Gods Money

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Gods Money

• What do you have that God hasn't given you?
• 1 Cor. 47 NLT
• Bro. Kyle Tucker

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The Warning

• Matt. 1322 He also that received seed among the
  thorns is he that heareth the word and the care
  of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches,
  choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

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Wealth In the United StatesGross National Income
Per Capita Income of
Christadelphians

• US 40,100
• Kenya 1,062 1600
• Nigeria 1,120 700
• Zimbabwe 2,309 350
• Romania 7,641 40
• Israel 22,077 35
• Australia 29,893 ?

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Current Mega Millions Jackpot 23,000,000
www.lottoreport..com
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Why do we want to be rich?

• And Jesus said to His disciples, "Truly I say to
  you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the
  kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is
  easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
  needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom
  of God. (Matt. 1923-24)

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Gods Warning

• Luke 1313 No servant can serve two masters for
  either he will hate the one, and love the other
  or else he will hold to the one, and despise the
  other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (riches).
• 1Ti 617 Charge them that are rich in this
  world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in
  uncertain riches, but in the living God, who
  giveth us richly all things to enjoy

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Serving Money

• U.S. workers put in the longest hours in the
  industrialized world
• We spend nearly one week more on the job than
  they did a decade ago
• The typical American worked 36 more hours in 2000
  than in 1990
• Germans reportedly work an average of 499 fewer
  hours every year
• British workers get 260 more free hours each year

Source United Nations report on
www.freerepublic.com/
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Trusting in Money?

• Where is your trust?
• Savings account
• 401K or pension
• Life insurance
• Homeowners insurance
• Social Security

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Gods Warning for Those Who Trust in Money

• But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy
  soul shall be required of thee then whose shall
  those things be, which thou hast provided? So is
  he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is
  not rich toward God.

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Fleeting Nature of Riches

• Matt. 619-21 Lay not up for yourselves treasures
  upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and
  where thieves break through and steal But lay
  up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
  neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where
  thieves do not break through nor steal for where
  your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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Gods Warning For Those Who Love Money

• 1Tim. 610 For the love of money is the root
  of all evil which while some coveted after, they
  have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves
  through with many sorrows.

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Gods Warning

• Luke 1215-19 And he said unto them, Take heed,
  and beware of covetousness for a mans life
  consisteth not in the abundance of the things
  which he possesseth. And he spake a parable unto
  them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man
  brought forth plentifully And he thought within
  himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have
  no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said,
  This will I do I will pull down my barns, and
  build greater and there will I bestow all my
  fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul,
  Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many
  years take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

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How do you spend Gods money?
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Consumerism Gone Wild

• US Savings
• The savings rate in 1980 was 10
• The savings rate in 2000 was 2
• The savings rate now is apparently 0.0
• The average American family has credit card debt
  of 9,000

1) Savings in America.... By Zen Blade From
Economics Table 2) Gail Cunningham, Newsweek,
Jan. 16, 2006
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Gods Warning For the Monetarily Worried

• And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say
  unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye
  shall eat neither for the body, what ye shall
  put on. The life is more than meat, and the body
  is more than raiment. Consider the ravens for
  they neither sow nor reap which neither have
  storehouse nor barn and God feedeth them how
  much more are ye better than the fowls? And which
  of you with taking thought can add to his stature
  one cubit? If ye then be not able to do that
  thing which is least, why take ye thought for the
  rest?

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Gods Warning For the Monetarily Worried

• Consider the lilies how they grow they toil not,
  they spin not and yet I say unto you, that
  Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one
  of these. If then God so clothe the grass, which
  is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast
  into the oven how much more will he clothe you,
  O ye of little faith? And seek not ye what ye
  shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye
  of doubtful mind. For all these things do the
  nations of the world seek after and your Father
  knoweth that ye have need of these things. But
  rather seek ye the kingdom of God and all these
  things shall be added unto you.

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Needs vs. Wants

• If we are hungry, we want food
• If we have eaten one meal, we want to know where
  the next one is coming from
• If have plenty of food, we want it to taste good
• If we have plenty of food, we want a nice ambiance

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Respecter of Persons
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The Last Days Money

• But realize this, that in the last days difficult
  times will come. For men will be lovers of self,
  lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers,
  disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
  unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips,
  without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
  treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of
  pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a
  form of godliness, although they have denied its
  power Avoid such men as these. (2 Tim. 31-5)

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Choose you this day whom ye will serve? Ye cannot
serve God and mammon.
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• Religion, of course, does bring large profits,
  but only to those who are content with what they
  have. We brought nothing into the world, and we
  can take nothing out of it but as long as we
  have food and clothing, we shall be content with
  that. People who long to be rich are a prey to
  trial they get trapped into all sorts of foolish
  and harmful ambitions which plunge people into
  ruin and destruction... Instruct those who are
  rich in this world's goods that they should not
  be proud and should set their hopes not on money,
  which is untrustworthy, but on God who gives us
  richly all that we need for our happiness. They
  are to do good and be rich in good works,
  generous in giving and always ready to share,
  this is the way they can amass a good capital sum
  for the future if they want to possess the only
  life that is real." (1 Tim. 66-9, 17-19 NJB)

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Exhortation

• God warns us concerning wealth (loving money,
  trusting in money, covetousness, greed, etc.)
• Our society does not have a healthy or correct
  understanding of wealth.
• Wealth does not bring happiness.
• We are ALL rich.
• We trade our life for .
• We have an amazing opportunity.
• Be careful how we use GODS resources.