Right Place, More Increase
I.
No love, No trust, and
you’ll prosper in abundance
A. God’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
b. Psalm 62:10-If your
riches increase don’t make them your treasure
B. 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. 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
2. What have you made off
limits to God?
C. God will give you
opportunity after opportunity to prove that you can be trusted with more; Lk 16:10-Faithfulness is how God finds out if you’re ready
1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
II.
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
2. Because of the fear of
not having it, not seeing again, or doing without we haven’t relished these
opportunities and it’s kept us from our promotion
3. 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
III.
Psalm 112-The prosper man
who has money in its proper place
A. 1-Fears the Lord and
delights greatly in his commands-His Love is with God
B. 2-His seed shall be
strong, powerful and prevail
C. 3-Wealth-Substance,
riches, high-value or price
D. 3-His righteousness
(prosperity and charity) shall endure forever
1. He’ll never be broke
another day in his life
E. 4-He is the light in
darkness
1. He is gracious-Shows
favor and mercy, ready and inclined to impart blessings, Benevolent-A desire to
promote the prosperity of others
2. He’s just like his
Father-Full of compassion
F. 5,9-His willingness to
let go of it
G. 6-He’ll never slip, fall,
or waver
H. 7-He has no fear in his
life-Because he’s got treasured laid up where mouth and rust can’t corrupt it
and where thieves can’t break through and steal it
I.
7-His
heart is fixed trusting in the Lord-His trust
J. 8-His desire for his
enemies is that they come to Jesus
K. 9-He distributes freely
and largely-NAB-He lavishly gives to the poor
L. 9-His prosperity never
ends because money has it’s proper place
M. 9-His container shall be
lifted up with abundance and riches
IV.
This kind of lifestyle is
to know God intimately by experience (Jeremiah 22:13-17)