Inspiration Station: Survival Mode (The Rich Young Ruler In You)

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We explore the critical question "Are you in survival mode?" and examine how this mindset prevents us from making meaningful sacrifices for others. Two kingdoms exist—one visible and tangible, the other invisible yet equally real—and understanding this helps explain why followers of Christ often feel like outsiders in this world.

• Zig Ziglar's principle: "You can have everything in life that you want if you help enough other people get what they want"
• Story of an actor who lives modestly while donating over 90% of his income to help the underprivileged
• Challenging question: What's the biggest sacrifice you've ever made for someone outside your family?
• The parable of the talents teaches that good stewardship requires investment, not self-protection
• The rich young ruler couldn't give away his possessions despite his religious devotion—a warning for believers today
• Survival mode keeps us accumulating resources while avoiding sacrifice

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Thank you, welcome back to the All Purpose Pod for

(00:37):
an all-purpose life, whereveryou are, and have you listening
to the?
Call Me, mr you and theInspiration Station.
Thanks again for making us partof your week.
Are you in survival mode?
I'm asking that because I thinkit's a question worth asking.
I ask myself that all the time.
I'm asking you that today.
Are you in survival mode?
Have you ever felt like youweren't really a part of this

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world?
You didn't really get what'sgoing on in the world.
You had a different mind, adifferent heart, a different
approach to things and you justdidn't feel like you didn't
belong.
You kind of feel like you arean alien or a foreigner in this
big old place that we call Earth.
You ever feel like you justdidn't really fit.
The reason for that and we'llget into that in more detail on
future episodes is becausethere's two kingdoms.

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Into that in more detail onfuture episodes is because
there's two kingdoms.
There's one that we see, that'stangible, and the one that we
don't see.
The principles still stand.
There's a gentleman by the nameof Zig Ziglar, one of the most
famous but most impactful publicspeakers or inspirational

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keynote speakers that I've everheard in my entire life and he
has a quote that I love.
I've shared it so many times onthis podcast.
It's just ridiculous.
Excuse me, but he said in shortyou can have everything in life
that you want If you would justhelp enough other people get

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what they want in life.
I might have boosted that quote, but that's the gist of it you
can have everything in life thatyou want if you would just help
enough other people get whatthey want in life.
I've known people andassociations that have misused
that and try to use it to theirown advantage, for their own
betterment, for the building oftheir own empires.

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But this is as authentic asI've ever seen, because I really
believe and this is just mypersonal opinion, you don't have
to agree with this I believethat the scriptures support this
mindset looking to theinterests of other people more
than your own interests,investing in others more than
you invest in yourself.
Interests of other people morethan your own interests,
investing in others more thanyou invest in yourself.

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Doing for others more than youdo for yourself.
There's a famous actor I won'tcall his name, I don't want to
put his name out here on thisshow, but he's.
I think he's a pretty funnyperson.
His characters are always funny, his movies are funny to me.
But he had went on.
I guess I would say he took avow or he decided to go on a

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mission to serve people on ahigh level.
So the majority of his incomefrom movies and standup comedy,
whatever it is that he's doing,documentaries, whatever it is
more than 90% of it I guess itis, or maybe 90%, 90 plus
percent he'll give that topeople who are in some way

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underprivileged, impoverished,whatever it is, and he will
devote all his money or most ofhis money to those causes rather
than himself.
So basically, he lives very,very modestly.
He can be he's probably abillionaire modestly, he can be,
he's probably a billionaire.
He can be living a lavishlifestyle, but what he chooses

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to do is live very modestly.
He dresses very modestly.
Even at public events orextravaganzas or galas he's
dressing like somebody who justgoing to Walmart to pick
something up.
So he may be a little bit onthe weird side or eccentric to a
lot of people, but my point isthat he is not afraid to make a

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large sacrifice for the sake ofothers.
I asked you earlier in theepisode are you in survival mode
.
I asked you that for a reason,a person that's in survival mode
is never going to do what thisactor is doing.
They're going to try toaccumulate as much as they can,
stockpile whatever they canstockpile, to make sure they
never run out of what they thinkthey need in life.

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And the idea of giving some ofthat stockpile to somebody in
their mind it never even crossestheir mind.
It's never even a part of theirplan.
They don't even think about it.
They don't even hesitate, eventhink about doing something like
that.
Their sole goal Is to make surethat they're okay and to make

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sure that they have all thatthey need, even at the expense
of other people.
This actor is a total contrastTo somebody who's in survival
mode.
What's the biggest sacrifice youever made for another person?
What's the biggest sacrificeyou ever made For another person
?
Immediately, you may thinkabout your son or your daughter,

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or your wife or your husband.
Let's exclude them.
We know that if you're in afamily, you make sacrifices for
your family all the time.
You miss out on things that youwant to do for the sake of your
family.
Put them to the side for asecond.
I'll ask the question again.
Now that you know that yourfamily is excluded, I'll ask the
question again.
Now that you know that yourfamily is excluded, I'll ask you
the question again what was thebiggest sacrifice you ever made

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for another person, not yourimmediate family?
What was the biggest sacrificeyou ever made for another person
, not a relative who wanted somemoney?
What's the biggest sacrificeyou ever made for another person
?
Why am I asking?
Two reasons why Tragedy andtrauma.
We become a people who are insurvival mode.

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How much can I get while I canget it?
What will you give me?
How little can I get away withgiving you back so I'm going to
have more of what I need, so Ican feel safe and secure with
the things that I have?
There's a story in scripture andI'll just paraphrase it just
for time purposes.

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Three men were givensubstantial amounts to invest
for their manager While hismanager was out of town.
Their job was to invest thatsubstantial amount that they
were given and cause it toreproduce, to duplicate, to get
interest on it.
The critical story alwaysfollows the one that invested

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the least lost everything theyhad, including the opportunity
to ever invest again.
That's a cautionary tale forbad stewardship.
That's how it looks to not takegood care of what you've been
given, what you haveresponsibility over.
That's a podcast episode all byitself.
The other part of the story isthe one that invested the most,

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received the most in return,multiplied on top of that, what
they were already given.
So they got double because theywere good at investing and
being a good steward of whatthey've been given.
Why are we talking aboutstewardship?
What's the point here?
Whether it's trauma, whetherit's unforgiveness, whether it

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is self-doubt, all these thingskeep us from investing and,
honestly, at the end of the day,when we hear language like this
in the scriptures, understandthat it is the vernacular of
that kingdom, that secondkingdom I was telling you about.
It's only true, the one that wesee and the one that's not so
tangible that we can't see, butwe see shadows and signs and

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glimpses of that kingdom is theone that's not so tangible that
we can't see, but we see shadowsand signs and glimpses of that
kingdom is the one that we aresupposed to be investing in, and
I love what the actor has doneby dedicating his life to giving
to others, but he should neverbe the model for that.
We, as the church should bedoing, that we shouldn't be in

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survival mode.
We should be trying toaccumulate all we can get and
trying to find angles and waysand plots to give less and avoid
having to give from out of ourstorehouse of things, storehouse
of resources, storehouse ofblessings, if you will.
We're afraid to lose what wehave.
The rich, young ruler that weread about in scripture is a

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great example of this.
He had everything you couldwant and on top of that, he had
salvation too.
So he was saved and he waswealthy.
What a combination, right?
He was saved and he was wealthy, and the Lord asked him to do
one thing.
He kept all the commandmentssince he was young.
He did all the right thingstoward his neighbors and friends

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.
He was a good person.
On all accounts he was a goodperson.
The Lord asked him to do onething.
A thing too heavy for him, athing too hard for him.
Give away all of your goods andfollow me, walk with me.
Let me teach you what the otherkingdom is like.
Let me teach you what it lookslike to be a part of this

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kingdom, as opposed to thekingdom you already are part of
and you're a wealthy part of.
Let me show you the otherkingdom.
And the young man walked awaysorrowful because he had so much
stuff.
He was in survival mode.
He had so many things hecouldn't stand to give it up.
Are you in survival mode or areyou willing to make the kind of

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sacrifices that change thelives of other people?
Something to think about.
We can talk about it offline ifyou'd like, in the comments
section, wherever you find thisepisode.
Can't wait to hear yourquestions and your answers for
the questions I asked you.
Are you in survival mode?
What was the biggest sacrificeyou ever made for another person
outside of your family?
Can't wait to hear yourresponses to this.

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