Making Change Part 1 - Contentment | Money Shouldn’t Make You Miserable

March 2, 2025

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. —John 10:10

So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? —Luke 16:11

• Money is actually a

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  issue.

• If we aren’t

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  Jesus with our money, are we really trusting Jesus?

• Miserable means “wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortably; habitually morose and gloomy.”

• Myth - money will make me happy.

• Fact - money will only make you happy to a

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  point.

• God wants something FOR you far more than he wants something FROM you.

  The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty. —Proverbs 21:5

1. Contentment doesn’t come from

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• Myth: he who dies with the most toys wins.
• Fact: you can’t take it with you.

Better is a handful with tranquility than two handfuls of toil and striving after the wind. —Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred. —Proverbs 15:17

“But godliness with

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is great gain.” —1 Timothy 6:6 NIV

2. You are not your net

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.

• Your bank account is not your identity.

• The fastest way to squander your resources and go into bad debt is spending to

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  other people instead of living in contentment.

And He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.”
Your existence is not defined by the abundance of just material things. —Luke 12:15

• Living with material things as your identity will leave you
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  .

3. Living for money leaves you empty; living for God

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you up!

11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 12 I know how to [d]be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. —Philippians 4:11-13

• Content -
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  to the point where I am not disturbed or disquieted.

The young lions lack and suffer hunger; But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing. —Psalm 34:10