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THE WEALTHY MAN STORY: There’s an old pastor story about a rich man challenges the pastor’s Biblical account that everything belongs to God. So the rich man invited the pastor to his house, showed him the mansion, the game room, the giant movie screens, the lavish sculptures, the chandeliers, the giant stuffed chimpanzee in his mother-in-laws room (it’s my story, so in my story, there’s a giant stuffed chimpanzee in the mother-in-laws room). And after the whole tour, the rich man looked at the pastor and asked the pastor, “now, are you going to try to tell me that this doesn’t belong to me?” The pastor smiled and responded, “let me wait 100 years before I give you that answer.”

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