Gods Top Ten List The Ten Commandments for Today

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Gods Top Ten ListThe Ten Commandments for Today
Letting God Meet Your Needs By Pastor Matt Messner

• Pastors Jim Hayford
• and
• Matt Messner

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The 8th Commandment

• You shall not steal
• Exodus 2015
• It is the boldest expression of greed
• It is the highest expression of not trusting God
  to meet ones needs

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If were not trusting God to meet our needs,
were more likely to

• Steal from our employer
• Take financial ethical shortcuts
• Steal time from our family
• Keep the tithe
• Not have time for the things of God

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Greed

• Excessive desire to acquire or possess more
  (especially material wealth) than one needs
• Insatiable desire for wealth
• We need a transformed way of thinking

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Matthew 619-21

• 19"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on
  earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where
  thieves break in and steal. 20But store up for
  yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and
  rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not
  break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is,
  there your heart will be also.

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The Worlds Message

• Get all you can
• Success wealth
• Wealth Gods blessing
• Your value your net worth

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The Message of Jesus

• Dont store up ___________.
• Store up treasures in heaven
• How?
• Investing your time
• Investing your talents
• Investing your resources

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Matthew 622-24

•  22"The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes
  are good, your whole body will be full of light.
  23But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will
  be full of darkness. If then the light within you
  is darkness, how great is that darkness!
•  24"No one can serve two masters. Either he will
  hate the one and love the other, or he will be
  devoted to the one and despise the other. You
  cannot serve both God and Money.

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Question 1 for a new perspective

• Who do you serve?
• What are the goals that drive you?
• Drama

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Question 1 for a new perspective

• Who do you serve?
• Your focus reflects your master

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Matthew 625-30

•  25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your
  life, what you will eat or drink or about your
  body, what you will wear. Is not life more
  important than food, and the body more important
  than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air
  they do not sow or reap or store away in barns,
  and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you
  not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by
  worrying can add a single hour to his life?

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Matthew 625-30

•  28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how
  the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor
  or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon
  in all his splendor was dressed like one of
  these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of
  the field, which is here today and tomorrow is
  thrown into the fire, will he not much more
  clothe you, O you of little faith?

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Question 2 for a new perspective

• What do you truly need?
• FPU Conversation
• How has your spending changed?
• How has your perception of needs/success changed?
• How has your stress level been impacted?

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Question 2 for a new perspective

• What do you truly need?
• Your worries reflect the object of your faithso
  do not worry

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Matthew 631-34

•  31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?'
  or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we
  wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these
  things, and your heavenly Father knows that you
  need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his
  righteousness, and all these things will be given
  to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about
  tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
  Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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• Drama, part 2

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Matthew 630-33 (The Message)

• "If God gives such attention to the appearance of
  wildflowersmost of which are never even
  seendon't you think he'll attend to you, take
  pride in you, do his best for you? What I'm
  trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not
  be so preoccupied with getting, so you can
  respond to God's giving. People who don't know
  God and the way he works fuss over these things,
  but you know both God and how he works. Steep
  your life in God-reality, God-initiative,
  God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out.
  You'll find all your everyday human concerns will
  be met.

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Question 3 for a new perspective

• What are you seeking?
• Verse 33
• What road are you on?
• Seek secure and lasting wealth

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• Seeing and thinking differently
• Who do you serve?
• Your focus reflects your master.
• What do you truly need?
• Your worries reflect the object of your faith.
• What are you seeking?
• Seek secure and lasting wealth.

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Philippians 419

• And my God will meet all your needs according to
  his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

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