20170903 not the purchase driven life edited
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Tough times are great opportunities to strengthen the disciplines that brings successful living, especially in regards to how we work with money.
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- 2. SUNDAY 3 September 2017 NOT THE PURCHASE DRIVEN LIFE
- 3. A HOUSE IS BUILT BY WISDOM AND BECOMES STRONG THROUGH GOOD SENSE. THROUGH KNOWLEDGE ITS ROOMS ARE FILLED WITH ALL SORTS OF PRECIOUS RICHES AND VALUABLES. PRO 24:3 NLT
- 4. HEB 12:5,6,11-13 NLT And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as His children? He said, "My child, don't make light of the LORD's discipline, and don't give up when He corrects you. For the LORD disciplines those He loves, and He punishes each one He accepts as His child.” No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it's painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way. So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees. Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong.
- 5. "I AM THE TRUE GRAPEVINE, AND MY FATHER IS THE GARDENER. HE CUTS OFF EVERY BRANCH OF MINE THAT DOESN'T PRODUCE FRUIT, AND HE PRUNES THE BRANCHES THAT DO BEAR FRUIT SO THEY WILL PRODUCE EVEN MORE.” JOHN 15:1-2 NLT
- 6. DEALING WITH MAMMON No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Mat 6:24 NKJV
- 7. THE LAW OF LIMITS • Self Control: • Limit Exposure • Limit Impulse Buying • Have a Budget • Be Accountable
- 8. THE LAW OF PATIENCE Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows over time. Pro 13:11 • Save and Invest • Avoid Debt
- 9. LAW OF GENEROSITY Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed. Proverbs 19:7
- 10. IF ANY OF YOU LACKS WISDOM, LET HIM ASK GOD, WHO GIVES GENEROUSLY TO ALL WITHOUT REPROACH, AND IT WILL BE GIVEN HIM. JAMES 1:5 ESV
Editor's Notes
- Teaser: Tough times are great opportunities to strengthen the disciplines that brings success, especially in regards to how we work with money. Quotes: “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day” Jim Rohn If you use money and serve God you are on your way to blessing but if you serve money and use God you are headed for serious trouble.
- Talking about money in church is often a difficult subject because it is a fine balancing act. It is necessary for a community to think about how it manages money because it is so vital to how we live out our faith. Jesus and the rest of scripture has a lot to say about money and we understand that God wants to bless His people and money is a part of that but the danger is that we create fall into the trap of the prosperity gospel and we overestimate the value of money in terms of spiritual wellness. We can become like the Jews of Jesus’ time and think that rich people are blessed of God while poor people are cursed. We have to talk about money in a way that helps both rich and poor become better followers of Christ that can live life to the full. We want the rich to know how to live with what they have and we want the poor to know that God will provide what they don’t have. But above all of this we want all to know that without God we are poor. Being rich or poor is ultimately not the issue it is whether we have been Born Again and if we seek God’s Kingdom first. So we don’t want to fixate on money but we also recognize that it is important to talk about. It is one of those things that if we don’t talk about it people will learn from the world and that is very destructive. So today I want to talk about some good money behavior. Tough times are often used by God to bring discipline to our lives. I am not talking about punishment but discipline. Pro 12:1 To learn, you must love discipline; it is stupid to hate correction.
- “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day” Jim Rohn
- 1 "I am the true grapevine, and My Father is the gardener.2 He cuts off every branch of Mine that doesn't produce fruit, and He prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. 3 You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. 4 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in Me. 5 "Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in Me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.6 Anyone who does not remain in Me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.7 But if you remain in Me and My words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! 8 When you produce much fruit, you are My true disciples. This brings great glory to My Father.9 "I have loved you even as the Father has loved Me. Remain in My love.10 When you obey My commandments, you remain in My love, just as I obey My Father's commandments and remain in His love.11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with My joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!
- “Mammon” is an Aramaic word that essentially means “riches.”1 And, apparently, the Assyrians got the concept of a god of wealth from their neighbors, the Babylonians. Babylon was a city founded on pride and arrogance (remember the account of the tower of Babel in Genesis 11). At its heart is an attitude that says: Man doesn’t need God. We’re self-sufficient. This is what the spirit of mammon tries to tell us: You don’t need God. Trust in riches! In the biblical sense of the word, mammon is the spirit that rests on money. Did you know that all money has a spirit on it? It either has the Spirit of God on it or the spirit of mammon. Money that is submitted to God and His purposes has the Spirit of God on it— which is why it multiplies and cannot be consumed by the devourer. I’m convinced that money that has been submitted to God—wealth that is devoted to serving Him rather than trying to replace Him—is blessed by God. In a very real sense, God’s Spirit blesses it. On the other hand, money that is not submitted to God has the spirit of mammon on it by default. That’s why people so often try to use money to control or manipulate others. It’s why people think money can bring them happiness or fulfillment. Mammon is basically the spirit of the world—and that spirit is a liar. (From the Blessed Life Robert Morris) Money is good if like anything we use it for what it was meant, serve God and sustain us as we do so. But when we use it for what it was not meant; gain status, value, meaning or happiness it becomes problematic. If you use money and serve God you are on your way to blessing but if you serve money and use God you are headed for serious trouble. Jimmy Evans, senior pastor of Trinity Fellowship Church in Amarillo, Texas, said, “Mammon promises us those things that only God can give—security, significance, identity, independence, power, and freedom. Mammon tells us that it can insulate us from life’s problems and that money is the answer to every situation.”
- The road to wealth is a long journey of using less than you earn. The road to poverty is a short trip of using more than you have. James 4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. We must recognize how our spending is driven by emotions (advertisers know this). That is why we talk about retail therapy and emotional spending, we think that shopping is less harmful than drugs or alcohol abuse. 1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs. If we don’t limit our passions by limiting our spending we will be pierced with many pangs. “Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret” Jim Rohn Self Control: a) Limit Exposure b) Limit Impulses Work with a Budget: Be Accountable
- To become financially strong you must learn the discipline of deferred gratification. We play the long game. Matt 6: 19-21 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Avoid Debt Prov 22:7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
- Prov 28:22 A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him. 1John 3:17-18 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.