Hey, this is Rich Wilkerson. I'm the pastor of Vood Church in Miami, Florida, and this is our podcast.

Thank you so much for checking out today. I hope it encourages you and inspires you.

Here's today's message.

Well, today we have come to the end of a six-month study. Can you believe it? Someone's like,

shhish!

So it's like someone's first time at church. It's like, what are you saying, shhish about?

Back in January, we started studying the gospel of Mark, and we've been all over this book, 16 chapters,

and today we are finishing. We're in the 12th chapter, but we're finishing six months of study from this one gospel.

Next week, we will be somewhere else in the Bible. Still the same truth, still the same word, but hopefully a new portion of Scripture.

And this last collection, this mini collection, and this big collection has been titled, On the Money.

And we've been examining the greatest commandment. Jesus says, the greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all of your heart,

soul, mind, and strength.

And the way that we've been doing this is by examining case studies. We've been looking, what does it look like to love God with your heart, soul, mind, and strength?

These words are synonymous many times, many ways they mean the same thing, but they also have distinct qualities to them.

We know that none of us measure up to the love of God, but those of us that have been captured by His love,

how many know we want to live our life attempting and trying to give God every part of who we are.

Come on, if He deserves everything, how many know He should have something.

And we've been trying to look at, what does it look like to love God in this fashion? And so we've been examining four different case studies from the Gospel of Mark.

And each one of these case studies is funny as it is. They've all had this one common denominator, and that is the word money.

And so the first week we looked at Mary and her alabaster box, and we talked about loving God with all of your heart.

Scripture says that where your treasure is there, your heart will be also. God doesn't need your money, but how many know He wants your heart.

And then the second week we talked really about this idea of loving God with our soul, and kind of took a different approach to it.

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