Your Relationship With Money
Foundation Statement: The wrong relationship
with money is the root to all evil (1 Timothy
6:10,17-18)
I.
God doesn’t mind you
having money or things in abundance; it’s the wrong relationship with that money
and those things that he doesn’t like
A. 10-God doesn’t want you
loving money
1. Loving money is being
committed to it, obeying it, and trusting in it
2. Love of money-Covetous-A
strong or unreasonable desire of obtaining and possessing a supposed good; unquenchable
desire of gain; believing life consist having it and that you can’t be
fulfilled without it
a. Loving anything more than
God leads to evil (1 Jn 2:15, 2 Tim 3:4, Mt 6:24)
b. Follow after-Seek after eagerly, earnestly endeavor to
acquire, pursue; don’t follow after money; don’t make decisions based on how
you get more money, make decisions in life based on how you can develop in
these things
B. 17-God doesn’t want you
trusting in money
1. Trusting in money carries
the idea of looking to money to do things for you that you that you should be
looking to God for
2. Trust-The ground upon
which hope rest; expecting that more money and things will do something for you
than only God can do
a. If your hope rests in
money that’s wrong
C. Because people haven’t
understood that basic point they’ve rejected going to a higher level in money
and things and as a result have been hindered from being a greater blessing in
the Earth
II.
Money is neither bad nor
good; it has no ethical gender; Money is a multiplier and magnifier
A. Proverbs 10:16 (AMP)-If
you put money into the hands of the wicked, his wickedness will be multiplied;
put money into the hands of the righteous and his righteousness will be
multiplied
B. Genesis 13:10-13, Ezekiel
16:49 – The people in Sodom where wicked so abundance multiplied their
wickedness
C. Proverbs 1:32 – A
fool’s prosperity will multiply his foolishness
III.
God gives richly-abundantly, extravagantly,
lavishly, extremely, immensely,
A. This reveals his nature
and who he is
B. Gen 2:8 – Eden –Pleasure, Luxury
(lavishness, comfort, magnificence, extravagance) Delight, delicates, dainty
(Elegant, Refined, Pretty) finery (fine, best clothes, splendor, show articles
of dress)
C. Psalm 23:5 – Your
cup runs over-Saturate,
Wealthy
D. Judges 18:10 – He had
a land for them that lack no thing in the Earth