Financial Planning for Peace
Week 2
Tim Simmons
Part of All About the Benjamins

Sept. 14/15, 2019
Tim Simmons, Hernando Campus Pastor

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The biblical concept of peace does not focus on the absence of trouble. Biblical peace is unrelated to circumstances; it is a goodness of life that is not touched by what happens on the outside.

Ecclesiastes 4:4 (NIV) - 4And I saw that all toil (labor) and all achievement (success) spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. 5Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves. 6Better one handful with tranquillity (peace and quiet) than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. 7Again I saw something meaningless under the sun: 8There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil (labor), yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. “For whom am I toiling,” he asked, “and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?” This too is meaningless— a miserable business!

1) Cut all .

4And I saw that all toil (labor) and all achievement (success) spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

2) the financial facts.

5Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves.

3) Calm down with .

6Better one handful with tranquillity (peace and quiet) than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.

4) Circle back to the ?

8b “For whom am I toiling,” he asked, “and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?” This too is meaningless— a miserable business!