How the Gospel makes me Strong and Weak

Father, we ask that you would lead us and guide us into all truth, that you would lead

us and guide us into all truth about who we really are, about how we really see the world,

about how we relate to you and your word and your gospel.

And at the same time, Father, more than that, we ask that you lead us into all truth about

what your word says and who you are.

Father, we ask all of these things in the name of Jesus, your Son and the one and only

Savior.

Amen.

Please be seated.

When I was doing my equivalent to training to be ordained, I had to do a lot of very, very

weird stuff.

And, you know, I think if I was probably to tell this to some of the people that I

talked to in coffee shops, they would just sort of listen and think it's curious because

I think for a lot of people who aren't Christians, they expect Christians to do really odd stuff.

They might not always be aware of the odd things that they do, but they would just expect that

we do weird stuff.

One of the things that we were supposed to do, I'm not making this up, was aura massaging.

Now, you've already gathered that I did not go to an evangelical training place, if you

know anything about Christian sort of streams of spirituality, but I'm not making this up.

We were supposed to eight to ten inches out of far apart from a person's body to move our

hands in certain ways to rearrange their aura so that they would be, I don't know what they

were supposed to be, more balanced or whatever.

I also was supposed to be taught that I was to go into deep states of relaxation and seek

out animal guides from my unconscious who would help me to sort out, help me to get in touch

with God.

I, of course, always knew that that was wrong.

And so being a male and being in a darkened room at three o'clock in the afternoon when

I was told to go into a deep state of relaxation, I did.

I fell asleep.

And I always worried that I snored or something, but nobody ever said, George, you fell asleep

during the exercise.

But the point is that it's often that, at least from the eyes of the world, that Christians

are told to do really weird things.

One of the things that, one of the reasons why Hollywood loves Roman Catholicism is because,

I don't know, you know, when there's a big trouble or something like that, there's a terrible

disaster, the monster's about to eat, eat the people.

Well, you know, you can see people doing all these crosses like this or saying, Hail Mary,

full of grace, something like that.

I mean, what would they do about Protestants?

We're so boring.

I don't know.

What would we do?

We'd read the Bible and have an offering or something.

I don't know.

There wouldn't be much that we would do that is very dramatic.

The text that Emily read is a very, very interesting text because it touches on a lot of the fears

that people have in our culture about what it means to be a Christian.

Because the Bible text seems to say that we're sort of willingly, to willingly embrace and

pursue weakness.

And, you know, in our culture, weakness is often just being odd.

It's just being different.

It's just, well, you know, it's generally speaking, unless it's sort of a culturally accepted type

of kookiness, kookiness makes you weird, makes you weak.

And so this text, you know, if people were just to hear it, and it's odd fascination with embrace

and weakness and pursuing weakness.

For many people, it sounds like those, you know, legendary Christian practices of wearing

really uncomfortable clothing or whipping yourself or just doing something to make you

weak and uncomfortable.

Fasting, all those things to make you weak.

So is that what's going on in the Bible?

It'd be a great help if you were to take your Bibles and open them up to 2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 13 · chapter mention

chapter 13.

We're going to go 2 Corinthians chapter 13.

2 Corinthians 13 · chapter mention

Actually, so now go first to 2 Corinthians chapter 12.

2 Corinthians 12 · chapter mention

We'll read the sort of the key bit that's just before the text that Emily read earlier

on today.

And next week, by the way, we finish, God willing, the book of 2 Corinthians.

So this is our second last go at it.

And as I shared with you last week, most Bible scholars, it doesn't matter whether you're

a very conservative or a very liberal scholar.

Most scholars would agree that this verse I'm about to read in verse 9 is like the basic

message of the whole book of 2 Corinthians.

Corinthians.

And it's this verse 9 of 2 Corinthians 12.

But he said to me, Jesus said to me, my grace is sufficient for you for my power is made

perfect in weakness.

Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses so that the power of Christ

may rest upon me.

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions,

and calamities.

For when I am weak, then I am strong.

And the text that Emily read that's very similar to this, that sort of puts this idea of the

weakness and strength and all together, that's in verses 3 and 4 of 2 Corinthians 13.

And, you know, just before we read it, is this text telling us as well that, I don't know,

like, I mean, is that why these weird, legendary Christians would wear a shirt that's really,

really, really, really purposefully uncomfortable?

That by being made weaker, then God's going to do something for them?

Is this like a type of spell that Christians are being encouraged to use?

That, I don't know, you whip yourself and you beat yourself?

You get pain and therefore God's going to somehow give you power?

Is that what it's?

Well, listen again to 2 Corinthians 13 verses 3 through 4.

2 Corinthians 13:3–4

Just to catch you up, he's sort of finishing a sentence.

Since you seek proof that Christ is speaking in me, but here's the bit, the second part of

the third verse, he, that's Christ, is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.

For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God.

For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you, we will live with him by the power of God.

He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.

For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God.

For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you, we will live with him by the power of God.

It does sort of seem a little bit, doesn't it, as if it's saying that in all of these texts that somehow our weakness makes us strong.

And you could easily see how people would then think that doing sort of kooky things would somehow give us some type of power.

But the real puzzling thing about all of this is this central little bit that was there in those, you know, that three beat of four that I just read.

Did you notice it?

For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God.

For he, that's referring to Jesus, was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God.

And that changes everything and everything to do with the text.

I mean, it's describing very, very simply that when Jesus died upon the cross, I mean, he obviously appeared to be very, very weak.

He was whipped.

He was beaten.

He's hanging on the cross.

He's between two thieves.

He's being abused by those in power and authority.

There's nothing he can do.

In the entire history of the Roman Empire, of the hundreds of thousands of crucifixions that they did,

there's only one recorded case of any person surviving, even being on a cross for a day.

All of recorded history, hundreds of thousands of crucifixions, only one recorded instance.

And even then, it was only for a day.

And there were doctors present and everything like that that came in and swept in and were able to nurse the man back to health.

So you see him.

He's obviously weak.

And obviously, Christians as well believe that after Jesus had died, on the third day, he rose from the dead.

But the text is trying to remind us of more than that because there's been, those of you who've been here throughout many of the services,

you might remember that there's these two powerful verses in 2 Corinthians that come up before this

that try to really bring home this idea of what Jesus was doing for us on the cross.

If you just turn back to the one that's the closest to it, if you turn back, it's in 2 Corinthians 8, verse 9.

2 Corinthians 8:9

2 Corinthians 8, verse 9.

2 Corinthians 8:9

And what Paul does there is Paul uses the image of money to try to help us to understand what Jesus was doing for us on the cross.

And look what it says in 2 Corinthians 8, 9.

And so what is this text telling us?

This text is telling us that when we see Jesus, what we're seeing is we're seeing grace.

We're seeing undeserved favor, undeserved love, undeserved kindness, which is also perfectly good and perfectly just.

It doesn't violate justice.

It doesn't violate goodness.

But it's perfect love, perfect kindness, perfect affection that comes with real power to change lives.

That's what you're seeing when you see Jesus.

But then after giving that sort of very big description and very couple of words, right?

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Then it says, goes a little bit, but how was that grace shown?

Well, that grace was shown because if you think about it,

before God, the Son of God, was created in the womb of Mary, who was a virgin,

that that same God, the Son of God, well, he was rich.

That's a simple way of describing that he was in heaven,

that he was in perfect union with the Father and the Holy Spirit,

that he was surrounded by angels, that he had all of the glory and all of the splendor

and all of the power and all of the majesty and all of the praise of God.

He was rich.

Yet what does the text say?

That though he was rich, yet for your sake.

And here he's speaking to you and me,

that if Paul was here beside us right now,

if Jesus was here right beside us now,

he would say, yes, I was thinking of you.

I knew of you because I'm God.

I knew of you and you and you and you and you.

And I saw how you were,

and the Bible again uses the word, the imagery of money,

that you were poorer than poor,

that you were mortal, that you would die,

that you were separate from me,

that you were at enmity from me,

that you would be separate and at enmity from me from all eternity.

And I saw that you were poor.

And so for your sake,

Jesus became poor.

Him being on the cross and him dying.

And here the image is just like,

you know, there was a time in Louise in my life

where we had a real miracle that happened.

And we were really burdened with a lot of debt.

And it was very, very, very hard.

We had bill collectors calling us and everything like that.

It was very, very hard.

And through a series of things,

you know, but ultimately just in prayer,

one day we got a check in the mail.

It's one of those stories, you know.

And I remember opening up the check,

and I thought at first it was,

you know, a lot of money.

And it was going to go a big step towards helping us.

But then,

because we were living in Eganville,

and I was walking back from the post office,

then after I'd gone about 200 steps,

I paused and I thought,

there was one more zero.

And I opened up,

and there was.

And it covered all my debts.

Like the overwhelming debts,

it covered it.

It was one of those real miracles in our lives.

And the text is saying here

that this is what Jesus does for us on the cross.

That if you think about somehow his riches

and him becoming poor,

it's all in a sense,

I spend, I spend,

I cover your debt,

I cover your debt,

I cover your debt,

I cover your debt,

I cover your debt,

I cover your debt.

And more than that,

so that you by his poverty might become rich.

Because,

you know,

he rises from the dead.

He sits at the right hand of the Father.

And when we put our faith and trust in him

and he takes us as his child,

he will fit us

to spend all eternity

in the new heaven and the new earth

with his people and with him.

And those riches are ours.

And that's what Paul means

when he said he was crucified in weakness

but lives by the power of God.

But Paul uses earlier,

remember,

I said two of the most wonderful verses

in the Bible

about what Jesus does for us

in the cross

are in 2 Corinthians.

The other one is just a little bit earlier.

2 Corinthians chapter 5,

2 Corinthians 5:21

verse 21.

Why don't you turn to it?

2 Corinthians 5, 21.

For our sake,

God made him

to be sin

who knew no sin

so that in him

we might become

the righteousness of God.

Now,

this is far more complicated

theological language.

Once again,

notice it was for our sake.

God,

the Son of God,

God the Father,

and in other texts,

we know that the Holy Spirit,

all of the Trinity,

is involved

in this mighty act

to save us.

But God made him

to be sin

who knew no sin

so that in him

we might become

the righteousness of God.

Some of you have heard

this story before,

but the very, very,

when I got ordained

on a Wednesday night

and the fellow

who was going to be my boss,

the rector,

he said,

oh,

you can take Thursday,

Friday,

Saturday off.

And I did.

Just show up at church

on a Sunday morning

and I did.

I helped at the two services.

And in between the two services,

he said,

I have two funerals tomorrow.

One of them is going to be

a really big funeral.

It's a great way

for you to begin your ministry

to come and help me

with the funeral services.

And so the first funeral

that I helped at,

and obviously,

I had just shown up

on Sunday morning,

so I didn't know

either of the deceased.

And I might have

the details

just slightly wrong,

but they're fundamentally right.

The woman who had died

taught,

I think it was grade five

in the public school

was right across the street.

She died of cancer

relatively suddenly.

So she taught

grade five students

at the public school

in the neighborhood.

She left behind

three children,

12,

17,

and 19,

and they now

had no parents

because the father

had died tragically

in an accident

about a year or two later.

As you can well imagine,

the church was packed.

All the grade five students

and their parents,

you know,

and everybody else,

it was one of the,

probably the teariest funerals

I have ever been at

in my entire life.

It was the first one

I helped at.

I didn't know the woman.

I could hardly read

the Bible passage.

That's all I was asked to do

because it was just,

the emotion was immense.

The sorrow was immense

in the room

and I,

I,

I,

I was just,

you know,

I was just overwhelmed

by it

and just like trying to,

it was just like on me,

you know,

probably would be for you too

unless you're really hard-hearted.

You know who you are

and maybe actually

your friends know who you are.

That's a separate sermon.

That's a separate sermon topic.

Anyway,

so I get into the,

the,

I didn't know this.

I'm learning how to do it,

right?

So I get into the,

the rector and I,

Peter,

Peter and I go out.

The funeral director

ushers us to a special car

and we go in and sit there

and the funeral director

looking very,

very solemn,

very,

very serious.

He,

he goes out

and is helping the family

and all that

and then he sits down

in the car,

starts to pull off.

He asks,

you know,

is the air conditioning all right?

We said,

yeah,

it's good

and then he said,

what about the Blue Jays?

He meant the baseball team,

by the way

and,

and it sort of really struck me

that he has to go to funerals

like that all the time

and if he let

the sadness

and the sorrow

and the death

and all of that,

if he let it affect him,

it would probably break him

and so for most of us,

in some ways,

that's what we want

but what this text

is saying here

when it says,

for our sake,

he made him to be sin

who knew no sin

so that in him

we might become

the righteousness of God

that what the Bible

is saying here

is that God,

the Father

and God,

the Son

looks down

and sees our great need.

He sees

that we are burdened

with things

that we've done wrong.

He sees

that we are burdened

with a fear of death.

He sees

that we are burdened

with shame.

He sees

that we are burdened

with weakness.

He sees

that we are burdened

with emotions

and memories

that we just cannot handle.

He sees

that we are burdened

with so many things

and he himself

is not burdened

with any of those things

because he is in heaven

but for our sake,

he comes down to earth

and he is not

like the funeral director

who just has learned

how to have

all of the emotion

and all of the things

that are going around

in the face

of tragic death

and he has learned

how to have it be

just like water

off a duck's back

and Jesus

is not like that

funeral director.

God made him

to be sin.

Not just grief

and shame

but everything

that weighs us down,

everything that keeps us

from God,

everything that accuses us,

everything,

everything

that what we see

when we see Jesus

dying on the cross

is we see

in a sense

him saying,

George,

for all of that

that is on you,

it comes on me.

I am not

the funeral director.

I am the savior.

I will take

all of that

upon myself.

I, in my weakness

of death,

is taking

all that that

makes you weak

and it is on me.

And so

when the text

is saying

for our sake,

not for his own

but for you and me,

God made him

to be sin

who knew no sin.

It's describing

in the terms

of relationship

and of evil

and of shame

and of fear

of death,

it all being

laid upon him

and absorbed

by him

and dealt

with him

and all

of it's done

when it says

that we might

become the

righteousness of God,

all of it's done

is so that we

can be made

right with God.

That's what the

word righteousness

here in this

particular context,

that it's made

right.

You know,

how many of us

have, you know,

relationships

and we wish

that we could

be reconciled

to them,

that we could

make it right

and we just

can't make it

right?

It's a constant

thing that comes

up in counseling

and conversation.

We just can't

be reconciled.

It just can't

happen.

We can't

make it

right.

And this,

what's described

here is that

by all of

these things

being laid

on Jesus,

there is a

way by which

his weakness,

his death,

when we

accept what

he's done

for us

by faith,

it makes

us right

with God

and doesn't

just make

us right

with God

for a tiny

moment while

we have a

type of

emotional release,

but objectively,

truly,

in the eyes

of God

and for

all eternity

that he's

made us

right with

him.

You see,

that's what

the Bible

means.

If you go

back to

2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 13:4

chapter 13

verse 4,

for he

was,

listen to it

again now,

in light of

what I've

just said,

what Paul

has already

said,

listen to it

again,

beginning at

verse 3b,

he is not

weak in

dealing with

you,

but is

powerful

among you.

For he

was crucified

in weakness,

but lives

by the

power of

God.

For we

also are

weak in

him,

but in

dealing with

you,

we will

live with

him by

the power

of God.

you see,

as the

gospel

grounds us,

as this

thing that

he was

crucified in

weakness,

but lives

by the

power of

God,

as this

grips us,

as it

starts to

become the

ground on

which we

stand and

we can

see ourselves

and we

can see

our world,

it starts

to shape

us,

as it

grips us,

it starts

to pull

us into

doing certain

things that

we would

never have

done before,

it starts

to push

us,

nudge us

into doing

things that

we have

never done

before,

and as

it's

grounding us

and helping

us to see

the world

in maybe

a way that

we hadn't

realized that

you could

see the

world,

and that's

how you're

starting to

grow in

Christ,

is you

start to

realize that

when you

look at

others,

and you

look at

the church,

and you

look at

God,

and you

look at

yourself,

and you

look at

your family,

and you

look at

sexuality,

you look at

money,

you look at

time,

meaning,

you look at

purpose,

you look at

art,

you look at

culture,

you look at

dance,

and as

you're

grounded on

that and

gripped by

that,

it starts

to,

by standing

in such a

place and

being gripped

by such a

truth and

believing that

that really

actually happened,

and being

pushed and

pulled and

shaped,

it changes

you.

You see,

this is

Paul's

second letter

to Corinth,

and if you

go back to

his first

letter in

Corinth,

and you

know,

this is

really hard

for us to

look at

chapter one,

this is

really hard

for us to

understand

that there

was a

time in

the world

where there

was no

television,

no radio,

no

newspapers,

no Twitter,

no Facebook,

no Instagram,

and so it's

hard to

remember that

there was a

time when

words were

few,

and so

because words

were few,

they often

stuck longer.

So the

people in

Corinth would

have very

clearly

remembered

this part

here in

1 Corinthians

1.

I'll begin

reading verse

18.

Once I

start going

into it,

you'll

recognize it

as a

famous

passage if

you've

been a

Christian

for a

while.

For the

word of

the cross

is folly,

it's

foolish to

those who

are perishing,

but to

us who

are being

saved,

it is

the power

of God.

For it

is written,

I will

destroy the

wisdom of

the wise

and the

discernment

of the

discerning

I will

thwart.

Where is

the one

who is

wise?

Where is

the

scribe?

Where is

the

debater

of this

age?

Has

not God

made

foolish

the

wisdom

of the

world?

For

since

in the

wisdom

of the

world,

the

world

did

not

know

God

through

wisdom,

how

do we

know

God

through

He

became

poor

so that

we

might

become

rich.

He

took

upon

Himself,

He

wasn't

like

that

funeral

director,

He

took

upon

Himself

everything

that

we

might

be

made

right

with

God.

See

that

again

in

verse

21,

for

since

in

the

wisdom

of

God

the

world

did

not

know

God

through

wisdom,

it

pleased

God

through

the

folly

of

what

we

preach,

what

I

just

told

you,

what

Paul

just

writes

in

Corinthians

to

save

those

who

believe,

for

Jews

demand

signs,

that's

a type

of

miracle,

powerful

miracle

with a

sign,

and

Greeks

seek

wisdom,

but

we

preach

Christ

crucified,

a

stumbling

block

to

Jews,

a

stumbling

block

to

those

who

are

in

love

with

power,

that's

what

it's

really

saying,

and

folly

to

those

who

are

in

love

with

wisdom,

but

to

those

who

are

called,

because

you see,

even now,

right now,

if you're

in this

room,

and I

don't know

if you

consider

yourself

a

Christian

or not,

if you're

in this

room,

hopefully

right now,

at least

in some

sense,

emotionally,

if not

intellectually,

you understand

that Jesus

is calling

you right

now.

That

pressure

you might

feel is

him knocking

on the

door of

your heart,

and he's

calling to

you,

and he's

saying,

whatever

your name

is,

I'll

just say

George,

he's

saying,

George,

open the

door,

and let

me

come

and be

your

savior.

But to

those who

are called,

both those

who love

power and

those who

love

wisdom,

Christ,

the power

of God

and the

wisdom

of God,

here's

the key

verse,

for the

foolishness

of God

is wiser

than men,

and the

weakness

of God

is stronger

than men.

For the

foolishness

of God

is wiser

than men.

By that

he means

all human

power,

and the

weakness

of God

is stronger

than all

human

power.

So let's

go back

to 2 Corinthians

13.

You know,

those of you

who come

here often,

you know,

I don't

often flip

around a

bit,

but we're

coming to

the end

of the

book,

and weakness

has been

a theme

all the way

through the

time of

2 Corinthians,

and it's

time to

sort of

try to

gather

that up

a little

bit as

to what

the Bible

means.

Look at

here again

at 2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 3:3

3,

verses 3

and 4,

the second

part of

verse 3,

he is

not weak

in dealing

with you

but is

powerful

among you

for he

was crucified

in weakness

but lives

by the power

of God

for we

also are

weak in him

but in

dealing with

you we

will live

with him

by the

power of

God.

And last

week we

talked a

little bit

about Paul

having a

thorn in

the flesh.

and so

part of

this

teaching

of

weakness

is

some

of

you

know

the

story

of

Gideon

where

God

is going

to deliver

the people

and he

gets

Gideon

to be

the leader

and I

can't

remember

what it

was

but he

has

tens

of

thousands

of

soldiers

and God

says

to

Gideon

too

many

soldiers

why

are

there

too

many

soldiers

because

you're

going

to

end

up

thinking

it

was

your

might

that

delivered

you

and I

need

you

to

have

an

army

of

tens

of

thousands

of

people

he's

left

with

300

guys

and

the

thorn

of

the

flesh

is

that

there's

going

to

be

times

in

our

Christian

life

where

what

God

really

wants

us

to

do

is

to

step

out

in

faith

and

then

afterwards

whether

we're

aware

of

it

or

not

but

we

should

be

people

will

have

to

say

only

God

could

do

that

because

George

if

you

looked

at

you

and

your

church

there's

no

way

you

guys

could

do

that

and

that

should

warm

our

heart

and

the

other

sense

of

weakness

which

we've

talked

about

a little

bit

up

until

now

was

just

the

constant

reminder

that

at

the

end

of

the

day

our

God

project

is

a

complete

and

utter

vain

and

futile

thing

and

that

we

are

called

just

to

remember

that

we're

jars

of

clay

that

we're

mortal

that

we're

not

God

and

that's

the

second

type

of

weakness

but

the

third

type

of

weakness

is

what

we

need

to

look

at

right

now

it's

the

type

of

weakness

that's

been

hinted

around

but

maybe

never

always

been

especially

clear

and

I'm

going

to

put

it

this

way

if

we

think

about

it

prayer

is

weak

humility

is

weak

reading

the

Bible

is

weak

thinking

about

what

the

Bible

says

about

money

will

only

make

us

weak

thinking

about

what

the

Bible

says

about

sexuality

will

only

make

us

weak

because

chastity

and

faithfulness

is

weak

and

having

to

obey

and

having

to

submit

and

having

to

trust

and

having

to

believe

and

having

to

surrender

is

all

weak

I

want

to

help

you

to

see

that

Andrew

could

you

put

up

the

first

point

it

is

weak

to

trust

and

obey

what

the

Bible

says

about

money

it

is

weak

to

trust

and

obey

what

the

Bible

says

about

money

remember

I

said

we're

going

to

look

at

what

Emily

said

look

just

I

don't

have

to

go

all

the

way

through

the

2nd

Corinthians

just

look

at

how

Emily

began

chapter

12

verse

14

2nd

Corinthians

12

14

here

for

the

third

time

I

am

ready

to

come

to

you

and

I

will

not

be

a

burden

for

I

seek

not

what

is

yours

but

you

I

seek

not

what

is

yours

but

you

for

children

are

not

obligated

to

save

up

for

their

parents

but

parents

for

their

children

by

the

way

it's

not

Paul

has

a

bit

of

a

purpose

here

for

your

aged

parents

he's

not

talking

about

everything

to do

about

parents

and

children

he's

trying

to

drive

home

a

particular

point

you

have

to

keep

going

I

will

most

gladly

spend

and

be

spent

for

your

souls

if

I

love

you

am

I

to

be

loved

less

but

granting

that

I

did

not

burden

you

I

was

crafty

you

say

and

got

the

better

of

you

by

deceit

did

I

take

advantage

of

you

through

any

of

those

of

whom

I

sent

to

you

I

urged

Titus

to

go

and

sent

a

brother

with

him

did

Titus

take

advantage

of

you

did

we

not

act

in

the

same

spirit

did

we

not

take

the

same

steps

and

so

if

you're

just

a

guest

here

and

you

haven't

heard

this

text

before

what

Paul

is

reminding

them

of

he's

talked

about

it

earlier

is

that

Paul

came

and

all

the

time

that

he

was

building

the

church

and

all

of

his

visits

he

never

took

a

penny

from

the

congregation

not

a

penny

he

either

trusted

God

to

provide

him

in

a

miraculous

way

from

outside

of

the

congregation

outside

of

Corinth

or

he

worked

with

his

hands

and

rather

than

him

and

not

only

did

he

do

that

all

of

his

co-workers

did

that

that

they

didn't

take

a

single

penny

they

became

financially

weaker

by

doing

that

because

the

people

there

would

have

loved

to

have

given

him

money

but

in

this

particular

case

his

desire

was

to

so

show

for

people

who

were

so

confused

about

money

and

so

used

money

to

analyze

situations

and

so

were

thinking

about

money

all

of

the