Hey my friends it's Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and we've talked

before about how you got a heart language that's the one that you were raised on that you think in that you feel in

but I would argue that you also have a heart currency

and this is whatever money you were raised around.

I might sound crass like, oh, you know, money's gross and it makes me feel icky and that's just for buying

stuff and money's not real.

But money, it is kind of a big deal because it's the way that we commodify goods and services and the value of our time

it's the way we easily trade between things of different value and because of that whether people like money or into

economics or not we all kind of know what a buck is worth what a pound is worth what a euro

is worth whatever your currency, you sort of know what increment will get you how much along the way.

But it gets really weird when you go to another country where you don't really understand the currency and

your brain you always have to be like okay I have to divide it by four and then add two zeros and that

I mean if you're not doing that math perfectly every single time

somebody could cheat you out of a ton of money because it's just confusing it's not

natural it's not native to you.

Likewise, I feel like we are travelers to a foreign country we haven't really visited before

when we make a serious effort to understand the Bible and this theme that is all over the teachings of Jesus

all over the Bible in general and this is this theme of money of real value and

consistently throughout the Bible there are examples of human currency, human value,

being compared and contrasted with lasting value, God value, kingdom value stuff. Jesus talks

about money, stuff, possessions, value, commodity, currency, more than any other topic in the Bible

by my own count.

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