SF328 - DON'T LET YOUR PURSE STRINGS CHOKE YOU (Luke 19 11-26)

@PAGE NUMBER = SF328

@TITLE = DON'T LET YOUR PURSE STRINGS CHOKE YOU

@LEVEL ONE = LUKE 19:11‑26

@LEVEL ONE = INTRODUCTION

@ILL TITLE = Get Rich Quick

@ILL TEXT = I have discovered an easy way to get rich.  You buy fifty female pigs and fifty male deer and put them together.  Then you will have one hundred sows and bucks.

@LEVEL TWO = Money Is A Primary Cause Of Conflict In Marriages

@ILL TEXT = "...The way we handle our money is the best outside reflection of our true inner values.  You can tell more about the spiritual lives of a couple by looking at their checkbook than by anything else."  Larry Burkett

@LEVEL TWO = Background

@LEVEL FOUR = Jesus is seeking to teach us about our responsibility to be faithful in relationship to the Kingdom

@LEVEL FOUR = He choose to use money as His illustration

@LEVEL FOUR = A mina was about three months' wages.

@LEVEL TWO = Five Important Truths

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@LEVEL ONE = 1A.  GOD PROVIDES ALL THAT I HAVE (v.13)

@LEVEL THREE = The source of all they had was the king

@LEVEL THREE = This is true for us today

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.  We Have Nothing

@SCRIPTURE = 1 Tim 6:7 (NIV)  For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.  God Owns Everything

@SCRIPTURE = Psa 24:1 (NIV)  The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;

@SCRIPTURE = Psa 50:10 (NIV)  for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

@LEVEL TWO = 3B.  God Has Made Us Stewards Of His Possessions

@SCRIPTURE = Gen 2:15 (NIV)  The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

@LEVEL ONE = 2A.  GOD EXPECTS ME TO DO SOMETHING WITH WHAT HE HAS PROVIDED (v.13b)

@SCRIPTURE = "put this money to work..." =  pragmateuomai ‑ to busy oneself with, i.e. to trade:‑‑occupy. The same word we get our word pragmatic from.

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.  Work Is Not A Four Letter Word

@ILL TEXT = What a good many people are looking for is less to do, more time to do it in, and more pay for not getting it done.

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.  Hard Work Pays Off

@SCRIPTURE = Prov 14:23 (NIV)  All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

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@LEVEL ONE = 3A.  GOD EXTENDS HIS LORDSHIP OVER ALL THAT I HAVE (vv. 14‑15)

@LEVEL THREE = Often we live as if we do not want Christ to be the Lord of our lives

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.  This Happens When We Are More Interested In Getting Than Giving

@SCRIPTURE = Prov 23:4 (NIV)  Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint.

@SCRIPTURE = Prov 23:5 (NIV)  Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.  He Is Lord Whether We Recognize It Now Or Not

@SCRIPTURE = Phil 2:10 (NIV)  that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

@LEVEL ONE = 4A.  GOD REWARDS GOOD STEWARDSHIP

@ILL TITLE = Wise Investment

@ILL TEXT = A young woman reports she is putting all her money in taxes because it is the only thing sure to go up.

@LEVEL THREE = Verses 16‑19

@LEVEL THREE = A Good Steward...

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.  Remembers Who The Money Belongs To.

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.  Invests In Those Things Which Bring The Greatest Return

@SCRIPTURE = Mat 6:19‑20 (NIV)  "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.  But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

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@LEVEL THREE = A Good Steward...

@LEVEL TWO = 3B.  Offers Everything Back To The King

@LEVEL TWO = 4B.  Ends With More Than He Began With

@LEVEL FOUR = The more I give the more I will have to give.

@LEVEL ONE = 5A.  GOD PUNISHES POOR STEWARDSHIP (vv.20‑26)

@LEVEL THREE = A Poor Steward...

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.  Is Paralyzed By The Fear Of Failure (vv. 20‑22)

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.  Is Plagued By Poor Planning (v.23)

@LEVEL TWO = 3B.  Ends With Less Than He Began With (vv24)

@LEVEL ONE = APPLICATION

@LEVEL TWO = 1.  Recognize God's Ownership

@LEVEL TWO = 2.  Submit To God's Lordship

@LEVEL TWO = 3.  Invest In God's Kingdom