Does God Want You To Have Stuff?
I.
Does God want you to have stuff?
A. 1 Timothy 6:17-Stuff, according to God, is for your
enjoyment; It’s for your enjoyment, not your fulfillment; I enjoy things,
things are not my source of enjoyment
1.
Who’s behind this giving richly
all things to enjoy? God is
2.
He wants to give things to you richly-wealthy, abounding in
material resources, great prosperity, extravagant, lavishness; Awesome
abundance, extreme wealth, immense riches; Enormous magnificent wealth and
prosperity; abundantly supplied
3.
Judges 18:10-Who’s
behind this no want of anything in the Earth?
4.
Psalm 113:7-8-He makes the poor
to sit with princes, not the common man
B. Deuteronomy 28:11-If you obey God you get blessed with
stuff
1.
Plenteous-Left over, excess, more
than enough
2.
Goods-Pleasant, Rich, Valuable in
estimation, Wealth; AMP-Surplus of prosperity
3.
Deuteronomy 6:11-House full of
good things
4.
Deuteronomy 8:11-13,18-God
wouldn’t give you the power to get wealth if He didn’t want you to be wealthy
C. Obadiah-God cares about
your stuff/possessions
1.
Edom
were the seed of Esau and they messed with God’s people and his message to them
was you shouldn’t have done that
2.
13-You
shouldn’t have rejoiced when God’s people fell and you shouldn’t have touched
their stuff
3.
11,17-The
house of Jacob is going to get their stuff back
II.
God does not care what you have or how much you have, but
He does care how you got it and the relationship you have with it
A. Luke 12:15-Your life does not consist in the abundance of
things that you have, but that doesn’t mean that God doesn’t want you to have
things
1.
Covetousness is thinking that my
life does consist in the abundance of things that I possess and that I won’t be
satisfied without certain things; It’s this “I have to have it” mentality; It’s
not recognizing that the only “thing” you have to have is Jesus
2.
Some times what people are
calling faith is just covetousness and covetousness will not receive from God
because it shows you can’t be trusted with the thing you coveting
3.
You don’t have to decide between
Jesus and material wealth and you’ve never had to
a. You can’t serve money and serve God; it did not say you
can’t have money and serve God and it didn’t say that you can’t have a lot of
money and serve God-Matthew 6:24
B. As a believer you must keep material wealth in it’s
proper place
1.
Don’t glory in riches, Riches
can’t redeem you, wisdom is better than riches, righteous and poor is better
than wicked and rich, integrity and poor is better than perverse and rich, poor
man is better than a liar, poor and upright is better than wicked and rich, a
good name is to be choose before great riches, don’t love money, don’t trust
money, don’t serve money, don’t give your labor to being rich (give it to the
word, to faith and let the blessing make you rich)
C. If it got added to you because you sowed, believed God
for it and sought first the kingdom of God and have the right relationship with
it, then God’s good with that
III. Should we desire stuff and believe for stuff-1 Timothy 6
A. 5-Gain is
godliness-That’s an all inclusive statement
1.
Ungodly
gain
a. A person could gain by
robbing a bank that’s not godliness
b. A person could gain by
cheating somebody else, that’s not godliness
c. A person could take a job
that God didn’t want them to take and double their salary that’s not godliness
2.
Godly
gain
a. Matthew 6:33-This gain is
certainly godliness
b. 2 Corinthians 9:6-If a
person sows financially bountifully and then gains financially bountifully
that’s gain; is that godly or ungodly?
c. Proverbs 19:17,28:27-If a
person gives to the poor and then the Lord repay him with a harvest good
measure pressed down, shaken together, and running over, that’s gain: is that
godly or ungodly?
d. Genesis 12:1-4,
13:2-Abraham obeyed God and was very rich in silver that was gain? Was that
godly or ungodly
3.
The
reality is that not all gain is godly; When you leave
the character of God to gain anything that’s when gain is not godliness. However, when you stay in the parameters
of this word and gain because of it then that gain is godly.
a. Gain is not godly unless
godliness is why you gained
B. Does content mean not
believing for better?
1.
6-Godliness-Reverence,
Respect, piety towards God-Piety in principle, is a reverence of the Supreme Being and love of his
character, accompanied with love; and piety in practice, is the exercise of this love in obedience to his will and
devotion to his service.
2.
6-Contentment
defined:
a. Perfect condition of life in which
no aid or support is needed-2 Corinthians 9:8
b. A mind contented with its
lot (ration)
c. Be content with your lot
or ration which is:
1)
You
are a joint heir with Jesus (Romans 8:17)
2)
The
blessing that made Abraham very rich is on you (Gal 3:14)
3)
Jesus
became poor so that you could be rich (2 Cor 8:9)
4)
God
is able to make all grace abound towards you so that you always having all
sufficiency in all things may about to every good work (2 Corinthians 9:8)
5)
God
will meet your needs according to His riches (Phil 4:19)
6)
Hearken
diligently to God and all these blessings will over take you (Dt 28:2)
7)
As
Jesus is so are in this world (1 John 4:17)
d. Suitable, fit for the
purpose, adequate, qualified; Sufficiency of the necessities of life; Sufficiency-The state of being adequate
to the proposed end; Qualification for any purpose; adequate substance or
means; supply equal to wants, ample stock or fund
1)
He
meets your need according to His riches and not according to your
need-Philippians 4:19
e. What exactly does your
life & purpose entail & then we’ll know what you need?
1)
I
from Heaven on assignment representing my King
2)
I’m
here to preach, demonstrate, and fulfill the gospel, which is, “In you shall
all families of the Earth be blessed.”
3)
Just
how much do you need to be adequately supplied to do what He’s called you to
do? You’ll find that what you need is abundance.
f. To stop complaint; Be
thankful for where you are while striving for more
1)
Not
content-Gives the idea that you have to have it and can’t be satisfied or happy
without it; that’s covetousness
3.
6-You
put character together with contentment (giving money and things their proper
place: all I really need is Jesus; I don’t have to have a new this or that to
be satisfied) and that’ll lead to great gain
a. I’m believing with
intense faith for this and that, but I don’t need it to be satisfied; my
satisfaction doesn’t come from what I have, but from the God I serve
b. Intense faith isn’t “I
got to have it or I can’t be satisfied without it.” It’s
believing with everything you’ve got to win!
c. If you’re mindset is
“Have to have it,” then you’re not qualified for it
1)
If
you have a “have to have it” mindset and then it manifests you won’t have it,
it will have you
d. This is being content:
The only thing I have to have is Jesus
C. 7-Give money and things
proper place; they aren’t going with you
1.
8-You
give me food, clothes and Jesus and I could be completely peaceful with all
that; I don’t have to have
a. Have to have is reserved
for Jesus
2.
9-This
is referring to those who will to be rich in their love of money
a. If you will to be rich
out of your love for money that’s a problem
b. If you will to be rich
out of your love for God and people that’s right
c. I love God and people and
money enables me to do that in a bigger way
3.
9-10-The
person who is loving money is the one who’s willing to be rich
4.
10-The
Love of money-Avarice-An inordinate (disorderly) desire of gaining wealth and
possessing wealth, insatiable desire of gain
a. It’s on ordinate desire
because it’s ahead of God and His Word
b. It’s that got to have it
or can’t be satisfied desire
5.
9-10-MAV-But they that
will to be rich in their love for God and people will not fall into temptation
and they’ll be wise and have many good desires that build men up in success and
prosperity. For the Love of God and
people is the root to all good, which while some desired, and they correctly
lived the life of faith and built themselves up with much joy and peace.
6.
11-Don’t
follow after money, follow after these things
a. Follow after-To run swiftly in order to catch a person or
thing, to run after, to press on: figuratively of one who in a race runs
swiftly to reach the goal, follow after, to pursue, to seek after eagerly,
earnestly endeavor to acquire
1)
It
didn’t say don’t believe for more of it
b. Don’t chase money; chase
God and His word and money will be chasing you (Psalm 23, Proverbs 22:4)
D. This whole chapter is
teaching us to give money it’s proper place
1.
Don’t
love it; Don’t chase after it; Don’t covet it; Don’t get high-minded because
you have some; don’t trust in it; Enjoy it; Be ready to distribute; Be willing
to communicate