Invest Your Wealth

Matthew 6:19-24Luke 16:1-9

Invest Your wealth“There are three conversions

necessary: the conversion of the heart, mind and purse. Of these three,

the conversion of the purse is most difficult.” Martin Luther

What happens when you don’t share?

① Displaces our worship

What happens when you don’t share?

① Displaces our worship1 Timothy 6:9–10But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

What happens when you don’t share?

① Displaces our worshipPhilippians 4:18But I have received everything in full and have an abundance; I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you have sent, a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

What happens when you don’t share?

① Displaces our worship“Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God. Yet, few Christians deliberately dedicate their lives to materialism. Wealth is deceitful, Jesus told us, and its bondage is subtle. Like the flypaper and the fly, the fly lands on the sticky substance thinking, ‘My flypaper,’ only to discover that the flypaper says, ‘My fly.’” Haddon Robinson

What happens when you don’t share?

② Cultivates greed“eye is good/healthy” = generosity“eye is bad/worthless” = greed

What happens when you don’t share?

③ Stimulates insecurity

1 Timothy 6:17Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.

What happens when you don’t share?

③ Stimulates insecurity

Ecclesiastes 5:13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt.

Arlene Magdanz of San Rafael, CA

What happens when you don’t share?

④ Undermines our relationships

What happens when you share?

① You bless others“God has prospered us

not to raise our standard of living, but to raise our standard of giving.”

Randy Alcorn

What happens when you share?

② Your character is transformed

What happens when you share?

③ You honor eternal realitiesi. You are a steward, not an ownerii. You can’t take it with youiii. You can send it ahead

1 Timothy 6:7For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.

What happens when you share?

③ You honor eternal realitiesI place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity. David Livingstone

how should we invest?① Habitually② Sacrificially③ Joyfully④ Wisely“Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

how should we invest?① Habitually② Sacrificially③ Joyfully④ Wisely

i. Familyii. Needyiii. Missionaries iv. Local church

Galatians 6:6The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him.

2008 2012

the Growth of Grace

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$2.77M$3.48M

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2 Corinthians 9:15Thanks be to God for His

indescribable gift!