
The way we VIEW and USE money is broken
- We VIEW money as THE source for better life because we believe:
MORE is BETTER.
MORE, BETTER STUFF is BETTER than just MORE STUFF
- As a result, we feel the need to USE up all our money so that we can attain the MOST POSSIBLE.
The way we VIEW and USE money is broken.
You get what you pay for
Who OWNS the money?
Deuteronomy 10:14 Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.
Psalm 89:11 The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.
Psalm 24:1 The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, 2 for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.
1 Corinthians 10:26 For “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”
Psalm 50:10 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.
Deuteronomy 8:17 Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ 18 You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
Matthew 25:14 “For IT will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them HIS PROPERTY.
Matthew 25:15 To one he gave five TALENTS, to another two, to another one, TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY. Then he went away.
Matthew 25:16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money.
Matthew 25:19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
Matthew 25:20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
Matthew 25:24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’
Matthew 25:26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.
Matthew 25:28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
- If the MONEY belongs to GOD, what does GOD want us to do with HIS MONEY?