Where It Came From
I.
Money: Remember where it
came from
A. If you’ve given money
place in your hands without recognizing it went through the place of His grace,
then money is out of place in your life
1. 1 Tim 6:17-Don’t be
high-minded thinking your something else because you’re rich
2. Deuteronomy 8:7-14,18-God
gave you the power to get wealth and remember that
a. 7-THE LORD YOUR GOD
brought you into the good land
b. 10-Bless the Lord God for
the good land HE HAS GIVEN YOU
c. 11,14-FORGET NOT the Lord
your God
d. 18-Remember the Lord Your
God for it is HE THAT GIVETH THEE the power to get wealth
B. People who improperly
place money in their hands without recognizing the place from which that money
came will ultimately lose it
1. Hosea 2:8-13-They did not
recognize the place from rich the prosperity came and the lost it
2. Ezekiel 28:1-10-He got
rich, but he was prideful about it and thought he got it through is own wisdom
and he lost it
3. Luke 1:53, 6:24-I don’t
care how rich you are, always remain hungry for God and for his goodness
II.
Give money the proper
place
A. Habakkuk 2:19-You can
cover something with gold and there still be no life in it
B. Micah 3:11-Get your
relationship with money right
C. Acts 4:37-There were
giving all they had
D. Hosea 12:8-They tried to
replace something only God could do with money
E. Isaiah 2:5-8-They had
gold, but they got it the wrong way
F. Isaiah 2:20-They’re
worshipping money and that’s a problem
G. Luke 19-Zachias had the
right relationship with money after Jesus came
1. Jesus cared for that rich
guy and wanted that rich guy
H. James 1:10-The rich
should glory in being humbled as should anybody in pride
I.
Proverbs
18:23-The rich answers roughly
J. Ruth 3:10-She didn’t
follow after money
K. 2 Samuel 12:1-5-The rich
man who took from the poor to feed the traveler
L. Ecclesiastes 10:6-Money
doesn’t make you; whether you have Jesus makes you
M. Luke 16:19-26-The rich
man and Lazarus
N. Acts 5:1-God was angry
with them because they lied, not because of the money
O. James 2:1-4-Don’t treat
people according to the money they have; it didn’t say treat the rich guy bad
or like heathen, it said don’t favor him over the poor just because he has
money and stuff
P. James 2:5 – God
chose the poor in this world to be rich in faith, but if their rich in faith,
then they’re blessed and if they’re blessed then they are rich and not poor
Q. Proverbs 10:15-16-The
poor man’s destruction is his poverty
R. 1 Peter 3:3-It didn’t say
a woman shouldn’t adorn herself, it said she should not just do it outwardly
and neglect the inward adorning