Brother Can You Spare Some Change

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Brother Can You Spare Some Change?

• How God uses change in our lives

2
Is Change Good?

• God uses change to help us grow and improve our
  lives.
• Change is a part of life, and shouldnt be feared

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Change Isnt To Be Feared

• 1GOD told Abram "Leave your country, your
  family, and your father's home for a land that I
  will show you.
• 2I'll make you a great nation
• and bless you.
• I'll make you famous
• you'll be a blessing.
• 3I'll bless those who bless you
• those who curse you I'll curse.
• All the families of the Earth
• will be blessed through you.

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Change Isnt To Be Feared

• 4So Abram left just as GOD said, and Lot left
  with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when
  he left Haran. 5Abram took his wife Sarai and his
  nephew Lot with him, along with all the
  possessions and people they had gotten in Haran,
  and set out for the land of Canaan and arrived
  safe and sound

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God Uses Change

• God utilizes change to better tailor our
  experiences to His goals
• God uses change to help us better understand
  Biblical principals

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A Change Of Scenery

• God uses change to keep us from going stir crazy

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A Change Of Scenery

• 2Smoke, nothing but smoke. That's what the
  Quester says.
• There's nothing to anything--it's all smoke.
• 3What's there to show for a lifetime of work,
• a lifetime of working your fingers to the bone?
• 4One generation goes its way, the next one
  arrives,
• but nothing changes--it's business as usual for
  old
• planet earth.
• 5The sun comes up and the sun goes down,
• then does it again, and again--the same old
  round.
• 6The wind blows south, the wind blows north.
• Around and around and around it blows,
• blowing this way, then that--the whirling,
  erratic wind.
• 7All the rivers flow into the sea,
• but the sea never fills up.
• The rivers keep flowing to the same old place,
• and then start all over and do it again.

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A Change Of Scenery

• 8Everything's boring, utterly boring--
• no one can find any meaning in it.
• Boring to the eye,
• boring to the ear.
• 9What was will be again,
• what happened will happen again.
• There's nothing new on this earth.
• Year after year it's the same old thing.
• 10Does someone call out, "Hey, this is new"?
• Don't get excited--it's the same old story.
• 11Nobody remembers what happened yesterday.
• And the things that will happen tomorrow?
• Nobody'll remember them either.
• Don't count on being remembered.

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A Change Of Scenery

• We have the opportunities to change our careers
  if we find our current ones lacking
• We have the flexibility to spend time with
  various members of the opposite sex in the search
  for the one we want to spend our lives with.

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A Change Of Scenery

• Basically, God drives change in the lives His
  children in an effort to prevent us from going
  stir crazy
• We were created with a curious nature that God
  wants to nurture in each of us.
• Some change God hates, such as me using
  PowerPoint.
• And, of course, some things never change

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Death Taxes

• Nothing in life is certain but death taxes
  --Benjamin Franklin
• But what about Enoch (Gen 5)?
• And what about the tax shelters available around
  the world?

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One Thing Never Changes

• Throughout history, one thing has never changed
  the love of God and the salvation He provided
  through His son.
• We can change the method of storage or the method
  of delivery, but we must never change the message.