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playing your part

Infamous bitcoin pizza guy who

squandered $365M haul has no

regrets

In May 2010, California student Jeremy Sturdivant, then

19, noticed a bizarre request on a cryptocurrency internet

forum: He could receive 10,000 bitcoins, at the time

reportedly valued at $41, in exchange for the delivery of

two large pizzas to Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz, 28. 

Sturdivant filled the order, sending him two large pizzas

(cheese and “supreme”) from Papa John’s — a

transaction that would become the first physical purchase

made with bitcoin in history, marked by the annual Bitcoin

Pizza Day on May 22.

But Sturdivant didn’t save the bitcoins for the future;

instead, he spent them all on travel.

Today, that lowly 10,000 bitcoin haul would be worth

a pie-in-the-sky $365 million.

“I had no idea how huge it would become,” Sturdivant

said. But despite losing out on boundless riches, the now-

30-year-old said he is “proud to have played a part” in the

“global phenomenon.”

we all have a part to play in the church.

Matthew 22:1–14 NKJV

And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said: “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son, and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come. Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.” ’ But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business. And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them. But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.’ So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests. “But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment. So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

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And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said: “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son, and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come. Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.” ’ But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business. And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them. But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy

laying some ground work for this sermon

we see and we get a picture of what the kingdom of God is like!.

the kingdom of heaven is like! what does this mean! and what this means is we get to peak into the heart of God into his mind and we get to see what he is all about and how he works

I.highways and byways

Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.’ So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.

II.the wedding garment

III.the chosen