3. EVED -
dRb¶Ro (eh - ved) - slave, servant
If you are in debt, you are a slave to the lender.
4. HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU
ARE IN FINANCIAL BONDAGE?
“I would love to give beyond that, but I just can’t, because I
am so afraid there won’t be enough to pay the bills.”
5. MATTHEW 6:21
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
If you cannot live within your means and you say you need
more than what you make, thinking that will make you happy,
your treasure is in this world.
6. WHY TALK ABOUT MONEY
IN CHURCH?
2/3 or 60% of Jesus' parables talk about finances and
possessions.
7. WHY TALK ABOUT MONEY
IN CHURCH?
In the Gospels:
Matthew, mark, Luke and John
1 in 10 deal directly with money.
8. WHY TALK ABOUT MONEY
IN CHURCH?
In the scripture:
1 in 2300 talk about money.
5x more than prayer.
5x more than faith.
10. WHAT IS THE BIG PROBLEM TODAY?
•Financial lies
•Kids try to live the lifestyle of the parents that took them
30 years to build.
•You're always going to have a car payment.
11. WHAT IS THE BIG PROBLEM TODAY?
•Leveraging yourself on a depreciating asset that drops
20% when you drive off the lot.
•Marketing debt they have succeeded at convincing our
generation to feel good about being in bondage.
13. LUKE 16:1-14 (NLT)
(Parable of the Shrewd Manager)
1 Jesus told this story to his disciples: “There was a
certain rich man who had a manager handling his
affairs. One day a report came that the manager was
wasting his employer’s money. 2 So the employer called
him in and said, ‘What’s this I hear about you? Get your
report in order, because you are going to be fired.’
3 “The manager thought to himself, ‘Now what? My
boss has fired me. I don’t have the strength to dig
ditches, and I’m too proud to beg.
14. LUKE 16:1-14 (NLT)
(Parable of the Shrewd Manager)
4 Ah, I know how to ensure that I’ll have plenty of
friends who will give me a home when I am fired.’ 5 “So
he invited each person who owed money to his
employer to come and discuss the situation. He asked
the first one, ‘How much do you owe him?’ 6 The man
replied, ‘I owe him 800 gallons of olive oil.’ So the
manager told him, ‘Take the bill and quickly change it
to 400 gallons.[a]’
15. LUKE 16:1-14 (NLT)
(Parable of the Shrewd Manager)
7 “‘And how much do you owe my employer?’ he asked
the next man. ‘I owe him 1,000 bushels of wheat,’ was
the reply. ‘Here,’ the manager said, ‘take the bill and
change it to 800 bushels.[b]’ 8 “The rich man had to
admire the dishonest rascal for being so shrewd. And
it is true that the children of this world are more
shrewd in dealing with the world around them than are
the children of the light.
16. LUKE 16:1-14 (NLT)
(Parable of the Shrewd Manager)
9 Here’s the lesson: Use your worldly resources to
benefit others and make friends. Then, when your
earthly possessions are gone, they will welcome you to
an eternal home.[c] 10 “If you are faithful in little
things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are
dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with
greater responsibilities. 11 And if you are
untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you
with the true riches of heaven?
17. LUKE 16:1-14 (NLT)
(Parable of the Shrewd Manager)
12 And if you are not faithful with other people’s things,
why should you be trusted with things of your own?
13 “No one can serve two masters. For you will hate
one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and
despise the other. You cannot serve both God and
money.” 14 The Pharisees, who dearly loved their
money, heard all this and scoffed at him.
18. GOD LOVES YOU AND TRUSTS
YOU TO MANAGE HIS
RESOURCES.
19. IN A VERY REAL SENSE:
•You are a manager of God’s business.
•He loves to reward faithful business managers.
•He loves to give more to those who are faithful.
•To those who are unfaithful, He takes it away from them.
20. When you start to see your finances as God’s
business, it will radically change
the way you do everything.
21. JOHN MAXWELL says:
If you fail to plan; then you plan to fail.
We are going to devise our own personal business plan.
We are going to develop our own personal business plan.
22. JC. PENNEY said,
“Give me a store clerk with a goal, and I will give you
a person who will change the world. But, give me a
person without a goal,and I’ll show you
a store clerk.”
23. PROVERBS 21:5,
Planning, seeking God, leads to prosperity, and
blessings and profit as surely as haste leads to
poverty.
•What is your vision?
•What is God calling you to be about?
•What’s your mission?
24. LUKE 16:13B says,
you cannot love/serve both God and money.
•You want to be driven and led by God, not by money.
•What is your vision that God has given you?
•Define it. Seek God.
•It is a vision driven decision, not a selfishly motivated
financial decision.
25. ROMANS 13:8 (NIV)
8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the
continuing debt to love one another, for whoever
loves others has fulfilled the law.
26. •Being in debt is not a sin.
•Being in debt is dangerous.
•House debt is probably the wisest debt.
27. •Some business debt is good to leverage and
help your business.
•Too much debt is always dangerous.
28. •You make some wise decisions for a few
years, you are free forever.
•Imagine no credit card payment.
37. 1. We must plan for profit sharing.
2. We are going to give like crazy when God
blesses our business.
3. We are going to give, and give, and give,
and give, and give.
38. HOW ARE WE GOING
TO GET THERE?
Sacrifice
Discipline
Faithfulness
Consistency
40. LET NO DEBT REMAIN
OUTSTANDING, EXCEPT A
CONTINUAL DEBT TO LOVE ONE
ANOTHER.
41. WHAT’S YOUR VISION?
• Get it
• embrace it
• seek God for it,
• and live according to it.
42. JEREMIAH 32:17
17 “Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the
heavens and the earth by your great power and
outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
43. LUKE 1:37
37 I desire to wisely manage God’s resources for
His glory. I want to be, one day, debt free. I want
God to say, ‘Well done.’
44. MATTHEW 25:21
21 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and
faithful servant! You have been faithful with a
few things; I will put you in charge of many
things. Come and share your master’s
happiness!’