Biblical Principles for Managing Money in the Family 2

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Biblical Principles for Managing Money in the
Family 2
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Put Money in theProper Perspective

• Job 121 Naked I came from my mothers womb, And
  naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and
  the LORD has taken away Blessed be the name of
  the LORD.
• 1 Timothy 67 For we brought nothing into this
  world, and it is certain we can carry nothing
  out.

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God Gives Me Money byEnabling Me to Work

• Genesis 319a In the sweat of your face you
  shall eat bread till you return to the ground.
• Exodus 209 Six days you shall labor and do all
  your work.
• 2 Thessalonians 310 For even when we were with
  you, we commanded you this If anyone will not
  work, neither shall he eat.

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Work to Provide for Your Needs

• 1 Thessalonians 49-12 But concerning brotherly
  love you have no need that I should write to you,
  for you yourselves are taught by God to love one
  another and indeed you do so toward all the
  brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge
  you, brethren, that you increase more and more
  that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to
  mind your own business, and to work with your own
  hands, as we commanded you, that you may walk
  properly toward those who are outside, and that
  you may lack nothing.

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Work to Provide for Others Needs

• 1 Timothy 58 But if anyone does not provide for
  his own, and especially for those of his
  household, he has denied the faith and is worse
  than an unbeliever.
• Ephesians 428 Let him who stole steal no
  longer, but rather let him labor, working with
  his hands what is good, that he may have
  something to give him who has need.
• James 28 If you really fulfill the royal law
  according to the Scripture, You shall love your
  neighbor as yourself, you do well.

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I Receive Comfort so that I May Give Comfort to
Others

• 2 Corinthians 13-4 Blessed be the God and
  Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
  mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us
  in all our tribulation, that we may be able to
  comfort those who are in any trouble, with the
  comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by
  God.

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God Gives Me Money Through Saving and Investing

• Proverbs 2120 There is desirable treasure, and
  oil in the dwelling of the wise, But a foolish
  man squanders it.
• Matthew 2514-30 Well done pronounced on the
  stewards who invested and brought a return.

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God Gives Me Money by Giving

• Luke 638 Give, and it will be given to you...
• ...good measure, pressed down, shaken together,
  and running over will be put into your bosom.
• Good measure is fairall else is above fair.
• For with the same measure that you use, it will
  be measured back to you.
• We set the standard for Gods blessings!

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The Way I Handle Money Will Effect My Eternity

• Luke 1610 He who is faithful in what is least
  is faithful also in much and he who is unjust in
  what is least is unjust also in much.
• A poor manager of little would be a poor manager
  of a lot.
• How am I handling what God has given me?

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The Way I Handle Money Will Effect My Eternity

• Luke 1611 Therefore if you have not been
  faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will
  commit to your trust the true riches?
• Failure to be faithful with Gods money will
  deprive one of true riches like joy, contentment
  and, even, heaven.

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The Way I Handle Money Will Effect My Eternity

• Luke 1612 And if you have not been faithful in
  what is another mans, who will give you what is
  your own?
• If one does not respect things belonging to
  others, why should he have anything of his own?

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The Way I Handle Money Will Effect My Eternity

• Luke 1613 No servant can serve two masters for
  either he will hate the one and love the other,
  or else he will be loyal to the one and despise
  the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
• Man cannot be committed to Christ and driven by
  love of money.

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The Way I Handle Money Will Effect My Eternity

• Luke 1614-15 Now the Pharisees, who were lovers
  of money, also heard all these things, and they
  derided Him. And He said to them, You are those
  who justify yourselves before men, but God knows
  your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among
  men is an abomination in the sight of God.
• Undue emphasis on money will cause one to
  ridicule preaching on giving and things of
  eternal value.

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Learn to be Content

• 1 Timothy 66-8 Now godliness with contentment
  is great gain.
• Hebrews 135-6 Let your conduct be without
  covetousness be content with such things as you
  have. For He Himself has said, I will never
  leave you nor forsake you. So we may boldly say
  The LORD is my helper I will not fear. What can
  man do to me?

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Learn to be Content

• Philippians 411 Not that I speak in regard to
  need, for I have learned in whatever state I am,
  to be content.
• James 41-2 Where do wars and fights come from
  among you? Do they not come from your desires for
  pleasure that war in your members? You lust and
  do not have. You murder and covet and cannot
  obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have
  because you do not ask.

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Beware of Greed and Covetousness

• Luke 1215 And He said to them, Take heed and
  beware of covetousness, for ones life does not
  consist in the abundance of the things he
  possesses.
• Ephesians 55 For this you know, that no
  fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who
  is an idolater, has any inheritance in the
  kingdom of Christ and God.
• Colossians 35 Therefore put to death your
  members which are on the earth fornication,
  uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and
  covetousness, which is idolatry.

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Gambling Is Destructive

• Andy Rooney (60 Minutes) said, How can we teach
  kids that hard work is the way to success if they
  hear radio commercials, paid for by their
  government, suggesting the way to get rich is to
  bet on a number?
• Donald Trump (owner of the Taj Mahal in Atlantic
  City, NJ) said, People will spend a tremendous
  amount of money in casinos, money that they would
  normally spend on buying a refrigerator or a new
  car. Local business will suffer because theyll
  lose customer dollars to the casinos.

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God Expects His People to be Fair in Dealing with
Others

• Deuteronomy 2513-16 You shall not have in your
  bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. You
  shall not have in your house differing measures,
  a large and a small. You shall have a perfect and
  just weight, a perfect and just measure, that
  your days may be lengthened in the land which the
  LORD your God is giving you. For all who do such
  things, all who behave unrighteously, are an
  abomination to the LORD your God.

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Gods People Will Not Insist on Collateral that
Is Sorely Needed

• Deuteronomy 2410-13 When you lend your brother
  anything, you shall not go into his house to get
  his pledge. You shall stand outside, and the man
  to whom you lend shall bring the pledge out to
  you. And if the man is poor, you shall not keep
  his pledge overnight. You shall in any case
  return the pledge to him again when the sun goes
  down, that he may sleep in his own garment and
  bless you and it shall be righteousness to you
  before the LORD your God.

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Gods People Will Not Withhold Wages Needed for
Support

• Deuteronomy 2414-15 You shall not oppress a
  hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one
  of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in
  your land within your gates. Each day you shall
  give him his wages, and not let the sun go down
  on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on
  it lest he cry out against you to the LORD, and
  it be sin to you.

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Gods People Should NotCo-sign for a Loan

• Proverbs 2226-27 Do not be one of those who
  shakes hands in a pledge, One of those who is
  surety for debts If you have nothing with which
  to pay, Why should he take away your bed from
  under you?

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God Expects His People to Pay Their Taxes

• Luke 2020-25 The chief priests sent spies to use
  his words to arrest him and deliver him to the
  authorities. Then they asked Him, saying,
  Teacher,Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to
  Caesar or not? But He perceived their
  craftiness, and said to them, Why do you test
  Me? Show Me a denarius. Whose image and
  inscription does it have? They answered and
  said, Caesars. And He said to them, Render
  therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesars,
  and to God the things that are Gods.

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God Expects His People to Pay Their Taxes

• Romans 136-7 For because of this you also pay
  taxes, for they are Gods ministers attending
  continually to this very thing. Render therefore
  to all their due taxes to whom taxes are due,
  customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor
  to whom honor.

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Gods People Will Work Hard

• Romans 1211 Not lagging in diligence, fervent
  in spirit, serving the Lord.
• Colossians 323-24 And whatever you do, do it
  heartily, as to the Lord and not to men knowing
  that from the Lord you will receive the reward of
  the inheritance for you serve the Lord Christ.