Paul’s Letters to Young Pastors,
1 Timothy
Caution for the Money Minded
1 Timothy 6:9-10
Pastor Gary Kniseley
9/8/24
Introduction / Context:
The desire to be rich is, by its very nature, a desire that
Desiring to be rich runs
Scripture Reading:
Proverbs 30:7-9
7 Two things I ask of you;
deny them not to me before I die:
8 Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that is needful for me,
9 lest I be full and deny you
and say, “Who is the Lord?”
or lest I be poor and steal
and profane the name of my God.
Big Idea:
The pursuit of wealth and materialism has a way of bringing
Paul paints three pitfalls by which the willful
1 Timothy 6:9
9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
Wealth tempts like a
the wrong things in this life.
In the pursuit of wealth, we become
Trapped victims are overtaken and
Having large sums of money is not inherently
1 Timothy 6:10
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.
It’s not money, rather the
The love for money and possessions serves as a
Instead of the happiness they
Living It Out:
Determine to have a