Behind the Mask
(1 Timothy 6:9-10) “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.”
Distressed.
(Ecclesiastes 5:12) “The sleep of a laborer is
sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of a rich man permits
him no sleep.”
Discontented.
(Ecclesiastes 5:10) “Whoever loves money never has
money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income.”
Disconnected.
(1 Timothy 6:17) “Command those who are rich in
this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is
so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with
everything for our enjoyment.”
Distracted.
(Luke 12:19-21) “And Iʼll say to myself, ʻYou have
plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be
merry.ʼ But God said to him, ʻYou fool! This very night your life will be
demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?ʼ This
is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich
toward God.”
Unmasking My Stuff
(Haggai 1:5-6) “Give careful thought to your ways.
You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but never have
enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not
warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”
1. God owns it all.
(1 Chronicles 29:10-11) “Praise be to you, O LORD,
God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Yours, O LORD, is
the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for
everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; you are
exalted as head over all.”
2. I am His manager.
(Luke 16:10-11) “Whoever can be trusted with very
little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little
will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in
handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?”
3. Godʼs plan works.
(Malachi 3:10) “Bring the whole tithe into the
storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD
Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour
out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.”
(Proverbs 3:9-10) “Honor the LORD with your
wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled
to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.”
4. Heaven, not earth is my goal.
(Matthew 6:19-20) “Do not store up for yourselves
treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and
steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust d
do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.”
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Chris Hodges, Church of the Highlands
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