Sunday Service: Treasures in Heaven

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth where mods and vermin destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where mods and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steel, For where your treasure is. there your heart will be also comes from the Bible, Matthew 619 through 21. What does it even mean? How does that apply to your life if it even does at all? That’s what we’ll figure out today. Welcome to the Sunday service. In that verse, Jesus is talking about the importance of prioritizing spiritual and eternal values over worldly material possessions, talks about and encourages people to focus on accumulating treasures in heaven rather than treasures here on Earth. The warning against storing up treasures on earth is because it’s emphasizing the perishable nature, the finite nature of stuff that we have here on earth, of our worldly material possessions, all of our stuff, and all that stuff can get destroyed. In the passage, it can be destroyed by mods damaged by vermin. So maaser, flying bugs, vermin, our rats, stuff like that, are stolen. In contrast, treasures in heaven, these are thought of and considered to be incorruptible. These are thought of as, as secure, out of out of reach of vermin mas thieves, you get the idea, the statement for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also that’s talking about, that the things that we value, and the things that we invest our time, energy resources in, they reflect our priorities, and where our hearts are focused, that is, the things that we really believe, to be of the greatest value that we hold to be most important, our hearts going to be right there along with them. If we prioritize treasures in heaven, then our hearts will be aligned with more spiritual values, and specifically on our relationship with God. So talk about alignment, if we are focused on the things that are are of the highest value, that’s where we put our attention on, we recognize their value, our heart, our connection will follow. And when we focus on things that are beyond the physical plane, we focus on those treasures of of treasures, treasures in heaven, that’s going to strengthen our relationship with God, which is ultimately really the goal. It’s overall, the passage encourages believers, us to take a deeper, more spiritual understanding to life, and to prioritize eternal values over temporary material possessions here on earth earthly possessions. It speaks to the idea that our choices and how we use and allocate our resources where we invest them, that reveals the that’s that’s the truth. That’s the truth. It’s the truth, direct evidence of what is most important to you. Now, whether or not you’re cognizant of that, that’s really what this is talking about. Have we thought about that? Where are we putting our attention? What is of value to us? That’s what this is talking about. I think that this is really giving us a prescription for living a good and just life. When when you think about living a good life? What do you think about? Have you ever thought about that? Have you ever sat down and said what? What does that even mean to me? What does it mean to live a good life? How do I go about doing it? Am I doing it? Am I living a good life? Am I live in a just life? I don’t know. So, what makes for a good life? I cannot encourage you enough to spend time thinking about that. One of my favorite quotes comes from Socrates says The unexamined life is not worth living. That’s really what a big part of this is talking about is let’s be proactive. And think about what what is of the highest value what makes for a good one. Life? What can you do today? What can you do right now today so that when you get to the end of your life you’re standing, looking into heaven or into the void the abyss, however you want to think about it, that you can look back on your life and to say, I lived a good life, I did the best that I could. The world is a better place, because of my life. Do you think that’s a good thing? Do you think that that’s a worthwhile thing that we’re doing? Is it worth thinking about? What makes for a good life? Is it work worth practicing? Once you determine this is what makes for good life? Is it worth actually put it into practice? I think that it is I advocate that it is. I think that that as you try to figure out how to arrive at that, it’s definitely not easy. But how can you be a service? How can you live an honorable life with honor? What kind of reputation Do you want to have? How do you want people to think of you, that’s playing the long game. Go for the short game. Take quick wins, quick hits of dopamine, spend our time and vapid pursuits, making ourselves happy from moment to moment. That’s the short game, the long game is being of service, living with honor. Thinking about how you want to be perceived thinking about how you want what you really want your reputation to be, and then to go about making it that way. What’s the opposite of that? Well, the opposite of long game is that short game that I was just talking about. It’s pursuing instant gratification, and pleasure. And I understand the desire and the pole of that, because it’s strong. Not only is it strong, it is constant. Not only is it a constant, it is ubiquitous, it is all around us. We are hit 10s of 1000s, if not 100,000 times a day with different messages, people tempting us and showing us shiny objects, delicious things, attractive things. And what they’re working to do is extract your most valuable resources. Then it’s strong, Feels good. Feels good. You know, it’s awesome. Fast Cars are awesome. Ice cream is awesome. Booze, watches, clothes, houses. Yeah, it’s all of it. These are awesome things, know what really matters? None of that stuff. None of that stuff really matters. Do you know what matters? Do you know what matters to you? I know the answer to that question is not obvious. I believe that there are objective truths, that there is objective truth. There’s also your subjective reality as well. So you need to know what matters to you. And it’s not just an obvious thing that I think that you can just spit out unless you’ve thought about it. And I know it’s not because the answer hasn’t always been obvious to me. We all go through different seasons of life. As a younger man, my priorities were vastly different than they are today. Now, would my life had been better had I been focused, then on what I’m focused on now, who’s to say, not gonna engage in revisionist history or play Monday morning quarterback, or however you want to think about that. But best plan time to plant a tree was 30 years ago, next best time is of course today. So you have regret of the past, that’s fine. But rather have you have hope for the future. Because that’s a lot more practical, and it’s actionable. And you can start to focus and invest in your treasures in heaven versus those of have up today. And I know that it’s really easy to be carried along by life, to be carried along by momentum. It’s easy to keep things going the way that they’ve been going, keep doing what you’re doing, to be half asleep, something we’re all sort of guilty of from time to time, or for long stretches of our lives, just sort of sleepwalking through life and some kind of zombie like state where we’re really not engaged in a lot of thought provoking activities. We’re just sort of going with the flow and get it done. They’re done that. But I’ve got good news as well. It is simple to figure out what matters. It’s simple to figure out what matters, but it’s Not easy,

simple to figure it out, not easy to do it. That’s the key. It’s the fulcrum separates the meaningful from the meaningless, knowing what matters, knowing what is of the highest noblest best. You’ve probably no doubt heard the phrase separate the wheat from the chaff. It’s a metaphor describes the process of distinguishing valuable from the worthless expression comes from agriculture and actually refers to a practice which is known as winnowing. It’s where you separate wheat grains from the husk, which is the chaff. So how do you separate the wheat from the chaff, you literally take the mixture of both of it together, throw it in the air, and that allows the wind to literally blow away the chaff. The lighter stuff gets blown away. Heavier wheat grains fall to the ground, it’s a physical separation results in the thing that you really want, which is the wheat, get rid of the chaff, such as life. So what we’re trying to do, what that attempts to do is convey the idea of separating what’s valuable, what’s essential, what is important, from that, which is essential, non essential, unimportant, undesirable, vapid, superficial. And this applies to most every aspect of our lives. Our MV ours, our most valuable resources, things that are of the greatest value, time, attention, energy and money. We’re not paying close attention to them, and how we are using allocating spending them. And we’re not making good and intentional choices about their allocation, we are at great risk of wasting them credible risk of wasting them. Finding long term happiness and contentment is not found in short term pleasure is found in making decisions based on what matters. What truly matters. When we spend our most valuable resources on short term, low value things. Instead of things that are of the highest and best uses, we fall into the trap. What today’s Bible verse talks about. So, start by clarifying your values. Your values are what you believe to be the most important things, noblest and best things. They’re the filters through which you process the information that we take in, and you make decisions based off of it. It’s the criteria, or how you make decisions. If you don’t have any idea about what’s most important, well, then everything’s most important. And here’s the thing, not everything can be the most important thing. Otherwise, everything’s an emergency. But nothing is an emergency. Everything is just the number one thing, but nothing has. Not everything can be the most important thing, you’ve got to decide each of us must decide what is most important. We must decide what is of the greatest value. We must create hierarchies, and then make decisions based on those hierarchies. This is number one, it got a list of five things that will help you to make decisions help you make more optimal decisions. You don’t want to think about a right or wrong. Well, you could think about it in terms of this is the optimal way to do things. The optimal way to be spending to be allocating my most valuable resources, then consider attend, set our intention and make good strong decisions. Why not do this? Why not? Why not approach life in this way? What’s the downside? You may find yourself eating less ice cream. I guess that’s that’s kind of a sucky thing. Find yourself delaying gratification waiting. That’s no fun. It’s not that big of a deal, though. What’s the upside? What’s the upside to doing this to knowing your values to be prioritizing and living by them through making decisions based on what is most important to you? That’s what it’s all about. That’s the name of the game. make better decisions. make good decisions, Optimize Your Life, get closer to what you really want. Be able to live your life so that at the end he looked back and said I did a good job. That’s the upside living a life of accountability. Knowing that God the Creator knows everything and acting in accordance with What is of greatest value and importance? It’s knowing what matters and doing what must be done in service of what matters. Again, it’s knowing what matters and doing what must be done and service of what matters. Further the same dance like no one’s watching. Let’s find good advice. Try this one. Live your life like it matters, because It most certainly does. As always, do your part. Doing your best

george grombacher 16:00
So if I want my iPhone, and my Tesla and my Bitcoin to work, we need to get the metal out of the ground.

Pierre Leveille 16:07
Absolutely. Without it, we cannot do it.

george grombacher 16:13
Why? Why is there a Why has production been going down.

Pierre Leveille 16:21
Because the large mines that are producing most of the copper in the world, the grades are going down slowly they’re going there, they’re arriving near the end of life. So and of life of mines in general means less production. And in the past, at least 15 years, the exploration expenditure for copper were pretty low, because the price of copper was low. And when the price is low, companies are tending to not invest more so much in exploration, which is what we see today. It’s it’s, it’s not the way to look at it. Because nobody 15 years ago was able to predict that there would be a so massive shortage, or it’s so massive demand coming. But in the past five years, or let’s say since the since 10 years, we have seen that more and more coming. And then the by the time you react start exploring and there’s more money than then ever that is putting in put it in expression at the moment for copper at least. And what we see is that the it takes time, it could take up to 2025 years between the time you find a deposit that it gets in production. So but but the year the time is counted. So it’s it’s very important to so you will see company reopening old mines, what it will push also, which is not bad, it will force to two, it will force to find a it will force to find ways of recalibrating customer, you know the metals, that will be more and more important.

george grombacher 18:07
So finding, okay, so for lack of a better term recycling metals that are just sitting around somewhere extremely important. Yeah. And then going and going back to historic minds that maybe for lack of technology, or just lack of will or reasons, but maybe now because there’s such a demand, there’s an appetite to go back to those.

Pierre Leveille 18:33
Yes, but there will be a lot of failures into that for many reasons. But the ones that will be in that will resume mining it’s just going to be a short term temporary solution. No it’s it’s not going to be you need to find deposit that will that will operate 50 years you know at least it’s 25 to 50 years at least and an old mind that you do in production in general it’s less than 10 years.

george grombacher 19:03
Got it. Oh there we go. Up here. People are ready for your difference making tip What do you have for them

Pierre Leveille 19:14
You mean an investment or

george grombacher 19:17
whatever you’re into, you’ve got so much life experience with raising a family and doing business all over the world and having your kids go to school in Africa so a tip on copper or whatever you’re into.

Pierre Leveille 19:34
But there’s two things I like to see and I was telling my children many times and I always said you know don’t focus on what will bring you specifically money don’t think of Getting Rich. Think of doing what you what you like, what you feel your your your your your, you know you have been born to do so use your most you skills, do what you like, do what you wet well, and good things will happen to you. And I can see them grow in their life. And I can tell you that this is what happens. And sometimes you have setback like I had recently. But if we do things properly, if we do things that we like, and we liked that project, we were very passionate about that project, not only me, all my team, and if we do things properly, if we do things correctly, good things will happen. And we will probably get the project back had to go forward or we will find another big project that will be the launch of a new era. So that’s my most important tip in life. Do what you like, do it with your best scale and do it well and good things will happen.

george grombacher 20:49
Pierre Leveille 21:03
Thank you. I was happy to be with you to today.

george grombacher 21:06
Damn, tell us the websites and where where people can connect and find you.

Pierre Leveille 21:13
The it’s Deep South resources.com. So pretty simple.

george grombacher 21:18
Perfect. Well, if you enjoyed this as much as I did show up here your appreciation and share today’s show with a friend who also appreciate good ideas, go to deep south resources, calm and learn all about what they’re working on and track their progress.

Pierre Leveille 21:32
Thanks. Thanks, have a nice day.

george grombacher 21:36
And until next time, keep fighting the good fight. We’re all in this together.