have a lot of Baby Busters coming in to my church,	10:46
	and I was paying close attention.	10:48
	And maybe he's right,	10:51
	because they have lived through some things,	10:53
	and they are really in to what's real, and what is not real.	10:56
	They've lived through what they call the four Ds.	11:00
	Debt, diversity, daycare and divorce.	11:02
	And lived with them long enough to find out	11:06
	what they're really about.	11:08
	They see the defining memory for this generation,	11:11
	which I guess would be from about '63, '64,	11:15
	'65, something like that, up to the early '80s,	11:18
	that the defining memory for them	11:22
	is the Challenger explosion.	11:25
	When, we've been saying over and over again,	11:29
	in science we trust, in science we trust,	11:31
	and this thing explodes.	11:33
	And I think it was Eric Severeid that said,	11:35
	there's nothing so strengthening	11:37
	as the shedding of illusions,	11:39
	and what you do beyond the wreckage of that.	11:41
	And so they put a real premium on the real.	11:45
	And I started watching,	11:50
	I know, 54 channels and nothings on...	11:51
	With television, you can notice that even in the sit-coms,	11:56
	if you can live through them,	11:59
	that these shows that this particular generation is watching	12:01
	are very much keyed to friendships,	12:07
	and being real with friendships,	12:09
	whereas I guess in my generation it'd be more Murphy Brown	12:12
	and everything would be taking place at the office.	12:14
	This is an emphasis on friendships.	12:17
	And they've experienced the lack of that.	12:19
	They've experienced what it is to be in a family	12:22
	where it's broken up,	12:26
	and people didn't keep their commitments,	12:28
	or the family is far-flung,	12:30
	or, let's face it, in some families	12:33
	people care more about what's gonna happen	12:35
	to the Taster's Choice couple next,	12:36
	than they do about the members of their family.	12:39
	And it's betrayed in our humor.	12:42
	Jackie Vernon said, "My father took me aside one day,	12:45
	and left me there."	12:47
	"I went to the military, was gone three years,	12:50
	come back, he says, "Well, how was the movie?"	12:54
	(laughs)	12:55
	This is the kind of humor we get,	12:57
	Zsa Zsa Gabor says, "I'm a great housekeeper,	13:00
	every time I leave a man, I keep the house."	13:03
	(laughs)	13:05
	It's this kind of thing.	13:07
	And it's also betrayed, or conveyed	13:09
	in the kind of cover-up kind of explanations	13:12
	that we try to make for the fact	13:17
	that our behavior and what we're saying don't go together.	13:20
	It was right after Michael Fortier,	13:26
	I believe that's his name's, comment,	13:29
	that I went in to this class of mine,	13:32
	which was sandwiched between two services	13:35
	that we do on Sunday morning.	13:38
	And it's a Sunday School class that's just Baby Busters.	13:39
	And I remember one of these fellas saying,	13:43
	you know, "Why is it..."	13:46
	This was a young parent.	13:48
	He said, "Why is it that people do these outrageous things,	13:49
	and then they say, well it wasn't really me?"	13:54
	"Well then who is it?" He said.	13:57
	"George Smith down the street?	13:58
	Am I missing something?"	14:00
	What are we gonna say, that Susan Smith was a great mother,	14:03
	but she just drowned her kids one day?	14:05
	Or are we gonna say Michael Fortier,	14:07
	and this'd come on the heels of his comment	14:09
	Tim McVeigh's ex-Army buddy who turned for the prosecution,	14:11
	and I'm surely not up here today to talk about Tim McVeigh,	14:15
	or to make decisions about him,	14:18
	but Fortier's comment had been,	14:20
	if you don't consider Oklahoma City, Tim is a good person.	14:23
	(laughs)	14:27
	Well how are you not gonna consider that?	14:29
	It's like Mayor Berry's comment one time,	14:32
	outside of the killings, Washington D.C.	14:34
	has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.	14:36
	(laughs)	14:39
	Not sure what to make of these things.	14:42
	Well the good news is, and it's full in the scripture,	14:45
	that you and I can change who we are,	14:49
	but isn't what you do living evidence of who you are?	14:52
	I mean, you can always change that.	14:55
	Paul was a murderer, and he changed his mind.	14:57
	Moses, even, broke the Ten Commandments in anger,	15:00
	and God gave him another set.	15:04
	And he took off and made something great of it after all.	15:06
	But isn't what you do living evidence of who you are?	15:10
	So, this generation proceeds	15:14
	very cautiously with relationships.	15:16
	And some mornings, I think I can almost hear it,	15:18
	though it's never expressed.	15:20
	There's this question that just looms in our congregation,	15:23
	if I really needed somebody at 4:00 in the morning	15:29
	in this church, who could I call on?	15:33
	Is anything real going on here?	15:38
	I even find that this generation's	15:42
	very open to spirituality as long as it's real,	15:43
	or they perceive it that way,	15:46
	but they're not going to take any second-hand reports.	15:48
	And as long as they've been old enough	15:50
	to pick up a remote control,	15:52
	they've seen some of the sleaziest	15:53
	spiritual salesmen in history come across the tube.	15:55
	And so maybe Sweet's right,	15:57
	maybe Jesus is a buster,	15:59
	because he's saying this all-show, no-go stuff spirituality	16:01
	is not gonna get it.	16:04
	This big hat, no cattle,	16:06
	this, as they used to say when I was a child in Texas,	16:08
	that old dog won't hunt.	16:11
	Show me something real.	16:13
	"Jerry Maguire", this recent movie that's been made,	16:16
	I watched it the other night,	16:19
	and Cuba Gooding, who plays Rod Tidwell,	16:21
	a football player, goes to his sports manager,	16:24
	played by Tom Cruise, Jerry Maguire,	16:27
	and he says to him, he says, "Look..."	16:29
	And he's in his face.	16:33
	"In five years, I'm gonna be outta this sport.	16:34
	And what's my family gonna live on then?	16:39
	I am gonna ride you until you show me the money."	16:42
	And Jesus is coming out swinging too.	16:48
	I don't know how you deal with it or how you feel	16:49
	when He says the kinds of things He does	16:52
	in this clip of scripture that we read this morning.	16:54
	I cringe, I literally cringe.	16:56
	I wither when I hear him say,	16:59
	the tax collectors and the prostitutes	17:01
	are gonna go to Heaven before you will.	17:03
	He's like an analyst that pushes the patient	17:07
	past the tolerance level.	17:09
	That's why I kept Him away from me for years,	17:10
	because I know he does this kind of thing.	17:13
	And then earlier in Matthew,	17:15
	it's not gonna be whoever says to me, "Lord, Lord"	17:18
	that enters in to the Kingdom of Heaven,	17:21
	but who ever does the will of my Father who is in Heaven.	17:23
	Beware you theologians who know better,	17:26
	but you don't do better.	17:29
	Well, would you agree with me about something?	17:32
	There's some things you and I can't even know	17:36
	without doing them.	17:38
	I'm thinking of, for instance,	17:39
	in my church, they line dance.	17:40
	(laughs)	17:42
	We have a line dance class,	17:43
	and I love to watch the people who are watching,	17:44
	because only if you get out there and do it,	17:47
	and even make a fool of yourself,	17:48
	can you actually learn how to line dance, right?	17:50
	We also have an exercise class called Firm Believers,	17:53
	and I really need to get in that one.	17:56
	(audience laughs)	17:58
	I'll tell ya,	18:00
	this is not just philosophy, see,	18:01
	Jesus is looking for a demonstration,	18:04
	not just a definition.	18:06
	And really, he never even asked anybody to agree with him.	18:09
	He never said, "Do you agree with me about this?"	18:12
	He says, "Follow me, watch what I do,	18:14
	and how I do it. Go this way."	18:19
	I believe something, this morning, very deeply.	18:25
	I believe that if you love Him,	18:28
	that you love God because He loves you	18:32
	as if you are the only one here this morning to love.	18:34
	And He loved you enough to send his son, Jesus.	18:39
	And you love Him 'cause of the way Jesus lived.	18:43
	And because of the way He died.	18:47
	And because of the way He was resurrected.	18:49
	And you love His Holy Spirit,	18:52
	who is seeking you actively this morning.	18:54
	To counsel you, and guide you,	18:57
	and prompt you, and woo you, and instruct you,	18:58
	and discipline you, and show you the way to go.	19:02
	That's why you love Him.	19:05
	Martin Copenhaver's right,	19:07
	a lot of people just never really have tried this.	19:10
	They've attended a few lectures,	19:13
	but you see, that's a slippery slope too.	19:15
	I wonder sometimes if that is the reason	19:17
	Jesus actually discourages some people from following him.	19:20
	Because he knows maybe that they're not gonna do it.	19:24
	Not really.	19:29
	And so that's tricky, because you and I	19:30
	can find this very intellectually appealing,	19:32
	we can even find it emotionally appealing.	19:35
	I think it was Francis Asbury once who said,	19:38
	after he had preached somewhere, he said,	19:42
	"They wept like babies, but kept their opinions."	19:43
	And so, this really isn't about that.	19:49
	And if you say yes, yes and don't do anything,	19:52
	according to Jeremiah chapter seven,	19:54
	read that sometime,	19:56
	that's pretty scary stuff.	19:57
	We'll be held accountable,	20:00
	maybe be better not to say that at all.	20:01
	Several years ago, there was preacher in Texas	20:05
	by the name of Jim Moore,	20:08
	who had a young man die in his church,	20:09
	very unexpectedly, and he left a young mother,	20:13
	a wife, young mother of an eight year old girl.	20:17
	And Jim says that, one week before this fella died,	20:22
	he had given his daughter his coin collection.	20:26
	Which wasn't worth any money, but,	20:29
	it was a very important gift.	20:31
	And I relate to this story so much,	20:34
	because my own father, he died when I was a child,	20:37
	and by the way he was graduated from Duke Divinity,	20:41
	and certainly worshiped in this place,	20:44
	and may have preached here,	20:46
	before he died when I was a child,	20:48
	he gave me, about a week before he died,	20:50
	something very important that I still keep.	20:52
	But in any case, a couple of days after the service,	20:55
	this young mother and her daughter	20:59
	went to see the grandmother,	21:01
	his mother, you know,	21:02
	and in the course of the conversation	21:03
	they mentioned that this coin collection	21:05
	had been passed over to the daughter,	21:06
	and she just became, she said, "What?"	21:08
	She was very arrogant about it,	21:11
	she said, "I want it back,	21:13
	and if you don't give it back to me,	21:15
	I won't ever speak to you again."	21:18
	And then she called Jim, she was a pillar of his church,	21:19
	she was, I guess, at least concerned about it,	21:22
	and she told him what she'd done,	21:25
	and she asked him what to do.	21:27
	And he said, "I chose my words carefully,	21:28
	I knew this was emotionally freighted situation,	21:30
	but I said, "I'll tell you, this is your granddaughter.	21:33
	You have a lot at stake here.	21:35
	If I were you, I would explain	21:37
	that I was very upset at the time I made that comment,	21:39
	that we're all in grief,	21:42
	and certainly, I would apologize	21:44
	and then give her the coin collection back."	21:47
	And you know what she said?	21:49
	I'll tell you in just one minute.	21:53
	(audience chuckles)	21:55
	As it happened, Franklin, on his 22nd birthday,	21:57
	Billy Graham and Ruth had taken him to Lucerne, Switzerland,	22:00
	and Billy had a conference there.	22:03
	And so, they went out to eat together	22:06
	for Franklin's birthday,	22:09
	he could choose any place he wanted,	22:11
	he chose a little Italian place on Lake Geneva,	22:12
	and after they finished eating,	22:14
	Billy and Franklin went for a walk,	22:18
	and they were walking along,	22:19
	and Billy said, "Franklin, your mother and I	22:20
	love you very much."	22:24
	Franklin said, "I said, thanks, dad."	22:26
	And he said, "And Franklin, you know, our home	22:30
	will always be open to you,	22:32
	no matter what course or what you decide to do,	22:34
	we'll always have you come to our home."	22:37
	And Franklin said, "Gee, appreciate that dad."	22:39
	And he said, "And then Billy Graham stopped,"	22:44
	and he said, "no one hates confrontation	22:46
	more than my dad does,	22:48
	and he looked at me and he said,	22:50
	"But Franklin, you know, I sense	22:52
	that there's a struggle going on in you.	22:54
	It's for your life,	23:00
	and you're either going to say yes	23:01
	to what God is asking you to do,	23:03
	or you're gonna continue to say no to it.	23:04
	And there's not gonna be any middle ground.	23:06
	But I just have this hunch	23:08
	that you'll have to make a decision very soon."	23:10
	And Franklin said, "It really ticked me off."	23:14
	But after that, as you know	23:17
	if you read "Rebel With a Cause",	23:19
	that Franklin Graham's wonderful ministry	23:21
	Samaritan Purse, he has taken so many supplies	23:23
	for health and healing, and food	23:28
	and refuge to war-torn countries,	23:30
	and always in the name of Jesus.	23:33
	Oh, back to the grandmother	23:36
	who was the pillar of the church,	23:37
	and had said that her granddaughter	23:38
	could not have the collection.	23:42
	She had been told to apologize,	23:43
	she had been told to ask for forgiveness and give it back.	23:45
	Jim Moore said she looked at me, and she said,	23:51
	"I would rather die than do that."	23:54
	And they've been out of communication now	23:59
	for over 15 years.	24:00
	That girl's already been graduated from college.	24:02
	Can't you hear the Lord Jesus?	24:07
	I can just hear his question.	24:09
	Now think hard, this is an IQ test.	24:13
	Which one do you think pleased the father more?	24:17
	The grandmother, the pillar of the church	24:20
	who said yes, yes, yes, and then didn't do anything?	24:22
	Or Franklin Graham, who said no, but changed his mind?	24:24
	Are you someone here this morning	24:31
	that has said no, but changed your mind?	24:32
	Or is there something you've said yes,	24:34
	but something you've been asked to do,	24:37
	that you haven't done yet?	24:40
	How much time do you need to get started?	24:43
	See, I think Billy's right, there is no middle ground.	24:47
	And I suspect you will have to make a decision very soon.	24:49
	God loves you and so do I.	24:54
	Amen.	24:55
	(religious music)	25:04

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Title:

Jenny Jackson-Adams - "Show Me the Money" (May 25, 1997)

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Sermon start time: 01:55. Sermon end time: 24:58.
The preacher reminds the listeners that have the ability to make decisions that will lead them closer to God. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: Are you someone here that has said no but changed your mind? Or is there something you’ve said yes, or something you’ve been asked to do, but haven’t done yet?…There is no middle ground. You will have to make a decision very soon.

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May 25, 1997

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Jackson-Adams, Jenny

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Ordinary Time

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Matthew

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Matthew 21:28-32

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Duke University. Chapel

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