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{ Thanks for joining me on episode 1,548 of the Inspired Stewardship Podcast. }

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{ I'm Kevin Roth. I challenge you to invest in yourself, invest in others, develop your influence and impact the world by using your time, your talent, and your treasures to live out your calling. Having the ability to define and live your own dream life is key.}

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{And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this The Inspired Stewardship Podcast with my friend Scott Maderer.}

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{ We're called to stand in the midst of diversity and difference and see God in each and every person to be called to raise our eyes, raise our horizon, and look. For the movement of the }

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{ spirit and from there to speak out the great deeds of God. Welcome and thank you for joining us on the Inspired Stewardship Podcast.}

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{If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent, and your treasures for your true calling. In the inspired Stewardship podcast, you will learn to invest in yourself. Invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world.}

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{In today's spiritual foundation episode, I talk with you about Psalm chapter 1 0 4, verses 24 through 34 and verse 35. I also share Romans chapter eight, verses 14 through 17, and of course, acts chapter two verses one through 21. In honor of Pentecost, I share with you the joy of seeing the spirit, }

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{ and I also talk about the invitation of Pentecost.}

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{Psalm 1 0 4 says, oh Lord, how manifold are your works In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures. There is the sea, great and wide creeping things. Innumerable are there living things both small and great. There go the ships and the leviathan that you formed a sport in it. These all look to you to give them their food and due season when you give to them, they gather it up.}

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{When you open your hand, they're filled with good things. When you hide your face, they're dismayed. When you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. When you send forth your spirit, they are created and you renew the face of the ground. May the glory of the Lord endure forever. May the Lord rejoice in his works.}

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{Who looks on the earth and it trembles who touches the mountains and they smoke. I'll sing to the Lord. As long as I live, I'll sing praises to my God. While I have being, may my meditation be }

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{ pleasing for him. For I rejoice in the Lord. Bless the Lord oh my soul. Praise the Lord. Romans Chapter eight says, for all who are led by the spirit of God are children of God.}

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{For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, Abba, father, it is that very spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God. And if children then heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if we in fact suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.}

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{Acts chapter two verses one through 21. When the first day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place, and suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues as a fire appeared among them and a tongue rested on each of them.}

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{All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as the spirit gave them }

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{ ability. Now, there were devout Jews from every people under heaven living in Jerusalem, and at this sound, the crowd gathered and was bewildered because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each.}

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{Amazed and astonished they ask Are not all these who are speaking Galileans. And how is it that we hear each of us in our own native language, Parthians, mediates mites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea, and Capa Desha. Pontius and Asia Flia and paraphilia, Egypt in the parts of Lib, belonging to the cyrene and visitors from Rome, both Jews and Lytes, IANS and Arabs.}

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{In our own language, we hear them speaking about God's deeds of power. All were amazed and perplexed saying to one another, what does this mean? But others sneered and said, they're filled with new wine. But Peter standing with the 11, raised his voice and addressed them. Fellow Jews and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and listen to what I say.}

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{Indeed, these are }

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{ not drunk, as you suppose for it is only nine o'clock in the morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel in the last days. It will be God declares that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophecy and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams.}

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{Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days, I will pour out my spirit and they shall prophesy and I will show importance in the heavens above and signs on the earth Below blood and fire and smoky mist, the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the Lord's great and glorious day.}

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{Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. This last Sunday was Pentecost Sunday and Acts two is the text that is always read during Pentecost, but I added the Psalm and Romans as a bonus of some of the moments that are describing the movement of the spirit.}

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{ Psalm starts with, there go the ships early on the ships, the leviathan moving through the water, a, Hey look at that. Seems to be what the psalmist is saying. And our breath is taken away by the vastness of the sea, the leviathans that were formed to sport in it. Look at it.}

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{Do you see it? And in fact, that is one of the messages of Pentecost. One of the underlying themes of Pentecost is did you see it when the spirit moves, do you see it? When the spirit blows, do you see it? Because all kinds of things happen. We often are conditioned to look at the world and look at what's wrong with it.}

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{And that's something that we're all. Raised and trained, and our brains work that way. And yet often we're so conditioned to look for the bad that we overlook the good, we overlook the activity of the spirit acting in the world }

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{ around us. We miss the beautiful sunrise, the moments in nature, the play of creatures.}

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{Both large and small are great and small, as it says, playing throughout the ocean, waves, playing in the air, playing in the yard, playing in the trees, all of these things, the very trees themselves owe their existence and their presence and their exuberance to the creator. And the psalmist is calling upon that joy of seeing the very life around us and the breath in their body, and seeing that as an act and expression of praise at the end.}

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{It's unclear as the Psalmist praising, or is it? The Leviathan calling out, or maybe it's both. Maybe it's simply the act of life itself that is bringing forth the movement of the spirit and the praise of God. It is human, but it is also the voice of the }

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{ world around us. And Act two introduces language to this story.}

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{I there's four voices in there that are struggling with the words of describing the event that happened at Pentecost. But instead, the effects is what becomes clear and what we can see. We can't really describe how the spirit shows up the coming of the spirit. It's a sound like it's as if of wind as.}

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{If of fire. It's not fire, it's not wind, it's not any of these things. Exactly, but it's like those, the movement of spirit is beyond words, and yet what happens as the spirit moves is words carry the day as, as we move past the event, which seems to be indescribable or uncapable, we see the results because words are spoken.}

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{Words, not of confusion or uncertainty or hatred or }

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{ separation, but words that were unfamiliar to those who spoke, but the sounds of home to those who were listening. There were words of welcome and an acknowledgement in the very language that those people spoke, calling out that you matter. You are important.}

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{You are here to hear in your own tongue. They're words of connection. Of adoption, of belonging. They're words of seeing someone. The words are about God, speaking of God's deeds and powers, but they weren't words about the people that were speaking or the people that were hearing. They weren't words about their issues or concerns or hopes or dreams.}

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{They were words about God, but the act of translating those words showed that they cared about the message being received by those }

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{ that they hear. Truth is when you travel or when you learn a language, when you run into somebody who speaks a different language and you go out of your way to learn it, that is a form of hospitality.}

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{A very meaningful form of hospitality. Babel had been used to talk about how words were used to separate, but now in this moment, words are used to bring together it was a divine approach. A reverse of Babel language used to connect rather than confuse. God's effort was here. God's Moving Spirit was here, and that sign was that these tools were used not to separate, but to cross the divide and bring people together to actually adopt into the family.}

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{Those who are different from us, those who speak differently, those who think }

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{ differently, those who live differently, those who look differently. Pentecost is a call for the crossing of boundaries for acknowledging differences, not with hatred and fear, but with grace and hospitality for being truly interested in someone interested enough to go forth and learn something new, to open your heart and your mind to them.}

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{In the Romans text. Circling back to that, there's a we word where it says that we are here when we cry, when we do this, and we can read when the Bible shows up and says we, a lot of times we read that as an insider word. Those who have accepted Christ and live in community, we are the heirs and we know the suffering and the glory and we this and we that.}

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{But when you look at the message of Pentecost that we isn't }

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{ just the insiders that we, that family, that call to we, that the spirit is calling for us to go is all people. It's not just those that we recognize. It's not just those that we like. It's not just those that are like us. We're called to stand in the midst of diversity and difference and see God in each and every person to be called to raise our eyes, raise our horizon, and look for the movement of the spirit.}

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{And from there to speak out the great deeds of God and to invite all people into the family of we. Thanks for listening. I.}

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