Monday, February 18, 2019

FINANCIAL PEACE ON EARTH – Heart Set

(1 Timothy 6:6-10) Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.


But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. 


For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. 


 The more I have the more I want. 


(Ecclesiastes 5:10 NLT) Those who love money will never have enough. 


 The more I have the less I’m satisfied. 



(Ecclesiastes 5:10 NLT) How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness! 


 The more I have the more others want it. 


(Ecclesiastes 5:11 NLT) The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. 


 The more I have the more I realize that it doesn’t meet my needs. 



(Ecclesiastes 5:11 NLT) So what good is wealth—except perhaps to watch it slip through your fingers!



 The more I have the more I have to worry about.



(Ecclesiastes 5:12 NLT) The rich seldom get a good night’s sleep.



HEARTS SET 


(Psalm 62:5-10) Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. 


He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. 


My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge. 


Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Selah.


 Lowborn men are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie; if weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath. 


Do not trust in extortion or take pride in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them. 


1. Set your heart on giving not getting. 


(Acts 20:35 MSG) You'll not likely go wrong here if you keep remembering that our Master said, “You're far happier giving than getting.” 


(2 Corinthians 9:11) You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion. 


2. Set your heart on true riches. 


(Luke 16:9-13 NKJV) And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you into an everlasting home. 


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.


Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 


And if you have not been faithful in what is another man's, who will give you what is your own? 


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. 


3. Set your heart on heaven.


(Colossians 3:1-2) Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.


Video
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Chris Hodges, Church of the Highlands

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