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Opening
Perspective - HOW we look at money
Have to have the right perspective - money is good, but must be in the right place
Financial planners will give 5 principles:
Earning
Nothing to manage if have nothing
Spending
Budgeting
Have to deal with spending
Saving
Prov 21:20 - don’t spend all that you have
Ave american spends 136% of income
Investing
Not working for your money, it is working for you.
Take a little and start setting it aside and letting it grow.
Giving
Ave american just under 3%
Ave christian about 3.8%
Beyond the Numbers
Spiritual creatures serving a God that has principles that make no sense to mankind.
Start with this verse:
What’s wrong?
Could it be there is a higher way
God principles that exceed eartly principles
Money is big deal in the bible
Can’t think on a natural level
God’s ways are higher
Principles that are beyond the numbers
First numbers principle - earn more
But there is a higher principle
1. Calling vs. compensation
How much you make will not fulfill you
Chase the call, not how much you can make
Secret to your life is discovering why you’re on this planet
Growth track
We don’t just need money to live on.
We need something to live for.
Touching people
Paul said:
Spending - have to control it, but this principle supercedes:
2. Contentment vs. consumerism
We’ve lost the value of contentment
Jesus said:
The happiest people are the ones with less.
Its a biblical value
Love what Paul said
But the next line is best:
“Learned” the secret
Have to learn the secret
Have to realize that you’re blessed
Bro Pylant/Bro Noah
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want but the realization of what you already have.
Coming into “spending” season - don’t give in
Beyond the numbers
Third: save - need to save.
One danger of having a savings account.
Can begin to look to it as a source of security.
I can take care of myself.
Just make sure you’re:
3. God dependent vs. independent
Find your security in God alone
Only imagination - money alone cannot make you secure
Need to live a life of trust.
That’s why the poor are the most generous.
“Daily” - have to trust you every day
God knows if he can trust you.
I will not trust in riches but in Him who richly provides.
As believers we have something greater
But there is a way of thinking that must supercede:
4. Stewardship vs. ownership
Steward manages.
Greatest princple you can learn:
God owns everything.
I am his manager.
Leverage it for eternal purposes.
Giving:
5. Generosity vs. misery
Acts of Kindness cards
Story of woman in fast food line
Never know what it might do
The value of my life isn’t determined by how much I achieve or accumulate but by how much of my life I give away.
Pastoral epistles - Paul wrote this to pastor Timothy:
God’s way works
Pray:
At least one of these principles takes root
A spirit of generosity takes root here
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