Not My Love
Foundation Statement: Money never gets the
place my love
I.
If money has the place of
your love it has been improperly placed
A. Matthew 22:36-Your love
is reserved for God and people
B. 1 John 2:15-It didn’t say
don’t have thing, it said don’t love them
1. That’s perverse when you
love things more than God and people
C. 1 Timothy 6:10-Don’t love
money or riches is the root to evil
D. Proverbs 21:17-If you
give money and things the place of your love it’ll cost you your prosperity
II.
Mark 10:25-Jesus is
showing this guy what place money and things have in his life
A. The rich young ruler
1. You can tell my his
running and kneeling that something’s missing in his life and he desperately,
seriously wants to obtain this
2. His question is not just
concerning the other side of eternity; it’s that too, but he’s wanting to know
how to get the fullness of life now and eternally
B. The lawyer with the same
question-Luke10:25
1. The answer to this
question is to Keep the commandment of love
2. The lawyer is trying to
tempt Jesus; his motive is much different in asking
3. Jesus gives this guy
little to know time, while the rich young ruler he takes the time to
specifically show him where his violating this commandment
C. The one he lacked was
this commandment of love
1. Love God with all your
strength-Deut 6:5-might-Resources, Abundance
a. He didn’t love God with
all of his strength-resources or stuff
b. He loved his money and
possessions more than he loved God; he held
to his stuff and despised Jesus; he preferred one to the other
2. Grief is associated with
the loss of something or somebody you love
a. You don’t grieve over the
death of someone you didn’t know because you don’t have a relationship of love
with them
1)
If
he didn’t love his stuff there would be no grief about losing it
b. He’s grieving because
what he wants is going to cost him what he loves the most; The thought of
losing his possessions cause him grief
3. Grief comes when you
think you’re losing something
a. He thought he was losing
it and would never see it again
D. Look what would have
happened to this guy if he would have proved to Jesus that he loved Him more
than this money and stuff; He’d of been 100x richer than he ever was
1. Because money was ahead
of Jesus and out of place he wasn’t qualified to handle the 100 fold
2. If he’d been willing to
put Jesus ahead of all his money and possessions it would have proven him
qualified to handle 100 times more
3. The person who’s willing
to leave everything for God is the one who can handle the hundred fold
III.
Do you love money?
A. God said take this job,
but you took the other one because it paid more
B. You wouldn’t stay in
faith because the Word says to, but you’ll worry because money says to
C. You wouldn’t come done
church because the man God called and sent to be your Pastor is having a
service for your spiritual growth and edification, but you would have came for
$1000
D. You get to work every day
of the week tired or not, but when it comes to church you can only get there
when it’s convenient
IV.
God’s after your heart
not just your treasure
A. He’s after what you
treasure, but not for the treasure’s sake; he’s after your heart for your sake
not His-Matthew 6:21
1. Where what you value is,
there will be your thoughts, passion, desire, affection, appetite, purpose, and
endeavors
a. Where your treasure is
there will your love be also
2. He is my treasure and my
heart is with Him
B. Joel
1:9-12,2:11-1419-28-They weren’t serving God with all their heart and lack was
in the land because of it If they’d give God all their heart, there’d be
abundance
C. If you’ll ever get to the
place where your willing to give all
you have to him, then He’ll be in a position to trust you with all that He has
1. God will give you
opportunity after opportunity to prove that you can be trusted with more
2. Luke
16:10-11-Faithfulness is how God finds out if you’re ready
a. If you’re not willing to
offer God all you have when you have nothing, you won’t do it when you have
something more
3. It’s not until you
totally commit to God and He has all of you that you’ll prosper to the level
that God wants you to
a. The enemy has tried to
place in the hearts and mind of believers a fear of letting go in the belief
that they’ll never see it again; while the Holy Spirit works to get faith in
the hearts and minds of believers that what they let go of in obedience to God
they’ll see again 100x greater
D. Psalm 62:10-If your
riches increase don’t make them your treasure
1. It didn’t say don’t
increase in riches; don’t set/fix your heart on them
V.
Sometimes God will
require your “Isaac” (your best), to give you the opportunity to have his
“Jesus” (best)-Genesis 22
A. 1-God’s going to give
Abraham and opportunity to prove it
1. We ought to relish the opportunity to prove it
a. Because of the fear of
not having, not seeing again, or doing without we haven’t relished these
opportunities and it’s kept us from our promotion
2. Ezekiel 33:31, Malachi
2:17-Enough talk already; prove it
B. 2-You love Isaac, but has
he come between you and me; is he your head?
1. Take YOUR ONLY-God likes
to come after your best, last, and only because that’s where your heart is
C. 12-Does God know by
experience in your life that all that you have is His?
1. Eventually God has to
know by experience
2. 12-Is He seeing it or is
it just talk?; He’ll give you opportunity to prove it
D. 12-Now I know you
value/love me above all else because you’ve not withheld from me what treasure
the most
1. When you withhold things
from God, He has to withhold things from you
E. Heaven found a man who
was willing to give all he had to God and consequently they found a man who God
could give all he had to him
1. God found out that day
that I have place in his life above all else
2. 16-18-That day he
qualified for more
VI.
The question becomes what
are you attached to, where is your heart attached,
what do you love more than God?