UNTRAPPED from Financial Chains

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If i won a million dollars the second thing I would do is...

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SERIES INTRODUCTION

John 8:31–32 ESV

31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Often we are trapped by a belief that is false. Replacing false beliefs with the truth can lead to freedom from things that have a hold on your heart and mind.

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God can free you FROM your prison or he can Free you IN your prison

You are not ever alone.

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The trap of financial burdens.

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Put a number on it. What is the minimum amount of money that would solve your financial problems.

False belief #1: If I had more things would be ok

False belief #2: I won’t ever have enough

EXPLORE

PRIMARY SCRIPTURE

Luke 12:22–23 ESV

22 And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

Luke 12:24–25 ESV

24 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

Luke 12:26–27 ESV

26 If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Luke 12:28–29 ESV

28 But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! 29 And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried.

Luke 12:30–31 ESV

30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31 Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.

Luke 12:32–33 ESV

32 “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Luke 12:34 ESV

34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT OF THE SCRIPTURE

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MAIN IDEA

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THE MAIN THING:

Seeking more is the trap. Seeking God is the escape.

The lifestyle of pursuing more is destructive to the lifestyle that leads to real freedom.

Story of the pump.

A letter was found in a baking-power can wired to the handle of an old rusty pump.  It was a pump that offered the only hope of drinking water on a very long and seldom-used trail across Nevada's desert. The letter said, "This pump is all right as of June 1932. I put a new sucker washer into it and it ought to last five years. But the washer dries out and the pump has got to be primed. Under the white rock I buried a bottle of water, out of the sun and cork end up. There's enough water in it to prime the pump, but not if you drink some first. Pour about one-fourth and let her soak to wet the leather. Then pour in the rest medium fast and pump like crazy. You'll git water. The well has never run dry. Have faith. When you git watered up, fill the bottle and put it back like you found it for the next feller. (signed) Desert Pete. P.S. Don't go drinking the water first.”

Explore the Main Idea

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Would you drink the water or pour it in the well?

Explore Point 1

1. God has more than enough

Text

Psalm 50:10–12 ESV

10 For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. 11 I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine. 12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.

Application:

Altar your aim

Explore Point 2

2. He knows your needs.

Luke 12:30 ESV

30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

Application:

Altar your ask

Explore Point 3

3. He is generous towards you.

Luke 12:32 ESV

32 “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Altar your attitude

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It is better to _______ than to receive.

4. What you do with what you have is more important than what you can’t do because you don’t have.

Altar your actions

Transform

Coming Back to the Main Thing:

Seeking more is the trap. Seeking God is the escape.

Bring to Primary Application

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